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Prostitution
Last week a "prostitution ring" was broken in Chapel
Hill. The police chief said these arrests were the first
for prostitution here in his memory; which is not sur
prising, since women in this line of work find coed com
petition extremely tough.
Despite their rarity, however, these arrests point up a
glaring loophole in the morality of America. This loop
hole is hypocrisy.
Billy Graham, whose often-mocked preachings still
strike hard at the consciences of the majority of Americ
ans, decries a society that permits prostitution.
We decry one that legality forbids it and then laughs
at its own laws.
This is not to say that prostitution should be eliminat
ed. We doubt that this is possible. It should rather be
legalized so that it can be controlled."
It may always be a dirty word, but many of the physic
al occupational hazards of the business could be eliminat
edbut not by a society that refuses to mention the
word in polite company, much less acknowledge the prob
lem and attempt to find solutions.
Prostitutes are the primary spreaders of venereal dis
ease. Venereal disease is curable and could have been
eliminated after World War II. It wasn't, because moral
America couldn't treat the disease without punishing the
patient. Now, due to insufficient doses and irregular
treatment, new strains of venereal disease have develop
ed that laugh at penicillium and other cheap "wonder
drugs." More powerful and more expensive drugs must
now be used, at increased cost and risk to the patient.
The American conscience, apparently, can shrug its
shoulders and forget those facts. The living conditions
of prostitutes cannot be forgotten so easily. They're a
little more constant.
They live under the control of the underworld. They're
told when to eat, sleep and breathe. It doesn't pay to
break these rules. If they are victims of VD, they must
seek furtive treatment. If they become pregnant, they
have little choice but abortion usually under somewhat
less than favorable conditions. If they grow old in the
profession, they are turned out to a pasture full of dead
weeds. A career of prostitution is not the best recom
mendation for a middle-aged woman seeking a job.
These problems can be solved. Japan has legalized pros
titution and abortion. Death and disablement from dis
ease and rusty knives are. decreasing. Living conditions
are regulated by law. The prostitutes are happy, the
state is happy, American sailors are happy.
It is time for America to investigate the feasibility of
a similar solution.
And while the investigation is under way, why not a
look at legalizing gambling which Robert Kennedy states
is the mainstay of the underworld's financial support;
how about a look at the problems of drug addiction
which England has largely solved by having the courage
to treat it as the disease that it is; how about revisions
in abortion laws so that unwanted children will not be
added to the earth's already bursting population; how
about a look at laws regulating the dispensation of birth
control pills which now limit their use to married
couples?
How about saying to hell with our puritan forefathers?
How about a little introspection into the morality of
our society?
How about a little honesty?
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the other members of the staff.
WcIIman Gives
Poem, Answer
On Eiclimann
One of the little-noticed mem
bers of the graduating class of
1962 was B. Kimball Baker, of
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. I
well remember meeting him in
1958, when we were both begin
ning freshmen. A few days af
ter our first meeting, he gave
me a sonnet he had written the
previous year, while attending
the Ben Lippen School. I thought
then, and think now, that this
was a sonnet quite worthy of Em
ily Dickinson, and he once show
ed me inclination to publish it,
but when he left the campus it
had hot seen the printer's ink.
As' he once said that he would
like to publish it eventually, I
have finally decided to run it in
the UNC NEWS, as a very com
petent poem by a graduate of
this university. He was still in
high school at the time of com
position. Here it is and let it
take its place among the better
American sonnets.
I looked today on mountains
garbed snow-white,
And spied one peak, that rose
above the rest,
A leader in some noble skyward
quest,
A snow-capped picture of majes
tic might.
Then I aspired to share that
peak's delight,
In being where this world can
not molest,
To be at peace in snowbound
hermit nest.
There from this vale to soar in
upward flight.
But further musing turned me to
repent
For wishing thus to fly to
heights so great;
The Lord had willed that moun
tain in its place,
And me in mine; so I should be
content, .
And languish not, but joying in
my state,
Fight God's good flight, and
patient, run his race.
By Kim Baker, 1957.
WADE WELLMAN
Eiclmiaim
To the Editor:
Richard. Gelbcrman is entitled
to his views, and I to mine, but
by this time I'm tired of the
whole business of Adolf Eich
mann and his trial and publicity.
I just won't keep fighting this
case over and over again, which
I've now been doing for a year
and a half. Gelbcrman clings
vehemently to some prize bits
of misinformation, but what does
it matter now? Eichmann is
dead, cremated, and scattered to
the Mediterranean.
Let's just forget him and pay
attention to the new Germany of
Willy Brandt, Konrad Adenauer,
and Gerhardt .Schroeder.
-WADE WELLMAN
Freedom
The Jackson, Miss. News is
conducting a reader poll on
"Should state officials go to jail
to preserve segregation and
states rights? Vole your convic
tions!': If you vote yes, your intent is
obvious. If you vote no, you
must mean that you V. '. k segre
gation and "states rigii's" can
be preserved by other means. If
your conviction happens to be
neither of the above, we presume
you keep quiet about it.
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System
An experience I had this eve
ning was one in which I felt I
could be of some real help. I
sat at the table with a student,
whom I didn't know, and we en
gaged in conversation. Ten days
before he had been mustered out
from a three years duty with
the armed forces, and had en
tered the second Summer School.
He had flunked out when he was
here before because he had play
ed too much. He said he was
having a hard time adjusting
from army life to civilian life.
He said the University had got
ten too big, all his friends had
gone, and the Summer School
work was too hard that all you
got out of it was stomach ulcers.
I asked him if he liked the Uni
versity. He said he loved it
when he was here before but did
n't like it now, and wouldn't come
back in the fall. I asked him
where he would go. He didn't
know. I asked him where he
would like to go. He said, "I
don't know. I reckon I will be
back here!"
Here is a person who needs
help in many ways, but mostly
he needs friendliness, people
who will take a friendly interest
in him, make him feel that he
is not just a number, but a per
son in his own right, and is ac
cepted into a group. As we left
our table I introduced him to
Robinson's
0
Is it true what they say about
the classy red head with the
boufant hair-do in the Eastgate
Shopping Center last week?
It is said that she came out of
one of the stores, made off across
the parking lot, then returned
with a distraught look and used
the pay telephone.
A few minutes later, the taxi
she had summoned drove up and
the driver asked, "where to,
ma'm?"
"Just drive me around the
parking lot," wailed the baffled
red-head, "till I find my car."
SHRINKING CURRENCY
Charming Mary Wilkins of Rt.
2 tells us about a small boy who
plunked down a nickel on the
counter and asked for a bottle
of soda. "It costs ten cents,"
said the storekeeper.
The youngster then asked for
a candy bar. He got the same
reply. After this happened sev
eral times, the boy turned sadly
away, leaving his nickel on the
counter.
"You've left your nickel, boy"
called the merchant.
"You can keep it," replied the
boy. "It ain't worth nothing."
FLR-TIVE TACTIC
"Men show their love in different
ways.
One husband may buy . his
spouse a mink.
Another does the dishes."
Thus, I philosophized to her;
And thus I made her think.
The consequence is that I am
not
Permitted near the sink.
B. A. SURVEY
Results of some recent business
atLiT.Is-tration entrance exams
'Trimester
for UNC?
two pretty girls, and later asked
them to go out of their way to
be friendly toward him. I told
him whenever he saw" me at
Lenoir to come up and speak to
me, and whenever he felt like it
to sit at my table.
This student gave .voice to
what I have felt about the Sum
mer Schools that instead of
having two summer schools that
it would be much better to have
one regular term during the sum
mer and allow students a choice
of attending two of the three
terms, or all of them. One pro
fessor told me two years ago
that all the time spent over an
hour lecturing, was time thrown
away. The students, he said, get
tired and the professors get tired,
and that what the hour and twen
ty minutes class amounts to is
just something on paper. (I gave
up even auditing a class in sum
mer, as much as I enjoy sitting
in on a good class.) 1
Of course I know that nothing
is going to be done about chang
ing summer school, but it doesn't
hurt to go on record opposing the
status quo for then the 'battle
lines can be drawn. After all,
"Someone must represent the
unrepresented, must speak for the
speechless." I always have liked
to feel, that in my feeble way, I
could do just that.
OTELIA COHHOIl
Ramlilings
reveal that:
47.8 per cent said "inflation",
is what you get when you dial a
wrong number.
64.4 per cent believed "Silent
partner" is a married man.
93.4 per cent explained that
"trial balance" meant that if the
books didn't balance, there'd be
a trial. .
MENTAL MEANDERINGS
We now see that Albany, Ga.,
is batting in the same league as
the entire state of MisissippL
We've often said that since Wil
liam Faulkner left Mississippi in
body, there is not a good reason
why the state should not slide
into the sea. (We recommend
Jackson, the capital, as an at
omic testing site.)
Even though we deplore the
Anglo-Saxon savagery of some
Albany officials, we should never
lose sight of many other viola
tions of civil liberties north and
south.
For instance, there is the ar
bitrary and capricious action of
St. John's University, a Roman
Catholic institution in Brooklyn.
It expelled three students for
participating in a civil marriage
ceremony. All three students
were to graduate last June. The
University (?) called the stu
dents' action "gravely sinful.'
It's hard to believe this school is
actually accredited.
The predominantly Catholic city
of Baltimore also displays Chris
tian charity. There, prisoners in
the city jail must attend two re
ligious services on Sunday Cath
olic in the morning, Protestant in
the afternoon. Non-attenders go
to solitary.
MIKE ROBINSON.