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A Fitting Memorial This week a beloved member of the university faculty died. Father R. G. Bell, director of the 'Y' for 31 years, was taken on Friday night, leaving a void which can never be filled in the hearts of those who knew him. Mr. Bell and his 'Y' program brought a new aspect to the campus with the religious, civic, and social parts of the personality and plan. In the period of years, his name has become practically synonymous with the 'Y' at Carolina. It was felt that such would have been the result with any organization that he might have chosen for his life's work. Well might Carolina be thankful that he was led, and chose, to use his years of service here. We have wondered what a fitting memorial inay be. We have found that a recommendation has been made that the ' Camp be named for him. To this recommendation we add our approval. But we also say that the most fitting memorial is that the students make the 'Y' one of the most vital parts of their campus lives-that the love for truth furthered in the life of Father Bell not die out with his passing-and we know that is the memorial which he would have wanted. Of all the members of the campus, Mr. Bell was most often asked for guidance and help. He was the most sought after person upon the return of most alums. Still A Danger THE GAMECOCK is still under the potential danger of n "advisory" board. This board met last week and on the -urface seems very safe for all publications. Yet its strength as not come to a test. Therefore it may be considered as a definite danger to the student publications. S;,'o the board sets up its own rules and standards it may someday revise any resolution it now makes. It was set up merely as a board of publications, with no stipulations made. Many students have said that the support of the student body is behind THE GAMECOCK in its stand on the issue. We were told that the students do not think, but willingly follow anyone in criticizing any group on the campus. Per haps in some instances this is true. However, at this time the students should, and do, realize that the plan is dan gerous-not in a criticizing way-but in the feeling that their right to a free press may be taken away. Therefore, they have felt it their duty to object to anything that may endanger a right that is granted by the State and Federal Constitutions. We feel that many members of the administration believe that the board is only an advisory one, but that they fail to realize that no restrictions are placed on it. We also wish to point out again that while the board is called "advisory" it states in its initial letter that it will "establish editor E. ships" and "develop general policy." These do not come under the general category of advice. We have also been told that the Board has an equal number of students and faculty. At present, this is true, since the Dean of Journalism and the Head of the USC News Service are not held by one faculty member. How ever, we have no reason to believe that this will always be true. The fact that the chairman of a committee does not vote is not true if a tie vote occurs. In such a case, the question would probably be an all-important one. As students, we are supposed to be questioning-there fore we question the reasons for the need of a new board of p)ublications. We ask that THE GAMECOCK be taken out of its jurisdiction andl left to the student board under which it has worked so smoothly. We say that we still stand in our opposition to the new board. Me GA 4 CocGI CROWING. FOR A GREATER UJNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Memuber of Associated Collegiate Press. Dlstribustor of Collegiate Digest Founded January 30, 1908, with, Robert Elliott Conzales as the first editor, "The Gamecock" is published by and for the students of the Unearst ofmSouth Carolinad weengy oan idays, during the college The opitnions expressed by colunists ans letterdwriterst acot neces. endorsemsent. The right to edit is reserved. EDITOR OLGA EDWARDS MANAGING EDITOR TOM PRICE BUSINESS MANAGER PAUL FIELD ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Elliott Wardlaw NEWS BtyKolo CAMPUSBabrDeic SPORTS .C.Tnrle SOCIETYAnraCnde EXCHANGESMayBowrt COPYBbbSit FEATURES Jci oteln CIRCULATION Jh aah STAFF REPORTERSRthBrr,enPwl COLUMNISTS ~ ~Barbara D,Jc aterc Bobby cMaho, Lawon YaeB,obncy Stmhe h Betsy Knowlton Ex-Student Urges Attendance At Assembly Programs The editorial signed by Betsy Knowlton this week in The Game cock is not written by Betsy Knowlton at all, but is written by the members of a class in a news writing course. The class was chosen at random, and a straw poll was taken on the advantages or 'disodvantages of a control board for The Game cock. "The Gamecock can no longer be called a true student publica tion," says John W. Scott, senior. A junior, James M. Inabinette says, "I am wholly against the new publications 'advisory' board due to the fact that it will, in time, lead to censorship of the campus publications." Another senior, Ray Guest, says, "Who suggested the control board? Why? If I knew this I could give a more considered opin ion; however, I am opposed to any more control than is absolutely necessary." "I think that the new 'advisory' board of the Gamecock is violating Freedom of the Press as stated in the constitution of South Carolina and the United States government. The Gamecock isn't Pravda, of the campus Russia." Charles Robin son, junior. Mr. Craddock, who just came to the university for the first time for graduate work says, "I am unable to make any statement concerning the 'advisory' board of The Gamecock for I know noth ing about it." "The new 'advisory' board for the student publications is the most undemocratic move made by the administration of the school in its histoiy," says Rudy Thig P. M. Kozma, a junior, says, "The only satisfactory method to control any press is through the tastes of its readei's. If the press is below par, then its readers should either be educated to appreciate the finer things, or if that education is unnecessary, the readers should make their f higher wishes known. Reader con trol is desirable, but no other con trol is, for as Thomas Jefferson ' has aptly stated, 'Our liberty de pends upon the press and that can I not be limited without being lost.'" ( Another junior, Virginia Dove, 1 states, "The student body will no longer have a direct outlet for a expressing its views. The Game- f cock will no longer be the direct ' representative of student opin ions." t "The Gamecock has somehowv contrived to be a very good paper avidlly read by the students for i some 40 years. Even outside jour- i nalists seem to think The Game- e cock hasn't done badly as it has a been awvarded the national ACP rating for the last three years. Surely it can manage for another 40) years wvithout faculty interven- t tion," says Bill Lollis, another ' junior.p So the students of one class have E sp)oken. Not a wvordI has been change.d or~ erased. Not one opin- t ion has been left out or altered ~ i ny w11'~ ay. tl Letters To The Editor: To the Students- t I wish to congratulate everyone " conlcernedl for the edlucational and V insp)iirng assemb)ly programs that ~ have been planned for Carolina ~ this semester. Dr. Will Durant, P Louis Untermeyer, and the others S are names that have been familiar a to us through our college years, and now you are fortunate enough tI to hear andl see( these great ment in person. .I I was graduated in June and willh not have an opportunity to attend e' these programs, but, if I might attend, I would pay half of my 0 week's salary for the privilege. I' This is a lecture series far above ~ the average, and you students are| being given the privilege of at-|" tending. I sincerely hope that each 9 of you is taking advantage of it,: a not only of the lectures but of the 0 interesting weekly programs that have been planned. If not, you are willfully tossing away benefits ~ from your tuition fees. Now, even more than when I h was at Carolina, I know that all y >f the benefits of college do not t} rome from books and classes. b< We did not have assembly pro-. ul crams, but I regret now every de Ieligious Emphasis program or >rogram of any sort that I missed while I was on the...m.... I JACK WALTHER A Mesopota Once upon a time in far away lvesopotamia a semi-simian lad named Bog awoke with the first rays of the sun and departed for the local university. Now Bog was a bright boy and quick to learn ;o much so in fact that Bog's proud rather had spent the best part )f his life gathering enough wild berries to send the boy on this ill-important venture. The neigh bors, too, were well aware of his rapacity and as they watched him leave they assured each other that here at last was a soul who would Me day bestow great benefits upon mankind. When Bog arrived at Mesopo :amia U. he was immediately im ressed by the intellectual , at nosphere which pervaded even the nnermost recesses of the campus. o inspired was he that he re ;olved at once to live up to the lighest expectations of his father ind his friends. Thus Bog paid his tuition, gath bred unto him all the clay tablets ;hat his meager subsistence would illow and set to his task. He ead Gog's "Treatise on the Rise >f Mesopotamian Civilization." He "ead three volumes by a certain Dr. Smog on principles of science. EIe read philosophy, mathematics, religion, foreign languages, archi :ecture, and even home economics. lvery afternoon at 2 o'clock he vent to lab. Every morning at Helmut Stockmann Exchange Sb About Home Helmut Stockmann, a German xchange student from the prov nce of Westphalia, Germany, has vritten a column on the back ;round of his proviInce. IIelmuut ;raduated from Pedagogue Acad my in Luedenscheid, Westphalia, ast year. Upon his return to ermany, he plans to teach on he elementary level. "Westfalia terra est non vini era sed virifera." This excellent entence was employed by the Vestphalian mqnk, Werner Role ink in his chronicle "Praise of V"etphalia." This chronicle ap eared in 1478 and is the first erman study of home surround ngs. Westphalia is not a land of unshine or sensual pleasure, but land of strength. The heavy and ertile but rough Westphalian soil was always the home of a vigor us race, vigorous in figure, hought, vill, language and expres ion of arts. Westphalia is situated between he Rhenish-Franionian district in he wvest, the river Wever in the ast, the Rothaar Mountains in the outh and East Forisia and Oeden urg in the north. It is one of ;ermany's nuclear lands and has ifluenced the course of our his ary in a high degree. This is specially true of eastern West halia, the district between the 'enboburger~ Wald and the Weser. Eight centuries later this dis riet was the scene of struggles rhich were very important for dme dlestinly of our country. These ereI the struggles between the bristian Franks and the heathen hb Saxons, the struggles between harlemagne and Wisselimd. It as only after long fierce strug les that Wisskind acknowledged ie new leader and his Christian leas. A fter that, Charlemagne as able to unite the Germanic 'ie forming the first German eich. But in the hearts of the eople the great Duke of the axons, Wissekind still lives today ndl many legends are told of him. i the church of Enger, a small )wfl in the Weser hills, repose le bonds of our great Didnkind. he remembrance of him fills the eart of every boy of my native >untry with pride and reverence. In the following first centuries f the middle ages Westphalia yrmedi the important link of the ermanic advance to the east. It 'as the bridge from the Rhine nd the Weser to the Oder. West halian men and blood attributed great deal to the Ge'rmanization f' the east. Ma.iestic cathedrals, beautiful hurches, and rich town-halls still itness the brilliant riches of ope that in a few years none of ro will have to regret missing lese superior programs that have sen planned so excellently by fac ty members and your fellow stu mnts. JANE DORNE, "The Chronicle" Camden. rnian Tragedy 2 o'clock he went to bed. His in tellect, imagination, and insight grew by leaps and bounds. "All I am and all I know," quoth Bog, "I owe to my books and my pro fessors. They have guided me in the way of truth. Above all they have aroused my curiosity." And so the day came when Bog was to appear before the head master for his final examination. This dignitary seemed kindly enough and Bog seated himself in the designated place with an air of easy confidence. "My boy," said the headmaster, "we have done all in our power to inform you of the ways of life. You have shown great promise. Tell me, son, what have you learned?" "I have learned," answered Bog, "that the world is not flat but round; that our buildings would be more efficient if they were made of wood instead of mud; that free discussion is essential to prog ress-" The headmaster nailed him into a corner with a stare. He spoke forcefully, "You are nothing but a vise kid, a blight on our fair university. I have no other choice but to send you home." Consequently, Bog returned to the village of his boyhood and the indignant glances of his neighbors. He spent the rest of his days tend ing sheep. Guest Columnist dents Tell Province Westphalia's Hause era. In the 17th Century Westphalia once more stood out in the peace which brought the Thirty Years' Wtar 10 ant end. With that, West phalia disappeared from the scene of the great European historical events. The following time is for Westphalia an epoch of interior perseverance. Working hard the peasant lives on his farm, but he is free and knows what the word men. So he has been settled and is sticking to the ground up to this day. There are many strangers who, hearing of Westphalia, think of a large uninhabitable industrial district. But in reality only seven eighths of Westphalia belongs to the Ruhr district. In the second half of the 19th Century this in dustrial district of western West phalia extending between the rivers Ruhr and Lippe, sprang into existence and is nowadays] knowvn as Ruhr district, one of Europe's most important coal fields and industrial centers. Five and twvo-tenths million people, one half of the Westphalian inhabi tants, are living there. The other seven-eighths of Westphalia con sist of highlands, woods, and - arable land. In this part it is that my. native town, IHinden, is situ atedl. It is an old Weser fortress lying in the northeastern corner of Westphalia. Here the Weser dlug its way, many thousand years ago, through the Wichen Moun tains into the low-lying plains of northern Germany. So was formed the narrow gate, nowadays well d known as "Porta Westfalican." s From the top of Mount Wissekind the Kaiser-Wilhelm monument is greeting the Westphalian country. It was built in the last century by v a Westphalian architect. t Hlinden is an old bishopric and t became Prussian in 1648 in the r reign of the Great Elector. In 1259 the French were beaten in the Battle of Hinden by Ferdinand of Brunswick. The old fortifica- s tions of the town were demolished a by the end of the last century, but Hlinden, as a military town, has had a long, old tradition. Though the walls and trenches of the Weser fortress have disappeared, the nucleus of Hinden still shows the characteristics of a medieval fortress. So you can notice the typical narrow streets and the oldt houses with the projecting upper t stories, while the new settlements ,a on the outskirts of Hinden consist of modern houses, broad streets andl beautiful pleasure grounds. Following the old course of the dlemolished fortification you can s find a wondlerfu)l park round the town, known as "Glacis" and a favorite with young and old people, & especially with the young. The ' most important building of my t native town is the beautiful old c cathedral which was built some thousand years ago. It is espe cially its majestic tower that C makes a wonderful impression 0 upon the visitors. The Price Of Things By TOM PRICE English Teaching Santa Claus If you don't believe in the American democratic prin ciple of sharing what we have with those that have not, you should sit in on one of Doctor Havilah Babcock's Eng lish 129 classes. The good doctor has a unique system whereby each student who makes 100 on one of his quizzes is fined a dime. Quite a bit is realized from this system because the doc's quizzes aren't too tough, he gives one every day, and there are over 30 students in each of his 129 sections. About $5 has been collected in each section thus far this semester and .a class treasurer for each section has been appointed to care for the funds. When enough has accrued, Doctor Babcock and his dis ciples will undertake a worth-while project to help the needy. In the past they have bought oranges for the poor at Chrlat. mas, milk for underprivileged children, and a variety of other worth-while things for the unfortunate. With men in these United States who can still think of those who are not so fortunate while standing in the midst of plenty themselves, who can deny that this is the greatest country in the history of civilization? A Star Is Born The recent announcement that Don Earley, sophomore tackle on the football team, was named last week's Southern conference sophomore of the week by the Associated Press came as no surprise to most of the several thousand Caro lina fans who traveled to Atlanta for the game between the Gamecocks and Georgia Tech. Big Don, a modest 19-year-old, 217-pound youngster from Vandegrift, Pa., was playing in the second varsity game of his career; but despite his relative inexperience, he was the outstanding lineman on the field. Don recovererd one (eorgin Tech fnmble and intercepted a pass late in the fourth quarter to halt a Tech drive on the Carolina nine-yard line. The Gamecocks started there and drove 91 yards for the only score of the game. But for Earley's outstanding defensive play, the score might have read 7-0 in favor of Georgia Tech. Don Earley was in on most of the running plays at tempted through the middle of the Carolina line, and his ggressive charging was largely responsible for the inept Zess of the Tech passing attsck. Lineman of the week is the first in a lone string of onors due to fall on the shoulders of Don Earley, for the oung Pennsylvania giant is one of the finest prospects to wear the Garnet and Black colors for many a year. With sophomores like Earley and teammates Hugh W1erck, Bob King, Specks Granger, and several others, Coach Rex Enright should have one of the finest forward walls in ;he nation for several years to come. BARBARA McSWAIN Nhere Is The Student-Ftaculty blations Committee? At least one thing has been Itwudntbresaleo ade clear on the campus duringhoetaacotuuseligf he past fewv weeks. There is acoltearmntoudhef esp)erate need for more whole- fce.Btti rge-ap ome student-faculty relations. ~ t aeteci nce TFhe case is the same here thatofyurhulethtsms)r t is in any difference of opinion, aeto h apsnwcudb thether between warring kings orelmnt. he dirt-smeared children down Soeyas goa tun he block. Both sides refuse to fclyrltosbadwsstU ecognize the reasonability of theas tuetcnilomtte tiher's argument.Acodn toafresuet TFo my knowledge there is not a mme,tebadhl eua ingle group on the campus among meig,a hc iesuet Il the organizations which has asanfcutmmbrdiuseth s aim the bettering of student-grvaeso pobms fth acuity spirit,.ruste ersne.Tesr We have the pep club, which soswr o lascmltl oes a good job of boosting stu-held uterwadvlod ent spirit. We have AKG, ODK,inteshoafelgofudr SK and Blue Key, whose menm- sadn htde o em eras accomplish much of benefit hv enhr aey o the school. We have literary Istsborsilinesec? ocieties, engineering societies, so. I o,ti a eteIeltm ial organizations and businesstorvei.IftisitwrkI rou.00 u u n atn o t Yet we neglect cultivation of a Teei olmtMnt h ympathetic student-faculty spirit.go(thsbte-laincmi Il of our other wyork won't tecudd.I ol netk mount to a row of pins if fac- jitsuetfclysca f Ity and students (do not have mu- Sc far,wudrqietm ual respect andI liking for eachanefotTeywudpbbl ther. It appears that each group nusnesa irt utte as too much influence over thecolreutiamchfnrf ther for one to be able to take ighr hni o oiebe ffective action in the face of thetoadhebidnofabt? thff'yourrioouldepotiatoneCmsolina.