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February 27, 1962
Tel. 942-2356
Vol. LXIX, No. 101
No Democrat Should Support It
Jonas Gerrymander
It appears that the sins of the
1961 General Assembly will be visit
ed on the head of either Congress
man A. Paul Kitchin of Wadesboro
and N. C. Rep. John P. Kennedy of
Charlotte when one of the two is
selected in May to run against
Congressman Charles Jonas of the
old Tenth District.
Jonas, five time winner in the
Tenth, and a painful thorn in the
side of State Democrats, will make
the most of the General Assem
bly's merger of part of the old
Eighth District to form the new
Eighth which shuttled Jonas, they
thought, out into the cold.
And well he should. Although
we don't particularly care for Jon
as' politics personally, the people in
the old Tenth apparently didn't
ihave too much objection to them.
He won the district five times con
secutively most recently against
young Dave Clark, who presented
strong opposition. By shifting him
into less friendly territory through
some pretty pungent re-districting,
the '61 General Assembly asked for
a cry of gerrymander, and it's more
than a sure bet that Jonas will com
ply with the request.
And any damage it does will be
richly deserved. The attempt td
hang Jonas up in a strongly Demo
cratic district is reprehensible and
unworthy of the support of any
honest voter, Democrat or Republi
can. It's coincidental that just at this
time the Young Republicans here
are planning a debate with the
Young Democrats on the topic of
one-party control in N. C.
All in all, the effects of Demo
cratic control in the state will bear
up under the most stringent criti
cism the YRC can level. But we're
sure of this: no Democrats, young,
old, at UNC or anywhere in t h e
state, can, or should, attempt to
justify the move to bottle up Jonas.
At least not with a gerrymander.
Publish Or Perish
In the 1962 report of the Visiting
Committee to the Board of Trus
tees, which was recently released,
a section headed "Faculty Perform
ance" underscores with a perhaps
justifiable note of pride the qua
lity of the UNC faculty. It is inter
esting to note the "indices of qua
lity" used in assessment. For in
stance: "the record of the faculty in
contributing to the enlargement of
knowledge through publication - i n
scholarly and professional journals,
the amount of financial support re
ceived from federal and private a
gencies for research study, the num
ber of advanced students seeking
admission to pursue graduate
study, awards and honors received
by faculty members and the num
ber of invitations to positions in
other institutions that come to
members of the faculty."
By way of explanation, the re
port goes on to say that "every
year the University .... publishes
a record of the publications of its
faculty," and "these documents
would convince the most skeptical
that the faculties of our three insti
tutions ar6 vigorous and active in
research . investigations and that
the quality of their work is consist
ent with the high standard of a
major institution of higher learn
ing." Besides this, some of them are
good teachers too. But if they are
n't . . . well . . . they write a lot of
books and do a . lot of research.
Tpmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmm
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CHapel Kill. N. C.
Europe-$300-Cheap
GM Director Howard Henry re
ports that applications for the GM
sponsored charter plane to Europe
this summer are not coming in rap
idly enough.
In order to confirm the charter,
over 100 applications, with deposits
paid, are needed by March 1. Round
trip fare for the round trip from
New York to London is $300, a fig
ure which is $186 below usual cost.
The flight leaves June 5 and the
return trip from London to New
York will be on August 1. This is
not a tour. After landing in Lon
don, students are on their own and
can travel wherever they desire,
choosing their own accommodations.
If the charter arrangements for
this flight is successful, the pro
gram will be continued.
Reservations can be made at GM
information desk before March 1. A
deposit of $150 is required, with
the balance due by March 31.
This is an excellent and relative
ly inexpensive program designed
for Carolina students - which
means that there are no chape rones,
lackeys, old maid aunts or other
tour leader types passionately in
terested only in cathedrals, viaducts
and ruins.
With 55 days thus unencumber
ed, you might even get to see Europe.
II has become a favorite pasttime
of many Northerners and some
Southerners to castigate the South
for its alleged "racism." With a
skillful and organized campaign,
they have managed to direct atten
tion to the South and keep the spot
light off themselves.
Public schools and other public
places have borne the brunt of the
attacks in the past. Now the race-mongers-have
taken aim at private
establishments as well.
The latest campaign is against
private clubs in the Washington,
D.C. area. Several high government
officials including the President
have become embroiled in disputes
with clubs which exclude members
of certain racial or religious groups.
These officials are exerting public
pressure in an attempt to force these
clubs to integrate.
One Representative, Herbert
Zelenko (D-NY), has even introduc
ed a bill in Congress "to prohibit the
issuance of a n y occupancy permit,
liquor license or other license" to
any group in EX. C. which practices
racial or religious segregation.
These officials are unjustified in
attempting to force integration in
such private establishments. Theirs
is an exclusive membership, and
those race minded Harvard dons
who don't like it are free to stay out.
Not satisfied with the havoc that
integration- has brought to. Washing
ton's public schools and streets, the
mixers want to. try out the "Great
Experiment" in private clubs.
It seems incomprehensible that
these government officials would de
sire to take their Negro friends into
the presence of those whom they
have denounced so harshly. One
would think that they would be most
reluctant to have them to associate
with such people.
Integrating these clubs would, of
course, create an atmosphere of
"Man, You Look As If You're Really Under Pressure"
0m
in ".iaw """"wr
brotherhood and equality. To make
for unanimity, however, a few ad
justments must be insisted upon. The
President will have to give up his
honorary membership in two Wash
ington country clubs which have na
Negroes. He will have to prevail
upon, his father to withdraw from
the segregated country club at Palm
Beach, where the President often
plays golf.
The Kennedys must withdraw
fro'm the golf and tennis club at Hy
annis Port which has no Negroes,
and must refuse to utilize the segre
gated beach and yachting facilities
used b y t ti e Presidential family at
Hyannis Port.
Jackie will be obliged to relin
quish membership in an exclusive
hunt club in Virginia which prac
tices segregation. She mielit also
dye her hair varying shades of black
and white to satisfy iier mixing im
pulses. Vice President Johnson will, of
course, move from segregated Tex
as and relinquish h i s momberhip
in segregated clubs there. The New
Frontier must g,o forward.
Finally we have the question: Will
the integrationists refuse to go int
private homes unless accompanied
by a Negro, or unless assured that a
Negro has preceded them there?
It is imperative that all of us be
"equal" and "un-bigoted." (Wonder
who's voting for whom this year).
MARTIN L. WILSON
Literacy Vote lest
Is JFK's Giveaway
r
ITEM: John Kennedy's demand
that the literacy test for voters be
removed is to astute political obser
vers a clear statement of his inten
tion to run for a second term.
The above little gem of political
ribbing was submitted to the NA
TIONAL REVIEW (Feb, 13. 1962) in
protest to the President's proposal to
allow anyone who has completed six
years of elementary school the right
to vote. Individuals who have com
pleted six years of school would be
given the vote irrespective of wheth
er or not they can read or write, let
alone understand and Interpret the
complicated nature of government
(especially in these days of fuzzy
thinking in the home office.) We see
in this plan two factors that deserve
attention:
DAn inability of the present ad
ministration t o adequately protect
the right to vote of QUALIFIED Ne
groes in the South, forcing the ad
ministration to resort to unconstitu
tional means io cover up their in
abilities. Also involved in this pro
posal is the idea that anyone who
does not support this plan is, i p s o
facto, anti-Negro (just as anyone
who opposes Urban Affairs is anti
Negro.) 2) A bland subservience to the
methodology of Democracy, the idea
being that only if everyone (includ
ing those who just went to the sixth
grade) has the right to vote, then
will we have good government (tac
it assumption: no democracy could
bring forth BAD government.) This
mania for democracy leads us to be
lieve that Kennedy and other Liber
als are less concerned with the kind
of government democracy brings
forth, than they are with the method
of democracy itself. After all, demo
cracy is only a method for formulat
ing government, and does not ne
cessarily mean that a government
operating within the framework of
democracy will necessarily do the
right thing (first witness: Kennedy
as the present government of the
United States.)
A N O T E TO HARRY DELUNG :
Now, now; let's not have any preju
dice against "super" patriots.
N. Franklin Adkinson
Samuel S. Jones, Jr.
Oh Non-Campus Issues
hould Consider Kesolptiom
Thursday night in 'Student Legis
lature a series of speeches set forth
a policy which may well affect Stu
dent government at Carolina for
years to come. As a reporter cover
ing that session, I feel that the Stu
dent body should know the details
of the discussion.
A major portion of the debate
was devoted to the question of
whether or not student legislature
should consider resolutions on non
campus issues.
(Representative John (Randall pre
sented a valid point as he noted that
over a period of years, the legisla
tors who have also introduced most
of the bills which have proved ef
fective, have also introduced the
most resolutions. "We must not,"
said Randall, "in effect cut off these
outstanding leaders by stifling their
useful creativity."
It was noted that student legisla
tors at Carolina evolved from the
Di-Phi debating society which dealt
primarily with off -campus issues.
Also pointed out was the fact that
this congressional district-has more
universities and students than any
in the country. "Therefore," one
speaker reasoned "the opinion of the
largest representative student gov
ernment group in the district will de
mand some recognition in Washing
ton, at least from our Congress
man." One speaker mentioned that all
over the world student groups are
taking a definite stand on nuclear
testing. One of the largest demon
strations ever to take place at the
'White House recently involved 4700
students marching for unilateral dis
armament. It is right that Carolina
should take a stand on the issue. The
question then presented was just
who should take the stand. One rep
resentative felt that though issues
such as this should be considered on
campus, it is not the proper place
for student legislature to do so. A
nother law-maker stated the op
posite view, "Since it is the one
group elected to be truly represen
tative of the student body, I feel
that it is student legislature's place
to take a stand on this issue."
In considering the content of the
resolution itself, brief debate pre
ceded a roll-call vote in which the
resolution was passed by a narrow
margin of 18-15. The opinion of a
large majority of representatives
seemed to be that it was proper for
student legislature to cinsider reso
lutions though their opinion on this
particular . one was split. The key
phrase of the nuclear testing issue
was the statement endorsing cur
rent policy that the national govern
ment "refrain from resuming nuc
lear testing in the atmosphere, so
long as such a policy does not jeo
pardize the deterrent capabilities of
the United States."
This reporter holds a view simi
lar to that taken by student legisla
ture. Our national government has
for years been negotiating in the in
terest of world peace with foreign
powers dedicated to our destruction
though many of these negotiations
have been doomed from the begin
ning due to the attitude of these ad
verse factions. Though it may seem
futile, a government such as ours,
dedicated to peace, must continue a
policy of negotiation in hope that a
suitable outcome may someday be
reached. Likewise, it is certainly
fit, indeed it is the obligation of re
sponsibile student government at
Carolina to consider resolutions of
such world-wide implications. The
legislative body of this university
should continue to utilize the abili
ties of outstanding thinkers on camp
us through resolutions concerning
national and international issues.
BO EDWARDS
The Quest For Peace Through
Sanity
The events of this month indicate
that there is an increasing aware
ness of the threat of nuclear war on
the part of the 'American people.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY carried a
procative article entitled "The
Limits of Defense," which demon
strated the need and possibility of
formulating safe alternatives to war
in solving international problems.
The student disarmament confer
ence at Swathmore and the White
House pickets focused public atten
tion on the necessity of disarma
ment. More important than any of
these developments, however, is the
debut of "SANITY: a magazine de
voted to peace and disarmament."
Judging from the first issue, I
should predict that this magazine
will soon become the rallying point
for the entire U. S. peace movement
and be an influential gadfly in prick
ing the American public's intellect
ual stupor. There is nothing like
bold and original thought to dispel
clouds of slogan-bred illogic and
stagnant, cliched ideas, and SAN
ITY promises plenty of new appro
aches to the most urgent problem
of our times.
In the first place, SANITY recog
nizes that the preservation of the
peace IS a problem, and one that is
not being successfully dealt with at
the present time. This is a great
deal further than most of our pro
fessional politicians are even inter
ested in going. Yet we will make no
progress towards a solution so long
as "Americans remain content to
substitute slogans ... for critical
examination of political problems,
and so long as we live with lies and
fear the truth," as Richard Ward
states in his article, "Psychosis of
the Cold War." The articles in SAN
ITY, including one by Bertrand
Russell and another by Nobel Prize
winner Linus Pauling, are critical
analyses that must be read by every
concerned individual.
Witness M. A. Lebowitz's "The
Political Economy of Armaments."
At the outset, Lebowitz notes that
we have implicitly accepted the view
that wealth and well-being are di
rectly related to the amount of our
resources that we can destroy each
year." Defense production absorbs
the nation's resources in return for
no real physical increase in the eco
nomy. In this light, the fear of the
economic consequences of disarma
ment provides a most important ex
ample of the belief that organized
destruction of wealth creates wealth.
What we must ask is 'wealth for
whom'?" Lebowitz then proceeds to
analyze the workings of that military-industrial
complex that both
President Eisenhower and C. Wright
Mills have warned us against. Over
eighty-six per cent of the total value
of defense contracts between the
years 1951 and 1959 were allotted by
direct negotiation with single firms.
Moreover, by 1959 the top one hund
red contractors were receiving seventy-four
per cent of the total mili
tary procurement. This picture is a
little more readily understandable
after Lebowitz points out the great
number of ex-military men who use
their influence in the services to ob
tain contracts for specific firms.
(Lockheed Aircraft employs twen
ty ex-admirals and two ex-generals;
General Dynamics, seventeen ex
admirals and seven ex-generals; and
so forth.) In fact, the Pentagon ne
gotiators suffer a conflict of inter
ests since they too want high-salaried
positions in private industry af
ter they retire from the armed forc
es. And on what basis do they nego
tiate? The federal government's
Comptroller General has testified be
fore a Congressional Committee that
"the government must rely on the
prime contractors to submit rea
sonable price proposals , , . . " The
results are only what one would ex
pect. 'After studying these contracts
Senator Douglas found that "vir
tually every negotiated contract we
have examined indicated a price
appreciably in excess of what the
competitive price would be." We
realize what aa understatement this
Is after reading the figures proving
that the Navy paid $21.10 apiece for
lamp sockets that cost only a quar
ter in any hardware store, that over
an eight year period aircraft and
missile contractors realized profits
amounting to seventy-one per cent.
Having presented these facts, Le
bowitz concludes "it is not surpris
ing that the business interests in the
country find the possibility of peace
slightly unnerving .... can we ex
pect these groups to use their pow
er and influence to work for a gov
ernment position which can LEAD
to effective disarmament?"
The challenge which SANITY has
accepted is one that none of us can
afford to ignore. That challenge is
formulated by the editors: "We be
lieve that students in this country
and around the world have a most
important role to play in the strug
gle for peace. Wre believe that every
where, in ever increasing numbers,
they must become actively involved
in seeking out alternatives to war.
Students must let it be known that
they do not intend to be the last gen
eration of homo sapiens. They mu?t
take a stand, and go on record ac
cordingly." This magazine deserves
to be and must be read by thinking
people of all political hues. Copies
are available from Bob Brown, tele
phone 942-6243.
NORWOOD PRATT