j S iVaigal atg 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, MieCI. * Phone No 2-3241 I "I Don't Know Why Everything Has To Keep Changing. When I Was A Young Man-" KREMLIN CHANGES: Serov Dismissal F I&" 'hn Opinions Are Fre. Truth Wll Prevall" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Y, DECEMBER 10, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: BARTON HUTHWTE { -=.--- ; .... space Age's Educational Challenge Must Be Faced Squarely HE RECENTLY-RELEASED report on "The Status of Mathematics and Science in 514 chigan High Schools" reveals several in- esting facts which make one wonder if, leed, the state is preparing to meet the space The report shows that over 95 per cent of e schools offer basic mathematics and sci- :e courses, but only about 15 per cent of the dents take advantage of these courses. A greater percentage of high school stu- nts in private and parochial schools take ire math and science courses, and more of ese courses are offered. But according to the ort, teachers in these schools do not have e preparation which public school teachers ssess. A possible conclusion to be drawn from this rvey is that the non-public schools are tak- g the current world situation more seriously d preparing students in the important areas mathematics and science. That their facul- Shhhh ty is not as well trained is ironic, for the better trained public school teachers apparently do not feel the same important obligations. TIlE LOW percentage of students taking sci- ence courses is unfortunate, for many will not go on to college and are missing their only opportunity to be introduced to the phenomena of the modern age. For students going on to college, science training is even more import- ant, both as preparation for higher courses and as a general background for liberal education. The report serves the valuable function of providing specific information in this area, and statistics which can be utilized to improve sec- ondary education in the state. Much needs to be done yet in seeing that science and mathe- tatics are given as background for modern living. The burden placed upon secondary edu- cators is now greater than ever. --ROBERT JUNKER thetic quality of the performance. Due to 20 degree temperatires with snow and blizzard winds, those who had to drive any distance were confronted with transportation hazards and were consequently a few minutes late for the overture, AT THE SEATING intermission, groups of late-corners tramped in, dripping slush at every step. After they had removed their wraps, the noise settled down to a steady sniffling and an occasional sneeze between choruses. The soloists, chorus -and orchestra indeed performed admirably when they could be heard above the steady hum of conversation going on in the audience. Unfortunately, the chat- tering tended to drown out the subtler runs, al- though the "Hallelujah Chorus" rang out loud and clear.t The performance in itself was enjoyable as always, but some members of the audience de- serve to have "clod" printed in large red letters across their foreheads. -JEAN HARTWIG 'I Nt r} Now By THOMAS P. WHITNEY Associated Press Foreign News Analyst THE REMOVAL of General Ivan Serov from his post as Soviet Security Chief may hint at troubles in the Soviet leadership. Serov was in charge of Soviet intelligence sa- counter-intelli- gence both inside and outside Rus- sia and responsible for the safety' and lives of Soviet bigwigs. He was Nikita Khrushchev's personal nom- inee to succeed to a pa't of the enormous powers once possessed by the executed Lavrenty Beria, Stalin's police chief. Serov wvas close to Khrushchev and trusted by Khrushchev. Fre- quently he himself acted as Khrushchev's bodyguard-for ex- ample during the Russian leader's tours of India and Burma in 1955. It has been reported that Serov was used by Khrushchev against his political enemies in the Krem- lin. One source with access to high-ranking Russians has re- ported that in June 1957-when V. M. Molotov, Georgi Malenkov and other Khrushchev opponents nearly succeeded in ousting Khrushchev from the leadership --it was Serov along with several others that summoned the party's central committee into extraordi- nary session, to save Khrushchev. THE ASSOCIATION between Khrushchev and Serov evidently began in the Ukraine. Neither is a Ukrainian but in the late thirties both occupied key posts in the large southern republic of the USSR. Khrushchev was Commun- ist Party chieftain and Serov was Minister of Internal Affairs-Police and Secret Police Chief. Serov was a representative of Beria but evi- dently he managed to get along well with Khrushchev and earn his trust. Thus it was that in June 1953 when Beria was removed from office by the other party leaders and later executed, Khrushchev felt he could depend on Serov to assist in liquidating Berla's ma- chine and keeping the police under control. Serov was immediately named in July 1953 a first deputy minister of internal affairs under Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Kruglov, who was later removed. And then in 1954 he became chairman of the new Committee on State Security which was responsible directly to Khrushchev in matters of intelli- gence, counter-intelligence and the security of Soviet leaders. The long and close association between Khrushchev and Serov raises the question of why Serov now has been removed from the security post. * * * SEROV HAS BEEN one of the keystones of Khrushchev's power. His dismissal at the present mo- ment could indicate either that Khrushchev's position has been seriously weakened or else that Khrushchev himself came to mis- trust Serov and decided to replace him with someone he now con- siders more reliable. The official announcement said Serov has been transferred to other work. This is an obvious ef- fort to portray the change to Russians as something other than a pure. But whatever new job Serov now will receive it is un- likely to be in any degree as im- portant as his previous one. The aficial Soviet announcement leaves up in the air the question of who will replace Serov as secuw- ity chief. Normalkv Soviet an- nouncements fo changes in high government posts report the new incumbent at the same time as they reveal the dismissal of the previous official. This one did not. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices snould 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. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1958 VOL. LXIX, NO. 69 General Notices TIAA - College Retirement Equities Fund: Participants in the Teachers In- surance and Anuity Association retire- ment program who wish to change the percentage of their contributions to the College Retirement Equities Fund, or to apply for or discontinue participa- tion in the Equities Fund, will be able to make such changes before Dec. 12, 1958. For additional information please contact the Retirement Records Office, 3057 Admin. Bldg., Ext. 619, or come in to sign the necessary papers. February Graduates: You 'may order your announcements and invitations for graduation in the basement of the S.A.B. Tues., through Fri., from 1-5 p.m. International Center Tea: Thurs., Dec. 11, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. at the Inter- national Center. Special tea celebrating Channukh; Israeli students will act as hosts and hostesses. Extended hours: Women students who attended "Oklahoma!" at Lydia Men- delssohn on Thurs., Dec. 4, had extend- ed hours until 11:45 pm. Women of the University Faculty will hold a dinner meeting at the Michigan League, Thurs., Dec. 11, 5:45 p.m. Mrs. Claribel Halstead will present "Christ- mas Readings." The University of Michigan Student Debaters, sponsored by the Dept. of Speech, will hold their last meeting of the fall semester in Rm. 2040, Frieze Bldg.. Thurs., Dec. 11, 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. At these two meetings there will be a review of the debate activi- (Continued on Page 5) At Leadership Problem - ' i ' [ANDEL'S Messiah is always overwhelming, whether one is an expert in musical theory, a novice in cultural areas. Every year, the audience emerges from Hill er the performance in a kind of stunned ence, awed by the sheer magnificence of the ce. It provides a kind of emotional catharsis r the listener, whether this be the first or tieth time he has heard it. Unfortunately the stunned silence came r rather thanduring the performance on inday. Those who attended the afternoon ncert were far from stunned; they were, at ist, certainly not quiet while the work was ing sung. As the overture began. a relative hush settled er the audience, but it was soon interrupted the shuffling of music literature enthusiasts io insisted on following the performance in eir treasured manuscripts. Since each person d a different edition of the score, the turn- g pakes managed to provide a varied accom- Lniment to the performers. The weather also conspired against the aes- ~9s~i ~S,~MT,®.-- ~ ~ rCO I JUST INQUIRING . Kby Michael Kraft Ike, Soapy Related? CAPITAL COMMENTARY- The Dangero DB WILLI WASHINGTON-Of the Senate's (instead of two-thir forthcoming debate on the whole membership) filibuster rule it could be said that down on debate. rarely have so many been so pro- The advanced libe foundly affected by so grave an fundamentally alter th issue understood by so few. an institution. This t The decision will come at a time deny; but it is histo when the/power of persuading the demonstrably the' trut country by bland and happy over- Senate was deliberate] simplifications, by stirring the fear and for nearly two ce of being "out of line," by the so operated, as a fran comforting appeal of simply being unqualified majority r in the majority ,is incomparably tion has been that eve the greatest in our history. may sometimes be angr Everywhere more and more as. they were wrong i gaunt television towers beam out draft strikers, into the endless messages making it all too to pack the Supreme clear who are the good guys and thus to destroy its i who are the bad guys in every- an institution. thing-including the good guys The advanced libera who denounce and the bad guys est men, but in some who support a dusty thing called are impassioned men. the filibuster. This is the term for like the violent abol endless talking in the Senate to long ago who much prevent a vote, reasonably liberal . . * named Lincoln. The AND THE decision will come flamed by their long,f also in a supercharged political In seeking full civil atmosphere that will affect and Negroes. And, of courh possibly even decide the 1960 Pres- influenced, too, by the idential contest. legitimate power of ra For the background: It is not ties at the polls. now possible to shut off a major * * * filibuster-short of simply wearing THE extremists amo it out by letting the filibusterers profoundly illiberal i exhaust themselves - without the dissent on this questi votes of two-thirds of the entire tually, some have blo Senate. The advanced liberals in nostrils. They overlook both parties wish to provide that fairly decent men-eve a bare majority-50 of the 98 'erals-are also for civi Senators-could halt all debate reject the extreme vi after a specified time. far and how soon thec The old guard Southerners will go. The extremists t resist any kind of change. The for constitutional tradi moderate Southerners, some of the tility to civil rights. Western liberal Democrats and a They forget that no good many Republicans are for a other extremists-the moderate alteration. This would the right wing-treate permit two-thirds of those voting to Senlator Joseph R. r _s ds of the to clamp rals would e Senate as ;hey bitterly rically and th. For the Ly designed, nturies has ak check on ule. The no- n majorities rily wrong- n trying to Army and Court and integrity as ls are earn- cases they . Some are itionists ,of troubled a President se are in- frustrations, rights for -se, they are thoroughly, cial minori- ng them are toward any on. Intellec- od in some that many n many lib- il rights but ew on how country can reat respect ition as hos- ot long ago se were on 1d opposition McCarthy's of the, Majority AM S. WHITE attacks on other constitutional traditions as the equivalent of pro-communism. Too, they do not face up to the fact that any filibuster can be broken, rule or no rule, by a sub- stantial and truly determined ma- jority. The operative words are "truly determined." What the civil, rights forces have needed far more than a new rule is more genuinely devoted - as distin- guished from lip service-backers. Perhaps they have those backers now. Perhaps there could be a real effort to break a civil rights: filibuster flat-out and head-on; this correspondent has never yet seen one in 12 years of watching the Senate. * * * THE ADVANCED liberals can fairly argue that the Senate ought to be a place of straight majority rule. But they cannot fairly argue that the Constitution has made it such. They intend to change the meaning of the constitutional structure; surely, they ought to say so. And they cannot deny that there have been times when a simple majority anti-filibuster rule could have imperilled all civil rights. In the 'twenties, for illus- tration, disinterested scholars esti- mated 26 states to be politically in the grip of the Ku Klux Klan. This could have meant not 50 but 52 votes to halt Senate debate- a majority, no less. The ultimate victims of halting Senate.debateby simple majority would be any or every minority and any or every minority interest or issue, given a favorable atmos- phere for the majority. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) )F COURSE it's unthinkable to mention President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gov. -. Mennen Williams in the same paragraph, ut recent events suggest there may be cer- in similarities. Both men owe much of their political such ess to the worshippers of the "personality ult." And both men in their long years as hief executive in the nation and the state ave had to face a legislative branch domin- ted by the opposition. Only in 1952 was Pres- lent Eisenhower able to pull a majority in he House and only in the forthcoming ses- 9on will Democrats have an audible voice in he State Legislature, gaining a 55-55 split in he House and at least compromise control ith the long-entrenched Republicans. Yet with all his political handicaps, the Pres- lent still was able to move his programs, util- ang the force of his own personal assets, pri- iarily popularity. The Eisenhower coattails >oked so politically attractive that for a time, ome Democrats were even claiming that they ere better Eisenhower supporters than his wn party members. But as the clock moves >ward 1960 and the President's mandatory 2nd Amendment retirement date approaches, he coat shrinks. The President retains, nevertheless, consid- rable power and prestige. If it hasn't been felt, ; is because of Eisenhower's reluctance to ex- reise it, not resistance on Capitol Hill. The ailure of leadership to emerge from the White [ouse has not been due to encirclement by ostile elements but to a hesitancy to move utside. OWHERE has this failure been so apparent as in the integration issue. But with the )emocratic liberals backed by resounding ma- orities, the opportunity to apply presidential ersuasion has passed. Initiative will undoubtedly come from the .orthern liberals but the recent action by the emocratic Central Committee on seating a Louisiana delegate virtually challenges the outh to bolt and suggests that there will be ttle, if any gentleness, in the approach to Civil Rights action. Now that they have de- feated the Republicans, northern Democrats are free to combat their own party members and the result, no matter how worthy the mo- tives, will probably be increased bitterness over Civil Rights and a South driven even further away from the rest of the nation's attitudes. True, this might not have been averted if President Eisenhower had exerted leadership, just as his political efforts failed to stem the November Democratic tide. But perhaps the move towards the extremes may be the result of impatience with the President's failure to move even moderately. In Washington, there will be little need to look towards the executive for leadership during the next two years. IN LANSING too, the executive has failed to effectively exercise leadership, However, failure there has been the result of hostile ele- ments. Ironically, the firm Republican control of both Houses has permitted Gov. Williams to advocate and promise to his heart's content, with the full knowledge that his programs didn't have to be sound - the Republicans would vote them down. And for even the pos- sibly sound suggestions, there usually has been a chorus of "No's" which transformed Wil- iams' endorsement into a kiss of death. But while the past for executive leadership was bright in Washington and dim in Lansing, the recent election returns indicate what should be at least a local reversal. With half a house behind him, Gov. Williams should at least get a briefcase into the State Capitol Building. However, early signs suggest that he too is showing a reluctance to exert the leadership when it counts. While the Democrats are pre- paring to exert legislative leadership on a na- tional level, a look at the state level indicates their energies are going in a different direc- tion. At their caucus last week, the Democratic members of the House voted to seek a special session on, of all things, a pay raise. Gov. Wil- liams has apparently given tacit approval, and has indicated he would call a session if there seemed to be enough support for the move. N CASE anyone hasn't heard, the state is staggering under a huge deficit, and state supported institutions are getting mere crumbs from an empty table. A possible solution for the state's financial mess lies in the report from the Citizen's Ad- visory Committee on Taxation which recom- mends elimination or modification of some old taxes and introduction of new ones. However, among the new tax proposals is a personal income tax ,iwavs ann omnoniar sestion ___ To The Edito For Exchange,. To the Editor: I'D LIKE to put in a plug for the reinstatement of the student ex- change with the Free University of Berlin while there still is time. As a preface to my remarks about the PUB, I'd like to say that I think the administration of the exchange should be (and should have been) in more aware and experienced hands. I think the potentialities of the exchange have not been realized to their full ex- tent because of the vagaries of the administrative setup as it has been. SPACE RACE BECOMES RAT RACE: U.S. Should Not Look to Moon for Propaganda By BARTON HUTHWAITE Daily Staff Writer THE SPACE RACE has turned into a rat race with first prize being a gigantic piece of green cheese. Within minutes of the Army's Juno II's launching last Friday night, prominent political figures were optimistically predicting another propaganda victory for Sputnik-minded Americans. But as the words "a significant step in United States' space supremacy" were still ringing in crowded press conference rooms across the nation, a bulletin was coming across the wires saying the moon shot had failed to orbit the sun. Scientists termed the beyond-the-moon probe a "success." Valu- able information concerning the Van Allen layer of intense radiation and the earth's magnetic field could cast new light on man's ability to hazard the perils of space flight. * * * BUT THE JUNO II's propaganda value, not scientific data, in- terested the politician more. Rocket experts are feverishly working tq launch another space probe in the early part of January, prodded on by Sputnik-minded American public. The scientist is becoming disgusted with efforts to shoot a rocket into space as far and as fast as possible. As one rocket expert who has just returned from Cape Canaveral said here recently, ". . . the stress should be placed on scientific data and not what the passions of poli- tics dictate." The newly-created National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion recently requested some $80 million to carry out an accelerated space program for five years. The Defense Department has earmarked $294 million for the space activities of the Advanced Research Projects Agpnv. budget of approximately $100 million, the USIA is supplying peoples around the world, with valuable and needed educational material. Their propaganda line is not the marvelous scientific achieve- ments of the industrial giant they represent but the future of the uncommitted nations. The African native does not understand or com- prehend that the United States has the ability to go to the moon. What he does understand is that his homeland has the needed resources to improve his personal plight -- with the proper education and develop- ment. If the United States wants propaganda it won't find it on the moon' The PUB exchange is a bargain buy for SGC in several ways. Ob- jection has come up that Berlin is politically no longer a center of activity. Everyone has probably overcome this objection in his mind in recent days. The FUB is enthused about the exchange and is willing to sup- port two students there for our supporting one here. This is prob- ably an opportunity offered only on exchanging with the FUB. I'm sure. that anyone who has been an exchange student will support the contention that the student must know the language o fthe country in which he studies to be able to tap, interpret, and understand feelings of the people in religious, political, social, and other spheres at all well. A native of a foreign land who can talk good English is often the best person to go to for expression of pro-American attitude. This is the person to whom an American mon- oglot has to go when he wants to make conversation in a non-Eng- lish land. Simple addition shows that an exchange with a country whose language more commonly taught here results in armuch larger group for the appropriate SGC committee to choose from in selecting its representative (s) for the exchange. A unique advantage of the Ber- lin exchange has been the possi- bility for the exchangee in Berlin tc acquaint and' often befriend himself with people who are still living "in the East" as well as with "those of the West." A stu- dent there has the opportunity to acquaint himself with people of any class, religion, politicalbcon- viction, ox what have you, but of a communistically run land as well as of a democratic land. It could be saidthat in the past years of exchanges, SGC (or SL) has not made as much use of the returning exchangee as it should have felt obligated to do. It was . - .. n r u r ... - ...x u .- T lof Editorial Staff RICHARD TAUB, Editor AEL KRAFT JO torlal Director yHN WEICHER City Editor DAVID TARR Amociate Editor yr .S l;" r ' ... '. _ -. x '