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The Daily r!ebraskan
Thursday, October 3, 1968
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'Stamp Out hex' stickers
to save our great country
MLY
"Hi, Millicent. I guess your
folks went down to the Sup
port Your Local Police & Cut
Local Taxes Rally?"
"Yes, but come on in,
Rodney. I'm just sitting in the
living room all alone, ad
dressing 'Stamp Out Red
China' pamphlets for the
Young Americans for In
dividual Freedom. But what's
wrong? You look depressed."
OH, IT'S this book I've
been reading by a couple of
political scientists, R o g o w
and Lasswell. It's called . .
. Well, it's called 'You Know,
Culture and Politics in
America.' "
"You know?"
"Yeah, you know. It says
the reason we're young con
servatives is because of child
hood conflicts over . . . well,
you know. And we've got un
healthy, repressive attitudes
toward . . . well, you know."
"Oh, Rodney, what bosh.
I've got the normal healthy
attitudes of any red-blooded,
patriotic American girl. I can
even say the word."
"You can?"
"Sex!"
"GOSH, MILLICENT.
You're wonderful. And I want
you to know I'll never think
the less of you for doing it."
"Thank you, Rodney. I
guess that takes care of those
sick, no-nothing scientists."
"Not quite, Millicent. You
see they also say that these
same childhood conflicts pro
duced all these dirty, long
haired Left Wing radicals
only they're rebelling against
NEBRASKAN
Editorials
CommeMary
The right to hate
does it exist?
Every student who marches on City Hall today
will be operating on a fundamental assumption:
That the right to discriminate on a racial basis
does not exist.
The march, with the support of ASUN, will
be one of the largest and most significant in the
history of this University. Fundamentally it is a
protest against a continuing and pervasive
Injustice: The refusal of landlords to rent to blacks.
The marchers will urge Lincoln landlords to aban
don this policy. They will urge that the Lincoln
City Council also pass an open housing ordinance.
The march illustrates a fundamental problem
In American justice. Does the right of a landlord
to rent to whom he pleases pre-empt the right
of the individual to live where be pleases?
IDEALLY, we should have both freedoms. Until
the public learns to view minorites from a viewpoint
free of the usual racial hang-ups, however, it seems
that we must emphasize the right of the in
dividual. If we are to live collectively and not in anarchy,
tt is impossible for a democracy to oppress any
group. The choice is between a true democracy
and a police state designed to keep certain
segments of society In their place. The choice is
between open bousing and sprawling ghettos with
a heavily armed occupational police force.
The question is whether we are to put priority
on keep-'em-in-their place attitudes ala George
Wallace, or priority on a free society. Do we really
want to equip the kind of military force that will
be necessary to preserve our present system?
This If the first march. Indications are that
It win be effective. It will be orderly, attended
largely by students with no radical bent, and aimed
toward a definite end.
The march will take place because so many
of the students at this University have realized
the importance of granting the individual rights
guaranteed in our laws to every individual.
Get some fresh air this afternoon. Take a walk
to City Hall.
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John Defrain ...
at we got here ...
"lama radical.
I'm so radical you just
wouldn't believe it: I'm
against the war, the draft,
racism, compulsory school
attendance, violence, parking
meters. Humphrey-Wallace-Nixon-McCarthy,
the Presi
dency, Congress, grades, cir
cumcision, curriculum, pris
on, teachers who lecture,
Time Magazine, taxes, the
Omaha World-Herald, contrac
tors, dormitories; and I think
Ramparts is Establishment.
BUT ALL that is beside the
point. You see, before being
a radical, the fact that I am
a human being comes first.
What I believe doesn't really
matter.
Whit I am is what matters.
What I am is what matters,
ters.
And when you get right
down to the bottom of each
one of us human beings, you
find that we're all the same:
we're all basically messed up.
Messed up in the sense that
we don't REALLY know
what this whole scene is all
about. We don't really know
why we are alive or what
we're to do with our lives.
A rather precarious posi
tion. AND SO WHAT do we do?
Our insecurity causes hostili
ty. And the hostitlity we take
out on somebody else.
For example, take me, the
radical type: Picturing me
walking down the street in
my typical attire (I wear my
typical attire the days when
I'm not working at a job when
I have to dress up a bit).
Here I am walking down the
street in my hush puppies
blue jeans, khaki army shirt,
peace button, mustache, long
hair, stupid smile.
Here I am walking down
the street, thinking all the
time: "Hey, DeFrain, you're
really hot stuff. Look at that
straight over there with the
grey suit, black wing tips,
clack Italian-made umbrella,
conventionally-cut hair. He'll
work for General Electric as
a manager when he graduates
and dictate memos about
washing machine dials to his
secretary for forty years.
Wow."
When I catch my self doing
this, I know that I, too, am
a bigot. For a bigot is any
person who looks at any other
person and can instantly
despise him.
And why can you instantly
despise another person?
Maybe because you despise
yourself a bit. Maybe because
you realize how messed up
you are.
We're all messed u p .
Scared, confused, uncertain,
crouched and ready to spring.
I can't really explain it to you
on paper, but I don't have
to explain it. You know how
it is yourself.
SO IF YOU, dressed in a
grey suit, black wing tips,
etc-, etc., spy me, dressed in
blue jeans, khaki army shirt,
etc., etc., walking down the
street, don't ignore me. Don't
spit at me. Don't tell me to
get a haircut.
And I won't tell you what
I think is wrong with you.
Instead, let's both try to
stop and say to each other,
hand in hand: "Come, let us
reason together."
And then walk off into the
sunset, understandingly, to
Tom and Millie's Tavern for
a few beers. And over the
beer we will talk about how
messed up we all are.
Now, this column may seem
to the reader to have ended
on a silly note. But I assure
you it didn't. I just added the
humor because I get self
conscious trying to put down
my most sincere thoughts. I
become afraid that someone
will laugh at them or not be
favorable, and so I protect
myself by jesting a bit before
the reader gets his chance to
react.
At any rate, though it ends
up silly, the thought is there.
And the idea is that we have
to get together and talk to
each other. Man has to. No
lie.
Jack Todd
Come on now, Jack. That
was quite a hot potato you
dropped in our hands Thurs
day. You know, the editorial,
"Student power: the
catalyst." Perhaps I already
agree with you, perhaps I'm
already a quasi-SDS'er
chomping down on the
backside of The Establish
ment, but I wouldn't want to
use your editorial as my
manifesto.
I mean, who could keep a
straight face quoting, a la
Mao's red book and his
cadres, such inspired prose
as: "... We are still pro
ducing officers to run an im
moral war; we are still pro
ducing executives to continue
the corporate domina
tion .. . ?"
"I'D BUY the immoral war
bit though "immoral" is
redundant, but the gross con
demnation of corporations?
Don't tell me the men who
created my sexy, new, im
proved peppermint-pistachio
toothpaste hang around with
, . . No, not that.
I must have a point, and
I guess, as much as anything,
I want substantiation. My
appetite for atrocity stories,
fed first by accounts of Nazi
World War II activities, then
by Robert Ruark's Mau Mau
fictions, and finally by Viet
nam via Ramparts and Biafra
via Life, Newsweek and
Time, is vast and unlimited.
I know what Student
Powerists want Look, Time
and Newsweek again and
I felt tears during Chicago.
So don't you think you'd do
better service for the vast
numbers who don't remember
Dow to sock it to them with
documented facts? Just the
facts, and none of this soap
box anarchist stuff, please.
There, see what you've
made me do? For two years,
I've carefully cultivated my
apathy, have allowed my eyes
to glaze to filter The Light,
and have avoided such news
worthy congregations as sit
ins, be-ins, love-Ins, and
woodman spare this tree
ins. And you, with one dubious
editorial, have spoiled that.
See if you rest securely in
your newsprint domination of
campus views. (With all due
. respect, I can't bring myself
to call it "news.") If some
day you feel a seething under
current swoop down through
the Rag newsroom, do worry:
it will be I, chomping at your
backside.
Yours,
Doug G. Thomas
Daily Nebraskan
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Dear Editor:
If Carmichaels, R a p p
Browns, and E 1 d r i d g e
Cleavers are spokesmen for
the Black people, I pity them
Why don't you creeps do
a little studying, instead of
marching on a man's property-.
SEEMS TO me a citizen
should be able to rent to
whom he pleased. Besides I'd
be leery about renting to a
black student for fear he'd
burn me down or loot my
property.
Chambers said the black
man was going to take what
he wants.
Well, this is my country
also, and I'll have my "slice
of pie" in the American way.
If some of these creeps
would wash, shave and cut
their hair, they might get
somewhere.
White Power
Militant Taxpayer
Dear Sir:
The frenzied grasp .for
power by those who are con
vinced they can do things
better is now a generic level
character of Homo sapiens,
not the holy property of
students. As an educator
committed to objectivity and
human use of human brains,
I have only one comment re:
"BALONEY."
Sincerely,
John Janovy, Jr.
Assistant Professor
these restraints. That's why "Gosh, Rodney, when you
they believe in free "excuse look into my eyes like that
the word love."
"Ugh! Those scientists are
right. Free love certainly has
no place in our free enterprise
system."
"But don't you see, Millie?
The basic problem, if I can
speak frankly, is that because
these beatniks believe in
licentious free love, they're
going to forgive me out
breed us Conservatives."
"I don't see the connection,
Rodney."
"JUST TAKE my word for
it. Unless we do something,
they'll overpopulate the world
with little Left Wing radicals.
They'll overwhelm us by
sheer numbers."
"Oh, Rodney, what can we
do?"
"Well, first let me put your
Guy Lombardo record on in
case anyone's eavesdropping.
There. Then I'll just pull
these shades. You never know
who's watching. There. Now
come close and I'll whisper
my plan."
"It's up to each of us to
do his or her part, Millie, to
save this great country of
ours."
"And when your voice goes
all husky like that, Rodney
, -
'SOME1JMES MILLIE,
we have to violate the con
ventional morality in order to
preserve it. Sometimes, we
have to sacrifice ourselves on
the altar of freedom to keep
our Nation strong "
"Oh, Rodney, when you
take my hand in yours like
that, I just melt inside. I'll
do anything you ask."
"Anything?"
"Anything."
"I knew I could count on
you, by golly. Meet me in
front of the Youth for Wallare
Headquarters after breakfast
and we'll pass out these
bumper stickers. They say,
'STAMP OUT (forgive me,
Millie) SEX!' "
Chronicle Features
Inside report . . .
Labor vs. Wallace
Detroit Michigan's Democratic-labor coali
tion last week quietly but drastically curtailed its
efforts to register votes in white working-class
neighborhoods, the newest evidence of profound
pessimism over curbing the Wallace revolution by
Election Day.
Indeed, both labor leaders and Democratic
politicians concede privately that their belated
campaign to wean the white unionized worker away
from George Wallace is a long-shot. And this glum
prognosis directly affects Democratic registration
strategy.
JUST A MONTH ago, party chieftains were
convinced that the key to victory in Michigan was
registration of voters in normally Democratic areas
who were purged from the rolls for failue to
vote in 1966. This failure to vote was especially
high in industrialized Macomb County adjoining
Detroit, a Democratic stronghold. While it was
recognized that some of those purged were potential
votes for Wallace or Nixon, party leaders
determined on a calculated risk to register them
anyway.
That decision was reversed last week by the
United Auto Workers (UAW), which supplies most ,
of the money and manpower for the registration
drive. Alarmed by the Wallace tide in Macomb
County, the union quietly pulled in its registration
horns.
Instead, the registration drive which closes
Friday (Oct. 4) is now concentrating on Detroit's
inner city, where four out of five Black voters
can be expected to vote for Humphrey if they
get to the polls. In sum, the unregistered black
is apt to be for Humphrey; the unregistered white
is apt to be for Wallace.
Despite the pessimism, an anti-Wallace cam
paign aimed at white workers is under way. Doug
Fraser, head of UAW's Chrysler division and one
of President Walter Reuther's ablest lieutenants,
runs the campaign in the union's Solidarity House,
ffn downtown Detroit at state Democratic head
quarters, a "Wallace desk" was established (undor
the direction of Sid Woolner, aide to Sen. Philip
A. Hart) to coordinate with Solidarity House.
But like so much of the Humphrey campaign,
this effort comes pathetically late. Although a
private poll conducted for Reuther 18 months ago
revealed rising Wallace strength in UAW locals,
the union's leaders shrugged it off. On our last
visit here in July, labor and party officials con
fidently predicted that Wallace was hurting Nixon
more than Humphrey and had peaked, anyway.
Such talk now has disappeared.
Apart from the lateness of the hour, however,
nobody knows how best to sour the union members
on Wallace. Party leaders doubt that labor's
emphasis on bread-and-butter issues has much Im-
pact on today's affluent workers.
ON THE OTHER hand, labor strategists scoff
at proposed leaflets linking Wallace with Louisiana
racist Leander Perez and the Ku Klux Klan.fearing
they might help rather than hurt Wallace with
racially motivated white workers.
Potentially most effective is the theme that
Wallace is a force for disorder, not order. Facing
Wallace hecklers in suburban Taylor Township last
week for the first time in his vice-presidential
thir!fal8nSe1- Edmund Muskie eloquently silenced .
y dec,a!;in tha Wallaceite separatist
clttrfind""1 hat my f3ther Came t0 this
mmILtri',th,,h0rWetver' Muskie's eloquence, UAW
Democratic leaflets, or paid political broadcasts
instruSlK' WOrkers' The most effve
t r is union shP stewards and
taS2 S6!!; ?!8 intense Walla, sentiment
not rd ?v tllat e,ected union officials will
not risk all-out anti-Wallace missionary work for
fear of jeopardizing their union jobs
tirtZfZtTl11' rrkera are kP ,n contatnt
stale or agitation not so much by Wallace aeents
nIlna!Iy' , the gaP between the urbane
fanSSe,ead atfSoUdary HoU and their
ranK-ana-fiie is massive. That is whv WBit.r '
wlThthGeohrgSe reverses
worker Tt or ihe soold of the auto
37 act that Re"ther can no longer with
confidence register his own men to vote mJs?
the cause of some chortling down in Montgomery!
(o) 1(61, PubUahara-HaU Srad.
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