Seye.ty-Fift Year EnrrD AN MANACEI BY STuDNrs oF mT UNIVERSITY OF MICHGAwM UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT P-C - IONS Where OpinionsArere,420 MAYNARD T$., ANN AIBO., MICH. Truth Will Prevail NEWs PHONE: 764-5352 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily ex press the individual opinions of staf f writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL SATTINGER Goldwater: Not Courage But Fear and Distrust . 4a .' . 1, ,. ' " ' ,r .. THE VOICE of Barry Goldwater echoes throughout the country as he boldly calls for individualism, freedom and states rights, the great American ideals. But the intense cries for "losing our num- bers and getting back our names" are not those of an'independent leader re- viving worn out ideals. Instead, they are those of a man dominated by a fear and distrust which masquerade in an ultra- nationalism. It is a fear and distrust that lead to wild statements and to conven- iently oversimplified solutions for the complex problems of today. This fear is best exemplified by Gold- water's military program. To defend his almost Orwellian transformed freedom, he claims we must expand our nuclear stockpile, we must use space for mili- tary purposes, and we should permit military commanders to use "convention- al nuclear weapons at their own discre- tion." This, of course, is to stave off the risk of Russia gaining some military ad- vantage and catching us unawares. WHATTHE COST of nuclear build-up is exorbitant doesn't seem to phase the budget-minded senator who con- demns federal spending for medicare, for schools and for poverty programs. That his country already has such a capacity to exterminate human life that the word "overkill" has been incorporated into our vocabulary, is blithely ignored. That "conventional (nuclear) warheads" have a destructive capacity equal to the Hiro- shima bomb and that escalation is an ever-present threat pass unnoticed. The justification Mr. Goldwater of- fers is the defense of freedom. Appeal- ing to patriotism, he claims we should be willing to defend our own country and the freedom of our allies. But Mr. Gold- water is equating courage with a will- ingness to fight, like in the good old days. We are no longer dealing with min- utemen and their rifles. We are deal- ing with a destructive capacity so great that its use would probably devastate civ- ilization and end forever the possibili- ties of freedom. SUCH A POLICY of militarily striking back, of referring to conciliation, ne- gotiation and discussion as "soft" or "weak" or antithetical to the real idea of freedom. Freedom implies diversity of thought. It implies that no man can claim knowledge of the ultimate truth and impose it upon others. That Gold- water should find "co-existence impossi- ble" and victory the only answer is in- dicative of an absolutism and an intol- erance violently contradictory to the principle he holds as fundamental. How could Goldwater claim he is for peace when his advocations are so nar- row and so militant? How can any intel- ligent, thinking American support a man who believes not only that Red China should not be recognized, but that the U.S. made a grave error in recognizing Russia in 1933, and who tosses off the Sino-Soviet split as a hoax, claiming "they're all Commies?" How can a leader of the free world be a man who lumps together complex problems with conven- ient, highly connotative phrases? And this is the man who claims he wants freedom and individualism! AS A MATTER OF FACT, Goldwater is not preserving the integrity of the individual. How medicare programs or so- cial security or welfare or educational aid are destroying individualism is left unexplained by the senator. In recalling the frontier image, he is ignoring Fred- erick Jackson Turner's classic statement that the frontier closed in 1890. He blat- antly ignores the New Frontier facing us today, the frontier that automation and mass society have produced. Horatio Alger died at the turn of the century and the social scientists of today have done extensive study of the socio-economic- psychological conditions working on the modern man. Nonetheless, Goldwater pipes up with comment like: if a man has enough initiative, he can find ajob. It is not that individual thought or creativity are suppressed. It is not that H. NEIL BERKSON, Edit'r' diversity of ideas is lacking today. The loss of our individuality is simply owing to the fact that the federal government has made certain limited moves to in- sure the material well-being of Ameri- cans. Apparently Mr. Goldwater's idea of individualism is simply that of a man maintaining total economic self-suffi- ciency. AND SOMEHOW our federal govern- ment has been transformed from a group of popularly elected representatives legislating for this country to a thieving, conniving monster that is stealthily snatching our freedom. Why Goldwater so distrusts this machine of which he is a part, why he so disparages its use to solve common national problems, is something else left simply to broad, over- simplified cliches. Mr. Goldwater seems anxious to pre- serve individualism and freedom only if they happen to coincide with his own notions. His strong support for the House Committee on Un-American Activities hardly indicates a man who believes in the freedom of a multiplicity of ideas. His desire to outlaw leftist groups and his continual use of black and white tabs in phrases like un-American and Commu- nist to refer to ideas he doesn't like are not the tactics of an open-minded, intel- ligent governmental leader who firmly believes diversity is the primary means for progress. GOLDWATER, not only by his intoler- ance of disagreement, but also by his unwillingness to protect human rights, contradicts his cry for individualism. Nowhere is it more evident than in the civil rights legislation. Goldwater voted against the civil rights bill apparently because he felt it was unconstitutional to place human rights before property rights. He does not believe in legislation designed to protect an unfairly perse- cuted minority. This is protecting the in- dividual? This is permitting freedom? And Mr. Goldwater's latest classic statement was that federal courts should not disregard evidence gathered illegal- ly. He claims wire tapping and illegal search and seizure should be permitted. He objects to court logic which is a way "to say that a criminal defendant must be given a sporting chance to go free even though nobody doubts in the slight- est that he is guilty." How "everyone" could be so certain of one man's guilt even though it was necessary to use il- legally obtained evidence is left unan- swered by the senator. How the individ- ual is protected when wire tapping and unwarranted search and seizure are per- mitted has not been elaborated upon as yet. But this self-righteous attitude in regard to a defendant, the dehumaniza- tion of the individual to the position merely of criminal, has been a character- istic of Goldwater's child-like black and white approach to problems. GOLDWATER IS NOT the answer to the problems of today. His anti-intel- lectualism, his oversimplifications, his intolerance will not bring a sense of identity to the masses who are products of an automated society. What is needed today is not a virtual return to the state of nature where conflict is solved by ignoring or wiping it out. What we do need is an intelligent, sophisticated and a tolerant policy aimed at resolving con- flict.. -ROBERTA POLLACK The Regents FOR A FEW MINUTES yesterday, the Regents abandoned the pompous emp- tiness which usually characterizes their public meetings in favor of some mean- ingful dialogue. The spark was Regent Carl Brablec. The Regents were being asked to accept a scholarship earmarked for Negroes, and he asked if in doing so they would not be violating their own non-discrimi- nation policies. There ensued an intelli- gent and reasonable debate on educa- tion's aspect of what is a difficult ethi-+ cal dilemma: is discrimination in favor of a minority group an evil in the same sense that discrimination against a mi-. nority is? TODAY AND TOMORROW: The Dirksen Rider and The U.S. Constitution s. f 7 . "OL' BARRY ?RoBAB LY Gob A$RouNID LAVINb .. iaso .i- C + NI £Is6Hf& SoN.# LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Student Employment at the t'U' To the Editor: IN A RECENT ISSUE, readers of The Daily were made aware of the student employment situation in the dormitories, where there are jobs for 1250 students and only 900 students actually employed. I am sure that I was not the only one who found this fact sur- prising and disturbing as well. I had assumed, from my own job- hunting experience, that the first employment possibility on most students' list would be the Uni- versity itself. This somehow in- volved the assumption that the University would be an intelligent, enlightened, 20th century employ- er, aware and concerned about the welfare of student employes (or at least more so than any other employer). THIS ASSUMPTION was ob- viously naive. While student em- ployes aren't working in sweat- shops by any means, they are underpaid (most work for about $1 an hour before taxes) and have practically none of the benefits which are enjoyed by non-student employes. The fact that this situation is coming to a head is evident in the present situation of under- employment in the dormitories. Students simply aren't finding it worth their while to work for the University. They are turning to jobs in the community instead (only to find that many Ann Arbor employers take the Univer- sity pay scale as a standard for their own). IT APPEARS to me that the University, in regard to student employment, has forgotten its re- sponsibility to the students while regarding them merely as a source of cheap labor. Most students work while attending. school to partially or wholly support themselves. This is a motive which the University, as a university should endorse and encourage and, as an employer, should respect. -Linda Rosenwein, '65 Germ Warfare To the Editor: THE COMMUNISTS say t h e United States used germ war- fare in Korea and is using it in South Viet Nam. Nonsense, we reply; America would never stoop to such immoral tactics. But don't be too sure. The Pentagon is considering germ-war- fare weapons as a deterent to Communist China. This informa- tion is found in a Sept. 17 news analysis by John G. Norris of the Washington Post. Norris writes: "W h a t then might deter Mao Tse-tung? Many planners feel that the threat of mass biological or chemical attack on China's crops - which would destroy the Communist control over the vast nation-might well be a credible deterrent." He admits in the next para- graph: "Any suggestion of germ warfare immediately raises hack- les-and rightly so-but it is no soon to be sent to the Pacific) warheads could not carry chem- ical or biological agents rather than nuclear explosives. This fact, with its infinite implications, could be a more credible deterrent to Peking than the H-bomb." Such is the amoral thinking of military planning and the near- ness of its fulfillment unless checked by some political decision. Theoretically, the United States is fighting the Cold War to uphold democratic, humanistic principles as well as maintain its narrow national interest. Most Americans would be disinterested in the Cold War if it were being waged only on the latter grounds. GERM WARFARE, with its in- cideous agents poisoning all life, runs counter to the American tradition. However, because to- day's major enemy appears to be Communist China and these weapons will not bring total world destruction, the United States is likely to use such weapons in a conventional war with China un- less a political decision blocks their use now. Hopefully, the United States has been waging the Cold War for more than mere self interest, but for the maintainence of demo- cratic values around the world. The use of germ warfare-even as a deterrent weapon - would give American ideals a very hol- low ring. -Philip Sutin, Grad More About Housing To the Editor: I MUST ADMIT that The Daily of Friday, September 18, pro- vided an interesting contrast in good and bad journalism. On the. front page was a fair and un- biased account of a "debate" be- tween Miss Karen Kenah and members of Frost and Blagdon Houses on the subject of honors housing. On the editorial page was another misdirected editorial finding fault with honors housing. Since my opinion is intrinsically biased by my decision to be in honors housing, I will not attempt to debate the "issues" as such, but will simply try to point out some of the fallacies present in the editorial stands thus far taken. FIRST, both editorials were written by persons who have had no personal experience with the Honors Housing Program on this Campus, namely living in either Frost or Blagdon. One ditorial went so .far as to criticize fresh- men for writing letters defending their position as honors housing residents because they didn't have "experience with any other type." May I be permitted to point out that this is the exact same posi- tion that the editorial writers are in? Secondly, both editorials assume that there is an "image" automa- tically associated with honors housing. I would like to take ex- ception with this, also. What and where is it? I know that when I elected for honors housing, I had I would like to know what these are so that I may take advantage of them. So would everyone else I know. Finally, I would like to point out the contradiction present in the two editorials. The first declared that honors housing was bad be- cause it narrowed the individual's education. The second proposes putting students in the same pro- gram in the same house! How much more "narrowing" could be accomplished? I WOULD LIKE to propose that some impartial study group, per- haps under the auspices of SGC or some other similiar organiza- tion, be set up to gather the true facts about honors housing, rather than allow these blatant general- izations, conjectured from hear- say-type evidence to be pictured as the true story of honors hous- ing. The situation is, at present, somewhat analagous to an editorial written on the dangers of food poisoning based on the reports of residents subjected to dormitory food.. -Charles Ballard,'68 AFECICWGE To the Editor: IN RESPONSE to an increasing number of inquiries I should like to make known to the cam- pus at large a few facts about the. newest campus organization, AF- ECIGGE (af-a-siggy). The Amer- icans for Emigration to Canada If Goldwater Gets Elected grew out of the spontaneous fear of many students that life in the United States, in the event of Sen. Goldwater's election to the Presi- dency, would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." It is this fear which drives us to or- ganize and preparekeeping in mind the time honored lesson of history that one must be always on guard against the calamities which mankind is heir to. We are not a subversive organ- ization as some of our critics will undoubtedly charge; our loyalty to the United States is beyond question. Indeed, it is out of our love for the United States that we do what we do. We are a bi- partisan group cutting across ali racial and religious lines united by a common fear. We are not a pro-Johnson group but rather an anti-Goldwater group. I. .. s WHILE WE ARE active here at Michigan we will endeavor to supply the student body and all other interested persons with in- formation about Canada's educa- tional and employment opportuni- ties, transportation facilities, hous- ing accommodations, naturaliza- tion and emigration laws as well as a general briefing on the cus- toms, laws, and traditions of Can- ada. In short, it is our intention to acquaint interested persons with the facts about emigration to Canada as an alternative to liv- ing in the United States should Sen. Goldwater become President. In conclusion I should like to By WALTER LIPPMANN THE COMMOTION which has been stirred up by the Supreme Court's decisions in the state ap- portionment cases is inconvenient. The Dirksen rider has, for ex- ample, muddled up the foreign aid bill and delayed the adjournment of Congress. Morevover,in the case of the Tuck amendment which passed the House, though not the Senate, the attack on the court is subversive of our constitutional system. Yet the changes in American public life that reapportionment will bring about are so deep and so broad that it is well, I think, that the country is compelled to take a serious look at the whole affair. Very great things are at stake, and it would be a bad sign if those of us who favor reapportionment were not made to debate the plan and justify our case. THIS IS now assured, whether in the end the Dirksen rider is adopted or there is substituted for it the amendment-just barely de- feated on Tuesday-proposed by Senators Jacob Javits, Eugene Mc- Carthy and Hubert Humphrey. There is already clearly in sight a broad agreement on cretain es- sential propositions. There is a, very big majority in the Senate against the extremism of the Tuck amendment, which would forbid the federal judiciary to deal with apportionment at all. There is broad agreement that while re- apportionment is necessary and inevitable it should not be treated as a crash program. There ought to be a broad agree- ment, so it seems to me, that this momentous change in our public life should have behind it not only the federal courts, but also a sanc- tion from Congress. MY OWN VIEW has been that the Dirksen rider could be read as favoring these broad agree- ments and that the best thing to do with it was to accept it as a breather in the complicated pro- cess of bringing about reappor- tionment. But there has, however, been a strong objection to it from those who know the need for re- apportionment and have been told by Sen. Everett Dirksen that his objective is to halt altogether the application of the Supreme Court's ruling. This is the ruling that every voter must count equally in both houses of a state legislature. Lawyers tell me that.the Dirk- sen amendment was itself a com- promise and that there is a dif- ference between what Senator Dirksen would like to do and what his rider says must happen. My own view is that we could live with the two-year delay which the rider calls for and that it is not likely that a constitutional amend- ment reversing the court could be steamrollered through in two years. THOSE OF US who want reap- portionment should not, I think, shrink from the challenge to de- bate the problem all over the country. We ought to be able to win that debate, and if we do, reapportionment will have behind it a mighty sanction and a mighty impetus. I am also told, however, that the Dirksen amendment is no longer what it was when it was first proposed. It has now acquired legislative history, and the courts will be bound to interpret the rider in the light of what has been said about it in the Senate. For that reason, a resolution like that which was barely defeated on Tuesday is desirable. It would pro- vide time to carry out this diffi- cultbchange, but it would leave no doubt that the Congress favored reapportionment. * * * THERE WILL REMAIN, of course, the belief of many that the dissent of Mr. Justice Harlan was right and that apportionment in the states is no business of the federal government. The issue here is a difficult and delicate one. For it brings us to a problem, which must arise in a country governed by a constitution. This is the prob- lem of how to find a legal redress of grievances for which in es- tablished precedent there is no remedy. The stark fact is that in a great many state legislatures at least one of the houses is grossly, unjustly, indeed outrageously, mal- apportioned. In many of the states, despite their own state consti- tutions, the entrenched minorities refuse to reform themselves. * * * A SOUND and vital constitu- tional system is boud to find a legal remedy for such a funda- mental wrong. This does not mean that the Supreme Court can or should set itself up to provide a legal remedy for. eery wrong. But for this specific wrong of malap- portioned legislatures that will not reapportion themselves, the court has found a remedy which goes beyond the establshed precedents, but is not contrary to accepted principles. This is, to be sure, a view of the Constitution which is safe only for the mature. It is a strong medicine which must be very cau- tiously dispensed. (e) 1964, The Washington Post C' TWO WOMEN: A bsorbin At the Cinema Guild A FINE PERFORMANCE by Sophie Loren, skillful directing and competent technical assist- ance make Vittorio De Sica's Two Women" an absorbing film. Based upon a novel by Alberto Moravia, the film depicts the unsettled con- ditions in Italy at the time of the Allied invasion inWorld War II. De Sica deserves.-praise for his recognition and useof Miss Loren's talents in this film. He often uses her facial expression alone to convey the meaning of a scene. At the end of the movie, for example, Miss Loren's face carries a heavy acknowledgement of suffering. But she also express- es an honest happiness at the real- ization of the hope, however compromised, that remains in her life. Miss Loren's facial expression also .makes the seduction scene with Raf Vallone a success. As Vallone locks up his store, the room grows darker. It becomes dark enough to be sinful but light enough to reveal Miss Loren's face. Her strained expression portrays the struggle between her respon- sibilities and her desires, * * * DE SICA ACHIEVES his most powerful effect in the rape scene, with the aid of a skilled camera crew. An overhead, panoramic view shows the two women (Miss Loren and her daughter, Eleanora Brown) being chased through the cathedral by two groups of sol- diers, as if they were animals be- ing hunted in a primitive ritual. The next shot is from the floor level, where the inability of the two women to help each other be- comes apparent. The camera then focuses on the faces of the vic- tims, showing the inhuman vio- lence of the soldiers. A shot of the rapists' eager faces adds to the shocking effect of the scene. A straightforward plot with well-chosen incidents directs our attention to the horrors of war- time Italy. Most important is the lack of human concern for others, apparent in the Italians, the Afri- cans and the Americans, as well as in the Germans. The film dis- plays the general lack, of moral principle in a war-time society, as in the senseless machine-gun- ning of the harmless old man rid- ing his bicycle. Using incidents provided by the course of the war, De Sica pre- sents a bold, hard, inhuman s-o ciety. He uses the history of the two women to make these condi- tions meaningful to us as indi- viduals. Thanks to Miss toren's performance, which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962, the movie provides two hours of vivid involvement in a horrible world. -Lee Carl Bromberg "Mind if I Watch While You Draw?" .. _ , I