I JAMES WECHSLER- EQr SrI4i'an DaiLt 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 Projecting a new Wallace scenario 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552' Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily exp ress the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1968 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN GRAY Harvey investigation: Rationalz justice THIS AFTERNOON the special commit- tee of the County Board of Supervisors w 111 terminate its investigation of the sheriff's department and will recommend that the board act on the matter. This action could take the form of any- thing fronm a verbal reprimand to a rec- ommendation that the three circuit judges' honor a petition before them re- questing a grand jury investigation. The later possible recommendation, though most appropriate, is highly un- likely. The special committee investigat- ing Sheriff Douglas Harvey has consis- tently refused to take a firm stand in their investigation. Instead, it has con- sistently bowed to Harvey's slowness in answering questions submitted him by the committee. The committee has also refused to ask Harvey to appear before them in a public session. THE COMMITTEE'S TIMIDITY in in- vestigating this most important matter can possibly be understood by examining' the political reasoning of the supervisors conducting this investigation. They may feel somewhat precarious in investigating an elected official. Were they to t a k e harsh measures, they might reason, their. action could be construed by the electo- rate as indicating the county elected a corrupt man to office - or more concise- ly, that the electorate was irresponsible. However, such a rationale is irrelevant to the matter at; h a n d. Regardless - of whether the electorate was irresponsible or not, it can be justly assumed that the electorate would not favor the selection of a corrupt mnan. And that if they did, it was because they had been tricked into thinking he was a decent man. The later is probably true. (Harvey was supported, by none other than the editor of the Ann Arbor News and many other prominent citizens.) The committee's investigation has re- vealed evidence of corruption in the sher- iff's office. If the special committee re- fuses to recommend action proportional to the malfeasance of Harvey's o f f i c e, then the committee is, in fact, saying that the electorate wanted to elect a corrupt man. Thus, the committee would reason it had no right to interfere. IF THIS IS what the-committee decides today, they must also be passing judg- ment on themselves - as they were elect- ed indirectly by the same voters who four years ago elected Harvey. --IM HECK Daily-Jay L. Cassidy Can these actors follow a new script? Letters to.the Editor Rest cure RICHARD NIXON has the advantage. Eight years after being defeated in the presidential race by a handsome, charis- matic leader, Nixon is matched with an opponent who closely resembles a snap- ping turtle. And the Republican has learned a lot. He now shaves ;at least twelve times a day. He makes jokes about his make-up men. And he sleeps enough to keep his face relatively free from wrinkles. His wavy hair is not long enough for admiring females to twirl and fondle, but it will do. It is still black. Nixon' remains trim. However, he doesn't reveal his true physical condition. Have you ever seen him in a bathing suit? His biggest deficit is his nose. He must always remember to face front. And not to touch it. On the other hand (or face), Humph- rey must try ,to conceal his facial prob- Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mirhigan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan. 48104. Daily except Monday during regular academic school year. Daily except Sunday and Monday during regular summer session. Fall and winter subscription rate $5.00 per term by carrier ($5.50 by mail!; $9.00 for regular academic school year ($10 by mail). Editorial Staff MARK LEVIN, Editor STEPHEN WILDSTROM URBAN LEHNER Managing Editor Editorial Director DAVID KNOKE, Executive Editor WALLACE, IMMEN............... News Editor PAT O'DONOHUE ......... ... News Editor CAROLYN MIEGEL .... Associate Managing Editor DANIEL OKRENT .................... Feature Editor lems. A good idea would be to wear a tur- tle neck sweater that will include his overwhelming jowels. He is working on his third chin. T h e Democratic candidate's ready smile and sparking eyes are good points but the mind rebels at his youthful, all black (like Nixon) hair. Just a few years ago, Humphrey was turning a distinctive E. G. Marshall gray. The gray was rapidly moving up his side-. burns. But sometime before t h e cam- paign, Humphrey suddenly returned to the familiar black. Though this subterfuge may keep the Minnesotan young in the minds of thous- ands, he will not fill his bald spots with, false hair. Harold Stassen already tried that. -MICHAEL THORYN No comment NEW YORK-The Boy Scouts are going coed. The organization's executive board voted yesterday to admit girls to Explorer posts-troops of older boys.: A- spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America said that although most mem- bers in each Explorer group would be goys, girls who were registered members of "qualified girls' organizations" would be permitted to become members of some Explorer posts. "We have known all along that boys were interested in girls," said the spokes- main."Now it's an acknowledged fact." -The Associated Press Apollo 7 To the Editor: IN REGARD to your article on NASA's direction in Tuesday's paper, you are obviously misin- formed about many things, things I'm sure a little research on your, part would have cleared up. Apollo 7 is on a shakedown cruise scheduled to prove the space-worthiness of the ship. This is why only two on-board experi- ments were taken along. T h i s shakedown cruise will make it pos- sible for future Apollos to take along an ample supply of on-board experiments because t h e astro- nauts won't have to spend so much of their time monitoring control panels that monitor t h e ship's functions. THE PRIMARY mission is not merely the landing of men on the moon, although that is the most publicized aspect, but rather to. gain knowledge about the planets and space itself for the future. In order to accomplish this it is nec- essary for man to: - Set up seismographic instru- ments on the lunar surface - set up meteroite experiments on the lunar surface -set up magnetic field experi- ments on the lunar surface, -set up an observatory on the lunar surface - set up a biological laboratory on the lunar surface - explore the lunar surface, - determine the actual mater- ials of the lunar surface IT'S TRUE that manned space flights are dramatic, but you must remember that the fully automat- ic lunar surveyor and lunar orbiter programs were also very dramatic. Being dramatic does not make it bad as you hint in your article. I am also glad you mentioned Congressional funding for NASA. NASA does not get a blank check from Congress as you suggest. In fact, NASA has never been award- ed the full amount it applied for. In past years, it has varied from, one half' to one quarter of the amount applied for. Only during the Kennedy Administration did the funding approach the request- ed amount. If youre worried about expense, as you seem to be, then dig into the reason why Congress didn't re- quire McDonald Aircraft to turn over its research records on Mer- cury and Gemini to Boeing when they initiated the Apollo program. This duplication of research costs billions of dollars. The Apol- lo fire was a result of this dupli- cation and after the fire millions were spent on Apollo to perfect it. This is the big reason why the cost of sending men up has not de- creased. Before you jump on the band- wagon to criticize NASA, you should dig into the subject for some facts. If you don't k n o w where to look, try some of the professors of aeronautical and as- tronomical engineering at the University. --Alan Mast Oct. 15. Phoenix fSDS To the Editor: IT IS SELDOM that we relatively conservative individuals get a look into the" revolutionary mind." The thirteen members of the new PHOENIX/SDS in their letter of the tenth, regarding disaffiliation with VOICE, offer a glimpse, if not, into, then at least at the product of, the so-called revolutionary mind. Because their ideas are ex- pressed in the form of fourteen definite arguments rather , than the usual garbled diatribes expect- ed of the revolutionary, we can closely examine this product. It states, "We as revolu- tionaries believe that we have the right to end these restraints American institutional controls) by any means available, so long as these do not injure innocent people or deprive them of their rights." But in order to "end these restraints without injuring "in nocent people," they must sep arate the innocent from the non innocent. THIS REQUIRES that t h e judge all the people and thus de prive non-innocent as well as in nocent people of their right t judgment by our constitutions judicial processes. The other nine arguments dea with dissatisfaction with the pres ent VOICE leadership. Argument nine and thirteen border on th fallacy of Argumentum ad Homi nem (abusive) in the descriptioi of the VOICE leaders. "Its'- lead ers (VOICE) are too engrossed i their infantile ego-tripping to re spond in Pny meaningful way t the problemns of the university Thanks o a leadership too con cerned over retaining their fadin power and position, it (VOICE has become hidebound, and nar row ." But these claims ar contradicted by their own basi premise of human ehavior in ar gument three, "Men will cdoperat for their mutual interests .. Y" I N ARGUMaENT E L E V E P PHOENIX/SDS accused VOICI that it has "continually associate itself w i t hpersons, ,and cause which are either irrelevant or op posed' to our aims." And then h the next two arguments reverse its position, "It (V O I C E) ha shown no concern for student outside its dwindling circle of in fluence.". " . . it no -longer listen to, new people or new ideas" (em phasis supplied). Thus, without examining t h value of the premisses themselves it may be seen that the argument are contradictory and/or invalid That such fuzzy thinking 'i T.. representative of the Amer, ican radical movement in Ann Ar bor," as PHOENIX/SDS claims t be, is not surprising. Jesse an Frank probably didn't think ver carefully, either. -C. Mezoff '70 Oct. 10 HAS GEORGE C. WALLACE'S campaign begun to recede under the impact of deafening cheers from hostile *throats? Certainly it is too early to tell; it remains unclear whether the precedent ingeniously set by several hundred youths in San Diego last week will be widely imitated. Dissidents in other places may insist on playing into Wallace's hands by reverting to the standard "confrontation" tactics he wel- comes and even incites. That Wallace was badly shaken by the San Diego encounter was indicated in all dispatches from the scene; the episode may have con- tributed to the fatigue now blamed for a three-day campaign time-out. Perhaps he has called this intermission to fashion a counter-strategy. In any case the San Diego story is worthy of contemplation as the first serious - or entertaining - 1968 departure from the campaign handbooks. WHAT HAPPENED, in brief, was that the.anti-Wallace contingent chose to salute him with a fervor confounding any expectation and burlesquing all his political war cries. When he dplivered his usual call for the banishment of subversives from defense plants, they chanted, "Kill the Commies." When he'reached the passage proclaiming himself our only true- defender against criminal elements, there were ardent ar cries: "Kill, Kill." And when, in a desperate effort to alter the simulated enthusiasm of the Lhrong, he provocatively shouted, "You're some of the' folks that people in this country are sick and tired of," the young men and women - some of them wearing conspicuously long hair - "whooped and applauded loudly," according to an eyewitness account. So jarred was Wallace by this mock adulation that. he began to flounder and repeat himself, as if unfamiliar with his oft-recited script. , He even found himself inviting one of his dissembling "fans" to step up to the platform for a pugilistic exchange; the youth exasperatingly turned the other cheek. UP TILL that night much of the momentumh of George Wallace's campaign had depended on the unwitting collaboration of bellicose, often disheveled, young hecklers on TV news programs. On many oc- casions he met their taunts with some variation of the theme: "Keep it up, you just got me 5,000 more votes." One had the sense that there was melancholy substance in his appraisal. Indeed, there have been moments when one wondered wheth- er Wallace's managers were subsidizing some of the shrill actors whose presence he has so adroitly exploited. This may be unfair to some dedicated kids who regard his ca- , didacy as so monstrous a distortion of decency that they have con- sidered it a matter of conscience to stand up in high-pitched protest. But the evidence is unhappily plain that their .crude disruptions have provided the cues for some of his favorite punch-lines. Now a totally new scenario has been projected, and Its possibilities - delight the imagination. -r .. SUPPOSE WHEREVER he goes Wallace meets replicas of,the San Diego performers, perhaps many of them garbed in Yippie costume and prepared to voice only bloodthirsty echoes to his most truculent y pronouncements. One can visualize many additional slogans and plac- - ards faithful to the spirit of George's crusades: "A New Deal With - George at the Wheel . . . Love Thy White Neighbor . . One Nation 'O Divisible, With You Know What for You-All . . . Do You Want Your Daughter . . .? Down the Drains With Brains . . . Help Your Local L Police; Buy a Gun." - ]- These are random proposals and they can no doubt be adjusted and , elaborated, depending on local circumstances The crucial point is that e there must be no disorder, no departure from the solemnity and solidar- ity of the pro-Wallace tone of the exercises. At. each point there must - be plausible fidelity to the spirit of Wallaceism. A - I DO NOT SEE how Wallace can legitimately claim aty infringe- o ment on his constitutional rights by such massive displays of merry, y. militant assent. Certainly no provision for the First Amendment denies - any assemblage the 'right to simulate passionate agreement with an ) orator, even if some of its members wear long hair or non-conventional costume. And if a few of their slogans appear to be a somewhat extrava- e gant extension of his remarks, that, too, is surely small political license. . C (Copyright 1968 N. Y. Post) e N Sorrows of PaUl - :d 's EDITOR'S NOTE: The following analysis is being reprinted from,- the, Cornell Daily Sun because of the especial interest surrounding Paul O'Dwyer's uphill battle to wrest a New York Senate seat'from long time Republican incumbent Jacob Javits. Is By FRED J. SOLOWEY s BEFORE PAUL O'DWYER came to Ithaca Monday afternoon, he ap- pearedon a radio program in Watkins Glen. Suffering from a lack - of support from local leaders, O'Dwyer had to take to the air to get a hearing. He had to express great admiration for the local scenery and e a burning desire to see the famous glen. He also had to say that if the s, election were held tomorrow, he would win. But seeing the glen was is not on his mind and victory was not within his grasp. Is O'Dwyer looked quite tired, as he rode to Ithaca, as he spoke down- town to a small crowd and as he addressed an enthusiastic gathering - at Bailey Hall. He had a good reason to be tired. He is somewhat alone o now, leading a fight that will not be won. Democrats seem more angry d with him for not supporting Humphrey than happy with him for op- y posing the war. One of the great friends of organized labor, O'Dwyer watches the leadership go for Javits and the membership flock to Wal- lace. A man who has claimed that - America wants change, be must watch the nation choose Nixon's version of change instead of his - own. O'Dwyer lacks the charisma of a Robert Kennedy as well as' the .in- tellectual appeal of Gene McCar- thy, and he is really a man from another era who has found him- self wrapped up in the new politics because it has a place for men of integrity. He represents the best that can be expected from the traditional ethnic politicans; he believes in what he says and is willing to stand up and do battle when- ever a good fight needs fighting. IT IS WITHIN this context that he deserves to be elected. There are few, if any, better men in America politics. But it is also from with- in this same context that an unpleasant truth emerges. Even if he could win his race for the Senate, his victory and his approach to the problems of America will not go far towards solving these problems. It is in this vein that he displays inadequate concern over the swing to the right. He has seen swings before, and expects that his peo- ple will soon win when the pendulum swings back to the left. He is not tired of swinging. He does not face the great probability that even after the war is over, America will not be willing to undertake the massive, long-range, expensive job of saving the cities., For that work must have greater commitment behind it than is afforded by a swinging apathetic America. INDEED, HE HAS MISREAD the nature of the Kennedy-McCarthy support as did they. He asserts that the Democratic primaries showed an 80 per cent vote against the war and for peace. But at least a large Kopkind, Rigeway Sherrill signal Mayday' By WALTER SHAPIRO THERE IS a story that Yale University Chaplain and con- victed "anti-draft conspirator" Rev. William Sloane Coffin enjoys telling.' A few years ago, a Russian on his first visit to America stopped off to see the good Reverend at New Haven after visiting the Kan- sas-Nebraska farm belt. The Russian immediately asked Coffin with amazement, "How do you Americans do it?" Coffin as- sumed that the Russian was amazed at the efficiency of Amer- ican farming. Instead, the Russian continued, "I just can't understand how you Americans manage such a high degree of thought control without resorting to terror."' A GLANCE at American jour- nalism will show that it's easy. All you need is the proper ad- mixture, of one newspaper towns, political voices of the American liberal-left, the New Republic and the Nation, have both increased their circulation over the past few years. However, there are many young liberals and radicals who are somewhat bored with the re- latively bland and middle-aged cast of both of these aged publica- tions. FOR A WHILE many thought that Ramparts, which sprang to fame on the weight of its exposes of Michigan State's adventures in South Vietnam and the CIA-NSA institutional nexus, would become the major publication of the dis- enchanted left. Instead, Ramparts has respond- ed to the challenge in a rather disappointing fashion. Now a bi- weekly, it alternates between being the press agent for the almost- revolutionary left and the above ground spokesman for the Cali- fornia drug-hippy scene. ed on a budget of less than $20,000 by three of the brightest dropouts from the New Republic-Nation syndrome who seemingly wanted to go it on their own. WHILE THE ALL-AMERICAN Horatio Alger zeal to be your own boss which seized Andrew Kop- kind, James Ridgeway and Robert Sherrill is indeed commendable, it is disappointing that the first two issues of Mayday have contained nothing that couldn't be easily be printed in the New Republic or Nation. The newsletter consists of only four less than tabloid-sized pages. And, at a quarter an issue, it's vital for the newsletter to be cram- med with information and insights unobtainable elsewhere. The contents of the first two isues have ranged from a short piece revealing that Richard Nixon gave a message on the Jewish High Holy Days from a restricted Flor- ida beach community to a semi- and Sherrill rediscovering the old Richard Nixon of Hughes Tool loan fame and adding a few new wrin- kles. But somehow it is just not worth a quarter to discover that Richard Nixon is now no more honest than he ever was. In fact the editors of this new weekly seem to share with Drew Pearson an overabiding concern with examples of political petty larceny.- But while Pearson definitely does a public service in keeping Con- gressional graft beneath the six figure bracket, any cry of "May- day" hopefully should concern it- self with more important questions than where Pat Nixon gets her "cloth coats.," Another more relevant exclusive by the new publication was an overly-researched article by James Ridgeway concerning the implica- tions of a mushrooming series of experiments in black private en- terprise carried out with the aid of our major foundations and pub- taking over two ghetto supermar- kets is highly insightful: "Looked at one way, a black company has taken over two stores in a black community. Looked at another, way, a scared white store owner has got himself a black front." He concludes that "if b I a c k business succeeds in Roxbury, it will create more jobs and the il- lusions of control." But all that has happened is that "control has shifted ... from small white store owners to large insurance com- panies." Unfortunately, these important conclusions are 'buriedunder a long and tedious recital of 'the complicated, but legal, arrange- ments that went in to the forma- tion of these black corporations. This valuable space-for, in a large four page tabloid all space is valuable-could have been far better used to discuss the impli- catio s of efforts by groups like the Urban Coalition to sponsor programs like these.