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'A Legiti. Although having felt the need for man; months, I have hesitated in writing this edi torial because - to he frank - I enjoy be ing a civilian. There is, however, an organization on this campus - of which I am a part - which, at times, seems to show little re spect for university customs, traditions and activities and which, in my opinion, brought things to a head last week. The organization to which I am referring is the Air Force ROTC unit. The Air Force ROTC's lack of respect wa very conspicuously evidenced last Frida: when approximately 100 cadets were com pelled to attend a practice drill session dur ing tite 10 a. m. free houi, at which tim President Donald Russell was introduced t the student body in an official assemblly pre gram. The Air Science department was asked by several members of the faculty, includ ing the chairman of the Assembly com mittee, to cancel the drill practice so that all students, who desired to do so, could hear President Russell and Gov. .James F. Hyrnes speak on the campus. The Air Science department politely refused, say ing that the practice was necessary at that hour. The ROTC defended its action by saying Is The Covi Gov. James F. Byrnes is a man for whon we have a great deal of respect, but yet wt cannot agree with everything he says. Gov. Byrnes said in an address to the stu dent body last Friday that he hoped that tht university's enrollment would not become much larger than it is today. Ie said he was opposed to "mass production" in our colleges and universities because students are denied intimate association with faculty members when the enrollment becomes too large. The governor probably feels that if our student body were to become greater in size, USC students would be nothing more than "numbers." This we cannot agree with because we know that schools such as Cornell, Harvard and Princeton have as intimate a relationship between student and professor as does Carolina. Even the graduates of schools the size of the University of Michigan or New York Uni versity are not referred to as the results of "mass production" and surely their diplomas are woith more than ou'S. President Russell, in his address which followed Mr. Byrnes' said, "We're going to build an institutior Orchids For A Change Letters To (This week we are publishing the right thins three letters which are really way that ough letters to our columnists, but feet on studeni The Gamecock feels that the With kind r< entire student body should know .K.N of the' occasional orchids which S~chool o) comle our way.--The Editor) Dear Terrell: I want to e'x] I have just read your article, the understanc "Are You A Part?" and wvish to Gamecock toda congratulate you on the wvrit,ing of paring a comp it. You emphasize, it seems to me, prlomise. We w %t,GAA- co C:ROWING FOR A GREATERI UJNIVERSITY OF SOUJTH (CARI Member of Associated Collegiate P' Fouandled January 30, 1908, with Robert Elliott Conz editor, "The Gamecock" is puiblishedl by and for the University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, dun year except on holidays and dluring examinations. The opinions expressed by column ists and letter writer sarily those o,f "The Gamecock." Publishing doies n endorsement. Thie right to edit is reserved. EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR .RAL] BUSINESS MANAGER JOJ NEWS EDITOR ' CAMPUS EDITOR Leo M SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR Bar COPY EDITOR A EXCHANGE EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS Furney Hemingway, Bill Leggitt, Mary Elli Bass, Bob Cameron, Bletty JTean Nicholson, A Bennie Turner, Sonny G;ray, Kenneth Flynn, Don Vanlandingham, Mark Buyck, IIannah T~ Covington, Jr., Delight Tiemann, Carolyn Kom Mishoe, Jerry Rollins. COLUMNISTS Helen Coggeshall, John Duffy, Terrell Glenn, M, Hunter Rentz. BUSINESS STAFF W. L. Buffington, Dan Donovan, Wes Sanders CARTOONISTS .. Al Slmson, Bob Cameron, Str PHOTOGRAPHERS . ... Gus Mi inte Gripe! r that the men were practicing to march in a - parade that afternoon, in which they were - representing the university and that the practice was scheduled before it was known that the assembly would be at that time. This was true, but was not the Naval ROTC marching in the same parade? Why did-the navy not deem it necessary to practice at that hour? The faculty, including the Air Science department, agreed that no classes or other activity should conflict with the 10 a. m. free hour on Fridays, which are re served for Assembly programs. And yet throughout last year and this, the Air ~ ROTC has persisted in having small staff - meetings of cadets, many of whom would like to have attended the assembly pro grams. The ROTC department was reminded sev eral times last year that no meetings should conflict with the Assembly programs, but yet it continued -- and is still continuing - to have meetings during the hour set aside for Assembly programs. Perhaps it is necessary for a military or ganizat ion to disregard university traditions, but there is no excuse for the ROTC or any other department of the university to con flict with the Assembly programs after the entire faculty has agreed to support them. P.N. ornor Right? that is as good as North Carolina's." 'The University of North Carolina has twice as many students as South Carolina, and yet it is better. The ('hapel Iill institution will continue to be superior if the growth of our own Carolina is retarded. We feel that students should freely as sociate with faculty members outside of the classroom. Our professors are always available now for discussions with stu dents. This opportunity is a wonderful as set, but is one which few students take ad vantage of. Our growing larger would not deprive us of this privilege because pro fessors would still have time to chat with the interested minority who are deter mined to make the most of their college career. We are opposed to a larger student body if a larger student body connotes "mass pro (luctioi," but we feel certain that the in dividllalitv of the student at Caro.lina would not be lost if our student body were doubled or even tripled. The Editor s5 and1 do it in a parking on the University Horse to have some ef- Ishoe from :1 p. mn. to 10 p. m. and thinking, at 10 p. m. we will close the gardls, camp)us. icerely, D)rop in to see us any time you RWOOD, D)ean have suggestions. A Arts and Sciences Sincerely, * *WILLIAM HI. PATTERSON As-IdLt to te Pre'sidient >ress my thanks for ing article in TheIhaEitr y, andI we are pre- Cnrtltost erl ln romise of the comn-onhseioilfvrgSte I1 have utnrestricted sn tWsa xeln (ioil and I hope that lots of level-headed thinking people wvill wke up and see that Stevenson and the Demo rasare far superior' to the selfish narrowv Republican parity. If more eleClI like M.Glenn speak up a )LINA logically and1( well, perhaps Steven renasll(sflwn ties as thme fin LEIA MANNING; ,studeInts of the x 8 1ng the college ox28 are not neces it constitute an Letter g BILL NOVIT OTurS iOICy H GREGORY Letters to the editor ar en IN PARASHTO coutraged by Thew Gamecock and ommlie Herbert will be printed whenever possible. .aeCourteL1etters must be signed and ac Jul Presllp 1opne by the contributor's re ara Thompson turn address for the purptose of res L.. Aritemnes certification. An unsignedl letter Alan Baker will receive no consideration. If 1o01) Smi ttl the writer des'i res, his name may Bol))y Si it11 be dleletedl and wvith held. i ulr ak No p)artisanship will be.shown rt.hur Coutras, in the pirintinig of letters. All con Billy Watson, forming to the above policy and mmois, JTames which are in good taste' will be miners, .Johann printed except when lack of space prohibits. The Gamecock reserves the right 'rea Tev to reject any letter because of con tent or' character. ,Betty Seay. Letters must be receIved by nley Papajohn Monday to be published in that mos. Gary Lee week's isen. I never have any frou JOHN DUFFY The Que Political General D. D. Eisenhower in a speech delivered in Columbia, S. C. drew some chuckles from the gath ered crowd when he mentioned the fact that Governor Stevenson used some Latin words in a political address. The implication is that Ike who (loes not use Latin is a regular guy while his opponent is an in- i tellectual. Everyone who listens to Joe McCarthy knows that an in tellectual is only one step from a a Communist. In fact, an intellectual, in some quarters, is thought to be a man who is actually a Communist but lacks the courage of his con victions. , Worse yet, this man, Stevenson, has a certain sinister individual, I Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., writing his campaign speeches. This fellow c is not only an intellectual, but he I is the worst type of intellectual, an I historian. Furthermore it seems that this Schlesinger has written a i book about the Jackson Adminis- I tration in which he saye some i nasty things about American busi- I ness. All this goes to prove that unless we. elect a iiiitary man, educated in our subsidized voca tional school on the Hudson, the country is going to be ruled by these intellectuals. The Republicans have made p)olitical capital of this anti-in tellectualism. They accuse Steven-i TERRELL GLENN Fraterniti Nature Ai In any discussion of the fra ternity system, first, it must be recognized that they are social or ganizations. They are not leader ship groups, their purpose is not to recognize scholarship as such, and while they may do some civic work that is not their reason for being. It is the hope of all fra ternities that its members may be camp~us leaders, excell in scholar ship, and contribute to the campus community, but this is not their prime function. The purpose and r*eason1 for being for the Greek let ter social fraternity system is to provide a directed association of young college men. When this fact is realized theni the many attacks that are thrown against fraterni ties begin to lose effect. The ques-J tion is whether or not the fraterni ties fulfill their real p)urpose. What should a student expect to find in a fraternity. He should look for a group wherein he can know the real meaning of the word brother. The membership should bxe the primary considleration. He shouldl expect to fornm friendships that wvill in time constitute one of his most valuable Possessions. A1 fraternity should b)e a well man aged organ izat ion with a dlefinite codel( o,f conduct. When a young man finds(1 this, how then can he benefit himself by becoming a member? The opportun11ity to participate< with the group found in the fra ternity is unsuirpassed. It is in this t type organization that a membert can learn the meaning of respect- t ing the wishes of his fellow man. The comiaderie of a fraternity in- C stills in a young man the value of a a joint emnnaoi, li le-ar ho t r' e ,)IIfr Wle opening my box. tion Of Matur'ty . on of being too highbrow, while they run a campaign which evi jently takes Hollywood's estimate f our mental age at 13 for its yriterion. One need but compare 'regular" Dick Nixon's emotional ?ye lavage with the thought pro roking speeches of Adlai Stevenson :o get the contrast in this cam aign. I think it is about time someone ksks the question: "What is wrong vith having an intellectual presi lent? Is there anything in the lonstitution which restricts that >ffice to "regular fellows" with an Q. of 100 ? Why is it that -the American people would prefer to be ruled by i General rather than a man whose ducation and subsequent public ife have prepared him admirably or the highest executive position? There is another question which night be raised: "Why is it that he Nation which spends the most noney in educating its children uts a premium on lack of educa ion in choosing its politicians? Stevenson is speai;ing to the kmerican people as if they were tdults, capable of understanding ssues. The Republicans continue to leal in personalities, and in gen 3ralities. One side is right. Novem er Fourth should settle the ques tion of our political maturity. as- -Their ridWorth ead and how to accep)t the direc tion or the acaders he has selected. How well do fraternities serve Carolina? The fraternity men on his campus provide the majority if the leadership and participating students. The reason for this is hat the fraternity men are a part :f a group. It is their nature to participate with the group. Do the fraternitie's here serve their pur pose of providing fellowship for y'oung men? Where else does a young man become friends wvith so many fe'llow stude'nts niot only in his one group but with the other .tudents on the campus than in a fraternity? On the campus the fra ternities operate tunder a difficulty in not having houses where more oys can live together and form strong friendships. However, in pite of this difficulty, the fra ernities here still offer a home iway from home to a college stu lent. How should a rushee decide ~vhether to aIcceplt a hid to a fra ernity or niot? lIe must remember hat it is not necessary that he be ~ome a mnembe'r, the choice is per onal to him. He should face calistical ly whether he can afford ifraternity. Most important of all ie must decide whether he wishes 'o he a brot her to the memb)ers wit hin the frat ernity. 11luman beings naturally seek the riendship and companionship of thers their own age whom they ind to be congenial. This gives he group the right to choose and he prospective member the right o select. "The friends thou hiast and their dopt ion tried, grapple them to thy oul with hooks of steel." MORDECAI PERSII South Carolina's most specta lar criminal (by which we me the man convicted of South Ca lina's most spectacular crin spent a day in town about thi weeks ago. He came in at abc ten in the morning and left in i vicinity of two in the afternoon During those four hours, I mund Bigham had a chance to live a quintuple murder he legedly committed thirty yes ago. We had the dubious honor sitting next to Mr. Bigham, a the good fortune to come aw unhurt. Not so Mr. Bigham. Bigham, who sat before I state pardon and parole board I tening to a pair of attorneys p sent his case from two widc divergent angles, is a baldi eighty-year-old with snow-wh hair. His body, which tends tows the pot-bellied, is not equipp with a left hand or a working I foot-the result of accidents curring long before and long af his alleged crime. His face had brooding, but not menacing < pression. As a representative of the pre we were emboldened to take n< of that expression in its varyi intensities as the hearing p: gressed. When the details of B ham's supposed slayings were : peated by the attorneys, I accused and convicted leaned fc ward, and the expression was c of anguish. When the details the trial were repeated, Bighar head drew back, glared vacan at nothing, and muttered audib Edmund Bigham was sentenc by a Florence County court to i imprisonment for the slaying his mother, his brother, his sist and his sister's two adopted c dren. Bigham contended that I brother had done a quadruple mi der and then committed suicide and has maintained his plea innocent for these thirty yea Despite a coroner's testimony th his contention was not only pc sible, but probable, Bigham w convicted on circumstantial e dence and the testimony of a m since ruled a chronic liar by t state supreme court. At the hearing in question, t prosecuting attorney made a br statement, and yielded to Bighar defense-a lawyer whose name temUorarily forwet. The defer was an impassioned filibuster, la5 ing approximately an hour-and. Guest Columnist: G Why ' Dwvight Eisenhower is de serious--this is why we need h as President of the United Stat While some support the touchi eloquence and aristocratic wit Adlai Stevenson no one has 3 found him to be worried--not abc himself but about our counti that is. He is the candidate of t "complacency party." As far Adlai is concerned, "we never h it so good." He tells us that sch< children have better lunches a that our old folks don't have to to the poor house anymore. This all we ever get from Adlal. I speeches are written to touch but we have yet to see him touchi We have yet to see Adlai cry yes, actually cry for the m dying in Korea. Two times on re ord General Ike actually cried f the death of our young men a the unhappiness of the world. No did Ike cry for EFFECT? .No o in America is foolish enough say that he did. All America know that Ike is no shyster. Adla speeches touch us but when Eist hower speaks somehow he mea it-he means it enough to cry abe it. Perhaps he means it as mu as the Frenchman meant it as cried on the street when his cou try fell. Now, it's a matter of who ofte most, General Ike along with Ad' wants lunches for school kids a security for old folks. But I offers one thing more-a dlepth a a sensitivity that arises from e COLLEGIATE CLIP How T< This is what Kenneth Cristopi director of Boston Universit3 Health service has to say abo studying for exams: ''Don't try to stay awake 1 drinking coffee or smoking. Y< may keep physically awake b mentally you are just numb. Whi you take a 'quick break,' dion't ligi S cigarett2. Get into the fresh a :u- half. In it were detected snatches an of truth, suggestions of pertinent ro- information, and a deep undercur e) rent of sincerity. But the prevail. -ee ing impression was that the out speaker possessed an infinity of he vocal energy. Finally, the board interrupted the defense, and asked d- for a statement from Bighair.. re- Bigham, propped on a single al- crutch, retold his story in brief, irs wept, and asked for justice. The of pardon and parole board listened nd as its little morning melodrama ay came to a close, and retired to make its decision. Twenty minutes he later, with Edmund Bigham al is- ready on his way back to the peni. re- tentiary, the board announced its mly rejection of the parole plea. ng "Incidentally," ran one news. ite paper account, "it was the first rd time Bigham has left the peni. ed tentiary grounds since 1922." ?ft * * * )c- Bill (The Ego) Novit-con. ter veniently distinguished by a pair a of horn-rimmed glasses from the ?x- conventional ego described in psy-, chology textbooks-has taken up ss, another bad habit: "column-cut )te ting." Last week, in an orgy of ng egotism, Novit slashed the efforts -o- of several columnists, leaving his ig- own editorials intact. As a result re- of this dark and terrible deed, he new Gamecock readers were left )r- in the cold, wondering what possi ne ble significance the title of this of column might claim. 's The answer is that the title is a ;ly holdover from our sports page ly. days-a subtle reference to the ed Gamecocks-and a big timesaver fe for headline writers. One of many of subtleties contained in the title er, is its allusion to chickens "before il- they're hatched"-hence, eggs. As ts time rolls along, and this column ir- lays more and more eggs, the sig nificance of that allusion will be of come more and more apparent. rs. * * * at We can't help noting that the s- old master of deception, Frank as Howard of the Dairying Institute, ri- came up with a brilliant maneuver an last Saturday, losing to the Uni he versity of Florida by 54-13. That bit of shrewdness may well give he Howard the coveted underdog role, ef which he has forfeited for the past u's several years because of clumsy we early season scheduling and blun se deringly high scores run up by it- Howard-coached teams. Psycho a- logically, this may be it. .ORIA RODNEY i For Ike dperiences that Adlai never had. m Eisenhower isn't funny in his is. speeches because, unlike Adlai, Ike nug is scared stiff, not for himself, of but for our country. Love of coun et try is a strange thing, it knocks ut conceit out of a man. It causes -y, him not to say, "We are the best, he we are the best" but rather, "Oh, as God, we must survive!" ad This is why I'm for Ike, beccause >ol I trust him, because I'm dcared and nd he's scared too. I dlon't wvant to go lose America for myself nor for is future citizens and he doesn't [is ,either. Read "The Communist us Manifesto" one time and see if we ~d. don't have something to worry - about. Let's be dead serious too, en jlet's support a man who knows e- international affairs like few or others, a man who knows how to nd wvin a war if a war ever conmes, a w, man who is not a politician but a ne citizen and a brilliant and brave to one at that. ns We have a President today who i's writes history, most succulent let n- ters, wvho plays atrocious tunes on ns his piano, and who adores Faye ut Emerson. We have a President eh today who cusses like a stevedore he and refers to the Republican plat n- form as "a manure spreader." He is a man of the least possible cali rs ber and sensitivity-yet AdIai al think's lhe's marvelous. ad For our future safety wve must ke get the "New Deal" playboys out id of office. The end might not be sO -funny after all! PINGS: > Study e, "Don't study in a room that is 's too hot or cold. If the room Is at overheated, you will become sleepy. Those who believe brains work 'y better in a cold tenmperature will u probably miss the examinatIons at because of colds or more serious n ailments." it (Editor's note: Mr. Christophe Ir would never get a job pluggingi cigarettes.)