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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Issued Weekly by the student body of the University of South Carolina during the college year except during examinations and vacation periods. Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce at Columbia. S. C.. November 20. 1908. Student activities fee includes $1.00 subscription for students. Subscription rate per college year ...............$2.00 Member Ilssociaded Colie6dote Press Distributor of Colfe6iae-Di6est gPResUNT6e FOR NATIONAI. AovanlesNe 6.. NationalAdvertisingSeifice,Inc. Celeg Publishers Reprose"retive 420 MADisoN AvK. -r NEW YORK. N.iY. CNIcASo - ROsToR - Lot AMOR,.Ls . SAN FRancIOCo STAFF Editor .................. .................Virginia Raysor Managing Editor ....... .....................Mart Smith Associate Editors-Eleanor McCall, Sidney Wise, George Celusta. News Editor ........ ..................Billy Routh Feature Editor ................................ Harriet Lee Society Editor ........................Martha Steadman Sports Editor .............................. Donald Moore Photography Editor .........................Betty $lrown Cartoonists......................Jinx Giles. B. 0. Jarrett Columnists-Mary Helen Shawhan, George Celusta, Saul Lavinsky, Charles Wickenberg. Exchange Editor .........................Ralph Ferguson Society Staff-Rives Kelley, Sidney Brandenburg, Doris Moorhead, Bert Hemingway. Sports Staff-George Howell, Joe Piedmont. Jerry Krupp, Frank Scruby, Jim Fulghum. News Staff-Mike Karvelas, Belinda Cullum, Dorothy Perkins, Mary Shoun. Victor Barrett, Elizabeth McDaniel, Lacy Butler. Business Manager . ........................Joe Lumpkin Business Staff-Ed Teague, Candy Taylor, Victor Barrett. Typist ..................................Barbara Binnicker Circulation ........................ Frank Chapman Getting Worse and Worse A fellow-even a USC student-can take so much and then something from within surges forth and says, "This is too milch!" This is exactly how we feel about that de plorable, disgraceful den of dirt and disease, commonly known as the canteen. Last Mon day we entered "it" and found that it hadn't been cleaned over the week-end! That is when even we who also share the occupancy of Maxcy basement rose up and said, "This is too much.", The place is dirty; we never remember seeing it really clean. We doubt if it could pass ithe healh standard under which other eating places of the city have to operate. We have heard many visitors and new stu dents comment on what a disgrace it is to the University. And seriously, that's what it is-a DISGRACE to the University. We are not criticizing merely to be criti cizing. Officials have told us that it is prac tically impossible to find enough help to keep the canteen clean, and we believe them! We fully appreciate the hard work and long hours encountered by the students who work there. Yet, feeling like a voice in the wilderness, we ask, CAN'T SOMETHING BE DONE?? Howv can we as students continue to eat in such filth, visit in such filth? When all else fails, it is up to those who frequent the place to do something about it. If we must con tinue to have a hole in the basement of a dormitory and administration building for our Student Union Bu'lding, it can at least be clean. Let us repeat-"CLEAN" was the word we used! We address this appeal to any group or any organization who wants to do something constructive for the health and well-being of EVERY University student. THE GAMECOCK pledges its support in so worthy an under taking!! Our Brother's Keeper The World Student Service Fund cam paign starts on our campus April 1. The purpose of this drive, stating it as simply as we can is this: T he WSSF is a.skingq the students of Amner ica to help the students of war-torn coun tries to finish their college education. That help means providing enough food to keep them from starving, enough heat to keep them from freezing, enough b>ooks to keep them from starving intellectually. That help means contributing money. We realize University students dlon't have much money, but listen: "While we were lis tening to the French refugee, we heard a nteighbor turn to a friend and say, "We got to go eat." We wondered how many Euro pean students are going hungry simply be cause they haven't a cent "to go eat." Miss Pohl answered saying it was a "tremendlous number!I" We are not trying to he melodrbmatic but the facts remain; students, like ourselves, are starving and dying all over the world. We have the need presented to us; we cannot close our eyes (and pocketbooks) to the need, for can we, who like luxuries so rmuch, deny these fellow-students the barest neces sities of life? Examining Clubs As is the case in most American- colleges, the University of South Carolina has an or ganization for everything. Our school is complete with social, religious, service, and professional clubs. THE GAMECOCK wishes to pose these ques tions: How many of these clubs have a pur pose and how many of them are accomplish ing that purpose? Let it be understood that we have no bones to pick with any group or organization. We simply ask you to examine your club and see if it is doing what it was organized to do. If you are a member of a literary so ciety, are you learning to debate and speak in public; if a member of a service organ ization, are you learning to initiate programs of service or are you seeking merely to add honors to your list; if a member of a relig ious group, is the work done in sincerity; if a member of a professional group, are you seeking to learn how your profession can be used to build a better society? All of us expend too much time and effort attending numerous meetings to be wasting it on purposeless groups. Ar4' you having a part in accomplishing a worthwhile pur pose as a member of your organization? If not, you don't need that organization; if so, work harder, it needs you. Better Convocations Two weeks ago THE GAMECOCK asked what had happened to the convocation period. Tuesday we found it and rejoiced in our findings. We have watched during the past year ef forts of a few interested students to revive University convocation periods. The pro gress of those students-later aided by mem bers of the faculty-was slow and hard. But all the hard work was worth it when many hundred students attended the meeting last Tuesday in the Field House and heard Pres ident Smith explain the purpose of the meet ings. The President pleaded for a better under standing of problems so that all could co operate for the good of all. Then he care fully explained what had been done on such vital issues as veteran housing, appropria tions, and trimester, and why the adninis tration has taken the action it has. We like that. We appreciate the spirit of cooperation upon which our convocation pe riods have been founded; we appreciate the good faith of our president in telling the stu dent body the reason behind vital actions which concern every student at the Univer Sity. We want nire of tiat honesty and fair ness for only upon these can trust in each other (faculty and student) be built. President Smith ended his short speech by inviting any students or committees to see him if they have any problems to dis cuss. Surely, no better proposition could be made. For a greater University let's take the President up on his proposition in the future instead of forming half-baked opin ions on one-sided facts. THE GAMECOCK congratulates the student body, President Norman Smith, and the fac ulty. Last Tuesday's convocation was indeed a sight for sore eyes. Keep up the good work ! A BIT OF PRAISE THE GAMECOCK wishes to express appre ciation to a small group for doing a tremen dously big .iob. We refer to the postoffice. Any "normal" mail system would have brok en down entirely. The student body has mul tiplied until now there are two and three sharing a box. These are unparalleled times ...especially for so vital agency as the P.O. THE GAMECOCK admires the downright hard work which postmaster Joe Lawrence and his staff show as they tackle their over whelming task every day. We praise them for a superhuman .iob to get the mail through. Surely, the least we can do is to cooperate with them. BULLETIN BOARDS The Student Council has plans for clear ing up the congestion that results from the many announcements cluttering up our cam pus. The Council will place locked bulletin boards at the north end of Davis college, at the door leading to Maxcy basement, and outside The postoffice. Secretaries from the four classes will have charge of placing and taking dlown all notices on these boards. They will be kept up to date so that the student may know, dlaily, exactly what is happening and where. In this way, ugly signs hung from every tree on the campus will be eliminated, and all can rely on the bulletin boards for up-to the-minute announcements. The GAMECOCK nods its head in approval. We want to see the project accomplished soon!i INTRODUCING *e- SOUTHC A ST e BOARD t,RREdiS YMBERSHIP CRAIA PRESIDENT a.& BLE kD A MEMOER OF KEK, HI BUS1HES 5TAF,and A3 4 GERMAN CLUB. HE a PRENT PRESIDEN MyOp MY p On the campus of the Univer sity of South Carolina, there is a generally accepted formula for a student's college life. That formula includes the three phases. academic, social and religious. The University has undertaken to provide a well-balanced mixture of these three important phases. A faculty sincerely interested in de veloping the student academically has been provided. Fraternities, sororities and other student organ i/ations have done their share to ward furnishing the social phase. To fulfill the formula, there re mains only the single element of religious development. Yet without this Ingredient, no graduate can clatm to have gotten out of college everything that was there for him. To fill this need, the University has erected a chapel and establish ed a regular Vesper mervice every Sunday evening from 7:30 to 8 p. m. And it is aboutt this Vesper set vice that I wish to direct this col itrn n. It seems to me that bothI s udet'tts and faculty have bteen neglecting the Sunday' night service. I am certain that mote people than have heen dloing sa can find the time dutting Gad's day to spend 30 min utes in commutnion with lI im. Personally, I am not a devot petrson. If I said I wvas, I would New Feriture Book Review Do you, the University of Soutth Carolina studlent, know how the money you pay fatr fines at the Mc Kissick Memorial Libraty is spent? The answetr is (curtent best-selling hooks. Evetry two weeks a commit tee of librar'y staff members con sisting of Elisaheth English, Fran 'Cs Means, and Elizabeth P'orcher select books which have received high acclaim in literaty criticism magazines. These hooks atre p)ut on the "Blue Stat" list wvhich means that you have paid for them with your' fines. The fit'st is Arch of Triumph by Er'ich Maria Remarque, author of All QuIet oa the Westertn Front. Rtemarque reaches the heights in this stirring new book, his fit'st in five yeat's. It Is a novel, like All Quiet, which catches the heart-beat of our time. The plot centers around Dav'ic, once a famous surgeon In Pat'is, now doing difficult opera tions for wealthy society dloctors. As the story opens, he finds sttrength to endlure only In a blind animal urtge to sutrvlve, and courage in only one hope-revenge on the man who has rutined him. Joan Ma dou, singet' and actress, Is brought to Davic by despaIr. Together they findl something of peace, something of strain and sorrow and in the end a tragedy which is yet the source of new strength and new purpose. The other characters represent the teeming life of a great city on the brink of catastrophe, of a culture nearing its inevitable end. A great writer and a great humanitarian has written this book. You cannot read it unmoved. HE PREipgN OF TE YMCA/ HE IS O r q SENlOR CLAS $EC'TY-TREAS. BEACI 3 WORKED ON' 4he SMOA AsISTANT TREAS. ey '1 A PAST TREM. T T KAPP4 NQMA linion by Saul Lavisky not only be a liar but a hypocrite as well. My complaint is that by not being willing to take the time to attend this service. you are de priving yourself of something that will leave a void in your futuie life. And such a small poition of the student body is attending this weekly service that I am certain some of you are neglecting that third ingredient. The services are conducted by students chosen by the Vespers coninittee (itself a student organi xation). Each program, though brief. carries a distinctly beneficial message for everyone. Attendance is. of course, voluntary. I have heard of many planm to inerease the attendance, but too many of these have bordered on "forcing" the student to come to worship. To me, that seems to de feat the purposes of the program. Only those who come because they want to, and come with an open mind and heart. will benefit from the servie. Just this past week, one sorority, as an experiment, came to Vespers in a b)ody bi inginag their dates' with them. They found that the hour for the service wvas so arranged as not to conflict with anything they had intendied to (10. They appre cint ed the service, and I think they'll conme again, whether In a body or singly. The soror.ity that did that is to be commended. And their pian is to he recommendedt to other soror ities and fraternities. Once you get into the habit of attending the ser v'ice, I feel sure that you won't wnnt to stop coming. It's a good feeling to he learning a practical lesson in religion* from your' fellow studient. It's a good feeling to know that you are getting that third ingredient of the formula. I don't know exactly what to say to you, the r'eader,. to impress on you just howv essential YOUR at tendance is. But as a member of the Vesper's committee. I CAN and DO extend an invitation for you to conme to the chapel this Sunday eve'ning. In my13 opinion, there's something their' for you! Behind Thie purpose of this column as it appear's now and will appear from time to time is to give credit where credit Is due to those who do their bit to make Carolina a better school, to those who do their bit to add( fame and giory to the school. and to those who help to make life aroutnd the campus a little more en joyalie. As far' as possible we are inter'ested In giving credit to those people who might not otherwise receive it. We give credit To a smali group of students and faculty who meet together to talk over the finer things of life over their coffee. More groups of this type on the campus might help more of us realize the real reason that we are here at Carolina. Bly the name of Madame Sweeny, the Sundtay afternoon hostess of thIs group we place a star. To Dr. Van Mata. who ledt thq Sunayn arL.. -TAOIN by Charles W "I have a rendezvous At sone disputed barrii When Spring comes ba And apple-blossoms fill I have a rendezvous wi When Spring brings b If you lhaven't been reading I ing about whether Diet Smith ti he past week you'll he able tI mtiany years frioI ow . . if v What I have to say inl this I departure from the assigneine words of "entertaiinmeit." Mf with i ,iy fellow coluinilist, ove Vespers this week. Well. le isn't tile only one v of the assiuranlees of President of our State Departmnent whi everything is all right. even 1 a few of the nen who imade it the ulniversity today * are distil themi who are with its ow . . . about-how lg are they goit of them: Are we going to var with 1H -usually, "7It looks like it." Would it he better to apepa: Fight now, if we have to ani(d A Would you come back to sel I'd slay in service. The blame for another war squatrely on tlie-Rutssians. The ait agrI'lliemn to withdraw ti are demanding things of Iran to 1lit criterion of the United : sianii signed. they have no right Aistria. Czechoslo'vakia. ai I To ignore the situation wouild which oir naltion. and tile U hI II f fed. I .jnst thought vou'd like to l are thinking . . . or course wIh lie Ruissiians aie thinking. ETAOIN SIDL.V Once upoii at time there wit toed sMuthern1 famlliY of thie soi The child's fathert at tle prim< ver1sitv of South Carolina. So term off his freshimlian yealr. still pique when he found out that female to live in Sims. lie ma imainv years his daughter took Wals i Norse and her father wmit in 1944 when they finlal%y tI to the inivers ity instend of th site was admit ted to Carolina firIst semiester was cnt irely w Iichi bfore thle sorormities. Dii semtest er,. suunntiter semetert4'I. lier vealed wvhen site suddenly spol squareii dance w here a smnall el for' a q uet evein g. " Anlttid she blturtedi. The followinig we of' the UAMNECO)CK. athilet ic di cii. Mlay Queen, Presideitt of t I a ful iipro fessorshi ip ini thle Enig H[er popuilairity wvithi the V. s'uared. to infiniity whein shte auh ulr ' be,.r.'' pronioiuned hem Thlie siiddent f'ame, huowe.'ver,' head ts. Shte lab ored i uneeasinog whlichi the studiteit sp irit as we wuhile layin g plan s to sa1Not age id en of' kecepiniig thle c'arnpus e'le aill over' the the camulllis, whyi ii studenuts 'ani (1ump11 their tra Anid so lie 'aniiteeni was estali Anid t huis we leav~e ouri frien t iime when'u we'4 wuii l reent the n tIThe noon discussion and the other mem hers of the Coffee Club, lMrs. Eliza heth Kent, D)ick Vanderveen, Sue Newton. a.nd Lix Norton we wish manny more successful Coffee Club discussions. To Eileanor McCall andi Liz Nor ton for working hard with Chair man Gordon Rhoemaker, France. Smith to keep the Tuesday night Public' Relations Forum going full speed ahead. To ,Jane Church who has been wvorking,hard to get the game room in Sis basement going. Sorr'y you have the measles now Jane. To George Auild, organist for' Sunday night Vesper's. George may often be overshadowed by other persons on the program. especially to some og us who don't often re alize that it takes an organist to get music ont os ... ...en SHRDLU ickenberg, Jr. vith Death ,ade, ck with rustling shade the air th Death ick blue days and fair. Alan Seeger. he newspapers. and I'm not talk. is going to live or not, during readl. about it in history books ii're alive anI can read Russian. !olimn this week is an absolute it, to grind out a weekly 1400 ybe I shoulI have taken it up r t here, but lie's worried about h1o's worried this week. In spite Trumian and the (umb silence elI was supposed to menti t hat ack in 1941, the minds of quite possible for uts all to be here at rbed. I've talked wvith iany of ' and t hat's what tihey're worried Ig to he wit i us ? I asked somle ussia ! Few woubl say definitely ;e let nlow an11(1 figlit later. No. hile we're realy. tool after another war? No . lhese veteralls tell ne, is laid Itussians hiave already violated OOps from Iran. The Russians , anI Turkey to wlich. according ations Organization which Rus to. An( how (id Hitier get into olaId . . . proioti g inidents. k. lie (lenoiuncingfi( f the t ruths upon ' O is founded. We will not be now what the people around you at we'd all like to know is what s a girl child born to a square I in the upper part of this state. ' of his life was still inl the UIni. ith that is. But in the eighth iner seniester. lie (Iuit inl a fit of .oil had to he a sophioiiore andi1l a rriel a Norwegian gi:l. and for lelight in saying that her mother evcied to nimve Varnwell coiuty * e 111iversitv to Barnwell counity at thle tendere age oh' twel ve. 11er sted beeause Ite WL'Tt got to ring thle middlle of her seeonid etofore unkilnown talents were re e her fi rst word at a Sigmiia Nu iqule of 10.000t stuidenits galt heredi isesiali shmetniet a i anist i'enlIy" e'k she was iiamred society editor reet of 0 tie Pani- I el hen ie C'oun - ii' St udenit Body. not to imnt ion ish D)epartmilenlt. 142s. square root of 4-F that is, led t wo new words to her vocab -. harie. or habhyrev. anrd "yes."'' dlid not go toi either one of her ly to lay a solid foundantioin on kno1w it today is built. Onc (lay Maxey mionumenit she hit on an m; instead of ha vinig t rash cans11 at set aside a special rooim where hi. garhbage, anud school books? lied. d runt il next week at this same ext uistalbiiunt of~ "ETA 511RI" Scenes To Lacy Butter and the people * wvorking with her in ani ef(ort to get a weekly University radio pro gram going over one of the local rad1io stations. o E. W.'Rogers and frank Hun. tey for campaigning in an efiort to increase membership of their Y. M. C. A. To Sue Gireensp.n an dher Y. W. C. A. committee on social work. Keep it uip. To a group of students who re. cent1y ran along up to Clemson to show the fetlas what Carolina has we offer our appreciation. Included in the group were ?atty 1Mfalcomne, Ester Gregory, Winter Griffith, 4er ry Meachamv, Jack Whigock, MilIy yout, and Roota Clark. They also stoppe4i off at Soys lUi in Ande. son and Pendleton high school to * spread Carolina propaganda. We give credit to flarjon Whaley whe arran.me4 th -rp