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fn V7 TV 7w 7s sixty-eighth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration ot the student body. ' - ; -r i--r-.v: - r -. - "TTiey're ALL Communists Except Thee And Me Prexy 9 The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the 'Publica tions Board of the University of Nvrtfi Carolirfal Richard OiWstreef, Chairman. J All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar eel are the personal expres sions of the editor, Unless otherwise credited ; they are not necessarily represen " - a'i- jr' " ml. - "a-iT 1 111 .-a -1- - - zl . . a1-... laiive oj jeeung on me stay, ana ait Tr prints ut quuiauuus mui byeiijy imi s. April 8, 1961 Volume LXIX, Number 133 Gari Honorable Conduct Be Impeded By" Laws? Four members of the enhsyl vania State Legislature, apparent ly motivated by the belief that the hallowed halls of learning are. not necessarily holy, last' week intro-' duced a bill to make' the' "using of study material of any nature pre-, pared by another person" by a high school or college student a criminal offense. . Newsweek magazine reports that the passage of the bill, which would make offenders liable' to a $50 fine andor 30 days in' jailj has a fair chance of passage after some amending. No" doubt the four Pennsylvania lawmaKeJ saw these" incidents, and a' multitude of others similar to tlitmi, as portents' of moral de cay in the educational realm. r The purpose of such" a law to discourage cheating is commend able. However, its' implications de serve more than a cursory glance. It's staggering to realize that aca demics are in such a state that at least four legislators have conclud ed not only that individual honesty has to be bolstered by the fear of a jail term, but that schools and colleges no longer have' the ability to govern, their own affairs. There can be no. doubt that there is cause for: alarm about the execrable condition th'at exists in the world of academics. Ideas can be bought and sold like so much pig iron. It was not many days ago that this paper received some advertising copy pushing the sale of term papers, theses and dis sertations to the not-too-particular scholar. And very few of us have forgot ten the Charles Van Doren affair or the West Point' scandal of a few years back. ItVdifncult tVsay that' they were not justified. , Can the students at Carolina say the5 same, and volunteer that our school be used as proof that every thing' is rosy, at least on one cam- Or are we guilty of cheating and of lying and stealing? Unfortunately, the remedy for academic corruption in Pennsyl vania1, at Carolina, or at any school or college is not simply the pas sage of legislation. Everyone wishes it were so simple. Indeed, the imposition of a rul ing such as the. Pennsylvania legis lators propose is tantamount to ad mitting that honoraole scholarship is impossible, and that the only way to insure honesty is to" make dishonesty impractical. If academic integrity is going to hell in a handbasket and there is at least some reason to suspect that it is then merely passing laws is not going to do more than slow the passage. The truth trite though it may be is that there is no such thing as collective honesty or integrity. If academics is to be an honorable pursuit, then the individuals in volved in it must each be respon sible personalty, not to a rule-book. tfi ' nr-it Tr-- Mfe v w.' coming: i ne iSLing jt Carolina Carolina is getting her share of outstanding figures as visitors to the campus in the near future. President Kennedy will appear here next October to give an ad-; dress and statesman Christian Herter will deliver the Weil Lec ture slated for May 2. The visits of these two gentle men are insignificant indeed, how ever, compared to the individual' who will grace our campus in only a few short days. We refer, of course, to the new world leader who has burst ontc the American scene with all the glory of a comet, all the wisdom of the Delphic Oracle, all the goodness of Saint Francis- and all the splen dor of a Pharbahl Not to mention all' the validity of an' Indian fakir" arid all the sin cerity 6t Pi T. Barnunii Bishop Homer A Tomlirisoh, , mug yj, Vm vvujliu, will iippecli here- Arir 14 to perform", a "cof6 nation cerenAdhy" hi' whichhev will crown himself Kingi of tne Univer sity' of Nbrtfi Carblina. i WAYNE KING Editor Lloyd Little Executive Editor -: -i Margaret Ann Rhymes ' i Associate Editor S Jim Clotfelteh,- Bill Hobbs '"t ' : News Editors, if Susan Lewis Feature Editor i HARKY VV. i,LOYD ....SpOttS EattOT I Chuck Wete. ..Asst. Sports Editor John Justice, Davis Young Conutributlng Editors ! '" Tnvr Burnett : Business Manager I i Richard Wetner Advertising Manager ' John J ester. , Circulation Manager : Charles WHEDBEE..Subscription! Manager i The Daily' Tab Keel is published daily " except " Monday, , examination periods- and vacations,. It. is entered as second- class matter in the post office-in Chapel" ' Hill,- N. C.t- pursuant, with the act of : March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4 U par semester, $7 per year. The' D ail Y TaS Hsel is a subscriber to !: the United Press,-. International- and ualizes the services of the News Bu- ! ; rnau of the University of North' Caro- : : Una. V 4 Published by the Colonial Press, Chapel Hill, N. C. " J- TbfohV- wher was a write-iri' cadicTai;e for President inT 1960 bri ifie ' ' Thedcfatic'-' ' ticket,- nas" per-1 fofrned his dbronatib'n ceremony m 10 X nations, throughout the world) aecbtfiing to "a;;:tabibid Newspaper received in tnfs bfiice fecentl. Tomlihsori; incidentally, is the editor ; He claiihg that he was l'called", to be a- Bishop;- and was likewise "called" to prbclaim' himself King of tlie World' Feeling' let down by the" ' voters in his1 campaign for PsideW,';TbmiirisW. is now ap pealih'g to- tneoutn1 of high schools arid cblleigs. He safss in prepara-' ticitf for tl' lso blfection: ' 1 W4; fetfKa4 $ w0Xd, b& a"1 sham"4" for this deserving gentleman to be receiyed- witrT ahy but thVjrhost cordial' of welcomes when he ar rives at Carolina. It is a certairity that he is doing a wealth of good for the furthering of religion. Rapped The United States has made mistakes in foreign policy in re cent years: failure to come to Hungary's plea for aid against Soviet intervention; bungling the U-2; and supporting Batista and his criminals. These offenses can be laid at the feet of a Republican adminis tration. - Now it seems that the Child President is trying to outdo the Smiling General in three months: the Laos crisis, giving up the Congo, and now South Africa. MUCH HAS BEEN said about the Congo and Laos but the South African scene is not too well understood. In spite of most Americans' lack of knowledge about the African crisis many misinformed people blindly follow the cur rent American policy of denounc ing the Union of South Africa. Adlai Stevenson now starts buttering up Ghana and, at the same time,. denouncing the South African "apartheid" policy. This is Blind Stupidity for economic and military reasons. There is no doubt as to the Union's stand in regard to the East-West struggle. But Stevenson is willing to dis card that nation, rich in strategic materials, for Ghana who is now playing the Yugoslavia-UAR game. COULD THE ADA tainted Stevenson-Kennedy Brain Truss be setting up the American peo ple for a give-away by support ing a nation like Ghana instead of sticking with a proven ally? We have almost given up the Mid-East so that international Zionism could create a bastard state why not try for two flops? Then there are those Ameri cans who point to apartheid and claim that we cannot support a nation with these policies. f LOOK AT THE facts which are omitted from American papers: the Union has the lowest il literacy rate in Africa among the native population; the Union's native population enjoys the highest standard of living in Africa; the Union's natives also "suffer" from Africa's best schools, highest employment, best medical care, and largest num ber of college graduates. With all this, indeed one of the Union's main internal difficulties is how to deal with natives who illegally cross into South Africa without going through normal immigration procedures. (If things were as bad for the natives as we are told would they risk jail to cross over into the Union? How many Jews ille gally crossed into Nazi Ger many? ) , IT CAN BE UNDENIABLY said that the Bantu, (South Africa's native tribes) receive 200 better treatment from their government than do both the American Indians and Negroes from theirs. For a more complete study of the South African situation the interested person- should contact the South African students at UNC or, as I did, talk to either the Cultural Attache or the Am bassador from the Union. (Mas sachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D. C.) DAVID CHEEK 1 -A;J51U: ft bfc hmM t I j . i'l V : A. J ;cr . V- t:r ;ur J'' : Vv ?, 1 v - :-'-'vi.f: f. :'-V V can?1 '- - S IHQ-r, "- Co To the Editor: " In answer" to Wade Wellman's query as to whether flying saiicers, are' real, I would like to ask: Is Wade' Wellniati'- real? ' MARTIN VTOITTE i To the Editor: I' am a little green man who came' Xo earth many years ago on a-flying saucer. My name' is etaoin slirdiu: I fully intend to take over eartH; but" it! will take' some' time since I ahr only Vz inch tall and don't have'' any arms or les. I am 3-Ust 'ar Big'- fat' hairy brain. BOO.1 ' JOE LAIL (earth name) To The" Editor. Although I do not challenge Mr. Wade Wellman's right to be lieve in flying saucers, boogey men, ghosts; biig-eyed' monsters, pink elephants or any other crea ture, real or imaginary, I do strVhuously ODject to being sub jected to being faced with his views over my morning coffee. It-seems to me that he could find better things to occupy his time, and mine. The whole concept of flying saucers is not only idiotic, it is no longer even fashionable to worry about them. I might ex cuse Mr. Wellman's enterprise if it were. That at least would be some excuse, at present he has none. I suggest he retreat back into the covers of a science-fiction novel from whence he came. Sam Alexander HENRY MAYER THE SOUTH CAROLINA State Senate, reported to be the home of the mythical Senator Claghorn, lived up to its fabled reputation for passionate oratory earlier this week as speaker after speak er branded Dr. Frank P. Graham, former UNC President and UN mediator, as an "intellectual smart aleck," "leftist," "anar chist" and'other terms of endear ment. Warning state colleges not to invite him "to address anybody, on any subject at any time," the august law-makers thundered vehment denunciations of the former U. S. Senator for more than an hour in a ludicrous and shocking demonstration of stu pidity. It seems that in an address at Winthrop College (the S. C. Col lege for Women), Dr. Graham said "the Southern youih move ment in the lawful petitions for the same service for the same price did not have its demo . cratic origins in Moscow, but in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, on the Fourth of July, 1776. It's farther headwaters are in the Judean hills where the carpen ter's son taught and died for the equal freedom and dignity of all people as children of one God arid brothers of all people." Construing these remarks to be an endorsement of the violation of South Carolina's trespassing laws, the Senator from Calhoun County (suh!) sputtered that "he has no right to tell young people it is all right to violate the laws enate of our state . . . sit-ins are not by the wildest stretch of the imag ination 'lawful.' One of the old est laws on the books is the tres pass law!" " ' " ' ' Other gentlemen were quick to follow suit in a tempestuous hour of windy explosions. "HERE IS A man publicly ad vocating violation of the laws of South Carolina. Advocation of laws is anarchy and Graham is an anarchist!" cried the Senator from (of all places) UNION Coun ty. Not to be out-shouted, the pres ident pro . tempore, Edgar A. Brown, told his colleagues: "I know that fellow. He's a leftist and an intellectual smart aleck. He can brainwash anybody on any subject." IT SEEMS HARD to believe that the vitriolic rantings emana ting from the Columbia S ta t e At It House this week were uttered by men endowed wTith the power to enact the laws of a sovereign state. Associating the remarks of Dr. Graham with left-wing fanata- cism an other time-worn epithets'" is a weak and shabby method of expressing dissatisfaction or dis agreement, and obviously reflects poorly upon the judgment and reasoning of the South Carolina law-makers. The good gentlemen of South Carolina should certainly be al lowed to express their carefully considered opinions about Dr. Graham's address; this is in keep ing with our principles of free speech, although the senators seem unwilling to grant Dr. Gra ham this right to speak his mind freely. . WITH ALL THE perorations Ag O about states rights and other Southern subjects, one point re mains obscured. What has hap pened to the traditional chivalric code of gentlemanly behavior which has supposedly guided Sou ivChern statesmen since time im memorial? Character assassination is noth ing new to Dr. Graham. The tragic hate campaign waged against him in 1950 during his fight for re-election to the U. S. Senate is a textbook model on the subject. Dr. Graham was defeated in the Senate" race, but went on to win the respect of the state and nation through distinguished ser vice at the United Nations. The petty mouthings of the South Ca rolinians will not hurt him; such ill-founded oratory can only hurt the erstwhile Confederates. WADE WELLMAN More Li gilts een In Sky f G bopel Hill After JDark V: II y With Davis B. Young Whatever clever soul was re sponsible for Thursday's Chapel Hill Before Sun-Up offering goofed on our literary pseudo nym. As someone aptly pointed out, it's not Clavis C. Gung, but rather, Yavis B. Dung. Caught a tremendous show Sunday night in New York fea turing Jimmy Gavin and John Lee Hooker down at Gerde's Folk City on the corner of Mercer and West 4th in the Village. For fel low folk singing addicts, we recommend the aforementioned club as New York's finest haven for the blues with a guitar to back- it up. Brother John Sellers is on hand to M.C. The price is right the rhusic reeks with qual ity, the company is your choice. DBY: In answer to your wanted no tice concerning need for atypical Carolina man for gorgeous coed, I am interested. Name ,. height 5'9", age 23, sandy hair, hazel eyes, weight 140, college degree, occupation schoolteacher, ex - writer for Daily Tar Heel. MGA, ivy dresser, interested in romance. Crazy about travel and outdoor activities Tell her to write your old Dad, and we'll trade photos, etc. I'm bored. Hurry Did all you silly people have a good time in Fort Lauderdale? Now that you're out of office, David Gfigg, we challenge you to an 18-hole golfing duel. We'll even supply a pledge to caddy for you. This is a standing offer. . And don't laugh, Bill Harriss. Maybe Wayne King plays golf, too. . (The following article is the third in a four-part series en titled "The Summing Up," a study on the existence of ex-, tra-terrestrial ob j ects. ) For 120 miles the fighter kept lip the chase, but the saucer al ways stayed about three miles ahead.- Radar contact had been lost when, his fuel running short, the flyer turned and started back to home base. The UFO instantly reversed and followed him all the way back, at a distance of 10 to 15 miles. Another F-84 rose in pursuit, but the second flyer, not so courageous as the first, broke off the chase and came ignomini ously back. The saucer continued its eerie flight and went off the radar scope, bearing toward Fargo, North Dakota. A few minutes later, ground observers near Fargo saw a bright, bluish-white object moving swiftly through the night. Here was another sighting list ed as "unknown" unexplain able. Major Keyhoe learned of the censorship directives in the fall of 1953, shortly after the publi cation of his second UFO study, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, which is available at the UNC library. He instantly realized that he could no longer operate on his own, even with the aid of highly placed contacts. AFTER LONG AND patient ef forts, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena came into being in September, 1956, largely due to Key hoe's ef forts. The following January it reorganized and enlarged its structure on considerable scale. Several Congressmen, along with Senator Goldwater of Ari- Letters to The Daily Tar Heel Forum are always wel some contributions, as stu dent expression is an inte gral part of academic free dom. No limitations on length are imposed, but cooperation is asked in keeping letters as brief as the topic permits, typewritten, double - spaced if possible. No unsigned let ters will be printed. zona, joined the committee and permitted their names to be used. By January of 1959 NICAP was set up in every state of the Union and in 30 foreign countries, Rus sia among them. KEYHOE, WHO GRAPHICAL ly recounts NICAP's efforts in Flying Saucers Top Secret (I960), quickly turned his atten tion to the most important sight ings before the, committee. One of the best was the case of an R7V-2 transport, occurring on an unspecified date in 1956. The Navy transport, on night flight across the Atlantic' was heading for Gander, Newfound land, with Commander George Benton in the senior pilot's seat. Abruptly Benton caught sight of a cluster of lights far ahead and below the plane. As Benton turned the aircraft for a better view, one of the disks, as if noticing the plane'3 movement, sprang from the group and soared at the trans port like a cannon ball. At the last moment it turned slightly and circled the plane, drawing abreast to pace the craft at some 300 feet, THE CREWMEN gazed out at a huge -white disk, thickness about 30 feet, rim glowing haz ily, diameter approaching 400 feet. After a while the massive dish like UFO darted ahead and van ished among the stars. Benton radioed the information to Gander, which gave instant radar confirmation. On landing, Benton and his crew were rigor ously grilled by Air Force intel ligence: Several' days later, a govern ment scientist visited Benton at his home and produced several photographs one of which matched the" UFO Benton had en countered. Benton wondered at the inquiries, 'but none of his questioners would reveal their intentions. ?: " , .1 -
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