~Ig my£td$!an ?iaitg Seventy-Fifth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNNVERSITY OF MICHIGA UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUELICATIONS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Union Allocation Isn't Repaid WAR T hird AP2 k 54nious Are Fre 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MIcH. Will Prevail NEWs PIONE: 764-0552 rials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. EPTEMBER 25, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN KENNY America'sWar Spirito Pre mpting asic P rities UNITED STATES is now able-and ill continue to be able-to "ensure lestruction of both the Soviet Union Communist China, under the worst inable circumstances accompanying outbreak of war," according to De- e Secretary McNamara. gically, it seems, that would end the er. Unless we want to be able to de- the rest of the world as well, there's much more the defense establish- t can do. Having reached the pen- Hate utopia, it might take a deep pre-set all those missiles to go off ie event of attack, and just disap- ter all the defense workers had been ated, there would suddenly appear xtra $47 billion in the federal cof- and an unimaginably massive weap- industry without work and ready put to better purposes. .d as soon as Russia (and probably ce) had reached the same super- rful point, the whole nuclear cold business might suddenly lose much childish glitter. P REAL WORLD rarely operates ac- rding to one's peculiar logic, how- And so the game most likely will n. Basic needs will continue to be ;changed, and tensions will continue ount. tics of Soviet and Chinese so-called tarianism often charge that Rus- feeds a constant war threat to keep eople dedicated to the state. While conomic system staggers along, de- ng everyone of freedoms and com- attention is diverted by the ex- t, "enemy." No one minds very much having decent food, clothing and er, or having few avenues for poli- expression. ose critics would do well to reflect ist how eager the United States has to make more than verbal forays rd peace, on just how much our my depends on the defense indus- n just how frantically the govern- attempts to convince its constit- that it is fighting a noble war reedom. against an insidious inter- nal plot. |Y MIGHT WELL conclude that this ,tion is just as determined as its used enemies to obscure its basic bural dysfunctions in a patriotic loud. They might find that the gov- ent-once having started along the Mling road to a growing military es- hment-now cannot ignore certain y vested interests and pursue ra- I policies. is hard to believe that grown men not, by this time, have reached rea- >1e solutions to the world power gle. There has been an amazing 3y of sincere efforts to reverse the race through arms control or dis- rnent. This sluggishness cannot be uted to a lack of viable, intelligent atives, for thinking men have been igating, recommending and de- ing alternatives for as long as the t of nuclear explosion has been ng over the cold war.- re have been only laggard efforts ny at all-to settle differences in ions less imminently nuclear. Our policies in Viet Nam are a prime exam- ple. We seem to be imposing a war there -and all the deprivation of civil liber- ties which accompanies war-on people who are unenthusiastic and bewildered by the whole affair. And in pursuing that war, we have consistently ignored the challenge of negotiating a viable and ra- tional settlement. AT TH;E SAME TIME, we have shown a shocking disinterest in opening mean- ingful channels of communication with other nations. We pompously cold-should- er Cuba, refuse even to recognize China and East Germany, open only the small- est trickle of trade with Russia while trying to seduce her satellites, support dictators in many nations and deal high- handedly with the many underdeveloped nations which depend heavily on our aid. These actions illustrate just how sin- cerely we want world understanding. But even more frightening than the specific policies pursued are the social attitudes which generate and need those policies. More frightening because the strength of those attitudes bodes ill for the re-ordering of priorities that is so essential. LISTENING TO SEN. Goldwater, one hears the manifestation of a perva- sive, blinding fear that America's precious vital fluids will be dried up into vile- smelling clay unless our shores are con- stantly and imposingly impenetrable. Moreover, that fear Is not limited to Goldwater and the numerous reaction- ary groups; in a less vocal form, it un- derlies the emotions of an indeterminate- ly large majority of the population. Like so many fears, this fear of weak- ness in the face of the Communist men- ace sustains itself because it is actually soothing to those whom it grips. By re- ducing reality to a finite set of absolute goods and absolute evils, it does away with both the ability and the need to per- ceive what is really troubling the na- tion. Without fear, the mass of non- thinkers in America would be lost in the unnerving sea of society's fundamental contradictions. Out .of men's fear grows the defense establishment, and from the combination of these two grows our tremendous un- willingness to dismantle that estabish- ment. Taking simply the relation of the defense budget to the Gross National Product-without considering the endless multiplying effect of the money spent by the defense industries-a good 10 per cent of our production and employment is devoted to military purposes. The calamities experienced whenever even one defense plant relocates indicate, in minia- ture, the critical role of war in our econ- omy. IF THIS NATION sincerely wanted it, there is no reason why the adjust- ment to a true peacetime economy could not be made. There is certainly no lack of viable methods, and there is certainly no lack of other things to do. Yet to stop building nuclear arms is to de- stroy the necessary physical manifesta- tion of the war spirit. Eventually it might become impossible to ignore the folly of avoiding peace, when the arms race had ended with its inevitable whimper. Even- tually we might have to relinquish our comfortable fears. After the Second World War, it took America one year to dismantle a mili- tary structure over twice as large as the present one. But then the nation wanted peace. Now it would take-as one con- servative estimate goes-at least three years. Plus a radical psychological up- heaval. People would have to think about the implications which automation has for unemployment, inequalities in income and the basic organization of the econo- my. They would have to face the crucial futures of civil rights and education. They would have to take a hard look at poverty in America. They would have to consider the future of our cities. THESE PROBLEMS manifest basic par- adoxes between American ideals and realities. We cannot continue- to place them second to a trumped-up need for military superiority and to deal with To the Editor: FOR FIVE SEMESTERS now, the University has been sur- reptitiously allocating a portion of my tuition toward the support of the Michigan Union. I don't mind. It wouldn't make much difference if I did. And besides, every time I consider the benefits that accrue from my semi-annual enforced dues payment, my senses reel. I am allowed to -walk up the front steps -buy magazines at the front desk -spend my money at the MUG, dining room, pool tables, and bowling alley. -cash checks (a privilege grant- ed to persons male or female, stu- dent or faculty) -look up out-of-town phone umbers in the Union phone books. * * * WHY SOMETIMES I walk up to the desk and buy a Bun Bar just to prove to myself that I- little old 9567202-can get one Just by. putting down my dime. Sometimesuthe employes are even civil. This morning I gathered up my courage to ask if I could reserve a room for my parent s on the evening of 'October 16, so that they could end their prolonged absence from their eldest son. "The Union is the place to do it," I said to myself. "After all, it is the organization for providing facilities for Michigan men. It says so right on their match books!" I was, however, politely but firmly informed that all rooms at the Union are held for alumni on football weekends, whether or not they have asked for reservations yet. If I would come in four days before my parents are to arrive, on the off chance that there were any rooms left, the Union would deign to rent me one. NOW IT SEEMS to me that the Union's prime responsibility is toward the men attending the University now. I have been in- formed, in effect, that I cannot reserve a room there until May, 1966, at which time my need for such a room will be minimal. It is possible the Union's policy in this respect is the result of financial support from its Life Members. Let the Union be in- formed that this policy at least quartered any monetary return the Union might ever have expect- ed from me. If the Union expects me to3 sup- port it,maybe it should get around to supporting me. -Richard J. Weiland, '66 Featherbedding To the Editor: SHOULD the University ever be so concerned with its budget that an austerity campaign is deemed necessary, I am suggest- ing that the Plant Department be closely examined as a possible stronghold of featherbedding and waste. For a one hour and fifteen min- ute period yesterday afternoon, I observed one unusually brawny looking employee do absolutely nothing on University time. He did nothing for ten minutes in front of Mason Hall, nothing for twenty-five minutes behind the hedge in front of the General Library, nothing for the eight minutes it took him to walk from the library to the University Museum, nothing for the five min- utes that he stood there smoking a cigar, nothing for the six min- utes it took, him to walk to a small white building in back of North Hall, and nothing for the thriteen minutes during which he spoke to one of his constituents in front of the building. * * * FINALLY, the two men entered a door marked "Rogues," and emerged eight minutes later in street clothes (at 3:48), readyk to "call it a day" which most likely was scheduled until 4 o'clock. At $4.50 per hour, a little simple arithmetic will yield substantial figures over a yearly interval, cal- culated at one and a quarter hours wasted per day per man, which is, I think, a conservative estimate. -John Varriano, '65 AFECIGGE To the Editor: THISLETTER is in response to Mr. Bremer's letter explaining AFECIGGE. I do this on the pre- mise that it is a serious organiza- tion, fully intending its avowed policy of obtaining Canadian citi- zenship should Sen. Goldwater be elected. This is what Mr. Bremer would have us believe, although many people, I'm sure, find it hard to swallow. AFECIGGE epitomizes a state of affairs for which Democrats have been falsely railing against Republicans for years. That is campaigning against ideas rather than for concepts. AFECIGGE is a genuine example of such a situa- tion. How can people who would so readily renounce their U.S. citizen- ship be called loyal Americans? It would seem that their loyalty is to whatever country can offer them the best deal. In subscribing to the principles, its members are, in effect, declaring that they are poor losers and that they have -no confidence in our system of gov- ernment, a system that has func- tioned without destroying the United States or the world for some 185 plus years. * * * TO BELIEVE that the election of one man would spell disaster is pure folly. Just another evidence of the ir- rationality of AFFECIGGE is the belief that merely moving a few miles to Canada would alleviate all .the supposed hardships of American life. What reason is there to believe that if the United States waas tin the throes of eco- nomic and political disaster, life would be better anywhere else? I do not support Goldwater or Johnson at this moment, but I'm not contemplating any drastic change of life, should either be- come President. --William R. Ader, 166E THE ASSOCIATION of Producing Artists inaugurated its third Ann Arbor season last night with the American premiere of Piscator's "War and Peace." APA brilliantly realized this dramatic conception of Tolstoy's novel in what may be its finest production here. The play itself succeeds in being what few would have thought possible-a remarkably true dramatic version of the novel. Piscator has unerringly distilled the essence of "War and Peace": its scope, its characters and its philosophical point of view. Some scenes expand (Natasha's introduction to the Old Prince); some contract (the opera scene and the abduction scene); some scenes are realistic, some expressionistic (the death of Andre). Pis- cator eliminates many of the minor characters, as well as Helene, wife of Pierre. Yet the essential remains. For instance, the quests of Pierre and Andre, frequently intersecting, remain the axis of the play. UNFORTUNATELY, the character of Natasha (Rosemary Harris) does not completely survive the transposition from novel to play. This occurs probably because two scenes fundamental to her charac- ter development are missing from the play: the ball scene (barely Be gins with Tc 41 Rockwell To the Editor: ONCE AGAIN I must commend the Michigan Union's Special Projects Committee for its inten- tions, but not for its actions. Nazism undoubtedly is outside the memory of most of the Univer- sity's students, but George Lincoln Rockwell is not the proper person to inform these students about ,it. He does not truly represent Nation al Socialism, but has only borrowed its name for his own brand of racism, hatred, and toy-soldier fanaticism. It would be far better to invite a reputable historian or political scientist for the Union's purpose than to provide a forum for Rock- well's hate-mongering. --Michael S. Nash, '68 - DatlY-=Jal Pierre observes Andre at war TODAY AND TOMORROW: GCA ContradictoryDream Illogical HAMLET- Tryt New Techntique, 'At the Michigan Theatre J OHN GEILGUD'S production of "Hamlet" completed a two-day run at the Michigan Theatre yes- tera'y, as part of a nationwide ex- periment called "Electronovision." Outstanding acting and the honest simplicity of the presentation af- forded the audience an exciting evening of Shakespeare. Richard Burton plays a Hamlet of vigorous manhood, a Hamlet disillusioned with life, yet with an urgent desire to live. The range of Burton's voice makes the pas- sionate soliloquies intense arid gripping and the philosophical lines direct and meaningful. In voice,tin gesture, in facial expres- sion, Burton establishesnhimself as the dominant figure on the stage. In therole of Polonius, Hume Cronyn gives Burton the most notable support. His consistent in- terpretation keeps Polonius a pre- tentious old man and never allows him to appear wise. Eileen Herlie is an appropriately sensual mother for Hamletg.but Alfred Drake (Claudius) commits an error of emphasis. The inten- sity of his acting in the praying scene highlights an otherwise lackluster performance, n g gr vi n g Claudius rather more of our sym- pathy than he properly should have. THE HONEST simplicity of the production consists in the rela- tively bare stage, the plain dress, and the straightforward filming of the play. ;Initially disturbing, the lack of costume soon seems an asset to the production, pro- viding the least possible distrac-. tion from the speeches of the actors. The bare stage has a sim- l By WALTER LIPPMANN QEN. BARRY GOLDWATER has been telling the country that the President has become too pow- erful and that this very powerful President has been much too weak to win the cold war and stamp out crimes of violence in our city streets. The senator has based his cam- paign on the thesis that the powers of the Presidency must be reduced and that then a smaller and weaker President can and should do away with the most troublesome problems at home and abroad.. This central contradiction is the hallmark of Goldwaterism. The senator finds it easy to believe that a smaller, shruken, much less costly government can overawe the Communist nations jointly and severally, can command the West- ern Alliance and can put Latin America in order. In Barry Gold- water's mind, a cheaper govern- ment could act more strongly, a weaker government could see that the cities are successfully policed. * * * HOW, ONE MUST ASK, can we run the world and yet pay less? The fact, to be sure, is that to do what Senator Goldwater wants to have done demands a much more powerful government than we have today. Why does he think it doesn't? The plain truth, I submit, is that he is a dreamer, that when Barry Goldwater talks' about public af- fairs he lives in a world of fan- tasy. He dreams that all things are possible. For it is only in the world of dreams that weaker Pres- idents can do gigantic things, that great results can be achieved at little cost. This unworldliness is a part of his personal attractiveness. In his world everything becomes possible when you have said that it should happen. There is no clash between the theories and the facts. The hard realities do not really exist. It was this boy who has never grown up fully who said the other day that when he was President he would install his. ham radio set in the White House and would then be able to talk to a number of heads of state. ** * THIS UNWORLDLY divorce from reality is not always charm- ing. Many dreams can be quite cruel, and when Senator Gold- water talks about the poor he can be very cruel. He has been making much of our common worries about the increase of crime. And ex- ploiting this worry for political purposes, he has been claiming that he, Barry Goldwater, can stop the crime which Lyndon Johnson is, so says Goldwater, promoting. How is President Johnson pro- take from anyone who has more than they?" This must be about the first time in 200 years that any public man has argued that charity cor- rupts the characters of the poor. IT IS ,NOT ONLY charity that is corrupting the poor. The search for justice is also corrupting the poor. The Goldwater theory about civil rights for Negroes is that by enacting laws about these rights the Negroes have been incited to demand these rights. According to one of his leading supporters, per- haps the most distinguished in- tellectual in the Goldwater camp, Prof. Milton Friedman of Chicago University, the civil rights act "has -directed Negro resentment against whites." Thus, it is not the grievances that incite the Negroes; it is the effort to redress the grievances. The campaign has been under way for about two weeks, and it begins to look as If the real issue to be decided is not whether this or that policy or this or that piece of legislation is sound, but whether Barry Goldwater is fit to be Presi- dent in the hard. world of reality.' On Tour 4 V N ENGLISH PROFESSOR has recent- come out against the use of alpha- il order in systemization, claiming ng other things) that alplabetical is illogical. He needn't worry. If ess continues at the rate it's going we'll all be arranged numerically in ot-too-distant future. -S. HALLER ti.t. suggested) and the hunt scene. In some respects, however, the play improves upon the novel. The whole unconvining treatment of Karataev and his revelations to Pierre has fortunately been stricken from the play. Tolstoy's philos- ophy, often expressed in tiresome digressions, which impede the flow of action and character, is absorbed in the play accurately and without residue. Advance publicity threatened that Piscator had revised Tolstoy's novel to express a contemporary message. Fortunately, this amounts to only a few introductory and terminal remarks by the Narrator, who appeals for an end to war. * * * * ELLIS RABB has meshed a variety of staging techniques and styles into a dynamic synthesis. For instance, Andre's wounding at Austerlitz, a pivotal scene in the novel, received stunning visual treat- ment by means of a tilted screen, which emphasized Andre's focus on the sky. This screen, when Napoleon appeared behind it, conveyed the haze through which the wounded man saw Napoleon. The retention of the tilted screen in the subsequent contrasting scene of Doloxov's cruel remarks about Andre lent a visual accusation to that voiced by Pierre. The battles were handled in several ways: exposition by the Narrator or messenger reports. The Battle of Borodino, played much like a game of chess by Pierre and the Narrator, was well conceived but lacked the visual clarity important to its success. Other scenes, by means of effective diction, a few soldiers and flags, good sound effects, evoked Whole battlefields with amazing success. The technique of showing a huge map of Europe against the stage wall could have been utilized more effectively and for longer durations. * * * * THE NARRATOR of the play (Clayton Corzatte), like the narrative voice of the novel, supplied exposition, assumed small roles or sardonically commented on the proceedings. The comments of the Narrator, who appears in modern dress, made the multiple transitions less abrupt and coordinated the many pieces of the play. APA never reached such a uniformly high level of acting in its previous productions. In particular, Ronald Bishop gave a masterful portrayal of Pierre; Sydney Walker played the Old Prince superbly. -By Richard R. Sheldon .* -. 3 - , K . /,' . ' °f ... ., e i "p , .. A, NEIL BER~iSON. Editnr WINTER g Editor EDWARD IMRTEIN Fditorial Director I . \ 7IL ZP-. 2MAN ................ Personnel Director =INGER ...- Associate Managing Editor Y .......... Assistant Managing Editor EATTIE......Associate Editorial Director D ........Assistant Aditorial Director in Charge of the Magazine RD '.....................Sports Editor Nn - -- .. Ag..aate n mtsn WAitn - " 1 40, 44 L A A -A av". 41WAAW "I TAM A WON" Emn '