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John Green backer mm totlg (Bar H TO TT TT (ZTi 77Q Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. All as signed editorials are written by the editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal views of their contributors. SCOTT GOODFELLOW, EDITOR Split Pill Vote Expected One-half of the coeds interviewed here recently indicated that they would be in favor of allowing girls to decide for themselves whether to use birth control pills. One-half opposed it. We would have been upset if the verdict hadn't split so decisively. Let's analyze the members of the two groups. There are two types in the group favoring liberalization of pill dis tribution: those who feel that they need the pills (perhaps some who presently use them and would pre fer not to do it illegally) and those who trust themselves and their friends with proper discretion in the use of the pills. Both groups feel the pill is better than the trag edies of illegitimacy. Likewise, there are two types in the group who would retain the Status quo: those who see a chaotic . breakdown of our present system of sexual morals if the change is made, and those who do not trust themselves and their friends with sufficient discretion in pill use. Per haps no distinction can be made between these two types. If the results of the survey had not spanned both of these groups, we would have felt that it was in accurate, since the problem should and does cover both rational and emotional problems. One girl commented that the moral attitude was already present and would survive intact long after a sudden change in pill distribu tion is made. She said that one of the main reasons for the present level of pre-marital sexual activity is fear of pregnancy. She is right. ' But is any system which is based upon fear a good one? Our fear of pregnancy policy isn't even effec tive, because thousands of illegiti mate children are born every year. We are not condoning pre-marital sex it is certainly an individual matter. But it is alarming that everyone does not accept the fact that pre-marital sex occurs con tinually, everyhere. By ignoring it, we have promoted our present sex ual moral attitude above our gen eral moral attitude, an attitude which would, not allow for the "ac cidental birth of human beings." There is no ftigh rate of illegiti macy in Chapel Hill, a fact which those in our Infirmary will readily tell us. At whatever time we do decide to issue pills to requesting coeds, it will mark an endorsement of a higher moral attitude in addi tion to a recognition of true morali ty: the pill or the illegitimate child? H e Sure Did Try Harder ? For all the talk about the obscuri jty6f Jus; position, the Vice Presi dent did T himself Well yesterday ! afternoon., V With the finesse of a violin tuner Hubert Humphrey felt out his audi ence with a few humorous open ring remarks, and then launched : into his oratorical justification of , "administrative policy. And quite a justification it was, too, for seldom - .- have we heard so much of the rea soning behind the government's de b cisions in such a concise manner. True enough, Humphrey manipu lated his answers so that he fre quently used questions as platforms to launch into another subject. But what really counts is: that the sub jects he ultimately chose to dis : cuss were the ones students wanted '$ to hear: the Vietnam problem, its possible solutions, and the resulting domestic difficulties. : The Vice President's defense of We AH Respect our,war policy was particularly in teresting because, in his words, "I have been called a 'peacenik" His conclusion that cessation of bombing would not in itself initiate negotiations seemed well docu mented. , Thursday night in Student Legis lature a bill will be introduced call ing for a campuswide referendum on the Vietnam question. The fac tual bases presented by Humphrey, coupled with the reasoning of those who signed the recent letter to the President should provide everyone with the materials to conduct de bate. The Vice President was able to dispell far more than the hazy thinking about his number two position yesterday he helped to clear up a great deal of uncertainty about why our policies appear ob scure. - Dissent Right "One of the greatest assets of your campus," he said, "is the in tellectual atmosphere where ideas continually clash and are discus sed." Humphrey had just begun when he said that. Out in front of Memorial Hall the protestors picketed. Some of them carried signs requesting cer tain policy decisions. Others car ried signs which were not so intelli gent, "Bomb the LB J ranch," and "Humphrey Is A Killer." Midway through his talk the Vice President said, "I respect the right to dissent until the point when dis order prevails." When Humphrey left the build ing, the dissenters were still march ing around, very orderly. Perhaps the most effective part of the orderly demonstration was the mass of participating students. The "activists" were not the main feature. We do, however, wish to correct the Vice President after seeing the sign-carriers. We respect the right to dissent intelligently. We tolerate the right to dissent when it is poor ly thought out. - Stye iatlg ar :"tjri:'. 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager i s. Sandy Tread well, Manag. Ed. John Askew ..... .. . '.. Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris Associate Ed. Don Campbell .. .. News Editor Donna Reifsnider .... Feature Ed. Jeff MacNelly . .. ... Sports Editor Owen Davis...'... Asst. Spts. Ed. Jocklauterer ...... . Photo Editor David Garvin .. Night Editor Mike McGowan ... Photographer Wayne Hurder Copy Editor Ernest m Robl, Steve Knowlton, Carol-Wonsavage, Diane Ellis, Karen Freeman, Hunter George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis Sanders, Joe Saunders, Penny Raynor, JimFields, Donna Reifsnider Joe Coltrane, Julie Parker' CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly. The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex-f amination periods and vacations. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. (Editor's note; This article, it should be noted, was writ ten three days before Vice President Hubert ..Humphrey appeared on campus. The points of view are entirely Greenbacker's own and in no way reflect the opinions ex pressed by Humphrey yester day.) The news bulletin last week that announced Doctor Bern ard Fall's untimely death in Vietnam rocked the academic world in this country, and those who pride themselves as experts on Vietnamese history and politics will realize im mediately the gravity of their loss. Fall, whose books "The Two Vietnams", "Street Without Joy", and "T h e Vietnam Reader" were widely read, had recently finished a book about French defeat at Dien-Bien-Phu that was given rave reviews. A French citizen by birth, Fall was professor of International Relations at Howard University for many years. His studies of Vietnam date from the early 1950's, and they clearly established him as the nation's leading ex pert on Vietnam. Thus with another paradox the Vietnam war continues, and the intensity of Allied in volvement is rapidly reaching higher levels. The bombing of the North has been compound ed by the mining of North Vietnamese rivers and the ini tiating of massive haval bombardment. It is interesting to note that above all things, Bernard Fall taught Americans to be realis tic about the war. He had a way of assessing a situation by examinining the facts that led inevitably to the truth. He clearly illustrated the convic tion and the will of the John son administration in Vietnam by noting that long term loans for building construction were being issued by Saigon bank ers. They wouldn't be issuing five year loans, Fall realized, unless they were convinced of a continued American pres ence. Besides the massive intri cate and costly series of six airbases for jet bombers which we have now built, we have devoted billions to harbor con struction. In Saigon, a perma nent 25 million dollar office building is being completed to house the headquarters "of America's generals in Viet nam. The list is too long to tabulate. What we must realize now is this: ' Regardless of the question of America's reason for being in. Vietnam, regardless of the foolishness and short - sighted ness of past foreign policy decisions, and regardless of the monstrosity of a war that wounds or kills 5,000 South Vietnamese civilians a month, America's government has gone too far to retreat precip itately. Ho Chi Minh and the cut throats who have assisted his rise to power thought, and continue to think, that Ameri can public opinion will rise up against the involvement, es pecially after the Harrison Salisbury dispatches. They continue to play on the Ameri can public with reports of ci vilian casualties. But the pub lic here hasn't changed and it is not Ekely to. Almost every one in the nation is groaning about the mess in Vietnam, but they are grudgingly back ing it up. If Lyndon Johnson were re placed in 1963 by Ronald Rea gan, George Romney, or even -Senator Bobby, none of them would end the war. The latter is likely to promise much, but deliver nothing. These are the reasons why they will not change the policy: The Vietntm involvement was initiated under Republi can Eisenhower and escalat ed under Democrats Kennedy and Johnson. It is run today by John Kennedy's Secretaries of State and Defense. The investment and mon ey and manpower has now been too great to tolerate de feat. Any President who ends the war on unfavorable terms will be cursed by the people who sacrificed for it. It will not matter who that President is. No politician wants to suf fer this fate. Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea sacrificed too. The quality civil war in the. South has been eliminat ed, thus making the argu ments of the doves stale. The Viet Cong operate only in the 'Pretend You Have A Bomb And . . - L . - . -v ft! VsST . , Ill I ' I ." f HJLNW kt Wrj felt' m 5PMs3rn Thomas Cabarga (01111 Bet YCDIII0 "T (v 0 hwel One of the more wryly amus ing aspects of our free enter prise system is that it allows a man to sell just about any thing, from an anti - tank guns to a filter cigarette, as long as. he can find someone who will buy it. For example, I received a brochure in the mail today from a life insurance company in Pennsylvania offering to "protect (my) college son or daughter with $10,000 life in surance . . . for just $20 a year, complete." I must have gotten at least half a dozen" of these things since I've been in school, although usually ad dressed to me rather than to my parents. This one however seemed to put so much em phasis on "needed security" and the "peace of mind" that I began to wonder; just who was being "protected," and from whit? The flyer assures me that the policy will give "my stu dent" the protection that "I know he should have"; the implication of this statement would seem to be that, sne how, this policy will fani off death. But this is absurd: the "beneficiaries" of the pol icy are dear old Mom and Dad, not the student. And what 7 would he do with the $10,000 if he did succeed in collecting it? Use it to 1 i n e his coffin? The flyer also stresses the fact that Mom and Dad are investing thousands of dollars in my education every year and that, somehow, this pol icy is protecting that invest ment. But this is absurd, too. Most parents don't put Junior through school with the un derstanding that he will pay everything back, with inter est, when he gets out. Putting a kid through school is not an investment; it is a sacrifice, but one which most parents are only too glad to make, if they can. The average par ent would consider that $10, 000 a helluva "consolation prize" for the loss of a son or daughter. However, there is one real benefit that this policy offers: the option to convert it to reg ular insurance when the stu dent graduates, without his having to pass a medical ex amination. On the other hand, how many people suffer a permanent disability between the ages of 18 and 21? Obvi ously, not very many or the rates on this policy would be much higher. Perhaps I'm just cynieal, but it seems to me that what this offer boils down to is a sort of grisly bet between Dad and the insurance company: Dad is betting $80 (four years at $20 per year) that college is going to kill his kid, and the company Is betting $10,000 that it won't I guess some people just can't pass up a bet ; B 1 Mekong Delta now, and the assumption of the war burden by North Vietnam makes Ho appear as red handed as John son has been viewed in the past. At least Johnson didn t start matters. He only .felt obligated to continue them on a grand scale. South Vietnam is begin ning to gain a sense of na tional identity. They have a Constitutent Assembly and elections, even if they are min-v us the Viet Cong. The demo cracy is rudimentary, b u t gaining. America's policy makers have been encouraged by the tide which has run against the proposed Chinese Communist Empire in Asia. C. L. Sulz berger in The New York Times wrote, recently, that In donesia's coup and the unity of other Southeast Asia nations may be attributed to Ameri ca's Vietnam policy. Some scholars are convinced that China's failure to regain suz erainty over Southeast Asia, and the overall failure of Chi nese foreign policy in Asia, Africa and Latin America in the years since Bang Dung led to China's current turmoil. If this is true, and there seems to be validity in this point especially after Chou-en-Lai's recently reported speech es, it seems as if the front running revisionist wave in China's civil bloodshed might possibly alter Chinese foreign policy to a soft line approach. After all, this did come about Otelia Connor in Russia four years after the death of Stalin, who had ter rorized his comrades as chair man Mao recently had done. Now, America sees success in sight for a variety of rea sons. Russia is seeking an end to the war, as was clearly fci dicated by Mr. Kosygin's re cent statements in London. The Soviets might be perl suaded to put the damper on Ho's ambitions. They must recognize that America is not likely to give up bombing in the North, especially when Ho is still adament about his four points and U. S. officials can still remember the drawn-out, eighteen month side-show negotiations during the Korean conflict. What is now left for Ameri ca is simply this: those who have criticized the war must redirect their efforts to pro pose a pattern of negotiations that a self-confident govern ment is more likely to con sider "seriously. This . is the only way to achieve any gains. On the governmental level, the U. S. should continue to aid and expand the quest for peace negotiations, by Ambas- sador-At-Large Averill Harri man especially by increasing contacts with Russia. The weight now, more than ever, is on the shoulders of the diplomats. Only with their aid will the burden be eased from the backs of the peasant in the field, the work er in the city, and the soldier in the jungle. Otel Whizzing Around ia 9s Campus The story goes that a man who had 12 cats was asked why he was cutting 12 holes in the doors when the cats could get out through one hole. He replied "When I say scat, I mean scat!" I was talking to one of the managers at Lenoir today, and I told him somebody needed to say scat in the Pine 'Room!' V He had been talking of the behavior in the Pine Room it was terrible-' 'They throw their trays on the shelves, or put them on the floor, for people to stumble over; they put their feet on the tables and chairs, etc." Someone ought to say scat in the Pine Room, and mean scat! He also said, "you ought to have seen the mess at Chase after the dance Saturday night. After the trouble that ensued after the previous dance at Chase, you would think the students would learn jsome sense. What is needed is someone on hand to supervise and enforce order. Otherwise, they will lose the privilege. Spending large amounts in an attempt to provide attractive eat ing and social places for students is a waste of money on some students. Two students came by my table today and asked for my autograph. I signed the two papers. Then they asked that I add a work, or two. I said I didn't know them, what would I say? They answered, "We are your children. That is what the Tar Heel said." So I wrote a littlenote for each one. They asked if I would be writing in' the Tar Heel this week. I answered I didn't know. It depended on whether I had anything to say. Something usually turns up! Freedom, Forever! (Ed. Note This editorial is reprinted from the Wis consin State Journal.) There was a fitting footnote to history the other night at Eau Claire State University. And it was a proper memo for .modern times, too. George Lincoln Rockwell, who likes to be known as the Fuhrer of the American Nazi party, went to the college to deliver another hate tirade. But before he spoke, an Eau Claire professor, Dr. Carl Andresen, delivered a few remarks which com bined all the attributes of timeliness, relevancy and irony. He welcomed Rockwell with a mild reminder that the last time he, Andresen, had been that close to a Nazi was in Nazi-occupied Norway when he marched down the street with a gun in his back. Rockwell's appearance, Dr. Andresen noted, was a timely reminder that prejudice is a part of the Facist ideology. But more than that, the professor defended the right of the school to permit such an exponent of bias to appear on the campus. "In my book," Dr. Andresen said, "the true test of freedom is to be willing not to silence the idea we . abhor. : "May the day never come when pressures from groups outside our college communities will dictate which speakers American college students may or may not hear." His words etched from bitter experience should be marked well and remembered throughout a state that is proud of its freedom, of expression. They should be remembered in legislative halls and elsewhere, long after Rockwell is forgotten. !'f 1
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