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The Doily Nebroskon
Wednesday, September 18, 13
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DAILY
On persistence:
the New Party
In many respects the New Party is like the
little dog in Camus's The Stranger who has been
kicked, cursed and starved by his master but keeps
coming back for more.
The system has been kicking and cursing those
who oppose the Vietnam War for quite a while,
but they keep coming back, most recently in the
guise of the New Party.
The members of the New Party feel they have
a mission. Before Chicago, many of them felt within
reach of success. After Mayor Daley planted a
size fourteen in the derriere of the Movement and
sent shock waves all the way to Anchorage, political
success became an impossibility.
BUT THE NEW Party is going to try it again
on the theory that they can't leave a job half
done.
So there they are, upper-middle class liberal
intellectuals all, embarking on another political
adventure.
One black student saved their nominating con
vention from being as lily-white as a Ku Klux
Klan meeting, bnt there is still something of the
flavor of the respectable white standing up and
saying to the world, "Here we are, the beautiful
people, and we're out to save yon an."
Enough for the faults, the hang-ups and the
problems. Some of the brightest people around
here are in the New Party, and they're not ducking
the issues or ignoring the facts. Corrupt and ineffi
cient as the system may be, it is with us to stay,
and bad-mouthing those who are trying to change
it won't do any good, .
RTiat the New Party has to say about Vietnam
is-sfcat Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy
said before them. The United States must lcain
thermits of power, it must not try to be the
policeman of the world, and it must accept rapid
change as the necessary means to social justice.
mFTER THEIR WORDS on Vietnam, it's a
little hard to split hairs between the New Party
platform and the daily propaganda of Humphrey
and Nixon in regard to domestic issues, with the
exception of some strong words against "shoot
to kill" edicts designed to curb rioters.
Bruce Hamilton, therefore, is a one-issue oji
didate, in case no one knew that before. But this
issue is big, the biggest since pre-Civil War days.
If Hamilton had not another tiling going for him
(which is not the case) he would deserve election
for his stand on Vietnam alone.
The New Party is also sufficiently intelligent
and far-sighted to look beyond the election where
they will be figuratively kicked and cursed again.
They intend to remain a party until their ideas
and numbers begin to influence American politics.
It's a tough, risky way to get things done, but
it is qniie possibly the only way.
Assuming, then, that the New Party keeps tag
ging along after the system and that the system
keeps kicking it, that little dog in The Stranger
again comes to mind.
He took it for quite a while, that persistent
little dog. but after the kicking and cursing and
starving had gone on a goodly while, he decided
he'd had enough. He up and left that mean old
man. Left him crying and calling up and down
the streets for his dog. But that's another story.
Jack Todd
of men and words
June TO
by Andrei Voznesensky
Wild swans, wild swans, wild swans,
Northward, northward bound
Kennedy . . . Kennedy ... the heart
Breaks at the sound.
Of tS&ign politics
Not much may be understood;
But I do understand
A white cheek bathed with blood.
Tha32ol of TV screens
In hisluneral auto rides . . .
WitJjJbuUets, bullets, bullets
Marfcjen proselytize.
WhttMibsently he shook
That head while yet intact
I thSSfeht of Yesenin
WiSEBis tumbling forelock:
As wthat poet's brow
A sickle-moon would brood
Fowwblic effect, they thought,
BuRTproved to be for blood.
How defenseless the challenger,
PoKt4eian or poet
WhwPhe topples to gunshot
Right through the TV set!
OlCgy roots of apple trees
Torn from orchard soil,
Moura high on her balcony
ThESon the thirtieth floor!
ApES? trees, apple trees ...
Curse those bloody trees!
Let skyscraper-apples grieve,
GofiLbut to guard a grave.
From the New Republic
Note: Vozaegensky refers to apple treep that he
remembers having seen on the balcony of Mrs.
Joha3. Kennedy's Fifth Avenue apartment, which
is Ohe fifteenth rather than on the thirtieth
floor; -Sergei Yesenin, famous Soviet lyric poet,
committed suicide in 1925 at the age of thirty.
This translation is by William Jay Smith and
Nicholas Fersen.
Larry Grossman . . .
Guevara ranked as martyr
A burst of machine gun fire
ended the life of Che Guevara
last October. His dream of
becoming the guerrilla
liberator of South America
died with him. Since his
death, the publicity surroun
ding the publication of his
Bolivian diary has promoted
Che to the rank of the holy
martyr for the international
student left.
Guevara -as nc-ithu- the
"saint who went into the
mountains" as he has been
canonized by his radical
adherents, nor was he the
brutal agent of death and
destruction as his enemies
have castigated him. The
truth lies somewhere between
the two.
ERNESTO GUEVARA
Lynch was born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina of Spanish
Irish parents. (He would earn
the nickname of "El Che"
from his companions in the
Cuban guerrilla war.) His
chronic asthma prompted his
family to move from Buenos
Aires to the higher altitudes
of the city of Cordoba when
he was a young child.
The Guevara family
belonged to the old colonial
aristocracy but was intellec
tual and democratic in its at
titudes. Their Cordoba home
was the gathering point for
members of all classes of
Argentine society. Che's
compassion for the poor had
its roots here.
After completing his high
school studies, Che decided
upon a career in medicine.
He entered the University of
Buenos Aires in 1947 and re
mained until 1952 when he left
for a tour of South America.
With a companion. Guevara
attempted to cross the Andes
Mountains into Chile on a
motorbike. The bike failed
and the two walked most of
the way. From Chile, the two
went north to Peru and spent
several months working in a
leper colony in the Amazon
jungle. They then built a raft
and sailed down the Amazon
to Leticia on the Brazil
Colombia border. They went
north to Bogota and cast to
Venezuela.
Che returned home in 1953
and successfully completed
his work for a medical
degree. He still was restless
though and once again set off
for more travels in South
America. He spent some time
in Bolivia working in a
leprosy hospital and then
headed north to Central
America.
Che first met anti-Batista
Cubans in San Jose, Costa
Rica where there was a col
ony of student exiles. They
told him of the Castro
brothers, Fidel and Raul, and
their abortive attack of July
26, 1953 on a Batista army
barracks in Cuba.
GUATEMALA WAS the
next stop for Guevara and it
was here that he changed
from an apolitical doctor to
a converted revolutionary. He
was present when a C.I.A.
backed coup topped a com
munist leaning government in
that Central American coun
try. Che became involved in
the struggle and was forced
to flee to Mexico where he
met the Castro brothers.
Che was part of the small
army that landed in Cuba in
1956 and which conquered the
island in two years. After the
Castro takeover, Guevara
served as head of the Bank
of Cuba. He then disappeared
from public view only to
reappear in the highlands of
Bolivia in 1966.
The rest of his story is cur
rent history. Che attempted
to recreate a Cuban style
revolution in the Andes
Mountains but was defeated
by the harsh terrain and the
indifference of the people.
I cannot held feeling that
Guevara followed the wrong
course in his life. Latin
America is desperately crying
out for fundamental social
and economic reforms. Che's
answer was violent revolu
tion. Two problems immedia
tely come to mind.
First, Guevara and Castro
both proposed rural-based
revolutions to aid the peasant,
the most oppressed man in
Latin society. Yet it is the
poor farmer who is the first
to suffer by a guerrilla action.
He is inevitably caught in the
crossfire between government
and guerrilla forces.
Second, if one may use
Cuba or Viet Nam as ex
amples, any guerrilla war
waged by communist-inspired
forces becomes the pawn in
a game of Great Power
Politics. Castro wanted a
Cuba free of U.S. influence.
He now has it, but the
Russians have filled the gap
left by our exit Without
Russia, Cuba would be in far
worse straits than those
Castro has brought it to with
his revolutionary economics
and his Marxist-Leninist
freedom.
THE DEATH OF Guevara
has not ended the threat of
guerrilla style wars of na
tional liberation in Latin
America. But his death should
be an urgent warning sign to
the United States and to the
peoples of Latin America to
wake up and eliminate the
inequities of society in this
hemisphere.
Where reforms have taken
place in Latin America, the
false promises of a Guevara
or a Castro have no meaning.
But will sufficient reforms
come in time? Even now the
ghost of Che is marching
through the Andes and it is
not a quiet one.
Our Man Hoppe ...
Spiro T. learns to fight
by Arthur Hoppe
Good morning, insomniacs.
Welcome again to the Awful
Late Show, featuring that
awful old movie, "The Come
back Kid" starring Dick
as the middle-aged mid
dleweight who hasn't won a
fight for 16 years and his
loyal wife, Pat.
As we join The Kid today,
he's come a long way up the
old comback trail. And now
the crafty, ring-wise veteran
is training for another shot
at the title. That's him there,
working out with his un
forgetable new sparring
mate, Spiro T. Whatshisname.
The Kid (Glowingly): The
gamblers figure me a 2-1
favorite. Hubert's lost his
punch and there's dissension
in his camp. (Frowning) My
only worry is that I've peaked
too early.
Spiro: You'll knock him out
in the first, Boss.
The Kid: I'd better. Look,
let's work on my strategy.
You be Hubert and I'll be
me.
Spiio: How do I be Hubert?
The Kid: Look flabby, get
on the defensive and smile
a lot. Good, you're Hubert.
Now try to go to your right.
Spiro: Ooofff !
The Kid: See? I nailed
yon with my Straight-from-the-Shoulder
Left Jab to the
Button. I've got Hubert boxed
in. He can't go eigher way.
Spiro: (admiringly): You're
a real crowd-pleaser, Boss. I
know because I've been stu
dying your style for years.
The Kid: Great! I've been
wondering if Hubert could
work out a secret defense.
Tell you what, you be me and
I'll be Hubert. Now, try to
hit me.
Spiro (croching low): Okay,
Hubert, take that!
The Kid (doubled over):
Oooooo! Hew, you hit me
below the belt!
Spiro (proudly): That was
my Soft - on - Communism
Undercut. And watch this.
The Kid (hopping on one
foot): Ouch! My toe!
Siro: That was my Party-of-Tteason
Stomp Out. (Low
ering his head) Now, here
comes m y I'm-Not-Calling-You-a-Commie
Butt.
The Kid, on the ropes) : Cut
that out! Where did you learn
to fight dirty like that?
Piro (Surprised): Why,
from your old film clips.
Boss. Now here's my . . .
The Kid (Angrily): That
style's 20 years behind the
times and I won't be
associated with it. One more
low blow, Spiro, and the press
won't have you to kick around
any more.
Spiro (Crestfallen) : Gosh,
Boss, I thought you'd say,
"He's my boy." Or that I was
"cleaner than a hound's
tooth."
The Kid (Taking pity):
Well, you do show promise,
Spiro. But there's one thing
you've got to remember in
the fight game.
Spiro (Eagerly): What's
that, Boss.
The Kid (Nobley): Never,
never hit a man below the
belt, Spiro, when you're weU
ahead on points.
Commentary
Inside events . . .
Verdict comes
as a surprise
by Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak
Raleigh, N.C. At a private breakfast in
Washington a few days ago, all eight North Carolina
Democrats in the House of Representatives polled
themselves on the current strength of George
Wallace in their own districts.
After a brief discussion by each, the finding
was unanimous: third-party Presidential candidate
George Wallace would carry all eight districts.
IF THIS were the Deep South, that verdict
would scarcely surprise. But North Carolina, of
all the Southern states, should be the exception
the one dike against the Wallace tide now surging
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mason-Dixon line.
Unfortunately for Humphrey, it isn't The objective
evidence at this early stage in the campaign shows
Wallace still gaining and Richard M. Nixon strong.
Consequently, Democratic officeholders and can
didates are in the throes of an extraordinary effort
to put Hubert Humphrey in purgatory and keep
him there until Nov, 5.
The effort to ostracize candidate Humphrey
reairy Degan a month ago when Gov. Dan Moore
agreed to run as favorite-son Presidential candidate
to give Robert Scott. Democratic nominee for
Governor, a place to hide on the Presidential
rollcall at Chicago. Scott never did switch his vote
from Moore to the Vice President (and, partially
as a result of this foresight, he now holds a slight
lead over Republican conservative Rep. James
Gardner, who has mounted the most resourceful
and best-financed Republican campaign for the
state house in this century).
At least one of the Democratic Congressional
incumbents, Rep. Walter Jones whose 1st District
is in the heart of the Wallace country in eastern
North Carolina, has gone to extreme lengths to
disassociate himself from his party's Presidential
ticket. Jones let it be known last week that if
the election is thrown into the House of Represen
tatives where each state would have one vote,
he will cast his vote for the winner in his district
almost certain to be Wallace.
For Jones, that is no light threat, because
if the Republicans pick up two seats in the election,
shifting the balance from the present 8-3 to 6-5,
Jones would nullify North Carolina's vote in the
unlikely event the election is decided in the House.
Gardner's campaign against Scott is typical
of the political game being played here. He is
relying heavily on Scott's fear of being tainted
with Humphreyism. Television spots now being
filmed for saturation coverage next month will
feature Humphrey's militant civil rights speech
at the 1948 convention back-to-back with Scott's
1964 campaign for the Democratic ticket Scott
was then national chairman of Rural Americans
For Johnson-Humphrey Committee.
The only offset to this blatant ostracism ol
Humphrey is a threat that surfaced here last week
by a few Negro leaders to switch their support
from Soctt to Gardner unless Scott and the regular
Democrats radically change course and publicly
support Humphrey.
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It has been noted that
Oldfather Hall and the Stu
dent Union are of
predominantly brick con
struction. This represents
much intelligence on the part
of the University planners.
If you compare the new
construction with the flimsy
construction of the more re
cent dorms, you will quickly
see why this is so.
BRICK HAS proven itself
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as a good and durable
building material. Some of
the new dorms, however,
have already given indie
ations of not being able to
last more than about 25 years.
Thus the brick buildings
should outlast the dorms by
150 years or more.
Now, the University of
Nebraska planners know how
hard it is to obtain money
for office and classroom
buildings; so when they do
build one they want it to last
a long time.
On the other hand, the
dorms do not iwed to last as
JsEg, becasss there will
always be more students,
they eaa always keep raising
the dorm rates, to baud more
and more new dorms.
When you really think about
it "they ain't so stupid as they
looks."
A lonely brick lover.
BUT THIS threat, no matter how nobly based,
Is preposterous. At a closed-door state campaign
organization meeting here Thursday, with top Negro
Democrats present, a working arrangement was
reached: Negro leaders said they would limit their
public campaign to the Humphrey-Muskie ticket
but would not actively work against Scott.
But the Negro vote, which is less than one-fifth
cf the total, is a slender reed indeed for Humphrey
to lean on. And to make matters even worse,
the small but energetic McCarthy organization here
is sitting on its hands, waiting for Sen. Eugene
McCarthy (now in Europe) to make up his mind
about backing Humphrey.
In precinct committee contests last spring,
McCarthy men captured better than one-third of
the precincts in populous Mecklenburg County
(Charlotte) and made deep inroads in Orange
County (Durham) and here in Wake County.
"These kids ought to be our shock troops,"
a top party official told ns. "They're what we need
for canvassing, doorbell ringing, and all the nuts
and bolts, but they're not lifting i finger."
Accordingly, evag though Humphrey has bet
ter chape here than la the rest of the South,
5? ftffr -tysttnet underdog in a state that
staged pejBoqratic against JSarry Goldwater. It will
take events in Washington, such as a change in
the President's war policy or an easing of school
integration, to change the odds. Events here are
out of Humphrey's control.
(c) 1968 Publishers-Han Syndicate