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Edi.r ......... ..e...... le Pi...Hu hde Craig EDITORIAL STAr Sports Editor .................... Wally Dinsmore Co-ed Editor ....................Frances Padgett Society Editor .....................J0 Thompson News Editor ......................Larry Newdick Managing Editor......... David Freeman The Gamecock Gives Endorsement To Y Financial Campaign On page one of this issue is a story of the joint Y financial campaign. It speaks for itself. but we wish to remind you again of the importance of the campaign. Week-before-last an editorial was written explaining the work of the Y. It will do no harm to repeat here. The Y. as a totally im partial organization, envelopes every student on the Carolina campus. To every student it offers a place and a way to serve his univer sity and in return the Y serves its university innumbered ways. Any contribution you may make to the Y is a contribution to your own welfare. Faculty and students alike receive the benefits from all Y work. The Y. besides its work on the cam pus. is a living factor throughout our United States and the world. Some of the money gained through the drive will go to world organizations for students-stulents in China. Russia, and other countries who are striving to keep education above all the struggle for peace. Donations also go to an organization, with headquarters in Switzerland, that provides reading material, educational and otherwise, for the prisoners of war in Germany's occupied territory. Your contribution to the Y today will make for a better world tomorrow. Coming nearer home. let us consider for awhile what part the Y plays in the welfare of your conununity. There are many valuable services some of them being work with the U.S.O.. Red Cross, welfare work with the less fortunate people of the conimunity, and Girl Reserve groups all over the city. As for the university and its campus, the Y workers are constantly making Carolina a bet ter and finer place. Each Sunday night the short vesper program offers a silent time of peace and meditation, time 6o rest from the trials of the week and regain the strength to go on through other weeks. Y programs, sophomore, freshman, and general Y meetings, bring together every man and woman on the campus. Here there is no prejudice, here there can be no feeling of inferiority, for the Y gives each girl a chance to feel apart of her university and each man a feeling of pride in his work of helping Carolina. These and many other great services make up the functions of the Y. You feel its work in very part of your life on the Carolina cam pus. Can you say "Today I gave my share to the Y. Troday I helped myself by contributing to the Y financial campaign?" Coeds Urged To Cooperate With V-12 Study Plan The Navy V-1 h~ oys on our campus were sent here by the Navy for one purpse-to study in preparation for midlshiipmian's school1. In order to assist these boys in nma king the best grades possible-and to prIevenit that horrib le journey to Batinbridge-the Navy authoritie~s have set dlown certain rules by which they' ar~e to go. To boys used to civilian freedom, some of the rules appear unnecessary, but the ma jority take them -in the spirit expected of future officers. But, as Eve started the trouble in the be ginning, so her p)resent-day daughters are rais ing havoc todlay-and on the Carolina camipus. Navy regulations provide for a stud(y hour from 8 p. mn. to .10 p.* mI. Stud(y hour is what it m"mans-with no variations. A few, ver' few, of the V-12 group have no neediP( for such a rule. The majority needl that two hours an md miore to unravel the mysteries of physics, navi gation, math, andl other such courses that Car olina co-eds evadle as a plague. It is to thmese co-eds that we now speak. Carolina is no longer the happy-go-lucky do-as-you-please school that it usedl to be. You women of Carolina have found this hard to realize. But, it is up to you to come b)ack to reality and see that what the Navy w'ants, the Navy gets. A Navy man seen talking t<. a co-edl on thme library steps during the stud(1 periodl may get two weeks restriction, plus1 deC. merits. Th'le girl ini question goes scot free to get another man a little farther awvay froi becoming the otlicer lie wants to be. Each girl should have anm honor systemi ol her own. Hler standards should be as high om higher thani the Navy sets for its muen. Noi every boy in the armed services gets a chianet like the boys in training at Carolina. You should not have aniy p)art in ruiinmg that chaunce. Member Associated Cogeiate Press Distributor of RO] ColIe6iate Di6est laiea Carolina Enterr S. Q., 1 McKissick Commends Faculty On Full Support Of War Effort The following is an excerpt from the report of President J. Rion McKissick to the Board of Trustees of the University of South Caro lina on November 10. 1943. We feel that every student, at Carolina should have an oppor tunity to read it. therefore we publish it here. "The University still moves forward, yet this has been its hardest year in the last three quarters of a century. if not, in its whole his tory, because of the number, the difficulty and the complexity of the problems which have Con fronted it. This situation is caused b the Universitv's letermination to make the great est contribution in its power to the nation's de fense. Maintaining without impairment its services to civilian youlth of South Carolina. the Uni versity has (lone and is doing its utmost to pro vide physical. instructional and other facilities for the training of three distinct units of the United States Navy Training Program. Our enrollment constitutes hv far the largest num ber of students ever assembled on our campus. This, too. has been the year of the hardest work our students, administrative staff and faculty have ever done. With loyalty and patriotism unsurpassed byv any other like group. the members of our teach ing staff have carried on, shouldering the heav iest teaching load and teaching the longest hours they have ever experienced. To meet the requirements of our Navy Training Pro gr m '-one of the faculty have voluinteered to abandon who!!y or in aii leaching in their own fields in order to teach in others in Which they have had little. if any, experience. Their financial compensation is. on the whole, much less than they would receive if they were en gaged in most of the trades and most other professions. Members of our instructional staff are undergoing serious physical and mental strain caused by overwork and lack of rest. but they never complain. They are keeping faith with the fighting lads they have taught. In like manner, the members of the adminis trative staff have been and are carrying on with the same loyalty. the same love of coun try, the same spirit of service and sacrifice." Sims Resident Condemns Locked Phone Booth T'o the Edor: Thbe practice has been adlopted1 of locking the telephone booth at. Sims at eleven o'clock every night. Speaking for a lar'ge number of the girls residing there. I would like to register a p)rotest. One point of controversy is the mo tive for this move. F"irst, the reason w'as given us5 that there had been "some trouble" wvith girls wvho had been ca llinig the Fort late at night, and flirting madly with whiateve.r man anlsweredl thle tele phone. Th'en Mrs. Clhils, in a formal state mient. explained that the cutting off of the telephone was duew to thle Unuiv"ersity'"s co-op erating with the waru eflort. We(ll, whuichever was the true reason. there arue object ions to be found. In the first place, the few girls w'ho may hav'e beent calling the F'ort are, p)erhlaps, liable to punishment, but lhe otlense, it seemns to us, is hardly ser'ious enough to "'arrant such a step. It punishies all the girls for' the sins of a few. Seco.mnd. c'o-op)eratLion withI the wari e'ffor't, we believe, slhub most cert aiinly be on a more volhntary basis. We are anxious to do0 what ever we cani toward keepinig the telephone l ines free for imn~portanit calls, bumt sonie of the calhb we puit through or receiv ar(le import aint. T1hey nmyi~ (do nothing to win the wvar (directly. but t hey (d0 hielp to keep u p umora le soimething terrui fic. W'hich br'ings us to the girls' side of thle stor'y. At least half of the calls which have beet going out 01' coinug in over the p)hone lhavt' been'i e'itheri wsit h parieiits on matters which art imupor'tant to us, or' to soldier's. Relative am fiances in the service feel it necessary at timnes to ('all us or have us call them. Befor'e movijn. am great distance they like to have a few lasi words w ith the ones they love. Often the ouly 0 iootuniiity' they have to call is after' eleven a iighit. More often, they put in calls early ii tihe days and1( do not have them 'omipleted1 unuti 12a1e ait night. Thle samte per'taiins to our' ''all imng them. We feel thait this reasoni 211om wouhl necess~i tmate keep )in g thle phon e b oot I SIMS RESIIWN'T. Business mMnager.........- ..------=- urr ON NATIONAL AVSNT1e1NO SYWITR stavsoUWs,a n& TA11' WRITERS Lib Evans, Charlie Sanders, Jodie Marshall, Aaied Akel, John Reese, Jimmy Brockman. Cele I Av. NeW YOK. N. Y- Roberte, Katherine Jenninge. 5 . U,e Ansss . * FsaaascoC Circulation Manager..............Carlisle Kearse Assistant Circulation Manager.......Buddy Black Chicken Feed By KATHERINE JENNINGS Plea a Heigh ho ! Well, lyer we is. This column is still slightly off the beam, not. because of any lack of genius on my part, but because I haven't yet been able to procure a suitable joke-book; and what columnist is complete without one of them things? If anyone will please donate one to the cause, P. D. Q., the gift will be more than appreciated, and the literary merits of this chatter will rise by leaps and leaps. Masterpiece Just to prove that into each life some rain must fall, the fol lowing gem, entitled "Cupid Overseas," has been blithely lifted from a radio magazine that will never know the difference. It was written by an overseas soldier, Sgt. Carl Berhanz, to be exact. I (10 not like my slate of mind I'in bitter, querulous and unkind, , I hate this life, I hate my fate, I do not yearn for another date I dread the dawn's recurrent light I hate to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, earnest folk, I cannot take the simplest joke. I find no peace in paint or type My world is but a lot of tripe. 1 in disillusioned. empty-breasted, For what I think I'd be arrested. 1 am not sick, l'ai not well Aly fondest dreams are shot to hell, My soul is crushed, my spirit sore; I do not like me any more. I garble, quarrel, grumble, grouse, I ponder at the narrow house, I shudder at the thought of women, I giess 1m due to fall in love again. Help! A T calmly "write this, the traditional peace and quiet of Sims is being completely shattered b th bi l iln ihriek of Brooksie Marshall, who has been locked in her room for an hour now, and is definitely getting tired of the whole business. From the sounds, my sympathies go to whoever locked her in. But perhaps all will turn out happily, because the lark's on the wing, the snail's on the thorn (whatever that may mean), Mr.s. Graham's in her garden, all's right with the world. Sympathy One foxy V-5 told Gadgett Padgett that he got a manicure the other day because he hadn't felt the feminine touch in so long. Probably just hinting. Bird Lover Anything can happlenl noiw. The oilher day, Mary Berry Rion saw a peculiar-looking little bird that didn't seem to be mak ing oult so well. So kindhearted Mary Berry decided to take it home wvith her, and1(, sinlce she was on the way to the movies, Mary B. dlecidIed to give the bird the thrill of its life and take it to the miovies. too. All wenut well, until half wvay through the show the dhiildhish little bird got bored and restless, and began noisily flapping it's wings. Bird anid Mary Berry made a hasty "xit. Taylor: Sir, 1 assure you that you'll never wear this suit out. Customer: No, I wvouldn 't dlare to. And there's thle ('1te coedh who caine to class withI a captain's insignia pinlnedl on her sweater. When asked if she went with a captain she anisweredl, "'No, two lieutenants.' Daffinitions An egotist is some dope who likes himself better than he likes me. A pekinese dog is an overgrown caterpillar. Canned Corn Not lon-R ago a manil weint to) haSve his namre (changed. ''What is you r mone?"('7' asked thle judge (or whoever it is that changes namues.) ''Joe St inks,'' anlsweredl thle man. " 'Well, I cani see whty yout'di want to chanige it,'' ad mitted0( thle jundge. '"'Now, what would y'ou li ke to have it changed to?'' ''Bill Stinks,"' answered thle mian. " I'mi t ired of hatvinig p)eople say, ' Joe, blow.'' Ser'ious Thouighit: Once ini a great while a ina is horn a leader't. The rest oIf uts ma1ke it thle haiird way hby study anud long practicve of Ite rules of leadIershtip handed dhown by great, leader's of the past5. The Gamecock Founded Januar7 so 1M ,0at.aa IERT ELLIOTT GONZALES. First Editor NiaM 420 MADUOas weekly by the stuadent body of the University of South adrueo " BOO during the college year. d as second-class matter at the postoffice at Colugsbia, ov. 20, 1908. AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF e . IY High on a Tunisian cliff a Free French soldier lay wounded. A litter squad started up. Enemy bullets spatted against the cliff. The squad went on. In a whining hail of lead they brought their ally down. For that exploit Staff Sergeant Roy L. Bates of Fairfield, Ill., and Privates Hobert Branscun of Delta, Ky., Anthony P. Coll of Johns. town, Pa., and William B. Griffin of Sylvester, Texas, won Silver Stars. They deserve your War Bond backing. U. S. Treasury DeparS,ment FREE-LANCING EARLY BIRD SURVEYS THE WORM Have you seen the early bird recently ? He's an amusing charaeter getting on in years now as most birds do. Illis voice sqiteaks like gradlmoitlier's old rocking chair and we noticed he m a little; li flght. l ~ '~g a siltm erv grey. le'uiilier here and there oil the cam;pi.. ,,ar versation didn't hist long. lie was in a hurry to verify a rumor that the Democratic worms were holding their state convention on the east side of Maxey monument.. The old bird was thinking seriously of moving. At that time lie was nested in a tree high above the outskirts of Melton field. A tear rolled over his beak as lie spoke of his beautiful home on the peaceful Carolina campus of pre-war days. Yes, the horrors of war had struck, even to the home of the Early' Bird. l'here was a time when his reveille was tie first ray of rising sunshine. Alas, now it is the bewitching chant of seemingly iuttiuaiin voices and the tramp ot marching feet. Curiosity overcame his fears and lie peeped out at the commotion. Terror showed through his watering eyes as he told ne of the sight he beheld. There were arms, legs and what seemed like hmnan heads protruding from bundles of weirdly colored cloth. These pieces of inhumanity were twisting, bouncing, rising, falling like the bodies of savages caught in the ecstac'y of a Congo war chant.. Yes, my dear people, you're right. It was V-12 at morning enli1stheuntics. We didn't4 have thle heart to tell hinm that civil ized humania s hadi come to such'l a st age. We sid ( good-bye. * * * * The 200 fleet and former civvie V-I 2'ers just starting their days of peril at Carolina, and those elusive 01(1 hands who were able to escape hanging themselves despite the amount of rope given them last semnester', are this week getting into the full swing of life on the campus. * * * * All of these future naval offlicers are dleterminled to miake goodl, and most of them have what it takes; init iative, reliatbilit3 and a fightinig spirit. They fear neither man nor beast. * * * * But don't mention "Bainbridge." * * * * Their reactions to V-12 discipline are varied. Sonme are .-. to fnavaul reguilations. but for those who a short time ago e zoot-sujit heroes, life in the na vy p)resents its problems. * * * * In fauct. thi.-e wh'o have Wednesday aft ernoon classes duiring liberty hours priobly feel somiewhat like Sam, the colored mes attendlant, dlid when hiis siip dlockedt at Pier' 02, New York. Sam had bl eeni to sea for six weeks, but uplonl hitting 1)01 found that lie (ouh(in't gtet his liberty card because of a breacl of d iscipl1inte. So he went over anti started telling it to the Gangway Watch. "Mian,'' lie said, "I'se been to sea, for six weeks, and I'se go to git ashore !" "Y~ou (can't mai:ke it without a liberty card1," tile Watch r* plied, but Sam kept on arguing andi( pleading. Still no soap). The miore lie argued, the more firm the WTatel herme nu.tntil finially Sam umadle an about face, went back a fev step)s, antId strtedl to p)onderI the situation. Finally exasperated] he walked back upj to the Watch again in a deterniined stride with eyes glowinig. "Fella, lie 51aid, "i 'se got a mother ini Ileavyen, a father ii hell, and a sweetheart in Harlem, and I'se gwinec to be with on, of 'em ton ight ! !" * * * * ( Cokt'r (iook ings by Ir'ishi Stanth: -A munbiert'i of new expr'essionis e' tne inito the trat ine's. life dlur ing thle pa2st I wo weeks. "Ilit t he deck !'" "Chow I )on n !"' "Squari that lint !' . . but thle sweetest of all is heard at 0600 "'Fall in f'or Cal isthlenics !" Whlenever it is hearid t here is ot ait ion Jly one' i i--aid t liii t b no men,s is hio,minu ot of be,d