Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Editor . Virginia Raysor Associate Editors-Eleanor McCall. Sidney Wise, George Celusta. New Editor................Vctor Barrett Feature Editor ..................Harriet Lee Society Editor...........Martha Steadman Sports Editor .................Donald Moore of The Ga Photography Editor ..........Betty Brown Cartoonists........Jinx Giles, B. 0. Jarrett. Mary Lewis. Columnists-Mary Helen Shawhan, Georgig40 Colusta, Saul Lavisky, Charles Wickenberg. Managing Editor ......Billy Routh THIRTY THE GAMECOCK has heard with the deepest sorrow of the death of E. I. McCants, journalism major at the University. Elliott had been a reporter on THE GAMECOCK ever since he had been back from war. Previous to his service in the Army, he attended the University and received a Gamecock key. He was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. In the Army he was a glider pilot. We wish to extend to Elliott's family our deepest sympathy. We on THE GAMECOCK knew him to be a perfect gentleman, a loyal friend, conscientious worker and always with a smile on his face. We liked Elliot because he was one of the finest persons we have ever met. It's knowing such boys as he that makes life worthwhile. PROUDLY WE HAIL The University of South Carolina joins the ranks of na tionwide leaders! Our debating team is the best all-round debating team in the nation. Last week it competed against schools from all over the country and defeated them! This fact should make all connected with the University proql of being here. It should make us conscious of the fact that USC has national winners in its midst, but we wonder how much other talent there is unharnessed on our campus The University spen.t about $300.00 on the debating team; we can't help comparing that figure with the hundreds of dollars spent on athletics and social functions on this cam pus year in and year out. This is the point we are trying to make: The University has as much talent as any institution in the country. Why should we, therefore, spend all our efforts in simply having a good time? THE GAMECOCK extends heartiest congratulations to Robert Hirsch and Robert Bates who debated so splendidly last week and earned the honors for USC. Also, TiiE GAME COCK congratulates Johnny Cochran, the manager, "Prof." Christopherson, the coach, Dr. Babcock, who first had the idea for a debating team and helped organize it, and to all others instrumental in making debating a successful art at the University! THE GAMECOCK looks on these accomplishments,as "only the beginning" WE'RE FOR IT! THE GAMECOCK heartily endorses the dIrive which was he gun on the campus Friday morning to collect funds for the completion of the Campus Radio Station WUSC. No greater or more serviceable facility could be institutedl at the Uni versity than the Campus Radio Station. We' are looking for ward to the operations of WUSC andl anlticip)ate working with them to serve the Carolina campus. We urge you the studlent body put WUSC into operation soon hy your con tributions. Etaoin Sh: LINT FROM MY FUZZY MEMORY PAWLE"YS Last weekend at Pawleys. The time was somewhere around three a. m. Sunday and we wvere navigating along the straind looking for some pretty she sells, sea shells that is. T[he moon was up and aside from being cold the whole effect was on the esthetic side. A couple strolled dlown the beach, arm in arm. Tfhey were nothing more than shadows ... as a matter of fact they were less than that. Believe it or not, when they passedl, the female shadow breathed in my direction . . . "HeIy. howyou." Only to me could it happen. JEFFERSON And I don't mean Tom. I recall a sorority sister hanging around the telephone at the bar there during the last Ger man. Always glad to see the studlent body retuirning to the old days. I chatted with her for a few moments. She appeared rather rattled at being seen down there, and hastened to explain, between dabs at a sweaty forehead and pulls at a bottle (Coke plus), that she was waiting for a telephone call. With alibis like that no wonder that "organization" is having so much trouble with national. Try the Jefferson instead of the sorority rooms next time nio one answers, fellows. COMBS The Gameco< tion Founded January 30, 1908 . ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Eo ne'cock: Issued Weekl by the student body of the V1 ot South Qarolina durTy the aolg year exce tl examinations and vacation eriod.. 0. Entered as secondci.. matter at the Po,to Columbia. S. C.. November 20. 1908. Student activities fee includes $1.00 subscript students. P raA MID-SEMESTERS Our ideas of a good editorial do not call for a grip(, but Ihis week we have lieatrd a coniion one from nuimerous st-u dents on the camlpis so that we feel it our duty to put it in black and white here. Last week we completed mid-seniesters. The grades were ti ried." i at the Registrar's office by Saturday. Everyone knows those facts, but that is about all that students know. With the exceptions of a few professors who posted their mid semester grades, most of us still do not know what our grades were for mid-semester. Most professors seems to feel that their duty ends when they have graded the quizzes and sent the grades to the Registrars office. If asked for a mid-semester grade, the professor usually says that it isn't available and. refers hii to the Registrar's office. The student then goes over to the office of the Registrar and takes his place in the long line before the Registrar's informa tion window. only to he told after his lengthy stand in line lint, the grades are not in order at the Registrar's office and catin uot. he given Out. "If you failed a course." the attendant ati, the window says. "tle notice of your failures will he sent home." The student then walks away disgulsted and still with no idea what his mid-senester grades arek It seems that tile present system or lack of system for givilg out mid-term grades could he elnged more to the advanitalge of the student body and faculty. Sometling should he done. We may11 le on I hle wroig t rack I*m r. itoeem dt us tdaonle. Srpose of having mitImi examinations and imid-tertm grades is to gi1v studets and facilIty some idea of tle ty pe anld grade of wrk stll delts a-e diiig, If the studeni is not allowed I:) kntu- whait kinld of graides lie has made or knilow I s professo-s estimale of Iis work this IIrpose is thefeated enirelv. .c h., .MN do1 '"le oil iwo Illilirs. W loi. .~ItM r:l -suItiltl ge(tt soinie typ~e of Icpjti. i lIiit of woIrki lie has benll dont i ll each class slorly at e- nIItid -st'lm ester o r w. e Iouild do away1\ wit Ith mid-s inester examinations aid id-semes fer reports entiril. U<r tile present svstem. the lce(l to dt a lot tf extra aid useless w'ork Imlakig iI iii itt4 Irades and repoIts for %i,1lents who never see or (0, iV si tthc1. We kinow that the lINgista'st office is overwol-hl at pirem!ll and any eb.aiige ill system volbl inlv inleeame Ilheir birde I.NpI-ialh . lie ma kinig up a14l liailing of rieports to everv st dieni o1 tie cnliipis. Ilowevc We 11) y prtft.Ssols V01Mtt not It, given sinall cards similar to the failuire cards on whi-h professors nlow turu in recorls of mI6satisla(-1ort-v I. inl enplete work to ih lleg office. Eath professorl- coild ea"silt,- pzt'lt-t ..Ich i'I ~~~~i.-m g-atde til tone tof thiese cardts and drop it ill Ilie Vanilius Illit. In his way inidelts would havt, a coinplec recorI t' their mid-terim gaties ad tlie legis I - - ti i- "won tIli e save -tc -tii tless lionur of work. lTihis wtoul d eli ii iiate the p rcsenti systemii used by a few- J p-ofessors of ptost - We* bl-ievte iin having just ice tor alt. andI we tdt not helieve ia te pre-set'i systemii ot seniniug reports tof failure oi- iimnm lelt aniels homeii, is fair i,to the studenits who make t hose aiels. I ld- this .system only repotrts tf tail ing or incmi-tipleteC giradecs arc stent to thIe parents of s utlenits at mid-tlsCmesteru. This pr-ese-nts an iunfair- pittin- of the siuutlent's workl to his paretls htet-anise it. dloes i nt give him icriti for dtin g aniy gotod Iwork. S11) WIRE r dlu When we left the Towers Saturday night we took a run dlowni to the beach to look at the purty water. G. Combs, a USC pre-war product of Sigma Nu, leaped from the carn, dlate, and crowd1 and( went screaming down in the sand. HeI came up with two handsfull and let the grains (dribible thr-ough his fingers. "G(ood 01ld Pawleys," he saidl. lie then dtashedt out to the ocean, got (town on his knees andI kissed a portion of all that chaser. "Good 0old ocean," he said. lHe rushed to the Tucker's cottage, scene of many a Sigma. Nu house party, threw both ar-ms around one of the posts supp)lorting the ftront poirch and kissed it. "Good 0old cottage," he said., Geor-ge was in the third Marine D)ivision, Iwo, etc. lie thinks that George Pawley was the greatest man that ever hived. Solemnly, ('ombs tol us afterwards, "I swear I got a bigger kick out (if seeing Pawleys again than I did coming through the Golden Gate Bridge." Who would have thought it! ONE RElASON F'OR GIVING UP TENNIS Several years ago I visited an old flame at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. One morning we were scheduled to play tennis. I arrived at the course while she was still in class. For a while. I watched a mixed doubles game going great guns. I didn't know too much about the game, but knew their game was good. One of the guys playing stopped for some reason, and his partner, a tall, bronzed girl ambled over and asked if i'd care to join them. The Ga l**' . . Holds lversity duringAmerica "" at Rating F ion for 6 elk WHI My Op ThIs week, a serious situation has I L-onie front and center. And thni situatlion is the impossible condi- ( lion of the University Chapel. ne way the Chapel looks today is :n tisgrace to the University of South Carolina. I an sure that many of 6ou are ashamed to take visitots here. The bullding has ronehept In great a numbers. Besides the unpleasant less of seeing 1hem scurrying ahola' I :1uring a Sunday Vespers program. I !md the unsanitaty conditions that 1hey breed, they are actually doin: a great teal of damage by eating the felt inside the plano. The builidIng has poor janitor. service, and is almost always dirty. i I have never seen it when it wa; entirely clean. Very few people a have, have you? Every seat in the building needs sone repairing. They are not sod. and squeak with the slightest shift. ing of weight. They cause embar assmnent both to the students and to the speakers. The Chapel aneeds to b)e rid1 of roaches. The Chapel needs new seats and a new speaker's platformi The Chapel needs to c'leanl its dir ty face. Mrs. Rlont McKlsslek has offer, ' 1 to install a staIned glass window in the back of the Chapel. There is money available for the other face-'. cleaning operations. Despite the< fact, that. the South Carolina Gen eral Assembly did not pass the I began making excuses rij thirty years, etc.--but she insis coutrt. She introduced herself as" name--just in case I flopped t Well the game got ttnder w& was ready to take up chess, I As a matter of fact I only every fourth game . .. and only My little p)laymate had arrinl and sat down to watch. After what seemed like a m miliation we all liedi to each oti Staggering over to Martha, us dlally a few thousand years gin." My humiliation had .jiust bey "If you think I'm going to pl crazy as your ID cardI picture I didn't know I'd looked that cowered at her feet. "Listen, Bubba," she contin with Pauline Betz--ain't in my I saw ..,. after many moment was Pautline Betz. Pauline Betz, Champion for that year and se And that's one goodl reason f BULL Sarah (Burnheart) Bull tric major part in the Town Theal member Momma." Quote Mi,. Bu Exc mecock rke All Nce n Honor :or 1945! 0 Tyr Ci I9t7liwi$ 's WHO inion by Saul Lavisky luilding Program, or provide any noney for the improvement of the :hapel. there is money available. 'he money is in tihe Chapel Fund. But there's the rub. The Chapel 'und cannot he spent without the pproval of the Chapel Committeo. hnd the Chapel Committee has not een willing to spend any of .he noney for the improvement of tine resent building. beelluse they"ve aad thtit eyes cocked to expand ng it into a more modern Chapel. The (hap1nel Committee will be wneling before very long. h'll y ave been call;-d together by the Iespers Commiltee for a showdown. t this meeting, it will be decidod f the monevy so finl- gathered to im ,rove the Cha1pel will waste aw-y nother year in the treasurer's safe. hapel Committee members are: Dean .J. A. Chase. Prof. iohert Sunmwalt. Mr. R. G. Bell. Betty Knowles. I'ileanor MtcCall. 'T'nmmy Howell. It Is any oininon that the money on have gat hered she*nld he put to ns" fonr so)mething of permflanne:i alune. Butn it is also my belief thant he monney ihouldt he punt to use mn ime thati the Iimpr)ove~menlt he of aine to you who have c'ont ribunted. Gent after yonur Chnapel Comminttnee. 'oey anre the people whon will ste. 'ie if Crolinan's Chapel ean he a nnilding: fon the Gamneco(ks to cr ow hout. By Ch,a ~ht away-hadn't playedI iln Led, so I wandl(ered out on the Bobbie." I gave a ficticious y, and( t hree limite(s later' I lidnf't evenl see the balls. got my racquet on the balls5 then because it was my serve. d,. pulled tip a bladIe of grass illionl yearls of thorough hu ietr an d satid we'd (en1joyedl it. I collapsed anid sid, "Leave before we commflence to be.. ay wvith you,i you mutst be as niakes you look," she roared. had1 in the dloubles match. I tted, "'anyone who cani play1 league, see?" s of thick thinking. "Robbie" was National Women's Single 'eral others. or my giving up~ tennis. di out the other night for a re's next production, "I Re B. afte try-ts. iiness Manager .... Joe Lumpkin hange Editor . .......Italph Ferguson lety Staff-RIves Kelley, Sidney Branden. burg. Doris Moorehead. rits Staff-George Howell, Joe Piedmont, Jerry Krupp. Frank Scruby, Jim Fulghum, Reil Tyler and Sara (line. vs Staff-Mike Karvelas, Belinda Cullum, Dorothy Perkins, Mary Shoun. Victor Bar. frett. Elizabeth McDaniel. Lary Butler, Opal Isenhower. Mary Saye Gaston. iness Staff-Ed Teague, Candy Taylor. Vic. tor Barrett. ist..................Barbara Binnc'lker rculation .........Nvitt Grove The Veteran View Point By H. V. SULLIVAN The veterans meeting Tuesday resulted in passage of a resolution requesting S. C. Senators to aid in extending OPA in its present form, and to kill the emasculated OPA which the House proposed. This calls for the reasons which lie he hind the veterans support of OPA. Most veterans, remembering the low%, prices of 1940-1941 were amaz ed when they found prices had leaped at least 35 per cent In this new civilian world. OPA had kept prices on many of these items from soaring several hundred her cent, but many advocates of the good old days, ho\vled for the death of OPA in general and Chester Howles In 4 particular. They have forgotten that the old days weren's so good and that we had serious economic ailments long before OPA. The joh OPA is attempting is simple in theory. Chester Bowles has estimated that ahout two hil. lion dollars in "hol" savings are lying idle in the nat ion while everyone longs to spend it for new products which aren't available. Of course, the producers think OPA Is un-American. If it weren't for OPA they could he very American and grah every surplus dime in the count ry. glut the market, and pay ten per cent dividends on their preferred stock. while you and I stand in bread lines, or march on Washington for a bonus. Mloney gets pretty scarce when the big industrialists have their way. OPA has its faults. All govern-A mental agencies (ho, but you can't Ie too critical of the conduct of OPA in view of the staggering job they are attempting. liolding an 410onomilic lid on this country now is equivalent to sitting on an overleated atom1 h omib. OPA has slowed reconversion to some excnit. Its main fault lies in the fact that it has broughl out the worst of our greedy gluttons who won't operate, produrce, or ship. untili they get the prices tiey want, although they are allowed to op"rateI at a profit. They are an ugly and powerful elenimen t arid they exhibited their power in Con gress last week. If the llouse bill hecomes law, kiss y our mioniev goodibyc and rent an igloo in Lower Slohhovia to sweat out thle depression which is sure to follows a 'hoom and bust'' priogram. If the Senate extends thle prese'nt O PA. st irk arroun rd. WVe may have a good chanrce of comi ig through rather handly theat, but riot bro0ke. If you agree. write or' wire your Represer nttive. If you don't agree, see an econromiist. OPA hans helped all of us and wec should help OPA. 4/es Wfickeniberg "When I was a little girl r never got the pr'etty little gir'l Patrts in1 Our school plays. I was alwvays a stump or somnethinug." Miss~ H. On the' Carolina Re 'iew: "Tlhat's Onet of the b)est little publlicat ions on this cam Puts." (What's the other one?) Miss H. on People: "I love to tell (dull little People on the buses about1 my life as a tot in 'Japan-and( it's more luln to putt on a (leep Southern ac- a cent int New York C'ity." When asked to say some thing brilliant, "Wait, I'll have to think a little while.'" Miss H. 01n life iln general : "Oh, it's sc) full of a number of things !" All of which brings to mind a p)ieCe of' Poetry: 'Thirlty (lays has September I"or reckless drlivinlg an id no wonde(Ir. All the rest have ir'on gates Except my grandmother and she married a chiffonier. A chiffonier? Why that's a tall1 thinq with dr'aecrsI WELL???t*