European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday the stars and stripes Page 9 John p. Roche hoodlums exploit negro idealists men of Goodwill have a ten Dency to become to mesmerized by idealistic slogans thai they not Only fail to realize that hard types Are using these ideals for their own ends but also denounce anyone who tries to make that Point. When Khrushchev for exam ple vindicated those of us who had always held Stalin Era trials to be preposterous Frame  a number of people who had been taken in were far madder at us than they were at Stalin i m not sure that Bill Buckley has forgiven me for fingering Joe Mccarthy As an unprincipled psychotic Back in 1953, though i suspect that in retrospect he May share my judgment. Right now in connection wit the various negro insurgencies we Are confronted by the need for extremely careful analysis. At the risk of exposing myself As a racist pig the contemporary substitute for red baiter would like to suggest that there Are two major currents operating inside the pattern of insurgency the idealists and the hoodlums. And those who refuse to make this differentiation and Victor Lasky wander around talking about the legacy of racism and the legitimate demands of the Black Are playing into the hands of the hard line Law and order boys who Are looking for a Chance to bust All negroes. The idealists had the Field to themselves so Long As the going was rough the sheriffs and their dogs unchecked and the vital Point there was no Money in the pot. However once the brutal stage was largely Over and the Cash began to come in the hoodlums took a hand in the game. The 1966 gag that All the Money is in poverty was the background for the extremely in genious activities of the Durham boys who set to work looting the new York City poverty pro Gram. In the words of my favorite Prophet the preacher an old hebrew Ward Boss who Man aged to insert his memoirs into the Bible by attributing them to Solomon there is nothing new under the  my father once told me about a fenian club in Brooklyn around the turn of the Century which met regularly to extol the glories of Irish civilization. When some Patron died and left them the immense sum of $50,000, an incredible change took place within two months every Corkie county Kerry shorthand for Low types on which county Cork presumably held a monopoly in red Hook became a fenian Learned to sing Odonnel Abu accused the incumbent officers of insufficient Militancy ousted them and seized the Treasury. Shortly the club vanished. In a struggle such As this whether Between elderly Admir ers of gaelic and cookies or Between a Bunch of Young idealistic negroes and a cadre of panthers there can be Only one outcome. Violent language is no match for a shillelagh or a razor. And since the hoodlums have borrowed the rhetoric of revolution As a franchise for their activities the idealists can t bring themselves to follow the sensible human course of calling the cops. That would be betraying a  so in organizational terms they sign their own death certificates. I am not just dealing with abstractions. Most american col Leges and universities Are run by decent people who want to help the culturally deprived and the recent Black revolutions have led a number of them to make concessions that in effect Maxi Mize the Power of negro hoodlums and minimize the strength of genuine idealists. Take for example the recent tragic shoot in at the University of California los Angeles. Once the University conceded that the Blacks would have an autonomous Black studies program and the right to name the director the whole affair moved from the academic level to a Savage old fashioned patronage Brawl. The men who were shooting were not interested in swahili the his tory of slave revolts or negro contributions to american Cul Ture they wanted that bag. Those concerned with negro rights had in their innocence generated the negro equivalent of a mafia civil War. I have immense respect for Young negro idealists who Are wrestling with the problem of identity in a society that is not so much racist As it is indifferent which is in some ways worse. Though i disagree with their analysis i find it perfectly natural that these militants should vent their spleen on Liber als we Are the ones who care. Ironically one of the biggest tasks we have is to guarantee their right to work out their own answers in an atmosphere free from intimidation by both George wallaces and Black  cd 1?69, King feature Syndicate All we can see Are junked autos and Beer cans Nixon will Tell it As it is and in a Low key Richard m. Nixon has taken Over the White House with an Assurance suggesting that no matter How Tough the problems he faces he is fully equipped to handle them. This reporter privileged to View the new president in action at the White House the other Day found him to be smiling thoroughly relaxed and seemingly without a care in the world. But the cares Art there and he Mort than anyone else in the Republic knows it. As a White House aide put it the president knew what it was get Ting  actually he is per forming his duties with a zest that has t been seen around the White Houst for some years. However there will be Little of the Well publicized Ballyhoo that dominated the White Houst years of his predecessor. For at Nixon suggested in his inaugural speech in these difficult years America has suffered from a fever of words from inflated rhetoric that promises More than it can deliver from angry Rhet Oric that fans discontents into hatreds from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of per  instead of bombast and Over inflated promises the president intends to Tell it As it is now ont of Nixon s cavort of to prtt0.,to the american people. And it intends to do to in at Low key fashion at possible. The Toft spoken manner in which it part stated his inaugural address the up enl a a preyed in the Colum in and cartoon on two a those it the author and to be cont dered a Plewe of the stare and of the United 6tte� government is the style he intends to follow. In that memorable speech Nixon also said we cannot Leam from one another until we Stop shouting at one another until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard As Well As our  and the president intends to give Short shrift to those who not Only ant demanding the Mil Benium but Are doing so in obnoxiously loud voices. Nixon is Well aware of the extremist pres sure groups and he is not the kind to be overwhelmed by their abrasive tactics. In Short intemperance will get them nowhere. The Low key style of the new administration is nowhere better illustrated than in the thorough Ness being Given to the selection of new personnel. Criticism has already been voiced that the Nixon ites Are taking too much time in naming people to the Many lower rung jobs still vacant. But the Nixon people say they want to find the Best men and women available for those jobs. They d rather be Safe than sorry. Or. Nixon is in no great hurry to effect big changes a Nixon aide said. Unlike presi dents Kennedy and Johnson he does not feel he has to launch exciting new programs designed to remake the country Over  the new president in fact believes that the country hat adopted More than enough hat tily conceived social legislation than it can safely digest. Hit major object will be to wafd out those program that Art patently undesirable As in the Antipov erty area and retain those that have a reasonable Chance of working. Always in the Back of Nixon s mind is the feeling that the taxpayer wants to see his Money Well used and the knowl Edge that government funds Are not inexhaustible. Thus no deadline has been set to remake the nation in one Hundred Days As under previous administrations. Instead the first Hundred Days will be Given Al most entirely to thinking of new ways of extricating the nation from Domestic and International crises. O North american newspaper Alliance a rationalizing our irrationality there Are no unprejudiced people in the world but there Are two kinds of prejudiced peo ple those who admit it and make allowances for it when fudging others and those who deny it and Call it by some other name. The second kind Are the ones so deeply prejudiced they cannot see it As a prejudice lust As a fish does not know it swims in water but imag Ines water to be hit natural environment of the whole world. Of course it can always rational lit our dislike for other groups by pointing to some unattractive traits they have or team to a avow and then use these traits at a justification for our dislike. An ingenious study mad in the . A few years ago How Ever showed that the deeply prejudiced personality dots not Sydney Harris really base its dislike on the objective traits of other groups. In the context of asking about feelings toward negroes jews and other minorities the study also tested the degree of hostility toward fictitious groups the darn reans the Pir neans and the  none of these exist at Alt. The deeply prejudiced persons among the interviewees who most disliked real minority groups also expressed the great est hostility toward the fictitious groups As Well. Even though these nonexistent groups had no characteristic that could be rejected the prejudiced personality rejected them anyway there it no question that groups differ just As individuals do. Such differences Art Normal and natural and beneficial to the human race which requires diverse talents and temperaments and ethnic strains to cooperate and Combine their various strengths and to compensate for their weaknesses. But there Are certain personalities who cannot stand Dif Ference. They fear it even though this fear May be masked As con tempt or hate or anger or resent ment. Fear of the stranger is the oldest primordial emotion known to Man an unconscious tribal reaction that made All the ear Liest religions exclusive in their worship of tribal deities. We must remember that Mono theism which attempted to break Down this exclusivity by positing one Universal god is Only about 6,000 years old which is a Mere fraction of time compared to Man s million or so years on Earth. Since tribalism comes from the ancient animal Strain in our nature it is scarcely surprising that so Many people reject those strange and fear some darn reans Pir neans Walle rians. C pub litter halt body Huml