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Vol. 72, Number 21 Tuesday, October 15, 1963. m -L" :-j- ,T-r-;yi-,-;--,--w it i Stye iatlg Glar 2fM 70 Years of Editorial Freedom i Site f fhf ynvrr5hy ; North Carotin ' vhtt first ' epv&& t& door in famuwy Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 942-3112. Business, cir culation, advertising 942-2138. Address: Bos 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C. Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant to Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $S per year. ii Published daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications Board of toe University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. THE DAILY TAR HEEL Is a subscriber to United Press International and utilizes the services of the University News Bureau. m m m m :--: P Dear Faculty: Silence May Be Golden, But It Can Also Be Misinterpreted Paul Green had an awfully good point when he asked in his University Day address why more UNC instructors haven't voiced their opposition to the gag law. Why have they been .so remarkably silent? We expect the answer has to do with the fact that many instructors were gone during the summer, when the law was enacted ; with the fact that there has been so much else to worry about these first few weeks of the fall se mester, in getting organized and all; with the fact that no convenient outlet has been available for the collective voice of our professors to express itself through. Hopefully, therefore, the silence that continues to emanate from most of UNC's faculty is the silence before a storm of carefully thought-out and well- directed protest. The fact remains, however, that be cause of this silence the notion may al ready have gotten abroad that most UNC instructors and their brethren at our sister institutions don't think the Speaker Ban is such a bad law. Thus, when action comes, it could easily be interpreted by many of the ban law's proponents as Administration provoked and not the sincere protest of concerned faculty members. This would be, of course, a false no tion. But how do we convince those backers of the law who are sincerely misinformed about the law's effect and ramifications of that? Especially the ones who are fond of seeing a big plot behind everything? Obviously, the best way for our men tal guides to answer Paul Green's charge is by speaking out, and soon. That SPU Cartoon Was Good For Our About Our Lives? Livers, But What Like many of you, we got a good laugh out of the Student Peace Union (SPU) cartoon carried on this page last Saturday. It probably represents one of the most trenchant observations on a lo cal matter ever carried in these pages. But if the effect of the cartoon was to make our average reader, whoever he or she is, think that he or she has been right all along, that the SPU is just an overgrown Mickey Mouse outfit, then the .cartoon's fire will have mis carried. For the SPU, however improbable and unrealistic was its protest march and statement last week about South Viet Nam, is nevertheless a very wor thy organization. It seeks to get all of us thinking and talking about the problems of peace; to make us aware of the nuclear precipice on which the world uneasily lives these days. Too many of us are dangerously ig norant of the great problems the world faces. Too many of us can't even locate South Viet Nam oh a map. Too many of us are just too unconcerned to care. Without realizing it, those of us who fit that description are spiritual ances tors of the people who are largely re sponsible for the world being in the situation it is in today. Apathy is and always has been one of man's own worst enemies. Because of it dictators rise and democrats des pair; because of it, to a large extent, we as a nation let great problems reach the boiling point before we bother even to consider them, much less propose ra tional solutions to them. Well, the SPU members are trying to crack this iceberg of apathy. Sometimes they strike out and sometimes they don't. Most of the time, as last Spring when they paraded to protest our Arm ed Forces slogan of 'Power For Peace they just succeed in getting people mad at them. This, however, is a start. Many times before this, blind anger has become calm deliberation, although the occa sions certainly have not been over whelmingly numerous. But at the least, the SPU is focusing attention upon problems which ought to concern all of us far more than they do. So while that cartoon may have been good for our liver, in making us chuckle at the SPU's expense, it won't be good for our lives if all it did was to lull us back to sleep again. The Barren Harvest Of Ill-Sown Seeds Some of our more conservative legis lators may be shocked to find that their recent Speaker Ban law does not just af- EDITORIAL STAFF Gary Blanchard, David Ethridge Co-Editors Managing Editors Wayne King Fred Seely Associate Editor Peter Harkness Photo Editor Jim Wallace Sports Editor Curry Kirkpatrick John Montague Jim Wallace Bob Samsot Asst. Sports Editor Night Editor Copy Editor . Reporters: Mickey Blackwell, Administration Peter Wales, Campus Affairs Hugh Stevens, Student Government Sue Simonds, Desk Women's Editor Diane Hile Features Editor Chris Farran Science Editor Mat Friedman Reviews Editor Steve Dennis BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Subscription Manager . Asst. Advertising Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. Sales i Art Pearce Fred McConnel John Evans Bryan Simpson Woody Sobol Sally Rdwlings Frank Potter Dick Baddour Bob Vanderberry feet this hot bed of radical thinking here at Chapel Hill. The most recent loss has been suffered by our sister institution in Raleigh. The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences is cur rently sponsoring a tour by a real live Communist. As a matter of fact ,Mr. Sokolovskiy is director of the Labora tory of Plasticity in the Institute of Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He spoke at Duke Monday at one of the university's mechanical engineering seminars, but the last we heard State had a fair to middling engineering school too. Could Mr. Sokolovskiy .speak there? Obviously, no. He is a Communist. Not a sly, devious, home-grown Com munist seeking to subvert our philoso phy, infiltrate our schools and govern ment and turn us from God and Coun try, but a full-fledged, fire engine red, Russian Communist who has something of value to say on plasticity. Some of our unbending legislators might find a lecture on plasticity very helpful. "It's Peacemongering And Creeping Private Enterprise, That's What It Is!" Book Review . - C, l Gag aw Must Go From The Gold and Black Wake Forest College House Bill 1395 was enacted by the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina in the brief period of 39 minuites. This action, taken in the closing days of the session, was entitled "An Act to regulate visiting speakers at state-supported colleges and universities." This act makes it unlawful for members of the Communist Party, those who ad vocate the overthrow of the United States Constitution or of the State of North Carolina, and those who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment in regard to communist and subversive ac tivities to speak at any state supported school. The action of the General As sembly does not affect Wake Forest College, for which we are quite thankful. Neverthe less we are concerned with this blow to academic liberty and freedom of speech in the bas tille of liberalism in the South, the Old North State. We must be concerned with any attempt to shun the traditions of intel lectual freedom and Jefferson ian liberalism any place at any time. The way has been opened for further legislative acts which could mean the end of free expression of ideas and be liefs on any college campus or on any platform in this state. We have talked long and hard of the tradition of academic freedom at Wake Forest, ex pressing our belief that this was the one tenet above all else this institution passed on" to her be loved sons and daughters as they departed. H. B. 1395 orig inated in the House of Repre sentatives and was introduced by a son of Wake Forest Col lege. We must pause and take stock of this situation. The col lege, her faculty, and her stu dents can take no pride in the fact that one of her sons struck Our Money For Powell And Rope By CLYDE WILSON Some time ago a man wrote a letter to the editor of the Richmond News-Leader. He had just read in the paper that An thony Celebrezze, the Secretary of Health, Education and Wel fare, had sent a telegram to every member of the House, urg ing passage of a certain bill. The measure failed. The gov ernment paid a $2,636 telegraph bill. The Secretary could have made use of a number of idle messengers who wre paid em ployes of the government. But what particularly aroused the reader was that that was exactly the sum he had paid in income taxes the previous year. As he put it, in one inexcusable afternoon, one wanton bureaucrat had squandered money which represented three months of hard work on his part; money which could have sent his son to college for two years, made the down payment on a new house or bought him a new automobile. This true story brings home an overlooked fact of life. The money spent in Washington, no matter what the distance is be tween the place where it is col lected and the place where it is spent, is our money. Mine and yours. If the government is going to take a part of our earnings for public purposes, we, as free men, have a moral right to be certain that the purposes are legitimate and necessary ones. Missiles cost money. Jet bomb ers cost money. Nuclear sub marines cost money. Few are the Americans who are riot willing to sacrifice to make sure that Amer ica has all the missiles and bombers and submarines that she needs. Few are the Americans who would willingly give up one penny of their earnings for some one they have never seen to squander. Some shocking examples of government waste can be cata logued. In 19S6 the Hoover Com mission discovered a rope fac tory employing 140 people which had been operated in Boston since the Civil War. The gov ernment subsidized the opera tion of the factory and then sold its products, for which it no longer had any use, at a loss. Powerful politicians interven ed and prevented even the grad ual sbut-down of the factory. It is still producing rope, at a loss. It costs in excess of $1 mil lion dollars per year to main tain each Congressman in the capital. Some of this money goes to pay salaries to wives and children who are ostensibly members of the Congressmen's staffs. Then there is Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of New York. He recently married his secre tary and raised her salary from $8,000 to $18,000 a year. She continued to collect that salary while spending six months in Puerto Rico undergoing preg nancy. Rep. Powell spent his last summer on the Riviera. At my expense and your expense. He was supposed to be investi gating women's working condi tions in Europe. Government is naturally waste ful and waste is not confined to the Federal government. One need only compare the output of a city work crew to that of a crew hired by a private com pany for a vivid example. One need only sit in on a meeting of a typical city council or coun ty board to be appalled at the flippancy with which those pub lic servants toss around large sums of money. In the early days of the Re public there was a much deep er sense of morality about the public funds.. Washington and Jefferson watched their spending down to the last paperweight and goose quill pen. That spirit, that sense of obligation about the spending of other people's money, has disappeared Unless Americans begin to re assert their moral indignation. Congressman Powell is going to be spending his summers on the Riviera and that rope factory is still going to be turning out rope two hundred years after the Civil War! T t ' ' 1 , t - I suppressed by governmental ac tion and its carnival-like appeal is new to the masses. It is imperative that the "Speaker Ban" bill be repealed at once. We lend our support to student leaders and to the re sponsible public leadership in North Carolina in this undertak ing. It is a task that will re quire educating the people of this state and the students of both private and state-supported institutions to the inherent dangers involved. North Caro lina, as a proud bearer of a great heritage, and its educa tional institutions, as the great academic communities that they are, have no place for an act which was passed without free and unlimited discussion in its legislative halls and rele gates its entire educational net work to, what could well be come, academic oblivion. Lacking In-'dkSr the first blow toward halting the free and uninhibited discus sion of ideas on the campuses of North Carolina's great univer sities. The ideals of the past end the glories of yesteryear must not become just that. They must be living, breathing things, as much a part of our school as is the never ending pursuit of knowledge. The intention of the support ers of this bill was no doubt good. But they have taken the wrong path to achieve their aims. It is the rule of every ed ucational community to make the truth available to its stu dents and "provide them with the tools of self-dissemination. It is not the role of any college or university or of any body of elected representatives to adopt the habits of communism by feeding its students only one line of thought. This idea is alien to the democracy in which we live, and to the theory and be liefs of those who founded this nation "with liberty and jus tice for ALL." Indeed, we are today engaged in a life or death struggle with the masters of the Communist world. Those countries now un der the domination of the ham mer and sickle are those where communism was a new idea that swept through the land before thorough and complete reason ing could find the ever-present faults in the Ccenmuaist argu ment. We believe that Commun ism is a bankrupt dogma. The best way to bring ultimate and final defeat to the communist ideology is to hear it, read it, and discuss it. It will come to . the forefront only when it is By NINA KING 'Spectacular Rosue: Gaston B. Means", by Edwin P. Hoyt; Bobbs-Merrill, 1963. "Engaging was infamous, he swindled widows and gov ernments and was accused of virtually every crime in the book: forgery, theft, con spiracy, obstruction of jus ticeand murder. J. Edgar Hoover called him the greatest faker of all time'; yet,, until the end ot his in famous career, his fluent tongue and his dimpled smile beguiled even the most sophisticated." In the preceding quote from a cover blurb, Edwin P. Hoyt's "Spectacular Roue: Gaston B. Means" reaches its climax. Tech nically and fnematically the dir ection thereafter is downhill, the speed most deliberate. It is in credible that a book which has as its subject the boldest scound rel of the century should be boring, but Mr. Hoyt has suc ceeded in making his work a long and dreary anticlimax to the excitement promised by the cover. A one-time student at UNC, Gaston Bullock Means began his career as the dean of conmen in 1915, reached his apogee of audacity during the corrupt years of the Harding Adminis tration, and died still scheming in prison in 1938. During his 23 active years, he served as an espionage agent for Germany while his boss worked for Eng land, used his rather vague con nections with the Justice Depart ment to promote magnificent swindles of leading bootleggers, wrote a best-seller proving that Warren Harding was poisoned by his jealous wife, and attempt ed a flamboyant exploitation of the Linbergh case. The genius of Gaston Bullock Means lay not in his successes more often than not his under takings were spectacular flops. Rather it is to be found in the enormous imagination of this dimpled-cheeked husband and father who was able to convince his clients that even the mem bers of the Supreme Court could be had for a price if one used the proper Means. Only occasionally in "Specta cular Rogue," does the flamboy ant flavor of this extravagant personality come through. Emer ging from a three year sire: eh in the penitentiary Gaston was met by a crowd of eager news men. "What was he going to do in the future? a reporter asked. 'Anything I can,' Gaston said. And, laughing, he entered the car and was driven away." Passages such as the above are rare, however, and it is ob vious that Mr. Hoyt spent far more time on his impeccable footnotes than he did on his text. In other hands, such ex tensive documentation could serve as an excellent basis for a psychological discussion of a strange personality, but no such attempt is made by Mr. Hoyt. Ne.ither does he provide the . transitional material and conjec tural asides needed to evoke a colorml man and his era. We learn little more about Means than the facts of his greed and his dimples. Nor does the book serve, ex cept indirectly, as an expose of tie Harding administration. Mr. Hoyt seems incapable of even the most elementary editing, of find ing a point and directing his material towards it. He includes everything he has learned from tengthj research--and he has learned much but his chapters are the most arbitrary of divi sions, his summations and con clusions nonexistant. Thus, except for an occasional anecdote which managed to creep unnoticed into the author's no:es, the value of "Spectacular Rog ue" is limited to that provided the historian of the Harding era by the facts and figures. His torical writing being the selec tive metier that it is, the book's posterity will probably be an occasional footnotial mention in weighty tomes to come. And Gaston Bullock Means, native ' son and national menace, still awaits a worthy chronicler. f LETTERS TO TH Id) tors' A Friend!! Editors, The Tar Heel, Regarding recent letters of criticism of the DTH I don't agree. So it isn't a NY Times, nor even a Mad magazine. But I think ihe coverage of Carolina SPU activities and of HUAC's interest in a UNC staff member are news. If students think such matters are not representative of the stu dent body to which I agree then, perhaps, something snould be done to establish a more re presentative image of Carolina. Would an augmented section of cartoons in the DTH do this? While I don't believe "Blood on the old Well" or Cuban trips are all that UNC has to offer that is newsworthy, neither do I believe the DTH should stick its head in the sand. The Editors tiave made the best case AGAINST such non-representative groups as the SPU of any student spokesmen. And, thank fully, they have not resigned themselves to trying to make everybody happy. Even Pogo can't do that. I can't help think ing that there is more to an edu cation than keeping up with Pea nuts, Pogo, Otelia, and, by means all the weather. They are, no doubt, part of it, but, hopefully, not all. And, of course, if students dislike the paper's version of a Liberal ed ucation, isn't that what this column and the vote are for? Jerry Kroe 314 Aycock Pro Otelia Editors, The Tar Heel, It has been my observation that people have been too free to criticize Otelia Connor too quickly. I am willing to come to her defense on one point. Otelia said that she stirred her coffee with a soup spoon be cause she wanted to; but I am sure that Otelia had her tongue in her cheek when she said this. I am not sure where Mrs. Con nor grew up and not nosy enough to ask her, but in Western South Carolina, where I was reared, it was customary for the very best families the Aristocracy, no less to use a soup spoon or even a tablespoon for stirring tea or coffee. My mother said that it was an old English tradition, but one that respectable people still use. This alone, though, Is not enough. There is a recently pub lished pamphlet, Table Customs That Came and Stayed, by Joy M. Journey, which will clear up this point. Mrs. Journey's whose word, I feel, can be trusted, says, "the custom of using a larger spoon than the teaspoon for the coffee originated with the dunking of bread or cookies into the liquids. . . . The cookie was placed into the spoon and lowered into the cup in order to keep the . . . fingers dry." To me this seems reasonable; and I suspect that Otelia has read Mrs. Journey's pamphlet. I sus pect that the majority of South Carolina aristocrats still dunk their bread at the table. Inform me if I am wrong. Betty Powell Cobb .Dormitory Poor Tasle? Editors, The Tar Heel, I think your recent "cartoon" on the peace marchers was en tirely irrelevant and definitely in poor taste. John Blackford Bad Manner?! Editors, The Tar Heel, Although it may be a false image, I have always thought of myself as a neat, petite, moth erly housewife. Men usually treat me as a lady. I came to Chapel Hill Friday with my husband to visit his daughter, who is a freshman here. Although he had to return early, I stayed and went to the Graham Memorial Movie, Por trait In Black. I was never so embarrassed when two boys crowding in on either side of me stepped on both of my toes at the same time. I would appreciate a letter of apology if you two are the kind of Carolina Gentlemen I would want my husband's daughter, to marry! Mrs. W. Stephens 31 Groves Dennis, N. C. Three Cheers Editors, The Tar neel, Three cheers for Warren C. Ogden, Jr. and W. S. Berryhili. Jr. They have the right idea. Christopher Thomas Myers 810 Old Fittsboro KoaJ
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