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March 30, 1962
Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXIX, No. 12S
Mathers' Campaign: He Entered
To Win, Not To Split The Vote
Mike Iather'.s annouficement
Wednesday that he has withdrawn
from the race for editor of the DTH
resulted in a storm of reaction
Many of the students who wrote
Mather's name on the baiiot pro
tested that it was unfair to refuse
him admission as a special student.
Others reacted with an air of
resignation to the caprices of the
administration. Still others conclud
ed that the whole campaign was a
fraud, that Mathers had no real
intention of assuming the office if
he won it.
Nothing could be further from
the truth. Mathers entered the; race
with every intention of campaign
ing hard, winning, and putting out
s. good newspaper. Had he entered
with the intention of splitting the
vote and paving the way for a Clot
felterWrye victory as some have
charged he would have gone" into
the run-off and withdrew at the
last moment, leaving only the
names of Clotf elter and Wrye on.
the ballot, insuring them a win.
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This he did not do. The moment
Mathers was informed by officials
in the administration that he would
not be admitted as" a special student,
he withdrew from the race. The
news that he would not be admit
ted came as a complete surprise not
only to the campus, but to Mathers
as well. He was not informed that
he would not be admitted until
Wednesday morning.
This is confirmed by officials in
the School of Journalism.
The entire incident is nothing
more than a muddle of misconcep
tions and errors. The outcome is
regrettable, but was not conceived
out of any intent other than to give
the campus a choice. The choice
was for Mathers, but a series of
unforeseen events prevented him
from participating in a run-off.
This is through no fault of Math
ers, nor through any intent on his
part to confuse or mislead the vot
ers. His sincerity in running for
the office is unquestionable. . He
fought hard to win, and quite prob
ably would have had he not been
faced with the prospect Of serving
for only 35 days, a situation that
would be neither fair to him nor to
t
the campus.
Poll Tax Opposition
A simplified version of Senator
Holland's proposed amendment to
the Constitution abolishing the. poll
tax sailed through the Senate Wed
nesday and appears to have a good
chance for approval by the House
and ratification by three fourths of
the states. The Senate was wise
in yielding to the wishes of Majority
Leader Mansfield and others to
reduce controversy over the amend
ment to a minimum. After the Sen
ate had concluded its talkfest and
begun to debate the proposed
amendment oil its merits, the oppo
sition virtually collapsed.
As the proposed amendment was
previously phrased, it forbade the
states to deny or abridge the right
of any citizen to vote "in any pri
mary or other election for electors
for President or Vice President, or
for Senator or Representative in
Congress" by reason of failure to
pay a poll tax. Some critics feared
that this reference to "electors"
might leave a loophole that would
enable the states to continue levy
ing poll taxes by eliminating "elec
tors" from their ballots and substi
tuting the names of the candi
dates for President and Vice Presi
dent. That possibility was eliminat
ed by making the amendment ap
plicable to direct election of the
President as well as to the choice
of electors
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Wayne Kincl
JEditor
Mike RcmmsoN-Associate Editor
Harry Lloyd, Harve Harris
Managing Editors
Lloyd Little
Executive News Editor
Jim Clotfelter, Bill WtJametp
News Editors
Jim Waixacb
Photography Editor
Chuck Mooney- Feature Editor
Ed DtrrpK?: , Sports Editor
Cvrry Kjhxpatrick
Asst. Sports Editor
Gars? Blan chard
Contributing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Tun BtraiTETT Business Manager
Mike Mathers
Advertising Manager
Jim EvxNsJSubscription Manager
Jim Eskhidge
Circulation Manager
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except Monday, examination periods
nd vaitions. It 1 entered a second
class matteT In Xhm post office in Chapel
HilL N. C pursuant with the act ef
March S, 1370. Subscription rates i
per semester, $a per year.
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the United Preaa International and
utilizes the services of the New Bu-
reau of tin University of Korti Caro
lina. Publisbei by the Publications Board
giap3 rersity at Nortii f-wnaj
A more important change was
the complete elimination of Section
2 of the resolution. Section 2 had
been assailed by various groups be
cause it provided that the proposed
amendment would have no effect
Upon state laws denying the right
to vote to paupers and persons sup
ported at public expense or by
charitable institutions. This proviso
had been deemed necessary because
the original amendment would have
abolished any property qualification
for voting as well as the poll tax,
and 12 states have limited the right
of paupers to vote in order to dis
courage vote buying.
, In our opinion, it would have been
better to have eliminated all prop
erty qualifications for voting per
iod. But the issue before Congress
was simplified by directing the
amendment solely against the poll
tax. In this form it seems unexcejP
tionable, and since the effort to
substitute for it a simple anti-poll-tax
statute was again defeated in
the Senate, the Holland resolution
should have support from every foe
of the poll tax.
Satan Balks
K-9 Corps Goes To Pot
OLATHE, K.na (UPI) The
entire Canine Corps of the Johnson
County sheriff's office has been
fired all because of a dog named
Satan.
Sheriff Ralph Burger said things
went reasonably well at the outset,
about two years ago, although all
the dogs displayed a few problem
personality traits, among them a
unanimous aversion to drunks.
"The drunk," Burger said, "al"
ways wanted to pet the dogs, who
were trained to be vicious on com
mand and sometimes didn't wait for
the command. Sometimes an officer
who was driving had a hard time
keeping a friendly prisoner and an
unfriendly dog apart."
Satan had a brand of deviltry
all his own. Burger said three men
were discovered inside a drug store
late at night. Ordered into the dark
ened premises to flush them out,
Satan firmly braced his feet in re
fusal. One officer pulled and another
pushed until the reluctant, 125
pounder was maneuvered inside.
Satan was not seen again until
after officers had rounded up and
handcuffed the three burglers. Then
Satan was . found sitting outside,
licking his chops coated with choc
olate from candy he had stolen from
a display counter.
"This," said the sheriff, "was
embarrassing." Satan, however, was
not fired then.
Dismissal came after he took
sides in a family argument in his
master's household. Each dog rode,
during working hours, with the
officer to whom he was assigned,
and lived, when off duty, at the
officer's house.
Folk Songsters
Not So Folksy
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) A great
cold war is simmering behind the
smiling faces of the nation's folk
song advocates.
They are divided into three hostile
factions - the purists, the irreverent
and the middle-roaders. The irrev
erents and the purists are the prime
antagonists. The middle-roaders
shrug off both.
Most irreverent of the guitar
twanging folk singers are the Smoth
ers Brothers, Tom and . Dick, who
lampoon the woeful, tragedy-filled
songs of our forebears. .They even
deny the legitimacy of most so-called
folk songs.
This does not sit well with the
fanatics who listen in worshipful
silence as Burl Ives, Josh White,
Theo Bickel and Pete Seeger wail
their mournful ballads.
"It's become a cult," said Tom
Smothers, irreverently.
"They really take these songs
seriously," Dick added. "Some of
'em figure folk songs are the most
important thing in the world. More
important than beatnik poetry."
The Smothers (that's their real
name) starred briefly on Steve Al
len's defunct television show. They
proved their inability to take them
selves seriously, much less folk sing
ing. They describe such groups as the
Kingston Trio, the Limefighters and
other popular musical organizations
as middle-roaders who earn huge
sums of money singing "new" folk
songsold tunes with modern lyrics.
They neither indulge in satire nor
sing as if they were in church. Tom
identifies them as impartial money
makers.
"The trouble with dedicated pur
ists is that they try to educate, not
entertain," Dick said. "Sometimes
it takes them an hour to sing their
way through 50 verses with a chorus
between each verse."
"What a drag," Tom agreed.
"They also love to tune their
guitars," Dick went on. "Sometimes
you can't tell where the tuning leaves
off and the song begins."
Purists, outraged by the Smoth
ers' lighthearted approach to the
altar of folk music have pinned a
name on them 'folkniks."
"I kind of like it," said Tom.
"It has a certain ring to it."
Tom, 25, and Dick 23, were born
in New York City, the sons of a
career army officer. Since his death
they have supported their mother
and two young sisters who live in
San Jose, Calif.
In addition to television appear
ances the brothers rack up as much
as $3,500 a week in night clubs ap
as $3,500 a week in night club ap
San Francisco and Chicago.
Satan had a special fondness for
one of his master's children and
an unconcealed dislike for the man's
wife, the sheriff said. One day when
the mother bent over her offspring
to .adminster a . scolding, Satain
roared to the child's defense.
"The dog grabbed the startled
housewife by the lower stern section
and hung on," the sheriff said.
That did it. Satan was sold back
to his trainers at Springfield, Mo.,
and the era of canine police work
in this Kansas City suburban area
came to an end.
"From now on, we'll try to get
along with men," Burger said.
'Twould Be
Nice If .
.... The administration would
delegate to someone the job of
checking the fire extinguishers, now
that they've gotten the evacuation
procedures set up.
.... One could taste the Lenoir
Hall lemon meringue pie.
.... Put a Bircher and the Com
munist Lecture Bureau representa
tive on a panel discussion.
.... if the DTH could start print
ing IBC in addition to Pogo and Pea
nuts. .... we could get eating utensils
that were clean in Lenoir Hall.
.... someone would give the dogs
that seem to roam uninhibited
around Lenoir a bath they do smell
terribly!
.... someone would recommend
that ALL doors into and out of a
building be kept open at ALL times.
On the dining hall and GM, for ex
ample, they are not what if there
were a fire and everyone tried to
get out one-half of a door?
.... someone would again com
pare the Intimate prices on texts
and the Book X prices I took five
books over to the Intimate and was
offered $3,50 for all five, the man
telling me that three of them were
to be replaced next term. I then
went to the Book X, where they
should know if a book is going to
be replaced or not, and received
$5.25 for only three of them! (They,
too, said that ONE was going to be
replaced, but not the other two.)
Anybody smell profiteering????
Well, boys, let's see an answer to
this!
Peter B. Maupin
By RAYMOND LAIIR
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Supreme Court's haymaker blow at
the state legislatures promises to
inflate the political power of big
cities at a time when the cities
already are causing despair in the
Republican party
Since the dawn after election day
in 10, the GOP has blamed its
loss of the White House on the big
city turnout for President Kennedy.
It has given much attention to ways
of curing its sick party organiza
tions in the cities.
The country districts may be
overrepresented in the legislatures
and Congress but the big cities have
political muscle of their own. It is
shown every four years in the nom
ination and election of candidates
for president.
All states cast their entire blocs
of electoral votes on a winner-take-all
basis. As was shown in 19G0,
Democratic majorities in big cities
can outweigh Republican outstate
majorities in such states as New
York, Pennsylvania, (Michigan and
Illinois to elect a Democratic presi
dent. Now comes the Supreme Court
decision which in effect promises
to increase the urban power in the
state legislatures.
However, the news need not be
all black for the Republicans. If
the cities are underrepresented in
the legislature, the suburbs are
more so, and the GOP regards the
suburbs as its territory despite De
mocratic gains in these areas in the
19G0 presidential election.
In Monday's Supreme Court de
cision, the majority held that the
federal courts could intervene in
a Tennessee legislative apportion
ment dispute after the legislature
had refused to redistrict since 1901.
The refusal to redistrict in that state
gave rural dwellers a bigger voice
in the legislature than those in the
growing cities.
Situation Exists Elsewhere
Political scientists have assem
bled manuals of statistics to show
that the same condition exists in
many states because the farms are
losing population to burgeoning met
ropolitan areas.
In a 19-lG decision, Justice Felix
Frankfurter called the redistrict
in dispute a "political thicket"
which the federal courts shouhl
never enter.
If, as expected, the new decision
invites similar suits against alleged
inequities in other states, the courts
must find their way out of the
thicket. They may need years to
escape.
If a state were functioning with
an unfair apportionment plan and
court action were threatened, the
simplest solution would be adop
tion of a fair plan by the legislature.
The Minnesota legislature redis
tricted in 1939 under a threat of
federal court action. The New Jer
sey legislature did the same last
year with pressure coming from
the state Supreme Court.
Could Halt Election
In the Tennessee case, it was
suggested that a federal court could
enjoin state election officials from
holding elections until the legisla
ture redistricted.
But what would happen if a legis
lature refused to bow to a federal
court?
One proposal, which could bring
nightmares to politicians, would
have all members of a legislature
of a state's congressional delega
tion elected from the state at largo
instead of by districts.
Another would have the federal
courts draw the lines for new legis
lative or congressional districts. In
their opinions Monday, Justice Tom
Clark said this could be done; the
dissenting Frankfurter said it would
be impossible.
Unless legislatures yield quietly,
some federal judges may find them
selves presiding over political
brawls and feeling, perhaps, like
preachers caught up in a street
fight."
.First Free
.Bus
ystem"
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ITHACA, N. Y. (UPI) This
central New York city awaits the
green light from federal authori
ties to put into operation Amer
ica's first free municipal bus sys
tem. Under the proposed system, tickets
and fares would be dispensed with.
Arthur Stallman, head of the City
Council's Ithaca Transit Committee
said, "you could just get on the
bus and ride."
Ithaca applied fo ra $120,000 federal
grant last fall to finance the pro
gram. The request has since been
lowered to $104,000.
Funds would come from the Urban
Transit Division of the Housing and
Home Finance Agency under a $50
million program Congress set up
last year to help rehabilitate trans
portation systems.
The Ithaca plan would be a pilot
project to determine proper meth
ods and procedures for bus opera
tions in cities of comparable size.
Putting the free bus operation
into effect hinges on federal ap
proval of a workable plan submit
ted by the city and the signing of
a formal contract guaranteeing two
thirds federal participation in all
costs.
How does Ithaca's population view
the experiment?
A housewife, Mrs. Robert Ready,
said: "I think it will get more
people to use the buses. People have
gotten out of the habit of riding
them." But she added many house
wives probably would continue using
their cars and students would be the
main beneficiaries of the program.
Students and faculty at Cornell
University and Ithaca College make
up about one-third of the city's 30,000
population.
A downtown merchant, Fred Abra
ham, proprietor of a record store,
praised the plan as "the kind of con
certed effort which is need to stimu
late Ithaca's business."
There are some dissident voices,
like Cornell junior William Iming:
"People are still going to drive
their cars if they have them," Iming
said. He believes the automobile
remains the "ultimate convenience."
Another disenchanted observer has
been Ithaca's new mayor, John F.
Ryan, a Democrat, who strongly op
posed the free bus plan during his
election campaign.
Faced with a Republican City
Council which voted unanimously
for free buses, Ryan adopted an of
ficial watch and wait attitude.
The plan also has received heavy
outside criticism, particularly from
Sen. Frank Lausche, D-Ohio, in Dec
ember, who wrote Federal Urban
Transportation Administrator Jack
son Kohl:
"Where will this program end?
If Ithaca is entitled to free trans
portation, what about other com
munities of the country?"
Housing Administrator Robert C.
Weaver said the Ithaca program
would be merely an experiment.
He said it would be designed to
answer such questions as how much
does the fare actually influence rid
ing, whether the community receives
any significant benefit from free
service, who rides the buses and
how often, what are its effects on
demands, street traffic and police
downtown stores, and on parking
costs.
vThe Housing and Home Finance
Agency," he said, "is certainly not
planning any permanent subsidies of
commuter fares."
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