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Editor ........... Virginia Raysor Associate Editors-Eleanor McCall, Sidney Wise, George Celustu. News Editor ....................Billy Routh Mer Feature Editor ................Harriet .e Society Editor...........Martha Steadman Sports EdMitor................Donald Moore Photography Editor............Betty Brown Cartoonists..........Jinx Giles. B. 0. Jarrett Columnists-Mary IHelen Slawhan, Geot ge Celusta, Saut Lavisky, Charles Wickenberg. Managing Editor .....Mart Smith Etaoin Sh By CHARLES WICI I am tempted to call this column this week, "One-Tenth of a Lost Week-End" or "Four Days With- Sullivan." And I spent 'em. Ironically, he and I made the trip to Spar tanburg together with the journalism students who went up to get some "practical experience" putting out the Sunday edition of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. As fate and Frank Wardlaw would have it, Sullivan and I had to room together. Now, I don't know whether to divulge my impressions of our poor man's Ray Milland, or go on and tell you about what happened up there during those four days and three nights. There should be some room in here for the account of Scarlette's telephone conversation with Sullivan 12:30 Sunday morning in which she was being briefed on the art of living in a hotel with all the comforts of McSorley's Won derful Saloon. Probably the entire crew would be suspended from school though. We actually learned something while we were up there, and don't let anyone tell you it was a pleasure trip! If we couldn't get news. we went out and made it. Witness Betty "Goose Bump" Koty's swim in Rainbow Lake . . . she was the first person to go swimming in the city's reservoir since the war began . . and besides it was cold. My lasting impression of Spartanburg is the number of dead people laying around. I covered "special assignments" which included four wrecks, numberless gallons of blood, broken glass, gnarled 1946 Fords, and two (lead people. The widow of one of the (lead men was within 100 yards of him and watched him die. She had their eight months old baby in her arms. Probably the most interesting thing that happened to us was meeting and talking with James Russell Young, author of "Behind the Rising Sun," for 13 years editor of an Eng lish language newspaper in Tokyo. and just before the war, EDITORIALS Early last semester, Kappa Sigma Kappa, the one and only service fraternity on the University of South Carolina campus, made an attempt to procure adequate desks for the numbers of left-handed students of the university who found it difficult to write, study and take notes on the one type furnished. A member of KSK, following the advice and with the consent of a member of the faculty, saw the university engineer, who promised to see that some left-handed desks were made available. In April, nothing has yet been done! A suggestion that the lights on the McXissick Library building he once again turned on for the belefit of the cam pus and so that Columbians and passers-by could take notice of the main feature of our campus was referred from the administration to the marshal's office and back again to the adlministr'ation. Still nothing has been dlone. Realizing the traffic hazard prominent behind the furnace room due to the chains locking the horseshoe and the exit be tween Maxcy and Coker Colleges from auto traffic, KSK re quested that the chains be removed to alleviate the situation by allowing through traffic. Trheir request was bounced b)ack and for'th from department to dlepartment. and met the same fate as before. Kappa Sigma Kappa was formed for the purpI'ose of service to the university and its students. Its suggestions are solid. and would benefit the school, rather than harm it. And yet here are three concrete examples of how KSI(. comprised of' a group of conscientious students, is being "kicked in the teeth." HIere are three evidences that showv how subordinate departments of the university are afraid to take initial ac tion on definite problems confronting students for fear of censure from higher-up! There are some p)oints that speak in fav'or of' the admninis tration's conservative manner. The university is still run ning on a close budget and money is hard to find for actual needis. But it would take no money to remov'e the chains from the horseshoe ! It wvould take no money' to turn oni the library lights! The state pays the electric bill. It would take little financing to providle for some left-handed de'sks on the cam pus, especially in those classes that require the taking of notes. Yet nothing has been (lone!! Why? Is the administration too narrow-mind(edl to let a group of students take the initialtive in act ions that would prove beneficial to the school? Or is it too lazy to care wheth er the standard of the University of South Carolina s'hould dr'op because of several minor' triv'ialities which would add( in the long run to the university? Kappa Sigma K(appa has madle several suggestions in the past. Some have been heeded. Others have gone the road of the most recent attempts to gain for' university stude'nts things that many of them have requested, primarily through the campus service fraternity. Will the administration take heed and give KSK( some lee way .in its ideas, if they seem reasonable? Or will the students have to pass petitions around the campus to get even a little consideration from the big-wigs? BILLY ROUTH!. APOLOGY The editorial entitled "A Challenge" which was printed last week was written by our guest editorialist, Gordon Shoe mnaler, member of the Convocation Committee. Sorry to have left out your name, Gordon!I The Gameco Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First E le6iad Pre tr oIssued Weekly by the student body of the U: of South Qarolina during the college year excep D Di6est examinations and vacation oerlods. Entered as second-class matter at the. postc Columbia. S. C.. November 20. 1908. Student activities fee includes $1.00 subscrip students. rdlu Goes CENBERG head of the International News Service Bureau in Japan. It is on his life that the moving picture, "Blood on the Sun," starring Jimmy Cagney, is based. Young's description of the Japanese idea of newspapering, should go down in history. It seems thatj the Japs got their outlook on the fourth estate from seeing Ameiican moving pictures. For the "special assignment" a reporter-photographer and a motorcycle is kept w%armed up all the time. Suppose that: a big fire breaks out somewhere in Tokyo. The reporter charges down the stairs and leaps into the sidecar, the seat of honor. The driver is already there. Following the reporter comes a man with a step ladder. He climbs on behind the driver holding the ladder on his head. Then a big red banner with the name of the newspaper is hoisted on the front of the motorcycle and off they go in a cloud of smoke, dust and glamour. When they arrive at the scene of the conflagration the ladder is set up, the photographer climbs to the top, holds the camera up and "click." They don't bother to focus the thing . . . speed is of the utmost importance, consequently pictures are often printed upside down or sideways because the editor doesn't know% what it is. If a fire breaks out far from the city, a fourth man climbs aboard the motorcycle. He carries a large basket. In the bas ket are carrier pigeons. To the pigeons' the negatives are tied. Thenpthe bird is reltased. When he arrives at the news paper office he lights atop the building. Then the entire staff, headed by the publisher swarm up there and try to catch the fowl. When a big story is going to break, say, a new premier is nominated by the Emperor, the newspaper sends a dele gation of some twenty men to the man's house. There thcy set up tents and hoist their newspaper's banner. Cooks, ser IN APPRECIATION Several members of TiE GAMECOCK staff journeyed to Spartanburg last week-end to )ut out the Sunday edition of the SPARTANBURG lERALD JOURNAL at the invitation of Wil liam Townes. publisher. THE GAMECoCK takes this opportunity to express appre ciNtion from all who wvent to Mr. Towvnes and t he entire staff of the HERALD-,JO1URNAL. This experience was invaluable: the hospitality and helpfulness was unbeatable! We hereby reciprocate by inviting the H-IERALD-JOURNAL to put out THE (;AMECoCK anytime it wvishes. We also wish to eull our realers' attention to two people, without whom we could not have put out a GAMy'(CK lae-t week. They are Frank Sloan and Mary Shoun. rhey came through in an emergency, and we publicly thank them for it. PLEASE READ THIS! Tuesday we heard the long-awvaited announcements about the University summer term and summer school. In this connect ion Tl H E GA M ECOCK wvishes to emphasize these p)oints: 1. It is of the utmost imp)ortance that every studlent co-op crate in the making out of the questionnaires which the Reg istrar will dlistiblute within the next week. Students must express themselv'es as to their plans for the summer. The University will schedule courses from the infor'mation which 'it receives from these questionnaires; therefore, that infor mation must be correcct. 2. The announcements made Tuesday are not all-conclu sive. Further' announcements wvill he made as to class sched ules and other (details for the summer term and summer school as soon as the University can formulate them. 3. There will be one summer term, (12 wveeks) andl one summer school. Students enrolling in the summer school and coming back for the fall term will hav'e a vacation period from A ugust 1 0-September, 9. 4. D)ormitory room reservations must be madle for the summer term, the summer school and1( the fall term by May 1. MUST THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN? In the .Januuary 2!) issue of THE GAMECOCK a member of our staff wrote an article on recr'eational facilities at the Liniversity. in that article there was a statement madle to the effect that not hing has been done about erecting a Stu, (lent Union Bu ildi ng on the campus. IWell, upon further investigation, we f indl that we were right ab1 out nothing being done, but we were wvrong about nothing b)ei ng tried. The University asked for a Student Union Building (among ot her'. things) in its Expansion Hill. The llouse ap pr'opriatedl the money, but the appropriat ion was killed in the Senate F"inance C'ommittee. Let us a(dd, though, that that ap p)ropriation wasn't the only one killed in our Expansion hill -every o ther' item was the excep)tion of a niew~ infirmary was also eliminated! Further, the President of the University spoke to alumni, state senators-everyvbody~ -- trying to obtain money (oh, how necessary that is!) to bn,ild a Student Union Rtuilding. All failed because the Senate decided we didn't needl it or any of the other items in the Expansion Bill!! That happens to he the way the General Assembly of South Carolina deigns to treat the University of South Crolmina!i .grMS.SMT9 FOR MAIONAL. ADVEni18N m SP * NationalAdvertisingService, Inc. iversity Collego Pnbishmer Reprsestative Ne dursing 420 MADIsom Ava. ,Naw YORK. N. Y. CN4CAO - osTon - LO ANe*LS . SAN FRANCIS" >ice at tion for C : t to Sparta vants, errand boys, and many essential people live in the tents until the nominee decides that he is too young to die and declines the Emperor's appointment. Then the "news paper men" fold their tents, leap onto their motorcycles and head to the home of the next person in line for the job. Young told us too that the linotype operators could not read a word of English. He said that they take the copy paper and merely go by the letters. Consequently, if you make an error in typing, the error probably goek into print. Someone asked Young if Christianity had retrogressed in Japan during the war. Replied Young, "No. As a matter of fact there has never been enough Christianity in Japan to. retrogress. If there was any to speak of. it was in 1930." . He said that the Japs do not know what to make of our missionaries in Japan. The Japanese People have had Shinto for two thousand years. Then suddenly the Americans come upon them with eleven or twelve different faiths, each tell ing the people that theirs is the best. If a -Jap does join a chut'ch, Young said, it is probably be cause they have the best commercial school in the city, or the best recreational facilities, or the best food. "The Jap is a Baptist during the day, and a Buddhist dur ing the night." The various churches of the United States should get to gether and form one school for missionaries so that the re ligion offered these one track people will be uniform, he said. W., .. !o .... ... .n thI rather deep side, and. you're prob ably too engrossed in mid-semester exams to worry about the Japs. But James Young isn't. le's going back to the Orient this summer as a foreign correspondent. The first place that he wants to visit is the primon in Tok yo where the wvar criminals are being held. You see, that's the place he was imprisoned for many months. O 0 My Opinion by Sai Lavisky You know. people. I don't like io sit on tientho wny you vverr voimlplain about .somehiig new in meant to. much less, in reverse. vvery eolumn. And I'm not a soui- And a lot of fan- get close to the plssed, fault-findiig old goat. eitih- fist or third base lines. Tis prel 'r'. There are a lot of good thing Iv well blocis off everybody's vicw, I could write about. But the trou- and is a trifie dangerous for those ble is, ihere are still a lot of had Who stand there, unless they're good things I haven't taken a poke -it at dodging. And I mean dodging yet. But don't worry. I'll get atound spikes as well as foul hals. B. to them all. side% these fanc are in th- ..y of This week's target is the hall ayfedrtyn ogtafybl park. And it's sietching my imiae- oto on inat ion to call Davis l"ield a hall IPbi nm ubroei h plark. 'The most obvious gr ipe on ciknwr aktp rowr t he subject is that there just isn't ge i bu he etadfo any place for the spectators to sit,.hs nt b tpo h 0fo Hack in the dtim dark past, these f iei o ightMte a utsed to be bleachers behind the ttesoye.Alo hc scn fence, hut this gave way to the ob- Itiet enngtepo sss stacle course, which .iust gave way. pr n peao ido agr Tlhei e ar'e a couple of he'nches u,dntouhik where the obsta,ele course was. bu1t bsisttoniba.heeins hey' aren't much good, because itfn mn otwocnttako yous sit there, there are always spec- oehn htcudh oet tators hanging on the fence inipoetefed.Te(anco frontr of yotu. or sitting on it, so hsrcie 'nmnsta ilt hat no matter which bench youlrneti sfs s~edtin,1hr sit on. yout just can't see.ara tetubt'wohemct Some folks climb way up on the rmet ht'h ae'c '111 Melton Field foot hall stands, and ntpit sit backwards. Btut they ar'en't too AdIba elo h lmo well off themselves. The standsmngrwotokalo i h are't er cofo tale he yo tiel osn hm tihie waou inre An alofo fnogt lod o h dty well blocks off everybody's view, whostad her,-nles teyre oo at,, dodging. AndI/mandodin spksa ela olhls e siness Manager .... Joe Lumpkin a change Editor . .. .... ....Ralph Ferguson 'tety Staff-Riven Kelley, Sidney Branden. burg, Doris Moorehead. )rtx Staff-George Howell, Joe Piedno .terry Krupp. Frank Scruby, Jim Fulgh Z' Red Tyler. w%,. Staff-Mike Karvelai. Belinda Cullum, Dorothy Perkins. Mary Shoun. Victor Bar. relt. Elizabeth McDaniel. Lacy Butler, Opal Isenhower. siness Staff--Ed Teague, Candy Taylor. Vic. tor Barrett. ilst. R.... arbara Binnicker rculation ........ Nevett Grove nburg You've probably been won dering about last week's col. umn. It was a portion of a feature I had published in the Spartanburg Herald-Journ al. There was more to it than would fit in these columns. There wasn't enough time to even begin an ETAOIN last week. I'd like for you to know something about Uncle Billy's grandfather, though. Hb's 127 years old, and is living in Bos ton. The Elder George Wash ington Arnte speaks 27 lan- \ guages, has traveled around the world twice, 3,000 miles in one walk, and for a mere 45 years made his living by gambling. In 1930 he did an about face and began preach ing. Our first president's namesake owes his long life to never drinking or smok ing. Uncle Billy says that he doesn't mind a social drink now and then, and that he, prefers a chew to a smoke, and that he doesn't want to surpss his grandfather. "Things is tough enuff now." he says. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dent E-ditoi : In March 2)'s "Gamncock" there Was on Ihe fiont page a fealtite ar tirle beginning with a Co-Ed meet ing announcement and roceeding to make the slat"ment, ". . . If few. er Of these organizations had fewer meetings and did more work of a c,onstructive nature. this campus might ho in better shape." Now this letter Is written not to the author of the article but to pe pIe who read same and come up placing Co-Ed in this category. I know that thle author didl not mean to imply this hut the wsay it w'as writ ten such atn implien ti was oh. v'ious and I feel It a duty to defend Co-Ed in case anyone has the slight est doubtit as to its (ha racter. Co-Ed is composed of every gui on the campus and1( meets twice a month (for those who care to come and v'olutec to wnrk on commit t enst. It adopts, as its purpose for meeting, a project fotr the semester - a project which wi'll in the end het lt our Catrlina in some way. As anl exanmple, we recently raised $1800 for the chapel fund, butt een so ils is only a (rop itn the bucket 1tand nohitng ('an he done until some Othier organizations get on the hail and traise as mutch--or more. This could go on atnd on. but just wsant to .say that we h,eatiily agree wsit h Oiverythinig that was said, only next tinme ('hoose anothet' organiza lion to kick arottnd. 1,17. NORTON, Presidlent, Co-Ed Associailon. mainner reminiscent of som'ebdy passin4 the fertilizer factories, and miadle c'ommlents like "Do you call this a hail field?" Carolina has what is probably the worst field of any college In the state. It also has a pretty good baseball teami thIs year, And there are plen ty of teams that will be ambling dlown this way for games. It might 110t he suc'h a had idea to clean up thle hall paurk's dirty face. Some hodly might "ven see that a few b'leac'hers get stuck here and there. spetatort whV'o pay aldmlission de Serve a better deal than having to stand at ound for nine intuings and manybe get tbean(.d by a fly. I'm directing this column tt wards campus servIce organizations who want to Improve CarolIna. I am r'ecommendiing the improvenment of Davis fIeld to the Block C club as a worthy project. I am presents ing the situation to you, the stu dents of the University of South Carolina, who can make any pro.o jeet work once you get your weight