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To the Editor:
This past Saturday, April 24, over a
half million' people marched peacefully
down Pennsylvania Avenue and onto
Capitol Hill in protest against the
Vietnam War. It was said to be the largest
massive demonstration in history. I feel as
if The Daily Tar Heel hasn't given this
unprecedented event the attention it
deserves. While . other city newspapers
such as the Durham Sun had it headlined,
Monday's DTH mentioned nothing
whatsoever about it. Also, I don't know
how well UNC was represented, but there
seems to be a general state of apathy
among the majority of the students here.
The ideal of the United States
Government set forth by our ancestors
was a free democracy: "government of
the people, by the people, and for the
people." It is quite evident that we are
not even close to reaching this ideal. The
government may be to blame, but since
it's a government "by the people," I
think the people are to blame. When they
don't seem to care what the government
does, which is exemplified by the apathy
of a large part of the American people,
then it is easy to understand how our
government gets into the hands of a few
who dictate its foreign policy for their
benefit.
There was something very different
about last Saturday's demonstration. It
was its diversity. Not only students
marched, but many labor, groups
including "hardhats," many war veterans
who had been there all week long, and
many older people all joined together to
voice a very loud protest against the
Vietnam War. It was loud enough for
many Congressmen to hear, but not for
President Nixon. He was completely
: avoiding the American people by seeking
refuge at Camp David. By appealing to
Congress, the direct representatives of the
people, the demonstration may have
some influence on their attitudes toward
the war. It should.
Concerning President Nixon's present
policy of withdrawal, I would like to say
this. My only brother just got drafted
into the army Monday and reported to
Fort Jackson, S.C., for basic training. He
graduated from N.C. State University
with a degree in production engineering
in July, and got married that same
summer. Although he applied for a CO,
he was denied it and was unable to find
any steady job with his low lottery
number. The meiat the. recruiting station ;
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put his chances of going to Vietnam at
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withdrawing them!
This coming Saturday is May Day. San
Francisco's demonstration, led by a
veteran in a wheel chair, Chicago's
demonstration, and all the people
interested in putting an end to the War
will converge on Washington. As I left
there this, past Sunday, they strongly
urged that I return and bring my friends.
Although I realize this weekend is
Jubilee, I am asking all the students of
UNC and citizens of Chapel Hill to
attempt to make it to Washington this
weekend. Some students are leaving after
the concerts Saturday, and others Sunday
morning. It's not too much to ask when
one considers the number of inhumane
deaths involved with the Vietnam War.
For students with low lottery numbers
this war is not so far from directly
affecting their own lives, since it is very
possible that college deferments will be
abolished after this summer. In order for
the demonstration to be a success, it
needs the support of everyone. PLEASE
COME AND DO YOUR PART TO
HELP!
Chuck Lollar
4-F Kingswood Apts.
Hester lauds
'moral men'
To the Editor:
. As one who has f6r a long time been
deeply concerned about the immorality
of the war which successive Washington
administrations have imposed upon the
Indochinese people, I am- greatly
encouraged by the position taken by Yale
University's President, Dr. Kingman
Brewster, Jr. In a talk on Alumni Day,
February 20, 1971, in Yale's Freshman
Commons, the President stated:
"To my mind the basic flaw in our
Southeast Asian war policy is moral. The
policy seems to be shaped and is most
often discussed as though America had no
concern for the sanctity of human life as
such, as though we cared only about
American lives.
"The reduction of American
casualties, even the withdrawal of all
American combat troops, does not
mitigate our moral responsibility: for the
spread of the war; for the indiscriminate
bombings of neutrals; for the scorching of
forests and villages; for the massacres of
innocents.
"Personal and national moral
self-respect urges us to reassert that
peace, the return of prisoners not the
yietnamizatipn of continuing American
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sponsored warfare must be this
country's goal. The issue, to me, is not
tactical or strategic. It is the moral
callousness of the assumption that the
body count doesn't matter as long as they
are not American bodies."
These are profound words of a
dedicated, moral man. Naturally, his
audience was deeply moved, for he
touched a chord that denotes the very
essence of what every true American
patriot wants his country to be.
Another voice, this time that of a
statesman as well as an intellectual and
moral man, U.S. Senator George
McGovern, in a television program on the
day be 'ore Washington's birthday, stated:
"I regard this war as the most barbaric
and inhumane act that our country has
ever committed. I think it terrible that
this country has its bombers ranging all
across the face of Indochina, killing
innocent men, women, and children by
the tens of thousands, paying the people
of Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia to
kill each other and doing all of this in the
name of self-determination for them.
"I cannot participate in that kind of a
thing any more than I could go out here
in the street and start shooting down
innocent people outside this door."
These are not the equivocal words of a
political opportunist, but those of a man
seeking the highest office in our country
in order to eliminate government
corruption, restore equal justice and
opportunities to all, promote national
and personal morality, and, hopefully,
build a society in which all have the
opportunity to develop their highest
physical, intellectual ; and spiritual
possibilites.
The voices of Dr. Brewster and Sen.
McGovern are the true American voices.
Let's accept their advice and begin now
to rehabilitate American physically,
intellectually and spiritually.
Hugh B. Hester
Brigadier General U.S. Army (Ret.)
McGovern
for President
To the Editor:
Growing numbers of Americans are
coming to the realization that Nixon's is a
disastrous administration. There are now
stirrings of dissent within the Republican
Party, and the possibility exists that
Nixon's party may not renominate him in
1972. And if he wins the nomination,
George Wallace will undoubtedly
undercut his support and help to elect a
Democratic President. We are now in a
position to help select that President.
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There are a number of good men in
the Democratic Party whose names have
been mentioned in connection with the
1972 Presidential nomination, but only
Senator George McGovern has announced
his candidacy and is today raising the
issues which will shape the election.
He is one of the leading spokesmen for
the peace movement, co-sponsor of both
Hatfield-McGovern amendments to end
the war. He is a leader in trymg to reform
the Democratic Party. He has been
instrumental in publicizing the shocking
story of malnutrition in America. He
supports a volunteer army. He supports
the right of ail Americans to a clean
environment. He opposes invasion of
privacy by government investigative
agencies, and he was one of the first
public figures to speak out against the
demagdguery of J. Edgar Hoover.
Senator McGovern 's qualifications are
impeccable, and his positions on these
and other issues make him the , best,
alternative to Nixon-Agnew.
Michael Searles
Chapel Hill
Homosexuality
must come out
To the editor:
The author of this letter, as will be
understood later, must remain
anonymous..
The Daily Tar Heel's Insight of April
23, dealing with the topic of
. homosexuality, was excellent. I applaud
the effort of the DTH to enlighten the
straight world on a gravely misunderstood
; subject. I imagine the estimate of the
I number of homosexuals in Chapel Hill
shocked many. I am one of that number.
There is one problem I face concerning
my homosexuality, and it must be the
worst one someone gay can face. I am a
virgin homosexual. Could anyone except
another who has been in my situation
comprehend how frustrating that is? I
wish I could find out where the gay bar
mentioned in the article is. But what am I
supposed to do? Do I go up to someone
and ask, "Say, I happen to be a
homosexual. Could you tell me where the
local gay bar is?" Or better still, ask a
policeman how to get there? Oh, I have
-plenty of straight friends, but I have
existed through 22 years of hell
wondering how to get in with my own
kind. '
It is false that homosexuals are,' by
definition, cases , for a psychiatrist's
. ; couch, but this one will be if he does not
IS come out soon. And the sad thing is that
I Still do not know where to go or whom
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to see. I need to be with others Lie rse so
that I can be honest about myself
completely. I am tired of lying.
I may kill myself. I cannot take this
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years.
Anonymous
Happy patient
likes Infirmary
To the Editor:
It seems to be that I have been coming
to Chapel HH1 all my life, first summers,
now for my year of required residence,
and, for as long as I can remember, I have
been hearing complaints about the
Student Health Service, about the apathy
of doctors, indifference of nurses, and
about the total inadequacy of the
Infirmary.
I am happy to report, moi qui rous
parle, that these complaints are not
justified. I have just come back to full
classes after one day of out-patient
treatment and five days in traction in the
Infirmary. I have never been better
treated: the doctor who saw me Monday
a.m. (I had to wait only a half -hour or
less) did everything possible to keep me
navigating, had me come back in the
afternoon, then, on Tuesday decided I
needed traction.
I entered the Infirmary as a ,
patient-no problem: a clean ward-room,
interesting companions, excellent food.
Nurses came immediately when I pressed
my buzzer; doctors made rounds twice a
day. As a student at UNC I got better
attention that I would have anywhere I
know.
Hooray for r the Student Health
Service!
Georgie A. Gurney
331 W. Rosemary
'I fail to see
any progress'
To the Editor:
I agree with Judith Biber (Apr. 20)
that a child has a "right to be loved," and
that the quality of life into which he is
bom is of paramount importance. My
reservations to abortion on demand are
these:
. I find it hard to balance the claim of
"happiness" against that of "life' The
argument that "a life that has some
chance of happiness (should) come before
life for life's sake" reads like a moral
sanction for any kind of havoc one wants
to wreak on the human race, so long as
i it's Vfor their own good." Perhaps-the
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conditions of modem China, or cf Russia
in the 1920s, justifki turmoil,
dislocation, or even externrutions. Yet, 1
granted this, I hope we are not in quite
such a crisis as these nations were, ar.J
that a more human approach to our
problems is possible.
I question the moral vitality of z
culture which formulates the concept of
"unwanted" children, and then develop
a way to dispose of them. Can such a
culture guarantee a high "quality of Lfe"?
Will it, in any or all of its ramifications,
be a human environment? The
disaffection and alienation of a whole
generation of "wanted" children answers
this question; so do officially sanctioned
unemployment, the Vietnam war, racial
and sexual bigotry and frustration, etc.
Another writer, angry with my first
letter, advises me to look after my own
head. Is what I've said so totally
unreasonable? We're just now learning to
discuss the ecology of our natural
environment. Doesn't our social
environment have an ecology too? The
main moral pollutant in America has
always been callousness. Now we are told
that the humanitarian way to preserve
future beings from unhappiness is to
abort them. Somehow I fail to see any
progress.
John Agar
Girls' sports
need coverage ,
To the Editor:
I still " can't figure it out. Last
Thursday, you finally had something
about the women's tennis team. Why
have you waited so long? Why the
write-up about the match with East
Carolina but not a word about last
Saturday's Carolina Tennis Day which
saw Carolina's doubles team go all the
way? Some beautiful tennis was played. I
realize that the team great, Laura duPont,
was not there, but I also realize that the
rest of the women's tennis team is filled
with good players. Miss duPont has not
played in any of the matches this year,
and the girls have won them all without
her.
It's time the DTH paid the girls a ljttlc
more attention.
C.L. Lassiter
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