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CROWING FO: UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associa Distributor of ( Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" is publishe4 by and for the students of the University The opiNuons expressed by columnl#ts 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 COLUh Jack Morgan, Eric Opp BUSINES Jim Horton, REPORTOR] Carolyn Busbee, May Herbert, Frances Collier, Rita Webb, Ann Chandler, Jackie Southerland, Tommy Herbert, Marnie Manning, Lawson Yates, Bobby Smith, Ruth Barker, Mary Bloodworth, Olga We Know Now. Moving a tired finger over this beat-up typewriter in our next-to-last editorial, we can't help but feel the many years of ex pectant waiting spent here at Carolina. We can't get excited over the coming session, the 89th, of the General Assembly of South Carolina, for we now know. We camp here brazenly inAffen ton the conservative, resigned attitude of fellow stu dents who were seniors. But now we know. Next Tuesday morning, when the legisla ture meets to ponder over the general wel fare of the state for 1950, appropriation bills, consolidation bills and more bills will be strewn about committee rooms recklessly. Some will be passed, others pigeon-holed, but most will merely be discussed. The solons will play their little game of politics, make what to some appear all-important decisions and return to their constituents triumphantly exhibiting their accomplishments. But we can't get excited over all this. We now know different. We know that these popularly elected legis lators aren't concerned with the state as a whole. They're primarily interested in ap peasing their constituents by presenting bills favoring constructive changes in their own counties. And we can't blame them one bit, either. Their job, and they're taught this when embarking on their political career, is politics and they aim to become top-notchers. To our dismay, the South Carolina politician finds himself unable to speak his own mind. He must make ties with persons of shady reputation. He learns to compromise, not stand up for his or his people's principles. We know this because a politician told us so. Notwithstanding the above handicaps, there is still a little hope left for this back ward, extremely backward, state. We still have a few potential statesmen who will as sume the 170 seats in the General Assembly. This element is genuinely interested in the future progress of the state and it is to them that The Gamecock extends a hearty wel come to Columbia and the State House. We hope they will assume their seats with free minds and, when the session is ended, return home with' clear consciences. Not one of the legislators coming here Tuesday can do this without first seriously considering the plight of higher education Happy New Yeai 1949 wasn't the greatest year in Caro lina's history, but neither were we the great est students in her long and historical exist ence. This, a lot of us are prone to forget. We don't mind throwing a bit of dirt here and there about our school but we fail to realize that it's the student that makes the school. Sure, we didn't make the progressive steps ncesary to keep us in the same category wth many of our sister schools. But if we didn't, we have no one to blamne but our selves. We may blame school officials, teach ets,.politicians and the rest, but in the long r*n it's our red wagon. 'With this reminder in view, The Gamecock bIievoe- we can face the coming year, 1950, t@ dor'emaature outlook and realize that earolina to be better, we must be better, 0i$ruS1vr CCocIC X A GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA ed 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 [NISTS enheimer, Rudy Rivers. 3 STAFF Bennie Helms AL STAFF Edwards, Martha Matthews, Barbara McSwain, Kenneth Powell, Tom Price, Dick Dunlap, Jimmy Howle, Bill Kaufman, Al Gibert, Lily Groover, June Marshall, Barbara Derrick, Elizabeth Traylor. It's Just A Game among the state-supported schools of South Carolina. They must realize that over a mil lion dollats is wasted annually in over lapping and duplication of courses and teachers' loads among the six state-supported schools alone. This means money out of the taxpayers' pockets. This new group of potential Santa Ulauses for the state must understand that if we don't consolidate the programs of higher edu cation at The Citadel, Clemson, Winthrop, Medical College, Orangeburg A. and M. and South Carolina we will have the most fouled up system of higher education in the coun try. There will be no organization. There will be no standard budget upon which to operate our schools of higher learning. If they haven't already been told, the new representatives will learn in record time just how disorganized the system of appro priations for our state schools is. They will see prominent men bickering over who gets what and how much. They will learn what it took us four years at South Carolina to understand - that the state can only fall backward if it maintains its current lacka daisical attitude toward coordinating and consolidating higher education. There was once a bill (H-1715) which called for this consolidation. It was strongly endorsed by Governor Ransome Williams in 1945, and Governor J. Strom Thurmond in 1946, 1947, 1948 and again in 1949. The House was favorably impressed by the feasibility of this bill, the Peabody Report, and passed it. But the Senate pigeon-holed it. One of the first items on the agenda will be Representative Joseph F. Wise's re-intro duction of this bill, which was printed in its entirety in the November 11 issue of The Gamecock. A group of influential educators, intensely interested in the idea of consoli dating but not in favor with the provisions of the Peabody Report, is, we understand, drawing up a new plan for consolidation. This will also be aired out in a House com mittee room. Whatever happens, The Gamecock urges the solons to consider some plan to consoli date the programs of higher education in the six state-supportedl schools now - not next year.--J.A.M. '?It's Up To You Certain interesting and encouraging trendls were noted (luring Religious Emphasis Week when over 1,000 persons per day crowded into the Naval Armory to hear men speak on religion and its relationship to cur rent everyday life. These students weren't required to attend. They were there because they wanted to be. It's our sincere hope that each student will pledge to himself to make every day a day of religious emphasis. Look around you. If you find fault with yodr environment or associates, don't condemn or gossip about them, bear with them and try to seek some constructive way to correct the fault. If you do this, we believe you'll find life worth liv ing and 1950 will be the happiest and most prosperous New Year you've ever experi enced.-J.A.M. leprWntd from January 1950 Issv* of Esquire "Did you rin Sadistic There's a law agair And it would b unmerc The tears and curs( and kit Would shatter i Still I wish I couldi Like a sunkist < And thirstily drink RUDY RIVERS Like Mu Everyone who reads this (and ill his relations and his ancestors) tl s a sniveling hypocrite, if he has m -he privilege of voting and doesn't hi ise it. No. Control yourself. S< rhere's no election going on. But th 'here have been and there will be. Political affairs make poor read- ti ing; they make a worse state gov- p( rnment. It is too beautiful to pre- m -end that you are a quiet citizen; ar rou do not want your hands in the si rilthy political mud of government. Ca Perhaps you do go down to the re polls with Henry occasionally and at tote for I. Stink Putrid, because m Elenry did., w: You are a chicken, a lily-liver. st, How many times have you cursed Si Lhe political set-ups in South Caro mia? And how many times have pc yrou asserted your voting privilege in to change this set-up? But hang m. around a bit. a This is behind the scenes, true- fr to-life reporting: One day a big man dressed in respectable black, accompanied by a disfigured dimwit pug, came in to the state party headquarters. w He was bluff, smiling, and direct. C "My name is Sneak," he said, V addressing the executive secre- U tary. "I don't want my name pub licized for that $5,000 I gave youf people; I just want a little return on it," and he smiled sitting in his el chair like godalmighty. The people gi in the office ran about like ants di in their nervous desire to please It this god who gave the party $5,000 01 for a "little return." ' ii My perspective has been warped al by this word "little." It turned out is that Sneak meant a return of mT around four or five hundred per cent. It also came to light that h< Sneak had donated a small sum to y< the coffers of the opposing party, ti "throwing them off his scent." Y Ha! s Letu *18 December, 1949 si To the Editor: In defense of myself, this might sound a bit radical; but then pro- ti gressives aren't conventionalists. ti I have been following the edi torials on consolidation since theyt ti started. I have been surprised; surprised by the fact that our so called leaders are so uninterested on such a vital matter as consoll-b dation. That is the most vital issue in the state. In it lies th~e answer to all the problems brought to light heretofore. Better buildings, bette tj c c C4 r4 F 0 C1 0 e d d, Copyright 1950 by Esquire. MI g, Sir?" t] Lover ist it, e a cruel, iful thing; is of kin h he atmosphere; iqueeze you out, range, fj you down. ir -r. r. a: P d A sggots .7 ti ti And what, my little darlings, did C te $5,000 go for? To purchase that 2 any votes, that's where. Is it Lrd to believe that there are 5,000 uth Carolinians who would sell eir votes? Ha! again. Like I say, you and your rela ns and ancestors are gentle I ople and kind and scrawny and oi ilked white. One "well-known b] d respected citizen" (politically g eaking), purchased votes on the. ~rolina campus in the not un membered past. (This on good f( thority; I wasn't here to sell h ine.) Could that be similar to f( alking into the lion's mouth and epping on an abscess? Not in h mth Carolina, Heaven's Name! And there is the story of theA litician who quoted the politician b paraphrase: " . .. that govern ' ent of politicians, by politicians, C id for politicians shall not perish y om this earth." What can you do? You can clean house. Luckily ,u can. An outstanding reason biy you can still vote in South arolina is because the'"right to _ te is a weapon which politicians e to beat on each others heads. e, the gigantic people, no longer ighten them. Politicians are everywhere, in very age and climate, like mag >ts in a carcass. They are in- re spensable, I've heard. They are t dispensable because they do what hi hers refuse to do, like maggots tu~ a car'cass. They are indispens- re )le because they understand the th t and lean of their projects, like si aggots getting fat in a carcass. ve This Is a'challenge to you, sweet- st 3arts. Can you take it or willb >u leave it? The.little thing that ol bulates enormously is the VOTE. ou have the tool, its use is pre.-C ribed. USE IT. th 00 1laried teachers, and other things tii hich are obviously too numerous Imention. This, then, is what I say: we, aC ie students of the university, area e ones who in the very near fu- cI are, will make the laws, appointd ze public servants, and educate. e next generation. These gentle- l en now in "power" need a re- E inder of this. One voice cannotE 3 heard half a mile but four G aousand can be heard 'round the rorld. He who hesitates is lost, i Yours very truly, to Martin B. Woand.a , a It's No E By JOE MOL Feels sort of funny to get back J Yain after signing JAM to a b riter's taken over for Jack Morgi me indulging in a bit of philoE )mparative economic systems in lasses et all Sports has no place on the edit ded to break precedence for this 'ith us for a while we'll expulgate )gions and discuss the coming Sou ournament which will again be 'ield House. Last year, if you recall, several C ie enterprise and came out of it a rowds which were scattered all ovi ven escaped with' their shirts. dse and hard-fought. This year, the second for the na ,ill give the fair city of Columbin eeded favorable publicity. We hav ponsor it financially, but it's beli ssors will take another stab at ate for the event hasn't been ann< From the way it looks now, Loi efending champions, will be the iould edge them for the crown thi eight brackets, No Bolony will go ie following predictions: 125 pound . 130 pound 135 pound 145 pound Bu 155 pound 165 pound 175 pound Bill Heavyweight Superlatives for the tournamer ghters, too. Fowler will be voted i the tournament and Pete Campa. r. Fowler's opponent, Alton Wh 'ill be declared the gamest. No Bolony-The Citadel boxing i rid ready to give the Birds a bai robably the best fight of the year ivision when Elerson Fowler tar Iton Whittier, who was in the Cj alrs ago. . . . Jess Alderman to ie classiest boxer he'd ever seen, iat "he'd ever seen," too. . . . I onference champion three straig I consecutive fights until he met ear, won't be fighting at 175 this ulldog Coach Matty Matthews, he ecell may move down to 135, pus] he finds the 145 bracket too he artin, former basketball star, is r i Bianding Street, across from t rother-in-law. . . . Other alumni a lves. . . . Jack "Stoney" Couch, f working with GMAC as a salesr >rmer Bird quarterback, left Parke sading for Columbia. . . . Jim Si ~et, eleven inches. The sportswr 3rifiedl it. lie was in stocking feet appen if Don Cox were another Iderman has a good team coming atter than last year's cracker-ja as off and they weren't in the be ampassi and Bill Rutledge, bantan espectively, were unanimously el< )50 Gamecock boxing team. Rutled ght this year.. . . And that's No] RIC OPPENHEIMER Between You Prognostication Univ< Many observers have dutifully to co: called the significant events of catior e past year, and a few experts bve attempted to foretell the fu- No re. One commentator foresaw gular flights to the planets by tioth e end of the century. We merely Chrou all predict the inevitable Uni- Cr rsity of South Carolina news conqi ories of 1950 and therefore can No reasonably sure of the accuracy Cearol our predictions. cie February 3 . ..Thousands of chick< irolina students, registering for tcrib e spring term, once more filled taNo1 it a maze of questionnaires and Note 'plication blanks. rie March . . . A high UN official, seebic eaking before a very small ses dience, said that the Uriited Na- The mns was the only hope for lasting vived ace.an June . . . A prominent South putes Irohina attorney and University Greet uimnus told the 1950 graduating state ass that the future of the nation termi ponds on the youth of America. A co September . . . In an exclusive been terview with a prominent Co- tiona] mbia sports editor, coach Rex tions riright boldly announced that the Cultu umecocks may not win many great Lines but that they will be fight- anda g every minute. of th October . . . A Gamecock edi. despi rial this week advocated the done option of the Pabody. Repo.t fou olony )NY n the No Bolony harness unch of editorials. The in, who is q the present ophical research on the the world-horn-rimmed orial page, so we've de one time. If - you'll bear into the unknown nether # thern Invitational Boxing held in Columbia in the arolina professors backed ive, despite the apathetic r the Field House. They knd the fights were all. tionally-recognized event, and Carolina some much en't heard who's going to eved that the same pro it again this year. The )unced. Aisiana State University, favorites but Carolina s year. In the individual out on a limb and make Pete Campassi, USC , Pat Thrash, LSU Elerson Fowler, USC ddy Bourgeoisj LSU Jim Briggman, USC . . Bill Jones, LSU hlandt, The Citadel Bill Rutledge, USC t will go to Gamecock most outstanding boxer ;si will be the most popu ittier, from The Citadel, ;eam is reportedly loaded tIle of it this year. . . . will be in the 135-pound igles with The Citadel's trolina camp a couple of i said that Whittier was He included Fowler in lale Matthews, Southern ht years and winner of Catholic University last year. He told his father, d had enough. . . . Grady ling Fowler down to 130 ivy for him. . . . Henry unning a spaghetti house he bus station, with his re doing okay for them tball and baseball star, rian. . . . Droopy Atwell, er high and wkas reported laughter is officially six iters measured him and . .. Wonder what would foot taller??? . . . Jess up and it should do even ek outfit. Their timing at of condition. . . . Pete iweight and heavyweight acted co-caiptains of the ge says he will definitely lolony, either. And Me ~rsity officials have refused rnment on the student publi l's opinion. ~ember . . . The university debating team won its twen consecutive victory by cing Dogpatch U. Professor torpheren is coach of the all ering dialecticians. vember . . . The Gamecock, ina student publication, re I a l etter from a Florida mn raiser who wants to sub to the paper in order to ob he latest poultry news. ,ember . . . Dean Jackson ated last week that hazing is Iden. (It is really strange to emany young men bald.) The United Nation. United Nations ham sur the first years of infancy ias succeeded in settling dis in India, Palestine, Iran, e and Indonesia. 'Three new owe their liberty to the de n~ation and courage of the UN. venant of human rights ham promulgated by that interna organ and the United Na Education, Scientific and ral Organization has done a deal In furthering education cience in the backward areas te world. The United Nations, te Russians obstruction, has an admirable job in its first