Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Saa FUn.................................Editor Georg aie .................... port Editor Jimy Brockman ................... News Editor Doris Nash .........................Co-ed Editor Helen Hedden ....................Society Editor Tom sPerrin ...................Exchange Editor ASSOOIATE EDITORS Pitkin Bell, Sloan Hungerpiller, Christine Can non, Howard Lindsay........Managing Editor And To The Elected: Rise And Shine Boys There's No Time Like... But we say again . . . to those that have been elected, and to those that will be next week. There's no reason why these oflive' S should be a. laugh. They ought to be a much bigger honor then most of the honorary organiza tions. And this new roster could make them so. The new constitution would give you the pow er. And although one outstanding boy, now an officer believes it should be shoved aside until after the war, we disagree. This war might be going on for years. And it's time right now for the elected oflicers of the Uni versity of South Carolina to get busy. Change it if you want. Strike out some things, and put in others. But don't just put it away. We need it. Do something about the do-nothings on this campus. Get the campus organized. Let's have some discussions on the issues of the war. The boys are leaving every day. They need to know what they're fighting for, and what chance they have of getting it. Let's make this campus a wide-awake war-conscious group, in more ways than just the "kiss-tie-boys goodbye" way. Etc. LAt's keep the Carolina spirit up . . . and it will be harder to do, with less athelties next year, and more governmnent-sent boys here. Let's help make the pre-flight boys, and an other contingents that may be sent here, a part of us . . . our friends, friends of the Univer sity, boys that may come back after the war as a part of a peace-time student-body. In spite of the fact that you don't have to have it to be elected, The Ganwcock, and se riously now, believes that you new oflicers have the guts and the fight to make something very needed and valued out ot your jobs. And if you do there need never be another election on this campus that is not hotly con tested by important issues, of interest to the whole student-body. One More Word On Politics And Then We're Through... When the last isiCsue'I itoriali coimimenits be gani coining in, thlere were several studelnts who scolded tihe GJaimecock for saying that time best politician would winm, inlsteadl of tihe best man. TPhey said1 to time staff, look, st upes, some times the b)est mian is also the best p)olitiianI. And to them we said, yes, somietimies. But may we say, officially, that there are always excep1tions that pro've thle rule, and perhaps time good boys who are inl tile process of being electedl may he hoth time best boys and tihe best politicians. But they will be excep tions. And certainily we agree with Bill Jlones' statement at the 1)olit ical rally that if speak ing to peop)le meant being a p)olit ician, then that's what hle wanted to) be4. Of course. May wve clarify.' Politician has the conniot ation on tihis campus of being .somelone who gets votes anmy way lie can. b)ecause lhe wanits ani office. And he wants tile offlice for its suplposed honor. Thmere are, however, pohmti(.ians, who are statesmen-p)eop)le wvho want to be elected be cause they have some ideas that wvouldl help everybody. And they wvork t.o get votes by attempting to convince peopleC that, as offierms, they could accomplish. The Gamecock is against the former type of politician, of whiomi, there are entirely too many running loose. As to the former-thlat is what we keep ar guing for. Let's hope thlat as some of you have said, these people now taking over are that type. If so, politics may get to be a re spected thing around this campus, and politi cian beonme the hnnrnble word it on1l be. Member Associated Colle6dite Press R01 Distributor of lle6diate Di6est &al Inued - C0aroua" Just One More Word About Typhoid Shots (This 'was written before the infirmary claniged its mind-but the gist of what it says st ill goes). Last week on the front page of 'he Game coOk was a story declaring that all students who didn't take the typhoid shots would not he pelalized. Well, that's the truth, but 7'he 6'annecook wants to add a footnote,-and we're sorry it wasn't in the last issue along with the story. But at great many people we heard, after the story came out last week said, "Well, good, I just won't take the last one." Now, looka heah, bud, you aren't being punished, you know. This is a necessary war precaution that you're being given free of charge because you have the privilege of being a Carolina student. Authorities have said publicly that there is quite a daiger of a typhoid epidemic, and espe cially in overcrowded towns like Cohunbia. You wouldi't be deliriously happy about liv ing in an industrial center, right now, if it had ino air raid signals, shelters, wardens, no orgalnized system of defense in case of emer genlcy. Well, this is the same thing. We're liable to have just such an epidemic of typhoid as that of flu which swept the country last time. And it's downright absurdity to refuse to put up any defense measures, just because they seem to come in the form of a command. S 'd eto Cut isJ attiLAte UL I 'M a big boy now, and I'll do only what I want to-anl typhoid shots ain't it." That's as joe college a sentiment, as we've heard lately.* A Not Very Reproachful Comment On The Rally After the political rally last Friday, several conscientious p)el)le approached Game cock staff ieiibers and urged that an edito rial be written agaiinst the ungentlemenly con (uct shown by the audience to the speakers. Sorry, butt we don't feel that way. There were several candidaites who spoke seriously of the University's future, and the fact that we must alli work together for it. These sp)eeches werie taken seriously and we didn't hear' any boots about them. But the majority of the c'andidlatets spoke about how they would performi their dut ies to the best of their abil ity. and the atudience laughed. WVhat else coul you exper't them to do? The boy who satid his oflice hatd no duties, but if so, he'd (d0 themi, wvas right. We don't see why students should take se iiously elections of officers that do nothing. Except for the very few wvho were received seriously because~: they had something to say, we thought the whole thing was a howl... just what it shtould have been. Time Out To Thank The Administration l'Tere are' ahv ays so manny t,hinigs The1( (Aamecock hats t) get perturibed, over, we someW timews dlon't leave room for the crowing. But this onec thing we wvant to mention, be cauuse we think it. is dloing as much to bind students to the I Uiversity, as anything that's ever happened. Most p)eople alreaudy know about it, and too many of t htem accept it, rnot-unusual as a war measure. We're speaking of the extra work that hats to be done by professors, the regis trar's oflice, aund the admlinistration, every time a boy leavyes for the service. Plans are worked out to give htimu every credit poss5ible, andl many b)oys have graiduated wvith weeks less than the reqluiredl number of class hours. This isn't a uni<que thing, something only at the Unriversityv. And wve would expect our school to (10 no less. Still, the attitude of everybody, the willingness to help, the sp)irit of friendiliness, tand cooperation betwveen the administration,~ the faculty andl the students, this spirit, which is the Carolina we love, is rhe Gameco Founded January g0, 1806 IERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Fir o. use-nd.olam matte at the postoE 10T. 30% UK0 weekly by the *tdust body of the Univere during the oolleg yes. Campus Ca Comma uxwsHm H HI COMBEAIrRsT U.0OF WASINGl0ON I AND DEVELOPER OF 114E 00NIBEAR MADE OUMANDiNG OARSMEN BUT PULLED AN OAR / OKLAHom A Am M r LEHAS EXPERIMENTAL WHEAT FIELD TRA BEEN PLANTED 00OWlNUOSLY 101 CROP FOR 48 YEARS ' E LETTER FRON It's Time To Stop Being Nice About This For the last five weeks, there have beei renente,1 ~It,ril.t Gamecock about how nice it would be if this campus did something constructive towards the war ef fort. We've discussed it jokingly. We've )leaded, conjoled. What hap pecned? We!!, you tell us. The following statement is made primarily for the co-ed members of this studentbody. If the boys want to read it, okay. They U_ight _ L-; more influence on their female bud dies, than the Gamecock. War is thrilling, Lieutcnants are lovely. Kiss-the-boys-goodbye-days are so sentimentally exciting. But Now see here, girls. Frankly and sincerely we want to know just what sacrifice have we made to the wvar? Just name one. And don't say the USO. Tlhe attitude that too many co-edls have towards that organiza tion offsets any meagre goodl that some might hav'e (lone. In the opinion of the Gamecock the University co-eds deserve any hard knocks this war may deal out. There have been half-hearted at tempts to round up some activity, and it all died down with the initial spurt, Except for a very few ex ceptions 'the co-eds act as though this war were created just to bring lieutenants to Columbia for your benefit. It is sickening. What excuse can be given? No time? Trhere are possibly 200 girls so busy with outside work, or so busy preparing themselves for a useful occupation that they could he left out of this statement. But, two hits says they are j'tst the ones who are finding time to give a precious few hours to the Red Cross, the USO, or any other war effort. Columbia is so void of adequate entertainment for the thousands of boys situated her , that any May belle can be dated up to her teeth... and that's just the point. We might consider going out with a few picked boys who are the type who could entertain themselves without us anyhow. But play at the USO? They're just not your type, are they? After all, we're college girls, and the average soldier, well-well, listen here, Maybelle, those boys, and boys just like them are dying for you right now. Personally we don't see why they would want to put up with our touch-me-not attitude anyhow. But it seems they do-so what do we do? We abandon even1 the very few trips we were already making to the USO. Fine business. If you're too fastidious for th< USO, just try a little telephoning at the Red Cross, try nurses' aiding, 'Try working in the information booth. 'fry anything and let women who have got something to offer the soldiers go to the USO. \Ve're a little too good, aren't we, to t,.y 0SPRUORNTED F01 National Ad Coleg Pol 420 MAD1son J it olumbia, CcAO - BOston ity ot south mjern CROOK WEEK AT-ME END OF IE YEAR SE M0RS AT ALABAMA COLLEGE IIDE AM ANCIENT CRCKED SICK ONt1HE CAMPUS. JUNMORSWN NOTGJN ,f R PRMLEGES UN 'L' MEY FIND'IRE CRVGK. RAM' JrROKE NEVER. ALEX FIDLER. COE tf)LLEGE TRAINER. AN HAS REFEREED 6000 1HAS 5YJNG MAfi HES I i THE EDITOR to take the place of the sister, the. girl, the boys left behind them? So we spend our time writing to sol diers who are lonesome away from Lumv, imsteau or trying to (1o tor others what we want somebody to do for them. Even less than that,-what have we personally done to make our selves intelligently equipped to an swer some of the major questions of the war and the peace? What books have we read? What conver sations have we had, on this cam pus, oi vital interest to the future of our country? Perhaps it is all because we only ,have 11 years high schools, aind conic to college still adolescent. It's a cinch we haven't faced this war as womlenl yet. AlU this talk about women being as good as men is hooey. They might be. Some places they are. But show us more than a very few girls on this campus who know enough or really care enough to fight for this country with what they've got. Go on, try and name them. Ladies, it looks as though we've just got to have a great many of our b)oys (lie-tile one you love best, or say you do, though you won't sacrifice to help him win this war. It looks as though we've got to be terrib)ly hlurt, andl have a great many casualties hlit us near hlome, before wve'll wake up to the fact that we, the women of the University, the women of America-yes, even tile privileged college wvomen,-must be a part of this total wvar. Stop waving that flag. And stop writing boys about how awful you think this war is. And stop looking dev,Cy-eyed when YOUR BOY leaves, You're lying through your teeth every time you talk patriotism and sit in your comfortable little niches, fooling yourselves into think ing you're an inspiration to the sol diers. It's not enough to just even be the sort of person thlat H E wants to comec homie to. We've got to give our all too-whether we go the wvhole hog and joinl the women's armied services, or whlethler we just make every leisure moment count for the war. For America's sake, let's stop making disgusting hypocrites out of ourselves, and fools out of the boys at the front. Let's not only be worthy to be fought for. Let's help these boys come home. Or it may be, and seriously, that your boy just won't come home. We hope all this has bothered you. In fact, we hope it has made you furious. So furious with the Gamecock that you will do some thing that will prevent the Gamne cock fromi ever b)eing ab)le to make such a statemient again without be ing sued( for libel. If so, see page 8 this week, and from now on--see the War Volun teer Bulletin-.nan pick yourjob Richard K. Jackson, Business Manaer Buddy Black ......s........i.tan Bus. . I "4ATIOAIS. a IvnSING1 0V STAFF WRITERS rertising Servide, Inc. -re e""Aar argbu et MoZIei,,,eeu rerfising &wWde, bmTonhy, hlarlkonQup.aJohn OoklHelen Iiidn lsbers Rspreseae Orig, Charles Wickenburg, Jack Nettles. Jo Ne. NZW YORK. N. Y. Thompson, Frances Padgett, Ruth Bundrick, Lo9 ANONL98 S C Clarrie May Smith, J. B. Woodson, Lib Evans, S.-an nancsco Ruth Brown, David Freeman, Bernard MosA. Sam Graham ........Circulation Manager Carlisle Kearse..............Asst. Cir. Mgr. CANNON FODDER BY TINA CANNON "HAVE YOU VOTED YET ?" There is a tense air around the ODK circle of the University. Huddled groups converse eatnestly, and some smile and some shake their heads. Lone wolves stand at prominent places on the lawn to buttonhole each passing student with a jolly "Hey, come on and vote l" Others are sta tioned to give cordial handshakes to passersby. Yep, you guessed it. It's nothing else but ole politics at USC. Where else in the world on several certain days in the year could you find students so friendly to each other, so considerate, so helpful in offer ing advice, so anxious to exchange friendly greetings with each other and so determined to cut the opponent's throat if (pportunity presents itself ? A typical day at the polls runs something like this: Dan Ellis, genial president of the student body, wanders out of his sleep ing establishment at approximately two seconds of nine o'clock, sits down on the bench in the ODK circle, yawns, and gives the signal to begin votin*g by opening the supply of ballots and setting up the ballot box. For the first fifteen minutes, only the ascending sun and Dan's yawns keep him company. Presently one student straggles by, decides he "may as well vote now", and does. Dan continues to yawn after he leaves, and after a short interval two or three students stop by on their way to the canteen for a snack of breakfast. It is too early in the morning for high pressure politics and they are allowed to vote in peace. But witness the scene two or three hours later. A line extends from the circle half-way to the new library. Dan is so busy handing out bal lots and checking names of eligible voters that he forgets to yawn. Groups of "high pressure politickers" rush upon each approaching voter, and with gestures, much fast talking, many smiles, and cordial backslapping, try to ,convince the poor bewildered voter that Joe Doakes is a much better man than Algernon Bilgewater for president. Until he promises to vote one way or the other they will not depart from his side, cleaving to him closer than adhesive tape to a sore toe. When at last the poor voter reaches the spot where ballots are distributed, he is so exhausted from arguing and lis tening to arguments that he weakly votes for the first person on the lists with the last remaining iota of his strength. After dropping his ballot in the u box he collapses on the ground, but the high pressure nolitiekere tmrely kick the body aside to make room for other voters, saying "Oh don't bother about picking him up. He's already voted, hasn't he?" There are several types of high pressure politickers. One group is the brawny masculine type, who strides tip to friend and foe alike, inhales deeply, flexing his biceps four or five times, and tears 99 packs of cards in quarters, saying, "If you don't vote for my friend Cornelius, I'll beat you up tonight!" Then lie slowly exhales, breathing fire and thunder, does 25 push-ups, and sneers, "Yuh hear me?" Then there is the dainty sorority girl who is working for her sorority sister. She wears her shortest skirt and tightest sweater, assumes her most fixedPgrin, and runs around the chmpus oozing oomph, enticing gullible male to the polls. "Oooooh, you handsome man, you", she coos at each approaching boy, "I just know you've come to vote for my sorority sister, haven't you?" Then she fixes upon him a scintillating smile and he can't say no or it'll break the po' iddie biddie girl's heart. So he votes the way she says, and when lie descends from the circle to receive her gracious thanks and anothci smile, lie is surprised to find that .she is busily showing her teeth to ainothier male, and is quiite ignoring the one who's just voted. But her approach to girls is somewhat different. She begins by hailing thiem from far distances, galloping gracefully uip to them and compliment ing them on their hairdo, clothes, boyfriends, parallel reports, or aiiything else she can think of. Theni she reminds them of the fact, oh so incidentally, that her sorority sister is running for an office and would love to have them vote for her. If they are taken in by this display of friendliness (?) she showvs her teeth and gently guides them past groups of other sorority girls and on to the polls. If they refuse to be taken in by all her blab, she turns away from them, bitterly accusing them to herself of being mis guided morons. Anothler type is of the "hail, fellowv" classification. He's the friendly, sociable boy who knowvs everybody, is known by everybody, and is a real asset to any political party. He has a good word for all, and makes the voting a little bit pleasanter by his presence. There are many other types of pressure politickers--the "he's my fra ternity brother" type, the "lie's promised me so-and-so, but I have to work for him first" type, the "I'm doing this to be seen" type, and others. Promptly at two o'clock, Dan Ellis yawns, picks up the ballot box ande annouinces in steiitorian tones, "We will now count the ballots". There is a stir of activity and excitement. Paper and pencils are whipped out of pockets and, as votes are read out, eager fingers mark them down. Can didates for ffices nervously chew their finigers down to theelbows while wvaiting for the all-important verdicts. On-lookers, interested and other wise, wander aroundl diverting attention to themselves. The harassed score keepers wvrite furiously as the votes are read out and their pencils on their score pads make scratchy noises that fascinate the eager spectators. At last the final counts are read out, the victorious congratulated, the losers sympathized with, and all students depart. But they will return very soon and this whole cycle wvill repeat itself. A'int politics wvonderful? HISTORY IN CLASS 1-A Alexander Meiklejohn, author of "Education Between Two Worlds" and educator with ideas of his own, sides with those who approve the Army-Navy college training programs in these words: "I am not saying that a young man will get a good education by go- ~ img into the hell of war. I am only saying that, if he is fit to fight, he will get a bad eduication by staying out of it." EDUCATION ELSEWHERE Mollie Panter-Downes reports from London that Britain's new Nation al Service Bill, wvhich went into effect recently, calls for the registration of seventeen-and-a-hialf-year-olds. She says that this "has been a sober ing pointer toward a future when casualties may be almost on the Rus- * sian scale." And, she adds, this registration means "that the already hard-pressed universitjes will practically have to shut up shop, except those prepared to give medical and1 technical core. adt.tahwoe..uet.