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tPje muv Seel In its seventieth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the University administration or the stu dent body. All editorials appearing in the DAILY TAR WB'Bh are the indivdual opinions of the Editors, unless otherwise credited; they do not necessarily represent the opinion of the staff. The edi tors are responsible for all material printed in the DAILY TAR HEEL. December 2, 19C2 Tel. 942-235G Vol. LXX, No. 57 No Time Like Present For Evil And Sin For those who think our student generation i s hopelessly immoral and lost to all things good and true ; for those who think there are not even a few young people who are upright and right-thinking, the fol lowing incident should be of some interest. . Last Sunday night, returning to Chapel Hill after the Thanksgiving holidays, we were listening to the radio about 10 p.m. In changing from station to station we stuck on the voice of a bellowing young man who sounded struck with the fear of God and so we listened. He was talking about how the earth had been cleansed of all evil several times before (the Flood, etc.) and how there was no time like the present for such goings-on, and all that. Then he got down to specifics. He said youth was immoral; we went along with that peaeeabty enough. He said there was no hope; and that sounded reasonable. But then a sparkle of joy came into his voice. "Down in Asheville, N. C. a group of young students at Lee Ed wards High School are proving that riot all of their generation is in terested in wordly. pleasures," he said. A local theater had constantly showed "lewd and degenerate films. And this group of students organized to protest against these films. The youth spoke where their parents were too timid." And another case in Greens boro the board of education banned all high school social clubs. "At sev eral of the parties and wild affairs sponsored by these social clubs," the radio man said, "there had been drinking and several boys were seen drunk. In the girls' clubs it is known that sexual immorality was encouraged." The inspiring lesson went on for 5everal more minutes and then end ed, in a panicked crescendo, "Our generation must be saved from the destruction and judgment that is surely coming to us soon." (An exact quote.) No one who heard the radio pro gram has been able to sleep sound ly since, knowing of the perverse evils which are encompassing our generation. We know it's true be cause the radio speaker was Billy Graham, on his nationwide "Hour of Decision." And Billy is never wrong. (JC) Dear Barry Barry Goldwater U.S. Senate Washington, D. C. (Home of Deficit Spending) Dear Honorable Senator: We, meek souls that we are, al ways have thought you to be a major political personage, above the tnore petty snipings of American politics. Alas. Recent events have proven us mistaken. - Not too long ago a writer for the Colorado Daily, a most humble col lege newspaper, saw fit to call you a number of fairly silly names, such as "murderer." When we first heard of this, we thought to ourselves, we figured, "Sen. Goldwater is a prominent man, he must be very careful about what people say about him particularly what the poli tically influential Colorado Daily says about him." But then some thing else happened. A writer for the Daily Illini at the Univ. of Illinois wrote an article questioning your claim to be the most American of Americans. With just wrath you immediately wrote a letter demanding the Illinois edi tor be fired unfortunately Illinois has not acted promptly on your de mand, but we are sure they will come around to reason. Now, we hope, you will turn your Itoof Of Tlifc World "Surely Sen. Goldwater will ignore mighty attentions to other college this silly attack." Instead, you wrote a letter to the Univ. of Colorado president de manding he fire the editor and in subsequent weeks, you parlayed the srlly little article into a major na tional news story. The fired was subsequently fired thank good ness and your name is safe from the danger of being internationally disgraced by the Colorado Daily. . We were sad over your being concerned over such matters, but JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Editors BM Hobbs Associate Editor Wayne King Harry Lloyd Managing Editors Art Pearce Dow Sheppari News Editors Ed Dupree Sports Editor Carry Klrtpatrick Asst. Spts. Ed. Matt Weisman Feature Editor Harry DeLrcng " Night Editor Jim Wallace Photography Editor Mike Robinsoa Gary Blanchard Contributing Editors DAVE MORGAN Business Manager Gary Dal ton . Advertising Mgr. Joha Erans Circulation Mgr. Day Wysong Subscription Mgr. DutT Tab Hbl la publish daily accept .Monday, examination periods sd vacation. It im entered as aecond em matter In the poet office In Chapel EUJ, N. C -pursuant with the act of Ma7cn t, 1870. Subscription rates t III frer. semester, $8 per year. . Tiut Daily Tab Hxsl u a subscriber to the United Press - International and fitilixea the cervices of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro- , Puboabed by the Publications Board l the University of North Carolina. Chapel Eili. M. C. publications perhaps demanding the dismissal of every college editor who criticizes your most honorable policies and personage. For the good of the Nation, these influential col legiates must not be left on the loose they must be removed from the public sector where they have obstructed the path of the mighty Arizona Senator. Perhaps, when you are done with the college sector, you might inves tigate some of these incendiary high school newspapers. There are some pretty radical thoughts com ma- out of these teenagers these o - days .... Sincerely, Your friendly Daily Tar Heel (JC) Ignorance It had momentarily appeared that things were under control in Mississippi. That is to say, the stu dents weren't rioting, Barnett wasn't on campus, and matters were being placed in the hands of re spected judicial officials. Mississip pi seemed to be functioning in a manner not too removed from ac cepted standards. But then a grand jury, in a swell county called Lafayette, chose to uphold the "ole miss" tradition, and under the leadership of a W. M. O'Barr demonstrated to the world that a great deal of ignorance still holds forth in that amazing state. (CW) Wade Wellman Class Equality Caused Democracy's Failure (Editor's Note: This is the third and final part of .Mr. Wellman's se ries on "The Quintessence of Fas cism.") Having dealt with authority as the offspring of duty, we may come to the offspring of authority, which constitutes the third main principle of Fascism: that of law. Law may be basically defined as the protection of private rights from group molestation, or of community rights from the menace of an ir responsible individual or minority; and its need develops from the hbs- lineated group. And, since our sys tem of district representation makes it impossible for members of any professional group to send a repre sentative of their occupation to Congress, we have, instead, lu!i)y ists, who attempt to advance the dif ferent blocs by bribery and other meaas. This is the worst of all the faults of working democracy, and it has created the painful situation in which the public mind invariably connects politics with unscrupulous dealing and takes "politician" to be a synonym for "dirty crook." The Fascist state remedies this tility of a man's social environment fjV meaas of a parliament in which Peter Range c? Indian Conditions: Very Bad (Eds. Note: Mr. Range is a for mer UNC student, now studying abroad. This is the second in a series of articles to be sent from India.) DHARWAR, INDIA A little girl steps into the train car. About ten years old, dressed in filthy rags, her hair" hanging in caked, dirty strands around her neck, the child is emaciated and thin, her face life less and hard. She drags her little sister of half as many years with her to the middle of the commuter train first-class coach and begins singing in a mournful, harsh, nigh voice. Every now and then she pushes the tiny sister down onto her knees and face in a salaam to the onlookers. Through three train stops she sings, gazing about in the air, her expression never changing its dull and dying nature. Occasion ally the younger child picks up the chant in her tiny, not-yet-harsh voice, rending the heart of the un conditioned watcher of this specta cle. Then the two go slowly to each passenger, extending a hungry hand, then tapping the forehead quickly in the traditional beggar's plea, mum ering "baba" and "naye paise" in the appeal for alms. At most every fifth passenger drops one to ten naye paise into their hands (equivalent to less than 2c). A few minutes later a woman bearing the same lifeless eyes and hardened features plys through the car begging, her naked baby on her hip, her small son salaaming on the dirty floor at the passengers' feet. And in the course of the thirty-minute train ride from suburban Bom bay into the city's center a passing parade of half-naked, scrawny, bearded beggars beseeches the more fortunate for a few naye paise. In the commercial center of Bom bay a shabbily-dressed man is ly ing on the sidewalk, rolling about a little, moaning as though in pain suddenly he begins pulling his long hair and his limbs jerk, as though in convulsions. Nothing is strange about the sight, the passers-by take no more notice than to avoid step ping on the fellow. In this case, one could see that he was probably fak ing the whole act alms-begging can be a good business, hence the false show. Had the beggar actually died, however, no one would have done anything. Only when a policeman had finally arrived, would the corpse have been removed. The trains through the country stop very frequently. At every sta tion many small, cheerless children windows, their doleful eyes pitifully pleading for a few pennies. A blind man or an amputee fumbles his way into the coach and squats oh the floor at your feet. He opens a gaily patterned wooden box, revealing a stringed instrument with a small, piano-like keyboard, For fifteen minutes he deftly picks out the high, mysterious rhythms of Indian music, attracting those in the third-class carriage. His meager hand receives more than that of the beggar who simply asks for unearned alms. De spite railroad rules forbidding the practice, beggars board all trains, ride a few stations with one, take another one back, going back and forth several times per day without purchasing a ticket. Only occasion ally can an official bring himself to throwing them out. Passing out of the train station a beturbaned and bearded old fellow tugs at your sleeve, asking: "You want a fortune-teller, sir?" Without awaiting an answer he proceeds to discourse on some family trouble you have been having or a supposed trip you are to be taking shortly; if not stopped or deserted right away these phonies feel they have every right to exact a fee from the listen er. Even in the small town, such as Dharwar, Where we are the only foreigners among 75,000 Indians, beggary runs rampant. Along almost every other street some gaunt, ghost of a body lies in the dust with his beggar's bowl before him. Haggard women, almost invariably carrying small babies, hover around the stop ped buses, pleading for help in their misery. Bent old men go from shop to shop, holding out their bowls to owners and customers alike. Some more energetic beggars sit in the market place, performing antics and chants in praise of the gods and of mankind. Among most Indians, especially those of the very low and middle classes, there is a good deal of sympathy for beggars, and they try to give them a few pennies now and again. Thus the beggars, who are generally outcastes, unwed mothers, or physicially disabled persons, can usually make from $.25 to $.75 per day, or the same of an Indian con struction worker. This continued sympathy and alms-giving simply frustrates the government's intention to eradicate beggary. The amount of money in descrimkiantly handed out by the public each year could be much bet ter used if channeled through a sin gle government agency to provide for the undertrodden of the society. The beggars, however, like begging better and refuse to enter those quarters which the government has provided for them in some cities. And it marches on. The most piti ful sight is that of the readfully deformed man, whose bent legs come across his back to touch the ground by his shoulders, lying in the dirt outside his little mud hut on the edge of town. Even out here in the University quarters, beggars arrive. Two holy men, decorously decked with cheap, heavy jewelry and colorful turbans, stand chanting at the door until dismissed with a coin. An ageless, gray, gossamer like man sits down on the porch withsa low, round basket before him. He removes the top and, really and truly, a "charmed" cobra raises its swollen head straight into the air as if out of an ancient fairytale, gazing sleepily at his awed audience. India's problems are many' and great. Indeed the direst ones lie not on the North East Frontier, but deep within India's own, undisputed boundaries. and his own reciprocal hostility to the community. Authority must en force duty, and law is the means of enforcement. And law must orig inate from the governing body and not from the general population for the mass of people, if trusted to direct the making of their own laws, simply bog down in a welter of con flicting aims, the plutocrats seeking to hold all their amassed privileges, the poor seeking to become pluto crats. Lawmaking should be en trusted to a body of legislators who know in full the needs of the people they represent, and can decide ex actly what is necessary for the wel fare of their constituents. And this brings us to the main practical fail ure of democratic government the fallacy of district representa tion. Of all the errors of modern de mocracy, none is so regrettable or so tragically wasteful as this prac tice of choosing legislators to rep resent geographical localities. In American democracy a Congress man numbers among his constituents farmers, plumbers, carpenters, fac tory employees, business tycoons, bankers, and even college profes sors. How can he possibly be expect ed to keep all their varied needs be fore him? His task becomes a hope less job of simply doing anything and everything to be re-elected. Since the interests of his district are not clearly defined, the best that he can do is look to his own interests, and at once the distinc tion between his interests and the welfare of his district becomes ap parent. He relies on opinion polls, conflicting mail from voters, and sometimes on pure guesswork, and often votes against his conscience to please a powerful interest. Thus, instead of statesmen thinking of the needs of the group, we have poli ticians thinking of their own needs in the absence of a sharply de- the members represent, not geo graphical areas, but trades and pro fessions. In this system the repre sentative knows exactly what unit he is responsible for and does not waste his energy in conciliating a heterogenous mass of workers and aristocrats who have nothing in com mon except the latitude ami Kwgi tude of the map. Furthermore, in stead of a President who can be pushed around and overruled, thwarted and harassed by a Con gressional majority of two-thirds, the Fascist state appoints a strong and authoritative leader whose will is not subject to the whims of an other branch of government. Thus the Fascist state removes another headache so commcn to democracy the depressing spectacle of a government crippled by conflicting views in Congress and the White House. If disagreements arise with in the Fascist government, the ruler can assert his authority and effect his own wishes. In our system dis agreements have been known to tie up the Congressional machinery in filibusters, an impossibility under Fascism. 'Briefly put, democracy has foiled because it insists that society should be organized on a basis of equality, without visible classes. Fascism realizes that classes are a necessary consequence of the dif fering abilities and interests of men; that men have evil impulses and must be restrained; and that real ism must come before sentimental ism. During World W7ar II the west ern plutocrats allied themselves with Communism to defeat the as pirations of Mussolini (which Hitler distorted and exaggerated for his purposes). But the new Europe now taking form may perhaps revive these ideals, which still retain a firm hold on the rationalism of western man. Letters To The Editors Editorials: Pro And 6Ech' DTH Discussion 'Deep, Revealing' To the Editors, Recent letters to the editor give me the impression that the editorial column is under attack. I would thus like to offer some defense. This year I have been very much impressed with the fact that con troversial, timely, and even heated discussions have been appearing both in the editorial column and in the Letters to the Editors. For a long time I have been concerned with the apathy of college students, including my own. The very reveal ing and deep discussions on current issues which take place between editors and students, and between students, via the DTH, makes me very proud of this university society. In regard to extreme statements that are sometimes made (if indeed they are extreme), there seems to be no shortage of ready retorts and criticisms. The DTH thus seems to be valid proving ground for any such extreme idea in true Hegelian fash ion. Also the recent topic of Academic Freedom has some relevance in this present issue. Thomas A. Moore Edits Provide Humor, Satire To the Editors, Concerning the N. C Magazine who needs this supplement when we at Carolina are fed the "real thing" daily in your editorials? Honestly, fellows, you under-estimate your selves. The loss of the "high quali ty humor and satire" you bemoan drips stickily from the hasty pens of "The Editors" with nearly eve ry editorial effort. Pray sirs, do not dilute such masterworks of "humor and satire" as the "Minute for Meredith" howl. Especially droll was the series (three, or was it four columns?) devoted to explaining with a dictionary, no less how we at U.N.C. flagrantly misdefine the political terms "liberal" and "conservative." So, actually, men like Barry G. are liberal, or is it J.F.K. who's conservative? What an amusing riddle! Of course, the best laugh yet was your Dirty Dick Nixon rib-tickler. That gem is hanging from my wall to this day. I still chuckle over the way you set us up for that one stating straight faced, and with great innocence, that you always intend to eidtorialize only issues "vi tal" to U.N.C, and then (clever you!) hitting us with that "Pray for Brown" punch line. I'll never for get that one. Never. I'll quiver for a long while yet ov er your latest, the follow-up to that eye moistening obituary for the N. C. Magazine. Did you really in tend to "feel out" student opinion with an obituary? Truely amusing! Keep up the "good work." Dave Fox day, "Your wife must be a Scots woman." He said she was the first generation of her family from Scot land born in this country. The time was a few days before Christmas Day. The madame re marked that she thought giving pres ents to grown people was silly, that Christmas was for children. I could imagine them, waking up Christmas morning, no Christmas tree, no decorations, no Santa Claus, and nothing to do, while everyone else was celebrating the joyous sea son, but to look at each other, and wonder why Christmas was ever invented. I have a suspicion that she didn't want to spend any money on Christmas "foolery." Catching the Christmas spirit is like what an old widower said once (no, he wasn't making love to me) "That you might get too old to be loved, but you never get too old to love." And I might add, you never get too old to want to be loved and remembered, especially at Christ mas time. Bill Snider, not withstanding, Christmas is for everybody! Otelia Connor Christmas Celebration As the Christmas season rolls around again and I compile my Christmas list, I am reminded of what I wrote a year ago about cele brating Christmas "Don't ever stop celebrating Christmas, or the Christmas spirit is the spirit of love and Giving." Some time after that article came out in the paper, I met a retired couple who seemed to be very close (stingy). She was always saying she wasn't going to pay the price for this and that. She said she had the money, but she wasn't going to pay for things she thought were too high priced. I said to him one This Space Is Dedicated To Those Students Who are Tired Of Reading Daily Tar Heel Edits And Letters Enjoy Yourselves. i i