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Opinion of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its
S editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range :g
of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors. ::::
ERNIE McCRARY, EDITOR
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Out Of The Ban
And Into The Fire
It has been four months in the making, but the
Britt Commission's report on the speaker ban was
worth the wait. In the realm of the ideal, recommen
dation of outright repeal was the goal. Realistically,
the commission's report while not perfect went
far beyond the expectations of many ban foes.
It places the matter of responsibility for speakers
in the hands of the boards of trustees of the schools
where it should have been and ought to be.
"The board of trustees or other governing author
ity, of each college or university which receives any
state funds in support thereof, shall adopt and publish
regulations governing the use of facilities of such
college or university for speaking purposes by any
person who: is a known Communist or has pleaded
the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions
concerning communist or subversive activity," the
report said.
In "approving without reservation," Governor
Dan Moore called on the boards of trustees of the
state-supported schools to meet on or before Friday,
Nov. 12. As chairman of the UNC board, he will call
it together at 11 a.m. Friday. He ordered a special
session of the General Assembly to convene Nov. 15,
to take action on the recommendation to amend the
law.
..During the September commission hearings, Uni
versity officials expressed their willingness to adopt
trustee - controlled speaker regulations, and explained
th kind of regulations which would be most accept
able. such rules would bar speakers who advocate the
overthrow of the state or national government, in ac
cordance with a 1941 law. Further precautions that
would be taken "when the Chancellor considers it
necessary are: that a meeting be chaired by an offi
cer of the University or a ranking member of the
faculty, that speakers at the meeting be, subject to
questions from the audience and that the opportunity
be, provided at the meeting or later to present speak
ers of different points of view."
Obviously these regulations are sufficient for the
commission members, or they would have stipulated
some other rules to be adopted.
- ' The statement contained an important "first"
with regard to comment about this branch of . the
University. It has been common knowledge that the
creation and maintenance of the ban was almost
wholly the direct result of disapproval of the Univer
sity at Chapel Hill. The commission publicly admitted
this and to a certain extent helped clear the school's
name agamst accusations of "communist infestation "
;: ;"A careful review of this testimony accusing the
University of being a haven for communist speakers
and activity indicates that these statements and al
legations were directed primarily at the University
?f ho.Carllna at ChaPel Hill covering the period
from 937 to 1965. This testimony disclofes that in
more than a quarter of a century fewer than a dozen
speakers from among the thousands who have an
peared during these years were specifically men
Uoned as extremists and not all of these wera!
hfn CmmUf iStS' AmonS students! not more
than five were singled out from among the I
Such reassurances sound needles an(i i
aughab,e to those who reaUy v X
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Unfortunately the commission declined to com
men on the legality of the law - which many leat
xng lawyers have called unquestionably unconstl,u-
, Assembly will be forced to wrestle
W.U. the job of amending the law soon, and amS
can happen when that august body gets together The
governor, the president of the senate andle speato
Mefs and thiT,:0 SUPPrt f tte sion-s
ancefaUSnT f legiS,ative
But win or lose, come special session time we
foTfan- an ritt C0mmiSSin and itS " e?s
for rair and conscientious handling of the problem
and for performing the important task of exposing
the "myth of the ban" to public scrutiny P S
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Letters To The Editor
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
This letter is in reply to Paul A. Smith's
of October 31. I don't wish to criticize
Smith's letter on war and peace, but rath
er to calm his ardor. I am in fact glad
that someone has finally hit upon a solid
issue or two instead of resorting to name
calling. His argument that war is an oc
curence, and that one can only be for or
against these who propose it, and not for
or against the occurence itself is logical.
Smith however, drops the hint that the po
litical science department of UNC as a
whole may be pro-collectiyist or at least
anti-war and pro-peace to the point of dam
age to U. S. security.
I am glad Smith calls a spade a spade,
but to infer that the deck is full of shades
can only be a generalization and a false
one at that. All Smith has to do is look at
the rest of the deck to see that there are
many individuals in our political science
department, not just one group. This ten
dency of condemning the whole barrel is
not unlike the stereo-typing of group
prejudice.
I don't have the permission of any of
the professors in the political science de
partment to mention their names, but if
Smith is interested, I'm sure interviews
could be set up to talk this out with at
least four key political science professors.
I am myself a major in political science
and my conservative nature is daily rubbed
the wrong way by talk of internal reforms,
but I have never heard any professor, and
I ve had eleven of them, propose that we
practice peace at the cost of U. S. security.
(And my conservative vs. liberal grum
blings may be classified as only two sides
of a coin on which theer is merit on both
sides.) These professors live in the U. S.
just as we do, and while we may all have
our criticisms of life here, we need only
to look out into the world with the inten
tion of finding a better government under
which to live, to see that the United States
is not so bad after all.
I am not implying that there is no need
for improvement. Progress is the key to a
strong America.; But you will have trouble
finding anti-American professors here at
UNC regardless of their political ideologies
I agree with Smith that the security of
the United States is vital, and that those
who ignore this in criticizing our efforts to
contain the Communist block are wrong.
I for one do not agree with all of our
methods of containing the Communists, but
as m a Presidential election, the opposition
should fight; for its beliefs until the elec
tion is over and the people have decided.
Then the opposition must be "loyal" oppo
sition and -the criticism "constructive"
criticism. This does not include contribut
ing money for the Viet Cong to be used
against our own boys who have been
drafted to serve their country.
It means supporting your country today
while working through the proper demo
cratic channels to improve your country
tomorrow. There is nothing in the constitu
tion about universal agreement on policy.
Criticism is the basis of healthy discus
sion, and I would be disappointed in the
political science department if all of the
professors agreed with the administration's
every foreign policy-move. "Pro-collectiv-ist
is a very grave term to use in con
nection with any citizen of the United
Mates; it should be backed up by proof.
Bob Bennett
102 Avery
Editor, The Dafly Tar Heel:
One of the responsibilities of any legis
lative body is to constantly better the
structure of government. One of the prob
lems in this area is that too often, long
range plans are ignored in favor of short
range partisan interests. This is what hap
pened in Student Legislature Tuesday
night.
The University Party legislators, almost
without exception, voted against a bill that
would have made the student body the
final judge on the question of having the
election of president and vice president of
the student body a single ticket as in the
national elections, whereby one would vote
for the men together, instead of separately
thus eliminating the possibility of having
the president and vice president in differ
ent political parties. Bob Spearman, Mike
Lawler, Paul Dickson and Britt Gordon all
supported the proposal, as did The Daily
Tar Heel under Fred Seely and Hugh
Stevens, and under Ernie McCrary
But toe University Party legisiators,
despite Britt Gordon's backing of the pro
posal, and without so much as a single
word in debate against the bill on the floor
of Legislature, block voted against it One
UP Legislator told me that the UP dele
gation had discussed the bill in a meeting
before Tuesday night's sessian and decided
to vote against it, seeing no need to de
bate the bill on the floor.
If Legislature is no longer the place to
debate bills, if a party is willing to accept
a one-sided debate in caucus and go into
Legislature with no intention of debating
or being open-minded, if Legislators are
not willing to look at situations in Student
Government as they now exist and see the
leadership role and responsibility of Legis
lature, then the very existence of Legisla
ture should be scrutinized.
What is so appalling is that many of the
Legislators who voted against the bill Tues
day were in. favor of it last year when it
was introduced. It is painfully obvious that
concern about immediate elections weighed
much more heavily on the minds of some
Legislators than did their responsibility to
lead the student body. By the University
Party block vote Tuesday night, the stu
dent body once again became the victim of
the thinking that what's good for the party
must be good for the student body.
Jim Little
Speaker Pro Tem
Student Legislature
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By PETER XEMEXYI
Although significant civil rights legisla
tion has recently been passed, this has not
stopped segregation from being enforced
by terror in many parts of the South. In
Laurel and surrounding Jones County, Mis
sissippi, for example, seven Negro stores
and cafes, the COFO office at two succes
sive locations, two churches and about 20
Negro homes have been burned this year.
After every fire, the Justice Department
investigates and waits for the next one. In
the pervading atmosphere of fear, it is a
miracle that one Negro child was trans
ferred under Laurel's voluntary we-dare-you-to-apply
school integration plan. That
two other applications for transfer were
withdrawn before the opening of school is
much less surprising.
In the past, the use of violence and even
murder to keep Negroes "in their place"
was mostly accepted (by whites) locally
and ignored out of state. But now that
white people, some of them with good
connections, are among the victims, this
practice has become nationally unpopular.
Thus the highly publicized investigation of
the Ku Klux Klan by its own sister organi
zation in Congress (some of whose mem
bers owe their election to the Klan), and
any bill to outlaw Klan membership, will
serve as a kind of safety valve, channeling
the new public feeling away from the real
issues and into irrelevancies.
If we take our Constitution seriously,
anybody, however bigoted, has a right to
associate, and have ugly or mystic con
versations with his friends, in the organi
zations of his choice. He does not have a
right to kill or intimidate people (or to
conspire to do so), and these specific acts
have to be stopped by the executive.
However, public denunciation of a hate
group will give the Unamerican commit
tee a certain respectability and renewed
budgets. Then the committee can proceed
to the next target, probably the civil rights
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Recently WKIX Radio Station in Ra
leigh initiated "Operation Merry Christ
mas," a program designed to provide
Christmas gifts for North Carolina's serv
icemen fighting in Viet Nam. A collection
taken up in Avery Dorm yielded nearly
fifty dollars for this project within half an
hour. Along with the collection, a petition
affirming "full support" of present U. S.
policy in Viet Nam met with great en
thusiasm, receiving nearly unanimous
backing.
We of Avery feel that the time has come
to let the American public know that the
majority of college students in this country
are not picket-carrying peaceniks. Wouldn't
it be a good idea to extend the effort of
one dorm to the entire campus and show
our boys over there that we are behind
them? I challenge the student body of this
University to take advantage of this worth
while opportunity.
Charles R. Morgan
President
Avery Dorm
LETTERS
The DaHy Tar Heel welcomes letters
to the editor on any subject, particularly
on matters of local or University Inter
est. Letters must 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.
movement (a foreign plot). Few will dare;
to insinuate, right after the anti-Klan spec
tacular, that the committee is out to halt
civil rights progress, especially now that
thought and discussion are becoming sub
versive activities again.
The real issues we must face are the.
corruption of the jury system, the patron-;
age appointment of federal judges who put;
segregation above truth, the reluctance of;
the Justice Department to enforce existing
laws against race violence, and the pos-
sible need for additional laws against spo
cific acts of violence or regarding the way,
such cases are tried. '.
Some of this is documented in a report!
called "Southern Justice an Indictment"
by the Southern Regional Council (5 For-!
syth Street, Atlanta), and in an article".
"The Rule of Law in the South" by Hay-:
ward Burns in the September issue of;
Commentary. ;
If you write or talk to Justice Depart--ment
officials about the need for federal
intervention against the terror, they will
tell you: 1. We are deeply concerned; the
situation in Laurel (Northampton County,
McComb, . . .) is indeed serious and wt
are watching it closely. 2. But, alas, we
have no authority to act. But, alas, we
federal violation has to occur before we
can do anything. 4. There is no such thing
as federal police; police protection is strict
ly a local responsibility. 5. Lack of infor
mation, insufficient evidence and difficu!-!
ties in the courts. ;
Thus it is advisable, before writing, to;
go to the law library (Manning Hall) and:
read certain sections of the United States'
Code: Title 10, Sees. 332, 333 and 837; Title
18, Sees. 241-243, 594, 1074, 3052, 3053. Also
Title 28, Sec. 549 which says that marshals
"may . . . exercise the same powers . . .
which a sheriff of such state may exer
cise in executing the laws thereof." Sec
tion 3052 permits FBI agents to make ar
rests. Title 10, Sec. 333 tells the President
to use broad powers where necessary to
establish law and protect human rights. :
Other sections make it illegal for two or
more persons to conspire to injure, threat
en or intimidate any citizen in the free!
exercise of his constitutional rights; for
jury officers to discriminate against Ne
groes in selecting a panel, and for offi
cers and courts to be extra harsh against
Negroes. No federal violations?
Whenever I press for more law en
forcement, I feel very embarrassed about
it; because force, and the concept of pun
ishment, of locking human beings up in a
steel cage, is repugnant to me. I believe
there should be no policemen and no jails,
federal or otherwise.
Unfortunately we have not yet reached
that point. At the present stage of our civ
ilization, we are still dependent upon en
forcement of laws to protect people from
wanton abuse. I am forced to go along with
this and join those who demand that the
same protection be extended to Negro citi
zens too. The choice is still between the
rule of law and a reign of fear.
The alternative to (federal) law enforce
ment is illustrated by a Negro home in
Laurel which did not get burned. A neigh
bor watched this house at night, with his
shotgun at hand. He saw someone prowl
ing, fired, and some men fled leaving
two five-gallon cans of gasoline behind.
There have been other similar instances,
and so the number of homes burnt in Jones
County in a year is now only about twenty.
I would feel awkward and tongue-tied try
ing to preach at the neighbor that he ought
to be non-violent and bury that gun. But
the trend towards armed self-defense is in-
ci2v ,1 , ,?0me places our hite so
ciety simply hasn't offered Negroes any
other alternative yet.
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evervnno e to do so- I urge
everyone to write to Mr. Katzenbach and
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