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EDITORIALS
,; And Away We Go
: With the spring nominating conven
tions less than two weeks away, specula
tion on the various candidates is starting
to get hotter and hotter.
At stake are a variety of posts the
top four officers of the student body, the
officers of the Senior Class, the four dele
gates to the National Student Associa
tion convention, all 50 legislative seats,
the DTH editorship and a sprinkling of
Honor Council posts.
Our concern is two fold: that the cam
paigns will be conducted on a high level
and that our two political parties will
seek to nominate the most experienced
. people.
Our Apologies
Yesterday in an editorial concerning
the North Carolina Federation of Young
Republicans and its position in support
of the state Speaker Ban Law, we said
that the YR's College Council was on
rjecord in opposition to the law. We
gleaned ' this "fact" from an Associated
Press wire report of the Federation's
meeting in Charlotte last weekend.
Yesterday, local YRC president Char
les Hooks informed us that this state
ment is incorrect, and that the YRC Col
lege Council has never taken a stand on
the law.
We herewith offer pur apologies to
the Young Republicans for inadvertently
misrepresenting their position, and to
our readers for giving this false spark
of hope about the thinking of college
Young Republicans.
Jesse
Monday's announcement from Raleigh
that former Gov. Terry Sanford and a
group of associates are applying for a
UIIF television channel in the Research
Triangle market raises some interesting
possibilities for contemplation by local
tube addicts.
No one knows, of course, whether the
application will be successful. But there,
is something to be said for giving Terry
and his, cohorts a Raleigh station, es
pecially in light of the television situa
tion currently existing in the area.
Not he least important consideration
is that we might at last obtain an outlet
for the NBC programs so long lacking
in the area and have restored a normal
network schedule.
The most fascinating prospect, how
ever, is that of an editorial voice to take
issue with.Jesse Helm's Viewpoint," the
editorial expression of WRAL-TV, which
consists largely of being against every-
A Good Step
In Viet Nam
President Johnson's decision to take
immediate retaliatory action S u n day
against the Viet Cong answers at least
one question about that far-off war.
We now know exactly what attitude the
President intends to take in Southeast
Asia.
The action, taken after the Viet Cong
raided several bases on South Vietnam,
sent 49 Navy jets into North Vietnam to
blast a Communist staging area.
We have always favored a hard line
in that troubled area, and have urged the
administration to take action there at
least one way or another. Our past
method of fighting the Reds was to sit
backhand let them come to us, and we
spent most of our time trying to straigh
ten out the muddled political situation in
Saigon.
But now, apparently, we are going to
be more forceful, and we doubt our ac
tions will precipitate a full-scale war like
Korea. -
We do believe President Johnson's de
cision to take the offensive, even as small
an offensive as was taken will cause Ho
Chi Mihn and Mao Tse-tung to give some
consideration to the thought that per
haps the Americans aren't as stupid and
cowardly as they thought.
Our President has shown he will not
tolerate too much in that area, and that
the straw which will break our patience
is not far off.
Entered as second class postage at the post
office. Chapel Hill, N. C.
Editorial
We do not, at this writing, intend to
-express a preference for one candidate
over another. The Daily Tar Heel is a
monopoly of sorts, and for it to become
an advocate of one party or the other
would be a grievous mistake indeed.
We do intend to weigh each candi
date's merits and speak out. In our years
at Carolina we have seen excellent people
vie for the various posts, and we have
seen totally incompetent people try and
pass themselves off as a qualified candi
date. For instance, a young lady who ran
for Secretary of the Student Body some
years back, who did not know how to
type. Unfortunately, she was one of the
reigning campus beauties and defeated
an exceptionally qualified girl.
The winner later quit the post, throw
ing the administration into a bind.
That is what we want to avoid. Stu
dent Government at Carolina is too big,
too complex and too worthwhile to be
placed in the hands of people whose first
concern is for their own glory.
There are good people who are consid
ering running for office. We urge them
to do so, and leave a bit of their excel
lence behind, in the form of better stu
dent government, when they graduate.
AncTwe wish the potential office-seekers
and office-holders the best of luck. A
month-long campaign is taxing and re
quires great endurance, but the campus
deserves every opportunity to hear each
candidate and weigh his views.
Let's have the best candidates, so the
student body cannot go wrong whichever
they choose.
Gets A New Challenge
thing. Assuming that "the truth will
out," perhaps "Viewpoints" will soon be
up against some "newpoints" and the out
come of this conflict will be some long
i overdue "true-points" for Raleigh-Durham
viewers.
Move,HUAC
From The Durham Morning Herald
A Georgia congressman, of all people,
has called on the House Un-American Ac
tivities Committee to pull its investiga
tive nose out of the political left field
temporarily and probe the field of the
Ku Klux Klan.
The congressman, Rep. Charles L.
Weltner, is a new member of the Un
American Activities Committee. His call
was backed up by another Southerner,
Rep. George W. Grider of Tennessee.
But the surprise of a Georgia congress
man making such a plea isn't likely to be
followed by the near miracle of commit
tee action any time soon.
Still, the idea is intriguing for several
reasons. It would be healthy for the
South and the nation to focus the hot
light of publicity on the klan. Here is an
organization which by its traditions and
its inflammatory philosophy is at odds
with the American ideal of a society or
dered by law.
In states like North Carolina the klans
man's facial mask has been removed by
law. But the mask of demagoguery and
delusion remains in place. And the House
committee could, as Rep. Weltner says,
do a genuine service by revealing the
true nature of "this invisible empire."
Ironically, Rep. Weltner's proposed in
vestigation would inadvertently disarm
the noisy critics who want the committee
abolished. Except in the unlikely event
that groups such as the fuzzy-brained
"Mothers' March for Peace" were pre
pared to denounce the committee for in
vestigating the klan, they would deny
their own confused charge that Congress
has no right to maintain an Un-American
Activities Committee.
By the same token, the committee
would promote the wholesome under
standing that threats to the "American
way" can spring from places other than
left field. Indeed, they spring up regular
ly in the murky doings of the Invisible
Empire. And it is a bitter irony that
even the unexpected voice of reason
from Georgia is unlikely to move the
House committee to turn its attention
there temporarily.
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Chicken Feed
For Athletics
By LEROY CURTIS
(Ye Olde Fabler)
Once upon a time, there was
a great big farm. On the farm
there- were lots of animals-all
kinds of animals. Once in a
while there were problems in
raising the animals, but for sev
eral years the biggest problems
occurred in the chicken yard.
The chickens were always the
favorite animals of the children
on. the farm. They liked to pet
the chicks, watch them peck
around the yard, and. boast
about them to kids from the oth
er farms.
Especially, the children lik
ed the chickens in the big coop.
The chickens in the' smaller
coop were ok, but the children
paid most of their attention to
those in the big coop.
The farmer was very econ
omy minded, and when he hired
men to guard the chickens from
the many beasts that lived in
the area, he chose men who
would work for fairly low sal
aries. Some of these men did very
well, notably in the smaller
coop, killing many foxes, and
saving almost all of the chick
ens entrusted to them by the
farmer. This made the children
very happy.
Two men were unpopular be
cause many beasts were able
to mangle the favorite chickens
in the big coop. The children
cried and begged the farmer
to spend more money and to
get better guards to watch ov
er their chickens.
The farmer scolded the chil
dren, asking them what made
them think that the chickens
were theirs. He told them that
the chickens belonged to the
farm, and the farm couldn't af- .
ford to hire really good guards.
"Besides," the farmer added,
"there are lots of other animals
on the farm more important
than the chickens, and they
need lots of protection." "Anoth
er thing," the farmer said, "I
think the big coop guards are
doing fine; they usually only
lose half of the chickens.
"And what about last year,
when the autumn guard was
able to take his fine chickens
to a big national show and
win?"
"Yes," the autumn guard but
ted in, "And what about this
year, when I stopped that big
cat who'd been getting after my
chickens ever since I came
here? That beast was only one
of the devils that I outsmart
ed this year."
The children did not cheer up
any, because they knew that the ''
autumn guard had lost all the
chickens this year that he'd sav
ed last year and the year
before his record was even
worse. - - ,
: The winter guard was eager
to point out that he was sav
ing at least half of the chickens,
successfully . protecting them
from a wildcat or two, and that
he had warded off that noto
riously huge' blue beast that bid
es in the rocks. -
The children only cried more.
They were very unhappy, but
the farmer continued to ignore
them.
Soon, the children lost inter
est in the chickens. They stop
ped petting them and were ev
en ashamed to talk about them
to the kids from the other
farms.
This suited the farmer arid
the chicken guards just fine.
They were happy to be left
alone to take care of the ani
mals as they pleased.
Only the children were unhap
py (except for maybe a chick
en or two).
MORAL OF THIS STORY:
Don't count ... on your chic
kens, kiddies.
By GARY BLANCHARD
PRINCETON, N. J. Dear
John Hart, Law School, UNC:
Although derogatory is spell
ed with only one r, and al-
though I no longer suck my
thumb, you nevertheless hit one
or two nails on the head in your
(hopefully cathartic) emotional
hammerings at my recent arti
cle on Conservatives.
But, all in all, old friend, I
think you merely proved my
main point, and several others
I would like to have made, to
the effect that most so-called
Conservatives are so busy justi-
fying their label that they re
sort to the silliest of generali
ties and contradictions.
Conservatives, in other words, .
are in general so preoccupied
with irrelevant railing and :
rationalization that their poten-
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unrealized. My point is that this
oaa not only for them, but
bad for the rest of us who are
trying dilieentlv tn pact riff tYif
ideological blinders that all of
us unconsciously pick up in the
process of growing up.
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exceedingly complex nature of
today's world requires that as
much intelligence as possible be
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Two Courts Under Attack
Honor System .
Goes Half Way
Editors, The Tar Heel:
. In regard to the recent two
part editorial, "The Air Force
and Us," I have two com
ments. (1) The men expelled were
guilty-for violating THAT "Hon
or System," since they had
agreed to abide by its rules.
(2) Any "Honor System" that
requires one to be an informer
is, at best, a quasi "Honor
System," though it is binding on
those that agree to abide by it.
The Naval Academy does not
require; one to be an informer.
This is right. Honor is an ab
solute. When it ceases to be an
absolute, it becomes something
less than honor.
If one is required to be an
informer by a given system,
that system, , by its own self -contradiction,
cannot be an hon
or system. In requiring one to
inform on another, the system
presumes that the party being
informed unpon will not turn
himself in. This is something
less than honor.'
If the system were a true
honor system, a man's word
would be his bond. If a person
did not turn himself in, this
very act would be equivalent to
the statement "I am not guil
ty." At the instant that a man's
word is not accepted, the sys
tem becomes something less
than an honor system.
In any true . honor system a
man's word will be the "truth.
complexities and work out equit
able, effective - solutions. This
goal obviously is thwarted to
the extent that anyone's intelli
gence is hobbled by adherence
to dogmas, such as today's con
servatism, which all too often
have lttle if any relationship to
Your letter in the DTH of
Feb. 4 actually is a slightly
more constructive, intelligent
response than I had expected
from such guardians of the sta
tus quo, such avenging angels
of the unexamined assumption,
as most Conservatives seem to
pride themselves on being. I
can only conclude, somewhat
cheerfully mind you, that all is
not yet lost where Conservativ
es are concerned.
In fact, friend Hart, you might
well be justified in thinking of
yourself as a potential Moses of
sorts, perhaps destined to lead
your less rational buddies out of
the ideological wilderness and
into the promise land of real
ity. (You have my best wishes
in that arduous effort, sir.)
As for some of the specific
points made in your missive
(and I hope this reply does not
frighten you into not respond
ing), would you kindly inform
me of the particular qualities
possessed by fiddles which make
them so terribly democratic as
Tho Obvious Balance
Letters To The Editors
If he says he is innocent, any
judicial proceeding (Honor
Court trial) that attempts to
prove other wise relegates the
system to something less than a
true honor system.
In conclusion, I am neither at
tackling nor defending the Air
Force and UNC "Honor Sys
tems;" I am bound by that sym
tem. I do feel that the Daily
Tar Heel should realize that at
UNC and the Air Force Aca
demy, the system is a quasi-honor-judicial
system, not a true
honor system, since a true hon
or system cannot require one to
be an informer.
One might note that the "Hon
or System" is not in effect in
this nation. Our lives are gov
erned by a Judicial System that
has survived more than a cen
tury of rather turbulent history.
George Carson
Law School
Williams Is Right
Monroe Wrong
Editors, The Tar Heel:
I am not certain when you
print editorials from other pap
ers . in your editorial, column
whether they reflect the editor
ial opinion of the DTH, or
merely the fact that the edi
tors of the Tar Heel have noth
ing to say. In either case, I
wish to object to the editorial
reprinted Thursday from the
Charlotte Observer.
Four years ago a number of
Negroes and a white freedom
rider were indicted in Monroe,
lies
opposed to, say, a fife? ( I am
of course delighted that you find
it flattering to be termed a fid
dler, and I do not intend to im
pair your happiness by calling
you a 'fifer' without your ex
press consent, sir.)
Secondly, the fire I was re
ferring to is not that of ideal
ism, which burns within the
breast of all good men, parti
cularly Americans, but that of
problems and situations caused
by the friction of many differ
ent kinds of people trying to live
together in happiness and jus
tice. By putting out the fire, I
meant solving those problems,
or making intelligent attempts
in that direction anyhow.
Forgive me for being so un
clear as to mislead you; I am
new at this writing game, as
you know, and I can only pro
mise to try and do better in
the future. Anyway, I join you
in being in favor of the fire of
idealism.
Thirdly, I am well aware that
law students, particularly at
UNC, are men of many talents
indeed, but I had not supposed
that dividing with exactitude
the "spirit" of our frontier fore
bears was one of those talents.
Beyond pure intuition, sir, or
mere idle speculation, how is
it that you know this? What
strange' conditions existed in-
N. C, for kidnapping. One of
those indicted was. Robert Wil
liams, who fled: the country,
claiming that he would not re
ceive a fair trial due to the
anti - Negro and . integration
workings of the Union County
judicial-system.
This week, . the North Caro
lina Supreme 1 Court ruled that
the other defendents, those who
didn't flee the country, had in
fact not received ; a fair trial,
due to the .anti-Negro bias: of
the Union County judicial sys
tem. In order to obtain this rul
ing, it has cost the defendents
an undetermined amount of mo
ney, and three years of their
lives.
Now, somehow, the1 Charlotte
Observer, and . I assume the
DTH, have proclaimed that
this -agreement of the North
Carolina Supreme Court with
the contention of Robert Wil
iams, somehow puts Williams in
the wrong, and somehow de
mands that he return and lake
a chance with -North Carolina
justice. If he does not get a
fair trial this time, 1 presum
ably he . and the other defen
dents will invest another three
years of their lives, and per
haps another, and another, and
another.
The accuracy of Williams' po
sition has been proven. It would
seem to: me now to be the du
ty of Union County to show that
Williams ' will receive a fair
trial, not Robert Williams' duty
to spend the rest of his: life un
dergoing unfair trials.
Frank Anshen .
407 W. Franklin
those earlier days that made ev
ery man a gentleman and every
woman a lady, and nowhere a
rogue or blackguard?
Fourthly, I am positively en
thralled to. know that you share
my belief in "one of the main
tenets of Democracy that ev
ery man should be able to go as
far as his brains, drive and guts
can carry him and have equal
opportunity to do so, regardless
of his color." However, I must
confess that I find it difficult to
square that statement with the
one that follows in your letter:
"In fact, I even believe in h
tegration and equal opportunity
wherever it can be supported
without invading the doman of
that free man and his land."
You seem, sir, to be saying
that you believe in integration
and equal opportunity without
qualification, except that there
are some qualifications. This, I
submit, is one of the curious
contradictions of even such
seemingly coherent Conservati
ves as yourself. I invite you to
re-examine that point and re
flect upon it. Surely an analy
tical legal mind such as yours
is capable of recognizing and re
solving that contradiction.
Fifthly, you beseech me to
recognize that if the government
can "invade the domain of that
On Coihsbf
.JZree-Ltove''
Talies A Dive
By DAVID ROTHMAN
An elderly DTH columnist re
cently suggested free love as a
possible solution to the prob
lems of adolescence.
We wonder if she has heard
this story:
A young man and his girl sat
in a dimly lit corner of Chap
el Hill's Ratwelder Restaurant.
They were kissing and hold
ing hands nothing else, noth
ing else. Q
Suddenly an Cft-y ear-old wom
an got up from a nearby table.
With the assistance of a cane,
she painfully walked the seven
feet between her and the coup
le, who were unmarried.
"Young man," she said, 'you
are kissing and holding hands.
13 that all you want to do?"
"Yes that's ail we want to
do," reDlied the bov and the 19-year-old
coed simultaneously.
"Well, my name's Orealia
Saunter." the woman said. "I'd
like to tell you about the idea
of free love. It's very popular
in Sweden, you know."
"Yes we know," replied the
young m?n. "But all we want to
do is hold hands and kiss
nothing else, nothing else."
"But haven't you heard," ask
ed the 86-year-old woman, "that
there's no discrace attached to
illegitimate ch'Hren at least,
not in Sweden?"
"The Swedish are very liber
al." the 19-year-old coed stat
ed, "and if they want to. they
can keep their svstem. But as
for us we're old-fashioned."
"Really," Orealia exclaimed,
"I can't understand your atti
tude! Here you are both of
you under 25, both of you still
in school, both of you too poor
to get married. Yet you are not
interested in free love."
"No we aren't," the young
man said. "My girl and I are
Baptists, and we have strong
religious convictions."
"But my boy," the 86-year-old
Orealia patiently inquired, "are
you sure you are following the
right path?"
"Certainly we're sure," the
boy said.
The girl agreed.
"In people your age, natural
instincts are particular strong,"
proclaimed Orealia. Her dental
plates were hurting her, but the
pain's only effect was the mask
ing of her arthritic suffering.
- Orealia continued:
"Only a few eggheads are
willing to sublimate the sex life
for the intellectual career. Are
you two eggheads?"
"No I'm not," the boy
said.
"Me neither," said the girl.
"Then," declared Orealia,
who was waving her cane to
make her point clear, "why do
you only kiss and hold hands?"
"Morals are our private busi
ness," the 19-year-old replied.
She and her male companion
started to leave the restaurant.
Orealia followed them as they
passed through the door.
"Listen," she said, "This is
your last chance. Please do
something for me and listen to
your elders."
"We definitely will not," the
couple replied in unison.
Orealia, however, would n o t
give. up. She followed them all
the way down Franklin Street
to a bank.
It was there that the yctirg
couple in desperation took cut
a $10,000 loan to get married.
To this day, they have re
mained good Baptists.
free man and his land," why
then "there's no longer any use
in striving as a free and inde
pendent man for what have
you got when you get it?" I
would answer, sir, that it all de
pends upon what "it" is that
you are striving for.
And if our liberty is imperil
ed or even destroyed, as you
suggest it will be, once the gov
ernment begins forcing people
to do things, then how in the
world can we continue to toler
ate the draft? Evading it not
only will result in the govern
ment invading your domain and
carrying you off, by force if
necessary, but it may well re
sult in your prolonged imprison
ment. Still, we have long tol
erated the draft, and I detect
no plunge into totalitarianism.
Lastly, thank you, John bate
(to use your happy expression),
for being "just a little sorrv"
that all of my friends aren't
hke me "as blatant and of
fensive." I am sorry too, John
babe. Perhaps if they were,
such obviously intelligent people
as you wouldn't be allowed to
get through college and into
Law School with so many of
your prejudices and contradic
tions intact.
At any rate, as you said, w
hard feelings.