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Friday, October 9, 1964
Volume 72, Number 19
William E. Miller
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A Theologian Fails In Politics
UNC is visited today by William
Stringfellow, author and theologian. He
will be honored at a private luncheon at
boon, and will speak at Howell Hall at
8 p.rrh on the spectacular topic, "God,
Guilt and Goldwatef."
Mr. Stringfellow can hardly be ex
pected to say that God and the Senator
are on the same side.
" In amarticle which appeared recently
in the Christian Century under the
Stringfellow byline, Mr. Goldwater is
pictured as a tool of the fascists and
America comes out reeking of totali
tarian influences and threats because of
the Senator's presence inside , her bord
ers. ;' -
Mr. Stringfellow pictures Gen Edwin
Walker, Gov. George Wallace, a group
of neo-Nazis in Germany, the Kir Klux
Klan and Robert Welch not just as Gold
water supporters, but as the kind of peo
ple you might expect to find at one of
Barry's dinner parties.
"Even Negroes considered 'Uncle
Toms' by their people are excluded from
political recognition (by the Goldwater
camp.)," Mr. Stringfellow writes "Op
ponents suffer vilification and threats of
bodily harm ... Inquisitions began to
purge the Republican Party."
Really? Mr. Stringfellow has some
awfully interesting information, but
Walker and Welch are certainly far from
the GOP National Committee, and as
for the Nazis calling the shots Y. ridic
ulous. Nor do we find any more palatable
Mr. Stringfellow's constaht attempts to
make Mr. Goldwater into a second
Hitler, and thus bolster his claim that
the nation is on the road to totalitarian
ism. (In this attempt, he hints that a key
part of the Senator's campaign strategy
concerns the premise , that "falsehoods
unstintingly repeated will be, believed,"
a direct reference to Hitler. He also
makes use of these phrases: "The Cow
. Palace at times rang with echoes from
the Munich beer hall" and "How much
do these days in the 1960's resemble the
1930's in Germany?")
Even when Stringfellow relents a bit
and advises that Goldwater might not
be so extreme as Hitler, he continues to
drill on the theme that Barry "attracts
totalitarians, and his candidacy has al-.
ready given them a home in a major
. political party." He concludes by saying,
"The governor of Mississippi warned the
other day that 1984 may see America's
last free election. For once he is right."
With quotes like these, one begins to
wonder whether it is the subject or the
author who is supposed to be an extrem
ist. Concerning Mr. Goldwater's political
supporters, we can see every reason for
Gen. Edwin Walker and Gov. George
Wallace to vote for the Senator. All are
conservatives, though for different rea
sons, and thus Barry will probably rack
. up two votes. ,
But as for the other subversive or
suspicious characters and groups, so
what?. Gus Hall and Harry Bridges and
Carl Braden and. B. Elton Cox and their
kind will most likely mark the Demo
cratic side of the ballot, but does that
mark President Johnson as a Commun
ist or fellow traveler or, in the case of
Rev. Cox, an inflammatory demagogue?
Of course not.
And what about the "purge" of the
GOP? Is it being led by the million and
a half Americans who voted for Gold
water in the primaries? Or by the 800
GOP' delegates who cast their ballots
for him at San Francisco? Or by Dwight
D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, William
Scrantort and Robert Taft, Jr., all of
whom are supporting Barry?
And what about the "traffic in-racism"
which Mr. Stringfellow credits the
Goldwater camp, with exploiting? Un
fortunately, he seems to have forgotten
the Senator's, past stands on civil rights,
his membership in the NAACP, and his
reasons for opposing the Civil Rights
Bill this summer. But apparently an
improved memory would not help much
for Mr. Stringfellow relies on such ad
jectives as "wickedness" and "reckless
ness" to describe the Republican candi
date's civil rights philosophy.
Few can take exception to Mr. String
fellow's reputation as an excellent
writer and knowledgable theologian, but
when it comes to politics we are inclined
to wonder just who is the extremist.
Politicians are fair game for criticism,
but that criticism should also be fair if
it is to be credible to its audiences.
Barry Goldwater should not and prob
ably will not be President of the United
States, because his qualifications are
weak and his program will not satisfy
a majority of Americans. But it is almost
impossible to comprehend him as a tool
of the Nazis and the racists, and Mr.
Stringfellow's remarks must be classed
with all the other poorly conceived and
misdirected scare stories, from the left
and the right, that have plagued this
country in this important election year.
You Scratch My Back, I'll . . .
Tuesday night at the giant Democratic
rally in Raleigh, President Lyndon B.
Johnson said, "After you go to the polls
in November and vote for Democrats
from the courthouse to the White House,
I'm going to enjoy working with your
Dick Nixon
Probably the least expected statement
of the week was made by, Richard Nixon
when he praised the nation's newspapers
and magazines for their "accurate" cov
erage of the presidential campaign.
Now we've been following Mr. Nixon
for several years, and after his 1962 blast
at the "anti-Nixon" press, his endorse
ment of the 1964 campaign coverage re
minds us of the time we saw the head of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union at a cocktail party.
One statement by Nixon was espe
cially interesting. He noted that while a
majority of political 'reporters aren't
sympathetic to GOP candidate Barry
Goldwater, ne thought they were mak
ing "a very deliberate attempt to report
accurately."
Possible translation: "I can't think of
anything very good to say about the
new governor, Dan Moore."
Wednesday night at the Dixie Classic
Fair iri Winston-Salem, Dan K. Moore,
Democratic nominee for governor, said
"I have said from the beginning, time
and time and time again, I am for the
Democratic Party from top to bottom
. . . and if there is anybody . . . who does
not know the name (of the man at the
top) ... it is Lyndon Baines Johnson."
And so the ancient game of "I scratch
your back, you scratch mine" is once
more played, and once more apparently
subcessful.
The result: North Carolina seems as
sured once more of being firmly in the
Democratic column in November.
Politics, despite all its talk about
"party unity," is still "every man for
himself," and Dan Moore could not be
certain of keeping the conservative:
Democratic vote if he endorsed Johnson
without getting any help from Wash
ington. But the tremendous excitement gen
erated by the President's visit probably
has put the state firmly on his side, and
it has made.it possible for Dan Moore
to say openly what he felt all along:
Lyndon Johnson should be President of
the United States.
And all it took was a little back
scratching to make him say it aloud.
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Through The Glass Darkly
YRG Resolution Conde:
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By CHUCK NEELY
It was with regret that I read
in Wednesday's Daily Tar Heel
that the College Young Republic
ans of North Carolina had pass
ed a resolution condemning the
United States National Student ,
Association and urging all state
colleges and universities to with
draw from USNSA.
Not only am I regretful that 1
the YR's passed this resolution,
but I am rather surprised at the
negative attitude evinced by the
resolution, for on . the whole ;;
North Carolina's College Young
Republicans are a positive-minded
group whose political prin
ciples are conservative, b u t
whose words and deeds in the
past have always been, geared
toward instituting beneficial ac
tion for students and the . state.
The YR's in North Carolina are
conservative, not reactionary,
and their ideals, their plans,
their goals and aspirations are
ones which could greatly aid the;
state. f.
Unlike the Democrats in North
Carolina, the Republicans are not
interested in maintaining the
status quo which has produced
vacillating leadership in the Gov
ernor's Mansion, legislative in
efficiency in the General Assem
bly, and a backward retrospec
tion among too many people in
this state.
Since the YR's are a progres
sively conservative group, I fail
to see the logic of their stand
on NSA, an organization which
does have a liberal leadership,
but also an organization which
has taken many forward looking
and genuinely constructive stands
on student issues.
This summer I was fortunate
enough to attend the 17th Nation
al Congress of NSA. The Con
gress, which lasted ten days, was
held at the University of Minne
sota in Minneapolis.
., Frankly, I was not prepared to
see what 1 saw--an active, high
ly articulate and influential group
of . conservatives from all over the
country gathered at the Congress
to make known their views. True,
there were liberals there, even
in some instances socialists (I
suppose there may even have
been a communist or two). But
the majority of the students pres
ent were moderates, some left
moderates, some right moder
ates, but most still very dis
tinctly moderates.
I had been warned there would
be-many doctrinaire left wingers
and indeed there were. They re
fused' to compromise any of their
principles and almost without ex
ception they were voted down
time after time after time.
According to the accounts of
delegates who had attempted
previous Congresses, the debate
at the 17th Congress was leng
thier, of higher quality and much
more attuned to the needs of
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On Lenoir Patrol
By OTELIA CONNOR
Yesterday I went over to a
table at Lenoir and put one arm
around the student's neck, gave
him a hug, and told him he was
the sweetest thing on campus.
He looked pleased but suroris-
ed, for just the day before I
had gone to his table and told
him I didn't allow him to ball
up his napkin and throw it nn
the table when he finished his
meal. I asked him how many
times I had corrected him. He
said I had gotten after him so
many times, he couldn't remem
ber. There are some students whom
I wouldn't think of correcting,
because they couldn't take it!
But this student is the perfect
gentleman.
Last night a student sat be
hind me in the TV room, chew
ing and popping his gum. I said
to him, "Look here, no gum pop
ping behind me." He ceased his
loud chewing, but in a minute
or so gave another loud pop.
When I looked around, he said
it was an accident and threw the
gum in the waste basket. Gum
chewing in public is out of the
question. '
One student comes in Lenoir
every day and swings one leg
over the back of the chair and:
seats liimself. (This was a new
one on me). I haven't called
him on it, but I did call a for
eign student who apologized gra
ciously, and has not done it since.
Young people don't seem to
realize that behavior should be
more restrained in the presence
of ladies. What otherwise would
be all right among his own age
group, and his own kind, is out
cf place under different circum
stances. During a teo at Graham Mem
orial for the foreign students in
May, Dr. Howell asked me whaf
I thought of the manners of the
foreign students, and if they were
better than ours? I told him
they were excellent, and prob
ably a bit more polished and
suave than the general run of our
manners, but the foreign stu
dents are no sweeter or finer
than our students.
Recently a student told me I
must have the manners all
straightened out at UNC, as I
had not been writing about them
lately.
Well, thare is plenty of room
for improvement, but I think the
manners have improved greatly
since I started my "manners
crusade," indicating that the
students do want to be recogniz
ed when they go out into the
world, as the Carolina Gentle
man. -
students than at any previous
Congress. Furthermore, it was
generally conceded that the con
servative faction was bigger,
saner, and more effective than
ever before.
As a YR and a moderate con
servative, I was happy to see
this, for these facts seemed to
show me that NSA was not a
communist conspiracy, was not
an organization uncaring of stu
dent needs and was most defin
itely not "undemocratic in na
ture", as the YR resolution in
sinuated. I thought the officers of NSA
seemed to be moderate liberals,
Whose views might not be in ac
cord with mine all the time, but
were men who were genuinely
interested in working for student
welfare.
I think it is interesting to note
that when Danny Boggs of Har
vard University, without doubt
the outstanding conservative
spokesman of the Congress, was
nominated for the position of Stu
dent Government Vice President,
he was received with a great
ovation from all of the delegates.
Boggs, if he had so wished,
could have been elected to the
national staff of NSA, but he did
not choose to run. Here is the
problem of the conservatives in
NSA. We lack people who are
willing to assume responsibility
in the organization. The fault is
ours, however, not that of NSA.
As the editors of the DTH point
ed out in their thought-provoking
editorial, the National Student As
sociation provides a wide range
of student benefits, from travel
scholarships, to life insurance, to
information and moral support
designed to bolster student gov-
ernment all over the United
States.
The Association has great po
tential but this potential can
only be recognized if thoughtful
individuals will take a part in
its activities and this includes
those representing all shades of
the political spectrum.
As a conservative, Young
Republican and a firm believer
in student action for student wel
fare, I urge the College Young
Republicans of North Carolina to
reconsider their unthinking and
ill-considered condemnation of
an organization whose principles
are in the best traditions of con
structive conservatism.
In the future, let us work to
strengthen NSA by sending more
conservatives to. its Congresses,
but let us not belie our own con
servative philosophy by seeking
to destroy that which should be
preserved.
The Daily Tar Heel solicits
and is happy to print columns
written by any member of the
University community.
All material should be typed
triple-spaced and turned into the
Associate Editor two to three
days before publication is desir
ed. All student columnists are
requested to turn in material
regularly each week.
Mr. .Kirkpatriek, a Journalism
senior at the University, is
resident of near Lockport,
the hometown of Republican Vice
Presidential candidate William
Miller Last summer he was a
reporter for a New York news
paper, during which time he saw
Mr. Miller in the hospital.
By CURRY KIRKPATRICK
William Tvliller, who has never
been used to a position of de
fense, lay on his back in the
hospital bed with the smell of
antiseptic and bandages and the
other smells you get in a hospital
all around him.
He was talking to friends, re
porters, and acquaintances who
have known Bill Miller all his
life and-who have watched him
closely as a small county assist
ant district attorney and, through
14 years of Congress and now as
a candidate for- Vice President
cf the country. "
Bill Miller was saying that he
would be glad to release his fi
nancial statement as soon as the
Democratic candidate had shown
his because when the people see
Bill Miller's, he will get the poor
man's vote.
He smiled and everybody
around him laughed because at
the time it was just one of the
many witty things this man who
could one day be President was
saying.
His friends have enjoyed this
man a long time playing golf
and shooting billiards and deal
ing poker. But Bill Miller is now
out in the bigger game of trying
to be elected to lead the country
and it is too bad he can no long
er be Bill Miller, because this is
a candidate for Vice President
and from here on it has to be
William E. Miller.
This was in Buffalo General
Hospital in late August when Bill
Miller was getting a checkup for
the long campaign which already
seems too long.
It's been more than a month
now that this wiry man with the
coal-black hair and the sharp
clothes has been traveling
around the country trying to be
come Vice President.
And he is puzzling the persons
who call themselves experts be
cause they cannot figure him
out and have now even given up
trying.
He has a good speaking voice,
better than any of the ether men
in the campaign, and his mind is
sharper and quicker also.
The adjectives that come to
mind about the way he spits out
issues and answers like a machine-gun
and refuses to back
down or even break a straight
face when somebody asks him
something embarrassing are
"vitriolic", or "acerbic" cr even
sometimes stronger than that.
One man said that he reminded
him of the nice guy you meet at
the country club whose views
you don't like and disagree with
but who you always meet again
. and have a drink with.
And that is about it. Because
Bill Miller is a pleasant guy who
is probably charming at parties
and nice to be around.
He has a wife Stephanie who
is all class and is not just along
for the ride, and a country would
be proud to have her as First
Lady. And he has four children
including two girls who could be
called nothing except dishes.
But after this campaign the
pity of it is that they are not go
ing to be the same, because a
lot of people are going to hate
Bill Miller sfter this campaign.
They are going to look at him
and listen to him and read what
he says and they are going to
talk about it by using the word
"gutter."
But the funny thing, is that Bill
Miller never saw a gutter in his
Jife, because there are no gut
ters in Lockport, New York,
vhere he was born and wiil live
out his life.
Lockport is a small town, the
seat of Niagara County, and
what you'd call beautiful. It is
right off Lake Ontario and it has
streets wth names like Oak and
Elm and Locust and Walnut, and
it loves Bill Miller and will vote
for him even if he never did
much for Lockport but put it on
some political map.
It was here that he beon
his career and here that he start
ed the speeches he will be giv
ing until the third day of next
month.
He is in North Carolina this
week, a place which has a hard
time identifying with Bill" Miller.
" Just as he has gone into rural
New England and out into the
Midwestern farmlands to tell
people what he is like, and they
just don't show up because they
don't understand the slate-coLr-ed
suits and the polished mahog
any shoes and the expensive
shirts and cufflinks and the so
phisticated walk.
They never heard anything
either about a guy named Jim
my Walker who looked just like
Bill Miller and who used these
same things to captivate the lar
gest city in the world more than
40 years ago.
They don't like a man who
talks as though he'd rather be
a Republican than an American.
It may be a commentary on de
mocracy and the free way of life
and the American dream, this
candidacy of Bill Miller or any
one, for that matter, coming out
of a sleepy town in western New
York with no credentials but a
sharp tongue and a quick mind
and trying to convince people he
should be '-vice president of the
country.
But it may be a tragedy too
for the system like this where
anyone can do anything, because
Bill Miller who may have never
wanted it, was chosen to be a
hatchet man, and now he can not
find an effective hatchet.
You ask yourself why they
couldn't have taken somebody
else to run this race that can't
possibly be won, because this
certainly is not the right man.
And then you listen to him
and you are tremendously enter
tained until you realize that he
is talking about and playing
around with a country, and it is
your country.
When you come right down to
it, when you ask yourself if this
is the man you want to be second
in charge of 190 million people,
the answer to Bill Miller has got
to be no.
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By ARMISTEAD MAUPEV, JR.
Concern is mounting at a local
delicatessen over the Presidential
candidacy of Sen. Barry Gold
water A recent random poll seems to
indicate that most of the patrons
cf that eating establishment are
feorful that their moderate out
look will not be represented if
the Arizona senator is elected
on November 3. '
''This Goldwater character
scares me," declared Brunhilda
Krebs as she attempted to dis
entangle her attractive brown
hair from the corned beef on rye
she was eating. "I don't like the
way he's always saying bad
things about Communism. You
gotta be suspicious of somebody
Tho's always saying bad things
about Communism."
Miss Krebs sentiments were
echoed by Gunther Pratt, a junior
from New York ' City whose
ample red beard was accentuat
ed by a single brass earring,
"Moderation has always been
my guide," Pratt said, "and I
expect it in a political candidate.
Sen. Goldwater is just too rash
for my taste."
"His extremism bothers me,
too," said a winsome dramatics
major from Kansas. "In fact,
it bothers all of the kids in the
MCNSR (Marxist Committee for
Non-violent Social Revolution).
Our group has always felt that
moderation is the key to good
government."
"I am really disturbed by Sen.
Goldwater's radical, irrational
outlook," remarked a young man
wearing Lebanese tennis shoes
and a knee-length leather vest.
"My cousin Bernice and I are
so worried about his impulsive
actions that we are planning to
fast on the Post Office lawn the
week before the election."
A young lady sharing a cup of
coffee with Pratt expressed the
heartfelt consensus cf the group.
"The forces of moderation
must win in this election. Seme
cf us are even hocking our Bob
Dylan albums to pay for a non
violent riot in protest of Gold
water's extremist activities. If
that doesn't work, we'll lie down
in the streets."
"Goldwater is a warmongering,
Fascist fink!" declared a demon
strative, dark-haired girl as she
banged her canvas booksack
against the delicatessen wall.
"He's highstrung, emotiona1
overwrought, misguided and in
sane!" She further emphasized her
point by slamming her hipboots
against a ilearby table leg.
Pratt commended the young
lady for her fervor and drew
thunderous applause from those
assembled when he shouted that
"extremism In defense of mod
eration is always a virtue."