J Sixty-Ninth'Year "Don't Forget To Fasten Your Money Belt" _ EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ne Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ,i Pevail STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG.' ANN 4RBOR, MICU. * Phone No 2-3241 Printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. 3RUARY 5, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: LANE VANDERSLICE Threat of Payless Paydays ersores Legislate Responsibility [HE CHARGE that Americans take too much for granted, as overgeneralized as it ay be, is finding specific support in the Uni- ersity's current plight. As Kahlil Gibran wrote, "the most winged irit cannot ignore physical necessity," and ven the "ivory tower academician" expected iychecks to'be regular, if not adequate. How-' er, last month Vice-President and Dean of %culties Marvin Niehuss had to send a special tter to faculty and staff members informing em that the University was assured of meet- g payrolls only through March 5... Since then, the state "has been able, thanks early tax payments by a few corporations, give the University some of the. money that ,s been due since November. Now, the Uni- nancial situation is considerably improved ,ychecks are 'assured for at least another onth. NOTHER ASSUMPTION-is that the people of the state have in mind the interests of e state as a whole. Since the University has already borrowed er four million dollars to meet payrolls, edging this semester's fees as collateral, nks refuse to extend further credit. Gov. illiams proposes that additional backing for Ens could come from the Veteran's Trust id, established in the days when the state d no financial trouble and it -desired to lp any returning GI's who might run into ne of their own: In effect, the fund was an ditional veteran's bonus, above and beyond at the Federal Government provided for e nation's servicemen The proposal due to soon face a Legislative te, would not liquidate the fund, turning it' o ready cash, but would only utilize it as lateral for an additional loan needed to et payrolls. The fund would be used-only as a temporary asure, but leaders of the veteran's group barking "No," like dogs in the manger. T ALSO is occasionally assumed that elected representatives serve the state and not their political parties. As one political scientist put it, there is more than a suspicion that some of the legislators have let the sttae's financial pic- ture darken in order to embarrass the gov- ernor. The growing needs of the state and its in- stitutions have been apparent for years, but the responsibility of providing the necessary funds was put off. The excuse was that the state needed a study of its tax structure. The study is finished and once again, both Demo- crats and Republicans area engaging in their usual political bickering, as both sides ma- neuver to place the blame for new taxes on the opposition. Now, legislators are trying to pass the buck by submitting to a popular vote the proposals for a four cent sales tax and a graduated in- come tax. As Rep. Arnell Engstrom (R-Trav- erse City) Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says, it's up to the Legisla- ture to decide about state taxes." And as Rep. T. John Lesinski (D-Detroit) notes, "Let's face the problem; the voters wouldn't approve either kind of tax if it were on the ballot April 6." The assumption is un- doubtedly correct. BUT AT THE RISK of making an incorrect assumption, the legislators will face up to their responsibilities of leadership in the pub-, lie interest by approving use of the Veteran's Trust Fund, and pass the needed tax reform, not some gimmick such as boosting the sales. tax and" putting an even heavier burden on those least able to pay. And maybe the state will know where its next payroll iscoming from. And even, maybe, the state will do the things that have to be done, such as providing for the health and education of its citizens. After all, they have to retain faith in something. Otherwise, they just might "turn the rascals out." -MICHAEL KRAFT Editorial Director MIQ i - G Az -4 . a I r. r ' 1 3' "b N EPS9 T4I .A*ALt 'J 13i'FGs"-. AT TRUEBLOOD AUDITORIUM: Virtuosity, Vocal Sil Hi ghlight 'Liederaberu CAPITAL COMMENTARY: U.S. Will Shift Foreign Polic By WILLIAM S. WHITE Theories Underlie Budget Battle EE FIRST "act of war" in the struggle etween the "spenders" -(President Dwight lisenhower's. term for new-dealish liberals) the fiscal conservatives controling the te House was fought over the public hous- bill. The spenders passed a bill costing e than President Eisenhower wanted. hen the Republicans first took office, the ident's fiscal managers followed a course h conservative economists feel Ieads to- I inflation. But at that time, a little in- on did not seem to be America's chief lem. CENTLY, Secretary Anderson seems to aave concluded that inflation is a problem, aramount importance. Therefore, he is urg- a, conservative economic policy. ne of the tw. chiefd reasons is the bond ret. Anderson had great trouble last sum- with a major refinancing project, and Treasury's most recent issue is also selling poorly. Anderson, and most bond special. assume that the reason for this is that stors feel that the nation is heading for ased inflation, which makes fixed-income rities poor investments. Re-financing of the debt then becomes ex- tremely difficult and expensive (This in turn is more inflationary). Also it is indicative of inflationary fears of many of the men most experienced in dealing with economic prog- nosis economists, business men and investors. The second thing alarming Anderson is the fact that Europeans are beginning to lose confidence in the stability of the dollar. This decreases the exchange value of American currenpy and it also indicates that another group of specialists are worried about Ameri- can inflation. For these reasons, Anderson is strongly ad- vocating conservative fiscal policies. hOWEVER, new-dealish, labor and other lib- eral economists feel that deficit spending is a necessary spur to our economy, that with- out this, the American economy will stagnate, and that deficit spending is not inflationary if it spurs increases in production. Thus the battle over appropriations will also be a battle between two economic theories. -JAMES SEDER W ASHINGTON -- A quiet but vital change in emphasis in American foreign policy is in the making should the Soviet Union become wise enough to put an end to its sinister off-again-on-again attitude of alternating appeal and threat to the West. All but one of the pre-conditions now exist for a shift on our part to an essentially economic from a basically military diplognacy in the cold war. The one missing pre-condition is a demonstrated willingness by the Russians themselves to cooperate in what they have long claimed passionately to desire - an im- provement of world trade as a step in easing world tensions. The coming mission to Moscow of Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, is the most visible of current proofs that the West is ready to do this kind of honorable business. Mr. Macmillan is, at bot- tom, an economic-balance politi- cian rather than a military bal- ance-of-power politician. * * * NO LESS important is this less obvious fact: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has now come under a leader, Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who also deeply believes' in eco- nomic as distinguished from mili- tary solutions to world problems. Mr. Fulbright is an aid-and-trade man far more than a military- alliance man. He is an authentic symbol of the very old-fashioned Southern Democratic doctrine that made the party strongly for free trade more than a century ago. It so happens that the atmos- phere in the Foreign Relations Committee at the top will now be very similar to the atmosphere at the top among our closest allies, the British. This is the factor of crucial and central importance in Senator Ful- bright's ascent to the chairman- ship of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee on the resignation from the post of the aged Senator Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island. Of comparatively little impor-, tance is the circumstance that Mr. Fulbright has been a persistent and at times a bitter critic of Sec-. retary of State John Foster Dulles. Many have not too well under stood the nature of the Fulbright- Dulles relationship. IT IS QUITE true that these two vastly different men have not at all liked each other. But this is most of all simply because Ful- bright believes that trade and aid have been played down far too much by Mr. Dulles in favor of military facts and military assist- ance. Thus it is a great deal too dra- matic to suppose, as many do, that we are in for a klieg-lit collision in which a man of new power, Ful- bright, will be cuffing Secretary Dulles about the head and giving him various quick and simple marching orders. What will, in fact, more likely happen is interesting enough in itself. The strong probability is that-if the Russians will be sensi- ble enough to allow it-we shall see these developments: 1. A slow but important rise in American economic, as opposed to strictly military, aid to allies; and a marked stepping up of economic assistance to neutrals. 2. An increased Senate interest in, and concern for, the develop- ment of more international credit. 3. A steady relaxation in restric- tions upon world trade, even di- rectly with the Soviet-Red Chinese bloc, assuming the Kremlin is in any way really prepared to make this kind of trade decently pos- sible. * * * ALL THIS will not be accom- panied, however, by any weakening of America's military strength, so far as the controlling Congression- al Democrats are concerned. On the separated issue of the Presi- dent's domestic military budget they will continue to demand more. rather than less. And all this will represent not merely the influence of Fulbright himself, significant though it will be. For the fact is that in nearly the whole of the Democratic party in the Senate there is a long pent- up desire to try the trade-and-aid N ay to a degree it has not yet been. tried. On this point the most con- servative Democratic lions are quite willing to lie down with the most liberal Democratic lambs-- as isra considerable number of powerful Republicans. In the realities of, political power Mr. Dulles will bend to these facts of life, whether he really wants to or not. And it is not even certain, in all the present circum- stances, that he will be too reluc- IN THE REALM of vocal music, there is, perhaps, no more de- manding a challenge than the per- formance of lieder (German art songs). The "lied" is a difficult thing to sing for two basic reasons, one dependent upon the other. Since the songs are composed with great economy of means, the compact- ness of material demands that the predominant characteristic of lie- der be the dramatic utterance contained within the form. Each composition, therefore, is in effect .a short, dramatic entity, and even in the lightest of lieder, the singer must, in eachi song, create an en- tirely new personality within him- self. With these considerations In mind, this reviewer can have nothing but admiration for Miss Arlene Sollenberger, distinguished mezzo-soprano of the School of Music's voice faculty. For her re- cital, she chose not.a group but an entire program of lieder. Indeed, a task of Wagnerian proportions. * * * FOUR COMPOSERS were repre- sented in Miss Sollenberger's pro- gram. These four men - Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, and Robert Schumann- were all giants in this particular category of music. For the first half of the recital, the mezzo chose ten very exacting selections from the literature. The Schubert group was drama- tically and most compelling and impressive in respect to drama- turgy. Especially good were "Die Allmacht" (The Omnipotence) and the Erlkonig." This latter lied is a fine example of the tense, compact drama that is so often a part of the form and so demanding on the vocalist. The Wolf group was quiet, elo- quent, always restrained in its musical language. "Nun Wandre Maria" was the highlight of the group. The Strauss collection, on the other hand, was rather light, though still intense. .* * * THE HIGHLIGHT of Miss Sol- lenberger's recital, however, came after the intermission when she performed the' difficult "Lieder- kries, Op. 9" of Robert Schu- mann. This song cycle, composed of twelve lieder, is a truly monu- mental work. While many of the songs contained therein can be DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an, official publication of The Uniyer- sity of Michigan for which Tae 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. VOL. LXIX, No. 89 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1959 General Notices Revision of Women's Hours at the U. of M. (to be effective Spring Semester, Feb., 1959) For "Upperclassmen" (soph., Jr., sr.): 1. Hours: 12:00 midnight Sun. through Thurs.; 12:00 midnight during the ex- amination period (beginning the night of the last day of classes and lasting' through the night before the last day of the examination period.): 12:30 a.m. on Fri. and Sat. evenings; 1:30 a.m. on those weekend nights designated by SGO and approved by Women's Judi- ciary Council. 2. Extenions: May be gained by in- dividual application to the house di-, rector and each house director may use her discretion in the granting of these extensions. These extensins may be granted on any day of the week for "reasonable purposes." (Trip out- of town, parent's visiting, etc) Dean's Permissions may still be gained if needed for class projects or ing hour. These include group- and in- dividual permissions. For Freshmen: 1. Hours: 11:00 p.m. Sun. through Thurs.: 12:00 p.m. during the examin-- ation period (beginning the night of the last day of classes and lasting through the night before the last day of the examination period; 12:30 on Fri. and Sat. evenings; 1:30 a.m. on those week- end nights designated by SGC and ap- proved by Women's Judiciary Council. *ALP's-eight (8) Automatic Late Per- missions, per semester per girl to be used at the discretion of that girl. 2. Extensions (see above) - may be gained by individual application to the house director and each house director may use her discretion in granting of these permissions. These extensions may be granted on any day of thea, week (as extensions on regularhours' or Automatic Late Permissions) for "reasonable purposes." (Trip out of town, parents' visiting, etc.) Dean's Permission: (see above). Closing Hours in Housing Units: 1. Sun. through Thurs.: 10:55 p.m. (Freshmen may sign out until 11:00 P.m., soph., Jr., sr., until 12:00.) 2. Fri. and sat.: 12:25 or 1:25 a.m. Abolished: 1. Irregular hours during the two days preceding Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring vacations. 2. ALPs for upperclassmen. 3. "Senior Hours"-theirs are the same as sophomores' and juniors.7 4. The "45 minute extension" plan 7 for concerts, lectures; etc. 5. Irregular hours during registration and orientation week (with the excep- tion oaf the night reserved for the first house meeting - See Wdmen's Rules Booklet). House Policy Enforcement:' Provisions for house meetings can be designated by the individual hous- 3 ing units. This will be enforced by the 1 house and q uWmP en'sud~ji i'u nil. AMlERS to the EDITOR Absurdity To the Editor: AS A former member of the Board in Control of Intercol- legiate Athletics - from 1913 to 1955, probably a record of some sort-I am moved to make a few observations regarding what seems to be an incipient movement to bring about a change in the Board's student memberships. So far as I know, there is no bar to non-athletes becoming candi- dates for the office at the campus election. So If there is anything like a general student demand or desire that their representatives be non-athletes, the result of the election ought to bear it out. One might assume that the democratic process should prevail in settling such problems. From where I sit, the proposed change, if adopted looks like a direct bar to that process. In my long service as a Board member, during which I was Chairman for over twenty-five years, I had the opportunity to ob- serve pretty closely the contribu- tions and attitudes of many fac- ulty, alumni, and student members of the Board. With the utmost sin- cerity I can say that just as an occasional faculty or alumni mem- ber turned out to be more or less of a "washout," so it was with the students. But the, percentage of high class, thoughtful, objective contributors among the students, whether or not they were athletes, has been fully as high as among: the faculty and alumni. But if the student body, not merely a small segment of it, wants to be represented by non- athletes, the way is already open for them to have their wish. I earnestly hope that if the sugges- tion ever gets to the Board of Regents, it will be summarily re- jected. It is, however, so suffii- ently absurd 'on its face that it should never get that far. -Pro*. Ralph W. Agler Art? . . To the Editor: CENSORSHIP, control and con. formity are words that remind us of 1984, Hitler and Communism. The dread with which we view these infringements- are but one comment on the value we have placed on our freedom. Nevertheless, the lines between freedom and license, self discipline and anarchy, remain important moral and social problems con- stantly subject to analysis and reevaluation by all civilized people. Apparently, there is a segment of our intellectual community for whom the word "civilized" is an epithet viewed with horror and heroically' resisted. As might' be expected, our Praetorian defenders of art recently have found another opportunity to confuse creativity with procreativity, cinemtaology with scatology and inspiration' with perversion. * * *. THESE OBSERVATIONS are prompted by a recent contribution to the "arts" shown by Cinema Guild called "Flesh of Morning." The film shows us the erotic frus- trations of a man suffering from the loss of his girl friend. His fan- tasies get the best of him. While the drums are savagely beating, the camera slyly observes our male: "actor" masturbating. The techni- cal aspects of the film, however' "artistic" in portraying :this slice of life is superfluous to the con- tent. The camera angles, the musi- cal accompaniment and the light- ing all combine to display what can at best be called artistic porn- ography. Any comments on the producers, "artists" and purveyors of this perversion of both good taste and good art might more aptly be stated by a trained clinician. The' cult of social irresponsibility hiding behind the aegis of avant-garde is nota new sickness. The response of the students to the film is even' more alarming than the film itself. Most of the students I have talked to seem unwilling to make any statement about it other than the fact that the lighting was poor or that it was, too long. It would seem that the fear of being called inartistic, middle class and square is enough to offset any normal reaction that sung separately, they gain mensely from the total impa the cycle. A furtner word might be for Eugene Bossart's magnif job of accompanying Miss So berger. These accompaniment not nearly so much a suppoi the singer as an instrumental ment that is on a par of im tance with the vocal line. part is fiendishly difficult, manding both virtuosity an mature conception. Bossart complished this and more. -David Schwa n. PA INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Neutrals Gain New. Support DESEGREGATION: Virginia Faces .Darkest Hour' By J. M.ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst 'HE ANNOUNCEMENT thlat the United States will ship arms to Indonesia comes something close kin to official recognition it there is a place for, neutrality in today's set world. Whether this will become a recognizable rt of American policy remains to be seen. In 1955, at the Bandung Conference, many an and African nations displayed strong picion of the West, based on its record of onialism. They included the United States ause of her alliance with Western Europe. eir neutralism carried strong overtones of erance for Soviet Russia as another nation ing to emerge from western repression. Mie Washington administration, in consider- the problem, got itself all confused. Me United States, since the beginning of cold war, had been attempting to consoli- e herself in Europe and with the underde- aped nations through mutual assistance aties requiring a united front against Com- nism, expressed in one way or another. rIfr iriz ti Dailt44 Editorial Staf RICUAR= TAUB., Editor ME!L KRAFT aOHN WEIGHER litorial Director City Editor DAVID TARR Associate Editor - ls------ IN THE SUMMER of 1956 President Eisen- hower,,Secretary Dulles and Vice-President Nixon got themselves into a hassle when the annual foreign aid bill came up in Congress in the face of criticism that nonreliable coun- tries were being helped. Eisenhower made some remarks interpreted as defending countries which felt they might be in a better position if attacked as neutrals than if attacked as allies in anti-Communist pacts. The next day he explained that he meant some nations might think they were safer as neutrals, but he thought they - were safer as U.S. allies. At the same time Nixon had some words condoning the neutrals and saying America should' deal with them as moral and spiritual equals. Two days later Dulles criticized any attempt by a nation to gain safety by being indifferent to the fate of others. He referred to neutral- ism as an "immoral and shortsighted" con- ception. WHEN ARMED rebellion broke out in Indo- nesia the United States kept a formal hands off while looking rather sympathetical- ly toward the rebels. The Sukarno government was leaning toward inclusion of Communists in the government and at the same time making territorial demands on the Netherlands, one of America's European allies, over western New Guinea. Lt. Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution stepped in to curb the rebellion, and then the Communists, (EDI'TOR'S NOTE: This article is the first of three that will appear in The Daily dealing with Virginia's peaceful integration. The next two in the series will discuss the role of Sen. Harry F. Byrd and his political "machine.") By NORMA SUE WOLFE " ASSIVE resistance" and "state sovereignty" last week peacefully gave way to Integrated public schools in some parts of Virginia. This story is perhaps best revealed by the attitudes of the state's residents. "Experience elsewhere has con- firmed the conviction of our people that the enforced mixing of the races contrary to the ex- pressed will of the overwhelming majority will destroy public edu- cation in Virginia," Gov. J. Lind- say Almond said January 28 in a speech delivered before a special session of the General Assembly of Virginia. However, a few days later "pub- lic education" and residents of the state seemed to have adjusted fa- vorably to integration, a situation described by the Governor as "her (Virginia's) dark and agonizing hour." IN ANSWER to the Governor's wordy protest to public school in- tegration and proposal for partial- One of the students said, "If anybody calls me a nigger, I'll say, Everybody has the right to free speech'." In Norfolk, Va., 17 Negroes registered at three high schools and three junior highs. Twenty- five to fifty per cent of the stu- dents stayed home, however school officials attributed this to parents worried about possible trouble. ONE PROTESTING white girl walked out of a Norfolk high school, but her parents promptly made her return. But the general attitude was perhaps summed up by another Norfolk girl who was enrolled in a special tutoring class during the fall semester crises of closed schools. "Nobody wants integration," she said. "But if ,we have to make a choice between integration and public schools or segregation and tutoring, I'd take the public schools." t :. s. ,, ..:..