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JIM FARRELL EDITOI iUCRETIA JONES DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING ED AD. MNGR. EDITORIALS Culture swap Today marks the beginning of International week on campus. There have been many preparations made. The Russell House is an array of beauty from all over the world. All the work has been done by students. This is the opportunity for students from the many countries to relate their heritage and culture to others and to help raise funds for their countries and their people who may not be as fortunate as they are at the moment. "Little USC" has 10 children from all over and would like to support them. This week is the opportunity to help in facilitating this goal. WUSC-AM is involved in promoting this. This week also represents a great opportunity for the students of this University from this country to learn of these other peoples and their way of life in their foreign lands. Overall, there should be a great amount of participation on the part of all USC students in this International Week. Don't let it pass you by. Many people have been working like trolans to make this work. If the student body is willing to go and learn, the success will be there along with a great number of better informed people at this university. Editorial goof In the first editorial in Friday's (Nov. 12 issue the GAMECOCK falsely accused the Print Shop for causing a botch up in the publicity for the Ti-Grace Atkinson ap pearance. We regret that this happened and wish to apoligize for the mishap. No U BY HARRIET VAN HORNE Columnist So, the Chinese People's Republic has been voted a seat in the United Nations and the sky has not fallen. No Formosan Defense League has stormed the U. N. Plaza. Nor have admirers of Chairman Mao sent the General Assembly a symbolic "hundred flowers." Nobody has even expressed sympathy for the armies of Chiang Kai-shek, a gallant little band whose average private is 65 years old. In short, a new era in world diplomacy has dawned. A few congressmen will huff and puff about cutting off funds for the United Nations. The far right will see Chinese spies at every missile base. But, in general, life will .go on. And the prospects are that international tensions will ease. For the first time in the memory of most Americans, the world will no longer be split into Communist and non-Communist camps, rigid with suspicion. One small remark, dropped at a social gathering, suggests that Americans are ready to accept the new order. A lady of Republican views, hn old admirer of Gen. MacArthur and once a partisan of the infamous China Lobby, sweetened the news of Red China's acceptance with this thought: "With all those delegates arriving from Peking maybe now we'll have a really good Chinese restaurant on the East Side." No doubt we will, with Peking duck every night. The Chinese colony may be unexpectedly large this winter. Some U.N. observers expect the Nationalist 'Chinese to stay around awhile. Officially, they may have no status. But their Our times Buta-M BY SMITH HEMPSTONE Colunist In the quiet Anglican churchyard at Firbright in Surrey stands a massive, rough-hewn rock. On it are chizzled the Swahili -words "Buta-Matari," nothing more. Nothing more is needed, for those familiar with the romance of the exploration of Africa know that there was only one man the Africans called "Rock-Breaker," and that was Henry Morton Stanley. Like Procter and Gamble, the name of Stanley is forever linked with that of David Livingstone, and it was precisely 100 years ago today that Stanley "found" Livingstone (who didn't even know he was lost) at fever-ridden Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganylka. Stanley's life was one of those Horatio Alger epics in which we on this side of the water can take pride (he was, after all, an American citizen for more than 30 years). A Welsh bastard (he was born John Rowlands), Stanley spent 10 years in a workhouse before running away to sea. Landing in New Orleans, he was taken up by a benevolent merchant named Henry Morton Stanley, who gave him his name. Stanley joined the Confederate army, was cap tured and promptly enlisted in the Union navy. At thea end 61 :the CMiv'. War, Stanley signed, on witt. James . N. earth delegation knows all the ropes. Some of them may well go to work for Communist China. "After all a Chinese is a Chinese," as one correspondent put it. Despite the fulminations of Sen. Buckley and others, the seating of Red China is regarded officially as a good omen. Diplomacy of the next decade may be concerned not with putting down aggression but with promoting trade, exchanging scholars, opening the doors to tourists. Tensions in the Middle East may subside now, owing partly to Russia's fear of the Chinese. Hot coals of criticism will be heaped upon the United Nations for the high-handed manner in which the China proposition was put to a vote. There's some basis for this censure. But what should appall us is the tally of the vote. Look who stood with us: Bolivia, Gambia, El Salvador, Swaziland, Liberia, Haiti. The only governments of significance on our side were Australia, Japan and South Africa. 'Not a distinguished roll call. If all the governments of Europe, including our traditional allies Britain and France, opposed our two-China policy, we must have been doing something WRONG. The bacillus of our long fever over China can be laid at the door of the old China Lobby and Sen. Joe McCarthy. John Paton Davies Jr., foremost Asian expert in the State Depart ment (sacked during the McCarthy inquisition), has written of this tragic era: "The violence and subtlety of the purge...left the Foreign Service demoralized and intellectually cowed. With some doughty ex ceptiops, it became a body of conformists...and many cautious itari, nott Gordon Bennett Jr. to cover Napier's punitive expedition into Abyssinia for the New York Herald, scooping all his rivals on the fall of Mag ala and the suicide of the mad Eiperor Theodore. Bennett, who knew a live one when he saw him, promptly com missioned Stanley to find Livingstone, the explorer missionary, who had disappeared into Central Africa two years earlier. There was a nice pace to life in those days, as Stanley's route to Central Africa indicates. He went first to Egypt to cover the opening of the Suez Canal and from there to the Crimea to file some dispatches on the war in progress there. Next came Palestine, Persia and India, before Stanley finally (more than a year after being given the assignment) set sail from Bombay for Zanzibar. If one had it in mind to discover the source of the Nile or to locate a Scottish Presybterian missionary, Zanzibar was a good place to start. For if Africa was virtually unknown to America and Europe, the Arab slave traders, who worked out of Zanzibar, knew the continent very well indeed. It is no exaggeration to say that the ex plorations of Stanley and Livingstone, of Spake and Burton, could not have taken place without the help of an Arab gentleman , named -Tlnnon Tibh Zanzias, Lquake mediocrities rose to the top of the service." China specialists - were special victims, as John Franklin Camp bell points out in his book, "The Fudge Factory." Result of the purge, he reminds us, was that "when Vietnam came to a boil, the State Department lacked a cadre . of senior men having East Asia experience. The few left behind had no desire to share the fate of their discredited brethren: Mc Carthyism had made honesty and brilliance akin to bureaucratic recklessness." And who abetted Joe McCarthy in purging these most valuable and honorable men? Richard Nixon, of course, the first President in history to visit Moscow and Peking, if present plans go for ward. In 1944, John Paton Davies warned: "We must make a determined effort to capture politically the Chinese Com munists rather than allow them to go by default wholly to the Russians." In supporting Chiang, Davies added, "we are committed to a steadily decaying regime and severely restricted in working out military and political co-operation with the Chinese Communists." Many Americans, we must acknowledge, have not been psychologically prepared to accept Red China's 600 millions as allies, or even acknowledge their humanity. A complete review of the insidious activities of the old China Lobby (with its mystrious millions) might by helpful in putting the U. N. vote into a new perspective. Old errors should be studied if we are not to repeat them. Copyright 197 LAs Angeles '1mes ig more premier slaver and explorer. Stanley's famous presumption on finding Livingstone was a reasonably safe one, since the Arabs and the Africans had known the gentle'doctor was at Ujiji all along. It was some disappointment to Stanley that, despite four months' importuning (a visit WAS a visit in those days), Livingstone resolutely refused to be "rescued," since he was perfectly happy where he was (when Livingstone died several months later, relays of native runners reverently carried his heart to Zanzbar... Although his popular fame rests on having "found" Livingstone, Stanley's greatest achievement, one which required brute courage and steely self-confidence, was his crossing of Africa from east to west, for the first time charting the course of the Congo River. The accommodating Tippoo Tib accompanied him to the banks of the slow-flowing Lualaba, but even the prospect of much ivory and more slaves could not lure the redoubtable Arab beyond the point. Not that Stanley pressed into the equatorial forests alone: He had with him three white men and 300 Africans. So murderous was the journey that by the time Stanley gazed on the waters of the Atlantic, the three whites and half the Africans were dead. Small wonder they called this relentless, feelessm man the "Roerisaket."