E1r Stir igaf Dail Seventy-eight years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich: News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Doily express the individual opinions of staff writers. or the editors. This must be noted in olI reprints. i WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1969 NIGHT EDITOR: MARTIN A. HIRSCHMAN Three strikes for 'law and order' THE FORCES of "law and order" have had a banner week. From Charleston, S.C., to Berkeley to Chicago they success- fully repelled "coercion" fromstudents, blacks and radicals. In Chicago, Mayor Daley spurned a plea from Senator George McGovern and refused to 'relent on the prosecution of eight persons indicted for "conspiring to incite riots" during the Chicago conven- tion. "If a person violates the law, he should suffer the consequences," D a I e y righteously answered. Senator McGovern, chairman of a Democratic party committee seeking to heal party wounds and improve party structure, told Daley he was not asking him to interfere with the legal process in federal court. He was merely suggesting that Daley do "everything he could to ad- vance a climate of tolerance in this country." But Daley refused to listen. In Charleston police arrested the Rev- erend Ralph Abernathy and his top aide America: Indian-giver' THE SEMINOLE Indians are continu- ing their 144 year old war with the United States government, but this time the struggle will be conducted through the bureaucratic agents of the Indian Commission in the Department of the Interior. The Seminoles are suing the govern- ment for $40 million in reparations for the 35 million acres seized by the U.S. cavalry during the Indian Wars. General Andrew Jackson began the gradual ero- sion of the Seminole land holdings in Florida in 1825 when he raided the Flor- ida border without a formal declaration of War. The skirmishes between the Sem- inoles and the military continued into the late 1800's, and a peace treaty was not signed until 1934 - after most of the Seminoles agreed to live on the Indian reservations in Oklahoma. The Indians are arguing that the land seized by the government was worth ap- proximately $1.25 per acre. But the fed- eral government is pushing the figure of 18c per acre,:even though the land tak- en was rich in forest and .game. Also, when the swamps were cleared the land produced a bounteous crop. If the Federal government does agree to pay the Seminoles $40 mililon, this will give each of the 5333 Seminoles $7500. But' even if the money is awarded to the Seminoles, the Senate has final say on how and to whom the money will be dis- tributed. -LORNA CHEROT Editorial Sta MARCIA ABRAMSON....................Co-Editor STEVE ANZALONE .............. ........ Co-Editor MARTIN HIRSOHMAN .. Summer Supplement Editor JIM VORRESTER ...........Summer Sports Editor PHIL HERTZ...Associate Summer Sports Editor ERIC PERGEAtYX, JAY CASSIDY .....Photo Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Joel Block, Nadine Cohodas, Harold Rosenthal, Judy Sarasohn. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Lorna Cherot, Erika Hoff, Scott Mixer, Sharon Weiner. Hosea Williams for "rioting, inciting oth- ers to riot," and the old Southern stand- by "parading without a permit." Apparently in the eyes of Charleston officialdom Abernathy's mere presence on the street without a precious permit constituted "inciting to riot." People in Ann Arbor should not find this difficult to believe. BUT MOST observers agree that the true riot will occur while Abernathy is in jail. Abernathy's rightfully embittered supporters may choose to ignore his ad- monitions to be "non-violent." Magistrate Donald Barkowitz said, "For an offense of this nature, in fair- ness to the people of this city, I cannot order bond for a penny under $50,000." And so law and order ride again. In Berkeley the University of Califor- nia regents voted by 16-7 to build a park- ing lot and playing field on "people's park." The regents, under strong pres- sure from Governor Reagan, ignored the pleas of Berkeley Chancellor Roger W. Heyns for construction of a park on thir- ty acres of ground. Heyns argued t h is would prove to students that "they could work within the system." But apparently Reagan and the regents want the stu- dents out of their domain. Berkeley, Chicago and Charleston are three isolated incidents which are sadly similar. Three impassioned pleas from liberals trying to foment change or at least to promote understanding within the established system went ignored. The Daleys and Reagans obstinately refuse to admit that they themselves fo- ment violence through their refusal to allow embittered minorities economic or political power or even justice under their law. Instead they use "law and order" to manipulate social justice and political and economic powers through such spur- ious devices as parade permits. And the Daleys and Reagans continue to enjoy support from the millions who share their mentality. Presumably Mayor Daley had little to say about the three police recently acquitted by a Chicago jury for beating reporters over the head; the jury did his bidding for him. MEANWHILE, HOSPITAL workers con- tinue to earn starvation wages in Charleston, students continue to f e e 1 persecuted and excluded from their school and community, and large factions of liberal and radicals continue to f e e disenfranchised by the political process. When these elements do rebel, as they did in People's Park, and as they could in Charleston, the Daleys and Reagans will inevitably -blame liberal "softies" like McGovern or Heyns who supposedly in- cite and encourage it. And violence will only play into 'their hands. In a massive fit of paranoia the Reagans will find a pretelse to repress any liberal or radical dissent and reject "coercion" from minority militants in the interests of preserving their strangle- hold on the nation's economic and politi- cal power. -TOBE LEV I Another look end at of the spring r Photographs by Andy Sacks f 9 6r r 40 '' " ..r r ,IIV i t i . /f/mow s ufi : ' . 3 t : 4 .: r f L ' / 5 f t 1/""''' ', s . _ . w r , ' . ' ._ff vilyr' ,:xr I - , 7----wm~qR Iu u 5 .I I