WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1966
THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
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Home For Christmas
Vv'here will you be this Christmas? Home?
Well, that’s good. There’s no better place tc
spend Christmas than home.
But some people won’t be able to spend
Christmas at home this year. They’ll be too
busy and too far away to make it back home.
You see, there’s this war in Southeast Asia
and it doesn’t look as if it will be over by
Christmas time. A lot of American soldiers
keep hoping it will be, though. They’d sure
like to be back in the states, sitting around in
nice homes opening presents and enjoying all
that other stuff we take for granted at Christ
mas.
You know what you ought to do7 You ought
to send one of those soldiers a Christmas
card. It’s easy to do. You don’t have to know
who he is or where he’s from or anything
about him.
All - you have to do is drop by the special
table in the Union lobby and sign your name
to a card provided for you. If you want to
really do things right, you might write a little
message on it, too.
Veterans from this school will be at the table
to assist you any day between November 9
and 20. They will send your card, along with
all the other cards from this campus, to che
people at Cueens College who started this whole
deal. They’ll make sure your card goes to a
soldier in V^ietnain.
It doesn’t matter what your feelings are in
regard to the war in Vietnam. Even if you’ve
burned your draft card and have the cinders
in an urn on the mantle to prove it, you can
still send a card.
All you’ll be doing is extending a holiday
greeting. But it might make some poor guy
in a muddyirice paddy feel as if he’s home
for a second or two this Christmas
SP On Right Track
The Carolina Journal
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1966
oLARY, JR.,*..*.*****——*.*——^.—Fiiittoi
Jim Cunning business Managei
Frank Crooks ........Asst. Bus. Mgr.
Robert Pliner Chief Photi^rapher
Libby Holshouser... Feature Editor
Donna Hughes ^.Sports Editor
Geraldine Ledford... .....Art Editor
Staff: Sally Hagood, Mary Morgan, Paul Boswell, Connie rUppo,
Earleen Mabry, Comv Stilwell, Frank Caton, Jan Ballard, Patrick
McNeely, Ronald Watts, Bobbe Berry, John Moore, Carol Haywood,
Sandy Caudle, Rosemary Lands, John Lafferty, Gayle Watts, Kay
Watson, and Carol Durham.
Picketing Purchasers May
C^t To The Root Of Prices
BY PAUL BOSWELL
It appears that the housewives
of the American home are rebell
ing against high food prices in
the only manner they know, tlie
boycott.
The chain store owners are be
coming the victims of the females
who have made up their minds to
fight higher prices. The deter
mined women probably will not
surrender untU the high cost of
living is lowered somewhat.
Some say that the girls are aim
ing in the wrong direction since
the higher ups, such as retail
grocers and freight carriers, not
the chain stores, are responsible
for the elevated tabs.
Still, we must admit that some
one has to give in somewhere
along the line when groceries are
not being bought at all. Because
of this, the fight to chop prices
continues over most of the nation,
led by the picketing purchasers.
A spokesman for the gals out
in Denver admitted that they hac
nothing in particular against the
individual chain stores, but rather
sought to impress their dissatis
factions on all who have a hand
in the soaring prices. Many of
them are most preoccupied with
wiping out the jackpot and trad
ing stamp gimmicks which are fin
anced by subtle price raising.
Tehy are quite willing to trade
in their stamp books for reason
ably priced food staples
The cost of living has done most
of its climbing under the present
administration.
Mr, Johnson’s measures have
;reated pressures which have
sought to relieve themselves in
he form of inflatiai.
Food prices have jumped 5.2%
in the past year and 1,3% again
in August. If staple prices con
tinue to spiral at this rate, the
next year will show a 15.2% in
crease.
We were quite pleased to note that thebtudem
Party met for the first time this year last
Wednesday. Although the meeting was late (three
days after freshman elections had been com
pleted) it was welcome.
The party members must have had a recent
JOURNAL editorial in mind, for they promptly
proceeded to find themselves some leaders.
They elected themselves a chairman and a
vice chairman. Then the chairman appointed
four committee chairmen.
The SP is now planning a social to launch
a membership drive. The JOURNAL wishes
them the best of luck in this venture because
we would like to see the return of two party
politics by the time of the next campus election.
We hope this meeting indicates the awakening
of the Student Party from its fall doldrums.
If so, the school is in for soine vehement con
tests between the SPand the UP in the future.
We can’t wait.
Scbulti Gets
$5000 Grant
From US Navy
000 to the deficit.
Since 1961, the government has
spent $40 billion more than it has
taken in. This amounts to $40,-
000 a minute of about $2.50 an
hour for each hour in a normal
40 hour work week.
The above facts were presented
in the United States Senate and
were not contested by one. Dem
ocrat or Republican.
Every day 3,800people in Amer
ican reach retirement age only
to discover inflation’s bite. $5
saved before World War II buys
J1.85 in grocery products today.
The retired worker who receives
$3,000 per year after years of
work, or anyone who began re
ceiving a fixed income of $3,000
in 1940 has been hard hit by in-
During the 34 months of John
F. Kennedy’s administration the
Labor Dept.’s index for retail
prices for all food increased by
2.3 points, from 102,8 to 105.1.
At the time Johnson had been in
office for 33 months, the index
had increased from 105.0 to 115.5,
a total of io.4 points.
The farmer cannot be blamed
since 61% of the retail price of
foods are added after they leave
the farm.
Just how fast are these and
other pressures raising the coun
try’s debt? The fact is, that every
minute of every day adds $40,-
flation.
, In July 1966, this $3,000, after
being sliced by taxes and higher
prices was worth only $1,195.
Bravo for the trail blazing
housewife. HopefuUy, others will
follow the worthy example to pro
test high prices.
It remains to be seen whether
prices will fall or not, but they
certainly will not if no complaints
are made. After aU, even though
business is dependant on the con
sumer, it is out to make a pro
fit.
Because chain grocery stores
operate on a very small static
profit margin, other factors have
raised food prices. Perhaps the
housewife domonstartions will get
to the root of the problem.
Letters To The Editor
Upper Classmen
Should^ve Hdped
Mr. Editor:
We have just completed fresh-
nan elections. It would be an un
derstatement to say that it was
a time of frustration and confus
ion for all concerned. Both sides
were in violation of publicity re
gulations throughout the campaign.
The campus was filled with count
less charges and countercharges
of foul play. And the actual vot
ing days resulted in a situation
just short ofanarchy due to charges
of irregularities at the polls and
a lack of preparation on the part
of the student government officials
responsible for the balloting.
I did not connect all of these
unfortunate evens until the last
day of elections when a candidate
for freshman office said to me,
“You know we’re just suppose to
be a bunch of stupid little fresh
men, We’re not suppose to getinto
all this trouble. Where were you
upper classmen when we needed
you?’’
The point is this. If the upper
classmen had informed th.e fresh
men of the publicity and election
rules and advised the freshmen on
what to do and what not to do
in a campaign and if the upper
classmen had been available
throughout the campaign to advise
imd instruct the freshmen, then all
this confusion would more than
likely have not occured.
I am by no means least amoung
the offenders. Therefore, I would
like to offer my sincere appolo-
gies to the student body in gen
eral and the freshman class in
particular for not having done
as much as I should have done
for my part during this period of
time.
Bud Stokely
Vice-President of the Student
Body
BY BOBBE BERRY
SENSORY RESTRICTION:
EFFECT ON BEHAVIOR and
PANIC BEHAVIOR are two books
which Dr. Duane Schultz, the new
Associate Professor of Psycho
logy, has said should be in every
home.
Why? Why what else would you
expect an author to say about his
own books.
At the moment, however, it is
not the books which he has written
that has caused the school to be
excited to have Dr. Schultz as a
member of its faculty but rather
it is because of the $5,000 grant
which he has received from the
Office of Naval Research of the
United States Navy.
The grant which has been
awarded for one year will aUow
Dr. Schultz to continue the study
of the reaction of people in dis
aster situations; particularly per
sonal characteristics of people who
respond in different ways. Because
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“He probably thinks that dime will ease his
conscience after spending his last $5 playing
pool.’’