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Foreign Systems Compared 1l- Thursday, January 7, 1965 Volume 72, Number 70 ft -V - 'i a o ii i ! I tt 8 MorihOrofe bfctt first JlI ,T" 0 Stye Satlij ar15?d 72 Tears of Editorial Freedon Q2ices co lie jacoad Jlaar d Grahsa Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, jspazM, .news 334012. JBasuxess, -filf eolation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C Second class postage paid a the Post OSce in &Uel ffiJ, N. C St6scrI?tion sates: L53 jper semester; $8.00 per year. Published dally except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications fioard of the University of North Carolina. Printed by &e Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street. Chapel Hill, f. C. ii4 The State Plucks A Federal Plum Yesterday's announcement from the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare that North Carolina will be the site of the big National Center for Environmental Sciences comes as a fitting close to Terry Sanford's "New Day." The $25 million facility, which will be constructed in the Research Triangle near Chapel Hill, has been the subject of in tense competition between more than 40 localities in nine states since it was an nounced in 1961. The fact that the Tar Heel state was selected over Pennsyl vania, New York , and others is a tribute to Governor Sanford and some other North Carolina office-holders who have worked diligently to obtain the research center. Actually, Governor Sanford has done little to disguise the fact that he bargain ed at length while John F. Kennedy oc cupied the White House. Sanford bucked the tide of the North Carolina Democratic Pnrtv Hnrfncf tViA 1 Qfift rnnvpntinn at lns Angeles in order to back Kennedy over Lyndon Johnson, and it was popular knowledge his wishes were often quite negotiable at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Some felt that Kennedy himself might route the health research center to North Carolina as a personal favor to the gov ernor. . . vt ii ri iriririvriri in i r m vv mum niiiisn i iih J J Ibll U VUUUVU AAA AAW Y 1 AA A V W AA.VVWW, fcA A W istuation became less clear, and it may indeed be significant that . two smaller segments of the primary project are now slated to go to West Virginia and Ohio, both of which supported President . John--son in overwhelming fashion in Novem ber. Primarily, however, it appears that Sanford has plucked a huge political plum during his last two days in office, after waiting more than three years for it to ripen. - a. . J . II what the health center will mean to the Durham-Raleigh-Chapel Hill area, but a $25 million federal investment will cer tainly .add important new prestige to the Research Triangle as a scientific center, and aid in attracting further govern mental and private facilities. Coupled with the hospitals and medical schools here and at Duke University, it may well make the Triangle into the top health center in the entire Southeast. Finally, the 1,000 persons expected to be housed at the new center will give the area's economy a significant boost. Certainly not the least important con sideration in appraising the value of the new center is its inherent worth to the people of the entire nation. HEW Secre tary Anthony J. Celebrezze announced that the center's first concern will be with the effects on man of contamination of food, air, milk and water. With such problems increasing rapidly due to mod ern insecticides and other contaminants, North Carolina can be proud that it will be rendering a unique and significant service to Americans through the re search conducted at the center. The people of North Carolina have, on occasion, expressed a near-consensus of displeasure with Terry Sanford over such controversies as the "food tax" or his 1960 support for John Kennedy. And certainly it would be an unusual day indeed which did not bring to our ears numerous complaints about the federal government. :,v - But today, as Governor :15anford,! pre pares to hand over the reins to Dan Moore, every Tar Heel citizen is indebted to him and to the administration in Washington for a $25 million present. Truly, Terry Sanford has plucked a political plum, but it is not one which he alone will enjoy. North Carolinians everywhere will savor its delicious taste for years to come. 'MB Trpn l ime Good Neighbors For Four More Years William Johnson, an aide to Governor elect Dan Moore, told the North Caro lina Good Neighbor Council Tuesday that Moore will retain and possibly ven strengthen that organization. This de cision is a laudable one, and we hope that the latter course will be pursued. Since its creation by an executive or der from Governor Sanford, the Council has done a great deal to ease existing Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens . Co-Editors Mike Yopp Managing Editor' Associate Editor -Business Manager Asst. Bus. Mgr. Photo Editor Advertising Manager Asst. Ad. Mgr. Sports Editor . Asst. Managing Editor Nev& Editor Copy Editor "Night Editor . Tcte Wales Jack !!arrington Betsy 'Gray ...., Jock Lautercr Woody Sobol Jim Peddicord Larry Tarleton Ernie McCrary Alan BanoV' Mary Ellison Strother Fred Thomas Sports Exporters Pete Gammons Pete Cross, Tom Uaney, Al Kaplan Art Editor ;. Chip Barnard Intramural Reporter , Bill Lee Subscription Manager Salesmen .... 1 Tom Clark Dick Baddour Stuart Ficklen, Jim Pottes Subscription Manager Tom Clark Circulation Manager : 1.. John Evans Reporters John Greenbacker Kerry Sipe racial tensions and prevent new ones from developing in the state. Racial dis turbances, especially face-to-face confron tations of angry whites and Negroes, have been almost nil in North Carolina, un like some of our sister states to the South. The existence of this calm amidst a storm of racial unrest across the na tion can in large measure be attributed to the work of the Council, which has approached its problems with foresight and responsibility. At the same time, the Council has not succumbed to the temptation to leave the state behind. It has respected the rights and views of cautious or wary whites, with the result that its policies have had widespread public acceptance. Its real opponents are the types who are opposed to anything which brings whites and Ne groes into contact on an. equal basis. Potential racial tensions have not been eliminated in North Carolina by the pas sage of civil rights legislation in Con gress. Indeed, the forthcoming imple mentation of the more controversial sec- .tions, such as those barring discrimina tion in federally subsidized agencies and the fair employment provisions, could momentarily heighten unrest in areas of the state where a strong anti-Negro bias persists. Thus a moderating force will almost certainly be needed in the future. By maintaining the Good Neighbor Council, the coming administration has shown that it intends to provide such a moderating force, and that North Caro- . lina will not be allowed to slide backward in the long and difficult climb " toward racial, harmony. Indeed, if Dan Moore's objective of strengthening the body can be achieved, we may soon see even great er progress than has been achieved dur- ing the last four years. From The Chapel Hill Weekly f Excerpts from an .address i0 the Triennial Council of the United Chapters of Phi Bta Kappa. Mr. Keeney is president of Brown University and chair man of -the Commission on the Humanities. By BARNABY C. KEENEY Should federal funds be used for the humanities and arts? This is, of cour&e, the question that must be answered first. The arguments that f e d e r a i funds should not be so used are based on grounds that run from principle through economics to tactics and expediency. The ba sic fear is that the use of fed eral funds in these sensitive areas will lead to control of thought in a way much more dangerous than the Dossibility of control of thouit in science and technology. There are good grounds for such a fear. The painting and sculpture approved by the So viet Union does not inspire the same administration as Soviet achievements in physics and in space. On the other. hand, however, art subsidized by the French Government has in our times occupied a more import ant place than science subsidiz ed from the same source. One may suspect that the nature and purpose of 4;he government 4o- . - 1 - 1 . Til 1 ing trie sunsiaizing win nave something to do with the degree and effect of control. J jnyself feel that if the fed eral government in this country ever takes control of the hu manities, the arts, and the so ,.;ial studies - or the sciences themselves it will pot -be pri marily because .the government sspent money ;on tnera; it wUl be because the neoole of the United States tell their rep resentatives that they wish such control to be exercised. If the people make such jsl decision, there will be control whether : funds are expended or not. I do not bfleve that thev will wish to reach such jsl decision. It. is sometimes asserted that funds should not be expended on th humanities heraus1 "'e hav problems of higher priority and hut limbed funds. The amount that ' could .prudently be expend ed in a decade would not ex ceed the amount necessary: to get a man on the moon a year earlier than we otherwise might, Later on I shall advance the arcmment that the health of our culture is more imoortant to us both at home and abroad than a moonless year. The Los Angeles Times ap proves the humanities, but ques tions 4he need of additional ex penditure of them on the grounds that an .appropriate number pf students study them. J believe this conclusion is bas ed upon statistics published ty the United States Office of Edu cation on earned degrees con ferred in 196162. In that year some 72,000 bachelor degrees -were -conferred in the arts and humanities, including arts edu cation, whereas 180,000 odd were conferred in the -social sci ences, mathematics, engineer ing, the physical sciences, .and the biological and health s c i ,ences. This would seem to be an appropriate .distribution. However," it is a splendid illus tration of the danger in read ing only the first eolumn one finds that only some 1,500 doc torates were conferred in the hu manities, while about 8,000 were conferred in the other fields, a most inaporopriate distribution of an inadequate total. One must conclude irom these data that the undergraduates study ing the humanities a decade from now will be less well taught than students in the oth er fields, and that their num engineering since the establish An argument of expediency is that federal expenditures in? utilization of leisure, .mpcrta the humanities will -discourage as it may be, but rather fr private and particularly founda-! development of an etiuc aha a: tion giving. The record, howev- outlook appropriate to new cir er, shows that private founda- cumstances. We have cov a: tions have expended more mon-! ethic in which work is equ;.? ey and a greater percentage oi ea wun vinue. ceiore run their funds on the sciences and engineering since the establish ment of the National Science Foundation than before. Anyone who has raised money knows that money goes where money , A J - 1 . snau nave to u e v e i o p o: where not to work very is as virtuous as labor its-;:. A n. aa - . - w . "win. i ; . some well-trained philosophy is, and he is likely to suspect , who have competence out?i !e xne ,area pi symuvut: e .are going to need those philo sophers very badly. As in.r. r tant is the use of the freed tin.o. We can employ it trivially or constructively. Despite the int erestins work of intellectual primitives, mot enduring literature and art are the product of people who pos sessed .a body of humane know ledge about which to think, write, or paint, and most so cial advance has been accom plished by persons who k n c w the society and its background. Then it is .argued that historv that abundance of funds, from whatever source, will increase rather than decrease the flow of additional funds. One of the tactical arguments is based uoon the fear .that a new foundation wil make blun ders in its initial gifts, will be come the target of congression al criticism and the laughing stock of the public, . will quickly disappear and set back rather than advance the cause of the .humanities and arts. I see no reason to believe that the sort of board and director proposed for the foundation would make .any more stupid mistakes than will judge us by our culturo ra any other board and I suspect ther than by our material ac tual they would be able to de- comolishments. Therefore we fend themselves and their de- must polish ud our imnpp (ot cisions. the greater edification of Mure Finally, some mature human- generations and also for the ad ists have argued that funds .are miration of the underdeveloped not necessary at all, thay they nations that are alleged to have "Now, For My Last Trick . . ." ? 77 : : . "J ' J themselves starved in their youth and it was good for them, and that their intellectual off SDring should starve as well. Poverty is a virtue greatly ex aggerated by those who no long er nractice it. The arguments for the use of federal funds to sunoort the hu manities range likewise from principle to expediency, and even to nonsense. I shall start with the, last. Some humanists are aot to say in private and in oublic: "I am a humanist. I like doing my research. I am as important as the scientist. .Do not ask me what my re search is good for, because that would destroy its purity. Just give me some money." The more often this argument is as serted, the less likely is the es tablishment of a National Hu manities Foundation, because our Congress has no right to spend federal funds for anything that does not give some assur- great respect for culture and none at ail for bathtubs. It is probably a sound rule to be lieve that one's image will take care of itself if one do, what he should, provided al ways that he has a eood pub lic realtions man. This argu ment, therefore, is at best per ipheral. Let us instead concen trate on what we should do. The humanities and arts are of central importance to our society and to ourselves as in dividuals. They at once exnress and shape our thoughts. Thev give us the beautiful to see and teach us what to look for. The development of thought un doubtedly reflects institu tions and circumstances, buf these are shaped by ideas. The two are, in fact, inseparable. Our relations to one another ?? individuals and to our society are formed and determined by what we know and think. Om- use of knowledge is inseparable 1 5 c-'' ance of advancing the national from our ability to express it interest. in words or in shapes. Then it is argued that the de- Only through the best ideas velopment of technology and au- and the best teaching can we tomation and a greatly increas- cope with the problems that ed national product will reduce surround us and the opportun the labor force, and thenvorkmg cities that lie beyond these prob day of those who remain in it, lems. Our fulfillment as a na to the po;nt where the use of tion denends upon the develop leisure will become an inros. ment of our minds, and our ro- 7 ' 'Cf " -"J- i'A --"i.Vf V- V-nftVAYdl.'flvrir'itVi'iWiV hVI'itf.iV, ingly serious problem. There fore we must educate ourselves and our children to use leisure properly and profitably, parti cularly through the imorove ment of our minds, .and we must provide greater ODnortuni tunities for humane study and artistic anpreciation. This is an important argument, hut is per haos a second-rate one. v The real problem is not the lations to one another and to our societv depend unon our understanding of one nfhT and of our society. The ?ju manities and the arts, tbore tance to the nation and to our lives and are of prime impor tance to the nationa and to our selves. Very simply stated, it is in the national interest that the humanities and arts develop ex ceedingly well. Letters To The Editors Hands Thai Feed Should Be BiUem Don't Give Up rm Ship Conservatism Must Continue Editors, The Tar Heel: In reply to Chuck Neely's blast at Senator Goldwater and modern conservatism I answer, "a pox on both your houses Mr Neely" your attitude and your philosophy. I do not agree with you that the Republican party is either impotent, or second rate as an organization. ' Damaged it is, but with one third of the votes in Congress and with a number of nationally influential leaders the GOP s far from impotent. Moreover in 1966 and '68, as more and more people become disillusion ed with the "Great Society conservative Republicanism stands to make substantial gains. Neely complains of the "neg ative" aspect of American con servatism, and in a sense he is correct, Conservatives are against many things: Socialism helping our Communist ene mies,, corruption in government in short the suicide of free America. negativism is not per verted. On the contrary, it seek to eliminate -existing pS ions - making it in iTsense more progressive than the well fare statism of "progressive such as Governor Rockef eHer Neely says the party should ot the GOP because the nation has done so. If that is true, shouldn't we then repudiate Christianity because it is a mi nority among the world's reli gions? No, Mr. Neely, being in a mi nority does not mean that one is wrong, only that one must work harder to convert others to his side. The conservatives worked long and hard to nom inate Senator Goldwater; they gained control of party machin ery by the inaction and indif ference of the liberal wing of the party. It was this, same group of "progressive". Republicans who witheld their support from Sen ator Goldwater thus assuring his defeat. Their Republican ism, it would seem, only applies to situations where liberal Re publicans control the show. Like a spoiled child, they take their hall and go home unless they can make the rules and super vise the game. These liberals have the right of course, to withold their sup port to uphold their convictions. But to stab the party in the back, blame conservatives for the crime, and then demand the right to perform surgery on the prostrate form of their own vic tim is preposterous! - The most they deserve is a compromise giving them more influence in the party they chose to crucify. Such a com promise can be realized only if both liberals and conservatives are willing to give a little to achieve unity. The Democrats always man age to achieve unity by elec tion day and the GOP must learn to compromise or it will never be able to lead America down the road toward a society ."great" in more than name. If Chuck Neely and other self-proclaimed progressives were will ing to work more and whine less this goal could be more easily achieved. Paul King 411 Ruffin Cyclist Prefers McQueen Image Editors, The Tar Heel:. It's about the motorcycles. I would like to say that, as an owner and driver of a motor cycle, I do not consider myself as a student-turned-Brando. In stead, I like to think of myself as a student-turned-Steve Mc Queen. Each morning I watch the student-turned-Brandos roar off to campus in their truly virile fashion and then, knowing that I am different, because surely these other people do consider themselves to be student-turned Brandos, whereas I consider myself a student - turned - Mc que individual, happily depart for campus in my own virile fashion on my own unique phal lic symbol. Lawrence L. Wagenseil 506 Teague By ART BUCIIWALD Last week was known as 'Tell the United States to Jump in the Lake Week." Between Gen. Khanh in Viet Nam, the African nations in the UN, and our good and dear friend Nasser in the United Arab Republic, everyone seemed to be giving us the busi ness and there wasn't much we could do about it. Nobody seems to be impress ed with the power and influence of the United States these days Just the other day the Prime Minister of the newly-formed country of Disdiania paid a vis it to the American embassy to ask the American ambassador for aid. , "Mr. Ambassador," he said, "our country is in dire straits. Our agricultural crops have fail ed, our textile industry is bank rupt, and our five-year housing plan has collapsed. We need American help immediately." "Then why are your people breaking all the .windows in my embassy?" the ambassador asked. "I must warn you, Mr. Am bassador, we will not accept any s aid that has strings attached. Our country has its pride." "I'm not asking for strings," the ambassador replied. "I'm asking you to step breaking my windows." "My government will not per mit your government to tell us how to run our internal affairs " ."Mr. Prime Minister, why did you burn down the US I A li brary." "I will not sit here and lis ten to these colonist attacks against my country. We are a free nation and we can burn down any library we feel like." The American ambassador (lucked as a rock came flying through the window. "Another thing, Mr. Prime Minister, my country would like to know why your country shot down three unarmed American airplanes?" "And what about the Negroes in the South?" the Prime Min ister said. The American ambassador clutched his desk as a bomb went off in the embassy base ment. "It's going to be hard for me to justify American aid in your country when you keep do ing things that offend our coun try." "Be more specific, Mr. Em bassador." "Well, for example, I thought making me eat an American flag at your independence day celebration was a bit much." "We made the Russian am bassador eat a flag also and ho didn't complain." That's because you tipped him off and he had one made of rice paper." "I didn't come here to dis cuss trivial matters. I cfarne to ask for agricultural items, a couple of hydroelectric da,ns, and three squadrons of jet bom bers. I feel that's tb least you can do for a new nation that is struggling to join the family of peace-loving nations." "What about those American missionaries you're holding as hostages?" "What about the 800 sUidQnts you arrested at the University of California?" Suddenly from outside came the sound of maching-gun fire. What's that?" the ajiajsa dor asked. "It's a coup d'etat. I warned you if 'you didn't give me aid my government would fall Now you'll be dealing with an un friendly regime and you have only ypUrSelf to blame."
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