The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 17, 1944, Page Page Four, Image 4
Editor .Dovid Lynn Freeman
EDITORLAL STAFF
News Editor ........................Harry Jenkins
Associate Editors-Helen Pride Craig, Cole
Roberts, Jimmy Brockman.
Co-ed Editor..................... Joe Thompson
Society Editor................Margaret D. Jones
Sports Editor......John Reese, Charlie Sanders
Managing Editor....Katherine Armida Jennings
For Anybody Who Cares:
Our Editoral Policy
Well, another semester, another Gamecock,
another editorial staff.
Just to place ourselves along side our pred
ecessors, well opent up with excusej: We don't
have the ante-bellum staff; consequently, our
news will show the flaws of reporters inex
perienced with complexities of campus life
so girls will frequently discover themselves
newly initiated members of KSK and the Stu
dent Union Board will hold its "m1onthly sup
per in the recreation hall of the First Baptist
Church."
Now that we have explained 'that, we won't
apologize. Enjoy our little faux pas as best you
can.
Ii covering all the news sources on the can
pus we will overlook some of the big stories.
We will expect to get flarebacks from slighted
organizatioins. (IHuman nature is naturally dis
po-ed to call us discriminating in our news
policy.) We will take, the repercussions and
explain--to the l)roballe satisfaction of nobody
but our own self righteous consience-that we
hide our personal ilalices when judging news.
One other thing-you probably anticipate.t
it: It's part of the inauguration cerelmuony".
Although we won't. be opiiiioniatedI in giving a
place to news, we shall make up for it by ex
crcising our feeliig in the editorial cotuluns.
We will explain our editorial 1)olicy now, not
lecause its a question that disturbs anvhod\.
but it w ill be here for an\" interested .tudents.
irofessor'' or orgaizatin f eerence an%
time later on.
lle (Ic ii' reitaifao oif /ie I "iiires'vit/ (i (1
pa)'riu)tnt int/aon'I(i)e('. We teill g uarid the
Cniversitil >cting' it to ('.'coriatio,n ol
Ihk'n the wIf,' 1 its .student. tehiih ix >aore
impotant rearant our(a spjekingr up.
Although. :IS a car on the state goveriineiit
ip-tlhe-plane hitory. it 1a; beei swllng to all
extremnes in infilulence. its repulltation now aQ
!1 lillit i ieVonil aniy scathinlls directed agaiii.t
its atimittedt failt,.
As for' the Na\-y we . "h!!. :11 coinpi U1n.,i
+natke a thln I"t 1k as taikati'e as .fJohloil bet
for'e clectiou week. Criiticalwrit inlg oil the
Naval prga is prohibited. so we conform.
* r. for the orgamlzi onis t haut aire dloriianlt
anid clinhg to the ghocet or act ivity, we shall1
criticize. Whien we -ee s(linethinIg miingiiL that
ougiht to be t~ here. youl will hieari fr'om uJ .
A .lways we "ill expre-s n hat we believe'and
Weu shall ui-e edhitoriailifreedomi. It ill b~e em
Culinary Coaching For
Civilian Freshmen
Will Aid Eating Problems
* Since thle Nay* -teppled it into lii,Steward'V.
Seltves. New~ s.itent- were tive aii: eban ije at
Wmlzoe Ihnopitonui Caf eteria. It wa-. *4ofjcs.
inadIequate . . . there were simpily tooc m'ainy
muths"itl.. For thie unia(cc,niluodated ii uneid the
only recourse was t hen to expierimienit with the
<pitstiabile ciinie ocf local bioardling hioues
wvas nto tri ial probuilemi.
(One fres'hmaniu hiaving. been told nothIiin.g uni.
dterstandabile abIouit (at inlg strolled bl1ithlIv into
Scweeker'*s doimia in., picked up~ a tra and11( push ed
along behind V.l1 's- tuitil someblodty spottedl
thie error.
Others spent weeks walking upj town to
restaurants anit cafeterias where thev straninedl
allowances to the breakiung point before dis
covering that boarding houses near the campus
served "La irly-edible" a nd "reasonaly-economi
ical" food.
* Since the uniiversit.y apparently has rno plans
for feeding students on the campus, newcomers
should at least be given advance information
onu the eating conditions in the city.
The logical spot for putting the student in
the know is the orientation class. The first class
meeting should be tulrnedl into a candid wisen
ing-up session where the student instructor
*gives advice necessary to avoid ptomaine poi
soning and bankruptcy.
Member
>ciated CoAe&ate Pres
Distributor of ROS
Imaued
CoIlebiate Di6est Carouna
Entered
S. 0., N
Maybe We Are
Stepping Out of Line
But...
'Education is worthwhile if only for the
patience it instills," said some venerable age
who should have known what he was talking
about.
Maybe the spokesman was a university stu
dehtt who increased in forbearance (and gears)
by edging across the canteen toward the book
store for his semester's textbooks.
Whoever he was, he would probably evoke
a hearty "Amen" from any student who sur
vived the sortie with enough strength left to
talk.
The problem of getting books has improved
over the last two semesters, when the difficul
ties created by mountainous bookkeeping tor
Naval students kept students bookless long
after the semtester lwnd begun. Bookkeeping un
doibtedly is better; organization for distribu
tion is better. Still the waiting multitudes last
week resembled unfavorably the lines outside
a Colunbia theater on a "first showing'' of a
fibu.
To cut down delay the bookstore would do
well to do two things: (1) Publish mimeo
grapllied instructions telling just what hours
they are buying used books (that's for the stu
dent who waits in line with his used books to
findl tiree hours later they aren't having any),
and what hours they are selling and distribu
ting (that's for the student who. determined
to get them early-. eats a canteen breakfast
while holding hic coveted first place in line
then Iintls lie can't get. his books until he fills
out somnte blank nobody mentioned before).
2 "xtend for the time of the buying rush.
the booksttores into the canteen using the coun
ter to the right of tie store as a distribution
an1I r(dllectiont spot for the forms to be filled
out by \'-1:'s and posibly as a purchasing
area ftr utedl books.
We Only Know What
We've Heard.. .But
That's Plenty!
".int \Vhat's It For ? .ked the puzzled
"\Ve-ll." We dra wled extenmively, st allinug
fo r thimn. It's juost natu ral . . . sort of; besides
. . . w e dunino."
1Iluvinig I roved tiurm'selvye- de flat inglyv mortal
tool rliingc our repuitationu of knowing aill. we
turned oulir ow n efforts to tIhe pro blemn of find
ing ouit theii reason fo r thme loud speaking sys
ftiin u' er flhe ent rance of thle WV.TF.. barracks.
Our firest inikl in of th le in fernal device came
b:tt ite mne niht while we readtied ouriselves for
beguiii lt'ment by Morphleoui- ( also for' hiittinug
ibe -ack) ii (ourl barra'nck- a block away.
StidIdeily thle niighit was split b y a sftentori an
s4eit' -aing "Now get. this - -" We waitedl ouri
late frinmi whIat ever anigle of thue autmoumphmere it
Th'e next dayv. howe veir. was even worse. Th'le
"voi.'' hih chaniged to ho'(ogie-wogie of the
solhident inautire andl was~ giving tt wildly' at
fi ve-thirtyv in fthe miorni ng.
N ow wve h ad b eeni broiughit upl righ t - - -
alwayi *s we ~ hadl laiuighed at such t hiigs as gremn
in s ande all fthat supler'nat ural stuif f, buit we'
laid or dloubhts before we' loca:tedl the sound
imachiine.
Still juist w~hys thme speaker ( which' makes the
brio:nleasfinug area of W.T.S. no greater than
a chleerleader's miagap)hone in comparison )
nias set, uip to direct its volume across the canm
pus1 wals still a mystery'.
Wec went inquiring.
Sonie told us that it's to call wondlering
WT'r back to the fold at night. "We're
teachimmg thema to conie in on the beam," they
explained.
Others have taken the position that this
particular training group is naturally extro.
verted - - and they simply have to have some
means of expression.
What's the real purpose of the new loud
speaker?
Well. -iust like we said, we dlunno!
rhe Gamecock
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FREE-LANCING
By HARRY JENKINS
* In A Minor Key
.lozann1ah1 !. Another senester, another issue, and time for
another colunim . . . two o'clock in the mornilng . . . hell of a time
to write a colmilmnl1 . . . the office of that. which is "crowing for a
greater Carolilla" is eampty; editor Freeman*'s radio is purring
"poinciana' . . . proof lies scattered about the floor . . . a cool
breeze, harbinger of spring, plays with the papers on the floor
. . . I light an old gold and begin .. .
* Registration Reveries
The ' dehacle of regi-tration is m er. and I. have vet to see
the \acuous stare of the u1ppier-1c-_laiIaii who waideis flrom1
building to building. mumlnlblingr: "'ve already had orientation.
W1'hy. oh why. should 1 take it again!"
Registration has, howeve", had its profoulnid elfct upon
columnist Lee Lorick (to your right, reader umline), who be
moans the nerve-wracking exigencies demanded at the begin
nlng of each semester.
'pon. MY' word. Lee. re-t ca;-y. -ooclb a tiue coies but
thrice a \ear.
* A Beardmuttering
yondergrowaadatfIodil
imairzydoat.doyoui?
* Journalism Class Quip
D)ean S. C. D)ePail.S' lass ini ad~anlcd repoirtinig n as isuw
inig great reportinig jobs, wheni M.argaret d1ones remnemblered
tile story of a recent train wi~reck, ini which manyw were killed.
"O)h." she sa id, '"it was a1 woinderful job of' reportinhg. The
reporter wrote about bowv thle Cat holies were handing out last
r'ites. and the Methiodi,-ts were handuting. outt dloughnuuts and
('offee ...
D)eain DJePass, smiiniig. reuiarked that lhe va;tly prleferredl
W~uhi, I think., shows an1 appreciative di,-criminiationi.
* Oh! For A Joke
Thle r'ever'endl noticed ant umu.sulal1ly large attendance one Suin
day morning. For the soul of htiim, lhe could niof understanid
it. Try as lhe might, lhe could not underst and.
'That is. until onme of' thle dleacons in formed him n that word
had got ten a round that. a trmavelinmg saleNlmanm was goin tug
conlfe's that muorninlg.
* Canteen Condenza
TJhe same old eigalret te smuoke hanging lazily over the lilled
booths. 'The same old juuke box blaring forthi somue new tunes,
No more "Paiper D)olh." TIhie same 01(d pin-ball mnachinues, with
some old, solme new f'aces clusteredI ar'oumnd.
There's material for an opera here. We'd choose to give the
feminine leads to App)i SpeedI and Willie Muller, too. Quite
attractive leads they'd make.
* Finale
'Puni my word, I sit here with the morn fast passing, my)
brain p)ounding auway on all of its one cylinder, chew~ing my
fingernails down to my1 elbows in search of a joke.
And, ho! beside me I. find a. joke.
Says hei'e, serawled1 on this piece of paper', that grandpa is
all of 95 years 01(1 and( has never used glasses. 'Then, says here
he always dIrank out of a bottle.
Gee whizl1.
Business Manager ..... _ . ... .-- - Murray
News Stoff
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Las Aasesl " SAN IaAnCIeCe Searson, Churok Voloht.
Business Staff-Ed Teague, Meta Boykin, 0. D.
Salley lII, Jane Nicholson, Bill
Hutchinson.
Circulation Manager............. ..George Deloy
Upon My Word
By LEE LORICK
* Salutations
Here I am a brand new columnist with Pyle, Winchel, Thomp.
son, etc. with which to compete. I'll have to admit that my M
hands are neither the warmest or the steadiest. Never+heless, in
spite of the treachery of my typewriter and the brilliant glare
from Mr. Jenkins' column, I shall conciliate my machine,
Dioowrednu, and donning my sun-glasses, begin.
* Lion or Lamb?
It is customary at this time of year to decide whether
March came in like a lion or a lamb. In a poll conducted
in this vicinity 42 per cent of those interviewed said like a
lion and 58 per cent said like a lamb. Varied. proofs were
given as to the reliability of each answer. One gentleman
swore that on the first of March he went to work for the
first time since October without hat or gloves. Another
man reported that his family used more coal in the furnace
on the first of March than any other day during the winter.
One harassed housewife when presented with the question
replied "I'm not interested in the lion but did you say you
knew where to get some lamb chops?" Well, what's your
opinion?
* Registration Retorts
If1 I don't get in Babcock's class . .. whichever is the least
exhausting . .. I dread this day more than . . . dating him again
to-1ight . . . Is the Abn-rnal chiass filled? ....Never again . .
but what's the exam, like . . . a light, please . . . worst than a
movie line.
* The Joke of the Week
Goon: "What are you pouring whiskey in your Victory
garden for?"
Moron: "We planted tomatoes, and I want them to grow up
stewed."
(Readers are invited to submit their favorite jokes. Write
in care of this column.)
* And 'oats of Navy Blue
Ensign: "Do you think you will be busy to-night?"
Clief' Petty Officer: "llow about a date this watch?''
V-l'!: "You lucky guI l'am not restricted this week-end. See
you at eight.''
* Wanted
A fountain pen that never needs lilling.
Loniger week-ends.
D)uinninger's secret.
* Life's Disappointments or Do Black Cats Bring
Bad Luck?
One' rainyv aft ernioon a wveek beforeC e'xamis a lonie figure of a
giril was seen wending her w'ay thlrouigh thle pudles to the south
side of F"linn IIall. Oin reachinig thle pOrc'h she founid that her
assignment forn the CGamnecoek was to write a f'eatunre on a cr
tain black cat that had appleared on t he third floor of the library,
1n spite of the rain and exams, the st ory was handed ini on time.
Picking up the paper on Friday, what was her surprise to find
that not her name appeared above the article bt the hi-line of
one of the editors. Explanation: Someone on the staff made a
mistake.
* Chanson
When comes the Spring,
A song I sing,
For trees, the sky,
New buds I spy,
Grass lately green,
Daffodils' sheen,
Meterol 'gy,
Entomol 'gy,
The turtle dove,
And just plain love.
* Defayed Action
A nman entered a bar in New Y ork recently and ordered a
champagne coektail. When he had finished his drink he was
observed by the bar'tendler to bite into his glass and then eat
it with relish. Them bartender accustomedj to all kinds of
idiosynerasies said nothing. The followinig day the same man
enter'ed the lhar and ordlered a champagne cocktail. Hie beganp
again to chew up the glass. Finally the hartender could stand
it no longer. "If you must eat the glass," he shouted, don't
leave ihe astem iti the bet p..art 1" . e.. unetwe