BLOOD SPILT ON DOW See Pages 2,3 ItAUidoscopE JH milwaukee, Wisconsin member; underground press syndicate (u.p.s.) liberation news service (l.n.s.) Vol. II, No. 10 (#35) Mar. 28 - Apr. 10, 1969

Paine, the Boston Tea Party, Ho, who have crossed state lines with Che, Fidel, Huey, Eldridge, intent to create civil disturbance: by Jerry Rubin Lenny Bruce , Walter Cronkite, the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the This is the greatest honor of and last but not least — Richard late Marilyn Monroe, rock bands, my life* It is with sincere hu­ J. Daley* the President of the United mility that I accept this federal I realize the competition was States, and Joe Namath. indictment. |f It is the fulfillment fierce, and I congratulate the And you know who else is of childhood dreams, climaxing thousands who came to Chicago• guilty? The hippies who dressed years of hard work and fun. I hope that I am worthy of this in psychedelic Indian clothes, 1 wish to thank all those who great indictment, the Academy boarded British ships, and threw made it possible: my mother, my Award of Protest. tea overboard in 1773! They father, brother, wife Nancy, Wi thirty indictment I join the crossed state lines with intent to Stew and Gumbo, Spartacus, Tom list of outstanding world figures Contd. pg. 3 •ifcsso* "asar,' ^A^SE 2 TMfch^8l»*»7^rtl&^);! 1969 1^??DO$COPE

An Open Letter to the Corporations of America IETITS from the Washington 9: Today, March 22, I969, in the Washington office of the Dow Chemical Company, we spill human blood and destroy files and office equipment. By this action, we condemn you, the Dow Chemical Company, and all similar American Corporations. We are outraged by the death-dealing exploitation of people of the Third World, and ; of all the poor and powerless who are victimized by your profit-seeking ventures. Con­ sidering it our responsibility to respond, we deny the right of your faceless and in­ human corporations to exist: you, corporations, who under the cover of stockholder and executive anomymity, exploit, deprive, dehumanize and kill-in search of profit; you, corporations, who contain (or control) Americans and exploit their exaggerated need for security that you have helped to create; you, corporations, who numb our sensitivity to persons, and capitalize on our concern for things. Specifically, we warn you, the Dow Chemical Company, that we will no longer tol­ erate your refusal to accept responsibility for your programmed destruction of human life. You, stockholders and Company executives alike, are so willing to seek profit in the production of napalm, defoNants, nerve gas, as in the same spirit you.co-operated with the I. G. Farben Company, a chemical manufac­ turer in Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. You, who without concern for development for other nations or for their rights of self-determination, maintain 100% control over subsidiaries in more than twenty nations. You, who, in the interest of profit, seek to make it the military interest of the United States to suppress the legitimate national desires of other peoples. Your product is death, your market is war. Your offices have lost their right to exist. It is a blow for justice that we strike today. In your mad pursuit of profit, you, and others like you, are causing the psychological and physical destruction of mankind. We^urge all to join us as we say "no" to this madness. (Signed) Rev. Robert T. Begin Rev. Bernard E. Meyer Rev. Joseph F. O'Rourke, S.J. Rev. Michael R. Dougherty, S.J. Rev. Dennis J. Moloney Mr. Michael Slaski Sr. Joann Malone, S.L. Rev. Arthur G. Melville »- Mrs. Catherine G. Melville

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Campus Spring Offensive In i High Gear

By Jeff Gerth developing: r is i ng militancy at aratism of blacks broke down. locally oriented, the student body cial roles, they challenge Ameri­ On Nov. 6, 1968, the San black universities and the emer­ Much like African revolution­ is drawn from a less prosperous ca's entire social and economic Francisco State strike started; gence of organizational forms(us- aries, Nkrumah and Kenyatta, economic background and the pre­ structure and the function of the over the next four months it help­ ually Black Student Unions) for third world revolutionaries in the vailing philosophy of education is university as a means of produc­ ed to precipitate the largest con­ blacks at white campuses. Black United States have begun to use generally much less touched by tion within that structure. As the centration of nationwide student campuses, starting with Fisk and their Western educations to be­ "liberalism" than that of the elite student movement begins to ques­ revolts in American history. Texas Southern in 1967 and cul­ come liberators, not oppressors of schools. tion its privileged position in so­ In the time since Nixon's elec­ minating with Howard and Tus- their people. The more elite a school, the ciety, " i t opens the way for the tion there have been 86 disrup­ kegee in early 1968(were de­ As the "gap between the students more geographically diverse the student movement to become a tive5 actions at 78 schools involv­ manding educational self-deter­ and the community has decreased, student body. With a greater social movement. ing almost 50,000 participating mination and an end to the train­ the potential for community sup­ percentage of the student body An attack on the elite univer­ students of whom over 2,000 have ing of "house niggers." The tre­ port of student demands has in­ coming from nearby communities, sities is an attack on the corpor­ been arrested. Underlying the mendous repressive reaction of creased. An upcoming report on non-elite universities invite more ations which run America:' the growing unrest on America's col­ those in power against these de­ the S. F. State strike commissioned community related protests than directors of the top twenty indus­ lege campuses are new develop­ mands for change (tragically sym­ by Rev. Charming Phillips found the elite schools. Thus recent trial firms as listed in Fortune ments: the shift of the black li­ bolized by the three deaths in that the "black community is uni­ antiwar protests have been at elite Magazine hold a total of sixty Orangeburg, South Carolina) did beration struggle from the ghetto ted against the college and the schools like Oberlin, Dartmouth, trusteeships at major universities. a lot to narrow the class sepa­ to the campus, and the expansion state administration.. .with com­ Washington University and North­ A recent Educational Testing Ser­ ratism between lower and middle of the white student movement plete support of the TWLF de­ western. It is also not surprising vice survey of 5,000 trustees at class blacks. from the elite universities to non- mands. ..and less than unanimity that third world students at Uni­ 500 schools presents the following elite schools. As Stokely Carmichael and Rap on the tactics being used*" versity of California at Berkeley profile of these businessmen pos­ The visible focus of the black Brown tried to radicalize middle Increased militance by blacks (most of whom are not from the ing as educators: liberation struggle has shifted from class black students, they began on campuses has been accom­ community) found much less com­ One third of them are over 60 the ghettos to the schools. in 1967, to organize BSUs on panied by increased white mili­ munity support than S.F. State years old. Over half of them The real meaning of this shift- white campuses. These organiza­ tance: stationary actions such strikers. Permanent organization­ have incomes over $30,000. Forty is the breakdown of class separa­ tional forms remained inactive for as mass sit-ins, resulting in mass al links between community and per cent think student newspapers tism among younger blacks and the most part, because blacks arrests (a la Columbia, Michi­ student groups are much more should be censored. Sixty-nine the spread of revolutionary con­ were isolated and not ready to gan, Illinois, CCNY) have al­ likely to form at non-elite uni­ per cent think campus speakers sciousness from the lower classes act. most disappeared, whole hit and versities. A good example., is the should be screened. Fifty-three to the middle classes. The ghet­ Within the space of one month run actions have increased. The nascent radical political organi­ per cent favor loyalty oaths for to riots of 1964-65 were a major (April 68) the black campus move­ notion of major actions taking zation of the Chinese-American professors. Only 15 per cent des- force behind-the increased black ment erupted, first at Howard, place only in the spring has been community flowing out of the S. F. cribe themselves as "liberals," (mostly middle class) enrollments then at Tuskegee, finally at Col­ destroyed: In February, 9,000 State strike. and half of the executives who at .white universities starting in umbia. people marched in sub-zero wea­ The expansion of the student are trustees agree that "running 1966.. The tendency for these The SAS (Students Afro-Ameri­ ther in Wisconsin. movement into non-elite schools black students to assimilate was ca n Society) at Columbia acted a college is like running a busi­ represents the beginning of a mass made easier by their relative iso­ spontaneously only after whites Non - Elite Revolt ness. " attack on higher education in lation at white schools from the had initiated the struggle and re­ But the trustees of America's Just as the black student move­ America:' ghetto community. Counteract­ mained a I oof throughout the strike. universities are hardly singularly ment has moved much closer to In the past, the radical youth ing this were the efforts of SNCC Their alliance with whites was minded in their ways of taming the ghetto community, the white movement, characterized by af­ towards revolutionizing the black uneasy, yet their strong sense of Student disorders. The broader, campus movement has moved from fluence and centered at the elite middle class and uniting black identity with Harlem and black the more national and interna­ the elite universities to non-elite students with poor blacks. high school youth represented a universities,. was isolated and tional the economic interests and . schools: 72 out of the 86 actions weak. But as America's future By 1967, two movements were significant advance. Campus ac­ perspectives of the trustees as a tions in May, precipitated by Co-' since November were at non- teachers, social workers,, engin­ whole, the greater the tendency lumbia, involved antiwar, student elite schools and 39,800 out of eers, technicians and bureaucrats t o take a softer line on campus Farm Commune power and black demands in about 49,110 participants at nbrf-elite begin to question their future so­ %j$jk Contd. pg. 19 equal proportions. Some third schools. This spring a group of people world demands were white initia­ As many non-elite schools ex­ (mostly former Reed college stu­ ted (,e*9«Brooklyn College) others perience actions for the first time dents) will be starting a farm were third world led (e«9« North­ (San Fernando, Oshkosh, Kent, commune i n the Pacific North­ western) . State, College of San Mateo, west. Farming, individual artis­ San Francisco State imparted Ferris State) blacks and whites tic effort, and Zen meditation political direction to the notion' come together for the first time, : are the main interests. An ev­ of active struggle which had been often uneasily. entual plan is to sell organically developed at Columbia. Elite schools are those at which grown food and perhaps have a *fheactions following S. F. State the economic background of the small farm restaurant. There is found 47 out of 50 third world student body is generally or even room for a few more people who exclusively upper middle class, at would "seriously commit them­ ' qctions initiated by third world which a large percentage of the selves to creating an environment •students and 47 out of 74 actions students go on to graduate or pro­ "they Would like to live in. Ex­ at white universities Jed by third fessional schools, at which the perience in communal living and world students. For third world' trustees represent major national practical knowledge in mechanics students the contradiction of white corporate interests, and at which gardening, carpentry, cooking, middle class training at. mother the university serves a major func­ ' etc. are desireable qualifications. country universities and the eco­ tion for the government in research . Contact Jo Robinson; 3914 S.E. nomic oppression back in the co­ and policy making. Non-elite 27th, Portland, Ore. 97202 lony heightened as the class sep­ schools are "more regionally and [KALEIDOSCOPE March 28 - April 10, 1969 PAGE 3 mi ;i*i iiiin'i

No one can remember exactly where the Idea foV^mis coluimT ae.*^ gan. It just popped up one Saturday morning amidst the kicking out of jams and laughter by Dennis (the goat) and Gary (the bear); John downstairs talking business to the phone; Janis damning the world that wrote her last unemployment check. I call it The Second Floor because that's where we all live. Together, under one roof. And whatever disagreements, feuds, or all-out gang wars we've had in the past, we're still together; and it's been one hell of a long time. So I'm dedicating th?* column not to the people I love because I owe them more than that, but to the place we have chosen to gather, and live, and know one another: The Second Floor. 2k- j^. ±k- ^k. ^k. /]s 7|S /|S 7^ 7|\ One of the nicest things I've heard this week came in the form of poetry. Ed and Vicki Burton of MORGAN PRESS have entered the expansion of Milwaukee's poetry circle with a new magazine. It's called HEY LADY, and issue #1 is scheduled to come out next Dow ArrAckcd ii\i WAshiiMGTON month. It is hoped that each succeeding issue will make an appear­ • (See statemenstaler t page 2) ance once a month from then on. by Jennie Orvino napalm, defoliants, nerve gas... and Begin, were charged with The Burtons have decided to follow in the footsteps of the late On Saturday, March 22, nine who, in the interest of profit, creating a nuisance after they PRETTY MAMA. The covers will be silk-screened, and the poems persons raided the offices of the seek to make it the military in­ held a protest mass in a Cleve­ done in offset or letter-press.- The run will be an estimated 250- Dow Chemical Company in Wash-* terest of the United States to land cathedral last January. IK 300 copies, all of which are to be given away free. ington D.C., threw files out of suppress the legitimate national was a situation similar to the In the past, MORGAN PRESS publications have ranged from the a fourth floor window, and pour­ desires of other peoples. Your Saint John's Cathedral incident armchair sexualist Bob Watt to the experimental talents of Jim Gib­ ed their own blood on furniture, product is death, your market is **in Milwaukee in September in bons. The Burtons are presently working on an illustrated book of walls, and equipment. In addi­ war." which eight persons, including poems by Barbara Gibson. tion to the destruction, the group At about 5:30 pm, the mem­ 3 priest, were arrested. The Submissions for the first issue of HEY LADY are still being accept­ put up pictures of napalmed bers of the group rang a trouble charges in Cleveland were drop­ ed, and may be sent to: MORGAN PRESS, 1819 N. Oakland Ave­ children and Vietnamese peasants bel I for the building furnace ped, however, while seven of nue, Milwaukee 53202. (from The Women's Strike for system and when the- watchmen the Milwaukee eight were con­ ^k- ^. ^k. ^L zk. Peace and Ramparts series of went to investigate, they smashed victed by Judge Larson of dis­ •j\ ^r> 7|v 7|\ 7^ - photos) on the walls of the raid­ a glass pane next to the door of orderly conduct and fined. The latest word on stoning friends and relatives is "the grass-mask ." ed office, which handled classi­ the Dow suite. After they had If the action against Dow is Brothers in Berkeley suggest you stumble on down to your local Army fied documents and defense con- littered the corner of 15th and an indication of a movement to Surplus Store and pick up a gas-mask (priced between $1.50-2.00). uncover and destroy the institu­ Then, through the wonders of modern mechanization, you insert your tions of injustice and oppression, favorite pipe into the end of the mask, fill the bowl with a little We will celebrate with the F.B.I, is mobilizing for the psychedelia, and get down with it. I've been told that this method, fight. At midnight Saturday, the is a special treat to groups of four or more blowing out of one pipe. such fierce dancing Washington D.C. draft boards A good way to keep your mask moving in between demonstrations. were moved. Three moving vans fSEilifc' 2k-7|\ 2k-/f\ 2k-/f\ 2k-xr\ 2k->f\ the death of your institutions. and workmen, with agents and cops running alongside giving The drug scene in Milwaukee has been relatively good. Keys of -Richard Krech aid , transferred the administra­ Vietnamese weed coming in from ail directions, going down for $110- tive and local offices of the Se­ $125. The East-Side's been flooded with quantities of black Indian tracts with the Pentagon. For "L" streets with broken glass and lective Service System to a secret hashish, $12-$15 a gram/$80-$100 an ounce. Suggestion: trhe time their twelve minutes of activity, files, the group submitted peace­ location. to pick upon both. Cut your shit with the hashish and you'll wind the seven men and two women fully to the officers who met them On Sunday night, resistance up with one of the mellowest highs this side of a pipe. There's also (six Catholic priests and a nun with drawn guns. still moving, the D.C. Defense. a good deal of THC (green caps) falling down around the Marquette among them) were charged with The Rev. Robert T. Begin, 38, Committee organized a vigil of area. White cross tabs registering ten for a dollar if you buy in second degree burglary and de­ (East Euclid, Ohio; the Rev. forty people in front of the quantity. And rip one's dropping acid anymore. stroying property. .Michael R. Dougherty, S.J., blood-stained offices of Dow 2k- 2k. 2k. 2k. 2k- ii#^ - Reporters received a prepared Woodstock, Md.; Sister Jaann Chemical. statement of purpose, which read Ma lone, S.L., St. Louis; the •Wayne Wegenke, Milwaukee's Great Pretender and notorious chick-- in part: "We are outraged by the Rev. Arthur G. Melville, 38, enshlt nark, was sighted last night pounding a beat again on Farwell death-de a I i ng exploitation of San Francisco and his wife Cath­ Avenue . Now that he's back in uniform, the "hippie-type" beard YIPPEE ! people of the Third World, and erine, 38; Rev. Bernard E. Mey­ From cover and long hair have been trimmed, leaving him a pre-puberty fuzz of all the poor and powerless er, 37, Cleveland; the Rev. destroy property. moustache. Wayne claims that he is no longer busting heads of the who are victimized by your pro­ Dennis J.,Moloney, 41, Detroit; Congress passed this anti-riot East-Side since his transfer to the "colored" area. Might be wise fit-seeking ventures. Consider­ the Rev. Joseph F. O'Rourke, law as a warning to the national to slip your black brothers the word that badge number 1819 is armed, ing it our responsibility to re­ S.J., Woodstock, Md.; and game of footbal I. Fans who cross dangerous and loose in their domain.. spond, we deny the right of your Michael Slaski,48, Detroit,sang state lines, and then tear down 2k. 2^e. 2k. 2k. 2k. facelessand inhuman corporations freedom'songs as they were led the goalposts, are subject to ar­ to exist." in handcuffs to a paddy'wagon. A new bomb, developed in the streets of Berkeley, has found its rest. The statement indicates that Father Melville and his brother, way into a number of hands across the country. It fakes approxi­ The yippies are guilty. We those who composed it moved Thomas, were both suspended from broke the anti-riot law when we mately five minutes to prepare, and costs less than a dollar. You beyond the indictment of the the Maryknoll order in December simply drive a nail through the lid of a can of Canned Heat,, then mailed a postcard to Daley fell— military institutions which nave 1967, after they refused to re­ ing him that we were going to place a cherry-bomb inside the can, pulling the fuse through the taken flesh and fire through thou­ turn to the United States and hole in the lid. Tape the lid back on using electricians tape, and put LSD in the water supply! sands of burned draft cards, in­ cease aiding revolutionary groups Where does one draw the line finish the whole thing up with a few drops of liquid solder around in Guatemala, where they had duction refusals, bombed draft between "free speech" and "in- the hole to make the can airtight. It is assumed that the first target been assigned as missionaries, boards and, more seriously, in citing to riot"? It's fairly of any local lefty bombers would be the draft board, recently moved rather Thomas Melville is a mem­ destruction of Selective Service simple. to the Federal Building (old Post Office) on Wisconsin Avenue. files in Baltimore and Catons- ber of the Catonsville Nine, who If your speech is ineffective, ville and Milwaukee. The mili­ were convicted last November of 2k- 2k- 2k- 2k. 2k. it is protected by the Constitu­ /f\ /p» /f\ 7^ 7^ JJsP'fs tary-industrial complex has lost destroying selective service files tion. Keith. Lampe (Liberation Magazine) and David Herres (Win Maga­ its right to exist: "You, who in Catonsville, Maryland. If your speech is effective, you zine) have joined forces in opening a hole for revolutionary high- seek profit in the production of The Ohio priests, Fathers Meyer are "inciting to riot." school writers. They are presently constructing an anthology of es­ Effective speech is against the says, fiction, poetry, drawings and photos by high-school students. law. Material should limit itself to drugs, revolution, life-arts, race, and The cops rioted in Chicago. generational war. People whose things have been accepted will But our long hair incited the cops eventually receive "tiny loaves of bread floating slowly back." to riot. We are guilty because Goodies should be sent to: David Herres, 10th Floor, 5 Beekman our long hair was an incitement Street, NYC 10038. to, riot. 2k. 2k. 2k. 2k. * 7^ 7fC 7|\ /r\ These federal indictments will revive the anti-war movement, If you're tired of having your soul saved, and have not, as yet, create a national focus, and "n- joined the ranks of Alcoholics Anonymous, you might want to tap 'spire the yippies. Every young into something new. A group of New York poets have opened a' kid in the country will want to telephone line called DIAL-A-POEM. The number is (212) 680- cross state lines and become a 0400, and is in operation twenty-four hours a day. Six poets, ro­ ' "rioter" by the time he is a tating on a day-to-day basis (so you're never really sure who youMI teenager. It will be great. get), are now brought to the side of your head for a phone call. Thank you, Richard Nixon. The poets include Berkson, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Padgett, Sanders, Thank you, Richard J. Daley. Schjeldahl, and Welch. The poems are a J so rotated on a regular Thank you, ghost of Joseph basis; and, assLJ>onus to amphetamine freaks, rates are lowest after Jim McCarthy. midnight. Wjfi Photos by Marilyn Salzman Webb, Yippie j11 PAGE 4 March 28-April 10, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE!

Peace, To the editor: Dear Kaleidoscope: Dear Sir: Dear Sir, Having been slowly transformed When I checked out at the su­ You asked for it. What do I Are you trying to make this a Those who know very little from a straight, short-hair, "nice" permarket this morning there was- like about Kaleidoscope? Defi­ better world in which to live? about marijuana and hashish might young man into the more or less a young man ahead of me. His nitely the Cobb cartoon and re­ Examine your conscience care­ be interested to know some things rational, thinking, non-straight, face was sensitive and intelligent. cord reviews (by Mangelsdorff). fully! Your, paper publications I've found out about them and semi-headthatl am now and hav­ His bearing was gentle and in­ Leads and Changes is usually are not elevating morally. In about life through the use of ing been exposed to various un­ offensive. He had long hair and pretty interesting too. - I think other words, your publications them. Now, I'll be sounding derground periodicals (notably, a beard. When he was just be­ Dennis Gall is a good reporter help young readers minds become like some late Irish-American kaleidoscope, and The Paper) on yond earshot the girl checker (Sergeant Miller's Band), and that "sick" and older persons minds reincarnation of Billy Sunday if the way, I feel it proper to write said,"People like that shouldn't you need more local news. I become even "sicker." Help to I say that what is worse than the i n response to your query about be allowed to walk the streets." think that John Wilcock writes make it safe for all persons to. hepititis that frequently occurs your community. My first reaction was amuse­ interesting material and should enjoy freedom without being from the use of needles, is the I consider myself a member of ment. Personally I found him be heard. I'd even subscribe to harmed emotionally, mentally, social isolation of the pothead, that community. My home is in more pleasing to the eye than his newsletter if I had the bread. physically! if it is that, that he or she ac-. Hazlehurst, Wis., and I'm a her, complete with her fall and Some of the LNS stories are Jack tually is. For a "pothead" is freshman at Michigan State Me- false eyelashes. Just a matter too long, like the one about ABC not one who is addicted to the - gaversity right now. Kaleido­ of opinion. But pondering it a involving foreign TV. It's not Spire Having Fun weed (I wonder if anyone still scope is, so far, the best news­ bit more, her smug self-satisfac­ that important; the space could calls them "vipers") but one who paper (or whatever you want to tion and unthinking, unreasonable be put to better use with local (The following article appeared on uses it like alcohol as a way to call it) I have seen. I hope to prejudice 1 found very ugly i n- news. I don't dig poetry enough the Society Page of the March 14 trying to escape into a corner. deed. In fact I don't think peo­ live in and/or around Milwaukee to think you need to review so New York Times. We are reprint­ This is to differentiate, of course, ple like that should be allowed some time, even regarding its many poetry mags. More records ing it verbatim. We dare not from a person who attempts to to walk the streets. cultural "vacuum." — less poetry. And a big gripe, change a word.) uses i t for meditational or spiri­ Best wishes to Kaleidoscope, But enough of that. You asked. the calendar! I live in the SL WASHINGTON, DC —Spire T. tual purposes; the debate about East Side Mother for suggestions. Personally, I burbs and need something like this Agnew has thought about i t and the use of drugs for spiritual pur­ think you're pretty good right to keep in touch, but usually all decided he likes being Vice Pres­ poses goes on. Our belief is now. Why don't you put more it lists is TV shows and crummy ident better than he liked being simple as New Catholics. It is Cobb and Crumb in? They say Pleasure Principle attempts at humor, I hope we've Governor of Maryland. exactly the same as that which a hell of a lot more than some seen the last of those comic strips. "The work is easier, and the the Church has held for centur­ MT. PLEASANT, Mich.—The articles do. Maybe I'm just a How about a humor column on fun is more fun, " he said tonight ies. We feel it is "sick" or peesident of Central Michigan comic book lover at heart, but the lines of Jesus, Christ! like at the third Congressional recep­ "destructive" to mutilate the body University chooses to see the pre­ I do really dig them (Cobb and "The Wit of Ed Walker" or the tion in three nights, given by un-necessarily. For a number of sent student protest on university Crumb). And how about some famous "Quotes of Sergeant Mil­ President and Mrs. Nixon at the reasons, by the way because the campuses as a sexual rather than more articles on the subject of ler." White House. the basic scientific belief tells us a political problem. beautifying America by methods **Quick tabulation in case you Mr. Agnew said, "I like being that which is painful is bad, be­ Institutions are still wedded to such as planting grass, etc. The don't have time to read the let­ up at the Senate. The Senators cause it disfigures the Temple of the puritan ethic are in trouble format you use is excellent as it ter: are mighty nice to me. " Our Holy Spirit, the christessence today, President William E. Boyd is, as far as looks go. +Cobb's cartoon, more local He was asked, "Have they made which is found of course in every recently told a meeting of secon- I mentioned the bit about grass, news, John Wilcock, record re­ up a member of the club?" substance in the world but is much dary school administrators here. because I'm personally interested views, Leads and Changes, book "Well, I haven't been there that more valued among us when it Students are no longer responsive in the subject. I know Wisconsin reviews, Bob Watt, survival, Tim long, " he said. expresses itself as a human body. to a system of rewards and pun­ has a fairly good climate for the Leary, government reports. Mrs. Nixon said she had spent This is no bull, by the way, it ishments, he said. "Contemporary stuff, but I want to know more -The calendar (what's happen­ the afternoon at the circus — her is a teaching hidden in the eso- youth has neither fear of our whip about the mechanics of the plant­ ing now, not 1869?) this could, first circus in five years—with a terica for all time, but expressed nor lust for our carrots. We must ing. Dig? Let's just say I'm group ofunderprivileged and han­ widely in words like "ugh" or revolutionize our methods by re­ bea good thing. "Spacy" and doing a project for my own edu­ such stupid, pointless, comic dicapped children. "Oh, you're bleeding!" and stuff cation on the subject. placing the puritan ethic with the strips better left to morons like "1 stayed busy keeping their like that. I guess that's it. Keep up the pleasure principle as the motivat­ Al Capp. Crackerjacks boxes and candy pa­ I remember when I was but a good work, and don't let the Es­ ing force in our schools." -Reviews of 37 different poetry pers picked up and giving direc­ young tad and Father Schonenberg tablishment get you down —they President Boyd hastened to point mags and long articles on corp­ tions to the rest rooms, " she said. of the Old Church used to give may turn on eventually. out that while S.F. State and orations, banking, interlocking Mrs. Nixon danced one dance up smoking cigarettes during Lent, If there's any information you Berkeley are "victims of exploi­ directorates, etc. stuffed to the —with an old friend, Senator the season in which I'm writing can send me on growing grass, tation from intransigent radicals, brim with useless facts. Barry Goldwater. this. It's a good thing that Larks, I would appreciate it. Or an not intransigent administrators," The calendar should list the Mrs. Nixon was asked if the the cigger of diggers, had not address to write. I'm not proud! there is overwhelming evidence Underground Lift Society, the family still had the paper fer­ yet been invented and that he was My address is 273 N. Hubbard that the educational institutions Negative Movement, SDS meet­ tility fish her husband brought not me because I forget to re­ Hall, MSU—East Lansing, Mich. need to be changed. He did not ings, Milwaukee 14 activities — back from Indonesia when he was member to give up, not things, 48823 go into details how the pleasure Vice President. Tricia and Julie principle could provide the need­ not the Bucks and museum films. certainly not "myself to God" Thanks for the time and trouble It would be mundane but useful. who were then little girls, had (what does the tao want with me whatever happens. 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By Giuseppi Slater SAN FRANCISCO —The Presidio mutiny trials are well on their way to becoming one of those issues of the times, stark and open episodes that reflect some parti­ cular variety of repression pecu­ liar to a period. Sacco-Vanzetti became the de­ formed flower of the right-wing xenophobia rampant in the early 1920's, while the Algier Hiss in­ quisition was a leading banner for the anti-communism dominant i n the 50's. In later years, people may well remember the Presidio trials as symbolic of the unyield­ ing militarism so much a hallmark of the 1960's. High military authorities are probably well aware of this, and i n an unprecedented turn-about, they have acted forcefully to take the steam out of the protests. With telegrams and letters piling up, angry Congressmen declaim­ ing, and enormous crowds amassing at rallies, the brass hats realized Judge Advocate General's office percolating dangerously. Between they were in too deep. The same i n Washington D.C, Head Of­ f-ive and seven thousand people strings, used to convene the puppet fice of the Military Police, Au­ rallied outside the Presidio in sup­ trials were pulled to mitigate the thority, overruled Larsen, and port demonstrations last weekend; monstrous outcome. lowered Sood's term to two years. protests have been staged in ci­ X^mmmp,SJWf!ifi^Wl^M "Military Justice" is one of The Pentagon was uptight. ties and on college campuses those terms that requires just a The Army only relented after aroynd the country; various popu­ Environs 69 fjjfesents little bit of doublethink to accept. the failure of more devious at­ lar leaders and officials have The present case is an example: tempts to deflect public outcries. found in this an excellent and safe Lt. General Stanley Larsen, Com­ In one of the trials, civilian at­ controversy fo reaffirm their li­ mander of the 6th Army, has to­ torney Ron Aypnicki cooperated beral credentials; threatening tal and absolute control over the with Army brass in trying to fin­ noises were made about Congres­ trials. Original charges are, made ger S. F. attorney Terry Hallinan sional investigations. upon his authority, the general as the "outside agitator" respon­ In the latest trial, a change of nature of the penalties is deter­ sible for the demonstration. Wild venue has been granted the de­ mined by the kind of court he tales were concocted, including fense because the anti-military decides to convene, he names one which claimed that Hallinan, feeling in S.F. is so intense that the jurors on the Review Board, disguised as d priest, has infil­ a backlash effect upon the mili­ and must approve or overrule their trated the stockade and incited tary jury is feared. The hearings findings. one of the prisoners to organize are continuing at Ft. Lewis Wash­ It was Larsen that made the the sit-down. ington, and any illusions that the original decision to try the Pre­ Bythis artifice, the Army hoped Army may have about escaping sidio 27 for mutiny, in spite of to explain away the uncomfor­ the omnipresent protests will pro­ a recommendation from the Cap­ table fact of a prisoner protest, bably be shattered when the Se­ tain in charge of the preliminary and find an excuse to keep the attle G!-Civilian Alliance begins investigation, who said that the formidable Hallinan, attorney .for its planned demonstrations. mutiny charges were overly severe. 14 of the defendants, out of the Sitting back a bit and watch­ IHE i The resulti' sentences totaling 49 ing the ruckus, one can find some years at hard labor for the first courtroom. Unfortunately for interesting motifs. four men to be tried, provoking them, the ruse collapsed. It is astonishing how fast the radicals and liberals into nation­ Shortly thereafter, in the next x establishment can gain redress for wide protest. trial, defense lawyers revealed very obvious grievances when these The publicity finally became that a mysterious "Major Jen­ threaten to lead to radical politi­ too embarrassing, and last Tues- - kins, " claiming to represent Lar­ cal acfivity. day, March 18, Larsen exercised sen had telephoned the defense All the good liberals have jum­ j his appellate prerogative, by re­ counsel and told them that Lar­ ped with glee into this particular ducing the sentence of the first sen wanted to "get off the hook" fight, from Mayor Alioto to Sen­ convicted prisoner, Nesrey Sood, in the mutiny trials and desired ator McGovern. Even Mendel Ri­ from 15 to 7 years. The impact to work out a deal. Army spokes­ vers complained because o f the of this stunning development was men at first refused to comment, "poor publicity" the dispute was obliterated by the totally unpre­ but then admitted that a Major giving the Army. cedented event which soon fol­ Jenkins did exist, although they At the same time, of course, lowed: Within three hours, the denied that he represented Lar­ they have tried to limit the is­ sen. Whatever actually happen­ sue to the matter o f t h e excess ed behind the scene, Larsen was penalties levied on these parti­ NEGATIVE MCVEME T INS. PRESENTS still very much on the hook. cular men; few public statements The hook was also becoming in­ take up the kernel of the matter; creasingly painful, as new barbs the rights and freedoms o f en- i Awspd Wi ing Films emerged. Defense attorneys read listed men. into the courtroom records, docu­ If the Presidio mutiny trial had ments and affidavits attesting to not become a Great Liberal issue .the continuous pattern of harrass- it is highly unlikely that the cruel ment and pressure forced upon the punishments enacted would have stockade inmates and especially been lightened. At the same time, the mutineers. Beatings, haz- although there has been some re­ ihgs, unsanitary conditions, men­ dress o f the specific grievances, tally unstable armed guards, uni­ little attention is being paid to que tortures — such publicity does the authoritarian military insti­ not blend with the modern "Ac­ tutions whose oppression fostered tion Army" image. the outbreak. Suicide attempts, averaging From the system's point of view, more than one per week, were reduced sentences are a small exposed, and one of the defen­ price to pa y for maintaining its dants, Larry Zaino, finally suf­ political institutions. After all, fered a nervous breakdown and is it leaves the remaining 3 1/2 now confined to a hospital. military men firmly under mili­ Meanwhile, public pressure was tary control. PAGE 6 March 28 - April 10, 1969 iSSf&IDOSdJW TmbuTE TO d.A.Uvy" | TkRCE Moivrhs LATER By James Sorcic On November 24, 1968, Cleveland poet d.a.» levy committed sui­ cide by shooting himself in the forehead with a 22 caliber rifle. It is still too soon, too fresh* in my head, to speak calmly and un­ emotionally about his death. I simply felt that it was time to pass on the. few remaining fragments of his friendship I have left, so you can better understand what you no longer have. Late last fall I wrote to d.a. asking for a biographical sketch of himself and an explanation of his relationship with mysticism. I was pretty stupid last fall, attributing most of that stupidity to being in a university and< was actually surprised when levy sent me an answer. His letter began: "the levy mysticism is sort of a continual shift­ ing trinity like trying to discover the functioning relationship between self/god/& say a laundromat, really there isnt any mysticism except if you call the things we dont understand mystical, like people who say: the ways of god are strange, which is a sophisticated way of saying; i'm ignorant of the ways of god, or, if i were god, i dont know what i'd do in a laundromat, and would god vote for Wallace, join SDS, or blow up a laundromat? most likely he'd do all 3 at once..." Whether levy had intended it or not, his death has kicked up more shit than the JFK assassination. The Cleveland Police Department called it suicide at first, but for some strange reason, re-opened the . case and started playing with the word 'murder.' It's possible, judg­ ing by the mentality of the average Pig (and Cleveland's are hardly average), that one of levy's friends could be pinned with a murder charge, thus eliminating two "known subversives" through the death of one. But other voices are coming up out of the movement itself. The_ first reaction on the west coast was to transform levy's death into an issue. "We're playing revolution, baby, so pin it on a Pig and get them Cleveland cats jivin." it didn't work. Tom Kryss, rjs, Tom Rose, and other friends of levy's let it be known that his death was a form of revolution in itself, but.still remained a suicide. By the end of December, the rumors had grown from ridiculous to just plain ugly. Friends who had stuck by levy for-years, who knew him and loved him more than themselves, were being accused of killing him. And the accusers were movement people. Brothers and sisters. % The situation still remains clouded and I find the only real answers coming from rjs in Cleveland. (On March 3, 1969, the New York Times ran a five-column interview with rjs concerning levy's history and eventual end. It's an excellent piece of writing by Anthony Ripley, and I would advise everyone who has the opportunity to pick By Jim Gibbons f^|p had on the same dress) and she an ordinary "movie goer" like up on it.) Note: Bill Olsen is one of Mil­ was trying to see us through that you. So there. waukee's origl na I Renaissance blinding spotlightand she wouldn't At the beginning, however, In order to understand the seriousness of levy's death, it is essen­ men. He has been a "folksinger" look at the film like she was try­ Olsen almost blew it with shots tial that you know exactly what's going on all around you. One of (the old Avant Garde and Unique, ing to forget it was there withi of Barbara and Morgan's hands the largest unknown, untapped movements in the country is poetry. published poems i n local maga­ her in the same dress ten times doing corny slow moving/touch­ Within an eight to ten year time period, over a thousand private presses and magazines have spread themselves across the land. Now zines; Pretty Mama, etc.), did bigger (and just as beautiful) and ing things. Likewise, Barbara this is power, man. And yet, as Dan Georgakas once wrote: "Most time in the MRT company as an she said things like "the film is ended her Jalk with dumb ques­ 1 •leftists don't give a shit about poetry.. .(they) are disgusted by the actor/stagemanager, brought and the new novel" and "the fiction tions I ike '-"What does this all' erratic, naive, irresponsible and egotistical behavior of most poets." introduced experimental films to writers of the 50's are the poets mean?" and "What are you plan­ the Avant Garde, has worked in of the 60's" and she quoted Mc- ning to do about it?" (1 prefer Apathy stayed with the poetry movement J ike a brother, and much of it came from within the "underground" itself. Stilt, books and television (one of his films was Luhan (does it make much dif­ mags came out in tons each year; and, understandably, much of the shown on Channel 10 recently), ference what?) and in the film material was crap. "Turds," as Mangelsdorff would call them. So has built an animation machine Snoopy (the dog) was licking the freedom to "mean" and. do you ended up looking for people like levy who made up for all the and is presently working with Morgan's face (the co-star hus­ nothing.) But I know how she bad things by being great themselves, d.a. wrote more good poetry Morgan Burton (of Morgan Press) band of star) and I was ready to must have felt wanting to watch with guts than any other writer I can think of. He's published a list on an animated film. He has just kick that fucking taperecorder her film and unable to see the of books that would fill a full page in Kaleidoscope. He started out finished giving two lectures on up Olsen's asshole which made audience (as she told me later) and continued to edit Cleveland's only underground newspaper and film at UWM. The following is me concentrate not on the dif­ because of the spotlight. But to helped, to begin one of the most famous poetry bookstores in the an ordinary human response to his ficulty of such a project but on see such a strong, self-assured country (the Asphodel). last lecture. Barbara's lecture and always keep­ woman like Barbara (if you've In return for all his efforts, levy earned 89$ a day as a poet/pub­ The film like the eye just sort ing a third eye on the film. seen her at poetry readings et­ lisher, was busted and convicted on two counts of obscenity, had one of follows the nose. Anyone who Soon Barbara started merging cetera you know what I mean) of his best friends turn out to be a nark, and was forced to sit back can follow their nose can shoot with the film. She looked at it just sort of crumble up there with helplessly as his—true friends were carried off to jail. And the most film, just as anyone who can and spoke'directly about it, "I nothing to sa y and look so lost disgusting aspect of the whole scene is that Dan Georgakas was right. write words can write poetry.- like it because it's about me" and alone I was relieved when The major portion of radical people, Brothers and Sisters who are And besides. It's easy. It's fun. and "it's an ego trip seeing your­ she finally sat down and Bill fighting to bring it a 11 down, don't give a shit about d.a. levy — And everybody's doing it. self." I gave her H for honesty. came up and said "Well?" and dead or alive. Anyhow. The Tuesday morning I would feel the same way. And tried to get some sort of response It's obvious that this article isn't going fo swing any heads. The after St. Pat's day, Bill Olson I found I didn't have to concen­ out of us. type of person who has read this far already knows what I'm talking (filmaker) and Barbara Gibson trate anymore. The taperecorder He had an apple in his hand about. Everyone else is looking for the Envoy ad. (poemaker) got together for John which was five feet away from (well polished) and 1 wondered And with that dig I leave you with the following quote'-taken from Colt's Theory of something or me became the background and if that was symbowelick. Then a letter d.a. wrote the night before he died: "it may be a thing to other course—the same visited Barbara almost got in the film. he started talking about validity be a martyr for poetry/art/the revolution/lDut later on you get some briefly by the nude-paperbag- So I really didn't have to make and reality and other metabull- kind of awareness that being a martyr is silly, or boring & disgust­ head a while back —and gave a choice between human-Barbara shit. Of bombardment and quan­ ing after the 2nd time around...i mean people are always suffering the class an example of the any- and movie-Barbara but saw the tity and choice (the same thing because some people would rather kill you than change..." ore-can-do-it philosophy. Now whole thing as one. And the John Cage talked about two days aon't get me wrong. I wouldn't taperecorder just became a fly 'later) and if we couldn't dig it be eyeing you with these-words on the screen or the person mou­ our perception was at fault. I right now if I didn't agree with thing popcorn i n the next seat. was getting bored for the first them (both words and makers). Meanwhile back in the film time. I guess some good things Just because I know nothing about Barbara was doing domestic things went down in the post lecture films does not mean I can't have like yoga facial exercises and though. Barbara said "...the fun responding, right? looking out the window bare- word can't compete with the Bill's film starred Barbara as, assed with a pa per bag over her image...I wanted to watch the Barbara and could have been head. There were flashes of film and stop talking...I heard called "Barbara Goes to College" Paul Harvey, Olivia de Havi- m yse I f as a boring lecturer... or "Teachers Go to the Bathroom land (in a snake pit?), Charlie speaking bullshit..." and I Too" and while the film rolled McKraken (of defunct Magic thought, YEAH Barbara, if some­ Barbara lectured on the non­ Cereal), Carl Zimmerman (Tee- one as competent as you experi­ technical aspects of imagery.. But Vee personality), and Bill him­ enced shit like that, imagine for a little added distraction he self lecturing to the students. what a blow in the academic- turned on his taperecorder at high My technical knowledge in­ sphincter it would be for some speed (of the lecture he gave forms me it was black and white other teachers I hesitate to name last week.) OK. Barbara ""has (because color i s three times as (besides the list is tooo looong). ju st started to talk, the screen .expensive unquote) and the edi­ At the end (and most students comes down, movie starts, spot­ ting job was perfect (from where found there was one) Bill had his light covers her, and this tape is I was sitting). It seemed just charming assistant pass out slices babbling like an auctioneer do­ as good as some of the other of the film. He apologized for ing speed. jSs^y "home movie" movies I'd seen not giving us a chance to cut it I tried damned hard to concen­ recently. "Faces," for example, up o u rse Ives. "Too religious" trate on Barbara's lecture though was a damned good flick but were his last words. I couldn't I really wanted to watch the film hardly better technically. I can find the one of Snoopy licking but there she was in person and say th is'in:?nriy naive, non-in­ Morgan's face so I left with Mor­ 1coul an' t forge t tha t (both, of he r tellectual' way because I'm just gan- -and Barbara i n bed***^****** :"•*•*•-;-*-—rj-* .-2**-*f^ "?wwm~ §&*£lBOSCOPE ~M3jch 28 - ApriJ"10, 1-969 PAGE 7 Alorrison Exposed? MIAMI — Jim Morrison, erotic stage. "Like he'd been tucking and I talked with Morrison after­ magician and lead singer for the in his shirt or something and he ward and he seemed to me to be Doors is in big trouble in Flori- might have slipped a little." in a very poor emotional condi­ 'da. Ken Collier, proprietor of the tion. He might not be able to On March 2, as John Burks of dance hall, didn't catch sight of stand three and a half years in .Rolling Stone puts it, Morrison, Morrison's prick. But he did have Raifor Penitentiary." "finally let it all hang out" dur­ a lot to say. Like that Morrison A Doors concert scheduled for ing a rock concert before 10,000 whipped off his shirt, and began nearby Jacksonville, Florida, the people here. And now, local exhorting the audience to come on following weekend was cancelled authorities want to zip him up in the Stage and touch him. by the Mayor himself. And four the state pen. About 60 people took up his days after the concert, the State Six warrants have been issued offer and climbed to the stage. Attorney's office issued warrants for Morrison. One, a felony rap, Then, according to Collier, Mor­ against Morrison. charges him with "lewdand lasci- rison asked "Do you wanna see Bond on the six counts totals vious behavior in public by expos­ my cock?" At this point Collier $4,500. The felony charge makes ing his private parts and by simu­ freaked, grabbed the mike, flash­ Morrison liable for arrest and ex­ lating masturbation and oral cop­ ed the V sign to the audience tradition anywhere i n the coun- ulation. " and tried to calm everything down. try. The otherwarrants, misdemeanor Meanwhile, Morrison was jiving The Doors are presently vaca­ counts, are for variations on in­ around the stage and yelling at tioning in the Bahamas. decent exposure, public profanity the crowd about revolution. and drunkenness. "(Somewhere around this time Mor­ Entry Morrison could get a-total of rison supposedly pulled out his nearly three and a half years in prick. The cops claim to have1 fDenied the tough Raiford State Pen if pictures they got from the Miami NEW YORK—U.S. Immigration convicted on a 11 counts. Larry Herald.) Laws, along with the McCarran- Mahoney of the Miami Herald Collier kept trying to cool the Walter Act, have recently kept says, "They'd crucify him if they- scene, ripping out amp cords and two noted aliens out of the coun- could, they're so worked up." kicking in drum heads. Morrison try. According to Rolling Stone, it's meanwhile pushed Collier's bro­ In response has come a flood Mahoney's articles in the Herald ther off-stage, but then made the of liberal protest, led by Senator that have worked everyone up. mistake of hitting a cat who holds J.W. Fulbright , head of the Sen­ a black belt in karate: Morrison What actually happened is un­ ate Foreign Relations Committee. was flipped, head over heels into clear. Morrison's performances Antonis Ambatielos, leader of the audience. Morrison scrambled are never calm. He has caused the Patriotic Front of Greece, and backstage, Collier got the house riots of sorts in Phoenix and on Carlos Fuentes, leftist Mexican lights on, and the audience "be­ New York's Long Island. And novelist, were both refused entry. gan to get to their feet and file i n New Haven, they once filed (German SDS President Karl out, slowly and quietly, flashing charges against him. Dietrich Wolf was permitted to V signs." Morrison calls himself an "ero­ enter the United States, but has tic politician" and his politics Mahoney of the Herald told been hassled so intensely by the • showed in Miami. Doors man­ Rolling Stone: "The reaction was authorities that he'll probably ager Bill Siddons said it was "just a lot bigger than I thought it think twice before he returns.) another dirty Doors show...You would be. 1 personally don't want According to Immigration Law know, shitfuckpiss and the rest of to see Morrison hung. He didn't -31, Sec. 212a, all criminals, them. " Siddo/i said that if Mor­ hurt anybody. But Florida's a drug addicts, convicted homo­ rison exposed himself, it was off­ very conservative, staid place... sexuals and insane persons are to be kept out of the United States. Watts Happening- Since 1952, the McCarran- Walter Act has also branded as undesirable, spies, saboteurs and Again :|||f . -M advocates of proscribed doctrines, including anarchism and Commu­ Missed the last couple issues as I have been working on some kind nism. of books. Friday night poetry center going good at Juneau Village Ambatielo's anti-fascist activi- church. Have been attempting to teach some kind of course at UW v it ies in the Greek resistance are Free University on Zen. Ann Arbor Film Festival in Madison this admirable enough to disqualify weekend — why doesn't someone bring it to Milwaukee? him for entrance to this great na­ It's Black Encounter Week at UWM. When will we have a hippie tion. Encounter Week? We need a Hippie Department at UWM. Is any­ He was scheduled to fly to the body interested in this outside of myself? United States from Canada, March* Went to see the Underground Lift Society show at UWM, a really 24, for a speaking engagement at good show. If anybody needs some fine entertainment, check with New York University. This month, Bob Reitman on this. he is touring Canada, telling the The Hippies are doing nearly all the work to change the attitudes horror story of—Greece under the of the culture, with bands, lights, papers, art and the government junta. imim should be backing these mild beautiful-minded people. Do we have Ambatielos worked in the anti- to riot in order to get proper respect and consideration? What is go­ junta resistance until last year ing down? There must be as many flower children at UWM as Blacks when he left Greece. He has or Indians. Does anybody want a Hippie Encounter Week at UWM? survived concentration camps, a If so, let me hear from you. death sentence and 17 years of I am writing a 50-page poem about l-don't-know-what. This is prison. the first part: Naturally, what Ambatielos has Kilbourn and Juneau fought the Indians for the ground to soy is not what the State De-t| old Indian trading partment wants America to hear. ground transformed 0?^% So they turned down his visa. Early beer settlers,"beards, shaggy long-haired cattle, hippie- A» for Fuentes, h i s name has cattle. $0$$ appeared on the State Depart­ Indians dismayed by bearded cattle. Drums of Winnebago, ment's official black list for quite Shawano, Oconto, Oneida. some time. (Attorney General Buildings replaced cows, but the citizens are still looking for Robert Kennedy did get the novel­ to milk something, women being a little too tough, they ist into the country in 1964 and become turned on to milking each other. 1966, despite opposition from Beer house blues woodpecker reality birds ready to sing out Dean Rusk.) our names in beautiful bird song Fuentes was returning to Mexico Everybody looking for the real America old cataract eyes from Spain and was refused entry waiting for the appearance of dancing girls which will never at the Puerto Rico stop-over. arrive here. Attorney General John Mitchell International hippies our best hope, birds our best potential claims that border agents were' artists, put paint on their wings and let them paint the city. fully within their rights in re­ Birds and balloons, we should not have any more weight on us jecting^ Fuentes. But Fulbright than we had when we were in the water. i'M%M- says that the incident is "cer­ Could we get some kind of colorful balloons over our heads tainly no contribution toward win­ to take at least 90% of our weight off? ning friends in the intellectual To hell with carrying all this weight around because of community of Latin America." tradition. German SDS President Wolf's visa application was rejected Do you ever get tired of all this weight on you? Would you use three times. these light air balloons if I can get some, we may have to advertise Wolf was finally admitted on Pepsi on them to get started. a "parole" basis, and has been Don't try to oppose me as it won't do you any good. Don't for­ forced to report to customs offi­ get I am you disguised. I would be willing to crawl to you, what cials in San Francisco, Los An­ more do you want? geles, Chicago and New York. Cool it, steed. Watt, don't get too wild for the reader. I know Then, when he got to Wash­ women can satisfy all of men's needs if they are aware this is possible. ington, D.C, Wolf was handed They must be aware of this before they can do it. Robert Bly says a subpoena ordering him to ap­ men have some sort of screen about an inch under their face, while pear before the Senate Internal he can look right into women, at least two or three. Securities Subcommittee, "to tes­ I've been passingJdr white for years now. £pi|l tify as to the circumstances of I will cover the last million years of history in the next column. your entry into, and activitiaj ZMHrYAf*- • in; this country. " gfl^jjj ffrJWLl PAGE 8 March 28-April 10, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPEI

MAKING IT Riding freights is a groove and it's easy. You can go free and see the country without billboards, neon and other roadside litter. One fa 11 I rode from Cumberland,Maryland over the Allegheny Mountains through Pittsburgh. I was with two other freaks. We got so stoned out by the trip, leaves changing. Riding up the winding side of a mountain, you could look across to the other side of the valley. We climbed out on a flat in the open, waved to all the cats working on the track; they really freaked seeing us but dug it too. Some white collar executive, really important, saw us and did he freak! In the New Castle, Pa. yards they had enough heat to stop or start a riot. They took us to the yard office and filled out reports. All the guys coming in digging us. They really liked us because we rode freights and because the brass was really pissed off about us. They threw us in jail for ten days, which was another trip (and not bad). I had an ounce of grass on me which they never found. I've ridden more freights since and learned how not to be busted. Generally, even if they catch you they just throw you off and tell you not to come back. The thing to remember is most railroad people like people who ride freights — even freaks. Riding has al­ ways been part of railroading. They don't want to see it die. A lot of railroad workers used to ride themselves and some are old wobblies. I've been fed and given money more often than you'd SOUP, an Appleton group that has played often in the Milwaukee area, -«»r, expect. has released their first single on Target records (3]5 S. Bluemound The thing to do if you want to ride is go to a yard (evening is the' Dr., Appleton 549]]). Well produced, a good sound, it should sell best time) and find a switchman. Switchmen carry a lantern to sig­ well in the area and may be the start of something very bright. The nal with and are easy to spot. Ask him what's going out in your A sdde, an original work, is "Veronica"; Willy Dixon's classic "Big direction, if there are any cops around and where your train is. In Boss Man" is on the back* most yards you can go in the shacks the crews use but ask the switch­ man if it's cool. Ask questions, people are happy to talk. If you are busted, it's usually a fine but at the most ten days. In Chicago you go to Cook County if you can't pay the fine. I've Sharpeville Massacre Anniversary ridden out of five yards (there, must be 100) and never been hassled but there are more yard bulls in Chicago than in small towns. The Friday, March 21, marked the reason for the gathering. The ing. Some of the wounded later best thing to do if one comes after you is run like hell—you can eighth anniversary of the massacre crowd was, according to all re­ gave evidence that as they lay probably get away. of 69 Africans at Sharpeville, ports, not hostile and made no on the ground they were taunted Some lines are considered hot. The Santa Fe, NY Central & Union South Africa. Today Sharpeville attempt to provoke the police. by the police and were told to Pacific are all supposed to be bad but I've never been hassled on is remembered not only because As the crowd increased, so did get up and go. Only much later them. One place to avoid is Cheyenne, Wyoming. I've been told the massacre is one of the most police re-inforcements and by 1 were ambulances called. there's a school for railroad dicks there and they search everything. brutal examples of apartheid in pm the 12 original policemen had At the hospital each ward was On the whole, you're probably less likely to take a bust riding action, but because it marks a been joined by 300 others, in surrounded by both black and than hitchhiking. The people you deal with are friendlier and likely watershed i n South African his­ addition to five Saracens. There white police and members of the to'protect you. Even RR cops can be friendly. security police who refused per­ tory. had still been no attempt to com­ There are a few other rules. Don't ride in gondolas with heavy mission for almost everybody to Prior to the massacre, black municate with the crowd which machinery; it can shift and crush you. Don't ride boxcars with freight enter. Even relatives were turned political parties had been non­ was sti 11 of the impression that an in them. They're likely to lock you in and if caught, away. Later the police made 77 violent in nature. Afterwards, announcement was to be made. you could be charged with theft. Don't get on moving freight. arrests in connection with the the situation was summed u p by Then Lt. Col. Pienaar arrived I've done it but also had a friend lose a leg that way. Don't ride demonstration: in some cases those African National Congress (ANC) at the station. He too made no in an engine unless you're invited — it's a federal felony. arrestedwere still in the hospital. leader Nelson Mandela (now serv­ attempt to communicate with the Even if I knew I'd take a lot of busts, I'd still ride. It's slow The gove/nment re spojn^~fo~j ing I i fe in a maximum security demonstration leaders. Fifteen (but not too much slower then cars)". The' mairf thing is if"you dig Sharpeville was to declare a State prison in South Africa): "Gov-, minutes after he arrived he gave seeing the country, all of it, -ride freights. You can see scenery of Emergency for six months. ernmentviolence can only do one an order for his men to fa 11 in few people see from mountains, rivers, deserts, the real wilds to Some 20,000 Africans were ar­ thing and that is to breed counter- and to "load five rounds." steel mills, cities and towns. It's what Guthrie, Houston and a lot rested, along with many other op­ violence. We have Warned re­ No one knows what happened of good people out of the 30's turned to. It's as good as acid. ponents of apartheid* The two peatedly that the government, by next! Pienaar himself swears that African political parties were resorting continually to violence, banned and since then have op­ will breed in this country counter- he gave no order to fire. But erated underground. The gov­ violence among the people until within 40 seconds, 50 white po­ ernment also refused to pay any ultimately, if there is no dawn­ licemen opened fire —using ser­ compensation to the families of ing of sanity on the part of the vice revolvers, rifl'es and sten government, the dispute between guns — and shot directly into the the government and my people crowd of waiting Africans. For those killed or wounded, passing will finish by being settled in a few seconds some were so stun­ special legislation to make this violence and by force." ned that they stood their ground. possible. Sharpeville Is a typical "town- Most turned to run. S i x months later the State of ship" in South-Africa. Thous­ Forty seconds and 60 people ^Emergency was lifted, but the ands of black workers live in this were dead, including eight wo­ .police measures remain. In the official area —ugly, flat, dusty men and ten children. Forty se­ intervening eight years, mass and treeless —not far from Vere- conds and 180 people were woun­ trials have taken place, all open eniging, an industrial center and ded, including 31 women and 19 political opposition has been sti­ headquarters of Africkaner na­ children. During the shooting 705 fled, political leaders have been tionalism. Black workers feed rounds were fired from revolvers imprisoned or forced into exile. the industries, but for all other and sten guns. It was quite But most important of all, the purposes are kept totally sep­ clear from medical evidence ga­ intervening eight years have seen Everything in arate from white Vereeniging. thered later that the police con­ the growth of a South African The only link between Sharpe­ tinued to fire after people turn­ revolutionary force which seeks ville and Vereeniging is a bus ed to run — 155 bullets had en­ to make real the historic pro­ servi ce carrying workers back­ tered the bodies of the killed phecy of Nelson Mandela: "The tt If wards and forwards to the fac­ and injured from their backs. dispute between the government tories. Early in the morning of In the minutes after the shoot­ and my people will finish by be­ REALEATHER March 21, 1960, bus drivers did ing only one black minister tried ing settled in violence and By not carry their usual loads. In­ to help the wounded and the dy­ force." stead, some 6,000 Africans mar­ ched to the township in Sharpe­ ville to take part in a demon­ stration to protest against the "pass laws"—a series of laws S|p5f^ that forces all black adults to Call carry pass identifications at a 11 times (there are 1,400 arrests a day in South Africa under these Krazy Dave 1) PROSE: on poetry in tne wholesale education laws). & culture system, by d.u. iev>'," 4>1.0C This demonstration was dispersed HU 1-7465 5-7 P.M. bythe police using tear gas bombs 2) Poems from the Interrupted Journal, by Richard Krsch; $1.00 and then a baton charge. Some 3) FIRE IN THE SUN, by James Sorcic; 75c I police did open fire but nobody 4) DAY OF CHANGE, by James Bertolino; 75c was hurt. 5) MOON IN THE 7TH HOUSE, by Ron Silliman; 50$ During that morning the news 6) KAPRIKORN, by Karil Kruger, 50' ALL $$&ES WHOLESALE ONLY spread that an important announ­ 7) POEMS, by Charles Bonamer; 50. • QUA-tfltrft OF 12 O R

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Fri, March 28 CONCERT—Milwaukee Catholic SCIENCE — 15th Annual Science LECTURE—Scandinavia Saga, Fri, April 4 FOLK— Pete Seeger & guests, Youth Orchestra and St. Veron- Fair for High Schoolers, 9 am- Shorewood HS Audi tor* um, 8 pm Call 444-2624. Channel 10every Sunday, 5 pm. 9 pm, Marquette Union, through ica's Choir in Joint Palm Sun­ Sunday. day Sacred Concert, St. Veron­ RECITAL — Young Artists Series, CLASSICAL—Recital Hall, John PICNIC —For ALL the people, ica's Church, 3 pm. UWM Union Fireside Lounge, Myles, WUWM-FM 6-8 pm. collossal plastic playground across THEATRE —Euripides' The Trojan 12:30 pm. the road from McKinley Beach. Women, Wisconsin Players, Mad­ CONCERT —Piano Talenteens, EVENT—Liturgical Good Friday All morning. ison Union Theatre, thru Sat. Seven Arts Society, Shorewood ROCK —Local groups, Tempo, Service by 3rd Coast Poetry H.S. Auditorium, 7:30 pm. through Sunday. Center, Vi 11 age. Church, 7:30 Mon, April 7 THEATRE —Sanarelie & Crawl­ pm. RECITAL—Faculty Recital, David ing Arnold, UWM Studio The­ CONCERT —Fine Arts Quartet, ROCK—Local groups and group­ Barker, Wisconsin College Con­ atre, 3:30 & 8 pm, also Sat. UWM Fine Arts Theatre, 8:15. ies, O'Brad's thru Sundays. Sat, April 5 servatory, 8 pm. at 8 pm. MEMORIAL—Martin Luther King. RECITAL — Bruce Hertig, trom­ Thurs, April 3 FILM--The American Presidency THEATRE —Guys & Dolls, Mar­ bone, UWM Fine Arts Recital, FILM —Studio 16 Series, UWM Sun, April 6 & The American Flag, Museum 8:15 pm. quette Players, Teatro Maria, Union Fireside Lounge every Easter— Christ gets high. Lecture Hall, 6:30 pm. through Sunday. Thursday, 13:30 & 2 pm. TRIPS—NicolSmith on Australia, FOOEX—Satisfying Salads and Shorewood HS Auditorium, 3 pm. Delectable Deserts, Electric Co. Auditorium, 2 pm. LECTURE—New Concepts of Space, Boiling Smith, Lovell Daring female photo books, mov­ Tisha's free — she's a real dog — Trapen Folk, a Calif, trip is Space Center, 1 & 3 pm. FILM—-Taming of the Shrew, ies, paperbacks, FREE catalogues. needs a home, write Sandy at offering a set of posters and post­ UWM Bolton 150, 7:30 & 10 pm. Beaver, Box 2373-L, Phila., Pa. Box 5457, or call 332-4992. cards at very reasonable rates PHOTO —International Exhibi­ (dealers inquire). Tradenfolk, tion of Nature, Museum Lecture POETRY"—3rd Coast Poetry Cent­ Gay male books, magazines, mov­ Box 2459, San Rafael, Calif., Hall, 2 & 4 pm. er, Village Church, 8 pm. ies, FREE catalogues. Trojan, Figure models for color slides — 94902. 1/2 Box 2121-L, Phila., Pa. 342-3931, eveni ngs. FILM —Negative Movement, BLUES—Cross Fertilization Blues UWM Fine Arts Lecture Hall, NEW SEXUAL Freedom League POSTERS (23x35) $1+25$ mailing Experience, WUWM-FM every Wanted: ride to California, end 3 pm. publication, POSITION, mailed Lennon & Ono(nude front cover), Friday, 10 pm. of March. 873-2802, pm. in plain cover, $1. SFL, Box Nixon on a hog (motorcycle), Man, March 31 14034-KL/ San Francisco 94114. Urinal (graffiti). All 3/$3, Box Sat, March 29 Don't forget England. A few FILM — People of the Poplatch 3255, SF 94119. FILM —Decision at Delano, are. Antique concertinas for and Canyon Country, Museum Buttons, bumperstickers, peace about grape strike, the Coffee sale, and real old banjos too. Lecture Hall, 6:30 & 7 pm. jewelry. Free new 12 pg whole­ F1XIT... Repair of autos, hi-fi's, House, 9 pm o sale/retail catalog, airmail 25$. Free underground mags. Neil, 35 Stuart Rd, Acton, London W3. appliances, etc. for love or mo­ ROCK —The 11th House, MC A Big-Little Store, 1077 Mission ney. John & Rich, 264-2442. CONCERT —Milwaukee Sym­ San Francisco 94103. Love to all. phony Orchestra with Gina Ba- Bob Reitman, 8 pm-1 am, every ARTISTIC CHICK seeks employ­ chauer solo pianist, Pabst The­ Monday-Saturday, WTOS-FM Hey Geno! How about putting Got busted for dope, need money ment. Interested in art forms, atre, 8:30 pm & Sun. 7:30 pm. (stereo> the doors back on the cans! for job. 273-2860. but will do any type work with — Boys of H.H.S. a bit of challenge. Jeanie, SPACE — Space Age Film Pro­ Tues, April 1 Keith Lampe (of Yippie and Lib­ 332-6179. gram, Lovell Space Center, Mil- DISCUSS—Popcorn Forum, UWM Girls interested in film acting,. eration Magazine) and David .(waukee Museum, 11 am. Union Fireside Lounge, 12:30pm. No experience necessary but in­ Herres (of Liberation and WIN CLASSIFIED ADS cost $1 for the terest in international culture and Magazines) are trying to put to­ first line and 50$ for each ad­ YOUTH—Youth Activity Trad­ JAZZ — Jazz Times Six with Mr. character is desireable. Will gether for Bobbs-Merri 11 an an­ ditional line. Figure 30 units ing Post, Museum Youth Center, Big Ron Kuzner, WTOS-FM every train." Call Maharaja, 478- thology of high-school-age mind- per line. Every single letter, 9 am-2 pm. evening 1-7 am. 5054. blow writings on drugs, revolu­ space, punctuation mark or num­ OPERATION AWARENESS-South tion, life-arts, race, the gener­ ber is a unit. If you want a FILM —Photography, Art Center Wed, April 2 Side ! We need cool heads to ational war, ecology, &... We word in capital letters, figure Lecture Gallery, 1:45 pm. FILM ~ Jonas Mekas' the Guns sell Kaleidoscope in the. land of want essays, fiction & poetry plus only 27 units, for a whole line of the Trees, Edward English's "The Invisible Wall of Shame. " drawings and possibly even a few of caps, figure only 17. We re-, Fugs, Bruce Bailie's Mass for If you can sell copies to your photos from both high school stu­ FILM--Negative Movement, serve the right to edit or reject South Dakota Sioux, UWM Fine friends at school, on the street, dents and drop-outs. Send any­ UWM Fine Arts Lecture Hall, material that may jeopardize our Arts Lecture Hall, 7:30 and where you work, or the bar that thing good to David Herres, 10th 8:00 pm. existence. To place a classified 9:30 pm. turns you on, please call us. floor, 5 Beekman St., New York ad, send it with your name and We will also supply old copies City 10038. People whose things Sun, March 30 address on plain paper to Kal­ CONCERT —Milwaukee Sym­ to distribute for promotional pur­ are accepted eventually will re­ CONCERT —Music for Youth eidoscope, PO Box 5457, Mil­ phony Orchestra, Capitol Drive poses. We need your help. ceive tiny loaves of bread float­ Orchestra, Place to be Announc­ waukee 53211. 481-T6067. ing slowly back. ed, 4 port. Lutheran Church, 8 pm. IKALEIDOSCOPE . March 28 - April 10, 1969 PAGE 11

Student Spring Offense Includes High Schools From pg 2 unrest. At elite schools, stu­ recently appointed trustee. Black- Because the system of higher * the problems of higher education. tees.^ When threatened, the ru- • dents have been allowed to oc­ led protest over curriculum and education serves the corporations, Wisconsin's system of higher edu-' lers of non-elite schools have no cupy buildings for long periods of admissions ended with the univer­ training employees and sociali­ cation is structurally analogous to choice but to call in the forces time without the intervention of sity granting most of the black zing future consumers, the system California,a Coordinating Coun­ of repression. Hence massive police. demands plus amnesty. Buildings itself is never sacrificed economi­ cil on Higher Education, a state A look at actions at some elite occupied for over a week but cops cally. Economic pressures on ed­ university system. The corporate police presence at San Fernando schools shows that administration never called onto the campus. ucation result in a rationalization interests which control education and San Francisco State and Fer­ response has been remarkably •Students at non-elite schools, and redistribution within the sys­ in Wisconsin are mostly regional ris State i n Michigan, and the mild: however, have been faced with tem. The State Master Plan for businessmen and bankers. Larger National Guard at Berkeley and Chicago—Located in the Wood- a much harder line. In Califor­ Higher Education, passed in I960; national firms that are represent­ Madison. lawn ghetto, predominantly upper- nia there have been 1,150 ar­ enforced a tracking system which ed are closely related to the However, one should not over­ middleclass white students, foun­ rests in six major disorders. The allows only the top 12 and 1/2 Wisconsin economy (e.g. Kim­ estimate differences i n control­ ded by the Rockefellers, trustees trustee line in Wisconsin has been per cent of the state's graduating berly-Clark^. ling student disorders by segments include David Rockefeller, Char­ similar, though the actions in high school seniors to be admitted In Wisconsin too, the lower of the power structure. Coapta­ les Percy, David Kennedy (Sec- ' Oshkosh and Madison have been to the university (where it was economic classes bear a heavy tion and repression are not mu­ retary of Treasury), with other somewhat smaller in scale. But 33% under the old system) and burden of the costs of higher ed­ tually exclusive; each strategy corporate links to Inland Steel, California is the right wing's prov­ allows only the top 33% to at­ ucation while their enrollment represents a desire to control. First National Bank of Illinois, ing ground. tend the state colleges (70% in in the state colleges and univer­ Both sides talk about the "hard Time Magazine, International California's system of higher the past). sities is low. Sixty per cent of core," one seeking to crush it, Harvester. White-led protest over education "long regarded by ed­ Further redistribution occurred the population are workers, yet the other to isolate it. Just as faculty tenure was brought off by ucators as the best in the nation, in 1964 with an across-the-board very few students come from work­ the ruling class uses racism to the administration. Police were tand a major contributor to the pay cut for state college faculty ing class familiesa Current legis­ split the working class, they try not called on campus although advanced technology that sparked of 1.8% and in 1968 when the lative plans call for cuts in low­ to prevent blacks (with "legiti­ students occupied buildings for California's, economic boom" (For­ CCHE decided to build no new er income wages, and a freeze mate grievances") from aligning almost two weeks. tune) is a big mother (9 universi­ colleges and universities in the on corporation taxes. Corpora- . with "the revolutionary" and "de­ University o f Pennsylvania — ties, 18 colleges, 89 junior col­ near future, but rather junior col­ tion taxes have not increased structive" white radicals. Ivy League, private, located in leges, and over $2 billion in state leges which are financed by local since 1913. Small property own­ But we haven't even begun to ghetto area, close to 50% of stu­ money spent on education in '68- communities, not the state. ers pay large assessments ($53/ talk about the high schools. A dent body in graduate or profes­ 60, representing 36.4% of state Lower income property owners $1000 per year) while real estate recent survey of 1,026 princi­ sional schools, largest Chemical- budget) and obviously a precious continue to share a disproportion­ control led by large i nsurance pals attending the convention of Biological Warfare center among one for the state's economic in­ ate burden of the corporate use of companies is tax exempt. - the National Association of Se­ U.S. universities, important en­ terests. the university/ while their access The examples of California and condary School Principals found gineering school, Wharton School The Coordinating Council on to higher education is increasingly Wisconsin demonstrate the more that almost 60% of the nation's of Business with ties to big" cor­ Higher Education, which makes shifted to the inferior institutions right wing corporate solutions to high schools have had "protests" porations and investment banking, overall policy decisions, the re­ of the state system. Families with the problems of higher education, this year. One official said,. trustee links include Bell Tele­ gents of the state universities, incomes of under $10,000 pay 48 name I y rational i zation and repres­ "One of the surprises of the sur­ phone, Penn Railroad, Penn Mu­ and the trustees of the state col­ per cent of the high education sion. Student demands at non- vey was the fact that protest is tual Life, Philadelphia National leges are linked directly to the budget for the state, while cor­ elite universities pose direct almost likely to occur in junior Bank. White-led protest over leading industrial, political, fi­ porations pay 10%. But students challenge to the power and the high schools (56%) as in senior university expansion into the nancial and private educational from these lower income families economic interests of the trus- high schools (59%)." —LNS ghetto ended with the University institutions of the state. The ma­ make up only 1/3 of the enroll­ jority of these men are local law­ ment in the university system, pledging $10 million to a fund yers and businessmen. Even large while they constitute 1/2 of the for community development. How­ national firms that are represent­ ever, the Trustees managed to re­ ed (Hunt, Del Monte, Bank of enrollment at the state colleges tain substantial control over uni­ America and Lockheed) are pri­ and 2/3 of the enrollment at the versity expansion and develop- marily engaged in economic ac­ junior colleges. Brandeis —Secluded campus, tivities vital to California (ag-, Wisconsin and California—des­ predominantly upperm i d d I eclass riculture, business and defense). pite some obvious differences white students, trustee links to The result is an interlocking, self- (economy of the state, popula­ • Jewish corporate interests plus Con perpetuating chain of control over tion size and racial composition) Edison, Broden, Hubert Humphrey higher education in California. — are finding similar solutions to

r«.i.ii.*.ii.«.i.i..i»i**.i«i.iii,t^^ Well kids, it's time again for the misadventures of Christ T. Sera­ phim who, disguised as a mild-mannered judge of Misdemeanor Court, fights the never-ending battle against truth, justice and the Ameri­ can Way. Christ had a really great day last week. A man and a woman stood before him charged with Lewd and Lascivious conduct. That is, they were unmarried, and living together. There was a slight hitch in the case, however. The woman wanted to get a lawyer and plead not guilty, while the man wanted to plead guilty and take his slim chances in front of Funny Judge. 'e?wm This situation amused Christ. First he mocked her statement that she had no money for a lawyer. He asked her, "Are YOU one of those poor, and unfortunate people in this country?" The woman still insisted that she wanted to plead not guilty. Christ commented, "I don't see how, in this kind of a charge, the man can be guilty and the female not guilty." Christ then suggested to the man that he also get a lawyer and commented, "You've been alleged­ ly playing house with her all this time, you might as well pay for her lawyer too." In a later case, Christ attempted to show his Solomon-like wisdom. A man charged with failure to support claimed he had worked out a way of settling with his wife. Christ ignored this, and continued to ask the defendent when and how he was going to pay. Christ then asked the wife, "Are you going to work out a deal for your­ self, or should I?" "You're doing fine," she replied. Christ beam­ ed and, looking at our reporter, said, "Tell that to the man in the front row." Christ then explained to the man why he was bargain­ ing. "This is for your child, not your wife, who you didn't like very much so you got yourself a new woman." Christ gave a judicial tongue lashing to a young man charged with autotheft. "You just won't stop, will you I Theft in 58, burglary in 58..." and Christ read the entire record, to the giggles of his loyal fans. When the arresting officer tried to put in a good word for the defendant, Christ yelled, "Sure he co-operated. You caught him didn4t you?" Later, Christ lectured the court. A lawyer objected to a post­ ponement that the DA wanted. The last time in court Seraphim had granted the defense an adjournment. Christ said, "Justice in this court is a two-way street. Justice Cardozo of the Supreme Court once said justice due the accused is also due the accuser." Christ laughed while delivering this vignette, and again his fans roared their approval. Funny Judge remarked to a woman accused of prostitution, "May I ask a foolish question...how long have you been earning a living?" Christ then found out she was from Memphis. He ordered her held overnight and told the Sheriff, "get the bus schedule to Memphis." Christ appeared pleased with himself and adjourned for the day by saying, "Das is Alius." Not quite. We've neglected Seraphim in the last two issues but, as you can see, we haven't forgotten him. There are strange rumors around town that Funny Judge is considering running for mayor of this strange city. It's the^type of rumor that Christ enjoys spread­ ing, like last year's rumor that he intended to run for the state Su­ preme Court. We doubt that anything will come of it, but it might be something to consider when you're feeling paranoid and thinking that things couldn't be worse. Sit&l Later.

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GRUB BAG

By Ita Jones As we wait suspended in the crystalline gap between winter and spring, I'd like to talk about good food which can be cheaply made, in advance, in large quantities. Food which can be carried for days in one's pocket without spoiling, and can be eaten simply by hand without preparation. For the child who spends the day outdoors playing. For the heads who on the very edge of spring will be watching the changes of the forests and mountains, who won't want to worry about eating, but will want to have something to eat while sitting on that rock watching the light finger everything. For those who know they will be occu­ I-^XIBB pying buildings for a length of time. And especially for those who ®l969SMM£ms$ fltXWfir/Kftt-ggWED will actually be fighting somewhere in the name of this/revolution we Oakland 7 speak of. As a child I thought that if the Jews under Pharaoh had time be­ fore the exodus, they would have (or possibly did) throw together huge quantities of potato "kugel" (koo-gull) which is easy to carry and gets "We Try To Be Hopeful" more delicious day by day. 1. Into a large bowl grate (finely) 6 large potatoes, 2 carrots, and By Sandy Darlington a monitor group, eh, Mr. Bar- Whereupon some of the more a large onion (the onion can be coarsely grated more easily). Dis­ SAN FRANCISCO--Those of us dacke, and you made no effort militant women in the courtroom card the extra liquid (this can be removed with a tablespoon). who have been sitting through the to get them out of the area when started whispering. "What are 2. Add 3 tblsp. melted shortening, 1 egg (large, or 2 small) and trials of the Oakland Seven for rhe police gave the order to dis­ those guys, a bunch of pacifists?" season well with salt, garlic salt (or powder),-and pepper, and mix the last nine weeks were startled perse? And so on. We also heard from Robert thoroughly. (If you know what matzoh meal is and have some, add Thursday morning, March 14, As it i s, Jensen hasn't even Scheer and Don Duncan, from a 1/4 cup; if not, it doesn't really matter.) when the defense abruptly an­ established such obvious things as TV newsman who was Maced in 3. Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease a square cake pan of some nounced that it was resting its the fact that six of the Seven both eyes when he tried to film sort. Pour in the potato mixture, spread evenly with a spoon and case without calling any of the were on the steering committee. the beatings, from an Episcopal bake about an hour or until completely done (when a toothpick is Seven to testify. Moreover, although we won't priest complete with silver cross stuck in it should come out clean). Cool and cut into squares. We glanced at the jury to- find know what they think until the and from Lisa Mandel. Just an aside. I have noticed the appearance of rljuoarb in the looks of disappointment on their verdict is in, the Defense case She had gone for a pregnancy stores —that rose-colored "celery" which surely everyone ate as a faces. And Lowell Jensen, the has seemed to charm the jury, as test on the afternoon of Monday, child and remembers its delicious smell and color, but maybe can't the prosecutor, got that peeved has the open demeanor of the de- Oct. 15. The test was positive remember how it's made. look he always gets when Charles fendents themselves. but the next day she was beaten For about 90 cents (which may seem extravagant, but isn't, for what Garry does something far out. Last week, a police officer by police who were after her you'll get) buy 2 pounds of fresh rhubarb (the leaves at the top should The point is that now the Seven testified for the prosecution that husband. "After I was beaten in not be wilted yet) and plan to cook it the same day. (Only rhubarb can't be cross-examined; and that he and another cops went to ar­ the stomach, on Wednesday, I freshly pulled in the spring and cooked within a few hours reaches takes a lot of t h e drama out of rest Bob Mandel at the Tuesday was no longer pregnant, " she said. that rare color, consistency and taste.) Jensen's case. demonstration. They grabbed him, Will all this move the jury?. Wash the stalks, cut off and discard the leaves and trim off the The evidence which he has pre-* and then Mandel incited the It should, but who knows? I can't cut ends. With a sharp knife cut each stalk into 1 inch sections. sented against the Seven is mostly crowd and got away, incidentally imagine the Seven getting acquit­ Put these in a large pot, add 1 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons water. circumstantial. There were ral­ litting the cop with the back of. tal, but they might get a hung Toss well so that everything is evenly distributed, cover tightly, put lies, speeches, leaflets... Nobody his hand. (Mandel must still stand jury. over a low flame and simmer 10 minutes or until rhubarb is tender. denies that. But the legal ques­ trial for that blow — battery upon It will be over next week. Turn into a bowl to cool. tion in conspiracy is: Were these an officer.) Chqrles Garry will be 60 on Mon­ If you've been saving jars, take a large clean one, spoon in the actions done with criminal intent? This week, four witnesses told day, and the Seven plan to pre­ rhubarb, close, and/put in the fridge where it will keep a long time Right there the whole thing be­ it another way: some kid was try­ sent h i m with a cake in court. and is really good as a dessert, with meat or potato pancakes, chilled comes a matter of inference. For ing to let the air out of the tires We try to be hopeful. —LNS or warm, plain or with cream. example, if the Seven arranged of-a stalled transit bus. Mandel for lawyers people could phone came up and yelled at him, stop, in case of arrests, then obviously it won't do any good, leave the they expected arrests, right? And area. Just then the cop came arrests mean crimes, right? Or running around the end of the bus, QSod 7 Itid Hm Etui wrong ? W h a t w i 11 our super- grabbed Mandel and threw him SAN FRANCISCO—The Oakland misdemeanors is a felony charge. But the prosecution, for all its straight jury decide? up against the bus. Seven are on trial for conspiracy. Key activists, like the Oakland dry cool, has only succeeded in The Defense has presented a Mandel said to the crowd, "It's The charges stem from their roles Seven, can be charged with fe- uncovering trivial evidence against* brilliant case. What amounts to all right, I' II go with them." But as organizers of the Oakland Stop lonous conspiracy to commit mis­ the Seven. a teach-in plus character wit­ the crowd started yelling at the the Draft Week (STDW), Octo­ demeanors— to serve as an ex­ The judge, George Phillips, nesses plus refutation of some police, "It wasn't him, he was ber, 1957. ample for potential disturbers of seems to side with Jensen. He specific prosecution charges. Most trying to stop the guy from letting The Seven face a total of 61 the peace. has consistently refused to admit of us had expected it to end with the air out." Various people years i n state prison on charges To gain a conspiracy convic­ political evidence from the de­ the Seven put on the-stand. How­ grabbed Mandel and pulled him of "conspiracy to commit two tion the prosecution only has to fense and has turned down Garry's ever, it now appears that Jensen away while others held the cops misdemeanors" and assaulting an prove that, first, the defendant motions for a mistrial on the ba­ was pissing in his pants t o get who were clubbing him. officer. «;.$; conspired to commit illegal acts, sis of the hysterical atmosphere them under cross-examination. And this week's testimony also The Seven are Steve Hamilton, and second, overt acts were com­ in the Bay Area, since the S. F. He could have read quotes from told us that it was not Bob Man- Terence Cannon, Reese Erlich, mitted as a result of this con­ State strike began. speeches and asked: Did you say del who brought sound equipment Bob Mandel, Mike Smith, Frank spiracy. When the defense asked Phil­ that? Oh, you did, huh? And illegally onto the California cam­ Bardacke and Jeff Segal (who is In this particular trial, defense lips to declare the prosecution's is it true Mr. Cannon that these pus for the Sproul Plaza rally on now serving a four-year sentence attorney Charles Garry, Huey heavy sticks were found in ihe the night of Oct. 16, but an­ for draft refusal). Newton's lawyer, has tried to evidence insufficient, the judge trunk of your car? And you led other guy in a black Volvo. It STDW, along with the 1967 read from the law book: seems that the local college cop push a strongly political defense. march on the Pentagon, opened "It is not necessary to prove Dean Sicheneder, called Dean He has succeeded in many res­ a new chapter in movement pro­ conspiracy to show actual meet­ Pig by those who know and love pects, partly due to his powerful M. L King Day test tactics—the "new militancy. " ing of parties. ..it can happen him, saw a black Volvo and said The goal of STDW was vaguely personality and his experience that agreement be arrived at in it was Mandel solely for the joy seen as shutting down the Oak­ with movement cases i n the Bay piecemeal fashion... conspiracy is of it. Atlanta — SCLC is petitioning the land Induction Center. And it. Area. almost always proved by circum- President and Congress to declare Another witness testified that was a bloody scene. But for one Garry's political passion has •stantial evidence. " Jan. 15, the birthday of Martin Steven Hamilton had talked the day, at least, the thousands of been countered in the courtroom The jury, Marjorie Heins Luther King, Jr., a National Le­ crowd out of beating up a truck demonstrators succeeded in hold­ by D.A. Lowell Jensen, whom writes, "were chosen for their gal Holiday. They are also call­ driver who had driven full speed ing the streets of Oakland. LNS correspondent Marjorie Heins lack of opinion, and it was not ing for a National and Interna­ through their lines and that Bar- One of the authorities' most describes as "esacting, ingenious, easy to find 12 people who had tional Day of Protest on April 4, decke did no more to incite the potent weapons against the new vainly witty, impatient with no ideas about tr^e Vietnam War. the date of his assassination a crowd than to stand on the side- militancy i s. the. conspiracy rap. Gorfy's histrionics, nevefcappedls They are undist^gliished, yet good > wa Ik i eaning aga i nst a buildi ng. t '.yeait agOjgRi •LNS "Organizing" people to commit '" embfifenaily to'"frie* ftiffi? humored. " lxa,« &&, .bLsif. •'>.2 AO. fcE-e^-jio oi (KALEIDOSCOPE March 28-April 10, 1969 PAGE 15

OLIGOPOLY IN ACTION „ '' Texaco Thinks Time Is Right

By Dennis Fitzgerald box: Student rioters= troublemar •In a textbook-clear demonstra­ kers= call the cops; inflation15 tion of a U.S. economic oligo­ Price Increases^ Hold down the poly in action, Texaco, Inc. re­ minimum wage and Restrict-Cre­ cently initiated a price boost in dit. That's simplistic and a little the cost of gasoline. unfair (even to Reagan) but it ex- Texaco, the nation's largest em pi if ies a preoccupation with gasoline marketer, posted a 0.6 micro-analysis and an almost total cent-a-gallon increase in the price "neglect for the implications of of gasoline to its dealers Monday, "what's going on. " Feb. 24. Also announced was a Thus the case of Texaco is an 20 cent-a-barrel price boost to instructive one for study. crude oil producers. Once every year or two an ac­ Why a Price Hike? tion such as this will occur, ad­ Uf*. vancing by response and counter- On the path from the oil well response across the front pages of to your neighborhood filling sta­ the newspaper. Yet, it invaria­ tion are three rather distinct areas bly passes, noted, but not com­ of business/ prehended by the people who pay There are the producers (res­ for this system. ponsible for research and develop­ The fault lies in the character ment) who search out the oi I, dri 11 of contemporary economic analy­ for it, and sell it in barrels. There sis—or at least in that character are the refiners who purchase the as it finds expression in the Wall barrels and extract the several pe­ Street Journal, on the business troleum products, chiefly gasoline page of your daily newspaper, and And there are the marketers who But there are many smaller com­ for new supplies and the develop­ and only for about 63 per cent of in the public pronouncements distribute these products through panies, progressively fewer, that ment of new techniques required its industrial products. Other cor­ of corporate and government offi­ various retail outlets. Some of perform one function or another in­ for getting to those supplies makes porations quickly adjusted their cials; one can only speculate about these outlets are owned and con­ dependently; and when the big production less and less economic pricing to U.S. Steel's action, the content of discussions whi ch trolled directly by the marketer, boys move, or don't move, it is cally profitable—and more in need and everyone went back to his cor­ never reach the mass media. but the great majority of them are these independent refiners or pro­ of such supports as the federal oil ner mumbling a little. Unfortunately, the analysis of­ independent businesses—franchises ducers that are likely to be caught depletion allowance. The government functions in this - fered the public is the economic sold or leased to individuals. in the squeeze. (Just how will be Thus the 20 cent-a-barrel/ in­ situation not as a protector of the equivalent of Ronald Reagan's po­ The larger gas companies, such looked at later.) crease to crude producers is an at­ public's welfare but as an arbiter litical analysis. It deals with as Texaco, are all three of these Why did Texaco feel the need tempt, admittedly inadequate, to among various corpoate interests. cause and effect i n a tight little — producer, refiner and marketer.. to raise prices now, and why are shore up financial troubles in that Kennedyand Johnson were not act­ other gasoline marketers making si­ area. Some observers have specu­ ing against the steel industry; they milar increases? lated that the price increase was were acting for the entire corpor- the electric theatre co. presents aaron russo's Texaco attributed the price boost made at this time largely as an ate structure. Those administra­ to sharply rising costs, particularly indication to Congress that if the tions apparently decided that what wages- and labor benefits, and to oil depletion allowance, expected was good for the steel industry the need to increase the price paid to come under heavy attack this would not at that tjme be good KINETIC PLAYGROUND for crude oi I. year, is tightened, further price for the corporate whole. Texaco's announcement for the increases will be necessary to pay The Little Guy price increase stated that "whole­ for large boosts in the price of sale, gasoline prices have been de­ crude. Before discussing further the MARCH 28-29 pressed for most of the past de­ shape of the economic system sug­ cade ." During the last ten years Uncle Sam gested above, let's return to our BLOOD, SWEAT, & TEARS•wholesal e commodity prices in gen­ independents whom we left caught eral have increased only two per How have the other gas markets in the squeeze. It is an observed Pacific Gas & Electric Co.cent , but "wholesale commodity ers responded to Texaco's move? fact that once a particular sector prices in general rose 11 per cent Phillips, Petroleum Co., and the of the economy reaches a stage of Ralph Adams and consumer prices rose 24 per Americal Oil Co. (subsidiary of high development, the small busi­ cent." Standard Oil Co. of Indiana) an­ nesses operating in that sector are A11 of which is no doubt true. nounced a price increase of 0.7 doomed — with a resurrection fac­ On Jan. 4 of this year, 60,000 cent-d-ga I I on two days later, tor only a 4ittle better than that members of the Oil Chemical and , Feb. 26. Thursday, Feb. 27, of humanity. Our American myth- Atomic Workers International Un­ found Sinclair Oil Corp. and Gulf ologydenies this, of course, myth­ ion struck 100 refineries. Twenty', Oil Co. making an equal 0.6 cenf- ology evolving more slowly than major oil companies and numerous a-gallon hike. Price advances on realities. Thus we are left with l

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"Pure Tokyo Canned Un- you have cities, then a nation... dates is Month/Day/Year but this subway stations into fascinating million postage stamps it had freshAir", with a red label, is One city will fall to Black peo­ will probably change to "1969 communities, more or less re­ printed for a March issue aren't outselling "Pure Mountain Fuji ple, maybe, peacefully. One March 1" under the new com­ flective of the areas in which returned by that time it'll print Canned Fresh Air", with a blue will fall by force of arms. One puterized style..."What usually, they exist. The vast space in a new set. Exactly what the label, in Tokyo souvenir shops. will fall because white people happens when people start taIk­ Greenwich Village's West 4th thieves probably want. Unused, Both cans are empty but the first don't want to be there anymore, ing about revolution is that by Street station, for example, one-issue-only stamps are much presumably contains more smog. and they will voluntarily leave. the time you've got the word would be tenanted by a sort of more valuable to collectors than I mean, things come together, halfway out it's already deter­ miniature Mulberry Street festival those easi ly available ... Ray Joan Baez recently made a re­ they break up, they come toget­ iorating into throwing stuff at with push carts selling vegetables, Johnson's Correspondence School cording "with the help of some her on a higher level, they break policemen" (Joan Baez).. .Chi­ church-operated gambling wheels, bombarded Time Inc. with mail of the finest musicians in Nash­ up. Things are young and strong, cago's Lake Shore National Bank an art show and second-hand but got sloughed off into fyi (the ville," says Israel G. Young, they struggle, they achieve some closed out its accounts with The bookstalls of the type found along company's house organ) rather and then told the NY Times they kind of solidarity—they get com­ Seed after the latter got busted the banks of River Seine. In than being mentioned in Time were fascists. "'If she feels that fortable, they get lazy, they for obscenity. Now even our Yorkville, the 86th Street station itself...Back Stage's Bill Smith way she shouldn't have recorded die." money's too dirty for 'em. would feature a year-around reports that a "pocket-size " with them...I believe it is time "The white man," says LeRoi Which is a laugh when you think - German carnival with steins of phonograph with records to match- for her to give up her career and in an interview with Marvin X where banks get theirs..."As beer available for travelers, is being tested in the Pacific help some other country" .. .Says and Faruk in Ed Bui tins' Black Supt. 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For the poor the law There's nothing he or I can do mitted by the courts is sexually be decorated, policed and staffed scraper (banned until recently is what the bureaucrats say it is. to stop what's going to happen approached within a day or two by block committees who'd be but now a I lowe d because of space Why not have a hippy conven­ to him." after his admission to prison, encouraged to do their own thing, shortages) will be 47 storeys high tion to write a new Constitution?' many of these young men are i.e. acquire brightly-colored when completed in 1971.. .Mar­ ...Warren Stevens is currently repeatedly raped by gangs of paints and murals for the walls, shall McLuhan's Dew-Line news­ "Bill Graham is first and fore­ searching the Caribbean for land inmates. Others, because of the persuade local artists to donate letter is not only exorbitant ($50 most a businessman and the Fill­ suitable for "an independent so­ threat of gang rape, seek pro­ their time and designs. 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We are also con­ accept fares — contrary to the li­ volution, life-styles', etc. and identification objects as Ethel cerned with the many and varied Merman, Carol Channing, Mabel problems of the rural poor—gen­ censes issued by the Hack Board solicit pieces %WIN (5 Beekman White people are moving out Mercer, Marlene Dietrich and eral living conditions, health and which supposedly insist that cab­ of the cities and eventually "will especially Judy Garland whom welfare, etc. Our purpose is the Miss Streisand fair threatens to organization of the rural poor. Pot power depends on the amount of ultraviolet radiation absorbed by the depose as Jukebox Den Mother Black organizers are needed, skil­ resin. The reason tropical grass is more persuasive than New Jersey Mauve is of the gay bar (Grover Sales re­ led or unskilled persons willing that tropical sunlight is richer in u.v. To upgrade marijuana of any quality, viewing Funny Girl in SF maga­ to work in rural areas of Alaba­ spread clean grass very thin on any smooth surface & expose it to u.v. light for zine). ma, initiating programs which the 45 minutes or longer. (Any sunlamp is a perfect source of u.v. for this purpose.) community can further develop. While you're waiting, read Crawdaddy! the magazine of roll. Be advised/- They would also eventually train Mexico's bilingual El Corno groups and individuals in welfare Emplumado, certainly that coun­ rights and benefits offered by ag­ try's most literate quarterly, had ricultural agencies. A writer is its government subsidy cut off needed to continue our newsletter after a mildly critical editorial and to work throughout the "black CRAVVDADDYJ (over the student strike) protest­ belt"gathering information on lo­ CRAWDADDY! 309 S. Easton Rd., ing "against a repression which cal happenings. Full-time for Glenside, Penna. 19038 had not even then reached its six months or longer; a car is [ ] Here's $5.00 for the next 12 juicy Crawdads, high point." Subsidy provided necessary. Subsistence salary; [ ] & $.60 each for the back issues I've circled: about 50% of the mags funds... 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 housing and meals provided by "Entertainers create for their Name •- the community one works in. — audience; artists for themselves" Contact U. Z. Nunnalyand Don- Address (Steve Russell in Rolling Stone)' dra Simmons; Southern Rural Re­ .zip. .. .Standardization of dates is on search Project; 814 First Avenue ups 1 write small the way because of the increas­ South, P.O. Box 956, Selma, ing need to rely on computers Ala. 36701, (205) 872-2530. to process international exchanges PAGE 18 March 28-April 10, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE unwunn&m* C

by Rich MangeIsdorf CATERPILLAR 6, ed. by Clayton Eshleman, $1.25. Poets" line, you have to double-take (it reads "pick­ pocket"). "Number 25" will be the next one C.L. is Sorcic continues to push GUNRUNNER PRESS (Box As usual, Caterpillar presents some outstanding features. due to release. Superreal. 5457, Milwaukee 53211) about as far up on top of the Robert Duncan's cut from "The H.D. Book" is psycho- This is one 20 page poem done in mindrun style which current action as any Wisconsin publisher. He's deve­ biography concerning the Imagist poet & her scene , a unfortunately owes too much to Kerouac (whom Xavier has loping a catalogue which is both radical and well-rounded fine example of how one artist can' "find" another & also, outdistanced without relinquishing) & is too strained & & is spanning the urgent poetry from points east & west. a lesson on how "intellectual history" can be effectively unexciting. He deserves credit for grappling with the Some new sightings: & fascinatingly done. Symbolic occurence-congruencies chunk he's bitten off, here, and while he succeeds in JOHN OLIVER SIMON, Cat Pome, 50$: show the relation between H.D. & Duncan's own deve­ keeping the pictures coming, the essence of this sort of Simon is anyway one of the best in the west and when lopment. Jerome Rothenberg "transposes" Navaho&Seneca poetry is lots of groovy & heavy thoughts and nasty turns he brings his head down upon the psychic end of the new poetry, with the help of native poets, using "total tran­ of mind —little time or need for craft, its the on-the- life style you can pretty well count on him to give you a slation" technics to convey the character of the poems in line immediacy which has to thrust, whap and recoil. "good buzz. Some good navigating through relevant and the original, including their dramatic-incantatory qual­ Xavier blows hot & cold & has it, at best, but needs interesting changes, shooting out the vision like popcorn. ities. Michae-t McClure seems to have come up with a to learn the soloing musicians' sense of pace (this poem Moves through levels quite smoothly, a compact & lithe new "thing" for his "7 Los Angeles Poems," one of which would sound better read LIVE than on the page). Also, run through the realities. If you dont know Simon yet, appears on the cover. The poems are "field" creations start reflecting more of the contemporary feeling & ex­ let him lob this little bomb into your hair. on the page, hand-made in varied-size writing, empha­ perience, not just the anguish. RICH KRECH, Poems From the Interrupted Journal, ses arising from that & -from the symmetrical contours of $1.00: the word-arrangements. It allows McClure to freak more & make his tendency to overemphasis more of a natural If you dont know Krech either, your eyes should, marry affair. your chest. He's one of Simon's stablemates in Northern Reaganland and in addition to collaborating to run one Lots of tough screaming in the poems this issue. Con­ of the steaming presses there, they keep on top of~the tinued concern with ancestors & with the art of transla­ scene, including the streets, where they're adept. tion are evidenced in works by Rene Daumal (Cid Corman, Krech is guerrila infighter & incorrigable head, you translator), who is torn by the old disparity between sub­ get the benefit of both sides here. One poem from each limity & fact & pushes the edges of unbearability further month, June to November of last year, you can feel & further, and by Christian Morgenstern (translation by tension mount as things get shiftier. Two of Krech's "Jess"), his "Gallows Songs" (with graphic layout) is a principle gifts are being able to pull you easily into his head sequence of folky & mean German "whimsy" mixed action and frame of mind & being able to write poems with implied horrors. Jack Hirschman balls his fist & which are classic statements of a situation. Some of his shows a triphammer left jab. Diane Wakoski narrates a lines are too much, also, as in the nearly flawless "Mao personal log of smashed marriage a-la-mode. Eshleman Mao Poem" or "Unfinished Poem". makes the long poem work again, college frat pledge & WARREN WOESSNER, The River's Return, $1.00: its own brand of hell down at the grease & balls foundry, Not so much with it as the westcoast people described level where it comes out your eyes. Adrienne Rich hangs above, Madison's (by way of the east) Woessner more than on the academic confession-contemplative thing, but this holds his own around the Wisconsin scene, simultaneously time something comes through — those people are ingen-, illustrating this area's lag and his own growing aptitude. ious with conceits, though. Michael Heller exposes some At best, Woessner is pretty economical in stringing to­ more of the sadism-virility hangup. gether target hits made of relatively groovy materials; Ten by Robert Kelly, he continues to "develop a diction description that implies, feeding to a conclusion that giving more force to his knowledge & referential richness. might drop you out of your head a bit, into a mild epi­ Armand Schwerner has one happening-repitition & one phany. "Letter to John" is the only medium-to-long tightlipped eulogy. Joe Early's master's touch scores thing here, teenage-past, with Woessner shoving the bullseyes saying just what it means. Larry Eigner pretty language a little harder. When he learns how to say if much likewise. Charles Olson breaks up geneaology into like that without spoiling the choice moods he can set, another of his thinking & calculating out loud raps. he may be more ready to help pull the midwest out of •Stanley Nelson gets reality to freeze while it moves. the fifties. Caterpillar is now on sale at the UWM bookstore, get by Rich Mangelsdorff JENNIE ORVINO, Like a Tree, 50$: one next time you're in there to buy your pipe tobacco. Like somebody with lyricism that they dont express often PAUL XAVIER, The Anarchist Papers, Undermine Press, ALBERT AYLER, Love Cry, Impulse A-9165. Ayler, tenor enough, a little tentative but frank & straight-forwardly $1.00. sax; Donald Ayler, trumpet; Call Cobbs, harpsichord; into the joys of erotic play. Details merge into a simple Alan Silva, bass; Milford Graves, drums. sweep of feeling. A good start. Done up just like another in the City Lights "Pocket Albert Ayler, both in his personal conception and in the kind of band he has together, here, represents one of the most formidable solutions going to the "where-do- we-go-from-here-with-jazz" problem (if, indeed, its any problem for him at all). He chooses the path of freedom and innovation (he's one of the most original musicians anywhere & his side men follow suit) and he's steadily building a language both personal and universal, a qua­ vering, sometimes agonizing sweet-sour sound which re­ veals magical depths and highlights. The production strategy on this Ip appears to be the same one that Impulse has pursued in "presenting" other former ESP-Disk artists to a "wider public"; cut down the lengths of the tunes, keeping the players from going too far out into improvisational fury. Even this can't phase Ayler (a liberated cat, indeed); he still gets one side to work out on & for the first side, with its six two-to-four minute samplers, well, Ayler doesnt degenerate into mere riffing, he showcases some of his more striking & beauti­ ful melodies ("Omega" is one of the most joyous "Span­ by Tot^rMcNamara very true-to"4ife/ W^tWti picked a subject forjps book ish" tunes I've heard in a while) and the group demon­ POORBOY AT THE PARTY by Robert GloverJ|tdcket' ,#&*<& iroketjps job as a writer very difficult. * %$ a re­ strates a tightness in interplay which would do credit to Bcok*|||5^.. sult, all of the characters in Poorboy are cardboard**lii--' most of the old dixieland groups. He even gets to work >jB»4CE ALL BUT HE HAD FLED by L.J. Davis, Ace, eluding the non-hero. in some chanting (Moorish-Arabic-Oriental tinged) on the 75$. A blond young caffjl-'medallion hung around his neck, title track; after all, its "weird" enough to tickle the YOUNG AND TENDER by William Wantling, Bee-Line slouches on the fron^ef,L.J. Davis's "Whence All But He "hey, listen to this, will you" tourists, right? Ha ha. Books, $1.25. Had Fled" Ij^hence did he get the title from). Probish If you want to hear "Ghosts" done up proper, get ESP Sometimes you wonder why guys keep writing books. is the character's name but "Nebbish" would have been 1002, where he does two variations of it. "Bells" is the And then you wonder than anybody reads them anymore. more like it and the action centers around New York's entirety of ESP 1010. Lower East Side, but there really isn't any "action" to *Bu£fHtoif^ paperbacks have become a commodity in Ameri­ On side two, Cobbs begif^:"Zion Hill" with some Bar- speak of, like Gover's non-hero, Davis's lets things and ca, something to resort to when bur leisure-time reveals oquish harpsichord & everything happening from there on people act on him and the book is an accumulation of itself as the boredom that it really is. So we search for to the end of the other cut, "Universal Indians," is a events. The bookjacket says "Robert Probish was 18 when something to occupy our minds. Perhaps that's all we joy to hear. Ayler has gotten himself together "some­ he escaped from his dull, mindless family in Queens and can ask of a book these days. what, lyrical strength that is one of the few valid replies went fo live in the East Village. He had no idea what Robert Gover is best-known for "The One-Hundred to what Coltrane started. Brother Donald handles the he was getting into..." but he doesn't get into anything Dollar Misunderstanding," which I remember as a very trumpet masterfully & serves as a foil; hts work on "Uni - other than an apartment fire, a visit to ^homosexual funny book that contrasted the hung-upness of a square versal Indians" puts him out front among "new" trumpets, older man who has financed a young painter who lives, college kid and the primitive hipness of a young whore no news if you've heard him before, skittering like hell in the next apartment, and beingt mothered by a stuffy named Kittne. It was an original and he quickly follow­ all over with deft abandon. Cobbs is the finest harpsi­ Jewish superintendent and his wife as he hides sick in ed it up with something called "The Maniac Responsible." chordist working outside "classical" music, and this is the his apartment. It, too, was an original, but something strangely dis­ first jazz or rock band to integrate that instrument. Silva jointed and manic and obsessive, a non-story that some­ William Wantling's "Young and Tender" throbs with is one more superb bassist, flashfire quick, & rich when how filled out a book. American books are like Ameri­ action. It's almost all sexual and if seems that Cole, his he can afford to slow down. Graves is still one of the hero, hasn't a brain in his head. He's the typical por­ can food, they always seem to have more volume than scariest drummers playing, at least as good as Rashied nography herb, more of a centaur than a «a»^^M»e has* weight and Gover's book' new is potato-chip light and AM, or Sonny Murray. When, Keith Moon absorbs his a friend named Gamowski (the character is based on poet though it held my inreres, (I must confess that 1 have message, or something like it, then maybe rock drummmg Charles Bukowsk?) and Gamowski is-^piye character who to peek back into it to determine the name o*r the main will start to MOVE. re a II y says things£0» ^!jp£ lives and breathes, ^fe character, he's so bland, so really impotent and opinion I'd have to pity anyone who cant get into this Ip & mg| a w a yjjte veneer. He i$* they other characters in these books Ibpjk ^iU»'4^£^^a£k Marcus, tenro & soprano saxes; other personnel unident­ sun themselves during their end-of-the-schcH&l-year revel ihey are . He^akes $$m&|3ftid Jdrjdjsi^ worth reading* ified, probably the same as below, Cortese, out, Swan- xanW.'then decide.*olwreck 'Iff mansion. Gover draws them Not that jgjbrwon't enjoy the se^^ sen probablv out. fclaf ratfr- .»... i^cw £Vi=^*' KALEIDOSCOPE March 28-April 10, 1969 PAGE 19 Ii

AVALANCHE 4 & 5, ed. by Rich Krech. Obtain enough. Malay Roy Choudhury raps a manifesto around most accomplished practitioners. Includes a rap by Vos­ from Undermine Press, 2315a Russell .Street, Berkeley 5, Indian poet Subiimal Basak & John Sincbir relates an' tell which is a serviceable and personally penetrating ana­ California. 50Pharoah Sanders end of what can be heard on "Meditations" (Impulse A- ||9110). He knocks at the door effectively, but isnt ready *to break it out yet. He shows a nice lyricism on adapt­ ed rock things like "Eight Miles High" (2001) & "Scar­ borough Fair" (2009) & "Back Street Girl" (2009), essent­ ially, he substitutes his reed for the singer's line, while Nock holds it together (harpsichord on the first two men- ||rioned). "Mellow Yellow" (2001) is great humor, but %the freedom implied there is no joke & he'd best explore ^something similar in his next- album unless he wants to ^become stereotyped. Gary Burton's "Haifa Heart" (2001) »is one of this groups lyrical highwater marks, featuring SsNock's harpsichord. Which brings us to the 3 long-cut tours. "Tomorrow i|Never Knows" was made for what Marcus can do to it. 'Coryell rips, moans, buzzes as effectively here as any- -ywhere, Marcus flogs his soprano to the drums' insistent iplodo "Theresa's Blues" (2009) is a good blowing workout *for everyone. "Ooh Baby" (2009) promises as much & is ^initially as infectious as "Tomorrow...", but turns out to "be another blowing track. Marcus (or somebody) still >has to learn how. to keep the excitement rolling contin­ uously, this sort of sound rather demands that. Still, as a "new-star" reed, Marcus indicates how far we've come since the days when such a role would be occupied by, say,, Stanley Turrentine. Even if he may be due for a creative crisis, the SOUND he produces makes damned good listening & his contribution is solid as far as it goes. 3§|pN?-a: jlrEVE MARCUS, Count's Rock Band, Vortex 2009. Mar- jdlis, tenor & soprano saxes; Larry Coryell, guitar; Mike by Dennie Van Tassel Then someone else j IfOck, piano/& harpsichord; Chris Hills, rhythm guitar & days. Here are a few s»j bass; Bob Moses, drums; Chris Swansen, arranger & per- GRAFFITI: Se Scrawls From Bathroom Walts, co Nothing Is depraved e*» iwSsion; Dominic Cortese, accordion (on "Back Street ed by Robert Canyon Books, distributed by Stay seated. This is a iGirl"). LeRoi Jones eats white* Be kind to Chuck the S Marcus is also coping with the "where's-jazz-going" If you decide to buy this book the best way to read it People probably chi ppe Ipbblem & he's as derivative as Ayler is original (he would be, naturally, sitting an a toilet, The writing of Egyptian bathrooms 2000 ys doesn't even seem to write & is more like a featured graffiti on wails seems to be a universal phenomenon. point pert. „- soloist, here), but when the source is Coltrane you can't Bars and restaurants have tried to eliminate it, laws have Jesus saves S & H Greei really fault the man; just be righteous in ycur usage. been passed solemnly prohibiting, and AT&T once put a Would Christ, carry a dr Resulting is a third-stream jaz?-rock based on adapt­ hidden camera in one of its restrooms so it could fire Reality Is the shifting f< ing Coltrane's sound to rock — actually Coltrane does people who were caught writing on the walls. This al­ Never be led astray int serve as a good base for a rock group to work off of. most caused a national strike and the phone company You are fast becoming \ Moses is a rocking El Jones, Nock (who's been around hastily removed the cameras. Some bars and restaurants The penis is mightier ffo dwhile, mainly in Boston) is Coy Tynerish (he knows have given up trying to stop people from writing graffiti God hips those who hi})! Herbie Hancock too & can be much freer when he can on restroom walls and instead have installed blackboards The thing mast men leai break outside of the bands predomiant sound) even to and chalk so the patrons can write to their content and to both sexes. the point of providing an interlude to the action. Play­ management erases it once a day. On California cam-* ing harpsichord he provides some fine, almost "electric" puses students are allowed to sign up for five feet of a J. Edgar noover steeps backgrounds & is probably the most competent musician construction project fence for a 30-day period. That , If you don't like my seJe< here. student can paint anything he wishes on nis fence rbf 3&~ ^txi.ys ^ontin«e.44^ dor your elektra KALEIDOSCOPE March 28 - April 10, 1969 PAGE 21 TEXACO OLIGOPOLY From pg. 15 discounts, the give-aways and the • But is this bad? Dispassionately — the biggest consumer of them motorists to take the bus. aco had decided to cut its prices gimmicks with which other firms ignoring the fate of the failed in­ all. And the oil companies know But what does all this mun? substantially in an attempt to en­ woo.customers. In case of attack dependent producers and of poor it. Mainly it means t.'iat the kind of large its share of the market, the they stand like a knight without Mr. Leonard (who mqy soon have Texaco and the other major capitalism we a 11 learned about losses to its margin of profit would his armor: fighting, but stripped only a few mi I lion fo show for his marketers are not so helpless that in grade school is dying, has been be far greater than the losses suf­ of the protection of a higfr mar­ efforts) isn't fr% higher total effi­ they would be forced into retreat dying for some time, and in many fered by the other corporations gin of profit, virtually defenseless. ciency of Texaco a good thing? It by the consequences of indepen­ areas is already dead and just through whatever sales they might And, unlike in the movies, they might be, except for the fact that dent deafer price wars. To pre­ waiting for somebody to acknow­ lose.' ' In the short run, adverti­ don't win. Texaco's advantage is not reflected vent such conflagrations several - ledge the fact and perform a de­ sing has insured that brand loy­ The men who man Leonard's pumps in its prices. In oligopolistic of the companies have discontin­ cent burial. alty will transcend a few pen­ may clean more windshields and pricing, a firm with a cost ad­ ued their dealer price allowances. In school we learn about free nies price difference. A 11 that smile more widely, but as Leo­ vantage produces no lower a price This has forced the dealers to markets and capitalist competi- '. the other companies need do is nard's prices more and more reflect thandoes a firm with higher costs. hold the line with their own one tion. We're taught that the guy await their "leader's" return to its cost disadvantage, customers rent-a-ga I Ion retail price in­ who can sell his goods most the fold. may not find a smi le worth the Consumer Power crease, or suffer the financial cheaply is the guy who gets the There is no price competition, price. For Leonard and other in­ One more myth that needs ex­ consequences. The previously business and that's how things are nor would these companies wish dependent refiners the eventual end amination before continuing: pub-, mentioned disadvantage of the iri^- run. there to be. The general theory will be either extinction or mer­ lie dernatir"1 significantly effects dependent refiners should block Though such a situation may of monopoly pricing applies. The ger. Consolidation is ever more the pricing of such commodities whatever challenge they might exist among small businesses and price of a commodity is the high­ frequent and control is ever more as gasoline. Even the supposedly have proposed. a few newer industries in the U. S. est price which will be accept­ central. factual New York Times felt com­ And as for "the millions who for most of big business the dog- able to the largest market. A As for the independent producers, pelled to give this decomposing buy it," the Times reporter ne­ eat-dog ear of capitalism is an­ lower price than thit .nay increase they have been at a disadvantage credo an airing. glects the fact that here we are cient history. Now it's live-and- the market somewhat, but not for the past decade. And Texaco's The Times reporter penned with not dealing with plastic gew­ let-live (in pricing anyhow) for enough to compensate for the lost action seems too little too late for a flourish that "The decision (by gaws, luxury items which are the mutual profit and stability of sales. many. A representative of Clinton Texaco) to raise prices may have easi ly boycotted i f they become all. It is the profit margin of the Oil Co., quoted in the Wall Street been made i n a corporate board too expensive, but with gasoline. The resources of the companies whole which is being guarded. Journal, estimated that 50 per cent room, but the decision of whe- The nation runs on wheels, we in an oligopoly are sufficiently Though each corporation may wish of the nation's independent oil th( • the price advance will hold are told, and wheels run on ga­ large so that no single corpora­ for a larger share, none would companies have gone out of busi­ will be made at the pump by the soline. Adding a few cents to tion could effectively challenge wish that the whole be smaller. ness in the past ten years. Texa­ thousands of people who sell gas the price Of a pack of cigarettes the others by its pricing, even if As a consequence, price compe­ co's price increase, though helpful and the millions who buy it." may mean the last puff for some it wanted to. Texaco, the lar­ tition is banned to the satisfac­ to producers is only about a third In fact, there is only one con­ quilty smokers, but raising the gest marketer in our example, can tion of each. The members of an of what is needed to keep them sumer who can influence Texaco's price of a gallon of gasoline by only suggest the lead; it cannot oligopoly compete, but not in afloat. pricing: the federal government a penny will not induce many enforce it. If, for instance, Tex- pricing. Competition occurs in advertising, developing new mar­ kets, and cutting costs. It's all very serious, but the consumer is the last one to profit from the SOLID SIT ATE arrangement. A price increase, unlike a price cut, cannot be considered a competitive threat. It may, in fact, be the opportunity all of the companies have been await­ ing to compensate for rising costs. A price hike is mostly a matter of timing. Can an increase be sold to the public to fit the pro­ fit maximization formula above? How will the government, in its -position of arbiter, react? Generally it is the most power­ ful member of an oligopolistic complex that initiates a price in­ crease. But any company that feels the time is right may try its hand. If the others agree, they will follow suit; if not, the company that attempted the in­ crease will retract it. Mono­ poly pricing and oligopoly differ in one respect: the former may slide freely up and down as con­ ditions change, according to whatever level may yield the highest profits, but oligopoly pri­ cing can move only up with ease. The national economy is no lon­ ger as it once was — and as the mythmakers would have us believe it still is —a vast, competitive market in which prices, wages .and profits rise miraculously from the free interplay among indivi­ dual businesses. Though still largely unplanned, the economies of the advanced industrial nations are more and more intertwined with the affairs of governments. The economies are increasingly protected, en­ couraged and administered as though big business and big gov­ ernment were one entity and not two sectors with common inter­ ests. And for modern capitalism there is no other alternative, lest the system tear itself apart, trap­ ped in a vicious tug-of-war be­ tween ephmeral prosperities and increasingly desperate depres­ sions. Some economists forsee these conditions leading towards a not- too-distant transition ("not with a bang, but a shrug") to one hue or another of state socialism. Considering the given economic determinants, that could be any­ THAT WON'T QUIT!] thing from a repressive facism fo a libertarian commu ni sm. But given the present political trends, a repressive fascism seems the likely choice. Supercharged Sound The task lies in altering the political conditions, recognizing, the roots of tyranny—and destroy­ ampeg ing them. 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by Rich MangeIsdorf CATERPILLAR 6, ed. by Clayton Eshleman, $1.25. Poets" line, you have to double-take (it reads "pick­ AVALANCHE 4 & 5, ed. by Rich Krech. Obtain enough. Malay Roy Choudhury raps a manifesto around most accomplished practitioners. Includes a rap by Vos­ pocket"). "Number 25" will be the next one C.L. is from Undermine Press, 2315a Russell Street, Berkeley 5, Indian poet Sublimal Basak & John Sincbir relates an' tell which is a serviceable and personally penetrating ana­ Sorcic continues to push GUNRUNNER PRESS (Box As usual, Caterpillar presents some outstanding features. due to release. Superreal. California. 50$. incident from the Detroit house of correction. Also good lysis-history of the movements AND complete scenarios of 5457, Milwaukee 53211) about as far up on top of the Robert Duncan's cut from "The H.D. Book" is psycho- This is one 20 page poem done in mindrun style which things by Sharon Asselin, Arvind Krishna Mehorta, E.R. two of his own events. current action as any Wisconsin publisher. He's deve­ biography concerning the Imagist poet & her scene, a unfortunately owes too much to Kerouac (whom Xavier has Although this is one of the family of Bay Area mags, .Baxter, Jerry Parrott, Daniels McLean, Harvey Tucker,. Since I rapped extensively on Vostell once last year, loping a catalogue which is both radical and well-rounded fine example of how one artist can "find" another & also outdistanced without relinquishing) & is too strained & Krech publishes more nonlocals & presents a diversified Michael Upton, Norman Moser. I hate to have to repeat it all just because you probably & is spanning the urgent poetry from points east & west. a lesson on how "intellectual history" can be effectively unexciting. He deserves credit for grappling with the selection of poets; mystic visions are welcome & exist There's this letter from Gene Fowler, in response to didnt read the review. I'll just say that there's hardly Some new sightings: & fascinatingly done. Symbolic occurence-congruencies chunk he's bitten off, here, and while he succeeds in side-by-side with the meanest of "realities". Avalanche 3 (the special rock issue), where Beethoven any excuse for not knowing what's going on, anymore, JOHN OLIVER SIMON, Cat Pome, 50C: show the relation between H.D. & Duncan's own deve­ keeping the pictures coming, the essence of this sort of That was how it was up through no. 4, anyway. Heav­ (who else?) is' cited as a master & "half-grown refugees when such materials are being made available. Simon is anyway one of the best in the west and when lopment. Jerome Rothenberg "transposes" Navaho & Seneca poetry is lots of groovy & heavy thoughts and nasty turns iest firepower is from T.L. Kryss, a real man of imagina­ from Liverpool" are questioned as to their qualifications. DICK HIGGINS, A Book About Love & War & Death, he brings his head down upon the psychic end of the new poetry, with the help of native poets, using "total tran­ of mind — little time or need for craft, its the on-the- tion who nails Detroit to the wall, John Thomson, who Fowler includes a rock lyric (adorned with a "©", pre­ $1.25: life style you can pretty well count on him to give you a slation" technics to convey the character of the poems in line immediacy which has to thrust, whap and recoil. sticks to what happened & needs little else to make a sumably so none of these refugees will cop any of it) Higgins is into chance methods here, he got this to­ good buzz. Some good navigating through relevant and the original, including their dramatic-incantatory qual­ Xavier blows hot & cold & has it, at best, but needs long poem, Doug Blazek, who tells how you get to join which is just sad shit, no matter WHAT his intention was gether by casting dice, constructing Fortran programs and interesting changes, shooting out the vision like popcorn. ities. MichaeL McClure seems to have come up with a to learn the soloing musicians' sense of pace (this poem the deathmachine & illustrates it with a flouting collage, in writing it. In publishing all this, Krech makes bid interfusing words from an Indonesian dictionary. Moves through levels quite smoothly, a compact & lithe new "thing" for his "7 Los Angeles Poems," one of which would sound better read LIVE than on the page). Also, D.R. Wagner, advanced subjectively that softly finds the to be the first littlepress mag to set aside a humor section. This isnt the complete work, its sections of Cantos from run through the realities. If you dont know Simon yet, appears on the cover. The poems are "field" creations start reflecting more of the contemporary feeling & ex­ right parts of your head, Krech himself, the head poet, More than enough poems in here which wouldnt have it- Its, the kind of trip where you make the story. But let him lob this little bomb into your hair. on the page, hand-made in varied-size writing, empha­ perience, not just the anguish. John Oliver Simon in the Middle East, d.a. levy, thats had to have been published & some disappointing things by really. Millions of fissures & possibilities along which RICH KRECH, Poems From the interrupted Journal, ses arising from that & from the symmetrical contours of people who can do much better. Layout is downhome & you may seek your realities & dreams. A gymnasium for $1.00: the word-arrangements, it allows McClure to freak more decorated with scarabs, but gets confusing at times (to 'your perception, with occasional humor. If you dont know Krech either, your eyes should, marry & make his tendency to overemphasis more of a natural run a mag loosely you have to be precise), like the I think you can be freer without "random" composition your chest. He's one of Simon's stablemates in Northern affair. Wagner-Kelley-Mack-Krech runon. and some people are discovering that. Whats missing Reaganland and in addition to collaborating to run one Lots of tough screaming in the poems this issue. Con­ Get your copies of this one while they last. here is balls & the sometimes necessary scream of distress. of the steaming presses there, they keep on top of~the tinued concern with ancestors & with the art of transla­ No. 5 is a broadside sheet (folded twice, to make the Too "gamey". Nevertheless, a strange lyricism emerges. scene, including the streets, where they're adept. tion are evidenced in works by Rene Daumal (Cid Corman, equivalent of 8 pages of poems & graphics). Poems by Krech is guerrila infighter & incorrigable head, you translator), who is torn by the old disparity between sub­ Charlie Borden, Charlie Potts, Hajj, John Oliver Simon, QUIXOTE, volume 4, no. 2 — THE WATERCOLORED get the benefit of both sides here. One poem from each limity & fact & pushes the edges of unbearability further Alta, Joel Waldman & Krech, all revolutionary, all WORD, send to 315 N. Brooks, Madison 53715, $1.00 month, June to November of last year, you can feel & further, and by Christian Morgenstern (translation by quite good. The form & content of this publication (its tension mount as things get shittier. Two of Krech's "Jess"), his "Gallows Songs" (with graphic layout) is a an outstanding example of guerilla printing which sacri­ This number of Quixote is turned over to the gay, mad principle gifts are being able to pull you easily into his head sequence of folky & mean German "whimsy" mixed fices little in the way of standards), especially when con­ mixed-media world of Chicagoan Norbert Blei, who in action and frame of mind & being able to write poems with implied horrors. Jack Hirschman balls his fist & trasted with its preceding number, reflects the trajectory turn transforms the mag (with the help of fine art repro­ which are classic statements of a situation. Some of his shows a triphammer left jab. Diane Wakoski narrates a of shit & fan interaction around Berkeley. duction and printing on the publisher's part) into a uni­ lines are too much, also, as in the nearly flawless "Mao personal log of smashed marriage a-la-mode. Eshleman que & personal extension of himself. Mao Poem" or "Unfinished Poem". makes the long poem work again, college frat pledge & In addition to editing San Francisco Earthquake Jacob Included ate a series of magazines and newspaper clip WARREN WOESSNER, The River's Return, $1.00: its own brand of hell down at the grease & balls foundry Herman publishes the NOVA BROADCAST series. Obtain & send coupons which trace a man's life through implied Not so much with it as the westcoast people described level where it comes out your eyes. Adrienne Rich hangs from him at 1562 Grant Avenue, San Francisco 94133. changes (even his wife's), happening scenarios,an account above, Madison's (by way of the east) Woessner more than on the academic confession-contemplative thing, but this RAY BREMSER, Drive Suite, $1.00: of the conception and presentation of a carousel, and holds his own around the Wisconsin scene, simultaneously time something comes through — those people are ingen-, One of Bremser's hardest swingers & done 8-9 years poems of any conceivable sort and shape, often utilizing illustrating this area's lag and his own growing aptitude. ious with conceits, though. Michael Heller exposes some ago, I'm glad it was rescued from oblivion. This cat is water-color abstracts as an integral part of the message. At best, Woessner is pretty economical in stringing to- more of the sadism-virility hangup. still around & interest in his work is due for an increase. The pop end of the show is adroitly handled . The gether target hits made of relatively groovy materials; Ten by Robert Kelly, he continues to develop a diction Bremser is master of the rant, probably the most real happenings section (including the carousel rap, perhaps description that implies, feeding to a conclusion that giving more force to his knowledge & referential richness. of the "beat" poets, he reads better, at this point, than the key inclusion) is infectious if not entirely ingenious. might drop you out of your head a bit, into a mild epi­ Armand Schwerner has one happening-repitition & one either Kerouac or Corso. A natural head with a natural As poet, Blei is charming & resourceful in his means. phany. "Letter to John" is the only medium-to-long tightlipped eulogy. Joe Early's master's touch scores feeling for jazz, a sprawling mind with its own peculiar He's not too inventive (most of his devices in color- thing here, teenage-past, with Woessner shoving the bullseyes saying just what it means. Larry Eigner pretty mixture of toughness & imagination. He should be heard, figure background, newspaper & magazine typeface mixes language a little harder. When he learns how to say if much likewise. Charles Olson breaks up geneaology into actually, particularly with musical accompaniment. and collagiste arrangement have been mined before), nor like that without spoiling the choice moods he can set, another of his thinking & calculating out loud raps. Large blocks of thoughts piled on with a primitive even very exploratory. A sort of amateurish fidelity he may be more ready to help pull the midwest out of .Stanley Nelson gets reality to freeze while it moves. thrust, thinking out loud, riding the monkey, no poses. keeps him on the right side of artlessness and the im­ the fifties. Caterpillar is now on sale at the UWM bookstore, get by Rich Mangeisdorff Its Coryei! (upon whom most of the 'rock" or "ampli­ When he hits into the tongues, you have a furious con­ portance of this book lies in its being a contribution to JENNIE ORVINO, Like a Tree, 50$: one next time you're in there to buy your pipe tobacco. fication" responsibility falls) who appears least effective, sciousness trying to extricate itself from pain, naming & the expressive possibilities of post-McLuhan publishing. praising what it digs. What Blei does best is to project himself in a way Like somebody with lyricism that they dont express often PAUL XAVIER, The Anarchist Papers, Undermine Press, ALBERT AYLER, Love Cry, Impulse A-9165. Ayler, tenor furnishing neither the excitement or expression of a good If you didnt learn from Bremser, you have back dues which makes use of many effects. Light but genuinely enough, a little tentative but frank & straight-forwardly $1.00. sax; Donald Ayler, trumpet; Call Cobbs, harpsichord; rock guitarist, nor the fluency or imagination of a good into the joys of erotic play. Details merge into a simple Alan Silva, bass; Milford Graves, drums. jazzman. His conception is in a budding state. to pay. warm & once you realize that Blei is discovering how to communicate by offering HIMSELF, you can relax & have sweep of feeling. A good start. Done up just like another in the City Lights "Pocket Marcus himself blows Coltrane pretty fluently, viz. WOLF VOSTELL, Miss Vietnam, $1.65: Albert Ayler, both in his personal conception and in tenor-work on "Rain" (2001) & "Theresa's Blues" (2009); A great introduction to "happenings" by one of the some fun you'll go away feeling pretty good. the kind of band he has together, here, represents one both times he (wisely) stops short of the Pharoah Sanders of the most formidable solutions going to the "where-do- end of what can be heard on "Meditations" (Impulse A- we-go-from-here-with-jazz" problem (if, indeed, its any 9110). He knocks at the door effectively, but isnt ready problem for him at all). He chooses the path of freedom to break it out yet. He shows a nice lyricism on adapt­ and innovation (he's one of the most original musicians ed rock things like "Eight Miles High" (2001) & "Scar­ anywhere & his sidemen follow suit) and he's steadily borough Fair" (2009) & "Back Street Girl" (2009), essent­ building a language both personal and universal, a qua­ ially, he substitutes his reed for the singer's line, while vering, sometimes agonizing sweet-sour sound which re­ Nock holds it together (harpsichord on the first two men­ veals magical depths and highlights. tioned). "Mellow Yellow" (200 1) is great humor, but The production strategy on t h i s Ip appears to be the the freedom implied there is no joke & he'd best explore same one that Impulse has pursued in "presenting" other something similar in his next- album unless he wants to former ESP-Disk artists to a "wider public"; cut down the become stereotyped. Gary Burton's "Haifa Heart" (2001) lengths of the tunes, keeping the players from going too is one of this groups lyrical highwater marks, featuring far out into improvisational fury. Even this can't phase Nock's harpsichord. Ayler (a liberated cat, indeed); he still gets one side to Which brings us to the 3 long-cut tours. "Tomorrow work out on & for the first side, with its six two-to-four Never Knows" was made for what Marcus can do to it. minute samplers, well, Ayler doesnt degenerate into mere Coryell rips, moans, buzzes as effectively here as any­ riffing, he showcases some of his more striking & beauti­ where, Marcus flogs his soprano to the drums' insistent ful melodies ("Omega" is one of the most joyous "Span­ plod "Theresa's Blues" (2009) is a good blowing workout by Tom McNamara very true-to-life, but has picked a subject for his book ish" tunes I've heard in a while), and the group demon­ for everyone. "Ooh Baby" (2009) promises as much & is POORBOY AT THE PARTY by Robert Glover, Pocket that makes his job as a writer very difficult. As a re­ strates a tightness in interplay which would do credit to initially as infectious as "Tomorrow...", but turns out to sult, all of the characters in Poorboy are cardboard, in­ Books, 95$. most of the old dixieland groups. He even gets to work be another blowing track. Marcus (or somebody) still cluding the non-hero. WHENCE ALL BUT HE HAD FLED by L.J. Davis, Ace, in some chanting ^Moorish-Arabic-Oriental tinged) on the has to learn how to keep the excitement rolling contin­ 75$. A blond young cat, a medallion hung around his neck, title track; after all, its "weird" enough to tickle the uously, this sort of sound rather demands that. slouches on the front of L.J. Davis's "Whence All But He YC>UNG AND TENDER by William Wantling, Bee-Line "hey, listen to this, will you" tourists, right? Ha ha. Still, as a "new-star" reed, Marcus indicates how far Had Fled" (whence did he get the title from). Probish Books, $1.25. If you want to hear "Ghosts" done up proper, get ESP we've come since the days when such a role would be is the character's name but "Nebbish" would have been Sometimes you wonder why guys keep writing books. 1002, where he does two variations of it. "Bells" is the occupied by, say, Stanley Turrentine. Even if he may more like i t and the action centers around New York's And then you wonder than anybody reads them anymore. entirety of ESP 1010. be due for a creative crisis, the SOUND he produces Lower East Side, but there really isn't any "action" to But then, paperbacks have become a commodity in Ameri­ On side two, Cobbs begins "Zion Hill" with some Bar- makes damned good listening & his contribution is solid speak of, like Gover's non-hero, Davis's lets things and ca, something to resort to when our leisure-time reveals oquish harpsichord %. everything happening from there on as far as it goes. people act on him and the book is an accumulation of itself as the boredom that it really is. So we search for to the end of the other cut, "Universal Indians," is a STEVE MARCUS, Count's Rock Band, Vortex 2009. Mar­ events. The bookjacket says "Robert Probish was 18 when something to occupy our minds. Perhaps that's all we joy to hear Ayler has gotten himself together some­ cus, tenor & soprano saxes; Larry Coryell, guitar; Mike he escaped from his dull, mindless family in Queens and r the nex can ask of a book these days. what, lyrical strength that is one of the few valid replies Nock, piano & harpsichord; Chris Hills, rhythm guitar & went to live in the East Village. He had no idea what lays. Here are a few selections from the book: Robert Gover is best-known for "The One-Hundred to what Coltrane started. Brother Donald handles the bass; Bob Moses, drums; Chris Swansen, arranger & per­ he was getting info..." but he doesn't get into anything Nothing is depraved except the government. Dollar Misunderstanding," which 1 remember as a very trumpet masterfully & serves as a foil; his work on "Uni­ cussion; Dominic Cortese, accordian (on "Back Street Stay seated. This is a CORE shit-in. other than an apartment fire, a visit to a homosexual versal Indians" puts him out front among "new" trumpets, funny book that contrasted the hung-upness of a square Girl LeRoi Jones eats white ice cream. older man who has financed a young painter who lives no news if you've heard him before, skittering like hell college kid and the primitive hipness of a young whore Be kind to Chuck the Spake, he's the official N in the next apartment, and being mothered by a stuffy all over with deft abandon. Cobbs is the finest harpsi­ named Kittne. It was an original and he quickly follow­ Marcus is also coping with the "where's-jazz-going" People probably chipped these things on the walls o Jewish superintendent and his wife as he hides sick in chordist working outside "classical" music, and this is the ed it up with something called "The Maniac Responsible." problem & he's as derivative as Ayler is original (he lyptian bathrooms 2000 years ago. So progress is a ball his. apartment. first jazz or rock band to integrate that instrument. Silva It, too, was an original, but something strangely dis­ doesn't even seem to write & is more like a featured lint pen. William Wantling's "Young and Tender" throbs with is one more superb bassist, flashfire quick, & rich when jointed and manic and obsessive, a non-story that some­ soloist, here), but when the source is Colirane you can't Jesus saves S & H Green stamps. action. It's almost alt sexual and it seems that Cole, his he can afford to slow down. Graves is still one of the how filled out a book. American books are like Ameri­ really fault the man; just be righteous in your usage. been Would Christ carry a draft card? hero, hasn't a brain in his head. He's the typical por­ scariest drummers playing, at least as good as Rashied can food, they always seem to have more volume than Resulting is a third-stream jazz-rock based on adapt­ Reality is the shifting face of need. nography hero, more of a centaur than a man, but he has* Ali, or Sonny Murray. -When Keith Moon absorbs his weight and Gover's book- new is potato-chip light and ing Coltrane's sound to rock — actually Coltrane does Never be led astray into the paths of virtue. a friend named Gamowski (the character is based on poet message, or something like it, then maybe rock drumming though it held my inreres, (I must confess that I have serve as a good base for a rock group to work off of. You are fast becoming what you are going to be Charles Bukowski) and Gamowski is a live character who will start to MOVE. Moses is a rocking El Jones, Nock (who's been around The penis is mightier than the sword. to peek back into it to determine the name c* the main really says things, who really lives and breathes,who I'd have to pity anyone who cant get into this Ip & awhile, mainly in Boston) is Coy Tynerish (he knows God hips those who hips themselves. character, he's so bland, so really impotent and opinion strips away the veneer. He talks of death and killing groove hard with it. Really. The thing most men learn too late —sex is of Inte less. The stray concerns a poorboy, swimmer who is on and the insanity of it all and says those words we've Heroie Hancock too & can be much freer when he can both sexes. a scholarship to a university finding himself among the wanted to read in books for so long; he makes all the break outside of the bands predomiant sound) even to STEVE MARCUS, Tomorrow Never Knows, Vortex 2001. "sons and daughters of the rich and powerful" as they other characters in these books look like the cut-outs the point of providing an interlude to the action. Play­ Marcus, tenro & soprano saxes; other personnel unident­ J. Edgar Hoover sleeps with a nigh" light. sun themselves during their end-of-the-school-year revel they are . He makes "Young and Tender" worth reading. ing harpsichord he provides some fine, almost "electric" ified, probably the same as below, Cortese, out, Swan- If you don't like my selections or the book you can and then decide to wreck a mansion. Gover draws them Not that you won't enjoy the sex. backgrounds & is probably the most competent musician sen orobably out. ays continue to do your reading in the normal place.