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: ERNIE McCRARY. EDITOR S
JACK HARRINGTON. BUSINESS MANAGFU
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Prolonging The Agony
If a fellow tries hard enough, he can make almost
any job more complicated than it needs to be.
When Alvin Tyndall was appointed chairman of
the Elections Board by Paul Dickson, he surely didn't
expect to have to supervise the handling of a peti
tion asking for Dickson's recall.
But he has handled it . . . and handled it . . .
and handled it. In fact he has handled it so much
that we wouldn't be surprised to find out that the
sheets of the petition are falling apart from overuse.
Tyndall, conscientious soul that he is, has had
possession of the petition since it was presented to
Dickson almost a week and a half ago on Oct. 1 8
He has worked hard. Ask him. He'll tell you.
But we find his technique of name-checking a lit
tle too laborious and time consuming to be really
credible. Was it really necessary to copy all the
names off the petition onto file cards and then make
another alphabetical list?
Tyndall says he is about through with the peti
tion, and it's high time. We have little sympathy for
the "tough job" he's had because members of the
board will agree that the emphasis has not exactly
been on speed and efficiency. As one checker said
yesterday, "There must be an easier way to do this."
Tyndall's boss, Dickson, tried a neat little maneu
ver Monday when he decided to set the date of the
recall election himself. The Student Government con
stitution says, "The dates for all elections shall be
established by an act of the Legislature."
If Dickson did not know that, it's just another ex
ample of his executive incompetence. If he did know
it, it's an example of an attempt to "put one over"
on the student body. Obviously Dickson would not be
opposed to so arranging it that he is the only candi
date who can legally run in the election.
But we don't hold it .against Dickson. He just does
what his "graduate advisers" tell him.
Let's face it. There is going to be an election.
Let's quit prolonging the agony and get it over with.
What A Dirty Trick
Those Ivy Leaguers, apparently with too much
time and money on their hands, are at it again.
Sunday morning Harvard men found a special
edition of their newspaper, the Crimson, at their
doors. The paper said that Harvard President Nathan
M. Pusey and the board of overseers had decided to
end intercollegiate football there after this season.
It seems that Dartmouth had just beat Harvard
14-0 the day before. And actually the Harvard "extra"
was printed by the staff members of the Dartmouth
newspaper.
Now that was an awfully dirty trick, and not even
a very original one. Last February Cornell pulled
the same stunt on Princeton, delivering a bogus edi
tion of the Princetonian which said All-America bas
ketball player Bill Bradley had been injured and
would not play in the crucial game against Cornell
that week. Both teams had only one conference defeat
at the time, and the trick reportedly caused a few
convulsions and near-heart attacks on the New Jersey
campus.
Such frivolity is a useless waste of valuable stu
.'dent time and energy. Those decadent Ivy Leaguers
deserve to be soundly condemned.
Now you'll have to excuse us. We have to get
busy on the next issue of the Wake Forest Old Gold
and Black.
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"I Don't Care If It Is Me-Check It!" T ,itpr To The Editor
The Case Of The Rugged
Individual, Or How To Get
Through Life Without Help
(Editor's Note: The following article is
from a newsletter sent by Sen. Stephen
M. Young (D-Ohio) and reprinted in The
Lather, official publication The Wood, Wire
and Metal Lathers International Union.
The Lather comments that this article
"puts into rather good perspective, we
think, the independent, ruggedly individu
alistic position of some of the far-right-wingers.")
A young man lived with his parents in a
low-cost public housing development in
Hamilton County. He attended public
schools, rode the free school bus, enjoyed
the free lunch program. Following gradua
tion from high school, he entered the Army
and upon discharge kept his National Serv
ice Life Insurance.
He then enrolled in an Ohio university,
receiving regularly his GI check. Upon
graduation, he married a Public Health
nurse, bought a farm in southern Ohio with
an FHA loan.
Later, going into the feed and hardware
business in addition to farming, he secured
help from the Small Business Administra
tion when his business faltered. His first
baby was born in the county hospital. This
was built in part with Hill-Burton funds.
Then, he bought considerable additional
acreage adjoining his farm, and obtained
emergency feed from the government. He
then put part of his land under the Eisen
hower Soil Bank Program and used the
payments for not growing crops to help
pay his debts.
His parents, elderly by now, were living
comfortably in the smaller of his two farm
homes, using their Social Security and Old
Age Assistance checks.
Lacking electricity at first, the Rural
Electrification Administration supplied the
lines, and a loan from the Farmers Home
Administration helped clear the land and
secure the best from it. The agent suggest
ed building a pond, and the government
stocked it with fish. The government guar
anteed him a sale for his farm products.
The county public library delivered
books to his farm door. He, of course,
banked his money in an institution which
a government agency had insured up to
$10,000 for every depositor.
His son attending the Engineering School
at Ohio State University receives financial
assistance under the National Defense Ed
ucation Act. His daughter - is taking her
nurses training with assistance from the
Nurses Training Act.
As the community grew, he signed a
petition seeking federal assistance in de
veloping an industrial project to help the
economy of his area.
About that time he purchased business
and real estate at the county seat aided by
an FHA loan.
He was elected to office in the local
Chamber of Commerce. It was rumored he
joined a cell of the John Birch Society in
the county seat He wrote his Senators and
Congressmen protesting excessive govern
ment spending and high taxes, and en
closed John Birch pamphlets, some contain
ing outlandishly false statements.
He wrote, "I believe in rugged individ
ualism. People should stand on their own
two feet, not expect government aid. I
stand on my own two feet. I oppose all
those socialistic trends you have been vot
ing for and demand return to the free en
terprise system of our forefathers. I and
my neighbors intend to vote against you
next year."
Foolish War
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I should like to say that I consider Henry
Coe's conduct admirable and do affirm his
belief that the people are being forgotten
in Viet Nam. It seems we neglect the peo
ple where ever we are involved . . . wheth
er Viet Nam, Cuba, Brazil, or the Domini
can Republic.
War has solved so little for mankind.
Terror and misery follow it everywhere.
Is it not time that we used our confidence
and power more persuasively with our ene
mies without killing and war?
Rallying to the colors and severing re
lations is invariably followed by stupid kill
ing, creation of unthinking hate, and preju
dice unerased for centuries. Blindness in
broad daylight by the seeing it is!
I say what I have with a degree of emo
tion. The Bolshevik Revolution killed my
grandmother, my grandfather died of tor
ture in Japanese occupied China in WWII,
my father was lost as a POW in the Pa
cific, one uncle died a prisoner in Commu
nist China and another freely of suicide as
a result of the war. This is not an unusual
sequence of events for many of the world's
families. Is it any wonder there are those
who see little solution in war?
Again, however, another cycle has be
gun: misunderstandings leading to insults,
insults to the severing of communications,
severing communications to rumor and
hate, rumor and hate to the whole bloody
mess again.
F. Dixon Jordan
414 Connor
SPU Interviews
Suggest Tragedy
Editor. The Daily Tar Heel:
"Go down to Y-Court and listen to what
the SPU has to say." my Mod. Civ. instruc
tor said.
So down I went. I won't argue. I thought.
I'll keep my mouth shut and listen. There
was a circle of students grouped around a
lone thin pacifist who was arguing with
in turn and didn't have sense enough to
put down a set of obviously heavy books he
was carrying.
Then I was in it. We fought the Asian
war from Hanoi to Peking and then down
to Saigon, he and I. He thought the U. S. a
bully: an outsider in a national struggle.
"Why is there a Berlin Wall?" I asked.
"Why are people fleeing Cuba? Why was
the Hungarian revolt crushed?" He ap
peared very thoughtful for a few seconds
and then, when someone else challenged
him, forgot me entirely.
Next, I stopped by a girl very attrac
tive and neat who stood behind a sign
that read, "Let's make love instead of
war."
"I'm all for that." I said. But she was
the same as the first. My questions were
answered with questions; my most basic
contentions repudiated: I had to argue in
the fifth dimension or not at all.
I left the Y-Court feeling sick and sad.
Some of them were clean; most were in
telligent; but, all were lost. "Be open mind
ed." one of them said, yet their minds are
narrow and closed. It is sad that they must
claim humanitarianism as their cause, for
they profane it. Anyone who takes the mat
ter seriously must feel a sense of loss, or
even tragedy.
Joseph Sanders
426 Morrison
Sacrificial Saving
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
A member of the administration has
takeii to publishing clinical details of cam
pus code offenses in the News of Orange
County. Some students think that we can
save the University from attack if only we
will sacrifice someone. And people are say
ing that pacifists are "ridiculous." What a
crazy place!
How far is the good dean going to go
in his manifest zeal to see that harm is
done to someone he wants harmed? What
revelations will next week's publications
bring to us? -
After Dickson, who? Will we turn next
on "beatniks," out-of-state students, gradu
ate students, or students with "B" aver
ages? Who shall we sacrifice next, hoping
thereby to win the favor of the witch-hunters?
And when did pacifism become ridicu
lous? At the very least, pacifism is in
keeping with the Commandment; this alone
should suffice to suggest that there are at
least two sides to the issue at hand. People
seem to be advocating exceptions to the
Commandment, 'Thou shalt not kill." Sure
they say the Commandment is okay
in its place. But it certainly doesn't mean
that we shouldn't kill dirty people, foreign
people, people who disagree with us. But
again: what exceptions will come next?
How about the Commandment against adul
tery? What is the Official Groupthink on
this? I await the announcement with an
ticipation. These are things that are happening
now; and they are tough acts to follow.
What's going to happen next? After we are
done with vendettas, human sacrifice and a
little killing here and there, what will we
do for an encore? The prospect charms me
not. What a crazy place!
James F. Perry
102 King St.
UNC And NSA
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
On University Day, Chancellor Paul
Sharp requested the people of North Caro
lina to have faith in UNC. This is well and
good, for it is a shame that this great in
stitution has recently had its name marred
by the violent controversy over H. B. 1395.
LETTERS
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to the editor on any subject, particularly
on matters of local or University Inter
est. Letters mast be typed, double
spaced and must include the name and
address of the author or authors. Names
will not be omitted in publication. Let
ters should be kept as brief as possible.
The DTH reserves the right to edit for
length or libel.
We all agree that our true image must be;!
made clear if this institution is to thrive. !-'
But, can anyone blame the citizens of
North Carolina for being concerned over
the activities at UNC when we continue to
belong to an organization which, among
other things, has unconditionally con
demned the U. S. intervention in the Do
minican Republic, called for American
sponsorship for the admission of Red China!
to the U. N., endorsed immediate cessation!
of bombings and offensive military action'
in North Viet Nam, and termed the B?rke
ley riots "responsible action"?
Are you kidding me? Are these the
things our students believe in? I don't thinlr!!
so.Certainly there are a few who might ad-;;,
here to one or more of these convictions,"
but just as certainly, this is a small mi-"',
nority. Nevertheless, it is this minority- .
opinion which we, as members of the Na;
tional Student Association, are represented-;
by. Why then do we continually belong to.o
pay dues to, and send delegates to the Na-'.
tional Student Association Congress? Let us.:
not have the gross misconception that we'::'
might moderate the action of radical leftX
wing students by remaining in the NSA, foi-'.
moderation and especially responsibility;-":
are evidently rarities at the Congress!;"
And certainly., let us not use the old phi
losophy of "if ya' can't like 'em, join 'em.'
If we really want to clear our image T
and if we really want the people of North
Carolina to have faith in UNC, let us be-;'
gin by showing some responsibility and"
withdraw from a student association which
represents a minority student opinion. We
must bring this issue to our electorate now,
and we must relinquish our NSA member
ship. Joe W. Yates, III
ATO House
Clean-Cut Attack
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Just a glimpse of their clean-cut good
looks and neat " but not ostentatious dress
will tell you that' here is American man
hood at its finest; nor do their actions dis
appoint us. In their attacks on groups
whose opinion is not that of their majority
they have shown that they do not intend
to stand by and let these minority odd-balls
undermine the democratic principles which
made this country great not when they
can do it so much more effectively them
selves. Still, effective action needs an at
mosphere of encouragement, and many
have gained new inspiration from the way
in which The Daily Tar Heel has been
putting all those in their place who were
behind the door when the rest of us were
cast in the true mold.
If we're looking for meaningful issues at
UNC we should forget Viet Nam and turn
to the problem of stamping out the cancer
of minority opinion (and minority dress
and behavior, as well) right here at home.
Barnard should already have received
something more than the mere admiration
of his friends for his work along these
lines, but I would ask him to do even more
by trying his hand at something instruc
tional as well as inspirational: perhaps a
scene (suggested by recent incidents in the
Y-Court) demonstrating some effective
method of distributing SPU literature all
over the ground. (Some students deep down
really want to strike a blow for democracy,
but just don't know how to go about it.)
I know I needn't instruct the staff cartoon
ist on how to make it crystal clear with
whom we should be identifying, nor on how!
to make the raunchy victim sufficiently ri-'.'.
diculous to tickle our funny bone as wellll
as instruct us. z
I leave the details, and further thinking'
along these lines to you, trusting that my
main call to duty has been heard and un-
derstood. -
Robert DeMaine
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