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Chain Lei It DoesI The latest fad around the to be the age-old chain letter promises the participant quic small investment. The most I promise a return of more thi an investment of ten dollars. A few people may make rr letters, but the majority can j ten dollars up as an expensivo It is amazing that college sti taken in by such a fantastic proposition. Common sense, il should make them see that too good to be true. One bug-eyed coed excla scratched in her purse for ten know a boy whose brother liv( a man who made $1,800 in o stories are rampant, but nobo Letters to the Edil Coed Calls Dear Editors, Since I am aware that the administration would not, for obvious reasons, reciprocate the countless criticisms conveyed through this paper, permit me as a student to construct at least a partial view of the other side. This year the Gamecock seems to have become a "sounding board" for various student "gripcs." A favorite complaint is of the cheerleaders. If our cheerleaders were given recoi pensation for the faithful serv ices perhaps criticism might be in order. But as voluntary serv ice, their efforts should be com mended. In the last two issues of this paper there have been columns dedicated to damning the ad ministrative action taken in regards to campus telephones. The problems of telephone serv ices is one which is produced by student action and attitude. If everyone made calls with con sideration to time and others, the supply of telephones would be s.ufficient. Recently some out side lines were removed from the men's dormitories. This resulted in loud cries of disapproval. Why was this action taken? Because students had literally torn phones from the walls. Cer tainly, we can't expect violations of this sort to go unpunished. However, pay station booths were installed which should al leviate the situation. As to the post office closing earlier, I do not know why this measure was taken. If there seems to be injustice why doesn't the Gamecock get the facts from the administration ? Surely the adlministration should be giveni opportunity to explain why, be fore condlemned. There was another attack con tributed by a studlent which con eb rnedl grades and attendance. It was contrived to portray the machine records office as unfair and uninforming. What a hope less condition when students are more attentive to grade point ratio andI "cuts" than knowledge! There seems to be an over abundance of emphasis on "get ting a grade" regardless of what is learned. Furthermore, studlents only pay $50 per semester for room rent and very low fees for tui CROWING F UNIVERSITY OF Member of Assoi Foundd lan7r 80, 1908, wil univerity' of South Carolnae e bycolas early t fhesen aecoet enadorsesment. The right to edit EDITOR .. .. .. .. .. .. .. MANAGING EDITOR.... BUSINESS MANAGER .. ASSISTANT MANAGING NEWS EDITOR ......... CAMPUS EDITOR .. .. SPORTS EDITORS....... SOCIETY EDITOR ..... FEATURE EDITOR... CIRCULATION MANAGE ASSISTANT BUSINESS BUSIN Kat Anthony, Carc STAFF Bertha Gardner, Donna H Babb, Dianne W~oodside, Sc Derham, Louise Matthews, Herbert Bryant, Wray Day hart, Carol Shockey, Pat Loi COL1 Al Tisn. T. E. Brown. 2er Schen a't Work J campus seems to be able to : scheme which a profit. Thei k riches for a "I heard . . ." Most studei >opular letters the fact that 1 in $10,000 for tion of both Although the oney on these letters, the r ust chalk their through the r experience. The Postmi idents could be may believe get-rich-quick does not invol nothing else, because the 1 ;uch a deal is through the through the i imed as she therefore vio dollars that "I After a wh s next door to before,. will di4 ne day." Such group of stud dy ever seems -BL or Paper 'Soun tion. Just what do we expect hotel service ? Just one more question, gentle men, why are we all here any way? To obtain an education or conveniences ? No, I am not always in sup port of administrative actions but in the past they have been liberal and justifiable. Any in justices are vastly outweighted by an understanding and respon sible attitude. Please give us more informa tive editorials and letters like some you already print on na tional and international issues, or if we must have such "radical ism" expend your energies on constructive criticisms of educa tion offered at this institution. Sincerely concerned, Ina Claire Guerry P. S.: Whether my name ap pears with this letter is imma terial. I leave that to your discretion. You have demon stratad good judgment in the past in this matter. This letter is not aimed at the paper as a whole, but primarily at the let ters and some editorials that are printed. -1. C. G. * * * Perfect School Dear Editor, I am writing this to tell you that there is a state university where there is a telephone in every dormitory room. Not only that, but upon arrival the stu den1t fiids a telephonc directory for the approaching semester containing his andl other stu dents' names, adidresses, an< telephone numbers, as well am the names and numbers of th4 professors anid other college per sonnel. This telephone dlirectory is even hanging on a hook besid< the telephone. These phones ari mountedi on the wall. It is no possible to lie in bed andl tall at the same time. This is ai outrageous situation wvhich ha caused untold disturbance in th halls of Utopia University. Bul then, we can't have everything Merle Medhurst P'ostnaster's Reply D)ear Editor-Gamecock Frank Yerby and to whom it may concer It was at my own suggestio that the adiministration decide to close the post office lobby t OR A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA sated CoUegiate Press :h Robeut Elliott Consales as the fIsst lied by and for the students of th. nekly, on Friaya, during the esoleg. ring ezamainatlons. aits and letter writern are not neess .--lphninie does not oonsttnte a. 13 reseered. . ... ... ..BILL LEGGITIT .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .JACK BASB . ... ... .. ..D. J. SALLEY EDITOR .......Betsy Ehrhardt . .. .. .. .Patsy Penney . Carolyn McClung ....Bobby Alford, Mike Lovejoy .. .. .. .. .. .. .....Joanne Carne. . . .. .. .. .. .. .Dew James R ....................A l T ison dANAGER . ...... Billy Bruce ESS STAFF 1 Shockey, Jack Bourne. REPORTERS ale, Margaret Bauknight, Carols nia Riffle, Myrna Ritchey, Clare Barbara Driver, Kieran Trihey, L, Sue Furbeck, Mary Alice Car igmire, Kat Anthony. JMNISTS Ben MaElveen. Bob Cameron. Re Illegal; lnyw;y aame a person wl4o made such ie tales always start off with or "Somebody told me . . ." its don't seem to be aware of ;he chain letter game is a viola postal lottery and fraud laws. mail is not used to pass the noney involved is often sent nail. ister General said, "The public that this latest chain scheme ve any violation of postal laws etters or 'charts' are not sent mail. The money does go nail, however, and the scheme ates postal laws." ile the chain letter scheme, as a down. But it will leave a large ents sadder, wiser, and poorer. ding Board' the public at eight or nine o'clock when the canteen closed. This was done to protect the mail that was distributed to the P. 0. boxes. Post office employees have worked at night and have seen and heard persons open some other mail boxes which were not their own and we were not able to catch anyone in the act of pilfering mail boxes. Numerous complaints have been made about missing mail, which contained money and other per sonal mail. We, the post office, know that we do have some smart alee boys on the campus that do open other peoples' mail boxes possibly looking for money that is sent through the mail. We haven't caught anyone red handed yet, but if we ever do, we will use the case as an exam ple of what will be done to any one tampering or pilfering mail boxes. This is not merely a university infraction of the rules and] regulations, but is also a federal violation and punishable by law. Mail is distributed to your 1'. 0. box three times a day; by 10:00 a.m., 11:15 and 3:15, with the biggest majority being dis tributed by 10:00 a.m. You say some students have such a tight schedule that they do not have the opportunity to check their mail box until the following day. I believe you might find only twvo or three such students on this campus that do not have the opportunity to come by the post office between 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., wvhich is a total of ten hours' time. Closing the post office lobby 'was a safety measure for the studlents and if you readl the edi torial at the top of the page in the November 19th issue of the Gamecock, you can readily see that we do have a problem to be cleared. I suggest that if you do not like our mail service and pro teetion that is given--why don't you get it at 'general delivery, Columbia Post Office. Joe Lawrence S University Postmaster Dear Editor, Concerning Mr. Frank Yerby's letter of last week andl the critic. ism of many other students about locking up the post office, I would like to say that if many of the people who criticize could witness the pranks, and some times thefts of mail in other studlents' boxes, their opinions would change. For instance, last night while working late I over heard a conversation betweer1 two students. One showed the other his amazing ability to piei open the locks of other students boxes. His friend suggested thea open all and he would take th4 newspaper, giving his buddies al the letters. I think anyone in telligent enough to be a univer sity studlent should have consid eration for his other students at least enough not to steal hil mail, which may possibly be hi: money from home. Improve th< ethics of the student body an< perhaps many of the restriction now imposed could be eliminated H. C. Padget Student Employee "C'mon, let's go t Mambo Sv* Prado Is R Not since the '20s when the Charleston craze swept the coun try has anything made as much noise dance-wise as the Mambo. And--the man responsible for the whole thing is the mambo's originator and chief exponent: Damaso Perez Prado. Prado was born in Cuba 30 plus years ago. He became a professional musician at 16 and at 18 he formed his own orchestra. In 1942 Prado decided he'd hd4 enough of just playing piano for the Casina de la Playa and other orchestras and turned to writing -and creating as uninhibited a new musical form as ever hit a bongo. According to Perez, "The inter pretation of the mambo is based on the saxaphones. They carry the rhythm pattern. The rhythm section accentuates that pattern and the brass has a number of variable functiens it can per form." As far as the dance is con cerned, Prado feels that Ameri cans would have more fun with it if they were less self-conscious and more inventive about dancing it. "That way each dancer is a creative interpreter," says the Emperor. Prado and his band recently closed a highly successful and unprecedented engagement at New York's Waldorf-Astoria an has been signed by RCA Victoi to an exclusive long-term con. tract. His future plans include several tours through this coun try as well as through Centra and South America. Actually, the most importan thing about Prado's mambo a opposed to other bands' is it sound. It's unorthodox, it's unique-and its formula ha proven a highly commercial com modity on records. POPULAR NEWS: Patti Pag will tour Australia, Korea an Japan in March. Her fee for 10-day engagement in Australi will be $30,000 . . . Eddie Fishe has been signed for two week at the London Palladium begir ning March 28 . . . The roa company production of "Pajanm Game", opens Jan. 29 in Ne Collegiat Blest lBe the Tie That Binds . (Or, "Old Grads Never Di< They Just Fire Away") SAN FRANCISCO-(ACP) City cops took a dlim view of e impromptu bonfire victory ral here after the UCLA-Californ football game across the Bay Berkeley. Seems that the L.a school's supporters tossed lb Parking signs, newspaper racl andl park benches into a bonfi' at Union Square, in the heart< downtown San Francisco. One the 10 rooters carted off to tl pokey was a UCLA studer Others ranged ia age from 25 59 and In occupation from bu iness executive to waiter. * * * C'ome in, Eastern Seaboard Colleges! . NEW YORK-(ACP)--Thum (lay and Fridays at 3:30 p.m. t intercollegiate Network is on t air. Eastern colleges tune in the same short wave frequen and messages are sent in co and voice from students of o college to students of anoth according to the Radio Club City College of New York, CCNY weekly Observ'ation P< reports. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, M: Brooklyn, NYU and "most of I other colleges on the eastern s4 board" participate, says i CONY Radio Club. When atmospheric conditi< are suitable, the network< reach England, Sweden, Frari o. 0 o Sunday Schoolit" veeps U. S.; Lesponsible Haven with Fran Warren, Ste phen Douglass and Buster West heading the -cast . . . Marilyn Monroe will do a Victor album of the songs she sings in "There's No Business Like Show Business" . . . Nat Cole recently cut four ncw sides for Capitol. They are the first in a series of new EPs and have not been previously is sued . . . Version Records, a new label, has signed Sylvia Syms and Robert Clary. -The company plans to issue only LPs and will stick to intimate, esoteric ma terial . . . "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" is now in its sixth year of seasonal popular ity. Leading the field is Gene Autry's Columbia record version which has sold more than 5,000, 000. JAZZ NEWS: Oran (Hot Lips) Page, one of the great men in jazz history, died Nov. 5 of a heart attack in Harlem Hospi tal . . . RCA Victor will release an LP of the "Concerto for Jazz band and Symphony Orchestra" with the Sauter-Finegan orches tra and t,he Chicago Symphony in February. The Rolf Lieber mann work was premiered in Chicago Nov. 18 . . . Sidney -Bechet will be featured in several French films. Some of his own compositions will also he used . . . An album titled "Jazz for People Who Hate Jazz" is being readied at Victor. The album starts with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw and moves right up to Sauter Finegan . . . Boston- University's Jazz Society got under way with a successful organizational meet ing on campus. CLASSICAL . NEWS: The New York City Ballet extended 5 its engagement of "The Nut - cracker" as a result of a $90,000 advance sale as of opening night l eontyne Price will sing the i title role in "Tosca" on the NBC i .Opera Theatre, Jan. 23 . . . The z Lyric Theatre of Chicago, the r town's first attempt a1t residen1 s opera since the old Chicag< - Opera Company folded, began it I fall season with Bellini' a "Norma," a great opening nighi w success. e Cippings . Germany, South America, Soutl ;Africa and Australia. Althougl it's legal to speak to amateu radio operators in the Sovie Union, Radio Club members hay n not attempted contact, and sine y the Korean war operators o: ~a both sides have remained incom it municado, the club reports. m U of Cincinnati to Honor -e Rtobert Frost... >f CINCINNATI ---ACP)-- Th 11 University of Cincinnati's high se est honor, the doctor of law t- degree, will be conferred Nov. 1 bo upon Robert Frost, distinguishe s- American poet, as he arrives t fulfill a campus lecture engage men t. The degree, to be awardedi Frost's eightieth year, will la "in recognition of his Ion period of leadership in the fiel of American literature." to * * * ey By George, He Did It Again!.. de COLUMBUS, OHIO--(ACP) ne Pete George, Ohio State Unive er, sity dlental student, came hon of for the second straight year fro he Vienna with the world's middl >st weight weightlifting crown, ti Ohio State Lantern reports. T, He copped honors with a 25 he lb. press, a 281-lb. snatch and ~a- clean and jerk of 852-lbs. for he total of 892 lbs. He edg< Bogdanovski of Russia who hi ins a sum of 885 lbs. Twenty-elg an countries entered the work~ ce, chnmjionnhin match DEW JAMES Thanksgivi But TurkE LET'S TALK TURKEY-the kind you eat, or rather, ate. We never knew turkey came in so many varieties--the sane roasted variety, and then all the insane left-overs . . . turkey sandwiches, turkey hash, turkey with macaroni, turkey stew, and let us not forget the soup. One of the things that never ceases to' amaze us is how well the university manages to syn chronize holidays and. report sheets. It happens every Thanks giving, betwecn semesters, Eas ter, and finally summer vacation comes in to be spoiled by reports. A week ago, today, It happened again. * * * Last Tuesday, Sir Winston Churchill had a birthday, his 80th. Sir Winston has been called the man who always says the right thing at the right time, and wo may add that saying the right thing at the right time, consistently, is a rare virtue. We doubt If any living man has said more things than the British gentleman which will be said again and again in the form of quotes. Onc of our favorites is his remark on dictatorships in "Blood, Sweat, and Tears." Churchill wrote: "Dictatorship -a fetish worship of one man is a passing phase. A state of society where men may not speak their minds, where children de nounce their parents to the police . . . such a state of society cannot long endure." * * * From the University of North BEN McELVEEN Professor' Outsma A learned professor at a learned university invented a very learned machine. For days and minutes, years and hours, and even decades and week ends, the learned professor had labored on his machine. It was to be the very first (and probably last) of its kind. It was to think. Other professors predicted that the machine would not be suc cessful. They said, "No machine is capable of actually thinking, unless, perhaps, with due regard to advanecment in the mechan ical field; or, at least, until further proof is available to point to some unknown fact which might, after further study, reveal that a machine is capable of actually derriving thought." And they jjested at the learncdl p)rofessor's idea. But the learned professor kept wvorking. The v ery learned machine was a profesor's delight, since the learned professor had installed within the machine (not without attempts to pour via an appro p)riate hole) tap)e recordings of all the knowledge of the universe. All the languages, all the philos ophies, all the seicnces, all the religions, and even all the mus ical compositions had been filed away within the very learned L machine for further reference. 3 In fact, the learned professor had 3 installed so much dlata withir the machine, that Oxford Uini versity requested that the ma chine be properly awarded sev eral doctor's (degrees. The very learned machine was certainly the first (and last, of course) justification for the word, "om niscie.nt," and the machine soor came to be called "the very learned machine" by the othei 5 professors. S- Amazing, too, wats the fact that the learned professor had -constructed the machine so thai it would be able to use (USE) n all the knowledge of the uini, e verse for some practical purpose At last the learned professol d decided that the very learnai machine was conmplete, and tha no more knowledge could possibl b)e recordedl within the ver: ' learnal machine, since the othe - professors feared no universit: -- would be able to award the ver' e learned machine any more doc Ti tor's (degrees. 3- The learned professor gaze< ie upon his very learned machin with Fl generation pride. )- Excitedlly, the learned p)rofes a sor tested the very learned ma a chine'. And the other professor id curiously watched. 1(d The learned professor typed it question--What is the sum c 's two andl two ?--upon a sheet c paper and insertedit in :a cy ig Is Gone y s Not Carolina's Daily Tar Heel we learn that on January 4, WUNC TV will sign on with studios in Chapel Hill, at Woman's College in Greensboro, and at N. C. State in Raleigh. Listed on the *'. tion's staff is one of U. N. C.'s famous alums, Kay Kyser. The way we hear it the "Old Pro;essor" recruit*d the mem bers of his originat band from the ranks of student body back when he, too, was a Carolina student (the northern one). * * * GET-RICH QUICK-We hear that an outfit bearing the title, "Pyramid Club" among others, is . attempting to establish a chapter at Carolina. A small contribution to the club will put you in bhe running for an over night fortune. The racket has all the charac teristics of a lottery, and has made its appearance on other campuses. The L. S. U. Qly Reveille reports that the outfit has been so bold as to send lottery tickets through the campus mails-a violation of fed eral statutes. For what it's worth, we don't recommend that Carolinians contribute to the wealth of schemers. * * * Being the self-appointed chair man of the "Save the Arboretum Club," we wish to say a few words on behalf of Mother Na ture. Almost 20 years has gone into developing the arboretum and that's a lot of time to pre pare a plot of earth for contrae tors to build an art building. s Machine irts Him inder within the machine. (He got the original idea for this while lecturing to his stude&.) In a brief moment the very learned machine had ejected the answer into a basket at the side of the machine. It worked, for the answer ejected was "quatre." (The fault was not the very learned machine's, since the learned professor had pushed the wrong button, labeled "Solve in French.") The machine was a success! Even the skeptical professors ad mitted it! The other professors bowed their heads, clasped their hands behind them, and paced the floor, wondering if the very learned machine wvas the end of their learned careers. Then the learned professor typed this question on a sheet of paper: What is the answer to the rididle' of life? But he waited until the other professors had return<d to their stup' ~, "human" machines to lecture, first. Then he inserted the piece of paper in the cylinder, a-nd touched the button labeled "Solve in English." The learned professor (lid not make t.he "French" error again. The learned professor, nerv ously smoking a Pall Mall, waited1 and smoked beside.4e machine. He kept his eyes con tinuously on the slot where the sheet of paper wvith the answer on it would be ejected. For two hours the very learned machine roared with thought. (All to the learned p)rofessor's delight!) At last the very learned ma chine slowed ita functioning pace. It stopped buzzing and humming. The tapes were recoilled. And then the very learned machine ejectedi the answer, slowly dying like a swvitched-off kettle of per culoting water. Quickly the "learned profesor lifted the pice of paper from the cylinder, and the long un answeredi question--What is the I answer to the riddle of life? was visible. It was not the Bible! It was not the Koran! It was not the split-Tl forma p tion! It was not a mathematical - formula! It was not a musical composi I tion! r it was not an original scientific discovery! - It was not an A.B. from USC! - In fact, it was nothing the s learned professor had dreamed of! You see, the very learned a machine was much more learned f than the learned professor. f "I am!" was the very learned