4rbr £ic1tgatt Daly Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHiGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Op"Ons Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MIcH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Preval" BD. Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. EDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: EDWARD HERSTEIN Shrinking the Dry Lie: Widening Individual Horizons MEDIA RECORD 'Anonymous Editorialist Irresponsible JMAGINE CLARK'S TEA ROOM-across from Mosher-Jordan Hall-set up as a bar. Or, imagine stepping across North University after your four o'clock class and sitting down for a shot or two. That old student nemesis-the Ann Ar- bor dry line-might be shrunk to about one-seventh its present size if city voters give their approval in November. IF THERE WAS EVER a time for stu- dents to register, this is it. There are about 1800 signatures, on petitions, sitting in the City Clerk's of- fice. They ask that voters decide Nov. 3 whether or not to keep the present dry line or to create a dry island around the University campus. Only 1400 signatures are needed to initiate a referendum. The petitions have been submitted by an anti-prohibition, free-thinking citi- zens' group calling itself the "Committee for Fair Licensing." The old dry line 'Moral Mail' HOMEOWNERS will be able to avoid receiving "morally offensive" mail if a bill, already passed by the United States House, gets similar approval from the Senate. Upon receiving a complaint, the postmaster general would give the sender 30 days to stop sending any mail to the complainant's home. The possibilities of this great bill would be virtually limitless.For example: -Junk-mail advertising is annoying and wasteful, and hence morally offen- sive. Wouldn't it be nice not to have to crowd your wastebasket with the Huron Valley Ad-Visor every week? --It's not too hard to get morally in- dignant about taxes. All you'll have to do is find Form 1040 morally offensive, and next year you can cut yourself off from the Internal Revenue Service. -Bills from telephone and electric companies frequently send citizens into a rage. To preserve his moral sensibilities, the taxpayer can silence these sources, too. -There's nothing more morally offen- live than militaristic propaganda. Soon, merely by complaining about the Defense Department, our young men will no longer have to suffer this outrage. They can avoid receiving this insulting material- and in the process, can also avoid receiv- ing their draft notices. -K. WINTER Published daily Tuesday thrnugh Saturday mnrning. Summer subscription rates $2 by carrier, $2,b by mail. Second class postage paid at. Ann Arbor, Micb. which they are seeking to revise prohibit- ed selling "liquor by the glass" in the area of the city east of Division St., Pack- ard and the Huron River. The interesting thing is just what the dry island would include-and exclude. As the petitioners have requested, the is- land would look something like this: EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series of articles on the Re- publican Convention. By MICHAEL HARRAH T WOULD SEEM that the Re- publican party has of late tak- en to a universalhcondemnation of the press and the broadcast- ing media; much of the report- ing from the Republican National Convention contained accounts of rebukes for the nation's reporters. And, one surmises, perhaps some have condemned the press in general unjustly, for by and large, as most Republicans will readily acknowledge, the rank and file reporters have done their ut- most to report matters with fair- ness and objectivity. From where, then, have the apparently erroneoustreports of universal GOP hostility to the press in general come? The answer is simple: They have come from those members of the press corps at whom the hos- tility was directed-a small but vocal minority who are spoiling things for most reporters. * * * IT IS TIME to name names, dis- tasteful as that may be, and to condemn those who deserve con- denmation. The guilty ones are not the everyday, hard-news re- porters. Nor are they (with one exception) broadcasters. Rather they are the columnists and commentators, who are em- ployed by newspapers and broad- cast media to dispense their opin- ions to the public. And unfor- tunately we have -tended to con- fuse these editorialists with the rank-and-file news reporting peo- ple. There must be no confusion. The reporters, such as Walter Cron- kite, David Brinkley, Ron Coch- ran and Douglas Edwards on the air {waves, and Willard Edwards, Gene Schroeder and Preston Gro- ver in the newspapers, make a sincere attempt to present the news, stripped of its bias as much as ishmumanly possible. The .editorialists, such as Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, Ed- ward P. Morgan, Lowell Thomas, Paul Harvey, Fulton Lewis Jr., and alas, Chet Huntley (who masquer- ades as a straight newsman) on the air and Walter Lippmann, Emmet John Hughes, Murray Kempton, David Lawrence and Holmes Alexander in print, are presenting the news with their own bias throughout. Some make diligent attempts to point out what is fact and what is opinion (Sevareid is a good example); others make no attempt to dif- ferentiate and one wonders wheth- er or not they themselves know (witness Lippmann, and, worse, Kempton). THE DANGER, however, does not really lie in these people. Rather it comes with the anony- mous editorialist who is not re- sponsible enough to keep his opin- ion out of those places where we normally seek fact. A blatant example of this is the lead headline in the Toronto Star-Telegram of Friday, July 17, which exclaimed "Goldwater Calls for Extremism," in big red let- ters. This was an out-and-out lie. Goldwater never did any such thing; in fact, the story which ran under this frightening head- . line did not even support the statement. Yet it is easy to see how this dramatic headline left the com- pletely erroneous impression of Goldwater's acceptance speech in the minds of Star-Telegram read- ers. And this is but one in a mul- titude of similar sins. Other not- able guilty parties include the New York Times, the Washington Post and Times Herald, and NBC's Chet Huntley and CBS' Daniel Shorr. To quote the National Observ- er: Goldwater is too polite to say so, but his words, manner, and actions smack of a man who feels he hasn't gotten a fair shake. We think he has a sound point. In fairness to thereport- ers, we believe that the senator has often spoken off the cuff and that he sometimes spoke ambiguously. But Goldwater has cut that out. Many of the re- porters haven't cut out what they ought to cut out. When Goldwater speaks, we often have the same Journalis- tic situation as when Roger Blough of U.S. Steel "dared" to manage his own business without President Kennedy's permission. Or when, somehow, the news of the Russian missile build-up in Castro's Cuba was ignored or dismissed as incon- sequential. Or when the city of Dallas became a journalistic punching bag after Kennedy's assassination there. The situation, in a few words, is that many reporters see only what they care to see. This is not a letter to the edi- tor or an interview with a right- wing extremist. This is a news- paper criticizing its fellows. And the point is well-made-and well- supported. THE NATIONAL Observer cites the Der Spiegel interview, where Goldwater said, in response to whether he had a chance to de- feat Johnson: "If you ask that question as of now, and I always like to answer political questions as of now: No. I don't think any Republican can, as of now. But come election day, there is going to be another horse race." Yet after the New York Times got aho d of it, and Gov. Scran- ton got ahold of the Times, Gold- water was supposed to have said that the GOP couldn't beat John- son. Another one: On the American Broadcasting Company's "Issues and Answers" program, Goldwater was asked how he would uncover Communist supply lines along the Laotian border. GOLDWATER REPLIED: "Well, it is not as easy as it sounds, because these are not trails that are out in the open. I have been in these rain forests of Burma and South China. You are per- fectly safe wandering through them as far as an enemy hurting you. There have been several sug- gestions made. I don't think we would use any of them. But de- foliation of the forests by low- yield atomic weapons could' well be done. When you remove the foliage, you remove the cover. The major supply lines though, I think, would have to be interdicted where they leave Red China, which is the Red River Valley above North Viet Nam and there, according to my studies of the geography, it would not be a difficult task to destroy those basic routes." But the Associated Press, which serves hundreds of papers and stations across the nation didn't say that. It reported that Gold- water wanted to defoliate Viet Nam. He never said that at all. TH ESE ARE the things that fix themselves in the minds of the American people. And they are lies, no matter how unintentional they may have been. ' '" WIDE LOAD The nation's press has a great responsibility to avoid indulging in such pasttimes, however un- malicious such indulgence may be. Onie must take issue with those who condemn the press as a whole, for the condemnation is ill- deserved. But one must laud tI efforts of those who point up it responsible journalism-whether is the Newv York Times reportin in haste or Walter Lippmann a serting opinion as though it wei fact-for these practices do every one a grave disservice. -I ~ c. *~KEEP TO~ ~ m m .~I r ! TODAYAND TMORRO Nero LedertLos Cotro HICH MEANS that the "hill," State St. businesses on the east side of the street, North University businesses, the Oxford housing project, the Women's League, Hill Aud., the Rackham and Frieze Bldgs., a good portion of fraterni- ties and sororities and, yes, even Health Service would be in the "wet" area. While University and city laws pro- hibiting the sale of liquor to persons un- der 21 would still hold, think of all those students over 21-especially those living northeast of campus-who would no long- er have to traipse to someplace west of Division St. for a drink, as the present dry line requires. And think of all those professors and teaching fellows who could get replenished between classes. Sure would liven classes up. We might not have a greater Univer- sity or a more enlightened student body and faculty if the new dry line is approv- ed, but then no one knows for sure if things would be worse, either. WHAT THE NEW DRY LINE would most certainly mean is that those who want to drink won't have to work harder at it than ought to be necessary. And that would leave most of the decision with the individual-who ought to have it in the first place. -JEFFREY GOODMAN By WALTER LIPPMANN THE RAW EDGE of the Negro riots in Harlem and in other northern cities is that the recog- nized Negro leaders lost control of the mobs. For some time, close observers of the mounting Negro protest have been watching ap- prehensively for this development. They have feared the dread mo- ment when young Negroes, unem- ployed or badly employed, unedu- cated and desperate, would break away from the preaching-of non- violence and go on a rampageof hatred and destruction. This breaking loose from the recognized leaders is a critical and BASIC IDEALS Peace Caravan Tours Nation t/ / .i / C ma ,y-.,' ti;t . '4 Y 1/ a F ~,Y I ,:; -- . . . . . . .$. i' . , EDITOR'S NOTE: Roberta Pol- lack is one of four students trav- eling in Michigan tils summer as part of a Peace Caravan sponsored by the American Friends' Service Committee. The following article tells of their work and objectives. By ROBERTA POLLACK TWENTY college students are traveling across the country this summer talking to people about peace; they compose five separate groups of four each. The entire Peace Caravan is sponsored by the American Friends' Service Committee. WIDE APPAL Haydn .Symphonies Performed well These students are seeking to make Americans aware of their individual responsibility and im- portance in national government, to make them aware of the al- ternatives to war and violence and to encourage them to have open minds. The Friends are a pacifist group which believes that only through love and nonviolent resistance can conflicts-ideological, racial or economic-be solved permanently. The initial area of concern of the Peace Caravan students is nuclear weapons. They find that Americans on the whole seem un- aware of the disastrous effects of nuclear war. The responses they get to when they talk of these effects are often, "We have to de- fend our country" and "The weap- ons will never be used." Yet the facts that what is being defended would be destroyed in a nuclear, war and that building weapons offers little if any real security pass unnoticed, the students feel. THUS THEY ARE doing more than question the practicalities of war; they are demanding that people examine their values. The students feel that people's willing- ness to wage war is a violation of other more basic ideals in the Judeo-Christian tradition.' These ideals include turning the other cheek and respecting and valuing human beings and human life. Pursuing policies of violence and enthusiastically supporting a governmental policy which plans the use of force as a means of attaining supposedly desirable ends is a blatant contradiction of these higher ideals, the Peace Caravaners think. They contend that there are pose fostering a spirit of inter- nationalism instead of national- ism, a feeling of humanitarianism instead of Americanism or Euro- peanism. One specific proposal they are making is cultural study programs. These would involve elementary school students studying particu- lar areas of the world-their lan- guages, people and customs. Liter- ature might be studied in native languages rather than through translations. The basic assumption behind these prosopals is that all people, no matter what superficial nation- al values and customs differen- tiate them, can empathize with others. It is necessary only to make people aware of their basic sim- ilarities. THE STUDENTS emphasize other facts and values as well: -The value of preserving hu- man life and utilizing and devel- oping man's most outstanding qualities, his ability to think and love; -The fact that violence has not solved conflicts in the past and that the United States is arming itself for what it claims will not be another war-after two wars "to end all' wars" have been fought; -The value of keeping an open mind and realizing that the de- fense of one's principles need not be done through violence; -The value and necessity of each person realizing his respon- sibilities as a human being, as an American and as a member of the world community. Pardon? ominous event, and civil peace in this country depends on whether the breach between the young Ne- groes and the older veteran lead- ers can be healed. It is essential to begin by real- izing clearly the basic difference between the American Negro pro- test and almost all African move- ments abroad. It is that the American Negroes are not agitat- ing for a new social order, but for admission to the social order which now exists. * * * THIS COULD change.'If the established Negro leadership is pushed aside and the desperate young crowds fear nothing be- cause they have nothing to lose, the Negro movement could become the prey of guerrilla agitators. With this in mind, we must choose between the two courses of action which are now open to use. One is to stamp out the disorders when they appear, using the local police and if necessary the na- tional guard and the federal army; the rest of the problem is to be left to the states. The other course is to stamp on the disorders wherever they break out and at the same time to try at all levels of government to re- dress the grievances which are the causes of the disorders. * * * THE FIRST course is that of the Republican Party since it was taken over in San Francisco. As a national party it is, like all the rest of us, opposed to Negro dis- orders, and it is in favor of the use of police forces at all levels of government to stamp out these disorders. But as a national party it is no longer interested in the redress of the grievances at the national level and - considering Gov. George Wallace-at no level. Leaving out all considerations of liberty and justice as they ap- ply to Negroes, the Goldwater policy opens up the prospect of endless disorder. To stop the protests and to shut off real hope of redressing the grievances is a recipe for disorder. The alternative course is to police the disorders and to redress the grievances. The rioting cannot be tolerated. But for an increasing number of Negroes, the grievances are intolerable and will not be en- dured very much longer. The es- sential point is to prove to the large mass of peaceable Negroes that there is light at the end of the tunnel, that the same public Haydn: Symphonies 82(C), 83(g), 84(E-flat), 85(B-flat, 86(D), 87 (A). Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; London Records CM 9333, CM 9334, CM 9335 (Stereo: CS 6333, CS 6334, CS 6335). T HESESIX "Paris" symphonies were written by Haydn during the years which he spent in the service of Prince Esterhazy; the first of the six was completed in 1785. By this time Haydn had met Mozart and so these symphonies are probably the last which were not influenced, in one way or another, by Mozart. The middle symphonies of Haydn are unreasonably neglected today and so it is a great pleasure to see these six recorded with six, and the most earnestly per- formed in this set. Number 83 ("La Poule") is the spunkiest. Numbers 84, 86, and 87 are done rather listlessly; there is nothing which is, by itself, particularly disturbing, but the three are per- formed in an uninspired manner throughout. Yet they are virtually unobtainable in other recordings, which makes it difficult for com- parison and also is reason to be grateful for their existance. Number 85 ("La Reine") was, the record jacket tells us, Marie Antoinette's favorite symphony (thus its nickname), and no won- der, since the slow movement is a series of variations on the French folk song "La Gentille et Jeune Lisette." However rustic the movement may be, its per-