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ze go CO m gr bu of CO CC tn I ( 1 F. A rr P T lo st V oi 8 a F C In its sixty-nwth year of editorial freedom, unhampered By t restrictions from either the administration or thestudent 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. April 12, 19G2 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XL1X, No. 139 The DTH, The J-SchoolAnd A Generation Of Nice Guys Near the end of his term of of fice last year, Editor Jonathan Yardley suggested that the Daily Tar Heel should place its news and sports desks "under the aegis" of the School of Journalism in an ef fort to solve the problem of inade quate staff. Always understaffed, the DTH yearly suffers from inadequate coverage on its news and sports pages. Early deadlines, lack of a strong reporting staff, hurried writing and copyreading are prob lems that plague every college newspaper ; dailies in particular suffer from them. The DTH gets its share each year. Affiliation with the Journalism School would doubt less help to solve most of them. The Journalism School would bene fit, in turn, from having a news paper which would serve as a laboratory for practical journalistic training. Despite these obvious advantages, other considerations tend to make a marriage between the DTH and the Journalism School undesirable. Regardless of any stipulation that might be laid down concerning com plete freedom on the editorial page, the net effect of affiliation with the Journalism School would be to limit editorial freedom. This does not mean that affiliation would be an invitation to outright censor ship. Practical considerations, how ever, dictate that any kind of for mal arrangement with the Jour nalism School would necessarily make the journalism faculty or ad visors in part responsible for edi torial policy. Complaints would find their way to Howell Hall rather than to the editor's office, regard less of who set the editorial tone. No amount of explanation would eliminate the feeling that the edi tor and the Journalism School were in cahoots. Such a situation could not long exist without creating a feeling on the part of the jour nalism faculty that some advice or suggestions were in order. This, al though not censorship in the strict sense, is nonetheless a control. Needless to say, such .a control would not be altogether bad. Col lege editors as a group are possibly the most inherently unbridled lot f -Safe tEar f&ttl m i EDITORIAL STAFF Wayne King.. JEditor I P I I i I! t ::: u h il N :-: H Mike Robinson Associate Editor Harry Lloyd, Harve Harris Managing Editor Lloyd Little Executive News Editor Jim Clotfelter, Bill Wuamett News Editors 11 Jim Wallace Photography Editor Chuck Mooney Feature Editor Ed Dtjpree Sports Editor 1 CtTRRY KlRKPATRICK d Asst. Sports Editor ff Garry Blanchard ff Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF Tim Burnett Business Manager Mike Mathers Advertising Manager Jim E vans-J? ub s cription Manager Jim Eskridge - - ... Circulation Manager Ths Daily Tab Em Is published dally wccept Monday, examination periods and 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 I $444 per semester, $8 per year. , . Tss Daily Tab Heec. is a subscriber to the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News. Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. - - - - '--, - ' Published by the Publications Board bf the University of North Carolina. Chapel H111. N. C. I I I m If i p n. II ii I on the national campus scene. Give a college editor his head and he will usually manage to make some pret ty glaring mistakes. But there is also a good chance that he will write something that , will, in time, either through a negative or posi tive response, get some good results. In a sense, if an editor is to be in any way effective, he must have the complete right to make an ass of himself. This does not mean, as a past editor of this paper once put it, that he shoulcf consciously try to be an enfant terrible. But it does mean that he should write always as a student, prone to the foibles and frailties that make him a stu dent, unhampered by some outside influence that calls conscience on him at the drop of a hat. The rise of conservatism that is getting so much attention across the country is not confined alto gether to the area of politics. Stu dents are more reserved and more mature than they were 20, or. even 10 years ago. At least so we under stand from those who are in a po sition to compare. The era of the reserved, conservative college stu dent seems to be coming into its own. 1 mm The trend toward a more staid, less impulsive stiideritry is not in itself wholly alarming. But we wonder if that trend is born of the students themselves, or whether it is one that has been manufactured for them by a frightened genera tion of older people - parents, teachers, counselors the whole collection of elders who seem to be pushing today's students into a "mature" mold not necessarily of their own choosing. College newspapers are the last components of student life that should succumb to this false ideal of nice guy-ism and mealy-mouthed super-maturity. If the editor of this?, or any other college newspaper feels that the mayor, the governor, the chancellor, a professor, or anyone else is a bumbling idiot, he should be aBle to say so. If he's wrong, his error will riot go unnoticed by the stu dents, lie doesn't need a journalism professor or advisor to tell him so. He'll find out soon eifough, and in ho uncertain terms, it won't "be long before the campus lets him in on it. There are many approaches to solving the staff problem. And it is, we are confident, one that will be solved. Affiliation with the Journalism School, regardless of the benefits that would incur from it on both sides, is not the best way of doing it. Outlaw Flowers Happily, the Town Fathers chose this week to ignore a complaint about the flower vendors that hawk their petaled wares on sunny days along Franklin Street. Outlaw selling of flowers? You might just as well outlaw falling leaves in the fall. Argentina Is Tres Mai&de Ey PHIL NEWSOM (UPI Foreign News Analyst) On iMartin Garcia Island in the River Plate, ousted President Ar turo Frondizi of Argentina was fe: ported suffering an illness general ly attributable to shock and strain. Also suffering shock and strain but with the symptoms more clear ly defined was Argentina itself. What to do about them constitut ed a problem under study lit, capi tals from Washington to iiueiio's Aires. It was. clear that democracy in Latin America, which the United States is pledged to support, suf fered a blow when Argentine mili tary leaders elected to interrupt democratic processes on March 29 and depose Frondizi by force. Military In Charge Even the move which installed Senate President Jose Maria Guidd in office as the main next constitu tionally in line did hot disguise, the fact that military men were making the final decisions. In only a little more than six months, military forces in South America's two largest countries, Ar gentina and Brazil, had stepped in to effect drastically the course of constitutional government. In Argentina the military tradi tionally have expected to be con sulted in government affairs, and since the fall of the Perbn dictator ship in 1955 have been especially watchful that there should be no return of the Peronists to power. Almost from the start, Frondizi has been under their suspicion. 'While denying any obligation to them, Frondizi was elected with the help of Peronists acting upon the orders of Juan D. Peron in exile. Political Rights , In June 1959 the Peronists made public a document denied by Fron dizi in which Frondizi ' allegedly promised to annul all anti-Perohist measure's taken by the provisional government which replaced Perbh. Frondizi was hot alone iri believ ing Peronists should be returned to the national political scene. It was held that so long as they remained outlawed, they constituted a "cor rupting" demerit without responsi bility. in October 1961, the ban on Peron istas in politics was lifted. ,It and contributing factors proved Frondizi's , undoing. In last month's elections Peronistas won sweeping victories in 10 out of 14 provinces. Contributing factors had been a new arid unpopular austerity program, a mounting cost of living and ' Frort dizi's own over-confidence in his ability to handle the military. i 1 TV "If I've Explained This Once, I've Explained It A Thousand Times!" H: Pick Summer. Job With Great Care To The Editor: It has come to my attention that the Vita Craft Corporation is again recruiting student salesmen for its summer program. As an employee of Vita Craft last summer, I wish to state that Vita Craft's recruiting tactics are extremely misleading and to advise that all students interested in working for them exercise the ut most caution in dealing with this company. The principal point of danger and ambiguity is the nature of the guar antee. Vita Craft's posters (which do not even bear the name of the company) lure the student with the promise "Earn $S0 a Week." But in order to fulfill the conditions of the guarantee which would provide that sum, the salesman must make an average of 10 displays a week for thirteen weeks. Last summer, out of the eighteen boys who began the summer in my sales group, only one ever fulfilled his weekly quota and only during two weeks of the necessary thirteen. Yet the almost impossible task of meeting the guarantee condition, k Glibly glossed over in the recni.: ment meetings by such statement as "We've only had two boys who've ever had to fall back on the giurnn tee." Therefore, if the student is U make money with Vita Cralt, it wiil be by making sales, not from t!a .: worthless guarantee. And the fact that only five of the original t!. -teen students (less than 13 weiv still working at the end of the sum mer is clear testimony that seil.rig pots and pans is not as easy as Vita Craft would have you believe. I again plead with all interest e.l students to exercise the utmost cau tion with these people who would so willingly mislead them. And anv one desiring further information about Vita Craft practices may phone me at 968-8700. Jeffrey Lawrence Please No More Bunk From Linde 1"P 1 Upon first reading Steve Lindell'3 statements iri the Daily Tar Heel bf last Siinclay my first reaction was to scratch my head, then re-read what he asid, then scratch my head some more, and finally to try to answer some bf the misconceptions and totally fallacious remarks that he wrote down and passed off for truth. f . Some of the "non-truths" and "half-truths" of Mr. Lindell's are: it is "Bunk" to ban-the-bomb; past peace groups have been "hopelessly idealistic;" peace movements are escapistic in nature; maintenance of nuclear weapons is not the "prob lem itself;" and, well here I get confused again. Air. t-indeli piits forth two alternatives for the Unit ed States . . . "1. Our destruction by bomb or surrender. 2. Our pres ervation by naving a bomb." But a few sentences later he states "Our . prime alternative is disarmament' Mr. Lindell contradicts himself by saying we cannot disarm and we can disarm. One wonders which he really means, assuming he knows himself. . To. begin with, why is it bunk to ban-the-bomb, (because it is "poi soning the atmosphere ... even by less than one per cent")? Now maybe I think of myself too much, but somehow I do not wish to be poisoned by any per cent of fallout of a nuclear bomb. What really does "less than one per cent" mean? Well, according to Linus Pauling, (that misguided Nobel Prfize win ning physicist), 160,000 children would be born with "gross mental or physical defect," between 200,000 and 1, odd ,000 humans now living would have "their lives cut short by such radiation-causing diseases as leukemia . . . four million still births, embryonic, neonatal, or child hood deaths and viable children with gross mental or physical defect . . . these numbers apply to the whole world." Now Mr. Lindell may not care if his children are born dead or if he contracts leukemia, but somehow I woUld rather this did not happen to me. One other "thing: the Atomic Energy Commission did find Dr. Pauling's statistics incorrect they carrie Up with twice the deaths due to testing. Pretty picture? (A re cent paper done by E. II. Shuford and H. E. Massengill titled "Radio active Fallout from Nuclear Test ing, Is It a Hazard to Health? Can Individuals Reduce This Hazard?" will further, enlighten other unedu cated persons to the dangers of fall but. It is all documented as opposed to Mr. Lindell's conjectures.) They Get Results .Mr. Lindell then states that past peace efforts by peace groups have been "hopelessly idealistic." That false assertion can be refuted by three examples: H. Stewart Hughes is running for the Senate in Massa chusetts in 1962 on a disarmament platform; in 1960 the British Labor Party was forced to change its of ficial stand on disarmament from a .Doii9t For ITT) - itiaiisoioi jam On the evening of April 7, 1962, the Cuban press notified the world that a military tribunal had passed sentence on 1,179 prisoners captured in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion last year. The thai is said to be one of the largest mass trials on record. It was probably one of the most farcical too. The verdict, prepos terous as it may sound, was an ex horbitant ransom for each prisoner. The individual ransoms range from $500,000 for some of the "leaders" downward to $25,000. The total ran som for all the prisoners is some where in the neighborhood of $62, 000,000. The alternative is that they will spend the next 30 years in Cuba's dank, overcrowded prisons. The verdict could have been death: it would have been justified. The crime was clearly treason. It will be recalled that last year shortly after the futility of the in vasion was blatantly proclaimed to the world, there was a movement in the United States to pay a ransom of 500 tractors. Despite the appeal of an ageing, sentimental, democra tic stateswoman, the plan was not successful. Castro had a dire need for those tractors. He now needs money. Cuba's present economic picture is black. Meat, soap, eggs, and other staple items are rationed heavily. The loss of United States trade threatens Cuba with eventual economic ruin ... possibly. The machinations ,of the Communist world to help Cuba's economy have not been overly successful. Eco nomic ruin could well bring Cuba's three and a half-year old dictator ship crashing down around Castro's ears, while he bombastically decries the inhumanity of the Yankee Im perialists. Tough luck! It couldn't happen to a nicer guy than good old Uncle Fidel. Could it? Everyone knovs where the re sponsibility for the invasion of Cuba lay. Admittedly it was a mistake and a Very stupid one too. But what is done is done. We can not alter the past, but we most certainly can influence the future. The new ransom price has been roughly tripled since the tractor of fer. It can not be paid. Any sig nificant money which enters Cuba goes to support Cuba's sagging econ omy. Support of the economy strengthens Castro and his distaste ful regime. The offer would not be made if the government of Cuba did not need the money desperately. Naturally there is a moral ques tion involved. Should those 1,179 prisoners be abandoned to their fate in Cuba's jails? It is a difficult question to answer, but it must be faced with ah affirmative answer. This may appear cruel to sentimen talists, but for far too long the for eign policy of the United States has been emotional in certain fields. There- is no room for sentimentality in mid-twentieth century interna tional relations. Every one of those 1,179 prisoners knew that he was facing possible death when he joined the invasion forces. (I hope none of them were so disillusioned as to think that they were going on a picnic.) They took a risk and they lost. They have to suffer for it. When it becomes a question of pro longing the existence of the Castro regime br giving happiness to 1,179 people and their friends and rela tives, there is but one choice. The individuals must suffer in the hope that the regime can be brought to its knees sooner. $62,000,000 could prolong the Castro government through its present crisis. Most in telligent people find the existence of the Castro regime unpalatable and look forwkard to its demise. A re fusal by all agencies to pay the ransom will be a step toward help ing the regime to its doom. The Cuban Families Committee is an organization which has as its primary objective the freedom of the prisoners. It is a group which has a considerable amount of sup port. It is believed that close to $26,000,000 is available to the com mittee, most of which seems to be offered by private American sources. Anyone who contributes to this fund is potentially strengthening the Cas tro government, which needs the money far more than it needs pris oners. It may seem callous to not agitate for payment of the ransom, but higher goals are at stake . . . the potential ruin of the Cuban economy and the demise of the Cas tro government. It is to be hoped thatvthe United States Government is not going to permit itself to be involved in any manner with the payment. In such an eventuality the United States would appear to be displaying a guilty conscience about the invasion by freeing the prisoners. The United States does not have a guilty con science arid we certainly should not feed the snake that bites us. Hays R. Browning Jr. traditional NATO-Cold War philoso phy to a unilateralistic one as a direct result of peace group strength in the party; and the example which has had most press coverage in this country the riots which kept Eisenhower away from Japan were protesting the signing of the Japanese-American Mutual Defense Pact that the United States forced on Japan. No, Mr. Lindell, peace groups are not hopelessly idealistic, they do get results. If anyone is an escapist it is Mr. Lindell. He thinks that by having nuclear supremacy the threat of Communism will go away. No ban-the-bomb advocate thinks this. Con versely, they think the United States will stand a better chance of influ encing the emerging new nations on ideological grounds than will the Communists. I believe that with all the faults present under the "Ameri can way of life" this nation's ideolo gy can not only hold its own but can make headway when faced with Communistic ideology. Does Mr. Lindell think so? Perhaps not, for he insists that we keep a big club handy just in case. Then 'e come to the "problem itself." Mr. Lindell thinks that peace groups believe . Communism is not the problem itself. Where on earth did he get that idea? Could it possibly be that some people read how the United States refuses at Geneva, all Russian proposals on disarmament regardless of how straight-forward and how realistic they may be? (For example de militarization of Central Europe or a denuclearized Africa). Or could it be that some of us heard John Kennedy say the United States might strike first? Mr. Lindell, the "problem itself" is not so simply defined as you would have us be lieve. Yes, the Soviet Union is par tially to blame for stockpiling, but so is this country with the "military-industrial complex." For ex ample, do you know the lobbying power of the defense industry? Do you know that recently North Ameri can Aircraft made an 802 profit before taxes and that 99.5 of their business was contracted with the U.S. Government? Before limiting the problem itself to Communism, let's find out the true implications of stockpiling and testing. It Sounds Ludicrous Mr. Lindell implies that the Unit ed States is in possession of an 'out-of-date bomb." He also says "We must develop bigger and bet terludicrous as it sounds." Ludi crous it sounds indeed. Where on earth he get the idea that the Unit ed States has an out-of-date bomb? (probably from North American or Boeing Aircraft). He knows that to try to document such a statement would be impossible. Here are a few facts that can be documented: a. The United States is not behind the Soviet Union in the development of nuclear weapons. (The Atomic Energy Commission.) b. The United States has developed its weapons to the level that an overkill of from 12-1800 bombs eixsts. (Hans Behe and Hanson Baldwin, military critic; New York Times), c. "There is no doubt that our nuclear bomb designs are more 'advanced' than the So viets' . . . (they) are more easily deliverable than the corresponding Russian bomb" (Linus Pauling). The whole idea so prevalent in this country, that we must build bigger weapons just doesn't hold up, there is too much evidence to the contrary. Why then, do people insist upon saying that we do need to keep testing? Perhaps it is the same situation that one finds him self in when he analyzes the threat of Communism and the Soviet Union: is something a fact just be cause the Department of Defence, the Associated Press, and Preside d Kennedy says so? Why? Why -houM the statements of these men be taken as absolute fact? Shous I :. believe Mr. Kennedy when he says we must test and most physic, l; say we do not need to? The only .so lution is to find out for oneself. Mr. Lindell is willing to accept h words of laymen over the words of professionals. So is the rest of the country, for that matter. Mr. Lindell's only fleeting remarks on disarmament had to do with the Geneva conferences. He "knows" what most Americans "know" that the Soviets are always wrong and the United States is always m,!;t. This is not a Cowboys and Indians affair . . . this is a situation where neither the United States nor Russia is always right for one reason or another. Yes, we have been negotiat ing at Geneva for a long time and such attitudes as "keep talking and keep testing" will keep us there much longer. Mr. Lindell obviously has not soli dified in his own mind exactly what he believes. The one thing tran scending all of his remarks is a pro nounced defeatist attitude. One sees this attitude in such remarks as: "The Reds want the world and they won't stop until they get it one way or another . . . We are damned if we do and damned if we don't 'have bombs or surrender) . . . Thus if we lose the arms race we lose all as well." Perhaps this may explain the gross contradictions which Lin dell wrote he desperately wants to hope a peaceable solution of the Cold War is in sight but he just does not think that possible. I, too, hope a peaceable solution of the Cold War is in sight. For me the way to solve the problem is to stop building weapons, stop testing weapons, and stop discrediting every proposal that the Soviets make. Start helping the situation by mak ing sensible proposals at Geneva and when the Russians accept them take them on face value and folio a through. I do not advocate unilateral disarmament, rather I favor peri pheral steps that will eventually bring about peace and harmony be tween the two powers. Is that too naive to ask for? David Check About Letters The Daily Tar Heel Invltfs readers to nse it for expres sions of opinion on current topics regardless of viewpoint. Letters must be signedj con tain a verifiable address, and be free of libelous material. Brevity and legibility In crease the chance of publica tion. Lengthy letters may be edited or omitted. Absolutely none will be returned. i il it n S 'i Key Job SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Every time a Matson liner returns to its home port of San Francisco, the company's shoreside keymaker is in for a busv. time. Passengers are apt to leave then ship with the key to their stateroom still in their pockets. And before the ship turns around to go out again, duplicate keys must be supplied to a whole new shipload of guests. On one typical arrival recently, more than TOO persons debarked and 4i keys were missing.
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