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r Thursday, October 8, 1964 Volume 72, Number 18 viV Hi?F lathi Cllar Sfle of thfUnWtntt North Carotin rfekh first cptnrd in doors 72 Years of Editorial Freedom Offices on the Second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C. Second class postage paid at the Past Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8.00 per year. Published daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the! Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. I: H The President Meets The Farmers Lyndon Baines Johnson and his First Lady have come to North Carolina and (gone again moving quickly as campaign- KT-ta lllUo 1 ill tma . citJ jto aim uiov ' trains. But if their visits were neces " sarily short, they were not without sub- stance and importance to the people of North Carolina, and the citizens of this state should give careful scrutiny to what the Johnsons did and said whiie they were here. Most important, of course, are. the re marks of the President to an overflow audience at Reynolds Coliseum in Ral eigh Tuesday night. Although Mr. Johnson has been criticized by the press and the public alike for talking general- izations throughout much of the cam- c paign, he climbed down off the Great Society pedestal somewhat in Raleigh ' arid talked about a subject dear to the ' hearts and pocketbooks of North Caro linians agriculture. ' He spoke of his opponent's end-the- subsidies attitude toward farming and ' translated it into monetary term s, saying that it could mean a loss of $1,450 per farm in the State. He could not have picked a better opportunity to bring up the subject, for North Caro lina has more farmers than any state t j llu VllMrlA any state with the exception of Texas. Furthermore most of our farms are small ones the type most likely to suf fer if farm supports are lifted, f G But his remarks were not only well ' aimed: they were also imnortanr. to North Carolinians everywhere. For in pledging himself to support the farm er, and especially the small farmer, Mr. Johnson pledged his support for the backbone of North Carolina's economy. Perhaps we like to think of the Tar Heel state as a dynamic and growing home for industry, but the truth of the matter is that half our people must live off the land, often supported by ' one crop tobacco. . The President touched on other sub ject, of course. He translated the 1963 tax cut into such terms as a $500 mil Qion increase in the state's total income and $140 million less in income tax de ductions from North Carolina's pay checks. He voiced his full support for the Rural Electrification Administration, Education and world peace. His stands on these issues seem to us to be in keep ing with the needs and desires of the majority of North Carolina's citizens. As for Mrs. Johnson, most .of her remarks on her whistle-stop tour of the state were purely political and thus were not built around such weighty matters. But thousands of Tar Heels responded enthusiastically to her visit, and rightly so. For, if she did not deal (directly with such important issues as the farm subsidy program, she did dis burse an unusual amount of charm and good will during her visit. Thus the Johnsons have come, and now are departed. Whether the Presi dent and his wife reached the hearts and minds of North " Carolina's voters remains to be seen. But surely one group of North Carolinians, the farmers, having seen and heard Mr. Goldwater's wishy washy opinions on their pocketbooks just afew weeks ago, are now mulling over one thought in their minds: Barry Goldwater may represent their thoughts concerning some issues, but is the farm program one of them? We think not. Censorship In Gaston County From The Charlotte Observer There is a serious question as to whether a citizen's committee or the sheriff of a county should be the final arbiters of what the public will or will not read. State censorship in a free so ciety is not something that should be embarked upon lightly. Narrowly speaking, anyone with a sense of "propriety" might be a fair judge of magazines and books which are blatantly and luridly objectionable when placed against the contemporary stand ards of the community. But in the case of other books and magazines judgment mav often he a matter of taste, education or philosophy. iuusi ut; a consideration n committee named by Sheriff Dwifrht Beam of6 Gaston County takes steps to curb the sale , of publications that the . group considers "obscene." mi i I ... ine sneriii is authorized by state law to take action against those selling pub lications deemed to be obscene or por nographic Practically all North Caro lina sheriffs have been reluctant to im plement the law because they do not consider themselves competent tn A. w ww censors. Since the Gaston sheriff has chosen xx uc n was iortunate tnat he appointed a citizens committee to assist him. But that does not take the banning of books and the threat of ar rest out of the area of controversy. Good men on both sides of the issue rightly argue about where freedom leaves off and responsibility for the "health" of society begins. This is an age of realism which will not be trans formed to Victorianisra. hat being the case, how's as good a time as any for the state law and the sheriff's actions to be tested in court. The state law borrows from several past rulings on obscenity including those of the United States SuDreme Court Tt makes clear that degrees of. realism ex pressed in pictures, drawings and text must be weightd against the intent and the literary, artistic or scientific merit of the publication involved. Moreover, widespread acceptance in the nation or the community is a defense for many publications that some would consider obscene, Publishers and news dealers may de cide that their relationships with the community will be served best by vol untary withdrawal of material objec tionable to the committee. But censor ship tends to feed on itself and grow to unreasonable porportions. The court is the proper place for judgment on matters involving a con flict between freedom and the "good" of society. Carolina Victory We stopped by Joyner Residence Hall last Saturday for a glimpse at their new social room, sponsored jointly by Stu dent Government and the Administra tion. It was a delight. The room was filled with happy (and beating Wake always is conducive to happiness) students dancing, socializing and just generally celebrating. The fears last year that "the students can't take care of a nice social room" were immediately dispelled. In fact, .the place looked a lot cleaner and neater than most other party facilities we have ventured into. The "pilot project" program for dorm improvements, we believe, : has proven itself a success. It should be continued. Plans are now being proposed for several more residence hall social rooms, and we hope these plans come to fruit ion. Social life is just as much a part of UNC as football, arboretum strolls and the Bell Tower, and it is the respon ' sibility of the leaders of the student community to work toward this end. Especially now that the residents of Joyrier have proven the social facilities will be used and used correctly. THE CANDLE Tactical Arms Are Defined By TIMOTHY RAY In "Will Goldwater Push the Button?" Chuck Nely urges us to avoid being swept away by emotion iii thinking about the issues surrounding nuclear weapons and the presidential candidates. .There are some emotional re actions, however, that are very appropriate to nuclear weapons pity and fear: pity for the children growing up in a world bent on suicide, fear of the possibility of dying avoidable, meaningless, and therefore contemptible deaths. It is apparently true, as Mr. ; Neely argues, that the differ ence between the candidates regarding nuclear weapons is less than one had been pre viously led by government statements to believe, although the popular magazines are quite vague on this. But he is quite wrong in what he says about " the size of these weapons. While he correctly says that the Davy Crockett "tactical" missile is equal to 40 tons of TNT, he neglects to explain ! that this is over 26 times as powerful as our biggest World ! War 2 conventional strategic weapon, the block-buster, with which we created literally ; storms of fire miles across in Berlin, storms of fire which sucked the oxygen out of all standing buildings and shelters not hermetically sealed off from the atmosphere. Mr. Neely goes oh to define "strategic nuclear weapons" as those along the line of the 20 kiloton Hiroshima bomb, which, for the record, killed 75,000 people in a short time and left countless .others incurably ill with radiation diseases,- such as lukemia. The truth of the matter is that weapons up to ten times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, i.e. up to 200 kilotons, are classified, by the Army as "tactical." I refer to the Persh- ing Missile, and there are other types of at least 100 kilotons, i.e. the Sergeant and Honest John. The Pershing has a range, incidentally, of up to 400 miles: Can Sen. Goldwater seriously consider such things to be : in the same category as hand grenades? We normally hospi talize persons who think this irrationally. . If you want to contemplate a real "strategic" weapon, for the sake of contrast and perspec tive, consider the 20 megaton, a convenient size for devastat ing gigantic population cen ters. Our SAC bombers carry a pair of these each, so as to do a really thorough job. This, fellow students, is . a thousand times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb cited by Mr. Neely as a good example of a strategic weapon. If anyone wants ar clear men tal picture of the power of a 20 megaton bomb, visualize a line of Mack trucks, three abreast, spaced ten feet apart; stretching from New York to San Francisco, filled with TNT, and there you have it. ' Five ounces of TNT will blow up a human being very thoroughly. h :;.;C :i;v-1 t;':;- "fU:::? : -fv-" :Sv:s:;5 VJ--: :S: t' -: V:vx :: : ' ' 1 : : V'. ' "--'j'''. '4 'J " ' H '''' ! j t r w:jc-:.. -o-i-"-: a--Jv :,-ix .- 1 Letters To The Editors Date Sonight Through Jlai DTH Compared To Trashy Novel And Nothing Can Go Wrongs Go . . . By ART BUCHWALD . ; the runway to take off, but we iiiena oi ours was flying; are getting typical double-talk from the West Coast to New York the other day and she noticed on the door to the cockpit a "Goldwater for Presi dent" sticker. She called the stewardess ana demanded to know what it was doing there. The stewardess said she would ask the captain. She came back a few minutes later with some violent anti-President Johnson literature which the captain had told her to give to the passenger. Our friend was furious and called an executive of the air line when she landed. He was also upset and he said that there was an organization called Pilots for Goldwater which was probably behind it. The thought occurred to us that if the Pilots for Goldwater really wanted to help their candidate, they could do away with the literature and use the loudspeaker system instead "GOOD MORNING, ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Because of power-hungry bureaucrats in Washington, I have to ask you all to fasten your seat belts "We will be flying at an atti tude of 35,000 feet and the weather is clear all the way except for a large dark cloud which is now hanging over the White House. "Our flight plan will take us oyer Arizona, the home state of Sen. Barry Goldwater Texas, the home state of Bill lie Sol Estes, and Tennessee, the home state of one of the largest bunelinz Fah oral m.l. lie power projects in this coun try. "Because of predicted vio lence in the streets. fly over Chicago. "Ul "WE ARE NOW waiting on "Of course I want to see Ladybird, but this is ridiculous!" PETE WALES ,Cal. Proles t Makes Point By PETE WALES Associate Editor The predicament of students at the University of California in recent demonstrations over the rights of campus political or ganizations beans scene resem blance to UXC's problems with the Speaker Ban. The California legislature par sed a law several years a?o to prevent partisan political stu dent organizations from solicit ing funds or members or. a state campus. The administration at the BerkpWooTipUS had ignored , the law with 1 I' regard to one j corner of the i f campus used f r I by p o 1 it i c a I ; groups for re cruiting. Due to in creased politi cal activity at this spot during the Republican National Convention this sum mer, the University declared that political groups could no ' longer carry on their activities there. The administrative actiin was met by large-scale demonstra ' tions by students of varying poli - tical views who felt that the University ,had no right to silence these political groups. The University recently set tled the dispute by agreeing to create a spot near the campus where political groups could carry on their activities. First, the students largely ignored the fact that the Uni versity was acting under a state law for which they had no di rect responsibility. Like, the North Carolina Speak er Ban Law, this regulation must be fought at the level of the state legislature and not by demonstrations against the Uni versity administration. UNC students have for the most part responded well on ' this score. Resolutions have been passed and letters written urging the repeal of the Speak er Ban. More activity on the part of the students will be called for 'when the General Assembly meets this January. ' The second point involves the responsibility of the University. The result of the demonstra tions, whirh may or may not have put the University of Cali fornia in a bad light, was that University officials were per- suaded to make a compromise. They made an effort to find a place accessible to students where the political clubs could legally operate. By way of contrast, neither students nor administration here have made any effort to find an auditorium for speakers who have something to say to stu dents, but could not use Univer sity facilities on account of the Ban. If students and Student Gov ernment really do believe in the principles of free speech and academic freedom, why is this possibility overlooked. More importantly, why are students at the University of North Carolina less excited about such violations of their freedom than the students of the Univer sity of California. We have often admired the sophistication and sense of poli tical realism that has character ized UNC Student Government in this and other issues. Very seldom 4 are demonstrations, however orderly, the most ef fective means toward a given goal. Most students and Chapel Hill citizens, however liberal and open-minded, were shocked and dismayed by the persistence of civil rights demonstrations last year. The demonstrations seemed ' somehow out' of character and out of place. People resented dem onstrators as mere disturbers of the peace. And yet we wish that students would get more excited about issues of the day. We regard it as healthy in a student that he can get excited enough about a restriction of his freedom to react on a purely idealistic bas is. The role of. Student Govern ment should continue to be that of the political mediator in dis putes such as this. The role of the students on the other hand should be to openly challenge and question what ap pear to be foolhardy decisions and statements by their super iors. As it is, Student Gov eminent can't begin to mediate a dispute without kicking up a student reaction first. The lethargy of fhe students themselves severe ly handicaps the efforts of lead ers to mobilize any student voice. It's time for students to get excited ard overcome their inertia. Being mature and re sponsible does not exclude voic ing a strong opinion. It is the voicing cf such opinion that leads to action and to the fulfillment of the student's role as a citizen in is society. Editors, The Tar Heel: After an absence of one year from Chapel Hill, I returned with high hopes of finding some improvement of the piti ful! situation . in which the Daily Tar Heel had been floundering when I left. Friday morning when I read that enlightening article con cerning current cultural events in Durham, I gave up hope completely. Is this news? You can find the same material in any trashy , novel (which seem to be only too popular these days). : Surely you can find some thing more important to take up space. There are plenty , of students on this campus that would welcome an interview by a DTH representative. Then you might be able to publish articles that really interest students. Student interest covers a very wide range, from mun dane topics such as conditions in Lenoir Hall (I am speaking of the food, not the space), to from the Federally-controlled control tower, the same kind of talk we've been getting for the past four years. "While we're waiting, I'd like to point out some of the features of your airplane. This is a Boeing 707 jet. Boeing, as you know, was supposed to build the TFX, but thanks to some hanky-panky in the Pen tagon which has yet to be ex plained, the contract went to the Texas firm of General dy namics. "You will notice first class is separated from tourist be cause you can't force people of different social and economic backgrounds to sit together. A change to one class has to be done not through law, but through the hearts of men. "AS SOON as we get into the air, your stewardess will be serving lunch. Although the meals are free, the food you will be eating comes from one of the most scandalous agri cultural foul-ups in history, with the American taxpayer 'picking up the tab. f "It is possible that while we're flying we may run into some poverty pockets. But I'll give you plenty of warning if we do. "I would like also to say . thai, if any old people on the plane get sick, they will have to pay for their own medical treatment. "Well, it looks like the bu reaucrats have decided we can take off now, so I'll ask you all to relax and enjoy your flight. If you have any ques tions about the flight or about nuclear testing or Cuba or South Viet Nam, don't hesitate to come up to the cockpit and ask me. the pressures and pseudo pressures that contribute to the unfortunately reknown drink ing problem of fellow students. I am not advocating that the DTH become a journal of socio-economic, health education and welfare reform. It could use, however, some reform itself. Michaela Reedy 316 Mclver . New Yorkers Dislike Yankees Editors, The Tar Heel: Has the Reconstruction Per iod reappeared? This is not meant to be a facetious question. This year, more than ever, Yankees from the North have invaded our . campus. Please do not think that we are prejudiced. However, when a student is unable to sit quietly in the Pine Room without hearing the loud, rau cous, unintelligible clamor of Northerners, or without being pushed, shoved and elbowed by Yankees sneaking into line in Lenoir Hall then we say the time has come to do some thing about the situation. However rude and obnoxious these Northern students are, -we could possibly put up with them if this alarming situation did not also occur in the class room. Jeff Wolff Brooklyn, N. Y. Harry Grier Jamaica, N. Y. Frosh Seeking Modest Coeds Editors, The Tar Heel: To all Campus Cuties: Where are you hiding? I've been to all the combo parties. I sit at the Pine Room, Y Court, or the Library "most of the day. But I still don't have a date for the South Carolina homecoming game. Want to know why? Because I can't find a girl who isn't either stuck-up, looking for an XKE, fraternity pin, or, some . other status symbol. Remem ber freshman boys crave dates just as bad as you do. If you will follow a few of these suggestions you might get better results: 1. Go to .as many social ac tivities as feasible. 2. Always smile. 3. Don't shy away from boys. 4. Don't be afraid to speak . to a boy. .5. Don't snub a boy because of his race, color, creed, class standing, or bank book. Craving: Campus Cutie Cravers k John Blackwell Wayne Jackson Campus Cutie Strikes Back Editors, The Tar Heel: In reference to the views of the three "Carolina Gentle- '. men" (and I use the term "gentlemen" loosely) on native coeds (Oct 6 issue of the DTH), I would like to go on record as vehemently protest ing their ridiculous rationaliza tions. Face it, the first time they saw a coed walk into class wearing a wool suit and heels, they'd panic. There is a proper time and place for dressy clothes and school is neither the time nor the place. As for the "drab, listless bodies encased in formless, un appealing attire," let's take a look at our male counterparts. As I sit here doing a slow burn in Lenoir Hall, I count in the "immediate vicinity' three pair of blue jeans," six grubby sweatshirts, God knows how many unshaven faces, and at least ten bodies which could definitely be classified as slovenly and overweight. All right, fellas, chew on that for a while. Sue Whitt Chapel Hill P.S. Why don't you go down to W.C. sometime and look at what the imported talent looks like during the school week? Stampede Routs A Free Flick Editors, The Tar Heel: Last Friday night I was a witness to my first stampede. Anyone who went to the first showing of the Free Flick was a part of it. As I rounded the corner of Gardner Hall coming from the library I could hear the crowd in front of Carroll Hall. It covered the porch and the steps and overflowed onto the brick walk. I looked at my watch and it was 7:15. By 7:30 .the crowd was in a nasty mood, for this was the announced time of the show ing and the doors were still shut. t Have you ever seen 500 yel ling, pushing, angry people trying to get through a small door at the same time? People didn't walk into the lobby, they .were injected in twos and threes. One in the group who had a date saw her catapulted thru the doar with the onrush ing crowd. Why? Whose fault was it, the man who forgot to open the doors ' before the crowd arrived and then only opened half of a double door? Or was- it those in the crowd who started the yelling and then rushed the door for a seat? I really don't know but something should be done to prevent a repeat performance. Harry Weiler 526 Ehrinhans Antidote Note seen on car windshield in Planetarium Parking Lot: Dear Policeman, Please don't give us a ticket. We are senior nurses having our pictures made at Graham Memorial and vill only be a few minutes. And there's no where else to park! Thank you. Two Protectors of your health
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