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1 Volume 72, Number 73 Thursday, December 19, 1963 Letters To The Editors Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office in Chapel HU1, N. C. parsaant to Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: ff.50 per semester; $8 per year. Published daily except Mondays, examinations 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. Stye Satlg max If rcl 70 Years of Editorial Freedom Things We Wanted To Write About Before Christmas, But Time ... The University of Algiers had its li brary burned out by OAS terrorists in 1962 and desperately needs any text or reference books they can get. NSA, in cooperation with the World University ; Service, is heading up the U.S. drive. ', Books in French and Arabic are espe cially needed, but all books would be ap- ' predated. Pick-up points are located at Y-Court and Graham Memorial. Give a ' book for Christmas. ; ' One last word on the Gag Law. (That is, one last word before Christmas.) All three contenders for the Democra tic Gubernatorial nomination, Lake, ' Preyer and Moore, have come out in favor of the law, but none have en dorsed it absolutely. Their endorse ments run from light-medium grey to dark-medium grey .with as little explana ' tion of their real feelings as possible. This maneuver is described as a rea soned, temperate statement, but is ac tually just reasoned, temperate evasion. An interesting sidelight is Senate Presi dent Clarence Stone's statement that "I have not noticed any professor lead ing any (civil rights) demonstrations in Raleigh since we passed House Bill 1395." Apparently equal rights is just a communist propaganda ploy. For a change of pace it is nice to be able to applaud Rep. Harold Cooley. He was the only member of the North Caro lina congressional delegation to vote for passage of the foreign aid program. Tak ing the other road is an act of political courage and consistency, but Rep. Cooley has demonstrated these charac teristics before. He was the only mem ber of the state congressional delega tion who refused to sign the insidious "Southern Manifesto" in 1956, and as for consistency, he has voted for foreign aid ever since the Marshall Plan, i It must be nice for the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to go home every night to a warm house while the under paid Police Department has to pay the price for their default. On the whole, the local police have done an excellent job in coping with the new rash of demonstrations, but a few, a very few, incidents belong more to Birmingham than Chapel Hill. We are not sure what it will take, but if demonstrations will get the city fathers off their butts, then go to it. We notice that the Raleigh Cham ber of Commerce has refused to take a stand on the "little federal" amend ment. The Raleigh News and Observer can't understand why the chamber re fuses to speak out to protect the city's interests, but possibly the chamber, like Jesse Helms, would hate to see areas with a high concentration of minority groups (i.e., Negroes) get equal representation in the state legis lature. That's so far out it's like cut ting off your face to spite your nose. Once more : During the vacation regis ter to vote and apply for an absentee ballot. Also, take a look at the wreck in Y-Court before you start home. Boy Cole . . . Principled Or Prejudiced? The position of Town Solicitor Roy Cole in refusing to accede to requests that charges against 21 demonstrators arrested last summer be suspended is not as damning as it may seem. Cole apparently was not asked in ad vance if he would go along with an agreement between Chief Blake, the Committee for Open Business and the chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Human Relations, requesting that charges against the 21 demonstrators be suspended on condition that they cease demonstrations. Cole also was under no obligation to go along with a request from Joe Au gustine, executive secretary of the Mer chants Association, who brought the v charges, that they be dropped. Thus the charge from UNC graduate student James W. Gardner, Jr., one of the 21 demonstrators arrested, that Cole acted single-handedly in prosecut ing the demonstrations is true, but must be placed in context. Although Cole refused to discuss Gardner's charge, Joe Augustine quoted Cole as saying he would not drop the charges because he "would not let the judicial system become a whipping post for those who wanted to break the law. "He said he would not let mockery be made of the courts," said Augustine of Cole. All of this makes Cole .seem like a good, solid public official who refuses to be influenced by the whims of com munity opinion. And maybe he is just that. But the fact that he was instrumental in disbanding a local Little League a year and a half ago because a Negro youth refused to drop out of it leaves us wondering. We Can't - But If We Could . . . Like most other agencies of Student Government, The Daily Tar Heel is obligated to get $2 value for every $1 spent, in order to keep expenses and therefore student fees as low as pos sible. Thus we are unable to provide our hard-working staff with Christmas bonuses, though they are richly-deserved. However, were it otherwise, our list would look like this: Art Pearce windscreen for his mo torcycle, to keep the bugs off his teeth. Wayne King a diploma. Fred McConnel 3,647 ads on the Sports Page. Fred Seely honorary NAACP mem bership card. Pete Harkness paperback edition of "Memoirs of Casanova." Joel Bulkley a job. Jim Wallace thirteen cheesecake models. Mickey Blackwell two cartons of Metrecal and a talking dictionary. Bob Samsot a new name. Curry Kirkpatrick Diane Hile, three advertising departments and a couple of readers who like his column (im ported Bananaville) . I Hugh Stevens free copies of all of Mike Lawler's speeches. ; Pete Wales fourteen sorority girls. Diane Hile a muzzle. Steve Dennis a bound edition of "200 Translator's Introductions to Clas ' sic Works." Mat Friedman a B in Comparative ; Anatomy. Sue Simonds Gary Blanchard, David Ethridge. Dale Keyser coffee machine on the second floor of GM. Jim Neal complete 1957 WUNC-TV program schedule. John Montague Chuck Erickson's public relations staff. Linda Riggs a raise. ' Shirley Travis thirty-seven Campus Calendars. Al Kaplan a new Sports Editor. John Greenbacker-T-sixteen scoops. ; And to Kerry Sipe, incapacitated with an eye ailment, best wishes for a speedy recovery. Editers Praised ports lit Hard Thanks Editors, The Tar Heel, ' This is in regard to the article which appeared on the sports page of the DAILY TAR HEEL on December 13, 1963. It seems to me that the title of the art icle went out of limits in mak ing specific note that Karl Sweetan had not been chosen the college back of the year. After reading this apparently malicious swipe at a fine boy and fine football player, I was further surprised to see that its composer failed to elaborate or explain his "flowering up" of an announcement that most everyone was aware of some time earlier. I believe that this person has not only hurt and degraded himself, but also has to a great extent tarnished the fine tradition of the University and its paper. t If I have misunderstood the writer of the article's headline, I am truly sorry. If I have been correct in the conclusion which I have drawn from the article, however, I believe it impera tive that immediate steps be taken to right this wrong. I would suggest that this be done in one of three ways: , 1) Along with Mr. Sweetan's name should be listed every other college back who was not chosen as the back of the year. 2) Mr. Sweetan and the Wake Forest Athletic Office be sent , an apology by your office and the person speciFically respon sible for the article. Also that the Daily Tar Heel carry a pub lic apology to Mr. Sweetan. 3) The writer of the article . explain the rationale behind it to Mr. Sweetan and the readers of the Daily Tar Heel. Let me say that I enjoy read ing your (our) paper very much, and I congratulate you on doing a very good job the the great majority of the time. j Jerry Spivey . 602-A Hibbard St. The Fourth Estate Editors, The Tar Heel: The Fourth Estate has an ex cellent opportunity (and, per haps, a responsibility) to offer leadership irt correcting a distor tion, i.e., the distorted image bf certain individuals on the basis of physical appearance. AH people are members of the human race. Logically, it would seem that this is the paramount factor, i.e., that an individual should be viewed, FIRST, as a human being, a male or female, child or adult. Then, such fac tors as responsible citizenship, occupation, nativity, cultural group, religious denomination, personality characteristics, and the like, may or may not have relevance in the reporting of news. To illustrate by a hypothetical al "Negro Man Robs Bank." I cannot recall ever see ing that in a newspaper. How ever, this part is not hypothetic al: "Negro Man Man Robs Bank." Or, consider that a re sponsible citizen, male, physician by occupation, American by birth, Protestant by religion, and of the Negro culture, is frequently identified thusly." "Negro Physic an to Head Center." A true ex ample may clarify the point: a newsman reporting the news on the radio, recently, stated: "A Negro bus" (referring to an ac cident). What the devil is a Ne gro bus? For years, Negro was not cap italized in some newspapers and books. Although this practice has been corrected, as a teacher of graduate students I still see these errors on occasion a reflection, probably, of their cultural herit age. May I suggest that, the Fourth Estate in Chapel Hill provide the scintilla, and light the path toward a more accurate per ception of one's fellowman, and identify individuals by name, age, address instead of perpetuat ing a part of the past that de serves a long overdue requiem. Sincerely, Jim Morrissey Brickbats Editors, The Tar Heel: The Indianapolis Times, in a sports page article concerning the Indiana-U. North Carolina bask etball game, paid the fans a com pliment: It said that the sports manship on the part of the fans were excellent. That even after one of the VanAnsdales had al most killed Billy Cunningham, the fans still gave the brother a round of applause when he fouled out. The writer did not mention, however, that the game was played on a neutral court. He didn't have to listen to the loud mouth' of our head cheerleader, nor the boos in Woollen Gym. Neither did he hear nor see the child-like behavior of our back court men as a foul is called, nor did he see an All-American slam the ball on the floor and then throw it off the end of the court. I hope these things happen only at home where the gym is too small to accommodate visiting writers. Not only is our team a violator of good sportsmanship, but what about the so-called sports writer Curry Kirkpatrick? He has sland ered the VanAnsdales. These boys happen to be two of the finest gentlemen, scholars, and all-round athletes you would ever hope to meet. Their high school record shows this as well as their college record. Neither would intentionally hurt another player as he has suggested. Another example of his un sportsmanlike conduct is found in his writings about the Ken tucky game. How is it possible to blame the referees when a team loses by 20 points? If, as he suggests from the Indiana game, North Carolina is not a one-man team, why did lie get so upset when one man fouled out? Basketball is described as a team game, not an individual sport. Why not practice a little of that sportsmanship which people in other parts of the country think we have? Alan M. Hamilton Apt. 3 Co Watts Apt. . Visiting Policy? Editor, The Tar Heel: There seems to be some am biguity in the policy of the Chap el Hill Police Department con cerning visiting hours for prison ers. Because the jail now con tains a number of demonstrators who have acquaintances wishing to visit them, I think the visiting hours for these prisoners should be set and remain set. To further explain these wav ering hours, visitors were allowed to stay from about 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Monday, 16 Decem ber. On Tuesday, 17 December, the three visitors who were at the jail at 2:30 p.m. were allow ed to see the demonstrators for approximately 5 minutes, at which time the cells were once again locked. Three more people had then just come to the Police Department to visit, and were told that visiting hours were over. This was at (approximate ly) 2:35 p.m. Having called the Police De partment to try to clarify this unpredictable policy, I was told that there are NO visiting hours for prisoners. After explaining to the officer that I, myself, had visited two days, I was told that members of the Police Depart ment had decided there could be no visitors as there are not enough officers available to es cort people down to the jail. In order to eliminate more con fusion at the Police Department, I would suggest that they make known to the public the hours prisoners are allow to have visi tors. It seems that this should be one of the set policies of any Police Department, regardless of who is imprisoned. Susan Naumoff Maybe So Editors, The Tar Heel: In the December 9th edition of the Durham Morning Herald, Ann Landers had a column on the "Faults of Campus Men." As a co-ed on the UNC campus, it proved very interesting to me, as I'm sure it did to the other co-eds. For the men's sake, I think it would be worth including it in the Daily Tar Heel. It reads as follows: "Dear Ann Landers: Recently the girls in our college were polled. The question asked was this: 'What do you dislike most about the men on this campus?' "The results revealed that the worst thing a fellow can say when he asks for a date is this: 'Are you doing anything Satur day night?' No girl wants to ad mit she doesn't have a date. Some girls actually say, 'Yes, I'm busy,' when they aren't doing a darned thing. "The second most creepy guy on campus is the one who asks: 'What would you like to do on Friday evening?' The boy who calls a girl for a date should have some sort of entertainment in mind. It's unfair to put the girl in the awkward position of suggesting a movie or a play or a dance because the fellow may not have the money or trans portation for such an evening. "The girls unanimously agreed that the biggest drip of all is the guy who stands at the door and says, 'May I kiss you?' It's not too bad if the girl doesn't want to be kissed all she has to say is 'NO.' But waiting for a kiss after saying, 'Yes, you may,' is gruesome. The fellow who hasn't confidence enough to risk a re buff is just as well off to forget it. Betty Coed." I believe the girls on campus would appreciate it very much if this letter could be printed in the Daily Tar Heel. Maybe the men on campus have some comments of their own: A Frustrated Co-ed Cobb Dorm Ain't It True? Editors, The Tar Heel: Why do all the people in Chapel Hill think of the student as a patsy? Everyone is out to get the student. For example, today I went to a certain dry cleaning establishment in Eastgate to pick up my laundry which came to a total of $1.34. I paid for this with a five dollar bill. I received $.66 change. Being absent-minded I accepted this and walked out to my car. Realizing that I had been short-changed, I went back to the store and told them, in a nice way, about the situation. Since I had been patronizing this store for 2Vfe years and not 5 minutes had elapsed I naturally thought that the matter would be settled promptly. The clerk realizing that I was a student and a patsy saw the chance to take the advantage of another student. I did not get my three dollars change, but was told that I would have to wait until the cash reg ister was checked after work. It sure made me feel good to know that the store trusted me after two and a half years of faithful patronage, during which time I also brought my roommate's laun dry to them. Another example of the student being a patsy can be seen in ap proximately 7,000 other cases. Along with other students, I hur ried to the ticket office the fir-t day to get my Gator Bowl ticket because we were lold the fir.-t people got the "best sets." Th. athletic office knew that the se.it were in the end zone, but thi-y knew that the students are, al ways have been, and probably ,i ways will be patsys. When dii the students find out that U;ey had been made the patsys again, when it was too late. It was af ter we had already bought and paid for our tickets and had made arrangements to go to Jackson ville. Of course the poor, unsus pecting students were taken once again. Patsy as always! That's us! Maybe when I get home I can find out about the game or maybe even see some films of it on television. Yippee! Charles Brockmann 207 Avery Newsman Vs. Scientist: Rebuttal Editors, The Tar Heel, Last Saturday, THE DAILY TAR HEEL printed a guest edi torial by Mr. Pete Ivey, in which the Director of the Uni versity News Bureau takes scientists to task for being dif ficult in their realtions with the Otelia Christmas Editors, The Tar Heel: I dropped in to hear one of my favorite ministers preach during this Christmas Season. He was calling attention to the tendency of our times to commercialize Christmas to forget the true meaning of Christmas. Up to a point, I think he may be right. But if we celebrate this religious festival by going to church on Christmas Day, and if our chil dren celebrate the first Christ mas in story and song and drama, then I am all for the tin sel, the gift-giving, and the gath ering together of friends before the festive board and the Open house where eggnog and good cheer are served to those who drop in. For joy in the heart must have a two-fold expression upward to God, and outward towards our fellow man, and the first is impossible without the second. So as we joyously celebrate the birth of Christ, may He be born anew' in our hearts on tnis and every Christmas Day, expressed by love and gift-giving to our fellow-man. This is one time of the year that you don't have to resort to the Twist to "let yourself go!" What a bright spot in the Christ mas Season, coming as it does to make people forget the cold short December days and long winter nights. If there was no Christmas celebration, people would soon invent another cele bration, so let's hold to Christ mas, the best of all seasons for celebrating! Otelia Connor Chapel Hill Lette rs The Daily Tar Heel in vites comments on current topics from its readers re gardless of viewpoint. AH letters to the editors should be typewritten, double -spaced and of reasonable length. All letters must be signed, with the address of the author. No letter con sidered libelous or in poor taste will he printed. press. Mr. Ivey suggests that contemporary scientists are ex cessively circumspect and over cautious when they speak to the general public and that they make the life of the news re porter hard by their const it ii tional inability to make simple, straightforward, and printable assertions instead of complicat ed statements, circumscribed by reservations and qualifications. Mr. Ivey complains that to day's scientists do not announce their discoveries with the flam boyant "Eureka" atti ibuted ti Archimedes when he found the law governing the buoyant force impelling a body immersed in a fluid. There are many reasons for the scientists' attitude which s puzzles Mr. Ivey. The enorm ously increased complexity of science itself, rather than the apparent unwillingness of t he scientists to stand up and bo counted, is largely to be blamed for the communication barriers not only between the scientists and the general public but be tween scientists themselves as well. Scientists do have a re sponsibility to make an effort to surmount this barrier and to let the educated layman partici pate, as much as possible, in the intellectual and cultural ad venture in which they are en gaged and which can be carricl on only as long as the commu nity at large will support it. Nothing is gained, however, if the message of science reach es the public garbled by Hie news media in the mistaken be lief that heightened readability is achieved by lowered accur acy. Mr. Ivey's editorial provides an example: Archimedes, he says, "conceived the idea that a body displaces an amount of water equal to its own bulk." Of course, it does, but what Archimedes actually discovered was that the force which buoys up a body is equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces. It is disconcerting that over 2000 years later, a journalist, charmed by a, quite possibly apocryphal, anecdote about Archimedes' visit to the bath house, is unable to put into ' words the true findings of the Greek scholar. No wonder, then, that scien tists are on their guard when they communicate with news men. Many would like to get their stories across to the gen eral public but are frustrated in this endeavor by handicaps not of their own making. Dr. Eugen Merzbacher Prof, of Physics Experimenter Finds Calcutta Strange Place (Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles from a UNC student visiting India in the Experiment in International ,Liv- ing program.) By MARGARET RHYMES CALCUTTA On leaving Cal cutta, one feels he has seen a good part of India. But the foreigner has to be wary of generalizations after on ly one month in this city of ex tremes. Someone has said that a fool in India sees two sides to every question, but a wise man sees half a dozen. And about the saf est statement that can be made about this country is that any thing that is said about it is true somewhere. It's an almost impossible na tion to characterize much more like a continent than a country. Life has been somewhat hectic In Calcutta for the 12 American Experimenters. There have been receptions to attend, factories to tour, colleges to visit, films to see and talks to make. There have been meetings with politicians and housewives, Am erican ex-pa triates and European visitors, college students and priests, businessmen and children. And all this while trying to J fit smoothly into the normal daily 3 pattern of an Indian family. ) While most Experimenters have 4 tried to avoid intra-group con tacts, a few all-American func tions were necessary. One such occasion was an hour long audience with the Governess of West Bengal, one of India's two female governors. She's affectionately called "the beast" by her constituents, but while no raving beauty, she prov ed to be quite the able politician and tactful diplomat, considering the questions that were fired at her. Like most politicians we've met, she seemed overcome by, yet hopeful about, the resettle ment of refugees and the slow road to economic self-sufficiency. This question-and-answer situ ation was reversed during our many visits to colleges and uni versities. The questions came hard and fast and these sessions were both exhaustive and ex hausting for Americans, suddenly in a minority position. Stimulating also were discus sions with Americans attached to the V. S. Embassy or U. S. Information Agency. However, we were somewhat dismayed to find personifications of the Ugly American among the personnel those who were eager for another American's ears to complain about the poor education their children were getting or the mod ern "necessities" that they miss ed back in the States. It is these people who alienate the Indian so quickly, throwing him into an uncomfortable, de fensive and apologetic role. For the American abroad rep resenting a country of wealth and technological superiority, it is a difficult tightrope to walk be tween a paternal condescension and; an inoffensive benevolency with respect for the individual. This tightrope is especially hard to balance when one is be ing bombarded with sometimes valid questions and statements like: Thailand is just a U. S. pro tectorate. Why doesn't America leave Cu ba alone? How can a democratic nation openly try to engineer a coup in South Viet Nam, what business is it of theirs? Why after the test-ban agree ment did the U. S. immediately set off the first underground ex plosion? And why, after almost two hun dred years of independence,' has ' America not given freedom to all her citizens? Civil rights, naturally, has been the main field for questions, es pecially since U. S. racial news is splashed across the pages of leading Asian papers. One dis tasteful example was the story of a white man trying to force a live snake down a Negro's throat. This article made front-page cen ter in Delhi's major paper. Unfortunately, outside of Ala bama, most reports of racial troubles that reach print have been from High Point, N. C. The march on Washington made a tremendous impact on these people, who automatically align themselves with the cause of the darker, oppressed peoples of the world struggling for a long over-due freedom. But, aside from political dis cussions, Calcutta has much to offer the visitor: The Victoria Memorial, beautiful gardens, mu seums and temples, as well as good restaurants, shopping ba zaars and fashionable night clubs. Some of our activities were in tourist realm, such as the visits to home industries and handicraft centers, the famous Bata show factory, one of the country's lar gest private industries. This was an auspicious time for weddings, so our schedule wa filled with a wide variety from the Punjabi marriage where the bridegroom arrives on a horse, to the Hindu ceremony which stretches out to a three-day af fair. Other evenings we took in dance dramas, Bengali plays and Hindu films. In the latter field, the Indians are the world's sec ond largest produces in footage. Most film are a conglomeration of melodrama, comedy, music and tragedy. They feel that something of everything must be included to appeal to the masses. Most of the written and spoken arts in India have a difficult time in attracting any international notice. The major problem is the 273 languages and dialects in the country, which prevents almost any writer or dramatist from winning even nation-wide ac claim. These 21 days in Calcutta, the Americans have seen a good number of official functions and tours, formal meetings and talks, good entertainment and pub'ic re lations work. But, now, the group has be come quite restless and quite ready to dig into the "real India" outside the city compound.
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