The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 13, 1946, Page Page Two, Image 3
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
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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
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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