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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1963 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW ORLIN
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY made a forward
step last week to clear out crammed
wheat storage bins. He announced that
the United States will sell about $300
million worth of surplus wheat to Com-
munist bloc countries.
This does not solve the basic farm prob-
lem of super-abundance nor does it alter
the concept of parity-high subsidized
market prices shelled out by the govern-
nent to farmers. It doesn't claim to do
this.
Hospitality
HE ARREST of two Chicago co-eds on
the steps of a Jackson, Miss., church,
and their subsequent sentence to a year
in jail for committing the crime of trying
to go to church is the most heinous ex-
ample thus far of the new brand of South-
ern hospitality. Julie Zaugg, who is white,
and Betty Ann Poole, who is Negro, may
well become the latest martyrs in the
fight against bigotry in the South.
According to Judge James Stencer, who
gave them the maximum possible sen-
tence for "trespassing and disturbing
public worship," they must have had a
complaint signed by an official of the
church Involved.But the pastor has de-
nied that he or any other spokesman for
that church has signed any such state-
ment.
PPARENTLY, the high official alluded
to was an-usher who stopped them at
the door before they were able to carry out
their evil plan, that of worshipping their
Lord. But this is neither here nor there.
There is no excuse for any body that calls
itself a religious institution to turn any-
one away.
Nor Is there any excuse for their being
thrown in jail on such flimsy charges as
"trespassing in church." If this sort of
tomfoolery is an example of the way jus-
tice is carried out in Jackson, Judge Sten-
cer should be disbarred forthwith.
IT IS UNNERVING to read of these girls'
grim future, which may involve a long
session on a penal work farm if their de-
fense progresses no further than releas-
ing them on bond.
What is even more unnerving is the ap-
parent lack of interest in the matter on
the part of the Justice Department, which
plans to sit around for a few weeks in
the guise of "determining the facts" when
it could order an immediate investigation.
IT IS NO SECRET that the state of reli-
gion in this country has degraded to an
abominable extent. This is especially true
whenever religion is connected with bias
against one group of people or another.
The Biblical, admonition to "love thy'
neighbor" is disregarded all the time,
pretty much as a matter-of course. When
this happens, the dignity of man is drag-
ged in the dust as well.
There is no point in setting up a reli-
gious front if prejudice and bias are as
deeply inherent as they obviously are in
many Southern churches. This latest act
on the part- of the good Southern Chris-
tians only serves to demonstrate what a
farce religion has become in that part of
the country. It should not go unpunished
any longer.
-STEVEN HALLER
Liquor
ALCOHOL is a wonderful solvent, both
fiscally and chemically speaking. Ear-
marking liquor taxes for higher education
would improve the financial state of the
University no end.
It puts the burden of financing higher
education back where it belongs-the stu-
dent-and it is a far less obvious and
painful way of increasing University in-
come: instead of a tuition increase, the
student pays more for his liquor.
-M. SATTINGER
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Editorial Staff
RONALD WILTON, Editor
DAVID MARCUS GERALD STORCH
Editorial Director City Editor
BARBARA LAZARUS.,.............Personnel Director
PHILIP SUTIN .............National Concerns Editor
GAIL EVANS............. .....Associate City Editor
MARJORIE BRAHMS ..... Associate Editorial Director
GLORIA BOWLES..........Magazine Editor
MALINDA BERRY...............Contributing Editor
DAVE GOOD........................... Sports Editor
MIKE BLOCK .................Associate Sports Editor
JIM BERGER ................Associate Sports Editor
BOB ZWINCK............Contributing Sports Editor
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It was done in the only manner possible
-by executive order-which will and has
brought criticism on Kennedy's head from
disgruntled farmers, Republicans, mem-
bers of Congress and West European al-
lies. Each of these groups, however, is
merely selfishly guarding its own inter-
est and not looking at the long run prob-
lem.
THROUGHOUT the last four administra-
tions, Congress has done nothing con-
structive to take the farm burden off the
federal government and has only begrudg-
ingly given surplus food away to needy
countries as part of the foreign aid pro-
gram.
.Congress, especially the House of Rep-
resentatives, has a rural bias and mem-
bers tend to guard their constituencies'
interests. Representatives usually com-
plain about the high costs of government,
but can't or won't think of new ways to
cut federal spending on agriculture.
CERTAIN FARM LEADERS have already
condemned Kennedy's action and de-
manded that a more representative body
decide the issue. Charles B. Schuman,
president of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, has glibly suggested that this
is a solution for Congress to decide, since
it "represents all the American people."
He represents a more conservative farm
opinion that, on the one hand, rails
against giant government and, on the oth-
er, accepts the money it offers. Congress
has failed for the past 20 years to accom-
plish anything concrete or original in
solving the farm problem although the
time was ripe for the President to cut
through this inaction and self-interest
and make a definite policy decision.
The Republicans are also going to use
this issue for political fodder in the 1964
presidential campaign. Their arguments,
however, will seem hollow and invalid
since secretaries of agriculture of both
parties have consistently failed to come
up with worthwhile solutions for the sur-
plus problem,. Each secretary is plagued
with large stockpiles of wheat, butter,
chickens and cotton which keep accumu-
lating and are dished up for school lunch-
es.
BASICALLY, the present subsidy situa-
tion, which adjusts for an imbalance in
supply and demand, raises the price level
for agricultural goods far above what they
would normally command at the market-
place. The federal government and the
urban taxpayer pay the price difference
to the farmer, keeping his earnings high,
allowing him to stay in agriculture and
keeping the ideal of the yeoman farmer
alive.
The subsidy program also forces Ameri-
can agricultural prices above the world
price, preventing easy sale of surpluses in
the world market. The wheat for Russia,
for example, will be sold at this world
price, some $.60 below the United States
subsidy price.
The farmer is still not bearing any bur-
den in the price difference since the gov-
ernment has an export subsidy which
will make up the difference. The sale will
only empty the bins, and the government
will wind up paying twice.
THE EISENHOWER-BENSON years only
worsened the farm problem. Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson's soil bank
plan was a failure and only helped to build
up the amount of wheat in storage. The
approach attempted to be original, but
fell on its face. Republicans and Demo-
crats have failed alike in this problem.
Nor can Republicans pull the "trading
with the enemy" talk that has so often
hampered past deals. Whether or not the
cold war thaw is temporary or permanent,
real or imagined, wheat is being given to
hungry people and not just ideological
enemies. The Soviet Union has a shortage
of food, and this wheat which is just rot-
ting in the United States will give bread
to these people.
FORMER WEST GERMAN Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer (who is still the pow-
er in West German politics) was quick to
condemn the wheat sale. Adenauer, like
the Republicans, draws political lines and
sees this wheat as going to the hated East
Germans. He would rather have people
starve for political reasons, before he
would help them as human beings.
It also wasn't very long ago that the
Common Market jacked up tariffs on
American poultry, cutting off much trade
between Western Europe and the United
States. The result is a glutted American
market with prices spiralling downward.
THE WHEAT BARGAIN will be handled
by individual, private grain dealers. It
does not represent a mass federal, sale or
killing of free enterprise. It will stop ex-
cess wheat from lying useless and give it
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Congress Endangers Nation
AT RACKHAM:
Japanese Music
Done. with Artistry
By WALTER LIPPMANN
THIS IS ONE of those moments
when there is reason to wonder
whether the congressional sys-
tem as it now operates is not a
grave danger to the Republic.
There are two great measures
before Congress, and in all proba-
bility Senator Goldwater was right
when he said the other day that
"the President has to make up his
mind whether he wants the civil
rights bill or a tax cut, because he
cannot get them both."
THIS SITUATION is a reflec-
tion on the Congress. For the
truth is that the two measures
are not competitive, but comple-
mentary. If the tax bill can do
what its advocates believe it can
do, that is to say stimulate busi-
ness and reduce unemployment,
it will reduce some of the pres-
sures which are making it so dif-
ficult for the leaders of the Negro
people to continue to be moderate,
non-violent, patient and reason-
able.
The civil rights bill promises
the Negroes the chance to vote,
better schooling and an end to
humiliation in public accommoda-
tions. But the tax bill promises the
Negroes jobs. They need them.
The rate of unemployment among
Negroes is a little more than twice
as great as among the whites.
The Negroes, therefore, have an
acute interest in a measure that
promises to overcome the slug-
gishness of the economy. Today,
for example, the Negro rate of un-
employment is over 11 per cent;
during 1951-53, when the economy
was booming, Negro unemploy-
ment was less than 5 per cent.
Anyone who is serious about
dealing with the Negroes' griev-
ances must, therefore, be dis-
SERMON IN REVIEW:
Protestant Preacher
Shirts the Bible
SUNDAY I HEARD a sermon typical of half the preaching of
Protestantism. It was at the Packard Road Baptist Church, which
meets in the basement of the YM-YWCA. The center of attention
was equally divided between two loci: a wall-clock unblinking except
for the slight pantomime of its inexorable sleight-of-hand ballet
and the two-piece pulpit, box lectern squat on round-table.
The pastor, Mr. Jesse Northweather, stood between them to deliver
his sermon. The one offered him the freedom to expound the Word of
God; the other left him the slave of time.
* *
THE SUBJECT was "Christ and His Answers to Hard Questions."
Mr. Northweather began with the visit that the Queen of Sheba made
to Solomon. We don't know what questions she asked the King; but
he answered all of them. Each of us has hard questions. Jesus is,
or has, their answer. The sermon considered four of these: What
kind of a being is God? What shall I do about my sins? What is the
supreme purpose for life? What is the future life?
By looking at Jesus. we see God. Jesus was loving but not "a
namby-pambly do-gooder." Jesus was "a bigot" because he required
of people a single "narrow-minded dogmatic way." Jesus was also
the person in the Bible who spoke most often about hellfire, wailing
and gnashing of teeth. Mr. Northweather said, "I like to read of
his love, but I cannot shun the other scriptures." "Both justice and
mercy met and kissed at the cross." God is many-sided; He is both
mercy and judgment.
* * *
WHAT SHALL we do about our sins? One group says,.deny them;
another, hide them; a third, blame them on others (as Eve did "that
poor old crawling snake," and as the Church, caught in stagnation,
does the World, and as America, perplexed by international crises,
does "the lousy Communists"); the fourth, confess them and accept
Jesus as our Savior from sin.
The future life is a going-home. Mr. Northweather celebrated
the pastoral winter twilight homecoming of a farmboy eager to stable
the team and enter the warmth and light of the house.
"Does he dread going into the house?" asked Mr. Northweather.
Jesus told us not to worry about life-after-death. Mr. Northweather
concluded with "Crossing the Bar" by Tennyson.
* * * *
THE SERMON was typical of half the preaching of Protestantism
because it was not biblical interpretation. Traditionally, Protestantism
has claimed the Bible as the source of authority for the Christian
life. But we departed no wiser about the Bible in general, about
a specific passage, or about the way to interpret scripture.
The preacher used the Bible merely as a gimmick-to start the
sermon, and as a source of "proof-texts"-scriptural sentences isolated
from their contexts and quoted to establish the arguments as true.
A LARGE, WELLBUILT MAN, Mr. Northweather stood, and spoke,
solidly. His voice had a far-corner and last-row reaching, all-purpose
loudness. Everybody heard him.
Except by adjusting its volume to quietness for two personal
anecdotes and the reading of a poem, he did not regulate his voice
to express modulation and movement of meaning. Exposition and
pathos and sarcasm all had the same set amplified quality.
He did not resort to gesture. The clock behind him semaphoring
time was more arm-waving than Mr. Northweather.
Nevertheless his sermon had energy, chiefly drawn from unflinch-
ing doctrine and variety of language. Bold discussion of judgment
and sin gave air-clearing vigor to his preaching. And he employed
a large vocabulary, combining archaic words, colloquial phrases, sub-
standard constructions, technical jargon, fragments of 19th century
oratory, and segments of contemporary straightforwardness, into
muscular talk, rich in range and delightful in leaps from level to level
of discourse.
tressed to find that he has to
choose between the tax bill and
the civil rights bill. A competent
Congress, which was equai to the
realities of our time, would see
that the two measures are closely
related and would act on them ac-
cordingly.
BUT THERE is something more
in all this than the lack of serious
and realistic understanding of
what is at stake. This Congress
has gone further than any other
within memory to replace debate
and decision by delay and stultifi-
cation.
The reason for this delay is that
there is a considerable body of
strong opinion in Congress and
in the country which is opposed
to any tax cut until spending is
cut down. Though I happen to
think that it is impossible to
balance the budget when the econ-
omy is running so much below
capacity, and that an attempt to
deflate now would produce a reces-
sion, the views of the opposition to
a tax cut are honorable and de-
serving of respect.
The issue, which is real, should
be debated for as long as it takes
to debate it thoroughly. But there
should be a roll call and a deci-
sion at the end of the debate.
This is a furtive and degenerate
form of the filibuster. In my view,
the open filibuster-that is to say,
protracted debate-can normally
be justfied and accepted as a way
of mitigating the absolutism of
numerical majorities. If I were
a senator, I would be very loathe
to vote for cloture. But I would
vote for it now, because the times
are not normal and a critical
emergency exists.
The national security requires,
I believe, the passage in the near
future of a civil rights bill which
constitutes a declaration by the
federal government that all the
remaining badges of slavery and
servitude are outlawed.
(c) 1963, The Washington Post Co
CAMPUS:
'Carry on'
Col1lapses
COMPLACENT Americans be-
ware, the British have issued a
sturdy challenge to our position
as the ruler of overdone situation
comedies. With the advent of the
two latest in the Carry On series,
"Get On With It" and "Carry On
Regardless," now showing at the
Campus Theatre, we can no longer
feel as secure as before. Others
are capable of repetitive, aimless,
slapsticl comedies quite as silly
and senseless, and possibly even
worse, than ours.
Able to stretch small segments
into long scenes with a single
joke, able to run old jokes into
an already trod ground, the Carry
On series is the English counter-
part to our Three Stooges films.
It is different only in being a
slight bit more tasteful, a wee bit
more bearable, and even occasion-
ally funny. It also has Kenneth
Conner.
* * *
AND THAT'S a world of dif-
ference in itself. The British seem
to have a stable full of stock
characters that they pick from
whenever they produce a comedy.
Over and over the same faces
appear. "Carry On Regardless"
runs like a Who's Who. But no
matter how eccentric, how clever,
they all stand lost in the shadow
of Kenneth Conner.
Conner is easily the funniest
character in British cinema. With
equal ease he is tragic and wildly
humorous, unquestionably deserv-
ing his title of the Cockney Chap-
lin.
T HE . RACKHAM .AUDIENCE
Sunday night had the privi-
lege of hearing and seeing the
great Japanese kotoist, Kimio Eto,
who also doubled on the samisen,
Tadao Nomura, playing the shaku-
hachi, and Suzushi Hanayagi, a
classical dancer.
The harp-like tone of the koto,
a long cithern related to the
Chinese ch'in, and the obvious
mastery of Mr. Eto overcame any
difficulties in appreciation the
audience might have felt when
faced with admusicconstructed
and oriented differently from our
own.
Japanese music is linear without
the harmonic structure of West-
ern music. Heterophony, or simul-
taneous variation of the same
melody, was the compositional
technique used when the ensemble
played together. All the numbers
were programmatic and many
were centered around a song, tech-
niques characteristic of Far East-
ern art music.
THREE distinct styles from the
the solo koto repertoire were rep-
resented: "Midare," dating from
the 17th century, the more highly
ornamented "Shiki No Nagame,"
written in the 19th century, and
the brilliant "Mizu No Hentai,"
by the great innovator, Michio
Miyagi.
The Miyagi composition and the
encore, an ancient folk song ar-
ranged by Mr. Eto, introduced new
techniques such as harmonics and
the use of a chordal background
for Japanese melodies. The clas-
sical musicians of Japan are. part
of an ancient yet still vital and
expanding tradition.
THE SHAKUHACHI, a vertical
bamboo flute, has an intentional
breathy quality achieved by fin-
gering with the underside of the
knuckles rather than the finger-
tips. The shakuhachi has a color-
ful history. The large instrument
common today was developed by
ex-samurai who became wander-
ing priests in the Edo period
(1600-1850). Without their swords,
they substituted an out-sized flute
of a defensive, or perhaps offen-
sive, weapon.
IN THE classical pieces, "Ku-
x'okami" and "Kanegame-Saki,"
the dancer Suzushi Hanayagi ex-
hibited the restraint, control and
understatement we associate with
the Japanese esthetic. By contrast,
the street dance, "Echigo Jishi,"
in which she so skillfully manipu-
lated her scarves, had the vigor
and enthusiasm of folk dances
throughout the world.
The audience showed itself very
receptive to this unusual and ex-
cellent concert, an evening of
Japanese chamber music.
--Judith Becker
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AT THE STATE:
DeSica's Altona
Not Sartre's 'Altona'
THE VITTORIO DeSica - Abby
Mann treatment of "The Con-
demned of Altona" is incredibly
incompetent. No one would call
Sartre's "Altona" a well-made
play. It is almost unplayably long;
structurally, it is diffuse. But it
is successful in creating the sense
of oppression that permeates the
mansion at Altona.
The situation is not unlike that
of "No Exit"-and DeSica has
made the same mistake as the
adaptors of that play for the
screen. The use of exteriors al-
most totally dissipates the domi-
nant mood of both plays.
It is clear enough that DeSica
was concerned with making "Con-
demned" cinematic. But it is his
mistake in assuming that the
medium demands that this vio-
lence be done to the important
dimension of mood in Sartre's
play.
* * *
ALSO DE SICA's camera is
clumsy. Someone should tell him
the close-up loses its meaning and
expressive force if it underlines
every bit of "significant" dialogue.
The most serious flaws, how-
ever, are in Mann's screen-play.
It amounts to an almost syste-
matic misinterpretation of Sartre.
In the play, the young Gerlach,
Franz, proclaims that everyone is
guilty. His father proclaims that
no one, except a group of leaders,
is guilty. Sartre is saying that
these two amount to much the
same thing.
Franz preaches his delusion of
a destroyed Germany. This vision
of national punishment is the only
justification he can find for his
butchery of two Russian prisoners
on the Russian front. His father,
however, is one of those most re-
sponsible for the resurrection of
the Federal Republic after the
war. This is as much of an eva-
sion as Franz's. Again Sartre is
saying that both collective guilt,
and what we might call collective
innocence, are much the same
myth.
1Mann has managed to undercut
Sartre's exposure of collective
guilt as a myth, and to obscure
his insistence that ethical terms
lose their force when applied on
more than the scale of individual
action. In the film, Franz's delu-
sion of a destroyed Germany is
shattered when he wanders out
of his room and walks the streets
of a prosperous Hamburg. He
wanders into a theatre and be-
gins to rant at the members of
the audience, "You are Hitler."
In the play he calls himself
Hitler. Abby Mann has him call
the Germans Hitler.
* * *
WHEN FRANZ does confront
his own responsibility in the film,
he is becoming more and more
mad. This is due at least in part
to a wretched performance by
Maximillan Schell. Throughout
the play, especially in the last
act, it is necessary to communi-
cate a furious lucidity. Schell is
only hysterical.
The recognition that was vital
for the end of the play is lost in
the film. The elder Gerlach has
taken Franz up on a lift to see
the Gerlach ship-building empire.
Franz pulls them both to their
death. For neither Gerlach is there
full recognition of individual guilt
and responsibility. A subtle ethical
dialectic is lost. Sartre's adaptors
have made a rather weak indict-
ment of Germany, and little else.
-David Zimmerman
LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
To the Editor:
SE A G R E E wholeheartedly
with Edward Herstein's edi-
torial, "SGC: A Useless Facade
That Should Be Abolished." Our
S t u de nt Government Council