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bad. southl i1nWcock objt to In "Dixie?" has outlived Its time. We like It because 9fdoe"Od times there ... not forgo6t drkM of the old days, the magnificent homes tho'green fields,. the blu*e, hazy hills --- the rich A*ntry It-1 4s1 great In-grOUP feeling. The long, grey 4MIly lin* rise again. but that In-group Is no longer. The South is black and t mand to I this University. Who can blame the black d6tcandentof slaves- -- and black princes ---for not looking -1:4ck with pride on on the land that enslaved their forefatheirs and held their fathers in segregation and serfdom. Surely, you don'expect them to have a warm In group feeling looking back Into that hazy past. You can't expect them to picture themselves subconsciously as white Southern gent emen of that era. There are people who feel '"Dixie" must be retained on the campus. They say they consider the Issue from an obective point of view and can see both sides.'They, and others who claim less objectivity, see no reason the song or the Confederate battle standard ---the Stars and Bars should not be used here. No,t them t p rnhemselves song---it was written by a Northerner for a minstrel show. There Ia nothing wo ith the fact that It became a song associated with the Southern movement for political liberation from reality. No one can hold the fact that ''Dixie" is sung by most ambitious of Southern bigots to gain favor with the masses. Why should the fact that 'Dixie' Is used as a fIght song by such austere institutions as the Ku Klux Klan make the song - Ignominious? The problem with ''Dixie" Is the nice, happy Souther ners who have let it become not merely a happily reminiscent lyric but a trademark for racism. For too long good, upstanding people have let the issue ride while the bigots used the song to stir up hatred and prejudice. If the song were left to Its own devices and not offered as a blatant image of cruelty, then racism might be called dead. What Is needed Is a little understanding. "Dixie' is not the song for athletics or politics, Just an old Southern ballad. It's an old Southern ballad that we old Southerners should let lie. It's time that we all realize that our warm feelings for ''Dixie'' are not---can not---be decided by all of the South that is now. The best of the old South would be to show some Southern hospitality, not Southern temper. It's time to lose the war gracefully. The plantations and the old South are gone. Name withheld We will withhold names by request on ieters to the editor,but it makes your letter awfully flat to us. You don't stand In odd whathyoy say. 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Wals broughtg balg?aIfiMr. andiMiss reogitontotenierit Furthero her hsats Souh rolna.dents ere styngatomake .~iiE l"IAtheZIr gd't knore tudividuaols' ih900rS M pay n,ifM.nrMs O E FO INWsETuIaOucNssttd i (ffiialOpnin oWilhe nno unee. -GET OUR MMBERS I NW JOE 5 aM emsip il e imiteds $300 Per Yain - -ADMISSON INPCTIONG! ! (olegea Stuenting Afiation AnnOnlyd Srebehial Reuied :jj Eugene Our Man Hoc Depressi By ARTHUR HOPPE Columpist Now that Mr. Nixon has produced his first budget, the experts are analyzing his economic policies. And it's becoming increasingly clear that he's embarked on a bold and courageous course to cure the Nation's ills. In one fell swoop, MW. Nixon hopes to lick the worries that most plague the average American - high prices, high taxes, pollution, overpopulation, the draft, urban sprawl and the weird conduct of our young. It should be ovious to all by now that the President has brilliantly conceived and is daringly pushing forward the only possible solution to all these problems: another depression. No one is happier with this turn of events than that little band of militant do-gooders called "The League to Bring Back the' Depression." For years, the League, whose motto is "Two Chickens in Every Garage," has been hopelessly bucking a rising tide of prosperity. But at a League rally the other night, victory was in the air. "The Depression," Chairman Grufney Grommet told a wildly cheig. ,dng bt nil4dl"Aged 1itpnf M asnipse s t' abund' the corner!"' es unpro names, but I believe I saw members of The Gamecock staff cheating on their final exams. I hope that you will write an editorial admitting their assumed guilt, since in the past students have tended to consider The Gamecock staff members above reproach. RON LESLIE No poetry Dear Mr. Wannamaker: Unlike the New York Times, you don't print poetry in your sheet. You might, however, care to consider the quatrain on the flip side, written by a freshman here. JAC'K P. D)OLAND) English D)epartment WIHY I DON'T WRITE POETRY 0, fain would I be a minstrel bard MiMICoi iDiscount To l~ I N NP P - i E i S i N THE TEMF "PSYCHEDELIC SHACK * Plus THE ORIGINALS j Admission $4. ALL SEATS $1.00 I ON $4.50 AND $4 STUDENTS. SHOW TICKETS ON SALE C( ir the iimpw Payne In the Charlette*bev. pe on will "Yes, sir, look at the stock market," cried a balding banker elatedly. "Why it's '29 all over again." "And unemployment's up again," said a portly manufac turer. "Pretty soon I'll be able to hang out a help wanted sign and a hundred men will line up, hats in hand." "Just think," said a housewife, a nostalgic lump in her throat, "bread for ten cents a loaf, a first run movie for a quarter." "And don't forget taxes," said an elderly accountant. "Why in 1931 the whole national budget was only $3.5 billion. A man got to keep what he earned." "We're overlooking the broad picture," said a sociologist. "Among the other benefits that will accrue are the elimination of the two-car family and a drastic decline in the birth rate - thus reducing smog and overpopulation by at least an X factor." 'And no draft," said a mother excidedly. "Imagine having an Army of only 134,000 men again - all volunteers." "As soon as we can no longer afford disposable bottles and throw-away plastic containers," said an engineer, "the garbage prj$ z~ will be eliminated." *1, arded psychologist spoke up st of all, a depression will yen And trill the lyric song, But to steal the public's love away F'rom Longfellow would be wrong. MARGARET ANNE NEWMAN R ings (('ontinued from page I ) University has held for the past 30 or 40 years," he continued. "The book store will handle the sale of rings.' Tlhe first company under con siderat ion is the John Roberts C'ompany of Norman, Okla. Knobel also explained that a thlree' dollar profit on the safe of each ring would be slated to go into a sc'holarship fund. "Thle profit would then be going bac'k to the' students in the form of a scholarship." he explained. ES., FEB. 17 icert 8_p.m. SC Students RSON * * N P R S 0 TATIGN N ""RUNNING AWAY" MISS SLINKY * '1 WOULON'T CHANGE TNS MAN WI II" 50-$4-$3.50 - RESERVED. )FF! PICKETS FOR USC YOUR ID CARD. ILISFiUM BOX OFFICE Letter Right w Dar Mr. Wannamaher: The local Right Wing has again, through its columnist Ben Winn, continued its traditional pattern of illogic. In the column "Rhetoric Exposed," so feculently written by the golden tongued scribe of the Piedmont, the archaic Right has triumphed in showing its lack of knowledge of a single issue and its complete ignorance of the history of the nation which they struggle to defend from the satanic curse of thought. Mr. Wynn, speaking "Ex Cathedra" of course, had stated that "America is a great nation because of the essence of a free market economy is its emphasis on local decision. Government in tervention should be the exception rather than the rule." Bure our close the generation gap," he said. "Instead of making revolutions, the young will be concerned solely, as we were, with making good." "There's one problem a depression won't lick," said a crotchety gentlemen in the rear. "And that's poverty." "Perhaps not," said Chairman Grommet with a smile. "But at least the poor will no longer feel alone." A motion to commend Mr. Nixon as "the greatest President since Herbert Hoover" caused spirited debate. While all agreed with the sen The Gamecock to SG is fa Dear Mr. Wannamaker: There seems to have been a very serious misunderstanding between Student Government and The Gamecock somewhere along the line because it appears to me that as long as I have been at Carolina there has been nothing but conflict between the newspaper and the government. In case after case, The Gamecock has repeteadly used negative articles to describe the 6ffoe'ts of Student Goverrment; I cite this year as a perfect example, and in particular the editorial which appeared in Monday's paper concerning rings. As a member of Student' Government, I shall not attempt to sy that we have done everything 9O0 The burger Ho 1211 College tng show These contentions, aside from having no bearing at all on the rest of the article, are'over 150 years out of date. While he is essentially correct on his belief for the "ante bellum" period, since the period of industrialization vital decisions in government and big business have been made by the power elite often with profit as the single motive. The customer be damned. Also, business has been the recipient of government aid since the American Revolution in forms ranging from land to cash sub sidies to tax advantages. Govern ment may aid business but not the people. Hell yes, that is free en terprise. Free aid to business men with the people's tax money. Mr. Wynn charges forward with the claim that the closing of coffee ills timent, some felt an endorsement by the League wouldn't be favorably received by the White House. In fact, a few argued that it could scuttle Mr. Nixon's entire economic program. "Nonsense," said Chairman Grommet. "Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come." So the motion was adopted. The meeting adjourned with a rousing rendition of "Happy Days Are Almost Here Again." There wasn't a dry eye in the house. Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co.. 1970) o negatwve cing the r possible to bring the students a better life here on campus. The reason is not because we as a student government have not desired to, but rather because we do not have the constitutional authority to represent the students as they should be and because our own paper belittles our efforts on every turn. Concerning the ring situatfon, Student Government has not lost sight of the problems you referred to concerning: parking, Slater, racism, curriculum reform, teacher evaluation, consolidation of Student Government and the lack of student decision making at this University. As a matter of fact, this year's Student Govern ment has probably done more to try to resolve these issues than any The Lunc s. ar<ige t ugr ig 'Me fteW opr 8k. t. (12 Blok Wet Of ampu CeOofMthiWhopper 0 ilogic houses should be looked upon as the result of individual com munities decadent (my, aren't you pompus) influences. I doubt if there is a conscious conspiracy to shut these centers. The closing of the UFO is simply a continuation of the American tradition of tyranny f the majority. This phenomena may be traced from the expulsion f Roger Williams, the treatment f the Mormons up to today. The recent marches,in Colum bia, were lawful assomblies to petition the government for the redress of grievances. They Were iot motivated by childish reasons ;et forth by Mr. Wynn. But if that is ,he depth of your thought ... ? The matter was freedom of thought and speech. It is hoped that we lemonstrated the fact that State -epression cannot crush an idea. If ,reedom is mutinous, then so be t!! Mr. Wynn continues to state that iltimate power rests in the Legislature - No! The ultimate sower rests with the people. We the )eople retain the right to alter the ;tructure of government when that ;tructure becomes 'repressive. WILLIAM F. SMITH Can you report? All persons who are now, or who wish to be, staff writers on the Gamecock, are asked to stop by the Gamecock offices, room 308 Russell House, and give their names to Harry Hope, Chief of Reporters, or one of the receptionists. Also, present Gamecock staff writers are asked to give any changes of address, or change of telephone number. hal issues other previous one but their efforts go unnoticed because preference is given to articles and editorials that tend to downgrade the efforts of Student Government. This year Student Government has accomplished much because we have worked together to ac complish our goals. There is no limit to what can be accomplished by the organizations on this campus when people stop worrying about who will get credit for it. The. sooner we realize this and stp Fighting among ourselves t1 1 sooner we will truly obtain Si"o Student Government that epresents all the students. JOE USRY Secretary for General Welfare. IEjh Horseshoe