+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + Its That Time It's that time of the term. Time for moan ing and groaning about how far behind we are, how we swore we’d never get behind again, how mean that nasty old comp teach er is, how little time there is for studying, bow noisy it is in the dorm. But let's think back a bit. What were we doing a month ago at this time? Shooting the breeze with the fellows? Taking off for a mid-week show? Cutting class to listen to the hi-fi at The Side? Just goofing off in general? We really deserve sympathy then, don't we? Now that all of our term papers are due, we're in a final round of mid-terms, and final week is only two weeks away. And suddenly comes the dawn. W e see it in big red letters on the mirror when we get up in the morning. It’s written on every professor’s face. It hangs over campus coffee spots: Grade point average. After a term here no one needs to be told the importance of obtaining and maintain ing a high GPA. Additional privileges- hon orares, offices—many are the things depend ent either wholly or partially upon the al mighty GPA. And a high GPA winter term doesn’t necessarily follow a high GPA fall term. * The answer? The best possible use of the time remaining and the hope that good studv habits learned may carry over to spring term. And good luck in pushing that D-plus over to a C-minus. — (S.R.) I\lew Smear Word The Fifth Amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States has become a smear term. That was one of the main points made by the 1955 Eric \V. Allen Memorial Speaker, Irving Dilliard, in his address on campus a little over a week ago. As editor of the edi torial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of the nation’s outstanding newspapers, Dilliard has been in a good position to ob serve this phenomenon. Primarily through Congressional investi gations, but also in court trials in recent years, we’ve added the terms “Fifth Amend ment Pinko” and “Fifth Amendment Com mie” to our colloquial language. A citizen wholnvokes the fifth amendment when questioned is pictured as at least sus pect, probably worse. It's been a long time for many of us since we took a course in civics or U.S. History, but it might be a good tiling to pause for a minute and reread the “infamous" fifth ar ticle of the Bill of Rights : “No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, un less on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be put twice in jeop ardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any case to be witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall priv ate property be tak«n for public use with out just compensation.” It sounds pretty basic, doesn’t it? But this article, or parts of it, are being used today as smear terms, to cast aspersions on persons merely because they refuse to testify against themselves. There are those whose purposes would best be served if such obstacles as the Fifth Amendment were removed from their paths. One way to accomplish this would be to dis credit the obstacles one by one as they arise. Just as basic as the Fifth Amendment is the First Amendment—and the rest of the Bill of Rights. Maybe when a demagogue begins to say that those who claim freedom of speech or religion are subversive, the American people will begin to realize that as their constitution is made a mockery, so are the basic right" which it contains. It’s Aging We’ve been disillusioned! The Student Union is aging. We thought that the SU would always stay the way it was when it was dedicated in 1951. However, deterioration lias set in. Some of the chairs in the Fishbowl are wearing out. The middle door which leads to the turnaround is “out of order.” Also, the doormats are near the point of disinte gration. Maybe the building will last forever, but many of the parts are already getting to the J place where they detract from the building's | beauty.—(P.K.) Footnotes Why not a plan for a speaker system for I the SU jukebox so that the music can be heard throughout the Fishbowl instead of blasting at one area? INTERPRETING THE NEWS Dulles May Face Showdown With Red Chinese Armed Power By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Of the Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP)-Secre tary of State Dulles returns from Asia this week to face an almost certain test of his newly com pleted system of anti-Commu nist alliances. This will be some kind of military showdown with Red China. Officials here believe the cru cial contest, which appears to be developing now, will be re garded by friendly Asian peoples as a measure of US willingness to stand by them when the rigk is great. At the same time the British may think the risks are more than the United States should take for the stakes immediate ly involved. This could put ad ditional strains on the alliance. The critical area, authorities agree, is Nationalist China’s off shore island line anchored by Quemoy and Matsu. Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-Shek’s abandon ment of Nanchishan three days ago is expected to speed up Com munist operations against the Quemoy-Matsu sector. Evidence that critical develop ments are to be expected soon is found by State and Defense Department officials in (1) the high volume of Red Chinese propaganda about moving on Formosa, and (2) new military dispositions opposite Quemoy which have brought the island’s air strip and other installations under Communist artillery fire. In a speech in New York immediately before he left for the Bangkok conference ten days ago Dulles said that “a great danger in Asia” is the fear of many non-Communist peoples that the United States would not stand behind them. That fear, he said, has already “mounted to the danger point.” He added that the whole area of Asia would become indefens ible if the free peoples living there felt that the Western Al lies would retreat whenever Com munism threatens the peace. Dulles clearly applies this rea- i soning to the problem of the Na tionalist-held coastal islands. It is this concept, widely shared by i other officials here, that gives ; the expected Quemoy-Matsu showdown greater significance than would be involved simply in the Formosa problem. Yet, it appears that Dulles and his advisers will have to take Into account the extreme ly strong desire of the British to avoid a military showdown with Red China and especially a showdown over the coastal islands, which the British con sider properly belong to the Chinese Beds. Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Eden discussed at Bangkok last week whether any steps could be taken to dissuade the Chinese Communists from violent action. In this the Brit ish at least hope for some coop eration from Moscow. The Russians are happy to see trouble between the United States and Britain but both Lon don and Washington experts think the Russians want the Red Chinese to avoid any action which could lead to a big war. —Paid Adv*rti«emenf Ok Campus (Author of "liar, foul Hoy iVilh with MaxQhuIman Cheek," tie.) THE BULL SESSION 1 wonder if they still mnke bull sessions the way they used to. Well do I remember the bull sessions of my own undergrad uate days. How cogent they were! How informative! How the good talk crackled and our young hearts lenped and the hours sped by as swiftly as minutes! Our discussions were always led by Jack Femur. (Good old Jack! I hear he’s in the extruded aluminum game now. I We would sit cross-legged in a circle around Jack and he would fill his pipe with his own private blend — burley, latakia, and shred ded coconut. The rest of us preferred tobacco, so we would light up Philip Morris. This is a procedure I recommend without qual ification to everyone who prefers tobacco because Philip Morris has the tobacco that tobacco-preferers prefer the most mild vintage leaf with a clean, cool flavor thut soothes and steadies, that gladdens and enlivens and refreshes. Jack would puff on his pipe and we would puff on our Philip Morris and the bull-session would begin its meandering journey. The talk would touch on every subject known to man, on every conceivable thing beneath the sun, but no matter how far the conversation wandered, it would always return to "Topic A.” 1 refer, of course, to gardening. But. as I say, the discussion would cover many subjects before it came to the inevitable gardening. Jack would open each session with a provocative question of a general nature, like: “What’s the most important thing a man can get out of college?” “Girls,” Harold Clavicle would reply promptly. (Good old Harold! 1 hear he’s in the frozen lobster tail game now.) “No, 1 don’t think so,” Hen Fibula would say. "I think edu cation is the most important thing you get out of college.” (Good old Ben! He’s still in school.) “Listen, guys. I’ve got a question,” Clyde Ilium would say. "If you could spend a week either with Ava Gardner or with Albert Einstein, which would you choose?” (Good old Clyde! I hear he’s in the unclaimed freight game now.) “Albert Einstein, of course," Will Mandible would say. (Good old Will! I hear he’s in the jack handle game now.) “What?” Cleanth Patella would cry, astonished. “You would rather spend a week with Albert Einstein than with Ava Gardner?” (Good old Cleanth! 1 hear he’s in the unclaimed freight game with Clyde Ilium.) “Natch!” Will Mandible would answer. “P.ut why?” Sol Sacrum would ask. (Good old Sol! 1 hear he’s a parking meter in Deal, New Jersey.) “Because,” Will Mandible would cry, “if I spent a week with Albert Einstein, maybe I would get so smart that I would be able to figure out a way to spend more than a week with Ava Gardner!” Well sir, we laughed until our little uvulas were sore and then we went on to a host of other topics. “Do you think it’s im portant to join a fraternity?” Murray Tarsus would ask. (Good old Murray! I hear he's in the mica frame now.) "Only if you are a boy,” Bob Turbinate would answer. (Good old Bob! 1 hear he’s in the sheared raccoon game now. I The raccoon, incidentally, was invented by Milton Raccoon, whose career should be a source of guidance and inspiration to us all. Mr. Raccoon arrived in this country in 1907, penniless and not speaking a word of Flnglish. Today he is the Mayor of four of our principal cities. 1) But to get back to the bull session—"What's the best thing to do when the girl you are dancing with insists on leading?" Rric Ulna would ask. (Good old Eric! 1 hear he’s in the flutter valve game now.) “Hit her with a folded newspaper,” George Vertebra would answer. “Never hit a girl with your hand. They learn to associ ate the hand with food, and you must not confuse them." (Good old George! 1 hear he’s in the folded newspaper game now.) And so it went — the talk ranging the worlds of the arts and the sciences and the social graces, until we would climb, spent but happy, into our little hammocks ... I wonder if they still make bull sessions the way they used to. <£Ms* fthulman, I'iVi This column it brought to you by the mutter* of PHILIP MONK IS, tcho hare been in the tobacco game for many long rear» and tcho tell you now proudly that their product it better than ever. 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