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Vol. XVI	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1964
Bronowski Calls for Humanism
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SPECIAL REPORT
Proposition 14 Climaxes Challenge to Housing Acts
Scientist Sees
1964 As Year For Progress
By RICK MARKS .Managing Editor
(Editor's Note: This is the third of a five-part series on Proposition 11.)
Three months before the Rumford Act was proposed to the California Legislature the National Association of Real Estate Boards (NAREB) announced at its October. 1962 meeting in New Orleans:
“We should start, now a fundraising movement to have an initiative petition placed before the voters of the state of California so that, we do not year after year have to fight bills that are eroding the rights of the property owner."’
Initial Failure
Days after the Rumford Act became law in California, a petition to repeal the Act fand only that act)'by referendum was circulated throughout the state. The California Real Estate Association (CREA). .declining to support the referendum, waited as the petition failed to secure the necessary number of signatures and then, following the lead given it months previous by the National Association, began a concerted campaign to place an initiative on the California ballot.
Proposition 14. originally circulated under the guise of ‘ Repealing the Forced Housing Rumford Act” (later changed to “forced housing*’ in general) by the ('REA. the California Apartment House Owners Association and the Home Builders Association (which has since dropped out), was immediately opposed by Governor Brown, who appointed a state-wide committee composed of civic, business. education and religious leaders. ‘‘Californians Against Proposition 14."" As nearlv every religious denomination in the state declared opposition to what they considered a “moral infringement.” the battle lines between the opponents and proponents of the constitutional measure were clearly drawn.
Object of Baltle
The object of battle is the opening paragranh of the 273 word document:
“Neither the State nor anv subdivision or agency thereof shall deny, limit or abridge, directly or indirectly, the right of anv person, who is willing or desires to sell, lease or rent any part or all of his real property, to decline to sell, lease or rent such properly to such nerson or persons as he. in his absolute discretion, chooses.”
(It is iirmortanl to note that Proposition 14 would not give realtors absolute discretion in this area because they are. as noted in an earlier article, a business, and as such cannot discriminate under provisions of the Unruh and Rumford Acts. Thus real estate brokers cannot refuse to serve Negroes but can refuse to sell certain property if the
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owner, using his absolute discretion, directs them to do so.)
It would do well at this point to investigate exactly what Proposition 14 would do. to explore the arguments and reasoning of each side, and to clarifv some of its truths and misconceptions.
The Constitutional Amendment would, above all. repeal all housing legislation pertaining to property owners now contained in the Rumford Act. Unruh Act. and Hawkins Act, and prevent the state legislature from taking further action in this area.
Proponents of the initiative argue this is necessary in order to “restore to California property owners the right to choose the person or persons to whom they wish to sell or rent their real property.”
Freedom of Choice
To do this the advocates of Proposition 14 claim it is necessary to abolish those provisions of the Rumford Act (and lhe Iwo other housing acts) “which took from Californians their freedom of choice in selling or renting their residential property.
“We must amend our California Constitution so that the only way future legislation could take away the freedom of choice in selling or renting of residential property would be by vote of the people.’’
Opponents say such a move would “freeze discrimination into our State Constitution not only by repealing the Rumford Act and all other fair housing laws, but by preventing any further legislation in this field."
They further argue that it is the duty of legislators to make laws, and the right of citizens to elect their representatives. To take from the State Legislature the right to pass legislation in this crucial area would work to the detriment of a vast number of our citizens, and rescind the very purpose for which legislatures were established.
Relations Setback
Also, they reason, “while the rest of the country moves forward in the field of race relations. California would be set back 100 years. This law would preserve the racial ghetto, the slum area, and de facto segregation in public schools.”
Another result of Proposition 14 would be to give every citizen the right to use “absolute discretion” in selling, renting or leasing his real property.
Proponents argue that this right to do with one s property whatever he so chooses is an absolute, “sacred” right.
Opponents claim such a position is illusory, that courts have ruled “again and again that when personal prop-(Continued on Page 3)
Bergman s Virgin Spring' Shows Mans Evilness
By JUDY BAUER
“Why does evil exist?” is (lie basic question posed by “The Virgin Spring.” Ingmsr Bergman's thought-provoking film which will be shown tonight at 7 in Town and Gown Foyer.
Admission to the film is free.
Two scenes in the film are the shocking examples of the evil to be found in people.
In the first example, a young, innocent girl is raped, and murderpd by two shepherds on her way to church.
A horrifying aspect of this scene is that the young brother of the two shepherds is forced to witness the rape and murder.
The other hideous JMene comes when t^ie slain girl s
father kills the two shep- .their innocent brother, the fa-
herds for revenge and als.other ends his tirade with
murders their innocent young "But I must live by your
brother.	(God's) forgiveness.”
Thus, both the innocent! The father then vows to
girl and the innocent broth- build a chapel to the glory of
er are destroyed by coming God on the spot where his
into contact with evil.	lovely daughter died.
However. Bergman does not After this affirmation of
end “The Vi,gin Spring” atitrust God. the father picks
this pessimistic point.	Il,p th*dead body of his
,. .	,,,	daughter, and. instantly
I he final scene of the mov-1 _ .	, .
......a pool or water, the ira-
!t W, 1? }	, u6 ditional s>mbo1 of a new be-
the dead body of his daugh-,ginning bubb,es forth frQm
jthe spot where his daughter Unable to comprehend why|had been killed.
his daughter suffered such a, "The Virgin Spring” con-vile death, the father shakes jCh,des with a shot of the his fist at the heavens andnewiy formed spring rushing cries. “God, I don’t under- down thp hillside, stand you.	'pbe Bergman Film Festi-
However, because he feels, val is being sponsored by the guilty himself for taking the' Episcopalian-Lut.heran-Pres-lives of the shepherds and(byterian Center.
GRADUATE DANCER — Janice Gudde, presenting a dance concert for her doctoral degree, will perform and lecture on "Communication in Dance” Friday night,
CONVOCATION SPEAKER - Dr. Jacob Bronowski spoke to Trojans yesterday in Bovard. The renowned lead of sci-
entific humanism called for an examination of scientists to determine their role in modern cultural world today.
BOVARD CONCERT
Graduate Dance Student Will Perform in Recital
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH
Dr. Jacob Bronowski called 1964 “a heady, tremen-jdous time for scientists” in his convocation address (“Science in Our Culture.” in Bovard Auditorium yesterday. A leader in the modern movement of scientific humanism. Dr. Bronowski is a fellow and deputy
j director of the .Salk Institute -----
for Biological Studies in San Diego, which is devoted to the study of man as a whole.
Bronowski explained that scientists today have the opportunity to see the world in! a new perspective and to! apply their observations to new vistas.
“We live in an immensely J technological age. one in which too many scientists are jignorant of fields other than !their own,” he said.
Scientists must learn to incorporate the world of imagination in their scientific1 thinking. Dr. Bronowski maintained.
Human progress, he explained. is merely an extension of the things human beings are able to do.
Necessary Waste
However, in “a highly mobile, bubbly civilization like ours.” progress cannot move forward without some w^aste in science, as well as in the arts.
Criticizing scientists in
DR. STEBBiNS
Geneticist to speak
A lecture-concert, “Communication in the Dance" will be given Friday night at 8:30 | in Bovard Auditorium by j.Janice Gudde. a graduate student completing units for her doctoral degree in dance.
Fifteen non-UPC pertorm-ers. including 10 icorn San Fernando Valley State College and four professionals, will be presented besides Miss Gudde who will both lecture and dance.
An unpublished folk song called “Roll. Turn. Spin” will | be played before the audience, iWritten by Lynn Chandler, it will be sung by Paulette
Shafranski and played by guitarist Dennis Brady.
The concert will last approximately one hour. General admission will be $1, and student admission is 50 cents.
It will be supervised by Dr. Lois Ellfeldt, chairman of USC’s dance department. The technical director is William C. White of the drama department.
“The lecture concert itself develops a theory of communication and shows how, an art form is a form of communication," Miss Gudde said.
“There are six different numbers to show examples ofj
the different levels of communication. including two numbers which attemp to reach the artistic level of understanding,” she explained.
"For instance, in ‘The Individual Against the Group,’ the concept of persecution is presented. ‘The Choice’ expounds a philosophy — existentialism.”
In addition to working toward her doctoral degree at USC. Miss Gudde is on leave from Southwest Missouri State College in Springfield. Missouri, where she is the chairman of the dance department.
She present!}' teaches dance classes at Los Angeies State College.
Miss Gudde won her bachelor’s degree from Central Missouri State College and completed her master’s degree at Southern Illinois University in 1961.
After graduating, she came to California and performed professionally with Angiola Sartorio in her dance studio at Newport Beach.
Last summer she headed a company of 10 dancers that gave 25 performances on a midwestern tour.
Geneticist To Address Sigma Xi
Dr. G. Ledyard Stebbins, general, himself included. Dr. professor of generics at the Bronowski said. We could University of California at; build a pyramid of nonsense Davis, will speak to thp USC values before we would come chapter of Sigma Xi at ^ to-to anything important to the night in 129 KH.
future.	Sigma Xi is a scientific re-
Too man\ scientists teach search society open to all for their microscopes when honor students. It is under they hear the word culture.	sponsorship of thp engi-
he declared.	neering department.
"One of my tasks in life is	authority on nrgani'*
to kill this attitude on the evolution. Dr. Stebhms will | part of scientists.	nn -p’rom Gene to Char-
■ Culture is not an abstract acter in Higher Plants." word, he explained. It is a His book. "Variation an i jway of doing things and a Evolution in Plants." is leeway of looking at the world, ognized as the major work Combining these two ele- jn tbe fjeIr| of organic evolu-ments of culture represents tjon
the greatest crisis of the Dr Stebblns has partin-secpnd half of the 20th cen- pj,ted in every major sym-tury. Bronowski said.	posium in the United States
Integrated Society	commemorating the rec°nT
Scientists may dismiss the j)arwjn Centenniai. humanities as inferior to	a]so	author nf
technology, he added, but a college text on general Hin-both must be integrated to |0gy and one of the writers "do somthing for society 0f an experimental series of that is a part of culture. high school biology text-“Until scientists know books, everything, they have no p>r Stebbins. former pi'psi-right to ask others to adopt dent of the Society for th>> scientific culture above any Study of Evolution and of the other.” Bronowski continued. Botanical Society of Ametira.
Imaginative thinking, jg now a member of the Xa-“getting a pertinent answer tional Academy of Sciences, by asking an impertinent the American A c a d e m y of question.” is the reality which Arts and Sciences and the scientists must take into ac- American Philosophical So-count.	Iciety.
FRIDAY NIGHT
ASSC Grill Hootenanny To Star Student Talent
The second in a series of Student Activities office, 324'with the turnout. Shipman ASSC-sponsored hootenan- SU.”	s; id. “There were a lot <>i
nies will entertain students There were a few technical lOther activities scheduled t<<» in the Grill Friday at 8:30 problems at the first “hoot”ithat night that presented
last Friday, but Shipman re- with some stiff competition."
p.m.
“The first hootenanny was ports that they are all correc-very successful. We were fil-! ted led to capacity," Kevin Ship man. ASSC entertainment gram similar to last weeks.” audience
he said.
Shipman foresees the day when the Grill may be too “We plan to have a pro- small to hold the hootenannj
The hootenannies feature
Individual groups will per-imainly student talent al-form during the first part, t h o u g h Shipman said that
chairman said.
“We're anticipating an even better turn-out this week.
The first “hoot" was held The evening will end with alfrom time to time profession-
community sing.
Friday’s entertainment was about 10 groups showed up, mostly folk singing, but thej part of the new Total-Url'l to participate.
“Groups may participate just by showing up at the acceptable
Friday.
Shipman reported that
als will be invited to perform. The series of “hoots" is a
entertainment chairmso said program. The aim of this pro-that any kind of music was gram is to provide students
with a place to go on campus
Grill Friday night.*' Shipman
said. "But we would appre-|served in the Grill during the eiate it if they would come evening, and sign up with us in*the» "We were very pleasedjtet.
Food and beverages will be for weekend entertaicment.
Shipman was a member of Disneyland s Yachtman Quar-