Page Four THE DAILY TAR HEEL November 14. 1970 Howie Carr GSi n Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial page. AH unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor and the staff. Letters and columns represent only the opinions of the individual contributors. Tom Gooding. Editor How To Beat The UNC Zone Defense Attention all single undergraduate students living in University housing. It is quite possible your current residence is in violation of the zoning ordinances of the town of Chapel Hill. That startling fact came to light when it was announced yesterday that 4ta large portion of the main University campus is currently zoned for single family residences StyrSmhl far 1 78 Years of Editorial Freedom Tom Gooding, Editor Rod Waldorf Managing Ed. MikeParnell News Editor Rick Gray Associate Ed. Harry Bryan Associate Ed. Chris Cobbs Sports Editor Frank Parrish Feature Editor Ken Ripley .... National News Ed. Terry Cheek Night. Editor Doug Jewell ... , Business Mgr. Frank Stewart "Adv. Mgr. on the maps and ordinances of the Chapel Hill government." However, e feel certain that most students have little to worry about. Harry Palmer, planning director for Chapel Hill, says moves are currently underway to change the zoning patterns for the University. Palmer also pointed out that the University's physical plant and airport are currently on property 'zoned for agricultural use on the zone maps of the town. It would appear that the University has been living outside the law for quite some time now. However, we are sure any institution as adept as the University is at getting around regulations will have no difficulty with the zoning situation. In fact, Palmer has already said, "What we are trying to do is to rationalize the zoning ordinance as it applies to the University." Of course, the zoning discrepancies are not the only ones the University . has been dealing with lately. There is always the Its Saturday again and this week--j there's no toothall game to so to You don't have a date: you don't want to do what you did last night: and the movjes on Shock Theatre last u??t terrible that you can't bear the thought of watching a Lon Chaney. Jr. double feature tonight. If you're really after some cheap thrills in the back of your car. there's one chick in Greensboro who really wants to pet picked up. Her name is Lydia. She's a ghost. Lydia has been haunting an underpass on the old High Point road near Jamestown since . 1 923. The usual story goes that someone is driving along late at night toward Jamestown, when suddenly a girl at the underpass waves down his car. The motorist lets her in, and Lydia pleads, "Please, will you help me get to High Point?" The man naturally accedes to her request, and through various questions he learns that Lydia is returning from a dance in Raleigh, and that she is worried about getting home so late. She is uncommunicative about how she happened to be stranded at the underpass at such a late hour, and doesn't even answer most questions. "Why do you question me?" she will finally say. "Nothing is important now, but that I'm going home." When the' motorist finally reaches the address Lydia has given him, he turns to his passenger, and then realizes that she has' disappeared. You know the rest: he goes to the door, a woman appears, he asks her where Lydia is, and she begins to cry. "I had an only daughter named J Lydia," she tearfully says. "A year ago' she was killed in a wreck near the underpass as she was coming home from a : dance. This is not the first time neonlei have tried to bring her home. Buf somehow she never quite gets here." A lot of people have seen Lydia, and from time to time, the Greensboro papers run accounts of their experiences. The, Greensboro Daily News of August 8, 1966 carried a story about a man who saw her. Well, her hair was long and stringy, B ii iflio: Fl and n appeared in somewhat related lorn in the H65 teeny-rock classic "Laurie." which is possibly the worst sons ever recorded. There are at lea! two other spectral hitchhikers in the Carolinas. The one in Henderson County makes herself known by tugging with cold hands at a sleeve or pocket of an unsuspecting motorist. Unlike Lydia. she has never said a word to anyone. The other female apparition appears on a road near Columbia. S.C., and asks to be taken to her dying mother. This chick is much more calendar-conscious than Lydia; she appears only on the anniversary of her death in an accident on that same road. North Carolina has an abundance of ghosts, ranging from the one in the governor's mansion to the confederate ghost who appears to uniformed men. asking how to get a cannon to some long-forgotten battle. There's the light at Maco Station, suppposedly the ghost o! a hrakenian killed along the railroad tracks over one hundred years ago. There are the mysterious hoof-prints at Bath, where in 1S13 a man about to begin a horse race yelled. "Take me as a winner or take me to hell. The horse reared and threw its rider into a tree, killing him instantly. The horse's tracks have remained ever since, and have defied every attempt to remove them. In Bentonville in 1905 two hunters witnessed the spectral replay of a Civil War battle that had taken place forty years before. During the Civil War two Ln-.on ofile.,.. discovered from j one hundred year-old slave the location of j buried cache of sra!e treasure. When they began to da. tt up late one nigh!, they became awar. of the fact th.tt the ghost of a pirate was watching them intently. They never finished their d?tn Unexplained occurrences include the Devil's Trampsng Ground near Siler City, a circular area of completely sterile soil, and the Brown Mountain Lights, which were known to Indians in the area long before any white man set foot in North America. But getting hack to lydia. I can guarantee that she won't put you tosl-vn. a claim that Dr. Paul Bearer has never been able to make about his "horrible double features." .V-.' Th eres A Deadli ne.. Anderson case and the 140 per cent j . . " wi au was anu sinngy -water rate increase the University. and it looked all wet," said Frank Fay, impugn vjii nit lUYYii ui Vdiiuuiu by Charles Craven In Tlie News And Observer The class was in the spring of 1948. I believe it was called "News Writing One," something like that. Joe Morrison, the professor, would walk swiftly under the new leaves and blossoms that grace the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at that season. He would bound up the stairs of Bynum Hall, and the class would come to order. "Now speed is important," said Joe. "If you're going to work on a newspaper you've got to write fast. You can't compose, like writing poetry. You've got to get it out. There's a' deadline." Then he'd give a story situation, just a set of facts. Maybe he'd describe a highway wreck. Or maybe he'd take the action of the town council from a news story in the morning paper. Carl Freedrrian "Now write me a clear, concise story from those facts," he'd tell the class. The "typewriters in the sunny room would begin to click. Joe Morrison had a way with him. His manner was always cheerful and you wanted to do something good for him.. He loved classical music. And there was a kind of music in his bright, energetic way of teaching. When he'd write "good lead" on your hurriedly written story, you'd puff with pride. When "too wordy" appeared in his handwriting on your work, you'd sweat at conciseness. In the years that went by after that class, Joe got his doctorate and wrote books and continued to teach. He was Dr. Morrison. But the now middle-ased World War II veterans who attended his classes in the 1940s could always call him "Joe." His death Wednesday brought sadness and memories of blossoms and new leaves and a sunny classroom in Bynum Hall. (which the town has refused to pay). Unfortunately, those individuals interested in the University's view of the zoning discrepancies will be left unsatisfied since the University has maintained its standard policy of "no comment" on this vital issue who was with three other people when he saw the apparition on a Tuesday night about 1 1:30 in late June. "It looked like she was trying to get in the right door of that car ahead as it drove through the underpass. Call it an illusion or whatever you want-I can't begin to explain it." The theme of the ghostly hitchhiker is very common: it has appeared in such a venerable hterarv lournal General Died Omit Of Time as a Classic Comic Book: Neil Young has something about such a spectre in one of his albums, of v BUM D JUSTICE ; So-General DeGaulle is dead. The leaders of the world with very few exceptions, far lesser men than he was have given their meaningless but required tributes, and the only slightly disturbed world is back to business as usual. Yet DeGaulle was great man. His famous statement, "I am France," was not the empty boast of a blind nationalist but the quite sincere and quite accurate statement of a leader who felt a passionate identity with his country in all its facets. He died in retirement but was hardly idle in his last years; just as surely as Churchill was a master of English letters and Stevenson of American letters, so was DeGaulle a master of French letters. His memoirs, of which the first volume has already become an overwhelming best seller, would undoubtedly have been a major achievement. Yes, as old as he was and as much as he had already done, the death of the General was a genuine loss. However, after giving the General this deserved praise, I come to bury him. As cruel as it may sound, his death was quite symbolically fitting-just as it is symbolically fitting that petty men now stand at the helm of the nations once represented by the imposing Big Four of DeGaulle, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. They all belonged to a world Jhat is now gone forever, but none more so than the General. His rightful time ran from Joan of Arc to Napoleon, both of whom, in different ways, he resembled. Churchill . was certainly out of tune with the world after the First World War; and Roosevelt and Stalin, while in tune with the temper of their time, had little vision for our ;. own. The fact is simply that European (using the word to include America) politics are no longer all that really matters. Indeed, it seems relatively certain that the industrial West is going to matter less and less as time goes on. The action, the vitality, even the power is beginning to shift to the so-called Third World, the emerging nations of Africa, Asia, and the Near East. From these nations' coign of vantage, the longest shadow in the world is that cast by a man who was of clearly secondary importance in the old days of World War Two! Mao tse-Tung. It is becoming increasingly clear that Mao-not Stalin, not Roosevelt, not Churchill, and certainly not DeGaulle-represents the (tidal) wave of the future. The signs are everywhere. Even some Western governments, like Sweden and Canada, have recognized the fact to some extent. We have seen a very interesting, though very mindless, attempt by Western college students to identify their own domestic politics with the foreign policies of the Third World, especially China. And I believe that the general pessimism of Western thinkers about the future of the world is based less on an objective consideration of the entire globe than an emotional panic that their own region may be destined to become the kind of backwater that the Third World nations have been considered for so long. It is easy to be romantic and overemphasize the current importance of the, Third World. The West is still very important indeed, and the emerging nations are still emerging. But the trend is clear and irreversible. We of the West had better prepare for some rather radical psychological re-orientation if we wish to remain sane. We are going to have to transcend almost all Western "political thought prior to the last twenty years or so. The mentality of the General was a mighty one indeed, but one that would be found sorely wanting in the cultural identity crisis to come. "DeGaulle is dead; France is a widow," said President Pompidou in the first of the eulogies. True enough, I guess. But the larger truth is that the West's long time lover, History, is about to break it off and choose a new mistress. The General and all that he stood for are the essence of a great world, but one that does not exist now and will never exist again. I 1 The Daily Tar Heel is published By the University of North Carolina !: Student Publications Board, daily $ except Monday, examination S? period, vacations, and summer & periods. Offices are at the Student Uirton Bldg., Univ. of North Carolina, :5 Chapel Hill, N;C. 27514. Telephone Numbers: News, Sport-933-101t; : Business, Cfrc a 1 atlo-, ? Advertising 933-1163. Subscription rates: $10 per year; $5 pe semester. : Second class postage paid at U JS. i$ ln aP?lHLu N.C. KtoX'K'Hvav, . . --.-.-.-.-.v-.-.-.-.".v A3S Tony Lentz Americans S hould ave IPs 1 he If the arrangement of society is bad and a small number of people have power over the majority and oppress it, every victory over nature will inevitably serve only to increase that power and that oppression. That is what is actually happening. Leo Tolstoy "What's wrong with our country?" everyone whispers sadly. The young wonder where the Declaration of Independence went, where along the road the "pursuit of happiness" picked up a clause excluding blacks and draftees. The old shake their heads and curse When the young demonstrate for change. Righ t To Vote 'No' turning away irom wuius iikc nve and freedom because they dislike long hair. The black man has developed a bitter cynicism like the pre-revolutionary fire of Voltaire when he said: "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give it to the other." We as a nation are developing many of the symptoms that led to the Civil War in the early 19th century. ) As the people of the Eastern States moved westward a great political shift occured in the Houses of Congress. The Southern States lost their ability to muster a majority, and gradually their numerical strength diminished to the point that they couldn't block a two-thirds vole for closure of debate in the Senate. Southerners like John C. Calhoun began talking about the tyranny of the majority and searched for ..ways of protecting the South's economic interests against the onslaughts of Northern industrialists. The South began to feel powerless, left out. And when the slavery question erupted Southerns had little affection for the "majority opinion" of the Union. They had become a voiceless, powerless minority. And they revolted. The poor and the young in our society have become a voiceless, powerless minority. Our nation has reached the point in its growth where a solid majority of the citizens are satisfied with their existence. They have warm homes, enough food to eat, big cars, a little money put away and color televisions. And they will hardly vote to increase their taxes to help the poor. Politicians are free to exploit the conservative apathy of the American middle class, free to claim they represent "the silent majority" when in truth they do not. In the last presidential campaign, for example, citizens in every major primary . where they had a choice voted overwhelmingly for Robert Kennedy and Gene McCarthy, the two anti-war candidates. But politicians chose Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon to go on the ballot. This is not to day that I have lost my faith in the .basic principle of democracy majority rule. I still believe it to be the best form of government, as did Wendell Phillips: "Trust the people the wise and the ignorant, the good and the bad-with the gravest questions, and in the end you educate the race. At the same time you secure, not perfect institutions possible" while human nature is the basis and the only material to build with." But I think our government must be made more responsive. Rule by majority vote means nothing if economic and political realities allow only mediocre candidates to run. The eighteen-year old vote is a step in the right direction, as was the voting rights legislation which protected the black's right to register. But an even greater change is necessary if we are to make our republic truly responsive to the wishes of the people When our forefathers set up our system of election? they did nu foresee the development of political parties or the convention system of choosing candidates. I think we should adapt our constitution to allow each citizen the right to reject a slate of candidates if he fnteresr6 represent his In other words, I think every citizen should be granted the right to a negative vote. " W ekcted in a g". contest a candidate would not only have to get more votes than his opponent, he would have to receive more than the number of negative votes. A plurality of "no" votes would force a new election. This arrangement. I believe, would insure that candidates would discuss more substantive ,ssues than their opponents bad breath. TA 3 ,r,ar llCket n bolh Parties vould be attacked directly by the people "VoteCNo'gn USing Si,np,e slogan: f

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