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Memorial For Rev. Reeb
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A Plea: To The Winners,
Losers .And All Concerned
(Editor's Ncte: The following
editorial was written before any
election results were available.)
This is, in the truest sense
6f , the . word, the morning after
the night before, and some 200
students, or ex - candidates,
are breathing a sigh of relief
that the past month has finally
' ended..
Today the results are com
plete there is no need for
door - to door campaigning,
no need for posters and no need
for speeches. The winners, and
losers, havbeen decided.
To those who have been se
lected by their fellow students
, to. represent the student body
- and the University, we urge dil
igence and patience in t h e i r
new tasks. They have received
honors which come to only a
few, and " we i hope Hhey will
- wear their laurels accordingly.
r 1 To the losers , we ask their
, continued , interest in Student
Government and offer our
thanks for trying. The call could;
be "Wait Until Next Year," and
indeed, we hope -those qualified
will not let , their desire stop
. here. '
. Ta, those who are departing,
we say "well done," and urge
them to assist their successors
, in the difficult take - over pe
' riod. Political differences and
, personal feelings should be put
aside, . in order for the contin-
uity, of. Student Government to
be maintained. - ,
In our final two weeks as ed
itors," we pledge ourselves to
We see where Surgeon General Lather
Tevry : has cited public opinion polls in
testifying before the Senate Commerce
Committee regarding the labeling of cig
ar ette( packages as a health menace:
The people, says 'TeSryV want " a warning
on cigarettes such as t lrcigarette smok-,
irigkdaierqus to health!" ; '
That's interesting, mighty interesting
especially jsirice the 62.4 -per cent of the
public that wants a health label must be
cqmposed partially of folks who lack the
gumption to give up the weed -
f The situation reminds us a little "of the
man who eomplamed about the presence
of mirrors on the front of cigarette veikU
Ing machines because; he said, "I can't
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There is. talk of doing something to
mike political campaigns shorter in North
Carolina Such talk is welcome, and short
ex campaigns would he even more wel-
. COme." "; ' '
Much ol the conversation now centers
about proposals to change the party pri
mary dates from May to September, and
to make the primary filing deadline in
thejrai&dls ol the summer instead of the
present date of 10 weeks before the May
primary, r Such a proposal would, in ef
fect, bring a campaigning situation in
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aid in this transition, and to do
whatever we can to assist our
successor and the other newly
elected officers step into place
with a minimum of difficulty.
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Like' most campaigns, this
one was not without its novel
points, and during the past
month several proposals have
been advanced which we hope
the legislature and the Student
Government will investigate
' and discuss in the future.
One concerns the length of
the campaign. There is no le
gitimate reason for political
, parties to begin their campaigns
( a full month before the election.
' The results of such an early
start are fatigued candidates,
. irritated voters and limitations
on- proper coverage of the
event.
Student '; legislature should
consider closely a bill prevent
' ing political parties . from nom
1 inating candidates prior to a
certain date ; 15 days before
the election should be sufficient.
- Another proposal is one we
have long supported that the
top two posts, in JStudent Govern
ment be elected en a "slate
system."
It is absurd to expect a com
plex executive to function prop
erly when its president and vice
president are in constant politi
cal conflict. One has only Jo
look at the smooth efficiency
that has prevailed this year with
Bob Spearman and Don Carson
at. the helm to ee first - hand
" the advantages of requiring a
They're Da ngerous
stand to look at a coward." If the pub
lic wants its cigarettes labeled as "dan
gerous,," it would do well to acknowledge
faith in that danger by giving up smok
ing. "
Furthermore, cigarettes , alone sTiould
not be victimized; If we're going to la
bel cigarettes, why not label cigars, pipe
tobacco as well? Or, for that matter,
what about; hard liquor, automobile ex
hausts or even automobiles? Automo
biles could be labeled with the figure
40,00(1 the number of Americans killed
in traffic accidents yearly '-- in bright
paint ' -
And then, of course we'd have to la
bel girls. They're dangerous, too. :
Campaigns: Yes, Yes
which the candidates would continue
straight from the primary races into the
general election campaign. There would
be such a combined campaign of about
four months.
Such a change should be considered
seriously. Of course, no law could pre
vent, an unannounced candidate c a m v
paigning as long as he wished, and un
doubtedly that would continue to be the
case in some North Carolina elections.
But, moving the filing deadline to mid
summer and having the primaries in
September instead of in May could well
have the effect of shortening ,even the
campaigns by the unannounced candid
ates as Well as voters.
The day of the need for long cam
paigns is long over. With modern com
munications media, good roads, airports
in every section of the state, the can
didates can get all their ideas across to
the voters n much shorter time than
is now provided under state election laws.
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"slate" vote for the executive
branch.
Those who doubt the validity
or importance of the slate sys
tem should cast a searching
glance in the direction of 1963
64, when the political animosity
between the president and vice
president almost took precedent
over any real functioning by
Student Government. '
And our third proposal is
that the secretary and treasur
er of the Student Body be ap
pointed. These two posts are highly
technical, and a bad apple in
either, especially the latter,
could spell disaster. We recall
the situation of two years ago,
when the campus elected a
"name" rather than a quali
fied candidate to1 be Secretary
of the Student Body. It later
turned out she couldn't' even
type, rarely showed up and
quit at the following semester
break, throwing Student Gov
ernment into chaos.
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So a new day dawns, and the
new replace the old in Graham
Memorial, New East and Da
vie Hall. We hope the newly
elected officers will .carry on
the great tradition of UNC Stu
dent Government which is be
ing passed their way.
It is a great responsibility,
and only with hard work can
they hope to keep alive the
spirit whicht has produced so
many of our nation's leaders.
Congratulations again, and
good luck.
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Love
Editors, The Tar Heel:
So Kerry Sipe went to our
Raleigh memorial march for
Rev. James Reeb and saw only
oar "silent pervading hate that
poisoned the air."
He saw as -"dressed in their
Sunday School best and they
dragged their hand - lettered
makeshift picket signs behind
them.-
He saw the "dirty green
walls," the floor - "warped and
scuffed with black rubber
marks," the "harsh glare of
bright overhead lights," and a
badly tuned public address sys
tem.". Hs noted "the room
smelled . like a gymnasium
smeUs..'.
We were a mass of loud,
' sweating humanity." One f us
was "an acne - marked face of
the blond white boy with ear
rings in. his ears," who "clen
ched his yellow teeth. Our
Poor Guy, He Won An d Now He's
Take Office"
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Riglits Crusaders
Should Stay Home
Editors; The Tar Heel: ;
Thre are i so many wonder
ful people in the United States
today, people who would forget
their own problems and travel
across . the country to. help
others in distress. 1 .
For instance Mrs. Charles To
bey, wife of the New Hamp
shire senator, and Mrs. Paul
Douglas,, wife of the Illinois
senator traveled all the way
from their respective states to
help the poor people of Ala
Order Of The Gadfly Plans
Anti-Haxnbiir ger Stand Rally
Editors' Note: The Howling
letter was submitted to the Tar
Heel secretly during the night.
Although our policy normally
prevents us from printing un
signed letters, we present this
one, because of the signers'
previous actions on campus
which seem to prove their exis
tence. EPITORS. THE DAILY TAR
HEEL;
A PLOT MORE INSIDIOUS
THAN ANY EVER! PERPET
RATED IN THE HISTORY OF
CHAPEL HILL, MORE FOUL
THAN THE REMOVAL OF
DOORS FROM THE LIBRARY
HEAD, MORE SUBVERSIVE
THAN WOMEN'S RULES, IS
NEAR COMPLETION
CATSUP IS ABOUT to"re
PLACE THE BLOOD ON THE
OLD WELL.
KNOW YE THAT BURGER
MONGERING CAPITALISTS
FROM THE BURG OF CHAR
LOTTE ARE PREPARING TO
CONSTRUCT A MOST VULGAR-
IDOL TO THE FALSE
GOD OF COW'S MEAT IN THE
PRE - FAB TIBETAN FASH
ION, NIGH UNTO THE BAT-
TIST CHURCH.
KNOW YE ALSO THAT THE
ORDER OF THE GADFLY
Not: Mate. Mark
eyes were "wary, frightened,
watchful, sharp as switchblade
.knives, and distrustful of everybody-
, There was no love
only -hate."
i Sipe's description tells more
about'.. Sipe than about the
march. Or did we even go to
the same march? This is the
march I went to Sunday. . :
; You joke as you wait Jn the
planetarium lot at 3 p.m., the
bright sun crisping colors. You
shiver, partly from the cold
wind. Someone starts the rumor
that Kappa Alpha is going to
march with us, someone even
believes him. For some it is
their fourth march that week
protesting Selma brutality. You
can somehow tell the ones who'd
never marched before.
The talk isn't serious. It does
not have to be. You know what
everyone believes and how deep
ly, deeply enough to accept all
"i"-- '"- r..riaj4fllrtiiii t4 -iUPT
Over-Directed
ailtors, : Silent Sa:
bama. Maybe when these two
sweet ladies return home they
will get around to ironing out
their own difficulties. -
Perhaps the kind Mrs. Tobey
has overlooked the fact that
New Hampshire has. no statute
prohibiting discrimination or se
gregation in private education.
Perhaps Mrs. Tobey has forgot
ten the little old problem last
Sept. 6 and 7 at Hampton Beach
where only 7,000 model citizens
were yelling, "Kill the cops."
Maybe also Mrs, Tobey does
not remember the. policeman
who required 36 stitches for
his gashed head or the 16 -
PREPARETH AT THIS VERY
MOMENT TO PROTEST THIS
SACRILEGE AGAINST ALL
MEN OF LEARNING. :
ON THURSDAY NEXT, THE
TWENTY - FIFTH DAY OF
THE THIRD MONTH OF THE
YEAR OF OUR LORD NINE
TEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE,
AT THE HOUR OF
EIGHT IN THE EVENING,
THE ORDER OF THE GAD
FLY SHALL SPONSOR A RAL
LY OF ALL : MEN OF GOOD
WILL, BE THEY OF THE
TOWN OR OF THE GOWN.
THE ORDER! PROPOSETH
THAT THE DAILY TAR HEEL,
IF IT BE TRULY CONCERN
ED, AID IN SPONSORING THE
RALLY, AND IN BURNING A
GIANT SYMBOL OF THIS
PLOT WHICH SHALL AP
PEAR ON THE CAMPUS ON
THAT DAY. THE BURNING
SIALL BE HELD ON THE
SITE OF THE PROPOSED AT
ROCITY ARISE, O MEN AND WOM
EN OF CAROLINA LANG
UISH NO LONGER IN APA
THY! PURGE AND CLEANSE
THE EVIL FROM OUR HAL
LOWED GROUND!
THE ORDER OF THE
GADFLY
the possible consequences of a
public statement of commit-
ment. Besides, these are mostly
old friends. You chat away.
Except the ones you knew had
never marched before,
1 The 11 cars line up and pull
onto the road in a motorcade.
It seems to sweep around cur
ves and bounce into sight over
Mils as you look back from in
side the second car. You can
tell that the kids in the car
behind are laughing and clap
ping to freedom songs.
You car, with graduate stud
ents, a professor's wife, and forr
eign students, discusses whether
an unjust "law" is a law. Back
seat drivers in the lead car mo
tion back wild, incomprehensi
ble directions and wonder why
you are laughing at them.
You roll into Shaw college
and pile out. From the - gym
comes a swell of "Oho - o -
Too Tired To
year - old boy who was shot in
the fact and chest with a shot
gun blast of rock salt She
might also not have noticed
those little old puppies with
their little old gleaming teeth
the policemen were walking.
Wonder if kind Mrs. Douglas
has decided ta postpone until
later, working on a statute pro
hibiting segregation in Illinois'
private education.
My, but isn't it unfortunate
that these warm-hearted ladies
and all the other generous
souls : from " New Hampshire ,
Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania,
Oregon, and California, who
went to Alabama, just hap
pened to be looking the other
way when the "wave of viole . .
Ooops. . . . social problem" in
jured 650 people including 80 po
licemen and destroyed hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of
property. It's amazing how
much clearer one's memory be
comes when . he looks on the.
other side of the Mason-Dixon
line.
I know that all of you thought
ful Samaritans have already
straightened these problems out
it must be wonderful. If I can
ever helD you in one of your
states, please call me. I'll do
the same for you.
Robert L. Harris
66S-A Hihbard St.
Ribak's History
Is Full Of Flaws
Editors, The Tar Heel:
In reply to Al Ribak's sug
gestion that Silent Sam be re
moved, I would like to briefly
express my views against this
proposal
Silent Sam is not a monu
ment to "white supremists and
extremists" but a memorial to
the rank and file Southern sold
ier who gave his life to protect
his family and his property
from advancing Northern arm
ies. A. K. Bailey, Jr.
283 Winston
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Freedom," and you join in sing
ing as you pack into the crowd.,
Friends from other colleges yell
to you and ypu wave and clam
ber up the bleachers and
squeeze in close, trying not to
drop your clumsy purse as you
clap. McKissick arrives, an
nounces 74 cars and a bus from
Durham are unloading, and
the crowd cheers.
The singing stills, and a slight
brown girl in high heels and a
white leather coat speaks of her
work on the Mississippi project
and at Selma. She lists those
who have died from freedom
and adds softly the name of
James Reeb.
The crowd is very quiet, even
those still coming in. McKissick
adds, "Reeb wTas a white man,
who died for what he believed,
for us. This is not a black
march. This is not a white
march. This is black and white
together."
Only "We Shall Overcome"
seems right at this moment,
and you sing it, annoyed mo
mentarily at yourself for hav
ing brought the pesky purse
which threatens to fall but you
don't unclasp hands to secure
it.
Then the march begins, a si
lent march in memory of a dead
white man, black men carry
ing a white wreath, leading
black and white together.
Your partner is an NCC boy
you'd met once at a party
months before, swapping ideas
on your tutorial programs:
Ahead of you is a relaxed old
er white woman with short wa
vy grey hair, a tan casual jac
ket, and walking shoes.
She walks next to a relaxed
older colored woman with short
wavy grey hair, a tan casual
jacket, and walking shoes. You
had thought your stacked heels
would be comfortable. Blisters
, on an old pro.
Raleigh Streets look like De
troit streets look like New York
streets when on a march. You
can't help looking at Easter hats
in store windows as you nass.
You can't help looking hard into
passing white faces for some
sort of reaction, at least some
sort of recognition that you are
there.
But they scurry by, looking
down, looking through. One wo
man hides her boy's face in her
coat so he won't be disturbed
and ask disturbing questions,
like "What do they want?" and
"Why?" . -
You get the mockers. But
once in a while a passing white
woman looks at you and you catj
tell she wants to smile, wants'
in some way to show her sym
pathy but doesn't know how.
You remember once seeing a
man who hated you because you
were white and you wanted to
cry out, "I'm on your side, I'm
working for you," but you could
not and you were white and he
was black and he hated you
and you loved him.',
And you smile at this wo
man. She looks relieved. '
The monitors walking with
you, a boy to about every 20
people, somehow sense from
ahead something is wrong and
quietly ask men marchers to
move on the outside. You look
up at observers hanging out of
fourth story windows and at
Art Is A
Butter Jar
By ART BUCHWALD
The New Yerk Herald Tribune
The other day, Canadian au
thorities refused to allow 80
wooden crates, which looked
"like cartons of Brillo soap pads,
Kellogg's cornflakes, and Mott's
apple juice, to go through cus
toms as works of art. The car
tons, painted by American Pop
artist Andy Warhol, were not,
said the Canadians, works of
art but merchandise, and sub
ject to $4,000 duty.
I think the Canadians are
all wet A few days after the
incident in Canada', I went down
to the supermarket to buy some
groceries. On the way home I
stopped at an art gallery where
there was a Pop art exhibit.
Unfortunately," the carton of gro
ceries got heavy and I left it
on the floor.
Then, being so moved by what
I saw, I left the gallery and
went home.
"Where are the
mv wife demanded.
groceries?"
"Oh, my gosh," I cried, "I
Jeft them at the art gallery."
"Well, you'd better get them
if you want any supper tonight."
I rushed back to the gallery
but I was too late. The grocer
ies had been awarded first prize
in the show.
"We've been looking all over
for you," the gallery owner
said. "Why didn't you sign your
work of art?"
"It's not a work of art. It's
my dinner for tonight."
The gallery roared with ap
preciative laughter. "He's not
only a great sculptor, but he
his humor as well," a judge
said.
"You can see that in his
work," another judge added.
"Notice bow the bottle ol Heinz
open, dark windows and then
someone curls a maniacal hat
red out of an open bar door and
j-ou wonder if any of that hat
red might be behind one of those
windows with a gun. And you
push that worry forcibly cot of
your mind. You faced that pos
sibility long aco and accepted
it. if such is to be.
But 1.200 people are impos
ing themselves upon': the con
science of the sttf. are sa ina
a word long forbidden for Ne
groes in the South, "No." You
pray.
You nass the eiht anti -picket
pickets and nothing happens
and then you are there,
swinging the lines uo to the Cap
itol, in close to the sneaker's
platform, your heels digging lit
tle holes into the lawn as you
stop and sink into place.
Finally you can talk after the
silence of the memorial march
and you look around for other
friends, glad to feel the strength
in 1,200 masssed bodies, black
and white together. The speech
es open with a prayer.
You hear the speeches and
they're not very good and it
doesn't matter. Rev. Wyatt T.
Walker, aide to Rev. Martin Lu
ther King, says that the Negro
cause is full of love, and you
look around at the 1,000 or so
Negroes and thv look back at
the 200 or so whites among them
and a tiny girl with five pigtails
beams up at her mother and
you wish vnur eipht - year - old
sister could be with you to feel
this, because you know you do
not have the word power to tell
her. and you want her to grow
up knowing this side too of the
classmates and friends some of
her other friends call "nigger."
Again you sing "We Shall
Overcome," and somehow the
song never becomes trite no
matter how many times you
sms it. accumulating deeoer un
dertones of meaning each time.
A short blessing by a white
minister and you leave, quick
.lv because it has gotten very
cold and the stacked heels were
a bad choice. Your partner jok
es about holding a lie - in so we
can get carried back to the col
lege. The march is practically run
ning now in the cold, and you
finally reach the warm gym and
huddle inside for a moment
talking to friends as you thaw
out. The younger teens form a
shouting, clapping freedom
train around the floor, while old
er kids and adults - mainly talk
end watch, slipping out early to
go back to their segregated
schools so they can be prepar
ed for their segregated jobs. But
maybe not their children.
You leave early too, and
there's eight in the ear com
ing home. The boy you are
crushing is a sophomore from
eastern North Carolina on his
first march. In the midst of old
hands comparing it to other
marches he sits and thinks and
you let him.
Finally he starts to talk to
you and he talks the stuff you
felt too on your first march and
you are glad to be seeing it
through his new eyes, and you
feel a great joy together.
Carol Schmidt
326 Kenan
Peanut
catsup is leaning against the can
of Campbell's pork and beans."
"I'll never know how he was
inspired to put the Ritz crackers
on top of the can of Crisco," a
lady said to her escort.
"It's pure genius," the escort
replied. "Notice the way the Del
Monte can of peaches is lying
on its side. Even Warhol would
not have gone that far."
"I think the thing that really
won the prize for him was the
manner in which he crushed the
Sarah Lee cheesecake on the
bottom of the box."
"It makes Picasso losk sick."
"Look," I said, "I'm very
grateful for all these honors, but
my wife is waiting for this stuff
and I have to get it home."
"Get it home?" the gallery
owner said in amazement. "I
have just sold it to that couple
over there for $1500."
"The groceries cost me only
$13." I replied.
"It isn't the groceries. It's
what you did with them. You
have managed to put more
meaning into a box of Rinso
than Rodin put into The Think
er.' Nobody will ever be able to
look at a can of Franco - Amer
ican spaghetti without thinking
of you. You have said with this
carton of groceries, in one eve
ning, what Rembrandt tried to
say in 1000 paintings."
I blushed modestly and accep
ted his check. That night I took
my wife out to dinner and the
next day I went back to the su
permarket and bought another
carton of groceries, much more
expensive than the previous one,
which I immediately took to the
gallery.
But-the reviews , were lousy.
"Success has gone to his head,"
said Washington's leading art
critics.
Just So