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THE GAMECOCK CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest Feunded January 0. 19S, with Robert Elliott Geuzales as the first edit., THE AUECOK le b ished hand for the students at. the University of Seuth Careiaa ad C a a0 seaWeekly. bTeday and Saturday, during the ellege year except helidays EdlibHa and business offices are eated Is the east basement of Sims dormitory. Advertising rates are 05 sits an Such. Deadlines for Saturday editlea: editorial and editiyn: sP. . Wednesday: news and sports. 3 p. m. Thursday. Deadlines for Tuesday editorial and seety. 3 p. m. Friday; news and sports. S p. i. Sunday. Oploae expreesed by eelumists and letter-writers are net Necessarily these of THE GAMECOiC. Publisbleg des set eenstituto an endersement although the right te edit Is reserved. STAFF Editor ..........................-.................Mary Shoun Managing Editor ............................... Mike Karvelas EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor ........ .................... .............. Bob Isbell Sports Edltor ..... ........................ ..................Don Barton Society Editor ...................-........................Libby McDaniel Feature Editor .......................... .................Carroll Gilliam C t Editor ....----------........................................ Peg Trexler 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, Norlue Corley, Bob Carpenter, Mary Saye Gaston, Holly Beck, Helen Childers, Lynn Couch, Joe Molony, Sidney Brandenburg, Ra nny Reaves, Bet Koty, Chick Shiols, Ken Bald win, Syd Badger Vilma Huggins. Jane Dowe, Allen Becker, Betty Horton, Frank gHard, Genanne ones, Mary Lee Pender, Bob Pierce, Marian Roder,Alva C. Sinaley, Charles aion Eluge Webb, Snookie Kirkland, Mary Feider, Norma Maninl. Marvin Carter, Ellen Schofield. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ....................... .........Candy Taylor Advertising Manager ...-----------......................... Harry Hiott Co-Circulatien Managers ...................... Lynn Hook and Darien Robertson Business Staff-Ann Mood, Betty Mood, Joanne Mae Weaver, Al Lovata, Margie Teague, Jean Eleazer, Phyllis Dukes, Beth Fllllngim. I] Campus Elections The main topic of discussion on the campus now is the P forthcoming election of student body and class officers. And with elections, there always comes politics with all the swapping of votes and coalitions among campus organiza tions. THE GAMECOCK realizes that it would be useless to criticize such tactics and expect to get any results for - block voting is evident even in our national politics. It is to each student as an individual voter that we would M appeal. The student body officers and presidents of the fe various classes.. who are elected next week will next year ta compose the major part of Student Council, the governing *n body of Carolina students. The position of each member ea demands that he have the best interests of the school at ap heart, that he be persistent and determined in his efforts pe toward serving his school. It is a challenge to each officer elected. tei It is also a challenge to each student now to elect the th candidates who are best qualified for the positions. THE H GAMECOCK suggests that each student body study each ou re candidate carefully, determine who he considers the most of desirable one for the position, and then go to the polls and Di vote. ml Action taken next week will determine the force and th strength of the student body next year. sh lei to Letters to the Editor - gr Dear Editor: that we are not dormant, lazy lia We students form our charac- deadheads. Pass him Democracy o ter, ideals, ambitions and political (before the Kremlin passes him a doctrines while attending college,hammer a Le) b vi f which, in our case, is Carolina.th cadaeswo mbcei Printed below is one of the manythiplfom a.orde caice replies which I received in re- fr fsuetgvrmn hnU gards to my recent proposal for w o ae hwhmta ee a new student government which cmrhn n eiedmcai would be based on the present gvrmn,ntadcaosi. a form of our national government, Toa hdik This reply is absurd, but even EdtrsNe:TeaoeqtdT worse it is the expression of aletrioufeinurficad disgusted student filled with pes- cnb enb noes e simism. It is a challenge to everysingC student, faculty member and of- Da dtr ficial of this school. I em htpasfrte( QUOTE . . .197smescolaetiln My Dear Mr. Chadwick: - h omtv tt.Iudrtn Are you so naive as to sup-ththebadasntytme pose that a mere change in stu- eiiedcsona otelnt dent government would correctoftesm rssinadth all our evils? This crew ofmanriwhcitstobopse deadheads, of which I am a char-ertd ter member, could not be aroused Thrfe,Isollietpon by anything short of the A-bom. u oeojcin otesme Instead of awakening interest Insesosithpa,inheoeal their own form of government, ta h 97sme eso a your plan would only serve to con- b prtdt h raetsts fuse them further. If they cannot fcino aut ebr swl comprehendtthe simploformoofaas,students governmnt we owhave bhow rM main objection ias ht run Fh couldthey ver ope t gras mnin an sickmer bye vin for ek .t yourschme?As ood s iistae candidaterscwhoo embraceih in u wold ony seve tomake theWeis aforst of moe docrat WHAT THS PLAC NEEDSform eigh wstuend governents thn fe IS A ABSLUTEDICTTOR-itwer onfusing tohow himithatewe st SHIP.Thentherewoul be omprewshools and desie tieocrTis ev sel. 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George Bidault, Foreign Minis of France, is the youngest of big Four, being a mere 47. s pre-war career was conspicu sly intellectual and unpolitical, iching its climax with the chair history at a lycee in Paris. ring the War while in a Ger in camp, Bidault went through it same moral transition which uok many out of their political hargy and he dedicated his life the resistance forces. In that tivity he achieved the Presi icy of the National Resistance uncil. Coming above under )und at the war's end, Bidault s been President of the Pro ional French Government and reign Minister. Diplomats have termed Bidault's nd, "Accurate and nimble" chaps profound. Slow to make his mind, he is adamant in nding up for his convictions mn in the presence of far more :endant personalities. Bidault, >ne, of all the delegates, has the (LKING ABOUT: ampus Politics-Ar in Merit or Populk Ah, what weather! This is the wson for anything. Swimming, seball, loafing, tennis, lolling, ribathing, taking it easy, and o foofing of'f And all you have do to make long distance call have a balb Simple, ain't it? all then, , , Oswald!! Byery spriug about this time, university holds its annual dent body and class elections. i quite a time for all. One of local machines gets well oiled I puts up a candidate. Then ~y all get plastered and afflict ~ir condition upon a pile of de seless posters. Just for pub ity. A fellow named 'Kilroy uld be a cinch for any job. [haven't had too much experi :e in campus elections. Once t year I was on my way to a ss and passedl by the ballot box moil of a May Queen contest. one darling sorority sisters! ey grabbed me from all angles ad possibly curves) and yanked to the booth. I managed to it my vote, but I also madec cer n I'd pass that ODK circle sin. I spent all morning walk aimlessly by. 've noticed that in nmany of the jor elections all the way from immar school to college, that many cases the candidates that the most laughs also get the st votes. Wear false teeth, din y red flannels and throw a pie your face, and you'd probably ~t your opponent who just ummed his galluses and blew nose musically. ENT BODY PRESII OUSE Moscow Delegates S I Great Contributions By JOY4 suavity, the Gallic charm which so < often can calm a heated argu- N ment. He is the best compromiser N of all; a realist in acknowledging t the battle between East and West, c Bidault is trusted by both sides v because he does not play one s against the other. He realizes a that seemingly irreconcilable t points can be dissolved by start- I ing with small disagreements and s progressing to larger ones. In : Bidault perhaps rests the respon- 11 sibility of obtaining a meeting of c minds and successful compromises. I Bevin, England's delegate to the a conference, is in the rather diffi- d cult position of representing a s country whose greatness has de- o clined, a country whose word once c carried great import bit which e now has deteriorated into advi- t sory opinions. I Bevin has the least advantage- p ous background of any of the dele- is gates; he became a labor leader b early in life achieving, as a cli max to his career, the amalgama- F tion of the General Worker's Un- ni ion. His first public office was d that of Minister of Labor and h Supply in Churchill's Coalition s Government of 1940. v Bevin's personality is a direct I outgrowth of his background--his 1< e Officers Chosen' rity and Prestige? By BII Why is it that college students a sacrifice the chance to get a really 13 capable man in office, by casting ballots for a friend, a "Boy, is he 0 (or she) good looking!", or the ti campus buffoon? Apparently, no t4 qualifIcations are necessary. c< I don't see It quite that way. A a1 colossal failing of our national a and state governments is that ten- ti dency to look at candidates out- a wardly and not see what they are or stand for. That same falling n is present here, and a little S thought on your part would help, ti both on our campus and in future o: life. n Many men throw their hats into d the ring just for the political b prestige of the position, and never give a thought about doing any- s thing constructive for whom they d represent. It may be nice to look a back on, but what good could e those office holders possibly do A us or the university ? b Well, the blame lies partly on og you, the studlents who do the elect- si ing. You go off half-cocked, and k seldom give a thought to who's t< running until you go to vote. Too ci many times I've heard, "Who did h you vote for? Lemme mark mine di that way too." And, "Who's this V guy ? Think I'll vote for this 'un. His name's prettier." And many w other things. It sounds funny. Yeah! But el you know it's true, tool You've fi seen It, heard It, probably said It C at one time or another as well. di But there's really no need. bi Wouldn't It be a lot better and enaler. too, to find outa littl w VENT how "E HAYES w pportunism stems from his pre ious necessary attitude of "mak< whatever you have do, 'til some hing else comes." His blunt suc ulent words reflect his past of rorking with persons to whon uavity was unknown-incident lly his lack of finesse has beer he cause of embarrassment t< nglish career diplomats. Bevir corns criticism, makes no com romises, giving his opponents the apless opportunity of merely ac epting or rejecting his proposals [e is best known for his rapic bility to cut through excessive etails in order to reach the es ence of an issue. His simplicity f thought and expression couk ertainly be valuable in a confer nee if the others were addicted admiration of that quality. evin's greatest weakness is his urported egotism which naturally offensive to men of equal cali re. Molotov, Foreign Commissar o1 ussia, is one of the two domi ating forces at the conference ue to the significant power of is country. Early in life he as ociated himself with the Bolshe istic Russian Social Democratic arty adopting the name of Mo stov from Molot meaning ham .L ROUTHI bout whom you want to vote for? e sure you're helping elect some ne who really has Carolina's in rest at heart, and wants to bet hr its conditions as far as his mntrol goes. It would help our udent government immensely rid go a long way toward pulling ie student body closer together iso. Now doh't get me wrong. I'm at blaming ALL of you voters. ome of you are really conscien ous about this topic. But most you don't give a hang, and any don't even care enough to rop by the voting box and cast a allot. So you don't vote. And when >mleone gets in office whom you n't like, you gripe and moan dcuss about it, yet you didn't ten try to get anyone else in. nd don't think your vote won't 3 missed. In case of a tie, or e less than a majority, your nail, seemingly insignificant bal t could mean the deciding fac >r in an important contest. It >uldl mean the difference between avmng a capable man for presi mnt, or a social-climbinig bum. rh would you want? Well, that's the way it stands itih me. It won't be long until e'll be going to the boxes to ect class and student body of cers. And as members of the arolina student body, it's your sty to vote, and vote with your -sin, not your pencil! Give it a littl, thought. You on't raere It The Barter Post By PEGGY TREXLER There's nothing new about college students throwing dice, but it is very unusual when Duke University officials en courage the game as is the case at DUKE. A group of students have been rolling the galloping dominoes with the full approval of their professors. They're throwing the dice in the interest of science. Duke has been conducting research in a field known as Parapsychology. It's designed to test scientifically many of the popular ideas which science has previously dismissed as superstition. For example, the para-psychologists are trying to determine whether there's anything to what is commonly called "mental telepathy" and are now trying to ascertain if it's possible for some people to actually controP dice with their mental powers. A report on the experiment states that in 600 rolls of the dice, the teams scored hits on an average of more than four dice out of six when concen trating on a given number. That's far above the law of chance: ' * * * * The students of Valparaiso University have a new plague on on the campus. The current mania cannot be compared to the fads of the 1890's, this the "mechanical age." It seems that every ninth co-ed owns a motor scooter. The once-neutral vets are up in arms over the situation since one lively co-ed ran down the mailman carrying their subsistence checks. * * * * A fifth of brandy plus the ingenuity of Dr. Arthur Cole, Jr., has enriched the University of Tennessee's entomology collection by hundreds of insects. While serving in the Army in India, Dr. Cole spent his spare time in the jungle collecting insects and mosses. Methyl alcohol, the usual preservative, was unavailable so Dr. Cole used brandy or whiskey. Back to the United States by way of the regular Army mail came his collection in their unusual preservative. * * * * Although the recent mid-term exams have lodged very se rious doubt in our collective minds that there could be a harder means of obtaining an education, a graduate of the theology department of BOSTON UNIVERSITY has found another way. James Doty and his wife plan to tour western . Europe this year on a bicycle in order to learn more in con nection with the research and study of church history. Ap parently Mr. Doty feels that after the recently terminated disturbance in Europe it will be necessary to personally ex amine the well known spots of Europe to be sure that they are still there before making any reference to them. * * * * A modern "Sir John Mandeville" by the name of Believe It Or Not Ripley, has libelled Wake Forest College in one of his recent cartoons. In a syndicated cartoon Ripley showed a picture of Earl Prevette LL.B. Philadelphia, with the statement: "Com pleted 32 courses in law, passed the state board of examiners, was licensed as an attorney-at-law, was graduated with a college degree, all in 5 months! Wake Forest, N. C." Prevette * actually spent four and one-half years, not five months at Wake Forest. After the appearance of the cartoon, letters began to ar rive for College officials, one from a woman in Chicago, now enrolled in the DePaule graduate school, who learned last week that her thesis was not accepted. Her exam for a Chi cago principal work is coming up in June and she needs her M.A. first. * * * * From the DUKE CHRONICLE comes the story of the big freshman football player who was asked to appear before Dean Manchester at the end of the first semester because of a decidedly poor scholastic record. Asked the Dean, "How did you ever end up with four F's and a D'?" "Well", said the boy, thinking it over, "I guess I just con centrated too much on that one subject." * * * * The newest addition to extra-curricular activities at LOU ISIANA STATE Is Swing Inn, the students own night club complete with floor show and Friday night dances. The club is under the sponsorship of the Student Council. mer. At this point he buried the military life becoming the Chief of man, becoming a tireless automata Safdrn ol a I i of the Communist Party. Hie as- Setassduinmeg Warl tat of Hpe sociated himself constantly with nx sinetwsta fse Stalin, sharing his rise and be- cial envoy of the President to coming in 1939, Foreign Commis- China, which schooled him in the mar. art of diplomacy, the art of main Molotov has been termed "per- taining the respect and admiration haps the best executor of policy of both sides during controver in the world"-nter.est in minute sies. details, an orderly mind "imper- As is the case with Bevin, Mar vious to reason and oblivious of shall's personality is an outgrowth fact," great knowledge of parlia- of his training. His bluntness, mentary tactics and a humorless conciseness, impatience, and pur personality all tend to make him posefulness can be traced to his an efficient exponent of Commun- military education. He is dis msm. No personal relationships Passionately concerned merely stand in the way of the execution with facts as they are and not as of these policies: in fact, lie has they are portrayed; concerned no particular friendships resulting with the sources of trouble rather in a frigid character with but a than with their manifestations. O single purpose-the furtherance of This delving into the causes rath Rusa' dedesires, the furtherance er than dwaddling with the effects of al -eoe y the expression should prove a valuable asset to "y country right or wrong." To the Conference. recapitulate, Molotov epitomizes As can be seen, each man Rusassuspicion, her Isolation- through the differences in his per am, an d her expansionism. sonality could contribute some thersall, Secretary of State of thing worthwhile to the confer th . S., shares with Molotov the ence. Whether each delegate wili toieght at Moscow in deference do so, or whether the conference to rth im ota c of the . . will evolve into a fiasco remains