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Friday, October 2, 1964 Volume 73, Number 14 'That's Odd; I don't recall rushing Iota Beta Mu Sorority!' 72 Years of Editorial iEreedorji Ncrtft CroIkM C 1 1 ft r I V vbtdi first la Jmhmtt Offices on the second flor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Easiness, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C Second class postage paid at , the Jost Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant to Act of March 8, .1870. Subscription rates: $40 per semester; $8.00, per year. Published daily except Mondays, examination periods .and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications, Board -of .theUniversityof Njorth Carolina. .Printed, by tthel Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. 3 ! Beat Wake Forest JFor. A Reason Barring a Chapel Hill monsoon, Caro lina's second pep rally of the year will come off tonight, and certainly we have reason to hope and expect a huge crowd and lots of noise. After all, our Tar Heels enter Satur day's game fresh from one of their greatest intersectional victories. And the student body has already demon strated its willingness to support the team through pep rallies (witness the record crowd of 4,000 plus which turned out on the eve of the State game). But we hope that tonight's throng' will be especially large and loud, and we'll tell you why it's the Wake Forest "fan.' If ever there swas reason to hold a pep rally or win a football game, this is it, for Wake Forest fans are a breed apart from all other followers of sport. Their motto is "if you can't beat 'em, make 'em mad at you." Carolina, like most everybody 4 else, has had the good fortune to defeat Wake Forest in football for the last couple of years. Ordinarily, you might think that our victories would bring some complimentary remarks concern ing our fine teams from followers of the opposition, but this is far from the case? We are frankly tired of hearing Deacon followers scream "luck" and "dirty" and other unprintable exple tives, and neither are .we very amused by the fellow at home who. hasn't spoken to us for two years following a Caro lina football victory. - - (But who is the first guy to call us when Wake beats the Heels in basket ball? Yep! You guessed it.) Now perhaps these descriptions don't apply to every Demon Deacon backer. Perhaps these are just malcontents who have become so irritated by losing, over the years that they must go around banging on the enemy dugout at base ball games, wearing bright red socks, making an unholy amount of noise in general, and spending more time knock ing the opposition than in cheering for their side. ' But whatever the reason, it seems pointless to us. And since they don't get any better with winning( after their second victory of this season they were yelling "we're Number One"), we might as well listen to the anguished cries of a loser again this year. So, if they want to scream, let's give them something to scream about. GET 'EM, HEELS! A Gamble That Must Be Taken From The Franklin jPress "Isn't it dangerous to allow Gommu nists to speak on " college - campuses ?" asks a Press reader in apersonal letter to the editor. "After all," continues our correspondent, "aren't most college stu dents ill-informed about American his tory and woefully ignorant of the rea sons for our form of government?" The answer to both questions, of, course, is an emphatic "Yes." Consider the second question first. It is true that our homes and our schools have done a poor job in educating youth for American citizenship. Most young people know , little about the history of their nation and have only the haziest of ideas about such things as our sys tem of government checks and balances and the reasons for these foundation stones in our system of government. But is the college student in worse position, in this respect, than the aver age American adult? Even many of the best educated .and most intelligent adults, in other fields, are incredibly ignorant of American history and government. If we're going to protect the college student against the false philosophy of Communism, shouldn't we protect the adults also? And if we start doing that, what happens to, the basic American concept of freedom of speech? If we're going to protect people against Communists, ideas by quaran tining those ideas- wouldn't it be log ical to protect them against other .false ideas? Proteet Protestants, -for example, against the false ideas of Catholicism and Catholics against the error of Protestantism? Protect Democrats against false philosophy of Republicans and vice versa? Of course it is dangerous to allow Communists to speak op college campus es! It is always dangerous to give peo ple, students or adults, the freedom to choose between two ideas, two philoso phies. But every freedom .we Americans possess rests upon that one upon free dom of the mind. That is why freedom itself is so revolutionary, so .dangerous a concept. For people are never really free unless they, are free to be wrong. It's a gamble we have to take. It's a gamble the men who set up this nation had the courage to take. They recogniz ed that sometimes people would make the wrong choice, but they were con vinced that most people usually would be able to distinguish the true from the false. It's a gamble we must continue to take today. It's a gamble we will take, unless we've lost the courage, the faith in humanity, that, transformed the highly improbable American dream into the miracle of reality. Whither Goeth The Conservative Club? We view the formation of the Caro ! lina Conservative Club with mixed feel ings. The club, which languished about last year without doing much, seems to Jiave a .solid membership, and chances are it will succeed this time around. Such people as Britt Gordon lend a fav orable aura to any outfit. The club can go two ways. It can turn into a true conservative discussion group, or it can turn into just another dismal little club full of dismal little people who sit about and moan and tgroan of the ills of the world. There is a crying need for more artic ulate conservative thought on this cam pus. For the most part, UNC student organizations are dominated by liberals, and many groups wither because they do nothing but sit about and agree with each other. 4 We need more and better conserva-. tives in student government and stu- - ' . """I ' " " 1 " - ' : ' - dent legislature. Too often we have seen campus right wingers argue among themselves more than with the opposition. And several students who purport to be conserva tive are little more than trouble-makers who spend, their time trying to undo rather than to do. This can be the great accomplishment of the CCC. It can encourage conserva tives to participate in campus activities, and can provide them with the neces sary contacts to truly get on the "in side." We hope the Club twill respond to the needs of .the campus, and not spend its time discussing the nastiness of Earl Warren, or other topics generally re served for a meeting of the John Birch Society. Conservatives-that is, TRUE con servatives now have a chance to make themselves known and, -hopefully, bene fit the campus. We welcome them, and wish them well. ........ m.mj j,. jm,,,, g'W.W ,,.,.., ,,., .,,.,....., . j,, nr-tfJ Jin.1 jui. j ;,..,. i ,m .. .. .r , -n. ' 5 f ' , ' ' ' " " tts '' ft " ! -f " ' - ''' - - - " ' - , x , l ' ' ( ny ; , ' ' ' ' " ' ' ' "rr " J 'r ''JrJ ' - ' ?& h , IS' T r " , o - - - ' , s , liiL V" "a' - sf'fiiS - w . - - l - - " - - I Ivv .;" ?fc A ' - - rin X - ' - - - ' Letters To The Editors he Nature. Of Prejudices Are Readheads Actually Red? Editors, The Tar Heel: I am sure there will be a great deal of sympathy for the ideas suggested by Mr. Murchison in; his letter on Tuesday. I am re minded of the case of Hubert Os-; goode.who came here from some-i where to the east in 1962 and! found that his roommate, had) ed -hair"" '".z r. :r ' y At first the three of us in the ! room opposite. his did not realize what it meant to him, but after j a few weeks, during 'which time he had become steadily paler and developed a nervous tic, he knocked on the door one Thurs day evening dressed up and carrying his bags, he stood in the doorway. "I can't stand it," he said, "his .red hair. It is so embarrassing. I've tried coming in late at night .after he had gone, to bed, but it vas no good. "There it was, staring at me from the pillow; I used to spend sleepless nights trying not to look at it. . I'm leaving. Will you re turn my sheets to the laundry? Goodhye.'V And he went before -we could reply. We iearned later that his .mother went into a convent as a result of the shock. This tragedy and many similar ones could be avoided quite easi ly if parents were given forms to fill out when their sons were ad .mitted to UNC. Something along these lines perhaps: "I hereby give permission for ,my son to room with students who: (Delete as required) have red hair have Irish grandpar ents squint are .not church-go-;ing Christians snore vote Re publicanvote Democrat are left-handed come from Eng land." J. A. Coles 502 Craige Raeing Drivers Are Sportsmen Editors, The Tar Heel: Speaking as a long-time fan of motor racing on two continents, and, more recently, as a re porter of Grand National stock car racing in the South, I would like to off er my two cents worm in Teply to the article titled "Racing Fans Seek Violent Spectacles" in the Sept 29 Daily Tar HeeL As an avid spectator, I rank it as unfortunate rather than as an accomplishment that I have witnessed two motor races that were marred by fatal acci dents: the Grand Prix of Bel gium in 1960 and this year's Charlotte World 600. I can truthfully say I have never known of any spectator with a genuine interest in .rac ing (ad this includes the vast majority of people at any ma jor race) who has gone to a race .actually wanting to see a bad accident Moreover, I have never noticed any mood of lust .or satisfaction in the general spectator public at the announce ment of a driver's death. As a matter of fact, crowds were noticeably more quiet and sober than usual in the above two accidents, and the wins for, respectively, Jack Brabham and Jim Paschal, 'seemed a bit hol low at the time. As to the question asked re peatedly by the author of the Sept. 29 article, "Who killed Jim Pardue?" I can offer no answer, because I feel there was no murder - involved,- -Tas-is - im plied by the word "killed." Jimmy Pardue, like Fireball Roberts, Dave MacDonald, Carel de Beaufort, and others, was a sportsman dedicated to his sport; a man who had worked years to earn the seat in the stock car he was driving. Jim Pardue was not living un der an illusion of security,, a condition which any racing driv er will tell you is a dangerous one. . He had weighed the conse quences of injury or possible death against the fame and sat isfaction of competitive spirit accrued by a winner, and his choice was, to his way of think ing, the right one. It sounds rather trite in the wake of such a tragic accident, but who is to say that he did not die, as he would have wanted to? It appears to me, then, that the question to be asked con cerning Jimmy Pardue is only whether or not he died in vain, a question which could be debated either way, particularly by proponents of the opinion ex pressed by the author of the Sept. 29 article. But the majority of those close to the sport, while greatly sad dened by Pardue's death and the loss of others in this unusually tragic year, would agree that death cannot be entirely in vain when the person in ques tion dies accidentally while voluntarily doing the thing he enjoys most. Proven statistics show that an average of 14 racing drivers will die per year in motor racing accidents, which, when you con- v sider the number of miles cov ered Aat competitive speed each year and the number of people involved, . makes this sport con siderably "safer" than, highway driving or even crossing the street. , There is no comparison be tween the number of nonfatal in juries in racing and in a sport like high school football; even more , deplorably, the football players are often pressured into participating, unlike motor rac ing, where the driver risks in jury totally of his own volition. No one can say, however, that The Daily Tar Heel solicits and is happy to print any letter-to-the-editor written by a mem ber of the University commun ity, so long as it is free of slanderous and libelous remarks. No letters will be edited in any way, unless they are un reasonably long. No more than three signatures will be printed for one letter. All letters should be typed and triple-spaced. DTH offices are on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Edit, page . material should be turned in two or three days before pub lication is desired. AY If ILL .By.ARMISTEAD MAUPIN, JR. . Two weeks ago ;in New York City it happened for :the first time. Hundreds of white fand .Negro children were "cross-bussed" out cf their own ; neighborhoods in a massive effort to establish "ra r cial , balance" . in the city schools. Under tae t Cambridge Plan, four largely white elementary schools .were paired .with Jour .largely Negro schools. Within each pair, ; the lower grades were sent to one: school, .while the up per grades were sent to the other. The following fable appeared in this column . exactly . a year ago today. Somehow, .we can't resist printing it once more. With feeling. No one questioned the record of Mary Agnes Faircloth. For 27 years her diligence and integrity had served as a beacon for younger teachers at Herbert T. Mortmain Junior High School. She was a woman of remarkable intelligence, driven by an iron VTill and a compulsion for perfec tion. Things, however, were far from perfect on the morning of Sep- tember 29, 1966. A pall of un easiness overhung the teachers' lounge , as Mary Agnes Faircloth .conversed with young Miss Apple baum of the Mathematics Depart ment. "I'm in a rather awkward situ ation, Stella. As you know, the man from the Commission visits the classroom today, and I have a serious racial imbalance in Elementary Sociology." "That can't be, Miss Faircloth! Your class was reapportioned months ago." "I know, dear, but the Monroe boys are out with the mumps, and Rotunda Davis got married last week. I should never have let things &lip. My ethnic ratio is dreadfully off kilter. And, to day of all days, it just doesn't lock right." The - words camo slowly, - with painful certainty. Miss Apple baum made a serious "face. Mary Agnes .Faircloth .patted 'her bun nervously and continued. "Stella, I m going to ask a fav or that I've never asked of an other soul on this earth. If it isn't, all right, just tell me so. We're friends, and I wouldn't impose for the world." Miss Applebaum's assenting fmile and nod passed unseen by Mary Agnes Faircloth. She was staring out the window at noth ing. Her hands clamped onto a chair back as her lips forced out the difficult words. "Stella, could I possibly borrow three of your Negroes?" Miss Applebaum's face was at once sympathetic and resolute. "Oh, Miss .Faircloth, I'm so sorry . . . I'm barely up to my own quota . . . Why don't you .check with Doris? I understand her Marriage, and Family Living class has an underbalance of white children. Perhaps you could trade or something." "Do you really think so?" said Mary Agnes Faircloth, turning to face her colleague. "I should never have let things slip. I fhould have seen the Dean of Ra cial Balance days ago. They'll never . . . Miss Applebaum gripped the older woman's hand gently. "You're making too much of this, Miss Faircloth. The Com ! mission can be very generous sometimes." racing is a "safe" sport. It is not, and any racing driver will be the first to tell you that. But, like any other sport, its participants and people closely connected with it will defend it, danger notwithstanding, and will oppose any outsider who scans tiie facts and advocates its abolition or its "gradual phas ing out." Racing serves as a proving ground, in its own way, for improving the reliability of the road car, the roadholding of tires and suspension, and the strengthening of safety com ponents in the family automo bile. For the racing driver, it pro vides a tremendous challenge to his skill to lap a course fast er than another man, and a chance for him to publicly dem onstrate his skill. Greg Cagle 102 Graham Freshman Lands Orientation Week Editors, The Tar Ileel: Hegardless of what some people may think, I feel the Orientation Program was excel lently executed. If you stop to think how many freshmen enter ed UNC this fall (about 2,700, I believe) you can realize that there should have been a few mistakes made, because every one is not perfect. However, die number of meet ' ings, programs, etc., which were put on right greatly ex ceeded the number of situations which were not the best organ ized. Mr. Charles Barwick, whose letter appeared in the Sept. 22 issue of the DTH, im ' plied that the Orientation Pro gram was poorly planned. I am inclined to disagree with ' Mr. Barwick on that point. I think the Orientation Commit tee, and all other personnel in volved deserve a hearty con gratulation and thank you from The Class of 1968 for the fine job Uhey did during Orientation Week. In closing, I would like to re state the credo which Mr. Bar wick quoted in his letter and to think of this credo as coining from the Orientation Committee : -"Though we are not perfect, at UNC, we strive to be." Richard L. Yarborough 311 Manly Wriggly Protein In Lenoir Diet Editors, The Tar neel: Upon my return to Chapel Hill I once again had the pleasure of dining in Lenoir Hall. Half way through my meal I found a worm in my. food. I received the apologies of the dietician: "They (i.e. worms) are some times found in cabbage." A rather poor excuse, particularly ' considering that I didn't have any cabbage on my plate. Roberta Barkoff 21$ E. Cobb Will Goldwater Push The Button? By CHUCK NEELY "Would he push the button?" This is the question which ,is paramount in the minds of many Americans and which lurks in the hidden recesses of the minds of even the staunchest backers of Barry Goldwater. The question is a vital one and one which must be answer ed. For if the Republican nomi nee is trigger-happy then in deed he must be defeated. The office of the presidency requires a rational and mature man, equal to the great responsibili ties of war and peace which have developed on that posi tion. I believe that there is much misunderstanding about Sen. Goldwater's stand on the use of nuclear weapons, and it is to this point that I will direct my attention. Sen. Goldwater has advocated the release of control of tactical nuclear weapons to the supreme commander of NATO, a step he believes would ensure a battle field flexibility which does not now exist with the present presi dential control of the use- of these weapons. . Before a great hue and cry over war mongering goes up, let us first define "tactical nu clear weapon." A tactical nuclear weapon is a battlefield device, used on a tactical, short-range basis. An example is the Davy Crockett, an "atomic bazooka" which has the power of 40 tons of TNT and whose refinements have effec tively eliminated most of the nuclear radiation which eman ates from any atomic blast. A strategic nuclear weapon is something along the lines of the bomb which leveled Hiroshima, a weapon with a firepower of 20,000 tons of TNT and which is much more radioactive than any tactical weapon. The junior senator from Ari zona has not advocated the releasing of Polaris submarines, Minuteman missiles or' strategic bombers with their immensely powerful, wide-range nuclear warheads. His position, one which bears the force of logic, is that if we do have a limited war we have a weapon expressly tailored to the situation such as a hand gre nade, a rifle or an "atomic ba zooka," we should use it. This does not mean that he says that we should go to war, nor does it mean that -he wants to give our allies the power to start a war on their own, but merely that he wants our men well equipped and as well pro tected as possible, if we should be forced into a limited en gagement with an enemy. One point on this matter will help to support Goldwater's posi tion. U.S. News & World Report noted in its issue of September 23, 1964, that the Johnson ad ministration had been serious ly considering relaxing controls on tactical nuclear weapons un til Goldwater made his pro posals, at which time the ad ministration, many observers feel, backtracked and used the opportunity to hurl accusations and make political propaganda. Another area of concern to American voters is the Gold water "proposal" to use atomic weapons to defoliate the trees in South Viet Nam to aid the offen sive against the Communist guerillas. , This, summer I was fortunate to talk with Jim Cannon, senior news editor and anaiist for Newsweek Magazine. Mr. Cannon volunteered the in-'-formation mat Goldwater had been misquoted on this issue,that he had not advocated A-bomb de foliation, but that having been asked what Jie thought should be done in Viet Nam, Goldwater had listed a number of sugges tions which ethers had made and that one of these was de foliation. Never, however, did the Senator himself espouse the plan. Here are two specific issues concerning the use of nuclear weapons where the Republican presidential nominee has been misquoted and his ideas distorted. One wonders how often this process of muddling the truth has taken place . . . The issue of war and peace is a truly vital one for this nation. War could well mean the de struction of much of our world and the complete changing of life as we know it. Neither candidate favors a nuclear holocaust. Each is op posed to an armed confronta tion of East and West. Each has a strategy to offer which may hold the answers to our interna tional problems today. Let us discuss their stratesics rationally and then make our decision, but let us not emotion ally throw out the charge of war monger or of being trigger happy at either candidate, with out a clear understanding oi the issues which confront U3.
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