4 U 4 *1 7W- -F Ell3 ;dpqan Dai1 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Mich. Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials printed in The Michiqan Doily express the individual ooinions of the author. This must be noted in all reprints. Friday, July 10, 1970, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Two years with A. Dubcek --or Them making of an unperson FRIDAY, JULY 10 1970 News Phone : 764-0552 End the secret vote WEDNESDAY'S MOVE by a bipartisan group of conser- vative and liberal congressmen to end secret votes- in the House of Representatives is a long overdue reform that should hastily be approved by the members of the House. For too long congressmen have been able to abuse the trust of their constituency because of the knowledge that many of their votes would never be reported to the dis- tricts. Often a congressman has been able to imply to his constituents that he favors a particular measure, but after reaching Washington, vote against the bill. The secret vote has particularly been used in the case of amendments because of a belief that a recorded vote would slow down the work of the House and that these amendments were usually of minor importance. THE CONGRESSIONAL anti-war actions of the last few months, however, have demonstrated that votes on amendments may be of more interest to the public than the vote on the actual bill. It has been claimed that the end of the secret con- gressional vote could mean an end to the independence of legislators,,but it should be remembered that, at least in theory, the legislator is supposed to be the voice of the people. If a particular congressman desires to vote his own mind, he should also be willing to face the conse- quences of not following the desires of the voters in his congressional district. The only problem with Wednesday's action could be the fact that the vote to end the secret vote may very well he secret, and as one of the members of the group leading the fight to end the secret vote said, "Secrecy is a com- fortable thing." -P. ROBERT HERTZ NIGHT EDITOR: ROB BIER By NADINE COHODAS N THE SUMMER of 1968 Alex- ander Dubcek attempted to give t h e Czechoslovakian Com- munist Party a "human face." In the summer of 1970, t h e Czechoslovakian Communist Par- ty has attempted to make Alexan- der Dubcek a faceless human. The dehumanization of Dubcek is only the end of a long, presum- ably dreadful experience for the short-lived reformer. A small item on page five of yesterday's New York Times informed us all of the latest step in Dubceks "demise" in language too like Orwell's 1984. The article explained that Dub- cek, who 10 or 11 days earlier had been dismissed from the Commun- ist Party, was dismissed as a dep- uty of the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly. The Assembly accused the reformer of having made mis- takes as party leader, of having failed to commit himself to party policy when he later served as As- sembly chairman and of having refused to admit that he had been wrong. Furthermore, one anti-Dubcek- ite said, "His attitude toward criticism was in fact a defense of his views." AND SO, ACCORDING to Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dub- cek is no more. His negation be- gan shortly after his new exis- tence blossomed w h e n Soviet troops rushed into Czechoslovakia in August, 1968. Prior to that time, Dubcek had engineered the ousting of long time President a n d Party Boss Antonin Novotny, and subsequent- ly launched a series of reforms which included the end of press censorship, encouraged artistic freedom in films and literature, drew up plans to make the Na- tional Assembly a more represent- ative body and allowed criticism within the party. "Since the party cannot change people," Dubcek declared, "it must itself change." But Dubcek was wrong. T h e party can change people - into unpeople. WHAT SPARKED attempts at Dubeek's spiritual' death appar- ently was the fear among East bloc leaders, especially East Ger- many s Walter Ulbricht and the Soviet Union, that Dubcek's re- forms would ignite a liberal surge throughout the bloc. So, Moscow sent tanks to crush Prague's ex- periment and to begin the remov- al of Dubcek from life. The Soviets realized Dubcek was popular with most Czechoslo- stead maneuvered the deposed leader and his wife Anna to rela- tive safety in Turkey where Dub. cek was to act as the Czechoslo- vok ambassador BUT LAST MONTH, Du b c e k unexpectedly left Anakara, where he had lived a rather solitary life, and returned to Prague ostensibly to visit his 80-year old mother who is hospitalized with a serious heart ailment. There was another reason for his return, however. He had to meet his unmakers. Dubcek was spotted as he slipped into the par- ty's headquarters on the outskirts of Prague where he was reportedly subjected to a grilling by a purge commission and asked to recant his role in the 1968 reforms. He refused. Then he was asked to resign from the party. He again refused. The ordeal was said to be gruel- ing for the former leader and two weeks ago he was reportedly un- der heavy guard in Prague's San- ops Clinic - undergoing treatment for severe nervous depression. Also t w o weeks ago, Dubcek was fired as ambassador to Tur- key, and in addition to his dis- missals as- a party member and assembly deputy, a press cam- paign has started which accuses Dubcek of having accepted bribes, ruining the economy and under- mining the military's morale. In these newspapers, t h e re- former is now referred to only as A. Dubcek, a stylistic form that in recent weeks has been reserved for prominent persons already charged with crimes against the state. They call that brief moment in Dubcek's past the "springtime of reform" and perhaps it was also one of those brief shining mom- ents that was Camelot. But when t h a t shining light goes out, what a terrible darkness ensues. vakians and consequently permit- ted him to continue as party first secretary. One of the stipulations of this job, however, was t h a t Dubcek must undo the very re- forms he had enacted. This position lasted only a few months - until April, 1969 when Dubcek was thrown aside in favor of Gustav Husak w h o publicly thanked the Soviet Union for sav- ing Czechoslovakia f r o m the clutches of reform. Ultraconservatives wanted Hu- sak to punish Dubcek, but Husak, who is considered a moderate, in- The TU Defense Squad to the rescue Continued from Page 8) Joyce Chen, or to the recently published and exquisitely pre- sented Cooking of Japan (Time- Life, $7.95). More yen, yes-but then, more rice! Although New Englanders are among the most parochial of Americans (we are reminded of the bearded anecdote of the Proper Bostonian who, when asked how a friend had travel- led to California, replied, "Why - o u t Commonwealth Ave- nue!"), historically they have often tended to look East. Char- les Tuttle, a bookstore as well as a publishing company estab- lished in the sedate Vermont town of Rutland, perpetuates this- traditional New England involvement with the Orient Their cookbook titles run the gamut from decidedly mediocre (Phyllis Jervey's Rice and Spice to distinctly superior (Maideh Mazda's In A Persian Kitchen. Maili Yardley's Hawaii Cooks (Tuttle, $6.00) is neither one nor the other. It may best be described as a book you might remember to take along if you are going to make the Hawaiian scene. Although the author pre- sents a goodly number of recipes for Hawaii's native dishes (along with chatty references to the prominent Hawaiian citizens who collected and contributed them), the instructions are of- ten buried in solid paragraphs. One has to do a bit of reading before one discovers the neces- sity for Surinam cherries, white Hawaiian salt, ti leaves and soursop. Substitutions are not encouraged, no doubt for the valid reason that this would im- pair the authenticity of the pro- duct. Californians might en- Nancy Milford, ZELDA: A BIOGRAPHY, H a r p e r and Row, $10.00. By ADAM SIMMS "Nothing is more indicatible of civilizations than the sol- aces that people seek."-Zelda Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald has been twentieth c e n t u r y America's tragic literary figure for almost thirty years now. All his cre- dentials'have been put in proper order: early establishment as a "bright young man" at the age of twenty-five with This Side of Paradise and critical success and the beginnings of artistic maturity with The Great Gatsby five years later. He was the man who introduced Ernest Heming- way to his publisher, and who w a s the exemplar par excel- lence of the Jazz Age. The future was seemingly his, but in the years after Gatsby he was a burned-out case-in debt, alcoholic, and only halt- ingly, productive. When he died in 1940, his reputation had been critically and financially worth- less for almost a decade. How to explain such decline, failure and early death after so much promse? Critics have usually as- serted that his wife Zelda- Zelda, the willful, spoiled South- ern belle slowly slipping into schizophrenia - encouraged the wreckless spending and the wild parties, and compounded prob- lems with her prolonged and costly psychiatric treatment. It was she who drove Scott Fitz- gerald to the bottle and cut him down in his prime. One does not have to look for to reach this sort of conclusion. Fitzgerald was the most auto- biographical of writers-it seems as if he had to write, to work an assault on his senses through his creative apparatus, before he could understand what was happening to him-and his later works from the period of Zel- da's insanity, Tender Is the counter some of these ingredi- ents in their West Coast mar- kets, but for most of us denizens of Middle America, this is in- deed exotic fare. One of Mrs. Yardley's more translateable re- cipes, for Parsley Tempura, is given below: Hawaiian Parsley Tempura Use a large bowl and mix / c. flour, c. cornstarch, % tsp. baking powder, % tsp. salt, 1 c. water, and beat until smooth. Dip fresh, large sprigs of parsley into batter, shake off excess and fry quickly in. deep fat. A far more rewarding book, to give or keep, is Tuttle's Court Dishes of China, the Cuisine of the Ch'ing . Dynasty, by Su Chung (Lucille Davis) ($7.50). The Ch'ing may not have re- tained the Mandate, but there is no doubt they dined like Em- perors, and this handsome vol- ume with 29 color plates and an elegantly narrow format does ample justice to the imperial taste. The recipes were arranged by the wife of the unfortunate Henry Pu-yi, the last Ch'ing emperor. Some are fairly eso- teric ("Beggar's Chicken," for example, requires a "fat h e n with feathers" and potter's clay) but many, if not most, are well within range. Each recipe is given a page to itself, which suggests that the emphasis is upon quality; the instructions are explicit, and the photo- graphs of Chinese ceramics are a continual reminder that, to the Chinese, the exquisite pre- sentation of each dish is as much a part of its flavor as are the ingredients used. A beau- tiful book, woman Night and The Crack-Up, are testaments to his torturous ex- periences with his wife and al- cohol. The inherent problem, however, is that these source materials are one-sided since they come from Fitzgerald's own hand. In light of this, Nancy Mil- ford's biolgraphy of Zelda is a tour de force for the simple rea- son that she did what any com- petent biographer should do: she went back to the proper sources -Zelda's letters and diaries, and most important, the records of her psychiatric treatment. As a result, a vastly different por- trait of both Fitzgeralds emerg- es. Miss Milford does not ques- tion that Zelda was the more unbalanced of the pair. What she does call into doubt is the traditional conception of Scott Fitzgerald's part in his own and his wife's disintegration.- Plainly, it is too simple to look to Zelda alone as the key to Fitzgerald's tragedy. As a writer primarily interested in people, he was not so poor a judge of character as to be totally blind to his wife's more extraordinary characteristics. Their courtship hadbeen rough-almost a pre- view of things to come-and in marrying Zelda he made a posi- tive gesture implying that he was conscious of those darken- ings. If Zelda was capricious and undisciplined, Fitzgerald raised no objections until she was well over the brink into schizophrenia, for what he saw in her temperment squared fully with his vision of life. The prob- lem was that his vision was de- fective. From the first, he venerated Zelda as an ideal, as the arch- typical woman whom he de- scribed in his fictional heroines. They were spirited and vivacious because he admired such quali- ties in his women, and he was no more equipped to criticize the embodiment of his ideal than is any other man. As a conse- quence, Fitzgerald was a pas- Clever cooks often save their best for last. It is surely coinci- dence that two of the season's finest offerings are new edi- tions of older cookbooks author- ed, or at least inspired, by lad- ies named Clementine. Samuel Chamberlain, artist, photogra- pher, traveller, and gourmet, lived in France in the misty per- iod before the Second World War. When the Chamberlains (alias the Phineas Gecks) re- turned to the United States they brought with them their Bur- gundian cook, Clementine: Cle- mentine in the Kitchen by Phi- neas - Beck (Hastings House, $5.95) celebrates Clementine's incomparable, russet Boeuf Bo- urguignon- (42 new recipes have been added to this "revised, an- niversary edition"), but it also -and more subtly-celebrates life in France and New England, in a period when the K-Mart ethos was scarcely a cloud on the serene and still bucolic land- scape. This is, in fact, a superb- ly civilized book-about two ele- ments-good food and good manners-which have all but vanished from 1970 America. The sharply-angled rooftops of French houses and the shadows of trees falling over the old streets of New England towns are evocatively preserved in the author's sketches and drypoints. Perhaps, in these days of eco- logical alarums, the ". . . old stone house . . . situated on the edge of town, looking out upon open fields and a calm country road" exists only in memory; but nostalgia, surely, is permis- sible. The Best in American Cook- ing, Recipes Collected by Clem- oubly sive partner in his marriage: he was an adoring observer. He cast Zelda in a role which suited his own personality and artistic needs, and it was difficult for him to think that a time might come when one of his own hero- ines, as proud and independent as any in his fiction, might wish to establish a persona of her own. The first signs of crisis came shortly after they moved to France in order for Fitzgerald entine Paddleford (Scribners, $10) might equally well have been subtitled "The Best in Am- erican Cookbooks." The book stands as a tribute to the ideal diversity of American cuisine (perhaps the most varied and versatile in the world), to its editor's brilliantly omnivorous food sense, and to the publish- er's obvious desire to give solid value for price. There is satis- faction in reading a well-bound book as there is in handling a well-crafted pot. The Best in American Cooking has all the advantage of format as well as of content: an attractive dust- jacket, a sober, sturdy binding, heavy paper, good type. An add- ed attraction is the page-size- slightly wider than normal-that allows ingredients and instruc- tions to co-exist side-by-side so that they can be absorbed si- multaneously. The recipes them- selves are outstanding. The ma- jority are what is known as "personal favorites" (Mrs. Tru- man's Ozark Pudding Served to Winston Churchill, C a p t a i n Chris' Oyster Pie, Doris West- berg's Pearadise Fritters) but many are the specialties of fa- mous American restaurants, and some are simply the dishes of a given state or region-sufficient- ly classic to have become anon- ynous (V e r m o n t Mess 'O Greens, Pacific Crab Salad, Montauk Berry Duff). Readers in quest of the defin- itive Indian pudding will be able to select from three such re- cipes, printed one after the oth- er, hailing respectively from the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York, with an obstinately u n c 1 a ssified "Duncan Hines" thrown in for posses t 1 } i i c { 1 E t i 1 a 1 I J i By CHAS NOTLEY THE JOHN FAMILY lives quiet- ly at 219 Chapin St., in the West Park area of A n n Arbor, paying their rent on time, and honoring their lease. T h e y are Mexican - Americans. Chicanos. They moved to Ann Arbor so they could be near University Hospital. Mrs. John has recently undergone open-heart surgery, and Mr. John say soon suffer surgery on both his legs. On July 1, because of the ex- treme heat, the Johns decided to sit out in their yard where it was a little cooler than in the house. The landlord, Mr. Al Root, saw this and immediately told them he wouldn't allow them to have the chairs on the lawn as he be- lieved it was God's property. Lat- er that day, he dognapped the dog of a relative that was visiting the Johns, that was tied to t h e i r porch. Root informed t h e m he had taken the dog to the pound. Early on the morning of July 2,; Root took out t h e main fuses, which are located in the cellar of the building, thus cutting off elec- tricity to the family. IT WAS IN THE early after- noon of July 2 that Rose Ely, Mr.. and Mrs. John's daughter, first called the Tenants Union (TU) for help. It seems the Johns came to hear about the TU just the day before when, on an evening drive, they had picked up a hitchhiker (a freak) who, after hearing ofl the problems they w e r e having with their landlord, wisely told them of the Ann Arbor Tenants Union. Norm Finkelstein answered thes phone, and Mrs. Ely t o I d him what had happened, and that the Detroit Edison Co. had come out and installed new fuses, but that Root had returned, removed thec new fuses, the fuse holders, and padlocked the cellar door. Norm i1 matter and not in our police jurisdiction." They were helpful enough however to suggest that the Johns hire a lawyer and sue the landlord. Mrs. Ely had asked for, and the Johns obviously needed, imme- diate help and action, so Norm, Lynn Liston, Dave Black, Steve Julius, and Dave Christeller all went out to see what they could do. They identified themselves as TU members but Root refused to identify himself. He said he wouldn't say anything until the Mayor, the Governor, and the FBI showed up. He further maintained he intended to charge the Johns $10 for the cost of the lock he had put on the cellar door. Then he left. ANOTHER CALL to the police. Meanwhile Root came back. This time he stayed in his station wa- gon, locked the doors, rolled down the window .a crack, and com-. menced to reading aloud from the New Testament - from the Acts of the Apostles, which is about what God supposedly does to those who oppose His will. Norm tried to reason with him. He asked: "Do "you think you're doing the right thing?" No im- pression made. Again: "Do you think God thinks you're doing the right thing?" Still no impression made. By this time R o o t was reading the various passages which begin: "And the Lord said .." Norm interrupted: "And the Lord said, 'do unto others as you would have ..themn do unto you!'" This time the message got thru. Root heatedly exclaimed no one could tell him. what is right or what he ought to do, except him- self, Finally the cop arrived. After some exchanges with Root, he de- cided to call for reinforcements. When the second cop arrived - a sergeant - they again maintain- ed they could do nothing about the situation: it was a civil mat- ter; they couldn't take off the lock, for that would be breaking and entering; they felt the Johns should move out immediately if they didn't like it; they couldn't tell the Johns or the TU what to do about the situation. In other words, they were a great help. AS THE COPS were driving off, the TU Defense Squad, famed for its utter lack of timidity, imme- diately removed the latch which held the lock in place, and en- tered the cellar. They called Edi- son again and asked them to come out again and replace the, fuses and the fuse holders. A short while after they had returned to the TU office in the SAB, Mrs. Ely called again and said Edison wasn't able to find the right kind of fuses. So Dave Christeller went out and finally after searching almost all t h e hardware and electrical. supply stores in town, succeeded in lo- cating the proper kind of fuses and holders, installed them, and returned to the TU office. A half hour later - this is un- believeable, isi't it? - Mrs. Ely again. This time she explained that Root had just hit Mrs. John - who just had open-heart sur- gery. Dave Christeller advised her to call the cops again and, sens- ing the immediacy of the situa- tion, bombed over. By this time Root had again removed the fus- es and the holders! Mrs. Ely hadn't been able to get thru to the. cops, so Dave called them again and reported an assault and bat- tery this time.' MEANWHILE, the family living on the second floor of the build- ing was out on the front lawn. The woman is 9-10 months preg- nant. Root balled them out, and then said: "I hope your baby is .born dead!" A cop finally arrived and Dave_ John. Root -was in his car by this time, and almost ran over the cop while attempting to pull out. He then proceded to lecture the cop on the Bible. The cop then pro- ceded to give Mrs. John a bad time, who was only slightly bruis- ed, but very excited and upset because she was interfering with his making o u t the report. He took down the story and said the department would send out a de- tective, sometime, maybe. Since it was not possible to get the fuses and holders back - they were in Root's car - the man up- stairs offered to run an extension cord until Dave Christeller is able to secure a new set of fuses and holders. The TU Defense Squad then left again, advising the Johns to call if anything further unto- ward happens. The latest word .- July 7 - from the Johns, is that they have decided not to press charges against Root. "How can you deal with a man who's not all there?" they said. They will try to find another place to live. ALTHOUGH this article is written in a fairly humerous man- ner, the situation is really a very serious one 'for those directly in- volved. Unfortunately similar sit- uations are occuring every day in Ann Arbor and indeed in t h e whole country. The action I have described by .the TU Defense Squad, really on- ly dealt with the symptom of the disease, not the cause of the dis- ease itself. Thus their helping the John family was only a stop-gap measure: They prevented an im- mediate danger to them from con- tinuing; they did not prevent that' danger or kind of danger from arising again in the future. Al Root, In spite of 'his eccen- tricities, isn't a particularly bad landlord. There are many who are just as bad in their own ways. He that certain class of people who have been able to get away with such macinations o n 1 y because not enough tenants have been wil- ling to stand up for themselves and assert the rights and power that is theirs - if they will only take that power. THE ANN ARBOR TENANTS Union seeks to be the vehicle by which tenants will be able to gain that power and control over their tenancey situation. To make the TU more than a service organization - the De- fense Squad is really only a ser- vice; it provides no fundamental realignment of power - and con- trol - it needs the active support and participation of all tenants, .including University dormitory residents. The Johns cannot deal with their landlord on a basis of equality; by themselves they cant never hope to get a fair shake from Al Root. No single tenant or small group of tenants can ever cure that dis- ease. The power is simply too ov- erbalanced in the landlord's fa- vor. It is only when a large mass of tenants get together and act forcefully in a collective manner, that the landlords will be forced to give up what has been theirs too long - control over the decis- ions that affect the living condi- tions of those who rent. Letters to the Editor should- be mailed to the Editorial Di- rector or delivered to Mary Rafferty in the Student Pub- lications business office in the Michigan . Daily buildin. Let-m ters should be typed, double-. spaced and normally should not exceed 250 words. The Editorial Directors reserve the right to edit all letters submitted. Her drive to create an indi- vidual identity manifested itself in ballet and in writing. The first activity is part of the Fitz- gerald legend. She started ser- ious study while in her early thirties, too late to develop the first-rate artistry she demand- ed of herself. Nevertheless, she expended extraordinary amounts of time and energy trying to perfect her technique, and her seemingly endless practice ses- sions were the first concrete signs of impending collapse. But ballet had been a second choice as an artistic outlet; the first had been writing. Her de- sire to write emegred from Fitz- gerald's acknowledgment of her considerable descriptive talents, granted when he openly and frequently raided her diaries and letters for material to fashion and give substahce to his stories and characters. Fitzgerald was at first flat- tered by her attempts. He helped with suggestions and revisions, evidently harboring the hope that his wife would begin to appreciate the demands of his work. Yet all but a handful of the pieces were credited to "Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald" when published. Miss Milford asserts that this was a way of either indicating Fitzgerald's hand in the final product, or insuring that a market would be found among otherwise wary editors. Whatever the good in- tentions, the joint authorship device defeated Zelda's purpose for, in effect, she remained an extention of her husband. So long as Fitzgerald could participate in Zelda's writing, he thought it a fine idea; but when she wrote her only com- pleted novel, Save Me the Waltz, and arranged to have it published without her husband's foreknowledge, his reaction only displayed the degree to which he was unwilling to allow her an independent identity. Zelda wrote her book while undergoing psychiatric treat- to escape their continual rounds of partying, and to get some ser- ious work done. Zelda had been accustomed since adolscence to being a center of attention and the first years of post-marriage. festivities had presented no change. When the party ended, she began to feel deserted; when her husband cloistered himself with his writing, she found be- ing known as the wife of a fam- ous artist too confining. C 4 cted his attention