"I Always Like To Have Something To Read While I'm Traveling" A OP Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN "Where Opinions Are Pree UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Win Prevan" STUiENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in allreprints. AT THE CAMPUS: BB Better Than Expected HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT'S Le Verite (The Truth) will leave its viewers pleasantly surprised but noticeably unsatisfied. The large audience of men will be happy with the fleeting peeks at Brigitte Bardot's bare bottom and surprised by the artistic techniques. They will certainly be dismayed by the fact that, although there are bedroom scenes and talk, the focus of the film is definitely not centered on BB's main commodity-sex. Discerning film goers will be pleased .Y, SEPTEMBER 30, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: CAROLINE DOW Lewis Strikes Out, At Panhel Meeting IT IS A PITY when a meeting which promises to provide an opportunity to clear the air of controversy, just instigates harder feelings than already existed. Thursday at the Panhellenic Presidents' Council meeting, James A. Lewis, Vice-Presi- dent for Student Affairs, spoke to the presi- dents with the intention (most people thought) of bringing out into the open the controversy on the Student Government Council Member- ship Selection Committee. Instead of instigat- ing a good discussion of the possible ramifi- cations of the problem of eliminating bias Excepilon UNION PRESIDENT Paul Carder is usually a man of few words at Student Government Council meetings. But Wednesday night, dur- ing a boring discussion on electioneering he obliged the members with the information that Union bylaws prohibited petitioning within the building. Fellow traveler Arthur Rosenbaum then surprisingly opined that it was "shocking" to hear that SGC candidates could not campaign on Union premises. Carder later said that he was sure an exception could be made this time, and that he was sorry that the bylaw banned SGC and other petitioning, but you know that if we didn't have the rule we would have 101 different petitions going around . . This statement seems to be in general agree- ment with the other Union policies, that, rules and policy statements really don't mean what they say. The much-publicized "undesirables" policy is. applied only at the discretion of the! general manager. The juke box installation was only "temporary." The, Union should either ban all petitioning on its premises, or throw out the present rule completely. -G. STORCH Seeds of clauses and of the problems everyone faces, Lewis instead merely tried to throw 'the fear of the Lord into the presidents. "If nothing else, it is a matter of courtesy to file your reports and no longer ignore the point," Lewis said. The use of the word "cour- tesy" belies any basic understanding of the situation. Lewis should realize that it is not mere delinquency on the part of the sorority presidents that is keeping them from moving; the fact is that they and the whole system are facing a crisis, and it isn't 'an easy task to move any organization, especially when they are as large and an entrenched as the alum groupsj of fraternities and sororities. LEWIS SPOKE for four minutes on the need for sorority presidents to stop "shirkingj their responsibility." "It is now past the point of argument wheth- er you have to file or not. That is no longer the point. Local chapters must comply." Of. course this is nothing more than the honest truth. However, diplomacy should be consid- ered when dealing with such a touchy subject. THIS MEETING with the presidents would have been the perfect opportunity for ques- tions to have been answered and help to have been given. However, after his unduly abrupt talk of four minutes, most discussion was out of the question. One sorority president said, "Lewis left us so stunned after he spoke; there was nothing that could be said. I'm glad he came, because, it was an important step towards increased good relations between the OSA and the stu- dents, but -none of us learned a thing we didn't already know. At least he encouraged people to come to him for help, but it was not handled in the best way." WITH THIS I heartily concur. -MALINDA BERRY t with theN touch of Clouzot as it is exemplified in the skillful filming of Mme. Bardot's cross-Paris search for her lover which is in- tensified by the piling of drum- beats and fast film cuts ending in a crescendo of music as the un- shaven, undressed lover answers the door with a "do-you-know- what-time-it-is?" THE RECURRING symbol of reaching, tormented hands will suggest Clouzot's "truth," which fortunately is seldom directly dis- cussed. The movie's frank discussion of love affairs and their implications' in a murder case is refreshing after the recent American Puri- tanical rage over the use of the word "panties" in a similar movie, "Anatomy of a Murder." However, the defense's repulsive droodle of ra spider (Bardot) in a web (life) is so obvious and mag- nified that it oan only be redeemed in its comic relief value in a dull court room scene. The credits award the honors for the script to a committee headed by Clouzot; one would hope that he was responsible for the often excellent flashbacks and not for the always tedious trial scenes. MOST LIKELY, the rest of the audience will be wives and dates who will enjoy the sometimes sticky love story leading to the "crime of passion." The rare hu- mor is welcome and effective. For example, in an emotional outburst, Mme. Bardot condemns the court judges for sitting in their silly robes and judging others for liv- ing when they themselves are vir- tually dead. The full implication of the accusation is humorously drawn as the judge dismisses court and scurries out in an honestly ridiculous robe and cap. They will also be surprised at the apparent acting ability of BB. One would assume that the ma- jority of the credit for the loud. sensual characterization of the heroine lies with Clouzot's careful' direction. However, all viewers will be painfully aware of the unusually slow pace which the repetitive court scenes set for a picture of surprising but limited qualities. --Milan Stitt( AT THE MICHIGAN: 'Francis' [S IT POSSIBLE that Hollywood will ever learn to paint? Do the Beverly Wilshire Boulevard directors really imagine that af- ter days, of walking across the Sahara, a man's beard is precisely shaven, that his hair is more ivy league than ever before? If Holly- wood must use Giotto's frescos and Italian Renaissance paintings as backdrop sets, in "Francis of Assisi," couldn't somebody bother to first check their historical dates? Mon cher director, Michael Curtiz= Francis lived in the very beginning of the thirteenth cen- tury! "The story of a lusty, fighting, young adventurer who exchanged' his sword for a cross and rose to glory." Well-sort of. Much against his mother's wishes--she "wanted him to be a child of God" - Francis (Bradford Dillman) ,trots off to war with his self-possessed nobleman friend, Paulo, + (Stuart Whitman) and no sooner is he in the ioad when he hears his first Voice. There is a battle, .a good juicy one (Hollywood is excellent at those), and deciding that men should love and not fight, 'Fran- cis deserts and is soon on his way to Rome to receive Papal permis- sion for the establishment of his Order. * * * AND SO his story goes; you know the rest. But one would certainly think that with three writers working on the screen- play they would come up with something more than skimmed milk. 'The acting in this film is medi- ocre: Dolores Hart should be a ponytailed teenager in "Bye Bye Birdie" and Dillman is at best a ham of a chevalier. The whole thing reeks of candles and violins and chanting and bells. Assisi is a most beautiful Um- brian town, and the photography isn't even good! The film quickly becomes a highly emotional plate of ravioli that has been served without Its meat sauce.r. --Margaret Klee + A 4 WSU RIGHT-WING: whimpering 'Thunder Tvranny By HARVEY MOLOTCH, Editorial Director UNTIL LAST WEDNESDAY, Allen Dulles was the most powerful man in America; in two weeks his near-omnipotence will be passed on to wealthy industrialist john McCone' as he takes over America's resplendent answer to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Unlike any other governmental official, Mc- Cone will answer to no one; he will function in complete secrecy; he will spend what The New York Times estimates at $1 billion; he will keep no public records. He will direct the activities of over 10,000 employees in Washington alone (again, by Times estimate) plus uncountable thousands all over the globe. His duties are largely undefined; his range of ,activlties appar- ently without limit.' UNDER'McCONE'S PREDECESSOR, the CIA took full advantage of its power to unite the functions of intelligence gathering and acting upon its own recommendations. The CIA is organized as an authoritarian heirarchy com- posed of a judiciary, an executive and a legis- lature in the form of its one-man chairman. He decides to work for the overthrow of a government; he attempts to destroy that gov- ernment and he proceeds to punish or imprison those who stand in his way. Technically such actions are supposed to occur under the direc- tion of the National Security Council, but in reality the CIA is in a position to ignore such outside pressure and has done so in the past. This role of the CIA in the -American "de- mocracy" was most dramatically demonstrated in the recent attempt to "liberate" Cuba. But the repugnant Cuba fiasco reached the Ameri- can press (in a most perverted form) only be- cause the CIA had failed. The other great blun- ders-the unpublicized "success" stories-have been largely forgotten., The unfortunate truth is that Allen Dulles was not at all the. bungling idiot the press has made him out to be. He was a shrewd tactician who blatantly disregarded the principles of the country he was serving and could not recognize that his actions were destroying these ideals- and American constitutionalism along with them. IN 1953, the CIA was able to overthrow the reformist government of Mossadegh in oil- rich Iran; the neutralist premier was flirting with Russia. We re-installed the old monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlev as head of a "constitutional monarchy" which has enabled thel Shah and a handful of chosen ones to return to the game of exploiting the impover- ished Iranians while amassing huge personal fortunes. A year later, our inspired master spies top- pled Guatemala's President Arbenz because the minding "commando-type guerilla raids on the mainland in battalion strength" (Stewart Al- sop, Saturday Evining Post). N THE COMEDY of errors now called the "Laotian situation," the CIA played a key role in America's show of shows. First our boys overthrew neutralist Souvanna Phouma in preference'to militarist Gen. Phoumi Nosavan even though Phoumi lacked the internal sup- port needed to hold back the Communists. Thus we later found ourselves negotiating with the Communists, hoping that they would settle for Souvanna who by necessity came into our good graces.! More recently, the French were incensed at reports of CIA backing for the right-wing military insurgents who attempted to overthrow de Gaulle last spring. The CIA role in Algeria has never been cleared up, but the agency has generated so much suspicion that almost any- thing has become believable. FORCEFUL OVERTHROW of governments is only one CIA specialty; its most subtle be- hind-the-scenes activities are no less intrigu- ing. Under CIA sponsorship, the United States ruined the Laotian economy with a flow of dollar bills that the impoverished country was not able to absorb after they were squandered by corrupt Laotian officials. Our adamant sup- port of Chiang Kai-Shek and other militarists is based on advice of Allen Dulles, 1who holds that "the countries which are the most power- ful to resist Communist subversion are those where the military are in power." In fact, the views of the head of CIA play a crucial role in all spheres of American for- eign affairs. Intelligence data which reaches the president's desk is a result of the interpre- tations and opinions of one man; upon his recommendation decision-making is based. Thus, Dulles's sympathy for Fascists, his past close links wiht leaders of the Hitler regime, and his aversion to social reform has had a great impact on the course of events in the last eight years. JOHN McCONE will possess the same power as his predecessor and will probably enjoy the same encouragement from the President and the American people. His background as chair- man of the Atomic Energy Commission under Eisenhower and the unstinting praise which he and Kennedy heaped upon Dulles indicates, there will be little basic change in CIA opera- tion. Kennedy'saw nothing curious in announcing McCone's appointment at the Naval War Col- lege to an audience of Naval officers and per- sonnel. No hints have been made of reorganiza- tion, of providing a check on the agency or of By GERALD STORCH Daily staff Writer A NEW RIGHT-WING maga- zine, "Conservative Thunder," has sprung up at Wayne State University, of all places. The open- ing policy statements contained the' expected barrage against col- lectivism, socialism, liberalism and "the loud-voiced egalitarian min- ority on the campus," but gen- eral absurdities, misleading im- plications and name-calling in the editors' rationale have reduc-' ed the thunder to a whimper. Quote from a pamphlet put out by the magazine editors: "All good reasons for education can be sum- med up in the sentence, 'You wish to better yourself.' There is a minority group on the Wayne campus who would raise strong criticism to these reasons." Now, from this assertion, a readert might suspect that a liberal jus- tification for education would be for the student to worsen himself, or that the betterment of the in- dividual is ancillary to another more important object. The pamphlet's conception of the liberal theory goes thusly: "Man is made to serve society. It is evil and selfish for a person to use society for his own good." Virtually no political organization to the right of Communism and left of conservatism degrades homo sapiens to such an extent. The ultimate goal of liberalism IS to "better" the individual. The guiding thesis behind this and similar philosophies is merely that the best way to better the individ- ual is through coordinated group action and society consciousness. * * * ,WAVING MUTILATED liberal- ism, the editors proceed to mis- interpret conservatism. "Briefly, it is based on the belief that what is good and proven should be kept. It is not static but ever seeks to dispose of the institutions that threaten men's freedom . . Every increase of government power causes a corresponding decrease in individual liberty." It is con- tradictory to say that what is "proven" should be retained and at the same time not be static. Also, the right-left wing conflict is usually not over whether what is good should be retained, but just what things are good, and can they be better. And the "good and proven" in- stitutions often turn out to be the most ;freedom-threatening of all. Local government, a proven istitution, has been seen to con- sistently endanger individual lib- erties (such as the right to vote in the South) far more than a more powerful national organiza- tion (such as the Justice Depart- ment), which attempts to enforce rights which, conservatives invar- iably agree, are guaranteed in the Constitution. In short, if govern- ment power attempts to guaran- tee and maintain individual rights, it is' not a freedom-threat- ening institution and therefore does not decrease individual lib- erty. The majority of delegates at the United States National Student Association congress represented such far-left organizations as Americans for Democratic Action, Students for Democratic Society, Student Peace Union and the Young Peoples League, the maga- zine president complains. All del- egates at the congress, however, were representatives from student governments. The crowning irony of the edi- tors' situation is that these ster- ling individualists had to form a group in order to make known their ideals. THE MAGAZINE'S theoretical mebalomania a n d substantive blunders are serious, but not fa- tal. Theories and concepts are fuzzily outlined at best and it is easy to see why they misinterpret them. Far more disturbing is the edi- tors' explanation of the context surrounding the creation of their magazine. They believe that it is a part of a dynamic nationwide rebirth of conservatism on uni- versity campuses. "Conservatism is becoming respectable again," they claim, although one sentence later they contradictorily cite "a group of high-power intellectuals who have been thinking and writing conservatism for years." The' truth is that there is sim- ply' no conservative movement, just as there is no liberal stu- dent movement. The average stu- dent today is just as apathetic as he has been in the past, only his lack of concern is cloaked under the activities of an extremely ac- tive minority whose characterist- ics are applied to the whole. The student revival is more ac- curately interpreted as a rebound- ing from its burial during the McCarthy era. This is easily borne out, for instance by the miniscule 25 per cent or so voting in Stu- dent Government Council elec- tions on this campus. The student "movement" has been nothing but a small minority, and the conserv- ative "movement" is most likely a slight stirring in reaction to the liberal minority's forcefulness, not a sweeping right-wing revolution. * * * JUST as there is a sound ra- tionale for liberalism, there cer- tainly can be a good case made for conservatism today. But there is absolutely no need for new con- servative organizations to oper- ate on the principle of blind de- nunciation of differing concepts, irrational name-calling and of sneering condescention to liberal persons. On the contrary, there is a desperate need for conserv4- tive groups to be sincerely toler- ant and completely fair and un- derstanding in their rhetoric., Only in such a way will the vast majority of politically disinterest- ed students become sensitive and aware of vital issues. "Conservative Thunder" by its first policy draft miserably .fails to meet these objectives. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Hail to the Victors ". .. NOTHER OPENING, . ,another show.. . " There' is a tingle and a ring to the Ann Arbor air these days, especially on campus, especially near the stadium ... . Hail! to the victors val-, iant . ." The leaves are falling and there is more color to them, the air is crisp, yet crisper .. ".. .Varsity, down the field.. A whistle shrieks thrice, then voices as many times, black- polished shoes and white spats beat down upon the earth, and drums-... . Hail! to the conq'ring heroes . . * * * THE MICHIGAN Marching Band rushes out of the tunnel onto the playing field grass Satur- day and it is another season. From a school where tradition is proud, the band is a traditional winner, especially in the last few years when it alone has put the real kick into football for the locals.I The band is said to be the best and watching it you believe it. Reliable. Spirited. A little corny at times, yes, but spirited. Spirited so that the traditions you've been told are Michigan suddenly are you, too. They play, you see glory before your eyes-never mind the score-, board-and your heart beats with the drums, you shout and you wonder where the old school spirit has been-you believe that there is such a thing as school spirit. * ** EVEN TALK of a pep club - rallies and all that - sounds sen- sible. You buy the Michigan pen- nant and the Michigan sweatshirt, the Michigan stickers, the record, the stationery, the souvenirs, the beanie, the photo-album, scrap- book, drinking mug, bookcovers, book-ends, pom-poms. You forget that you are a student but often sit farther away than the cash customers, you forget, now to the 220 steps per minute. Ours is a marching band twice- blessed - it can march and it can play and it can do both at the same time and sound good, too - no small task. And when they leave the field, you will ask them back, with your applause and they will come to play. "... all hail! to the yellow and blue. . -Tom Hunter, '64 Intolerable , To the Editor: mY Pain and my distress Again it is not easy to express. My amazement, my surprise One little maid from Graduate School am I who must object. The latest fling of youth cannot be pardoned. Many SGC mistakes can be tol- erated. But not so when they de- prive a theatre full of graduate' students, faculty, staff and towns- people of one of their favorite Saturday evenings of delightful entertaining-not to mention the numbers of undergraduates, affili- ated and independent, whom quadrangle dances hardly concern. The SGC, elected in part by grad- uate students and responsibile for events attended by the wider uni- versity community, cannot allow Those masters, Gilbert and Sul- livan, would relish an opportunity for meting out the justice of poetic politcal satire. The Chorus rises.: Oh fool, oh blind, oh rash, oh base! -Anne Mooney, Grad Oh! .. To the Editor: F YOU want to know,who they are, They are the members of'S.G.C. On many a law and rule, On many a high decree They figure in lively debate On the university's life and fate For ill-considered talk do not hesitate, oh! IF YOU think they are worked by' strings, /Like a legislative marionette. You don't understand these things, It's simply Mock etiquette. Axd they manage to do wrong, They can do it all year long, Just to show you they are strong, oh- -James R. Hudson, Grad -Frank and Judith Haurwitz, Grad Sewner... To the Editor: N THURSDAY'S edition of the Michigan Leftist Daily was a Herblock cartoon portraying' Sen. Barry Goldwater as an unfeeling tightwad. This sort of thing is typical of this dogmatic, liberal cartoonist who once drew Richard Nixon climbing out of a sewer. The Senator, who endorsed the Newburgh Welfare Plan, does not believe that the Government should encourage illegitimate births by giving unwed mothers lavish welfare benefits for each additional illegitimate child they have. In New York a policeman with ten children gets $250 a month from the state, while it gives a woman having ten ille- gitimate children $800 a month. To have one child out of wedlock may be an accident; to have ten DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The MichiganDaily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration- Building before 2 p.m., two days preceding publication. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 General Notices Faculty Meeting-College of Litera- ture, Science and the Arts will be held on Mon., Oct. 2, at 4:10 p.m., in Aud. A. Graduate Students expecting to re- ceive the master's degree in February, 1Q92.i.usthave .filedl a diploma _aD..nli-. dents who will be available for posi- tions in February, June, or August, and all who will receive a degree any time in 1962 are urged to register at this time. The work of the Bureau will'" be dis- cussed, and job "possibilities will be presented. Employers will start inter- viewing the week of October 9, and placement records are expected by all employers. These records are also use- ful for graduates who make their own applications, because ALL employers ex- pect any graduate to have a placement file available to them. Come at 3:00 or 4:00-both meetings will be the same. POSITION OPENINGS: Missile Plant, in Southeastern Michi- gan-Management position as Catalog- er in Library. Masters in Library Sci & Preferably background in special lib.