Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. 0 ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" FACULTY ASSOCIATES: Schizophrenia' Cure Partly Within Reach t Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. URSDAY, APRIL 26, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH BLEIER Michigan Income Tax Double-Crosses Citizens SENATORS THAYER, Beadle and cohorts double-crossed the people of Michigan yes- terday; through their efforts an income tax has been approved by the State Senate. Two years ago, almost to the day, the people of Michigan were asked to go to the polls and vote to increase the sales tax to four per cent, with the understanding that this measure would be sufficient-that no income tax would be necessary. Now, barely two years since they expressed th ir wishes, they are being ignored. It wouldn't be quite so deplorable if an income tax were really needed, but in fact it is quite superfluous. There is no good reason why the state as a whole cannot live within its present revenues. An income tax offers a virtually unlimited field of taxation. The rate can go up and up endlessly. This same Sen. Thayer could well return next year (if he is so fortunate to be re-elected after this fiasco) and ask to increase this little old three per cent income tax to a little old four per cent income tax. And then a five per cent income tax. And then a seven per cent income tax. And then a little old crippling 10 per cent income tax. And then --it begins to mount up, doesn't it? BUT THERE IS precedent for it. Remember when social security only bit off a half of one per cent of a person's total income? Re- member how Washington officials assured the public that this half per cent would be quite enough? Now its five times that amount and threatens to keep rising, An income tax with no ceiling is quite an untapped source of funds to lawmakers whose thinking is oriented toward how much money should be spent instead of how much money could be saved. However, a healthy economy could with- stand even a crushing new tax measure such as this. But to all prophets, Michigan's econ- omy is far from healthy. The very persons who backed this income tax have said that Michigan is in financial troubles, And why? Because its people are not making enough money to support the politicians in the style to which they are accustomed. Why then is it believeable that these same people will be able to scrape together an ever- Increasing income tax? To be sure, the rich can pay the tax and probably not miss it much. And the really destitute person might be exempt. But how about the little fellow in the middle-the guy who makes around $6,000 a year and needs every penny of It. He gets caught in the squeeze again. INCOME TAX PROPONENTS ,try to over- come this truism by claiming that a state Income tax levy would be deductable from the federal income tax. Such an argument is simply a shaky exercise in mathematics. In the end the taxpayer loses. Suppose a man makes $5,000 a year and is in the 20 per cent bracket. This means, after deductions, that he will pay $1,000 to the Federal government. Along comes the state income tax, say at five per cent, This means that he must pay $250 a year to the state. lHe deducts that from the Federal tax, leaving him $4750 taxable by Washington. At 20 per cent, he now pays $950 to the United States. Add this to his Michigan income tax and the total tax bill amounts to $1,200, or $200 more than he paid before Michigan had an income tax. Now it is true that without the Federal deducation his total tax bill would have been $1,250 instead of $1,200, but this is little con- solation to a man who hasn't got the cash, to spare anyhow. What's more, the Federal government doesn't have more money than it knows what to do with, so very soon it may cease to allow state taxes to be deducted, in hopes of getting more money for the Washington bureaucracy. THE PROBLEM really at issue is that the State of Michigan refuses to live within its means like any other organization, and there is no excuse for it. State officials have fooled the people of Michigan with the sham of the "state's deficit" too long now. What deficit? Who does Michigan owe it to? They can't tell you, because they don't know, but they will assure you its there. In truth, it's just some fuzzy thinking. Rep. Gail Handy suggests that sloppy book- keeping is all that keeps Michigan in the red. He claims that the state treasury is 14 days behind in recording its revenues and that if it ever caught up it might find it had enough money to go around. (The state takes in over $5 million a day and the deficit is around $70 million.) AND WHAT'S MORE, it is impossible to have a deficit unless you spend more money than you take in. It doesn't come about just because you WANT to spend more than you can afford. For example, suppose Mr. Jones comes home with his weekly paycheck-$100. He sits down with his family and asks how much they need. $35 for Mrs. Jones, $15 to Johnny Jones, $10 to Susie Jones, $5 to Junior Jones and $45 to Mr. Jones himself. He adds up all the re- quests and gets $110-$10 more than he makes. "The Jones family has a deficit," he con- cludes. But the Jones family doesn't anymore have a deficit than Michigan does. They all just want more than their means can afford. As a result the Jone's requests will have to be pared down to meet their revenues. Michigan should do the same thing. Sen. Lynn Francis recently showed the Sen- ate how the state could save $130 million a year. Perhaps in reality it wouldn't be feasible to cut every expenditure he suggested, but certainly some of it could be sliced off. Yet his Senate colleagues were not interested in saving any money. Just spending, that's all. BUT MOST IMPORTANT is the fact that people of Michigan do not want an income tax. And for that reason-and for that reason alone-they should not have to endure one. There is not a Republican who voted for this income tax that can truthfully say his con- stitutents wanted him to do so. And there probably isn't a Democrat who can say so either. It's hard to say just how these politicians explain their actions and its hard to say whom they think they are representing. Certainly not their constituents. And its hard to say how they justify grabbing more tax money when they aren't fully using the funds they've got. When they appropriate funds for the Lapeer State Home for the mentally ill and $32,000 of it gets turned back unspent, does this sound like a penniless state that needs an income tax? It is interesting to speculate whether the income tax advocates have considered what will happen if the people of Michigan refuse to live under their new tax levy. It would place them among the most heavily taxed people in the nation and there is no reason to believe they will like it. Already the protest has started. Outstate Republicans, violently against any income tax, have started a movement to draft a conserva- tive to run against American Motors President George Romney for governor. They claim that the income tax will simply drive people and industry out of Michigan, and who is to say they aren't right? So, if a great exodus should start, who will stick around to foot the bill? SEN. FRANCIS cites an historical point: He claims no society has ever spent over 38 per cent of its total income in taxes and sur- By KENNETH WINTER Daily Staff Writer THERE HAS been much talk re- cently about the "schizophre- nia" which exists between stu- dents' in-class and out-of-class activities. We frequently hear complaints - justified, in most cases - about the fact that stu- dents and faculty only intersect at a 300-to-one ratio in lectre halls. The administration usually gets the blame. But there is one oppor- tunity for valuable student-faculty contact which is seldom exploited and for which students themselves are to blame. This neglected opportunity is the faculty associate program in the mens' residence halls. "Facul- ty associate" Is the deceptively bureaucratic title for a professor who simply gets together with the men in a house, usually for lunch or dinner and an informal "bull session" afterwards. THIS SIMPLE, natural type of contact is painfully absent from a large university, but can provide many benefits. First, students meet faculty members as people rather than necessary evils to be conquered in order to pass a course. Theprofessors, likewise, see that students can be capable of more than sleeping through a lecture. Better yet, these informal gath- erings are free of the pressure of grade-point averages and distri- bution requirements. Students whose curricula isolate them in some highly specialized major get a chance to meet new subjects and new ideas, and to be stimulat- ed by them. The things they learn here are retained, because they are the product of real intellectual enthusiasm - not next Friday's- bluebook. * * * WITH SUCH a possibility easily within reach, one would expect that all houses on campus would have thriving faculty associate programs. Not so. At present, only 14 of the 24 houses on campus have fac- ulty associates at all, and only a handful of these are'active on a regular basis, This neglect can be traced pri- marily to the student governments of the houses. More specifically, it can be traced to the academic chairmen. The post of house aca- demic chairman, like other chair- man positions in house govern- ments, often devolves to someone capable of carrying out orders from house officers but with little initiative of his own. To arrange for a faculty associate requires some initiative; consequently the job never gets done. he house loses a''lot, especially considering the minimal amount of effort in- volved. John Binkley, '65, Interquad- rangle Council's first academic chairman in many years, is at- tempting to stimulate interest, in this program among house aca- demic chairmen. But IQC cannot and should not do it alone. The responsibility is with the house academic chairmen. THERE ARE enough interested people on the University staff to 1 provide an active faculty associate program for a residence hall sys- temn twice this size, but it's up to the academic chairmen to start things moving. This may be done in two ways. If the academic chairman has a particular faculty member in mind, he may contact him direct- ly with his request. If not, he should get in touch with Assistant Dean of Men for Residence Halls John M. Hale, who will make the arrangements. The associate must then be ap- proved by the Board of Governors 4 ILM 'I A I RESIDENCE HALL ... isolates students -Daily-Danial Higgins LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Objects to Board's Interference To the Editor: IT IS, as you know, often assumed in the world of the private universities that the big state uni- versities such as Michigan, sub- ject to legislative and budgetary controls, cannot be free and that their student papers must be house organs, carefully watched over by understandably cautious protec- tors, lest some segment of local opinion, not excluding influential student opinion, be offended. Since the days of Henry Tappan over a hundred years ago, the University of Michigan has had an extraordinary record of vigor and freedom. And when I have read The Daily, which I regard as one of the two or three most vital, most distinguished and most interesting college papers, I am happily reminded of that tradition, and I often mention it to students who are considering graduate or undergraduate work in Ann Arbor. * * * THIS MORNING'S Harvard Crimson reports that a number of Daily editors have resigned in protest against interference by the overseeing Board. As a former Crimson editor myself, and as a faculty member who reads a num- ber of student newspapers regu- larly, I'm not aware of all the ambiguities, misunderstandings,. and messes that can cloud the relation of a student newspaper to its various constituencies inside and outside the university; and I know of course that The Daily is also in effect a daily paper for the community of Ann Arbor. I am, of course, not qualified to enter into all the details of con- troversy and ambiguity in this particular case. But I can say that The Daily has a constituency out- side of the State of Michigan which regards it as adding to the lustre of a great state university; and I also believe, as someone who follows pretty carefully the press in communities of the size of Ann Arbor, that the residents of that comunity are not ill-served by The Daily, for what the latter doesn't cover in the area of what is gen- erally considered "news" is cov- ered to overflowing by the Detroit daily papers, by the mass circula- tion weeklies, and by broadcasting. * * * IT IS OFTEN SAID that stu- dents today are cautious and afraid to take risks, that they don't believe in free enterprise. Interference, heavy-handed or subtle, from adults who are put in a position of buffers between The Daily and its critics is not a way to encourage free enterprise at Michigan or anywhere else, and the long-run dangers of such interference would seem to out- weigh whatever short-run alle- viation it might bring. -Prof. David Riesman Harvard University Inbreeding .. . To the Editor: reasons they were given the power they are now exercising) also for the preservation of the freedom of the press? Cduld it be that the present Daily staff can conceive of a free press as free only under their en- lightened absolute control? A free press can be free only if it can be challenged by respon- sible persons; it must be defended by responsible persons. The present "debate" has all the histronics of a petulant child or the organization of a witch hunt. -Tomas Frasier, Grad Obligations. . To the Editor: I STILL BELIEVE The Daily is an outstanding university news- paper. The Board in' Control of Student Publications, however, saw its duty and fulfilled its ob- ligations. The Phi Delta Theta editorial on Feb. 22 was a perfect example of sloppy, irresponsible reporting and editorializing. If this was in any way typical (and how can the average reader know?), some ac- tion needed to be taken. It takes guts to print a re- traction when you are wrong. Ob- viously The Daily is never wrong, since retractions are as scarce as successful moon shots. Here's to a free, responsible Daily that does more than merely print the "wounded party's" belated reply. -Prof. E. F. Zeigler Physical Education Recommendations . . To the Editor: AS A FORMER Daily senior edi- tor and for two months a member of the 1961-62 Board in Control of Student Publications, I have been appalled to learn of the action of the Board in refusing to- approve senior appointments as suggested by the outgoing Senior Editors. Knowing the personalities in- volved, both on the Board and Daily staff, it is evident that the deviation from the seniors' recom- mendation is one based on idieo- logical differences of opinion, and a desire to "re-mold" The Daily's campus image. Some portion of the Board has, in the past, been out- spoken in a desire to "bring The Daily closer to the campus," and there is reason to believe that a portion of Board opinion would have preferred even more drastic changes from the seniors' recom- mendations if in any way they could have been justified. BRINGING The Daily "closer to the campus" as proposed by some sources, would do little more than reduce the best college newspaper in the country,to a bulletin board advertising quad dances, frater- nity parties, and the next speaker in the lecture series. This is what a majority of college newspapers have become as they drip editorial not result in a curtailment of the freedom that has enabled the Uni- versity's student paper to call itself the best of its kind-and be correct in its boast. * * * IF A MAJORITY of The Daily staff can be said to lean to the so-called political "left," it is only because of the lassitude and in- difference shown by the rest of the campus. The fraternity sys- tem (of which I was a member) is particularly notable for abdicat- ing its right to place members on the staff and encourage them to spend the often-grueling hours necessary before a senior position is obtained. Admittedly the difference be- tween senior recommendations and Board appointments is small, but since when should protest based on principle only be heard when the violation of rights is most flagrant? Again, as a former senior staff member and member of the Board in Control, I would urge that the seniors' recommendations be reviewed, approved and of- ficialized with apologies to the staff. And if my post on the Board, vacated last fall, has not been filled and is still a voting position, I do cast one vote in that direction. -Michael J. Gillman, '61 Unseen Ally WHEN THE Russian Cadets and Kerensky raised a furious hue and cry against the Bolsheviks- especially after April 1917, and more particularly in June and July 1917-they "overdid" it. Millions of copies of bourgeois papers, shrieking in every key against the Bolsheviks, helped. to induce the masses to appraise Bolshevism; and, apart from the newspapers, all public life was thoroughly permeated with dis- cussions about Bolshevism just be- cause of the "zeal" of the bour- geoisie. The millionaires of all coun- tries are now behaving on an in- ternational scale in a way that deserves our heartiest thanks. When the French bourgeoisie makes Bolshevism the central is- sue at the elections, and abuses the comparatively moderate or vacillating Socialists for being Bolsheviks; when the American bourgeoisie, having completely lost its head, seizes thousands and thousands of people on suspicion of Bolshevism, creates an atmos- phere of panic and broadcasts theories of Bolshevik plots; when the British bourgeoisie - the most "solid" in the world - despite all its wisdom and experience, com- mits acts of incredible stupidity, founds richly endowed "anti-Bol- shevik societies," creates especial literature on Bolshevism, and hires (since the faculty associate is en- titled to attend quad meals and other functions without charge). From then on, if a good academic chairman and a good faculty as- sociate are teamed up, the pro- gram will keep rolling on its own momentum. This program can be an excit- ing and rewarding experience for all involved. If students miss out on it, they have only themselves to blame. Assurance "You Can Survive the Bomb" by Mel Wayrence and John Clark Kimball is a new book selling for four dollars. The Bookmailer News reveals that this book not only "brings the complex mathematics of radiation danger down to earth but also tells readers how to build and stock a bomb shelter. "If you are afraid that nuclear bombs are going to be tossed about in your time, this is probably the best book you can take counsel from . . . It's a book that should settle your nerves." Sure, but a tranquilizer costs less and goes to work in less than half the. time. -R. Selwa f N 4 I Freedom? THE CITIZEN Council of Greater leans this week proposed to send train" north carrying one thousand] a free one-way ride away from s and two liberal integrationist organi acted negatively. The train is a "cruel hoax," accor Congress of Racial Equality and th Association for the Advancementc People. PUTTING THIS protest to, song, add to the student movement's new verse: "Abolish the freedom trai not be moved." MICHAEL BU1RNS .....................8 :AVI)AAND)REWS ...........Associate 8 CLIFF MARKS ...............Associate 8 vived. Michigan's taxpayers shell out 32 per cent. To be sure, no one would begrudge the state the money it sorely needs for survival. But when part of the taxes go to subsidize Southern r New Or- berry-pickers and unskilled workers who don't a "freedom work half the time, while one of the finest Negroes on educational systems in the country pleads for egregation, money, the people of Michigan are reluctant izatiosr-- 1'd to throw in any more for fear it will end up in the same place. ding to the But there is explanation for the folly: each e National and every berry-picker has a vote, and they are of Colored careful to use it-to perpetuate their subsidy. But the University is voteless, and regretfully, there are more berry-pickers than there are one could concerned citizens. And so it is that worthwhile s hymn a projects suffer, while vote-getting measures n, we shall, wax fat. British humorist C. Northcote Parkinson's - R.A.S. axiom warns that "expenditure rises to meet income." But apparently he didn't ever live in Michigan. Senators Thayer and Beadle can tell him in all seriousness that now it is the 4[ other way around. 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, APRIL 26 General Notices Regents' Meeting: May 18. Communi- cations for consideration at this meet- ing must be in the President's hands not later than May 8, Please submit TWENTY copies of each communica- tion. The University of Michigan Marching Band will participate in the Michigras parade on Fri., April 27. Members need- ing instruments may obtain them on Thurs., April 26 at Harris Hall from 7 to 9 P.M. Band members are asked to report to 204 Harris Hall at 2:30 P.M. on Fri., April 27. Uniform: Band jackets, dark trousers, black shoes and socks. Events Thursday Guest Lecturer: EugeneLeahy, Prof. of Musicology, University of Notre Dame, will speak on "Some New Thoughts on Trope, Sequence and Med- ieval Polyphony," Thurs., April 26, 4:15 p.m. in Lane Hall Aud. Open to the public. Stochastic Programming seminar: Randall E. Cline and Prof. R. M. Thrall will continue their talk on "The Gen- eralized Inverse," on Thurs., April26, at 3 p.m. in 247A West Engineering. Events Friday Guest Lecturer: Alan P. Merriam will lecture on the "Music of Africa" on Fri., April 27, 8:30 P.M., in Aud. A, An- gell Hall. Open to the public. Astronomical Colloquium. Fri., April 27, 4:00 p.m., The Observatory. Dr. Z. Suemoto, Tokyo Astronomical Observa- tory, will speak on "Turbulence in the Chromosphere." Psychology Colloquium: Dr. Gordon Peterson, Director, Communication Sci- ences Program, will discuss "Essentials of Language Theory" on Fri., April 27 at 4:15 p.m. in Aud. B. Communication Sciences and Psychol- PolL Set. for positions as Labor Econo- mist, Analytical Stat., Claims Examiner, Mgmt. Intern, Budget Examiner, Admin. Analyst, Labor-Mgmt Report Analyst, Electrical Computing, Office Mgmt. & many others. Locations: Throughout U.S. TUESDAY, MAY 8 DENTISTS SUPPLY OF NEW YORK -Men; any degree for positions in Mar- keting as Sales Reps. To sell to dealers only but will also call on dentists. Lo- cations: Throughout U.S. WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORP,-Men; degree in any area to become manager of Branch Finance Office. Accelerated Mgmt. Trng. Prog. In Chicago area with eventual re-location to any part of U.S. MAY 8-11 U.S. NAVY-Naval Officers Procure- ment Team from Det. & Navigator Team from Naval Air Station, Grosse Ile, Mich. will interview potential officer candidates Tues. through Fri., in the Fishbowl in Mason Hall. Will furnish material on all Navy Officer Progs. Beginning the week of April 30, the following schools will be at the Bureau to interview candidates for the 1962- 1963 school year. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 ALBION, MICH. - Elem., Elem. Art. Cons., Sp. Ther., Ind. Arts, Comm., alg/ Geom. vocal/Strings, Jr. HS & HS SS. CLARKSTON, MICH.-Elem.;' Math., EngA., St., Home Ec., Girl'sPE, Engl., Couns. MONROE, MICH. (Custer Sch. Dist.) -Elem.; Elem. Vocal, Elem. PE. NEW BOSTON, MICH. - Elem.: HS Math (Alg/Geom.), Chem/Phys.. Engl., Girl's PE, Home Ec., Ind. Arts; Xdg.; Jr. HS. STOCKBRIDGE, MICH. -- Elem.; Speech, Drama/Engl., Math, Span/Engl., Engl. THURSDAY, MAY 3 CORUNNA, Mich.-Voc. Ag., Comm., Sdt/Math, 88, Boy's PE, Engl., M~ead TRENTON, MICH.-2nd grade. West, Bskt. Coach. CLEVELAND, O.--(Beechwood Sch.)- Elem., Secondary. SOUTHGATE, MICH.-Elem.; Secon- dary, Jr. HS Ment. Handi SAGINAW, MICH.-(Saginaw Twsp.) For additional information and ap- pointments contact the Bureau of Ap- pointments, 3200 SAB. SUMMER PLACEMENT: MRS. ETHEL SIEGEL-Chicago, Ill., is looking for a female student to act as mother's keeper for her. Begin June 22, end August 31sT, to be spent at the Siegel's summer, home in Michiana, I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN !ports Editor Sports Editor 3ports Editor -MICHAEL HARRAH Acting City Editor T 0-0 -0