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Poge ^ The Red ond Block, Wednesdy August 5, 1970
Editorials
Tallulah's 'riches'
Karl Wallenda s walk over
Tallulah (iorge made more
than Kai I Wallenda rich And
it's a shame too
Tallulah Gorge is one of
the lew natural wonders left
The gorge and area around
it should have been made a
national park long ago.soall
men could see it and hike
through it without having to
pay fifty cents or a dollar as
the case may be
The set up for the Wallen
da walk caused one ot the
better trails to the bottom to
he bulldozed over and lost
until someone cuts it again
And. of course, the cable is
still up as part of the scenic
beauty - it only costs fifty
cents to see the cable
Why don't the perpetua-
tors of this now eyesore cut
the cable up into chunks and
sell it for a paltry sum to
anyone curious enough to
want it?
Men have to make their
living off the land, but why
is it necessary for some men
to deprive other men of nat
ural beauty under the guise
of providing it for them'’
The commercialism,
small as it is at Tallulah
Gorge, is enough to make us
sick It's time either the
state or federal government
stepped in to aid conserva
tion at this level
Coming . .
Next week's issue of The
Red and Black will be the
final pa|>cr of the summer
It will be another large is
sue and included in it will
he The Red and Black s
endorsements of candidates
in the gubernatorial and
lieutenant governor's pn-
maries schedules! Septem
ber 9 as well as stories and
analyses of the numerous
candidates and their plat
forms for these offices
Here we go again
Congressman Fletcher Thompson, fifth district
Republican running for re-election, has introduced a bill
designed, if passed and enacted into law, to force news
men on the Washington lawmakers' beat to reveal their
financial disposition, just as elected public officials do
The Red and Black wonders what Representative
Thompson s beef with reporters is, as such a proposed
law is ridiculous
Such an idea, however, is feasible, if, and only if, said
newsmen were required to tell only their working asso
ciates what their financial position is and if such a ruling
came from the media itself or as a recommendation
from Sigma Delta Chi
The idea, according to Congressman Thompson, is that
newsmen owning stock in a company might give undue
publicity to committee hearings concerning the same
company This could happen.
But to imply that newsmen have the same responsibili
ty or the same power as an elected official is irresponsi
ble itself.
It seems that Representative Thompson would be
better advised to worry about the housing problems of his
constituants than who covers what in Washington, how-
much money they have, and where they get it.
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PESTICIDES ARE COMING UNDER HEAVY ATTACK BY ECOlOGICAl EXPERTS
HEW reports are recommending elimination or cutbacks on the uses of several classes
3Dangerous pesticides
have restricted use
Why not tow
these away?
editorial photo by GARNETT WALLACE
The Physical Plant, in cooperation with the De
partment of Public Safety, set up two new bus stops
to avoid congestion on Sanford Drive. When cars
park illegally in these areas, the busses can’t get in
them and there is more congestion than ever.
There are several tow-away zones on campus al
ready, so why not add two more!
WHOSE SLIPPERY SHOES?
Tightrope walking politics
by phil wyatt
staff writer
President Richard Nixon, in
carrying out his "Silent Majori
ty" politics and broadcasting it
vociferously through his mouth
piece. Vice President Spiro
Agnew, is playing with social
forces he is in no way capable
of handling He has already al
ienated a majority of students
and young peopie. many of
whom are vocal or at least do
not categorize themselves as a
part of the Silent Majority
Donovan's open-mindedness hit
TO THE EDITOR:
I am a bit mysufied at Mr
Dick Donovan s column in last
weeks paper "Hell, they won t
go 1 Its a queer movie!' ", It
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was difficult for me to tell
whether he was arguing for the
movie, or whether this was just
one more diatribe against that
easiest target ol j|| Lester
Maddox Mr Donovan seems to
work on the supposition that
anyone who has the audacity to
disagree with him is either
Close-minded. "narrow
minded, or childish The lati
tudinal breadth of Mr Dono
van's tolerance level is well il
lustrated by these adjectives
He "guesses” that those
people who stay away "think if
they ignore such lacivious
goings on. they will keepi
themselves pure and clean ."
Apparently this is bad One
We fill any Doctor's
Prescripton
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Downtown and at Five Points
wonders if purity and cleanli
ness are the evils against which
Mr Donovan is crusading, or
what If keeping clear of filth is
one way ot staying clean, would
Mr Donovan recommend we
stay away fron filth'’ Or does
he think cleanliness is the re
sult of wallowing in "such laci
vious goings on"?
Then there is the magnifi
cent open-mindedness that Mr
Donovan displays toward those
in disagreement with him, a
typical and traditional Liberal
trait Those who disagree are
"close-minded about such
things as sex. homosexuality,
inter-racial marriage etc
There is no room in Mr Dono
van s Uberal world for anyone
who believes that sex is a beau
tiful gift reserved for mar
riage. but who believes also
that homosexuality is perverse
No. those who dislike homosex
uality must also dislike sex
Then one "might just settle
back ami enjoy the art I won
der if Mr Donovan, with all his
immense journalistic know
ledge has ever heard ol Mar
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shall McCluhan's (sic) distinc
tion between hot and cool me
dia. A hot medium, like the
written word, requires the ob
server to think and concen
trate. that is. he must use his
mental equipment in order to
get any meaning out of what is
written A cool medium, on the
other hand, like a moving pic
ture. prohibits thought; for
there is no way of stopping the
movie and pausing for reflec
tion Rather, one is forced to sit
like a vegetable and soak up the
images
Writing goes through the
eyes to the brain,, but a film
goes through eye and ear
i multiple sensory equals
heightened impact) and bypas
ses the brain, striking at the
emotions and subconscious To
relax and enjoy the artwork is
fine for a Walt Disney movie;
but would it be advisable for a
person to expose himself to this
fundamentally irrational attack
if he believed the* message to be
morally wrong 0 Does Mr Don
ovan believe that people should
go around doing what to them is
morally wrong’’ To relax and
enjoy the art of a cool medium
is to vegetate and soak up what
ever propaganda is being
aimed at one If Mr Donovan is
so anti-intellectual as to advise
this, he is well entitled to his
Liberal credentials
James B. Jordan
THfc
BOOTERY
IS FOR THE SOPHISTICATED
IADY WHO WANTS THE
UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT IN
HIGH FASHION SHOES!
COMING SOON!
President Nixon's politics
could be parallelled with the
situation in the United States
before the Civil War The north
ern factions of the political par
ties realized they could carry a
national election without the
help ol the South After the
elections in 1860. the South real
ized its impotence, reacted to
save its way of life, and civil
war broke out. This was not the
only reason, but a very impor
tant factor
President Nixon is coming
close to this example in his ca
tering to the majority voters in
the U.S. The older middle class
Americans are in the majority
and. therefore, could re-elect
him to the White House or at
least build up Kepublication re
presentation at the local and na
tional level
The sad thing about this situ
ation is that Nixon does not need
the votes of the students to car
ry out his plans He is throwing
away the future of our country
in order to get votes — good
short term returns but in the
long run, disastrous Conserva
tives and older people wonder
why we have so many disturb
ances and riots on college cam
puses The simple reason is
that the student, whether as an
individual or a group, is power
less to do anything about which
he considers very important
Perhaps die Silent Majority
feel that they have been pushed
too far I suggest they take a
close look at the other side of
the fence at the frustration of
many students having high ide
als who can do nothing to be re
presented in am office of power
On the other hand, it the verbal
retributions against young peo
ple continue, and their voices
are not heard, this nation may
have a civil war between the
generations — something no
one wishes to contemplate
KWIK CAR WASH
ON BAXTER ST.
DAY & NIGHT
VACUUM YOUR CAR, TOO.
by j.j. mahoney
guest columnist
A recent Health. Education
and Welfare Depart nent
conmission studying the rela
tionship of pesticides to envi
ronmental health unanimously
recommended the elimination,
or severe restriction, of several
classes of pesticides except in
certain essential uses Those
who use chemical pesticides in
their homes and gardens should
know about these hazardous
chemicals and about safer
methods of pest control
Many of these environmen
tally hazardous pesticides have
made inexpensive control of
several insect-born diseases
possible and have been of great
apparent low-cost assistance to
agriculture However, moun
ting evidence ot hidden costs in
terms of environmental degra
dation and. in a few cases, haz
ards to human health make it
imperatuve that we now turn
to more sophisticated and even
more superficially expensive
methods of pest control.
Among the hazardous pesti
cides now in use are DDT and
several other related chlorinat
ed hydrocarbons; arsenic, lead
and mercury pesticides and at
least two types of weed killers
called 2,4. 5-T and 2,4-D
The chlorinated hydorcar-
bons. or oganochlorine. insecti
cides are the most heavily used
group of insect poisons and the
most hazardous to the environ
ment They include DDT. DDD.
aldrir, and dieldrin - the most
wideiv implicated pesticide pol
lutants — as well as endrin.
heptachlor, B H.C., lindane,
chlordane and toxaphene which
share chemical properities
making them environmental 1 ''
dangerous
The dangerous traits of nese
insecticides are their persist
ence in the environment and
stability in the body, their solu
bility in laity tissues, their biol
ogical magnification and, of
course, their toxic effects,
A forest treated only once
with DDT contains elevated
levels of this poison lor ten
years. An orchard treated for
10 years retained, at the end of
the decade, almost half of all the
DDT applied
However this persistence
would be of limited importance
if chlorinated hydrocarbons did
not concentrate in animal tis
sues Unfortunately their high
solubility in fatty tissues in
sures that most of the small
doses of chlorinated hydrocar
bons that are in the food of
animals, including man. are
absorbed into the body rather
than eliminated This efficient
extraction from food plus the
slow excretion of absorbed
chlorinated hydrocarbons leads
to the well known phenomenon
of biological magnification
with each animal in a food
chain having a higher pesticide
burden than the animal it feeds
on
Even the thousand fold mag
nification which often occurs in
food chains would not be of
great significance if it were not
for the fact that these subst
ances are after all used be
cause they are poisons. Per
haps even more alarming are
the recent discoveries that
there are also unexpected toxic
side effects at lower, non-le-
thal concentrations. Heavy
applications or accumulations
have resulted in dramatic local
mass killings of birds and fish.
More important to entire spec
ies of birds on both sides of the
Atlantic, however, is the less
obvious but ultimately tragic
effect on reproduction Enzymes
produced by the body to seed
the breakdown of ingested
chlorinated hydrocarbons have
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ment of the Interior has. how
ever, independently banned the
use of DDT, DDD, aldrin. dield
rin. endrin. heptachlor, lindane
and toxaphene on the 70 per
cent of federal lands which is
managed by Interior
These groups of pesticides
are also very persistent and
accumulate in animal bodies
Arsenic-containing pesticides
cause the largest number of
accidental human deaths, and
mercury fungicides can cause
brain damage and birth de
fects. contamination of fish and
wildlife, and wildlife kills The
H E W. review committee has
also recommended severe re
strictions of these pesticides
and the Interior Depart nent
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J.J. Mahoney is a Ph.D. candidate in the zoology
department. His major field is pesticides in birds
and he is connected with the Institute of Ecology.
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been found to also breakdown has banned use of arsenic and
sex hormones in mammals and
birds Because of this, and oth
er biochemical effects of DDT
and dieldren, birds such as the
bald eagle, peregrine falcon,
osprey, and pelican which live
at the end of long food chains
destroyed eggs Some of these
species have now disappeared
over large areas due to their
reproductive failure.
Within the last year, the Na
tional Cancer Institute has also
reported that DDT, aldrin,
dieldrin and heptachlor pro
duce cancerous tumors when
fed in high concentrations to
laboratory animals. A recent
European study showed that
while the first generation of
mice fed low doses of DDT had
no cancers, the children and
grandchildren on continued low
does had high rates of leukemia
and cancerous tumors.
A prestigious review com
mittee of the department of
Health. Education and Welfare
last year recommended the
elimination within two years of
all uses of DDT and DDD “ex
cepting those uses essential to
the preservation of human
health or welfare," and the
severe restriction of 7 other
chlorinated insecticides
{aldrin. dieldrin. endrin. hep
tachlor. chlordane. B H.C. and
lindane i The Department of
Agriculture has begun slowly to
move against DDT but has cho
sen a method which allows
lengthy legal appeal. As a re
sult, the roughly 30 per cent
restriction in DDT use an
nounced last fall has not yet
gone into effect The Depart-
mercury pesticides on its land
holdings
In April the govern nent
banned interstate sales of liq
uid forms of the herbicide 2,-
4,5,-T for weed control around
homes or water areas. The
Department of Defense also
suspended its use as a defoliant
in Vietnam These actions were
taken after extensive testing
confirmed that 2,4,5 T, as well
as a contaminant often found
in 2,4.5,-T, caused a very signif
icant increase in birth defects
in mice. The related herbicide
2,4-D has also been demonstrat
ed to produce birth defects in
mice but evidently further
proof is needed before the gov
ernment will act against it.
If you need to use insecti
cides in your house or garden,
avoid using sprays containing
those posions which HEW rec
ommends be restricted to “es
sential" uses They are all list
ed earlier in this article.
In homes use dessicant pow
ders (Dri-Die, SG 67, Perma-
Guardl against ants, fleas,
roaches, bedbugs, or silverfish
The Audubon Society also rec
ommends sprays containing
malathion or diszinom
1 Spectracide l against all of the
above pests except ants
In the garden, diazinom or
sevin is recommended against
caterpillars, chmeh bugs, cut
worms. grasshoppers, town
moths, or scale insects Diazt-
niom should not be used in an
irea containing bird nests
Sevin is also recommended
against Japanese beetles and
spittlebugs.
♦om giffen
managing editor
mike foran
business manager
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