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The Gamecock Foquded January 30, 190 RODXRT ELLUOTT GONZALES, Fkat Editor 0"u e lose.6 4 motter at the posteWlee at Columbia, 1941 Member ig4 Associated Cole6iate Press Diuributor of Colle6iae DiEest NEPRSSNT8O FOR NATIOMAL ADVaTaNG 6V National Advertising Service, Inc. College Pubfishers RepreseusAive 420 MAo:soN Ave. NKW YORK. N. Y. CAGSO . 1o0TOR e Los AN&L6 - SA4 FRANC19CO Issued weekly by the student body of the University of South Caroline during the college year. f ank L Sloan................................................Editor 0. 0. Ariail, Jr..........:........................Business Manager Robert J. Quinn....................................Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Donald 0. Merrick...................................... Sorts Editor Albert 8. Eggerton......................................News Editor DrsNs.........................COped Editor ARSOCIATE EDITORS Leonard Turnbull Pitkin Boll Gordon Hill Donald Law Nancy Padgett Arthur Roberto STAFF WRITERS Jimny HDil Margaret Jones Kate Smoot Sloan Hungerpillar Buster Coleman Othneil Weinges %0rh Flinn Connie Morton Red Ballantine Howard Lindsay Morris Mamursky Bill Timmons Virginia Trapp David Brockington .........................Circulation Manager RAy Parrott ............................ ........Exchange Editor BUSINESS "TAFF Sis Brooks Ken Sallenger FAREWELL WITH THANKS Leaving the campus this week for Annapo lis, where lie will head the department of English history and government, is Captain R. A. Hall, organizer and commandant of Carolina's Naval ROTC. If the English lan guage lacks any one thing, that is a new word to express appreciation. This is not a hackneyed nor routine thanks for a job well done, so we won't pick a hack neyed or.routine way to express our apprecia tion. He probably met few students outside his Navy work, but the fortunate few who did is a farewell with thanks for a job well done. Our loss, Annapolis, your gain. ALL AIN'T HOPELESS Boys, Don Law and news service director Frank Wardlaw made it... so all ain't hope less. There is a picture to prove the event. It shows "Y" president-elect Law, in bed on the third floor of Sims with two co-eds holding his1 hands. And Prof. Wardlaw was there to take it, so they both have our esteem. Of course they got in under the guise of tak ing publicity pictures for co-ed First Aid de fense work . . . but most of us have gotten no farther than the lobby on any pretext what soever. Never say die .. . If they can, we can... Quick, Watson, my press pass. JUST AS WE THOUGHT Varsity show went the way of most ideas that demand active student participation. Fifteen students attended the final desperate call on last Friday . . . most of them already active in campus work. Student council meeting once to have its pic ture taken for the Garnet and Black . .. In terfraternity Council meeting once to elect of fiers. .. two more examples of campus will ingness to let somebody else do all the work. If we think . .. "Oh, well, too bad we can't have it . . ." and shrug our shoulders about the Varsity show, no one will be surprised. But the new student government plan now being written into the student body constitu tion is one job we'll play the devil getting out from under. If student members don't do their jobs on faculty committees, the new student legislature will know it, it will be published, red faces will be abundant on the campus. ...in other words, we'll begin to learn that we have to accept the obligations as well as the privileges of Democracy. WE were awakened... some rudely, some hap Pily ... last week to find that Coach Enrigh and his department of physical education ar about to begin an improved gym and intra mural program for students. First of alli, we have to work harder our selves ... which may make some happy, other not so happy. If the plan succeeds we wil not only meet the extra physical fitness require inents necessary for the war, but we will havi gone a long way toward correcting one o the greatest weaknesses in Carolina's studen athletic set-up. GET out on Melton field or in the gym at mos any intramural game or physical ed. clasc you will see visual evidence of a situation tha has long been a daily complaint of studentE Equipment for intra-mnurals and physical ed has been woefully lacking or in ill repair, oui total athletic resource turned to the majoi sp1)orts. In all justice to Coach Enright and his staff let it be said that the Athletic Association i [ighting along under a heavy debt load . . imd must produce a winning football team oi else. But it is hard to convince a student whi pays his good money to activities fees, equip inent fees, University canteen and bookstore then sees stands full of paying spectators a amnes-that there is no money for equipment NEW equipment will be harder than ever to gel low, and if there ever was adequate excus( ,or the poor student athletic situation, the wai vill provide it. But that Coach Enrighl Jhould have to provide an excuse is an injus. ice both to himself and to the student tc vhom it is offered. The weakness of the situation is not only ir he program itself, but in the actual athletic >rganization. If the average Carolina ed or !o-ed had implicit faith that his athletic dol ar was going toward what is best for his own velfare, then he wouldn't squawk if the intra nurals and minor sports suffered even more han they do. LAI ICf%I C may be built by merely stepping up the vm >rogram for all students, as is done under the lew plan. But the belief of the."men and vomen of Carolina" in Carolina will never be >uilt up until they are taken into the confi lence of the athletic director and the situation alked over straight from the shoulder. Granted that we would give our shirts tc ee Carolina take Clemson at the state fair game, we would still like to be sure that our hirts are needed before they are taken. The var cry of the whole athletic group, since its ndebtedness was announced to the public our years ago, has been "we have no money ..(with which to take care of minor sports ntra-murals, physical education classes). 'IT SAYS H ERE-' is the usual comment of the average Caro. iuia student because he has not been giver 'omough real information to be in symnpathy vith the group who must handle the ticklislh ithletic situation. And because University of. icials have not given him facts, to throw badi it those who hint that something is rotten ir USC's woodpile. In short .. . The Gamecock advocates a new~ program of taking the students into confidenc< ~oncerning the school's problems, so that we'l tave solid confidence in those directing oui sfforts . . . even if we do have to go withoul 1ew equipment. In shorts . . . let's get out and work har( :o get in shape to win our fight against de nocracy's enemies. And in passing, shake bands with Coach Enright for realizing that the students o: USC must eventually come first in athletici is well as in academic life. CaMpus Canera do S N, du iss fer ba co :lo t FIRST C1 FRATERNITY LODeG IN AMERICA - BUILT AT KENYON CLLEGE r01LC) th 1Y DELTA KPA EPSILON-IN2/ t -Y 0- tal CREW RACES CowrM UNI3Y e< WAS OUNED B 13 pa STARTED THE FIRST INTERCOlLEGIATE ME N r5 DOLLARS a RIVALRIES. IN 1852 THE LONG SERIES AND 13 PRAYERS I an BEMEEN HARVARD AND YALE BEGAN! _th 130C Al K pr. th frc an, tu( GI tre AC P's Jay Richter Reports from Washington A A MEW fot JOBS A Washington-(ACP)-The pressure of war has prompted the Fed- th< eral Civil Service Commission to offer its "Junior Professional Assistant" Ju examination to college people for the second time this year. In previous. years it has been offered only once-in January. all Also for the first time, it is open to every college senior or graduate, an regardless of his major. Each applicant will take the same two-hour tin examination, designed to test his general knowledge and adaptability. for Openings exist in \Vashington and in "the field." air The jobs will pay $2,000 unless you indicate willingness to take less A ($1,440, $1,620 or $1,800). Especially sought are those interested in pub lic administration, business analysis, economics, home economics, library co. science and mathematics. on Get blanks and details at the postoffice or Civil Service District office. do Closing date for filing is April 27. W College students with architectural training are needed by the govern ment in "Junior Architect" jobs paying $2,000. Seniors may apply. No written test is given. The Civil Service blank to ask for is "Architect, $2,000 to $3,200 a year." is is * * * * is WAR * More than 3,000,000 workers have been trained by the Nation's schools to in special technical lines to serve the armed forces and war industries. t Since the report two weeks ago that 9,500 of Norway's 10,500 teachers ad had resigned in protest against Nazification of the Norse schools, 2,000 ter Norwegian schoolmasters have been arrested by the Nazis. Almost all to Norwegian schools are closed.* NYA Student self-help under NYA may become a war casualty unless it can prove itself a war-time necessity. When the President asks Congress soon for funds to operate NYA and CCC during the coming fiscal year, he will probably suggest that the war functions of the two agencies be merged, and that their peace time functions be scrapped. NYA Director Aubrey Williams, as well as several educators, hasm done a good job of defending NYA before members of the Senate Edu cation committee. He told them that (a) most of the machine tools in It NYA training shops were obtained before priorities went into effect, fa and (b) that a month before the general newspaper attack against NYA nm started the agency had begun inventory of its shops for machine tools an that might bc turned over to war industries. of QI Letters To The Editor Dear Editor:Ofcus,Ihvbeniord I have just heard of the new rul-oftelarnviainsfthod ing by the University authorities thatruedinlatsmtr. tses a student will be charged one dlollar t e oee,ta nelcnl for having a bed put in his room for fntoigMrhlsofc ol a night.haecerduthsstainna This is certainly not a good ad vertisement for our University. Itmoentlintwyhainhera-T endangers our reputation as a hospi- sr htwsaotd h o a table school.liith nubrogesshaa This situation may also prove em-pesnmyhvduigoese barrassing to the student who has atr,olitth nubr ftme Iguest and can't afford this charge. ta n esnmyb h us He certainly can't ask his guest toofteUirsydungaem bear the cost. There is a rule in the catalogue tr stating that a student is subject to I' nart uihteetr t-w discipline who has a person in hisdetbyfothwrndigofa h room not duly assigned to that roomfeinvdul,adItikhtsoec by the Marshal's office. If the stu-lesdatcmsueoldhvben o dents follow this rule, there can be tknt eeytestain absolutely no visitors without theYortul,P paymentffthisfcarge.ntvioaton Burnte. ol Why Hill No! By JIMMIE HILL UTS TO rhose blasted back-stabbers who persisted in running up to me all ring the past week and telling me how good my column was last ue. Can I help it if the editor makes the mistake of letting lovely ns write this space filler in the absence of the regular typewriter nger. Yes . . . Yes . . they did a good job, but the next one that rnes through that door to tell me about it gets this typewriter crammed wn his throat by way of reply.. :NSOR DUTY [ visited the offices of the Winthrop "Johnsonian" while I was up it way last week, and was received very cordially . . thanx. Got to king to the girls there about the fued that paper has been carrying with Judson Chapin of the Clemson "Tiger" (whatever that is). It ims that Chapin insisted that the "Johnsonian was a censored news per. I talked the matter over with several of the girls on the staff, I also the faculty member who supervises everything that is done in nnection with the paper, and they didn't seem to think there was a ng to his accusations. 4D WHILE ['m on that subject, I'll throw out a personal bouquet to Dr. Warren :ith of Winthrop for sponsoring the forensic contests that have been tctically the last haven for public speaking in this section. And while, a on that subject, I'd like to make nasty remarks and all that about : narrow minded bunch that have decided to do away with these events 'in now on. I don't know what attitude they have taken concerning y evil effects that might evolve from these contests. Whatever atti le it is-it stinksI ETTING BACK L'o Carolina for a while, one notices that the grass is all green, and the es are all ditto. This is very interesting. It seenis to indicate that ing has definitely made its arrival. Co-eds and Eds are populating campus. Eds are telling Co-eds to help them find a four-leaf clover. petition has been handed in asking Dr. Coker to clear the campus of ir-leaf clovers. Then it would take longer to find them. Smart Ed. 4D FURTHERMORE [mprovements have been made on the antique buildings here and re. Several of the "historical" buildings have new bath equipment. it in time for one's spring bath. DeSausaue classrooms have new ceilings. What a pity. This takes the thrill out of attending classes there. One need no longer sit and nder if the plaster is falling down on his cranium. One can only sit d listen to a lecture. Professor Waterfall says he won't need a G.I. hat. He is also afraid that his Red Cross courses won't be needed crushed craniums in Economics 42. "Several", he comments, "seem eady crushed." FLAGPOLE s going up near the old library. We will be proud to display our intries colors. They should be very inspiring. When they go up, e will begin conjecturing. Perhaps if we are required to take about a ren gym classes, we will be awarded the Navy "E" for Efficiency. Duldn't that be just dandy? I MEMORIAM ro the Varsity Show that was-to be. It has gone. It died because students at Carolina didn't give a barrier-to-hold-back-a-river. This the attitude most students here assume. It is the reason this column so filled with tripe. Nobody cares to do anything. The campus is ahere once was a time whe things happened. Professors who seem frown on mischief will tell you with a gleam in their eye of things it used to happen here. But the Caroliniain on today is in a mental lethargy. He is lack asical. He is a droop. Surely there must be something more in esting to do than to plod to classes for a few hours, then plod back one's room and flop in a chair. Why don't we wake up? Why don't do anything? Right or wrong, for heaven's sake, Jets do something. MUSCLIN' IN With ED PATTERSON ( Editor's Note : Pattersoni has declined the honor of scribbling this hash this wee'k again, so two dark horses have colaborated to turn out w'hat's below.) The agony on the faces of the old politically battle-scarred law students ikes us wonder if Spot Mozingo didn't have the right idea when he said, V hen I was at Carolina we dlidn't let anything get by without opposition.'' s a pity to see major offices go simply for the asking . . . From the long :e Jimmy Bell is wearing these days one would gather that he's losing ney for the sake of his class like those self-sacrificing souls, McCutcheon d Gibbes! (Ha! Ha!) . . . Those Marines in "From the Shores of Tripoli" re, with the exception of the Naval ROTC, the most glamorous bunch men seen in years . . . Speaking of Marines, everybody looked happy at ieen Carolyn Gayden's Coronation than Sol Blatt, Jr. What you need a uniform, Sol . . . (Ed. note: It won't be long.) Orchids To : Jimmie lill, for winning about half of the Foren:sic tourn,amnt at WVinUhrop . . . WYe also understand that Forensics weren't the only thing he won up there! . . . To the Block C Club for bringing us Chartie Spivak. There must be some Jake Colvin's in theat crowd . . . To KSK for improving the sanitary conditions in the beat up old tenements on the lower campus . . . WVe understand that some of them now have running \water . . . To the many co-ed grads who are now going to business school learning to make a living. For one night, Bobb)y Browne was the most envied man *On the campus. ie night of the beauty pageant. It's hard to understand how the judges 't him out of the election the next day . . . Kappa Sig's Bob McNair rely gets around. This time he's moved from Beaufort to Allendale .but rapidly! By the time a senior pays for his robe, invitations, diploma, and some clothes, he has a lot of money invested in this graduation af fair. A great m~any are afraid they can't afford to graduate, even if John A. Chease and the registrar's office approve. Bill Jones and Jay Hlammett spent all hours of last Saturday night out th the high school Beta Club . . . Not a vote in the crowd I . . . That's longest eye to the future we've seen . . . Dan Hollis is preparing a ce against Smitty Smith for defamation of character rising out of a nflict with the city constabulary over an epislde in front of the Columbia tel on Gervais street . .. and finally, Bernice Mitz Lochinvar from eston third floor wants a retraction of the statement concerning him t week. Let this be it--With Mustard I . , n~,tDo!.. . We'r thouh