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A Fals Dealing in generalities is freq fault of newspapers and newspa fault is found in dailies as well a press. This paper has been g offense. However, one of the Columl guilty of the most flagrant viol practice in some time. Charles Sanders, editorial c4 the Columbia Record, writing i earlier this week presented a st drinking problem concerning students. Interviewing high school gir Letters to the Edito Reader Ob Dear Editor: Congratulations, you are entitled t! to a gold medal for the sporting ti attitude you have shown in publish- sl ing the complaints of our fellow w students. All of us are grateful s1 for your cooperation. u Now you may call me a crack- tl pot-but hear me, and tell me; f (1o we really need these fancy cl dressed policemen on the campus? tl Are our students so intent on n doing evil that this sort of pro- cc tection is necessary? Where is el the stockade going to be located? n Frankly, I get just a wee bit peeved everytime I see these able- sl bodied men walking about the 10 campus with their hands in their ", pockets, doing nothing. If this is V where our 3 per cent sales tax is f< going, then abolish the tax and it permit the Negro to enroll in our si schools. If we must hire someone s, to tie tags on parked cars, why e: not hire the physically handi- f capped? h I have now let it all out and I tl feel a great deal better. t< Richard I. Davis T 0: Dear Editor: o ir Fearing that Mr. Foster may i be a former boxing champion, or something, I reply to his letter r which appeared in December n( eleventh's Gamecock with "Mr. c Foster, you may be right." Sincerely, Ben McElveen. Dear Editor: Thank you for finding space to a print at least a portion of my 0 letter of last week. I regret that 0 it was necessary to cut it, as only the skin and bones were left, but t having once been faced with the k same situation I can understand a and do sympathize with your posi- e tion. The last few paragraphs were S completely erased, however, and t as they had reference to the need " of Christian love in the considera- Si tion of the racial problem I do U not feel that the reason they gave ~ for my feelings towards segrega- c4 Lion can be allowved to go by un- s noticed; indeed, though I put it 0 in the conclusion, I had intepded 0 it as the whole basis for my letter. Si It was not so many years ago st that I was an active supporter of pl the principle of segregation, and t( I justified my position by saying, hi "'I would like tremendously to see ol the Negro have a good living, indeed, have just as much, as I ki do-If he is kept away from me." al Tlhen a vivid realization came to to me--That As A Christian, I Could m Not Show Any Prejudice Towards hi Any Man Simply On The Basis Of aa His Color. to Let me justify this. As a Chris- se tian, if I am to be an active one, applying the p)rinciples of Christ at to everything in my life, just as se CROWING FOR UNIVERSITY OF SO Member of Associated Founded January 30, 1908, with Ro& editor, "Th Camecock" is published University of South Carolina weekly, yea exepton oliaysand during a The oinios expesse by columnists sarily those of "The Gamecock." Pat endorsement. The right to edit is resa EDITOR. MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER ASSISTANT MANAGING EDI' NEWS EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR. FEATURE EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER. STAFF REP Jack Bass, Faris Giles, Curi Margaret Roof, Paul Hanks, Bru Jr., Dew James, Al Stuart, J. COLUMIE John Dully, Faris Giles, J. Alli BUSINESS We. Sanders, Al Perry, Gibby I CARTOON Bob Carn,n Stan y ACCuE uently a bad directed attempi permen. The them imbibe, Sa s the college sion that the hig uilty of the to the bottle by that was the pi >ia dailies is interviewees. ation of this The universit cused, sometime >lumnist for problem of drin i the Record problem, if ther< irvey on the have always be high school Such generaliza Saunders have c Is in a mis- RNG jects to Pol uch as I can without offending th o highly the self-love and ego- pr sm of my human self, I must de rive constantly to express to- S( ards others the love which Christ tr kowed for us, and does show for tr . If I consciously and deliberately to y to do otherwise, then I am te iling as a Christian. I do' not re aim that I, in any capacity, fulfill of is requirement, but nevertheless de y failings at it will not dis- in urage me from continuing my se forts to come closer to my ulti- be ate goal. or Something about love has been o1 kid. What is love, anyway? Is el ve the "art of courtship" or the C1 vhispering of sweet nothings"? sh rell, let us say that that is a de irm of a certain type of love, but ne is not the type of which we Sh )eak. The New Testament pre- e mnts to us two forms of love: ros, which is a love for the bene- til t of the lover, and agape, which "'I a love for the sole benefit of g" ie beloved, with no concern given fl' one who expresses such love. let his is the love of God for man, Christ for man; this is the type pr love Christ would have us live ad our daily lives towards every of rson regardless of his color or ch kce: Jesus Christ knew and knows colors as far as His love is con- at rned. Everything in the Testa- YO ent points this out. "This com andment I give unto you: that au love one another as I have ved you." Agape is a self-forgetting love, self-sacrificing love, a love which as as its object the advancement p r the other fellow. We cannot 6 >ve anyone if we do not know L iem, for only through a close C nowledge and understanding of n person or of a group can we 1 Kpress agape. Realizing this, then, we should sa xe the need to reorganize our vi xinking towards the Negro. Can cu e truly (do himo much good by m xparating him from us? Can we uly express a love for him that ill forget all about what it will >st us? Can we share our in- r. ghts with him--our knowledge--~v ir p)rosperity? Can we live with 2r consciences as Christians byti tting him off arbitrarily by him-m If, and telling him to "stay in his ace" as a being of less impor-a. nce than we ? Can we look upon ar m as another person in the sight cIa God1 equal to us? elj I cannot. As a Christian, I a iow I should have no prejudice, thi id when I dig deep for reasons ar support segregation, every argu- go ent leads to a prejudice against us m, a desire to have him kept tu vay from what I have, a desire control him, to keep him in a r mi-slave status. f There has been no effort to gue the legality or illegality of gregation. That will be left to I GREATER UTH CAROLINA c Collegiate Press wI ert Elott Conaales as the first. by and for the students 01 the(\ 0n Fridays, during the oDege A zaminations.A ad letter witer are not ineces- m WHlshing does not constltute an wed. - RALPH N. GREGORY UIl ...JOHN RAY at DAN DONOVAN in l'OR ..Bill Leggitt TI . Gus Manos be .Sonny Gray Betty Jo Land wi Mary Wideman th W. L. Buffington ba ORTERS sa is Watson, Patsy Penney, ce Parrish, Ben R. McElveen, ot R. Roseberry, Donna Hale. a ISTS mn Tison.st STAFF bean, Jack Field. no ISTS r lay Pannjnhn grir ation ; to discover why some oi unders reached the conclu rh school girls are being le< Carolina students. At leas1 ture he was given by th4 y has constantly been ac s quite unfairly, about th4 king of the students. Th4 is one, and the percentag< en grossly over-estimated tions as that implied b3 Dntinued that impression. ice Force e Supreme Court, but there i evailing a feeling that they wil cide it is illegal. If we in th, uth can forget our "Southeri aditions" (it may be noted tha iditions have led many nation: an early doom), and think it rms of what our conscience: ally tell us to do when all form: prejudice are removed, and a sire to render love are inserte< their place, the transfer fron gregation to non-segregation wil an easy one. It will be difficul ly if we persist in sticking t< r bull-headed tradition and falla. >us arguments for segregation a South Carolina and the Soutl ow courage enough to accept i feat as a challenge to rise ti w and greater heights, or wil e use it to crash into nev vastation ? The answer is left to the Chris. in people of the South, to thost to have, while professing thi eatest of faith in and desire t low the teachings of Christ, hav4 t out of their feelings for th4 ,gro the love that Christ died t each. Negroes have not yet beei nitted to the Christian collegei the South, or to the Christiai urches. When will we awakenI An interesting way of lookinj the whole problem is to plac< urself in the place of the Negri how would you feel? Sincerely, Thomas E. Brown. !ar Editor: In connection with ny article reastically Speaking, which ap ared in the Dec. 9 issue of thi niecock, many indignant pro 4ts have resounded around th4 eshman Center. Through furthei iestigation and consultatior th various students into the sub. A matter contained in the afore. id text I feel it mandatory tc idicate the majority of the ac sedl. It is with this purpose in ndl that I am writing this article, The p)revlous article was not kant as an accusation atgainst the 3shman team as a whole, but the'r the small minority by ich it or any similar organiza n is judgedt. I regret to say that 'article was misinterp)retedI to ~an the entire squad. It is now apparent that the ticle was grossly unjust to a 'ge segment, as any similar arti containing derogatory remarks out a large group) must be; I1, consolation is derived fronm a knowledge that the fewv whc e guilty have undoubtedly be me aware of their guilt and wvil e b)etter judgment in their fu re actions. Therefore, I apol ize to the innocent but feel that article has served the purpose which it wvas intended. J1. R. Roseberry loIllegiate ,Iippmngs A coeducational dormitory which usedl many eyebrows to be raised ten it was built is celebrating its at anniversary at Blemidji [inn.) State Teachers College id so far there have been ne shaps or moral violations. lts users-who are quartered der the same roof but in separ wings of the structure-are all favor of the coeducational idea. cy meet each other in a lobby tween the wings. 'It seems to establish a more olesome p)oint of view than ii b)oys and girls were chasing ek and forth across campus,' s one male. 'Teaches us how t.o live witl er people andl be tolerant," add' coed. And comments another male ident: "We don't have foolish is like panty raids, Mutual ipect develops when we see th( s on everyday terms." "Radar blip 41 niles iorlhv and eight reindeer." A Visit f Cho (With apologies "A Visit frc 'Twas the night before Chri the dormitories, Not a creature was studyink All clothing was packed in 1 In hopes that Saturday sooi My roommate and I were all While visions of the holida; And John in his shorts, and Had just settled our brains When out on the campus tl I sprang from my bed to se Away to the window I flew Tore open the curtains and The moon, on the crystals Gave a luster of mid-day to When what to my wonderii But a group of cute co-eds : With a little cute driver, so I knew in a moment she mu More rapid than jets, singii And chorusing, and carolinj "Now Silent Night, Oh, H On with Away in a Manger "Sing at the top of your vo Now sing away, carol away As dry leaves that before t When they meet with an o o, on by the dormitories t1 With the "tin lizzie" full showed. And then in a twinkling I A sputtering and spitting f As I drew in my head, and My roommate jumped out o: He was dressed in his blank~ And was shivering and shal And he looked like a peddle: His eyes were sleepy; his fa His cheeks were like roses, The stub of a cigarette he 11 And the smoke, it encircled lie gazedl at the co-eds, and And then shook with laught They were chubby and plurn And I laughed when I sawi They sang merrily, in uniso And filled the entire campu They turned with a jerk, th And laughing, again by the They sang in their A-model, Then away they all rode, wr But I heard them exclaim, < "Happy Christmas to all, ar Hits With 'Hot T Flanag or a band1 that had start making records only four sht years ago, Ralph Flanagan's ere managedl to conme up with sor sort of minor miracle in the mui business a couple of years ba< Those were the days when a ne vocal record was almost nc existent on the "Hit Parade," 1 Ralph's strictly instrumental vi sion of "Hot Toddy" became ar tional best seller. Even mc established bands-jazz and dar -in their longer years of recoi ing probably would find it dif cult to match this "unique" acco p1lishment. Ralph first started earni money wvith music in his hol town of L,orain, Ohio, by playi: and occasionally arrangingf small combos andl bands arou town. On his 21st birthday in iH he got his big break and was tak on as pianist and arrnane rest of airfield is reported to be sleid rom Some ri sters to Clement C. Moore's m St. Nicholas") stmas holidays, when all throug r, or reading good stories. the suitcases with care, a would be there; I nestled in our beds, ys danced in our heads; -.I in my PJ's, for a brief winter's daze. iere rose such a clatter, e what was the matter. like a flash, threw up the sash. >f new-fallen dew, objects in view; ig eyes should appear, in a "hot-rod" in gear, lively and quick, st be some "chick." ig they came, , and one calling again, tly Night, and then Noel, and others," she told. ices, as we ride by the wall; , sing away all!" he wild hurricane fly, bstacle, mount in the sky, ie chorus they rode, of girls who much merrimer bieard on the road, rom the A-model's load. was turning around, r bed with a bound. et from his head to his toes, king, including his nose. r at Carolina, in .fact; ace barely showed, but carried a load; eld tight in his teeth, his head like a wreath. listened with me, er at what he did see. p, with the clothes they had 01 hem before they were gone. n some more, a with happiness galore; a "hot-rod" rode on fast, dormitory they passed. and the buggy was full, apped in coats of warm wool; are they drove out of sight, id to all a good-night !" Ben McElveen an Band PL Itlh lnaa or,~ kdSm y K y.O l i eii enSriei192bkeoft JOHN DUFFY Argume Segreg Recently the Gamecock has printed a series of defenses of n segregation. These defenses have w ranged from the comic burlesque o of Mr. Tison to the "unprintable" at indignation of Mr. McElveen. In P between there was a column by ei Mr. Harrell urging an approach p which must be described as grad- fi ualism. ti Now the approach of these three gentlemen differed greatly. Mr. fi Tison portrayed the Negroes as a Amos 'and Andy being misled by o half-understood ideas of equality. tl Mr. Harrell believes that the aver- s. age Negro is being stampeded into c action by the NAACP and the a Daily Worker. His thesis is that fi the Negro is not yet ready and g that subversives (he implies that w the NAACP is subversive!) are pushing -them too fast for their E own good. a Mr. McElveen cannot be said to b ,h have a thesis. In fact, the only a reason for even considering his ti column seriously is that seldom a in so short a space has anyone e presented the religious, racial, w sexual and political claptrap which oi his been used to justify segrega- ti tion. Underlying all of these argu- c< ments, there is one common idea- w that is that the Negro race is n inferior. Mr. McElveen evidently w h believes that this inferiority is per- tj manent, while Mr. Harrell evi dently believes it is temporary and M, due to educational and economic ca defects. In any case the idea of ri inferiority is implied. tl JACK BASS Bring Back ( Intermittently throughout the p year there appear in this news- i paper numerous columns that blast students at Carolina for their lack h of school spirit. We'll agree that fi many of the students show a lack- a lustre attitude towards the school. a And this goes far deeper than just p the problem of yelling or not yell- a ing at football games. W It is our contention that too c many students know too little 8 about the University of South i Carolina, its history, customs, honor system, and even its legends. fi And how can their spirit towards b the school be increased or how can f' itanyones spirit towards any insti- a tution be increased~ when one doesn't know of past glories and b highlights. And Carolina has had t< a fruitful past, is having a glorious " present, andi is facing a bright ir future. 1 The first step to cure this ir lethargy would be to bring back s~ the Orientation course for all new di students. We have never been able "2 to understand just why the course c was discontinued, but suspect thatp the cost of the student teachers o1 might be the reason. But the P' point is that a good but imperfect " course was dropped and replaced by absolutely nothing. We doubt very seriously if mnore than one out of ten freshmen that It entered this year could tell us who p,V the Maxcy Monument was named ri for or who the first president of the South Carolina College was. t< And many have only a baffled looJc o: on their faces when such complex sj is .Musical F While in the armed forces, Ralph o1 did arranguing for the service band, ti and when he returned to civilian iv life in 1948 he had had enough ti experience in the arranging bus- pi iness to interest Victor Records T in signing him to work with the w bands of Charlie Barnet and Boyd h Raeburn and for singers Perry ri Como and Tony Martin. "I When he broke loose with his w own band the following year he ja turned out to be an overnite hit on records, at the same time break- is ing attendance records at many il ballrooms with his personal ap- tC pearances. In a few short months ic Ralph Flanagan became a recog- a nized name in the music industry. si A warm welcome was given to si London's Frank Chackafield when si n he flew the Atlantie to make a 8 e three-week visit to the United 8 is States recently. 8 Taken in tow by Londo Ro- J, nt for ation Why wasn't this concept given a ore concrete form? Are these hite gentlemen somehow ashame their belief in the Inherent iperiority of the white race? erhaps they are. Logically, how rer, if they would start with this remise they would have an in nitely strknger case for segrega on. In the interest of intellectual tirness, I would like to furnish ri argument based on the premise r Negro inferiority which will put ie weak and logically ill-con ;ructed answers of the Gamecock's >rrespondents to shame. This rgument is not original. It is, in Lct, a quotation from one of the reatest defenders of racial purism 'ho has ever lived. Therefore for the benefit of Mc Iveen and company I quote: "Just little as nature desires a mati* Btween weaker individuals and ;ronger ones, far less she desires te mixing of a higher race with lower one, as in this case her itire work of higher breeding, hich has perhaps taken hundreds thousands of years, would imble at one blow. "Historical experience offers ountless proofs of this. It shows ith terrible clarity that with any ixing of the blood of the Aryan ith lower races the result was ie end of the culture-bearer." The quotation is from Hitler's ein Kampf and I refer the impus segregatioixists to it, ither than to Mr. McElveen and te like, for arguments. )rientation roblems as "grade point ratio" is entioned. The only public exposure to te mor system that many of these 'eshmen have had are the various rticles written in the GAMECOCK id a single convocation at which )ssibly one fourth of the students Atended, and then the acoustics ere so bad that very few people uld understand what was being id until the final speaker, Pres lent Russell, abandoned the PA rstem for his closing talk. The value gained in becoming omiliar with the libraries and how :st to use them is one valuable ature of an Orientation course, Id there are other important apects as: becoming familiar ith the honor system and its tckground, a sketch of the his riy of Carolina, familiarization ith student government, a brief gof university policy including ales and regulations, Carolina icial rules and customs with an troduction to fraternities and rorities and their purposes and ities, a listing of campus organ ations with a short summary of ach, detailed information on the at system, how to figure grade int ratios, specific information campus services such as the >st office and depository, and the any other little items that 4o >t pertain to class work ~rt hich otherwise would be learned ily vaguely or not at all. And we definitely feel that ' arning the words to our Alma ater and fight song should be quired. In closing this writer would like invite other suggestions and inions on the problem of school >irit on the Carolina campus. hliracle -ds, Chacksfield made 'round ce-clock visits to disc jockeys in any of the larger cities. An ex emely modest person, he ox ained the success of his "Ebb ide" and "Limelight" recordings ith the comment that he just Lppenedi to be lucky with the ght music at the right time... >ackground music for films is hat's become the big thing, not ist my records." One of the better-paced and most usically interesting concerts now aking the rounds is Stan Ken n's "Festival of Modern Amer an Jazz." Kenton has with him more swinging crew than in past asons and offers a series of owcase numbers spotlighting his demen. Sharing the stage with tan are such topflig4it artists as an Getz, Erroll Garner, Caudido, lim Galliard, Dizzy Gillespie and me Christy.