gj~g itrigaut Eztit 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, Mciic. * Phone No 2-3241 "You Suppose Khrushchev Knows More About The 1960 Race Than We Do?" Ca Opinions A~ re o Truth Will Prevail Editorials Printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WITH KHRUSHCHEV: Humphrey's Talk Surprises Few By ARTHUR EDSON Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer WASHINGTON-To anyone familiar with the remarkable oratorical powers of Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), it was no surprise that his interview with Nikita Khrushchev lasted eight hours. "Khrushchev probably made a tactical error." one admiring reporter said. "He probably began by asking Hubert a question. Eight hours later he had his answer, complete with historical background, statistics and some good reasons why he should always support the Democratic Party." Humphrey came back to town today, to report on his trip to Russia. And it's interesting that in this city which rarely is at a loss for words he has firmly established himself as an outspoken man who never AY, DECEMBER 9, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: SELMA SAWAYAI Bonn 'Get Tough' Policy May Swing Too Far RUSSIA'S efforts to assume control of the entirety of the crucial city of Berlin received a major setback Sunday. Since 1949 when the separation into East- West blocs became a finality, the Communists have been unable to gain admission to the West German parliament. The knowledge that a pseudo-governmental structure existed to the East motivated the Adenauer supporters to steer clear of red-tinted candidates. A Thanksgiving Day note from Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev demanded that the Allies withdraw from Berlin - a preliminary step to ousting Western elements from the whole of Germany. TO START OFF the chain of events, the Communists marked the West Berlin parlia- mentary elections as the place to begin the removal of all dissenters from the Moscow norrr'. They conducted an intense propaganda cam- paign to "urge West Berliners to support the Sovet proposal with their votes." The Commu- nists received a somewhat harsh answer when not a single one of their candidates won a place in the 133-seat parliament. Whatever hopes that they might have en- tertained about voter strength on the other side of the Brandenburg Gate, whatever plans they might have formulated about coercing the Whoor What '"STRICTER interpretation" of the Dean of Women's housing policy resulting from increased dormitory space next year raises the question of whether the University is putting considerations of policy before consideration of the individual. A logical assumption about the role of the Dean of Women's office is that it serves as one of the few places the individual can go to solve her individual problem. Housemothers and the deans themselves often encourage the student to come to them with any problems. The emphasis of this office is probably more on the problems of the individual than on those of the student body as a whole. Yet, in announcement that senior women will be unable to receive apartment permission next year unless "there is definite financial need" it seems that the Dean of Women's office has decided it is more important to fill space in the dormitory than to consider the individual needs- and desires. AFTER spending three years in a dormitory, it is not unnatural for some senior girls to desire an apartment for a number of personal reasons. She may want the privacy of her own quarters or the experience and responsibility of planning her own living arrangements. Any of these reasons may be trivial to those who West into withdrawal must be completely re- vised. Yesterday, as a start on that revision, Otto Grotewohl, the ailing puppet Premier of East Berlin, re-echoed his assertion that the West- ern powers are legally obligated to get out. But he added, in a somewhat milder tone, that the East Germans will be ready to talk about the disposition of the Western garrisons. IT NOW SEEMS clear that Grotewohl is op- erating from a psychological disadvantage. A consolidated propaganda attempt failed to rouse Soviet support, and the consolidation of the Western bloc have contributed to the in- creasingly confident attitude of the Bonn gov- ernment. But, perhaps, the new "get tough" policy of the Bonn government which has been bolstered by the recent election returns will prevent con- ciliation, as a process, from achieving any po- sition of merit. The possibility of a flat "no" to the Russians looms as dangerous to any agreements that East and West could make. The Communist vision of completely con- trolling the crucial Middle European area is slowly vanishing. In place of it could appear the realization of the necessity of rational co- existence (or unification?); something that Bonn abruptness could easily destroy. -CHARLES KOZOLL Comes First? don't care, but to the individual concerned they may be very important . .. even to the point of affecting her. school work. The reasons for requesting an apartment fall within the category of individual problems and as such should be under the concern of the Dean of Women. Filling rooms in dormi- tories may also be under this same jurisdiction, but it isn't necessarily of primary importance. THE UNIVERSITY expanded women's hous- ing in order to prepare for increased enroll- ments. But until this increase reaches its maxi- mum, it isn't of utmost importance to maxim- ize the use of extra rooms. If the "loose" policy Interpretatalon of this year should remain, it does not mean that there will be a mass exodus of senior women from the dorms and thus leave the University with an exceptional num- ber of vacant rooms. It is more likely that the proportion of students in each dorm will re- main about the same. Not all senior women will want to move out . . . most likely only a very few will request apartment permission, with valid reasons other than financial need. When an office, such as the Dean of Wo- men's, places general policy considerations be- fore those of the individual, there should be adequate reasons. So far these reasons have. not been revealed, -JOAN KAATZ ~ t% CAPITAL COMMENTARY: We GOP Warn By WILLI. WASHINGTON - The profes- demand of managemen sional leadership of the Re. end up: give the Repu publican party, largely controlled dubious satisfaction of by Vice - President Richard M. acceptable to manager Nixon, has firmly adopted a policy quite unacceptable to of unexampled audacity in "tell- for another six to eigi ing .off" business. Accordingly, what It is as extraordinary as though called a commandc the Democrats had set out publicly calculated risk has bee to reprimand labor. Indeed, this is the Republican organiz news of a kind that is said to re- ership. This is to to sult when man bites dog. leaders, in the plain That the Republican pros have way and hazarding al undertaken this course of danger pleasure, that only t -and of Spartan courage-is the courses are really open best possible index of their fears 1) To forget abou for the future. The more they work, however heady examine the whys and wherefores tions in theabstract s of the Democratic Congressional 2) Or that, if busin election victories of last month the to insist again upon rig worse things look to them unless it must be prepared 1 businessmen can be made to "see the 1960 Presidential reason" before the Presidential ecisely the ki test of 1960. *unprecedented push-i exertions and in term. THE CONSIDERED VIEW of -that was put into t the GOP professionals is this: the reelect Senator Robert insistence by business of putting 1950. the so-called right-to-work issue u * * into the recent campaign must not be repeated unless business is IN THE TAFT strug ready to see the country go Demo- business generally t cratic in 1960-and this for a maintenance of the Sei mere starter. They point out that as though the Presid it took the GOP years to live down were at stake. Not six what was, rightly or wrongly, the election anywhere, ho anti-labor, anti-4little man" face as a community made put upon it after the adoption of and so dedicated a pol the Taft-Hartley Labor Act by a relative to the size of Republican Congress. of battle. They suggest that one more Few Republican p round of right-to-work, under Re- believe that bushess publican sponsorship and at the take alternative No. 2. s Businessmen [AM S. "MIT seems to be spoken out. Hubert Horatio Humphrey jr. would be the first to admit it. All his life he has been a prodigious talker. In his high school days in Wal- lact, S. D., Hubert was a star debater. Now 47, with his dark hairline retreating rapidly, he still shows great zest in any oratorical fray. Often in the senate, he seems almost bursting to leap into the game. * * * ONCE HE TAKES OFF, he wears a half smile, like the one you may spot on a good pitcher the day he knows he has his stuff. Incredible as it now seems. Hum- phrey once appeared destined to windrup far from politics. His father was a druggist, and the son followed these pharmaceutical footsteps. In 1933 he graduated from the Denver School of Phar- macy. But it's difficult to get into a lively argument with a prescrip- tion, and soon Humphrey was back in school, studying political sci- ence. He taught for a time, 'but in 1945, at the age of 34, he was elected Mayor of Minneapolis. During one two-year period, he made around 2,000 speeches. By 1948, he was ready to enlarge his practice of political science. He traveled 31,000 miles and made 691 speeches in Minnesota's 87 counties. Whether the voters were im- pressed with the new deal wares he was selling, or whether they were simply bowled over by his unwavering energy, no longer matters. * * * HUMPHREY defeated Sen. Jo- seph Ball by 243,000 votes, and became the first Democrat ever elected Senator in Minnesota. You can get some idea of Hum- phrey's approach to legislative life by looking at the index of the Con- gressional Record for one session. Between Jan. 3 and July 27, 1956, we find this: It takes 14 columns merely to DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletln 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, before2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1958 VOL. LXIX, No. 68 General Notices President and Mrs. Hatcher will hold open house for students at their home Wed., Dec. 10 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. TIAA -- College Retirement Equities Fund: Participants in the Teachers In- surane and Anuity Association retire- ment program who wish to change the (Continued on Page 8) it, might so ublicans the being very ment - but the voters, ht years. might be decision of en taken by zation lead- ell business est possible 1 their dis- wo rational now: t right-to- its attrac- sense. ess is going ght-to-work to put into 1campaign straining, n terms of s of money he fight to A. Taft in gle in Ohio reated the nator's seat dency itself nce, in any as business so massive itical effort the terrain rofessionals will really It was in this estimate of the harsh political reality that Meade Alcorn, the GOP national chair- man, recently went to New York give the bad news straight to the National Association of Manufac- turers Whatever anybody wanted to say about the inherent merit of right-to-work, Alcorn observed to these business bigwigs, this was the bald, bare meaning of the tale: "A majority of the voters said emphatically that they don't want right-to-work, and as a conse- quence the political careers of some of the nation's ablest public servants (Republicans, of course) were shattered." THIS WAS only the beginning of a new GOP leadership effort to good for business, the Republican comparable to some unimaginable change business's view of what is party, and-the country. And it was scene which might find Paul But- ler, the Democratic chairman, an- nouncing to a convention of the CIO-AFL that the Democrats had now heard altogether too much about things like union security. For the NAM has been the last, irreducible redoubt and trench of the total free enterprisers. The NAM has always taken its old- fashioned Republicanism so str fashioned Republicanism so stHaight as to make, say, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce look a bit like some happy league of young Democrats. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) list the titles of articles that in- terested Humphrey so much he wanted them reprinted; three col- umns to list the bills and amend- ments he introduced, and seven columns to list the times Hum- phrey felttcalled upon for a Senate speech or remark. By contrast, Sen. Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.), one of the quietest of the Senators, needed but three col- umns for all categories. Oh, yes, a final note of this man who has a chance of talking him- self into the Presidency: Khrushchev should have been forewarned. In 1957, Humphrey talked with President Nasser of Egypt, but neither had much to say. That interview lasted only three hours. AT THE STATE- Suburbia With Se W HEN MARGARET Webster visited the campus a few weks ago, she was asked why Shakspeare and the other clas- sics could not hold the Broadway boards for more than about fif- teen weeks and something like "The Tunnel of Love" could run for over two years. To all those who see this movie adaptation, the answer will be a simple one. Mel- ancholy Danes are nothing com- pared to plain old SEX!. It used to take place on hay stacks out- side of big red barns, but since sophistication has arrived on the contemporary scene, it has moved through the barn's Dutch doors into a charming French provincial decor. The hero and heroine of this Kinseyian epic are Richard Wid- mark, a struggling cartoonist, and his pert wife, Doris Day, who have moved into the pastoral setting of Westport, Conn. .because they are adopting a baby after five years of trying to have a child of their own. * * * THE AGENCY from whom the child is to be adopted send their field investigator, Gia Scala, to scrutinize them. When Widmark iS told by his skirt chasing neighbor Gig Young that he is inhibited and most definitely not living modern, his eye quite naturally roves in the direction of Miss Scala. And then the "fun" begins. She becomes pregnant; a baby boy is adopted who resembles Widmark; and the conclusions are quite logically made. The picture's dialogue comes to the just about censorable but it never quite makes it, and on the whole the film resembles an ex- ercise in which you see how close you can come to the line which separates good from bad taste. '-Patrick Chester The Lost Session PEARL HARBOR ... . These two words ter- rorized Americans only 17 years ago, but this nation has not learned from the disaster. No country, no matter how strong, can hope to avoid needless loss of life without an adequate system of warning and a civil defense that will allow a means of protection during attack. Long shielded by two oceans, Americans, more than any nation, have been oblivious to war's havoc. The countries of Europe during the two World Wars have learned the import- ance of being prepared to withstapd the enemy attack not only on the battlefield but in the towns and cities. These countries learned to heed the wailing warning of sirens, but in this country the whole concept of civil defense is considered as some sort of joke. . On Sunday, Ann Arbor's Civil Defense or- ganization tested their sirens. The people walking down the street seemed to fall into two classes: those who knew beforehand of the test and those who didn't. The ones who had not heard previously remained oblivious to it all. Those who had heard of the exercise smiled and joked and laughed about it. CIVIL DEFENSE officials throughout the country still must face the public tendency to completely ignore the importance of prepar- ation against attack. During the Thanksgiving holiday, great at- tention and money was spent in trying to avoid the death of a few hundred lives on the highways. But comparatively little money is allottedfor the saving of over 100 millon esti- mnated casualties that would result from an atomic attack on the United States. In some states, the civil defense units are unable to send out life saving information for only one reason: lack of money to pay the postage necessary to send it out. Unless the citizens realize the need for civil defese, all the time spent throughout the na- tion will do no good at all. It may take another Pearl Harbor to wake the United States up. But after the next Pearl Harbor possibly 100 million Americans will be dead. -KENNETH McELDOWNEY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: City Parking Fines Stir Student Reaction I I I INTERPRETING THE NEWS: West Meets Challenge Justice .. . To the Editor: O NOW we are told that the purchase of 12 minutes' park- ing time for some unfortunate stranger (or friend?) is an "ob- struction of justice." It would be interesting to know what twisted concept of justice and legality lies behind such a preposterous idea. It would also be interesting to see whether this outrageous charge would stand up in court, or on appeal if necessary. We, and we suspect others as well, would be happy to contribute toward what- ever expenses Mr. Mitchell incurs' in contesting the fine that has been imposed on him for his hu- manitarian act. Furthermore, we think we shall make it a point to have some pennies in our pocket whenever we walk down the street. -Edward Upton -Frank C. Jettner, Jr. -Benjamin F. Peery -Edmund K. Lee --Clyde W. McGuffe Fines . . To the Editor: AS EVERY motorist knows, a system of fines and penalties is widely employed to control in- some 20,000 to 30,000 dollars an- nually, was a substantial part of the town's income. The primary reason for the existence of a speed trap was quite forgotten. In some Michigan cities, parking tickets have become a regular racket, doing little towards solving the parking problem, and victimiz- ing countless motorists who are unwilling to go to court over a one to five dollar fine. I believe there is 4 way to solve this problem. All money collected as fines, be it traffic violations or for parking, should go to the state. This 'would remove from munici- palities the financial gain from flagrant -ticketing, and allow them to concentrate on actually solving their problems. At the same time it would provide a new and much needed source of state revenue, while forcing the towns to econo- mize. -G. R. Fleming, '59E Library . . To the Editor: T HE COLUMN written by David Tarr in Saturday's Daily is probably the most sophomoric piece that I have seen in a long time, The first half is a singular collec- tion of the old truisms poorly six hours when music will be played make up only 1/17th of the total time available). 2) Take the books needed to another fiooy. 3) Get the necessary books at another library. Even reserve books can often be obtained at another branch. Then one doesn't have to subject oneself to the tor- ments of Disneyland at all. 4) Complain to the UGL staff. It was made very clear in the announce- ment that this is to be an experi- ment. J His wandering off into some sort of idiocy as to what "this" would "lead to" simply demonstrates that it is easy to write garbage if you really put your mind to it. The Daily has some decent writ- Seni moe Says., ers, but it might be a rather good idea to require at least some thought from, or perhaps some control over, the rest. -Charles W. Johnson, Grad. Leaders . To the Editor: THE students of the University of Michigan take pride in call- ing themselves the leaders of the future. We like to think of our- selves as the "cream of the crop." But just what are we the leaders of? The thoughtful student often ponders this point as he views the dorms on the Hill at night. The animalistic exhibitions that go on in these places during a "normal" evening are not only shocking but degrading to the morals of the students. I am not adverse to the genuine affection shown by one individual for another when the former has a genuine appreciation for the other person as an individual. But when one sees that these girls and boys carry on this way with all of their dates, when one listens to the gory details of these eventful eve- nings, one begins to wonder what is becoming of our nation. The University has had for a long time a form of "legalized lust." A boy no longer dhows genuine affection for the girl herself, but affection instead for some stereotype. The same is true of girls. We display our affections so freely to everyone that we are rapidly degrading our own and the country's morals. Are these qualities which we are now developing the qualities we desire for marriage? Are we going to show such lack of understanding and selfishness in marriage? Are these the qualities of leaders in our nation? And, if so, what are we leading our nation into, the footpaths of Rome? Over toward the Hill we have a so-called Michigan Tradition-two lions in front of a museum, We pride ourselves in telling our lusty fr eftnn to a - - 7 .flf-nr r .Rif By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst HE NON-COMMUNIST world, in a series of efforts not directly coordinated but di- rected at the same objective, is gradually form- ing its line of battle to meet the Communist economic challenge. There is a pattern in which regional organi- zations will undertake to do for their areas what American and United Nations aid pro- grams have been attempting, but without any reduction in the latter. Indeed, there is to be an increase in the United Nations effort. r'OR INSTANCE. under the plan for a new standards generally and so lessen the effect of appeals for radical economic and political experiments. These meetings include the Colombo Plan at Seattle, the various moves of the European Economic Community which will come into being next month, the Inter-American Econ- omic Conference at Washington last week, the Commonwealth Finance Ministers at Ottawa, and the World Bank and International Mone- tary Fund at Delhi. SOME INVOLVE reductions of trade barriers. Most were concerned with means of allow- ing the soft as well as the hard currencies to find a morkne i n tr +,.a Aa r- i-ne ,: : .. Poo W" ...... .. flll"' 1 Vii !i:i7 5 yba 3 J t '+ 'e er' :lac Z L A , b L°r 1 am FU A