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Editorial6 S) "Duke UnIvej Reveille For USC Well, it's getting to be that time of the year again when all eyes and ears begin to get tuned up for the sounds and scenes that come out of the large building that breaks Main Street in half. The General Assembly meets in January. South Carolina now has a practically new legislature, and a new governor. During the various races many controversial issues were hashed over with all sides vowing to do something about something. It is only on rare occasions that a politician will com mit himself on any question. It will indeed be interesting to watch the new legislature in action. There is much to be done to raise our state from its political and educational stupor. Our newly elected officers are going into Welcome Alumni We're glad that you could make it! We hope that you will enjoy being back at the University as much as we enjoy having you here. According to your Alumni Secretary, Ralph Lewis, a much larger crowd than anticipated has shown up. This is gratify ing to us indeed. Many people have said and have ideas about where the future of the University of South Carolina lies. It is our opinion that it lies with the alumni. It is impossible for students to bring any pressure to bear where it will do~The Uni versity the most good. Concentrated effort on the part of the student body to achieve it is as far away as it was when you were A Veteran's Viewpc Unfortunately I must retract a would no doubt)I statement printed in the last issue or be Bold as sur; of the Gamecock. Under my by- as is now being line was the comment that the Dean Chase w veterans organization was instru- aoathed Cary mental in having the NROTC print- tvaohe byl ing removed from the band's big the elimination bass drum and the University of to trees about South Carolina placed In i stead, his desk was a p A compittee did go to see the by the Marshal officer in charge, Captain Ken- an official bulle nedy, in regards to the situation. constructed onc The outcome was a polite refusal the space by tl by the good captain to even con- book store. Jc aider the proposition. As a result postmaster, is t the band, in addition to being diction over the garbed in detestable uniforms, be to him one ni must remain iabeled the same as poster or notic< an off-brand of pickles until either public to gaze u: tbe Uniyeruity devotes sufficient space will be adc funds or the Navy condescends to the chapel and 1 let us beat the drum under our date by veterans own cognomen. May I add that ments. Of cour this same Insignificant instrument ready in exlsten4 of noise Is otherwise unused and be at the demau v Speaking sity, that is" ,office with no small obligation if they in tend to fulfill their pledges. If all the pro posed changes were made we might well scratch off the old Carolinian axiom, "South Carolina thanks God for Mississippi." This state has been too slow to make changes, to keep up with times and de velopments. Almost any state department or agency, including our educational system, in comparison with other states makes our lack of progress palpable. It is now possible for South Carolina to be awakened from its self-imposed trance. God gave uo two ends; one to think, the other to sit. Success depends upon which end you use the most. Will our leaders make progressive changes, long range plans, or will they be content to occupy the chairs in the legislature? Footprints were never made in the sands of time by sitting down! here. Only on rare occasions can any one question hold the attention of our four thousand population. As always there is a small group of stu dents on the campus doing most of the work and planning. Under' the unusual post-war conditions that we are attending college our time seems to be taken up with other things. Yet there are those here who would see the University of South Carolina assume its designated, but unoccupied, position as leader of state thought and action. Progressive action, the impetus, will have to come from the alumni. We can assure you of our support in thought and in action. Look around the campus while you're here. Talk to some of the students. Make yourself at home. Home is where the heart is. ~iIw1t:By ED MOORER ie in rotten decay and faculty. Some restriction as plus if not utilized to size of notices will be necessary done, as only so much space is available, as one step ahead and the different factions about SVeterans when the campus are asked to cooperate their representa- with the school. Letin boards, and There Is a rule here at Carolina f placards nailed which forbids the posting of no the campus. On tices, etc., on the trees of the Ian to be executed campus. Until, and even now, this 's office whereby law has been futile and the trees tin board will be have received more than their >ne entire wall of share of Iron. The campus police se postoffice and have orders to take down such 4 Lawrence, the placards that are in violation. o be given juris- This order will be strictly ob.. space and it will served when the official board is must go to have a completed In the Immediate future. a placed for the It is time for Carolina to discard on. An additional the unattractiveness of a card Led in the lobby of board bedecked campus, and to as sill be kept up to sume an air of mature dignity. At from nearby tene- present one is apt to forget that se, the boards al- this Is a place of higher learning a will cdntinue to and confuse It with the Barnum 4 of the students and Bailey cistround. "But Momma-Daddy said a silk pants!" 3ujecf Of A number of people on the c for what they interpreted as the last.column I wrote for thi I want to make it clear to tb who may be in doubt, that my not intended to be an attack c In pointing out that the Pres students on two important poin exceptions which he has made points. At that time I expressed my opinion of the reasons behind those exceptions. It was my opin ion that the reasons were not sound, that *the exceptions should not have been made. The idea that I wanted to get across, however, was that there is no major conflict between the students and the administration so far as those two major points of policy are concerned. Evidently I did not make myself clear. The president has stated that he believes strongly in the prin ciple of student participation in administrative affairs. He has stated that he considers the student voice to be an ini. portant and an influential one. He has stated further that he does not intend to dictate to duly appointed committees, including the Convocations Committee, in the performance of their work. Those are points upon which a majority of us have assumed that conflict existed. If the President is sincere, and I cannot doubt that he is, it appears that there is no real disagreement. The shouting arose from two exceptions to those general poli cies. I took issue with the excep tions then and I do not agree with them now. I believe that they were predicated upon po litical considerations and I do not believe that such considerations should influence the judgment of a university president. As long as we permit political policy to play a part in the ad ministration of this institution, however, it seems obvious that we must accept the fact that the President, whoever he is, will have to attach great importance to po litical matters in making all his decisions. I am strongly opposed to the political domiation of the high office of President of the Uni versity of South Carolina by any political clique. I am equally strongly opposed to having that office reduced to the status of a political football THE GA CROWING F01 UNIVERSITY OF f Founded January 30. 1908. wIth Robert Elli COCK Is published by and for the students Ible sml-weekly. Tuesday end Baturday. Editorl and business offices are leeted in tising vases are 65 cents am Inch. Deadlines p.m. Wedaesday; news and sor, . . Oinions expresed by goluasnists and letter-wi COCK. Publisching doset oten.titst. an .na CHARLES H. WICKENBEI MARY E. SHOUN. .. .... . MIKE KARVELAS..... MARIAN RODGERS .. CHICK SHIELS........ MARY SAYE GASTON... CANDY TAYLOR... 11 Duke football players wore ampus have congratulated me mn attack on the President in s space. ose people, and to anyone else remarks in that column were n Admiral Smith. ident is in agreement with the ts of policy, I discussed certain to his general policy on those to be kicked about by opposing political cliques. I can see only ruin for the University if the office of Presi dent is constantly dangled as a plum before political pressure groups; if such groups are invited to seat and unseat holders of that office as their power in the state increases or decreases. The practical way to defeat po litical domination by any group is to make the office of President so strong by our support that it will not have to depend upon the support of shifting political winds. We must make the office of Presi dent so strong, and its incumbent so secure, that he will be able to make his decisions in the best interests of the University and its students without fear of having his position snatched from him by disgruntled political backers. It would take a man totally In sensible to facts to deny that there is currently a high degree of po litical Interest In the job of Presi dent of this university. It would take such a man not to see that the University is entering upon a period of growth and expansion when administrative stability will be of primary importance. It should be equally apparent that as progress in that direction is made, political interest in the office of President of the Univer sity will grow more and more intense. Again, the way to insure that administrative stability which is so increasingly Important is to give solid backing to the President to such a degree that no one can doubt that his position is secure, that the hand guiding the expan sion program is firm. In submitting his request to the budget commission for a state ap propriation of $8,698,343 for per manent improvements to the Uni versity, Admiral Smith is taking another major step forward to ward the building of a greater Carolina. His plans for the en largement of the stadium and for MECOCK L A GREATER LOUTH CARlOLINA it Consalos s the fir,t editor, THE CAME. at the University of South Carolina in C,. during the college year aeept helidays and the east basement of Sims dormitory. Adver. lor Saturday edition; editorial and seesy. 3 rhursday. Deadlines for Tuesday edition; edi. sport. S p. m. Sunday. tiers are not nseessarily those of THE CAME. raement although the right to edit is reaerved, EG, JR... EDITOR-IN-CHIEF . .. . ..MANAGING EDITOR .. .. .. .. ...NEWS EDITOR . .. .. . ..SOCIETY EDITOR .. .. .. . ..SPORTS EDITOR .......FEATURE EDITOR .. .. BUSINESS MAN AGER uldrhs nioate . . After having -read John Temple Graves' "This After noon" not to be outdone we shall retitle this column "This Night" (a chez Groucho's) and so we start with this thought for the evening: Streamed a virtuous young maid from Sims Hall, Whom necking was said to apall. "If you kiss me, of course, You will have to use force And God knows I've no strength at all." Which all leads up to the Duke game, which it doesn't. (Beat Dook) Speaking of leading to the game, I imagine that there will be more people led from the game than to it. I can see it all now in the tense still hush before the kickoff, drawn lines on the faces of the spectators, the brilliant clothes forming an irridescent panoply of color ... suddenly, a startling crash, a choking sob, "You butter-fingered louse I Can't you hold on to six bucks' worth of liquid gold (oiled, that is)." Which all goes to show that at least one person will see the game today. (I heard you stood up your girl. Yeah, thought she looked better that way). As the Russian said, enough of this love-making so enough of theez pattair, it's bed-time, so we'll tell you a fairy story. (Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended). It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maid there lived whom you may know by the name of Fanny Belle Lee. And this maid she Oh brother! What a babe! Solid construction, and way out in front of the other girls in the kingdom. She was lovely, charming and, er umm, eager. This being in the time when men wore armor, and the maids were able to run much faster in their Cutty-Sarks, the young Knight-Errants fortified themselves in the local Bistro, better known as "La Lune Bleu" (the Green Derby) for the journey past her house. Each Knight bent close to the saddle and spurred his horse onward. Past the moat, past the gate, past Fanny Belle, saying, "Excelcior, Excelcior" or any other 65 dollar word. On some nights one merely lifted his visor and politely said, "Burp." Time passed, and Fanny Belle passed from infancy to adolescency to adultery. Fanny Belle pined and wasted away. She was down to 175 pounds now and spent all of her time moping in the garden. Her loving pater took every precaution to protect her from the evil ways of the world; chained her ankles to the family tree. "Cawn't let her seem too eager y' know." There was nothing else for Fanny Belle to do but sit in the garden and play her lute and sing "Take it up stairs" in her plaintive voice. As she sat by the pool one delightful spring evening singing her love song for the thousandth damn time, she looked at the ripples made by her father who had been dousing his head to get over a hangover (Bromo's were unknown in them days). From the ripples there emerged a horrible, creepy, warty, slimy, repulsive, nasty, grimy, misshapen, bilious, brindle toad. (When he was a Tad pole, he was frightened by a coed). Fanny Belle caught sight of him and raised her shackles in horror and screamed in her maiden voice, "You're some ugly chile." To whic.h the toad whined, "Well, I've been sick." Fanny Belle's coldness changed to pity and she and the toad chattered about inconsequential things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings. Which brings us back to Fanny Belle. It was nearing her bedtime for she heard her Father staggering down the path with the keys to unshackle her. As Fanny Belle went to take her leave, the toad be seeched her not to go, saying, "I'm so lonely I haven't talked like this for years."~ "Don't be a frog," said Fanny Belle, "Toads can't talk." "That's the pernt," replied the toad, "I'm not a toad, really I'm not. I'm a handsome young man, but I was snatched by a witch," he lisped. Fanny Belle in a moment of decision said, "Dear Toad, there must be a way to break the spell, there has got to be a way, all spells can be broken. Spells are but chains of the mind," she said as her ankle-cuffs clanked. "Yes there is a way," said the toad, "but I could never--no never ask you to help me." "Ah go on," chipped Fanny Belle, "will ya tell me, huh, pleeze?" "0. K., I'll tell ya. There is only one way the spell can be broken. I must sleep on the pillow of a lovely young girl's bed, but I know that you wouldn't want an ugly old toad like me on your pillow," Fanny Belle exclaimed joyfully, "Oh, goody! I'll make the sacrifice." So she clasped him to her lily white throat. .Her old man appeared and Fanny Belle went meek]ly* into the castle (that's a hlouse where the front door opens down instead of side ways). Her father took her to her room. She bade him goodnight, planted a dainty schmooch on his cheek, stroked his careworn forehead, and whispered, "Don't fall down the stairs, you old sot.'" -4 She placed the toad on her pillow and went to sleep. And sure enough the toad did turn into a handsome young man. The only trouble the next morning was that her old man didn't believe this story either. the construction of new dormi- ture, it is folly not to use every tories for men and women are enatordsoltonue in addition to those embraced theansuccat ofdso the imnsutre by the requested appropriation. tesceso h diita Funds for these will be request- tive program. Strong support ed in the form of a self-liqui- for our president is an Sm dating bond issue. portant step toward insuring With such promi.s. fo t..e fi,tasces