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Bill Wuamett
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Conservatives
Monday night an Episcopal minister said the Ameri
can church is sick because it refuses to recognize the
unity of man. The minister is a former Freedom Rider.
Monday and Tuesday nights a young Negro appealed
for help for the Negroes in Monroe, N. C, whom he said
are the victims of social, economic and judical oppression.
Saturday a Chapel Hill playwright talked with a
condemned man at Central Prison in Raleigh in an effort
to save the man's life.
These instances are all different, yet they are alike.
They are alike in that all three have a common be
lief at their base a belief in the brotherhood of man
and a belief in equal rights for all; white, black, poor,
rich, upright and criminal.
This common belief is often discredited because of its
connection with socialism and other systems that seek
to reduce man to a common denominator.
This is invalid. It is, we think, simply an excuse for
ignoring situations that would take a lot of bother and
time to correct when we could all be at home watching
TV and sipping scotch.
This invalid belief is often connected with Conserva
tism. The Conservative too often says that segregation,
voting rights, fair employment practices, and capital pun
ishment are issues for the individual to decide, and aside
from his own personal decision, its none of his business.
This is not invalid. Its absurd.
It is true that the legitimate concern of the American
Conservative should be with individual liberty. This does
not absolve him, however, from concern for the liberties
of others. The liberty of EACH individual is preserved
and insured only when the liberty of EVERY individual
is preserved.
When the individual ignores segregation in his
church, he makes a mockery of Christianity.
When the individual ignores segregation in his
schools, he makes a mokery of the right of all citizens to
a public education of equal value with that of all other
citizens.
When the individual ignores job discrimination
against Negroes, he not only mocks the value of the
individuals of that race, but also endangers his own job,
which may be taken for reasons equally flimsy and ar
bitrary. When an individual ignores capital punishment, he
makes a mockery of a justice system supposedly set up
for rehabilitative purposes, and solidifies the opportunity
for similar "justice" to bet meted out to himself at some
future date.
The Conservative cannot play blind man's bluff with
these injustices. He cannot ideally, because he thus de
nies every man's right to the samp liberties he himself
has. He cannot practically, because by so doing he risks
the loss of his own liberties in the future.
He can only do it hypocritically.
We think it is time for the Conservative movement
in America to take positive concrete action to solve the
above problems on the individual level. .
We think it is time for the movement to stop scream
ing about federal intervention when Negroes are being
denied an equal education.
We think it is time for the movement to stop com
plaining about increased welfare spending when Negroes
are living in poverty in colored towns all over the South.
We think it is time for the movement to put it3 money
where its mouth is.
Bill Ilobbs
CO-EDITOR
the other members of the staff.
Medicare Defeat
(Editor's note The following
is a letter which Sen. Norris
Cotton (R-NII) sent to his con
stituants following the defeat of
the Anderson Medicare bill.)
The Anderson Medicare Bill is
dead, but the political uproar
over it has just begun.
The vote was far from partis
an. I voted against it as did 30
other Republicans. So did 21
Democrats, among them the
chairmen of the Senate's 10 most
powerful committees, and some
of the President's closest friends
including the senator who stood
up with him at his wedding. They
had to have strong reasons. I
can only give you mine.
After our attempts to improve
the Anderson proposal had been
rejected and the final vote came,
I asked myself one simple ques
tion. Would the Anderson Medi
care plan really aid the old
people who need help? The an
swer is "No."
THIS BILL WOULD HAVE
GIVEN "ONLY A MORSEL OF
MEDICARE TO THE ELDERLY
WHO NEED IT, BUT WrOUID
SPREAD THAT MORSEL TO
MILLIONS OF THE WELL-TO-DO
WHO DON'T. Thus, its cost
would shut the door on adequate
Medicare or increased Social Se
curity benefits in the future.
There is the statement: Now
for the proof. The Anderson Bill
wouldn't have paid a penny for
doctors' bills. It would pay no
surgeons' fees no dental bills
no medicines outside the hospit
al. It wouldn't even pay hos
pital bills until the patient paid
$90 for the first 9 days. The
average hospital stay for older
persons is 7 days, so the Bill
failed miserably to meet their
needs. Experts conceded it would
cover only 25 of medical costs.
Others Need J. Colleges Too
(Editor's note The following is
an editorial from the Minnesota
Daily which shows that the prob
lems of higer education and the
need for community colleges to
meet these problems exist in
other states besides North Caro
lina.) Establishment of junior col
leges around the state could be
of great advantage to the Uni
versity. Most students don't come to
the University because of its
smashing lower division program.
They come because they want to
be doctors and we have an ex
cellent medical school, or they
want to be engineers and we
have engineering departments
which are known for their im
portant contributions to science,
or they want to be journalists
and we have one of the top
journalism schools in the coun
try, or they want a good liberal
education and we can offer them
a variety of courses taught by
nationally and internationally
know faculty members.
Our attention in recent years
has been focused more and more
on incoming freshmen and what
to do with them. Large chunks
of the budget are eaten up by
dozens of additional freshman
English classes, rapid hiring of
faculty, new buildings and other
essentials of meeting an ever
increasing student enrollment.
As a state institution, the Uni
versity cannot limit enrollment,
but if emphasis on getting more
space and staff for more people
continues, it can only be detri
mental to the upper division and
graduate sections. The strength
and prestige of a university is,
after alL in the quality of stu
dents that come out, not the
number of students that go in.
Upper division classes get larg
er each year and the need for
increased faculty also grows.
Graduate research space and
One of its empty promises was
care in nursing homes. But to
qualify, the nursing home must
be connected . with a hospital.
There are few such in the Coun
try and none in New Hampshire.
The whole scheme was like try
ing to throw a 25-foot rope to a
person drowning 50 feet from
shore.
Now consider how it would pre
vent our providing really worth
while care in the future. This
Bill covered everyone over 65
an ever-increasing segment of
our population. Its cost would
constantly jump payroll taxes for
Social Security. It was estimat
ed these taxes would reach 12
to 15 within a few years. That
would kill all hope for increased
benefits to the needy and what
a burden on young fathers and
mothers striving to raise and edu
cate their children!
Why did the powers that be
demand such a plan and lash the
faithful to vote for it? Because
bureaucrats distrust State Gov
ernments. They want all welfare
dished out from the top. That's
why they haven't lifted a finger
to tell people about the present
Kerr - Mills program. Further
more, they are against limiting
Medicare to those who need it.
"It humiliates the old people,"
they cry. You get a picture of
social workers quizzing oldsters
on how many cents a week they
spend for tobacco. Actually, the
test now is purely a matter of
income and resources and is up
to the States. In New Hamp
shire a single person is eligible
who doesn't receive more than
$1800 a year, a married couple
$3000. They may own their homes
and a limited amount of other
property and savings. I was one
of the Senators who offered a
substitute bill providing Medicare
equipment is limited. Each year
we lose top staff members to
better jobs in other educational
institutions and business.
University administrators are
well aware of these problems, but
there is just so much they can
do with the personnel and funds
available through the Legisla
ture. The University will probably
always be a four-year and grad
uate institution, but junior col
leges could take a great burden
off University shoulders and we
could then spend a larger share
of our energies and finances on
Students Should Seek Help
I met the returned service
man on the campus about a
week after our lunch together.
He said he definitely was not
coming back to the University
in the fall. He said, in answer
to my question, that the Univer
sity had made it almost impos
sible for him to come back. That
instead of wiping out his pre
vious record and letting him
start over, as State College does
for returning service men. he
was told by his advisor that if
he was 5 quality points down
when he left here he would be
10 quality points down when he
came back. He said that he and
several other service men felt
that they had been kicked in the
teeth. The reason for this mani
pulation of points was that the
quality points had been raised
from 3 to 4 points in his ab
sence, therefore he was twice as
far down as when he left. He
lives in Greensboro and plans to
go to Guilford College, then to
Wake Forest College.
I called the administration and
recited the . case of the service
man. I was told that anyone
could remain under the 3 point
quality system, or could elect
the 4 point system, and I was
Justified
for all who do not pay a Federal
income tax hardly a humilia
tion! New Hampshire's elderly are
already better off than they
would be under the Anderson
scheme. Our Commisioner of
Public Health informs me that
we provide virtually total medi
care for the elderly of limited
means. This includes doctors'
calls at home and all hospitaliza
tion recommended by their phy
sician, with no cost to them. Fur
thermore, our State can go as
far as it likes in expanding its
medical care and the Federal
Government will pay nearly 60
of the cost. The best way to im
prove Medicare is simply to in
crease the Federal Government's
share. This couldn't be done if
the Anderson Bill had passed.
In a nutshell, the Anderson plan
was a fraud on both old and
young because:
1. It would cover no doctors
bills and very limited hospitaliza
tion. 2. It could honestly be called a
"millionaires' bill" because it
would waste billions on those in
the upper income brackets.
3. It would boost payroll taxes
barring either expanded Medi
care or increased Social Securi
ty payments in the future.
4. It would burden workers with
families to support. ,
5. It would freeze Medicare in
a Federal pattern so our State
could not tailor our medical aid
to the needs of our own people.
Make no mistake. When you
. look at the Anderson . Medicare
scheme you are not viewing a
sweet old lady in bed with kim
ono and nightcap. You are star
ing into the eyes of the wolf that
ate Little Red Riding Hood's
grandmother.
improving the advanced pro
grams. Students can get a good lower
division background at most ac
credited colleges and junior col
leges. It is in the junior through
graduate years that the Univer
sity shows its worth by offering
degrees in dozens of academic
fields, taught by experts using
the latest equipment.
The University has a good rep
utation as an educational institu
tion, but this reputation will re
main only as long as we maintain
our high standards at every level.
We can't do everything.
asked to tell the student to go
to the administration and talk it
over. Before I ran across him
again, I found out he had drop
ped out of Summer School. One
of his professors said he drop
ped out because he wasn't ready
to study. At the office of Stu
dent Affairs I was told that the
student came to the office and
said he was leaving because he
wasn't getting anything out of
school.
I still don't understand why
his advisor didn't tell him he
could stay on under the 3 point
system. The boy is gone, and
we will never know all the an
swers. But I sometimes wonder
if the advisors know any more
than the students. Since the stu
dent isn't here there is no way
of getting to the bottom of it.
I thought the tribute to Dr.
Lashley when he retired, by one
of his former students, was one
of the most beautiful I ever read.
I wish there could be more such
tributes from students to all
professors. After all, that is
what they are here for, to lend
a helping hand.
OTELIA CONNER