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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1906 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Entered an second-clas matter at the postoffice at Columbia. S. 0. Nov. 20, 190. Member IAssociaed Colle6iate Press 1940 DistributoroC 1941 Colle6ate Di6est NsRs8NTSO FOR NATIONAL ADVENTISIN ST National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publisbers Represeues 420 MAoe@oN Ava. NEW YORK. N. Y. CICASO . BOSTON LO Aseme.a1 - SA FRANCISCO Issued weekly by the Literary societies at the University of South Carolina during the college year. RICHARD W. FRICK PHILIP WILMETH ............. CO-EDITORS E. W. "DUCK" SWEATMAN, BUSINESS MGR. J. H. McKINNEY, JR. MANAGING EDITOR EDITORIAL STAFF Leonard Turnbull .................................... Sports Editor Blanche Gibbs ........................................ Co-ed Editor Nancy Padgett ...................................... Co-Ed Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Deward Brittain Blanche Gibbs Joe Kirby Don Merrick Sarah Flinn Paul Callahan Gordon Hill Bernie Bass Katherine Martin STAFF WRITERS Frank Sloan Bob Quinn Albert Eggerton John Nash Paul Posey Pitkin Bell Donald Law Helen Fakoury Morris Mazursky Jaudon Harley Sara Hughes Kathryn Martin David Brockington ............................ Circulation Manager George Gregory .................................. Exchange Editor BUSINESS STAFF Dave Alterman .Beryl Kern. Willis Beall Walter Taylor IN RETROSPECTION: AND ABOUT THE FUTURE TOO This is the last issue of The 6'amecock this seiester. We are sorry it coies so early; but exams are little iore than a week off, and we of the staff have to study too. As is customary with all college editors, we turn back to review our editorials . . . We began with a policy of fairness, in mat ters political, fraternal, and administrative. You say tliats not a constructive program? Maybe not, but we felt that a student news paper should not take sides in politics; and if better relationships are developed between fraternity and non-frptternity, and between stident and faculty-meiber, then Carolina will benefit. In fact, as we look bactc on ouil entire col lege career, we see no problens facing the University which are quite so important as these. To improve relationships between groups is always a tough job. The changing of custoins is always a slow, evolutionary process. It can be accomplished only by an attitude of tolerance and co-oper-ation fr-omn all sides. In this we refer particularly to stud(ent-falc ulty co-op)eration. We (d0 feel that relat ions het ween these groulps are unpljrovmng. The joint student-fac ulty commiittee is doinig a good job her-e; and if this committee is p)ropely revived next semnester-, alnd goes right on1 wor-kinig, somnething recal will result. Meanwhile, we exhort bothl tile students alnd the faculty to try to see each other's view points. Weare all working toward tile same end a greater Carolina. We have already a gr-eat schlool, with a gr.eat future. Let's not quibble over minor differences of opim on. STUDENT-FACULTY COMMITTEE STARTED NEW CHAPEL PLAN The adoption of the newv chapel schedule, which you read about on the front page, really puts us in a good hulmor. We finish the year in a much better frame of mind. We feel that thlis is a r-eal progressive step. Think of it! No more hateful "chapel-day" schedules-no more of this coming to class at - ten, only to find that the class started at twenty of the hour. But the really important tiling about this new plan is that it came from the Student Faculty committee. Probably few students know about this committee-but it arose from suggestions made by speakers of the Religious Emphasis week last fall; its aim, better stu dent-faculty relations, and solution of various problems on the campus. This committee is ex'actly what Carolina needs. We do most sincerely hope that it will continue to function next year. If It does, something real will come of it-mark our words. ATTEMPTS AT REFORM NET LITTLE RESULT We must confess a disappointment as to re siltg procured from our little crusade for the remedy of specific evils on the campus. We asked for something to be done about the registration mess. We asked for some thing to be done about the telephone situation. We asked Student Body officers to fix eligi bility qualifications, we asked the Legislature to give us a chapel. And we asked for reallocation of the Student Activities Fee, as so many editors have asked before us. Well, the mills of the gods grind slow-we hope they will grind "exceeding fine." Per haps something will yet come of our efforts. Changes are often made by the administra tion at the end of a session, or between ses sions. Maybe the telephone, registration, and re-allocation miatters will be taken up. The other matters must wait at least until next year. With our dying breath we plead once again for the correction of these evils. CO-EDITORS OF THE PAPER CO-OPERATE At the close of last semester when the Board of Publications elected co-editors for the first time, an editorial board was also established to settle any difficulties arising between the two editors. Up until now this board has not been called in to settle a single dispute simply be amuse we. the co-editors, have agreed on every issue. We are not taking a black feather, like the Fifth Columnist presented, but we do consider it worth mentioning to get along as vell as we have. In fact, we got along with each other so well that we've even gone so far as to borrow money from each other, and paid it back. A Co-Editorship didi't fare so badly, even if some (lid condemn it. WE NOMINATE BUT THE BOARD ELECTS Since the board of puiblications (lid not come through with the election of oflicers for The Canecock last week, which incidentally was the accustomed week, we in this last issue have the results. The reason for the delay is still un known but we say that it was uncalled for. Anyway the heads of The Gamecock made their nominations in time and these nomina tions were carried out, with the exceptions of two oflices. Since these oflices were not the most important ones on the paper we have nothing to say about the change, but we want it known that spite work doesn't pay. How ever, we are satisfied and have no doubt in our Imnds but what the paper will again be one of tIhe best in the country. From now on, or starting next September, The (Gamecock will be headed by Jim McKin ney, Editor-in-Chief; Deward Brittain, Man aging Ed itor and C. C. Ariail, Business Man ager. All of these boys are plenty good,'they have a great staff, andl we leave it with them for a continuation of what weo have tried to lput a cross. We were non-pa rtisani, umnda unted andl triedl to print what we thought to be right. Tak over, you "Fifth Columnists." LET'S GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT'S DUE Two years ago The Gamecock was head over heels in debt. At the present time it is in the best financial state in years. There is but one reason for this and that reason is the best Bus iness Manager in the business. For two years E. WV. "Duck" Sweatmnan, Jr., has served in this cap)acity and for two years the paper has practically emerged from the hole on its own. We admit "Duck" gets paid for the job but he deserves it. Here's hoping the incoming editors benefit from the past "boom" and are recognized to the extent that those in control see fit to raise a salary or so. SENIORS HAVE NOT TAKEN ENGLISH EXAM Graduation is less than a month off; exams, about a week. Seniors will soon be alumni. That is, they will if they have passed the Senior English exam provided by the Board of Trustees. In spite of continued warnings some have not taken the exam, or have not made up deficiencies. Just remember.-no exam, no diploma. Campus Camera 098 499f *BUNNY"' LEAVlTr,. CHICAGO, IN 1935 'WYf ED 499 SuOCESVE FRE THROWS! 4000 SPECTAMRS WMHED - ' HIM PERFORIME FEAT. EACM YEAR.k0r 'ME PLEDGES OF KAPPA PHI j LAMBDA AT WEST MINSTER 03LEGE ARE RBMIRED 'O MAKE 50 6ALLONS OF APPLE-BU1TER! - BUCKs4oT ''IERE ARE 99 COLLECES FOR MEN. 146 COLLEGES FOR. WOMEN AND 424 CO-ED INSTITUTIONS IN THE U.S. INCLUDING PAFESSIONL, NEGRO, JUNIR AND NORMAL SCH00LS'IHE10TAL IS 1:709. +Questionmof-Week Do you think the U. S. will be in War before September? Why? J. illhWi/ 1rhv-Ae are in the war now ! As for actual combat, we will not be in it until 1942, and not then if England can hold out with our help. Prances Wats-Hope not-What will I do for boy friends if Uncle Sam sends them all across the ocean? Ann Catheart-Ditto! But he wasn't old enough to register for the draft. Edwin Betsill-It looks as if we will be pretty soon, but I hope not. Ann Stewart-I don't think we will have a formal declara tion of war. We will continue and increase our aid to Great Britain. This aid being an umideclared war. Jimmy Bell-Yes, I think we will be in the war by Septem ber-in fact by July-As England doesn't have a chance with out our help and we are too much the same people to stand back and watch our ideals get crushed. Fr-a-nces liaskell-With U S. ships carrying munitions to the British the Americans will be drawvn into the war. Hitler has statedl that he would not hesitate to sink any ships with British destination-and he has proved his strength and daringf. Ed Cutslm an-Yes, at least to the extent of Naval participa tion-because we have to convoy to Great Britain. Richad Elliott-We are in the war now I We just can't use our troops-no p)lace to send themj. Jimm?ie Wilso-I think the U. S. will send an army this summer to the middle East to stop Hlitler at the Suez Canal. We will seize the Azores, Darkar, and occupy Signapore before September. Heil Roosevelt! Faces MIees-I think the U. S. will be in war before the end of June. Georgianna Rleeces-I thiink so, 'cause the love of my life is in the regiment that goes first. Olin MacDnald-I think they will, because of the convoys the U. S. is sending out. Jules R?iley-Ditto ! Dave Baker-I certainly hope not! But as soon as our naval vessels are sent as convoys we can exp)ect open naval hostilities, which would be equivalent to an actual declaration of war. DAFFY. DRIVERS 3 Cover Jhe CAMPUS by DEWARD BRITTAIN ODD BITS ABOUT ODD PEOPLE ... I found this one last week: A freshman at Creighton university de fined the word "co-ed" as "a contraction of the word co-educational applied to young ladies aspiring to compete for an education with the higher type of human." P. S. The 'higher type of human' must refer to sone animal un known in these parts. To the Faculty-Student committee, Discipline committee, and Cut-'Em-Down committee: I give you this from the pen of Sir Ernest J. P. Benn, "History will record it of us that we were a people who gave up work and took to politics, who laid down our tools and sat on committees." Maybe the Creighton freshman was right after all: A survey at Syracuse university showed that 66 per cent of the co-eds talked over their love affairs with their mothers. Thirty-one per cent said they had no love affairs. All of which makes them 100 per cent liars! * * * * * * WAKE UP AND LIVE, or Who Was Shakespeare. . . Senior (Talking to sophomore about one of last season's grads): "Yeah, I knew Zuckerman. He and I slept together one semester." Soph (Who idolizes the Great Zuckerman): "You mean you roorhed with him a semester . . . ?" Senior (condescendingly): "Naaa, Faunteroy, I sat beside him in Norwood's English class." * * '* * * * rHE HORSESHOE'S FADING HEARTBEAT . . . Who knows where Bruce Plyler earned the title "Superman?" l'he L. Bird-J. Lever spark is kept alive with an exchange of such )ropaganda as "The Red Movement in W\hite I'lains." Why don't :hey come back to earth? ... \omination for the two most outstanding Carolina men of the year: Ilarold Schecter and Joe l'atrone . . . . Sol Blatt, Jr., is winding up his hitch as student body president with iotable honor. All year Sol has fanned the little glow that is Caro ina's spirit, all year he has kept a shoulder to alma mater's wheel of )rogress. Blatt has done a good job . . . H. C. Dreher says he will 'officially' move on the campus next fall . . Kappa Sigma should add another Kappa to its name: The last three >residents of KSK have come from the ranks of Kappa Sig ... Question of the Year: Will Matthew Poliakoff graduate??? * * * * * * rHUS, THE END... It is finished. In a world where politicans vote for prohibition and pray for whis key, in p world where boundries are carved by swords, another college year slips into the ghetto of things remembered, into the dim valley of yesterday that was once today... You can look back on it now through the hazy, evening-glow of sentiment. The classes weren't so bad, and now you know that tan gent is not a trademark for lipstick. Prof. Burp-Burp Coker is a reg'lar feller, and Dean Chase is not a demigod who issues sadistic orders from a swivel chair. He's just another member of the little society of men and women-the catalog calls them 'the faculty'-who trades his knowledge for the bread and butter of life . . . - Yes, alma mater is a good place, a great place-so great, in fact, that time itself cannot erase her greatness or her goodness But, then, we're looking through the rose-colored glasses of de votion, of memory. What does it matter when it's all lived down and swept away into the dust heap that is life? .. . MUSCLIN' IN ( Editors' Note-"M'usctin' In" was originally a column of news from othecr college papers. Today we return to this practice with thecse notes from Associated Collegiate Press.) Add unusual titles for columns and departments, these three from the New Mexico Lobo: SOIL CONVERSATION SERVICE, the dirt column; LOONEY TUNES, humor column by Ruth LOONEY; and LETT ERIP, open forum column. . . Folio line under the page one log of the Detroit Collegian recently read: Wanye University, Detroit Michigan. Competition for the boys at Wayne, perhaps? . . .Staff of the Stratford Traveller recently celebrated the paper's ninth anniversary with a banquet. . . Co-ed Edition of The Current Sauce at Louisiana State Normal college carried all the gals' names in BOLD CAPS... The Normal Leader at F'redlonia (N. Y.) State Normnal school has been waging an editorial campaign for purchase of a school bus.... Chalk up a coup for the Illinois College Rambler. In a recent issue it published EXCLUSIVELY the reply of Ace Foreign Correspondent Leland Stowve to critics of his "Scandinavian Twilight" series depicting conditionis in Norway preceding and during the Nazi occupation. Paul Findley, Rambler staffman, nabbed Stowe for the exclusive just before the newsman lectured at MacMurray college. A Rambler editorial, "An Experiment in Journalism," termed the interview "probably one of the most sensational jo'urnalistic experiments in the long history of this paper." It was explained that "the headlines and arrangement of the interview (page one play under a banner line) have been made to con form as nearly as possible to the make-up for the famous Stowe 'Nor way treason' story which appeared on the front page of the (Chicago) Daily Newvs of April 16, 1940." The Butler Collegian issued a six-page state basketball tournament extra with a press run of 4,000. . .An industrious reporter and an office flunky for the New Mexico Lobo learned by actual count that 857 of the names appeared in a recent issue. Before you whistle in amazement, let us add that 57i9 of the names were in guest lists for formal dances. . .~ The Beloit Round 'Table engaged in an editorial and letters-to-the editor controversy with one Alfred M. Brace, a 1909 graduate, on the general subject of war philosophy. One of Brace's replies to a Round 'Table editorial wvas so lengthy that the paper circulated it in the form of a three-page mimeographed insert, explaining that it wanted to be fair to Brace but didn't have room in the regular edition for his letter. The Student Weekly at Franklin and Marshal recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary . . . The Mississippian at Mississippi university has :naugurated a monthly award to the most valuable staff member. The honor carries a $3 cash prize .. . "Twenty Pages of Style in This Issue" read the kicker-line over the page one log in a recent issue of the Miami Student. . .The New Mexico Lobo used five colors of ink in its April Fool editin.