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It's that time again ! The t broken expanse of teeth stretc week into next. Smile, kid, elected. Oh, you don't know rtining for? That's all right, Hand-pumping an(d the routine . . . that's election ti :and smoke-filled rooms . . . t tion time. We have heard rumors th. fraternity man is trying to g( nityv miei handedl together iindoemndent, c:ntdidlate. Fr tilI ('C'StI.111 ., t he Otllt' people Lee Jordan 1.:ir 1iy :h's w evk the bi 1ggest b ' r I r1c S since rntn V i~nd hand11s was rk I mt vXCl- alld I. ;i bI tria of Adolf1 i:hm !I be1 an. Tht, conivert ed I I I I I it iy Coe n ter n i t ernaltv 'ional .V-: I he ii Ll of I n cr --i s -ist Iulmita ity In !urncd inlto a vast prop u1a r, znim I 1 fo)r 1thcboosting F'h a trI ial or thIe executionl of iiilInI: wilI nit solve any prolemi, neither will it miracul Bill Savage It's All Too h Thi' is a univer-ity; you would n0w to !k at it, but it is. We !ouViy, nutiny diormitorics, eat , anck d 1 parH lots, and Ck fr'(' milOV e cvery week. ti s ll ta,tsl !w a illvertyI\ a hotel. \\i ! he at Carolina are n4t I r I i about, our educa nt a provblein. The real 101 0n11u camulliis take prece h i 'lI,h Week, football games, d:: 1ht bwelr, the sundial, ald - . I' I.g 1n l k i n Sunday . Of Im - -C thi does nwt porta1in to 1V . Ilruk are Some here Wlo V,I I we sea n II themI. The \i . e:ui ono expect' For ex lr:mn ouk:sore on Ouir - he .Lt. IILira twen:y d d(II aII year''L1. Tiu i. : l:IIenue C1ee s to t.urn l h-Lar IlLhter. \V)Lt ; Ill it t il Cal 1 in'e:tml>)1,'ago, the or I. ' low y 1 .1 I nh l wake :s 1i.bnh m vedigs in. lii a y o yu boysf '-2l1ery broih forth i, appropiate *epies, suchIjli as ,I " Lii Ive i n Preust on," "Never sawv him be fore," andi "lii's viSi in fromILli Angered at th an' IIswers' he re (ceived, the abIove-men'lt IilLned I'en tieman p)lnlted hi mselfC in front of me and shouted, "You! You were p)lying wvith him. You're going to come with me to my of fice and wait until that boy comes over and turns himself in. Then vou'll both he in for it." Smile, Riddles ie of the un- in for the idea hing from this said that most fi you may get There are, how what you are prove the rule. smile anyway. Elections shot buddy-buddy jobs in content me. Coalitions ability to smile hat's also elec- people elected to the Student Bo( it at least one vill he passing ,t other frater- that will affect 1 to squelch an So, if you wan Am what we sel' . or eleet Werel't going yol. /ho Is On Trial 4usly lessunet those millions of .1ews who were killed during the Seconld World War'. It will solve no prohit-Is, for the problem is hunmna11ity. More bloodshed will not iWht the wrongs which man Iias perpet'ated against man. l1ihtlann is being tried for ime against humanity." yet hse act.s were no more atrocious than the dropping of the A-bomb ,nIj liroshima and Nagasaki. The drppiig of these bombs can not he Justified: therefore, if Eich manm is to be tried for crimes againist hum1111.anity it logically fol h(ws that those responsible for the homling of Hiroshima and Auch Trouble :f:tin and again in the form of ulinn and pigskin spheroids. Tm-. ti onm extent, is fine. We exel in atlhltics: we like Ie best. Y ti,.ne can always rational:ze :a :ituation. Why spend money 1r uneces4ariy thingvs like Class r'lus and academll scholarships? I' ju -t aren't practical. And be C.. we ale spendinlg too mitch to l:ntain the faculty. What we t e! :i do is to ri] ourselves of i( v over-paid professor.s. There art bit many of thim. One pro ftsir per. two1 hundr1t1ed stutdents is 4 iwte ufficient. Let's rationalize aain. The-e professors don't really mu11ch g",)d anyway. ();. well, we how vhat, we mI.st ,1 I. tit eidv; it's to,, much trouble think abitut.1 WJe I trealized that, ice would have s he 4n it salt in Satan's (omain it a lonl tinit ebefore my friend t urntl himself in.s .\trwalking to the door of un i p lacingt iny' hiandl upon I fI himt to teiilimbito n I t urm-di and jointed I in flight, all the a in patnid by cries oft hu-rt ' ''Shotot him' hSisi'deittion to duty,t - r o (lilt- ittolbhttantly f * IV' rooml in the tene' hing for nuimbtersi n1 ti n t ht'e tmtunus Cops' r wai ii list (mziy friend andl ur: ,.f ringinig despera -i me t m. .\ly friend had f b t - I r it taikt a shtow.ert' tet !ir;t toi t:ake his thIns titt>. i runin g tree to t ............ tda graft. *V il suich criminal~is Ihe al - in filitrate the (aroliuta * i Where will the swhat it means to be J i d, I don;'t wanit to be un lited.l huono, ile of stomt of thle litp to fo ce a d riili. It t, t - thaIt disciplinte is i iiary for any~ organization,t * rially t o I' tne stt 'omtplex anid I a t hiis I. niversity. I low- i er,-hioull th ditisc'iplinary force : o' tudents ~inteadii( of trying 'ii bully them into line? :-'omett loe mtust het dlont'. Nanme W'tithheId I Itar -:dlitor: 'ie 'ffersoniiI)nitn'morat' ntotie ouve'ral rat her absturd r hn''isin yiotir thst issuie. Otte 4 w'ritter stated thIat .Jefft'tson was i n at ltte to na ja in Waer. lhttust. .1 anuaryi' 8. 1825, Jeofferson st ated: ''The poputlat ion of my tn'ighb tood is too slendler, and t too much. -We always have aternity men are good guys. 'ever, a few exceptions to ild be taken seriously. The ion involve more than the and remember names. The fill these jobs will represent ly for the next year. They bills and requesting actions :he Student Body-YOU. t something done, do it your somebody that will do it for \agasaki should also be tried. It would seem that criminality S deterlined by which side you reM on in the Second World Wiar, Id not oil any care for the rights >1 humn1111ity or justice. No Rights The Israeli nation has no right ii try Eichnmann. The crimes of xhich he is accused took place 1tside ot Israel at a tinmle When tihat nation (id not. exist. The iw under which he has been in lieted was not enacted until 1950 long after tle, acts for which lie is heing tried had been com1 mlitted. "Crimes a g a i n s t humanity" -hould he tried before a repre ,enitativv tribunal, an interna lional court anid not by one Counl Iry which elects itself as the rep 'rsentatiVe Of humanity. Since here is no international Criminal ourt then Eichiann should be ried before an international 'ouncil. The manner in which Eich malin was brought to trial is Ilu.st tiIlable. II is arrest and ranlsportation to Israel bears the itark of the Gestapol more than if Justice. Acting On Orders Eichimann as a part of the Nazi nilitary hierarchy was merely retinig in orders. Responsibility or the atrocities which were com1 nitted rests with the giver of the >rigilnal orders Hitler. Ultimate y the responsibility rests with he state. the Nazi government Of 4.t-miany. I )rodging up these grim re Ilninders of tihe past will not help he future course of humanity. Get LetterA ects to maintain any one preach r well. I must therefore be con .1ntced to be a Unitarian by my -lf, although I know there are iny arond Ime who would glad hieirriie soi, if once they' could ear t- tuest ions fairly stated." I was aitnon-se<iuitur on the part M .\r. .l rnndenhall to assume that drist niust abjure furt-her irdeni iicat ion. Mr. .\lendenthall was correct in nie guess, hiowev-er, and1( that is hat. I advoicate an entirely dif i-rint approitach to the racial lirs?ton. Yeis, I amn a Jeffersont oIn )iiimocrait. I brelieve int states' i ihts: ( Srpri sed ?) A\ br-ahiam I.inicoln sumnmed upl hir conigruient views oif JTefferson in I )rmocray,itv "In all that the eopile tcan indiividltually do as wvell or t hr-rnselves, gover-nment ought 'it tor iterOfere'' The' t rourble is t hat thle peopile reiirt d inrg welI Cor thIemselves. hr South halos set up a IIamilton YIe rule oft thle "white atisto airy'' Ther StouthI is yelling, "J.ef erston, Jeffer-son, Jefferson!I" and un!tradt-ig itself biy ptraiticitng l amiiltonr's philosophy on a small rsc-ale. I ask thle StouthI to extendl effiersoniiani littmocracy to in lilthIt civil ri ght s ats wellI as tatrs' rights! I ask the South ii aborlish disciinautiont, to in urt- iridividuauls their vortirng ighits, arid tor abolish the llamil trn a risticracay. ( Even llamilton :iuild bet dlisguisted att this por~~ mit at ion basid ott, of all things. he c-olnr of a mat's skirt.) I ask thlit SthI to start "'lent 'i its-lf. F''lTen, arid only then, av it seriamn abrout the Supreme iomt withloutt berintg a '"pot wvhich alls thire lr' it'l black.'' Sr. M i enehail wvent on to te Jefferson ton an oinlion oif tir infririity which wvas heldi .y rinaly all A mtericarns ini his imie. It is only withI the help of ii deIrii .c irenc(e that we have been h'r ~to prv thn Negro environ -etnI ally inferior, and not inher nly irnfeior-. Ini anthr rtteri, Vtasa William aite states that he (or she) "hap tins tot knowv" that agent Stokes lit<I notimake thre startemernts i rhih I sid hr made. I ask you. t unt. Catlor, how yoru "happen r k niw. '' Sim.t ihnr e s na ti Anthony E. Brown ' Intin Out of the exaggerated bare ness of winter, out of the cold ages of tired evolution, into the soft growth of April, the earth comes, beginning new again the push of fresh life from the dark confines of dormancy. The land is greenly alive with the rush of new growing things that bore the cold with patience; then feel ing a stir of warmth, arose to color the fields in flowing full ness. Spring is the old landscape in a season of highly sensitive re birth. Somewhere, ice has melted that once held still in death the ruffling of a pool; somewhere, tiny winter-sleeping creatures scurry about again in early dawn Dennis Myers FUFURu We stood by the polls for the entire day-shaking hands and handing out propaganda cards hoping, praying, and stuffing the hallot box, so FU FU McGINNIS would he elected Student Council Representative from the School of Basket-Weaving. We knew there were terrific odds against I-I FU, but we stayed at our posts, cutting classes, etc. Months before the election, FU 1U had gathered her friends at her Green Street Beatnik resi lence. and announced her plans to seek the vacant Council seat like "Fill the Empty Chair, Put EU FU McG(INNIS There!" After FU FU's announcement, we all iheered and got drunk. Our first hurdle in the cam pmign was placing FU FU into nomination. Since we were all scared to nominate her, we de vided to place her name into con tention by circulating a petition. Everybody laughed at us when we said FU FU was running, so we forged the names on the pe tition, and] nohody ever said any thing. Broke FU FU Owing to the fact that FU FU was broke, we could not afford to spend a great deal of money in the campaign. So we all put A,r Minds together, and FU FU said: "Let's steal silverware from Russell House, and give it away 4 . . StacA there except myself and three policemen. I challenge you to state how you "happen to know." Dhviously you are either "hap pening to know" something which you doC not "happen to know," or )tne of the policemen has dleniedl he statement in your presence. I shall he happy to learn that one of them has a guilty conscience if t be lat te'r is trute. It was also stated that Stokes gradluatedi from the University of' South Carolina two years ago. That isn't saying much for the t'niversity, is it! To answer the question about my attending any meeting in which communist literature was citrculatedl, I state NO! (Unless the Iloly Bible would be classified as such by student Cate.) Int conclusion, I would like to stat(e that I too, wvish we couldl have' taken the slaves back to Africa. ( Mainly because wve had tno right to bring them here in he first place.) Bt we are not (dealing with slaves now. I ask the South to live in the year 1961 and to realize its responsib)ility to all of its citizens. Blake Fishburne Ed.: Mr. Fishburne has left (arolina for liarvard; however, we thought it only fair for his answers to he published. I)ear Editor: it the March 30 issute of ''The Game(((ck,"' Mr. Hongiorno's let t('r sounds like the beggar who comes to South Carolina for a free handoutt, and then gripes about the handlout given him. Let mte remind him, that the lawvs of this state are passedl by the electedo representatives of the people ando not appointed judges. If t he uttopia of New Jersey is so Wondefutl, then wvhat is he in Souoth Carolinta for? I do not kntow of any laws that force him to remaitn in thItis state' and at the State t 'uiversity, wvhich is sup porte'd by the tax money of the peole( of Soutth Carolina. I don't think any one would cry if he le'ft tomorrow. We expect to live by outr laws and anyone violating the laws should be put inl jail. Sincerely yours, iations Of SF expeditions; and everywhere the air is filled with a vague aware ness of the living that breathe it. Intangibles Trhere is an intangible smoki ness that keeps the horizon from touching the young leaves of dis tant trees; the sight of curtains blowing in opened windows; the taste of apples in the breeze faintly bringing old memories back to youth; and the gentle sounds of waters flowing event ually back to source. Time is stopped in deference to the quiet genesis of a timeless hour for rains to give back to earth the essence of all the senses. April r e tu r n s a prodigal daughter to bless the joy of na ns Again --to get votes, of course." We did it-rather FU FU did it- -and she got caught. Too bad FU FU, better luck next time. She sold her meal tickets, and paid Slater System back. Instead of making posters, FU FU said it would be a better idea to just paint her name on the walls, doors, and windows. We did it. Smart Cookie As we stood at the polls that day, FU FU wasn't there because of the paint on the walls. The Elections Committee turned her name in to the Dean-but that didn't faze FU FU a bit, since she explained that her opponents did it to make her look bad. Smart cookie, FU FU is! When the returns were an nounced we were all unhappy, re Jected, and we all developed com plexes. FU FU received two votes, and MAWDINE GUNCH received four-write-in votes, no less. We were just so mad at FU FU that we hated her. How could she possibly lose? I, being of sound mind, contested the election for FU FU-and we found out that MAWDINE GUNCH only got one vote, since three people spelled her name wrong-clods! When we learned of the victory of FU FU McGINNIS we were so happy that we lost our com plexes. Smart cookie FU FU is, smart cookie. ks And Sta Dear Editor: In the March 30, 1961 issue of this newspaper, Mr. Samuel B. Bongiorno stated in a letter to the Editor: "Segregation, as you wvell know, is contrary to lawv, contrary to the suIpposedl 'equality of man,' andl contrary to the basic free (lomns as applied in the Constitu tion of our forefathers." The evidence, howecver, p)oints to a contrary conclusion, as I shall show in this letter. I will confine my remarks in this letter to the question: Is segregation contrary to lawv, i.e., to the Fourteenth Amendment? I reserve the other questions for future letters. Article XIV, section 5 provides: "The Congress shall have powver to enforce, by appropriate legis lation, the provisions of this arti cle." Under this provision, the Con gress has chosen to act as fol lows: 1. The thirty - ninth Congress (which had recently passed h e Fourteenth Amendment) passed on .July 23, 1866, "An act relating to public schools in the District of Columbia" which set up a "separate school system for the white and colored races in the cities of Washington and George town." Thus the Congress which p)assed the Amendment on the one hand, established a system of separate schools on the other, cle.arly indlicating its intent. 2. Representative Hereford of West Virginia proposed the fol lowing amendment to the Fed eral Aid to Education Bill of 1872: No moneys belonging to any state undler this act shall he withheld for the reason that the laws thereof provide for separate schools for white and b)lack childlren or refuse to organize a system of mixed schools. This amendment, passed the House b'y a vote (of 115-81, and after winning Senate approval, was in cluded in the final bill as passed. 3. The third instance of Con. gre'ssional "enforcement" came through the Civil Rights Bill of 1875, which forbade segregation ring ture in its splendor with pig ments of dark earth and light skies and brilliant hillsides. Poets and scholars comprehend a part If the eloquent beauty a little, perhaps, yet not even the most sensitive of them can claim ac curacy in describing the super sensitivity of Spring. In the Spring, love begins, and love is the subtle perfume that surrounds two hearts with its tantalizing embrace. Love trans cends the senses and remains at once a cause and effect of sight and sound and taste, too enter twined to admit analysis by words. Spring love is restless ness born of a formless force that sends men to mountaintops and brings them down again to the reality from which they began. Obscured Vision In the modern world of modern miracles, the magnificence of the earth as a natural object is often obscured from view by the oppressive shadow of indiffer ence. Man is too much concerned with improving the unnatural objects his mind has concocted to leave him time to appreciate or eveni to be aware of the power expended by the plant when it produces a flower. There might be a good deal less of this fear of insecurity, a type of fatal disease in America, if there were a return to a faith in natural things. CROWING FO UNIVERSITY OF Member of Associi Fouinded January 30, 1908, v first editor, "The Gamecock" is p the University of South Carolina w yenr except on holiday@ and durin The opinions expres%ed by co necessarily those of "The Ganec Letters to the Editor, but all letti not constitute an endorsement. I publication any letter is reserved. EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER NEWS EDITORS SPORTS EDITOR ASS'T SPORTS EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR rcks anl Schools as originally intro duced. However, the House of Representatives d e I e t e d ALL references to common schools from the hill by a vote of 128-48. 4. As late as 1949 the stand of Congress on the issue was re peated. On May 2, 1949, Senator I lenry Cabot Lodge, .Jr., moved the following amendlment to the Aid to Education Bill: "'Publ ic e'lementary andl public sec(ond(ary schools shall admit all (lualifiedI pupils without regard to tacte, color, creed or national origin of such pupils." The a mendlment went down to defeat 16-65. Senator Wayne Morse (D Ore.), in explaining his vote, comnmented: We as individual Senators may think it is an unwvise policy, on the part of the Southern states, to follow a course of segregation in the administration of their schools. I happen to share that view. But after all, I come from an entirely dlifferent environmen tal background, from an en tirely dlifferent cultural mores than my colleagues in the Sen ate from the Southern states. I recognize that it is generally admitted by an overwhelming majority of the people of the country that the determination of such questions ought to vest within a state itself. NO p)ower is granted to us uinder the Constitution to con trol or regulate state school Although he had all this evidence before him, Chief Justice Warren concludled that it wvas "inconclu sive" ats to the intent of Con gress. [n the case of (;ong Lum vs. Rice, 275 U. S. 78 (1927), the United States Supreme Court re viewed the intent of Congress Onl the present matter andl con chuded: The right and power of the state to regulate the method of p)roviding for the edlucation of its youth at public expense is clear. We think that it is the same (question which has been many times dlecidled to he within the C'onstitutionatl power of the Mtnit hinaurto.m -stle with Poets' Corner BILL MURPHY ... Desert Rain Dark black riders on the purple plain Clouds piled high heavy with rain Tumbleweeds blowing across the sand Cactus cower like a giant's hand. Erie sounding ivind blowing strong Wailing, crying a gruesome song Earth's thirsty face reaching to. ward the sky Velcones the water with an audible cry. The Wrath of God Tempt ye not the forces of the powers unknown For who knows what the reasons are. There are many elements of nighty effort so un. A nd we know not -rwn why the seasons aire. FORREST SCARBOROUGH Verbum Sat Sapienti Est Hawthorne saw on every hand Satan lurking in the land. Ralph Emerson did not admit Of Satan, ceil, or the pit. Milton and Dante conceived of sin And spoke of hell as though they'd been. Buet Shelley's mind could not agree; .\N hea ten, hell, nor One in Three. .Vow surell none of these were fools, -Si wchit uere suppositions rules? R A GHEATER SOUTH CAROLINA tied Collegiate Press Pith Robert Elliott Gonzales as the ublished by and for the students of tekly, on Fridays, during the college f examinations. lumnists and lelter writers are not ock." "The Gamecock" encourages 'rs must be signed. Publishing does he right to edit or withhold from JUDY KILLOUGH Howard Hellams Jerry Jackson Gene Dyso Levona Page, Nancy Aria, Anita McCartney Doug Gray Carroll Gray Kelley Jones Brenda Williams out intervention of the Federal Courts under the Federal Con stitution. Them decisioni is within the discrelftlonl of the state in regu lalting its public schools, and1 it DO0ES NOT conflict wvith the F'ourtee'nthI A mendment. Thus the Sup~reme Court of the United States, consisting of J u d g e s from Massachusetts, W.vomUing, Tlennessee, Utah, Min nesota, New York, andl Connecti e'ut (0Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Hrandeis, and Harlan Fiske Stone, among others) construedl, in 1927, the Fourteenth Amend ment as not forbiding separate schools. The staecs also have an opinion in the matter. (Chief Justice William T. gl lace of California concluded, in the case of Ward vs. Flood, 48 ('al. 36 (1876): In the circumstances that laces are separated in the pub-a lie schools, there is certainly . to lie found no violation of the constitutionajl rights of the omne race more than the other, andI we see none of either, for eatch, though separated from the other, is to lbe educagd upon etual terms with that otherI, and both at the common pulic expense. This case reached conclusions similar to eauses decided by the highest courts of Arizona, Colo radIo, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, Newv York, Ohio, and Oklahoma. The U. S. D)istrict Court of Alaska decided in Sing vs. Sitka School Hoard, 7 Alaska 616 (1927), that " T h e Fourteenth Amendment dloes not guarantee to Negroes a community of rights with whites. Senior Associate Justice M. T. Phelps of the Supreme Court of A rizona su1ms up the case with these wordls: Regardless of what we, as i ndividuals, may think about the justice or injustice of segregation, I assert without hesitation or reservation that the decision was not based 0on logic or lawv. I further charge that the processes followed in reaching the decision violate all procedure of due process known to American juriapru detnce'. .Jahn (utix