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The Gamecock - Founded January 30, 1906 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Z.tered .a.secod-clas matter at the postoEice at Columbia, 3. 0. Nov. 30. 1a0m Member Associated Colle6ade Press 1940 Distributor of 1941 Colle6iate Di6est REPOSENTED FOR NATIONAL A0VET1'nN SY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publisbers Represemoadive . 420 MADioSON Avi. Naw YoRK. N. Y. Cucaeo * bOSTon ' Los ANe2a - SaN FRaNctSco Issued weekly by the Literary ",ocieties at the University of South Oarolina during the college year. Richard W. Frick1 Philip W ilmeth . -.........................................Co-Editors E. W. "Duck" Sweatman, Jr. ........Business Manager J. H. McKinney, Jr. ............................Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Leonard Turnbull .................................... Sports Editor Blanche Gibbs ........................................ Co-ed Editor Jane Cox ............................................ Society Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Deward Brittain Joe Kirby Bernie Bass Nancy Padgett Sarah Flinn Sara Hughes Jaudon Harley Kathryn Martin Paul Callahan Don Merrick Gordon Hill Theresa Tenore STAFF WRITERS Frank Sloan * Bob Quinn Albert Eggerton John Nash Paul Posey Pitkin Bell Donald Law Helen Fakoury Morris Mazursky David Brockington ............................ Circulation 3Manager George Gregory .................................. Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Dave Alterman Beryl Kerns Marie Ulmner Lil Hair Walter Taylor WANTA BUY A BOOK OR GIVE IT AWAY The Gamecock received a. letter last week in regards to the present book store situation. In this letter it was pointed out that the book store was supposed to be on a cooperative basis. This is just what we thought, but find that it is not true. For the past two or three semesters students have complained of being robbed, cheated, swindled, gyped, and the like; yet nothing has been done to stop it. The Gamecock made some investigation into the matter and found that the fault lies not in the management of the store alone, but in many instances points to departments heads. It seems that a few professors can't stand to see a text used over one semester. We feel that a little translation, or a few notes, won't hurt a book that much. From here we see this as one of the most con temptible things ever heard of. No student in school can afford to buy a book at the beginning of a semester and find the value of this same text decreased eighty five percent in five months. This is what happened last semester and for many semes ters past. This is one specific incident over which the book store had no control, but where the department failed to recommend tile book again. Another practice thlat should be remedied is tile fault of the store, however. This is tile placing of orders instead of sale of text book on tile spot. It seems to us that if tile book store is merely an agent for publication houses, the middle man's profit can be cult out. We feel thlat the store should keep) an adequate supply of all texts at all times, if it professes to be a store. BACK ON TOP AGAIN WITH COACH JOHNSON Last Friday night tile University of South Carolina Basketball teamIl clinched a pla1ce in the annual Southlern conference touirnamnent to be hleld in Raleigh twvo weeks hlen(ce. This is tile first time since 190, when Coach Ted Petoskey led his first team, thlat tile Birds hlave qualified for the meet. This year the Birds are ulndefeated in six conference battles, with wins over Clemson, The Citadel, Davidson, and Furman. There are five more games on tile slate, one each with Davidson, N. C. State and Clemson,. and a pair of games with Wake Forest. Should the Gamecocks lose all these a tournament berth would still be theirs, but these fighting Birds are not going to lose them all. In fact we think that, next to North Carolina, the John son Coach team is the best in the conference. The glory of the team must not be given to the players alone, but'to the man who molded this club, Coach Frank Johnson. With a very small squad on hand the masterful Johnson has taken everything in stride and a more colorful team has never represented the school. Accuracy, teaxh work, and precision are the ma ssials of a ball club, atnd Johnson has So P'Ae Gamaoook says, Hats' off to Coach Johnsan. THE TELEPHONE SITUATION TWO OPERATORS NEEDED For years, we could hardly count how many, The Gamecock has ranted and stormed for im provement of the telephone situation. Still facilities on the campus are definitely lousy. Anybody who has ever called third west Simms between seven and eight in the evening knows what we mean. We have heard the old answer only too often-"Sorry, I don't have an outside line," or "That line is busy." % Here are the cold facts. There are about 90 phones on the campus, not counting exten sions, which are connected to the central switch board in the Student Union lobby. There are eleven outside lines. There are sixteen sets of plugs on the switchboard. There are eight operators, only one of which can work at a tinie. What do these figures add up to? Several sums are significant. Only sixteen calls can go through the switchboard at once-because there arconly sixteen sets of plugs. This is the main source of congestion, right here. And only eleven of these calls can be to points out side the university. The next bit of figuring we do reveals that ninety phones are not enough for a university of 2000 students. Don't forget how many of these phones are in the offices of administra tion officials, of the faculty. Not that these officers don't need phones-but these phones aren't doing the student body any good at all. And finally, we see that one operator has too big a job trying to handle the number of calls that conie througlh. Telephone companies have saidi that one operator should not handle more than 200 calls per hour. But tests made at the University last year showed the number of calls to be as high as 380 calls per hour; and this year the number runs as high as 420 per hour-iore than twice the numiber prescribed by the telephone companies. The next time you feel like cussin the operator just run down to her office and see what she is faced with. The "tangled web" of plugs and lines would make a spider look sick. What is the answer? Very plainly, there is only one. That is the addition of another switchboard, with another operator. That is to say, there would be two operators at work at once. Presumably twice or more than twice as many calls could come through the office, and e.ach operator would be called on to take care of only half the number of calls. There are different types of switchboards, at different rents. The fact is that the expense of renting the new switchboard would be prac tically negligible-it is the salary of the second operator which would run into money. The Gamecock feels that adequate telephone service is the most urgent need of the students of the University just now. Surely the ex pense involved would not be so great as to offset tie benefits the student would gain1. Even in case of an emergency it has some times been impossible to locate students. Give uis a double switchboard, with two oper alors, and give both the operators and the stud~ents a fighting chance! OUR ALUMNI IS AT WORK For over a year nowv the most wide-awake department of the University has been the Alumni Association, headed by Ralph Lewis, graduate of the University in the class of '29. N u merous undertakings have been completed by this dlepartment and many mor.e are in the umaking. Tro have every former student of Carolina a member of the Alumni Association is the first aim of the organization. To further that cause, a drive has been started recently with thme purpose of enlisting more alumni in the service of Carolina. Information about the Association, its' needs as well as its services, has been sent to all pros pective members of the Alumni group. Included in this missive are letters from President Mc Kissick of the-University and John WV. Crews, lpresident of the Alumni Association. In President McKissick's letter one passage, especially, is worthy of consideration. "What Carolina needs most from her alumni is not money but active interest and support." An interesting feature of the prospectus is the summary of the attractions the Association offers to alumni. Among these are the for warding of regular issues of the magazine, Alumni News, and special issues of T he Game cock as well as informative letters as to the work being done in all departments of the University. Of direct interest to the alumnus is the place ment service which co-operates in locating em ployment op'portunities for Carolina graduates. Equally as attractive are reunions, homecom ings and various other activities sponsored by the Association. Campus Camera ROWS FIRST CAPITOL HAS VouSED OFFICES AND CLASS ROOMS OF '14E UNIVERS1YOF IOA SINCE ITS FOUNDING. THE BUILDING, VACATED WHEN 'ME CAPITAL WAS MOVED TO CGS MOINE-S, IS NOW 100 YEARS *'OLD DR. CHAS. FREEMAN SERVED AS HEAD OF ~11E CHEM)STRY DEPT. AT WMMINSTER 00L LEGE FP.45 YEARS! - -WHAT NEXT P '1' 1 6EORGE SAUER IS HEAD RoT- . NEWS ITEM: BALL COACH AND PAUL. SWEET SeDND ANNUAL INWROGIAE CRDS!-COUNTRY MENTOR AT TURTLE TRUDME WILL BE HELD THE UNIV. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE / AT DEIlT UNIV.T"IS MAONTH/ +Question-of-Week What Do You Think of The New Bell System? Dan Hollis-After all the money I make on the Junior-Senior I'll buy everybody a bell. Gene Burns-Not enough of them-Those that do ring don't ring loud enough. Virginia Ligon-If the bells would ring on time the system would be all right. Paul Sansbury-I'm always late to class anyway so it really makes no difference to me. Alva Coggeshall-You can hear them everywhere but Davis College, with the exception of this the system is fine. Grace Kilgore-I don't like it. Unless they put in a great many more. Pete Blackwell-Don't like it. I think it's another instance where a fine old University tradition has been taken away. If they want to have a buzzer system keep the bell also. Frank Harrison-I emphatically agree with Mr. Blaekwell. I can't hear the 8 a. m. bell. Myriam Stokes-I prefer the chapel bell because it has more distinction. Coco Gee-It's awful and isn't consistent. Dumas Turner-I can't hear them. The people who installed them must have forgotten that the Education Building was part of thme campus. Dewey Jackson-It's a good system but the bells aren't loud enough. Dave Alterma.n-They don't eeffect me in the slightest. The janitor always wakes me up in time for my eight o 'clock classes. Milton Marcus-I ain't worried. Since I don't have a class until ten o'clock, and since I can alwvays wake up in time for it, I need no bells. The watch of THE GREAT MARCUS can't go wrong. Charlie Horton-T always get up about five o'clock to deliver papers, so thme wvake up bell means nothing to me. Letters To The Editor Dear Phil and Richard: M.RcadFik I think Thme Gamecock overlookedEitrfThGaeck a good story when it did not pub-Caps lish the recent literary society elec-DerM.rik tions. This was a particularly bad Atrcrflyraln h is error since the two societies are theisuofTeGeckunrth progenitor of your paper. nweitsi,Ia xednl As one interested in The Game-plaewiht.Iisrfsiny cock, I would like to see more newsfrerothsriudfcswic about the Clariosophic and Euphra- hv ootnapae nteps dian printed.yerIticrdtbeothUn. Maybe some system could be devised whereby some member of vriyadhlflt t each of the societies would report FrteUiest e etal the weekly activities of each. Iyofrthseclntbgnigy know several boys in the Clarioso-thneadisrtonndltm phic that would mnake competent re- epestehp n h eifta porters,.hthsbe o elbgnwl Another phase of campus life that b otne neiiey you have been omitting is the Naval Ia or htileshspe ROTC unit. Why not have a briefvetduefo haighecn history of each of the unit's of-freewihyuadM.Wltl ficer's?Ireusesoetmag.Ihp Please consider this a respectful ta ecngttgte on criticism. Yuscrily Yours truly, 3 inMKsik Holmer c.reruhey.r Peidtenft COVER THE CAMPUS By BRITTAIN THE FACT FAUCET Or, The Spigot Speaks: When Paul "Dupe" League wrote his little fable last week he didn't give due credit. He copied the thing from Barrett all right, but Barrett forgot to mention that he borrowed it from a Wofford college publication years ago... James Woodrow, who took over the University's presidency a year after Mrs. Childs was born (1891 if you're interested), was once tried for heresy because he taught evolution... There's nothing like the ole spirit: "Red Shirt" McKinney sells Uni versity catalogs to Belton boys for 25 cents a copy... Neither of the Madames Grace Sweeny or Felice de Horvath are French. Sweeny was born in Toronto and Horvath in Dover, Del . . . Charlie Hardy Waterfall, the prof., once worked in New York City as special investiga tor of the U. S. Treasury depart ment. A FABLE (With no apologies to Aesop, Wofford, Barrett, or League) -Basketball is Born A long, long time ago there lived at 400 Park Avenue, Rome, a gluttonous old king who never had anything but money. His wife, however, had a daughter. The princess grew and grew (naturally enough) until she stopped growing-temporarily. One day after the princess had stopped growing she went walking in the court of the palace. While she was hum ming "a tisket, a tasket," she lost her yellow basket, and be gan to bawl. In trying to tell her father what had happened, she continued to cry, so that all the king could hear her say was "Basket" and then she'd bawl. Basket - bawl. ..Basket -- ball. Basketball. Every since then there's been basketball. A basketball field is called a court for two obvious reasons: The princess lost her basket in a court, and you'll be in trouble if you put foot in one. All basketball players, of course, are still looking for the basket. THE CAMPUS I COVER Lieut. H-. A. MacDonald of the Naval ROTC has a brother at tached to the American embassy in London who writes sweet things to one of the Delta Zeta gals... Professor Ferrell has a golf ball (poor thing) that he's been using for nearly a decade... MUSCL the measles seem to be sweeping four cases in the infirmary. . . walt dlated the other night and the nex1 them. . . doug jennings has turned a rumor his girl friend is feeding hi proved his technique. . . jimmy grah ing with glee over the autograph bryant of ka leaving school to accej one of the local theatres. . .laurie' h morton received a card from his er jeep urban, the lads are nowv in old henry heriot and laird say that they but have been convinced that they joe kirby registered for bible this prof looked at him and said "joe th to me". . . bill marano has left sel jersey, we hope that he wvill be as was in removing cadlets grinders.. relations with "squeeze" lemmond around the kd room. . . "dude" w around the campus. . . her initials at in preston the other night the boys when pitkin bell came forward wit today to get anything was by the sa ardlent student of fencing. . .meyer a short sojourn in the field of tl semester and again casting his eye. a sigh of relief, the country is agaii to a rumor, two of our greatest o called on by uncle samuel to help hi: with the combination of coleman at we can't lose. . . the new bell syst< a soothing clang, it can't be the lea few yards away, we've heard it thre to be passing by. .. dimutative marg another school but it is another usc, a whole fraternity threatening to si it kid, trotsky was a radical -and 1o< polimeros taking over the duties of cl Instigating his own blitz cheer. .. f had a date with the sweetheart of 111 she made him go homea nd shave t HELL pox; TYPE By McKINNEY PROFESSORIAL FEUD A classroom monologue by Doc tor Green, professor of ancient lah guages: "McCall doesn't think Latin is necessary. McCall doesn't think algebra is necessary. But McCall bit the dust.last Christmas," (Doctor Green's first two state ments speak for themselves in giv ing his views. His last remark evi dently refers to Professor McCall's marriage.) * * * * NOW WHO'S RIGHT? During the Legislature's open hearing on the liquor bill, a certain ministbr took the floor and said, "Whiskey, in the long run, destroys a man's life." His fellow prohibi tionists nodded confirmation. But, according to modern books on the history of the English lan guage, that minister was guilty of an unwitting terminological inex actitude. The word, "whiskey," came into English from the Celtic language, via the Scotch Highlander dialect. It means "water of life." * * * * DREARY DROWSINGS OF A MORPHEMANIAC A lab today. Two tests tomorrow. A dance tonight. A tux to borrow. That fiery blond I A date to make. My boxing bet. Too much at stake. A card from home. No more dough. Must pass 'em all or take a blow. Time to crawl. It's nearly eight. Can't take a cut. Can't be late I * * * * DEMOCRACY A LA HITLER So America has freedom 6f speech ... Interesting, if true. Charlie Hor ton, Carolina's economic expert, used to say what he pleased (iis ually uncoinplimentary t h i n g s ) about America's economic foreign policy. But now that he's dingling for a G-man job, lie's become a proponent of Uncle Sam's trade theories. A few pointed questions by his future superior evidently changed his mind. Demo'ratic or un-Democratic, members of the International Rela tions club are glad that somebody finally could turn off the- tap on Horton's gusher. LOFTY RENDEVOUS A certain student officer explored the new library this week. Upon crawling on the roof from a window in the dome room, he exclaimed, "What a spot to bring a date!I" Yep, 'tis a nice place to spoon. But Judge'lI get awfully tired pa trolling all the way from the arbore tum to the library roof. IN' IN i the campus, at preserft there are taylor and charlie larrimore double morning they both wvoke up with into a human guinea pig, according mn love bird seed, wonder if it im im jumping up andl down and shout from jeannette mcdonald. . . frank it a position as assistant manager of ecks with a broken ankle. . . connie ~twhile room mate harry hinson and mexico on their way to california... have in the past been very bad boys should be better in the future... enmester, his last in school, and his is looks like a death b)ed confession ool to attend dental school in new successful in repairing teeth as he' .since beverly thorne has severed he has been seen very frequently oodhurst trailing some little blonde e esther webster. . . in a bull session were dliscussing the world situation h the statement that the only way word, lhe should know for tiger Is an rosen who left us last semester for ie working man has retur-ned this toward eleanor. . .we now breathe i saved, for in the spring, according rganizers on the campus have been ii organize his new defense programi, id mccutchen assisting nir. roosevelt k m is certainly the nuts, it has such at bit annoying though if you are a e times this week, we just happened Ie mcsweeny has deserted old usc for in california. . .heard on the campus: oot deward brittain on sight, watch k what happened to him.,. . george seerleader at the basketbaU gagie and ed lytle, of basket ball fame recently e block c club, adeline lipscotnb and efore she would gro out with hima,