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Bill Amlong, Editor
Don Walton, Business Manager
Old Dad Tells His Son:
'Stay Right, Son, Right'
Everybody knows that God,
Mom and Apple Pie are the things
which this great nation stands
for.
Sometimes, many people go out
of their way to show just how
much they believe this.
Like 40,000 of them did last
week to plop down their 98 cents for
the new record, "An Open Letter to
My Teenage Son."
Was it Frank Sinatra's new
smash a switch from a duet with
Nancy to one with Frank Jr.?
No.
Well, then, was it maybe a
homey, parental type comback by
an aging Elvis Presley? No.
Instead, it was the effort of Vic
tor Lundgerg, a Grand Rapids,
Mich., advertising man, to "give
the American youth food for
thought."
The only thing wrong, though, is
that the kind of thought-food
Lundberg is trying to shove down
peoples' throats is the kind that in
. duces almost instant vomiting.
Lundberg just wanted to get
across the message that, while he
doesn't think all teenagers are
"drunken dope addicts and glue
sniffers," there are defnitely some
who are even worse than not. the record have a
! -BuYlo,"whacould be worsewMrwhatTie says.
than a drunken, glue-sniffing dope
addict of a teenager?
A draft card burner, that's
what.
Lundberg's first entry into the
world of Top 40 record-making
waits until about midway through
the non-song to mention this. As he
talks, background voices swell to a
crescendo With "The Battle Humn
of The Republic."
Too Much Money, little News
We don't know everything about
student newspapering, but we
know enough to know that the first ,
Carolina Greek was pretty much of
a dud.
It is not our place to go out of
the way to criticize other student
publications, either, except that
$2500 of the students money is in
volved in the Greek sheet, and the
first issue alone cost around $500.
It obviously wasn't worth it.
The problems the editor of the
Grek faces is the same problem ant
student editor faces getting a
dedicated staff who can write and
will write.
There is no substitute for
pertinent local campus news in a
I student paper, especially in a
weekly paper.
That is why The Daily Tar Heel
tries to stay away from wire news
except in the form of news briefs.
The way we figure it, if a student
doesn't read a state daily by the
time he's in college, he'll never
read one, and he really doesn't
; care what happens in the world
if he doesn't.
What we're saying is, the whole
; front page of the first Greek was a
: waste of money. So was most of the
.' inside copy.
The Doily 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.
Offices on the second floor of Gra
ham Memorial. Telephone numbers:
editorial, sports, news 933-1011; busi
ness, circulation, advertising 933
1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill,
N. C, 27514.
Second class postage paid at the
Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C.
Don Campbell, Associate Editor
Lytt Stamps, Managing Editor
Hunter George, News Editor
Brant Wansley, Advertising Manager
Old Dad, meanwhile, is telling
his kid if he doesn't think the
United States' free enterprise
system "which gave your father
the opportunity to work for his
family to give you the things you
have" is worth defending, then
it is doubtful that such an
ungrateful young punk even
belongs in America.
But then comes the clincher,
from right down inside Old Dad's
cash register of a heart. It goes like
this:
"I would remind you that your
mother will love you no matter
what you do, because she is a
woman. I love you too, son, but I
also love our country and the prin
ciples for which we stand.
"And if you decide to burn your
draft card, then burn your birth
certificate at the same time; For
from that moment on, I have no
son.
And so Old Lundberg tells his
kid where it's at and a lot of the
kids who happen to be listening to a
Top 40 rock station when this trash
comes on.
But, wretched as this record is,
Lundberg has a right to make his
point. So does everybody who buys
right to agree
That's the American way,
you
know : freedom of expression.
It's just too bad that Lundberg
& Co. can't see that other people
have that right, too.
Like draft card burners, many
of whom feel a very .strong com
mitment to oppose war as
Americans and fully realize how
much trouble they are biting into
when they strike that match: .
The paper would have been
much better received if it had been
cut to four pages with all the Greek
news that was available on the
front page, including the football
standings.
Granted, that doesn't make for
a professional looking paper but -the
Greek is supposedly catering to
Greeky type news not to "Soviet
FOBS".
In. our opinion, the Greek staff
should work to accumulate enough
campus news to fill their paper,
; and not publish until the paper can
be filled with local news.
Especially at $500 a shot.
Winston-Salem Riots' Causes Vague
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This weekend I went to a Winston-Salem that I had
never known before.
I went to school there for two years. But I had never
seen downtown deserted on Friday and Saturday nigjit. I
had never seen soldiers lining the streets or armored tanks
stationed at intersections. V'-
On the Wake Forest campus there were a lot of people
celebrating Homecoming. Downtown there was a Negro
family and neighbors pent up in a house from which so
meone was firing at police and National Guardsmen who
had been imported to the city to quell a race riot '
The little Negro band, seven men, three women and a
!ive year old child were eventually routed from their shab
by, brick apartment by waves of policemen armed with 12
gauge shotguns. i'
The seven Negro men and two of the women were
evicted and told to lie face down with their arms
outstretched on the concrete sidewalk.
The other woman sat on the curb holding the cMld to
her breast.
The little girl cried.
She didn't know what was going on. She was too
young;
But years from now she will know. And she will
remember the cold night when a lot of white men in blue
uniforms pointed guns at her and her mother. "
The scene brought back the memory, of a twelve year
old Negro girl that;! tutored last year in Winston as part of
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w. - JThe program was'a'UVimoraiuzec We were told to
tutor the children in anything that they seemed interested
in.
My little girl's name was Beth. She was smart, probably
a lot smarter than most of the kids there. She wanted to
learn. She cared about studying.
Beth had a chance to go to Governor's school. Her uncle
was going to see if he could save up enough tmoney to finan
ce it. Her parents; were separated and she lived with her
grandmother who barely had enough money to clothe her.
Beth wanted to go to Governor's school for ballet.
Her dream was to become a ballerina. But she had
never had ballet lessons in her life. I had taken ballet for
several years and so I decided to help her as best I could.
So we started out, twice a week. I began teaching her
the fundamentals and we worked up several routines.
Tutoring sessions were only an hour and a half, but as the
months passed we made progress.
Beth was limber and she was graceful. She caught on
fast. She'd work for hours each day and then proudly show
one how she had mastered the new steps 1 taught her,.
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To The Editor: - ' v
In his reply to Mr. Otis, Douglas
Campbell has said that there are political
goals and ideals worth more than human"
life. I can't agree with him more. Yet
this by no means justifies the war in
Vietnam. Perhaps a few basic facts about
the war and it's origins are in order.
In the early 50's there was a social
revolution which overthrew French col
onial rule in Vietnam. In 1954, an
International treaty called for free elec
tions in Vietnam. Certainly, this is one of
the things that Mr. Campbell implies is
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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL
In the last decade, college student
newspapers have been going through
another stage of journalistic growth.
They have been developing from what
are "student produced newspapers" into
what are more aptly "newspapers that
are for the students;" That is, college
papers are beginning to leave behind the
form of the play-thing publication. This
growth is taking place because today the
college student is exp a ndin g h i s
thoughts and opinions no longer are con
fined to the reaim of campus life and to
day the student press wants to know
about the national and world problems
around it; the student press in colleges in
America today wants to voice an opinion
that will be recognized as more than "of
merely students."
But, as the student press and all the
students grow and mature, all too many
college administrations, perhaps in many
cases with too passive an eye toward this
growth, view it as a threat to the security
of the college. Such was the case in
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worm dying for. Certainly, this "self
determination" is the reason that we are
in Vietnam according to our leaders. Yet,
in 1956, the United States came into Viet
nam and stopped the elections. Why? In
the words of President Eisenhower: "I
have never talked or corresponded with a
person knowledgeable in Indochinese af
fairs who did not agree that, had elec
tions been held at the time of the
fighting, possibly 80 percent of the
population would have voted for the Com
munist Ho Chi Minh as their
leader. . .The mass of the population
Montgomery, Ala., where last year the
editor of a student publication was
censored from running an editorial
criticizing the Alabama legislature. The.
President of Troy State College, Dr.
Ralph Adams, testified to the fact that he
forbids the student paper to criticize the
governor or legislature because, he says.
"Our life's blood depends on them." At
present Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson
Jr. is saying that Troy State may have
deprived the student editor of his right to
free speech when the administration
censored the editorial.
We believe that it is the student and
student opinion that is the "life's blood"
of any university, of any state, and of any
nation, and that any administrator who
attempts to block the sincere student
voice is defeating his own educational
motive. All we ask is that we be given the
right to speak as students and as.
Americans,.without the fear of jeopardiz
ing or committing anyone to that opinion
but ourselves. Given his sample right, we
believe everyone will surely gain. This is
what progress is made of.
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Time was creeping by fast, and the Governor's school
auditions were getting near. Her uncle still said that he
would be able to help her.
Beth worked harder. She was about to step into a
dream.
With the little bit of training I had given her, I was hop
ing that her potential would be recognized at the audi
tions. We talked about her not being accepted. I didn't want to
prop her up too much and then have her not be accepted.
She realized the situation.
She was more mature than most 12-year-olds. She had a
dream but she realized that maybe dreaens don't ever
come true.
Then one day Beth didn't come to tutoring.
; The school directors didn't know where she was. It was
the first time she had been absent. I couldn't understand
.why.
She came late to tutoring at the end of the week. It was
my last day to be there. .
She wasn't wearing her old blue jeans and 1he plaid shirt
that she usually practiced in.
She came up to me and didn't say anything. Then she
started crying quietly.
We walked outside in the light drizzle and she told me
that her. uncle had come to see her and said that he would
not be able to pay anything toward Governor's school. She
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What do you say to a layear-old girl, who .is sobbing in
the rain because she can't even have a chance at something
she's always wanted.
My tutoring was over and 1 wouldn't have a chance to
talk to Beth again. y
She walked with me to the car and I told her something
optimistic, I can't remaenber what.
. She looked at me with an expression I will never forget
and said, "Vm. a Negro. I'M. never get anything I want."
The tears were gone and so was the expression. All that
remained was a hardened look. A look of contempt against
the world that didn't give her uncle enough money to let
her try for Governor's School.
The little girl standing on the curb this weekend in
Winston-Salem reminded me somewhat of Beth.
There could be one big difference, though: because of
her memory of what happened that night when the men
came with the guns, maybe she never would even be able
to dream-njust hate.
supported the enemy." So, instead of
allowing the election, we instituted a
despotic and unpopular ruler (Diem) as
our democratic alternative." Through
very dubitable elections two military men
have taken power. One of them has an
idol by the name of Adolf Hitler.
That's just great, isnt it Mr
Campbell? Is this the "political Ideal"
that is worth dying for? Doesn't any of
the above bother you?
Don't tell me what your next argu
ment is. Let me guess. "If Vietnam falls,
then the Commies will easily conquer the
rest of Asia and soon they will be Knock
ing at our door. Fortunately, things
aren't all that simple. The Asian nations
are rather complex. For instance, the
king of Cambodia is a socialist and an anti-Communist
at the same time! No, the
Asian nations will not fall one by one, like
dominoes, to the omnipotent force called
Communism. The Sino-Soviet split and
the increasing independence of the East
European nations bears this out. A com
parison with Hitler's Germany is,
therefore, quite irrelevant.
But let us hypothesize that the domino
theory is applicable. The central ques
tion is now whether we are doing our ut
most to halt the spread ef communism
through our work in Vietnam. The
answer, once again, is no. While we are
spending $30 billion dollars a year to save
15 million peasants from "the perils of
communism" we can afford to spend only
a fraction of that percentage to help 100
million Indonesians return from the brink
of communism. The Government pro
gram "AID" which gives money and
assistance to such important Asian coun
tries as Indonesia and India suffered a
drastic cutback in Congress this year
because of the rising cost of the Vietnam
For The Blacks
To The Editor:
America has on her hands a real
revolution today. The fact that it is a
Black revolution has, is, and I assure
you, will continue to cause a certain
uneasiness among whites. It causes
uneasiness because they know that this
struggle for Black Power (or recognition,
security, power and respect for Blacks)
is a direct threat to the forces and xneass
of assertion, power, and authority which
they've held for so very long in this coun
try without meaningful challenge. Sure,
there has been the kind of challenge
where Black brothers marched in the
streets to get beaten over the heads for
freedom while northern whites watched
us on TV, shook their heads and sent
money so that we could march and get
beaten some more. But when some of the
brothers stepped up on the curb and said,
"Hey man, like my head is sore and I
ain't takin no more," they were labelled
as being violent and rash; inpatient
young malcontents who believed that the
slow, meticulous, prayer-making, hand
shaking, head-beating process of change
could be speeded up by different tactics.
Thus was the beginning of a new concept
of bringing about change (at least in this
movement).
A revolution of this type necessarily
calls for a radical change in the self-image
of those who would propose change
in man to man and group to group rela
tionships. The ' self-image of Black
Americans, especially college students, is
undergoing a metamorphosis which is so
rapid and of such vast proportion as to
make change inevitable. One of the most
obvious manifestations of this
metamorphesis is a pride in being black.
Beautiful Black. This stems from a grow
ing awareness of the richness of our
heritage, and the bountiful depth of our
culture. Seeing the impact of this new
knowledge and awareness on the beliefs
of young Blacks, who no longer believe
that white makes right, makes it a lit
tle easire to understand the systematic
attempts made by many whites to eli
minate the Black contribution from the
arena of world culture.
The day is rapidly fading when going
to college, and especially one designated
for whites, is seen as a means by which
we escape and turn on both our cultural
bacfysnxqnd and vtft3 . i&iis fortunate
brothers left behind. More and more
Black students are seriously discussing
future investment of our knowledge,
. skills, and resources into the making of
power, yes Black Power, for the Black
community.
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Vietnam War
war. The Alliance For Progress program
which was gaining success in South
America (and was an important factor in
stemming Che Guevara's communism)
was also severely cut back. By simple
mathematics, one can see that the money
sent to Vietnam has been badly wasted.
Probably the most horrendous thing of
the war is that we are neglecting our own
. people for the apathetic peasants of Viet
nam. It is becoming more and more ap
parent that there is a great revolution
taking place in this country, a far greater
one than the one being fought in Viet
namthe revolution of the poor. After
200 years the Negro has finally awoken to
the horrible truth about his past and
present existence And he's "mad,
fighting mad. What started out to be
peaceful demonstrations have now turned
into riots. To those Southerners who pro
udly said that "we don't have any riots",
id like to welcome you to the club.
Winston-Salem &ves s good evidence of
tnat. Some prognosticators forecast that
gorrilla warfare will soon break out in
the streets of our cities. This threat to
our country is certainly more important
than the one in Vietnam. What is needed
is .a good, constructive, poverty program
larger than: the one now. Yet tie war on
poverty ha- suffered a severe cutback of
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Perhaps I have misinterpreted the
facts. Perhaps I have greatly ex
aggerated Mr. Campbell's position. If I
have Mr. Campbell, please let me know.
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a political ideal" in Vietnam it has
become horribly perverted.
Donald Worth
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