Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS tere Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. ANN ARBOR MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" :ditorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This inst be noted in all reprints. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Y, MARCH 29, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH BLEIER City--State Confli ct.et Hinders Michigan's Progress (7 rA S; / JJ y c* low/ "r/ **mop- 4 .." iIY .y ^'Me 0 'STILL AT IT': JGP Serves Up Musical Feast EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE there appears a theatrical experience so profoundly moving that real life pales into trivia beside it. In the canons of the American theatre, one can hardly find plays which ap- proach Still At It, let alone name its equal. The play is all the rarer for its music; not since Wagner have libretto and score been so integral in each other. Certainly never before has Ann Arbor been regaled to such a banquet of musical comedy as the Junior Girls' Play presented last night. THE PLOT EXISTS PRIMARILY on four leyels, but there is verti- cal tension as well as the fourfold horizontal conflict(s). Creaky Rock, which even in name is a symbol for that paradoxical unsound-sound- ness of today's America, is a small town whose major problem is liquor. Combating the liquor problem (its symbolic counterparts are too ob- vious to even mention) is a committee of proper townswomen, headed by Kay Pearse. Spearheading the moonshine movement are Ellen O'Brien, (Jenny) and her mother (Maw), Gail Winsky. Miss Winsky's roommate, Judy Berne, plays a hillbilly. * * * * TO MENTION any more of the plot would do no justice to its infinite delicacy. For instance, consider the following motif from the second act, innocent-looking enough, on the surfacer I I EGARDLESS of the final result of the Con- stitutional Convention, it seems clear that :-e will be no significant rearrangement, of. slative districts. The Republican out-state :rests will probably continue to overpower Democratic Detroit-area interests in the islature regardless of the vast difference he population they represent. he death-struggle between Detroit andthe Dl areas has never been so intense as it is and unless some means is provided for ng the metropolitan concerns an equitable aber of spokesmen, the r'ural' Republicans continue unchecked in their attempts to z the city; even if this involves ruining nselves in the process. ural warfare on the interests of the city fully in evidence last week as the Legis- .re passed a bill forbidding cities to levy, es on the incomes of anyone not residing the city proper. The, action was a direct at, of the plan of Detroit Mayor Jerome anagh to tax the incomes of Detroit resi-' ts and residents of nearby communities work within the city limits of Detroit. epresentatives whose constituents would be uded in such a levy pleaded with great >tion and elequence the injustice of "taxa- i without representation" for those who outside Detroit. "We pay taxes in our 1 commhunities," the arguments ran. "We pay roit for our water and our sewage disposal. en we go to the city to use its recreational lities we pay for them and we pay for king our cars. Why should we pay taxes ;upport a city we don't live in?" ESIGNED TO APPEAL to the motives which once led to the Revolutionary War, these uments are irrefutable, except by the facts. y are these: Detroit has a debt of $41 mil- Detroit has no way of clearing up the t except by money raised through an in- e tax. With its richer residents moving out he city in ever-increasing number, Detroit longer has a big enough tax base. That then is supposed to happen to Detroit? rural legislators would undoubtedly like ;ee it disappear from the map of Michigan ig with the mysterious "threat" it seems to e to them and their constituents. o one seems willing to recognize the fact t without Detroit there would be no jobs' commuters. There would be no recreational lities for visitors. There would be no shop- g center for millions of people and there LId be no market for the produce of the al constituents of the Republican legis- ETROIT within the last few years has made progress which would have seemed un- believable to its own citizens a decade ago. With the demolition of waterfront slums, new hous- ing and new public buildings are going up. With the construction of Cobo Hall, important conventions and conferences are making their headquarters in Detroit. It is absurd for the rural interests to pre- tend that no one but the Detroit residents benefit from the progress made in the city. It is equally wrong for Detroit to pretend that it is not dependent to a considerable extent upon the support and products of the rural dis- tricts, and it is foolish for either the* metro- politan or the rural interests to forget that to most of the country Detroit represents Mich- igan and it is only because of the existence of Detroit that Michigan is able to maintain its image as a sophisticated, progressive state. A WARto the death between the city and the country is self-defeating for both sides. Factionalism within the state is the greatest hindrance to its progress, just as it is within the nation. Citizens of Detroit and citizens of rural communities must feel that they are residents of the State of Michigan before they, are residents of their own localities, just as they must feel they are citizens of the United States before they are citizens of Michigan. The only way to achieve the greatest bene- fits of all factions is to recognize a mutal interdependence and a mutual interest. There is no more justification for citizens of Detroit and the Upper Peninsula to be natural enemies than there is for citizens of Lansing and Ann Arbor to be enemies. Any reorganization of existing legislative structures which would require greater coopera- tion between the various factional interests, are therefore desirable both practically and theo- retically. A good beginning would be fair representation for the Detroit voters which would force a great deal of mutual com- promise and problem solving in the Legislature. It might end the allegiance of all out-state interests rallying to defeat any proposal which seems designed to benefit the city. Cavangh's tax plan is probably not the answer to Detroit's fiscal problems. A state- wide income tax, distributed according to the needs of the various localities would benefit not only Detroit, but other needy areas as well. Such a plan or any like it will get nowhere as long as the Republicans are solidly for them and the Democratic governor solidly for them. If the Detroit area were adequately represented, the plan would at least get a fair debate and chance for compromise. JUDITH OPPENHEIM 7- V..ti .. . _ _ t.. _ . IF ;' ' v \~~li of,. This brief excursion into the minor mode cannot but forewarn of the cosmic doom which impends-and has been impending since a poster in the first scene proclaimed: "LIQUOR LOSES." Linda Herid, as a newspaperwoman, of course symbolizes the pathetic tendency of a corrupt society to flagellate itself secretly. But there are bright moments, too; consider these lyrics: Men are late for dinner,/Then the main course begins. As you may well imagine, there were fully 17 curtain calls last night and then pandemonium broke loose. -Victor Calcaterra LETTERS TO THE EDITOR joint Judic, SGC Violate Election Trust .. r9 E'ay "t"om c,.fA+rsit/ t5'tad 37 TODAY AND TOMORROW: A iken-Jackson Vs. By WALTER LIPPMANN RECENTLY, the UN has come under sharp criticism from some of its old supporters, notably Sen. Aiken and Sen. Jackson. Their criticism comes at a time when the UN itself may be said to be successful but insolvents~ to be achieving a great purpose but bankrupting itself in the process. The UN is on the way to being successful in, its most difficult ex- periment, which has been to pac- ify the Congo, and prevent a con- frontation of the great powers. It is insolvent because a group of nations, and particularly the So- viet Union and France, are re- fusing to pay their share of the cost of the experiment. In this condition of affairs the Senate is about to debate and vote on the proposal to fund the defi- cite and provide working capital to keep the UN afloat during.the next year or so. *. * * WITH SEN. AIKEN, who is the chief critic of the bond plan, there can be no dispute when he says that "the sickness of the UN is' not financial sickness alone . .. it can be cured only by drastic action at an early date-action which will continue the UN as a truly multi- lateral organization and not per- mit it to become constantly de- pendent upon the beneficence of the United States." This is the precise reason why the bond plan was put forth by our officials and it is the crucial reason why so many of us favor the plan. For there is no other plan before us which deals direct- ly with the problem of making all the members of the UN pay their share of operations like Congo and Palestine, and ending the grossly corrupting fact that we now pay nearly 50 per cent of the cost of these operations. For. although we would loan one-half of the money, we will bear only one-third of the cost of bond re- tirement. * * * "THE SICKNESS of the UN" is that some members are refusing to pay their assessments, other members cannot pay them, and others are a mixed bag of coun- tries who want to pay, cannot pay, and are waiting to see. As of Feb. 28, 1962, the UN was owed $77 million on assessments for Palestine and the: Congo. The chief countries refusing to pay were the Soviet Union and the East European satellites, France, Belgium and Cuba. Their total delinquency was $56 million, of which $44 million were owed by the Communist bloc, about $10 million by France and Belgium, and about one-half million by Cuba. Besides this, nearly $8 mil- lion were in default by Nationalist China, not because it refuses to pay but because it cannot. This accounts for over 80 per cent of the deficit. The problem of curing the sickness of the UN is to find ways of compelling, in- ducing and enabling all members to pay their share. The more I have studied this problem with its massive documentation, the more I am convinced that if there is any solution, the bond plan will meet the problem. * * * HOW WILL it solve the prob- lem? The bond plan is based on the assumption that during the summer the World Court will de- clare in an advisory opinion (which has been requested by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly) that assessments to pay for operations like Palestine and AN Court e in bricts Che nness nt of s in n b ided ularl lity d ssed ude t ENDJ of S appe a Su wn a tha rura a bas lowe' d Sc on i ndat citie ,t, w Pulatb ve th Schol the prese houg ctly the ambe a, w the c a in in tionn Seholle and the Supreme Court' HISTORIC 6-2 decision, the Supreme ministration, the state supreme court, and the t has decided it has the power to inter- House of Representatives. They lack only con- the apportionment of state legislative trol of 'the state senate, and they want that s. too, for a complete monopoly. case is Osborn et' al vs. the State of ee. The issue is that the last apportion- SINCE SCHOLLE is an intelligent man, he f state assembly districts in Tennessee cannot honestly believe that there is any- 1901. The population has shifted since thing legally wrong with the way the senate ut the districts have not. The Court districts are apportioned. Forty-eight other that the state must reapportion ftself states do it that way too. Therefore Scholle's y to keep up with the times. objection must be that his fellow city dwellers dwellers all over the country have ex- don't control the Senate, along *ith the other jubilant optimism, but perhaps they three bodies.' hemselves, especially in Michigan. This is a somewhat selfish motive, but more than that it is unrealistic. Almost one-half ING BEFORE the high court is the case (47 per cent) of Michigan's population is con- cholle vs. the State of Michigan, now centrated in three counties-Wayne, Oakland al from a split decision in Michigan's and Macomb, which make up the Detroit preme Court. The state jurists turned metropolitan complex. These are the city dwel- AFL-CIO President August Scholle's lers on whose behalf Scholle objects. Would at the state Senate, composed largely it be fair to give full control of Michigan to 1 senators since it is selected on an 47 per cent of its people, concentrated in three sis, was illegal. ' of its 80 counties, in a very small corner of the ver, the two cases are not the same, , state? Decidedly not. The other 53 per cent holle must realize that. The court's de- of he people, far-flung and divergent as they .n'the Tennessee case was far from a might be, deserve some voice too. e to apportion all legislatures in favor It is for just these people that 49 states s. Rather it was an isolated decision and the federal congress have a house not hen a state refused to reapportion its based on population-the Senate. And in the ion-based districts, the federal courts 200 years this country has existed, the right e right to step in. of the country dwellers to representation has le's case is different. He is not protest- been respected. apportionment of Michigan's House of Now Scholle would ask the nation to cast ntatives-the population-based chamber this representation aside. His request can only 'h oddly enough it is not apportioned sound selfish. according to population. He is protest- apportionment of the Senate, the BUT LET US analyze the relatiois between r traditionally selected on the basis of Scholle and his labor unions and the Sen- ith a minimum population factor. ate. Scholle's own appointment as chairma& ourt probably will not consider Scholle's of the State Conservation Commission has been' the same light as the Tennessee case, pending before the Senate for years, awaiting Tennessee the issue was improper ap- approval. The Senate consistently strikes down ment. In Michigan, the issue is political legislation to increase the power of organized labor. The Senate is predominantly Republican. Scholle is an outspoken Democrat. UGHOUT HISTORY in our 50 states, There is more to the story, because it is a t of them have had a two-house or feud which has been dragging out for years. al legislature. The lower chamber, the Thus it is not inconceivable that Scholle should is apportioned on the basis of popula- want to change the Senate. It hasn't been at ne representative for every, so many all helpful to Scholle. The upper chamber, the Senate, was But personal vendetta should not be an issue oned by area: one senator for every in apportionment. And just because Scholle na. .nimin nn., does not like the Senate does not make it The UN the Congo are-within Article 17 of the Charter-"expenses of the organization" which "shall be borne by the members as appor- tioned by the General Assembly." Sen. Aiken, I might say at once, is one of those who confidently jbelieve that this will be the ruling of the World Court. If it .is not the ruling, then all bets are off and there is no way now in sight by which the special operations of the UN can be financed. If, however, it" is the ruling, then Article 19, of the Charter begins to bite: A member "shall have no vote in the General As- sembly if the anount of its ar- rears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years." Unless the UN figures are wrong, this will mean, we believe, that if the Soviet Union continues to refuse to pay, it will in 1964 be disqualified to vote in the General Assembly. THERE HAVE BEEN some mis- understandings in the Senate on this crucial point. For example, Sen. Keating of New York asked, "If the Soviet Union . . , should decide that it will not pay its assessed portion of these opera- tions, would (it) not lose its right to vote until the period of many, many years had passed," perhaps, said Sen. Keating, "ten or twenty or thirty years." Sen. Aiken's answer that this was indeed the case was not cor- rect-unless he assumed an un- favorable Court decision. In 1963 the sum of the Soviet Union's past two year's assessments will be nearly $50 million and if it rejects the expected ruling of the World Court, it will be $46 million in arrears. Its margin of safety will be down to $3.6 million. In the following year, 1964, the Soviet Union's assessments for the past two years will be down to $37 million But its delinquency will be $46 million and it will be $9 million to the bad, even if it pays its full regular budget assess- ment. Under the Charter the So- viet Union will lose its vote in the General Assembly. * *.* THIS IS the compulsion behind the UN bond plan..There is also a moral compulsion. Some of the deliberate delinquents, for example France, argue that the General Assembly has no legal power to raise money for operations like the Congo. Presumably, if the World Court decides against the French contention, France as a law-abiding country will pay up. What the Soviet Union will do is anybody's guess. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, the bond plan makes it easy for every member to participate. It does this by keeping the interest low and making the bonds payable over a long time. This is the way, if there is a way, to make the UN that "truly multi-lateral organization," which Sen. Aiken wants it to be. Finally, it has been said, that we ought not to lend money to the UN at 2 per cent when the To the Editor: JOINT JUDICIARY Council has declared the election of literary college class officers invalid. We wish to state our position on the action taken on this matter by Joint Judic and SGC. The Senior Board entrusted the administration of the election of class officers for four (4) colleges to SGC. The senior board paid for this service. SGC violated this' trust through the following ir- responsible acts: 1) Poll workers were neither responsible nor trained in man- ning polling places. (There was no meeting of poll workers prior to election day.) Consequently, voters signed voting lists for an election other than the one in which they voted; persons voted without sign- ing lists; ineligible persons were allowed to vote;, ballot boxes were "stuffed." 2) SGC election officials were negligent in omitting a candidate's name from the ballot. The ballot either was not proofread, or elec- tion officials failed to send the candidate's name to the printer. WE FEEL that Joint Judic is subject to reproach for its im- prudent handling of the situa- tion. 1) Senior class officers-those who originally authorized the elec- tion-were at no time consulted in the course of the procedings. Surprisingly accurate rumors were "leaked" through various sources. 2) Joint Judic ruled on the en- tire election on Sunday, March 25, yet only the Sharon McCue decision was released immediately. For some occult reason, character- istic of Joint Judic procedings, the decision to invalidate the en- tire election was not announced until Tuesday night. 3) Having personally checked the election lists on edunt night, we doubt the accuracy of the statistics released by Joint Judi. As we have observed, many stu- dents in the literary college signed lists for other elections. This mis- take is an unimportant one for which Judic could easily have compensated by checking the lists of the other schools. 4) We question the standards by which the validity of the elec- tion was judged. The' percentage of "bad" votes required to 'in- validate the election was not stat- ed before the election. If the election deserves to be invalidated, the blame, rests on SGC for poorly administering it, and on Joint Judic for establish- ing standards in the course of the procedings. It is unfortunate that a senior class can't find any- one to run an honest election. -Roger Pascal, '62 President, LAS Senior Class -Paul Lurie, '62 Vice-President Buses, Integration,, To the Editor: GET REALISTIC Mr. Kraut- how feasible do you think this obscure transportation plan is? It's more than a question of "minor The parents of these Negro children won't pay the extra money for the bus fee, mainly because they haven't got it. The taxpayer, white and Negro, won't be willing to pay the fee, especially when schools are available and specifically allocated to accommo- date each school district. In ad- dition, most of the schools in De- troit are horribly over-crowded and just how do you propose to alleviate the already cramped con- ditions once extra children are transported to these schools all over the city? Will you bus white children to Negro schools? Just try to make such an impractical plan work! The first problem to work out is getting enough funds through mi- lage and taxes to alleviate the crowded conditions in the schools -first things first, Mr. Kraut! OH, ONE MORE THING: De- troit, as was quoted in the article, is segregated on a housing basis; in other words it's not a matter of social injustice at all, but social preference on the. part of both whites and Negroes-and don't think it's any other way in De- troit! Negroes can move into any area in Detroit,. with the same freedom, as for example Jewish people-and they do; all areas of Detroit have a growing and ex- panding Negro population and in due time integration will evolve by a natural process. So hold your horses, Mr. Kraut -and be practical. Considered on monetary and realistic grounds your plan is ridiculous and would cause more harm than "a minor traffic problem!" By the way, just as an object lesson (and you could use one) why don't you go to Detroit and take a look at the schools and their respective resi- dential districts; there's no such thing as unequal educational op- portunities in Detroit as far as facilities go; facilities are as equal as possible, taking the financial condition of Detroit, its residents rand the school board into consid- eration; no public school in De- troit is perfect, but all are equally imperfect. It's evident from this article that you're merely repeating what you've read or heard and have never had any contact with De- troit. If you have been in Detroit or are a resident of the city, its about time to open your eyes and get off your idealistic high horse! -Johanna Silver, '63 Small Town Mind ... To the Editor: MICHAEL HARRAH in his edi- torial about Romney shows he lacks the integrity that he criti- cizes Romney for having. I do not believe a man should be -,on- demned because he sticks by the basic issues he believes in even if they appear to an ignorant minority as being ridiculous. Harrah criticizes Romney on his stand on the important issues of the John Birch Society, state wide income tax, and reapportionment, because they are unpopular to the Victorian out-state voters. Harrah 4 I 4 -1 I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- ' sity of Michigan 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 29 General Notices June Teacher's Certificate Candidates: All requirements for the teacher's cer- tificate must be completed by May ist. These requirements include the teach- er's oath, the health statement, and the Bureau of Appointments material. The oath should be taken as soon as possible in 1203 University High School. Sports and Dance-Women: Women students who have completed the physi- cal education requirement who wish to register electively may do so in Barbour Gym (Main Floor) on Thurs. and Fri., March 29 and 30. Registration hours are 8 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Events Thursday Great Star Series: Dame Judith An- derson appears tonight at Hill Aud., 8:30 p.m., in her two most famous roles: Medea and Lady MacBeth. The Events Friday Contemporary Music Festival: Begin- ning Fri., March 30, and continuing through Tues., April 3, the School of Music will sponsor the Second Annual, Contemporary Music Festival. The first program scheduled for 8:30 p.m., Hill Aud., will be the University of Michi- gan Symphony Orchestra and members of the University Choir under the di- rection of Josef Blatt, with Louis Kras- ner, guest violinist. Compositions they will perform are by Honegger, Finney, and Schoenberg. All programs open to the public without charge. Astronomical Colloquium: Fri., March 30, 4:00 p.m., The Observatory. Dr. Donat G. Wentzel will speak on "Ac- celeration of Electrons Near Solar Flares." Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Donald Pelz, Survey Research Center, will dis- cuss "A Study of Scientific Personnel" on Fri., March 30 at 4:15 p.m. In Aud. B. Coffee hour in 3417 Mason Hall at 3:45 p.m. Placement Teaching Interviews for the week of Mon., Apr. 2-5. WED.. APRIL 4- Believue, Mich-Band, Home Ec., SS/ Engl., Jr. HS Math, Shop/Sci. Allen Park, Mich.-K-6, Sp. Ed., Ment. Handi., Visit. Teach., HS Engl., Math, RO nost rner se, i :o le. )rtio