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THE GAMECOCK CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest Founded January 0, 1908. with Robert Elliott Gozales as the first editor. THE GAMECOCK is published by and for the students at the University of South Carolina in Columbia semi-weekly. Tuesday and Saturday, duriag the sellege year exet holidays and examinations. Editorial and business offices are located in the east basement of Sims dormitory. Advertleing rates are 65 costs an inch. Deadlines for Saturday editien: editorial and society, 8 p. m. Wednesday; news and sports. 8 p. m. Thursday. Deadlines for Tuesday edition: editorial and soclety, 8 p. m. Friday; news and sports, 8 p. i. Sunday. Opinions expressed by eciumnists and letter-writers are not necessarily these of THE GAMECOCK. Publishing does not constitute an endorsement although the right to edit Is reserved. STAFF Editor .......................................... Mary Shoun Managing Editor ................................. Mike Karvelas EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor ...................... ................................. Bob Isbell Sports Editor ..................---................................... Don Barton Society Editor ................................................. Libby McDaniel Feature Editor ...............- ...........................J....... Carroll GilUam Exchange Editor ........................ ......................... Peggy Treiler Cartoonist .............. ................................... Samuel L. Boylston Reporters-Libby Cole, Irene Sanders, Bob Gunter, George Stanley, Jane Dowe, Cyrus Shealy, Joy Conrad, Ruth Newell, Jean Davis, Jo Anne Dillinger, Norine Corley, Bob Carpenter, Mary Saye Gaston, Holly Beck, Helen Childers, Lynn Couch Joe Molony, Sidney Brandenburg, Ranny Reaves, Betty Koty, Chick Shiels, Ken bald win, Syd Badger, Vilma Huggins, Jane Dowe, Al en Becker, Betty Horton, Frank Hard, Genanno Jones, Mary Lee Pender, Bob Pierce, Marian Rodgors, Alva C. Singley, Charles Watson, Eugene Webb, snookle Kirkland, Mary Foider, Norma Mani, Marvin Carter, Ellen Schofield. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager .................................. Candy Taylon Advertising Manager -------- ..................................... Harry Blott Co-Circulation Managers .......................... Lynn Hook and Darien Robertson Business Staff-Ann blood, Betty Mood Joanne Mae Weaver, Al Lovata, Margie Teague, Jean Eleazer, PhylUs Dukes, Beth Fillingim. The Parking Problem The areas in and around the university are inadequate for the number of faculty and students' cars which must be parked near the campus daily. Some, therefore, carelessly violate regulations by parking in private driveways and re stricted areas. Consequently, several cars have been tagged and some towed in to the Police Department when it has been impossible to locate the owners. Several possible solutions to the problem have been sug gested but as yet none of these has been worked out to a satisfactory plan. Until the university and the city get to gether and take definite steps toward alleviation, the park ing problem remains that of the car owners. THE GAMECOCK, at present, has no workable suggestion to make relative to obtaining more parking space. We do suggest, however, that, in order to prevent cars being towed in, each car owner list his name and license number at the Marshal's office. Many of the cars owned by students are registered outside the city of Columbia and police officials have no way of finding out who owns the cars which some times have to be moved. If names were listed, the owners could be located and notified to move their cars before the towing in procedure became necessary. The Columbia Traffic Division has requested that students be more cooperative in observing parking regulations. We must not continue to deny adjacent property owners the rights to their private driveways, even if it means parking further from the campus and walking an extra block. In Sympathy The Gamecock, in behalf of the Carolina student body, extends sincere sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Brown at the recent tragic deaths of their children. Letters to the Editor Dear Editor:Attahegvmeacfi I would like to call your atten- dnilwn n ekndm tion to a serious crisis whichclsr"Teerti,so,ha threatens the university. As you knowv, several new buildings are gaate o ols oeta at this very minute in various it er. stages of construction on the cam- "Wl,Ianwrd"ttsem pus. We are, indeed, seeing anqitresnbeom. case able attempt to cope with the ta o upr dcto n classroom shortage. But when thehudeprcnintssaead last stone is in place, how can i o' eln eoeteui one find his way to the,buildings?vesthaaltefcitest r That is the problem: the buildingsned. have no names."Taisawynypoc,"h There are several possible so- rsodd Rs hog h lutions that I have heard rumored.cuilblsad hndvt h One of them is to continue theretoth tietedcina prcsent policy of naming buildingsmatr. after professors. However, the EgryIpesdhmfrhr suggestion has received little sup- "htaeteecuil,Al,Sn port because there is such keen ao? competition among the professors Smlnatynavigonc as to who shall give their namesadhokn hithmsnhi to the structures. Another idea isvetheasrda4rom r abroad to number each one, but feto."ei e' e,oeo this, too, has been coolly received 'mls emwsteana p since such an act would lower the porainfrteuke n dlignity of a university edifice. cr ftesal hr e' Finally, others want no name at hreset'aohrwsabl all bu, a yo cn painy se,t prhibt alcohve in alcohnlic it oul beconusng o b inbeeages,n and laecko-nd mos (loubt whether oneeisoinrphysicstimportatary tt penio labortory or te capentr'sfivesty yailngs."esme shop.i"enrator,"l to me.4 I can see Wit rspet otissitaton-riht now tuppt witdyuationspired whil strllig abut te Cpitohledrship,ret thissais duae for mee a enaor meringhotandistiwon ieng a fore the way,I persirig frm alenghyessin,rannt hsee alo tecliturnesi what is yourtopinionaboutnthepolpresumee new uildngs eingerece ucai"M boy," and thnderoe as theunivrsity?"stn of dramtie tneucIatina "Yes,yes, roatforwad sta,"tbrns."frmadwrkdi I ageed nd qickl putan- Eourerl wa poressed im anfur-r otherqueston. "ou knw, t Wyhae aare s stuil.ilst eng sayth bilins re emorry Sfrln at mynaneogornc 'em laststermnwretehelanrsaloop 'mihty prmaen tome Whtro rs for ah aoutioen an he thecrrelofswthe"stabde whoker.e' THE GARNET AND BLACK University Trustee I Gates Opening on ti Our university, the favorite stalking horse of the General As sembly, was paraded on the floor of the House of Representatives last week and promises to be dragged around again this week. Representative Blatt tossed a bomb-shell when he announced his intention of resigning from the Board of Trustees. This little word brought praises to Allah from many all over the state, but little did they know the dra torical jousting which. would re sult from it. The House had a field day. Mr. Blatt's young son, a recent grad sate of this school, was nomi sated to succeed his father in the trustee post. "Barnwell ring," "Thurmond ring," etc., bounced about the walls of the lower cham ber of our legislature. And what was in the middle? The Univer 3ity of South Carolina, as usual. Fhe Political Paradise . This is a situation which is naking those who love the uni rersity sick to death of the whole ] )usiness. The legislature, the peo ple, or the officers themselves 1 tave made membership on the Board of Trustees appear to be a : early gate opening on the para lise of political ambition. Mem- : bership on the Board has come ( to be one of the most commonly 1 iccepted political pay-offs "for fa- ] vors granted". That is what we are all tired 1 >f seeing done to this institution. What we need is fewer men who = ire still running for public office i mn our board and more who really want to see higher education in 1 the state advanced. Many' feel that 1r. Blatt did such ideal handling : >f the affairs of the university a 1 ravor by his action last week. If this is so, he is to be praised... It seems to be the practice to langle membership on the Board is a beautiful golden apple. To avery trustee it should mean a ot of hard work for the institu ion, but what it has come to mean is the mere marshalling of INTERNATIONAL PLAYHO1 Russia Has Lead th Concept That Such On the basis of the written rec srd, Russia can claim, with con iiderable justification, to have l>een a leader in the field of in ternational schemes for disarma nent. From the Genoa Conferenice sf 1922 until the Geneva Confer ence of 1932-34, the Soviet Union consistently advocated total dis armament. When it became ap parent that complete disarmament was unattainable, Russia pressed for proportionate disarmament on i substantial scale. All her pro-4 posals provided for international ontrois and inspection. The So viets based their proposals on the oncept that disarmament would Bliminate war--a thesis that is rjuestioned by those who believe that disarmament will result from1 world-wide security, not security from disarmament. In any case, there is good reason for looking for more specific reasons underly ing such unprecedented proposals. At that time the Soviet Union was not only a new state, but a new kind of state, alone in a hos tile world, Its principal assets were population, area and unde veloped resources, which combinetd to give it great inherent strength. However, lacking arms, such strength would be more effective in a world where the capitalistic state had been shorn of their ar maments. At least in theory, therefore, general disarmament supported the basic Russian policy, of improving its position in rela tion to the other great powers. But then as now, Russian policy was based on communistic ideology. It is a matter of contemporary Soviet record that communism held all armaments to be tools of the capitalistic states for the sup pression of the proletariat. The Communist International of 1928 stated that no Communist thought that the Soviet disarmament pro posals would be accepted-and that they were submitted merely to expose capitalistic hypocrisy. It seems, therefore, that all Russian proposals for disarmament be tween World Wars I and II, while basically sound from the national SPIRIT positions Appear As te Paradise of Politici 1 influence with the Assembly to " get a big appropriation. 03 It also seems that the influence k to get this money has- long been w necessary. Appropriations are as tonsidered another bunch of ap- ti ples to be doled out to favorites. That borders on nonsense. th We're All Lobbyists a But this is not' the height of the cc ridiculous acrobatics performed on h< the legislative trapeze. - One tc rhomas Pope, duly elected repre- fi sentative of the people of New- w berry county, rose on the floor and th lenounced a university student for ti expressing his personal opinion ax mn the election of new members to f the board. sa This seems a little strange to ju those of us who had come to have g< r great respect for Mr. Pope for ed his work on the proposed regency plan which has apparently disap- C seargd. down one of the many be :onvenient drains in the State T: Elouse. th But now. Mr. Pope is exerting th tis rather wide influence in the be lssembly for the election of Blatt sc he Younger, and to do this prop- at rly he has lashed out at a citi- th sen of the state who did nothing nore than exercise the right of er ree speech. It is proper for a atu- ni lent to show his interest in mat- sy ;ers affecting the school which th te attends. The right to do so ri ihould not be denied or questioned ar >y any thinking South Carolinian. si For that matter, if it were be equired that all who "lobby" at c he State House place their names g< )n some register, then it were fe ime that the entire roster of uni rersity students be placed there. Si For we are all lobbyists for the ve )etter interests of our school. When we feel that our opinions pi ill in some way make for better to rovernment, we should give them th md in no mincing, polite and ad trchaic legislative pig-latin. pr Where We Stand by The position of the students is is tot one to be envied. Those who Sc are for our financial well-being lii nust either be members of the av JSE World in Disarmam Action Would Elimini point of view, were made as tacti- an eal moves in the international ai field of communistic policy, with ki ao expectation that they would di be adopted- be Last year Russia proposed 01 general disarmament of conven- re tional arms to the Security Coun- tlh eil. Gromyko maintains an atti- at tude of "agreement in principle" St but practical and concrete steps in ire yet to be taken. The priority f atomic control and the necessity gi >f international inspection are the es nain planks of the Baruch plan, th iirectly opposing Russia's plan pc >f disarmament by gentleman's fi, igreement. In contrast to the thi vell-defined pattern of Russian is )roposals in the period between be he world wars, the present situa- er ,ion is very confusing in trying to thi letermine the underlying motives. be Looking at it from the Russian tt~ riewpoint, everything would be w rained by atomic priority and In- ba spection, for capitalistic encircle- It nient and strangulation could be til :hecked. Russia greatly fears the Is itomic bomb in the hands of the fe Western powers and Is not making much progress toward making ci bombs of her own. Notwithstand- o1 ing this, Russia has consistently hi impeded progress toward atomic ti energy control by injecting into si the discussions the broader sub- si ject of general disarmament. ti What is the explanation? There ri are those who suspect Russia of a ti wicked scheme to get the United C States to destroy its bombs and al then to break the treaty and start o' an atomic arms race from scratch. lR But if this were true, Russia's h, plan would be better served by d, working for an atomic treaty, and i the sooner the better-.t Somehow, Russia must see ad- s< vantage to herself in the delaying tactics that she employs. There el may be some technological expla- a nation within Russia-maybe an ti Impending discovery--but this Is 'T not certain. She may consider w that she will gain support that o1 will soften the position of the n Western powers by c:onsistently p takingr the initiative in the widea. "Pearly a Amibition y CARROLL L..GILLIAM Elarnwell" or "Thurmond" rings, most be automatons with little owledge and less interest in aiversity affairs. Our moral ad educational well-being are en rely beside the point. There is a- mistaken philosophy at the university is one of the ate government items which me under the head of "grab it, od it, and control it." This leads the little skirmishes on the sors of the legislature which ill some day make the university Le laughing-stock of the educa mal world. Such skirmishes e doing, perhaps not at the in ntion of those participating, the me wrongs and the same in stices with which the late Eu ne Talmade nearly wrecked the lucational system of Georgia. We do not want that in South arolina. We want our school to respected throughout the state. he farmer on the Blue Ridge, e merchant in the Piedmont, and e coastal cotton planter should equally proud to say that his n or his daughter is a Carolina udent. That is the purpose of e school and it should remain so. We rightly stand for better gov nment in South Carolina, begin ng with a clean state educational stem. It matters little whether e "Barnwell" or "Thurmond" ng controls the schools, if they e both vicious little groups de gned to control or ruin. We lieve that the people should ntrol both the university and the vernment, and think it is right r us to say so. That is the position which all nuth Carolinians who are in fa or of liberal democracy take. This is not the time for enter ising and ambitious men to try control the university. It is e day and hour for educational lvancement a n d democratic ogress. If this is to be denied the General Assembly, then it time for the sensible people of uth Carolina to "fold their tents ce Arabs and silently steal ray." ent On ite Future Wars By CARLTON OWEN id ill-defined field of general dis mament. Also, Russia well owa that when an army is re iced, the men remain and can remobilized, whereas if a navy an air force are reduced, they quire years to reconstruct. But e United States would still rank Lead of Russia in industrial rength and little could be gained this direction. These considerations, taken to ther, still offer an Inadequate planation. There must be some ing in the atomic control pro 'sals that the rulers of Russia ad impossible of acceptance. If is is the real explanation, what the "Impossible7" ' It cannot the matter of limitation of soy eignty. If the U. S. can accept at, Russia can. It cannot really the much-discussed question of e veto, for Russia knows full 11l that she cannot be coerced the U. N. 0., veto or no veto. would seem far more probable at the "Impossible" for Russia the matter of complete and ef etive inspection. Those who believe that Russia nnot accept the full implications an effective inspection system wed their conviction on the idea at such an inspection would owly but surely undermine an es ntial element of the Soviet sys in: namely, Isolati.on from the ast of the world. It would reaten the whole structure of the ommunist-controlled police state ad eventually would result in the rerthrow of its rulers. Whether ussia will or will not submit to ternational inspection lill be ipendent upon whether Stalin minks his system could survive me opening of Russia to such full ale international inspection. Disarmament in itself wilt not niminate the threat of war. It is erely an indication that resort arms is not the means of peace. here is every indication that the orld has the will to peace and see the Soviet submits to inter ational inspection, the will to tace will have made itself more mparanL. etaoin shrdlu ... a dash of bitters... . By DOTTIE PERKINS One of the first things you learn in writing a column, (besides fear of libel and getting caught in the literary feuds) is the horror of pounding out one of these things once a week. You get one deadline safely passed, and then lose sleep, weight, and your excellent disposition worrying about "What on earth will I do for next week's ?" Some. times there isn't a holiday to write about for inonths ... and the day of St. Patrick and Paul Revere's ride have been written into the ground. So if you're smart, but not clever, you pull that old, old dodge of . . . guest columnist. Ah, guest columnists ... the sleepless nights you have without them. So, note well the following, and check the last line ... I'll be back next week and write the column myself from now on ... until I'm counting inches again instead of sheep. So, we'll bypass the 'dash of bitters' for a week ... some one just told us: "Carolina isn't all beer. * * * * * I have discovered why newspapermen drink. Maybe I won't win the Pulitzer prize-I didn't even get a college degree-but in my few months in the outside world I have learned one thing. Now, that may not sound like much to you. You think that you learn a great amount every day in college. I thought that, too. But the stark reality of the cold-cold world quickly freezes the educational marrow in your bones. In other words-as an intellectual, you're a stiff. It won't take long to convince you that you don't know from nothing. Why do newspapermen drink? They drink because they are (1) thirsty; (2) because of the food they have to eat (You think you got it rough? Try and beat 149 representatives afd 49 senators to chow!); (3) and because of the "routine." You can understand being thirsty. You're able to under stand being hungry (yeah, I went to school there). But this "routine"-you can't understand until you try it. It's like the first kiss. You-well-you just don't know until you try. Here's the pitch. It's like being a freshman in college again ... "can you tell me, please .. ." The routine includes work, by the calendar not by the hour, and work includes stories, and vice versa. The "routine": A telephone rings. It is someone who has a "hot' story from Snaggs Bottom, U.S.A., 'way down in the swamps. The voice twangs through the telephone; "Jim Goochwool-. lives 'bout a mile from here is havin' trouble with his bees. Ya see, the bears don't believe it's winter ... " (and so on and on until you finally get the angle.) It works out like this: the bruins hang out in the swamp where brother Goochwool keeps his bee hives. Last Decem ber's Spring-like weather brought the bears out of hiberna tion. And they won't bo gack. The dopes (bears) think that it's Spring-even if there is ice and snow all over the place-and raid the hives for honey. Brother Goochwool doesnt' know what to do about it. How do you convince i bear that it is winter? Then there is the worry about libel. You think you've ]one okay with a murder yarn when suddenly someone opens up with a corpuscle chilling scream. It's the boss. After a lengthy discussion of the subjets of libel and slander, you discover that your finger slipped on the typewriter keys. You have Al Wheezeel arrested for murder (not suspicion Dr connected with) and signing a confession (who told you? did you see It?) and pleading insanity (he graduated phi beta kappa at old sewash) and his name is spelled Wheezlle. Later it develops that he is the postman and was returning to ring the d6or bell the third time just for the hell of It. The coroner comes through and declares the case a suicide. The routine includes more unpleasant things than those. "You are new here. Besides .everyone else in the office has been out to the state pen--on stories of course. It's not bad. You won't mind it if you don't think about it. Now if you don't want to go just SAY so .. . Finally the boss gets around to it. There is a human being scheduled to be executed in the death chamber, and you are to cover the story. All you have to do is stand there and watch the man die. And don't forget how long it took him. (No chasers with this drink, brother !) "The shadows of superstition and voodoo fell dark and heavy among the farming people of Altamont community. A once healthy tenant farmer said he was dying from a spell cast on him by a witchdoctor. The young farm hand is a skinny enricature of the strapping man he was 15 months ago ..." Sure, it started off good. But the "routine" set In before long. The guy was a niental case, but actually thought he was passing out. The witchdoctor couldn't take the spell off because he wasn't around anymore. Another "victim" caught the conjure-man putting dried bones In his mailbox and shot him three times between the shoulder blades with buck shot. So a New York City hypnotist decides to come South and cure the stricken man. He takes the "hex" off in a short trance (trance, not pants). You think you're t,brough with it then. Suddenly everyone who can read gets a death curse on 'em and writes for help. There is nothing to do but read the letters and throw them away. But there is still a little flattery on your shoulders--they think you have "hex" ap peal. You only covered the story. Unfortunately, for me, and fortunately for you, space does not permit more ETAOIN SHRDLU. The "routine" outlined above are true with the excep tion of names and places. Any doubts you have as to the veracity of these stories, you may lay aside by careful read ing of any newspapers. It won't take much to convince you why newspapermen~ drink. It is my desire that this be printed in its old position to illustrate (1) the value of higher education to me 'and (2) establish the fact that I can make no claims to the noble tle of newspaperman. "Er, make mine a dash of bitters, please--straight, fromn