. rSenty-second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSTY OF MICHIGAN HimUNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD MN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS re Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. # ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 ruth Will Prevail" itorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. AY, MARCH 15, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH BLEIER -. e Fe Aid for Colleges Smothered by Politics N 2' J ' \ A* u+ t. rf ' r~z a s VG WM- ' ilo$ R r fti' t 1 3 r ' v-5. fih ; 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 ~SOpAEt of you Mt Cam! TNo'T t'c'&,. ,Sj'Lwis? '3>t4al .. ALGERIA: Bloodshed After Armistice? tir 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 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- cty of Miehian for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3564 Administration Building before 2 p.m., two days preceding publication. THURSDAY, MARCH 15 General Notices Faculty, College of Literature, Science, 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. k. ' 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. , * * * A,