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I f m M m m m i $ m m I f2 Hatlp Wat In its sixty -ninth 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 Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expressions of the editor, jinless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff '. November 8, 1961 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXIX, No. 43 ow The question of southern inte gration has many facets, all of which have been the subject of con tinuing controversy and comment. The moral and legalistic aspects have naturally assumed a position of jhigh importance, since .these jare subjects which command an air of Immediacy. Both sides of the argumery: have resorted to psychology, religion, so ciology, philsophy, and to lesser extent, the arts, in advancing their point of view. Clergymen, politic ians, .scientists, lawyers and others have Jeen working overtime in pro viding grist for the various mills that produce comment on the is sue of .integration. Strangely, in our super-materialistic society, the question of (eco nomy has not commanded its share of attention, taking a berth far back in the order of importance. But it is in the area of economics that the South stands to benefit most from making better use of the potential inherent in the Negro pqpulatipn--r a potential that has been realized, in the main, only by the most menial of tasks. In every southern city, even the most cas ual of olpseryers can .find Negrp college graduates sweeping , floors, waiting tables .-and -otherwise wast ing the talents that education can provide. This situation is not con fined entirely to ;the South, -of course, but it is in that area that it is most widespread. AacI ft is in the South that the Negro popu lation comprises such a .large pro portion of human resources. Long? Should the South suddenly ;be able to break down all racial .bar riers in education, in job tOppqn t unity and training, in attitide the resulting economic thrust .sup plied by the Negr.o population would be ,unequaled anywhere 4n the world. As the situation now exists, .the Negro population is hard put to carry its own weight in most -south-ern states. The number (of Jegro welfare cases alone is staggering. These cases are the result, in good proportion, of the white attitude jn not providing adequate training .and opportunity. Obviously, the Negro cannot . Shake .off oyer, .a century-and-a.-half of servitude ,and unequal opportun ity in a twinkling. Some progress has been jrnade, grudgingly, in pro viding the Negro with physal (Op portunity, with schools and .other facilities. But in attitude, much ,of the South is but a short step be yond the Civil Vr. Jlere in N. C, for instance, the Negro population comprises rough ly one-fourth of .the total. In Geor gia,, it jriakes up pearly one-third, according to the figures listed in the latest World Almanac. legally, we are in an era that functions under the 1954 Supreme Court desegregation decision. In at titude, however, much of the South still lovingly embraces the Dred Scott decision of 1857 which sees the iNegro as a piece of property. Here exists a jnajor paradox. Even if, jfor the sake of argument, w.e bar all legal and moral considera tions, the laws of simple economy dictate that a resource should be cultivated and utilized. This is as true for human resources as for any other. Yet the Negro, the South's vir tually untapped human resource, is denied the path towards bettering both himself and the South. How long, O, Gentle Southland? College The administrators of the New York city colleges helped rather than hurt the interests of the Communist party wjth their recent WAYNE KING Editor H ' m JttUtCAKET Amf JtBXMSI p Associate Editor - Xxoto Lirai f Executivf Hews Editor g . Bxu. HOBBf Managing pdltor GaSkY BLAVCBABS fl Assistant Editor f Jim. Cvctmurr3t M Assistant to the Editor . , Ertn Vauchh . ., ,Nfivs Editor If Nakct Bami. tJXOA Crawwta II Feature Editor g Hakrt W. Xxojr?. '. Sports 'Editor m Oavxs ViXBOuaJSubscriptum Manager m Jzmc EsKHficx CiTculation Manager Ed Dufrzk- .Asst. j$i&rts Editor JfZl WwinT Photography Editor i TZM BURNETT Bystness jpanager Mna MatWjWWI , ; Advertising fSanager ' Tbs Dmlt fTiM Bxbl Is published dally J except Monday, examination period f and vacations. It Is entered as seconds f class matter in the post office in Chapel Jf Hill. NV C pursuant with -the act of IJ March 8 1870. Subscription rates: ,345? the United Press International "and m utilizes the services of the News Bur M reau of thf yalyersity of North Caro- iblished y the fubUcations Board of the Uniyersir of Horta Carolina. Chapel Kill, N. C. ; 1 I I. I M I i oiiiiiiiiiiists decision to prohibit iCommunists from speaking at student forums. Witness the experience of Bejamin J. Davis, the party's national sec xetary whose invitation to address 3 Queens College group led to the ban. Columbia University students, irled at jthi sabridgment of aca demic freedom, promptly arranged a meeting for Mr. Davi$ on their canjpus. je tojd them lje had been deluged w;th requests to appear on television and radio and to speak at other institutions. "And the pub licity I Ijaye received couldn't be bought by all the gold in Moscow' Mr. Davis crowed. Now City College undergraduates are talking of boycotting glasses to protest the ban; a mass indignation rally has heen held and the Com munists are getting a sympathetic attention they never otherwise would have had. If the heads of ,our municipal colleges will not ,see that their policy of suppression .strikes at the" free exchange of ideas Jbasic .to higher education, they must be aware that our miniscule Comma- 1 nist party tjjriyes on '"martyrdom." The pan s wrong, as we have stat jed previously; and it is also self-defeating. mm i . i m iticDtd: on a, ratlas beMJJiiyidlvBB'iL ,9 The concluding resolution of our Declaration of Independence as serts: -'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states . . . with full power to do all acts and things which independent states may of rights do." These - "free and independent states" were created and founded upon Judaic-Christian precepts now under world-wide attack. The truth that .made us Icee is everywhere assaulted by an onrushing force of fraud, falsehood, and lies flying the Red banner of international Com munism. It openly boasts o its in tention to bury God-given freedom under a,n .ayjilanche ,pf .activated .atheism. Thus ifar, ,ve 4ave been .content tp let fthis ;force march on un-resisted. W'ESTN ,civilwation, ,and particularly , our American republic, .was ,oundjed uppn -these precepts. Jt ;has beei sustained solely ,by,them, .and Jby vvh.at Jhey .have .meant ,tp .the peoples jft'hp ivere guided jby ifiliem- The .civilisation .that was punded upon 4them stands ,alpne ,as he pnly pbstiacle between ;the Corn jmunist swine jRnd their goal sqf .world domination. 3Ht cw pur -civilfr-ption js in grave ganger jpf tbejng idestrqyed, from without and (from within. Sn .the jiame ,pf rogress," a .clique ,p.f socialist welfAre-staters assure us that the only . way to overcome the temptation of Communism is to succumb to it and .to", see that other nations have no other choice than to tag along. They frequently and flagrantly give aid and com fort to the enemy, urjder the malici ous falsehood that it is humane. THE GOLDEN RULE is not a mandate to commit national sui cide. It is not a mandate to sacri fice even individual rights that were so generously bestowed by the Creator. If the Golden Rule is to be jeally observed, then we should apply it both to our friends still free who look to us as the guard ians of .freedom, and to those that we .have permitted to be swept in to -Godless slavery behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains. Christ told us that the truth would make us free. We are fast losing the freedom that the truth gave us That truth is Christianity and the responsibility it places upon the individual. That ;truth is that this responsibility REMAIN with the individual, and that it not be gradu ally .or suddenly usurped by a Com munist -socialist-welfare statism. That truth is that all men and gen erations ought to have the chance tp .know and practice this truth. It is npt un-Christian to oppose those force? that seek to destroy this truth. THE MASTERMINDS that work night and day to destroy our civiliza tion are, of course, concentrated in the Kremlin. But their dupes and agents roam at will all over the world, preaching propaganda and lies designed to bring us to our laiees. They are equally 4it iiome at conference tables as well as in military establishments. Through our stupidity, they are provided forums and media through which to disseminate their poison, all with one ultimate goal: to destroy our civilization and the rights that hold it together. We validated this piratical con spiracy when we recognized the Communist dictatorship as the gov ernment of Russia in 1933. We res cued it from the consequences of its own treachery by embracing it as our ally in World War II. We per mitted it to occupy Berlin, and to sweep 100 million Eastern Euro pean people into its godless orbit of dictatorial slaver. They remain helplessly chained there to this day. WE PERMITTED the anti-Communist army of Chiang JCai-shek to be driven from the' Chinese main land, leaving more than 500 million Chinese to the tender mercies of Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-lai. This, then, is the conspiracy with which our politicians assure us we can "co-exist." This is the con spiracy to whose mercies we left the Hungarian freedom-fighters, and for whom we cruelly double-crossed the Cuban invaders. This is the con spiracy that enslaves hundreds of millions,' arid which will permit at least 20 million Chinese to starve to death in communes this winter. "Co-existence" with these mur .derers ought to be considered immoral. ADLAI STEVENSON has told us that, under the U. N. charter, we are jio longer free Jto -intervene uni laterally to prevent the spread of Communism. True enough, but ap parently we are still free to inter vene to HELP Communism. We have repeatedly dpne that, juid .are preparing to do so again. We are charged with the duty to save civilization for ourselves and our posterity; and to free those helpless humans whose slavery we permitted. In this civilization lies the good that man has produced in his stay on earth. If it is permitted ot be abolished, any urther resu. dence on earth will be little better than that of any animal unfortu. nate enought to be left. Christianity and freedom will then disappear fur a thousand years. SHOULD WE take steps to save ourselves, our welfare-staters would undoubtedly tag us as being bigoted, prejudiced, reactionary, conserva tive, old-fashioned, fanatical, witch hunters, fascists, and the legion ot other .misnomers .that the "liberaf' mind can produce. So be it. But we will ,also retain our freedom. ''JPor What shall jt profit a man if he gain the whole world, and yet lose his own soul." Without a speedy reversal of our present poli cy of containment, appeasement, and "co-existence," we will lose both the world and our souls. There is a fate worse than death. "We hold these truths to be selr evident." We hope so. But we have been given reason to wonder. -.-Martin h. Wilson ATTITUDES By Clotfcltcr 'Laugh Aloud When Things Get Ridiculous Notice The Big Change?" Edit Page O peii To Anyone Fully-clothed in. the red, white and blue of the Nation . . . marching steadily toward the time when that Day of Reckoning shall have oblit erated all the Reds and fellow tra velers and their families and friends and people who read their news papers and who think very loudly and who favor any one of numerous causes which have been dubbed Pink . . . marching steadfastly backward is the American Legion, host for Monday eight's two-ring circus in Memorial Hall. A packed Carroll Hall audience had seen the first clown show Oct ober 23 when "Operation Abolition" had been shown. The audience Mon day saw "Operation" plus an added attraction (apparently in the place of the Tweenty cartoon): 'Commun ism on the.iMapa flick which por-, trays Red subversion around the world. Of course the Legion did not al low a debate, which would include an agent of the Conspiracy an agent such as Socialist Mike Har rington, who debated Fulton Lewis III at the "Operation Abolition" showing last month. Aside from a National Student Association spon sored sheet handed out, there was no protest, no opposition to the House Un-American Activities Com mittee's Red-infested film, or to "Communism on the Map." But we suppose a Legion audi ence wouldn't want to be told nasty, unpleasant acts. It wouldn't want to find out the truth about "Opera tion Abolition' (a subject which previously has been covered in some some detail in the BTH.i A Legion .audience wpuldn'jt want to hear the opposition viewpoint on "Communism on the Map," a .film put out by Harding College of Sear cy, Ark. Persons of Legionnaire mentality might not like to have former HUAC Staff Director Richard Arens challenged .when he says (in the film), "The Supreme Court has all but wrecked the structure of in ternal security." Innuendo and half-truths ore the meat of this film, as in: "In West Germany today, Communists are present in every aspect of national thought." Or: "Serious students thyik that the Communists will take India whenever they .choose." "Communism on the Map" march ed further into the land of make believe ,with allegations that Ice land is Communist-dominated, that Venezuela is a "Communist satel lite," that America's NATO allies are not to be trusted, and on and on. As the Legion audience watched breathlessly, "Communism on the Mqp" presented conclusive proof that the U. S. is surrounded by Red satellites; that only Formosa, Switzerland, and maybe Canada and West Gqrmany are still free of Communist .domination, the rest of the world being under the control of the hammer and sickle. A Legion audience wouldn't want to hear .any opposing arguments and Monday night it didn't. Ameri can Legion Post iNo. ,6 of Chapel Hill fulfilled a traditional purpose of that glorious organization: the advancement of an over-fed and under -.educated. "Americanism." (Mr. Henry Royall was responsible for bringing "Oferation" and "Com munism on themap" to town. Mr. Royall is chairman pf the Legion's Americanism -Committee.) i Many persons . in the audience sat quietly and absorbed Monday night's True and Deep Message. But others, less willing jfo become Legion "dupes" either latched in quiet dis belief or took Ue advice of a Calif ornia student, as reported in "Op eration Abolition,": ". . . Laugh out loud when things get ridicu lous : Jim Clotfeltcr To the Editor: The edit9rial page, and indeed .the whole Daily Tar Heel itself, has taken .a one-sided view to news events and the world situation. This is the so-called Liberal attitude and it is one which the readers of this newspaper have had to endure in increasing quantities. The Daily Tar Heel is the broadest and most jeffec tive means of communication on campus. But he Tar Heel is losing readers which it wil continue tp do if the staff and writers of .this news paper persist in writing articles that show partisanship and infexibility. As Clyde Wilson's article "J.F. K. Drifting .From the Left" pointed out quite rightly, world events change .daily and policies have to be adapted as such. Khrushchev's policy depends ;on the element of surprise nd continuous change. One would ,hppe that Washington and ,the Government is npt preoccupied with a policy that has any "label" Whether it be liberal or Conserva tiye. The President himself is rea jizing a new trend in events at this moment. BUT jSTILL w? . hear such words as world Opinion." The Editor re ferred rather loosely to .this in an editorial this week. I would serious ly question that there is any such thing, and if there is, it should have nothing to do with our foreign policy ' Our dealings with each foreign nation is different. While we should not support the Socialist Govt, in British Guiana, we should be doing all we can to give aid to countries that we know are committed in our effort to prevent the inflitration of Communism throughout the world. What Nasser, Sukharno, Tshombe, and Nehru think of our foreign poli cy has got nothing to do with the issue, -UNLESS they show an active desire to fight Communism. What they have shown on a number of occasions is that they are perfectly able to look after themselves. Thus we must be ever-ready to accept new ideas .without bias or prior judgment. These acts, even if we dislike themy often turn out to be the reality .of the situation. We .cannot affqrd to be misinformed on the essential issues fit. today. A GREAT JDgAL OF RESPONSIBILI TY LIES WITH THE PRESS, AS THE STAFF OF THIS PAPER IS READILY AWARE. Tim Tetlow Editor's Note: 'World opinion, for better or worse, does exisit .and has a definite bearing .on .our foreign policy. As for foreign aid, shpuld we re fuse aid to the .emerging nations of Africa, for instance, merely be cause there is no immediate and pressing danger of Communism there? That our aid programs have been poorly administered is an unfortu nate fact. But it does .not follow that we should eliminate the programs. The neutral nations are becoming a vital force in the shaping of world affairs. Do we disregard them? The ideological struggle is not confined to one front. It inyolves, directly or indirectly, every nation in the world. We cannot afford to lose sight of India, of the Congo, of Indonesia, of the United Arab Republic, ,or of any other nation merely because our first concern is Russia, The editorial page, incidentally, is open to anyone: Liberal, Conser vative, Nazi, Communist. .Mo re JLette e e Reader Disagrees Willi Editorial A .disturbing lack of insight was manifested in the editorial "A Dumb Move" which appeared in last Fri day's Tarheel. Editor King's stand against U.S. aid to Yugoslavia and, in fact, all nations which call them selves "neutral" was hopefully a ruse to attack controversy. The logic ot the argument, which concludes that "we're plain stupid," consists of several rather dubious premises. It is stated or implied that (1) "neutral is qual to "pro Russian," (2) Yugoslavia will be able to get a war device from Eisen hower's Atoms for Peace program, and 43) (Russia is -waking to give Yugoslavia anything that we won't. However, more important than the article's logic, or illogic, is the basic issue of foreign aid to coun tries not allied with the West. The United States has not denied aid to right-wing dictatorships such as Spain, where U. S. missile bases are located. Yet this is wise not only for military reasons, but more important, it materializes Ameri ca's support for so-called neutral countries that oppose Soviet im perialism and mass bomb testing. Does it not make sense to apply this reasoning to Yugoslavia, where Russian militancy has been consis tently .condemned, and a progres sive economy has successfully bene fited the populace without the ty ranny and oppression felt in Russia and Spain? The United States will never be able to return to the conservative's Utopia of isolation it experienced in the days before global conflicts and ideologies. But more consequen tial this country cannot survive amid tthese global passions without acknQwledging all of mankind, and letting democracy be felt in every cornej- pf the world. Harry DeLcng I, yef'ief'efef'eeiejpf' f