~4r 3iAtitan Dath Seventy-eight yeOrs of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan/ S':- records Summer 's end: Bach cantatas avai~lable 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. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1969 N IGHT EDITOR: NADINE COHODAS The great Ameriean resistance WITH THE GROWTH of massive insen- sitivity on the part of government and industry all sorts of people are learn- ing the benefits of illegal or extra-legal activity.t The most recent example of this trend came Monday of this week when the New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs told city residents they should re- fuse to pay telephone bills if they are not given adequate service. The faltering New York telephone system has become seriously overloaded during the last year and service has declined to an all time low. Thle city commissioner told telephone users, "No one has an obligation to pay for service which is not in fact received- Ad men and your body MADISON AVENUE has taken over the sexual 'revolution, and the whole thing really stinks. The front page of this week's Adver- tising Age, "The National Newspaper of Marketing," carries a lead story on a soon-to-be advertising campaign for a new' "femine hygiene" product dubbed "Cupid's Quiver." A full advertising effort, to begin in September, will utilize color spreads, titled "Relax and enjoy the revolution," in all the major fashion magazines. A new advertising concept plans to "promote the product like a cosmetic as well as a hygiene product. Cupid's Quiver, a liquid concentrate douche, is being of- fered in two floral scents-orange blos- som and jasmine-plus two flavor scents -champagne and raspberry." Also on the front page of that issue of Advertising Age is an item giving ad- vance notice of the marketing of a new genital spray deodorant for men. It is planned as part of a four-product line called Specific Sprays. (With one devoted to the genitals, two others presumably for under-arms and mouth, God only knows what the remaining deodorant is for.) T IS ALL very nice for people to smell good. Soap, toothpaste and a couple of other items may be, for this crowded world, Good Things. But there does seem to, be a point where things, become just the slightest bit ridiculous. But being ridiculous has never stopped the ad men from taking money from us all. Suitmmer Staff MARCIA ABRAMSON ...................... Co-Editor CHRIS STEELE . ........ ...............Co-Editor MARTIN HIRSCHMAN .. Summer Supplement Editor JIM FORRESTER .... ...Summer Sports Editor LEE KIRK ......Associate Summer Sports Editor ERIC PERGEAUX....................Photo Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Nadine .Cohodas, Martin Hirsch- man, Judy Sarasohn, Daniel Zwerdlng , ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Laurie Harris, Judy Kahn, Scott Mixer, Bard Montgomery. Business Staff GEORGiE BRISTOL. Busines Manager rSTEVE ELM AN Administrative Advertising Mange SUE LERNER ... Senior Sales Manager LUCY PAPP..... .............. Senior Sales Manager NANCY ASIN .. Senior Virelation Manager BRUCE HAYVON...........Fnanee Manager DARIA ItROGI SKI Assoiate etnance Manager BARBARA SCHULZ...... ....Personnel Manager even to a colossus like the telephone company." Similar moves by state and local gov- ernments have been made concerning rental' problems. Pennsylvania, among other states, has adopted laws which regularize the withholding of rent from landlords who fail to properly maintain apartments. This form of legally provid- ed-for rent strike, as well as the extra- legal sort going on in Ann Arbor, is spreading across the country in both low and middle rent districts.- Similar examples of people breaking out of the mold of a society built around mammoth institutions iclude the com- muter strikes on several of the train lines leading into New York City and the grape boycott on the part of millions of consumers. On a more basic level, many in our society are learning the ways of legal and social law breaking through draft resis- tance and the hip culture. THE ORIGINS of this trend of institu- tional resistance date back to the beginning of the labor movement. Work- ers found that the then illegal means of a strike was the only way to better their wages and working conditions. And as time went on labor unions and strikes became a rather accepted and regularized neans of adjusting and temporarily set- tling the differences between the laborer and management. The underlying rationale which allow- ed the labor movement to succeed is that the only way to move established power in a world where that power is increas- ingly centralized is through the force of numbers. By bringing the weight of many, in the case of labor unions by withholding labor, the center of power is forced'to concede. Because power operates on a chain of command rather than through the direct imposition of control any break in the link is vital. When those charged with carrying out an order refuse the whole mechcanism stops functioning. THE RAMIFICATIONS of this formula are of immense importance to this so- ciety. This country, as well as most of the other countries in the world, is grow- ing into the age of the institutional colossus. Not only government and in- dustry, but the organizations more di- rectly involved in the lives of everyone are falling into this pattern. Universities, and not just the big ones that people havelong been whispering "megaversity" about, have become gigantic complexes involving enormouse accumulations of power and authority over the way people live. City governments, public utilities, mass communications and any number of other supposedly service oriented insti- tutions have become basically insensitive to the needs of individuals. And there is every reason to believe this trend will continue and expand into the future with the proliferation of mass communication and data processing methods. In such a society the development of- an ethos conducive to breaking the lines of authority is crucial. Only through the willingness of masses of people to bring organized pressure to bear upon the in- stitutional giants of the age will indi- viduals be allowed to survive. -CHRIS STEELE Co-Editor By R. A. PERRY Contributing Editor The end of August in Ann Arbor hardly lends itself to deep involvement in either Art or Nature, let alone the island world of academics; rather it is a time for packing up; throwing out, moving, cleaning, paint- ing, and wondering how the summer months went so fast. Before The Daily resumes its AP condensations in the fall, and before the record companies begin their seasonal push of major issues, I too have some shelf cleaning to do. The fol- lowing comments briefly recommend or warn against various recordings issued in the last two months. Nonesuch continued over the summer months their policy of adding to circula- tions compositions previously unavailable in Schwann. They have most recently added to the list of Bach contatas avail- able the secular Cantata BWV 213, titled "Hercules at the Crossroads." Composi- tionally and nelodically more interesting than many of Bach's secular cantatas- often quickly tossed together, such as No. 215, "Preise dein Glucke,"-BWV 213 in fact served as the anlage for the Christmas Oratorio. No less than seven of the can- tata's movements were directly re-employ- ed in the later, larger work. The subject deals with Hercules's di- lemma: to follow Pleasure and win the hedonistic life or to follow Virtue and win the life of moral purity. The libretto by Picander offers a "dramma per musica" that looks forward to Handel's L'Allegro and I1 Penseroso. Bach's music allows both focal arias and dramatic complications. As with most of Nonesuch's Bach can- tata recordings, the performance is under the direction of Helmuth Rilling, a con- Letters: P To the Editor and wat DANIEL ZWERDLING'S report VFW ha on the City Council's cam- They paign to "protect impressionable and get youth" from Ann Arbor "porno- tasies tw graphy" was intructive though on Mon he failed to press his "analysis" ceremon to the obvious conclusion (Daily, pie to b ridiculot Aug. 5).law" up Ann Arbor right-wing reaction- absolute aries and their city council mouth- which a pieces merely want to put the homage. Argus, the White Panther Party THE and Trans-Love Energies out of battle a commission, and they'll use any parent phony pretext (remember the "childre thousands of motorcyclists who "protect were going to "invade" Ann Ar- these fo bor) in their insane attempt to tainly n stop the cultural revolution. Un- whose fortunately for them, and for- Portnoy tunately for the people, the revo- Jacqueli lutionary people's movement can't thriller, be so easily stopped by this re- ing soci actionary gaggle of paper tigers emetic, and their phony "laws." about e The political nature of their re- Argus a pressive actions is perfectly clear Party is to everyone who is affected by may get their so-called "laws." These re- ute, but actionaries-the judiciary is equal- one but ly vicious-make a big show of With denying the political nature of actionar their acts, but in reality the laws tural re they make and the arbitrary sen- people - tences they hand out have nothing ple --I to do with the so-called "crimes" aware o they profess to be dealing with. tions in Always th'ey are on the side of regime, reaction and opposed to any rev- termine olutionary behavior. They feign rule. shock at "obscenities" in the Argus We do and the White Panther Party's and jail literature, at nakedness in the per- the reac formance group's production of people b "Dionysus in '69," at marijuana ers and used by long-haired cultural revo- with us, lutionaries, at "obscene" perform- by fools ances by the MC5 or the Tate even foo Blues Band, at "public drunken- As Ma ness" in the parks when people ing fron pass around a bottle of wine. "all rea ers," an BUT THEY speak freely as we at that. do in their offices and clubs, revel might, t in the purient plastic sex of night- and they clubs and "men's magazines," fill pose the themselves up with seconal and people! dexadrine and alcohol (even, some ers! Lon of them, the more "daring" cf tionaryc them, smoke a few joints with - their "hipper" friends in the busi- ness), applaud the actions of no- torious -public drunks who pose as "law enforcement" officials, ductor known for his lively hythms and clean delineation of parts; the four soloists are all competent, though only Theo Alt- meyer makes one really sit up and listen. The recorded sound is ripe (11-71226). Nonesuch has also released an album devoted to the vocal music of Josquin Des Prez, the late 15th and early 16th century court and church composer. Included on H-71216 are Four Motets, probably from the time when Des Prez served the Este court in Ferrara, and the Missa Ave Maris Stella, a work beautiful in design and in melody. The performance by the Univer- sity of Illinois Chamber Choir is com- petent but no more than that. The so- pranos lack a certain flute quality, and the tenors and basses lack the degree of focused definition which is needed to best describe the classic lines of the music. In general, the choir lacks the final touches of style and tone which are possessed by such European choirs as the Capella An- tiqua Munchen, the Regensburg Cathedral Choir, and Karl Richter's Munich Bach Choir. Still, at a budget price, the album grants pleasure., Along with adding to the Schwann cat- alog in the classical department; Nonesuch continues its successful and fascinating "Explorer Series" which has already brought excellent performances of Indian and Japanese music into the impecunious student's collection. One of the most in- teresting of this series is a new release called "Kingdom of the Sun" that collects together music from the Peruvian Andes. Recorded in Peru by David Lewiston, the thirteen selections on the disc (H-72029) include dance .music played by the harp, quena or flute pieces, an ensemble of six- teen panpipes, songs performed by villag- ers, and a final processional of accordion, flute, and conch music. At times the music sounds as if written by Manos Hajidakis, but all of the selections are very fresh and lively. Neither terribly fresh nor very lively is Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphony No. 1 in E Minor. Rimsky-Korsakov was urged to write a symphony by his friend and teacher Balakirev, even though the sixteen year old aspiring composer admitted that "I did not know the names of all intervals and chords . . . harmony meant but the far- famed prohibition of parallel octaves and fifths ... I had no idea what double coun- terpoint was, nor the meaning of cadence, thesis and antithesis." Using Schumann's Manfred Overture and pieces by Glinka and Balakirev for models, Rimsky-Korsakov began his sym- phony. He continued it piece-meal while serving in the navy and sent off, from his ship, movements to the appreciative Bala- kirev. Each movement is thus what you would expect: a precis of what a scherzo or an-. dante should be. The andante tranquillo, for instance, presents a broad melody which is tossed around the orchestra and repeated with litte development or variation. The scherzo is vivacious and goes nowhere, just sort of doodles along pleasantly. In other words, the composer °could come up with themes of interest but could in no way do anything with his material other than con- tinue it for the duration of the movement. Yet, this very lack of skill will seem to some an amenable naivete, and the sym- phony is pleasant and undemanding; it is tuneful, happy; unsophisticated music, and is treated energetically by Boris Khaikin and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orches- tra. The sound is very good on this Angel recording (SR-40094). Another Angel release can be recom- mended unequivocably: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in G Minor is a beauti- fully serene and open choral work, and the performance by the King's College Choir under David Willcocks is up to that or- ganization's predictably high standards. Best known for his symphonies-alter- nately bucolic and irascible-Vaughan Williams emulated in his Mass in G Minor the a capella music of Byrd, Tallis, and Vivtoria. On first hearing, the music for unaccompanied soloists and double chorus indeed sounds completely reactionary in its simple polyphonic style, but repeated listening will reveal the gentle modernity of the composer; the amalgamation of these two directions makes the music both soothing and exciting., Also included on this recording (S- 36590) are five "Mystical Songs" by the English composer. Setting to music poems by George Herbert, Vaughan Williams sought and found, I believe, profundity by relying upon simplicity; Ned Rorem could take a lesson from these songs. John Shirley-Quirk sings quite well, but Janet Baker has delved deeper into "The Call." Finally, Leonard Bernstein has come up with two excellent readings on Columbia's MS-7285 that pairs Mandelssohn's "Refor- mation" Symphony and Schubert's un- relievedly lyrical Symphony No. 5. Eschew- ing the hypertension which ruins ninety- percent of his performances, Bernstein elicits a solid and controlled ensemble sound from the New York Philharmonic; instrumental details are clear without be- ing, for once, exaggerated. The Schubert is a bit heavy and opaque, but still effec- tive. '. ornography and paper tigers' tch the stag movies at the ll with fiendish glee. demand "law and order" together in cocktail par- dream up their legal fan- dhich are enacted into law day nights with pomp and y. Then they expect peo- believe in them and their as "laws," and set "the as some impersonal and arbiter of morality to ll citizens must pay total PRE CRAZY! The latest bout "obscenity" is trans- and ridiculous. To the n" they're talking about ing" f r o m "obscenity" ols are obscene, and cer- aot the Argus. For people' best-selling books a r e is Complaint, Airport, and ne Susannfs latest porno utterly without redeem- al value except as an for these fools to t a 1 k nacting laws against the nd the W h i t e Panther blasphemy at best. They away with it for a min- they aren't fooling any- themselves. each increase in their re- y attack against the cul- volution more and more - and not just young peo- become more and m o r e of the terrible contradic- this repressive capitalist and more and nmore de- d to put an end to their n't even care about arrests s any more - each move tionaries make against the brings more of our broth- sisters into the struggle and we cannot be stopped and buffoons who can't I their own children. ao says - as we are learn- m our own experience - etionaries are paper tig- A transparent paper tigers Let them try as the y they can't arrest us a 11, y only help us as they ex- mselves. All power to the Free all political prison- g live the people's revolu- culture! John Sinclair Minister of Information White Panther Party August 12 Technology To the Editor: MR. STEELE'S editorial, "Toy- ing with Technology," is in it- self interesting and has the even b e t t e r quality of stimulating ,thought. I suppose it is inevitable that some of these thoughts are adverse. The general idea is that work is being progressively elim- inated by technology, so that it is no longer necessary that people should work in order that they (and the rest of the world) may be fed. It is true, of course, that the machine has displaced, or supple- mented, human labor in countless ways. But imagine the most per- fect Utopia that science fiction can devise. The machines s t ill have to be made, repaired, and applied. One farmer feeds us where it used to need a dozen. But we would still go huigry without that one. What is more, new jobs a r e multiplied by new inventions. The automobile created more jobs than it destroyed; so did the airplane; so did television; so does astro- nautics: If it were true that the more the machines advance the less need there is for anyone to work, this country would now be ' at the all-time maximum of un- employment, statistically we are nearer a minimum. Cyclical un- employment (as during the de- pression of the 1930's) throws out of work ten times as many people as does technological unemploy- ment. It is the real problem. IN NEARLY all the professions there is a shortage of skilled and trained labor. In my own job of teaching there are far too f e w qualified persons even in this country, and, if you take the world as a whole, it will be centuries be- fore the need is met. Half the hu- man race has inadequate medical care, or none at all. What I foresee is not an idle or lazy future (forerunner perhaps of biological decline?), but a busy future with emphasis on what ma- chines cannot do, such as activi- ties concerned with human rela- tionships. A dishwashing machine and a vacuum cleaner may replace the housewife but never the moth- er. Remember that we are not con- fronting a new problem but only an enlarged one. For, o v e r six thousand years there has been a leisure class which did not need to toil for pay: the wealthy. Broadly speaking the wealthy fall into two groups: t h e strenuous rich and the idle rich. The form- er have invested their leisure in many ways: traditionally in war, government, and estate manage- ment, more beneficially in phil- anthropy, science, art and liter- ature. But all have b e e n busy, many have been useful, some have been happy. The idle rich have treated life as one long vacation and tried to fill it with amuse- ments. You could generally tell them by their yawns. -Preston Slosson Professor Emeritus, history August 16 Northern Ireland -I ti _trI l' I x j l i f + li ..,._ , . , 1 It , , ,, ,;! k ! 1i i , ' , . a, ;" ' J - ' i _ , h j. =, . e I' ti ' ) r ___ ' " C t L. (/r J Y' G i r _ I I 7 r" __ F'' r ,..-.r- ' a « t v': ::. . - ;, I one giant leap for '72!" "That's one small Step for the poor, ficial name is, has a protestant majority. When the South was granted independence, the North elected to remain attached to the rest of Britain. The Catholics in the North were isolated from the Catholics in the South and the Northern protestants began 1a campaign of persecution. Richer than the Catholics they establish- ed a system of voting in inter city elections based on a property qualification. This gave the prot- estant landlord with perhaps 20 properties, 20 votes, while the ten- ants were totally disenfranchised. This naturally meant that condi- tions for the Catholics became worse and wqrse, they being un- able to secure representation on local government bqdies to put a halt to the oppression. In the towns with a high per- centage of Catholics the protes- tants saw to it that the electoral boundaries were set so as to make, sure that the Catholics could not gain control of the councils, this so called 'gerrymandering' was an- other bone of contention to the Catholics. To add to the difficulties the police force in Ulster was almost totally protestant, and they were armed, as no other police are in the United Kingdom. To back up the police, a large force of B- Specials' was set up to defend the status quo. They are armed with rifles and are totally protestant. RECENTLY, egged on by stu- dents the Catholics in Ulster be- gan to make demands for the re- form of the system of government. These were met by attacks from militant protestants, led by the reverendi Ian Paisly. Civil Rights marches were so harassed by this group that they began to turn into blood baths. The B-Special police were also responsible for outright provocation, so much so that they were disarmed on tacit instructions from the central government. to overthrow the prime minister, Captain Terance O'Neill. O'Neill in desperation called an election which he narrowly won, to give him a mandate to put the prom- ised reforms into effect. Paisly took to the streets and forced O'Neill's resignation. The new prime minister was a conservative, Majo James Chich- ester Clark. Although he too prom- ised reforms, they never seemed to materialize, and two weeks ago, in desperation the Catholics took to the streets. That is the background to the horrifying situation of to- day. -Jonathan Miller Aug. 15 Dearborn dead To the Editor: SAY that the Pentagon is caus- ing the double-the-national death rate among -the soldiers. of Dearborn, Mich., and doing it in- tentionally! How could I possibly arrive at such a hideous statement? Well, Dearborn's Mayor Hubbard is in the public print already with his charge that his city's soldiers are apparently meeting death in the Viet Nam killing zones at a rate over double that of the national average, and he states he's asking President Nixon to now withdraw all soldiers from Vietnam who lived in Dearborn on the basis that Dearbornites have already con- tributed more than their share of life to a project that Mayor Hub- bard (and most of us too) feels is worse than useless, even silly. I feel I'm 100 per cent justified in saying that it is intentional be- cause his excessive death charges did not commence a few weeks ago-it was three years ago I'm sure when he first noticed Dear- borns excessive sacrifice. Two years ago he even included an fr 4 .. '(XV 56U(-p O MY tA'r~1 ' i i . . .. CWLtP J c SOF Th cX FREE9 CF TNT Ci ILL k. LTRNJO FF OF R - i 1 9VO~nc l wt ts~ \ P I' c 0L-;%% I A; 'Y7.U A W e' L," ' '% IVL' V L , cz.- '%I..