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THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, IJovrmb?r 3, KC3 Pa em Two 8 i 1 p i I I -is In its sixty-eighth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration or the student body. The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Publica tions Board of the University of North Carolina, Richard Overstreet, Chairman. All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expres sions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily represen tative of feeling on the staff, and all reprints or quotations must specify thus. :::-: II November 3, 1960 Volume LXIX, Number 43 A Day Worth Celebrating The students of . the University have done well to set today aside as John Motley Morehead Day. Of all those whose financial, aid has been vital to the success of the University, perhaps none has been more dedicated, thoughtful or. gen erous than John Motley Morehead. His Morehead Scholarships are perhaps the greatest boon that we have had in years. They are good not merely because of the great number of students to whom they are awarded; they gain their great est virtue from the fact that they are. awarded not merely on the basis of brainpower. The Morehead Scholarships are given to students who excel as scholars, as athletes and as leaders. These criteria and the judicious ness with which the applicants are judged has been admirably re flected in the performance of the Morehead Scholars. They have been leaders on this campus in every field of endeavor, and are truly worthy of the Scholarships and the man who gives the Scholarships. The Morehead Planetarium is one of Chapel Hill's most prized landmarks. Its architectural beauty is complemented by - the valuable services it performs in education, not merely for the students here but for the visitors and the thou sands of school children who flock to its doors every spring, on what must surely be the most delightful of all school trips. Mr. Morehead's contributions have been many, varied and all valuable. Chapel Hill does well, but too little, in saluting him today. The Old Dominion Strikes Back The Grand Old Dominion of Vir ginia, long known as a hotbed of hyper-conservatism, has lashed out at Senator John F. Kennedy dur ing the past few days with a furor equalling that of the seige of Rich mond. . . Senator Kennedy, had the au dacity to say that he believes there' is more than a little justification in clearing the way, " so long barred by prejudice, for appointing quali fied Negroes to federal judgeships. Virginia, of course, cannot stomach the idea, because the fight that she so long has waged against integration would be seriously en dangered by having judges on the bench who would undoubtedly be sympathetic to the Negro cause. The Richmond Times-Dispatch, which falls ideologically some where between Barry Goldwater , and Jefferson Davis, lashed out at Kennedy with all its vitriolic fury in an editorial entitled "A Risk We Should Not Take," calling his proposal "unrealistic and unwise" and self-pityingly citing the "par ticular moment of history" as being unwise for any racial ven tures at all. And a member of the State House of Delegates, from Danville said that these appointments might affect "the safety and security of our people." The Times-Dispatch found little wrong with Cabot Lodge's opportunistic, faltering "promise" of a Negro in the Cabi net, but castigated Kennedy as a possible troublemaker. We maintain that Kennedy is right, that the American judiciary is not like a' Richmond restaurant, segregation and all. It is high time that the nation's qualified Negro jurors were recognized; and high time that the folks in Virginia stopped feeling sorry for them selves and moved into the twen tieth century. Some Ants In His Pants It seems to me that the time has come to speak out in defense self-defense. I have been living on the fourth floor of Cobb for three years. During the two pre vious years, many tales of "we're fighting the war, we're losing the war, we've lost the war" drifted up the mahy flights of stairs. Boys told of the mysterious dis appearances of all types of ar ticles. Each succeeding floor in progression has succumbed to the diabolical goings-on. To those who couldn't imagine what is the dreaded source, it's THEM. ANTS! An army of them. You think that's funny, huh? For those in Cobb it's no joke. I honestly believe Cobb's founda tion was, and still is, a gigantic ant hill. Meanwhile the cock roaches are organizing in the basement for an assault after the ants secure the beachhead. One fellow bought a delicious cake, ate one piece, left the room for five minutes and returned to an empty cake dish. Most of you have heard the "High Hopes." My roommate has a rubber tree plant. I swear that thing was moved across the length of the floor during the night. Residents of Cobb hope this ex pose will prompt South Building to call Otto the Orkin Man, so that we might sleep at night knowing the National Guard is awake and Cobb's ants are dead. If not, the Cobbites will lead a crumb trail to South Building, where a little rubber tree plant action might have more effect on administrative red tape. David Peliz 'Toll? What Poll? Who Puis Any Stock In Polls?" - - -I . - - ' - 3 h - - h A . - . - . - T V ' J f j i- r . J - i r1 I I 1 ' .1 fi f ." ( llnf Jfl- I I Independents Strike Back To Ihe Editor: As two independents, a mo-,-backed reactionary and a wi!J eyed radical respectively, v. o would like to take exception to your editorial of November 1 concerning the nature of an in dependent voter. Verbal scar?, mutually inflicted, provide some evidence that we are neither '-uninterested" nor "unimaginative" as you charge; as to the charge involving a lack of information on political issues we must reply that any such deficit is due to "Sixty years of progress in North Carolina", The Nexus and Observ er, and The Daily Tar Heel. We suggest that there is quite a difference between being "above politics" and being non-partiei-pants in political parties. If we are indeed above politics, we fail to understand why we are "some where in between the Democrats and the Republicans." Indeed, were our party orientations to be determined, we (the radical) would be to the left of the Demo cratic party and (the reactionary) to the right of the Republican party. Perhaps the editor reach ed his conclusion by the compu tation of the arithmetic mean of two positions. "We hope that you will accept our remarks, despite the fact that we are "not . . . valid political phenomena at all" as you charge. The "blemishes on the political scene," David Mundy W. P. Smith WAYNE KING IsR uark's JVarning a 7 . n. 7 ADoiii jma ems Valid? How We Will Cover The Election In order to avoid, if possible, any unpleasantries in the wake of the general election of next Tuesday, the Daily Tar Heel herein states the manner in which the presiden tial and gubernatorial elections will be covered and the policies which we will pursue. On election day we will run large photographs of the four major candidates for elective of fice: Messrs. Nixon, Lodge, Ken nedy and Johnson. We will also run photographs of the two candidates 5 ' JONATHAN YARDLEY Editor Wayne King, Mahy Stewart Bakes Associate Editors Robert Haskell, Margaret Ann Rhymes Managing Editors Edward Neal Rtner Assistant To The Editor Kenry Mayeh, Lloyd Little News Editors Susan Lewis Feature Editor Frank Slusser.... Sports Editor Ken Fhiedman. Asst. Sports Editor John Justice, Davis Young Contributing Editors Tim Burnett Business Manager Richard Weineh Advertising Manager John Jester Circulation Manager Charles WHEDBEEStibscription Manager The Daily Tab Heel is publishad daily except Monday, examination periods 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. J The Daily Tab Heel is a member of L ; :: the United Press International : and ' i utilizes the services of the News Bu- i reau of the University of North Caro- 4 j-f Una. . : li Published by the Colonial Press, I l Chapel HOI, N. C. it li i i i 'f 3 it 1:1 for the governorship of North Caro lina: Messrs. Gavin and Sanford. If space does not permit all of these to be included we will run photographs of the presidential and gubernatorial candidates. Stories on election day will cover both parties equally and will give fair and impartial coverage to all candidates. There will undoubtedly be an article or articles urging all registered voters to cast their bal lots and all unregistered students to continue to speak, and work for their candidates until the last minute. The Daily Tar Heel offices will be open until one or two in the morn ing on November ninth to get last minute returns. Conversations with newsmen and others in positions of general knowledge lead us to the hopeful belief that the decision will be clear before the wee small hours of the morning. There will be an extremely large picture of the winner on the Wed nesday front page and as much in teresting copy as we can print at such a late hour. Again, coverage for the new president will be fair and unbiased. Despite the beliefs of a few scattered individuals, the Daily Tar Heel is not a Democratic Party organ, and tries not to conduct itself as one. Only the editorial col umns reflect this bias pf the editor's. (From a column by Robert C. Ruark). Let me see if I can get this stu dent business in focus. It has been 25. years this month since I was graduated -from the University of North Carolina at the tender age of 19, but the memory is green enough. I was dumb as hell. I had passed my examinations by memory alone. I had been chasing girls pretty good for three years without learning much about women except that they were unpredictable. I could hold my liquor pretty well, even in the vile corn-squeezings that mas queraded as booze in Orange County, which remained dry even after repeal. I was fit for nothing but the lowliest apprenticeship in any job you could name. By the time I was 21 I had worked for a coun try weekly, the WPA, as ordin ary seaman on a freighter and had been an office boy on three Washington newspapers. I was still dumb as hell. But I was gaining on it. By the time I got married at 22 I had some inkling of what went on in a newspaper shop but very little of what went on in the world. Twenty-two years later I am still puz zled about what goes on in the world. These personal statistics are tossed in for a purpose. What I want to know is, grandpa, what makes a student think he knows anything at all about anything at all? He's a fledgling, a pup, a raw-eared tenderfoot a recruit for the basic training in small future knowledge. He is fit main ly for beer busts, panty raids, Friday night yell rallies and cam pus politics. We seem to be officially wor ried today over a phenomenon that senior statesmen now call "government by students." This of course results from the literal overthrow of law and order in Japan by student rioting, the clear-cut victory the rioters won against the Eisenhower visit and the obvious incompetence of the Japanese government to deal with well-organized punks. Student mobs helped the down fall of Syngman Rhee in Korea and provided the dirty work for the military overthrow of Men deres in Turkey. Students have been active in Algeria, in North America, in Panama. Students and the power they wield be cause of their malleability to sug gestion and regimentation seem to be more and more potent as a political weapon in the hands of cynical world-molders. They certainly have passed the silly stage, especially since the masses of "students" have now been straw-bossed by hard-faced professional sergeants - in the shape of organizers and their colt ish enthusiasms have been har nessed into quasi military mobs almost drill-perfect. The arro gance that comes with ignorance grows with success. I recall from the depression, days of my higher education 1931. to 1935 that most of our campus world-savers pretty well stitched themselves to the beat nik pattern. They bathed infre quently and shaved seldom. They ran around with greasy-haired women liberally flecked with dandruff in advance-guard book-and-coffee shops. Communism or what they thought was com munism was their creed and Karl Marx their god. Carolina was a very liberal school and these types saved the world daily, weekly and monthly. I doubt they knew much more than I did about what was ac tually going on but they were very vocal about it. I think that very few ever amounted to much as adults even in the party, if so be it they actually achieved a card. My point is chiefly that the student, whether he is a genial slob like me or a fierce-eyed zealot for causes he does not un derstand, is incapable of know ing enough truth to exercise his HARVE HARRIS undeniable strength in pressure operations. The danger is that he's useful and basically too unso phisticated to realize he's being had. By the time he knows it the chances are somebody else's aims have been accomplished and the "student" has been discarded as having outlived his usefulness. The above comments by a noted Carolina graduate were ripped from an issue of last June's World-Telegram. We tend to think that Mr. Ruark's assumption that all stu dent movements are made up of kooks, weirdos, bearded boobs and unwashed disciples of dingi ness, is a bit hasty. It seems that his aim was to warn us that the world is filled with people who can, and will, use the student to advance ill conceived ends. We do not deny that perhaps his warning was one worth con sidering. Certainly there are per sons who will take the student organizer for a nice long ride along the paths leading to the advancement of evil. But it seems unwise to suggest by innuendo that all student movement is motivated by a demonic master-mind who tugs at a string to pull students into satan's own plots. -The student, we believe, with justification, is capable of doing a great deal towards making com munity, state and nation a bet ter place in which to live. Mr. Ruark writes that he is "still puzzled about what goes on in the world." Mr. Ruark, so are we you're right, we often don't know whe ther to zig or zag, which end is up, or what makes things tick. And wTe will have to learn a lot to learn to choose wisely and correctly. But, we can't sit back and say pessimistically, "Wait a while, World, give us time to catch up.' We pan't do anything until wre grow a beard and get an ulcer." The world is not going to wait, anyway. The only way you can stop this spinning orb is to split it open with an H-bomb blast. Should we wait for that so we can catch up, learn all there is to know, and then do something? Should the student wait until he is positively assured, beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt, that he is right before he acts? Should he refuse to ally himself with a movement for fear that the movement is sponsored, be hind the scenes, by Nikita Khru shchev, Karl Marx or Svengali? If the student approaches every situation with fear and trembling, he won't do anything wrong, but surely, he won't do anything right either. J Young Democrats' Group Explained Editor's note: this column on the Young Democrats is a fol low up to the articles seen pre viously on the Young Republi cans. The Young Democrats organi zation that put Ralph Potter into the office of North Carolina YDC secretary last weekend in Raleigh is run by young politi cians who are exactly that politicians in the most realistic, most practical sense of the word. Political conventions of any sort are apt to be confused with something Mike Todd might have thrown to celebrate the end of prohibition. But beneath all the banners and ballyhoo lies the real "politikin' " hands shaken, votes promised and compromised, delegation chairmen remember ing to call on clubs who owe fa vors, to see those who might be on the border line of supporting a candidate. And the UNC Young Democrats proved to be about as good a group of young politicians as are around these parts; which after all, is their job. More than just getting a local member elected to office, how ever, is a bigger task of the Young Democrats of Carolina, and of the state as a. whole, it might be added. Recognized as a power ful force, the YDC of North Caro Iina has been given the backing of the hierarchy of Democrats of not only this state but of the na tion as well. How did the YDC acheive such respect? Is not the term "young" connotative of a complementary nod from oldsters who give a pub lic pat on the head but keep the party tight and coordinated with in themselves? The answer to this last ques tion is a definite no. It may be elaborated on in answering the first question. The present state clubs are outgrowths of the Young Men's Democratic Clubs formed in 1888 when Grover Cleveland was running for his second term. For the next 20 years the Young Democrats were virtually idle until O. Max Gardner led a YDC movement at the request of party officials. Then came another layoff of 20 years until the controversial elections of 1928 when North Carolina for the only time in its very Democratic history since the Civil War cast its electoral vote for a Republican, Herbert Hoover. The state Democrats held strong, however, and the hard working Young Democratic Com mittee of that year is given much of the credit for setting up per manently active state and na , tionalJYQung. Democrats Clubs- It would therefore seem that contrary to what is usually heard of the "radical" youth, the young politicians of North Caro lina have proved to be a stabiliz ing force in the state party. At the YDC convention of 1948 held in Greensboro, the YDC held to support for Harry S. Truman and the entire Democratic ticket when many Democrats wavered to ward the Southern States Rights organization. The older members of the Democratic Party have recogniz ed the YDC for what it is: an ef ficient organization which is will ing to work hard for the party. It is a means for party contact at the "grass roots" level, a hard corps of young men and women who have proved their willing ness and ability to trek from door to door passing out cam paign literature, talking up the party, feeling out political spirit around the state with the people who count the most on election day, the voters. The next column will concern the Carolina YDC specifically, the state of its organization, the man ner in which it works for the party as a whole, and the present state party leaders who were and are active in the Young Demo- . To the Editor: A few points of disagreement concerning the letter of Hays R. Browning in this column on 2 November: 1) Reader Browning claims he does not advocate "abolition of freedom of the press . . ." and at the same time blows holes all through Editor Yardley for sup porting Kennedy. I agree with Browning. He doesn't want to abolish editorial freedom, he merely doesn't want the editor to use the freedom which the Constitution gives him. 2) I resent the statement by Reader Browning that the DTI I "is the only link which an un fortunately large majority of the student body maintains with the outside world." I don't believe that a large segment of the stu dent body looks to the DTH alone for dogma on which to base their opinions concerning the cam paign, as Reader Browning states. Reader Browning should real ize that his fellow students aren't quite so wishy-washy as he thinks. If I held the same opin ion as Browning, I sure wouldn't be in school here. 3) His next target is unequal coverage of the two candidates. Browning must have been pretty embarrassed to find a good part of the front page devoted to H. C. Lodge. In addition, the DTH runs an unbiased column on the lat est campaign accusations every day. It's called What They're Say ing, and is found in the news sec tion. That which Reader Brown ing finds on the editorial page i the opinion of the editor and the opinions of other students in cluding Browning, himself. He would find a similar situa tion in most American news papers. The New York Times, The Durham Sun, The Wall Street Journal: all these take sides if the editor has an opinion or isn't a fence-rider as Reader Brownig wants Yardley to be. All this fall, the DTH has been beg ging for articles of pro-Nixon leaning. It would have been much more refreshing to have seen Browning's by-line on an honest effort in favor of Nixon than on the temper tantrum against Ken nedy, Yardley, and the DTH that he actually came through with. , Jay Zimmerman, Jr.
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