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JIM FARRELL EDI01% LUCRETIA JONES DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING ED AD. MNGR. EDITORIALS $28,000 'Carolina Cares' has outdone itself this year, and we would like to congratulate them. Some 810 persons who gave a damn went out and hustled up more than $28,000 and have made a great deal of Columbia area people happy. Why did these people do what they did? Because they realize that there are certain priorities in life-- and that is life Itself. Not life only to themselves, but the right to life of many others who may be less fortunate. It's always refreshing to see something like this happen when the world is in the state it's in. On behalf of the lucky people who will benefit from this effort, thanks to all those who reaped the joys of Christmas in the true sense. To good use Russell House, the student union building here, has finally reached a performance peak. Students are now using the facility as if it were theirs. The renovation has improved much, hampered few. You can see more students in and around the union building and there is a bigger audience at the movies, more traffic in the game room and the crowds in the first floor lounge are overwhelming. All this has taken place while the administration has been in search of a new union Director. We think that the facts tell the story, and we'd like to congratulate the people involved in making it work. M1016k 11 7nDva,7114 Our times B rita BY SMITH HEMPSTONE Colomnist The terms of the tentative agreement under which Britain will legalize white-ruled Rhodesia's six-year-old unilateral independence will satisfy neither African nationalists nor white extremists. But the deal probably was the best London could hope to make and it is in the interest of everyone, including the Rhodesian Africans, that there should be a return to legality. Admittedly, some principles had to be bent to bring Rhodesia back into the Commonwealth. It will be a very long time before the country's 5 million Africans achieve political parity with its 250,000 whites. The educational, social and residential segregation of the races will continue. But what was the alternative? After six years of independence, Premier Ian Smith's regime, with some South African help, was in complete charge of its internal security situation. With Britain unwilling ( and perhaps unable) to use military means to end the rebellion, there was absolutely no prospect of the overthrow of white rule by force. The United Nations economic boycott simply was not working. While the embargo created dif ficulties for white tobacco far mers, many of these quickly shifted to other crops. Rhodesia continued to export her chrome through Portuguese Mozambique and South Africa and to find ready buyers; imports followed the same routes. If Rhodesia's whites ex Paisley attended Bob J Roman A HAUNTING ROMANCE By Harriet Van Horne There was an ancient, barbarous horror in the photograph. The stance of the girl was older than the sod on which she stood. The picture will haunt us for many days because she was a young girl, lashed to a pole, her head shorn, bowed, bloodied and tarred. Another victim of the current Irish "thrubble." Martha Doherty is only 19. She was savaged by her own people because she was a "soldier's dolly." She loves a lad in the Royal Anglican Regiment, a unit in the despised army of occupation. It's treason in this time of civil com motion even to smile at a British soldier in Northern Ireland. But M!artha Doherty has smiled and given her hand and the good Lcrd k.nows what more, and despite the tar and the feathers and the bitter cries of the Bogsiders-Martha married Pvt. John Larter, the enemy of her people. Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, as Yeats was ever at pains to tell us. ("It's with O'Leary in the grave.") But the marriage of Wartha and John suggests the kind of romance the Irish memorialize n their , lilting ballads. The >rldegroom was described by his riest as "sick and worried but letermined" and did wed his lass vith the shaven head. It hurts even to think about that vedding with the flowers and the ncense and the bride In all her adorning-hairless under the wig mnd the veil. Because she Is 19 and n love, the ceremony may ave Rhodesia perienced a decline in their standard of living, her Africans were the hardest hit by the economic sanctions. If the white regime could be brought down by neither military force nor economic sanctions, Britain had only two choices: Legalize Rhodesia's indepencence on the best terms possible or watch its defacto indepencence continue to bring it increasingly under South African influence. In the end, Britian chose the lesser of the two evils. In a sense, African nationalists and white liberals have only themselves to blame for the existence of Rhodesia (then Southern ~Riodesia) was joined with Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyassaland (now Malawi) in the British-rule Federation- of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The notion was that the federation, under the premiershiqg of Sir Roy Welensky of Northern Rhodesia, ultimately would become independent. The part nership, it was reasoned, would serve to moderate both the white racism of Southern Rhodesia.and the black racism of Northern Rhodesia ard Nyasaland. The arrangement made good economic sense and, given a chance, might have succeeded politically. Welensky's govern ment certainly preached and practiced a greater degree of multiracialism than exists in Rhodesia today. But precisely because the Federation of Rodesia and Nyasaland was a vehicle of ones U. tic Irelani washed away Martha Doherty's guilt and sorrow. The Irish have a rare gift for slipping out of dark moods and into laughing nonsense. It's one of their survival secrets. But what about later? When she is "old and gray and full of sleep and nodding by the fire" - Yeats again--will the memory of black pitch on raw scalp, of brutish hands binding her to the pole, still haunt the dreams of Martha Doherty Larter? Probably so. And there will be more girls tarred with the same brush, reviled and scorned in the bloodied streets. From far across the water, the prolonged civil strife in Northern Ireland is cruel and stupid and exasperating. People with so rich a gift for living, people who know how to sweeten adversity and make moments of grandeur on a shilling or two, OUGHT NOT to be enmeshed in so much sorrow and ugliness. But with the Irish, it seems, there's always a bit of "thrubble." One remembers the first Queen Elizabeth roaring her displeasure over Essex's failure to put down Tyrone's rebellion. (Essex cap tured one castle, then tried to make a deal with Tyrone.) When the Puritans closed the theaters of England, one of the reasons adduced was the "un settled condition" of Ireland. Since Brian Boru, the Irish have shown themselves to be scrappers. I'm muddled about the origins of the present discontent but my sympathies are with the Catholics. Any side on which the Rev. Ian Paisley fights establishes it.elfr In pact best compromise, it was looked upon askance by white settlers in. Southern Rhodesia, viciously attacked by African nationalists in its two northern components and denigrated by white liberals, abroad. When the federation was broken up in 1963 so that Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland could achieve full independence as black states, it was clear to anyone with eyes to see that Southern Rhodesia, whatever Britain and the world might want, would Itself become independent. For Rhodesia had, alone of Britian's scores of colonies in Africa and felsewhere, had been internally :self-governing, the comilete master of its domestic affairs, since 1923. Having enjoyed virtual independence for 40 years, Rhodesia's whites were not about to give it up. Nor could Britian force them to do so. Who remembers the names of Garfield Todd, Edgar Whitehead and Winston Field? All are whites and each, successively, was premier of Southern Rhodesia, giving way finally to Ian Smith.' Todd was a liberal, Whitehead a moderate and Field a con servative. As international pressure built up against Rhodesia's whites, the ~one discernible effect was to push the country's political leadership - and its social attitudes - farther to the right. And the only significant domestic political pressure on Smith today comes not from the left but from the right. Copyright 1971 Washington Star i's dead my mind, as wrong. Paisley has been called the George Wallace of Ulster, which may be too gentle a description. One's reflexes recoil from fundamentalist preachers since the very term connotes bigotry, repression and irrational clinging to outworn dogma. The Rev. Paisley strikes one as remarkably un-Irish, a kind of genetic sport. He attended Billy Graham's old school, Bob Jones University. This heavily endowed institution has a superb collection of Italian Renaissance paintings and a curriculum that seeks to stomp out science and logic along with the flesh and the devil. I have never met anyone who attended Bob Jones University but I once read a hilarious magazine piece by a man who had been kicked out of Bob Jones. His sin was this: When his prayer captain -that's right-came around for 11 p.m. bed check with his little flashlight, the author of this piece was not on his pillow, prayerfully asleep. With their roistering ways, their quick wit and fine irreverence, the Irish --even the Protestants-must find the Rev. Paisley a great bore. Blessed, lyrical, brooding, woniderful people! May the Lord soon deliver them from their "thrubbles." Meantime, I shali continue to weep silent tears for that battered bride, bald as an egg on her wedding night. This in Ireland where Yeats saw "A woman of so shining a loveliness - That men threshed corn at mid night by a tress." Copyright 1971t om Angeles Times