opw Alw '" .--- -v.' ONE MAN'S BATTLE: Principles, the Bar, and theCourts mjy Aid ig.n ?Baig Seventy-First Year - -- EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF ThE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Ier Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS a Preva&lN STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG.* ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. - -- - r _ _ . - -- -- . - --" T w t, JANUARY 11, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW HAWLEY Davis Report Outlines evised Intercultural Projects By MICHAEL OLINICK A YOUNG man appeared before the United States Supreme Court recently and argued that he was entitled to become a lawyer even though, as a matter of prin- ciple, he might refuse to obey the court's decrees. "If at some time the members of this court were to become so corrupted, so perverted that the Constitution was destroyed, then one would be obliged to resist," George Anastaplo told the justices. Anastaplo has sought entrance into the Illinois bar for the past decade, ever since he graduated with distinction from the Univer- sity of Chicago Law School. His most recent appeal, to the4Ilinois Supreme Court, was turned down by a four to three vote. 4 Anastaplo is asking the court to rule that his exclusion from the bar was so unfair as to be uncon- stitutional. It was principle that led Arnas- taplo to tell the court he could not 'promise always to obey its rulings. "A court which, say, Hit- ler dominated would deserve no respect. That is what the Declara- tion of Independence means, and I have always believed it." As is often the rule in America today, Anastaplo's conviction of the validity of the Declaration of Independence brought him trou- ble. In his application to the Illi- nois bar, Anastaplo attached a statement affirming his belief in the right of the people to revolt against oppression. * *. THE BAR'S committee on char- acter and fitness naturally had to ask him about membership in sub- versive organizations. Anastaplo refused to say whether he had ever been a member of the Com- munist Party or the Ku Klux Klan, No one had the slightest evidence CH OF THE recommended action in the eport of John F. Kennedy's task force Exchange of persons" is a request for funds to enable better intercultural co- tion. e report of the committee, chaired by s M. Davis, director of the Internatloial r, represents the same brainstorming on ent subjects have done at Kennedy's re- The outlines of fund dispersal is the er part of the report but not the most tant. The real immediate value is in ecommendation for better governmental ing of cultural cooperation. e report suggests the establishment of an a center on cultural relations in the state rtment and headed by an under secretary ate to co-ordinate all government pro- s in this area. REPORT CAUTIONS against the pre- nt arrangement in which the special ant to the Secretary of State for co- ation is also the head of the bureau of ational and Cultural affairs in the State rtment. The report states that it is diffi- o co-ordinate all departments as the head e of them, also. This is obviously true should be remedied. ; as necessary but certainly helpful is suggested enlargement of the existing ory Commission on Educational Exchange o-ordinating purposes. By broadening the of it, to include the full spectrum of tional exchange and development, and Lying it authority to assemble ad hoc ittees for consultation on particular ems the Commission could take on the of advising the proposed new Under- bary. th proper coordination of departments a amount of money could be saved and o better use, therefore the new adminis- n should see what it can do in the way tter coordination before authorizing new SECOND WAY that the administration ould aid "painlessly" is, by legislating out ,ehnical irritants hindering existing pro- s. Changes in the immigration law and I security regulations were specifically toned in the report. The committee asked that visa provisions be revised to place the spouse and minor children of a foreign scholar on the same visa as he, ,and to extend the employment priviledges of foreign scholars and their- wives. "The overall effect would be to recognize that foreign stu- dents could "work their way through school" as many Americans do. It would save much of the money now spent, both by the Federal Government and by the institutions, on scholarships, grants and unpaid loans," the report said. By allowing the students to work enough to take care of financial needs, pro- vided that they do not seriously displace? American workers, the government could again save money. A CHANGE IN social security withholding tax provisions to exempt foreign scholars who never can achieve social security benefits 'would also put foreign students more on their own. Of the nine additional "viewpoints" express- ed in the report, three are more than im- portant, they are vital to the aims of educa- tional exchange. First in exchange with under- developed countries, the priority of selections must be given to those who are needed for the development of indigenous institutions in- line with their national development goals. This is the best type of foreign aid and cultural exchange we can effect, that of edu- cating the men who will develop their own country. Second, an increase "in exchange programs with the Communist bloc European countries should be made as quickly as satisfactory ar- rangements can be made." Again, the exchange of students in technical areas can not only build up friends for the United States in Com- munist countries, but can aid in breaking down the barriers of silence between countries. Third, the United States should "Explore possibilities for effective expansion of educa- tional exchange and technical assistance pro- grams through inter-governmental 'agencies: UN, OAS, etc." In this way an internationally, effective program for educational exchange could be effected, without national tensions marring the international aim of education. CUBA, CASTRO: Social Studies... For Americans Only By JAMES RICHMAN Daily Guest Writer CUBA IS A minor island some- where south of the United States. It is peopled by Spanish- speaking natives who are inately lazy. Their major pleasure is to lie in the sun and starve. Their only diversionary activity is the playing of primitive instruments to exotic rhythms. Cuba lay in a vacuum of ignorance and po- verty until shortly after the Spanish-American War. (If you will remember that, was the war in which Teddy Roosevelt and God, ably assisted by the Hearst papers and a faulty boiler on the U.S.S. MAINE, began the crusade for freedom and enlightenment in Latin America.) UP UNTIL two years ago Cuba had remained free and prospering ... subject to the approval of the U.S. Congress and American lob- bies. The United States maintain- ed well-rounded cultural and economic relations with Cuba throughout that entire periodeIn exchange for total mercantile we allowed Cuba to export to our domination of the Cuban economy shores: cigars, Xavier (the Cha- Cha) Cugat and Desi Arnaz. Need- less to say the natives prospered under our guidance. They 'now starved only eight months of the year. The big-hearted American sugar planters let them harvest our crop, and so they found gain- ful employ for the other four months. The wages paid them were excellent considering we didn't want to totally destroy their taste for poverty. We must re- member that too much . . . too soon, isn't the American way, and progress must come slowly. * * * SO THINGS were going great until this guy Castro comes along. (It's obvious now he had been 'previously trained in Moscow.) Anyhow this creep Castro picks a fight with our good neighbor Batista. (Batista was sort of a younger, heavily-armed Chang Kai-Shek with a Spanish accent.) Soon all the kids on the block are wearing fatigue-caps and phoney beards. * * * CASTRO FINALLY whips Ba- tista. This was a blow to Ameri- can pride, since it was our military mission to Cuba that had trained and armed Batista's troops. Well, Ike was big about the whole thing . . . he's an old soldier and he knows how wars are. But, to add insult to insult, this wasn't enough for that "pinko" Castro. After all the help we gave him in his struggle he starts to get uppity with us. He starts to play cru- sader and turns down his cut of the gambling and prostitution rake-off from the Havana tourist trade. He also picks up this bug about making Cuba economically self-supporting. He gives off this "New Frontier" speech, (you'd think he was running for presi- dent), and rants and raves about schools and hospitals. Well LIFE, LOOK and TIME finally get wise to Fidel. He was, good copy for a while but the only ones who really believed the stuff about revolution were suburban housewives and mental vagrants. Any one with an ounce of common sense knew he was a "commie" from the begin- ning. Besides anyone who has been to Havana lately can see what's happening. All the cute little dirty kids are playing "do-it-your- self" and those darling bands have been swallowed up by labor bat- talions. WELL, WE would have been content to let this Castro fall on his economic face. We know that all you can grow in Cuba is sugar. But then, he starts to nationalize American business. So Ike has to go and put him down. What else could Ike do . . .after all he is the Godmother of American busi- ness. We isolate Cuba from the existing world, at least that part of the world which the State Depart- ment recognizes as existing. We had, of course, the alternative of giving aid to Cuba, but this would have been another financial waste. Castro, it seems, had some crazy idea about being a neutral, and everybody knows we can't afford to support any more neutrals ... at least not while we're fighting this cold war. We have our own allies to support and everybody knows that they're neutral enough. Things are really bad in Cuba now. It's all Castro's fault of course . . . I mean if the guy had been willing to play the game he could have had a house and cars . . . and a substantial bank ac- count in Switzerland. that he has ever belonged to or sympathized with either of the groups. He claims that all of the evi- dence in his case is favorable to his character. He argues that a state should not be allowed to read anything unfavorable in his refusals to an- swer questions unless it had some evidence to show that he ever was a member of a group subversive to the Constitution and the nation. The refusals, he says, should be interpreted favorably, since they show his courage to resist "bully- ing. WILLIAM WINES, Illinois' as- sistant attorney general, defends the states' right to pose such ques- tions without "some kind of prob- able cause" linking the applicant to a subversive movement. His point -was that Anastaplo's refus- las blocked a proper" investiga- tion. Thereal question, Wines, said, is whether a state can exclude from the bar an admitted Communist Party member. He argues that a state can do so, considering that the Supreme Court has upheld convictions of party leaders for subversive speeches. "Once you grant that Commu- nist affiliation is material, it fol- lows automatically that a question about such affiliation is material." * * * TWO PRINCIPLE points of dis- cussion can be noted in Anasta- plo's case. First, have the courts ruled that affiliation with the Communist Party is enough to bar an individual from the legal pro- fession? I If it is, can questions about such affiliation still be asked without any evidence to point to it? If party membership can bar one from being a lawyer, is it al- so a barrier to other occupations? Would membership in the Klan also be a satisfactory means to eliminate applicants to the bar? Just what political and social be- liefs must one hold to receive any job at all?, Questions like, this are always coming before the Supreme Court and are the bases for much public and private discussion. The out- come of the Anastaplo case will be a partial legal answer to some of the questions. MORE IMPORTANT, however is the condition of American opinion and fear that forces Anas- taplo into a ten year court battle. When a man holds a belief in ons of the basic documents de- fining the American democratic system, why is his expression of that credo an automatic warning signalrthat he is a "subversive?" The impetus of conservative com- placency has driven us to fear anyone who tries to change social conditions so that they are more in line with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitu- tion. Anastaplo's predicament is not unique. West Coast students who staged a sincere protest against a committee of Congress are charged by public agencies to be nothing more than "dupes" of the Communist.s inciters; the South- ern sit-ins are treated as "Red planned and directed" by many people; The austere and respected head of the FBI sees Moscow in- filtrating the nation's churches. Although it is a wretched cir- cumstance, that forces Anastaplo and others with similar views to lose economic opportunities, to suffer social and political martyr- dom and often to limit their con- tributions in their chosen field of endeavor, it is still a healthy sign that such men dare speak up. Original Success' IN ONE of its more ambitious projects of the season the speech department Playbill presented "Season of the Beast" by Carl Oglesby, '63, last night. And under the guidance of Director Prof. William P. Halstead, the University Players created a successful evening of theatre, well above and beyond the average original production. "Season of the Beast" is a morality play set on the farm of Horace Emery in South Carolina. The Emery's are fundamental, hardworking cotton farmers, as are their neighbors, until the arrival of the revivalist preacher, Lockheed. * * * * THE PLAY'S EPIGRAPH states "Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." (I Peter, 5:8). The demoniac preacher pounces on his prey devouring the weak and tired, worn out by their struggle with life. All of the elders of the community submit, save one man-Horace Emery. The resultant struggle between the devil and his adversary pro- vides the framework for the play on both realistic and symbolic levels. The play's greatest weakness is its oft-times heavy-handed sym- bolism. It appears that the author has tried too hard to make the audience aware of his symbols and has forced many of them. The lines of good and evil are drawn to the limits; the recurrent storm image; the naming of the village, Battlefield; and the physical portrayal of the Beast are all overstatements. In the same manner the play is somewhat slow moving in its earlier stages as the author presents the problems over and over. Once the stage is finally set, the play concludes with great emo- tion. The last half of the second act and the entire third are ripe with crackling dialogue and emotive power. * * * * THE LARGELY inexperienced' cast is generally first rate. David Hirvela as Jess Emery is the manifestation of simple strength. Richard Levy, despite having some of the play's weakest lines, as the preacher- beast ("I am as mobile as yonder rock," and "I'll have mine [coffeel black and hot") is a fit adversary. -Harold Applebaum Unbalanced EAS BEEN pointed out in the New York4 ally News that Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, the nee of President-elect John F. Kennedy e Treasurer of the United States, admit-+ r cannot balance her own checkbook. 1 this light, perhaps it would be well to ne that Kennedy made this appointmentI eeping with his as-yet unrevealed fiscal y concerning the nation's budget: un- nced? -M. HARRAH MU's Two-Year ERE ARE TWO problems involved in the tuestion of Michigan State University's year medical school. One is the profes-i 3, medical aspect, the other a political- tige angle. The two questions are not ely separate. e overall argument appears to be not so h MSU's desire for a two-year non-clinical ram as the implication that the East ing university wants to go all the way, tually, and establish a regular four-year ram. st year, leading doctors and medical edu- rs in the state labeled a four-year medical ol as the most expensive way to increase number of Michigan graduate physicians. 9 stressed expansion and strengthening resent medical education facilities. The nsion would come at Wayne State Uni- ty in Detroit. THAT TIME, two-year medical schools vere suggested as one of several answers he need for additional doctors. Graduates te two-year programs would fill the vacan- that result from drop-outs in the four- schools. hich all means that the present MSU ition may be a good idea. Right now it 2 the early planning stage, and will not eady for perhaps 10 years, an MSU official ts out, bich all would seem to point to the fact ent MSU plans may not be a bad idea, e MSU probably has a sufficient base of Ity and facilities to run the program. T A FOUR-YEAR program is a different natter. Whether MSU 'should eventually i such a school is a matter for the medical rts. Opinion is divided, but it looks a little IN THE AREA of funds, the suggested alter- native of aid through matching grants to universities and colleges and local organiza- tions for their, work seems to be the best. This type of fund supply would not develop the earmarks of a "giveaway program" as the organizations must first supply half or more of the required money. In this way the govern- ment would aid and encourage cultural ex- change on all levels without making the government the major factor in the planning and financing. And because education of all people should be the aim of all people, the work of cultural exchange should remain in the hands of the people and private institutions unless on an international scale. -CAROLINE DOW Medical School medical experts say there are a number of things to do before building a medical school, and then the best place for this institution may be Detroit or Grand Rapids rather than Lansing. The political-prestige problem now enters in. Though MSU presently disclaims desires for a four-year program, the editorial response in state newspapers was apparently not prompted by any great faith in these protes- tations of innocence. Simply, a medical school is a good thing to have, prestige wise. While not as glamorous as advanced science work, say, it is still good for status purposes among great universities, a dignity to which MSU aspires. BUT THE GOOD to MSU from this acquisi- tion must be balanced against the needs and the resources of the entire state; a desire by MSU to have a medical school is not enough. Rational discussion is necessary. The University can take a platonic attitude about the whole thing, provided it gets the promised second part of the Medical Science Bldg. Vice-President and Dean of' Faculties Marvin L. Niehuss says the University has no desire to expand its already large school, and the new building is simply needed to accomo- date present students. Further state funds will doubtless be needed, but apparently nothing on the order needed to start a new medical school. THIS IS A parenthesis, for the politics point. What will happen ? It is feared that what will happen is another financial struggle for state money. MSU Provost Paul A. Millfr wants to make "perfectly clear we recognize great needs at the University and WSU" and that ."we hope they are met." Fine, as long as MSU keeps up the attitude. It is understandable, that MSU, while late to AT THE CAMPUS: Bergman cores Double Triumph'/ THERE ARE, conceivably, experiences which would be comparable: an Evening with Samuel Beckett, or a Kierkegaard party, but a Bergman double feature will do. This is Bergman before "Wild 'Straw- berries"; like Barrault he came to the cinema from the stage and like Barrault he had trouble keeping the new medium in hand. Unlike Barrault he is a born film-maker. Whatever troubles he had with continuity in his early films have been conquered and now there's no stopping him. But this early Bergman deserves more notice than it got or, in a a ' / "Now, Has Everyone Got One Of These Little Figures And A Set Of Pins?" /f m ; , sy' fact, than it is getting. One of those parts, if not wholly, with anything he has done. This is the one some- one has called "Naked Night." Here is a grand style with massive tones and large, overstated ges- tures made exciting by, the con- tinually revealed fact that this is somebody with something to say. In fact he is one of the few es- tablished film-makers today mak- ing anything but technical state- ments and this movie, as surely made, yet undisciplined and per- sonal as it is, must be historically significant to that art from which has been hailed as the most im- portant in our time and needs but the men to prove it. Bergman does happen to be one of the best technicians around. He has a poetic eye which seems to a understand movement and setting so well as to give an almost slick quality to 'his scenes. He knows when his imagination should be obtrusive and exactly on what level to gain his effect; he has learned much from Hitchcock. The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. N o ti c e s should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Building, before 2 p.m. two days preceding publication. two films being shown ranks in ! DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN fI * * * "NAKED NIGHT" opens with a scene whose effect I cannot de- scribe. It is one of those scenes which was conceived and executed by a great cinematician, that is one who understands the essence of the moving symbol and has a few in mind. The plot is a Berg- man love story. He seems to be primarily interested in the clash of two levels of existense. He builds his drama around the ten- sion of people fighting themselves while trying to make a go of it with each other. The great prob- lem is conmmuniction. cnmmuni- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 General Notices Academic Costume: Can be rented at Moe Sport Shop, ",111 North University Ave., Ann Arbor. Orders for Midyear Graduation Exercises should be placed immediately. Plans for Mid Year Graduation Exercises Sat., Jan. 21, 2:00 p.m. Time of Assembly--1:15 p.m.' (except noted). Places of Assembly: Members of the Faculties at 1:15 p.m. in 2082, second floor, Natural Science Bldg., where they muay robe. Regents. Ex-Regents, Deans and oth- er Administrative Officials at 1:15 p.m. in 1139, Natural Science Bldg., where shey may robe. Students of the various Schools and Colleges in Natural Science Bldg. as follows: SECTION A: -Literature, Science and the Arts- front part of aud,, west section. -Education-front part of aud., cen- ter section. -Architecture-front part of aud., east section. --Law-front part of aud., east sec- tion (behind Architecture). SECTION B: -G-raduate-rear part of aud. with doctors at west end. -Public Health-Room 2004. -Flint Coallege-Room 2004 (behind