e11 Aidjigan ;&tiI9 Seventy-First Year S- EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN "Where Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * 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. THURSDAY, JULY20, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: RUTH EVENHUIS Exclusion of Students From Committee Unwarranted SUMMER PLAYBILL: 7Bedbug' Exhibits Dull Bite IT IS INDEED unfortunate that "The Bedbug" bites only inter- mittently. Third presentation of the Sum- mer Playbill, the play by Vladimir Mayakovsky, described as a "biting satire," isn't worth the pun. Perhaps the fault lies in the translation-either from Russian to English, or more generally, from the Russian society to ours. But whatever the cause, the play's humorous moments - when it really makes a connection with the audience-are few and far between. Genesis of the action, in Act I, is the proposed marriage between Ivan Prisypkin, "hero of the revo- lution," and Elzevir Davidovna Renaissance, member of the aris- tocracy, whose family wants a A COMMITTEE to study the structure of the Office of Student. Affairs and consult with Vice-President James A. Lewis on its re-organi- zation will be officially appointed at the end of the month.' From all indications, it will be composed of a small number of faculty members interest- ed and experienced in the many areas that are the concern of Lewis' office-judiciary sys- tems, academic and psychological counseling, residence halls systems. Committee members will have the opportunity to consult experts on these matters from outside the University if they Wish to. But the committee, as presently planned, will include neither faculty members from the Sen- ate committee on student relations (whose re- port initiated administrative discussion of re- organization) nor students. THE REASONS Lewis advances for this ar- rangement are plausible. Members of the Senate committee will not be included because this committee is his institutionally established advisory group and he will continue to be in close contact with them. In addition, commit- ment to the substance of their recent report on the structure and personnel of the Office of Student Affairs and the philosophy of the Uni- versity-student relationship in general could hinder them in full and sincere participation in the work of the flew study committee. No such definite explanation is offered for the exclusion of students, but Lewis stresses that there will be "careful discussion" with students at "certain points" in the committee's deliberations and that no final steps will be taken without consulting them. Such an arrangement is superficially, at least, efficient. It attempts to obtain the great- est possible communication under circum- stances designed to raise the least possible fuss. But it fails to realize that full, free com- munication and little fuss are mutually exclu- sive goals. THE PROPOSED re-structuring of the Office of Student Affairs is far more than a simple shuffling of administrative functions. It is to I. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Big Three Chc By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst THE UNITED STATES, Britain and France are making a strong effort to turn the Soviet willingness to take risks with peace into a boomerang in world public opinion. Their three notes to Moscow represent not only a deterrent, through their pointed resist- ance to Soviet recklessness in creating a dan- gerous crisis over Berlin unnecessarily, but also initiate, through their endorsement of self-de- termination, a positive counterattack with wide appeal. - Here is a matter of principle on which scores of nations are in general agreement, and in which many of them have direct interests. And here is a matter which vitally affects not only the Berlin matter, but also the founda- tions of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. A Matter which involves the active discontent of millions of people under Soviet rule. THE ALLIES could hardly have struck at a point more embarrassing to Soviet interests, for the Communists have repeatedly sought to differentiate between the self-determination they advocate for former colonial countries and their weak case for the claim that the sub- servient positions of the new colonial countries actually represents self-determination. Here the Soviet Union will be on dangerous ground, attempting to uphold degrees of self,-determi- nation, and to explain why, if the situation in central Europe really represents self-determi- nation, they do not go ahead and confirm it with free elections. This point in the Allied note represents a direct bid to the neutral nations to take up the cudgels for an all-German settlement in the United Nations, a battle for which they are more eminently fitted than are the contending powers. It also, in some respects, presents a test of the willingness and ability of these nations to make their neutralism more than just a negative standoffishness, and to offset the distinct impression given by some of them that they actually like the cold war because of what they can get out of the contending par- ties. THERE HAS BEEN great criticism of Allied slowness in replying to the Khrushchev gambit made at the meeting with President Editorial Staff MICHAEL BURNS ......................... Co-Editor SUSAN FARRELL.......... ...........Co-Editor be a thorough-going overhaul of the adminis- trative unit that has the greatest direct impact on University students. Student concern with the Office of Student Affairs is long-standing. Student action was, in fact, the original impetus to the Senate committee's study of the organization and poli- cies of the Office of Student Affairs, particu- larly in the Dean of Women's Office. (The faculty study was undertaken after re- ceiving a documented protest about the orien- tation and practices of Dean of Women Deb- orah Bacon from a student group including the 1960-61 Daily senior editorial staff and mem- bers of the Student Government Council's Hu- man Relations Board. The students also urged attention to problems in the Office of Student Affairs. The faculty report, submitted to Lewis after three months of discussion, urged "sweep- ing structural changes" in his office. Action to establish the committee to consult with Lewis was taken in the wake of this faculty report.) SO THE EXCLUSION of students from the full deliberative process preceding the com- mittees's recommendations to the vice- presi- dent is difficult to understand. Meeting with students at "certain points" in the discussion, as Lewis promises, will not serve the purpose-at least not the purpose one hopes the committee will have. And that is the construction of a student affairs office that in philosophy and operation actively encourages student freedom of action, association, thought and development, an office that embodies the professed ideals of the University whether or not doing so created a fuss. Such a result cannot be achieved if the methods to the end contradict it-as the com- mittee presently envisioned by Lewis does. For a small faculty committee to make rec- ommendations on the office of student affairs that includes neither students nor the faculty people who have demonstrated their commit- ment to the sort of office students have long demanded (though it may be quiet and effi- cient) is a patent. contradiction in terms. -SUSAN FARRELL Co-Editor Alenge Russia John F. Kennedy in Vienna weeks ago. There has been fear that the Communists would in- terpret the delay as evidence of an inability of the Allies to agree. Impatience has been reported even among some of the prime movers such as President Kennedy himself. The whole process of West- ern decision by committee-first in the White House and then between the White House and State Department, then between the Big Three, and then between all the nations in NATO, has come under question. Trying to mobilize such a force against the central and free-wheeling directing powers of Communism has had some aspects of the troubles faced by formal armies in coming to grips with guerrillas. On the other hand, the very deliberation with which the Allied reply has been formu- lated, the broad attention given to principles over and above the mere reiteration of deter- mined firmness with regard to Allied rights in Berlin, displays a careful regard for peace which will not be lost in world consideration of Soviet recklessness. Losers? THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY is drawing up another list; this is not news. Intelligent citizens throughout the country are protesting this action; this, too, is not news. However, with this latest list, things may be looking up for those who are to the left of Mayor Orville Hubbard and Senator Barry Goldwater; and this most definitely is news. Examine the situation: the Birchers are com- posing a list of "Communist Sympathizers ('Commsymps'), Socialists and (just plain) Lib- erals." Note the "and" in the quoted phrase and note the gain for the Socialists and (just plain) Liberals. They are now only dangerous enough - or rather only "dangerously left" enough-to be listed, yet lucky enough to be given a separate (but, presumably, equal) cate- gory apart from the Communist Sympathizers. Quite a gain. Yet even in this sunshine a cloud shows through: the Socialists and (just plain) Lib- erals, by virtue of their separation from the Communist Sympathizers, have lost Earl War- ren, Adlai Stevenson and Dwight D. Eisen- hower. These days a guy just can't win. --R. SEASONWEIN Propriety THE PENTAGON issued a code of conduct for its employees earlier this week, expand- Party membership card-and the way to get it, as they see it, is through marriage to one who al- ready has a card. The act pro- gresses from prenuptial prepara- tions, through Ivan's departure from the youth hostel where he has been living, to the marriage itself. ; A Russian band provides back- ground music before the curtain and during the wedding. They were quite good. THE FIRST ACT ends with a fire, in which the building burns down; in the process of trying to control it, the firemen flood the basement (scene of the wedding), and in the cold Soviet winter, the water turns to ice, freezing the one surviving body-Ivan. This now provides the spring- board for action in the second act, set in Moscow, 1978. The play- wright attempts to depict the probably sterile society of that era, but as in the first act, the humor is only sporadic. The frozen hero is discovered in some excavation, he is brought to life in a "defrigeration plant," and, along with his pet budbug- an object unknown in that ad- vanced age-becomes the object of much curiosity in the society. All I will say about the ending is that it doesn't quite fit with all that went before, but, I suppose, is the only way Mayakovsky felt he could make his point. * * * THE SETTINGS conveyed the different moods of the two acts, as did the costuming; the acting was generally competent, but it's hard to say more than that when the play itself was generally so dis- appointing. Carlton Berry carried through both acts as Ivan, and most of the other actors doubled and even tripled on roles. One actor is aw- fully hard to overlook: David Schwartz, by virtue of being both naturally loud and gifted, tends to dominate whatever scene he is in. It's a pleasure, though, to find something outstanding in this production. -Selma Sawaya STANLEY QUARTET: Finesse Lacked In Haydn Works EVIDENTLY REMEMBERING that Papa Haydn is the Grandpapa of the string quartet, the Stanley Quartet started off its second summer concert as it had its first-with a Haydn quartet, this time from Opus 74. And again, Haydn seemed to be the quartet's forte. From the opening trills to the rather stormy last movement, the group managed to convey the eighteenth-century sounds quite adequately. Special mention should be made here, as it should have been in the review of the Quartet's first concert, of 'cellist Jerome Jelinek, a newcomer to the Stanley Quartet, replacing Oliver Edel. Mr. Jelinek has certainly proved himself an able addition and welcome one. Following the Haydn work came a quartet by Pierre Moulaert, a composer who seemed bent on not the four players. Sounding rather like a cross between late Romantic and Impressionist music, and carrying a haunting reference to the Debussy quartet, the work was well played yet remained, at least to one listener, unconvincing. BUT LET US TURN to the final number on the program, the work with the most "meat" from every point of view. This is the Beetho- ven B-flat Major Quartet, the. thirteenth of his sixteen works in this form, numbered Op. 130. To say that the Late Beethoven Quar- tets are complex, often profound, and always demanding both from a technical and an interpretive standpoint is almost to state a musical truism. These five works (which include the Grosse Fuge, labelled Op. 133) certainly stand unique not only in the works of Beethoven but in the entire repertoire of chamber mu- sic. Where else can one find movements such as the Alla danza tedesca or the Presto (two min- utes long) of last night's quartet, the B-flat Major? Surely these are works which deserve the utmost attention on the part of any chamber music players, amateur, faculty or pro- fessional. Last night the Stanley Quartet showed that it had given the Op. 130 some attention-and yet, something was missing. Perhaps it is a certain tactless- ness in phrasing that was respon- sible; or perhaps the tendency of Mr. Ross to dominate the sound of the quartet (at times one almost felt like shouting "interplay, in- terplay, gentlemen!") is the cause; or maybe it was the Quartet's failure to notice several graceful ways of accomplishing transitions at key points. Most likely it is a combination of these and other factors that separated adequate performance from fine perform- ance. Of course, this is not to say that the Stanley Quartet lacks all pol- ish: to do so would be as absurd as to say that the group is per- fect. It is clear, however, that a number of individual factors in the performance adds up to what might be called, for want of a better word, finesse, a quality which is needed for a more bal- anced and accomplished perform- ance. -Mark Slobin Democracy 'THE DEMOCRATIC way of life is an unusual phenomenon ... not necessarily translatable, at this particular time (of history) into the historical or economic conditions of other peoples . . . It should not be handed out to those who do not want it, or to the un- deserving." -Robert Hill Former U.S. Ambassador giving a measure's rest to any of INTEGRATION: Georgian Showdown By SIDNEY HURLBURT ATLANTA - (P)--Georgia, in its zeal to minimize the effects of public school integration, has saddled itself with a scheme which could wreck the state's public school system. Two members of the state board of education said as much in de- manding repeal of a 1961 act which provides for grants to pupils who attend.non-sectarian private schools. School superintendents through- out the state are receiving In- quiries from parents seeking the government aid. But no 'state funds have been allocated for. the grants and there is no Indication when they will be. The superintendents' files are slowly filling with applications, the state board of education is waiting for funds, and Gov. Ernest Vandiver is waiting to see if funds will be available. "This is his legislation," an of- ficial of the board of education said. "We're waiting for a direc- tive." The act was passed as part of Vandiver's four-point substitute for Georgia's massive resistance laws. THE APPARENT INTENT of the framers of the act was to provide: 1) A means for a district which closed its schools to subsidize pri- vate education. 2) A system by which a stu- dent who did not want to attend an integrated school could trans- fer to a private school and still receive public funds. But Francis Shurling of the board of education says the law won't do what it was designed to do "unless it was designed to wreck the public school system in the state." He was joined in his at- tack on the tuition grant plan by board member David Rice. Local superintendents and state staff members say there's no ques- tion about the law's sweeping terms. "Any parent in Georgia who decides he wants his child to go to private school can ask for aid and probably get It," one state official said. The wording of the act is un- equivocal: "Every school child in this state ... in lieu of attending the public schools, shall be en- titled to receive . . . a grant of state and local funds to be ex- pended for the purpose of at- tending a nonsectarian private school." I -Daily-Larry Jacobs CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: Integrated Judiciary Crucial (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the third of a six-part analysis of the issues likely to be consid- ered at the forthcoming constitu- tional convention. Primary election for delegates to the convention is next Tuesday.) By JUDITH OPPENHEIM Daily Staff Writer R EORGANIZATION of the state's system of courts will be one of the main issues dealt with when the constitutional conven- tion convenes in the fall. The judicial part of the Michi- gan constitution, while allowing for some flexibility and adaptabil- ity, is encumberedhwith a great many details as to how the courts will operate. Many people consid- er the structure too exacting and complicated in some respects and too loosely worded and vague in others. The main deficiency of the whole Michigan judicial picture is the lack of a unified system of courts throughout the state. The state Supreme Court super- vises the lower courts and estab- lishes rules of procedure which they must adhere to. The consti- tution, however, specifically men- tions probate, circuit and justice of the peace courts and establishes their jurisdiction to a limited ex- tent. The constitution also provides for "such other courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction inferior to the Supreme Court as the Legisla- ture may establish by general law, by a, two-thirds vote of the mem- bers elected to each house." The state lacks an intermediate court of appeals, however, which means that the Supreme Court must devote a large portion of its time to appellate work, burdening the justices with excessive work and limiting the attention they can expend on any one case. Daniel S. McHargue and Elea- nor T. Lilienthal point out in "The Voter and the Michigan Constitution" that it is entirely within the power of the state Leg- islature to create an appellate court. However, they add, this would result in still one more court being added "piece-meal" fashion to the already unwieldly superstructure of the judicial sys- tem. They suggest that it might be far wiser to revise the entire judi- cial article and establish a uni- fied court system rather than en- larging a segmented structure of constitutionally and legislatively established courts. * * * THE MAIN PROBLEM with the circuit courts is their jurisdiction. Technically they have jurisdiction over all the cases for which the special lower courts are not spe- cifically responsible. The circuit courts also hear oc- The justice of the peace courts deal mainly with civil and crim- inal cases but have very limited authority. Because of problems of untrained justices of the peace, payment by fees collected and questionable legal practices, many students of the constitution are urging the abolition of the justice of the peace courts. The main task of the convention delegates, then will be revising the judicial structure of the state so that there is a sufficient variety and number of courts to cover varying types of cases and so that their duties do not overlap and duplicate onedanother. * * * THE TWO MAIN ISSUES re- garding the judges themselves are method of selection and retire- ment. At the present time judges are chosen by popular election. However, as with the question of popular election of administrative officials there seems to be some ground for revising the system. McHargue and Lilienthal point out that newcomers to politics and political opportunists may edge out a judge who has made political enemies by his decisions. It is also argued that, as with such officials as the superintend- ent of public instruction, the voter is seldom in a position to be fully informed on the ability of the judicial candidates. The problem of the retirement of judges requires consideration also. Many judges are now forced to re- tire at an age when, as the Chief Justice of New Jersey pointed out, they are still alert and vigorous. The chief reason given for com- pulsory retirement is that the judge may tend to develop a rigid pattern of judicial thought, but this is by no means true in all cases and hence the state loses many good judges merely because of a compulsory retirement age. This question, along with that of the structure and jurisdiction of the various courts will have to be thoroughly discussed by con- con delegates as it is certain to be one of the most important issues of the convention. New Spirit MANY THINGS I have seen have strengthened my convic- tion of the merits of socialism as a social system and made me real- ize keenly once again the signifi- cance of our Revolution for the progress of ordinary people. "Other things, however, have forced me to the conclusion that there are a number of very fun- damental irregularities in the home and foreign policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under your leadership which I cannot bring myself to accept. "I am profoundly convinced, Ni- kita Sergeyevich, that o n 1 y through the greatest tolerance to- wards all heterodox individuals, including even those w h o s e thought is hostile, is the only means of salvation for humanity from mass fratricide and degen- eration-both physical and moral --and that no alternative exists in our age...." (Letter to Nikita S. Khrush- chev from Oleg Lenchevsky, a Russian engineer who defect- ed in April and was granted asylum in England. Printed in I. F. Stone's Weekly.) 4 . I 1 4 4t I BRAINWASHING: Castro Ships Youths Behind Iron Curtain By VICTOR RIESEL FIDEL CASTRO, with the iciness of those dedicated to refining man's inhumanity to man, is forcing workers and peasant families in Cuba to surrender their children to the Soviets for long brainwashing so- journs inside the Communist bloc. Thousands of youngsters, some 11 and 12 years of age, some a few years older, already have been sent over. They have been flown into Prague and shipped by freighter to Odessa. At the moment a w# i thousand are awaiting departure. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN W.. G. . .1. ..:":..J:.:.... .............:":4"2. :rs.:: :". :.i:t .. The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Building, before 2 p.m., two days preceding publication. THURSDAY, JULY 20 General Notices Students, College of Engineering: The final day for DROPPING COURSES WITHOUT RECORD will be Fri., July 21. A course may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier after, conference with the instructor. Events Thursday Baratin, the informal conversation group of the French Club, will meet Thurs., July 20, at 2 p.m. in the Ro- include: "Siam" and "I Live in Ha- waii." Summer Session Lecture Series: "The Confederate States of America" by Dwight L. Dumond, Prof. of History on Thurs., July 20 at 4:15 p.m. in Aud. A. Linguistic Forum Lecture: Prof. Paul Friedrich, University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Russian Kinship and Semantic Anaylsis" on Thurs., July 20 at 7:30 p.m. In the Rackham Amphi- theatre. Doctoral Examination for Thomas Warwick Butler, Jr., Electrical Engi- neering; thesis: "Precise Frequency Synthesis Using Nonprecise Tuning Components," Thurs., July 20, 2076 E. Engineering Bldg., at 3 p.m. Chairman, J. A. Boyd. Events Friday Educational Film Preview: "Face of the High Arctic" and "Seven Cities of Antarctica" will be shown on Fri., July The Detroit Public Schools will have a representative at the Bureau of Ap- pointments on July 25 to interview teachers in all fields for September, 1961. For appointments and additional information contact The Bureau of Ap- pointments, Education Div., 3200 SAB, NO 3-1511, Ext. 3547. Placement Interviews, Bureau of Ap- pointments-Seniors and graduate stu- dents please call Ext. 3544 for interview appointment with the following: Wed., July 26-Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., Hartford, Conn.-Openings for Trainees in Underwriting Dept. Interested in men, ages 22-28, with degrees in any field and who have taken part in extra-curricular activities. Must be willing to accept transfers to any one of various branch offices lo- cated in principle cities throughout U.S. PERSONNEL REQUESTS: U.S. Army Signal School, Educational Research Div., Fort Monmouth, N.J.- Several openings for Research Psychol- naLctG in field 'of Personnel Mesure-, There will be thousands more. Our government, and some civilians in the day-by-day battle against Castro, have concrete evidences of this shredding of families. We know the routes. We don't know how long the children will be kept behind the Curtain. We do know that when the kids re- turn, they will know Russian. They will be steeped in Marxism. They will be, many of them, disciplined Latin Komsomolites. Their parents will not really ever know them again. They will not want to know their parents- if similar forced migration froin European lands in the past is pre- lude. Just recently our State Depart- ment officials learned that "1,000 young farm boys" are being pre- pared for shipment "in exchange for 300 Soviet agricultural techni- cians." These youngsters average 11 to 12 years of age. From other sources it was learn- ed how the children are being II