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ArY JANUARY 23, 1964
NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW ORLIN
Michigan Economy Must Not
Depend on General Motors,
IS IRONIC that how well this state is
able to teach its children and to care
its mentally retarded depend not on
w badly they need support, but on
w well Fords are selling this year.
It is ironic but it is true. The state's
w constitution requires that the budget
balanced. As a result, since revenue
m many of the state taxes depends on
e prosperity of the state economy, any-
ng approaching adequate appropria-
ns in these areas depends on having a
)d automobile year. What's good for
neral Motors may not be good for the
intry, but it certainly is good for the
te.
Yet what do good car sales have to do
th educational and mental health
eds? Gov. George Romney in his 1964
ite of the State address asks for the
istruction of new state institutions for
e mentally ill. He calls the present list
1800 mentally retarded children wait-
to get into present facilities "uncon-
onable."
Was it any less so last year when to
ve made room for these children would
ve unbalanced the projected budget?
is hard to believe that someone's con-
Memo
EMO to the Public Discussion Com-
mittee:
Last week's issue of Newsweek reports
it Common Market chief Walter Hall-
in wants to come to the United States
s spring to discuss the "Kennedy
md" of tariff talks with United States
icials. To credit his visit Hallstein is
)ortedly seeking an invitation to speak
an American university.
feed more be sai4?
-H. N. BERKSON
science would bother him less because
Detroit failed to sell seven million cars
or because he did his part to help the
state's economy by buying a new Rambler
himself.
T HE FAULT is not that of the constitu-
tion. Romney was one of the chief
architects of the document and helped
to write in the no-deficit provision. He
also insisted on having a budget surplus
both last year and this. And if he hadn't
done so, the Legislature would have.
But why? Regardless of the validity of
the argument that large deficits by the
federal government lead to inflation, such
a position has no validity on the state
level. State deficits would be too small
to effect the national economy.' Granted
that unlimited deficit spending would
necessitate that much more state income
to be diverted to paying off interest on it,
thus making it inadvisable to, carry a
large or constant debt. But there is no
reason at all not to have deficit spending
in years when income does not come up
to needed expenditures. If it seems as
though this situation is occurring too
often, the cure would be to increase taxes,
as is belatedly done now.
The sole consequence of occasional def-
icit spending would be that rather than
having roller-coaster ups and downs in
state expenditures, spending could re-
main at the the needed level through
good years and bad.
It's about time the Legislature stops
deludingitself about the magic value of a
balanced budget and takes the interests
of the state to heart. Until it does, the
mentally ill, those who hope to go on to
college and all the others that the state
hopes to serve had better pray that Gen-
eral Motors has another good year.
--EDWARD HERSTEIN
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To the Editor:
YOUR "EX-BOARDER" who
"Warns of Horrors of Co-Ops"
is not an ex-border, since he still
boards at Owen House, an Inter-
Cooperative Council co-op with a
sign on its front "picturing two
pine trees."
I have been living in this co-op
for the past two years and will
continue doing so for the coming
two years. Four semesters have
failed, so far, to "drive me homo-
sexual."
I have always approved of "con-
structive criticism" as such; but
I tried hard, and in vain, to sense
the constructiveness in Mr. Mar-
tin's criticism. If Martin was test-
ing his use of satire also he failed
to impress me, since Iconsider
satire more refined than to be
used in such inconsistent criticism..
Martin boarded for one semester
in one of nine co-ops owned and
run by the I.C.C. I am sure you
agree that that does not make
him an authorized judge of all
co-ops as being good or bad, much
less as being laboratories for the
study of animal psychology.
IT IS TRUE that in some of the
girls' co-ops members are having
difficulty trying to run the house
efficiently while making co-opers
feel unrestricted to rules such as
a dorm's or fraternity's. It is true,
too, that in some of these co-ops
the situation is getting out of the
officers' hands due to this len-
iency. But that does not make all
co-ops worm houses or maggot
houses, for that matter.
The I.C.C. may not be "famed
for its controversial decisions,"
but it certainly is doing something
to improve such girls' co-ops. For
example, 15 co-op members will
be attending the annual "Co-op'
Conference" in Toronto. A lot of
problems are discussed and solved
in such meetings; I am pretty sure
had Mr. Martin been interested he
would have joined us in going to
such conferences.
Finally, I would like to say that
living in an I.C.C. co-op in Ann
Arbor is the most ideal life for
a student, considering the fact
that he does not have to bleed his
and his parents' pockets out, in
addition to the opportunity to
meet and live with all kinds of
students.
-Afif Kanafani, '64E
Correction ,. ,
To the Editor:
MY RECENT LETTER about the
problems in women's co-ops
was meant to aply only to the
women's houses. Twice the word
"co-op" appeared without special
reference to the women's houses,
in the headline and near the end
of the letter. These were addi-
tions made without my knowledge.
The atmosphere is much different
and conditions are cleaner in the
men's houses. I am now boarding
at Owen house. I encourage every-
one to board there.
-Karl W. Martin, '64
Bookstores,...
To the Editor:
AS A STUDENT of politics as
well as English, I am both
amazed and delighted to find an
essential characteristic of the
former present in the latter, es-
pecially in such an "unpolitical"
atmosphere as the University.
Specifically, I am referring to the
odious practice of instructors or-
dering texts for a course from one
bookstore to the absolute and pre-
determined exclusion, of the
others.
Make no mistake-I am not
campaigning for the rights of
bookstores, It is just that this old
political tool becomes somewhat
annoying when it hits home-my
wallet.
Now I am not so insensitive as
to fail to redognize and sympa-
thize with the plight of instruc-
tors in obtaining obscure texts.
I certainly cannot disagree with
their method of "greasing the
ways" with patronage. My ob-
jection arises when a class is
forced to become a party to this
sort of backscratching without
knowledge or recourse.
STUDENTS WITH accounts at
other bookstores are forced to
either unbalance their budgets and
purchase through the monopoly
system or unbalance their precious
grade-points by ordering and wait-
ing.
My own reasons are purely self-
ish. You see, I want to do my own
patronizing and I want to buy
from the bookstore which has
been kind enough to grant me an
account - recognizing my honest
face and my irregular income.
Initiation ceremonies are fre-
quent in literature. It is seldom,
however, that one has the oppor-
tunity of recognizing and'.exam-
ining them in progress. My thanks
to those kind instructors in in-
itiating me to the political "reali-
ties" of the University in their un-
holy alliance. I can only hope that
this letter makes them somewhat
more cautious and, in keeping
with tleir sophistication, more
subtle.
--George A. White, '65
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
The Realistic Gen. De Gaulle'
Regents Should Allow
ISA President on SGC
HE REGENTS today will decide wheth-
er to yield to a "minority report" of
ven Student Government Council mem-
rs. These members want to rescind a
)tion to make the International Stu-
nts Association president an ex-officio
Council.
Although on Nov.120 SGC voted to add
e ISA president, some minds have ap-
rently changed. I n t e r - Fraternity
uncil President Clifford Taylor made
unsuccessful motion last week to with-
aw the motion.
Taylor's reasoning is that ISA, he
tiris, "differs intrinsically from most
pups represented on this body in that
represents a special segment ,of the
ident body." But, contrary to Taylor's
erconfidence, the fraternity system is
o a "special segment" of the student
d1y: it is not, certainly, the entire stu-
nt body.
Taylor also charged that the group was
a by a "power elite," but apparently he
did not feel compelled to produce any.
facts to support his view.
There are 1500 foreign students on this
campus, many more students than work
in the relatively limited committee struc-
ture of the Michigan League, which sends
its own ex-officio to SOC. This is not to
imply thAt leaders shouldn't be recruited
from maj or campus groups, regardless of
their representative validity. But there
is no reason to believe that the frater-
nity system or the League is any more
deserving of a representative on Council
than international students are; all ma-
jor campus organizations represent mi-
norities, and some minorities are no less
equal than others.
Indeed the presence 'of Adalemo and
future ISA presidents may work toward
altering the parochialism which Taylor,
and those who voted for his motion,,
displayed in seeking to remove the ISA
ex-officio.
-MARILYN KORAL
By WALTER LIPPMANN
THERE IS little reason to be
surprised or mystified by the
news that France and Red China
will establish diplomatic relations.
For a long time Gen. de Gaulle
has been saying that there would
be a schism in the Communist
world between Russia and China
and that when that happened it
would be necessary to have diplo-
matic relations with both Com-
munist states.
Until the Sino-Soviet break, it
was possible to deal with China
through its overload in Moscow.
After the break, channels would
have to be opened with Peiping.
Gen. de Gaulle, we must remem-
ber, does not share the American
theory that diplomatic relations
carry with them a kind of moral
and political ratification. The
French hold the traditional view,
which used to be our own view as
well, that diplomatic recognition is
the recognition of a fact, that the
government recognized is in fact
the government. Most European,
and indeed most otner govern-
ments, take this factual and quite
unemotional view of diplomatic
recognition.
* * *
NOR IS THERE any mystery as
to why Paris and Peiping are re-
suming relations now, rather than
a year ago or a year hence. Quite
recently, presumably as a result
of the visit to China of M. Edgar
Faure, the Peiping government
made the essential concession.
Formerly, it would have insisted
that France must break relations
with Formosa as the, condition of
resuming relations with mainland
China.
On this, Peiping has given way.
Gen. de Gaulle is no longer being
asked to abandon Chiang Kai-
Shek in order to have relations
with Mao Tse Tung. Almost im-
mediately after this concession
was made, Gen. de Gaulle took his
decision.
It marks a very significant turn
in the relations between Red
China and the non-Communist
world. For it opens the door, or
at least unlocks the door, to a
general recognition of the reali-
ties in the Far East-that the
government in Peiping is in fact
the government of "China" and
that the government in Formosa
is in; fact the government of For-
mosa. Certainly, as Monsieur
Faure has said, while it can be
argued that Formosa belongs to
China, it cannot'be argued that
China belongs to Formosa.,
We have been in the habit of
describing the result as a "two-
China policy." This turns out to be
a misleading description of a good
thing. For none of the Chinese,
Red or white, will admit that there
is more than one China. The ac-
curate description of the real situ-
ation is to say that there is China,
of which the capital is in Peiping,
and that there is an independent
Formosa, of which the capital is
in Taipei.
The problem of the future is to
work out a relationship between'
these two entities-be it indeper.-
dent separation, internationally-
anaranteed nnutraiionnof For-
and Formosa are not recognized,
no settlement will ever be pos-
sible.
We must now expect to see
many practical results from the
action taken by Gen. de Gaulle.
There is bound to come the ac-
ceptance of Peiping as the govern-
ment of China in the Security
Council of the United Nations..
The question then will be wheth-
er Nationalist China will still be
granted and will accept a seat in
the General Assembly. Much will
depend on whether Chiang Kai-
Shek accepts the situation which
Gen. de Gaulle has created or in
a mood of anger opposes it and
MICHIGAN:
Deadly
'Terrors'
OH, FOR the good ol' days when
monsters were monstrous and
horror films could scare. But now
humor is the style and with "A
Comedy of Terrorrs," now at the
Michigan Theatre, the horror
movie is just horrible.
"The Raven" started it all over
again by combining the talents of
Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in
a farce that was both original and
often clever. "A Comedy of Ter-
rors" is neither.
The movie is long and never,
subtle, the color blurry and the
jokes as lively as the corpses that
Price and Lorre bury. Boris Kar-
loff seems mummified in a role
that allows him little room to
show his particular talent. Even
Rhubarb the cat has equal time.
Basil Rathbone is nauseous. Joe
E. Brown fills up space.
~** *
WHAT THERE is of worth in
an otherwise deadly film belongs
to Joyce Jamison and Peter Lorre.
They manage to dig up old jokes,
dress them in fresh clothes and
have a ball. The two are both
humorous and delightful.
But Vincent Price gets carried
away and buries the whole thing
again with his sloppy and hammy
a c t i n g. Constantly overacting,
Price is the real cadaver. It's sadly
apparent now that Lorre and Price
together are a poor substitute for
Abbott and Costello.
So lament for the horror films
that scared and the funny 'films
that amused and hope that Shock
Theatre never has to stoop to dis-
turbing the coffin of "The Comedy
of Terrors." It deserves to rest in
piece.
-Hugh Holland
Evidence
- -ALSO, the evidence is too
overwhelming to admit of
any doubt among realistic Ameri-
canists that Lee Harvey Oswald,
like every Communist who com-
mits any crime having to do with
breaks relations with France. If
he does that, nothing will give
greater pleasure to Peiping.
* * *
LOOKING BEYOND the ex-
change of ambassadors, we can
see now that more than a formal-
ity is intended. France is re-
entering the Far East as a great
power. If we are wise, we shall
welcome. her, knowing that our
solitary eminence and our isolated
role in the Far East, which are
the unplanned results of World
War II, cannot endure forever.
Our isolation in the Far East
has fostered in this country a
neurotic jingoism about any coun-
try which differs with us and
does not keep in step. But the
postwar period is ending in the
Far East as it has ended in Eur-
ope, and Gaullist France will not
be the last country to act accord-
ingly. We must expect to see this
in Japan.
In my view, we should welcome
Gen. de Gaulle's advice, his help,
his influence, which is greater
than many of us realize, and his
initiative. For without his help
there is no prospect that we shall
be able alone to extricate ourselves
honorably from the entanglement
in Southeast Asia.
GEN. DE GAULLE told Presi-
dent Kennedy when they met in
Paris in 1961 that no military
solution is possible and that it
would be necessary to seek a
political solution. This was the
judgmentsof an old hand. For the
French were in Indo-China for
about 80 years. They fought an
eight-year war' in Indo-China
They are far from a stupid people
and quite able to look at the facts.
Gen. de Gaulle is a military think-
er of the very first rank.
No doubt the administration will
go through the formalities of pro-
testing against the French de-
cision. But let it not allow itself
to be angry and nurse a grievance
about an achievement for which,
because it takes the situation off
dead center, we shall in the days
to come be grateful
(c), 1964, The Washington Post Co.
WHAT KIND OF WORLD?:
A merica' D ivides-
into Two Natons
By ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
EVIDENCE accumulates that we
are becoming two nations, one
employed, the other not; one pro-
ducing and consuming, the other
consuming only.,
The employed nation is produc-
ing and consuming more than the
two together produced and con-
sumed before. The unemployed na-
tion is consuming less and pro-
ducing nothing.
The size of the unemployed na-
tion is steadily growing, and the
end is not in sight. The size of
the employed nation is steadily de-
clining, but its production con-
tinues to increase.
The unemployed nation is con-
scious of the employed and con-
scious that the gap between the
two is widening.
The employed nation is scarcely
aware of the unemployed and
makes its plans as though the un-
employed nation did not exist.
** *
A PERSONAL experience will il-
lustrate.
One of my classmates is the
head of the research department
Elliott Deserves 'Coach'.Award
of one of the biggest firms in
Wall St~reet.
IWasked him how things looked,
and he replied that they looked
good. He had just attended a large
meeting of bankers and financial
analysts at which the consensus
was that things looked good.
He listed the items that made
them look that way-retail sales,
car loadings, automobile produc-
tion, personal income, corporate
profits, and so on. He thought we
could go onward and upward for
some time and that eventually a
tax cut would come along to bol-
ster us up if we started to sag.
I SAID, "How about unemploy-
ment?"
He answered, "There were 80 of
us at the meeting I was telling
you about. W'Ce sat there for two
hours. Unemployment was not
mentioned once."
This suggests either that the
leading financial expertshof the
country are appallingly ignorant,
which seems unlikely, or that we
are living in a new kind of world.
FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS, em-
ployment and prosperity were sup-
posed to go hand-in-hand. "Pur-
chasing power," resulting from
high employment at high wages,
was the theme of Franklin D.
Roosevelt's domestic program,
My classmate and his colleagues
in the prophecy game must know
unemployment is large and grow-
ing. They must know nothing is
happening, or seems likely to hap-
pen, that will reverse, or even
modify, the trend. Therefore, they
must be assuming that a shrink-
ing proportion of the population
can support an expanding propor-
tion and that the country can re-
main prosperous in the process.
Maybe so. Seven per cent of the
work force is now required to feed
us, as against 50 per cent a few
years ago. They have piled up such
surpluses that we have even been
willing to sell wheat to the Rus-
sians.
Science and technology have
made this possible. They can do
the same for industry. They can
even do it for many of the service
trades and white-collar occupa-
tions. And since they can, they
will.
IRLIER THIS YEAR, Texas football
coach Darrell Royal was named Coach
the Year by his fellow coaches across
country. But Royal's credentials for
s award are not as impressive as they
uld be. To the contrary, the award
uld have gone to. Pete,. Elliott of Illi-
s.
a giving this distinction to the Texas'
:tor, the coaches considered the Long-
ns' 11-0 season record, its national
king (first on both the AP and UPI
Is) and its impressive 28-6 victory over
ry (second in the nation) in the Cot-
Bowl.
lliott was not as impressive with his
omplishments. His team had a meager
-1 season record, was .rated third in'
nation and defeated unranked Wash-
bon, 17-7, in the Rose Bowl.
[AT DARRELL ROYAL is one of the
best football coaches and recruiters
he nation goes without saying. Never-
dramatically, through his own effort, to
improve the caliber of his team's play.
Royal's Texas team has been a honed
championship unit for several years due
to the coach's excellent recruiting and
playing standards. In 1962, Texas won
every game on its schedule except for a
tie with Rice. In the past four years it
has captured or shared the Southwest
Conference crown three times, and hard-
ly a year has gone by in recent times
when Texas has not been ranked in the
top ten every week. Therefore, Texas'
good year under Royal was not unex-
pected.
WHEN PETE ELLIOTT took over the
reins at Illinois in 1961, he had lit-
erally nothing. That first year his team
won.no games and in 1962 they won only1
two-startling upsets over Purdue and
Michigan State.
Elliott went from rags to riches in just
three seasons. He went out and recruited
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