Se, ty-Third Yemr EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF M!CHTGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBoR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail~" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Member Endorses Co-ops as Ideal' -7 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in al; reprints. 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 - Ol sk,(S /1Q t 3 r t (i f Ti- r ! '4'. t rS k k Y"a rry 4..{,' .' ^ 4 pl r . ." T Y f 4 srr .T { "Y; ,,t. , v V. o-"!}r .nib W. f(. dJ'A y f } R 1 x r 'am ............ o., t i "'Car"+. 3, ' t4 ", .. /". x; *^?iG" fem. i %"'-J yt 1. .1 [ , k+' 2"'' f iii. S"'ba" } " ;;ar' { T 2A i LM s" - , " r % ~r, , t' iri i sg sn 1 i."14+, '''; :. ::, > ' "' * " rlx 4 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 '~WT~4MY ORAINWAN1. c G? &,,4A/AA) (ii . K 3RAW N..: YouKR 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 -"- "Remermhpr When Faraway SS ts\ f 1 / H / f~) There Used To Be Places?" r