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3 I t 1 k di T tc sfc tk C( E lot wl Cei Sw Ge of wa: er 4 arej hom CaU 1963 Engli cr 3f Ope Sp The r cert fi A at Seel k 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 HEEL 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 15, 19G2 Tel. 042-2356 Vol. LXX, No. G8 "There's No Secret About My Black Box Plan" Stevenson And JFK: Unanimity at the Top? Adlai Stevenson's misfortune flowing from the Bartlett-Alsop ar ticle in the Saturday Evening Post is disturbing for two reasons. One if the President is dissatis fied with Mr. Stevenson as U.N. ambassador, it might lead to his re placement a misfortune in itself, to lose such an able statesman. Two and more disquieting for the future is that Mr. Kennedy may begin surrounding himself only with "Yes" men, with men who can be counted on to agree with and support wholeheartedly the President's wishes. The first sign of this possible trend came when Chester Bowles was demoted as a result of his opposition to the Bay of Pigs fiasco in April, 1961. It will be much more serious if Mr. Ste venson should be removed from his important and very sensitive post removed for the "crime" of being honest and speaking his mind. If this trend is allowed to con tinue indefinitely the United States could come to resemble the dicta torial nations, where only one view is heard at the top, and eventually, the "leader" is told only what he wants to hear. And where, eventu ally, the nation suffers. (JC) Essays On Democracy Entries are still being accepted in the "ideals of democracy" essay writing competition. The competition was initiated by a political science professor in an swer to a three-part column in the Tar Heel defending Fascism. The professor will award $15 to the Poli Sci 41 student who writes the best paper on democracy and "its essential ideal of equality." There is no requirement of length, although papers should not greatly exceed three double-spaced typed pages. Entries should be typed and double-spaced if possible, and turned into the Daily Tar Heel of fices, second floor of Graham Me morial. The competition closes Jan. 10. The editors of the Tar Heel will judge the competition. Eastland 'Ritmitic' More on Bill Buckley: Introducing "Eastland Arithme tic": One cup of coffee plus one Ne gro equals one mixed marriage. (This stuff is very complex and should be taught only to those stu dents whose intelligence ranks somewhere near that of the Sena tor from Mississippi.) When Senator Eastland derived this formula just before the Free dom Rides he probably had no idea Norman Mailer would hear of it. Somehow Mailer did, and concluded that the sexual "superiority" of the Negro male was the true cause of Southern resistance to racial inte gration. That was hardly what Senator Eastland had in mind, but nothing delights Mailer more than having someone take issue with him. And William Buckley grabbed up the bait like candy. Not even Jimmy Eastland would have come before a college audience to correlate sex with a sit-in. Or for that matter would Norman Mailer. Not so our boy from Yale. His stooping to ridicule Mailer was an insult to the intelligence of his listeners, at least to most of them. For his purposes Senator East land has discovered the sex issue to be very effective. He can yell, "Pro tect your women from the Black Plague (Negroes)," and have the rednecks rioting in the streets and sending him back to Washington. Mailer'.s purpose was equally forgiv able though no more honorable. If nobody disagrees with him, his books don't sell and Mailer doesn't eat. Unfortunately the author plans to keep eating. But we aren't rednecks and we read Norman Mailer only after Jeff runs out of Playboy. Furthermore, we don't intend to follow William Buckley as he follows Norman Mailer between the legs of the uni verse at $450 a peek. Lester Carson Brrr JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Editors Wayne King Harry Lloyd Managing Editors Art Pearce Dow Sheppari News Editors Harry DeLnng Night Editor Ed Dnpree Sports Editor Carry Ktrkpatrick Asst. Spts. Ed. Matt Weisman Feature Editor Jim Wallace Photography Editor Mike Robinson Gary Blaochard Contributing Editors DAVE MORGAN Business Manager Gary Dal ton Advertising Mgr. John Evans Circulation Mgr. Dave Wysong Subscription Mgr. Tn Dajxt Ta Em Is published Aailr xcopt Monday, examination periods nd vacations. It Is entered as second class matter In the post office la Chapel H11L N. C pursuant with the act ox March 8. 1870. Subscription sates I $4-it per eemester. 98 per year. Tsbb Daelt Tab ELssl is a subscriber to th United Press International an utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Car- la I SI Published by the Publications Boar ft the University pt North Carolina, Chapel BUI. KC. Chapel Hill is known to some as the "Southern Part of Heaven." However, Wednesday and Thurs day, it was more like the southern part of Eskimo land. Chapel Hill, over 1,000 miles south of Alaska, shivered and shook Thursday with a low temperature of 6 degrees. In contrast, Nome, Alaska, "basked" in 31 degree weather. Such mixups as this make us wonder which Kennedy is actually running the weather bureau. It may be that Bobby is trying to get back at the South for the cold shoulder he got in Mississippi last month. On the other hand, maybe Jack is trying to boost the economy by in creasing the cost of citrus fruits, or maybe he is trying to reduce the surplus of fuel oil. Then too, Jackie may want to go ice skating instead of water skiing. Whatever the reason, would someone "up there" please turn on the heat? Gary Dalton f V"1 J-r- i - V - wi-- 1 iff ' " ' fa - x - 3e 1 Christmas Madness In The Legislature The War Games Ey ALAN GOLDSMITH (Hark, the friendly mongoose sings glory to the new born werewolf! ) The student legislature was about to reach an exploding point. A reso lution had been introduced to abol ish the formal recognition of Qirist mas in the United States. A young legislator was rising to his feet. (Innocence was marked with decay and decay was marked with inno cence.) ".Mr. Chairman, this resolution strikes me as ridiculous! Is there anyone here who truly feels that Christmas should be abolished?" A buz of voices rippled through the room. The editor of the school newspaper scribbled notes fran tically. He was seated in the rear of the room. Was there a smile on his face? Across the room another legislator was rising to his feet. A mad dog does not necessarily foam at the mouth.) '"Mr. Chairman, if I may answer my disturbed friend over there. There is nobody in this room who doesn't wish to celebrate Christmas, but there are those in the outside world who fall victims every year to Christmas because the state for mally recognizes Christmas as a holiday. These people are subject to persecution simply because they do not wish to celebrate Christmas. My disturbed friend certainly re members the case of a certain Mr. Ebeneezcr Scrooge as told by Mr. Dickens. This is only one of mil lions examples of people being lit erally forced to believe in Christ mas." The legislator paused to let the meaning of his words sink in. The editor scribbled. This was con troversial. He smiled. The legisla- After Cuba W hat Anc ow By MAX ASCOLI Reporter Magazine It was Thanksgiving Day. The newspapers and the air waves fea tured two parallel items of news: The . Strategic Air Command was bringing back to normal the number of bombers aloft at all times and those on fifteen-minute ground alert; Marshal iMalinovsky, it was report ed from Moscow, had been ordered to have "rocket troops and inter continental rocket troops transfer red from full combat alert to nor mal training and activity." The war games were over. Since both Red and Blue became armed with nuclear weapons, no previous test had ever come so close to the real thing. The peace for our time the world has endured since 194." had never been so nearly identical to war for our time. Never was the test so demanding or imposed cn so many a test of our leaders and of their leaders, of our people and of their people. We Americans, as well as our allies, have all been called upon and have given our measure. iBut are there people anywhere, ir respective of their alignment, who have not felt that their very exist ence was at stake? Now that the war games are ov er, it is imperative to start review ing the various actions and counter actions that took place. We must understand first of all how the con frontation turned out to be a game, and who was responsible for start ing it, and what are the lessons to be learned. This will require a long, sustained effort, but it is not too Money, Money . . . HaPPy, Happy . . . Eds. Note The following is being run as a patriotic public service in the interests of the American dem ocratic system and the American system of unlimited Private-Profit Initiative (choose both). From the Free Enterprise Awards Association, Inc.: "New York City American Suc cess Story Awards will be present ed by the Free Enterprise Awards Association to eight men and two women as examples of the awards of success possible under America's free enterprise democracy. Starting as farmers, reporters, cigar rollers, odd jobs, they rose to own or head giant industries. . . . The president of the awards as sociation "warned that the Cuban crisis, the Berlin Wall and other perilous encroachments on our na tion and the democratic freedoms of all people make it imperative that freedom-loving people unite to pre vent the extermination of democracy by totalitarian forces. "The Free Enterprise Awards Association was chartered ... to promote incentive and champion the cause of the American free en terprise democracy through "Mo rale Defense" projects to bolster the faith of all people in the American democratic system." Harold F. Coffey, president of Kent-Coffey Mfg. Co., was cited for his contributions. Other winners were the president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway; the owner of 6 banks; and president of six other major companies. early to attempt drawing some ten tative conclusions. As in the tradi tional, old-fashioned war games, all conclusions cannot help being tenta tive. Yet the lessons learned and their cumulative impact may turn out to be decisive. There is the question of victory and defeat. These old and elemental terms must be used in a so-to-speak way, sheltered from their literal significance with an abundant use of quote-unquote. All the basic is sues on which our will and that of the Soviets was tested became man ageable when their literal meaning got so diluted as to be nearly un recognizable. "Inspection," indeed "on-site inspection," came to be an exercise in picture-taking, high above the site. "Verification" was the name adopted for a peek at the lifting of tarpaulins covering crates with something or other inside. And let's not talk about inspection and verification by the United Nations. U Thant, after a futile attempt to apply the Taft-Hartley cooling-off technique, rushed to Cuba to offer Castro reassurances about" the sac redness of his sovereignty, and sug gested to him that some kind of UN presence (on site, to be sure, but not inspecting) could be a guaran tee against aggression. Guess who the aggressor might have been. Yet there is no doubt that a num ber of these so-to-speak or let's-pre-tend operations had a positive, ef fective function, if for no other rea son than that both adversaries agreed on them and therefore turn ed an imminent war into an exer cise in gamesmanship. Nearly everything about this Cu ban affair is baffling, and there are too many mysterious and even sinister factors that must become known to make mature judgment possible. Some of the things that happened may never be known. Take what President Kennedy said at his press conference about the presence in Cuba "of a number of Soviet ground combat units" charg ed with the "protection of offensive weapons systems. Protection against whom? Castro's army? To what ex tent did Castro know about the weapons system in his country not to speak of how to use it? Cas tro will never tell, nor will Mikoyan. As to why it all happened, there can be no doubt, and no research is needed. Khrushchev's action in sneaking nuclear weapons into Cuba can in no way be offset or, even less, become forgivable because of his promptness in carting them out. Yet in some sections of opinion in allied countries, and to a minor degree in our own, there seems to be something like a tendency to nominate Khrushchev for the next Nobel Peace Prize. If war has been avoided, if ultimate destruction has turned into gamesmanship it is only and exclusively due to our Presi dent and to our country. Had not the President acted as he did at the time he did, had the Soviet atomic batteries been unveiled in Cuba, then both Soviet recklessness and despair on our side would in evitably have pulled the trigger of all those weapons that remained un fired. With all the qualifications and the quote-unquotes the war games de mand, we have won. There is enough hard reality in our victory and their retreat to give to the Cuban episode an immense exemplary sig nificance. Total nuclear war can be avoided only if we go on win ning, and don't let the fruits of victory be taken from us. tor continued. "I say that it 'is the solemn duty of every legislator in this assembly to vote for this resolution. It is their duty as legislators? It is their duty as human beings!" (Christmas is commercialism! Christmas is com mercialism! Christmas is commerc ialism! ) There was a brief silence in the room then a burst of commotion. Several legislators were on their feet screaming seeking recogni tion from the chair. A member ot the fraternity party received this recognition. He held several sheets of papr in his hand making a dra matic gesture. '.Mine enemy grows redder) "Mr. Chairman, I have here in my hand something so important that it concerns not only the legis lature but the safety of the United States of America!" The next sen tence he shouted. "I have docu mented proof that there are exact ly 27 card carrying communists sitting in this assembly!" (Christ mas is a holiday! Christmas is a holiday! Christmas is a holiday!) Some members of the legislature knew in tiie back of their minds th:i! they had heard this speech made in a movie or somewhere nut too long ago, but the room lia.i been caught up in too much excitement for them to think. Visions of the American Legion, Algier Hiss, and Eleanor Roosevelt began to float around in the room as angry voices shouted and cursed. (If I had : hammer, I'd bash my oppuient brains out!) The editor continued to scribble. He wanted a Jx'er, but this was controversy. He dared not leave. He smiled. A pretty co-ed received the chair's recognition. She spoke in a sugar, sweet, southern voice which hinted of moonlight nights of untold bliss. The room became quiet again, but the visions of the American Legion, Alger Hiss, and Eleanor IlooscveU remained. "Mr. Giairman," she drawled m her sugar, sweet, southern voice. Someone sighed in the back of the room. Was it the editor? The throe visions began to disappear as the new vision of Dr. Freud began to float near the co-cd. AU the world is a Skinner box.) "Mr. Chairman, I don't think there are any communists in this as sembly," she drawled in her sugar, sweet, southern voice. "And I also think that Christmas is very, very, good for America and everybody. So let's not argue about it." Something akin to an organic shock of satisfaction spread through the legislature like Lolita chasing Humbert Humbert or Humbert Hum bert chasing Lolita. What chance did the American Legion, Alger Hiss, or Eleanor Roosevelt, have? (What chance do any of us have?) None! Christmas had been saved! The legislature adjourned, and the legislators went back to their dorms and fraternities thinking of mistletoe, a Johnny Mathis Christ mas album, snow, a deserted cabin, fire, soft red lips, and warm soft flesh. And this was the way the world would end? Controversy had been crushed. The editor frowned as he drank his beer. He thought of the American legion, Algier Hiss, Eleanor Roose velt, and maybe even the bomb. (Bang, bang, you're dead Santa Claus!) He drank his beer and pon dered these things and then he did a funny thing. He leaned over and kissed the girl with the sugar, sweet, southern voice. And this was the way the world would end we all hoped! Friday 9 s Decision Correct Assemblies Gran! Education More The Greensboro Daily News President William Friday of the Consolidated University of North Carolina has forthrightly, and cor rectly, removed his name from those now under speculation as gub ernatorial timber in 1964. . President Friday's educational mission in North Carolina is far too important to have it bandied about as a political football by pressure groups or used as a stalking horse for others. When Dr. Frank Porter Graham, then president of the uni versity, stepped down from his po sition to accept appointment as U. S. senator by Gov. Kerr Scott, his move, unfortunately, embroiled the university in politics at a level not in its best interests. If another university president 12 years later became an acknowledg ed candidate for Governor, with all the trappings of a iull-blown and hard-fought campaign ahead, his ac tion could not fail to make the uni versity a central issue in the en veloping political struggle; and while a university should never hes itate to take on a fight when one is necessary, this would be the wrong fight at the wrong time and the wrong place. Of course the university is al ready involved in the general poli tics of a forward-moving North Car olina. But it cannot afford to have its chief officials using their pres tigious offices as stepping-stones in to the active political arena. The scurrilous and naturally anonymous literature now being dis tributed about a proposed Friday candidacy illuminates the vindictive ness of certain pressure groups. With all kinds of crosscurrents now flooding North Carolina a new political competitiveness, crucial de cisions i higher education and con troversy on athletic policies men of expediency and ambition will na turally try to drag good and dedi cated public servants like President Friday through the political quag mire. The very fact that these cur rent attempts are anonymous tells enough about them. The mud will end up spattering those who try to smear it on others. And even some well-intentioned citizens who have been unknowingly used to attain ob jectives for others will wake up to the viciousness of the political game. In the meantime President Friday has asserted his own determination to continue using his considerable administrative and educational skill in the dedicated task to which he pledged it when he became presi dent of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. That job is hon ored most when it is under attack. And the man who holds the job now, we know, understands7 That. (From the Joint Office of In stitutional Research, Washington.) State legislatures across the coun try appropriated $1.8 billion in state tax founds for higher education in 1962-63, a gain of 24.5 percent over a two-year period, according to a recent report. This compares with an increase of 22.7 percent in the previous two year period, 1959-61. State tax ap propriations must be compared on a two-year basis, since most state legislatures make bi-annual appro priations. The report was prepared by Visit ing Professor M. M. Chambers of the University of Michigan and pub lished by the Joint Office of Insti tutional Research, Washington, D. C. The 50-state figure provided for teaching programs, organized re search, agricultural and engineer ing experiment stations, hospitals, county agents, adult education pro grams and other public service ac tivities. The $1.8 billion total, repre senting a two-year increase of S3"7 million, includes over 400 colleges and universities. It is based only on appropriations of state tax fun is for operating expenses and does net include reappropriated income from tuitions, dormitories, athletic events and other campus enterprises. State-by-state gain ranged from New York's 75 percent increase l Louisiana's 5 percent rise. Appro priations again declined in only tuo states in Alabama by 1.5 percent and in Montana by 0.5 percent. The report found that the 20 states which operate local community jun ior colleges had appropriated an ad ditional $81 million to these schools in 12-6, ,an increa.se of about percent oter the total appropriate! in the earlie two-year period.
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