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.......................... SPorte Editor n4 . .ok.n ................... New Editor Dor*eNah -.-. ................ o-ed Editor Heln Redden ....................Society Editor Perrin ...................Exchange Editor ASSoCaT EDITORS Pithin Bell, Sloan Hungerpiller, Chribtine Oan. Howard Lindsay........Managing Editor Politics As Usual Bj now, even the second semester freshmen rmust be on to the fact that all the jolly good fellowship spreading good will amongst the student-body at this time is only a nigger in the woodpile. The villyun of dirty politics is with us again. We feel a little guilty about saying that "again", seeing as how some of these ambitious daddies have been kissing babies, and whisper ing sweet nothings for years now. However, as a conscientious, if sceptical bird, the Gamecock is urging all good students, and all bad students, and all politicians (the last is superfluous) to vote. Of course The Gamecock is neutral, as al ways. This statement we say with our tongue in our cheek, but then you'll never know which way we bend, if we bend, so we repeat: The Gamecock is neutral as always. Then, we want to say that we hope the best man will win. Franldy, we know the best poli tician will win. Oh, well we don't see any use in getting serious about a thing like elections, when the whole thing is just a farce, anyhow. The work of new officers is over time votes are counted, and the winners usually hibernate to nurse their laurel wreaths, and look at their pitchers in the annual. But, there's alayJsapossibility,- e beat Clemson one year didn't we? So, maybe this time the good boys will plan a little Lustins, and then do it. If However There's To Be A New Regime Politics as usual, and what The Gamecock says about them is pretty true. But it need n't be so. If people would get nasty about it, student-body and class officers would prob ably be busy instead of honored. There are plenty of things that should be done. The harangue that is being pulled around about chapel could stand some good help from a representative group such as officers should be. The organizations on this camp)us could be studied--there are plenty who should disbandl, or else start cooking. There are some who de serve no allocation from tihe stud(ent-activity fee. Such as the co-ed literary societies. Most important of all--the work that is not being clone by Carolina students toward( the war effort is so much mlore impllressing than what is, that it needn't he argued. It'd take a seriously working group to put it across, though. Plenty-.of other projects could be named. Every studlent has a grouch about something on the campus-thme judges, the laundrv, the infirmary, the eating situationi, andl on. What has been done onl tile campus uisumally3 is and should be credited to sonme picked group, such as KSK, AKG, st1ftudetac.ulty rela tions group and the YW andl YM cabinets. Tonight at the p)oliticall rally, all the good boys will make nice speeches---miostly about their school spirit, or maybe vague promises to accomplish something. If someone (does get radical, and energetic, then for Carolina's sake, let's forget all these group affiliations, forget about the "I'll vote for your.man and you vote for mine," attitude and have a real honest election. Things can happen. If they do, T/w Came cock will take its tongue out of its cheek, andl stop griping. And the whole student-body would fool itself and get benefited, from these usually inane elections. Lest You Forget SWe Say Again There are nice walks on the campus. There are nice students on the campus. Too bad these two things don't get together. If you don't like the way the walks are situated, well, just hold on. After the war, we'll get on the trail of establishing another WPA, or something, and have them retouched. Until then, be nice, and don't ruin the grass.'. Member Pssociated Colle6iate Press Distributor of Colle6ite Di6es, We Step Out For A Short Brew About The Chapel Situation There's a very complicated stew brewing about the future of the chapel period, and chapel programs, that might benefit from some thought-out expressions of students. Here's the situation: There's a hard-working committee of fac ulty and students who plan the programs. They get speakers, put up announcements, and scurry around regularly. Comes Tuesday at 10:30, and any one of the faithful few who attend will agree that the only word to express the size of the crowd is "humiliating". Even when we have excellent out-side speak ers like Homer Loh, to talk about subjects students should be interested in, there's never more than a paltry hundred or so there. So it's no surprise that the fed-up chapel committee is pretty discouraged. They've been talking the problem over, and have a few sug gestions: One: have compulsory chapel-at least for freshmen and sophomores. Two: cut out chapel altogether. Three: make it a Univer sity rule that nothing else can be scheduled at that period. This would mean the canteen closed, etc. Four: have chapel once a month. Five: get a good sized allotment from the stu dent activity fee, that would give the commit tee enough money to get really bang-up speak ers. The Ganecock favors this last. If necessary, skip a week every now and again, but make the chapel programris something so worth while attending, that none of the other less pleasant suggestions would be necessary. And we certainly do agree something must be done. At presenit a group from the faculty student relations committee is studying the possibilities, for the future. But any other faculty or students who have a chapel bone to pick can throw it in. Somebody Is Getting Rooked On This Deal N%owu looka heah. All this buIsiness ab)out being shot for ty p)hoidl is not terribly unreasonable. Of course thme boys will all have to (10 it again, we've heard, soon as thmey put on khaki. HIowever, that (coul d lbe overlooked. But Yeah, and we'll probably recover from the a fte rmathi too. Only let's hope the politicians won t get too enthusiastic about this arm shaking, with arms in this condition. But~ But somnebodly is getting rooked. Here we go, suffering agonies of-well, agonies, but the mnartyrms thl at we are, we struggle on to class so as not to dlisapp)oint the dear professors. But There's no faculty member wvho has taken the blane things that we can discover. We can't del(ide whether the government is just willing for them to have the real thing, or whether thme adminiistration didn't want so manny (classes cuii, as they most assuredly would have beeun if this little drive had been 100 per (ent, mnstead1 of just for students. But, anyhow, we wish the faculty members would not growl so when we don't shine the (lay after the opieration.. Else, let's all fuss so they'll have to be shot. See what we Imean when we groan. Okay, Okay,Okay So We're Silly Please note, there's another letter to the <(ditor about the item, in these columns two issues ago, "One State College Gives Two Others The Razzher ry". Now that we know exactly how p)laton leaders aire selected, we admit we wvere stup1idl not to have known it before. We're still p)roumd of the Carolina boys, in and out of the armed services, though. However, we are turning over the thought Of writing another hot edlitorial. It's kind of nice getting letters from the sojer boys, to in tersperse thme stuff from every college, agency, b)ureaul, and( organization who ask Thre Game ('ockA to p)rint a lot of pub)licity about howv the chickens in Iowna aging aongit. -A few %ral"69990 rhe Gamecock Founded January $0, 1906 106-1ESNTUD Po. IERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor National Ad' College Pa. 420 MAoesoN . d as nond-da mattw a* the pogtofife st oluab1a, CrNCASO - BOSTON 10T. 20, 1306 Weekly by the studeat body of the University of South during the colee year. Campus Camera i' JJ ALBERT SENIOR IN 11FE NEW YORK UNIV. SCHOOL OF CM MERCE, HAS BEEN ]PRESIDENT OF HIS CLASS FOR 1l4E PAST FOUR YEARS! @A.C.P. ODD NAME DEP'T. BOB SASSER. IS A DE3ATER AT PURDUE, ED YELL-AND LEADS CHEERS AT THE COLLEGE- OF 114E PACIFIC AND C.C.SPORTS MAN CCHES TRACK AT NORTH TEXAS ST. TEACHERS COLLEGE! THE LISTENING POST" PROF. EDW. Y. %YUNG OP DUKE U. REAK TREE GROWTH ON ~11E HAS TRAVELED 10 EUROPE 32 IMENBURG COLLEGE CAMPUS. 11MES IN T"E PAST -6 YEARS/ ,WTS to CYPUI2 0.c UW Wem Repoos kcom Washiagton Open Door To Jobs Washington-(ACP)--Uncle Sam has propped the doors open for college graduates seeking professional careers in government service. In an unprecedented announcement, the Civil Service Commission reported it will accept applications for positions as junior professional assistants as rapidly as recent college graduates and college seniors can fill them out. "Junior professional assistant" is the civil service term for the be ginning grade of professional service, a grade requiring training but not experience. Base salaries at the junior professional assistant level are $2,000, but wartine ovet Lime pay for the 48-hour week brings actual compensation to $2,433 a year. Here are the precedent-shattering provisions of tie commission's un nouncement: 1.-No time limit is set for receipt of applications. 2.--Examinations will be held periodically as the applications come in. 3.--Seniors may file applications when they are a semester or two quarters from graduation and receive provisional appointments before graduation if they are successful on the test. * * * * WVar is resp)onsible for this unusual opportunity for college-trained persons. "Anyone who has completed or is about to complete a full 4-year college course is eligible to take the test," Civil Service officials say. "But women are especially urged to apply, particularly those with studies in public administration, business administration, economics, economic geography, library science, history, public welfare, statistics, mathematics and agriculture." * * * * There are other newv job openings for inexperienced persons without college degrees-opportunities for being paid to learn mechanical and scientific techniques. The government is accepting applications for trainees in technical and scientific aids from persons who have had at least one unit of high school physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology or general science. Those passing the tests will be assigned to Washington laboratories of such agencies as the National Bureau of Standards, the Weather Bureau and the National Institute of Public Health. Base pay for trainees is $1,440, with overtime pay bringing the total to $1,752. * * * * * Cutting Classes According to a number of vocal Congressmen, wvorkers in war in dustry have taken the college sport of class cutting and developed it mnto a hobby that threatens to cripple wvar prodluction. Absenteeism in war plants, the Congressmen would have you believe, is largely wilful perversity, chronic laziness or the toll of wveekend benders. Congressional indignition has tended to obscure the few known facts aibout industrial absenteeism. 'The Labor departments figures from re ports by -employers showv the peacetime absentee rate was about 5 per cent and percentage in war industry now is about 6 per cent. Industrial man-days lost by strikes in 1942 totaled 4,500,000. Indus trial man-days lost from illness and accidents is estimated at 450,000,000 -exactly 100 times the amount caused by strikes. Greatest single cause of industrial absenteeism, the Labor department says, is the common cold. And the cold cannot be legislated out of existence. Incidentally, L.abor Secretary Perkins appeared before a House Ap propriations subcommittee the other clay to testify in favor of a $337,000 appropriation for absentee-reduction work. Trhe subcommittee turned thumbs down. * * * . * Comes-The-Peace-Note The job of putting a war-groggy world back on its feet already is getting serious attention from U. S. Colleges. As last time, the task will largely be in civilian hands and qualified personnel will have a rare opportunity for valuable service. A recent survey showed at least 17 schools are offering training for civilians expecting to do post-war relief and rehabilitation work abroad. They include H-arvard, Yale, Princeton, Minnesota, Smith, Oberlin, Co.. -umbia, Michigan, NYU, Hiaverford, Kenyon, Barnard, Temple, MIT, Iowa, Vassar and Antioch. April 2, 1948 Richard K. Jackson, Business Manaer Buddy Black ................Assistant Bus. MV. I NATIONAL ADVERTISNG ST STAFF WRITERS 0otsgSrie,Ic rnn Leavy., Margaret NeElyee, ann rUersin SeMceInec. Toney, Marion Culp on Cook, Helen Uisbers Represeaeive Cr,11g, Charles Wickenburg, Jack Nettles. Jo vR. Naw YORK. N. Y. Thompson, Frances Padgett, Ruth Bundrick, y.os ANGILKI - AN a corrie May Smith, J. B. Woodson, Lib Evans, Ruth Brown, David Freeman, Bernard Moses. Sam Graham ........Circlation Manager Carlisle Kearse................Ast. Cir. Mgr. CANNON FODDER BY TINA CANNON * For Rent . . . One room cottage, accommodations for fifty guests. Popular resort, come early and avoid the rush. Something doing all the time, never a dull moment. Regulated diet. Famous brand of baked beans served 3 times a day. Good wholesome exercise, muscles guaranteed. Plenty of sleep (if you're in bed by seven each night). Bachelors' paradise. No women allowed within thirty miles, except on visiting days. Hiking club, forms daily in front of your cottage at 5:30 a. m., lasts 'till supper time. No rent. We furnish you with cigarette money and everything else is on the house. Apply at your local enlistment bureau; The U. S. Army. * Hash House . . . Lieutenant: I would like a porterhouse steak with mushrooms and some delicately browned toast with plenty of butter. Waitress: Excuse me sir, are you trying to order or are you just reminiscing? * Through The Periscope . . . First Seaman: What's that wriggling object on the horizon? Second Seaman: I dunno. Must be a nervous wreck. * Obstacle Course . . . The following is taken from "Still in the Draft", a humorous book*by Park Kendall, of letters from a draftee to his girl friend Annie: "I went over the obstacle course today. Its like a horses steeplechase where they jump hedges and pools so the sargeant said. But I never seen no horse crawl through a pipe or squirm under a barbed wire fence. I jumped ditches and clumb ladders and swung across a stream on a rope. Its like when Tarzan swings from limb to limb over the crocodiles in the lake armed only with a knife and the love of a girl in technicolor. "They lay automobile tires on a field and you have to run across it carrying a pack and a rifle and step in every one. Which develops leg muscles. The army is very realistic when it comes to training soldiers. We rehearse under the same conditions as on a Pacific island where the 1n iuuuas is rubuer trees. That's the way we get prepared for real war on an island. No matter how many old automobile tires the enemy lays on the beaches we will advance and never miss a tire. "I sprained my ankle jumping off a wall. When I told the sergeant I couldn't go on any more details for a while he ses it was a very lame excuse. I got put on K. P. again. I thought I had graduated with very little honors. I guess you know it means kitchen police. I also found out it means Keep Peeling." * Recipe . . . Take one draftee, slightly green. Stir from bed at early hour. Soak in shower daily. Dress in olive drab. Mix with. others of his kind. Toughen with maneuvers. Grate on Sergeant's nerves. Add liberal portions of baked beans and corned beef. Season with wind, rain, sun and snow. Sweeten from time to time with chocolate bars. Let smoke occasionally. Bake in 100-degree summer and let cool in below zero winter. Serves 130,000,000 people. * This Rationing Again . .. Two co-eds wvere walking dowvn the path on the campus. Suddenly one of them screamed. "Eceeeeeeeeeeecee!!ll (Exactly like that). "What's wrong?" asked the other, "It's only a midget that wye passed." "Thank goodness," said the other. "I thought men were being rationed." * At The Bridge Table . .. Four marines were playing b)ridlge in a hut on WVake Island. Sud denly another leatherneck burst into the room and shouted: "The Japs are landing a force of about 200 men dowvn on the beach!" TIhe four marines looked at one another wearily. Finally, one said: "I'll go. I'm dummy this hand." * And In Conclusion... Once a lady decided to give a party. So she invited 500 of her ostrich friends to come. The appointed clay and hour arrived, and 499 of the ostriches showed up for the social. They waited and waited for the 500th ostrich to come, and as the hour grewv later. he 499 became em barrassed at their friend's tardiness. So they all .uck their heads into the sand (as ostriches like to do). A short whi' ..ater the missing os trich came galloping up, smiled sweetly at his *stejs and said, "Hello. Where's everybody ?" * Drama In Bonds College playwrights now can give their talents a workout on the sub)ject of the human drama behind a war bond purchase. Tlhe Treasury is running a playwright contest on 'that theme-open to any student of any college or university. Scripts will be judged by dIrama department heads, with the winning entry of each school going to \Vashington for a national runoff. Judges will be Margo Jones of the University of Texas, Mrs. Hallie IFlanagan Davis of Smith college, Barrett HI. Clark of the Dramatists Play service and Mrs. Henry Hlorgenthau. The competition closes April 1 and national results wvill be an nounced May 15. Winning scripts will be made available to non-comn mercial theatre groups and the student authors will receive the Treas ury's special award of merit for distinguished service to the war say ings program. * English I, Prof. H. L. Ickes Secretary of Interior Ickes is not one to swallow his irritations in p ri vate. If something annoys him, he lets people know about it. A year ago, for example, he issued a memo lecturing Interior eimployes on the use of the comma. A few months ago, he threatened to fire stenogra plhers who wasted paper. Now lhe's cracked down on a favorite Washington word-directive. Hie recently saw a document using the offensive word five times, he said. Hie wanted no more of it. What he didn't say, however, was that the noisome document announced sweeping powers over the fish pro duction phase of the food program had been turned over to Harold L. * War-Time Washington 4 A Washington cab (driver, who suddenly became tired of it all .the other (lay, announced iri discouraged tones that if dollar-a-year men and others "don't stop their bungling, this war is going to last a hell of a lot longer than the duratio."