"Gosh, I Think We're Outnumbered" INTERPRETING . . .., Six y-Ninth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLiCATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. 0 ANN ARBOR, MICH.* Phone NO 2-3241 hen Oplnlons Are Free Trut~b Witt Prevall Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the inditidual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Owl s/ * . ._-- ,,,f4ir s Trade Agreement Ease Tensions in Germany Y, NOVEMBER 22, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP MUNCUK Proposed Hours Revision Challenges University Women 'HIS WEEK a much-needed plan for the re- vision of women's hours was brought before e League Senate. The plan, devised by Women's Judic;iary mncil, is not a spur-of-the-moment bid for iblicity. It has been under discussion since st spring, and assistance has been sought id received from the Dean of Women's Of- ce and the house directors. The need for a revision became obvious with ie opening of the Undergraduate Library hich has a 12 midnight closing. It is mani- stly unfair to deprive women at the Univer- ty of the use of these study facilities for the nal hour and a half by making it necessary r them to be in their housing units by 10:30 M. k7HILE THE library hours may be a begin- ning, they are hardly the only reason for change in the women's hours. Things simply on later at night than they did back before rorld War II when the' present hours were t up. There are concerts, lectures, class proj- :ts, varsity athletic events, departmental ojects, rehearsals, a wide variety of events ling on in the evening for which either Dean's ermissions or Automatic Late Permissions ust be obtained. The latest example of such 1 event would be the Pete Seeger Concert, bich, as it was not a University-sponsored ent, did not qualify for a 45-minute exten- on. However, as it did not end until 10:25 p.m. was impossible for women to get back to ieir dormitories or sorority houses before a ):30 p.m. closing. The present system of women's hours really resents a remarkable patchwork, as Sarah rasin, chairman of Womens' Judiciary Coun- 1 pointed out. Regular closing is 10:30 p.m. Kcept for seniors, who have an 11 p.m. closing, here is the 45-minute extension plan for Uni- ersity-sponsored events, with the approval of Vomen's Judiciary Council. Each girl is al- wed six Automatic Late Permissions, allow. ing her to stay out until 12 midnight, each semester. There are special hours for Orienta- tion and Registration week, for Thanksgiving and intersession vacations and for summer session. If nothing else, the changes would eliminate considerable bookkeeping and paper-I work. The proposed plan would make only four changes. There would be a 12 midnight clos- ing for upperclassmen and an 11 p.m. closing for freshmen Sunday through Thursday; fresh- men would be granted eight ALPs per semester and housing units would be closed to callers and visitors at 10:55 p.m. There would be no changes in opening hours, calling hours or weekend hours. Some changes in details would be necessi- tated by the change in hours. The major one of these is the problem of house meetings in the independent housing units. It would hard- ly be practical to hold these meetings at mid- night, so a clause has been inserted into the plan allowing housing units to enforce early closing for house meetings, when desired, with the concurrence of Women's Judic. If the plan is passed by the Senate at its next meeting on Dec. 3, an administrative com- mittee, made up of representatives from Sen- ate, Assembly Association, Panhellenic Associa- . tion, Women's Judiciary Council, the house di- rectors and possibly others, would be set up to decide the details. The new plan at last allows women at the University to exercise their judgement as adults in deciding, to some extent at least, when they will be in the dormitories. It is not a require- ment to stay out until midnight, but permis- sion to stay out until 12 midnight. The University, through the approval of the plan by the Dean of Women's Office, has al- ready acknowledged its trust of their good judgement. All that remains now is for the women to show that they also have faith in themselves. -JANE McCARTHY \ ,;: - WLf . Ji C Y,_ + \ v Rjj I By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst THE NEW trade agreement be- tween East and West Germany seems to relieve the Allies of the possibility that they would have to feed West Berlin's people as well as themselves in event of a new blockade. Nobody can tell how any agree- ment with Com'munists will turn out. But to this extent, at least, tension has been eased. The ability of the West Germans to force a free acoess clause into the trade agreement also reveals the East German need of com- merce with the West as a possible lever in all future relations. It may make West Germany a far more important force in future dealings with the Reds on what are pri- marily Allied occupation matters. The West has assessed Russian plans to withdraw from Berlin as being directed primarily at forcing the Allies into negotiations which will represent at least partial ree- ognition of the satellite govern- ment as an entity. The international Communists have been .promoting the two- Germanys idea ever since their cynical agreement at Geneva that Germany should be united.. EVEN MORE important to the Russians, however, may be the hope that by withdrawal from West Berlin they can encourage all-German agitation for ultimate withdrawal of all foreign forces from the country. This would not only foster the Red political campaign against the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion. It also promotes their agita- tion for a neutralized Germany. This springs from very real fears which are shared by all of Eastern Europe entirely apart from Com- munist politics. K *A fi=t. sy' s F.:S t TODAY AND TOMORROW: The Inoming Tide By WALTER LIPPMANN CAPITAL COMMENTARY: World Enter By WILLI WASHINGTON-The Eisenhower weapons capable of tra Administration is again re- miles or more and l ducing the armed forces in the speakable destruction; face of what is responsibly admit- of the line-will be in" ted here to be a hardening line by numbers." That is, he the Russian and Chinese Coin- many of them. Alrea munists all across the world. tested a number-mo The Pentagon, under orders from handful; less than,20. President Eisenhower, iscutting All the same, even no military nanpower by 70,000 to a sians are putting on t total force, for all services con- across many seas-an bined, of 2,525,000 or less. Does Soviet Union as well this inevitably mean less actual Their probing challen firepower? On this point there is west around Berlin endless and insoluble argument. Worrying us-though Some experts contend we are "get- the Russians will not ting more Pang for a buck by thing to a point whe streamlining the forces." And there is dang Other experts retort that this wrld interests from slogan is as nonsensical as it is in Middle East to Venezi poor taste. It is like arguing, says this group, that a thing-defense- Argentine fro a tomention ifrom tki can become bigger on the inside China to Indonesia to while it becomes smaller on the the Far East. Commu outside. sion is, quite frankly,d well in many places, a WHAT IS CLEAR beyond any it. dispute, however-indeed what is The Russians, at the freely conceded-is all the follow- are seen as having al ing: doned their long clam Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet us into a so-called n dictator, is moving his policies armament" that wou back toward the sullen menace of essential power balanc the old Stalin days. We know it to their side. Why they h be a fact that "toughness" is suc- is another in a long li ceeding a comparatively long enigmas. period of. relative relaxation in the * * Kremlin. Chillingly, we don't know IT IS BECAUSE the why; we don't even have a good will adopt proposalss educated guess. of Senator Albert Gor The consensus still is that to stop all our bomb Khrushchev does not want war- immediate upper air not, at any rate, for two or three with vital undergrounr years. After that period, his inter- space experiments?{ continental ballistics missiles - draw most of the teeth s 'Era of Anger' AM S. WHITE OR THE NEXT two years the president must live with a Congress which has a strong enocratic majority, and in this majority the arthern Democrats will have more power than ey had before. In the shrunken Republican nority, the "moderns" will have more to say an they had before the elections shattered e Old Guard. Much will depend upon how 'esident Dwight D. Eisenhower decides to deal th the new political line-up and how hp terprets the changes which it reflects. For it would be a mistake to suppose that >thing important is changed, and that some- w Sen. Lyndon Johnson is a worker of mir- les who can, or will wish, to make the new ongress act as if it were the old one. To be re, Sen. Johnson is a moderate and coopera- ve man, but he is also a professional politician ad he has already made it plain that he cows that there is a new tide running in our fairs. No doubt, it would be wrong to regard as finite and conclusive President Eisenhower's st reaction on the morning after election 3y. Yet there was truth-though it was not e wholetorethe main truth-in his saying Lat the electorate "obviously voted for people iat I would class among the spenders." It is "ue that the main political generation are repared for a lot more public spending on ublic services and publicfacilities and on ational defense. This can be said not only of ost of the Democrats. It is conspicuously true Nelson Rockefeller. N PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S definition, the new Governor of New York is a "spender" i that he stands for a much enlarged effort to leet public needs which, if they are to be met t all, must be financed publicly. Tlaere can be ttle question, it seems to me, that Rockefeller id not win the election only because he is an ttractive man with a celebrated and greatly espected name. He won it because he is identi- ed in the public mind with a long, persistent, aried, and expert concern with the public eeds of this growing and expanding nation. Before the President adopts a stubborn and erile opposition to what the younger genera- on is up to, he should make a careful study of [r. Rockefeller's victory. For there, most clearly erhaps than in any of the other elections, he an see what is happening. There is a "tide." ut it is not primarily a Democratic tide. It is )emocratic only when the Republicans act like lot of complaining old codgers, like the old ronies of Colonel Blimp, fighting in the present he battles of their youth. rHE TIDE is largely Democratic because the Democrats, at least outside the South, are n the whole younger and more modern and less todgy than are most of the Republicans who un for office. What is this tide which has brought in both Rockefeller and a great Democratic majority? It is propelled, I believe, by the growing con- viction, based on personal experience of living in countless American communities, that our public needs are not being adequately met. The face of America has changed since Dwight Eisenhower was a boy in Kansas. We have be- come in large part a mass society living in congested urban agglonlerations. One half of our people live in metropolitan areas; in the six Northeastern states four-fifths of the people live close together in such metropolitan areas. This is not the only reason, but it is an important and a sufficient reason, why the country today is compelled to spend on civilian projects more public money than it used to spend. Out in the country or even in small villages, the individual can do many things for himself which in the city must be done by public enterprise. There is no need to labor the obvious. When a community grows from, let us say, 10,000 inhabitants to 100,000, the cost of the public services required is bound to go up more than ten times. For the larger com- munity requires extensive facilities-as, for example, wider roads and underpasses-which the small town does not have to have at all. BECAUSE OF THE great cost of the second World War and the very large cost of the cold war, this cotntry, which is a very different country from what it was twenty years ago, is in a predicament. It is rich in the things that money can buy, and it is, speaking compara- tively, poor in the services and the facilities that private enterprise cannot supply. From now on, barring a great war, our in- ternal politics will be dominated, we may be reasonably certain, by this predicament. In it lies the real problem of "spending." The problem is whether the productivity of our economy can be increased so that public spend- ing can be increased without forcing a decrease in private spending, perhaps even while per- mitting an increase in private spending. This will be the subject of a great debate in the years ahead of us. THERE ARE, no doubt, many different con- clusions to be drawn from all this. But the first conclusion I would draw is that the President should look not only at his $80,000,- 000,000 budget and its $12.000,000,000 deficit. He should look also at the problem of the economy which is still running below capacity. And last but not least, he should look squarely at the vast complex of difficulties which are being caused by the lag in our public services, and at the human strain to which this lag sub- jects our people. For the future, which he must face for an- other two years, will be greatly concerned with this lag. It will be concerned with the lag in the provision of schools and colleges, with the lag in hospitals and medical services, with the deficiency of highways and the backwardness veling 5,000 eaving un- at the end "operational e will have dy, he has re than a ow the Rus- ;he pressure d inside the as outside. nges to the are much we believe yet push the re we must er to free- Iraq in -the uela and the merica-not tan to Indo- }Formosa in nist subver- doing all too and we know e same time, l but aban,- mor to force uclear "dis- ild leave the ce tipped on have done so st of sinister y suspect we such as that e (D-Tenn.) tests in the but go on ad and outer (This would from Soviet The Allies can only await de- velopments as they plan to meet the new Russian maneuver. FIRST AND foremost, they will not surrender the people of West Berlin to the Communists. That would be a catastrophe making the possible loss of such a place as Quemoy look like a pimple on an elephant's rump. Secondly, they will not recognize East Germany, which would doom reunification. Thirdly, they learned some "les- sons from the 1948 blockade when they had to resort to aerial supply of both the occupation forces and the Wet Berlin population. They may not lies down and play doggo at the first roadblock. 'DEAR COACM': A cademi (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letter reprinted from the Wolf Maga- zine of Letters was reportedly writ- ten by Prof. William Staffir, forxserly of san Jose state College.) Dear Coach Musselmen: REMBEME. our discussions of your football men who are hav- ing trouble in English. Well, I have decided to ask you, in turn, for some help. We feel that Paul Spindles, one of our most promising scholars, has a chance for a Rhodes Schol- arship, which would be a great thing for our college. Paul has the academic record for the award, but we find the aspirant is also required to have other excellences, and ideally should have a good. rebord in athletics. Paul is weal. He tries hard, but has trouble in athletics. Yet he does try Bard. We propose that you give some consideration to Paul as a varsty' player, putting him if possible in the backfield of the football team. In this way we can show a better college record to the committee deciding on the Rhodes Shclar- ships. We realize that Paul will be a problem on the field, but - as you have often reminded us - co- operation between our department and yours is highly desirable, and we do expect Paul to try hard, of course. During intervals of study, we shall coach him as much as possible. His work in the English Club and on the Debate Team will force him to miss many practices, but we intend to see that he car- ries an old football around to bounce (or whatever one does with a football) during intervals in his work. We expect Paul to show entire good will in his work for you, and though he will not be able to e- gin football practice till late in the season, he will finish the sea- son with good attendance, Respectfully yours, --Benjamin Plotinus, .Chairman Cncer Report Do cigarettes cause lung can- cer? The United States tobacco industry has, five research groups looking for the answer. Progress report: Two years of tests with animals so far have "Not result- ed in any malignant tumors." U. S. News and World Report propaganda picturing us as insist- ing on poisoning the atmosphere while it would permit us to go ahead with our weapons work in areas where there could be no harmful fall-out.) Or is it simply that the Russians are taking up a brutal candor and implicitly admitting that they are now turning on the heat valve and shutting off the charm valve? None of this do we know. We know only that on the most hope- ful possible estimate we are enter- ing a period of vast anger for the next two or three years. And if all goes in the best possible way beyond this time we shall confront many years-and perhaps decades -of exhausting and perilous cold war. ALL THESE circumstances will suggest whybthe truly adult poli- ticians in both parties in this country will not be irresponsible enough to try to tear the Eisen- hower Administration to shreds in its coming last two years. They all know how scary is the score. And they all know that nobody alive- no Congress, no party-can direct the President's operation of the Pentagon. There is only one com- mander-in-chief; and it is he. They all desperately hope he is right about military manpower; many desperately fear he may be wrong. But there is nothing what- ever they can usefully do about it. All can only earnestly wish for the President, in this matter, the best possible success in this au- tumn of his public life. (Copyright 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) DAILY OEFICIAL 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. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958 VOL. LXIX, NO. 58 General Notices Extended Hours: Women students who attended Gilbert and Sullivan Thurs., Nov. 20, had extended hours until 11:10 p.m. Lecture: Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering presents Prof. Hideo Itokawa, Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo, on Mon., Nov. 24, 4:00 p.m., Rm. 1504 E. Eng. Bldg. His topic will be "The Japanese Sounding Rocket Program." Public Health Assembly: "Present' Status of Public Health Affairs" Dr. Leroy E. Burney, Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service, Mon., Nov. 24, 4:00 p.m., School of Public Health Aud. Concerts Jerome Hines, Metropolitan Opera basso, will be heard in recitaljn the fifth concert in the Choral'Union Series, Mon., Nov. 24, 8:30 pm., Hill Aud. Mr. Hines, with Alexander Alexay at the piano, will present an interest- ing program which includes arias from Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte," "The Magic Flute," and "Marriage of Figaro;" Ver- di's "Don Carlos," Rossini's "Barber of (Continued on Page 5) N I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Californians Defend Local Politics Irony . . To the Editor: LAST WEEK our campus news- paper, The Daily Californian, printed a resume of an editorial by Nan Markel of your paper. The remarks of our Governor-elect "Pat" Brown were blatantly mis- construed and ironic because just above Miss Markel's blast, there appears the worthy slogan "when opinions are free, truth will pre- vail." However, opinions expressed should at least be based on some semblance of the facts, in order that truth should emerge. The purpose of this letter is to supply your readers with the accurate facts. Miss Markel wrote, "It is very difficult to conceive of any way for him (Mr. Brown) to imple- ment his stand." "Withdrawal of recognition, as those here well know" she continued, "is a diffi- cult ,delicate, and perhaps impos- sible undertaking." The article concluded, "Understandably, he (Mr. Brown) was anxious to get Knowland down on every possible count. But his stand is unenforce- able within the realm of possibil- ity. It can be discounted as the usual 'campaign myth'." This is not true. Mr .rnwn's nronoal is simpnl these groups may not happen to discriminate - a point which ad- mittedly cannot be proven in all cases - the mere existence of re- strictive clauses preserves on pa- per something that we must elim- inate if we are to ever rid it from the minds of men. This is Mr. Brown's stand. The stand is enforceable through the courts of our country. Substanti- ating legal precedent has already been rendered in Smith vs. Al- wright and in the "Little Rock de- cisions." A brief has already been submitted to the Attorney-Gen- eral of California requesting him to issue an opinion on this matter. Newly-elected Attorney-General Stanley Mosk will soon deliver that decision at which time the Board of Regents of the Univer- sity may decide to adopt the de- cision as policy or wait until an appeal is made to the courts and an injunction is issued. This stand is hardly a "campaign myth." -Allan Solomonow -Mike Schutz Hours. . . To the Editor: IT IS BEYOND my comprehen- sion how an individual can vote against a measure which would increase his freedom of action. Do these dissenters prefer im- posed restrictions to self-disci- pline? Would they really rather be told what they can do than have the opportunity of making their own decisions? Is this not atime when all of us (males and fe- males) must begin to choose and discipline for himself in his study habits, sleeping hours, dating cur- fews, etc. Perhaps this is a somewhat broader view than is usually pre- sented in defense of extended wo- men's hours. There are more spe- cific points to be made in the re- spect that men, since the opening of the Undergraduate Library, en- joy better study facilities than do women. Other considerations in- clude the impossibility of "really" studying in the dorms after hours. Unfortunately, we do not all pos- sess the powers of concentration of our dean of women to be able to learn Latin while riding a sub- way. Many women probably don't want to study in the library until 11:45, most of us leave by 10 o'clock anyway. But the point is that when we want to, when we need to, we can. Why then do women vote against.extended hours? Is it be- cause dorm officials are afraid they will have a hard time holding corridor meetings, house meet- ings, committee meetings, choir rehearsals, etc? Is it because they prefer the pandemonium of 10:30 to a gradually dying roartbetween 10:80 and 12 o'clock? Do they lik~e not taking the responsibility of settingktheir own curfew? After all, it is easier sometimes to have the RA standing at the door flash- - ing the light off and on than to have to tell your date yourself that it's time to go in. (And the 10:30 mobs are so dignified!) It is as reasonable for those women who want to maintain the 10:30 hours to deny others the right of 12 o'clocks, as it is for those of us who want the later hours to deny others the right of 10:30 hours. Extended hours are not an impingement of anyone's freedom - unless they are denied. -Brenda Brimmer, '59 Achtulg To the Editor: WE STUDENTEN von der out- landisch ironisch - kurtain Kountries kann nicht understand- en das Squablen ober S.G.C. We ist hearen dass die Fuhrers bin schmacken down dem Studenten. You say, der Reich ist bin given you das Power to upmaken and auskarryen den Laws. In gober-- mentisch Procedur only die Fuhr- ers haben das Power of down- S nimor'e Says I -1,11 / IV44