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Volume 72, Number 66 Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1963 ii iatli afar 2jM 70 Years of Editorial Freedoa & Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone nnmber: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir i culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 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: $4.59 per semester; $8 per year. Published daily except Mondays, examination periods and racations, throughout the aca demic year by toe Publications Board of the 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. Halhvay Measures Won't Quite Work First Of Two Parts There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the parking situation has gotten out of hand in Chapel Hill, but there seems to be doubt in everyone's mind as to what the solution might be. The town of Chapel Hill has moved to al leviate the problem problem somewhat, but it .seems to us that the burden for solving the current mess falls mainly on the shoulders of the University. What has the University done about its burden? Well, so far it has gotten around to the conclusion that a problem exists and that it probably ought to do something about it fairly soon. That is some help, but if the University were to act immediately in this area, it would only be about five years too late. There are now more than 5,000 reg istered student automobiles on or around this campus, and only 2,900 park ing spaces provided for student use. That leaves about 2,100 automobiles to roam the campus, many taking up the crowded parking facilities provided for the .staff, which by itself throwTs an other 2,600 cars into the morning park ing derby. So where do we go from here? Well, one of "the plans currently I being dis" cussed "by the University ; proposes we go up. Up in the form of triple-decking the Bell Tower parking lot. This seems very imaginative at first glance, but with a little scrutiny proves to be just a more bizarre measure in the stop gap approach that is being used. The two decks would provide some 800 more parking spaces for students and would ' cost about $2,150,000. It would be nec essary to charge each student with an automobile an annual fee of $50 to help finance this project. And after blowing all that money there would still be over 1,300 student cars with no place to go. It is obvious that we could not long af ford this type of expensive measure which makes us run hard to catch up to being only two or three years behind. The other idea which is getting ser ious consideration is further limiting the number of students who may have cars in Chapel Hill. This measure, pain ful as it seems, might become absolute ly necessary sometime in . the future regardless of how adequate a solution to the present problem is found. Sopho mores would be the first to lose the privilege, with academic criteria for juniors and seniors probably following. But there does seem to be at least one way out which is not quite so pain ful, and this will be discussed in the second part of this editorial tomorrow;- The Campus Chest Needs You! Betty Ward, the Chairman of the Campus Chest Drive this year, is look ing for several hundred strong, hard working volunteers to help with this year's, drive, and tomorrow afternoon is the last chance to get interviewed for the many positions that still need to be filled. In raising the funds, the Chest will again sponsor the Campus Carnival and the annual auction at which they auc tion off all manner of valuable items. And while these events are fun for the whole campus, a great deal of work must go into both of them. But that's only the beginning of the wrork that must be done if the drive is to be a success and the volunteers just haven't come flocking down from the hills yet. The Campus Chest is the only official charity drive on campus, and gives most of us some chance to salve a guilty con science about all the good deeds we somehow neglected to do since the last drive. And plus that, the money col lected benefits causes that usually need to be benefitted. So far those people who feel the need to get out and do something they are sure will be constructive, this is a good time. And for those men who aren't moved by charitable instincts, there are always a raft of good looking women working on this drive, and they might need your help. Let's Call Them What They Are By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Syndicated Columnist It's an interesting peculiarity of our social order that while the term "Com munist" is flung around frequently and often carelessly, its opposite number, "Fascist" is hardly used at all. In Europe, this is not the case. Peo ple have no hesitancy in speaking of the right-wing radicals as "Fascists," for this is what they are. To speak of them as "extreme conservatives" is a foolish contradiction in terms. And it seems quite plain to me that there are many more Fascists and Fas cist sympathizers in the United States than there are Communists and their sympathizers unless, of course, you care to adopt the Fascist line and sug gest that everyone who favors staying in the UN and retaining Social Security is a Red fellow-traveler. We seem to be so exercised about Communist influence in this country, which is negligible, both in numbers and in appeal to the American temper. Yet, year by year, one sees a Fascist spirit rising among the people, although it is called by many other and softer names, and has even achieved a certain dubious respectability in some circles. There is no reason why there shouldn't be a Fascist movement in this country; nearly every nation has one. But it should be called by its right name, and it should be willing to accept the consequences of its position, as the Fascist parties do elsewhere. It has no business masquerading as "Americanism" or "conservatism" or "patriotism," when its whole philosophy of man is based on a hate-filled ex clusiveness that would shock and af front the conservative American pa triots who founded this country. What is distressing about this move ment is the tacit or open support given to it by men who genuinely think of themselves as "conservatives," and who do not understand the implications of right-wing radicalism any more than the German industrialists understood what would happen to them when Hitler swept into power with their support. Just as Communism always begins with an appeal to "humanity" and "equality" and ends with inhuman de spotism, so does Fascism always be gin with an appeal to "nationalism" and "individualism," and ends with a mili-, tary collectivism far worse than the disease it purports to cure. These twin evils are the mirror-image of one another. It would be the su preme irony if, in rejecting the bland ishments of Communism, we fell hyste rically into the arms of Fascism dis guised (as always) as Defender of the Faith. . "We Musn't Interfere With Customary Procedures Doctor, Coronor, Inquest " Negro Responsibility JAj3 Letters To The Editors An Overwhelmin Honors List g Vote Editors, The Tar Heel, Today the Student Committee to Help Eliminate Insidious Sub versive Speakers publishes its first honors list. Hats off to these patriotic loyal public ser vants: Senate President Clarence Stone. Secretary of State Thad Eure. Assistant A.G. Ralph Moody. Representatives , L. - J. Phipps and Ike OUanlon. --- - - - . ; State Senators Irvin Belk and Adam Whitely. These men run the risk of political suicide and general un popularity by being among the first and most forceful to speak out in favor of this measure against the creeping Communist menace. For their efforts, they have suffered the most vicious attacks on their service and their personal qualities. Also mentioned must be dis tinguished news analyst Jesse Helms, long admired for his courageous, stands in defense of Free Enterprise and his pene trating discussions of sometimes suppressed news items. He has devoted much of his unfortun ately brief air time to educating citizens with regard to House . Bill 1395 (?), the law labelled by propagandists as the "Gag Law.". Congratulations, gentlemen, on being the first to be selected by overwhelming vote for the Student Committee List. Student Committee To Help Eliminate Insid ious Subversive Speakers DTH reporter was told to leave. If any neuroses were demonstrat ed by this act, they were the "infamous neuroses" of the DTH staff. If the DTH would actually pre sent "equal opportunity" news coverage, maybe students and Chapel Hillians . would call it the Daily Tar Heel again, instead of the current "Damn Tar Heel." Dwight Thomas, Jr. 210 Everett Hall Iiiixur y Editors, The Tar Heel, As a new faculty member down from the Northeast and as yet un familiar with Carolina's long tra dition of gracious living, I can find few tears to shed for the plight of the student with no place to park his car. Let us admit that, except for the student who lives over a mile from campus or for the physical ly disabled student, the use of a car for daily commuting is a lux ury. This is all the more true down here where the weather is less of a hinderance to getting about. It is downright presumptu ous to expect this or any uni versity to divert its funds to pro viding storage space for such luxuries. The solution to both the traffic and the parking problems is a simple one, to reduce the number of students who operate cars in Chapel Hill. The criteria for determining who may or may not have a car are a matter for the appropriate dean. The problem of how to get across campus quickly remains nonetheless. Due to heavy auto traffic here, some of us, includ ing some of us faculty members with - the right to park in staff parking lots, have realized the difficulty and expense of com muting by car and prefer to ride bicycles. The bicycle, by the way, has been found to be the solution to the transportation problem on many campuses: Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Amherst, Michigan, Vas sar, Wellesley, Smith, Swarth more, and Oberlin, to name just a few. Now I know that bicycles are not at present very fashionable on this campus, and I am learn ing that being fashionable is very important on this campus. But bicycles are practical, suf ficently fast, and, best of all, economical. Mark E. Watkins Dept. of Mathematics Foreign News Equal? Editors, The Tar Heel, Re: "John Carswell Meets The Press" (Editorial in DTH, Sun day, December 8). I quote: "It might interest Mr. Carswell to know that the policy of this paper in covering news is to be sure that all parties to any controversy have an equal opportunity to be represented in our coverage of that contro versy." Mr. Carswell, like any rational person who reads the DTH, knows what DTH "equal oppor tunity" actually is. Any com ments that Mr. Carswell would have cared to make concerning the civil rights demonstration would probably have been twist ed in such a manner that he himself would have difficulty recognizing them. The "famous neuroses of the owner of the Colonial Drugstore" were cer tainly not demonstrated when the By PHIL NEWSOM United Press International Christmas Spirit: An East German agreement to permit West Berliners to visit friends and relatives on the East side of the Berlin wall during Christmas is seen as the result of economic pressures. Trade between East and West Germany now amounts to about $220 mil lion annually each way, a drop in the bucket to West Germany but vital for the East. It is based entirely on barter, which the West' Germans cut off at will whenever East German deliveries fall behind schedule. Recently, the West Germans in dicated they might be prepared to grant the East German Com munist regime long-term credits in exchange for an improvement in the lot of the East German people. Officially, the East Ger mans scoffed at the idea. How ever, the Red decision to let West Berliners visit East Berlin at Christmas may be the first down payment. Common Market: A showdown rapidly is ap proaching between France and West Germany on Common mar ket farm price policies. In the German view this could mean the downfall of the Common Market and, at least temporar ily, the dream of a united Eur ope. The French are insistent that German farm subsidies be cut to the same level as that paid to French farmers, and that French agricultural products re ceive preference within the Com mon Market, composed of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxem bourg. The Germans are resist ing on both counts. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's Christian Demo crats drew their strongest sup port from German farmers. Johnson vs. De Gaulle: De Gaulle can be expected to take his time about setting a date to meet with President Lyn don Johnson. Insiders say the crusty French leader wants to see first whether Johnson is like ly to be as tough on such mat ters as nuclear sharing as the late President Kennedy was. To Help His Cause The Smithfield Herald (.c The remarkable publisher of the Cheraw Chronicle, A. M. Secrest, delivered a remarkable ; the other day to South Carolina Negro school ton; ; assembled in Cheraw. It was a speech of a man of will who has proved himself, on many occasion, to in sympathy with the aspirations of Negroes for opportunity. It was a speech of a Southerner wh , aware of the white man's responsibility to give the X, ro his due, but it also was a speech of a man who urul stands the responsbility of the Negro in his striu". for civil rights. What the Cheraw publisher said to Negro scI m teachers in South Carolina deserves an ear in North Carolina and wherever people of good will of l,th races seek to work out peaceful solutions to race pro blems. Mr. Secrest did not condemn the Negroes for making their protests. He did not accuse them of distui bircr "good race relations." Indeed, he said that race rela tions "are far healthier today, in the midst of marches, sit-ins, demonstrations and mass arrests, than they were when the voices of protest and conscience were still." But he talked to the Negro school teachers about re sponsibility that is a two-way street. "The white South," he said, "thanks to the militancy of the new Negro, to nudges and reminders from the Supreme Court and the White House, and, above nil, thanks to the white man's own innate sense of decency and justice, is beginning to assume its responsibilities by granting equal opportunity to all. It is now your re sponsibility to see to it that your students are prepared to grasp these new opportunities and are ready to meet the duties and obligations of first class citizenship ns well as to enjoy its privileges." This friend of the Negro spoke plainly and wisely to the Negro when he declared: "Civil rights battles may. be fought in the street, at lunch counters, and theatre box offices, in the courts and polling places, but the war will be won or lost in the classroom." As Mr. Secrest observed, demagogues like Barnett or Wallace are not the most dangerous enemies of Negro aspirations. "Your most dangerous enemy' he said to the Negro school teachers, "is within If you are tolerant of second-class performance within your own ranks, if you allow yourselves and your students to fall below cer tain standards of excellence, you will not overcome. "Absenteeism, ignorance, sloth, immorality, school dropouts, delinquency; these are the real enemies of any people. Many white people, consciences rubbed raw by constant reminders of past and present guilt, are psy chologically ready to find some scape goat for their sins of omission and commission. "Every time there is a cutting scrape or shooting, robbery, mugging or rape; every time there's a canned heat party or some evidence of anti-social activity com mitted by a Negro, there are whites ready to justify their prejudices by saying, 'Well, that's a nigger for you.' "Like the Jew in Hyman Kaplin, you've got to be 'twice as good to go half as far.' This is, however, no thing new in the American story. Every national group has had to wrestle with much the same problem." So spoke a white Southerner who had earned his right to say these things by his own demonstration of responsibility in facing the race problems. The wisest of the Negro leaders are saying the same things to their people. Let it be said that the Negroes are not the onlv Am ericans guilty of educational or moral failures lanv a white man fails also. And if we dare not withhold civil rights from the white race because some of its members are irresponsible, we have no justification for denying opportunity to the Negro race because mam Negroes are irresponsible. But, as we have observed in oUr land, public accept ance of a minority group is not based on such logic. And a minority group, indeed, must be "twice as good to go half as far." As more Negroes understand this hard reality, the task of their leaders will be easier, and the burden of the whole nation in this hour of crisis will be come lighter. POGO By Walt Kelly COME ON. M&N' kf'SC Oitie, n WHOte atwmtc coTsiiA WON'T US -SUCCOTASH': iwg tM ysNlCSTy N OLO MZ US WA1X ALL. THE WTO NBW YORK you "znQLOTasH'" C'MON, Si, A PAl vgtufH&r mt$ a met ffiwf i4 AT yPU PONT TrzYf pc&ncAu emu") f POETICAL 1 V NW' . ', I r--rr I IS .T , . 11 .r II Letters ( The Daily Tar Heel in I Jites readers to use Let l ters-to-the-editors for es p pression of opinion on cur f! rfnt loP'CS regardless of viewpoint. Letters must p Be and be free of libel- as material. I Brevity and legibility li i !? SU-gesed- Lengthy M tm iU be Cdited- None p win be returned.
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