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So Who Needs Who fired the first shot of the Civil War Centennial Observance? New Jersey. Presumably, the Commission which is handling the observance accepted Charles ton's invitation because it was the logical place to hold the ceremonies. The Commission apparently accepted the invitation with no reservations. Not so New Jersey. The New Jersey delegation includes one Negro woman. In view of this fact, New Jersey expects South Carolina to rewrite her customs, traditions, and laws overnight so that the Negro woman can have the same accommodations as do her fellow delegates. The verbal cannons boom. A guest usually accepts an invitation with the unspoken agreement that the customs of the host will be observed. You do not go to someone's home as a guest and say, "But I always eat breakfast at 3 a.m." It's not only inconsiderate, it's just not done. At state banquets in the presilential man sions, some guests are seated at the head of the table, others at the other end. This is ...Nor Any B4 Books lay mouldering on their shelves, un touched by human hands. For it was after one o'clock on Saturday, and this was Mc Kissick Library. Until Monday morning no soul thirsting for knowledge could be allowed within the solid walls of this formidable edifice. This situation does not seem quite fair to those who must do research work on the senior or graduate level. Many of them have little time for research during the week. Some have classes to conduct and papers to grade, leaving little time for visiting Mc Kissick except on week-ends. Tom Marchant What Price It would seem to me that it is with their t0low Im. the fundamental right of every are sensitive to their American to be free. As I look komings and are e around mc, I see that a large per- them. centage of our national population What hvt o is enslaved and will remain so until w simpl f(i they die. To be free one must be ;. purpose of hb( educated for freedom, for the free t PlYCj)L1*v us to liv man is the man who has the free- with our fellow nia1 doim to think . . . the freedom to excellvnce and ot. think for himself. lacking i. eductio Plato has said, "If you ask what heilvZ - education is the good of education, the answer is easy -- that education makes That is what libe good men, and that good men act It is the education nobly, and conquer their enemies in ust t.fene,I hattie, because they are good." hapescsus Adam Smith exhorts that "a man sl ttehitn without the proper use of the in- p nil rdlvn tellectual faculties of a man, is, if ~ ~ ll u~ possible, more contemptible than 'ittIhIi a coward, and seems to he mutilated 1 fitieftl andl deformed( in a still more essen- ~ ev odn tial part of the character of human . nature.''m" laske From this we come to realize P1li ff r that education is the p)reparation sgt ntney that matn omaot receive in order to f~ im.Wth live intelligently, wisely, and in a ''rlimitvot. word, harmoniously with his fel- cllsa s esa low man; this is the key factor-- ith hiset on'sfll*' 'Ior man. Liberal educa- Algit ep r lion is not a self-centered ideal, or ~ '\ht i( t at least shotldn't l)e. You ask wvhat lhokIcud liberal education is? It is easier to t-lliIierla tell what it is niot. It is not a saeo fetos specialized traininrg. It is neither aniaidet.i? vo)cat'ionial nor is it avocationtal. It bIL llte ig , does not 'renate and mold a rpecial- tetig nihe ist. In a wordI, liberal education flI.wtI hc 'loes not produce a man who knows li~(IigIt'l'l more and more' about less and less. (i gtrel Not Producing sre itIim And yet, as I look at our Amecri- ledtt can educational machine, I cannot A 10 tm say with all (due veracity that it is . cit,nl iot not producing just such men. I nurieitv can not say that onr) so-called lO i 111U l ''liberal arts'' school is producinrg m dc itn i. its share of free men . . . nien who maey('i gria carn think for the'mselve's . . . men o uaiycuh wihl can make de'mocracy work . . . io iirnsi . men ho ae abe tocommnicae arenitive tol heixu Membr o A~aeac olinsand ree: firt ditr,'Fh Cameotk i pi What~n hivavel' we theUnierityof ouh Crolna we've , s'impy~ frgc necesarly toseofThe a aeoik urpose of lib aotcontiutean ndrseent Texcelle nce adt or w publicatiolaacklngtir sereseried EDITORg - - Ieducto NEW EDTOR ltone Pareee, 1t happiesscnit SPOfRmTr human,R AotentiaPORTndEDITOR New Jersey? )rotocol. Perhaps the man in the place of ionor is not half the man that the other man s. Perhaps it is just his title which en ,enders respect. The guest at the foot of the ible does not feel slighted because he is not it the head. He is honored that he was in Aited at all. Even as you should be. New Tersey. It is interesting to note that of the states vhich have gone on record as supporting New Jersey's stand, most have said, "Of .ourse we were not planning to send dele ates anyway because of a lack of funds, but xe sure do agree." Will one New Jersey Negro accomplish in i few days what. thousands of South Caro lina Negroes have failed to accomplish in a hundred years? Listen, New Jersey, South Carolina doesn't let the federal government tell her what to Ao. Do you then, as a mere state. expect her to bow to your omnipotence'! We suggest. that New Jersey will not be sorely missed it' she decides to stay home. Charleston alone could stage one rip-roaring ob)servance. ook To Read This is not the fault. of the library staff. They are operating on a budget. an(d it costs nioiiey to keep a library open. McKissick Library was once open during the week-end, but it was found desirable to keep the Undergraduate Library open until 7leven o'clock during the week. The money ha<d to come froin somewhere. We do not advocate closing the Under Lnraduate Library earlier in order to keep McKissick o))en oni week-emiiis. We advocate i more liberal budget for both libraries so that. they will be open when they are needed. Locked-up books <10 not impart knowl Age. Freedom? n ..en who whole man, no individual, no entity .osociety's sort- . . . I see only fragmented men, iger to correct w%ho have lost their concern for the other guy, and who are now content erlooked? Well, to scratch around and scramble up tten about the that damned ladder of "success" - -ral education- that nebulous, illusionary monster e harmoniously that beckons us to elimb still higher to increase his and higher, until . . . and we never own. What is stop falling. I to be hunan eatitude for freedem, I look at my elders sitting in the pews motithing the beatitudeS, fill al educati:n is. ing the plate with their pennies, which prepares praising their Creator and thanking libe happy, for Him for not casting them as Phari n making your- sees. I look at. my contemporaries; levelopingr your imbethded in their' warm little l ife' to) the full- wrd ie cntne1 ftss n this ((ilcalt ion tikn,ucrn.Sm fte ive deoc iratice aig ( i ((f eLv,at urse5lf this edu- uim,ad vl ndalte eto M lieover, youI I esm seiswt uhvrct the essen,ce aind ta n sasltl wdb education in 111i rfudes H~ a tit tis inmelern es,* s vth m .'...Bu 5 educliation lie- tisie.s tit No . .ha' fo the plow with- tthe...achshr(wild pull it. Saint js ie...hn111ko h it wvel lohe he' ith' s(t i h ec.'Y u (t prmofit. m10, that plyrigdo'yt?'...N, procuri e of the htIra ".u....Wad o 'ts, I, the vile ma o o' rn,I[ny read biy miyself itn pn ot oe l'Ihdm wrd iecnetdftss n thinking,ce uneaigdoe? fte bieng;o te itelre,al et.The I dscrn ithe Iconert whd defuine Lae, anad own ucm'tic felod adil, and all whte ores oflC ll&ifca v y i' wonderiesywithmsuchateritye I seemy P low at one Sisl abslutely awedy fro o t muth f iteectualofounnsl.t.i.n "How dicnsI it ii de, ht e promunly hilous'someonel O,It's ~ ~ in th('asy, jst alltha me". I won-u tint I e n tbusi sut mix wi tha's flor ----------- fathu(ern.. a essoad strengthe his aifit . Therslkon aphe tht tieof the feceN. Itisour buty i ie Freed . . . toaddaeyour men yof the' chainsk, lione,. Liten , spelfnes andtt prony [ic thatne te orwhy oe aess afrai wasI notIg i ltonisel ve to become edctdwh t eole Ite (educati e i wodern whyrpeolve sih uerbut to my 'away fotmi antA rlg('tos dscussion dutyad thoi ruestionnIsblit to thei KLowdeocic tionow cisma, eheythintehr black r se m ellowan sority nsien thatw accep ato r thekmot of inect ale tstiultimor dius,-h tGrner youlti-ofti uiesiy tr ericanaerieatolo--felwma,ardt DouGay rse aipl fecase thmeoneein. dr whyoarealGseudointelectua Inquisition tive body to hunt out Communists, le but it does not need a "witch m hunt" with all the frills of a three- p ring circus! li, New Methods Urged N The House Committee should th adopt new methods. They should i investigate more and "cry wolf" less. (If this method is in keep- tr ing with political expediency, for er we would hate to see anyone not st get re-elected.) h The national hunt has been echoed in Columbia by the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division. These noble vigilantes have investigated several Univer sity of South Carolina students for allegedly "believing in de-segre gation." Switching to the first person singular, I would like to relate an experience that I had with the South Carolina State Law En forcement Division: My Kingdom for a Communist I was called out of class and nrrived at the campus police sta tion to find two SLED agents communing with Chief Bundrick of the University police on the seriousness of the situation. SLED Agent Stokes immedi- IR ately asked me if I were a Com munist. Upon receiving an accen tuated negative answer, he then d informed ine that I was either a to nomniunist or was being duped ti< b)y the Communists. Chief Bund- a rick nodded his wise agreement. -ri My Answer Dear Detective Stokes. Chief t1 Bundrick, and others: I was born in South Carolina and have lived here all my life. I ome from an old South Carolina family that can trace its ancestry t h all the way back to the trees. I st am a Jeffersonian Democrat. If h the word "Jeffersonian" sounds f 1 subversive to you, I suggest that b you get your set of Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and look " Lip Thomas Jefferson. If you can ta, find someone to read the article M to you, you will discover that m; Thomas Jefferson was very im- ti( portant inl interpreting our nation- ill il Constitution. Further research SV will show that Thomas Jeffersoui a was a Unitarian. (This sounds clI subversive also.) Abraham Liin- tul ,-oln was sympathetic to Unitarian- CO si. (Aha! another subversive.) th I believe in the United States (o onstitution. If believing in the United States Constitution is sub- til ersive, then I am subversive, and n( roud to admit it. Yes, I am a Southerner who, di ;trangely enough, believes in to lemocracy. And as Philip Wylie th, ;tated in An Essay On Morals, ra "We may soon find out . . . that a nervous militarism at home ini destroys the liberty it was designed sI: to prlotect.'' (1e "4 \ispresentation? ' ani We were lead by our own convie- (1h ions and we still standl firmly 0n by them." t Calm Police? In contrast to the film's dlescrip) ion of the studIents, the narrator lepicts the p)olicemen as calm and ) non-violent; a fact sharply dis putedI by a newsman from the li N'ewv York Post News who (de clared: "Never in 20 years as a reporter have I seen such brutal ity." These acts of prov4~ocat ion were also rep)orted by the New ia ['hronicle and the Oakland Tlri b)une. s ''Operation Abolition'' has mlade& it appear that the sequence of events in the demonstration was to 'asually connected. This relation- il ohip was ('reated by ('lever film I e~ditors, for there was no sucli con-h nection of events. In the final analysis, "Opera- 7" tion Abolition" finds these stu- .i dents guilty b)y association. Simply e because they dlemonstrated for the abolition of HJUAC, a movement ~ incidentally sup)ported( bty the a Communist Party, the studIents 1. are declared to be dupes of the Communists and to have bee'n "toying with treason." to Itecently George' Itockwell and memblers of the American Nazi Party picketed in Washington ini supJport of IIUAC. They were' joinedl by thousands of conscienti ous andl patriotic citizens. If we are to adopt the logic of "Opera tion Abolition,'' we must conclude that these peop)le were (dupes of the fascists; a fact which is obivi ouisly untrue. I (10 not dlefend the studlents for I t.heir objectionable behavior, hut I do dleplore the action of IIUAC in pil promoting such an obviously mis- se leading presentation as "Operation la, Abolition." It is defeating our very purpose when we adopt the pa tacties of the Kremlin in our di struggle ngainst ommunism..n Blake Fishburne . . Hometown In 1692 the village of Salem, Mass. was the center of a witch craft hysteria. Within four months there were hundreds arrested and tried; 1) were hanged and one was pressed to death for refusing to plead. Students of history often shake their heads in disgust when reading of the Salem witch trials. But are they aware that the same type of persecutions occur today under perhaps more subtle form? The McCarthy hearings were examples of "witch-hunts-in-the raw." Robert Kennedy, our present attorney general, resigned his job on the committee in protest against the "circus hearings." The New Circus The Big Top is gone, but today the House Committee on Un American Activities is circulating a propaganda film entitled "Oper ation Abolition." This film has been cut and edited to give a false impression of the Communist menace in the United States, and may (o more harm than good. The witch hunt for Communists is becoming fashionable once more in America. Many persons will lose their jobs when called before the House Committee. The results of the Committee's investigations make no difference to the eni ployers of those investigated. There is a widely prevalent attitude that a person is automatically guilty if he appears before the committee. Our country needs an investiga Finis Sometimes yon sit alonc and lWonder what's in it for iou. A nd *you get R(car<vl inside. Ym think ab<ntt how' it might hare Bcen) before the p<icer lines Aiid the bulldozers ca.ie. lefoie mien mnshed God out of the Way. Yim think of the scars They'ec cut, the deep ones, The ies that won't heal. You think about it aid wonder why. Ymu ieatch them craeling over Al sloiely destroying all That they have inherited As their doiinion. And God was shoi,ed oecr the Cliff with the last load of ion ore, So ue're safe For a ichie. You can't stop thinking, though, of All that nature endres, all Hic Refuse o.f a coniplacent race . . . You pray. You praY that Soieday nature will cleanse Herself of the ultiniate ,nan. Youi th ink aibout the ulitimiate man. -William W. Savage, Jr. Dan Carter... Is 'Abolition' A A~ A motion picture wvith the in triguing title of "Operation Aboli tion'' will soon he shown at thme University under the auspices of the International lielations Club. The film describes a series of incidents wvhich occurred when c'ollege students dlemonstrated this past May against San Francisco hearings of the hT(ouse Un American Activities Committee I UAC) . A fter c'omp)arative'ly quiet picketing the first day, the studIents becaime excited( and tried to ''shout dowvn" hearings of the committee. As a result, fire hoses w(ere brought in and( the studlents werec a r' r e s t e d after being drenched. Their boisterous and dlisruptive' actions have been al most unanimously condemned. But, howev'er true these facts may be, there are many objections to ''Operation Abolition'' as an aie curate documentation of the three (lay series of demonstrations. Even William Whe'ele'r, chief investiga tor for IIUAC (the organization wVhich sponsored the film) has adl mit ted that it has "'inaccuracies and dlistortions.'" C'ommunists Identified TIh roughout the motion picture, known Communists are carefully identified in the crowd. Tfhis fact in itself is enough to cause narra tor' Fulton Lewis Ill to declare that th(e entire incidlent was planned andl carried( out bmy com munist o)rganize'rs. But Mr. Lewis fails to point out the fact that these Communists had been sub poenaed andl were present not necessarily because they ''planned'' the demonstration. A fter their arrest, the narrator dleclares that most of the students realized that they had been mis led by the~ Communists and were ashamed of their actions. This is far from the truth. After the trial, 58 studlents signed a statement which r'ead in part: "Nobody We Get i 17 March, 19fl (th( ear FAitor: cam I have just finished reading the Pu: Ater in the "Gamecock" from A r. Rick Hart, in which he ap- bodi -aled to the students at Caro- uns lit who are sympathetic with the rece egroes to "stanI up" for what r ey believe to be right in the thei :uation. wo Although we have heard from ie s e "do-gooders" frequently ough, it seems that Mr. Hart FAd.: inds out as something new, for - encourages us to stand up. Why Not< S he not admonished us to "sit ' wn for what you helieve is rece rht" ? cern lany are asserting themselves, tion d those who are on the "wrong" le find trouble. While I advo- Dea te progressive changes, I feel I at in 'fhe situation facing us, it tere desirable to maintain the status gati 0. I feel, as many Southerners ree that the Negro is welcome to whi as he pleases. so long as it Iat es not interfere with me per- I nally or with my affairs. We tuni rtainly wish that these Damn- .iJ nkees and do-gooders would not s;it(] ,ddle in our affairs. onl t Yours truly, that William H. Castine sieT four ar Fditor: T Several of the editorial columns tere: pearing in "'The Gamecock" ilg ring the past few weeks seem the ,ivance the ideas of resigna- weel in to and acceptance of racial .ect "egration by Southern whites. t ion: e two most comimon reasons inVi: cen for integration are a belief at it is inevitable and a pseudo -ral philosophy. Acceptance of this idea of IDea1 witability is indicative of a I featist outlook, a state of mind of o it cannot he condoned. If this ulat ite of Min<i arises from lack of of i art. it is regrettable, but when reali >1 phligmatie complacency. it "An ggar-s description. the The truimped-up moral issue cock oulc be ludicrous wer- it not I <en seriously by so Imny. sity ny (hutrlchimen tnow quite ada- and mit in thii stand that segrega- dras In is Imlo lally wrong, had noth- I an f to say a few y-ears hack. If yout tregatitott is wrong today, it has then %ays ben-it wrong. W' can ccn.- who de, ther-efore, only that the it al1 -ncoats in the past lacked the simiv Irage of their convictions or is i it nlow they tnieIelv adopt a Y4 it-se for expediency. been In ither case, their motive in ill f -itr advocating integ-attion do(es iak t excite admiration. The thought Ildte o presents itse.If that with the eTse taCes who walk the earth lay, it hardly seiems plausible Creator inteided a single 1)ea.1i Rom- ws ener-vated. Iy th n -adl toduttionl ofl vast numbert-is uof "Optic dves, t he capital hetinig fed fromt~ it -. pt ives o f war , buct Romeui id no ii t thec I1 until mtany~ uof thtose slive-s Amte rte fr-eed andic weret alloiwi-d ti mayi arichy wvithI thei Emporiit's l)iai- prtm. mic goingj. tic thet ighest hhhlert- pcc! several oiccatslionis andt ittt nct o t'roll of the tdicc. it Sintceel,- htcin Ernecsi I.. WilIis Ill [ Wi -ar Eitor:t itn' W'ie sItdents ha: lpenedt to hiavie by di actcess toc thei A-t chnl pubtl- thett at ion ocf "Thei (;amtcctck" mi ni t I mhi l ikt- tic enntunce-tt in yittur the mud rtgatingicj thei priniting oif n itm i tlaci -mt thougt~Js ont th l ut' -iail tuetstion. W- are hapipiy to andtc ve- bitc-c able ti it-cu (itnunttnts e it its yourts andu wih toc thank inc ci fci thIt-it. ar e Ilire itn Wacshcingtonil stat we vi, whiy >, htave ourj rciatl pcrobllt-ms fori ith ir' is diisctitmina:tion, Prhttatily pareit the art-as ofC empiloiymenittt n citieIicle ITese problems,-o we' hacve- ci- theccse vted, art-i beitng g~it i i-reics- Vie. ~ly reitic atttentiont by thet out \\- iit-lie-vec, as do youc, thact wei . ,i it ci longteri ignorte-t t he ptrolem tAt suinig thact it inmy go awavcy, it ate, that wei tiurstelvets mutst "Opit vet ciinsiet- ions cacind realistit- (' tiy- ti it andtu iincciurage tciers pit dtic I i-samite sic that ceffec-tive "It< Alary- iLee AItelievey ip) Iloris licitmnicnC Utobecrt Stitle ca Sandy~ Naumuchik Icher ( ynti hia Lucaus Wacshcingtonu Statie "Am Un:ivt-isity ('h liig A fiw itul-s malc re-gulatiins- ('e IS ac genictricus suppcily iif w ittiu- :1 Ii1 is dormI vcct ~itoy (shoIt 'hj it iculairly dlisplay ain cir of (;ncieI zinity; afiter all, it is tdiretly fetters most popularized spot ol pus) and is situated on :1 ic street. pass-byer, seeing half-nudi es hanging and shouting front reeiled windows, could hardly ive a favorable impression. he various girl residences have share of discipline--I'm dering why the boys don't. Sincerely, A Carleen Bunch All we have to say is (sic). : The following letters were ived by Tom Marchant con ing his article on race rela March 15. 191 r Mr. Marchant: read with a good deal of in t your article about segre n and race relations in a nt issue of "The Gamecock," -h we receive here at the "Flat , office at William and Mary. would like to take this oppor ty to congratulate you ont a well done. It is important for ent.s inl the South to speak out his issue and it is unfortunate many of them have been it so long. Only by an honest rhing will any :nswers h. d. tinking that you might be inl ;ted in seeing it I am enclos a recent coltumnlil of minle froi "Flat lint," William and 'Mary dy, which deals with the sub of current sit-in demonstra The colunin was surpri, well received here. Yours sincerely, Allan C. Brownfeld r Ton: don't thinik this letter is wm rder. I just want to congrat 3 you on an iexcellent piece mhibiased and stiludy objective smll in your colunn entitled We Men Or Ostriches" iii arch :1 issue (of "The Gamv aml i student at the Univer Extension here (Heaufort I amin vitally concerned with the tie situation surrounding me. I a Southern-i-born who sha re insight into the problem, and are many mllore, no doubt, wat to do something about ao. From your article-"I aml ,ly inldifferent to them. . . .t ow time for action." tu have my support. I have quietly observing and have aith that our generation -will the needed step toward Istanding. Sincerely, Lenny Lee Taylor Editor: was greatly disappointed that oIu thittk the film rtat in Abhil ition"' is such that: ill give studetLs an insight of opertin g methods of the rican ('ommu tinist l'arty."' Th'i> the the itenttiont of the film, I se tainily a failure in thii iis fiu has been eriitic'ized biy i.'ally every' liberal groutp andl catitn in Amuterica. 1 have the tihni, andtt there are mtany\ :1 aot it that should cer y bie criticizdadqusin uld like to urge ever'y ('arollina -nt to see "(Opetrat ion Abli anid niot to be carriedl away e veiy clever presenhtto ot f ihnt. /;i.th .iides were obvionsly .c w ro ng anad it is the dluty tudenit to find out the fact. rin g t he conitrov0\ersy whtich utis "Op erait ion A bolition" he llouse U~i-n-erican Activ ommutit tee. order timt the students whoii literesteid in finding out just tie film is being so wVidely -ized mtay do so, I htave pre I a breief bibliography of at dealing with 111UA C andi ration A holition." Most ariticles dlo e'xpressC the I lberi poiint , lut if y'ou watnt to finid vtat is obtjectio:nable abouit th"t' and II UAC you certaitnly lie able to do it by retadling ge 1-1. -Illigen t A nti - Comuis,"' ill ), palge E;7. y a l)octored Feilmn?" Chr'istiuan ge I133. e is also ant article in thn' bruary 15, 19(61, Chriisti"an nt, rJ/, ptage 1 98. I lhent thle Sky Fell ont M'," hi, Wide and Ugly,"(/ Christiini 11tl)/ (Melarch 15, 19611) ,pa I. is list is by nto meantis exhtauts and mote articles may b I by consulting the ,bear4n's Sincerely yours, M. Ilac Mi7ell