PAOI TWO
!J tHE DAILY -TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, DECEMSSR 20, W5J
1959
1 lie lollowin; are tilings that probably
un't happen in lnyj:
The New Yoik. Yankees lose the American
League pennant. . .
The Intel fraternity Council vote for dc
feired uish.
I he Tan Hellenic Council abolish com
pulsory parlies.
The Student Legislature do something
wotthwhile.
Governor Hodges praise someone for his
outsjK)ken stand in favor of the law of the
land.
The federal government take education
seriously.
.Secretary of State John Foster Dulles re
sign. I he Intn fraternity Council vote not unan
imously.. The New Yoik Yankees lose the American
I.cuc pennant.
The Russians not put up a six ton missile.
The United States not put up an eight ton
missile.
The Russians not put up a ten ton missile.
The race for more weight flying around
the woild cease.
Justin Tom C. Clark vote in opposition
to the run cut loyalty-security program.
I)wip,ht I). Kisenhowcr quit playing golf.
Ridirul Nixon quit running.
The New Yoik Yankees lose the American
I r.'-iuc pennant.
I he IM.miiikcis put on a eifect play.
Anthony Wolff praise the I'laymakcrs for
putting on a peifect play.
A politician speak out for heavily increas
ed taxation.
Ann I rye otc Democratic.
The Women's Residence Council abolish
their childish rules.
The Uimcnity rank higher than last in
the American Association of Colleges and
Universities.
The General Assembly approve all edu
cational budget requests.
The IVtites Dramatiques hold a play.
The washing machine committee be alxI
ished as too gieat an undertaking for the
Sup-cine I .t-iisl.il i c Ilody of the campus.
I he Ku Klu Klan be integrated.
The New Yoik Yankees lose the American
I c. 'zue pennant.
The Women's Honor Council institute a
l.'ir tii.il procedure.
()ial I -'an bus be arrested for contempt of
c Ol" t.
The University's library rank first in the
south.
Giils stop c basing lxys.
I it sliuu ii be allowed to have cars on tire
campus.
I'i atciuitics with discriminatory clauses,
discatd the clauses.
The (lustres abolish the drinking rule.
Adl.ii Stcenson campaign actively for and
uin the Democratic presidential nomination.
March Wind turn into an April Breeze.
The United States develop a consistent
and sound foreign policy.
The YMCA not want space on The Daily
Tar Heel's "front page.'
An amateur athletic system be adopted at
UNC.
The New Yoik Yankees lose the American
I.e.'gue pennant.
Hubert Humphrey lose the stigma of his
iutiodiu tion of the Communist Control Act.
Peanuts grow up.
A western hero die after losing his riding
skill.
Teles ision improve.
Movies improve.
I he downtown merchants have the lowest
pi i c s in the state.
The proofreading of The Daily Tar Heel
be per fee f.
The Aiafrs be friends with the Israelis.
The Israelis be friends with the Arabs.
Madison Avenue say that somebody should
not buy something.
Nuclear testing be suspended.
Dwight F.iscnhowcr be a president.
The Student legislature provide a sensi
ble judicial svstcm.
The female leadership on the campus
rmeigc from the Victorian Age.
The Di Senate hold a debate.
Students be interested in academic affairs.
The South be integrated.
Joint Honor Councils lc established.
The New Yoik Yankees lose the American
I.c.'gue pennant.
A South American country not have a-revolution.
Mendcs-I'rancc start drinking wine.
The I nglish give up claim to Cyprus.
The Democratic Party become a party.
The S)mjx)sium on Public Affairs pick a
ch.iiimaii.
The Publications Poard not be revised for
the twentieth time in ?.s many years.
The course system be aljolishcd.
Prains be considered a virtue.
Liquor be legalized in Chapel Hill.
The Ac kland Art Museum have some paint
ings. The United Nations be trusted by coun
tties as something mott! than a debating so
ciety. ...
The New York Yankees lose the American
League pennant. J '
Continued on Column 7
Defense Spen
mg
Jack Raymond
How much should the United States spend on military defense?
This fiscal year (July 1, 1958, to June 30, 1959) it is expected to spend
$40 billion. That is more than half the government's estimated total
expenditure of $79 billion. In the next fiscal period, military spend
ing is expected to rise by at least $1 billion despite cutbacks in uni
formed manpower, reduced production of weapons "hardware" and
the elimination of some costly missile programs.
President Eisenhower has let it be known on several occasions
that he is worried about these expenditures. The government deficit
is $12 billion, and the Presdient has warned that unless some way
is found to reduce military spending, "Then I will tell you we better
go into a garrison state." Yet, when Mr. Eisenhower presents his
budget for Fiscal Year 1960 to Congress next January, he will be
faced, by critics whose views of military preparedness, if adopted,
would require even greater expenditures than the economy-minded
President will be forced to propose. Influential Congressmen already
have announced that they will fight the President's orders to reduce
the size of the Armed Forces. A Congressional debate over the mili
tary budget is thus pending.
The perfectly credible report that the Soviet Union has flown a
nuclear-powered airplane illustrates the challenge. Fur, if the rcporl
is Correct, it is a nuclear-powered military airplane that Moscow has
produced. And it was a military missile that lifted the gigantic Sput
niks into orbit around the earth. And it is in the production of mili
tary vehicles such as tanks and armored cars, and long-range mis
siles and manned bombers, rather than in other fields that the So
viet Union is outproducing us.
; The Soviet Union's huge ground forces of 2.5 million men more
than three times the size of the. United States Army is the only
righting force in the world today that has completely re-equipped its
units with post-Korean weapons, including missiles capable of firing
nuclear warheads.
; This does not mean that the Soviet Union's rulers want war. It
means that the Soviet Union has developed and maintained a capabil
ity for war thai we must take into account in planning our own mili
tary effort.
Pentagon officials quote the following figures:
In World War II, a B-17 Flying Fortcss cost $183,000, a B-29 Sup-
erfortess cost $625,000. Today a B-47 Strato-jct Bomber costs $1.9 mill
ion and the B-52 Strato-fortress costs more than $7 million.
In World War II, a submarine cost $6 million to $3 million, but
the fctomic-powered Nautilus cost $65 million. A World War II des
troyer cost $9 million while its modern counterpart costs $27 million.
The aircraft carrier Lexington, built in 1937, cost $45 million. The
supercarrier Forrestal, commissioned last year, cost $204 million and
the. first atomic carrier, Enterprise, now under construction, will
cost $321 million.
Even the Army, whose equipment normally does not carry as
tronomical price tags, finds itself paying $134,000 for a tank today,
compared with $81,324 for a World War II tank. To equip a TentomiC
Infantry Division of 13,748 men costs $568 million, compared with
$43.7 million for a World War Il-sized infantry division of 17,000 men.
These figures illustrate the tremendous burden of inflation and
the higher cost of "sophisticated" weapons.
And just to press that point harder, it might be noted that inter
continental ballistic missiles, such as the Atlas fired successfully last
month more than a year after the Soviet claimed a similar feat
cost at least $1.5 million apiece. And ballistic missiles cannot be re
covered and used again.
Even more fundamental to the size of the defense budget than
cither inflation or improved weaponry is the strategic policy of the
country. In this respect, defense spending depends upon two consid
erations: 1, .The aims and obligations cf United States military abroad as
an adjunct of foreign policy.
2. The roles and mission of the individual services in relation
to the radical changes in weaponry.
The first of these considerations seems obvious enough. Certainly
we could reduce the costs of national defense if we withdrew our
overseas divisions, abandoned our world network of air bases an re
duced military aid to foreign countries. We could concentrate on an
intercontinental ballistic missile defense, based in this country, and
hope that economic aid to foreign nations would enable those coun
tries effectively to counteract Soviet and Chinese Communist pene
tration. We would accept some form of "neutrality" in critical geo
graphical areas in return for some form of Soviet concession on in
spection of nuclear weapons tests and defense against surprise attack.
The second consideration for the defense budget is the cost of
supplying the individual services with the weapons they need. But
many of the weapons our military people seek have not even been
designed. Can we afford to spend money on every idea? We spent
$690 million to develop the Navaho intercontinental guided missile
before we gave it up as a bad job. Yet if we economize excessively
on research and development, we may find the Soviet Union producing
a weapons system that would render our forces obsolete.
. Then there is a question of civilian defense. Some Administra
tion officials a few years ago proposed a nationwide bomb-shelter
construction system that would cost $40 billion. The price tag killed
the proposal. Americans are so embarrassed anyway about their
air raid drills that they balk at the thought of digging elaborate holes
to hide in. Yet if we do not build such shelters and our deterrent
weapons do not deter, millions of peoples may be killed by hydrogen
; i : OTc Sltiiapn i In ! China Looks Interesting"
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(Continued 1959)
Continued from Column :L -; -
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Gambling be legalized.
A Graham Memorial floater float.
Premier Khrushchev say that America was
not an im perial istic power. : ;:;
President Eisenhower have any idea of the
principles that the Linked States should. stand
for.; 1 ' ;
Politicians show great moral courage.
America produce a1 really great work of art.
Rock 'n' Roll cease to exist. . :
The University Party take a stand for some,
thing more than bicycle racks. '
The dorms be quiet. :
The Daily Tar Heel office be clean.
The Chamber of Deputies oppose De
Gaulle.
The United States recognize Communist
China. v
Chiang Kai-shek give up thinking about
the return to the mainland and return to
reality. '
The armed forces be unified" to' evevyoue's
satisfaction.
The New York Yankees jump to the Mex
ican League because the competition is too
strong in the American League.
The editor be happy. -
....' .
Oh well, one can dream anyway.
Alford
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19 SB TH WWMMfiTO1 XiT
American Studentry Lacking
Herbert Butterfield
My American friends had often
told me that I ought to visit one
of the small liberal arts colleges
in the United States, so I was de
lighted to be asked to Wabash and
Hanover, in Indiana.
For a man from an English uni
versity the surprises are many.
At Wabash College and in Han
over the day begins at eight o'
clock, whereas an English under
graduate feels himself unfort
unate if there are many days in
the week cn which he has to go
to a lectures as early as nine.
Dinner is an hour or two earlier
than in England; and it takes
place, not in a College Hall,' but in
Fraternity Houses, where to the
amazement and joy of a visitor,
the young students who act , as
his hosts are liable to break out
into song during the meal itself.
, Whereas in - England there is
what I should call a friendly re
spectfulness between students
and faculty, there is in the Unit
ed States at least in small col
leges an affectionate and not un
attractive kind, of nonchalance,
the student manner being unpol
ished at times, . but engaging - in
its freedom . and frankness. , At
Wabash and Hanover the college
is self-complete. Here the students
can generally know one another
and feel that they form a, single
society. ,' ',..-, .'...,'.
Some colossal universities give
one an impression of anarchy a
sense of seething masses, living
tual exchange. On the other hand,
there are not so many historians
or so many physicists on the spot,
keeping one another on their toes ,
as we find in the great universi
ties. The very friendliness of th5
place the kind of family spirit
that emerges so attractively
may even have its disadvantage
ous side if it helps to produce
low pressure or prevents the elas
tic from begin kept at stretch.
I wonder what would happen ii
the virtues of an American edu
cation could, be combired with
that peculiar "drive" which is of
ten Imparted to the English stu
dent in his last years at. school!,
particularly when he is prepar
ing for university scholarships. I
think that occasionally ; in Eng-
Currently underfoot is a move to deprive
newly elected Congressman Dale Alford of his
seat in the house. Alford was victor by a
write-in vote over Brooks Hays in a much
publicized election victory in . which: Gover
nor Orval Faubus' support of Alford was
clearly indicated. . -:' -.J .--
Any move to deprive Alford of his seat at
this time, barring a fraud in the actual bal
loting or counting on election day, wpuld be
a bad thing. '- : , ': , vV':;.v
Alford is not a person - whom: any .Self-respecting
person would want in his legislature.
Cambridge I have found freshmen He is not a person that promises any good
so crammed and so over-taught in by being in the House, but at the same time
history that for a term, or even he is the representative of the will of the peo
longer, I have had to keep them pie in Arkansas, and thus he has a right to
away from history altogether. serve.
The greatest thing that a teach- . j during his term of office he violates any
er can do for a student is not to y there can be impeachment proceeding
teach him not to transfer infor- , Ui u:m k.V ..nhl tUn
UIUUlll dUUUl daiini linn, uui -uiiin n.v..
the House should be bound by the ballot o
the citizens of Arkansas.
This is a bitter pill to swallow, especially
land this intensification of stu
dy is carried too far; and some
times as a teacher of history in
Beat Christmas
regardless of one another, at-
tipped missiles who otherwise might have lived. At the same time, if tending a class but then dispers-
too much emphasis is given to preparedness for nuclear war. we may n2 to. all points of the compass,
fall short in the critical areas where only conventional military forces
can be employed. And if we fail to keep ahead in mass destruction
weapons, even large numbers of conventional forces may fail to
counter aggression.
These were some of the problems of choice raised by the Com
mittee for Economic Development last July. The committee also em
phasized that the choices, once made, cannot be quickly changed. It
takes a long time to develop a weapon ten years for the Atlast
ICBM, six. years for the B-52 jet bomber a long time to equip a
division of fighting men. And a lot of money.
Ostensibly each of the services is responsible for conducting
operations aginst its enemy counterpart. But it is clear that there
is a great deal of overlapping. The Air Force will be sending men
into space and hoisting observer satellites to spy on an enemy from
so that neither the visiting ' out
sider nor the actual member of
the body can every embrace the
whole system with his mind. I
came to the conclusion that it is
, a very happy thing to belong to
a small college. ,,
; The American student begins
his college career with much less
background than an English un
dergraduate; but he does not
necessarily lack ingenuity in de
bate, and he gains more than the
formal teaching cf the! college
'Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the pad
Not' a hip cat was swinging, and
that's-nowhere dad; .
The stove was hung up in thcit
stocking routine,
In hopes that the fat man would
soon make the scene.
The kids had all had it so they
hit their sacks,
And me and the bride had begun
to relax,
When there started a rumble thait
'.: came on real frantic -
So I opened the window to figure
the panic.
I saw. a square short that was
makin' fat tracks,
BeinV pulled by eight 3ogs who
' was wearing hat racks;;
And a funny old geezer was flip-
! pin' his lid, -He
told 'em to make it, and man,
like they did!
I couldn't help diggin' the scene
mation from his own mind into
the student's mind but to com
municate to him that "drive"
which carries him forward on a
process of - autonomous self-edu- to those like this observer, who leel that the
cation. If this could be added to loss of Brooks Hays was a tragic event. Yet,
American education in the later reality is reality and Hays lost. It would un-
years of school life the. result dermine representative government if Alford
would not be seated.
This in no way should open the doors of
either party to' Dr. Alford. He should be re
garded in the House as he was regarded at
on the roof the polls an independent segregationist, aim
As I stood there just waiting for as such should be excluded from either party
chubby to goof; if they want to keep the parties respectable
They stood by the chimney in ;n anv o-nod sense of that word. ,
The less prestige Dr. Alford gets the better.
would be very remarkable indeed
TheSaturday Review
bunches and clusters
Til tubby, slid down, comin' on
like gangbusters.
His threads were the squarest
and I had to chuckle;
In front (not in back) was his Ivy
League buckle;
Christmas
The editor and the staff of The Daily Tar
The mop on his chin hid his but- Heej exteild to the student body, faculty and
ton-down collar
And with that red nose, man he
looked like a bailer. .
Like he was the squarest, the
most absolute,
But face it, who cares when he
left all that loot?
He laid the jazz on me and fled
from the gig, :
administration ...best wishes for a Merry
Christmas and a happy holiday vacation.
The official student publication of the Publication
Wailin' "Have a cool Yule and $0ar& of the University of North Carolina, where it
man, later, like dig?".
-BILL OLEFSON
in the Los Angeles Times
On Christmas
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stations whirling above the atmosphere. But the Air Force no longer can quite account for since un-
will have a monopoly on strategic air missions, when the Navy can
launch 1,500-milc missiles from its new Polaris submarines. And the
Army says that since man faces the prospect of being sent into, space
and landing on the moon and planets, its mission to seize and con
trol the "ground" will follow.
dergraduatcs do so much for the
education of one another. In
Hanover, an undergraduate from
Korea pressed me in a brilliant
manner on the subject of some of
Editor
It is evident that good arguments can be made for providing each ( the most subtle of the argumen-
of the services with the weapons it wants or thinks it needs. But this
introduces a third dimension of cost to the military budget problem.
The first two dimensions arc inflation and the greater "sophistication"
or capability of modern weapons. The third dimension is related to
weapons improvements in that the better weapons in turn prompt the
military services to expand their military objectives, creating a new
need for even better and more expensive weapons, 'to achieve these
objectives. Moreover, it is not so much US but Soviet scientific ad
vancement that makes our weapons obsolete. '-.-
Against the view of the Administration that failure to cut mili
tary spending may prove tragic to the economy is the view that "we
can afford what we have to afford." Those who say this, however, are
seldom explicit. What does that statement mean? The US now
spends about 11 percent of its Gross National Product for military
purposes. The Soviet Union, it is estimated, spends something like
15 to 30 percent of its Gross National Product for military purposes,
depending upon how one calculates available statistics.- Does our na
tional security require us to match the Soviet effort and spend, let us
say, -at least 15 or 20 percent of our Gross National Product for the
military? If that is our decision, it might mean a rise in military ex
penditures not of $1 million or $2 billion, but of $10 billion or $20
billion a year! Who in Congress advocates that? The New Republic
Christmas is almost here a;ain. This is the time when everyone
is always giving advice to everyone else on how to spread good will
among our neighbors, I will al:;o give my little contribution. How
ever, .my advice applies not orly to the - Christmas season, but to
every day of the year. It saddens me to realize that very few people
will read these words and fewer will heed them.
Most of us never realize the truly important things in life until it
is often too late. We eo throush school worrying about whether we
will make a B or C on some course which is suppose to be preparing Managing Editors
us for life, but is not. We fret over whether. we should wear high '
heels or flats, or, whether we should wear, a blue or grey suit Wc
spend hours or days trying to -decide whether to buy some mundane
article. :
Wc miss the essence; of life while we are right in the middle of
it: We miss many opportunities to help a stranger with little effort
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CHARLIE SLOAN.
STAN FISHER
News Editor
Associate Editor
Business Manager
on Our part We fail to give a child something that he wants dearly. Sports Fditnr .
We -dismiss this want as; not important and refuse to take the time
to get him' the inexpensive item. Advertising Manager
' Opportunity comes only once in many cases. We may no longer circulation Manager
'be able to 7 find the stringer when we remember him years later. ',
tation In my theoretical writings;
and, having been accustomed to
the way in which even profession
al colleagues have misunderstood
that argumentations I was - -delighted
to see an ' undergraduate
who had not 1 only caught - Jpy
meaning, but rapidly seized upon
its remoter implications. ,J" r
I am not sure, 'however, that so
small a college," though it seems
to me so happy for the undergrad
uate; is not in certain respects
difficult for members of 1 the
staff; These latter? have certain
advantages; they re not 'locked; and not' years later, our lives wmld be filled with happiness: I look Editor
away in vast departments of their
own; the physicist and the lus
torian, the classical scholar and
the economist, are constantly rub
bing shoulders, j benefitting from
intellectual friction and intellec-
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ED ROWLAND
WALKER BLANTON
RUSTY HAMMOND
FRED KATZXN
BOB WALKER
When it is too late, we realize how much joy we could have given Subscription Manager
him. The child grows up; he no longer desires the little thing which
would have given him j;oi much pleasure at the time. We can give
AVERY THOMAS
Assistant News Editor
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the child more expensive items .now, but somehow these more ex- Assistant Sports Editor
pensive things do not seem to make him as happy. ;
If we eould only see these golden opportunities as they arrive, st Adv. Manager
ELLIOTT COOPER
JOHN MLNTER
back over my -past years and se the many opportunities that I have
passed by. I could have smiled at someone whom I did not like, but Coed Editor
ANTHONY WOLFF
JOAN BROCK
one who may have liked me. A smile, a kind word or deed, -what a Chief Photographers
small price for years of happiness for us and for those who received
them. Yet most of us refase to pay this smallest of prices until it is .
often too late. For truly, we shsill not pass this way again. " , - Night Editor .
BILL BRTNKHOUS
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