S eSy-T hi rd Y"' EwD mAND MANAm y SftumuT'fs of '!HmU NIvsvtY or MICHIGAN. "" UNDER AUTHOR!?! OF BOAR"H9 CONTKOL OF STUDENT PUBLICA'TIO NS ,.Where Opin one Are F STvDEN-r PuBicATIuOs BLDG., ANN Akosm, MKcw., PHoE No 2-3241 Truth Will Pran" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in at reprints. DAY, APRIL 5, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL SATTINGER Flack Flies While Wallace Woos Wisconsin Each Time I Chanced To See Franklin D. Creating an Intellectual Atmosphere by H. Neil Berkson AMONG THE CONFUSED VALUES of today's dis- cause it explodes the stereotypes-subtle and blatant- from the University, are referring to a general quality. ordered society lies the concept of education. There which play a role in so many of our actions. They are proud of the University, as well they should be, may have been a time when students came to the but they think it is capable of doing a better job. University filled with Jeffersonian ideals concerning A FAR MORE pedestrian view of the university, an Throughout the University, and particularly in The educational purpose. The time has passed anti-intellectual view, exists. It has two major com- Daily, all sorts of ideas have been suggested to intensify Universal education has become an end in itself to ponents. The concept of education as an end in itself student participation in the academic process. The many people;. it has assumed a money value; but it has has been perverted into a status symbol ("You have residential college is an outgrowth of such discussion; manypeole; t hs asume a mneyvalu; bt ithas to have a college education! ")--Ann Arbor, in this sense not remained a clear-cut means to a higher end. a required course for freshmen on the aims of the becomes a watering place, a name to drop which will University has been brought up on this page; the idea riserfar more eyebrows than Fort Lauderdale or the of a "vice-president for intellectual affairs" has been MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO an academic freedom Riviera. trw u o eaea el conference met in Chicago. It drew up a statement Many people here have another purpose. To them which included these words: a B.A. degree has a clear dollars and cents coefficient, HE FIRST TWO of the above, or countless other and every time the Labor Department provides figures Tideas, would not change the overall tone of the The democratic way of life depends for its very on how much more college graduates earn in a lifetime, University. Both have too much gimmick potential. As existence upon the free contest of ideas. This is as they undergo a pinball machine reaction of utter joy. for the intellectual vice-presidency, this is really the job true on the campus as in the community at large. frteitleta iepeiecti sral h o If students are to grow to political and social mater- NO WONDER! Society is groping desperately for new of the President. It is his responsibility to set the tone ity, no step should be neglected which will facilitate values. Pessimism and apathy dominate the times. of the University by continually speaking out, by con- the free interchange of ideas ... An intellectual atmosphere is an atmosphere of optimism. tinually redirecting this community to the academic History has repeatedly shown that the suppression It demands a positive view both of oneself and one's ideals for which this institution must stand. President Hatcher has presided over the University of academic rights not only destroys a basic right futur'e. p wh or sot s ounded bt also The University's resources remain the same as ever, in perhaps the period of its greatest change. He has been uponwhih or sciey i fonde, bt aso recdes The potential of education is there, even if unrealized, successful in many areas of a difficult job., But he has5 the suppression of other rights and ultimately leads I cannot help but feel thatthis university has a serious so far failed to enunciate those ideals. As he begins the to dictatorship. responsibility to make sure these resources are used, final three years of his job, I sincerely hope he will substantially change this image. BEYOND THE SPECIFICS of the statement lies an AND THE RESPONSIBILITY lies at the top. Individual important belief: education is the safeguard of both professors have always been and will always be IT IS WRONG to ask the impossible; but it is equally the individual and society. The "free contest of ideas" inspiring. But those people, including the chairman of wrong to consider anything impossible for the Uni- provides the framework for both progress and security. the Board of Regents, the vice-president for academic versity. The academic atmosphere of the University can This interaction of ideas is particularly crucial be- affairs and many others, who see "something missing" change. NOW COMES the little-heralded presi- dential preference primary in the Great State of Wisconsin, and here we find the greatest rinky-dink campaign of all. No-it's not the Republicans who wag- ed the late fiasco in the Great State of New Hampshire last month to the amuse- ment of most observers; but rather it's the Democrats and their little dust-up promises to be even more ridiculous than the primary in the Granite State. HIS IS THE SITUATION: That great American, Gov. George Wallace of Ala- bama, professes to nurse presidential am- bitions. So to test his mettle as a candi- date, he filed to run in the Democratic primary in Wisconsin. However, Wallace's action so enraged Wisconsin's Democrat Gov. John Reynolds that he filed as a favorite son against Calendar Candor HO WOULDN'T SYMPATHIZE with Prof. Elton B. McNeil of the psychol- ogy department? He has been victimized by, of all things, the University's "Weekly Calendar." Prof. McNeil is speaking Wednesday night at an open meeting sponsored by the University Committee on Student Counseling Services. His speech is quietly entitled "Is Counseling a Rat-Fink Opera- tion?" Somebody in the publications office must have been pretty shaken by the pro- fessor's candor because the calendar re- entitles his speech. "Preparing Today for a Different Tomorrow"--which is, in ef- fect, what the calendaring people have Wallace and promptly endowed the cam- paign with a deluge of vitriol which, boiled down, asserted that Wallace was a louse and anyone who voted for him was a bad guy. WALLACE RETORTED to this salvo by staging a vigorous whistle-stop cam- paign through Wisconsin (pausing in such bastions of liberalism as Appleton, home of the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy) and filing in the Indiana presidential pri- mary. The Indiana filing prompted some bril- liant teamwork by Hoosier Gov. Matthew Welch and Reynolds: Welch filed against Wallace as a favorite son and released the "louse-line" to the press. Reynolds stepped up the heat in Wisconsin, while Welch went through legal contortions to keep Wallace off the Hoosier ballot. IN SHORT, the Democrats are fast turn- ing their respective primaries into a free-for-all.-Their mud-slinging only eggs Wallace on to bigger things. But, what puzzles me is why Governors Reynolds and Welch are so set on smear- ing Wallace. If in fact the Alabama gov- ernor is the blackguard they claim him to be, and if in fact those who vote for him are the scourge of the electorate, then it would seem they should welcome Wal- lace on the ballot, so that he can make a fool of himself. SUCH HOWEVER is not their course. Apparently the thought of people hav- ing an opportunity to vote on George Wallace terrifies them. What are they afraid of? You don't suppose George Wal- lace might get some votes in these great Midwestern bastions of virtue? Can it be that the bad guys are really a majority after all? -MICHAEL HARRAH -H. N. B. - I u s A' S' ~ "I (UE~ WE.JIMIHAV TO TRIJ6GLE A LIXUU NAR bER..." TRETEAU DE PARIS: The(Lark':tBrilliant Theatre TODAY AND TOMORROW: Foreign Aid Revisited S ONE OF THE OLD HANDS who has been writing about foreign aid since resident Roosevelt invented what was alled "lend-lease," I find myself won- ering why the whole subject has become o stale. Some kind of vital spark has one out of the argument. The annual lea for appropriations becomes increas- igly a repetition of tired slogans. Yet I am satisfied that the reason why oreign aid has become so boring is not t all that it is useless. It is not at all, as rep. Otto Passman (D-La) and the other itter-enders say, that it is a way of hrowing good money down a rat hole. It not that we can stop giving foreign id now or for generations to come. What we must dwell on is that the roblem is ceasing to be that of providing mnergency relief for friendly countries in me of war and its aftermath. It has be- ome very largely.the problem of helping he less-developed countries build the undations oftheir own well-being. N A DEMOCRATIC government there has to be some compelling and obvi- us reason for doing so unnatural an act s giving money away to foreigners. When resident Roosevelt pushed through lend- ase in 1940, he was able to do this be- ause public opinion insisted upon it, nough of the people having realized that he measure was necessary to prevent the Lsaster which would have come from the all of an indispensable and gallant ally. When President Truman asked the Con- ress to authorize the appropriation of ome $17 billion for the Marshall Plan, he country knew that if Western Eu- >pe could not recover and be recon- ;ructed we would be left alone without rong friends and allies in a world con- ulsed with misery. This was all relatively asy to understand. 'HE MODERN PROBLEM of foreign aid confronts us because about two-thirds f mankind is poor, has become aware iat this is not inevitable and is deter- Zined to overcome its misery and its THE FULBRIGHT SPEECH: Rush's Criticisms Have Some Validity Walter Lippmaun I know-how and organization, to develop. A century and a half ago the United States was an underdeveloped country. Although it started out with great natural resources and an adult population edu- cated abroad, it could not have developed so fast had it not been for huge invest- ments of European capital. By 1913, $4 billion of British money was invested in the United States. Three- tquarters of the capital required to build our railways came from Great Britain. I have seen it estimated that if the United States today were to invest abroad as heavily in proportion to national income as did Great Britain in the 19th century, we would make loans in one way or an- other approaching $30 billion a year. At the present time, the total flow of capital-of grants, government loans and private foreign investments-from the ad- vanced to the backward world is only about $8.5 billion a year. In another few years this will be not nearly enough to do the job, especially in view of the de- clining prices of the agricultural and mineral products which represent 90 per cent of the export earnings of the less- developed countries. Thus, the real problem of foreign aid is not the one that President Johnson and Rep. Passman are wrestling with. It is the problem of devising ways by which rich countries can help meet the capital needs of poor countries. In one way or another Congress is bound to support one of the variations of the idea that the richer countries should find a generally accepted way to transfer capital to selected backward countries. This principle is followed rather well in the proposed aid budget: two-thirds of . the loan money is to go to six countries to promote their long- term development. UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO, the United States has been very nearly the sole supplier of low-cost capital to the non- Communist world. The best way to dilute our responsibility and to share the fi- .r..n..i~t 1..«~ev..e Se c ivv. . ._a _.2fn vin EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last In a four-part series dealing with Sen. ~. William Fuibrght's recent foreign policy speech. By RAYMOND HOLTON SENATOR J. William Fulbright's foreign policy speech blasting United States policy-makers' un- changing attitudes in a changing world drew much criticism from Washington officials. However, most of those who attacked the Arkansas senator's remarks dif- fered on which of its points de- served the sharpest criticism. Perhaps the most cogent cri- ticism, though, came from the highest source on American for- eign relations, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Although Rusk called the Ful- bright speech "thoughtful and thought-provoking," he strongly disagreed with Fulbrights evalu- ation of Castro's Cuba. "I think Castro is more than a nuisance. He is a threat to this hemisphere," Rusk said. Fulbright had said in his speech that Cuba is a, at most, "distaste- ful nuisance but not an intoler- able danger so long as the nations of the hemisphere are preared to meet their obligations of col- lective defense under the Rio Treaty." * * * RUSK HAS the better side of the argument. The Rio Treaty, signed in 1947 by 19 nations in the Western Hemisphere, provides for defense against aggression un- der anagreement that "an armed attack against an American state shali be considered as an attack against all American states." But the treaty is weak in two respects: first, a country-espe- cially in Latin America-can be overthrown nowadays without overt armed attack and second, there must be agreement that an attack "be considered as an attack against all American states"~ Thus, it seems the Rio Treaty would be relatively ineffective against Castro, who could use methods of warfare not covered in the document. ANOTHER point concerning Cuba as Fulbright sees it, drew Rusk's criticism. Fulbright says "the chances of gaining compli- ance" with Britain, France and other nations in our boycott at- tempt "are nil, and the annoyance of the countries concerned may be considerable." He further points out that "free-world ex- ports to Cuba have, on the whole, been declining over recent years." But, Fulbright notes, "I shou'ld like to make it very clear that I am not arguing against the desir- ability of an economic boycott against the Castro regime, but against its feasibility." Rusk replied that our economic boycott against Cuba is definitely affecting the island's economy and' that Fulbright underestimated this fact. Rusk further justified the boycott by claiming it hinders Cuba's subversive activities against other nations. In view of conflicting reports, it is hard to say whether or not our blockade is damaging Cuba economically. But regardless, it is hard to see how the blockade hinders Cuba's subversive activi- ties. THE MOST valid point Ful- bright makes in his address is that the United States should in its decisions. This tends to be cumbersome and some times det- rimental to the eventual outcome. it will take great thinkers to find a way to reconcile the difference between the moral attitude of the general public in foreign relations and a pragmatic State Depart- ment which has quicker access to vital information about foreign situations. * * * THE GREATEST effect of Ful- bright's speech is that it finally brought before the public the opinions of a well-qualified ob- server - who is detached enough from State Department activities to offer an overview of critical thought on U.S. foreign policy. He suggests that the executive branch and the State Department break away from "execessive .moralism" which "leads us to re- gard new and nfamiliar ideas with fear and mistrust," this mis- trust, in turn, leads to 'the malady of chronic and excessive caution" in our foreign policy decisions. Those who criticize Fulbright for offering "appeasement of the Communists" should be given the courtesy of 'receptive audience. But those who engage in an "enlightened debate" - which is just what Fulbright's address sug- gested-should also be given the opportunity to be heard. In his conclusion, Fulbright quotes Woodrow Wilson as saying, "The greatest freedom of speech is the greatest safety because, if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to adver- tise the fact by speaking." LETTERS: Voting for Ci/vil Rights To the Editor: HE CIVIL RIGHTS movement min Ann Arbor has a great deal at stake in the re-election of°. Eunice Burns to the City Council. For this will be the first occasion when an individual who supported the Clergyman's Ordinance is sub- ject to a "vote of confidence" in- volving possibly two thousand of Ann Arbor's citizens. Were Eunice Burns to be de- feated, the Ann Arbor City Coun- cil would have to interpret this as a repudiation of her strong stand, and it would be obligated to resist the urgings of civil rights groups to move ahead rapidly on measures to advance racial equality in Ann Arbor. There are, to be sure, other issues at stake in the First Ward race: the preservation of two- party government in Ann Arbor, protection of Ann Arbor's charac- ter from commercial erosion, and the launching of the Parks and Open Spaces Plan. But the issue of civil rights is paramount. * * * ON MONDAY Ann Arbor will be electing five members to City Council - one council member from each of the city's five wards. All five Democratic candidates are running on a platform which commits them to support a strong and comprehensive fair housing ordinance for the city, a local fair employment practices commission, and strengthening of nondiscrim- inatory provisions in the hiring FOR THE third consecutive year, the Treteau de Paris performed here before a responsive audience. This year's production "The Lark" by Jean Anouilh, dealing with the life of Joan of Arc, was presented for the first time in Paris in 1953, and since then has never ceased to enchant audiences throughout the world. Anouilh does not attempt to ex- plain the mystery of Joan: "You cannot explain Joan, any more than you can explain the tiniest flower growing by the wayside .. . There is just the phenomenon of Joan, as there is the phenomenon of a daisy or of the sky or of a bird. What pretentious creatures men are, if that's not enough for them. Anouilh recreates the most im- portant historical figures associat- ed with Joan's trial, and makes them come alive under our very eyes with the magic wand of a master playwright. From the first moment when the actors stroll on the stage and decide among them- selves where to begin the story and what to include, to the last triumphant scene of Charles' cor- onation in Rheims, we are spell- bound by the unfolding events- though we know the inevitable outcome. BUT HERE AGAIN, Anouilh plays a delightful "trick" on the onr-ann Tr n 'a ie, a r witness a particularly brilliant per- formance. The former star of the show was taken ill and had to be replaced by Monita Derrieux, who played a most moving Joan. Her acting was truly magnificient, and I cannot help but wonder why she was originally cast in a minor role. The other major roles were equally well filled. I was most im- pressed by Claude Richard as Beaudricourt and Henri Poirier as Cauchon. Some of the minor roles paled by compsarison, but the total effect was one of great com- petence. We can only be grateful to the Treteau de Paris for bringing to American campuses important French plays performed in the very best of the French theatrical tradition. -Martin Schwarz Professor of French 'THE VICTORS': The Human Cost of War At the Michigan Theatre THE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL FILM "The Victors" is an ex- plosively tragic evaluation of the toll in human dignity taken by World War II. Producer-director Carl Foreman has taken the familiar theme of man's inhumanity to man and literally shoved it down the throats of his audience. IN SEQUENCE after sequence, Foreman hammers his theme home. An aristocratic French woman (Jeanne Moreau) becomes hysterical after spending a night during an air raid alone in the rat-infested basement of her home. Grown wealthy on the black market, a Polish woman (Melina Mercouri) in her own self-interest convinces a young American (George Peppard) to desert from his regiment. Two allied soldiers-a Russian (Albert Finney) and an American (George Hamilton)-kill each other in a petty quarrel for a stirring conclusion to the film. Their two bodies fall sideways upon the around forming a V-the Allied V for victory. There are no victors