Help! Tye Been Stabbed!? J.'.., v.,... -- ; ----------- Volume 72, Number 71 Tuesday, December X7, 1963 - m D! 70 Years of Editorial Freedom j U I I I ' 7V ? i II Published daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the 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 cervices of the University News Bureau. Mr. Erickson & The Gator Bowl Much hell has been raised in the past ' few days over the fact that most UNC students going to the Gator Bowl will find themselves watching the action from behind a goal post. As usual, UNC Athletic Director Chuck Erickson caught most of the blame. And as usual, he didn't really deserve it. He took the best of what was available in the way of tickets, so any blame really should go to the Gator Bowl officials who made the school allot- ' ments but the Gator Bowl is an ex pensive proposition and has to be run ; like the business operation it is. Consequently, tickets are sold far in advance to make sure there will be enough money to underwrite the costs of the Bowl, which are considerable. To .... . - i t sell these tickets m advance, witn no one knowing who will end up playing in the bowl, the choicest seats are served up. So what we end up with, from the student fan's point of view, is a miser able situation about which nothing much can be done. It's hard to face these facts, but they are the facts and honesty re Make Yoiir Students at Carolina are in a very funny position at election time: we are not eligible to vote here. And every year there are students who try to register here to vote in some sort of an election or other, and are mighty disappointed when they find they can't. Voting is one of the most important rights we have in this democratic poli tical system of ours, and the one we tend to take least seriously. Especially at this time and in this State, it is im portant for all eligible voters to regis ter. Early in the new year, one of the most important amendments ever pro posed for the North Carolina Constitu tion comes up for a vote by the people. And the passage or defeat of this amend ment will color our lives, as citizens and as students, for who knows how many years. This is the proposed amendment which would change the number of rPnrpCPfltjlf ITTOC! in Vo UAiicn rf Xa-ma sentatives of the General Assembly. Other important votes which will come up during the time we are nor mally in school next year are the pro- Are You Listening, Pentagon By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International The shocking waste of public money by the national Defense Department military brass con tinues unabated and unrebuked despite claims from time to time that national defense has. saved another billion here and another billion there. If the Pentagon were a pri vate corporation, the stockhold ers would have fired the man agement long since. The comp troller general of the United States has been calling fouls against the Pentagon ever since the monstrous building was erected to house the consoli dated armed services. The comptroller general is an arm of the U.S. Congress. The office was created to audit the expen diture of funds appropriated by the Congress. The comptroller's reports on national defense pro curement consistently have re vealed reckless waste of public money. Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir 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: $4.50 per semester; $8 per year. quires that they be faced. This, however, does not completely exonerate Erickson. He could and should have made these facts public when the tickets went on sale. We wager the tick ets would have been snapped up any way and nobody would have had any hard feelings. As it is, a shadow has been cast over what should be an occasion of great exuberance and spirit. But even here Erickson is not wholly to blame. He has innumerable arrange ments to attend to in preparation for the game, and it appears that he just didn't think to make the seat-location in formation public before the tickets were sold. Thus Erickson is revealed as his own worst enemy. What's to be done ? Let's put this ticket-hassle behind us and make the best of it. We've got a football game to win Dec. 28, and that requires we get solidly behind our excellent team. A torch rally, say, tomorrow night, would seem to be very much in order. Voice Heard . posed school bond issue and the guber natorial primaries in the spring. And if you're not registered, you can't vote. And you can't vote here unless you're a permanent resident of Chapel Hill. What are you, and we, to do? Register at home during the Christ mas holidays. Get your name on the books in your home county. Next, ap v ply in writing to the chairman of your county's Board of Elections for an ab sentee ballot. This application must be made in writing. The ballots can be mailed to you, or you can pick them up in person, if you wish. This is not the time to exhort you which side to take in the very impor tant referendum, although our position is clear and well-known. But it is the time to exhort you, even beg you, to be sure to register while you are at home, so that when these important issues come up you will be able to cast your vote. Your vote is your voice in this demo cratic society. Mr. Secretary? There are annually many such audits of national defense spending. These tales of what the generals and admirals do with the taxpayers' dollars are almost incredible. They- belong in a believe-it-or-not museum. Here is an example, dated Nov. 29, 1963. Toward the end of the 1962 fiscal year the Air Force dis covered that it had a reserve of unexpended funds that had been appropriated for expendi ture in fiscal 1962. The Air Force," of course, had asked for this money on grounds of ur gent need. The facts seem to be that the Air Force did not need the money at all and was some what embarrassed to approach the year end with a large un expended balance. The Air Force had to spend the money or turn it back to the treasury. So, the Air Force spent $323,000 of its surplus funds for new furniture it did not need. The comptroller gen . . Vote! astiii M eral called the expenditure largely unjustified. "Such waste and extrava .gance illustrates the need," the comptroller's report said, "for a greater sense of individual re sponsibility for economy in gov ernment operations." This outrageous waste of pub lic funds is a pretty fair sam ple of the waste which has gone on year after year and which is reflected in reports prepared by the comptroller general. Rep. Earl Wilson, R-Ind., told the House in a recent speech that the Army had wasted about $35 million in purchases of radio equipment without competitive bidding. The Navy has achieved even more spec tacular feats of flushing public funds down the drain. The most shocking aspect of this situation is that no one is doing anything about it. Or, anyway, nothing shows on the public record at this time. You might expect the civilian man- Customs (Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles from a UNC student visiting India in the Experiment in International Living program.) By MARGARET A. RHYMES CALCUTTA That we learn to live together by living together is a simnle enough faith on which the Experiment in International Living has operated for the past three decades. Here in India 60 Americans and Europeans have tested this out as sons and daughters in individ ual homes throughout the coun try. Embracing several thousand people in 40 nations around the world each year, the Experiment stakes its effectiveness on the homestay period when students are thrown headlong into a cul ture rather than peering in as tourists. With each. Experimenter in a separate home and as few intra group contacts as possible, the natural tendency of foreigners to hang together is usually avoided. Part of the impact that Experi menters make on foreigners, we're told is that they are "mis sionless." "I expected a flood of propa ganda about the States," said Education: Too Feiv Ideas By SIDNEY J. HARRIS When Heine asked his coach man, "What are ideas?" the coachman pondered a moment and answered: "Ideas? . . . Ideas are the things they put into your head." Even today, most people might answer as the coachman did, for our formal system of education seems to consist of things put into our heads names and dates and battles and multiplication tables and the three principal sources of raw material in the Malayan Peninsula. Of course, these are not ideas. Ideas are what comes out of the head. Nobody can put them there, although a good education 9 oney agement of the National De fense Department to blackball the promotion of officers who waste public money. Or, you might expect some other action to discourage such inexcusably careless administration of the public business. If Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara or any of his civilian aides has ever read any of the comptroller's reports, there is no evidence of it. The reports go, specifically, to the speaker of the House and to the president pro tempore of the Senate. Those elderly states men probably don't read them either. ' President Johnson should make the comptroller's reports required reading for all cabinet officers and agency chiefs. When the Air Force throws a lot of money out the window, the responsible general should be chewed out in the classic military tradition. Are you lis tening, Mr. Secretary. Change With Time one Indian "brother," surprized that we were here to learn, not to teach. That the Experiment is entirely free from government sponsorship is another hard point to drive home. One of the major difficulties at least in India is that only one per cent of upper class fami lies is usually able to afford an Experimenter in their homes. While these families are cer tainly a part of India, they often represent a more Westernized ex istence, far removed from the life of the average Indian. Of course, were we placed in a typical village home, it is doubtful that they would know just what to do with us. Cutting across r the language barrier would be only one of a myriad of problems. This factor certainly puts add ed pressures on the Experiment er to dig deeper into the every day customs and to discover "the real India," as we call it. Our own host family in Cal cutta has been an exception to that equation of wealth with Westernization. While of the upper middle class (a car, a home and several ser vants), our "parents" were neith er orthodox Hindus nor extreme ly Westernized, despite their wide travels. can stimulate them, organize them, and give them a solid basis in reason. Education, if it means any thing, is a drawing out; it is not a pushing in. The human mind is not a sausage casing into which we can stuff knowledge; and, usually, the harder we try to stuff the more resistance we encounter. This is why so much formal education is a waste of time and energy. A human being is a repository of ideas; the while trick is to get these ideas out in the open, to test them against reality, to expose them to other ideas, and thus to sharpen and toughen them. The greatest flaw in formal education, in my opinion, is that it has little respect for ideas and too much for information. Chil dren can get easily bored with in formation, when it seems to have no relevance; but they are ex cited and interested in ideas. I vividly remember how the subject of zoology was ruined for me in school by teachers who were concerned only with classi fication and memorization of in sects and such. No attempt was made to relate the subject to the other links in the great chain of life. Nor was this merely a defect in the teachers. It was, rather, their general attitude toward learning in my day; there is some evidence that it has improv ed a little, but still not enough. The "dropout problem" is large ly economic and social but a part of it is also pedagogical, in that dead teaching turns stu students away from the class room and toward more animated aspects of the human scene. Every child's mind is teeming with ideas. Too often these ideas are systematically throttled or strangled in the school system, which looks only for the "right answers" ' that are in the back of the book. What is in the back of the head is rarely encouraged to move to the front. Both received their master's degrees from Columbia Univer sity, in the U.S.A., and spent two years traveling on the Continent from England to Russia. Our "father" Amalendu, in his early 40's (most Indian husbands are six or seven years older than their wives), directs an in dustrial and technological mu seum, the first in India. His wife, Radha, is a very at tractive and well-read young Burmese who left her homeland during the war. Theirs seemed to be one of the more successful of arranged marriages, a custom still strong ly practiced throughout India. The tradition certainly has its merit here, since young people have little chance for contact be fore marriage and open dating is rarely done. Another reason why arranged marriages "work" (the question is moot) is that the wife is ex pected to do most of the adjust ing if the couple is incompatible. Divorce is extremely rare and was only legalized within the past seven years. Of those today wfio oppose this custom, many are bitter over the quiet suffering they observe in "forced" arranged marriages. However, the Indian woman is more gracefully adaptable or resigned to adjusting than the American female. And with her limited contacts, she doesn't have many opportunities for com parison. Many young people have said they prefer a combination love arranged marriage. This seems the most realistic idea. Seldom today does one find a bride set ting eyes on her bridegroom for the first time on the wedding day. Another tradition that is break ing down in this slow social tran sition is that of status determin ed by tiie number of sons a man has. India is one of the few coun tries in the world where the gov ernment is conducting an all-out campaign for birth control. Fam ily planning centers and bill boards in dozens of languages encourage wise planning for few er and healthier children. The most frequent reason giv en for the program's failure in the rural areas, besides the lack of education, is that in isolated villages there is little other en tertainment as such. One of the unfortunate suc cesses of this campaign, how ever, has been among the edu cated and upper classes. While the villages still increase their numbers by two per cent each year, the intellectuals and those who can afford education are de creasing in proportion to the whole society. Our Calcutta family included two children: Urmi, a gregarious 13-year-old with a talent for clas sical Indian singing, and Shintu, an active six-year-old with round, horn-rimmed glasses and a de cidedly British accent. Both children attend Catholic schools, as do a high percentage of students from upper class fam ilies in all the larger cities. None of the family, while ex tremely well - educated, some what modern and well-traveled, has lost its pride in the culture and history of India. And this seemed a particularly wonderful quality to find in a world where more and more cul tures are being white-washed with the sophistication and mech anization of the West. Hoax! v. r Editors, the Tar Heel: In case you hadn't noticed, the Student Committee to Help Elim inate Insidious Subversive Speak ers is a hoax. It was meant to carry to its logical conclusion ANY effort to deny someone in ANY way the pain and privilege of independent thought. The let ters were written as satire; we hoped that by using the usual arguments to advocate absurdi ties we could point out the dan ger inherent in these arguments. We must learn in one way or another that hating Communism and protecting freedom are NOT the same thing. Only by active ly protecting the American ideal of individual liberty and human rights against all encroachments can we hope to prevail over the dangers of Communism, or of any other system which does not place the rights of man first. There is a basic similarity be tween all enemies of freedom: in the previous letter, we used a quotation regarding the neces sity of rationing liberty. To many of you vigorous anti-Communist patriots this may have seemed sound advice; you will no doubt be embarrassed to learn that the quotation is attributed to Lenin. The real American ideal must prevail not only over its enemies, but over its friends. Hansford M. Epes Chapel HIU Live & Let Live Editors, The Tar Heel: It is disturbing to discover that the narrow-mindedness and lack of confidence in the Ameri can System and the American Student display by the Student Committee to Help Eliminate Insidious Subversive Speakers exists at Carolina. After their letters of earlier this week, something must be said. The rest of this letter is addressed to them. Gentlemen, you have asked the question, "Is it necessary The Fuzzy-Wuzzy Strikes Back! Editors, The Tar Heel, I would like to correct Mr. James Robinson. He has misun derstood everything and learned nothing from the contents of my letter of November 19. Talk about being fuzzy. Wow! It seems to me that Robinson could improve his vocabulary to the point that his preoccupa tion with the word fuzzy might give way to a fresher and more expressive phrase. Words mas querading as thoughts betray a poor thinker. Constructing pat ently unoriginal and unimagina tive poetry such as he did only tends to convince me that not only is he living in a fairy-tale politi cal world, but indeed, he is an amateur Pangloss. And like the Voltaire character, he is indif frent to the injustices of this world. Or seems so from his letter. Frank Crowther, and I have sat through Maurice Natanson's philosophy of religion. A bril liant person, he is prone to alien ate less sophisticated types who flare up in horror at his political views. It is true that he often exaggerates to drive home a point. Such must have been the case in his calling Goldwater a fascist. It's the same kind of rash and foolish thing as calling liberals fuzzy. In either case one merely saws off the limb one is sitting on. "He ridiculously equates the segregationist and the opponent of the Public Accommodations Act." I advise Robinson to seriously consider taking a re medial English course or a course on how to read care fully. There is no equating of the two anywhere either emplied or expressed. However, it fol lows logically that all segrega tionists would oppose the act. It is true that one need not be a segregationist to be against it, but it sure helps. There are many integrationists who find the Public Accommodations Act an infringement on private prop erty. Not me. He says that the question in volved in this "New Fuzzitier" legislation is not segregation but a violation of Constitutional rights. In both cases he is mis taken. I have studied the Consti tution and I hope that I will never get so tragically wrong as to let the letter of the law ob scure my feeling for the spirit of it. As I see it, this is the trap into which Robinson falls. The Fifth Amendment states at the end: "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or pro perty, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without . for the taxpayers of this Star? to purchase copies of the work? of such dangerous, Unamerican 'writers as Lenin, M a r ::. Khrushchev, and others?" z,r. have attempted to stifle the obvious rebuttle by suggesting that students learn about com munism through the writing c' J. Edgar Hoover, Fred C. Sd warz, HUAC documents, : : ! from the "materials published by our freedom-loving friends cf the American Legion." To an swer the question of the neces sity of such "unAmerican r.; the capitalization) literature. I offer two analogies: 1) In courtroom, the jury may h completely informed as to :'. facts of the case through thr prosecutor's oration, but it may not make a decision until the defendant has presented his of those same facts; 2) One enn not base a criticism of Shake speare on the opinions of other critics, cannot even agree or d: agree with those opinions ur 1 one has read Shakespeare. I ask you to live and let live. Whether I purchase "porno graphic trash" is my person;.! decision, not to be made for me by a state legislature (you mu.-t have very dirty minds to got anything pornographic fro rn Catcher in the Rye). It is not that I wish to purchase such literature, but I like to know tl mt I may if I so desire. The saine goes for "insidious, subversive speakers." By denying then: the right to speak here, you arc infringing on my right to hoar them. It becomes ludicrous when politics is confused with botany, or any other subject, for that matter. Should you gain your desireJ majority in this state, there is still no bill you could have pass ed to restrict the right of a'! Americans to think and deck!? objectively. Students today n.t only are, but have to be, ma ture enough to make their own decisioas. Before you rush to hide behind your shield of "pa triotism" I suggest you consid er the individual rights inherent in a democratic, free society. Gentlemen, live and let live. William Ilinton 448 Ehringhaus L Mi just compensation." Robinson has interpreted this amendment with cobwebs on his brain. It h important to grasp what this means and doesn't mean. Xot unpredictably, Robinson is pro ficient at the latter. Private property is not goin to be taken for public use. It is the businesses which are pri vately owned which already serve the public. What the U.S. Supreme Court insists is that it is high time the whole public is served, because it is morally right. But with the justness of this decree lies the common sense behind it. If a man wants to serve only a portion of the public, for instance the whites, then let him be served no tice that he had better get his precious and holy private property out of public participa tion. If you're going to play ball, then get your uniform on. Otherwise leave the ball park. The amendment doesn't mean that the U.S. Government has a right to make a private property owner go into public business. It does mean, and emphatically so, that if the private property owner is already doing public business, he has no constitution al assurance written in the Fifth to guarantee or justify his refus al to serve only a portion of the public, no matter what his per sonal reasons or prejudices. After all kinds of mangled and monotonous dronings and mis cellaneous whirlings over pro perty rights, there remains no thing more sacred or implicit to the spirit of the Constitution than its laws for inalienable human rights. No man-made document, however august or revered, can make right or just that which is irrevocably con trary to human dignity. No man or nation at any time in history has ever been able to stop the the wrongs of this earthly ex istence. Robinson says, "Is the whole Constitution required reading for liberals. Mr. Mclnnis, or do you just fuzzy along until you reach the Fourteenth Amend ment?" WreII the answer to this is as simple as the questioner. I know what the Constitution says in the moral and literal context. It is to be pitied, judg ing from Robinson's letter, that he apparently has such a small, nearsighted comprehension or appreciation for that imperish able document. I have a lew more things to say but space will not permit it here. Fuzzy Wuzzy Mclnnis 536 Cralge

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