Sixty-Ninth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 "Yo u Fellows Forget I Was Shanghaied" ben Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS TURNER Destruction at Atlanta Temple Consequence of Explosive Climate PLYMOUTH SYMPHONY Competent Beethoven Admirable Stravinsky FOR THE FIRST concert of its thirteenth season, the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra chose a mostly satisfactory program, featur- ing works by Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Vaughan-Williams. The principal attraction was Miss karen Taylor, a student at this University, who was soloist in a performance of the Second Piano Concerto of Beethoven. This is chronologically Beethoven's first concerto, written a few years before the "First Piano Concerto," a situation not at all unique in the music- publishing game. Generally considered to be Beethoven's least interesting concerto, the Second is anyhow not at all trivial. The piano part is full of difficult sections which gave Miss Taylor no trouble. It is difficult to evaluate a pianist on the basis of one- ing of a somewhat unfamiliar concerto, but obviously she had no tech- nical problems at all and whizzed through some complex passages and a first movement cadenza with astonishing ease. Aside from a few absurd tones from strings and woodwinds at the beginning of movements I and II, the orchestra provided an ef- fective accompaniment so that the overall product was really quite satisfactory. Vaughan-Williams "Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis" was another story. This is one of the most beautiful works ever written for string orchestra; certainly an ambitious undertaking for any orchestra. The Fantasia is somewhat beyond the present grasp of the Plymouth Sym- BOMB EXPLOSIONS are always startling, but the one that rocked Atlanta Sunday morning should not have been unexpected. The destruction at the Temple of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation was the fourth recent dynamiting of a Jewish place of worship in the South and it points to the rise of a parti- cularly vicious expression of anti-semitism. But it is more than that. It is also a phase of current southern trends. For there is no such thing as permitting a little violence. A chain of explosive action has been set in motion by a disregard for the law and it is liable to'eventually lash against the very southern authorities that could have stopped it -before the materials of hate and violence were forged into tools of destruction. Once southern officials interpret laws to keep one segment of the population "in their place" and once they turn their backs on vio- lence committed against the same group, they admit that the laws of the state, if not the land, are something to.be ignored when it suits a particular set of prejudices. They, in fact, allow order to be compromised and once the hard and narrow line is permitted to bend, chaos is the inevitable result. THE TREND can be seen in the series of bombings. From Charlotte and Gastinia, North Carolina, and then to Miami, Nashville, Jacksonville and finally Atlanta, the trend has shifted from intimidation to minimum damage and now to large scale destruction. The fear is that any future blasts may be timed to ex- plode when the buildings are occupied. It is still uncertain who is behind the bomb- ings of the Jewish synagogues. But regardless of whether it's the work of "professional trouble-makers", local residents, or isolated cranks, the important thing is that they have sprung up in an environment well fertilized with an acceptance of violence. In many areas of the south, local officials have tolerated, and as in Little Rock, even encouraged, mob action to show their resent- ment against attempts to enforce the Supreme Court integration decision as the law of the land. But just as it is difficult to confine ac- tion against Negroes from spreading to actions against Jews, it is perhaps even more impos- sible to limit the growing anti-law attitude to only federal laws. The only thing that the type of mind that plants dynamite or burns crosses does not discriminate against is the source of the violated law. SOUTHERN officials may claim, in opposing integration and winking at anti-Negro vio- lence that they are only reflecting the wishes of the people. But there comes a time when future conse- quences of present actions no longer can be ignored. -MICHAEL KRAFT Editorial Director Ann Arbor Discrimination IT ALL STARTED out very casually. A young girl went apartment hunting one day in early August to find fall quarters for herself and her husband-to-be. As a University student, she inquired at the Office of Student Affairs. Having copied a list of "apartments for rent" from the bulletin board, she set out armed with automobile, map and hope. She went through several apartments in different parts of town, but didn't find quite what she was looking for. So she continued. On Catherine Street, she stopped the car at an address on her list. She went in, introduced herself to the landlady and followed her up the stairs. On the way up she asked the landlady if there were any married couples in her other apartments. No, the landlady said, she didn't have any other married folk, but she wished she did. "I won't have any single girls in my apart- ments, though," she continued garrulously - - "Nor any foreign students, either. I think for- eign students should be kept in their place," she said. "I won't mix them with the Americans. I think americans are much happier without them." HE YOUNG GIRL looked at the landlady rather curiously, but said nothing. She, her- self, had been a member of the American Field Service Summer Abroad program, and had lived with a European family for over a month. As they entered the apartment, the landlady switched her attention to the features of the three-room place. She went on and on, extoll- ing its virtues, skipping over its defects. Then she broke into a description of its his- tory, how she had added new items, etc., etc. "There was a couple in here last fall," she reported. "They were a Jewish couple. I didn't know that when I let them have the apart- ment. When I found out two months later, well, they left," she said. The young girl looked intently at the woman for a moment; she paled and then a smile began to play around the corners of her mouth. "Thank you," she addressed the landlady, "but I don't think my fiance and I would be interested in your apartment. You see, we're Jewish." AN UNUSUAL SITUATION, perhaps, but evi- dently not infrequent in Ann Arbor. Student Government Council passed a reso- lution last spring after receiving a report of discrimination in off-campus housing from the Human Relations Board. This resolution was sent to- the Office of the Dean of Men, the Office of the Dean of Women, the Faculty Housing Office, the Mich- igan Union and The Michigan Daily. It re- quested that "landlords who practice discrim- ination in race and/or religion not be allowed to advertise through University facilities. The Council narrowly rejected a proposal by an 8 to 7 vote asking the Ann Arbor City Coun- cil to consider legislation which would pro- hibit discrimination in rented houses with one member abstaining and two others who were not present. The best thing the Council could have done would have been to make the proposal to the City Council. One person who voted nay in- stead of aye certainly does not resolve the question, especially when a full council did not vote on the matter. THE ISSUE is certain to come up again when the Human Relations Board probes further into the idea of an anti-discrimination code, modeled after the Fair Educational Practices Code recently adopted at the University of Illinois. The Illinois code specifically encourages non-discriiinatory practices in off-campus housing as well as ruling that the school will not in any way discriminate "because of race, creed or national origin." It is hoped that if SGC reconsiders its de- cision and sends a resolution to the City Coun- cil, that more notice will be accorded it than it appears the University has. Experiences such as the one depicted here should not happen, particularly in a University community. --JUDITH DONER CAP WASHINGTON - A co: of practical interest, nothing nearly so firm a; tual alliance, isbeing br between the forces of twc craratic presidential pos for 1960. The immedate o center of this movementi South and the border sta Unless the nomination to an advanced liberal-a might-the focus of co power is likely to fall soi between Senators Lyndon7 son of Texas and John F. of Massachusetts. Johnson is prospectiv convention's dominant f the area running from th to the right of the pa not the.far right. Kennedy pectively its most import ure in the area running center to the left-but no far left. ** * IT NOW LOOKS not in that from these situatio followers might merge to d the convention. Indeed, i inconceivable that these s will go so far as to produ nees-Johnson for Presid Kennedy for Vice-Presi though it is most unlikely Johnson is a liberal So but still a Southerner by phy - and being any Southerner has been bad any Democratic conven many years. It will noe even worse news in 1960, the small though real p that the Democrats migh they could not usefully all the way with Richard ITAL COMMENTARY: in Opposition to Willians By WILLIAM S. WHITE mmunity on, the probable Republican Presi- Johnson movement. That is, the though dential nominee, for the massive Southern pros hope it will be s an ac- Negro voting bloc on the civil Johnson at the end but are man- roadened rights issue.idahatatc nntf hu rdeeo-rJhsonhaahertatac.i euvering not to be left without any o Deo- ohnon ad aheat atac in alternative position to a Mennen ssibilities 1955, and though there has been Williams, say, if it turns out that perating no recurrence, this is a political Johnson will not seek the nomina- is in the liability. Perhaps worst of all, as tion or cannot get it. tes. a Texan he is identified by many is to go with fat oil and gas "barons" and Some of the most realistic of s well it all that. Finally, there is a genuine non-Southern Democratic politi- nvention continuing doubt that he would cians, too, are now privately talk- mewhere "go" for the nomination anyhow. ing up a Johnson-Kennedy ticket. B. John- Kennedy, too, has certain inher- In part, their motive is completely Kennedy ent liabilities. There is his religion serious; in part, they are sending -both parties have been afraid up small trial balloons to test 'ely the to nominate a Roman Catholic public reaction. igure in since the defeat of Alfred E. Smith * * * e center in 1928. And there is his youth- THE NET of it is that Johnson rty-but he will be only 43 in 1960. and Kennedy are increasingly be- is pros- * * ing presented as leaders*of party tant fig- NEVERTHELESS, these two pol- groups between which there need left of iticians-both victims of circum- be no irreconciliable conflict. One )t to the stances for which they are not re- reason is that Kennedy has always sponsible but with which they had much Southern goodwill - must reckon-are being progres- as was spectacularly shown in 1956 npossible sively drawn closer together. More when, under Southern leadership, ns their exactly, their supporters are being he very nearly took the Vice-Presi- dominate so drawn. dental nomination away from t is not Powerful Southern politicians, Senator Estes Kefauver of Ten- ituations including a potent handful of nessee.', ce nomi- Governors, are speaking in in- But the rock-bottom reason for lent and creasingly high tones of Kennedy, it all is this: Kennedy, though a dent - privately as well as in public. Their Northern liberal, is no extremist attitude could easily be overevalu- on the race question, though he utherner ated. Kennedy is not their first has a good voting record from the geogra- choice; rather, he is their choice Negroes' viewpoint. And Johnson kind of if finally they must face some such is very far from an extremist news at alternative nominee as Governor Southerner. He is, in fact, the Lion for G. Mennen Williams of Michigan principal reason why the first civil doubt be or Governor Averell Harriman of rights bill in eight decades got barring New York. through the Senate in 1957, unsat- ossibility Their true first choice undoubt- isfactory though it was to the all- it decide edly would be Johnson. The pro- out civil rights advocates. compete Kennedy movement in the South (copyright, 1958, by United M. Nix- thus is basically a hidden pro- Feature Syndicate, Inc.) phony string section. Still, the performance did have some en- couraging moments. * * * WHATEVER the unsolved prob- lems posed by Vaughan-Williams, Stravinsky's suite from "The. Fire Bird" was handled admirably well. A few loud percussive chords at the beginning of the "Dance of King Kastshei" (a sort of modern day Surprise Symphony)' awoke some of the audience; testifying to the abilities of the brass and percussion sections. Orchestrally, everything was always under con- trol. Conductor Wayne Dunlap and his musicians must be con- gratulated on their competent presentation of this Suite, It seems that musically in- clined Ann Arbor residents might extend their range to Plymouth occasionally to investigate this or- chestra. Sunday's program was a fair exchange for a short drive, both on account of the "Fire Bird" and for the opportunity to hear Miss Taylor. --David Kessel LETTERS to the EDITOR Sick, Sick... To the Editor: AFTER reading Michael Kraft's article on the editorial page of The Daily's Oct. 5 issue, may I respectfully suggest that he be hung by his ears from a flagpole at the south end of the stadium. He belongs at the University of Chicago, not at Michigan. His type makes me ill. -Tom Dorman, '50 Squeezed . . To the Editor: HOW ABOUT having the weekly football films in a larger closet this week. I have seen two or three which would put room 3RS in the Union to shame. If this arrange- ment is impossible, it would be nice to be warned so that we could provide our own hooks for the wall. I certainly hope there weren't any "fair-weather fans" unable to see the films is it is extremely poor, when a _"fair- weather fan" can't even see the team in fair weather. I am hope- ful that this week I can find a seat, hook, hanger or something. --Tom Sherlock, Grad. INTERPRETING: U.S. Weighs Cease-Fire By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst THE United States is assessing the extension of the Quemoy cease-fire as meaning the end of the current crisis there, and won- dering where the Communists will start creating trouble next. Extension of the Quemoy truce from one to three weeks repre- sents a victory for American pres- sure against the use of force to settle political arguments. One of the chief results of the crisis has been promulgation by President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the idea that armed opposition to the use of force is now a gen- eral American principle. Within a relatively few weeks it has been applied in the Middle East and the Far East. For years it has been applied in Europe. It was applied in Korea. The strong implication of Presi-A dent Eisenhower's and Dulles' statements during the recent pas- sage at arms with the Chinese Reds is that the principle now ap- plies everywhere. The Chinese Reds are reiterat- ing that they do not accept the principle. "We are free to fight when we want to fight and stop when we want to stop," they said in their statement. * * * THE FACT IS, however, that international Communism want ed to stop its provocatiots in both the Middle East and, the Far East when the American posture be- came so positive that they could not continue their tactics with- out risking war. The Red claim to retention of the initiative is within itself one of the best reasons for believing that the Quemoy cease-fire has now become the de facto truce to which Secretary of State Dulles referred as a prerequisite to- in- ternational consideration of the Red territorial claims. A voluntary resumption of the intensive bombardment would lead other Asiatic nations to a sure judgment as to who is re- sponsible for the trouble. This will become especially true as the United States begins to reduce the force recently built up in the area. Many observers would not be surprised if the international Communist campaign centered for a while on Europe, through prop- aganda connected with the issue of nuclear testing and disarma- ment in general; These are topics to which the Reds have especially . addressed themselves at the cur- rent meeting of the United Na- tions General Assembly. The Ge- neva Conference on a testing ban will begin soon. The Reds always make an effort to divide the United States from her European allies on these issues. The Communist stirring spoon will also be discernible soon in the boiling political pots of Pakistan, Burma and again in the Middle East. Whether these or some other trouble spots will again evoke the Washington policy of force- against-force remains to be seen, but the Reds are not likely to let it lie idle for very long at a time. DAILY OFFICIAL . BULLETIN The Daiiy 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 precedingY publication. Notices' for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. REALITY AND ILLUSION: Survey Examines America's Image Abroad Towards Better Teaching A FAIRLY diversified and imaginative ap- proach to the education of the teacher is now in progress in the University's education school.. This approach is in the form of a program which enables the students to do their prac- tice teaching outside Ann Arbor in cities in Michigan where there are graduate residence centers located. In this way, a resident from the Saginaw, Flint, Grand Rapids, Detroit, or Battle Creek areas can live at home and do his student teaching at the same time. Such a program offers many advantages to the student. First, by living at home, he is saving most of the money that it would cost him to live in a University residence hall or in an apartment. After seven semesters of on-campus living, a semester void of rooming payments would be a welcome relief for most students. In addition, even though he is living at home, the student is still able to complete his hours of credit for graduation by taking one or two -courses at the graduate\ residence cen- ter in his community. AN IMPORTANT advantage in practice teaching at home is that in most cases, the student is planning on teaching in his own community after graduation. Having had the experience of practice teaching there, he has become acquainted with the methods of in- struction and teaching policies in that area. This would, in all probability, be beneficial when he applies for a job there after receiving the teaching certificate. Furthermore, a student practice teaching in his own community would undoubtedly have a better understanding of the children in his EDITOR'S NOTE: The following report is the result of an Associated Press survey recently conducted to ascertain the nature of Anti-American attitudes throughout the world. By SAUL PETT Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer IN UGANDA, in East Africa, the village- elders sat around a huge cauldron of thin corn beer steaming over a slow fire. Each man sucked thoughtfully on a long reed that trailed-from his lips to the cauldron. From time to time, a woman added water from a gourd. "In America, they drink beer from tins," an Associated Press re- porter said. "What thing is America?" asked a grizzled old man. With a silent nod, the question was passed down the elders in order of seniority. No one seemed to know, until it came to a middle- aged man distinguished by the fact that he wore shoes and a grease- spotted felt hat with a green feather. He took the reed from his mouth and spat on the packed earth compound. "America," said the worldly one with the hat and shoes, "is a big tribe of England." What thing is America? In Warsaw, Poland, behind the Iron Curtain, this joke was circulated A Communist party secretary chided a lathe operator in an auto plant, "Hear you've got a brother out of work in Detroit. Why don't you write him and tell him to come home?" "Sure," said the lathe operator, "but who'd send us the food parcels?" What thing is America? In Morocco, a mechanic named Mohammed el Fassy keeps three photographs pinned to the wall of his tiny room. On the left, Nasser. On the right,' King Mohamed V of Morocco. In the middle, Gary Cooper. What thing is America? this people, this way of living and thinging, this position and posture- all the things called American - what do they suggest to the rest of the world? How do others see us midway in the 20th century? What is the world's image of America? Of Americans? Of American inten- tions, American life, American leadership, American behavior, national and individual? In 30 countries of the world, on all the earth's inhabited contin- ents, Associated Press reporters sought a picture of.-America. They asked their questions of the elusive average man, the man in the street, the man pulling the rickshaw, the man in the factory, in the field, on the fishing boat. Here's what they found: Many people abroad dislike and distrust us. More seem to envy than admire us. Many accept our leadership as a fact of life, often disagreeable. Many regard us as rich and strong but also erratic, con- tradictory and unsure of ourselves. Many agree that America wants peace but they see no idealism in this. They do not regard it as seeking peace for peace's sake. Th'ey argue: True, America wants peace; wouldn't you, if you were rich and had everything you wanted, everything to 'gain by peace and every- thing to lose by war? And many think our protestation of peaceful intent is but a thin disguise to control world markets. As individuals, many people abroad find us friendly, casual, un- worried, uncultured, superficial, loud, insensitive, and occasionally ob- noxious. They are convinced we're all rich. To that extent, they exag- gerate. But in the examples they cite; they do not exaggerate, and they reveal more of their own hunger than our wealth. Many people around the world visualize American, life, not in terms of gold-paved streets or Cadillacs or 40-room mansions, but in terms of a refrigerator and a roof and inside plumbing. * * * FREEDOM? Democracy? Equality of opportunity? Many abroad admire these things in America but what about the Negroes in the South? What about Little Rock? Over and over and over again, they ask, what about Little Rock? Editorial Staff RICHARD TAUB, Editor MICHAELRA rATT J Editorial Director, DEIN WEIGHER City Editor DAVID TARR Associate Editor DALE CANTOR................Personnel Director JEAN WILLOUGHBY.. Associate Editorial Director BEATA JORGENSON ..,.. Associate City Editor ELIZABETH ERSKINE....Associate Personnel Director ALAN JONES......................Sports Editor CARL RISEMAN............Assoiate Spornts Edtor~