The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 03, 1954, Page Page Two, Image 2
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.
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. ... ... ..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