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II attp Wax 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, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff I Si" n January 12, 19G2 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXIX, No. 7G I Fussbudgets Tke Young Americans for Free dom, a group of youthful Conserva tives somewhere to the right of Barry Goldwater and barely left of Robert Welch, has produced an im pressive mass of literature con demning various men, institutions and ideas, including the UN, foreign aid, welfare, the Supreme Court, all Liberals, some Conservatives, most Democrats, most of the State De partment, all opponents of HUAC, and various and sundry others. It should be said of YAF's favor that it has not, as far as we know, lambasted God, penicillin, or Moth er's Day. An oversight, we feel sure. The latest dribble of vitriol to .seep over the edges of the organi zation's seemingly bottomless well is directed at Time magazine's se lection of President Kennedy as Man of the Year. YAF Secretary Ralph Anderson writes in a letter in 'Time's latest issue: Sir: Your selection of John Kennedy as Man of the Year is an insult to both the intelligence and integrity of your read ers. Although articulate, he is a man of inaction; although forceful in appear ance, he is inadequate in performance. We are not sure just whom An derson feels should have been chos en. "Time," either because of space limitations, or because Anderson did not include them, failed to print a list of his favorites. At any rate, . we have no indica tion of whom he feels is qualified if anyone. The YAF slogan seems to be "Whatever it is, wherever it i, .'whoever it is, at whatever time, OPPOSE IT!" As for Anderson's disdain for the President on the grounds that he is "articulate" but "a man of inac tion," we have somehow failed to note that the YAF has been partic ularly short on words and long on .actions. Neither have we been able to see many instances in which YAF's carefully polished "appear ance" as a group of freedom de fenders has been bolstered by ".ade quate performance." On the contrary, most of what wTe have been able to see of YAF is that it is making one hell of a lot of poise, directing most of its efforts toward loosing arrows at everything in sight that pricks its conservative conscience as prescribed by Barry Goldwater, William Buckley, Jr., and a few others. This is not to say that we quarrel with YAF's embracement of conser vative dogma: we do not. What we do object to is its insistence on blasting, jabbing and ripping every thing within range. The object seems to be to hamstring our foreign policy, besmirch the nation's leadership and otherwise follow a plan of destruction rather than con struction. Young Americans for Freedom? A better name would be Young American Fussbudgets. Student Stand There won't be any Dixie Basket ball Classic here this year and had you noticed that any complain ing about its absence comes from people not connected with State Col lege and not from the students themselves? In fact, had you notic ed that when basketball . was de emphasized last spring at State and Carolina that the squawks came from alumni, merchants, people a bout town and not the students themselves? There must be some real signifi cance in the calmness with which -the students -have accepted the de emphasis program. Part of the sig nificance must come from the fact that the highly emphasized basket ball programs at both State and Carolina had long ago reached the point where they were aimed at the outsiders and not at the campus. V. -QBp mar ed EDITORIAL STAFF Wayne King .....Editor Margaret Ann Rhymes Associate Editor Lloyd Little Executive News Editor Bill Hobbs Managing Editor Jim Clotfelter, Bill Wuamett News Editors Jim Wallace Photography Editor Chuck Mooney. Feature Editor Harry Lloyd. Sports Editor Ed Dupree Jlsst. Sports Editor Garry Blanchard Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF Ttm BuRNErr..Busmess Manager Mike Mathers Advertising Manager Jim EvANS..Subscription Manager Jim Eskridge Circulation Manager Tex Daily Tam Bkkl Is published dully except Monday, examination periods and vacations. It is entered as eecond class matter In the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C, pursuant with the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester, $3 per year. Th Daily Tab Hxxx Is a subscriber to the United Press International end utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. Published by the Publications Board of the University ot North Carolina, Chapel Kill. N. C. They had reached the point where they were spectacles for off -campus spectators instead of simply games being played for the benefit of stu dents. In a recent editorial on the sub ject, the State College newspaper, The Technician, put it this way: "The primary misssion of State Col lege is quality education, not recrea tion for the students, local business men, and alumni. The athletic pro grams, like other student activities, are of course an important part of the college experience; college rec ognition merely on the basis of the type athletes attracted there is shallow, indeed." That's a good summary of what a -college must be, and what -athletic programs must be and must not be in a good college. The Dixie Classic will be missed this year, make no doubt of that. It was mighty nice to see the friends from all over the State who .saved part of their vacation time so that they could come here for the three days of the Classic. It was fun visit ing with them, going to the games with them, talking over old times with them. But there is no doubt that the Dixie Classic had nothing to do with State College's standing as an insti tution of higher education. There is no doubt, too, but that the Dixie Classic had come to represent the king c a n-d o-no-wrong attitude which contributed to the things which made basketball de-emphasis . -necessary. We still have basketball, good basketball, in this area. We won't have as much of it this season as we had last year. But, because bas ketball has been de-emphasized, we'll be more likely to have it for a longer time to come than we would have been had basketball not been cut down to proper size last spring. Raleigh 'Times "I Don't Know If If s Solid Enough Hold Botii Of if m 111 ill 1 1. IK mmum w mi mm mm. i mm ;l ! ii p m Kennedy Is More popular Than Ever ?I lit- 5 J 5 1 I If 1 1 The Great Chaotic Awakening America is a nation where public spirit at times has been known to doze off into the quiet comforts of complacency. It is in these little per iods of nional back to the womb philosophy that the American citi zen's concern for events taking place in the outside world seem to be at its most dormant state. The decade from 1950-1960 has been labeled by many critics as a decade of public complacency in America. It is now felt by these cri tics vthat ? America has awakened from this complacency, but the a wakening has been a most disturb ing and chaotic one. America's awakening has been much like that of a small boy who has been dreaming that he and his playmates are fighting an imaginary war with imaginary bul lets with an imaginary enemy, and that he is considered a great hero and leader by his playmates. Then he suddenly awakes and finds that there is absolutely nothing imagi nary about the war,. bullets or en emy. They are all very real, and he and his playmates (who no longer consider him a hero, but neverthe less look to him for leadership) are in great danger of being destroyed. YES, AMERICA has awakened to find herself and the free world un der a tremendous assault by com munism. How did America get into such a precarious position? There have been many answers applied to 'this question since America's public awoke. There are those who place the blame on the previous adminis tration. There are those who place the , blame on liberals going back usually as. far as F.DJl. There are those who place the blame" on a great internal communist conspiracy which has supposedly infiltrated every branch of our government, schools, churches, etc. There are those who place the blame on our newspapers, radio, and TV. There are those who place the blame on segregation, and those who place the blame on integration. There are, in fect, as many opinions as there are citizens who have at last awakened in America. AMERICA IS now awake. She is examining herself internally and even inspecting the outside world with a look more critical and in tense than just that of a tourist. She is still a great nation, but she is al so a worried, confused, and some times even frightened nation. But this in itself is a hopeful sign. For being worried is better than be ing listless. Being confused is bet ter than being indolent. Being frightened is better, than being com placent. The American public is, in short, stimulated. They might not be in agreement as to what road of action they are to take, but at least they have their eyes open now and are searching for one. ALAN GOLDSMITH WASHINGTON President Ken nedy enters upon his second twelve months in a strengthened political position. ' This second session of the 87th Congress will be encountering a more confident, and a more decisive President. Gone is Mr. Kennedy's haunting pre-occupation with the closeness of the election; gone is that special ele ment of uncertainty which came from the fact that a near-majority wanted Nixon in the White House. Congress will not be a rubber stamp this year enymore than it was last. Congress remains the same, more conservative than the Demo cratic platform and on some issues more conservative than the Chief Executive. But the President is not the same. There is this difference: After win ning the election so closely that he barely made it, Mr. Kennedy has in less than a year remarkably con solidated his standing with the A merican people. As a candidate for President (Mr. Kennedy was able to win no more than a paper-thin majority. As Presi dent Mr. Kennedy has succeeded in winning a higher approval-rating than any of his recent predecessors a high of 83 per cent, and in the latest Gallup poll, 77 per cent. (Mr. Eisenhower's peak was 79 per cent.) Last January Mr. Kennedy took of fice as a Chief Executive who al most lost. This January he is a President who has gained new poli tical credentials and new public standing. THIS DOES THREE things. It gives the President greater confid ence. It encourages him to take a bolder course, as he has in his pro posed trade policy to take advantage of the European Common Market. It gives added leverage to his leader ship. Opinions will vary as to what has produced the nearly steady rise in Mr. , Kennedy's graph of public ap proval. But the fact is not in dis pute. Senate leaders of both parties, recently returning after several months at home, almost uniformly agree on the President's general popularity. Sen. Barry Goldwater noticed it, but he does not believe it will help the White House much with Con gress on controversial legislation. Sen. Mike Mansfield noticed it, and believes it will help the White House. It was confirmed in the elections last fall. Where Mr. Kennedy per sonally campaigned, as in New Jer sey and Texas, the Democrats won. WHEN YOU LOOK back over his first year in office, it is evident that in the early months of the new Ad- Primer For Defense Loan Applicants AN UNUSUALLY righteous Con gress has shoved down President Kennedy's throat an amendment to the bill providing for the ; extension of the National Defense Education Act. The amendment provides that in order to qualify for a loan under the act, a student must first take a solemn oath (in writing, no less) that he is not a Communist, and presum ably that he will refrain from ap plying the education he receives . as a result of the loan to activities 'con ducive to the violent overthrow of the government of the United States. Taken at face value, this seems en tirely reasonable. Who among the American taxpayers, wants his money spent to finance the further ance of such -evil. Godless prac tices? It is thus assumed that everyone, red, pink and blue, will "honor this solemn vow. After all, what decent, s e 1 f-respecting Communist would initiate disorder, turbulence and in ternal strife in the good old U.S.A. after having promised on his honor forever to behave? . Now that Congress has dissipated forever the Communist menace in our colleges with one act, only one minor point remains to be clarified what the devil is subversion? WELL, recent precedent seems to say it is positively against the in terests of freedom and democracy to steal secret documents for the So viet Union. One could also put his heartfelt loyalty in a bad light if he shot the President of the United States or set off a bomb in the Senate cloakroom while in the pay of the international Communist con spiracy. Such practices should be , discour aged by all available means, and the new amendment praised for any deterrent effect it may produce. Peo ple (and there are such people) who would -do things like iat definitely have to be deterred. If you were to take a loyalty oath, chances are you would, very likely realize that participation by you in such goings-on is entirely out of the question. Having therefore given up your plans for assassinating Presi dent Kennedy (or Senator Goldwat er, as the case may be) you might well assume that you have become a "100 per center" in strict-accordance with your NDEAvow. If - it were that simple, being a loyal American citizen would be re markably ; easy for most of us, and an editorial on the subject entirely unnecessary. But, in the strict . sense, being a true patriot is much more complicat ed. In fact, it is entirely possible that you are, in reality, a dupe of the Reds. In addition to -abstaining from clearly defined acts of aggression and sabotage of the fundamental ten ets of our American way of life (which, to compound the issue, vary from list to list) you will, find it necessary to employ strict introspec tion to determine whether they are not being subversive ki less con spicuous ways. HEREFORE, here is a list which, though by no means complete, may nevertheless aid such students in fol lowing to the letter their vow never to interfere with the prinicples on which this great nation is based. 1) . above all, do not join or permit your name to be connected with any Communist front organization, or with any group which may take the "Communist line" on any given is sue. Lists of . forbidden, organizations can be. obtained from the Attorney Seiieral, the?B.L, or the John Birch Society, . so ignorance -of the nature of a group is no excuse. 2) And nearly -as Important; do not join or permit your name to he . conaected with any group which has es n member a man or woman who is also a member of or a sympathiz er with any of the groups on the a forementioned lists. This may sound difficult, and it is. ,You will avoid trouble, on this point, however, if you join only anti-Communist groups which are not listed as subversive groups like the -JBS, the American ;Legion, the American Nazi Party, or the.Ku Klux Klan. 3) To thus decline from actively preaching the Communist line is not enough. You may -unwittingly be come a dupe of the Reds by merely being attentive to the subversive, ele ments which infest the United Stat es. Avoiding these people is not as easy as one might suppose. To -do so requires a constant and active ef fort. Careful adherence to the fol lowing will definitely aid you in this respect. Read Norman Vincent Peale and Fulton Lewis, Jr., but never Walter Lipmann or Walter Winchell. Stu diously avoid Red propaganda films such as "Spartacus" and "Inherit the Wind." "Operation Abolition" and "The Alamo" are recommend ed, however. Avoid association with Catholics, Negroes and Jews, all notoriously subversive. Shun the National Coun cil of Churches, oppose the NAACP, beware of Shirley Temple and Elean or Roosevelt. Support "rightto work" laws and any other anti-labor measures, but never say a good word for UNESCO, Moral Rearma ment, or SANE. Trujillo (late dictator of the Do minican Republic,) Nasser, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Salazar (dictator of Portugal) are above reproach; but .Nehru, ; Khrushchev, Kennedy and the like are to be constantly watch ed and criticized. 4) Learn these fundamental .truths: , Anyone formerly a member of a Questionable orgaxUza'tion Is still a Communist. Those who oppose the American way. of life h a v e no constitutional rights. Unprovable accusations a gainst suspected leftists are permit ted, and should be. encouraged. Bombings, beatings and dismissal from jobs are among the sanctions which should be applied to such peo ple. Only an extreme radical would think of exercising his rights under the First and Fifth Amendments. Persons who do so are therefore Communists. Those who associate with suspected peple are very su spect themselves. Above all, re member that anyone who opposes a group -of avowed anti-Communists, no matter what reasons he gives, is without doubt in sympathy with the international conspiracy. (It is recommended that these ax ioms be memorized, since only a gifted intellect can derive them lo gically.) THOSE. WHOSE interests have been aroused may want to read more detailed works on the subject. Unfortunately, the Constitution of the United States is not suitable for the purpose. However, much infor mation can be gotten from any Birch Society member, and long lib ellous lists of American subver s i v e s are available from Society headquarters or from the revealing files of he. House . UnAmerican Ac tivities Committee. If these are insufficient, trust your judgment. A person who disagrees with you on any subject can, las a general rule,. be, regarded as a dan gerous and subversive person, and it is your duty as an American to fight this person with whatever means -happens .to be available to you. You are now a real American. Good luck, .and .good hunting. JAMES NICHOLS ministration the President was neith er very popular nor very unpop ular until he made the great mis take over Cuba. Oddly enough, the first substantial rise in Mr. Ken nedy's public approval status came in the immediate wake of the Cub an fiasco. Since that time it has ris en further and held. These seem to be the reasons: lObviously the horrendous fail ure of the Cuban operation all the blame on the United States for having a hand in it but never putting a sufficiently strong hand in it to make it successful did not give the President any credit or any ere dentials. But the fact that .Mr. Ken nedy publicly took the full respon sibility for all the final decisions, quickly calling off the overeager apologists who were looking for scapegoats, did more than any thing else to win him an upsurge of goodwill and approval. I know of no one in the Adminis tration and few outside who do not think that Mr. Kennedy learned im measurably from the Cuban ex perience and that his action in tak ing complete blame was not only wise but accurate. He was to blame and in saying so he won more public support than the failure lost him. 2 The second factor in the Presi dent's present popularity is his wise and firm handling of the Berlin crisis. He has succeeded in strength ening his ties with Macmillan, De Gaulle, and Adenauer. He has helped to keep the allies united on the sub stance of policy, including the un viating determination to defend our rights in West Berlin. He has kept the door open for serious negotiation whenever the Soviets want to nego tiate seriously. Most people, I think, feel that the danger of war over Berlin is less than it was six months ago largely because Mr. Kennedy has got his message through to the Kremlin. CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Letter To Dr. George I have read with great interest your opinion that U.N.C. students are being "indoctrinated" by inte grationist professors. Your remarks stirred the memory of an "indoctrinating" experience which I once had, though not in the college classroom. It happened on the streetcar, before I had even started to college. I say on the streetcar; actually it happened be cause I looked out the window, into the back yard of a Negro house. I got a pretty close view: the tracks cut right across the Negro yard, black of course, and glistening with mud. The white side of an ena mel slop bucket broke a blackness otherwise unremitting, and then one's eyes came to rest upon the house itself. The original white paint had long since faded, and the l)a re -boards showed, muddy, to match the yard. By contrast, my uncle's hog pen. as I had remembered it from my last visit to the country, was a thins of beauty. The pigs were well cared for, the fence was in good repair, and the greenery surrounding the pen was lovely. -Naturally I accepted then, and still accept, as nothing out of the ordinary, the fact that Negroes live in homes worse than hog pens. Af ter all, as you will ably demonstrate, Negroes are "inferior," and I sup pose that the real estate brokers have taken this to mean that Ne groes are hogs, or worse than hogs. I "wanted you to have the picture that "indoctrinated" me; and I wanted you to know that in my opin ion your study, when it is finished, will provide a very appropriate frame. MAXINE PHILLIPS Pinh Press The DAR is at it again. This time, the Texas branch, for very novel reasons, has objected to a group of American authors (including, Benet. Faulkner, Sandberg, etc.) because they .are "questionable," i.e., sort of pink. Maybe the girls just don't like authors. Maybe they can't read. But more likely, their novel reasons are just Miction. G. STORCII i.
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