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He is no more...

IN MEMORIAM

By Jam's Wisnewski

The Kaleidoscope office will be closed all day Tues., Aug. 12 in memory of Oscar 'High Flier/ who died suddenly the evening of Aug,. 8. Oscar, a gift of the Milwaukee White Panther Par­ ty, was trained from early parakeethood on, to-drop marijuana seeds from her beak in flight. Rain or shine, during the planting season Oscar carefully DISORDERS: dropped seeds over strategic spots throughout the city in a massive attempt to plant marijuana in the SCHIZOPHRENIA yards of various public officials (i.e., Judge Christ P>9^6r^tRPte^=^RSELOOSCIBilCE w^M^l^LUONy~fl^tt6^^s R5 r^2BB©' ^rTvriionaclDeri Who naa oeee n torced to "tatakKe T. Seraphim, Sgt. Miller, P.C. Harold Brier). Charges a 'pill' and then had been "cri­ were to be brought against these figures for posses­ minally assaulted," and added that the girl was "bleeding from sion of dangerous weeds the week ofthe fair, at her private parts." The chief did which time Oscar was to be presented with a gilded not mention whether or not the cage for her fine work. These plans of course, have girl was having her period and how he knew she was bleeding been cancelled. but then those are thoughts one Oscar's closest friend, Pomo, (dog who won fame can speculate-over before falling asleep. The good Chief then read by shitting in the Safety Building elevator last Feb. a letter from a filling station 17) has been under sedation since the death. Many owner who damned the hippies, street sellers can testify to the close bond that as "filthy animals" and told how there were obscenities scrawled existed between the two. Many who entered the of­ over his walls with wet Kotex fice were at first skeptical of this strange phenome­ napkins. "I was so sick from na, but soon became accustomed to. seeing Oscar what I saw that I wanted to throw up. " What he saw is sitting high atopPomo's head or railing about on the best exemplified by how he des­ floor together. cribed the 'young people.' "We. were invaded by animals, A funeral mass will be held at St. Nicholas Parish, heavily bearded and long haired— 1154 North 14 St., Friday, Aug. 15, where the body their eyes had a wide-open glas­ will lie in state. (Seeds in lieu of flowers) Cremation sy stare." He accused them of stealing over a hundred dollars will take place at 2 p.m. the following day in front worth of goods from his place. of the Zoo Aviary House and his ashes then scat­ • At this point the unexpected tered inside among her own kind. happened, some people from West Allis spoke up in support of A plaque in her memory has been donated by the these "filthy animals." Paul Committee for the Ltgalization of Marijuana, which Fleming, owner of the A &.W is tentatively to hang in the back room of O'Reilly-s on 78tn and Greenfield told the assembly that "Their manners Tavern. speech and regard for authority was impeccable except for a f ew." By Dennis Gall got their male neighbor arrest­ He said he served thousands of You've probably all heard the ed for not wearing a shirt in 'them* and was very pleased with joke about the Polish version of ,1907, called a meeting at the their behavior. He also pointed FROM THE SECOND FLOOR Paul Revere who rides down West Allis City Hall to discuss out how if he had been 'invaded' -Mitchell Street on a garbage the matter with West Allis by that many of the South Side's truck yelling, " the niggers are officials and Fair representa­ own Outlaws, he would have By James Sorcic coming, the niggers are coming," tives. Mayor Arnold H. Klentz closed the place down. He told but I bet you haven't heard the of West Allis presided at the Huber, "They didn't act like SDS one about the West Allis Paul meeting held on July 30. He at the National Convention — no Well, to overstate the obvious, the Second Floor Revere who rides down Green­ proudly introduced Huber who reflection on your party or mine, field Avenue in a limosene yelling began the whole thing with a bit Mr. Huber." He also praised has returned from its pilgrimage to the far west, "the hippies are coming, the of political back-rubbing, com­ Wendland for doing a superb bearing the kind words and fine dope of our Cali­ hippies are coming." Not fun­ menting, "I guess this is as job. As far as dope was concern­ fornia brothers. I had originally intended to make ny? Well, it isn't supposed to close tc this desk (the mayor's ed, Fleming told Huber "you be. Assemblyman Robert T. Hu- desk) as I'll ever get, but then can find it" at Central, Hale, this column a happy one. Three weeks of sunshine the Mayor is doing such a fine Pius, and at Sin City—UW at and street-people had cleared my head, making me ber of West Allis is not a funny job." The back rub over with, Madison — they're going nuts up become more aware of community needs, and various man. He's sad, sick and at the Huber proceeded to tear into there, too." very least rather 'hung-up.' everyone from Hippies down to possibilities to satisfy those needs. But, alas, that ; Chet Mikolejek, Secretary of Huber was greatly upset over the Fair administrator, *p Vern the West Allis Downtown Busi­ joy is no more. Tragedy had struck while I was a- what occured at the recent Mid­ Wendland. He accused the nessmen's Association, also pr­ way; and the Kaleidoscope Community has had its west Rock Festival. He accused hippies of being "far less than, aised the behavior of the young the "hippies' of turning West discreet" and said what he saw- people. "I sold out all the levis innter light torn from its breast: High Flier is dead! Allis and the Fair Park into a Saturday night bordered on I.had." He added, "they were Yes, that right-on bird leading the Milwaukee 'pigsty' and said the 'semi-or­ "total promiscuity." He accused well behaved, absolutely." Be­ White Panthers to new heights. That finely feathered gies' and 'almost promiscuity* Wendland of not co-operating with sides Mikolajek and Fleming, were bad enough to make West Allis authorities and of not Jerry Grant, the lawyer for the motherfucker who ripped-off birdseed from the rich, 'Haight Ashbury blush.' (Is a informing them of the festival Festival corporation, defended and gave it to the poor. That bad-assed bird striking semi-orgy like being semi-preg­ until the day before (despite the the young people and praised the terror into the hearts of fascists, and hope into the nant?) He even accused Fair ad­ fact that the Festival was adver­ State Fair administration. He ministrator Vernon Wendland of tised all over this area and any­ accused Huber of using "innu­ hearts of revolutionaries. allowing the Festival for the one reading a paper or listening endo tactics." Grant also pointed There is little any of us can say to eulogize the express purpose of upsetting the to the radio was probably well out that is there was any chance strength and dedication of High Flier. All we can residents of West Allis to. the aware of the festival). He chided of violence occuring, Wendland point where they would want Wendland by saying, "If those and the Fair police prevented it. do now is hope that Oscar II can carry on the word the fair removed. people spent as much time to Peter Knapp, president of the and deed of that once great bird. Huber said he had personally clean up the fair as they are Festival, also praised Wendland But let it be known that the Kaleidoscope Com­ seen these 'semi-orgies' being spending to try to move the and said the Festival was an conducted by the people from out fair we'd not be here today." artistic success, though a finan­ munity and the Milwaukee White Panthers will not of. town who were allowed to camp Huber claimed that "there was cial failure, and promised that forget what it was like to run with that mean flying on the Fair Grounds, and also at wjll smoking of pot, and issuing there would be more in the future. bird. Nor will we rest easy until the cause of death implied that the Fair police al­ of pills and I can't describe what This promise promptly brought lowed 'dope addiction' to go un­ they were." Huber then called on West Allis Alderman Urban Gan- is known. molested, Huber, in the gross­ West Allis Police Chief Louis. ser to his feet. Ganser spewed est example of blue nosing since Reinsch to back him up. He told out what was reallv on everyone's four old ladies in Connecticut a "story" about a 17 year old Con't on page 6. . KALEIDOSCOPE August 8-21, 1969 PAGE 3 The Plying Breasts of Acapulco By Peter Zenger The confused analyses circu­ Friday July 18, the maiden, Miss continued, with Miss Perez saying lating about the Flying Indians Carmen Perez, was stripped to she didn't quite know what to think of Acapulco arrests are a good the waist for all or about 23 se­ when the police said no but Sum­ example of how Milwaukee's real conds during the sacrificial of­ merfest officials said yes. ruling class can manipulate po­ fering of the performance* But remember that attendance lice, press and thus, the people. According to Mexican tradition, roblem? Forget it, baby. For the For the real story behind the a sacrifice was made to the rain Sight show after the first bust story of the vice squad busts god to insure the safety of the Tuesday, attendance was 2,400 — of the Indian maiden at the lake- Indians who do the flying from the more than had seen it in the first front show is that the whole pole. three days of its three perform­ publicity stunt circus was writ­ That night police said she would ances per day. ten, produced, directed and even have to cover up. She did for the It was standing room only again acted out by the big boys that next two days. Summerfest offi­ Wednesday night, and Ball report­ run Summerfest. And it was all cials reported that attendance ed happily that the additional at­ done at the expense of the Mex­ dropped off over the weekend, tendance necessitated a fourth ican performers in the Flying estimating total attendance for Show daily. Total Summerfest at­ Indians' show-r-jnone of whom the first three days at somewhere tendance for the shows was could'speak English or under­ around 1,700. 20,700. At 75 cents a head, stand what exactly was going on. Now the work began in the hot quite enough to break even, The downtown papers, of Summerfest offices. They were but quite a bit more than could course, knew all of this, but were losing $35,000 because of the have been expected without the too busy having a printer's ink poor, attendance. They complain­ controversy. orgasm over Summerfest's "fun ed to the Journal and Sentinel Thanks again to the daily pap - and excitement" to care. After reporters about the attendance ers, which out of civic duty gave all, you can't shit on a sacred and these comments were duly the flap front page coverage daily. cow. reported. And what about the Indians? Of course, the whole perfor­ What went unreported was Well, nobody really much mance was made possible by a Ball's advice to both papers that cared. supporting cast of thousands— they should send reporters to the The show's producer, Carlos all those glorious Americans who lakefront Monday night, July 21, Ochoa, said the hassle made get uptight at the sight or even when there might be some trouble some of his devout Indian mem­ the thought of a naked human with police. bers fearful of climbing the pole body in any art form. The reporters were there, but — afraid that their god had been. Not to forget of course the Mil­ the police weren't. Obedient to dis-serviced by the continuing" waukee liberals who are trying the orders of Summerfest offi­ arrests and the leering audiences ' to save their souls by defending cials, Miss Perez performed her 'Which came out after the publicity. the right cf others to be human act as usual — with the brief ex­ Miss Perez was defended by while they themselves aren't. posure. Summerfest attorneys and the And what would the show have Tuesday, vice squad officers charges against her were dismis­ been without the vice squad. (Are contacted Journal and Sentinel sed by County'Judge F. Ryan you reading this Capt. Ziol- reporters for their version of Duffy. She didn't fare too badly OT kowski?) Those are the huge "the goings on" at the show. financially, either, since Meister O minded men who lurk around the Tuesday afternoon, the vice slipped her $100 after her second Q city's toilets protecting the com­ squad was there cleverly dis­ arrest — to make up for the 33 mon good. Apparently Summer­ guised, cf course, as dumb cops. trouble that he probably engi- *** fest week was a slow one for More cleverly disguised was, Con't on page 6 tempting homosexuals and har­ Howie Meister, Milwaukee mil­ assing the hip and movement lionaire costumed for his role as community, so they decided to put iief ender of the people — he was in on their own lakefront act. shirt sleeves. And one huge round cf ap­ '*This is a hell of a place for a banker to be," he commented as £piU|)il f Mou,niAie^t plause for banker Howard "Howie" Meister, president of he smelled under his arms to Summerfest, who should receive determine if his executive's deo­ by Mary the Lamb upon a time probably found free possibly contribute to the down­ the academy award for assininity dorant had failed. Approximately two years ago public circuses and doles of stale fall of the Promise of American for his portrayal of ahighminded Howie can't afford to smell, Milwaukee was partially torn a- bread a rather enjoyable exper­ Life? American idealist fighting for the because besides being president part by a few unsatisfied rioters ience too. There is no need to worry. freedoms that. God and his mother of Summerfest, which is kind of a who, for some reason, seemed I am not, of course, trying to We will always be able to gave him. hobby, he has been president of to feel that the only valid re­ draw any kind of parallel between sweep a few inpotent hippies over Continental Bank, Universal Be­ sponse to the American way of to Vietnam where they can be But after the credits comes the 1 the Land of Color Television and story. And our little drama began verage Company, and held exten­ life was to destroy as much Summerfest and a sick slave hunted down at our convenience. during the Hemisfair, which ran sive interests in real estate and of it as they could get their hands society with a rotten economy We do not need to look into our in San Antonio, Texas from-Gct- insurance. on. _. increasingly supported by a net­ own hearts because we have all ober 6, 1967 to April 6, 1968. Howie was busy running around Needless to say, the adminis­ work of dying colonies. It is been taught how much Jesus loves A spotter for Summerfest saw talking to everyone, reporters, tration of Milwaukee and our re­ probably only the wildest coin­ Us; and we know too that a revived the Flying Indians, who had been cops, Flying Indians, everyone, sponsible taxpayers were cidence that that same society, censorship can take care of rab­ organized seven years before in until the show began. shocked and disgusted by this dis­ once upon a time, found its al­ ble. It is obvious that if this so­ Acapulco, and thought they might The vice squad goons, including play of ingratitude and lack of ready shaky stability threatened ciety were not right it would not be good for the local show. a hard looking grandmother type civic virtue. A wild guess was by communities of long haired be. And because it is, so (na­ And the San Antonio extrava­ policewoman, watched the show made, which led by means of much hippies preaching communism turally) shall it ever be... ganza, the maiden in the show until its end when they walked labored intellectualizing, to the and brotherhood in the name of Besides, our advanced stan­ appeared topless for two weeks backstage and took custody of surprising conclusion that some­ what they were pleased at the dard of living has finally made before drooling San Antonio cops Miss Perez, over Meister's wild­ thing must have gone wrong in time to call Christianity. bread and circuses obsolete. Mil- threatened to close the show. est protests. the best of all possible cities. It is of course true that his­ waukeeans are now able to point She covered up^ for the remain­ "Only in Milwaukee, only in An alert ruling class decided torical parallels are of very lim­ with civic pride to Summerfest. ing five and one-half months of Milwaukee, " Meister said, in that the possibility of future vio­ ited usefulness at best and prob­ This summer the responsible the show. perhaps the only true statement lent threats to property values ably really benefit only the of­ taxpayer probably thinks he can Well, Edward G. Ball, Summer­ he made all day. must be combatted by sundry fended righteousness of those who sleep a little more soundly, for fest director, shelled out $35,000 He went to court with Miss means, not all of which have draw them. But there would still last summer there was no riot to bring the act, which is a beau­ Perez and there put on another probably been made public. Af­ be no need to worry even if there in Milwaukee, and this summer tifully impressive ritual, to Mil­ wild show in front of his politi­ ter all, one of the functions of were some distorted parallels looks equally "safe." It is un­ waukee. cal ally Crazy Christ T. Sera­ an enlightened administration has between ourselves and the ail­ fortunate, but this just might be '' We never expected any trouble phim. Meister invoked all that is always been to protect the mem­ ing Empire. Have we not been a valid observation. A little Sum­ with the police," Ball said so holy to protect Summerfest's bers of our democracy from assured by very reliable sources merfest seems to go a long way. innocently after the busts. Ap­ order for the exposed perform­ themselves. that a few more social workers But then, it can always be hoped parently his scout hadn't done ance—a plan which he was no The city fathers .of Milwaukee educated in the great liberal trad­ that it just was not quite far his homework. doubt in on from the start. instituted a new entertainment ition and given all the money enough. The city set up a 114 foot pole In the interest of the public de­ for the masses here one year they ask for (not to mention on which the Indians would do cency which he so staunchly de­ ago, and no doubt to call atten­ cultural entertainment like Sum­ their flying, but before they would fends in the case of the lower tion to the high level of cult­ merfest) will cure not only the climb it, a chicken's blood had to class, Christ adjourned the case ure we enjoy, they named it symptoms but the cause of what­ be run on it and that had to be until August 29 and allowed Miss Summerfest. ever ails us? sprinkled with wine, to appease Perez free without bond (the The promoters of Summerfest The Roman Empire was finally the rain god. This was done be­ Summerfest show must go on, tried to draw additional tourist buried by a bunch of primitive cause many of the Indians in the you know) although Meister guar­ money into Wisconsin by exten­ northern barbarians. It is very act are devout followers of this anteed that the show would con­ sive advertising; and, the tem­ strange, but there are today a tradition. tinue as usual. porary rental of Bob Hope leant few American^ who have some­ The first performance here. Of course, the vice squad busts a stability that a few scattered how gotten the impression that tents down by the lakefront could this country is headed for the $&r31y have managed on their same kind of destruction, even own. But ifc is hardly a secret that, though they think they can see it outside of. the waste which is coming from another direction. an inevitable result cf accom­ These people say that young Am­ plished inefficiency, the adminis­ ericans are weak; that conspir- tration of Milwaukee and our hon­ otorial action has robbed them orable State Legislature do not of their patriotism as weir as like to spend money unless they their respect for the law and or­ have been persuaded of some der and religion cf their elders. reason for it. It is, I think, From this point of view, long questionable whether two conse­ hair and the communal preaching. cutive Summerfests have aided of brotherhood are the easiest either the tourist trade or the to spot manifestations of moral cultural renaissance of Wiscon­ weakness. sin in any wild correlation to There is, of course, no need their expense. to- wonder if a rotten economy Summerfest was probably increasingly supported by a net­ enjoyed by most of the people work of suddenly stubborn exploi­ who, no doubt for want of any­ ted peoples might be partly "at thing better to do, found them­ fault. And then, it is hardly pos­ selves down by the lakefront from sible that an antiquated concep­ July 18 to 27 in search of what­ tion of law and order and religion: ever it is that congregated peo­ might contain a few hypocritical ple generally are in search of. elements. Besides, how could a But then, Roman citizens once little healthy American hypocrisy PAGE 4 ASgustS-21, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE I

&££&/%'^ *e^>t$j&&*mg*>^^ Rock Festival Fascists Moving Dear Kaleidoscope, If^ the time is used carefully, there material was old stock. Kaleioscope: At present we have a faceless, ...and the first Midwest Rock ts no reason why we can't have a Whenever a problem is encoun­ In the past few months several, j powerless puppet acting as Pres­ Festival is over. It was amazing test that will outdo Atlanta, At­ tered with one of our products, indeed, many events have occur­ ident of the greatest country on that it happened at all, that every­ lantic Qty, Woodstock, and even we welcome the opportunity to red that have set me thinking and earth. Who, then, is running the^ one was as free and loose as they Monterey. Let's hope that the make an examination in our Con­ I thought I'd share my thoughts government? Who is running A- were, .and that Mr. Knapp and planners are willing to spend the trol Laboratory. If you retained with you all: mericaf The battles are being Caldwell and Co. were able to time between now and then to the empty can in question, would In a Treasure Island store a fought. It appears that sooner or make a lot of bread on the deal. bring us a festival that will top you please send it to us for ' seven year old kid walks up to an later the rightists will win con­ With estimates of over 40,000 anything done anywhere in the testing. We will, of course, be eighteen year old kid with hair trol of the government. But who paying customers, and a conser­ country. glad to replace any material sent halfway over his ears and asks will ultimately win control of the vative $5.00 per head, the take Dick Tupper to us. him if he is a hippie. A moderate nation? The fascist movement is must have been well over $200,000 Milwaukee We do appreicate your writing liberal mayor of New York Qty growing rapidly, in geometric gross. I'm sure that the costs of to us about this matter. We are fails to win the primary of his own proportions. Time is closing in on the thing did not run anyone that most eager to hear from our party. An underground newspaper us and we each face an individual much. Therefore, I think that it is Cheap customers concerning their is repeatedly threatened with ex­ decision which, under any cir­ fair to Say that the effort spent problems with our products. We tinction, theoretically because it cumstances, would be a torturous by everyone involved was worth­ are taking the liberty to send is pornographic, but in reality be­ one. Do we use violence and run while. Then, I think it's also fair Living you a complimentary supply of cause of its political views. A the risk of being destroyed and, to assume that we can expect a METRECAL Strawberry Liquid. state legislature votes to raise perhaps, destroying American 2nd annual Midwest Rock Fes­ Sleazy P.R. men in almost Sincerely, tuition and cut faculty at state society? Or do we try to peace­ tival. every food industry, especially Mary Ann Kemper universities. The incidents are fully change people's heads — In planning for next year, there the canned variety, are ready with Supervisor, Prodcut Information endless, but they all point to one which is an equally desperate are quite a few things that should sickly-saccharine-sweet love thing: the return of fascism — in choice? The fascists are moving be carefully considered, and pro­ letters for you. America. fast. Perhaps they will make the blems corrected. First there was. But friends, it is well worth Huber At first the idea seems incred­ decision for us. the continual delays between the it, because in the bargain you ible. Are the underground news­ Sincerely, groups. 10 or 15 minutes is OK, will eatl Yes, I mean FREE papers after all right? At first the Alan Borgh but an hour is absurd. I wonder FOOD from the System. To Whom It May Concern; tendency is to write off the re­ Milwaukee . whether it is really necessary for As can be seen from the ac­ Recently Ileamed that someone peated use of "fascist" to over­ each group to bring along all it's companying sob-letter (just was creating a controversy over blown rhetoric. But could it be that own speakers, amps. etc. Why not an example), food companies are the issue of the hippies, using ,that underground writers are rent or borrow all the sound moire than willing to humble the State Fair Grounds. The right? That they really mean the Friend equipment necessary for any of themselves (tokenism) and give matter in question being the hip­ the groups. If some group needs word "fascist" to be taken quite away free stuff (more tokenism).- pies, being such pigs as to litter literally, not merely as an Dear Friends, some special piece, they could Here's all you have to do: all over the grounds. Now I don't bring that themselves. This would epithet? Mussolini was able to I just read the news about your write a bunch of companies that 'know what kind of political take over in Italy by forming a printer having all this trouble. eliminate most, if not all, of the you found their product in rotten maneuver this might be, but it hassle of bringing out and posi­ coalition of the working class I am getting a little bit sick decay, or smelling terrible, or seems to me that certain people with the upper echelons of busi­ and tired of these brainwashed, tioning truckloads of sound equip­ greenish-tinted when you opened are trying to eliminate fun for ment. Then most of the breaks ness. What unified these groups stuffed shirt, good people of our it. I did this to twelve different other people. Sick as it sounds was selfishness, blind national­ so called "country leading peo­ could be limited to setting up companies all at once, and each its true. Iwonder how this person drums; plugging in guitars, ism, and racism. Precisely this ple." I am 31 years old, have one replied with a kissy-ass can be so critical of a minority same thing is happening in Ameri­ two children (married!) I will; mikes, etc.; and tuning up. I went letter like the one shown here- is his heart so small or his mind for the music, not to see stage ca today. The upper middle class. take your paper for a year. plus a bundle of free samples. So narrow. I attended the Rock suburbanites can unite with the So far, I bought your paper, at crews and mountains of equip­ If a group of different people Festival and was elated by the ment. union man in their support of O'Brads and other bad book­ living in one house, or just any­ experience and I saw the distaste-, George Wallace. They can both stores. Thank you. The major fuckup, though, was one, did this, they would garner ful litter. But I also attended the, work together to eliminate a Yours truly, the omission of a covering over quite a stack of eats. 4th of July parade & I had to walk paper like Kaleidoscope. An in­ Andrew Kohlner the stage. Was everyone so hyped GOOD LUCK. to my car through the piles of dustrialist's persecution of the Milwaukee up that they thought that it can't Unsigned litter on the sidewalk. Just re­ paper is thus supported by the P.S. I will send you an addi­ rain on OUR rock festival? Now, Altadena, California member there are pigs on both working class. tional $3 for support of your good that nice big truck was fine, but sides of the wall, Huber. So It is a frightening thing to paper. I am not rich. I will al­ it took a lot away from the groups, Dear listen, Humpty Dumpty, I wouldn't watch. It began, perhaps, with the ways support a good cause. We. by cramping them in with their Thank you very much for your be so quick to sit on top of the reaction to the riots of 1966 and need a good second paper in! mounds of equipment. But, the letter in which you comment about wall and be a judge. Because 1967. And it has grown rapidly Milwaukee. real issue here is the fact that the problem you encountered with someday you'regoing to lose your ever since then. In 1968 the fas­ due to poor planning, six national a can of Strawberry METRECAL balance and fall and the yoke cist movement snowballed. The groups, including Jeff Beck and Liquid. Your interest in our pro­ is going fo be on you. We all hopes of the liberal and part of Jethro Tull, had to be cancelled. duct is appreciated. However, we know that there are pigs every­ the radical community were There were a lot of people who were sorry to learn of your un­ where, throwing their waste on crushed first in a pool of bloo4 traveled a long way to see that pleasant experience. all of us. Lets get rid of that in Los Angeles and again by the show, and particularly those, Every know type of product con­ dirty litter and keep Milwaukee blind exercize of power in the. groups, who will think twice about trol is employed in the production beautiful. police riots of Chicago. The chief coming again unless there are of METRECAL: this includes in­ Tom Meaux opposition was killed, murdered. assurances that all of the groups spection of raw materials, con­ advertised will, in fact, play. stant tests during processing, and Another thing which bugged examination of the finished pro­ most of the people (at least me) duct. Each batch of METRECAL Was the price. OK, I'll grant that is tested bacteriologically both] there were some doubts as to Tjefore* and after canning. whether this thing would be a Spoilage of Metrecai Liquid is un-. success or not. We must remem­ common, but it can occur from ber that the backers of this thing a defective or damaged can. Rough were out for bread, not happy handling of the case of MET­ hippies. Well, they made it, and RECAL in transit can sometimes probably big, and I thank them for cause a tiny pin hole opening to taking whatever chances they develop in a side seam, so small took. I also thank Peter Knapp for as to be invisible to the naked all the sleep I'm sure he didn't eye. Air and, consequently, con­ get. But next time, there should taminating bacteria are thereby not be this big fear over bread. permitted to enter without visible They could probably have cut the damage to the case or cans them­ price of the tickets, gotten twice selves. 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by the Committee of Returned United States), and repeated that existing climate and hydro- The U.S. adheres to the 12 mile frigerated storage ship. This Volunteers there had been no damage done to logical conditions, are any limit accepted by most countries. brings the U.S. into direct com­ On February 14, 1969, a group fishing boats. longer subjects cf independ­ The U.S. has repeatedly stated petition with Peruvian and other of tuna boats working out of San EXPLOITATION AND CONSER­ ent studies...the close inter­ that Chili, Ecuador and Peru were Latin American fishers and can- Diego were cruising 40 miles off VATION relation in which they exert violating established internation­ ners. The tuna indistry boomed the northern coast of Peru. A The C.E.P. nations have uni­ their influence to create, in al laws of the high seas. The U.S. along with the fishmeal industry Peruvian naval patrol boat spot­ laterally and multilaterally as­ the course cf time, a special has offered and arranged on a and others in Peru after the ted them and took pursuit. The serted their sovereignty and na­ condition of life which is pro­ numfcer of occasions to confer Second World War. Important slowest of them, "Mariner,"was tional jurisdiction over ocean per to the region..." (from with the C.E.P. nations and others factors involving the U.S. have boarded and escorted to Talara. waters limited by 200 nautical The Library of Congress concerned on this issue. But most decreased the impact. There, her captain was fined miles adjacent to their coasts. Legislative Reference Ser­ of the proposals have been reject­ Evidence clarifies American $2,000.00 and released. Presidential declarations in Chili vice, Eebruary 12, 1969, pp. ed by C.E.P. as unacceptable to motivation in the dispute. In "This is normal practice for and Peru, in 1947, were the first 3-4.) their objectives. 1951 the U.S. raised its tariff " fishing boats caught within the 200 formal actions taken to establish Without attempting a real dis­ on imported canned tuna, from mile limit, and incidents of this this limit. These were followed Pragmatically speaking, this cussion of international law — 22.5% ad valorem to 45% ad val­ kind have taken place on at least by a Declaration on the Maritime means that should the waters of does there always have to be ab­ orem. Presumably, this was done 80 occasions in the last 15 years." Zone, a joint declaration by Chili, the Humbolt Current be explos­ solute conformity or are there to protect the infant California (Peruvian Times, February 21, Ecuador and Peru. It was signed ively overfished, without regard special conditions that might call tuna fishing and canning industry. 1969, p. 2.) Chile, Ecuador and at the First Conference on the to conservation, the result would for a slightly different arrange­ But this was a very high and un-» Peru (C.E.P. countries)-demand Exploitation and Conservation of set off a chain reaction eventually ment? But this is not the issue at fair rate when you consider what fines or fees for license to be Maritime Resources cf the South. involving the lives of seafood-de­ stake. The issue is the right of it meant to Peru, whose fish pro­ paid for fishing within their Pacific in Santiago on August-18,„ pendent Chileans, Ecuadorians free competition on the high seas, ducts amount to 27% of their total claimed 200 mile limit cf fishing 1952. and Peruvians. Also, one of the and free competition is not always export revenue. This tariff pro­ sovereignty. The primary reasons for the richest fishing regions in the in harmony with conservation. bably had much to do with' the Following this incident a de­ claims are justified by principles world could become depleted. It There are many examples to in­ growth of California tuna con­ mand together with a note of pro­ of both ecology and biology. is with this understanding that dicate this in the United States cerns, but much of this growth test, was presented to the Peru­ Briefly, the relationship of the these nations have sought initia­ alone, e.g., industry vis a vis was at the direct expense of Latin vian government by the American ocean region, of the Humbolt tive in declaring sovereignty until water and air pollution. American fisheries. The U.S. de­ ambassador in Lima, J. Wesley Current to the coastal countries they can be guaranteed the right Americans turned to Latin A- mands the right to free competi­ Jones. The demand was for pay­ bathed qy it, is especially im­ to regulate conservation. Should merican waters for tuna during tion for fishing on the high seas ment of U.S. $50,000 for damage portant. The C.E.P. is interde­ over-exploitation take place, World War IL Japan had been (outside the 12 mile limit), but of done by gunfire to another boat pendent with this ocean region. these peoples' lives would be our major supplier before that course feels compelled to deal in of the group that had fled. A directly affected, with increased time. Since 1939, tuna consump­ non-free trade with underdevel­ statement from the Peruvian go­ "Regarding this we would protein deficiency and possible tion in the U.S. has doubled, and oped countries in return. vernment referred to "fishermen like to note that, for some starvation. 90% of it has been coming from The attempt to curtail C.E.P. belonging to economic pressure, time, neither sea nor land, U.S. ATTITUDE Latin American waters. claims took a new form in 1963. groups..." (the San Diego-based nor the agregate of living The United States' role in this A special advantage to the This was the embryonic phase tuna boat) and "flying the flags beings that inhabit it, nor dispute has been to tenaciously American tuna fishing industry cf the Alliance for Progress and of more powerful countries" (the lands adjoining it, not the ooDose the C.E.P. 200 mile limit. Jhas been the advent of the re- renewed concern for Latin Amer­ ica. In U.S.. eyes, the problem still existed, but had to be dealt with in a more subtle fashion. On November 7, 1963, the U.S. If you're tired of Senate passed a bill intended to "ban any aid to any nation that interferes-with U.S. fishing ves­ fried chicken, pizza and sels in what this country regards as international waters." Spon­ sor for this bill was Senator "super" hamburgers Thomas Kuchel of California. San Diego, California, of course, har­ bors a large part of the South Pacific tuna fleet. you'll be happy to hear At this juncture reactions came from the Senate and U.S. Aid. Senator Russell B. Long, a that we're in the Democrat from Louisiana, said the amendment would kill the Al­ liance for Progress. He also said, neighborhood, "It was the most ridiculous vote I've ever seen." He described the provision as telling the Latin Am­ ericans, in effect, that "if you in our wall-papered closet! don't recognize the territorial limits we do we can't give you any aid." The amendment also had a firm denunciation by Pres­ ident Kennedy. U.S. Aid had a sur­ I f you live on the East Side and you heard Reitman rap about prisingly poignant reaction. fThe Agency told a conference com­ our Subs and you managed to get down to our store on 12th & mittee that the amendment 'in­ Wisconsin, and you thought the Sub was great —but the long trip dicated that the U.S. has so lit­ tle interest in the Alliance for was a bummer, we've got good news for you. Suburpia has ex­ Progress that it is willing to panded. cut off aid to a number of coun­ tries' for the purpose of benefit­ ing one segment of a particular If you are over at the fountain, down at the beach, having a U.S. industry."On December 4. 1964.a conferrence comm, struck, beer at one of the East Side's infamous gin-mills, or sitting in the amendment from the bill. the Oriental Theater catching the picture you didn't want to miss, However, the dispute over terri­ torial limits and fishing rights remember.. .now we're only walking distance from wherever you continue to the present. Conser­ are, real walking distance, just a few minutes from anywhere on vation in the balance of nature is a major concern of all, yet the the East Side. United States pays lip-service to international law, while in fact acting like the imperial protector We're easy to find on the corner of Prospect and North next of potentially exploitative Amer­ ican tuna fishers. These fishers to East Side Charlie's bump shop. We don't have any flashing find themselves under the prot­ signs, disinterested waitresses, or slow service, so give us a rry, ective wing of tariffs, which es­ because we like everybody. tablish an unfair advantage to an already capitally advantaged in­ dustry. How long will attitudes such as these continue to demonstrate the ambivalent nature of American foreign policy, aid and invest­ ment? The U.S. is continually saying it is interested in the freedom and development of the of the third world, yet this dis­ pute is only one example of im­ perialistic interference with Chile, Ecuador and Peru. The United States could rely on C.E.P. to supply it with tuna Spmetime Soon - Sink a Sub as well as other saleable pro­ ducts, within their natural prox­ imity, thus enabling these coun­ tries to develop strength in some­ thing that is a plentiful natural resource for them. This would require a revolution of perspec- Prospect U Worth 1230 W. 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The disruption which took tive group is finally being expos­ right to which everyone is equals place at the American Medi­ ed through the efforts of groups ly entitled. These beliefs are in cal Association (AMA) conven­ such as MCHR, SHO, and Health-; blatant opposition to the philoso­ tion in New York City is another PAC, three ostensibly different phy so long espoused by the of the recent statements from a groups who, with others, are AMA — that health care is a privi­ New Left in the field of medicine. uniting with those forces in this lege. It also conflicts with the The statement read by Dr. Rich­ country that are working for destructive, selfish economic in­ ard Kunnes, a third year resident radical changes. terests of the AMA which are re­ in psychiatry, describing crimes The MCHR developed as a re­ sponsible for the "crimes against committed by AMA over the past sult of the freedom marches in the people" and the current crisis 50 years, and his symbolic burn­ the South during the early 60's. in health care. ing of an AMA membership card, Fomed by a liberal groups of If groups like MCHR, SHO and was really a call to other health nurses and physicians, this or­ Health-PAC continue to expand professionals in this country to ganization provided medical pre­ and the people of this country resist the illegitimate authority sence at the marches with first- realize that they must seize power and power of organized medicine. aid when necessary. Since then from outlaw groups like AMA, Organized and supported by the the group has expanded to where then and only then will revolution­ Medical Committee for Human today it includes more than 10,000 ary changes be made to signifi- Rights (MCHR), the Student Health members. In recent years the f- cantly improve the health care Organization (SHO), Health Policy group arranged for medical pre­ system of this country. Reforms Advisory Center, and other con­ sence during a few of the ghetto which don't get to the basic pro­ cerned groups participated in the riots and during the Daley de­ blems of maldistribution of power disruption. This marked the se­ bacle in Chicago. They have also and wealth have failed and will cond consecutive year an AMA supplied the research which . fail. To stop the genocide and convention has been disrupted by proves that Mace can cause per­ attack the health needs of the radicals within their own ranks. manent eye damage, and have country free enterprise medicine God forbid we should ever be Last year in San Francisco a been working to end discrimina­ must cease to exist. In its place twenty years without a Rebellion, member of SHO and a represen- tion in many hospitals. a health care system controlled -Thomas Jefferson tati^B of the Poor People's Cam­ The undergraduate counterpart by the people and responsive to i SpSEK paign read statements deploring of MCHR is SHO, a loose group­ their needs must be substituted. i the quality and quantity of health ing of nursing, medical, and para­ — Milwaukee SHO tl»iaiaa»iwMMiiiiMIMMIl»inilllllM>IWMHIIIIIIHHII»l»aM»>iai>iitMiiMW^^ care available to the poor people medical students. This group, re­ of this country. From the initial cently labeled the SDS of medi­ reaction this year (cries cf "kill cine, got its start in California the bastard!"from the convention about five years ago when some floor), it appears that words are health science students received Flying CRY- Kenya wasted on AMA. a federal grant to run health It was the intention of the pro­ projects in California ghettos. By Committee of Returned Vol­ entry more than a month later testers to draw attention to the Subsequently other students in unteers only after they signed a pledge heinous crimes committed by other cities followed the lead, We read in the U.S. papers that agreeing not to stage an illegal the AMA against the very people until last year there were 12 such Breasts Tom Mboya was Kenya's most strike! they are sworn to serve. The list federally funded projects. These From page 3 brilliant politician, that he was It is the same KANU which talks of crimes touches every phase projects were usually aimed at neered. Africa's bright hope, that his about Uhuru etc. for all Kenyans of the health care delivery system care in the ghettos by students So was everybody happy? Not death may cripple Kenya and Af- but practices and encourages an. in this country. performing as medical social anybody that thought about it. fica. We also read about Mboya's elitism which is- very foreign to Spending 1.1 million dollars a workers. Ultimately the students This was the greatest example wonderful progressive party traditional African society, which year, making it the largest lobby realized that these projects were of bullshit double standard that KANU. We are encouraged to was begun byYthe colonial Bri­ in Washington, the AMA has suc­ exploitative in that the only real Milwaukee has provided in quite think that his presence in KANU tish and which continues now at- cessfully opposed or subverted value they served was to acquaint a time. insured that it was a coalition of a greater rate in Kenya than in- progressive legislation to the do-gooder health science students First, the Summerf est fat cats tribes, implying that the fact that Uganda or especially Tanzania. point where someone as insen­ with the realities of the ghetto at — providing fun for everyone — Mboya, a Luo, was prominent It is Mboya's KANU which in sitive as the President is aware the expense of the ghetto resi­ provided misery for the Flying in the government would have putting down KPU so arbitrarily and babbling about the current dents. SHO members (3,000 or Indians and Miss Perez with no a unifying effect on the country puts down most Luos because crisis in health care in this so) have now turned to working concern at alL which contains a certain amount KPU's following is mostly Luo country. on minority admissions programs The monopoly press, so dedi­ of tribal antagonism particularly and most nationalism since inde­ Claiming that this country en­ at their schools and have begun cated to truth, justice, etc., look­ between the Kikuyu and Luo epo- pendence in 1963 perhaps because joys the best health care i n the attacking the drug industry by ed the other "way—again — to ples. The people who write such as Odinga says in his book NOT world despite the fact that we returning its bribes of free black have a little fun with the Indians articles regard Oginga-Odinga, YET UHURU, Kenya is not yet rank 18th in infant mortality and bags and free medical equipment. and do some of that good old the head o f KPU which is the independent. In fact Odinga does 22nd in male life expectance, the Many of the first graduates of civic boosting— read, lying. opposition party, as a dangerous not use Luo chauvinism as a ral­ AMA has managed until recently this group have joined MCHR. And finally, Meister's political leftist demagogue. They* refer to lying point for his political plat­ to successfully dupe the Americar The last group mentioned was combine —he is a big shot in the him as a Luo chauvinist who form. Both he and Bildad Kaggia, people with a succession of lies. the Health Policy Advisory Cent­ local Democratic Party — which sends out tribal calls to gather a Kikuyu colleague of Odinga and In a display of consistency on er, or Health-PAC. This organi­ reportedly includes Seraphim, aroung him Luos who supposed­ co-leader of KPU, are concerned the side of inhumanity, this "A- zation is not yet three years old, was able to keep the show going ly care nothing for Kenya and with and about all the people merican Murderer's Associa­ but has contributed significantly and insure no prosecution. are blindly tribalistic. of Kenya. They are fighting for tion" has opposed free innocula- to the health care delivery sys­ It might be nice for a hip From one point of view Mboya socialism and there are lots of tions against diptheria and polio, tem, analyzing how this can be woman to do her thing at the next and KANU are a progressive man others who identify with them al­ free vaccination against small­ attacked and then suggesting al­ be-in or some night ^t the and party and this viewpoint is though many are too afraid of. pox, the establishment of Red ternative models. This research People's Fountain. It might be in­ obviously the Western one not the the problem. When Mboya's Cross blood banks, federal grants has provided the ammunition for teresting to see how fast she would African one. Mboya had long been for medical school construction activist cadres in the health area. be busted, convicted and jailed for associated with the CIA and AFL and medical student loans, Blue Thes e three groups and others any number of charges. Howie CIO activities in Kenya, all de­ Cross, national health insurance, not yet conceived hopefully indi­ wouldn't come to bat for her. signed to keep the commies out death rallys Luo feelings to such and Medicare. cate a new direction for health But it would be sad to know how and to support the innocuous kind a degree that Kenyatta's car is Their initial success in fight­ care in this country. They are few people would realize the way of African nationalism that Mboya stoned, things are serious, par­ ing free innoculations resulted in consistently stating that the health this would expose the shit that evidently favored, emphasizing ticularly When we realize that many needless deaths and illnes­ professions must be service pro­ comes down on anyone but the the cultural and intellectual as­ Mboya did not have the political ses. The opposition to medical fessions and the primary con­ ruling class capitalists in Fun pects rather than any real ec­ support of these same Luos be­ school instruction and medical cern of health care is a human. Qty, U.S.A. onomic and political autonomy, fore his death. student loans has resulted in a the same kind of safe moderate critical shortage of physicians black nationalism that the Nixon and a health profession dispro­ administration finds so attractive portionately populated by people and cooptable here in the U.S. Ganser from upper class backgrounds, (June 1969 RAMPARTS) whose concern about people is There is no doubt that Mboya From page 2 subservient to their concern for was an extremely capable man wealth. and politician and that he was mind in West Allis — not drugs, The battle against a more hu­ one of the ,most if not the most not rock music, not "semi-or- mane way of financing health care influential and powerful member gies", but a pure and bitter hate. was successful until Medicare of KANU after Kenyatta who is Ganser said, '*Ihe facts are get­ and Medicaid were passed. now an old man and not very ting a little out of line. We don't Though they lost this battle, they well physically. As for his par­ want you back, period! This kind still managed to suck the blood ty, his politics and what he stood of stuff around our town we don't of the American public by forcing for in Africa it is very question­ want. We don't care whether you the "customary and usual fee for able whether he was the brilliant are proper or not, we don't like! service payment" clause into the young hope of Kenya and Africa it. Take it someplace else. We Medicare legislation and then or of the West. Mboya's KANU don't need you here. I thank God raised their fees 8% in 1966. is the ruling party which nearly it rained and was cold. My people, While padding the pockets of this a year ago disqualified for no were thoroughly disgusted." wealthy group, this fee increase good reason virtually all the nom­ Both Wendland and Fair Chief cost patients a total of inations of KPU candidates for the Reins ch tried to defend them­ $500,000,000 in that year alone. municipal elections, reportedly selves, but anything they could The AMA has also proven to be because the nomination papers have said was really meaningless quite willing and able partners had been initialed instead of after Ganser's "semi-bigotry." in crime with the drug industry. signed. KPU was forced to with­ One of the questions that the Forty-five percent of the AMA's draw from those elections, and promoters may have asked before operating budget comes from this it was at this point when KPU they planned the Festival was, industry, an industry with the- seemed about to be completely "is Milwaukee ready for it?": highest margin of profit of ANY squelched that many KPU poli­ Well folks, Milwaukee is ready, industry in this country. The high ticians crossed over to KANU. but West Allis is hardly ready cost of drugs reflects the more And it is Mboya's KANU which for the steam car, and it doesn't than $4,000 per physician per year this past January refused to al­ look like they'll ever be. Sadis­ spent by the drug industry to low Oginga-Odinga to speak at tic, drunken race fans are one promote their products. Nairobi University College upon thing, but hippies...UGH! Finally, this racist group has, the invitation of the students. Too bad that the State Fair through its local medical societ­ And when the students went on had to be caught in the middle ies, prevented black physicians strike to protest this action, the of the whole thing. Their treat­ from getting staff appointments KANU government closed the Uni ment of the rock fans showed to hospitals, thus preventing them versity immediately, giving stu­ intelligence and compassion, hu­ from adequately providing their dents only two hours to vacate man qualities apparently hard tc services to the people. the halls and allowing them re- find in West Allis officialdom. The true nature of this destruc­ KALEIDOSCOPE August 8 - 21, 1969 PAGE 7

f| i|iiiiiiiifiiiH i nil mimi I mill "With The World To Win" This speech by Dr. George quite defined its source. I think Yet we have come a long way— Wald was presented to a crowd I understand the reasons for their far enough to sicken many Ameri­ of 1200 at lvLLT.'s Kresge Aud­ uneasiness even better than they cans, far enough even to sicken itorium March 4th; 1969. Stu­ do. What is more, I share their our fighting men. Far enough so dents and professors had gather­ uneasiness. that our national symbols have, ed there as a part of the "March What's bothering those stu­ gone sour. How many of you can 4 movement", to protest themir- dents? Some of them will tell you sing about "the rockets' red; use of science. it's the Vietnam War. I think, the glare, bombs bursting in air" Dr. Wald, a Harvard professor, Vietnam War is the most shame­ without thinking, those are our was the 1967 Nobel prize winner ful episode in the whole of Amer­ bombs and our rockets bursting in physiology and medicine. ican history. The concept of War over South Vietnamese villages? This speech is reprinted with . Crimes is'an American invention. When those words were written, the permission of Dr. WaltL We've committed many War we were a people struggling for Crimes in Vietnam; but I'll tell freedom against oppression. Now All of you know that in the last you something interesting about we are supporting real or thinly couple of years there has been that. We were committing War disguised military dictatorships student Unrest breaking at times Crimes in World War II, even all over the world, helping them into violence in many parts ofthe before the Nuremburg trials were to control and repress peoples world: in England, Germany,. held and the principle of war struggling for their freedom. Italy, Spain, Mexico, and needless crimes stated. The saturation But that Vietnam War, shame­ to say, in many parts of this bombing of German cities was a ful and terrible as it is, seems to country. There has been a great War Crime. Dropping atom bombs me only an immediate incident in deal of discussion as to what it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a a much larger and more stubborn all means. Perfectly clearly it War Crime. If we had-lost that situation. means something different in war, some of our leaders might Now we have- 3.5' million men- feel as I suppose members ofthe Mexico from what it does in have had to answer for those Part of my trouble with stu­ under arms: about 600,000 in underground railway felt in pre- France, and something different actions. dents is that almost all the stu­ Vietnam, about 300,000 more in Civil War days, helping runaway in France from what it does in I've gone through all of that dents I teach were born since "support areas" elsewhere in the slaves to get to Canada. It wasn't Tokyo, and something different history lately, and I find that Worldf War II. Just after World Pacific, about 250,000 in Ger­ altogether a popular position then; in Tokyo from what it does in this there's a gimmick in it. It isn't War H, a series of new and ab­ many. And there are a lot at home. but what do you think of it now? country. Yet unless we are to written out, but I think we estab­ normal procedures came into Some months ago we were told A bill to stop the draft was re­ assume that students have gone lished it by precedent. That gim­ American life. We regarded them that 300,000 National Guardsmen cently introduced in the Senate crazy all over the world, or that mick is that if one can allege at the time as temporary aberra­ and 200,000 reservists — so half (S. 503), sponsored by a group of they have just decided that it's that one is repelling or retaliating tions. We thought we would get a million men — had been spe­ senators that ran the gamut from the thing to do, there must be some for an aggression—after that back to normal American life cially trained for riot duty in' Mc Govern and Hatfield to Barry common meaning. everything goes. And you see we some day. But those procedures the cities. Goldwater. I hope it goes through; I don't need to go so far are living in a world in which all ' have stayed with us now for more I say the Vietnam War is just but any time I find that Barry afield to look for that meaning. wars are wars of defense. All War than 20 years, and those students an immediate incident, because so Goldwater and I are in agree­ I am a teacher, and at Harvard, Departments are now Defense De­ of mine have never known anything long as we keep that big an army, ment, that makes me take another I have a class of about 350 stu­ partments. This is all part ofthe else. They think those things are it will always find things to do. look. dents—men and women — most double talk of our time. The ag­ normal. Students think we've al­ If the Vietnam War stopped to­ And indeed there are choices of them freshmen and sopho­ gressor is always on the other ways had a Pentagon, that we morrow, with that big a military in getting rid cf the draft. I think mores. Over these past few years side. And I suppose this is why have always, had a big army, and establishment," the chances are that when we get rid of the draft, I have felt increasingly that some­ our ex-Secretary cf State, Dean that we always had a draft. But that we would be in another such we must also cut back the size thing is terribly wrong — and this Rusk — a man in whom repetition those are all new things in Amer­ adventure abroad or at home be­ of the armed forces. It seems tc year ever so much more than last. takes the place of reason, and ican life; and I think that they are fore you knew it. me that in peacetime a total 61 Something has gone sour, in stubbornness takes.the place of incompatible with what America one million men is surely enough. meant before. As for the draft: Don't reform teaching and in learning. It's al­ character — went to such pains the draft— get rid of it. If there is an argument for Amer­ most as though there were a to insist, as he still insists, that How many of you realize that A peacetime draft is the most ican military forces of more than widespread feeling that education in Vietnam we are repelling an just before World War II the en­ un-American thing I know. All the one million men in peacetime, I has become irrelevant. aggression. And if that's what we tire American Army including the time I was growing up I was told should like to hear that argument A lecture is much more of a are doing —so runs the doctrine Air Force numbered 139,000 about oppressive Central Europ­ debated. dialogue than many of you pro­ —anything goes. If the concept of men? Then World War II started, ean countries and Russia, where There is another thing being bably appreciate. As you lecture, war crimes is ever to mean any­ but we weren't yet in it; and see­ young men were forced into the said closely connected with this: you keep watching the faces; and thing, they will have to be defined ing that there was great trouble army; and I was told what they did that to keep an adequate volunteer information keeps coming bade to as categories of acts, regardless in the world, we doubled this about it. They chopped off a army, one would have to raise the you all the time. I began to feel, of alleged provocation. But that army to 268,000 men. Then in finger, or shot off a couple cf pay considerably. That's said so particularly this year, that I was isii't so now. World War II it got to be 8 million. toes; or better still, if they could positively and often that people missing much of what was coming I think we've lost that war, as a And then World War II came to an manage it, they came to this believe it. I don't think it is true. back. I tried asking the students, lot of other people think, too. The end, and we prepared to go back country. And we understood that, The great bulk of our present but they didn't or couldn't help me Vietnamese have a secret weapon. to a peacetime army somewhat as and sympathized, and were glad armed forces are genuine volun­ very much. It's their willingness to die, be­ the American army had always to welcome them. teers. Among first term enlist­ But I think I know what's the yond our willingness to kill. In been before. And indeed in 1950 Now by present estimates four ments, 49 percent are true vol­ matter, even a little better than effect they've been saying, you — you think about 1950, our in­ to six thousand Americans of draft unteers. Another 30 percent are they do. I think that this whole can kill us, but you'll have to kill ternational commitments, the age have left this country for so-called "reluctant volunteers," generation of students is beset a lot of us, you may have to kill Cold War, the Truman Doctrine, Canada, another two or three persons who volunteer under with a profound uneasiness. I all of us. And thank heavens, we and all the rest of it — in 1950 we thousand have gone to Europe, pressure of the draft. Only 21 don't think tha t they have yet are not yet ready to do that. got down to 600,000 men. and it looks as though many more percent are draftees. All re-en­ are preparing to emigrate. listments, of course, are true A few months ago I received a volunteers. So the great majority of our w • letter from the Harvard Alumni I AARON RUSSO1S ELECTRIC THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Bulletin posing a series cf ques­ present armed forces are true tions that students might ask a volunteers. Whole services are professor involving what to do composed entirely of volunteers: about the draft. I was asked to the Air Force for example, the write what I would tell those Navy, almost all the Marines. KixF/rif: m students. All I had to say to those That seems like proof to me that students was this: If any cf them present pay rates are adequate. had decided to evade the draft One must add that an Act of PLAWIEOIINII and asked my help, I would help Congress in 1967 raised the base him in any way 1 could. I would Cont'd, on Page 13 AUG 8-9 THE AL COOPER REVIEW THE MOUNTAIN SUN AUG 15-16 I JOHNNY WINTER I PAUL BUTTERFIELD (Special Guest Star I - THE FLOCK I AUG 22-23 (COUNTRY JOE & (THE FISH I MC5 | TYRANNOSAURUS REX I AUG 29-30 I BYRDS (CATMOTHER AND (THE ALL NIGHT I NEWSBOYS I TAJ MAHAL PANDORA'S CHICAGO \ H BOX.; •k»HHb»iWn^^K->"- ^ -_^_ rmirnnrwrnmrn » 11212 E? BRADY ST. j 4812 NICLARK_ W-Jl-USS.— W GUSTOM CLOTHES The major "underground" so­ cial event of the season, the Mid­ west Rock Festival, is now noth­ ing more than a hotly-debated memory. For those who might have missed it, it would seem proper here to sum up the affair. But how? Was it a success? Fi­ nancially, according to all re­ ports, it was a disaster. A mix­ ture, of bad weather with the print­ ing of massive numbers of count­ erfeit tickets kept total paid at­ tendance for the three days at about 15,000, and the promoters lost upwards of $20,Q00. Artistically, the results were mixed. Ginger Baker played a drum solo that was, in his words, the very best he's ever dgne. Buffy St. Marie and John Mayall did beautiful sets. But the Bob Seger System impressed less than many of the local bands. Andthe most forgettable moments were furnished in fine bubblegum style by the First Edition. The incredible power of the MC-5 became insignificant in the out­ door setting, and the Shag return­ ed from their year-long West Coast hiatus with a bag of gim­ micks and little else. But to discuss the Festival ia terms of either artistic or fi­ nancial success is really to miss the point because, for those who pays th price and sees the show, both are irrelevant. Like any so­ cial event, it is the being there that is important, being seen in the right places by the right peo­ ple. The groups simply officiate, bless the assembled supplicants, certify the finding ofthe Promis­ ed Land. AH of which is not to denigrate the beauty of the already tradi­ tion-bound ceremony. For a sub­ culture so lacking in ritual, it beautifully fills the bill. And, for better or worse, the First Annual Midwest Rock Festival became a part of what it means to be hip in Milwaukee in the summer of 1969. But an alternative institution for an alternative culture it ain't. Rather, it is a pretty accurate reflection of the middle-class suburban world whose children filled the Fairgrounds Grand­ stand. As American as the flag on the moon. High-priced tickets, overpaid musicians, overpriced refreshments, and a program ("only $1.00") that was a crime. And the Easter Parade atmos­ phere: the latest in hip fashions paraded proudly in front of the grandstand to appropriate com­ ments. ("Ah, Henry, looks like bare mid-riffs and see-through blouses are the rage this sea- EL- _ ^9Wk ^K

son...but the popularity of bras doesn't seem down a bit. Strange!") In a sense, it was a convention. There we were, the employees of Leary, Hoffman, Rubin, Lennon et. al. & Assoc. Inc. Ltd. It was a chance to meet everyone from the boys in the shipping depart­ ment to the board members, to discuss internal company prob­ lems using company terminology, to relax and raise a little hell, to make deals and compare prices on new merchandise. The Midwest Rock Festival was all that, and because it was, it was a success. Attempts to define it in contemporary political terms (exploitation, co-optation, etc.) did not enter, as it has elsewhere this year, and so we were all free to relax, to dig whatever it was w we dug digging, and to remind ourselves and others what a great time was being had by all. But most important was that it could happen here at all. It was and event that, if not by, was at least for the community. The community asked for it, got it, and treated it well. It was perhaps the first time in Milwaukee that the hip community was able to see itself as it is: a community. From this essential first aware­ ness of community will come the u! consciousness and energyneeded to build and create and cope. We know who we are; now, what can we do? Promoters Peter Knapp and Tom Caldwell deserves thanks for making it happen. They made mistakes, but they know it and are open to suggestions. They made mistakes but they know it and are open to suggestions. De­ spite the financial loss, they're willing to try again, and that al­ most makes them as crazy-beau­ tiful as anyone who attended the affair. Also to be commended are the State Fai^ administrators and police, who for the most part acted with intelligence and rea­ sonableness. Perhaps they real­ ized that to do otherwise might precipitate a crisis, but what­ ever the motives it made for a Wi good scene, and for that, thanks.

PHOTOS BY GAJCST BALLSIEPER 'Al*.* '_ 8 I PAGE 10 August 8-21, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE A Walking Tour Of Midtown by Lorelei Price The next time you and your windows at street level. Each cornball psuedo country and wes­ girl get tired of rapping around window is bricked in and each is tern and if you can stand more the East side, why not give Mid- stained with an identical spray. than five minutes, it'll blow your town a try before it's all flat­ One thinks immediately of dogs mind better than acid. The bars tened? Amid the rubble and bull­ but the stains are too high for without live music will do it dozed lots, there are still a few dogs—and too low for men. May­ in half, the time. weird things to groove on in what be a group of little boys lined By the time you get back to the remains of the core cf the city. up each at his own window one pile of tires, the walk alone A good place to start or end night...Anyway, the speculations will make any purchase of the your tour is with the enormous, are endless and it's the best ex­ laxative unnecessary and with •pile of rubber tires in the center ample of Ur-Art to be found in your girl having said yes and your of the blocks long empty space the city. minds blown by the music or between Vliet and McKinley Ave. Since we took the residential talk, it'll be time to get back up at about 18th Street. There's streets down, after 27th street to the east side with the fresh a tree sticking up in the center get on to Vliet again and drop polluted-water breeze from the of the pile and one can scramble into one or two of the bars which Lake. You'll be amazed at how up to the top, wish the tree well feature, live music It's pure good it smells. and tumble down the other side. It's fun, so you'll probably want to do it two or three times. And you can chalk it up to soc­ iological investigation too, learn­ ing how the other half plays as well as lives. Piles of tires aside, there are assorted goodies remaining in the ruins, not even counting the boarded houses to explore. Native to center city are a couple of stores that sell genuine esoterica without even being aware of it. Walking down Vliet street after our tire scramble, at 24th street is a pharmacy which is the home of Swiss Kriss Herbal Laxative. This is the laxative which Louis Armstrong swears by. He takes enormous quantities of it each day and has it sent especially from this store in Milwaukee. In the window they've got a display cf 20 or 30 different kinds cf herbs— mostly yellow from the sun—but pretty anyway. No cannabis, un­ fortunately. Then there's the fun­ ny store on the corner of 26th and Mc Kinley which sells only Bleach. Its been called The Bleach Store by neighbors for the past twenty years. No one ever seems to enter the store. Looking in the windows, gone sees nothing, but there is a sign, rather worn, which says "Bleach 4 gallons for $1.40." As you walk west, avoid VTiet for either McKinley (one block south) or Cherry (one block north) in order to get the feeling of the streets. Note the delapidated houses as well as the ones so carefully groomed. Its hard to say which are sadder. Listen to the kids on the blocks. There are u- sually 15-20 out in each street, and if they have nothing to do, think of the other 15-20 indoors. Every so often you'll pass a house that still has an elm in front of it. Stand there for a while and watch the play of shadows' on the porch. Life is still possible there; the others have nothing but* the peeling paint. After 27th street, it's best to head up McKinley or Juneau Ave. Still about half of the elms there and lovely old big houses. Even better than the streets are the alleys which interlace them. Be­ hind the old and beautiful houses were many stables, still standing, one or two even smell of horse, at least I think it's horse. Several of these alleys are cobbled and feel good barefooted. After exploring the alleys up to 35th street, one can bypass the shopping center which stops up McKinley and at about 37th street there is a real old foot­ bridge crossing a railroad track. It's kinda hard to find, behind a factory on one side and half hidden by houses at the other, but. its there and very secluded. You can glimpse it from the parking 2{ lot of the Sun Valley Drive In on»5| 35th street. You'll probably walk ^ over it five or six times, ff you kiss your chick while a train- goes under she won't be too tired. But then, if she's your chick she'd never be too tired anyway. Butjjj yes or no, necking over a train is kinda orgasmic in itself. co Swinging back east again now, 2 after the orgasm of our tour, Si head back down Cherry Street. CT There are a few old trees there and even an old family business 31st Street, the Cream City Cas­ ket Company. If you and your girl don't want to take the tour, you might still want to take a picture of her in front of it cause that's where it's really at in Milwaukee. After the Casket Company, you cross the Railroad Tracks again by bridge and on the right hand side, right on the end of the bridge, is a funny warehouse kind of place. This building is interesting for the stains on the The Men's Fashion World Has £M£ Finally Come of Age!

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ESZIZiL yyj PAGE 12 August 8-21, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE i Who's got the Nipple? Panthers by Dennis Gall her ample full left breast, but a county version of it, too) de­ the nipple its elf appears hardened fines obscenity as "the showing Police stormed Black. Panther and three Panthers and five po­ The Milwaukee Journal has done with pure animal lust. of the female breast with less Party headquarters in Chicago licemen were injured. it again! In a move calculated to But before you run off and than a fully opaque covering of last week, exchanged gunfire with And then there was the fire — display the natural ferocity of write Senator. Roselip about this any portion thereof below the top Panthers and ignited fire which the blaze that destroyed a number the middle-class press, the Jour­ piece of Journal obscenity, or run of the nipple." This picture clear­ gutted the building. of party records, office, equipment nal ran a picture of a naked madly into the streets screaming ly falls under the scope of the Dakin Gentry, defense captain and other supplies stored there.. breast in their August 3 THIS "there oughta' be a law," take ordinance. The penalty for vio­ for the Panthers at Milwaukee The Panthers said the loss would WEEK supplement. The picture, note: there is I Milwaukee has an lating this ordinance is a fine of said at a news conference Friday, run into thousands of dollars. as you can see, is meant to de­ ordinance making it a crime to up to $500 on each count. The law that the police attack early Thurs­ Gentry said police took fluid pict the Natural Ferocity of the sell or distribute 'obscenity" also states that the material must day morning on Chicago's west from mimeograph machines and Female. Not only can you see to minors. The ordinance (there's "appeal to the lust of minors." side was provoked. "The police set fire to everything on the se­ I don't know about minors, but it actually provoked a shootout. cond floor. That's a far cry from sure appeals to my interest, prur­ From the people we talked to, the "official" story that the fire ient or otherwise. there were probably 200 cops was started by one of the many We don't expect to see any there,"' Gentry said. tear gas cannisters fired by po­ mass roundup of Journal boys by Three Panthers, Joseph Hay-\ lice. As anyone who has ever the Vice Squad. (And by the way, man, 20, Alvin Jeffrey, 25, and been hit with a tear gas canister the Journal not only sells their Jerry White, 25, were arrested knows, they make you choke and product to minors, but allows and charged with attempted mur­ feel like you are burning up, but minors themselves to sell it, a der, aggravated battery and re­ you don't catch fire. Anyhow, privilege the benvolent city of sisting arrest. All had to be police haven't put any massive Milwaukee has not accorded Ka­ treated at a hospital for head effort into the cause of the blaze. leidoscope. ) What we might ex­ lacerations police said they re­ As for the shootout itself, pect is for the censors, cops, and ceived when struck by flying Gentry said the Panthers were Seraphim-minds of this city to glass during the incident. forced into it and they handled the realize that the "anti-smut" law Gentry said the Panthers at situation as best they could. It for minors will never be used Milwaukee received a phone call was not the first time the police against a great financial giant Thursday morning about the inci­ have tried provoking the Pant­ like the Journal. As far as the dent which began at 1:45 a.m., hers, he said. Journal goes, and Newsweek and and that a group from Milwaukee Gentry also answered questions Life for that matter, the law went down to Chicago. from newsmen about the Pant­ doesn't exist. The Only cases Although the flames gutted the hers' Milwaukee program. ever brought under the ordinance building, the Panthers plan to He said five or six free break­ involve Kaleioscope, and you keep headquarters there and con­ fast programs, independent of t.he can bet that things aren't likely tributions are coming in to help. Panthers' operation, had started to change here in Journaltown. Gentry said. after their -initial program. He The point here is not that we Gentry^ said he learned three said the Panthers didn't id 'think the Journal ought to be policemen knocked on the door who was. running- those other pro­ charged under the ordinance, but of the Panther headquarters at grams. "As long as the program that the ordinance itself is absurd. 1:45 a.m. and demanded entry. goes, it doesn't matter who does One of the cases involving Kaleid­ They did not have a warrant and it," he said. And the same with a oscope was the sale of a picture did not say what they wanted, he free health clinic, which the Pant­ of a breast, with nipple (nature said. Gentry noted that the office hers are working on getting start­ made *em that, way), to a 15-year closes at 9 p.m. each night and ed now, old girl. The minor Was better that it is a Panther policy not to Gentry was asked if the Pant­ built than the chick in the picture, allow persons to wear guns in the hers at Milwaukee had reached and how in the hell is a tit picture building. any understanding with police, as going to corrupt a buxom teeny­ But the police didn't let civil far as territory or' respect. bopper who can look in fhe mirror rights get in their way. Gentry "Yeah. They don't like us and we any time and see tits? The point said that when they were refused; don't like them," he said. "They is, the Journal will never be entry they simply started shoot­ shoot, we shoot. We want to avoid charged, no matter how many ing. Then gunfire was exchanged irate old ladies storm City At­ .that " torney Crockett's office. All of which goes to prove what a very great man once said: "Money doesn't talk, it swears. Obscenity, who really cares? Propaganda, all is phony I" Majority Coalition

From all indications, Mr. Paul county, listen. Mr. Murphy be­ Another plague of ideas, sugges­ Murphy, 19 year old UWM stu­ lieves that through an effectively tions, and reforms conquered. dent from 2268 N. 59th Street, is. functioning organization, such as So we pick up our placards and the latest victim of the -disease the Majority Coalition, the mach­ return to the streets where we currently infecting students ac­ ine will be compelled to listen confront the conventional cure of ross the nation. The disease is and reciprocate. leeching. They bleed the infection commonly diagnosed as Idealism. However, Mr. Murphy and his out of us by "means of night­ The symptoms are familiar, dis­ plan will soon be injected with sticks, gas, crippling publicity, illusionment with the current that new wonder drug, "Face- and courtroom fiascos. state of affairs, desire for much- the - facts - baby - this - is None of us w,ant to be bled sound needed moral reform, and the a - cold - cruel -world - run - to death nor be computerized very presumptious notion that by - black - tied - 1930'ers - into some 9 to 5 pigeon-hole at students can contribute greatly to who - have- forgotten - the - Dow Chemical. We have ideas. perfecting the political system. meaning - of - moral - ethical - We want change. Through the Ma­ suppository Doctors have examined his progress," or in laymen's terms, jority Coalition there is a condition by observing his activi­ Realism. Many before him, with chance for our germ to permeate ties as state co-ordinator of the equally noble ideas, have been the machine. Mr. Murphy's meg­ new student Majority Coalition. cured with several doses and now aphone has already found its hip records Branches at each Wisconsin col­ are normally functioning cogs in way into the offices of most state lege are open to students of any the machine. He will recieve his college administrators and facul­ ideology who want their opinions first injection from the regents ties, the board of regents, and made known and their suggestions when reforms are filed under state, local, and national legisla­ acted upon. The group is neither 1981 or mahogany doors are tact­ tors. Through this communica­ low prices neo-Nazi nor Maoistic but simply fully closed and locked. The road tion channel, there is a chance a bullhorn for students to make to recovery is evident when com­ to be heard, to come in contact ALBUMS LIKE: the community, be it the regents promises become one-sided and with our germ. Plagues can only or farmers from lower Pierce hearing aids are turned down. be communicated effectively if e- BLIND FAITH JOHNNY WINTER nough of the infected can come in contact with the healthy. JOHN MAYALL LED ZEPPELIN i|TtrTT'TTr*rnpTTPTr'TTr*ffl

leather jewelry imports Bulletin Board original clothing HELP is for you. A switchboard good idea that will benefit the en­ service for the East Side Com­ tire community. Remember: 273- munity. The number is: 278-5959, 5959. This switchboard is for in operation 24 hours each day of you. USE IT. 273-5959 the week. Call if you need help Also new on the East Side qeezeNSTAciys or any particular problem. Pro­ is a weekly "Sound In" Monday fessionals are available. Or bet­ nites, at Holy Rosary Church at ter yet, call if you think you can Lafayette & Oakland. People can help someone else. You can also get together and rap, just like at l627eiKViNQ leave messages for people, a list the fountain, but also with music. of those with messages for them Father Ed and the people at the will be posted weekly at Sound Church pipe out good underground Suppository, at Irving and Far- rock from a high quality stereo. well, and will be printed, in KAL­ Come stoned, come straight, and EIDOSCOPE each issue. bring your friends. Every Monday Summer Clearance Now Call HELP. Mavbe you have a nite, 7:30 PM, WHITE PANTHER PARTY KALEIDOSCOPE August 8-21, 1969 PAGE 13

7- v •; w ^ Cf Our Business is With Life" pay throughout the services in The Defense Department is al­ Marines was beleagured for a that now is the time to greatly sonable chance to live, to work three installments, the third in­ ways broke; but some of the time. During that period we drop­ increase our nuclear armaments out our destiny in peace and de­ stallment yet to come, on April 1, things they do with that $80 billion ped on the perimeter of Khe Sanh s o that we can disarm from a posi­ cency. Not to go down in history 1969. So it is hard to understand a year would make Buck Rogers more explosives than fell on tion of strength. as the apocalyptic generation. why we are being told that to envious. For example: the Rocky Japan throughout World War II, And it isn't only nuclear war. maintain adequate armed ser­ Mountain Arsenal on the outskirts and more than fell on the whole I think all of you know there is Another overwhelming threat is vices on a volunteer basis will of Denver was manufacturing a of Europe during the years 1942 no adequate defense against mas­ the population explosion. That has require large increases in pay; deadly nerve poison on such a and 1943. sive nuclear attack. It is both not yet even begun to come under that they will cost an extra $17 scale that there was a problem of One of the officers there was easier and cheaper to circumvent control. There is every indication billion per year. It seems plain waste disposal. Nothing daunted, quoted as having said afterward, any known nuclear defense system that the world population will to me that we can get all the they dug a tunnel two miles **It looks like the world caught than to provide it. It's all pretty double before the year 2000; and armed forces we need as volun­ deep under Denver, into which smallpox and died.'' (N. Y. Times, crazy. At the very moment we there is a widespread expectation teers, and at present rates of pay. they have injected so much poi­ March 28.68.) talk of deploying ABM's, we are of famine on an unprecedented But there is something ever so soned water that beginning a The only point of government is also building the MIRV, the wea­ scale in many parts of the world. much bigger and more important couple of years ago Denver began to safeguard and foster life. Our pon to circumvent ABM's. The experts tend to differ only in than the draft. That bigger thing, to experience a series of earth government has become preoc­ So far as I know, the most con­ the estimates of when those fam­ of course, is the militarization tremors pf increasing severity. cupied with death, with the busi­ servative estimates of Americans ines will begin. Some think by of our country. Ex-President Ei­ Now there is a grave fear of a ness of killing and being killed. killed in a major nuclear attack, 1980, others think they can be senhower warned us of what he major earthquake. An interesting So-called Defense now absorbs with everything working as well staved off until 1990, very few called the military-industrial debate is in progress as to wheth­ 60 percent of the national budget, as can be hoped and all foresee­ .expect that they will not occur by complex. I am sad to say that we er Denver will be safer if that and about 12 percent ofthe Gross able precautions taken, run to the year 2000. must begin to think of it now as lake of poisoned water is removed National Product. about 50 millions. We have be­ That is the problem. Unless we the military-industrial-labor or left in place. (N.Y. Times, A lively debate is beginning come callous to gruesome statis­ can be surer than we now are that union complex. What happened July 4, 1968; Science, Sept. 27, again on whether or not we should. tics, and this seems at first to this generation has a future, under the plea of the Cold War 1968.) deploy antiballistic missiles, the be only another gruesome statis­ nothing else matters. It's not good was not alone that we built up the Perhaps you have read also of ABM. I don't have to talk about tic. You think, Bang! — and next enough to give it tender loving first big peace time army in our those 6000 sheep that suddenly that. But I should like to mention morning, if you're still there, care, to supply it with breakfast history, but we institutionalized died in Skull Valley, Utah, killed a curious circumstance. In Sep­ you read in the newspapers that foods, to buy it expensive educa­ it. We built, I suppose, the big­ by another nerve poison — a tember, 1967, or about 1-1/2 50 million people were killed. tions. Those things don't mean gest government building in our strange and, I believe, still un­ years ago, we had a meeting of But that isn't the way it hap­ anything unless this generation history to run it, and we institu­ explained accident, since the M.LT. and Harvard people, in­ pens. When we killed close to has a future. And we're not sure tionalized it. nearest testing seems to have cluding experts on these matters, 200,000 people with those first that it does. thing like we have known it in the been 30 miles away. to talk about whether anything little, old-fashioned uranium I don't think that there are pro­ past. It is corrupting the life of As for Vietnam, the expendi­ could be done to block the Senti­ bombs that we dropped on Hiro- • blems of youth, or student probl­ the whole country. It is buying up ture of fire power has been nel system, the deployment of shima and Nagasaki, about the ems. All the real problems I know everything in sight: industries, frightening. Some of you may ABM's. Everyone present thought same number of persons were are grown-up problems. banks, investors, universities; still remember Khe Sanh, a ham­ them undesirable; but a few of maimed, blinded, burned, poison­ Perhaps you will think me al­ and lately it seems also to have let just south of the Demilitar­ the most knowledgeable persons ed and otherwise doomed. A lot of together absurd, or "academic," bought up the labor unions. ized Zone, where a force of U.S. took what seemed to be the prac­ them took a long time to die. or hopelessly innocent — that is, tical view, "Why fight about a That's the way it would be. until you think of the alternatives dead issue? It has been decided, Not a bang, and a certain number — if I say as I do to you now: we the funds have been appropriated. of corpses to bury; but a nation have to get rid of those nuclear Let's go on from there." filled with millions of helpless, weapons. There is nothing worth Well, fortunately, it's not a maimed, tortured and doomed having that can be obtained by dead issue. persons, and the survivors of a nuclear war: nothing material or ATTENTION An ABM is a nuclear weapon. nuclear holocaust will be huddled ideological, no tradition that it It takes a nuclear weapon to stop a with their families in shelters, can defend. It is utterly self- nuclear weapon. And our concern with guns ready to fight off their defeating. Those atom bombs re­ must be with the whole issue of neighbors, trying to get some un- present an unusable weapon. The nuclear weapons. contaminated food and water. only use for an atom bomb is to Groups & Singers keep somebody else from using There is an entire semantics A few months ago Sen. Richard ready to deal with the sort of Russell of Georgia ended a speech one. It can give us no protection, thing I am about.to say. It in­ in the Senate with the words: "If but only the doubtful satisfaction oooooooooo volves such phrases as "those we have to start over again with of retaliation. Nuclear weapons are the facts of life." No — they another Adam and Eve, I want offer us nothing but a balance of are the facts of death. I don't them to be Americans; and I want terror; and a balance of terror is accept them, and I advise you them on this continent and not in still terror. not to accept them. We are under Europe.'' That was a United States We have to get rid of those new talent repeated pressure to accept Senator' holding a patriotic atomic weapons, here and every­ things that are presented to us as speech. Well, here is a Nobel where. We cannot live Willi them. settled — decisions that have been Laureate who thinks that those I think we've reached a point of needed now made. Always there is the thought: words are criminally insane. great decision, not just for our let's go on from there! But this nation, not only for all humanity, "... the hottest places in Hell are re­ time we don't see how to go on. How real is the threat of full but for life upon Earth. I tell my We will have to stick with those scale nuclear war? I have my own students, with a feeling of pride served for those, who in a time of moral issues. very inexpert idea, but realizing that I hope they will share, that crises remain silent...Dante" We are told that the United how little I know arid fearful that the carbon, nitrogen and oxygen States and Russia between them I may be a little paranoid on this that make up 99 percent of our have by now stockpiled in nuclear subject, I take every opportunity living substance, were cooked in SEND COMPLETE INFORMATION PICTURES - TAPES weapons approximately the explo­ to ask reputed experts. I asked the deep interiors of earlier BACKGROUND ON GROUP (I* POSSIBLE) TO: sive power of 15 tons of TNT for that question of a very disting­ generations of dying stars. Gat­ every" man, woman and child on uished professor of government hered up from the ends of the earth., And now it is suggested at Harvard about a month ago. I universe, over billions of years* that we must make more. All asked him what sort of odds he eventually they came to form in CWcATive MANA^eMGNT very regrettable, of course; but would lay on the possibility of part the substance of our sun, its those are "the facts of life." full scale nuclear war within the planets and ourselves. Three bil­ P.O.BOX 1028 MILW., Wl. 53209 We really would like to disarm; foreseeable future. "Oh," he said lion years ago life arose upon but our new Secretary of Defense comfortably, "I think I can give the Earth. It seems to be the only BOOKING - PROMOTIONAL - MANAGERIAL EXPERTISE has made the ingenious proposal you a pretty good answer to that life in the solar system. Many a WMMMiimw wwiniHmimmiiiiiiiM HMMim mM>mw»nn^ question. I estimate the proba­ star has since been born and bility of full scale nuclear war, died. provided that the situation re­ About two million years ago, Fast East Side Delivery mains about as it is now, at 2 man appeared. He has become the percent per year." Anybody can dominant species on the Earth. do the simple calculation that All other living things, animal Carry - Outs shows that 2 percent per year and plant, live by his sufferance. means that the chance of having He is the custodian of life on that full scale nuclear war by Earth. It's a big responsibility. 1990 is about one in three, and The thought that we're in com- by 2000 it is about 50-50. | petition with Russians or with I think I know what is bothering Chinese is all a mistake, and the students. I think that what we trivial. Only mutual destruction are up against is a generation lies that way. We are one species, that is by no means sure that it with a world to win. There's life has a future. all over this-universe, but in all I am growing old, and my future the universe we are the only men. so to speak is already behind me. Our business is with life, not But there are those students of death. Our challenge is to give mine who are in my mind always; ; what account we can of what be­ and there are my children, two of comes of life in me solar system, them now 7 and 9, whose future . this corner of the universe mat Open: 4:00 PM - ? j is infinitely more precious tome is our home and, most of all, than my own. So it isn't just their what becomes of men — all men generation; it's mine too. We're of all nations, colors and creeds. Sun. 12.00PM - ? I all in it together. It has become one world, a world Are we to have a chance to for all men. It is only such a • y-y-S'-w live? 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THEATRE—"The Drunkard,"by ART—clgsing day for the ex­ Marquette Players, Teatro Ma­ cellent "Directions 2: A New ria (thru Sat.) Realism" Milw. Art Center ship Midget Races, time trials at 7:15, feature at 8:30, Hales CARS—2pm, 150 Mile late mo­ Corners Speedway. del stock car race, State Fair Park FILM—9pm, A film on Marc Chagall, Coffee House, 631 N. POLO—3pm, Milw. Polo Club 19th St. vs. Visitors, Uihlein Field (thru Fri) STATE FAIR—Free grandstand show at 8pm, featuring Pat Boone LECTURE—1 & 3pm, public lec­ !Salg»3&iPs and Fairest of the Fair pageant, ture & demonstration with Boi­ (will Janis win again this year?) ling Smith, Lovell Space Cen­ CHURCH—Summer Church Schl. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 This is young American Day ter (every Sun) Have you enrolled yet? Kenwood SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 at the fair—all under 18 are Methodist Church. CARS—Antique & Classic Car admitted free—afternoon show CARS—8pm, Modified & sports­ OLD—Old Time Gas ;and Steam show 3rd annual. All day. May- at 12:30 & 3pm with James Dar­ man car racing, Slinger Speed­ ROCK—8pm-lam, the 11th House Engine Fair, rides, demonstra­ fair Shopping Center ren, the Sandpipers & Serfs. way with Bob Reitman, WTOS-FM tions & old machines, Susses, YOUTH— Young America on (every nite) Wis. (thru Sun) Wheels. State Fair Park GOLF—PGA Greater Milw. Open ART—Watertown Art Fair, noon North Shore Country Club (thru to dusk, Watertown, Wis. JAZZ —l-7am, "Jazz Times 6" CARS—8:30 pm. Stock car races ART—9:30 am. -Dusk Southgage Sun) Ron Cuznor, Milw.'s largest jazz over 100 cars, Hales Corners Art Fair Southgate Shopping Cen-, POETRY— 9:30-10 pm, "Sense d.j., WTOS-FM Stereo (all week) ter. JAZZ—10:30-11, Mark Kramers Waves" with Bob Stencil and FOOTBALL —7:30 pm, Packers "Jazz Roots" an excellent pro­ guests, WUWM-FM (every Sun) TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 vs. Chicago Bears in Shrine Game SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 gram of early jazz recordings, County Stadium. WUWMrFM (every Fri.) ROCK—3-9pm, local musicians ART— Mini-Art Exhibit-small ROCK—7 & 10:30 Crosby, Stills jam O'Brads (every Sun) prints, paintings & sculpture, & Nash and Joni Mirchell in CONCERT—7:30 pm, Penninsula FILM—7&10, "Far From the Bradley Galleries (thru Aug. 21) & Nash and Joni Mitchell in* Festival Trio: music by the Lake Madding Crowd, "UWM Bolton 150 MONDAY, AUGUST U Concert, Chicago Auditorium Series, Lake Geneva, WIS. THEATRE—"You Know I Can't SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 ROCKS—Geology thru the Ages Hear You When the Water's Run- •>^««>#^#^^»^^#^^<^s»s»s»^»^Na>»#s»>»>»^. Boerner Botanical Gardens (thru ning" Penninsula Players, Penin­ FILMS—1, 2 &3pm, Spacey Films Aug) sula Playhouse, Fish Creek, Wis. Lovell Space Center (every Sat) (thru Aug. 17) FAIR—Children's Day at State — schanen SING— 8pm Open Singing at the Fair, Gentle Ben & Judy the STATE FAIR—6:30 & 9pm, Di­ ana Ross & Supremes & come­ Coffee House, 631 N. 19th St. Chimp, Fairgrounds, W. Allis Dear Mr. Kois: fundamental rights is that to dian Stu Gilliam, free grandstand express ones views without fear show (also Wed) STATE-FAIR—Free grandstand ART— Works by graduate stu­ The following resolution was ad­ of haras sment, show 6:30 & 9pm, Eddie Albert, dents and invitational ceramics opted by the Executive Commit­ So, be it RESOLVED, That Baja Marimba Band and Geo. exhibition, UWM Fine Arts Gal­ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 tee of the Marathon County Young the Marathon County Young Re­ Kirby. lery (thru Aug) Republicans of Wisconsin at a publicans recognizes and ap­ BASEBALI 7:30, White Sox vs meeting held in Wausau, Wis­ plauds William Schanen, Jr. for Washington, County Stadium consin on Sunday, July 27, 1969: his courageous stand in defend-^ WHEREAS, Three publications ing this cherished right by re­ STATE PAIR—Family Day, free of Port publications of Port Wash­ fusing to discontinue publishing grandstand show features King ington, Wisconsin are being sub-. KALEIDOSCOPE, and UNCLASSIFIED Family at 12:30 & 3pm. jected to an advertising boycott Be it further RESOLVED, That because it publishes the under­ this resolution shall not be con­ No longer banned! At long last GAY NEWS! CARS—8pm, modified & sports­ ground newspaper KALEIDO­ strued to mean that the Mara­ mailing restriction lifted off Read fascinating new & exciting man autos at Cedarburg Race­ SCOPE, and thon County Young Republicans INTERCOURSE — the pictorial features in the nation's only GAY way (every Wed) WHEREAS, Port Publications Executive Committee supports* marriage. Nothing like it any­ newspaper, 25£ sample copy, $3 only publishes the paper and has or agrees with KALEIDOSCOPE where! Your copy rushed to you for 12 issues ($6 if sent 1st class) THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 no say over its editorial con­ views. by fast lst-class mail for only LA ADVOCATE, Box 74965, LA tent, and III Sincerely yours, $5.00. Please mention you are 90004. CARS—2:00 pm. 200 mile late WHEREAS, We of the Mara­ William Smiley, Chairman over 21 and married! A.P.S., model stocks. State Fair Park thon County Young Republicans Republican Party of Box 3600, St. Paul, Minnesota recognize that one of America's Marathon County, Wausau, Wis 55101. 43-2 The Runaway Coordinating Coun­ STATE FAIR—6:30-9 pm. Free cil, sponsored by the Second Home grandstand show with John David­ r*+>0*+++>++*++>++>++»>*++++++++*>0>++++*>»*+*>+++>+++**+*&++** SEXUAL FREEDOM, new maga­ Inc., helps find runaways. Anyone son. SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 zine of the SF League mailed in seeking help or information may pi. cover, $1. SFL, Box 14034- have it by simply calling Los An­ ROCK—9-10 pm. Dave Ritz with FAIR—12-7pm, Summer Festival KL, San Francisco, California geles 466-6221, 7 days a week, ""View from the Ceiling" - a SAILS— 1st Annual No. Amer<- Rides, booths, games, food. SE*j 94114. 43/4 24 hours a day. look at the exotica of rock re­ ican Sailing Regatta, Milw. Yacht Hedwig's Parish, 1716 n. Hum- cordings. WUWM -FM ( every Club (thru August 21) bolt Bachelor 39 desires gal for trial REFRIGERATOR, Auto that runs Thursy marriage, call Rich at 482-0049 needed by K'cope. Also, what YOUTH—Young America Week, sifter 5:00 p.m. M have you? Call or stop by. ZOO—Let Jeff give you a tour (thru August 24) of the Milwaukee County Zoo. SEXUAL SAFETY—Descriptive 3 pm. is feeding time. JAZZ—7:30 pm, New York Jazz discount price list of male pro­ Sextet: Music by the Lake series phylactic products free. T.L. 01- DRUG KNOWLEDGE! FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 Lake Geneva, WIS. well & Assoc. No. 313-2255 Pan­ Famous Turn-on Book: How to dora, Vancouver 6, B.C. Canada. Synthesize LSD, THC, Psilocybin, STARS—7 pm. "Surveying the MUSIC—"Sounds of Summer" - Mescaline, more. $3toTurn-Ons Skies'* astronomy lecture & de­ an excellent series of filmed re­ Caravan leaving mid-August for Unlimited, Dept. 86, 6311 Yucco monstration, UWM's Manfred Ol­ ports from music festivals a- golden shores of San Francisco Street, Hollywood, Ca. 90028, son Planetarium (Fri. thru Aug) round the country. Some peop­ has room for passengers to share includes postage and handling. le seen so far: Richard Farina, expenses. Write Cookie Ander­ Ecstacy or refund, ^ffe^ STATE FAIR—Free Grandstand Joni Mitchell, Arlo Guthrie. son, 297-15th Street, Fond du show, Johnny Cash, Slatter Bros. Channel 10 (every Sun) Lac, Wisconsin. UNCLASSIFIED ADS cost $1 for June Carter & Family, Carl Per­ FREAKS—Feed the freaks sel­ the first line and 50 <£ for each kins & The Tennessee Three, ling KALEIDOSCOPE at the fair. GIRLS — would you like to meet additional line. Figure 30 units all free at 6:30 & 9 pm. State students from all over the world? per line. Every single letter, Fair Park. MONDAY, AUGUST 18 If you enjoy international music, space, punctuation mark or num­ dances and cultural shows, please ber is a unit. If you want a word FOLK— Good food and ethnic PICK YOUR NOSE! write 5000 N. Troy Street, Chi­ in capital letters figure only 27 programs at the Turners, 1034 cago 60625. units, for a whole line in caps,- N. 4th Street TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 figure only 17. We reserve the right to edit or reject material ART—Gold Coast Art Fair, Rush THEATRE—"Song of Norway" TWO GALS —to ridewith 22 &25 that may jeopardize our exist­ Anne Jeffreys and Bill Hayes- yr old guys to San Francisco on Street Area, Chicago (thru Sun) ence. Further, we cannot guar­ POETRY— 8 pm. -12. Readings Melody Top Theatre (thru Aug 31J August 15, will return bv August antee the authenticity of all ads, 25. Must remain financially in­ & friends. The Village Church. although we will reject anything Juneau Village (every Fri) THEATRE—"The Fantastics" dependent duing trip and we that is an obvious shuck; anyway, Penninsula Players Playhouse, would like to receive a fair if you get fleeced, try to dig it. Fish Creek , Wis. (thru Aug 31) amount of compensation for tra­ AND, many of the sex ads are velling expenses. 342-8411 after sick and exploitative, but to try WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 11:00 p.m. and separate those from legiti­ LOVE-HATE AND Read: Make money, sell the Scope, 10£ mate sex ads would put us in the YOUTH—8 pm, Young America per copy, easy to make $10-25 position of arbitrary censor, so" THE KIBITZER On Stage, County Stadium per day. try to view the sickies as simply RHUBARB the last extant examples in this The Hazards and Humor THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 The East Side Bail Bond Fund paper of a dead culture. 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Virtually all ofthe editors at somewhere—though god knows the time. A hostess nowadays even sell the names and address­ piece—about the Crazies. He last week's underground media who has the patience to read may have to pay as much as es of people who write in to re­ doesn't like or understand them conference in Ann Arbor were through all that shit to find out. $85,000 on up just to create a quest their annual reports: an ... NY Times, vaguely paranoiac agreed that the press should be Real revolutionaries don't have memorable mood for her even­ easy way to get on the sucker that "a literate resident of Har­ an organizing tool for "the re­ time for such extensive theory and ing. " (Eugenia Sheppard, a wi­ list if you're fond of getting lem's slums" might be likely to thered, snotty bitch whose super­ volution" rather than merely a verbalization. These literary di- stockholder propaganda...Nat -think o f the Times, as "whitey's ficial column for the "liberal" vehicle for information (which, arrheoticians may yet singlehand- Hentoff, the Great Pontificator, paper" suggests in a recent issue NY Post concerns what a tough in the case of the straight press, edly kill off the movement through who can usually be relied upon of its house Organ Winners & time her socialite friends are ha­ is distorted information serving the the propagation of boredom. to bore the shit out of everybody Sinners, that more attention be ving making ends meet)... Fuck­ ruling class). But some dicho­ BEHAVIOR: With all the fuss within range, has finally (July paid "to the more normal news ing banks are so greedy that they tomy arose over such questions as about saving weight on the space­ Evergreen) written an interesting of the Negro community going; "Are we going to be journalists ships, the astronauts still seem to about its affairs. " Of course, an — photo by R. Cummin or revolutionaries?" Surely the think it important to take a ra­ even better idea might be to in- answer is: both. zor. Aren't explorers usually quire into some of the Times' A few of t h e papers present bearded?... Poets Byron and Shel­ slumlord friends who are respon­ criticised Liberation News Service' ly who maintained an interesting sible for Harlem retaining such for what was alleged to be "a menage-a-tfois with Shelly's wife slums. narrow ideological track" causing entertaining all the beats and AVAILABLE: Reuben Ship's some (unresolved) arguments about freaks of their generation at an "The Investigator," almost the whether LNS should be a news Italian villa will be the subject first public criticism of Joseph service or merely a propaganda o f a UA movie produced by the McCarthy when released as a re­ tool. The suggestion that al­ Mamas & Papas' Adler and Phil­ cord in 1954, has now been re­ though "everything is political" lips. ..The way the international leased as a book at a time when, there were different —and some­ airlines have convinced via IATA says the publishers, witch-hunt­ times more varied — ways of pre­ to swindle millions of airline pas­ ing is becoming "resurgent"... senting matters, was received with sengers by deliberately keeping Judy Garland freaks might like scorn by the purist wing who feel airfares as high as possible will a billboard-sized copy of their that preaching to the already- finally be exposed in a new book, hero in the "A Star is Born" pos­ converted is all that's necessary. The Air Net by K.G.J. Pillai, ter ($5 from Bryan, Box 15081, (See next item.) If a split be­ due from Grossman publishers in SF, Calif. 94115).,,Every draft tween the papers eventually de­ October.., Stamped, addressed counseling group should have a velops, and the last one was be­ letters dropped casually in the copy of the comprehensive man­ tween the acidheads and the ac­ street instead of into mailboxes, ual, "The New Draft Law" ($6.95 tivists, this is where it will come. turn up only if the finder isn't from Box 673, Berkeley, Calif.. Exactly 40 papers attended the emotionally affected by the name 94701) published by the National three-day conference, which was on the envelope according to an Lawyers' Guild..,Be advised: an hosted jointly by the White Pan­ interesting survey reported by Psy­ outfit called Glennco that adver­ thers and MC5's Trans-Love En­ chology Today magazine. For ex­ tises such blank forms as driving ergies commune, and almost all ample letters addressed to a Naz licenses, college diplomas, etc., areas of North America were re­ Party or a Communist Party office often cashes the check but send presented including Vancouver, were subsequently mailed by find­ you nothing,. .With a two-page (Georgia Straight), Toronto (Har­ ers whereas more than 70% of spread of nude pictures from Oh I binger), Seattle (Helix), Berke­ letters addressed to a noncommital Calcutta 1 NYC's surprisingly in­ ley (Barb), LA (Freep), Houston "M e d i c a I Research Associates" teresting Taxi News (25$ from (Space City News), Boston (Old turned up okay... If you know the 310 Lexington, NYC 10016) Mole), Atlanta (Great Speckled exact time of your birth, Joan seems almost ready to compete Bird), Cleveland (Black Libera­ Barr will send you a complete with the sex tabloids. tor), Chicago (Seed), Milwaukee psycho-astrological analysis for POLITRIX: The White House (Kaleidoscope), NYC (Rat, Other $10. This is reliable (Joan Barr, complains that guests steal vast Scenes), Phoenix (Orpheus), Phi­ Box 15081, SF 94115, Calif.). quantities of silverware as sou- ladelphia (Distant Drummer). THE FUTURE: India's Astro­ vinirs. So why not just use un­ DOGMA: The clearest analy­ logical magazine says that Fi­ marked silverware?...The extre­ sis of what went down at the del's bad times (astrologically mist usually demands 150 per cent Chicago SDS convention (if you speaking) will begin Sept. 15, and when the Establishment gets still care) was Andy Kopkind's 1970 and last until June 23, 1973 uptight, along comes the negoti­ report in Hard Times (25$ from ... Helicopters are so efficient in ator and settles for, say, 80 per 80 Irving PL, NYC 10003). The war that somebody ought to get cent. Without the extremist's SDS, a brave and bold idea in­ around to using them for domes­ threats, the negotiator would pro­ itially, seems to have become tic purposes like lifting disabled bably have been offered, say, 20 dominated by a cliche-ridden cars off crowded parkways for per cent, .0Now we have tacti­ bunch o f theoreticians who are example,.. Serve yourself gaso­ cian James Forman who is both fonder of words than action. Their line stations are being tried out extremist and negotiator at the house organ, New Left Notes, in Europe.. .Videa 1000, a pro­ same time: "Give us $500 mil­ is one of the dullest publications phetic newsletter about TV tech­ lion, " he says to the rich, white ever to be seen in the English niques, says pirate aircraft might churches. And some of them are language and its writers and edi­ be transmitting commercial TV 'starting to pay up,..Tricia Nix­ tors uniformly share the belief that into Britain next year while fly­ on, described by a former class­ any idea that can be expressed ing over international waters. mate 6s "a demure, fastidious, in words must be improved by us­ THE ESTABLISHMENT: "A hun­ young, lady of breeding and high ing, ten times as many words as dred balloons used to make a principle who doesn't drink" says necessary. The revolutionary party but the going is getting her favorite group i s the Turtles themeS; are probabl y in there harder and more expensive all CON'J ON PAGE 7 KALEIDOSCOPE August I PAGE 3 MRTHREMOUTEflRTHREJlDOUTEAl [HIRE Almost certainly within six or bor presently is preparing for cir­ Environment is a monthly pub­ tectingthe public from the conse­ the first warning of a national eight months there will occur culation to its membership a bib­ lished by the Committee for En-4 quences of the worst accidents problem." among most young activists a shift liography which will include se­ vironmental Information, 438 N. which can happen in nuclear pow­ 7. "Problems in PPM —Small of consciousness emphatically veral eco-texts. Skinker Blvd., St. Louis, Mo. er plants." doses of DDT could be destroy­ away from campus-and-Vietnam Here in the Bay Area people' 63130. Thus far it has restric­ 3. "Poisoning the Wells- ing the new salmon fishery in issues and energetically into is­ are putting together an ecolo­ ted itself to the circulation of Growing nitrate contamination Lake Michigan." sues pertaining to the ecological gically oriented "think-tank" information and has stopped short may make much of California's 8. "Unsnug Harbor —The U.S. emergency. which for the first time will bring of proposals for an active poli­ ground water unsafe for infants and Australia are looking for new As this shift occurs, we acti­ scientists into close community tics of ecology; nevertheless, the to drink. Large areas of the state spot to blast a harbor with nu­ vists will have to deal with such with activists. If in other parts information' it circulates is so have already exceeded federal clear explosives." 'complex forms of information that of the country activists also soon heavy that within two or three safety limits." The magazine also contains in­ we'll probably grow nostalgic for can sit down with young/hip sci­ years much of it will have mas­ 4. "Cooling it in Minnesota formation relevant to those who the relative simplicities of the entists representing all or most of sive political consequences in­ — What goes into the scales in can be turned on to the eco-em- earlier issues. Psychedelic (i.e. the ecologically relevant disci­ side the old political groupings. balancing the risk of radioactive ergency only by means of earlier m in d-expanding, mind-opening) plines, the transition will occur Here are some of the topics contamination vs. the benefit of concerns. For example, if Am- experience during the transition more rapidly and more intelli­ Environment has dealt with so far nuclear reactors..." erikan imperialism is your thing, will result much less often from gently. There's not much time this year: 5. "A New Pollution Problem read how Amerika—along with chemically induced pansensual left: by year's end we must have 1. "The Wind from Dugway — — Mercury compounds in agricul­ West Germany, Holland, France delights, much more often from learned how to begin to act. Thousands of sheep were killed by ture and industry are creating and England —has grabbed con­ old-fashioned cerebral homework. In an earlier ERO I quoted poet an escaped chemical warfare widespread pollution problems. trol of Peruvian anchovy fishing Having learned that the mind in Sam Abrams as saying Scientific agent in Utah last spring. Recent There is evidence that much of and is practicing a subtle, gra­ fact is merely one of several sen­ American, Natural History and evidence shows that the damage the food sold in interstate com­ dual genocide there: ses, we must now return to a so­ Science are "the most consistent­ might have been discovered early merce has unacceptable mercury 'Though there is a protein de­ ber husbandry of the sense-of- ly important political and literary or averted by a simple field test. residues." ^zmtk ficiency in Peru, only five to tMnk. journals on our continent." To Foolproof safety measures may not 6. "Birds Give Warning- six per cent of the high-protein The transition already is well those three magazines should be be possible, however." Sweden has banned many of the fish remain in that country. The .underway. For example. White added Environment, a good new. 2. "A Mile from Times Square mercury pesticides used widely in' rest of the catch is exported to Panther Headquarters in Ann Ar­ source of information. — There is no certain way of pro- this country. Dying birds gave the advanced Western countries where it is ground up into fish meal, and used to feed poultry and . cattle. "The Instituto del Mar del Peru has established 9.5-10 million tons as a yearly maximum take of' anchovy in the Peruvian waters to sustain the present stock of fish and to avoid the risk of reduc­ tion. If genocide of the poor is your Intimate jthing, read how it's estimated that i "between five and ten per cent of all children who live in Am-' erica's deldpidated pre-World War II housing are victims of lead poisoning. There are about ten Revealed! million homes like this in the country. Sixty per cent of all lead poisoning occurs in children between two and three years old. "The lead is taken in by chil­ dren when they eat chips of paint fallen from peeling walls. It ac­ cumulates m. the body and can build to a toxic level. Child/em suffering frorrrsevere lead poison­ ing can suffer brain damage, and five per cent die despite medical treatment." Here are addresses of the other three magazines: Scientific Am­ erican, 415 Madison Ave., NYC 10007; Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., NYC 10024; Science, 1515 Massachir- setts Ave., NW, Wash., D.C. 20005. Eco-activists will have to cope also.with a whole new set of judgments concerning people and' classes of people. One of the early recognitions during the transition is that many people whom we have called liberals have much more radically devel­ oped eco-conscjences than many* Your Cost: Only $198 we have called revolutionaries. THe confusion caused by this apparent paradox is exemplified in a letter I recently received from a friend in New York who suspected the "population con­ trol was a liberal hoax, the real Now you—more or less an innocent by-stander—can peer deep into And remember, on every sale of SONGBOOK, Warners/Reprise problem being not that millions the heart of Warners and Reprise, a pair of record companies some­ loses money! But, such is the insanity of our times. of poor people exploit the re­ times archly referred to as "The Gold Dust Twins." If you'd like to learn more about (1) the insanity of our times, (2) sources but that the Rockefellers Hear . . . Why a Fug can appeal to the same audience as Joni what makes Warners/Reprise a winner, and (3) twenty-three acts do the exploiting and are now Mitchell! that are damn good, slip your $1.98 to — afraid that billions of starving Treasure ... previously unavailable stuff by heart thumpers like Loss Leader Dept. S poor will become desperate and Van Dyke Parks and Jimi Hendrix! I Warners/Reprise Records upset the grape wagon so they See ... Arlo Guthrie and The Mothers and Tiny Tim alt share one I Burbank, Calif. 91503 want to cut down the population side of an LP! I Dearest Stan: through birth control." Learn .. . what makes Warners/Reprise pretty groovy! ! Enclosed is my check for $1.98, made out to "Warner Bros.- Golly, what a value! A deluxely packaged two-album set. All good Though the Rockefellers may Seven Arts Records." Now you have to send me "SONG­ indeed try to misuse the popula­ 1968-1969 stereo stuff. All in all, 40-or-so songs and goodies. By 23 BOOK." Boy, I can hardly wait. of our favorites, meaning people like Randy Newman, Van Morrison, tion issue, concern about this is­ Jethro Tull, Sweetwater, Pentangle, Miriam Makeba, Family, The sue itself is nobody's hoax. In Everly Brothers, and a terrific amount more. fact, any "liberal hoax" in this And think of this! We take a bath every time we sell you guys one of area would have to be defined these double albums, called SONGBOOK. With all this in it, we turn as a complacent attitude toward If you don't send in your $1.98, we'll understand. We save a penny no tidy profit at $1.98. A tidy loss is what we turn. the emergency created by the Plus... this is your chance, Record Fan; to peer deep into the inner or two, too. So please don't worry about it if you don't send in for exploding populations —that is, workings of the company that Crawdaddy magazine predicted will SONGBOOK, because honest, in these days, we feel a penny saved the liberal's mushy optimism that be "the most important force in the music business in 1969." Face is not to be sneezed at. rational man's rational technology it, for $1^8, you could do worse. God bless you all. . is competent enough to overcome any of his mistakes without much fret. 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natural side of the supernatural, nois Press, $4.25 tinue to want to do. especially as reflected in life­ Buckminster Fuller is a unique Fuller dismisses their theories styles, forms a basis for the mags, and creative thinker. Known pri­ as the rationalization for their character, even as it reflects a marily as an architect and de­ greed; he's a man of the Ein­ facet of California as enduring as signer, he has gained great re- stein ian Epoch with his head the sequoias. known for the geodesic dome and beautifully in the clouds and one Raps from'friends Deneal Amos, houses and cars built on his dy- foot in a spaceship. Wm. Margolis, and a Zen-history maxion principles. Now he's be­ Seeing man in the present time tale retold by Theodore Kitaif are ginning to become known for his using the make-shift solutions of maybe the most vital features in scientistic philosophy: "In 1927 the past in a desperate attempt this issue, along with poetry by when people had occasion to ask to solve modern problems, Fuller David Meltzer and Wm. Pillin. me about my prognostications and assures us that the computer, as Although the rest of the poetry is I told them what I thought it the newborn babe of his science- honest and expressive and makes would be appropriate to do about salvation religion not only will OOK it, it's not memorable. Prose what I could see ahead for the save us, but has already begun fiction by Clint Boode (natural­ 1950's, 60's, and 70's, people to, although it has not yet per­ istic black mans rap, maybe close used to say to me, 'Very amu­ meated the thinkpans of the pol- to the heart of the blues, but sing—you are a thousand years Iticos, who he has categorized By Rich Mangelsdorff the language is used with care one-dimensional) and G. deVries ahead of your timd.. .as time went as being the tools of those "great MOTHERS of Contemporary Am­ and clarity, catching the natural (livid and pitiful tale of a wan­ on people began to tell me that pirates." He says that scientism erican Poetry #6, Paul Blackburn, roll of events. derers' apprehension by the man). I was a hundred years ahead, and — his concept of it is a logical The Cities, Grove, $2.95 -there's a nice coincidence be­ The insert requiem for Dave now they tell me that I'm a lit­ extension of the technocracy -everyone digs this book and tween what Blackburn sees and Sandberg is beautiful and toge­ tle behind," he says modestly mystique of the 20's and 30's — Blackburn too, he's one of the what he can write about, no ther. The mag itself is finely in the early part of his book, but makes thought of "class warfare" few points of agreement amongst trace of smug "mastery" — rather, made, with imaginative layout, compared to most of the other obsolete, too, since Marx as well the falling chairs of the "schools" every poem seems like it just had and the photography of John thinkers about "the unthinkable" as the rationalizers of capitalism and cliques, devoid of program to be the "next one." Knolls transforms tree branches — the world of technology — he's believed there would not be (though quite experienced — i t 's -evocation of New York, Paris, or machinery-on-l o c a t i o n into quite up-to-date, although he has enough wealth to go around. "We just that he walks his own line), Spain, often the people do it sculpture in space. the same tendency as most of the don't seem to be able to afford he wants only for you to see and for him, or maybe the seasons, The criticism section is stim­ modern scientists to make Science, todo peacefully the logical things the particulars focus your atten­ ulating and backed up by in­ in itself, an all-saving religion we say we ought to be doing to feel and perhaps understand — tion and expand on their own formed stances, though I wish that obviates the need for poli­ forestall warring — by producing that's what we all sought as poets, terms. Moser would take more seriously tical systems, economics as a enough to satisfy the world's once; Blackburn yet retains close­ the efforts of younger and more theory of action and manipula­ needs," he says. ness to the fount. ILLUMINATIONS 4, edited by engaged writers. Even so, Il­ tion, and some of the other carry­ Spaceship Earth is not only a -anyway, you know it's a gas Norm Moser, 20 E. King Road, luminations is a breath of fresh overs from what he terms the time Strong book for today's academic to walk through his natural 'sca­ Tucson, Ariz. 85705, $1.50 air and a publication of rare sin­ of the "great pirates, " the robber establishment but a good sample pes. Moser used to live in Mill cerity. barons who not only exploited the of a type of thinking that is held -he's a mellow and large tal­ Valley and still has a certain populations and natural resources by many scientists and professors ent, a one-man mainstream; both segmertt AND cross-section of By Thomas McNamara of the world, spoiling them out of science in the universities. It the eye and ear are sharp and bay-area scene and sentiment OPERATING Manual for Space­ of ignorance and stupidity, but is the type of thinking that even they work together, the line covered, plus friends from all ship Earth by R. Buckminster Ful­ did it in the names of Darwin Max Eastman, a radical poet of moves with ease but is precise, over. A strong bias toward the ler, University of Southern Illi­ and Malthus, as they still con- the 20's, got to when He colla­ borated with a chemist to write The Age of Abundance, some years ago and reflects much of tfWVSWWtfWW^WWVWWW.' .swsftrVWW%fNs%wwwiftrv^.flrwww^^ MSWWVVWVC the position of scientists all over the world. Heart of the Computer, "Years passed, and the Yesters were getting bigger and bigger. Judy often liked to say,, 'Herb l' Pray for us. Cohen has made me what I am today, a pregnant housewife/ In 1967, jerry Yester joined the Lovin' Kidney of the Computer, Spoonful and became a teen idol until they broke up a few months later. Give us peace. "One day after the Spoonful break-up, Jerry approached his wife, Judy, and said, 'Look, why don't SELECTED Writings by Charles we really try to do something that we're proud of. Why don't we make a record together. Why don't I Olson, New Directions Paper­ write the music and you write the lyrics. Why don't we? Why?' And Herb Cohen, convinced success back, $2.45 was just around the corner, went to Istanbul under an assumed name." I call Charles Olson "the great lobster poet," because from what I've seen of his work, he has been at his best when writing <§] JUDY rIENSKE & JERRY YEITER lf> about the fishing life in his home­ town Glouster. Like many of the college-professor poets, the cloi­ stered life of the academy has got to him, and, although it's "pub­ lish or perish" for the teaching poets just like for everyone else in the learning factories, they are a subdued bunch, careful to live in their own academical dream worlds, safely out of touch with much of the suffering of the world. By and large most of them are writing a controlled "free verse" which they've bor­ rowed from the free poets who would never accept the silent conformity the universities require. Olson, who is considered to be the head of a "school" that in­ cludes Robert Creely and some others, derives principally, it would seem, from Ezra Pound but doesn't have Pound's wonaerously individualistic world-view, al­ though Olson gets into a Univer­ sity fantasy when he gets high on delusion and tries to, it eeems, explain the cosmos. Among other things such a vision is safe, and though it saves him from the ne­ cessity of any kind of ironical social commentary and contro­ versy, it really amounts to a highly-intellectual trip. The* Selected Writings is really a book for those who are "said" on the "importance" of Olson and have a need to know more about him and his work. There are poems, his essay on "projective verse" that he used to feather Pound with when the aid raven was incarcerated in the federal nuthouse and a correspondence with Creely that dates back to the time Olson was looking for meaning in the shards of the Yucatan ruins in Mexico. You get the impression from all this that you've got an eccentric uncle somewhere named Charlie who wanted to be an archeoio- gist and instead became a poet. **rww.v.vvvw^.jvv»svw^^ Ah Well. Troi/f Mas/r Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (Straight STS 1053) •••••••••••••••••• Captain Beefheart, the only true dadaist in rock, has been victimized repeatedly by public incomprehension and criti­ cal authoritarianism. The tendency has been to chide C. B. and his Band as a potentially acceptable blues band who TROUT MASK REPLICA were misled onto the paths of greedy trendy commercial­ ism. What the critics failed to see was that this was a band with a vision, that their music, difficult raucous and rough as it is, proceeded from a unique and original CAPTAIN ffiEFHEART consciousness. e HiS MH3L BAND This became dramatically apparent with their last album. Since their music derived as much from the new free jazz and African chant rhythms as from Delta blues, the songs tended to be rattly and wayward, clattering along on wierdly jabbering high-pitched guitars and sprung rhythms. But the total conception and its execution was more in the nature of a tribal Pharott Sanders Archie Shepp fire-exorcism than the ranting noise of the Blue Cheer strain of groups. Thus it's very gratifying to say that Captain Beefheart's new album is a total success, a brilliant, stunning enlarge­ ment and clarification of his art. Which is not to say that it's in any sense slick, "artistic," or easy. This is one of the few bands whose sound has actually gotten rawer as they've matured—a brilliant and refreshing strategy. Again the rhythms and melodic textures jump all over the place (in the same way that Cecil Taylor's do), Beefheart singing like a lonesome werewolf screaming and growling in the night. The songs clatter about—given a superficial listen­ ing, they seem boring and repetitious. It's perhaps th$ addi­ tion of saxophones (aH played by the five men in the band) that first suggests what's really happening here and always has been happening in this group's music. On "Hair Pie: Bake One," for instance, the whole group gets into a raucous wrangling horn dialog that reveals a strong Albert Ayler influence. The music truly meshes, flows, and excites in a way that almost none of the self- conscious, carefully crafted jazz-rock bullshit of the past 30 -1 year has done. And the reason for this is that while many (D 3" other groups have picked up on the trappings of the new XJ fl) jazz, Cap and the Magic Band are into its essence, the •••• 3 white-hot stream of un-"cultured" energy, getting there 3 *" with a minimum of strain to boot. This is the key to their (0 whole instrumental approach, from the drummer's patterns (compare them to Sonny Murray's on Ayler's Spiritual Unity (D O or Ed Blackwell's on Don Cherry's Symphony for Impro­ 3D vises), to the explosive, diffuse guitar lines, which (like 3 Lou Reed's for the Velvet Underground or Gary Peacock's •••• O bass playing on Spiritual Unity) stretch, tear, and distend 0) sn the electric guitar's usual vocabulary with the aim of 0) 3 extending that vocabulary past its present strictly pat­ o (O terned limitations—limitations that are as tyrannically 3 0) stultifying for the rock musician today as Charlie Parker's am^a, influence was for the jazzmen of the late Fifties. ""8 o I mustn't forget the lyrics. You certainly won't; the album O 3 on a purely verbal level is an explosion of maniacal free- 3 o pretensions and mundane, obvious mono-syllabic mind- rth lessness. Where, for instance, have you heard lyrics like ^^ &) these: "Tits tits the blimp the blimp/The mother ship the mother ship/The brother hid under the hood/From the (Q blimp the blimp...all the people stir/'n' the girls' knees tremble/'n' run m wave their hands/'n' run their hands over the blimp the blimp..." The double record set costs as much as two regular SA^&

£ *VN< albums, but unlike most of these superlong superexpen- 5455W»LSH^ sive items it's really sustained, and worth the money, which is perhaps not so much to pay for 27 songs and what may well be the most unusual and challenging musical experi­ ence you'll have this year...... LESTER BANGS IKALEIDOSCOPE August I PAGE

cies we were following to insure is a lens to the past, to the pre­ true. But because our options are eco-contexts on the basis of a our near-future strength and sur­ sent and to the future, offered to* 1 so severely limited, I submit that person's past roles or reputation. us for the looking—a direction, that we have to be grateful that Lindbergh in fhe fifties was on a vival were likely to lead to our a successful selection, an aware­ trip dominated by desire for mo­ distant-future weakness and des­ these people are for any reason ness of values that confronts us Earth ney or power or fa me — a trip truction... willing to spend money to build with the need for and the means which carried him into a lot of "I resigned from the ballistic- concern about the disastrously of our salvation. Let us never squawky rightwing politics. Some missile committee and declined mounting number of humans. forget that wilderness has devel­ Read-out years back he went through a position in the new civil agency At a certain point in the very oped life, including the humar a deeply conscious rebellion ag­ being set up for the development FROM PAGE 3 near future it will be our job to species. By comparison, our own ainst the trash of middle-class af­ of space. I decided to study en­ point out to these industrialists — accomplishments are trivial." fluence and he now lives more vironments, peoples and ways of and to the public — that the en­ Lindbergh's comment about the austerely than most hippies and life in various areas of the ormously overcrowded planetary triviality of human accomplish­ street peopleo world... logy transformation movement will conditions make necessary a ra­ "Science and technology inform ments appeared in an issue of Here are excerpts from a piece come —for a while at least — pid evolution from competition to us that, after millions of years Life devoted almost exclusively by Lindbergh recently published from what we call the right wing. cooperation, that in the U.S. o f successful evolution, human to the moon fetish spaceshot. in Life: Something of this confusion can specifically this means shucking life is now deteriorating gene­ In times as grave as these, we "I served for seven years as a be seen in a recent piece in Hard capitalism and evolving a com­ tically and environmentally at an need every single ally we can member of scientific ballistic- Times by James Ridgeway, a good munity for which there is yet no alarming and exponential rate. get. We must make our judg­ missile committees, first under the Teft-of-center journal ist. label, a community within which Basically, we seem to be retro­ ments carefully one by one. Air Force and then under the De­ Through most of the piece Rid­ the notions of ownership and mo­ grading rather than evolving. We — Keith Lampe partment of Defense. At the end geway deals sarcastically with ney no longer have meaning or have only to look about us to Berkeley, Calif. of this time, with Atlases and Ti­ those who see the population ex­ appeal. verify this fact: to see mega- tans in position, with Minutemen plosion as the central contempo­ We then invite those industri­ polizing cities, the breakdown of coming and Polaris submarines un­ rary planetary problem. He's es­ alists to take these steps with us nature, the pollution of air, wa­ der way, I felt our United States pecially worried that support for — and perhaps some of them will. ter and earth; to see crime, vice had achieved the indestructible popu lotion control comes from If most Amerikan industrialists and dissatisfaction webbing like power to destroy any enemy who Wilcock's people associated with Standard don't make major concessions in a cancer across the surface of our might attack. But I had become Oil, Dupont, Chase Manhattan, the next few years, the domestic world. Does this mark an end alarmed about the effect our ci­ TVA and Dixie Cup. He says that situation will rapidly deteriorate or a beginning? The answer, of vilization was having on conti­ OTHER many of the industries "which into very large numbers of scat­ course, depends on our percep­ nents and islands my military mis­ have fouled the continent from tered, small-scale, futile shoot- tion and the action we take... sions took me over — the slashed one end to the other" are now outs. "That is why I have turned my SCENES forests, the eroded mountains, the digging birth control "as a means Charles Lindbergh provides pro­ attention from technological pro­ disappearing wilderness and wild­ to dodge pollution control. " bably the best example of the gress to life, from the civilized FROM PAGE 2 life. I believed some ofthe poli­ What Ridgeway says is mostly dangers of making judgments in to the wild. In wilderness there

...That old hypocrite Everett Dirksen has been abusing his sen­ ate privileges for years (fighting for legislation that benefited his law firm's clients without declar­ The album by ing his interest) and robbing tax­ payers blind while understandably opposing any attempt to make senators answerable to the Eth­ ics Committee,. But his dishon­ est, dishonorable days may be nearing an end: he's increasingly BLINII FAITH becoming a target for Nixon's enemies who see him as being particularly vulnerable. Now, if is available on Atco Records somebody would only rip off dis- somaniac Mendel Rivers and some of those other congressional crooks .. .Horeshit Humphreak must think in two (2) different jackets people have short memories, in a recent NYTimes interview he spec- ulated that he had "only one chance I e ft" to be president... It's not the Federal Government that benefits from the census so much as businessmen who get a bagfull of invaluable information about c o n s u m e rs at no cost to themselves. So says the Guard­ ian in a story that points out that some people now have to answer as many as 70 dumb questions (refusal to cooperate is a Federa offense) including whether you share your bathroom with any­ body.

RADICAL PRESS: The Black Pan­ thers charge that their newspaper has been mutilated, stolen and suppressed while in shipment to various parts of the country from, the SF printer (who has also re­ B ceived bomb threats for handling it).. .Vancouver's Georgia Straight is being persecuted on criminal libel charges because they accus­ ed a local judge of encouraging "the belief that the law is not only blind, but also deaf, dumb The record inside both and stupid. " Seems like fair (and accurate) comment...A new tab­ loid called Renaissance to be pub- jackets is exactly the same lished by a rightist group named Christianity on Campus as an anti­ dote to "the Marxist underground press" promises to review the same cultural cross-section "but from a perspective of historic Christian­ It's what's inside that counts ity. " Sounds like a loser from the start... If you want to burn out the tape recorders of some­ body who's tapping your phone (suggests SF's Good Times) all you have to do is to temporarily disconnect the phone wire at the wall and plug it into the regular house current... Staffers from Vo­ cations for Social Change (Can­ yon, California 94516) about to set off on a cross-country trip to Also available on 8 track stereo cartridges offer help to local communities in setting up free schools, peace centers, health clinics, radical newspapers, etc. ^«Vi*«rWW'

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By Ralph J. Gleason and the trade press, that incre­ testified what Lenny had said and It is typical of the way in dibly hypocritical house organ fc*- the cop ''did my act lousy." which this society misrepresents vested interest. "I found out in New York that anything with which it disagrees Lenny Bruce was the prisoner 1 was judged by people who ne­ that Lenny Bruce was always re­ of truth and no society will tol­ ver saw my show," Lenny said. ferred to as "dirty"" comic. erate the voice which tells it the They reduced his show to paper The first thing anybody found truth about itself because to face and then read it to the Grand out about him, if they took the that truth is to admit it and be Jury. "My art is public speak­ trouble to listen, was that he forced to change. ing and the cop did my act and 1 didn't have to say 'fuck in or­ So it is easier to refer to Lenny he's not a good comic 1" der to be funny. The second Bruce as a dirty comic, as a con­ Nelson Algren, in a brilliant thing they found out, if they lis­ victed junkie and menace to talk, once told how, after he tened a little harder, was that youth. What he was, really, was had written "Man with the Gol­ Lenny Bruce was not a comedian a menace to them. den Arm" he was praised by all at all, as he said himself the Lenny Bruce was a brilliant le­ the critics. Then he wrote "A night he was busted at the Jazz gal mind and a terrible lawyer. Walk on the Wild Side" and they Workshop in San Francisco. When That's what defeated him in the panned him. "They discovered he returned to the club after be­ end in the courts, even though I wasn't kidding, " he explained. ing taken to the city jail, booked he was victorious in his appeals They had also discovered his im­ and let out on bail, he told the on his obscenity conviction in portance. audience "I'm sorry if I'm not New York and the one in Chi­ Lenny was greeted by every­ very funny tonight, but I'm not cago was automatically reversed, body at first, except an assort­ a comedian, I'm Lenny Bruce." Lenny's problem with the law ment of prudes, as a great comic And Lenny Bruce was really, was that he believed in it. He satirist but then he began to be along with Bob Dylan and Miles had a fantasy he used to speak more of a serious satirist and they Davis and a handful of others of and which is in his book, "The couldn't take it. A society which (maybe Joseph Heller, Terry Essential Lenny Bruce" (Ba I Ian- can tolerate the tV serial of Southern, and Allen Ginsberg in tine), about a party they would bombings in Viet Nam, the fe­ another way) the leader of the all give him some time, all the male impersonations of Milton "The Trfal* KofVo wrote first wave of the American social cops and the lawyers and the Berle, the sadism of Mayor Daley was the Judge whom he had ne­ "Lenny, you're honest!" the and cultural revolution which DAa and the fudges because: and Joe Pine and the rest of the ver seen? Where was the High head waiter at Off Broadway gradually i s changing, the struc­ "Lenny you never lost faith in scenery along Desolation Row Court he hod never penetrated? shouted the night Lenny returned ture of our society and may ef­ the law, you always believed in couldn't take Lenny Bruce. He Lenny kept trying. And it be­ to San Francisco. And that hon­ fectively revise it, if the forces it.* He did believe, with all hit too close to home. came more like "The Trial" when esty was the key. He was fright­ of reaction which are automati­ his heart. He believed that if So they did the thing they al­ there is a verdict of "ostensible ening because of that honesty. cally brought into play by such only he could get the cops and ways do when the voice of pro­ acquittal" under which, fhe ac­ In a town where the top colum­ a drive, do not declare military the DAs and the Judges to obey,, test penetrates too deeply, they cused is told, it is possible "for nist, Herb Caen, has a power law and suppress it. the law he would be saved. That's kilted him. Those whom the Gods the acquitted man to go straight Walter Winchell alone ever ex­ Lenny Bruce said that this so­ what made him a bad lawyer. would destroy, they first moke home from the Court and find of­ ercised in a major American city, ciety is insanely paradoxical. He would walk out on stage mad. They kept saying they had ficers already waiting to arrest Lenny told him to his face from That they call it the Hall of Jus­ sometimes with the transcript of made Lenny mad but they really him again...the case begins all the stage in full view of 300 tice but the only justice is in the his New York trial (he does it hadn't. They just insisted he must over again, but again, it is pos­ people that he was chicken. halls. That the law is beautiful,, in the film, the only performance be mad to continue fighting. They sible to secure an ostensible ac­ The outrage against Lenny the only trouble is in the people he ever made) and discuss its; drove him to demonical concen­ quittal. One must again apply really was caused by his honesty who are in charge of it. He went, hundreds of errors, the inconsis­ tration on his fight. They made all one's energies to the case and and by his unerring instinct. He ahead in his determined, logical, tencies and the fact that he was him into Joseph K. in Kafka's never give in." touched every one of us. Lenny brilliant analysis of the laws and always getting busted because "The Trial," blindly and deter- Lenny's first bust was in Phil­ outgrew night clubs. He took on he fought the judges and the dis­ some cop went to see him per­ mindly struggling to get before adelphia and, dig I, the case was the whole society. Entire classes trict attorney and the newspapers form and then went to court and the right judge. At the end of dropped. He claimed in a news of law students attended his per­ broadcast on TV that he'd been formances. The night he did the offered a deal if he'd come up Berkeley concert, the audience with the cash. In any case, the was dotted with lawyers, profes­ arrest was for possession of 0 me­ sors, poets and authors. All by dicinal drug for which he had himself, with little advance no­ prescriptions. That set off the tice, he drew 2,000 people to Syndrome. He got his next in that hall, which is more than any San Francisco (tried and acquit­ other comic could have done, I ted to the eternal glory of that suspect. city), then Chicago, then L.A. For a long time it was never Atlantic Records Welcomes and then New York. clear that Bruce essentially was It got so bad that they used to religious and a religious symbol roust him from the L.A. club and rather than a comedian. It is not never even book him. Just take surprising that his posters are dis­ MC5 him down. When he returned to played on the walls of the faith­ his first San Francisco date after ful and now and then in their his acquittal there, he had a windows like the pictures of Jesus

:; '-• :~ . house half full of cops in and out in the Latin American ghettos. of uniform. There were squad He was afraid of the younger cars parked all around the joint. generation, worried that he could Lenny took one look at the aud­ not communicate with them know­ ience — half of them on taxpayers ing how TV had made sophisticates payrole and expense accounts and out of six-year-old girls. But said all the Magic Words in the the oncoming wave of long-haired first 60 seconds and then went on rebels picked up on him at the with the show. end. He had some at his Ber­ His famous Los Angeles narco­ keley concert and he had more tics conviction was on the testi­ when he played the Fillmore a mony of a sheriff's squad member few months later. And now he who was himself at. that time un­ had the true status of myth and der suspicion for smuggling-nar­ a martyr with them that the pre­ cotics and was eventually arres­ tenders like Malcolm Boyd con­ ted, tried, -convicted and jailed vinced TIME that they "have. for a narcotics offense. But the Lenny didn't have to say the society in that city —the controversial words to be funny. media being its representative — Religions, Inc. and Comic at the wouldn't treat the Bruce case as Palladium will rank as classic being a serious perversion of jus­ American satires as long as we • tice. Had he lived he might still exist. But he did use those words, have won on his appeal on that taking from them by his use of one as well. He made a good their magic power to do harm fo case for being framed. anyone but him. He used them Lenny's whole point was really and was funny with them or with­ epitomized in his troubles with out them. More than funny, he lawyers. He didn't want to be was a teacher and the greatest defended on the basis that he thing he ever taught, from which didn't do it. He wanted, rather, the philosophy grows, is that there Kicking Out the Jams to show that what he had indeed is only what is. And it's para­ said was not obscene. In an in­ doxical and somehow dramatically "It's mind-blowing, earsplitting, stomach-churning. The souped- credible dialogue with the arres­ perfect that he should at the same up music of the MC-5 starts off in high and never throttles down ting officer on the steps of the time insist on the reality of le­ ... up from the underground has come a real Detroit sound, pul­ paddy wagon in San Francisco gal dream, the reality of what, sating with the belch of its smokestacks and beat of its machinery." when Lenny was busted for using in the law, ought to be. The the word "cocksuckers," he asked "what is" of the law deals in in­ —Hubert Saal Newsweek the cop if he had ever used the equity and chicanery and legal May 19, 1969 word. What cool I fictions. Lenny wouldn't buythat. He insisted that the law be ta­ The most incredible thing about ken seriously. That was his trou­ rm Lenny was not that he was so ble. ATLANTIC brilliantly funny, but that he was A library of Lenny Bruce tapes funny at a 11 under the circum­ would raise the educational po­ stances of his persecution and in tential of the national school sys­ the corollary circumstances of be­ tem to a considerable degree. ing Unable to work most of the This is the Berkeley concert, the time, for the essence of the sa­ first Bruce full concert perfor­ tirist is to keep the wit sharp by mance issued unexpurgated. Art Show—Paintings and sculptures ing clay, stop by one of our work on trees, on grass, surrounded by shops and see what you can give the Hudson valley, will be dis­ and take. WOODSTOCK MUSIC & ART FAIR pfsent| | played. Accomplished artists, "Ghetto" artists, and would-be art­ Food—There will be cokes and hot- ists will be glad to discuss their dogs and dozens of curious food work, or the unspoiled splendor of and fruit combinations to experi­ the surroundings, or anything else ment with. AQUARIAN that might be on your mind. If you're an artist, and you want to Hundreds of Acres to Roam on — : ;,; : display, write for information. Walk around for three days without *.-": y '" '.IPlPlMPltf Crafts Bazaar—If you like creative seeing a skyscraper or a traffic knickknacks and old junk you'll light. Fly a kite, sun yourself. Cook WHITE LAKE, N.Y. love roaming around our bazaar. your own food and breathe un­ You'll see imaginative leather, ce­ spoiled air. ramic, bead, and silver creations, Music starts at 4:00 P.M. on Fri­ as well as Zodiac Charts, camp day, and at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday clothes, and worn out shoes. and Sunday—It'll run for 12 contin­ Work Shops —If you like playing uous hours, except for a few short with beads, or improvising on a breaks to allow the performers to guitar, or writing poetry, or mold­ catch their breath.

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