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The Great Debate On Medicare
The CPU presents another exciting first
to the campus tonight in a debate on
Medicare in Gerrard Hall.
- The contest pits past AMA President
Edawrd Annis and former state medical
leader Dr .John L. Kernodle against Chap
el Hill's Dr; Frank Williams and Socialist
R. W. Tucker. The teams will discuss the
relative merits of the Administration's
King-Anderson bill and the AMA-sponsor-ed
Elder Care bill! : w v - s
But more important than the topic and
speakers is the style of debate itself. The
two teams will present their case in ten
mimrfe speeches. A short recess will be
followed by one rebuttal from each side.
During v the : rebuttal and afterwards,
members of. the audience may jump up
and challenge a debater on any given
point. If the speaker is begging the issue
or making a false point, the audience may
politely but firmly set him straight.
This requires something from the audi
ence as well as from, the debaters. The
debate will be enjoyable, but not terribly
exciting if students sit-back expecting to
be entertained. But it -will be most in
teresting indeed for students, and faculty
for that matter, to take a stab at cornering
one of these first-rate debaters on a given
point.
Medicare is a step toward increasing
Social Security benefits to the elderly in
helping them to meet astronomical medi
cal costs. It's method of operation is en
tirely within the limits of what is now
done with Social Security in terms of eco
nomic philosophy. There is nothing ter
ribly revolutionary about it.
What the AMA is really getting defen
sively about is not Medicare, which spe
cifically avoids affecting the doctor-patient
relationship in any way, but the
possibility of the more revolutionary con- -,
cept of socialized medicine.
Of all the areas that have been socializ
ed in Western economies, medicine has
worked out the best. Great Britain has'
one of the finest programs in the West
ern World, and one of the most effective.
Thus the real point of debate tonight,
though not stated, is the issue of socializ
ed medicine. Tucker will support Medi
care as a step in the right direction, Dr.
Annis will oppose it as a step the wrong
way.
Hopefully this more basic issue will
come out and be debated. Those who
attend should regard it as their respon
sibility to see that it does. The King-Anderson
Medicare bill is only a front for
the real issue. PETE WALES
The Name's The Same, Isn't It?
Now that the General Assembly is
about to get embroiled in the name
change controversy at the expense of
practically every other important matter
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facing North Carolina, we feel obligated
to give two suggestions which we think
might solve the problem.
The problem, as everyone knows, re
volves around the use of the word "State"
in the title of the Raleigh institution.
.Therefore, we will gladly allow them to
retain this word.
Our first suggestion is that the city
fathers of Raleigh approve a bill which
would allow the area encompassing the
campus to secede from the city and be
come incorporated.
This newly incorporated area would be
named "North Carolina State." Thus, the
name of the university would be "The
University of North Carolina at North
Carolina State," and we would be called
"The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill." Very easy, what?
An alternative to this would be change
the name of North Carolina to "State."
Thus, we would be known as "The Uni
versity of State at Chapel Hill" and Cow
College could also be known as "The
University of State at Raleigh."
Both suggestions would be quite work
able and would pacify the beating hearts
of the State alumni, who are intent to
retain "State" even if it endangers the
entire University budget. But, after all,
legislators are only human, aren't they?
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The Village Voice
Dr.' Vo Thanh Minb of Viet
nam is a small, delicate man
with a wispy beard. He wears
a black frock. His bare feet are
in sandals. He sits cross-legged
as he sneaks to us in French
and English. He doesn't want to
be noticed that is, he doesn't
want his dress, his home which
is anchored in the East River
at the south end of Manhattan,
his little, black- lace-curtained
car, his private personal fasting
witness of his country's pain to
become the object of America's
cute notice.
And yet these are the first
things any American sees. No
matter who he- may be, that
American no matter how eag
er to extract facts about Viet
nam, the truth about the war,
the real way the real Vietna
mese north and south feel
the first thing that American is
aware of is a man from Asia
who looks different and lives a
peaceful life of daily action. Dr.
Vo hardly noticed us in the ex
terior aoparel of our time and
place. It is -because he hardly
noticed the plain meat of our
presence, that he couldn't see
why we should give any atten
, tion to his physical self.
He told us some of the things
he did before coming to Amer
ica, he spoke three times to
Bao Dai. He spoke three times
to Diem. He snoke three times
to Ho Chin Minn, Then he real
ized he could do nothing for the
peace of his peaole in Vietnam,
in Geneva, in France, and so
he decided to come to where
power now lived. In order to
speak directly to that power,
he crossed the sea, he disembar
ked at New York. He drove up
town and parked his 1936 Sim
ca in front of the U. N. He
planned quitely to live, to fast,
to tell powerful Americans that
the war in his country must
end,- that hundreds and thou
sands of Vietnamese are dead
to an American advantage. He
wanted ordinary Americans to
know that his people are being
tortured, brutalized by decades
of war. .They-have spent more
years than we realize repulsing
invaders, the Chinese as well
as the French. They are now in
the middle of a civil war which
we Americans consider our af
fair. He was finally arrested for
illegal parking.
He now lives in . a houseboat
on the East River, and Jules
Rabin and I from the Village
Peace Center and Peter Kiger
and Harry Pruvis from CNVA
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Free Speech With Digmity
I Part Of Southern Tradition
By TIMOTHY RAY
My fellow Southerners, it is
necessary to state clearly that
our behavior at the Free Speech
Rally is something to be asham
ed of . .
i am not writing this is order
to agree with the Free Speech
Movement, whether here, at
Berkeley, or anywhere else. I
don't think that is the main is
sue. Nor is the main issue the in
sult received by the Liberian
student, whose tribal robes
were referred to as a "bath
robe" for a "circus", though
why. shouldn't he have been of
fended? A typical Southerner is
insulted if the Confederate Flag
is treated with disrespect. .Both
are proud symbols, each with
its own kind of dignity, of eras
and ways of - life that the.- mod- j
ern world is leaving behind.
The point I want to make to
day is that, regardless of the in-
tentions of these free speech t
and civil rights organizations,
they were, in organizing their !
rally; Truly tiding something j
which the American way of ;
life,- - and this University, gives
them the right to . dp. If you ;
want ;to express contempt for
such a rally, the dignified - and
gentlemanly way to do it is to
leave-not to stand and jeer like -a
bunch ' of trashy carpetbag
gers. - " ' ;
James Gardner believes in
sponsoring public forums,
where people of every opinion
can stand up and " be heard. ,
Maybe we' dont need that here
at Carolina, where we can ex- .
press ourselves . through con
tacts with faculty and! admin
istration, through student gov
ernment and our own newspa
per, and through such organiza
tions as Young Republicans and
Young Democrats. Gardner
seems to think that these out
lets are not enough, or are
not sufficiently open or repre
sentative. Now I am not trying to say
that he is right or wrong. What
I am trying to say is that there
was nothing wrong in sponsor
ing this rally, especially since
the permission of the adminis-.
tration was obtained ahead of
time, and the administrators
were .asked to come. Therefore
there was no call for rudeness
or the hostile and aggressive vo
cal behavior that many of us
demonstrated at the rally.
Gardner is trying to change
our attitudes about race. If-he
wants to do that, he has the
right to try. Now my g r e a t -grandfather
had slaves j.and
fought for the right to exercise
his own judgment whether ;he
should have them or not. In
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fact," he fought bravely in spite
of sustaining a number of
wounds.
Now I don't approve of slav
ery, or segregation for that mat
ter. But I cannot help but feel
pride at the courage with which
our ancestors defended their ve
liefs. The harsh Reconstruc
tion, after the War Between the
States, left us filled with hat
red and bitterness toward those
who might want to come down
and interfere with our freedom
to live the way we want to. It
wasn't so long ago only three
generations in my family, and it
is very difficult for us to get
over feeling this way.
But now ' we - are students" at
I an outstanding University, and
, we have a chance to partake of
the wonders of education, which
used to beN reserved for' the
' rich and the well-born. The de
cision to seek education is a" po
werful decision, and it carries
with-it certain ideals as to how
we should live.
One of those ideals to which
we should be committed. is the
willingness to listen to another
t man's ideas calmly, respectful
: ly-' ' for it is a fellow human
binghtr-speiiks : even
though1-we-might think that his
, ideas are wrong or even harm
ful. In a great university, all
i men get their chance to speak,
in atmosphere of dedication to
truth: and a faith that reason
can decide, in most cases- at
) least, where the truth Kes.
I give r you one parting
thought: would Robert E. Lee
I a-man of honor nobility have
respected our raucous behavior
! at that rally? Or that great
North Carolinian, and former
president of our University, Dr.
Frank Porter Graham? '-
"Hey, Boys, The War's Over There!"
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spoke to him there.
We are Americans and of -course
what we wanted to know
about was democracy. Almost
all the wars we have fought
have been for . the sake of that
stunning idea, and Americans
are right now in Vietnam some
times dying and often killing
just for democracy.
Oh-yes, Dr. Vo said, his coun
try knew something about de
mocracy. In the villages, life
had been .very democratic, the
little communities had elected
their own mayor or . headman
and, in spite of the French ty
ranny, had been very much in
charge of their lives and their
work. This, was no lonser true.
North and South, external, cen
tral power dictated to the vil
lages, installed leaders, and in
South Vietnam the Americans
had carried the decision to de
democratize .to the point of
moving village people forcibly
from ancestral lands, gathering
them into artifical stockaded,
military settlements.
What is essential is to end the
war, Dr. Vo said. The war must
end before the country and" its
people disappear in blood. What
is essential is to bring together
the powers that met in 1954 and
promised elections by 1956, but
never held them. China and the
United States must be part of
this great meeting of negotia
tion. Although Dr. Vo is disliked
north and south equally, he be
lieves: Ho Chih Minh is too "wise -and
independent to want to be
ever a slave of Mao Tse Tung.
There is a great fear in Viet
nam that the American policy
of intervention must lead to a
confrontation between China
and America which will surely
force Ho CHih Minh north into
that slavery Dr. Vo says he de
tests. Then we asked him about the
Buddhists; Americans like to
hesr about people who are re
ligious. He laughed and said,
Well, they had not changed at
all, Time magazine to the con
trary. They were the same as
always. Their activities had
been used, publicly enlarged,
and glorified when American
wanted to depose the people of
Ngo Dinh Diem, and now a re
vised image of imminent viol
ence was being evolved for
other reasons.
-We asked him about the
peacefulness of his own people,
because all of us present that
afternoon were committed to
nonviolence as a whole way of
life, not only as a clever tactic
for temporary use by the civil
rights movement. He said they
were not a particularly peace-.
ful people. They were a small '
country, and yet they had man
fully taught them (though they
lookec for . ahile as though
they'd never learn) how to use
come to this light, airy, river-
tilting apartment. When he'd de
barked from the French freigh
the Americans must be some
what surprised too. Of course
they were not without sin eith
er. A good peice of South Viet
nam was properly Cambodia,
and possibly 500,000 Cambodi
ans had found themselves incor
porated into the nation Vietnam.
Laos was another story, a
peaceful people of absolute non
fighters. The American victory
there was over that peaceful na
ture. Americans had success
fully taught them (though thev:
looked for a while as they they'd
never learn) how to use rifles
. . . mortar.
The Captain's Help
We wanted to know how he'd
come to this light, airy, river
tilting apartment. When he'd de
barked from the French freigh
ter that brought him to Ameri
ca, his car which he'd brought
with him simple didn't work. He
had to push it from the pier to
the street, and Captain Fred
Kosnac of American Boat Car
tage, who happened to be pass
ing, offered his help. When Dr.
Vo was arrested, the police!
communicated with Captain
Kosnac because his name was
the only American name
apart from several like DuUes
or MacNamara that Dr. Vo
had written down. So Captain
Kosnac, who is a tough Captain
on the East River, invited Dr.
Vo Thanh Minh, a Confuricaii
from Vietnam to be his guest,
to live on the second floor of
his houseboat, where Dr. Vo is
proud that he often helps by
waking the men below far
2 a.m. or 4 a.m. shifts.
Dr. Vo is 58 years old. He
was a teacher of philosophy and
history during the years Viet
nam was being protected from
other countries by the French!
His life has been one of serv
ice; he worked with Boy Scout
organizations and with orphan
ages. Few Vietnamese w h o
have dealt with important upper-class
doers have also lived
and worked among the poor, the,
homeless of the cities, an4 the
destitute. He has come here ta.
speak for these people. I
Dr. Vo spoke to us through!
the good offices of CNVA. lie
does not admit newspaper
men, who have treated him upi
to now as a curiosity and passed
lightly over his concern. Inj
fact, the day after we met.)
shouting in wild English a n dj
French, he attempted to toss ov-j
erboard a photographer w h oj
might have enhanced this sto
ry somewhat. And yet, havings
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met us and not bothering to
know our names, he said. Write f
anything, I will trust your. inten-j
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Fraternity Doors
Must Open To AH
Editors, The Tar Heel:
As a Negro student at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, I
have watched the events of the
past week with a great deal of
dismay. I have put-off writing
this letter, hoping to gain some
perspective on an important
challenge to the University and
to me. The naive treatment giv
en by the DTH to what I con
sider a grave incident has, in
the Southern tradition, glossed
over the deeper and more di
rect problem of fraternity dis
crimination against Negroes.
I believe that the insults
against Mr Hage and Mr.
Gardner are much more than
lamentable incidents, and furth
er, I believe that the frat man
(or Men) responsible were not
sorry. Not one accidentally yells
"nigger" or "nigger-lover."
These are insults by design.
The thesis is that fraternities
are the last and strongest bas
tion of naked segregation on
this campus. The antithesis thus
follows that groups and individu
als will and must put themsel
ves to the task of eliminating
this discrimination. Fraternities
must no longer get the comfort
and sanction from South Build
ing that they now enjoy.
I roundly urge the repeal of
all clauses in frat constitutions
that require them to discrimin
ate against Negroes. For it
seems only -right that fraterni
ties should judge men on no oth
er ground than the personal
worth of the individual.
Color of skin has nothing to
do with the individual's digni
ty. Futher, fraternities should
not discriminate,' because they,
in effect, keep Negroes from the
mainstream of campus life. Ex
clusion from the student power
structure is antithetic to t h e
idea of a free university where
All students share in student
sefl-government.
The administration must
move to end fraternity discrim
ination, not because of threats
of demonstrations or legal ac
tion from CORE or NAACP,
but because it is right, and this
none can doubt.
Finally, let us not be misled
from the issue by labels or per
sonalities, but let us "reason to
gether" as honest men and wo
men. Let our goal be the imme
diate and complete elimination
of all discrimination in frater
nities on this campus, and the
realization of a free and inte
grated University of North Ca
rolina. This, we ask, not through re
venge or hate, but through jus
tice and morality.
Phillip Clay
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'White' Money
Big In Liberia
Edtiors, The Tar Heel:
During the recent agitation on
campus, rumors were circulat
ing to the effect that "whit
people are not allowed to own,
property in Liberia." The fol
lowing is a quotation fro m'
"Basic Data on the Economy of,'
Liberia," a U. S. government
publication issued in Apirl, 19:
64, with Luther Hodges' name
on the title page as Secretary
of Commerce:
"Private foreign investors!
constitute the dominant factor:
in the Liberian economic scene.;
'All the large rubber plantations'
(representing a total investment'
of about $C0 million) are owned"!
by foreign concerns . . . Much'
of the commercial, and nearly
all banking, activities in the
country are managed and finan
ced by foreigners Lebanese,
Americans, Swedes, Germans,
the major portion of private ca
pital entering Liberia." (pg. 13)
The white man can own pro
property in Liveria and docs
own most of it.
Clifton Brock
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