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t I to ni C a fc la '1 ci Ol of 3( o: 01 it tz hi n U c a w s t t v tl h 1. i v v f. ti c V h s i i I t 1 I I i 1 i 1 t I the to ch; ft 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. 11 All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they I are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. May 19, 19G2 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLIX, No. 16 Local Or Partisan Almost all newspaper cities today are monopolies. One-third of all U. S. dailies are owned by news paper chains. Deals between chain owners made explicity (as in the case of the Chandler-Hearst ar rangement in Xos Angeles) or by an understanding are diminishing the number of independent papers still further. According -to the Journalism Quar terly, published by the Association for Education in Journalism, there were 689 American cities with com peting daily papers in 1910. Today there are less than 60. There are lr733 dailies today but 560 of those are owned by the 109 newspaper "groups", such as the Hearst and Scripps - Howard chains. The most recent example of "ar rangements" between newspaper chains occured in "Los Angeles sev eral months ago. This major Am erican city now has only two news papers in place of four the Hearst chain has ceased publishing its morning Examiner and the Chand ler group has stopped its afternoon Mirror. (Both groups announced their decision the same morning, coinciden tally.) The Hearst paper, Herald-Express, now has an after noon monopoly and the Chandler owned Times has a morning "monop oly, eliminating the need ' for : any serious competition between the two organizations. ; ; In North Carolina there are 42 daily papers in 40 cities. Combina tions own 14 of these papers and the other 33 have complete -monopolies in their cities. There is not a single newspaper-competition city in the state. , Only ten cities in eleven South ern states have competitive news papers and there are none in Ala bama, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia and South Carolina. The American newspaper situa tion, already a .public liability, will get worse before it gets better, un less something substantive is done. The theory of "freedom of the press" has been used too often as a shield behind which publishers hide from anti-trust suits. It is ridiculous that no group can own more than four TV stations and seven radio stations, yet it can own any number of .newspapers. The Hearst chain has 14 papers with a daily circulation of more than four million; The Chicago Tribune chain has three papers with nearly three and - a - half million circulation. Scripps-Howard owns 21 papers with 3.3 million circulation. Also in the Scripps family are two more chains with 22 addonal newspap ers. Several solutions have been sug gested for America's non-competitive newspaper situation. Anti trust legislation .probably would be in effectual because the monopolies are local rather than national. A. J. Liebling, author of THE PRESS, has suggested to the AFL- OO that it consider subsidizing newspapers in areas where the exis ting paper is stridently anti-labor. This would be a reversion to a form er situation where political organ izations and other power groups owned newspapers. Citizens of Lima, Ohio, created a paper, the Citizen, which com petes with the absentee - owned .News. The Citizen j still survives and has a circulation equal that of the 'News. : But a' similar attempt in Jackson, Miss., by townspeople dissatisfied with the low-quality Jackson '.News; failed after seven years of pump prmiing'by the community. In Jan uary of this year the community paper sold out to the News. Either Liebling's suggestion or the Lima, Ohio plan appear to be the only realistic ways of meeting the problem of monopoly without infringing on real "freedom of the press." (jc) This is .the third and final part of an editorial series on the Ameri can press.) Thefts For numerous reasons the inci dence of petty thievery increases drastically at the end of each se mester, and particularly towards the close of the spring semester. Individuals finding themselves S3 n I .: n i i ; Z J- ti I m 8 n 2SIXailIAL STAFF JIM CLOTFELTEB CHUCK TOE Co-Editors Weyne Sling Managing ..Editor XVuamett, Inw Sheppard 3ewn Hditers , 324 Dcpree fiports X2ior ' Currj IZrl&airick . . As&L igpts 3E&. Bill Sofcbs - . ... JOgui .Editor Slatt JVcisman iFeatare lUlltcr J Hairy .IeLxmg,.Je!ia Ittefilla Assts. 4o the JESitor Jim ISTiulaee . XJi0iostep!gr XUIitcr Jklike Hoahison. dairy gllanfffeaza f . Joe IwLasi Ccnlribaiins Xliltcra J Susiness JJattager jJIkc Jolliers Advertising Ssr. tisi vacfa-tDrs. J ti . n m, i- tb United Press Intciajtticnal and utilizes the services f ta jQtrsjBo reau of thm University of Nortia Caro lina, ubCSbed Jay anUictlons Board ot turn University of Norta Carolina. CSiapel Hill. N. C. short of cash and long on debts must find some way to meet the increased demands of pressuring merchants. Merchants who were overly eager to extend credit, to in sure sales, during the school year, are now bucking at an extension for the summer months. With increasing pressure and confusion of exams, students are more likely to .yield o temptations that would normally be resisted. Since approximately '35 per sent of .all thefts ;are from rooms with amlackefl i&QQr.s, the most appropri ate and ff ective remedy would be tthe simple turning of a key occa sionally. At any rate, fitra caution with all TKalnahles will eliminate the wholesale idealising that sweeps through the -dorms and tEraternlties every dspring. Dcaft vclose the ham 'door, after the horse , , A wery practical suggestion, cer lainly worthy of consideration ty the -orientatioii committees, las been made Mr. Beaumont, Chief of tthe Canrous IPolicel He thinks ihat a idefinite proEam ,on the management of school finances -weuld 'be beneficial for most incom ing freshman. A pretty good idea, (cw) Tm E3ghL I Was Born On The Day Of The Snpreme Court Decision' Th ink iiifodsa- . . What They Thinl Letters To The Editor THE MARQUISE WENT OUT AT FIVE by Claude tMauriac, -translated from the French by -Richard How ard. George Braziller, 1962, 311 "pp.. $4:95. Claude Mauriac, ihe misguided Frenchman, thinks he's a rpainter. He writes a historical novel, but he doesn't tell a story. Instead, he paints a modern picture. He creates an impression -of life in a Taris quarter on jx summer day bteween the hour of five, when the Marquise walks to the mews stands for an afternoon paper, and and six o'clock, when a brief shower ends. During this hour the reader dis covers Paris and Parisians. 3Iartine Carnejoux .strolls along listening to 'her young daughter's chatter; alone tourist takes a guidebook tour of the square; a high school boy dreams of his sweetheart .and en counters his rival; a detective looks for his suspect; a hotel maid eads movie magazines and 'listens in uin two lovers' conversation. An aging women emerges empty handed from a shoe store to wonder about a maroon pair of shoes and settle for an eclair; Monsieur Lou bert makes love in one room while his wife is slowly dying in the next; Bertrand Carnejoux prepares to write a novel to include all the teeming life around him. All these are .apart, yet they en counter each other to create and draw impression of each other. The secretary on --an -errand sees the blond policeman as a poter,:;! lover and the hired chauffeur pretty 'high and anighty -fJr one -,t 'even driving ihis wn car. Sut -what .doa; the -pclicc-Tr..-.-; thhikof the girl he sees eyeing hirr, ? .And whatvdoes the chauffeur t!:;; And the -old 'man who -watches , three -from :his window while I -'listens to his wife's tirade? Mauriac .paints a picture of n;;.:y jpeople, 'many incidents, "m-a ny thoughts. .Like most eontemiu'irar;. artists, :he -doesn'.t tell his amH- iHr outright -what the picture is. !:, lets them guess. Characters aren't introduced: fury just appear. The author gives r , narration; 'the characters do.l tl thinking, talking -and .explaining 'The :book iias no Teal sequence o events. Three ots and the man r. the .Perrari zooms past the pt h. , -man . . . Three :more dots and a you.: -boy faces :his father's death. Mauri;.. used this same style of writing his previous novel, "Tne Dir.r.. r Party," attended by eight fas! u n able Parisians. The style is niffia to foUow, and the reader is apt :-i get lost unless he finds thots- . games challenging. Mauriac is an experience v.ov: investigating. The style c-halYn : the intellect, and the content pro.' the French think about what Arr-.i-n-cans think the French think aha,.. . LYNNE HART LETT o 11 ED rrn 11 World Welfare Concerns SG To ; the " Student Government and Mr. Alan Goldsmith: On the front page, of the May 15 News and Observer there was a picture, i In 3 this picture was a 19-yeaf-old Communist Chinese "ref ugee girl who was crying because the British authorities had arbitrari ly decided that she was .one of the refugees to be sent back to the mainland. We are not condemning the Hong Kong authorities, for it is quite understandable that a city the size of Hong Kong cannot pro vide for all of China, or even a small part. They are crowded to the limit now and a stream of refu gees of such enormous proportions cannot be handled by a single city. .Still, it seems to us that some more suitable alternative can, and for that matter, must be found. It is very easy to see the mainland of China as a huge block of Jiumanity hell-bent on our destruction, but, after seeing a picture of a girl our age crying in the street because she must return to her "mother land," we find it much harder to look at it that way. To be sure, Communist China is our enemy, but, are the people of China, espec ially the one who have fled to "free dom," synonymous with the country. It is our opinion that, if the free world continues to send them back to what, from all reports we have ; jread, seems to be a; living hell, they r - soon will be. Communism is not working in China, and, as long as it !Jcohtinifes to u fail, there is still a chance of a people's revolt. Leav ing political considerations out of it, however, the free world seems i quite out of character when it sends ?tback those who have fled starving, from their homes to freedom. These "refugees have made their sacrifice. They have left their families, their friends, and their homes behind. Cannot we, too, sacrifice? We, as individuals, can do noth ing. The Student Legislature, repre senting the student body, can do something. It is true that the Stu dent Government should be con cerned with the welfare of the stu dent, but it is also true that this august body should be concerned with the welfare of people in other sections of the country and the world. What happens in Hong Kong, half-way around the world, affects us as individual students and as a country. We submit that student government is not dead, but is just beginning to live. We submit that a hungry girl crying in a Hong Kong street is just as importont as a stu dent in this -University. We submit that Student Government can do something about this hungry, girl without betraying its obligation to the Student Body. We believe that there is an alternative to sending starving people back into a totali tarian state where, at the worst, they will be liquidated, and at the least they will continue to starve We further believe that Student Gov ernment is obligated to do what it can, be it in the form of a mere resolution or in the :moce .concrete form of money, to,' in some small way, help -alleviate the Hong 'Kong refugee situation. We, the -so-called leaders of tomorrow, Jiave a chanee to help someone 'beside ourselves. It is up to Student Government. , WILLIAM N. HICKS Pariy Should Not Be Liberal To the Editor: "In the past .year .. .. - there -has has been a gradual .change dn the complexion of the (Student Party), a change away from the dormitory, away from liberalism," wrote Jim Clotfelter in a recent editorial which was reprinted for party members by Ilaynes iMcFadden. (Mr. Clotfelter's first "change" has not materialized. The SP is still the party that gives the dormitory resident political opportunity and voice. Not one of its spring Big Four candidates was a member of a fra ternity or a sorority. Furthermore, the records of Legislaure of the past year clearly show that the SP is still a strong supporter, indeed the strongest supporter, of dormitory life improvement. The change "away from liberal ism," on the other hand, certainly "has become manifest. Mr. Clotfelter recognizes this trend in the fact that 'the majority lof party officers are -not particularly .'liberal, that "they do not . seem to be part of the Stu dent Party's ideological tradition." .Obviously this "liberal 4raditi on' lias broken down. iBut why not? Why .must the Stu dent -Party be tied to tradition? Its membership is not tradition; its membership is .'constantly growing .and changing. The "SP .is far larger .and stronger now than in ;past years . .And this larger .and stronger party does not exist through any .hypo thetical traditions; it exists through its members almost 250 of them all of whom were 'given the oppor tunity to choose liberal onion-liberal officers. Do riot condemn the SP, Mr. Clotfelter, if your liberal ele ment, prevalent for so long, now takes a back seat. This is a new Student Party": almost severer semes- Al Faircliild Campus Health Being Devastate All of us, erudite university stu dents that we are, are surely fami liar with the writings of C. North cote Parkinson, Rafles Professor of History at the University of Mala ya .and creator of "Parkinson's Law." As we (know, Professor Parkin son's studies in administration are applicable to our situation here on the UNC .campus, especially his Co efficient jot Inefficiency and Princi ples of Selection. We would like to ocus -attention on a problem not treated directly by the good profes sor, but, nevertheless, suggested by iim. The problem painfully pres ent is this academic community is that jof energetic and genuinely inspired indolence. Using the effective Parkinson Law, .one .can examine the problem with a faculty not afforded by conven tional scientific methods. Parkinson .states: 'A lack o fwork is not necessarily revealed by a manifest idleness.; a lack of real activity .does not, of necessity, result in leisure." Painstaking research has reveal ed that the "average" Carolina student is: a male, a dormitory resident, 20.83 years old, not a frat ernity member (though not at all rabid when the subject arises.) from this state, not very handsome, and the possessor of a 2.31 QP .average. This ("average" student is diseas ed, but not in the usual sense. He is in the symtomatic stages of acute ennui an awesome disease that is America's number one killer. Prop er medication throughout his un dergraduate life determines his suc cess in escaping the horrors of its advanced stages. As the title of this treatise im plies, our student is extremely ac tive, but in a negative direction. He makes the cardinal error (typical of those in the early stages of the disease) of equating activity with productivity. In the more advanced case this error produces a cerebral toxin which results in a subcon scious drive to direct all activity in the least toilsome direction. For examples, let us return to our "average" student. His normal day has only ten hours ( a conservative figure) avail able for actual labor. The rest of the time is .devoted to eating, sleep ing, and attending classes. .Since he has not jdined any committee of any description (it is well known that only Y-Couritiers or pedants join those things anyway), his extra time is not encumbered by this consideration. The .substitution usu ally made is of a seasonal mature; presently it involves sunning the body upon the lawn. This time is not entirely lost, however, lor the student will occasionally carry along his dark glasses and some edifying literature. (Nnightstands for the ple bians, Henry (Miller for the aristo crats). The employment of dark glasses demonstrates our student's gen uinely utilitarian disposition. They reduce glare and prevent others from realizing that he is actually sleeping or looking over tiis books .at co-eds across the street. No doubt there has also been much careful thinking done in the selec tion of the dark glasses. The one thing he remembers from that course in archeology is the axiom of Vitruvius regarding body symmetry and the fact that the -distance from jchin to the crown is exactly Y of the -overall body height. Therefore, he has been very cautious in procur ing the proper frame thiclcness for his particular iorm. The process of tanning reduces the student's available time by no less lhan two nor more than three hours. In the time remaining he devotes his energies to other self rewarding endeavors. Sometimes he will try his hand at viewing the television, in an earnest desire '(so he says) to verify the accusations of Mr. Minnow of the AEC (or it is Mr. Trout of the ACC?). On of days, he will make his way to an obscure booth in one of the communities avant garde diners to partake of succulent tidbits and join souls of sterner stuff in making grandiose plans for banning things in general. He occasionally is known to nod his well-tanned head in agree ment with lamentations over what a terrible, terrible thing all the Philistines have done to the world. Then follows a final tidbit, a flourish ing farwell, and s to bed. In this environment the disease grows; its cancer can fill the entire body in four short years. Although the clinics that are quite capable of effecting cure are bountiful, they are dlsasterously -devoid o patients Although Parkinson's law permits us to analysze the problem it can do nothing to achieve its solution. The solution, like so many things, is entirely dependent on our "aver age" student. ter at UNC sees a new SP. The U ones were not necessarily the In-: ones; they lost their share of elec tions. "The duty of the Student Party i -to set forth a platform commit: t-ti to liberal values on and off cam pus," says Mr. Clotfelter, a liberal party member. As one of the con servative party members and offi cers, I say that this platform shnuH be committed to sucli values as the majority of party members at any particular time believe in and sup port not .necessarily liberal. The Editor and I have in compatible con victions. The members of the party should take whatever stands they wish, but should disregard the myth of SP tradition. When we, the Stu dent Party, have something to say. it will be us speaking, and not the SP of 1948. DAVE "WILLIAMS Clark Forem a n Corrects Fad? To the Editor: Your fine editorial "Very Piare "Thing" would have been excellent bad you not been misinformed about the details of Pete Seeger's case. I have checked my memory with Pete's attorneys and can assure you: (a) that Pete did not answer the questions of the committee with respect to any organization whatso ever; (b) be has not been in jai!. although was held a couple of hour on April 4th by the Federal Marsha!: inJJew York pending the arrival 1 : Jbail. That would not justify you: .statement that he has become a sometimes-convict. il would like to go on record a-' predicting that Pete's conviction ia the District Court will be thrown out .either by the Circuit Court : Appeals or the Supreme Court. T other witnesses at the same hearir-.-'. who took similar positions, wore acquitted when their cases can e before a more enlightened District judge than the one who heard Pete's case. All the good things you said a Pete Seeger and Joan Baez a: true, and I commend you f'V " spirit of your editorial also vry rare. CLARK FOREMAN' Director, Emergency Civil Li': -ties Committee; New York ! u it IS H i'i u II About Letters Tha Dally Tar Heel iaTitei reader to cs tt Jar expre Csns cf cplcJoa a current K tcpies regardless cf Yiewpclst. Letters xssst Is djsed, cc tola a rerlflahia &!resft, " fee tree ol libelous raa total. fa- te crease the chance of paJ t!?a. S-aersrilY letters nay edited or emitted. AbsslcteU oh will be returned.
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