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CROWING FOE UNIVERSITY OF I M.mber of Assoclat Distributer of C 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 JACKIE SOUTHERLAND, EDITOR MURRAY SEAMAN, MANAGING EDITOR ELLIOTT WARDLAW, BUSINESS MANAGER News Editor ................ Ruth Barker Campus Editor ........... Tommie Herbert Sports Editor ............. Ralph Gregory COLUMI Bill Novit, Mordecai PE CARTOONIST BUSINESS Pedie Hiers, Bobby Sm REPORTORII Jinx Wilson, Leo M. MacCourtney, Barba Davidson, Bob Cameron, Billy Watson, I Arnie ( A Smoki Where there's smoke there's fire - so they say. . Let's hope this old adage has more fire than smoke in it. Interest in a student activities building, long dead through want of fuel and through plain old discouragement, has sprung up again this year. Students discuss it occa sionally and wonder, with a prominent dis belief. Will there be a student activities building before our bones perform the Shakespearean cycle from man to worm? Let me quote from Admiral Smith's re quest to the South Carolina General As sembly: "Student Activities Building: "It is proposed to erect a Student Activi ties building to house all student activities, conference rooms, publications, telephone ex change, post office, book store, canteen, stu dent depositpry for banking purposes, rec reation roonrw/ YWCA and YMCA and cafeteria. "Such a building is seriously needed as a gathering place for the students and for all 1 activities and amusements so that they will find attractions on the campus which will keep them off the streets and near their work. ",Upon the completion of such a building, the. present temporary and inadequate quar ters for the YMCA and YWCA, housed in an old residence, Flinn Hall, can be turned over to the university as a faculty club which is urgently needed. This summer the faculty club was provided temporary quarters in a small, inadequate faculty residence." Admiral Smith listed his requests in order of importance - rather in what his opinion was in order of importance. Ahead of a Student Activities building were listed additional land, athletic and drill fields, re modeling, a men's gymnasium, air and naval science building, and completion of the school of education. None of these projects should be neg lected. Each one, and those that are listed after number seven, the student activities building, are extremely important. After the student activities building are listed a women's gymnasium (I call it downright prejudice that one for the men is listed first, when the women don't even have a makeshift gym), shops and warehouses, chapel and auditorium and music building, and power plant distribution system. My Ap This is a lowdown, mean, sneaking trick. But I gotta do it. Many a man will not save his honor until its loss has been publicized. So - The Press Club has a plan. Dean Schlabach, faculty advisor, thought it up. The Club voted on it and passed it - en thusiastically, I might add. Enthusiasm has withered, not from lack of realization of what a good idea it is, but from lack of time and push. The f(lea - oh, yes. We thought that this beiog Ad< election year we students ought to know a lttt.about the heads under the many hati tossed into the. ring. Therefore, each t A GREATER OUTh CAROLINA ed Collegiate Press olleglate 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 .......... Norma Bergman Feature Editor ....... Furney Hemingway Copy Editor ............ .... Patsy Hutto Exchange Editor ............ A. Nonylnous Circulation Manager ......... Bobby Smith Asst. Business Manager ..... John Parasho UISTS rsky, Josef Euringer - Al Simson STAFF ith, Nedra Gilmore LL STAFF ra Thompson, Mary Bloodworth, Chuck till Leggitt, Valerie King, Alan Baker, reen. i Future I won't quibble with the Admiral. If we each pull for our own interests we are likely to pull ourselves apart. (All right; so the thought isn't original, but at least it's ap plicable.) Nevertheless, I cannot suppress the thought that attending to our carefree, fun loving needs is just as important as tending to some of the others. We need a student activities building. There has been no outcry to deny that fact. The legislature, if it could spend a few se nesters on campus, would see it also. Money, )f course, is a severe limitation, and we all ealize that the legislature cannot conjure noney for the building from its legislative iats. But, damn it, we want a student activities )uilding! There was talk of using Wauchope-Mc {issick House for the building. It would be )etter than nothing, I suppose. But if we were to settle for a temporary best, we would )robably be stuck with a permanent best. Anyway, rumor hath it that the new presi lent will take over the ex-faculty, ex sorority \houses. (I have seen his beautiful Spartanburg home, and, in sympathy for h~im, I must say that living in our building would be a supreme letdown.) I have not found out what has been ac-| complished by the KSK committee investi gating the possibility of a student activities building. I do know that the Admiral has requested $750,000 for the building obtained through state funds or special grants. He also recommends that a cafeteria be put in this building. At present Steward's Hall seats four hundred people. There are over three thousand students at this univer sity, plus faculty and administration per sonnel. He did not mention that the music record room could be included in the new building, but it should be included there or some ade quate place. As it is, if you care to listen to a melody you have to wade through a cacophony of musical notes being listened to by other students. Rich's department store in Atlanta has a nice, inexpensive set up for listening to records: side by side are semi-booths with soundproof, perforated sides -- no doors, no ceilings; but it works. Anyway, to quote somebody -- let's not be outstanding only in mediocrity. 51ogies member of the club has chosen a presidential candidate with the idea of looking up his life, his politics, his ideals, and his actions. When these are completed we hope to prini the facts on a printing press we hope to buy, This booklet of presidential timber would endeavor to leave out the colorful balloone sent up by propaganda headquarters. II would give an accurate account of what these candidates are. We hope it will help you people in your choices for president. As a matter of fact, we hope the Press Club will wake up now that its plan has beer revealed and do something -- myself in. cluded.-J. S. Service, That's What Ah Calls It! ERIC OPPENHEIMER The UN And War (Ed. Note: This is the second in a two-part series on the works actually accomplished by the UN. Call it a little anti-propaganda against those who maintain that it has done nothing but hesitate.) The United Nations is striking effectively at the roots of the world's ills - poverty, destitution, oppression and de spair. The world came out of World War II with nearly half of its people living in devastated areas. The temporary UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, set up by 44 gov ernments in 1943, first moved in with three billion dollars in food, equipment and services to aid 17 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. Later on the UN International Children's Emergency Fund provided meals to as many as eight mil lion children and mothers. It reached 58 countries by 1951, including long range works, such as equipment of milk plants to benefit four million children, medical programs and various expert and demonstration services. At the same time the In ternational Refugees Organization has tesettled more than a million people since the end of the war. To fill the world's plates as much as possible, the Food and Agriculture Organization was established. To cut down food losses, FAO undertook educational campaigns and fur nished advice on damage by insects and rats, whose toll was estimated in 1947 as 33 million tons of bread grains and rice - enough to feed 150 million people. Warborn knowledge of new vaccines was marshalled in an effort to stamp out rinderpest, a plague killing two to five million draft animals and other livestock yearly in Asia and Africa. To produce more food, FAO sponsored experiments and seed shipments to adapt hybrid corn for Europe and the East, seeking the sort of development that had boosted American corn yields by 20 per cent above ordinary corn in the same fields. The World Health Organization took .over a nation-wide malaria campaign in Greece and sprayed two-thiirds of the country with DDT chemicals. Malaria cases dropped from one million a year to 50 thousand, and 30 million man-days formerly wasted in disease became available for work. WHO has examined 37 million children in Europe, Asia and Africa in a drive against tuberculosis. BCG vaccine has been ad ministered to 17 million children found free of symptoms-a campaign unique in world history. When cholera broke loose in Egypt in September, 1947, WHO helped dispatch vaccine from 14 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union. With other measures by Egypt, the epidemic was controlled in six weeks - the'first time in medical history that a cholera epidemic spreading with more than one thousand cases daily had been checked so rapidly. The UN also offers advisory services in technical and social.fields. After all it takes know-how before peoples can emerge from poverty. In June, 1950, a UN Technical Assist ance Conference obtained pledges from 55 nations for more than $20 million to a new account to pay for expanded tech nical demonstrations and advice by the UN. The Economic Commission for Europe has brought 27 European nations to gether. Its coal committee recommended where short sup plies should go for best use. Its timber committee helped get loans (or Finland and Yugoslavia to finance equipment in return for pledged increased exports. Its transport committee won 16 nations' signatures to an agreement permitting truck traffic to eliminate many border- delays. To develop back ward countries, the Economic and Social Council promoted studies on building up both domestic capital and foreign in vestment and lending. For reconstruction and development, the International Bank, a UN organ, made available more than one billion dollars in loans to 20 countries in four years. Tackling illiteracy, UNESCO undertook pilot projects and educational missions around the world. Significantly, since the San Francisco conference, more than 560 million people --a fourth of the world's inhabitants - have gained their freedom. Furthermore, the General Assembly has adopted a Declaration of Human Rights and is now working on a Human Rights Charter. This declaration embodies all the hopes and the ageless aspirations that the poorest and down trodden as well as the wisest and most charitable men had dreamed about for uncounted centuries in Europe as well as in Asia, in Africa as well as in the Americas. The Declara tion of Human Rights defines the personal, political, economic and cultural rights of all mankind. The Covenant, now under consideration, will put teeth into the Declaration, clothing the individual everywhere -of whatever nationality, race, color, religion or' sex, with a new dignity and promise a fuller, healthier, and more satisfactory physical existence to the people of the world. In the final analysis, the UN realizes that it is the people of the world who fight or live at peace with one another. If the basic wants of the people are met, if general prosperity prevails throughout the world, the roots of wars will have been eradicated. Peace and the UN depend on the will of the people. DAVID PARRISH World GeVsnment In the most primitive sense, war in man is an expression of his extreme competitive impulses. Like everything else in nature, he has had to fight for existence; but the battle against ther animals, O e2 won, gave way to his evolution to battle against his own kind. Du*6 called it the survival of the fittest; and its most outstretched inte. tation is to be found in MEIN KAMPF, With the naked glorficaf of brute force and the complete worship of might makes right. In political and national sense, it has been the .attempt of the "have.no to take from the "haves," or the attempt of the "haves" to add furt, to their lot at the expense of the "have-nots." Not always was prop"r.t at stake; comparative advantages were measured in terms of pop and in terms of tribal or national superiority. What does it matter, then, if war is not in the nature of man so long as man continues through the expression of his nature to be a viciou 3y competitive animal? The effect is the same, and therefore the rest. must be as conclusive-war being the effect, and complete obliterationa of the human species being the ultimate results. If this reasoning is correct, the modern man is obsolete, a self-made anachronism becoming more incongruous by the minute. He has exalted change in everything but himself. He has leaped centuris ahead in inventing a new world to live in, but he knows little or nothing about his own part in that world. He has surrounded and confounded himself with gaps-gaps between revolutionary technology and evo1n. tionary man, between cosmic gadgets and human wisdom, betwesh intellect and conscience. The struggle between science and morals thst Henry Thomas Buckle foresaw a century ago has been all but won by science. Given ample time, man might be expected eventually to span those gaps normally; but by his own hand, he is destroying even time. Decision and execution in the modern world are becoming virtually synchronous. Thus, whatever gaps man has to span he will have to span immediately. At present man is a world warrior; it is time for him to grow up and become a world citizen. This is not vaporous idealism, but sheer driving necessity. It bears directly on the prospects of his own sur vival. He will have to recognize- the flat truth that the greatest i6. solescence of all in the Atomic Age is national sovereigpty. Even back in the old-fashioned Rocket Age before August 6, 1945, strict natiota! sovereignty was an anomalous hold-over from the tribal instinct in nations. If it was anonlalous then, it is preposterous now. Can it be that we do not realize that in an age of atomic energy and rocket planes the foundations of the old sovereignties have bea shattered? That no longer is security to be found in armies and navies, however large and mighty? That no longer is there security based a size and size alone? That any nation, however small, with atomk energy, is potentially as powerful as any other nation, however large? That in an Atomic Age all nations are now directly accessible to each other --for better or worse ? That in the erasure of man-made barrier, and boundaries all the peoples of the world stand virtually unarmed in the presence of one another? That they are at the mercy of es another, and will have to devise a common security or suffer a comma cataclysm? That the only really effective influence between people is such influence as they are able to exert morally, politically, idealogi. cally upon each other? All these questions have been in the making for centuries, but the triumph over the invisible and mighty atom has given them an exactnea and an immediacy about which there can be no mistake. The need for world government was clear long before August 6, 1945, but Hiroshia and Nagasaki raised that need to such dimensions that it can no longer be ignored. Thus, examining the old sovereignties we see thenm for wit they are-vestigial obstructions in the circulatory system of the world. But all the manufactured calm and scorn in the world cannot alter the precise fact that the atomic bomb plus another world war e*rls global disaster. Nor that the crisis is fast approaching and May baila us in a few months unless we act now to avert it. Nor that this' evis is created not only by the explosive atom but by inadequate means et controlling international lawlessness. Nor that control is inoperative without power, that power is dangerous without law, and that law is imrossib!e without government. And if we reject the multiple challenge before us? And if we decide that we are not yet ready for world government? What then? The bell was gone-stolen. Campus activities came to a strange be, and the students rebelled. The year was 1851; the month, March. A fire tore across the campus, destroyed one college, and seriously threatened the ad3oining centre-building and wing. That same night the chapel bell which summoned the students is classes and prayers was stolen. The next morning its familiar peels were not heard, and the students' response to the silence was gesi silence and inactivity. The students turned into fledgling lawyers and the cries, "It is,-1r right" and "We stand on our constitutional ground," echoed over the campus. The young dialecticians insisted that they were not compeled to observe any other summons than that of a bell. Therefore, they maintained,.they were excused from attendance in classes and prayers until the bell was restored. The faculty met on March 18, 1851, and called into its presen Stephen Goodman of Barnwell and J. H. Anderson. The two W0n accused of being a part of the body of students who had mysteroall spirited away the chapel bell. They had been seen near the ch@i the night of the fire, and other than this, there was no evidence agee them. The faculty, unable to fix any guilt upon them, let thme The faculty group then took action against the rebellion aS4 signed a Negro servant to ring an auction bell at the app~ hours. Two problems immediately confronted the professors: O r students obey any other bell than the original one (if not, then O~ would be indefinitely suspended), and was it legal to have a Negrq* the bell (the bell-ringer was considered something of an officer intl college and must therefore be a white man)? The faculty had no worries. Their problems were solved by IM student body. At 9:30 p. in., when the Negro servant appeared to thi the bell, a crowd of students in disguise descended on him and Wr7I away the bell. The faculty met again on March 21 in a special meeting an~d mnoned a student, H. Izard, whom they questioned about the uneiii dlisappearance of the bell. He admitted that he had gone with a 0 of three to loose the bell from its hangings. They had taken 1f screws and left them there. He insisted that he did not intend to away the bell and that he did not participate In doing it. The felt that his offense was a punishable one and let him go With solemn warnings." The impatient faculty also passed this resolution: "Resolved tb usual mode of notification being violently interrupted the studiSt required to attend to the exercises, and duties prescribed by the the hours designated in the laws, whether any bell be runl s and without a formal annunciation from the stage in the chapd ! is to be no suspension of College duties." Passing the resolution and getting compliance from the0 body were two different matters. Rebellion started In the class. The second year classmen resolved that they wouild not prayers or recitations the next morning without the summon0 bell. Rebellion was in the air, and the juniors and freshme the rebels. Some of the trustees were within the grounds of the. the revolt and came to the rescue of the faculty to end the One trustee with a practical heed on his shoulders came UP suggestion that a temporary bell be hung in the usual pia* at the usual hour next morning. His suggestions art "The effect was magical; the students gave a pop