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High Times 1(5) December 1971

Phillip Frazer

Macy McFarland

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Description Phillip Frazer and Macy Mcfarland (eds.), High Times, High Times Pty Ltd, Carlton, 1(5), December 1971, 40p. Contents:

Rick Griffin - Man omfr Utopia (cartoon)

For underground teachers - the new Guerilla Manual

Robert Crumb - George Gwaltny (cartoon)

Did Abbie do it?

Small Notes

The last Whole Earth Catalog or what

Macy McFarland - Better dead than wed

Chris Hector - A child's garden of revolution

Phillip Frazer - The freap magazines

Eco Xmas

Cartoon by Delany

When you see a UFO smile (graphic)

Rob Greaves - UFOs are farther than the sun

Alan Spencer - UFOs are unhealthy - Superstar and the flying saucers

Colin James - Records

Frank's dirty song

Tony Dalton - Conversation with a draft dodger

100 raid uni but miss draft four

Letters

Little boxes (ads)

C. Grosz - Daddy Cool in Auckland 1954 (cartoon)

Publications Board of Review letter

C. Grosz (cartoon)

Garry & Gail - Strawberry Fields (cartoon)

Food Publisher High Times Pty Ltd, Carlton, 40p

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T=ftOH MAH -faoA OTDFIA—-BY for underground teachers the new GUERILN MANUAL

1. Stop the gossip about kids in staff rooms. 2. Have your English classes correct all office memos and return them. 3. Put out bogus memos. 4. Assist kids in setting up a curriculum evaluation committee. 5. Sabotage the course requirement system by inviting federal and state politicians to classes. 6. Arrange Civil Liberties presentations for kids about legal rights. 7. Use walkie-talkies to stay in touch with isolated teachers in the fifth wing, third floor. 8. Conduct free Saturday classes - open the school, invite the caretaker. 9. Help students photograph the school from their point of view and set up a display in town. 10. Send the school a bill for chaperone services - take it to small claims court if they don’t pay. 11. Have your wife telephone you during staff meetings. 12. Visit a New School near you. 13. Take a tape recorder/witness/lawyer to the office when called in. 14. Calculate and publicise the total man-hours wasted by bad jokes at faculty meetings, tak­ ing attendance, playground duty, assembly duty, etc. 15. Give up classes on Fridays and have jam sessions. 16. Stop being afraid of parents. 17. Post walk-on-the-right signs in the halls. 18. Have teachers try going on a student’s schedule for a day or two. 19. Help students draft a Students’ Bill of Rights. 20. Place glad-wrap over waste cans, teachers’ mailboxes, etc. 21. Stop teachers from jumping lunch queues (tape signs on their backs?) 22. Demand a merit pay system for your administrators. 23. Arrange for a no-adults area for kids. 24. Have a student film festival. 25. Post the Guerilla Manual on the faculty bulletin board. 26. Let students teach classes. 27. Issue poetic licenses to English teachers. 28. Have teachers try trading subjects once in a while. 29. Try having students communicate without words. 30. Don’t wear a tie. 31. Seize the intercom and dismiss school. 32. Give a kid a day off if his parent comes to school. 33. Give students their choice of instructors. 34. Put a rocking chair in every room. 35. Demand the doors be placed on the toilets in ihe student cans. 36. Refuse to take assembly or playground duty. 37. Take up a collection and buy all kinds of games for your classrooms (especially 5th and 6th forms). 38. Make a tape of the racist remarks in the staff room and turn it over to the local foreign community. , / ilf s 39. Set aside a blackboard for yaffiti for students and/or teachers. 40. Stop collecting sports money. 41. Overload the office with bogus memos, proposals for new programs, non-existant meetings, etc. guerilla teaching CONTD 42. Epoxy the head master’s door shut. 43. Ask the local garden club to beautify the school grounds. 44. Build a fireplace in the staff room. Use it. 45. Buy a 1970 calendar for the staff room. 46. Hire a rock band to play for your classes and turn up the amplifiers. 47. Periodically, have hordes of teachers (or students) go to the office and ask to have rumor confirmed or denied. 48. Start rumors. 49. Put silly messages in staff boxes. 50. Leave phoney letters of application lying around the school. 51. Wire a scrambler into the PA system. 52. Start an argument at a staff meeting early in the year and find out who has any guts and brains. 53. Leave phoney letters of resignation for (?) lying around the school. 54. Send out bogus notices: “ There will be a meeting...” , “ All sports days are cancelled” “ All 5th formers will report to the office at 3:00 pm...... ”. 55. Get a bullhorn and shout back down the hall. 56. Post negative directives on the hall bulletin boards: “ Boys will NOT wear track shoes to school Thursday....” “ Students will not wear black armbands....” , etc. 57. Help bachelor teachers prettify their rooms. 58. Bring in a community person at least once a week to teach, or watch, or take notes. 59. Let your kids sit where they want (floor not excepted). 60. Take some floor pillows to school. 61. Put a suggestion box in your room. Use it. 62. Start a confidential file written by TEACHERS, make it available to prospective teachers when they come to interview. 63. Offer to amke the teacher-written file available to administrators if they will make theirs available to teachers. 64. Bring in doctors, carpenters, housewives, mechanics, engineers, cops, etc., and let your kids ask questions. 65. Run satiric ads in the local newspaper: “ For sale - one school, 39 teachers (31 Labor, two liberals, five middle-of-the-roaders, one radical....)” etc. 66. Bring EVERYTHING that’s not being used in school to your room: pianos, settee, books, magazines, typewriters, globes, maps, sports equipment...... 67. Set up a phoney school and hire away all the crummy teachers. 68. Encouraqe older students to teach younger ones, or vice versa where applicable” . 69. Hire a solicitor and file a test suit over the “ ...oand any other duties” clause. 70. Plaster the staff bulletin boards with mind-blowing articles about schools, books, plays, politics, movies, meetings, pot parties, etc. 71. Buy the head master a subscription to High Times for Christmas. 72. Initiate public meetings and debates on education in your district. 73. Refuse to chaperone games, school trips, buses, sports etc. 74. Have a guerilla tactics brainstorming at your next staff meeting. 75. Conduct evening seminars with parents on how schools fail their children and what’s needed for kids to learn. 80. Help students and parents organise a Free School. 81. Teach grammar for nine solid months and help speed up the revolution. 82. Grow your hair (if you’re a man). 83. Refuse to teach more than 20 kids in the first three grades. 84. Make a deal with the office: you won’t use the PA if they won’t. 85. Telephone one parent every night to talk about his child, for fifteen minutes. 86. Demand equal time with coaches to speak at Rotary meetings about last week’s lesson and the coming week’s big test. 87. Collect facts on budget breakdowns and publicise them. 88. Set up a speakers bureau of teachers and offer them to interested groups. 89. Use parent teacher association meetings to agitate for change. 90. Use teachers to recruit new teachers. 91. Tell the office secretary that you don’t take orders from her. 92. Explain to the public how non-teaching duties are a waste of the taxpayers’ money. 93. Interview as a team — tell them to take all of you or none. 94. Invite parents to class frequently, ask them to work as aides. 95. Meet with university faculties in your area and tell them what’s going on in the schools. 96. Form a staff senate. Use it. 97. Invite your head master to your class every day. Invite him to teach a class: 98. Actively support teachers in the lower grades who are trying to improve conditions there. 99. Begin your next job interview by shouting “ I don’t take shit from anybody!’’ 100. Hire an actor to impersonate parental voices and make telephone calls to the office. 101. Produce a teacher newsletter with tidbits of change, rebellion, successes, failures, etc. 102. Encourage students and parents to pressure for a real voice in curriculum decisions. 103. Invite the inspector to visit your classes. 104. Ask him to teach one. Evaluate it and send it to the education department. 105. Ban plastic (coffee cups, chairs, desks, food....) 106. Organise a spring festival of the Arts: music, art, writing, athletic events, etc., and ask the local talented adults to perform. 107. Become a parent. 108. Forget about the curriculum for a day and talk about the good books you’ve read recently. 109. Decipher the dress code. 110. Arrange for a student lounge. 111. Carpet the halls. 112. Encourage students to paint classroom interiors, choose posters. 113. Allow singing in the halls. 114. Plant grass in the chalk trays. 115. ENCOURAGE YOUR KIDS TO STRIKE FOR ALL ABOVE!

_ \ HT 5 free, sleep free, wash free, be bodyguard, andbitches more entertained free - live free. about insecure upper-middle He wrote to Abbie and ex­ class Anita, ana even gets plained his ideas, Abbie wrote round to calling her a fascist. back and said he was a bit busy This culminates in a big scene with the Trial at the time, but where she refuses to allow ABBIE do come up and see him in New Jerry Rubin to stay at their York when there were, say 50 - place, saying that he upsets 60 pages together. Izak then goes on tp describe how he and her To Izak, this is the final evidence of her hung-up un­ DO IT ? his lady, Lynn, proceeded to work their guts out for the next forgivable bourgeois shittinessc Finally, most of the work that four months (Lynn mostly em­ Izak can do on the book is ployed on typing, of course) on What was the first piece of completed, and he shows it to the beginnings of the book and thievery connected with Abbie Abbie, who suddenly realises how he gradually fell in love Hoffman’s (or so we all thought) that he’ ll have to do something Yippie’survival manual ‘Steal with the thing. Oh, and with too. He had earlier insisted on Abbie too, of course). Izak likes This Book’? A young American a profit-split of 70/30 in favor to remind us every few para­ quy named Isak Haber claims of Izak, but now reconsiders graphs just how much he loved, tnat it was a monster rip-off by in terms of 50/50. trusted, respected and revered Abbie himself - that Abbie is From here, things slide very ole Abbie. Thought him a gen­ by no means sole author of the rapidly downhill. The Disil­ book, and that much, if not most ius, in fact. lusionment of Young Issac. At of the credit should go to him­ In early May, with about 230 first, he sees it as nothing self, Izak. pages done, Izak went to New And who’s ever heard of Izak York to see Abbie. After some more than friendly confusion, Haber? The only reference to trouble in getting in touch with not to be alarmea. But after him in ‘Steal This Book’ is a him (like being hung up on twice the touching scene in which discrete little mention on the by Anita. Abbie’s wife) he got he fully completes all the work title-page, referring to him as their address and went to visit he can do on the book, and is a ‘co-conspirator’ - and mis­ them at their penthouse apart­ so overjoyed to see his darl­ spelling his name, so we’re ment. ing complete at last that he told - plus a message in the He was deeply shocked to practically screws it, we are introduction which says that walk in and find - what’s this? made to realise What It Means Izak Haber was a nice guv who No ratty revolutionary’s pad to Him, and that he ain’t gonna helped, along with lots of other as he had hoped and fully ex­ give up easy. people. But wait until you see pected, heavy with dope-smoke So here we go. Back-stabbing what Izak has to say about his and the rich odour of lots of screaminq matches through the I association with Abbie over the free and easy fucking, covered streets of New York, money- considerable period during which in posters and political tracts, hassles, who-gets-credit-for the book was written and put but a clean(gasp) tidy (gasp, what wrangles, ego-trips flying together. gasp) two-person set-up. with thick and fast. Hiring of law­ Originally a 75,000 word man­ clean dishes and lots of plants uscript, his tale nas been con­ yers, demands for expenses, flowers growing. Which sounds offers and counter-offers, ac­ densed in several overseas pretty nice to me, but Izak did cusations and denials. Hard to not approve one bit. magazines, aid makes great picture all them yippies and heavy gossip reading, as well He was horrified by Anita similar free-living revolution as casting some strong doubts from the first, by the damning of fun types involved in all as to just what Our Favourite fact that she wore a dressing- Yippie is into the revolution gown rather than lollop about that, huh? But (says Izak) they game for. the place naked. Ho goes on were, they were indeed Izak Haber says that he got to give a picture of her as a At last, an agreement is rea­ the idea for ‘Steal This Book’ neurotic clinging, bourgeios ched. A great long wherefore after hearing Abbie speak at a neatnik, who Tiad graduated and hereinafter, whereto and park in Berkeley in December from ‘some girl’s university’ hereunto document, giving Isak '69. At that time he was a 20- and he refers to her studies 19%, Lynn 1%, their attorney vear-old politically oriented as ‘a bunch of pure shit,’ 2Vi% - and Abbie the balance. freak who’d never worked a day Despite the fact that they Plus all distribution, promotion in his life and thought of him­ are so disappointed in the film, dramatic, etc., etc,, rights. self as a Living Free Expert place, he ana Lynn move in. And more too. He envisioned the book as a Izak then tells us all about Well! manual to tell all those kids how close he got to the still- just aching to leave home and adored Abbie, playing pool to­ But hold on folks - don’t oin the revolution how to hitch, gether, going for walks, to the burn your copies of ‘Revolution i;reight, hop planes, buses, eat movies, even acting as his For the Hell Of It’ just yet. i 15 HT6 ______/ Memorial' October last year. Shows REVOLUTION SMALL NOTES are planned for once a month. Loc^ ation, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. BUSTED AUSTRALIA On the other side of town $60,000 If you are in possession of the is going into a venue to be called the March 1971 issue of Revolution you Regent. $20,000 of that has been re­ just might be holding obscene literat­ decoration fo the old Regent Theatre. ure. Friday November 12, Go-Set Pub­ Well a local talent has finally Another 22 thou has bought the most lications Pty. Ltd. was served with 3 made a name for himself in the U.S. incredible collection of lights anywhere summonses for publishing, possession without the use of promoters or hype. in Australia. These doors are to be and sale of obscene material i.e. The man is Jeff Crozier who performed opened fortnightly. Location — Revolution. all of Australia with this crazy magic Toorak Road, South Yarra. Inevitable. Maybe. Since there are rock show up till June this year. Jeff Both owners of these venues must no real obscenity definitions the var­ is now on a salary with Marvel Comics have grand visions, possibly hallucin­ ious state governments find it necess­ as resident magician, which considering ations. In order for both venues to be ary to pull up something now and all the local competition must have financially successful the seine will then so they can try once again to set been some feat. have to turn out in a force Melbourne, some limits. Actually the only time Come January Marvel is featuring yea Australia, has never seen. which they are (technically) forced to its heros like Spider Man, Captain Am­ Come December, Melbourne should prosecute is when some Tom, Dick or erica and The Fabulous Four at a giant be putting Australia on the rock map. show in Carnegie Flail with Jeff as the Suggestion to out of work musicians . . . amn producing them all from his hat. start rehearsing. He has no intentions of returning at the moment. Who would with such an SOLO GOLD array of work mates? FENCE

PIRATES VS. GPO In the not too distant past a large rock concert was held in Melbourne 3DR is going on the air again, hope­ at the Myer Music Bowl. For most of fully for the next Moratorium, in Dec­ those in attendance the concert took ember. It was last heard at the top of place behind a 6 foot hessian-covered the dial next'to 3AK during the draft fence. resisters' stay in the Melbourne Uni­ This not-so-decorative fence which versity Union which was ended by a cost the promoters very bad vibes, not too gentle search by Common­ also cost them $500 to rent, erect and wealth Police. Those people behind it obstruct. are giving a lot more time to the pro­ Needless to say both the concert gramming for the next session and and the visuals were dismal failures. with new and better equipment the mentioned in the March issue are people's radio should make for causing the uproar. It seems a line about 69ers and vaginas, a mention uncomfortable competition for its TOPLESS EXAMS next door neighbor. of Mick Jagger's balls and a horny cartoon (cut up to make it unintellig­ ible to all except the Vice Squad) fall THE SCENE- In Adelaide a guy, part way through within this non-existent definition of AGAIN? his stay of examining, stood up, took obscene. out an axe and proceded to smash his Time is of no consequence to the tabe to pieces. Looks as though Melbourne Aust­ Victorian government. Phillip Frazer, And in Perth and Melbourne, draft ralia will be ringing with rock in a big who played some sort of role in the resisters continued to evade police new way come December with the issue, was questioned on the matter even while openly attending exams. opening of not one but two ballrooms four months ago, which was still four Meanwhile a young lady at the on the style and scale of the old months after the issue had been sold Melbourne University exams, halfway Filmores. and collected from the stands. Perhaps into the exam shuttled to the top of The smaller and cozier of the two they are afraid to touch a current issue the table sans apparel to display to the will be called the Much More Ballroom for fear of all the free publicity they'd and is really the step-sister of the old crowd her feelings about the exercise provide. Or else they are slow readers. which colorfully read 'DOWN WITH T.F. Much Ballroom. The hall holds Or maybe this is just the first in a series EXAMS'. 3000 people at stuffed capacity, of eight. though nearly 4000 crushed in there The hall matrons quickly covered the situation. The trial is scheduled for the end of for the 'Jimi Hendrick's Janis Choplin December

HT7 by Garrie Hutchinson now everyone has some idea of what the WEC looks like, what it feels like, who did it, perhaps even a little on why they did it and certainly that it was a case of an idea whose time had come. It's a pretty interesting way of getting some inkling of part of the alternate cul­ ture's more creative side. Those guys were interested in giving our counterparts in the States access: opening doors and windows. But of course, there in the good old USA lots more is happening; starvation, insurrection, destruction, ripoffs, rock, the totality of all the bags anyone has fought out of. Burn one bag and there are still whole newsagents full. No worries about that. So we're looking at a sort of survival manual that is the other side of a bad nickel. That in itself is much better than either talking or killing, but it affects only a small number of people.No apolitical utopian visions can be plonked on top of the WEC. Stewart Brand: "AH power to the persons." So he ended up with 450 tabloid pages on 340 subjects with about 3800 entries. It goes from stuff you'd expect - farms, food, domes, bucky fuller to more stuff you'd like - magazines, furniture, engine­ ering, slaughtering & video to stuff you'd hoped existed — kamasutra oil, grass, black women, kids lib., short reviews of most of what you'll need to know to do anything...& and all motivated by the intensist desire to save the planet and the men: it whips off the page & that's probably the most it does or could do for you and me diggers. Access for us to American goods is a process of waiting and inefficiency. Some of them are in the country but where to find them is another problem. Except for books. At least a few people have had the sense to combat the import censors (source, third world, international, readings to name a few.) Gurney Norman: ..."no one is ever competent with his hands until he uses them and flipping through how-to- do-it books can hardly be described as manual labor. So perhaps the best way to recommend a book...is to call it literature and emphasize its spiritual value. I kind of like that idea. I've thought the same thing about the WEC in general, which brings up an interesting question: if the ultimate test of a good manual is its success as art, does that mean that the ultimate test of a good novel is its use as a manual? we'll se...." JD Smith: ..."people learn from catalogs. If there was the vocabulary, talk shop." only one way to do a thing, then there wouldn't be any Everyone who has tried to write about what the reason to choose between this & that; catalogs are wish WEC is hasn't made it. Most have written around the books, where you can match what you want with what ideas - description is impossible. So lets just look at two you need: catalogs are dictionaries where you can learn salutory tales. A Key to the American Psilocybin Mushroom The Beginning: Stewart Brand had the idea while up in magic mushroom information, not found in normal an aeroplane reading a book called 'spaceship earth' - id which he never finished. He had a lot of money that he wasn't psing. He was involved in a couple of fiascos at the Portola Institute. He jotted a few notes in the back of the book, got off the plane and set about going thr­ Psilocybe quebecensis ough with it. From his story in the Last WEC, it is easy to see that he had little idea of what he was going to do, or why or how. In fact that's Salutory Tale One. If the A Key to the Psilocybin Mushroom Leonard Enos idea is good, then you can't really fuck it providing you 1970; 79pp. are willing to learn, and don't make the same mistake twice. George Orwell once said that all revolutions are $5.00 postpaid failures, but not the same failure. from: Church of the One Sermon Salutory Tale Number Two has to do with the de­ 8135 Lincoln Street mise of the WEC. At the end of his history of the WEC, Lemon Grove, California 92045 Stewart wrote... or WHOLE EARTH CATALOG " If it's all right with you, I'm going back to the trees. We get asked a lot, 'whats in the future for you fo lks', as if we knew. Well let's see. We'll clean up the All but one of the species have revealed an interesting and striking chemical characteristic that is very constant in fresh specimens. garage and sell the production equipment, maybe to When the Fruit are scratched, bruised by handling, or injured Kesey who wants to start a traveling magazine called in any way they stain blue, or, if the surface color is yellowish, green or greenish blue. This harmless phenomenon is apparently 'SPIT IN THE OCEAN'. Us out of work production caused by the oxidation of an enzyme in conjunction with the people will draw our two weeks severance pay. We ll psilocybin and is a main point of identification. Certain chemical reagents are known to accelerate this bluing. The best, of these keep the Truck Store going in Menlo Park, and maybe indicators, p-methylaminophenol sulphate or metol, gives a try out some new things with it in relation to the Por- constant and strongly positive reaction on the flesh of the stem, becoming very deep violet within 1-30 minutes. This chemical, tola Institute. We'll, have our DEMISE party that Scott which is in crystal form, is inexpensive and can be prepared Beach has set up at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. from any chemical house or photographic shop that handles darkroom supplies. Metol will dissolve in about 20 times its We'll do some traveling. We'll take a ride on Patchens weight of distilled water, and the solution must be used immediately coda: since it is unstable. A canteen of distilled water and a small plastic bottle are all the tools needed to make up the solution in the field. PAUSE Be sure to shake the solution vigorously to shorten the dissolving AND BEGIN AGAIN." time. Gregory Groth Jacobs: "You see, of course, it is just as important that you publish the Catalog as what you put in IT - you are a vital Priority Distillery: Education, Stewart handed over to the meeting/party $20,000 — Tools, and Appliances for Self-Reliance and you doc­ the amount he started the WEC off with..."to use as a ument that very process of distiHation thereby endorsing tool"...."use this as a seed. The WEC ceases. The seeds Design as one entire side of the evolutionary coin. Now, have been planted already. Your concensus will decide as never before, because of Extraordinary Devices, one what will be done with this money. There are micro­ man's Special Sight can be shared by manymnore who see phones, there are causes, there are possibilities." a little better because of his efforts; in our struggle to The meeting couldn't agree, couldn't get it to­ become ever less Blind all the vehicles which bring the gether, drifted away, left the money in the hands of Possibilities of these Special Sights to us are like much one Fred Moore. needed Jenses or Aids: extra eyes and extra ears to help They blew the ultimate tool. us make our Way in the Dark. As any designer knows — What to make of that? No criticism of Stewart. you cut off the Source, The Inspirator — and you cripple the product, you trip up the Effort. He had a lot of money, he's got a lot more now. But he is the guy that the whole gig depended on. He did what So, goddamnit, GROW UP. (or at least justify your suicide)." he could. But for the learning process the WEC is the place On the back they wrote — "We can't put it together. It is together." to start. It introduces the tools to you. What you make But they've done it. The Demise itself made the of the information is your scene. Blow it if you have to, whole concept of ending the WEC even more salutory. but remember everyone is depending on you. ------C htTT Lurking so deep as a way of life, inbred as the synonym for marriage is wifehood, but nowhere to be need for food and water is a rip-off so big and bigoted found is husbandhood. And just to make the wound a that even the most full blown trend setting revolut­ little deeper, in the same book the word celibacy for ionaries have failed to recognise it, decry it, and have means bachelorhood which correlates with the word even been guilty of it. John Lennon, Albert Langer, independence, for womanhood celibacy means spinster- Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Abbie Hoffman, Eldridge Cleaver hood and its correlation is unsociabiiity! So much for all have something in common with Tricky Dick, Billy Roget. Every marriage act in the world virtually reeks of McMouse and Mayor Daly, they have all availed them­ male dominance. Every woman who waddles her way selves of one of the system's all time cons — the holy up the aisle is blatantly accepting governmental repres­ state of matrimony. sion. I now pronounce you man and Idiot. After 2000 years you'd think someone would have [Attention revolutionaries.] The crime — the pure cottoned on to this rip-off and started picking it to the and simple existence of the Matrimonial Causes Acts bones before now. Marriage, resting quietly behind its 1959, 1961, 1984. As pedantic as the next sentence may emotional guard-all shield breeds the most hideous and sound, it cannot be said too often. A t the very heart of often the most dangerous threats to mankind and anni­ the revolution is the quest for freedom for the individual. hilates any hope of this utopia merrpdned often amongst So 10,000 show up at demonstrations against the draft, the underground. university students waltz out of exams, people refuse to [Attention Women's Liberationists.] Quoted pay income tax, people smoke pot and demand an end from the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 (Australia) on to war. Well, maybe people have stopped showing up marriage: ''the status of husband and wife comes into at their local draft board but the queue at the depart­ existence and from that status rights and obligations ment of matrimony doesn't seem to have suffered. arise. Marriage created on indissoluble union and hus­ When you sign up for your appointment either the band and wife are regarded as one person in law, the sickle-celled Town Hall or the ecclesiastic follies of your legal existence of the wife being incorporated in that of choice these are a few of the things you are about to her husband, he being the head of the household, she endorse: being under his protection, being known as feme covert, (Australia) The Marriage Act 1961 — and her condition as a married woman being described * Marriage according to law in Australia is the union of as coverture." Alias, the grat China doll theory. a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, volun­ Have you ever considered the terms used in matri­ tarily entered into for life. mony? I hereby declare you man and wife.. . . thus you * Marriage has this in common with many types of con­ have hereby relinquished your official existence as tract, that the rights and duties created by the relation­ woman, yet he retains his biological role of man. Note ship are reciprocal, in the sense that neither party can under synonyms in Roget's Thesaurus that an acceptable effectively enjoy his rights or perform his duties without HT10 the collaboration of the other. * A marriage between a domiciled British subject and an alien enemy in time of war is not valid. * Parties who contract a marriage cannot at their will dissolve it. * The purpose of a decree for restitution of conjugal rights is to enforce the general marital duty that husband and wife shall live together. As summarised— * It is a matrimonial offence not to have intercourse. * You must be of a certain age. * You cannot marry the same person twice. . . . to state a few. Heavy? Well what about the fact that we pay them Ui for telling us how two people must relate? Then add that o that to the fact that we have to pay them again when o we don't want to relate under TH El R laws anymore. >- Needless to say that money could be put to much o0 better use. While on the subject of money Marriage may be entered into voluntarily, but like a company the result is a montage of red tape. Any law book will tell you ' . . . marriage is consensual in origin, the obligations which it creates being imposed by law cannot necessar­ ily be varied by agreement.' The man must support the wife, all properties owned or purchesed become com-* mon property, wifey and children come in handy as a Marriage can be and is a favorable institution, not as tax deduction, not to mention the 53 things that are it stands now but with a bit of the old revolutionary grounds for divorce (which is appropriately called 'suimg revitalising. for divorce'). Perhaps it would be more appropriate to First off redefine marriage as a long term union of substitute the word marriage for amalgamation and call a man and a woman which is the definition gleaned from yourselves Mr & Mrs Dumps Pty Ltd. the legal definition when repressive words such as law, Don't forget alimony, the one thing the wife has that exclusion, life are deleted. Then if a man and a woman a company director doesn't qualify for. And why hasn't dig each other enough to envisage spending some time a woman ever paid alimony? together this can be done without involving the wrath of In order to effectively cover the full spectrum of the god and government. Simply decide you are married. virulence of marriage it is certainly necessary to mention Have a party and make your decision then if you wish paranoia and possession. Both are gladly provide by the it to be officially recognised. The rules and regulations legal state of matrimony. Arguments must never occur of this decision will unfold from then as they apply because for Christ's sake you're legally bound to stay best to the two people involved. Define your marriage together for LIFE. She is yours and only yours to the as you go along. Nothing will be holding you two to­ exclusion of all others, even God says so. These must gether except that initial decision once made that you be the non sequiturs to the legal marriage or else why were trying for a long term love affair. Nobody is going all the laws? It's not stretching the imagination too to tell you what belongs to whom (including the univers­ much to envisage a typical married couple with a library al glue — children). When and if complications arise, full of marriage law acts and all their furniture sawn in put it to your friends to help you divide. In other words half, wondering unrelentingly why they don't get along. make marriage a state of mind along with the love it is If you want to retain the friendship and freedom of based on! love don't sign that contract. Do not endorse the ugli­ Next to making it illegal to take away what you ness of 2000 years of laws and paranoia. Do not sign should have complete aouthority for — your life — the away your sincere love to a legal facsimile. Do not fact that the government and all its subsidiaries can tell perpetuate mate dominance myths and do not admit the world how two people must and should relate to the government you don't have the brains to relate would be one fo the greatest jokes of all times. And to another person without its guidance seeing how it has been going on for just that the joke is Hopefully now all those John Lennons and Albert no longer funny! Langers will see just how unrevolutionary the holy By keeping the responsibility of the relationship latching ceremony is. Hopefully now the legal matrimony within the realm of the two involved, one very bad gov­ will be equated with the wort of the system's mind-fucks ernment institution will be put out of business and we where it belongs. (Haven't all the divorces, suicides and will be one step closer to being the free individuals we murders due to this beast proven this already?) should be. Macy Me Farland

HT11 for their fellow man - in the name of mankind they spend much of their time trying to do each other over. In 1970 there was in Sydney almost the perfect example of this kind of attitude. The National Anti- C H IL D ’S War Conference. As soon as the con­ ference began it was obvious that those attending had come with their minds already made up. They weren't inter­ GARDEN i?4r ested in anything other than their own factional disputes. That the effective enemy was not the war machine but any who didn't agree with the partic­ ular narrow dogma that each group trotted around with them as a permen- ent reminder of how totally bound up in the society they were attacking they REVOLUTION were. Faced with this kind of alternative many retreated into themselves. I mean, ence. That our society so perverted the why get involved in all those kind of individuals within it that they were hassles when you can sit around, groove, prepared to sit back and watch the sys­ — light a log and put on a record. For­ tematic destruction of an entire people. get about the world out there. And This kind of awareness lead to the deveF anyway man I'm working out on my opment of revolutionary student groups karma, the cosmic forces and all, and and mass demonstrations. you know about all those heavy capri­ But another factor enters the corns who always get into those heavy scene; the drug culture. While the pol­ political scenes man.... how about an - itical revolt lead to an awareness that other joint? By Chris Hector the society was in dire need of revolu­ This really sounds much more of tionary change, the increasing use of a put down than I meant. The drug First You've Got To Free Your both pot and acid lead to a realization scene did tell us a lot of valuable things. Mind instead.... that personal change and development It did help us work out a lot of the The next exciting episode folks, was both possible and necessary. That hang-ups but like the man says, sooner of man's search for freedom. each of us had within us the sickness or later anything that's an ally has to Last time around the rise of a of our society. That many of our human become an enemy. Sooner or later the revolutionary youth movement was potentialities were being denied us and mindlessness that went with a lot of discussed. The theory of a working that it was possible to do something the drug scene began to look just as class revolution was challenged by the about it right now. The task was not to absurd as the power tripping of the fact of the domination of the protest wait for a revolution to free us but for politicoes. movement by middle-class youth. Many each individual to personally liberate What to do? It seems to me that of them reacting to the blatent hypoc- himself. some kind of synthesis must be at­ ricy of the society in which they find The drug culture moved easily tempted. That the good things of the themselves. Perhaps the most important into an interest in the eastern techniques single factor in revolutionising this political scene must be wedded with of personal liberation, into yoga, into the special kind of knowledge that group was the Vietnam war. Here the zen bhuddism. The feeling of total the drug scene and the mysterioso bit discrepency between the bullshit and oneness with the world and oneself that the reality was at its most extreme. gave us. That we must find some way pot and acid seemed to induce bad a of living that will not only enable us to In the name of freedom and great deal of similarity to the state of develop our fullest potentialities but deomocracy our rulers attempted to saitori described by the eastern religious at the same time confront the society prop up a series of totally corrupt and masters. in which we live. Some way must be totally dictorial regimes against the Many young people then developed found to change ourselves and the soc­ i wishes of the people of Vietnam. an attitude of religious quietism. The act­ iety in an authentic manner that avoids Here a nation of peasants stood against ivities of the student revolutionaries the ego traps of organized political the combined weight of the most soph­ appeared tainted by the very vices that action. isticated and brutal military machine in they claimed to be bent on getting rid In a way this brings us to the man's history. From a standpoint of of. Sitting there stoned in a political notion of the counter-culture or the moral outrage many went on to anal­ meeting, it's pretty hard to make a dis­ alternative society. That our task is to yse the society in which they lived. It tinction between the absurdities of a build within the framework of this became obvious that the war was not parliament and the ego tripping and society a new and more human cul­ a "mistake” — that our society was so power games of the very group who ture. A culture that will hopefully show fundamentally corrupt and inhuman that claim to be initiating the free society. that the repression and the narrowness the oppression of the people of the Many of the political revolution­ of this society is not inevitable — third world was necessary to its exist­ aries seem to have a profound contempt that there is an alternative.

HT12 THE FREAP MAG4ZNES Ever since Marshall McLuhan announced the death port facilities like IBM typesetters, was both a cause and of the print medium we've been bombarded with it. New a result of the rise of the freap.) magazines and newspapers. News-magazines and pam­ It is in the sense of a medium that is too new to phlets. have set hard in the arteries that the underground press In the States it came with the street people, a few was 'free'. of whom were willing to take to the streets and flog Concurrent with and complementary to the rise of copies of their magazines, or their group's magazine, just the freap was the transfer of the musicians/poets of rock to spread their collective experience. from radio to the (looser) medium fo the live concert, The Los Angeles Free Press started it on the west and then the stereogram. coast as did Village Voice in New York. Names were Not only did the rise of each new medium help made in the pioneering days of the free press, under­ define the aspirations, preoccupations and limitations ground press, freak press . . . whatever. A rt Kunkin (LA of its audience — the organisations that grew to produce Freep), John Wilcox (East Village Other, Freep, and now these media functioned as vanguards in the sense that Other Scenes), Max Scheer (Berkeley Barb) and Jann within these organisational structures, roles, relation­ Wenner (Rolling Stone). ships and new systems were developed. It is on this At any one time now in the States, there are prob­ level that I'm looking at the freap of the latter half of ably four or five hundred more or less regularly pub­ the sixties, selecting simply examples. (This article does lished papers or magazines that exist outside of the not mean to survey the world's underground Press.) System for one reason or another. It is possible to com­ pile lists of them, to classify them, and even collate a THE STONE Digest (as in Readers) of them, which someone or dther In four short years — from the prophet-of-a-new- has already done. age to the embodiment of the hip capitalist rip-off bull­ In London (spiritual home of western middle-class shit counter-revolutionary hype (etc. etc.) . . . but revolution prior to S.F.) the longest-lasting free/freak Rolling Stone has never made much noise about being presses are IT (originally International Times) and Oz. in the vanguard. From here on in I'll call it the 'freap'. OK? Oz is argu­ The Stone's offices in San Francisco are the third ably the first freap ever produced (taking its Sydney floor of a tastefully officified warehouse, where raw- origins as its beginning date) and like IT has been on the wood beams, scrubbed wood furniture and potted plants brink of extinction for a year or so after vice squad busts have given way to silver-foil wallpaper and IBM compu­ and fines. ter cards for the 40,000 subscriptions. Australia is unique (for something other than its What began as a low-budget, high quality tabloid phenomenal inability to be original) in that the student rock 'a' roll newspaper for the Bay Area (of San Fran­ press has played the roje of freap, and for as long as the cisco) has become the world's largest circulation music freap has existed in either the USA, England or Europe. paper. . . passing mid-flight through several sporadic As I was saying — the sixties saw the maturation attempts at "covering the counter-culture". I n the of the first generation nurtured on television and the definitive attack (in the LA Free Press) on the paper, audiotactile environment, but television had become the editor Jann Wenner was accused of chasing sales with toy of the massive corporations — and that left the pro­ politics, quoting former managing editor John Burkes. gramming to accountants and bureaucrats. Burkes himself used to work on Newsweek and has lately For the first half of the decade it was radio, strug­ been trying to get together an "underground Newsweek" gling to recover a purpose, tried to sound like it might to be called Flash. Burkes himself was largely the force be coming from real live people. Radio invented Top 40! behind the big Pitiful Helpless Giant issue of Rolling Once the big boys mived (back) into radio and formular- Stone, subtitled Our America 1970 . . . but Burkes disap­ ised that along the new lines, it fell to the press to pro­ peared in the 1970 cost-cutting spree at the Stone, so vide the non-formularised vehicle for exploring the real Wenner remains the target — and the major force in world and the real people. (The sudden worldwide avail­ shaping Stone policy. ability fo offset printing presses, with their cheap sup­ The critique of Rolling Stone centers on several

HT13 the magazine and lately, the book publishing side of the issues; the editorial policy which concentrates on big- operation. While the Wenner family still owns at least names (both as authors and subjects of articles); the half the show, other shareholders include interested corp­ staff structure (hierarchical rather than communal); and the ownership/financing of the company (Straight Arrow orations and rich middle-aged liberals. While I am not aware exactly who these people are, the very nature of Publishers). Most of the criticism comes from within their money means they undoubtedly have — or have either the music "industry" or hip-journalism circles, which is not surprising since there are few people outside had — connections in overtly exploitive businesses. For these areas who would have access to inside information those to whom the organisation is what counts, the conclusion will inevitably be that Rolling Stone is no on the magazine. milestone in the struggle to eliminate capitalism and Editorially the Stone has chosen to aim at high its miriad socio-economic and political implications. circulation through a policy of choosing popular writers (Abbie Hoffman and J.B. Weberman have ripped off the and popular issues (which is to say, big-names). What has files of the New York RS offices and plan to release not been established is any conscious policy amongst reprints of letters and "media kits" that are used to con staff or "management" - as such a separation does not advertisers into the magazine . . . presumably they think exist - to mold editorial to suit advertisers or other int­ they should be more honest to the business world.) erests than readers or staff itself. While there would be For all this insight into the inner operations of little trouble in uncovering numerous instances of "pol­ "one of the underground's most sensationally successful itically" motivated editorial decisions in the Stone, the media adventures" (Neville), there remains the fact that major problem of its editorial in 1971 seems to be the hundreds of thousands of college kids and music freaks editors' dilemma at defining what the 250,000 buyers regard the finished product as the most readable fare want to read, now that rock is no longer the center of their side of the generation gap. It is not uncommon in the universe. The counter culture has lost its edge in the California to sit in a freak loungeroom listening to a face of Marin County shoutouts, the annihilation-prog­ round-table bad-mouthing of the Stone while listening to ram against Black Panthers, the ultimate irrelevancy of a $600 stereo and sitting on the collected volumes of the upcoming presidential elections, and the growing teh very magazine everyone's putting down. concern for localised communal activity . . . The ques­ tion is whether there is "still a market for" a newsmag­ THE BARB azine that covers events and people "in the arts" that the others (Time, Newsweek) don't — or at least covers One of Amerika's first underground newspapers, them in a less perverse way. the Berkeley Barb was started single-handed by ex-beat­ The achievement of Rolling Stone so far is to nik Max Scheer. After establishing Berkeley's first under­ establish itself as just this sort of newsmagazine for the ground bar/coffee lounge, Max got it into his head to hip under-30s, with the rock remaining the central ref­ run a newspaper that would serve news, information and erence point. Those who decry this achievement are services to the growing community of dissidents, anti- commenting on the mainstream of rock itself (which Vietnam war students, artists and freaks that grew up is another story). in the university town. He wrote, typeset, made-up and The management-staff syndrome is well established paid for the first issue himself, then realised he had no at both the head-office (San Francisco) and the New means of distributing it. He took a bundle under one York office. Their Los Angeles and London offices are arm and walked the streets of Berkeley and San Francis­ small enough or far enough away from the bosses to co stopping everyone he met and explaining what it was operate more on their own terms. In early 1970 when he was selling! That issue sold over 5000. he wrote Playpower Richard Neville claimed Jann Having established an editorial policy of rough Wenner was taking $200 a week salary ("plus overseas uncompromising political radicalism, coupled with a few travelling expenses"), and none of the other staff rec­ freak versions of tried-and-tested newspaper services eived less than $100/week. By now wages would be well (classified ads and a medical advice column — Dr H ip- up on 1970. Whatever the point of this "how much do pocrates), the Barb flourished till July '69 when the they earn" game, the fact that the company is operated staff and Max clashed over money. on much the same lines as any straight publishing con­ The issue was simple - Max was taking too much cern means that staff is selected, or pre-selects itself, in of the cop. After a series of public hassles the staff went terms of financial rewards that are "suitable" to all down the road apiece and started their own Berkeley these considerations. Tribe. Max had a heart attack, and finally returned to Once again, this simply leads to the conclusion keep the Barb coming. But his troubles are not over, as that Rolling Stone is a conventional mewsmagazine with his policy of accepting any ads that pay has led to the an unconventional editorial line (advertisers other than Barb becoming one quarter a sex rag, with pages and record companies, stereo manufacturers and Levis still pages of small classifieds for people and organisations on resist the lure of half a million readers because the paper is too way out! every conceivable sex trip, most of them old-fashioned The ownership of Straight Arrow Publishers Inc. male chauvinist sado-masochism (e.g. OVERSEXED has changed regularly over the four years of its existence (WHITE). FEMALE NEEDS willing and able male. Need as more and more money has been solicited to develop detailed letter. P.O. Box 19294 Sacramento).

HT14 For this the Barb sells most of its copies to uptight Whilst most magazines start off with a clear idea businessmen and tourists in downtown San Francisco, of their purpose and their method, Oz has been a verit­ the other buyers being local gays (they run regular gay- able straw in the winds of radical change. When Neville news items) and those politicos who don't mind the ads flew home to Sydney last year, he invited freaps from the shitty lay-out, or the fact that a high percentage of every country he passed through to contribute a page lead features are direct reprints from east coast and or three to an Ox-on-the-road issue, with no pre-requis­ overseas freaps. ites on the content other than that they be designed to In fact, for those of us isolated from the U.S. news- the Oz page size. Two issues before that Oz had announ­ media (straight or otherwise), the Barb is an excellent ced that the next ussue could be edited by anyone who collection of significant news, documents and otherwise called at the offices, so long as they were under 18. This unavailable gossip. Max Scheer has got it down to a of course led to the now-celebrated Schoolkids Issue for simple process of reporting the big stuff and paying his which Neville and his fellow shareholders were busted small staff with the proceeds of the 30,000 sales and for corrupting minors — not because minors hac in fact the ads . . . it's almost an underground Truth, or Sunday edited the issue but because what they produced was Mirror. supposed to deprave and corrupt them and their fellow If we could afford an air-mail subscription, it minors! would become the main source of U.S. news for High There is a mistaken impression here that the Times. acquittal of the Oz trio was a victory for the freedom of the press — in fact they were let off on a technicality and OZ (London version) England's chief justice made it law that a magazine or any other public forum can be busted if any part of it Since its inception in 1966, London Oz has gone is judged obscene, where it had previously been incum­ through as many editorial changes as it has staff, begin­ bent on the prosecution to show that the whole thing ning with the same satirical formula that had worked in was obscene. Sydney and reaching a cautious revolutionary tone in Oz continues — fractionally more cautious and the wake of the recent attempt to kill it by British pigs still in the hands of those who drift into the Neville- (of various occupations, from cops to chief justices). Anderson-Dennis social circle — while Neville is writing In its structure Oz has always centered around a regular 'political column" for the mass-circulation Richard Neville, with an ever-changing list of contrib­ Evening Standard. If you read the transcript of the Oz utors, guest editors and helpers. The standard of edot- trial (and there'll be books full of it soon), you'll see the orial has in fact been consistently high in the sense that never-failing belief Neville has in the power of reason, articles usually represent a genuinely original, or at least even logic, to convince judge, jury and hostile public non-establishment viewpoint, artwork is often incredibly alike that the new generation is grappling with a new powerful, and the layouts always exciting (and often humanity, rather than a sordid depravity. His ten years unreadable because of it). in the business have not undermined his belief in the The only things that remain constant about Oz are peaceful changeability of the Englishman .... I suspect its name, its office-address (which changes when they're this reflects the strength of fifties Sydney-public-school busted), its price, the average size and volume of content and university education, based as it no doubt was on and the consistently iconoclastic feel of the thing. the twin assumptions of England's primary role in pro- ducing western culture, and more folkloricly, London's delegated responsibility, and ultimately the ability of the pivotal position in the world of artistes and thinkers. group to produce a workable means of ha dling the While most radical magazines choke on their own money has to reckoned with. The paper becomes an conclusions and pass beyond their time, Oz continues to imperative imposing itself on the group and the dynamics be many magazines for successive eras. It is, fundamen­ of deadlines, debtors,creditors and the ouside world tally, not a vehicle for a program of change, but a repos­ generally. Instead of a group of people, each one pro­ itory for the changing ideas of an unstable sub-culture . . , ceeding to do whatever he or she does best, people are for this reason alone Oz could be the one magazine that replaced by roles, and new people are chosen by their pained the arses of the sixties establishment to keep on ability to fulfil those roles, rather than by their compat- paining them in the seventies. ability within the social group. Some magazines never get through this stage, some FRIENDS (now called FRENDZ) resist it and survive by eventually forming around a dif­ ferent group, some go through it and become relatively One of London's three tabloid freak newspapers efficient highly-structured businesses. There are prob­ (the other are IT and Ink, if they're still going). ably thousands of magazines that suffer the first of these Friends grew out of Rolling Stone's first attempt fates (Melbourne's Source was a recent example), there to take in the English market. Jann Wenner did a deal are a few that fit the second description — London Oz with Mick Jagger whereby negatives of the SF Stone is one, High Times (nee Revolution) and Frendz(nee were flown to London where a local staff added English Friends) are others. Rolling Stone and (so far) Go-Set news, and Jagger financed its printing. The plan fell come under the third category. through when the London staff grew further and further Friends finally succumbed to the pressures of from the official policy, and Wenner and Jagger with­ hopelessly inefficient finances and theeven harsher drew their support. Out of the ashes grew Friends, simil­ pressures of the London vice squad, but was reborn ar in appearance but entirely local, and the new English under the title Frendz, with a completely new group of Rolling Stone which differs from the U.S. one only in workers and a predictably different editorial "feel". advertising content. Friends was a magazine that had an intense staff THE AUSTRALIAN STUDENT PAPERS togetherness, obviously boosted by the "exile" nature of their beginnings. Their offices in Portobello Road had In Australia there has been a surprisingly active that ultra-casual lay-about feel. The staff was a tight-knit alternative press for most of the sixties and more still group prone to self-consciously propagandising their so far this decade. openness to outsiders — to "the people". (This syndrome The university and tech student papers, which are had its day with Revolution in Australia, and continues financed by student unions or representative councils to flow sickly sweet through the pages of Daily Planet.) from compulsory fees, have struggled off and on to In fact the folks at Friends were exceptionally ami­ provide genuinely radical news and views. They have able, and spent a good part of every day smoking endless increasingly attracted the active fringe of the arts fac­ joints and doing fuck-all . . . it fell on three or four ulties, which very often means radicals. The boom hit people to get the thing out (including "our own" Pete in the mid-sixties when the revival of pliitical conscious­ Steedman who spent several weeks expostulating, castig­ ness came in the wake of the cold war repressiveness ating, and occasionally giving in to the euphoria before of the fifties, and a bevvy of new universities opened he split to re-appear in the same guise at Oz and later at across the nation. Ink . . . unfortunately for Pete London's run out of Tharunka (at UNSW) and Lot's Wife (at Monash) undergroundpapers). particularly created a lot of the initial furor. In the London offices of Rolling Stone last month The incredible trial of the Sydney Oz, in whfch there was a chance gathering of freaks who had all Neville, Martin Sharp and Richard Walsh were sentenced worked on different papers — one from Rolling Stone, to six months' hard labor for obscenity (things like one photographer who had worked on several American a headline that read "Get Folked" etc.) brought the freaps, one from Friends and myself (Lot's Wife, Go-Set, issues of sex and censorship firm ly to the forefront of Revolution, High Times). We identified the stages of the battle to drag the country out of the Victorian age. "development" common to all these papers. The first Lot's Wife ran a special issue called Loz Wife, but phase was the initial enthusiastic launching that centered steered a careful course inside the law. as much on the group of people involved as on the In fact, apart from Oz which was tame satire by ideology or "purpose" of the paper. The energy gener­ today's reckoning, none of the papers that were in the ated within those groups was such that the end-product hands of young independent radicals (or liberals) shook was inevitabley as much an expression of the group, and off the absurdly pompous mantle of "editorial more particularly of the attempt at establishing relation­ responsibility" till the American underground press ships among people within the group, as it was a docu­ began to filter through customs and, along with dope ment for public consumption. and the Vietnam disaster, blew minds in all directions. The second stage is the critical one, in that the Every university paper now reprints from the world's looseness, the lacl^of concern for the harsh realities of freap, always without permission but mostly ------credit. The recent acquittal of Lot's Wife on an obscen­ been recently introduced into Go-Set — called Core. ity bust (for the Freak Brothers) made it clear that The rock sub-cult had extended itself beyond the stage Victorian magistrates classify student press separately where the concern was for a plastic replica of the people from papers selling to "the public". In New South Wales who made the music (pin-up journalism). Not only had there has been a similar differentiation between social-consciousness rock lyrics led to a wide-spread Tharunka (the "official UNSW paper) and Thorunka awareness and concern for things more directly related (or Thor) which is entirely "underground" in that it to the world's problems (the ecology boom etc.) but never acknowledges its staff, publisher or printer. Thor the music itself had ventured into areas that no Austral­ may be the most underground underground paper in ian magazine adequately covered (least of all Go-Set, the "free world"! except for Core). From the gauche first issue Revolution suffered THOR or THORUNKA from the confusion between exploring virgin territory of experience and intellect, and simpl attempting to As it is wholly outside the law, Thor has had to "cover" a new market that had arisen since the initial be printed with the cooperation of the Sydney under­ readers of Go-Set had become post-adolescent and world who control the pornography racket in that thoroughly alienated by the trivia that helped boost state. Cloak and dagger images of plates being delivered Go-Set to a readership of perhaps 400,000 a week. to go-betweens with money in plain envelops and rendez­ Herein, I suggest, lies the one useful differentiation vous in parks at night to collect the printed copies are between "commercial" and non-commercial enterprise. close to the true story. Once printed the papers are sold It is a question of motive — is the product an outcome on the streets, or usually around the bars of Sydney of a belief held by thepeople who produce it, or is it pubs, with vendors attempting to keep one bar ahead motivated by something ulterior to its apparent raison of the cops. UNSW tutor Wendy Bacon has been charged d'etre? on over forty counts of selling Thor, and has spent a few It was never clear, either in the minds of those of radicalising nights in jail in the continuing battle with us who were attempting to make the magazine a viable chief secretary Willis. financial proposition, or in the minds of "outside" Thor's editorial policy is specifically directed at contributors and readers, which was the case with sexual repression (not just censorship), and it pushes Revolution. relentlessly for the sexual revolution more or less on The magazine came out until the middle of this the Reichian premise that sexual liberation is the essen­ year when it was separated financially and in every other tial first step toward social, political and economic way from Go-Set. (This was when the name changed liberation. The generalised liberation of consciousness to High Times.) that dope-smoking and acid-dropping promotes has Revolution suffered from its incompatability with added dope to sex as the pivots of Thor philosophy. its bedfellow, Go-Set. The structures set up for Go-Set were formalised . . . and formularised. Go-Set is a mass- REVOLUTION/HIGH TIMES circulation pop paper, unique as far as I know in its lack of "professional" policy-making and the resultant com­ Revolution was launched in May 1970 as a more- bination of sales-motivated features like color posters, or-less conscious extension of a supplement that had and of an iconoclastic tone and occasionally radical — ------\ features. But it had been through stage two of the news­ possible, toward total-involvement living (in communes paper development process (outlined above) and thus etc.) and toward a broadened interest in all means of inhibited Revolution from ever making it into stage one! communication. It is now obvious that every medium There is much to be gained by looking back through the can be made "real” if it's handled correctly, that is, as past issues of Revolution — however uncomfortably it differently as the freap handled the print medium. rested in the Go-Set womb it published some exceptional Magazines are limited — to the written word and material (from Rob Smyth's Byrds review through to the visual experience. It is impossible to attack the the complete text of Castro's Cuban anniversary speech) senses or the personalities of the people with whom and was, at times, brilliantly designed by Ian McCausland you are communicating, except through the deperson­ and Geoff Pendlebury. alised medium of distributing and selling the magazine High Times, financed by Macy McFarland, Colin more-or-less unseen. Thus the inevitable sense of isol­ James and myself, has consciously avoided imposed ation from the readership and the value every freap systems of operation or of editorial control, attempting places on letters and comment. to allow a free-flowing involvement by anyone who can It seems to me the best function a paper can connect with what was in previous issues. perform, those functions that are not better covered by other media, are: the simple conveyance of inform­ DAILY PLANET ation, whether it's "news” or reference material, the presentation of the graphic artist's work, and providing While Revolution nestled none too happily within the vehicle for ideas that can be expressed in words Go-Set, Daily Planet has battled to break loose from its (be they poems or heavy tracts like this one's turning association with the Melbourne rock agency Con Rock. out to be). It has consistently functioned as a cathartic outlet for The most viable way for the group that produces the Con Rock groups, and has as before-mentioned been the paper to relate seems to be as a very loose coal- plagued with a selfconsciously popularist tone — almost ition of people of like-ideas, an ever-changing group. apologising for its very existence and openly wresting We at High Times keep the financial records of each with the inevitability of its money. It has given a strong issue separate and intend to divide the profit (if any) impression that its workers feel a nagging alienation from equally among those who contributed to that issue . . . its readers — and here is the dilemma that is the end­ in fact, profit-sharing is likely to be the least of a point of the underground press. freap's problems! The seventies' magazine might follow this pattern A MAGAZINE FOR THE SEVENTIES (we'll tell you in two years' time) and it seems likely that the growing trend for freap newspapers to center The freap grew throughout the western world in on small communities and their affairs, rather than the mid-sixties in response to the need for a medium national or international issues, will continue. The of communication more suited to the needs of aware community newspaper (which in a sense is what the people. The beauty of it was its receptiveness to its student press is) is already beginning in Melbourne sudience, in fact most papers grew out of groups of with the Melbourne Times, and I'm sure elsewhere too. untrained people searching for a means of communic­ Meanwhile the growing realisation that print is ating, rather than for ulterior benefits. not the only available medium has introduced the Offset print, which makes photographs and graphic concepts of local freak film cooperatives, small-group design immeasurably easier and cheaper, attracted art­ videotape "magazines” (like the Videofreaks of New ists and photographers, thereby adding new dimensions York), communes in which the group contributes of immediacy and graphic design to the otherwise stat­ toward a group communication (like handicrafts, news- ic print medium. This was a unique form of commun­ sheets — a vegetable garden) . . . and the warehouse- ication for a unique sub-culture — a sub-culture that workshop idea. related to others .on a far more personal, intimate level. To me every one of these group-centered activ­ Not only was the medium the best available for ities is directly analogous to a magazine, except that those who were rejecting the prevailing impersonal the inherent limitations are different for each medium. style of interaction, the process of contributing toward Sydney's Yellow House is one example I saw close up these papers was an all-involving experience for many last month. who worked on them. . . the freap newspapers and The Yellow House was launched last year as an magazines were themselves focal points for the first art gallery, featuring Martin Sharp's incredible shrinking cautious interchanges amongst society's dropouts. For exhibition. The building was a three-storey terrace this reason most papers had a short life-expectancy and house in Kings Cross and the concept was modelled on that was precisely what kept the culture on the move. Van Gogh's yellow house where outside patronage The coming and going of freap newspapers was a financed a combined workshop-gallery for artists. positive and essential factor in development. The Yellow House (chapter one) dissolved three This development has been toward opening up months ago for much the same reasons as did Van more areas in which intimate inter-personal contact is Gogh's — the dilemmas of rejecting the value-system of

HT18 f money and still trying to make it, and to share it like regular issues of a magazine that dissolve into each equitably; the clashes of purpose, interest and ability other rather than hitting newsstands on a specified day within the group. each week or month. And the problems, the quest for •Yellow House chapter two opened mid-November a workable means of relating to finances and the con­ now expanded into two huge terraces, with the whole stant battles with the so-called authorities, are all too lot (almost) open to the public (there are five living familiar. there , so some rooms are locked). Each room is given But finally ther is a limitation oh all these mag- Over to a different pursuit by a different artist . . . or azinic media. The desire to involve others in whatever a whole floor might be an exhibition, another large is absorbing the group's minds will remain frustrated room is a movie theatre. until the audience becomes the group, and no-one has It is a magazine of the seventies, with three-dim­ to play voyeur ensional spaces (rooms) for pages, with multi-media For that you need the zeit geist machine. exhibits that involve the visitor on a multi-sensual level, and with constantly changing events and displays­ Phillip Frazer.

IN ORDER TO ASSURE THAT NOT ONLY THIS CHRISTMAS BUT YOUR CHILDREN'S CHRISTMASES ARE NOT 'THAT UNWANTED SILENT NIGHT ON A CHRISTMAS YET TO COME' PUT A LITTLE ECOLOGY INTO YOUR QHRISTMAS.

1. Do not k ill a Christmas tree, buy a live tree so that you do the same. I f enough people w ill shop during the daytime, I may replant it in the spring. it w ill be economically unsound for the stores to remain open\ 2. Use only biodegradable decorations on your tree and in at flight. I f they don t open great electrical power savings w ill your home, biscuits, fruits, popcorn, yarn can be more pleas­ result in less air and water pollution throughout the country­ side. ing than nylon, plastic, aluminum trees, decorations and tinsel. 9 Use no plastic or scotch tape when wrapping packages. 3. I f you use electric lights on your tree be sure and pull That way neither the tape nor its metal or plastic dispenser the plug and use no excess electricity. Candles can be a much will be left on our earth for years to come. more romantic and lovely substitute. 10. Stay home this year. Do not add your car's exhaust fumes to the Christmas atmosphere. 11. Save and reuse all package wrappings and ribbons OR 4. Buy no presents that require electricity or batteries. you might use no paper wrappings at all. You can wrap gifts 5. Buy only presents that are biodegradable. No glass, with usable items such as tea towels, or put attractive yard plastic, metal, synthetics etc..you might consider making or goods around reusable containers. purchasing only consumable or otherwise useful gifts. 12. I f you give a party use no paper plates or any dis­ 6. Leave all the excess packaging on your Christmas pur­ posable items, buy your liquor lay the keg or in returnable chases at the store. Tell them why you are doing it and ask them bottles only...or better yet, brew your own. to return the wastes to the manufacturer. 13. Send Christmas cards without envelopes or send no 7. Do all your Christmas shopping in car pools. cards at all. Do everything you can not to add to the waste i paper problem. 8. Shop only during daylight hours and ask your friends to

OcK. folks - this is who gave it to you: Phillip Frazer , Macy Me Farland, Jim Hart, Tessa, Pat Woolley, John Clark, Garrie Hutchinson, Colin James, Kate Veitch, Peter Andrew, Ray Strong, Chris Hector

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HT22 HT23 title o f suns of the sky. The Chinese are even more detailed in their traditions and mention the fact that their ancestors arrived on earth on the back o f fiery dragons. How easily a cigar-shaped object with a glowing stream o f particles to break its speed fits into the description of a fiery dragon.

* * * * The Egyptians havje records which cannot be taken for anythingelse but descriptions and reports about flying saucers. Quoting the Annals o f Thutmose III written around 1500 BC: "They shone more in the sky than the brightness of the sun and extended to the limits of the four supports o f the heavens. Powerful was the position of the firecircles. The army of the Pharaoh looked on with him in their midst. It was after supper and the fire circles FARTHER THAN THE SUN ascended higher in the sky toward the south". by Rob Greaves Also ancient India seems to have known the existence of Whenever a UFO appears, the obvious thought which space ships as might be deduced from the following quot­ must come to the observer is, who are conducting these ation from the R a may ana, a Hindu classic: "The Puspaka vehicles? Considering the probable existence o f anti-gravity Car, that resembles the sun and belongs to my brother, machinery — UFOs which are sighted have as a specific was brought by the powerful Ravan that aerial and excel­ behavior trait their soundless hovering about the spot o f lent car, going everywhere at will, is ready for thee. That their interest — and the possession o f interstellar drive — Car resembling a bright cloud in the sky is in the city o f the latter proposition does then exclude those who think Lanka". that UFOs have their origin in our solar system, notably * * * * Venus, Mars or the moons o f Jupiter — another obvious The Roman historian Julius Obsequens has reported conclusion is that there ixists a civilisation shich is, at least various sightings o f UFOs like the one near Tarquinia technically, suPeri° r to ours. north of Rome in 100SC: "A t sunset a circular object Continuing this train of thought and taking into account like a shield was seen to sweep across the sky from West the fact that there have not been any violent actions to East. . . " and another report in 90 BC: "A globe of reported from UFOs, neither during observation from a fire, at sunrise, appeared in the sky with terrific noise and distance in the sky nor at asserted confrontations with burning, over the town o f Spoletum, Umbria. This globe, aliens, another conclusion which might be drawn from this golden in color, fell to earth from the sky and was seen to is that those visitors do not have any aggressive intentions. gyrate.. ." (Some people maintain the idea o f spying - UFOs gather­ And mentioning all these recordings in ancient or less ing information for the big attack, but what follows in this ancient scriptures we cannot forget the Bible which con­ article will show that the century-long period o f observ­ tains so many descriptions o f "fiery chariots" and "clouds ation and visiting does not support this rather negative o f fire " with something glittering like metal inside. Unmis­ approach of the UFO's aspect.) takably a UFO sighting is the account which Ezekiel gives In fact they, the aliens, are reported to avoid any display in his first chapter as well as in the fourth and the tenth of of power and to withdraw rapidly when a weapon is aimed his book. They can be taken for the finest descriptions in at them. But studying the problem o f UFOs and ET/s is the Bible of spacecrafts landing and o f their occupants. | not limited to up-to-date sightings o f UFOs only. As Ezekiel lived in an age in which any mechanical dev­ ice was unknown he had to express himself with the aid o f * * * * things he was familiar with, like horses, birds and chariots. The history o f mankind provides the profound investi­ Quoting from the first chapter: "And / looked, and behold gator with a series o f events and recordings which are some­ a whirlwind came out o f the dky, a great cloud, and a fire times pointing so clearly to visits o f UFOs combined with enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of actual confrontation o f mankind with its occupants that the midst thereof as the color o f amber, out o f the midst one is astonished that these happenings have not been o f the fire ..." interpreted and recognised more widely in their true sense. * * * * Almost every ancient culture does have some record of visits and a lo t o f them have strong indications even in their But humanity seems to make a special vice o f it. The epics, o f relations with beings from other planets or solar dosed eyes to indications like the abovementioned, and systems. the burnings on the past for heresy and the ridiculing of open-minded people nowadays show us that there appears to be a need for a phenomenon (in the frame of UFO The Japanese believe that their ancestors are people who sightings) which will convince us o f the existence of UFOs came from the sun and their emperors had the honorary and ETIs in the past, and the present.

HT24 Do you really see leaving your planet as desirable? Would not a passionate desire to see this globe endure, your <§> m ® race survive, serve you better? You are bound to this planet; you cannot live beyond it unless mechanical imitations of its environments accom­ pany you. Every atom of your body is part of this world; its primeval oceans flow through your veins; the earth nourishes you and your ultimate destiny is to nourish the earth. UFO freaks may by now be msulted at being categorised with the Jesus freaks. After all, we know interplanerary travel is feasible and some form of life elsewhere in the universe likely. Granted. Perhaps you insist that 'flying saucers' are evidence of SUPERSTAR AND THE FLYING SAUCERS impending salvation. What marvellous optimism! But consider: to what degree do UFOs figure in your by Alan Spencer fantasy life? How many parallels could you find with our more ancient mythologies? Messiah, The True Way, Apoc­ alypse, Armageddon, The Chosen Few, and even Life Meher Baba lives Everlasting? Jesus saves We are all familiar with the various 'Chariot of the Gods' Extra-terrestial are watching theories, but if you take this bullshit halfway seriously let Great! When we finally contaminate our planet to the me suggest that next time you trip do so in the country exinction of all life we will be safe and secure in Nirvana or and ponder your relationship with all the living things Heaven or Alpha Centauri, or whatever paradise your par­ about you. You will see your place in nature too clearly to ticular bag promises. assume you are not entirely a child of this earth. Instead of facing the very real danger that confronts There is no evidence of any other planets outside our us, many turn to superstition and fantasy in reaction to solar system; probabity indicates their existence but we despair. have no means of detecting them. If 10% of the prophecies of Erlich, Picard, Commoner A theoretical advanced civilisation would, it seems to et al is justified, the survival of our species — of all spe­ me, have a moral imperative of non-interference with cies — is dependent on our immediate action. other life forms. Roll up your prayer mat, put away your binoculars, Suppose this race of super-beings were so advanced as reality needs you. to bridge the 400 light years between us and the nearest There is no God possible site of another planet. It would follow that, no No Cosmic Cavalry matter how enlightened you consider you are, the intellect­ No Happy Hunting Grounds ual gulf would be as your intelligence is to an ant. (Would No Eternal Reward you seriously try to converse with an ant? take sides in an Many people I dearly love may feel thoroughly alienated ant war? kill all the ant-eaters?) and offended by thses assertions. This is not my intent. Given this distance of 400 light years, any vehicle My conviction is that these mythologies distract from real traveling that far would take well over a thousand years of problems. our time to make a return trip. Many sci-fi fans have the If you feel mankind needs a guiding belief in something idea that the speed of light is not a barrier; that as science believe in mankind. progresses new discoveries will produce such phenomena I am not preoccupied with the physical at the expense as 'space warps' that allow one to whip from one side of of the spiritual. Mark this: physical is all there is. You may a galaxy to the other for the weekend. This is only a fic­ not perceive it as such, but your mind is an electrochemical tional device. A chat with your friendly neighborhood process inseparable from the rest of your body. Your mind physicist will set you straight. ceases to exist as an entity when your life ends; to believe It would seem more likely that any visitations from otherwise is a sad delusion. our far neighbors would be 'un-manned' scientific probes. I won't debate the existence of God here, to do so is an Personally I have never seen any UFOs and I often look. exercise in the absurd. I find the concept of Christ dying An examination of the evidence available and an awareness for my sins twisted and horrid. I have not the time to spare of our fallability as witnesses leaves me unconvinced of for eastern disciplines pushing simulated catatonia. their presence. Meher Baba says "Be happy" Come back to Earth. Jesus says "Love each other" Without a doubt, if life is to endure, if nature is to be The message is beautiful, the medium is unimportant. restored to harmony, we need a saviour. Do you really need a cult-figure to direct your attentions That saviour is YOU. toward life? HT25 ersal netherlands, Grace is warding off pigs (Law man I'm afraid you just walked in here at the wrong time/ my old man's gun has never been fired but there's always a first time)* Jorma is looking forward to the next Hot Tuna album more than most other things. Hot Tuna was born out of the yawning gaps in the Airplane schedule, (eg. 5 - 9 months between albums) Well shit, Jorma plays every night and Jack Cassady plays even more than that so lead and bass began playing under their own names in the first Hot Tuna. "I'd been thinking about Hot Tuna for a long time." says Jorma. "There's the kind of music I had in mind and the Airplane just didn't play that music." Jack and Jorma played together in high school, doing Rick Nelson hits. Before that Jorma didn't play no rock and roll, his music came from 'spade radio stations'. Paul Kanter, father and head of household is writing about beach and babies now - "There's a song called Sun Fighter on our next album, (Grace and Paul's, as in keeping with trends all Airplane members are doing solo albums), about all the shit that's gone down on the beach roil spills and everything." Grace is back to slim, trim and healthy; she even wrote a song about it on Bark called Never Argue with a German if You're Tired or European Song. On the lyric sheet it looks like a laugh with the German spelt out Grace and China: phonetically (sticken in mine haken/ sticken in mine haut....). and press hustler is manager of the But Grace explains, "I don't new business dream, Signe Toly Ander­ know any German, so I got all the son, their first chick singer is in Oregon lyrics from people in the street. If I records with a baby boy and Grace and Paul heard anyone talking German I'd go live with their child on the coast with up and say, "Fley can you help me I'm For Jefferson Airplane 1971 is their swimming pool, closed circuit writing a song." What she said was "Stiches in six years since their first gig and it's T.V.s and geodesic domes. (Tear down my crotch/ stiches in my face/ mixing been like the cover of th?;r latest what walls? Mother what?) album. Thompson talks about evolution my spit with my gas/ don't argue with It's also been a period of revol­ "Music is changing peoples conscious­ a German. My automobile goes real ution with the " r " thinly masked out ness, and they learn from it. For one fast/but it crashes into walls." (Baby so the original word is still clear. thing, they've learnt that you can't and car crash are the things she's fust They have their own labal now - change people by beating them over got over/ or into.) the Grunt label - and it's big business the head - you try, it fails, you move Forty minutes down the beach a all around, with a sub-label called to something else!' Grunt staffer gets a message that Bark Snort being considered, and pushing "Well music; music's stall the looks like a world chart buster. R.C.A.'s the Airplane into another new era. thing." sending out press releases about gold There's six in the group now; If that's not really clear, it's not records — so has anything changed? Jorma, Cassady, Grace and Paul, Fid­ that the Airplane have ever been really Sure Grunt records is Airplanes dling Papa John Creach, and.surfer clear. Balin, who ur'ged that walls be own label, and R.C.A. is only manu­ boy drummer Joey, who brought Papa used to back motherfuckers up against facturer and distributor.... Joe in. also sang "Go-ride the music" Marty Balin the founder is gone Paul, in the new album, Bark, con -Bill Thompson, the former roadie and tinues his wishful singing into the univ­ Colin James HT 26 FRANK’S DUTY SONG

WHAT KIND OF GIRLS DO YOU THINK playing girlfriend in the backseat had to have it with a WE ARE? YooHoo bottle or she went ape-shit?!? Howie listen, all that's TRUE. And sometimes I dig Being the words (lyrics?) to the song (number?) it with Doctor Brown's Cream Soda or CELERY. But of the same name, of the 'Mothers - Fillmore we are not groupies, no matter what you think. East, June 1971' live album Listen there seems to be some kind of communicat­ All words are attributed to Frank Zappa, music ions problem here because l.'m just a lonely guy from and dialogue is by the Mothers collectively. out of town and l.'m looking for some action, you know We present this important sociological phenom­ I want a steaming, succulent, ever-widening, gooey, enon because it's such an important sociological drippy, runny kinda hole that . . . that . . . how shall phenomenon. I put this, let's say we hop in the trunk of your Gremlin and get our rocks off! You can buy your copy at your local import Oh Jesus, Jesus, no matter what you say I'm still in shop. the group . . . very agile, very agile. Tell me something, I mean seriously. You know this Listen it just so happens tonight me and my girl­ is the first time that any of my girlfriends and me have friends, we come here for one thing — looking for a guy. met anyone really from Hollywood. Me and my girl­ We're looking for a guy in a group, but he's got to have friends, Jim, Ian, Ainslie, Bob and Jack never met a pop a dick, and he's got to have a dick that's a monster . . . star from Hollywood. Tell me, do you know David Oh me . . . that's me . . . oh you voluptuous Manhat­ Jones, Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy . . . . David tan Island Clit, take me I'm yours you hole. Fulfill my Cassidy is so . . . Oh I love them, they are my favorite wildest dream. band. Oh God. Do you like my new car? My dad gave it Anything for you my seductive, seclusive pop star of to me for graduation. a man. Picture this if you can. B-jobs, knotted nylons, Oh yea, Fillmore isn't it? Real futuristic, I really dig bamboo canes, three unreleased recordings of Crosby, the fins. Listen do you know how to get to the Holiday Stills, Nash and Young fighting in the dressing rooms at Inn from here? the Filmore East. One enchalada wrapped in pickle No, which one is that? sauce shoved up and down between a donkey's legs until The one by the airport. We got to get up early and he can't stand it anymore. All this and more including fly out of here in the morning. an electric cooled pony harness, with fuel injection. Oh, I didn't know that. Where do you guys play Oh I can't stand it, I can't stand it I can't stand it, I tomorrow night, Maybe in your bus. mean do you understand the implications of what I'm (Aside): Yea, come in the bus ha! saying, I can't stand it! Tomorrow we're in Tierra del Fuego Give it to me right here. Give it to me in the trunk of Oh you're so professional, Howie, the way you get your Gremlin, please give rme the enchalada wrapped in to play in all these exotic places. Tell me something, pickle sauce shoved up and down a donkey's ass till he tell me and all my girlfriends . . . do you REALLY have can't come anymore! a hit record on the charts now with a bullet? Yeh, that's Not until you sing me your big hit record. The big hit really important. record. And I want to hear it now. The hit record with Listen honey, would I lie to you to get into your the bullet, with the bullet, the bullet. It's the part that pants? gets me the hottest. Now sing me that record and I want Hey listen . . . WE'REJMOT GROUPIES! We're not to hear it now or you ain't driving nowhere tonight groupies . . . understand? I told Robert Planet, Elton buddy. John and all those big guys, we're not groupies. Roger All right, I know when I'm licked . . . [all over]. OK, Daltry never laid a hand on me. baby, bend over and spread 'em,here comes my BULLET (Aside): Obvious to see why. Tell him how ...... We only like musicians for friends. Those records, or part thereof, have found a home. Quite a few people described themselves as the best cause they could . . . Real straight arrow, Howie. think of, which was probably quite true. The idea was, though, . . . Just friends Howie but we still like you and we to provide an element of rock (or its facsimile) to someone who wouldn't mind coming in your bus. could share it for charitable purposes. . . . We'd still like to hear your record. Jeff Simmons has taken some for his students at the Occupat­ Listen chicks, didn't you just say that you got off ional Therapy Department at Janefield Training Centre. There are still more here. We are still giving them away. How being duped with a baby octopus, and spewed upon with a bo ut it — cream corn and that your hair-lipped dyke old bass­ HT27 When did you decide that you were not going to register? It was a few weeks before I was due to register in J ul y ’68, I was very uncertain all the time because there were CONVERSATDN only about twenty at that stage that had publicly refused to comply in any way. At that stage it was a question of go­ WITH A ing to a military prison. It wasn’t even a civilian jail, I was also into my second year of architecture and I DRAFT DODGER wanted to finish that, the policy of the government on prosecutions was very unclear I felt really unsure and the decision not to register came only after we decided that we did have some potential to force a repeal of the National Service Act. Even though my parents were opposed to the war and the National Service Act my mother was quite up­ set because it was going to interfere with my career. Every­ body around me, even though they were opposed to conscrip­ tion, didn’t see non-registra­ tion as a thing to do to oppose the Act.

How long ago is it that you non-registered? J uly 1968 I didn’t register, December of that year they prosecuted me for not regis­ tering. In September of the following Year, ’69, they prosecuted me for not attend­ ing a medical - I got seven days goal for that, then I got a call-up notice to be inducted into the armv in October of 1969; then tnere was another prosecution when I left the country illegally to go to Vietnam in July 1970, I was prosecuted for that and con­ victed - forty dollars fine - then early this year I was given what’s known as a con- cientious objectors referral notice. The Department of AN INTERVIEW WITH TONY DALTON Labor and National Service BY THE HIGH TIMES SUPER SCOOPER attempted to initiate a C.O.’s hearing for me hoping that I’d

HT28 cooperate and they’d be able mass of supporters would do; ‘‘Right you boys get the doors to exempt me as a conscient­ whether we’d actively resist off” ious objector and so get rid the police with violence, in­ If they’d gone up thru the of me as a threat to the Act. itiating our own violence or lighting grill they’d probably I didn’t attend and that trial whether we’d make passive have found the hole and found was sabotaged by the lawyer. resistence. What happened in them. Then I received a summons the end was that it was just I think it was the only hiding for failing to obey the call­ passive resistence, there was hole that wasn’t discovered in up notice in J une and on the barricades which took the the whole operation. 18th of J une I went under­ police fifteen minutes to scale ground when I didn’t attend before they came up to the Your third surfacing operation that court case and since then floor where everybody had sat has been since you acquired we’ve reached the new stage. down and surrounded the the services of Senator Ivor We’ve got a fairly active under­ George Paton room where the Greenwood as your public rel­ ground and we can sort of pop police thought we were. On ations officer__ up - at our own choosing - the Wednesday night - we’d Well Ivor did quite a good job and challenge the government been going Monday, Tuesday really. The whole thing was so on its conscription policies and Wednesday, on the Wed­ lucky for us. Mike being inter­ even though there’s a warrent nesday we decided that we viewed turned it into a great out for our arrest. could only go one more day big political debate with the because people had exams. media naturally asking us to We just couldn’t impose upon participate because they were How many times since you them, so we decided that we insensed at being told that went underground have you had to finish on the Thursday they weren’t to interview people actually surfaced? regardless of what happened, such as us. There have been three main so we decided to scale the confrontations. One at the situation down a bit by two J une 30 Moratorium, four of of us leaving, so we drew Perhaps at this stage in the us went on that march sur­ straws to see which of us was interview you might like to rounded by thousands of sup­ porters and we were able to *!f they’d gone up thru the lighting grill they'd probably have found go back to Melbourne Uni the hole and found them. and slip away. The next one I think it was the only hiding hole that wasn’t discovered in the was at Melbourne Uni when we more or less turned the uni whole operation.* into an anti-conscription centre. The four of us took up resid­ leaving, John Scott and myself express your thanks to the ence, once again surrounded were taken out of the univer­ Attorney-General, I ’m sure he by many supporters from all sity building about seven o’ will appreciate the difficulty parts of the anti-war move­ clock on the Wednesday night, you have in thanking him ment and with the aid of the Mike Matteson and Mike Hamel- personally... radio station 3DR we were Green remained and no-one Yeah, yeah, I think that’d be able to once more very defin­ missed our presence at all. quite appropriate, I only hope itely challenge the government’s They were there right through that he can oblige us again in conscription policies. the raid - in a small secret the future - we’ll certainly be hole that was behind the wall, raising the issue again, just You had some trouble with they were there and they heard when it will be is hard to say. some of your supporters? everything that the police said Of course there is the Dec. Yeah, well people who support as they smashed up the George 3 Moratorium Anti-Conscription draft resistence come at it Paton Room, and one cop was Campaign - which is quite a from many different political heard to say ‘‘It’s just like a progression on past Moratoriums. angles, we had three major search and destroy mission isn’t It’s got a sit-down outside the debates, I guess as to how we it?” . They heard the cupboard National Service Office. I don’t were going to handle the sit­ doors being jemmied open. At think there’s any way we’ ll be uation. If the police broke into one stage a cop came in and participating in this - it’s not the union to get us what would said ‘‘What’s up there?” point­ a very good tactical situation happen? The four of us had a ing to the lighting grill, which for us. We’re going to be very very specific plan for what to was the access to the hole they sure to pick our grounds. do if they came but there was were in. J ust at that moment I think that once the new uni also the situation of what the a superior came in and said, year begins we’ll probably be

HT29 doing some sort of grand tour ever get sick of it, what keeps Two things keep me going. of the campuses, and hopefully you going? Sort of a moral committment be able to speak at other places Well it took a while to adjust opposing the National Service at the same time. Unfortunately because before I went under­ Act — I think I would go on do­ the universities seem to be the ground I’d been a fairly active ing that even if it were futile, only place where we can come organiser in the draft resisters even if there wasn’t the remote out in the open like before. union. One thing about going chance of getting the National I’m sure some trade unions underground is that you’ve just Service Act repealed, there is would like to have us in their got to cut out the organisation some sort of inner compulsion offices but tactically it would work. And in a way organising if you like. I just don’t wamt to be hard for us to be safe there. had become very much a way of compromise myself in any way. life for me, so I had to change But the beauty of it is that I How many draft resisters are my life pretty radically at that think that it is politically real, there? point. I kept wanting to go out that we might defeat the National There’s lots of draft resisters. and do things and there was a Service Act. I think that if the The critical thing is how far great deal of frustration, but I qovernment accepts the chal­ they are going to prosecute have learnt to change, I’ve got lenge of the massive resistence these draft resisters. The sit­ down and done more reading, that is building up, and if large uation becomes dynamic when and just become somewhat more numbers of people do end up in there is a warrant out for their introspective....plus the fact goal then we'll have a very good arrest for eighteen months in that I had to try and complete chance of defeating the Act... prision, this is when we have the fifth year of my architecture, of course the Labor party might some bargaining position. which I tnink I’ve almost done. win and that would also get us The Christmas period I guess out. But how many have actually I miqht just go away and have I think we will go to jail and refused to register? a holiday. that’s going to be another stage According to National Service Department figures, thousands... something like about thirteen thousand. The draft resisters union has a list of about four hundred and fifty names, many have only refused to register, there’s others who’ve refused their medical, now there’s a growing number of those who have refused their call-up not­ ices - this is the last stage, and it’s the most important one. The government doesn’t want to see any more people in our position. If we have twenty or thirty people who they are trying to jail for eighteen months like us then we’re going to be able to force the situation even more. I think they know that most who disobey call-up not­ ices are going to do what we’ve done, some are not, some are not going to go into hiding, some are even going to go to court but this is a purely per­ sonal thing, the majority are going to go underground and join us in our confrontation.

When you’re hiding inside all day and moving all the time from house to house, do you

HT30 just like going underground was. made you believe that it wasn’t that it’s not simply a matter Not just in ones and twos, we enough just to register and of personal morality but it have seen Charles Martin in plead C.O.? tends to identify the enemy jail and he’s finished his sen­ As a pacifist I say that there as imperialism. They therefore tence now, and it didn’t mobilise was a contradiction. A pac­ tend to see their opposition public opinion at all. Geoff ifist, it seemed to me, should to conscription as part of a Mullen is in jail now and nothing be opposed to war not only total rejection of capitalist much seems to be happening, but for himself but for everybody society. Is this the sort of by us doing this collectively it else. And by working thru the ideological change you’ve could mean ten or fifteen people National Service Act to excempt gone through? arrested at once. This will have himself, the pacifist was admit­ This is true to some extent. much more political impact, and ting the legality and morality I don’t draw the same sort I think this could mobilise a lot of the National Service Act of absolute pacifist distinctions of support. to conscript others for part­ as I did draw a few years icipation in war. ago. I don’t think we can How did you c/eve/op to a posit­ In other words he wasn’t draw such absolute positions as ion of total resistence to the trying to alter the situation that, but I think I’ve got very National Service Act? where the main instrument of strong moral grounds for Really from right through my war - that is conscription - opposing conscription as secondary school days I was was abolished. This was the well as political objections. troubled by what was happening first contradiction I saw in My whole sort of political in Vietnam, \ was one of the the sort of standard conscien­ being has developed over three few at school that spoke out tious objection. years of objection to the against the war. After I left National Service Act. I ’ve high school it was necessary You say you’ve gone from a begun to realise a lot of the for me to start thinking about personal objection to con­ political realities. what sort of approach I would scription to a political Would you describe the Vietnam take if I was conscripted. At resistence. What do you mean war as an imperialist war, and first I was going to take a con­ by this change? would you support the N LF as scientious objectors position. Well this happened with many an anti imperialist force, or do That is I was going to work others besides myself. We through the National Service you still see this an an objection began to meet in small numbers to an immoral war? Act and plead conscientious in 1968, twenty or thirty of us. I realise the United States, beliefs. Because at that stage We used to sometimes meet is engaged in to use the I had developed very firm pac­ interstate, to discuss our non- cliche, imperialism. Imperialist ifist beliefs. But some time compliant stand, it was really intervention in Vietnam (and of after that, just before I, turned the beginning of what we now course it’s going on in other twenty I began to read in a few call collective resistence. We countries of south east pacifist magazines, on how began to feel that there was a asia too) is not publiscised but very few at that stage were need for some sort of unity, starting on a course of non- some sort of political organ­ compliance with the National isation if we were going to Service Act. Not registering carry any sort of weight. And and not obeying their medicals the collectivisation of this sort and not obeying their call up. of resistence is now beginning Very few people were doing to bear fruit. The embarrass­ this, and it was still on very ment that we are now throwing personal grounds. There was up to the government. no political consciousness involved at all, it was just a But when you are talking few people who made just one about political objection, you step from conscientious ob­ seem to be talking about a jection to non-compliance and unity of action specifically there was no-unity amongst opposed to the National those who were doing it. Service act, in the antiwar movement at the moment the notion of political is very different from this - it What sort of arguments were involves saying that the you involved in then, that question is not a moral one,

HT31 is going on where americans in practical terms. We’re not No, I don’t think that’s the have got vital political within coee of the capacity for only answer by any means. I and economic interests. This violence. has been the development think the only way in which Do you feel that your of the whole anti-war move­ we’ve been successful! in objection to the conscription ment. They’ve gone from opposing the war and conscrip­ is part of a total rejection of this position of “ stop the tion has been through extra- capitalist society? Do you war by negotiation” to parliamentary action outside see the need for any major supporting those forces that the Labor Party. If we are restructuring of the society? are actively combatting the always further to the left of the Labor Party, there’s a interventionists. I ’ve developed a somewhat overall perspective in a way. chance if they do get into Can you think of any situation I want to see real and dramatic government we may be able in which you might resort to changes, I want to see some to push them into doing force - and I don't mean the sort of socialist economy. certain things. little yellow man having it I think it’s just a matter of It seems to me at the off with your dear old mum finding the avenues through moment that there are two scenario? which each revolutionary can alternative strategies being I can’t envisage it at the work. And I feel that we are offered for changing the moment because in Australia going to be working very much society, one the extra- a revolutionary situation is within a reformist framework. parliamentary militant still not on. I discount the political strategy and the other Do you mean working within whole myth that we are at the notion of building up an the Labor Par ty? a pre-revolutionary stage, it alternative socitey, a counter­ just is not going to happen culture. and therefore I find it very difficult to decide, I’d just Actually I think that there have to make up my mind at is room for both. A counter - the time. culture is developing, and it How do you feel about trends is making the old culture within the anti-war movement irrelevant to a new generation towards a weatherman position of people, it’s nowhere towards the destruction of near as advanced as it is in property and the deliberate the United States but we seem violent confrontation of the to be following some of the forces of the law? Amerikan patterns. But as far as building a revolu­ I support militant action, but tionary movement I just I don’t support militant violent don’t think that we can do it. action. In the future it may be Even if there was a great a different story but not economic depression I at the present time. ^ln Austra­ don't think it will come, lian society as it is at present, we’ve seen depressions in the we can make our point much past and they haven’t led to better if we are to keep our revolution. And the economists protests essentially non­ can manage the economy better violent. It’s in our interests now than they could then, so to minimise any violence and we’re not going to reach that not initiate it. Most of the same climax in politico] violence at demonstrations is ferment, but then the revolu started by the police. It’s in tion doesn’t just happen on their interests to initiate it the basis of economic change, and it’s in our interests even it must involve a change in so to minimise it. The point is values on the part of the that we’re not in a revolution­ whole population. Just ary situation or a pre-revolu­ changing the economy like tionary situation. The powers they did in the Soviet Union of the state as far as violence doesn’t really result in any goes are far superior to those thing much better than the of the anti-war movement, iust society that we’ve got now.

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Hot Malasada Wash all your vegetables, I (not really but I call it that) don’t know if this does much good, besides cleaning off the Spread a slice of toasted wholewheat bread with peanut butter and honey. dirt, because the pesticides that have been sprayed on the BREAKFAST Sprinkle sultanas and nuts on top. Peanut butter in conjunction with farms have probably soaked What do you eat in the morning? Two wholewheat bread contain the same into the soil and impregnated fried eggs and a piece of toast and a essential amino-acids (proteins) as a the food to the core. And couple of sausages? Aren't you dying slice of meat. most pesticides now used are for a change(and hastening it without rain-resistant, so won’t ewash the change, to be melodramatic and Instead of that morning coffee or off in water. Obviously it tea (filled with addicting caffein and blunt)?,Why not try Familia? would be better to buy organic harmful dyes and acids) try drinking produce, but this is often Familia herbal teas. Chamomile and mint teas are considered mild tranquilisers, impossible for various reasons. 1 sliced apple rose hips tea is good for your necess­ But you might be lucky and 1 sliced banana ary shot of vitamin C. buy tomatoes that don’t have 1 sliced orange water-proofed pesticides, so 2 tablespoons sultanas SALADS wash anyway. 1 tablespoon sesame seeds Also folks, please don’t 2 tablespoons coconut, grated, I feel a bit silly writing about peel your carrots. Almost all (dried or fresh) salads. They seem to be 1 cup oatmeal, raw (don't use the vitamins of the carrot are such an easy thing to prepare, quick-cooking types) in the skin, so why throw it % cup nuts, chopped yet I find that they tend to be away? If you don’t like the 1A cup wheatgerm the most boring, unimaginative taste or texture of carrot milk part of any meal. 5 The big skins, grate the carrots rather honey problem is that there is a than chop them, you won’t Mix all this in a large bowl, adding tendency to think of only a few taste the skins. honey to desired sweetness and milk things as “ proper” for salad. When you buy your leafy until the mixture reaches the consis­ Almost any vegetable can be greens, don’t only buy the tency of oatmeal cookie dough. Fam­ put in a salad, raw zuchini, raw crunchy-type lettuce. Try ilia will last 4 or 5 days in the refriger­ mushrooms, raw green beans, using raw spinach, it has a ator before the “ refrigerator taste" raw peas. The more of your great salty taste. Use cabbage, takes over. It is handy if you have to vegetables you eat raw the more how about some iron-rich, rush off in the morning, you can make food value you will get it the night before. Just pour a bit of parsley, even watercress. All from them, as cooking vege­ milk or cream over it and eat it cold. of these are much more tasty tables destroys the vitamins and interesting than crunchy Granola and turns the begetable into lettuce. You’ll get enough starch. crunch from the other vege­ 2 cups oatmeal, raw tables used. V* cup wheatgerm Green Salad When I make this salad 2 tablespoons soya oil (or corn oil or I start with a huge salad bowl, butter or whatever) 1 medium tomato, sliced and put all the vegetables % cup chopped nuts (almonds or 1 medium carrot, grated or cashews or walnuts) jn the bowl before I put sliced honey any leafy greens in. That way I 1 long stick celery, chopped know how much lettuce the Mix this in a large bowl, adding 1/3 cucumber, sliced salad needs to feed the honey to desired sweetness. Spread it 1 small zuchini, sliced (or thinly on a large biscuit tray, not like people about to eat it. Some­ other squash) a patty, loosely, and bake in a pre­ times I don’t have any room 4 or 5 mushrooms, sliced heated oven at 350 degrees. Stir occas­ left for lettuce at all, but it 10 green beans, broken ionally so that all the oatmeal is hardly matters with all 2 tablespoons sesame seeds browned. When it is browned, about these other goodies to munch 2 tablespoons sultanas 10 to 14 minutes, remove and cool in on . CYNTHIA J H T38^------

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