THE DAILY TAR HEEL
September 17, 1G56
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oricomings Of The New
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;Oprensboro Daily News
itcase approval of an increase,
in the federal minimum wage from
itsircient level of $1.25 an hour
t0 P in February, 1053, may
bavevBgen -a. victory for President
JohhL'-und organized labor, but
it was1 a rather empty one.
.'??&?ttjoSUtm. workers now co
vered by the law will not likely
jumpfwith joy over the "increase,"
since last month the average hour
ly wage in manufacturing industries
wia27,$2-.73 aa hourr in construc
tion;;;; '...in retail trade, $1,91.
In 'fact,."-in only two of the dozens
of srtas of employment surveyed
by department of Commerce
hotephd motel service, and
fax!; &1ot did last month's av
er$&:Vage fail under" the $1.60
standard proposed for 1958.
:. vo je yote in the House had
eyc sii of a paper victory for
MrJJchnson and his labor suppor
ters; inf .at least one important
and: welcome aspect, however, it
; dMIiiyome: significance.
lh Xh$ final. minimum - wage
mfcssgre is enacted, as it is ex
pecbcTto be soon, it will extend
epvete of the minimum to an
adtlfi&ii height million workers.
Ttlyfaili include restaurant work
ers&iindry employees, and work
ers tuch as waiters and ushers who
re$pfor . some . part of their
ear
i T.'ithv this extension, the Fair
' Ls&rStandards Act will begin to
bjittftct in. :areas; where its ab
stn:as,;;l6xig - been glaring. It
shctilXiilsp have . some impact on
th&, rTeiro labor force, which is still
g concentrated in occupations c. such
assrs . now about to be brought
i.iindthe'kct. and which lags far
Kission Accomplished
; :trcrd vof congratulations and
apjUScrit-. true the 1988 Cam
pus Orientation Commission.
; fVApfrpXimitely 2,300 freshmen
entl;L;i. .transfer students know a
gr6a,tlcal more about the Univer
&ittn .they knew a week ago
thsn!:s io a highly: successful well
m&JnliZ 1 orientation program .
Praise goes to commission
chair inan Bob Wilson, men's co
ordinator . Bill Long, women's co
orcUnat5r ;Mary Susan Kirk, For
eifi ttdinatot faith Fogle and
the Hiidreds of students who wor
ked Ws-eommitee members and
counselors.
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behind white workers in average
income.
The most regrettable omission
is in farm employment. By speci
fically exempting workers who tra
vel to fields to pick crops in peak
seasons, the 1966 bill continues the
government's shameful indiffer
ence to the conditions of migrant
labor. No one who has travelled
along the Eastern Seaboard, from
New Jersey to the Carolinas and
down to Florida and seen the run
down buses with their loads of im
poverished migrants, could share
this indifference or accept this
latest manifestation of it without
protest.
The otherwise commendable as
pects of this extension of the min
imum wage make the 1966 bill a
good one. It will be the task of an
other Congress the 90th, we hope
to bring migrant labor under
its protection.
Today's Thought
We hear a lot of talk about the
"Good Ole Days." Those were the
days when radios plugged in and
tooth brushes didn't.
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egress Dlgfflmisioiniimi
.. Next Monday, has been set as the deadline for fil
ing official Student Government reports on the Nation-
: al , Student Asoeiation Congress which was held in
Urbana, m. Aug. 15-30, afuT there should be at least 10
former delegates hammering on typewriters this very
minute.
For some the report of the activities of the con
gress will be easy. They will merely chronicle what
happened and finish with a few partially sincere su
perlatives. This columnist, however, is one former
member of the delegation that found the whole pro
cess just a bit disillusioning.
From North Carolina, through the Tolling moun
tains of West Virginia and out into the rich farm
lands of the Ohio Valley, I listened to Bob Powell and
Teddy O'Toole speak of the marvels of the previous
congress. I noted in my mind the names of its lesser
gods, who were able to articulate the most compli
cated concepts at any time in the most accomplish
ed oratorical style.
I was also forewarned of the characters who came
to the annual conventions. The last of the big time
screamers from the East were bound to call at least
one of us "Facist Pig!" in nasal New York accent be
fore the proceedings were over, and the West Coast
was bound to join, in on the chorus.
Three weeks later, when it was all over, we held
not one but several post mortems on the corpse of
the NSA Congress. It had been the stale leftovers
of the great issues of today, and the Congress was
playing a role that didn't excite it any more.
Most of the resolutions seemed good and fairly well
written except for two of them. A strong stand on
Viet Nam was taken which criticized the Johnson Ad
ministration and called for the establishment of a coal
ition government in the South including representa
tives of the National Liberation Front. It was well -documented
and basically well written. A good reso
lution on the draft was passed that called for the
institution of universal service.
The damaging resolution for the congress was one
that called in part for the repeal of laws restricting
!. 'ifr 6 lLSD and related druSs- West Coast
and New York could not be sidetracked on this is
sue, and they would not be persuaded to take the kev
clause out. J
The resolution on civil rights Was possibly the most
profound as an indication of the tenor of the con
gress. If you read it, you would probably find it fair
ly innocuous. It calls on white and black students to !
go back and work with their own communities rather
than going into others to aid integration. What the
average person does not know, however is that this is
one of the prime precepts of the Black Power move-
TiSca US rePresenttives managed to show up
at NSA in one form or another.
What was disturbing about the legislation was that
it had buried just beneath the surface the unmistake-
bon that so troubles the world today and destroys com
munication and understanding y m
When we mulled over the congress that last day
hrluZ T . ?ed WUh a SenSe Oration. We
had argued with "knee - jerk" liberals unsuccessfully
when their liberal - mindedness became reactionary
and unthinking.. We sought, the great leaders, of the
congress, rand all .except4he, ghost of one had become
mealy - mouthed politicahs "seeking national Eiffel in -
NSA.;
; Resides the boredom with the old burning issues
sortie were shocked by the basic lack of communica
tion between people. They went through two full weeks
of speaking at, not understanding the views of others.
In truth, UNC has every type of character found at
NSA on its own campus, and many of them are a lot
slicker here.
j pn the last day of the plenary meeting, Powell gave
a speech to second the nomination of one candidate
forjnational office. In it he described the nominee as
a pan who could drastically revise the congress to
prevent a recurrance of a congress such as this year's.
Thank God someone said it.
I Probably the final culmination of the proceedings
web the last rites on the plenary floor. Someone from
Chicago insisted that everyone sing "We Shall Over
come" just like they did it last year.
No one knew which verses to sing. All they want
ed jto do was get out of there, and they were unmov
ed -by the rallying sounds of the great cause. With
shifting eyes and weak voices they swayed back in
forth, held hands in fraudulent communion for a few
minutes, and quickly shuffled off to catch the next
flight out of town.
English History
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I was fortunate enough to have spent this last
summer in England, where I learned, among other
things, the following little gem, which I shall pass on
to all those who have an interest in history. (And it is
dedicated especially to all the medievalists, and more
especially still to the English medievalists.)
Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry 3;
Edwards 1, 2, 3, Dick 2,
Henrys 4, 5, 6 then who?
Edward 4, 5, Dick the Bad,
Henry 7, 8, Ned the Lad;
Mary, Elizabeth, James the Vain,
Charles, Charles, James again!
William and Mary, Anne of Gloria,
George 1, 2, 3, 4, Bill, Victoria;
Edward, George, Edward, George.
Elizabeth the 2nd.
And after many years, we pray,v
King Charles the 3rd will then hold sway.
This will be of no use to anyone on the history
faculty. Two or three grad students and five or six
seniors may find it amusing. Ten or twenty juniors
and about a hundred sophomores will find it useful
Several thousand freshmen may find it essential, and
I bequeath it to them in the hopes 'that it will raise
many a mark on the modern civ. tests.
Michael Hollis
Chapel Hill
'End. Of Summer
News Wrap-Up
FROM THE CAVALIER DAILY
Knowing how many students tend to forget how to
read after being away from the University for a week or
so, we have decided to present a capsule report on
some of the more notable news stories of the sum
mer, so no one will be caught with his pants down
(figuratively, that is) when asked to comment upon
the Cleveland race riots or the death of the Trib by
a professor or a pseudo - intellectual date.
The tone of the summer was set by Wall Street,
where the market is still falling with no bottom in
sight, and by Arnold Palmer, who lost the U. S Open
after piling up a seven - stroke lead during the last
round, and apparently has yet to recover -from the
shock.
Luci Johnson got married in the country's largest
Catholic church giving the whole shebang a Bar
num y Bailey type atmosphere while Lynda Byrd,
complete with a Hollywood beauty treatment, contin
ues to be seen with the country's slickest draft - dod
ger, George Hamilton. And Ronald Reagan followed
song - and dance - man - turned - Senator George
Murphy out of Hollywood with an act of his own.
the Republican nomination for governor of California,
won at the expense of George Christopher, the politi
cally moderate mayor of San Francisco.
Gen. De Gaulle bested Napoleon by successfully in
vading Russia, but the results of the campaign were
mwuuuoivc. iuc xcciues xiiei uieir maicn, almost, in
the person of a Jew from Nazareth named Jesus
Christ. After some remarks by Beatle Lennon to the
effect that the mop - haired quartet is more popular
than Christianity had been widely quoted, and even
more widely misinterpreted, several radio stations in
the U. S. began fervent anti - Beatle campaigns. The
crowds, however still packed the auditoriums when
the Beatles made an American tour last month.
New Yorkers finally saw debris from last winter's
subway strike come floating down the Hudson, in the
form of a five cent fare increase. Meanwhile, down
in lower Manhattan, the way was apparently clear
ed for the erection of the Port of New York Author
ity's World Trade Center, two square boxes which will
rise higher than the Empire State Building, and for
better or worse (probably worse) irreparably alter the
world's most majestic skyline.
Speaking of strikes, the nation found out just how
much it needs its wings when the five biggest airlines
were shut down for 43 days by a machinists' walk
out. The nation also found out, at the same time, just
how much its President and Congress rely on labor
votes during an election year, and the federal govern
ent ,has rarely looked sillier. Another "victory" 'could
be claimed for labor in New York, where the Herald
Tribune, once one of the great newspapers in t h e
country, was unceremoniously buried near the end of
the four - month - old negotiations aimed at getting
the new merged World Journal Triburle on t fa e
r t 6 WrId JUrnaI is stiU scheduled to begin
(if it has not already) as a morning paper
Beyond this planet, the Surveyor satellite success
fully landed on the moon and performed its photo-
scientists ran out of experiments for it. If we all van
htdTrl in mi blossoming of mushroom clouds, that
Sin, t Wi ?aIWayS remain' a solary artifact
testifying. to what man could have done had he not
been preoccupied with destroying his fellow.
r For the violently - inclined elements of our society,
it was a very good summer. Just a few weeks after
hi ttrfS? hadbGen Stabbed and strngled to death
Tfc, 0111101186 aPartment, a University of
Texas student Charles Whitman, got a headache, kill
ed his wife and mother, then ascended to the observa-
W p of me Texas Tower and started shoot
mg at whom ever happened by, killing or, fatally
wounding 14 and injuring 33. Whitman's headache and
whatever other problems induced him to undertake
slaughter were cured by a heavy does of buS
shot, administered at close range. The incident recaU
ed a quote from Poe: "Whiu 7 J 7 . reCa 1
- . uiuuu tower in
2" l0kS anticay "own"" We can only
be thankful that the University has no tall buildings
Vio ence just as senseless but on a somewhat larg
rhf i'kthe Nero Shettoes f Cleveland,
Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Omaha, and . even
Pompano Beach, Florida, among others, lie riots were
not surpnsmg - they represent the natural reason
'7k have been made aware of how little
they have, then promised much but given nothing thev
could spend or eat. Natural or not, hf wever, h"y were
none fte less disturbing because they pointed uPTe
utter defiance of constituted law and governmen? feU
m the ghettoes, and because they froviTed fertUe
ground for the activities of extremists? both right
Most upsetting was a New Orleans speech by Hu
bert Humphrey, said to be our vice - president 2
declare 1 that he could lead a prett go'oTrtolt my?
self if he lived where most urban Negroes live today
Though we have no doubt that Mr. Humphrey could
be revolt.ng without half trying, his statement came
at the worst possible time, as it could only give incen-
Wi ,Se Wll0 W6re, atuaUy doinS the' burning and
looting. (Humphrey also said something about the
need for abiding by the law, but that did not get into
the newspapers, and the damaging effects of his speech
remain.) fTOJ1
That, very much in brief, was the summer that
was across the nation. (We have avoided Viet-Nam-suffice
it to say that no one has won yet, and the draft
may get you yet.) Not a great summer, to be sure
or even a good one, but a memorable one certainly'
and one to be savored, like all others, for - who
knows? perhaps it is our last.
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