atlp Star
tj 7w 7s sixty-ninth year of editorial 'freedom, unhampered by
: restrictions from either the administration or the student body.
. . .
t-f The Daily Tar Heel is the official studejit publication of
the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina.
All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the
H personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they
are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff.
April 28, 1962
Tel. 942-2356
Vol. XLIX, No. 143
IDC Improvement
In the not too distant past, the
Interdormitory Council was almost
a joke. The members were the more
popular guys from each dorm, guys
who didn't get popular by enforcing
strict dorm, regulations. It seemed
that those who played the hardest in
intramurals, or those who had the
most free time managed to win
the scarcely contested battles for
the dorm presidency.
The dorm officers knew all the
"good buddies" and were just gen
erally pretty swell guys. And the
fellow who hated the filthy frat
rats the most seemed the most logi
cal choice for the presidency of the
IDC.
Everyone knew that dorm social
conditions stunk, and the sentiment
was the guy who made the most
noise about it was the man to im
prove their pitiful lot. The campus
seemed to forget that there were
beer drinkers residing in buildings
outside of big frat court. Anyway,
if they couldn't have parties in the
dorms, they could at least make
noise.
Rules were broken .trials were
called, and laughs were had. The
dorm presidents were pretty swell
guys.
Granted, there certainly were
those who abhored the situation,
but it seemed that they were in
the minority. Yes, there were cases
of stern and just punishment, but
it seemed that there weren't too
many.
Most of the situations that could
have been handled by an alive IDC
were dumped into the lap of South
Building. The administration was
swamped with innumerable petty
problems. Since everyone hates the
administration anyway, it was nice
to have them shoulder the disconten
tent of all the "good buddies" who
were dealt with.
Recently the new IDC members
were sworn in. At the meeting, some
good programs were outlined for
the coming year. Some hopes seem
a bit idealistic, in light of past ex
periences. But the tinge of idealism
sits well on the shoulders of a coun
cil that appears capable of desper
ately needed leadership.
tl would appear that at long last
the dormitory residents have realiz
ed that to ever get improved social
conditions they must stop electing
nice guys, and put in a few of the
level-headed type.
. If the dormitories even want to
improve study conditions, the resi
dents must realize that their of
ficers are effective only when the
"good buddies" down the hall let
them be so. (cw)
State Establishment
An editorialist for the Greens
boro Daily News recently claimed
the existence of a North Carolina
"Establishment" the men in gov
ernment, business, communications
and education who make the "big"
unofficial decisions for the state in
matters concerning their interests.
This group supposedly resembles
Richard Rovere's national Estab
lishment, a third cousin of C.
Wright Mill's celebrated "Power
Elite."
Daily News Writer Ed Yoder
suggested that the state Establish
ment met in Chapel Hill, named
several probable members (includ
ing, of course, top-ranking Raleigh
officials), and tagged William C.
Friday, president of the Consoli
dated University, as its "chair
man." Mr. Friday was understandably
modest about his designation. He
denied his "chairmanship."
The state of North Carolina has
always complimented itself on its
state-supported educational facili
ties. Many times it has failed in
its responsibility to education as
when it voted down last fall's bond
issue. But it has always been prone
to honoring men of education, like
Frank Graham, and men who help
ed education, like Kerr Scott.
Whenever the University's top
administrators pay a visit to Ra
leight (which next year, when the
1963-65 biennium budget comes up
for consideration, will be often),
they are greeted with smiles and
handclasps from the legislators. But
real control of the future of edu
cation is too often left in the hands
of others (not so vitally concerned
with the education of the people
of North Carolina.)
And we doubt if Bill Friday is
chairman of the Establishment, if
one exisits although there could
be few more qualified men. (jc)
IFC
r
is
55 s
I:
' i
: 5
i i
it
1
ii
n
n
M
in
s.;
n
?!
i i
1
EDITORIAL STAFF
Jim Clotfelter
Chuck VVrye
Co-Editors
Bill Wuamett, Dow Shepphard
News Editors
Ed Dupree Sports Editor
Curry Kirkpatrick . . Ass. Sports Ed.
Jim Wallace . . Photography Editor
Mike Robinson, Garry Blanchard
Contributing Editors
I
1
1
1
Tn Daily Tab Ebl Is published dally
except 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 $40
per semester, S3 per year.
Thk Daily Tab Hm Is a subscriber to
the United Press International and
utilizes the services of the News Bu
reau ot the University of North Caro
lina. Published by the Publications Board
of the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. N. C.
i
I
At the University of Mississippi
there is a group of young men,
fraternity pledges, who make up a
"junior" Interfraternity Council.
They meet as a body separated from
the actual IFC of the school. They
are guided by a president who is a
member of the real IFC, but all
other officers are pledges. They
serve as a directive force, repre
senting the interests of pledges and
doing much to further the prepara
tion for active membership in the
fraternal system.
At various northern universities
there are interfraternity groups
made up of alumni from the local
chapters. They meet as a body
separated from the undergraduate
IFC. They seem to provide a high
ly effective and obviously experienc
ed liason between the undergradu
ates and the administration.
Now that the IFC at Carolina
has managed to get realistically
down to work, and has demonstrat
ed that it can be an effective force
for equitable solutions to fraternity
problems, it would seem that they
should be interested in some ap
parently beneficial expansion.
"If Theah's Anythin' Ah Like, It's A Good Joke"
Curtis Gam
tj 4-sj kLJi ft
Bus Conversation
Ill The Pursuit Of Peace....
As the miracle that might have
averted new nuclear tests failed to
materialze, President Kennedy is
sued the fateful orders to go ahead
with the scheduled tests in the Paci
fic. In issuing the orders to the De
fense Department and the Atomic
Energy Commission, the President
had to weigh the inexorable require
ments of both national and free
world defense against the many pro
tests voiced not only by the Com
munists but also by . neutralist
statesmen, "peace marchers," and
even United Nations Secretary Gen
eral Thant. With deep reluctance
and regret which we share, he de
cided that our own and free world
preservation demands the tests;
and nobody who is not privy to the
secret military and scientific con
siderations that went into the de
cision can gainsay it.
The responsibility for these tests
lies patiently with Russia, which
both Moscow and Geneva and as
late as yesterday stood adamantly
against international inspection as
endorsed in United Nations resolu
tion and accepted, in principle, even
by the neutrals at Geneva. The Ad
ministration is keeping the door
open to the very last moment for
the Soviets to accept a test ban
pact with minimal international con
trols, but the hope for such a Soviet
turnabout is all but gone.
Now it is more urgent than ever
to explain once again to all hu
manity that the United States stands
for a peaceful world ruled not by
force, but by law, and that it has
made innumerable efforts, sacrL
fices and concessions to attain that
goal. .
In the pursuit of peace the Unit
ed States has been the principal
backer of the United Nations as the
exponent and executor of peaceful
principles which are now part of
world law. Without our support,
moral and financial, this world or
ganization would collapse and chaos
would be the result.
In the pursuit of peace we have
submitted, in keeping with United
Nations resolutions draft treaties
for both a nuclear test ban and
gradual and balanced progress to
ward total disarmament under a
United Nations peace force. We
have reduced our insistence on con
trol and inspection to mere sampl
ing techniques and other minimal
requirements which expose us to
a calculated risk to our security
that for the sake of peace we are
willing to assume.
In the pursuit of peace we are
offering new concessions on Berlin
to reach at least temporary work
ing arrangements within an ulti
mate European peace settlement
concessions which have caused seri
ous misgivings both in Bonn and
Paris.
In the pursuit of peace we have
backed the United Nations in seek
ing the peaceful liquidation of the
Western colonial empires, some
times at the price of serious dis
agreements with our allies.
In the pursuit of peace, and at
the risk of losing Laos to the Com
munist world, we are pressing for
a neutralist Laos in which even
the army and the police would be
in neutralist hands. We have vigor
ously backed the United Nations in
working for a peaceful and united
Congo to avert big power interven
tion, and we have conscentiously sup
ported the U.N.'s peace-making and
peace-keeping efforts in the Middle
East. In the pursuit of peace we
even dissociated ourselves from our
British and French allies and from
Israel in their attack on Egypt
over the Suez Canal.
Finally, in the pursut of peace
we have poured out more than $80
billion since the war to help other,
including Communist-dominated, na
tions, and are still doing so at the
rate of nearly $5 billion a year.
In brief, we have pursued peace
in accordance with our principles
and to the very lmits of our own
and free world security, and of our
financial resources. At this unhappy
moment when we are about to pro
ceed with new atmospheric testing
in the long-range interests of
peace let the record speak for us
against those who would malign us.
The New York Times
The following is an accurate ren
dition of a never-to-beforgotten con
versation that occurred but three
days ago. The scene is a Trailways
bus, filled to its quota by returning
students. The conversation takes
place between the last four arrivals
three relatively commonplace look
ing crew cut, Ivy-league dressed stu
dents whose sole distinguishing
marks were three bright shiny Kap
pa Sig pins and there very large
mouths, and a portly balding tee
' shirted person whose distinguishing
feature was the projection of alco
holic spirits from every pore. The
reason for recording this is that the
quartet kept myself and everyone
near them awake for two hours with
scintillating wit and brilliant oratory.
It went something like this:
1ST KAPPA SIG: Great Week
end! 2ND KAPPA SIG: Yeah, Great
Weekend!
3RD KAPPA SIG: Yeah!
1ST KAPPA SIG: Boy, was I
stoned. Drank a fifth Friday and
never recovered.
2ND KAPPA SIG: Don't think
I'll be able to make classes tomor
row either. Great Weekend. Drunk
all the time .
.;RD KAPPA SIG: 'Met some c"
our brothers from Tennessee. Great
guys.
1ST KAPPA SIG: Yeah, really
good.
2ND KAPPA SIG: Yeah.
3RD KAPPA SIG: Wish there was
a woman on the bus. Boy, if there
was I'd offer her my seat. I'd say,
'here honey. Here's my lap to sit on.'
1ST KAPPA SIG: You wouldn't
if I beat you to it.
2ND KAPPA SIG: Great women.
3RD KAPPA SIG: Yeah, great
women!
1ST KAPPA SIG: Yeah!
2ND KAPPA SIG: (to fourth per
son) Where're you from?
FOURTH with a fifth: High oint.
3RD KAPPA SIG: Really, we're
from High Point.
1ST KAPPA SIG: Pretty dull,
isn't it?
FOURTH: Yeah, but I didn't stay
around most of the holiday. Went
fishing mostly. Didn't catch any
thing though. Just stayed drunk.
2ND KAPPA SIG: You going to
school?
FOURTH: Yeah. Third year med
school at Wake "Forest. That is, if
the Dean don't kick me out. Got a
good memory though. Might be able
to make it.
3RD KAPPA SIG: Know any Kap
pa Sigs there? How 'bout Jim Jones,
or Pete Williams.
FOURTH: Don't know them.
1ST KAPPA SIG: You ought to
Letters To The Editor
"Nation Must Meet Force
About Letters
r
i
The Dally Tar Heel Invites
readers to use It for expres
sions of opinion on current
topics regardless of viewpoint.
Letters must be signed, 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 trill be returned.
On Thursday, April 12, a letter by
David Cheek was published in the
Daily Tar Heel. It was in disagree
ment with an earlier letter. My pur
pose is not to become involved in
that disagreement, but merely to ex
press my opinion in regard to some
of Mr. Cheek's statements which
draw my attention, either because
of the context in which they are
used or because they are not accept
able to me.
Mr. Cheek mentions the British
Labour Party's stand on disarma
ment as a manifestation of "peace
group strength." It might be worth
noticing that since the party has
taken its "unilaieralistic stand," it
has been the victim of continuing
internal dissension and its vote- get
ting power at the present time is at
a very low ebb. The party has been
weakened immeasurably, and in fact
this stand threatens its very exist
ance. The result of "peace group
strength" may be the destruction of
one of Great Britain's two major
political parties.
, The student riots which prevented
the visit of President Eisenhower to
Japan are seen by Mr. Cheek as
having been a result of peace group
action. There is widespread paci
fism in Japan, but unless the Am
erican press has been grossly mis
informed and consequently mislead
ing, the apologies of Japanese of
ficials and student leaders hypocriti
cal, the blame for the riots has been
proven to belong to Communist and
leftist oriented groups. Such fac
tions fail to strike me as being re
liable peace groups.
According to Mr. Cheek, the At
omic Energy Commission says "The
United States is not behind the
Soviet Union in the development of
nuclear weapons." This source would
not have any occasion to be pre
judiced, would it? National interest
and security automatically demand
such a statement. The A.E.C. could
say nothing else. ( Note it does not
say we are ahead of the U.S.S.R.
either.)
The concept, mentioned by Mr.
Cheek, that the newly emerging na
tions of the world will be better in
fluenced ideologically by a pro ban-the-bomb
United States policy,
strikes me as being slightly un
realistic. The newly emerging na
tions are not going to be too wor
ried about the East-West ideological
conflict. They will be more inter
ested in themselves. Will they be
able to feed their populations? This
is a nation's first problem. If they
can not, then they will look for food
and accept it, regardless of who is
offering it. Only when a nation's
stomach is full will it be concerned
with the ideological struggle. The
nations will be faced with traumatic
experiences with regard to precon
ceived national ideals. Many of these
ideals will be shattered. The real
problems of feeding, civilizing, edu
cating, and employing its people wiU
bring these ideals crashing down
abruptly. Some nations have had
democracy replaced by mild dicta
torships, as in Ghana and Guinea, or
with chaos as in the cases of Laos
and the Congo Leopoldville). Ideals
are fine things, but most of them
just don't work in this world. Ego
centricity and self-ameliorization are
characteristic of the new nations,
where the battle for men's minds has
become, in reality, a battle for their
stomachs, in reality and ideologies do
not feed starving people.
I find the Soviet proposal of a
demilitarized Central Europe ab
surd. A power vacuum in Central
Europe would be an invitation to
Communist landgrabbing. Western
Europe would be undefended and
open to invasion in time of war. And
I do not believe that Central Europe
would permit itself to become the
sacrificial lamb of super power poli
tics. Mr. Cheek says the statement
"The Reds want the world and they
won't stop until they get it one way
or another" shows a "defeatist at
titude." This is not a defeatist state
ment, but rather one of hard reality.
Communism aims at world conquest.
In my lifetime East Europe, Tibet,
North Korea, North Viet Nam and
or bamboo curtains. It is time for
China have slipped behind the iron
the world to stand up and shove an
iron fist into the next piece of com
munist imperalism. Mr. Cheek, this
opinion is not defeatist or chauvin
istic, but it is rather hard& brutal
realism.
In his conclusion Mr. Cheek states
that the way to reach a "peaceable
solution to the Cold War" is "to
stop building weapons, stop testing
weapons ,and stop discrediting every
proposal that the Communists
make." In the event of war we can
not afford to be hindered by a tech
nical lapse. The Free World is op
posed by a force which would like
ti see it removed from the face,
of the earth. Defeat would be the
end of our concepts of relative de
mocracy, freedom, self-respect, and
of our socio-economic system. Tech
nical equality can be obtained only
by continued building and testing of
new weapons. In today's world dis
armament is not likely to succeed
because there is a lack of trust. It is
well placed too because Commu
nism operates on a different scale
of values than we do. Their word
has been proven to be worth little
and their ethics are highly ques
tionable. Their gods live in the
Kremlim and like the gods of clas
sical antiquity they change their
minds when it is convenient to do so.
At the conferences very little can
be accomplished until they are clos
ed to the public. National pride pro
hibits the granting of concessions and
compromises with previously stated
values. In closed conferences nego
tiation would be easier and conces
sions could be obtained. As it is now,
each camp discredits the proposals
of the opposition, regardless of their
validity, because it seems to be ex
pected that the opposition is never
right. Closed conferences might ease
this problem.
Mr. Cheek does not favor uni-
meet them. They're great guys.
2ND KAPPA SIG: Yeah, great:
FOURTH: Left all my clothes in
High Point. Don't really know why
I'm going to Durham. Have to come
rihtback. Silly, ain't it.
3RD KAPPA SIG: Yeah.
FOURTH: I was fishing in this
stream and this fella asked me what
you fishing for.' I told him a
Schlitz.'
1ST, 2ND, and 3RD KAPPA SIG:
Ha. Ha.Ha.Ha.
FOURTH: (feeling a sense of
power) Yessir, I'm fishing for a
Schlitz.
1ST, 2ND and 3RD KAPPA SIG:
Ha.
1ST KAPPA SIG: Great party we
had before vacation.
2ND KAPPA SIG: Yeah Great.
3RD KAPPA SIG: Ole Larry Wil
son just stood on that bannister do
ing a gotcha.
1ST KAPPA SIG: Hell, he pulled
three gotchas.
2ND KAPPA SIG: Hell no. He was
pulling them every fifteen minutes
from the top of the bannister.
(Editor's note: A gotcha is a r.ow
form of sport. It involves pulling
one's drawers down, both outer and
inner, and points are scored in di
rect ratio to the number of people
watching. Rumor has it that it will
soon surpass baseball as our na
tional pastime.
1ST KAPPA SIG: Guess, we ouhr
to grab somesleep.
2ND KAPPA SIG: Yeah, sool
idea.
3RD KAPPA SIG: Yeah.
FOURTH: zzzzz. urp.
One time Al Lowenstein was speak
ing at a sorority at the University
ol Wisconsin. The sorority had a
dumb-waiter in the kitchen which
rattled terribly when it brought up
food from the basement.
On this occasion, it took the op
portunity to thunder ominously just
after the final course and before
Lowenstein was supposed to speak.
Lowenstein, distraught, exclaim
ed: "Good heavens! What's that?"
A sweet sorority girl replied: "Oh
that's just our dumb-waiter."
At which point Lowenstein re
marked; "Oh, I see you use Kappa
Sigs too."
And they say Chapel Hill is the
intellectual center of the South.
With
Force
lateral disarmament. He does favor
"peripheral steps that will eventual
ly bring about peace and harmony
between the two powers. I think
that everyone else does too, but, the
difficulty is to define these steps in
mutually agreeable terms. The prob
lem is that we can not gamble be
cause this i3 a game for keeps and
I am not willing to put the United
States up as the stakes in a game
where I have a chance of losing.
Technological developments and
weapon tests will have to continue in
the best interests of national secur
ity. We must remain very strong as
we walk down the long road to meet
Communism. A weak nation is noth
ing in this game. History speaks for
itself on this topic with the classic
example of eighteenth century Po
land and the famous partitioning of
that country.
World Peace is still far away from
us and in the interim we must pro
tect ourselves. We must also be
wary, and realistic in order to sur
vive. Unfortunately we can not cloak
ourselves in ideals and dreams be
cause they are not bulletproof. We
must meet force with force every
time that the Communist cancer ap
pears in a new area, until they come
to recognize the fact that they can
go no further because we will exist.
Perhaps then the Communists will
come to recognize the fact that
peaceful co-existence will be the
only alternative to a mutually de
structive nuclear war. WTien this
impasse is reached, and only then
will trust be possible and negotiation
succeed. We will then have beaten
them at their own game . . . the use
of force ... by continually frustrat
ing their plans. We will never be sub
servient. Until the impasse is reach
ed and the resolution and power of
the Free World to continue its ex
istance is accepted by Communism,
STRENGTH and REALISM will be
our best weapons to cope with Red
transgressions.
HAYS R. BROWNING, JR.