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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 Norths Carolina.
, All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the
personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they
are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff.
January 4, 1962
Tel. 942-2356
Vol. XLLX, No. 69
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A Great Year Almost
Just four days ago the 1961 cal
endar became just another scrap of
paper, rivaled only by. yesterday's '
newspaper in its uselessness. For
most Carolina students, it was rip
ped down joyously, with the sound
of tinkling glasses forming back
ground music.
Most of us returned to the Hill
with light hearts in our breasts and
dark circles under our eyes, slightly
repentent for the failures of the
past years but filled with solemn
vows that this year, come hell or
high water, will be different.
But, given a month or perhaps
two for the strong-willed most of
our iron-clad promises to ourselves
will wreaken, become a bit strained
as they are modified, finally becom
ing just as old and useless as that
calendar we discarded just a short
time ago.
But this does not mean that pro
gress will not be made, and that
we will not grow imperceptibly
perhaps both as individuals and
as part of the assortment of peo
ple and property that we call col
lectively the University.
Like 1961, the new year will re
veal its horde of setbacks, shocks,
failures and disappointments. Hope
fully, none of them will be a basket
ball scandal, a bond issue failure or
a dormitory poisoning. But some of
its revelations, surely, will be as un
pleasant. Surely? Perhaps not, for behind
every failure there is an individual,
of a group of individuals, who some
how didn't succeed in guiding a par
ticular moment toward final achi
evement. - Failures and disappoint
ments, like successes, are not a part
of irreversible destiny. They are
made by people. People who, be
cause they didn't care enough, were
ill-prepared, or were too afraid, did
not exert the necessary effort to
avert failure and insure success.
Thankfully, not all the news of
1961 was gloomy. The University
enhanced its physical facilities,
strengthened its faculty and man
aged to keep abreast of burgeoning
enrollments.
The status of athletics was re
evaluated and strong efforts made
to curb professionalism and its ill
effects. But evaluating 1961 objectively
and in perspective if such an eva
luation is possible so soon after
its close it was just another year.
But to every one of us it gave ex
perience and few of us are worse
for it .although there are many who
would give much to be able to live it
over-again using the insights we
have gained to correct the errors
we made. i '
In just 12 months, we will be pull
ing down another calendar, and in
all likelihood, it will be just another
year. But with a little more cour
age and effort, it can be the great
one that 1961 almost was.
Almost.
Wh
o s
Off B
ase?
Of course, basketball fans miss
the Dixie Classic. Games in Raleigh
matching some of the best U. 'S.
college teams year after year added
pleasure and zest to the holiday sea
son. For thousands of Tar Heels
the tournament was entertainment
deluxe. But to say that the Dixie
Classic is missed is not to say that
President William Friday of the
Greater University of North Caro
lina, who decreed the death of the
tournament, is an old Scrooge who
has not yet learned the lesson of
Christmas.
It is irritating, even disgusting to
read some of the current comments
of sports writers bemoaning the
passing of the Dixie Classic' This
comment, for instance r ". . . - .
President Bill Friday was far off
base with his decision. The practice
of penalizing the masses for the
mistakes of a few irresponsible per
sons certainly is not in line with the
code of good sportsmanship! Yet,
that's the story in essence. A few
basketball players 'sinned but the
many, many thousands of hardwood
'One of the unsolved mysteries , in.
the life of Adolf Eichmann is his
name. In his signed confessions,
published -iir 196a by LIFE, he gave
it as Adolf Otto. Biographers and
commentators unanimously give it
as Karl Adolf. May be, it's Karl A
dolf otto. : ; 'r;- -
The multiple accounts of his flight.
exile, and capture, i all, iV contradict
each other on many points.-: Also, a
number of myths sprrpund the per
iod in question. At . timeS i it , vhas
been reported that r he;; underwent
plastic surgery, that his; sons t kept
the name Eichmann,- 'while"; living .in
exile, that his captors drugged" him
for the flight to Israel. The first two
stories are false, the third unprov-
en.
Early in 1961,. before .the trial was
opened, a Jewish acquaintance told
me witn complete assurance uinac
Eichmann wouldn't get capital pun
ishment. "Eichmann won't get
death," he said quietly. "He'lTget
a life sentence." V ? '
"How do you know?" I asked. .
"I know the Jewish, -mind, and.
Eichmann won't get,.,;death He'll
get life imprisonment . f
But most people disagreed with
this, and history proved ;thern right."
On December 11, 1961,' rafter -.some
four - months of deliberation, - the
Israeli court reconvened.. The ver-:
diet was a 300-page rdocunient, one
hundred thousand words in; length.
Without preliminaries,; Presiding At-:
torney Moshe Landau; gave the" es-.
sence of the report: Guilty. Guilty on
all of the fifteen counts .'advanced.
Twelve of these carried a possible
death sentence. i I
Eichmann's facer; showed no ex
pression, though he might pardon
ably have been stunned' by the sud
den blow. An NBC commentator
spoke of his "iron self-control"; the
description was trite but accurate.
It took more than a day to read
the verdict. But Israel wasn't dal
lying. On December 15 the court,
imposed the death sentence. Once
more the defendant was emotion
less;; his ;f ace-like the-f acef a
statue. . The ' NBCi xeporteT seemed
impressed" by "this -stoical bearing;
he. said that Eichmann took it
"calmly and bravely," words which
themselves; required courage from
the speaker... J ; ;.
i Andnow.we; can. Rationally ask
ourselves ; what; v the. ;Eichmaiyi trial
has prWed," In; addition to; reminding
uqf'the ftill magnitude "ofrNazr bar
barisrn, V$te Israelis'vhave ; brought
out f several other points .father ;;cotU
cjusively, J -''-.jt'ClJij
$Jn the;first pteitippeaiuite
Certain" that the "annihilation- of the
Jews-: was ; noflah overall (crime .of
the rGerTnra; -people;. .',Thi "finalso
lutjon'' wag 1 effected "Une: utmost
secrecy, probably to. keep that know
ledge of t from; lowering public mo
rale., in wartime; Jewish observers,
notai?ly John Dornberg jjiiTthe; pre
face ,of 'his Schizophrenic ;permany,
have testified that . the t German pub-,
lic taevr little pr'. noUiing . of the
crimes of the., intl?rj.regimeA f' :
;;I3y .contrast it nowj seems obvious,
not- pnly.that Germany??, .ne3
welt .knew;, what - Eichmann; was dOK
ing,; but; thatlthey didn'trfnuch care.
The Royal Air Force.v which bombed
cities indiscrimintery.Tand at . high
cost '-refused to bomb' the -'death
camps or-the transportation routes.
Jewish leaders requesting this' "ope
ration were turned ; down, on the
flimsy pretext i of 'technical difficul
ties;" y-) -- H-";-.
- StHl 5 more blatant - wais : the treat
ment accorded- Joel Brand; the Hun
garian Jewish leader : whom Eich
rrian approached with an "offer of one
million Jews in exchange ' for 10,
000 military trucks. When ' Brand
rriet with British'officials to discuss
the deal, they refused to listen. He
was taken, to Cairo .and .detained
there . under house arrest-r for ; four
and a half months. Lord Moyne,
British deputy in the Middle East,
commented bleaklyr "A million
Jews? What shall I do with a mil
lion' Jews?" ;
Last year, testifying at the trial,
Brand said that the British "just
didn't want" the people Eichmann
offered to swap.
If the trial was largely an : effort
to . impress . on the world, . for all
time, the colossal . brutality ; of ;.the
final solution,, it had only partial suc
cess. It aroused; immense interest ;
already there are three booka about
Eichmann, ' one . semi-f ictional "';fnoyie;;
and! no telling, h'owfmahyi ajticle?:
iButrit probably aroused very little
sympathy for the victims of .this ho?
locaust. indeed; ;the high-haTide ' ab
duction ; 'of .' Eichmann and . the dub
ious legality ; of ; the, "trial :. haVf stir
red iip a new' wave of anti-Semitism.
Evea.manyArgentie Jews were an
noyed , by Israelis violation r of .their
national. sovereignty.; 'n tl- vy-i,v
t ilow much. ..of t this was ;.rey?nge:
motive, 'and .how V much .yas- 3;;ser
ious V desire , to enlighten the world;
may-never be knovvif. Tuvia , Fried
marinV 1 n 1 h i s: rgraphically Vwrittto
autobiographyHfe
makes -it'; candidly obvious! 'that the
rilen ' who v- traced-; Eicnmarih- down
were driven by revenge, and David
Ben-Gurion clearly implied thesame
in!' a long letter' to Argentine Presj-
dent Arturo ; Frohdizi ; v ofi '1 June ; 9,
19601 , It '"is-.also noteworthyf:t h a't
Eichmann was seized in Buenos Air
es -just two days after ? an' extradi
tion, treaty had been concluded be
tween Argentina and Israel, t i ;;
- The '.' trial wai certainly a - great
deal fairer than its ' critics had ex
pected. If anything, it was "far more
objective than the Nuremberg trials,
which amounted to pure lynchings.
A few things marred its objectivity,
chiefly the frantic outbursts of the
prosecuting attorney, Gideon Haus
ner, and Israel's refusal to grant
safe- conduct - for- witnesses for tne
defense. (Later, this refusal was set
aside for two- SS men, who declin
ed to appear.) .. . ....
. Some, of the charges against Eich
mann seemed . petty. It .-. was rather
a disagreeable spectacle to see the
defendant arraigned for "member
ship.in hostile organizations,"-prin-cipaliy-the
Gestapo, And one won:
ders; why the charges of "crimes
against humanity" and "crimes
against - the Jewish people"- were
listed as separate indictments.' The
last-mentioned count threw a tinge
ofrracism on the whole proceed
ings "But, for all this, the trial was gen
erally dispassionate; the defendant
was given every opportunity to ex
plain his side of the case. Harking
back to an earlier point, I would
like Ho quote the full text of this
statement, credited to an Israeli
spokesman in U. S. NEWS for Aug
ust z, 1961:
"For many of us, the full eviden
ce brought out at the trial was a
clear indication that a distinction
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fans around the state are the ones
serving the sentence. How this can
be construed as fair play is beyond
us to comprehend."
The sports writer, not President
Friday, is off base when he makes
such an observation as this. He has
not grasped the essence of the story
at all- If colleges and college bas
ketball exist simply to provide en
tertainment for sports enthusiasts,
it is not hard to understand how
some writers might conclude that
Presiden tFriday was wrong in ban
ning the Dixie Classic. But the es
sence of the story is the truth that
colleges were not established to pro
vide entertainmet for followers of
athletics. And a colege or univer
sity that fulfills its primary pur
pose the advancement of learning
must not be allowed to become
subservient to basketball or foot
ball, nor to fans who support the
games.
President Friday saw a threat to
higher education in the over-emphasis
of athletics. Over-emphasis
led to a number of evils, the most
glaring of which ' was scandal the
fixing of games by players who ac
cepted bribes from gamblers. The
Dixie Classic had become a symbol
of over-emphasis .When the basket
ball scandal "struck home," involv
ing players on teams representing
institutions in the State Unviersity
System;' President ! Friday decided
that drastic action was necessary to
keep sports subservient to educa
tion. A symbo 1 had ; to go. The
"rights" of "innocent fans" were
not involved really, only so if edu
cation was properly subservient to
sports. : : '
The Administration of the Uni-
versity ; acted sanely and responsi-
bly. And the rest of us should look
upon its action not without regret,
perhaps,- as we miss the pleasure
and excitement of "the Dixie Classic,
but with sanity and a sense of re-
sponsibility-a ri d iw i t h apprecia
tion' for' leadership that keeps its
head while too many of the rest of
us are losing ours.
Smithfield Herald
World
rt .a it i
It's A Shortfflatfs
has to be drawn between the Nazi
government and the German people
as a whole. It opened the eyes of
a' lot- of us, -who had gotten in the
habit of thinking that the Nazis and
the Germans were one and the same
thing. . .
""Nothing in the trial tended to
show that the mass of the German
people knew about the mass extermi
nation of Jews.
"In fact, the evidence tends to
show that they probably did not
know about it. The whole operation
was carried out as a secret con
spiracy by the Nazis, as though
they knew they were committing a
crime which they would prefer not
to have people know about, either
at home or abroad."
Nothing could be plainer. I humb
ly propose that on this score, if
nowhere else, it will hereafter, be
come the world to be silent.
And perhaps the best thing now
is for everyone just to forget about
Adolf Eichmann, his robotlike sad
ism, and his sick, twisted philoso
py. Our enemy is world Communism,
not the defeated Third Reich; and
if Israel now realizes this, more
power to her.
WADE WELLMAN
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Should Journalism
Students Edit DTE?
Suppose a reliable survey found
that shotgun owners fired their
weapons on an average of fifteen
times a year. Would manufacturers
then turn out a product which could
be used no more often than that?
Assume it was discovered that
the typical American received
eleven years education. Should col
leges close down and public schools
shorten their curriculum?
Anyone asked questions like these
laughingly points out that averages,
though useful in their own ways, are
never taken as laws of design, just
as informative general guides, guides
to be ignored in case of exceptions.
Suppose, again, that automobile
companies, having realized that the
representatives U. S. male stands
five feet nine Inches, began ta build
their cars around this hypothetical
buyer. Laughable? It would be were
it not universally true. Drivers" to
day over six feet tall automatically
expect to be "uncomfortably cramp
ed under the wheel and bent nearly
double in a fashionable back seat.
NO, GRIPING would .be short-lived
if inconvenience to long-legs con
fined itself ' to f, automobiles ?and"
buses, trains,' planes, etc.).;. Trans
portation, we" concede, poses 1 prob-
lems of space far too delicate for
the lay mind's grasp. Anyway the
plight of the tall , man is even more
severe in other indispensable areas,
such as the modern home. The frame
on the closet door in my apartment,
for; instance, hangs some four in
ches beneath my hairline. No week
is complete .until I thereby crack
my forehead at least twice. : ;
Movie theaters and concert , halls
for an oversized man pi ten turn but
to be more evil than necessary 7 1
sometimes wonder if John Wayne
and Rock i Hudson . have ever seen
their own shows without ; special
chairi in the aisle. -
But even these hardships could
probably be borne with a smile exr
cept for that most thoughtless, no
torious i off ender, the clothes manu
facturer. While pants can eventu
ally be altered to fit anyone (if
you're willing to forget cuffs), wear
able coats have to be sorted out
like , Miss America contestants.
Something is always wrong, usual
ly sleeve lengths, I'm also lucky
if a shirt tail remains tucked in over
an hour or two. The trouble with
"tall-man shops" is not fit but style.
Deciding between well-fitting but
double-breasted bell-bottomed serges
and tightly binding Ivy League mod
els can result in a wardrobe little
short of ludicrous.
ALL THIS has led me to add a
new quirk to the questionable theory
that height often implies qualities of
leadership. Forced to fight hard
merely for space, room, and fit from
adolescence on, the outsized male
(or female) develops a streak of
persecution-agression which makes
him no meam contender in the world
of commerce, a sure success
The only problem is: If that were
true, why are short; jnen; job piously
still running all the automobile,
construction and clothing companies?
TOM NEELEY
To the Editor:
-
fAs a student of the University and
as a person who has had experience
m, -several phases of journalism, I
find myself reading the DAILY TAR
HEEL with considerable and often
critical interest. A somewhat ob
scure item in the Dec. 1 edition,
however, has me concerned with
what may well be a more serious
problem than the item itself indi
cates. On page, one of this edition, the
staff appealed for additional help,
noting "There are presently open
ings in all departments, especially
news." It 13 indeed ironical that the
most; important part of this paper,
the news . department, is so clearly
the most neglected part of the paper,
which is, of course, the most im
portant means of communication in
the college community. The irony
of this situation is only heightened
when one realizes that the Univer
sity has North Carolina's only ac
credited journalism school. ,
I understand that several years
ago, an idea was presented to the
student . body to allow the School of
Journalism to help guide the paper's
news staff. The proposal was then
defeated, apparently because of
some unfounded fear that such help
would gradually turn into admin
istrative censorship. (Those who
know the members of the faculty
of the journalism school, however,
can attest tthat there are no per
sons more dedicated to the idea of
a "free press" than these very
gentlemen.) '
.Yet, looking at the back issues of
the TAR HEEL this year, I find that
the paper is now apparently suffer
ing from administrative control of
an entirely different nature. The re
sult of this "control," although unin
tentional, is . that the majority of
items in the paper are press releas
es of stories that the administration
wants publicized. The.; TAR HEEL'
. has no reporter assigned to cover
South Building and consequently the
only reports from this, the nerve
center of the university, are those
given the paper. It is little wonder
that the important istory, of what the
university will , do in the face of the
bond issue defeat was written not
by the TAR HEEL stall, but by; the
CHAPEL HILL . WEEKLY staff.
Also the trouble that the TAR HEEL
had reporting" the deaths in Cobb
Dormitory this year is quite under
standable when one considers that
the paper does not have anyone
checking the police department for
news.
;The news staff of the paper thus
appears to be lacking enthusiasm
and creativity, caring only to take
what comes in the way of news, not
looking or working for the news
that could give needed insight to
the college community.
The editorial page of the TAR
HEJ2L offers quite a contrast for
here one can see no signs of a lack
of enthusiam. In fact, the height of
journalism -appears to be being a
columnist for the paper. "And, daily,
without fail, these young; eager
moralists offer their ideas of how to
right the world. To be quite honest,
I do enjoy these discussions,.; though
thej issues sometimes become rather
hackneyed, i -Yet, L I.: cannot .but feel
that this emphasis on the editorial
page has an extremely high price,
and that price is simply the lack of
concern shown the news columns.
Several times this year stories that
should have been news items have
been explained in the naturally bias
form of the editorial page. For
example, the decision to close the
library stacks and the administra
tion's reaction to criticism of the
closed portion of one of the dining
halls were both clearly newsworthy,
yet were reported only through the
editorial page.
Furthermore, the apathy toward
the. news content of the paper is
reflected in the physical makeup of
the paper itself. There is apparetly
little interest in creatively display
ing the news items, for many stories
are simply dropped under the life
less headings: "World News Briefs,
Campus Briefs, and Faculty News."
i The photography, is also rarely
-creative. CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
columnist Kays Gary went so far as
to question one story from the TAR
HEEL after seeing a picture illus
trating the story. He wondered if the
French gentleman who ate in Lenoir
Hall this year really enjoyed his
meal. He had just seen the picture
of the gentleman taken by one of
the TAR HEEL's photographer.
Chapel Hill has become, to resi
dents of this state, at least, the
image of a community associated
with the. enthusiam and vigor of
youth. Yet the news columns of the
TAR HEEL remain in stark contrast
to this image and will remain thus,
until we discover how to fully utilize
the potential resources of this uni
versity. Bill McAllister
Editor's Note: The above letter is
a thoughtful commentary on this
newspaper. At present, the paper
does suffer greatly from an inade
quate staff (although it must be said
that we had no difficulty in covering
the Cobb deaths the police depart
ment was covered like a tent and
South Building is covered, although
this coverage could certainly be im
proved by a larger, more energetic
staff) and the addition of only a few
industrious reporters would be a
great asset.
Also, the idea of Journalism
School help in putting out the paper
is already being considered. How
ever, a marriage between the Daily
Tar Heel and the Journalism School
would not necessarily be a happy
one, and a3 far as this editor is
concerned, such an arrangement
should not be entered into hurriedly.
If the situation warrants this, how
ever, be assured that it will be done.
Mr. .McAllister, we might add,
would be a welcome addition to the
staff. The door is open every after
noon to him or anyone else who is
sincerely interested in improving
this newspaper.
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