Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CROWING FO UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associa Distributor of 4 Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the students of the University The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writers are not necessarily those of "The Game JOE MOLONY, EDITOR RUDY RIVERS, MANAGING EDITOR JACK WALTHER, BUSINESS MANAGER News Editor ................. Jack Morgan Campus Editor .......... W. H. McCartha Sports Editor .......... Lloyd Huntington COLUI Jack Morg,an, Eric Op: BUSINEE Sam Sorota, Al Morgulls, C1 REPORTOI Carolyn Busbee, May Herbert, Gerry Hartman, Frances Collier, Rita Webb, Ann Chandler, Eliza beth Kearse, Tommy Herbert, Marnie Manning, Lawson Yates, Mary Louise Gaillard, Bobby Smith, Ruth Barker, Mary Bloodworth, Taft Dantzler, Jeanette Dickson, Olga Edwards, Roy Haymond, We Haven't Thanksgiving's coming and the turkey's getting fat. Please drop a quarter in the poor man's hat. If you haven't got a quarter, a nickel will do. If you haven't got a nickel, well, God Bless you. Most everyone is familiar with this simple little tone. It has been hummed during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons for nearly a century and it seldom fails to bring a smile to the hummer's face. It serves as a reminder that the season for charity, good cheer and holidays is just around the corner. But the words could be changed around a bit and they would explain the plight of higher education in this state better than any group of educators could. Appropriations are due and the buildings are getting old. Please drop a million in the president's billfold. If you haven't got a million a half will do. If you haven't got a half, well, God Bless you. Every year when the legislature meets, the presidents of the six state-supported schools go before the various committees and beg for a million so they can buy build ings, improve their plants, etc. Every year they get the same answer: "we haven't got it. We're a poor state." They then ask for a half million. The politicians argue amongst themselves, school heads begin to fight for the favored-son role and the legislators con clude that "we haven't a half million, either." So the presidents smile and say, "Well, God Bless you," as they go home near empty handed. This situation has existed for over a decade. There is no organized method for appropriations in South Carolina. The schools are competing with each other in stead of working together for the general betterment of the state. Engineering schools have sprung up at Clemson, Carolina and The Citadel. Pharmacy schools and schools of business administration are offering added competition. This competition adds up to duplication and unnecessary and wasteful expenditure of state money. And the state Babcock On Ri Fourteen southern states ranging from Maryland to Texas have pooled their educa -tional resources to enable the South to com pete academically and technically with other sections of the country to form the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education. South Carolina is represented by Governor J. Strom Thurmond, President R. F. Poole of Clemson, President Marshall Brown of Presbyterian and Dr. Havilah Babcock of the University of South Carolina. Other states have three trustees and their governors to represent them. The Board will hold its first meeting No vemnber E4 at Biloxi, Miss., in conjunction with a conference of Southern Governors from the states represented. They will dis cuss higher education in the South. One function of the board Is to pay the d~ents who want to pursue professions which arerVt offered in their o'wn state. Their main (COGIf R A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ted Collegiate Press ,ollegiate Digest of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during the college year except holidays and examinations. cock." Publishing does not constitute an endorse ment although the right to edit is reserved. Society Editor ................ Jane Dowe Feature Editor ............... Paul Foster Copy Editor .............. Ruthe Kleckley Exchange Editor ......... Betsy Knowlton Circulation Manager . . .. Russel McGowan Asst. Business Manager ..... .Paul Field dNIST8 penheimer, Rudy Rivers. S STAFF iarles Clinkscales, Jim Horton. IAL STAFF Martha Matthews, Bill McDonald, Barbara MeSwain, Charmaine Nutt, Bill Novit, Weste Patton, Kenneth Powell, Bill Rogers, Tom Price, Dick Dunlap, Jimmy Howle, Bill Kaufman, Al Gibert, Frances Tuttle, Lily Groover, Pete Hyman, Celia Moore, June Marshall. 5ot A Nickell says it can't afford to match the schools' appropriation requests because it hasn't enough money I The Gamecock, in its previous editorials, has advocated consolidation of higher edu cation among state-supported schools and we have met no formidable opposition. We have advocated this because we believe it would increase efficiency at the individual schools, save the tax payers around a quarter of a million dollars and would organize higher education on a state-wide level in South Carolina instead of encouraging localism and competition among individual schools. Our opposition hasn't come out openly, but we have an idea where it lies. The old, con servative element, particularly in the Senate, can see nothing but disaster if higher educa tion were consolidated here. It would cost the state too much money and it would cause The Citadel, The Medical College and pos sibly Winthrop to fold up, they argue. But they offer no sound logic for their argu ments. On the other hand, proponents of the con solidation plan, show just how each school, the state as a whole and each individual tax payer will benefit by consolidating the school programs and having a central 13-man com mittee appropriate money for the entire state system. Plans were drawn up 20 years ago to eliminate anticipated duplication and overlapping in our higher education system. But the actual carrying-out of the plans has been stopped by the old-timers, the conserva tives who are afraid to move because they might disturb their shadows. Most of the school presidents, we under stand, are afraid they might lose authority if a central board werei set up. Some would refuse to relinquish some course even though it is in direct competition with an other school's which has better and more facilities for the course. This all adds up to personal pride. The individuals don't wish to sacrifice for the benefit of the state and its tax-payers. Theirs is a selfish attitude and, unless something is done and done quick, the state will be so contaminated that it will never rise above its narrow-minded ness to the prosperity it so justly deserves. -J.A.M. egional Board idea is to consolidate their facilities in order to benefit all. It was rumored that the Regional Board would ~iliscuss the graduate school programs and the overlapping and duplication of de partments in state-supported school of South Carolina. In order to squash the ru~mor, The Gamecock interviewed the university's repre sentative, Dr. Babcock for a statement. Upon being asked whether or not the Board has taken action or is contemplating taking action as to the elimination of dupli cating departments in our state-supported schools, Dr. Babcock replied: "I am sorry. I'm not authorized to speak for the Board or div'ulge Its plans." We then asked him how he felt about con solidation as a South ,Carolina taxpayer rather than a Board member. He answered: "Obviously, an educational unit should be situated where it will do the most good for the greatest number of people at the least expense to the taxpayer."-.J.A.M. SWEET ERIC OPPENHEIME Between Y Last week the Japanese prime minister boldly proclaimed that his government would reject any un fair peace proposal. On the othei side of the world, Germany was admitted to the Council of Europe and the dismantling of Germany's war industries ceased. Hjalmaz Schacht, head of Hitler's Reichs bank was publishing his autobi. ography and in the land of the rising sun the Mitsuis and Mit subishis were doing business as usual. At Flanders. Tarawa' and the Ardennes, doleful bugle sounds re echoed last week as a grateful na. tion paid respect to its heroes. Meanwhile Skorzeny, the German officer who ordered the massacre of American prisoners during the Battle of the Bulge, and most of the other war criminals had been released. Just two years ago I interrogated a war criminal who admitted his guilt. He was one of the very few, who with a peculiar courage and the morbidity to retell a gory tale, confessed of having committed ghastly atrocities. His name was Hans Brenner, sergeant of the storm troops at concentration camp Mauthausen. "In June 1943 I was called to the horse stables of Mauthausen. When I arrived I noticed 40 prison ers huddled on the floor of the stable. The prisoners were told to undress and one after the other they were led into an adjoining room. There the attending storm trooper faked a physical examina tion and the prisoner was placed against a measuring apparatus in stalled at the wall. I stool behind this apparatus which had a hole through which I could shoot the prisoner as he RUDY RIVERS On Looking into the mirror was poor psychology. I can hardly live with myself. The destruction was unconfined. For all these twenty-three years, the delusion has persisted. The body beautiful is a joy and a thrill. But the mirror is too faithful. The body does not exist. I looked into the mirror critical ly for once, not admiring, without prejudice.' It was there. All the things a man should have. All was there except the correct proportion. The muscles were slender de fined bulges; the bones, ugly out crops; the nose too long; lips too full; ribs too prominent; chest too flat; legs too slender; knees too knobby; stomach too hard; shoul ders too knotty. Scars were here, freckles there; moles, wens, birthmark, veins, and bit-to-the-elbow fingernails. It was there, the whole sorry miserable truth. And being critical of myself, Turke' The GAMECOCK staff will take a much-needed vacation next weel to join in with all America in ob serving Thanksgiving Day and the holidays and festivities surround. lng it. However, we will go bacl to work the following- week ane resume regular publication. Students may have noticed that the paper has been reduced In sis4 from ten to eight pages. This was caused by a sharp decline In na. tional advertising. We aren't the only newspaper affected by It There's been an overall slump ii advertising throughout the nati which has hit everyone hard. The drop-off should pick up around the middle of December and then w4 will resume our tom-page editions With the advent of Thanksglv. lag, we sheld all sit heck ad take DREAMS :u And Me leaned against the wall. Other in mates were forced to clean the bloody floor before the next pris oner was led into the chamber." Brenner, while reciting this event, was completely unemotional and unconcerned. He observed that he had just carried out 'commands and that he would always be loyal to his fatherland and its leaders. Books can never describe the heinous crimes committed by the Nazis. More than 6 million per sons were gassed and shot in Ger man extermination camps. The tortures that preceded the actual killings were even more horrible. Few of the criminals were tried and even fewer convicted. Men have short memories and the dead have died in vain. How Old Are You? Youth is not a time of life-it is a state of mind; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imag ination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People only grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair-these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amaze ment at the stars and the starlike things and thoughts, the un daunted challenge of events, the unfailing Ippetite for what next, and the joy and game of life. Prediction Carolina 13, Georgia Tech 7 Man became critical of others. The more I looked, the sadder. The man on the beach, brown, glistening, pretty, is not so much so. Something is out of kilter with him. He is a blond. Blue-eyed. Brown-skinned. An indescribable monstrosity. He is dark-haired. Brown-eyed. Dark-skinned. And incongruously, because it is tem pora'ry. The man on the beach is well muscled, bow-legged, and hard bodied; but he is knock-kneed, has flat feet, wears pointed ears, and is flat-nosed. Or perhaps he has snaggle teeth, a hairy chest, six ~fingers, and moon eyes. And the mirror is too faithful. The mind picture was clouded with propaganda and prejudice. The mind picture was so perfect that the eyes lied. But in one lucid, courageous moment, prejudice wvas lax, and the cruel truth crept out of the mirror, screamed from the mirror. And he sees, who looks.... (s On! stock of ourselves and our pre dicament. What have we to be thankful for? Where do we go from here? Well, we should be thankful that we're American. and living in a land of plenty where opportunity is open to everyone -even the poorest of the poor. There is no little man in America. Anyone can go right up to the top of the ladder. There'. plenty of room for the man of ability at the top, too, and he doesn't have to show a strain of blue blood to get there. This, above all, we should be thankful for. With this thought in mind, each member of THE GAMECOCK staff wishes you the very best of luck during the holidays and trusts that you have a happy and prosperous Thanksgiving Day.-,LA.M. JACK MORGAN As I See It What do you plan to do when you finish school? How do you expect to earn your living? Early in the fall, Kiplinger Magazine, published in Wash ington, issued a report on its findings regarding the best jobs available for college graduates today. This report may sliodk a lot of Carolina students because, as it said, many of the jobs students are looking forward to today are over crowded fields where the chances of advancement are as slow as getting the job itself. Lying ahead of the average young man starting out in life arq forty to fifty years of work. That's quite an in vestment, and it warrants some shopping around. Some jobs and careers are oversupplied with young appli cants, others are undersupplied. The latter may not suit you, but .they offer more chances of getting ahead, for the crowd around them is thinner. Tomorrow's jobs will be scarcer than at any time in the last ten years. That means that the 'competition for them will be keener. It will put a premium on education and training because employers naturally will want to hire only the best qualified men. It's part of the great American tradition that everyone can aspire to be a white-collar worker. But it would not make sense for all of us to want to be bankers or lawyers or doctors. Actually the so-called professions such as medicine, law, teaching and engineering provide only four million jobs in this country. That's just six and a half per cent of all workers. Neverthless, every year more young people try to get into professional fields. Some of this misdirected ambi tion results from the fact that many young people have no idea of the other wide fields of opportunity open to them. There are more than 20,000 ways of earning a living. It 4 would save a lot of heartaches as well as time and money if young people canvassed this broad field carefully before deciding to study law simply because lawyers seem to have nice automobiles. This just as true in the field of journalism. The newspaper is not as glamorous as the movies would have you believe and the pay, especially in the south, is small. ENGINEERS. By far the largest of technical fields, engi neering is currently crowded. Almost a quarter of million students are enrolled in engineering courses. At present there still are excellent opportunities in the profession for men already trained, but stiff competition for jobs lies ahead of those past finishing school. CHEMISTS. Almost double the pre-war number will be graduated from chemistry courses in the next four years but the best opportunities are for those with advanced degrees Dr specialized experience. ARCHITECTS. The demand for houses and other new buildings is expected to make plenty of work for architects For the next few years. DOCTORS. There are not enough graduates in prospect to meet the need for physicians, dentists, nurses, medical laboratory technicians and other positions. LAWYERS. There are already too many young lawyers for the openings available. The profession is overcrowded at the lower levels and is likely to become moreso in the next few years. TEACHERS. It is estimated that a million teachers will have to be trained in the next ten years to staff the nation's schools. And after the next three years, it is expected that high school enrollment will increase by about 35 per cent. Other -overcrowded jobs, or jobs that are expected to be so in a few years, are those of pharmacy, personnel workers, business administrators, journalists, and, in the "blue shirt" Field, radio repairmen, electronics technicians and railroad workers. All-round machinists, jewelry workers and printers are in demand now. Such is the report. Students here and everywhere should' study it. You shop around a-plenty before you spend your money. You don't grab the first thing that happens to tickle your fancy. Even more choosiness ought to go into the picking of a job. Consolidation Comment Here are some of the comments Ascaino oenn orso rrom the General Assembly to The SaeIsiuin fteUle LGamecock's question: "Are you inStesadIkohwteyel favor of some plan of consolidat-onscalw. ing higher education In the state- r .0 us,Tuteo h supported institutions of SouthMeiaColg:ys)btnt Garolina ?":tomkthmeiaclega V. G. Arnette, House member sho fteUiest. from Williamsburg: (yes) - "An Rt .Obre rse fUC averall consolidation, but no state(y)-smartNohCr institution to lose Its Identity." ln'. Werber Bryan, Sumter: (yes)-.- omrGvrnrRnoeJ 'An overall council to prevent du- Wlim:" prcaeyu rt plication of services, provide forinmefryopinofteea new ones and save costs." bd eot syuko,Iwi Henry N. Obear, Fairfield: (yes) Gvro ttetm htti --"Through plan already before Rpr aeu,adIedre Rouse."prcialevrpatoitItI D. N. River., Jasper: (yes)--m oeta hsRpr ilb 'With reservations."reie.Wcolsaetette Horace W. Sawyer, Edgefieldthuadofolrsndavmre. md Charles B. Culbertson, Laurens, efcetIsiuin. both answered, "Yes, definitely so." K R rw ueitnet Walter T. Lake, Newberry andSmtrShos"Iyurlte graduate of Carolina's law school: yuakdm ogv yrato "I shall make every effort to seetoapnofcslitngher that bill H-1517 plus the proposed gaso ihreuain anMendment Is brought before the "naseigyu etrIwl House at Its next session." sttfisthtIanosuicet Letters were also sent memberslyIfreastanspcicro f each school's Board of Trustees,poalokntwrdcnsiain the school presidents, editors of theorcrdntn.Hwv,fr school newspapers and other Inter-yerIhaeadtecniio ested persons. Here are a few of ta hr hudb oeoe-l their replies to the same question: pann ftesaesatvte J. R. Westmoreland, Trustee of i ihreuain hssol The Citadel: (no)--"The few statesbednnoolyfreansf having a similar law would like eooy u nodrt lmnt to be rid of it, I am a me,mbr ofriayinsengprpitos Sh xctv omte f thefrmte GettuineralfAse Unlte"