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J 7j sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions f rom 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 tlpe editor, unless otherwise credited; they ire not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. It May 16, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLIX, No. 160 The Liberal Hour The Liberal Hour is over and party politics have returned to nor mal . . . The Student Party Mon day night elected a conservative Advisory Board and then paradoxi cally passed a strongly liberal reso lution, which was mildly opposed by a considerably minority of the party. By a 13-6 vote the party instruct ed its projects committee to investi gate Chapel Hill segregation. Earli er Chairman Robin Britt had brok en a tie vote to retain an article in the resolution supporting other campus groups which work toward integration. Opponents of the resolution claimed that "the Student Party hasnt decided yet whether it sup ports integration" and said "I hope the SP decides NOT to support campus groups which work toward integration." ( Dave Williams, new and old Advisory Board mem ber.) Resolution defenders placed it in the historical context of the party the SP decided to work for com munity integration in 1948, in 1951, in 1953, in 1957, in 1961 and in years between. One of the planks of the party in the recent election stated the party's support of de segregation activities. The trend of most speeches, how ever, was against taking a stand on this issue, against taking any stand on any issue . . . because of political expediency. At least two party members said, "The duty of the Student Party is to get its men elected" Elected to what? How? Why? Who are "its men"? Why should anyone join such a party? Several of those who made pleas for political expediency were speak ing from . the ranks of the losers, persons who had run for. office on tHe 'platform of having-no-platform and who failed to decieve the voters persons who hope to lead the Student Party into the comfortable abyss of No-Think. ' The SP's expedient politics dis regard the fact that their only win ning Big Four candidate this spring was Mike Lawler, who spoke in favor of the integration resolution. (The other three SP spring candi dates weren't even at the meeting.) Their successful president-vice president candidates the previous year, Bill Harriss and Hank Patter son, strongly supported integration. Most of the party's successful can didates, chosen in the Liberal Hour of convention-time, for the past decade have been liberal integra tionists. By the same token the Univer sity Party usually runs Big Four candidates who are more liberal than the majority of their constitu ency. -I -i But the Liberal Hour is over, the major student government offices are filled, and the party hacks must be content with cries of "We can't take a stand . . . it's not politically expedient." (jc) Cuba, Prematurely Since the ill-fated and totally embarrasing attempted invasion of Castro's Cuba, quite a lot of con fusion prevails. No one is quite sure what degree of Communist ef fectiveness has been achieved, and no one is certain just how involved the Central Intelligence Agency has managed to get. The confusion and uncertainty persist on all levels of U. S. involve ment. But the uncertainty on be half of too many uninformed and uncertain students could be elimi nated, or at least lessened, with some good old fashioned emotion. That is to say, we are tired of hearing the quaint and clever catch all evasion, "premature," thrown at any attempt to diagnose the Cu ban fiasco. Surely, much has been i J Stye -Bmfe ar $ltzl 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 As 3ts. to the Editor Jim Wallace . . Photography Editor Mike Robinson, Garry Blanchard :: Joe Masi Contributing Editors TIM BURNETT Business Manager :v' Mike Mathers ... Advertising Mgr. 4t Th Daily Ta Ebb. I published dally 1 xcept Monday, examination periods and vacations. It Is entered as second- 5 class matter In the post office In Chapel Hill. N. C, pursuant with the act of , March 8. 1370. Subscription rates I MXO - per semester. $per year. Thx Daily Tab Ezn Is a subscriber to the United Press International and J utilizes the services of the News Bu- , reau of the University of North Caro- - Una. t$ Published by the Publications Board f 1 :- of the University of North Carolina. - : ; Chapel Hill. N. C. - - v.X-.-.v.v.'S.-; r,-.-::-::: Kvw.vAvM'.v.v.'Sv.v ..- wedf said about Cuba that is not totally correct; certainly, opinions have been formed that .suffer from in sufficient information. Just ask any political scientist, adroit historian, or clever graduate student; ask them what is the best book to be written on the Cuban situation, they will tell you that none of them are any good, "all too premature." It is too early to judge, too early to decide, too soon "to know." Of course we ought to consider all of the best analyses that are presented; that is, read them to stay informed, discuss them to ap pear concerned, then label them "premature," and discard them; just don't take them too seriously, after all they will obviously be "pre mature." Well there are many things about the Cuban situation that are decid edly premature .... quite a few deaths for instance . We may rest assured that those Cubans who lost sons in the inva sionthose who have relatives rot ting in Castro's prisons, they are not content to wait before passing any judgment. They are not sitting back to let time heal. They do not care that their opinions may be "premature." They are involved. Totally involved, as we should be. They may acknowledge our cool and learned "wait and see" atti tude. They may admit to the prema turity of many analyses .... but they are more aware of that other premature incident, death. What should be do? Well, let's start, let's just begin by remem bering that 4-hose imprisoned and exiled Cubans are fighting for right. They are struggling to de fend their political freedom. They want their country back . . . pre maturely as hell, (cw) Subvert Ourselves? -E.S. Rep, (The following letter was written by Glenn Cunningham, U. S. Repre sentative from Nebraska, in answer to a series of attacks by the Wash ington Post on the bill banning Com munist mail by bulk postal rates.) The April 26 edition of The Wash ington Post vontained so many glar ing errors that . I fed I must set the record straight. It concerned Sec tion 12 of II. R. 7927, the postal rate bill passed by the House Jan. 24. Section 12 bans free or subsidized de livery of Communist propaganda by the U. S. Post Office Department. This was, incidentally, the third edi torial in The Post about the same section. There was also a front-page feature article in the Jan. 28 "Out look" section. All three editorials and the article have repeated statements which simply are not true. In fact they are ridiculous. Section 12 was carefully drawn to accomplish two things: Retaliate against Communist governments for their failure to live up to international mail agree ments by: . Ending the subsidy being given by the Post Office Department to Communist propaganda. That is what the amendment aim ed at that is what it will do. It has no effect on first-class mail; it does not deprive anyone of Com munist propaganda; it does not in vite retaliation because we are tjie nation that is retaliating; it does not totally ban Communist propa ganda from the country; it does not ban Communist propaganda from the mail; it positively has no effect on freedom of speech nor the right of Americans to choose what they want to read. On the contrary, the House action does proceed along an avenue pro vided for in Universal Postal agree ments; it is a possible means to step up the free flow of information across the Iron Curtain both ways; it merely puts Communist propaganda in this country in a higher mail rate category. The Supreme Court has held that Congress not only has the power to set postal rates, it also has the power to prescribe the rates at which material may move through the mail. The defining of political propaganda poses no problem since such definition (in existing, law) has been upheld by Federal Court. There is no possible way this lan guage can affect freedom of the press or any American newspaper, no mat ter what it prints, unless such news paper is financed or sponsored di rectly or indirectly by a Communist controlled government. Of course it may be that The Washington Post and the House of Representatives approach this mat ter from different viewpoints. I do not know of many if any Members of the House who subscribe to the statement in your latest editorial: "... today the Communist Party in the United States is wholly negli gible." Negligible is defined by W7ebster as meaning "That may be neglected or disregarded.". 1 believe most people would prefer to take the word of J. Edgar Hoover rather than The Washington Post as to whether we should disregard the Communist Party in the United States. Mr. Hoover said recently: "The atheistic Communist dicta torship now controls one fourth of the earth's surface and more than one third of her peoples. The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant and lawless Communist Party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world en slavement and destruction of the foundations of our Republic. All I Asked For Was An Increase In My Allowance!? f n ' '.1 i 1 t ' ' S ; 1 r Cosmonauts: No Dream The recent visit of Soviet cosmo naut Gherman Titov to the United States revealed one tiling wah toil ing clarity. Titov and U. S. astronja John Glenn share perhaps the mo-! tragic characteristic of motion times they both have been brain washed by their respective govern ments. Titov is a Russian, and Glenn i an American. And the press coniY: ences demonstrated that neither i : is much of a human being. It was the same old dogma all - r again. Titov and Glenn had little say except to repeat the standard disarmament lines of Russia and the United States. And everyone wh,i listened to them had heard, it a!! before, a million times. One mi 'h: have expected to head a disembodied voice announce, as each (if thorn spoke, "this statement is pro-recorded from Washington (or Mosco-y. " Titov and Glenn stood not as sym bols of humanity, but as straw men of geography and bureaucracy. What sleep machine of our Crave New World destroyed their mind. through such careful "education Who drew the ineradicable bound aries of maps so deeply in lh"ir brains? These men have been closer to th. stars than any other creator -. ?h ' ever lived on earth. They h:vo bo gun the exploration of infinity. T!-o earth is full, and so man move, bo y;nd jt. Or does he? Glenn and Titov lied to us. NVIth. " of them ever left the earth. Sc'r. i of them ever saw the star MICHIGAN DAILY Letters To The Editor On C Legislature Performs Well To the Editors: Lest anyone be deceived by a mis informed editor of the Daily Tar Heel into thinking that the student legislature is not performing its duty with thoughtfulness and discre tion, let me hasten to set the record straight. In a recent editorial by (jc), the editor makes mention of the fact that at its last session legislature overwhelmingly defeated a motion to close debate and vote on the pend ing question, after which no one had anything further to say on the bill. From this astute observation, jc concludes that "the legislators didn't know what they wrere voting on . . . a not too unusual situation.'7 The plain fact of the matter is that legislators did know what they were voting on, and moreover, were extending a common courtesy to one of their group. After the previous question had been moved, the Chair asked the body if there was any ob jection to closing discussion. At this time one legislator clearly voiced an objection. In accordance with parlia mentary procedure, the Chair then was forced to call for a vote on the motion to close debate. 'Assuming that that protesting legislator had some further comment to make on the question at hand, most legisla tors acted (in good faith and with complete cognizance of what was going on) to defeat the motion in order to extend to their colleague the privileges of the floor. As to the charge that it is not an unusual situation for legislators not to know what they are voting on, it may be discarded as unwarranted and unfounded slander on the in tegrity of the student legislature .hapel and the members thereof. I might humbly suggest that it is you, Mr. jc who didn't know what the student legislature was voting on. In the future we may hope that THIS does not become "a not too unusual situation." FRANKLIN ADKINSON, Jit. Student Legislator Concentration Camps In U.S.? To the Editors: Gus Hall, Communist spokesman in this country, recently released thru the Gus Hall-Benjamin J. Davis Defense Committee, a copy of a let ter written by James V. Bennett, on letterhead of the Department of Jus tice which admits the existence of concentration camps in the United States on a standby basis under the provisions of the McCarran Act. In releasing the letter Hall declared: "This Bennett letter written in 1952 and released by a National Com mittee, to Repeal the McCarran Act in 1953, gives the locations and ex penditures involved in establishing and maintaining these shameful Mc Carran Act concentration camps for future use in our land. Although this Committee of prominent individuals has not been in existence for a num ber of years, these letters have been public documents for ten years and the camps are maintained within the prison system. The Department of Justice cannot dismiss this with the word "bunk," as spokesmen have done. "Mr. Bennett's letter reveals that the McCarran Act camps are at Florence and Wickenberg, Arizona; Avon Park, Florida; Allenwood Pen nsylvania; El Reno, Oklahoma; and IT 71 McCarran Tuie Lake, California. "These camps should be closed down and that land put to entirely other purposes. This is one disgrace ful mess that the Attorney General should get rid of if he expects to improve the image of our country in other lands. He cannot hide these camps under any other, name in the Federal prison system. They reveal the fascist character of the McCar ran law and that this law endangers the whole concept of American free dom and liberty for all the people. The concentration camp section of this law flows logically and nat urally from the fascist character of the law. "Not only should he get rid of the camps, but because of the very character of this law, he should halt all prosecutions under it, and aban don all applications of a law which so obviously violates our Bill of Rights and constitutional liberties. Congress should deny the use of any funds for concentration carrps and fascism in our land. "The fact that McCarran Act hear ings have been started by the State Department to deny a passport to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, one of Am erica's greatest women labor leaders of this century, and that this is done on the very day that Robert Ken nedy says that more Americans should travel abroad . shows the ab surdity and vicious character of the law. This begins a screening process on travel that hits everybody. "The indictment of the Communist Party and of Benjamin J. Davis and myself under this law spells great er danger to all Americans than to those who are the first victims cE this i'atcist lav. These indictments should be scrr.ped. Any reading of Missing Pulitzer For W. R. Hearst In the newspaper Valhalla, and surely there must be one, we suspect that a certain Joseph Pulitzer may be smirking at the looming shade of William Randolph Hearst. When they were alive, firing memos with lethal warheads at trembling editors, About Letters Pi The Dally Tar Heel Invites ; readets to us It for expres sions of opinion' on current topics regardless of viewpoint. Letters must be signed, con tain a verifiable addrest, and be free of libelous material.' J Brevity and legibility la crease the chance o publ'? ' tlon. Lengthy letters may be x, edited or omitted. Absolutely none will le returned. M the two great publishers engaged in a feud that was the rowdiest rumble in the annals of American journal ism. Pulitzer came to New York first, and : in 1883 made the World the prototype of a new kind of journal ism bright, breezy and crusading. He ran the first color cartoon ', "The Yellow Kid," and soon conservative critics were complaining of "yellow journalism." In 1895, Hearst bought the New York Journal and did his best to outdo Pulitzer in saffron sen sationalism. He succeeded. One incidental byproduct of the newspaper feud was the Spanish American War. "War Ship Maine Split in Two by Enemy's Secret In fernal Machine!" Country Thrills With War Fever." Soon Hearst was sending the artist Remington to Cuba, with instructions to provide the pictures while the Journal took care of providing the war. , As time passed, however, Pulitzer left the field to Hearst and abandon ed lurid headlines for a different ap proach. The World came to reflect Pulitzer's belief that "accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a women." In another prescription, Pulitzer memorably added: "I must see that my readers get the truth; but that is not enough. I must put it before them briefly so that they will read it, clearly so that they will understand it, forc ibly so that they will appreciate it, picturesquely so that they will re member it, and, above all, ac curately so that they will be wise ly guided by its light." For this part, Citizen Hearst took a different view. "Make a paper in teresting, distinctive & accurate and complete," he instructed. "Those requirements are named in the order of their ' importance." The prioities express the contrast. The fatal weak ness of the Hearst press and Hearst was by no means wholly de void of genius was that the pap ers became a reflection less of the world than of the personality who owned them. As Hearts himself be came more remote from reality, his newspapers followed along. When Pulitzer died, he founded the prizes that bear his name and that are intended, in part, to advance the craft of writing. One prize is for biography, with the stipulation that it go to a work "teaching patriotic and unselfish service to the people, illustrated by an eminent example." This year, the jury recommended W. A. Swanbergs' Citizen Hearst, but in a virtually unprecedented ges ture, the trustees of Columbia Uni versity refused to accept the recom mendation. Hearst imparted the most thunder; but once again, Pulitzer, as always, had the last word. The miss ing prize pronounces a judgment more decisive than any that were awarded. WASHINGTON POST the law will show its ominous char acter." THE GUS HALL BENJAMIN J. DAVIS DEFENSE COMMITTEE Poll u lion By Merdhanls To the Editors: A polluted creek runs beneath the town of Chapel Hill. Fe.v people know of its existence. Above this section of ;. earth's crust life goes on very busily. fS(, much so, in fact, that it is a botjiT to the downtown stores to even ca-h a check, to say nothing of givi:u conscientious service. in tin1 ("ha pel Hill sunlight fot as many know, the sun rhes and sets on th; town all seems prosper nus a nevcr before. Old Wells are everywhere: Car lina Rams ore abundant: sw--; shirts, beer mugs, and London Fou all display the emblem of the institu tion. City auto tags advertise : a milky shade of Carolina hhu . "( h a pel Hill, Home of UNO." For charlatans exploit every mir acle. The University supports the little town, the little people, and their little jobs. And the merchants hold college students in disregard, or pre tended indifference. Students are a commodity, little more than tourist trade. They deserve nothing from tne town or its people, for they are ju.-t passing through. When they have passed throu-jh they will remember an egoce"tric. provincial, pseudo-sophisticate; lit Me town basking in banal traditions and poor glories that grow with ti.no. They will remember the people who loved to think of themselves o "a friendly folk" in "the Souther: part of Heaven." But really aft. : being rescued from insignificance hy a growing university, they showed themselves as neither very cultuie ! nor very intellectual snobs. An l now their paltry motives bloom in every corner of their garden spot. The recent voting dispute was rep resentative. Salaries here are not high and a student population is eternally needy. Yet the Franklin Street bloc keep prices high, for the big University seems to be over a barrel. And the student mass is i.n- r (It accepts atrocities within the I'r -versity as well.) But is every :: . content to blend in the mass? Meanwhile an underground strea m flows beneath us in the dark. It stagnant waters dissolve the toa foundations of our oldest builJin--. poison the roots of blossoming tree-, and one by one they fall . . . To change its course will take little dynamite. HUBERT HAWKINS I
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