~ A Journal of Free Voices 25t :c A Window to the South ~ August 21,1970 .

The death of Carl Hampton: Murder or self defense? (please See Page 2) The police allowed her to keep the money

Dowling and Tuam streets. "Dowling 28," in jail and come up with some more By Larry Lee as the block is known, is a center of charges to hold me indefinitely with no prostitution and bootlegging. The bond. And I would live in jail six, seven and Mitch Green storefront' was across the street from months." Emancipation Park, a park used primarily During this period of time, the PP2 by the Negro residen ts of the members became increasingly bold in their Houston neighborhood, which is at the southeast display of weapomy at and around the Carl Hampton, also known as Carl corner of downtown Houston. storefront. Police kept their distance, often Hamilton, was the 21-year-old chairman of utilizing one of their helicopters at an Peoples Party II, an ad hoc black militant ~ THE EVENING of Friday, altitude of 500 to 1,000 feet to monitor organization in Houston. Its membership July 17, policemen R. L. Cantwell and J. activities at the intersection of Dowling appeared to total approximately 30. Its R. Davis halted James Aaron, a PP2 and Tuam. informational materials exclusively have member hawking "The Black Panther" At least one source close to the entire been those of the Black Panthers, with newspaper on Dowling, a heavily travelled affair says that disarmament negotiation whose Chicago office the Houston street. The police said they wanted to tell attempts were made by the office of Mayor organization was aligned. Peoples Party II the youth it was dangerous to stand in the Louie Welch through representatives of the is' associated with The John Brown street; it is not illegal to sell newspapers in model cities program. Welch himself was Revolutionary League, a handful of white this manner in Houston, however. vacationing in Europe throughout the militants led by Roy Bartee Haile, 24, and Aaron ran into the party office. two-week period. with the Houston chapter of the Hampton and two other men, all of them At approximately 6 p.m. on the evening Mexican-American Youth Organization armed, emerged from the building. The of Sunday, July 24, police tried to arrest (MA YO) in Houston's version of a police report on the incident says Hampton two young blacks - Herbert Joseph Gerac, Rainbow Coalition. threatened to fire. Within 45 minutes, 19, and an unidentified 15-year-old - who In June, Peoples Party II opened a about 30 other officers were on hand. were carrying weapons on Dowling. The storefront headquarters at the corner of Police withdrew at that point and, the next two youths ran into the rear door of St. day, Hampton was charged with assault John's Baptist Church, which is one block Larry Lee and Mitch Green work for with a weapon and with carrying a pistol. north of (and on the same side of the street KPFT, the Pacifica listener-sponsored FM For the next week, Hampton remained as) the PP2 office. Churchmen disarmed station in Houston. Lee is a contributing in the storefront, staying there, he said, the two and police arrested them. editor of the Observer and a former because he feared he would be harmed if By 7 p.m., approximately 150 persons Observer associate editor. Green has jailed. "They don't want to accept bond had gathered at the PP2 headquarters and worked for KQED-TV/FM in San from my lawyer," he said the following on the other corners of the intersection to Francisco, KRAB in Seattle, and WYSO in Friday. "They want me to appear hear speeches by Hampton and others. Bail Yellow Springs, Ohio. personally. So we feel they want to get me for the arrested pair was raised by PP2

EDITOR Kaye Northcott GENERAL MANAGER CO-EDITOR Molly Ivins EDITORS AT LARGE Elroy Bode, Ronnie Dugger, C. R. Olofson THE Bill Hamilton, Bill Porterfield OFFICE MANAGER Irene Wilkinson Contributing Editors: Winston Bode, Bill Brammer, Gary EMERITUS BUSINESS MANAGER TEXAS Cartwright, Lee Clark, Joe Frantz, Larry Goodwyn, Harris Sarah Payne Green, Bill . Helmer, Dave Hickey, Franklin Jones, Lyman Jones, Larry L. King, Georgia Earnest Klipple, Larry Lee, The Observer is published by Texas . OBSERVER Dave McNeely, Al Melinger, Robert L. Montgomery, Willie Morris, James Presley, Charles Ramsdell, Buck Ramsey, John Observer Publishing Co., biweekly from ©The Texas Observer Publishing Co. 1970 Rogers, Mary Beth Rogers, Roger Shattuck, Robert Sherrill, Austin, Texas. Entered as second-class Ronnie Dugger, Publisher Edwin Shrake, Dan Strawn, John P. Sullivan, Tom Suther­ matter April 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, Texas, under the Act of March land, Charles Alan Wright. 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Editorial reaction to AT 7 :30 P.M., the day shift of the Houston Police Department was ordered held over for night duty and approximately Hampton shooting 250 others were summoned to go in to operation using riot-control techniques "0 they recently had learned. For the first "0 e.. 0 o· c::: ('l) time since May 6-7,1967, when 300 police ("') ·rushed a dormitory housing snipers at ('l) 0- Il> ::l on ~ black Texas Southern University, the on 0 Il> Il> ("') department was utilizing "sniper squads." (Jq ~ 0 0 As the rally broke up - probably about 5· 0 ~ § 0- IO p.m., the time still is not clear - ('l) '-'. 0' ::l 0 Hampton and his colleagues received ::I 0" reports that police armed with rifles were - on the roof of St. John's Baptist Church. It appears that Hampton was shot in the o second investigative sortie from the Post/ conservative daily storefront, and Bartee Haile, in a third. Chronicle/conservative daily o No marked patrol cars were in evidence and no call to surrender was heard from Tribune/extremely conservative weekly o police before the shooting began. Reports are entirely in conflict as to Voice of HOPE/liberal black weekly o who fired first. The Houston Chronicle on Aug. 9 published a selectively edited set of Forward Times/moderate black weekly o excerpts from a · tape recording made by Howard Dupree, a KTHT radio reporter Space City!/radical biweekly o who was on the roof of the church with Cougar/University of Houston o plainclothes officers J. O. ("Bo") Norris, L. C. Kitzmann, D. A. Barnard, R. G. ·Blaylock, and R. Q. Blackburn, all of the Criminal Intelligence Division. found himself the object of suspicion by dropped in court on the motion of the It ' is clear that the crowd at the many blacks. The Rev. Earl Allen, a state prosecutor. intersection scattered as firing began, and Coalition spokesman and head of the that a long period of silence ensued until independent anti-poverty group, HOPE 2 shortly after II p.m., when all 250 of the Development Inc. , accused him and "Houston's antipoverty agency is speciallY-Qutfitted police (flak vests, another black of working for "the man," confronted with the ticklish job of defining submachine guns) entered the then-empty and Duncantell, the most visible and how far its employes may go in public storefront and began taking Panther audible of the men surrounding the dead protest. Its problem is prompted by the buttons as souvenirs and ripping posters off Hampton, continued his harangues against appearance of Ovide Duncantell, a Harris the walls. These police then arrested 52 the police. PP2 members and others state it County Community Action Assn . employe, members of the crowd on Dowling, striking was Duncantell who told Hampton of the before City Council Dec. 17. Duncantell many with rifle butts in a swift police on the church; Duncantell states it accused police officers of unnecessarily unannounced sweep which followed their was not. gunning down a black high school student riot instruction to the letter. during an arrest for car stealing. He vowed Hampton was in surgery at Ben Taub retaliation. 'We will exterminate 10 pigs for Hospital, where he was admitted as "John 1 every black brother that is killed,' he told Sims," and where he died at 2 :50 a.m. council. ... Duncantell took a day off Monday morning, the 27th. Five others, without pay to appear before council." including Haile, were wounded. "Houston police patrolmen J. E. [The Houston Chronicle. Dec. 25, 1969) That Monday morning, the frightened Murphy and J. M. McCoy were no-billed by remnant of PP2 reoccupied the storefront. a Harris County grand jury Thursday in a 3 charge of aggravated assault on Johnny A group of black leaders representing their "Be prepared for big stuff. We've got the Joseph Coward , 17,3214 Arbor, who lost organizations in most cases, but in some area secured." [Ovide Duncantell to 'City his left eye while in police custody last cases, themselves, met at the Wheeler Council July 221 Street YMCA and organized a Black Dec. 7. Assistant Dist. Atty. I. D. McMaster Coalition, which announced itself the said the grand jury heard testimony from 4 following day at the site of the shootings four police officers and Coward. He could with a call for the dismissal of Police Chief not elaborate on the reason for the no-bill. [Are those men with shotguns at the Herman Short, a selective boycott of Coward claimed his eyeball was ruptured door there to defend you?) downtown merchants by blacks until by a kick from a booted officer after he "They're there to defend themselves and December 31 and the establishment of a had been taken to an office, which he this property. I'm to defend myself." [Carl civilian police review board. believed was in the Police Station .. . . Hampton in KPFT interview July 24] Police claimed Coward fell in a parking lot Ovide Duncantell, a former employe of "We started calling in officers about after , he attacked an officer." [The the Houston-Harris County Community 7 :30 after we got the reports of the Houston Post, December 7, 1969) Action Association, the anti-poverty stopping of traffic to ask for donations. It Subsequently, another grand jury heard agency, and the chairman of The Central has got to the point where you had to Coward's allegations and returned true-bills Committee for the Protection of Poor decide if you are going to control the area People, which appears to have little against the officers. The week before Carl existence beyond his use of the name, Hampton was killed, the charges were August 21, 1970 3 or they are." [Police Inspector W. L. "Yeah, I got him." 13 Williams quoted in Associated Press [from 5.6-second excerpt of Dupree dispatch A25 I, July 27] tape broadcast by ABC Information News network] "Eyewitnesses report that when the shooting started, Duncantell got rid of his 5 weapon and left the scene. Clearly, the 10 situation on Dowling Street afforded "The first person probably on the scene Duncantell an opportunity to either 'put was myself. I was advised - I was eating up or shut up.' He 'shut up' and would do dinner at a restaurant and received a call. It "This tape, not previously published, is well to keep his mouth shut. The situation must've been about nine or nine-thirty." the most reliable and objective evidence of is far too critical to have people who shuck [Did police warn the church and businesses what happened on Dowling Street. It was and jive cause the death of those who are in the neighborhood in advance?] "We did made by Howard Dupree, a newsman with sincerely fighting for freedom for Black not. We had no reason to believe as Radio Station KTHT, while the shootout people." [Unsigned editorial in July 30 evidenced by the fact our officers were all was in progress. The station played the edition of The Voice of HOPE. HOPE off duty - by off duty, I'm talking about tape in its entirety for the Chronicle and Development, Inc., an independent the majority of officers that were involved furnished a transcript of it." [Associate anti-poverty agency, is headed by The Rev. in this had to be called and they were not Editor Norman Baxter in introduction to Early Allen who, with Pluria Marshall, on duty. We knew nothing of impending "pertinent excerpts" of the Dupree tape Houston director of Operation 'violence' as they say and had made no published in The Houston Chronicle, Breadbasket, is spokesman for the new plans, had made no request's, or, as far as I Sunday, Aug. 9, 1970] Black Coalition] know conduct - I mean, no contacts with business people in that area about closing any businesses. We would have had no way to have known this." [Police Chief Herman 14 Short, news conference, July 27] 11 "Most niggers were under their beds." [Ovide Duncantell, Emancipation Park memorial rally Aug. II] 6 "All that was known to be left of the party's funds, $461.3 7, was in the hands of 15 "Someone came and told us there were Hampton's girlfriend, Maggie Lee Hicks, some armed men on top of the church. 23, of 3625 Corder. She said he gave it to Carl and I went to see who it was. We her to hold in a buck and box. Police let "They better hope Carl don't die, man. stepped around the corner of the building her keep it." [The Houston Chronicle, July They better hope Carl don't die." [Ovide and the dudes on top of the church fired 29] Duncantell to KXYZ, approximately and hit Carl right in the stomach. It midnight, the night of the shooting, knocked a hole as big as your fist in his recorded on Dowling Street] stomach. I tried to help Carl and they fired again and grazed me in the shoulder." [Unidentified member of Peoples Party II 12 16 to The Associated Press, July 27] After police captured the storefront "Traditionally, the jo b of a journalist is headquarters of the party, the black 7 to observe and report - not to become an proprietor of the only business in the active participant. Last Sunday night, neighborhood to remain open, an eating "We got eight under fire. Put some more during the difficulty on Dowling, one place, gave free soft drinks to the white light on that building because we are going Houston newsman, a radio reporter, quite officers and newsmen. An unidentified to do some killing. Hey, we got two of obviously forgot what his job was. This neighborhood businessman, black , and them. Wait a minute. I think that we got individual not only became a spotter for perhaps the same man, told KXYZ: "The the leader. Yes. We got the leader." Houston police officers during their community wanted the police to come in. [Putative police calls as published in July shootout with militant Carl Hampton ... We've been just praying for the policemen 29 Forward Times. ] he later donned a baseball cap and facial to come in. I mean everybody who camouflage .. . and, brandishing a shotgun, amounted to anything. But that thuggy participated with police officers as they bunch, they didn't want them to come in. 8 swept thru the People's Party headquarters. So we wanted the city of Houston to know To repeat ... a reporter's job is to report, our feelings about the situation out here - "We were shooting to kill. They were not to participate. Channel Eleven that we wanted the police to come in ." shooting to kill me and I sure wasn't going newsmen have always understood the to shoot for their legs. This isn't a cowboy difference ... and because we employ only movie where you shoot to wound them." professionals, they always will. We would 17 [0. J. ("Bo") Norris of Houston Police like to make one additional point . . . and criminal intelligence division to Associated that is this: no fair, reasonable man would Slogans left on walls of Party Press, July 27] indict all black men because of the actions headquarters by police: of one Carl Hampton. In all fairness, all WALLACE IN 1972 Houston newsmen should not be indicted FUCK HUEY 9 because of the irresponsible actions of one PIG KNUCKLES FOR YOU individual. " [two gunshots] 18 "I got him." ["SHAME ON HOWARD DUPREE," "Get him, Bo?" DAILY BROADCAST EDITORIAL 111635, "Assault to murder charges were filed KHOU-TV, CBS in Houston, against two of the wounded late Monday. 4 The Texas Observer Thursday July 30,1970] Police claimed they tried to shoot and kill a police officer during the Sunday night conflict. The assault to murder complaints named Roy Bartee Haile, 24, and Johnny 'Agent Lee is after Coward, 19. Hospital a ttendan ts said both were in fair condition." [The Associated Press, July 28] the subversives 19

Police allowed her to keep the money. (and the subversives' are after Lee, too)

they're going to help the poor. Well, an 20 By David Fish/ow informant told me they got started by McAllen depositing a government check in the "It does occur to me that this black Multi-colored squad cars, whip antennas bank," Lee said. He did not name his coalition could have been exerting their gently oscillating in the breeze, filled the informant, or whether the bank was one of influence - if they have any - in the two parking lot of McAllen's Fairway Motel. the many in the area owned by the Bentsen weeks preceding the incidents on Dowling Inside, cowboy hats, fancy boots, and cigar clan. Street last Sunday night." [Police Chief The American Jewish Society for Service Herman Short, July 27 news conference] smoke predominated as 400 of Texas' finest gathered for the 92nd annual has a group of 20 young people from the "Because of the role the media has East Coast at a work camp in the Valley played, Houston's black community sees conference of the Sheriff's Association of Texas. this summer. That's the only "volunteer them as an accomplice to the fact. Indeed, And the program was real fit tin '. organization" from up there in Jew York two times - at the Black Coalition meeting this reporter could locate, and that outfit is and at Carl's funeral - photographers have McAllen's own Department of Public Safety agent, Donald Lee, was on hand to not government supported. Maybe some been attacked by black youths. For this stoolie in the local banks is pocketing DPS reason, we ask all media people planning to give a little talk on "subversion in the Rio Grande Valley." payoff money and feeding them phony attend the rally Sunday to leave their Yup, they're all over the place, these intelligence. You never know. photographic equipment and tape subversives, and the Department of Public Now Agent Lee tells us he did not single recorders home. If they decide to ignore Safety, with its 38 intelligence officers, is out the enumerated organizations - all of this warning, we can take no responsibility on the job night and day, protecting the them Mexican-American - out of prejudice. for what might occur at the park. Our great State of Texas from the Forces of "Why some of my best friends are security forces will, however, attempt to Evil. Now first off, you got to know who Mexican-Americans," he said. It isn't the protect news reporters armed with no more "they" are. Well, DPS Agent Lre has a local Mexicans that cause the trouble - than pencil and pad. (An exception to this little list. The following organizations are except for a few like Mario Compean and rule will be black and underground media "subversive," he told the sheriffs, deputies, Jose Angel Gutierrez - but rather it's who have been fair in their reportage of and assorted listeners: outside Anglo agitators who come down Peoples Party and of Carl's shooting.)" Political Association of here from other states, especially California [Written statement, The Coalition for the Spanish-Speaking Organizations (PASO), - Berkeley, you know - to rile up the Defense of Peoples Party II, distributed at the Mexican-American Youth Organization happy natives. "These alleged persons" news conference July 31] (MA YO), Colonias del Valle, the United arrive in the Valley "masquerading as social Farm Workers Organizing Committee of workers, law clerks, and aides," Lee said. the AFL-CIO (UFWOC), the Colorado He said they live on grants from the 21 Migrant Council, labor unions and "some Kenhedy Foundation, the Ford religious groups." Foundation, labor unions, various religious In order to secure buttons picturing Carl Thank God, or at least thank the DPS, organizations, and the federal government. Hampton in time for the Aug. I rally in for the warning. We always thought PASO Where do these alleged persons perform? Emancipation Park, organizers of the rally was the rather moribund outfit which is Well, there have been a lot of "trumped-up had to take steps shortcutting the "subversive" enough to include the kind of incidents" at the "school level," and conventional arrangement between the chicano politicos who recently endorsed out-of-state subversives are concentrating button fabricator and his printer. The Lloyd Bentsen. MAYO is the outfit which much of their efforts there. The DPS negatives for the offset printing process incurred the wrath of the DPS by knows, because somehow they have access were shot at the black newspaper The straightening out the schools in Crystal to private correspondence. Lee said he Forward Times and a storefront offset City. The Colorado Migrant Council gets acquired possession of a copy of a letter shop printed from those negatives. Buttons most of its dough from the "subversive" from a "West Texas Anglo law firm" were ready on Friday, July 31, and the OEO, and the UFWOC, well they're the encouraging Jose Angel Gutierrez to keep supply exhausted early the afternoon of guys that just won the five-year-old giving the Anglos a hard time. the rally itself. The button is a head-shot of California grape strike. Now we know who The Department of Public Safety, Lee Hampton with the words, "The Spirit of is subversive. said, feels responsible for keeping an eye Carl Lives," arranged in a semicircle above Evidently the DPS goes to a lot of on those groups and individuals which "we his face. trouble to keep track of these assorted consider subversive." Through intensive undesirables. According to Lee they check intelligence activities, fat dossiers are filled out the license plates of cars parked in with the inside dope on militants and 22 front of the homes of "known militants" subversives (the terms are synonymous and they do a lot of research in the loc~l when Lee talks). Police allowed her to keep the money. banks. "A volunteer organization from The sheriffs, assembled for their New York has just come in here saying convention, seemed reassured by the lecture, and probably returned to Texas's The author works in McAllen for the 254 county seats with a new determination United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. August 21 , 1970 5 On D.P'S. surveillance 'Capitol Eye' Col. Wilson E. Speir, director of the in his department work across the state Department of Public Safety, who was and that their work is not exclusively contacted about Lee's remarks, said, confined to gathering intelligence. schedules "You know that in any organization When asked if intelligence files were you have people of divergent opinions. kept on right-wing extremist groups Just as one person in an organization party at could be real conservative, there might such as the Ku Klux Klan or the Minute Men, he replied, "An officer would be others who would not feel so gather information on any type of strongly. Oftentimes we get accused of organization or person he felt was Scholtz' various things, but we just try to pertinent, that is, someone whose Austin enforce the law and maintain the peace activities tend toward law breaking such "Capitol Eye," the Austin-based as best we can, the same toward as breach of the peace. And he should interview show, is having a birthday party everyone. It doesn't matter if a fellow is do that." at Scholz Garden Sept. 1. Winston Bode, a member of a labor union. We couldn't the creator and moderator of the program, care less. " Speir said the DPS does have a unit is inviting atl the men and women who Speir said the 38 intelligence officers assigned to organized crime. have appeared on the show during its first year to attend the gathering. Viewers and to root out (like pigs hunting for truffles) galleries of the Legislature several years listeners are invited as well. the militants and subversives atl across the back, when DPS agents began Tickets are $5 each or two for $7.50 for state. photographing spectators who appeared to a married couple. Unfortunately , some of the poor folks in support the minimum wage bill, and the Bode says the program, under the the Valley, in the belief that they have spectators began photographing the DPS umbrella of the Public I nformation Corp., certain rigrts under the U.S. Constitution, men. recently has been given tax exempt status are not quite comfortable with the Meanwhile, Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin as a non-profit, educational organization, assurance that the D.P.S. is keeping tabs'on better watch his step. He had told the so contributions are tax deductible. everything they do. In fact, their attorney, sheriffs the previous day all about his new "'Capitol Eye' is having a very hard David G. Hair, is about to file suit in Judge federal grant for crime prevention . . .. The row," Bode said. "This party is the climax Reynaldo Garza's Federal Dis'trict Court at DPS boys keep pretty careful tabs on folks of seeking tax deductible contributions." Brownsville, charging that their freedom of who deposit federal checks.... The program costs about $400 to produce weekly, and Bode says that radio and speech and association, and their right to . Lee's audience reacted strongly to only television stations will not buy the show petition the government for redress of one statement. When he announced black commercially. If "Capitol Eye" is to grievan ces, are being abridged. militant Carl Hampton was dead - shot the remain on the air (at present it is broadcast The plaintiffs are Antonio Orendain' previous day by Houston police by KLRN-TV in San Antonio and Austin Texas organizer for UFWOC, Reynaldo d~ intelligence agents as he stood outside a and by 37 radio stations throughout the la Cruz, chairman of the board of Colonias Baptist church - the assembled sheriffs state), it may have to depend on small del Valle, Inc.; and Leo J. Leo , president of and deputies of the State of Texas contributions. the Hidalgo County chapter of PASO and applauded loud and long. 0 UFWOC. Named as defendants in the suit Bode said he has made the rounds to are Preston Smith, Public Safety foundations but that they "are uptight and Commissioners Clifton W. Cassidy, Jr., immobilized by the 1969 tax reform act." Marion T. Key and William B. Blakemore None are willing to fund a controversial t1 ; DPS Director Wilson E. Speir; James Like twins program until the Internal Revenue Service Ray, chief of the criminal law enforcement clarifies the new laws concerning division of the DPS; and Donald Lee, the From Maxine Chesire's Washington foundation expenditures. McAllen intelligence officer. Post column of April 21: UT law professor Charles Alan Wright The plaintiffs are saying that since the "[Former] Texas Gov. John and others will talk at the Scholz gathering surveillance described by Lee is a violation Connally's attire attracted a lot of on the issue of free speech. John Henry of their constitutional rights, they want an attention at the [White Housel party. Faulk will be the emcee. injunction restricting the defendants or "He wore an outfit that can best be "Capitol Eye" made its debut on Sept. their agen ts from spying upon , surveying, described as "Midnight Blue Cowboy." 6, 1969, with an interview of Ben Barnes. or maintaining records of allY kind about "His Tex Ritter tuxedo was "Since then we have done everyone from them or any other persons lawfully two-tones of azure and delphinium, Preston Smith to Madalyn Murray O'Hair," situated within the state. They further ask with piping around the double-breasted Bode said. Some of the recent outstanding that the defendants be required to bring jacket and four large mother-of-pearl programs have been with former UT into court for destruction all records buttons. President Norman Hackerman (who used tapes, blacklists, photos, or reports o~ "His shirt was two different tones of the occasion to criticize the direction these groups and for any other relief the blue and so was his large bow-tie. Regents Chairman Frank Erwin is taking co urt may deem .iust. "His wavy white hair is shorter, but the university), State Rep. Don Cavness The Edinburg Daily Review reported otherwise, he looked so much like his and former MHMR Deputy Commissioner Lee's speech in full, and by week's end , close friend, former President Johnson Gary Miller on the state's mental health Texas Ranger Jerome Price, known as one that some guests were startled. ' program, State Sen. Oscar Mauzy on of Captain Allee's best union busters " 'He found Lyndon's tailor' automobile insurance, and UT-Austin during the Starr County melon strike, was someone whispered, 'Now, if he ju;t student president Jeff Jones on the in the R evielV's office buying copies of the finds his barber, they'll be twins.' " university and the new left. iss ues in which the story and editorial on The panel of interviewers varies, but the subject appeared. The surveillance issue among the regulars are Jon Ford of the San recalled the "great flashgun duel" in the Antonio Express·News, Ernie Strom berger of the Dallas Times Herald, and Bo Byers 6 The Texas Observer of the Houston Ch ronicle. 0 The governor as a~ ladies' man

By Martha Hamilton handicap," he added. "Many of the aims of conference and will give no assurance that the conference are of as much, if not more, recomm~ndations of the conference will Austin importance to poorer women as they are to have his backing. "If we said we were going With the November election creeping up, business and professional women." Even to insure certain results, a certain tempo Gov. Preston Smith plans to give the ladies so, no special attempt is being made to would be established that would be a whirl with a high class tea party in reach these women. intimidating to the conference," Roberts Austin, Aug. 28-29. The Governor's Four topics have been pinpointed to be hedged. Conference on the Status of Women will dealt with in workshop sessions at the "The governor has given the conference discuss the problems of Texas women conference: job counseling, day care the sanction of his office. It's an under the rather unsympathetic auspices of centers, financial management, and laws opportunity for the women of the state to the state govern men t. "We want a cross pertaining to women's rights in Texas. be heard .... We hope the conference will section of the women of Texas .. . women More topics may be added if enough come up with specific remedies. Then it from all walks of life ... from all across women show an interest, says Roberts, would be up to the governor whether to the state," a member of the govenor's staff who insists that the ultimate details are in act on the recommended remedies." avows. But a $5 admission fee seems to the hands of the women. Governor Smith will address the insure that some women's groups won't be conference, and Mrs. Smith (can anyone heavily represen ted. THERE IS NO workshop on remember her name?) "will make every The conference is an outgrowth of the Texas abortion laws, recently struck down effort to participate insofar as her schedule Governor's Commission on the Status of by a federal district court in Dallas and and prior commitments allow," the Women, a group Smith appointed in much on the minds of women concerned governor's office said. January, 1970, as evidence of his concern. with securing their rights. "We feel that as The actual planning of the pre-election The list of 151 women can be broken into much attention as the problem has been conference has been going on for about a two types: wives of office holders and given, it will probably crop up in the more month, but the timing was non-political politicians and women who have achieved general workshops," according to Roberts. and the conference will be non-partisan, something on their own. On the roster, "But if enough women feel it deserves a Roberts says. Even so, he says, if there had which Smith's office hands out, many are single workshop, we will consider it." been more time for planning "it might have listed by their husbands names, with their The governor has no specific legislative been possible to get a more responsive, own names set secondarily in parenthesis. reforms in mind to recommend to the interested audience." A former Miss America is listed as "MUTSCHER, The Hon. Gus F. (Donna)."

JACK ROBERTS, a young, earnest-looking staff assistant who is And now, Governor • • • Smith's lady liaison, says the conference will be attended by some 1,500 women. The commissioners have been asked to A few words about the status of women When the Texas Parks and Wildlife furnish the names of individuals and in state agencies. Department told me I would not be organizations that might be interested. State agencies are among the worst considered for a job because they wanted a Roberts says he does not know specifically discriminators in Texas, on the basis of sex man in that slot, r went to the EEOC. They if women's liberation groups or Texas or anything else, according to an official at took a sworn complaint, which I was told chapters of the National Organization of the U.S . Equal Employment Opportunities would be brought in during talks with the Women (NOW) have been invited. The list Commission. The problem with sex governor's office about discrimination by is incomplete, he adds, and an attempt will discrimination in state agencies is that state agencies. Later EEOC forwarded the be made to include all concerned women's there is no recourse to law. Federal statutes complaint to the U.S. Department of the groups. outlaw sex discrimination (the clause was Interior, which returned it to me with a No attempt is being made, though, to added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act in the letter from the director of the office for deal with the barrier the $5 gate charge course of some heavy-handed joking by equal opportunity at the Interior might pose to some of the women who are members of Congress), but state agencies Department. "The position for which you unhappy with their lot. The fee is as are not covered. The Texas legislature in applied was with the Texas Parks and economical as it could be made, said 1967 outlawed discrimination by state or Wildlife Department which appears to be a Roberts, who is coordinating the planning. local government offices "because of the state government agency and is not under The money will cover the price of a person's race, religion, color, or national the jurisdiction of the Department of the luncheon at the Terrace Convention origin ... " but not because of sex. Interior." That seemed to exhaust the Center, printing and other costs. Since the Governor Smith has taken no action on possibilities. commission is an advisory group, it receives discrimination by state agencies. no funds from the legislature. It has no Some women do go to the EEOC, only N ANOTHER case, a woman legal powers or status. to find that the agency cannot help. An I answered a Daily Texan ad for computer "We have no special plans to encourage EEOC employee estimates that about 25 programmers at the University of Texas. women who can't afford the $5 to attend," cases of sex discrimination involving state Although she made an A on a competitive Roberts conceded. "But we do encourage and local agencies are reported to them examination, after three interviews she was activities of this type: If a group can't each year. Until recently, the EEOC has told that the university doesn't like to hire afford to send all its members, we kept no record of these. women for that job. She might have to encourage it to send one representative Sex discrimination takes many forms: work on campus at night, the interviewer instead of I O. Funds are always a refusal to hire or promote women, a double standard in pay scales, and enforced told her, expressing concern about what Martha Hamilton, a former Washington, pregnancy leaves. In my case, it was refusal working odd hours might do to her D. C. reporter, works in Austin. to hire. August 21, 1970 7 ONE OF THE most interesting forms of discriminati9n in state agencies, is Why women co~plain the enforced pregnancy leave. This policy will soon be challenged in court, though, almost by a legal loophole.

Double Standard: Men's Wages Mary Ellen Schatman worked as a labor Much Higher Than Women's market analyst with the Texas National Averages of Annual Wages. Employment Commission (TEC) in Austin, for FuJl·time, Year·round Workers, 1968. >II while her husband attended law school. Although she was seven months pregnant, she said she hadn't missed a day of work d 9 because of her pregnancy. Her doctor said she could co ntinue working, but TEC said Men Women no. She was forced to take maternity leave.

$10,151 TEC regulations allow a maximum six Professional & Te(:hnical weeks leave time for its employees, which Workers (Includes Doctors, was the leave Mrs. Schatman had planned Lawyers, Science/Draftsmen, etc.) to take. With the enforced leave added, she was bound to be away from her job three months. TEC told her she could return to work if the position remained unfilled , she Non·Farm Managers, Officials $10,340 says, but "six weeks to the day after I left, and Proprietors (Includes Office they filled my jo b." She shook her head Managers, Local, State an'ct over the possibility of finding a comparable Federal Government Officials; job in Austin. Business Owners, etc.) Now, unemployed, with a child and husband to support, Mrs. Schatman is suing the state in federal district court for Clerical Workers $7,351 damages and back wages. (State employees (Includes Bookkeepers, File who lose their jobs are not entitled to Clerks, Stenos, etc.) unemployment compensation.) She is luckier than women in other state agencies (Some are said to require that pregnant women quit work after five months), $6,738 because she can go to court. Federal Operatives statutes give the EEOC jurisdiction over all (Most~y Factory Workers) employmen t agencies, even state employment agencies. EEOC attorneys ruled that this jurisdiction ex tended to employees of employment agencies as well, Service Workers (Excludes opening the way for Mrs. Schatman's Private Household Workers; Includes $6,058 complaint. Laundry Workers, Barbers, Beauty Operators, etc.) "1 took a competitive examination for my job and can only be removed for' cause," the young, red-haired mother said . $8,549 Since she was still capable of doing her job Salesworkers when she left , she doesn't consider her pregnancy cause.

"If you come to work with a contagious disease, they can't force you to leave," she (Source: Women's Bureau) • Lltelt figures IVliflbJe adds. Another thing that obviously rankles Mrs. Schatman is that the TEC didn't reveal its maternity leave restrictions until she told them she was pregnant, she said, in spite of earlier inquiries during her 14 marriage. In other words, the frustrated job A nother woman, an employee of the months on the job. seeker pointed out, " they were making my state comptroller's office, says that state decision for me." agency also is reluctant to hire women as "Abortion is cheaper than losing your computer operators. The comptroller's job, if you're the sole support of the The same woman, a co ll ege graduate, office uses almost the same line as the family ," she said. finally landed a job with a state agency in university - that men and women might Austin. After a year's hard work, she says, have to work together at night, she says. There was no malice in the TEe's she is almost making wha t is considered a They also fend women off with the treatment of her, she feels. just a general starting salary for men without college explanation that the job might call for disbeli ef that a woman would want to be diplomas, doing the same work. some heavy work, she adds. "It is no worse both a mother and a professional woman. than heavy housework ," the employee Maybe they haven't heard ... we've 8 The Texas Observer says. co me a long way. 0 LBJ to attend Barnes love-in

Since the primary defeat of his old Convention. Mauzy thinks a liberal • rival Ralph Yarborough, former platform will encourage Texas liberals to President Lyndon Johnson has taken a Political vote for Bentsen and Smith in November, sudden new interest in Texas politics. In rather than staying home or supporting the past two weeks LBJ has been on guest intelligence Republicans. McKool says he is worried by lists at a cocktail party for House Speaker apathy and hostility among loyalists who Gus Mutscher of Brenham, in Brenham, Smith turned down a request by Sen. backed Yarborough. and was scheduled to attend a $100-a-plate • Chet Brooks of Pasadena for a Austin love-in staged for Lt. Gov. Ben top-to-bottom investigation of alleged Barnes. LBJ is said to be helping with fund political purges at the University of Texas. raising for Lloyd Bentsen in his campaign Brooks asked for a blue-ribbon committee Dowdy gets opponent for the senate against Congo George Bush, to conduct the probe, but Smith said he and may take to the stump for Bentsen . had no information to support charges that • The executives of Texas railroads • Rep. John Dowdy of Athens, under have been asked by Barnes to buy federal indictment on charges of $100 tickets to his Aug. 14 appreciation Chapman item in error conspiracy, perjury and bribery, will face a dinner. "Lieutenant Governor Barnes has 73-year-old write-in opponent in the solicited assistance in the sale of tickets An item in the Aug. 7 Observer November election. Gordon F. Wills, a from the individuals with the Texas incorrectly reported that Dist. Judge retired Army sergeant also of Athens, is railroads, as well as individual members of Joe N. Chapman of Sulphur Springs was running because he says Dowdy has given other statewide organizations," Walter named in a 14-point Hopkins County the town a bad name. Wills ventured into Caven, general counsel for the Texas grand jury indictment charging him with politics once before - and finished last in a Railroad Association wrote to Texas "judicial misconduct." In fact, six-way race for Henderson County sheriff railroad executives. Chapman was not indicted nor were in 1956. Wills says his campaign support is Caven said the dinner "will be a prestige charges against him considered by the "meager." He is barnstorming the affair," and he warned that the purchase of grand jury. He was named in a formal 18-county district by public bus. tickets "must be made on a personal rather complaint before the Texas Judicial • On July 20 the Dallas city council than a corporate basis." Qualifications Commission. The outlawed walking about aimlessly • Texas Coastal Bend residents had complaint filed by Sulphur Springs without apparent purpose, lingering, both US senators and a flock of attorney J. Kearney· Brim claims that hanging around, lagging behind, delaying other politicians to contend with in the Chapman committeed an indiscretion and sauntering within the boundaries of wake of Hurricane Celia, but President by quashing indictments against two that . city. The ordinance is called the Nixon - in contrast to his predecessor - brothers charged with swindling the city loitering law and 11 laggards have been stayed out of it. Nixon did declare the area of Sulphur Springs. arrested since it went into effect. Charges an emergency area within 24 hours after Chapman said he quashed the were dropped against four of them. The the storm wrecked the shore and moved indictments after determining that a Dallas Civil Liberties Union will file suit in inland, but instead of coming to see for grand juror in the case was federal court to test the constitutionality himself he sent Commerce Secretary "prejudiced," according to the Dallas of the cease-sauntering edict . . Maurice Stans and Small Business Morning News. The News quoted Administrator Hiiary Sandoval in. Former Chapman as saying the charges are President LBJ was one of the first on the frivolous. "I'm going to ignore them," scene in the aftermath of Hurricane he was quoted as saying. Beulah, which hit in the same area and The Observer regrets and retracts the To love or to leave southward, in 1967. error. Dallas Rep. Jim Collins has • introduced a bill in the U.S. House which would enable those who do not love Smith preaching unity Dr. John Silber, Dean of the UT College of it to leave it. The bill would provide a free, Arts and Sciences, was improperly one-way ticket for anyone over 25 to any Gov. Preston Smith is appealing for dismissed. Smith said he was reluctant to foreign country in which they wish to • peace and tranquility at the Sept. 15 enter into "a con60ntation" with Frank C. establish residence. The applicant would State Democratic Convention in Dallas. Erwin, Jr., Austin attorney and head of the only have to voluntarily relinquish his right In a mailing sent from the Governor's UT Regents. to re-enter the United States for the next Office to every convention delegate, Smith • Erwin was not appointed by Smith, 65 years. notes, "ours is a party of the people. though Sll1ith raised no objection to According to a city official, Amarillo Therefore, no element of Democratic Party him when former Gov. John Connally, in • will pay for an outside air poilu tion philosophy will be excluded from our the last days of his administration, study of a grossly polluting zinc smelting convention. While ours is a party of re-named Erwin to the Board of Regents. plant in their area - to keep it operating. hard-fought primaries, it also is one of Erwin contributed $2,000 to Smith's 1968 City Commissioner R. G. Mills told the unified action in the general election." The campaign, according to Smith's campaign Texas Air Control Board, "We just can't governor may feel that a raucus convention expense records. afford to have this plant closed." The would hurt his chances for re-election. • Dallas Sens. Oscar Mauzy and Mike American Smelting and Refining Co. plant • Smith declared Aug. IS-Sept. 15 McKool, who were among the first is seeking either an exemption or a "Venereal Disease Month" in Texas, liberals to endorse Lloyd Bentsen after his permanent variance from state emission probably not noticing that the final day defeat of Senator Yarborough, are urging regulations. The Board delayed decision on coincides with the state Democratic the Governor to assemble a progressive the plant until September. Convention. platform at the state Democratic August 21, 1970 9 Testimony last month before the Committee on Automobile Insurance a ATHENA • Senate Labor Subcommittee on the member of the State Board of Insurance MONTESSORI SCHOOL plight of migrant workers in this country shook up the proceedings by saying he leo Nilch, Director provoked an interesting response from thinks investment income should be NEW NORTHWEST LOCATION Conley Kemper, coordinator of migrant considered in setting rates. Charles 7500 Woodrow labor for the state's Good Neighbor Mathews told the committee he is inclined Phone 454·4239 Commission. To testimony given at the to the view that income from investments subcommittee hearing by Dr. Henry by insurance companies should be taken Lipscomb, Baylor College of Medicine, on into account in calculating rates. The the terrible malnutrition among migrants in investment income of insurance companies the Valley, Kemper replied, "They are not has not been included in the profit and loss used to eating protein. Some of them may statement by which rates are partially pick carrots all day and there is no reason calculated and Mathews is the first of the why they couldn't take some home, but three commissioners to announce that he Since 1866 they are just not used to eating fresh favors that proceeding. vegetables and they won't," Ed Polk, the outspoken, activist The Place in Austin . • director of the Dallas Legal Services Project, survived an attempt by some DLSP GOOD FOOD Clark for president? board members to oust him at the end of GOOD 'BEER Ramsey Clark, former attorney july. The board members were upset at • general who now practices law in Polk's representation of an underground 1607 San Jadnto New York City, is being mentioned as a newspaper publisher. Polk staved off the possible Democratic presidential candidate GR7-J,171 ouster move by announcing that the Office in 1972. An article in New York magazine of Economic Opportunity will do an by Jack Newfield has fueled more support evaluation of DLSP to find out whether or there and citizens from all over the country not the program is doing the job it should. occasionally write to Clark asking him if An efficiency study of the State he's willing. Clark, amused, amazed and • Welfare Department prepared by flattered by the phenomenon, has not Electronic Data Systems Corp. of Dallas replied to the letters. proposes a far-reaching reorganization of At a Chicano Moratorium in Houston the department, including the elimination MARTIN ELFANT • July 27, Bexar County Commissioner of at least 2,500 jobs. The study showed Sun Life of Canada Albert Pena told a crowd of 500 that shortcomings in administrative setup, Vietnam is a gringo war and that chicanos accounting procedures, and use of have their own war in the barrios against computers. Welfare Board Chairman Will 1001 Century Building poverty and racism. "It is a crime in the Bond of Hillsboro took strong exception to Houston, Texas worst form of insanity to go 10,000 miles a statement in the report that "some to help our oppressors help enslave other people are appointed to positions not people," he said. CA 4-0686 because 0 f what they know, bu t who they During the opening round of hearings know." Bond asked that it be stricken. • by the State Senate's Interim • Rep. Curtis M. Graves of Houston, 10 The Texas Observer one of two black House members and a Democrat, is helping raise funds for Nat Davis, a black Republican running for the legislature in Fort Worth. CLASSIFIED MEETINGS BOOKPLATES. Free catalog. Many beautiful Chicano bank designs. Spec ial designing too. Address: THE THURSDAY CLUB of Dallas meets each BOOKPLATES, P.O. Box 28-1, Yellow SprIngs, Thursday noon for lunch (cafeteria style) at the Federal banking authorities are 0hio 45387. Downtown YMCA, 605 No. Ervay St.. 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6ne of a series of messages quoting from the book TH IS AMERICAN PEOPLE. Copyright 1951 by Gerald W . Johnson. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row.

Many years before 1776 John Locke had defined the genius of the people. If no precautions are taken against the inalienable rights of man as "life, liberty and property." abuse of power, we shall inevitably run into facism. If too Jefferson struck out "property" and substituted "the pursuit many precautions are taken we shall prevent not only the of happiness." ... When [the Founding Fathers] added the abuse, but even the use of power in private hands and Bill of Rights to the Constitution - an addition made inevitably run into communism. necessary by the feel ing of the people that their human rights There is a third complication ·that we are slowly beginning were not sufficiently protected in the original document - to realize and that appalls conservatives perhaps more than any they included property. "No person," says the Fifth other. With all our enormous concentrations of power, there Amendment, "shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or are tasks, urgently necessary tasks, that are simply too big to property, without due process of law." ... be handled by private enterprise, no matter how big, and no The possibility of monopoly has come much closer since matter how free. 1787 .... It is reasonable, then, to ask whether this condition, A conspicuous instance was the development of the which did not exist and was not foreseen in 1787, undermines Tennessee Valley. The investment in that job was eight the doctrine of the framers of the Constitution that property hundred millions ... Only the government can stand such a should be protected in the same measure as life and liberty. strain ... . And the project as a whole was necessary. Repeated Another condition has arisen which is as important as, and floods were slowly ruining the whole valley as agricultural to some people even worse than, the tendency to monopoly. It land. The immense power of the river was going to waste .... is the restriction of opportunity, which is to say the increasing Yet the TVA is regarded with horror by people with logical difficulty that a man encounters in setting up in business for minds, and the fact that it has been astonishingly successful is himself. This is a direct result of the transfer from the the most horrible part of it. Logical people assert that it is hand-made to the machine-made ... . socialism .. . . When power is highly concentrated - any kind of power, The truth is that there are certain kinds of business military, mechanical, political, or economic - the temptation enterprise that must be publicly owned and operated . ... The to misuse it is great. By comparison with the situation of a post office and the mint are unquestionably socialistic, but hundred and fifty years ago, all kinds of power are highly, very what of it? ... To concentrate more and more power in the highly, concentrated in the United States today. The hands of the government is dangerous; but to refuse to do temptation to misuse it is correspondingly great, so· the what urgently needs to be done is fatal. The stern decree that precautions against its misuse must be numerous and rigid . Fate issues to a free people is, "Take a chance, or die." The This creates a situation that perplexes rulers and lawmakers, Founding Fathers took the chance, with splendid results; if creates endless disputes, and throws a strain on the political their successors are still a free people, that policy is still good.

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Corpus Christi, Austin board's action 'is significant in its own explains that "the new colleges will give a Frank Erwin, Jr., producer, director, right. These unanswered questions titillate new emphasis on invididualization and . and star performer of "The Board of the audience and add dramatic impact to personalization of teaching processes." Regents Meeting," an attraction that the play. A number of minor players appear to recently played a one-day stand at the praise and condemn the so-called "Jordan Emerald Beach Holiday Inn of Corpus THE ACTION begins with plan." Dr. William Shive, a chemist, Christi, receives a well-earned bravo from President ad interim Bryce Jordan's speech becomes rattled when Erwin insists that he this reviewer for his masterful control of to the regents. Jordan is a musicologist speak during the period of time allotted to the subject matter and the performers in specializirig in the piccolo, a vague fellow the proponents Of the Jordan plan. Dr. his little drama. The performance as a who follows Erwin's directions as well as Paul English, acting chairman of the whole, however, lacked a certian he can. Sometimes referred to derogitorily Special Commission of Arts and Sciences, verisimilitude. At times the lines of the as the Music Man , the president ad interim warns that if the regents do not follow the play seemed too pat. And some of the bit speaks in the turgid jargon of the faculty's urging to preserve the unity of the players muddled their speeches. professional educator. He explains that the A&S College, "our university runs the risk The plot itself is an old one: The College of Arts and Sciences, with 15 ,500 of becoming an academic wasteland." Dr. integrity of an academic institution is students expected in the fall, is "too large David DeLaura of the English Department jeopardized by a powerful politician. The to accomplish the task of higher education. insists that Jordan's plan probably will play begins after the chairman of the We need new and enriched kinds of "lead to a decline in the quality of liberal University of Texas Board of Regents, repersonalization of the educational arts education at the university in favor of Erwin himself, has conducted a purge of process for these 15,500 studen ts," Jordan specialization and professionalism." the administration of UT-Austin in order says. The proposal that he claims as his to solidify his control and make the school own divides Arts and Sciences into three T HE DRAMATIC highlight of the safe for mediocrity. The regents have oolleges: play is provided by Erwin's foil, Dr. John gathered in Corpus to give Erwin and his Humanities with more than 3,000 Silber, the fired dean of the College of Arts hand-picked administrators a vote of students, and Sciences. Silber reads a 25-page support by hacking the College of Arts and Social and Behavorial Sciences with statement, which definitely was not Sciences, like Gaul, into three parts. It is approximately 5,500 students, written by Erwin. He is the only performer something of a confusing exercise, since Natural Sciences with 6,800 students, who received the undivided attention of the audience has been led to believe that And a Division of General and both the regents and the audience. His the purpose of the division of the A&S Comparative Studies, an orphan division of words are so compelling that excerpts of College was to diminish the power of the undetermined majors and special programs his speech are reproduced on another page dean of that schooL Off stage, the dean that don't fit anywhere else. This fourth of this journal. already has been fired by Erwin; so the division will have no budget of its own. It Silber's statement, however, is audience is left to wonder whether the has to rely on the generosity of the other concerned with logic and the academic and action of the board in dividing the college A&S colleges for sustenance. administrative merits of the plan for is a reaction like closing the barn door after Above the deans of the new colleges, dividing the college, and Erwin and his the horse has escaped or whether the Jordan proposes that a provost for board are not interested in these aspects of SCiences, Arts, and Letters provide "a the situation. They are wrapped up in the 12 The Texas Observer high-level advocacy in fiscal matters." He dynamics of power. So Silber's speech is regarded as irrelevant by the regents. Except during Silber's speech, the audience tended to fight throughout the performance. Their uneasiness was .' accentuated by the presence of approximately 13 security men, eight from the UT Traffic and Security Division (the campus cops, some of whom are retired FBI men) and five of Corpus Christi's finest, including fof. a time, the Corpus Chief of Police. They had been invited to the play on the assumption that there would be many students in the audience, but few students actually came all the way to Corpus. So the security men stayed mostly in the background chatting back and forth over their walkie-talkies. Occasionally they asserted themselves, such as when they prevented a well-known member of the Arts and Sciences Council from entering the meeting room for more than an hour. Finally, the woman got word to a friend inside. The friend, State Rep. Frances Farenthold, managed to get the woman seated for the remainder of the performance. Intermission was called for lunch, and Jordan answers dutifully: "My with the consultation of the A&S faculty after lunch, the play digressed into a long recommendation would be exactly the and that it will preserve "the unitary presentation on marine science. Finally, same as the one before the board." nature of liberal education." Jenkens late in the afternoon, the action was Erwin asks Dr. Frank Harrison, the Garrett, another regent who has been a brought to its expected conclusion. president of UT-Arlington, how his school silent figure on the stage up until this Chairman Erwin lost control of the play has fared with a divided A&S College, and point, has a speech near the end of the at one point in the afternoon, when Pam Harrison pops up from the audience and play. In an attempt to speak in favor of the Diamond, a UT student, was allowed to answers: "It's been working very well. I action the regents obviously are destined to present to the board a petition containing think the case has been overstated on the take on the A&S College, Garrett says: 7,000 student signatures protesting Silber's necessity of a single administration." "We are going to be setting ourselves up as firing and the division of the A&S College. Kilgore, playing the role of an a committee of reorganization. This is just An impressive two-thirds of the A&S independent regent, then declaims: "I am what we don't want to do. This is a faculty students enrolled in summer school signed disturbed by the evident belief of responsibility." Garrett's speech brought the petition, Miss Diamond said. outstanding educators and sincere students chortles and applause from the audience that this plan poses a threat to liberal and a blush from Erwin, but Garrett THEN THE play returned to education. I am fUrther disturbed that it seemed impervious to the import of his Erwin's script, and on cue, Regent Joe will cause able educators to leave. I don't words. Kilgore says to Jordan: "I think it is invite anyone to leave." (This last sentence important for everyone to know is a reference to an earlier statement by The regents unanimously agree to divide specifically what is your personal Erwin that professors that are unhappy the college. Jack Josey, regents recommendation f9r the College of Arts with the situation at UT are welcome to vice-chairman, ends the play by proposing and Sciences, aside from the orders given resign.) a vote of confidence for Chancellor-elect to you and the job assigned to you. What Kilgore proposes that the regents dress Charles LeMaistre and President Jordan. recommendations would you make to the up their A&S proposal with a statement And its curtains for the University of board ?" saying that the division will be carried out Texas. K.N. Silber discusses his (former) college

Corpus Christi Sciences that is in fundamental opposition both the graduate and undergraduate Following are excerpts from Dr. John to the recommendation of the Commission levels. How much more difficult will be the Silber 's speech to the UT Board of and in clear opposition to the Watt, Ruud, task of a provost in facing the resistance, Regents. and Sutherland Reports, to not merely of department chairmen, but of At the outset I should like to limit the recommendations by Deans Burdine and the deans of these special schools. scope of my remarks. I do not question Macdonald, and by student committees, it I cannot find a basis for liberal arts either the authority or the power of the will appear to be utterly cynical and education in this organizational chart in chancellor or the president to remove me contemptuous of faculty opinion. You will which the College of Arts and Sciences is from office - summarily or otherwise. I do run the risk of producing substantial - and absent, a chart with an office of provost not come before the board to discuss my totally unnecessary - deterioration in and little boxes all separated discretely personal situation or to ask any reversal of faculty morale. from one another. Rather, I find the it. If the regents wish to discuss my You have no reason, gentlemen, to structure for liberal education in a college dismissal, I should only ask ·that I be privy expect a faculty to remain at this college if conceived as a great circle, presided over by to that discussion, as it so clearly concerns it is treated with cynicism and a variety of personalities, the most public me .... contempt .. . . and visible of which might be its dean. But We face ... a procedural issue of very of great visibility and of far greater great importance. Shall a faculty and a R EST ASSURED the adoption of importance would be the hundreds of dean of a college be consulted in matters of this plan is a ravaging of the liberal arts fa.culty cooperating with him in that vast primary concern to that faculty and dean, college and undergraduate teaching by the single enterprise. My vision is of the or shall they be effectively bypassed by graduate and professional schools. CQllege as a living cell in which there are directive of system administration? It is of Graduate education in narrow professional nuclei of interest and activity. We find fundamental importance that the principle schools - a kind of education that is identifiable concentrations in the of faculty consultation and faculty already obsolete and discredited at more humanities, in the social sciences, and in autonomy - on an issue that is clearly advanced centers of learning will the sciences. But there are equally academic in nature - be observed. In my triumph under this plan. In progressive important centers of activity and opinion, disregard for this principle will graduate education, the emphasis today is excitement in areas that transcend all most adversely affect the stability of our increasingly directed toward traditional departments and divisions. We campus at a time when stresses will already interdisciplinary work. We can make our find nexus of activities in Plan II, in lecture be high as a consequence of enrollment way toward Johns Hopkins of SO years ago programs and courses in Ethnic Studies, increases, the shift to the new calendar, if we try hard. Hebrew Studies, in ecological and confusions brought about by our new This plan does not facilitate and developments drawing upon the ·resources system of registration. I urge that no encourage interdisCiplinary teaching and of economists, sociologists, biologists, reorganization of the College of Arts and research; rather it encourages the breakup philosophers, and artists. Sciences be enacted unless it is first and division of those unities and Throughout this highly complex living submitted to the faculty of the Col/ege of interdisciplinary contacts that have already unity we find men and women with Arts and Sciences for consideration. Such been established, making far more difficult differing administrative responsibilities. consideration is of great importance to the establishment of new interdisciplinary Some we would call associate deans of. faculty morale even if the lines. special programs, some directors of recommendations of the faculty are not A single dean faces sufficient resistance programs such as Plan II or Hebrew fully accepted. If you adopt a plan for the from department chairmen in the organization of the College of Arts and development of interdisciplinary work on August 21, 1970 13 Studies. And at least one of them would be open, flexible , integrative atmosphere of mistake made on the campus of the an associate dean for instruction in the single college as a living cell. University of Pittsburgh only three years compliance with the regents' concern to ago. A foundation stud y of the disaster ensure teaching effectiveness. The associate IN A COLLEGE whose that followed the abolition of the College dean for instruction wo uld have as his fun ctional structure is modeled on the of Arts and Sciences on that campus primary responsibility the examinatio n and living cell, education can thrive. It offers a cu lminated in a recommendation that the review of all teaching activities by teaching matrix for open, flexible , integrative study College of Arts and Sciences be restored. assistants, assistant in structors, instructors, and research in which the liberal arts can The University of Pittsburgh, now engaged and assistant professors. He would give flourish and in which young men and in putting Humpty-Dumpty back together, special care to the examination of the women are not professionalized before is experiencing all of the difficulties related credentials and backgrounds of all persons their time, but are allowed to mature as in that song of childhood. appointed to such positions, in sure that whole persons, capable of the The University of Texas at Austin is on their teaching was reviewed at periodic responsibilities of citizenship and the wall. Why push it? intervals and regularly evaluated by parenthood. Young men and women may, The distinctive concern of the College of students and faculty, and make certain that in such a college, avoid premature Arts and Sciences for the development of no reappointments or promotions were obsolescence that is so often the civilized human beings, of informed and recommended for persons in these teaching consequence of narrow professional study. responsible citizens, of sensitive and positions unless they were found to be It is well known to all of us that the most dedicated parents, is not achieved by highly effective and responsible teachers. exciting work done today on the graduate fracturing that college into groups that The associate dean of instruction would and undh-graduate levels is done in the have no meaning or rationale apart from not assume the responsibility for carrying interstices between traditional disciplines. some narrow professional program! It is out these activities of review and visitation How important, then , to have a college the mix that gives the College of Arts and and evaluation by himself. Instead, he that is a sin gle unity - a flowing, living cell Sciences its distinctive characteristics and would, by direct cooperation with of great complexity, stirred by the vitality mission and the means to fulfill that departmental and program chairmen and of persons, in which movement between mission. When the mix is destroyed members of the faculties of various departments, divisions, and centers is through the destruction of the college departments, insure that this review, facilitated rather than rigidified through itself, the reason for its existence is also visitation, and evaluation was made by the separate colleges with separate budgets and destroy ed. faculties themselves. He would thus separate deans. respect faculty prerogatives on A college modeled on the living cell is a I have said all that time will permit departmental issues and instructional structure for the future. But you have been about educational goals and objectives. Let programs at the same time he furthered the asked to accept the same old rigid structure me speak now of prudence. realization of excell ent teaching. But all of that has been tried and has failed on The University of Texas has improved these activities would be carried on in this innumerable campuses. I call your special dramatically in quality over the last few attention to the fact that you are now years. It now has a first-rate student body 14 The Texas Observer being asked to repeat precisely the same and a truly outstanding faculty. The FRANK FRANK'S FRIEND Last spring, when asked about Frank Erwin's antics as chairman of the University of Texas Board of Regents, Preston Smith came to Erwin's defense. Smith probably harked back to 1968, when Erwin contributed heavily to his campaign against Don Yarborough. In any even t, Smith said of Erwin: "I'm sure he did what he thinks is right and best." Since then, with Erwin at the helm, UT has lost six top administrators - including its chancellor, its president and the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Dr. John Silber. And yet, Smith on August 3 reaffirmed his faith in Frank Erwin. Frank Erwin is but a symptom. The real disease is the one-p arty system in Texas, which enables political hac ks and power brokers to treat state universities as perso nal fiefdoms .. The one-party system rewards the Smiths and Erwins, defeats men like Ralph Yarborough and gnaws at the roots ofacademic freedom an d good government. Break that system in November by voting against Smith and Bentsen, and voting for a two-party, enlightened Texas. .

The Democratic *Rebuilding Committee STATE OFFICE: 2201 N. Lamar, Room 209, Austin, Texas - PHONE: 476-7565 - MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1782, Austin, Texas 78767 Co-Chairmen: Archer Fullingim, Editor, The Kountze News, Kountze, Texas; Curtis M. Graves, State Representative, Houston, Texas; Bob Sanchez, Attorney at Law, McAllen, Texas; Executive Director: Tom Bones; Director of Organization: Dave ShapIro. faculty have in recent years come to a surpnsmg that a few of our citizens have conscious awareness of their distinction, an also participated in instant politics - awareness that this is no longer a pro vinciai politics of revolution and assassination. In university but a great university in one of this context, it is of particular importance the provinces. In the awareness of this that educational institutions and the LE5 emerging distinction, the faculty stands on governing boards of those institutions show the verge of what could be its Elizabethan their deepest concern and respect for moment a moment of dramatic rational procedures of thought, discussion, self-realization, an awareness of quality and and decision. Only in an atmosphere purpose and the will to fulfill that purpose. dominated by rational discussion and AlliS It will be nothing short of tragic if this respect for orderly procedures can we hope faculty is bypassed or if its views are to avoid confrontation and conflict on our disregarded on a question that is so clearly campus that will ruin our university. and specifically within the range of their I claim no monopoly on love for this particular expertise and concern. university; neither do I take second place In summary, I most strongly urge you, to any other man in my devotion to its A ~/"~1I11t "" as individual regents, to delay this proposal welfare. I will lend whatever influence I for the organization of the College of Arts have to the furtherance of peace on our lit AII~ flit and Sciences until it has been brought campus and the preservation of a before Arts and Sciences for its wholesome working relation between our examination, evaluation, and faculty, students, and administrators. recommendation. Such consultation with Gentlemen, I have deliberately avoided that faculty can be completed in the subjects that are in the headlines that September or October. The plan are assailing this' meeting today. I do not recommended by that faculty could quite come here to defend myself, to make the easily be implemented by next February case for or against anyone personally, to 1st. I fail to see that any substantial delay play to the press, to give song to my in the reorganization of Arts and Sciences dreams or lament the loss of work and would be caused by referral of this issue to time. I come here to tell you what I believe the faculty of Arts and Sciences. we all should band together now to If you as individual members of the preserve and protect. All our labors and Board of Regents do not find my analysis meetings, conflicts and personal bruises, of the basic educational issues persuasive, I are as nothing compared to what we are hope you will at least attend these charged to cherish and advance and what procedural poin ts. It is important to show each of us in his deepest self knows is our regard for the distinguished faculty that duty as educators. Do not destroy, in a now comprises the College of Arts and trice, in the j udgmen t-d istorting vice of Sciences. It will not be consistent with the dramatic, but merely personal events, do best interests of the university to insult not destroy the College of Arts and that faculty - whether by a procedural Sciences. Do not embitter our best men bypass or by an open invitation that any and women on the faculty. Do not so to-eaUd members of that faculty who are grossly change our university in the dissatisfied resign. It is of critical summertime absence of the fa culty. Let us jet4t to, tM 't~ importance that the Board of Regents proceed like the rational men we are to the recognize that the quality and achievement orderly settlement of this subject after its of the university depends in largest part on due deliberation by the men and women of 0' tM 7 e~eu ()~ the quality and distinction of its professors the faculty whose rights, work, and dignity and students·. In consequence of this are its substance. 0 r~cognition, it is imperative that the Board of Regents show their appreciation of their August 21, 1970 IS outstanding faculty by 0 bserving the principle of prior faculty consultation Personal Service - Quality Insurance ~e472-2746 concerning any specific plan that is to be ALICE ANDERSON AGENCY considered for adoption. 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PORCH AT THREE That little Elroy Bode's notebook · concrete porch at the front of a Baptist church in a small Texas town - I think about it, ,wondering what it really meant. El Paso photographs, he felt he was in excellent At three o'clock on a July afternoon, when ERIC THE RED He was standing in shape. And besides, wasn't he going to be the sun had finally moved its fierceness the doorway of the hot turista office in in Miami Beach on July twenty-one? toward the west and left the porch in an Juarez, waiting for the immigration officer We fidgeted, paced, sighed. The young elegant shadow, what truth did the porch to return. He had a small canvas bag, his German fingered his scab and smiled into suggest that somehow made it memorable? passport, the clothes on his back - nothing the map of Mexico. I try thinking of the little knots of more. - Today's children grow up surrounded faithful Baptist men and women who "I-rna-chin my goot luck," he was by other children; I grew up surrounded by gather there every Sunday, in the hot times saying. "In New York I vas reading in de trees. of the morning and in the cool of the paper vere dey needed somebody who What happens if you relate as much to afternoon. I can see them on that modest could speak Cherman and do light chobs in nature as you do to people? Do you learn and smooth concrete, finding comfort not dis svank club for shust about sree veeks, not to hunt for all your satisfactions in only as Baptists but as and it fit me perfectly, so I got my room human sources? If you once find how to B apt i s t s -j oining-together-in-a-very­ get pleasure out of a riverbank, how and board dere and all se beverages I small-town. . . . I think of the young, vanted, and den after dat I vas on my vay frustrated do you become later on when untried boys in dress pants and white shirts again." you discover that society - its laws, its (-indeed, Baptist Boys, soon to take on He smiled as he talked, seemingly quite governings - is less than perfect? their special role as Baptist Men) who talk at ease about his delay. He stood with his -Music alone can reach inside you and among themselves in the long Sunday hands clasped behind his back and gazed at somehow manage to touch all the flowers twilights: who gather on their pants the a huge map of Mexico on the wall. His long that still grow among the debris of old white dust of summer from straggling brick-red hair had begun to mat and curl at emotions. clumps of Johnson grass beside the porch the nape of his neck, and his nylon shirt -It is too bad that people who live next as they speak knowlingly of things they do carried a stiff body odor. He wore black to the land, who plant fruit trees, raise not understand. wool socks and sandals arid spoke English goats and sheep, work with their hands in Yet as I consider the porch - the way it carefully, thoughtfully, always hunting for the sun, cultivate potatoes and beans and was one hot weekday afternoon - I the right word. squash, drink water from their own wells, remember that the strong Baptist feeling "Yes ... and den from New York to bake pies and shell pecans, love horses and was absent. It was just an ordinary square Clearvater, Florida, and Miami Beach. Ho, border collies and grandchildren, sit before of shade - a porch offering relief to boy" - he smiled broadly - "dat Miami fireplaces on winter nights, milk cows and anyone who might be walking by and Beach! Sat vas . . . yes, two days ago. And I churn butter, take afternoon naps and sit finding himself in need of a place to rest. plan to be back there in sree veeks - July after dark on quiet front porches - it is . .. And that, I suppose, was at the root of twenty-one." . too bad that such people, who lead such the emotion I felt: The knowledge that He paused and scratched a moment at enviable and contenting lives, are not such a small white wooden church, sitting the scab on his bottom lip. Then he smiled always enviable as human beings. so staunchly on its dusty side street in its again: "I don't like your U-ni-ted States, - To function in writing one must keep hot West Texas town, was actually I'm afraid. Distances are too ... yes, too the early sense of mild excitement; be irrelevant to the town except for the long. " wholly in - expert, groping, striving, alert; esthetics of its cement porch. Esthetics . .. The door in back of us opened and we know absolutely nothing for sure. a Baptist church having as its only real turned, but it was not the immigration -It is good to drink martinis and eat claim to glory a pleasant bit of shade: official. A boy sucking a green popsickle having its porch become what the church padded across in his bare feet, looked out nachos in Juarez at the end of the day. A person can step out of the Cafe Central bar itself had tried futilely to become for the side window toward a row of parked everyone, at all times and in all weathers, cars, then padded out again. into the glare of the sidewalk and do it smiling. He . smiles a bit from the yet never succeeded in becoming: a refuge, "You are American, yes, and do not heightened effect of the martinis and a bit a sanctuary. have to have pictures? Veil" - and he pulled out three small passport from the familiarity of the Juarez streets photographs from his shirt pocket - "it vas and a bit from a sudden sense of . . . what - perhaps the ludicrousness of all serious BOUND VOLUM ES necessary for me to get sese made before OF THE OBSERVER lunchtime. Othervise sey do not let me things, of the way the world is, of being sroo." He shrugged and looked blandly slightly unsteady on one's feet on the hot sidewalk, of having lived a fair number of Bound volumes of the 1969 issues of The toward the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande. Texas Observer are now available. In ma­ "I vill spend sree days in Chihuahua, no human years and still not knowing beans about very much o'f anythirig. roon washable binding - the same as in more and then to Cal-i-for-ni-a, recent years - the price is $12. Vanc~uver, Detroit, Ottova - I vill see And as he walks past the idling vendors some kinfolks dere of my muhser - sen to who are lolling toothpicks at 5 :45 in Also available at $12 each are volumes for Boston before Florida once again." doorways of leather shops, he knows that the years 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, As other tourists began to file into the he is curiously open and receptive and and 1968 - the years of the Observer in its office - and as the several of us who had aware - as though all the winds of the past present format. been standing for a while grew even more are now able to blow through him restless and irritable - the young German Texas residents please add the 4%% state elegantly. He is sadly happy, and happily and city sales tax to your order. Vo lumes remained there near the entrance with his sad for the martinis have washed away the will be sent postpaid. cracked freckled hands behind his back old' daytime mask of competence. He is and aw'aited the pleasure of the casual simply himself, on a sidewalk, on a street: THE TEXAS OBSERVER Mexican official. Immigration, heat, delay a human in shoes, feeling loose, 504 West 24th Austin, Texas 78705 - such things were apparently of no understanding very little a bout why he is consequence to him. With his passport and there - why anyone is anywhere - but canvas bag, and the three required smiling nevertheless: finding, somehow, A ugust 21, 1970 17 Life is a confusing purgatory

By Thomas Whitbread leave Taos stays in its bottle in a kraft mind, because in Denver when you and paper sack under your raincoat on the back Timothy were driving cross-continent from seat of your car. You do not seek out Atlanta to Saskatchewan you say the To apprach Taos from Santa Fe is to anyone who knew or remembers D. H. movie in which the attorney, enacting, you climb windingly a long time, beside first Lawrence, though you have been given two intuited, his dream, became a judge. But he the Rio Grande, then one of its tributaries, names. You go to the perimeter of the banged the gavel so stagily, spoke so then no river at all, till, at the top of the famed pueblo, but do not enter. You drive stiltedly! Unlike the "Have you no world , you arrive on a high serene plateau, past the adobe shops where painters, decency, sir? Have you' no sense of human a tableland, which, after you make your metalworkers, vendors of other people's decency?" scene, moving, spontaneous, mind take the site in, turns into a plain works, individual or mass, peddle their sincere, which silenced Senator McCarthy a presiding over the tiny crack of the Rio wares, but you do not go into any. You brief nonce and drove its weeping speaker valley and all trivialities beneath it, wish the Budapest String Quartet were out of the non-four-walled non-courtroom presided over by snow-topped peaks. You giving a concert tonight in town, so you into a six-walled corridor to compose re call the amazement you felt driving east could see the Schneider brothers enact himself. He was hero from then on, having across AIizona , seeing roadside evergreens, their duet, sense Kroyt's imperturbable given the word decency, a word abused and realizing you were rising, but not taking it cantabile, hear Roisman miss an intonation underused, like the word nobility, a wider all fully in, till after standing gazing down in a phrase, then in the repeat bring the and valid currency. But he was not an into the unperceivably shifting shadings of whole phrase off flawlessly. But it is not. actor. If Steve McQueen has really decided the august August sunset, fixed by the call You go to bed too early, think too much, sports car racing is for professionals, and of a distant bird, you thought, with sudden fall asleep with difficulty, and get up late. his profession is acting in movies, he has exhilaration: if the Grand Canyon's a mile been humanly wise. But nothing should be dee p, its lip's at least a mile high! You are LIFE IS NOT hell, you decide, detracted from Joseph Welch: not his Lucretius. You check into a motel and but it sure is purgatory. You accuse fame, not his late-in-life prepare to write De Rerum Natura. The air yourself of sloth, pride, and a dream-come-make-believe-true. As if a few smells clean. superabundant ego. Cornucopiac MacDuck, drops of rain in a drought were not a While you are in Taos you speak to no the Used Cardiac! Specials Today on Old ruinous , fully-washing torrent, but the one except motel attendants, waitresses Mother-Thumpin' Pumpers. Worn-Out wished-for soak. Let it rain, just enough, and cashiers, a liquor seller from whom Tickers, Quarter-Price. Overused Brains, where needed, and when needed. That is fit you buy a fifth of Jim Beam, a post office Make Your Offer. We Specialize in enough divine dispensation, at ieast for the clerk from whom you buy stamps, and, on Sweetbreads .. . You breathe Taos' air soil of this earth and the seed s in it. the cold clear morning you leave, a after breakfast of unruinable eggs, ruined Agreed, Omar Kyayyam? Agreed. Chevron gas pumper. You make no new bacon, charred hashed browns, and its You had read Anatomy of a Murder a friends. It is almost like being in a purity is such as to make you glad to be year or two before cross-co un trying with roomette on a train, in a moving solitude. alive, here, now, despite tired brain and Timothy and seeing the movie in Denver, A colleague of yours in Austin has offered rueladen heart, far from Rouladen mit and had liked its author's evident love and you the use of his three-q uarters- or Kartoffeln at Austin's Scholz Garten. You knowledge of his surroundings, territory, four-fifths-built shack, has told you from turn from Lucretius into Ulysses and press land, his Yoknapatawpha, Wessex, western whom to get the key. You thanked him on. Massachusetts: his upper peninsula of politely, silently remembering his Colorado: different. No serenity here, Michigan. Before the bridge. You were glad spontaneous, contemning laughter the first though the plateau is higher. Or if, the to see the movie capture and project such a time you spoke the word Taos, as if it blank arctic serenity of cool electronic sense of particular place. But that movie is rhymed with chaos, but you do not want music. To drive from Antero Junction to now far from playing in Denver, so you to mess with steaks, eggs and bacon, or Jefferson on US 285 into a 3040 mph write three post cards, wish you were with even cans of pork and beans, in a friend's north wind, accelerator pedal pressed to the woman you think you love, remember strange place. Why go away if not to get the floor to maintain 25 mph in VW third old Joe Welch with affection, finish off the away? You do handwrite a letter to the gear, no gas stations, Smokey Bears, Jim Beam, reflect on the snow and the ice woman whom you think you love, and homes, snow men in sight, is not to drive'a of the long afternoon, and leave Denver the whom you dou bt loves you, lucid Iy stating Ferrari at Daytona Beach. Polarities next morning, not knowing that a morning your feelings and sensations, of Taos, for dissolve. Whiteness appalls. Fear becomes later in Oklahoma the grasses and weeds her. You wonder if or how she will read it, less abstract than usual, becomes running stragglingly growing up in and among and or keep it, or care for it. You were to have out of gas, throwing a piston, two flat tires through old car hulks will be so seen her this Easter weekend, to have been at once, sitting by the side of the road. A compellingly moving, in the bright warm with her, till she decided against it. She is foe to man . First cold, then stupor, then day, as to make you cry uncontrollably, visiting with fa mily. She is not with child, the letting go. Why do cats yowl so when unable to stop. though she once thought she was. She they are in heat? Why don't they take knows, you fear, too well what she is Anacin? There is no other car on the road. LIFE IS purgatory. I am too 'doing. A cat in heat screeching outside Some say the world will end in snow, / damned proud. I think too much of your motel window does you no good at Some say in ice. / From what I've tasted myself. I think too much ... So you think, all. down below, / I hold with those who favor driving along alone through vast wastes of A stamp goes on the envelope containing snoW . / But if it has to end in vice, / I think land and spirit, southeast of Denver. Bed your letter: it, into a slot. Some Jim Beam I know enough of fate / To say that for with her has been fun, you think: but I go es into you; that left over when you confusion ice / Can ululate / Though full of made a mistake in saying so, after our first lice. Singing this merry jingle, you and successful time. I could feel her shake and Dr. Whitbread teaches literature at The your car get through and descend on snort, an offended filly. Filet mignon. With Ulli versity of Texas at Austin. Denver, where you stay a night. thick thighs. She praised the strength of Your old friend Timothy Steele and my legs. Tennis, I told her. Saying "That 18 The Texas Observer your old hero Joseph Welch come into was fun" was a mistake. She wanted me to l say then and th ere how much I loved her, Frost-O says. Bobby Frosto went to sea, / You stop for a steak any old where and maybe. As if I loved her more than anyone Ea rl-I in the morrning .. . It is a long, nevertheless enjoy it. The next morning, in else ... It was, and has been , fun . So you boring process drivin g across any waste so uthwestern Oklahoma, t he way the think, and then think again of Fun ill Bed, land of America. grasses and weeds grow through old cars is published by Simon and Schuster, and the Approaching dusk, you realize you are such that, through not knowin g where you soap operas of your many childhood not really in Kansas, but on a previo us trip are going, you cannot stop crying. 0 sicknesses, and the glazier puzzle, and Toad in the aridity of northeasternmost New of Toad Hail, and Silver Pennies, and blue Mexico. Sheer force of habit keeps your Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Eroica, grip on the steering wheel. Fatigue is vast , and tapioca cream pudding, fish eyes and devaluing. Mile after mile of in credibly dull THE TRUMPET-Digest of glue, and all your wonderings of what it land goes by. Suddenly you find your mind would be to be adult , and how when you and voice saying, very loud, "Bitch! Bitch! Independent Libe~al make your bed you have to lie in it. When Bitch! . Bitch! Bitch!" with venomous Thought. I year (12 you lie in her bed you have to make her in loathing. As the sun lengthily sets, it turns it. Not enough, not enough, not enough! the two rails of what you later learn is a issues) - $1. POB 232, You wonder what has been, what is , line of the Fort Worth and Denver damson Goleta, Calif. 93017. la cking, as you drive into westmost Kansas plum, like her lips, when she is warm. You and keep on going, not much enjoying suddenly recognize the two trips are one. scenery, hav ing turned from Lucretius to Ulysses to something like Apemantus, not quite Thersites. It is great, when Timon abjures Athens and mankind, then moves through the woods toward that primordial Texas Can't Stand 6 Years ooze, our progenetri x, the sea, that, after contemptuously discarding the gold he digs up grubbing after roots to eat, he meets of Bentsen, Or ~ ~ and has conversations with Apemantus, the woods' resident cynic, there a long time. Alcibiades' countermarch to overthrow and More 01 Smith' replace the corr put rulers of Athens is but --- a trifle there. Timon and Apemantus are Castor and Pollux: Fletcher's Castoria, meet pollution. Ex-Lax, out! Milk of Free, while they last. magnesia , you've had it! Such thoughts The bumpersticker that says it all. may fail to ed ify , but serve you in passing To put one on your car is to make a commitment to building a the driving driven hours. two-party Texas. "Do you feel the way I do?" she had They look great alongside fading Yarborough stickers. Or asked before the first time, throwing off as much spoor as Johnny Appleseed cast by themselves. apple seeds. The first successful time was Gentlemen: the second . An omen? And then you said, "That was fun." A mistake! To have said Please send me __ bumper stickers. I want to build a two-party system in nothing would have been better. Now Texas. where is she? Where are you? She is not Name ______with you, and you are driviJ1g across a waste land in frantic pursuit of nothing, Address ______chased by no one. The greatness of Taos, the high serene plateau, has perished; City and ZIP ______Denver is demolished; you are moving vio lently between nowhither and nowhere. Call on me to help in the campaign ______You have not cast out desire: but your desire is directionless. Do you really love her? She does not really love you. Your fun in bed has been sexual, and that's all. The Democratic She has had lovers before you: she told you that. Why did she tell you that? All is an interminable chain of longing. As *Rebuilding Committee STATE OFFICE: P. O. Box 1782, Austin, Texas 78767 August 2 1, 1970 19

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A young boy stands beside A car with a pretty girl in the back seat He shifts his feet, puts his hands in his the short rows of stores passes, and the boy is mildly stirred. pockets lining the highway His sister dresses lazily in the mornings. and finds a quarter his mother gave him which is the town; A camper trailer passes, plastered that morning. stores, with flat brick fronts, with decals of foreign states. A quarter will buy a hamburger with lopped roofs, and stained glasses Once, when he was younger, onions stand sullenly outside time. the boy went to a show, or a hot dog and bottle of root beer. The boy's foot rests flat against the wall, a picture show about surfing and He sluffs himself off the wall his arms are folded, California. and walks down the block to the store his head follows the cars But he had even forgotten cafe. which pass occasionally, to wonder what it could be like. Once, he worried over spending a quarter, moving as though through one airlock, A young man goes by in a new car. but he's a big boy now, through a vacuum, His uncle had a new car last year, and slaps it down on the counter. and out the airlock at the other end. a yellow Ford, a pretty car with a new Root beer and a hot dog, he says smell. authoritatively to the waitress who looks at him, then yells at the cook.

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But now, he thinks only of Attention Campers and Country Music Fans! the food, the walk home across uneven cotton fields to a still, white house as a fund raising affair with chickens in the yard, ducks by the windmill faucet, an d all the re st. THE TEXAS CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION And he, later, will say, why I remember once when, and now, there was a time when . . . but it will all be a lie , will sponsor a weekend-long old-time singing, guitar-plunking, fiddlin', banjo-picking, country music camp-in on the San Antonio River Friday night Aug. a lie to fill the vacuum 21 through Sunday afternoon Aug. 23. of time ... Contributions received at gate: - CHARLES BEAMER $5 single, $7.50 couples, $10 family Cedar Park From Goliad, Texas, follow US 59 west to Texas 239 (about 2 miles), 239 to FM 2043 (about 3 miles), left on FM 2043 to Cabeza Creek Bridge (2 to 3 miles). Turn left at second gate about 200 yards past creek and follow signs. "Mexican-Americans Change Texas, The campsite, 15 to 20 acres cleared of underbrush and shaded by large trees, is in the Year of the 'Chicano.' n bounded on two sides by the San Antonio River and Cabeza Creek and remains undisturbed by man-made improvements. Picnic tables, drinking water, and The ECHO News Magazine electricity are not provided, so bring your own camping gear, food, and refreshments. Firewood will not be hard to find. For those not interested in camping, motel accommodations are available in Goliad , Victoria, and Beeville. Published twice monthly in Austin, Texas

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One of a series of excerpts from SPANISH fit into the national scene. Why was the Spanish Surnamed SURNAMED AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT IN spared until relatively recent years? Perhaps because he was THE SOUTHWEST by Fred H Schmidt, Institute too far from the scene. He lived too far from the eastern cities of Industrial Relations, University of California at which for so long were the major cultural centers of the Los A ngeles. Prepared for the Colorado Civil Rights Nation ... . The literature of the Southwest concerned itself Commission under the auspices of the Equal chiefly with the epic tales of men and women of great courage Employment Opportunity Commission. Printed by who peopled a hostile land - men and women from the US. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Eastern States .... 20402. $2.00. The history that was written does not tell how things A DIFFERENCE WITHOUT A DISTINCTION appeared to those who resisted or were supplanted by the This is a study of mem bers of the second oldest, second settlers from the East, for those people wrote very little while largest minority in the United States. It is a study of an ethnic retreating, and seldom in English. To this day, one searches minority - one that has been called "The Invisible Minority." almost in vain for Spanish sumameds in the listings of writers, Its members are of one race and one religion with the authors, and journalists from the Southwest who are entered country's majority. They are white, Caucasian ; they are in "Who's Who In America." The one-sideness of the region's Christian. They descend from Europeans, the very first to literature can be judged from the contrast between literary settle on this continent and on the land of this country. Their works that were of interest to the nation's publishing houses forebearers outdistanced other Europeans in bringing a culture and what has survived in the ballads and narrative folksongs, stemming from the Greeks and the Romans to most parts of the corridos, of this border country. These last tell the views the hemisphere - indeed, to a major part of what is now the of those who were dealt with as intruders in the very land in contiguous United States. As a minority they stand second in which they were born. Then, of course, it should be added number only to the descendants of those African blacks who that the Spanish Surnames could easily escape national were brought to this land along with that culture. attention simply because of their residing in only one region of This ethnic group has no proper name, none that is the country, a region so long considered remote from the universally accepted or descriptive. This is the first problem: Nation .... What designation is adequate for those who have descended These 0 bservations may suggest some of the reasons for the from or shared a common culture with Columbus, Ponce de Nation's unawareness of the Spanish Surnameds within its Leon, Cortez, and all the men of Spain who followed them? population, but they do not account for the attitudes that The question is a prickly one, for in contrast to have and do prevail toward them in the Southwest. In that English-speaking settlers who drove Indian groups into 300 region, other explanations must be found . The majority of years of retreat, the Spanish often mingled with and joined the persons in the Southwest have always been quite aware of the indigenous populations into their society. The multifarious presence of the Spanish Surnamed. Not infrequently that people who issued from this joining cannot now 'be majority has dealt with him in ways that most of the Nation distinguished by the usual designations of race, creed, color, or might now wish to disavow. But, of course, history cannot be national origin. To the contrary, their distinction is that no disavowed. It stands as it was lived. Therefore, it becomes one of these, nor all of them, suffices to describe their essential that this study include a review of parts of that distinctiveness. , .. history. The societal forms that have developed and the The phrase "Spanish-speaking Americans" is but one of the attitudes that prevail toward the Spanish Surnamed in the several ways in which allusions are made to the minority group Southwest cannot be understood apart from the events that under study. It is not definitive, and is perhaps a careless brought these people into the country . ... phrase in this context. ... Statistical accounts of various aspects of present What is considered an adopted and appropriate term in one employment pattents , .. provide but a dim understanding of area may be offensive in another. The extreme sensitivity of those pervasive notions that co mplicate and restrict the slotting people who range, ethnicall y, from Indian to unmixed employment opportunities of Spanish Sumameds. They are an Spanish ancestry is apparent. This explains part of the problem uncertain guide to corrective action, because the employment of giving this group a statistical existence. Their heterogeneity problems of Spanish Surnameds can scarcely be dealt with, nor and their homogeneity is hereafter embraced with the phrase are they likely to be dealt with in any important sense, "Spanish Surnamed American." I t is a phrase that has gained an official usage and in no way is intended to suggest any withou t some feeling - an d precisely that - for the historical judgment of qualified citizenship. sequence that brings them before the Nation now. YET, NO STEREOTYPE For this reason there is one conclusion drawn from the Strangely, American ethnocentrism never developed a very region's history that must be laid o ut in advance of the firm stereotype of its Spanish Surnamed minority. The reasons statistics. Simply put, it is that the Southwest once for this would be a study in itself. Stereotypes and caricatures represented an internal colonial empire to the United States. ' become part of our folkways to represent those pecularities of Those persons who first peopled the region , as well as their a group that the majo rity believes exist, no matter how false or kinsmen who subsequently arrived, were generally regarded as exaggerated these might be. The American stage long ago co lonial subjects and were dealt with as such. Their present conventionalized the caricature of virtually every immigran t emplo yment problems can no more be understood apart from group, usually in comic proportions. , . . this acknowledgment than can the parallel problems of These early caricatures were designed to reveal the Negroes be made explicable apart from an acknowledgment of strailgeness of language and custom of each group as it tried to their former enslavemen t. ------. THE TEXAS OBSERVER South toward home 504 West 24th Street Austin, Texas 78705 sane. And its racism is thin-blooded and By Molly Ivins polite. Enter a I-year subscription, at $7.30 Austin (including 4!4% Texas sales tax) for: I can't'help it. I love the state of Texas. GOing back to Texas? Ivins, you're out It's a harmless perversion. name (please print) of your goddamn mind. And they told me again all the things street that make Minnesota a better place to live. I LOVE THE gritty, The schools are better, the health care is down-on-the-ground quality of Texans, city state better, the mental institutions more their love of a good yarn and the piss and vinegar of their speech, not yet watered [ I Check enclosed humane, the prisons more enlightened, and [ ) To be billed the courts more just. And also, Minnesota down to Standard Television American. I has bars. enjoy that abiding interest in kin, even And Minnesota's newspapers are unto the in-laws of second cousins. And I "One of the best publications in the superior and its politicians are progressive like the pleasant open vulgarity of Texans. country remains The Texas Observer."­ and its climate no lousier and its laws more Honest vulgarity is so much nicer than THE NEW YORK POST, Dec. 18, 1969 affected gentility. And Texas ain't genteel. Molly Ivins, now co-editor of the But there are rednecks down there, Observer, returned to Texas Aug. 1 after " . . . probably as close as any publication protested the Minnesotans, and the people in America to the high European stan­ three years with The Minneapolis Tribune. are so crassly materialistic. dard of informed reportage and com­ She worked there first as a feature writer So. As Sinclair Lewis pointed out, there mentary." - THE SOUTH AND THE and later as a beat reporter covering police are yahoos in Sauk Centre and Babbitts in NATION by Pat Watters and then the University of Minnesota. For Duluth and what the hell difference does it the past 18 months she has specialized in make that they don't speak with a Texas A journal of "considerable influence in the area of movements for social change. In twang. Texas public life." - THE NEW YORK 1969 she won the sweepstakes award in the Saying all these comforting things to 1 TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Oct. 22,1967 Minnesota AP Newswriting Contest as well myself, I started my hegira home with all as first place in the division for "Best my worldly goods, two cats and rubber With "influence felt far beyond the state Series." She has also won several awards plant in a teenage Mercury that doesn't go borders." - TIME, Sept. 27, 1968 for spot newswriting from the Twin Cities backwards. Sort of like the littlest piggy, I Newspaper Guild. worried, worried, worried all the way home. "The conscience of the political com­ The Texas Observer munity in Texas ... " - THE NEW "Roots!" Berryman the poet had said REPUBLIC, Nov. 20,1965 scornfully. "What are you, a plant?" Heart Downtown Dallas Had I over-romanticized Texas? Again? " . . . the state's bell-wether liberal Two years before I had come home for a publication." - AUSTIN AMERICAN­ visit in an orgy of sentimentality. I'd been STATESMAN, Sep. 20,1969 24-HOUR gone long enough to forget about Texans COFFEE SHOP and football - not a game, but a matter of "A respected journal of dissent." - THE blood and death. I'd arrived in Austin the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, March weekend of the Texas-Arkansas game to 2,1969 find 50,000 drunks running around town shrieking "Sooooooeeee, pig, pig, pig, pig." " . . . that outpost of reason in the My brother had taken me forthwith to Southwest ... " - NEW YORK REVIEW the pre-game party at the fraternity house. OF BOOKS, April 11, 1968 1 We drank. We went to the game. We drank. We went to the post-game party. We drank. And Andy finally located his "big brother" " ... that state's only notable liberal publication ... " - THE WASHING­ in the fraternity, one Reggie from Big TON POST, Nov. 25,1968 Spring. It seemed that 01' Reg had never made it from the pre-game party to the " ... delights in exposing the peccad il­ game. He stayed at the house and drank loes of the Texas establishment . .. " - right into the post-game party. By the time THE PROGRESSIVE, November 1968 Andy got Reggie under one arm and me under the other to make the big No Charge for Children Under 18 introduction - his big sister to his "big "No doubt the best political journal in brother" - 01' Reg was thoroughly juiced. the state." - THE REPORTER, Nov. 30,1967 Radio·Television He swayed a little, peered at me through an Completely Air Conditioned alcoholic haze, noticed I was female, reached over and grab bed . my right breast "Copies find their way to the desks of and squeezed, saying, "Hieh!" the mighty and even into the White FREE INSIDE PARKING House." ST. LOUIS POST­ Right on, Southern gentlemen. I was DISPATCH, July 25,1965 going back to that ? I whipped across the border doing 80 "Tim e and again since its first appear­ HOT~utlJlanb and feeling queasy. ance in 1954, the Observer has cracked I have been gone long enough to be stories ign ored by the state's big dailies astonished at the familiar. The incredibly and has had the satisfaction of watching 1 Commerce-Murphy-Moin Streets vast sky. The enveloping heat. Grown men the papers follow its muckraking lead." 1 Telephone : 742-6431 1-______- NEWSWEEK, March 7, 1966 1I Dallas, Texas who chew gum. Whitewall tires. Howdy. Grits. And folks who speak to you in public places just to be sociable. In the great cities of the north, any stranger who addresses you in a public place wants your Some Suggested Titles In Stock money, your bodY,or your time. List Mem. List Mem. Price Price Price Price I AM HOME. And I've still got dung on my boots and Chidsey in my heart. (Alan Lake Chidsey, former headmaster of St. John's School in Houston, was much given to sermonizing during Wednesday morning chapel on School Sprit; Patriotism, and Episcopal Morality.) I am home with an unholy rejoicing in my soul at being back here down on the ground. Everyone in the state left of Grover Cleveland appears to be in normal disarray. ." Texas liberals, I once wrote in a particularly pretentious article at journalism school, eventually become either alcoholic or paranoiac. -They start seeing Birchers under every bed the same way Birchers see Reds under every bed. They are also prone to fits of group depression. Alas, Yarborough. Alas, Silber. Who am I to make light of it? But I must confess that I rather relish the political situation here, if only because there is no shortage of proper villains in Texas. The battles are so lifeless elsewhere, ever fought on tedious shades of gray. Down here the baddies wear black hats and one can loathe them with a cheerful conscience. Who can hate Hubert Humphrey? One might, in an access of passion, work up to despising him, but one can't hate him. Hatred is hardly a thing to take pride in, but I believe there is a difference between the anger of bitterness and despair and the anger of righteousness. The latter, when not wholly lacking in humor, is a just and cleansing thing. The battles here are battles worth fighting. I find, as usual, fratricidal combat rampant among Texas liberals. It seems to have taken on a new dimension with the extension of the political spectrum leftward. Now even Texans are playing I-am-more-radical-than-thou. And, as always, too many good people have left while too many others have left off trying. It is true that there is much in the Sam Houston Johnson . .. $ 6.95 $ 5.56 culture of Texas that is dehumanizing and oppressive. Perhaps the most sickening Optional membership in the discount plan, at $5.00 for one year, entitles readers aspect of it to one long absent is the to order. the above books - or Jlp-y hardbound book in print (except text, prevalence of physical violence. Overt technical, and reference books) - for 20% less than the list price. This 20% violence is so common here and so at discount applies to all book purchases made during the 12 months of variance with the casual civility also membership. peculiar to Texans. This is not a very If possible please enclose payment, including, for Texas residents, the 4Y<.% sales civilized place. tax, with your order. Books are sent postpaid. A 25 c service charge is added only But I believe that in the kindness of to those orders not accompanied by payment. 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August 21, 1970 23 need local support even though they get "foundation money." "Newsroom" treats No more games public questions in more depth than other news media in Dallas. It can be seen Monday through Friday at 6:30 p.m. and There is no way the Democratic Party machine can persuade me to vote for a man like Bentsen, nor can the liberals persuade me to vote for Bush. Men like Tower, 1.. ___ D_i_a_t_D_gu __ e ___ ..1 ::tn;. ·· 8m•• m, 5.14 Ridged.le, D.U." Bush, and Bentsen think we should be in Vietnam, but you don't see their sons over there dying or being mutilated. Silber building empire I do not believe in isolationism, but I believe profoundly that we can and should Forget .this antiquated bullshit about That (Dean John) Silber was building an help the underdeveloped peoples of this redeeming the Democratic Party by voting empire, I think is beyond doubt. The earth as well as those in our own country. Republican. Make no mistake - Agnew & significance is what kind. The traditional The amount we spend on these projects is a Co. will be the beneficiaries, not the academic one that allows chosen professors drop in the bucket compared to the dogooder caucus of Texas Democrats. to teach one graduate seminar a week, billions spent to kill and ravage. It does not Besides - since when is a conscientious while contracting another 400% of their solve problems but merely creates more of fascist an improvement over anything? And time to assorted book publishers, them. if the Demublicans and the Republocrats associations (underwritten, usually, by Ronald, our son, wrote us last June, are indistinguiShable on the national level, some government agency and dominated 1969, that he did not believe Congressmen how can they provide alternatives for by an Eastern clique), or, perhaps, private knew what was going on in Vietnam or Texas? G. O. posed these questions back in business, as you know several notable they would put a stop to the senseless war. '68. I notice he isn't with you any more. professors on the University of Texas He was drafted in November of 1967 and Of course we should vote. Vote campus do? Or one that would shift the was killed in Vietnam last July 27,1969. Socialist, or write in Ralph, or your name emphasis to teaching, where I feel that it We will never forgive ourselves. I am not or mine. Vote to ·show you would prefer a must be if the University of Texas is really playing the politicians' games any more. I non-violent revolution through meaningful the "heartland of higher education" in the shall write in the name of one of the truly elections. Vote so the pigs can see the state? great leaders in the Senate today, Sen. handwriting on the ballot - and the wall. I cannot yet believe that most seemingly Ralph W. Yarborough. Jim Damon, Box 7028, Austin, Tex. concerned persons on the University of Mrs. Norma Wilder, 121 Mapleton, 78712. Texas campus are facing reality. From my Baytown, Tex. 77520. vantage point it appears that too many are still living in their ivory tower, still too Demuplicans Exes not so great proud of the fact th·at, "We're big enough, and Austin is sufficiently the center of and Republocrats I share your concern about conditions at activity, to be just like Berkeley ..." to I am renewing my subscription out of the University of Texas, however, may I realize what chaos the state's educational habit, rather than satisfaction with recent point out an inconsistency in your system will be in if UT / AuStin continues developments on the Observer scene. reasoning about the great University of on its "fun and games" course. Until Texas? someone - namely the ·people most 24 The Texas Observer The Texas S~ate Legislature forever has concerned - begins to deal seriously with been dominated by UT graduates; the the matter, Mr. Erwin's challenge to "any courts of Texas are staffed with judges person employed by the university" to from UT; the boards and commissions of resign rather than play "games in the the state have a preponderance of UT newspapers" seems to be the only call to graduates serving presently; the TEA and reality and the most honest suggestion that TEC and state welfare are administered by . has been reported in the press. UT educated professions. What is so great Mr. Erwin is playing "for keeps," and he about the jab these folks are doing? Is is used to it. The University of Texas Fran~ Erwin, Jr., a product of this "great" faculty had best get over its near fatal case university? Allen Shivers, John Connally, of righteous indignation long enough, at and the great Ben Barnes are? least, to realize what is happening. Rawleigh S. Elliott, P.O. Box 251, I realize that I may not be precisely to Georgetown, Tex. 78626. the point, and that I write without being advised of the latest "facts" in the case - which substantially affect interpretation Yea KERA and sometimes even change minds - but I wanted to express to you in the I think your piece about the N.B.C. "heartland" the frustration (at being blackout on the migrant labor picture was powerless and being ignored, even by the good (Obs., Aug. 7), but it should have only liberal paper in the state: for example, mentioned the play up this incident got on what have you reported about the Texas Dallas Channel 13's "Newsroom." Christian University Chancellor's new Maybe you don't see it in Austin or budget program - indeed the economic Houston, but it is seen in Dallas and Fort crisis that faces all of private education in Worth and was an important factor in the state - that may wreck the school in bringing the documentary back on the air the midst of its drive toward acceptability, the following Sunday. Since the T. O. has if not excellence?) that we in the outlying quite a few readers in Dallas and Fort regions feel. Worth, I hope you will print this letter. Ronnie C. Tyler, Box 2365, Fort Worth, Channel 13 (KERA) and "Newsroom" Texas 7610 I.