Seventy-SixthYear EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Oo s Are Free 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH.. NEws PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WRAND Offers Lesson for Future . SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1966 NIGHT EDITOR: HARVEY WASSERMAN McDonald: A Disaster For Council and Students DR LAWRENCE McDONALD, Universi- ty Hospital surgeon, teacher, John Birch Society section leader, and Demo- cratic candidate for the Fifth Ward City Council seat is running a strong and intelligent campaign which may be of interest to political scientists, but unfor- tunately has no positive meaning for University students. Out of a philosophy advocating free enterprise comes a single element of pol- icy rendering all else irrelevant. McDon- ald states a belief that student welfare should not be the concern of the City Council. This means no legislation safe- guarding building quality, no examina- tion of student grievances against land- lords or merchants, no recognition of stu- dents as a citizen group. McDonald advocates improving gar- bage collection, improving traffic pat- terns, and implementing police resources. Students would clearly benefit from such ction. But this is not enough. Although McDonald would place total responsibility for safeguarding student in- terests in the hands of the University, it is an undeniable fact of life in Ann Ar- bor that students are a special group in the community, a group participating in Ann Arbor as. well as University affairs, and a group that, because of its size, lack of voting power, and economic character, has special needs that can only be sat- isfied by the community. IMPOSITION of standards on builders is equated by McDonald with socialized housing, undesirable in Ann Arbor. Yet,, substandard housing in Ann Arbor is also :undesirable, and under usual conditions,. can only be stopped by legislation. It is no oddity that substandard housing is usually either low-rent old housing or low-rent cash-register apartments, and that these are mainly occupied by stu- dents. Off-campus housing is Ann Arbor hous- ing, not University housing. Regulation of this area of student concern cannot be handled by the University, for the University is not a legislator. Further- more, although McDonald bases his con- cept of non-participation on the laws of free enterprise, the University participa- tion he advocates can only be judged col- lusion. Even the city has difficulty in regulat- ing building. Laws of free enterprise are far less dependable than laws of Coun- cil. When a powerful developer glues to- gether 30 stories of shabby housing in a community faced with a housing short- age, the laws of competition do not oper- ate. Rather, students are forced to live in new slums. McDonald would withdraw city power. And then what? Perhaps even more frustrating than McDonald's philosophy of non-participa- tion is his philosophy of non-recognition. He attacks current councilmen for taking alvantage of students as a group, per- haps unethically. Again, he would take the temptation away from Council by giv- ing the responsibility to the University. Student traffic congestion would be a University problem rather than a muni- cipal problem, because it is the Univer- sity that issues driving permits. Stu- dents cannot have influence on civic af- fairs as they are not homeowners and have little voting power. McDONALD IS, THEN, proposing an un- real Ann Arbor, one where at best, the University and the community inter- sect only at Division Street. While his type of Council would remove the threat of unsympathetic councilmen passing cruel legislation infringing on student rights, it would be a Council oblivious to 30,000 persons living in Ann Arbor. The irony of the campaign is that the Fifth Ward is a middle class neighbor- hood comprised partially of the homes of University faculty members. Further- more, it is unlikely that any of the few students in the ward have voting power. Thus, student opinion has little effect on McDonald's candidacy. No matter what else he stands for- and such issues as Council reform and improvement of public services are to be recognized as the fundamentals of an appealing campaign-his position on stu- dents marks him as a threat to both the Council and the community. This should be remembered in the February primary and the final April ballot. Regardless of political philosophy, students should rec- ognize this. If they could vote. -NEAL BRUSS By DICK WINGFIELD WHAT IS poverty? It is not a lack of money. Many "unimpoverished" people will readily attest to their short- age of money. Likewise, the popu- lar myth of Cadillacs and color ttubes" in seats of poverty shows that money alone (in marginal amounts) will not cure the disease. It is not a lack of formal edu- cation. Ask President Johnson himself on this question. It is not an inverse function of one's optimism and admiration of the grandeur of the world. Regard T. S. Elliot. BUT PULL these "not's" together with a myriad of others, add the social perspective of a plague of dysentery or a black out on the East Coast and an approximation of poverty is legitimately ven- tured. In essence, poverty is wrought with miraculously broad dimen- sions-dimensions which escape enumeration and explicit defini- tion. This backhanded approach is not the fault of anyone. It is the character of poverty itself which dictates the method of analysis. If it is understood completely, this approach to poverty can be used to effectively analyze and wage a war on this national'prob- lem. Willow Village, close (at least in prorimity) to the University, was, is, and will continue to be poverty stricken. The basic reason is that people in the community, upon receiving news of a federal poverty grant from the federal Office of Economic Opportunity in January, 1965, split into two fiercely warring camps. Certain persons in the area and supporters from the Uni- versity defended the proposition that Willow Village was indeed impoverished and could benefit greatly from the grant via the expansion and continuation of Willow Run Association for Neigh- borhood Development (WRAND). Others abhorred the idea of being classified "poverty stricken"-an implication the grant carried. This second troup formed such organizations as REPLY (Return Every Penny and Leave Ypsilanti) and relished the confusion and publicity.- that the controversy drew. (The Willow Village con- troversy has reached such publi- cations as Pravda in Russia, the New York Times, and nearly all the local and state papers.) THE PROJECT did move for- ward, however, and with the fol- lowing accomplishments: -Partial refinishing of the WRAND community center,' a World War II schoolhouse built for the children of bomber plant workers and purchased by WRAND in 1964 for $15,000 (without gov- ernment funds). -Recreational programs were continued. Babe Ruth baseball leagues were started before the grant was received; however an expansion into the areas of mod- ern dancing, and other cultural activities has been evident since the administration of the grant. -A Job Opportunities Center program was effective last summer in teaching skills to 15 youngsters. -The people working toward combating the social-cultural re- tardation of the area have formed a closely-knit and hard working core who are delegated the re- sponsibility of bestowing Willow Village with a future for its less priviledged citizens-a task al- most unsurmountable in view of recent developments. AN UNFORTUNATE beginning for this expansion process was the original. petition for the poverty grant. The report of the Univer- sity's Institute of Labor-Industrial Relations (ILIR) contained false information. This fact was used as amunition against the project itself. Mixed sentiment on the Univer- sity's side marred the effectiveness of ILIR support from the begin- ning. (Was the project of this size worth the bad reputation the Uni- versity's ILIR was gaining, pri- marily in light of its original ILIR report?) But the project moved forward, slowly and pragmatically. (The community survey to find out "what the people wanted" was not completed until this year because of the intensity of the controversy and the distortion of the issues. Certain programs were obviously needed, and these were started last year, however.) And the inevitable deadline moved nearer. Would the Univer- sity commit its resources for an- other year after the contract ex- pired in January of 1966? If the University pulled out, would the Office of Economic Opportunity follow suit? A beginning had been made. Could it be sustained? These were the questions the WRAND leaders had to deal with as they went about the normal functions of running a poverty program and at the same time stopping to answer busy reporters. wanting to "get the other side of the question." THEN THE ANSWERS began to fall last week. January 25. 1966, the Univer- sity released an official statement that its ILIR ivould withdraw from the Willow Village poverty pro- gram in April of this year. A spokesman from the University said that the University's two functions will be completed by that time: -To help the Willow Village area get a start so it could even- tually administer its own self- help program, and -To complete research on the value of a self-help poverty pro- gram. The fact that the University has achieved its goals is little con- solation to the WRAND workers. however, who look forward to the withdrawal of the OEO in April also. If the OEO choses to continue the grant for another year, it will be through one or a combination of three channels: -Through the ILIR of Wayne State University which was at least nominally associated with the Uni- versity's ILIR in this project, -Through WRAND itself with- out a sponsor, or -Through a new "middle man" not yet named. BUT THE PROSPECTS are dim. After all, Washington must contend with other poverty areas which ostensibly, perhaps, need the money more. (James Reston recently noted that the War on Poverty is now taking a second chair to the war in Viet Nam. The programs in poverty have been kept well below what Con- gress authorized last year: Ap- palachia down from $305 million to $201 million and the new public works , proposals for depressed areas down from Congress' author- ization of $760 million to the President's proposal of $317 mil- lion. In addition to the limitations on the national budget, Washing- ton, also has taken the brunt of much criticism for investing in a program drawing this much con- troversy. The University has played a key role in significantly diminishing, if not eliminating, the possibility of continuing the poverty pro- gram in Willow Village, The program has marked a be- ginning, admittedly; and this with the aid of the University. But as long as the achievement of "two goals" with a specific time limit provides the guiding factor for poverty programs such as this, the result will be discouraging. An understanding of what poverty is and is not may be a lesson poverty workers of the future may gain from Willow Village. WHEN A PROJECT of this caliber and complexity is so rigidly defined and limited both to time and to specific goals, then better it be left alone. Poverty untouched is better than poverty stirred with frustration. i Letters: Legal Aid Society and OEO 0 Dirksen Filibuster: A Dangerous weapon SENATE REPUBLICAN leader Everett Dirksen's current filibuster against re- peal of Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act is totally unjustified and quite dan- gerous. The repeal of 14-B, a move which would prohibit state right to work laws, passed the House but was voted down by the Senate in the first session of this Con- gress. It has passed the House again this session and is now before the Senate where the Dirksen-led filibuster of a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats is blocking action. Senator Dirksen's tactics may be de- signed either to keep administration sup- port of the repeal bill in the public eye or to buy time for behind-the-scenes political maneuvering. Editorial Staff ROBERT JOHNSTON, Editor LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM, Managing Editor JUDITH FIELDS ................. Personnel Director LAUREN BAHR ..,........ Associate Managing Editor JUDITH WARREN ......,. Assistant Managing Editor G AITBLUMBE G ... ......... Magasine Editor TIOM WIEINBERG.................... Sports Editor LLOYD GRAFF...... . ....Associate Sports Editor PETER SARASOHN ..... Contributing Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Robert Carney, Clarence Fanto, Mark Kiningsworth, John Meredith, Lenmard Pratt, Harvey Wasserman, Bruce Wasserstein, Charlotte Wolter, DAY EDITORS: Babette Cohn, Michael Heffer, Merle Jacob, Robert Moore, Roger Rapoport, Dick Wing- field. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Alice Bloch, Deborah Blum, Neal Bruss, Gail Jorgenson, Robert Kilvans, Laurence Medow, Neil Shister, Joyce Winslow. ASSISTANT DAY EDITORS: Richard Charin, Jane Dreyfuss, Susan Elan, Shirley Rosick, Robert Shiller, Alan Valusek. SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Rick Feferman, Jim La- A promise to bring about a repeal of the right-to-work option was a plank of the Democratic platform, and has stem- med at least in part from widespread union support for obvious reasons. But the tag "compulsory unionism" has put administration support of this bill in a bad public light, and it would seem that Dirksen is enjoying prolonging the agony. THOUGH ADMINISTRATION leaders on the floor of the Senate are at least 10 votes shy of the two-thirds majority need- ed for cloture, they claim they have enough votes to pass the repeal. Admin- istration leaders made the same claim last session, when the repeal failed to pass the Senate. The Dirksen filibuster is concurrently seriously hampering the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's investigation of United States conduct in the Viet Nam war, and thus is also slowing the move- ment of that investigation to the floor of the Senate itself. Herein lies the chief publicity value of the Dirksen filibuster. Thus Dirksen's motives for filibuster- ing may be to gain time in a behind-the- scenes political battle, or it may be that he hopes to prolong an issue bound to make its supporters progressively unpop- ular with voters not already committed to their side. Or it also may be that Dirk- sen hopes to make the administration withdraw the bill in the face of the threat of a prolonged tie-up in Congress. BUT WHATEVER Dirksen's motives, we must take issue with his tactics, for a filibuster in the face of a war issue is quite a serious form of blackmail. In chal- lenging majority leader Mansfield to To the Editor: I WAS VERY PLEASED to read the editorial by Mark Killings- worth in the January 20 edition of The Daily. Mr. Killingsworth has shown an appreciation for a few of the problems which are involved in conducting a compre- hensive legal aid program and his attempt to deal with these prob- lems in an objective manner is commendable. Because of the shortness of time which is avail- able to the student editor who is seeking to obtain background ma- terial for an editorial, it is clear that some important facts were not available to Mr. Killings- worth at the time he wrote the editorial. I feel that readers will have an erroneous impression of the situation if they judge it sole- ly on the basis of such as incom- plete and inaccurate exposition. The Washtenaw County Legal Aid Society is not a creature of the "War Against Poverty." The "War Against Poverty" is a re- cent federal program which has had no effect in Washtenaw Coun- ty so far, and the first and only program which has been imple- mented solely as a result of its sponsorship is a program for in- creased action concerning planned parenthood. The planned parent- hood accelerated program did not involve any requirement for con- trol of the planned parenthood board by the "poor." It only pro- vided for "maximum feasible par- ticipation by representatives of the community or group to be served" in extremely vague and non-specific terms. Several other limited programs are either with- drawn or dormant. Both Sargent Shriver and E. Clintpn Bamberger haveddiscussed the application of the federal stat- utory language to legal aid pro- grams on a number of occasions. Both Shriver and Bamberger have said on numerous occasions that the legal aspect of the Office of Economic Opportunity will be run by the attorneys. The applicable language in the Federal Econom- ic Opportunity Act requires that any program to be funded must be ". . . developed, conducted and administered with the maximum feasible participation of residents of the areas and members of the groups served." This is an important part of the federal program, and there are obvious reasons why many of the various poverty activities should make appropriate provi- sions for such participation. BAMBERGER, who is the na- tional director of the Legal Serv- ices Program, has suggested four specific and individually accept- able means by which this require- ment can be met. Provision for any one of the following is ade- quate to meet the statutory re- quirement. These include: 1) Representation of "areas" and "groups" to be served on the policy making and/or advisory boards, 2) Generation of neighborhood organizations which will "advise" the policy making body of the component agency, 3) Provision for regular public meetings at which people or groups from the areas or communities to be served may appear to object to hats o f l rn-'rn r,, p ly stated purpose of the Board of Trustees to generate and respond to such neighborhood organiza- tions. The Board of Trustees has also provided that the advisory committee is to consist entirely of representatives of the poor from three key areas of Washtenaw County ,and this advisory com- mittee will be selected by the County OEO committee, will be autonomous and self-perpetuating and will have a right to partici- pate and deliberate with the Board of Trustees at all times. In addi- tion, the bylaws of the Washtenaw County Legal Aid Society provide that at least one trustee must be a representative of the need com- munity (presently H. C. Curry) and that the other community-at- large trustee may also be such a "representative" in the future. At the present time one of the lawyer members of the Board of Trustees is a vice-president of the Ypsi- lanti chapter of the NAACP, but he is not considered by the Coun- ty OEO to be a representative of an area or group to be served. AT THE TIME of the January 5 meeting of the County Com- mittee of the OEO, it is noted by the members of the County Com- mittee that only three of their 26 members even came close to being "representatives of the areas and groups to be served," and in some cases this was merely because of membership in the local NAACP. The County OEO has functioned for a year with less representation of the poor on its policy making body than the legal aid society had at the time it was being cri- ticized by the same group. Aside from the general lack of specifics about the representation question, however, there were some other important facts which Mr. Killingsworth omitted. The Wash- tenaw County Bar Association has furnished legal aid to the indi- gent and the impoverished people of this county for over a hun- dred years. Because of the recent involvement of increased numbers of our less affluent citizens in complex legal problems, the mem- bers of the bar organized a spe- cial study committee approxi- mately five years ago to develop a program of comprehensive legal aid. This study program involv- ed many concerned practicing at- torneys and representatives of the Law School, including former Dean Allen Smith and acting Dean Charles Joiner. The result of this extensive study was a new ap- proach to the legal aid function in the state of Michigan. This' ap- proach involved experienced prac- ticing attorneys working with the assistance and support of advanc- ed law students with the work load being assumed by the student according to his ability and exper- ience. The initial report of the com- prehensive legal aid proposal stim- ulated active interest from the practicing bar, the Law School faculty and many concerned mem- bers of the community at large. In February, 1965, the prelimin- a'y plan and suggested proced- ures for the "full coverage" pro- gram were presented to the law- yers of the Washtenaw County Bar Association at a full member- ship meeting. After a vigorous and extensive discussion, the members clinic facility. Working in close cooperation with faculty and stu- dents of the Law School, the bar membership obtained a new, court rule from the Michigan Supreme Court which provided for active clinical participation by Law School students in a legal aid pro- gram. All preparations had been completed for initiating the legal aid clinic program by the summer of 1965. Then it was discovered that the new clinic would be ideal- ly suited to the Community Ac- tion Program which was being studied by the newly organized Washtenaw County Economic Op- portunity {Committee. At the sug- gestion of several members of the bar and with the encourage- ment of the members of the Coun- ty Economic Opportunity Commit- tee, the Board of Trustees of the corporation authorized the presi- dent to submit an application for an Economic Opportunity grant in the early summer of 1965. All the initial paperwork which was requested by the local OEO ad- ministrators was given to them in August 1965 and the enlarged full coverage program of legal aid was inaugurated with the assumption that funds would soon be made available to continue the work. To this date the comprehensive legal aid service has been main- tained only by the means of ex- tensive use of credit, voluntary contributions of money and serv- ice by bar members, active par- ticipation by law students and contributions f r o m concerned members of the community at large. IT SHOULD BE noted that one of the primary responsibilities of the bar association is to make cer- tain that "equal justice under the law" is the same for all people regardless of their affluence or social position. No one was inter- ested in helping the county bar association meet this responsibil- ity over the many many years of voluntary legal aid in the past until it suddenly appeared that a more effective method was being created for carrying out this func- tion and that large amounts of federal money could be made available to provide that portion of legal aid which can only be pro- vided by the liberal use of cash. It should further be made clear that legal aid is a function and a responsibility of the bar asso- ciation as a professional group. The fact that the OEO money might help to make the full cov- erage legal aid available to every- one at an earlier date was not a consideration when the lawyers organized and instituted the new clinic. If OEO funds are withheld because the local conimittee does not agree with the means which have been provided for participa- tion of the non-lawyers and the representatives of the "poor," then the bar association will go ahead with its program on a curtailed basis and try to usel other means to raise the funds which are need- ed. It is the declared intention of the members of the bar asso, ciation to provide for maximum feasible participation by "repre- sentatives of the area and groups" to be served regardless of the source of funds and regardless of the size of the program. If OEO support is withheld from this pro- gressive and comprehensive legal aid plan, the losers will be the poor themselves, and a heavy burden of responsibility will rest on their "representatives" in the county OEO. THERE ARE obviously many programs where policy decisions can be made by the poor because of the peculiar knowledge that the poor have of the dynamics of their problem and their ability to identify their own "needs and problems." But in the attorney- client relationship, as far as the attorney is concerned, the only difference between a poor man and a rich man at the bar of justice is whether or not he can pay for the legal advice and representa- tion he needs. Other than that one key factor, the goddess of jus- tice is provided with the rest of the equipment necessary to make certain that justice is equal for all. In this case, an attempt to remove the lawyers from the po- sition of prime responsibility for this legal aid activity can only result in the partial removal of that blindfold from the eyes of justice. If, on the other hand, we are seeking something other than a legal aid program for the poor, then that would be a program outside the knowledge or the func- tion of the lawyers as a profes- sional group. It twould not be the program which is now under consideration, which has been de- veloped by the county bar over a period of many years of furnish- ing legal aid. -John R. Hathaway, President Washtenaw County Bar Association 4 A 1964 War Resolution Outdated IN SAYING that under the joint resolution of Aug. 7, 1964, he has full authority from Congress "to take all necessary steps" in Viet Nam, the President left himself in the position of a man relying on the letter of the bond, regardless of what it meant at the time it was written. . There is no doubt that the lan- guage of the resolution gives him a blank check. But there is no doubt, also, that when the blank check was voted in August, 1964, it was voted to a man engaged in a campaign for the Presidency against Sen. Barry Goldwater, who was advocating substantially the same military policy that Presi- dent Johnson is now following. Therefore, if laws are to be interpreted in the light of their legislative history, the President is without legal and moral author- ity *to fill in the blank check of August, 1964, with whatever he thinks he ought to do in 1966. It is, of course, impossible to rescind the resolution of August, 1964. But as a matter of fact the actions of the administration go far beyond the original meaning of the resolution of 1964. This is the positive reason why the objectives and the conduct of the greatly enlarged war should be examined and debated before we are led into a still greater war. IT OUGHT NOT to be necessary to press this point in a country A ,-,ata.- t- nov,-,m n + y elut - Tomorrow By WAFTER LIPPMANN blank check while many of those who voted for it in 1964 now say -and historically they are indub- itably right-that the resolution does not mean what the President is making it mean in 1966. It is also unwise to stretch the letter of the law this way. For the country is deeply and danger- ously divided about the war in Viet Nam, and in the trying days to come this division will grow deeper if the President rejects the only method by which a free na- tion can heal such a division- responsible and informed debate. There are two principal difficul- ties in holding such a debate. About one of these we hear a great deal, namely that our ad- versary will take heart from the speeches and newspaper articles and be confirmed in his view that the United States will not stay the course, but will pack up and go home. Undoubtedly the dissent here at home does give comfort to the enemy abroad. BUT THE REMEDY for this disadvantage cannot be to silence dienf_ Ft ore iss nent cannot hbe stake. Although the Korean war began under much better legal and moral auspices than did our en- tanglement in Viet Nam, the American people came to hate the Korean war. The reason for that was that they did not believe that the in- terests of America in Korea on the Asian mainland were great enough to justify the casualties that were being suffered. THE OTHER principal difficulty in uniting the country behind a national purpose in Indochina is that the President's diplomatic advisers have never defined our national purpose except in the vaguest, most ambiguous general- ities about aggression and freedom. The country could be united--in the preponderant mass - on a policy which rested on a limited strategy and on limited political objectives. It cannot be united on a policy of trading American lives for Asian lives on the mainland of Asia in order to make Gen. Ky or his successor the ruler of all of South Viet Nam. The division of the country will simply grow worse as the casual- ties and the costs increase and the attainment of our aims and the end of the fighting continue to guide us. The revision of our policy in Viet Nam - the revision of our strategy and our political purposes and plans - is the indispensable condition of a really.united coun- + -a- -- 1 +fn trnu , tue rI