THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Tuesdaoy September 19, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three .. _. arn.._ r _. .. f THEATRE COMPANY OF ANN ARBOR, INC. ANNOUNCES FRI., SEPT. 22 A UDIT IONS SUN., SEPT. 24 7-1030 P.M. A D T O S S 1-4 P.M.4 FOR PERMANENT COMPANY MEMBERS Prepare two audition selections of two minutes each-One serious selection, one humorous, one modern, one classical. A recent snapshot will be appreciated. 701 E. University East Quad Aud. FOR FURTHER INFO CALL-487-9496 Persons interested in costuming please contact company at these times Bobby Seale: From Panthers to politics Wheat wrangle turning into '72 LAST Lde4w ,' 2 DAYS ICAMPUS THEATR DIAL 8-6416 " . an inspired blend of fact and fantasy. It leaps backwards and forwards in space and time with utter abandon . . . from the grimness of a German P.O.W. camp in winter to the lush- ness of a geodesic dream house-complete with.pneumatic dream girl. 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(IP) - Bobby Seale, running for mayor of Oakland, says his Black Panth- ers are more of a threat to the established order with ballots in their hands than with guns., The same Seale who was bound and gagged in a Chicago courtroom and charged in New Haven, Conn., with a torture murder is talking to Rotary Clubs these days about how the Panthers are registering black voters, testing for sickle cell anemia and handing out bags of free groceries. "The party is more of a threat to the system with what we're doing now than it ever was be- fore," Seale says. Wearing a shirt and tie, the 35-year-old party chairman sat in the Panthers' office for an in- terview and peered out a second- -story window over the Oakland streets, where he and Huey P. Newton started the Black Panth- er party for self-defense six years ago. Seale's campaign for mayor signals the move from militancy and clashes with the police to a morecpoliticalpush within the system. He sees the party "re- turning to its original vision. 'We've put the party back on the right track . . . We look at the party in the past and rea- lize our mistakes." The average white person of the community has decent living conditions. We don't want their decent living conditions to stop. We want to increase the living conditions down here," he says. Black Panthers, including Seale's brother John, were elect- ed last month to 6 of 18 seats on a board that helps allocate $4.9 million a year in antipoverty funds. "This shows the party can pull out the voters," Seale says. "It shows people relate to us Ifighting within the system." Four other Panthers, including Ericka Huggins, Seale's code- fendant in Connecticut, have been elected to an antipoverty council in nearby Berkeley. Three Panthers are running for seats open on the Oakland City Council. Like Seale, they announced a year ahead for the election next April. One Panther goal is to register black voters in Oakland, an in- dustrial, city of 362,000-35 per cent black - where the poor live down on sprawling flatlands and the rich live up in surrounding hills. "I have to bring these people in contact with the bureaucra- cy," Seale says. "It's about time black people had some power and representation." Black Panthers working as county registrars have signed, up the majority of new voters in Oakland since June, the regis- -trar's office reports. Some 200 Panthers are county voter regis- trars. They man supermarket tables and go door to door eve- nings, signing up an average of 2,000 voters a week, Seale says. Another goal is the organiza- tion of a "political machine" for the first time In the black com- munity, Seale says. "The or- ganization of people behind a mayoral campaign, behind a person like myself, will give some kind of community organiz- ation that never existed before." Seale explains his idea *of a "machine" is handing out 22,000 bags of free groceries "with a fat chicken in every one," test- ing 15,000 people since March for sickle cell disease, training 200 black volunteers to give the tests and treating 200 to 300 people a week in the Panthers' free health clinic. The clinic in Berkeley and other activities are financed by revenue from the Panthers' weekly national paper, "The Black Panther," and contribu- tions. Atsfive "survival conferences" since March, the party has hand- ed out groceries, mainly donated by businessmen. Seale and New- ton spend much of their time speaking, writing and meeting with community groups and lead- ers. Dozens of Panthers are work- ings on his campaign. Others man the party business office. Panthers also run a free shoe fac- tory and a breakfast program for school children. Seale is the father of two sons. Although it claims 38 chapters nationally it is party policy never to disclose membership num- bers. The FBI estimates a na- tional total membership of al- most 1,000. Seale says his campaign will appear traditional, "butrit's go- ing to be a very different kind- of thing. People will see me in a tie, getting on the radio and TV. Posters? I'll have more posters than the law'll allow." His cam- paign may cost as much as $50,- 000 to $100,000, he says, depend- ing on what other candidates do. This contrasts with the man who four years ago appeared, at San Francisco State in the Panthers' black leather jacket and black beret uniform and said the only answer blacks had to Bobby Seale campaign issue LYN LARSEN at the BARTON PIPE ORGAN accompanying the 1926 Silent Film Classic "The Son of the Shiek" starring RUDOLPH VALENTINO plus SING-ALONG and POP-CONCERT' WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20 at 8 p.m. MICHIGAN THEATER E. Liberty at State ALL SEATS $3.00 Advance tickets on sale at the Theater what he called white brutaliza- tion was "guns and force." It is the same Bobby Seale who was bound to his chair in a Chicago courtroom, screaming for his constitutional rights through a gag. "I'm still yelling for my right," he says now. "I know what it means to be falsely charged. All this just makes me work harder now." Seale was accused with the Chicago 7 of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic Na- tional Convention. Seale's case was severed from the others aft- er Judge Julius J. Hoffman or- dered him bound and gagged in the colrt room. A mistrial was later declared and the govern- ment has not moved for a retrial. In New Haven, Seale and Mrs. Huggins were codefendants in a case growing out of the murder of another Panther. Seale spent almost two years in jail and went through two stormy mis- trials before the charges were dropped and he and Mrs. Hug- gins were freed in May, 1971. "We had this idea for running for office a long time ago. But we had a lot of people who did- n't exactly relate to breakfast programs such as Eldridge Clea- ver. He wanted to call breakfast for children programs 'sissy stuff.' I don't think feeding peo- ple is sissy stuff." "Then the press would print what some lying politician would say, 'Those guys are going to' come up in the white community and shoot up white people.' It never was the case, never was." "Now you don't see our guns. But we still have a concept of the right to have guns in our homes by the Second Amend- ment and if they shoot at us we're going to shoot back, see?" The party has been split since r~l , _ _ _ _ _ --71 fugitive in Algeria. "I don't think the party has time to apologize for its mis- takes, because everybody goes through growing pains," Seale says. "Huey Newton and I were put in prison and the party got off the track. Eldridge Cleaver influenced the party, cussing out preachers, not wanting to work in the church. Well, every Sun- day morning, 40 per cent of the black nation is sitting in church." Seale says he hope white vot- ers will support him: "At least their tax money, hopefully, will get to something constructive. I mean a lot of people, even if they'r° racists, they . worry, about w-v aren't those problems sol-ed? You know, why aren't those problems of blacks down there solved?" As a carpenter's son, Seale says his "pet project" as mayor would be organizing 3,000 to 4,000 black youth to work sum- mers with carpenters to upgrade housing in black areas. "You hear about the youth in 1965 burninq down the community, eh? Well if you get 3,000 or 4,000 of them working like this, would they burn down their own cre- ations? No." The present mayor, John Read- ing, says he has not decided whe- ther to seek a third term but is confident Seale "will not win any substantial number of votes." So far, no one but Seale has announced for the mayor's job, a part-time, policy-making post that pays $7,500 a year. Oakland government is run by the city manager's office. "I think he can win hands down," says Charles Garry, the Panthers' white lawyer. "The party is registering- men and women who have never voted in their lives . . What they're saying is that black people should take over their own insti- tutions." Dial 662-6264 3TiiATEi At State and Liberty OPEN 12:45 SHOWS AT 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 YOU III"d k biyyk1'+f" o let bac k h moE~ ...h ona bnd nsc m METROC R - PfAAMSCN*4MO WASHINGTON (U) - The McGovern-Butz wrangle over wheat dealings with the Soviet Union and alleged footsie playing between the Agriqulture Department and the private grain trade has turned into the most heated farm event in this election year. Four years ago, when Richard Nixon and Hubert Hum- phrey were running, the Republicans were decrying low farm prices, farm debt, the exodus of farmers to town and rising costs of production. Orville Freeman, then secretary of agriculture, accused Nixon of "artful deception" in not making his farm views clear. "It is unconscionable," Freeman ;> t'* -" : f. said on Oct. 11, 1968, "to ask farm- ers to vote for leadership for the nex't four years on the basis of which candidate has the widest smile and the brightest shoe { shine."' Today while the old standard is- sues of rural bread and butter are still raised, the huge sales of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union are standing high on the' rhetorical : scale for Republican and Demo- 5 crats alike. Sen. George McGovern, Demo craticecongressional inquisitors.- and others raise questions whe- Se. Mc~overn ther Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and aides have fully dis- closed details about the Soviet grai sale and the roles of USDA among private export companies. Suggestions by McGovern that . secret deals were made and the information purposely leaked to some trading companies have been denied by Butz as "bald-faced lies" and attempts by the Democrats to scuttle the Soviet deals. Butz denies emphatically that the McGovern charges will lessen \Tixon's chances among farmers in November. lHe said they wouldn't "because this Russian grain sale was a tre- mendous thing for the American farmer, the American maritime unions. We estimate that for every million tons of grain sold we create between 3,000 and 5,000 additional jobs." That adds up to between 25,000 I and 30,000 more jobs for an en- tire year, Butz said.Se Bu "You're not going to make the farmers very mad by getting an The Michigan Daily, edited and man- additional 50 cents for their wheat. aged by students at the University of You're not going to make the Mcia.Nw hn:An Scn class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- American taxpayer very mad by igan 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, reducing the cost of the set-aside Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- program by $200 million a year." day through Sundaymorning Univer- The other. pegs in a knobby list' sity year. Subscription rates: $i0O by carrier (campus area); $11l ocal mail of charges and countercharges in- (in Mich. or Ohio); $13 non-loca1 mail clude the failure of wheat growers (other states and foreign). in early harvest areas of the Summer Session published Tuesday through Saturday morning. 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Modern Looing Ending Tues., Sept. 19th SHOWS AT 1 :30-3:20-5:10-7:05-9 P.M "In spite of what a grouchy, self-consciously iconoclastic An- drew Sarris may write in the Arts section of the Sunday Times I feel Woody Allen is the funniest guy in movies today, and I doubt that I'm in the minority. So naturally I had expected Play It Again Sam to be the funniest movie so far this year. And. naturally, it is." By RICHARD .LA T'ZER THRU THE ll l r mm" I I 1111 We are showing a lot of Ingmar Bergman's films this term. Here is your chance to see (or review) the film which made this directorworld famous. TUES. WED. THE SEVENTH SEAL MADE IN 1957 THUR.: AMERICAN I Anthropology Undergraduate Association MASS MEETING 9:00 p.m.-September 19 Ugi Multipurpose Room -To annmv acnstituiition "Hire him. He's got great legs." If women thought this way about men they would be awfully silly. 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