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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: RONALD WILTON
"Why Don't You Soar?"
ABOLISH THE COMMITTEE:
Opponents of HUAC
Concentrate Efforts
Who Should Be
SGC's New President?
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL should
elect Ken Miller its president at tonight's
meeting .in recognition of his many positive
attributes.
Among these is an open mind. Miller listens
to both sides of a debate and weighs carefully
the arguments each side presents. He thinks
out how he will vote and bases his vote on the
balance he has set up. This results in voting
with conservatives sometimes even though Mil-
ler is a liberal. His commitment to liberal
values is great and he usually sees the balance
in favor of them over the conservative values,
but the point is that he does do the weighing.
It is important for the Council president to
moderate between conservatives and liberals
and to look at both sides from the point of
each side.
Related to this openmindedness is Miller's
alertness and his commitment to improvement.
At the National Student Congress last summer
he made a point of following carefully each
piece of legislation that came to the plenary
floor. While others plotted in the side rooms,
or distracted themselves with conversation not
relevant to the legislation, Miller stuck to
matters at hand. His alertness resulted in some
good amendments. For these reasons Miller
makes a good Council member, and for these
reasons he would make a good Council presi-
dent.
MILLER HAS creativity. He has brought
about the creation of a Voice committee
on the state legislature, a committee which he
will chair. Miller can see new areas that need
increased attention. As Council president he
could focus the University community's at-
tention on new areas of concern.
His willingness to work hard in both Stu-
dent Government Council and Voice political
party is another positive attribute. He took on
the duties of an executive officer and would
have continued executive responsibilities if it
had not been for the slick dealing that deprived
him of the presidency last semester. Miller's
work with the series of panels on student gov-
ernment last semester should also be con-
sidered.
Miller has faults, it is true--he let himself be
duped by the maneuvering that deprived him
of the presidency, and his openmindedness
can sometimes result in inconsistency and hesi-
tancy. But, as Emerson pointed out, a foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of a little mind.
Miller's mind is not little; he is an intelligent
person with a year's experience and know-
ledge of Council who has shown the positive
characteristics that a Council president should
have. SGC members can connect the charac-.
teristics with the office by electing Ken Miller
president.
-ROBERT SELWA
Sasaki
STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL is about
to embark on an unusually active term. Its
agenda for the near future includes pushing
requests for student participation on faculty
committees, working to reform the campus ju-
diciary system and renewing efforts to elim-
inate still-existing discrimination in affiliate
organizations.
It is essential, therefore, that the individual
who comes out victorious in tonight's election
for a new Council president be the most-quali-
fied person in the job. He must possess a ma-
ture and sound approach to University prob-
lems; he must be able to provide unifying
leadership for an 18-man Council whose mem-
bers are sometimes antagonistic both political-
ly and personally.
Thomas Brown and Kenneth Miller have
announced their candidacies for the top posi-
tion. Brown has a solid administrative back-
ground, having done a capable job in the pastj
as SGC treasurer and executive vice-president.
However, he is hardly an original thinker, andj
is too conservative and undynamic to have
much of a chance of furnishing leadershipj
which unites SGC.j
Miller has a very good mind, is experienced
(having been administrative vice-president),
knows the University, is a strong debater and
cares deeply about student government. He is
also petulant at times, has done relatively little
on SGC in the past and is too closely associated
with the student social activist clique on cam-j
pus to avoid the temptation of proposing nice-
sounding but sometimes stupid and narrow
legislation in the future.
THE BEST PERSON for the Council presi-
dency would be Edwin Sasaki. His well
thought-out and intelligent concept of stu-
dent government as a mature and responsible
participant in the academic community has
earned him the respect of the conservative, lib-
eral and moderate segments of SGC.
His major fault lies in his often long-winded
and boring manner of public speaking. How-
ever, this is overwhelmingly compensated for
by his ability and willingness to confer with
SGC members, lobbyists and other interested
individuals. His broad contacts among the fac-
ulty and graduate student body would give
Council an image of maturity that it desper-
ately needs.
In addition, he finished high enough in the
election (third) to have a mandate for becom-
ing president (the two people who were ahead
of him-Michael Knapp and Sherry Miller-
need to become less vague and unsettled before
entertaining hopes of being officers.)
SGC will be going through a rather important
and difficult spring, and it needs a competent
and respected leader to guide it through.
Though qualified, Brown and Miller probably
couldn't do it. Sasaki can.
-GERALD STORCH
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KHRUSHCHEV VIEWS ELECTIONS:
Of, By and For Whom..
No Cutting in Line, Please
I TSEEMS that sometimes, in the day to
day administration of University affairs,
officials show an amazing lack of good sense
in enforcing rules.
Last Tuesday in an East Quad lunch line,
the ticket puncher took a man's meal ticket
and directed him to the end of the line again
because he had been accused of "cutting."
When the student refused to give up his place
he was directed to show up at the office to
retrieve his card.
The much revered tradition of the meal line
is an ancient one. Before each meal the quad-
dies are herded onto this line and must wait
their turn for the delightful goodies offered by
Dyna-mite
AFEW nights ago, a group of young sports
set off a charge of dynamite in a West
Quad court.
Experience has shown that dynamite is bad
for buildings; in small doses, repeated use tends
to weaken building structures, break windows
and loosen tiles. In'quantity dynamite's effects
are immediately apparent.
And in this particular application there is
another disadvantage-the loud noise and
bright flash that accompany a detonation is
disturbing to students who are studying or
sleeping or mildly psychotic at the time.
Though their intents were no doubt justified
to these future demolition virtuosi (maybe
they belong to the Young National Socialists
or something), repeated practice of this un-
usual diversion could prove damaging.
--T. CLEECY
30*4
Editorial Staff
the dietician. There is, of course, a rule for-
bidding individuals from cutting into this line.
The official penalty for this crime is judiciary
action, but no one seems to remember it ever
having been enforced. So, in actuality, judg-
ment of guilt and punishment for offenders
has been entirely up to the discretion of the
ticket-puncher.
THIS UNREALISTIC system of punishment,
plus the nature of accusations, which is
always one person's word against another's
has lead to the common practice among ticket-
punchers of simply soothing ruffled feelings
and letting the incident pass.
Cutting has become so common that any
serious attempt at enforcing the present rule
on an individual offender is ludicrous. There
is even a new game around the quads. The
rule is simple: inform the ticket-puncher as
you pass him on your way in, that someone
at the end of the line has cut. This usually
causes some fun, for when the accused is con-
fronted, you can hear him scream his protests
as you are collecting your dessert, and chuckle
as you find a seat.
However, when on the basis of a single
charge, an accused cutter who refused to ac-
cept an arbitrary ruling, is put on the carpet
of the director of East Quadrangle, things
are getting out of hand.
First, this business of guilt by accusation is
somewhat contrary to several entries in the
Constitution of the United States, especially
when the accusor's identity is not announced
(shades of HUAC). Also, it does not set too
well with the concept of individual rights and
simply the dignity symbolized by the Univer-
sity itself.
It is time that someone in charge showed
somea sign of sense in disciplinary matters. This
simple inconsistancy is a frightening signpost.
-CARL COHEN
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(EDITORS'S NOTE: The follow-
ing is an excerpt from a speech
made bySoviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev in Moscow recently.)
WHEN parliamentary elec-
tions take place in capi-
talist states, and candidates of
bourgeois parties make their elec-
tion speeches, they are usually
very generous with promises. The
people there have got used to
such speeches. The law of capital-
ism is that if you don't cheat you
don't sell, and this law also covers
the political life of these countries.
There during the election cam-
paigns. in the election struggle, the
law of capitalism is in operation,
the law of purchase and sale, and
all sorts of promises of gold mines
and rivers flowing with milk and
honey are made.
Nothing can be done about it--
they want their publicity. I would
say that there is a large number
of sad stories connected with this
feature of the West. One of them
runs something like this. A can-
didate of one party was urging
people to vote for him in the
course of his election speech: "If
our party wins at the election,"
he was telling the people of one
village, "we shall build you a new
bridge." The electors were rather
puzzled: "What shall we do with
a bridge, we haven't got a river?"
"Never mind," the candidate an-
swered, "we shall give you the
river too.".
Interesting views on the contem-
porary position of democracy in
the United States may be found
in an article by Drew Pearson, a
prominent American journalist.
** *
."A LOT of people will be writing
about Lincoln today and his goal
of government of the people, by
the people and for the people.
They also will be speculating about
how many of the people can be
fooled how much of 4he time.
Things have not changed very
much since Lincoln's day.
In a dictatorship you have to
keep people quiet. In a Democracy
(the American journalist bad in
mind the Democracy of the United
States) you have to fool at least 51
per cent of the people all of the
time or else all the people 51 per
cent of the time. . . " Further on,
this journalist writes that "if
Lincoln were alive today, and in
an ironic mood, he might rephrase
one line of his address to read
"Government of the wealthy, by
the wealthy and for the wealthy
Well, that's just how it is. The
same article says that dozens of
millions of Americans live in pov-
erty. Even President Kennedy
himself in his January message uo
Congress on the state of the un-
ion noted that 32 millions of
Americans "were still living on the
outskirts of poverty." Note that
this is all happening in such a
highly-developed country as the
United States.
AMERICAN "Democracy" the
boast of the ideologists of mono-
poly capitalism, fails even to en-
sure that the Negroes can study
together with the whites of that
country. The Communist Party in
tainly there is freedom for the
parties which are defending the
"right" of monopoly capitalism to
rob the people.
In one of my speeches I noted
that elections in the United States
are essentially an issue between
two parties: the Republican, whose
emblem is the elephant, and the
Democratic, whose emblem is the
donkey. American election cam-
paigns include shows and during
these shows some of the marchers
carry posters urging the people to
vote for the donkey, and other for
the elephant. I do not know which
of the two animals ought to be
favored and which one of them
is the cleverer . . . As for the
electors, they have no other al-
ternative, since the levers of the
capitalist system are being exerted
on them by means of radio, tele-
vision, the press and advertise-
ments
I WISH TO give you an example
of preparations for elections
in the United States. There, the
Democratic and Republican par-
ties are already beginning to pre-
pare for the 1964 elections. The
Democratic party, for instance, ar-
ranges dinners and the collec-
tions made at these dinners go
into the fund for the coming elec-
tion campaign. How much do you
think a dinner like that costs? One
hundred dollars, which is 90 rubles
in our new currency. Who can
afford such a "dinner?" Certainly
not the ordinary workers and
farmers, but the capitalists and
monopolists.
They do not pay $100 for the
dinner in order to satisfy their
hunger: it isnot the food that
attracts them there. By means
of the donations they amass huge
funds for the election campaign,
and use the money to deceive the
electors in order to wage a struggle
against the working class. In those
countries where the power belongs
to the monopolists, people who are
not rich cannot hope to be elected
to Congress or the Senate, nor
even have dinner at this kind of
election meeting .. .
Who are the deputies to the
parliaments in bourgeois states?
The overwhelming majority of
them are capitalists and land-
owning politicians who defend the
interests of monopoly capital .. .
Only as a result of resolute
struggle do the working people of
France, Italy and some other cap-
italist countries succeed in sending
their representatives to the organs
of power.
The picture is entirely different
in our country. When the workers
of our enterprises, construction
projects and state farms, collec-
tive farms, scientific, engineering
and cultural workers, the repre-
sentatives of our glorious armed
forces, party and trade union
workers are nominated as can-
didates for deputy by the .nited
block of Communists and non-
Party people, they all represent
but one master-the worker, the
working people.
Education
"EDUCATORS are loath to In-
doctrinate young Americans,
but in our zeal to avoid indoctri-
nation I sometimes think we have
deprived young citizens of a foun-
dation for the faith that is in
them. They believe in democracy
enough to die for it, but they
don't always recognize it when
they see it, nor distinguish it from
its enemies when it is attacked."
-Prof. Mildred Horton
Former President,
Wellesley College
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Richard Ost-
ling was Daily associate editorial di-
rector last year and is currently
attending the Northwestern Uni-
versity graduate school.)
By RICHARD OSTLING
Daily Guest Writer
CHICAGO-Don't discount the
national movement to get rid
of the House Un-American Ac-
tivities Committee. Despite his
nine month prison sentence and
seemingly insuperable odds, Frank
Wilkinson, the executive director
of the National Committee to
Abolish HUAC remains optimistic.
Wilkinson said here last week-
end he wassurprised and pleased
with the 20 votes for abolishing
HUAC in Congress on January 9,
and claims close to 100 congress-
men. support "transfer" of HUAC
to a position under the Judiciary
Committee, with a more limited
mandate.
The second annual meeting of
the Chicago Committee to Defend
the Bill of Rights last weekend
heard Wilkinson, McCarran Act
foe Prof. Clyde Miller, Claude
Lightfoot, Illinois Communist Par-
ty chairman, and Lightfoot's at-
torney, Pearl Hart.
*f * *
LIGHTFOOT IS the first of a
new group of top Communists or-
dered by the Justice Department
to register as subversives under
the 1950 McCarran Act, He has
been given until April 5 to reg-
ister by the United States Subver-
sive Activities Control Board, but
plans appeals to the federal Court
of Appeals and Supreme Court.
The annual meeting-including
a series of informal discussions led
by the controversial guest - was
the last function held in Chicago's
historic settlement center, Hull
House, which is moving to make
way for the new Chicago campus
of the University of Illinois. About
50 civil liberties supporters from
the Chicago area and other parts
of the Midwest agreed to step up
efforts against HUAC, and to help
Prof. Miller's proposed National
Committee to Repeal the McCar-
ran Act by sponsoring an organi-
zational meeting here later this
spring.
The consensus of discussion on
HUAC was that abolition efforts
have reached a new stage. For-
merly, a few idealists and legisla-
tors were interested in abolishing
HUAC for its violations of tradi-
tional American free speech and
press.
BUT the surprise roll call of
January 9, called by acting HUAC
Chairman Clyde Doyle to gag cri-
ticism of his committee, actually
boomeranged into unexpected sup-
port for abolition. Now the move-
ment has entered the realm of
practical politics. The "transfer"
plan of traditional HUAC gadfly
Rep. James Roosevelt has gained
liberals' support, rather than out-
right abolition, because it has a
chance for success.
Roosevelt's proposal would abol-
ish HUAC as presently set up un-
der paragraph 11 of the House
rules, and then add a new Subcom-
mittee on Un-American. Activities
to the Judiciary Committee. The
new subcommittee's m a n d a t e
would not specify "un-American
propaganda activities," as does the
present HUAC rule. Thus, free
speech and publication would prob-
ably be recognized.
However, the charge of combat-
ting "un-American activities"
would remain, in addition to spe-
cification of legitimate action
against sabotage and espionage.
The vagueness of that phrase is,
to Wilkinson, "a worrisome thing."
He claimed 84 votes are defi-
nitely in favor of "transfer," with
many more supporters probable.
(Of the Michigan delegation, four
men, including Congressman-at-
large Neil Staebler, were among
the 20 voting for outright aboli-
tion. Wilkinson claims at least
three additional Michigan con-
gressmen would favor "transfer.")
BESIDES SUPPORT of "trans-
fer," Wilkinson's national commit-
tee aims to make anti-HUAC po-
sitions "respectable" before the
next showdown in Congress. And
it hopes to stimulate research and
literature on such things as the
link between HUAC support and
racism.
In discussing congressional de-
bate on HUAC, Wilkinson said
there were only 13 supporting
speeches, and "none of the respon-
sible conservatives gave their
blessing" to HUAC. He quoted one
anti-HUAC speaker who doubted
it fulfills the congressional com-
mittees' reason for existence: of-
fering of good legislation. The only
HUAC bill which passed the House
last year, despite its $681,000 ap-
propriation, was an amendment to
the McCarran Act to have lists
published of all United States mili-
tary installations. "Of all the stu-
pid ways to fight Communism!"
Wilkinson said bemusedly. "They
are printing a blueprint for es-
pionage."
He also quoted a HUAC mem-
ber as telling the National Secur-
ity Council there are 700,000 Com-
munists today in the United
States. When pressed for details
on the figure, the congressman ad-
Besides idealistic considerations,
Lightfoot claimed practical rea-
sons why Communists refuse to
register. "This is not abstract
courage, or pseudo-militancy."
Persons who admit they are part
of a worldwide conspiracy, plan
to overthrow the American gov-
ernment, or are foreign agents face
designation for reprisals and cer-
tain doom, Lightfoot explained,
though he denies any of these
characterizations of the Party are
true.
"The fact is the government has
no evidence of any subversion by
our Party," he said. "Thus, the
requirement to register is a politi-
cal 'do-it-yourself' kit. Once we
admit those charges, we have ad-
mitted we are subversive."
LIGHTFOOT FACES a cumula-
tive fine of $10,000 a day until he
registers with the government. His
attorney, Miss Hart, explained it
took 11 years for the Supreme
Court to force registration, and
predicted another 10-year fight on
the constitutionality of the Mc-
Carran Act as a whole.
Under the act, she said, life Is.
made difficult for the individuals
attacked. Yet it is .also a crime
for them to leave the United
States.
Citing Justice Hugo Black's dis-
sent in the 1961 registration case,
Miss Hart said the McCarran Act
accuses people who happen to
think the same way Moscow thinks.
Penalty of thoughts-as opposed to
direct action against the nation-
is contrary to the intent of the
founding fathers, she said.
* * *
MILLER'S discussion of the Mc-
Carran Act turned into personal
reminiscence about the days in
World War I when he had just
graduated from Ohio State Univer-
sity and was a reporter on the
Cleveland Plain-Dealer. He was
instrumental in a Journalistic cam
paign which put socialist Eugene
Debs in prison as a subversive.
"Thus, I have much charity for
those who are today as stupid and
sincere as I have been," he ex-
plained. "But we are dealing with'
a press even more corrupt than
the one I worked for, with the ter-
rific added power of radio and
TV."
His proposed committee thus
plans to concentrate on informa-
tion, "especially since the Cold
War has completely taken over
United States education." He
charged that the national leaders
of the American Association of
University Professors are "as scar-
ed to take hold of this as an edu-
cational problem as are the ruling
groups of the National Education
Association or the American So-
ciety of-Newspaper Editors."
ETTERS
to the ®l
EDITOR
To the Editor:
MR, GRODY'S tempestuous ti-
rade against Mrs. Dorothy
Schiff and the International Ty-
pographer's Union seems to
amount to one thing in the end:
Mrs. Schiff is a, traitor to her
class solidarity with the four
struck newspapers. Now she has
relented and is letting them work
again.
Traitoress! Breaker of the unit-
ed front seeking to, starve the
malicious typographers into sub-
mission on the publisher's terms!
Imagine, this capitaliste wants
to act on her own initiative and
look like she's actually competing
with her fellow publishers, in-
stead of bankrupting herself by
continuing the lockout.
It amazes me, however, that
budding journalists can find good
grounds for making hay at the
lowly typographer's expense, those
manual workers, while they've
precious little to say about the
unreasonable (?) demands of the
Newspaper Guild's strike against
the Cleveland newspapers. And as
for berating Mrs. Schiff for violat-
ing the basic tenets of journalistic
integrity, hasn't he learned yet
that publishers aren't journalists
-just big businessmen who have
to stick together? They leave the
violations of journalistic integrity
to the journalists who manage to
do a fairly good job of it with
notable exceptions. Perhaps the
course in Journalistic Economics
needs to be expanded to include
material on journalistic dialectics.
Bly the way, wouldn't it be nice
to have The Daily let Mrs. Schiff
or Bertram Powers have a little
space to present their side of the
argument, or is that, too, a viola-
tion of the tenets of journalistic
integrity?
--Harold L. Orbach
Institute for
Human Adjustment
APA...
To the Editor:
AFTER A SEASON that has
provided Ann Arbor with its
most exciting theatre in years,
one wonders, a bit apprehensively,
how true ,the rumors are that the
APA has taken the option to ter-
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'HERE TODAY':
Comedy Aptly Named
"HERE TODAY," an insipid comedy vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead
now at the Schubert Theatre in Detroit, is aptly titled, for it
definitely will be forgotten and "gone tomorrow" (or the day after
to be exact). However, during its short run the show should bring
considerable laughter and perhaps a last glimpse of two grand
ladies of the theatre (Tallulah and Estelle Winwood).
George Oppenheimer's silly little plot has something to do with
efforts of Tallulah's ex-husband to marry the daughter of Estelle
Winwood. Somewhere along the predictable plot, the daughter realizes
that her childhood sweetheart is her true love, and Tallulah remem-
bers that she has really loved her ex all along.
Wisely there has been an extensive insertion of topical quips in
order to camouflage the lack of mirth in the play. President John F.
Kennedy, The Carpetbaggers, and Tallulah's fabled bass voice (Boy:
"You're barking up the wrong tree." Tallulah: " I beg your pardon;
that is my natural voice, darling.") are all good for a laugh.
* * * *
OF COURSE, the whole show is Tallulah, and the play is worth
enduring to see her at work.
Although her hair is now frankly grey, she can still take any line
and twist it so that is sounds like the wittiest thing this side of Wilde.
(When the maid asks her how many will be eating lunch, Tallulah
quips "There will be two of all of us" and has the audience in the
aisles.)
In the middle of the second act Tallulah becomes angry with
her ex-hushand and for a moment one can see the great actress
I