liAUidoscdpE mr: milwaukee, Wisconsin mm member: underground press syndicote (u.p.s.) W* liberation news service (l.n.s.) SEPT. 26 - Oa. 9, 1969 VOL 2 #21 (#46) 25< ieautiful for Spacious

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The Guat (Ink* Renewal Ctmpiueg By Dennis Gall land in line with a 1964 ruling black community to keep things black voices that are saying in court convenes at Epworth Me­ An attempt to build a real that residents, displaced by ur­ quiet. What Maier is accomplish­ effect, 'we don't want to move thodist church, 2nd & Garfield, Model City in Milwaukee's In­ ban' renewal were to be given ing if anything is driving the out, we want to control and de­ Sun., Oct. 5 at 7:00 pm. This ner Core has been thwarted by the first opportunity to develop middleclass blacks out into the velop our own communities.' But is a chance for the prisoner to Mayor Maier and his crew of the land. Maier and Katz told suburbs and compressing the poor then, those are not the black try the real criminals. Milsap white niggers. Soul Brother's Soul Brothers that if they got into already over-crowded leaders Maier has 'chosen' to said, "We'd like to have Maier Development Corporation had [ the financing they would be be­ houses. The plan submitted by lead the black community. there, but we're not going to hoped to turn 104 acres of Kil- hind them. Recently, they went Soul: Brothers would have meant Milsap also announced that on harrass him. There will be or­ bourn Town No. 3 into a city in back with their present proposal that blacks would control a fi­ Oct. 5, the black community was der. This is a chance for those itself, with low income housing and got a deaf ear from Katz, nancially secure community— going to hold a people's court who don't have the money to for large families, light indus­ despite the fact that they had this apparently is not what Maier to try Maier, Katz, Perrin, and buy justice, to air their griev- try, and a sound and secure tax a million dollar letter of cre-r wants at all. While he yells about "so-called Negro leaders and •'ances.** Milsap promised more base which would have prevented dit from the Chase Manhattan the suburbs and discrimination other Toms" for plotting anJLJf- detailed information on the con­ Bank. Maier, himself, said no­ in them, he refuses to hear the ban Renewal Conspiracy. The spiracy for the next issue. the area from reverting to a thing, but his boy, Richard Per- slum in twenty or thirty years. rin, city development director, And two years ago, it looked made Maier's position clear. As like their plan might just suc­ James Milsap of Soul Brothers ceed. What they didn't bank on said, "they slammed the door was the adept political shifts of in our-sface." tricky Henry, who always knows Why Maier refused is clear which way the shit flies. to Milsap, "for them to allow Two years ago, Soul Develop­ a whole area to be developed by ment Incorporated, approached indigenous people would mean Maier and Larry Katz of the he's (Maier) through." Maier's Federal Housing Authority with power base in the black their plan. The plan was to re­ community comes from his Un­ locate the residents of the Kil- cle Tom Ministers who elected boura town area on the same Maier from the pulpit. The story becomes even worse when we take a look at what is going M i I waukee to be done to the Kilbourn town No. 3 area. The first parcel of land (22 Area Draft acres) went to Mortgage Guar­ anty Insurance Corp. for $1,250 per block. Mortgage Guaranty will charge $17,000 to $23,000 Information for the homes they are going to build there. The Federal Gov­ ernment under special plan 236 Center allows $17,500 maximum, while Mortgage Guaranty is charging The Milwaukee Area Draft In­ that as a minimum. Also, un­ formation Center (MADIC) an­ like South Brothers, which would nounced the moving of its fa­ have operated under the federal program with only one per cent cilities from Rhubarb bookstore v to a recently opened storefront interest, Mortgage Guaranty is at 1611 W. State st. using convention 6% financing, At the new location the MA­ and in the words of Milsap, "It's DIC staff will offer draft coun­ out of range of the poof." seling every weekday afternoon Milsap and Soul Brothers are and evening and all day Satur­ angry ,and they raise some in­ day. There are about ten draft teresting questions. "Why did counselors available at various HUD (Housing and Urban Devel­ times who are backed by a num­ opment) allow the city the money ber of Milwaukee area lawyers. for Kilbourn town 3 when they On the weekends the store­ were not meeting federal quali­ front will serve also as a coffee fications. They have not provided KATZ. house for servicemen who visit for housing for those displaced Milwaukee on weekend liberty. by the project." Milsap asks, •Plus K>1 ow*» Military counseling will be avail­ "Is Henry Maier this powerful able at that time for any ser­ that he can run rough shod over vicemen who are seeking aid in anyone?" Milsap also conjects exercising their constitutional that most of this land will not rights or who* are in need of go to the poor, but to Marquette lawyers. University which has been eye­ Anyone seeking any type of ing the land for dormitory sites. ttteW Suvm RACISM ^o information concerning the Se­ He also asks, "why in an area' lective Service System is invited where people have ten or twelve to stop at the MADIC office children are they building one weekdays from one until 8 pm, bedroom houses?" or Saturdays from 9 am until Mayor Maier has long used Spm. certain Tom elements in the REPRINTED FROM THE MILWAUKEE STAR iKALEIDOSCOPE September 26-October 9, 1969 PAGE 3 I Resign iI

September 4, 1969 fare until recently.-1 had though? DIVISION OF FAMILY SERVICES that social work was a "help­ ing profession" and my impres­ TO: Mr. James D. Matthews, sion was that I had been hired District Director to "help people." Now the full FROM: Mr. Donald E. Newville, reality of the budget bill has As st. District Director materialized. The sudden death of the AFDC-U and AFDC-step- I hereby submit my resignation children programs, the cutback effective today, Thursday, Sep­ in assistance allowances, the tember 4, 1969. I regret that willingness of my fellow employ­ I cannot give you the required ees to comply with the new laws, 15 days' notice. The duties I has clarified for me the violent would be asked to carry out nature of my job. These laws during that time would be con­ will force fathers to abandon trary to my conscience. I do their families so the mother not have other employment nor and children can qualify for wel­ have I sought any. fare. That is violence and is I will attempt to show you why harming people, not helping them. I must resign today. If I fail The reduced allowances for those to clearly communicate my rea­ who do qualify are bound to sons to you now, perhaps my cause hunger, illness, and so­ future actions and life style will cial breakdowns. That, too, is more adequately demonstrate that violence— government sanction­ which I am trying to say. ed, legalized violence that I am In the past two years I have expected to administer. ~ come to see the futility of vio­ I am forced to stop abruptly lence, and have been appalled at and examine where I am and the growing rates of violence what I am willing to do. I am in our country. I now realize forced to choose between these that the only hope for humanity violent duties in the sytem and . is to practice non-violence. We my commitments to non-violence. must learn to love one another, I find that to be consistent with to share all that we have and myself and to retain my dignity to give up our present notions as a human being, I must refuse of materialism and success. Dur­ to carry out these orders to ing this time I have studied the starve my fellow citizens. lives of great leaders who have I cannot conceive of contin­ advocated and lived non-violence. uing in the system and not ^be­ Men such as Jesus, Thoreau, ing involved in implementing Tolstoy, Gandhi, Ammon Hen- these laws. Therefore, I must nancy, and Martin Luther King. resign immediately. I will have This study has changed my life to suffer the consequences, what­ philosophy. I know now that I must ever they may be— however strive to be non-violent but rea­ much jeopardy they place my lize that I am a violent crea­ family in. For I must continue ture and fall far short. Recently to believe in love, and peace, I have come in personal con­ and brotherhood, regardless of tact with members of the Mil­ the cost. And I have faith that M/ONE FOR TBINIS? I#6NP€L flu/WPV&i 04f waukee 14 who also practice he who taught me all these things non-violence. Their faith, cour­ will not fail me in my hour of age, love for all men, their need. personal sacrifices for peace have touched and changed my life. Twelve of these men are now in various prisons administered by GUESS Who's MoviNq IN! the Department of Health and Social Services, the same de­ partment that I represent. Small children romped over they could use more food, elec­ I am confronted by my Chris­ grassy fields and played foot­ tric heaters and stuff like light tian heritage, particularly the ball and other games behind the bulbs, it anyone had spare stuff. teachings of Jesus as follows: once deserted Army disciplinary But for the present they were "Love your enemies; do good barracks on Milwaukee's north­ not concerned, because they had to those who hate you; bless west side, while miles away their families together and a those who curse you; pray for Army and civilian officials scrat­ roof over their heads. those who treat you spitefully. ched their heads and tried to de­ "Wonderful Wisconsin Week" When a man hits you on the termine who had the right to kick wouldn't begin until Monday, but cheek, offer him the other them out. if anyone had hung up a "We Like cheek, too; when a man takes It was late Saturday afternoon it Here" sign on the door it your coat, let him have your and in the face of eviction you would have been appropriate. shirt as well. Give to every­ never would have known it from Kids...anyone...living in a crow­ one who asks you; when a man the smiles on the faces of four ded central city home like these takes what is yours, do not de­ Milwaukee area families Who had people had,- would have been dig­ mand it back. Treat others as solved their desperate^ need for ging the outdoors scene there. you would like them to treat housing. The mothers were cook­ Three families moved in you." (Luke 6:28-31) Radical ing supper after helping the others Thursday, another Friday...and ideas, these teachings of Jesus. to unload furniture from a truck,' Saturday a mother with nine kids They are in opposition to our making do with food and pots pulled up and announced she need­ materialistic culture, to our re­ they'd brought and saying "yes*' ed a place to stay. She was anxious to move in as soon as possible. tuations: liance on brute force and vio­ Her kids hadn't wanted to come A father of six, employed as lence to protect our property, at first but when she was ready a factory worker, with a wife to collect the taxes, to subdue to go that night they didn't want who quit work under doctor's the enemy. Completely contrary to leave. orders, said he's been looking to laws that place people in re­ Ted Seaver, an official at the for housing since early in July. strictive categories before they Inner City Development Project Their landlady in Oak Creek are eligible for assistance. on the south side and advisor to told them she decided to sell I am convinced that these the Milwaukee Tenants Union, the house they lived in and they teachings of Jesus are abso­ which pulled off the housing move, were evicted September 15. lutely essential if life is to con­ was enjoying it an much as the Their big house hunting pro­ tinue on this planet. The men rest. He helped haul furniture blems, of course, were finances who have lived by his princi­ down from the truck being un­ and family—nobody wanted te­ ples have proven their validity. loaded and said things were com­ nants with^six kids. "As soon Jesus said, "By their fruits you ing along fine. Four apartments as they hear you have six kids shall know them." And these were opened already, with the they slam the phone' on your men, Gandhi, King, and many biggest family getting two which ear," the husband said. others, have borne fruits of were connected, he said. Inside A family of ten, with chil­ love, compassion, and peace. one lower apartment was a make­ dren aged three through six­ On the other hand, men who have shift bulletin board holding news-; teen years old, said they were chosen violence have borne fruits paper clippings about the unusual tossed out of their.building on . of terror—men like Hitler, Sta­ move. In various places, tables September 15 after the struc­ lin, and Lyndon Johnson. and chairs were in place and ture was condemned for 22 code As I have struggled with this someone was bottle feeding ai violations in their structure unit philosophy of non-violence, my two month old baby girl. alone. Both parents, in this case, role in the welfare system has Seaver explained that even- are working. Again, they'd been become increasingly difficult. I jally they'd have licensed tea- unable to find any place that have kept silent with great ef­ ;hers right on location but mean­ would take such a large family. fort. At times I have thought that while the kids of school age would A 49-year-old widow caring the welfare system could yield be bussed into their former for her four children and a grand­ some good and that I should work schools during the week. child said she was ordered to within it "to build an effective They'd come a long way since vacate A her house Sept. 12 be­ delivery system." Then, too, I moving in and expected more cause city health inspectors found felt I should fulfill my stipend new neighbors in the barracks it unfit for human habitation. obligation which does not expire by the time an open-house was There were 2u code violations until May, 1970. So I tried to through Sunday, though there were on the structure in her unit. make the necessary compro­ stories they might be asked to The woman said she-was pay­ mises. But I know now that the leave Monday. ing $105 a month for that six effort is futile because of the None of the families who made room unfurnished flat, complete violent nature of the system. that big first move Thursday with rats. She said she was in I did not become fully aware chose to identify themselves by the midst of buying a home un- of this violent nature in wel­ name, but here's how they des­ cribed themselves and their si­ CONTD. P.9 PAGE 4 September 26-October 9, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE

when I say "a jammed house.'*" they ever get Seriously burned, now. And there are many other to you some of the other ob­ I really think you are ignor­ they'll be coming right here, to obscene things in our society scenities of the system. What \ ing the greater portion of the St. Mary's. Fifth floor. South that are tolerated by the mass­ about the gross exploitation of hip public, and going for the side, facing the south, for ad­ es in our society—like war, and sex in advertising? What could older crowd. ults. East side, for children. pictures of mutilated bodies from be more grossly suggestive (ob­ letters war (preferably those of the en- scene) than the old Noxema ad Like I said, think about a My 4 year old neice came from place like the Village Church, Two Rivers, 90 miles by am­ emyj which are daily published with the Swedish bombshell pant­ believe me, it would work, I bulance. The burn center is spe­ in "respectable" newspapers and ing, "Take it off, take it off, should know, I work there. I'm cial, too. It was a rough 8 weeks. magazines. No, the real issue take it all off" with the strip­ the emcee on Fridays and 200 Up there it's hard for everyone. with Kaleidoscope is the pure per music in the background? people can't be wrong. Thank I CONFESS: I called the po­ and simple fact that this pub­ And there are many others too you. lice. Once. Early Summer. In lication provides severe but of­ numerous to mention. Besides, I am, the wee hours. Sounded like some­ ten constructive criticism of in­ I might get sick. The violence Mr. Radio body down at the lakefront was competent, insincere, hypocriti­ that pervades the commercial P.S. Now that winters here and screaming, groaning. And I cal law enforcement ..personnel, channels on the idiot box and the fountains closed, where should thought maybe somebody needed archaic legislation, and people in the movies is also quite sick these people go??? use your HEAD help. with vested economic interests. and obscene. I REMEMBER: A girl, stabbed The power structure cannot take I have purposely avoided use to death, 3 years ago. Some­ it, so they do stupid things like of any "obscene" words in this body heard her scream, but- te Electric Company has done. letter for fear that they might Bullshit thought it was party-types, goof­ But just for the sake of ar­ offend your senses, Mr. Sprin­ ing off or horsingaround—they'd gument, let me deal with you ger. Long live Kaleidoscope and heard that so often. on your terms and assume that its courageous publisher for tell­ To Kaleidoscope: I WONDER: How—to tell the Kaleidoscope is obscene (al­ ing and printing the truth! This is not a bullshit revo­ difference. though the courts have not de­ Sincerely, lution. Sincerely, clared it so). You ask why Kal­ Robert J. Kreuziger The mule is sterile and de­ Joan Krofta eidoscope personnel use obscene 2817 N. Cramer St. pends on other breeds for exis­ 2236 N. Terrace language? I think that the an­ tence. The movement is fast swer lies in the fact that this become sterile as a mule. system they live under is ob­ Would I be correct in saying scene. In order to communicate it is a mule shit revolution?' Jesus Christ! with that system, they must have A female comes up with the a common language. Obscenity revolutionary idea of forming provides the key. The Kaleido­ what amounts to a Ladies Aux- Dear Kaleidoscope: scope people think that white Woodstock Use Your < iliary! The average male mem­ I have been reading your pa­ racism, cut-throat competition bers of the movement lets his per since the very beginning, of our great American private Head hair grow long and wanders and as far as I and a lot of enterprise system, our economy Dear Editor, Dear Mr. Kpis: around trying to get laid. These my friends are concerned the built on bloodshed and war, the I thought I'd write you and say How you can stand there and actions are understandable and most socially redeeming part maimed, suffering, and dying in thanks for yourpaper. I live out yell and scream about the rock * very human but revolutionary? of Kaleidoscope has been "Je-*- Vietnam, poverty, untended men­ in the sticks ana nave no way of scene in Milwaukee being nearly I would like to see Kaleido­ sus Christ." tal illness, and starvation .at knowing what's happening except dead is way beyond my com­ scope print an occasional arti­ My question now is: JESUS' home are all obscene things. The for Kaleidoscope. prehension. cle by someone like Melody Kil- CHRIST, WHERE'S JESUS dictionary defines obscenity as I just returned from the Music ...a little revival as far as ian. It is possible that such CHRIST! that which is offensive to the and Art Festival (in Woodstock). playing in parks goes, but ahh, reading will start an occasional Cordially,* senses. This definition, inciden­ I had a 4-day weekend from work c'mon now, use your HEAD. reader thinking of revolutionary A wondering reader. tally goes beyond the area of and I drbve" over 1,000 miles one First as a start, the last big changes in our society instead sex. The things that I have list­ way. I spent $40 on gas, $17 on deal at the stadium was not of play acting the part of a ed above are obscene. The recent tolls, $18 on tickets I didn't need. necessarily the doings of a group revolutionist. To The action of our state legislature Walked 12 miles through the of east side heads, which means Yes, it is a sterile, mule to starve welfare recipients and Catskills, went through mud up they were only looking up for shit revolution. However, it is Journal undereducate their children and to my ankles, no food, no fresh a dollar ->sign, rather than a the only one we have. countless others is obscene. This water, slept two people in a good tyme. I hope that Kaleidoscope will Dear Mr. Springer, Milw. Journal is offensive to my senses and compact car, becoming unable You ought to say something: continue to be honest and print CC: Kaleidoscope all other people sensitive to hu­ to move my legs for two days for the kids who used their "what is, not what should be." man suffering. without considerable pain. Didn't HEADS and weren't exploited like C. Jances This letter is in regard to The people at Kaleidoscope are get to see any groups although I we usually are. Milwaukee your printed letter in THE sick to their stomach about the did manage to groove on some I think the thing at UWM was JOURNAL on this date. You are system's lies about our "demo­ sounds on Saturday. more tragic than the stadium. wrong when you accuse the peo­ cratic" way of life; lies about Upon return home I was ques­ Secondly, if your 'stunned' at ple on the KALEIDOSCOPE staff our Judeo-Christian heritage; the tioned if it was worth it. God yes I the fact that good hangouts like Smiles? of printing nothing but obsceni­ hypocricies of most churches Just to see those beautiful people- O'Brads and Galligers stand emp­ ties. You say that you have seen and clergymen. It is enough to helping each other any way they ty, 1'Htell you why. Dear Mr. Kois: KALEIDOSCOPE, but it is ob­ make any sane sensitive person could. They, like L traveled great Even if you want to get in While I was happy to see the vious that you have not READ turn to te language of obscenity distances and weren't about to you can't. Say you're 15, 16, resolution passed by the Mara­ it. in order to get the obscene sys­ let anything stop them from en­ 17 years old, they won't let you thon County Young Republican Let us face the facts, Mr. tem to understand and do some- joying every minute of it. in because of you-know-what and Executive Committee was print­ Springer. Anyone who is honest thin about it. The only problem The event was good but not all that B.S. ...then there are ed in Kaleidoscope I was dis­ and has an ounce of intelligence is that the obscene system will great, but the people were too reasons like "Ma won't let me tressed to see my title given knows that obscenity is not the not accept the message—they beautiful. Would do it tomorrow down there" etc. as Chairman of die Marathon issue regarding Kaleidoscope. It are getting the message, they again if I could. This may sound like shit to County Republic Party. I am the is just an excuse to abolish it. just will not accept it and cope Peace, you, but you're not 15, 16, or chairman of the Young Repub­ If this were not the case, the with it. Selfish, vested interests K.K. 17 years old anymore. NO your licans of this county. half dozen or possibly more prevent them from doing so in 28...and like it or not, your I would greatly appreciate a "skin" shops on Wisconsin Ave­ all walks of life. getting old. Because the kids Clarification of this made. nue would be closed down by In conclusion, I would cite that are in the above age brac­ Sincerely, ket, including greasers, heads, Bill Smiley, Chairman teeny-boppers, soul brothers, Marathon County Young Rep. etc. are the people that dig this kind of scene, with good groups and music and no regular nightly place to go...except Fountain O'Brads which generally ca­ ters to people in your age bra- Dear People: ket who don't give a damn if From next to the Fountain: its there or not. GOOD: the many, wonderful If you think something isn't people who came to the People's being done about it, no one cares Park in Peace (a lot of times if a place like this opens up the sleeping was_ easy up here), for kids of the east side, then BAD: the yelling, screeching this is an invitation to go down and screaming few. The rev-it- to THE JUNEAU VILLAGE up motorcycles and some cars, CHURCH, (an indoors peoples too. Blaring radios. park), and dig it, cause thats WISH: there were some way about all thats left. to reach them—I'm not against If any of you readers have parties per se, but there are been there you know what I mean other places to make noise, -ft

KALEIDOSCOPE PUBLISHING COMPANY Post Office Box 5457 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 EDrrOR /PUBLISHER John Kois ASST EDITOR Dennis Gall ttl dOCUniQUtaril CAVIE CAGRESS Janis Wisniewsid ENERGY SOURCE Gary Ballsieper DARK ROOM ^Mark Ponto ART FOR ART'S SAKE Beverly Eschenberg MR. FIX-rr Jim Sorcic INTERIOR DECORATOR Jennie Orvino CALENDAR * Craig Kois FRIEND OF THE FAMILY Gloria Gehrman OTHER VIP's: Everyone else who's been around, is around, or will be around. JOY! JOY! JOYI JOY! JOY! JOY! JOYI JOYI JOY! JOY! JOY! JOY! Published and distributed by The Kaleidoscope Publishing Company. 8:Wpm UIM FIMABTSJfO National Advertising Representative: Michael Forman, Concert Hall Publications, Inc., 309 South Easton Road, Glenside, PA. 19038. Phone: (215) TU 7-9224. m Application to mail at second class postage rates is pending at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Good night, Mrs. Calabash, whatever you are! admission: $!$$$£< iiniuiinnmtiiiiimiiHHininninmiimiiiiinimniiiiinuam imiinniiiiiiunt KALEIDOSCOPE September 26-October 9, 1969 PAGE 5 The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get... FROM BACK COVER page editorial endorsing the f ree- pleased with nothing less than know-how to pull it all together. music-in-t h e-p ark idea and a blood bath, others took care The Journal, in an editorial strongly chastising the Park not to step on the grass. There on the Subject, accused the de­ Commission. It became obvious •were no leaders, because those monstrators of attacking the then that the battle had been who might have chose not to wrong target. It was their con­ won, and that next summer there and those who tried to had no tention that PAC administrators will be regular, probably weekly, followers. simply manage the place, and free concerts in the park. And the cops were there in- that the real target should be But by then the planned de­ force. At least 100 uniformed cop3 the promoters who rent and use monstration at the PAC had grown protected the building itself, while* the halls. Management, after all, to include many minority groups, dozens of plain'clothesmen cir­ cannot establish ticket prices and the issues grew to include culated among the crowd trying and seating arrangements; that them all. If the PAC'served to look nonchalant as they peeked is up to the individual promo­ to illustrate the rights of main­ over shoulders. In addition to ters. But to attack the problem stream culture versus the rights the cops on the scene, dozens' from that angle would be to in­ of alternative culture, the struc­ more were scattered in parking sure defeat, since the struggle ture also served to illustrate how lots east of the PAC—just in would quickly bog down in end­ a city and county that could not case!—and still another force less negotiations with dozens of solve problems of food and hous­ waited inside City Hall, h was promoters, booking agents, thea­ ing for its citizens could still the most massive show of police tre companies and the like. function efficiently enough to put force since the NAACP Youth In fact, there would be little together, with large doses of tax Council marches to the south difficulty in PAC management money, an arts center complex side. incorporating the demands into that would serve primarily subur­ There were a half dozen ar­ the contracts they sign for ren­ ban interests. rests, but they seemed almost tals.. PAC management will make It was a question of priori­ accidental. The cops appeared decisions as to who they allow ties, is all. And the PAC raised to be under orders to use all into the halls, and they are the question as dramatically as possible restraint, and so they able to make decisions concern­ did the moon shot. Both are nice amused themselves in the fashion ing how the halls will be used. fine accomplishments in an ad­ of good tin soldiers everywhere. They have the power, and before vanced technological society, but Even the Tac Squad, minus Sgt. it's all over they will probably to expend time and energy on Miller, seemed less dangerous. have to use it. frills when the food we eat, the Still, the sight was strange and —By J. Richards homes we live in, and even the revealing: Milwaukee's elite en­ air we breathe are all inadequate tering the Performing Arts Cen­ is simply to rush faster towards ter through a cordon of police, the holocaust we all sense and the police there to protect them dread. from the people the PAC was Welfare Hatchet Job The demonstration itself was a, allegedly built to serve. mild affair, as demonstrations And the first-nighters were By Margaret Knipel the poor than Merkel and his 84^506 receive some type of pub­ these days go. The entire spec­ visibly upset. It was meant to The state legislature of Wis­ cohorts. However, the word is lic assistance. 64.5% of those trum of the left was represen­ be, after all, their event. That's consin is

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The pelicans are cruising over the rocks- The pelicans are crui need this space for myself." sing far out beyond the reach of casting rods and our long lense "Nancy needs a new salad bowl. Ka d cameras. DDT has broken their love. There is so little time ren needs a handle for her paint brush. Ityan needs a new clip f left for the getting of a few clear pictures. We cannot reach t or her hair. Renita needs paper for her poems." The trees fall hem except to kill them. We cannot touch them nor hold them in t and the cut forest is burned over. Each tree felled with humili he immortality of our eyes or long lensed cameras. They will no ty to be given into the hands of craftsmen is-matched by a hundr t co-operate with us. The grace of their flight is all they wil ed thousand more for the building of the tracts spreading outwar 1 give. d from our cities. The cold fingers of our servant of death has touched th How simple it is for us to kill and butcher. eir nests, shriveled the fruit of their sex. Even out on the fa How easy it is for us to smother the earth and claw her open. rthest rocks, the cold grey fingers have touched each egg and ro tted each shell. If you really believe all is one and you understand how the whee How can you live each day as a new day? How c Is of balance are being broken and bent askew, how can you play? an you smile over things so clumsily done? The crimes under you r name pile up around you like the white crust formed on the bla We look around us and see that our cities are ugly and poison th ck rocks where the pelicans nest on their dead young. e earth and the sky and the water. We see that the machines of The poiso our minds are cold and infected with avarice and murder. We see ned glove of our servant has shaken our hand and left to do our the tools in our hands are corpses stolen from the life of the e bidding. He whispers our names as he stops the flight of flies arth without love or respect. and moths and birds: "This is for John and Susie." When will you tire of your unreal "This is for pettiness? Help us. Help yourself. Clear your name from the m Mary and Marty and Douglas and Kathy." he says as the earth dar illions of ears who have knowledge of you through your servants. kens and chokes as the concrete closes over it. It is our grava How can you smile? Clear your name as you clear the earth, the air, and the water. The small fish scatter. Scum floats above t Help us. Help yourself. hem, casting shadows as the garbage" tumbles down. The garbage r ecites our names in bubbles of putrid gas. "I am for Robert and Look around Bichard and Thomas and Michael. You cannot live here anymore. I you. Understand. 11 * 4

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BY JERRY TAKIGAWA AND JOHN HAMAMURA One day I woke up and could not breathe. All that day and through the days after, in the green parks and in the rooms of friends and even beside the sea, I could not breathe. The air was used up. Each thing I saw that was beautiful was doomed. Each thing I saw that was ugly was ugly because of man-- man-made or man-touched. And so I left my friends and lived alone* The country side was beautiful, but it also was doomed. Men came and cut the trees and built roads and fences. They spread poison to kill the insects and weeds they did not like. With the rain the poison spread down the sloped land. For years there were bare streaks from the base of the hills into the pastures and fields. They pointed to these streaks and remarked of how potent the poison had been. With the rain and the wind, the poison spreads across the thing jumped, the hawk ignored it. He just lay somberly on the earth. It seeps into the fibers of plants and animals ten thou wind and watched the yellow grass turn steadily black. sand miles from where it was first laid down. It enters the mo I saw th uths of insects, birds and fishes; it sticks in their flesh. It is on Wednesday, July 30, 1969* travels the currents of the seas. It returns to us through our i ^ i food no matter how carefully that food was grown. It seeps into the flesh of our babies through the blood and milk of their mot WILD LIFE IN GAME PRESERVES STOP INDIANS IN RESERVATIONS STOP FI hers. Poison, spreading and sticking, building its small house VE CHILDREN PER FAMILY STOP JOB AM) FOOD SHORTAGES STOP DESPERAT of death around itself. ION ALIENATION RAPE RIOT WAR STOP PELICAN CORMORANT FALCON TDRTL Understand there is no place where a m E DINOSAUR STOP LEMMINGS BLACK PLAGUE INDIA CHINA STOP PEOPLE NO an cannot live— no place too hot or too Cold, no ocean so dark T JUNK SAYS PRESIDENT STOP WHITE TRASH FILTHY JEW RED PIG NIGGER nor planet so far away that we cannot touch it, establish our f WOP CHINK JAP STOP PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE STOP TOO MUCH EQUALS USE irst small houses, settle and grow into Los Angeles or New York, LESS EQUALS JUNK STOP ASK ANY COMPUTER STOP MAKE IT TO LAST AT As we are, so are our works: our cities, machines, poisons... LEAST AS LONG AS YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN LIVE STOP WHO SAID THA T STOP NOT A GOOD AMERICAN STOP FOR MANKIND STOP FOR LOVE OF GOD I no longer live alone and apart from those I love. To do that STOP NOW YAHOO STOP IT is to do what the poison did to the land. You cannot remove th e things you do not like without removing some of which you lov LAWNS AROUND THE EDGES OF PARKING LOTS STOP RIVERS WITH BANKS OF e. CONCRETE STOP BEARS AND LOBOS IN THE ZOO STOP PLANTS IN PLASTIC There are still places you can go and live until you die wi POTS STOP PLASTIC PLANTS STOP LATEX VAGINAS AND DILDOES CHEAP ST thout seeing men. There are places you can go and live until y OP IT ou die without seeing anything made by any hands except your ow 4 4 4 n. You and I can do this. Often, we think we must. I know you have you own life to work out and your own soul to ca Meanwhile re for first. I know also that you are doomed. You cannot orde the poisons spread. Our cities clamor toward each other like b r either your life or your soul because of the junk which fills eaters flushing wild game from the brush. both. What is outside enters in. What is inside must come out. In the end they are the same. Junk in one contaminates the othe i i ^ er. The grass field opposite the San Francisco Airport was on fire. Understand this— to clear away the junk and the poison is Smoke blew across the freeway; a controlled burn to clear land neither enough nor good. You cannot destroy the things you do n for something; perhaps a shopping center, factory or new park ot like without also destroying some of the things you love. ing lot. To stop production of junk and poison yet maintain the production o Above the field a hawk hung in the air. This was his f truth depends upon changing the whole world. To suggest this turf. Each time a small animal broke from cover, the hawk's win is to suggest treason in every country, in every language... g dipped instinctively to dive. But each time, the hawk held ba Yet ck and slid up to his original place. After awhile whenever any is is our only hope for salvation. PAGE 8 September 26-October 9, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE1

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By Marty Jezer in prison and a $2,000 fine. But like "alternative life-style".had That winter, Hayes organized A defense committee has been Last summer we drove through even more important :, his case not yet been coined and only a peace happening on the Boston set up on his behalf. Usually, Salt Lake City on our way East is viewed as a test case. If junkies used dope. . The mds't Commons, that could probably a defense committee includes from Clifornia. Salt Lake City the government wins a convic­ militant activists, the pacifists be classified as the first be-in. names of people representing is dead and desolate, especially tion on him, they'll move to of CNVA show used to swim out The plan was to build the world's all political tendencies, so Ss in the wee hours of the morn­ destroy the entire' underground to intercept Polaris submarines largest snowman, but there was to appeal to more people. Hayes* ing. Where's the action? Nary railroad. and attempt to board them, not enough snow. Instead, these defense committee reads like a gas station is open. Only the Getting busted is not a new frowned on drugs and sex in Kids For Earth, as Hayes called a who's who of freakdom: Allen- Bus Terminal offers coffee. Our experience for Hayes. Besides' the line of duty. Hayes was a the pre-hippy hippies, frolicedin Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Fug long hair and freak clothing at­ the standard number of jailings CNVA organizer for a while,, the snow and created the first Ed Sanders, who else, plus a tract attention and two young for peace actions, there are pend­ but his lifestyle could not be ripples of underground commu­ few more straight if no less guys with crew cuts join our ing pot charges in New Hamp­ accommodated by traditional nity in Boston. radical types like Dave Dellinger. table. They're AWOL from the shire and Massachusetts (at least Movement attitudes so he split. As the psychedelic and political But setting up a committee is military. One faces a court mar­ one of wich he'll beat on appeal) In 1966 he coordinated the Bos­ left gradually merged, Hayes kept pretty dull stuff, so when Hayes tial for possession of acid. The and a probation violation in Rhode ton to Cape Cod Walk for Peace, active in both. Working for the is not writing letters, licking en­ other simply has the good sense Island, the result of a previous which one Movement historian straight movement, on the one velopes and being the gay scenes to want out. Can we help them? dope, conviction. So Hayes faces recalls as a "walkingpot party." hand, organizing be-ins, commu­ editor for WIN Magazine, he's Traditionalists in the Movement Being Movement people, we 16 years in jail, which is only nity happenings, rock concerts out on the street taking up new half of what Abbie Hoffman faces were not happy with what went on the other. And all the while causes close to his heart. Hav­ have some helpful information. on during the walk and deemed People to contact in Canada. on various charges, but is still the feds, as well as the local ing integrated peace with pot, a hunk out of a mans' life. it a failure. Hayes felt it was police, watching him and often Jim Hayes is now out organi­ A lawyer who can get them to a great success. For the first Sweden. A person with contacts The government does not like harassing him as well. zing homosexuals, a cause which left wing politicos or bi-sexual time the Movement made an "In January 1967," recalls may not endear him to the straight in France. They write all this appeal to the still-embryonic down, we wish them luck and hippy/dippy acid heads. Hayes Hayes, "this soldier called me types for whom he has to turn is both, which possibly accounts youth underground. Without any and said he wanted to talk. He to for financial support. That's it's back to the open road. We. rhetoric or sloganeering, the walk do not know if they made it for the personal attention the refused to come to my office or why he needs support from you, FBI has given him these past made the point that people in the my home, so we met at a subway the people of the community. to freedom. Movement are freer and have The underground railroad is few years. Hayes'notoriety stems stop in Dorchester." Robert His lawyers believe he has a from his activities in the peace more fun. And the kids who Keese was AWOL. "He said he good chance of winning his case, an old and cherished American watched it pass dug this fact. institution. We all know about movement prior to 1967, at a could not take military discipline, because the government indicted time when the Movement was Lessons about racism and anti- missed his wife and was scared him on the wrong law. They are the Quakers and abolitionists imperialism came later. Hayes* helping slaves slip out of the basically straight, middle-class shit about going to Vietnam." volunteering their time, but and nothing if not earnest. This basic insight was that the Move­ So Hayes gave him shelter money is needed for court ex­ Southland to freedom. Today's ment had to reach young people undergrdund railroad is largely goes back to a time when peo­ and got him safely to Canada penses. If Jim Hayes loses, the ple were concerned about the in terms of their own lives and with false identity papers. As underground railroad which has unorganized, growing up spon­ show them that there exists a taneously to meet the needs of number of people who would it turned out, Keese returned helped more than 55,000 GIs march in a peace parade or better way of living - an alter­ to his unit and in May. 1968 desert to freedom will be in jeo­ GIs who want out of the mili­ native - to the dull, boring, - tary. It's made up of all types sign an ad in the New York was given an undesirable dis­ pardy. Send money to Jim Hayes Times and worried about how dehumanizing* life-style of their charge. Two weeks later the Defense Committee, 339 La­ of people. Quakers and Move­ parents and neighbors. ment people, but also un-political respectable jftey looked. Phrases feds began investigating Hayes. fayette St., NYC 10012. freaks, liberals and straights. WaifcAi Ktf if* SrfWim tfWIA I ttfcTtnilAfVtt fcs-JS-A*WMUUWt f to >4 %t*ih*y* terfW*V4bttfc^WWWWb4bWWWtfWVtfUWttW«tftatfM*UttWtffeWMtfWtfUtfMtfWtfVtft Some work at it full time. Oth­ ers become "station-masters" and "conductors" to help out a friend, or even strangers in uniform who ask if they can help. The federal government is, of course, uptight. Early this year the feds bust­ Grand Opening! ed Jim Hayes on charges jthat he did "willfully, knowingly and unlawfully attempt and endeavor to entice and procure Robert F. Keese, Jr., being then and there a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, to desert C C C from..." Hayes faqes 3 years Vietnam JIS[TEI^A BA NQ Moratorium m c c c m "Vietnam Moratorium" is an BOOI{S rO RE attempt to revitalize the war is­ sue by calling for a national one day moratorium on "business as usual" on October 15, to be expanded each month—two days in November, three days in De­ cember and so on until the war is ended. The October Morator­ ium will encourage citizens to FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 11am to? withdraw in some way from their normal activities in order to participate in positive action within the community for an end 1668 N. Warren (off Brady) I to the war. October 15 is only the beginning of the Vietnam Moratorium. One of its major purposes is to build a base for a two day Moratorium in Nov­ ember. Participating groups will THESE - - & MORE YOU'LL DIG! choose different ways of expres­ sing their opposition to the war. ^•>»>»>»i«»>»>»>»>»i«»t«»i«»i«^«v»>»i«»>»>«l«»i«»>»i»»i»»i»»>«i«»i.»j..j».>.j..*..*..*..j. On campuses, students will be working on door-to-door cam­ SNYDER: THE BACK COUNTRY paigning. Workers and employees may not work all or part of the day, or wear arm bands to work 'RED! PICASSO: EROTIC ENGRAVINGS or hold lunch time discussions. Businessmen and professionals ROSE: HASHISH COOKBOOK might give employees an hour Groupie Fosters off for peace, hold noon rallies R. CRUMB: HEAD COMIX in business districts, run ads o stressing the economic impact of the war. Poor and minority ft BRAUTIGAN: TROUT FISHING groups could demonstrate ask­ ing for a reordering of national IN AMERICA priorities. Each group would plan 5? its own form of anti-war ex­ 0 EISEN: THE AGE OF ROCK pression. Because it is important that 8" our strength be visible, a rally or other public activity would, Q be appropriate, coordinating all o of the groups which had parti­ cipated in the.day's events. 0 Among the national sponsors of the Vietnam Moratorium are i Joseph Duffy (ADA), Sanford 0 stop hyl Gottlieb (SANE), Richard Fer­ nandez (Clergymen and Laymen to Concerned), Cong. Donald Fra- ser (Calif.) and the New Demo­ cratic Coalition. If you are interested in par­ ticipating in the Milwaukee area contact .Rev. Gip Reed, First Baptist Church, .911 E. Ogden, future hours: eleven to eleven, seven days a week 276-5304. KALEIDOSCOPE September 26-October 9. 1969 PAGE 9 American As Apple Pie

By Tom Ferguson it, proved that, in Chicago...It's guy tried to get a beer the other A medium sized human being, communist instigated, read that night at Herb's, but Herb thinks wearing an acceptable middle- too...just last week in church it's all a plan, them havin so class uniform, small paunch from father casanova was savin the many kids, so that before long schlitz, and large glutemus maxi- same thing, read the names of we'll be picketing an askin them mus filling the seat of one of the men killed from our con­ to hire ten per cent of us... his automobiles which has just gregation course we got ten of can't give 'em that much cre­ now transported him from the them, for every one of ours (god- dit myself, but just the same assembly line on second street " damned gooks)...but it was real we ought'a limit a family to to his almost new pre-fab won­ nice til Oscar's boy, never be­ say, three, hell three's plenty der—full wife watched home lieve it to look at 'em, though ...and if ya don't make five whom dutifully receives her full I always thought him a little thousand a year ya can't have 1/3 share affection and watches strange, stood up and started any...shit I not just in the states as father distributes the remain­ yellin about nazis and some other all over man...we're the most der among their two children kind I never heard of faces or powerful country in the world, glancing occasionally at the color somethin I don know, his voice bout time we stopped takin all tv and advising "study hard in was shakin and he swore once, this shit...." school, get good grades, maybe right in church...the cops drag­ go to electronic school or pick ged him off, Oscar called himself, THE MILWAUKEE 14 (from left): Jerry Gardner, Bob Graf, Jim Forest, Fr._Larry Rose- it up in the service, make a hard thing to do...really have Promises bough, Brother K. BasTI O'Leary, Rev; Jon ffi^ginbohSam, Don Cotton, ^r. Jam*s Harney man a ya,.,Suzy sit like a lady" to look up to Oscar...during the Fr. Alfred Janicke, Fred Ojile, Mike Cullen, Fr. Anthony Mullaney, Fr. Robert Cunnane steak, thick, schlitz, off to 2nd war too, I remember, Oscar and Doug Marvy. ^j-ffe* job "couple of years to get on was one of the first to join, By Leon Gussow my feet, bills ya know, the boat, went all the way through til he NEW YORK (LNS/RAT) — Have cars, house, insurance, cabin lost an. arm in Germany dur­ you noticed how commercials up north, school for the kids... ing the last week of the war... and advertisements—which used expensive...can't have 'em goin he must have been really ash­ to promise immediate gratifica­ lookin like bums though and Jane, amed to hear, his son talkin that tion and the glorification of everyi my wife, gets a kick out a dres- shit...I saw him later over at day drudgery ("Become a Queen Milwaukee 14- sin 'em up kinda the artist of Herb and Vie's Tap, course I in Your Kitchen!'*) —are now the family, likes Rod M'kuen, didn't mention the boy but af­ turning towards promises of re­ me? no time, s'alright I sup­ ter a few beers he was feelin lief from the misery of exis­ pose she likes plays too, that's- pretty t»ad and sayin he got no tence in the city and have begun why we have two sets, I like son, I tried to tell 'em it was to concentrate on the incredible One Year Later action ya know some westerns dope but he said he'd been talkin hassles of urban living. but mostly crime stuff and war that way since he left the se­ Consider: "To live in New flicks, do a little huntin when I minary, he was involved in a York you have to fight dirty" can swing my vacations together scandle out there...oh he weren't —West Pine Cleaner; "Des­ By Mark Gaff of people who have come to em­ in the right season don't have the only one, a bunch of 'em were tination: Amnesia*'—Pan Am. ad It has now been one year since brace the commitment to social as much time for the kids as thrown out for marchin with the for Ammens Medicated powder the Milwaukee Fourteen per­ change inspired by the dedication i'd like, kinda scares me but colored, not for that but for get- shows a number of people cram-, formed their notorious Act of of the Fourteen. It has meant, they're pretty level-headed kids, tin arrested...these kids don't ped together in what is obviously Mercy in front of the Brumder the transformation of an aban­ no worry bout 'em marchinor understand, I lived with 'em in a very hot and uncomfortable building in downtown Milwaukee. doned Methodist Church on High­ demonstratin...sure I know war's the service, oh they're alright subway car. The caption is: "Ag­ For the people of Milwaukee Re­ land avenue into a community bad nobody wants it but if some­ alone but put 'em in a group ony." (This ad, naturally, 4s sistance it has been a long and center open to all concerned body wants to take what i've work­ and ya got trouble, hell they big in the subways.) prosperous year. For the young with the building of a new so­ ed for he's got a fight comin... segregate themselves...all they Coca-Cola is running a cam­ men of draft age in America ciety. To the poor of Milwau­ don't bother me...I don't bother want from us is our women and paign based on the ' joys" of and the peasants of Vietnam if kee's Inner City it has meant you...course once I took a swing our welfare, they got no edu­ life in "our town"—joys like has meant another year of war nightly free meals, it has meant at this punk at the fair but if cation and they want top jobs... getting an elbow in the ribs, free breakfast and aid in find­ you cduld'a seen 'em you'd'a not me I ain't workin to sup­ on a crowded bus, or not being oppression and a flow of life that ing jobs at the living room, an did the same, I was drinkin a port them, I heard some con­ able to find a taxi when you begins in the cities and peasant alcoholic rehabilitation center little or i'd a caught 'em after gressman talkin that shit on tv founded by one of the priests of what he said to Jane...yeh I want one. villages and ends in the muddy but I fired a letter off to him I'm not quite sure what this fields of Vietnam. the Fourteen. hit 'em (ya gotta it each* these in a hurry, an they think they punks) he had hair down, to his all means, but Madison Avenue And Ae war drags on- Thir­ There have been of course shouldn't have to serve in the is usually pretty sharp when teen of the fourteen are now .hundreds of other, smaller ass and his girl friend might'a army, they call themselves am­ been nice lookin if she were it comes to nuances is mass serving prison sentences for changes in all those concerned ericans and don't wanna fight, psychology, and they obviously their act and the fourteenth, Mi­ with the rebuilding of our so­ dressed right, no bra, looks al­ they need their boys for the most like a man and he looked detect a sharp increase in the chael Cullen, is still awaiting ciety. But the greatest changes riots I guess...well anytime thev disgust and despair with which trial. And perhaps when he and 'have come in our realizations like a woman, could hardly tell, wanna come to this side of town I just got mad and after I hit the man in the street views his brothers are free again the of the struggle involved with the we're ready...reason some of 'em the conditions of his existence. slaughter in Vietnam will still building of a society of peace 'em the coward asked Jane some- are starvin's cause they've got thin bout me in bed and in front They'll have a tough time con-x not have ceased. and love within an already exis­ ten-twelve kids, ought'a make em vincing him that things will be But that the Fourteen have ting society of violence and hate. of the kids, I blew up but couldn't take the pill...Herb was sayin,' catch the slippery bastard...heard all right if he'll buy just one more made a difference is unques­ And we have come to know that tell ya later how this colored product. tionable. And that difference has growing pains often mean con­ those guys take dope, no wonder changed greatly the living of a frontation between the two worlds they're fucked up...I read some great many people in Milwau­ and that the old society often stuff put out by the government kee who are dedicated to the same reacts violently and hysterically. about lsd and things like that salvation of our society that the But we have realized also that makes 'em crazy, guys slip it Welfare Tenants Fourteen sacrificed their free­ this reaction is not one of ma­ to the girls', get 'em hooked...; FROM P.3 dom for. lice, but only of fear and hesi­ right where they want 'em...do der a Federal Housing Authority use for a county incinerator, The difference has varied grea­ tancy to abandon the security of anything for more...if my dau­ procedure which would entitle her Milwaukee Vocational School and tly in content and form, causing institutions now obsolete. And ghter... but no worry there, she to pay one per cent interest the city's industrial land bank physical, emotional and spiritual it has become our duty to meet wouldn't look at one a those on money borrowed...but it all last year. They alleged the por­ changes in the people and in these reactions not with grea­ creeps...they're just a small mi­ took time, "I would have moved tion of land the building they the environment they have cre­ ter fear and hysteria, but with nority i've read polls, most kids with a tent in front of the court­ occupied was on was expected ated. For the people of Casa the confidence and gentleness are proud they're americans, few house if I had to, to keep my to be used for roads. Maria, the Catholic Worker House with which fourteen men stood more laws would take care a family together," she said. "The Tenants Union is soused of Hospitality, it has meant the around a fire on Wells street those guys, give the cops full Tenants Union-East secretary to being evicted for roads we assimilation of a great number one year ago. rein, they know how to handle Mrs. Marsha Satter, 30, said decided to evict the road," Ted she didn't know who owned the Seaver of the Inner City De­ barracks and didn't really care. velopment Project said. ' 'It's empty and people need hous­ Police not surprisingly were on ing," she said. the scene within half an hour ! Tenants Union members, some after the group entered the bar­ 200 families strong, claim that racks, but left seeking some NDI AICDPORJS because of expressway building, proof of who owned the prop­ more than 8,000 living units have erty. It Wasn't until seven hours been torn down since 1957. They later that an Army colonall say to their knowledge neither showed up to announce the fa­ I LTD. the state nor the county has milies were trespassing on fed­ built one unit to replace those eral property. Seaver and a law­ demolished and the city of Mil-' yer for Freedom Through Equal­ waukee has replaced just a frac­ ity, funded by the Office of Eco­ tion of the units it has demol­ nomic Opportunity, challenged the ished. statement and the military crew "Despite repeated meetings agreed to do some further check­ with officials of all levels of ing, since the lawyer claimed to government and the Tenants Un­ have found county deeds to the ion-inspired inter-governmental property. task force on housing, no imme­ So the three families settled diate plans other than a rela­ down for the night in no man's tively few city constructed units land on bare floors now swept are in sight," a statement from clear of glass. There were no the group said. It continued, beds but there were blankets... "there is still no emergency no refrigerator but food that housing existing anywhere in the '• would keep if the night stayed metropolitan area. Officials from cool...and the companionship of all three levels of government others in the same boat and have agreed that this site would Seaver, who has spent some much 1510 N. FARWELL be a good one for emergency more dangerous nights down in RHUBARB housing. These buildings have the south working with the civil been, vacant for more than a rights movement. BOOKSTORE year. The alternatives these! A two-year-old child, unused to INTERESTING families have are this site or the strange surroundings, started the streets. We feel that this crying and her sister...not many 1336 W. State IMPORTS is the only reasonable, humane years older...cuddled her. Other alternative." children ran about...still explor­ 12 to 9 The Tenants Union cited a ing the large grassy area around except Sundays Milwaukee Journal story which the barracks. An abandoned army said the federal government had barracks was home again for for the Left agreed (through the GSA) to turn someone...the question was how ISXZIIXIIIIIXallXSIlJ over 103 acres of that land for long? PAGE 10 September 26-October 9, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE I

DISCUSSION: 9pm, The Penny University, "Conscientious Ob­ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 jection" Session 2: How do you decide if you're a CO?, Coffee JAZZ: l-7am, "Jazz Times 6" House with Ron Cuznor, WTOS-FM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 MEDIA: With the grace of God, Kaleidoscope will once again ap­ JAZZ: 8:15 pm, Preservation pear Hall Jazz Band,-Marquette Union Ballroom FILM: 10:30pm, "Bonjour Tris- tesse" with Jean Seberg on FILM: 8pm, "The Bad Sleep TV 6 Well" directed by Akira Kuro­ sawa, UWM Fine Arts Recital WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 Hall FILM: 8pm, Stanley Donen'sTwo FILM: 8:30pm, "Titicut Follies" for the Road, with Albert Finney a social documentary from Grove and Audrey Hepburn, TV 6 Press Films, UWM Fine Arts Lecture Hall (also Sun) OPERA: 8:30pm "La Boheme" Skylight Theatre, Perforating FILM: 9pm "The Inheritance" Arts Center story of the labor movement at the Coffee House ROCKt 12-4pm, Art Sanders, the Dark Rrince of Progressive Ra­ COUNTRY: 8pm, WYLO Country dio, WTOS-FM Music Spectacular with Jeannie C. Riley, Carl Smith, Jack Greene, & others at Milw. arena THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

CATS: 10am, Annual Cat Show FILM: 6:30-7pm, "The Rivers Milw. Audit (also Sun.) of Time" & "Taj Mahal: Ro­ mance in Stone" Museum Lec­ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 ture Hall

ART: 11 am-6pm, Annual Alver- TRAVEL: 6:30-7:30, "New Eng­ no Art Fair, Alverno College land Highlights" with John Ro­ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 BLUES: 2-7pm, James Podlich ART: Paintins and metal works campus berts on Murl Deusing explores this music genre with by Rosemary Manashian, St. JAZZ: 8:30 pm, Louis Arm­ insight and taste, WTOS-FM Mary's Academy ROCK: llpm-lam, Ritz's "View CONCERT: 9pm, Prague Sym­ strong & Victr Borge spon­ From the Ceiling" featuring to­ phony Orchestra, Performing sored by First Wis. National BLUES: 9-lOpm, Steve Turners TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 morrow's rock trips today, on Arts Menagerie Bank, not open to public, Cen­ with guests and good music on WUWM-FM ter for Performing Arts (also WUWM-FM BALLET: 8:30 pm, National Bal­ FILM: 7:30 & 10pm, "Who's Af­ Sat. matinee) let of Canada in "Swan Lake" MONDAY, OCTOBER 6 raid of Virginia Woolf" UWM The Shanty (also Oct. 2) Bolton 150 (also Fri., at 5, 7:30 CONCERT: 8:15pm Chicago Sym­ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 ROCK: 6:30 pm, The Music & 10pm) phony Woodwind Quintet, Mar­ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 Scene, rock and comedy, WTTI quette Union Channel 6 DISCUSSION: 9pm, Penny Uni­ FESTIVAL: Holy Rosary Parish FESTIVAL:. Annual Octoberfest Fall Festival, Noon - 10 pm versity, "Conscientious Objec­ ART:. Paintins of Vincent Arci- Celebration, La Crosse, Wis. ROCK: 8pm -lam, BobReitman's tion: Session 3, How to apply for lesi, Chicago painter of the tem­ DISCUSSION: Public Conference "11th House" WTOS-FM (every CO status, part 1, Coffee House porary American scene, Alver- DRAFT: Need Draft Counseling? evening) no College Art Gallery (thru on Channel 6, looks at The Stu­ 2211 E. Kenwood Blvd. Oct. 4) dent Confrontation: Conservative vs. Radical with Richard O. FILM: "Easy Rider" with Den­ FILM: "Rachel, Rachel" Jo-Ann Wright state chairman of YAF nis Hopper and Peter Fonda, UNCLASSIFIED Woodward, UWM Bolton 150, 5, and Art Heitzer, SDS coordina­ Mayfajr Theatre—a must I tor 7:30 & 10 pm. "EXPERIMENTS IN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 FREE BLUES CONCERT, 8 pm WIFE-SWAPPING" FILM: 9pm, Roman Polanski's ART: ' 'A Decade of Recent Work*' Friday, October 3, Germantown An up-to-date 224 page manual "Two Men & A Wardrobe" fol­ Seymour Lipton, Mlw. 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The Earth is breaking up with a farewell performance at the Dylan freaks have already, 00 profit on each album for Galaxie... The Bur doll-Liban heard about the bootlegged Dy­ the people Roger and David work group mentioned last issue have lan 3-record lp being sold on with or for. A $5,000 payment their first gig this weekend (the the west coast, a collection of old was .collected from someone in 2.1st) in Oshkosh, and should be, tapes, his TV appearance, unre- San Francisco on Thursday, Sep­ appearing in Milwaukee soqn... leased Columbia sides, and other tember 18. And there is a pend­ Juneau Village Community miscellany and memorabilia. ing order for 4,500 copies in Church is putting on regular The unauthorized lp almost Seattle, Washington. rock shows, along with their went on sale in Milwaukee, but But the most interesting and regular schedule of poetry read­ so far nobody has wanted to go intriguing piece of information ings, get togethers, etc. Call through the hassle. There are came from David, who said: them fon more details..."Hip" two lps available, a 2-record "Gracie didn't mind paying the WZMF rock dj Larry Madsen set and a single. The asking costs. Her regular sound man has the nasty habit of calling price is $10.00 for the double (the one that goes on the road the cops on the occasional peo­ and $8.00 for the single, which with them put the four albums ple who use his parking space means a record store would have together. behind East Side Foods while to charge at least $13.00 and Who's Gracie? David has no he's away. Not only that, but if $11.00 in order to make it worth­ more to say. Roger, contacted he catches them at it, he pulls while. Altogether a total shuck, by Kaleidoscope in San Fran­ in behind them and traps theni especially when you consider that cisco, calimed he knew nothing there until the cops arrive...A the producers of the lps spend about nothing, and had heard lot of people have talked about no more than 60£ per disc to of the entire affair only by read­ bringing a regular rock thing get the thing out, and that there ing Rolling Stone. to Milwaukee, and there seems MrUiill are no artists' fees, copyright Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone the energy here to do it, but snags fees, and etcetera to worry about. editor, suggested a call to the keep cropping up. The most ser­ THE SUN, perfectly. SUN is a the assurance of someone who has Anyway, after learning of the Jefferson Airplane house. ious snag is that there simply good number and contains some spent a lifetime with his bass, attempt to distribute the work "There's not all that many Ora­ isn't an adequate ballroom in of their best harmonic writing. _ no one would ever imagine shy, locally, we did some checking cles around with sound men," the. city. There's The Scene, Justin's guitar work is secure! attractive "Patty" holds a de­ and came up with some inter­ he said. But so far it's been but that's owned by you-know- and proves to be a fine foil gree in Biological Embalming. esting bits of information. impossible to reach the Airplane who and besides it's really too for the interesting keyboard the last member of the group The distributor is a man named pad. small. And ten there's the old work of Edwyn Koby. Koby, who is drummer Bobby Severino... .David, who arrived in Milwaukee And there the matter stands. Devine's Million Dollar Ball­ they describe as a group within what an impressive show to watch, driving a stolen truck. He went Dylan's importance has reached room, perhaps an ideal place phy­ himself as he has mastered al­ when he plays, One can sense to WTOS and talked to Reitman, such a point that even his junk sically and nicely located out most all of the instruments of how he is talking to and through offering several hundred copies feeds the myth, and there are on Wisconsin avenue, but pre­ the orchestra, shows off excel­ his sticks, and the message is of the. Dylan work, cash only people anxious to capitalize on senting insurmountable political lent mastery of the organ key­ exciting and creative. and no returns if some of the it. Dylan fans argue that the hassles. Without a ballroom board with solid support to the MAJYK is a group with ideas copies are bad. There were no material should be made pub­ available, the only other way to ensemble and a flare for out­ and the talent to mold these takers there, and the next at­ lic, and maybe it should...but go is to get an old large build­ standing solo riffs, here is a ideas into great material. LET tempt was at Record World, who by "hip" black marketeers who- ing, perhaps a theatre (the old performer who is capable of THE DAY BEGIN is one of their toyed with the idea a while and Egyptian on Teutonia is most the artistry, of accompaniment as Best with Giles giving his all then dropped it. seem even greedier than Dy­ frequently mentioned) and re­ well as solo work, he also adds in a song that rates as an A-l David then traveled to Madi­ lan's recording company? Crooks build the inside, but that takes strong voca| renditions of their ballad, other numbers such as son, where there was an alleged are crooks, no matter how good an incredible amount of money opening CROSS ROADS and-LJT- POOR PILGRIM'S PRAYER and order for 1,000 copies to be their product. And, as if to un­ plus faith in Milwaukee's ability TLETHINGS. MAGIC SHIP are equally effec­ filled (probably Discount Re­ derscore that point, distributor to support such a scene. It's Patrick Falletta is the bass tive as are their renditions of cords). Shortly after arriving in David is even busy ripping off too bad, but them's the facts. player; inventive, but, also a mas­ honky tonk woman, hey Madison, David called Roger in his San Francisco cohorts. At "John Kois ^3fis ter of staying in the background, jude and MACARTHUR PARK. San Francisco. Roger is the man WTOS he gave one copy to the Falletta provides the core of their here is a group that is going responsible for producing the station and sold two copies to tight-knit sound, he has a good somewhere I MAJYK. lps. station employees, but he turned ear and makes the changes, with —jude The record is very big busi­ around and told his SF contact notes... ness for someone. There's a he gave all three copies away. MAJYK, a new group on the scene, opened last week at Sal- Budget Chopping VATION and did a weeks worth of beautiful music, their New FROM P.5 they will give them up to foster York engagement was quickly possible to alleviate the condi­ homes. Foster parents receive followed by the ATTIC in Lodi, tions of the poor and underpri­ twice as much money as does New Jersey snapping them up vileged. Meanwhile, taxes rise a mother on ADC. I wonder for the remainder of the month./ and pay checks become smaller if Mr. Merkel has looked into the talented quintet puts out because "we are raising the those "poor people's problems." one of the heaviest sounds in standards of our states poor." It is obvious that the effects the business today, and due to In our country of great tech­ of the welfare budget cuts are their vast wealth of ripe ori­ very serious indeed...serious ginal material as well as solid enough \ to break up families, arrangements of standard songs, nological advancement and a marriages and homes along with they should have no problem advancement and a gross na­ affecting the physical and psy­ finding their way to the top. tional product currently running chological welfare recipients. with the personnel involved, at $900 billion a year, such ac­ On Sunday, Sept. 22 a march they can't miss, all of the boys tion is intolerable, unjust and left from St. Boniface Church. have been in the business since inhuman. The intent of the marchers is they were old enough to hold Whie sitting in a bar on the to walk all the way to Madi­ In the past, when you got tired of fried chicken, "super" hamburgers an instrument and got together South side watching the faces son. On Monday, Sept. 29, the or cold pizza, all you could do was grin and gulp it" But now we've through gigs and jam sessions, of men who knew there would protest will go to the Capitol given you some alternatives. lead singer Gary Giles will have be nothing in the mail the next Building while the state legis­ a solid career ahead of him if What we sell are Submarine Sandwiches, die .Real McCoy witiufresh day, despair could be felt through lature is in session. The march­ he learns to take it a little all the cigarette smoke and smell ers will support Governor French bread, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and of course, the meat, either easier. Giles has an inborn sense salami and bologna on the SUB, or an imported .Holland Ham on the of beer. How can a man be a man Knowles' bill and protest the for selling a song to an aud­ legislature's action. GOLD COAST and know that he can't even ience and it is evident he loves buy shoes for his daughter or We petition all concerned in­ The'price? You wont believe ft! Just 60c for a SUB (With salami and to sing, but, occasionally he be­ stockings for his wife? How can dividuals to join us Sept. 29 bologna), and 80c for the GOLD COAST (with imported Holland comes too emotionally involved kids be expected to study when at the capital, if not before, ham) in a number and gradually this their food allowance will be 16£ during the march. The issue now lack of discipline is .going to a meal? How can mothers at­ is not the relative merits of Not time take the alternative! tell its toll on his vocal chords, tempt to hold their families to­ the welfare system. The issue a fine singer, he also con­ gether if they know at any min­ is that the welfare budget has Sometime Soon - Sink a Sub tributes on guitar and a variety ute the MAN might come and been cut leaving no alternatives of percussion instruments. evict them from their home? to the recipients. Join us in- one of the nicest yocals of the Thursday at the ICDP Center, protesting the insane move on evening...i took them in at SAL - five couples brought their chil­ the part of the state legisla­ dren and asked that they be ture. Don't wait for the people £Mburpta VATION...was offered) by lead placed in foster homes. They to lose their homes and fami­ 1230 West Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee guitarist Tommy Justin, he has can no longer provide a decent lies. Act now before it's too one of those high, light voices life for their children. Rather late. For information call: 672- which fit their selection I AM than having the children suffer 5680, south or 264-1620 north.

636 West Wisconsin 1BOOKSTORE THE RICH dAEiBlFreRCNT The rich are different, F. Scott politicians and socialites, served Fitzgerald observed. And in Mil­ instead to illustrate many of the waukee that means they can get serious social problems those exclusive use of the new "public" same politicians and socialites Performing Arts Center on Grand try so hard to ignore. Opening night. The rich need And the gap between the rulers to be noticed, because all those and the ruled has never seemed trinkets all that money buys are so wide.J|||l not really any good unless other The gathering was called by people marvel at them. And what the White Panthers who, in ty­ better place to exhibit baubles pical Milwaukee anarchist tra­ than at a $100-a-seat Grand Open­ dition, disappeared after arti^ ing? culating the issue. But the es­ Only, in this instance, much of sential issue was clear: to whom the attention was stolen by as does a "public" Performing Arts many as a thousand demonstra­ Center belong? To the people tors reminding the first-nighters who happen to have the money that the Performing Arts Cen­ to build and attend the insti­ ter, rather than being the great tution? Or to all the people? civic achievement proclaimed by And if it belongs to all the

people, how are the people un­ formed composed of members able to afford the price of ad­ selected by Milwaukee's "mi­ mission to be served? And how nority and subculture" groups can a Performing Arts Center to assist the Performing Arts become relevant to all the mi­ Center's management in ques­ nority groups within a city as tions of budget and hall usage. large as Milwaukee? 4. That space and equipment The Wednesday night (Septem­ be made available to persons ber 17) confrontation didn't pro­ and groups willing to take their duce any answers, but it-did culture into the parks and streets serve to demonstrate the terms of Milwaukee. of the conflict, and it did pro­ 5. That immediate steps be duce a series of demands. The taken to determine additional five demands are: needs and demands of the var­ 1. To make available 20% of ious Milwaukee minority com­ the seats to all performances munities and to deal with those free of charge to welfare reci­ needs and demands in a realis­ pients on a first come, first tic manner. served basis. The White Panther leaflet end­ 2. To make available 20% of ed with a warning that unless the seats to all performances the demands were "dealt with for "students and other low in­ immediately," further disrup­ come people" at a charge of tion of Performing Arts Cen­ no more than $1 per seat. ter activities could be expected. 3. That an advisory board be At a press conference the next morningin First Baptist Church, the demands were repeated 'by Mike Cullen of Casa Maria Hos­ pitality House, Prentice McKin- ney of the Community Action Center, Cardell Willis of Tri­ ple O, Art Heitzer of Marquette, John Kois of Kaleidoscope, and Gary Ballsieper speaking for the White Panthers. In addition, the press conference revealed plans to establish a broadly based, loosely knit coalition of left, radical, antiwar, and hip com­ munity groups t<> Plan future strategy in the struggle to make the Performing Arts Center rele­ vant and accessible to all resi­ dents of Milwaukee County Initial energy for the PAC demonstration grew out of the frustration on the part of East Side residents over the refusal of Milwaukee County Park Com­ missioners to allow use of Lake Park for free music concerts. Two recent attempts to present free music at that park were stopped by police, and the con­ trast between that and, on the other hand, the city's encour­ agement, of the creation of the $12,000,000 PAC only served to demonstrate which class City Hall exists to serve. However, only a few days prior to Grand Opening night, the Jour­ nal came out with a strong front- CONTD. P. 5 ii'nii»iiiii».m»»». •uim1»iin^n»umt»^n»»immumummwr^iuimgmPF October I 1969 PAGE 1 All Power to the Imagination!

by BERNARD MARSHALL century was always cut short by of the universality of poverty; guilt, is the Myth of Order. ; logical, for any spontaneous Modern society with its plastic the very real poverty of most working from dawn to dusk seem­ The assembly lines have es-" struggle to the dogmatists of panoply of super-rationalized people, a poverty which ground ed the natural condition of man­ caped from their factories and the Left is only a specific man­ systems, its technology, has rol­ workers down into submission in- kind, the curse of Cain visited now strangle all life. Advanced ifestation of a far larger strug­ led back the sweet, dreamy-eyed revolt as well as in conformity. upon never ending generations. industrial societies are admin­ gle which naturally must be con­ Utopian visions of plenty common The scarcity of past times leg­ . Today the curse is being istered to within an inch of their sciously directed if it is to achieve to the last century. No one called itimized not only capitalist, but smashed and discarded by many, lives. To make all of this palat­ its aim. a national holiday to deliver the. also "revolutionary" domination. not only members of the drop­ able we are offered leisure, that The dynamism of this bureau­ proclamation, no church bells, The vehicle for liberation of the' out community, but also by those is, the opportunity to participate cratic, vanguardist position leads rang, no TV specials to mark the "masses", the tightly disciplined workers who get jobs only oc­ in our own non-participation, as eventually to the total direction date, but nevertheless the prob­ cadre of professionals which al­ casionally and who commit acts a remedy. We see a shrink, of any outburst to aims that lems of production, distribution ways operated as a directorate, of sabotage wherever they do watch a ^movie, look at TV, read increasingly become not those of and communications have been could fall back upon the self- work for the fun of it. This fact, books, listen to music, all des­ the participants but those of the conquered in this society. As auto­ sacrificing notions embodied in' however, doesn't spell the end of cribing our own alienation. Our leaders. The leaders know best mated machinery eased out hu­ the work ethic for manipulative domination. Supplanting the Myth condition, like that of the wage presumably because they have man labor from the sweaty core purposes. The work ethic itself of Sacrifice (the work ethic), but slaves, appears to be a universal the most knowledge—the know­ of basic industry it eased in also was cloaked in eternality because still founded on the notion of malady. ledge of the final goals. The more the possibility of total liberation: But this* is only the appearance that they become certain of over­ the prospect of the end of all fostered by the dominant ideology all historic trends, the less how­ physically and mentally demand­ of this society. It can be smash­ ever, they know about the imme­ ing work which must be the ed. And it is. In small ways every diate needs of the people and the foundation of a free society. day by people, and in France last less they care. The leaders be­ We live on the edge of a May on a scale thar shook West­ come the bureaucrats of a struc­ society of abundance. And we ern civilization. ture which may have originally could easily move beyond the The desire to control every been emancipatory, but which edge at the instigation of our aspect of our lives, now generally becomes over the years, an in­ rulers whenever they decided considered a "mad desire," in­ tegral element in the dominant that the preservation of the sys­ flamed the young people of Prance society. The leaders in becoming tem required it, making there­ to fight the forces of. the State, the caretakers of this structure fore the prospect of total libera­ and after the night of the Barri­ are- transformed into the guar­ tion only a possibility, It remains cades, this desire spread to fac­ dians of the status quo, and a thought on which to speculate, tory and office workers. A Gen­ during revolutionary situations and therefore a prop for the con-, eral Strike was underway over they use their power to suppress tinuation of modern society. This night. Especially those workers the very forces for liberation will be the case so long as the closest to the nerve centers of from their constituency that their potentially revolutionary tech­ the government—the communi­ rhetoric so highly lauds. nology remains bound to the cap­ cations workers-struck. Cohn- What is at stake here is not italist system of production and Bendit in his book, Obsolete Com­ replacing one revolutionary bur­ die bourgeois system of fettered munism: The Left Alternative, eaucracy with another as is ad-, thought that provides simultane­ relates for example that the De­ vocated by all the mini-Van­ ously its apologia and the mysti­ partment of Public Safety could guardist groups on the left, but fication of reality that is needed not make phone calls because to eliminate the whole category for its maintenance. the operators left their switch of authoritarian politics because hi every society the individual boards! it functions as an element in the as well as the collective activities All of this was proof that the Myth of Order needed to perpet­ of its members reproduce the pat-, vital enemy of a regimented so­ uate this fucking system. terns of behavior and of thought ciety, popular initiative, was not hi France, the cry for students' of that society. In capitalist so­ control was soon drowned out by ciety however these activities dead, but in fact had been only the revolutionary demand for carry on another process —the dormant. The old anarchist faith workers' control and both were elimination of the material con­ in spontaniety, in people naturally given spontaneous concrete ex­ ditions to which this form of learning how to respond to a pression in the form of action activity initially responded. As situation best when they take committees in the factories, we move beyond scarcity to a control of that situation, has schools, and neighborhoods. This condition of abundance, we also been redeemed. The events in development has its historic roots move beyond the preconditions of Prance also demonstrated that in the French Revolution and in freedom. In the past limited re­ the Paris Commune. More im­ sources had been the excuse for Wherever hierarchical and bur­ mediately and more to the point hierarchial organization and do­ eaucratic organizations enter a however, the action committee mination. The dancing in the struggle they necessarily per­ drew upon the formation in Rus­ streets which accompanied every vert that struggle to their own sia after 1905 of Soviets, that is great social upheaval of the last preconceived ends. This is only workers* and soldiers' councils meant to one day take over the entire work of running society. These councils were not formed as stage direction from the left (which explains Lenin, Trotsky Syph, Clap: No Hassle to Cure and Stalin's opposition to them) but by the people themselves to meet their own needs. The. action committees in France did By Don/Spokane Natural In Spokane it has risen 39 per orrhea is the most common, the country, and is not affecting all the work of the revolution: Venereal Disease is a thing cent among teenagers in the last though the least dangerous. It as,many people as Gonorrhea. they defended space, organized not often talked about in pub­ year, and will rise 50 per cent is passed through any sort of However it is more harmful than food distribution to the factories lic. It's personal nature, and in the next year, according to sexual contact. The symptoms clap. Syph symptoms are dif­ and the rebellious sections of the constantly present sexual public health officials in Spokane appear anywhere from two days ferent from those of gonorrhea, Paris, and they held the factor­ hangups of this society make County. The old myths about to two weeks after contact. They and equally hard for the female ies, and in some cases actually it a very painful subject (in more,: V.D. not affecting the upper differ for male and female, be­ to notice. The sign will appear ran them. They were responsible than a literal way) for most classes, or whites, just don't ing especially.hard to notice in as a sore or chancre at the point for communications when all ot­ people. hold. It is no respecter of age, the female. of entry. These sores are large, her means weren't functioning. What is it? What does it do class, or color. It can strike h the male the urethra is and ugly, but they don't drain, All of this was accomplished to you? How can you get it? at virtually any age, and if un­ usually affected...that is the tube or hurt, although bodily salts without intimidation and without Well, say you. are taking a treated will go on doing its dam­ that goes through'the penis to may occasionally irritate them, top-down centralized structure. leak one - day, and you notice age for years with the individual the "outside world." A discharge causing a burning sensation. It was all done by the people that you have a strong burning not neccessarily knowing any­ comes to the head of the penis... After 7 days the sore will for once fully participating in sensation. Later on you notice thing about it, ,or being aware usually a great deal...and the vic­ go away, and the infected per­ their lives. an unusual type of discharge of its work in his body. tim will feel a strong burning son will no longer have any There are a lot of wives tales sensation when he urinates. A idea- he has the bug. With this This is what our revolution from your penis. It is strange, must be about. Smashing all hi­ but it might go away after a about how V.D. can be picked guy with the clap will usually the first stage of the disease up from dirty toilet seats, glas­ notice it...the symptoms are so has ended. erarchies, all bourgeois hang-. few days, and you forget about overs wherever they appear and it. Or maybe you get a huge ses, clothing, etc. T'ain't true. obvious, and painful, that he can't After this a rash located any­ ignore them. for whatever reasons. Only in (or small) sore or chancre where on the body will appear, getting beyond all that bullshit somewhere on your genitals.' It Virtually the only way one can In a chick the symptoms are looking like a regular skin ir­ pick up' V.D. is •'through close entirely different, and hard to will we be able to transform our doesn't hurt, but it is red and ritation. Each of these are highly daily lives and develop institu­ ugly. After a few days it also personal contact with another. detect. Thero is usually no burn­ contagious, but don't itch or hurt. The spirochetes (the scientific ing sensation...seldom a recog­ tions and a revolutionary culture goes away, you forget about it, These also disappear in a few that responds to our needs as we name for " the bugs) can only nizable discharge. In short there days, and the damage begins. and everything is ok...or so you L develop them. enter the body through openings, is really no way a woman can Syphilis, like gonorrhea, in think. : &j| in the skin. They cannot go through All power to the people I These symptoms are both signs herself determine if she has the the advanced stages is difficult the skin. The soft mucous like disease. Females will catch the to find. Only a blood test will All power to the imagination! of V.D. The first...the burning tissues that surround the sex ' The Anarchist Papers sensation is a sign of Gonorrhea, bug almost anytime they come in confirm its presence. After its organs,, and the interior of the contact with it...have sexual con­ second stage syphilis begins to the second of Syphilis. While mouth and nose' are particularly they may go away- they only tact with an infected person. damage the body. It moves on acceptible to the bugs. Obviously Males only pick it up in 40 per to nervous tissues...to the eyes signal the beginning of the di­ V.D. is picked up only through cent of their contacts with it. CENSORED sease's heavy effects on your or ears, or brain, causing dam­ sexual contacts. The V.D. bugs If the disease is not treated age that cannot be repaired even You can be sure you won't body. Their disappearance means cannot live outside the body, and hear "Je T'Aime . . . Moi that the bugs have migrated into it will move on and destroy after the disease has been stop­ die almost immediately after tissues in the body, and vill ped. Non Plus" by Jane Birkin your system, and have set to leaving it. and Serge Gainsbourg on work causing what will be, if Easy, effective treatments for the radio. This is the act of not treated permanent damage, The two main varieties of Vene­ often be hard to discover or Syph and the clap have been de­ love sensitively and poeti­ real Disease present in the U.S. treat. veloped and are no hassle to cally portrayed against a to your reproductive system, your are Syphilis and Gonorrhea. , brain, your eyes, or any part Public Health officials recco- obtain. During the first part of beautiful musical back­ There are several other types, mend that chicks that have fre­ the century doses of arsenic were ground. Europeans have al­ of your body. This damage is and many of these are being permanent.. Treatment; while quent sexual activity^ especially used to kill the disease, and some­ ready discovered it and brought back to this country from with more than one person Should times the patient. But in 1946 made it the number 1 single stopping the disease, will not Vietnam, where most of the popu­ restore the tissues, or entire undergo periodic examinations,, it was discovered that penicillin. record on their continent in lation has it, and lovingly shares either from a private physician, will easily and quickly kill the spite of censorship. organs that have been destroyed it with all and any interested by V.D. or their local public health de­ disease. Fontana Records makes it i CL's. (Most fit this category, partment. This is THE ONLY Generally the treatment con­ available here and now. Venereal Disease in the Uni­ one would imagine.) way a woman can determine whe­ sists of two shots^of penicillin, Listen to it. ted States has been on the rise Of the two types of V.D. most ther or not she has the disease. with a check for effectiveness steadily in the last ten years. prevalent in this country, gon­ Syphilis is declining around three months after treatment. AT PAGE 2 October I 1969 r '^^^°pn^tuiuttrtiititttttttmMUUuiuiiu^Hi>iittuttutmmuuimumuiiii11 Lightning Sam "Tradition such as the blues is erica. perpetuated not by attempts to He has been honored in Wash­ emulate and preserve but through ington, D.C. and inspired encores growth and contribution of many in Carnegie Hall. He was a sub­ egos." —John A. Lomax, Jr. ject of two recent films, one We live in an age of tech­ for HemisFair and the other,' nology. We are filed by number an hour-long, color documentary and trained in specialties. Our which will be seen on TV ac­ grocery stores used to carry ross the continent. He has in­ four varieties of cheese; some fluenced and interested people now stock over 70. We are liv­ Such as Bob Dylanr Leonard Co- ing longer and more comforta­ such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Co­ bly, working less and in better' hen, Ringo Starr, Tal Mahal, conditions. We are so far ad­ Muddy Waters, Townes Van- vanced we can quibble over the Zandt and countless othrs. legal problems of heart trans­ Sam has appeared in Dowling plants and look forward to color bars, at the Ashgrove and Vil­ TV shots of the first moon voy­ lage Gate, at Newport and in age to break the summer re­ psychedelic dance concerts. run monotony. - His fans range from "old- Our music tastes in ten years time" Negro Texans through the have advanced from saccharine "turned-on" young set to jazz ballads to rock-and-roll to folk critics and sociologists. At this to psychedelic to a current craze stage in his career he has be­ of country rock or "rockabilly." come a legend o blues, of one Rock and roll is dead but by its man's voice among the many. death we have folk-rock, acid In concert Sam is alive with rock, country rock, jazz rock, feeling. He plays his guitar with shlock-rock, blues rock, psyche­ 50 hard years of practice be­ delic rock, shock rock and rock hind him. He can play it with theatre. one hand, with a can opener, All these dialects of rock em­ coke bottle or knife blade. He ploy electricity, electronics in can strum his instrument with some cases, and a cast of li­ patient care or he can pick it, terally dozens of people to pro­ bend it and shape it into pro­ duce and market their recorded ducing the sounds of pain, of work. These gems are dug up the joy of the life he has led and out of the musicians and and is now singing. He tells us doled out to the consumer on an of lost women, of feeling down, annual or semi­ of his everyday experiences. annual or semi-annual basis. The He has a remarkable ability purveyors of this product claim to improvise rhyming, multi- their "property" has "soul," verse songs about bis everyday then they tell us what "soul," experiences. His response upon is. hearing about the Friendship 7 Blues is simply one man sing­ was an instant ballad about the ing alone. Blues is your feel­ astronauts. ings, your emotions, your fears. On the plane to Washington. By Ita Jones spread. Blues authorities, performers and continue to cook for an­ and hangers-on currently are Flowers fill both fields and The uses of flowers in salads other minute or until the top gardens, climb along the sides is endless. Wash and chop the engaging in fierce debate over the D.C. for the Smithsonian Insti­ is done, for an individual serv­ vital question of whether or not tute Festival last July one of of roads, up fences, and will leaves of 2 chrysanthemums. ing, or one which can be cut bloom around us for the next Toss with a couple of hardboiled blues can be sung by the white the engines went out. After be­ in half for two and served with man. Big deal. Blues can be ing assured that the remaining few months. People will look sliced eggs, a potato or two, ceffeal, fresh fruit and fra­ at them, smell them, stick them cooked and diced, a few olives, sung, talked, heard or felt by three jets were sufficient, Sam grant tea for breakfast. anyone. got his tuitar from the rack into pots of water because the 1/2 chopped avocado or 2 ar­ Flowers can also be used in colors and textures are lovely tichoke hearts, (or both) and top The mass media blues of the above and broke Into song. soups and stews. Marigolds add Lightning says... "Blues is just and fresh, but here in the States with french dressing for 2 serv­ a very good flavor and can be Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Otis where imagination is often chop­ ings. Daisies are also very good Redding, Janis Joplin or Lou a feeling—happy or sad. Mostly tossed out with the by leaf. In about troubles...Get to thinking ped off at an early stage, an­ in salads. Toss them with to­ the Orient, flowers have long Rawls are a lot different from other dimension is blocked off, matoes and sliced purple onions the blues of Sam "Lightning" about a subject and words come been used in ways which trap up." an avenue of taste is closed (which are mild and sweet) and the scent alone, as in tea leaves, Hopkins who has been called and we treat the world around serve .with oil and vinegar or "the last of the .great blues Lightning has written many, for example, which when stand­ many songs, such as "Short- us as though categories were slightly salted sour cream*. ing for a certain time mixed artists." Does he appear on na­ real. In many other places, tional TV? Does he sell out Haired Woman." "Mister Char­ We have all seen the small with flowers (later discarded) ley" and "Take Me Back." He though, and also at other times purple and white flowers of the pick up the fragrance. Honey the coliseum, do his records in history, people have used the earn million-seller certificates? sings these as well as classics clover and many of us in child­ can also be scented, but flowers such as "Trouble In Mind," flowers around them creatively, hood bit into their succulent sweet of heavy fragrance must be used. Of course not. But he is au­ especially in food. thentic, vibrant and enormously "Corinna, Corinna" and "Got ends. Spread some freshly baked Rose petals can be eaten, of My Mo-Jo Working," We in our false morality may bread or toast with sweet but-, course, candied, in salads, and talented at the art he has made object to the eating of flowers, ter. If you like cucumbers, add so on, but the petal itself you into his life's work. Lightning is seldom seen with­ while not hesitating to tear them a layer of these, thinly sliced win find, tends to be bitter. Some sources say Sam was born out his sunglasses. He speaks apart. Some of us will realize (or a slice of mild cheese). On Our noses, however, have a great in 1911, others say 1912, but in a low, gravelly tone, much that just as the world of sex this arrange about 10 clover deal to do with the taste of what all agree that to be emerging like his singing voice. There's has innumerable closed doors flowers of both colors and top we put in our mouths and so it into manhood in 1929 was no easy nothing "just that simple" to leading into starry gardens, so with another slice of buttered is only the fragrance we reach task. Sam grew up in and around Lightning. He answers questions does the world of eating and toast. out for here. Collect one cup of Centerville, Texas. He remem­ with examples and rambling an- for those who consider this life The ordinary bright dande­ rose petals. Bring two cups of bers first playing a guitar (home­ cedotal stories: an exploration through the coun­ lions which some people go to honey slowly to a boil, remove made from a cigar box) before "Where to all the colored peo­ tries of senses, the fields, of great pains to kill, I have al­ from the flame and immediately bis ninth year. He also recalls ple hang out around here? See feeling, and the museums of life, ways liked and considered stir in the petals. Let this mix­ going to work in the cotton that tree oyer there. The last there is no barricade anywhere, treasures in the grass whether ture simply stand in some shady fields around his tenth year. one we hung was on that big no detour, no closed window. they appeared as sunny discs or corner for 4 or 5 hours. Then Sam left home before he turn­ limb on the right..." The simplest and one of the fragile dove-g r e y spheres slowing bring it to a boil again. ed 21, working where he could, "I'm living as good as I want nicest ways to use flowers is or blowaway bits. In its young, Pour through an ordinary strain­ in butter. We do not use fla­ pale yellow stage the dandelion er to get out the petals, letting' vored butter so much anymore, can be made into delicious ome­ the honey flow back into a jar, but then, the flowers have not lets. The centers are most ten­ which is then closed and kept changed, the recipes are still der. Take - around a half cup closed between uses. the same and placed on the ta­ lightly fry them in a tablespoon Some of Us are nomads, having ble with fresh or toasted bread, of butter. A finely chopped mush­ no gardens, lacking the nerve flower butter will taste as good room can also be added. Then to pick "private" or public as it did to the ancients. To mix the dandelions, butter and flowers and having empty make carnation or geranium but­ all, with 2 or 3 eggs. Whip pockets, shy away from flower ter, simply grind in a mortar lightly with a fork. In a small stores. For us the princess or mince enough petals to give frying pan which rounds into blooms, turning her face to the you a tablespoon or so of either the sides, melt a bit more but­ sun as it drifts across the sky, flower finely shred. Mix well ter and when it's sizzling, pour swaying her crowned head in into a stick of slightly softenec in the egg mixture. After" the breeze, serenely blooming sweet * butter for a delicious a minute, cover with a plate in alleys and empty fields. Sun­ flower buds are very good dip­ ped in a bit of melted butter and broiled, served with a dish of vinegar and soy sauce (mixed). Jello is one of the cheapest desserts around and the trans-, parent shiny domes can either farming some and drifting. He to," says Lightning. "I love continue to enclose the tradi­ had a period of gambling and, everybody who walks on God's tional carrots and raisins or drinking, but always had a gui­ ground. I like Houston. I live fruit cocktail, or like enchanted tar of some kind with him. here because the people treat living paperweights can reveal As the years wore on, Sam me nicest," fragile flowers. Any small pretty began to play and sing for pay Sam is now nearing sixty. He flowers can be used, pansies, ti­ in roadhouses throughout East is living comfortably but the ger lilies, and the like, and Texas. He moved here in 1939 hard East Texas years have taken should be laid into the molds face or '40 and soon acquired a local their toll. He won't be around down. Then pour in a contrast­ following large enough to aid forever, there will come a day ing and revealing color of jello. him in first being recorded ex­ when he will be discussed in the The yellows naturally work best. actly 25 years ago. Since; then past tense and when his records When solid, dip into hot water he has been recorded countless will be regarded as collectors' an instant to unmold, and slip times, had over 40 albums on items. out the radiant gems suspending many different -labels and ap­ By John M. Lomax blossoms. peared all over Europe and Am­ Space City News (LNS) review: OUR PLUNDERED sitive earth cover thr which life any lingering notion we may be of its origin. They end np in the sent the following statement to PLANET, by Fairfield Osborn, flows" —on the average, on the cherishing of Africa or South consuming centers, their resi­ the SF Chronicle: Pyramid, 176 pp, $0.75 paper. surface of the planet. In the U.S. America as an ecological para­ dues in disposal plants or car­ I suggest it is impossible for the average depth of topsoil is dise. Let's simply take a look ried to the ocean. The broader anyone to get an education, the Merely the fact that this book something like seven or eight at what he has to say about implications are that this holds kind of education that is need­ could have been written in 1948 — inches. FT TAKES 300-1,000 the United States: 'The story true of a large proportion of ed for a wide-eyed, happy life, and largely ignored until quite YEARS (depending on the kinds of our nation in the last century the earth's products today—both in a system dictated by such recently—is telling. It is even of vegetation, climate, etc.) TO as regards the use of forests, animal and plant life, including people as those now sitting on more telling to update, or com­ MAKE AN INCH OF TOPSOIL— grasslands, wildlife and water vast quantities of forest products. the University of California pare the 1948 predictions of com­ and at least that much can be sources is the most violent and Industrial centers—there to be Board of Regents, and the Trus­ ing problems with the 1969 act­ blown away in a year, when the the most destructive of any writ­ consumed or disposed of as waste, tees of the California State Col­ uality: e.g„ in 1948 Osborn stated land has been stripped of its ten in the long history of civili­ but never to go back to the land lege System. with some horror that the popula­ protective covering of grasses zation." (CF. Snyder, in EARTH or origin. We are hacking '•at These people, including the tion of the world could be ex­ and left bare for long periods HOUSE HOLD: "Something is al­ the circle expressive of the or­ professors who will actually in­ pected to reach three billion by of time. Or can be washed away ways eating at the- American ganic unity and productive pro­ struct you, were educated by, the end of the twentieth century, by the torrential melting snows, heart like acid: it is the know­ cesses of nature. The question is, accepted, and thus became an hi the forward to the 1968 edi­ spring rains, etc, when there are ledge of what we have done to Will we one day actually break essential part of the system that tion, he presents the following no longer any forests to hold back our continent.") One example: that circle?" is methodically bringing tills pla­ statistics: the moisture and release it slowly an estimated fifty million bison 1848. My constant question now*. net to social, biological, and 1948 WORLD POPULATION AT to the streams: so that, instead reduced to 500 within one cen­ have we not already broken it? ecological collapse. 2,331,000,000 of underground springs, flowing tury. If we were to stop now, today, What do they have to teach 1968 WORLD POPULATION AT creeks, high underground water Or, the original breakdown of all destructive activity: pollution you? 3,479.000.000 table, you have flash gloods (the the landmass in the U.S.A. would of water and air, use of insec­ Those students who care about Which goes to show that even water rushes downhill to the sea, have been something like 40% ticides, etc. (a manifest impossi­ the survival of their species, our most pessimistic extrapola­ carrying the soil with it)andthen grassland, 20% natural desert bility)—what chance does man­ their planet and all its inha­ tions may turn out to be.too op­ dry riverbeds all summer. or extremely precipitous moun­ or, for that matter all of the bitants,* should not register for timistic. THREE HUNDRED TO A THOU­ tains (more or less uninhabi­ larger mammals and fish—have school this Fall. Instead: tra­ Osborn begins by stating the SAND YEARS FOR AN INCH. table). On these grasslands roam­ of amking it through the next vel, read, touch, discuss, learn basic axiom of the eco revolu­ And the work of innumerable sen­ ed one hundred million mammals: 20-100 years of DDT runoff, the the eco-system you live in, seek tion—in his words, that man tient beings—many millions per elk, moose, deer, caribou, bi­ next 100-1000 years of re­ out true teachers—everything in "has so far failed to recognize acre: son, etc.—nearly all gone now. balancing of land and water areas, that he is a child of the earth and "One of the activities, for ex­ Of the forests: in 1948 there re­ re-establishing of life-making that, this being so, he must for his ample, of bacteria, is gatherine mained an area of primal growth soil-making organisms in the wa­ the world is capable of teach­ own survival work with nature in nitrogen from the air, combin­ approximating seven per cent stes, slow cleansing of dead lakes ing those who want to learn! understanding rather than in con­ ing it in forms which in turn can of the landmass of the U.S.A. and rivers? flict." He then does a brief run- be made into protein by plants. Ho\g far this has been reduced Osborn has no heavy politi- The Berkeley Tribe wants to

down of the more or less accept­ Free nitrogen In the air cannot by this time, Osborn doesn't say, cal stance, though he does state, get rid of Its biggest internal ed anthropological myth, pointing be used directly by plants, and nor does he give the new figure mildly enough, that "there can contradiction: newspapers rip out along the way that man be­ it will be remembered that all for the increase in desert lands. be no political stability if the trees off. It- wants to hear (P.O. came predatory at an early stage living things—plant and animal— (Most of the southwest was grass­ basic subsistence needs of a Box 9043, Berkeley 94709) from of his development (evidence are essentially protein organ­ land, until the arrival of the people are not satisfied." And anyone with firm information exists that Peking man was a isms. Another group of bacteria huge herds of sheep, and the later, that "the theory of a de­ about paper recycling—espe­ cannibal some 500,000 years ago) decomposes the protein existing attempt to farm. In the years mocracy presupposes a condi­ cially info on the latest, best while his nearest relatives in the in dead animal and plant ma­ of drought the soil blew away.) tion of reasonable well-being for inks to use with recycled" paper. animal kingdom remained vege­ terials in the soil and changes On the condition of our for­ all." (For all who vote, Mr. It hopes, sometime soon to put tarian. them to ammonia. Ammonia con­ ests he holds forth at some length: Osborn, is all, and you had to together a scrap-paper collec­ Furthermore, says Osborn, "it tains nitrogen but most plants annual drain on our remaining own property to vote in some tion project: trucks stopping at is estimated" — love those pas­ cannot use the ammonia as such timber (as of 1948) is 54 billion states in the U.S.A.-until 1965. each Berkeley home a couple sive verbs I — that only about one since the nitrogen must be avail­ board feet, annual growth is 35 And as it is, as the black, the times a month to pick up all percent of the higher mammals able in the form of nittes.- billion board feet. Untenable. brown, the poor white votes be­ unused paper. of Africa, or North America, The transformation from ammo­ Further, the National Forests in gin at the polls and in the streets, were carnivorous —that is, in the nium salts to nitrates is brought our western states comprise 135 'political stability" takes a sharp The June issue of ENVIRON­ golden days before man decimated about by two other groups of million acres of our land—of curve downhill. Right on.) MENT was slow getting itself the wildlife of those continents. bacteria. The first group changes which some eighty million are off press—but quite worth wait­ Furthermore "only in exception­ the ammonia to nitrates, which And he offers no solutions, now being grazed and overgrazed except the general one that ing for: "California's central al cases in higher forms of ani­ are also unusable by plants. But by cattle and sheep. (Permission valley, one of the most produc­ mal life is there organized kil­ a second group of bacteria is "Man must recognize the ne­ to graze herds on the public cessity of co-operating with na­ tive farming areas in the world, ling within a species itself, and standing by whose function is land being obtainable at nominal is threatened by salt accumu­ even combat is rare except in that of converting the nitrites ture. He must temper his de­ costs.) The Taylor Grazing Act mands and use and conserve the lations... Two_ recent congres­ defense of members of the im­ •to nitrates, in which form ni­ of 1934 attempted to control over­ sional hearings shed a little light mediate family or social group, trogen is readily absorbed and natural living resources of this grazing by setting up advisory earth in a manner that alone on the dark subject of chemi­ or when males are seeking do­ used by plants to build more pro­ boards in each of these states— minance." Where does that leave tein, and proteins mean growth. can provide for the continuation Which boards are by now in the of his civilization. The final an­ us? The reverse process also takes hands of the large cattle inter­ place, in that some bacteria swer is to be found only through cal and biological warfare agent But It's in the accumulation of ests, so that in all probability comprehension of the enduring desolate FACT that the book has change nitrates to nitrites and discriminatory measures are be­ testing and distribution... The finally to free nitrogen, which processes of nature. The time FDA reports incidents of high its power: 16 billion habitable ing taken against the small ranch­ for defiance is at an end." acres of planet earth; 4 billion goes back to the air. Here it er, or the newcomer, while the mercury levels in wheat..." Hopefully. Though it is to be arable acres (remember, these iS picked up by the nitrogen-ga­ large cattle and sheep men feed Among much important ma­ are the figures of twenty years thering bacteria and again trans­ their herds on the public lands noted that FJdridge Cleaver, in ago, there are probably less now) formed by them into usable pro­ and to a larger and larger ex­ his recent article "Revolution and terial perhaps the biggest mind- Education" (THE BLACK PAN­ — divided by 3-1/2 billion peo­ tein-building compounds." tent destroy them. (N.B., we might do well, -when we hear a THER, June 28) takes for granted blow was this: ple: a little more than an acre of Meanwhile plants grow and de­ an antagonistic relationship be­ arable land per person. Osborn compose, humus is formed, al­ right-winger shouting "CON­ A report in the Christian Sci­ SERVATION," to check if he's tween man and his natural en­ ence Monitor says that a pri­ says it's not enough, says we gae and fungi work their syner- vironment, a struggle against need at least 2-1/2 acres per getic magics—A THOUSAND simply a rancher or logger pro^ vate consortium has been trying tecting his own interests. Like the "natural enemies of man" for the past year to drum up person for a minimum "adequate YEARS TO AN INCH. And the that makes one realize that this diet." I'm inclined toddubt this, unpleasant facts of erosion: "Both most of the language of double- business for peaceful nuclear think, Conservation might as relationship has not yet been explosives. El Paso Natural Gas considering what I know about wind and water bear with them sufficintly probed and examined what we Americans consider a for great distances the Hf£-giv- easily mean Overgraze: as, for Company which has been active instance, those signs in the state by the leaders of the political in the Plowshare Program, "minimum adequate diet" — we ing organic matter in the soil revolution. Hopefully, they will don't need half the things we and the finer, richer grains of forests of New York, labelling joined with French and German think we de. mineral soils, but they drop be­ them 'land of many uses:") bridge the gap very shortly, with companies to establish the Pa­ hind them the relatively worth­ MORE: that lightning comprehension (ab­ ris-based Geonuclear Nobel Paso think we do. An acre is nothing at consortium that has been attempt­ all if you're living on hamburger less heavier sand and bits of U.S. soil loss by erosion FIVE ility to sort truth from bullshit) rock. Streams and rivers usually that in all areas seems to be at ing to make itself known to pros­ — won't graze much of a cow — AND A HALF BILLION TONS pects in a.number of countries. but an acre per person can make deposit the organic matter well annually (three billion from farm their command. out to sea, where it can no longer especially underdeveloped ones. it is you do with grain and vege­ lands), "hi a normal production Plankton power to the Plankton The Monitor says the consortium tables, and if you're careful. Or, be of use—and wind, at almost year, erosion by wind and water Tree power to the Trees stratospheric levels, may carry has been avoiding the public eye as Keith Lampe put it recently, removes 21 times as much plant Human power to the People because it is treading on sen­ "learn to eat farther down on the fine dust halfway around the globe food from the soil as is removed ALL POWER TO THE TAO or even further. When this dust sitive ground...The article spe­ food chain." Safer, too, as far as in the crops." —Diane di Prima, C/O ERO culates that the Company's ac­ DDT and other non-bio-degrad- finally settles, much of it too And of the cities—one aspect 439 Boynton falls into the sea." tivities could affect nuclear arms able poisons are concerned; of the problem: Berkeley, Calif. 94707 control negotiations and could .Osborn then gives a rundown "Our present domestic animals of the larger land masses one by challenge attempts for a total OTHER FACTS: represent a minor portion of the ban on nuclear explosions. There is less than a foot of liv­ one. None of it is too promising, organic whole that is not per­ and he destroys, in the process, —Keith Lampe, 439 Boynton, ing topsoil— "the precious sen- mitted to return to the earth A San Francisco poet Aug. 17 Berkeley, Calif. 94707 PAGE 4 October I 1969 KALEIDOSCOPEAlllllllllllllllllllllinillllljLllllllllllllllllltlllltllllltMllltllllttlllWllPBBB^

would more or less automatically him a trick or two, could their eliminate the hassles); granted enhancement "enhance" him into that Bloomfield-Gravenites have anything intrinsically better than come quite a way since The he is without them? Electric Flag and do some cre­ Probably not any more so than ditable and even exciting work Oliver Nelson could enhance Flet­ here. We still find a serious cher Henderson or Bruck­ problem confronting us, one that ner could enhance Mozart. goes beyond the question of how So, then, how would you pro­ patronizing it is for these white duce this record. Or would you boys to "do up" their influences just give up, fuck it, Otis has and idols, and touches upon one more balls 'n' soul, man, and of the fearful questions—is the B&G are more broadly knowleg- blues which the sharp young white able, let's oppose each other cats have evolved incompatible on those terms indefinitely, re­ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS tunes give you plenty of room ments and lost and buried the with the "down" stuff that ori­ tain a little more friction in a MAGIC BAND, Trout Mask Rep­ to move in on your own spe­ essential Otis Rush somewhere ginally inspired it? world already overflowing with lica, Straight, STS 1053 cial affinities and there's a lot enroute to polishing their own Is there any way that the Otis it? Creating and projecting a world of sidetripping, enough to take art. Rush who we know exists, who you Some suggestions, that's the is one of the things that contem­ up all your expectations. Granted that lack of material can hear in those singles and place to start and a start is all porary art is about, whether has always been something of on the Vanguard Chi Blues col­ we can make now. it's Webern, Cecil Taylor, Fran­ a difficulty in connection with lection, even if you never saw Like, maybe B&G could just cis Bacon, James Joyce, even OTIS RUSH, Mourning in the (finally) recording Otis Rush him, can be presented without write the tunes (things like Andy Warhol. Damned few peo­ Morning, Cotillion, SD9006 (Otis' tunes here, "My Love being diluted? It's safe to say "Me" and "Working Man" are ple on the rock-"pop" scene Not much left to review here, Will Never Die" and "It Takes that Otis has enough uniqueness nice enough vehicles in them­ do it better than Don Van Vliet since most people who give a Time" are easily the best tracks and relevance of his own to selves) and let Otis find his (Captain Beefheart) and his crew. shit already know that Bloom- on the lp and their sheer power merit presentation on his own own ways to do them—he would, It's a dadaistic world which does field and Gravenites wrote most of conception stands them solidly terms and even if (to the pur­ I'm sure he could ("My Old not give much of a shit for your of the tunes and did the arrange­ on their own; ten such tunes ists' chagrin) B&G can show latent middle-class pretenses and it's about time that parts of rock got hauled into this mainstream which the other arts have been accomodating for sometime now. I mean, one of the things I like about the Beefheart band is the intelligence 'and cultural hipness evidenced there. Producer Frank Zappa (gold seal in rock, even if you didn't know anything else about the record) has the same kind of thing going in his band— it's a righteous contrast to the "duh" unawareness of too many rock musicians, who've had a thousand acid trips and still can't feel Tony Williams, Gary Pea­ cock, JPharoah Sanders—or Edgar Varese—down to the marrow. For instance, Van Vliet is one of the few poets in rock who could publish his stuff in the little mags, where the cats who write it on paper hang out. and where you've got to be heavy enough to scare people without your drummer kicking you along. Matter of fact, three of the cuts here are unaccompanied re­ citatives and a few more are like that, to horn freaking and advanced guitar marinade, which ought to give the usually hope­ less "jazz 'n' poetry bin a blast of fresh air. His voice is right like Dylan's pre-sweets voice was right; it's a cross between Richie Havens and Dr. John, for a start and can en­ compass as far as, say Wolf— a stump-puller-from way back. . Van Vliet's sensibility encom­ passes wigginess, drollness, overblown (quite knowingly) fan­ tasy, mean eyes for reality and social protest of no small rele­ vance. If he seems arbitrary and' chaotic to you. go back to your early Beatles and Chuck Berry records—Van Vliet is quite pre­ cise in getting the effects he wants and his compassion is merely un­ sentimental, while his contempt is more like sorrow—in other words, he's a balanced cat whom the fragmented will judge to be looney. Listen to the recreation of and involvement in Delta blues of "China Pig," or the use of c&w guitar in "Veteran's Day Poppy" or the mutation of "hard rock" on "My Human Gets .Me Blues" and tell this muther doesn't know how to put his fin­ ger on what he wants. The guitars sure have found a new way of getting it on. Hardly any solos and most of the tunes end when the lyrics do. How they get their selves across is by riffing, you know, they do a lot of repetition things and have an uncanny sense of what licks to use how and when. They freak around like this in back of the vocals, with the drummer ranging like Milford Graves and Sonny Murray and Rashid Ali are; some of his favorites and it's in line with the do-your- thing-enmasse togetherness of the new jazz ensembles. Speaking of which—when they bring in the reeds (mostly te­ nors and bass clarinet), they TyRANNOJAUCU-f REX show understanding of the' Al­ bert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, even Pharoah Sanders kinds of new joyful wisdom. While they don't challenge any of the aforemen­ tioned, they get into some fairly intense pocket whirligigs which yet indicate the respect of slow approach; "Beefheart" may yet be the first in rock to utilize this blockbusting scene properly. One of the- best records this year, anywhere. 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06 urn* rrom The Rat ii I'm ugly and I'm Proud!!• • The female body, even at pass for beauty in our time. Do themselves? is the After photo­ tective in any way. The only little difference whether or not its best, is very defective not blame the girl whose body- graph really better than the Be­ function they serve is to get a she is wearing underwear. What in form; it has harsh curves type programs her into a model­ fore? few bucks out of the secretaries goes up must come down, as and very clumsily distri­ ling agency or a movie career. Fatness is put down in America each week (ask any secretary some stoned nuclear physicist buted masses; compared to Instead point the finger at all more than any other human con­ how long they last, how many once said. it the average milk jug or those ordinaries who stood around dition. The idea is that all women runs she gets every day from We are all effected by beauty- even cuspidor, is a thing of and accepted their inferiority, nought to try to look like a Madi­ file cabinets and desk corners), conditioning. The homelies do intelligent and gratifying de­ along with the snobbery of wo­ son Avenue established norm, money they could be using for not want to hear something like, sign—in j brief, an objet men who, because of biological epitomized by the Miss America other purposes. "You're a nice-looking girl, hon­ d'art. Below are two masses accidents, assume themselves to contest, and those that do not must Cosmetics and the fake image. ey. " They want to hear you tell that simply refuse to fit into be Cleopatras and Jackies. Ques­ feel inferiority deeply. They must Billions of dollars taken from' them how. beautiful they are.* a balanced composition. tion is why all the ordinary chicks be continually threatened through frightened young girls yearly, They may look at themselves in Viewed from the side, a wo­ put up with the tyranny of beauty the media so that they will make girls afraid to reject the ad- the mirror and know you are man presents an exaggerated contests and Homecoming shucks the beauties wealthy by trying to images projected toward them lying, but they will love your lie S bisected by an imperfect and the entire Beauty Establish­ look like them. through tv tubes and radio waves. much better than your truth, be­ straight line, and so she in­ ment, why the uglies do not revolt Cosmetics do not make women When will the girls stand up and cause that is the last thing any­ evitably suggests a drunken and proclaim their chubby or beautiful, they symbolize artifi­ say FAT IS BEAUTIFUL1 OFF body wants to hear. Way things dollar mark. skinny little bodies to be symbols ciality and unnatural images WITH THE GIRDLEI are now it looks like the beauties -H. L. Mencken of perfection. which are truly ugly masks of Recently, a girl I know stopped are going to maintain their mon­ So far there is no Ugly Power people unable to accept them­ wearing slips, because she didn't archy. Same value structure pre­ by CLAY GEERDES Movement in America. There are selves as they really are. Again, have one around and did not have vails in the underground where the most heavily loaded down I am one of those people who Ugly Man contests on various there is the ad-norm. Your eyes time to go and shop for one. She does not Consider the exploitation campuses, but they are symbolic should be so far apart or you hips compete with fur capes and discovered that a slip was use­ pentangles have the status of of women as serious a problem as of the very cult of beauty which is ought to use some shadow or less, particularly with lined clo­ liner to make them appear to be. princes and chicks like Janis. the exploitation of beauty and its predominant, because those who thing. Why wear one then? It counterpart the denigration of the win these popularity contests are Your hairline should be thus and Joplin and Grace Slick are the ugly. From the first day a wo­ always frat boys with crewcuts, so. Your lips should not be too certainly did not keep her warm princesses. man's body was trotted onstage the very body who, after gradua-" large so you paint them smaller and she did not care whether or Before the men's John at SF and associated with some pro­ tion, will be out there writing with poisonous chemicals. But the not anyone saw her panty-line. State was painted this summer, duct, the fuckers fell into line, copy for the White Owl Girl or body has it worse than the face. So she quit them entirely. How there were three nice phrases salivating their fat heads off. some equally degrading corrup­ Fat is the great villain and many women have considered the near the window. The first read, What is surprising about this tion of human physiology. millions are made every year value of the cosmetics and clo­ "I'm Black and I'm Proud." The phenomenon is that there are so Ugliness or Plainness or by the garment industry, the re­ thing that take most of their in­ second, "I'm Brown and I'm few of the beauties around and so Homeliness or Ordinariness have ducing salons, the gyms, and comes each year? Very few if Proud." Beneath these two some­ many of the ordinaries, the ug­ always been used by the ad men other body-related hustles, off one had scribbled, "I'm Ugly and one takes profit figures published Pm Proud." lies, the fatties, the skinnies, in America to screw the 95 per­ of women who cannot accept their in the news mags seriously. the routine people who work the cent of the population who fit into expanding bodies and try to re­ Right on I Truth is, lots of women's un­ - L.A. Free Press nine-to-fives while the beautiful those categories and are too shape them into images out of derwear is useless. It makes people lay around on their asses amiable and put down to ask why VOGUE or INGENUE or GLA­ money for the garment industry, and tolerate the worship and ad­ die hell they ought to accept such MOUR. All futile gestures and and that's it, baby. But women oration of the homely masses. definitions of themselves. Why wasted money. If a woman is are afraid to do away with it. Lest you jump up righteously should the beauties be allowed to wearing a girdle, she is afraid Recently, many younger women Marxisms and attack those who do the ex­ sit out their lives on their 36 inch of her fat saddle-bags, but she have given up brassieres, and ploiting, the ad men, the cam­ asses while the heavies and the will tell you she only wears it to what has been the result? Did paign hustlers who create mind­ skinnies suffer all the body neur­ they ever need them in the first less little monsters known as- oses? Especially since those very place? Older women- pretend Reagan Girls or Goldwater Girls, neuroses are created by the beau­ hold up her stockings. Ask what shock and try to exert a lot of let me say that I feel the blame. tiful elite so well symbolized in she is wearing the stockings for bra-pressure on their own bud­ lies with those who allow them­ the snobbishness of Elizabeth since nylons are perhaps the ding teenybops, but what is their selves to be transformed from. Taylor in her early films? Why do greatest shuck in the entire world. problem? Everybody knows the valuable human beings into mind­ the homelies accept themselves, They serve no purpose at all. arguments about boobs. They sag less imitators of Miss Qairol as figures of fun? Why do the They certainly do not keep the as the body grows older. So what? and the other ad images which uglies accept the ad image of legs warm, and they are not pro- The uplift bra is simply an hypo­ critical device to deny a reality of which everyone is aware. Older women are bugged because the DL79168 THREE MONTHS IN THE younger girls still have the kind THE WILDLY UNPREDICTABLE of mammaries that will stand up under pressure. Is that any reason MARX BROTHERS IN EXCERPTS for the younger girls to pay out FROM THEIR GREATEST MOVIES. UNDERGROUND five bucks for a strip of cottor ALL THEIR FABULOUS "BITS" with a couple of rubber pads in ON ONE INCREDIBLE ALBUM. it? ROLLING STONE MANAGING EDITOR JOHN BURKS SPENT THREE MONTHS ON THE FROM THE ORIGINAL MOTION This writer has heard at least TRAIL OF THE UNDERGROUND PRESS. FROM BERKELEY'S TRIBE TO THE BANKS OF THE PICTURE SOUND TRACKS TO CHATTAHOOCHIE RIVER WITH ATLANTA'S GREAT SPECKLED BIRD. FROM THE WASHINGTON four billion comments in the past few years about "hippy" girls not DECCA RECORDS. THE DELUXE FREE PRESS'S COMMUNE, TO THE POULTRY-ASTROLOGY DESK OF THE NEW YORK RAT, wearing underwear. They don't TO THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT'S HEADQUARTERS DEEP IN THE HEART OF VANCOUVER'S PACKAGE ALSO INCLUDES A wear it because their concept of FREE 18X24 INCH POSTER. SKID ROW. WE HAVE PREPARED THE MOST INTIMATE, COMPREHENSIVE FIRST-HAND LOOK clothing is functional and they are INTO THE UNDERGROUND PRESS EVER — A 40,000-WORD SUPER ISSUE. WHERE ELSE BUT not interested in the pattern of Available on tape. IN ROLLING STONE! CAN YOU AFFORD TO MISS IT? OF COURSE NOT. conspicuous consumption mani­ For a copy of the special issue, send 50c to Underground Issue, Rolling Stone, 746 Brannan fested by their matronly mom­ Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94103. mies. They are also little inter­ TIME Isn't it about time to subscribe yourself, and not miss any of the special issues? For a free ested in the conception of under­ copy of the Underground report, and a one year subscription, send $6.00 to the same address. wear as virginity-maintenance MARX'S material. 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Who's Afraid of the Big Blacte Panther ?

By Charles Potts black eyes: red ass. THE BLACK PANTHERS By where it collapsed the situation is this, Gene Marine, signet paperbooks, for me tho is rite where it shld the panthers are out to expand 1301 avenue of the americas, have been the strongest—where and protect their actualities, the ny, ny 10019, 95£ marine shares, "some of what white power structure is out to THE BLACK PANTHERS is an this investigation has left in my expand and protect its fantassys. important book, and thats sad. mind." he admits to probly be­ now it is abundantly clear that it ought to be a VERY impor­ ing racist and unrevolutionary. it is not only much healthier LrTTLEMAGS ("...civilization itself is the di­ tant book, u'll see why in a the sadder for his book, the to deal with yr actualities, its sease which is eating us...") but minute. The history, tactics, and last two sentences, altho not much easier also, which in case Diane Di Prima takes center­ her catalogue offers no heavy philosophy of the panthers is worth repeating, require some u missed it is howcum uncle fold in a new mimeo, PRO­ change in the materials for it. presented with a good deal of careful examination and to do that ho won the war in Vietnam. JECT, edited by David Fraser and Only resignation: sympathy, albeit with less un­ i quote so u'll kno what im as i Robert Serling (1240 West For­ the vortex of change is the derstanding, the important points examining. "I am, indeed, af­ read it, the point among the pan­ est, Apartment 1, Detroit 48201). vortex of destruction...for ' are these: that after the assas­ raid of the Black Panther Party. thers 10 that puts the racists There are twenty-one "Revolu­ every revoutionary must at sination of king, the panthers I hope you are, too." to* flush farthest up the wall is the one tionary Letters" (poems) and last will his own destruction saved Oakland once again—that that shit immediately, i hope dealing with release of black an "Ode to Keats," by Di Prima. rooted as he is in the past they are not racist bigots—that yr not. fine. Gene marine can 'prisoners from the penitentiarys. The first three "Letters" (Nos. he sets out to destroy. the pig harrassment pattern is be afraid of anything he wants on the grounds" that they were 1, 14, 15) are reprinted from The work of Andrei Codrescu causing the murders, of bobby to. but to hope others are afraid unfairly tried, tru. other grounds an Artists Workshop Press book and editor Robert Serling estab­ hutton for instance—that nothing of the same, thing? maybe it wld be these, compare for (1510 Hill, Ann Arbor 48104) lishes the main force of this about the panthers is reported makes him feel less lonely. instance the dollar value of the of the same name. The rest No. 1 PRO-JECT. Serling even strate in the newspapers, perhaps' I goods the collected american bur­ (Nos. 16-34) are new (to me). makes some additional sightings those in the revolution already am not afraid of the black panther glars and theives of all races The AWP book has a rather for DiPrima (who is apparently kno this, or at least they shld. party, and the reason, and it stole last year, and hope u can enticing cover—a brick wall with continuing her project of letters): i remember the headline on the is only one reason, is that the get enuff from all of them mind whaTTooks to be four real .22 perpetuation through destruc­ Oakland trib after huttons mur­ only thing they threaten are the u, as senator eastland gets for holes through it—though bullets tion der, "oaklands 90 minute siko- sexual-economic- military not farming, find the criminal, don't go through walls but through demands that the poet war." fantasys of the white power struc­ when i. think of the hungry kids people in front of them. The destroy each poem as it is well, marine traces the ture, i do not share, much less in mississippi im moved to note corner of the cover is burned written history of the panthers from endorse those fantasys. their that if eastland had a heart, he off, and the title and byline-are a£ better their inception, up to as he puts method of dealing with black wld have died of shame years scrawled across the wall in black write poems so perfect 'it, it gets too large for any one revolutionaries has been a three ago. H& ink-blood. they destroy themselves fold variation of the same sour Both Serling and Codrescu use reporter to cover, he also notes among the things im sug­ The "Letters" survey the sub­ the glimmers of hope, as the note, they are either locked up, gesting is that marine appar­ the word "mutate" importantly. killed or ran out. and as i- rite stance and psychometry of sur­ The mutant, or something mu­ judge who freed cleaver after ently shares some of the white viving another .day, a week, when his arrest during the "90 min­ this, robert Williams is fasting power structures fantasys— tated, whether a body or a "vi­ in a london jail because the everything is coming down like sion," Js less "rooted in the ute war." read this book, per­ ^otherwise, howcum the fear. rotton cucumbers. It's a nice haps i shldnt be so cranky, be­ mutherfucking airlines wont "Blacks have to learn about our past" than something merely honor his ticket to detroit. the catalogue—lists of foods to stash, changed. And so the mutant is cause it is obviously-directed culture; they have no choice, drugs to keep going ("keep some british find him "undesirable." w presumably sensitive to fewer at people considerably to the the tragedy is that in doing.so ups around"), h° to get away rite of my own sympathys and guess where all that white ra­ they are often forced to accept of the self-destructive seeds of cism comes from, merry old ( 'splitting is an art"), weapons its own past. Correlative with in that area may help to open our values as a thousand pieces to use, first aid techniques, and a few more blind white and england, u ' may kiss my royal of evidence from political assas­ man's modern technical ability sination to Vietnam should at­ consequences ("even the poorest to force some mutations is the test, are not all that superior." of us/will have to give up some­ sentence that modern civiliza­ giving marine all the benefit thing/to live free.") tion is socially mutable. Yet in of the doubt, i read that as The trouble with revolutions* that sentence, is also the intense appaulling anyway i try. even if is that they are always defined, fear of the unpredictable nature its upside down and backwards, and confined by the antagonist of mutation. meaning theyre not superior at (who by definition has the most power) on a narrowly national In Serling's "New Vision" Part scale. DiPrima knows this, and III, he begins at the far end knows what the larger task is . Cont'd on Page 11

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By John Wllcock world will follow. Abbie Hoffman explains the VIDEA 1000 reports that die reason for the grass shortage typical black in TV commercials in his new book, The Woodstock "seldom speaks, usually doesn't World (about to be published by' touch the product, dresses ac­ Random House). Federal narcs (An)Other Scenes cording to white standards and armed with hundreds of thous­ is shown with lots of other peo­ ands of dollars went to Mexico, capricious gods who give "ana poems, "Black ple." Maybe one of the agencies says Abbie, and outbid the big Pow-Wow" by ter Ustinov, Anthony Quinn and and take away approval at the Hill & Wang. Tony Curtis as stars...Over in should hire Bob (Putney Swope) dope dealers for the new crop, slightest whim. Perhaps people Downey...Life magazine started which they burned and destroyed. Wales, the ingenious William Wil­ will learn from this and stop SELECTIVE CENSORSHIP: liams has devised a way of storing a mail order plan to offer its Naturally they won't do anything reader products from rural about the artificial drugs trade* being sycophants"...Look for na­ Japanese customs have confis­ water in porous concrete (on the tional media coverage of the pro­ cated almost four times as many principle of a firm sponge) which Southern handicraft cooperatives. (uppers, downers, etc) because But—typically— Life's overfed, there are too many business al­ mised demonstrations in San pronogrsphic 8mm movies from could be siphoned out when need­ Francisco next week (Sept. 15) returning travelers this year than ed. The concrete could fill whole overpaid employees are offered liances behind this in the right the products at a discount in­ places. against what SDS has called "The last despite the fact that Japan valleys, he suggests, and then Festival of Thieves" (known in itself turns out some of the best covered over with farmland- stead of passing the bread on The Woodstock World, a dyna­ to the cooperatives where it's mite book, was written like Ab- straight circles as the Intrna- porn in the world...The judge less expense and trouble than tional Industrialists Conference) who hassled -Lennon Raphael af­ building dams...Every culture more needed...The Village bie's previous book in an in­ ter his play Che I was busted, is has always been hung up on Voice is . having internal argu­ credibly productive ten-day ments about whether to go up to ...Max Yasgur, Aquarian Festi­ the same on who later performed images and it is this which re­ marathon. It's fantastic; will be the marriage ceremony for Hilly flect its truest religion. Once 20# or a quarter; a classic bat­ quoted and reprinted endlessly val host, having proved to be one tle between the two major in­ of the only property-owners in NY Elkins, producer of Oh Calcutta... it was carved idols, now it's throughout the world. Like Abbie San Francisco's autocratic cul­ television... Fastest growing fluences at the Voice—pettiness himself it's a ragbag of all the in­ state to understand young peo­ and greed. fluences around us as well as ple, should run for governor... tural support fund which makes theft in America at present is that a prediction of the world to come. The invaluable book for draft- annual grants of $215,000 to the of credit cards frauds over these counsellors, writes Tim Slater, city's opera, $80,000 to the bal­ little plastic tokens having almost LOCAL STUFF: Any organi­ let and $26,500 for the Chinese doubled in the past year...The zation in New York City that's is "Guide to the Draft" byTa- UPCOMING rTEMS: A big Brit­ tum & Tuchinsky (Beacon, $1.95) New Year has just cut back NATURAL thing to do is to let ish poultry group has spent 2-1/2 short of money should apply maxi­ its allocation to the world-famous the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall mum pressure on City Hall to ...Advisory board of the million bux experimenting with Movement Speakers Bureau (333 SF Film Festival to a mere and to allow Niagara Falls to different breeds of hens and fin­ explain how half a million dol­ $15,000...Try sending an under­ erode itself nto a mere trickle. lars can be given to the Metro­ ally come up with a hybrid that ground paper to the Different But natural phenomena grow to lays eggs with a "pink tint" to politan Museum to modernize East 5th Street, new York 10003) Drummer (5401 S. Claiborne, have too many commercial de­ its exterior when supposedly the which sends activists and radi­ the shell....The biggest new de­ New Orleans) whose proprietors pendents (the tourist trade etc.) velopment in the 70's will be a city is short of money. Grants cals around college campuses don't seem to know where their and thereby become unnatural. like this from City Hall are is almost a who's who of the process known as three-dimen­ name came from...The oil com­ MEDIA MIX: The worst-con­ sional holography which enables sheer idiocy and show where movement: Rap Brown, Dick Gre­ pany that bought Paramount Pic­ ceived newspaper in British his­ Lindsay's real priorities lie. And gory, Ginsberg, Krassner, Kunst- transmission of an image which tures boasts in its ads that they tory, the Sun, is about to close appears to possess depth and if money to clear away garbage ler, Seale... Houghton Miflin Co. are studying "what people like" down after a steady plunge in sent a free copy of its new breadth and yet isn't there when so they'll know what films to circulation since it began four ox you try to get hold of it. It's all American Heritage Dictionary to make, just in case you thought five years ago. Launched as a is supposed to be one of the every underground paper. Are done by a complicated system of administration's main problems movie-making was creative or remake of te old Daily Herald, laser beams and is too hard for they trying to tell us something? something... Why don't the var­ a semi-official labor party daily, how come the city can afford '..«A new paperback, "Cooking the layman to understand much to let the Parks Department spend ious committees who want to stop the arrival of the Sun was pre­ less explain....Hundreds of With Astrology" (Signet, 95£) people smoking divert some of ceded with a massive publicity millions on "renovating" Wash­ by Sydney Omarr & Mike Roy American pubs will eventually ington Square Park? Did any­ their advertising budgets to un­ campaign informing everyone open serving British beer and looks like being a winner. It's derground papers where it might what a radical new paper it body ask local residents if it a complete breakdown of what duplicating the environments of needed digging up? really have some effect? The was going to be and how in touch their home country by means of foods and which signs have an answer: because they'd sooner with the times. Of course, it OUR THING: The largest ar­ affinity for each other, com­ fibre-glass reproductions of Tu­ tists and writers "commune" follow the big money tobacco turned out to be just the same dor panelling, Jacobean beams, plete with recipies, horoscopes companies into television and sick old fashioned bullshit—same for­ in the world will be the 384- and what various signs are like fireplaces, armor breastplates apartment Westbeth project now magazines. mat content an philosophy as all and other plastic fakes....Watch as dinner companions...The sub­ the other pop London dailies; being completed in Greenwich ject of Fred McDarrah's "Rent for a new way to gouge drivers Village. As well as lofts, stu­ totally unhip about youth, pot by the installation of meters in a Beatnik" agency back in the and the new lifestyle in general. dios and apartments for crea­ late 1950*s, Ted Joans who left WHAT'S HAPPENING: Having each car which will register units tive tenants, there'll also be tried several other unsuccessful Now for some unfathomable rea­ each time the vehicle crosses his jazz and poetry days in the son there's a campaign to "save" rehearsal rooms, theatre, dark­ Village for a nomadic life in approaches to buy favorable pub­ over a sunken wire coil in a re­ rooms, exhibition galleries and licity, the fascist Green govern­ it. Why hothr? We'll be ready stricted (i.e. city center) area.. Europe and Africa (he rents with our NEW concept of a daily a sculpture garden...Julius Les­ a $5-a-year home in Timbuctu) ment will next year finance a London Sunday Times reports on ter writes (in The Guardian) multi-million dollar movie near by next year and once it's under­ will be back in New York next way in New York the rest of the that the Black Panthers "are month for the publication of his Athens with Such liberals as Pe­ Cont'd on Page 11 PREGNANT? NEED HELP? CALL (ILLINOIS) 217-525-8879 (VIRGINIA) 703-229-5135 (CALIFORNIA) 415-848-6036 cations are effective for the induction of a late SOCIAL COMMENT: of government required by law to receive such information." period only and not for miscarriage. If you Our society is so furtive and mid-Victorian about I have yet to see an unborn child suffer on this are told that someone was successful with this sensuality and sexuality, that anything connected with earth but ten thousand of us starve to death each method, see if you can find out whether she them, such as pregnancy, immediately becomes im­ day. Perhaps after we are able to grant the right had previously had a competent, positive, med­ possible to deal with on an open social level. Em­ of survival to all viable post-natal human beings ical test for pregnancy. The answer will barrassed, infantile loss of control is the usual we will be able to afford the luxury of granting probably be no, meaning she was most pro^ response, or perhaps the usual scene of the woman metaphysical and legal considerations to the fetus bably just late and not actually pregnant. being rejected by her family at the doorstep is just and perhaps even sperms and* ovums. Perhaps 5.) Be very careful in the use of mimeographed as frequent. The result is that the women of America man should create new life as an act of will and lists of doctors who perform abortions. These end up wandering the Streets of Mexico and the U.S. not one of chance. lists are sometimes sold for as much as looking for .someone to help them, if the price is PRACTICAL COMMENT: twenty dollars and might give very dangerous right, so they won't have to face the wrath and If you are pregnant there are many considerations and antiquated information. There have been indignation of their "friends, loved ones, and so­ which should be made. Perhaps the following sug­ many girts who have called my office having ciety." I have flown to many places with a femaje gestions will be of assistance: just returned to the bay area after spending gynecologist from the Bay area. We posed as a 1.) If you are a teenage girl under the age of large sums on plane fares, wandering the couple in need of help and contacted as many 18, you become, in the eyes of California Law, streets of Mexico, and having close calls or "doctors" as possible in order to see their trouble with the Mexican police. They did an adult the moment you become pregnant. 'this in hopes of calling one of the numbers facilities and techniques. We saw many young r You are then able to sign for, as an adult, girls with their mothers and boyfriends, and older any standard medical services you feel you listed and obtaining help only to be turned women, wives and daughters of "prominent and need and this includes a therapeutic abor­ awai. successful" members of American communities taking tion. You may do this without any obligation to AC-AM, BE CAREFUL OF MIMEOGRAPHED risks of tragic proportions. They have to do this inform or involve your parents no matter LISTS. THEY OFTEN LEAD TO TROUBLE! because we. in this country, who help castrate men how vigorously people insist that you should 6.) Abortion is illegal in Mexico, therefore the in India by bribing them with transistor radios, tell them. utmost care should be exercised. can't allow a woman the privacy and control of 2.) Very few girls who believe that their parents 7.) Abortion is very illegal and dangerous in the her own body. won't understand or help, find themselves to United States. Records show that from two State legislation in the area of legalized abortion be quite mistaken. Most of the time the to three hundred women died in the U.S. last is degrading to the woman in need of help. N6t resources of help and understanding are avail­ year as a result of botched .abortions and only must she submit to the cross-examination of able, but the lines of trust along which these thirty of these were in California; two psychiatrists and a hospital board, but she resources flow are in need of reestablishment. 8.) Fifty, percent of the maternal deaths in this must sign a standard form which reads in part 3.) Any girl 14 and above not living with her country result from poor abortions. as follows: parents and declaring herself an emancipated 9.) A medically competent abortion is three times "...the undersigned hereby authorizes the doctor minor is entitled to consideration as an adult as safe as gestation and childbirth. and the hospital to release and disclose any or according to California Law and may obtain 10.) If you obtain an abortion of any kind, see a all information contained in the patient's medi­ any medical help she needs. local doctor immediately. Most doctors will cal record to the state department of public health, 4.) If you are told of any doctor in the bay area, respect your privacy and needs for post­ the district attorney of the county in which the who promises a miscarriage by the use of abortion care. pregnancy resulted, and any other instrumentality pills or shots don't fall for it. These medi­ Wray Morehouse wrQ V^^l I T'f'Xt*^ f^/K. IVI negative on clear acetate film. All areas In almost everything printed, the from the backing. You cut around each YCO/TUU I V-/V./ V^rAIM that appear black on the original copy typed copy is the single most important letter, lift it from the backing sheet and y \y^**\| If*"> ^**^t A #|V l^evelop as opaque black on the negative element. With offset you do not employ burnish it in to position. With hard type it f—' yl 11 l|"i V Jif \f |\|an^ a^ areas black on the copy, such as moveable type. Instead the articles are is best to spell out your headline on a B -" ^Hype, artwork and dirt, develop as photographed as typed. The copy can be separate piece of paper and then paste it transparent on the neg. arranged as you like but it should be down on the final copy. Hardtype is This negative is then placed over a readable. Copy typed by an electric available at most art and student supply ^EDITOR \r&r special, light sensitive aluminum sheet. typewriter on clay impregnated paper stores and costs on the average a dollar a This is the plate. It is chemically treated to gives the clearest and most readable copy. sheet. Shading film, lines, dots, textures function as film. Intense light is projected IBM Selectrics have the advantage of are also available. upon the plate and passes only through permitting you to vary the style and size Typed copy, art and photos and wow the transparent areas of negative. The of type by changing the ball font. headlines are the major elements on any plate is then developed. The action of the When copy is arranged into even page. As to how to lay them out there is but first a I i tt le «r» developer chemically etches those areas of columns it is called "justified". Justifying not much more to tell. plate exposed to the light. by hand is tedious and time-consuming. For lines and such use liner tape. It PHILOSOPHY: *J* The plate is then bent around a There are 'two main approaches to justify comes in all widths. If drawing such lines Freedom of speech is meaningless drum in-Jhe press The ink is.conducted copy. One is to make linotype galleys. - use Rapidographs or some other ruling when a man cannot be heard. The freedom from a trougRjthrough a system of roUersW pens. Your concern should be with to think exists only where there is the ^Mthe plate. Only those areas etched on the uniformity of width. freedom to express those thoughts and the plate pick up the ink. The inked areas are In roughing out a page use light blue freedom of expression is real only if the then pressed against a rubber drum which pencils and nothing else. Light blue is the machinery of communication is available gj transfers the impression to the paper, only color you should trust not to to afl. 2j In the press all of these various photograph. The freedom of communication, of ~ rollers, the paper feed, water and Rubber cement or adhesive wax is both acting and sensing, is not & chemicals and ink are coordinated, best for* pasting down copy. Excess acknowledged in America. The individual, £ Printing presses, second only perhaps to HAS GOT cement can be picked up by rubbing it dissident or otherwise, is exiled from the g steam locamotives for their complexity with a hardened lump of cement, called an machinery of mass media and there by ? and beauty when operating. Most printers, ®BALLS! "ugly". Bo careful, though, because it will separated from his government. The ix however, are oblivious to the aesthetics of The linotype machine is the also pick up hard type and most constitution guarantees that he may speak this operation. For them printing is a mechanical mentality incarnate. This everything else in its path. not that' he be heard. The established paradoxically indirect way of making machine, an assemblage of arms, gears, Do not carry copy to the edge of a media is not only a one way street but also money. cams, and pulleys reproduces faithfully page. If the dimensions of a printed sheet a private road. Trespassers will be shot In putting out a paper or magazine the movements of a typesetting crew of are 17" by 11" standard for most papers, down. you will probably have little, except usually five men, all of whom it, ofcourse, then your copy should not exceed 16" by Through mass jnedia, the private and financial, contact with the actual printing. threw out of work. A single operator sits 10". Otherwise you'll lose it. Consider a social experience

Either way: the Sixties. ENTRAILS wasami- Place called Murray, Utah ...we are mutated my lover meo and rode in on certain, sen­ (5410 Hillside Dr. 84107): A year : and must demand our own de­ sational stuff like "A Polite In­ later Charlie Potts is into his Len Fulton From Pagg 7 struction. terview with a Cunning Linguist," ppetry again but leaving the edi­ "In the Bathroom" (Eugene Sch­ tor/publisher hassles to Ber­ of the process, with the mu­ idea, you must also go for ci­ Some Returns J EAST: wartz) and "The New Bible" keley. "I got into a really bad tation beginning its own ("ber­ vilization itself as a mutation— Back in '68 a mag named EN­ (Barbara Ringselle). But editor scene in California, mostly my serk") cycle replete with the with a corollary zest for leaping TRAILS helped to establish what Gene Bloom had a deep feel for own doing, but am getting my urge to expunge its. historical back across a "history (that)r Seems to me (hindsight being poetry, and during ENTRAILS' head strate. I submit that in a bloodlines (which is why we fear moves in cycles/ and shld gra­ 20-20) to have been the peak four issues and some books on few years I may make that kind mutants). Or/and: if you buy that dually return us to our elements.' of small magazine publishing in the side the poetry held the mag of scene again. I'm just a kid." together—some of the best Bu- kowski in print, D.r. Wagner, -Doug Blazek is looking for Joel Kauffman, and Bloom him­ poems. The new project is with self. The fourth issue was put Morris Edelson (QUIXOTE, Ma­ together by Mike Berardi because dison, Wise) as publisher. "A Bloom had been busted and im- one-shot anthology-thing," says prisoned(grass). Blazek in a slightly square (for Despite much good help EN­ him) spec sheet, ' and since he TRAILS was Gene Bloom, and (Edelson) is going to Poland he's it went down when he went down. gonna have it printed in Siberia The littlemag is a person. Bloom, or Bulgaria and it's gonna be is now out of Sing-Sing—and the damn prettiest book he's ever writing (221 Mott St., NYC, put out." Blazek (3063 Donner 10012) but has been effectively 'Way, Sacramento 95817) is de­ "cured" as an editor/publisher. voutly anti-categorical, and he He is now at the number one was that way, if you paid at­ business of his own poetry, much tention, even when he had "meat" of which he wrote while in prison. labels jammed into his quarters by others during the peak of his WEST: OLE and OPEN SKULL days. Contemporary with Bloom was Presumably what this anthology Charlie Potts who came down seeks, what it will contain, are from Seattle to Berkeley back in close-to-earth trips, psychonau- '67 after giving his mag LITMUS tic plunges through the crust of a heavy start. In Berkeley he here. Blazek warns contributors became known to all of us as not to judge from what he pub­ Laffing Water: lished in the past—and not to charlie potts is dead eliminate the shits and fucks ei­ and i wonder if i shld ther. "I want poems that do not be opening his mail... bullshit," He changed LITMUS from Ben Hiatt's venture into limited mimeo to offset (perhaps a major distributing of small-press items difference between C.P. and L. W.] is showing promise. He calls it and also published Poems Writ­ "A New Dimension in Poetry** ten Before Jumping Out of an 8 (P.O. Box 2038, Sacramento Story Window by Charles Bu- 95809) and features the complete kowski. Somewhere I wrote that lists of in-print items from a "Laffing Water is the closest half-dozen small publishers. A thing to Ginsberg Berkeley has" free catalog is available. A New —and then in the summer of Dimension is also handling a '68 during one of those police "Gene Fowler Package" ($4.) seizures of Berkeley things went which includes all four of Fow­ to hell for him and Charlie Potts ler's books: Field Studies. Sha­ reappeared to disappear with the man Songs, Quarter Tones and body of Laffing Water, Her Majesty's Ship.

Other Scenes From Page 9: a three-year experiment which anthropology professor named/ proves the idea is feasible. Alan Court whose only previous San Francisco, of all unlikely publication had been an Estab­ places, seems to be the health­ lishment-oriented sheet called iest- breeding ground for under­ the Berkeley Fascist (which no­ ground papers at present with body could quite accept as sat­ new entries being hawked on the irical). streets of the Bay area every The Tribe, predictably, accus­ week. In addition to the two-' ed the new Barb staff of being year-old Good Times and the finks and undeniably the Berkeley Black Panther paper, there's the Tribe is the better paper of the LNS-instigated Dock of the Bay, two —with almost all of the the mostly-pictorial Aquarius, Barb's original 60,000 circula­ the "literary tabloid" Open Cell,, tion. Because of its curiosity and, of course, the Berkeley value and high sexual content, Tribe and reconstituted Berkeley however, the Barb, too, is sel­ Barb slugging it out across the ling around 50,000 copies a week Bay. and sometimes it seems as though Status of the Barb is still not every second person on Berke­ clear: after most of Max Scherr's ley's Telegraph Avenue is ped­ staff quit in disgust over his dling papers. capitalist tactics forming their The rest of the regulars on own publishing company under the the street, by the way, are either, name of Red Mountain Tribe, Max selling drugs or buying them. sold what remained to a former. It's doubtful if there's anywhere else in the world (apart from a Ur»\ 9\)A.A5 brief period at White Lake in the Let's lengthen up" the cuts some; Electric Flag to work their en­ is very much the spirit of The woods) where so many cries of Otis is put through them much ergies out on. Airplane and retains an indefa­ "Grass? Acid? $4 tabs?" can be . too efficientlv~an^ extension of THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE tigable belief in the good-will- heard so often in such a short this idea is to record him live, AND THE SAN FRANCISCO goodvibes thing. Jack Casadyand block. The street people, it's WHEEL true, have (temporarily) control would anybody argue with that SOUND, Ralph J. Gleason, Bal- Spencer Dryden open up the most of their street. Outside Cody's From Page 4 one? lantine, 95£ excitingly, rapping some good No matter how you look at it, streaks about music and- their bookstore there's a craft center: This is largely a bookful of a score of kids with looms, Lady" is a good example of some­ B&G are gonna have to get on interviews by Gleason with mem­ involvement in it, generating thing he should've been left all out some— Reap What You Sow" some of the excitement you get jewelry, handicrafts, all spread bers of The Airplane and with out on the sidewalk for exhibit alone with). Let Otis do some : is the only track where the or­ Bill Graham and Jerry Garcia. in trading fours with a good of the things he does in person— chestration is such an obvious1 head. Jorma, too, though he re­ and sale as in any little Mexi­ The first quarter of the book is can town. if it's good enough for all those nonus that I'd retain it no ques­ a thumbnail history of the 'de­ serves more experience. Grace folks to groove on, why shit so tions asked. Otherwise, I guess velopment of the San Francisco is more rap and opinion, less mightily at recording time? the boys better just get another. scene, aided by reprints of col­ . conviction and sharing, while Paul OVERSfcT: Picket your local umns Gleason wrote for The Kantner seems to want to avoid. maternity hospital I Visit Reno - From Chronicle and there's little there the burden of knowledgeability and hand out leaflets outside that anyone at all engaged with more often than not. The emerg­ marriage bureaus I Send letters Mao Mao Mau Mau Page 7 pop culture doesn't already ing profile of a band is thor­ "to newly-weds! These are some all, the innuendo is considerably for the poor, a decent minimum know—it's more like an orien­ oughgoing 'and holds your in­ of the suggestions made by Zero subtler than the color of santa tation for the straights, - Glea­ terest, but seldom swoops down Population Group (1158 Lisa wage law sld do more for the to that nitty-gritty which friends claus* face, yr racism is shoingM poverty stricken, 80% of whom son reporting (quite accurately Lane, Los Altos, CA 94022), a as marine himself wld say. that are employed fulltimes dig, then and informatively) from the hip exchange ('cept Spencer and California-based society which is cocktail party chatter and verner von brawns (sic fantasys outsider's point of view. Marty and Jack, at times), and hopes to bring the birth rate down the scene is life and death, not The interview is one of the it's a public thing, free-form to equal the death rate.... William on mars. "image" concerns are retained. all that' superior? their vlues to bring it on home, toughest forms for a serious Buckley's right wing friends were are demonstrably, inferior and i repeat u have nothing to fear writer to bring off, ask any-' Probably Bill Graham lets fly so upset by the Black Panthers' not even necessarily on racist from the black1 panthers that one who's into all-round, in- with as many juicy details and Coloring Book that they repro­ grounds, this country has the getting on the rite side of yr- depth commentary. Gleason does who-gives-a-shit candid opinions duced thousands of copies (free fastest communications media self wont heal, the pig power creditably well, keeping it going as anyone, it's odd that the from Communications Distribu­ known to man. and nobody with structures options have dwindled while keeping pretty much out. straightest one here is the least tion Inc., Box 182 Murray Hill the slitest thing to say gets into aristotle, they can either of the way and his subjects are inhibited. Jerry Garcia doesn't Station, NYC 10016)...NYC Peace anywhere near it. they can bio acceed to the just demands for all comparatively voluble and un- reveal more than "the facts, & Freedom Party, down to fifty a cool trillion, count em, tril­ reform or they gonna come up uptight, with a minimum of put man" compared to how he could members, has disbanded....Get lion (an economist here at the MIA. thats missing in action, ons and games. tell it. American flag decals and fly u of Utah has made it his busi­ its sing along with Charlie time Marty Balin is interviewed- An entertaining and groovy them in your cars upside down, ness to understand the price —whose afraid of the big black' twice, at the outset and after book, some degrees lighter than suggests Louis Brill, as a sign of war, thats his figure, includes panthers, or whose afraid of The Airplane's first round of it could have been and putting that the country is in distress.... "veterans benefits, etc.) dollars the big black panthers, chair­ touring, just after Bathing at Up silhouettes instead of flesh and Balling More Now But Enjoying 'on their fantasys in asia, but man mao, chairman mao, chair­ Baxters was finished. The be­ blood cross-sections more often ft Less? 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