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Editor .Helen Pride Craig EDITOiAL STAFr eports Editor ....................Wally Dinsmore Co-ed Editor ....................Frances Padgett Society Editor .....................Joe Thompson News Editor .............. Katherine Jennings Managh., Editor........................Dovid Freeman We Print A Letter That Found Its Way To Our Dusty Box EDiTOR'S NOTE: Dear M., There's not much we can add to your letter. But, this we shall say. From all the students on our campus, there must be one who would appeal to you. We hope, through the publicity we're giving you, that you find Miml or her. as the case may be. Sincerely, Ed. Saturday Dear Ed, Do you know anyone who likes raw carrots. chocolate milkshakes, and chewing gum As favorite foods, I mean, not as a steady diet. Isn't there someone who likes ping pong-, poetry, and piano? Who's interested in psy elhology, science, and sinplicity? On this whole wide conipus aren't there a few folks who think more of lasting friendship than of intermittent flashes of so-called and muchl0-tooted "true love'' (I meant to put two o's.) I'd like to tmeet a person who appreciates church services; or, if he's an atheist can ex plain why. Someone who'd rather take a walk in the woods on Sunday afternoon than sit in a a stuffy theater and miss all the sun. shine outside. Please, isn't there anl original personality who isn1't a show-off amd just acts natural? Who plays ches- and likes to pop corn at an 01enl heartIi Who is intelligent but niot nec'es sarily a geniuis? 'Who acts i'azy' and preteids not to care, tlhouiighi act nally is quite serious and awake most of the tiime? Who doesn't lin(1d drying dishes or wailing Il lin ? Who enjoys hard work but won Id rath cr loaf i? Who isn't particilarly good-looking. yet not the worst in the world ? Who may be t:ll, thi:n, .,h; i i. Iu p\, or inl bet iveen fifteen1 or forty-? I (loll't care. Someone w\ho loves to talk, not always about hieit h Vito can share a good joke, poke fun wit hl a pun? Who thinks of others now and thlen, no, not a martyri or saint, just a rea2ison ab)le, reasoing human being ? TFell me. D)o you have anyv s uch aequmaintl ani(ces? No, I' ni ot. looking for' ai "d(ate.'' I dioni't need t o. It's juist 1tha t since we're ini the samet town or in school to'iethIier 1l'd like. to have an intrioduct ion. Not that we 'd get along-we'di pr'obaly fight left and right. Buit it would he fun. See, mtost of ty ol pals are away. We write. hit I miss t hemi. And( [ wond(leed itf ther'e are othIer's like t hose whob havec gotn'. it so. wI might be fr'iendls for a little while. One thiung more I'd better put. LAD)IES PR'FERRED. 'eause I'mi a girl. andi slightly bashfl. Sin('erelyh. 31. P. 8. TIhe ".\." st antis for' ".\e.' Yes, I am a friea k. I have only eight fingers. But I hav e two thumbs. We Give A Cheer For Carolina's Bond Booth And Radio Program C4onigratuilatjins ai'e in ordi~er' loi' t grand suiecess Carolina's war', bonid btoothI ha~s luuh. Th'le goal set was $500, hut wari bond and st amp sales Jar (Xexede t his goal. One person cannot be praised for the suecess of the driiv.' but everyV student?t on thet campus11 who conitrih *uted to its success. The Y1 andit its mitieber *who have so loyally kept the booth open dle sermve a special pat on the back. Thfle radio program '"The Gamecock on the Air," also desert'es a special wor'd here. F"or fifteen minutes each Friday afternoon two Carolina students give a report to South Caro lina on its university. In this way alumni are able to keep up with the news and newcomers *are able to know what our university is doing. Here's luck to a fine program-" The Game anck on the Air." , Memnber >cialed Coleoiate Press Distributor of ROB )aued Colle6iate Digest a Entered H. 0., N We Say Farewell And Suggest A Few Campus Improvements To Students We certainly hate to say good-bye, but all things must come to an end sometimes-even Ganecock staffs. It's been a great semester. Eve), with all the things still undone Carolina came through with flying colors. It has been a hard semester-what with such things as the departure of so many of our ROTC men. But., Carolina has taken all this, and more, with the same courageous spirit that has made it. as great as :t is today. Before we leave there are a few things we'd like to suggest for the betterment of our uni versity-not big things. but the little things that add up to such a lot. With all the extra mail coming and going througl our post office business there is more congested than ever. When your mail isn't up exactly on tine, when someone else's letter ap pears in your box, don't, get huffy. Be patient, because the work is heavy and mistakes can't help being made occasionally. And speaking of mail, after each "run" on the post office. the floor there and in the canteen is littered with paper, letters, envelopes, etc. There is a waste paper basket in the post otYice. Put your paper there. Nothing looks more repulsive to strangers. or anyone, than inkept surround iugs. There are also niee, big trash cans at differ eut parts of the canqpus. They were put there for your candy wrappers, old themes. mal an)y thing else you mirhit want. to throw away. Oh' univursity is a beautiful place, but with t i'ash froi one end of the 'alnpus to another, its eharm is lost. Tl'hose are ,just two, but there are other small inprovements t hat we as stu.idents could make with very little elf'ort-things such as broken bt t les, c igaret t es on classroomi floors, and tranpling down the new grass. Carolina is your it. Ult Help keep it the way you want. it. to be. The Woman's Athletic Association Again Struggles For Existence eIl~\ tnouil s At hIt ei Co unell i, theii govern. ing bodly of thle Wo maun's Ath let ie Asso'iat ion,I reietly ele'ited new oftfierts ainl has started plaiis to again nmake this om'ganiziil a p)art ol' tIn ait illnpis. 'or t lle last~ year' women't (ii ('uri ('g1i1p t'o'turnets, nto nui~ti'hes. noi organtized com-11 lii'tit ive spoit of any,~ h'ml. There~t arie reasons for thlis, ofI course. tIhe main on heing t he ex i'luisive use' of' theii fiel house and gymI by the Navy. Th'le other is lhe same ''hl st ory-no intere*ist frtom the edis. TIodIa y th~'ei,iouncil is inaking~. plains fort ser ''tal tournamintents, huowlig, tennis, anid perhaps I ig- ping. We k now t here are irlsi' here just wait ing to sho'w their skill at such gamnes. Why not give t hem a ebance ? \Vithou,tt i'oopert'ionul thei At hIetie As'socia I ion enliiuot lie suiccessfuml ini putting Ott its Ihiunamen'tts. Tlhei orgniz'at iuon has niot b)eeni 5si.nsointg 51port evets becauses they feared liat student11 init erest would nt he great e'tnugh to ma;kie their efforts woirlhwhiile. 'oipet it ive sports amtong C'arolina coedx ho alw 'ays bieen a nunjor panrt of ecamnpus lifte. Even ifI t huere arue ibstacldes toda1 y, thIe se gatimes 'nit still lie hel. We are glad to see the WAA 1ryvinig to manke it sell' kno win a gain, it can triy, but withIoumt your efforts also, it will fail. WVhent thle oiu-ntamnits ar i scheduled, take an interest, join a teami. Even ifI you arenti ani expert at t hc game, you enn have fun and maytibe dust. away some of those cobwebs that atcuimulat e from constant inactivity! In order that the staff may take full ad vantage of the holidays the Gamecock will suspend publication until March 17. rhe Gamecock Founded January 0. 1106 .SSN?tS ERT ELLIOTT GONZALES. First Editor o c.., 42O MADISON weekly by the student body of the University of South CHicaso - BOSTON durtng the college year. as .,econriclass matter at the poatoffiue at Columbia. nt.. 20. 1t168. U , CAMPUS By JuLIA BuL. Tom ST(vItvStr SKtt r1KIInig Pres,n+ Ci C hs4CbarT P "esidaeT oF Student eody Cbtireet "p Social Cobi *et OA 0- If-SR try S 'lw.ans, o . .twr of twl. otd ROTC zj.< 111o LM, CAniddiL -ew"nj RuT Osbonna J.pe Casop Cha'irman of eooster6 Club OAK, Honor c.ounu e.. of AJZ.EE Coyniiaidte Carolnes Cersatrs Duddy PIwtLL orMtr;n werioIS PresidentioF eiuc Kty, Monger F..tb.i 7pm KSK)Student Allotet e.s (wuml,Ngr FREE-LANCING "Surely Slumber Is More Sweet Than Toil" Mr. Tennyson, when he wrote tlhat "'slumber is nre sweet than toil" indubitably could not have had any naval trainee in mind. However, in the course of my ctanteent rambling, I found that to be quite true. For, said one trainee. in answering the $64 question of "What wouldayou do if you were a civilian?" said: "I'd just lay d wn and sleep. I'd get in the middle of a tent acre field and shoot the first ,oniuvagun that caie along and woke me up." Ah, sweet repose! Motto if, perchance, it ever becaie necessary tu have a motto for this column, I'd choose some deeply connotative aphorism, f'rinstance Don Marquis's: "To hell with a ;ything unrefined." Or would 1? We Weep 1 had hoped to keep pace wit Ii "Cliickein Feed' in tlie presel tation of. prosodiacal offer'ings, hut, it seems, ther.e are polter geists in the office. Pssst , huh, ai " pollertreist' is a seconid 'ouisin, first removed, of a gremilin. Or, if y ou p refer', a iniis chievous ghost. Around here somewhere I hadl a bit of verse lby my pijoetalster,' Miss Fiueh. It were wondelrful1, really it were*! It was a pro bound rmnll intio upon 110 life', l ove. and suchl sil tfery. Alas, sonic poltergeist ic activity has removed it. from lmy sight. 1, with Miss Fuch's hlead( uponi lmy shoulder. weep. A Gentleman "A genlt lemni i.' one whIo is lnever un linatenlt ional ly rudle." -Oscar WVilde The Nether Regions? "lPhew !'said the mnan in the pink silk pa,jalma. 'I had a horrible dIreamii last niight ! "Oh !"' said the other disiniterestedly. "'Yes.- thonght my wife hiad poisonedi me for the inisuranice. It was so vivid that I was mighty glad 1 woke up.'" "Inded." said1 his companlion politely. ''And just where (10 you think you are right now?"7' Election Interlude It hlapp)ened during the first student body presidential elct ionl. Othlniel Wieniges sidled uip to a co-ed1 and asked: "'Have you voted yet 1" The answer was affirmative. "'To the devil with you t," said NROTCer Wienges and stalked off. Oh For The Life Of A Columnist! One of the joys of a columnist's harrassed life is the threat of ''I'll prinit it, s'ehp menc When asked for quotable material, one civilian was perturbed. hen coAnmnented brilliantly on the weather: ''This is undoubtedly thle abnormialest, unsuitablest, the ter riblest weather . . ." Hangover Onec \'.12 was commnenting to another on alcoholic swilling. "'I these daHys of 'nothIing bmt runm',"' the first said jocosely "inebrianits have takeni to seeing pink giraffes instead of pink elephants.'' The second, whio was proud of his professed ability to cure hangovers, comnmentedi: "'I can cure the pink giraffes; that is. unless they -are wearing spectacles. Thenc there's nmothiing t< help you."' Which is all. ,Business Manager...... ......lDilly Murray BTA/T WRITERS Lib Evanls, Oaarlie Sanders, Jodie Marball, , e SATIONAL ADVNtIe NS'ay sMajed Akel, John Reese, Jimmey Brockman, Cole Roberts Katherine Jennings, Jeune Good, Mar. IrisingServiCe,inc. caret Jones, Mary Kane, Harriet Lee, ehel '1lllsher wruesmiative Lazar, Harrison Perry, Virgivia Raysor Wa8nas AVE. Neaw YORK. N. Y. Rodgers. Mary Berry Rion, Roslind 8pone,J AvL. AYLt. SAN. Y ' Doug. Swearingen, Ray Wilkinson, Hawilt 7 - a.os AnCEss,s . Sac Feancisco Simpson. Lee Lorick, Ann Seerson, Victor BB ett, Mianning Harris. Circulation Manager................Carlilde Kearse Assistant Oirculation Manager.......Buddy Black Chicken Feed By KATHERINE JENNINGS Nevermore! At last the great day has comie-I'm writing my very last column. Nevermore will 1 have to dash feverishly for pencil and paper every time I hear a printable joke. Ah, what a peace ful life will now be mile. At least, so I thought until "Slave. driver'' Craig began fiendishly thinking up little duties to com plicate my leisurely way of life. But as I was saying, don't think it hasn't been delightful to write this mucli-of-nothing for you, because . . oh well, 'nuf said. Now I've Seen Everything I glanced speculatively at a columl of NROTC on the march to supper the t,ther day, and something out of the ordi. nary caught my eye. I glanced again, and what should I see but a girl, marching sedately along in the ranks. The food situation around here is really getting alarming wheni a coed has to re sort to suel tacticto get a meal. Now I've Lived At last I've seen a real sho nuff Carolina electioll. Excit. ing, wasn't it ! One sidelight was a candidate's remark that he - was running against prohibition and for the state line! Utilizing Journalism Copy Marines are traditionally ie-mten, and are careful not to up.c the triadition. However, the trades of these he-men are varied. Mluel to his horror, one muscle-bound leatherneck found hiinself selling ladies-ware at the Parris Island Post Exclange. 4 His conduct there was quite uiusual. lie would crouch (loawn biehind the count'er nut it a customer aippeared. when she gave her order he would leap up, grab the article in question, fling it on the counter. and crouch down againa until the appear ance of another customer would necessitate another leap. Finally one customer got up the courage to ask hiin why he was behaving so strangely. "They've trying to take my picture selling these things," he moaned. "And 1lm not gonna let them!' Patriotism Plus I'ye been wondering about these platriotic coeds who spend every second of tliii' walking hours, excluding eating time, fastly knitting for ...1unkown soldier.s. And now I'mn beginninA to see th mi let hod to their madn(Iless. All is not patriot ism, but the desire to get some mail (or is it male ?) One girl knitted somie socks four yeaurs ago, and tucked her name and address ilto( thle toe of each pair. llesults are still cominifg in. The latest was a letter a few dlays ago from a 1I .A .F. flyer who had .jist received a pair. One Last Swig Of Corn Tfhe onily thing a round in thle way of p)oeSY is the following, which I sublmit with a .scream: Whlat a woinderful bird the frog are, When lie stand lie sit almost, WVhen he hlop, lhe fly alnmost, le aill't got 1n0 sense hardly, Ile ain't got no tail hardly either WVhen hie sit, lhe sit oin what he ain't got hardly! Oh, woe, it just dlawnied on me t hat that doesn't evenl rhyme, but I'm hoping you won't notice. This Doesn't Rime, Either Dimiinutiv'e John Horner Seated himself in a retired place, Masticated his Yule tart; He thrust ill his short, thick digit, Drew out a drupe of the genus Prunna And enunciated, "What a aocially agreeable male child am II" Very Last Joke A doctor answvered his phone at midnighlt and'a voice said, "fIurry over, a fellowv here has something the matter with his eyes." "'It must be serious if you woke mec up at this time of night. What's the trouble? D)oes lie see elephants and snakes anid things?'' ''No, sir, that's why we called. The room is full of them and lie can't see any.'' Goodby At last I am a success. Tlhis month's "Readers Digest'* printed three jokes 'hat appeared in my column ages ago, and I mi just sure they copied it. Fewe Tll1 f areel l jhee