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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.
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All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the
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September 22, 1962
Tel. 942-2356
Vol. XLX, No. 3
Matter Of Tradition
Every year some forty thousand
excited fans descend on Kenan sta
dium to witness the opening game,
which has- traditionally pitted our
Tar Heels against the gang from
State.
Although we sometimes forget,
we are indeed as the student. body,
a collective "host" to the majority
of those fans. A definition of
Sportsmanship aside, there are nev
ertheless a few obligations which
we as "hosts" ought willingly to
shoulder.
Supposedly embodying and there
fore dictating the actualization of
these obligations is the often-heard-about
though rarely-witnessed "con
duct of the Carolina Gentleman."
That is to say, or rather to imply,
that just by virtue of the fact of
our being students at this branch
of the University, we have submit
ted our conduct to standards ex
tending from every man's definition
of "gentleman."
Although we are very rarely re
quired to submit ourselves to the
judgment of every man, we are on
an occassional Saturday afternoon,
required to present our mode of
conduct to the discerning and crit
ical judgment of some thirty thou
sand football fans.
We would venture a guess that
largely because of our past conduct
in front of these fans, our beloved
town has become known as rWhis
key Hill." That is to say, or rather
to imply, that most of the time they
have seen us howling, petty, fickle,
ridiculous drunks.
It's not that the majority of UNC
students drink, or rather get drunk,
it's just that for some mysterious
reason we conduct ourselves as
howling, petty, fickle, and ridicu
lous drunks.
Somehow, this special manner of
conduct, usually reserved whole
heartedly for Saturday's perform
ance, ought to be altered.
Of course, that is not even one
of those things "easily said . . ."
The improvement of our conduct,
if it is to be effected, must come
through the efforts of all of the
student body.
If the administration is concern
ed with our conduct, they might
contact an organized force of civil
officials, though they would rather
deal with you. If the president of
the student body is concerned, he
might issue a statement of policy,
though he would rather speak with
you. And if a student editor is con
cerned, he might write a few col
umns, though he would rather con
vince you.
And all the isolated individaul ac
tions of just a concerned few are for
nought, if the student body as a
collective, unified, and participat
ing organization refuses to be con
cerned. The Carolina Gentleman is you.
The conduct of the Carolina Gentle
man is your conduct. His reputa
tion is your reputation. His obliga
tions as "host" are your-our-obli-gations.
Our obligations and our
opportunities.
Our opportunity to demonstrate
our support of this the 1962 edition
of the UNC football team. Our op
portunity to cheer, and cheer loud
ly. Our opportunity to show thirty
thousand football fans that we, as
backers of ; Jim Hickey's football
team, appreciate their coming to
the game.
And that we want them to re
turn another time; that we want
them to see our football team play,
and that we wrant them to see us
conduct ourselves as the proverbial
Carolina Gentlemen of wThom they
hear so much. (cw)
'Strict Silence9
"Strict silence," which forbids
fraternity members from trying
to influence the fraternity choice of
freshmen for the first month of
school, is generally considered a
Good Thing. Supposedly it keeps
Orientation counselors and other
such persons from using their po
sition to indoctrinate freshmen in
the glories of old Alpha Alpha.
I5ut this silence bit can go too
far. This week a Tar Heel reporter
was instructed to get in touch with
a student government officer con
cerning a news story. The reporter,
who was a freshman, called the of-
Bottom...
From an article in the Christian
Science Monitor:
'North Carolina ranks 4 5th
among the 50 states in the amount
of money spent on each child go
ing to school . . .
"In the last decade North Caro
lina has raised the rate of teachers' .
salaries less than any other state
in the union. Only nine states have
more illiterates over age 14 and
only six states have more adults
with less than five years of school
ing." Jim Qotfelter
Qmck Wrye
Editors
Dave Morgan .
Business Mgr.
f icer's fraternity house and asked
for him. "Are you a freshman,"
the reporter was asked. "Yes."
"Well then, under the rules of strict
silence you can't be allowed to talk
to him." And the person at the of
ficer's fraterntiy house hung up the
phone.
Be serious, fellows. (jc)
Ho Hum
State Sen. Ralph Scott of Haw
River got in a right good lick
at us spoiled, degenerated mem
bers of the younger generation in
Raleigh the other day.
Scott, a member of the Advisory
Budget Commission, commented as
the commission heard budget re
quests from the State Board of
Education:
"When you see what happens
among those supposed to be our next
leaders, it makes you wonder if any
thing is being done to teach them
some damn sense."
He was referring to the arrest
of UNC student Hargrove Bowles
III on public nuisance charges and
other incidents which occurred at
the recent Debutante Ball in Ral
eigh. Then, reeking with the earthy
wisdom which legend says accrues
to such as he, the senator con
tinued: ""If they get some education, I am
wondering if they will be sober
enough to use it."
Thank you Sen. Scott.
Would anyone care to come out
for motherhood or against sin?
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I like Virginia. It's a good state
to go through. As long as you don't
stop. Unfortunately, it is often nec
essary to stop when you are thumb
ing. That's when you really get to
see Virginia closeup.
Take AltaVista, Va. I took it for
two hours, standing on the square
with my hand outstretched and
thumb extended. At noon. Not that
I don't like Altavista. The people
there are very friendly. They real
ly want to pick you up, but just
can't. They apologize for it, how
ever, by pointing either to the right
or the leftmeaning they are only
going a couple of blocks or a couple
of miles. They therefore assume
that you don't want to ride with them
for that reason. And it really does
no good to shout, "Yeah, that's me,
man. Like main highway, that way,
two miles." And so you walk the
two miles. Heavy suitcases, sweat,
blisters like tiring.
But Altavista can even be for
given for that. These people are
well meaning. They're just stupid.
The others are the ones that really
crack you up. They ride by slowly,
which is all right. And then they
smile, and even that is all right.
But then they wave. Which is their
way of saying hello to that nice
clean-cut young college man visit
ing their town. All this time, of
course, their subconscious mind is
telling them you're a crook, or may
be even a nigger-lover.
After a while it becomes rather
No Genocide For Ross Barnett
Ross Barnett, governor of the ex
tremely sovereign state of Mississip
pi, has put his foot down.
He will not "drink from the cup
of genocide."
No he is prepared to face impris
onment rather than submit to the
extermination of the Caucasian race
in this country.
It certainly must have taken great
courage for the governor to speak
up at this time. He served notice
that he is ready to stand firm
against the mounting tide. He call-
Bill Holvbs
ed upon his deep knowledge of his
torical and sociological trends, say
ing, "There is no . case in history
where the Caucasian race has sur
vived social integrat ion . "
Let all men of good faith rally to
this urgent cause. We know that
the propaganda about the colored
An examination of the qualities
possessed by those Presidents chos
folks just wanting equal rights is a
bunch of hogwash. It's really part
of an international conspiracy head
ed by liberals, socialists and com-
Power Of The State:
Creeping And Sneaking
Yes, kiddies, the big hideous fed
eral government is going to get you";
it is going to grow and grow and
soon we will all be slaves.
See the federal government grow.
See socialism creep.
Creep, creep, creep.
Socialists are creeps.
See the government money pour in.
See the government control how
it is spent.
Control, control control.
This makes people uncontrolably
angry.
What do the angry people do about
it?
They open their mouths and yell.
Yell, yell, yell.
Actually, they are yellow.
Why are they yellow?
Because they do nothing but yell.
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
By doing nothing, they accomplish
nothing.
See, for instance, the senator.
See the senator rise to the senate
floor.
See the senate floor tremble.
Tremble, tremble, tremble.
The senator says he is against big
government.
Then see the senator's hometown
newspaper.
See the senator's name?
See the senator announce a new
federal project in his state.
See the other side of the news-,
paper.
See the senator says he is against
federal spending.
What is wrong with the senator?
Wrong, wrong wrong.
Did the senator vote against the
federal project in his state.
No. The senator voted for it.
The senator likes federal projects
in his state.
Federal projects bring jobs.
Jobs bring votes.
Votes, votes, votes.
See the North-Carolina Associa
tion of County .Commissioners.
See how funny it is.
See how it adopted a resolution de
manding local control of the propos
ed community colleges.
Then see how it also opposed pay
ing local money for the colleges.
This is strange.
Strange, strange, strange.
See how similar are the County
Commissioners and the senators.
Both of them are against big gov
ernment. Both of them hate government con
trol. See them ask for government funds
for their locality.
Why is that?
Why, why, why.
See the man.
See how he was educated in a
public school. .
See how he bought his home with
a government loan.
See how his farm depends on gov
ernment subsidies.
See his social security card.
He carries it with him in his
wallet.
See him drink a beer.
See him tell his friends how the
dirty socialists are taking over.
See him say the government is
getting too big.
Watch him drive home to his FHA
house.
See him drive on roads paved with
federal money.
See his children come home from
federally constructed schools.
Wonder about him.
Wonder, wonder, wonder.
See all the funny people.
See them yell about the big dirty
government.
See if they do anything but yell.
Why don't they put their money
where their mouths are?
Mouths, mouxhs, mouths.
. (Money, money,, money.
munists (they're all the same) to
wipe out our country's white popula
tion. Support Governor Barnett.
Don't drink from the cup of geno
cide. Get out there and keep those nig
gers from going to school, getting
an education, voting, eating at our
lunch counters, sitting in the front
of our buses, praying in public and
anything else that might lead to the
extermination of the white race.
Beat them up. Put them , in jail.
(Use trumped-up charges if you
-have - to). . Shoot -at - them. , Scare
their chudreni ;: Burn, their churches
, and. houses.-Hang some of them oc
casionally. But don't drink from the cup of
genocide.
"A LOT OF nonsense is spoken
about work . . . Never work because
it's expected of you. Find out how
much work you must do to live and
be happy. Don't do any more . . .
But thinking is something different
altogether. Think always as if the
hot hand of Hell were grabbing for
you. Think to the limit of your
mind. Imagine, hope, want things.
. . . Whatever' you do, do it to the
absolute best of your ability. Never
take the easy way where thinking is
concerned."
Here's something to start the bull
sessions going.
Seventy-five leading American his
torians were polled this summer to
determine how they rated the Pres
idents of the United States. The
judgments were made strictly on the
basis of achievement in the execu
tive chair.
Five men were given the accolate
of greatness: Lincoln, Washington,
Franklin' D. Roosevelt, Wilson and
Jefferson.
Half-a-dozen Presidents were nam
ed as near-great: Jackson, Teddy
Roosevelt, Polk, Truman, John Ad
ams and Cleveland.
Twelve fell into the average or
mediocre class. "By and large these
twelve believed in negative govern
ment, , in self subordination to the
legislative power. They were con
tent to let well enough alone, or,
when not, were unwilling to fight
for their programs or inept at do
ing so." In descending order they
were Madison, J. Q. Adams. Hayes,
McKinley, Taft, Van Buren, Mon
roe, Hoover, Benjamin Harrison, Ar
thur, Eisenhower and Johnson.
Six were designated as below av
erage: Taylor, Tyler, Fillmore, Cool
idge, Pierce and Buchanan. Grant
and Harding were judged to be total
failures.
It is extremely interesting to note
the positions given our most recent
Presidents. F. D. R. was placed
third, behind Lincoln and Washing
ton, and Truman was ranked as a
near-great. Eisenhower, on the oth
er hand, graces the bottom of the
average group.
The big question, of course, is
how John F. Kennedy will stand
when history votes on his tenure
in office.
en as "greats" or "near-greats"
leads us to believe that Mr. Kennedy
will eventually place in one of these
categories.
The five Greats "each took the
side of liberalism and the general
welfare against the status quo."
Each acted "farsightedly" in for
eign affairs. "Being strong execu
tives, the five offended vested eco
nomic interests and long-standing
popular prejudices." "Their sins of
commission and ommission, though
small in the backward view of his
tory, looked enormous to critical ;
contemporaries." They were "real
istic politicians" and knew how "to
concede what was relatively unim
' portant to obtain what was essen
tial (in their dealings with the Con
gress"). "Every one of these men
left the Executive branch stronger
and more influential than he found
it. . . . They acted on the conviction
that when the framers of the Con
stitution provided for a chief magis
trate chosen periodically by and re
sponsible to all the people they had
intended that he should always be
equal to the widening needs of so
ciety." "The foremost Presidents
possessed a profound sense of his
tory, a rooted dedication to time
sanctioned principles which each, in
his own day and way, succeeded in
reinvorating and extending."
-Mr. K.
Garry Blanchard
evident that the townspeople j i-r
don't like you. So then yon ;
paint a sign saying, -'Help run a
.stranger out of your town. Like, :
your car." Which doesn't c ol.'
too well either.
But finally you get a ride. A: .!
after two hours on the square i ;'
Altavista, Va., you really aren't tu,.
concerned when the driver of tJ:-.
43 Buick is 83 years old, four fr.v;
tall and drunk. And doesn't get tir
ed driving and doesn't need any
relief at the wheel, which looks like
it's about to come off anyway. Ar.J
the only consolation is that he U.
so dumb that he doesn't realize
you're directing him 40 miles out i f
his way so that he will stay on the
main highway north.
Going north on U. S. 29 is brd.
Coming south on U. S. i L ew n
worse. It's almost as bad as Har
ry Byrd's roads. First of ail, you
get a ride with a guy who lives in
Scarsdale, N. Y., has eighteen Cad
illacs and is beaming proud of the
fact that 95 per cent of the hi U
school graduates in Scarsdale go to
college. And very modestly men
tions the fact that the town is t:
richest per capita in the country.
Eesides all that, he actually drove
through Washington because he likes
to drive and enjoys the scenery in
our nation's capital. On a day when
the only thing that is higher than
the temperature is the humidity.
And with eighteen Cadillacs, he says
air conditioning is too expensive.
The worst part of all is when you
get out at Richmond and realize
he's the nicest guy you've rid.l -n
with yet.
But finally you get to good old
North Carolina again. It's raining.
The first rain at Henderson in two
months. And the cars pass by and
by and by. The dumb farmers keep
on waving. The nice women smile
sweetly at the nice clean-cut you in
college boy saving money by thumb
ing. And never realizing they are
being called the foulest names in
the language by that boy they would
have picked up, except that he wou'd
have gotten the seat wet.
You get that last ride into Chap. 1
Hill. Except it's not actually IX to
Chapel Hill. It's more like on the
outskirts. It's only three miles to
your house. Only now it's steaming
hot while you're still soaking wet.
From crying. The sign reading
"Washington" is still on your suit
case. People now smile and say.
"How lucky that boy was to get
a ride all the way from Washington
to Chapel Hill. They keep on driv
ing. You keep on crying.
Then you see it. It seems to be a
mirage at first. But then the let
ters get clearer. ABC. And yon
are safe once again in the fat soft
bosom of Chapel Hill.
Hitch-hiking is a very educational
experience, however. You learn
many interesting facts about human
nature. Like, people are mn,f!y
bastards. When they're drum:;
cars. The rest of the time they are
worse. And Bertand Russell can
take that and cram it up his hunu-.ii-ist
navel.
Only One Answer
To Cuban ProMei
Basically, there seem to be three
realistic solutions to the Cuban
problem. They are:
1) Invade the island by ourselves,
cr support an invasion by Cuban
nationals.
2) Set up a U. S. blockade of all
Cuban air and sea lanes.
3) Get the OAS to take positive
action against Cuba and the Soviet
buildup there.
The obvious trouble with the first
two solutions is that they probably
would not only start a small war
which might become big, they would
also tend to undermine the faith of
OAS countries in our general pledge
to deal with hemispheric problems
in concert with them. For we would,
in effect, be saying that the OAS is
only useful in minor squabbles and
can't really cut the mustard.
But the trouble with the third so
lution, getting the OAS to take posi
tive action against Cuba, is even
more obvious. It lies simply in get
ting the OAS to do so. Remember,
Castro is synonymous with "savior"
to millions of Latin Americans. And
governments have a way of toppling
when a large part of their citizenry
violently disagree with their actions.
Yet, if the trouble with this last
solution is obvious, so are the so
lution's merits. For if the organi
zation of American States were to
take action against Cuba, Ca.-ir;
would have all of North and Sou'h
America arrayed against him. Be
ing less than reasonable, usualiy, he
still might spark a war, but it Li
highly unlikely that Russia wouij
honor her protection guarantee in
the face of such a combined force,
while she would be forced to if
act unilaterally.
This is why we bet JFK and our
Latin American ambassadors are
quietly sounding out support for pos
sible OAS action against Cuba.
It has been demonstrated that John
F. Kennedy is nobody's fool aai
that he is not indecisive.
He knows that Castro's commun
ized Cuba is a malignant tumor, an i
that waiting only makes the job f
stamping it out more painful an 1
laborious than if we act immedia'e!y.
But he also knows that the only e en
remotely "safe" way of dealing v.hh
Cuba is through the OAS.
So let's give him a chance. An
other month or so should find
openly resolved upon a more posith e
course of action than we now
to be following, and Cuba certain y
will not in one month become any
more of a menace than it already is
particularly if our NATO frk:. :
cease allowing their vessels to be
used to supply Castro with addition
al Soviet materials.