I, o o n pi n 71 O o o O T7TTD ill t 5 y t f M ( I ! ! i 3 J 1 1 klsKj' w- iO- v uj v v c' cv -s W" o IT1 ii b The minimum wage bill is almost a reality. President Nixon vetoed a similar biSi in September and, since then, the poor have had to pay for an inflation they had no hand in creating. Inflation was almost 10 per cent for the 1 2-month period ending in January, the cost of an average market basket has risen even more, not to mention the terrific increase in fuel costs. Millions of workers have no way to combat such price hikes, and the administration should not leave them defenseless. They should be allowed to live with the increases and live comfortably. On May 1, the minimum wage will rise to 52 an hour, or $4,160 a year, hardly an adequate liv ing for a family of any size. A minimum is just that: no one should be allowed to sink below the poverty line; savings and cut-backs must be taken from the well-to-do. They are the ones who can afford to struggle with inflation, not the workers who have already been exploited. Most fears about the minimum wage stem from its "dangerous side-effect," unemployment. Rep. Dominick Daniels, D-N.J., of the House Education and Labor Committee contends that "traditional prophecies which accompany each minimum wage Recycling project makes sense One of the cheaper, more practical proposals to go before the CGC Finance Committee is the ECOS recycling project. Tl statewide group, which was founded in Chapel Hill, is requesting $715 for the construction of 17 wooden dumpsters to be placed near most of the campus dormitories. A limited recycling project is in effect right now, and ECOS predicts that an estimated three tons of waste paper will be collected weekly. The paper that is collected during the year may be sold for about $1,800 in Durham, thus providing about $1,230 for Paul Price Marcus Williams and I were on the proverbial road; headed for a meeting with the State Attorney General in Raleigh. And like all good roads, Highway 54 played its part: steaming up images of what the past road had been cluttered with me and the rest of the Student Legal Assistance Committee. Debris. The damndest kind of frustrations. Telling the distraught woman that, no, we can't tell you how to go about getting a divorce because we're not lawyers and can't give legal advice (and yet knowing divorce proceedings well). Telling the guy that, sure we're sorry you've been ripped off by your landlord and, yeah, we know you'll lose money if you take him to court, but we've no funds to help you with (and the hundred others like him). Telling pissed off students that, yep, we could probably take the town government to court for letting gas stations do the preferential customer trick, but how we Header responds For love To the editors: I am writing this letter as a result of David Wall's article, "Carolina Football: What Price Glory?", to try to show a more unbiased opinion of Carolina football. Carolina football has been a part of my life for over six years now. I first started when my oldest brother Johnnie signed a grant-in-aid to U.N.C. He and his fellow teammates had many many hours of sweat, pain, mental, emotional and psychological strain and stress. But they did it for the LOVE of the game and their own self-satisfaction. 1 feel that Mr. Wall's signing of a grant-in-aid was not because of his love and desire to play college football but because it was expected of him. Since his oldest two brothers had both received football scholarships, naturally he could not disappoint everyone and not follow their footsteps. Plus, as he stated, "it was a chance to attend a major college for free." Everyone has heard the old saying, "that there's nothing worth having unless you have to work for it." This Is as true in sports as it is in every other aspect of life. Everything has its pros and cons but to be a winner or one of the best takes hard work, dedication, pain and a true interest and love to endure the hard times until at last you achieve your goal and all your efforts are paid off with self satisfaction. I don't see how anyone can possibly say that they've never regretted quitting something that was at one time a pleasurable part of their life. A person always misses the pleasures they have had, even though many facets of the experience they didn't like. Mr. Wall brought up the sad death of Bill Arnold, but hundreds of people die every year as a result of injury in athletic activities and competition for unexplainable reasons.' My 18 year old brother, Jeff, had the love and desire to play college football. It was one exploited increase have been successfully refuted by studies of minimum wage effects made by the Department of Labor. If an employer needs an employe, he still has that need no matter what the price. And any reputable employer should be willing to pay a fair living wage to his workers. Actually very few workers are covered by the law and only those in the most dire straits, as it should be. In North Carolina, for example, most of 1 .3 million workers already receive more than the new minimum wage or at least close to it. About 60.000 domestic and agricultural workers are the ones directly affected, and these are the ones who have been ignored for too long. Students will be exempt if they work in a part-time capacity, thus assuring the availability of summer jobs. And most people who are prosperous enough to be students aren't vitally dependent on employment anyway. The government is responsible for inflation, and they must pay for it without getting the poor to do it for them, without using the poor as the cutting-edge. It is about time that some of Washington's programs and reforms got turned into dollars and cents at the local level. gonna pay the lawyer? Trying to get research done but infrequently finding the requisite time for an over-worlced, small (7 members) committee that mans a desk 25-30 hours a week. Reading a letter to the Editor from the Legal Services Coordinator chiding S.L.A.C. for negligence, when in fact. the negligence was his own (for failing to check out his "facts" which were erroneous assumptions). Writing a point by point rebuttal to the letter and submitting it to the old DTH only to be given in return, weeks later, "what letter? I never saw a letter. Hey, X, you seen a letter?" Debris. Frustrations. But that lurked in the rearview mirror. Marcus and I were driving forward to a rendezvous with the Head Honcho Lawman. To have that mystifying web of legalities torn apart. To know it nice and clear: how to expand legal of game of his goals in life. He loved to eat but partly for the reason to gain weight so he would be big enough to play football. Every afternoon or night, he was on the porch lifting weights to get in shape and become strong enough to play football. He attended a year of post grad at Ford Union Military Academy in an attempt to earn a full grant-in-aid. After participating in an undefeated season and the Virginia Military Championship title, Jeff was offered a football scholarship to Carolina, and one of his many goals in life had been accomplished. He was one of the happiest people I've ever seen when he told me about his scholarship and how he was going to be one of the best, not just a holder of a scholarship: Unfortunately, a freak sailing accident last July in which Jeff was killed, put an end to his Carolina football career but not to pleasure and joy he got from working to build himself up to his.6'3", 230-pound physique and the self-fulfillment he got from earning his football scholarship. In hopes that other young men might have the chance to find the love and self fulfillment Jeff found through football, my parents set up a memorial scholarship to go to the outstanding freshman player each year. I don't see how David Wall can possibly accept the money every semester from the football program if he hates It as much as it seems. The football program has slacked from what it was when Johnnie was a freshman. I'm not saying that that's all bad, but to be one of the best there has to be stringent rules and hard work, as is true in everything in life. Not everyone was made to play college football and evidently it was not that David Wall could not afford the price.. but rather that he lacked the real love and desire it takes to play college football. Pat Cowell A.D. Pi House I he Daily 82nd Year of Exliioriul Freedom All unsigned editorials are the opinion of the editors. Letters and columns represent the opinions of individuals. Founded February 23, 1893 The Most people who work for a minimum wage, like it. Most economists don't. The current wage bill was passed easily by Congress last week and Nixon's approval is taken for granted. The bill will raise the minimum wage from SI. 60 to $2.30 an hour by 1976. Coverage will be extended for the first time to domestic workers, an estimated 50,000 people in North Carolina according to the Raleigh News and Observer. Students who work less than 20 hours a week are not covered by the bill. The following quotation from Representative Albert Quie, R Minn, is an example of the calibre of background recycling salaries and for future ECOS activities. The $715 that is being requested today will thus establish a continuing, self-sufficient business which is for the benefit of the entire community. The D TH naturally supports recycling projects in general since we print 15,000 copies of this newspaper daily, all of which can be re-used. We especially support this particular project because of its efficiency and common sense. Every week that three tons of paper is collected, 51 trees will be saved. 9 aid without stepping on the giant juridical toe. The two-hour meeting produced many how-not-to's. Direct fundings from C.G.C. for the hiring of lawyers was out. Through a curious twist of semantfes, C.G.C. is considered part of the state government apparatus. N.C. statute 147-17 reads "No ...institution... of the state shall employ any counsel." Moreover, even if C.G.C. is not involved, student fees cannot be applied toward the hiring of lawyers. Student fees, through an extremely odd use of logic, are considered "public funds"; and public funds cannot be used for individual or "class" legal problems. So even if we students choose through a referendum to give a portion of our fees to a legal aid program, it can't be done. Quandaries. And S.L.A.C. is back where it started. No way to give legal advice on a day to day basis. No way to hire lawyers to take student related cases to court. Or is that so? It was not at all clear that the A.G. office's opinion on public funding was anything more than an opinion. Our view is that money merely being transferred by the University from willing students to a student non profit Legal Aid Corporation does not merit the label "public funds." The point can and will be contested. So there is a good chance to do something about the legal plights of students. But there is a lot of work to be done. If you want students to get some teeth in this legal system of ours, or even if you just wish there was somewhere you could go to get quick, free, authoritative legal advice on your traffic ticket, or the terms of your contract, or your divorce then come help us. Short of that, give us your support when the issue becomes a subject of campus discussion. Justice, ostensibly is for everyone; and we, students, are just going to have to d ig out our share. That's where S.L.A.C.'s and Student Government's road leads. Call 933-5101 or come by Suite C if you want an appoinment to be interviewed for S.L.A.C. membership. The Daily Tar Heel Jim Cooper, Grog Turosak Editors Kevin McCarthy, Managing Editor Michael Davis, Associate Editor Jean Swallow, Associate Editor Ken Allen, flaws Editor Harriet Sugar, Feature Editor Elliott Warnock, Sports Editor Tom Randolph, Photo Editor Bob Jasinkiawicz, Night Editor mm$&SMmf tarn. T1KHH BBHHTtfTW Tar Heel Thursday, April 4, 1974 discussion concerning the issue. "There is no question that this bill is not inflationary because inflation has already occurred," Mr. Quie said. Aside from the double negative, the statement is logically inconsistent and creates the impression that inflation happens all at once and then stops for a while. We wish it did. To add insult to injury, the statement was used as supporting evidence in a News and Observer editorial. The following pro-con editorials are designed to shed some light on the subject, something which everyone from the average student, to President Nixon, to Mr. Quie himself could see more clearly. wt-Vtrttiit.'raT-'."' mm I I I 'DEAR Aim LAMPEHS. EVEHY TIME THE PHONE RINGS, Letters to the editor Knttclhemi To the editors: I noticed the new "B" sanitation rating in the Granville Towers cafeteria last Friday, before a visiting friend and myself ate supper there. This meal was the only one we had together before the weekend, which we spent listening to "Frog Serenade" with the windows open, never venturing out of sprinting distance from the bathroom. After two gruelling days I decided to raise a stink about it. The city health inspector wouldn't say why exactly Granville rated only 87 per cent sanitation. I talked with Granville food services manager Mark Moldenhauer, who expressed his dissatisfaction with the new rating, and attributed it to a dishwashing machine that broke down the day of the inspection (Friday). He couldn't specify when the replacement parts would arrive, but until they do I suggest that Granville residents watch what they eat with a microscope. . Lewis Tager 1 102 Granville Aspiring artists nix each other To the editors: God, the childishness of it all. Last Tuesday evening, I was walking through the pit when I noticed a friend painting one side of the cube. She was publicizing a Symposium event that was taking place the following night, i.e. Wednesday. I picked up a brush and began to help her. Suddenly a shadow fell on my shoulder, an I noticed a fairly pissed-off individual, looking at me, who said words to the effect of "Hey man, you jiainted over my sign." It turned out that my friend and I had indeed painted over a sign publicizing a . United Farm Workers Lettuce Rally which was to take place Friday. Now I admit that it is usually not the done thing to paint over someone's cube art if the event has not taken place. But the lettuce people's sign had been up for seven days, Tuesday to Tuesday, before we painted it over. They had already had seven days publicity, and would have occupied one quarter of the cube for ten whole days if they had had their way. I argued this point with several different lettuce people during the course of my labor. They all had a self-righteous gleam of inj ured pride in their eyes. Now, they may well have had a point, and their anger was, to some extent, justified. 1 Oely temporary relief Instead of helping workers, raising the minimum wage can only provide temporary relief from economic pressures. The pay increase will reinforce inflationary trends and, in some cases, not give workers more money, or even the same amount, but none at all because of unemployment. The government can legislate whatever wages it wishes to (or would like to think it could), but some employes aren't worth the extra 70 cents per hour required by law. Businesses don't hire people for their health and, if an employe's time is too expensive, they simply won't buy it. Earlier wage bills excluded such low salary occupations as farm labor, domestic servants, part-time and student jobs in order to maintain maximum employment. The present bill will let students have the eight-year-old minimum wage, a SI. 60 an hour, a goal both in the interest of students and of the McDonald's Hamburger lobby. But domestics and farm labor will be affected by the bill. Their employers, housewives and farmers, will be forced to do without, rather than retain the services of people they simply can't afford. This will hurt the poor, specifically the rural poor and those who are desperate enough to swallow their pride and become household servants. These 5i : Til I S7s ' '"-a Hikes half expected to see that side of the cube occupied by United Farm Workers publicity this morning. But no. When I came through the pit Wednesday morning I saw that our Symposium publicity, telling people of an event to take place Wednesday night, had indeed been painted over. But NOTHING was in its place. I have absolutely no proof that the lettuce people were responsible, but if they were, they are a) a bit childishly vindictive for painting it over, though possibly justified; we did paint over their sign: b) a bunch of PUSSIES for not putting their own publicity back up. This way, neither the Symposium nor the UFW rally gets any benefit. If the lettuce people were not responsible, my apologies to them. Maybe the Symbionese Liberation Army did it. Adrian Scott Interest lacking in Christianity To the editors: Last Thursday morning, as a volunteer participant in Christian Emphasis Week, I helped hand out copies of an article entitled "The Resurrection of Jesus Christ." The reactions I encountered varied. Most people took the article without comment; some expressed ridicule; some, even friends, were repulsed and disgusted. In short, I met an overwhelming response of disinterest. It seems completely incongruous to me that students who will invest $8-10,000 and four years of their lives to be educated in a liberal, progressive university, demanding that this education include exposure to many wisely varying philosophies and ideas, will also refuse to spend five minutes of their time to read a simple presentation of the very crux The Daily Tar Heel welcomes the expression of all points of view through the letters to the editor. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors. This newspaper reserves the right to edit all letters for libelous statements and good taste. Letters should be limited to 300 words and must include the name, address and phone number of the writer. Type letters on a 60-space line and address them to Editor, The Daily T&r Heel, in care of the Student Union. i'5 8 ' .Z ZZT- f people had rather have a subsistence at a low wage than no wage at all. If the minimum is increased, all other wagc-carncrs could logically demand pay hikes. When the floor is raised, so is the ceiling. Large wage costs will increase the costs of production. Higher costs mean higher prices. The wage increase, and its lew benefits, will soon be consumed by increases in the cost of living and acceleration of the inflationary spiral. Inflation is doubly dangerous because it provides its own momentum by its very nature. Mandatory pay hikes will even increase that momentum, all lor the sake of phantom goals. Congress must be clever enough to avoid such limited, stop-gap measures. By raising wages they treat only the symptoms of our economic malaise, not the cause. In the long run. there will be even more people out of work, a higher cost of living and even greater pressure for more minimum wage bills. People on fixed incomes will be caught in the crunch. More realistic measures must be devised by Congress. More complicated solutions like a negative income tax. eliminating the foreign trade deficit and reducing congressional spending are crucial to the welfare of American workers. They aren't as popular or as easy, but they are our only remedy. 1 I S '-4 4 MY HUSBAND t out at kdI. me of the Christian faith, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. To say that Christianity is bunk solely on the basis of hearsay, subjective opinion and personal prejudices is to deny the central process of education-objecttve investigation of the facts. To take pride in being open minded, well-read or even educated without seriously investigating the claims of history s most controversial personality is merely self deception. Christianity is not a mystic cult reserved for those who choose to bury their heads in the sands of naivete. It is objective, historical, testable, provable. Consider the examples of Oxford and Cambridge scholar C. S. Lewis, poet T. S. Eliot. British philosopher Cyril Joad, Harvard professor Clifford Moore, Yale professor William Phelps men respected for their scholarship, yet orthodox in their Christian belief, men who merely examined the facts and came to their own conclusions. The rational evidence is there. You can believe or scoff, procrastinate or rationalize. But you can't ignore it. The goals of liberal education demand a hearing for all alternatives. Anything less is intellectual dishonesty. Sandra Millers . Junior, Journalism Student advises letters to D.C. To the editors: Including papers, tests, and classroom and reading notes, the average undergradute puts about 5,000 words a week on paper. The purpose of this letter is to suggest that, in the midst of an extremely serious political crisis involving presidential impeachment, it would be appropriate for college students to divert a few of these words in the d irection of Washington. D.C. This is easier to do than is commonly supposed. Anyone in the White House can be reached by an address that includes simply their names, and Washington, D.C. 20500. Any senator can be reached by a letter or post card that includes the name, and Washington D.C. 20510. The ZIP Code that will reach any representative is Washington D. C, 20515. 20500. 20510. 20515. This is the code for participating in the democratic process at a time when every voice should be heard. Charles Bracelen Flood 1326 Madison Ave. New York City