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! r- ! Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Friday, February 24, 1937 lam Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. All un signed editorials are written by the editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal views of their contributors. SCOTT GOODFELLOW, EDITOR ( Morri son Suicide Only The Tip Of. An Iceberg Late Saturday night, Decem ber 13, Raymond B. McCauley locked . himself into his Mor rison room and hanged himself from a heating pipe. He was the ; second student in less than a 1 month to commit suicide on a consolidated university campus. The youth was described by friends "as a better-than-average student who was worried about his exams." "... .worried about his exams." Perhaps one of the biggest is sues on the campus during the campaign period this spring will be student stress. Carolina has long held a bottom position in the scale of campus suicides, but of late we have begun to advance upward. It takes little imagination to realize that for every successful suicide, there are dozens of un successful attempts. And for every attempt, there are many more stu dents who will do nothing but re main in the depths of despair. : Suicide is ranked high among the causes of death on the col lege campuses of our country. It is viewed with Christian horror and always seems distant to the casual observer. But there are places where it is seenas a real problem and one such place will soon be Carolina. There are a number of propos- als which will all lay groundwork for decreased tensions. One party is proposing a committee to de vote itself to student stress, a worthwhile suggestion. The other party incorporates several differ ent ideas into its suggestions for easing tensions. The pass-fail system in itself is designed to direct students to ward their interests with less of a grade burden. Residence hall liv ing proposals (including lounges and multi - puTpose rooms) cou pled together" with unified men -women housing should also enable students to have an easire time. There are few suggestions for attacking student stress which do not have merit. Anything which can be done will prove invaluable in the future. It is a problem which is only beginning to surface now. Raymond McCauley's suite is empty now. None of the other re sidents could stand to remain in the place of that tragedy. Per haps increased student coghiz- ,.; ance of the problem will help to avoid its terrible recurrence. Extra- Giirriculars Can Be ttalT Factor In Education Every newspaper when it rea ches a freshman class, first wel comes them and then exhorts them to enter into "the fascinat ing, world of extracurricular acti- vi! cos. We can find few articles of this type which are the slightest bit interesting, however the subject is no more trite for its overuse. If there is anything that Caro lina can lay a staunch claim to, it is a wealth of things to do when you're finished (!) studying. Ev ery year when the Yocfc appears, 90 per cent of the pages are de voted to what students do for di version or entertainment. J Freshmen are told at Orien tation that Student Government wants their help. Church organi zations of all types send them circulars through the mails. Sports lay claim to hundreds of intramurals candidates. Skin - div ing clubs announce their organi zation meetings in the DTH next to interview notices for Honor Council positions. Both political parties leap at the chance for new blood. But the most important part of the quest is not that the organiza tions are able to fill out their mem bership, but that the individuals that join are given opportunities to enjoy working with tightly-knit groups toward common purposes. Although residence . colleges and houses are certainly very helpful in breaking down the indi viduality barrier, they will never be completely satisfying. Only through the diversity of other groups can a student realize both his own identity and the pleasures of working toward a single goal. The best part about the world of student extra-curriculars is that they are unending. Every morn ing there are countless vacancies and job offerings which will still be empty at the end of the day. 'Announcements of these openings are often greeted by a relatively meager response. The editorship of next year's Carolina Quarterly,, for example, has been available for some time and there has ' only been one applicant. Filling one of these positions might well mean a better job af ter graduation. It will certainly mean a more well-rounded indi vidual. There is so much to gain from participating in other activities in college besides purely academic and social ones that it is hardly worthwhile to ignore them. A small amount of investigation could prove a great deal of worth. ullje lathj Mnt tl 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Sandy Treadwell, John Askew Peter Harris Don Campbell Kerry Sipe a....:.... JeffMacNelly ...... Ernest Robl Asst. Jock Lauterer David Garvin Mike McGowan .... Wayne Hurder Manag. Ed. .. Ad. Mgr. Associate Ed. - News Editor Feature Ed. Sports Editor Sports Editor Photo Editor Night Editor Photographer :. Copy Editor Ernest, Robl, Steve Knowlton, Carol Wonsavage, Diane Ellis, Karen Freeman, Hunter George, Drummond Bell, Owen , Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis Sanders, Joe Saunders, ' Penny Raynor, Jim Fields, Donna Reifsnider. ' CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly. The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $8 per year.". Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill. N. C. . Yeah, you can use Chase for a dance ... if you pay to have the place redecorated. Peter Harris Ml i - Jlift fmh R,LLAMam Yy? rw v 7 w ' .... $mm W o m mg&i- It- If yj$w .-wm& Vietnam Tlie .Darken : Alley (Editor's Note: This arti cle appeared as an editorial in the Kentucky Kernel.) Eight years before the de feat of the French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954, North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh told a leading French official, "If we have to fight, we will fight. You will kill ten of our men and we will kill one of yours, and in the end it will be you who will tire of it." Today the United States is involved in a costly war in the same country, and many Americans and their respen tatives in - Washington are growing increasingly weary " weary of the impact of the war? on the American econo my, weary of the Johnson Administration's outdated concept of communism and Southeast Asian affairs and weary of the creditability gap which prevents them -from getting the truth about the war. However, President John son, as recently as last week, said the United States will persist in the war. , ECONOMIC IMPACT Figures released at the end of 1966 show that during this fiscal year the United States is spending $322,000 for each Vietcong killed. If the enemy to freedom in South Vietnam is, as the John son Administration says, the Vietcong and the North Viet namese infiltrators, it seems the American economy will take quite a beating before the threat is removed by the present ever-constant military escalation. The air war against North Vietnam and Vietcong bases in the South is n example of the effect the war has. daily on the American economy. B52's cost $1,000 an hour to fly. The typical trip from Guam to a North Vietnamese target is eight. hours; there fore, a bombing raid for one B52 costs $8,000 in flying time alone. A single bomb load costs some $60,000. (Recent reports indicate tfoe United States is flying B52's out of Thailand and Cambodia as well as Guam.) So far this fiscal year, : about 425 American bombers have made this round trip monthly. The cost approach es $30 million a month. This $1 million a day is only a fraction of the bombing 'cpsts, however. Secretary Mc Namara has estimated that the U. S. will lose about 580 aircraft worth about $2 mil lion each during the cur- rent fiscal year. CONCEPT OF COMMUNISM The cost to the American economy is one measure of the Vietman war not usually discussed. Generally, the cost is judged in terms of the num ber of American soldiers kill ed. And while the loss of lives in Vietnam may be less than the highway death toll, this is quite beside the point. The point is the question of just what these soldiers are dying for. The Johnson Ad- , ministration and the na tion's other Hawks see the war as a clearcut battle against Communism. They ar gue that if Vietnam falls, all of Asia will one day fall also, i.e., that old albatross the Domino Theory. This theory, however, is out- dated, as most foreign policy v experts will attest.-.The strug-. ; gles in Asia have always been more nationalistic than ideological, but the State De partment has yet to recog nize this fact. Perhaps the American sense of pride will not allow us to admit that we. are engaged in a war against the tide of Asian na tionalism. The Vietnam war has ex panded to international pro portions largely because the U. ,S. views any , national movement, whether implicit ly or explicitly communist, as part of a world-wide Red offensive directed against the "free world." The American Hawks ob viously do not realize that .- one can speak of a Commun ist world in the same sense ... as one speaks of an Arab . world, is a unity committed to a single ideology and stra-.. tegy. , It is somewhat ironic that the Johnson Administration seems to have recognized the extent to which national in- terests are redefining intra bloc relations in Eastern Eu rope But this same Adminis tration seems unable to view the Vietnamese communist revolution as anything less than a vanguard move ment designed to overwhelm Southeast Asia, presumably in concert with Peking. The Vietnam war, then, is tragic because it reflects an incapacity on the part of the United States to respond crea tively to communist - orient ed revolutionary movements within newly emergent coun tires. A policy of unqualified opposition to any and all such movements' implies support for the non - communist gov ernments regardless of how unresponsive to national as pirations they may be. THE CREDITABILITY GAP Not only do few Americans know why we are in Viet nam, but a rising number of citizens believe they are not being told the truth about the war by their government. This is the creditability gap so often discussed, and it is real. The reports of Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times have added fuel to the arguments of those who say the government distorts infor mation about Vietnam. As the first American newsman al lowed in North Vietnam, Sal isbury presented a picture to American readers that the Administration had painted differently. Now two more American newspapermen, Bill Baggs, editor of - the Miami News, former Pulitzer - Prize winner Harry Ashmore, have confirmed Salisbury's reports, show what a "mighty nation like the United States can do to a small, weak nation like . North Vietnam and do at will. We have beaten their backs to the wall, but as Ho Chi Minh predicted to the French some 20 years ago - their will to fight remains un broken. We would submit that this will is more commenda ble than American diplomacy, which is often characterized by statements like that of L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, wtyo said the U.S. should "flatten Hanoi. . . public opinion be damned." President Johnson would have agreed to American talks with the North Vietna mese in 1964 but refused. The talks, arranged by Secretary General U. Thant and U.N. Ambassador Adali Stevenson were to be kept secret so that neither side could suffer. Yet the U. S. would not talk. Now the State Department makes s;weepng proposals for talks while the American bombers continue to flatten North Vietnamese industry and civilians when they are in the way. It seems unlikely that North Vietnam can be bullied into talking. Britain, during the dark days of early World War II, was beat to its knees yet fought all the more valiantly. Are we to expect any nation to give in at bayonet point? Moreover, the Salisbury re ports and other information again indicate how the Amer ican people are being misled. Anyone who doubts need only look at the records of the past five years. The mistruths and fabrications are all there the promises and the state ments that were to be proven false days, week,s or months later. Faced with a costly and dis honorable war, a dishonest and deceitful Administration, the American people can do little but wonder about the wisdom of continuing down the same narrow tunnel with no light yet visible at the end. Professorial TTh 71 o n o JTOJllMCi (ACP) Two associate pro fessors of pharmacy at the University of Kansas, Law rence, might well be wearing sweatshirts to class these days one with "Justice of the Peace" written across the front and "Marryin' Matt" on the back, the other with "Constable" in Old English lettering on the front and a. big star on the back. The sweatshirts are gifts and soon, rumors suggest, the two may have shingles outside their offices emphasiz ing their new governmental title.s Mathias P. Mertes was sworn in as Lawrence's jus tice of the peace recently and Robert A. Wiley as city con stable. Neither sought elec tion; both were elected by write-in votes in November. "They're quite politically minded and very conscient ious," said Linda Riggs, Mer tes' research assistant She said "both have flatly denied the use of this office as a stepping stone to higher of fices." For Christmas, Mer tes' graduate students gave him a long black robe to wear when performing marriages. A Tumult Of Pain The wind whips across the face of the leaf and then goes to running about the stream. A man walks' on and it is all heard. . .. a shrill cry wimpering sleep in the frontier A myriad of little people will save the soul, and then they travel around. the blocks "Little by little I'm losing my love for you 'Cause things ain't been the same Since your mother died." Yeah! And little by little People are lost, they vanish, slowly. They can even turn into someone else; But. always, they seem to run back To the green fields or the pink period of dramy clouds and Main Street happiness . But, always, Away ... BLUE LIGHTS. As if the salt from Poseidan's sea had burned and chapped the sides of our mouths, we find our selves awakened by the thought of old-aged knowl edge. What is knowledge? Is it a growth beyond birth, fostered by our every experience? Does experience reflect an awareness of the past, a realization that in nocence, and pure knowledge are gone? What of the words: "Girls faces form the forward path From phony jealousy To memorizing politics Of ancient history. Flung down by corpse evangelist Unthought of though, somehow, Ah, but 1 was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." Bob Dylan The eyes of youth, capable of flashing with life's greatest excitement, capable of seeing all of the world's beauty. Life's many promises seen above rosy cheeks. Painful world, where are you? Ugliness and pov erty luck; we should not be deceived by the Verailles or Guggenheims or Houses of God, the mighty cathe drals which have taken the hearts of so many of our men. A shack in Asia, or a street gutter in Beirut. The bullet riddled farm house in a dying .wheatfield of France France twenty years ago this what life is all about. : ; - 'r Silence.) x : . . ; Then a chirp, and soon a rustle of leaves in the soft, spring wind. Sightless, sceneless. Up was down, and down stood still. Nativity spun me A yellow butterfly. a green leaf, v " white clouds spotting the blue sky Gentle and sound. A spirit so complete, and happiness a thing of the good. Then it disappeared for a long time. for a long time. It was missed. Once upon a time. . . Through another veil, time woven, I again saw the sun. Bright. - Beautiful. And a smiling face, A hand extending forward, reaching through the misty dew to Touch. Soft and gentle, light sun glowing among many flowers in the fields of yellow and green. The trees told me time had been there before. . Yet the newness led me with joy and wonder into happiness reborn open-eyed. I see her searching eyes and I remember the ar tist Keane. There are rainy streets and lonely child ren, lost. Pretty, little girls, blue dresses and red ballons, all running happily and eagerly through the park. This I see, a bit. But is it that I am haunted by fiie tearstained girl - lost and away from sunshine? Lost, somewhere in a dark alley with a dirty, torn dress, unable to speak for fear of the lonely echo. Which kid is mine? Which kid is pretty? Which child do I crave to love? Or does it matter? It is still morning, way before the buses begin to roll, before the gruffy leather bearded man slicks his skin with blades and trods the empty concrete walkway. The sun can't be seen yet; only the silky drift of orange-red birth. The Spanish child in New York. She weeps no more. Her eyes are closed and she sleeps now. The bitter taste has flown with the wind, the burning tears have floated away. The dirt has fallen with the city soot, through th iron sidewalk subway bars. The whole city grunts and the coffee pots burble. Let there be peace, man. The child sleeps. A
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