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Place: The mountains of
Virginia.,
Time: The late 1930V
Setting: The barn on the Walton
family farm.
Small boy: "Why is there a
depression?"
John-boy: "It happened because
the bottom fell out of a thing called
the stock market on a place called
Wall Street."
Many of us watched the NBC TV
Christmas special about the Walton
family and we were struck by the
magnitude of the question and the
hopeless attempt to answer it.
The news today is filled with items
that seem too much reminiscent of
the very unfortunate times of the
depression.
The unemployment rate rose to
4.7 per cent in November and is
expected to rise to six or seven per
cent before the fuel shortage's
impact is felt in full by the nation.
Almost four and a half million
people were out of work in
November, an increase of 200,000
from the October rate.
Several major automobile
manufacturers have begun to layoff
thousands of workers because of the
energy crisis. Eastern Airlines, one
of the largest domestic commercial
airlines, is cutting its work force by
three to five thousand this month.
ABC investigative newsman Brit
Hume reported recently General
George Lincoln, head of the White
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Parking places are still as difficult
as always to find on the UNC
campus. Gasoline is expensive and
rare. Hitchhiking is getting to be
more dangerous in Chapel Hill.
As a service to this community.
The Daily Tar Heel will print free of
charge in the Campus Calendar
notices of people looking for and
offering rides to and from campus.
These notices will be printed at
least once a week. People looking
for and offering rides should include
in the notice their phone numbers
and general vicinity of residence:
We hope faculty and
administration members will join
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Richard M. Nixon was 61 years old yesterday but
that wasn't the only news to come out of the wonderful
machines that belch up long sheets of yellow paper
with all the news fit to print.
Yesterday the teletype machines showed any and all
who were curious enough to look, just what sort of
shape the nation is in and in what direction the nation
is heading.
From my vantage point, it looks as though the
country is headed for a great belly flop, diving from a
200 foot cliff and landing in the middle of Lake Erie.
Just what produces such a dismal outlook? Examine
the facts.
First, the current fuel crisis. The crisis seems to be
hurting everyone in the nation. Well, that's if the major
oil companies are not included. Despite the fact that
there has been a fuel shortage since at least early last
summer, the big oil producers reaped banner profits in
the first nine months of 1973.
Exxon's profits were up 59 per cent in the first nine
months of 1973; Shell, up 41 per cent, Mobil, up 38 per
cent; Texaco, up 35 per cent; Gulf, up 60 per cent; and
Standard of California up 51 per cent. Not bad for an
industry that has been complaining about the tough
times they've been going through.
Second, the President's "Operation Candor" seems
to be suffering from a lack of energy as the White
House released Tuesday what will most likely be the
last movement from its slowly turning gears.
White House white papers claim it was actually the
Congress .that was bought off by the milk companies to
raise the price of milk products and state that Nixon
had nothing to do with making sure the ITT antitrust
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Preparedness, urged the oil industry
to "crank up" their refineries to full
capacity to head off a heating fuel
crisis and import more oil under the
lifted restrictions that had been
passed by Congress. The response of
the major oil companies was to run
their refineries below capacity and
import only a third of the oil the
President had authorized.
Economists have found that the
marketing process in America is
based on supply and demand. We do
not believe this is true anymore.
Since World War H, the profit
motive has become so overpowering
that industry determines for itself
what it must produce and then goes
ahead and does it, figuring that it
can seduce the American public into
overconsumption with slick
advertising.
The oil companies, in the name of
profits, have refused to see what the
real demands of the consumers are.
It was reported last summer there
was over production of heating oil
and not enough gasoline for cars.
And the winter before there was not
enough heating oil and plenty of
gasoline.
We feel the reason for this was not
a miscalculation on the part of the
oil industry but purposeful action to
reap greater profits at the expense of
the American people. This can go on
no longer.
We call on President Nixon to.
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the students in forming carpools
into and out of campus. Carpools
may be rather difficult to
coordinate, considering everyone's
widely varying schedules, but with
20,000 students plus several
thousand professors and
administrators, at least a few
carpools should be formed. These
will save energy and parking spaces.
Persons should bring their notices
into the DTH office and place them
in a basket marked Campus
Calendar. They should be typed on a
60-space line if possible.
Please join in this effort to
conserve energy.
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case would be dropped, spewed forth in what the White
' House calls clearing (cough) the air.
I'm sure it never occurred to Nixon that if he felt the
increase Congress granted to the milk producers was
unfair he could veto it. By vetoing the increase and
sending the bill back to Congress, Nixon could have
shown the Congress and the American people his
suggested 80 per cent level of increase was what he
favored over the 85 to 90 per cent increase granted by
Congress and signed by Nixon. Surely anyone with any
sense could figure that maybe the milk producers
bought off Nixon to make sure he didn't veto the
Congressional raise. This is, of course, speculation.
But the President's statement has done nothing to
squelch such thoughts.
Third, Nixon's new . Watergate prosecuter, Leon
Jaworski, had to withdraw from personal involvement
in four instances of the Watergate investigation
because of possible conflicts of interest. All of the
possible conflicts involve his association with his old
Houston law firm. Jaworski has excused himself (as he
rightly should) from a case against Ashland Oil Inc.
and Oren F. Atkins the head of the company. A second
case involves a group called the Marketing Assistance
Plan. This group is represented by Jaworski's old firm.
The connection here comes because the larger
company, Associated Milk Producers Inc., has been
taking members away from Marketing Assistance.
Here's the clincher: Associated Milk Producers is
under investigation for a pledge of a 2 million dollar
contribution to Nixon's campaign war chest along with
a request to limit imports of competing foreign milk
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Major oil companies increased their
profits spectacularly during the first
nine months of 1973.
Exxon's profits up 59 per cent over
the first nine months of 1972
Shell up 41 per cent
Mobil up 38 per cent
Texaco up 35 per cent
Gulf up 60 per cent
Standard of California up 51 per
cent
Occidental Petroleum up 417 per
cent
freeze profits on all goods produced
by American industry. These
companies have inflated profits
already, and these profits do not go
to improving products but to bigger
and better advertising. By freezing
the profits of big business, the
process of supply and demand will
take over.
If business cannot keep upping its
profits, it will have to let increased
demand be the determinant for
increased production. Over
production will be stopped and the
economy will not be inflated with
needless goods.
We hope the President will use the
power the Congress has given him to
control the economy, to prevent
skyrocketing inflation and provide
more and better services for the
American people.
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Winston Cavin, Managing Editor
Bill Welch, News Editor
David Eskridge, Associate Editor
Seth Effron, Associate Editor
Kevin McCarthy, Features Editor
Elliott Warnock, Sports Editor
Tad Stewart, Photo Editor
Ernie Pitt, Night Editor
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I never came to college to be a senior. It
just sort of happened. Buck when I was a
freshman four years seemed a long time in
the future and I never thought the day would
come when I would be that old. But it did
and I am.
So now starting out my last semester I
can't help but look back over the last three
and a half years and wonder at where I've
been and what I've been through and has it
ail been worth it.
And I'm not about to get all mired down in
nostalgia, heaving a sigh for the good ole
days and shedding a tear for good ole
Carolina, now that I'm in the home stretch
and gee, I'm really glad I saved my pass-fails.
No, that's not what I'm talking about.
Actually it's more of who I am now and
what have I learned and where am I going, a
sort of summing up.
I am a would-be journalist and it's nice to
know my college education has prepared me
with some practical skills that society
considers useful. (At least I'm not an English
major). But at the same time there's
something rather discouraging about finding
out that I can make just as much money as a
bank teller, a job I didn't have to go through
four years for and one that's much easier to
find than that of a reporter. Money's not
everything, so we all say, and it's not. And
being a journalist is what I want to be, so
who gives a damn about the money? Still it
would be nice to think that society would
appreciate my talent and skills in the form of
Jim Taylor
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After glancing at the list of concerts
that the Union is bringing to Carolina
this spring, I have several proposals to
offer on ways that our student fees could
be spent more wisely:
1) Send the money to Duke, where the
sound is decent;
2) Use it to contract top level groups
to play in Memorial Hall at S25 a ticket;
3) Use it to contract the Rolling
Stones to play in the Great Hall for
$1,500 a ticket;
4) Use the money to lower the roof of
Carmichael by 40 feet;
5) Use it to put a roof on Kenan
Stadium; or,
6) Enlarge the Pit to seat' 20,000.
No? You say none of these
suggestions are good? You must have
missed the first one. Why not send our
money to Duke? Anyone can travel 12
miles somehow, and if the Duke Major
Attractions Committee can get Dave
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To the editor:
I wish to applaud the Association of
Women Students and their excellent
publication She. They are putting on a
strong and well thought out campaign for
the oppressed women of this rather archaic
university.
When 1 first transferred here from Georgia
State University in Atlanta one of the first
things I noticed was the rather peculiar (and
I might add normal for the status quo)
attitude toward women. The most
perplexing thing was that it seems the
majority of the women here appear to accept
it. Last night while 1 was watching the video
in my dorm I found it interesting to listen to
my fellow compadres talk about women as if
they were no more than glorified cock
holsters. They weren't being malicious about
it. This is just the way our society has
conditioned them (and myself) to think.
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products. Associated Milk Producers is also being
investigated for an alleged pledge of money connected
with a deal to raise milk price supports.
Fourth, it was reported that the nation's worst
inflation conditions since World War II continued
unchecked in December according to Labor
Department figures. Huge increases in food and fuel
prices fed the fire of rising inflation. Retail prices rose
almost 8 per cent in 1973. The increase in wholesale
prices has meant that what could be purchased for $ 100
in 1967 now costs $145.30.
Fifth, and last but not least, the Internal Revenue
Serivice is expected to rule that President Nixon owes
about $30,000 on some of his real estate dealings. One
thing that still amazes me every time 1 think about it is,
how can Nixon have the gall to claim deductions of
$578,000 and only donate $200 to charity.
All this is very revealing about the state of mind now
griping the nation. This state is one that seems to be
based on a misconception that all these things, like
cheating on taxes, reaping huge profits at the unfair
expense of the consumer, and appointing a person to
prosecute a case knowing they will have to disqualify
themselves because of conflict of interest, is all part of
the game to get ahead, to most Americans.
Too many Americans have accepted this perverted
concept of the American Dream that has been shoved
down their throats by hot shots who have had to justify
their cheating and swindling to make it rich.
Hopefully, Watergate will bring about a new
American consciousness that will no longer accept this
kind of lame logic and will demand honesty, fairness
and hard work as the American formula for success.
some cold, hard cash. That's not being
mercenary; it's being realistic.
And if I'm totally realistic I know much of
my college career has been a wasteland of
trivia. All I remember of freshman oology is
the difference between a male and female
and if I know when and where the Treaty of
Hampton Court was signed, who really
cares? Now if my life was to be a continuous
hopping from game show to game show.
Hollywood Squares one day. Jeopardy the
next, all this would be well and good. Maybe
then all that useless information that sticks
in my brain like chewing gum might w in me a
Frigidaire Freezer or a trip for two to Sun
Valley.
Somebody said that in college you learn
how to talk at a cocktail party. I'm inclined
to agree with this statement, although most
of the cocktail parties I've ever been to are
glorified beer blasts and no one does much
talking anyway.
Still I remember being a freshman, and
even more anticipating being a freshman
because college after all was THE answer.
And I remember the disillusionment
somewhere along that first fall when I
realized that college would never live up to
all the expectations I had of it. which I can
see now were extremely unrealistic ones. No
one thing ever contains all the answers.
So what does all this leave me with? A
slightly bitter taste in my mouth and the
feeling that my time could have been better
spent elsewhere?
No I've learned some important
wee. con
Mason, Nash and Crosby, Grateful
Dead, New Riders, Marshall Tucker.
Commander Cody and Rod Stewart &
Faces all by their little lonesomes, think
how fine it could be if we chipped in?
Carmichael is a dump as far as concerts
are concerned, and a building cannot
exist by hoopball alone. At least I hope
not.
Or perhaps we could build an
acoustically wonderful concert room
somewhere on campus and broadcast
our "live" concerts over closed-circuit
T.V. We could have receivers in all the
dorms and in the Union Snack Bar! We
could all sit in front of our televisions on
blankets and pillows and smoke dope,
throw frisbees, and pretend we were at a
real concert like they have at other
schools. .
I'm really surprised that a lot of
groups don't care to come to
Carmichael, play two notes, and after
Something that would benefit the students
at this University would be consciousness
raising groups for both sexes so that we as
men and women could learn more about
each other's hopes and fears and in so doing
become better people. The officials in the
Morehead Foundation would benefit greatly
from a little of said consciousness-raising.
A very fine pop balladeer named Cat
Stevens put the problem of sexism very
nicely in his song "Tuesday's Dead."
"What's my sex, what's my name.
all in all it's all the same
everybody plays a different game
that is all "
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things more realities, if you wish. I know
now that the vagueness often referred to in
scatological terms can get me almost
anywhere it doesn't matter wh;t you say as
long as you say it well. And I've come to the
conclusion that the saying you always get
what you deserve is not necessarily a
universal truth it's not what you know but
who.
Still college is an education: social,
academic, moral, etc. It's finding out that
you have a third roommate and it's not
another girl, and that all hicks don't come
from the South and that George nickel is not
a member of your brother's fraternity like
you first thought. It's also realizing that
when people ask you if you smoke, they
don't mean cigarettes, and that a term paper
you wrote for Psych can also be used for
Anthro if you rewrite the introduction and
sometirrs you don't even have to do that.
More and more I think this is v hat college
should be not a preparation for what lies
ahead, but an experience to be enjoyed for its
own sake.
For me college has been a time for finding
out things about me. about other people,
about ideas, and yes. about ideals too. So
now when 1 look back I can say that it was
worth it. good and bad all lumped together
and labeled college. Maybe it's a
rationalization but at least it's one that will
get me through this last semester; and then
I'll have my sheepskin and wasn't that what I
wanted alter all?
cert j
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five minutes when the echo dies down,
pack up their gear, leave and tell the
Carolina Union Activities to kiss off
forever.
Oh! Excuse me. Sha-na-na is
returning and they're not bad for second
rate nostalgia and mindless boogie. But
surely there are better things in life. And
who ever heard of the Pointer Sisters?
Those are our two "biggies" for spring?
That is purely shameful.
The Union music committee which
schedules our concerts has a good
excuse for not being able to find top
talent. 1 hereby offer it to them, gratis:
"Well, we had Gram Parsons. The
Byrds, Jethro Tull and Jim Croce lined
up, but they all either died, broke up or
were kidnapped by Egil Krogh... Sorry
gang, but we do try... Anyway, the sound
is so bad that it conceals the second-rate
nature of our talent, but we are trying."
They are very trying, but that doesn't
help us any. So if you can't get Dylan
tickets or transfer to some school with
big name groups (like say. Gardner
Webb or Bob Jones) you're out of luck.
But what's all this brouhaha 'tis a
new, virgin clean-slated, rainy semester
and we should all try to make the best of
it by dropping out and doing organic
farming in our parents' garages and
hanging around the hometown curb
market talking to real live farmers who
still can commune with the land without
looking like idiots. Get back to the
roots, in other words.
The next time your phone rings and
it's a wrong number, pretend you're
whoever the person asked to speak to
and screw the caller to the wall. Sav
things about his sister.
Peace, love and the theory of
countervailing powers....
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