li4e £irlyigan Da4l Seventy-eight years of editorial fre1kdorn Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under authority of Board in Control of Student Publications 0 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed n The Mchigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in af reprints. LXXIX, No ,118 NIGHT EDITOR: DAVID SPURR Keeing the Legislature out of journalism1 E WUA By STEVE KOPPMAN First of Two Parts THE SPECTRE OF large-scale starvation hangs overshuman- ity today more iminously than ever. For while hunger has been a constant companion through history, the proportions of to- day's crises are unique. In two- thirds of the world, the race be- tween a constantly increasing po- pulation and a spasmodically in- creasing food supply is not being won. "Unless the less developed coun- tries sharply increase their agri- cultural productivity-and soon," said departing Agriculture Secre- tary Orville Freeman, "mass fa- mine will take place. Thus, more human lives hang in the balance between food and people than have been lost in all the wars of history." Already, reliable estimates ar that 400 million people are severe'- ly underfed, and over a billion more suffer from malnutrition. And while food production r i s e s fitfully, population goes up stead- ily. Asia and Africa presently have growth rates of 2.5 per cent a year, while Latin America's passes 3 per cent. Projecting these rates, the population of the de- veloping world will double well before the turn of the century. "WE MAY BE MOVING - per- haps within the decade - into large scale famine" said C. P. Snow, the Britsh author, in a recent lecture. "Millions of peo- 'ple in the poor countries are go- ing to starve to death before our eyes."~ Snow proposed, as have many others, three major lines of attack to avert this disaster - popula- ;ing war on world starvation "HE MICHIGAN Press Association must not allow its president-elect James own, state representative from Okemos, take office as head of the organization. o do so would put a representative of the ate government in a position to control, direc'tly influenoe the p r e s s of the ate. This situation must not be tolerated t any citizen interested in a press free om fear of censorship by state officials. The involvement of Brown .in the cur- nt controversy over obscenity at Michi- n State University is also cause for con- rn among citizens of the state who dis- prove of legislators having extensive. tside interests. Brown, as a representative from a com- unity closely connected with the MSU ,inpus, has the right, and some feel, the tty, to be concerned about the "decen- of the State News. No one will be- udge him his opportunity to attempt to a guardian of our morality in his own ay, just as we would not deny the right some legislator to introduce a bill to galize abortion, or to make public his >inions on the use of narcotics. Nixon's aesthetics POP PAINTERS are in f o r a gloomy time with the Richard ,Nixons.The ord has gone out from the White House at the new regime's tastes run to sailing id hunting scenes rather than modern' stracts. The National Collection, which responsible for decorating the White Ouse, groaned a little in private, but has ithfully removed t he Robert Mother- ells and Frank Stellas and put up hon- t, patriotic scenes of the American Civil gar. Jackie - even Lady Bird - where ai'e u? They are even threatening, so it's hispered, to replace your red, white and ue color schemes with a bit of Nixonlan 'own, mauve and indigo. One aide was 'erheard saying your splendid red room oked rather like Belle Watling's whore- )use in 'Gone with the Wind." --MANCHESTER GUARDIAN WEEKLY February 13, 1969 torial Staftf. MARK LEVIN, Editor TEPHEN WILDSTROM URBAN LERNER Managing Editor Editorial Director DAVID KNOKE, Executive Editor LLACE IMMEN . .. .. News Editor ROLYN MIEGEL....... Associate Managing Editor .NIEL OKRENT...........:....... Feature Editor T ODONOHUE ......................News Editor ELTER SHAPIRO.......Associate Editorial Director. IWARD KOHN.......,Associate Editorial Director AL BRUSS....................Magazine Edito, ISON SYMROSKI ...... Associate Magazine Editor IVA KEMPNER. .......Personnel Director N MUNSTER ............ Contributing Editor VID DUBOFF.,........ .... .Contributing Editor DY SACKS......................... Photo Editor Business Staff YET THERE IS MORE to Brown's "grave concern" than a sense of "morality," or legislative duty. As disclosed in The Daily yesterday, Brown has been at odds with the State News for nearly four and a half years. Twice Brown h a s failed to obtain a contract for his printing firm, Inco Grap- hics, to print the State News. More than once, 'the Ingham County News, of which he was editor and publisher, has editor- ially attacked MSU administrators over the contractual arrangements between the State News and its printer. In addition, Brown as the president- elect of the Michigan Press Association, is to head a professional organization de- voted to maintaining standards of jour- nalism in the state. Again, in this capaci- ty, no one should begrudge Brown h i s right to speak as he sees fit about the quality of journalism appearing in the State News. BUT IF Brown has the right to speak out as a legislator, and to speak out as the president-elect of an organization of journalists, he does not have the right to speak in both capacities. The govern- ment, and the representatives of the peo- ple, have no right to abridge the freedom of the press in this country. It has long been established that the government may prohibit the printing of "indecent material." Brown, as a citizen, may insist that authorities take proper action against those guilty of violations of the law. It will then be a matter for the courts to decide if the offending ma- terial is obscene or not. * However, Brown has gone much far- ther - too far - past his duties as a citi- zen or legislator. He has called for the ouster of the editor-in-chief of the paper, and has asked the administration to fire all staff members "who had anything to do with or stood silently by" when the offending story was printed. JIN ADDITION, Brown suggested to the MSU administration that he be allow- ed to take over management of the State News in order to "get it back on the right course. No newspaper in any state should have to operate under the constant fear that some public official might be displeased with its editorial content, and demand the ouster of 'the editor, the removal of the staff, and the privilege to control the paper. No government official has the right to make such demands. It follows, that no government official should ever hold the position of president of an organization that deffnes standards governing what the press shall and shall not print. BROWN must be denied the presidency of the Michigan Press Association. Not only has he shown himself incompetent before taking office by attacking a new- paper which he himself has had unpleas- ant dealings with, he has also betrayed the trust of every journalist in the state. -JIM NEUBACHER tion control, massive inputs of xaalth from the rich nations, and rapid agricultural modernization. Birth control, it would seem. offers part of the solution. In- deed, it appears logical that t h e "population explosion," brought about by a rapid reduction in death rates, be relieved by a sim- ilar decrease in rates of birth. And while contraceptive tech- nology up to now has been some- what inadequate, new develop- ments promise birth control which will be safe, cheap and ef- lective. But these developments cannot so easily alter the social patterns which make large famil- ies desirable. TRADITIONAL PEASANT so- cieties are adapted to a way of life in which infants die as a mat- ter of course, in which there are never enough hands to work the meager soil, and in which many sons give a man prestige and se- curity in his old age. The new realities are that in- fant mortalityhasbeen controll- ed, that there are now too many mouths to feed, and that, in Asia, there is no more available 1 a n d for those extra sons to plow. Bu thesehhave not had the effect Qf changing ideal family size. "Changes in population trends focus on basic values - sex, mar- riage,, and the family - which don't change radically in a short time" says Prof. Ronald Freed- man, director of the Population Studies Center. Vntil the 'necessary two sons are born, it would appear that birth control programs remain irrele- vant to most peasant families. BIRTH CONTROL has never been a panacea. Population plan- ners point out that slowing down growth is a long-term proposi- tion. Changes in trends are im- peded by the population struc- ture which already exists. For in- stance, the majority of people in the developing nations are under twenty years old, thus promising an enormous number of new par- ents for the Seventies and Eight- ies. Few of the poor nations, in fact, have yet embarked on effective family planning programs. In some countries, such as India, a genuine urgency on the part of the government is hampered by bureaucratic inertia, and by the sheer enormity of the task. In Latin America. simlar efforts meet with outright hostility from the major elite groups t h e Church, which opposes contracep- tion on moral grounds - the Na- tionalist Right, which believes a large population means a strong nation, and the intellectual Left, which feels that the pressure created by increasing population serves as a useful spur toward forcing social change. All these obstacles persist while technical means may fin- ally be at hand to effectively and painlessly control family s i z e Though no existing- contracep- tive method has proved generally acceptable in developing nations, new methods may pass all the tests. RESEARCHERS ARE ON the verge of coming out with' a serum which can givb contraceptive pro- tection for a year. Plans are en- visaged to distribute tasteless, harmless contraception through bread and water supplies. 'i Such technical advances may come to naught if social values, resist change. Or, such advanc- es may themselves accelerate the necessary value change. Foreign aid has been held out as having potential to solve prob- lems thatpopulation planning cannot solve in time. Massive shipments of food from the devel- oped nations, it has been argued,, can prevent famine, while capital inputs and technical assistance can create the base for modern industrial and agricultural econ- omies. But, while outside assistance has done some good, the impedi- ments to effective action in this area are great. Today, what small amounts of aid are given by the U.S. are partially to further na- tional political objectives. Foreign capital inputs, as they fare cur- rently given, while they may sti- mulate a: poor nation's economy, simultaneously place their econ- omy under foreign domination. This, at the same time that these nations are struggling to establish viable national identities. There seems little likelihood that Amer- ica, or any of the other rich nations, will gain the sense of in- ternational responsibility to do- nate a percentage of her incom,e to an international fund which, could apportion aid on a "no- strings-attached" basis.' Food aid, from America, while temporarily relieving famine, has the adverse effect of lowering{ prices on farm commodities, both in the world market and in the country to which food is given, thus reducing farmer income and incentive toward greater pro- duction.en liaddition, massive, aid promotes' dependency, and r e - sentment, and tends to retard the nation's own agricultural develop- ment. While agreeing that our pre- sent foreign aid program sh6uld be greatly increased, most ex- perts hold that the solution to the problems of food supply, as well as to the problems of indus- trialization, lie within the p o o r countries themselves. "We can help, but we c an 't buy a solution with pur money;" said Prof. Eva Mueller, of the economics department. "N o w we're giving must too little. But essentially, most of the effort has to be theirs. It is their farmers who have to be convinced to mod- ernize." And there-in the moderniza- tion of lagriculture, lies the hope of averting famine in the n e x t two decades. Tomorrow: The Revolution in Agriculture 0 Letters: In reply to Prophetic Insight' To the Editor: Y OUR "INFORMED SOURCE" is one quarter informed. I am in all probability going to go to UCLA. Final formal proce- dures are now underway. But I have not received a formal letter of invitation: nor have I submit- ted my resignation from the Uni- versity. As for consideration of a job in the 1912 Democratic Administra- tion - I hope your presupposi- tion is correct - that there will be such an Administration. I confess, the thought that I might get a job in such an Ad- ministration did not cross my mind until I read -the "Informed Source." But now that Ithink of it - why not? Perhaps "Philoso- pher in Residence," or "Intellec- tual Mid-Wife in Chief," or even. "Secretary of Socratic Inquiry" - a cabinet position.! One small suggestion - next time you let the world know what -is really going on, go to the source to get accurate information. Still, you may be right, though it might be better to name your column "Prophetic Insight." -Prof. Arnold S. Kaufman Philosophy dept. Feb. 10 Nice Landlords To the Editor: GRANTED, there were some Southern slaveowners who beat their slaves, and, in general, abus- ed their rights and privileges; yet, the majority of plantation masters were honest men who lived forth- rightly 'according to the laws of man and God, men who treated their slaves with the same care and respect that they would ex- tend to any valuable chattel. I ask, therefore, what possible good could come of a non-selective'condem- nation of the institution of slav- ery, when the real evils are being perpetrated by an unscrupulous few, and when any public display of discontent has all the potential of making a benign slave-owner into one of .,the uncooperative ones? This is analogous to the rather infantile view of the Ann Arbor rental housing situation presented by J. Mark_ Rottschafer, a self- procla4med judge of "good" and "bad" landlords, in a recent let- ter to The Daily. His view that the willingness of a landlord to meet minimally his legal responsibilities, when they could just as easily be ignored (since tenants are pqwer- less to compel' on an individual basis), is a justification for ex- horbitant rental rates and a legiti- mate cause of unflagging tenant loyalty is repugnant. His fear that his "good" landlord will be pro- selytized by the forces of evil at the first sign of an unwillingness on the part of tenants to tolerate an intolerable situation is child- ish and has no basis in. fact. MR. ROTTSCHAFER apparent- RANDY RISSMAN. Business Manager N KRAUS'............Associate Business M VE PFEFFER ................Advertising M FF BROWN...........Senior Circulation NE LUXON... ........... Personnel M fTI PARKER.................Finance M Wayne A 'By DAVE CHUDWIN FORMER SEN. Wayne Morse, one of the great dissenters of o u r tipe, visited the University Sunday afternoon and proved worthy of his reputation as "lecturer-in-residence of the Senate." Morse is a man who does not re- gret the decisions that led to his de- feat last November. He obviously misses the Senate. "But I don't have the blood of the war on my hands," he taunts his more cautious brethren, who did win re-election to the Senate last fall. In h i s speech Morse predictably blasted such things as the war in Vietnam, the "containment" policy, and the anti-ballistic missile system. But those who attended an informal reception after the speech were re- warded with revealing tales about how some Vietnam decisions w e r e made. MORSE WAS. in fact, deeolv in- Ma nager Manager Mianager Manager Mianager 0rse: The ins and 'outs' on f days before his death. At a White House meeting they discussed t h e 'progress of three aid-to-education bills. When their, conference ended, Kennedy asked Morse, "Wayne, where's your car parked?" Morse replied that it was near the southwest gate. It, was a beautiful fall day in Washington and Kennedy decided to accompany Morse to his car. ON THE WAY, the subject of Viet- nam came up. As far back as 1963 Morse was critical of the U.S. pres- ence there. At that time, he had been making two or three speeches a week against continued American involve- ment. They stood in the shade of a huge tree. Kennedy said, "Wayne, I'm not at all -sure that you are wrong about Vietnam. I'm in the midst of an in- tensive study of it. When I'm finish- ed I want you to give me a half-day on it." can't support a Catholic president who is representing the Buddhist," Morse said, referring to Ngo Dinh, Diem. "But that's not mytintention," the President again replied. And so it went for fifteen minutes, Kennedy denying Morse's allegations. "We shook hands and that was the last time I saw him," Morse told the small gathering at the reception. ALMOST FOUR YEARS later President Johnson had escalated the 'war, sending half a million men to" Vietnam. Casualty rates were soaring and there was no end to the war in sight. On t h e last weekend in August. 1967, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield made a speech urging Johnson to put the Vietnam question before the UN Security Council. Morse, long a devoted proponent of the UN, made a similar speech the a grapefruit slice with his spoon, said, "We'll have to talk while we eat." Johnson h ad scheduled a meeting with lndersecretary ,of Labor James Reynolds for forty minutes later. THE PRESIDENT TOLD Morse and Mansfield to explain their pro- posals and asked about a memoran- dum Morse had, prepared weeks be- fore about presenting the Vietnam issue to the UN. Morse told the President he had sent it to the late Adlai Stevenson but had never received a reply. John- son asked his advisers for objections to the UN idea. The room fell silent. "Mr. President you aren't going to get any answers," Morse said., Johnson went on to ask M g r s e about a message Johnson had already sent to the UN. "Mr. President, all' you sent was a scrap of paper," replied Morse. He explained that Johnson had merely V'L Vietnam: son asked an aide to check out the proposal with Undersecretary of De- fense Cyrus Vance, instead of De- fense Secretary Robert McNamara. "McNamara's gone dovish on me," explained Johnson. The participants were invited back for another meeting later in the week. Vance surprised the President by agreeing that presenting the Viet- nam problem to the UN might be a good idea. Johnson took Morse aside and said, "Wayne, I want you to make some speeches, on the floor of the Senate and get some reaction to this." Over 57 senators voiced support in the next few days, AN ASSOCIATED PRESS dispatch of August 30, 1967, quoted Mansfield as saying the President supported the Mansfield-Morse proposal. But, it has never been explained why Vietnam was not brought before the UN. ly feels that his division of the members of the Ann Arbor Prop- erty Manager's , Association into categories of "good" and "bad" would have some meaning even if those terms were not so nebulous. What he does not seem to realize is that the AAPMA was not form- ed in order to field two amateur hockey clubs; rather, .its origin lies in the fact that Ann Arbor landlords are smart enough to do what Mr. Rottschafer apparently is, not - to organize in order to consolidate their power. T h e AAPMA has but one purpose - to protect the financial interests of its members; it serves Mr. Rott- schafer's "good" landlord by pro- viding a congenial setting for col- lusion. The mere existence of this association' puts unorganized ten-, ants at a tremendous disadvan- tage, and a "good" member of the AAPMA is no less responsible for the activities of his association' than is a "bad" member. It is heartening to know that Mr. Rottschafer is capable of making at least' one "good" (i. e., with which I agree) point in his scholarly epistle; that is, that a rating sheet of landlords could be of some value, a very limited val- ue, since such a sheet would only put in writing what every Ann Arbor tenant (and Mr. Rottchaf- er) already knows -- than, some Ann Arbor landlords are "better" than others. What is desperately needed here is not awareness of the problem but a soluttcr and this solution ,will come only from a strong Ann Arbor Tenant's Un- ion. -Sam (S. David) Appel Feb. 7 . . anguage To the Editor: IN DISCUSSIONS I have heard of th e language requirement- and distribution .requirements, much has been said about the fail- ures of the University to teach what students want to learn and to prepare students for particular jobs. Of course, the University has assumed these tasks, or has had' them forced upon it, but these are not all the University does. ani i may not even be the most impor- tant things it does. Nothing has curiosity about man and his ac- complishments, accept the need to husband what is known of him, and are willing to try to make some coherent sense out of his rich experience. Such people do riot have exciu- sively practical concerns. -They are not obsessed with getting tools that are saleable. They wish to learn so that they may know. Mos" of the men who teach, in their best moments, realize that their task is not to turn out engineers and lawyers but to preserve and conserve what man has learned about mechanics and justice. PROBABLY, the College.of Lit- erature, Science and the Arts has a more obvious cultural rmle than some of the other unit's of the University. Why, then, isthere so little appreciation of this role by some of those who have come to the literature college? Students in the literature college surely ought to know, if anyone does, that the heart of the University is books and men, a library and a group of scholars who care about the pres- ervation of knowledge and appre- ciation of human accomplishment. From such a view, neither stu- dents nor faculty determine the curriculum; the curriculum is pro- vided by all of the things men have done since we began keeping records. Those who really 'c a r e about knowing and conserving hu- man lore do' not ,agonize about what is included in their studies but about what is excluded. They want more time more leisure, more books, more teachers. I AM IN THE UNIVERSITY be- cause I am one of . those who wants to know about man and his works; I know I did not come into the world as a singular but as part of a race of men with a east and a promise. I try to help others to know and appreciate what f know best, but I wish also to learn my- self. And my 'requirements' will never be met. How impatient I get with remarks like those attributed in last Friday's Daily to Howard Becker, a University sociologist, that "schools are a lousy place to learn anything in." One learns of man from books and from men; I know of noother place than the University where the two Pre I I