The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 05, 1943, Page Page Four, Image 4
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).
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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.
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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.
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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