Zhr 14trht an Daily y sevt y-Thrd r EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNvErry OF MICimGAN UNDER AUTHOKrTT OF BOAR iN CONTIOL OFSTUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Wlbere OVi14g Are Fe STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ArmoR, MIcH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in ado reprints. FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL SATTINGER Mississippi Primary Laws: Fair to Republicans? No ... Yes .0*. /t 'It r4'z x rtr f F I 5. ^ y Y py ,t 1R+ a ,..c, y. ,,F "' -.z ,,i #yaf" y~ ' z Stl,'a ti. ~ y + fl ~y + t«r.,. 4 f~r",, s whi . . wd . 't r"" 6!w '.,} : , -j7 +" i. ,g +, ',d7,yiN: yq,. f/ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Controversy To Spark Weekend Conference DFMOCRATS in the traditionally one- party state of Mississippi are scared. Th~e Republicans ran a candidate for governor last year for the first time since the Reconstruction era, and also ran 32 other candidates for state and local of- fices. In an attempt to kill the GOP before it really gets off the ground, the entirely Democratic state senate has passed bills which would: 1) Require the Mississippi Republican party to hold a primary elec- tion the same day as the Democratic pri- mary, whether or not there is a contest for the GOP nomination. The Republicans would have to get 10 per cent of the total vote of both primar- ies in order to get their winning candi- date on the ballot. 2) Require Mississippi Republicans to hold annual county conventions attend- ed by delegates from at least half the precincts in each county and a state con- vention with delegates representing at least 30 of the state's 82 counties. GOV. JOHNSON justifies the measures on the. ground that "the Republican party in this state is a closed corporation run by (state chairman) Wirt Yerger. He decides which candidates will run for what office." But so what? Theoretically, there is no reason why anyone who wants to get his name on the ballot should not be allowed to do so. Practically, it is necessary to set some sort of limit on the number of candidates placed on the ballot so the voter can have at least a vague idea of who the candidates are and so he will not be con- fused by a great quantity of names. PROBABLY THE ONLY just criteria for drawing a limit is that of support. As proof of support, a candidate should be required to have either a petition with a" certain number of signatures or the en- dorsement of a party that obtained a certain percentage of the vote in the pre- vious election for the same office. The "certain number" and "certain per- centage" should be set at levels designed to keep the number of candidates for each office down to perhaps 10-this fig- ure being an outside boundary before con- fusion on the voter's part would set in. The question of how a party determines who it will endorse is an entirely separate issue. Granted that one man in the pro- verbial smoke-filled room should not de- cide who will be the candidate for a ma- jor party, denying any candidate for any party the right to a place on the ballot because he was chosen undemocratically is not the punitive or corrective action that should be taken. Such a measure is a far greater hinderance to democracy than was the selection procedure. Missis- sippi should not pass laws that will keep Republicans off the ballot. -EDWARD HERSTEIN Acting Editorial Director Cooperation THEFRIENDS of the Ann Arbor Co- operative Bookstore have opened up a great opportunity for the students of this campus. The Friends are planning to open a truly cooperative bookstore, a project long awaited by students. The store will eventually offer text books, many non-text books not avail- able in other Ann Arbor bookstores, stu- dent supplies and a large student book exchange. Presently the store is expand- ing its supply of texts and non-texts. The co-op will be financed entirely by student memberships, faculty member- ships, donations offered by organizations and any profits made by the store. But the primary source of income, both before and after the operation is fully establish- ed, will come from the students. STUDENTS SHOULD PLAN to purchase a membership now and support the store in the fall. The Friends are currently staging a membership drive in order to get the needed 1000 student members. NOT SURPRISINGLY, the latest bit of flagrant discrimination in this coun- try comes from the state of Mississippi, but the victims are a new lot-the Re- publicans. The Mississippi legislature, with not a Republican in the lot, is guarding against any split in the ranks; "Mississippi for the Democrats" is the new motto in the Magnolia State. And just to make sure some Republican doesn't sneak in while a loyal clerk is preventing Negroes from voting, the legislature has decided to make it a little harder for Republicans to get on the ballot. According to the new Mississippi elec- tion laws, the Republicans are required to hold primary elections (as of now they may nominate by convention) and must receive at least 10 per cent of the total (Republican and Democrat) primary vote in order to even be listed on the ballot as a party. The primary must be held regard- less of whether there is any contest for the nomination and, in some cases, the Republican party will have to stand the cost of the election itself. (The state al- ways stands the Democrat expense.) WELL, SO WHAT? If the Republicans can't dig up 10 per cent of the vote, they probably shouldn't be cluttering up the ballot anyway, and each state has the right, according to the federal Con- stitution, to conduct elections in the way it sees fit. No, the dilemma of the Mississippi Re- publicans fails to arouse alarm; they have simply suffered a political kick in the midriff, which any minority party must expect from the majority in this country today. What it does arouse, however, is a sense of curiosity. For over 100 years, Republi- cans have been held in lower esteem than Negroes in Mississippi, and one wouldn't have been able to find enough of them to stage a noticeable dinner party. Now suddenly the all-powerful incumbent Democrats are passing laws against what we are supposed to believe is a non-entity. WHAT GOES ON? It can't be that Mis- sissippi politicans expect all those non-voting Negroes to suddenly get the vote and cast it for the GOP, for when it comes to voting, Negroes are surpris- ingly unintelligent about which side their bread is buttered on. It can't be that the Northern pressure for civil rights reforms will result in a Republican vote in Mississippi, for all the civil righters seem to be Democrats. There is only one thing left it could be-the people of Mississippi themselves must be casting a covetous eye toward the Republican ticket. Perhaps these un- heard-from people-the lowly voters and taxpayers-have had enough of the Dem- ocrats' rule-or-ruin policies in Mississip- pi. Perhaps, after 100 years of provincial stagnation, they would like at least a taste of progress. IT SEEMS THIS MUST BE the answer. And if it is, the Republicans needn't lose heart. A 10 per cent rule, a pay-your- own-way plan, or a primary-for-all sys- tem will only prove to be minor annoy- ances for Republicans on their road to victory. If, in fact, the GOP is gaining strength in Mississippi, the Democrats' delaying tactics will probably not thwart the ultimate result. On the other hand, if the GOP is still dead in the Magnolia State, why are the big-game hunters in Jackson fencing with a paper tiger in such earnest? MICHAEL HARRAH Smoking Stac.ks AS IF IT WASN'T BAD enough coping with blliows of smoke in the UGLI, the MUG and, occasionally, the classroom, the non-smoking student apparently is now losing the battle over the last refuge for clear air and clean lungs: the Gen- eral Library. The smokers are invading, and, what's worse, they're doing it illegal- ly.I 'mti ,.cONIT * TODAY AND TOMORROW: Eisenhower Conservatism To the Editor: QO FAR, little attention has been called to an event that will take place this weekend which promises to be one of the most interesting and enlightening of the year. I am referring to the fourth annual Issues Conference, sponsored by the University Young Democrats at Ann Arbor. This year, we are examining three of the most critical problems confronting our state and nation. Reapportionment will realign po- litical forces which have an im- pact throughout the country, a red-hot issue. very much in the news today. The Negro Revolt has long been misunderstood by white Northern "liberals." Can human dignity be restored by a federally- enacted Civil Rights Bill? Negroes are a considerable portion of the poor, the uneducated, the struc- turally unemployed. What is the best means .to finally and forever eliminate poverty in America? Young Democrats are looking for new answers. Political slogans and mere lip service are no sub- stitution for realization of the facts. Americans have generally shown an amazing tendency to ig- nore vital problems, hoping they will be taken care of by weak legislation or by the natural func- tioning, of the system. The Issues Conference is a way of injecting controversy and criticism into poli- tics and our every-day lives. All who attend can freely participate. * * * HONORARY CHAIRMAN for "Ideas and Ideals" will be US. Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Mich). The Conference will take place tomorrow in the Multipurpose Rm. of the UGLI. At 11 a.m. August Schoole, presi- dent of the Michigan AFL-CIO and key figure in the drive for equitable apportionment in the state, will speak on "Reapportion- ment and the Law." At 2 p.m. will be a panel dis- cussion, "Focuses of the Negro Revolt." The panel will consist of Ann Arbor Democratic Council- woman Eunice Burns; Rev. Albert Cleauge, chairman of the Detroit Freedom Now Party; Jackie Vaughn III, candidate for Detroit City Council; and chairman of the Ann Arbor NAACP, Prof. Albert Wheeler of the medical school. At 3:30 p.m. will be a debate "How To Fight Poverty," featuring former Daily Editor Thomas Hay- den. Tom is also a former presi- dent of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and is now a politi- cal science instructor here at the University. His opponent will be Richard Durant, leader of the 14 District Republican organization. The conference promises an in- teresting and highly-spirited after- noon, the, excitement of which should remind many of that gen- erated by Dave Strack and Co. not many Saturdays ago. -7Martin S. Baum, '64 Young Democrats An Opportunity To the Editor: THE DAUGHTER of an Ecua- dorean friend of mine, an 18- year-old girl "of good family," as they say there, would like to come to the United States for a year or so to improve her English. She is interested in living with an Ann Arbor family and helping out with the housework and infant- minding chores in return for her room and board. Perhaps one of your readers, especially one living close to cam- pus, would be interested in an arrangement of this type. * * * I WOULD like also to bring to your attention a standing offer of the members of the Michigan Club of Ecuador to provide room and By WALTER LIPPMANN GEN. DWIGHT EISENHOWER hsjust published in the Sa- turday Evening Post a long state- ment of his present beliefs about the state of the union. They can fairly be described as Goldwater minus the howlers about the grad- uated income tax, social security, TVA and the like. That is to say, General Eisenhower's position is that of the conservative right, not of the radical far right. His basic thesis is that there has been for 30 years under the New Deal, the3Fair Deal and the New Frontier "a steady, obvious drift of our nation toward a cen- tralization of power in the federal government." We have "an overbearing federal bureaucracy that seems unchecked in both size and power." The net result of the "easy money and in- flationary policies" of this federal bureaucracy is that "the dollar you saved and earned 24 years ago is now worth just' 45 cents." THIS IS a strange interpreta- tion of the history of the past 25 years, and one thing we may be certain of is that General Eisen- hower will never be hailed as a re- liable historian. He was the su- preme commander in Europe dur- ing the Second World War, he was the supreme commander of NATO in the cold war and he was twice the President of the United States. Yet, incredible as it is, he has interpreted what has happened since 1940 without even mention- ing the fact that the country has grown by 50 million people, that during these 25 years the country has fought the Second World War. the Korean War and the cold war. How is it possible to talk about the rise in prices which has cut the purchasing power of the dollar by rather more than half without mentioning the wars and the pre- paration for war? As a matter of fact, half of the rise in prices oc- curred during and immediately after the Second WorldWar:yan- other 15 per cent of the rise oc- curred during the Korean War. From 1953 to 1963, the rise in prices has been a little over one per cent a year. The rise was just about the same under President Eisenhower as it was under Presi- dent John Kennedy. IF GENERAL EISENHOWER is blind to the economic conse- quences of the wars in which he has played such a distinguished part, he exaggerates grossly the part played by the civilian sector in the growth of the federal bur- eaucracy. There has not been, as General Eisenhower says, an unchecked growth of the federal bureaucracy. While state and local government employment has doubled between 1947 and 1963, non-defense em- ployment in federal government was the same percentage (1.9) of the total civilian labor force in 1963 as it was in 1948. In fact, federal civilian employment has not grown so fast as the popula- tion. There are now approximately 13 United States workers per thous- and of population. Of these, five are employed in defense, three by the post office, one by the Vet- erans Administration and four by all the rest of the federal govern- ment. Nor is it true that there has been a "consolidation of power and revenue in the federal govern- ment." While the share of state and local government in the na- tional product has doubled since 1948-from 5 to 10 per cent-fed- eral revenue as a percentage of the national product has increased only slightly-from 12 to 14 per cent-and has not risendfor five years. And if we take debt as a measure of activity from 1947 to 1963, we see that state and local. debt increased 382 per cent; pri- vate debt increased 279 per cent; federal debt increased 26 per cent. * * * THUS, General Eisenhower has not painted a true picture of the state of the union. It is not pos- sible to paint a true picture of the state of the union since 1940 by ignoring the three wars, by ig- noring the growth of the popula- tion by as many people as live in Great Britain, by ignoring the pre- ponderance of federal employment (71 per cent) in the indispensable functions of defense, the postal service and veterans' care, by ig- noring the relatively greater growth of the state and local ac- tivity and by professing to believe that all the troubles and dangers of our age are due to the handful of civilian welfare measures. It is just this refusal to recog- nize the facts of American life which accounts for the condition of the Republican Party today. General Eisenhower meant to speak for the moderate, prudent and, in the correct meaning of the word, the conservative mass of our people. But what he says is so greatly out of touch with the realities-with what has happen- ed, with what is happening, with what the people need to have hap- pen in the future-that it lacks all credibility. (c),1964, The Washington Post Co. board for the summer for any Uni- versity student who can find his way to Quito. Allan Miller, '65, spent a very enjoyable summer in Quito last year. Those interested can reach me through the political science de- partment, University extension 2722. -Prof. Martin C. Needler Department of Political Science Commencement Date To the Editor: HAVING just completed the ar- ticle announcing President Johnson's acceptance to speak at our commencement, I am trying to adjust to the fact that suddenly graduation is May 22 instead of May 23. I am, of course, as an- xious as all other students to have our President speak for graduation, but I also place extremely high value upon my parents' attendence at an event which will have such great significance in my life and theirs. At this point, unfortunately, their attendence is dubious. I realize that my problem is of a personal nature. However, if one stops to consider the probability of complications which can arise for 6000 graduates and their fam- ilies, ranging from inflexible em- ployment schedules to the lklihood of impossibility in revising reserva- tions both for transportation and local accommodations, I feel that this late change of graduation date merits some reconsideration. ' -Joan M. Seitz, '64Ed Moral Challenge To -the Editor: LL THIS VERBAGE about sex on the campus, sex and the single girl, the feminine mystique, the second sex, etc., is not really about sex but about the terrifying responsibility of freedom. In Conrad'.s "Heart of Darkness" Kurtz was not able to cope without social restraints. Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe," a new free woman without personal re- straints, uses sex, not as an ex- pression of love, but as a means of working out her frustrations. After George has tried to help her kill all the illusions she's had about herself, he asks at the end of the play, "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" and Martha answers weakly, "I am." Women have the power now to turn our culture toward one simi- lar to Huxley's "Brave New World" or to strengthen the family pat- tern that we already have or to determiine some other role for the female in our society. Some, like Martha,hare. afraid because they realize that they must shake off the image of themselves as sex creatures, an image they've helped build by submitting to, and pro- moting our sex-oriented society, and that they must take on in- tellectual and spiritual qualities that transcend animal instincts. WHILE SCIENCE has been reaching for the stars, the social, emotional, spiritual and aesthetic aspects of man's life have been crawling in adolescent porno- graphy, shock literature written primarily to sell, Polyanna stories that will not face up to real prob- lems, isolation and the practical arts of making money-in a sense going back to animalism and using science to help. Birth control pills and artificial insemination have divorced sex and parenthood, once a natural relationship. According to current national magazines, sex is now be- ing divorced from marriage, and perhaps, this is the natural out- come of the separation of sex from parenthood. Sex is now being con- sidered as separate from love and a means of working out one's frustrations, with little mention of restraint as a human quality. It is hard to tell what the next step will be :destruction of the family as we know it? A better; family unit based on equal standards and equal values instead, of the old double standard? Further isola- tion of the individual? Complete animalism based on preoccupation with food and the satisfaction of primitive bodily needs? When we consider the freedom science has given us to determine for ourselves things that used to be determined by the laws of na- ture, we must be a bit shaken. In spite of what many are saying, perhaps the challenge to women today is, more than ever before, a moral one. -Name withheld by request Rentier MUCH OF Western Electric's Nike production was done at two government surplus plants, which under the ordinary mnethod of doing business with the govern- ment would have been supplied to Western Electric without cost. However, Western Electric, instead of having the plants supplied free, rented them from the government. Western Electric included the 'ROMANOFF AND JULIET': A Pretty Package, Minus the Glimmer T HE CIVIC THEATRE'S "Romanoff and Juliet" is really a pretty good show; but certainly not the best they can do. The staging is excellent and the play is cute, enough to make a generally enjoyable evening. But the acting isn't up to the demands of the play. The part of the General needs to be done with real pro- fessional dexterity in order to hold the play together, and Michael Ross isn't quite capable. Aside from specific problems with the acting, the general problems of the play center around mumbling and flubbing. It is difficult to make out many of the important lines, and a good many more suffered mis- takes. It also seemed as though with every goof there was a correspond- in glapse in accent. This can be disconcerting. * * * * JOHN RAE (Juliet's father) had a tendency to overham every scene. Even granted that he was playing a stereotypic character that lent to overacting; he was many times offensively too much, even to the point of cutting out other actors. The young lovers Kathleen Thompson and John Haber were sort of nondescript. Miss Thompson was the arch-mumbler of the perform- ance, while Haber was just adequate. But sweet characters are difficult to make three-dimensional. The best performer of the bunch is Jabbour who plays Romeo (Romanoff's) father. He is enjoyable whenever he is on stage. He also carries his part with a minimum of problems. Coupled with his wife, played by Aileen Mengel, they make for the funniest bits of the eve- ning. The Russians in their family scenes-"family" naturally includes A. «,. .