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THf DAILY TAR HEEL PAOI TWO Get Off Your Can And Vote, Vote, Vote Tuesday is the d.iv lor rniver sit b.tllotitiu;- the day when the political lite ot death of aspirants . 1 1 cl aNpiiiti panics nil! be decid ed. And the late ol aspiriiy; politici .iiis and political panics is imon lioirtil)l in the hands ol the stn dent elec tions tow-aid lethargy and sit on voiu-c an-.ii id not -vote-it is. MnUnts have consistenly tailed to exercise their most priceless piiilee. lailed to tome to the ballot lo in snllicient nnmbeis. I'oiitical parties. ;s we have s.iid beloie. have demonstrated an ad miiable enthusiasm dining their nominating sesNion. 'l'his spirit ol enthusiasm should permeate the student body on election cl.iv. Voting percentages in past elec tioiit has been iTttle shoit ol clU ymtiir.;. When only ;ts per cent of the student elector. He yoes to the polb. the cntiie elections proce dure and a priceless American heritage j;ces down the lethargic drain. Suc h a percentage voted in a re cent elec tion. And even fewer nnm beis haw voted in elections pre ceding this paiticular one. The old cliche uttered .somewhat hv mhi itically and w ithout sinceri ty by many politicians: Vote, for the candidates of your choice, any choice, lils the situation to a tee. And we are delinitely opposed to straight-ticket balloting. Stu dents should consider all candidat es cclusivelv on their individual meiit. without party consideration. Straight-tit ket balloting most of ten leads to blind voting voting without thought. Hut. legardless of your consid eration or lack of it place voui can iKside a ballot box cot no Tuesday. Theie is no plate lor lethargy in student government. The Cavalier Daily And Missile Race Short-Side Alter the l.unic hing o the liist artificial eaith satellite. Sputnik I. theie was vat Concern in the Iree woild with the (ethnological sn (xiioritv of the Kremlin scientists. Now that the Kussi.nis have " put i second, and far more impressive satellite into ,m earth oibit. theie i again a hnoi ol com cm. but this time it is-not over the magni tude of this at touiplishment. but with the tlo4 which has gone up with Sputnik II. I hei e is a c 1 v b.isit lallac in tliis soil ol "logic.' The but that the nts satellite npiestiits a leat which Aim-lie an scientists cannot begin to approach, docs not appeal lit wtu .cnsoiu". judging horn the u.n'(ls t Idle is pci)ish('t in llu- Washington Tost lamtntiug l fit- late ol the big Sputnik's' ca nine passenger. I hi is nonsense, not wot th even .1 'second thought. One need oiilv reflect what the use of expe l itnental animals has done to advance scientific knowledge in the past Itali c ciiniiv to scoll at this sou of tiling. The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publication Hoard of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Sunday. Monday and exam ination and vacation periods and sum mer terms. Kntered as second clas9 mat ter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, S4 per year $2 50 a semester: delivered, S6 a year, Si.OO a emeter. Kd.tor NEIL BASS t oed Editor Manajnnj: Kditor alys voorii?:es DOUG EISELE News Editor BILL CHESHIRE News Editor PATSY MILLER Sports Editor BILL KING Asst. Sports Editor DAVE WIBLE Business Manager .. JOItN WMTAKER Advertising Manager .... FRED KATZLN' Librarian GLEN DA FOWLER Business Staff .... WALKER BLANTON, LEWIS RUSH lint let us examine lor a 11 ionic-1 1 1 what the new- satellite really means to us in its proper light. For some time lS. scientists have been engaged in a missile program which has included the develop ment ol an artificial eaith satellite. We had advanced to a point where wt wheie tapable ol putting a )Mund satellite into an oibit atotind the eaith. Hut the ideal is a lound. or neailv lound. oibit. and the I'.S. attempt had been rathe 1 tiude heie. Our satellite's oibit would have been sh.irplv el liptical, and theie was a elangc 1 that at ceitain points in the oibit the satellite might have gone spiv alling oil into space, nevei to be luaicl ol again. This was not what s as de-si led. The Russians suipiised rvciy olir bv plat ing a 1S3 pound satel lite into the skies in an almost perfectly round orbit. It was the weight that leallv scaled us. We could never have gotten such a monster oil the ground. And now ihev have gone themselves one bettel. Sputnik II weighs appioxi inatclv six times as ninth as its pt c-dt c essor. and even tallies 1 small passenger. We hope the- dog gets back to lei 1. 1 til 1 1 1 . t in one piece. We w ish that tliev had put Mr. Kiushchev in the- satellite- instead of the hus kv. liui il the dog doesn't make ii. we needn't woiiv about that too much. Our alarm is now lightlul h at the- lact that oui general mis sile piogiam is luinging up the nar in this race. The- Soviet scient ists have achieved a nicety ol meas- 111 (.-merit that we can only dream about and it is to be hoped that oui progiam will get the shot in the aim that it needs with a mini mum ol delav. II it does not. we tn.iv soon have a lot more to worry about than the late of a lonely lit tle dog which is now circling the eaith at a speed unknown to man. EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield, Nancy Hill, Gary Nichols, Curtis Cans, Al Walker. Gail Grxlwin. Harry Kirschncr. Circulation Manager ... SYD SHLTORD Aire Editor PAUL RULE Subscription Mr. AVERY THOMAS Feature Editor BEN TAYLOR SEWS STAFF Davis Young, Ann Fryc, Dale Whitfield. Mary Moore Mason, Stanford Fisher, Edith MacKinnon, Prinze Tipkin, Mary Lcgsctt Brown ing, Ruth Whitley, Sarah Armstrong. SI0RTS STAFF Erwin Fuller. Mac Ma haffy, Al Walters, Ed Rowland, Ken I'rieiidman, Donnic Moore, Neil Leh man, Elliott Cooper, Carl Keller, Jim Purks, Rusty Hammond. PHOTOGRAPHERS Norman Kantor, Buddy Spoon. !roof Tteader PEBLEY B ARROW Nisut Editor PEBLEY BARROW Rah-Rah And De-Wolfizing I'niveisitv loot bal lei s tlemon sttaled an admirable espiit dc ii ps at vesteidav's game. I he siipeib passing ol Coniet Anntcl Ouaiteiback ( '.tunmiugs. coupled with an incurable case ol lumblitis which harassed the Gamecocks and an overall team spirit of dynamism led to a victory which kept C'aiolina rooters olf and on tlnoughout the contest. We editoiiallv compliment the footballers and their admirable ef- lolt. The dav was lull ol "c hcci able" (n c til 1 eii( is. I ven the high-living Wolfpack liom across the way managed to get de-wolled. Cheers and post-lime festivities to all. CAROLINA CARROUSEL: Argument For Arguments Sake Purely By GAIL GODWIN ' Controversies stem to charac terize the entire edit page of the Daily Tar Heel. The Readers' Re pository is slowly' but steadily blocking out more ' and more column inches. Letters to the edi tor and the answers to these let ters are mushrooming into huge argumentive blobs which domin ate the second page o our news paper. The latest blob is in the form of a segregation debate. ' The leaders of this debat are. I believe, searching " frantically through every history book! news paper, congressional record, al manac, etc., and lifting any little word, phrase or clause that will justify their side and their side only. It just struck me as rather amusing. Because neither side will win. An argument is hopeless when it is one-sided on each side and when its sole purpose is to win just for the sport of winning. Progenitors of these arguments remain glued stubbornly to one spot with their eyes glued stub bornly shut. Wc might label them the " Blind Philosophers." Their heaven lies in the terribly highbrow experience of . looking up superior rhetoric and digging info deep and dusty philosophy for argumentive sport. They simply neglect to look up berth sides of a question, but peune-e only on facts supporting 'Their side" They forget that compromise' is necessary in almost every argu ment. Where compromise is bar red, reason may also be exclud ed. No? Some very unusual statements have emerged from the pnvcnf " Mind philosopher' debate. One of them is that there is no fourteenth amendment. This is up setting. For the past two weeks ' in Poly. Sci. 41. wc have boon tlo verting entire class periods' to cases dealing vxt-lusivcly with the fourteenth amendment, how it na.' tionalizcd the Bill of Rights, its famous ' Due Process" clause, etc. I would hate to think the poor Su preme Court Justices have been basing their decisions on a non existent amendment for lo these past hundred years. And I would liate even more to think that poor studi-nts have been studying .a historical fallacy in such detail. It is interesting to see wha will c-cunve next. The sad thiug about all this 'is' that this pugnacious type of daily prim is Hot enjoyed by readers who look to a newspaper for in formation, new ideas and insight. Tlio entire second page pf our newspaper is becoaning a Rattle-', ground of conflict Ing-V Personal opinions. ' Are some of the contributors who write such hot little masterpieces simply, trying to become well known tii rough the means of a newspaper? Arc the writers of such articles, whether staff members or other wise, really championing a cause. Or are they just indulging in their favorite sport at the reader's ex pense? Perhaps the real aewspaper spirit of informing and enlighten ing is being undermined by the sport of arguing just for the sake of arguing and seeing it in print. L'lL ABNER 'v "Thanks A Lot. Fellows' . -w? r ? ff 1 FROM OREGON DAILY EMERALD: Concerning School Spirit And Channelling To Propriety . . . It was no surprise that the cam pus erupted Saturday at the radio's last gasp finish to the Oregon Stanford game. Tiierc was just too miH-li halr-tcaring. rolling-on-tbe-floor anguish in that one to sit back down at the study table and start , worrying about Monday's midterm. And it was no surprise that the post-game festivities took the form they did. There's the natural ten dency after a listening party to get outside and share your jty with anybody everybody on your side of the cause. But in this age of power and speed off as well as on tiie gridiron, this final gun search for togetherness becomes almost as loaded with anguish as the living room listening. And it is getting to be more dangerous than actually playing in the game. We're not suggesting that you can control that immediate burst if enthusiasm that sweeps the cam pus living groups into the campus transportation so noisily. This is spontaneity something rare to this campus in any true form. But the follow-up publicity, coupled with tlie continuing success of the foot ball Webfoots, is making this sort of enthusiasm less and less sponta neous. Saturday's outburst was quite naturally large and sudden. But we cant help thinking that if the Washington State post-game acti vities hadn't grown to such ex citing proportions. perhaps the Stanford follow-up wouldn't have been so large and. sudden. And this leads us to believe that it wouldn't be quite so difficult to organize something along lines a little more safe and sane on-the-ground type of activity. The brief intersection rally near the "Side" block in the midst of Saturday's car parade might approach it. This wild, pilc-em-on-thoear and drivc-Iikc-mad way of celebrating may be fun, but things like that can get dangerous. Even if wc aren't concerned about the old women and small children trying to cross Willamette St., wc might stop to consider what could happen if a couple of 10-men convertibles, victory btlls and all. slammed to- glthlT. It may seem a little bit stodgy, we admit, for the Eugene police to crack down on a bell-ringing crowd in a slow-moving pick-up for "obstructed vision." And we certainly didn't approve of the way the Side" street rally was "broken up" a week ago. But We can't expect the police to hold traffic for too many more of these red light-running races to nowhere. They wouldn't be do ing their duty to keep us safe from ourselves. We're bound to win more ball games in succeeding weeks. And we're bound to have more spirit- even spontaneous spirit. It's time for the Rally Board to use this spirit to good advantage with some planned activity. The airport welcome was fairly well done, al though the leadership had to come informally. That school spirit stuff is grow ing this minute. And if the football successes keep that pleasant one step ahead in growth, we're going to sec spirit they never dreamed could exist on this campus. But this long-sought stuff has got to be handled. Rally Board, we'll re mind you again. We aren't too anxious about trying to photo graph a running car parade the length of the Salem freeway this weekend. Rameses XXI: Old Rameses sees a certain amount of collusion in the present ignominious recall movement. The negative bill being debated by the Di and Phi Monday night comes not from an objective member of the debating societies but from a spirit of opposition and political opportunity manifest txl by certain members of a cer tain fraternity on campus. The Ram thinks, definitely, that conscientious members of the de bating societies will reject this brand of what the editor calls "negativism." by Al Capp 1 . . -- TH' LADIES' &ROTHERHOOO ( (GWf-'AH OPES MAM V3 f (-AA'HM OALY irJL BAND WILL SEND VO'OfF. ) SHOXE-FRE SCHEME DOtfr ) V 5k YARS OLD."-) ) i ZrP W,pr A WSPtRAV-SHUN AL J V&aK'?-rrCZ TET rAi. vT, va- V 'S&m&z-walkjn'our ( sloppy atTTZK'LL Gr r U V C2A. POGO by Walt Kelly PEACE 7 ) AUltf O0 J.TWC Ppy if-, , COM3 TVO,P0 Y ANr WHAT I GOT I MB. J 24 A A YOU WHAT HAPPtKt? A isAmsrtC DAY. C PiJT VOU AIN'T UPON READERS' REPOSITORY: Reader Explains Edit Situation j editor: . ; I follow with interest the conflict that you are -presently having vtith members of the University .. student body. In my opinion' editors of . -University , newspapers hold . unique positions on campuses. 1 suppose it is very difficult' to satisfy the pseudo student politician's and the administration, but as you are now having a taste of such, it perhaps would be superficial, indeed, to give advice to an editor whom I personally thint is doing a tremend ous job.' V-. - . ": As a student member of the Board of Publica-, tion 'Cthe governing agency for all student publi cations)' and a former editor of the Colorado Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Colo rado, Bouldert Colorado; I have at times been plac- ed ' in a similar position in which, you find your- ' self today. I've been reading The Daily Tar Heel since I have arrived at NYU, where I am presently a stu dent" at rn6 Law School. (The paper was supplied ' by Jim' Eitim; a former student at UNO. The paper, in my opinion, does not have the polish nor the coverage of the New York Times, but it does have the polish and coverage of a good college dally. One forgets that putting out a news paper everyday is not easy it is not difficult to r criticize the editorial policy of the paper (and who ever Wholeheartedly agrees with an editor), but in my opinion the charges of incompetency leveled against you have no basis in fact unless the peo- ' pie asking for your recall are ready to provide for : a highly-paid skilled journalist. A college newspaper is just that. No more, and no les. It should not try to "emulate a great city newspaper. Qn the contrary, it should strive to de scribe to the reading public, the academic and stu dent "activities that., are being, held on campus. Above all. it should fairly represent the University, . and not' just a segment. " . . i This is hard. On all pages, an editor attempts to do that. "Without a competent staff, an editor is hard put to accomplish the goal. If students are in terested in reforming content, then their interest should be manifested in coming to the newspaper and working on the staf. As for the editorial page. This is your page and solely yours. It is here where the idea of free dom of the press is maintained on the highest let el. I suppose, that when an editor writes an editori al, he tries so hard to be correct in factual state ment and in his comments on the subject. It is easy to get emotional and use the wrong approach or words in discussing an issue. This is a weakness which you and all editors of any. paper have and will continue to manifest. We are human. But, if it is a weakness, it can be corrected. This is not1 to say that one should tone down the tenor of the comment, but simply to point out the varying possi bility that one might state phrases so as to make the reader read attentively and not be revolted by the statements of the editorial. I certainly have the highest esteem for the pa-, per. and regard it as an outstanding daily. With the help and comment of the student body, and ad ministration, the papef can even be' better." Petty arguments will' only hinder-' and prevent advance ment. ' " "' '' ' The University of North Carolina should bef proud of the paper. It would indeed be a shame to continue the conflict; that is presently n campus. STAFFER SPEAKS: Edit Freedom & Crowd Pleasing EDITOR: .S.viQ I believe that the only legitimate consideration in the recall election is whether you have abused your editorial freedom. I feel the charge of incompetency to produce a newspaper is poorly grounded as the Tar Heel has continued to come out and has been gradually im proving. You seem to imply that editorial freedom gives you the right to print anything, i cannot agree; I think editorial freedom has been traditionally limit ed by truth and good taste. The students of the University of North Carolina have the right throusa a recall election to judge whether you have exceed ed these bounds. I think that some of your remarks and the maa ner in which you have expressed yourself have bepa in poor taste; however, I do not feel that you have yet seriously abused your freedom, certainly not enough to justify your recall and the election of a new editor. Unfortunately, there is a minority of students who would wish to limit editorial freedom for any editor. They do not consider the question objective ly, only emotionally. They do not want any editor at any lime to be anything more than an anxious crowd pleaser. They would deny the editor the right to criticize or to speak against what they be lieve, .fr Should these students by themselves prove to be strong enough to oust you, the next editor will hardly dare print a controversial opinion, for, if he should, these unthinking students will place him in your present position. Editorial freedom of any sort will be dead. fcfo&U Pipit" 4
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