i ":4AX.C,:"t::"b:""}y:::."::.v.!s"u.:" xa_.i.;"ttrat.:.".:cwes.. _ .a. .v a t. a.":a.".v:.vv:::,cv:._":...::..:.x..:..>...,: .... _ .,....... .,.. ................................... ..... _. _.. .. :4{i ":}1'{ti": M:1'Y: ::L" f J:: . ......... "MMAUNW-A Aft "No" Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Tou Were Arreste ER RAPOPORT: I for Writing a Book?' ......::::...........,*...4* . . . . . . . . . . ..,. " -* r Where Opinions Are Pree. 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Trutb Will Preval NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 Edtonals printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: MARK LEVIN Even 'Model' Cities Have a Long Way To Go THE MOST SIGNIFICANT riot this sum- mer was neither Newark nor Detroit. It was New Haven. When Richard Lee first captured the mayoralty there in the early fifties, it was a major triumph for urban reform. Dedicated to the renewal of the decayed core area of New Haven, Lee was able to assemble for the task a powerful coali- tion of minority group leaders, business- men, and Yale University officials. Through dynamic leadership Lee was able to give downtown New Haven a new lease on life in less than a decade. Since the inception of major poverty programs in the Kennedy administration, New Haven has been regarded as the model of successful urban reform. It has the highest per capita allocation for poverty funds of any city in the United States. To give a comparative view, New Haven is a fiftieth the size of New York City but is getting one-third as much money. THE INFLUENCE of the Lee administra- 'tion's program upon the nation is clearly evident from the positions of lead- ership obtained by New Haven veterans. For example, Edward Logue, the former director of urban renewal for New Haven, became head of Boston's development program. He later rejected an offer to become head of New York's program but did develop, as a consultant, that city's strategy for urban renewal. Logue is now running for mayor of Boston. Mitchell Sviridorf, the former admin- istrator of New Haven's model anti-pov- erty agency, Community Programs, Inc., became head of the Human Resources. Administration in New York City, an umbrella agency including the welfare de- partment, the war on poverty, and. the manpower training program. Recently he has been named the national vice-presi- dent of the Ford Foundation where he will direct that organization's efforts to explore and help conquer the urban fron- tier. Lee himself has been featured in num- erous articles in national magazines and his administration has been thesubject of various books, most notably "Who Gov- erns?" and most recently "The Mayor's Game.",The difference between Lee's ad- ministration in New Haven and Cagan- agh's in Detroit is that Lee was on top of the greasy flagpole of success in urban redevelopment, while Cavanagh was still climbing up; Lee became a model for the Cavanagh's and the Lindsay's, but be- cause of the relative lack of, funds they could only dream of attaining the same degree of success. Still the model city with the model administration had a riot, and Lee him- self admits that New Haven has a long way to go before the needs of minority groups in the area are adequately ful- filled. THUS THE IMPORTANCE of the New Haven riots is that the Great -Society at its best could not yet meet the chal- lenges of contemporary America. Since it would take billions of dollars to bring other cities in the nation up to the level. of New Haven, and because such funds have not been forthcoming, we can look forward to explosive summers for many more years to come. As John J. McCone, the CIA chief who investigated the Watts riots, pointed out, the tensions which exist between the have-not minorities and the rest of this affluent nation could lead to conflagra- tions ripping our society apart. But Lyn- don Johnson is busy fighting for freedom in Vietnam. -BRUCE WASSERSTEIN Executive Editor, 1966-67 Authors' autographing parties for new books are hardly a novelty in Ann Arbor. But John Rose- year's party tomorrow at the Centicore Bookstore for his newly published "POT, A Handbook of Marijuana" will be just that. The author is currently on parole after spending seven months in jail last year for writ- ing his book. Rosevear, a 31-year-old technician at the Univer- sity computing center, was arrested in September 1965 because he grew marijuana in his backyard as re- search for the book. In May 1966 he was sentenced to one to 10 years by County Circuit Court Judge James R. Breakey, Jr. But he was parolled after seven months. ROSEVEAR'S NEW BOOK is a readable primer on marijuana but it was panned in Judge Breakey's court. When he was arrested by Ann Arbor police his manu- script was confiscated along with a small quantity of marijuana. Rosevear contended that he was using the pot for research. But Judge Breakey was not impressed with his scholarship and even read portions of the original manuscript (which advocates legalization of marijuana) into the court record. For one thing the court didn't think Rosevear was much of a writer. A graduate of West Branch High School (north of Bay City) and a dropout of Michi- gan State University, Rosevear had only one prior writ- ing credit to his name, a poem published in "A Way Out" magazine which ended: And one day Away from drugs And away from Alcohol I saw reality and despair Making love on a pile of Life Magazines Rosevear has worked in various places around the country and even spent two years censoring mail at the Great Lakes, Ill., Naval Station. He was introduced to marijuana in Detroit in 1961 when a fellow salesman of the Great Books literature series "Gave me some funny cigarettes and told me they'd make me feel good. They did." BY 1964 HE HAD become "intrigued" with pot. He moved to the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta and began writing in a little grass hut. He moved back to Ann Arbor in February 1965 and began writing with a $600 loan from a friend who took a 35 per cent inter- est in the book. He and his wife Merrill moved into a white two- story house at 325 Liberty. "In the spring of 1965 I de- cided to write a section on how to grow marijuana. I got some seeds and planted them in the backyard be- hind the garage." Rosevear set up a little tinfoil to reflect the sun- light more effectively and watered the seeds faithfully. Like any good weed "it grew well and after a while I stopped tending it." Once he clipped a leaf and took it over to the photo reproduction service of the University in the basement of the Administration Building. "They made a good picture and didn't ask what it was." he says. "In Au- gust 1965 I finished the book and didn't know what to do with the marijuana. I had 38 plants as high as sev- en feet in a 10 by five foot patch." By this time neighbors had tipped off the police who put the patch under surveillance. "They parked an unmarked white panel truck nearby and placed a guy inside who would watch the patch through the little hole in the side from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.," claims Rosevear. (Lieut. Eugene Staudenmeier, chief of the Ann Ar- bor Police detective bureau, refuses to discuss the truck with The Daily but does confirm that Rosevear's mari- juana patch was "under observation for quite some time.") ROSEVEAR SAYS he "didn't know what to do with the 30 pounds of pot I had back there. It was more than I could smoke and I didn't want to sell it." Finally he decided to harvest the plant and hang it up in a friend's garage on Arch St. (marijuana is customarily cured for about two weeks) . On Sept. 20, 1965, six Ann Arbor police officers walked into Rosevear's house and took him, his wife, his 6 week old daughter, Jessica, and a small quantity of marijuana on his desk and his manuscript down to the police station. He was charged with possession of mar- ijuana and relased on $200 bond. Since this was Rosevear's first offense he planned to throw himself "at the mercy of the court and plead guilty. I figured I'd get probation." Unimpressed by letters from a University psychia- trist and frim Rosevear's publisher. University Books (which accepted the book in April 1965), Rosevear was sentenced May 6. 1965 to one to ten years. He was whisk- ed off to the world's largest walled prison. Southern Michigan at Jackson, where he was locked up with con- victed rapists, murderers, and other felons who were astonished by his story: "You mean you're in jail writing a book?" After 38 days he was assigned to Cassidy Lake Tech- nical School, a school for first offense felons where he taught American history and mathematics until his re- lease onDecember 9, 1966. AFTER HIS RELEASE Rosevear substantially re- vised the original manuscript that had gone over so poorly in court. "The final version is much better than the one they used court," he says. Rosevear might have been able to avoid trouble if he had obtained a license from the alcohol tax unit of the treasury department which might have allowed him to grow marijuana. But he explains that he wrote the government about the license and found the require- ments very strict. "I didn't think I'd qualify. So I didn't apply. In his book Rosevear tells the history of mari- juana, how it's grown, how to smoke it, discussess its ef- fects and takes a look at the laws surrounding its use. He says the drug is stimulating, harmless, and should be legalized. He also thinks it should be taxed and sold "from the same shelf from which tobacco is sold." LIEUTENANT Staudenmeier disagrees, however. He feels that if marijuana were legalized "a lot of people would smoke it and a lot of lives would be ruined." He also is against liberalizing the laws on marijuana. We've got enough trouble trying to keep track of it all now. All the rules on search and seizure make it kind of tough to get a conviction." Regardless of the controversy, many believe the use of marijuana is growing wildly here. Rosevear scoffs at the claim of Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter~Krasny that there are no more than "200 hard core marijuana users on campus." Rosevear claims there "are at least 3,000 regular marijuana smokers in Ann Arbor and at least 10,000 people have tried it. It has been estimated that during the regular school year about 10 to 20 pounds of mari- juana a week go through the campus. Will pot be legalized? Rosevear thinks so. "As. Lenny Bruce once said, marijuana will soon be legal because the law students are now smoking it." * 91 Pot-luck with John Rosevear Hitchhiking Laws: Amputating the American Thumb By URBAN LEHNER I've been Beatled 'til by pigs in rattlesnacks Washington kane. Rolling Stoned and I'm blind. Attacked western Iowa. Mad in Montana. The state bulls in Spo- The Power of Persuasion MRS. SHIRLEY TEMPLE Black faces the television cameras and in a half quiv- ering voice announces that she is run- ning for California's 11th Congressional District seat. After a cute nervous girl- ish giggle, she then proceeds to tell the, newsmen and public of the lack of lead- ership and imagination flowing from a Democratic administration in Washing- ton. Advocates of new left politics would quiver in convulsions at the thought that American society can be run by such small-minded people, yet there is a les- son to be learned from the likes of Shir- ley Temple and others like her who, after being accepted by the public in other areas of mass media, move on to play politics. Persuasion is the name of the political game, and the foremost factor in this game is'communications. Americans have already been conditioned to listen to and accept the appearances of people such as Ronald Reagan, and, therefore, are more susceptible to what these celebri- ties have to say once they become poli- tical candidates. Up to now this- game has been played almost exclusively by the far right, but there is no rule that gives this group a monopoly on such tactics. Ineed other stars such as Steve. McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Gregory Peck are contemplating carrying the ban-. ner for liberals in California's star-ori- ented political arena. But the lesson does not have to end here. Our own Voice Political Party, Friends of Vietnam Summer and other anti-Vietnam organizations have some- thing to learn from the tactics of a Uni- versity of Wisconsin group which at- tempted to influence the community against the Southeast Asian war. The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and COnlegiate Press Service.' Summer subscription rate: $2.00 per term by carrier ($2.50 by mail); $4.00 for entire summer ($4.50 by mail). Daily except Monday during regular academic school year. Daily except Sunday and Monday during regular summer session. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 4°0 Maynard St., Ann Arbor. Michigan, 48104. R ATHER THAN FORMING picket lines, waving their signs of polemics and witticisms, and encouraging obstructive sit-ins, a group of campus radicals in- stead shaved their beards, cut their hair, and donned the sacred business robes of the grey flannel suit. Thus they over- came their first barrier-visual accept- ance, and went as far as booking them- selves to speak to several Wisconsin civic and business organizations of such re- nowned conservative taint as the Ameri- can Legion. They talked to these community lead-f ers in terms they could understand. Re- fraining from an emotional denounce- ment of a militaristic American involve- ment in Vietnam, they discussed United States involvement in terms of cost-bene- fit analysis, and the goals of broader American foreign policy. ' Their theme was not an idealistic one. They took a pragmatist's approach speak- ing of gains to be wrought from the loss of men, machinery, and capital in the Far East. When they did dead in emotionalism, it was an emotionalism that would be acceptable to the audience being address- ed. They played upon the "America-first isolationism" that is still a soft spot in arousing the emotions of many people. The group from Wisconsin overcame the second communications obstacle - dis- cussing their ideas in the language their audience could understand. DESPITE THE PROTESTATIONS of those who feel that such measures are unethical and despicable, the fact re- mains that politics is only what one can get away with in influencing others. Rallies and teach-ins on the Diag are fun. They give people a platform around which to congregate, and to some ex- tent they serve the purpose of consoli- dating forces and giving impetus to grow- ing movements. But otherwise their ef- fectiveness is limited. They fail to teach anyone because their audience has al- ready learned and accepted, what rallies profess to teach. The people who need to be taught about U.S. involvement are, for the most part, repulsed by these alienating tactics. Don't ever hitchhike in Colo- rado. They'll throw you in jail. "Well I don't know anything about Grand Rapids, Michigan, but you're illegal as hell in Ore- gon, sonny." It's a damn shame. MY PARTNER in crime and I even deceived ourselves into thinking that the Interstate would be our ticket to San Fran- cisco. It took us about twenty- five minutes to disabuse ourseives of that notion. It seemed like we had just dis- embarked from the Milwaukee Clipper and gotten out into the Wisconsin countryside when it all began. A gargantuan trooper with a Mountie hat (obviously to im- press visitors with the Northern Canadian qualities of Milwaukee and Madison) informed us with stiff politeness that our existence was in violation of Wisconsin law and to get the hell off the road. Later when we asked a Minne- sota cop how we could get off his nice expressway, he said, without flinching, "You could hightail it through those fields for a few miles and pick up the old trunk line. ." Then came a four-day dry spell. We hiked and climbed through the mountains of Glacier National Park (previous to the unfortunate bear incident) and didn't meet another of our blue-feathered friends until we arrived at Bon- ner's Ferry, Idaho.1 THE KINDLY gentleman in his mid-60's with Hatcher-white hair asked us a few questions to as- sure himself of our honorable in- tentions and then proceeded to stop passing cars until he had found us a ride into Washington. The state trooper who picked us up in Spokane was nice, too. The Washington law governing hitchhiking is somewhat unique. As explained to us, it seems that you may not solicit a ride by thumb or sign anywhere. What you do is stand on a two-lane highway (nowhere else) and look helpless, casting your fate to the clairvoyance and charity of those passing by. What the good trooper neglected to mention was that the nearest two-lane thoroughfare to Seattle was a twenty-five mile walk. By now the pattern was largely established, with only local color variations to relieve the boredom. We would be stopped, asked for identification and proof of fi- nances (you can be jailed for vagrancy otherwise), then given a warning ticket or in some other way advised to leave the road, us- ually with the threat of incarcera- tion explicitly imprinted in our heads. The Utah experience was touching. After the checking of our ID came the unvarying ques- 'tion: "What do you think of George Romney?" George Romney is the greatest man in the world. Yes sir. WHAT DO YOU do when you're thrown off the road? You wait for the bull to get out of sight and hope to hitch a ride before he comes back. Or, if you're near a ramp with any traffic, stand there (the legality of hitchhiking on ramps is apparently a fuzzy issue). Or you get off and walk. Now the cops, and the state legislatures, and the federal sys- tem do have a point. There is the, danger of rear-end collisions when a car stops in a fast-moving flow of traffic to pick up a hitchhiker. That danger should not be mini- mized. But in recognizing it, a balance has been violated. The existence of competing values has been totally ignored. HITCHHIKING is more than cheap transportation; even when undertaken as a lark it is more than just a stimulating exper- ience. It is, or can be, a socially useful act. For a generation that has lived through prosperity, it can provide a glimpse of the tough reality that economic de- pression lent our, parents. For a generation that in too many cases moves from the security of one family to the security of another it offers an opportunity to exer- cise at least a little individual independence. For those living in one' set of economic circum- stances, it offers an opportunity to see how the other half hives. Most anti-hitchhiking laws have existed for years. What is new is the increased vigor with which they are being enforced. This vigor must be laid squarely at the feet of the' Interstate Highways. Pedestrians are expressly forbid- den on them, and hitchhikers are specifically mentioned in some states. We are fast approaching the day when long-haul hitches will be impractical, if not impos- sible. f More and more of the potential "riders" are taking the Interstate. Even now it's difficult to get a ride unless you're young, clean- cut looking and have at "prop" (we had sleeping bags). A serv- iceman's uniform, a tennis racket or being of the opposite sex will do equally well. The country's ob- session - concerning crime in the streets has made the hitchhiker's task that much more difficult. Something must be done to pre- serve the American hitchhiking tradition. A start would be to in- itiate a system of youth hostels like those in Europe and some parts of Canada. TRAFFIC SAFETY need not be sacrificed. Why not a series of hitchhiking "stops" at various in- tervals along the highway? They could be nothing more than an entrance-exit loop just off the main road indicated by a "Slow- Hitchhiker Ahead" sign. Better, why not a nationwide "Support Your Local Hitchhiker" campaign, complete with visible-from-the- highway gold stars awarded to those hitchhikers who have gone so-many thousand miles without mugging a motorist? It may not be so far-fetched as it seems. If Shirley Temple can make it to Congress, anything will be possible. .. .. .. .. .................,........................,.,. ... .. .....,.... .. ..... .... ......... ............. .. .r.... .:........, x4".::'w:rr: .Y.Y2r.."Jrv: ^::: vin,:: w.. ..................................... .,......... .... ,. ..,., ......... .. ..'rr:nY;r:r.::Y«::ygv:: r::.Y:{r .4 ... J~ .:.. ... .: ::f..f.lf .:"2: ?: : .{. 2..., ,. 1 . . .., .. A.. 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