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Viewpoint n * Friday, March 21, 1986 V 0 MrmfY? IHW - ' HHirnnnr Drop it Confederate a I _ _X _ wnn siaws The confederate Hag that waves over the South Carolina State House was ripped down by a thunderstorm last week, but the high winds left the American and state flags llian,. i I.J nifcSThe flag was replaced, but it shouldn't have been. It could be argued the Hag represents an important part of South Carolina's heritage, but it is a part that needs to be recognized, not flaunted. What it represents is a war that tore our nation apart, a war that produced countless political and human wounds. There are lessons not to be forgotten in such sweeping events, but the Hag is more a reminder of the horrors ol slavery than deeds of bravery The Rev. Winston Lawsor of the l.adson Presbytcriar Church in Columbia said th< Mag brings back memories ol oppression and is a rcmindci of the discrimination and pre judice the South has yet t( eradicate. (AfloTHER 1 (Yalb\ , nightmare? JKa I?v\ . Hi nMITBMflWfc U?ifc Guest ed Catalytic c n.. riniiru nrTiiniir oy oiuracf ocinunc I itty years ago, acid rains I here were relatively few utili naces. and lew cars; there wer lakes in America and Canada. W ith the slow course of time ; spent\. and internal expansio numbers of furnaces and cars leaps and hounds. In tlie interim, the number ( United States and C anada has through the seasons ? to 7,(KM ami u\ iIK1 iorcsis h was oniy i: the pioblem became truly noti< in ihe number ol lurnaces and sidered almost directly proport in the number ol dead lakes ar I or several months, a $100 tr ifi>-' chemists and other specially been under v\a\, wnh attern answer I hes have known suit and lurnaces, and little or not mam problem. Nationwide, th concerned environmental grou 1 litering mechanisms have b ha\e been made to treat the la Mad the lederal government hii was .i master ol nuzzles and do/ens ot chemists and olhcr v til the bill, this twofold ans untavcled in weeks. All automobiles dating I catalytic converters. A SKM) lit and a $V) line, the cost ol th J he Gamecock needs > press your likes and dtslik tor to the editor. l etters must he typed, d a maximum length of MX) include the writer's name, number and where the \s r lor verification. I etters should also in writer is a student, stii member. Ciuest editorials flag in conflict goal of equality "Black people now will be driving down the street and see the flag. That brings back painful memories," said Lawson, an organizer of September's anti-apartheid rally on the steps of the State House. At the rally, civil rights leader Modjeska Simpkins said, "Wc arc on holy ground. , And I don't mean bccausc wc arc at the Capitol bccausc a lot of unholy stuff goes on up , there." "What about the flag?" someone shouted. The Kn KIiix Khni uses the ; confederate flag as a symbol i of its goals of white F supremecy. By Hying the Hag, South Carolina unintentionali ly associates itself with such i loathsome and despicable intents. F By removing the flag, the r state would demonstrate that it is serious about governing iicnlf in vx/;?vv: hawl nn rnnitv and rcspcct. T was AWFUL! There was a ) price war, amp To keep ; Y Customers, i hap TO wash their winpShielpS amp check Their oil ! i < *At~! ' C(l(^l ^IW JWW O H?w5j'?llA ', itorial -'T I converters wi should be impo series using Icac were unheard-of. have to have a ty plants with fur* they can pass e thousands of live have to go up t If that doesi md the growth, pro- 1940s, Plan B v n of America, the With the aci have multiplied by general, rare, a There arc on >f dead lakes in the and vehicles, likewise multiplied Various vchick ), plus dead streams when convcctio mo /u years ago mat icic trom exnai ccable. I he increase Otherwise, the I cars has been con- I here is a s ional to the increase lakes and dying id forests. won't cost the lillion project featur- 10 hours a yeai 'cd professionals has During all sc ipis to discover an proceed to the ur dioxide from cars rain without tf lung more, to be the flashing red at icre have been many won't happen ps. long rain doesn ltd used, and efforts oeonle would u kcs, hut to no avail. minutes, red just one man that We have 50 mazes, rather than Wc have I, specialists that didn't smokestacks t wer may have been 9,(KM) cars eacl furnaces art >ack to 1975 have rics much tnor ic lor service stations Efforts on tl e catalytic convener, of work. Ther< -?? . i -our opinions. Ex- 500 words a es by writing a let- ture. Photos The Game louble-spaced, with letters a mo words. I hey must will only be auurcss, telephone and pseuuor iler can be reached f he dam letters and gi elude whether the returned. S ill or community (iamecock, must be limited to umbia, S.C. I (If Trains, trains, trs Thp firKt thinv / remrmhcr knowin' Is that lonesome whistle hiowin' And a young 'un's dream of yjo win' up to ride . . . Merle Haggard, 1968 Railroads don't even move enough to make you look up these days. Merle Haggard, 1986 The best vantage point tor watching trains in Columbia ? with the possible exception of Hugcr Street during rush hour ? is the pedestrian bridge just behind Bates West, where you can leisurely eat your lunch and watch the trains trundle along a few feet below. This may not sound like much fun to you, but I'm from Batesburg and don't get out much. I've been fascinated by trains for some time, but I never rode otic until spring break, when I went to Palm Beach aboard the midnight special out ol Columbia. To be honest, it was the 11:45 p.m. special, but why be Duld help solve i scd on any motorist 01 a car in mis a ji mime led gas. These same vehicles should time for th working catalytic converter before Using ci inspection. Inspection costs would 8-foot dial o $3. top of the Vt bring levels back down to the double pip vill. allow cxh? d rains, the answers arc accurate, when on< typical and complete. inoperativ ily two basic problems ? furnaces In each L-verything else is insignificant. haust fan ;s arc only a factor during a rain wind turn n and water vapor carry sulfur diox- pipeline h ists of automobiles into the clouds. pletc with emission is low-level all the way. In betwi imnlc answer to savinu 7.(KX) dead could be a I forests in America and Canada that than 100 c average American more than five to could he | r of his time. For less asons, motorists of older cars could our light ir destinations and not re-enter the dead stre< ic catalytic converter. I iglits will be The ex id changing at the same tunc. I his doesn't pi 15 hours a year to most motorists. A When ii 1't occur once in four years, and most all the tra et to their destinations in less than 10 then be in of them a million automobiles. sides. Mi] 063 16-foot diameter coal and oil and doth i 1 : ? i ? ..4 .......1.1 u run prouuce uic equivalent m uvli wwuiu iic i. taxis, plai : heavy, a significant factor that car- used only e weight than all automobiles do. If it ra lese furnaces would require 5 months business : needs to be an 18-month deadline or Nobody I nd the writer may Submit a pic- * i- _ . ... . J l . ciuuioi oc returned. " cock will print no more than two nth by the same writer. Names r withheld by special exception lyms are not allowed. ecock reserves the right to edit nest editorials. Letters will not be lend letters to: Editor, The Drawer A, Russell House, Col29208. jr ^ rssno I'iia nnf *% 41 amo, i vc yui a 11 honest when you can have romance? Everybody was asleep when 1 boarded, but I was too busy watching occasional bursts of civilization scud past my window to join them. I must have dozed a bit, though, because about 3 a.m. I was seized by the idea that I could reach Palm Beach merely by walking down the aisle through car after car aflcr cat into the <lkl:?nrtv and return to Col umbia merely by walking in the other direction. For that sort of idea, you have to be at least partly asleep. When I told people 1 was taking the train to Florida and back, most of them arched their eyebrows and said, "Awful long ride," obviously under the mistaken impression that 1 was in a hurry and eared more about my destination than about the getting there. Nobody invited me to join a high-stakes poker game, no secret agents got thrown off the roof past my window, no saloon belles sat down in the seat opposite me, and I didn't see a single conductor carrying a biscuit-sized t gold pocket watch. {. Hut that's OK. The best thing about taking s acid rain problen m f ine. I his 18 months allows plenty ol In I e purchase of catalytic converters as well. montl ranes and scaffolding, there need to be may 1 netcr double pipelines coming out of the Foi smokestack, 25 feet up. Louvers and and of tin iclincs should be on top of the chimney to up tf lust to escape on a clear day or on a day lakes ; oi inc lans migru appear 10 oe swim c. intcrt pipe, winds 1 (K) mph and faster from ev- plant s purchased from the manufacturers of gressi lcls are necessary at the base of cach millif eld up above the ground by struts, corn- Bel a way to repair and remove them. blc p ten the fans and the top of the smokestack been in 8-foot diameter circular disk with more Re atalytic converters installed in cach. A fan Co placed in front of the disk, too. the p than the nominal one-time $3 increase in Pe and gas bill, we regain 7,(XX) dead lakes, drive nm. and dvinu forests nth/?i trcmc Northwest uses hydropowcr that subsi Dilute. So t rains in warm weather, city hall can place time iffic lights on flashing red. Motorists can 1,06! istructed to pull up behind the car in front bolv< nd cut off their engines until the rain sub- one-l ?hway traffic could pull over to the side Ta e same. The only vehicles allowed to move bota ambulances, fire trucks, trains, buses, and lies and the highway patrol. This would be their for disciplinary action. and ins at all, a shop owner could extend his the I time to allow for a salesman's time. Ec oscs anything. satis dlior in Chlrf HutJnru hdllor lunsu J. Porto Manu f ratus iMnuKlng hdltor Viewpoint Kdltor 'en Row Curl Dawson ^(wuigm Minor opy l>f%k Chief Mary Jo Miller mda Taylor Aultiani SpoillKhi FxI wi?ijni c ?p> i>*%v i hirf Ed Chambliss ruddy Moore Sport* Fdltor lew* FdHor John Hoyelte uliel Nader Aithtanl Sport* Fdl?<i tttUiani New* Mllon Jeff Shrewsbury lul \1illard Photograph) F.dllor 'aula W'ethinxton Kay (ironberx fling about 'em r^-. r\d. . V :??&1 j I 0 1 jt, i ;/ -v ;-* ' . v.;. 5 Andy Duncan he train is the absolute certainty that you've ^ot rails beneath you. That feeling is rather icarce nowadays. 11, writer savs m ;he great Northwest, where it rains six to eight lis out of the year, more and better bus routes 3C the second-best answer. r the first, by federal law and in a short period ne, lake owners and ecologists can straighten icir facilities. For the sake of thousands of , ponds, rivers, streams and forests, millions of mers, landowners, foresters, fishermen, and :sted parties and tens of billions of aquatic s and fish, whether office worker or conman in his car, his time doesn't measure up to a raction of that much. [ween catalytic converters, hydropower, douipelines and flashing red lights, acid rain had solved. These conditions date back 50 years, storation work needs to be done. ngressmen will have pass a bill to insure that receding is taken into account and heeded, ople will progressively buy newer-model cars to in any rainy weather leaving fewer and fewer automobiles owners to wait until the rain des. me good comes out of everything. No down wouiu oc necessary wun mc use 01 any ol the ) coal and oil furnaces. And all of the work in;d aids the employment picture for less than a tim cover charge per gas and electric customer, tx cuts will be reflected. Scientists, biologists, nist and chemists can wrap up ther activities return to more meaningful duties relating to work. Swimmers can swim, fisherman can fish lake owners can enjoy their investments once )alance of nature is turned the other way. rologists from coast to coast can rest with a ficci mind. Director Hill Clements Her Production Lewis Covington Mark Armstrong T Admitting Manager Margaret Michels Student Advertiting Manager Kelli Freas