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The Political Pot -By Romulus Reese With the cessation of the major elections, the political fever has not ebbed in the least. The fact is that things are heating up slightly. Bill Thompson's theory of politics is com ing into vogue more and more every day. The writer advocates that inter sectional games be called off in the future. The boys brought back some ideas from Chicago that have no place on the Carolina campus. Fortunately the campus politicians do not have enough capital to purchase machine guns and are necessarily resorting to their fists. The precedent set by Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold has long been a favorite on the campus; but the teach ings of these two great political scien tists received a severe setback in the battle of Harry's a few days ago. As the writer mentioned some time back; South Carolina has definitely arrived. This column does not put it's stamp of approval on this deviation from Machiavellian principles. The writer believes we should follow Machiavelli to the letter. He also agrees with Hambone when he said: "Yuh kin argue a sensible man out of a fight and it ain't no honor to fight a fool." Machiavelli forever! The spring elections are over. A checkup of the thirty major officers of the campus shows that the Tam many tigers took twenty-two. The other eight were taken, for most part, by independents. There is also to the credit of the Wigwam forces the draw ing up and passing of two constitu tions and the defense of another. All the other parties appear to have disintegrated since the elections; but the forces of the Wigwam have taken more definite form than before. Evi dently, the campus will be under Wig wam rule for another year. A party that stands for the principles that Tammany does is bound to last for a long time. There is no doubt about it that the dawn of the day is already here when highly organized political parties will fight it out in every election, when stump speeches and campaign cards will be part of the routine, and when hot battles will be carried on through the press. Such as this will be and is already becoming so, necessary to keep demagogues and unscrupulous politicians from grabbing control as they have done so many times in the past. Wigwam leaders claim that they have no central organization. They are merely several campus leaders that think alike and uphold certain princi pies which they believe are for the betterment of Carolina. The name of Tammany has just been tagged on them. TIhis is the nearest thing that we have for a political party. There have been others that were more highly organized; but all have been defeated, sooner or later, by the Braves. The ideal situation is to have no politics, but everyone with the least iota of political insight realizes that such a thing is impossible. Tlhere can be no doubt; the beginnings of snachine politics have already been seen and more are just around the corner. . Open Politics! The freshman elections brought 'memories of other days to the writer. In the good old days, it was neces sary for the presiding officer to pre side in raincoat. The writer can re membler how, when he was a fresh man, he was forced to bat down and dodge b)ooks that were being hurled from any andl all sides while he was attempting to .nominate a man. Thue orderly manner in which the present election was carried off was a disgrace to the upper classmen of this time honored institution. The election for president had all the earmarks of a student body affair. Tlhere was a flock of candidates nomi nated. The writer will not attempt to name all of thenm-if you are inter ested, get a roil of the freshman class. Nevertheless, the class showed real Stokes, who polled a hundred and five of the hundred and sixty-five cast, has already shown that he is presidental material. It will be remembered that he won the declaimer's medal in the Clariosophic a few nights ago. His ability to speak and to handle a crowd is such that any tnan in the University would be proud to possess. Go to it Troy-we expect to hear from you later. The other high light of the election was the selection of Kitty Martin for secretary. Once more the class showed that it knew what it was doing. Politics were forgotten for a moment and the class rose almost unanimous to acclaim its new secretary. Percy Petit, present president, car ried the meeting off in good order. However, he made some rulings that Roberts should incorporate in his Rules of Order. He and Kenneth Grimsley should collaborate-they could improve a great deal on the present edition. Watch the frosh gol Open politics are at last triumphant. John Bolt Culbertson, the first man to start that system at this University, and the first to ever give out cam paign cards, was elected president of the rising junior class. Yates Snowden Williams was elected vice president after losing the presi dency by only four votes. Yates has ability and is a man that will bear watching next year. Wilson Weldon went into secretary with a comfortable majority. Weldon has already made an enviable record and is by no means through yet. There were no particular high lights in this election, other than the large amount of politicing that was carried on for over two months. John Fishburne, who polled one vote for presidency tells the writer that he expects to keep his party in tact until next year. Lookout John, women are fickle. Class elections ain't what they used to bet The election for senior officers was the most listless and sleep inspiring affair that graced the spring cam paigns. Sixty-four juniors finally got up energy enough to come in and vote. Despite of the dormant state the class was in, it elected good men to the offices. Frank Buie is capable and will make a good president. Hashley Alsey (pardon English ac cent) was elected vice-president. He is a man of ability, but the writer has an idea that it was that broad and colorful Charlestonian brogue that turned the balloting in his favor (there were lots of co-eds there). The writer suggests that Griff Pugh add his ideas to this revision of Robert's Rules of Order. It's all over now-the elections. TIhe writer refuses to be intimidated. He has always said what he thought, and done what he thought was best for Carolina, and he has no idea of doing the about face at this late stage of the game. Last week several politicians did not like the Pot. In fact, the writer after checking up has found that every man that was running believes that he was hit in some way or other. Former political enemies of the writer howled the loudest, but 'failed to notice that he hit his friends equally as hard, and in one or twvo cases harder. 'rhe wvhole thing was a parody on the way the campaign was being run, and the writer wishes to state he intends to retract nothing. The writer does not believe that he has deviated from the purpose for which the Pot was begun. Tids is not a news column; but the writer's personal opinions and findings. Freedom of the press--preserve itt With this paragraph, the writer sings his swan song in student activi ties at Carolina. He wants to make a few suggestions. Since politics are politics, support the men and parties that stand for the best principles, sup port the continuance of this column andl stand back of the man who has the nerve to give the facts despite of bullying politicians, support the con stitution to the letter, see that con stitutionsanre not mm....uled aste RETORT COURTEOUS When the present editor and staff of The Gamecock took office in February, the rumor was circulated by highly disdainful parties that the new staff was too inefficient to publish a paper. This issue, the best ten pages ever put out by a Gamecock staff, is the only shot necessary to sink the pirate ship of that small group of persons embittered by defeat. have been in the past, don't sit back and criticise unless you know the de tails-all in all; do the best thing for Caroliua and support the constitution. The writer turns over a none too easy iob to his successor. Let's get busy on exams! 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It is also rumored that the co-eds are the root of the political evil on the University of South Carolina campus. PHI SIG DELEGATES BACK (Continued from Page 3) These men were sent by the local chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa to repre sent this fraternity in the Southern convention recently held in Annapolis. Delegates from all chapters of Phi Sigma Kappa in the Southern prov ince were present at this convention. on, ration" will briug to vel. Again we repeat mnts and by 'so doing glance at the prices in )uilt-but when you idid values that have d Suits tropical worsted. They are id to give satisfaction in have slims, stouts, shorts does not show dirt easily. r Suits red Shirts Collars Attached Slipovers sw Patterns 50Oc Each Shmorts inl solid white, broad white and colored stripes of blue, green and pink. The slipovers are of eoarse Swiss rib)bed weave, a real athletie undershirt Other Ide Shirts and Shorts, 75o and $1.00 Each (on CO. Boyd B. Jnhnson,Mg.