Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GtAA CROWING F UNIVERSITY OF Member et Assoc Distributer of Founded January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliol Gonzales as the first editor, "The Gsmecock" I published by and for the students of the Universit The opinions expressed by columnists and letter writers are not necessarily those of "The Game JACKIE SOUTHERLAND, EDITOR MURRAY SEAMAN, MANAGING EDITOR ELLIOTT WARDLAW, BUSINESS MANAGER News Editor .............. Ruth Barkei Campus Editor ........... Tommie Herber Sports Editor . . .. . Ralph Gregor3 COLL Bill Novit, Mordecai Persky, , CARTOONIE BUSINI Pedie Hiers, Bobby REPORTO Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Ba Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watson Arni Thanks Whee! We got a raise, we got a raise, we got .. Three cents extra from the boys and tw( cents extra from the girls. Let's see - oui corrected registration story said that ther< were 908 girls and 2,268 boys; hmn, x times y, plus, carry one, and that makes, uh - $18.16 extra from the girls and $68.04 extra from the boys. Altogether that means we raked in an extra $86.20. Now $86.20 won't change the fate of the world, and won't make the Gamecock thick enough to use as shoe nadding. but it cer tainly will help a lot. Who knows, if the ads hold out, we may increase to eight pages. You freshmen don't remember, but during the spring semester of last year, under the editorship of Olga Edwards and the financial management of Paul Field, the headache of the Publications Building called for another bromo when it was diminished to a paltry six pages. We swore that we would rise again . . 'cause just temporary said Mr. The flitter W Speaking of money, which I was - I have a hunk of solidified calcium to chomp. The "Carolina Review" has been neg lected - well, not exactly neglected-rather say that is has been slapped, or slugged, or almost knocked out. Its allocation has beer cut. Money, money everywhere, nor an3 cent to stand still long enough for spending. Hidden away in the cracks and crevices of this university are the men .and womer who write. They painfully place word afte1 word and call the finished product a shor story, a feature, or a poem, or an essay. Ant they brazenly or timorously send in theii work, for its trial run. Thus by student re action, though of course it is not the mos cultural in the world, the fledgling authol gets a whiff and may decide whether to con tinue his efforts or confine his poetica talents to addressing envelopes. The "Review" has put out one issue thi year. The end of March will bring anothe one. In this last issue there is an unusus amount of student products - why? - wh; else, natch, there ain't gonna be no more is sues aside from this one this semester. My bone is this. The Allocations Corr mittee didn't see fit to increase the "R< view's" paltry pittance. It didn't see fit t leave the money as it was. Huh, uh - it cu it, way down, boy. Old magazines neve die; they get choked away - many thank to the General. Money has to come from somewhere - I know. Student enrollment is down -- know. The Gamecock was increased - know. Eight dollars and fifty cents goes t the athletic department - I know and that' precisely what I don't like. I remember wa back yonder in high school when the fool ball tickets climbed up to fifty cents a gamn .-gadzooks, the noise! . And then there wa the high school all-star game, which cost on dollar - I made up my sister's bed the eri tire summer to earn the money for that gain - outrageous! Take my $8.60 and give it to the Game OR A GRRATER 'SSOITH CAROLINA iat.& Colegiate Pre. Collegiate Digest t of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during a college year except holidays and examinations. V cock." Publishing does not constitute an endor ment although the right to edit is reserved. Society Editor ........... Norma Bergm Feature Editor ...... Furney Hemingw Copy Editor ................. Patsy Hui e Exchange Editor ............ A. Nonymo Circulation Manager ......... Bobby SmI r Asst. Business Manager ..... John Paras MNISTS fosef Euringer, Eric Oppenheimer T - Al Simson SS STAFF 3mith, Nedra Gilmore RIAL STAFF rbara Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck Bill Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, e Green. A Million Field. So then Business Manager Elliott ai Editor Mordecai took over and the temporai settled into the rut of the permanent b cause printing costs zoomed upward and a vertising zoomed downward - and alloc tions from the university stood as still i the trees in the petrified forest. And the Gamecock became a bulletl board for coming events and the minuti of a thousand campus meetings. We coul not have features about people, about crap events; we could not carry stories of ii terest from other colleges. We settled dowi and we settled and settled and settled .. . Now as I said, this may not mean an ir crease in pages. Monsieur le Business Mar ager and I will have to work this out. Ad vertising will have to revive a little. Mayb we'll run a spasmodic eight pages; bu spasms are hard on the poor staff becaus we would be caught unprepared at times But nevertheless, we promise that some thing will be done with the money . . . yoi can bet on that !-J. S. ith The Sweet cock, to the "Review," to the Debaters, WUSC. Don't give it to the athletic fund for those football tickets have been grac fully deposited into the bottom of my tras can each year. I have been to only three foc ball games during my three years at this ur versity. Football brings fame to a unive sity - I know. Funny, isn't it that footbi has to be burdened with a university? Look at the Debaters. For years th< -have been among the best. They have giv< the university fame, not so much as has t] I football team of course, for we are not i -terested in education. They have broug honor to the university and proved that tI institution can produce brains and de thoughts and quick wits -- but then th .doesn't matter. They were cut. I Look at WUSC. Fifteen cents from bo sexes they get. What I know about rat a stations can be summed up in one word r nothing. But I do know this. WUSC is I valuable station. It is a practical, appli t course in radio engineering, in radio e - nouncing, in radio script-writing, etc. brings entertainment to the student body; - gives us a feeling of pride and accomplii - ment, for we know that this, our universi c has taught these people. Fifteen cents! t. The "Carolina Review," about which r started three hours ago, is indeed a symi s of the intelligence, the education, i standards of the university. People can - a part of this without actually being on i I staff - for they can contribute the woi I of their brains and their typewriters. How come, peoples? Don't you like wi B this university is? For this university 7v what produces the people and their edu< - tion. Are you ashamed of your handiwor e Are the stories childish? Are the poe: s amateurish ? You produced them, my u a versity. These are your children. Woi - you strangle education and become a prof a sional ball club? Oh, well, it's less work for the staff. . d the He an ay :to us th ho e LS 9n lemoram d y 0/ St.eve 1. To those who knew you 4. That you should die You were a friend, Before your time A model athlete Your fame and glory To the end. Leave behind - t 2. You knew the game 5. Now hearts are filled And played it well With grief and pain, With skill of which But in those hearts Words cannot tell. You will remain 1 3. How cruel of death 6. A sportsman great For one so great Who died in fame To place upon A friend to all - The list of fate; A credit to the game. -Richard M. Harper Box 1752, USC ERIC OPPENHEIMER ~The UN And Wur t- Many times I have beard the question asked, "Has the United Na .tions fulfilled the hopes of its founders?" But let me ask the question r- How many governments now in power in the various countries of the world have fulfilled all the hopes of their supporters? If fulfillment lis difficult even in what may be called the national sphere, much more so must it he in the international. The truth is that there are so many 3y problems in the world today that it is impossible for the best of human an organizations to solve or even attempt to solve all of them. In these de circumstances, achievement must necessarily fall short of aspiration. of Let us not, therefore, dwell too much on the failures and omissions of the United Nations; but let us rather think of what it has done. Let us remember the conflicts it has resolved or eased, any of which, but for its effort, might have led to a third world war. And let us think BP of the future. at The last five years have seen many striking achievements by the United Nations. Foremost among these is its successful effort in con th taining Communist aggression in Korea. The cost and sacrifice on the io part of the United Nations, and in particular, on the part of the United States has been tremendous. However, the Communist hordes have been frustrated and the Reds are much further from world domination a today than they were a year ago. The United Nations has also been ed successful in settling disputes over Indonesia, Iran, Israel and Kashmir. n.. The disposal of the former Italian colonies is an achievement which it deserves special notice. The General Assembly was thrown this knotty itproblem by the Four Powers and it solved the issue. Yet other events h-than these political settlements are in some ways more significant. Even ihmore Important are the United Nations efforts to strike at the roots Sof the world's ills - at the basic causes of wars. Two-thirds of the world's 2.4 billion people lack the food they need I for full growth and work. The United Nations Food and Agricultural ]o Organization finds they get less than the nutritional minimum of 2760 he calories a day - with one-third getting less than 2090. The average earthling dies at the young age of 26, according to the UN Depart hement of Social Affairs, and before then sickness destroys most of his hecapacity. One-third of the planet's people have income of less than kB5 $50 a year, according to the UN Statistical Office. Three hundred million people were living under foreign rule in 1951. Millions more tat lack basic freedoms, even in sovereign states. A score of nations deny ispolitical equality to women. Half of the world's people still do not know how to read or write, and yet the UN Educational, Scientific k? and Cultural Organization warns: "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defense of peace must be ins constructed." nli- The greatest UN challenge - and the most lasting battle - rests ild in these enduring problems. The Charter, in Article 6s, seekIng "con as ditions of stability and well being which are necessary for peaceful and frIendly relations among nations," pledges the UN to promote: (1) Higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions **of economic and social progress and development; (2) Solutions of international economic socal heah an relate BILL NOVIT The LuWLEine Wadiak is dead ! These words, shouted sobbingly by freshman who had never even met Wadiak, awoke me fro a peaceful sleep Sunday morning. It was truly difficult to believe that Wadiak would r no more touchdowns, that Wadialt would not continue have thousands and thousands of fans cheer him on gridiron, and that great numbers of children-,and adults for that matter-could not idolize him as a great football s and Saturday's hero ... and that Wadiak was no more. It was a beautiful, sunny day; but no one discussed weather. In fact, no one paid any attention to the- weatr The only thing on everyone's mind was Steve Wadiak. On horseshoe, in Steward's hall, in the fraternity houses, though in one mournful voice, the students relived the gre moments of Steve Wadiak's life. We remembered all the' awards he earned and reoeived,' We remembered, in particular, his junior year. It was 1950. a year in which the southern conference produced a bump crop of football greats ... All Americans "Huck" Holdaa af," North Carolina, a center; and guard Bob Ward of Maryland4: plus record-setting Billy Cox, the Duke passer; and obhe' with enviable records . . . However, when the choice oE V "Player of the Year" was put to a vote among the League's Sports Writers Association, it was Steve Wadiak who 'was remembered and who walked away with the title. Yes,, we" relived this and many other great moments in "the Cadillac's. life. We went to religious services, we ate, and we remembe;: Steve Wadiak. Sunday finally ended and we went to bed, withi Wadiak still on our mind. Monday came. It was a dreary, rainy day; but once again no one paid attention to the weather because we awoke with Wadiak still on our mind. We attended classes, and between" classes small groups of students could be found discussing. him. One who knew him well-a football player who -lived with him, studied with him, and who worked with him-. could be heard saying: "In all his greatness, he was stili modest. Whenever anyone began to talk of his accomplish. ments, he immediately shifted the credit to the men up front who did the blocking for him." Yes, "Steamboat Steve," as he was admirably called, was a quiet, well-mannered fellow completely lacking in conceit, but loaded with a determinatio" to be a man, in every sense of the word. We attended another class Monday and heard another football player say: "He trained seriously and hard and was easy to get along with." Then we went to the funeral home. There we saw men and women, white and Negro, paying tribute to Steve. We saw bruising tackles and .guards with ta a in their eyes. We saw little boys who practically worshipped him as though he were a god. After coming back to the campus, there was a Student Council meeting. Student Body President Floyd Spence spoke. He said: "It's hard for a person to say just how much a: tragedy Steve Wadiak's death has been to me as a feftw'. teammate, student, friend, and admirer. Personally, I've 1 a friend that I've lived, worked, played, and studied with He was to me, as an athlete, all that I, or anyone else, would, like to have been. He was admired by old and young, teammate and opponent, man and woman, and athlete an; non-athlete. He ws4 admired because of his humblenessi" courage, friendliness, and ability to get along with anyone; on and off the football field. The students have expressed their feelings to me by the numbers who have approached me with their grief in this time of sorrow for us all on the loss of our fellow student." Dusk came to the Carolina campus and another day had ended, but Steve Wadiak was not forgotten. Steve Wadlak will never be forgotten by those who knew him. Steve Wadiak's life can be best summed up in these, the~ concluding lines of a poem called "Alumnus Football," by Grantland Rice: "Keep coming back, and though the world may romp across your spine; - . Let every game's end find you still upon the~battling line; For when the one great scorer comes to mark against your name; He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game." iZ An >4t/S "Now you will not swell the rout' Of lads that wore their honors out, Runners whom renown outran And the name died before the man."~ (A. E. Housman; Modern English Readings, Fifth Edition; Rin'. hart & Company, Inc., New York, 1947; p. 952.) Last Saturday morning I shook hands with Steve Wadisk in the Canteen. At the time I did not know why I did It or how it would be the last salute to a great athlete and, what became over the years, a firm friendship. Steve and I start at Carolina in the same year. Our friendship was based oil respect and a common point of view. We saw things in the same light. Sunday morning I had a unique experience. At an . hour I awoke and glanced at my clock. Dimly I could see hands. When, finally I made them out, they stood at 7:33 - - -Harry Abrahamlian~ problems; (3) International cultural and educational cooperation; uni respect for and observance of, human rights and fundamental doms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religIin Work on these aims is assigned to the Economic and Social responsible to the General Assembly. The Council, in turn, the activities of the specialized agencies. Next week I shall shoW the Economic and Social Council is striking at the roots of the ills - at the basic cause of wars: Human suffering and want.