FEIFFER Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS _ ere Opinions Are Free 4 Truth Will Prevail 420 MAYNARD $T., ANN ARBOR, MICH. NEws PHONE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the inidividual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1966 NIGHT EDITOR: CAROLE KAPLAN The President and the Strike: Shirking Responsibility flAY .FOR AL- Tffc" BUS AY WIAB THP. UATF FgIrAY5 OP 4G~ TRe* MKC4- PACK A RUCr-, eA5K6T ADDl2LWC6 MUI3G, PLAQI&6 SOME of Th* STAL71Ubr' his pP06- LATU MVR'~ - M0'i(WMAZ$ A PASS 'Ar LWXMLAYS 1E] Ct pfpz P«6 IN)O THE CAR. Mt? OFF WU C-0 ToO tM OH6,0 GPOCERIF, AW~L °TAKE WA - MOVLS~ fr0 5 W EPAY OFF 50]r PUTR ARC(0Q D 10 TH6 6t1 X.l~M IRHE f1Tce&w il)veA)T NUW LO AME5 T1O.KXV THE CWlb- 9R. BRSY, ANNc HAW SQO 0' M AP10000& CXKTAIL$. IT IS TOUCHING that President John- son has shown concern over the air strike.' But, standing in the shadow of the union bear, he wants anything but legis- lation which would force him to shoulder the responsibility of creating a cooling- down period. Fearful that Congress would dump the problem in his lap, so to speak, he was forced to take some sort of stand on the issue. Therefore, he asked the Senate, through Senator Everett Dirksen, to pass legislation giving themselves the power to halt the strike. B#T THE SENATE wants no part of it either, and suggests that since sena- torial elections are coming up, perhaps the President would be in a better posi- tion to act. Maybe the Senate could work out a compromise: the third of the senators coming up for re-election could vote against the measure along with the sena- tors from the industrialized states of New York, Michigan, etc., while the rest could vote for it. The probable outcome is that Congress and the President will share the brunt of the labor wrath by jointly calling for a temporary end to the strike. The Senate will take action on a bill Thursday calling on Congress to initiate an end to the strike while President Johnson would have the power to extend the period after one month. BUT WHAT NO ONE seems to care about, except perhaps Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach (whose concern is that the Supreme Court might object- not the freedom of the striking workers), is that perhaps an order to end the strike is not within the realm of federal power. The excuse given by Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon for the action is that the strike "has disrupted essential transpor- tation" in interstate commerce. Concern is not growing in non-labor circles, as it should, that the classifica- tion of "essential" industries is growing to encompass too wide a range of industry. What is rapidly occurring is that the duo of the President and Congress can almost control the economy of the United States by executive order. Yesterday Inland Steel Corporation of Chicago raised its prices on 30 per cent of its output two to three dollarsa ton, a raise of about two per cent in the price of that portion of production. Immediate- ly the Council of Economic Advisors re- sponded by promising to "study" the sit- uation. Presumably the administration will not act unless the larger steel cor- porations follow suit, but it is poised and ready to strike. AGAIN IT IS TOUCHING to know that the President is truly concerned over inflation. But it would be comforting to know that he is concerned also about ris- ing labor wages (which contribute to l4igher prices), as well as the prices them- selves. As for the airline strike, perhaps Presi- dent Johnson could solve the whole messy problem, i.e., satisfy all concerned, by showing a little false righteous indigna- tion and saying that the air strike was none of his business. But, then, he wouldn't be in the posi- tion to control price increases, would he? The situation caused by increased fed- eral power would not be half as bad if the administration would explain why it must exercise federal authority through anti-inflationary measures to preserve our economy. Either the administration must tell the nation that it must crack its shell of apathy-put the country's demo- cratic ideals before its citizens' crude ma- terial desires-or the country must suc- cumb to a socialism designed to satisfy the voters petty needs while keeping the na- tion economically healthy but doing noth- ing about the sickness of its apathetic people. -MICHAEL DOVER Tradition for A Purpose TO THOSE who may have discerned: Members of The Daily's staff have been asked in the last couple weeks why this paper has not printed "one stick of type" on either the nurse slayings in Chicago or the more recent University of Texas killings. With such interest in the kill- ings, so the argument tends to run, how can any newspaper ignore them? The immediate answer is that The Daily has a tradition of not printing sensation- al stories which have little meaning, that is, which will have little effect on the world of its readers. The basic answer is that we feel this is one of the few Daily traditions which is kept for reasons, other than habit. IT'S EASY for a newspaper or a wire- service, which really has little choice in such a matter, to pander to low com- mon denominators. It is profitable; thus it is often imperative, because if you don't "get it," the competition will. The press is thus often caught in its own whirlpool of increasing irrelevance. What gets missed in the shuffle are those things that are difficult both to write and read about. Yet it is precisely those things which people must know if they are to participate in the business of running their society. The role of a conscientious newspaper ought thus to be to emphasize issue- oriented news and to de-emphasize more sensational events which will, so the ar- gument goes, surely be played to the hilt anyway by media more concerned with budgets than with the quality of the serv- ices with which they provide their readers. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN the rationale for The Daily's reaction to pointless slaughter, whether on campus or off. As we reflect on it while it is under criti- cism it seems to us that though this paper certainly has faults,, this rationale is not among them. -CHARLOTTE A. WOLTER -LEONARD PRATT Co-Editors AH LOT O COM PA 1I) BPUT NTH GO'K AT r(''y - IQ1 PP yzivU 7W B5 AP1 7aY$ OU1, OFr V) Tow PIW HAm V NOME. l es Not Fighting EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer observed basic training on spe- cial assignment for the Detroit Free Press. This is the last of a three-part series. By NEAL H. BRUSS CAMP McCOY, WIS.-The story of a rustic army camp is the story of many men individually lockstepping in ancient maneuvers modified by current needs. Bill Roehrig is supposedly a welding required annual two-week camp session at Camp McCoy, where new reservists are getting a short term in the training he spent six months learning years ago. Specialist Roehrig has been driving trucks and buses for two weeks. At home, he lives on Detroit's snug Harbor Island, where he keeps a moderate-sized yacht be- hind his house on the causway. He is a plant manager for the Stroh Manufacturing Co. Roehrig is more concerned about racial problems around De- troit than the war in Viet Nam. But he'd like to see a peaceful solution to both problems. ROEHRIG ENLISTED in the reserve in order to "save two years of his life and fulfill his obliga- tion to his country." Many reservists at Camp McCoy are concerned with saving valuable time and fulfilling obligations. They pride themselves more on their civilian work-many are top achievers, communal leaders - than on their military stint. They have been given a dubious assurance that they will not be sent to Viet Nam. If the Communists begin war on another front, we'll probably be mobilized," Roehrig says. "We are a reserve in that we can be mobilized during an un- expected crisis or a serious devel- opment in existing crises." DAN SCENGA, 19, is going through his two-week training without much experience from his home base. He is a graduate of De La Salle High School, a paro- chial school for Detroit-area stu- dent. "I was one complaining fool when I got here," Dan says. "I didn't do anything right, and I ,reall-y didn't care. Now I am much more serious about this reserve business." Dan was bused to Camp McCoy with his buddies. The trip was delayed by a mechanical failure, and Dan & co., sacked out one night on a tennis court in Janes- ville, Wis. A bunkmate, John Elling, of Grosse Pointe Woods, -gracefully shifts around in an obstacle course. John is an executive trainee for the J. L. Hudson Co. in Detroit. "The obstacle course is lots easier than it looks. This train- ing is showing me how many muscles I have that I've never known about, though " TOM MARTIN, of Saginaw, "t- tends Delta College, enlisted in the reserve one year ago, but hasn't been channeled into six-month basic training. "If this isn't basic training, I don't know what is," he cautions. "It was either the draft or this," he explains. "This way, I can keep my job, go to school, live at home, and fulfill my obligation." Tom celebrated his 20th birth- day at Camp McCoy. He says that he "thinks about home a lot." "There were a lot of long dis- tance phone calls up here a while ago. It seems that a lot of guys putting in their two weeks basic training are getting their orders for the six month program. "To go straight into the six- month stretch from here is too damn much," he says. Dick Johnson, a graduate of Detroit Henry Ford ,High School, is spending his two weeks of sum- mer duty in an ambulance parked near a rifle range, waiting to min- ister to casualties. "To be honest," Dick says, "these are two slow weeks." BRIG. GEN. HATSEL L. Harris, a retired Indianapolis business- man, is commanding general of the entire training program and backup operations. "I'm amazed at their interest in the army and their eagerness to learn. "They've got their heart and soul into their work. We get them up real early, work them to late at night. They listen to us at- tentively. We can't wear them out. "In the two weeks we have them here, they all have developed tre- mendously so far. The first days they were here, I thought none of them could go through basic training in two weeks." THE RECRUITS are called REPs, Reserve Enlisted Personnel. Federal law created the reserve as an alternative to regular army service, and federal law says that businesses must give employees leave without penalty for reserve activity. REPs are paid $3 a day, get meals and any medical and dental care they need in connection with reserve activities. Dubbed "weekend warriors," they are responsible for a six- month basic training program, two- weeks of summer camp a year, and 48 hours of annual drill at their home bases. They cannot be individually called to active duty. They are mobilized with their hometown company in time of national need. Major corporations like the three major automobile producers make up the difference in a re- servist's civilian and army pay- check. THE REP'S BOSSES are usually men with war experience in the World War II and/or the Korean War. Many were prisoners of war at some time in their lives. They have been assigned to train reservists either in their regular army activities or as part of their two-week annual summer duty. If the teachers are reservists, they prepared for Camp McCoy by meeting in home town units and preparing courses of study. Units from Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana prepare and conduct specialized courses for all the re- servists in training at the camp: A bayonette course was prepared by men from Kokomo, Ind., an observation course taught by men from Detroit. This type of pro- gram gives Camp McCoy a state fair atmosphere. THE TEACHERS are not down on their students for enlisting in the reserve rather than the regu- lar army. "Congress has given them an alternative to the draft," one commander says. "We give them credit for taking it." No one at Camp McCoy eagerly states an opinion on the Viet Nam War. The commanders are hesi- tant to voice an opinion that might be regarded as an official pronouncement. The recruits do not trust information they are given by the press. But the reservists will admit that they do not want to be sent to the vicious Viet war. They talk of past reservists called up to bolster American installations in Berlin, but they do not -like to foresee their own conflict in Viet Nam. The' commanders are free in flailing protestors. They use stock terms: "degenerates, bearded per- verts, queers." They do not use the term "Communists." The REPs are not as free with criticism. BUT IN THE vaccuum of Camp McCoy, far from home and its chrome and neon embellishment, the rugged harried, training is re- moved from any imminent war or protest. In the shingle and masonite barracks there is time for polish- ing boots and cleaning rifles. There is no time to discuss the meaning of the obligation to the country or what that obligation could be. The soldiers in the el vehdrab at all hours, are like somber heroic rangers from a dark epic. The teachers are passing on traditional skills with a fatherly obligation to the RE~s that re- sults in a demand for excellence. On daytime marches across the striking Wisconsin verdure, or at night, silhouetted against a star- spangled sky, they are striders breaking the silence only with war cries and military march chants. IF IT WERE for any longer, perhaps it would be another story. But the making of reserve sol- diers at Camp McCoy is only a two-week operation. j ' Annapolis: The Quiet Be fore the Storm By DAVID KNOKE Water Pollution: Yes, It Can Happen Here WATER POLLUTION in Michigan? Try the Huron River near the automo- tive plant on I-94. Or the Detroit River near Zug Island. Or get up in your Cessna and fly up the Lake Michigan coastlines. You can see where the Michigan shore bleeds an opaque red effluvium into the blue lake. [N WASHINGTON, one congressman from the Water (-Winter) Wonderland is trying to get the dirty water decontamin- ated. Rep. John D. Dingell has two bills in Congress that would increase federal wa- ter clean-up expenditures and establish penalties for major water polluters. Dingell is talking about "a nationwide federal expenditure of a billion dollars a and the federal government paying the rest. DINGELL WOULD ALSO like to encour- age cities and their major industries to team up to build water and sewage treatment plants. He'd give the secretary of the interior power to set up intra- state programs and establish a federal permit system to govern discharge of wastes into navigable waters. Dingell is trying to speed action on cur- rent programs and encourage new plan- ning. The bills, H.R. 13104 and 13162, are in the House Committee on Public Works. Several of their provisions could have dangerous effects on long-range marine planning. And, of course, provisions that would give powers neglected by slow-mov- ino lnr ,v',vv,ma irntq to f1 r.1r n1 hor - ANNAPOLIS, Md.-The Naval Academy puts on lovely decor for summer. The sand-colored cob- blestone walks, the broadleaf giant oaks streaked with sunlight, the model frigates in glass cases, the ancient marble statues and the guns algaed by time: the campus is quiet for the midshipmen all except the freshmen are away on summer maneuvers. The innocence of the grounds and buildings, basking in the sum- mer sun like the rest of this sleepy town on the Chesapeake, belie what goes on behind them nine months of the year. The morning stillness is broken drill. When they have graduated by the voices of the freshmen at after four years of highly techni- cal training, they will be promot- ed upward through the ranks until they may be in a position to direct any and all such naval actionsas the United States may face in 1990. A PLAQUE in front of the li- brary proclaims the Academy's founding by President James Polk in 1845. Over a century has passed since Polk decreed the academy's found- ing, and the arts of naval war, like its other aspects, have chang- ed immensely. The republic has been to war seven times and the academy has fulfilled its function of preparing the nation's young men to lead its navies. The academy is only a small Academy?" Presuming that a can- didate for a second lieutenant's stripe would look past the political implications of such an affront, he might stop to consider the vast number of controls over his life, his actions, conduct, education and perhaps his thought that the academy exerts. Yet the young initiatee who may have qualms can rest assured that there is one formula to the sailor's life which saves him from think- ing too deeply about what he is doing. Even if he is an officer, the code of obedience, which has been drilled into him over the years since he first learned to salute his superiors, places ultimate respon- sibility for what he does beyond his concern. THE POTENTIAL officer today studies a welter of subjects-bal- listics, navigation, electronics - which were unknown or have al- tered considerably since President Polk's time. And those people withinthe defensestructure of the nation whose decisions will decide how the officer and :bis ship are deployed, are using tech- niques-cybernization, computer- ization and cost effectiveness - that are changing the nature of war even as the student middie struggles to keep up with yester- day's developments. There is an air of gruesomeness, a calculating and unfriendly clicking of computers, that drains the modern war of the pomp and glory that might have attracted young men to the, academy in Polk's time. The complexity and a weapon in the international power struggle. Instead a barely flexible military policy stand against communism has been in- stitutionalized in the place of political expertese. The Secretary of State bungles, believes his own truisms about the Enemy, and fails to see that brandishing an ultimate weapon like The Bomb is of no avail against a Bomb-less country with a more po*erful weapon-world opinion-at its use. The dangers inherent in the technique of cost-efficiency and game theory analysis of conflict situations is that they tend to ignore the basic premises of war and peace. Undoubtedly, the mili- tary and diplomatic leaders of every country know more about the problems of war and peace than academicians who study them in abstract. But when the military leaders advocate more spending for mili- tary research and implementation, they show that their approach has been onesided. "There will always be war. There always has been," they will explain, "and there will be war. We must remain strong." YET, AS THE UNESCO pre- amble reminds us, peace, also, is fashioned in the minds of men. And, as Sydney J. Harris wrote recently, "Every country has a department of defense. No nation has a department of peace." The world's budget for armaments is $120 billion a year; direct spend- ing into the causes and resolutions of conflicts in insignificant. Against the militarist's histori- cal inevitability, it is useless to cite statistics, for the fact that no peace depending on armed de- terrents has lasted two generations and has not lead to the abandon- ment of such tactics in favor of other alternatives, PERHAPS IN the fall, when the upperclassmen return to the aca- demy and shatter the' campus' quiet with their jocular voices, one or two of them may think silently to himself about whether he is truly defending his country 'or if his energies could be more fruit- fully employed elsewhere. Perhaps he might think. himself clever to see through the Pentagonese new-speak in which "defense" is a euphemism for "war." Yet even if he gets so far, to save his belief in the image his role gives him, he may conclude that he is doing the right thing. After all, a tradition that stretches unbroken from 1845 can- not be completely invalid. Schutze's Corner:'Off-Color SAT SIPPING coffee in a res- taurant last night and listened to the conversation at the table next door. One man looked up guardedly to watch a Negro walk in and sit down at the counter. "Think he has it?" the man whispered carefully to his friend. "Who, that colored guy?" the friend asked. "Think he has what?" "Shhh," the first warned. "Do you think he has . . . black pow- back to the counter. "Well, I don't like Ita bit, do you?" "Like I say, Fred, it's a real nice night out." "No, I. mean it. Black power. People might be able to stomach it if they called it brown persua- sion or something. But there's just something pretty darned insolent about calling it black power." "Grey force?" Fred's -friend of- fered weakly, "Too spooky," Fred decided. "The whole business is gust offen- of it in an abstract sense. You really don't seem to care very much about civil rights ."Fred rose and slapped his dime down on the table. "But I'll say this," he huffed. "I'm not about to take this abuse sitting down. I'm sick and tired of hearing about black power all day, and I'm sick of being called whitey every time I stop for gas. I'm going to think up a good and mean ugly word to use on them and see how they like it for a change." .