"And Stop Pinching Me" STANLEY QUARTET: 0 01jr Atrgaf t3ally Seventieth Year k ~EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Wil Prevail STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. 0 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. ESDAY, JULY 13, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP SHERMAN Above Average Concern Needed for Average Child r" e p -,. t V ,F gr -EFWL PE MAO y S e .. r Midsummer Mozart Sleepy Schubert THE STANLEY QUARTET gave the second of its summer programs last night in a concert that included works by Mozart, Piston, and Schubert. In Mozart's Quartet K. 499 (as in all of the Stanley Quartet's Mozart) we could wish that there were a more brilliant precision,.an outlook that is more aristocratic and less romantic. Except in the Adagio, there was almost too much richness, and often. it tended to obscure the structure of the work. Again this evening Stuart Canin gave the group a musical. and masterful lead. Walter Piston's' Quartet No. 2 filled the contemporary section of the program nicely. The opening movement has a beautifully studied UAW OFFICIAL Brenden Sexton touched on an interesting point yesterday in his dis- cussion of public education in the United States. Programs designed to stimulate and other- wise aid the "gifted" child, he suggested, should not be emphasized to the exclusion of constantly improved programs to give -the 'average" child the best possible education. Today's education experts and social work- ers continually produce pages upon pages of tudies of ways to deal with the problems of abnormal students. Not only the geniuses, but he "slow-learners," and other "problem" Texan LungeS, Bites Dust SEN. LYNDON JOHNSON invited the Massa- chusetts delegation and its head, Sen. John Kennedy, to a meeting of the Texas group yesterday. Johnson said that both he and Kennedy would present their views on key subjects in order to clarify their respective position. It was a good chance for the senators to engage in a little political in-fighting. Undoubtedly, Johnson got in some sharper blows, hitting at Kennedy's absence from the Senate while the Texan was minding the store, and he attacked the Easterner's stand on farm issues. Johnson also said Catholic states had an obligation to support Protestant candidates as well as vice-versa. But Kennedy's remarks were of a more impromptu nature and displayed a certain aspect of intelligence which left a better impression than Johnson's crudely-read speech which received only moderate audience re- action. This last-ditch effort just did not work and another Texan seemingly dies with his boots children, are the objects of insatiable clinical curiosity. The ordinary, quiet, unassuming boys or girls-the ones who do the assignments most of the time and usually pass, never have pub- lic tantrums or blow up the schoolhouse, or even enter Harvard at the age of 12-are ap- parently so uninteresting that the curiosity- seekers pass them by, implying that, obviously, such students can be left alone to become untroublesome, if mediocre, citizens. But do not these children need and deserve just as much attention as the others? More than that, does not the country, both collec- tively and as individuals, require a constantly better informed and equipped citizenry if it is to survive the internal and international ten- sions confronting it day after day? IT IS VERY EASY to agree that, yes, every child should be given the best possible edu- cation, as well as the best homes, the best employment conditions, and so on. But if we are really concerned with raising the general level of skill, intelligence and comfort in the United States, a real dilemma must be solved. How do we break the pattern, the down- spiral of educational neglect Sexton referred to? How do we assure the child a background from the very beginning-for that is what is needed-that gives him the basic speech and thought patterns necessary for the mainten- ance of sound learning habits in the class- room? A child whose parents cannot speak or write English efficiently, or whose home life centers around TV westerns and the funny papers, has at least three strikes against him by the time he enters the first grade, and it is prob- ably almost impossible for the teacher to alter his interest and ability level conspicuously. Admittedly it is easier and more interesting to work with a genius or a child whose prob- lems stem from some fascinating abnormality, but the future of the country and the race depends, for the most part, not on them but on the values and skills possessed by the, "common man." --ANDREW HAWLEY series of tensions that rise and textural richness and a superb fall with an almost aquatic fluid- ity. The work itself is classically modern, that is to say it no longer sounds even slightly shocking, and the pioneets of the first half of the century already begin to take their place as "historical" styles. Nevertheless, the work retains an excitement that time has done nothing to alter, and its classicism proves itself a matter of purely musical invention and not merely the reflection of a transient style. * * * THE SCHUBERT QUARTET No. 125 lacked that very romantic richness that the Mozart had. The quartet is not one of Schubert's most inspired works, and the ren- dition given it did little to help. It was treated languidly, almost tiredly, and the sense of dramatic conciseness was muffled and lack- lustre. The Scherzo always seems to be too short for the rest of the work and when it is over we are left up in the air, slightly off bal- ance. The adagio had a lovely tonal quality, per se, but it suffered from the general drowsy approach that marked the whole. Schubert, it seems, wilted as much as the audience in a warm Pompeian red Rackham. The melodic line of the allegro was handled with great discression by Mr. Canin.It, had warm lyric- ism, beautiful phrazing. Indeed the whole evening had a beautiful, if slightly dolce far niente, mid-summer sound. --Justin Fitzwilliam Mozart Quartet in D major, K. 499 Allegretto Menuetto (allegretto) Adagio Allegro Walter Piston Quartet No. 2 Lento; allegro Adagio molto e con espressione Allegro giusto Schubert Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 125, No. 1 Allegro moderato Scherzo (prestissimo) Adagio Allegro 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 should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. two days preced- ing publication. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1960 VOL. LXX, NO. 165 General Notices Students, College of Engineering: The final day for Dropping Courses With- out Record will be Fri., July 15. A course may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier after con- ference with the instructor. University of Michigan Graduate Screening Examinations in French and German: All graduate students desir- ing to fulfill their foreign language re- quirement by passing the written ex- amination given by Prof. Lewis (for- merly given by Prof. Hootkins) must firstpass an objective screening exam- ination. The last administration df the objective screening examination for the summer session will be on Fri., July 15 from 3 to 5 p.m. in Aud. D, Angell Hall. The names of the students who have passed will be posted on the Bulletin Board outside the office of Prof. Lewis, the Examiner in Foreign Languages, Rm. 3028 Rackham Bldg. by noon Tues., July 19. Please note: There will be no written examinations given between August 1 and the start of the fall semester, September 19. Students de- siring to fulfill the Graduate School's requirement in French and German are alerted to an alternate path. A grade of B or better in French 12 and Ger- man 12 will satisfy the foreign language requirement. A grade of B or better in French 11 and German 11 is the equiva- lent of having passed the objective screening examination. Mathematics-Education: There will be a showing of several, mathematical movies designed for teachers and for collegiate instruction, Thurs., July 14, at 7:00 p.m., in room 2003 Angell Hall, Academic Notices The Summer Biological Symposium will include both morning and evening sessions on Wed., July 13. At 9 a.m., Lloyd M. Kozloff, Department of Bio- chemistry, University of Chicago, will speak on "Chemical Reactions During Bacteriophage Invasion." E b e r h a r d Wecker, The Wistar Institute of Anat- omy and Biology, Philadelphia, will dis- (Continued on Page 3) FROM THE CONVENTION: Wiliams' Political Future -BURNS TODAY AND TOMORROW Kennedy: Qualifications .:: By WALTER LIPPhMANN SINCE THE West Virginia primary there has been only one man who might conceivably have stopped Kennedy. That man was Adlai Stevenson who towers aboveall other available Democrats in his knowledge of the world, in his practical experience of diplomacy, and in his personal prestige in every continent. John- son, for all his shrewdness and skill as a legisla- tive manager is not a genuine alternative to Kennedy. For Johnson knows little of the outer world. When Stevenson refused to become an active candidate and to participate in a combination to stop Kennedy, the opposition had no genuine candidate. The only way that Kennedy can now be stopped would be by some kind of maneuver in which the prospects of the party in November were sacrificed in order to engineer the defeat of Kennedy and to retain the control of the party in the hands of the Old Guard, among them Mr. Ttuman. STEVENSON'S DECISION, which cleared the way for Kennedy, was determined by his feelings and by his judgment. Stevenson is a great gentleman for whom, having twice been nominated, it would have been unseemly to scramble for a third nomination. It was clear too that while the professional politicians might have been compelled to ac- cept him again, they would have done so un- willingly and in a defeatist spirit. At the same time, there was Kennedy with his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism. As Kennedy has matured, he has outgrown many of the mistakes and vacillations of his youth, and today his position in domestic and foreign affairs is substantially the same as Stevenson's. As Kennedy has developed his ideas in his cam- paigning he has proved himself to be an un- usually effective organizer and a natural leader of men. There is little doubt today' that more than any other available candidate, he can rally the large diverse masses of the Democratic party, and that if it comes down to infighting, Nixon will know he has been in a fight. IT IS PLAIN to all observers, to Gallup and Lubbell and others, that the deepest concern of the American people is with foreign affairs. They are looking for leadership knowing, be- cause they feel it in their bones, that things are going very wrong, that American influence 'or4 A . q. . is declining in Asia, in Africa, and in Latin America while the Soviet influence is rising. The people could find that leadership ine the Republican party if it had the sense to nominate Gov. Rockefeller. They can now find it in the Democratic party under Kennedy and the men, such as Stevenson, Bowles, Humphrey, and Symington, who will be near him. THESE PARTY LEADERS know that in order to stand up to Khrushchev a lot more is needed than to sass him back. There must be power and influence to stand up to Khrush- chev. The power cannot be generated by run- ning the economy in low gear and pretending to believe that the country cannot afford to arm itself fully or to educate its children pro- perly or to satisfy its public needs. The influ- ence cannot be generated unless this country, by the vigor and imagination of its own de- velopment, becomes again, as it was under Wil- son and Roosevelt and indeed in the nine- teenth century generally, a model of what democracy can do. There are some among us who seem to think that the way to deal with Khrushchev is to be as rude as he is, and to rattle the rocket as he does. Any fool can be rude to Khrushchev, and Washington is full of ghost writers who can write rude statements. But we are not suffering from a lack of rudeness in our policy. What we are suffering from is a failure to attract enough friends among the masses of the people of Asia and Africa and of Latin America. THIS IS ONLY TOO evident in the fracas with Castro. The controlling fact is that under the treaty signed with our Latin American neighbors, signed at their insistence, we have renounced altogether the right to intervene in Cuba or to take coercive measures. If Castro is a menace to the peace of the hemisphere, meas- ures can b~e taken against him only In collabora- tion with the Organization of American States. But, apparently, there are few Latin Ameri- can states in which the people are with us and against Castro, and there are few govern- ments which would not fear our return to the policy of intervention more than they fear the tirades and the intrigues of Castro. We are stymied because to an unusual degree we are not liked and we are not tr4sted. IT WAS NOT ALWAYS like that. It was not like that under Roosevelt who, though he did mighty little in a material sense for Latin America, was a popular idol. It would not, I think, be like that if Stevenson were the Secre- tary of State. For in Latin America, as his .-r-nf +11..iamneefrai d.. hi nra -ic a By THOMAS HAYDEN Editor LOS ANGELES-While the ad- oration here falls chiefly on Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, or other front-runners, Michi- gan's main political hopeful stands quietly in the shadows of the Bilt- more. This was to be the big conven- tion in G. Mennen Williams' po- litical career. Eight years ago he was tagged as one of the bright young leaders of the party, along with Sen. Kennedy. Four years ago the Michigan governor was still a Democratic power, but rising more slowly while Kennedy was start- ing his ambitious vault to the Presidency at the Chicago conven- tion- Today, of course, Kennedy Is just a few million dollars short of his goal. But Williams' hopes have been checked, controversy flares at the mention of his name, and his political future is uncer- tain. DEMOCRATS FALL INTO two broad categories when reacting to Williams: the pro group likes or idolizes him, the con group de- spises him. Few are neutral, Among his friends are men of great influence: Walter Reuther, Averill Harriman, Hubert Humph- rey, Neil Staebler, and now John Kennedy, who says he is "deeply indebted to the governor." Williams is a hero among mi- nority groups and labor elements. At this convention he has been the uncompromising champion of twentieth century liberalism, con- centrating most of his efforts on the civil rights issue. In doing so, he has accrued more hatred than was his before the convention. Williams got off to a bad start with Lyndon John- son last month when he accused the Texas senator of using politi- cal pressure to keep Williams from avidly backing Kennedy's candi- dacy. JOHNSON HAS angrily denied the charge that he used pressure and he doesn't hesitate -to blast Walliams at any opportunity. When Williams said last week that Johnson could do the party no good as a Presidential or Vice- Presidential candidate, the Texan fired back "When people have to go to the bottom of the barrel for statements by lame-duck Soapy Williams, then things are getting bad. Williams, as I recall, didn't have much pull in the South when the Republicans swept Michigan in 1952 and 1956." Johnson is far from alone in his criticism. Southerners dislike Williams nearly as much as Hum- phrey these days, especially since the Michigan governor spoke out for a strong civil rights plank be- fore the Democratic platform committee and before several thousand members of the NAACP. * * * BUSINESSMEN ARE no friends with Williams either, partly be- cause of his labor ties, partly be- cause of the anti-business and/or spending most of his time trying to attract the support of other governors and minority groups. In this convention Williams has preached the Kennedy gospel in caucuc after caucus, greeted the senator at International Airport, and appeared with him at various gatherings, KENNEDY UNDOUBTEDLY hopes that his indentification with Williams will result in firmer al- legiance from civil rights groups. The senator does not stand well with leaders of the Negro rights drive, who think he lacks convic- tion and regard his voting record as mediocre. Williams, in fact, attended the Sunday NAACP rally with Ken- nedy. This sort of companionship leads one to suspect Williams' im- mediate political future rests, to large degree, on Kennedy's suc- cess as a Presidential candidate. A third possibility for the future is suggested by Neil Staebler's de- sire to work high up in the Demo- cratic Party organization, but not as the national chairman. Wil- liams might logically move into the post now held by Paul Butler, with Staebler then able to assume a high-ranking national post and to act as an advisor to Williams. A Vice-Presidential nomination for Williams is a futile hope-- Kennedy wants to hurt few feel- ings in the South. A cabinet post is a better possibility.X illiams is qualified for several jobs: Labor Defense, Justice, or Health, Edu- cation and Welfare (HEW). 4' * - . HITS RECENT involvement in matters of public welfare-he was chairman of the education panel at the recent governors' confer- ence-perhaps indicates his level of interest in the HEW job. But should Kennedy lose, either here or in November, Williams' chances for a cabinet job might vanish. In the last few days, a new variable has emerged. Sen. Pat McNamara, now seriously ill at Ford hospital in Detroit, may be forced to withdraw from the Sen- ate race in November. Should that situation develop, Williams might pick up the Senate candidacy and would surely win the six-year term. THE SENATE MAY BE the en- vironment Williams needs if he is to advance politically. There he would find the opportunity to speak out to the nation, gaining experience in foreign and domes-. tic problems. The Democrats are now moving toward liberal ideas and leaders more than at any time in the last 15 years. The civil rights plank proposed last night is the most dramatic example. Lyndon B. Johnson's difficulties in finding Northern votes is further evi- dence. As one of the party's leading liberals, Williams' future political hopes are undoubtedly bound to this ideological swing as well as to the more immediate chances of Sen. Kennedy. MAX LERNER: Steve nson's Candidacy LOS ANGELES-Next to seeing an authentic miracle, give me -the chance to see a huddle of peo- ple who clamor for a miracle to be wrought. I am speaking of the eager peo- ple here at the Democratic Con- vention who are shouting, praying, working, button-holing everyone, peddling literature, collecting funds, trying to sheer contagion of will to move a mountain for Adlai Stevenson. You will see them in every hotel' lobby, at every party and recep- tion, in every little group arguing the tactics, strategy, and prospects of Democratic victory. They have come here by every conveyance from jet plane to dog cart. They have been too busy to become dis- enchanted. The only trouble with them is that there are only privates in their army, and no generals or captains or kings. Their candidate stands lonely, eloquent, but some- what detached, even from them. The distance between him and the rest of the array of candidates is one of the painfully evident facts of the convention. Stevenson is left alone in the isolation of his distinctive style and mind. Every- one listens with grave attention when he speaks, and at the mo- ment when some unusually arrest- ing turn of phrase breaks the spell the multitude applauds. But the votes of the delegation and their leaders go to Kennedy. *a* * d I WENT to a Jyg outdoor re- ception for delegates and alter- nates and hangers on. Most of the delegates were for Kennedy and Johnson, but the place swarmed with non-delegates who talked, breathed and dreamt only Steven- son. Many of them were from the new Pacific Coast communities. I listened to them for hours while they told me about how they had come to political consciousness during the 1952 and 1956 cam- paigns, how they had been stirred to build political organizations in districts that seemed hopelessly Republican, how they had run for every office, from Congressman to school board member, and mostly had been defeated. Almost always they asked with a pathetic eagerness whether I thought Stevenson would make it again this time. How could I tell them that I was only a newspaper- man and didn't deal in the pre- diction of miracles? In the evening we heard the candidates at the. Democratic fund-raising dinner and there was a caustic sadness about the spec- tacle. Symington gave a well- meant, uninspired talk. Lyndon Johnson orated about a Russian "roof of rockets" with singular in- effectiveness. Kennedy abandoned his notes and gave a fiery but undistinguished pep talk. Steven- son's mind alone had bite, style, grasp, distinction. The audience this time - a $100-a-plate audience-was wholly different from the grass roots crowd I had seen in the afternoon. But this audience, too, was lifted for a moment from the mediocrity of the usual campaign talk, and caught a glimpse of greatness in our time. * * * DON'T BELIEVE anyone who says Adlai Stevenson is not a candidate this year. He has been a willing if not active candidate all along and in the past week he has even been an eager one. History has monstrous moments of mistiming. Twice in the past when Stevenson was nominated, the Democrats had no real chance of winning. This time, when vic- tory is genuinely possible, the best mind among the Democrats is only a thin outside possibility for the nomination. One can be quite detached and still see the heartbreak of it. Men like Jim Doyle aid Mike Mon- roney have turned in a superb professional job as managers in Stevenson's behalf, showing skill and command under the most ad- verse condidtions. Others who stuck with Steven- son during two campaigns and who have now shifted to Ken- nedy's camp, still show the tor- tured traces of an inner conflict. They feel that Kennedy can win, and they may even expect him to make a fighting liberal record as President. But their commitment now is of a different quality. The Stevenson era - short of that miracle I spoke of - is over. BECAUSE IT IS OVER, Ken- nedy has had the field almost to himself. The Johnson forces have strength, but since they lack the conviction of possible victory they can at best hold their own instead of attracting new votes. The Ste- venson forces cannot get started unless Kennedy is stopped-which means that they depend on the unlikely prospect of a successful' Johnson holding operation. Thus what Kennedy has on his side may be put quite simply: The fact is that he is operating in a vacuum, and you cannot displace something with nothing. The "something" that Kennedy has is elusive-a driving purpose, an unpanicked steadiness of strat- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Students May 4 buse Sit-In 'Tool' To the Editor: LAST YEAR we saw a student march on Washington demand- ing enforcement of the integration ruling. Discrimination led to non-vio- lent sit-ins, starting in the South and resulting in the sympathy picketing of chain stores all over the country. tional party conventions to de- mand strong civil rights platforms. The nonviolent demonstration is potentially a powerful tool, probably the most effective means that the student has of influenc- ing United States affairs. I believe that it is at the point of being abused. When students demon- strate at the slightest provocation, neoule will ston listening. vent itself from aiding those who wish to alter it illegally? 2) Shall we abolish laws because there are some who would break them? -F. D. Nahabedian, '62Dent. 'Ruth' Review . . To the Editor: T SHOULD like Miss Paperman