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Tuesday, November 30, 1965
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Si ERNIE McCRARY, EDITOR
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Look, Ma - Cavities
As if we didn't have enough problems, there is
always someone like Dr. Doran D. Zinner who makes
life more complicated.
He is a University of Miami dentist-microbiologist
who says that tooth decay is a very contagious dis
ease and has little or nothing to do with number of
candy bars you eat or the number of dental cavities
your parents had.
"For many years we thought of tooth decay as
hereditary," he said. "But now we know that if an
individual does not have a certain type of bacteria in
his mouth, he will not get cavities."
Zinner and four colleagues have been studying
this abysmal problem for four years and they have
reached the conclusion that decay bacteria can be
transmitted only by direct contact.
The implications involved here might not throw
the world into turmoil, but they certainly have the
potential to affect our way of life. The fact that hits
an exposed nerve is that the most effective way these
bacteria can be "transmitted by direct contact" is by
kissing, but Zinner admits, "This is not going to stop
kissing."
We most surely agree and predict that no disease
in history will be knowingly spread with such pleas
ure. In fact, a whole new approach to identifying boy
girl relationships could arise from this.
No longer will a girl say, "I have his pin,."
She will proudly declare, "I have his cavities."
Trite Questions,
Trite Answers
Winston-Salem Journal
Right now, President Johnson's National Crime
Commission is supposed to be examining some funda
mental questions about the nation's crime problem.
But an article in a recent New York Times Sunday
Magazine suggests that the commission is not even
asking the right questions, let alone any very funda
mental ones.
Two of the questions President Johnson asked the
, commission to answer were:
Why is drug addiction increasing among young
people?
Why does organized crime continue to expand?
I "The authorl Oihe articld, William M. .McCord, a
professor at Rice University, says that these ques
tions are the wrong ones. For example, drug addiction
is not increasing among young people; in 1915, the
year after opiate addiction was declared illegal, sci
entists estimated that 215,000 Americans were ad
dicts; by 1960, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics re
ported that there were only 45,391 known addicts in
America.
Mr. McCord also suggests that if we put organ
ized crime in historical perspective, we have to agree
that whether there is more organized crime today
than ever before is strictly debatable.
He observes: "New York's 'Bowery Boys' and the
Dead Rabbits' of the 1860's the gangs of the Far
West in the 1870s and Chicago's 'Mike McDonald
Democrats' of the 1880s testify that organized crime
has been an enduring, even a glamorized, element
in American culture 100 years."
This is not to suggest that Mr. McCord takes a
light view of the problem of crime, or that we do
here. America, he says, is the most criminal nation
in the world. "On a per capita basis, Americans com
mit about twice as many assaults as Frenchmen,
triple the number of rapes as Italians and five times
as many murders as Englishmen."
But what is apparent is that President Johnson's
commission, like others before it, is asking trite but
largely untrue questions. Like the FBI's Uniform
Crime Statistics report, the commission's mandate is
unintentionally misleading; it lacks perspective, and
therefore the real relevance that we need to combat
crime.
One thing is certain about crime: If we insist on
pat questions, it is not likely that we will get much
beyond pat answers.
''Well, If That's All You're Worried Alxmt,
I'll Hold Mv Breath!"
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Students Need Freedom
THfc PAH
David Rothman
Songs, Signs Attack LBJ
WASHINGTON Leaders of Saturday's
Viet Nam march failed to persuade left
wingers not to carry extremist signs calling
for the immediate withdrawal of American
troops from Viet Nam.
The signs, along with Viet Cong flags,
showed up anyway after Sanford Gottlieb,
the protest's official coordinator, found he
couldn't get radical groups like Youth
Against War and Fascism to avoid parad
ing these embarrassments in front of the
TV cameras.
Even in acrawd of 25,000, ultfa'-Ieftist, -1
placards were conspicuous.' 1 0'
Some of the more emotional signs pro
claimed: "Stop the Bombing!"
"Bring the GI's Home Now!"
"No More War Never Again!"
"Make Love Not War!" (This is
already a classic placard among the Viet
Nam demonstrators.)
"Don't Forget It Americans Are
Dying Too."
Perhaps the biggest farce was a dirty
faced man parading in what looked like an
American Legion uniform. Several hundred
persons identifying themselves as veterans
attended. Like the clergymen present, they
were organized into special march units.
And to really guarantee an aura of re
spectability, many marchers carried
American flags. The mass demonstration
might as well have been an American Le
gion convention rather than a gathering
largely dominated by pacifists eager to
avoid dying for "Old Glory."
Then came the singing at the Washing
ton Monument:
"As ... the boys fight you'll hear the
newspapers say . . . gotta kill . . . gotta joy
kill . . . Most of the world says killing's
all right . . . It's the only way ... fun kill
joy kill."
Everybody liked the music.
But there was other entertainment, in
cluding a procession of black-robed figures
carrying skulls across the stage of the Syl
van Theater while a protester moked Pres
ident Johnson. The imitation LBJ solemn
ly intoned: "I am impressed by a class
room of healthy children, but guns and
battle ships are also good . . . Often force
is necessary." He yelled himself hoarse
Ronnie Dugger, editor of The Texas Ob
server, piously assured the audience that
he spoke "not for burners of draft cards
and not for those who want the Viet Cong to
win (boos from some of the crowd)."
Dr Benjamin Spock, the baby 'doctor
who claims to have established himself as a
foreign affairs expert, announced the send
ing of a "peace" telegram "To Pope Pius "
"He's obviously not a Catholic," some
body in the crowd acidly commented. The
present pontiff is Pope Paul.
Spock eventually corrected himself.
Other messages went to President John
son and Ho Chi Minh.
The pediatrician called the Viet Nam
fighting "a war which has earned us the
scorn of people everywhere." He labeled
the Saigon government a "puppet dictator
ship." Spock said the Johnson administration
has become a victim of its own propa
ganda and intimidation."
Norman Thomas, whose main profession
seems to be running for president (he did
it six times on the Socialist ticket), said
the government has forced "our boys
to kill, kill, kill .. . And we call this saving
liberty.
"I'd rather see America save her soul
than her face," he said. In saying these
words, Thomas came close to tears.
Joseph M. Duffey, assistant professor of
English at Notre Dame University, blasted
American action of Viet Nam, but drew
boos from" certain members of the audi
ence by criticizing "the inhumanity of the
National Liberation Front (the Viet Cong)."
Rep. George Brown (D-Calif.) urged free
elections throughout Viet Nam, as well as
the creation of a peace force to promote
Vietnamese neutrality.
Mrs. Martin Luther King, wife of the
civil rights leader, associated the U. S.
bombing of the Viet Cong with the terrorism
of Alabama racists.
After Mrs. King's speech, folksingers
crooned: "I ain't going to study war no
more" as if they were ROTC members
protesting their military drills. "Every
body's got a right, yeh everybody's got a
right," they sang.
Carl Oglesby, president of Students for
a Democratic Society, called the Viet
Cong's insurrection "a revolution as honest
as they come." He related the recent Los
Angeles racial riots to the struggle against
American "imperialism" and pleaded for
acceptance of minority opinion.
Near the end of the rally a youth sneaked
onto the stage and shouted into the micro
phones: "Before we leave, we must not
assume that the (Johnson) administration's
foreign policy completely lacks rationality."
The dissenter was booed, and dragged
off the stage by the protest leaders, who
thought they had achieved a consensus.
Big Mo Welcome
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
It has come to our attention that Craige
dormitory, sometimes known as Maverick
House, has become a Residence College.
We at Morrison College wish to make it
known that we both sanction and welcome
this occurrence; as a matter of fact, we
are very happy to welcome our little
friends across the street to the ranks of the
college men. Furthermore, we are glad to
see that the leaders of Craige have finally
done the right thing to follow in the foot
steps of "Big Mo."
"H" House Officers
John Ellis, President
Morrison Residence College
By TERRY FOWLER
A desire for the liberalization of the
Campus Code has been manifested this ,
fall by the report of the Ad Hoc Judiciary
Committee appointed by Paul Dickson.
When proposals to change rules that so di
rectly affect the life of everyone are put
forward in this manner, the basic rationale
behind those rules should be reexamined.
There are at least two possible ration
ales that could be used to justify women's
rules regarding curfews, signing out, and
so on. One set of reasons involves the ar
gument that it is proper for a young lady
to be in by a certain hour, period. The
Carolina gentlewoman should exercise a
certain measure of moderation in her
search for the Good Life.
A second rationale is that if is practical,
for instance, to keep track of students
(male as well as female, it might be add
ed), or to have residence halls reasonably
impregnable from unpredictable invasions
of the opposite sex.
The first rationale, it should be stated
flatly, grows out of parental rules. Home
situations, however, vary widely. Parents
who have kept offspring on strict rules and
then send them away to college might be
dismayed if that college did not have some
rules that continued to restrict activity un
til the youngster is old enough to know tet
ter. When some people go to college they
suddenly find themselves far more free;
others subjet to the same rules have a
gayer time at home.
The practical rationale grows out of liv
ing in a college community. The rules are
concerned with making a particular insti
tution work, rather than with making it
work in a different way. It is assumed
that to a certain degree the men and wo
men come from a society at large bring
ing their own rules for conduct with them
and adapt them when necessary to the par
ticular community. It is further assumed
that norms are largely internalized; they
no longer need overt pressure for conform
ity. In essence, of course, the rationale of
parentally inspired rules is also practical.
Morals are essential to any kind of or
ganized society. One example of their prac
ticality is that pre-marital sex is morally
banned because the children likely to ap
pear are deprived of a stable family en
vironment. The inertia of such norms is
powerful enough to have overcome at
tempts at rational use of contraceptives.
In any case, rules that have proved prac
tical are imposed on children because at
that time they don't know any better. They
would be incapable of seeing the essential
practicality for society and therefore for
themselves of not lying, stealing, being sex
ually promiscuous, or cheating on exams.
The child does not see the alternatives to
moral behavior.
The adult, however, is usually conscious
of the choice he is making. I say usually
because occasionally moral rules can be
so powerful that they can preclude choice
for an individual. Human experience,
though, is too diverse for moral precepts to
give us unambiguous guides for behavior.
More than one rule will apply to any given
situation, or no rules at all. Adults should
learn to see alternatives.
Now, if parents and those presently re
sponsible for redefining the Campus Code
have any respect for the individual, they
should, with grave consideration of the con
sequences, give young men and women the
opportunity to make choices, to learn that
few (if any) rules are universally valid.
A woman governed by a curfew must
go at one o'clock. Her choice is made, for
her. A woman with no curfew who tells her
date she must be in by one may be un
thinkingly following the dictates of her par
ents, she may want more sleep, or she may
want to get away from a crummy date.
At the age of 18 or 19 people should be
learning to make choice between social
life and studies, between deep emotional
attachments and less disturbing relation
ships. Many people try to escape the constant
tension between conflicting rules that char
acterizes any intelligent man. Those who
see communism and anti-communism as
black and white, or those who see pre
marital sex or abstention as black and
white these people are taking the easy
way out. The substance of their particular
position makes little difference to their ul
timate desire psychological peace of
mind.
If rules concerning social life at the
university do not give the men and women
the chance to face difficult alternatives
themselves, then it will have failed in its
function of providing society with respon
sible citizens, who will themselves be mak
ing rules one day, presented with situations
where no rules or conflicting rules apply.
Letters To The Editor
Craige Needs Investigating
Ecitor, Ihe Daily Tar Heel:
"Craige has won," was the cry from
my friend across the hall as he read the
Nov 20 DTH. That Craige could win the
prize for the Best Dormitory Float, I find
highly amusing since they missed the end
of the Dook Parade by almost twenty min
utes. I feel as do most people at Ehringhaus
that this is an injustice. Like most people,
In Appreciation
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
On behalf of the Garden Club Council of
Chapel Hill, I would like to thank the
young men who picked up the bottles,
cans, paper and other trash along the
Airport Road and Franklin Street approach
es to Chapel Hill.
The Council greatly appreciates their ef
fort to beautify our town and hopes more
groups will follow their fine example.
Dorothy Muir Mullen
(Mrs. James J. Mullen)
President,
Garden Club Club Council
Chapel Hill
LETTERS
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to the editor on any subject, particularly
on matters of local or University inter
est. Letters most 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.
I had always thought that the judging was
done at South Building, the last stop on
the parade route. And I had always be
lieved that the prize was given for parade
participation and showmanship as well as
construction. How, therefore, could the
crumbling blob of wire and paper, which
had fallen apart three times and be over
a half hour late reaching South Building
possibly win. The only logical conclusion
that comes to mind is that Craige might
have been given the award before the pa
rade ever began or, even yet, before their
float was ever finished.
It seems that once again exceptions are.
being made for this group as they have
been in the past. But what then can one
expect when they are allowed to show
movies of a disputable nature with the con
sent of South Building as they did last
year; or lease beach cottages while still
spending more than they are allotted by
the MRC as they have done this year. With
the present crackdown on dorm activities,
how can such actions as these be so fla
grantly overlooked. While committees are
investigating I most heartily suggest that
they look in Craige.
Alien Shepard
535 Ehringhaus
Needed: A Way Out.
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I was interested to note in last Wednes
day's DTH that it took the combined weight
of eight student intellects to devise a
Thanksgiving message to our soldiers in
Viet Nam. I wonder what this portends for
our ability to figure a way out of this mess,
once and if we turn out thoughts from
buoyant euphemisms.
Buck Grinter
379 Tenney Circle
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