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Job We We feel that we are in the majority when we say that 1961-62 has been one of the best social years Carolina has ever seen. There was a time when our Community was referred to as "Suitcase U," and in many circles today, ignorant citizens still use this phrase. It is true that there are still vacant weekends at Carolina, but they are not as numerous as they used to be. This fact can only be credited to the Student Dance Committee, headed by Charlie Brad shaw. Mr. Bradshaw has done a tremendous job in scheduling university dances, and he still has one production left. We must say that some of the entertainment presented did not meet our specifications in every way, but A Good It was announced earlier in the week dur ing a Student Senate session that Carolina would once again have the services of voting machines in the upcoming spring elections. This announcement, which cannot receive enough praise, is one that should have been heard a long time ago. For the past three years, at least, we know that the Elections Committee has spent many sleepless nights tallying the votes cast in the first primary. And then it was the same nightmare in the run-off elec Letters To The Editor . . . A Career i Dear Sir: passed. Mr. Sr The Student Senate minutes of the previous qu( March 12, as printed in the March passed by a rol with Messrs. B 16, Gamecock, include the follow- Platt, Rogers, ing statement: "The President senting, . . . read a letter from the Clariosophic The vote was along the lines o: Literary Society supporting the bers in favoi proposed Cold War Seminar." members oppose The undersigned wishes to bring Those of us - to the student body's attention the to the Society's I fied endorsemen fact that the Clariosophic endorse- same reasons e ment of the Seminar does not re- negative speakei flect all of its members' views on hearing on the : (reference: Stut the matter. The following excerpt utes of Februar from the official minutes of the in The Gamecock Clariosophie Society's February S 20, meeting shows this: G Mr. Ingram, then moved that "the Clariosophic Literary So- Dear Sir, ciety go on record as endorsing I am an Aus the proposed Cold War Seminar been asked from and that this endorsement be questions about young Americai communicated to the Student The following is Senate and the local press." Mr. portunities in At Plat proose an mendent It seems to Plat popoed n aendentAmercians have to the effect that the phrase Australia is gov "with reservations" be inserted the law is enfor, after the word "Seminar." and the Nati( Mr. H u d s o n moved the patrolled by bo amendment be tabled; this was Aborigines. I ca Exchange Corn Overheard in the halls at Texas of the boys dis Tech: "She hasn't got much up- and clothes mi stairs, but man, what a stairway!" search revealed * * *they realized the the wrong car. 'I Students at LSU claim author- the restaurant ship of these gems: sequences, but tl "How do I love thee? Let me there. Thankful count your money." owner was a 81< "Lecture by mother to teenage they deserted th~ daughter: 'Will power is great, but resumed travel I: dlon't forget won't power."~ "If Khrushchev and his cohorts were laidl end to end a steamroller The Daily Ioi would come in handy." story of pre-med "Louisiana residents don't seem Prescott) disple to mind if the state goes into the dean of women red; just dlon't let it get black.'' lege. Prescott bL "The 'radical right' must be ing cigar box, ar looking at the world through rose- the dean in a colored glasses - everything they Wheni the bar see seems to be red or pink." schedule, the d badly enough to * * * She was treated A Keele University, England, it) Dr. K. H. P chemistry student claimed the father. world hand-shaking record. TCim Healey, 20, shook 9,002 hands in It has been dii nine hours and fifteen minutes. keys which Illino * * . given with their not only the ent University of Arkansas students mick Lounge, p advertise their summer school with men's dormitory, this little song: trances to both "Summer g r a d e s are simple south wings of things, as a select few Summer girls are, too. rooms. Summer school girl never sings; * She's too full of brew. Summer work bell never rings; .The ADPi's er It's the place for you." in a recent basli * , * the Sigma Chi's a by a score of 7 Two very sleepy North Texas showed real team students stopped for a cup of cof- two boys were tie fee recently as they were return- ankle. A history ing to school after a busy week- as referee and 5< end. After they had had their he was forced to e coffee and had resumed traveling, hugging that mar a .few miles down the road one that woman!" ar SDene I the old saying that you can't satisfy every one is true here. It is impossible to report the number of hours he and his committee has spent in procuring entertainment. To go along with our recently acquired school spirit, they have certainly increased our social spirit. With the exception of the Homecoming Dance (and we must thank United Press Interna tional and The Greenville News for all the publicity received on this one), all of the functions were presented in an orderly fashion. Again, we applaud Mr. Bradshaw and his committee for the excellent work done, and if dance interest increases in the coming year as it did this year, perhaps the term "Suitcase U" will be forgotten. I Move tions. In addition to easing the Committee's bur den by automatic tabulation, the voting ma chines should encourage more students to exercise their right to vote. It is not good to think that we have to bring in automation in order to make more students vote, but it looks as if this is the case. We have always had a rather poor per centage of our students to vote and by exercising your right this spring, you can help to raise our percentage. i Australia? iith then moved Australia was not like that when stion, which was I was there last, which was only -call vote of 9-5 eight months ago. ongiorno, Coker, Australia, although it only has and Tucker dis- a population of ten million, has great potential with regards to be almost completely coming a future world power. Since law school mem- its discovery by Captain Cook in undergraduate 1788. Australia has become the world's largest wool exporting tho were opposed country. Australia possesses in its ,iving an unquali- three million square miles of terri b did so for the tory many geographical point of xpressed by the interest. Besides having a large .s at the public desert in Central and Western proposed Seminar Australia, the great South Eastern lent Senate Mm- state of Victoria possesses more r 19, as reported snowy mountains than the Swiss on February 23)- Alps. These mountains are not ncerely, far from Melbourne, which was the ENE PLATT city, as you may recall, where the Olympic Games were held in 1956. The population of Australia is found mainly in the large cities. Lralian and have Sydney, being the largest city, has ime to time many two and one-half million and prospects for Melbourne, the fastest growing ks in Australia. city in Australia, has two million. about career op- With a small population and a stralia. rising economy Australia has the me that many need for educated potential leaders, the idea that especially in the fields of business, erned by rabbits, administration, insurance, engi :ed by kangaroos, neering, education, etc. A recent nal Defense is statement by the Australian Trade omerang-throwing Commissioner in New York (Mr. nl assure you that H. G. Mengies), estimates that United States investment in Aus tralia is now valued at more than ra million dollars, and that there are roughly 200 American com panies with branches in Australia :overed his books and another 800 have some as ising. A frantic sociation with Australian trade. nothing. Suddenly Also as reported in the New York y had gotten into Times of Feb. 22 -- "business con hey raced back to fidence in Australia has risen to face the con- sharply in response to the new teir car was still economic policy." >wh cohee-rnker, The majority of Australians e ctoffernkar,an have only a high school education, Stoena ownd but the Australian high school has a much higher standard than the *. * high school in America. On the other hand, Australia only has van reported the seven universities (one for each student's (Steven state), whereas the U. S. has ap asure with the proximately 900. Although the at a nearby col- University of Melbourne does not lIt up an explod- recognize degrees obtained in many d presented it to U. S. universities, any deguee ob dormitory lobby, tained at Carolina will be treated g occurred on as valid. ~an was burned require a doctor. For the year 1961, there were by (you guessed approximately 12,000 American rescott, Stephen's tourists who visited Australia and another 9,000 spent time in Aus * tralian ports during cruises to Hawaii, New Zealand and the covered that the Orient. Most of these tourists is Tech coeds are probably visited the scenic Eastern room keys open coast with its warm sunny climate. rance to McCor- In most of Eastern Australia, the art of the new temperature seldom goes below 32 but also the en- degrees or above 100. the north and The Australian government of he dorm as well fers Americans w i t h "needed of the dormitory skills" a grant of $160 toward transportation to each adult mem ber of the family and lesser rierged victorious amounts for children if they desire etball bout with to migrate down-under. T h isa t Texas Christian amount is approximately one to 4. The boys fourth of the lowest fare. Ap work since every plications are handled by Austra d together at the lian consulates in New York, San professor served Francisco and the embassy in >me of the plays Washington. all were: "You're I remain yours truly, I" "Stop holding Alan Rose id "Foul!" Box 8362 * * ~.*Scene Construction on our campus is shows the progress made on what w dence Hall. It will reach a height will be a cafeteria on the bottom start. The dorm will be luxuriously Nye.) George Stumpf Who I (Editor's Note: Mr. Stumpf prepared the following column for last week's edition, but due to an abundance of copy, we were unable to print it. When he re fers to a column as being in the last week's issue, he is actually making reference to an article which appeared on this page March 9.) JUST finished reading Sam Bongiorno's column from the editorial page of last week's Gamecock and cannot pass up the opportunity to refute this liberal's uninhibited barrage on the right. The columnist's first "point" was as follows: "While time and progress move on, the conserva tive of today, like the conservative of yesterday, remains steadfast and immobile in his philosophy. It would seem that the very idea of change and growth is an anathema to this philosophy of government." Most conservatives would proudly plead guilty to the first part of this charge. Any philosophy which is wvorth holding at all is worth holding in the face of adversity and time. There is no virtue con nected with an easy willingness to change one's views. If and when the liberals can prove that con servative philosophy is intrinsical ly wrong, rather than merely whining over its constancy, then andI only then will conservatives consider revising it. For my part, the principles of conservative philosophy are just as true today as they wvere yesterday, and will be true tomorrow and for a long time to come. As for conservatives being against "progress," this is simply untrue. Mr. Bongiorno is here guilty of confusing "progress" with "change." Conservatives are not opposed to true progress. They are, however, highly selective as to what constitutes "progress." All change is not progress. Not even Mr. Boungiorno, I am sure, would classify the changes which the CROWING FOB UNIVERSITY OF S Member of Aseociata Founded Jaur 30, 1908, wit1 first editor,'fh amecock" is pub the University of South Carolina wee year except on holdays and duu~ The opiona expressed bay neeearQy thoee of "The Gamnecoc Lettera to the Editor, but all Latter not constitute an eedorsement. The publieation any letter is reserved. EDITOR........ MANAGING EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER NEWS EDITORS. SPORTS EDITORS ..... Bla FEATURE EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR. CAMPUS EDITOR. CIRCULATION MANAGER... EXCHANGE EDITOR........ CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER. BUSINESSA SEPn1CRARnY 8 Around Caj still booming, and our subject for t ill be the tallest building in our Com of 10 stories, anti will house aroum floor, and the fact that Slater will ha furnished, with phones In each roo Needs The Roman Empire underwent in the period of its decline as "progress." Neither do conservatives consider that collectivization is "progress." T HE columnist then proceeds to expound on the inadequacy of the states in providing for the public welfare and explains how it is necessary for the federal government to accomplish this while at the same time keeping the states financially stable. This line of thought is so fallacious it is ridiculous. Just where do the liberals think that federal money comes from? There is no magic money tree in Washington. The federal budget is financed by tax payers such as you and I here in South Carolina. I can assure Mr. Bongiorno that, in the round trip from here to Washington and back, >ur dollars are not swelled by the 3ureaucrats through whose hands ,hey must pass. Uncle Sam is not Santa Claus. He can only give to bhe American people what he has first collected from them, and most, if not all, of his present-day :lomestic spending programs could be handled much more efficiently by the individual states, at the same time avoiding federal con trols. As for contributing to the financial stability of state govern ments, it is difficult to see how a government which is in debt to the tune of 290 billion dollars (a debt which, if divided equally, would cost the average American one year's salary to pay off) is in any position to stabilize the budg et of South Carolina. Here in South Carolina, our major eco nomic problem is how to distribute the surplus every year. L ATER on in his column, Mr. Bongiorno disparages conser vative concern over the conduct f the cold war as an "expression o,f cold war battle fatigue." He further states that, "The Cold war is long, slow, and agonizing. [t is an ordeal of frustration. It is unbearable for those who seek iimple answers and final solutions na complex and ambiguous A GREATER DUTH CAROLINA d Collegiate Press Roet sot a=e"a the dyhed b anduuor th suent.o mmhle and letter witers are et k." "The Caseooek" enemargs. nrast bee san. Pmhb aadoes right to oit e withhere m ....DOUG GRAY * Joan Wolcott Bob Hill Murray Coker Pat Peden, Jo Ann Coker sding Clarkuon, Fred Schumport . . . .Rosemary Hankins . . . .. .. Cloudy Hardy Gall Broughton . . . Jimmy Pres.ley . ... ... ..Sherry Rottmnan Joe Van Dyke npus C on cot Mi pr ha ne cat ar gol kin wo ~W of ou its 14,1! col litT - by de def I I -it OVE his week's Scenes Around Campus def munity - the new Women's Resi- car d 600 co-eds. In addition, there la: ndle the food gets it off to a bad sh< n. (Gamecock photo by Warren gel out P oni Light? : to mo world." Mr. Bongiorno seems to isn have missed the point. Conserva- flu tives are not concerned about the , length or complexity of the cold war. Our main objection is, sim- u ply, that the United States is now and has for a long time been wo losing the cold war. At the end an( of the Second World War, the we United States was, for all prac- act tical purposes, the major world ' power. Russia had been devasted sul by the war and was in no real cul way capable of expansion. There tio were only 200 million people in me the world then under communist thc rule. We knew, or should have m known, the nature of communism. sPi We knew that Stalin's policies had a I been responsible for the murder he of millions of Russians. We knew Th that the communists were engaged thi in espionage work here in this country. We had access to Lenin's to writings on world revolution and the imperialism. There was absolutely car no reason why we should have us< been intimidated by the Russians cot or taken in by their lies. Yet, we Mi were. The major characteristic of wo United States foreign policy since the the Second World War seems to ind have been an almost hysterical en thusiasm for throwing chunkJ. after chunk of Europe, Asia, and I even Latin America into the all- sot consuming maw of Russian im- Go perialism. As the situation now spi stands, nearly a billion people are An slaves of Moscow, the Russians rat have had time to build up a mili- stil tary machine which is nearly com- un: petitive with our own, and the res communists have even been able ' to establish a land base only 90 wil miles from the coast of Florida. ide With the single exception of the rai abortive revolution in Guatemala un, in 1955, the United States has loy not won a battle in the cold war gr< since 1945. Sooner or later we oul must turn this tide or face ex- fer tinction as a nation and as a free, Christian people. As I see it, the. American liberal is philosophically incapable of waging an effective act war on communism and will prob- ac ably remain so until it is either too late or until our only alterna tives will be surrender or total wo war. In that the liberal is sym-. pathetic to many communist ob- lea jectives and a sucker for much tiv communist propaganda, he, and o recent history bears this out, findsB it difficult to mistrust the com munists and almost impossible to str see the necessity of fighting them pr< "every inch of the way." The de- ma featismn and moral bankruptcy of am econte mp or ar y liberalism is str summed up very wvell, I think, in hy President Kennedy's statement that, "We are engaged in a long, twilight struggle." Any sixth en~ grader knows what follows thego twilight. mo dre I N closing, I would like to thank pat last week's columnist for his J~ advice that conservatives strike a wil match in order to "see the light." an< Unfortunately, I must, with all det gratitude, refuse the offer. Ever wo since Thomas Edison invented the iiv< incandescent light bulb, we con servatives have been using flood is lighta to see our way. Thanks, ma Sami, but the Liberals need all the her matches they've got uest Columnist . .. A Patriot's Choice UR fundamental safeguards for liberty will remain secure y as long as we preserve our kstitutional form of government. litary forces are powerless to, .serve freedom if Americans ve lost the will to make the -essary sacrifices for freedom's ise. tmerica's freedom and liberties a result of the highest form of rernment ever achieved by man-0, d, but to make this government rk requires the most responsible citizens. Let us not forget that country's main strength lies in citizens' love for God and intry. 'he constitution will not work itself. If the time comes that& iericans are not willing to die ending the constitution in war, will fall; it will be ignored and rthrown if we cease to defend n peace. iberty is not natural; it is an ievement. It requires constant ense. We must realize that we no more have liberty without or than we can have food and Iter. Liberty, if lost in our ieration, will not be regained in lifetime. ATRIOTISM is a unifying fac tor protecting our country not y from active aggression from hout, but also from insidious igers from within. If we are remain free we must all devote re time to furthering patriot i. Are we utilizing our full in ance to save freedom? "'he Mistaken have a goal to I freedom and they are at work iringly day and night. If we uild view the Communist Party I their comsymphs for one day would see their ceaseless ivity. [his incessant activity is a re t of the Mistaken "ideological tivation" which is an educa ial program designed to im rse the individual in Mistaken ught in order to make him a re useful member of the co racy. Regardless of how IX erson is a member or how busy is this indoctrination goes on. e idea is to make the member nk like his masters. "atriots need a positive program use against the Mistaken in ir effort to destroy freedom. We begin by observing the methods d by the enemy. The enemy en rges its followers to study the staken classics, such as the rks of Marx, Engels, Lenin or U.N. Charter and the ADA ex. OW much more enriching are our own spiritual and patriotic rces. The Bible is our work of I and an ever-present source of ritual guidance. Our great Lerican documents -- the Decla ion of Independence, the Con ~ution, the Bill of Rights - are *ailing sources of inspiring ding. [he Mistaken are not satisfied a token knowledge of their ology, but constantly seek to se their own consciousness and lerstanding of their dogma. Our alty to freedom's cause can b* wing too if we will dedicate selves to patriotism with equal vor to that of the Mistaken! Lnother point to keep In mndd' that the Mistaken stress on lationship between theory and ion." They are not preparing ir adlherents to pass academic minations but to conquer the eld. We need to follow this *mple of putting what we hv rned into action. Our daily ac ty must be governed by our ri knowledge and beliefs. UT the enemy has a fatal flaw. His faith is perverted, giving css to might over right and dlominance to evil. He denies n's soul and appeals to the base I selfish instincts of man. His ength is deceit, trickery, and >ocrisy. La Patriots we can defeat the my only by working for our ~la full time and not at odd ments. We can defeat him by wing upon our spiritual and riotic resources. ust remember this: The future I be determined by what we do I say today. We must make the ision between a totally enslaved rid or one in which freedom is and grows. Dach of us has a choice. America omposed of individuals. As you ke your decision, America makes a, for YOU are America. Donald A. Fosnter. Jr.