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Paga Two THE DAILY TAB HEEL Saturday, October 23, 1CCD "To Show That You're Really Fair. Bend Over Backward J list A Bit More" Sloths Hit By Reader Some 'Oscars For Stairs3? """t!Cfic")3attp tEar Heel 1 In its sixty-eighth year pf editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration or the student body. if ' ' ' ' ' "' " " " -. ! - II . . - - The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Publica- Hons Board of the University of North Carolina, Richard Overstreet, Chairman. -- - i 1 1 in . . , All editorials appearing in ' Tiib Daily Tar Heel are the personal expres- L sions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily represen- If tative of feeling on the staff, and all reprints or quotations must specify thus. October 29, 1960 Volume LXIX, Number 39 : -a Today Your Last Chance Students and local residents who feel that they are qualified to regis ter and vote have their last chance to do so today. There is no chance after this, so those who wish to vote would do well to consider their motives and desires before deciding either not to bother to try to register or to go ahead and try. If you are interested in this elec tion and are concerned about the choice of the next president you would do well to make an effort to have your name put on the books. The nation needs informed, con cerned voters, and if you are one your vote will be an important step in the direction of strengthen ing democracy. If you are not informed and do not care about the choice of the next president, you would do well to stay home today and November "eighth as well. For just as an in formed electorate is vital to' a de mocracy, so an uninformed elec torate is damaging. If you want to vote and can meet the requirements you should be at your precinct station today trying to register. That you will be fully cognizant of the letter of these re quirements we print them, for the millionth time, below: 1. Must be a native or natural ized citizen. 2. Must be age 21 by the date of the general election, November eighth. 3. Must be sane. 4. Must be able to read and write any section of the State Constitu tion in the English language.. 5. Must not have been convicted of a crime punishable by imprison ment in the State Prison (con victed of a felony) unless citizen ship has been restored. 6. Must have lived in the state for one year by November eighth and in the precinct for thirty days by November eighth. "That place shall be considered the residence of a person in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning." These requirements are the law. If you meet them you can regis ter; if you do not you cannot. It should be very simple to both you and your registrar. If, however, you feel, as do many students, that the Board of Elec tions is trying to keep you from registering and that your rights are being denied, then appeal your case. It is your right. Do not let yourself be intimidat ed by the general feeling that ap peal is useless. It is entirely pos sible that your appeal will be granted. If you are allowed to vote, vote wisely. Why The Hole? Yesterday, in the editorial page of the Daily Tar Heel, there was an immense and tantalizing expanse of white space under the headline "Deifell States His Views." The fact that Jey Deifell's letter was included under the headline was of no consequence to our devoted student readership, a large major ity of which seems to have, de lighted in its supposition that the editor is such a dishonest, biased, unfair person that this space was left there on purpose. Since this is as far from the ac tual case as it could possibly be, we would like to suggest a few reasons for the obvious omission of some thing from the edit page, in the hopes that our student readers, for whom we normally have the great est admiration and respect, can guess as to the meaning of the hole: 1. Have you ever heard the sound of one hand clapping? This hole was the result, existentially speak ing, of no hands typing. 2. In response to Wayne King's suggestion, in another column on JONATHAN YARDLEY Editor Wayne King, Mary Stewart Bakeb Associate Editors Robert Haskfxl, Margaret Ann Rhymes Managing Editors Edwahd Neal Riner Assistant To The Editor Henry Mayer, Lloyd Little New3 Editors Susan Lewis Feature Editor Frakk Siajsser. Sports Editor Ken Feiedman Asst. Sports Editor John Justice, Davis Young Contributing Editors Tim Burnett Business Manager Richard Weines Advertising Manager John Jester Circulation Manager Charles WHEDBES.JSubscription Manager The Daily Tar Heel Is published daily except Monday, examination teriods and vacations. It is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C, pursuant with the act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: $4 per semester, $7 per year. The Daily Tar Heel is a member of the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. Published by the Colonial Press, Chaps! Kill. N. C. m 'i-'i 1 1 a m m the same page, that "The Daily Tar Heel cannot print material that, it does not have," we left a big hole to illustrate the point. 3. That a gremlin stole the type that had been set for the space and no one had the energy to write any thing else. 4. That we were reprinting, in its entirety, one of Mr. Nixon's better speeches. 5. The Great Pumpkin has not brought his presents yet and we were counting on him to bring something to fill the hole. 6. We printed all the nice things we could think of about Nikita S. Khrushchev. 7. We fulfilled the expectations of some of our more severe critics and proved ourselves to have "nothing at all to say." 8. There was something in the hole which, in its format, was taken out at the last minute for reasons of fair play. It should be mentioned that ob viously something was left out of the headline, and that the omission had nothing to do with Mr. Deifell for whom we have, despite our support of his opponent, nothing but great admiration as a citizen, a student and a leader .- The eighth choice is the correct one. The material pulled at the last minute and with a great deal of trouble will be run later when it can be set in a more tasteful manner. Three was nothing wrong with the material except the man ner in which it would have ap peared. We think we made the right choice, and those who joined us in the decision, people whose opin ions we respect, concur. It is our unfortunate circumstance that we cannot consult the student body be fore we do such things. It just has to rely on our judgement, which at times, as might be expected, is lacking a little.. ' . To ihe Editor: Miss Deep's appalling shallow ness of thinking and lack of per ception is omst evident in her letter to the DTH, October 21, I960.' To label someone's vocabu lary as "show-offy" because she does not understand it only serves to accentuate her ignorance. As for the validity of the "re port" mentioned by Mr. David; one need only be present at one of the Carolina exits of Kenan Stadium to witness a display of humanity in one of its lowest forms.., Through, the" gates come thousands of people, most of whom no one really notices; how ever, interspersed ' among 'the throngs are the elect that are no ticed by the rest of the people in the crowd. These elect are those inebriated sloths with little motor control and with rivers of filth flowing from their mouths. Finally I would like to ask Miss Deep if she believes that every male on this campus lives solely, if at all, to "get anywhere with Carolina co-eds"? Has it occurred to you that, perhaps, Mr. David does not give a "cruzeiro" whether or not he gets anywhere with the average co-ed? There is little doubt in my mind that Mr. David has found better ways to waste any spare time that he might have. Mr. David is prob ably one of the few people at Carolina that is here to get an EDUCATION and NOT to play, get a diploma, or be caught in the clutches of a marriage-minded co-ed. Edward Pounce POLITICAL PULSE THE MOUNTAIN STATES: 21 Votes Up For Grabs In Mountain States Battle United Press International Democrats and Republicans alike are wooing the sparsely populated Rocky Mountain states as never before in this election year. In all, the Mountain States have but 21 electoral votes just one more for the combined states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and Montana than for the single state of Michigan. But this year's election prom ises to be a close one and as Rob ert Kennedy, manager of his brother's campaign put it, "No state is expendable."' Republican spokesmen would no doubt "agree with him. In the past two . presidential elections the 21 idectoral votes have been delivered in a block to President Eisenhower. Neither Vice President Richard M. Nixon nor Sen. John F. Kennedy, his Democratic opponent, appear likely to fare so well this time, however. The question then, is how the votes will split. Republicans got a big lift when Nixon, following Kennedy into the area, drew a somewhat larger crowd in. Denver largest city of the region and a powerful en dorsement in Salt Lake City. There he was named the person al choice of David O. McKay, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mor mon. McKay's statement was his own, not the church's, but it was sure to carry weight with Mor mons in Utah and elsewhere. Bob Kennedy said frankly that "it makes our job tougher." Utah is Republican anyway, though Democrats outpoljed the GOP in this year's primary. : There was talk the Democrats were ready to "write- Colorado off," but the candidate's brother denied this vehemently during a round of late campaign organiza tional meetings in Denver three weeks before the election, -V On the contrary, he said, re ports of voter registration "showed a growing Democratic advantage. Republicans questioned this, since registration ; books, still open in Colorado at Jhe time, showed many more voters were registering . as independents than as members of either party. This, Republicans said, meant a silent vote for Nixon. ; Colorado is the pivotal state of the region, according to Kennedy; It has six electoral college votes, more than any of the others. It is probably the most doubtful state, although Wyoming, too, V is a mystery and so is New Mexico to a lesser extent. r Montana, a vast state with min ing in the west arid agriculture in the east, is strongly influenced by labor and the National Farm ers Union, both of which lean to the Democratic party. Although Montana went for President Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, unemployment in the west and an agricultural recession in the east favor the Democrats. Employment is down in mining and smelting. Layoffs have been heavy in lumber and logging, and the Democrats are making poli tical hay of this by blaming GOP tight money policies for slowing down the pace of home build ing. Democratic leaders predict a Kennedy victory but they say privately they expect his margin to be only about 7,000 votes. A red - hot, bitter gubernatorial battle between'' Lt. Gov. Paul Cannon, a Democrat, and Donald G. Nutter, a Republican, should get most of the estimated 322,993 registered voters to the polls, though. State campaigns will be a fac tor elsewhere, too. In Colorado the big one is the Senate race be tween Republican incumbent Gordon L. Allott and Lt. Gov. Robert L. Knous. In New Mexico the big race is for governor, with incumbent Democrat John' Bur roughs facing Edwin L. Mechem, a three-time chief executive who lost narrowly to Burroughs in 1958. William A. Barlocker, a Democrat, is challenging Utah's Republican chief executive, George D. Clyde, in that state's feature race, while in Wyoming the main event is the Senate race between Rep. Keith Thomson, a Republican, and Raymond . B. Whitaker, a Democrat. Some pollsters have given Nixon a slight edge in New Mex ico, but voter registrations give the Democrats a margin of about seven to three and the one Sen ate and two House seats to be decided are rated safe for incum bent Democrats. A rumbling of anti-Roman Catholic feeling isn't expected to prevent Kennedy from gaining four electoral votes in the state. Anti-Catholic feelings have cropped up elsewhere in the re gion, though generally they have not been widely publicized. But a Democratic office holder said in private recently that "Ken nedy would clobber Nixon" in Colorado, if it weren't for the re ligious issue. As it is, Colorado rates a tossup. So does Wyoming, generally a conservative state, which has but three electoral votes. The race there is as one wag put it, "tight as a cowboy's jeans." , GOP candidates are being given an almost unqualified edge in the Senate and House races in Wyom ing. But the character of some of the northern counties, the Re publican strongholds, is chang ing. There has been a growing industrialization and consequent labor organization which are hard to gauge. Most Republicans even feel that Laramie County, the state's largest and a bellwether in presidential races for decades, is leaning toward Kennedy. This is rebutted by a Republican news paper's, poll. Robert Kennedy rates Wyoming as a winner for the Democrats, since the state went : Democratic two years ago, when only Thomson survived among Republican office holders. Frustrations, fears and failures are very much a part of man. Whether caused by his own weak spirit or by any number of un controllable elements, the con stant turmoil, unhappiness and desperation in his mind renders him unsatisfied with the present and dreadfully afraid of the fu ture symbolized by playwright William Inge as "the dark at the top of the stairs." In his play of the same name, Inge pictured this mental turmoil through a family living in Oklahoma during the Twenties. His was a deeply penetrating, sensitive work. In its screen transition, Dark, thanks to the strong directorial hand of Del bert Mann, retains much of its greatness and poignancy. A sure contender for an Academy Award nomination, Dark is generally ex cellent and some of its passages are brilliant. A heavy hand would have shattered the sensitivity of the work but Mann has delicately led his players to full, rich charac terizations based in part on a good screenplay by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch. Robert Preston as Rubin the father slams across a strong, if one-noted performance, which would have benefitted from more shading and less "Music Man" flourishes. Nonetheless, it is good to see Hollywood give him the recognition he deserves. Dorothy McGuire as Cora the wife plays well what may be the finest performance in a long career. As a woman whose ma ternal instincts have placed her husband in the background, she thoroughly convinces in every nuance of her role. Angela Lansbury as Mavis, understanding and in love with Rubin but destined always to be the "other woman," has reached the dramatic climax of her career. The British accent has been hushed, the blonde hair darkened and a superior actress at her peak has emerged. Newcomers Shirley Knight, as the unsure daughter entering young womanhood, and Lee Kin solving, as Sammy Golden, her first love, should be heard from in the future. They're very good. Kinsolving in his search for a .quiet place in a hostile, anti-Jew--islr"world is superb. A Best Supporting Actress nomination is virtually assured Eve Arden in the part of Cora's sister, Lottie. As a brash bigot, she amuses and sickens with her ignorant tirade against Catho licism. In Arden's care, though, Lottie is revealed skillfully as the frightened woman she is. Realiz ing that her convictions are ac tually false prejudices, she can only cry, "Anything is better than this nothing. . . ." Camera work by Harry Strad ling Sr. is a strong asset in a technically fine film. Max Stein er's score blends well and cos tumes by Marjorie Best and sets by art director Leo K. Kuter capture well the mood of the Twenties. Dill Morrison LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Readers Defend Deifell, Election Poll Headline To the Editor: I'm concerned about two recent articles appearing on the edi torial page of your paper. In an editorial Tuesday you refused to stand behind your own paper by saying that the headline in Sat urday's issue, "U. N. C. Students Favor Kennedy " was a "gross misrepresentation of facts." . Thev next day one of your opponents used this editorial as basis for her statements that the poll was a non-Jegitimate political : reac tion, . and the' c headline was a "cheap political device", and "mis leading.'!' l'ht; ;,a W-. " ' After carefully studying the facts presented- in 'Saturday's paper I believe it is safe to say that both of you are on the wrong track., My observations are based entirely : on the DTH article I'm not connected, with the poll in any way. The poll, which seemed to be . impartial,, covered the stu dent body well enough to give a cjear view. It didn't poll only fraternities or only dorms but covered all the major Jiving units on campus. It's Impossible '.to ''get a better cross-section Miss Pres po(t said in her. letter that a poll of i only prie-ihirci of the student body couldn't b interpreted as a legitimate t t6liiical reaction (Wthput question' the poll was unofficial and : Unscientific.1 But just how "scientific" must a poll be on a college campus?) Just how many people should one poll for a fair opinion? The famous Dr. Gallup in his latest polls uses only 1600 ballots for the whole country! I admit that his polls are "scientific" though. It seems that a poll of nearly 40 of the stu dent body represents a clear-cut opinion of the whole. A quote from Wednesday's Greensboro Daily News states: "Professional pollsters rate a 25 return as . excellent." As for the results they show Senator Kennedy with 49.4 of the total vote and Vice President Nixon with 42.1 and 8.5 un decided. This constitutes a mar gin of 7.3. The New York Daily News classifies anything over 5 as a "safe" margin. There are those who say that you can't go by the polls; they refer you to 1948. The largest error ever in the ,Gallup polls was 4-5. 'To me there is no doubt about who has the majority. Another interesting fact: North Carolina students gave Kennedy a majority of nearly 10 (51.7 41.8 arid 6.5 undec). Of those polled ' only about 68.5 were from the state of North Carolina. But the actual ratio of instate students to those out of state is closer to 75, if I'm not mis taken. It is logical then if the poll were continued to cover the people not polled before, Ken nedy's margin would widen, be cause there would be a higher percentage of N. C. students and they give him a lead that would be all but impossible to overcome. So it is purely evident to me that U. N. C. students DO favor Senator Kennedy. Maybe not overwhelmingly but the figures show a decisive enough margin to say that the majority of our students favor him. The majority rules in our society. I see no rea son whatsoever to say it is "mis leading" to headline our school newspaper "U. N. C. Students Favor Kennedy." Jim Pyait To the Editor: "James Lewis, you get away from that wheelbarrow. You don't know nothing 'bout machinery." Jonathan, you get out of the newspaper business. You do not know anything about politics. There appeared to be a gross contradiction in policy in our DTH this week. The Wednesday editorial (A Lesson in Responsi bility), stated the DTH's purpose, "to inform through objective pre sentation of the news." This ar ticle was very appropriate, for the previous day the DTH print ed an editorial that told the Jr. Class to vote for what seemed to be the only candidate for class president. Admitted, the editor of the DTH has the privilege of en dorsing any candidate. However, this does not give the editor the right to distort the facts to shade the election for the candidate of his choice. Contrary to the impression given by the DTH there is an other candidate for the office of Jr. Class president, Jey Deifell. As a friend, co-worker, and mem ber of the Jr. Class I can truth fully say that no one has done more to promote the best inter ests of our class than Jey Deifell. He initiated the class cabinet when he was freshman class president to give purpose and re sponsibility to our class offices. Through hard work, promotion, and sincere devotion to his duties he brought credit to our class and his position. Jey is not offering to begin working for our class, but to con tinue work begun his freshman year. Although Jey does not have the endorsement of the editor of the DTH, he does possess the ex perience, qualification, and desire to work for his class. The Jr. Class would do well to consider Jey Deifell, the other candidate for Jr. Class president. Let us hope the DTH will be representative of all the students in the future. To quote Gordon Gray in Wednesday's DTH: "Any freedom unaccompanied by the exercise of responsibility deserves to be curtailed." (Remember Neil Bass?) i -. Bill McHorie ,4
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