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wrWW wg ; 'www - mum atlp wc "For Services Rendered" Reactions By Wuamett In 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 otherivise credited; they trc not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. YAF Contribution May 9, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLIX, No. 154 Thanks Another blow has been dealt to the force of ignorance, and we would like to thank pharmacy -student Benjamin Brown and his wife for striking it. After being: denied twice the right to register for the Chapel Hill primary, Brown and his wife persevered and returned for a third try. Their patience paid off, and the Estes Hills registrar, while mum muring, "I hope I don't go to jail listed them in the book. By meeting all o fthe super special specifications, Brown and his wife have succeeded in breaking through the previously almost inpenetrable wall of ignorance that have kept qualified University students from voting in past Chapel Hill elections. By getting into the registration books, hopefully, the Browns have managed to set some sort of pre cedent for the future registration of qualified and interested stu dents. We would like to thank the swell town of Chapel Hill for recognizing that when a students meets the legal requirements, the extra-legal requirements, and the extraly-ex-tra-legally-legal requirements, he might just be qualified to register, perhaps even to vote, (cw) 060-iflNO MYSTERY CRAFT! K. Pig & Castro Deepest, darkest Pogoland ap parently has been invaded by two strange creatures from faraway lands. One, who very much re sembles a Caribbean Savior-style dictator, is a goat named Fido. The other is the lovable Mr. K. Pig. (However, it is doubtful if he is any relation to any of our cam pus's famous Capitalistic Pigs, lov ingly called "porkers.") K. Pig, shown above with his friend, in tends to upset the economy of Ihe United States with a fiendish plot involving "inner-state trade." The exploits of these marvelous beasts will be carried in Pogo's daily strip in the DTH. (jc) Joan Baez Tonight, Joan Baez, one of the most talented and spell-binding folk singers of recent decades, will grace the stage of Memorial Hall. IVIuch has been, and undoubtedly will continue to be said about the voice and V of Miss Baez. She has performed at Universities across the nation and without commerciali zing her style, has left audiences raving. Those of us who have only been fortunate enough to hear her two recordings, and we are in the majori- . EDITORIAL STAFF JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Co-Editors Wayne King Managing Editor Bill Wuamett, Dow Sheppard News Editors Ed Dupree Sports Editor Curry Kirkpatrick .. Asst. Spts Ed. Bill Hobbs Night Editor Matt Weisman ...... Feature Editor Harry DeLung, John Medlin Assts. to the Editor Jim Wallace .. Photography Editor Mike Robinson, Garry Blanchard Joe Masi Contributing Editors TIM BURNETT Business Manager Mike Mathers . . Advertising Mgr. Tex Daily Tab Hra. Is published dally accept Monday, examination periods and vacations. It la 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 $4L50 per semester, $8 per year. Tex Daxlt Tab Hzxl 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 of the. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. N. C. ty, must hold our breath in antici pation. Those of us who have manag to attend a personal performance may hope she is only half as good. Her Mexican-Irish parentage is considered by many to be the ideal heritage for folk music mastery. Her professional career has been relatively short but widely acclaim ed. That Graham Memorial Activi ties Board was able to book Miss Baez is quite a feather in their col lective cap. That Carolina students will be able to enjoy her perform ance for nothing is certainly virtu ally amazing. But of all the things that may be said about tonight's perform ance, there is one statement that cannot be left unnoted. . Would all of you rude, ill-mannered, and annoying animals that ruin German's concerts, or that simply can't sit still for the dura tion of one song, or that don't ap preciate true talent, would all of you please go somewhere and have a beer. And let those who deserve this program enjoy it. (cw) Incomplete Several persons have pointed out omissions in yesterday's recount of some of the major individuals in the Student Party past. For those miffed by our selection, the list is here lengthened to include Bill Mackie, Curtis Gans, Sonny Evans, Peggy Warren, Ken Penninger, Nor man B. Smith, Don Furtado . . . (Fill in your own choice.) (jc) $ Km i ywwWT I II "f n l l lipiVi iiwWWeWWWMi "The man who beat the bonJ ' is sue" is the label that has been ap p.ied to A. G. Whitener, a candidate for congress in the Democratic pri mary in the sixth district and the leader of the North Carolina Con servative Party. Whitener spoke to the Young Americans for. Freedom Monday rii-ht and outlined his views on what the modern Conservative be lieves and advocates. It is good that Whitener, wru not received too enthusiastically, but YAF has chosen the wrong grounds on which to criticize him. After his speech, numerous mem bers commented that Whitener was a very poor political speaker, and that he had apparently not crystal lized his own views enough to be able to present them intelligently. But very little criticism was heard of the opinions that Whitener was able present in his own rambling way. Whitener, for instance, opposes the Alliance for Progress by calling it a "one-world globaloney." He also opposes "atheist communism," but he apparently has no idea of how to prevent the spread of communism to Latin America without spending some money. The people of these Letters To The Editor M ore On Derby, Gans, nn i fi 1 rauiiioii S. Chi Dubs Sir Wuamett To the Editor: Every year for the past eighteen there has been a Sigma Chi Derby, this year no exception. Every year also for the past eighteen there has emerged some puritanic crusader against either the "immaturity," the "vulgarity," or the "plain sen selessness" of the event, this year being no exception. The crusader for 1962, a Bill Wua mett, assailed the Derby in the unique manner of the intellectual. His jousting of the Derby was as entertainingly witty as it was edify ing. If you read his article in the Tar Heel you undoubtedly learned about the sex-life of the pagan pole dancers and you were asked to chuckle at his analogistic descrip tion of the Sigma Chi "orgy." He seemed to think that the Fraternity rj was a bit amateunsn m its re-en- it actment of the ancient rites of fer tility. Crusader let me brief you first on a little history and then a little fact. Since Adam and Eve there have been clothes. The evolution of the fig leaf of Eden has accom panied that of man as have the guilt, shame and subsequent inhibi tions associated with it. The Sgma Chi's are not to blame for the ad vent of clothing, and as our social mores as well as the laws of state and University make it impossible, the parading of the entire feminine physique, adorable as it is, is out of question. Now as for your rea soningit was as unsyllogistic as your comparisons were illogical, arid since unbacked literary name-calling, would be as childish as your crusade, I'll tell you why: First of all, being the back-slapping, rib-tickling extrovert your ar- SATURDAY REVIEW mccess Costs Less tide makes you seem, you must be aware of the trend the anecdote has taken in the past one hundred decades. Since clothes and Sunday School Teachers and as a result of that bad old serpent and all the shame and guilt he caused us to feel humor and entertainment have taken a turn to relieve us of a modicum of our pentup desires (viz urges), or at least to allevi ate their disturbing existence by making it a laughing matter. Which do you advocate the normal, heal thy and permissible belly-laugh or the more normal but strictly for bidden orgy? Out of compliance with Univer sity regulations, we did all we were able to prevent alcohol from being spilt on the field of humor; the inevitability of that which slipped by may perhaps be explained by the where-there's-strife-there's - bud theory. You state that Carolina boys "will be boys," and in a manner When the fighting ended in Korea in 1953, this was the reckoning: 800,000 Koreans homeless; 415,000 Korean soldiers dead; 56,000 U.N. troops from the Unit ed States, Canada, Great Britain, Turkey, Australia, France, Colom bia, Ethiopia Greece, the Nether lands, Belgium, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, and the Philippines dead. The dollar cost to the United States was $18,000,000,000 and we haven't finished paying for it . yet. The current expense of maintaining armed forces in Korea, as well as policing the truce, runs in excess of $100,000,000 a year. The question that many people asked about the Korean War at the time was whether the U.N. might not have been able to prevent it from occurring by having troops at the highly volatile dividing line be tween the two parts of orea. In a more general way, of course, people have asked why the U.N. has to wait until a crisis develops into a shoot ing war before it is able to act. These questions are being an swered today. For this is precisely what the U.N. has been doing in the Congo. All the elements of a super Korea were present in the Congo in July, 1960, when the Congo b-ame an independent nation. The Congo is situated in the heart of Africa and has radiating power throughout a large part of the continent. It is one of the richest nations in the world in terms of material resources, being a prime producing center for cop per, tin, uranium, and cobalt. The Congolese were not prepare I for self-government. The result was the kind of disintegration that made it a potential arena of conflict among outside powers. Belgium's troop? re turned in an attempt to re-tor order. The Soviet Union sent . -ms, trucks, and planes to the Congo at the personal request of. the then Pre-, mier, Patrice Lumumba. The United Nations sent troops to restore order and reduce the danger that the vacuum in the Congo would be filled by the Soviet Union or any other outside nation, large or small. The United States government supported the action of the U.N. in the Congo both because of its commitment to an independent Africa and because Soviet troops in the African heart land might have forced a U.S. deci sion to go into the Congo with force of its own. In any event, the only agency in the world that was in a position to head off a showdown situation acted in time. It sent 20,000 troops. It also sent large numbers of teachers, en gineers, doctors, dentists, lawyers, business and trade experts, agricul tural specialists, road builders, me chanics, communications and trans portation experts. Danger in the Congo has not been fully dissolved. But for the first time since July, 1960, when the trouble began, affairs in the Congo seem to be in hand. The threat of the big power confrontation has sharply diminished. The United Nations still faces an ordeal in the Congo, but it has already made its most important contribution to world peace since its founding. It costs money to fight a war. It also costs money to avert one. The cost of maintaining U.N. stabilizing operations in the Congo has been about $10,000,000 a month. This is added to the cost of maintaining U.N. emergency forces in Gaza. As a re sult, the U.N. will have an estimat ed deficit of almost $200,000,000 by the end of 1962. The money has to come from somewhere. If it doesn't, the U.N. cannot continue. It is not a national sovereign government that can levy taxes or maintain a debt indefinitely. Therefore, the U.N. is asking the member nations to subscribe-to a bond issue of $200,000, 000. The money would be repaid over a twenty-five year period with an annual interest yield of 2 per cent. The question now before the Uni ted States is whether it will sub scribe to its full share. The United States, enjoying 80 per cent of the world's income, has a quota of only half the full amount of the bond issue, or $100,000,000. This is equiv alent to less than one cent for every five dollars we put into national ar maments each year. It is far less than the amount we write off each year in false starts in manufactur ing military equipment or in planes or missiles that are obsolete even before they go into general produc tion. It is less than one-fifth of one per cent of the cost of putting a man on the moon. Finally it is less than it costs to fight a war in Korea for only one week. Yet an attempt is being made in the United States to block the required appro priation of funds not a gift, not an assessment, but a loan repayable with interest. What is being debated now is the cost of U.N. success. It might be useful to consider what the cost would be if the U.N. should fail. In the latter case, the amount of the bond issue could be multiplied by one thousand times or even ten thousand times and no one would have any way of knowing whether It would be enough. But the es sential question has nothing to do With dollars or bond issues or de ficits. The essential question is whether the peace of the world can ibe kept without a world organiza tion and, also, what has to be done to develop that organization into an agency with the responsible powers of enforceable law. For if the U.N. can evolve into such a body, then the people on this earth have a reasonable chance of staying alive, improving the conditions of mean ingful existence, and advancing the prospects of human freedom. -NORMAN COUSINS of speaking you are dead right; but do you know what a Carolina boy is? Yes, he, might well enjoy a good, romping Roman orgy but has learned this is modern civ 1962 and he mustn't, so instead he drinks beer and laughs, plays ten nis and laughs, smokes and laughs, reads Playboy and laughs, listens to shady jokes and laughs, and goes to the Derby and laughs! Crusader, why don't you excrete your intellectual potency elsewhere? Form an anti-sex league; ally your self with the D All's and re-enact prohibition; initiate a law against dirty-joke telling; outlaw tobacco and Playboy and Peanuts; or better still, go yourself to the devil and tell him to stop making us do the things we do, but let up on the Derby. DUSTY SCIIOCH Enough' Silent Sams Already To the Editors: (In reply to Mr. Rosenthal's let ter on campus traditions:) Would not the desire for a Uni versity atmosphere conducive to ac tive participation in campus activi ties and to creative student thought and endeavor be a better tradition to perpetuate than the deification ftf the Old Well or the revival of the panty raid? I believe we have enough Silent Sams for the pigeons to commemorate. -MIKE HALL Writer Hits Gans's Article To the Editors: In reference to Curtis Gans' ar ticles concerning Kappa Sigs and public transportation, may I state that I am in favor of what appears to be his basic philosophy of "the individual student finding for him self the key to a richer fulfillment of his own person," but I do not construe this to give anyone the right to make unfounded remarks against a group or individual. I am speaking not against the original article, which, leaves much to be desired as proper material for our paper, but against the inference in the May 4 article that the facts of the original article were not check ed for accuracy and that justice was to be . upheld by running a Kap pa Sig article on the same page. The assumption here that whoever read one article would read the other is both invalid and dangerous. I was prompted to write this let ter mainly due to Mr. Gans' levity in explaining that his original article was not factually correct and in his implication that this is of no importance. Just as Mr. Gans feels strongly against students "express- countries want a better standard of living whether it comes by rc-Iorm or revolt, and it should be ratht: apparent: by now that revolts by im poverished peoples rarely load t, democratic governments. Yet n.) YAF member questioned Whiu-ivr on this plank in Ins "economy pint form." Whitener aha opposes the lY:v Corps by stating tViat it prom. "one-world" communism anl sou! ism. enriches foreign politicians m .1 gangsters, inflates the native eron omy, and forces Americans on these people who neither understand nor appreciate the native cultures. o YAF member opposed him on this point, either. Disarmament and the United Na tions are also opposed by this Con servative stalwart. The first; he says, is "strategic surrender." and the second with "the world is n t ready for the UN." Once more, there was no YAF opposition. Does this mean that the views of A. G. Whitener are the views of YAF? I think not. The lack of criti cism by YAF members seems to indicate rather that they endorse a frequent fallacy of today's Conser vative. They seem to feel that can didates who call themselves Con seratives are good no matter how Reactionary their views may be. It is precisely this viewpoint that endangers the growth of a rational and respectable Conservatism today. Far too often the far-right react ion-afc-y is accepted with, the rationaliza tion that, "sure he's too radical, but at least he's on our side." Barry Goldwater stated in "Con science of a Conservative" that the Conservative is not to be necessarily "against" things (although he seems a little hazy as to what he is "for"). If the UNC-YAF agrees with Sen. Goldwater, why did they not point out some of the absurdities in Whitener's platform? Why did they not mention that the purpose of the Peace Corps is exactly the opposite of what he states, and why did they not state that it should be the objec tive of the Conservative to see that the Peace Corps is intelligently ad ministered, and to insure that it is not infiltrated by Communist or ganizers? The realistic Conservative should realize that spending and foreign aid are necessary, to our survival. Why then did no YAF member point out to Whitener that it is the Con servative's duty to see that the Alliance for Progress is economical ly administered, graft-free, and not extended to countries which refuse to initiate reforms in education and land distribution. Instead, there was silence on this issue by these "in digent young intellectuals." If YAF is to make any contribu tion to this campus and to the world outside, it must do more than en dorse candidates such as Whitener by silent vote. There seem to be two coursos open to this organization, and its choice will determine if it is to gain a respected and influential voice on this campus. If it shares Whitener's views, or allows men such as he to call themselves Conservatives with out a challenge, then its efforts are futile. If it can, however, purge itself of (reactionaries and return to the path of rational Conservatism, then it can fill a pressing need by challenging the liberalism that seems to be ac cepted here as the one and only true word of God. BILL WUAMETT ing their cumulative ignorance in the dormitories and fraternities or their collective impotence in Har ry's or Byron's", I feel strongly repelled by his articles. I am not a member of any fra ternities, and am not prima facie defending them; I simply feel that the articles mentioned above re quire comment. DENNIS F. GALLAGHER s About Letters The Dally Tar Heel hiviiet readers to use It for expres sions of opinion on current ( topics regardless of viewpoint. ; Letters most be signed, con tain a verifiable address, and be free cf libelous material. Brevity and legibility hi. crease the chance of puiUr- ; tlon. Lengthy letters may Is i edited or emitted, Absclstely ; none, will be returned. i
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