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AY, MARCH 15, 1962
NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH BLEIER
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D TO HIGHER EDUCATION, the golden
boy of the Kennedy administration, is now
ued in conference between the two houses.
he contested bill, snagged on the issue of
larship programs for college students, will
ably die without ever reaching the floor
ither house 'again. The House, amenable
ollege aid in matching grants, is plagued
. Republicans pledged to veto the bill if
larships are attached. The Senate, bent
he addition of scholarship provisions will
pass the House bill.
, aid to higher education, approved in.
ciple, will join the aid to secondary and
entary education bills in the wastebasket
he House Rules committee. However, wd
iigher education will not haves died for
orious issue like religion or constitutional-
No, this bill will have died because the
icians cannot compromise enough to aid
ges.
he Senate argues that since this bill will
he only provision for education -passed,
wish to make it as complete as possible.
se Republicans maintain that matching
ts is all the country can afford and that
larships are just a handout program.
eges and students might argue that they
d rather have something than nothing, and
the Senate and House to compromise.
VCATION DESPERATELY needs help at
very level. Because there is the chance of
ral aid, colleges and universities, the stu-
s and the public are not as worried as they
lld be over where the next educational
ir is coming from, what is more important,
t will happen if that dollar doesn't come.
Because their representatives in Washington
are debating or vetoing federal aid, the public
feels that the needs of education are being:
taken care of, when actually, the crisis is
growing.
Aid to higher education looked like a cinch to
pass Congress this year. So the administration
did not worry about it. It concentrated its
efforts on covering up the fact that elemen-
tary and secondary education was to get
sacrificed to get an education bill passed. The
least controversial recipent of aid would be
higher education. But colleges didn't foresee
that Republicans, lukewarm on the issue, could
team up with those against all federal aid to
sabatoge this bill too. The administration let
the bill make too many enemies in either form.
So it too died.
ABOUT FriV YEARS AGO the public began
to get alarmed about the financial crises
of education. That crisis is five years, worse,
and no nearer solution today. y
There are rchildren in this country going to
school in condemned buildings. There are com-
munities which cannot afford good school
teachers for their children. There are students
who never finish high school, there are able
students who cannot afford to go to college.
There are colleges which cannot afford the
necessary classrooms to teach the students they
have.i
Yet, the House and Senate cannot even
agree to give aid to colleges. Education has
been in a state of crisis for so long that the
people no longer care, and allow their rep-
resentatives to consider their political reputa-
tions over the needs of the country.
-CAROLINE DOW
AT THE STATE:
'Smoke' Lies Heavy
THE DRAMA is as heavy as the draperies in Tennessee Williams'
Summer and Snoke, now showing at the State. And you get the
feeling that Williams would like to have his name removed from the
list of credits, after seeing the Hollywood-ized version.
Frustrated Southern womanhood in the form of Alma, ("You
know Alma is Spanish for soul,") is getting the usual Williams
treatment by John (Not Spanish for anything I know of). John
comes zooming back into small-town Louisiana in his Stutz Bearcat
with his degree from Medical School and sets all the elements of
the town on their ears, ("To be a doctor-there's almost something
religious about it.") Along with Alma gentilely chasing John ("I saw
you spy on him last night when he came home,") and with John not
too discreetly chasing all the pleasures of the Moon Lake Casino
(including the daughter of the proprietor), we are treated to lush
Hal Wallis sets and droopy Spanish moss.
ALMA AND JOHN do get together for one night of (he hopes)
wild abandon, but all we get are lines like, "There are more things
between a man and a woman than respect."
Soul battles with body as tears flow and, depending upon your
point of view, the good guy wins.
The only real problem with the movie is a gross job of miscasting.
Geraldine Page perhaps deserved an Academy Award nomination for
her portrayal of Alma, but it would have been better if they had
cast someone who did not look like John's mother. John also created
problems, because he looked like he was about 22, and that's pretty
quick for a degree from med school.
Alma's -"cross" is her mother, who is the dearest old keptomanic.
She runs around stealing hats and is definitely the highlight of the
movie. Even Wallis' attempts to hide her under too much symbolism
fail to smother her, and her delightful truthfulness.
"-Malinda Berryt
RACKHAM AUDITORIUM:
Oberlin Quartet
Exciting, Precise
]7H E OBERLIN STRING QUARTET gave an excellent and exciting
concert to a medium-sized and unresponsive audience last night in
Rackham Lecture Hall.
The Oberlin College quartet-in-residence, made up of full-time
faculty members, included Stuart Canin and John Dalley, first and sec-
ond violins; William Berman, viola; and Peter Howard, cello.
Although all three works on the program were played with en..
thusiasm, Hadyn's Quartet in G major, Op. 54, No. 1, received the most
vibrant performance of the evening. Its sparkling clarity made the
audience more responsive to the work than to any of the others.
THE ENTIRE QUARTET was played with a lightness and energy
which seemed to culminate in the last movement, reaching an approxi-'
mate climax. The slowest tempo in the entire work is marked Allegretto,
but it was played more slowly than might be expected from the indica-
tion. The tempo did not make the lines heavy. The Presto finale, taken
at a ripping speed, was kept under exacting control, with the intonation
always precise. Both unusual tempos were successful.
Any work which followed Haydn was destined to be an antitclima.
But Bartok's Second String Quartet was admirably played. The ensem-
ble and balance of the quartet members showed, frequent rehearsing.
The group always played with rhythmic precision, which the second
movement, in particular demanded.
BEETHOVEN'S QUARTET in E-flat maor, Op. 127, ended the pro-
gram. The quartet's interpretation was steady, but flexible when nec-
essary. The set of variatiohs showed the ability of the various members
to bring out the individual parts without endangering the balance.
The third movement, Scherando vivace, was particularly clear In
the precision of the dotted rhythms. But the quartet's ensemble skill
was brought out particularly in the finale with the last tempo change.
ALTHOUGH ALL THE WORKS performed last night deserve and
warrant frequent repetition, and although the program was well-bal-
anced, it seems a shame that such a competent quartet does not take
further advantage of opportunities to present unfamiliar works and
make them known to the, concert audience. At least one unknown work
among standard repertoire would be welome.
--Alice Bun
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ALGERIA:
Bloodshed After Armistice?
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Parents Morals and Wisdom
By FAITH WEINSTEIN, Editorial Director
DON'T THINK the rules here are too
harsh and I don't think a majority of the
s think they are being put upon. As a
ter of fact, there is some astonishment
the small minority doing all the current
ealing. They seem to ,deny that our parents
ht have a little bit' of wisdom."
his is the opinion of Peggy Shaw, vice-
sident of Panhellenic and clearly a satis-
co-ed. Miss Shaw's statement, originally
i nthe Detroit Free Press, was picked up
he Michigan Alumnus in this month's issue,
used to counter criticism of current rules
regulations by members of The Daily
f.
s a member of the squealing minority, I may
e no right to say anything; but I think'
s Shaw is wrong. There are plenty of
ien in the dorms and ecen in the sororities
are very unhappy with women's rules
the atmosphere of constraint which they
,d. -
[ERE ARE TWO major areas of protest:
he rules themselves, and their implemen-
n. The first are occasionally infuriating,
second are what make dorm life almost
lerable.
ake fire drills, for example. Nobody really
ds fire drills in principle. They are a
ance-but 'you grab your towel, put your
on over your pajamas and head for the
rs with resignation, perhaps muttering
tly at the state fire regulations. You get
he bottom of the stairs, and the corridor
esentative takes careful roll, making sure
he, girls are out. Then you go back up the
s and roll is taken again, very carefully,
to make sure that no young lady took
towel and trench coat and lit out for.,
e Street.
:is is a petty grievance, but it is one of
multitude which plague the life of the
nitory resident. There is the smirking R.A.
waits, watch in hand, ready to slam the
as the second hand hits, 12:30. There.
the confidential evaluations that your
r counseller (who hardly knows you) fills
and sends home to your parents. Thei(
the sign-out and sign-in slips. There is
general feeling that somebody doesn't
t you.
his general feeling of mistrust is perhaps
test to tolerate. For a great number of
whose parents trusted them with a house-
and a clothes allowance, the sudden stric-
s of dress regulations and hours are hard"
ake. But the sticky self-righteousness with
h the rules are enforced by- the staff
fbers and students in charge is often close
tolerable.
E RULES themselves are often inconsis-
ently applied, seriously outdated/or based
;range ideas of what keeps a woman "safe"
1 the dangers of the outside world.
>artment permission regulations have flue-
ed remarkably over the last few years.
n the dormitories were full to overflowing'
women were living. in houses of East
ra.ale l lnseniorsere considerend suf-
became the only way to get out of the dorms
before graduation.
Now, as Markley fills, the controls become
less rigid and more girls each year have been
getting apartment permissions with more feeble
excuses, and less red tape.
W OMAN'S HOURS are outdated and, in most
cases unnecessary. Parents of this genera-
tion are generally moderate people, imbued
with at least smatterings of the ideal of teach-
ing the child to take care of himself. If there
were no women's hours, few girls would go
careening wildly down the paths of sin in
rebellion against parental rigidity. Many of
today's co-eds have been setting their own
hours since they were 16 or 17, and have
learned moderation and self-control in the
home, where such training belongs.
Any girl who is not capable of taking care
of her own time by the end of her first year
at the University shouldn't be here. The Uni-
versity does not provide enough supervision to
care for the emotionally immature or the
psychologically disturbed, and the moderate,
law-abiding, normal girl doesn't need Univer-
sity imposed restrictions to replace self-
control.
REGULATIONS DESIGNED to keep girls
morally pure are simply ludicrous. They
range from the rules prohibiting freshman wo-
men from going to apartment parties to the
regulation which effectively prevents a father
from seeing the room he pays for his daught t
to live in, except in "exceptional" circum-
stances. (Interestingly enough, these old rules
are not extended to mothers in the quads-I
suppose men are intrinsically more dangerous
than women.)
Essentially the situation 'boils down to this:
morals are instilled in the home or they aren't
instilled at all. No number of University regu-
lations will stop any girl from doing anything
she wants unless they keep her chained to the
wall.
I think the angry alumna who writes that
she is "horrified by the extent to which stu-
dent licentiousnes has been growing for the
last few years" is wrong. I don't think students
are any more licentious than they have ever
been. But if they are, it is not the University's
role to instill in them the morals the parents
neglected.
N THE FIRST PLACE it can't. The Univer-
sity is too big and too impersonal to offer
more than inadequate restraints, it has neither
the responsibility nor the ability to provide
a moral code.
In the second place, it shouldn't. To repeat
the tired old arguments, the parent, not the
University is responsible for the undergraduate,
and the University should control the underage
student only to the degree the individual
parent requests.
MISSSHAW is right. Our parents do have
"a little bit of wisdom.'* But it is the job
of n-. n.ron.. n mi. ingcition of hiL-her
By JEAN TENANDER
Daily Staff Writer
APPARENTLY the Organisation
de l'Armee Secrete in Algeria
is attempting to better its record
of 500 deaths last month. On the
eve of a cease-fire agreement be-
tween France and the rebel forces,
the SAO has stepped up its terror
tactics and within the last two
days has killed at least thirty
people. There is no reason to be-
lieve that these killings will stop
if accord is reached.
With an imminent announce-
ment of a French agreement with
Algeria, the SAO sees a prime op-
portunity for gaining strength.
They hope agreement will bring
all the slumbering desires for a
French Algeria to the surface, in
the uncommitted members of the
Army and the civilian population.
A cease-fire indicates nothing but
an increase in activity for the
Organization's gunmen.
* * *
THE SAO is something we would
like to think stems from the dark
and mysterious recesses of the
past not our own civilization. It
was hard for the Western world to
grasp the reality of the Mau Mau,
but with empty words about the
barbarism of the jungle and the
savageness of tribal Africa, we
managed to comfort ourselves.
But Algeria is not in tribal
Africa. It is here and now, and
Frenchmen who fought with ps in
World War I and World War II
are slaughtering Moslems and pro-
European Moslems by the hun-
dreds (not to mention the assas-
sinations, both actual and con-
templated, of intellectuals and
political leaders in France itself).
Algeria exists as a fact, just as
Hungary once did.
. -* * *
THE ACTUAL beginning of the
SAO goes back to 1956, when
Socialist Premiere Guy Molet sent
General Raoul Salan to' Algeria
to serve the interests of France
and to speed up the peace accord.
Although Salan fought hard
against the FLN (Front de Iiber-
ation Nationale) and declared
himself on the side of Europeans
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and the Arts: The freshman five-week
progress reports (all grades) will be
due, Fri., March 16, in the Faculty
Counselors Office for Freshmen and
Sophomores, 1213 Angell Hall.
Staff Parking Lot No. N-5-S, located
on South Thayer at the Northwest
corner of Hill Auditorium has been
closed to Staff Paid Parking as of
March 11, 1962.1
in Algeria, the pied-noirs were not
yet ready to accept him as their
leader. There was an assassination
attempt shortly after his arrival.
Not until a year and a half later
did Salan become the undisputed
commander of the forces for
French Algeria.
In 1958, when de Gaulle and
the Fifth Republic came into be-
ing, Salan was recalled from Al-
gierssand given some innocous
post in the defense bureau. De
Gaulle recognized in Salan a
serious opposition to his policy of
self-determination for Algeria and
wanted to avoid future trouble.
* * *
SALAN RETIRED from the army
in 1960 and returned to Algeria
where he has perpetrated one of
the most gruesome organizations
of terrorism in modern history.
"You must understand we are in
this country and we will never
leave," the 'SAO radio station an-
nounces sonorously to the fear-
filled Moslems huddling in the
corners of their homes. Will any-
one leave Algeria?
The competency of the SAO
makes it all the more terrible. The
staff consist of Salan and some
20 to 30 other officers who head
the three departments set up in
Algeria. These departments are
sub-divided into smaller depart-
ments.
Around this nucleus are grouped
some 1500 odd terrorists, gunmen,
and bomb specialists, 20,000 block
leaders, spies, fund raisers and
agitators, and 100,000 men on
reserve who were disbanded by de
Gaulle in 1960 as untrustworthy
allies.
* * *
THE ORGANIZATION does not
content itself with plastic bombs
and militant speeches in public
places. It is committed to brutality
and has provoked a race war be-
tween Moslem and European.
There is an almost childish de-
light in the secrecy and subver-
sive nature of its clandestine op-
erations. Orders for strikes, food
hoarding, or withdrawal of money
from the bank are obeyed almost
completely. Salan's men can send
out mobilization orders which are
complete down to even the serial'
number of the member.
It is difficult to, understand
what motivates men like Raoul
Salan and Yves Godard, chief of
operations for Salan, to turn
against all that is decent in hu-
man nature and create a machine
for the sole purpose of manu-
facturing terror and bloodshed.
Everything these men do is cal-
culated to cause the maximum
amount of fear and doubt in the
minds of the civilian population.
* * *
THE SAO reaches into every
French and Algerian city of con-
sequence and into almost as many
towns and villages. It receives
financial contributions from sev-
eral countries other than France.
A survey in late 1961 indicated
that from 80 to 90 per cent of
the European population in Al-
geria actively or passively sup-
ported the SAO. All sympathizers
cannot openly join in its militancy
ALL THE MURDERS, mutila-
tions and assassinations that oc-
cur in both France and Algeria
cannot be attributed to the SAO.
There are local groups who act
on theri own initiative but sign
the SAO symbol to their deeds.
For these independent initiators
there are reprimands or fines, de-
pendent, no doubt, on whether a
Cabinet minister or a jurist was
the victim.
In the past two years the Secret
Army Organization has haunted
the dream of every Frenchman.
He cannot glance at a headline
nor turn on the radio without
being reminded of the ceaseless
brutality % that S is. going on not
only across the Mediterranean but
in his own village.
The very air he breathes is
permeated with the blood of his
countrymen. The SAO is causingj
irreperable harm to France and
thus indirectly to her allies, but
the human harm it does out-
weighs even this.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:.
The 13-70 and Congress
By WALTER LIPPMANN
INTO the long-standing contro-
versy over the B-70 (now to be
known as the RS-70) Mr. Carl
Vinson has injected a new issue. It
is whether Congress has the power
under the constitution to over-
rule the Executive in determining'
what particular weapons the
armed forces shall have. In the
past twelve years on about a dozen
occasions, Congress has voted
money for specific military pur-
poses which the Presidents-Tru-
man, Eisenhower and Kennedy-
have refused to spend.
The controversy goes back at
least to 1949 when President Tru-.
man impounded $615,000,000 for
the purchase' of airplanes. During
the Eisenhower administration
there were more than ten cases
where the President refused to
spend some specific- appropriation
made by Congress. Now President
Kennedy is opposing the spending
of some $10 billion on the RS-70
which, he says, will be obsolete
before it can be ready to fly many
years hence.
MR. VINSON, who was the dean
of the House ant the greatly re-
spected Chairman of the House
Armed Services Committee, has
now lost patience, and has gotten
his committee to "direct" the
President to spend the appropria-
tion to produce the RS-70. He has
therefore posed the constitutional
question-which involves the fun-
damental nature of our system
of government-as to whether the
Congress has the power not only
to advise and consent, to inve/i-
gate and propose, but also the
power to command the-Executive.
If it has this power, then our is
not a government of separated
powers but a Congressional gov-'
Mr. Vinson and the Congress have
no power to compel him.
They cannot go to court. They
cannot remove the President or
his Secretary of Defense. For it
is inconceivable that Congress
would treat what has been done
so often before as an impeach-
able offense. It follows that if
Congress is unable to enforce its
will on the Executive, then it
should not use a misleading word
like "direct."
* * *
A READING of the report shows,
I believe, that the Committee is
asking Congress to assert powers
which it does not now possess.
Might we not liken the
function of the President to that
of a general who has complete
command over his forces but who
cannot dictate the precise weapons
with which his forces shall be
armed? The answer is that the
President is not a general, but the
Commander-in-Chief, and if he
A bstraction
T HE PHILOSOPHY of demo-
cracy, with its emphasis on
freedom and its practice of indivi-
dualism, does not effectively com-
pete in the sphere of Asia. Far too
many Asians view freedom as an
abstract conception, and, possibly
even a luxury, that has no prac-
tical or immediate , relevance to
their lives.
As for individualism, particularly
as it is known or believed to be
practiced in the United States, it
arouses but faint interest in so-
cieties historically built around the
family, tribe or race. Often in-
dividualism is equated with ex-
treme selfishness or extreme
wealth, neither of which is palat-
cannot decide how the forces shall
be armed, how can he make sure
that they are armed correctly for
the missions that he decides to
command his generals to execute?
Mr. Vinson wants to know it his
committee is restricted "to the
passive role of supine acquiescence
in programs handed to it by the
Department of Defense." The an-
swer is that of course it need not
be supine even though it cannot
use the power to direct. Between
supine acquiescence and sovereign
direction there is the vast and
intricate field of advice and con-
sent.
In practice this is an enormous
power in that neither the military
nor the civilians have any interest
in quarrelling, with Congress and,
as everyone knows, they lean over
backwards in their dealings with
Congress.
What the Executive cannot con-
cede to Congress is that it has
the power to "direct." For that
would be, to use the language of
the Founding Fathers, to yield to
usurpation.
* * *
NO DOUBT the controversy
with Mr. Vinson will not be carried
to the logical limits. But the issue
involved should be clear. If the
theory of the Vinson Committee
were accepted, the character of
the government would be changed
radically. For if Congress has the
power to direct the President, and
to compel him to adopt weapoiis
he does not believe in, then the
President and his Secretary of
Defense may find themselves in
the position where their choice is
to resign or to do what they be-
lieve is wrong.
That would give us a parlia-
mentary government which, what-
ever else can be said of it; is not
the American form of government.
, * * *
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