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2-- O ! c I c I I i f o O f t I ' I. Tuesday, October 13, 1964 Volume 72, Number 22 . jl: 1 North CmoIum -wfcich first a dors . to jawMor 79J laity Gfetr Qi 72 -Years of Editorial Freedom Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address:. Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C. Second class postage paid at Ihe rPost Office in Chapel Hill, N.'C, Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8.00 per year. Published daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications "Board of the University of North Carolina. - Printed tiy the! Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. 1 'The Open Forum' Hits The Streets The Student Party went one-up on its opposition this weekend with "The Open Forum," a partisan party newspaper distributed throughout the campus. We welcome the paper, not as compe tition, but as a means of filling the void left on Mondays when the DTH is not published. The SP leadership tells us further issues will be distributed on that day. The newspaper is not a journalistic success, to be sure. This is due in part' to inexperience, but we suspect the ma jor reason is that it had to be distri buted by Saturday in order to avoid hav ing the cost placed on the party's cam paign expense for fail elections, and the party didn't start on; it until Tues day. Of course, this is no real excuse. The newspaper had been planned for sev eral weeks, and articles should have been written , in advance. ; Typographically, the newspaper is excellent, lay-out is a professional job and photographic reproduction is -good. The writing and news judgment are poor, but this can . be chalked up to in experience. We are sure future issues will be far better. But the SP is a giant step ahead of its opposition, and has thrown the ball squarely in their laps. "The Open For um" may have been the first shot of a hot war for the campus this year. Distortion In The Loyal Opposition ' Certainly, a partisan newspaper such as "The Open Forum" is expected to put everything in a light most favorable to its cause, but we do, think it went too ' far in its treatment of several topics. Most of the over-distortions appeared in a column by Party chairman Don ' Wilson entitled "The Loyal Opposition." Wilson charged Student Body Presi dent Bob Spearman and viee-President ' Don Carson with engaging in hanky ' panky in the selections of the chairmen ' of two committees the Residence Hall Improvement Committee and the Cam pus Radio Committee. The SP chairman insinuates that Car ' son had switched committees solely for political gain, and that Spearman had ' played along to further the political fu Vture of his protege. ' Carson was appointed to head the 'RHIC shortly after Spearman assumed ' office last spring, and the radio post ' was given to him last week. He resigned the former appointment, and turned the committee over to Sonny Pepper, a Stu l dent Party stalwart who has expressed ' a desire to keep the RHIC bi-partisan. When the RHIC was originally form ed, every effort was made to make it bi ' partisan. Carson and Dick EHis, another SP leader, were appointed co-chairmen, ' and the committee was divided evenly between the two parties. 'Spearman re-appointed Carson in the ' spring because he was the only person ' who knew the ins and outs of the pro ' gram from top to bottom. It was under stood that he would resign the post 1 when the program was solidly on its feet. Ellis expressed to us last spring his ' feeling that "Don deserves all the credit ' for the chairman's work." .In his article, Wilson said "A strange ' aspect of Carson's appointment was the ' fact that many people had applied for the ' chairmanship and Carson himself liad j held interviews." It is true ' that many people ' had ap plied for a spot on the committee, and they were interviewed by Carson as well as Spearman. But Wilson continues, "The campus was waiting to hear which applicant had been appointed when the news came that Carson had appointed himself Chairmen." We really can't image the campus waiting breathlessly to hear anything from Student Government, but that's chalked up to rhetoric. The point is that Spearman is the only person with the power of appointment. The decision was his and his alone. He had to choose the best man for the job, and we believe he did unquestion ably. As for Carson's taking over the Car rier Current program, this too is a ne- cessity. He is the only repeat, only - person who knows about the radio sys tern in its entirity, and it -was impera tive for the success of the program that he play a major role. Both the RHIC and Carrier Current will be of great benefit to the campus, and Don Carson has spent many hours working for their success. He should be ' pommended, not blindly criticised. There is only one thing standing be tween the two programs and success partisan politics. If the Student Party will spend a bit more time helping the present adminis tration in a constructive manner rather than looking for skeltons in every Gra ham Memorial closet, then they will do far more to further their cause among the voters. And, a third mistake, which probably was more of a misconception than any thing else. Wilson says the University Party did not support Spearman's action when he urged the Administration to get rid of the discriminatory housing rule. Jit is true that the UP did not support him unanimously, but they did support him overwhelmingly. The party defeat ed a motion against Spearman's action, then passed one supporting him. We hope the Student Party, no mat ter how honorable their 'intentions, will look at the situation more closely in the future, and look at it in a mannerwhich J1? 6fit Student Government and the students. You Can't Win 'Em All If they ever write a poem about the Dally Tar Heel, the lagt two lines will surely go something ' like this : The readers knock it every day, - they fuss and fame and foam; But Tjoy you ought'a seem 'em when the paper den't come And so it was . on Sunday, when a series of technical calamities delayed delivery of the DTH to many points on campus until past noon. The office was deluged with calls from all over town 1 from irate readers demanding delivery. What happened ? Well, it was some thing out of an editor's nightmare. First of all," the LSU-Caroiina football game in Baton Rouge did not wind up 1 .until about 11:30 EST. Thus, feob Samsot, our sports writer on the scene, did not file his story until after midnight. The Chapel Hill Weekly was laboring under the same deadline problems, arid r had; priority on the press, with the re sult that the DTH did not go to press until around 7 a.m. ' Then disaster struck. The Weekly's flat-bed press, a veteran of many, many years of service to town and campus, al most expired. Service was finally re stored by 8 a.m., though the printing proceeded rather slowly. Hopefully, our readers finally got de- livery arourid lunch time, despite' our trials and tribulations. Our sincere apo logies, and thanks to all our readers for bearing with us in this crisis.- Senator TiiMr-m3)5ii9s Defection. From The Cheraw (S.C.) Chronicle We greet the news that '"Sen. Itiurmond has .at long last form ally cast his lot with the re actionary wing of the Republican party with a sigh of relief. For too long he has been an albatros about the necks -of good Demo crats. His action will' free South Carolina 'Democrats of 'a bad image and 'give them' a chance to ; join the ranks bf -those in the Party who ' believe in progress. John M." Bailey, national chair man of the Democrats, described our Junior Senator accurately when he said: "Senator Thurmond is a long term malcontent who" has been a pretender in Democratic ranks. No man has used a party de signation longer and served its principles more poorly than Strom Thurmond in the Demo cratic Party." Sen. 'Thurmond -will be much more at home among the radi cal reactionaries of the Gold water wing of the Republican Party than he has been among responsible conservative South ern Democrats on Capitol ' Hill, most of whom do not like him and do not respect him as a political personality. Sen. Thur mond is a loner, he is not a good team worker; he cannot be -depended upon to work for party principles and party unity but "I just don't understand how boys can be so sloppy!'' -r-i.iwwwwLiniiuimnui4iMHiiii i i ii i ju WWW i '.' XI i ' V v - -'d I- f ' i s " ' JL K:: ;- V x iri H-F pf-. . I s y -"Sr'-Sr :r3.: k ' It Ay ri 'y-.- WIS ' ' vv v ' '' : ' j(uv y T!?im'i"i'i'i'i'iV ' Letters To The Editors Battle Of II Sexes Rages On Amazons Needed FoiUNClMcn Editors, The Tar Heel: .. Where are those ;gay, self-confident charmers of the Old South who could sweep a lady right off her stacked jieels? ' The "sweeping" is no longer carried out by the blue-blooded male; rather, it has .been forced upon the pinfcblooded female. In fact, the. whole myth of mascu line .man-feminine woman has been reversed. " The brooding male of today's campus, complaining incessantly about the ratio, desires 'a quasi Amazon'coed who flashes Rev Ion's best smiles and bubbles forth omni-flattering chatter that will revitalize his' long stagnant hormones. ; Loss of - the aggressive male character has been noted by co eds who have been the victims of shy glances and feeble nods from any number, of males who are too gutless to give them the bene fit of full recognition. Certainly no self-respecting Amazon is go ing to stalk such sickly game. But for - those panting females who enjoy scrambling after the pitiful, mush - mouthed ' pseudo man "hear this: run, run, run just as fast as you can, girls, you just may catch one of those, ginger bread men. To the victor goes the crumbs. A Victim Name Withheld Maverick Hot For Woman Spy 1 Editors, The Tar Heel : I was somewhat dismayed to read Brantley Claris' column in the Oct. 6 DTH. During the rourse of her plotless tirade, she managed to criticize "Huis Clos," calculus, pretzels, the Suicide 50, Freshman Girls lorm rules, spiders, Weejuns, crepe paper in the bathrooms, and having class at 8 in the morning. Although r I can hardly argue with her last point, I would like to assert that: "Huis Clos" and calculus are a far sight better than Modern Civ at 8 in the morn ing; if it weren't for pretzels what could we drink beer with i don't answer that one); some of my best friends are spiders and besides, if we didn't have them 50 per cent of the horror movies would never have existed; with out weejuns, 90 per cent of the campus -would bs going barefoot Question: Crepe paper in the bathroom? We have toilet paper in Craige. , Oh yes, as to Miss Claris' com ment on the Automations, don't knock it less'n you tried it. If I had lacked the intestinal forti tude to accept the challenge, I certainly wouldn't be broadcast ing the fact. Since I am not a Freshman Girls' Dormitory, or even a fresh man, (or even a freshman girls' dormitory's telephone or a fresh man girls' dormitory's t e 1 e -phone's rule) I will remain bliss fully silent on that point. Why, Miss Claris, don't you come out to Craige and try our telephones? Chuck Cunningham 315 Craige Campus Males Found Sloppy Editors, The Tar Heel: Three "drab, listless bodies encased in; formless unappealing attire" would like to sound off concerning the October 6th let ter to the editor. Apparently Mr. Richman, Mr. Wolff, and Mr. Grier have be come so accustomed to looking at sockless, blue-jeaned males V.W.V-P.V -.V. V.Mf.?.f HEELPRINTS Sign on a Gulf station in Ral eigh: "We clean the tiger hairs out of your tank." . It's a shame, but the most petite thing about most of the GM Petite Musicales is the at tendance. Definition: Extremist a per son who wonders why there is only one TV station in Austin, Texas. Headline of the Week: "Ku Klux Klan Sets Up Booth At Alabama State Fair." We sug gest that they have people throw darts at the Constitution, and anyone hitting the 14th Amend ment should get an electric cross for his front lawn. After seeing the "Jim Gardner for Congress" plane flying over Kenan Stadium for three straight weeks, we've decided to vote for Jesse Jones. A wandering around campus, that they've begun to see double. Or perhaps the discontended trio .. has not yet learned to distinguish the coeds from their fellow com rades. In any case, most female stu dents at Carolina spend a more-than-adequate amount of time in grooming and dressing, usual ly with successful results. The three gentlemen who " wrote the letter obviously were too busy jumping to conclusions to toother to get their facts straight. The letter previously referred to left us with the im pression of "do as we say, not as we do." We are wondering if they have ever taken a good look at the male population here with their grubby little beards, uncombed hair, and blank stares on the morning after the night before. And yet you didn't hear us com plaining first. It might be well to note that all Carolina coeds appear on campus or in town attired in dresses or. skirts, while our male counterparts tramp around clad in sloppy bermudas and T-shirts, sweatshirts, or no shirts. One final thought most coeds are here to get an education,' not to participate in a fashion show Alicia Babnco Shirley Appel Betty Hemphill 112 and 113 Spencer Broken Bottles Litter Grounds Editors, The Tar Heel: Where there were coke and beer bottles on campus yester day, there is broken glass today. Empty bottles don't add to the beauty of our campus and bro ken glass creates a hazard. Let's correct this before we lose the privilege to carry bottled cokes around or someone gets badly cut. Ii the empty coke bottles are returned to the bottle holders beside the machines from which they were purchased and if the beer bottles are thrown away through our .garbage disposal system, then we can prevent a future hazard while the present bne is being cleaned up. - You know, it was mighty slip pery going during all that rain we had last week. , ' Charles Barwick 312 Lewis cultivates what the Russians would call the "cult of the per sonality." The Scare Talk Few sensible, level-headed South Carolinians will swallow all the scare talk that accom panied the Senator's announce ment. They know that the na tion enjoys good times, that they -enjoy more individual freedoms than any other people in the world, that the Democratic Party, far from betraying the people,' represents their basic in terests far more faithfully than Goldwater Republicans, and, above all, they know that the man whose finger lies on the nuclear button is a man of emo tional stability who can be trust ed not to use his awesome power with reckless abandon. President Johnson is a pru dent, careful, moderate man who is a legitimate political descen ded of such Democrats as Jef ferson, Jackson, Wilson, Roose velt, Truman, and Kennedy. To suggest that he is leading the country into "socialism" is either to reveal an abysmal ignorance of the facts of Am erican political life or. to as sume that the American voter, and, more particularly the South Carolina voter, to whom Mr. Thurmond's remarks were addressed, are gullible fools. All this talk about the Demo cratic Party abusing the Consti tution and leading the country down the road to socialism and slavery is simple-minded non sense. In a democracy the peo ple are the government, and the concept of a basic enmity between the people and their elected representatives make no sense at all. As -for -socialism, the United States has the least regulated economy of any major power in the world. Even the liberal wing of the Democratic Party is to the right of the Con servative parties in Great Bri tain and the democracies of Western Europe. S. C. Needs Cash Barry Goldwater has suggest ed that all income taxes collect ed by the government be turned back to the states and that all government grant-in-aid pro grams be stopped. A poor state like South Carolina, which each year gets back more from the federal treasury than she puts in, can only be "short-changed by any such arrangement as that. It is also probable that such an arrangement would channel most of this money into the hands of the few at the expense of the many. If South Carolina v; farmers want a man in the White House who votes against their pocket book every chance he gets; if the working man wants for "President a man who is opposed to the legitimate interests of labor; if businessmen want a man whose laissez faire theory of economics is identical to that of Harding, Ooolidge and Hoover and Cie kind of old-fashioned Re publicanism that brings on cycli cal boom-and-bust business con ditions, and,' when faced with a national depression, is impotent and hopeless; If rural South Carolinians want a man in charge who votes against rural electrification, public power, price supports and parity, and all the other thin:s which have, over the past 3) years, gotten them out of the .mire and the mud, given them elecricity 'and telephones, free zers and washing machines and generally upgraded their stand ard of living; Social Security If senior citizens, who rr.ut live off social security payments, want a man who has said re peatedly he is against the con cept of social security and war.t -to make it Tjiuntary", there by wrecking it, and if their children 'want the added burden then of having to support them in lieu of these payments ; and if, above all. parents want a .President who practices irre sponsible brinkmanship w i t h "doomsday" weapons; Then of course you will asree with Sen. Thurmond's assess ment of the Hepublican nominee, bolt the Democratic Party, and vote for Sen. Goldwater. If, by the way, President Johnson and Sen. Humphrey are such awful, wicked, dangerous radicals, why do you suppose so many conser vative GOP businessmen have rallied to their banner? The truth, of course, is that they aren't radicals at all and the average South Carolinian knows it. If it weren't for the race issue in our state, Cold water wouldn't get to first base and Sen. Thurmond wouldn't be bolting. This is the "gut" issue that momentarily blinds people to the fundamental issues of this election. GOP And S C. We suspect, however, zs No vember draws nearer and as Sen. Goldwater keeps on talking and his record comes clearer, many Palmetto voters who now lean toward the GOP will turn around. As for us, we thank God that we do have a Constitu tion that is concerned with iue rights of every citizen, regard less of . his race and that we have men in the legislative, execu tive and judicial branches of government who are concerned with extending the individual freedom of everyone of us. Sen. Goldwater and Rep. Mil ler have taken the low road in this campaign. They have made insulting personal attacks on the Democratic nominees and have "encouraged other GOP candi dates to indulge in mud-slinging. And they have done something far worse; they have made our bi-partisan foreign policy and the race problem campaign is sues, thereby endangering ur national security and our domes tic unity. We would certainly hate to see South Carolina vote for a pair like that. Autumn Mains Add Insult To Illness By BRANTLEY CLARIS Health Editor Life at Carolina is so enchant ing especially when you're sick. People are so sympathetic and cheerful, the world seems so bright, the skies stay clear and sunny. Your room is warm and cozy, you have miraculously little homework to do, and before you know it, you're well again and ready to meet the world. Well, now that we've had our Laugh of the Day, let's consider the true vicious circle. Everything starts when one of your best friends contracts some vile disease as close to double pneumonia as you can get with out moving into the infirmary. You nurse her and look after her, and it seems like she just MIGHT get well. Then comes Saturday morning, and YOU seem to have a little cough. A quick trip to the drug store for some cold pills and cough syrup fixes you up nicely for the game and the parties af terwards. Then you get a little reckless. After Saturday night's date, you wash your hair and tumble into bed. My, but the room is chilly! Sunday morning you meet your Waterloo: you wake up with bronchitis. Isn't this fun, though? It's absolutely, utterly POURING outside, so you sit and rot in the dorm all day long, coughing whenever you feel like scaring your enemies and sipping your "Warning: Maybe Be Habit Forming"-brand cough medicine. Meanwhile, your roommate has decided to catch The Disease too so you're in excellent company. And again, as you stumble into bed, the room seems awfully cold. ' Monday morning comes tright and early especially when you wake up at seventeen minutes to nine. Still, you manage to swim . to your nine o'clock on time, even. But you seem to have that little cough still. There's no need to feel em barrassed because your resound ing hack sounds like it belongs to a 300-pound football player. But still, the fact that all the other girls have ladylike coughs may make you wonder if you're violating the Campus Code. At any rate, things are very exciting when you find yourself choking and gasping for breath in mid-lecture. At this time the decision is reached to experirr.-nt with class-cutting and to wade back to the dorm and crawl in between the sheets. After one last damp, frigid ex cursion into the outside world - for a sandwich, you resolve again to rot m the dorm for the rest of the day especially when they finally turn the heat on. Everybody knows you're there, because your cough reverberates throughout the halls. You're ?o sick you won't even go outside the dorm' with your boy friend: That's really sick, believe me. Monday night is a little dr'fer ent, because you cough so much and so hard that you don't fl asleep until 6 a.m. When ycu awaken at 7:20 (with a class m fifteen minutes), wheezing astn--matically, you have no warning that today you will be a social outcast. When you take your linens t exchange them, the lady behicd the counter won't even court them, because she's afraid c your germs. t People seem to avoki you t--maybe it's only because yva smell like a walking Vicks adver tisement. On the street or in tr.e laundromat people stare w ht n ever you feel inclined to coup. You make the great decision: to the infirmary you will go, that very afternoon. The doctor tel' you he doesn't like your eye makeup, but he still gives you a couple of prescriptions. Oif tJ the drug store you go to have them filled then home to tt-d you drag, all good spirits sudden ly dissipated. Nine dollars and twenty cent 5 worth of pills and cough syrup would make anybody sick.
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