RED TIDE Vol. 1 No. 4 November 4, 1971
Page 1 Economic Crisis: Where’s the Money? R. Wiles Page 2 Letters La Verdad Page 3 Who are These People Page 4 Massacre John Taylor Nelson Page 5 The Politiks of Junk : An Easy Way to Kill a Movement Micheal Rossman Page 6 Interview with P. Adams Sitney Eric Arnould and Eleanor Almone Page 7 Musician Ship Sol Luie Siegel Let’s Eat [Cartoon] Page 8 The WXBC Blues Duncan Hanna Page 10 Hasn’t Stopped Since. . . Page 11 Jefferson Airplane: A New Departure Chris Martinez Page 12 Reflects Kevan Lofchie A Trip Down Hell’s Canyon Bruce Poli Page 13 Movie Schedule ' ::-::....,-- ""':'"" -. ·. ~
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There are also in~ An analogy to the ~reat Qepression is in· 1967-68 called for opposite medicine, a that some strong (and probably unique) eouities involved in the blanket appli evitable, where the New Deal was forced to rather substantial tax increase. No such economic policy move was in order cation of ~e freeze to all wages and pri attack economic stagnation of massive move was giyen se~ious discussion by the and long overdue. In these terms the ces ·· that 1s , regardless of income levels pro_eortions and at th~ same time attempt Administration and instead we were treated Nixon program _of tf:le wage-price in the case of individual incomes and re to fill a vacuum of economic inaction. to a slightly b'othersome tax sur<;.t)arge in freeze is a very logical move. lt is one of gardless of financial situation with re 1968 -which was too small, too late and, the strongest possible actions to beta· spect to individual business enterprise On the contemporary sc~ne, however, the as subsequent data shows, virtually ineffec· ken in such an intransigent inflation. both of whom may have needed wage'or p~oblems must be viewed as beginning with tive. Statistically, it lops off the 'paper' price increases to adjust to the economic the s_uccessful economic results of the growth rapidly rising prices and wages realities of an inflationary spiral. Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cuts of 1964 and have given us. Further, after the three Thus today, really five years after the their growth impact, carry.ing the American month trial period, it should take some Probably due to considerations like these, acceleration of prices began to economy from the doldrum state of the show of the 'inflation psychology' out of the we have now sketched out for us the second up, we are still faced with one · early 1960's to virtual full employment in of the decisions of business and con~umer_s and phase ot Nixon's program to become ef most serious inflations in American · 1967._ There are as serious difficulties in allow them to make mo:e ratlo~~lln·. fective Nov. 14. I use the word 'sketch' economic history and we have lost our ·~ m-anaging prosperity" as there are in vestment and co~sumpt1on dec1s1ons, I.e. advisedly. For the guidelines for 'Phase economic progress in the bargain. Yet ~chi~ing full emplymen_t and a growing not base? primanly, as.no": •.on w~at Two' are remarkably unclear. The only things ecofiomic system. These difficulties are . are rarely so simple in economics expectattons of a steadily nsmg pnc~ avowed aim of the program is the goal of . intensified when the .major economic to allow the blame for the inflation to level would enco~rage . For econo~lsts restraining price increases within a 2·3% weapon of the U. S. Government-- the fall on these two factors alone. There are have long recogmzed that acceleration of inflation rate by the end of 1972 ·· a Federal Budget-- loses_its flexibility as a institutional explanations as well: in inflation has more of a psy~hological range that most economists regard as 1965 wage settlements began to outstrip policy tool and must be sacrificed to the base than an~ o~e ec~nomlc fact~r ~at virtt~aUy no inflation at all and.s~e as (1• demaods of. war_. The present problems the rise of productivity of labor which can be quantitatively ISolated. Th1s IS cessary to accord with incentives·ior can, in large part, be traced to the clash of had been rising handsomely since the not to say, however, that the. specifics - economic growth. Aside from this, how- the '64 _fiscal program's bearing fruit in early '60's. This also adds inflationary of the freeze was nece~ary .g•ven the, ever, Nixon's Pay Board and Price Cam- ·1965-66 with the decision by President fuel to the economy as unit wage costs current problem. Yet 1n sp1te of ones mission must form some criteria by John son to escalate the war in 1965. This rise and prices are forced upward to ideological ou~l~ok on the desirability of which to judge the requests for wage ·caused in 19l?~Hi6 and, more seriously in maintain profit margins. Add this fac free market prtcmg or on the related as- and price increases that have waited in 1967, a large Federal Deficit grafted upon a tqr to the long since documented fact of sue of wheiner the market works well the wings during the freeze and wilt seek ful!y-empl?ye~, full capacity economy. inflexible prices in the industrial seg when left alone. I would suggest that redress in November. Th J~_ _co _mb1nat1on carried the economy to ment of the economy·and one has con interferences of this nature with market what economists like to call the "full em structed a wonderful textbook model price decisions have a poor track record. An example of the uncertainty felt by ploym~nt ceiling." Such a mix has only of classic inflation. We experienced such problems in the the designers of the 'Phase Two' plan one possible result; that is, a rapid acceler But here the textbook model's relevance Second World War and Korean price is the following quotation from a ation of pric;es throughout the economic fails. For in the past two years we have controls, and the Soviet economic sys- • 'Background Paper on Post-Freeze Eco system. had inflation plus a rather substantial tern has strugg1ed manfully with the dis nomic Stabilization Program' sent out by dose' of unemployment and excess locations and black markets caused by the White House this month to present The villain.Tn such an inflationary spiral is, capacity at the same time. That is, we such interferences. A vote for a wage the rationale for the program. lt is re~ however, not federal deficit finance ger se, have a repeat of only one-half of the price freeze must be purely a pragmatic markable for its vagueness: · a_s earlier conservative_economic policy 1965-66 problem-- inflationary pressure one. would have it, but the tting of such a without the full employment usually 'The Pay Board will formulate standards large deficit. In short, t e economy at full accompanying it. The economist, never Even accepting the necessity of such a of permissib\e employees' compensation potential could not grow and therefore could bashful abou! creating new terminology move, one certainly can attack the first to carry out the purposes of the program. · not absorb ttJe additional spending required for such a situation, but distressingly phase of the policy as involvi'llg inequi· The Price Commission will promulgate to finance the Vietnam escalation. . slow in forging new P«?licies_to deal ties in application-- with no profit standards of permissible prices, including with it, has rer.PI"Itly begun to call this con guidelines-and inequitable proposals in rents. The Cost of Living Council will This is only par:t of the picture as far as our temporary economic problem 'stagflation . the tax area. While, on the one hand, ·.c.urrent economic difficulties are concerned. Such a term combines the dual problems asking the economy by quasi-patriotic (to page fourteen) -_A secon~ factor to be 9~nsidered is the of inflation and stagnation which, until appeal~ ~o hold the price-wage line,
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194-'o LA VERDAD
"LA VERDAD"
Being that my last article has caused a little reaction from some readers, I would like to follow it up, with this one. and clear up some of the points that I made in the last.
First of all let me say that I was really shocked at getting any responses at all. For awhile there I thought that many of .·· you couldn't read or were just blind. I · · ':. thank those of you who did respond and .. , I hope to hear from you again.
1t seems that those of you who did resp ond accused my article of being irrational, an ego trip, childish and so on. My ar ticle may have given you that impression but then again that's your opinion. As far as I am concerned it accomplished its goal--getting a response. You see, I've written two previous articles in which I -., -. got only one response; so I came up with the conclusion that the only way I was ~riends# ever going to get through was by being, .· AN OPEN LETTER TO as you put it, "irrational and childish:' -·~ HECTO-R coRtuo - · I was overjoyed to read PASS ON As far as my feelings towards the petition StfARISON'S ASS in the last issue. My Sir, - good feelings were due .m or~ to the fact (which was the subject of my last article) are concerned, they haven't changed. I 1hat Lwas re.~qirig .something that·actuallv _ : ~l don't know what you~re mad abo_ut~ still feel that the petition was, as my bro acknowiedge'd'and dealt'wlth gayness:- · -~ - (and I couldn't care less, you've de- ther Mike puts it, "an apathetic insult;' rather than to the contents of the article. strayed _ possibili~y arw_ of ~Y ever towards the Latin American Organization eating about your p-roblems) but re · Since I've arrived at Bard, I've wondered and the Black Organization. The whole gardress of what -it Is, I can see no article was directed at the wnere the gay faction~ moreover, the GAY people who concievable justification for the ir wrote it and those CONSCIOUSNESS of this campus, was of you who signed it. rational article you wrote for the Red You question my ability hiding. I was told "There used to be a · and intelligence Tide. as both a person and a writer. GLF here last year, but not this year. __ Well then, I asK you this: There aren't enough~ay people:" WHAT? why don't yuu question I am amazed that you have been your ability and intelligence as readers? given . an bpportUJllty To my disappointment, the-only people to inflict your Even ifyou did not comprehenc! the childish viewpoints on the rest of us. I-'ve met who feel at all comfortable talk~ real goal behind that petition, it wouldn't I suspect that it may have been an ing about gayness are women in our con- . take a genius to see how disorganized and attempt to pacify · sciousne~·raising sessions. If it weren't you, but regardless misleading it was. of the reasons for our weekly meetings, I believe I'd have for your having La Verdad, a difficult time maintaining my own you have abused the privilege. This is by no means an apology. For those awareness ~f sexism and sexuality. who feel insulted by my last article, I just lt has always been my belief that the wanted you to know that I am interested purpose - In a gay newspaper, COME OUT, a list of 'of a piece of writing is to in your viewpoints and that never will I present a gay organizations 13nd their addresses are viewpoint and to back it up remain silent. with facts. Not once published. Bard GLF is listed. Box 87. _ in your "arti cle" (I hesitate I've asked Box 87 what's gqing on-- but · to dignify it by FOREVER LATIN ... they won't tell me. ISN'T ANYONE ELSE · labeling it such} did you mention any Hector Cortijo INTERESTED IN STARTING ANY- thing that would lead an objective Public Relations THING? person to feel anything but pity for Latin American Organization yo_u and your childis~ _prattlfngs. . . . (sometimes I wonder if anyone else sees That was just one big ego trip_ for that how we've been tucked over sexually you. You weren't speaking to , any is the key to how we've been divided in one, you were speaking .every way ·possible). - .. - at them, and if you hope to ever accomplish any '·.:. :. , -~ · ·1· ~-- -~ ·,' . , ·_ , .,~ - - ~ ~~ _ ... : thing more - .. ;- · ·> .·-Laurie Lewis than antagonizing people, .- .. you had better revise your attitudes . K. Michael Hickey _- ,.,_ . .· . . - : • ...... · ~ , l ____ ,_~~--~~-.
I ! 'w o are ese 3 '• ...... To fhe edito~s and writers iri general, and ately when we come to Bard we are at a to Manuel Auli in, particular: · disadvantage. Due to the fact that we went to segregated schools (and segrega The words "racism'' and "oppression" tion not only exists across the Dixie line) ha\ie been used so freely in the Observer our academic background ill-prepares us and the ,Red 'lide, especrany in .reference for the scholastic work. We are on an to Conditions at Ba-rd, that I think it is I unequal footing and these differences .ne time a point was cleared up. not resolved. ,-, , - . Yes, most of the white people at Bard, and Do not think, for one moment, that Bard I in~lude myself, are apathetic, indifferent is geographically isolated and that the and in many cases selfish. We have a lot of outside .world is shut out. Recognize the prejudices, some of which we pretend ~ealities; the social inequities are brought don't exist, others which we honestly don'1 mto the Bard community, not just from know we have. the ghettos of New York. but from the slums across the river in Kingston anti But we are not racists. Have you, Manuel, generally from the deep souths around ever met ge'nuinely "outright racism" or this area C'the south is just across the real "oppression?" Have you ever been Canadian border"). kicked, spit on, laughed at because you were a Puerto Rican? Has this happened I do not fight wars with atom bombs. I once at Bard? - think, Julie's graphic was not to convey three people or "powers" fighting each The war you are fighting is a necessary other. lt was intended to point out the one, but {!on't confuse Bard with the deep humourous ridiculousness of the hostility South .or the Puerto Rican ghettos of New that has been going on among us ail. York. lt's a shooting war here, and you Julie Gelfand's cartoon was totally mis are fighting it with atom bombs. construed.
Daniel Cantor You say that I "shake you up the wrong way" and that I "alienate~· you. Yes, my P.S. In the interests of the "rapport and art1cle was intended to be provocative. lt interaction"_that you are trying to build, was designed to make people think. The let me add a specific protest against your primary purpose of the article was to use (and the paper's use) of New Left formulate questions in the minds of the rhetoric. I believe your intention is to friendly, the hostiie, the indifferent, the shake us up, and I agree wholeheartedly concerned, the apathetic, and the sympa· that Wf:. need it. But my personal reaction thetic. Although your and other people's is that I am shaken up the wrong way. You reactions were an immediate and emotional alienate me. Instead of making me think, denial that prejudice exists at Bard, I con I find that articJes that sound lik~ yours _ _ DRAWYOUROM\J-MAUi gratulate you for asking questions. Most did _!Jt the beginning and end turn me off i people have grumbled and discussed the completely to what you have to say. content of the article among themselves. tttttttttttttttttt.tttt+tttttttttttt~ Instead they should have asked questions, come to us and talked. We would not necessarily have to come to an agreement. thing when there exists indifference and _ Marxist government, and the like. That is, apathy towards two groups. The matter Latin Americans' past and contemporary is more campi icated than you think. The history is either completely distorted or I hope, Dan, that you and other members "WHO AR_E THESE P~OPLE?" social inequity and debt to Black and de_liberately ignored. For e_xample, when of the Bard community think not of us as · Latin Americans must be paid in full. And a man like Allende comes to power, who those people who sit at the back table in this is something not easy j_or you and your is concerned with redistributing the dining commons or those two organiza tions that request and usually get a good 1 peers to understand.or grasp fully. wealth and making Chile a better place to Wlen a rainl:xM appeared I vvent run amount of money from senate each semes ning live, he is described,by the press and the in its direction. But the rainbow_ You state that oppression and racism is ter. Let us find a base of similarities, not a long 'V'Wr'f. an Anglo government in terms that are de was Just as 1he politicians overly used word, with the implication signed to trigger negative emotional re a pool of differences, to work with. Cl'e a long Wi1( off from 1he people. I that it is cliche. ·lt would be difficult to sponses and not in terms that are accurate p tired ad sat dovvn. Afterwdrd l I cannot promise deny that Black people have been oppressed or truly portray the objectives of the pro any of you that I will started to cry. They ITIJSt fimt to im extend my for more than three hundred years, and gram. And that is what I mean by oppres hand out to you -- the past is prove... so 1hat our mildren clln't suffer too fresh for me to forget. But if you ex _as v.e a-8 sufferi_ng. ". that the black,man has been robbed of sion and racism. his life. This is still going on. tend your hand, what other recourse have I but to extend mine. Dlild af the Dark But what has this to do with oppression a..oiina I am not assimilating in any way the lang at Bard? Maria de Jesuss As I said in my article there are Do not react emotionally to this letter or uage {note that I don't use your word, , poor and lower midole-class students at to my aFticle. Read it over, reconsider it rhetoric) of "leftist" young people in the Bard that deeply resent the fact that we . U.S. In Puerto Rico, in Santo Domingo, and then and only then respond. But do get scholarships and "special" financial respond. When _my article came out a boy came to and other Latin countries the people are assistance. I feel that I am not taking the table at which Julie Gelfand was sit- still shouting "Yangui go home." Our anything from them. What little we In all sincerity and honesty, ting and just threw the 'paper in her face oppression has not ended, Dan. The pre have now, as in the case of the Afro for making the graphic for my article and sent social, economic, and political life American. is long due. Think of it as a Manuel A. Auli · ·shouted "bulls_hit" and left .. Another guy of the Latin countries is controlled by debt, but in this instance Anglo Said "Who are these people?'' Anglo-Americans. An obvious example is Americans.did not borrow from us, they Puerto Rico, a neo·colony. We are, the robbed us of our lives. The following is an answer to Daniel Anglo-American government says, a _ Cantor's letter but it's also~ response to "Commonwealth" by free choice. Puerto lt is this resentment that festers these two students and the others who hostility Rico is one of the more blatant instances; towards Black and Latin students at Bard. unfortunately, if they had any questions it is much more difficult to see how the lt is a hostility that is not overt but I to raise. discussed them among their U.S. controls, in its indirect and under- assure you we feel it. No, people at Bard frien9s and not with me. handed way, the other Latin countries. have not "~icked, spit and laughed at us Dear Dan: simply because we are Puerto Ricans or When it comes to Puerto Ricans you do Latins." You or any other member of the not accept or y-ou evidently deny the fact Bard community cannot put v.ourselves I will answer point by point all of the that we have been oppressed-- oppressed questions and statements in our shoes. You cannot fee(the resent in your letter. in the sense that our economies, govern You said in your ment that we constantly face here at letter that "most white ments, and our lives have been - people at Bard (and you and are Bard. i'nclude yourself) presently controlled by are apathetic, your regime and indifferent and in many In the first cases selfish, but we are not your people. paragraph of my article I racists.'' You stated that the attitudes ask me personally if I have "ever met of Bard students Our bondage is not like that of the Africa towards Latin and Black people have been ~nuinely" "outright racism" or real who was forced "oppression" (your quotation marks.) into slavery. lt is more mainly that of resentment, but infrequent subtle, more indirect and less visible or ly outright racism. I developed further in _. . . -·easy to perceive. lt is this bondage that the article my point that at Bard we con I think there is no question that Bard stu- you· will not read about in your history stantly encountered indifference. That is, dents, whether they are Black, white or textbooks. You will only read in News- at Bard people are not interested or do . ~~~ L~~)psH.ffe'l~t !ind apath,etic __yve _ek or t!le Times 'of nationalizatio~ ~f not care about what Anglo-Americans have tlj rndrvrduaJI.-' But iils quite a different · the Anaconda Copper Mines, Allende s done to Latin ard Black people. lmmedi- R. Crumb. who else? by John Taylor Nelson sus~icion and fear, and for good rea .4 son. every group of soldiers that had know much about these people. ever come to this village had brought Taking a walk may sound like as_imple . Such thoughts often ran through the Rons?n probably liked to think that he trouble., T~is one was no exception. act, but there are times.and places head of R9bert Edwards. They helped was s1mply following orders, but he Ronson s first ?rder ~as to ge~ every when ?nd where you have to be crazy to take his mind off his physical mi h~d strange ways of interpreting them. bad": toget~er m a big group in a . to do 1t. If you were a Jew in the 1930's series and the things he had seen- and G1ven an order to bring in enemy spies cleanng. HIS next was for a thorough you certainly wouldn't go for a walk in done· in the four months since he has he would include anyone who had a ' search of every building in sight. the streets of Berlin. If you are a black come to help make Vietnam safe for transistor radio, especially those who had · man it would not be wise to take a democracy. Notthat_anything could attached long pieces of wire as antennas. The search uncovered one item of in~ walk in a white neighborhood, a~d vice do the job entirely, but complaining to Told to round up enemy food supplies, terest besides a small amount of rice versa. There are also places where the himself about the government was he would take half of the rice supply of to keep the natives alive until the climate makes a constitutional highly better than reminding himself of what fNery village in the area. And so forth ~ext harvest. This was a rusty, unloaded impractical; an irresistable urge to go he had seen wf)en they had found the Since Ronson couldn't order around h.is nfl~ of the same make as the one with tor a walk in Antarctica, for example, two platoon members who the V .C. own men, he ordered around the natives. wh•~h the young V.C. had killed Hal can be fata~. ~ad captured the day before, or of the Dav1s. Ronson looked at it for a few booby traps that others hadn't seen in I wonder what the folks back in Madison mo men~s. Then ~e ordered the burning Nor is it wise to go walking i~ the rain time. would say if they knew about all this of the VIllage. Th1s was quickly done. foreSt of a certain section of South Viet Edwards thought. Would they still p~t nam, especially at noon when the corn- · So here was Pfc. Robert M. Edwards Support-Our-Boys-in-Vietnam bumper ~uarding the villagers and watching the bination of heat and humidity is almost age 24, University of Wisconsin CJa~ stickers on the car? Support Our Boys. !•re, Edwards began to think that maybe, un~arable even in the shade. If you are of '67, in a platoon of soldiers whose mis !n Korea, wasn't it Support Our Fight· JUSt maybe, Ronson had finally cracked a simple peasant there whose wardrobe sio"n was to clear a certain section of the mg Men? Maybe next time it'll be Child under the pressure of this thing. In a generaliy consists of a loincloth, a pair central hfghlands of enemy forces. The ren, and they'll fight the thing themselves moment, however, he didn't think so• he knew. ' of sandals and a straw hat to deflect the term 'enemy forces' had long ago be He smiled a little at the thought. · _rays of the sun, you will be spending come a joke amongst the troops who this ti_me in the shack you call home, had no means whatsoever of distinguish Rons?n, loo.king back, must have ~een Ronson told his forces to make a ring taking a nap. If you are a water buffalo ing th~ enemy from the farmers. who that little grm, because he was looking ?round the captives, and they obeyed. or some other beast of burden, you will were hoping that the soldiers on both at him as if he were crazy. ·Then he Raise your rifles', he said 'and when 1 be crouched down in the nearest con· sid~s would leave enough for them told Hal Davis, the radio man, to get say 'fire' I want you to kif! them. All of venient shade, taking a nap~ to stay alive. This provided a crucial field headquarters. them. 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Standing on Interstate 90 tn the middle of ' it looked like a huge me~y livingroom, Montana, there was that closing-of-summer· which gave him a dark impression. The look like it's gonna wohk out. I can't un feeling in his mind, the feeling tliat was so faces looked sloppy-happy. dastand it. Howkin a relationship dissa mixecJ with the long tdp back east and th-e peah?" I wonder where Melody is going to stay tho-ught of school again. But again and a "New Yohk?!" Bustle bustle. "Ya got when she gets to New York. She's already gain. all summer was happening as the se enough room back thea? Good. Where· kicked a heroin habit once and has been cond phase of the thoughtfeeling that had abouts ya gain' in New Yohk? Manhattn? used quite a bit. She was crying ~ this morning after she spoke to her mother begun ~he_summ~r before: that there we're Weah goin'"t~- Ooeens. Ot:Jtasite. Weahreon on the phone who said that for her no ~al vacations anymore because there oua way." The car started up again and birthda' she's like a fifteen-year-old girl back home was something to find out; that school _ eveiyone introduced themselves. The dri again. f'as ~ a _ Choice and.life was tbe real scheol ver's namewas Jim. After some questions anyway r and for the tityJe. evef! though from Him, the hitch-hiker told them some She just turned the radio off. She's the ther~ .was much churning and broo~ing, of who he was, where he'd been and what one who's been trying to turn it on for !here, was no th~eat - until it came to chang: h~ w_as_ doi!}9 going b~ck to New York at four days. mg h1mself and the ways he related too- · mnety miles an hour down the Montana thers. There were many problems there _highw~y: I'm sitting in the back on a big fluffy sleep· still. He was slowly beginning to work on ing bag with Jim and Beverly who have himself. Wher~ th_e present scheme of Aug. 28 evenin~ been together about as long as my girl and his 'rife was conce'rhed, always there' was an I have. They are warm and happy. They expec_tancy of some kind of drastic change. So ends Dean Moriarty as 1 finish Kerouac' snuggle and coo a lot. They talk a lot a- . - . . ON THE ROAD and the radio is working bout consciousness, macrobiotics, astrolo· Last s~m~er: d~wne
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by ·chris Martinez ·Which brings us back to the Ai[~ian.e Gr~~~~.s ·~;6r~zy Mirc:nda" seems (musi (thought I forgot about ··em didn;t yai) cally) strangely reminiscent of the open- :The r:'ew Airplane album-- W~ll, if you've {no such luck) Surrealistic Pillow sounds . iD9 bars of "Rejoyce" as does "Lawman" b~en with _try em from t~e .beginning - to _me like an._ act of love. Sornethll]gthat . seem (again musically) reminiscent (Surrealistic Pillow) of (if you want to start ex~ends out and beyond the re«ording . "Hey Fredrick" from Volunteers. with Grace), the typical reaction I've en studio w_here it wascut. Sqm~thingthat . . countered is that h is pretty poor. If was_the product, directly, of the six mem "Pretty as You you came in relatively late (Volunteers) bers of the Jefferson Airplane, and per Feel" seems to me to be the lamest you might consider it a fine album, rank haps indirectly of the entire San Francisco cut on the album. It kind of starts ing right up there with Sly, thl:;! Stones, scene that supported them. with both a musical and a lyrical Grand Funk or wherever your tastes run. · statement that would appear to have some sort And of cour-Se I'm .there are ali the shades . The love-- I ,keep_ returning to-that, per of potential --and then carries it on and on and in between --Total shft to their best.· haps even harping on jt, but how else can on and on and goes absolutely Each to his_()Wn as I always say. ·(Actually' _!express it? _Listen to "Today." Really nowhere in the end. - · I never say that, I just didn't want to listen. Not as a backround entertainment · offend anyone by leaving their point of to' get stoned by but ·as an entity to be Ahh but I can't say that it's all bad. That 1 would neither · view out). Nevertheless .... ! fear that Bark apprec!ated in and of itself . . be fair nor honest. I found shall prove to be the first of both a gem and a rhinestone. Rhine the non With you standing here Jefferson Airplane Ai.rplane albums. Or stones first: Joey Covington's sole cut I can tell the world perhaps the last true Airplane. "Thunk" appeals to me. Nothing special, What it means to love b_ut still very nice. Something that you This is not to say yburself might have always wanted to do that Paul Kantner, To Grace Slick, Jorma Kaukenen, go on from here (as I do) if you could ever get a hold of Jack Cassa I oan use words dy, Joey Covingten and Papa John Creach a really good tape recorder. Sing your But they don't say enough. will not_continue to put out albums, but own eight-part harmony piece. A capella, itwill be just that, Paul Kantner, Grace no less! Slick, etc.... putting out albums. Not the And musically-- once again - listen, really _Jefferson Airp~ane. · listen, to "Spare Change" off of "After And finally the gem. I think "Third Week Bathing at Baxters." Spare at r Change. the Chelsea" is the finest song Jorma Now before you get yourself involved in That's exactly what it is. A few minutes has written to date. Without exception. . the self-righteous anger (since you liked taken from the whole of a Jorma And I guess part of the reason for that Bark) of accusing me of being a 'Rock Kaukenen, Jack Cassady, Spencer Oryden is that it essentially says all that I've been Reactionary' (or something like that) let session, but you can FEEL the interac trying to get across in this article. That me say that I do believe in the ability of · tion. The movement. Jack, laying in a the dream is over. That for those people a band to change their style and personnel foundation. Jorma, making a stab here, who watched the Airplane grow and and still remain the same band. The a stab there, finding something good and change, for whom the arrival at a new moving along with Airplane Grateful Dead have always been the it. Spencer, nagging album was a cause of heartfelt pushing things along ... How elation, who Grateful Dead. With or without Tom can I describe know ... that when you went it? I can't. Go to an Airplane Constanten, one drummer or two, listen to it! concert, what you waited Dark and hoped Star, Johnny B. Goode or Ripple. for all night wasn't "White Then listen to Bark. Rabbit," it was . . . to catch a Jack Cassady smile ... ahh, What I'm talking-about is the cohesive for them, for me, it's all I guess what bothers me past. As my feeling, the combined musical most about Bark friend Lee put it " ... and the and per is its mediocrity. mighty Airplane sonnel interaction ·- so necessary A close second would isn't flying anymore ... " and have to be the general lack Ahh, bufyou integral to the San Francisco Groups of subtlety. had to have been there. in Especially musically. Why? particular. The... .~it may seem trite· or corny, but I've -played the music, the only First, look at the composers word that really describes it i_s love. -- all doing exactly what they've done on thier pre vious albums or sole The love compositions. Kantner's "War M_ovie, ""Rqck and Roll Without which 95% of rock is nothing but Island" and "When the Earth Moves banal restatement of the same lyric ideas· Again" positively reek of "Starship" and of the last century, boring repetition of prim~rily the worst aspects. Heavy over the most simplistic musical modes of the tracking of rhythm guitars and pianos, last four centuries, and noise.:.loud noise. words strung together because they either sounci"goOd (;;sonar: l~sar, quasa-~. - pulsar') Woodstock merely showed on a larger or expound Kantner's political view/ _scale what the San Francisco ballrooms •fantasies ("The government troops were had known since 1966. That no matter circled in the sun gun, found themselves what the quality of the music (and the on the run, from our nation") without early Dead were pathetic at times) (as . any apparent attempt at lyricism (and was the later Dead at Woodstock for that ye~, just as singing is not merely using the matter) the important thing, the vital vo1ce to make sounds, lyricism is not thing was the feelings --vibrations-- what r.nerely using vocabulary to make sen ever hackneyed, overused phrase you tences), and the most intensely boring wish -- I use love. wE_or~ _l.'ve hea~d Jack Ca~dy do on bass ...... ' . · ver...... , _. - ' ' . . }lht}...,. H fw •, L ~ ti&Fi: , +~fw 1_\f.\t f : ~ ~.l. , , · l~:~ ·.. Uf;{-,, . in a news despatch this morning as l2"Bring the War Home, Ltd.": Epilogue , . _ "a manual for revolutionaries containing instructions raging from sabotage to - - - by KEV~N LOF~~IE 'murder and mayhem." Particularly il· A forrn~r Cjcquairitance of _mine at luminating were your succinct instruc· Windharn- C~llege, Pu~ney-, \it., Mr-. Bill _ tions for killing a man with a dagger Powell the author of The Anarchist Is· • . ·- throt,Jgh the heart . . -1 ~ - ...- .J. • ~; reflects Cookbook. published by Lyle Stuart, Inc. Powell's tongue-and-cheek journalism Your book should be of great value to in hisbook takes into account contem· _ those of the Right and the Left who are porar)! vieWs and instructions o!l f]~errilla working to destroy the hated establtshed warfare as well as that of drug usage and order which ctingsto an outmoded belief other si~ilar activity. This is nqt a book in the sacredness·of human life, which review ·s~{1 only wiSl{t6' add that I thin~ _, fosters a pathetic hatred of violence and Mr. Powei_Lhas a goodthing going. Not. suffering, and which worships the false ·only has_he confused people as to whether gods of reason, tolerance, and personal the book is adead-serious _probe into freedom. guerrilla activity or not, but he has _indeed provoked some concern among tha~ age . Your complete repudiation of these de· of leadership in our society _othe~NI~e generate ideas encourages me to believe known as the older ge_ner~tion .., . im- . . . . :· . · .. that you may very well contribute . portantly to the completion of the work For a more precise vieW of the book's that Adolf Hitler was prevented from impact. we now go back to January, 1971_. accomplishing, despite his success in des· Follo~]ng _a~~:- three'artJ_ (:~~s on Powell's troying the republic against which he book from the- school_newspaper, waged his revolutionary guerrilla cam The Windharrl Fn~e pr~s~: .paign. ~ - : ·- __ . ·· :-· . ·. . .=·· . . May I call your attention, however, to "ANARCHIST COOKBOOK", the need for a second volume. You have studied to good advantage the terrorist New York, Jan. 14 ·A publishing firm - - tactics used by the Nazis in achieving _al wbich pridl:}s itseff on being controversi power. You have not as yet provided in a man· yesterday disclosed it is publ.is~in~ struction:t in the efficient wielding of contammg mstruc- _ ual for revo!utionaries that power in such way as to prevent to murder . a tions ranging from sabotage the recredescence of liberal and democrat and mayhem. · ic heresies once the Establishment based upon them has been destroyed. Lyle Stuart inc. said "The Anarchist Cook.· - book;' has come out in a $12 hardcover May I therefore suggest that you study edition and a $5.95 paperback edition carefully the records of the Nuremberg which"will be made available to u~\i~ trials. They have been cited extensively versitY bookshops." The book's author by liberals who have obviously been hor at Windham is William Powell, a student rified by what went on at Auschwitz, College, Putney, Vt . . According to Powell's Belsen, Buchenwald, and Dachau. No as a useful hand- foward' l1e sees tiis book one, I believe, has studied them in the whi:m the · book'tcir. the silent majority spirit that you would bring to the task. "fa~ists in pow'er""deCide on "final re- The admiring attitude toward the in· ' press1on of the people." Peter M._ Be~gman fliction of pain and death which seems to and head of a publishing house subsidiary animate "The Anarchist Cookbook" pre-face, said he author of the book's should prevent you from succumbing thinks the book's chief interest will be to liberal. bourgeois humanitarianism guy wh'o wants. to know "for the square and should enable you to read the Nur· what ~s ~oing on::" . _ .. ·- ~ _ emberg record simp\y as a manual of instructions. Extremists need a detailed . "There is no political merfi i~·~~blishl~g . , handbook on the construction and this book " Bergman said. "lt is not a operation of instrumer..ts of torture, and call for a~tion. Fod:he rear hippy and . your book, with its enthusiastic descrip yippy, cspa~!, , ll~· for the rebellious student, tions of dynamiting, garroting, and it hardly contams anything basic !hat he booby-trapping, shows that you are the · does not' already know." example the we9pons section uH "But I am th~~ one wh._, m:;cie the final it. I look fuwCJrd purtic· -~ As an man to write knives offers this advice: "The heart decision. (think Bergman's prefatory note ularly to your description of the pro The book instr~cts in,_ suiv~iilimce, ex· is another fatal spot to be considered in puts the whole issue into perspective. cedure (worked out in one of the Nazi plosives, lethal gases, wire-tapping, elec your attack. A sharp thrust will usually People like the Weathermen have called concentration camps) for tanning human tronic jamming, use of guns and knives, slip off the rib cage and penetrate the me and said they were opposed to the skin to make lampshades. An ornament garroting and boqby-tra_pping. lt is , heart. This type of thrust sho11ld in book ·· th~t the general public shouldn't of this sort would be a center of attrac· profusely illustrated with photographs corporate an upward swing." know these things." tion in your dormitory room at Windham and diagrams. A lengthy section on drugs_ alongside the trophies that you lyle Stu~rt, head of the publishing firm, College, giv~s forti)ulas. for_ma _kJng LSD and cook perhaps collected {such as ::c.id "a great many" people on his staff have already ing with marijuana and hashish. persons who have thought the book was dang_erous and gold teeth from the Dear Mr. Powell: or garroted according to should not be published. been stabbed TDe cover of tfie book bears this warning: your specifications.) " ... keep in mind that t!Te topics written May I congratulate yoJ and your pub . about here are illegal and constitute a "Some were appalled," he said. "The lisher on the projected publication of (to page fourteen) threat.'' stockholders were in a state of shock." "The Anarc.hist Cookbook," describ~d
.; ..._ . , ;~:A TRIP DOWN HELL'S CANYON · · and Oenver. . experience, to say the least, despite the As I boarded t.h-e Mohawk jet liner, visions fact that we didn't flip once. In 5 days, we ble occasion. They would describe things and ideas of all sorts flashed through my Arriving in ~Boise after 8 hours, we went saw hundreds of cows and sheep, 2 elk, and point out certain characteristics of mind in the anti~ipation of my upcoming directly to the nearest Holiday Inn. Upon 5 eagles, approximately 25 different types the West with which we were not familiar. joumey through the deepest canyon in awakening, I looked out the east window of birds, many deer and various other forms They were happy, outgoing, outdoors-type the world. Hell's r.anyon, which covers saying ''Well, Boise's flat ·· just plains." of animal life foreign to the easterner. people, always glad to help. The food was 85 miles of the very lengthy Snake River From the other end of the room I heard, One of the guides felt something crawling also excellent. Awaiting the first in the west, forms the border line between uNo, it's all mou~tains,"_ and there was, on his leg, casually brushed off the insect, "CHEEOOOOW" ca\1, which always echooo ldaho and Oregon! and Idaho and Wash- . !~ fact, a .mou~tamous vtew to the west. to find it was a baby scorpion. Baby or loudly in the hills, I anticipated bare nee· ington furthe~ north. As the jet began its Mountatns ~1th snow -- unreal. Maybe not "they can be quite poisonous. We essities as far as dinner was concerned. ascent, 1though of the Gra 11d Canyon, of·· it's the Rock1es." W~ found ~ut later that , wo~ld stop for snacks, lunch, or just a rest · Ten minutes later, huge pieces of freshly . wolves and coyotes, of deep blue skies; of · -they were the foot h1lls of B01se. and view. I would occasionally climb the made steak filled my heart and stomach cows and cowboys. Having been a Long nearby-hills, which were barron and vel· with joy. Islander, unex;posed to western living and Later that morning in April, we were vety. I would always watch where I put state beauty, my dreams were built purely out picked up and brought across the mv hands and feet: as rattlesnakes are Deep in a 5500-foot canyon {the highest to the small town of Halfway, Oregon, of second hand inf~rmation. line quite common in the Northwest. The sky point was 6600), the daylight only lasts wbere we spent the night in a tent. was a constant deep blue, unpolluted, and from 10 until 4, but those 6 or 7 hours a To begin with, it was my first flight above Awakening at 6 the next morning, which the stars were just unbelievable. The 3D day were the most fulfilling hours I've ever the clouds, which is_a whole new phenom was Monday, we collected all of our nec effect of the West is an impossible thing to spent. Once I woke up to the sound of a · ena in itself. The--dream-like softness of essities and began our 5 day excursion, describe. You will find canyons behind clanging bell very near. I looked out of weather seen from above provides for planning to end up in Lewiston, Idaho, nioumains behind plateaus, brown and the tent, to find a bewildered sheep staring another world just a few thousand feet up. on Friday, and fly home Saturday. 20 green, with every detail razor-sharp in at me from five feet away. We had,p(tched Such splendor must have been. Joni people, of whom 4 were.''guides," climbed the gleaming sun. camp in the middle of a sheep field. Most Mitchell's inspiration without a doubt aboard 2 rubber rafts, 15 feet in length, of the time I would sit back, read, think, (l.ve looked at ciouds from poth sides 6 in width. The warmth, friendliness, and knowledge and enjoy the view. And what a view. now")._ I was also entertained with two The ·snake River proved to be quite rough, of the other passengers, all of whom were stmsets, since we stopped at both Detroit and going down the rapids was a thrilling Westerners, added greatly to this roemora- Bruce Poli \ - - .. SUNDAY ETUESDAY FRIDAY ~~~~- ~- ~ ~ WEK#nescta~~ ~ ~,..- ' , '~ (d)
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(continued from page twelve) ECONOMY I am sure that you and your publisher "Well ... stuffed deer heads, elephant already anticipate heavy sales not only foot umbrella holders, bear blankets, (continue~ ·fro~. page one) to the New Left but also to the Ku Klux and preserved fish are trite. Kind of a Klan and similar groups, who are engaged cliche in a sense. What the American review these standards for consistency in the common cause of terrorizing their male needs is a new modern type of wl~ the anti-inflation goal. If either fellow citizens and paralyzing the ·en trophy. One that has meaning in today's the Pay Board or the Price Commission forcement of constitutional guarantees ~orld. If one were to update the trophy mdustry ... well, there'd be a fortune in is una~le to dev~J.op the continuing stan ?f civil rights and freedom. Perhaps, dards in time to take effect at the end mdeed, the Klan has already subsidized it." . of the freeze. it may propose interim the publication, for its leaders cannot but standards. In the event the Board or Com recognize that their methods have become "What do you have in mind?" the first mission do not develop interim standards tame and old-fashioned compared to those man asked. by November 13 the Cost of Living that .H_itler devised. and that you are stan Council will issue such interim standards. dardlztng and makmg available to all "The key is just keeping all the trophies like-minded men. up to date." lt is comforting to have all eventualities When the Revolution comes -· whether " Like the signs of the zodiac on birth covered. from the Left or the Right-- I predict day cards." that the names of William Powell and In sh~rt, these bodies, composed of labor Lyle S~uart will take their rightful place "You've got the idea." and industrial representitives and mem alongs1de those of Heinrich Himmler bers defending the public interest must and Lavrenti Beria. Even if the Revolu "But how would one go about updating form':! late, perhaps ad hoc as the ;e tion does not come, the world will the trophy industry?" the first man quests come in~ an 'incomes Policy' recognize the kinship of spirit. asked. somewhat .related to the attempts of the 1960's in Great Britain and on the Con I close with the pledge never to become "Well, I had an idea for a starter. You tinent to stem infla~ionary movements Your humble obedient servant must know how the army takes body· -with, I mi_ght add, none ·too satisfac- Arthur Bestor ' counts in South East Asia. They order ·tory results. We have had similar experi· G. I.'s to slice off the ears of the dead · ences with our so-called Wage - Price Professor of History enemy. The army won't have any use Guideposts first used by the Kennedy much more than it does today. As it University of Washington for those ears once they have been Administration in 1962 and abandoned stands 'windfall' would seem to con Seattle, Washington 98105 counted. I bet we could buy them cheap. by President Johnson in 1966. As an note an implied control on some sort You know army surplus, reserve them, economic tool such guidelines make of unwarranted or unfair movement of set them om m?re' sense than a wage freeze, tying prices at the expense of labor as wages set them in gold, inscribed with E pnce and wage increases to growth in lag prices. As Union leaders have In respo1.se tO the letter bv Professor PLURIBUS UNUM, and sell them as productivity so that technological pro .. shown i~ their initial reaction to such a Ar1hur Bestor prin1ed in 1he Free Press brooches. We'd make a fortune." reading, terminology such as this is seen g_ress can be passed on to the public with 2 issues ~ the Free Press has re as nothing more than a bone thrown to e1th~r ste~y or falling prices while, at mived the letter beiOJI.l (from Bill "They'd be as big as Frisbees. The Amer· a labor sector that has grown too 50• the same time, wages can be increased ican Legion'd go bananas.'' phisticated economically and too Powl.ell): as a r.ew~rd for rising productivity. But powerful politically to be duped by "I had another idea, for big business. what may be good economics cannot such vague language. On a recent visit to Manhattan, I over· be. counted upon to convince tabor bar heard a conversation between two bus How much do you think General Motors would pay for a beautifully finished gainers or industrial price setters on this Though the past month nas shown some inessmen, which I recorded as follows: score .. The guideposts , it is agreed, coffee table, enlaid with Ralph Nader's rather encouraging signs of the beginnings teeth.'' worked ,rather ~ell cjuring the early "So did you get your trophy?" the of ~ strong reeovery in the economy, es years of ~eir triai_._Bl!t it must bP. remem· first business man asked. pecially by the slowdown in the rise of "lt would be one shot deal, but we ber~s:l tbat the early to mid-so•s were a the wholesale price index, the question could name our own price." years ?f sluggish growth and unemploy of the future remains highly doubtful. "I am glad you reminded me of that. I ment tn the U.S. economy with very had a couple of ideas I wanted to talk !~t+J ------feedback begins: oppresoed and po·15 JUNK (continued ft;_Pm page five) By such means the Official Line was God damn the pusherman, e~pecially litically impotent, the people turn to and heroin were equally when he calls himself "brother." For · that marijuana drugs to escape reality, and by self evil. This misrepresentation was deeply their im on, a concatenation through his eager cooperation, ten destructive drug use deepen But from late 1966 political. Guided by its teaching and of events' reorganized most of the dis million children of . America .have been potence. by blind anti-authoritarian r~flex many tribution system of psychedelic drugs. conditioned to weird and destructive young people chose to treat all drugs dependency can lead to an Major d~alers were, murdered ·in many eh em ical body trips, and set well on One drug with equal casualness, and suffered the other, and Hip Capitalism has been as underworld way, some involving the the road to speed and smack addiction. GQnsequence. · as government policy in Mafia. instrumental Junkies began showing up in the Haight channeling psychedelic use into des driven ··Many ne.ighborhood d~alers were in 1967, and speed and barbituates Now it is 1971. Marijuana persecution tructive drug addiction. out by police · bust, by disruption ?f . started spreading through suburban seems to be slacking, but the hook of their supply, or by meeting a man w1th high-schools all over the nation. Matters smack is deep in the counter-community The psychedel ics are magical dru·gs. a gun once too often_ ':"hile_ going to . took a sharp turn for the worse in and junkies are dying along Telegraph They can open up a genllirre revolution cop. Police were eff1c1ent m persecutmg 1969, the year after the Yippies ap Avenue in Berkeley. We know speed arey awareness, help you get a sense anyway, the freelance acid manufacturers peared so dangerous in Chicago. kills yet we keep on speeding of who you are, and awaken you to especially those who, like Owsley, made children of our culture despite our the sickness that surrounds us. But . their drugs for community good as well During the Great Pot Drought of that difference. once we've reached that awareness, as for profit. summer, many people turned on to we can't go home. Social reality is the·5e drugs-for the first time seriously And now the supply-lines of these confused and painful these days, and · In 1967, when the activity generated in -- urged by ready supply through new deadly drugs reach into the very place sensitivity is agony as well as ecstasy . . the Haight began to. affect t~e whole . channels of organized crime, and by where the white young are conveniently city, all city ~gencies from building in- the widespread despair after Chicago gathered. From them a psychic numb Either we push ahead and change the . spector ofl up cooperated to s~pp_ress. . and the death of the People's Park . ness spreads, to reinforce the shock world, or else we fight our new lt;. And in that year, as the d1stnbut1on -· and warning of Kent State and awareness -· with cynicism towards the . _sYstem of psychedelics was being_ re- . During. these years governments per Jacksonville. world and pity ourselves; by watering Shaped, contaminated psy9hedelics. ap: secuted marijuana use unmercifully down our insights enough to fit in peared tor the first time m quantity ~n (there were 250,000 arrests in 1969), As in the black ghettoes, the people with the dominant social reality. ,the Bay Area. and mounted intensive border opera turn criminal against themselves while -tions.):o interrupt supply, w_hile poli~· police occupation spreads, and their Thus psychedelics are dangerous as well ing. the supply of smack, speed and potential for political action becomes as magical. And grass will lead on to First it was aci_d, laced with speed or downers much less instensively. undermined and corrupted. A cruel the numbness of heroin, as the old strychnine. In 1968 real THC appeared myths tell, unless we make it happen briefly, to whet public appetite, and some other way. then adulterated speed was massively MICHAEL ROSSMAN , peddled as THC to kids who had no idea of the difference, but took it be cause they'd been trained to do what· ever was groovy. By 1969 the. ~tandard additives fo~ ac'id . wer~ speed and the animal tranquilizer · PCP, with which it was marketed as . mescaline ·· accounting fo( a major· proportion of psychedelic use for the next several years, though almost no genuine mescaline was around. Wherever all the dirtied drugs came . from, they were eagerly peddled to. the counter-community by the Hip Capital· ists. --These· people were hair_y, sexy, musical, etc. But"Hip Capitalism i~ C~pftalism . still, In all its· pristine ugliness under the p5ychedelic paint. 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