Seventy-Third Year EDImD AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS 'here Opinions Are Fres 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 f or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. l. ii t~ G ,f : C " f hYf t afi r' t : j 1\ 4. t4R .3 ]p +3 1' "'{ n4J xS t1" '.Y 1l W r r 1 SUMMER SILENTS Only Chaplin Spark le In eiceP orm Y, JULY 17, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: JEFFREY GOODMAN ,.. - t The Goldwater Campaign: What Are the Issues? V I T H WEDNESDAY'S nominations over, the attention of all turns to- ard the presidential campaign. What ill be the issues? How will they be ar- ced? Who is in the best position? The paramount feature of the cam- aign will be that the issues will be ill- fined; and will, without exception, be, >orly argued. This factor alone will sily make the campaign one of the ost frustrating and meaningless of the ventieth century in America. For one thing, the Republicans cannot ;ree on what the issues are. Barry oldwater has been quoted as saying, "I >pe to God civil rights does not become z issue." And it is well known that Hen- Cabot Lodge does not wish to make 1 issue of Viet Nam. Perhaps reassur- gly, the Republican clamor over the )bby Baker case has determined that ey are agreed on at least one "issue" r 1964. VILLIAM SCRANTON has - and cor- rectly-defined the most important is- e both at home and abroad as keep- g the peace. But when it comes down debating on peace, where does the ar- ment lead? Goldwater would have our emies (and occasionally friends) cringe ider the might of military superiority d thus presumably act in a peaceful anner. Some of the more optimistic of his col- igues would favor negotiation from un- rstanding rather than obiesance from ar. The Democrats surely would. The o sides, if they debate on "peace," will us talk right past each other, be- uise they will be talking about differ-. t things. The same will apply to a debate on et Nam, if it becomes an issue. Gold- ter says our main trouble there is at our generals are either fearful of e enemy or chined by civilian control. s solution would be to give them free reign-and make sure they have the new- est weapons. Here he misses the entire point of our failure in Viet Nam. WE ARE FAILING there because the people are not on our side. To Gold- water, this "war" requires only better "weapons" and more "courage." He is wrong: what it requires is that our South Vietnamese government begin to favor some meaningful social reforms. Perhaps it is too late even for this; this is the way we should have handled Viet Nam starting in 1954. But not even to try to do the right thing at this late date is even more shameful. Weapons will never win that war. The side with the people behind it will end up governing the people. At present that side is the Viet Cong--and at present it governs two-thirds of Viet Nam. But Goldwater will not argue the war this way; and whether Johnson chooses to lower himself to Goldwater's abysmal level or not, the "dialogue" will be futile and meaningless. CIVIL RIGHTS, says Goldwater, is "a matter of the heart." It is. But it is now also a matter of federal law. Goldwater will not be able to present or debate any proposals concerning this law without incurring ridicule to him- self because of his past record. At best he will remain comparatively silent on the issue. This will take the pressure off Johnson, who after all, only favors civil rights as a matter of political expedien- cy. He-and John F. Kennedy-had a choice between evils. They would lose .more votes being against a strong civil rights law than being for it. It was as simple as that. But now the law is passed, and some pressure is off. There is certainly no pres- sure from Goldwater. So Johnson can for a time ignore-as he so passionately wished he could all along--the pleas of civil rights advocates. He cannot ignore them forever, but he can stall them off --"I passed the law"-for long enough to make civil rights meaningless as a de- bating point in the campaign. THUS, THE COMING campaign, due to an incompetent Republican candi- date and a lack of immediate political pressure, will surely be one of the most degrading and meaningless of American history. It will be a sad thing, but at least, as Goldwater says, "the people will have a choice." -ROBERT HIPPLER At Cinema Guild THE CINEMA GUILD is letting down its summer patrons. This weekend's program of five shorts and a longer short is mostly for the student of the cinema. The lone exception is Charlie Chaplin's "Shoulder Arms" which easily ranks as one of his best pieces. The other five films are dis- appointments. They only help us appreciate how fine artists Chap- lin and D. W. Griffith were. "The Crisis," made in 1916, is a golashes-on-the-wrong-foot mel- odrama. If the story doesn't trip over itself, you know that the characters will manage to corn things up. * * * THE STORY LINE is as old as the Bible. A staunch, grayhaired preacher is asked by settlers to take over the new church in the wild west of Indians on the war- path and heavy-drinking cowboys. For no discernable reason, he, packs up his own imbibing son, a mothering wife and a daughter with the smallest waist I have ever seen, and they head west. Ie son gets hung up in a saloon along the way, the father mops his brow in disbelief, the mother wrings out son-lost tears and the daugh- ter's heart aches to know why she has such a brother. The three finally and sadly reach their des- tination, leaving brother to his own plight. Some guardian angel--called the script writer-is watching over, these doings, and he decrees that father and son must be reunited. The father has suffered enough and the son is reallyt good at heart. So brother is made a hero when the Indians attack the set- tiers and he goes for aid. It is a story for the ages, and because' of the way it is told here, I wish itrwould have been forgotten sev- eaages ago. 'GG. HC) ook. my " ~ t fo J 1 . 1Q £LEPci. 1Ah-:Yr'W-' "THE KISS" was a shocker in its day-imagine, a man and wom- an smooching before our eyes- and stars May Irwin and John C. Rice. (The Cinema Guild re- ported incorrectly.) The Laurel and Hardy short is mildly divert- ing and little else. Please hesi- tate to leave early if you get tired of these first five items, for Chaplin's "Shoulder Arms" is definitely worth the wait. -Michael Juliar THE 'CODE' oney Not Sex At the State Theatre TRUE TO THE CODE, there's no sex in "Bedtime Story." In fact, the story isn't even about sex (it's only the merchandising gimmick)--it's about money. Da- vid Niven and, Marlon Brando, who want it, are matched with Shirley Jones and a succession of bit players (36-24-36) who give it to them (with, as a fringe benefit, certain other unmention- able goods or services). Brando even winds up marry- ing the good American girl he almost took for $25,000. That should cover the plot. There's a bloodthirsty police in- spector. ("He wouldn't let me loosen the wheels on his car. He wouldn't let me get Renni the Knife. He wouldn't let me use the, gun. How on earth does he expect law and order to prevail?") AND HIS GUN, held In a hand- kerchief. ("This was Hermann Goering's Luger. It has no finger- prints on it but his.") And there is the chase scene. Brando has to follow Niven and Shirley Jones. They area on horse- back, on surfboard, and at last in a, glider. He -is in a wheelchair. Which winds up bouncing tumul- tuously down the side of a hill at a barn. The farmer opens the loor just in time, Brando runs into the, farmwife on the way through the barn and winds up thrown into the pig slough with a milking pail full of mud on his head. OR THE BEDROOM scene. Brando is "recovering" the abil- ity to walk: (Jones) "Walk to me, Freddie. Oh, come to me." He does. (Jones) "You must rest." (Brando) "Oh, no. I want to see how far I can go. Move over there by the bed." And insult on top of injury, the film and photography quality is :niserable. There are inexplicable flashes of white or black, scenes %re spliced into each other with absolutely no transition, and the wheelchair careens downslope in- dependent of the vegetation. DEFENSE TANGLE U.S. Neglects Schools Abroad R ghts Effors THE MISSISSIPPI Freedom Democratic Party, an integrated civil rights poli- tical party being organized by the 'Coun- cil of Federated Organizations, is gain- ing momentum in a drive to unseat the Mississippi Democratic Party at the Na- tional Democratic .Convention n e x t month. It is not alone in its efforts. The state Democratic Conventions of New York, Michigan, California, Minne- sota, and the District of Columbia have come out solidly in favor of supporting the Freedom Party. But the party has one trouble - it doesn't have enough registered members to look respectable at a national conven- tion thus far. For as slim as the support is for the regular Mississippi Democratic Party, the organized support is even slim- mer for the Freedom Party. THE REASON IS SIMPLE. They won't let Negroes register in Mississippi. The white supremacy machines and police forces run by men such as Sen. James Eastland are at present succeeding in their efforts to deprive 40 per cent of their state's adult population (the Ne- groes) of their constitutional rights. One SNCC worker stated the problem. "Where in Alabama, they at least let you into the courthouse and then usually keep you from registering by sophisticat- ed means, in Mississippi they don't let you in the courthouse at all-and often beat you when you get in." The NAACP national convention has urged that the federal government take over the government of Mississippi to stop the autocratic system there. But others, such as CORE leader Bayard Rustin, dis- agree: "The way to be victorious is through political, not military power." RUSTIN'S POSITION seems more fav- orable for the long run. But the only way for it to begin on its path is for the Freedom Party to gather support- and voters--for the national convention. It has made a good if difficult start. More cnnnr. +if -eafr.+ might hca nff tho By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM AMERICA has never taken great pains to cast her best image overseas. For all their expendi- tures, our tourists and business- men have helped little to win friends and influence people. But the most blatant demon- stration of ugly Americanism has come from-of all places - the Department of Defense. The de- fenders of peace in some 25 countries are also the adminis- trators of a rambling and bum- bling school system which seems to present more obstacles to good management than hunting down. Viet Cong guerrillas. * * * THE NATION'S tenth largest school system, it contains 284 schools which have 7000 educa- tors and 160,000 children of mili- tary personnel. In America, the country is com- ing to scorn the inadequacies of racially imbalanced schooling. Overseas, the conditions are much worse. But not a peep.' The big question is why the image-conscious U.S. perpetuates thisr blight on iLself. The answer is simple: the Defense Depart- ment has its hands tangled in its arms. CONGRESS has set up the school system under the depart- ment's jurisdiction. This means that military men are often as-' signed duty as chief administra- tors. More important, however, is the method of fund dispensation. The Congress currently allows an annual $285 per pupil fee. From this inadequate fund, teachers and administrators are paid. The remainder of the money to provide supplies and textbooks must come from the base funds. The base commander, even if he's not principal, still holds the purse strings for paper and shop equip- ment, typewriters and desks. In rare cases, a base has a progressive thinking commander and a fluid supply of money. Oth- erwise, the teachers are left upon their own initiative. BUT EVEN their initiative is dulled by discomfort. Inside the classroom they are met with heat- less, light-less classrooms. Outside, it's worse. Dilapidated housing, in- adequate recreational facilities, and-of course-a foreign country all breed dissatisfaction, Somehow, they complain most bitterly about the salary scale. Back in 1946, teachers had a civ- il service classification which gave them salaries akin to federal em- ployes in demanding jobs. But in 1959, the teachers were written a special law. It instruct ed the secretary of defense to pay them "in relation to the rates of basic compensation" in cities of 100,000 people. This plan was successful for one year. Since then, the payments have failed to meet required lev- els. For the 7000 teachers, this has meant a revenue loss of $10 million. For the individual teach- er the effects are equally drama- tic. If he has earned a master's degree, his salary in 1960-accord- ing to the 1959 guidelines-should have been $5,375. He got all but $5. IN THE 1963-64 school year, the salary determination procedures of the bill would have given this teacher $5,855. He actually gross- ed $5,475, a loss on the year of nearly $400. The National Education Asso- ciation, which has attempted to watchdog the overseas operation through an international outlet, has launched several protests. It has even filed a suit to secure the money legally appropriated to these teachers. But rectifying salary promises would only be a first step. The question of overall educational en- vironment remains. The National Education Association estimates that one-third of the teachers turn over every year. * * * TEACHERS are forced to impro- vise maps, teach woodwork with- out tools, coach basketball with-, out court or net. When funds are available, the red tape is increas- ingly sticky. Often, schools are filled with ditto machines with- out fluid; or tools without wood. Recent publicity on the dismal state of education abroad may. cause repercussions - eventually. The Department of Defense has set up study groups and study groups on study. groups. But they too may be doomed in the same bureaucracy which dooms the school system. In the meanwhile, teachers in the states will continue to average $6600. Overseas educa- tors: $4720. THE PEARL WHITE episode, "The Death Ray" is not a cliff hanger and yet I wish someone would let go. There is a speck of imaginative adventure in it that leaves you about as limp as un- cooked spaghetti. Edwin S. Porter in 1900, made the semi-documentary, "The Life of an American Fireman." The student of the cinema can study it closely to learn about the de- velopment of new techniques.. There is one short, slow pan in it; that is, the camera moves slowly across the scene. This vas a startling idea then as all scenes were made with a stationary camera at the turn of the century. There are also the crude rudi- ments of the "cut-back"-the shifting back and forth between two related scenes. But here, Por- ter develops one big scene and then redoes it completely from another point of view. f Only later did he learn to shift continuously between two scenes, something the experts declared would confuse the audience. The experts were obviously wrolmg, for without the "cut-back" the nar- rative film would be impossible. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR lU' PTP ir'scrimination Active, Protest MAYBE YOU CAN'T fight city hall, but you can fight the Administration Building-at least when the issue is park- ing. The current protest is not the first. In recent years, there have been two other occasions on which restrictions have raised motorists' ire. Time has obscured the details somewhat, but their relevance to the present-and the future-remains. In May of 1956, various forms of "no parking" signs suddenly materialized on campus-area streets. Many students, sud- denly without a place to park, moaned that "we were snuck up on," and a Daily. editorial politely suggested that the rules be reconsidered. But no one went be- yond just talking. The no-parking signs remain to this day. jN OCTOBER OF 1955, the University's parking committee set new rules re- quiring Plant Department workers to pay for previously free spaces. 150 employes hit the ceiling, and then sat down on the job. For a full afternoon they bottled things up. Exactly how this battle came out is unclear, but at worst the strikersj got' a satisfactory compromise. The moral for those unhappy with Uni- versity policies seems to be this: if you want to fight a University decision, you have to make things uncomfortable for the decision-makers. The North Campus "park-in" now underway seems to sup- port this theory. THERE ARE ISSUES at the Unversity i STIMULATING Carder Displays Drive, Energy in Folksinging THE GREAT BATTLE still raging among the members of the folk community revolves about various attempts at distinguishing the ethnic or pure folksinger from the popular or commercial variety. One would sacrifice entertainment for authenticity, the other equates suc- cess with value. Jimmy Carder, the newest attraction at the Golden Vanity, manages to satisfy the tastes of both. Young in appearance, Jimmy looks much like a Yale Under- graduate, complete with regulation tie. The appearance is deceiving, however, for when he picks up his twelve string and begins to sing, there is an energy and drive directly derived from his mentor, Bob Gibson. Gibson's influence can be felt throughout both on the insistent intensity of his back-up work and the open emotional and tonal rise of lyric. There are moments, most expressly demonstrated in "The Klan," in which the influence seems harmful as the power and impact con- tained in the verse becomes submerged by an over-emotional render- ing. Dynamics aside, there remains a case for subtlety. YET THE GENERAL EFFECT of Jimmy Carder is stimulating. To the Editor: IN OBVIOUS CONSEQUENCE of the May 16th conference on discrimination in the Professional Theatre Program at the University of Michigan, the Association of Producing Artists held a "Spade" day audition in New York City. Concept-East officials were in- formed by their New York asso- ciates that the A.P.A. sent out a casting call to actors' agents to which nearly 100 Negro actors and actresses responded to fill a single "vacancy."n As the waiting rooms filled the applicants recognized the blatant- ly segregated scene and showered A.P.A. representatives with deri- sion. Subsequent to the audition, form letters were sent to the "unqualified" applicants inform- ing them that they had failed to meet A.P.A. "standards." In a stealthy plot to avoid rigorous negotiation of differences, the A.P.A. failed to inform the Concept-East of their decision to open the theater company to "token" integration. OFFICIALS of the Concept- East viewed this as another subtle attempt of the power structure to foist a unilateral decision on the Negro as to his needs and the limit of his opportunity. This end- play by the A.P.A. in their New York audition is just another in- sult to the two years of injury which the Negro endured from the University's lily-white Profes- sional Theatre Program which was termed by its executive director as an "artistic ideal." In view of this naive maneuver the Concept-East set its minimum University in the Play of the Month Series be integrated. 5) That this year's new play in' the New Play Project be authored by a Negro. * * * CONCEPT-EAST termed its re- quest reasonable in view of the two years of public and private bigotry during the residence at the University of the A.P.A. If these minimum requests are met, the A.P.A. can maintain its pri- vate prejudices behind a mask of" liberal equal opportunity, as be- havior rather than attitude is crucial to the poncept-East. It is certain that these requests can be met since the A.P.A. isdoing excellent business. In the face of obtrusive hypo- crisy as evidenced by the situation in the University Professional Theatre Program one can easily understand the invective ridden nature of New York plays author- ed by Negroes who evaluate their "American Dream." James Bald- win's "Blue for Mr. Charlie" and LeRoi Jones "The Dutchman" belch the grim need for recogni- tion in the U.S. The Concept-East has had its broiled eyes focused on the A.P.A. for two solid years watching the scene develop while silently sIng- ing the blues. Now its time for Blues forl Mr. Charlie. -Concept-East Theatre Detroit, Mich. Detoi, Mch I I "Giddap, Boy----That's A Good Republican" y : - - / -. d - ;;' .. r:,;.. , , Y