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by Jerry Klein
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Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)
Chairman David Ad cock, calling for a
public expose of the People's Peace
Treaty, has issued a challenge to campus
radicals for an open debate on the treaty.
' Td like to expose publicly the fraud
involved in this treaty," said Adcock. "If
they turn me down it will prove that they
are a bunch of cowards who can't back
up their words."
The People's Peace Treaty is based on
the eight point peace proposal set forth in
Paris negotiations on Sept. 17, 1970 by
the Provisional Revolutionary
Government of South Vietnam
(Vietcong).
The treaty was negotiated between
U.S. representatives of the National
Student Association (NSA) and various
communist and non-communist student
organizations of North and South
Vietnam.
Adcock claimed there were presently
about 20 different copies of the treaty,
circulating throughout the country, "all
having different language with different
provisions, and all purporting to be the
'People's Peace Treaty.'"
Adcock also pointed out some
discrepancies and irregularities in the
transcript of the treaty, and in its origin.
: He claimed the "South Vietnamese
Student Union," cited in the treaty as
having ratified it, does not exist. Adcock
said the organizers of the treaty went
directly to Hanoi and negotiated with the
Vietcong. .
As for the origin of the treaty, Adcock
claims the main organizers was not
Rennie Davis, but Sidney Peck, a member
of the U.S. Communist Party and a
"direct representative from Russia."
Adcock purports to have documented
proof of all his accusations, most of
which comes directly from the pages of
The Militant," a Socialist newsweekly;
Adcock quotes Rennie Davis as having
said, in a news conference last February,
that Madame Binh, the Viet Cong
negotiator in Paris, called him last
summer and asked for a document similar
to the People's Peace Treaty.
Warning of violence in the May
demonstrations in Washington, Adcock
said "anyone who goes should take with
him bombs and guns because this is going
to violent."
He quoted Davis from the "Militant"
as saying "This demonstration will not be
Ghandi-like ... the demonstration should
close down the functioning of the Federal
government." .
Adcock claimed plans are under way
to stage a demonstration in the Black
community that will tie up Washington's
fire trucks and police cars. He said
anyone attending will be subject to arrest.
Adcock warned that anyone who signs
the People's Peace Treaty is breaking the
law. Citing the "Logan Act," passed by
Congress on Jan. 30, 1799, Adcock said
signing the petition would constitute a
misdemeanor punishable by from six
months to three years in prison.
"YAF will urge the American
government to prosecute all violators of
the Logan Act and we will attempt to
discover who is behind this," said
Adcock. "Laws must be obeyed."
by Danielle Withrow
and
Michael Barefoot
Special to the DTH
license plates come from as far away
as Alaska and Oregon. People come from
almost every one of the 100 North
Carolina counties when Easter weekend
comes around in Union Grove, N.C.
As "ole-timey" things and events lose
their hold on most people, the Fiddlers'
Convention continues to grow bigger and
bigger every year. Those who have been
once, find themselves talking their friends
into coming with them the next year.
And each year more is said and written,
as the varying ideas of Union Grove at
Easter time are spread among larger
groups of people.
"Like a beautiful woman, Union
Grove is elusive. It is a mystical thing,
perhaps not to be talked about" UNC and
Daily Tar Heel alumnus Jock Lauterer
wrote after last year's Old-Tune Fiddlers
and Bluegrass Festival at Fiddler's Grove.
"It defies snap, capsule description,
concise summaries of the activities, slick
phrases telling you of the mood of the
place . . . Union Grove is not a
geographical place-it is a state of mind."
: "It is the granddaddy fiddlers
convention where it is matters
little what does matter is that thousands
of people mass in a cow pasture to live
for a span of time for the sole reason, one
unifying object: music. And not just any
kind of music, but bluegrass -that
foot-stomping, heart-lightening music of
the country, of the coves in high places
where mountain men thumped t.e:r
basses, fingered the banjo, shPP Ut
mandolin and caressed the fiddle."
When fiddlers conventions are not in
greatest demand, it is surprising to find
there are two fiddlers events going on
simultaneously in Union Grove.
Yet the two events are different as the
intentions of the two brothers, Harper
Van Hoy and Pierce Van Hoy, who have
split. It was the difference of opinion
over retaining the traditional ways of an
old fiddlers convention as Harper wanted
it, or promoting it more as a carnival with
fiddling music as Pierce was interested in
doing it, that caused the split.
Music-wise, Harper gives his listeners
banjo-pickin, spoon-rattling,
knee-slapping ye-hawing in the traditional
way of past fiddlers festivals under the
For RTVMP department
OG fending award.
Charlotte radio and television station
WSOC is. underwriting a new
scholarship program in the Radio,
Television and Motion Pictures
department (RTVMP). The first award
under this program will be given for the
1971-72 academic year.
The award will go to a junior or senior
who lives within the WSOC Radio-TV
coverage area and who is majoring in
RTVMP. Beyond these criteria, academic
interest, evidence of interest in
broadcasting and film and potential
kadership qualities will provide the basis
for selection. All eligible candidates,
regardless of sex, race or religion, will be
considered.
i The award will be made upon
recommendation by a committee headed
by Dr. Wesley Wallace, Chairman of the
RTVMP Department.
" Dr. Wallace said, "The WSOC
Radio-Television Scholarship provides an
excellent award for a specially talented
and motivated student who, in his
university program, has already
committed himself to a career in
broadcasting. The scholarship is an
appropriate way for encouraging students
who will some day be broadcast leaders.
In accepting the scholarship program
from Freeman Jones, Vice President and
General Manager of WSOC Radio and
Television, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson
stressed the importance of undergraduate
scholarship funds to the university
community. He commended WSOC for
its recognition of this public service
stewardship. Sitterson said the need has
never been greater for scholarship funds.
starry sky. His is the Old-Time Fiddlers'
and Bhwgrass Festival at Fiddlers' Grove.
Pierce has his fiddlers as well as a more
"un-country" brand of mitsic in a nussivs
circus tent he has erected.
Harper at Fiddlers Grove believes in a
more friendly, more personal touch to
the festival. If your car gets stuck in the
mud, hell have his tractor there in a
minute to pull it out. And his helpers
don't mind walking up the hill and toting
some water back for you. If you're lucky,
after the main show is over, you night
find a fiddler or two willing to join your
campfire and fiddle a spell. Pierce's
convention has more attractions thin the
festival at the Fiddlers' Grove. You might
catch a glimpse of the World's Largest
Bull or find cotton candy for sale.
The audience that attends the
Fiddlers Festival at Fiddlers Grove is
varied too. Old timers who haven't missed
an Easter weekend since 1924 sit about
and carve peach-seed monkeys and
youths dance spontaneously to wash-tub
drums. Young and old, long-hairs and
short, are in as much harmony with each
other as the bands that play.
On April 9, 10 and 11 the Old-Time
Fiddlers' and Bluegrass Festival at
Fiddlers' Grove enters its 47th year of
tradition. Forty bands will participate in
the main competition. Of special interest
is a category of several old-tin en
including one musician 76 years old.
Doc Watson and his relatives will also
be participating-supporting Harper Van
Hoy's attempt to maintain Union Grove's
tradition of non-commericialized,
old-time and bluegrass music.
Fiddlers' Grove is located in the village
of Union Grove on highway 901. Its rail
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