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- Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1964 Volume 72, Number 45 The Cultured- My . . unlimited cuts; see you after Thanksgiving 59 A Waitin 72 Years of Editorfsl Freedom 9 o Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 833-1012. Business, cir culation, adrertislng G33-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C. Second class postage paid at Che Post 03ce in Chapel Bill, N. C Subscription rates: $1.50 per semester; $8.00 per year. Published dally except Mondays, examination 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. The Guitar Girl Gets Maggie's Drawers Miss Joan Baez, a folksinger of some renown, has decided not to pay 60 per cent of her income tax this year because some of her money is used for the na tion's defense. "All I can hope is that it will awaken some people to think," she said. What she is hoping people will think about, it appears, is unilateral disarmament. And we start to think about unilateral disarmament, and we wish people like Miss Baez would go to Russia and preach Unilateral disarmament there. A fellow we met this summer in Cin cinnati, Rev. Maurice McCracken, once tried this very same thing. "I'll pay my taxes when I am con vinced Jesus Christ would take a flame thrower and clean out a cave of Japs," he said. ..The Feds got him, just like they will eventually get Miss Baez. At that point Miss Baez will make a martyr of herself in some way or another, the Student Peace Union will make a big thing of it and the Unshaven Ones will march again. The loser? Not the Internal Revenue Service. To them $60,000 is a drop in the bucket. The losers are the armed forces, whose prestige cannot be helped by this attack from a prominent figure. The men who are fighting in Viet Nam, who fought in Korea and who have trod a thousand battlefields will lose a bit more in the eyes , of their countrymen. It is time we let those who are de fending our shores know the American people are grateful, rather than telling them they are engaged in activities which may not be reputable. While Miss Baez is carrying her guitar on high, two million Americans are walk ing with a rifle. A Suggestion For Student Government Whatever the outcome of the hectic campus squabble over the National Stu dent Association, two selected incidents from the campaign point out the need for an increased awareness of Student Government on this campus. First, for example, consider the tre mendous campaign waged by the pro NSA forces which concentrated solely on EXPLAINING the National Student Association, not defending it. This was necessary because a majority of Caro lina's students, it appears, had almost no concept of the organization. The reason for this is two-fold. In the first place, Student Govern ment has often failed to communicate its activities and goals to the students effectively, and many of them are un aware that we have one of the strong est and most effective Student Govern ment structures in the United States. In the second place, many students are terribly apathetic about everything in general and Student Government in particular. They never learn, and ap parently do not care to learn, about the democratic constitution and the system of elective representation under which they live for four years. . J Such apathy, apparently, helped to stimulate the second campaign incident to which we call attention. We refer to the accusation (by anti-NSA forces) that the student leaders supporting NSA had financed their campaign with Student Government funds. We sincerely doubt that those who made this charge were aware of its severity. Student Legislature, in an ef fort to protect the $180,000 in student fees appropriated in the budget, has in stalled many safeguards among them a policy which makes misappropriation of Student Government funds an Honor Code violation. Other safety checks and procedures make it almost impossible to misuse student money in the first place. Thus, those who have unjustly ac cused Bob Spearman, Paul Dickson, Arthur Hays and other respected stur dent leaders of using. Student Govern-, ment funds have also cast aspersions on their integrity and implicated them in an Honor Code violation. Hopefully, no one would intentionally be so unscrupu lous or vicious, and we attribute such accusations to unfamiliarity with the rules which bind our student leaders. Finally, we wish to propose a partial solution. It seems entirely reasonable to expect students to have some knowledge of the governmental system under which they live, just as they are now required to learn about the Honor System before they are allowed to enroll officially at UNC. Thus, we advocate a required test on basic Student Government statutes and procedures and the Student Constitu tion, which all entering students would be required to pass during orientation. This would be an excellent way of in suring better informed, more responsible student citizens, and it would also be an excellent addition to the inadequate orientation system currently in use. A Flexible Approach To Inflexibility? From The Charloiie Observer Nigeria's ambassador to the United Nations, Chief S. O. Adebo, and other delegates to that body have good reason to be concerned about the dues dispute threatening the U.N.'s future. There may be a world-shaking show down on the East River this week if the big-power members of the U.N. fail to resolve the controversy over the Soviet Union's indebtedness. Adebo directed a letter to the govern ments of the United States, the Soviet Union, France and Great Britain appeal ing for a solution. There has been an impasse caused by the Russian refusal to pay a share of peacekeeping expenses in the Congo and the Middle East and by a U.S. threat to withhold payment of its regular assessments if the' Russians o don't come 'through. . The U.S. stands on solid t principle in the matter. Its position is backed by the advisory opinion from the World Court at The Hague that all U.N. members are , responsible for bearing the costs of spe cial operations voted by the General As sembly. Article 19 of the U.N. charter states that any member more than two years in arrears on payments may be stripped of its voting rights. With the Soviet Union past the deadline on $52,600,000 it owes for the two special operations, the time is at hand to reaffirm the prin ciple embodied in the article. The U.S. purpose is not to wreck the U.N. Nor is it to get the Soviet Union expelled. Our approach is flexible enough to establish the principle of membership compromise on the method of payment. Although the Congo mission was au thorized by the Security Council, where the Big Powers have a veto, and the Middle East force by the General As sembly, the Russian were opposed to both actions. But if U.N. members are allowed to withdraw from peacekeeping operations approved by the majority the effectiveness of the world organiza tion will be all but killed. The U.S. has little if anything to gain by ' temporizing on the basic question. The Russians would be foolish to lose their vote and their voice in the U.N. through sheer stubbornness. Some of the smaller nations are get ting panicky as time draws nearer for regular U.N. assessments and for the technical aid pledges due on Nov. 16, But the U.S. may remain calm in its con viction that treatment of the charter as a mere scrap of paper is no basis upon which to make the U.N. effective in the future. p v " I ' . ' - ... - " ' ' f I f - ' " " - ' ' I f -.. r"M - i - r J i M t w. U r mi mmmmmmmiemmmmmmmm .'.V.'AMVWV.WAW.'.W.V.V.VtV. Letters To The Editors Quarterly Is Too Freudian Some Definitions Needed For Right - Editors, The Tar Heel : We would greatly appreciate it, if in future issues of the DTH, you would make a few more clari fications and omit a few more innuendoes. For instance, please define your idea of a liberal, a conservative and right or left wing extremism Otherwise, read ers migl:t get tae idea that you're prejudiced. In your editorial of Thursday you stated that the Young Ameri cans for Freedom was a "far right-wing group." You also stat ed in reference to the maga zine "Human Events," "we have heard this publication is affiliat ed with the John Birch Society, but have been unable to con firm this. We do know that it belongs in the same far-right do main as the YAF. We believe that there is no room on this cam pus for the apparently libellous publications of these extreme groups." You also stated that these publications belong in the gutter. Other than by herasay, please tell us how you arrived at these con clusions. By what stretch of the imagination do you equate all conservative organizations with the John Birch Society? How can you call yourself liberal and yet be intolerant of dissent? You present a more open niind to a Communist than you do a conservative. Anyone to the politi cal right of Mao-Tse-Tung is a right-wing, extremists if we are to believe your editorials. Why not knock the reds or the ADA or the "peace-at-any-pricers" once in a while? Or are we to believe that these far from moderate people are the voice of sweet reason? Isn't someone who dis agrees with your opinion entitled to some degree of fair treatment in the press? Let's compromise. If you're going to group all con servatives with the Birchers, give us equal time and group the lib erals with the Communists. If not, then make distinctions be tween the various degrees of lib eralism and conservatism. Paul King Jim Robinson 411 Ruffin Dorm Dismal Creations Unrepresentative Editors, The Tar Heel: A few days ago I picked up a copy of the summer edition of the Carolina Quarterly, and after hav-" ing read most of its contents, I was struck with the one-sided-ness it displayed. Do people just not submit opti mistic, un-Freudian material or is it a symptom of the age that people who are optimistic - don't think (or write)? ' The first story in the issue : was about a couple who went to , New York to commit suicide. The s second concerned a girl who went to a movie and was plucky I ing absent-mindedly at her chair a arm, when she suddenly realized that what she was plucking was not her chair arm but the hand of the man in the next seat. These stories were well written and of value. But why weren't the writers of less depressing cast represented as' well? Is it that much more difficult to sustain a hopeful tone in a piece of writ ing than it is to convey a tone of despair or disgust, light ened perhaps by scattered, vague hints of consolation? One gets the feeling that when ever one of these luxuriously bit ter and "realistic" writers ex periences a pleasant, convention al emotion, he is almost commit ed to exploit it in a manner ac ceptably dejecting to his genera tion. Since the Quarterly is a publi cation for student efforts (since it is a University organ), why can't they, the students in their broad range of expression, rather than an exclusive Beat trend, be serv ed? Looking at the contributors, many of them aren't from UNC at all. Of the 11 fiction and poetry contributors in the summer issue, three were listed as faculty or students of UNC. Betsy Cunningham 202 Spencer , in the next crucial years. 1.) "Negro protests will con tinue to grow both in intensity and depth." . 2.) "The protests will increas ingly . attract a larger proportion of.. lower-income Negroes and shift from status to economic goals." 3. ) "A more extensive use of local . and national boycotts of consumer products will be made." 4. ) "As the revolution proceeds through the coming years, some basic structural changes in Amer ican society will have to occur before viable race solutions are possible." Specifically, he outlined broad ened minimum wage legislation, exemptions of those earning less than $4,000 a year from federal income taxes, and a crash pro gram of job training, as the de cisive structural changes. All four of these factors, in cluding demonstrations, are need ed before America can live up to its aspirations and achieve the great victory Mr. Farmer sees ahead. Carol Schmidt Reporter, CORE Advocate 326 Kenan Hall By DAVID ROTHMAN Chapel Hills latest game is ! called Waiting for the New York Times. .' Every Sunday, at any given ' moment between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., this purveyor of Cul ture appears at Sutton's Drug Store, there to be immediately i snapped up by a mixed collec .tion of Chapel Hillians. Some are from the North like the tall graduate student with the affected English accent. "I just can't assuage my thirst for the Times," he says. So lie waits several hours, making conver sation with Sutton's customers and taking it upon himself to warn all who pass through the glass doors that: "The Times hasn't come in yet." But fear that trie Times may be bought out before he gets his copy isn't the only reason for his vigil. He uses the long wait to cultivate the friendship of a friendly blonde. And he studies the faces of his companions after telling them they can find their treasure at a little establishment "just down the street from here." People start walking toward the door. Then, he indicates that he isn't sure the Times will be there af ter all. Somehow he convinces his victims he was not joking. Among those whom he leads astray are sloppy-dressed fresh men who cannot avoid buying journalistic Enlightenment. It has been assigned by their English teachers. Others present are self-styled political txperts. They have come to Sutton's to find out about the defeat of Barry Gold water. While there, they leaf through the magazines displayed on a nearby rack: magazines like Fact, which carries a letter by a psychiatrist. Barry Goldwater, the psychiatrist claims, would have made a poor President. Goldwater's a radio amateur; and "hams," it seems, cannot face their fellow man, cannot "communicate" without the as sistance of a microphone. But the young politicians even- Print.' tually lose interest in Fact end its unusual views. So they bo come bold and turn to less re spectable reading material: pub lications like Reader's Digest and the Saturday Evening Post. The graduate student is not the only person seeking The Culture of The Omside World. Several other transplants from the strange land north of the Mason Dixon line are also in the crowd. In several ways, each vigorously protests to the drug store e'erk that life would be "incredibly tmliveable" without the essential two-pound bundle of staples and pulp. "How soon?" they ask. "How soon till the Times gets here?" "I don't know," the clerk says, "last time I heard was 'bout 12:30." But 12:30 comes, and the Times has yet to arrive. "Can't we order subscriptions," somebody inquires, "so we don't have to worry about getting a paper?" "No," the clerk replies. "That just isn't possible. Don't worry: it will get here soon." But the crowd continues to glower: they look at the clerk as if they were Carol Kennicott and he "a pagan from Gopher Prairie. Still no Times. The crowd dwindles as some shuffle away without their papers. Others, lowering their goals, decide to settle for publications lacking the designated amount of prestige rags like the Washington Post and the Charlotte Observer. Finally, the Times reaches Sut ton's. It is at the end of a long journey: a journey begun at a printing plant 450 miles up the Atlantic Coast, a journey made by both bus and plane. The hardier members of the group those who would restrict their wandering to Brooklyn and the Bronx were it not for the Times' out-of-town service are happy. W7hy shouldn't they be? They are select; they form an elite; they have waited all afternoon for "All the News That's Fit to What's A Little Dirt Among Pals? By ART BUCHWALD The N. Y. Ilerald Tribune When Barry Goldwater spoke, in Greensburg, Pa., last Thursday, he said, "I v have served in the United States Senate for the last 12 years and I have had some of the most hair-pulling debates I ever want to have with Hubert Humphrey, but I don't think two people in this country are closer together as friends. And with Lyndon Johnson I have argued, fought, and debated on the floor, in his office and my office, but we can still call each other friends. It is only when we allow disagreement to over-run and over-rule good judgment that we forget our basic goodness and decency in this country." This statement came as a sur prise . to many people who said this was one of the roughest, dirt iest campaigns in American his tory. If we are to believe Mr. Goldwater, this is what could probably happen a few weeks aft er the election. Sen. Goldwater enters Presi dent Johnson's White House offi- Boredom Is The Problem Among Teenagers Of Nation Demonstrations Still Necessary Editors, The Tar Heel: I would like to discuss the As sociated Press coverage of James Farmer's Nov. 6 speech which seems to pervade the Tar Heel and this campus. ' This attitude is that last year's incidents and the Civil Rights Bill have all but ended segrega tion and therefore there is no more need for demonstrations. The AP reporter and your head line writer, to me, read into Mr. Farmer's speech what they want ed to hear, that is, that demon strations are ending. True, CORE'S national director did say that CORE must move into broader areas, particularly toward helping Negroes to achieve and use political and economic power. -. T However, he summed up Ne groes' weapons as four: our bod ies our bucks, our ballots and our books." Demonstrations will still be needed, particularly "vast numbers of mopping up opera tions" to make sure the Civil Rlshts BH1 is implemented. Pettigrew, in his 1964 "A Profile of the Negro American," a UNC textbook, predicts that four fac tors are needed for America to achieve successful race relations By SIDNEY J. HARRIS The Raleigh Times About a week before the drunk en driving episode in Darien, Conn., erupted on the front pages r of the newspapers, my daughter returned from a few days in Dar ien, where she had been visiting a college roommate. Haying heard something about the community, I asked her what the young people did there. "Not much of anything, really," she said. "They seem to be terribly bored." They are bored because they are given too much too soon; while, at the other end of the economic scale, slum youngsters are bored because they lack space, money and the facilities for wholesome recreation. And it seems to me that bore dom, rather than viciousness, is at the root of anti-social conduct among adolescents. Especially among those who have too .much or too little for it is in the slums and the upper-crust sub urbs that sullenness, anger and ennui combine to explode in what we call "senseless vandalism." But it is not at all Senseless, if understood in its proper emotion al context. Young people grow up too fast in both the upper and low er strata of society; they acquire a patina of false maturity that cannot carry them equably through the turbulent years of adolescence. The slum children become lit le men and women, before they have had a chance to work their way through childhood: they be come prematurely cynical about jobs, welfare, corrupt cops, de vious politicians, and all the sleazy devices that keep the lumpenproletariet afloat. The children of affluence suffer from the sins of overprivilege: the world is not only their oyster, but each oyster comes with ah Instant Pearl. They drive too soon, drink too young, mimic their elders in formal clothes, and enter the adult world physi cally long before they can cope with it emotionally. In both cases, a necessary stage of development has heen skipped or at least skimmed. Over exposure to the adult world has aroused , needs and desires in these young people that cannot and should not be satisfied. Yet, they are merely following the ex amples of their elders; and their resentful credo is "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gos ling." The children of the poor don't know what to do with themselves because there is no place to do it in and no money to do it with; the children of the rich have done it all before they should have, and are irked at the few remaining restrictions on their freedom. And both are attacked by the insidious psychological dis ease of boredom. Never to have been a child, at the proper pace, is to fail to learn what adulthood means. ce.. The men throw their arms around each other. "Gosh .it's good to see you, Lyndon. It's been a long time." "Damn right, it has, Barry, and we can't let this happen again." Mr. Goldwater sits down. "Well, how's the old faker and phony?" President . Johnson chortles, "That was a bit rough, you trigger-happy maverick." Mr. Goldwater slaps his sides. "You sure got mileage out of that one. I swear everyone in the country thought I was going to push the button as soon as I got in." "I can't say you helped me much when you said I was soft on communism," Mr. Johnson says, wagging his finger. "Heck, Lyndon, I figured I'd run it up the flagpole and see who saluted. And by the way, what was all this stuff during the cam paign about me being against Social Security?" Mr. Johnson roars with laugh ter. "I knew that would get under your skin. You never did have much sense about the old folks' vote." Mr. Goldwaler says, "Well, you might have thought that was funny, but I didn't see you laugh ing when I brought up Bobby Baker. Billie Sol Estes, and Matt McCloskey." "Heck, Barry, you didn't have any choice. I never minded that stuff at all. But I had to pretend I was upset." Barry breaks into guffaws. "Lyndon,, you, are a sneaky one. You and that curious crew you got around you." "Oh, yeah, I wanted to men tion that. What was all that hog wash you were talking about con cerning moral decay in Ameri ca?" "I thought I'd give you a HUlc scare, Lyndon. I had the country thinking there for a while that we were all going to hell in a basket." Mr. Johnson haads Mr. Gold water a bourbon. "It sure was fun." Mr. Goldwater sips his drink and looks at his friend warmlv, "I'm going to miss it, Lyndon?' The President replies, "So am I, Barry. We've had a lot of laughs these last eight weeks." Mr. Goldwater replies, "I guess I don't know when I've enjoyed myself more." As they're talking, Hubert Hum phrey walks into the office. He sees Mr. Goldwater and rushes over to him, pumping his hand. Mr. Goldwater grins and srys, "Horatio, you no-good radical, how's your wife?" "Just great, you right wing ex tremist son of a John Birehcr. How's Peggy?" "She fine. Gosh, its wonder ful for the three of us to be to gether again."
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