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J 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.
April 15, 19G2
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Vol XLIX, No. 142
DTH Tradition
Tradition dictates that the out
going editor dedicate his final
column to stringing together a col
lection of random thoughts about
the fine tradition of journalism in
general and the small part he has
played in it as editor of one of the
nation's few college dailies.
During the year we have been
editor, we have had occasion to read
more than one such final editorial
while glancing back over old issues.
With each reading, he have quietly
vowed that when we relinquished
the editor's chair, the column would
run blank before we filled it was
a collection of tear-stained phrases,
personal thank-yous and mauldlin
comments about our love affair with
a college newspaper.
Probably we knew at the time
we said it we would renege. The
temptation is too great. The fact
is that there IS a fine tradition
involved in editing the Daily Tar
Heel, one of the finest in Ameri
can college journalism. It is no
secret that the Tar Heel has, in
times of stress, risen to very real
heights of success through the
courage to speak when no other
would. It is likewise no secret that
it has often managed to so com
pletely bewilder both itself and the
campus that an oracle couldn't
straighten things out.
Yet it has shared in most of the
University's finest hours has, in
fact, contributed to many of them.
No member of the small commu
nity of former editors would for a
moment relinquish his claim to as
sociation with what has tradition
ally been the freest institution at
the University. Rarely has it been
said that the Tar Heel is loved by
the campus; rarer still that ft has
budged from its position of dissent
for any reason, least of all the ang
er of the campus. Each editor har
bors a secret pride in the knowledge
that he will share in what one form
er editor of a college daily spoke
of as the mystique that former edi
tors automatically share the mo
ment they step from office.
It is gratifying to leave office
with the knowledge that while many
college papers throughout the coun
try are losing some of their In
dependence and freedom, the Daily
Tar Heel continues to operate on
a strictly hands-off basis. This tra
dition, we feel confident, will con
tinue. And although there has been
some feeling that the editorship
should not be elected popularly, we
are equally confident that tradi
tion will endure. Direct popular
mandate of the students themselves
will always be the best method of
choosing an editor. When an editor
gets in hot water as he inevitably
will it is the campus that he must
answer to. As long as this is so,
the reckoning will be just. Appoint
ment by the Publications Board, or
even election by the staff will never
be quite as equitable a method of
choosing an editor as the present
one.
The difficult and lonely decisions
that must be made day after day
during an editor's term of office
are behind us. We are happy the
task is done. Certainly if many
of them were made over again,
they would be made differently.
Some of them, even in retrospect,
we are glad we made as we did.
In joining the company of former
editors, we are sorry to step down
with so much to be done. But in
a sense, there is an even greater
challenge in being a former editor.
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The Old Well
As one last dissent before we
leave office, we would like again to
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call attention to a problem that has
become increasingly more pressing
in the past few years. ,
The Old Well.
For years the University has
been looking at its own reflection
in it. Like Narcissus, Chapel Hill
and the University is in love with
its own image. Curled catlike and
content by the fireplace, the Uni
versity has lost much of its immi
nence as a stronghold of the arts
in the South. We are still dusting
off old heroes instead of helping to
breed new ones. Tom Wolfe is dead ;
Proff Koch is dead; other greats
are gone or no longer producing.
Yet we continue to look upon
Chapel Hill, not with an honest nos
talgia, but with feeling that tSe
greatness of its best days is some
how still .here and has but to be
remembered to live again.
The Old Well is nice. But let's
quit combing our hair in it.
Just Out
"The Tides of History," by Jac
ques Pirenne (Dutton $8.95): This
is volume 1 of the "universal his
tory" in which the author plans to
trace the march . of humanity from
its earliest known beinnings through
rising and declining civilizations
over thousands of years to the
present time. To synthesize his view
so general trends can be discerned,
Pirenne tells of events in all parts
of the world, east as well as west,
and indicates their inter-relationships.
This book takes the story
"From the iBeginnings to Islam."
Six other volumes are in prepara
tion, the last one to be "From 1939
to Our Days." Pirenne, who teaches
Egyptology at the University of
Brussels, has many historical works
to his credit as has his father, the
renowned French historian Henri
Pirenne. In his long perspective view
. . . "technical achievement has pro
foundly changed th world . . . but
. . . the human aspect of problems
has changed far less than appears
at first glance." He believes univer
sal history must be studied . . .
"by developing before our eyes the
great cycles of human evolution, to
make us understand at what point
in evolution we are today . . . For
it is on knowledge of the necessities
and possibilities of our times that
the value of future peace depends."
The work is translated from the
French by Lovett Edwards and is
fascinating and lucid in ideas and
expression.
"A World Fit For. Grimsby," by
Hilary Evans (St. Martin's Press
$3.95): An amiable and very amus
ing caricature of a familiar institu
tion the town that makes its liv
ing by having been the home of a
famous man. The community which
British satirist Evans calls Riddle
ford had only one real industry: ex
ploiting the memory of the eminent
if somewhat ribald. 17th-century
poet Nicolas Grimsby. Innkeepers,
souvenir peddlers and Riddleford
industrialists were understandably
alarmed when nearby Grimwick fiL
ed a rival claim to its favorite son.
The story pokes amiable fun at a
variety of U. S.. and, English jnstitu-.
tions, notably including poetry of
the post-Elizabethan period.
"The Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1956
1961,". by Donald S. Zagoria (Prince
ton $8.50): A history and discussion
of the schism between the iRussian
and the Chinese brands of Commun
ism which began with Khrushchev's
denunciation of Stalin in 1956 and
has widened ever since. Zagoria, an
analyst of Communist politics for
10 years for the U.S. government,
believes this division in the Red
camp can last for years. Whether
they can ever submerge their dif
ferences and get on with their ori
ginal object of spreading Communist
revolution world-wide is a question
of paramount interest to the West
ern world ?.nd one to which the
author of this book offers no answer.
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By GEORGE J. MARDER
WASHINGTON (UPI) There is
going to be a corker of a fight in
Congress next year on federal help
to schools in so-called impacted
areas.
These are areas where armed
services based or other defense in
stallations swell a town's normal
population and place an added bur
den on its schools.
The squabble will center on the
meaning of the word "suitable."
The Kennedy administration has
written its own definition in order
to end federal aid to schools which
eJiiools
refuse to mix Negro a::d white stu
dents. The administration is merely
saying that schools which practice
segregation are not "suitable" to
teach the children of federal work
ers and servicemen. Therefore they
won't get any federal money.
But it will not start withholding
funds until the fall of 1963. Before
then, however, the impacted area
law come up or renewal in Con
gress which may have a different
slant on the word suitable.
The administration has looked
long and hard for some way to
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gated
start denying money to schools which
continued to practice segregation in
defiance of the Supreme Court's
1954 desegregation edict.
A few weeks ago, Abraham A.
Ribicoff, secretary of health, educa
tion and welfare, held out hope to
liberal legislators that the search
would be fruitful.
He told them of plans to stop
racial discrimination in a special
ized education program subsidized
by the govenment a program to
conduct special language and student-guidance
courses in colleges,
mostly for teachers.
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Letters To The Editor
The Government notified the col
leges that hereafter, in order to get
federal help for these courses they
would have to sign contracts prom
ising no racial discrimination.
But the mandate ha dan extreme
ly limited effect. Only $14.5 million
in all was involved, and most of the
schools didn't practice segregation
anyway.
But then attention focused on the
word "suitable" in the impacted
area law, the provision of which
authorizes the commissioner of edu
cation to arrange for suitable free
education for the "impacted" chil
dren. .
Heretofore the word was interpret
ed to mean that the school building
was all right, the equipment accept
able, and the standard of education
adequate.
Ribicoff acknowledged that Con
gress did not have desegregation in
mind when it wrote the word into
the law in 1950.
Since 1954, Congress has renewed
the statute several times, with the
word suitable unchanged in applica
tion. ..South Would Have Objected
The fact is that if the law had
been made a vehicle to deny funds
to segregated schools it probably
would never have been passed.
Southern legislators would have seen
to that. The mere threat of such an
amendment has been enough to
sidetrack a school aid bill.
Nevertheless, Ribicoff, admitting
that Congress didn't mean it that
way, says the education commis
sioner must decide for himself what
is suitable. And starting with the
fall term in 1963, he is going to
rule that segregated schools aren't
suitable for federal families.
This puts not only the schools but
Congress on notice. Both the Eisen
hower and Kennedy administrations
have wanted to cut the expense of
the impacted area program, but it
has had a broad base of insistent
support in Congress.
This base will either disappear or
weaken in the South when the pro
gram comes up for renewal next
year. Meantime the Department of
Justice is planning to file suit in
the South perhaps Florida lo try
and compel a segregated school to
drop its racial barriers on penalty
of losing federal aid.
Abstract
Art Not Appreciated.
To the Editor:
Yesterday's article in the Chapel
Hill Weekly sampling community
reaction to a piece of student art
work illustriously displayed in a
local gas station is an interesting
commentary on one of the greatest
Profs Urged To Try
Collective Bargaining
WASHINGTON (UPI) College
professors often face the same kind
of job problems as factory workers
and may turn intb collective bargain
ing to solve them, says an AFL-CIO
publication.
It said they are confronted by
speedups, stretch-outs and unfair
salary scales under their present
system of individual negotiations.
An article in the Quarterly Digest
of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union
Department, written by David Hamil
ton, associate professor of econom
ics at the University of New Mex
ico, said the chances of campus
unionization may increase as the
"war babies" born after World War
II start to enter college and en
rollments zoom.
College instructors have been
"relatively untouched" by union or
ganization so far despite the exist
ence of contract and job practices
which began to disappear from the
industria Iworld two decades ago,
Hamilton said.
"Today the actual job conditions
of the academic worker are not
dissimilar to those faced by the
industrial worker within the large
corporation . . . the gulf between the
university president and the average
faculty member yawns almost as
large as that between the corpora
tion president and the average wage
earner," Hamilton said. J
,He said college, professors have
little Jf any, control over their work
l6ad, work hours, working condi
tions or introduction of new tech
niques which may affect their em
ployment. Pressure on faculty mem
bers to produce original research
grows greater every year because
of the renown that comes to a uni
versity with emiment scholars, he
said.
He compared this to a speedup of
a factory assembly line.
The teaching load, which varies
from six to 18 hours a week, is set
by administrators without effective
raculty checks, Hamilton wrote.
Salaries are settled by individual
negotiation arid result in a "crazy
quilt pattern" that does not reflect
the equal pay for equal work prin
ciple. Newcomers are often paid
considerably more , than veterans
who are equally skilled but cannot
apply "bluff and bluster" to get
more money, Hamilton said.
The advent of classroom televi
sion arid teaching machines has even
produced an academic version of
autoriVation without any professorial
check on its use, he said.
As for fringe benefits, Haririilton
argued that faculty members are
concerned over sabbatical leave, re
tirement plans and medical care
programs.
"With the increasing size of uni
versities and colleges the necessity
for collective bargaining if the col
lege teacher is to achieve his job
aims becomes increasingly appar
ent," he said.
inconsistencies in our culture.
The people who remained glued
to their radio sets for some nine
hours to hear an astronaut's account
of a whole new world of sensations,
did so because they themselves de
lighted in a vicarious experience of
pleasing fantasy. These same peo
ple, however confronted first hand
with a work of abstract art, violent
ly turn off their receivers and
spurn exciting fantasy's in form
arid color with "God-awfullest thing
I ever did see," or "A perfect ex
ample of wasted time and material.
It is curious indeed, that a people
ahead enough of their times to call
their forth coming worlds fair The
Century 21 Exhibition still prefer to
live in the art world that cast and
erected Carolina's tired "Silent
Sam."
Mike Hall
To The Editor:
Mr. Cheek in his letter seems
very worried about the possible mu
tations produced by atomic testing.
In answer to his letter, I would like
to ask him if he has any idea of the
number of mutations that would be
produced by atomic weapons explod
ed over New York, Washington ajid
the other prime American target
areas?
I agree that it would be a fine
VIPIU.UIJIJVIJ
Aboiit Letters
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readers to use It for expres
sions of opinion oil current
topics regardless of viewpoint.
Letters must be 6igned, 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 retained.
'Am
thing if all nuclear testing could be
stopped, but the United States can
not do it unilaterally. If we just de
cide to . cease testing, the Russians
would stop too for a while. Then
they would start again, only this
time instead of testing them over
Siberian wastes, they would test
their weapons over American cities.
Does Mr. Cheek want this? I hope
not.
Mr. Cheek maintains that Ameri
can nuclear weapons are not out-of-date,
and that they are the best
in the world. I concur, but I would
like to ask Mr. Cheek how they got
to be the best in the world? Through
tests, obviously. In order to retain
our superiority, the United States
has to test.
As a possible father, I too am
worried about the health of any of
my children. But I am willing to
take a chance. Freedom is not main
tained by ''playing it safe," we have
to take the chance. We have a
choice: test and risk a few muta
tions or die as a nation. I am for
testing .
If Mr. Cheek would like to argue
the point. further, he is welcome to
come and see me anytime at 421
Cobb.
Harry W. Johnson, Jr.
To The Editor:
I read Jeffrey Lawrence's letter f
enlightenment to the student body
with no little amusement. I certainly
do agree with its great care. Be
cause the student, if he's not care
ful, might have to exert a little ef
fort. He might have to discipline
himself. In short, he mignt have to
pay the price required to gain any
thing worthwhile.
He mentioned the fact that mak
ing an average of ten displays a
week is next to impossible. To those
students who are not familiar with
cookware presentations, a display,
if well organized -should last ap
proximately 1' hours. But even if
2 hours are allowed for each presen
tation, ten displays would total
twenty hours a week. Granted, to
make ten displays a week the sales
men will have to spend some of his
time obtaining appointments, since
he can't make displays on the golf
course, or at the beach, and he might
not be able to pull it over on the
tennis courts unless he's a pretty
smooth operator. But, with a little
organization ten displays a week
can be made even if the girls aren't
falling all over themselves to buy
your cookware.
What each student should decide
before accepting a job in sales, or
in any other capacity, is: 1. What
he will demand of his employer. 2.
What his employer will demand of
him, and 3. What he will demand
of himself. He should remember that
"you don't get something for noth
ing.
Carl Bumgarner
Poetical
Potshots
"I shall star," vowed a girl in Bi
loxi, "By being Twentieth Century-Foxi,"
And her film career
Really blossomed this year:
She's in charge of the mops at the
Roxi.
A damsel, seductive and handsome.
Got wedged in a sleeping room
transom,
When, she offered much gold for
release, she was told
That the view was worth more than
the ransom.
A mischievous miss from Woods
Hole
Had a notion exceedingly droll:
At a masquerade ball
She wore nothing at all,
And backed in as a Parker House
roll.
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