e irAld4ian itny Seventy-Third Year EDrTD AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSrrY OF MICmGAN - - UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS e Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 uth Will Prevail" torials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in al; reprints. TODAY AND TOMORROW: Johnson's Budget: No Tricks JANUARY 26, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: STEVEN HALLER DERSCORES: France Paves the Way Toward Lessening Tensions 1EN. CHARLES DE GAULLE has come in for much sharp criticism concern- g his impending recognition of Red iria. Many critics, notably David Law- ice, have accused him of "embracing" e very regime which was responsible ir "the deaths of 125,000 of our boys ring the Korean War." Others have aimed that by diplomatic recognition, Gaulle and France are giving left- anded consent to the "tyrannical re- me" of Mao Tse-Tung and his com- des. Still another faction says that rance is slapping the hand that fed and eds it-the United States-in acknowl- Iging the existence of the Communist gime. None of these charges are true. In recognizing Red China, de Gaulle is moving what has become a major road- ock to East-West negotiation, to lessen- g of world tensions, to strengthening of brld trade. He is paving the way for ad- assion of Red China into the United ations, a prerequisite to any softening 1.Chinese attitudes. He is paving the ay for American recognition of the Pe- ng regime. And he is removing what uld become-a major danger to the West . the future-an unrecognized and thus )ubly belligerent nuclear power. r USED TO BE that Western nations not having diplomatic relations with Pe- ng could carry on what relations were cessary through the Soviet Union. But is is no more. Since 1959, due to the no-Soviet rift, it has become , almost ipossible to deal with the Chinese hrough the Russians. Something has to done to re-open an avenue for rela- ons, and de Gaulle's move could become e first step toward recognition by the maining Western nations, including the ited States. It also used to be that Western nations iuld ignore the existence of the Red Linese regime because it had no chance being admitted to the United Nations. ut in recent years, United Nations votes Rat's Nest tEPUBLICAN SENATORS joyfully dig- ging out the Bobby Baker scandal of fluence peddling, gifts, reneged deals id paper profits, profess to see a new ess in Washington. Yet, they and their emocratic colleagues have assidiously rolded the greatest potetial rat's nest r corruption left-the unsupervised fi- ances of congressmen. Everyone, from the President on down, t the executive branch is required to di- st himself of all financial ties that can ove even remotely close to a conflict of terest. But not Congress. Senators and presentatives are not even required to port any potential conflicts of interest ad often act for their private, but not Le public, interest. The continued double-standard leaves a inviting temptation for corruption- s Senate employe Baker amply demon- rated. The true mess can be only clean- I up once congressmen stop putting aeir financial dealings piously above ublic scrutiny. -P. SUTIN Editorial Staff RONALD WILTON, Editor DAVID MARCUS GERALD STORCH Editorial Director City Editor LRBARA LAZARUS............Personnel Director HILIP SUTIN............ National Concerns Editor AIL EVANS................. Associate City Editor ARJORIE BRAHMS .... Associate Editorial Director LORIA BOWLES .................. Magazine Editor ALINDA BERRY ............... Contributing Editor VE GOOD..................SporEditor :M BERGER ............... Associate Sports Editor IKE BLOCK ... ........ Associate Sports Editor )B ZWINCK ............. Contributing Sports Editor [GHT EDITORS: H. Neil Berkson, Steven Haller, Edward Herstein, Marilyn Koral, Louise Lind, An- drew Orlin, Michael Sattinger, Kenneth Winter. SSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Mary Lou Butcher, John Bryant, Robert Grody, Laurence Kirshbaum, Richard Mercer, Business Staff ANDREW CRAWFORD, Business Manager TER ARONSON.............Advertising Manager EE JATHROS........... ..... Accounts Manager rejecting the admission of Mao's regime have been growing closer and closer. Last year, the margin in favor of rejection shrunk to 57-41. It became increasingly obvious that soon a nation would be ad- mitted to the United Nations that did not have the diplomatic recognition of a large proportion of its members. De Gaulle, in extending recognition, will set a precedent for the United States and assure that at least seven independent African nations-former French colonies -will recognize Red China and vote for her admission to the United Nations next year. These votes will probably be enough to gain Red China's admission. De Gaulle will in this way be forcing the United'States' hand, but in doing so will, in the words of a prominent French diplomat, "break up a major impasse in United States foreign policy in the Far East." IN MAKING his daring move, de Gaulle will also help to clear up what has been a major inconsistency in East-West rela- tions. Great Britain, among others, has recognized the Peking regime almost from its inception, while the United States, France and others have not. France is thus leading the way toward unified, con- sistent Western recognition of Red China. There will be those who claim that de Gaulle is acting with entirely selfish mo- 'tives in mind, such as the revival of French power in the Far East, and, a "third power" Europe unified around France. This may 'be true, or it may be true that some of de Gaulle's motives are more subtle than we give him credit for. We have no certain way of knowing, and it doesn't matter anyway. The point is that his actions, whatever their mo- tives, will break up a roadblock and an inconsistency in Western attitudes toward China, and will probably facilitate the en- trance of Red China into the United Nations. Thus they will have good results. The charges that this action by de Gaulle is a slap in the face to the United States or is disrespectful to the memory of our boys who died in Korea are ridic- ulous. France, in leading the way toward solution of one of our major foreign policy problems, is also acting to decrease the tensions, the belligerence, the bitterness on the part of the Peking regime which were a major cause of the Korean War, and thus of the deaths of our soldiers. To continue to ignore the Red Chinese at this point in history is to invite tensions and war. THE ACCUSATION that by recognition France is "embracing" the Red Chi- nese, as David Lawrence would have it, is completely false. Diplomatic recognition is not an act of friendship, or even of ad- miration; it is an acknowledgement of fact. The fact that we recognize the Com- munist regime of Tito does not mean that we approve of his foreign policy or his form of government. All it means is that we see that he is the ruler of millions of people, has the backing of a strong gov- ernment, and wishes to have diplomatic relations with us. That is all. The use of recognition by the West in recent years as a political tool has been merely an ef- fort at face-saving, and has in many cases -notably that of Red China - run its course and served its doubtful purpose. The time has come for a unified and consistent West to start to deal with a country which composes over one-fourth of the earth's population, threatens to be- come a nuclear power in the near future, and is at present hungry and bitter. Dip- lomatic recognition and admission to the United Nations are the first steps in this necessary direction. -ROBERT HIPPLER Logic IT IS UNFORTUNATE that the Senate Finance Committee has rejected Sen. Ribicoff's proposal to make a portion of college tuition deductible. The idea in it- self is not particularly radical; there have been many moves-some successful, some unsuccessful-to allow income tax de- ductions for activities which government By WALTER LIPPMANN THE PRESIDENT has been able to produce a budget which must seem at first glance too good to be true. But he has been able to do this because business is ex- pected to be very good during 1964, because the tax cut is count- ed upon and because there is at least an intermission in the arm- aments race. The President has been able, therefore, to reduce expenditures in t h e administrative budget somewhat, by half a billion dol- lars. He has made small increases in expenditures for welfare pur- poses, and he has made a decrease of some three-quarters of a bil- lion dollars in spending on de- fense and space combined. At the same time, because of the expanding condition of the economy and the coming stimulus of the tax cuts, he is able to pre- dict that budget receipts will in- crease by $4.6 billion. These addi- tional revenues, plus the small decrease in expenditures, are ex- pected to cut the deficit from $10 billion in the year ending ini June to less than $5 billion in the year beginning in July. ** * THERE IS no trickery about this. To be sure, this is the ad- ministrative budget, which does not include Social Security, high- ways and other trust funds. But the administrative budget is the one everybody talks about. This budget, as, all budgets, rests on estimates and guesses for a period which is between six and 18' months in the future. The budget cannot, therefore, take account of unforeseeable emergencies which may occur. Some of the figures, for example a projected decrease in agricul- tural payments of $1.2 billion, de- pend on the weather and the pass- age by Congress of certain legis- lation. The predictions about gov- ernment revenues rest on the as- sumption that Congress will pass the tax bill before the end of this winter. There is also some question whether business expanlon can be counted on to continue through next year, ,and there are those who think that some additional stimulus may be needed before the end of 1964. * * * WHILE THERE can be no abso- lute certainty about what will happen in the future, there is no reason to doubt that the estimates havebeen made in good faith and that they have not been doctored. Given the excellentnoutlook for business and the military pause, the President is in the happy po- sition of being able to reduce taxes, to have business booming and to begin the attack on' pov- erty. What is more, President John- son's political opponents should takg a good look at one of the basic and crucial choices reflected in this budget. It is a wholly "con- servative" choice. This is the de- cision to stimulate economic growth by an expansion of pri- vate rather than of public spend- ing. The Johnson budget cuts about $2 billion from the anticipated Kennedy budget for 1965. The question, then, was how to offset the deflationary effect of this cut. It could have been done by an increase in domestic and foreign spending programs. There is no doubt that the public facili- ties of civilan life need to be strengthened. But, in fact, the President chose instead to cut taxes still more by reducing im- mediately the withholding rate to 14 per cent. The effect of this reduction in taxes collected will be to add about $200 million a month to the pur- chasing power of private individ- uals. If Congress approves it, the effect will be highly stimulating to the private economy. ** * THE PRESIDENT has made the right choice, not only because it will be reassuring to many, but be- cause the country is not prepared for an increase in public spend- ing. The needs of education, health, urban renewal and con- servation will have to wait upon the solution of political issues-- as, for example, aid to church-re- lated schools-that are still un- settled or bitterly contested. Nevertheless, we must not nurse the illusion that there can be a serious attack on the poverty of the 10 million poor families of this country without a substantial in- crease in public spending. For the time being, as this budget shows, we are in the necessary phase of probing with pilot projects in order to learn how to attack the problem of poverty. But when we have learned what we need to know, and we have decided the issues on which we shall have to agree, we shall need not only an expanding private economy, but also a considerable expansion of federal. state and local spending on the public facili- ties and services. (c), 1964, The Washington Post Co. WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST: Rushing Sororities By DICK POLLINGER WHEN I WORKED on the Gargoyle a couple of years ago we did a sadistic little article about sorority rush, and I have felt faintly guilty ever since. Especially since a wholesale condemnation of the sorority system, while undoubtedly correct in its sentiments, doesn't touch the benefits which the smart girl can reap simply by taking un- fair advantage of that system. One girl, who was a freshman then, sent our article to her older brother and saved his reply. To celebrate the fact that rushing season is here again, I think it is interesting to print her brothee's letter. Along with the article there was a blank duplicate of the card which a girl finds in her dormitory mailbox when she has been bid. There was also a photograph of a young -lady, folded up into deepest bathos, sobbing her heart out in a dimly lit corner; the picture was entitled "A Thing Of The Past." * * * * TO The Edito To the Editor: IT WAS refreshing to read Ray- mond Holton's criticism in Wednesday's Daily of the big boys downtown who so peremptorily shelved the American Civil Liber- ties Union protest against police malpractice in Ann Arbor. I didn't attend the City Council meeting at which this latest instance of po- litical hypocrisy took- place, but from past observation of Mayor. Creal's machinations and from first-hand reports on how the bulls ride rough-shod over legality, I have no doubt as to your reporter's accurate interpretation. The last Council meeting I did have stomach enough to watch was, the one that gave such mon- strous birth to that false-hearted, housing ordinance which the may- or and his Keystone Kops deliver- ed with their usual surgical nice- ties. And perhaps it is fitting at this time to look back for a moment at that session, where beefed-up by extra police, under the shameless glare of fluorescent lights, and sitting in a ring on their Walt Disney bar-stools, the Authority of Mediocrity put the Negro in his place again. In the course of the proceed- ings, one Council member sug- gested an ordinance which for- bade discrimination of any sort; in other words, turn down an ugly girl for a pretty one, an uncom- fortable chair for a sofa, and it's jail me boy. Another Council member, shocked at this intrusion on privacy, opposed any ordinance for the city. After all, we're all CHRONICLES OF KINGSHIP: The Hollow Crown Worn Professionally white, Jack. Between these polar absurdities, with the church com- ' ing in for a whipping over their tardiness and their willingness to leave a few per cent of Ann Arbor's 4000 Negroes unprotected by a housing'law, the Council's own plan was "discussed" and passed. Weeks of picketing, one sit-in and the fates of thousands of Negroes were drowned out by the rapping of the mayor's toy hammer; he coughed a few times into his personal microphone, and that was that. The Negroes in at- tendance muttered and left; a couple of unmistakable landladies I had seen at the beginning of the circus had long gone. Creal must have winked. * * NONE OF this was untypical, 1 think. Neither is the violence, browbeating and negligence in in- forming Negroes who have been arrested of their legal rights, on the part of the police. For this is Ann Arbor, friend; and if you happen to be the wrong color, if your pockets are empty, if your politics are left and if in this condition you are busted: bye bye blackbird. I wou!!d like to tack one sug- gestion on here;and that is, if those of us who wish to see these wrongs righted and who have the right to vote in Ann Arbor exer- cise that rightby voting for a City Council and a mayor who do not own most of the city, then we will have the makings of decent ciy government. That is not the end of it, since political freedom without social justice is meaning- less; but it is a beginning. ,-Lewis Meyers, Grad Optimism . To the Editor: AFTER RECEIVING much pub- licity-both good and bad- we were delighted to read your excellent article about the Co- operative Bookstore. However, we fear that the reader may not be aware that the main reason for the optimism of those concerned with the bookstore concerns our future plans. The Friends of the Ann Arbor Cooperative Bookstore have now made definite plans to purchase the bookstore from the Chicago concern which now con- trols it. If locally owned, the book- store would be more responsive to the needs and desires of the Uni- versity student than is possible under the present set-up. The generous support of stu- dents and faculty in the past leads us to be optimistic that we will be able to gain sufficient membership for successful operations. -Peter Rossen-Runge, Pres. Friends of the Ann Arbor Cooperative Bookstore -Soloman Jacobson, Grad, Secy.-Treas. Service... To the Editor: IN ADDITION to attractive pro- grams like the Creative Arts Festival, the Michigan Union of- fers many efficient services like cashing checks. In my five years on campus, I have come to esteem the entire organization highly, yet with one reservation-no estab- lishment in Ann Arbor has been responsible for insulting me more. Students are arrogant at times; and unfortunately, because of the Union's public financial base, many of us are even more imper- ious to its employes than to pri- vate merchants. "Hey, Charlie, cash this," hard- ly deserves "Surely, Sir, right away." But neither does it war- rant a sneering refusal and a muttered excuse about an empty cash-drawer. I don't doubt that there are times when the desk is temporarily out of funds, and cer- THE LETTER arrived a few days later. Dearest B...... . So you are rushing the sororities. Well, there are worse things to do with your time, but it may take a 'while for you to realize that there aren't very many. You must always remember that in joining a sorority at the University of Michigan you are feasting on a white elephant. A sorority's major virtue is to cloak you in prestige, and that is quite difficult to do in any absolute way at an essentially middle class school. The most "desireable" of Michigan's sororities epitomize the thoughtless imitation of elegance which has always characterized provincial life. The university itself, you will come to learn, is quite a different matter, but its high social stu- dent element is quite embarrassing. You asked for my advice since I "have been able to get to know the various sorority girls better" in my four years there than you have yet. I will give you my "advice" in a moment, but I must first qualify it. In the first place, every sorority changes from year to year. and the girls I knew would be absolutely no guide for you; they would probably join different sororities today than they did five years ago. In the second place, sororities are rapidly going out of style in Ann Arbor, much to everyon'e relief, I am sure. In many ways, the most vital elements of the student body are the anti-social ones, who, if they do bizzaire things, at least think for themselves. However, I recognize that it is more comfortable to have a group to fall back on in between the first times when you try thinking for yourself, and so here is how I think that you should go about choosing one. * * * * FIRST, YOU WILL be sick of any sorority in the world after two years, and you will probably de-activate (which won't really break anybody's heart, but you don't have to mention your inten- tions during rush, obviously. Jealous girls can pretend to be hurt). Since you will only be there two years, your sorority's food and room provisions are not all-important, especially since most sorori- ties are pretty much alike in those respects, and worth leaving the dorm for. What you will want to look for is prestige, plain and simple. It is a curious symbiosis but the glamour that you steal from the house name you will more than repay by your individuality. But during rush, of course, you will want to find the common denomin- ator of dress, values, and behavior at the most prestigeous sorority and become that personality. One exception: don't do anything un- natural. Quiet, natural, self-confidence is more important than giv- ing Betty Co-ed a chance to look at herself in you, but that is the only thing which it is more important than, during rush. Later on, she would only compete with you and hate'you for it, but right now Betty is choosing up sides for a bigger game and will count you in if she feels at ease in your presence. She's look- ing for sisterhood-give her sisterhood. ONE OTHER tactic which is tried is to awe them. If it works, it is dazzling in its brilliance, but it very seldom works (you don't have the equipment yet) and is a perilous uphill route. At any rate, remember that you almost cannot make a mistake if you remain natural and smile. You were not brought up in a women's prison and your instinctive social reactions fit perfectly; don't block them. Add to them, if you wish, but keep calm. Two years from now you will realize, what an absurd ordeal it is to have to try to impress girls who are trying to impress you. But all that impressing generates a lot of heat and heat is well known to attract freshman and sophomore boys. I'm afraid I can't guarantee that anyone past the age of twenty will ever be impressed that you belong to any sorority, but if you think that it will make you more desireable for a couple of years, go ahead.** * IF YOU DO not get bid by an exceptionally prestigeous sorority, and you may not, because there are siply too many people in- volved for there to be anything more than a slightly random sele- tion (especially without prior connections), you are best off not joining at all. I think you can take a couple of years of the stress that comes with being on your own, and in a couple of years you will realize that you never were an outcast at all. My only regret is that grass does look greener on the other side, but that is something which is best to know as sodn as you can learn it. Like all optical illusions which can be explained, it won't go away, but you're one up on it. It is very late now, and I must go to bed, but remember that -I love you and no course of' action which you would ever take could possibly disappoint me. Love, P.. ZURICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Dis pl'ayDiscipline .a (f <3f t l a> i I .f... # " 't'.; .i ' IN A HISTORY of the English crown from William to Victoria, actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company last night provided a generally exciting theatrical ex- perience. The group consisting of four players and four musicians offered a variety of charming episodes and musicalinterludes which were fit- ted into the overall - historical survey. THE FIRST half of the program opened somewhat slowly with ma- terials from the English chronicles dealing with the early kings. With the singing of a "Ballade" by' Richard I, the account from Frois- sart of the deposition of Richard If, and Jane Austen's "partial, prejudiced and ignorant" history, the pr duction achieved its first real, success. Readings of letters and poems rounded out the first half of the bill. ** * THE SECOND half of the pro- gram, we found to be more pro- vocative. The actors seemed, gen- erally, more at home with the rel- atively modern material. The in- terludes were more lively because the human and historical elements were more perfectly combined dra- matically. Even the songs and the singers entered with spirit into the drama. In general, the use of materials from such non-royal sources as Lord Hervey, Horace Walpole and Fanny Burney added a great deal of spalkle and delight. to this paqt of the program. Our respects to Mr. John Barton who devised the revue from a vast amount of ma- terial tie has selected with intel- ]igenre, and with a successful et'- fort at humorous touches. Both in terms of staging and of the atppeal of the material the example of a very successful gim- rica.r Although the sketches and the actors entertained a large aud- ience, the total effect never the less is, as the program indicates, that of a review in which char- acterization and amusing anecdo- tal material takes the place of any penetrating analysis of king- ship. * * * THE ACTING was polished, en- joyable; and especially to an American audience the British ac- cents and manners were a delight. Especially satisfying was the ver- satility of Ann Firbank, who was convincing both as the youthful Jane Austen and Victoria; and as the more mature Fanny Burney and Mary I. Among the otherparts we liked wfere those taken from the mem- oirs of Lord Hervey, Horace Wal- pole and the Grevilles. The three gentlemen-Michael Gough, John Warner, John Net- tieton - were uniformly profes- sional. We must conclude with appre- ciation for the efforts of the ac- tors and singers whose diction and projection in the huge space of Hill Aud was a notable success. -Marvin Felhcim Richard Mercer Variety THE RANGE and variety of the United Nations' work is, of course, a reflection of the real world of the second half of the Twentieth Century - a world of multible revolutions, of fast fer- ment, of pervasive change, of po- litical turmoil. It is a reflection of the fact that with the discovery of the secret of the atom, the whole purpose of the armed strug- gile is becoming meaningless, and a .:. P ~I .5 = '. r k ' v pp -5 f ; 4 t ,t. .i.. _ :.. .,.. <..:.:,. P , d' L_ .}'. ^, e t a . , d y v ' : . Cx :. V ' rt , t F .. ...i: ,m }, J ' w_ a ,,w ">. ' h ~ r .. '..., X. '. . .' < , .....,... _.r i. b" r LAST NIGHT the audience at Rackham. Aud. was treated to an eve- LJning ofIBaroque and Classical music by the Zurich Chamber Orches- tra under the direction of Edmond de Stoutz. The group, consisting of strings, cymbals and solo flutist,.was highly polished and disciplined. Conductor de Stoutz, though stern and rigid, exacted a consistently precise sound from the orchestra. The program began with a performance of Geminlani's Concerto grosso.in G minor. Much credit for the piece's success is due to Concert- master Elemer Glanz whose delicate solos and fine leading put finish- ing touches on the composition. The strings had excellent articulation in the fast movements and the celli and basses in particular, often called upon to do tricky embellishments, showed their skill.'These lower range strings were never overbearing but were always felt in their support of the other instruments..* ALTHOUGH THE Sinfonia in E by Muller-Zurich was written in 1953, the composition is clearly classical in form and feeling. One can- not help being reminded of the music of Paul Hindemith while listen- ing to this work. The soloists were good on the whole, especially flutist Andre Jaunet, but the polyphonic nature of the piece made entrances occasionally inexact. A very suave composition, filled with lush harmon- ies, the Sinfonia often seemed too drawn-out, especially in the slow movement. Though the fast movements were driving in tempo and rhythm, the overall feeling was one of closely-knit construction, and Muller-Zurich never seemed able to break out of his structure at crucial points. If the Sinfonia suffered from a compositional stand-point, the opening work of the second half of the program-Haydn's Divertimento in F-compensated fully in this respect. This delicate and beautiful piece was a joy to hear, and its performance was perfect. The melody of