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Mike Folk D-Dav Plus I8V2 Years Wht Bail? tEar ?eel German Frais: Beer And Alum n fts 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. February 8, 19G3 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXX, No. 86 Republican Responsibility: A Story Of The South Growing Republican strength in the South has been subjected to considerable crystal-gazing, edi torial fence-straddling, and limb-going-out-on. In the latest Nation al Review, publisher William A. Rusher takes crystal ball in hand and sees that the GOP has "a ren dezvous with a new idea." National Review has run sever al such articles in past years and their findings (based, of course, on empirical e v i d e n c e) have, strangely enough, all pointed to the conclusion that the Republican Party has no choice but to run Sen. Carry Goldwater for president in 19G4. This article came to the same conclusion: Nelson, Romney and Scranton, no; Barry, si. Rusher reasons that the Repub licans cannot wrin either New York or California in '64, but still can defeat Kennedy IF the party captures the 165 electoral votes of southern and border states, along with New England, the Mid-West and Northwest. Therefore, he says, Goldwater is the only logical Re pubican candidate since none of the others could win in the con servative South. This is all very logical. And sim ple. But it runs into another line of reasoning within the Republican party and this other line says the Republican party is dead if it tries to woo the South, and there fore must nominate a liberal or moderate Republican in '64. "Eisenhower Republicans" "Modern Republicans" whatever they may call themselves, the liberal-moderate wing of the party has controlled the party's presiden tial nomination since 1940. Such leading Republican conservatives as Robert Taft have been passed over time after time, in favor of lesser known men such as Wilkie and Dewey. Eisenhower and Nixon con tinued this pattern of appealing to the conservative and middle-of-the-road voters in Northern and West ern cities and the Mid-West farm vote. It was essential for these men to carry New York and California. Nelson Rockefeller's big calling card is that he is NewT York's gov ernor and thus has top call on the Empire State's voters. But Ken nedy carried the state in 1960 and the chances are good he will do the same in '64. California, likewise, looks strong for the President. Rusher's reasoning, therefore, JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Editors Art Pearce Chris Farran News Editors Wayne King Harry Lloyd Managing Editors Ilarry DeLnng Night Editor Ed Dupre Sports Editor Carry Kirkpatrick Asst. Spts. Ed. Jim Wallace Photography Editor Mickey Blackwell Gary Blanchard Contributing Editors DAVE MORGAN Business Manager Gary Dal ton Advertising Mgr. John Evans Circulation Mgr. Dave Wysong Subscription Mgr. Tn Daily Tab Ebb. Is pubUhd Uy Mccopt Monday, examination periods end vacations. It is entered mm second class matter In the post office In Chapel Hill. N. C, pursuant with the set of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates i ti-M per semester, tS per year. Ths Daily Tas Bast. Is a subscriber to she United Press International a utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. Published by ths Publications Boar f the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. N. C. that the Republican candidate should look for votes elsewhere is a reasonable one. The resultant question is "where to look? and the only answer is the South. According to Time magazine, Re publican candidates for the House of Representatives received 31 per cent of all votes cast in 19G2 as against only 1G.3 per cent in 195S. Republicans made strong showings in Alabama, Arkansas, South Car olina and Texas, as well as areas in which they already had shown strength. North Carolina saw the GOP take over one city Greens boro in a surprising election. Seven southern and border states have gone Repubican twice in the past three presidential elections. Rusher thinks that with Goldwater as the candidate the party could sweep the South. Now this leads to the question of how does the GOP court the South, and then into that most controversial of all public issues, race. In some parts of the South, Re publicans have taken a more in telligent, "let's stand for law and order .. ." position on race rela tions than the local Democrats. This is particularly true in Georgia, Ala bama, and to some extent North Carolina. This has happened be cause Republican support is com ing from the cities, from the ris ing business-commercial classes not the wool-hat rural regions. This form of "Republican Respectabili ty" is paying off both in votes and party unity because the brand of conservatism found in Southern cities is little different than that anywhere else. The problem of the party mov ing into a strong position in the South, however, has to do with in tegration and what to do about the opposing pressures of the Federal government and the rabid segrega tionist element. Advance, a leading liberal Re publican magazine, recently caused a furor by blasting GOP attempts to get Southern votes by forming coalitions with segregationists. Many Northern Republican and YRC chapters have taken .strong liberal stands on integration and refuse to accept the possibility of a Republican platform even tacitly giving in to the South's racial hot heads. Sen. Jacob Javits has add ed his voice to this warning. The Republicans, obviously, are in a fix. They can play along with the racists and gain votes in the South and break the Democratic party stronghold on the region and then lose votes in all Northern industrial areas, ruining all chanc es to gain the Presidency. Or, they can stand for responsi ble, city-style conservatism in the South hold onto, and try to in crease, their Northern and West ern support and still probably lose the Presidency in '64. The former could work (refer ence: the effectiveness with which Kennedy works with Sens. East land, Russell and friends), but the latter holds more promise for the future when Southern cities, with the aid of population changes and reapportionment, come to their proper political importance, Repub lican Respectability in the cities .will truly mean a Two-Party South. But for the near term, the GOP has no place to turn, and no place to go, and no place to stay, and had just better forget about 1964. (JC) - ' , JL--- v I Letters To The Editors (Eds. Note: Mike Folk is a form er UXC student studying in Germ any on the University's Gottingen scholarship.) GOTTINGEN, Germany In Ger man universities the closest paral lel to the American fraternity is the Korpcration. Korporations are the most strongly criticized, and vigor ously defended, student organiza tions in Germany. Not all Korporations are alike. There are Korporations with most ly social aims, dedicated mainly to molding, the personality and improv ing the public image of the individ ual. Some are politically oriented, devoting their efforts to discussion of specific topics ranging from his tory to economics. Some sing, some are religious in nature, but the one thing they all have in common is lifetime membership. Naturally the most vigorous mem bers are the students, who are ac tive three or four semesters. These few semesters usually play a sig nificant role in determining the general political, cultural, and so cial attitudes the student will have for the rest of his life. In this re spect the Korporations are similar to their american counterparts. The lifetime membership is tak en quite seriously by both the old timers and the active members. Whenever there is a special cele bration the alte Herren, old men, are invited, and if they can make it they usually show up. They take great pleasure in coming back once a year to sing and drink beer in the Ratskeller with the younger folk. The active members don't at all mind putting up with the old Lawler, Editors Hit By Wedler Correction To the Editors: I appreciate the article you pub lished on January 15 about my stor ies in the "New Yorker." The head ing, however, describes me as "Press Head," which is not cor rect. Lambert Davis, as Director, is head of The University of North Carolina Press. I especially want to establish this distinction because it is one way of acknowledging that without Mr. Davis' reassurance and support there would not have been either the Poetry Series or the Poet ry Circuit, and I even wonder whe ther there would have been any stories in the "New Yorker." Howard K. Webber Editor-in-chief UXC Press DTII Headline 'Rank Sensation' To the Editors: I wish to clear up a few points about the month-of-November Ac ademic Affairs committee report which was printed in the 15 January issue of the DTH under the heading "Admission Attitude Decidedly Against Negros". 1) Mike Lawler, speaker for the Student Legislature, and co-editors Clotfelter and Wrye printed the re port, and decided upon the headline, completely without consulting me in the matter, nor even telling me that it was to be printed. 2) The report, as it was written Jules Feiff er i i&fl? ro me A 10T OF 1W0U mv cm a iot, 'mm) TAfJTRUMS. i cooivm co A M HIM. and appeared, was not intended for "general consumption," since as it stood it was too brief, abstract, and esoteric. 3) By printing the article stright forth, Mssrs. Clotfelter, Wrye and Lawler unknowingly usurped most of the material from a feature article by the Communications Committee regarding the work of the Academic Affairs Committee, which was to be forthcoming. I assure you that this latter article would have been bet ter written and more readable than my brief sketch. 4) The headline was distorted and out of perspective with the total re port. ... It was an example of rank sensationalism, a distortion of the facts for the editor's own pur poses, however noble they may be. I stated clearly that "the attitudes of the admissions staff is still subtly yet decidedly against encouraging Negroes to apply for undergraduate study here", which was misquoted to read "Admissions Attitude 'De cidedly Against' Negroes", thus im plying that the University's admis sion policies are discriminatory, which they are not. More significant, this point was clearly subordinate to many other more important ones made in the article. What I meant to achieve in the first place was a well-placed dig at the sometimes overly conservative actions of our admissions officers, Mssrs. Bernard and French, in re gard to their presenting College Day programs at various North Caro lina high schools, both Negro and White. Because our committee agreed several years ago that stu dents at many such high schools were not fully informed of the educa tional opportunities offered by their state university, we have since un dertaken to give College Day pro grams to those high schools which the admissions department cannot visit, whatever the reasons, provid ed there is sufficient interest. In all fairness, let it be said that the admissions department, as much as any other office, is severely short of funds and personnel, and will be come increasingly so as further de mands are made of it with the Uni versity's expansion. In conclusion, I would ask simply that the DTH subscribers, mainly students of UNC, be given more ac curate and balanced reporting of what is News, which, in this cae, if I may suggest it, would be the publication of the above mentioned Communications Committee article in the near future. Fred Wedler Chairman. Academic Affairs Committee Women .Ask Penalty End Enclosed is a copy of a letter the local branch of Women's In ternational League for Peace and Freedom has sent Governor San ford. We shall appreciate your putting it in t:he Letters to the Editor column of The Tar Heel at an early date. We hope the 1963 Legislature will pass a bill to abolish capital punishment in North Carolina. Several bills have been presented formerly which have died in committee. Mrs. Wayne Bowers, Chairman Chapel Hill Durham Branch WILPF The Honorable Terry Sanford Governor of North Carolina Raleigh, North Carolina Dear Governor Sanford: At Christmas time you extend ed executive clemency to two young men who had received the death sentence and commuted their sentences to life imprison ment. For this action the Chapel Hill-Durham Branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom commends you. We believe that executive clemency is not the real answer to the prob lem of the death sentence, how ever, and we hope the North Ca rolina Legislature, which is about to convene, will consider and pass a bill which will abolish capital punishment in North Carolina. We subscribe to the principle stated below, believing that it holds for North Carolina and all States. This appeal was sent from Geneva, Switzerland, by ths the chairman and two vice-chairmen of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to the heads of all governments. Geneva is the international head quarters of the organization. "The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has, since its inception at The Hague in 1915, considered the right to life as a fundamental hu man right, and asserts that no authority is entitled to sentence a human being to death. "The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom holds that this view is in full agreement with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which clearly point out that maintenance of men because they are gmd fir laughs and they usually c.-.lt in a gcodly share of the active men.eer'. living expenses. Thus liv;r.g ox;,o".v es can actually be cheaper for K-r:-oratien members than for other :u dents. Social activities. howowr. usually more than make up the dk ferer.ee. so that the mem!ers en ! up with a higher than avera.e se mester bill. Members wear an official cos tume on special occasions and ;. parties that take place every Fri day and Saturday night in some student hangout. It consists of a multi-colored sash which erodes, the chest and a beanie-like cap .i; i the same colors as the sash. Ti.e first time I saw an aggravation beanied "brothers" singing and guz zling beer together I was reminded of a New Years Eve party. But i'v members take their attire qiute seriously. Even the old men never show up without their cap a id .sash. About half the corporations in dulge in fencing, for which they are most strongly criticized. The fenc ing Korporations are a product of the age of romanticism around the beginning of the nineteenth cen'ury. the days when anybody worth his salt took part in a duel now and then. In those early years there were probably more ears lopped ok and scalps disected than today be cause the protective equipment was scanty and the rules were not so safe as they are now. But fighting with swords is still no sissy spurt, and an uncomfortable number of Korporation men still sport healthy scars. An active member must practice every day, and once or twice dur ing his membership he duels with a "brother," often wearing above the neck only nose and eye guards for protection. Most of the duelem come away in one piece, but some how they usually manage a sm . hidden scar somewhere around the hairline. "I wasn't careful," ore fencer told me modestly as he prouldly parted his hair, barely re vealing his half inch mark of vahr. To the uninitiated such a i : ... pastime as sword fighting doesn't seem too appealing, but the mem bers feel quite strongly about their hallowed sport, claiming the! ,: "builds courage and bearing." . -well as being a sport of tense ex citement and skill. They say the' the fight "for keeps" serves to uim 1 members into a genuine brother hood. Critics reply that courage can't be manufactured, and that most individuals don't really no",I the comfort and security of such a brotherhood. Naturally the commonest criticism is that it is just too dangerous. It all boils down to the question of whether one would be an undofi'e ! coward or rn earless hero, and a' on! a fourth of the German univer i:y men have courageously chosen the latter. peace is inseparably connected with respect for liie and the die nity and worth of man. "Capital punishment violates this principle an.! contributes to the brutalization of the mind of man. "The Women's Internationa1! League for Peace and freedom holds that a Stte which con siders an act of murder by a citizen to be a capital crime ought not to make itself 'juihy of taking life. "A State which desires to es tablish peace must abolish capi tal punishment as; a means of punishing crime." PIAHM5WITH m BOOK CF TRAGTO stamps i took nm FROM HIM WI If SHRMAM A 600D BOY All VAH STAMPS. CUT OF HIM. 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