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Friday, September 17 1965
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&: ERNIE McCRARY, EDITOR
v JACK HARRINGTON, BUSINESS MANAGER
Thanks A Lot, Ralph
After more than two years of wearisome mess with
the speaker ban law, things are finally looking up.
The supporters of the law are obviously scraping
the bottom of a notably shallow barrel when they re
sort to the tactics used by Assistant State Attorney
General Ralph Moody.
In a statement that fairly gasps with desperation,
Moody suggested in a letter to Rep. David Britt, chair
man of the Speaker Ban Study Commission, that the
General Assembly could "control the situation" by
playing with the University's purse strings if the law
should be amended or repealed.
Moody said, "If this statute does turn out to be
unconstitutional we still think the people of the state
will find some method of controlling the situation and
we still believe that the General Assembly has the
right to control the allocation of funds that it makes
to the institutions of higher learning by means of its
Appropriation Acts."
4 His boss, Attorney General Wade Bruton, did him
self no favors by agreeing heartily with Moody's view
point. However, we feel this plainly worded threat to in
timidate the University will turn to ashes in the moujn
of Moody and ultmately create sympathy for the Uni
versity's stand.
Higher education in general, and this school in
particular, have been the butt of attacks for a good
while now, and we have faith in the inherent nature
of most people and especially North Carolinians
to rally to the side of those being subjected to excess
abuse.
This University is strong and great and is signifi
cantly responsible for whatever measure of greatness
the state can claim. Most people recognize this, wheth
er or not they say it out loud.
This group is concerned about the quality of ed
ucation their children are receiving here, and in their
own minds this is justifiable grounds for support of the
ban law.
But it is a different matter to start talking about
taking money away from the school. There can be no
doubt that the cutting off of funds is outright strangu
lation of the university, with no self-deceit about "pro
tecting our children from themselves," as ban sup
porters now argue.
Those who wish to control speakers on this or any
other campus by waving the money bag will find little
enough support, and by the 'extreme irrationality -of
their reasoning perhaps may raise some new doubts.
These doubts will come in the minds of those who have
gone along with the gag until now, but will stand for
no more.
Now that the Speaker Ban Commission hearings
have been held, we feel the tide of opinion about the
law is turning favorably. Trying to stop a tide has al
ways been a rather futile job. Stirrings such as
Moody's will only hasten it.
The die-hard supporters of the ban have shown
their true colors publicly now. Color them petty.
"The Date Ticket Situation'
Despite the grumbles going around campus about
"the date ticket situation," students aren't getting the
raw deal some of them think they are.
C. P. Erickson, director of athletics, shed some
light on the subject yesterday by pointing out that the
step of putting dating students in two sections in the
north stands was requested by students themselves
last spring.
He said student representatives to the Athletic
Council asked for the number of date tickets allotted
for each game to be doubled from 1,000 to 2,000. It's
doubtful that the student representatives asked for
seats down about the 10-yard line on the visitors' side,
but nevertheless they had to be put somewhere.
Erickson said he feels the "first obligation is to
the students" when it comes to passing out the seats,
so it was decided that those students who bring out
siders as dates will in effect "pay" for the privilege by
not having the choicest seats. And no regular student
will lose his place in the south stands to a visitor.
Erickson indicated that this arrangement is by no
means absolutely final, and if students are dissatis
fied with it, others can be tried.
Anyway, we see no cause for despair yet. The
number of dates allowed in the stadium has been
doubled, and predictions about this season indicate
there is always the possibility that fellows will spend
more time looking at their dates than at the playing
field so which yardiine he sits on may not prove
to be especially vital.
(Lip laxly Ear Ifeel
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f U.S. Reported
Using Zippos
On Viet Cong
By DAVID ROTHMAN
DTH Staff Writer
WASHINGTON Reports that GIs are
using Zippo cigaret lighters to burn up
Viet Cong Villages rocked the nation today.
President Johnson said at a special press
conference the Zippos are necessary "in
view of the Viet Cong's continued desire
to escalate the war."
Earlier, he had held an emergency Na
tional Security Council meeting.
Johnson reaffirmed "our intense desire
for a peaceful solution to the problem" and
said that, for the moment, the lighters
would not be used in the vicinity of Hanoi.
House Minority Leader Gerald Ford
criticized Johnson's "lack of will to win.
Rather than negotiating with the Reds, we
should use Zippos to destroy the missile
sites near Hanoi. I am fully convinced this
is within our military capability."
Replying to Ford's statement, Johnson
warned that the USSR might move to en
large the war should the Zippo attacks kill
any Russian technicians manning the sites.
Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, in a two
hour Senate speech, called the employment
of Zippos "inhumane and contrary to the
Geneva Convention."
Morse said he believes the Zippos could
eventually mean Red China's entry into the
conflict.
Near Saigon, two Viet Cong terrorists
were caught attempting to blow up a Zippo
lighter fluid tank. Had they succeeded, the
United States war effort in Viet Nam would
have been significantly set back, according
to Defense Secretary McNamara.
U. N. Secretary U Thant said the Zippo
attacks are hampering peace negotiations.
Radio Peking said the Zippos "strength
ened the will of the oppressed people of
South Viet Nam to resist imperialistic ag
gression." ,
The Chinese reminded their listeners the
People's Republic had detonated its first
Zippo in 1964, and would use it on San
Francisco should the situation worsen. K
Students for a Democratic Society an
nounced that hereafter, only matches would
be used to destroy draft cards. "We must
not have anything to do with racial geno
cide," a spokesman for the organization
commented.
In Tokyo, left-wing students sacked the
American embassy. They claimed that a
Zippo lighter had ignited the Hiroshima
atomic bomb.
French President De Gaulle said his
country had "learned the lesson of Dien
Bien , Phu. . Zippos are - definitely out of
place in Southeast Asia-.' -
Columnist Drew Pearson said he is in
vestigating rumors of wartime profiteering
by the Zippo Company.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson called for
the banning of open-air Zippo testing. Wor
ried about the expected proliferation of
Zippos among the smaller powers, he said:
"First the United States had the Zippo;
then the Russians; then us; now France and
Red China. Suppose Sukarno develops the
Zippo as he says he will. Then where will
we be in Malaysia?"
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former U. S.
Ambassador to Saigon, confidently predict
ed the t Zippos will "lead to a decisive
American victory in South Viet Nam.
They've been run over by automobiles, used
by prisoners in P.O.W. camps and found
in the bellies of sharks without serious
damage. Clearly, the United States has a
military advantage.
"Besides, Zippo lighters are guaranteed
to last forever, and if anything happens,
we can always get a new one free from
the factory."
Ain't It Tough!
Son: "What is college bred?"
Father: "My boy, they make college
bred from the flour of youth and the dough
of old age."
(Wadswoth, Orlando Sentinel)
Aging Stewardesses Dance
A New Bye-Bye A-Go-Go
By DICK WEST
ROLL CALL
One of the advantages the airlines have
over the railroads is the fact that the
average stewardess is prettier than the
average pullman conductor.
Let us keep this in mind as we examine
the testimony of Mrs. Colleen Boland before
a House Labor Subcommittee.
Mrs. Boland, representing the AFL-CIO
Trasport Workers Union, appeared at a
hearing to protest the policy of some air
lines of imposing age limits on hostesses.
In some cases, she lamented, steward
esses are arbitrarily grounded at age 32. In
others, the ceiling is 35.
Mrs. Boland said this had nothing to do
with the ability of the stewardess to balance
a tray of food, pour a dry martini, or aid
and confort a passenger who is getting
green around the gills.
She said it was "pure and simple sex."
She quoted one airline executive as saying,
"If we put a dog on the plane, 20 business
men are sore for a month."
Mrs. Boland, who at 37 retains a girlish
figure and has no hint of grey in her reddish-brown
hair, resented that remark. I
don't blame her.
No lady likes to be told that she is over
the hill at 32, or for that matter at 62.
Members of the subcommittee were
"Whatta Ya Mean They Just Closed
Out All The Freshman Courses?"
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Discrimination Will Divide
Students In Kenan Stadium
By BOB ORR
United we SAT . . . divided we SIT,
or at least that's the way it's going to be,
thanks to a new University policy on date
tickets.
For those students who buy date tickets,
the University has reserved a special sec
tion for them. The only hitch is that the
section is on the north side of the stadium
across from the student body.
Vernon Crook, athletic business mana
ger, announced that the policy change came
at the request of the student members of
the University Athletic Council. The request
stemmed from the problem of seating an
increasing number of students and dates
from other colleges in the 10,340 seats al
loted to the Carolina student body.
Crook said that the only feasible solu
tion at the present" was to have those peo
ple bringing dates from other campuses to
sit on the north side of the stadium be
tween the goal-line and 20-yard line. He
said that enough seats would be reserved
for each game to accommodate those with
date tickets.
As with all decisions, somebody isn't
going to like it, in this case, probably those
people who bought date tickets and sit on
the North side of the stadium.
But look on the brighter side of things.
And unfortunately one of the brighter as
pects of the situation is going to be the
sun. The north side just isn't very shady
and those students sitting over there better
bring their dark glasses.
One of the inovations for college football
is the two platoon system. How effective a
"two platoon cheering section" will be, re
mains to be seen. At least when one side
gets tired of cheering the other can pick
it up. And those on the north side will be
able to see the card section in action for a
change.
For those who don't like the new policy,
the administration says it isn't permanent.
It all depends on how the students like it.
If they don't, they can always go back to
"first come, first serve" on the south side.
And you can't really gripe with the ad
ministration because for the first tune there
sympathetic. I don't blame them either.
There are a vast number of women voters
who will never see 32 again.
It seems to me, however, that some con
sideration should be given to the part that
sex appeal has played in the onward and
upward march of commercial aviation.
Would the airlines be where they are
today if the pioneers had hired little old
ladies in tennis shoes to walk down the
aisle chanting "coffee, tea or milk?" I
doubt it.
It may be unfair, as well as unchival
rous, to turn a stewardess out to pasture
simply because she is teetering on the
brink of middle age. But caution must be
exercised to avoid impeding further prog
ress. Rep. William D. Hathaway (D. Maine)
called for measures to "eradicate from the
minds of the public" any notion that air
lines should be operated like "flying Bunny
clubs." Which is easier said than done.
The airlines may find it difficult to
change their image in midair.
Perhaps some sort of compromise could
be worked out. The airlines could assign a
grandmotherly type to help the passenger
fluff up their pillows and otherwise get
comfy.
Then a couple of young swingers could
bring on the drinks.
will be three games that you can get date
tickets at half price.
In The Mail . . .
Students Pay
For 'Privilege'
Of Not Parking
Editor The Daily Tar Heel
New parking regulations have been now
issued for University students. As the folder
indicates, they are indeed strict. I have
been issued a T' zone sticker. This forbids
me from parking anywhere on campus, yet
I still must swell, the coffers of the Uni
versity with my five dollar fee. '
One glaring Inconsistency arises. The
campus, as defined by the regulations, in
cludes the portion of the married student's
housing in which I live. This means I am
not allowed to park my car at home. For
this I must pay five dollars?
Even if the University overlooks this dif
ficulty, there is still the ridiculous situation
in which we in the Village are placed. We
must pay for the privilege' of being for
bidden to bring our cars to school, even
under the most adverse of conditions. Yet
the fine line of distinction drawn by the
Board of Trustees allows a student on the
West side of Mason Farm Road parking
rights denied to one living on the East
side.
Little can be done to relieve the con
gested parking conditions, but we shouldn't
be forced to pay for stickers which deny
us the right to park even in front of our
own homes.
Peter M. Slagan
154 Bagley Drive
Old Salt Gives
Advice On Game
Ah yes tomorrow. It will be good to
make the treak over to oF Kenan and take
a peek at this year's crop of pumpkin
kickers.
Now remember you freshmen, on Sat
urday you dress up in your Sunday best.
Everybody even the pumpkin kickers
wear nice clean clothes.
Why we been going down to sit on the
slopes of the valley of the shadow ofdeath
for nigh on three years now and don't recol
lect ever seein' anyone that wasn't dressed
fit to kill.
And watch out for the bulge in your hip
pocket. That stuff makes a noticeable stain
and it smells right much too.
Remember its the clean cut American
kids in the Blue and White that you all
are sposed to hollar for. Ya booo like a
wrestling fan at those dirty coal miners in
maize (what ever color that might be) and
blue.
When the little fellow with the train
whistle whistles for a kick off, and there
may be a lot of them, all of you all stand
up and hollar like mad, and cross your
fingers. That's a tradition here at Carolina
or soon will be.
Ya might keep an eye out for the man
with ears like Dumbo's. He's the head
whip cracker down there in the valley.
Don't forget that when those pretty lit
tle things in the skirts that's all the time
come up, ask you to stand up, you stand
up and fast too. Ya can see better that
way.
When the games over, if it ever ends,
whether us Tar Heels win or lose you walk
out with your head held high and be a good
sport. - : ,
Then go out and finish off the bulge.'
Moody Rapped
For Ban Stand
By HUGH STEVENS
Ralph Moody, North Carolina's Deputy
Attorney General, thinks the Speaker Ban
Law is just about the greatest thing since
gas lights.
He thinks so highly of the law, in fact,
that in 1963 he authored a log, rambling
' legal opinion supporting its constitutionality.
But now an upstart Puke University law
professor, Dr. Van Alstyne, who just hap
pens to be one of the nation's true ernerts
regarding speaker regulation policies, has
put the Speaker Ban's constitutionality on
the ropes by means of a scholarly brief
presented during the August public hear
ings of the Speaker Ban Study Commis
sion. In typical fashion, Moody is fighting
back by hitting below the belt.
Earlier this week, in a letter to com
mission chairman David Britt, Moody sug
gested that if the law should be held un
constitutional by the courts, the General
Assembly might well respond through "pow
er of the purse." He did not elaborate, but
bis message was clear: budget slashes in
jurious to the University should be used in
reprisal if the Speaker Ban collapses be
cause of internal weakness.
Moody hasn't even lost yet, but he has
already put himself on record as the poor
est loser this side of Tom Nugent. His
statement was as vicious as it was juve
nile. By crying for revenge before a decision
concerning the law has even been made,
Moody has degraded whatever prior claims
he may have had to a true legal mind. He
iiot only lacks the objectivity to concede
defeat if it materializes; he comes up
short on integrity as well
TheSpeaker Ban Law has many facets,
and constitutionality is only one of them.
Yet it is the only point to which Moody
has been asked to address himself. His
first opportunity was in 1963; the second
was in rebuttal to Dr. Van Alstyne.
On both occasions, Moody chose to pro
ject a considerable percentage of his ver
biage in the direction of political and oth
er questions not directly concerned 'with
the legality of the law.
The following statements, for example,
are excerpted from Moody's 1963 "legal
brief":
i "I find that certain academicians,
editors, college presidents and the Com
munist Party of the United States are on
the same side in this matter and are all
in beoj together in opposition to this act."
"It is not unjust to say that the AAUP
has usually been soft on Communists . t
'VV academic freedom has nothing
to do with the situation at all."
Moody showed an even greater talent
for wandering from his assigned duties in
this week's letter to Chairman Britt. He
touched only briefly on the technical as
pects of .Van Alstyne's elaborate brief, ad
mitting that one case around which he built
h:s initial argument had not been finally
decided at that time. The remainder of the
letter consisted of a flagrant espousal of
the pro-Ban cause and insinuative rah-rah
tactics on behalf of budgetary reprisals.
"We do not think," he wrote, "it would
be unconstitutional for the General Assem
bly to use the power of the purse in such
a situation if it desired to do so and it was
the will of the people."
Moody is right about one thing. Such re
venge would almost certainly be constitu
tional. He apparently cares little That it
would be childish and downright unethical.
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Throughout the entire Speaker Ban con
troversy, the University and other oppon
ents of the law have attempted to work
carefully through established channels' to
have this odious statute removed. The as
sumption has been that education and logi
cal persuasion can win over even the most
obstinate fores, provided they are honest,
reasonable men.
By his remarks this week, Moody has
stamped himself as an enemy cf another
kind. Eis enmity is not with Communist
speakers and their like; it is with the Uni
versity and its basic purposes. If the law
which he favors collapses because it is
vague unenforceable, or a violation of
constitutional rights, he will not accept it.
Instead he will lash out at the children of
North Carolina and their educat .onal well
being. Such a man is not a man of reason;
he is a man of intense selfishness.
By insinuating that the General Assem
bly would follow his suggestions of budget
ary retaliation, Moody has degraded him
self, his office and the legislators of which
he spoke.
It is an interesting commentary on the
inherent worth of the Speaker Ban Law
that it requires such vindicative little etnen
for its preservation.
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has issued an appeal for any ventriloquists
on campus. Any ventriloquist interested in
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announcements on television is requested
to contact IL A. Sieber, public relations di
rector for the N. C. Heart Association at
968-4453.