Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS FEIIFER _ _ . --.t Where pins Are Free 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MIdc-. hrut Will Prevail NEwS PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the inidividual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. 1INSR-C ~I tic- PE. LWAR I APPEARP WA5 70OL 86 TO~ j4 REFORM 6D-7 WOAS KWi TOc FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1966 NIGHT EDITOR: SUSAN SCHNEPP The Atlanta SNCC Office: 'They Shall Overcome' E VISITED the headquarters of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta the other day, cur- ious to find out what the office was like. Taking up all of a complex of offices above a warehouse near downtown Atlan- ta, the nerve center of "one of the most radical civil rights organizations" struck us as being rather disorganized-not un- like the offices of any radical group. As the receptionist, whose baby was asleep in a playpen in front of her desk, explained it, "we're more interested in getting things done than in keeping everything in perfect order." AND GET THINGS done they do. Using a veritable maze of office equipment, ranging from an ultra-modern teletype system which connects them with their offices in New York, Washington and Jackson, Miss., to an old, battered, hand- operated ditto machine, they are kept up to date on the activities of their projects throughout the South, and in turn keep their own branches and supporting groups informed. SNCC program secretary Cleveland Sel- lers told us he felt that "keeping people constantly informed as to what's going on is good for several reasons. First, people in the North, more or less out of touch with the Movement, can be kept interest- ed if they are kept informed. This is im- portant, because much of our financial support comes from the North. "Second, keeping each project up to date as to what's happening in the other places is good for morale." Remembering his own work in SNCC projects in the deep South, Sellers told us that "working on a project can get pretty lonely sometimes, and knowing that there are others doing the same thing you can be a big help- it sort of keeps you going, knowing that you're not really alone." THE SNCC OFFICE attracts all kinds of people, from those waiting to go to a project, to Atlanta students and school dropouts. Since there was an executive committee meeting much of the time we were there, and office work had pretty much come to a standstill as new strategy and programs were being planned, we spent a great part of the time in the of- fice singing "freedom songs" as well as vintage rock and roll, and listening to people talk about projects they had work- ed on. Over a dinner of "soul food"-chitter- lings and rice-we asked one of the SNCC workers who was on his way to Alabama what it was all about, why he was going to work on a project where he would ac- tually be risking his life, and what he thought would come of his efforts, Pass That Brick "SAY, HERE COMES another one-hand me that piece of brick there, will you? Thanks. I got two Lansing police cars and a campus patrol already. What have you gotten?" "I haven't gotten anything yet. I just got here-I heard about it on the radio and came over. I figured it would be a good opportunity to do some recruiting "Wow! Did you see that? Right through the windshield! What did you say! Re- cruiting for what?" "WELL, VICE-PRESIDENT Humphrey is coming Sunday for commencement, and I figured we could get up some kind of picket line or something to protest the war in Viet Nam, since he represents the administration, and all..., "What? You must be kidding. You're not going to get many MSU students to take part in something as radical and ir- responsible as that. Hey, here comes the sheriffs car . . -T.R.C. Editorial Staff CLARENCE FANTO ....................Co-Editor CHARLOTTE WOLTER................Co-Editor BUD WILKIN8ON.....................Sports Editor BETSY COHN... ... ....Supplement Manager NIGHT EDIORS: Meredith Eiker, Michael Hefter, "WELL," HE BEGAN, "sometimes it's hard to say if it's really worth it, be- cause sometimes we sure dont seem to be going anywhere. We break our backs to organize a meeting somewhere and when the meeting-time comes we're the only ones there ... "Or you can talk to some poor share- cropper about registering to vote for an hour, explaining about how it'll help him get a better life, with him nodding his head in agreement all the while, and then at the end, when you ask him to go with you to register, he'll sort of scratch his head and say that he'll have to think about it for a while, that he doesn't see how being able to vote will do anything for him. "These people have been under the thumb of the white man for so long, that they just can't believe that somebody really wants to do something for them, that somebody wants them to be able to decide their own lives." EATING WHILE HE SPOKE, the "snick- er" displayed a great deal of emotion, and we knew what it must have been like to meet disappointment after disappoint- ment while working so hard for some- thing we believe in so strongly. As he finished talking he was listlessly push- ing his food around on his plate, but then he perked up-SNCC people don't seem to.stay morose for long. "It's like Stokely says," he said, refer- ring to SNCCs new chairman, Stokely Carmichael, "if we didn't give up before, we're sure not going to give up now, no matter who tries to get in our way, whether they be white or black, whether they be some red-neck farmer or the U.S. government. We're in this thing for sure now, and by damn we're going to see it through to the end." And we have the feeling, that with con- viction like that, they will. -THOMAS R. COPI No Smokin IN DETROIT, a select goup of savants are currently testing the kicks of a new weed. It is a kind of cigarette, and its name is Bravo. "Instead of tobacco," the pack- age legend reads, "Bravo contains whole- some leaf of Lactuca Sativa, a variety of lettuce." IT IS A NICOTINE-free cigarette. An- other component the cigarette lacks is flavor. For urbanites with deadened sen- sors, there is no flavor. Others report an odor like burning grass. It is the filter king. Its crest is a pot- bellied University of Michigan Oil Lamp topped by an op Mace of Hermes. The motto is "Excellence Through Research." "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health" does not ap- pear on the side of the package. MANUFACTURED in Hereford, Texas, it is a cigarette with dubious flavor, no trips, "no morning taste," and apparently no nicotine. There is a filter to catch tars. Bravo. -NEAL BRUSS Combhat Bedbugs IN THE CURRENT leave-no-stone-un- turned military campaign in the Viet Nam laboratory army scientists have found something under those stones, bed- bugs or in military jargon, combat-bed- bugs. The bedbugs would be used as an alarm system because they cry out when sensing the approach of human flesh, supposedly Viet Cong flesh. The scientists in Mary- land are working on an amplification sys- tem that would make the bug's cries audi- ble. One hopes that the C-Bugs might be a bit more discriminating than U.S. Army and government officials have been in the past few decades. However, while not trying to be too much of a pessimist, I don't think the bedbugs will be any more discriminating and will probably make the same sounds when South and North Viet- AFTR WL&)~P WARk1JZE--- REAPPEAP 6-WtAS, OWE A6A(&), isCRUr- ABLY4 CNUJUSC, A ' AND9 WWcLI iK) M6TE~'I0$ WAY5 CAF 6A§1, I tNATVU'_. REACE MOS OFAL- , J AFB, Cf4USSSANDt IURTH VIET- rI TO 8EA l-C t0O Oomsuo AK TPP UOUTH s'~ IS OK *1 Repeating Hi story Can Be Dangerous THE CHAIRMAN of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Wheeler, said on Sunday that the Ameri- can effort in Viet Nam is an at- tempt to establish a balance of power that will preserve peace. Gen. Wheeler argued, I think rightly, that among powerful na- tions there is no more effective way of keeping the peace than a intervention I have believed that our policy was unsound and inef- fective. This conviction comes not from personal expertness, but from a lon gfamiliarity with the clas- sic American strategic objection to fighting land wars on the As- ian continent. President Johnson is, as a mat- ter of fact, the first American Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN presence and wants us to leave. Viet Nam is a political quagmire. Any other place on the mainland, if used for land operations, will prove to be a quagmire. IN CARRYING out a policy of a balance of power, it has always been a prime consideration to nma to an understanding with IN VIEW of Secretary of State Dean Rusk's indefatigable love of historical analogies, in view of his belief that the war in Viet Nam is in principle the same war as that which came when Hitler was on the rampage, I venture to add a footnote. The fundamental mis- take which was made by Neville Chamberlain in 1938 was his fail- bal is tha eff is 1 mi noi ful irr c sun bal che of me fig lisp the is hov dip lance of power e P.esident who has discarded the TO ESTABLISH a balance ure to come to terms with the enemy of your enemy. When While it is by no means all that old strategic rule. Gen. Dwight against a great Asian country like Great Britain administered the Soviet Union as an ally aga necessary to peace, to know Eisenhower refused to violate it. China, the first consideration of balance of power in Europe it Hitler. at military power cannot be used Gen. Douglas MacArthur warned high strategy is to find and estab never lost sight of that considera- The appeasement which ectively and at a tolerable cost us against violating it. Gen. Mat- lish a firm and secure basis of tion. Always it made allies of the practiced at Munich, that is the mightiest of all checks upon thew Ridgway refused to approve American power. It seems to me other countries menaced by the sactisacrifice of Czechoslov litary aggression. For there is proposals to violate it. President aggressor government of the time. to Hitler, was the consequence thing so corrupting to a power- Kennedy, though he intervened find a secure base on the main- the fact that Chamberlain had nation as the feeling that it is considerably more than did his land. The base must be in the Britain never fought alone if ally in Eastern Europe. The t -esistible. Predecessors, still adhered to the nature of things take account of she could help it. For us, in the alyrasefteaaernEuoe.nthreu Gen. Wheeler was, we must as- rule that the war was not to be- the fact thatn theChinese have case of China, the firstunecessitygrocef the tappasemen rsui me, talking about establishing a come an American war on the As- no sea power and that we do have has been and is to cooperate with prejudices and scruples preve Lance of power which would ian mainland. great sea and air power. the Soviet Union which is China's him from building an alliance eck and restrain the expansion Those who have held to this From the point of view of se- great rival in the interior of the contain Hitler. Red China. He must have rule have always realized that as curity, Viet Nam, which is open Asian mainland. ant that the object of our a war on the mainland escalated, to the whole mass of Indochina But instead of doing that we SINCE IT IS for the mom hting in Viet Nam is to estab- the Asian forces opposed to us and China itself, is a particularly have been soft-headed enough to fashionable to talk in histor h a balance of power against would prove to be inexhaustible. badly located base for American appease our hawks and thus to analogies, it would be useful Chinese. Assuming that this We ought not to be surprised that power. make it impossible for the Soviet our objective, how sound and this is happening. For there are Moreover, a base for American Union to cooperate with us. No and we in 1965 each failed to c w effective is our strategic and more Asians in Asia than there power in Asia must be firm in the one who really knows what it to terms with the enemy of )lomatic policy in Asia? ever can be American, and this sense that it is not established in means to conduct a policy of bal- enemy elemental fact cannot be got rid the midst of a people which feels ance of power would act as we FROM THE BEGINNING of our of by firepower and bombing. oppressed by a massive American are acting. (c), 1966, The Washington Post C Full Sto-machs Sell Better Than Ideology. By PAT O'DONOHUE But the fact often overlooked ones out of step. The world does The belated effort is obviously labels, it wants food and a hig THINK it will work, I really by the PR men in the State De- not recognize the ideological due to a late start in involvement standard of living. Orientals patetIs ta h eto h not western minds coveredv think our foreign policy is go r ha e to e spheres of these two opposed coun- on the international stage. Until yellow skin, their history rest tikorfrinplcisg-world is also human enough to be ylo kn hi itr et g to work." interested in pragmatic realism tries, and the two dragons are not the Berlin blockade which inaug- a different cultural base, anda This exuberant opinion is ir- and self-preservation. effectively communicating with urated the Cold War, American result the values are slightlyi fevant to lih y Te quei And, the use of ideology, such the world of today. As Emmet isolationism ruled our gold coasts. ferent. not ere ly.ne Tof suess or as branding any adversary "Com- John Hughes wrote in a recent Diplomats the world over for the The common demoninator am not merely one of success ea munist," is not sufficient in the article, "whoever first lowers his most part remained American in men is man's human nature, lure but what that policy s.ace of our numerous Interven- voice will win the hearts and dress, habits, living conditions, and meniis man's humd nae, face of ur umerus ntdren-desire for a good life. On DESPITE inevitable administra- tions to gain a favorable judgment minds of men." most important of all, thinking, short-range scale he becomes rn changes, there are a few in- from the rest of the world. The Rationalization of U.S. policy was volved in ideological warfare; national guidelines which re- people of the world are not con- THE ANONYMOUS voice must done on a Western plane in an ultimate end remains food in o in long-term residents of Cap- cerned with the identity of the not only lower its tone, it must oriental land. Logic does not come stomach, children in the ho 1 Hill, themost obvious being tank trespassing upon their rice speak the language of the peo- across well under these circum- books upon the shelf, and kn e policy of containment. paddies; they merely want it re- ple. The Russians have long trainptstances. edge in his mind. This is the1 Conceived during the post-war moved so they can begin grow- ed their diplomats i the culture, ministration of Truman the ing food. religions, dress and language of FOR EFFECTIVE foreign poli- shoulde everyone understands the country they enter. The Unit- cy, the State Department must sold bexsoken more ten; y omntelteIRONIC as it may sound, the re- ed States is just beginning to do learn that the world is not inter- inr gt maining proponents of ideology this ested in "free" and "totalitarian" But for how long? r~buy WLLI . ±u~i ~4J~iouut the inst he to akia e of d no dis- lted ain's nted t to nent rical l to 1938 ome our Co. gher are with s on as a dif- ong his the in- the one's ome, owl- lan- ,, it the it. "1 ing rel can is fai tio ter ma itol the ad po. sur 1' A 4 ritory with a military apparatus. This is designed to "keep them where they belong." The United States goes beyond its borders to patrol those of the Communists. The chief product evolving from this process is the limited war, relatively speaking. In the age of prospective nuclear horrors a small scale World War I or II is a lim- ited war. The war in South Korea, and the present escalation in Viet Nam are efforts to maintain the status quo, the prevailing Western ori- entation of the dominant world order headed by the United States. It is reluctantly conceded that innocent bystanders, their countries and homes may become trampled in the process. HOWEVER, in an effort to dis- guise this injustice, the American government crusades in the name of anti-Communism. If it destroys a country in the process, that country shall be rebuilt in a dem- ocratic fashion and become the showplace of Southeast Asia. If the final result in Viet Nam is similar to that "achieved" in Korea-containment of "aggres- sive forces," the State Department will be pleased. The people re- ceive billions in aid ex post facto; the "mouse that roared" type of operation. These wars are accused of fol- lowing the guerrilla warfare tac- tics outlined by Mao Tse-tung. The Pentagon, despite the lesson of "Mein Kampf," at first dis- missed his writings as those of just another madman. With the amidst the current shouting are the residents of Peking and Wash- ington. Moscow is becoming a domestic city; Brezhnev and Kosygin are involved in improving the domes- tic situation of their country. The improvements ushered in by so- cialism have been accompanied by capitalist cravings for refrig- erators and private homes. To protect their achievements the Russians are actually in accord with the American desires to neu- tralize the moon. Russian diplo- mats sought to calm the Egyp- tian-Saudi Arabian dispute over Yemen. In the Suez crisis the United States and Russia jointly demanded removal of the English and French troops through the auspices of the UN. Indonesia, after milking Com- munist funds and support, threw them out in a purge which de- lighted the United States and drew anguished cries from Peking. The Indonesians didn't really care who was offended; the Commu- nists had just become a burden in the countries efforts to im- prove the lot of the people. For this same reason the dispute with Malaysia was finally called to a halt because it was supported with funds that could be better used to revitalize the domestic situa- tion. Singapore basked in Chinese patronage at its inception but found the ideological burden too heavy on the material road to a high standard of living; Commu- nist power is almost nil there now. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Thought vs. Feeling in Fi lms A To theEditor: ANDREW LUGG'S "A New Per- spective on Film Criticism" is such a hopeless botch that it can hardly be criticized. However, his critical mud-pie is so self-assured that it does not deserve to escape comment. For one thing, the article is full of errors, revealing a knowledge of films so defective as to pre- clude any attempt at establishing a "new" aesthetic theory. "A Patch of Blue" was not directed by "Coe" (does he mean Fred Coe?) but by Guy Green. Statements of "fact"-such as "the cinema as yet does not lend itself to sophisticated dialogue"- are simply incorrect. Ifuanything, the medium has frequently in- spired such dialogue, unless we are to consider Truffaut's script for "Jules and Jim," or Cocteau's for Robert Bresson's "Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne," or even the brittle repartee of "The Philadel- phia Story' dim-witted or unin- spired. DESPITE HIS many factual er- rors, I would like to be sympathet- ic to Mr. Lugg's desire to direct film criticism away from such sim- ple considerations as "artiness" or nC n~ni~ n~ ]t e ]] P] ..]] P true, there can be no film criti- cism. The same absurdity is evi- dent in his concluding observa- tion that a consistent and control- led "mood" (or mistakenly, mise- en-scene) can serve as some sort of index to a film's quality. The most pandering and pathetic of films, "The Singing Nun" for ex- ample, is at least as consistent in mood and tone as the finest film one can think of, yet is hardly worth our contempt, let alone an- alysis. APART FROM Mr. Lugg's me- anderings, the only thing neces- sary for the production of worth- while film criticism is a good film critic; intelligent, self-effacing, lu- cid, open-minded and in posses- sion of a thorough knowledge of the medium under consideration. Joel E. Siegel Appropriations To the Editor: YOUR FRONT PAGE story fore- casting no rise in "U" appro- priations, unjustly pinned much of the blame upon the proposed tuition grants (SB 780) to students attending non-profit private col- lncac - v, i nue caused by the slump in car sales. WE BELIEVE that the bill to help students attending non-prof- it private colleges deserves sup- port. -Peter Coughlin Legislative Relations Chmn. Michigan Federation of College Republicans The Lemmings To the Editor: "fAY FOR DECISION," newly -" released record pleading for patriotism, is said to be "Hot- test Thing on Records since Bea- tles." This response is frightening precisely because it reveals the effectiveness of the composition's marshalling of militant emotions. Mass hypnosis-mood making- depends upon the stimulus of a widespread emotional experience which thereupon blocks rational- ity at the very time when cool rea- son is most needed to avert cat- astrophic courses of action from being irrevocably set into motion. The AP report said that KFWB, Los Angeles, on the first day the record was played, received some 200 cnllsi al"favornlhi And fan- 4 I