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Ho iv it Carr SBf Sattjj .Maybe 6hario is irresBom Oik of the principal lessons "nood little children" are supposed to learn in Sunday .School is to share their possessions with others, not to be ureedy and hoard toys and playthings they are lucky enough to have. Apparently some Sunday School teacher in the distant past drummed that lesson into Richard Nixon. He made revenue sharing one of his major goals and finally Lis! uill got it approved by C ongress. He signed it with great llourish and ceremony, proclaiming that one of the "Six Great Goals" of his administration had been reached. . This .program earmarks S30 billion in federal funds over the next five years for distribution to suite, county and local governments. For this first year, only about S5.3 billion will be "shared." with the amount rising to more than S( billion per year for the next four years. Each political sub-division from the state down to the village-will get a piece of this sought-after federal pie. That portion is determined by a complicated formula that takes into account population, median income and how great a tax burden the citizens of the area are already bearing. A Christmas present The first half of this year's revenue sharing allotment was received by local governments immediately before Christmas, a most appreciated holiday present from the Federal government. But this was not an unexpected Christmas present, but one that America's governors, mayors and county judges had spent a great deal of time in Washington asking for. In fact, it was the pressure 'from these people who helped push the measure through the sometimes reluctant Congress. What money to share? With the release of Nixon's budget proposal for 1973-74, Wednesday, one can easily see that the Federal government really doesn't have any money to share. The projected deficit is S12 billion, about half of which goes to revenue sharing. But the federal government has long been a deficit spender, much to the delight of the Keynesian economists. 1972 by Ihr Chicago TnburM 1 MU LJ mi.Y-. 1 r rx Opinion Evans Witt, Editor Tuesday, January 30, 1973 gible Revenue sharing raises another question, however, a question of responsibility. This program gives local government funds to spend and projects to take credit for without forcing them to levy the taxes to support the programs. Nixon has claimed that this will ease - the concentration of power in Washington and return power to the local level. Nixon's argument is clearly wrong. Local responsibility has eroded because local officials have often avoided facing the hard facts of need and refused to raise taxes to support necessary programs and services. Washington has had to step in to assure that essential services are provided, a step local officials publicly criticized but privately welcomed. Revenue sharing just puts more responsibility at the federal level and less accountability at the local level. Letters to the Editor To the Editor: Having been a student at Carolina for the past five years I have come to respect and appreciate more and more the work that so many people put into this paper. Yet I also feel that what follows, this small bit of criticism, urgently needs to be expressed. To be perfectly frank I think the fraternities on this campus are largely ignored and, what's more, when you do have something to say it usually downgrades the fraternity system. A perfect example was last semester, at the beginning of fall rush, when you printed a cartoon which depicted a prospective fraternity pledge being asked a number of questions concerning his (or his parents income), his social status, and so on. In short, you were implying that fraternities are largely groups of narrow minded, khaki wearing, beer . drinking down-in-the-country boys who are much more prone to raise hell than to take academics seriously. In my four years as an undergraduate here I never even considered joining a fraternity, primarily because of all the "negative" hearsay concerning them. The DTH was not sole source of this hearsay by any means, but it played a big part. Of course, I was partly to blame because I never rushed any of the houses. I would not have found out what fraternities were really about had not my wife and I been asked to be resident advisers for a TAG "Sin is news an' news is sm," Mr. Doolcy once said, and he was right, as (he news slories of the past couple of weeks have proved beyond doubt. ) mean, with the ceasefire in Vietnam, the end of the draft and the interminable eulogies in Lyndon Baines Johnson what is there left to write about? Where are the unspeakable outrages of yesteryear? Willi everything winding down, ending up or drying off completely, about the only kind of story you see or read today is a rehash or a follow-up the kind of report sometimes described as a JOHN (JAR! II I D STILL DEAD story. The John-CIarfield-sl ill-dead expression originated in New York about twenty years ago, when John (larfield, the Jewish actor who had come up from the Lower last Side, was found dead in the bedroom of a blueblooded young New York society matron. The speculation, needless to say, centered about whether . 197'' I fraternity here on campus about four months ago. Now we live right in the house, eat meals with the brothers, and are quite involved with most' fraternity ... activities. If only I had known as an undergraduate. . . If only all men on this campus could be given the incentive to check; fraternities out on their own. No one can force men to go through rush, but much can be done to encourage these same men to make up their own minds. The DTH could do its share by at least remaining impartial, particularly during rush, on the -subject of fraternities. - Charles W. Houseworth Class of '72 : 204 Finley Rd. - 'Sounder '-just ; sentimental pap To the Editor: . - ", I would like to ask a question, and I am not trying to be a smart aleck. But tell me, does your movie man the fellow ; who writes the blurbs for local movies, r -Scott Langley - does he ever get past the ' capsulizations in the New Yorker" magazine? Can't you at least afford the, cost of admission so he can actually go see the movies? flSS r?1 PKflP' I I 1" Mi wi mh fi- . I j 'j & 1 jj j '' wfZj m' dBO im j frateriiiMe 9 s sleazy (larfield had died. ..in her arms. I he New York City tabloids had a field day, running down every lead and angle interviewing everyone, no matter how remotely connected with the case, this went on for sixteen days, and on the morning of the seventeenth one paper's editors were hunched in their sleay conference room. ..trying to squeeze one more story ut of the late John (Jarfield. "I've -t it," one of them finally said, spreading his hands far apart to indicate the sie of his projected headline. "Front page. banner headline: JOHN GARFIELD STILL OLA I)"' Twenty years later, they're still running those John-Garfield-slill-dead stories in every newspaper and magaine in the country on Vietnam, on the draft, on LBJ, on Harry Truman. They've all forgotten Mr. Dooley's maxim, and as a result, this should be a banner year for I just dropped four dollars to see "Sounder" at the Plaza. (It cost four dollars because, as you know, if a movie gets at least two favorable reviews the Plaza jacks the price "Just for this show, Sir.") Now I probably would have seen "Sounder" anyway, but if I had had a more reasoned opinion of it to go on I might have waited until it loped into town again at a lesser tariff. The title suggests it, and the movie bears it out: "Sounder" is a dog. A real hound. Shifting my bestial metaphor, "Sounder" is a ragged paddock for every old nag of a plot Hollywood could trot out in the time allowed (which was considerable). The hard, cruel life of a sharecropper doing lots of cropping and damn little sharing. The good man forced to violate both his own better nature and the law for sheer survival. The stalwart mom forced to make do and she does, by golly. The poor child having to choose between an education, with all its abstractions and delayed rewards, and the harsh, concrete contingencies of immediate existence. The warm, omniscient schoolteacher with just the tomes to spark a light in a young lad's eyes. Give me a break. Send this thing to the knacker's. "Sounder" spreads itself too far, tries ' to take in too much territory. The ethical issues of the sometimes paradoxical conflict between the statutory laws of society and the natural law of individual survival. The heartbreak, and psychic brutality of pointedly deliberate inequality of material existence and the awful effects of such militation against even a spiritual better. The unique requirements for changes in lifestyle -brought about by an increasingly technologically-oriented society. The relationships between these changes and the disintegration of a unified patriarchal family structure. And. on and on. "Sounder" could have bitten off any one of these issues, or any of a number of others, and had a good gnaw for some time. Instead. "Sounder" does little more than whine and howl. In between the tiny bits of thematic meat "Sounder" has more dead time in it - superfluous, strung-out shots; meaningless, redundant dialog - more dead time than any "movie" since "Friends." Although the three main characters are well done, the other acting varies from poor tthe schoolteacher, the lawmen) to atrocious tthe schoolchildren, the Good White Lady). Indeed. Taj Mahal's small part is the only genuine bright spot amongst the dross. I have heard only one accurate assertion about "Sounder" so far: it is not a black-exploitation movie. It is a completely un-prejudiced. eq u a l-opporlunity every body -exploit ati on movie. "Sounder" and its reviews up until now ) - for search SI At; magaine. where sin is stiU news, news is .still sin, women are sliil sexpots and men are all either Marines or MaffoM. Just who the readers are. however, is another question, hut juJging from the ads. not too many will he doing any Dcwars Drinkers Profiles anv time ston... "Say (ioodbye Forever to Dull. Low-Pay Work," runs an ad in the March edition which just about sums up the pitch of every STAG advertisement... "Your Choice of 24,169 Money-Making Products"..: "Earn More Enjoy Life-Be a LOCKSMITH like 1 am"... ""Upholster Autos in Your Garage!!"... "We learned how to turn CAST-OFF FURNITURE INTO BIG SS AT HOME!!" But it's the editorial department, not Horatio Alger ads, that carries any magazine, and as a Diamond publication -The Symbol of Quality in Men's Magazines-STAG has never let its readers down. Every month, STAG covers ignored by EDTH promise to assuage both the guilt and the curiosity of whites lusting for the Real Story of the Black Experience in America. Although I' cannot say for certain (being a blue-eyed devil myself), I presume the blacks go either out of some enforced desire to participate in something at least remotely "black" yet still popularly acceptable, or simply to find out what is being said about them now. Ever since "Birth of a Nation" a man can't be too sure. But blacks, whites whatever it makes no difference. Whatever one's motives or tastes "Sounder" serves up the same fare: no meat, just bones. Bones with nothing on them but dangling (tugging) heartstrings of sentimental pap: Now why couldn't your reviewer have said that? Richard Davidson Route l.Box 117-B Pittsboro Political science group to meet To the Editor: The . political science department, as with many other departments at Carolina, has an alienation problem between faculty and students. Students have practically no voice in the problems of closed courses, the advising system, adding new political science courses, and revising current courses, as the faculty is the sole determining factor in curriculum planning. This problem should be of-particular concern to undergraduate political science majors who are dissatisfied with the present system. To combat this unfair situation, the Political Science Association is being formed for all undergraduate political science majors who are interested in taking an active role in determining departmental curriculum planning. Site latly (Far fed Evans Witt, Editor 79 Years of Editorial Freedom The Daily Tar Heel strives to provide meaningful news interpretations and opinions on its editorial page. Unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor, while letters and columns represent only the views of individual contributors.. sin the whole broad range of the human experience, from sex to violence all the way baa to sex. What real man could resist STAC. adventure stories this month: "Contract Killer on Cemetery Hill" "Yank Who Broke L'p Asia's 'Kidnap Temple Terrorists," or "Stop the SI Million Silver Heist." And who wouldn't start sprouting hair on his palms from reading "A Group Sex 'Regular Describes Her WilJest Six Months"? (Which begias: "I needed the whole day to sort out the things that happened last night and put them in some kind of order. I even missed mass today. And that's something. No matter what, I seldom miss mass. But then, you cannot go to the first orgy in your life on a Saturday morning and expect things to still be the same on Sunday morning.") Another feature every successful magazine must have is a stable of regular columns. Playboy has the Playboy Advisor; STAG has You Asked About Sex by Hermann K. Wolff, M.D.. a column that fields questions too hot for Ann Landers to handle. W.B. of Missouri had a personal question this month: "I've just returned from Viet Nam and find that I cannot be aroused by Oriental females, no matter how attractive they are. Why should this be?" Dr. Wolff's reply which is, I am sure, a great help to W.B.: "Your problem is most likely due to psychological factors connected with your experience in Viet Nam." C.J. of Ohio would like Dr. Wolff to give him "the address of some club in the U.S. where I can meet women who like to have sex every night." "I wish I could." ' It's not that hard to figure out who STAG appeals to-"Ione!y old men," in Kurt Vonnegut's words, who need something "to jack off to." Whoever and wherever they are, these lonely old men have kept STAG going for 24 years, and apparently it's still going strong. Tom Shetley always keeps a few copies around the Student Store magazine rack. But why do I read STAG, you might ask. Well, I am a newsman, and to quote Mr. Dooley just once more, "Sin is news an' news is sin." Besides, on a slow day I - can always squeeze a column out of STAG, and that, at least, is more than you can say about The New Yorker. Our organization will be having a meeting Thursday night, February 1 at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Bingham. Students majoring in political science who are interested in forming a viable force in departmental planning are needed and urged to join our meeting. Only we can decide. Rick Sipes 308 Alexander Crew Club now formal group To the Editor: This letter is an. open invitation to the students of UNC, both male and female, to join the UNC Crew Club. For several years the club consisted solely of people who had rowed in high school and only once in a while here at UNC. There was no formal organization and very little was accomplished. Things have changed! We now have a formal organization and are recognized both by the University and by the student government. The Club is open to anyone who wants ; to row or cox regardless of previous experience. We have freshman boats for those who have less than a year's experience, women's boats, varsity boats, and lightweight boats for oarspersons weighing less than 155 pounds. We also have recreational boats for those who for one reason or another do not wish to compete. For those who like a good race, we have meets scheduled against six schools, including the University of Virginia, The Citadel, and Washington College. Crew is an exciting sport, try it. We invite all oarsmen, oarswomen and particularly coxes (little people) to our last meeting before we start rowing. The meeting will be in Room 217 of the Student Union at 7 p.m. tonight. The members of the UNC Crew Club David Woodall, Managing Editor Mary Newsom, News Editor Howie Carr, Associate Editor Lynn Lloyd, Associate Editor Winston Cavin, Sports Editor Bruce Mann, Feature Editor Scott Stewart, Head Photographer e J V t I fl
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