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X8t)t iBaiip Car zzl In its sixtyninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by 1 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 abbearin in The Daily Tar Heel are the j personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. ft January 13, l2 Tel. 942-235G Vol. LXIX, No. 77 1ft v Wf, Uncaring Legislators Discussion of the jiew -election l&ws groiind to a premature halt i-a the last meeting of Student Leg islature when it was .discovered that ten members had left the hall bringing the total present below the quorum necessary for a vote, According to the Student Legis lature roll, the meeting opened with SO members present, seven more than the necessary quorum. During discussion, 10 members left, reduc ing the number to 20, three less than the number required. Of 50 legislative seats, only 20 were filled when an important piece of legislation was due to come to a vote. This is a disturbing fact considering that the Student Legis lature is the heart of student gov ernment. It is even more disturbing when one considers that of the 50 seats available, only 44 are filled at pres ent due to resignations. One seat has been empty since the resigna tion of veteran legislator Chip WoGdrum last spring upon his graduation. The failure to appoint a replacement in seven months is an inexcusable show of disinterest and inefficiency on the part of the party which controls the seat. Of the 44 legislators still active, .only 20 had the interest or felt the obligation to attend the meeting nd stay until the bill was acted up on. With this sort of shirking of lesponsibility, it is hardly surpris ing that Student Legislature i3 often inordinately slow in acting on bills. Some of the legislators ab t&nt, we are sure, had valid rea sons. However, we . are equally sure that some did not. The Legislature will face an im posing array of bills in the coming months, including honor system legislation, budget appropriations totaling well over $100,000 and ac tion concerning the student con stitution. All these will be time-consuming and important. None of them can, or should be, acted upon by a skeleton Legislature. It would be wise for that body to consider tightening up its policy concerning absences. As for unfilled seats, it would be a simple matter to deny a party control of any seat which is allow ed to stand vacant for more than two meetings. Turning control of the seat over to the opposing party after that period would be an effec tive means of insuring that seats stay filled. As things now stand, disinterest ed legislators and delinquent parties are denying representation to much of the campus and unnecessarily stalling action on legislation. The Race To The Rancbo Coates Can't Retire It doesn't seem either possible or right that Albert Coates is about to retire as director of the Institute of Government. Of course, the In stitute he fathered and raised to such a useful maturity will keep right on being so very useful to the people of North Carolina. But it just won't seem exactly like the Institute of Government without Albert Coates actually being its di rector. Those of us who aren't so very old can remember so well the days when Professor Coates was riding up and down North Carolina seek ing support for his idea for such an Institute of Government. We can remember how he used to come to Raleigh on his own time and at his own expense to buttonhole legis- 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 Hafry Lloyd Sports Editor Ed Dupree Asst. Sports Editor Garry Blanchard Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF Tim BuRNETT....Business Manager Mike Mathers Advertising Manager Jim EvANs.JSubscription Manager Jim Eskridge Circulation Manager Thx Daily Tab Hzel la published dally except Monday, examination periods end vacations. It is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C- pursuant with the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $40 per semester, $8 per year. Th Daily Tar FLejk Is a subscriber to the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Care liJpubliflhfd by the Publications Board gu3 feH CerOU9' lators and tell them of what this idea could mean to all the people of the State. He was such a persis tent buttonholer, and such a patient talker. It took him a long time to really get enough money to turn the Institute into anything more than a dream, but that is under standable when one remembers how hard it was to find any sort of money in the early 1930's. The Institute is a big thing now, with a big building and a big staff and a big job. Fortunately, its big ness hasn't gotten in the way of its only reason for existing: The doing of a job for all the people. It has continued to do that with the same care and the same enthusiasm it showed when its only staff was a man named Albert Coates. It has provided excellent training for so many public officials. It has helped public officials explain their jobs to their own people, and such explaining sometimes doesn't come easy but is more valuable the hard er it is to do. The Institute has provided the excellent service of sending out de tailed reports of legislative action, on new bills, committee action, amendments to bills, etc. Its legis lative reporters have had the time and the skill to do the digging which makes its service of such value to the newspapers, to others of the State. The law says that Albert Coates must retire as director of the In stitute because he is now 65. The law may force somebody to take his name off the door of the director's office, but as long as there is a really good Institute of Government functioning as part of the Univejv pity, the work Albert Coates did in forming it and helping it grow up will still be a major factor in directing its work, The Raleigh Times A Poses Friend To All Except By SYDNEY J. HARRIS people a tax break on income set Self Which group do yoa iit&gim was the biggest lobbyist in Washington during the first half of 1961? Which group spent the most money as a means .of influencing legislation in the Congress of tiie United Stales? It was none other than our old friend, the American Medical Assn. For the first six months of 1961, a Congressional Quarterly study of spending reports shows the AMA top ped the 274 lobby organizations with half-year expenditures of 1 146,894. This was aearly $30,000 more than the second-running group is the list ings, the AFL-CIO. Most of the AMA money was spent in opposing the Ad ministration's proposals for medical care for the aged through Social Se curity, Now there js no doubt that the AMA has a Tight to do this indeed, has a dirty to do this if it believes such a program is against the best national interest. But what are some of the other bills that tfce AMA lob bied againstand effectivelydur ing the year? It opposed Social Security benefits for physicians, liberalized Social Se curity disability benefits, creation of a U. S. Commission of Aging, and several proposals for expanding med ical treatment under the Veterans Administration. And what did the AMA lend its support to? Bills to provide construc tion grants to medical schools, to give doctor and other professional Many, Many Answers Would Be Needed There is a movement on foot in Raleigh to revive the Dixie Basket ball Classic as a purely commercial venture, with private sponsors hand ling it. If the Classic is to be re- Cuba And The OAS Problem The chanceries of the Western Hemisphere are busy these days preparing possible resolutions for the foreign ministers' meeting of the Organization of American States on January 22 in Punta del Este, Uru guay. The aim is to agree on col lective attitude toward Cuba. Mean while, as he announced at a military celebration in Havana this weeJc, Premier Castro is preparing a mon ster rally for the same day "to re ply to Yankee) imperialism and its lackeys." The issues are far more compli cated than North Americans seem willing to admit. There is no firm evidence, for instance, that Premier Castro's defiant proclamation of his and his revolution's "Marxism-Leninism" has influenced the situation in a significant way. Neverthless, Washington hopes that its White Pa per on Cuban communism, published on Jan. 3, will impress Latin Ameri cans by its massive array of facts. These facts could have come as no surprise in any Latin-American capi tal; but there has been a tendency below the Rio Grande to look the oth er way when Cuban communism is mentioned. It has to be recognized that there are subtle but important differences between the United States and the Latin-American attitude toward Fi delismo. Our basic concern is with the cold war, which is a matter of national life and death to us. Latin American Governments are all anti Communist internally and they all fear the possibility of Castro-type so cial revolutions, whatever they are labeled. They try to prevent Cuban subversion in their countries. How ever, they think the cold war only touches them indirectly; local Com munist movements are weak, and the Latin Americans do not have our intense fear of "international com munism." They fear and dislike United States interventionism even more. Besides to be realistic, if cynical they profit by our reaction to Fidelismo. The Alliance for Pro gress plan is, essentially, the United States answer to Fidel Castro. All things considered, .some care ful and skillful diplomacy will be re quired before the foreign ministers' conference. The essential problem is to censure and isolate Cuba without dividing and weakening the O. A. S. NEW YORK TIMES vived, this would be the best way to do so, but there are many points which should be considered before there is any real consideration given to the idea. First and foremost, this question should be answered: Would State and Carolina participate? That leads to another similar question: Should Carolina:' and State be permitted to participate in such a tournament? Until those two questions are an swered, there could be no realy ser ious consideration given to reviving the classic as a commercial venture. In their statements killing the Dixie Classic as an aftermath of the bask etball scandals, the heads of the Consolidated University talked about athletic participation not directly connected with the campuses. Pre sumably, unless there should be a change in that thinking, State and Carolina wouldn't be permitted to play in a reyived Dixie Classic. Actually, if the University heads wish to keep basketball on a level below the highly emphasized state which it had reached at both State and Carolina, it is doubtful if the teams should be permitted to par ticipate in such a non-campus-connected tournament. The next thing to be considered would be whether a Dixie Classic without State and Carolina would go over. There is much interest in bas ketball in this section, but would that interest hold up without the presence of State and Carolina? Would such a commercial tourna ment be able to draw the really top flight teams of the country? It is true the tournament probably would be commercial in name only since it presumably would be a non-profit thing, but it still would be commer cial. Maybe there should be a Dixie Qassic. Goodness only knows it would add much to the merriment of the Christmas holidays in this whole section of the state. But if there is to be one, get some real, solid answers before going too far into the deal. RALEIGH TIMES Freedom Of The Press-Today A REPORTER is required to re port what he believes is the truth and he is responsible for what he writes. When an Ambassador "calls a reporter into his office and com plains that his published reports do not correspond with the Abassador's reports to the State Department, the reporter should notify his publisher, who should print the story of the illegal interference on the front page of his newspaper. When an Ambas sador tells a reporter that the latter is confusing "liberalism" with com munism, the reporter should tell the Ambassador to go to the Devil after reading to him the First Amendment to the Constitution. A reporter tells me that when he described "Che" Guevara, then an adviser to Jacobo Arbenz of Guate mala, as a Commnnist and said Guevara was a liaison between Ar benz and the Soviet Embassy in Mex ico City, the Ambassador was partic ularly annoyed. This Ambassador was ultimately removed and the is sue is not the particular man, who was succeeded by a first rate anti Communist. The issue is the danger that comes to the United States when such men hold important offices and a President and a Secretary of State depend upon them for information tion to returning Communists or Fellow-Travelers are imitation Joe Mc- About Letters The Dally Tar Heel Invites readers io use it for expres sions pf pinion tea current topics reg&rfiJess ef viewpoint. Letters must be flgned, con tain a verifiable address, and be free of libelous material. Brevity and legibility In crease tbe chance of publica tion, Lenstby letters may be -edited or omitted. Absolutely non will bt irtawned. Carthys. It is the United States that needs to be protected, and when men are appointed to office solely be cause they were dismissed under pressure by McCarthy, the United States may suffer. McCarthy must have been right about some things, None of this developed in the Eisen hower or Kennedy Administrations but goes way back to 1952 and it seems silly to bring up this old stuff now for the sole purpose of giv ing a job to someone who had eith er been a Communist or had used bad judgment. NO ONE WHO realizes the ser iousness of the moment wants a re newal of the excitement of the Mc Carthy deys; on the other hand, whoever permits the gang that brought on that excitement by their treacherous conduct to return to of fice, is not serving this country. It may be true that some are emotion ally pledged to support and protect those who have "suffered" because of congressional investigations, but the fact remains that the peril be comes very grave to this country when small men O. K. appointments and policies about which responsible men only know when they read what they are responsible for in the news papers. It is now not important which Administration has been re sponsible for the suppression of and guidance. It is an error of judgment for the President or the Secretary of State to assume that those who call atten facts. What is important is that we find out who the little boys are who set themselves up to play at great no s s. Unfortunately the American people are as weary of jat they call the Extreme Right as they are ef the Extreme Left, but the truth is unrelated to whether anyone is Right or Left, extreme or moderate. Sooner or later, facts will come out. Even in jsl dictatorial country like Soviet Russia, the facts ulti- mately come to the surface, as Khrushchev told what he knew about Stalin or as Trotsky wrote in his magnificent history of the Russian Revolution. The politician who believes that he can cover up errs. There is always a leak always an exclama tion of horror at discovery. It is usual for the politician to seek to destroy truth by calling it gossip, hearsay, but the wise man never re jects gossip or hearsay or rumor un til he is sure that he is not being tricked. - THE POLITICAL GENIUS of modern times was, beyond doubt, Talleyrand, who established the Eu ropean system that prevailed for a century. Talleyrand always found ways of uncovering those who tried to make France a lesser country. He never permitted himself not to know, and it was because Talleyrand cre ated so effective an intelligence ser vice that France survived through all the frightful years from the Rev olution to the Congress of Vienna. Talleyrand was never tricked by incorrect data, for he believed no one person but an indisputable fact. He knew that the usual weakness of a politician was to deny, to delay in vestigation, to mistranslate and mis lead so that those on top were be trayed by their own underlings. No man is more clever than his access es to intelligence. WASHINGTON POST a?irip for retirement, and to grant Reductions for lobbying, .expenses. In addition, the AMA said it was submitting this lobby information "under protest," because it did not consider itself subject to the Federal law regulating lobbies. The bills the AMA supported would take money away from the U. S. Treasury, but the doctors are rnost zealous that no money be tak en sway by other segments of the population, where medical care is concerned. Tiow, the AMA has a legal right to 4o this to ssk as much for itself as it can get, and to oppose the milking of the Treasury by other groups. But then the AMA lias no right to put it self on a pedestal and to resent cri ticism of itself as a trade associa- tion- For this is what the record shows it to bea group no better and no worse than the labor unions, the farm interests, the truckers, the steamship companies or the post of fice clerks. Devotion to the public, arid die sacred duty of medicine, have iittie to do with the case. It is time the AMA stopped posing as a friend to anyone except itself. Our New Stake In Vietnam Fresh details are slowly emerging from reticent Administration sources about the expanded program of A merican participation in South Viet nam's anti-Communist struggle. From now on Americans will be flying Vietnamese troops into battle and accompanying them in combat on the ground; Americans will help run the Vietnamese intelligence sys tem, assist in military planning and have a voice in measures to improve social and economic conditions. If some of the more than 2.000 Ameri cans now in South Vietnam get shot at in combat dones, they are auth orized to shoot back. These new arrangements, added to the many other steps the United States has taken to bolster South Vietnam, represent a very extensive American commitment. Americans certainly will be shot at; some will almost certainly be killed. Com munist China has just sent to Hanoi a Chinese military mission headed by Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, Vice Chairman of the National Defense Council in Peiping. Marshal Yeh is a tough and capable soldier well knovyn to many Americans as the Communist member of the truce a gency set up by General Marshall during the Latter's attempt fifteen years ago to halt warfare between the Nationalists and Communists in China. It can be assumed that Mar shal Yeh will, with North Vietnam leaders, try to counter the stepped up American-Vietnamese effort in the South. The extensive new American in volvement in South Vietnam has been made on the basis of parallel commitments by President Ngo Dinh Diem to improve his regime. The ef fectiveness of what the United States is doing will largely depend on how far be proceeds in this respect. He has made commendable moves. Mil itary pay is to be increased, com mand channels improved; he will consult frequently with his advisory National Council and take new steps against nepotism and corruption. We do not yet know whether these and other actions he contemplates will be sufficient to produce the govern mental efficiency and popular mo rale required for the struggle ahead. What is certain is that the in creased American stake and Ameri can risk in South Vietnam now needs, more than ever to be ac companied by a fresh, resilient and imaginative effort by President Ngo to mobilize resources for a fight that is certain to get harder before it get is certain to get harder before it gets easier. President Kennedy can only justify the new United States role to the American people on this basis. NEW YORK TIMES Reflectio First things come first, we sup pose. Extremely unofficial word has it that a recent high-leyel conference between a Russian official end an American went like this: St, RUSSIAN: When do the Americans plan to put a man through space in a rocket? AMERICAN: I'm not sure. We're still tryiHg to get a Negro through Alabama on a bus.
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