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Volume 72, Number 71
Tuesday, December X7, 1963
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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