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Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editor-
ials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range of views,
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Chapel Hill Buys Some Time
The problem of how to get new roads built around and
through Chapel Hill doesn't seem any nearer a solution
than it was 10 years ago.
A Long-Range Thoroughfare Plan has been drawn up
to provide a way out of the present traffic squeeze and
the impending bottleneck. The plan calls for an "outer
loop" by-pass on the south side of Chapel Hill to ease
the burden.
But the plan also includes a "radial" road, one con
necting the by-pass with the downtown area, and now the
most important thing yet to be decided is where to put
the radial, and in fact, if it is necessary at all.
Three groups are involved in the decision making
the, Chapel Hill town government, the University and the
State Highway Commission. The town can hardly do any
thing that does not involve the University, but this is
especially the case here because almost any radial road
site would cut across University property.
The town's Planning Board has proposed six possible
routes for the radial, and last fall the University went on
record as approving Alternate 5, which would cross the
pasfprn friffi of-the pamnus. (See man. nape l.
The State Highway Commission has also approved
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approved it but not all of it. It approved only the parts
which will cross University property. Many Chapel Hillians
dislike the proposed route. It's true some trees would have
to be cut down and a little of the town's valued "sylvan
charm" might be lost, but they apparently would rather be
stuck in traffic jams than give in. Some residents have
legitimate complaints because their homes would proba
bly have to be moved for the road, but no highway is ever
built without this problem.
There is little doubt that the Highway Commission will
not approve the plan as passed by the Aldermen be
cause it rejected a similar proposal in 1962. The Commis
sion has in effect threatened the town by saying the entire
Thoroughfare Plan, loop roads and all, may be in jeopardy
if the plan does not include a radial road.
;The net result of Thursday's action will be to buy the
town a little bargaining time. A bill has been introduced
into the General Assembly by Rep. Donald Stanford. It
would require the Highway Commission to approve thor-
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radial . later. While the Commission is busy rejecting the
s latest town proposal, the bill may be passed into law and
the town's bargaining position will be considerably im
proved. - If this is done, there may well never be a radial road.
Like it or not, the town is growing more people, more
cars. If those who don't want the radial have their way,
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The University is open to suggestions about new routes,
but the one approved suits the purposes for which it is in
tended and will cause a minimum of problems for the
campus and, as far as we can tell, for the townspeople.
DTH Awards Of The Week
Most Comforting Fact of the Week: Tests by United
States Department of Agriculture researchers show that
heavily sweating men are the least attractive target for
mosquitoes. Women who sweat heavily, however, lure
more bites than those who don't. One researcher said the
insects generally "find men more palatable."
Most Interesting Fact of the Week: A rare lumpfish,
cyclopterous lumpus, has been caught near Oregon Inlet.
The greenish colored fish weighed seven pounds and was
15 inches long. It was the first of its species ever reported
along the Outer Banks.
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Quote of the Week: Otelia Connor, speaking at the Di
Phi debate on pre-marital sex: "Why should a girl give
everything she's got for nothing ... I can't see how any
man couia respect a woman who would do it.
Best Legislative Bill of the Week: Introduced by Rep.
W. A. Forbes,. the bill called for legalized fortune telling in
Pitt County. It also asked to give the county commissioners
power to levy a tax oh the tellers
Best Poll of the Week: Conducted by the First Union
National Bank in Charlotte, Asheviile, Winston-Salem and
Greensboro, the poll showed 51 per cent of the bank's custo
mers oppose the Speaker Ban Law. A total of 18,561 votes
was cast with 7,280 men and 2,171 women going against the
ban.
White Man of the Week: The "reverend" at the Dur
ham Ku Klux Klan rally who said, "All you liberals ain't
good as a nigger. You don't know 'bout God. You ain't
learned what 'god said 'bout horses and cows not mixin'.
Bless God, y'all goin to die and go to hell without Jesus."
Lizard of the Week: Whoever decided the U. S. Park
Service should start charging picnickers 50 cents for the
use of national forest recreation areas in Western North
Carolina.
Changing Scene Award: The University of North Caro
lina at Greensboro, where an apartment building has been
bought to be used as the school's first men's dormitory.
- Second dassr postage paid at the post office la Chapel Hill,
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False Sense
Of Security?
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: .
In your Tuesday editorial ("What's
Wrong at UNC?") I was particularly
struck by one sentence in which you ca
tegorically asserted that "there are no
communists on the faculty" at UNC. How,
I wondered could you possibly make such
a statement? Are you privy to the inner
most thoughts of all 800 faculty members?
Have you personally conducted an in
vestigation of each and every one?
. No, certainly not. But the Daily Tar
Heel being the great bastion of truth that
we all know it to be, your information
must surely have been based on some au
thoritative, unimpeachable source. And it
soon occurred to me what that "author-
itative, unimpeachable" source was. None
other than our own former governor, Ter
ry Sanford.
We all remember the statement made
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by His Excellency the Governor in March
of 1964. There are no communists on the
faculties , of any state supported institu
tion, he hastened to assure the people of
North Carolina. And how did he know this?
Why, he said, 'the FBI had conducted an
investigation of all state universities and
colleges and upon finding that there were
no communists on any of the faculties,
had gone running to His Excellency with
the good news.
Well, far be if from me to doubt the
governor. If Terry said it, it certainly
must be true. TSveryone knows that Terry
would never tell a naughty, naughty un
truth. Not even a teensy weensy one.
But there were a. few people who dar
ed to question the veracity of what they
had heard from the ' mouth of the gover
nor. One such person was Mrs. Clarence
Sturzenbecker .of Winston - Salem. She,-in
fact, carried her question all the way to
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. -
On April 1, 1964, Mrs. Sturzenbecker re
ceived a reply from Hoover which com-
"I Don't Mind Sit-ins and Lie-ins, But This 'Teach-In' Sounds
Like Too Much Work."
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Student Discontent
Panty Raids
Made
Out;
Other Rebellions j Linger
By RALPH McGILL
Atlanta Constitution
April is in full flower and perhaps, aft-
er all, the college students of . the nation
will abandon their several rebellions and
revert to the old conformity of panty
raids, poetry, and the mysterious ways of
a man" with , a maid. But again, this is
unlikely.
The campuses have experienced a se
vere winter. From Plymouth Rock to Ber
keley Bay the Groves of Academe have
been shaken by gusty winds of controversy
and rebellion. (In addition, the Air Force
Academy repeated the , sad story written
at the academy at West Point some years
ago. A covey of students, including a hea
vy percentage of the football team, were
expelled for cheating on examinations. In
both cases we were assured that the rigors
of football had no connection with the of
fense.) It took the boll weevil almost a. gen
eration patiently to move from Mexico,
across the Rio Grande, and into the cot
ton South. It has taken even longer for the
Latin American student commitment to po
litical and social issues to reach Ameri
can campuses. But it is here. That it is
also full flower in more remote areas sym
bolized by Saigon, Tokyo, and Moscow sel ves
to remind us how wrong were those
who laughed at the late Wendell Willkie
when he wrote a book titled "One World."
We do not have one world at peace or
agreement on how to attain it, but we as
suredly have one world of ferment about
the issues of our time.
The modus operandi of student discon
tent is the demonstration. Usually it is
more or less peaceful, though raucously -loud.
Now and then stones, ink, and other
items are thrown. At times the demonstra
tions are against more or less faceless
things. Others have objectives. African stu- -dents
in Russia, long restive, are again
disturbed by what seems to have been j
the murder of a Ghanaian student. They A
demonstrate to quit Russia thereby em-j-Li
barrassing the " presidents of their various
countries, particularly Kwame Nkrumah in
Ghana. Tokyo's students . demonstrate
against the presence of a U.S. nuclear
submarine in their waters. The objectives
are many.
American students are fed up with their
elders over such things as mass face
less education and civil rights in general.
The murders "and beatings, dynamitings
and violence, practiced by southern com
munities who perpetuate with standard
deplorings the actions by 'the low and
violent" among them are too . much for
most students to take calmly. Obvious hy
pocrisy riles them and makes them will
ing to demonstrate and be among the
"outside agitators" who upset the Black
Belt towns. American students are weary,
too, of much of the Christian church and
of ministers who do a verbal soft shoe
dance in the pulpit each Sunday. "Where
do all those guys disappear to between
11 a.m. one Sunday and the next?" is a
common question.
American undergraduates are disen
enchanted about the hugeness and "f ace
lessness" of much of our present day ed
ucation. The larger colleges and univer
sities suffer most. Graduate work increas
ingly occupies the more notable teach
ers. Teaching undergraduates becomes
more and more impersonal at a time in
life when such students need, or at least
wish, ! a jnore personal experience. We
forget ;how heavily "the bomb" hangs over
all sensitive life today. (Only Barry Gold
water and his followers want to go on to
the ultimate in Southeast Asia. Goldwater
violently protests any negotiated settle
ment.) ' iC
- Many students see the values of life
unattended: They know the bulldozer is
here to stay, but they don't understand
why builders should be such crass fel
lows as to destroy all contours, trees and
beauty. They do experience a .spiritual
frustration. E is doubtful if the panty
raid will stage much of a comeback this
'ring.'
pletely vindicated her suspicions. "I can
assure you," wrote Hoover, "that the
FBI has not investigated state supported
schools and colleges in North Carolina. For
this reason, it would obviously be impossi
ble for this bureau to make any authorita
tive or blanket statement regarding the ex
istence of communists or communist sym
pathizers in these educational institutions.
It is a sad day when you cannot believe
the governor of the state. It is an even
sadder day when the governor uses the
prestige of his office to promote deliber
ate falsehoods and when such people as
yourself unwittingly leap upon them as
gospel and use them to instill a false sense
of security in your fellow students and
fellow North Carolinians.
Warren Williams
Box 719
Chapel Hill
Rothman: DTH
Deadly Weapon
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Okay! All right! We give up!
Those of us who would consider our
selves on the left, or as liberal, can fight
against most of what you have been print
ing lately. We can defend ourselves against
the attacks on the peaceniks and the at
tendant attack on dissent; we can defend
ourselves against Clark's 19th Century con
stitutional philosophy. (One wonders what
Clark thinks of building codes, sanita
tion and health regulations, traffic laws,
and other regulations so insidiously
forced upon property owners by the bad
guys in government.)
Against these things we can defend our
selves, and hopefully American society,
in some semblance of rational debate. But
please, no more Rothman, the DTH's dead
liest weapon. Before the poetry of this
man's prose style, the clarity of his logic,
the almost compulsive attention to the re
levant, and his intellectual potency we re
treat in full disarray, completely demoral
ized and defeated. Who can compete with
such a mind?
To demonstrate to you who have not
read this giant, let me quote from his
article "Rights, Fights: Peas in a Pod"
to demonstrate his power. "Moses (not
to be confused with the Moses .of Biblical
fame) brought to Washington scores of
Negro youths dressed in blue jeans and
cowboy hats."
Please mercy! We beg you no more
Rothman.
Gary Waller
Grad Student .
: rV. S. Must Not
Back Out Noiv
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I think it's about time someone said
something in defense of the United States'
stand in Southeast Asia. Although, through
columns and cartoons, the Daily Tar Heel
has made it quite clear that it supports
our present actions, very few of its read
ers go to the trouble.
However, in the issues since the begin
ning of America's air attacks on North
Viet Nam, there have been many letters
from individuals who condemn our actions
for various reasons. These letters are us
ually the author's opinion on the stand
taken by the Daily Tar Heel. These let
ters go unanswered. Perhaps there is
one thing in favor of the peacenik at
least he has the courage to express his
point of view.
The lack of expressed student support
of America's presence and bombing in
North Viet Nam can be rationalized in this
manner: Because the peacenik's argu
ment is emotional, it is difficult to make
him see another point of view. When the
peacenik screams that America is violating
basic moral standards as the aggressor .
and that American bombs are causing ,the
deaths of innocent Vietnamese people, one
finds himself in the position of being un
able to disagree without sounding like
a blood-thirsty warmonger.
One way to disprove the assertions of
these people is to assume that what they
say is basically true. Assume that some
innocent people are killed with our bombs.
Assume that morally we should get out
of Asia all togtther. Assume that the de
mand of the peacenik is met.
Then in his idealistic world the people
of Viet Nam would be left alone to de
cide how they would live. All would be
wonderful, and no weapons, either free or
communist, would cause dark clouds to
rise in the jungles.
Any sane person would be overjoyed
to see this happen. But in this vision the
peacenik forgets that the world is not as
we all would like it. There is evil and
greed, and there is communism.
The communists have made it clear
that they intend to do all they can to
destroy our way of life and unite the world
under communist rule. This is reality. This
is what America is faced with. This is
why we are in Viet Nam.
Should we be so moral and fair in a
game that has no rules? Should we leave
Southeast Asia to the tyranny of commun
ism? And should we later allow our way
of life to be destroyed and justify it to
our children by saying: "Well, at least,
no one got hurt."?
If we heed the peaceniks, the answer to
these questions is yes.
I like to dream too, peaceniks, but
not at the expense of half a world of free
people.
- Michael Bruce Wiggia
30-S Winston
LBJ Rides Out
NLF Negotiations
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
North Viet Nam has been aiding th:
National Liberation Front in the same v,; .
that the United States has been aiding
present government of Saigon. Clearly ,
two governments have been taking sides h
a civil war. The United States has !':
ed the North Viet Nam aid as aggressor.,
but is surprised and indignant when
bombings are so labeled by non - a i
and communist countries.
President Johnson's Johns Hopkir.s
speech favoring unconditional negotiation,
stated his willingness for the United Stat;;
to negotiate the war problems with other
non - South Vietnamese governments. The
two warring factions in the South Vi. :
namese civil war have no voice in thee
proposed negotiations. While both the Sai
gon goverment and the National Libera
tion Front's aids have made proposals that
indicate the two factions can, if we per
mit them, come to terms agreeable ti
both, Johnson has indicated, in refusing
to act on these proposals, that he is not in
terested in these factions coming to terms
On April 12 the Washington Star sup
ported negotiations with the Liberation
Front by stating in an editorial: '"It is
difficult, to say the least, to S2e how a
settlement can be negotiated without their
participation."
General Nguyen Chanh Thi, who seems
to have become the most powerful of Sai
gon's generals, indicated the danger of the
United States' blocking negotiations be
tween the Liberation Front and the Sai
gon government, and consequently exten
ding the war. He said in an interview with
Richard Critchfield in the Washington
Star, April 14 that United States aid to
South Viet Nam has only made the rich
richer and the poor poorer.
In continuing this blood bath we are
surely reinforcing inequality in the socie
ty. We may not be taking action to re
concile the factions and end the war, but
our presence is felt in this way, at least.
Remember, Good Old Uncle Sam is goir:
to be the one to pour millions of dollars
into South Viet Nam to recoup its eco
nomy when the fighting is over. Let's not
make it too hard on ourselves. We should
be seeking the fastest way out. Why not
get the Liberation Front and the Saigon gov
ernment together as fast the Red Cross
can make it possible?
. On his way through Paris a vice-preri-dent
of the Saigon regime, Tran Van Tuy
en, told Le Monde (April 16) it was nec
essary to stop the war and that a demo
cratic socialism in Saigon would make it
possible to integrate the South Vietnam
ese left and end the rebellion. Two days
later this idea was accepted by a joint
communique issued by the Russians and
the North Vietnamese in Moscow calling
for "The formation in South Vief Nam of
a national democratic coalition government
carrying through a policy of independence
and neutrality in full conformity with the
Geneva agreements of 1954." (Washington
Sunday Star, April 18).
It would seem that negotiations between
the two civil factions can be fruitful, yet
Johnson has arbitrarily ruled out negotia
tion with the Liberation Front. Then he won
ders with disappointment why his offer
has not met with response.
Constance Ray
202 E. Rosemary St.
Only 84 Negroes
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: ...
The Tar Heel has been a great help to
me. Before when all my friends laughed
at me and pointed their fingers saying
"he goes to school with Negroes" there
was nothing I could do but bow my head
and try not to hear their taunts.
But now I can whip out the Tuesday
Tar Keel editorial and show them ihat
there are only 84 Negroes here out of over
10,000 students. Once again I can hold my
head up as a proud member of my com
munity. But we must not rest on our laurels.
Think of how good we would look to the
rest of the state if we could say that there
is not a single Negro at UNC. A few more
editorials like that one should help accom
plish the aim.
Frank Anshen
407 W. Franklin St.
A Dull Night
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I am 21 years old. I am a woman stu
dent. It is Saturday night. I am campus-,
ed tonight. I had a "disorderly room" a
month ago a call - down. Two weeks
before that I played chopsticks on the i
ano after quiet hours (7:05 p.m.) a
caJ - down. Last Saturday I spoke to a
friend from the window (how unlady -
call-down. Now I have 3 call - downs: now
I have a campus.
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dent. It is Saturday night. But I go to the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jan Delia
UNC