Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN "Where Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Trutb Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. 0 Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. "Throw That Away, Girl-It Will Addle Your Mind" ~* Y I a r & * L COLLEGIUM MUSICUM: Viols, Brass, Flute Star In Concert of Old Music FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, the scene was a bit strange. For here was a more-than-capacity crowd filling the hall on a hot eve- ning to hear music as much as four hundred years old played on extinct instruments. Result: pure enjoyment. Following on the heels of last week's polished Baroque Trio con- cert, last night's Collegium Musicum was much broader in scope, in terms of type of instrument, type of music, and range of musical history presented. Arranged more or less chronologically, the program ranged from a Gabrielli brass ensemble to old Dutch dances played by a viol quartet, and included such highlights as a late seventeenth century '. TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: RUTH EVENHUIS Texas Regents Betray Principles, Promise DESPITE STRONG APPEALS from students around the breakfast.,table or over the water and faculty, the regents of the University cooler. of Texas have succumbed to public "sentiment" and halted further desegregation on the Austin THE CAMPUS wants more integration (as the poll shows) and is probably prepared Southwest Conference athletics and unmixed for it. The Daily Texan reports that "in the dormitories will remain segregated another last year, there seemed to be a lessening of year and continue on this basis "until the tension on the campus, and everywhere a more people of Texas are ready for a change," re- genuine spirit of willing accep'tance." gent chairman Thorton Hardie explained last The regents themselves promised "complete week. integration" in July, 1955 and began admitting The regents disregarded a packet of resolu- Negro undergraduates in September of the tions and petitions by students and faculty next year. members which asked that additional integra- They are already committed to a policy of tion be carried forward. One of the resolutions total integration. They do not have to advocate was the conclusions of an impartial random progress for everyone else. They need only poll of all the students, conclusively demon- act on -what they feel is right.' strating that a majority wanted integration. If, after last week's action, the regents pro- An examination of the expressed motives claim they still adhere to a principle, it is one of the regents' action shows a too-ready con- which claims an action is right if approved cern to give up principles in the face of politi- by a majority of the society. cal expedience, an all too common failing of the governing boards of state universities. THE MAJORITY, obviously, is not always impartial and hardly ever fully aware of THE REGENTS claimed they had to be "con- the relevant facts about any problem, par- cerned" with the wishes of the people of ticularly one as emotionally charged as inte- Texas and their elected representatives. They gration. felt they have "probably gone further than a Would the regents be willing to accept majority of the citizens and the members of majority rule on everything? Would they be the legislature would approve." content to take polls of public opinion and Why mention the legislature in the first vote precisely as the surveys indicate senti- place? Are the regents devoted to improving mentalities? the conditions and climate of education or Of course not. The regents would then be to calming the fluttering pulses of state politi- unnecessary. By historical tradition, legislative cos? Do they fear a devotion to equal oppor- decree and assumption of duty, the men who tunities for all will hurt the university when fill these policy-making roles are more aware appropriations time comes around? of the problems of education, more concerned And why their anxiety about what the people with them, and, one hopes, better equipped to as a mass will feel? The regents may very well deal with them than the mass. fear that they won't be able to continue in If the Texas regents accept the sentiment office past their present terms if they anger of the people as right, they must accept that or fail to appease the majority of the state's majority opinion on all issues. Specifically in citizenry. But the regents have failed, it seems, this one, they must deny their previous pledge to employ a reliable indication of what public of complete integration and declare their past opinion really is. They made no poll, but fell reasoning fallacious. back on personal feelings, what they heard BUT THE REGENTS have not done this. They still say they want integration, only it ought to wait a while. They argue that the University of Texas is ahead of everybody else in nonsegregation - and that others should WITH VISITING PROFESSORS, Bargain catch up some. Days, a booming language laboratory and We can relax and hold firm, especially since an exhaustive study-in-depth of the Civil War moving ahead may initiate public disapproval, enlivening the intellectual climate of Ann they claim. Arbor, only one touch is missing from the pic- This rationalization is in part the philosophy ture of a perfect summer campus -- a place to of Aesop's hare, in part that of a completely study. other-directed panderer. The Saturday library hours are ideal, but # Partial integration has worked at the Uni- Sunday presents a problem because it is im- versity of Texas. The students and faculty possible to take out a book or study in the want more. By continuing to adhere to prin- library at all. ciples of equality and justice, the regents could The libraries (or at least one of them) bring the rest of Texas along with them, in- should be open until midnight during the week stead of waiting for the day (which will never and at least one, preferably the general li- conie) when the rest of Texas is "ready". brary, ought to be open Sunday afternoon. Leaders are always ready. -J. OPPENHEIM -MICHAEL OLINICK LAOS, VIETNAM: STATE: Study Guerrilla Warfare Snow White By E. W KENWORTHY New York Times News Analyst WASHINGTON, July 30-Devel- opments in Laos and South Vietnam have stimulated the study of problems of guerrilla war- fare by officials in the White House and the State and Defense Departments. Communist methods in South Vietnam show an example of the problems faced. A few weeks ago a South Viet- namese Ranger (elite army) unit raided a Communist "reception center" on the Ho Chi Minh Trail along the Laotian border. The center was at a point where the trail splits-one fork leading to Cambodia, the other into South Vietnam. The Rangers found documents showing that, in the four months ending with May, about 2,800 Communist guerrillas-some North Vietnamese Vietminh, some South Vietnamese Viet Cong-had pass- ed through the center. * * * THIS is the classic pattern, es- tablished by Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Communist chief, by which the Communists fight their "wars of national liberation" in under-developed areas. The pat- tern calls for a sanctuary across the border and the ability to make incursions for hit-and-run at- tacks, to melt into the country- side and to retreat across the border for regrouping and replen- ishing supplies. The dimensions of the guerrilla problem for the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam can be shown by a few figures. It takes between ten and twenty soldiers to control the ac- tivities of one guerrilla. The Viet Cong guerrillas are now estimated to number 12,000. They are taking 500-700 lives a month in a systematic campaign of assassination. Many of the vic- tims are village chiefs and health, agricultural and education offi- cers. IN THIS STRUGGLE. the Com- munists hold most of the cards. They are disciplined and operate in a terrain favorable to guerrilla activities. The South Vietnamese officialdom is often weak, ineffi- cient and corrupt. The society is torn loose from its traditional moorings and is aspiring uncer- tainly for a better life. However, there is one card the Communists do not hold-time. In a recent speech, which is getting attention here, Walt W. Rostow, a White House assistant, set the terms of the struggle in these words: "Whatever Communist doctrine of historical inevitability may be, Communists know that their time to seize power in the under-de- veloped areas is limited. They know that, as momentum takes hold in an under-developed area -and the fundamental social problems inherited from the tra- ditional society are solved-their chances to seize power decline. They are the scavengers of the modernization process " * * * EFFECTIVE counter - action against guerrillas requires a well- trained, deterrent force and a vil- lage administration that attends to the welfare of the people. Still, the United States can help. For example, the United States recently sent to South Viet- nam 100 men from its Special Forces Organization on Okinawa to help train Vietnamese troops in guerrilla warfare. Under American urging, the Vietnamese army is now putting into operation a civic action pro- gram - * * * ANOTHER ASPECT of the problem is how to get the inter- national community to recognize subversion by guerrilla action as a form of aggression and to take action to deal with it. Some would amend the United Nations Charter to specify as a form of aggression the sending of guerrillas across international boundaries and the direction of guerralla warfare from outside a sovereign state. Copyright 1961, The New York Times Not Bright MOVIE TITLES can sometimes be deceiving. However, with a title like "Snow White and the Three Stooges" there should be no question. The Three Stooges, recently re-' vived via the flickering Rem- brandt, are clearly comedians of the slap-stick mold, very moldy indeed. But their popularity with the younger generation is clear. If the movie is to take advantage of this, the buffoons should be given ample opportunity to display their talents. Instead, they are cast as three saccharine pitchmen who are men-Friday to the hero and heroine. Their humorous attempts appear out of place and, for the stooges and the film, this is dis- astrous. * * * ~ CAROL HEISS, skating star par excellence, is a very pretty and talented young lady - on the ice. But take her out of her element and, you should pardon the ex- pression, she is like a fish out of the water. Edson Stroll is as convincing in his role as Prince Charming as the script will allow, but his words seem out of a fairy tale and about as real. Patricia Medina as the wicked queen also delivers an adequate performance, as do Guy Rolfe and Michael David. But it is almost unfair to criticize the actors, since they were obviously hampered from the beginning by the direction and moronic lines. On the ice it is a different mat- ter. If the skating scenes could have been lengthened and been less restricted in area and rou- tines, the picture would be much better. As it is, the ice show sequences are the best. With minor variations in the theme, with apologies to the Brothers Grimm, the picture is simply the story of Snow White. Substitute the stooges for drawfs and include a battle over a castle and the techniclor plot is com- plete. -Michael Burns German drinking song ("still your filled!") accompanied by strings and harpsichord, and the "Sonata pan' e forte," by Gabrielli, which balanced trumpets (aided by French horn), against trombones (plus tuba), creating an organ- like effect. One interesting method of pres- entation which should not be over- looked was the performing of the same air in different instrumen- tations. This was done both with 'Heinrich Issac's "Insbruck, ich muss dich lassen" (Innsbruck, I must leave thee) and "Bonnie Sweet Robin." * * * THE CULMINATION of the eve- ning's entertainment came after the intermission, when Nelson Hauenstein of the Baroque Trio, Robert Courte of the Stanley Quartet and John Flower, harpsi- chordist, presented three full-scale chamber works from the later Baroque era. Mr, Hauenstein started (most ably accompanied by Mr. Flower) by playing a Han- del flute sonata on a baroque flute, borrowed from the University's Stearns Collection of Musical In- struments. The Baroque flute, made of wood and lacking the valves found on modern metal flutes, poses special problems to the performer, and it would be an understatement to say that Mr. Hauenstein overcame these admir- ably. * * * THE VIOLA d'amore, which Mr. Courte used in a sonata by Ariosti, poses still more problems, since it has not only one set of seven strings that must be specially tuned to fit the key, but also a sec- ond set of sympathetic strings, be- low the fingerboard, which, as the name suggests, vibrate sympa- thetically with the upper strings to produce a richer sound. These are only some of the highlights of last night's concert. Suffice it to say that more should be heard along the lines of the Collegium Musicum. -Mark Slobin +Peace ful Coexistence 'THE TACTICAL UNILATERAL- ism of contemporary Com- munism clearly and forcefully ur- ges for itself an almost unlimited area of foreign political freedom of action. "Indeed this interpretation of the cold war obviates the need for an ultimate all-out hot war; the means, aggressively designed and skillfully carried out, will inevit- ably devour the end. If the Com- munist bloc is able and willing to pursue its economic, cultural, poli- tical and psychological cold war patterns long enough and shrewd- ly enough, the goals will be at- tained peacefully and the need for war will be dissipated, since no antogonist will have survived to extend into an uncertain future the precarious principle of peace- ful (or even of competitive co- existence). "'TROUVEZ LA FORMULE!' was the battle cry of ninetenth century diplomacy and Commun- ism has successfully search for, found and unhesitatingly exploited the right diplomatic formula for+ the twentieth.+ "In the long run, 'peaceful co- existence' is bound to still even the noisy debate on war or peace; it will render obsolete the former1 by achieving the latter - on So- viet and Eastern European Com-1 munist terms." -Andrew Gyorgy ryearning, for I see glasses being CAMPUS: Flute' Great, Sad PERHAPS the only opportunity ever to see a film in "Agascope" now inheres in "The Flute and the Arrow." Directed by Arne Sucks- dorff, compatriot of Bergman, "The Flute and the Arrow" re- counts "a typical episode" in the life of a small Muria tribe living in the jungles of India. Too many wailing, dancing lines of tribesmen pounding drums and an obvious and superfluous com- mentary in an Englishman's Eng- lish obscure the otherwise con- siderable merits of the film. The story line is almost as simple as possible: a taboo is broken and payment is exacted. S * * * THE EXACTING of the pay- ment is told with not quite poetic spareness, but the directness and self-consistent logic in the se- quence makes a great, sad tale. The many portraits of faces- uncorrupted, unsophisticated, and unpretending - are perhaps the chief merit of the film. The closing sequence, a succes- sion of still-lifes, is the finest spot in the movie: the symbols of a man, his flute, his bow, and his arrow, are dissembled inevitably as he has inevitably died. These merits save "The Flute and the Arrow" from the quagmire of jungles and real-live natives and beating drums and excitement and danger, but fail to propel it anywhere in particular. Because the plot is actually no more than a ,short story, the film is short-in the context of what precedes it, much too short. THE MERITS of the main fea- ture can be enjoyed only after the unbelievable triteness, smoth- ering folksiness, and nauseating good clean sadistic fun of a Walt Disney "Real Life Adventure" about' a lobotomized farmer and his accomplices who persecute raccoons with a pack of mangy, stupid escapees from the dog pound. Particularly objectionable is the background score, which sounds like every other background score in the Walt Disney Real Life Ad- venture series. Again Walt Disney abuses the magnificent technical facilities in sight and sound available to him to produce a cinema sin. -Joel Cohen Consensus "IT APPEARS TO ME that the liberal philosophy faces some- thing of a dilemma in the mod, ern democratic state for this rea- son. Liberalism is committed to individualism . . . This commit- ment is probably the deepest mo- tive that leads liberals and their conservative allies in this consen- sus to prefer democracy as a form of government and to set the con- sensus requisite for democracy at a low level. "The tendency of the liberal mind is to push the requirement of consensus as far as possible downwards to the level of action. For a state which demands of its members only that they come to some workable agreement on what they want the state to do for them has no claim to invade the sanctuary of the individual mind." -Franis Canavan J INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Germ of Hope in Manifesto By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst BY CONCENTRATING on attempts to collate the new Russian Communist Manifesto with Soviet cold war tactics and to assess the Soviet ability to carry out its promised steps toward real Communism, the West runs the risk of overlooking a signpost of far greater importance to the future. The totalitarian government of the Soviet Union, by presenting this program which it has been long in the process of making, ad- mits to the need for a new appeal to the in- terests of the great non-communist majority of the Soviet peoples. B PROMISING to close the gap in living standards between the ruling Communist elite and, the peasants and workers of the na- tion it recognizes a value which has been a strong motivating factor in the development of Western society. And by recognizing this value the Soviet government at least pays lip service-and it is important that it feels the need to do so even if it is only lip service-to the rights of indi- viduals to a better life even within a mono- lithic state. And there is at least a hint of, or a hope of a hint, that some of the objectives of the totali- tarian state, such a material expansionism be- yond its own borders which has been a tra- ditional Russian and not merely Soviet policy, may quietly if not openly be put on the back burner for a while in favor of more immediate attention to development at home. IF SUCH A PHILOSOPHY is dawning in the Soviet Union, if it is more than lip service to serve some current political need, then there is a step forward toward a philosophy which, in a future you and I are not likely to witness, would mean a lessening of the gap between tive, it is necessar'y to realize that its content and the fact that it is published at this time are not calculated parts of current Soviet tac- tics toward Berlin and other trouble points in the cold war. Khrushchev has been pointing toward something like this ever since he suc- ceeded Stalin, and his piecemeal efforts to step toward greater consumer production and away from the police state need not be re- counted here. Nor his effort to get away from the Stalin-Leninist-Mao theories that world revolution can come only through war The fact is that the planning which produced the new step toward real Communism began long ago, and the coming manifesto was announced months ago. NONE OF THIS is intended to say that the ultimate dangers to the world of the Com- munist program have been eliminated, that the West can safely indulge in any relaxation at this point, or change its posture for military deterrent and prosecution of economic war. Indeed, such a relaxation would only be an invitation to the Soviets to again revise their system of priorities and return to unrelenting and highly dangerous pressures against the outside world. It does not even mean that there will be any immediate outward relaxa- tion in tactics toward the world. But there is enough to revive the belief that change in Soviet methods and objectives is possible, over a very long period, and that the old idea of containment while waiting for better days may yet receive some vindication. THE GREAT DANGER of Communism has been that, as practiced in the so-called Communist states and promoted by so-called, international Communism, it has denied the worth of man and subordinated it to the needs of the state after a fashion which the original I -Michael Burns -Andrew Gyorgy -Francis Canavan FEIFFER POOIR11'fMCA135 IT; tvULL,&V, 06 MC HUN1 FROCM A PURITAO-- TM'Pl5 DAD - IC4U TRAPlT!OP qo As 10 'M t Writ I_ M.IfW u'rt jr. M6~- L K VK T1~ AGM WITH LOO 03PRAC6t P gRYTfIN&-:1400 -? 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