AgA Michgatt ail Sixty-Ninth Year .... EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone No 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. "Can You Afford $25 A Head For Us?" ;1; Ar -WO - " _,. MAN ON STRET WORRIED: Russian-Fear of War Called Deep Seated (EDITOR'S NOTE: How do the Soviet people feel about the Berlin crisis? This is one of the questions Harold K. Milks, Associated Press Chief of Bureau in Moscow for nearly three years, deals with in this first of a series of uncensored articles. Milks now is en route to a new assignment.) By HAROLD K. MILKS Associated Press Staff Writer PEOPLE IN THE SOVIET UNION seem just as frightened as those in the West that Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin demands may bring war. They say so, too, although not as readily as Western citizens. The prospect of armed conflict over the German question seems to cause just as many fears and drowns in the Communist heartlandas it does in the United States or in more vulnerable Western Europe. When I left Moscow in early April there was no appearance of war hysteria such as shook some sections of the Soviet Union during the Suez crisis of 1956 and again during the Iraqi revolt of last year and the Western landings in Lebanon and Jordan. But Russians were talking-and talking freely even to foreigners- about their deep-seated fears of war. Most of the talk contained heavy APRIL 21, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP POWER' Pauling Wrong in Suggesting Ban on Nuclear Weapons Tests I THE EFFECTS of nuclear testing are pretty grim, Linus Pauling said here Friday night, and he concluded that atomic bomb testing should be halted. But, in disagreement with Pauling's conclu- ion, there are very valid reasons why the United States should continue testing its atom- c bombs. First of all, there is no certainty that all atomic bombs can be detected now, let alone- n the future. The techniques of "muffling" inderground bombs, for example, have not been fully explored. It is entirely possible that nethods will be developed to completely mask nuclear explosions. If it did become possible to ixplode an atomic bomb without detection, it would be relatively harder for the United States where news is harder to conceal, to vio- ate the spirit of the ban by continuing tests han it would for Russia. United States and her NATO allies have shown themselves definitely unwilling to provide. Even if Pauling and others with similar views do not believe that the United States' nuclear stockpile should be made ineffective, the pres- sure from the other nations of the world to ban all nuclear weapons would increase. Thus, at a minimum, the United States may find it- self out of the propaganda frying pan into the fire, and at a maximum, may find itself with- out its chief deterrent to Russian threats. Pauling also told his Ann Arbor audience that for every 20 megaton bomb tested in the world, approximately 15,000 people would die of bone cancer and leukemia, and another 15,- 000 would be seriously deformed, either physi- caly or mentally. At first glance, these statistics seem shocking. But the equivalent of only eight of these bombs have been exploded, and the resulting number of casualties, though im- tiense, is insignficant when compared to the number of lives that could be lost if the United States could not keep its guard up. PERHAPS a better answer to the problem of. nuclear testing can be found than the pres- ent system, however. Kissinger has proposed a quota system, whereby each country will agree to put not more than a certain amount of radioactivity into the air. The quota would be reduced over a period of years, but a com- plete ban would not come until Russia had agreed to a sizable reduction in the size of her conventional forces. It seems doubtful that Russia, at least at this time, would agree to any significant re- duction in her armed forces, but the quota plan taken alone could provide the best method of limiting the amount of radioactivity in the air, consistent with the United States defense in- terests. -LANE VANDERSLICE IT IS OFTEN argued, and Pauling took this line Friday night, that there is no need for more testing, since the United States has enough bombs to destr y the USSR three or four times over. Unfortunately, there is a con- tinual evolution in the use of nuclear weapons, and it may be necessary to test atomic weapons in new and vital areas. Certainly if an atomic weapon exploded in the stratosphere could cause the detonation of enemy missiles as in- dicated in the Oct. 31 detonation, then a ban prohibiting this sort of test, would be folly. The end of nuclear testing has been regarded by many, Pauling included, as a first step. But a first step toward what? If anything, as Har- vard political scientist Henry Kissinger has said, it is a first step toward abolition of nu- clear weapons. But nuclear weapons are the mainstay of the United. States military es- tablishment, balancing Russia's possession of a powerful standing army, something that the Unorthod4 NEVER BEFORE have the people in Lansing been so humble. It takes a great deal of effort to act the vil- lain. Even though they've had to sacrifice the welfare of the state in general, the legislators .have continued to make the state appear "fi- nancially embarrassed." They pretend that a Democrat-Republican factionalism is keeping state purse strings held tight. They even, act as though they are afraid higher taxes will wreck their popularity with the taxpayers. Actually, they are martyrs to the ideals of higher education. They are really trying to im- prove the quality of future University fresh- CAPITAL COMMENTARY : Coalition in By WILLI Washington? AM S. WHITE ox, but .. men. Altruists that the legislators are, they shout "No appropriations" merely tohide their philanthropy. For; with increasing applications and' no funds to increase enrollments, the University will be forced to improve its student body. Competition already assures just the more proficient out-of-state students of entrance. Severely restricted enrollment, coupled with growing demand, might also leave room at the University for only the very best of the state applicants. A clever stratagem! -NAN MARKEL WASHINGTON - Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid, not of their party but of their country. A grave weakening of the Eisen- hower Administration has been evident for months. The resigna-, tion of the strongest member of the Cabinet, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, is but the lat- est of a series of instances of the Administration's progressive de- bility. Some of these circumstances could have been avoided. But the important question now,' in any event, is not who is to blame for this situation. The important question is what is to be done about it. A famous old admiral, a salt who was as hard as rock, once growled of his own elevation to high wartime command: "When they get into trouble they send for the so and so's." MORE OF THE so and so's - defining these as men who will do the job that must be done even at risk of alienating their fellow par- tisans - are badly needed now. The Congressional Democratic leadership, which the President himself would privately concede has on the whole run a respon- sible opposition for six years, is under rising pressure to "get tough." These clamors are being resist- ed. well short of the point of per- mitting irresponsibility, by such leaders as Senators Johnson of Texas, Fulbright of Arkansas and Mansfield of Montana. But so far they come mostly from the per- petually shrill Democratic far-left wing. There is danger that more responsible Democrats will begin to add their voices and so raise an irrestible chorus for harsh par- tisanship in a time of world peril. For when an administration falters attacks upon it always rise. Current things illustrate this fact. Senator Wayne Morse (D- Ore.), has been at the forefront of an inquisition into the views of Clare Boothe Luce, the President's nominee to be Ambassador to, Brazil. It is an undoubted fact that ' many Democrats can think of . sound reasons not to love Mrs. Luce's publisher-husband, Henry R. Luce of Time, Life and For- tune, or Mrs. Luce herself. But it is equally true that what Mr. Luce prints or what Mrs. Luce says is no proper concern of the Senate in deciding whether to confirm her appointment. * * * SHE HAS SAID some harsh things about Democrats, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and she certainly can- not prove her accusations. But Senator Morse has said some very harsh and unprovable t h i n g s about President Eisenhower. And before switching from the Repub- lican to the Democratic party, the Senator said some very harsh things about Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, if it comes to that. The significance of the Luce episode isnotgreat in itself. It would be a pity, however, if it should develop into a pattern of Senate intrusion into the Adiin- istration's proper sphere. That was what the right-wing Repub- licans tried to do - to take over the intimate details of Mr. Tru- man's foreign policy once his Ad- ministration became weak.' Much more immediately mean- ingful is the proposal of such a, Seator as Henry M. Jackson of Washington, one of the few who. are entitled to be called military experts. Jackson has announced. plans for a Senate inquiry into the operations of the National Se- curity Council. NSC is a Cabinet outfit, an intimately Presidential instrument, which largely makes the Administration's high mili- tary and foreign policies. How it functions is unarguably the President's sole responsibility. For Congress to attempt to push itself into this body, with its highly confidential and infinitely delicate operations, would be like the intrusion of Congressional committees into Abraham Lin- coln's conduct of the Civil War. * * * THE POINT IS not whether NSC is efficient or not. The point is that Congress at best will strain the Constitution in any attempt to move in on NSC and at worst could create a chaotic diffusion of responsibility. Some cures are worse than the disease. Indeed, some here now believe there is need to establish, in an informal way, what would amount to a coalition government. We confront a Berlin crisis, a fateful summit meeting, and serious divi- sions within our alliance. This is no time to be getting tough in partisan demonstrations. What we need is to get rationally tough against external dangers. (Copyright 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) propaganda overtones. To hear the the situation, it was all started by Western imperialists. To Ivan, Nikita Khrushchev was just an innocent victim of Western war- mongering. "Why do you want war?" is the question heard as frequently in the Soviet Union by foreign ears as are queries about how you like the weather or the Kremlin's ar- chitecture. Then the average Russian - whether he is a taxi driver, a cas- ual neighbor in a Moscow sub- way, or someone who heard Eng- lish spoken in' a Moscow restau- rant and joins in-gets around to his fears of war. It was apparent during my time in Russia that despite his exercise of what he calls brinkmanship by others, Nikita Khrushchev doesn't want war. That desire seems to be shared by Russians generally. Few Russians will discuss the questions behind Khrushchev's de- mands on Berlin. When they do they repeat the Pravda line that the whole problem is the fault of the West. But they will discuss war, and what they call the noble struggle of Soviet leaders for peace. ** .* DURING the Suez' crisis, war hysteria in some areas of Soviet Union almost got out of control. Citizens in some sections began hoarding sugar, salt, and other foodstuffs. Matches almost dis- appeared from the market as an- xious housewives began stockpiling, against the threat of war. Newspapers ridiculed. the war fears, published names of hoarders, and urged party action against them, laughed at the possibility of, a successful Western attack on the all-powerful Soviet Union. Today's propaganda organs are rolling out the same tunes with different words. Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, considered more of a party figure- head than his predecessor as de- fense minister, Georgei Khukov, repeats the old slogan that any new war means destruction of capital- ism and the ultimate triumph of Communism. But not all Soviet citizens be- lieve him. "I don't want war," a bearded Moscow cab driver told me. "I went through the last one. Maybe we can beat you in all-out war, but we will both lose." Occasionally a Russian will voice the question which must be buz- zing in the minds of many-why did Nikita Khrushchev choose to bring up the German demands at this time? "I thought things were looking pretty good," said one Soviet teacher. "Why didn't they (the boys in the Kremlin) keep their minds on the seven-year plan?" Russian man in the street discuss AT THE STATE: Mobsters Hilarious THE FILM opens with a Chicago police car chasing a seemingly innocent hearse, but, when the bullets fly and the coffin leaks not embalming fluid but other fluids of higher proof, we are in a spoof of the fertile land of the American past - The Twenties. Some pe- destrianism is needed to get into the juice of the action; let it suf- fice that two musicians, Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) are accidental witnesses to a gangland murder while try- ing to get to an Urbana college dance. Fleeing the mobsters, they be- come Josephine and Daphne, un- willing - we presume - trans- vestites who would rather be liv- ing women than dead men. The motivation makes plausible an otherwise highly unlikely - at least in movies -- transformation, one which does much for Tony Curtis. The changelings take a job with an all-girl band in order to gain passage to Florida; once there, set up in the Seminole-Ritz, a rococo resort that is a long way from the Fontainebleau, they do not forsake the dresses, because Joe has taken a sweet tooth to Sugar Kane (MM), the singer with the band. Everything goes well until the Friends of Italian Opera hold a convention-"Friends" who think Rigoletto owns a speakeasy. In Lemmon's words, "The place is crawling with mobsters-gangrene is setting in." One of the opera- lovers is Spats (George Raft), the murderer, w'ho with insight or in- stinct or something soon realizes that the girls are not necessarily so. Another chase ensues. But gangland takes care of its own, and Jo and Daphne are rid of their pursuers; the moon over the Biscayne Bay is a symbol that all ends happily. It all sounds very dull. ** "SOME LIKE IT HOT" is, how- ever, about as dull as a bull in a cow shop. Taking about every cliche available in the movie busi- ness, the joke business, and the love business, director Billy Wild- er, by giving them the business with the mere addition of the fe- male impersonations, has cooked up a pease porridge that will still seem hot when it is nine days, or nine years, old. The sustained hi- larity of the middle of the film is such that no period of longer than thirty seconds elapses dur- ing which nothing funny is said or done, for nearly forty-five min- utes. And one middle-aged lady in the audience accented the hu- mor in a scene wherein Tony Cur- tis cuddled with Marilyn Monroe by saying very loudly, "Can you imagine how his wife feels?" The Marilyn Monroe of "Some Like it Hot" is a nuance of Lorelei Lee, a charming nuance who strums a ukulele nicely enough to make any man wish he wore a G- string. -Fred Schaen ft At Last, Leadership NrHEN A HIGH government office changes hands, there is often concern over "con- nuity of policy." Often it is feared that the ew incumbent in office will not carry out the bligations and promises of his predecessor. Such will not be the case in the Department State. The policies of Christian Herter ap- arently will be merely the continuation of lose guided by John Foster Dulles. Although an important reason for this coi- nuity is the close relationship maintained by Mdles and Herter in the past few years, even lore important in the expected continuity is resident Eisenhower himself. The President, it appears, has finally taken te active lead in American policies, and is ushing his own personal ideas, rather than simply approving suggestions from his cabinet. In the early years, various people charged the Administration was dominated in turn by George M. Humphrey, Sherman Adams, John Foster Dulles and "Engine Charlie" Wilson. Now these men are gone, but policy still has direction, and the direction can come from only one place. The President has finally assumed the active role, both in domestic and foreign policy, that was promised in 1952. Though all cannot agree with his particular policies, certainly none can fail to appreciate that at long last, firm and courageous leadership is emerging from the White House, even though it has been long in coming. PHILIP SHERMAN LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Women Vegetate; 'Radicals' Advocate INTERPRETING THE NEWS: It's Been Heard Before By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst "HE CHINESE REDS, having demonstrated once again the disdain of Communists for eir own agreements, face a living fact which a serious obstacle to their attempt to.-brazen t what has been happening in Tibet. It is the presencein India of the Dalai Lama exile. He is not in Lhasa, where the Reds promised 1951 that he could maintain control of the ;ernal affairs 'of Tibet.k He says that such control has always been a tion - that at all times the local government s been subjected to dictation by the Reds. This does not surprise the world, long fa- liar with the pattern of Red control wher- er the forces of .liberty are weak. Peiping now attempts to make it appear that had to act in Tibet because the balance be- een Communist control of external affairs d Buddhist control of internal affairs was set by imperialist plotting. THE LAMA says no attempt to establish such a balance was ever made. He denies that his flight was involuntary, in the sense that he was abducted by rebel Ti- betan forces. Instead he makes it plain that he and his party took different routes, in dis- guise, to escape the Reds. The Red version of abduction apparently is based on the fact that the Dalai Lama's party was given a rebel escort after it was united in the border area. There is nothing to suggest a basis in fact for the Red claim that his statement was forced from him by the so-called abductors or anyone else. DESPITE the timidity of the Indian govern- ment, which displays sympathy for Tibet along with fear of saying anything to displease Peiping, the Indian press accepted the Lama's statement at face value. His story of Communist deportation and en- slavement of political opponents, and the exe- cution of others, fits the pattern so well that the rest of the world will hardly doubt. The whole story is given in restrained terms, perhaps at the behest of Indian officials, and To the Editor: AS A MICHIGAN co-ed who Mr. Richard Taub would undoubt- edly consider a victim and example of the "Senior Syndrome," I would like to comment on his editorial of April 19-"Senior Ianic." Statistics have proved that a girl has, for various reasons, her best opportunity of "catching" a man while on a college campus. Thus, the male specimen in col- lege comes to feel that he is a hunted animal - and his inde- pendence becomes his most prized possession. Of course, there are those young men who meet their dream girls while in college, and for these individuals all is well - at least sometimes! Too often one sees the boy who joyfully gives his fraternity pin, his love and his independence away - and soon wants these commodities back. "After all," this boy confides to his friends, "who wants to be tied down? I want time to 'kick up my heels' in college - I've got plenty of time before I get really serious." Call it truth, immaturity, or what you will.... And then we have the females' viewpoint. Yes, the majority of singleton senior girls have mar- riage in mind. Obviously they have not met their "intended mates" on cnmni ands n thel nnr In tthe patience is a supposed virtue, they say. Here it is - Springtime in Ann Arbor. The senior girl, like the freshman girl and the senior boy, wouldn't mind a last college fling at a springtime romance; ice cream and long walks and talks with a boy still have a certain ap- peal and value. And when June 13 and graduation comes rolling around, the girl who leaves the University of Michigan with good memories and an eye to the fu- Senimore Says ture is, believe it or not, as lucky and happy as is her roommate who has acquired a pin, engagement ring, or even a husband. Why, she might even have acquired an edu- cation. -Judith ICI. Gruber No Harm . . . To the Editor: I WAS AMAZED, if not shocked to read in the Friday Daily, a letter from John E. Ohlson, Jr. 00 " 0 which severely criticized the "rad- ical" activities of certain students at the University. His attack was launched not only at the students themselves, but at the University for allowing these activities. He even questioned whether or not the University is an educational insti- tution on the grounds that several lobbying groups, operating inde- pendently of the university, are allowed to exercise their freedoms. What he proposed is some sort of censoring of free thought by the University so that it can "long maintain the present excellent reputation as an educational in- stitution." Though I oppose their views, I feel that the active interest that these groups (be 'they radical or not) have taken in their govern- ment is very encouraging on a campus whose students show a de- pressing apathy toward- these mat- ters. Besides stirring Mr. Ohlson's ire, I can see no harm done! Larry Robert Carr, '62 Our Job To the Editor: UNFORTUNATELY,. Mr. Ohlson has mistaken Torre Bissel's basic aims and accomplishments when he labels Torre a 'radical' as if mintynnni. mwr P+ thre+t+to+he t k DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin- is an' official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1959 VOL. LXIX, NO.4141 General Notce4 Due to an error in programming it is requested that all persons, who have signed to usher for Skit Night on Fri., April 24, please report for duty fifteen minutes earlier than the time stated. In other word,, report at 7:15 p.m. Freshmen: Interviewing for commit, 4- :_. 4 '- u-