Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Edtor en Pride Creig ;;rTOAr, STFF 5 Sports Editor ....................Wally Dinemore Co-ed Editor ................'...Frncea PadR*tt Society Editor ............... Jog Thompeon New# Editor ......................Larry Newdick Monagin; Editor David Freemen . The Gamecock Gives A Hearty Handshake To Our Football Team The football season is over and Carolina is state champion. This, in itself, deserves the praise of every Carolina student. But, even if we had not como out on top, a feeling of pride would still be there. Carolina's Gamecocks, made of men from all over the country, men who barely had a chance to practice together, was one of the best we have ever had. These boys, to whom Carolina was merely a stopping off placo on the way to getting at the business of war, deserve every ounce of praise Carolina students can give them. The coaches, fighting against all sort of odds-injured players, loss of stars each week -come in the same category. The students backing up the team, and espe cially the Boosters Club also deserve a special pat on the back. With this spirit each year Car oline will always be on top. The Gamecock, and all Carolina, take off its hat to our Gamecocks -state champions-a grand team. All Co-eds Urged To Cooperate With Plans For Red Cross Chapter An actual 'opportunity for Carolina women to enroll in war work has been given by the American Red Cross. An effort to form a col lege Red Cross unit is being made by Betty Jane Everett and Ann Roayall, chairmen of the committee. Courses being offered at the present are Nutrition, a study of foods and the prepara tion of healthful meals; first aid, an elementary course to be used in emergency eases; home nursing, a course in the treatment of the pa tient at home; and knitting, including sweat ers, scarfs, socks, for men in the services and childien in occupied territories. There is also a bandage rolling class. After Christmas, in January, a staff assist ant's course and nurses' aide course will be offered. This, in our opinion, is one of the most worth. while organizations ever to be formed at Caro lina. In this way each coed can do her share in aiding the war effort. Once before Carolina was given the chance to form a college Red Cross unit, but the plan failed. It failed because the coeds failed to enter into the work. Today the plan has the full endorsement of the Coed Association and Alpha Kappa Gamma. Glive it your endorse ment, too. Get your key from Coed hy work in the Red Cross. Again We Call Attention To Vespers-For All Students At Carolina Last senmester an editor ial appeared in the Gamecock, urging students to attend vespers. We feel that repetition here could do no harm. A t 7 :15 every Sunday night andl chapel bells call all students to vespers. IIere you may spend a1 quiet half hour in meditation-t imne out fronm a hard week-a chance to recapture the desire to go on through anothier week-these are of fered by the vesper~ program. IIere there is no long-drawn out sermon ou tihe evils of the day, only candle-light, music, and few words spoken. Each student at Caro lina could gain something b)y attending these programis. The Gamecock gives this not as a demand for students to attendl the program against their will, but as a reminder that vespers is still there. Perhaps the small attendance is due to forgetfulness or no knowledge that these programs are being held. A worthy program of this sort needs no build-up, no speech making in its favor. But, this we do say. There is no more beautiful, restful service than Carolina Sunday vespers. When you hear the chapel bells ringing next Sunday, be reminded of vespers. Go, if you like. And feel the warmth of its meengn. Member ocialed CoIe6iale Press Distributor of ROE Colle6iate Di6est ~~-~d Carolina Enterrr Co-ed Association Fosters Plan For War Work Among Carolina Women Several weeks ago an editorial appeared in this column suggesting that war work become a Carolina standby. We offered a plan whereas a girl, after doing a certain number of hours' work a semester would receive a key as a token for her efforts. The girl having the greatest number of hours was to receive a special key for the best worker of the semester. In this edi torial we suggested that the coed association take this work as their project for the year. We are glad to commend the coed associa tion here on its efforts in this direction. A plan similar to the one set forth here has been pre pared for all coeds on the Carolina campus. The plan is as follows: Any girl doing 26 hours of war work a semester will receive a cued recognition key. This work is to include Red Cross classes, attendance at church organi zations. and selling of war stamps. Work out side these groups is to be reported to the secre tary for approval. A vote in coed is to be given to each girl completing one hour of work. Every girl at Carolina is eligible for mem bership in the coed association. It is your or ganization and you are the only ones that can carry out the work that is to be done. War work on our campus would put Carolina in the swing. No longer would we not be doing our share. Get behind the coed association and boost war work at Carolina. Kappa Sigma Kappa Begins Project To Solve Civilian Food Problem Iiappa Sigma Kappa, service fraternity, has taken as one of its main projeets for the year the improvement of the food situation. This applies, of course, to civilians, only. The Wade Hampton Cafeteria now provides eating fa cilities for all civilian students on the campus --men and women alike. But, because of the large enroll imeint of women students, the cafe teria does not provide adequate facilities for all the men students. By this editorial we hope to call attention to this matter. Perhaps the crowds of Navy men have overshadowed the fact that we still have civilians at Carolina. The possibilities of get ting another cafeteria for civilian use seems worth investigating. The Gamecock heartily en dorses this p)roject, and hopes that it can be carriedl out. We Wish A Merry Christmas To All Even The Staff! .Merry C.hr isdtmais Trfiite though it may seenh, we send sin1cere greetings to all Carolina stu (dilts. Our specil Christmas wish goes to the hard-wor'kinug stall. Even though they arc a lit tle lbite withI then copy, even iF they never go through the grueling ptrocess of writing heads on Wednesday night-all' this conisidlered(, their efforts are their best. We hope Santa will fill your stoc*kinigs withi pencils, pa per, and clever thoughfs! Thle manaiaginig editor \ greeting is I le same. Ilave a good timae but~ don' t be tuo groggy to readi the next assignment sheet! So, until we meet again, we repeatv-Merry (Chist wias Letter To The Editor As a ( atrolina studteiit in good standing for tihe p)ast two years, and have gr'adually seen the campus chiange fromt a college to a iiitary encampmnen t, I hav bu kt oniQeE)omplainit to make. Wh'y not keep, thle ''Old Carolina Custom'' of saying "llello"b on the campus to each other rega rdless of whet her one knows t he individual or not. It not only make's for a friendlier at mfosp)here. but will bring the civilian and Navy students eloser together. I would appreciate somec notice in the Game cock for I think this though a small factor is of great importanee. A better University of South Carolina for the Carolinian, students to make. Respectfully, J. FR ANK FiVE, Ten. 10. Rm. 5. the Gamecock Founded January 30. 1l0S EPUSNTGO IERT ELLIOTT GONZALES. First Editor c.A" 420 MADISOP weekly by the student body of the. University of South calcaso "osroi during the college year. J as second-clau matter at the poatoffice at Columbia, Icv. 20, 190& USC CAMPus BY JULIA BULL I . I ;d ; Jo Is vlce-Presiden't of ' the senior c\ass,... Presidentt oF Coed AsSoCAtroN. Me nber or 1I. Studen*' Courc,. Anc -rYemuA Sha lovas to ride hoviiback a OF ALhA Delta PI . FREE-LANCING -A nine-letter word beginning with "P" ???-hiu-let's see-plastered-nope! Oh, well, what's the use? We should never have begun reading the Gamecock in the first place. Those tantalizing riddles-All, I can remember the old days when we had only traveling salesmen and moron jokes. Journalism Copy Did you ever wonder why a Gamecock reporter is always bubbling with information, why he always can supply the in formation that McKissiek was a long time attached to the Math department, as a student. or that. Professor Herbert has two children instead of one? Well, we owe it all to the industrious students of a course called Journalism .35, who practise the Marathon chasing over the campus, gleaning the news to be written in triplicate. (One for us, one for the professor, and one-for posterity. we guess). This week we learned that Miss Florence Nightingale Mal lard, sophomore, of Asheville, has the rare distinction of be ing a member of the society of descendants of Knights of the most noble order of the Garter. This is, we have it on reliable authority, English royal society. The story goes (we quote Journalism 35, since the subject is a little tricky to deal with): "Many years ago an English queen was going back to her palace after attending a ball, and dIropped her garter. Tile men who were there organized a so ciety and called it ''rhe mIost noble ordler of the Garter.'' Flor ence is a decendant of one of the knights, and has thus fallen heir to mnembershlip in the society.'' Well, that's the story-oh, one moi-e thing. they have as their coat-of-arms (not certain about tihat, may be coat-of-legs) a blue garter, with the motto (if this hlelps5 anyone) "'honi soit quli maly pense."' Nobility is finally in our midst. Poetry This wveek, in fond recollect ion of C. L.'s poetic endeavors, we unearthed (also a prioduict of dlournalisim 35 ( a classie dis inctioni between poe'try and1( proseQ, by star-l3abcock-stuldent Mary Alice McM~illani. "Poetry, as 1 see it. callnotu be detined, only compnlared. Prose is like tile not es, poetriy tile mlusie ; proset is tile sleep, poetry thle dIreaml. Whereas prose is the dress, p)oetry is tile color; and prlose thle ilower, poetriy tile fragrane. if prose is words, p)oetry is .sound(s. And pr.ose is thell eat, poetriy thle purr.''--and if we are'f ai moronl, thait is a jioke! Freshmen . . . by now well oriented To assure himself that treshmecn at the University oft South C'arol ina wold receive a culIt ural education, one of the teachers of orientation gave his class a quiz tihe other dlay. T1hie one ques tin wl as: "' Who is the b)est. looking girl oni the campus?"' After careful tabuilat ion, the following results were reported: Hleleni Pride Craig-I1; Mr. RI. (I. Bell-Il; Mrs. Childs-1; Keiti llarris-1; Pat liee--i ; ''Slats'"-1; 13aba Belser--1. Well --we come to C. L. Oh, t'. L., youri copyV is in late for* Ibis1 issue. We have a dead line to~ meet, you1 know ! I]neident ally, just, to give the column the enlt rancling appearance (of alp)habet bilocks, do you1 know I. K(.??? Alother (entering room unlexp)eeted ly) : Whmy, 1 never... lDaughiter: "Oh, Mother, you1 must have !" S* * * Gecorge Planmaunn, all-state, baseball p)itchler, whlo wonl 13 anid lost 1 for tihe Sub-Chaser T1raining Center of Miami, Fla., is now a V-12 trainee here at Carolina. Before joining the navy, PlJamann played semi-pro football andl is a member of the St. Louis Cardinal baseball orgar.ization. Another athlete, formerly stationed at Miamni anId now attend ing tihe University, is Cliff Grady. All outstanlding boxer, Grady was also a member of the San Diego Training Station basketball team at San Diego, Calif. Father: "The man who marries my dlaughlter will get a prize." Sailor:- "May I see it tu STAFF WRITERS On NATIONAL AOYRTIuuNs My Lib6 E-anis, Charlie Sande :, Jodie Mlarshall, 3ajed Ake1 John Reese, Jimmey irockman, Cele p l6;I.Ie. Roberts, Katherine Jennings, Jeune Good, Mar PW/Isfis yrrs garet Jones, Mary Kane, narriet Lee, Eeh( AVE. NEw YoNK. N. Y. iaar, Harrison Perry, Virginia Rays or, Barisa 10 Las ARet"S AM K.3 FIANCISO itodgere. Mary Bierry Rion. Roslind Spong, Doug Swearingen, Ray Wilkinson. Circulation Manager................Carliste Kearse Assistant Circulation Manager.......Buddy Black Chicken Feed By KATHERINE JENNINGS At last, we, the good little people who have been participat ing in this noui-stop education experiment, ard getting a blessed ten days' relief. And do we appreciate it.! But I do wish the e weather would do something amazing, such as snowing. How can we ever get the Christmas spirit with the weather feeling much more like the 4th of July ? Alarming This little incident, really took place a couple of weeks ago, out my efficient spy system didn't come through with it 'til recently. It seems that an English class was suddenly amazed by hearing an alarm clock banging away in the back of the room. And there's no sound worse than an alarm clock. The class all twisted around like pretzels to see from whence came the sound, and there was Anne Darby Tison, calmly removing a pint-sized clock from her pocket. Well, that's one way to stay awake in class. A V-12 Lament, a Dirge in E-Flat V-12 Bob Katz (?) dedicates the following, probably to Mrs. Graham or some other power-that-be- It's bad enough when you're restricted and can't see your girl, but the last straw is when your girl is restricted and can't see you ! It's Always Something Those Original V-5s lare thought of another way of vary ing their favorite sport. They now accompany their long-low whistles (even the mocking-birds are whistling that way now. a-days) by exclaiming, "Gee, look at the girl with the blue socks!" Needless to say, every girl in hearing distance stares down at her socks, only to discover that nobody has on blue socks. You then turn a lovely shade of reddish-purple, while each V-5 chuckles insanely, the fiends. (Sho' hope they ap preciate all the free publicity I give 'em.) Dedicated To the amateur wolves on the campus. One night I met when stepping out A gal who wasn't thereabout; I said, "JIEL-loI And how are You !'' She didn't say; so I never knew. Or do you get it? So There, Too When 1 heard this one it was told about a soldier', but it could easily apply to some of' these fickle Carolina males: Butch had broken up with his girl. After ignoring several let ters requesting the return of her photograph, he received one in which she threatened to conme get it. D)eciding to squelch her once andl for all, he gathered together all the photographs that he could find, wrapped them up and inelosed thIiis note, ''Piek it out, I'v'e forgotten what you look like.'' Professional Jealousy Free-Lancing certainly gets all the breaks. Searcely an issue goes by, but C. Li. is lamenting in her quaint poetic manner, with enough copy to fill half the column. And do I ever get help with my ardutouis task? W 'hy doesn 't somebody write p)oetry to me? (Doln't answer that.) All I get are remarks, uttered in a maddeningly superior tone with just a trifle of a I sophisticated sneer, suchi as "Surely you know who really wrote that !'' "DJo you always spell tailor with a 'y'?'' Any fool would know so and so, don't you?'' and so it goes. Uut somebody loves me, 'cause another joke-book is being donated by an alumni way oult in Illino,is. TIhanks a million, it. will certainly help) my morale. Borrowed Words of Wisdom A man kills time with a golf stick; a woman kills it with a lipstick. A wise woman p)uts a grain of sugar inito everything she says to a manm, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to And take note of this one: You can fight a brulnette as woman to wonmanm, but when you fight a blonde you fight a cherished masculine tradition. Joke Book Specials Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man In. the same way more than half of the time.' If there were only two women and one man in the world, the man would marry the brunette and then spend the rest of his life peeping over her shoulder and trying to flirt with the blonde. A black lie always shows up against the da:- 4 zling background of truth; it's all the little white ones that a man keeps telling that can't be distin.. gnished from the res ofhcnvrain