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We Were k little surprised "to dis
cover recently that a flurry of gold
buying at home and abroad, wnich
at least briefly raised speculation
about the possibility of having to
raise the price of gold, Was felt to
have been caused by Worry in fi
nancial circles about the possi
bility of a Kennedy victory and re
sultant "easy money", practices by
the United States Government.
The price of gold is currently
fixed by international law at $35
an ounce, but if this price, were to
rise the value of the dollar would
correspondingly fall in purchasing
power.
In a rather lengthy and, to one
not versed in economics, confusing
statement issued Sunday in Phila
delphia, Senator Kennedy made a
valiant attempt to dissuade this
criticism and to reiterate a point
he has made time and again
throughout the campaign: he is not
fiscally irresponsible, he does not
like inflation, he does not want to
tax us out of existence, he is in
terested in and will .work for a
sounder, more flexible economy.
The ironic point in the entire
fray is that it is the Republican
administration, that which claims
for itself fiscal responsibility, which
has placed the dollar and gold in
their present uncertain positions.
By failing to increase exports, as
Kennedy pointed out, we have
been priced out of many foreign
markets and a deficit in the balance
of payments has resulted. The di
rect cause of this is that we have
spent more abroad than we have
earned. Thus, in the years follow
ing 1953, we have been forced to
send more than four billion dollars
worth of gold from our own re
sources in order to keep the bal-
Sound Dollar
ance.
. This, however, is ari unnatural
balance. It is not one wrought by
the normal exchange of goods for
money and money for goods in in
ternational trade; it is one of in
take Without export.
; Another extremely important
point Kennedy made, one which
has been heard by all except the
Republicans for the last seven
years, is that we are not forcing
our allies to take a more respon
sible share in the cost of overseas
military establishments. We have
continued the practice of doles,
even though our allies are now
fully capable financially of doing
their share. As a consequence,
American money which should be
here is in Europe and Asia.
The Kennedy plan . to restore a
balance of payment and make the
dollar sounder than it presently is
is a very good one: work toward a
stricter economy which would al
low for budget surplus in times of
peace and prosperity; a more flex
ible interest rate to curb inflation;
a coordinateci monetary and fiscal
policy; wage , and price stability
without controls; stimulation of
plant modernization by means of
tax concessions.
These are not the proposals of a
radical; they are the plans of a
man whose foundation is in tradi
tional economics but who is not
swayed by the idea "that what was
good enough for granddad is good
enough for. us. ,
We Would do Well not to place
the blame for buying flurries on
misconcpetions about a presidential
candidate. Rather, we might do
well to examine the facts before
we stuff our attics with $35 an
ounce gold.
Hushabye Records For Our Time
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We have learned that Hush
records, an enterprise launched at
the University of Detroit to pro
duce silent records to study by, has
entered into the political field by
launching a recording of "the best
of pauses from political speeches of
the early 20th Century."
It features such gems as "All
of Coolidge. Instead of highlights,
this records all of the great things
Silent Cal never said."
It also includes the issues of to
day which the candidates have not
faced.
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Editor
Wayne King, Mary Stewart Baker
Associate Editors
Robert Haskell, Margaret Ann Rhymes
Managing Editors
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Henry Mayer, Lloyd Little
News Editors
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Frank Slusser. Sports Editor
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John Jester. Circulation Manager
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and vacations. It is entered as second
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idea, however, it falls far short of
its potential it should include all
the good things Harry Truman has
said about Nixon.
It should also include all the
great pearls of wisdom which fell
from the lips of Joseph McCarthy.
A welcome addition to the si
lence would be all the perceptive
comments never made by the cam
pus politicoes ahd the ttH editors
and columnists.
A real live wire, slam-bang, top
notch feature to add to the silent
grooves would be the fantastically
good ideas the administration has
not come up with recently to im
prove campus recreational and so
cial facilities for the dormitory stu
dents. Some space should be reserved,
of course, for all the good reasons
that have not been advanced for
converting Cobb to a women's
dormitory. The vast amount -of
editorial space undevoted to Nixon
in the DTH should be read silent
ly and recorded, as should all the
columns which should have been
written in his favor by, his sup
porters on campus, but haven't
been, for what reason, God only
knows.
Last of all, all the constructive
criticism that this campus is
capable of producing, but hasn't,
should be included, although I
don't think the biggest LP record
known could take care of that
dearth of silence.
Wayne King
against vWfm; Cray's Mowttf all be-
gins. He sees the girl across the
road sleeping, with, her stepfather
whiie the inan's wife dies of dan
cer in the same house. Clay tips
off the local Ku Klux Klan, and
when the tW6 sinners are horse
whipped. Clay dismisses it as
"God's Will,"
Mr. Owen is successful in cap
turing the feelings o, the, poverty-stricken
farmer. Their fears,
prejudices . and superstitions;
their attachment to the land and
to the past. ,, . . I
The most . regrettable -Jt thing
about It'he book is the author's
failure to develop fully the character-
of Clay Hampton. The
reader is never quite clear about
Clay's age,, level of intelligence,
or status in the community. His
lines of dialogue are few, and the
reader seldom knows exactly
what Clay thinks about what he
sees. .Thus, instead of being a
memorable character, Clay Hamp
ton comes out as merely a sym
pathetic one.
But an apparent knowledge, of
the subject matter has . enabled
the author to present a sensitive
picture of the rural South as it
was thirty years ago.
Mr. Owen, who attended UNC
and is how teaching at Stetson
University in Florida, makes an
impressive debut with SEASON
OF FEAR. It is not a great book,
but his ability to write one even
tually cannot be questioned.
Season of Fear by Guy Owen,
New York, , Random House,
I960. 337 pp. $3.95.
Laurie Holder
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
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tobcT 28 was a disgrace to the
University and to the intctjrity
of the students. How far back
into the catacombs of Democn t
Dirt Sid you have to dig to rc.t
that piece of soot? I know for a
fact that it has been over a v. . ek
since that cartoon was torn fro:n
the Denver Post. An editor of the
Post, Mort Stern, yanked the car
toon out of the paper before the
second edition went to bed. Edi
tor Stern called the cartoon, "Be
yond, the limits of good taste."
In a column next to the car
toon , mentioned above fro rri the
Tar Heel, Wayne King said that
the Tar Heel would print any
thing within the bounds of "good
taste," and there was that car
toon glaring out to all reader?.
Who is in the wrong as to the
definition of "good taste," a col
lege paper, or the great Denver
Post?
As Time magazine said in an
article (Oct. 31), the cartoon
made the President look as
though he had lost his marbles.
Why would you want to depict
the president of your country as
an idiot? He will be out of the
White House soon enough, so
please confine your hot remarks
to the two men who are running
for the office at present.
By the way (as a side note)
who goofed on that beautiful
editorial page?
Sincerely,
A UNC Student
Editor's Note: Vhy not sign
your name? No one plans io
attack you because you criticize.
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Student Readers Lambast
Class Elections A.nd Order Of The
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Scoads
Blasts DTH As Partisan
To ihe Editor:
The past several weeks have
shown the "Daily Tar Heel" to
be most "bipartisan" in its po
litical outlook, praising Senator
Kennedy on the one hand and
condemning Vice President Nixon
on the other.
Is this being bipartisan? Evi
dently, it is, at least according
to the views of the editor, with
all due respect to Mr. Yardley's
personal opinions, many people
are quite fed-up with the undis
guised prejudice which the "Tar
Heel" has been evidencing daily.
Do not think that I am advocat
ing abolition of freedom of the
press. I am not.
No doubt you realize that your
paper is the only link, which an
unfortunately far too large pro
portion of the student body
maintains with the outside world.
This places you in a very unique
position.
It is a position which a large
number of journalists would give
a great deal to occupy in order
to demonstrate their Unpreju
diced abilities. You coiild take
the way of honest bipartisanship,
regardless of your personal con
victions and thus turn the "Daily
Tar Heel" into a really great uni
versity organ, where all views
could be argued equally, without
the influence of editorial preju
dice. Instead, you have chosen
the narrow road of bigotry.
Indeed it is regrettable that the
"Tar Heel" does not feel its re
sponsibility to the student body
strongly enough to present as
unprejudiced an image of each
presidential candidate as possible.
Honest bipartisanship would per
mit the large segment of the stu-.
dent body which looks to you,
and to you alone, for dogma to
form honest, unprejudiced opin
ions of the capabilities and weak
nesses of both candidates.
As the situation stands now,
far too many students base their
political views on prejudices re
ceived from your paper.
Has the "Daily Tar Heel" dis
cussed Senator Kennedy's . abo
minable proposed policy toward
Cuba? He advocates aiding all
opponents of Castro, both inside
and outside of Cuba.
u Dr. Castro would actually like
this policy because it would give
substance to the claim which he
has already levelled against the
United States and used as his ex
cuse for joining hands with Pre
mier Khrushchev.
This irresponsible policy of
Senator Kennedy's could well
serve to . drive most of Latin
America into the Castro camp
simply due to those nations' in
herent fear of internal interven
tion by the Colossus of the North.
Have you ever considered how
much easier it is to criticize
something than it is to defend it?
On this basis alone, the position
of Mr. Kennedy is .made far
easier than that of the Vice Presi
dent. Could the "Tar Heel" inform
its readers specifically as lo what
hew approaches the Senator will
take in. foreign affairs, t am in
clined to doubt it.
He has been decrying the pres
ent administration's .policies and
yet has not . said anything pre
cisely about how he would rec
tify these policies, except with
regard to Cuba. If this policy is
a sample of Senator Kennedy's
new approach to foreign affairs,
then it will be a bad day for the
United States if he becomes presi
dent. Does the "Daily Tar Heel"
know one reason why the usually
stable gold market has fluctuated
so drastically in the past few
days?
It is because there is a fear
abroad that Mr.,' Kennedy may
win the election and proceed
with his fantastic inflationary
program.
This program is so fantastic
that devaluation of the dollar is
almost certain; therefore many
people abroad are attempting to
obtain gold how in the event
that the paper dollar does be
comes devalued.
It is a shame that Mr. Kennedy
does not inspire more confidence
' abroad, particularly in financial
circles.
Will Mr. Kennedy's domestic
program be a repetition of the
New Deal? Let us hope not.
After all, passing of reforms
at a rate which is faster than so
ciety's ability, to digest them is
dangerous to the very concept of
a democracy.
,The Senator tnd his advisors
advocate taking more money
from the "incapable . individual"
(you and I) and letting the gov
ernment spend it more "wisely."
I certainly do not want to have
a government controlled by an
oligarchy of the rich, but if I
happen to have a few extra dol
lars in , my pocket I should like
to be able to spend them in my.
own "unwise" way and enjoy
them, rather than giving these
"extra dollars" to the govern
ment, along with everything else,
to advance ourselves toward a
socialistic form of government.
I do hot expect to see this let
ter in print. I am almost certain
that the "Daily Tar Heel" will
not print it, but rather throw it
into the wastebasket for the very
good reason, at least in its own
eyes, that I have been so pre
sumptuous as to dare to criticize
three institutions which the "Tar
Heel" believes in implicitly:, its
own infallibility, Mr. Kennedy,
and wOrst of all, Mr. Yardley.
Hays R. Browning, Jr.
Only One Candidate?
To the Editor:
As members of the largest
freshman class in the history of
the University, we feel compelled
to voice disillusionment at the
recent actions of the two major
student political parties in their
selections of nominees for the
spring elections. Both the Student
Party and the University Party,
were able to select only one per
son from the hundreds of fresh
men at the University as a nomi
nee for the office of class presi
dent. Our protest is not as much di
rected to the nominee, Charles
Brown, as it is toward the leaders
of these parties who allow such
narrow - minded policies. The
leaders of both these parties
have; by their haphazard manner
of selecting candidates, indicated
that their parties care little for
a two-party system at the Univer
sity or, to be more emphatic, a
two-party system.
With the University almost
bursting at its seams with an
overflow of students, there surely
is more than one person capable
of being president of the largest
class in the history of the school.
Furthermore, the idea of one per
son incorporating into his be
liefs the opposing ideas of two
entirely different parties cer
tainly laughs in the face of the
glorious "two-party" system of
democratic government at the
University.
Respectfully,.
Bill McAllister
Rodney Smith
Should Everyone Vote?
To the Editor: . , . .
A great deal is said aboutour
right to vote. It is . surely hot a
privilege to be taken lightly. But
I wonder about the' value of cam
paigns to bring out the vote. A
larger number of registered vot
ers and of votes oh election day
does not necessarily mean that
the selection of the voters is bet
ter. Would not those who are con
cerned enough to study . issues,
platforms, personalities, and so
forth in order to arrive at a
worthy decision be interested
enough in expressing their
choices to look into the rather
routine matters of registration,
absentee ballots and such? Are
not these people, those whose
votes are more likely . to be
worth being tallied?
I fear that a voter who must
be reminded a dozen or so times
of places and times of registra
tion might up and forget, just as
he is marking his ballot, exactly
which candidates have been sug
gested to him.
Sincerely,
Frank L. Meadows
plify or romanticize, or both. It
is ridiculous, immature, and ir
responsible to see life in black
or white. Isn't it really a nutter
of -varying shades of gray?
For many people, the attitude
is not one of apathy exactly; it
is that it's just as well not to be
able to vote this time. I think
our- newspaper is very influen
tial on this attitude, and is
capable of doing much better.
Joe Williman
DTH Not Fulfilling
Obligation
Dear Sir:
In reference to your recent
articles and editorials on the
forthcoming elections, I would
like to express my own feelings
and perhaps to reflect some part
of the sentiment of many other
students. I have always looked
on the principle of free speech
as a right, not as an opportunity.
Thus it follows that in my mind
a paper that seems to print as a
matter of policy violently diverg
ing opinions for the divergence
itself, is not fulfilling its obli
gation to the readers in general.
This makes freedom of expres
sion a mere finger-exercise, to be
done with little or no rational
supervision. There are no abso
lutes in politics today. Nixon is
not THE experienced candidate;
Kennedy is not THE clean-cut
candidate; Lodge is not THE man
capable of handling foreign re
lations; Johnson does not speak
for THE WHOLE South. My point
is hot that your editorial atti
tude, is one of vacillation; it
seems one of short-sighted im
practicably and a desire to shn-
Scoads, Scoads, Scoads!
Dear Sir:
Shortly after you became edi
tor of this paper, you received a
very caustic letter criticizing you
sharply for appointing Ken
Freidman your sports editor. This
letter is not intended to open an
old wound or to rehash old and
well-worn arguments. We do not
wish to either begrudge you your
freedom of choice of your staff
or to criticize your choice.
Sports coverage this year has
been much better than in recent
years. Our big question is, in
what area of this coverage and
in what field of sports does the
so-called "Loyal Order of the
Scoads" lie? And another ques
tion, what is the contribution
that this obvious waste of space
make to the overall quality of
the DTH? Perhaps we could say
it this way: what is the purpose
of the scoads stories other than
the glorification of Ken Freid
man's normal manner of dressing
and behaving?
A story such as the story' of
the "tapping" of new "scoads" is
a smear on the record of the
DTH. We seriously doubt that
there is any reasonably intelli
gent person on campus who
really cares which individuals on
campus wish to identify them
selves as "scoads." Of what im
portance is it to the reading
public that a group of aspirant
slobs prefer to stick together,
wear their shirt-tails out and
around screaming profanity and
other gross phrases such as
"Gotcha."
If this letter appears to be an
indictment of Ken Freidman, it
is. But if there is anyone else
who is equally or partially re
sponsible, for this nonsense, then
we direct their remarks to them
also. ' , '
" Al Reeves
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