Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Firqt Editor Entered as woond-class mattar at the postoffice at Columbia, S. 0. Nov. 20. 1908. Member Associted Cole6ite Press 1940 Distributor of 1941 Colle6ilae Di6est REPREaNTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTSING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Represensasive 420 MADisON Ava. Naw YORK. N. Y. CutcAoo * RosTon - Los AN6SLRs - SAN SANCISCO Issued weekly by the Literary societies at the University of South Carolina during the college year. PAUL S. LEAGUE ......... Editor E. W. "DUCK" SWEATMAN, Jr., Business Mgr. PHILIP WILMETH . . . . . Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Joe Kirby ..............................................Sports Editor Blanche Gibbs .......... --.........................Co-ed Editor Jane Cox ..............................................society Editor ASSOCIATE Et)ITORS Dick Frick Jim bleKinney Ed Patterson Bernie Bass Deward Brittain Leonard Turnbull STAFF WRITERS Frank Sloan Albert Eggerton Doris Nash Bob Quinn Donald Law Paul Posey Bud Getsinger Pitkin Bell John Nash David Brockington .........................Circulation Manager George Gregory ---..................................Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Dave Alteman Beryl Kerns Marie Ulmer Lil Hair Walter Taylor THE END OF THE FIRST SEMESTER . the time of year when fraternity pledges begin to realize that they came to college to raise their scholastic rather than their social standing. . . when one more Gamecock editor writes finis to a succeb6ivn of harried, hurried, but happy weeks, then looks back on his at tempts to disseminate the campus news. le sees. .. 1. The year's biggest news story- "Adop tion Of New Cut System"-The Gamecock beat the campus with an extra on this. (We had as much authority to an extra as editor Dinky Williams had four years ago with "Pool Granted".) 2. Not the biggest news story maybe but the biggest thing that happened to Carolina the campus hit the peak in its show of school spirit. It supported a losing football team like it was a bowl champ and became the first student body to give its team more than hur rabs and claps on the back, with a gigantic post-season banquet. 3. Rex Enright elected for a new five year term as athletic director at U. S. C. Truly a vote of confidence. 4. Our editorial campaign for the re-al location of the student activities fee accom plishing "heap big talk" but no Action from the ones that can. (If this editor seems cynical just put it down to the imupatienice of youth.) 5. Personalities that leaped into the h,o'd lines-Dr. Robert Giffen, head man o1 the twelve speakers during Christian F jai~s1 Week. . .. R. G. Bell, secretary of the ~. al. C. A., who made the program possible through hard work. . . . Fred Waring wrote a Carolina pep song. . . . Sol Blatt. Jr., stuldent bodly president, the guiding hand behind the foot ball banquet andl the trip)s to send off anid to welcome back home ourF football warriors. . Havilah Babcock, golfer and professor, called "one of nations' greatest out-of-doors writers" ...all the members of two brave sororities, Pi Beta Phi and Delta multiplied b)y three, who delighted wvar-lu lled city-editors the country over with some fresh cop)y-their feminine football feud. . . Captain Robert A. Hall brought the reality of a naval R. 0. T. C. to this campus; we still had, to be dlif ferent... "Judge" E. Minton Holland and his young Democrats slapped the Republicans a telling blow by staging a "Third-term day" on the date Willkie said No. . . Alumni secretary Ralph Lewis, building a great graduate or ganization. . . Tatum Gressette, who'll remain here with his BAM Club. All this and the discipline committee too, with their great weapon, censorship, forever threatening, but never falling, proving that this is still America and not Winthrop College -we strove and struggled with. To two new editors, Philip Wilmeth and Dick Frick, who'll begin to operate next se mnestr and who are capable of putting hot news in your columns; to Jim McKinney, new aidatinging editor; to "Duck" Sweatman who has done such a good job as business manager; Sand' to the etitire new staff we say, "Open .xour throttle. Race your motor. Take over." AT LAST MAYBE SOME ONE ISOUTOFTHE RUT There's a big story on the front page of this issue. At last one group of Carolina students have assembled enough courage to cone. out from behind smoke-filled dormitory rooms, little whisper conferences and that-"you do this for me and I'll do that for you" stuff, to form an open political party on this campus. No matter what they accomplish this year in their act of organizing they'll get this paper's support. We aren't sure, but we believe Caro lina students too, will place their approval on a movement that doesn't bear the stinch of a "deal." Coming out to get a little fresh air iever hurts anyone. IT'S PROPAGANDA, NOT BOMBS-BUT DUCK For quite a while, in fact the entire semester, 7'he Gamecock has received propaganda from various sources. Regularly the official Ger man sheet, "Facts In Review," the British mes sages; the American Youth Congress and what have you, have flooded our office with copy. This week we received an entirely different communication than the subtle ones we had encountered before. Bearing a New York post mark, this little message sought to point out the truth about the Russo-Finnish war. "The capitaliists and the liars in this country don't realize the greatness of the Red Army," it said. Further quoting, "The Russo-Finnish war was fought in weather 40 degrees below zero. Only the Red army could do that and win. The Red army is the greatest in the world." Great length was taken up in telling about a Russian made movie which shows the entire war "as it was really fought." Another surprising thing to us about the letter was that it was addressed to RoberL Elliott Gonzales, editor. We may be wrong but we were under the impression that Gon zales was the founder and editor of The Game cock in the year 1908. THE SAME TUNE AND THE LYRICS TOO Recently in a column called "Thirty Years Ago Today" appearing regularly in a local newspaper, an item said something like this "The Carolina student body passed a resolu tion today agitating for money from the legis latire to build a new chapel." We thought we had heard that one some where before. But after thirty years it is no time to give up. Student body you must think of posterity. Keep on agitating for a new chapel. Would you have your grandchildren be ashamed of you because you stopped agi tat ing for a new chapel? You knowv there's no law against it, yet. HERE'S AN IDEA SENIOR CLASS Th'le new librar.y is nowv almost complete and1 olficialJs plani that the moving ceremony from new to 01(1 will be accomplished during next semmester. There has been no precedent so this is merely a suggestion to be treated as those concerned see lit. W'hy (don't the members of the senior class, as a goodl-bye gift, contribute enough mloney toward p)lacing a p)ortrait of the p)resent p)r(sidlent of this University in the new structure? It seems fitting to us that a p)ortrait of that gentleman should certainly be p)lacedl in the building that was erected (luring his regime. As rmentioned1 before there's no precedent and knowing that class officers are that in name only here, it will probably still be something to dream about. FROSH GIRLS CONVENE TO STUDY FOR EXAMS The freshman YWCA council met yesterday to figure out ways apa means of comprehen sive study in preparation for the faculty's pre ordained semi-annual Hell Week. The gt-oup discussed various well-known methods of group concentration and added a few of its own in novations for good measure. The Gamecock doesn't know whether these girls will carry out their plan, or if they do, whether it will do any good. But we might suggest that perhaps a few upperclassmen might convene for mass attack upon the quiz zing wiles of campus professors. After all, three or four heads are better than one (es pecially if one or two' of those heads contain superior knowedge).a Campus Camera. k~N ILDUEP' CHAER PULATS OvvAg zN , iAT MIERE BE ON 'ME BOARD OF REGENTS *ONE FAP-MER,ONE WOMAN, AND ONE PERSON QF GOOD MORAL CRARACTER4 ABENT-MINDED PP-OFESPR. WHO FORGOT 10 WRl A 43.5Q 1EXTBOOK TO ELI TO HIS ~~ CLA.S/ -AND YOUHERO OF11E WEEK' OR OMHER SUITABLE MATERIAL FOR THESE CARTOONS TO: NORM LE--A-323 FAWKES BUILDING MINNEAPOLIS, MINNEWTA. +Question-of-Week What method are you going to use in studying for exams-if any? Barton Hickman: " When you come in at 1 A. M., look at your books, groan, and go to bed." Alva Coggeshall: "Just work, that's all." Stebie McCrae: "Go to the show for the first part of the night, then study late." Daily Harris: "All I can say is just start studying plenty of time ahead." Mildred Solman: "Study hard, work diligently." Kathleen Arthur: "What's the use?I " Mat Jones: "Study all along and don't let work pile up. Ha! Ha!" Pat Lee: "For best results, get one book-turn a few pages -yawn twice--then drift off into peaceful slumber." Sara Jones: "Go to a movie and hold hands." Jimmy Hill: "I don't know. I've never tried." Bubber Stevens: "First go to the library and study where it is quiet.'' Carl Atkins: "Have a dn'te till eleven; wait for inspiration till twelve; no inspiration go to bed--anyway I'm going to be exempted.'' Peggy Bailey: "I have no time to study; I stay too busy keeping my victims lined up.'' Adele Moses: ''Quit dating Carl Atkins (until after exams).'' John Nash: "Exams are necessary evils. I don't believe in necessary evils so drawv your .own conclusions." Letters To The Editor Mr. Scoop League,dosetigautfshno E.ditor of the Gamecock. etto.Ife lota or Dear "Scoop:"fothspaeswoavtoel Being only a lowly freshman I 0yaso aoln itr na am not supposed to criticize any-horaIdofrtersmnwo thing I'm told. But being a loud aefre oatn ta wwr freshman, (as I'm also toldl) I pro- ieadtk oe nadr al Would you mind answering etodm thrwanocet question for me? n tCrln.Wl-htms I asked that question of a poli-iv enlatya tician and he brought me an ice (4HepwtVser,cal cream cone and started talking )Olm,ec h olntec about the weather. I asked a clas~ astk rga tlatoc president and he stammered: "Well sestr um,er-they have 'em at all schools,Thsarjutafwsgeios you knowl" Myete o' ok u Well, I'm stymied I What arcereswr ob oeII twr class officers for? All I can findstreonthewulbeuies out is they learn who their friends frcasmeig,casmeig are, they get their picture in thewolhepcaspit,hchn annual another time and they are tr ol os colsii-n everybody's goodbuddy. intta hts aypol Personally, although I love Caro- dpoetelc f lina, I don't think it's Utopia quite.Ifneoftseugstnsem I'm not criticizing the officers. Ipluie-r'soeme.Ith guess they are about as puzzled as casofcr r okn u r I. But why don'.t they do some-tomdetotllayn,hw thing-abuletnusiontescet Such as (1) Help with the fac- I hyaentwrigadae' ulty-student relationship problem. pann oltsjs o lc n This is being worked on by the mr aal epet at hi YW and the YM but it could be tm npitesofcs carried on through the classes, too. Sneey (2) Theajuiorsrordseiorsttoul ara annkw'r The Forth And The Flf th Column MCKINNEY -BY- BRITTAIN SUCCESSES AND REGRESSES Bill King, former sparkplug of The Gamecock, is now filing Associated Press dispatches from Budapest. Bill sailed from New York on the Exeter in December. Bill Marano, pre-dental student who supplied his cohorts with plenty of practice by reworking the mouths of many Bellhops, will leave school after the exams. Delta Sigma Pi's Tony Smoak is rating a second lieutenant in the ma rine corp. He's stationed at Quantico. Frank Woodruff, Columbia boy who made good in Hollywood, was graduated from the University in '28. He directed RKO's now famous "Curtain Call." Ann Vaughan, president at ADPi, will leave school at the end of the semester for home, rest and a medical check-up. * * * * * FACTS OF THE FACULTY Dr. George Armstrong Wauchope Author of Carolina's alma mater... Has taught in five colleges and universities besides Carolina... Holds four degrees from Washington and Lee and has attended Oxford, Cambridge, Berlitz (in Berlin) and Harvard . . . Born in 1862 in Natural Bridge, Va. Dr. William Edwin Hoy Taught at P. C. before coming to U.S.C....Former president of South Carolina Academy of Science... Member U.S.C. Rhodes scholarship committee...Born in 1890 at Sendai, Japan. LIMPY LIMERICK I bought her candy, rings and duds. I sent her orchids and red rose buds. I played fair, But got the air For a frat pin and a mug o' suds. INNOCUOUS INTERLUDE The air became pungently permeated with the odor as the bottle passed from hand to hand. Somewhere a bell tolled, prompting one of the men to glance per functorily at his watch. Three o'clock. Conspicuously this time, the bottle again made the rounds of the room. No one had spoken audibly. The bottle's contents consumed all atten tion. A grunt punctuated the silence. Then a voice: "Well, gentlemen, you are now all familiar with the odor of concentrated hydrochloric." * * * *** THE LILACS OF LIFE Kennedy Rides Again Perrin Kennedy, erstwhile Garnet and Black photographer, made his contrib)ution to the wvorld of science last week. Kennedy marched up to the superintendent of WPA labor at the new library and said (Yes, boast fully): "I've just taken some moving pictures of work on the new library." 'The superintendent's querry: "Did you ca.tch any of my zien in motion ?" Kennedy, proudly, "Sure I did." The lanky foreman paused reflectively and then commented: "Science is certainly a wonderful thing." Prof Finds Prodigy A frosh math class was studying the various systems of wveight and measure the other morning when the prof put the question, "what does milk usually come in ?" "In pints," volunteered the Columbia delegation. "And wvhat else," the prof asked. "Then the classic answer from the bright boy from the country: "It comes itm squirts, doesn't it, professor?" * * * * * * ROLLICKING REDUCING RODEO T1'he third floor of Sims is holding a' Reducing Rodeo. There are three gals on each team, each member supposingly kicking her heels up and waist line down. The battle cry:,"Wait, at who can lose the most weight."wat -We think the idea sounds like the local equiv alent of hell. The tourney ends January 31 with the victorious team winning the five-pound box - ,of chocolates. Joyce Hetzel is said to be a triple-threater. Cutie Kathleen Arthur is coaching one of the squads. And one of Dean IFrierson's pupils is in the race. PEATHERS OF THE WEEK The column this week gives its decorations of honor to J. C. "Ilim" Sullivan, likable trainer of the athletic department, and "Nancy," infirmary cook. Both are colored employees of the Uni versity. "Him" has been soothing the aching muscles of Carolina atheltes for well over a decade and Nancy is now in her 27th year as chief engineer of the infirmary's culinary department. We give them.&oth black feathers from our honorary Garnet and Black roste.