Seventy-eight years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under authority of Board in Control of Student Publications 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 1 Editorials printed in The Michigan Doily exp ress the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in ail reprints. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1968 NIGHT EDITOR: LESLIE WAYNE JAMES WECHSLER HHH and Gene: Age-g ap confli*ct. "HOW CAN ANYBODY hate that man? What's wrong with kids?" The words were spoken in the lobby of the Americana Hotel by a gray-haired, middle-aged woman who had just heard Hubert Humphrey address the Liberal Party dinner. The remark poignantly illustrated the age-gap that - among other things - is haunting Hubert Humphrey's campaign and obstructing the creation of a Humphrey-McCarthy alliance. To the woman on whom I eavesdropped after Humphrey's warm. almost plaintive appeal for remembrance of things past, it is unthink- able that he was being picketed by several hundred youths as he entered the hall. His pleas for nuclear sanity, his fervid attack on George Wal- lace and his invocation of all the humane images long identified with the liberal tradition were consistent with her affectionate, reverent memories. The notion that he might be defeated by Richard Nixon - at best a slick trimmer, at worst a survivor of the Joe McCarthy age - seemed pecularily intolerable after she listened to Humphrey's inevi- tably long but often moving speech. But to the embattled young outside, who symbolize many others in many places, his name evokes neither nostalgia nor sympathy. It is pri- marily identified with the sinless horror of Vietnam, the central fact of their brief political lifetime, The Saigon government bombs for i FLURRY OF ACTIVITY in Washing- ton, Saigon and Paris in the past two days point directly at one conclusion - the United States a n d North Vietnam may soon reach agreement on a bombing halt and move the peace negotiations off dead center where they have been rest- ing for the last five months. The denials and hedging from "highly- placed officials" and from President Johnson have been couched in diplomatic language which reveals such efforts are taking place, although the outcome is still apparently touch-and-go. A major obstacle, as so often in the past, appears to be the Saigon government. After a series of meetings between.Am- bassador Ellsworth Bunker and President Thieu, the Saigon regime was holding out for stronger commitments f r o m Hanoi that the fighting would not be escalated. The Americans probably would settle fort a' tacit hold-ba'ck from offensive action. THE SAIGON REGIME'S weak position is revealed everytime doves start flut- tering. Just a week ago Saigon was shak- en by rumors of a coup against the 'Thieu government. The U.S. embassy has con- tinually resuscitated t h e regime by threatening a with-holding of support for any group that succeeds in ousting the Thieu-Ky coalition. So far this has kept the same puppets on the string. But President Johnson's efforts to get meaningful negotiations, underway comes just a few weeks a f t e r Vice President, Humphrey seemingly vowed a unilateral bombinghalt if he is elected. One can speculate on Johnson's political motives for the peace offensive just three weeks from election day. To the generals and politicians in Saigon the trend is clear - the Democrats can no longer buy time for the South Vietnamese that was to be used to improve their army and do more of the fighting. Saigon's predicament is that the bomb- ing has provided its sole legitimacy as a government for the last three years. Thieu and Ky could claim leadership as the only ones who could keep U.S. mili- tary might behind them. Without that backing, Saigon could not last a w e e k against a coalition of nationalistic forces waiting to take over and settle with the National Liberation Front. IF THE BOMBING IS HALTED and ne- gotiations on witiedrawal of foreign troops begin in earnest, the South Viet- namese generals and politicians may as well follow their bank notes to Switzer- land. -DAVID KNOKE w HHH on the streets of Detroit Olyic lcowardice AMERICAN IDEALISM turned out to be an expendable commodity on the U.S. Olympic team. Spurning the time-honored sports creed of one-for-all, all-for-one, U.S. team offi- cials meekly surrendered to Avery Brun- dage and suspended Tommy Smith and John Carlos yesterday., Smith and Carlos' crime was their fierce passion for the American ideals of equality, justice and brotherhood. They bowed their heads and raised black-glov- ed fists on the victory stand Wednesday in open support of those ideals. Brundage and his collection of Madison Avenue slicks, of course, judged the ath- letes' gesture solely on its public relations merits. Because Smith. and Carlos hardly Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, Michigan. /48104. Daily except Monday during regular academic school year. contributed to the pre-fabricated pastel' Olympic image, Brundage engineered their suspensions. Assuming t h a t Brundage is a living fossil from a predilectic age, his actions can be understood.1 But the refusal by U.S. team officials to stand up for fundamental American prin- ciples on which Smith and Carlos had acted is a stunning revelation of their timidity. This event opens up the very real possi- bility that Americans have grown soft and are no longer willing to sacrifice a day in the sun for the long night of strife. -HOWARD KOHN Associate Editorial Director -DOUG HELLER Associate Sports EditorI By TRACY BAKER HUBERT HUMPHREY had a rally in downtown Detroit. Police said about 10,000 Detroit- ers were there. I was one of them. It was just before noon when I arrived. Sound trucks circled the block declaring that, "Humphrey is the only one." Two Detroit policemen were talking. One was white, one was black. "Wallace is my man," said the white one. "Al," said the black one, "how can you vote for him. We've been partners two years now. Don't you know what he'd duo to me and people like me?" The white patrol- man answered: "Maybe he wants to, but the American people won't let'm do that. I want him so we can get back. to doing our job like it ought to be done." CLOUDS HUNG LOW in the sky. I moved past businessmen eating lunches from brown paper bags. Negroes were there, but most were white. Groups from the Young Socialist Alliance and the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam milled arpund. Sound blared from loudspeakers. Someone was playing "Zorba the Greek" on something that loked like it should be an electric mandolin. On the rostrum, a woman was singing in Greek. I saw a flurry of activity off to one, side. Demonstrators were forming a line. A man with a bullhorn was igiving directions. Signs appeared. Some were anti-Humphrey. Some were pro-Humphrey. A loud, fat woman whose hair was blond at' the roots shouted, "Look at the Commie scum. Filthy swine!" An anouncement came over the loud- speakers. "And now," declared an unseen announcer, "Chubby Checker." A chubby man in a red coat covered with black checkers twisted to the center of the rostrum. "ONE MORE TIME for HHH. Let me hear ya sockkitto-me- now," shouted Chubby. A feeble moan went up from the audience. He quit cheerleading and started singing. I thought it was "Give Me That Old-Time Religion," but I listened to the words. Give me that vote for Hubert Humphrey . . . (he's good for you and me)." A man in a yellow coat, tight black pants and a black turtleneck was dancing around among the demonstrators. His grey hair was ruffled by the wind and his goatee swung from side to side. He chanted in a German accent: "I zed giff me Eldrich Cleafer vor Prresident. Doomp zot Hoompty- Doompty Hoomphrey." There was a shout. "No! No! No!", the demonstra- tors chanted. On the platform stood the Vice President of the United States of America. People applauded and jeered.' Humphrey stepped to the micro- phone. "We want Humphrey," cheered the crowd. "Talk about the war," jeered the demonstrators. "We want Humphrey." "Talk about Chicago." HUMPHREY SPOKE for 40 minutes. When he left, there was some scuffling. Two sign-toting men in dark suits, HHH-MUSKIE boaters and campaign buttons pushed through the crowd. I was with the demon- strators. One elbowed me in the stomach. The other kicked me in the shin. The elbow was too hard, the kick too high to have been ac- cidental. The second man tripped over my foot. The crowd broke into knots of people. A Negro man was arguing with a demonstrator. "White peo- ple can afford to protest. If Nixon or Wallace gets elected you;'can get a haircut and head for the suburbs. Black folks can't afford to protest unless they can afford', to leave the country too." He sounded like he was near panic. A pudgy girl pointed and chant- ed "Sissy, sissy, sissy." A man walked up to her and said: "Call us 'sissies'after you done some- thing for the country, lady." "I had two brothers in the service, and I'm proud of them," she retorted. "What have you done-sissy?" "Fought with the 1st Marines at Khe Sanh for 70 days, got a bronze star and a purple heart and picked up three bullets, lady," he said, and limped away. The police radio crackled. "Cen- tral command to all units. Disperse them." The officers moved through the crowd. "It's all over, folks. O., go on home now. folks" Slowly, quietly, they dispersed. THE GRAY-HAIRED woman may once have been a, supporter of Eugene McCarthy, but she has experienced no emotional agony in re- dedicating herself to Humphrey. She remembers the excitement of his leadership of the civil rights uprising at the 1948 Democratic conven- tion; when he was designated for the Vice Presidency in 1964, she prob- ably envisaged it as a momentous step in a liberal's progress toward the Presidency. While Humphrey's defense of the . Johnson's Administration's course, in Vietnam led her temporarily in-.* Y to McCarthy's camp, she recovered after Chicago. And the passionate . . commitment he voiced to peace, reason and justice in his Ameri- cana address dispelled any doubt th at he was the man she had known in an, earlier political ro- mance. But there were kids outside who 'were at nursery school - or just about to be born - when Humph- rey led the convention upsurge of 1948. What they recall with anger and anguish is the apologies he re- cited for Richard Daley after the convention of 1968. For many of them the McCarthy movement was the crucial test of "the system"; some have already defected to varities of nihilism, but many others have turned to such regional crusades as Paul O'Dwyer's Senate cam- paign and Allard Lowenstein's battle for Congress in Nassau County. To most of them it would be the supreme betrayal if O'Dwyer, Lowenstein - most of all McCarthy himself - were to declare in even restrained tones a preference for Humphrey. LOWENSTEIN ESTIMATES that he has addressed about 11,000 students in recent weeks, froni Stony Brook and C. W. Post to Colgate and Cornell. In each speech he has emphasized hi* belief that the Mc- Carthy-Kennedy forces can win control of the Democratic Party if they keep fighting. Then, in a procedure reminiscent of Robert Kennedy's public poll-taking, he has asked those in his audience to indicate wheth- er they have a Presidential choice. About 6 percent here voted for Humphrey, half that number for Nixon, a handful for Wallace. More than 90 per cent responded by sitting on their hands. Yet there are Democratic and labor politicians now proposing to punish such candidates for their continuing responsiveness , to "the children's crusade." And McCarthy's abstention is portrayed as vanity or eccentricity by the pros who have so repeatedly misjudged this year's tides. In fact, of course, the "children" speak for a larger constitueicy, as they proved in many primary contests this year. But even if they didn't, there would be a serious question as to whether they should be lightly brushed off by those who won their confidence by defying po- litical "realism." FOR MANY aligned with Humphrey fin many battles of the last two decades, there is heartbreak in the prospect of his loss to Nixon. For the rebellious young that outlook seems a just ending to the Johnson era and even a chance for a great new political transition. Only a dramatic development can change this atmosphere. It might still involve a major move in Paris by the President's ne- gotiators - most obviously,,a halt in the bombings - or a forthright declaration by Humphrey that he favors such a move in the light of Hanoi's latest overture. He has tried in almost every wa'y to flash sig- nals of his independence, but invariably stops short of the words that would really matter to those outside his old family circle. Perhaps a complicated proposition can be summarized a little crudely by suggesting that a psychological - and political - turning point in this campaign can corne only if Hubert Humphrey somehow demonstrates publicly that he is not intimidated by Lyndon Johnson (or Richard Daley). Many who never knew him in brighter days might yet be stirred by the image of a man who has finally spurned the coun- sels of craft and caution. 4 Waig for the inevitable greetings By STEVE ANZALONE IF YOU DIDN'T look too closely at the campus this fall, you wouldn't realize that almost all male graduate students are living on borrowed time. Last February when the Selective Service System announced that grad- -uate students were no longer eligible for 2-S student deferments, there were dire warnings that'by mid-October the graduate schools would be populated solely by the lame, the halt, the aged, and the women. Due primarily to the conjunction of the massive bureaucratic inertia of the antiquated draft system and a series of below average, draft calls, few students have yet been sold into slavery by their draft boards. BUT DESPITE THIS air of apparent calm, the harsh realities of the war in Vietnam and its accompanying man- power needs are coming steadily closer. Len Schneider, a.first year graduate student in math, knows how close the draft is getting. Hts orders to report for a physical are tacked to a bulletin board in his apartment-right next to the current phone bill and a room- mate's souvenir invitation to Guata- mala's leading bordello. Schneider is currently appealing his reclassification; but for him and most other draft eligible graduate students with appeals in the works time, will run out sometime in January or Febru- ary. While there has been wide discus- sion of the effects of a massive draft- caused exodus on the graduate schools and the campus in general, there has been almost a total disinterest in how the graduate students themselves are taking the long countdown toward' confrontation with their draft boards. "THE LEGAL BLUR" is what kept Ted Wilson, another English 123 teach- ing fellow, out of the draft. He is 30, married, and does not expect to be called. Even though he is technically eligible until he is 35, few men in prac- tice are drafted over the age of 26. Wilson, however, brings up a signifi- cant point: although he is certainly happy that he avoided the call to 'serve, he can foresee the day when he may regret not having made a "moral deci- sion" concerning the war and com- plicity with it. He feels that it is better to make a moral decision about re- fusing induction than escaping through bureaucratic technicalities. THE DRAFT WILL probably spare older students like Wilson and also students who have received deferments for having a family. In addition, those students who have pursued the arduous road of getting a conscientious objector deferment are relatively secure. But the rest tend to be very uncer- tain; and most find it difficult to con- centrate in their carrels in the Grad- uate Library with the spectre of in- voluntary military careers hanging over them. For those students who are con- vinced that they will be soon on their way to the Army, this lame duck se- mester is far from academically fruit- ful. For instance, Ron Gibbs; an an- thropology graduate student, has trouble planning his labwork. He received his pre-induction notice, recently, only three weeks after he had gotten his 1-A reclassification. Gibbs thinks that in his case induction as early as November is quite likely. SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH, there does not seem to be a general panic nmono e a nkrs of the Lerathat stu-_ Letters: Language requirements teaching- and studying at the Univer- MIKE BALLIS, an Anthropology 101 siy, believing that Ann Arbor repre- teaching fellow also following the ap- sented his best chance to remain un- peals route, says, "Where there is life, claimed by the draft. there is hope." Prof. Maxwell Reade, associate While Ballis remains somewhat chairman of the mathematics depart- hopeful, there are other graduate stu- ment, says.that normally a student dents appealing their induction notices with Brook's ability would go right in- with 4n attitude of just delaying the to research. inevitable. To the Editor: S A TEACHING fellow in French, I would like to com- ment upon the language require- ment and your article about it that appeared in The Daily (Oct. 15). I strongly suspect that I don't speak only for myself when I de- fend Peter Hagiwara against some of the charges levelled against him in the article. I would like to know who said that Mr. Hagiwara. treats the teaching fellows like children or dirt. We occasionnally disagree with his opinions, but we have never felt badly treated. On the contrary, we feel that he does his best to incorporate our suggestions into existing proce- dures whenever possible. Most of us realize that considering the scope of the operation and the number of teaching fellows, ad- ministrative difficulties are in- evitable, and we don't blame Mr. Hagiwara for not being perfect. I TEACH French because I en- joy it, purely and simply. I get a. I HONESTLY don't know if we should abolish the requirement or not. 'Theoretically, of course, I would agree that coercing a stu- dent to take a course is not the best way to have him learn. And yet I can't ignore the fact that of, the perhaps 50 per cent of my stu- dents who initially don't care one way or the other about French, several of them each semester do finish the course with the posi- tive attitude that I think is so im- portant. And I am afraid that it is pre- cisely these students who would not take French were the require- ment abolished, and who would therefore miss the real excitement (I choose the word deliberately) of learning another language. A re-evaluation of the language requirement is all to the good. I would only ask that students con- sider the problem not out of pet- tiness but out of a genuine con- cern for the purposes of language learning and the ways we can best obtain our objectives. Harvey To the Editor: THIS LETTER is being written to inform everyone in Washte- naw County of the type of man Washtenaw County has as its- sheriff. He is a liar. Sheriff Harvey was quoted on Oct. 15 as stating that he attempt- ed to gain civil service for t h e Washtenaw County Sheriff De- partment, that he was not a union buster, and that all new deputies' he has hired have been given five to eight weeks of intensive police training. (1) Sheriff Harvey stated to me and other members of the sheriff's department in November of 1967 that he would have no damn civil service board telling him how to run his department. (2) Sheriff Harvey h a s twice been ordered to cease and desist from his anti-labor actions by the State Labor Mediations Board. Washtenaw County paid over $4,- 000.00 in back pay to deputies as a result of Harvey's illegal firings of Deputy Associate members. THE APPEALS procedure in Brook's case and those of many like him goes something like this. If his personal appearance before the local board is unsuccessful, he then has 30 days to file an appeal before the Michigan board. iT+-c avnrnaafajic -'o ahni f+ +li p One English 123 teaching fellow said that he is appealing after receiving his draft notice recently, but he has al- most no hopes for an occupational deferment. For him time will run out sometime in January. DESPITE THE prosuect of being i