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Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial pae.
All unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor and the staff.
Letters and columns represent only the opinions of the individual
contributors.
Wednesday, March 17, 1971
Tom Gooding, Editor
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: A one year monetary grant from
Student Legislature should not
place an organization under the
perpetual control of Student
Government.
However, that is exactly the
situation in which WCAR radio
station has found itself.
f Last year Student Legislature
appropriated $5,485.50 for WCAR
and placed their financial
operations under the Publications
Board.
WCAR accepted both the money
and the financial control.
5 This year WCAR does not plan
to request any funds from Student
Legislature, They do not plan to be
under any financial control by
Student Government.
5 Unfortunately, some Student
Government officials apparently
plan to place WCAR in next year's
budget in an attempt to justify
financial control over the radio
station.
We do not expect legislature to
Happy St. Patricks
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
If there is such a thing anymore.
After all, St. Patrick, the patron
saint of all Irishmen, be they true
or imagined, got the boot a while
back, dong with several other
all-time favorite saints, like St.
Nicholas.
But we're willing to bet that
there's not an Irishman alive who
doesn't still believe in St. Patrick.
On campus, the Irish Mafia of
the English Department, under the
leadership of Dr. Lewis Leary, will
surely be decked out in the
79 Years of Editorial Freedom
Tom Gooding, Editor
Rod Waldorf ....... Managing Ed.
Mike Pamell . . . .News Editor
Rick Gray . . . . . Associate Ed.
Chris Cobbs . . . Sports Editor
Frank Parrish ..... Feature Editor
Ken Ripley .... National News Ed.
John Gellman Photo Editor
Terry Cheek Night Editor
Robert Wilson Business Mgr.
Janet Bernstein ....... .Adv. Mgr.
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Winfred was lost. He had absolutely no
idea where he was, but he started walking
toward what he thought was home
anyway.
' Pretty soon, or at least Winfred
thought it was soon, he came across a
building. He stopped and looked up over
the door. The writing across the top said,
'New West."
; - "What a fascinating name," Winfred
thought. "This building is certainly not
hew, and I'm not at all sure that this is
the west. But I think I'll go inside and see
what is going on."
Once inside the building, Winfred "
heard voices corning from upstairs. He
climbed all the way up to the third floor
and looked into the room.
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approve such an absurd
appropriation. Even if the
appropriation were approved, we
do not feel it would in any way be
binding on WCAR.
WCAR exists primarily for the
residence colleges not for Student
Government.
Therefore, it would be logical to
place WCAR under the supervision
of the people it serves.
A bill currently before Student
Legislature would place policy and
financial control of the station
under their Board of Directors
composed of two representatives
from each residence college and one
from each fraternity and sorority
that subscribes to WCAR.
This bill would make the radio
station directly accountable to the
people that pay the bills and receive
the broadcasts.
Any other method of financial
or editorial control would be
unnecessary and regrettable.
brightest Kelly green in honor
the day.
In New York Irishmen will
of
be
marching along Fifth Avenue in the
annual St. Patrick's Day parade.
And all will be well in the world,
because when there's a happy
Irishman around the laws of nature
say, everyone else has to be happy
too:
So, despite the banishment of
the good St. Patrick, the man who
banished the snakes from the balmy
isle of Eire, Happy St. Patrick's
Day.
Cheers.
Inside there were a lot of people
standing around and talking. Mostly they
took turns talking, but sometimes
someone forgot his manners and a man at
the front of the room on a tall bench
would pound a hammer and yell at the
person who had interrupted.
Pretty soon one of the people inside
notices Winfred and came over to talk to
him.
"Well, what do you think?" he asked.
"I'm not really certain," Winfred said.
"I've never been here before and this is
sort of confusing. Could you tell me
what's happening?"
"I'd be glad to, son," the man said,
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The news from New York is that, after
23 years on the air, Ed Sullivan has been
cancelled by CBS, and now Sunday night
viewers are asking with bated breath,
"Now that Sullivan has been offed, can
The FBI' be far behind?"
Comedian Joe E. Lewis once offered
the prediction that Ed Sullivan "will last
as long as other people have talent." How
true. You just don't get any more good
dancing bears coming up today, and who
could ever take the place of the little
Italian mouse, Topo What'sis name? And
when was the last time you read about a
promising trapeze act defecting out from
behind the Iron Curtain?
Yes, Ed Sullivan was a victim of the
talent drain, and similar handwriting is on
the wall for Ed's Sunday night
competition of the last six years, "The
FBI."
Just look at what J. Edgar Hoover has
had to do lately to keep his name in the
news: inflating the Ten Most Wanted List
to 12 with six not-yet-dry-behind-the-ears
college kids and arresting a couple of
priests and even a nun.
Now the kids might be good box
office, but they have the knack of
avoiding arrest, a situation which tends to
cause havoc when every show must run
four acts and one epilog long. And as for
going after some of our more radical
spiritual guides, well, the nearest TV ever
had to that was the "Flying Nun."
The law of diminishing returns has
even set in for the most fertile breeding
ground of them all, the Mafia, which
Murray Kempton claims is being
destroyed by amateurs operating with
low overhead and classic laissez-faire
instincts.
The lack of good, hardened American
criminals a la John Dellinger is beginning
to show up in the Sunday night plots.
Just two night ago, for example,
Inspector Efrem Zimbalist, who got out
of the private eye business just about the
time teenyboppers started overrunning
Sunset Strip, was faced with the problem
of a college basketball scandal. -The
fix was being directed by, and this
was a real surprise, a guy in a smoking
jacket who fingered a cigar as he operated
out "of New York City and said things
like, "Rudy, I'm counting on you."
Something has gone wrong in
.American crime.
Whenever you hear anybody over the
age of 30 pontificating about "what's
wrong with baseball," they always cite
figures about the death of the minor
leagues. A parallel can be drawn between
baseball and the FBI: there's nobody
working their way up through the ranks.
Do you think any of the student radicals
on the Top Ten ever served a stretch for
mail fraud? j
Down in the Chapel Hill post office is
a glass-enclosed bulletin board which
contains the names of people who, in
another time, would represent the;
up-and-coming criminals; the rookies just
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sticking his thumbs in his belt loops and
puffing up his chest like a frog does when
he's croaking.
"This is a meeting of the Di-Phi. We
meet every week and discuss important
issues. We're the oldest student
organization on campus, and we created
Student Government all by ourselves.
And we did such a good job that a few
years back we abolished Student
Government because it was 'Mickey
Mouse' and didn't do anything
worthwhile.
'The student legislators used to rent
this room from us, but we don't let them
anymore because they aren't relevant and
don't accomplish anything," the man
see
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getting their start with the mail fraud
cases.
Today this list looks like a sanitarium
newsletter. Once you could go into the
post office and feel fear; now you feel
pity.
For example, there's William R.
Simpson (DOB 7-22-06), whoU reach the
magic Social Security plateau this
summer.
The FBI's description of Simpson,
who is wanted for possession of stolen
mail, reads: "active tubercular, weight
may decrease; wears false teeth. Has
mastoid operation scar, a small mole on
left cheek He has tatoos 'Rose True
Love' on inner right forearm, a heart
tatoo with the word 'Mother' on inner
left wrist and two hearts on left
forearm."
The nearest statement to a warning the
Grover B. Proctor Jr.
Welfare is se
This is the second in my five-article
series in which I shall attempt to explain
as best T can how I see the role of
Conservatives in today's American
society.
I am basing this series on my first
column, in which I listed five points
through which I defined Conservatism.
The second of these points, and the topic
for today's column, was as follows:
A Conservative is NOT one who feels
that the suppliance of material goods is
the mission of government. On the
contrary, we Conservatives feel that the
spiritual side of man gives him his
individuality, and therefore, personal
freedom.
Quite obviously, this divides into two
distinct trains of thought, first, that the
governmental dole is a malpractice, and
second, that man's personal freedom
essentially derives from the spiritual
aspect of his being.
First let me explore the former.
It has been considered commonly
accepted for quite some time now that
the best way to improve a man's general
welfare was to improve his financial
situation.
Entire governmental agencies have
been formed dedicated to this
proposition. Leaders declare that the cure
for rising poverty is to channel more and
more money back through these agencies
to the needy impoverished masses.
The overwhelming ineptness of the
government in handling this responsibility
has been repeatedly shown too many
times for me to need to bother with it
here. Suffice it to say that in terms of
helping those who are termed in need of
help, the government has failed badly.
This needs to be examined on a deeper
level than the mere ability of the agencies
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smiling and trying to make Winfred think
he was awfully important.
"Well, what does the Di-Phi do?"
Winfred asked, thinking the question
would yield a long list of things since this
person was obviously one who did a lot
of important things around where ever it
was that Winfred had found himself.
We do lots of things," the man said
and stopped without saying anything else.
"What kind of things?" Winfred
wanted to know, not really meaning to
upset the guy because he had been nice.
But he did upset the guy, and he
shouted, "What do you mean what kind
of things? I just told you we started
Student Government and a few years ago
we abolished it. We're the oldest student
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FBI could make was that "despite his age,
(Simpson) has a penchant for young
women."
Remember howjlamorous it once was
to be a criminal? Girls falling all over you,
right?
Not any more they don't. Just ask
George Wilhelm Wahl III, a guy wanted
for mail fraud who is easily recognizable
for the "I Always Love You Mary" tatoo
on his right shoulder.
When Wahl was last seen, he was
driving a Cadillac occupied by himself, a
middle-aged woman (his moll?), a 13-year
old boy and two poodles. Today when
you get a moll, it seems, you get her
whole family.
Have you ever noticed on television
the way Zimbalist always yells, "Hold it
right there, this is the FBI," and the way
not one criminal has ever "held it right
there"? Well, in real life, many of the
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to undertake the task. After all, it could
be , argued that whatever inequities as
-exist might be rectified.
I question, however, the legitimacy of
government to undertake these
responsibilities at all. Consider the
following.
Last time I spoke of what I called a
natural ordering or structuring of any
given society which will naturally occur.
This stratification can be seen, as I
pointed out, in the fact that there will
exist in any given societal structure a
certain element of leadership, commonly
recognized as such, that will take charge.
Likewise, ther will exist an economic
structuring in all societies that will
emerge naturally and will exist apart from
all socialistic and communistic efforts to
remedy it. This has been repeatedly
shown throughout history.
Therefore, there will exist in this
economic structuring a higher and a lower
section of the society. This gap, or more
precisely continuum, is in and of itself
not bad. It is natural.
Therefore I submit that any attempt
on the part of government to try to
eliminate or smooth out this continuum
is doomed to failure, for it is working
against the natural order -of its own
society.
Certainly, in a world in which so many
seek to gain so much, it is necessary to
make sure that no part of a society can
elevate itself at the expense of another
group. Unfortunately, there is proof
enough of the existence of such stepping
Letter
This war
To the Editor:
President Nixon says that the Vietnam
blunder may be the last war.
Concomitant with this lofty
pronouncement the president presides
over 1,000 Minuteman missiles each the
equivalent of a million tons of TNT, 54
larger Titan II missiles, 2,000
thermonuclear bombs in 500 B-52
bombers, 656 Polaris and Poseidon
missiles in 41 nuclear submarines, and
7,000 smaller nuclear weapons carried by
aircraft carriers and land-bases bombers.
He chooses to ignore this latter group of
weapons, , declaring them to be 'tactical"
rather than "strategic" as a lame way of
removing them from control or limitation
at SALT even though each is as large as
the bomb which destroyed Hiroshima.
These weapons being inadequate for
our "security," the man who says that
war is a thing of the past declares that we
must MIRV both the Minuteman missiles
and the submarine-based missiles and, in
addition, we must extend the ABM
system to more Minuteman sites.
One has to wonder about a man who
says that war is a thing of. the past yet
finds that, in order to separate ourselves
from a war in which we never had a
cause, proceeds to send 1,000 bombers
jmd 600 helicopters in a single day into
four other countries. Even as he rings
down the curtain on future war he makes
no commitment about stopping these
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organization on campus. We are stocked
full of tradition. We are the heritage of
student self-government on this campus."
. "I don't understand," Winfred said,
scratching his head thoughtfully and
shaking it back and forth. "You say you
created Student Government and then
abolished it. But doesn't Student
Government still go on doing whatever it
is that Student Government does."
"You're hopeless," the man said,
turning to go back into the room that was
still full of people who were talking about
something that Winfred. couldn't quite
understand.
"Maybe I am hopeless," Winfred
thought. "Maybe I don't understand the
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people the FBI hunts co
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even if they wanted to.
Take Edwin Pierce, a 49-year-old
CaHomian wanted for mail fraud. Fierce
tips the scales at an even 300 pounds,
evenly distributed over his 5'11" frame.
Maybe some day hell get toother with
Joan Alice Donahue, a husky
200-pounder (S'SJO wanted for
embezzlement of postal funds, cr 56"
Evelyn Reece who weighs 220
pounds
and is wanted for mail theft.
The only member of the list
could oossiblv be nominated for
who
Miss
Mail Fraud is Janice DiCamiHo, who wi3
be 31 next Tuesday. She stands an ideal
53W, weighing a petite 145. But, warns
the FBI, DiCamUlo "is known to be an
excellent pistol shot."
As fugitive Claude Morris O'Steen
has tatooed on himself, there's "No
Future in it."
on other people in the fact that America
contains such inadequate laws to stop it.
Much more stringent laws are needed to
curb this human trait.
But to try to establish an artificial
level of human subsistence while allowing
the above to continue is at best
hypocritical. It shows a decided lack of
consideration of the individual freedom
of man, my second major point.
The full individual liberty of man lies
in his right to exist in and of himself,
with whatever societal ties he wishes to
make (religion, politics, culture, etc.), as
well as the minimum control from a
governing body.
The self-restraint one must have to
achieve full liberty (i.e., the acquiescence
to certain limited regulations to insure
the survival of the society) is vital. But
equally as vital is the obligation on the
part of government to exercise as little
control on the person as need be.
To achieve full liberty for its people
and to insure against overstepping the
legitimate functions of government, the
ruling body of a society must provide for
the survival of the natural order of itself
and allow full expression to the individual
to succeed or fail as he can, without
impinging on the rights of others to do
the same. f ,
On such is the Conservative
philosophy built. It would mean the
destruction of certain sacrosanct agencies
and powers of government, that Is the
price we say we must pay for freedom for
all people.
not
support operations even though these
support operations have contributed to
the death of 600,000 of our fellow men
of which 200,000 were civilians. This man
makes sense only if we think that it is
safe to assume that every nation in the
world will show better judgment and
more restraint than we have.
Perhaps the president was misquoted.
With all of the ICBM's, MIRVs, and
ABM's at our disposal and with new
nations joining the club each year maybe
he meant to say that the Vietnam fiasco
is the next-to-last war.
Joseph W. Straley
Chapel Hill
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whole thing. This guy just said the Di-Phi
had abolished Student Government, but
there still is a Student Government and
from the newspaper I read this afternoon
it appears to be doing something;
somebody said in the paper that there
were refrigerators, a budget of $250,000,
a lawyer to try to keep the administration
from controlling student fees and some
other things I don't remember.
'To me that seems like something.
And Student Government certainly hasn't
been abolished. I just don't understand."
And Winfred walked out of New West
and away from the Di-Phi, still scratching
his head and mumbling to himself about
"I don't understand ..."
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