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r " II Page Two THE DAILY T-A H HEEL - Sunday, -rds-rusTy 3, I C 3 1 "This Little Kid's Got A Big Guy With Him'' atlp tar Heel More Letters In its sixty-eighth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration or the student body, . The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Publica More Opinions tions Board of the University of North Carolina. Richard Overstreet, Chairman. If i I . All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expres- I sions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily represen- 1 tative of feeling on the staff t and all reprints or quotations must specify thus. l j m February 26, 1961 - Volume LXIX, Number 108 ii m 'HffllVI T ' ' v---v-'-.v.-.v.v.v. ........ .............. . V- . . x-:-.---..-. -. - . . ..-V.l . - .. ...v. .-.v. .v. .XV -X-.-. -v. -.-.----- The Campus Chest Drive Begins: An Opportunity For Generosity The Campus Chest drive, which gets underway tomorrow, is the only charity which encompasses the entire campus and is operated entirely by students. It employs not merely solicitation to raise its funds, but also clever entertain ment functions designed to pro duce financial results. This is the only time during the year that students will have a chance to contribute to a student cause that offers nothing in return except the satisfaction that comes from giving generously to a gen uinely worthwhile cause. Surely the areas in which stu dent money will be used by the Campus Chest are of considerable importance; the Goettingen Schol arships alone offer individuals an unexcelled opportunity not only to study and live abroad but also to carry to Europe some of the tra ditions and values of U.N.C. and its students. We urge that every student give as he or she sees fit to this cause; as is often said, the amount of your contribution is of small importance when compared with the spirit in which you give it. If you feel that the causes which are being aided by the Campus Chest are of value, then contribute. Every contribution is important, and every contributor is important. The Campus Chest depends on each student for his generosity and good will. This is a worthy cause, one which should be supported, this year, as never before. A Good Move By The IDC Dorm residents are seldom given occasion to rejoice in actions taken by their representative governing body, the Interdormitory Council. The Council is viewed by most, often justifiably, as a policeman hidden in the shadows of the dorm, ready and more than willing to drag them into the IDC court for an infraction of dormitory regula tions. In the past, it is true, too much emphasis has been placed on the disciplinary functions of the body, and too little on really meeting the problems of dorm life, the most important of which is the marked deficiency of adequate social out let. Dorm parties are a miserable substitute for really enjoyable and desirable social activity, chief ly due to limited space and funds, not to mention the cold hard stare of the administration. Even the large dorms, such as Cobb, do not provide an adequate area for a dance or party, and lack of interest is the obvious result. Administrative controls on noise, drinking, and curfews, coupled with other taboos, make any on campus affair a failure before it starts. For these reasons, the recent de cision of the IDC to hold an off- campus "After Duke Game" party, with a combo, is a decided step in the right direction. Some of the animosity which some dorm dwel lers too often hold for the fra ternity man is due to feeling that fraternity men enjoy, by virtue of off -campus living, privileges not afforded to dorm students in re gard to conduct at social gather ings. . ' Giving these students an oppor tunity to get off campus for a party removes this point of friction, and indicates that the IDC is beginning to realize one of its sought-after objectives. That body has a long way to go to tear down an image that it has unfortunately built up. The IDC at present laqks the re spect and support of the individuals it seeks to represent. No person can be expected to support and act in allegiance to a governing body that it feels is inadequate, and the IDC has often been just that. It has sought to control rather that ad minister, to punish when its aim is to correct. More consideration of the kind which prompted the Duke game affair will be an important step in providing a more nearly ideal gov erning body. Pick A Pair O' Six-Packs ' Gadgeteers, engineers, inventors, Madison Avenue and a colossal na tional thirst have combined to make the U.S. a nation with the most ingenious devices for catch ing the eye of the dry-throated. American. JONATHAN YARDLEY Editor ; Watni King, Maht Stewart Bakes fi Associate Editors ! Margahet Ann Rhymis i Managing Editor f Edward Neal Rintr Assistant To The Editor Henry Mayeh, Jim . Clotftxter News Editors Llctd Little Executive News Editor Susan Lewis Feature Editor Frank Slusseb Sports Editor Harry W. Lloyd Asst. Sports Editor John Justice, Davis Young , Contributing Editors Tim Burnett Business Manager Richard WEiNER..Adu ertising Manager John Jester Circulation Manager Charles VfHEDBEEJSubscription Manager The Daily Tar Heel is published daily except Monday, examination periods and vacations. It is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. Cr, pursuant with the act of March 8. 1370. Subscription rates: $4 per semester, $7 per year. The Daily Tar Heel is a subscriber to the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. Published by the Colonial Press, Chapel Hill. N.' C. . n Every joint that stocks a variety of premium beers is a-dazzle with blinking, flickering, flashing signs that feature waterfalls that appear to actually fall, skyrockets that really rocket, cool streams that really stream, and myriad other gadgets that amuse, edify and amaze not to mention making you thirsty. The time-conscious drinker is catered to in almost every pub by a king-sized pocket watch hanging ominously over his dome as he sips his brew, reminding him of an Alice - In - Wonderland nightmare. The March Hare can be discerned also, after the tenth or so round. Some of the blinking baubles urge you to drink because you're thirsty, or want to know the real joy of good living, or have a desire to get into the golden mood- something to appeal to almost every human urge. All of which goes to prove that the Russians might get to the moon first, but we'll be the first Nation from Earth to get the bug-eyed monsters to go schlitzing with us. Wayne King kml;;n?& fill jv femrw miUrzm i v.f;f (mW-k mx . iht O,- V. ON EMPTY TRAYS To the Editor: Yesterday as I was eating at Lenoir Hall I noticed a youth, a few feet away, with his hat on. I had the urge to go over and take his. hat off and tell him hats were not worn ir Lenoir Hall. Something told me this was not a Carolina student, he just didnt have any of the ear marks of a Carolina student. A Carolina student wouldn't have had his hat on in the firt place, and he had, he would have thanked me for taking it off. I watched this young man ss he made his exit down the isle. Hi3 exaggerated ego was evident in hi3 every jnovement. . Pretty soon, this same day, an other male, not quite so youth ful looking, brought his tray over, deposited it at my table, pulled off his khaki coat and scarf, deposited them on a chair at my table,; without so much as a glance Jn my direction. For once, X didn't say anything to him. He ate more rapidly than his friend and left the? dining hall, with, his swagger stride I finished my newspaper and as I prepared to leave, I went over to the table and asked his friend who his companion was. "He ought to know, J said, "that we don't put anything- on another person's, table without asking permission. His friend seemed embarrassed. I said, he a student? I The boy evaded the question. He said, 4J am a stu- i dent, m'am." I said your friend doesn't look like a Carolina stu dent and he doesn't act like a Carolina student. He said noth ing. There seems to be some kind of mob psychology going on at Lenoir of very recent vintage. A few days ago, I was eating my lunch in quiet and peco, when two -girls unloaded thair tray at the adjoining table. One girl put her tray on my table. I said, ;MrJonTt put your tray on my table, put in on the. rack where it belongs. Eha removed the tray. Soon another girl came alcr. 7. She joined the other girls and promptly put her tray cn my table. I took my hand and brush ed it on the floor. She racked it up and took it away. Very soon a young man came eder.;; : : : I joined the girls. He put hij tray on my table. I had about finished eating by then. I got up, handed him the tray and told him to put his tray somewhere else, not on my table. He smiled and took the tray, but one of the girls said, "TkL; is a free dining room; you can't own the tables." I said, "No, I don't own the tables any more than you do. but I didn't put my tray on your table." She said, "But our table is full." It never occurred to her that she could have found an empty table, or have put it on the rack. I said earlier you could al ways tell a Carolina student by the way he acted. I s;m not sure that you can tell a Carolina Co-ed. Campus Voice: Readers Express Opijiipns Letters To The Editor CONGREGATION OR ASSOCIATION To Ihe Editor: 7 Witln refer etice to ' a recently published letter, urging continued support of non-integrated the atres and signed by Messrs. Wil son and' Gardner I offer the following: I quote from their letter: "The right of freedom of association is basic to all freedoms." I certain ly do not contest the truth of this statement. I find it entirely reasonable, and I do believe it to be one of the essential prin ciples of democracy. However, to derive full benefit from the truth therein contained it is nec essary that the statement be properly interpreted and that its terms be correctly defined. To that end I now direct myself. First, let us consider the term association." I do not see how this term can be applied to a theatre audience as we generally think of one. A theatre audience would better be described as a congregation, which is any group of people in close proximity to each other. Association is much more intimate than congregation. It requires a personal sharing in a plan or endeavor. To congre gate, it is not necessary that people associate. When you at-, tend a movie with someone by agreement, and the two of you enjoy the film together, or do not enjoy it, according to its qual ity and your taste, you have then associated with that person, but you have only congregated with the other movie-goers. If some-, one then asks you "With whom did you see the movie?", I shouldn't think you would try to learn the identities of all the people who were in the theatre with you, but simply repeat the name of your associate. If you go to the theatre without a com panion, and you are later asked, "With whom did you see the movie?", I don't believe you would answer, "With a theatre full of people," but, "I saw it alone." When you wait for a bus at a crowded bus stop, you are con gregating with others. I don't be lieve that one is expected to shake hands with, or embrace, or exchange name and phone number with, or in any way as sociate with the other persons who are waiting for the bus. Of course you may, with the agree ment of the person or persons with whom you wish to gain as sociation, follow this pattern of behavior if you choose. This would be freedom of association, to which you have every right. Now, what I hope I have dem onstrated thus far is that one may go to a theatre, and therein con gregate with people of any va riety of racial backgrounds, in cluding Negroid, and never as sociate with them the very least little bit. With this much clarifi cation. Messrs. Wilson and Gard ner, I believe I can now convince you gentlemen that to remain in the graces of honesty, you must either resign, your positions as segregationists, or give up the assertion that you are advocates of freedom of association. Fol low me. You state that you want free- dom of association and you want segregated theatres. You can not have both, not because I say so, but because it simply isn't possible. If you go to a theatre which admits only Caucasians, you have not free, but forced association, in that you are for ced to associate, if you choose to associate at all, only with Cau casians. It does not matter wheth er you wish to associate with any other races or not; what does matter is that you are not free to do so. You have no choice in the matter. And what is much worse, in relinquishing your own right to choose, you deprive oth ers of that right. This is indeed a serious injustice to democracy. When you support segregated theatres you are not, as you say, exercising your right to freedom of association, but rather, I think, indulging yourselves to the point of selfishness and arrogance. When you cultivate this indul gence to the expense of freedom, you pay a dear price for a cheap commodity. Benjamin Franklin's story entitled "The Whistle" il lustrates this thought much bet ter thanT can. If you can find the time,T believe you will enjoy reading it. It should now be clear that in tegration does not require the association of persons of differ ent racial ancestry, but only the congregation of them. It should be clear that freedom of associa tion requires that persons of dif ferent racial ancestry be permit ted, not forced, to associate with each other and that the only way this requirement can be met in a theatre is to integrate the theatre. Carlyle Mason, II TOO MANY APES? To ihe Edilor: Judging from Mr. Goldsmith's column in a recent DTH, it is clear that there are enough low er primates running around loose already without releasing any more from the zoos. Daniel H. Garrison AN INTELLECTUAL ELITE To ihe Editor: You know, it has occurred to me that, we here in Chapel Hill are going about this question of segregation in the wrong way. The main point of those who are suddenly altruistic about the "right of the theatre manager to determine his own policies. is the premise that it is more unpleas ant to sit next to a colored man than a white man in a place of public entertainment. Granted, the argument . is cloaked in a self-righteous aura of "states rights," "manager's right s," "rights of association," and "ma jority rights," etel ad nauseam, but there it is," with about the same amount of logic that it used in all demands for "white rights." As it is anthropologically, bio logically, and democratically il logical to segregate theaters on the basis of skin color, why not go about segregation in a scien tific manner? For example, why not segregate on the basis of in telligence? Every person enter ing the university could be care fully tested and analyzed, and the results reduced to a number an improved T.Q. rating which could be .printed on a card to be carried at all times. Admis sion to theatres, rest rooms and so forth' could then be denied to those with a ratingr of less than, say, 100 irregardless of "race." Much has been written about the childish conduct of Chapel Hill theater audiences white students, it must be assumed. Such behavior must only result from a lack of intelligence in some manner or other; if these people were eliminated, would it not be more enjoyable to watch a film surrounded by the intel lectual elite of both races? Most students would rather mix with reasonably intelligent people of two races than with the clods of one a system which would be guaranteed by careful rating of individuals according to men tal capacity. One thing more . . . these rat ing cards would, of course, re main in effect throughout the holder's life. Perhaps the num bers could be tattooed on the arm. Certainly this would not be more unfair than the present seg regation system. Raymond L. Puffer THE PEACE CORPS To ihe Editor: The recently successful efforts of University students in the Carrboro-Chapel Hill communi ties on behalf of the Democratic Party indicates a potential that could be used in other areas. In ternational peace offers a field in which youthful energy, ideal ism, and intelligence could be applied. The Kennedy Youth for Peace Corps; would do just tkis The Wall Street Journal has said that such an effort would not be wise. That pajber has criti cized the) .idea with" such, terms as the "cHlki am feasgatlora carps." It has stated that young people wopld make mistakes abroad which would be costly7 to Ameri ca. . It stated that - the whole scherjie would turn into a draft dodgers dream. It has stated that young people's efforts in this field wojtilcl be bungling , and that the program would not be worth what' it costs. But the Journal seems to over look the fact that professional diplomats have already broken ground Insofar as costly mistakes are concerned. It seems to over look the fact that the Kennedy proposal is so designed :as to elim inate the probability of the type of persons who would shy from serving his country ' in military service. Indeed,, it' seems to com pletely disregard all the sound arguments that can be made on behalf of the idea without an at tempt to-refute these arguments. The Youth Peace . Corps would take advantage, of the skills, the talents, the 'devotion and tbe idealism swhich is inherent;; in, the youth of America. It would prop erly "train individuals for service in specific- countries. Then, i lyould send them to countries abroad to aid in the. building of dams, the .teaching of children, the operation of hospitals, the establishment of better farming practices to the general end of helping of the have-nots to- help themselves.. Service in the Peace Corps would be a training ground for possible later diplomatic service. Obviously this would help to eliminate the problem of sending career diplomats to countries about which they know little. If young people make mistakes, they would doubtless be accord ed forgiveness that is customary on the part of elders. Their mis takes would hot have the same gravity as- would the mistakes of seasoned diplomats. And, in the alternative, when a young per son made 4 good move or said a good thing, it would receive the attention which is usually given an bviously unaffected action. Sincere friendship from young American citizens would mean more than the calculated friend ship sometimes afforded by the studied graces of the career dip lomat. The Youth for Peace Corps idea is a fresh and sound approach to the problem of holding our own in the struggle for freedom. It should be strongly supported by the American people.. J5ut most of all, it should, receive the im mediate backing, of college stu dents. zr-:z :;o - Ccb FulreUa Oieliia Conner ON STOCK ISSUES To ihe Edilor: I always read the DTH edi torial page with interest and it has been particularly gratifying to me to see all the comment on integrationsegregation that has filled its columns of late. However, I should think that there &re enough students on this; campus that it wouldn't be necessary to "smoke them out" to get comments, as the segre gation issue has donei. Intelligent students should have comments on other matters of urgency and pressing need. The stock issues of integration, world problems, honor system, apathy, etc. these have gotten their - share of comment both from DTH editors and from col umnists and letter writers. The world is broader than these things. Let's look elsewhere. Alberi Campbell BILL HOBBS REBUKED To The Editor: We note, with fervent alarm, the latest exhortation (DTH, February 16, 1961) of UNC's be loved prophet of doom and de spair, William (the student body is rotting from within) Hobbs. In his latest piece, Mr. Hobbs up braids the student body for sit ting on its apathy, oblivious of the present rendezvous with des tiny it has. He urges us to act, act, act! Therefore, we shall act. We are in favor of, and are concerned with, the human rights of men. Indeed, they are in danger and are being abused in our times, as they have been for cen turies. Nevertheless, our society is based on a code of civil laws, which are . charged with the maintenance of order. These civil laws, protecting the private rights of individuals within a commun ity, are often in conflict with human rights, per se. Within our orderly society, a theater-owner can restrict his clientele in what he considers his best interest, thus exercising his civil right even though he i abusing a human right. We up hold the human right of any indi vidual to move freely within the law, but we cannot help sympa thizing with another individual whose actions are protected by the civil laws of the land. Personally, we abhor this bla tant denial of basic human rights, and the host of other intolerant sores upon the national body. Yet surely, an "intelligent decision," supporting "mature action" would not dismiss as irrelevant the rights of a man to govern his business and administer his prop erty as he sees fit. We sincerely hope that Mr. Hobbs has considered this and does not "pity us for our supine stupidity" in doing so ourselves. Is it possible that other students hold beliefs similar to ours? 1 3 it possible that these are consti tuents of what Mr. Hobbs labels the "thick, stifling fog of apathy?" y - . j- !D Cliche f
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