se 1614an Daily Seventy-Third Yer EnED AND MANAGED D STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER ETHORrY rOF Da R IN CONTROL OF STUDNXT PUBATIONS 'WhereOpininLi Are Free STUDENT PUWUCATIONS BLDG., A" AROR, MIC., PHONE O 2-3241 f Truth Will Preail" Editorials printed in T he Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in at reprints. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: H. NEIL BERKSON Paradox Clouds Purpose Of Phoenix Project Research THE PHOENIX PROJECT is caught in a 1) Student and faculty research, which paradox of purpose. never are denied reactor-time because of Inspired by the atomic bombings of lower-priority proj ects; World War II, and the "never again" at- 2) Faculty research under non-Univer- titude which followed them, the Project sity sponsorship, military or otherwise, has from the start been an idealistic one, provided that the sponsor pays the reac- and its stated ideal is peace. tor expenses, and finally Yet, . to help support its "atoms for 3) Rental of space to industries for their peace" work, the Project has occasionally own purposes, defense or non-defense. had to let its reactor be used for military And, Prof. Kerr points out, not only research. does military work never interfere with NUMEROUS public-relations pamphlets "atoms-for-peace" projects, it actually fa- extol the Project's ideals. Declares one: cilitates them. The reactor is "on" for a certain length of time each day. While it Its name Is based on the fabled is "on," any unused space in it represents Phoenix bird of Egyptian mythology, so much wasted money. Renting this emp- a bird which periodically built its nest ty space to industry-including defense on the altar of the sun god and was industry-enables the sparsely-financed consumed by fire. From the flames, Project to reclaim these expenses, which the bird rose again, young and revital- in turn enables it to accept a greater vol- ized. Similarly, the Phoenix Atomico Research Program has arisen from ume of peaceful projects. the holocaust of a world war. In only THUS the Phoenix Project's dilemma is ten years, it already has hoped to the same as the dilemma of University open to mankind a bright and promis- militar research in ing future.ml ayrearhn general: the Ui- versity needs money; defense is where - The enthusiastic University students, the money is. faculty, alumni and friends who solicited Moreover, drawing a neat line between money, as well as the private contributors peaceful and military atomic research is who donated the $8 million which estab- difficult, since the same basic knowledge lished the Project, were working for this applies to both and even Defense De- ideal. partment research may be on militarily Space in thereactor is rented to indus- innocuous subjects. But drawing a line, tries doing Defense Department-sponsor- albeit a crude one, between the two could ed work, and to the military itself. In ad- be done on the basis of the immediate dition, faculty members doing defense- purpose of the particular project or by sponsored research are allowed to use the whether its sponsor is military or not. It reactor, although very few have done so. could be done, were it not for the finan- DOES THIS MEAN the Phoenix Project cial paradox. t has betrayed its trust? This would be rTHE PHOENIX PROJECT, then, is Ful- a serious charge, so it is important to be filline, pus fo precise about just when and how defense flig well the explicit purpose for which it was established: facilitating work takes place. First, it is never allowed to interfere "atoms-for-peace" research. But it has ,*ith "atoms-for-peace" University re- never followed what I read to be an im- iearch projects. Prof. William Kerr e plicit corollary: refusing to accept "atoms seach rojcts Prf. illam err the for war" research. And if the Phoenix Is Project's current director, says that timefagar" ruilirgh.tndtonthesPhon's and pac inthereatorareapprtinedagain building its nest on the sun-god's and space in the reactor are apportioned altar, all its peaceful efforts will be for by this rigorously followed schedule of nothing. priority: -KENNETH WINTER CITYSCOPE-. A :Bleak Future I t . ..; ' f E pY r _ > .4 c :1 ; Iil. ," ;.' <. , ,, ,, s' , };5 .,r.p. $ *y! r FROM 'THE NATION': Congressional Ethics Inspire Contempt '. . L -, A p I1 W E AT ERVAN E kJU~~ 'c~ TODAY AND TOMORROW: National Hysteria Calms Down, MOST citizens automatically re- spect the President and the ranking members of the executive branch. Congressmen may also be respected, but only on the basis of devoted service and demonstrated probity. Contempt of Congress in the technical sense is a misdemeanor, but in the .popular sense it is widespread-and not without rea- son. Structurally and organiza- tionally, Congress lags behind the times, but its institutional defects are aggravated by the individual misbehavior of a sizable propor.. tion of its members. The contempt in which they are held is deserved, and spills over to some extent on those who do not deserve it. MONEY is at the root of this particular evil. As Sen. Wayne Morse points out, the double standard Congress lives by is the source of its ill repute. It refuses to accept for itself the standards of monetary ethics that it applies to the executive and judicial branches. When an appointee comes up for confirmation, or when con- duct in some agency office is in- vestigated, the Congressional com- mitteemen often seem to proceed on the assumption that the wit- ness, if not an outright crook, is certainly a person whose financial status must be scrutinized for con- flict of interests. Only the commit- teemen themselves are above sus- picion.- This ludicrous and arrogant as- sumption fools no one. When Sen. Everett Dirksen protested that to force members of Congress to re- veal their financial holdings and dealings would make them "sec- ond-class citizens," his constitu- ents must have taken him for either a fool or a hypocrite--and they know he is no fool. FOR seventeen years, Sen. Morse has been trying to correct this abuse. He has disclosed his own financial interests in the ut- most detail. So, in varying degrees, have a few other Senators and Representatives. Voluntary disclosure is insuffi- cierit: one must assume that those who, have the most to hide will be the most secretive. Every year since 1946. Sen. Morse has in- troduced a bill to compel disclo- sure of income by all persons, in- cluding members of Congress, who receive federal income in excess of $10,000, and by members of the Republican and Democratic Na- tional Committees. In the 88th Congress, the bill is S 148. In past years, the proposed legislation. has received general approval. In 1951, it was endorsed by President Truman in a mes- Criticism WE CAN start with the fact that a President of the United States has been assassinated by a Communist within the United States. No amount of lies by the Krem- lin or tardy and ridiculous after- thoughts about this brainwashed little punk having been a spy for the United States governmentcan change what Oswald himself re- vealed-before he was shut up, permanently. . WITH THE President con- verted into a martyr, by the bullet of an assassin, pointing any finger at the parallel between what his Administration had been doing and what Mosoow wanted was to be made completely unthinkable. The more overwhelming the eulogizing of the late President became, the more futile it would become for any critic - and the more disastrous to the critic - to start reminding people of how happy Moscow and all of our do- mestic Comsymps had been with the general progress of their plans, and the increasing prestige of their agents and allies, under the Ken- nedy regime. - -Robert Welch in American Opinion Exercise sage to congress. "....People who accept the privilege of holding of- fice in the Government," Mr. Tru- man wrote, "must of necessity ex- pect that their entire conduct should be open to inspection by the people they are serving." But the bill did not pass in 1951, nor has it been seriously considered since. * * * IT IS A rule in American poli- tics that until the smell becomes intolerable, nothing is done. In this matter of congressional re- sponsibility that point has been reached. When a Congressman, speaking at great length on the floor of the House, defends his commission of an indefensible ac- tion, and is applauded and con- gratulated when he bursts into tears by way of peroration, enough voters may be sufficiently disgust- ed to look for a remedy. -The Nation 'DIRTY HANDS': A cademk ANN ARBOR RESIDENTS are being in- timidated by a group of young picket- ers from the Direct Action Committee. DAC, an organization which makes no secrets about the role of violence in ob- taining equal rights for Negroes, has its share of young members who have a misguided sense of direction. DAC dares Ann Arbor to cross its picket lines at City Hall. The picketers, carrying signs such as "Cross this line at your own risk" and "This is not a non-violent dem- onstration," walk in a small circle which blocks the sidewalk to all pedestrian traf- fic. Recently, Ann Arbor police stood at either end of the oval-shaped picket line to instruct passersby to walk around the picket line. LAST FRIDAY NIGHT, the first time DAC picketed City Hall for alleged po- lice brutality involving six Negro juven- iles, the police chose to stay inside and watch. They saw a fireman pushing a grocery cart. They also saw several fire- men lined up at the fire station window who were interested in the events which followed. They had reason for watching. The fireman pushing the grocery cart refused to walk around the picketers, which would have meant walking on City Hall grass; a scuffle ensued. You should have seen the firemen pour out of the fire station. Then, you should have seen the police pour out of City Hall. Editorial Staff RONALD WILTON, Editor DAVID MARCUS GERALD STORCH Editorial Director City Editor BARBARA LAZARUS..............Personnel Director PHILIP SUTIN.............National Concerns Editor GAIL EVANS....... .... Associate City Editor MARJORIE BRAHMS ....'Associate Editorial Director k ' The ruckus which followed injured three policemen, to say nothing of the amount of statewide attention it received. It was the first violence involving personal in- jury in Ann Arbor over the matter of civil rights. THE INCIDENT is significant. It happen- ed in the North. This was not the first instance of friction between pedestrians and picketers in Ann Arbor. Take for ex- ample the drunks rolling out of the down- town bars at 2:30 a.m. and heckling non- violent picketers at a downtown restau- rant. One picketer, who had experience in the deep South where things really get tough, said that in some instances he re- ceived more abuse in Ann Arbor than in the South. The meaning of all this is that groups sucn as L)aU are oouna to emerge as a result of the frustration the civil rights movement has met. Their mission no longer is as clear as their non-violent predecessors. They are confused about the nature of their enemy. Is their enemy the white population or is it the oppression of the Negro? THE LATTER should be the case if any real steps toward solution of the prob- lems are to be made. The DAC picketers are openly violating a city ordinance for- bidding obstruction of a sidewalk. They are openly advocating their right to force a reluctant, predominantly white commu- nity to accept the Negro. If anything, DAC is giving the influen- tial white-supremacists more ammuni- tion. These citizens, who were being drawn carefully out of their shells by non-violent demonstrations, have now recoiled. Charles Thomas, radical past chairman of DAC, wrote recently that "the fight for freedom has just begun all over the world. If you do not see the handwriting on the wall, then you are blind. In the fate of the Negro lies the future of By WALTER LIPPMANN AFTER some 10 days in South- ern California where I did little except sniff the air, I have come back feeling that since last year there has been.a change of mood. It is a change for the better. A year ago in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis there was an alarming amount of floating anxi- ety, of irrational fear and ground- less anger, expressing itself in war-whooping at our adversaries abroad and in extremism at home: The anxiety which was threat- ening to unnerve the country is subsiding. I did not, of course, take a poll or, like a good reporter, make an investigation in depth. But unless I am greatly mistaken, the strain of irreconcilability, which turns normal political con- troversy into a deadly poison, has declined. The unrestrained and unmea- sured extremism, which caused men to talk as if they would like to secede from the Union because they hated Washington where the Kennedys ruled, is no longer re- spectable. One hears notably less of the war-whoopers who, when anything goes wrong, want to send in the Marines or make the Navy lay a blockade or let, loose the bombers. There is a degree of unity and a mood of sobriety which is, of course, the real America under- neath the passing frustrations of having to deal with a new and dangerous world. A RADICAL RIGHT and a radi- cal left we shall always have with us. But in a strong and stable country they are dangerous only when they infectconsiderable sec- tions of the moderate center. I may, of course, be mistaken. But I think the infections of extremism is not spreading and is, on the contrary, receding. I have been wondering why. The leading factors have been, I think, the assassination of Pres- ident Kennedy, the accession of Lyndon Johnson and the realiza- tion, after the Cuban confronta- tion and the test ban treaty, that nuclear war is not imminent and that Cuba, though a nuisance, is not a military danger. Last, but not least, I would put on the list the open candidacy of Barry Gold- water.. S * * * THE MURDER of President Kennedy shocked the country into a realization of what can happen if violence is unrestrained. At the same time, it removed a President who was enormously admired and extravagantly hated. The country feels very much at home with the Johnson family, and it has been greatly reassured by the compe- tence with which the Vice-Presi- dent took over. The calming effect of the nu- clear detente, which was, it may well be, the crowning achievement of President Kennedy, has coal- esced with the feeling of confi- dence that Lyndon Johnson is a prudent, old-fashioned American who has no taste for gambling and foreign adventure. And then there is the construc- tive contribution of Barry Gold- water. As long as he was not out LETTERS to the EDITOR To the Editor: THE CURRENT attack against Cazzie Russell in The Daily editorial and sports pages has made the unpleasant a priori as- sumption that Mr. Russell specific- ally and athletes generally are un- intelligent. Mr. Russell, whom I have met, seems to me to be a reasonably intelligent, mature sophomore undergraduate. That he is probably the best basketball player in the country does not preclude intelligence any more than writing for The Daily sports page presupposes it. Those on The Daily staff who have writ- ten in this affair should apologize to Mr. Russell for their lack of taste. -Lewis Cogen, 167M in the open running for President, he was free to say all kinds of dashing things that caught various people's fancy. But to be a candi- date for the Republican nomina- tion for President of the United States is quitedifferent from hold- ing forth in the locker room of a, country club. Serious people have, now taken a serious look at the Senator's remarkable books and speeches, and they are now being -subjected to full public exposure. * * * THE SENATOR is doing a great servide to the country. It is like that done by a vivid cartoon in a confused political controversy. He impersonates, and is parading be- fore the voters' eyes, the eternal juvenile who lurks in the Ameri- can soul. This boy who won't grow up refuses to live in a world which does not obey his wishes. He will not believe that he has adversaries whom he cannot dominate or that he has friends whom he must live with though they do not agree with him. This unquenchable boy is sure that whatever goes against his wishes is the work of a villain or a traitor. He does not doubt that every problem has a solution, that is to say, his solution. -_ For him, all conflicts and dis- putes must end either" in victory or defeat. All is black that isn't al- together white, for history has. taught him nothing. It has not taught him that in many of the great religious and ideological cony- flicts of mankind there has been no victory, no defeat, no solution and no settlement-only an un- tidy living with the unsettled busi- ness. *, * * SINCE WE as a people have to put away the eternal boy in our- selves if we are going to move suc- cessfully in a world we do not own or control, and among people who do not have tolove us because we are almost always right, I rejoice at the signs I have seen that the country will follow the President as he puts away childish things. On this cheery note, I have re- turned from my vacation. (c),1964, The washington Post Co. Now at Chiema Guild TO BE philosophically valid, a work of art must first be aesthetically convincing. That is, it must be an undeniable human experience which imposes its phil- osophical vision upon the audience This imposition is achieved by giv- ing the philosophical premises concrete embodiment which be- comes a meaningful human real- ity and not a mere academic ex- ercise. Tonight and tomorrow the Cinema Guild presents "Dirty Hands," adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre from his own play. It is nearly impossible to judge such a movie fairly. The very presence of the name Sartre on the marquee puts us off. We expect something terribly important to explode from the screen, and that word-existebtial- ism-keeps rumbling about in the back !of our minds. Were the marquee to read some- thing innocuous as "George Axel- rod," we could sit back and enjoy the movie as a movie. It requires a little effort, but let us make an attempt to evaluate this movie as if the marquee did in fact read "George Axelrod." JUDGED by these standards, however, "Dirty Hands" does not fare too well. It does not , come alive; it does not move; there is neither wit nor style; and it talks too much. Because of the failure of the non-philosophical elements, "Dirty Hands" cannot impose its philosophical vision upon us. Drama deals with people, and if the drama is to be convincing, the characters must convince us that they are people. Only Hoederer, the Communist leader, through his speech, his carriage, and his mannerisms convinces us that he is a man and not a mannequin. Hugo, the protagonist, does not convince, nor does his wife Jessica. THE TURNING point of the drama is a revelation of conscious- ness (which I shall not reveal) that horrifies the protagonist and motivates his final act. This reve- lation does not horrify the aud- ience, however, and the climax of the drama does ngt reverberate in our consciousness. It does not horrify us, because it is drama- tically remote and therefore with- out vital significance. "Dirty Hands," then, is an aca- demic exercise in the true sense of the word. The philosophical premises are clear and they may be argued. But because they have not been given significant human embodiment, they do not impose themselves upon us.*"Dirty Hands" remains at a safe distance and discussion of it sinks into finger exercise. -Sam Walker 4 ^p .:}:"ti:4"i::a ?:""".v::s".vas::tt,:^:>:J::'vJA~r:"."r":,a..o:sv."::::wr.":tv:Al rrv""f"."r4 ':.{Y : V..1N::. ... ..A. . . f : .. ".Y' .. . .. ... -. ' a."}. . PREVIEW Musical T'ranslation to Men "And, Over Here, The Enemy -People" By GAIL BLUMBERG SACRED MUSIC is the spiritual aid and guide to an understanding of the word and spirit of God. It is man's voice raised in praise of his creator. In this way, Byzantine music of the Eastern Orthodox Church is an instrument which attempts to convey the Logos, the word of God, to the finite mind. Since mysticism plays an important part in the Church, the emotions are incited through sensual stimulation: Iconography, incense, and sacred chants. THE Byzantine music is monophonic, a single line of melody, in a minor melodic mode. It is sung country developing the Slavonic form. Although the melody and language of the two forms differ, the doctrine and Liturgy represented remained the same. The service in the early Church was one of anti- phonal chanting. The Anagnostes, or reader, would lead the congregation in the chanting of the Lit- urgy, which was learned by heart. In the contem- porary Church it is the choir that responds to the chanted Liturgy of the priest: IN A concert of Byzantine Music on Friday, the Eastern Orthodox Student Society will present four choirs, singing, in four different languages, music representative of the traditions of the Church. '.1 T 0V 01, ft I -