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JIM. FARRELL EDITOR LUCRETIA JONES DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING ED AD. MNGR. EDITORIALS Day 's notice At a time when the garden that is USC is filling up with beach bunnies and addle-headed furries, it is fitting that a series of bungles limited attendance for a strong speech. Due to the clumsiness of the Lectures Committee and the Print Shop, a person who might have made hundreds of Carolina students reflect on their life style went largely unnoticed. The first few rows of Capstone's Campus Room heard TI Grace Atkinson espouse her distaff judgements. She stood alone on the stage and lectured on her reality. Granted this may not be the accepted way to strive for the T RUTH, but she wasn't here to be a panelist - she was here to be a prophet. Atkinson might well have been a catalyst for thought processes. However, student and professional bureaucracies managed to turn what should have been one month's planning into what was one day's notice. Meanwhile, the bunnies and furries still see each other as suits of clothes and skin bags. Assuming everyone had had the choice to adopt or reject Atkinson's thought on women, most would have continued to shuck and live around campus. Some wouldn't have. Assuming they had the choice. Still Halloween? This week one of the nation's most highly decorated heroes decided to quit the Army because of hassle from his superiors for trying to tell the truth. The Cornell Report stated that in three years of deescalation there has been a greater tonnage of bombs dropped over Vietnam than in four years of escalation. When, in a time of concern over the ecology, a nation with supposed superior knowledge tests a hydrogen bomb and then jumps up and down about the success of the damned thing, nausea sets in. When one of the President's nominees to the highest judicial body in the country is a reactionary, one wonders whether justice is really blind. Fall is a beautiful time of the year. Our times TheFBI' BY SMITH HEMPSTONE Columnist The question now is whether President Nixon can afford to allow J. Edgar Hoover to remain as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation until after the 1972 presidential election. Obviously, Mr. Nixon would much refer it if he feels he can dc so. For despite the cracks in Hoover's pedestal, the 76-year-old G-man remains popular with the law-and-order constituency upon which the President depends for re-election. It is one thing, after all, to nibble fortune cookies with Mao Tse-tung in Peking; it is quite another to turn out to pasture the most sacred bull in the federal paddock. Hoover would have been long gone by now had not President Johnson specifically exempted him from the law requiring federal employes to retire at age 70. Ef forts to ease him out since then have been frustrated by Hoover's political clout on Capitol Hill and by the intemperate nature of the opposition to him which, by and large, has.been either emotional or political in character. No one can question Hoover's immense contribution to his country. For an unprecedented 47 years, Hoover has served eight presidents with unflagging energy, integrity and single-mindedness. None has challenged Hoover's personal incorruptibility and few Harriet Van Hori 'Moderal BY HARRIET VAN HORNE Columnist "If you can't trust your own government, whom can you trust?" Obviously nobody, including your wife. That's the answer nowadays, all across the land. And it's ominous since, when all's said and done, we are the government and the government is us. The alternative to government, of course, is anarchy. That is the brooding shadow in our minds as we read that Americans, in growing numbers, are losing faith In Uncle Sam and all his deputies, straight down to the town hall. Cynicism is replacing trust, shame and anger are driving out pride. It's not at all what Jefferson had in mind when he wrote that Americans' love of order and obedience were "sure pledges of internal tranquility." Since all governments depend upon the goodwill of the electorate to survive, this prevailing spirit of disenchantment bodes ill for all of us. Preisely how disenchanted we Americans are with our legislatures and our bureaucracy has been measured by those tireless social scientists who measure everything--save, perhaps, the average person's indifference to the labors of social scientists. Anyway, the most telling statistic in a new University of Michigan study is this: Our loss of faith in government has Increased dramatically In the last six years. The loss, moreover, has been sharpest, not among Doves or Hawks or hippies, but among the sane an snad "moderates." s 'most sa would quibble about his political impartiality. The FBI itself clearly is suf fering from internal stresses centered on the quality of Hoover's' leadership. This is not just a matter of a few secretaries being fired for anti-war activities or junior agents being disciplined for questioning Hoover's judgment. The malaise extends right up into the highest levels of FBI leadership. One after another, Hoover's putative heirs apparent--first Cartha D. DeLoach, then Quin Tamm, on Oct. 6 William C. Sullivan--have quit or been forced to resign (Sullivan, the Bureau's Number 3 man, reportedly returned from two weeks' leave to find the locks changed on his office and another man at his desk). Sullivan, a 30-year FBI veteran, was the Bureau's top expert on communism and director of its domestic intelligence division. His efforts to convince Hoover that the' main threat to our national security rests in the operations of Soviet agents here rather than in the activities of the tiny American Communist party, a pet target of the Director, apparently failed. Sullivan may also have been concerned at the alleged lack of co operation (on Hoover's in structions) between the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency. Hoover has been showing his age te Les' distru Recollect, for a moment, the trends of the past six years and the disaffection of the moderates becomes more understandable. In the past six years we have had the Vietnam escalation, the youth protest movement, numberless scandals involving public officials and private money, police corruption and the unmasking, so to speak, of J. Edgar Hoover. We have learned that the Army , the U. S. Treasury, the FBI and your local police have all indulged- in the name of the law-In practices that are manifestly illegal and immoral. In the past six years we have had two major assassinations, a Supreme Court justice retiring under a cloud, the agony of trying to free our war prisoners and the desecration of our judicial process in such events as the trial of the Chicago Seven. Finally, we had five years of hypocrisy and double-dealing by the President novelist Phillip Roth calls Lyin B. Johnson (inventor of the credibility gap). Now we're living under a President many Americans say they wouldn't buy a used car from, a President whose pious banalities have dulled the luster of his high office. We've come a -long way-and in the past six years, on a toboggan since upright men liked to quote Henry Clay's dictum about a public office being a public trust. Reading our history books, we always bleed a little for the simple, stalwart peasants who followed the banners of headstrong young princes into stupid and savage wars. We pity the trusting Ger mans of the early 1930s who fell blindly, gladly Into Adolf Hilter's goose step. Now bleeding a little cred bull' in other ways. A new and unseemly irascibility cropped up in his characterization -of former at torney general Ramsey Clark as a "jellyfish." A disturbing lack of propriety manifested itself in his discussion of the Berrigan con spiracy case before a Senate subcommittee more than a month before a Pennsylvania grand jury returned its indictments. He displayed personal vindictiveness when he sought to discredit an air ine pilot with his employers after the pilot had complained publicly about FBI ineptness in trying to frustrate a hijacking attempt. The departure of DeLoach, Tamm and Sullivan means that the leadership of the FBI remains almost entirely in the hands of Hoover and of his second-in command, Clyde A. Tolson, a sprightly lad of 71 (the new Number 3 man is Mark Felp, 58). And since FBI employes are not protected by civil service laws, serving entirely at the pleasure of the director, everybody is keeping his head down. As the recent expulsion from Britain of 105 Soviet diplomats accused of indulging in espionage inducates, the spy threat, par ticularly in view of modern technological developments, never has been greater than it is today. Copyright 1971 Washington Star istful for ourselves as we recall that Vietnam was to have been a temporary, peace-keeping mission, we turn our rage upon the government. And, indeed, why not? In 1970, according to the Michigan study, only 26 per cent of the "moderates" retained their faith in government. In 1971, with the Pentagon Papers now in the public prints, with policemen exposed as narcotics dealers, with the President proposing fools and nonentities for the Supreme Court, there has doubtless been an erosion in that 26 per cent. Copyright 1971 Los Angeles Times Atkinson (Continued from page 1) marriage bureau and charging them with fraud with malicious intent; going to Catholic University, a "fortress", to press the movement with women there. "People who don't show are out... like people who espouse the position, 'you shouldn't be married', shouldn't be married. It's a contradiction." Concluding her streaming speech, Ti-Grace made reference to a photograph of herself with a bloody Colombo. Because Columbo was a "gangster" - a man who made money from prostitutes, among other things, the Movement reacted violently against her in volvement with him. After a confrontation with Gorla Steinem and other key women, Ti-Grace called them "human imposters'" and answered, "You have to stand by the revolutionary spirit wherever you find it".