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THE DATT.y TAR HEEL Saturday, October 15, 1CC3 Page Two I Batlp tlat Heel - ; The official student publication of the Publications Board of the Univer- sity of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday, examination f periods and summer terms. Entered as second-class matter in the post office I I in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4.00 f ; per semester, $7.00 per year. ! The Daily Tar Heel is printed by Colonial Press, Chapel Hill, N. C. ij .. .. . . ... - . . .. M Editor . . Jonathan Yardley i ! Associate Editors . . . .......... Wayne King, Mary Stewart Baker Assistant to the Editor Ed Riner I Managing Editors ; Bob Haskell, Margaret Ann Rhymes i 'i Nevis Editors . ; Henry Mayer, Lloyd Little i Feature Editor - Susan Lewis i Photography Editor . Bill Brinkhous 5 1 Sports Editor Frank W. Slusser ? : Asst. Sports Editor Ken Friedman ? ! . Contributing Editors John Justice, Davis B. Young 1 1 Business Manager Tim Burnett f j Advertising Manager . Richard Weiner ; Subscription Manager Charles Whedbee I i Circulation Manager John Jester ii - Richard Nixon Children's Candidate If Philip W y 1 i e was watching Thursday night's "Great Debate" he must have been thoroughly disgusted; for Richard M. Nixon made an ap peal for votes which could only have been directed to Wylie's mythical "Mom." The Vice President opened the breach and let all manner of un bridled sentimentalism pour forth onto the unsuspecting heads of the American people. In commenting on the so-called "bad" words used by Harry Truman, Nixon said: "One thing I have noted as I have traveled around are the tremendous number of children who come out to see the presidential candidates. I see mothers holding up their babies so they can see a man who might be President of the United States ... "It makes you realize that whoever is Piesident is going to be a man that all the children of America will either look up to or look down to and I can only say that I am very proud that President Eisenhower restored dig nity and decency and, frankly, good language to the conduct of the presi dency of the United States and I only hope that, should I win this election, that I could approach President Eisenhower in maintaining the dig nity of the office, in seeing to it that whenever any mother or father talks to his child he can look at the man in the White House and whatever he may think of his policies he will say, 'Well, there is a man who maintains the kind of standards personally that I would want my child to follow.' " .It is to be hoped that every Ameri can who had the misfortune to hear this farce said to himself, "Well, there is a man who maintains the kind of standards that I would surely hope my child will never follow." Mr. Nixon has been relying on the posing of an image, an image of hu mility and mother-lovingness; he does not possess these qualities him self, but is ambitious, incisive and capable. Why doesn't he show the truth and abolish the lies? Still Giving Em Hell Harry Truman strode into Raleigh Thursday with the manner of a sea soned gunman approaching a town in which he could draw faster than any one else. From the minute he arrived until his departure he had that politically minded state capitol in the palm of his hand. Cracking jokes, shocking old ladies and echoing his favorite word ("hell") , he was the campaigner of old. In his address to a capacity ' crowcl at the State Fair he ripped into Richard M. Nixon, an old foe of his, with characteristic verve. The for mer President makes it rather ob vious that he has an intense distaste for the Republican nominee. At a press conference later that afternoon he fended a rather insipid collection of questions from the North Carolina press with the ease of a man swatting flies. A Freudian slip on the part of a reporter who addressed him as "Mr. Nixon" prompted the Mis sourian to tell her to rise and apolo gize. The evening brought a banquet in the ballroom of the Sir Walter Hotel and the "Great Debate." While the President munched his pumpkin pie the audience spent half its time watching the candidates argue and half its time trying to see Truman's reaction. For the most part, he either smiled, laughed or seemed to be pay ing no attention. To those of us who had the privi lege of seeing him, far away and close by, it was an exciting and en lightening day. If you have never be fore seen a "real, live" President, the mere fact of his presence is exciting. Through it all Truman emerged as a great man, humorous yet thinking and serious, vitriolic yet kind, sharp yet gracious. It was easy to see how he managed to maintain such a fine personal balance while in office, hav ing the ability to laugh at the very things that were disturbing him so deeply. As the evening drew to a close those at the banquet could be heard murmuring to each other: "What a great man!" We, still a little over whelmed by the man, could only ecKb their sentiment. One Of The Greatest Ever If it was not the greatest game ever played, it certainly was one of the most exciting. The New York Yank ees and the Pittsburgh Pirates played like demons on an iceberg, never stopping their frantic pace until, in one of the most anti-climactic blows in the history of sports, Bill Maze rowski put the ball over the fence and the Pirates into the World Cham pionship. To get to this title the Pirates had to overcome one of the most spirited, unceasing drives ever thrown to gether by the Yankees, a team usual ly known for its complacent compe tence. Yogi Berra and Bobby Schantz played like geniuses. The former's three-run homer capped a determined Yankee comeback in the sixth inning and seemed to have laid the Pirates to rest. The latter retired eleven men in a row and throttled any semblance of an attack that the Bucs could muster. But the Pirates, who had special ized in coming from behind all dur ing the season, were - not - easily quelled. Hal Smith, in a moment capped for drama only by the Bobby Thomson round-tripper in 1951, fin ished off a five-run Pirate eighth with a three-run belt that turned Forbes Field into a madhouse. Everything that followed was anti climactic; the two Yankee runs in the ninth, the Mazerowski homer, the wild victory celebration. Hal Smith had carved his name in baseball his tory and the Pirates had received their crown. Perhaps it would be more fitting to say that, in a style reminiscent of the buccaneers of old, they had stolen the title. After the game Pittsburgh fans, long noted for their vociferous dedi cation to the once-lowly Bucs, jeered the fallen Yankees as they left the field. Slowly Forbes Field became dark, emptied for the long wait 'til next April. The Yankees had fallen, but with a brave fight; the Pirates had risen, with a fight no braver only a little stronger. Ed Riner The YRC By Edward Neal Riner (Second in a series on the Young Republicans Club and the Young Democrats Club.) .Four short phrases are re sponsible for the organization and maintenance of the campus Young Republicans Club. They regulate and guard the members in one essential thought: Re publicanism. Written into the club's con stitution and enforced by by laws, the four definitions are as follows: To bring young people into the Republican Party and to provide an opportunity for them to find political expression and recognition. To train young people as ef fective political workers and cooperate in the election of the Republican Party's nominees. To foster and encourage the activities of the Republican Party and to promote its ideals. To collect, analyze, discuss, and disseminate information concerning political affairs. The YRC is bringing new people into the Republican Party more than 146 this se mester. In doing this job through the membership committee under Al Butler, the club is doing more than just work for the GOP. It is working for America by bringing people into a political party. Through a party a person will be heard, and through its mem bers, the party will be heard. By working in and with the YRC a student becomes more attached to the party and its ideals and drives than by being a voice and thought patron of the party. Although the cam paigning and discussions in the campus YRC may not be as forceful and far-reaching as that of the state and national party, it provides the training and ac quaintances which will guide a student to a higher standing in the party after college. Matheson considers it a work shop in political science. And so it is. The club is working closely with the Orange County Republicans in distribution of campaign material and in ar rangements for Robert Gavin's appearances in Chapel Hill and Hillsboro. Similarly, the county group aided the club in the chartered- bus trip to hear Henry Cabot Lodge. The club's weekly meetings and projects are promoting the party's ideals because students with the same political thought are working together with tangible and intangible things. Members at the polls on Nov. 8 (approximately half are eligible to vote) will not just be work ing for the name of the party and its candidates, but they will be voting for something they understand and believe. Matheson is an example of this. He doesn't speak as an elected president of the YRC, but as a Republican. The last objective of the club is easily recognized: "collect, analyze, discuss, and disseminate information. ..." Club members hear talks by leading state and national Re publicans as well as each othr. They learn more about the party and political affairs in general by meeting and talking with one another, and thus, they are better informed to explain their party and their beliefs to others. And it is not all the good of the GOP, but its fail ings and why and what should it do or not do. Since the club is fulfilling its objectives, it is more than an extracurricula. It is a" curricu lum in Republicanism and po litical affairs and work. P O G O "Our Prestige Was Never Higher" Henry Mayer r fk r J ----.v w i f Apr n v , WM - k nils! i - ' . I ' i a . r X llJiitfLl ' 5.v1 M - ' r fJL WmM 1 . iMt 7: , - . - v ft I XJE?KJ v. : - v a -iM 4 j ll unM "' V-V"r rv ' II 4 MM $? . F , 'sr-4 h u ml ' ' t v --- r i .f . 1: ; "',7 w AVI - ..... att,o Tte tWrtAivoA4 POST- From U.P.I. Is Out Prestige Declining? I 'l V " m i ! , nm - i m I&A1Z OWU VVA5 UP Hgg? A' 1? nWU 1 WJHS CY CACJ I AN LC3T TWO Q iC '"HOWCOA&f . tin 1 S.( I IX I sw-x I I vr-r , Foreigners seem to be as divided as Repub licans and Democrats in gauging United States prestige abroad. The rival presidential candidates raised the issue in their second TV debate last week. Vice President Richard M. Nixon said Ameri can prestige was at an "all time high." Sen. John F. Kennedy said it had deteriorated in the past eight years. A United Press International survey of political writers, commentators and officials in various capitals around the world turned up a measure of support for both points of views. The answers did reveal that the word "prestige" doesn't mean quite the same to everyone. Some regarded it wholly as the amount of respect a nation can command by virtue of its military, economic or scien tific power. Others, more as a measure of the general approval enjoyed by basic Ameri can objectives in the cold war. Nor did everyone make the test with the same yardstick. To some, the big interna tional questions the space race, Berlin, etc., were the dominating factors. Others ap peared more concerned with narrower issues that struck closer to home. In Chile, for example, U.S. prestige was rated as being at its highest point since 1952 because of the massive American aid to vic tims of the recent earthquakes there. And in Venezuela, one commentator said that otherwise high U.S. prestige had been hurt by the latest American sugar purchase from the Dominican Republic, whose govern ment is under assault as a dictatorship. Typical comment 'from some of the coun tries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America: France Paul Neguie, chief editor of "Ouest France", largest ' provincial paper in the country: "Certainly American prestige lost momentum in October, 1956, when the United States opposed intervention in Suez . . . But since then it has gone up again thanks to 1 suu, owu vva 7 LQQf the courageous efforts of President Eisen hower and Vice President Nixon in defense of the free world." Britain Sir Linton Andrews, editor of the Yorkshire Post: "American prestige still towers in the world as it did in 1952. Rus sia's scientific achievements have hit it some hefty blows, but probably most of us in the United Kingdom still look with undimis ished faith to the United States as the leader of the West against Communist aggression' Spain Pedro Gomez Aparicio, director of the weekly newspaper "Hoja del Lunes": "The answer is that U.S. prestige has dropped con siderably. It is enough only to mention a few things which are themselves unsolved prpb lems: Berlin, Korea, Indochina, the Middle East, Japan, Cuba, the Soviet satellites. In the space race, Soviet propaganda presents to the world only its successes while the United States offers both successes and fail ures. In international politics, the delaying of a problem is an admission of a mistake in planning a situation or of a lack of energy in solving it." Sweden Carl-Adam Nycop, editor of Ex pressen: "The Eisenhower era has shown one thing; it is never good with a high mili tary officer as president of a great democracy. This fact has affected American prestige, es pecially during the past four years." South Africa Nationalists largely were un happy with the U.S. State Department's criti cism of the government's use of violence to put down the Sharpeville race riots earlier this year but, as one nationalist news editor put it: "South Africa and the United States are both violently . anti-Communist. This forms an extra strong mutual bond between us." Mexico Ramon Beteta, director general of the newspaper Novedades: "Mexican public opinion feels the United States is losing the cold war. One must not forget that only the winner has prestige in sports, war and' politics." By Wort Kelly r ( c?CN$ v ( CANT $AV TH&Y I V y I VVONT NIW IN i rv you couio V a pac? h&at. V f 4 PEANUTS imvmms Tm xe NQ time to be Idepressegcha&eJ By Schulz Tm fTHB -SEASON TO SB JOLLY. iig?: IN KSS THAN T03O WEEKS, HSU J ( COHO? ) BE QOAlHGl ll TMf 6RFAT 1 V I I finnD i li is 'Vlfgsfemakei's With the publication of The Vvnrtc Makers Vance Packard has graphically illustrated a national malaise which makes status seeking appear to be a pastime suitable for Disneyland. In fact, the theses of Packard's two previous works, "The Hidden Persuaders" and "The Status Seekers" may be viewed as mere manifestations of the overbearing commercialism discussed in his current opus. The fact that American industry has had to resort to sneaky practices such as "planned obsolecence" and "thro wa way psychology" in order to make its consumers buy more goods than ever before (and at a faster rate) should not be a startling revelation. However, the impressive documentation the author has compiled in support oC his conten tion that "systematic efforts being made to encourage citizens to be more ex travagant and careless" in their spend ing makes compelling, if not morbid reading. Waste makers (the term sounds like a Munro Leaf watchbird character) are people "who are seeking to make their fellow citizens more prodigal in their daily lives." This need to remold the average consumer into a profligate spendthrift has come about, according to Packard, because American buying habits have not kept pace with its abili ty to produce. Therefore the producers must devise ways of increasing con sumption if the economy is to remain .healthy. The author has amassed a staggering amount of detail to illustrate strategies employed by manufacturers to inculcate rapid usuage and replacement of their products. These methods include the planned obsolecence of both desire and quality, the introduction of single ap plication throwaway goods, the assign ment of "death dates" to products be fore they are off the drawing board and a complex system of revolving credit. The list of waste production and means of increasing consumption to a frenzied pace is ' apparently endless, but after 180 pages Packard is kind enough to dis continue his cataloguing of flimsy new gadgets that obsolete old appliances and then create havoc at repair time, of automobiles made to fall apart in a very few years (just in case you can't be wooed by the yearly style changes) , and of shoddy toasters, lighters and irons which are bought up for use as premiums by grocery chains as a means for in creasing consumption in that area. Packard then examines the ramifica tions of this spreading national disease and attempts to offer several possible solutions for the problem. Unfortunate : ly the author's repertorial penchant for detail does not extend to his reflections, and his suggestions do not exhibit the clarity and dramatic force of the first . part of the book. His conclusions are not. documented as well as his accusa tions, which may lead the reader into thinking that the problem has been over exaggerated. This inclination to look askance at the monumental evidence Packard has com piled is stimulated to some degree by the paradoxical nature of the author's suggested solutions. After fingering the production sector of the economy as "waste makers," he offers plans for con sumer action, which do not seem prac tical or effective. One cannot help but wonder at Pack ard's adoration of advertising as a con structive social force. After lambasting it in two and half volumes for improper procedures, he now envisions it as a po tent weapon for combating the waste mania. Since the author has helped to create the prevailing anti - advertising climate of opinion, it seems hard to be lieve that such an about face in attitude is a comparatively easy task. If the mo tivation research people are such skill ful manipulators, how can the poor dumb consumer know when to be wary and when to trust the ad men? In his concluding chapters Packard makes an eloquent plea for a reappraisal of our national values, and calls for an emphasis upon environmental improve ment the removal of public poverty in the face of private opulence. He also de mands an increased emphasis upon in dividual intellectual endeavor. Obviously this reappraisal is needed if the United States is to withstand the decline in morality and national pride which is resulting from the consumption waste emphasis. However, his sugges tions seem to be aimed at the consum ers, rather than the business oligarchies creating the waste. The author does not attempt to suggest how the energies of the waste makers may be channeled along more creative and intellectual lines without endangering our apparent prosperity. This then is the major objection to the book. It sets up the waste makers as a festering sore upon our culture and points out what will happen to the con sumer and the nation if the cancer i allowed to continue, but then places the burden of change upon the victims them selves, who, as the author repeatedly points out, are not often aware that they are sick. In any event. "The Waste Makers"' will become a best seller, and rightly deserves the attention ii will get. Re gardless of the merit of its conclusions, the book points up a serious national problem. Any discussion arising from the book is bound to be constructive, and in this way The Waste Makers must be regarded as a successful and impor tant work.
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