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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
September 23, 1966
In Our Opinion
Support Your Local Doctor
GetSoreThroatAtPep Rally
'But Won't This Wolf Frighten Our Cows?'
Mike McGee
MASCOT
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Woof! Woof! Woofpack!
Z ; Let's hear it for North Carolina
State University!
Following in the tradition of
the University's senior campus
: here in Chapel Hill, the boys from
: State will march on the Capitol
S: I tonight.
But their demonstration has
jj ) nothing to do with draft cards,
J; Speaker Bans or racial discrimi
nation. Instead, the NCSU march
( is being engineered to "provide
punch and lung power" for the
d ,' State Woofpack on the eve of their
Jgame with UNC, according to stu
y : dent leaders there.
4 ;. The march and pep rally co
1 1 sponsored by" the State cheerlead
.1 ers and student government
J-.will be headed by the State pep
t band, majorettes and the n e w
; Woofpack mascot, a real, live
J ; wolf Lobo III. , This is quite a
i big affair for -the State students,
v for the UNC grid battle is one for
which they live in eager anticipa
tion every year,
f And this is not difficult to un-
derstand. It is seldom that the ag
riculture and textile students have
a chance to see a first-rate team
llike the Tar Heels at a first-rate
place like Chapel Hill.
But the Cow College kids
-mustn't be allowed to think they
Jare pulling anything over on their
; Carolina cousins with their dem-
ibnstration. One of the largest pep
rallies in the University's history
is planned for tonight here.
We know Friday night is a good
tube night, a good beer-drinking
night, a good free flick night, a
good date night. But why shouldn't
it be a good school spirit night?
There were a lot of long faces
after, last Saturday night's game
in Kentucky, a lot of remarks of
disgust. UNC students, like most
people, will ride a winning horse
to death. But let one of our athlet
ic teams lose a game, and all too
often we drop them like a hot po
tato. We won't be facing a push-over
in N. C. State tomorrow. We will
face a team determined to defeat
its most despised rival. The Tar
heels can win. They can win if the
students are behind them.
Let's switch off the tube for a
couple of hours, get a beer to go,
postpone the free flick and take
that special date along to the pep
rally tonight.
Head cheerleader Dick Starnes
has issued a guarantee that, al
though this was not originally de
signed to be a free speech rally,
no one will be denied the right to
yell even if he has plead all the
amendments! ,
School spirit is contagious. En-
thusiasm spreads like wild fire.
And where the air is electrified,
victory should naturally follow.
We won't storm the state capi
tol like the Woofpack is doing, but
we should be able to alarm most
of Orange County. .
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If I J -fcNsSSg;. ..v.. J
Letters To The Editor
'Fat JuUan 9 Attacked
ick A Card, Have A Langh
J There's a new form of college
y. humor sweeping the nation's cam
j' puses these days, and it's not a
J magazine sized to fit into the poc-
ket of a coonskin coat.
The new or at least new in
j terms of popularity animal is the
K humorous contemporary studio
l greeting card. They sell for 35
r; cent's to $5 and constitute a sort of
laugh-backlash against the solid
v "sobriety of the academic commu-
nity: the heavy study schedules,
j the serious political engagements,
and mankind's determination to
I survive in his battle against age
I and the elements. .
v . An Illinois company which
: pubUshes and distributes such
cards has reported that 1966 sales
I are outpacing those of a year ear-
lier by 120 per cent.
? This, no doubt, is due tn tho
fact that the cards have so many
J; uses, especially on the college
campus. For example, one card
: entitled, "I'm sorry I haven't
t written" would be ideal for a stu
t; dent to submit with a blank exam
; ination paper.
g This particular card also would
jlhave come in handy at UNC in
- the spring of 1965. Can you imag
ine the chairman of the English
j: Department receiving an "I'm
J: sorry I haven't written" card
Cfrom an unpublished faculty
member during the "Publish or
: Perish" controversy.
f There is one $5 valentine, 18 x
30 inches, which features a pair of
jump-out clutching arms on the
j? The Press And Justice
' .
I "A free press 'is not to be pre-
If erred to an independent judici
ary, nor an independent judiciary
;-to a free press. Neither has pri
imary over the other; both are in
dispensable to a free society. The
; freedom' of the press in itself pre
supposes an independent judiciary
through which that freedom may,
if necessary, be vindicated. And
;" one of the patent means for assur
; ing judges their independence is
a free press." Justice Felix
; Franldurter.
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Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I feel that Bill Amlong's
use of the term "pharmacist
of sorts" in describing "Fat
Julian" in the September 16
Daily Tar Heel is degrading
. .shd disl?drioirale to the prac--tice
of pharmacy, to phar-'
macists, and to pharmacy stu
dents. , . :
The honor and privilege of
professional pharmacy, prac
r tice is trusted to ; only a very
few who have proven, them
selves capable of upholding
the responsibilities, ethics,
an'djaws of pharmacy. To be
come . a pharmacist, a person
must pass a backbreaking
thjree day State Pharmacy
Board elimination. But before
he can qualify for the exami
nation, he must successfully
complete five full academic
years of pharmacy education
plus twelve months of State
Bbard supervised practice in
i
an approved retail or hospital
pharmacy.
Merely possessing drugs for.
resale does not qualify a per
son as a pharmacist or even
a pharmacist-, of sorts.." .'A
narcotics peddler is not a
pharmacist just because he
sells herion. And neither is a
student, or any layman, who
illegally sells or gives away,
any legend drug.
" " Howard Michael
inside. Draft boards especially
like this one for men students.
Men students, of course, like it for
women students.
Then there is one that seems to
have a real message for the am
bitious scholar. It's message is
simple: "Keep your nose to the
grindstone, your shoulder to the
load, and your chin up . . . now
try to work in that position."
Today's Thought
We're Gonna Struggle onward and upward
We'll never give an inch in our fight
We're gonna winy win, win if it kills us
And from the way things look .
It might!
lax jCigaretteg
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North Carolina Commission
er of Agriculture James A.
Graham spoke a couple of
weeks ago about proposals for
a state tax on tobacco. His
observation was that the to
bacco industry meant too
much to the state's econo
my for us to jeopardize its po
sition by imposing additional
1
.taxes on this already heavily
iaxed comodity.
Lt. Gov. Scott said at the
fsame time that the state has
a substantial surplus which
I should be even larger at the
I next biennium.
I The commissioner doesn't
make much sense when he
i says that a state tax on ciga
problems Many In
Coed Pi
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( Editor's note The following
interview with the Director of
the Student Health Center at
the University of South Flori
da should be of universal in
terest.) "I suspact that most girls
who become pregnant drop
out of college before it be
comes noticeable," Dr. Rob
ert L. Egolf, director of the
Student Health Center said.
In dealing with these girls,
Egolf said that the Center's
approach depended on , t h e
girl's emotional status before
pregnancy. It is often a "ser
ious crisis" for the unmarried
girl and she. might commit
suicide. If she is mature
enough, and able to make
realistic plans, she can re
cuperate from the emotional
shock rapidly.
Generally, and most com
monly,, the couple marries,
or, the man pays for her
support during the stay in the
hospital,, and child support, if
the girl elects to keep the
kfty after that. Very seldom,
although it has happened, the
male involved "flies the coop"
for parts unknown.
The main hardship for the
girl before the baby is the
social stigma, Egolf said. Af
ter the baby, it is economics.
The parent's reaction to the
news" is nearly always the
same, said Egolf. At first it
is of disbelief , then the father
calls the doctor a "damn
quack." But, this too, 'depends
on the relationship between
the girl and the parents, Egolf
stated. The second reaction is
nearly always of horror. The
parents want to ship the girl
out of the state, or send her
her to a home for unwed
mothers and then they go
ncies
i
- looking for the male involved
with a shotgun.
" I Egolf estimated that out of
every 10 unmarried pregnant
coeds, five would get married,
tjvo will have an abortion, one
and one-half will keep the
baby, and one and one-half
will put up . the child for
adoption.
IThe incident of abortion in
this country is high. Egolf
stated that perhaps one out
of four or five pregnancies is
terminated by an abortion.
One out of 10 is terminated in
miscarriage, but no doctor
can make an estimate.
To get a legal abortion in
the United States, Egolf said
that two physicians must
certify that the abortion is
necessary for the mental and
physical health of the mother.
Only then can the obstetrician
perform the abortion in a hos
pital. Any other operation to
cause a miscarriage is classi
fied as a criminal abortion.
"A girl risks her life, health,
and future child-bearing with
the possibilities of infection,
blood poisoning, or bleeding
to death. An abortionist would
probably rather the girl die
than for her to go to a hospital
where she might testify
against him," Egolf said.
When the girl doesn't know
who the father of her child is,
she is either going to have the
baby, or she is not going to
iiave the baby. Any ethical
physician would tell her to go
ahead and have the child,
Egolf said.
The benefits must be worth
the risk, Egolf said. But, both
the male and female should
be aware of the consequences, .
both emotionally and finan
cially, of a possible child.
rettes of two cents perpack
would jeopardize the position
of the tobacco industry.
The total sales of cigarettes
in North Carolina amounts to
only a small fraction of total
cigarette sales. North Caro
lina companies sell in every
state and many foreign coun
tries. A North Carolina tax
could hardlv effect total
ette sales or profits receiv
ed by the companies even
within our state. The tax
should fall entirely on the
consumer.
Every other state has a tax
on tobacco. In New York Ci
ty the price of a pack of cig
arettes is forty - five cents.
It looks like the tobacco in
dustry is already jeopardized
just about to the limit. Our
two cents worth won't change
things.
The classic argument is that
the tobacco industry is North
Carolina's economic base, and
that we should recognize this
fact by not burdening it with
the problems of financing the
state.
We exploded the myth of
the protective enclave when
we added the sales tax on
food. Taxes on food are a
serious business, but a repu
tation for having the cheap
est cigarettes in the nation is
not necessarily to be protect
ed. It is the pompous blaring
of the tobacco magnates lob-
pying in Raleigh that gives
the state this idea. The only
people getting any good out of
the situation are the cigarette
smuggling rings that take the
profits the state should be get
ting. If the state already has a
substantial surplus (Gov.
says it is at the $19
million mark), then how can a
new tax help our state'
new tax help our state? " If
for no other reason than it
would help some people to be
better able to swallow the
present tax on food, consid
ering food's already inflated
prices.
On a more practical level,
the new tax should enable Ra
leigh to give a salary raise
to the state's impoverished
school teachers. Maybe what
they are really afraid of in
Raleigh is that a tobacco tax
might pack the treasury so
tight that someone would come
up with the motto: "Repeal
the food tax."
Mike McGee
U.S. Should Be
In South Viet Nam
The recent national election in the midst of war
stands out as the most significant indicator of how the
war is going in Viet Nam. Over four million persons
voted in an election which the National Liberation
Front declared it would oppose with all its resources.
This election resembled a game of "I Spy." If
you showed your face in an election booth you're on
our side and if you didn't you're on their side. Co
ercion? Yes, but on closer examination there's an as
pect of suicidal determination on the part of the Sai
gon government.
If the NLF controlled "most of the people," then
only a word should have been necessary for an al
most boycott of the election. You can imagine what
the world, and the people in Saigon would have
thought if only 10 per cent of the people had voted.
Saigon would have been left in a vacuum as far as
freedom and democracy were concerned.
The whole year and a half of violent physical and
psychological warfare would have been made a mock
ery. No popualr support means no effective demo
cratic government and an imminent collapse of the
Vietnamese-American effort in Viet Nam. If four mil
lion. people had not voted, there is no way in hell that
the government could have imposed coercive repris
als on the civilians. The same is true for the NLF.
But they did vote, and we are left with but one
conclusion: Something is happening in Viet Nam. The
very first step toward ending the war has been tak
en. It's a small step, to be sure, but . every end must
have a beginning.
The people are gradually coming to accept the
idea that freedom has something to offer them. Ngo
Dinh Diem was a dictator. During his regieme repres
sion and murder were common. The people could see
this, and things went from hopeful to bad. The Viet
Cong made nothing but gains before Diem was over
thrown. Ky is not a dictator. He hasn't got the guts to be
' a dictator. .He is not an operator!, . nor has he a wide
spread base of purely personal influence as Diem had.
Ky is a democrat a poor one to be sure, but he has
tried hard and some people , are beginning to re
: spond to his efforts.
An example may show the gradual change of
ideas. When this columnist was in Saigon this spring
a Vietnamese friend told me privately that he had
been living under an assumed name since he had
arrived from Hanoi more than ten years ago.
All this time he had feared he would be thrown
in jail if he applied for a new I.D. card and revealed
his original subterfuge. Now, he said, he thought he
would go down to the government office and tell his
story and return to his rightful identity. Ten years of
fear had evaporated in the light of freedom.
What of the future? Of course, Ky must go when
he s ections are held next year. If he does not, then
the U. S. effort m South Viet Nam ought to be re
assessed. Equally important, some moves must be made to
7,1 acceptance of the people who are the core
MM 7 lgluAs dtizens 0f Yiet Nam they are en
titled to speak their views like everyone else. Many
of the reforms proposed by the NLF can be put to
good use m the free and democratic Republic of Viet
in am.
We must recoge the NLp sq
it has real political power as a government, but be
cause there is a segment of the Vietnamese popula
tion which looks to it as an ideal, and not a puppet
of Hanoi. They will not allow their ideals to be vapor
able' Ifj?inated "ith ""Palm. They are honor-
111 m . y g down ta defeat Mt be on
honorable terms.
South Viet Nam must accept the Viet Cong and
their antecedents the Viet Minn as a part of the heri
tage of the new nation. What this war should accom
plish is not to kill aU the Viet Cong, but to weed out
ana destroy communism n a A
much as the Confederacy was destroyed in our own
country. but the Confederate veterans lived on. A sta
ble Saigon government could accomplish this.
The U S. must state absolutely that American
troops will leave Viet Nam as soon as progress is
.made toward stability.
Viet Nam could be a paradise on earth as a free
nation. The people have a potential for progress
which is the equal of any in the world.
y,a T1leyCOriid have a story much as Korea or Japan
stardarfnf f "M rGS and
itlZ t hVmiare mre compensated for by
ctu wntve .ence. Universal public education
could work miracles there.
DiretThS6 SP'ak,f M Ateaa colonial em-
ment g' "? "ght 0f our Viet Nam "volve
ConL Parn"a. How many members of the
met M L lmW, ff ot coloS Viet Nam? The
Iled e. and the American people
would not allow it either.
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