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9 Pfcge 2 Wednesday, December 15, 1965 Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. All unsigned editorials are written by the editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal jx :: views of their contributors. "Hell With It; Get Me A Box of Cards Too!" Letters To The Editor ERNIE McCRARY. EDITOR Of Black And White Ghettos "Within the white ghetto of North Carolina, the best people 'best' in terms of common sense, in tegrity, sanity the best peopl in this white ghetto are Klansmen." This statement by Pete Young, WRAL-TV news caster, was perhaps the only new concept of the Klan offered at Monday night's panel discussion in Me morial Hall More than 1,600 students, and a number of quiet Klansmen, heard Congressman Charles L. Weltner, CORE Chairman Floyd McKissick, Major L. P. Mc Lendon and Young discuss the Klan, why it exists and what can be done aboc it. Weltner, a member o? th? House Un-American Ac tivities Committee, said he attacks the Klan because of its terrorist activities not its beliefs. McLendon, a Greensboro lawyer, said' the South is not wholly to blame for the Klan because it all really began up North. McKissick, a Durham lawyer and civil rights leader, said the Klan is here because we allow a climate to exist where it can and will grow. We have heard all this before. But Young referred to President Johnson's per sonal attack on the Klan and his plea for a "return to decent society." Young denied that we have a de cent society, "and until we do, the suffering people of the Carolina Klan will stay right where they are," he said. Our society is indecent, he said, and it is look ing for a scapegoat which happens to be the Klan. "That's the easy road, and the fatal one," he said. He issued a "desperate message for help" from the "white ghetto of the Carolina Klan." His point is one which is seldom made, and al though his broad assumptions about the "best" peo ple in white ghettos and the decency of society are at best questionable, we cannot go so far as Major Mc Lendon and deny that white ghettos exist. All Rise For 'Dixie' Greensboro Daily News The editors of th North Carolina State Technician who stuff ily call upon performing groups to ban "Dixie" from public ren dition utterly miss the point. So, for that matter, do their som ber critics who angrily urge its preservation, along with grits and battle flags, as regional museum pieces. , Their ambitions are unduly modest. Far from being banned 'because "Dixie" stirs a response "that might be termed Pav lovian" of shouts and stomps and song, it really should be pushed to replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem. t 11 a. moment of irreverence may be pardoned, 'The Star Spangled Banner" has no equal as a wet blanket of an anthem. This musicological monstrosity, refurbished from an old Eng 'lish drinking song, always leaves the question whether its com poser, writing for the grog trade, had not rather heavily par taken before setting quill to paper. I The world has its fine patriotic anthems some somber 'and stirring like "God Save The Queen" or Haydn's "Deutsch land Uber Alles"; some vigorous and bracing, like "Dixie" land "La Marseillaise." But it was a bad day on Capitol Hill :those three-odd decades ago when Congress capitulated to whatever tone-deaf lobby inspired the adoption of "The Star Spangled Banner" as the national anthem. To sing one verse of it is to risk hospitalization for laryngitis or ennui or both, 'and all four verses shouldn't have happened to George III him self. j What a musical marvel, by contrast, is "Dixie"! Written as 'a Yankee spoof on the eve of Fort Sumter, its stirring mel ody and agreeable lyrics caught on and quickly gave it quasi ' official status as an anthem of the Lost Cause. Now we think the era of Lost Cause parachialism for "Dixie," which is unworthy of it, is outdated, i The Technician editors were commendably concerned lest lit comfort "unreconstructed Southerners" and discomfort their ; enemies. But the history of a rousing anthem can't be held f. against it. In France the royalist today sings "La Marseil ilaise" with all the fervor of the sanscullot; and in America, there is as much to be said for "frosty mornings" in Dixie Hand as for a symbolic triumph over the British in Baltimore harbor. ! If "Dixie's" friends as stirred by its strains as they are ; bored by those of "The Star-Spangled Banner" should push ; it seriously as a competitor for national song there would really S be no contest. On musical merits,' it would topple "The Star- Spangled Banner" tomorrow. I And why not? .W.V.'.W.W.W.'.V.'V.V.V.V.VIV V. Sty Satly ar 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The Dally Tar Heel Is the official newt publication l tke University of North Carolina and is published by stndetts daily eitept Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Ernie McCrary, editor; Barry Jacobs, associate editor; Pat Stith, managing editor; Andy Myers, news editor; Gene Rector, sports editor; Jim Coghiii, asst. sports editor; Kerry Shpe, night editor; Ernest Robl, photog grapher; Chip Barnard, editorial cartoonist; Ed Freak ley, John Greenbacker, Lynne Harvel, David Rothman. Wayne Harder, staff writers; Bill Hass, Bill Rollings, Ron Shinn, Sandy Tread well, sports writers. Second class postage paid at the post office in Chxpci Hill, N. C, 27514. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; IS per year. Send change of address to The Dally Tar Heel. Box, 1080. Chapel Hill. N. C. 27S14. Printed by the Chapel HU1 Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all p news dispatches TOfe VAtLY TA Hit I Court Ruling Is Right Editor, The ! Daily Tar Heel: Before everyone begins ranting and ra ving about the Supreme Court's "one man one vote" ruling as being, in Barry Jacobs' words (DTH, Dec 10), "illogical", "un fair", "a bad decision',, and "not making sense,,' let us remember that the United States Congress was set up with one house apportioned according to population and the other by state as a compromise between federal authority and state sovereignty. Towns, cities, counties and districts, however, have never been vested with any sovereignty rights under the state. There fore, on this basis the Supreme Court can logically and understandably order any state which has apportioned its legislature on the basis of any other model than "one man - one vote" to make the necessary changes. Pete Campbell 413 Patterson Place Ehringhaus Here, Too Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: We in Ehringhaus do things in a slower more deliberate manner. We have never and never will stoop to compete with other dormitories or residence colleges. We sit back, struggle forward, and learn. In the Dec. 12 article written by Allen Warren, we were ignored, and the campus was given a thrilling report on the activities of our near neighbors. We have never considered ourselves to be in a death race with any other living The Student Speaks Capitalism Belongs In World Today Editor's Note: Ludwig von Mises speaks tonight in Gerrard Hall at 8, sponsored by the Carolina Conservative Club. By WILSON CLARK, JR. Perhaps the most common, and certain ly most persistent complaint, that the ad vocates of capitalism must contend with is the argument that "capitalism was fine for a simple, agrarian society, but surely one must recognize the necessity for strong governmental planning in today's complex world." This argument appears reasonable on the surface, but looking underneath this clever rubric, one discovers that it is only a paper argument, that in actuality, this ' example overlooks ' the long-range - signi ficance and consequences of capitalism. Again I turn to the most distinguished advocate of the capitalist system, Dr. Lud wig von Mises, and particularly his small but powerful volume, Bureaucracy (Yale, New Edition, 1962). In this book, first pub lished in 1944, Dr. von Mises examines the fundamental aspects of the free economy versus the planned economy. His interesting analysis concerns the perennial problem of the socialists and interventionists, the actual mechanism of state planning. Professor Mises contrasts this form of planning, which he terms "bureaucratic management," with the structure of planning evidenced by the cap talist system, or "profit management." Mises observes that in the capitalist sys tem, the entrepreneur depends on the mech anism of the free market, as it is affected by his economic decisions, whereas under the socialist system, in which there is ho be made by the state. Herein lies the frac ture. How does the state know how to set prices, for example? Before answering this, let us return to the capitalist system, and examine the na ture of its j economic decisions and calcu lations. , . The capitalist entrepreneur must pro duce according to the wishes of the peo ple, the consumers, or he loses his job. As Mises observes, "The capitalists, the en trepreneurs, and the farmers are the peo ple's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail tol produce, at the lowest possible ; , cost, what the consumers are asking for, " they lose their office." On the other hand, in the socialist sys tem, no such automatic check and balance regulator is present. Instead of one's suc cess depending on profit and loss, the sys tem shifts to the bureaucrat's whim. Mises states: "A government is not a profit seeking enterprise. The conduct of its af fairs cannot be checked by profit-and-loss statements.: Its achievement cannot be valued in terms of money." Carrying the argument to its predes tined conclusion, Mises reveals the true weakness of planning, the stigma of social ism, with his analysis of "the unaboidable weakness of any administration of public affairs. "The lack of standards which could, in Mike Jennings an unquestionable way, ascertain success or nonsuccess in the performance of an official's duties creates insoluble problems. It kills ambition, destroys initiative and the incentive to do more than the minimum re quired. It makes the bureaucrat look at instructions, not at material and real success." Thus, von Mises concludes that the sys tem best adapted to the fulfillment of man's needs is not socialism, with its corollary, "bureaucratic management," but capital ism and "profit management." The argument proposed by modern col lectivists, which I mentioned originally, merely states that increasing size (of the economy and state) renders! capitalism im potent. Professor Mises clearly and succinctly reduces this thinly conceived contention to shreds, simply by illustrating that it is so cialism, with its bureaucratic torpor, which cannot administrate the expanding econo my of today, not capitalism, which can adapt to the situation. Many socialists have begrudgingly re cognized this monumental achievement in the science of economics, including the Po lish socialist Oskar Lange (whose remarks are probably the most interesting). In his treatise, "On the Economic Theory of So cialism," Dr. Lange writes: "A statue of Professor Mises ought to occupy n honorable place in the great hall of the Ministry of Socialization or of the Central Planning Board of a socialist state . . . both as an expression of recog nition for the great service rendered by him and as a memento of the prime im portance of sound economic planning." Quarterly Can Speak For Us You know what I'd like to see in the Carolina Quarterly? I'd like to see a story about a couple who falls in love playing sex bowl football. You know what else I'd like to see in the Carolina Quarterly? I'd like to see a story about what happens when a fire breaks out in a girls' dormitory. I'd like to read a story about a student politician who breaks down, or about Silent Sam, or sex in the Arboretum, or about love and hate and passion and jealousy in general at the University of North Carolina at Cha pel Hill. I probably won't get to read those sto ries. I think that's because the kind of peo ple that could write them don't. The people that like to sit alone and spin out stories from their own minds do write. The people who get out and and see, feel, touch, hear, smell and give don't write. At least they don't write for the Caro lina Quarterly. They may write for their English classes or for their dorm news paper, but not for the Quarterly. Well, some of them ought to write for the Quarterly, because the Quarterly can do something that themes and newspapers can't. It can capture and crystallize the spirit of this generation of Carolina stu dent. But people that feel that spirit never think of writing stories about it. There are plenty of people who could write them. Let's take a hypothetical, semi-literate bus iness administration major named Bill who thinks a plot is something a homesteader gets from the government Bill can't spell a lick. But if his heart goes out to the fellow down the hall who washed out of school, to the economics pro fessor who skips his dinner to drive the marginal propensity to consume through Bill's thick skull, to the boys in Conner sighting in on the girls in Winston if he loves this old campus with all he's got, then Bill's a born writer. I wish he'd write for the Carolina Quarterly. The Quarterly isn't exactly a topic of burning interest around here, but it could be. It could be if old Bill would write a story in five to ten-letter words about the time his car wouldn't start at W. C. and he had to ask to sleep in a girls' dorm lobby because he was broke and it was cold and all the girls mothered him in the morning. If people like Bill would get together and put out a Carolina Quarterly, we'd have a publication that spoke for us, that told how we feeL It could tell our parents, the Legislature, posterity and ourselves just what we are. LETTERS The Daily Tar Heel welcomes let ters to the editor on any subject, particularly on matters of local or University interest. Letters mast be typed, doable-spaced and most in clude the name and address of the author or authors. Names will not be omitted in publication. Letters should be limited to about 250-300 words. The DTH reserves the right to edit for length or libel. Longer letters will be considered for "The Student Speaks" if they are of sufficient Interest. How ever, the DTH reserves the right to use contributed materials as it sees fit unit We do not spread over campus every minute detail of what we do, we don't feel that it is necessary to advertise. We do hold several unique positions! We feel that in the case of Morrison as a mother feels when her children grow up and leave home. Byron McCoy, the present Governor over there, had his dynamic be ginning as a leader in 'Ehringhaus, and gained many of his talented abilities while serving here last year as President, as well as stylist of a small unique "in crowd" leadership group. Architecturally, we are not the same as Craige and Morrison, in that we lack nu merous areas for study and social functions on the numerous floors of cur unit. We gave up our recreation room so that South Cam pus might have a dining facility, which is; now the athletic dining hall, with the com pletion of Chateau Chase. We are allowed to use our small study room for dances, but this eliminates any. place to study. There is a small room on our ground floor which should be used as a Go Go Club or a Cowboy lounge, but it: is presently being used as an occasional! study area for various athletic groups, al-'. though the sole use of this facility has been; begrudgingly promised us over and over; again. We have suffered from apathy, but this is due to many reasons. This year, however,: we have many active people, especially; among our 400 freshmen. As for rank we; may not be on "top, but let's just set the record straight. We are number one in the! production of campus leaders, we are first: to have a legal residence hall Constitution' (which has been copied at times almost verbatum by Craige, Morrison, and Scott Colleges), and we are number one as far as dormitory newspapers are concerned. Furthermore we were the first to have a Residence College Senate, and we pre sently hold more dorm offices, class offices and student govenment committee posi tions than any other campus group. And finally we will be the first to enter the Residence College system Constitu tionally and on our own without the help or pushing from any other campus group. E. Allen Shepard Speaker of the Ehringhaus Senate 535 Ehringhaus Robert Cherry 5th floor Senator 536 Ehringhaus Boyd Garber Trouble Shooter 536 Enringhaus Hints For Jennings Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: .1 would like to -comment on Mike Jen nings' Sunday column, "Quarterly Has Bad Fiction". It is encouraging to see that the Tar Heel had found a place for literary criticism. Now it needs only to find a literary (or even literate) critic. Certainly Mr. Jennings is entitled to his opinions, because the final critic of any story (or newspaper column) is the reader. But his criticism, rather than being in cisive or constructive, merely, consists of a series of wildly thrown barbs and sopho moric statements on "what good fiction should be." He refers to the Quarterly's short sto ries as incoherent, pop art, and "totally incomprehensible." In reading the stories in question, I found these remarks to re flect more on Mr. Jennings than on the work he attacks. He concludes by calling the authors "beatniks," which I suppose these days is "The unkindest cut of them all." I have a few suggestions for Mr. Jen nings. He asks, "What's the good of mir roring our culture?" I suggest that he re consider his role of journalist if he cannot answer that question himself. He states, "Good writers and great writers don't preach the doctrine of des pair." I suggest he read a little thing called "Hamlet." He decides, "Our great American wri ters are gone." I suggest he read some Bellow, some Nabokov, or some Malamud. I suggest that he talk less about great writing and art and that he sit down at his typewriter and try to turn some out. I suggest that be, rather than labeling people whom he doesn't know as "beat niks," go out and find what makes an in dividual tick, what motivates an individual who could write a story he doesn't like. He may find the material for a fine short story. Bes L. Jones 40 Roger ton Dr. : l A In "7 I tfWF.' 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