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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
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About the Len
By Dean Schoelkopf column and pac
Editor, Minnesota Daily Ied Square to
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.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
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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
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feet in front of frankly iwed by something we
stopped, and an
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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
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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. -
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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.
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