Severn ty-Third YearU EDITEDM AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNI'VERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS 'here Opiniona Are STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MicH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SPONTANEITY WITH PRECISION Japanese Calligraphy Taste fully Done Y, JULY 24, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM FBI Investigation Can Only Inflame Harlem HE FBI is investigating "the possibil- ity of violation of federal laws" in t weekend's Harlem riots. 'Violence and lawlessness cannot, must t and will not be tolerated," President hnson said this week in ordering his feral agents into the strife-torn Negro tropolis, q day earlier, FBI Director J. Edgar over called for a halt to excessive len- .cy for offenders. Leniency, he said, ids to "ignore the victim and obscure a right of a free society to equal pro- tion under the law." 'he sad thing is that neither Hoover r the FBI can possibly protect that ;ht. In fact, they are the last people the world who should have been sent "investigate" Harlem. EW YORK MAYOR Robert F. Wagner has set forth a broad program call- for restraints on police power, greater itacts with the city's minority groups : stepped-up efforts against poverty. e FBI, he said, is in Harlem "solely to .st, support and supplement what we already doing in the way of meeting threats to law and order." iarlem needs programs like Wagner's. does not need the FBI. It does not ed the unearthing of federal viola- ns. Por legal proceedings against people o have little or no reason to obey the vs of "their" country are not only aningless but self-defeating. Or do anson and Hoover believe that the riot- in Harlem was carried on by wilful n who had no other emotions than a ious desire to disrupt law and order? HAT LAW? What order? For Har- lem's blacks there can be little but itempt for the "laws" of a system that s categorically excluded them from its vileges. There can be little but con- ipt for the "order" of the lives they d, an order which oppresses them, ettoizes them, forces them to continue r after year in the same miserable tern. Chat the violence even now continu- in Harlem and Brooklyn solved none the Negroes' problems is certain. But s also certain that if violence is to be eliminated as an expression of deep frus- trations and angers, it is the source of those emotions and not the violence which must be attacked. Yet the FBI is certainly no social agen- cy. Its job is law enforcement, not crime prevention or social reform. It is ques- tionable if its director even recognizes the influences of social conditions. EVEN IF THE FBI does uncover viola- tions of concern to the federal gov- ernment-Hoover claims that Commu- nists and other "extremists" might have inspired the rioting-there is still almost nothing to be gained for Harlem.' It is hard to believe that Communists, even if they were behind the rioting, had to push people very far. It is hard to believe that the arrest of these organizers would decrease the legitimate demands and the justifiable anger of Harlemites. And arrests certainly would do nothing for the social conditions in that area. At the same time, however, the whole "law enforcement" aura surrounding the FBI can only make it appear to Negroes in Harlem that the federal government is concerned solely with maintaining the game of lawfulness. Even worse, to all those Harlem Negroes who sympathize with the emotions of the rioters, even if they did not sympathize with the riot- ing, the FBI represents vengeance de- scending upon them. And it is the percep- tions of the FBI by Harlemites and not FBI intentions that are significant. IF THE ORIENTATION toward "lawless-' ness' of the FBI agents is anything like that of their chief, that perception will consist of disillusionment, insult and rage. Extremists could be uncovered far bet- ter if local forces were to gain some de- gree of confidence from Harlemites and solicit their cooperation In finding the hate-peddlers. But it is not simply that the FBI is not needed in Harlem, nor that its purposes 'are in no way relevant to Harlem's real needs. The most important consideration is that the FBI will actually inflame the al-, ready contemptuous and angry feelings which Harlem has for the "System." -JEFFREY GOODMAN THE ART-VIEWING PUBLIC of Ann Arbor has a unique op- portunity through August of view- ing one of the most highly regard- ed art forms in the Far East, the art of calligraphy, in an exhibi- tion of Modern Japanese Calli- graphy at the University Museum of Art. The twenty-five works and eight two-panel screens, brought to this country under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts, offers selected examples of some of Japan's leading calli- graphers. At first glance, the unfamiliar appearance and strangeness of Japanese calligraphy might dis- courage the Western viewer from either pursuing a further investi- gation of its merits or create the idea that because of its seemingly simple form and content, there is really not much there that war- rants investigation and under- standing, let alone appreciation for a non-Japanese. To gain a greater measure of understanding and enjoyment of this exhibition, it might be well to begin with a brief discussion of the materials, tools and techni- ques employed in the execution of these calligraphic works. THE INK, or "sumi," which is used in the creation of the ma- jority of these ideograms, is made from either the soot of burnt pine- wood or of oil smoke (lamp-black) mixed with a kind of gum, warm- ed, left to solidify, and then moulded into flat or round stics which are then rubbed and dis- solved in water on a flat stone slab with a surface sloping to form a well. The bristles of the highly ver- satile brushes which are used, vary in size from less than aninch in length to several inches in length and thickness, the latter of which are required for writing the huge characters that may be two or more feet high. Much thought is given to the papers on which the written char- acters are executed which vary in texture, color, absorbency, and applied decorative design in order to produce a variety of effects appropriate to the style of the writing and the content of the poem or saying that is being tran- scribed. * * * THE WORKS on display are further enhanced by being hand- somely matted and framed in a stunning array of rich silks and brocades which have been care- fully selected to set off the char- acters themselves and to further convey the mood and expressive quality of the writing. In creating a piece of writing, a calligrapher thinks first of the structure of the single characteis with a view to their forming esthe- tically pleasing patterns in them- selves; then he considers their arrangement in the whole of the work in which he strives for a skillful balance and variety of size, value; space and visual weight while at the same time aiming at a feeling of consistency, cohesive- ness and unity of the elements of design which he is manipulating * * * THIS REQUIRES perfect co- operation between mind and hand, such as can only be achieved by years of assiduous practice. It is a, cooperation vitalized by the emo- tional energy of the artist at the moment of writing which results in forms of unique individuality. The principles on which the strokes are balanced into a beauti- ful pattern are not those of sym- metry, but depend upon a kind of inherent feeling in the writer. The control and precision with which the brush is manipulated must be accompanied by a sense of spontaneity and freedom which should result in a quality of beauty that is essentially the beauty of plastic movement, not a designed and motionless shape. The esthetic complexities of this art find their equivalents in the technical means by which it is executed. The esthetics of Japan- ese calligraphy is simply this: that a beautiful form should bebeauti- fully and tastefully executed., * * * FOR A FURTHER understand- ing and appreciation of this exhi- bition, the viewer is advised to read the labels and English tran- slations which accompany each, work, keeping in mind that many of them offer at least only an equivalent in meaning. Then he should judge for himself if the calligrapher has been successful in reflecting the content of the writing in the calligraphic form and style which he has chosen to interpret so as to give further significance and meaning to this written communication of a thought while at the same time striving for a sense of individual- ity and expression. Instead of becoming yet another in a series of unfathomable orien- tal puzzles for the West, this ex- hibition of Modern Japanese Cal- ligraphy is capable of providing further insight into one of the many artistic and creative expres- sions of the Far East provided that the Western viewer is willing to keep an open, receptive and in- quiring mind in order to derive a greater sense of pleasure and understanding of this particular genre of Japanese art. -Milan Mihal IKE'S NEUTRALITY Doubting Press Treats Eisenhower Shabbily. THIS JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHIC screen is part of a current exhibit at the University Musuem of Art in Alumni Memorial Hall. The sequence of execution of this type of art is from top to bottom, and from right to left. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR iSmoke the Bear' And4 the Birch, Society EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of articles on the Republican convention. By MICHAEL HARRAH UNDOUBTEDLY, the most ma- ligned individual at the Re- publican convention was former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who took a campaign of insults and innuendoes from all sides. Before the convention, he was attacked by such journalistic lights as Walter Lippmann, Emmet John Hughes and Kenneth Craw- form for his "failure to speak out for a candidate." He was hounded by a constant barrage of candidates, prospective candidates and newspaper report- ers, trying to twist some state- ment, some remark, some gesture, as an indication of support for someone or the rejection of some- one else. FAITHFULLY, the man tried on every occasion to assert his neu- trality. He stated it over and over again. Every chance he got he insisted upon it. He took that stance last October, and he never swayed from it once. Yet more rumors sprang out of it than had been wrung out of anything in a long time. Columnists assured the nation, 1 alternatively and simultaneously, that Eisenhower was: against Goldwater; for Lodge; for Scran- ton; for his brother Milton; for Romney. The candidates rushed' about, each claiming his: endorse- ment; encouragement; friendship; support. It got ludicrous, and still the man repeated and repeated that he wasn't supporting anyone-he was completely neutral. * * * SO, HAVING figured that out at last, the newspapers and the candidates began on a campaign of guilt by association. They point- ed to brother Edgar and nephew Earl who supported Goldwater; they pointed to brother Milton who supported (at the last min- ute) Scranton; they pointed to former Eisenhower Secretary of Defense Gates who was boosting Rockefeller; they pointed to for- mer Eisenhower Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey who was sup- porting Goldwater. As the GOP convention ap- proached, brother Milton was per- suaded by the Scranton forces to come to San Francisco by rail with the general and try to dis- suade him from neutrality-in any case, get some indication of sup- port. THE SCRANTON publicity ma- chine ground out the propaganaa: Ike was helping Milton with his nominating speech for Scranton; Ike and Milton were having long philosophical discussions and the general wanted so badly to take a stand. But Eisenhower arrived in San Francisco, and hadn't endorsed anyone. So the Scranton forces tried a new trick. They berated the Gold- water-dominated platform com- mittee for not having mentioned Ike in the platform. That's all right, the general said. Why shouid they? But nobody listened. The newspapers tried to imply that Ike and Mamie were not wholeheartedly greeted when they came to the convention oee kn Tuesday.'But that is untrue; their reception was wild and enthusias- tic. Gbldwater people stood up and cheered heartily for the only GOP winner in three decades. * * * THEN THE PUNDITS conclud- ed that Goldwater snubbed Ike, refused to call upon him, and t1 at the convention also ignored him after Tuesday. Yet the trW . was that Goldwater did keep irk touch with the general, and it was the general's wish, .due to his profess- ed neutrality, that he not be in- cluded In the political wheeling and dealing. .* *. * SMALL WONDER that the for- mer President lashed ous at his newspaper critics in his public address on Tuesday. And while Kenneth Crawford was mulling about how the press "had been so good to Ike" during his adminis., tration, he seemed to forget that this was only out of respect for a news source, and nor out of respect for a man. If there is any doubt of this, one has only to look at the treatment of Eisenhower since the inception of the GOP campaign last fall. The general's position has been clear, consistent and unswerving, but his treatment in return has been indescribably shabby. Shielding MSU Students, 'HOSE WHO HAVE BEEN quick to com- plain about the University's somewhat nlted speaker policy will surely sym- thize with the recent report that a ay containing the words "damn" and igger" has been banned from the edu- tional television outlet of Michigan ate University. To be sure, the analogy dtween denying Communist propagan- aers the right to speak on campus and rbidding the usage of certain words or rases in a university-sponsored televi- >n program can only be taken so far; t where infringement upon freedom of ought and expression is concerned, the ghtest such action could easily lead to ore fearful actions by administrators.; rhe play in question, a 12-minute, two- aracter story called "Boy," was written the Episcopal chaplain of Wayne State iiversity, Malcolm Boyd; and in com- )n with two other short plays written him for presentation at the same time, deals strongly with race relations. But fore broadcast time rolled around Sun- y, July 12, station director Armand inter had cast aside the offending play d aired only the other two-whose lan- age apparently was pure enough for e ears of MSU students. In place of oy," a commentary on the dramas was fered by an MSU faculty member. Eunter was quick to offer two reasons y the play should not have been oadcast. The first was his reported tement that the words "damn" and igger" had never been used over the tion in his eight years as director, ich in itself speake volumes about the bent of freedom of expression allotted those who submit material to the MSU ton. IS SECOND REASON, that as far as he was concerned the two offending words were not vital to the play, causes one to question why Hunter felt he knew more about the given play than did the writer himself. Certainly the station di- rector cannot really suppose that he knows better than the writer which words are vital to a play and which are not. It is obvious that'whatever rights of censor- ship the director of a television station may have, Hunter has overstepped the thin line between constructive censor- ship and abridgement of freedom of ex- pression. Rev. Boyd, in defending his script, spoke truly when he said that "educational tele- vision is not Ito be an ivory tower ... (it) does have responsibilities in artistic and academic freedom." It is fortunate that such a statement has been made by a member of the clergy, a group which up until fairly recently has often sat on its hands where such controversial issues are concerned. It isrmore fortunate still that such a strong dramatization of social protest as "Boy" could have been written by a man of the cloth; Rev. Boyd deserves no small accolade for the way he has made life a part of religion, as well as making reli- gion a part of life. BUT WHAT CAN BE ,SAID about the unfortunate incident in East Lansing? If Hunter thinks that he is shielding the students of MSU by not allowing them to know of the deprecating manner in which Negroes have been addressed or by changing the "m" in "damn" to an "r," he is sadly mistaken. If he con- siders his own objections to the words or to the context in which they were used as a sufficient excuse for banning Rev. Boyd's play, he is sadly mistaken. If he thinks that any true benefit will accrue to the students of MSU as a result of his stand. he is msdv mistaken. To the Editor: WAS very happy to read Ross Wilhelm's satire on the kind of reasoning that groups like the John Birch Society will use in meeting the arguments and criti- cisms leveled by writers like Jef- frey Goodman. Wilhelm's letter with its Smokey the Bear analogy-devasting in its biting satirel!-was especially ef- fective in Alerting us to the meth- ods groups like these will use in order to becloud and confuse the issue with smoke screens. MY COMPLIMENTS to a uni- versity community that can pro- duce such scholars as this, eager to enter the fray to defend us from the extremists. -John Talayco French Department Pointless Analogy To the Editor: IN REPLY to Ross Wilhelm's letter, I think it important to note that not only does he mis- represent the contents of my own letter regarding the police stickers, but he himself is somehow satis- fied that a rather pointless anal- ogy between Smokey the Bear and the "innocent" police stickers is sufficient refutation of the points made by my letter and the edi- torial of Jeffrey Goodman. Wilhelm, and all persons who tend to underrate the danger to the United States from the John Birch Society, ought to take time to read the Blue Book of the John Birch Society, the journal American Opinion, and follow other Birch publications closely. There they will find not only the origins of the police sticker cam- paign but such statements as, and I quote from page 159 of the Blue Book, "democracy is merely a- deceptive phrase, a weapon of demagaguery, and a perennial fraud." There they will find as well the avowed intention to implement the words of Senator Goldwater who, in advocating extremism, thereby advocates the major tactic of the John Birch Society-using the "Communists" methods against the "Communists" in order to de- fend freedom. THE POLICE STICKERS are a symptom, not a disease. Chief Gainsley, and the Ann Arbor police department are certainly not ac- cused of fascist leanings, indeed during National Police Week, such stickers are appropriate. But the facts are, for anyone who cares to discover them, that the stickers are in intention and conception, read The Michigan Daily with in- terest this summer. It is evident a liberal flavor exists on the edi- torial page. This is fine if the editors feel this way. This is where such feel- ing belongs. However, I was disappointed, from a journalistic standpoint, to see the apparently slanted treat- ment given the story covering Washtenaw County Conservatives Chairman George F. Lemble's talk on "Conservatism" Tuesday night at the Union.. THE STORY, while it seems factually correct, does not men- tion the sponsor of the talk (the University Young Republican Club) or where he spoke and in the next to the last paragraph claims Lemble "lashed out" at those who have attempted to in- stigate violence. I was in attendance at the meeting which wa~s carried on in an orderly, quiet manner with question and answer disagreement showing in a light vein. There were no loud or demagogic state- ments such as "lash out" would imply. This active verb was picked up in the headline and gives a misleading impression of the at- mosphere in which the talk oc- curred. ALTHOUGH I can't agree with everything Lembie said, a paper's first duty is to report news in as an objective manner possible. I would hope The Daily would not jeopardize its fine national repu- tation by sloppy reporting of this nature. -Jeff Schorr SPIRIT OF MANKIND Directory: The Book of Life THE WESTERN WORLD has waited a long time for a work which might truly, yet completely, capture the spirit of mankind; the summer Student Directory is a dazzling capstone to the literary "It's Not Going To Be Easy Giving Up These Seats" .. : : ....? 1.t..J . .tt.** ....ti:tSh. I.t . i E arch which sits astride the stream of humanity passing through it and proclaims, "this, then, is life." It was, I suppose, inevitable that the ultimate work should take this form. The greatness of any literary work has always resided in its ambiguity-a directrstate- ment of plot has always been simple-minded, historically perish- able, and an impediment to uni- versality. Until now, however, no author has been able to suggest more than a fraction of his story by indirection. Faulkner, who rat- ed his favorites by the scope of their attempt, struggled against an imperfect system. The Student Directory sweeps across the complete scope of hu- manity-a nearly random sample of the world, achieving nearly complete ambiguity. Let there be no doubt about it, the Directory is not an easy book to lead, but it is the book of life, and nature does not easily yield up her secrets unto lazy students. * * * DEC E P T I V E L Y purporting simply to list its characters alpha- betically, the Directly embodies the perfect symmetry of human experience ever achieved. And there is no dialogue, that old dis- t ''1 J - >> 1 W41 I -¢q THE FINAL WORD Registration: "Averbach . . . Baar ... Ackes . . . Baehr." The lapse into argot in the ad- vertisements is not easily for- gotten. "K is for kitchen where I I ! -. U