X h !igian (l Seventy-Third Yevr EbrrED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIYERSITY OF MIC MGA UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ere Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Troth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in T he Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. "We Stand Upon Our Historic Principles - TODAY AND TOMORROW GOP Insiders' Expect Party Control, Not Win DAY, JULY 16;1964; NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT HIPPLER Police Stickers: The Implications 'HE WHOLE POLICE stickers issue ~ could be a huge tempest in an insig- ificant teapot. For who-except possibly criminals- an argue with a three inch square piece f paper that says "Support Your Local olice?" And so what if the stickers are art of a national John Birch Society impaign? Maybe George Lemble, presi- ent of the Washtenaw County Conserva- ves, who donated the stickers to the ity, is right. Maybe the Birch Society is .nally doing a "good thing." At second glance, however, the matter not quite so simple. First of all, there the question of the honesty of the onservatives. Lemble was unaware of ae origin of the stickers; he did not ven know from whom they had been ob- ained. 7ET THERE CAN BE no question that the design for the stickers, if not the etual pieces of paper, originated in irch headquarters in Belmont, Mass. laybe the specific stickers now adorn- g city store windows were printed some- lace else. But the Birch Society bulle- in quoted in yesterday's paper carries a lear replica of the stickers. And at the ottom of the bulletin the reader is told aat he can order them from Belmont, 50 >r one dollar, postpaid. It is hard to believe that no one in ae Conservatives knew this. It's hard > believe that their donation is any- aing other than an attempt by the or- anization to pull the wool over the eyes f the cit fathers. But that claim raises the second and iore important question: what wool? aren't the stickers innocuous? Would heir meaning have been at all question- ble if various Council members hadn't rought the Birch link to the city's at- ontion? HE CRUX of the matter is that the stickers would not have been ques- onable. The meaning would have been uite clear: support your local police- .o matter what they do, without question. ven if people didn't think in terms of acking the lawmen in their vigil against ommunist-inspired racial riots, there rould still be an appeal to unthinking tipport. ? And that's exactly what makes the bickers so insidious. As Robert Weeks, ouncilman and professor, puts it, "the olice deserve more generous financial Editorial Staff ENNETH WINTER C.. . ........00-Editor DWARDHBER STEIN..............o-Editor [ARY LOU BUTCHER...........Associate Editor HARLES TOWLE............... Sports Editor EFFREY GOODMAN '............... Night Editor OBERT RIPPLER ................. Night Editor AURENCE KIRSHBAUM ...........Night Editor Business Staff TDNEY PAUIKER,. ............. Business Manager Y' WELLMAN... . ......Supplement Manager UTH SCHEMNITZ..........circulation Manager ETER DODGE.........Assistant Business Manager The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the se of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise edited to the newspaper. All rights of re-publication all1 other matters here are also reserved. The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and cllegiate Press Service. Published daily Tuesday through Saturday morning. ammer subscription rates $2 by carrier, $2.50 by mail. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich. support than they have received in the past ... They also should have the kind of support a law-abiding citizenry gives its police through observance of the law. "But the public should not be asked to give its unqualified, blanket support. If the police overstep their authority, if in their zeal to enforce the law they ignore a citizen's rights, they should be criticiz- ed, not supported ... Like a city council- man, a policeman should be respected, but no one should be encouraged to sup- port him uncritically, irrespective of what he does." THlEBIRCH STICKERS obscure all of this. They exert a subtle psychological effect upon the citizen who sees them. Even more subtle, they create an artifi- cial situation in which anyone who does not have a sticker on his car or store window is, by direct implication, against the police. Such a simple-minded approach, using the subtlest of Red-baiting, psychologi- cal tricks, is typical of the extreme right. The tactic was its fundamental tool in the McCarthy era: if you refused to an- swer questions about Communist affilia- tion, even if you didn't come out flatly in favor of the hearings (or of the House Un-American Activities Committee hear- ings these days) then obviously you were a Communist. What else? A great deal else. Especially now, when there is some question about police tac- tics in dealing with Ann Arbor Negroes. What the city sticker campaign amounts to is official endorsement of one side of a controversy. City officials are, of course, free to take sides, but they do this as individual men and individual officials. But it is ethically quite questionable for a corporate body composed of differing camps to align itself with only one of those camps-and the implied alignment is with opposition to the Police Review Boards 4 currently being discussed in Council. A GREAT DEAL ELSE. For the police are both public servants - which means that they supposedly serve the people and not vice versa-and men - which means that they are prone to the same influences which can make all sorts of men do things that justly deserve cri- ticism. A great deal else. People in this coun- try have always believed that free ex- pression of opinion and reaction is the best means of arriving at satisfactory policies. Only wilful propaganda cam- paigns have made them drop their insist- ence on frankness and give irrational, un- thinking support to any cause, man, poli- cy or institution. The Washtenaw Coun- ty Conservatives will be the first to back this statement, as they indicated Mon- day in supporting an investigation of the stickers. Let them admit thesource of the stickers publicly. And if they don't know, let them explain carefully why they failed to find out. Not that such admission will make the stickers excusable, though they speak for themselves: they have no reasonable jus- tification. It is good that the city has taken them off City Hall and will settle the matter. Just so the settlement is not too quiet, for Ann Arbor citizens ought to be aware of the many implications of "Support Your Local Police." -JEFFREY GOODMAN 96 'TOIP$ K? CONSTRUCTION CRISIS Higher Education Needs By WALTER LIPPMANN IT IS QUITE TRUE, as William S. White has pointed out, that we are witnessing "a violent and fundamental power showdown be- tween the inside and outside fac- tions of the Republican Party." The inside faction, which oon- sists of all the top Republican leaders in both houses of Con- gress, is solidly behind Sen. Barry Goldwater. The outside faction, which includes governors like Scranton, Rockefeller and Rom- ney, is outside the inner Republi- can congressional hierarchy. These Republican insiders were defeated in 1952 when their can- didate, Sen. Robert Taft, was beaten by the outsiders who used Gen. Dwight Eisenhower as their instrument. THIS ANALYSIS, good as it is, does not explain why Goldwater, the 1964 instrument of the con- servatives, is so radically different in great matters from Senator Taft. In 1952, "Mr. Republican" was still deeply opposed to foreign en- tanglement, unwilling to engage in military adventures abroad and most reluctant to be drawn into intervention outside of the West- ern Hemishphere. His conservative successor in 1964 has sounded the trumpet for a global crusade to be carried on by wide-ranging military intervention, possibly nu- clear. How is it that the Republican conservatives who are taking con- trol of the national political or- ganization seem to have changed so radically in these 12 years? I think of Sen. Everett Dirksen who, still wearing the laurels he earned by making possible the civil rights act, has nominated Goldwater. * * *, I DO NOT THINK that Drksen has any lust for a global crusade or that it worries him very much that Goldwater has said that the civil rights act is unworkable and can be enforced only by a police state. I do not think Dirksen has changed. Presumably he believes that Goldwater will not be elected, that it is not important, there- fore, what 'Goldwater says and that when and if Goldwater is defeated, the control of the party will be left with the Republican congressional hierarchy of which he, Dirksen, is the leading mem- ber. With the platform, which is un- alloyed Goldwater, before us, one thing is certain. Goldwater is of- fering the voters a choice between himself and Lyndon Johnson, and nobody will be able to say that it is another case of Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee. * * * THE FUNDAMENTAL difference between the two men is not what it would be if Dirksen were op- posing Johnson, whether it is bet- ter to do A or B about this or that. The difference between Gold- water and Johnson is one of tem- perament and character-the dif- ference between a passion to divide and dominate and a passion to pacify and harmonize. A prime example of the dif- ference is in the field of civil rights-. Goldwater's stance, when the bill was still before the Sen- ate and now in the platform, is, if not calculated to do so, most surely bound to offer the Republi- can Party as a haven of refuge and support for nonobservance and passive resistance. This is a national calamity, that this grave matter of civil rights is not to be raised above the party conflict and that Dirksen has to give way to Goldwater. And to what end? In order that Goldwater, running for President, may be able to attract the segre- gationists who look to Gov. George Wallace of Alabama. That is what I mean by saying that Goldwater has a passion to divide and to dominate. * * . AND IF, by some chance, Gold- water were elected President, we should find that what he stands for in foreign affairs would cause nothing less than a convulsion in our foreign relations. His platform talks a b o u t strengthening NATO and our other alliances and about our moral leadership in the world against all forms of Communism. But as surely as night follows day, the election of Goldwater would shatter our whole system of alliances, and it would set rolling in all the continents enormous waves of anti-Americanism and of neutralism. For none of our allies in Europe or in Latin America or in Asia, except perhaps Chiang Kai-Shek, would join us in a global, nuclear, anti-Communist crusade. Far from following the United States in such a lunatic adventure, the paramount concern of our allies would be how to contain the U.S. until It had recovered its sanity. (C),1964,The Washington Poet co. LETTERS A Danger In Stickers00 To the Editor: "QUPPORT Your Local Police" reads the little blue and white sticker on the door of the Ann Arbor Police Department. Look closely and you'll see the same sticker on the windows of a few Ann Arbor merchants; closer, and find it on the bumpers of some of the cars with "Goldwater '64" stickers; closer, and you'll find the slogan and the emblem head- ing a leaflet issued by the John Birch Society-the original source of the slogan as well as the stick- ers. The police say the "Washtenaw County Conservatives" supplies the stickers. The merchants say they "got them from the police." The drivers of the cars with the bumper stickers don't answer your questions. Now that National Police Week is over, why this effort in Ann Arbor? Has there been any threat to the police here? A threat taken seriously by the responsible mem- bers of the community? or by the police themselves? What kind of support should the police receive? Do they need money, more men, fringe benefits, the moral support of the community? Probably all of thesethings are needed, but is this the kind of support that is requested by the little blue stick- ers?: * * * I THINK NOT. Rather, is it not an attempt to ally the police, who are public employees of the whole community, with a small segment of this community that is both politically irresponsible and potentially dangerous? -James McEvoy By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM THE UNIVERSITY epitomizes American education in many ways. Its orientation: liberal arts; its pursuit: research; and its goal: a scholarly community, all repre- sent what we call Higher Edu- cation. In its troubles, the University is also representative of education. Take any problem. Faculty sal- aries, facilities, growth. Compute the amount the University needs annually to meet those problems. Multiply that amount-nearly $40 million-times a large two-digit number. Now you have what Amer- ican education needs ideally. Statisticians place the annual figure at $4 billion. That, of course, is the ideal. - * EDUCATORS here and nation- ally know they must settle for less. Their requests this coming year will fall far short of what is ideally needed. Private, state and federal sources will allocate even less than what educators seek. The University is preparing budget requests that will ask $30 million to meet the faculty sal- ary, facility and growth needs. The most chronic problem in Michigan and in all states is the construction crisis. Based on enrollment projections, the Uni- versity could use over $25 mil- lion for building and remodeling. The nation's colleges could use $2 billion. FOR CONSTRUCTION, the Uni- versity will seek about $15 mil- lion. The nation's colleges will re- quest only $1.5 billion. In actual funds, the University will be alloted about $7 million. The nation's colleges will receive $1.2 billion. The University will thus slide $17 million down the scale from the ideal to the actual. The na- ;ion's colleges will be pegged down $800 million. THESE SUBTRACTIONS add tip. The figures represent a lot of libraries and classrooms which won't be built. They condemn the educational process here to an in- adequate economics building or a pieced-together architecture and design school. Unlike the funds, students are going to continue to gush forth. Seven million degree-credit stu- dents will clamor for a college ed- ucation by 1970, where only four million are knocking now. By 1975, 8.5 million will be seeking admittance. The University's pro- jected enrollment for 1975 is near- ly double its present 28,000. But growth is only one of the crises arguing for financial rec- ognition and rcorection. One group :f observers-the Educational Fa- cilities Laboratories--has issued a report which adds fresh shades to the construction problems. * * * THE REPORT warns that if fa- cilities are inadequately provided for too long, the needed build- ings will be set up by a series of "crash programs." Campuses will be "crowded with misplaced academic slums, educa- tionally self-defeating and drain both educationally and econom- ically on future generations," the report states. In exposing this danger, the re- port is picking up a familiar re- frain of educators. They have stressed that unless preventive maintenance is used now to keep facility deficiencies from increas- ing, the future onslaught of stu- dents will perpetuate- an even greater crisis. Hasty constructions will in turn give birth to even greater problems. WHAT IS BEING done? Presi- dent Johnson managed to wran- gle a $1.2 billion college facilities act out, of the Congress last De- cember. It would provide an aver- age of $400 million each year for construction. Hopefully, by loan and matching fund gimmicks, the act can be made to stimulate cap- tal outlays by industry and state governments. The problem is that no funds hiave actually been authorized yet. the bill was supposed to become operative in the last fiscal year, which ended June 30, but civil rights placed the fund authoriza- tion bill in the Senate's backlog.' This means that funds will be- come available for this fiscal year, but time-valuable in construction -has been. lost. The University, waiting to apply for library funds, will have to be patient. * * * NEITHER the University, nor American education, can afford a luxury of time. That's why some parts of the country are planning right into the next generation. At the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley, a $270 million con- struction project is under way. The Los Angeles campus is gearing it- self for the stretch run on a $370 million building program which was begun in 1949. In New York, the multi-branch- d state university will invest $700 million to absorb a 100,000 stu- ient population by 1970. The Uni- -versity. of Illinois is spending $195 nillion to build new campuses, one in Chicago. These programs have a combi- nation of foresightedness and funds which will be instrumental in the war on ignorance. But the microcosm of education is right here. The University pre- pares to plod through another sub- $10 million capital outlay year. Too many other institutions, de- spite their liberal arts, research and scholarly communities, will have programs which aren't mov- ing any faster. INSECT ANTICS Players Present Social Satre, ,.. FEIFFER DO LAETMONT IT 9W'' OR TV WL4EP$ THE PRESnFPNT RE~AP A LETWR FROM -aiis LiTTL5 &IRL- ANDP-MEN 65 WAS FAMOUS. 'SO IM A t-I5 GIRL. 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Sam Spe- wack's Under the Sycamore Tree provideddthe change of pace for the Players' Summer program that may prove their brightest offering yet this season. The play gives us a light and witty, subterranean Animal Farm. It is a cottage of serried snatches from the history of a society of ants, who, by means of the achievements of their scientist and a self-conscious mimicry of the half-known world of humans, achieve dubious results that mirror closely the milestones of "prog- ress" known to America in the sixties. Stephen Wyman is outstanding in his leading role of the ant scientist whose innovations bring his anthill compatriots from the state of primitive, foraging, im- personal creaturees who naturally devour their enemies, to the so- phisticated level of anthropomor- phic well-fed progressives who eventually feel, love and - fret about the eventual obsolescence of war. IT'S WALTZ in 3/4 ant-time as Julia Lacey and Stephen Wyman (as the Queen and Scientist) introduce one more human custom into their ant colony in UNDER THE SYCAMORE TREE, the third University Players' summer offering. The production will run nightly through Saturday at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. UP ON T 6 NEXr PAYI tRoT U66RAM FROM &rvF '14 WHAT Wr V I Aft AR, i \v mimicry into a more blatant, wise- ornlririo n,.. r on~ntnmp. of nt he uberance of the scientific heroes. I4.h.p1 fuine'I z . .4~ a l Irftipmhd