University of South Carolina Libraries
Minds Have C McCarthy Is When Senator Joe McCarthy's "spy-hunt ing" campaign first began there was satis faction among most of the American people because they thought that after a long, long time the eyes of our nation had been opened to the Communist menace which had become deep-rooted in American society. After a series of investigations in which many government employees were called be fore his committee, there emerged a new idea among some.of these same Americans that McCarthy was evil, but a necessary evil at that. Since the most recent McCarthy ordeal, in volving Army Secretary Stevens, many of McCarthy's heretofore proponents have be come disgusted in his methods of attack. They claim that there are not sufficient grounds for such accusations as were made against the Army. Many months before, after the Fort Mon mouth investigations (which netted no spies for McCarthy) one prominent radio reporter summed it up by saying, "McCarthy went to Fort Monmouth, started an investigation, and found nothing. "Now this was embarrassing for him, par ticularly since he likes publicity," he went on. "McCarthy went to Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens. McCarthy told Stevens he'd quit investigating if the Army secretary would keep things quiet in the press." Pinned down, however, Stevens admitted to the press that no Reds had been found. The next day McCarthy said there was spy ing. This no doubt was the beginning of the -From Inside About the Len By Dean Schoelkopf column and pac Editor, Minnesota Daily Ied Square to (Editor's Note: This is the last tomb. About 5( .in a series of articles by Dean the entrance he Schoelkopf, editor of the Uni- army officer m versity of Minnesota Daily and of the column. one of seven American college As the clock editors just returned from a tower struck three-week tour of the Soviet began to pace Union.) ward through a Like a modern Mecca, the tomb soldiers with fi: of Lenin and Stalin on Red went through i Square in Moscow daily attracts gate, up a few thousands of Russians who come tomb. to view the mummified bodies of In their former leaders. It was warn From all over the Soviet Union smell was some they come to visit the red marble decayed flower mausoleum that stands next to itself, soldiers the Kremlin wall. What moti- nets stood all f vates them--curiosity, reverence, Lenin and Si tjuty-it is impossible to tell, side in complet< They siand in line for hours cases. Lenin in the icy Moscow weather to dressed in a pl1 make their pilgrimage. Like a jacket with no great black snake, the dlouble At his feet file of visitors winds for blocks brxonze wreaths, (down out of Red Square past the ner than he a Lenin museum. photographs. Police standi all along the line well-preserved, at 25-foot intervals to maintain been in the tonm order. When the tomb is opened, Stalin looked late every afternoon, police com- in his portraits pletely encircle Red Square. and mustache,r Few Americans Know twvo gold medlal We were pleased when our service ribbons guides told us we could enter the a single silver mausoleum, for few Americans epaulet on ea< have been inside since Stalin was body, too, se placed there Nov. 17, 1963. lifelike. About 4 p.m. on a dull, gray A~nti. day, our group moved through The line of a dlouble police cordon to the slowly forward head of a double line that had and 38 seconds begun forming six hours earlier, out a side do< H-alf an hour later a police of- of Moscow dun ficer steppedl to the head of the tinued past g !AG GAM-co4 CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO Meumber of Associated Collegiate Pr Founded January 80, 1905, with Robert Elliott Consa edtrG"Ib amneeck" is published by and for thse. University of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, dari ywezeept om holiday and during esamastions. heopinioma .esae by colusanIsts and 3etter writers sarily those.of'The Camnecock." PublishIng does not medmrsm--mt. The right to edit Is reserved. EDITOR ..JC MANAGING EDITOR . B: BUSINESS MANAGER ......DA ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR NEWS EDITOR ......... .B SPORTS EDITOR.. SOCIETY EDITOR .Cai CAMPUS EDITOR. CIRCULATION MANAGER W. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER. STAFF REPORTERS Faris Giles, Dew James, J. R. Roseberry, Donn Parrish, Curtis Watson, Bob Young, Bertha C Sligh.COLUMNISTS John Duffy, Faris Gie, J. Allen Tison, RaIp BUSINESS STAFF Wee Sanders, Al Perry, Gibby Dean, D. J. Sall CARTOONISTS Bob Cameron,.Stanley Papajohn 'hanged About avestagations McCarthy-Stevens battle. As for McCarthy himself-well, his record isn't lily white. One- newspaper in his own state has charged him with granting quick divorces to political friends while he was a judge. Later the same paper found that he had been censured by the Wisconsin Supreme Court for destroying official court records. A veteran of the last war, McCarthy has spoken of his "war injury" which was later deflated as meaning a broken foot he suf fered on a Navy transport while crossing the equator. McCarthy's financial affairs have even been investigated, very unbecoming to such a patriotic American. A full account of these affairs has never been made. Since Adlai Stephenson's recent attack on the GOP, in which he assumed, probably erroneously, that McCarthy was a fairly ac curate representation of near half the Re publicans, McCarthy has sworn revenge via television. He vows a fight, if necessary, to obtain free time for reply. This could be a mistake for him, since every time he appears on TV his audience seems to become just a little more irked. But Robert Lee, a member of the FCC who thinks Holy Joe is "a great guy" makes an other McCarthy TV commercial practically inevitable. The big question of the universe today is why, out of 96 senators, can't there be picked a Senate investigator who at least commands the respect of his own party. If no one knows, then where is McCarthy going to take us. -JWR in-Stalin Tomb ed us slowly up tionary heroes, but for us it was the front of the an anti-elimax. We had been feet in front of frankly iwed by something we stopped, and an oved to the head live.s, and none of us spoke until on the Kremlin we were almost back to our hotel. 1:45, the officer Later we were to see the house the column for- where Stalin wa. born in 1878. double column of It wap.'at Gor, a little village ced bayonets. We about two hours drive from i little iron grill Tbilisi in central Georgia. steps and into the But even if our trip had not includied at visit to the Moscow side tomb or the Gor birthplace, we inside, and the could not have escaped the Stalin thing like that of legend. s. In the crypt It is not enough to say his wvith fixed bayo withfid. byo picture anti statue are every rouInd. ;alin lay sidIe by wee o utsehsprri ly enclosed glass i vr omo col atr vas on the left, ~hm-o utsehssau sin military style neeypbisqaeoau decorations. tou-ogethima. and head were W a tlni udeso He looked thin- )5.Intefcoishwa ppears to he in litrdsadn mn ok uis body seemed &s ntefrsh a hw although he has t(inintewatfld.n b since 1924. teshosh a lpce od just as he does igcide nhslp -steel gray hair Lniwaaclsseodt ailitary tunic with Stlninubropcurad s andl many other saus fyuloe noewl on his chest and adswSai,yucudams star on a gold b ueo idLnno h h shoulder; His opsie emed completely Ol aeyddw e )cue Climax Lvet ei,oetm edo visitors movedl tesce oic,wsa mt andl two minutes nalowhchipctrhd later we stepped be uga tlnUiest >r into the palor i bls n i ieesi k. The tour con- suwymsi-hcorgid tioayherosbu Sc ool s i a frankyit awerbasoeic gw Shneve Toedo,te Oho olee inews ives, andone thuoe unty.Th weasntouet were alostacrt uckotl by waca at anorn,tarlittlonilag HN W. AY TOneistuenspensvral Gerg ays 'LL LEGGTT inteve hsita and trip oher re stay Ehrinrltden giviit acont Mofscow ... Jac Bass tomiblen the Gwrie bita e, "Te coy eCug ulnned not have edtee Sain L. Bufflgon In aidnt t thatg orney hif pictre asettue acommodate awae,Buhedtrian Yor i mutee had beenai ardnr, Jyce n evleryoo dire chool, tractory Thir onmeyeotree state I~ reorin werer pindequae prcauin jordi-te the iafet.fuvr Te sawtlin hitcneest bude tha ossInthe e ator e lats JOHN DUFFY McCarthy A Big, Rei At the present time probably the most talked about, most abused, most lavishly praised in dividual in the United States is the senator from Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy. Fanatics of the right think he is a Messiah; fanatics of the left consider him a Mephi stopheles. It is hard for us who find ourselves somewhere in the center to look upon the senator as either Christ or Satan. If ever there was a man totally lacking in divine or diabolic character istics, that man is McCarthy. It is hard to imagine this slightly balding, smiling Irishman with a tendency toward pudginess, as anything more than what he actually is; a loud-mouthed demagogue and a shrewd poli tician. In four years he has seized more headlines and accomplished less than any man in the Senate. He has rarely spoken out on any issue but Communists in govern ment, and he has not a single indictment to his credit there. He seems to be devoid of opinion on taxes, foreign affairs, domestic reform, or finances. He once came out against British and Greek trade with Red China, but his remarks showed that he was out of his depth. Joe does a lot of harm. However, if the person attacked sticks around long enougph, he will soon be demoted as Owen Lattimore was from the top Communist in the United States to a mere Communist sympathizer. Conversely, Joe sometimes builds his victims up far beyond what they deserve. Take the former cook, Annie Lee Moss, who was promoted in Joe's Imagination to a posi tion where highly secret in formation was available to her. Of course fate is fickle and a few days later Annie Lee was declared to be uni"-portant. Then there was thae top scien tist over in Germany whom Cohn andl Schine (lug up. He was a T. E. BROWN Disregard4 Rights 'or Last week's Gamecock an nounced the passage of a plan by Student Council by which, if passed by the higher authorities of our campus, the student body will gain a voice on the disci p)linary committee of the univer sity. This was well recommended by council and has been ade quately. defended by the editor of this paper. This action is seen as a movement to gain for the stu dents a larger degree of repres entation in the so-called demo cratic processes of the campus. It is based upon what is supposed to be a dlemocratic foundation of student control by the adlmin istration andi of student govern ment by the students. Always in seeking to further the development of a dlemocracy those concerned look hungrily towards greater participation in the legislation and execution of laws, and some feel that so long as the majority rules, what they rule dloes not matter. This, of course, has its good and bad points, its progressive as well- as regressive implications, but It is believed that there are some rights, especially here at Caro lina, which come before the right of representation in rank of Im portance, and indee(i should exist whother the studentsarne ren "It's clean living that does it, I Has Only I Thought German civilian employee of the Army who was going to expose the use of Communist in top position overseas by our govern ment. Unfortunately this top German turned out to be an employee of the Army commis sary rather than a scientist. Joe's record is full of such ab sudities from the very start. His list of 205 Communists with which he began all this noise has never seen the light of day. In spite of his ridiculous failure in the Monmouth and General Elec tric investigations. Joe still manages to convince people that he is doing something about Com munists in key positions. These people continue to say: We don't approve of his methods but he's doing something that has to be done. The question that I feel called upon to ask is: What has he done? He has slandered some; wrecked the morale, first of the civil service and later of the Army; attacked our leading educational institutions; rein troduced the legal procedures of the Star Chamber; and with all of this he has failed to catch a single important subversive. Of course, Joe has furnished us with a lot of conversation. His stooges, Cohn and Schine, have even furnished us with a few laughs. If the American people want a three ring circus, he has certainly given them what they deserve. There are signs, how ever, that the American people are no longer amused. The clown from Wisconsin may soon find that his audience has deserted him. Then like so many others of his kind, he will go into ob scurity. His name, like that of Huey Long, may bring back memories of fantastic occurrences to a few, of disgust to the major ity. In a few years historians wvill wonder howv the man ever made such a splash. I can think of no contemporary more worthy of oblivion. af Student i Campus resented or not. To come bluntly* to the point, the Soviet-type seizure of ath letic books at the Furman game, and the Nazi-like search of rooms for confiscatable items during the Christmas holidays, are two very current flagrant disregards for rights which should be basic to life of Carolina students. We do not advocate the end of some control over tickets, or of fire regulations, but we do desire to call to the attention of the ad ministration that a more careful consideration should be given to the personal rights of students as American citizens when rooms are searched and the coffee pots seized. Several instances can be cited where closed boxes were opened in the search: boxes con taining personal letters and im portant papers, which should not have been even touched without the presence of the student. In community life an action of this sort by such a disrespectful land lord would result in a successful lawsuit for the tennant. As to the athletic books, the very idea of compulsory purchase of such is adverse to a rIght every student in any tax-sup ported school should have: to receive an education at the lowest loys." News for Veterans Here are authoritative answers from the Veterans Administra tion to four questions of interest to former servicemen and their families: Q. I'm going to night school under the World War Two GI Bill. I'll have to stop* training for a while because my employer wants me to make an emergency two-month trip to another city. This is the first time I've had to travel on the job. Will I be allowed to continue with my GI Bill schooling after I return? A. Yes, provided you resume your course within 30 days after you return, or at the first time enrollment is permitted, which ever is later. Q. I'm a disabled Korean vet eran in training under Public Law 16. VA recently gave me a physical examination and re duced my service-connected dis ability rating to zero-which means I no longer will draw com pensation pay. What about my Public Law 16 training? Will I have to quit that, too? A. No. So long as you already were in training when your dis ability was rated as noncompens able, you will be permitted to go ahead with your Public Law 16 training until you attain your objective. Q. I'm in college under the World War Two GI Bill, and I'm running out of GI entitlement. I've been figuring out the num ber of (lays I lost because of regular school holidays, illness andl other absences from class. Could I refund my subsistence pay to VA for those-days, and thereby addl on to my entitle ment? A. No. Subsistence paid (lur ing regular absences may not be "bought back" for the purpose of adding to your- entitlement. End of-term extensions of training, on the other hand, may be repur ehased. Q. I'm taking a corr-espondence course under the World War Two GI Bill, and my entitlement will expire when I'm only two-thirds of the way through. Will I be permitted to continue the course anyhow? A. So long as you've completed a major number of lessons at the time your entitlement expires, you will be allowed to finish the correspondence course. However, this extension is limited to the number of lessons that $125 wilj huy. - THINS TO TALK ABOUT bY FRANKLIN J. MEINE (h, An"*os, Peoples Encyclop.de AT THE TIME THE PILGRIMS LANDE WERE ABOUT 82S MILLION ACRES OF (AbouT %A OF THE TOTAL L AND ARE A) I5 NOW THE UNITED STATES 4'inDAyv, cot U$f.UL TIMBER- LANDS~ AMOUNT TO ABO Collegiate .. .00 Clippings SENATOR JOE, J. G.... A 19-year-old pre-law student at the University of Colorado whose avocation is hunting Reds has been branded "intellectually dishonest" by the unive*y board of publications. The student, Dwight D. Mur phey, charged "a Communist conspiracy on our campus" and, together' with a state legislator, accused a political science pro-_ fessor of using pro-communist textbooks in his "Governments of Eastern Asia" class. The story began when Murphey brought a 1,200-word press re lease to the Colorado' Daily, which editor Rod Angove refused to print on the grounds that por tions of it were libelous. Murphey was not enrolled in the Asia course, nor had he read the textbooks. He based his charges solely on the fact that four of the authors studied in he course-Lawrence K. Rosi ger, T. A. Bisson, Owen Lattimore and John Fairbank-have been accused of being Communists be fore Congressional committees. Editor Angove termed Murphey a "troublemaker," and the young anti-Communist appealed to the board of publications that he had been frozen out of the paper unjustly. At the board meeting Murphey said he was not calling the pro fessor a Communist, but merely insisting that he point out to his students that the authors of the texts are Comunists. "But that would be a lie, Mr. Murphey," adonished a sociology professor on the board. "You haven't established that these authors are Communists." Another board member, the di rector of the college of journal ism, asked if the authors were "convicted or accused" Commun ist. "Well,"v Murphey replied, "these people are so slippery you can't prove anything befor a court of law. So other m ns must be taken." The board lauded Angove for his actions and labeled Murphey "irresponsible and intellectually dishonest." MUSIC ON CAMPUS: Sultry Eartha Kitt, who is currently appearing in "New Faces" on the west coast, was picked as Yale's 1954 date for the university's annual Junior Prom. Before the ball, Eartha will be feted at a faculty-student reception, and later, at a banquet in her honor at the fabled Mory's . . . A num ber of colleges are on the sched ule for Count Basie's band tour, due to kick off early in March. Among the colleges to be covered are: Michigan State College, East Lansing, Mich.; Virginia Poly technical Institute, Blacksburg, Va.; Valparaiso University, Val p)araiso, Indl.; and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Speaking of Oberlin, the northern Ohio campus was the scene of one of the finest recorded jazz concerts. put out this year. Packaged by Fantasy Records, it is entitled "Jazz at Oberlin," and features some great swinging by the Dave Brubeck quartet . . . Ralph Marterie andl two sidemen w$te shaken up in an auto accident wvhile traveling on their midwest tour of college dates andl one niters. No one was injuredl seri-J ously, however, and the band was able to play the University of Iowa a few daiys later. FORESTS WMER(ALL.Y i iT HALF.THE ORIGINAL TOTAL 4444