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JUL- Page 2 Tuesday, December 7, 1965 "Still Want To Date Hi,,,?" David Rotlnnan Sip Satlg Ular wi j Opinion of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its :g & editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range g of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors, g: ERNIE McCRARY, EDITOR "Kissing And Cavities Let's Take The 25th Gov. Dan K. Moore has called another special session of the General Assembly for Jan. 10. This time the session is being held to comply with a federal court order for reapportionment and redisricting on the "one-man, one-vote" basis. Moore, Lt. Gov. Robert Scott and House Speaker Pat Taylor said, "Our feeling is that the activities of the General Assembly should be confined to com plying with the court order." Heaven forbid the possibility of overworking our legislators, but before they plunge into the trauma tic experience of reapportionment, there is one bit of housekeeping they ought to get out of the way. They ought to ratify the 25th amendment to the United States Constitution, sometimes called the pres idential succession amendment. It provides that should the President become so incapacitated that he could not perform his duties, the Vice President would officially take on his job. If the President died, a new Vice President would be elected to fill the vacancy created when the original VP took over the presidency. Twelve states, Arizona, Arkansas, California, In diana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebras ka, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wis consin, have already approved the amendment. Twenty-six more states must ratify it before the amendment is law. Just 16 states, Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Geor gia, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis sippi, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, have reg ular legislative sessions during 1966. Five other states, besides North Carolina, have at least talked about special sessions. If these states ratify the amendment, just four more will be needed. Some might call sessions to deal with state problems or even specifically to ap prove this amendment, especially when the required number is neared. The country needs a President and Vice Presi dent at all times. A chance to provide that security should not be ignored just because our legislature has more personally important things to do. Asking the General Assembly to do this now will probably be about as well-received as a request to outlaw Christmas, but we are really just trying to do the legislators a favor by providing a non-controversial means of achieving a sense of accomplishment. When they leave Raleigh after trying to do the job the court has ordered them to do, and they return home shaken and with a few sweaty brows, they can look back with some comfort on the session and say, "Well, at least we ratified the amendment." Such A Shocking Display f? si lM HI p. . im ? mamMsy & Hf rpl m liffcVI Letters To The Editor Exchange Problem Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: As the majority of students here at Caro lina realize, the UNC Book Exchange transacts business with thousands of stu dents and buys just as many books. Per haps it's too much to ask that a single stu dent be rendered the simple service of or dering a book necessary for that student's required reading. Their flimsy excuse for not ordering the book was that the UNC Book Exchange did not, under ordinary circumstances, order single copies of books. So with gritted teeth and determination to get this book some where I paid a visit to a well known bookstore uptown. They agreed pleasantly to order the book. The point of the whole incident is that the UNC Book Exchange, set up for the aid and benefit of the student, wouldn't give service to a student when it was most needed. Whereas, a Chapel Hill book store offers this assistance which is often so im portant to the student. Those responsible for the operation of the Book Exchange should take a long, close look at their policies along these lines. Maybe other students have faced a problem similar to this one. It's a shame that the campus book store can't orient it self to the demands of the student. Bob Jones 429 Ehringhaus Everybody knows how much money those long tressed British singers are raking in, but few realize the risks that go along with such an occupation. Consider Keith Richards, one of the Rolling Stones. The group was singing in Sacramento, Calif., Saturday night when Richards' electric guitar touched the microphone before him. This Rolling Stone really lived up to his name. In a shower of blue sparks Richards was kocked cold before 4,400 screaming teenagers, and was hauled off to City Emergency Hospital. Doctors pronounced him in "good" condition. The Rolling Stones have been called many things, but until now "electrifying" has not been one of the adjectives. If latig (Ear 7Z Yer of Editorial Freedom The Daily Tar Heel Is the official newt publication of J! f T1,lty ' Nrth CaroUn k Published by stadents daily except Mondays, examination periods and :::: Ernie McCrary, editor; Barry Jacobs, associate editor; i :;! Pat Stith, managing editor; Andy Myers, news editor; $: Gene Rector, sports editor; Jim Coghill. asst. sports 3 editor; Kerry Sipe, night editor; Ernest RobI, photog- ?: i grapher; Chip Barnard, editorial cartoonist; Ed Freak- $ :S ley, John Greenbacker, Lynne Harvel, David Rothman 8 :$ Wayne Harder, staff writers; Bill Hass, Bill Rollinffs' & : Ron Shinn, Sandy TreadweU, sports writers. ' S ' S V. V. Second class postage paid at the post office in Chapel : Hill, N. C. 27S14. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; i SS per year. Send change of address to The Daily Tar :$ :i Heel, Box 1080. Chapel Hfll. N. C. 27514. Printed by the & ijij Chapel Hill Publishing Co.. Inc. The Associated Press is $ xj entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all : : local news printed in this newspaper as well as all ap & :$ news dispatches. Otelia's Defender Editor. The Daily Tar Heel: Opinions are quickly formed impressions which all too easily are made and which all too easily become our die-hard convic tions. Who needs to be reminded that, as much as we cherish truth, so our opinions need always to be tested and checked out? For these reasons I oppose the opinions on Otelia Connor expressed by Mr. Clark in I look forward to any mention of Otelia in his letter to the DTH (Dec. 2). the DTH because it's fun to laugh at her latest solutions to our problems. I joke be cause I know these solutions are not the answers. The problems have been brought to my attention in an interesting way. It is now for me and you to find the right solu tions. To take Otelia's remarks and turn them, back at hervin "ridicule and disre spect" is ever to retain our problems and to suppress one who tries to make us, oc casionally, think. Mr.- Clark said, "one of the worst breaches of etiquette is to correct someone in public," and where he said it was on the second page of The Daily Tar Heel in the "Letters to the Editor" section. Being just about as "public" as one can get, Mr. Ford "corrected" Otelia for correcting others. The problem here is that most of us nev er favorably receive criticism for our benefit, whether or not others are present. I don't believe resentment would be any less if Otelia took names and addresses and made private house calls. We do not know how to receive beneficial criticism. We our selves have made such criticism a crime and a "breach of etiquette." A graduate student in Library Science told me not long ago that the "time, to cor rect someone is when he can do something about it." How simple and right! Where is the crime in this? Jane Marotte in her letter to the DTH (Nov. 2) said, "Discipline comes from the inside of man . . ." If this is so, cannot Otelia help to build up, spur on, or awaken that discipline? A good measure of a person's charac ter, I have heard, is to see what that per son esteems in others. I suggest that those excellent articles by Otelia on past Univer sity presidents be reread. From among the merits of these men shine out "dedication to the University," "discipline," and "char acter!" George T. Winston (DTH, Sept. 24) successfully saved our University by "zeal to correct any situation he didn't like," and David Lowery Swain (Sept. 21) believed, "the chief concern of the University is to make character and not to break people." I believe that Otelia, in her way, is con tributing to make our character. Charles K. Barwick Censor Morum Dialectic Literary Society Why Reapportion? Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I hope you're happy with the reappor tionment of the General "Assembly. Talk about discrimination, you couldn't be satis fied with 75 of the power, you had to have 99 of it. I want you to go out and look around this state. The Piedmont has got more and better roads, schools, and businesses than the East. It's about time an era ended? Well, bus ter you can take your "end of an era" . . . Bryan Salter 207 Mangum LETTERS The Daily Tar Heel welcomes let ters to the editor on any subject, particularly on matters of local or University interest. Letters must be typed, double-spaced and must in clude the name and address of the author or authors. Names will not be omitted in publication. Letters should be limited to about 250-300 words. The DTH reserves the right to edit for length or libel. Longer letters will be considered for "The Student Speaks" if they are of sufficient interest. How ever, the DTH reserves the right to use contributed materials as it sees fit. A University of Miami researcher re cently suggested that kissing could trans mit the bacteria supposed to cause tooth decay. Dr. Doran D. Zinner said the decay is actually a contagious disease that has hard ly anything to do with heredity or eating candy. If Zmner's findings are correct, they'll undoubtedly make life easier for morals squads, who could call on professionals if they ever. had a hard case to crack: den tists. This is what might happen several years from now: Upon definitely learning that kissing spreads cavities, the Chapel Hill Police De partment hired several dentists. They were stationed at strategic spots throughout the Arboretum. Burly policemen hauled suspected of fenders to the Dental School. Then, the den tists X-rayed them. Students with an excessive number of cavities found themselves judged "morally undesirable." A big scandal occurred when the presi dent of the student body was discovered to have false teeth, but he was let off light ly. The Honor Council determined that his own bacteria had been responsible for the decay. Later that year, perverted films were shown inside a University residence hall. The obscene flicks featured the insides of a heavy kisser's mouth. And movies which revealed the position ing of Elizabeth Taylor's dentures couldn't be seen by persons under 21. But students continued hanging around a nearby news stand, where they eagerly bought copies of "Playboy." They cut out pictures from the magazine of girls with well developed molars. All the women in "Playboy," of course, had slim wisdom teeth, and no strip-teaser could ever hope to attract attention if she lacked a proper wisdom-to-molar ratio. Churches urged students to brush their teeth regularly; local preachers said yel lowed smiles indicated lack of virtue. All the ministers bought electric brushes. Oral Roberts blessed people by putting his hands in their mouths. The Daughters of the American Revo lution refused to accept the new explana tion of the cavities' cause. "After all." they insisted. "George Washington had wooden teeth." The kids in the TV commercial who used the wronj? toothpaste were promptly packed off to reform school. The battle to fluoridate the water sup plies of many small towns took on new overtones when the John Birch Society members charged the fluoridation, besides being communistic, was "a blatant insult to the morality of this God fearing nation." Comely girls throughout the United States were arrested at beaches for inde cent exposure after police agreed their smiles were too revealing. Manufacturers of false teeth did a thriv ing business in the decay-ridden red light districts of America's cities Commenting on the growth of pornogra phy, one house wife said. "I am alarmed by this. Our sons and daughters c;m now see what usod to be included only in denta' journals." Persons seeking employment with the CIA and similar federal agencies did not get hired unless they stood up in front of security officers and declared: "Look Ma, no cavities!" The Student Speaks A True Economic Liberal This column will be devoted to contri butions from DTH readers, which are con sidered to be of general interest. The ma terial presented represents the viewpoint of th author, not necessarily that of the DTH. In this column, Wilson Clark, Jr. dis cusses economist Ludwig von Mises, who will speak at UNC on Dec. 15, sponsored by The Carolina Conservative Club. "Dr. von Mises' treatise is the work of an acute and cultivated mind ... Its lucid common sense has the quality to be found so much more often in Austrian than in German authors, of the best French writ ing .. . The book is enlightened in the high est degree possible." Thus, in rare form, Lord John Maynard Keynes describes an early work of Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit. (Theorie des Geldes und der Umlaufsmittel, Munich, 1912). This quota tion accomplishes two purposes: It demon states that 1) even Keynes was right part of the time, and 2) the early writings of Keynes tend to rather acutely embarrass latter-day Keynesian economists. But the topic of this article is von Mises and not Lord Keynes, so on to more interesting ter ritory. It is indeed fortunate that to mention the name von Mises in many quarters fails to provoke even the slightest reaction, whereas that of Keynes produces leftist ecstasy. In the confusing world of modern liberalism, especially in the academic com munity, the works of von Mises are rarely discussed, or even read. As one discerning writer comments, in a review of von Mises' magnum opus, Human Action: "Undoubtedly readership has been restricted by the practice, so com mon even among academicians, of ignor ing, regardless of analytical merit, any writings which on policy reach conclusions not already welcome." Who, then, is Ludwig von Mises-? Born in Lemberg, Austria, in 1881, Mises studied under the great Boehm-Bawerk at the University of Vienna where he received his doctorate in 190S in Law and Social Sci ence. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna from 1913-1933, at which time he left to escape socialist perse cution end suppression under Nazism. Aft er a brief stay at the Urnduate Institute of Internationa Studies nt Geneva,, Switzer land, he came to ih" rniied States, and was naturalized in )V. He is now Visiting Professor of Economies hi New York Uni versity. The author of a great and varied col lection of books, articles, and essays, his widely hailed masterpiece is Human Ac tion, A Treatise on Economics, published by Yale in 1949. Human Action represents the culmination of a lifetime's research in the science of economics. It is characterized not. only by its prodigious scholarship, but by the immensity of subject matter cov eted. Von Mises journeys into ethics, politics, and metaphysics, not to mention his exhaus tive coverage of economic theory. A revi sion of his Nationaiorkonomie (1940), Hu man Action delves into economics from a libertarian viewpoint. Following in the "Austrian'" school of economic liberalism, this scholar is u ftjui vocally laissez faire. Represent in the i:,!e!!ecHr:l tradition of Adam Smith. Frederic BiUat, Ricardo, t'jfi Monger, and Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, Professor Mises call- himself a "True Liherr-l." avoiding the opprobrious modern connot3ttons of that time-honored term. Professor Mises examines this semantic dispute more thoroughly in his book. Plan ning for Freedom. In a discussion of Social ist and Interventionist policies in the Anglo Saxon countries. Mises observes: "Anti Liberalism's only chance was to camou flage itself as true and genuine liberalism and to denounce the attitudes of all other parties as a mere counterfeit liberalism." lie continues with, "The semantic inno vation which the Socialists and interven tionists thus inaoaurated left the advo cates of freHom without any name." The predicament has been somewhat resolved by utilisation of the term Jiberatarian. but as Professor Mises emphasizes, the advo cates of political ard economic libertj in the twentieth century arc s'randed in a Sit uation most bizarre. The proponents of the omnipotent state, the prottgonists of Socialism, are now known as Liberals, reversing a magnificent historical trend. I " l 1 i i r 1 4 tfrt M.ttw. i TM I JUST CAN'T L? IT... BIRD J(Xt$ LEAVE ME COLD. OPEN YER BIG UGLY) (TS A MATE OF V
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