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4onald Law .......................Editor ZDUTORUAL STAr DotNaerh .....................Oo*d Editor ff"eddeas soor Society 8ditor TOMa P4u1W ........... Eachanget Ed1tor ASSOCUATE EDITORS Pitkin Bell. Morris Mamursky. Jimmy Brook Mfan, Sloan Rungerpiller, obristint Oannon. Sarah Flinn .............Managing Editor BULLETIN BOARD MESS Anyone who has ever taken the necessary three hours and 37 minutes to read the dozens of bulletin boards scattered at random around the campus, will admit that although the lack of organization about announcements may not be a major catastrophe, it is a continuous nui sance. Some energetic soul with the enthusiasm for a crusade should take this problem on, as his boy scout duty. There are two things very wrong with the present system of bulletin boards: one, nu merous announcements that would do well to be posted never are; and two, most of those that are, are so hidden by the accumulation from months back that no one ever reads them anyway. While looking to see what's to he on at chapel, it's more likely that you'll see a sign summoning you to a meeting of the sub-coi mittee of the Polumenthian society to be held * October 11. Which isn't exactly efficient. Here's what the Gamecock proposes: Some committee such as the one from the faculty-student relations committee now work ing to co-ordinate all meetings should act as a clearing house for all announcements. There should be a certral place on the canpii-g where announcements shoul-I be turned in, and a weekly dead-line ft- them. Mimeographed copies could be made every week of the an nouncements turned in to this central com mittee, and these be posted at each board. As the new announcements were posted, the old ones would be taken down, thus avoiding the numerous layers adorning every board now. Certainly bulletin boards should be set aside for special purposes, as a few are now. For example, the lost and found one at the post office should be the one for such notices and the one carrying news about the available scholarships for graduate work, in DesSausaure should specialize on this. All the others should be general boards and should carry all an nouncements. If fancy posters were desired they could be used, if a copy were turned in to the central committee, so somebody would know what was cooking. This mimeographed announcement sheet could be used not only for bulletin boards, but copies could be made for chapel announcements sheets. The Gamecock would be delighted to print it, or as much of it as was useful, each week. The one argument against this p)lan that seems reasonable is that perhaps students would not stop to read a typewritten sheet. The Gamecock believes that if this wvere tried, and students found out they could dependl upon the announcement sheet for all important notices it would be read. . . at least by as many as those few who stop to wade through the present hordes of announcements. TO WHAT-THE-HELL-ERS Because some of you will read the editorial about doing war-work and then get the willies over anybody being as adolescently optimistic as to think war work was worth doing, the fol lowing soliliquy is written to express the cynics side of the matter. "What the hell. Why study. That wvon't help kill Japs. What the hell. Why work? We'll soon be fighting and it won't help there. What the hell. Why get excited about what's to happen after the war? We haven't won, yet. What the hell. We'll probably turn communist anyhow. What the hell. The world is going to pot anyhow, and anybody who says differently is just a pollyanna look ing through rose-colored glasses. What the hell." To those whose attitude is expressed by the above, the Gamecock would like to make the following suggestion. It seems to us that a bit of poetry fits in with your attitude, and has the same degree of common sense, and logical reasoning to it. We quote: Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, Going in the garden eating worms. Big fat squooshy ones, slick slooshey ones. Going in the garden eating worms. (Editor's note: To those who are inclined to take seriously' people who have this what-the hell attitude, and also to worm-hunters, we urge: don't forget to take it, worm or attitude, with a grain of salt). Member Associated CoDeiate Press R01 Ditributor of Cole6iae Di6esl 0MUM __ _ _ _ __ _ _ aron. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? This job has been tackled so many times that its glitter has worn off, but it's never actually been solved. And something ought to be done about it-the poor old tired situation of war effort on the campus. Again it is hanging from a few meagre strings. More than enough good intentions have been inspired by the never-ending need for an organization along this line, but each attempt seems to get stymied, in the process. Last year there were organized discussion groups led by professors to keep students up on the news of the day. After a few weeks these petered out. Last year, there was a student-faculty com mittee which worked hard to get everybody at the University to sign up to buy a regular amount of stamps monthly. After the sign ing-up was done, the defense committee, so far as the Gamecock could discover, disintergrated. This year, the YWCA got going on a pro gram with big ideas, for an inclusive program. So far, nothing has been seen of the material ized plans, but the war stamp booth in the can teen. The KSK air raid warden system was dis continued because of the rapid turnover of students, and the changes in tenements. So what have we got? Thirteen hundred students more or less. There are certain needs of these hundreds that should be filled. Whether they are soldiers in-the-making or girls-who-will-be-left-behind, they should have these things: (1) Some idea about the governments, geographies, peoples, idealogies, etc., of both the Allies and Axis countries. (2) Some idea of the peace that should fol low the war. (3) What vocations will be open fields for what sexes after the war? What will happen to the career women when all the Johnnies come marching home? And what will happen to the Johnnies? These are some of the things every Ameri can ought to be thinking about. * And it's a cinch that Carolina students unless they are doing some digging of their own, aren't get ting it. Of course, there is always the rebuttal to this, "but who cares." People who know noth ing about it, don't. It can always be said that history, political science and sociology classes cover these prob lems. Or that students get it at chapel and other meetings. Sure. It can be also said to describe Hitler that he is a man with a mustache. But we wouldn't try to force that dlown you as the whole truth. Plenty has been done . . . in a piece-meal fashion. There are intermittent war stamp dIrives. Ther are speakers every now and again. There is a wvhole library waiting to be used. But the average Carolina student still sits, waiting to be drafted, or get married, as the sex may be. No one organization can do it all. No or ganization should attempt to do it all. But what is needed is for some group to survey the whole job. See what is being clone. WhTlo is doing it? What should be done? Who couIld b,est do it? Thlere are plenty of organiza tions on the campus who have the personnel necessary to stage this sort of comprehensive rep)ort of status quo, and future perfect. The floor is openf for nominations. BENCHES FOR TWOSOMES They were discussing howv long the benches should lbe-the ones the student union board is having muade to grace Sims' lawn. Exact measurements, and details were b)rought out. Then sp)ake Colonel McKissick: "Gentlemen, from my long years of ex perience, and observation, it is my belief that benches miade to hold more than twvo people will not b)e used by more than two, regardless. Therefore, I suggest the b)enches be built for couples." Thue (discussion was ended. The gentlemen voted to have the benches made to hold two, and only two, people. It is highly likely that when the twosomes begin enjoying their benches they will be much too engrossed with the moon, and the state of the nation, and other things that generally interest twosomes to remember gratefully that it was the Colonel's sagacious wisdom that made their privacy possible. So for twosomres, Colonel, the Gamecock, sigahs a r1ewey-eye a,1nk1-y. The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 'S'ENTED P0 3ERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Fir Editor National Ad collese Pal 420 MADIsON A od as @ecood-ohmi matter at the postfloe at Columbia, culcASo son - Nov. 2D. is. I weekly by the student body of the University of Bouth during the college year. Campus Camera TO 5OARDT# WANT TO BE A STAR.? 'TAKE LAW' THESE FORMEIR LAW SlUDENTS NOW APPEAR BEFORE ThE COURT . -. OF PUBLIC OPINION' BING RUDY CROWs VA t. E GiMAGA YALE-MAINE IALANNY YALE COW.MIA WORL'S LARGEST SCHDLHOU 14AGY LEARNIWs IS 42. StRES HICA, 00)NTAJNS 375 ROOMS 67 LABS, 5.RESEARCt L-ABS, 91Ui5RWM, 8 LARGE LEC1URE KaS 15 DEPT. LOWEL.- DoN SUDIES, 5 11EATERS, 78 OFFICES, CASS5 FLODRS OF UBRARY,.A F*E ARTS 14M S' EjBRAR, CM8 AM Loar&Ms .,009 OA.C. P. KENT NC ACRe Jay Richter Reports from Washingtom SCIENCE AND CIVILIAN WAR Washington-(CPA)-Not often do the scientific research establish ments of the nation's colleges and universities figure in a major politi cal tussle on Capitol Hill. But today they are among the innocent bystanders caught in a tug-of war that pulls a dozen directions instead of the conventional two-the battle over the highly controversial Pepper-Tolan-Kilgore bill for a War Mobilization Board as a civiliai ctiper-control over the entire wir effort. Research institutions, of course, aren't the heart of the issue. They are concerfned only in a p)art of the bill calling for an Office of Tech nological Mobilization to gather technoscientific skills, processes and ideas and put them to wvork speedling production and developing new weapons. Colleges undoubtedly wouldl welcome any plan for heightening their contribution to victory via the laboratory. But the proposed office would also force licening of patents and secret processes. Andl that isn't the good news some corporate patent holders are waiting to hear. In broader scope, the War Mobilization Board seeks to bring all p)hases of the wvar effort-economic stabilization, manpowver, military production, civilian production and all the rest-into a tightly integrated organization with civilians in control at all key p)oints. Army and Navy oppose civilian control of their production programs and are fighting the bill. Business is cool, too. It says such reorganiza. tion would only formulize existing wvays of doing things. But b)ackers of the bill say it wvould spread production decisions down the line to local and regional levels, boost labor..management coopera tion, force the military program to fit an over-all strategy, put an end to turning out planes without propellers and inducting men with irre placeable skills. * * * * Administration stalwarts wvrote the measure, basing it on revelations of the Tolan committee's probe into labor utilization, the Truman com mittee's investigation of production practices, the House and Senate small business committees' findings and other recent inquiries. Trhey' got the shock of their lives when the Administration brought subtle pressure to bear to sidetrack the proposal-and used Republicans and anti-New Dealers to do iti Temporarily, at least, the P'epper-Tolan--Kilgore bill is interred in the Senate Military Affairs Committee after a sleeper play snatched it from the favorable Education and Labor Committee. Supporters of the act are searching for a wvay to free the bill for ac tion. SPEED..UP FOR WOMEN Accelerated war-time education has received another boost, this time for women In a policy statement for guidance of liberal arts colleges, the American Council on Education's committee on college women and the war plunks for hastening graduation of good students to help fill emergency needs for trained personnel. To provide year-round schooling for women students at colleges un able to maintain summer sessions, the report suggests pooling staffs and studlent bodies. Trhree scuthern colleges, it points out, are planning to offer a combined summer term on a single campus. Women's colleges and coeducational institutions are essential now, the committee believes, because they can provide technical and profession al workers. Notable examples are chemists, mathematicians, physicists, statisticians, economists, research workers, administrative assistants, psycholoists and bacterin1noists. Richard K. Jackson, Busness Manager Buddy Black ................ Assista n . Ur. DU3U STAFF I NATIONAL ADVSeTISIN @S Maya Reich Saa Roe& re f " , Im STAFF WRITERS ,Urbers Ropmmse4vo Corn. Levy Margaret Mclvem Mart Sith. MR. NZW YORtK. H. T. Spann Toney, SOaron Oulp. John Cook, Holen Los ANas. -AN aNCImaNso Pride Orai, Charies Wickenberg, Jack 'Nettles Jo Thompon. Sam Graham ........Circulation Manager Carlisle Kearse................Asat. Cir. Mgr. CANNON FODDER BY TINA CANNON Crazy... "Pull over to the curb, buddy !" "What's wrong, officer?" "You just went through a red light, Whatsa matter, are you blind ?" "Yes, officer, color blind." "Not only that, but you were doing fifty". "1 was not. My speedometer registered sixty". "Let me see your license". "Impossible, I don't own one". "Well, let me see your owner's certificate". "I'n afraid I can't show you that, either. You see, I just stole this car1". "Stole this car! What's your name, buddy?" "Napoleon". USA Forever ... Know who Uncle Sam's wife is? Don't tell anyone, but it's Anti-Aircraft, according to Herbert, our little moron . . . Once a visitor on a huge destroyer approached an apprentice seamax and asked: "Well, my good man, you are now ready to die for your country, aren't you?" "Naw", he grunted, "but I'm willing to help a Jap die for his". And speaking of the Navy reminds us of a conversation we overheard the other day between two USC coeds, as they walked along the campus. "Do you know any cute boys in the Navy ?" asked one, as girls do ask. "Oh", replied the other loftily, "just gobs and gobs". Out of the Mouths of Babes... "How do you get your kid sister to find so many fishing worms for you?" asked a lady of little Bobby. "Oh, it's easy," little Bobby replied. "Out of every ten she digs up, I let her have one to eat". No Excuse... Professor: "You in the back of the room, what was the date of the signing of the Magna Carta?" "I dunno". "You don't, eh? Well, let's try something else. Who was Bonny Prince Charlie?" "I dunno". "Well, then, can you tell me what the Tennis Court Oath was?" "I dunno". "You don't ! I assigned this stuff last Friday. What were you doing last night?" "I was out drinking beer with some friends". "You were ! What audacity to stand there and tell me a thing like that. How do you ever expect to pass this course?" "Wal, I don't, mister. You see, I just came in to fix this radiator". Miscellaneous ... I remember the first time wve had miscellaneous in spelling, way back in grammar school. The teacher asked me how I spelled it, and I had to answer "Wrong" . . . still can't spell it . .. Plug: the KD Bond Dance for benefit of starving Russians is gonna be tonight. Come on out, and shake yo' foot so they can eat. Fried chicken and hot grits would put a lotta fight in a hungry Russian, don't you think? . . . Speaking of food, you should see how the naval pre-flight cadets stationed on our campus can eat on weekends when they're off duty! Three steaks in one Saturday night is some sort of record. Especially when they're $1.50 a throw, and that aint hay, even fo.r boys who do eat like horses .. . The attendance at the Student Body meeting Tuesday morning was pitiful. Don't the students care about making the rules by which they're governed?i . . . The most cheerful face to be found in the canteen is (purely my own opinion) the usually-beaming one of Palmer McArthur... Nominati'on for the guy in the NROTC who has the most mili tary stridIe (beside Bill Chalker) : Johnny Williams . .. Fashion note: There will be little change in men's pockets this year . .. Weather report: It's spring-Bobby Lumpkin has a crewv hair cut. Doggone ... He: "I had to shoot my dog". She: "Was he mad ?"* He: "Well, he wasn't exactly mad, but he wasn't pleased