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Pge 2 Saturday, March 27, 1965 k : BTM Editor iM Page Opinions cj ihe paily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. letters and j columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of j I their authors. I iV1WA'WM An miiioiis U.S. Cloud President Johnson's statement ihat "the United States -is always open to an honorable settlement in Viet Nam that is, one based on an end "to Communist aggression was a welcome, if not un expected, re-statement of our basic policy in Southeast Asia. Certainly, every peace-loving indi divual has long .since become disgusted and appalled by certain aspects of the rice-paddy piddling which has gone on for so long, and a peaceable solution to the war would be met with a resound- Tlie Legislature patches Baring .'Some fun under the sun appears to be brewing in Tennessee, where the state legislature recently passed a bill outlaw ing nudism. Trouble is, nobody seems to know exactly who is covered by the law. The state legislator who sponsored the bill has admitted that its content may be a bit obscure. But, he says, the statute is designed to put nudist colonies under wraps, and he doesn't know how many nudists make a colony. Thus the law is designed to cover almost any nude group larger than one. That, say the nudists, is the trouble. A counsel for the American Sunbathing Association contends that the law is "so ambiguous that it makes it a crime to swim in a YMCA pool or for two or more people to disrobe even in their own homes." Now, we've never been especially par tial to nudists (we don't even know any). But they are not particularly of fensive, especially ,as long as they keep their nudism .private, and we fail to see why the 1 Tennessee lawmakers should want to make their existence un-bare-able. V " ' ' Besides, -there's a principle involved here. No one should be forced to stand in fear of the law just because he hap pens to ;be standing with his ipants down, especially in his own home or the YMCA. It is pretty obvious that the nudists and the public are getting a Taw deal. ing "O. K." around the world. But as the fighting continues, it be comes, more and more obvious that a peaceable solution will not be easily ob tained. The Communists are too confi dent of ultimate victory to. capitulate at the negotiation table; history has shown that they make "peace" only when they are whipped. And even as the President voiced his hopeful statement this week, an ominous cloud of world opinion hung on the diplomatic horizon which gave ' impetus to the Communist drive and . probably helped postpone any real vic tory. The cloud was primarily the .result of a tactical blunder by which U.S. forces in Viet Nam were allowed to use gas against the Viet Cong. Granted, the gas is non-lethal and was used to "prevent injury to innocent civilians; it is gas, nevertheless. As such, it offers the Viet Cong and Red Chi nese an excellent propaganda device and a jumping-off place for the use of more horrible gas, such as the so-called "nerve compound." One of your editors received a dose of the mild gas being used by American forces during an Army training mission. It caused nausea and chills for several . hours. No doubt, it is extremely effec-r tive where civilians may be too close to the fighting. ' "Nerve compound," on the other hand, , is deadly ... 10 times as deadly as nu clear fallout. It will remain in the at mosphere for weeks, killing on contact. To provoke the use of even the smallest amount of the stuff would be to pro voke man's most inhumane weapon. To provoke unfavorable world opin ion at this stage of the game is less dangerous, but hardly less foolish. The prospect of nerve gas warfare . and anti American sentiments should have been sufficient to cause our military leaders to keep the gas at home. Yet it turns out that the President himself was not even aware of its intended use. President Johnson has spoken for Americans everywhere by extending the hope of peace to the world. But . he has been forced to shout his message over the hullabaloo stirred up by some .of our less astute military ; men. And The Weekly Awards Arrive -MEN -OF THE WEEK: The astronauts and cosmonauts who risked their lives this week for the advancement of sci ence. . LIZARD OF THE WEEK: The person who stole a seeing - eye dog from a blind New York City onagazine vendor, thus showing that not .all the trouble in that fabled -town is caused 'by hoodlums on subways. HAPPIEST MAN OF THE WEEK: Bob Spearman, cstill President of the Student Body, who sees the end in sight. . HAPPIEST MEN OF THE WEEK: Ditto. Us. "72 Tears of Editorial Freedom tTbe Daily Tar Heel is the official news publi cation of the University of North Carolina and 4s published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. 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The Associated Press 11 Js entitled exclusively to the use for rrepnblica- f! tlon-cl all local newsjrinted in this ccwrpaper If as well as all AP news dispatches. m I 1 m I m I Il Is 'ir 1 n m i Vyf 1. I u m 11 II 5:1 P II Si n MIDAS AWARD : To the San Francis co executive who insured himself for $4,000,000 with the New York Life Insur ance, Co., who will take $200,000 in an nual premiums. . SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK: By two doctors in New York, who discovered that eating raw mushrooms and drinking beer is not good for one's health. They discovered this on a camp ing trip, when they became violently sick. STOIC OF THE WEEK, or APATHET IC MOTHER CITATION: To the wife of a Vietnamese soldier who was being evacuated by helicopter from a- distant village to Saigon. As the aircraft neared its half - way point, she told a medic she was about to have a baby. After he de livered the five - pound child, she in formed him that although the birth was exciting, she was far more enthralled by the helicopter ride. CRUELTY JOKE OF THE WEEK: After the Secretary of the Air Force ac cepted the resignations of 105 Air Force Academy cadets who admitted cheating in the recent scandal, the following rid dle spread about: "What's the new mas cot at the Air Force Academy?" The answer: "A cheetah." , FACT OF THE WEEK: Outbreaks of the foot and mouth disease increased sig nificantly in Europe during the iatter half of 1964. BONUS FACT OF THE WEEK: The most popular television channel in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is Channel 5. Its call let ters are NOT WRAL-TV. "Excuse Me, But rm Saving My Cuts for Spring Vacation" BnMM-' V '' vf:v: "'h:"' v ' Ii.ii- , f , ' i-m " V" Ji, ".j. , , i.j u u , , mil ' ' ' - ' - - $ i , r - - , . i - " 1 i fsyz . " v. ' ir - i ' V jr " ' K i 1 f - - i m : li ; -21 ' I J - rl'zir : Letters To Ti e Edi tors Liquor Next To Baptists? ABC Store Better a banner worthy of the fight. After .all, why .oppose an eatery mi tt 1 just io mauuain a oarren cor- llian XiamburgerS ner? Fight FOR something, do iiul jus i uc 111 il: Len Tompos Miller Hall Editors, The Tar Heel: Fighting the right cause with .the wrong motivation is drama tically exemplified by the cries of opposition to the planned eat ery adjacent to the downtown .Baptist church. The oppoosi tion sings many verses to its main chorus, the further .ruina tion of Chapel Hill's charming quaintness with garish architec tural abominations. , This may be true. But oppo sition predicated on aesthetics is hardly an effective counter move in a situation dominated by rational economics. The real problem is that Chapel Hill will be getting what it already has in sufficiency (just ask any downtown restaurant operator : if this isn't so) , and is ' not getting what it sorely needs, that is, a second ABC store with a cen tral location. An ABC store on the corner of Columbia and Franklin has many points in its favor. One, such stores .are .conser vatively designed .and could be built to look just like the other downtown establishments. Two, the i ABC store could be made to include service for cus tomers in their. .cars, just like a drive-in bank window. Thus, cars could approach, from W. .Franklin and possibly drive out on S. Columbia, with no ensu ing traffic jam as anticipated with the restaurant;;, - Three, the ABC -store's 'loca tion near the Greek and cam pus sectors would . allow some students to walk to .the store .rather than highballing it back and forth to Eastgate in their fastbacks. Four, such strategic place ment of the ABC store would place it next to two major in stitutions, church and universi ty, whose moral influence un doubtedly would encourage cus tomer moderation and self - re sponsibility. Five, such stores are closed on Sundays and other legal, hol idays, and so would not inter fere with customary church services, as might ; a restaur ant. , Six, an ABC -store is a "clean" business with no char coal smoke, greasy ,French -fry smell, or paper litter. Thus, if there must be oppos sition to 'the proposed eatery, then let the opposition carry 11 ss P tl LETTERS The Daily lar Heel solicits I letters to the - editors at .any II 1 I m I time and on any subject. ' AH letters must tbe typed J DOUBLE SPACED and must be free of libel. The editors reserve the .right to edit for m length. Letters jshonld js submitted at Jeast two days Prior to date of pohlication. s m m H IL " mm Alallamaii Speaks On Selma Alarch -Editors, The Tar Heel: As a proud citizen of the , , state of Alabama, I . have pain fully watched the recent events in Selma with mixed emotions. I sincerely sympathize with those individuals who are striv ing to obtain their unquestion able right to vote, and I have great love and understanding for the many good citizens of Alabama, both white and Ne gro, who have suffered through this long, long struggle. They have suffered and they will suf fer more, often unnecessarily, before the sun rises on a calm day in Alabama. ' : At the same time I am sicken ed by .the growing trend of thought, as .exemplified by Sel ma, that misuse of our Constitu tion and our laws cannot be cor rected , within the political sys tem that more than one Ala bama boy has died to defend. :There is no place in our sys tem for the practice of mob rule, yet our Nobel Prize win ner violates a -Federal Court order, urges thousands to flock to rthe streets,, and pledges that he will, in fact, violate any Fed eral Court order that he feels . is unjust. The demonstration that Dr. King ;is leading is not; as he says, ? "America's cause." On the other hand, it is making, a mockery out of America's cause by "demonstrating" that inter ests cannot be articulated and aggregated in our democracy without mob rule. The Selma march does not serve to expose Alabama, for that state was fully exposed by the events in Selma of the past few weeks, and this march is anticlimatical. So much dirt has been shoveled over the name of Alabama that a little more dust will not expose it, and certainly will not help clean it up. What the Selma march does expose is that Dr. King feels that our democracy is not able to i answer the cries of the op pressed ; ? without . going outside the system itself. There is no place in our sys tem for action such as this, and yet those who are charged with the preservation and defense of this system support these mob -demonstrations and condone their destructive and degrading use I have not reached the point where I will accept any means to obtain the proper ends. There are many Americans -who feel as I do that all quali fied persons should be allowed to vote. But this does not mean that we have lost assurance that our political system is flexible enough in itself : to grant the rights of alL - ft was this assurance tjat prompted the Catholic archbis hop of the Mobile" - innm ham Diocese to order all Priests-and nuns to stay out of idual is a supporter of regro SSL right. Jt was this same insight that prompted the Bis hop of the Episopal Diocese of Alabama to take similar action. Both of these men have spok en out for the rights of the citi :zens of Alabama to vote, yet they have strong convictions and beliefs toward our democratic system and its ability to func tion for all men. Dr. King has said, "We know we can work wthin the frame wor of our democracy to bring about a brighter day." If he re ally believes this, let him prove it to the people of the South, and to all America. Our na tion cries out for courageous men to preach the causes of freedom and the rights of men. :I challenge Dr. King and his followers to be examples for all Americans, white and Ne gro, that we can maintain a pluralistic culture of different ideals without each group disre garding the-rules of the system to make its wishes known. Let us work together as Am ericans and through the Ameri can system, together, we will evolve with a strengthened ra ther than a weakened society. Nick Greenwood Chi Psi Lodge Press Is Erratic On Civil Rights Editors, The Tar Heel: It is to complain that I ad dress my first letter to the Dai ly Tar Heel, ..to protest the hypocrisy of the news media as well as against our own hypo crisy: I refer to the recent death of Rev. Reeb, in Selma, Ala. My intent is not to belittle in any way his sacrifice, but to place it in perspective of the sit uation. Thus let me ask but one question: Why were headlines made by bis death, while near to nothing was written about the . shooting to death of Jimmie Lee Jackson (having forgotten the name, J had to refer to the New York Times) who was the first person to give his life in the present protest movement, in Selma? Such unfair and biased cover .age is not an exception. I be lieve it to be mainly, if not sole ly, due to the different pigmen tation of Reeb's and Jackson's skin. To prove my point, I will refer to two other recent ev ents. , First of all, the murder of J. Chaney, A. Goodman and M. Schwerner was presented with banners and first page headlin es, .while only a keen look at last summer's New York Times has made me aware that they were .far from being the only ones to die for their belief in human dignity in Mississippi last summer, the others having the "bad luck" to be black. The other event I refer to is the coverage of the Congo crisis, where once more headlines were made by the death of a few whit es, whereas little was said about . the massacre of the Congolese, on either side. Therefore I do ask everyone, including NAACP, CORE, . . to weight their actions, such as the march in Raleigh two weeks ago, more carefully, before pro fessing their belief in human dignity and equality, regardless of race or color. Alain de Fontenay Dey Hall Torture In Viet Nam Questioned By DAVID ROTHMAN "Our warmongering, fighting, murdering killers should be brought home immediately from Viet "Nam," the student declar ed. He was speaking without sarcasm to a Di - Phi audi ence (which later voted that the United States should stay in Viet Nam). Probably, he h2d read "What Are We Tied to in Viet Nam?" a pamohlet distributed here by the SPU. Published by the Massachu setts Political Action for Peace, the handout contained lurid ac counts of the torture allegedly given prisoners of the Saigon government. The pamphlet itself did not directly accuse Americans of the atrocities. But it suggested that the United -States bears a heavy reponsibility for the sup posed barbarism. "Hauling in Red Guerrilla," read the caption beneath the pamphlet's cover photograph, first published in the Boston Record American. According to the caption, the photo showed government sold iers hitching a communist pri soner to an armored truck car rier before pulling him through a stream. One must be wary when read ing the publications of groups like the Massachusetts Political Action for Peace (captions can be made to confuse the eye) However, the photo's , caption was written by the American's staff not by the pamphle teers. There were also photographs and pieces of the accompany ing accounts that had originally been published by other papers. One of these had appeared in the New York Times. South Vietnamese soldiers were shown lowering a guerrilla into a wat er pot. "The ducking was one method of persuading men to talk," the Times candidly observed. "Brought to Heel" went a cap tion from the New York Daily News. The caption's photograph showed a wretched creature with an arched neck and a soil ed face. It wastn't a dog; it was a Vietnamese farmer? h-i given government troops i'.vor reet3ino(cmatloji23bo;t. the Vi-1 Cong. A government soldier stool nearby. He held a dagger butt. Another photo showed the far mer lyir stomach - down on a pile of bushes. His foot rais ed, the soldier appeared re.. : . to kick in the unfortunate m::ns head. Reporterly, war booty h sometimes returned. An AP nc count told how government troops had held a field tris:-: j nal for a V. C. infiltrator, h. decapitated him, then had ? ti the body and the head back to his family. A word of caution: At tirr.e. the Associated Press distributes Viet Cong photographs boir..: careful, of. course, to indicate their origin. Did the Massachusetts Politi cal Action for Peace fail to ex ercise a similar form of cau tion? Apparently not unless Life and other publications were deliberately miquotcd. Largely controlled by Henry Luce (the conservative publish er), , the magazine supposed ly reported that "in interrogat ing prisoners each side in the Vietnamese war occasionally re sorts to torture." Nevertheless, the reader should notice the use of t h e word "occasionally," which was not present in unquoted form. The pamphlet itself called the torture "commonplace." Another important word is "each;" the pamphlet did nor mention the atrocities commit ted by the Viet Cong. It also did not mention the genocide of which the Commun ists are guilty in Tibet. Like wise, the pamphlet failed to mention the sadism of the Pe king regime in China proper. During the Korean conflict, for instance, two missionary girls were dragged into the street and soiled with urine. An entire company of soldiers did the urinating. Apparently, the Viet Cong follow China's example. Last year, March 19 was an impor tant date in Viet Nam it was frankly designated "Hate Amer ica Day." Until recently, the Viet Con 5 had been waging a fullscale war against the American wo men and children of Saigon. Gronouski- Chech . Up On . President By ART BUCIIWALD The New York Herald Tribune WASHINGTON Last week Russian Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin said he invited Presi dent Johnson to Moscow, but the President never answered his letter. The same day, George Reedy, White House press sec retary, who is known to Wash ington correspondents as Dr. No, denied President Johnson ever received a written invita tion from the Russian Premier. A few weeks ago United Na tions Secretary - General U Thant said he sent a peace plan for Viet 'Nam to the President. In this case Reedy also denied that President Johnson ever re ceived such a plan. The only thing that can be de duced from all this is that some one is fooling around with the President's mail. And if I were the President I'd be pretty mad about it. "Get me the Postmaster-General on the Phone . 1 . Gronou ski, this is the President. I do not seem to be getting all my mail." "Have people been using your zip code correctly?" "How should I know? But Premier Kosygin says he sent me an invitation to Moscow two months ago and, as far as I know, it h?snT arrived yet. "If he didn't send it air mail, it could still be on a boat." "I'm sure he sent it air mail or he wouldn't have made such a fuss about it." "Well if he sent it air mail, it was probably routed to New York's Kennedy International Airport. We're having a little trouble getting the mail from the airport into town." "But it couldn't have taken two months." "Well, once it gets into town, it has to be re-routed to Wash ington and sent cut to the air port again. That's probably where the hold uo is." "How long does that take?' "The problem is we've just automated our New York past office and it's not working very smoothly at the moment. It could take anywhere from a day to six months, depending on which computer is working." "Gronouski, I want to ask you a question and I want a direct , answer. Do you have a mail co ver on me?" "Pardon me, Mr. President?'- "I said, is your department checking my mail?" : "I am not at liberty to say, sir. We can't give out any na mes of the 24,000 people we've had mail covers on because in nocent people could be hurt." "Don't give that Senate com mittee report, Gronouski. Are you watching my mail?" "I can't say, sir." "Why not?" "I'm under an Executive Or der not to reveal the names of any people whose mail we're watching." "But I happened to sign the order, am the Executive." "Yes, that's true. Well, I guess I can tell you then. I'm afraid we do have a mail cover on you." "What in the Pedernales for?' "Weil, you see, sir, one of our inspectors saw this letter postmarked Moscow, and then one of our translators noticed it had the return address of the Premier of the Soviet Union. So it got us to wondering what an American citizen would be doing getting a letter from t he Russian Premier, and we fig ured we'd better check into it." "It was nothing But an invita tion to visit the Soviet Union.'5 "We know that, Mr. Presi dent." "How do you know it?" "We have this ultra - violet ray machine that can see right through envelopes." "Well, you'd better send that letter right away." v "Yes, sir, Mr. President. Oh. by the way, do you want th U Thant letter, too?" To All The Candidates Who Lost Last Tuesday The Coming of Age or Lamentations of the Fallen Campus Politician Ah, the sweetness of life, the wonder of our struggle When surrounded by little soldiers of one accord Ah the faithful friends around us, trudging hand in hand To the Zion of our dreams, to our common heaven With the trust of our brother, our eyes to the front We dwell in the happiness of our innocence Ah, the hell of life, the verity of our struggle When the road to Zion narrows and our friends depart To ambush old companions of the innocent days Ah; the pain of our wounds, the hate for our brother Trust was for the innocent, honor for the unaware Only one eye to the front, our friends are behind us. Jim Robinson, 411 Ruffin
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