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Martin L. Wilson i Iz 7s sixty-ninth year o f editorial freedom, unhampered by I restrictions from either the administration or the student body. The Daily Tak Heel official student publication of the Pu&icetigns Board of the University of North 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. II January G, 1962 II Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLLX, No. 71 In Wilson Library Wasted Vfanies Closed stacks or open stacks, Wil son Library has its problems. Re closing the stacks alleviated most of the problems that resulted from the ill-advised experiment, but left the situation just about where they were before the whole thing started. The same inconveniences that helped to prompt the stack opening originally still prevail. Obtaining a book is slow, irritating business, and the number of books that can not be found for one reason or -a-nother is still alarmingly high or so it would seem from the number of times the harried desk attend ants return from the stacks with an apology instead of a book. Most of Wilson Library's one-xnillion-plus volumes seem sadly out of reach to the student who enters the library merely to browse and thumbing through the card cata logue is a poor substitute for pulling down a book and glancing through its pages to see if it contains any thing of interest. And even those fortunate few who possess a stack permit are .lit tle better off: the ten floors of books are about as warm and invit ing as a mortuary. The corridors are close and poorly lighted, the whole 'tmqsphere forbidding. It's a trifle trite to observe that books were written to be read, but this assumption appears to be the one overlooked at ,Wilson. The vol umes are not exhibited for use, they are merely stored and in a par ticularly uninviting manner. But, like many of the Univer sity's problems, most of those that beset Wilson Library cannot be solved without money- money for reading rooms where currently pop ular works and the classics can be displayed, along with other books of VfaMy wide .'interest, in a com tortahle, W e 1 lighted atmosphere. Money is also needed to bring some of the books that are now shoved away on virtually inaccessible shelv es closer to the students who are to use them, leaving the stacks, for those books which are used only once, perhaps, in ten years by some scholar chasing an elusive and ob scure bit of fact. Redesigning and enlarging the main desk area to provide room for more persons to assist in locating books might also help but again, this cannot be done without a bud get. The failure of the bond issue which carriedan appropriation for a n undergraduate library-student union building put off most of the improvements until a later date. Until they can be made, some of the usefulness of over one million books will be wasted. Busses For UN C; Just Like Suburbia Student government recently has begun laying groundwork for tlie first steps in establishing a pus shuttle between the campus and those dorms which will be built png distances from the campus. The project is little more than an idea at present, but -chances ap pear good that it will at least get some discussion. It's certainly an idea that should not be dismissed without at least a consideration. ""; - 'the two new dorms already un der construction - Craige and Eh ringhaus are too far from the campus to be within comfortable KING " Editor ' Associate Editor Uotd Lmu fereeuftos New Editor . BSJL ZXOBB "" llanaging Editor Gaxbt Blaxchaks Assistant Editor u li Nawct Bass. Lcm Cravotxa . --' Feature Editor Habit W. Ltom f porta Editor David wtsowc Subscription. Manager Jot ' EsKHjxn . , Circulation Manager jEd Dppot,: ,.-, Asst. Sport Editor 'jut VJau.ac. , Photography Editor thi burnzttt Business Manas er dverUsing tSanagtr Ths Djrrr Taji Ea Is published drily except 4j2ondyt -xamliitioa i.prit2s id vC: uorss. Ii la nter i cs torrid T, flttT9t ia the post mf, ice la C& el 'luii, 'Um' C.'snirsuest wiUi-the -met vt tlareit 8. I-Eta. SubscrlfJtioa rates: $ IM pet rmefttef. t8 -tr year. 4 Tts D'.a-r tmi Hxslvs a cter!ber to utilizes the services of the News Bu reau cf tiie University oi North Cxo- Urta. . li j Published by the Publications Board of the University of North jCsroLaa, S cnajci xjiu. t. I walking distance three or four times each ay. Those that will be built in the future will be even more distant. Naturally, every old grad who hears of the proposal will imme diately launch into a diatribe about how he used to walk miles every day in bitter cold weather, with a broken leg, etc But, all such protests notwith standing, tfte day is not too far dis ;tant when tthe xjampus will have sprawled across so' ijnuch terrain .that none except the most hardy will find the walk invigorating." And since most of the space in the new dorms will probably be occupied by freshmen, for whom cars have been ruled taboo by ihe administra tion, about the only solution is a bus system. We are certainly not opposed to the proposal, but it might take some getting used to. This place is enough like suburbia already without some briefcase-carrying student saying "Pardon me, I've got to catch the 3:42 to French class." lie Green Hand I Remember those little lapel but tons distributed by CORE, sym bolizing cooperation between whites and Negroes by showing a black hand and 3, white clasped in a handshake? - Tlie .latest yersion shows a white hand intwinecl in a green one. We IiavenV''tfuile figured out the sig nificance of this one yet. o 1 A O Once again the United States has come to the aid -of Communism. Our support of the United Nations op eration in Katanga is our latest at tempt to commit suicide and to pun ish freedom-loving peoples. Under the pretext of "restoring order' in the Congo, we have helped to crush a pro-Western anti-Communist government ' under . Moise Tshombe, elected by the people of Katanga who still support him. But what Tshombe believes in is anathema to the United Nations and the liberals who control our foreign policy. Tshombe has made the mis take of believing that his people could pTosper best by being free from the shackles of Communism; he believes that those who rule should do so by the consent of the governed; he is a second-generation Christian and, therefore, can not be lieve in the atheism that is the guiding force of Communism. He may even be a white man in dis guise. Our support of the U.N. operation in the .'Congo can benefit only the Communists. - Even with any so called "reunification," the ideolo gical difference will remain, de spite the best efforts of the U. N. to force the Communist-dominated Cen tral Congolese government upon the Katangese. We in the United States have long boasted that we are the champions of freedom and Justice. This will now come as a surprise to Katan gese, Hungarians, Poles and Cubans. The fact is that whenever peoples have sought to throw off the chains of Communism, we have rushed in to bail the Reds out and stifle hopes for freedom. These peoples believed us when we told them that they could count on our support to gain their liberty; we have lost few op portunities to double-cross them. Our support of the United Nations over the years has been a continu ing story of "defeat and frustration for freedom, victory and jubilation for the Communists. When we have failed to aid human beings desper- TTTi . 1 net! li Katanga ately clutching for freedom, we have shrugged it "of f with pioos quotations from the U.N. Charter. Our ambassador to the U.N., Adlai Stevenson, has told us that, under the U.N. Charter, we are no longer free to intervene unilaterally to stop Communism. This is ap parently so, but we are obviously free to "help" Communism, be cause we have repeatedly done so and are doing so in the Congo at this moment. The Katangese have learned this the hard way. U.N. forces in Ka tanga have plundered and massacr ed as would barbarians to bring "peace" and "reunification" to the Congo. Persons of unassailable in tegrity have brought back reports of unwarranted murdering by U.N. troops, and even the throwing of wounded Katangese from second and third story windows of hospitals. Thus the U.N. brings "peace" to the Congo. Katanga is one of the very few areas of Africa that has attempted to banish Communist influence from its government. But such a pol icy runs counter to the practices of the U.N. Therefore, our "liberal" policy makers did what has come to be natural for them to tk: They crushed the hopes for freedom from Communism. In a few days, President Kennedy will ask Congress to vote on bonds that will help pay for the continua tion of the U.N. Congo operation. It is our hope that Congress will refuse to subsidize this war against free dom by a godless organization in col laboration with the U.S. State De partment. Freedom has suffered long enough at the hands of the United Nations and the "liberals" in our government. ATTITUDES By Clotfelter Thoughts On Giesler, Barrow Jerry Giesler, one of the coun try's most colorful lawyers, died "WEy, Sure Enough It's Fearless Barry Himself'' ' L i' C I'S F 7s r ,. V vr-S - in Hollywood on New Year's Day. He was best known for defending wayward glamour girls and leading men, such as Marilyn Monroe, Rob ert Mitchum, Charlie Chaplin, Lana Turner and Errol Flynn. But he was also one of the last in an unusual tradition of lawyers. Fifty years ago in a courtroom in Los Angeles Giesler served as a legal assistant to the great Earl Rogers, famous for his courtroom theatrics and his resulting legal suc cess. Rogers was defending the legend ary Clarence Darrow, "attorney for the damned." Darrow was accused of bribing two jurors who were to decide the fate of the McNamara brothers charged with blowing up the Los Angeles TIMES building in a labor union war. Darrow's trial was set for the summer of 1912. On many occasions Giesler ad mitted he hero-worshipped Darrow. He patterned his courtroom techni que after a mixed Rogers-Darrow combination: the soft-spoken friend ly questioning of witnesses (after Darrow), mixed with the wild and wooly shows Rogers often put on. But in the Darrow bribery trial there was little room for foolish ness. The defense was conducted with heavy sarcasm, counter-attacks on the prosecution and a stirring, emotional personal defense of the de fendent (Darrow) all ingredients which Giesler used in good measure. The defendent himself addressed the jury, "If you twelve men think that I, with 35 years of experience ... with all kinds of clients and important cases if you think that I would pick out a place half a block from my office and send a man with money in his hand in broad daylight to go down on the street corner to pass $4,000 (the pro- omen With Brains: Who N eeds 9 "Time" magazine's cover story a month ago was titled "Girls in Col lege: They Have Scarcely Begun to Use Their Brains." The article fea tured the efforts' of Ihe new presi dent of Radcliffe College, 'Dr. 'Mary I. Bunting, who is trying to intel lectualize American womandom. As Time' - views Dr. (Bunting's crusade for intellectual equality of the sexes, it could be the rumblings cf the largest mass movement by females since the delirious antics of Carrie Nation and Susan B. Anthony. Dr. Bunting first ' experimented with the academic stimulation of lier sex while she was Dean of Douglass College in New Jersey. TTiere she allowed the girls to run it ii The subject of evolution has been pretty quiet in this country since the end of the Scopes trial in Tenn essee. The idea that monkeys pre ceded man and were the actual grandpappies of man still strikes fear into the hearts of some people. But Americans today are seeing evolution in action without even a whimper. A five and a half pound chimp anzee was the first American astro naut to go into orbit thus paving the way for the first American hu man astronaut to pull the same trick. Monkeys are also used in tests for many drugs before they are tried on man. And monkeys are their own multilingual course in world poetry. When offered the top seat at Radcliffe, she accepted for she was even more concerned With the low motivation of "United States college girls in generaland prestigious Radcliffe seemed to be the ideal launching pad for her brainstorms. . The first result of the doctor's handiwork at Radcliffe has been her Institute for Independent Study. Eli gible for this are all women with doctorates or the equivalent, and they get a $3,000 stipend, as well as complete, run of Harvard and Rad cliffe's intellectual stimulants. The fields being studied range from archaeology and philosophy to poet ry and psychiatry. A set of quite imposing statistics have been dredged up in support of this new movement. For example, of the top ranking high school seniors who don't attend college, two-thirds are girls. Also, did you know that the per cent of girls attending college in the U. S., has dropped from 47 to 537 since 1920? And finally, for every 300 girls capable of earning a tloc torate degree, only one does. Fasci nating, no? In further discussion of todayS degraded coeds, "'Time" reports, "What a grl expects from her edu cation drops back from high goals of professional, intellectual ' or artistic Who's A peing Whom? used in tests by psychologists to find clues to man's behavior. Human beings must be careful to prevent a rebellion on the part of the monkeys. They are ahead of us in almost every field. We have seen that they are already ahead of us in space, travel, medicine, and psychology. We must keep them iso lated because if tree association is allowed they might organize and take over the world. Furthermore, monkeys are much better suited to rule the world. They are healthier, more agile, and their dietary needs are more easily satis fied. In addition to their physical advantages, they may be more intel ligent and more emotionally stable. Monkeys rarely fight among them selves. They have no birth control problems; in fact man has trouble in making them reproduce. They are not greedy. And they refuse to have anything to do with nuclear weapons. Man must remain aware of this ever present menace and guard against any attempt on the part of monkeys td take over the world. It would be a horrible experience living in this world if the monkeys took over and we had to follow their way of life. DOW SfflSPPARD attainment to a desire for 'finish' and for the grace of motherhood." Dr. Bunting deploringly adds, "Girls more than ever go to col lege not to pursue learning but to learn pursuing." We can only agree with these statements, Dr. Bunting, but unlike you, we like things as they are right toow. Or at least, concerning the role of the female sex in our society, this seems to be one area in which it would be far better to go back ward than forward. Remember how things were in the 18th century? Women knew their place, .they were happy there, and the men were even happier. Then fanaticism struck in , the r?th cen-tury--and by the mid-20th century, we were told that women owned more of the -United States th a n men. Ofher parts of the World were luckier, like Europe and the Orient. Women there are little different than they were in the good ol fh century. And have you noticed how many American men are going a broad and bringing wives home from these places? Look before you leap onto the "Bunting Bandwagon." Take a look at what we're dr-ahng with: a middle-aged matron whose greatest love is her continuing research in mic robial genetics, and especially with some kind of red bacteria. That's Dr. Bunting, a frustrated, lone some homebody who won't accept life as it is, but must mold it to her own delights. She may ' need us but, brother, we don't need her. : - secution's accusation) and then skip over to another street corner and pass $500 two of the most promi nent streets in the city of Los An geles; if you think that, gentlemen, why, find me guilty. I certainly be long in some state institution. Whether you select the right one or not is another question ..." One of Darrow's most famous characteristics was his ever-present vendetta against the prosecutor, aj in the bribery trial, "Sometime his (the prosecutor's) heart might be touched by feelings of kindness -Jid charity, it might if the days of miracles had not passed." In this trial, however, the em phasis always was on Darrow, Dar row himself. Rogers and Giesler built up a sound technical case for him, but it was left to the defend ant to defend his personal integrity the only reason he was on trial, said Darrow, was because he had stood for the poor and the weak . . . the mob. "I know the mob. In one way I love it, in another way I despise it. I know the unreasoning, unthinking mass. I have lived with men and worked with them. I have been their idol and I have been cast down and trampled beneath their feet. I have stood on their pinnacle and I have heard the cheering mob sound my praises; and I have heard them hiss my name this same mob .... The mob in rags and the mob in broadcloth. "I have committed one crime," Darrow .told the jury. "I have spok en for the poor, for the weak, for the weary, for that long line of men, who in darkness and despair have borne the labors of the human race." Now Giesler is dead. Rogers and Darrow have long been gone . . . And thoughts of the sensationalist i Hollywood attorney will always lead back to thoughts of the attorney for the damned. JIM CLOTFELTER Just to ease the minds of anyone who mtghi have been disturbed by the fire alarm yesterday which sent trucks speeding to Memorial Hos pital, there's no&ing to be alarmed about. The whole hulabaHoo started with a fire drill, got complicated when someone forgot to tell the switch board operator about it, and reached a head when she called the trucks. Some people just can't take a joke. About Lctter3 jj -The Dally Tar JfTecl UrV.t readers to use 14 for eiprt- stmt as i camion ca !i,irt:.i topics regard! cf Tiewpctr-i. Letters insist be sirred, cca t&ia a vci Ala i ' si ?, r .J be free f f Lit! s i-.: i. jEreri, E-j .In crease the chanrn of Dublica- II Vqa. Xcngthy letters may fee i edited or omitted. Absolutely (i ii if H II BILL TYSON J? none will be returned. fau n - Li N-:-f.--.yy-: A o
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