I Ws Sreian a4 Eighty-two years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Daylight savings time: pros and cons yard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1972 Vote yes on C and D N THE BALLOT Tuesday will be two tax proposals. If both are approved, the state's tax structure will be radically improved. Proposal C would limit use of the property tax for school support; Pro- posal D would remove the constitutional ban against graduated income tax. Michigan's school districts would each receive a more equitable share of funds than they now get if Proposal C passes. Currently schools are financed through local property taxes. Districts with high- ly taxable property bases can raise far more funds than other districts. In 1971, the assessed value of real es- tate in school districts in the state rang- ed from $2,230 to a $66,951 per school child in each district. Proposal C would theoretically equalize that enormous gap. This would be a positive step toward equalizing educational opportunity in the state's elementary and secondary schools. However, several aspects of the pro- posal demand close scrutiny. As the pro- posal reads, there is no provision to grant tax relief to renters. If approved, Pro- posal C would lower property taxes for landlords, but they would not be specific- ally required to pass the reduction on to their tenants. FURTHER, the proposal does not sug- gest any appropriate means to re- place the lost property tax revenues- which amount to over $1 billion. The State Legislature might impose a sales tax or increase the flat rate income tax to replace lost funds which would not be much better than what we have now. For these reasons, Proposal C will only offer realizable gains if Proposal D is also approved. If voters do, however, approve Pro- posal D, the Legislature would be given the option of imposing a graduated in- come tax, one of the fairest ways of rais- ing revenue. Because those who earn more are taxed more under a graduated schedule lower and middle income work- ers are relieved of an unfair tax burden. Moreover, a steeply graduated income tax is effective in redistributing wealth, now controlled by a very small segment of our society. Unfortunately, Proposal D does not force the Legislature to enact a gradu- ated income tax. Moreover, Gov. William Millikin does not support a graduated measure. Also, if the Legislature does enact a graduated tax, it is not bound to follow a steeply graduated taxation schedule. A graduated income tax which is not steep could be virtually as regres- sive as the current flat rate tax. ONE ADDED PLUS in Proposal D is its removal of the ban on graduate in- come taxes at the city level. This would allow Ann Arbor to pass a municipal graduated income tax, previously banned by the state constitution. Despite the shortcomings of Proposals C and D, it is important that they both be approved by the electorate. If C is ap- proved, but D is not, undoubtedly the flat rate tax will be increased, making that tax ever more regressive. Obviously, a broad -restructuring of the state's tax system is necessary for an equitable redistribution of wealth. Pro- posals C and D cannot in and of them- selves effect this necessary change, but they are a first step in that direction. To allow low and middle income work- ing people tax relief and to force those with high incomes to assume their right- ful share of the tax burden, we urge you to vote YES on Proposal C and Proposal '. This editorial represents the majority opinion of The Daily's editorial staff. Vote No By JAMES A. LOUDON ONCE AGAIN we're voting on whether to put Michigan on Eastern Daylight Time (Proposal A on the November ballot). The proposal would benefit a few afflu- ent businessmen and suburbanites at the expense of most other Mich- igan residents. In the first place, Michigan al- ready uses Daylight Time - all year long. The entire state is clos- er to the 90th meridian than the 75th, so geographically we should be in the Central Time Zone. In- stead, we use Eastern Standard Time, which is identical to Cen- tral Daylight. We are indeed "out of step with the rest of the coun- try." We use Daylight Time in the winter; they don't. What the proposal would have us do is go on double daylight time f r o m May through October (not just in the summer). Most of the financial backing for Proposal A comes from Detroit- area businessmen who find it slightly more convenient to be on the same time as the East Coast. What would it do to the rest of us? Under Eastern Daylight Time, the Sun in Detroit would set as late at 9:15 p.m. in midsumer. Full darkness (end of astronomical twi- light) would not come until 11:28. THIS WOULD be just fine for suburbanites who like to play golf in the evening, or go sailing until dark. It isn't so fine for blue-col- lar workers and iner-city residents who can't afford air conditioners and rely on post-sunset cooling t') get to sleep. They would find it wasn't really cool until some time after midnight - a considerable problem if you have to rise at 6:30 the next morning to get tobwork on time. If there happen to be small children in the house the problem is even worse. Ever try to put a bunch of kids to bed when it's still broad daylight? At the opposite end of the night, the Sun wouldn't rise, in Detroit in late October, until as late as 8:03 a.m. So-called Daylight-Saving Time doesn't actually create so much as an instant of new day- light. All it does is to move it around on the clock; if the Sun sets later, it also rises later. A more realistic name would be Day- light-Shifting Time. Again, 1 a t e sunrises are no problem for those who can work executive hours. For workers and schoolchildren as they make their way through the pre- dawn darkness, it might provide a valuable lesson on the inadvisabil- ity of tampering too much with na- ture, but somehow the educational value doesn't seem worth the hard- ship. MOST SUPPORTERS of Eastern Daylight Time for Michigan live in the southeast corner of the state- the Detroit suburbs and the wealth- ier areas of Ann Arbor-where, as it happens, its efects are minimiz. ed. They become more and more pronounced as you move north and/or west from Detroit. At Iron- wood, in the Upper Peninsula (which now uses Eastern Time), the Sun would set as late as 10 p.m. (with twilight ending at near- ly 1:00 the next morning) and rise as late as 8:30 a.m. under Day- light Time. For some reason most outstate residents seem not to appreciate why they should undergo these dis- tortions each year to allow neople around Detroit to play golf. In past votes on Daylight Time, the percentage of supporters fell off rapidly as the distance from De- troit increased. Even under our current single daylight time, we have among the latest summer sunsets in the na- tion, thanks to our northerly posi- tion. 'On July 1 the Sun sets in Los Angeles at 8:08 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. In Ann Arbor on the same date it sets 'at 8:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time; Eastern Daylight would of course make it yet another hour later. Single daylight time may be a good idea for the rest of the coun- try; perhaps it's even a good idea for Michigan. If so, we already have it. Double daylight time, for most Michigan residents, is too much of a distortion. I urge you to vote "no" on Proposal A Novem- ber 7. James Loudon is an astronomy lecturer in the Residential College. Vote Yes By LINDA ROSENTHAL ONCE AGAIN, as with summer television reruns, the issue of daylight savings time is on the ballot; this time under the guise of Proposal A. If a majority of the constituency vote yes, the proposition will pass and Michigan will join the other 46 states who already enjoy the ad- vantages of an extra hour of sun- light in the 'summer. (This begins the last Sunday in April and ends the last Sunday in October). The advantages are as numer- ous as the controversy old. It all started when World War I was raging and just about any- thing that could be rationed was. Congress, in an endeavor to save power and fuel, ordered the clocks set ahead one hour during t h e summer. After the war, and in a "return to normalcy", the act was rescinded until World War 2. Once again, when the war was ended in 1945, the act fell into disuse. In 1966, Congress enacted the Uniform Time Act. Simply stated, this Act put the whole country on daylight savingsstime with one ex- ception - any state with a plural- ity against it would not be sub- ject to the time changes. THE ISSUE was on the ballot Delaying sunset: Clockwork Orange? during the 1968 election and 1 o s t by 490 votes out of 2.8 million. Shortly after it was voted down, it was contended by numerous pro- ponents that the wording was sim- ply too confusing and that many who cast their ballot against it 'were in reality for it. The benefits of daylight time are manifold. For one thing, it affords more time for recreationrand less time for activities of a criminal nature. A combined ecological/consump- tion argument isthat more day- light in the evening would of ne- cessity reduce the demands on electricity since the power load of busines as well as the home would be lessened. Another point deals with Michi- gan's economy. Businessmen deal- ing with Eastern concerns lose an hour each morning, during lunch, and at the end of the working day due to the time difference. IF PROPOSAL A passes, there would be agreater degree of uni- formity. .Bus, train, and airline schedules would not have to be altered as they are now which inconveniences travelers. Additionally, radio and television programs wo'ild not have to be changed. Linda Rosenthal is writer for The Daily. a staff MR. ZIEGLER, THE OTHER DAY YOU NOW CLARK MACGREGOR ADMITS THERE DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF A WAS A CAMPAlG, SLUSH FUND. CAMPAIGN SLUSH FUND! PRESIDENTIAL\PRESIDENTIAL PRESS PRESS SECRETARY SECRETARY ij, I faeulty comment I Philosophers shou know when not to think By NICHOLAS P. WHITE CBS commended HERE IS nothing more odda there is such a thing in thef to do it can hardly imagine that and that we should not be doing it. about philosophy than the fact that first place. But those of us wbo like there should not be such a thing, ON SUNDAY night, BS aired a one hour documentary/analysis of the recent developments in the Vietnam peace proposals. This type of responsible leadership on informing the public on crucial issues has been neglected for a very long time. CBS is able to view this event from a unique vantage point in that they have information from both sides of the con- troversy, texts and films of all proceed- ings to draw on and a fine collective brain to decifer the plethora of data in- cluding Charles Collingwood, who hosted the special. Although CBS did advocate U. S. withdrawal, they did not pass judgement on the peace proposal. (Their Today's staff: News: Dan Blugerman, Ted Evanoff, Tammy Jacobs, Diane Levick, Judy Ruskin, Paul Travis Editorial Page: Fred Shell Arts Page: Richard Glatzer Photo technician: Tom Gottlieb. Business Staff ANDY GOLDING Business Manager BILL ABBOTT ........... Associate Business Manager FRANCINE SCHERGER...........Personnel Manager PAUL WENZLOFVr...............Promotions Manager STEVE EVSEEFFP............. Circulation Manager DEPARTMENT MANAGERS, ASSOCIATES, AND AS- SISTANTS: William Blackford, Sherry Kastle, Ray Catalino, Linda Coleman, Jim Dykema, Sandy Fien- berg, L'Tanya Haith, Dave Lawson, Elliot Legow, Caryn Miller. STAFF AND TRAINEES: Joan Ades, Esat All, Dawn Bare, Michele Becker, Roy Chernus, Linda Cycow- ski, Donald East, Michele Engel, Harriet Erlick, Deborah Gelstein, Gregg Gunnel, Bo Hartrick, Nancy Karp, Cynthia Kaufman, Alan Klein, Steve LeMire, Beryl Levine, Jon Licht, Mike Luerich, Joyce Mc- Clendon, Carol Meyer, Paula Shwach, ValerieTSief- man, Ton Slykhouse, Edward Stieg, John Totte, Darai Voss, Debra Weglarz, Jonnie williams, San- dra Wronski. STAFF ARTIST: Denny Dittmar. SALES: Dave Burleson, Bob Fischer, Karen Laakko, Ray Nurmi, Alexandra Paul, Ricki Rusting, Mike Treblin, Debbie Whiting. Photography Staff TERRY McCARTHY ............Chief Photographer ROLFE TESSEM ........... Picture Editor DENNY GAINER ..........Staff Photographer TOM GOTTLIEB . Staff Photographer DAVID MARGOLICK ........... Staff Photographer Editorial Staff SARA FITZGERALD Editor PAT BAUER ........ Associate Managing Editor LINDSAY CHANEY................. Editorial Director overall view was: the quickest way out- was the best). Collingwood, the house intellectual at CBS, held together excerpts from war speeches by Nixon and Kissinger, inter- views with experts in related fields and special interpretative reports by corres- pondents from Vietnam and Paris. This depth and scope was realized to its full potential and should serve as an example for the other networks to en- gage in this most important but often neglected function of the medium. It is regrettable that they did not give ad- vance publicity or air it during prime time. ON MONDAY night, two, one-half hour programs sponsored by the Commit- tee to Re-elect the President, Stewart Mott and 52 congressmen gave their re- spective opinions about the U. S.'s posi- tion in Vietnam peace negotiations. Both half hour shows presented strong argu- ments. Within 30 hours, CBS had thus aired the gamut of opinions, leaving it up to the people to decide for themselves where they stand. CBS's action toward providing a basis of understanding for the public (ideal- istically) is to be commended. They pre- sented a highly informed view from a fairly objective vantage. No one favors war as an end, and since there is no meaning to this one, the ac- cepted premise to any discussion is ar- guing the fine line between different approaches. THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the propos- als broke a week and a half ago, with all the media running straight cov- erage, and a few adding immediate re- actions. The newspapers present the facts and maybe an analysis on the front page and their views on the editorial page. The network news programs spent the alloted time reporting it, then neces- sarily move on to other happenings. This is the basis of American free press: presenting all the facts and let- ting the masses form their opinions for themselves. But with an event with all the complexities and subtle differences, such as the peace proposals, something else is needed. With this salient, in depth IT SEEMS TO ME THAT EITHER YOU OR MR. MACGREGOR WERE LYING TO THE PUBLIC! PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARY SAY, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE VIETNAM SETTLEMENT WE'RE MAKINGRA PRESDEN --0\ jL PRESS \SECRETARY 4t? / 'THEMILWAUKEE JOURNAL TM S All rights reservt4 Publishers-Hall Syndicate TWEEDLEDEE OR TWEEDLEDUM? Hal pert for Senate The best way - in fact, I think the only way - to begin to give some sense of what philosophy is like is to say that it is grueling, that it is supposed to be grueling, and that that is, if one likes philosophy, precisely one of the things that one likes about it. But it is also the fact that it is grueling that has made one philosopher, Wittgenstein, say that the real philosophical discovery is the one that makes one capable of stopping doing philosophy when one wants to. I want to try to give some sense of why this is so. To my mind, the heart and soul of philosophy is argument:,finding reasons for the things one believes, and finding arguments against the things one disbelieves. The risk, of couse, is that one will have to change one's mind, if- one finds the arguments on the other side too powerful. This risk is all the greater if the beliefs which one is forced to abandon are a familiar, central, and cherished part of one's view of the world, whether they concern, say, the foundations of morals, or the limits of human knowledge. Being serious about philosophy involves the undertaking of this sore of risk, while one watches one's mind change in unexpected ways. BUT CHANGING one's mind is not the important part, or the gruel- ing part. The grueling part comes when you realize that when some- thing you believed turns out to be overwhelmed by the considerations against it. For the same thing might happen, one reflects, to any of one's other beliefs. It can hit even harder when one realizes, not just that a previously unquestioned belief turns out to appear not just false, but totally implausible, and one can't imagine how one could have accepted it. Or, even harder, when a long-held assumption seems not only false, not only unbelievable, but just nonsensical, incoherent, unintelligible. Will this keep happening, one asks, to the point where nothing is left? NOT SURPRISINGLY, some find this experience unnerving, and in fact everyone who does philosophy finds it unnerving from time to time, or ought to. Some even find it terrifying, or depresing. One starts to feel that the ground is gone from under one's feet, that one is floating without sight of land. All of this being so, what one sees is that philosophy is not some- thing one should do all of the time. For some people, it is probably best to do it as little as possible; there are certainly those who find it thoroughly uncongenial, and there is nothing wrong with that. But even aside from such people, if one does philosophy all of the time, one is simply and flatly miserable. This is why doing philosophy requires learning to be able not to do it when one wants (this is what is right in Wittgenstein's observation). What you have to be able to do is to ignore your doubts and hesitations when you need to ignore them, and to keep your balance. It is a trivial and obvious fact' that not everything can be proved at once, that some things have to be taken for granted. One must accept certain assumptions, even while'realizing that one might someday have to give them up. The real trick - the sign of real honesty - is to know which of one's beliefs one has not yet been able to support with argument, to be pre- pared to try to meet arguments against them, and nevertheless to be willing to accept those beliefs, if only for the time being, in order to use them as a basis for other beliefs. This skill - the skill of keeping afloat in one's boat even while repairing is plank by plank - is what philosophy challenges one to master. PHILOSOPHY is not the only thing which raises this challenge. Certain sorts of psychology, for example, can raise it in an equally vivid way. So, I think, does any sort of critical attitude toward any of one's , pelifs r.rerdlessnof what their suhiect-matter may be. To be 1 I ,k By ERIC CHESTER THE DAILY EDITORIAL con- cerning the Senate race, though endorsing Barbara Halpert, HRP nominee, also stated that Kelley was "infinitely better" than Grif- fin. The reasons for this statement remain mysterious s i n c e The Daily provided no supporting evi- dence. This omission is not acci- dental, since none exists. Both Kelley and Griffin are poli- tical hacks tied to the two estab- lishment parties. These parties are unholy alliances of disparate seg- ments of society. Elites from these groups cooperate within a party framework so as to elect their crowd to governmental positions. The purpose of the party is not to change society but rather to be elected. The officials of both par- ties are ideologically committed to the current economic system. To expect representatives of t h e s e parties to challenge the rich and powerful is to expect the impos- sible. BARBARA HALPERT'S cam- paign is completely different.She is not a professional politician. She ,rina, not . -,ivnrptP n cnntrAver- important to HRP because she is the top of the ticket. Her vote to- tal must be greater than 15,000 or the party will cease to be state certified and will not bebable to run candidates in the spring city elections. The need for an independent rad- ical party could not be demonstrat- ed more forcefully than in t he Senate race. Kelley and Griffin have avoided every issue except busing. On this they have demo- gogically exploited the emotions stirred up by the Roth decision. They have resisted busing b u proposed no effective alternative measures to desegregate society. Barbara Halpert and HRP be- lieve that busing is a valid short- term program. It will encourage suburban whites to spend more for inner city schools. Busing is also a wedge into the increasingly segregated pattern of American society. Yet housing and job patterns will remain rigidly segregated a n d blacks will be forced to still live in the most decrepit rurts of the cities. HRP is pledged to support a comprehensive program that challenges institutional racism in which workers defend their inter- ests against corporate power. HRP supports extending collective bar- gaining rights to all workers, in- cluding farm workers and repealing laws which prohibit public em- ployes from striking. BOTH KELLEY and Griffin have a woeful record on civil liberties. Griffin sponsored a "no-knock" amendment to the Drug Control Act which would have given po- lice officers the right to enter pri- vate premises without notice. Kel- ley's subordinates testified in fav- or of a bill to allow Michigan po- lice officers to listen in on pri- vate conversations. Their sensitiv- ity to the rights of the accused, and political dissidents is nil. Barbara Halpert and HRP op- pose all laws which would allow .preventative detentions or "no- knock" searches. The courts must also be made more responsive to the needs of poor and working peo- ple. Constitutional rights should be extended to all pris-Iners. The entire system should be drastically overhauled so that it ceases to be punishment oriented. Barbara Halpert is the only I 0