Friday, February 2, INS SCARLET AND BLACK Page Seven gdtd‘ ' . . some...“ MIDDLE COURSE , 3 WE home? a our [Wows OPEN I Distributed by Has iiigtlts Qimts SYN DICATE JONES ON JONES (Editor’s Note: The fol- lowing is him Jones' pere soon! account of the events that led to his arrest last year.) LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE After midnight on July 14, 1967, l and my companions were driving in my station Wa' gnn, talking and listening to the radio. As we reached the cor- ner of South Orange Ave, which was on our direct route home, we were stopped by at least two carloads of white-helmeted po- lice with shotguns and several detectives. They advanced on our van; we thought that at most they would check us out, ask ibr identifications, etc, then let us go. We were told to come out of the car. When i opened the door and stepped down, one de- tective, whom i recognized as having once attended Harrig- get High School while i was there, reached up to me, acreaming that "we were the bastards" who had been shoot- ing at them. “Yes," he said. “a blue panel truck." (My station wagon is an olive-green camper bus.) I said that we had not been shooting at any- one. I told the officer that I thought i remembered him from high school — whereupon he hit me in the face and threw me up against the side of the truck. (The others had also been taken from the truck.) The detective then began to tab me as hard as he could with his pistol in my stomach, asking, “Where are the guns?" I told him there were no guns. Suddenly it seemed that five or six of the officers surround- ed me and began to beat me. i was hit perhaps rive times on top of my head by night- sticks, and when I tell, some of the officers Went about me- thodically trying to break my hands, elbows and shoulders. One oiticer tried to kick me in the groin — and there were many punches thrown. As they beat, they kept calling me, "Animal,” and asking me, “Where are the guns?” Inside the wagon, the beating con- tinued. They took us from the wagon and as I was pushed up the stairs at Police Head~ quarters, an officer called out, "Wait a minute,” then punched me in the pit of the stomach. I fell to the ground clutching my stomach. Inside the station, Mr. Spfna (the Police Director) was standing behind the desk. I asked him had he ordered me beaten. He replied, “They got you, didn't they?” — smiling. An officer then grabbed me, asked me to take off my belt. He ran his hand in my pocket, pulling out my wallet . . . later I discovered that the officer had taken about $65.00 and I checkbook out of the wallet. We were taken to City Hos pital; i was dragged in and handcuffed in a wheelchair. The “doctors" put in eight or nine Stitches. (At no time were we allowed to make a phone call. At no time were we read our rights.) We were then taken to police headquarters on Franklin St., iingerpdnted and brought into the courtroom and arraigned. The prosecutor asked for $25.- 000 bail for me, which the judge allowed. I was taken to Essex County jail and put into solitary confinement, where i remained until I was released. (All mo- tions for lowering the bail were denied.) -—'LERDI JONES nlllllllillllllllllllillllIIIlllllilllllIIllllllilllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll @' ENSEMBLE (Continued from Page 4) disastrous, as any good show sells out long in advance. The NEC feels that the black audience it does develop will be an audience raised on quality theatre. “They Won’t be getv ting Broadway reruns, or Ne- gro versions of “Hello, Dolly," a company spokesman said. “They'll be a better group of theater goers.” The NEC finds predominantly black audiences more responsive than predom- inantly white audiences. They find that black people come to the theater with less precon- cepticins than do white people, and that their reactions are "freer.” The first play chosen by the Negro Ensemble Company was by a white man, Peter Weiss, the German born, Swedish author of “Marat/Sade.” The group claims it has no established policy towards the type of play it plans to do. it says ‘it is trying hard not to start with a set political view point. Napalm 8t Nicotine Sir: President Leggett has urged all members of the Col< lege community to make known to him their views on the mat- ter of recruitment visits and College policy. in the interest of consistency, we might do well as we prepare to state those views to Consider also the case of the cigarette com- panies, one of which sent a re~ cruiter to Grinneli last week. After all the worst thing about ‘ napalm is that it is hazardous to health. —David B. Parsell French Publication Plaudlts Sir: The “new" 5&3 is great! Nice to hear about something besides the track meet and the Lenox Quartet. The addition of protessional cartoons, interna- tional news and news from oth- er colleges is going to give The Paper a run for its money. Our Congratulations! For God’s sake don't print thisl —Carol Boucher, ’69 —Eleanor Cautley, ’11 Sir: i want to congratulate you on the January 26 issue of the 5&3. I am sure that we will have strong editorial differ- ences on occasion, but at least during the coming semester the son promises to add much to campus life instead oi being a bland reflection of it. Once again, congratulations and good luck. >Ron Cogswell C of HP President Approval or Argument? Sir: This semester’s Scarlet and Black will be a hard act to follow. —Name Withheld . We assume there will he a change of scene and other players will appear. We‘ll keep it up until we get Ihe hook. — EDITORS lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIlllllllllllllilllllllll Mrs. Mary Mitchell of Lon don, England, gave mouthin- mouth resuscitation to a gold fish that had tlapped from its bowl onto the floor. dii 'i'i-iE dIGHT By Wm. F. BUCKLEY, Jr. You will have noticed that Mr. Clark Clifford, our forthcoming Secretary of Defense, has been coy on the question whether he in a hawk or ii dove, disdaining, as he put it, “such ornithological categories." But the wisemen in Washington tell us that he is Com vinced of the tightness of the Vietnam war, and indeed it is on: likely that President Johnson would have appointed to sit at hll left hand someone who substantially disagreed with him on so im- portant a question. It has even been whispered that Mr. Clifford will pursue the objectives of victory in Vietnam more wholeheart- edly than Mr. McNamara did, about whom the insider: tell of great agonizing over the entire matter, an agonizing which can- not compare with the agonizing of American soldiers as they hear shells drop over them which were manufactured in the Soviet Union and found their way to the war front because Mr. McNa- mara — and Mr. Johnson -— agnnlze over world opinion. But let us assume that the conduct of the Vietnam war will proceed more or less at the pace or the last year or two, and hope that the cumulative pressures on North Vietnam will begin to tell. and that before long the military creaking and groaning will abate. What then? What; will we see after it is over in Vietnam? A period of peace in the Southeast Asian part of the world we are entitled to expect. But history teaches us the unlikelihood that there will be peacd everywhere in the world. And all the less likely considering the techniques of the modern revolutionists, who have learned to cause so much disturbance with so few men. The Sty-called wars of liberation are certain to prove to be lit. military Model A Ford of the 20th Century — cheap, durable, and ubiquitous. All It takes is a couple of thousand guerrillas. I pipe- line to the soviet union, a local Che Guevara, and you are in business. Inasmuch as the United States is primarily charged with the responsibilities of counteraction, it is we who need to think be- yond the Vietnam war and ask ourselves whether we are willing again in pay so lilgh - price as we will have paid in Vietnam in order to contain other national liberation fronts in other parts of the world. Mr. Clifford should turn his attention to the problem, and sure- ly the place to start would be by announcing a future commitment to the volunteer army. If you like, to the mercenary army. The arguments in favor of it have been frequently rehearsed, as re- cently as in 1964 by both the presidential candidates. As is so often the case with election year promises, nothing has been done, noth- ing in this case to phase out the draft. Perhaps the reason why is the great manpower demands of the Vietnam war. But that is no reason tor putting off a public discussion of the volunteer military, and it is always appropriate to bigthink about strategic matters upon taking the oath of niiice. The conventional arguments are that, e) a professional force renders professional services. As things now stand, an American technician becomes highly qualified, highly useful. by let us say June, and in September his tour of duty is over. b) The extra cost or luring men into a professional military force is not likely to exceed the great cost of continually training the millions of young men whose services are used over so short a period. To which con- venrional argument should he added, {1) the great commotion caused by a draft, and the influence Of that commotion on the formulation of an effective foreign policy backed up by a mobile armed iorce. ii the United States is going to help out next year in Brazil, the year after in the Sudan, and the year after that in Ni- geria, surely we do nor want to replay the tensions of the existing war? it is bad enough to contemplate another haltrcentury of ti- nancing resistance to the Communists throughout the world, but it is more than flesh and blood can bear to contemplate a Slyyear old Dwight Macdonald relusing ills 25th consecutive invitation to the White House. The influence of American youth and their epigoni. ihe inlel~ ieciuais, the academicians, the opinion-makers, the noisemakers, on foreign policy is considerable, and in some ways heallhy. Their indisposition to go and fight in these grubby wars in grubby parts of life \Vnrld is altogether understandable. But until we simply give up on the rest of the world, we have got to help out. And the way to do that is primarily by making arms available, and also small, professional forces which will absorb the Shock until such moment as the locals are trained to attend to their own defense. Perhaps someone in Washington will be good enough to quel- tion Mr. Clifford on the matter at his next press conference.