Candle In The Wind Seventy-First Year Ei)TED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Where Opinions Are Free UNDER AUThIORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENI PUBLICATiONS Trutb Will PevaI'" STUDENT PUB! ICATIONS BI DG.* ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone No 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily ex press the individual opinions of staf writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. AT THE STATE: 'Greyfriars Bobby' S'GREYFRIAR'S BOBBY" is a dog story in the grand tradition of AlbertPeyson Terhune, and only Walt Disney could so perfectly preserve the qualities which make such stories insipid for adult audi- ences. Bobby, a "wee bit of a Skye terrier," displays a faithful (though somewhat morbid) desire to, spend each cold Scottish night perched on his dead master's grave. By so doing, he endears himself to the local citizenry and melts the stony heart of Edinburgh law. Veteran actor Donald Crisp, as is his .wont, plays the lovable old .man who protects Bobby from the wilds of a merciless city. Especially gripping are his suspense-filled efforts to sneak his canine comrade into the cemetery right under the nose of the soft-hearted ogre who guards NDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1961, NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL OLINICK Chu rch-State Dilemma: Case for Absolutism THE FINELY DRAWN LINE of seijaration be- tween church and state was enshrouded in school bus exhaust fumes by the Supreme Court in the Everson decision and, as 'Prof. Paul G. Kauer of the Law School said last' week, it now appears constitutional to use government funds for other phases of paro- chial school oper'ations than transportation. But this doesn't mean it is wise. President Kennedy's belief that such aid to private schools is unconstitutional is based on a narrower interpretation of the same case, which decided that providing public transpor- tation for parochial school pupils was properly within the state's role of providing for the pub- lic welfare but did not extend this distinction to other school operations. While Kennedy's position cannot be ade- quately based on the Everson decision, he is to be commended for drawing the church-state line consistently, both before and after his election. O PROF, KAUPER, "the separation of church and state is a matter of degree. The, problem cannot be solved with a broad brush approach. Complete separation has no founda- tion in American history." It is true that there have been some his- torical interactions between religious ideals and government. For instance, churches have been , granted tax exemption, chaplains in the armed services are paid' by tax money, and the phrase. f'In God We Trust" appears on our coins.' But to extend interrelation into secondary schools teaching religious conceptions -'accept- able to only part of the populace, even by loans or other limited assistance as mentioned by Prof. Kauper, is a dangerous step. Sen. Wayne Morse has Introduced bills allowing parochial schools to borrow money from the federal gov- ernment, and pressure for this will continueto mount. THE ENCROACHMENT on separation is very subtle: First, bus transportation is provided. Then, as in t Morse's home state of Oregon, parochial grammar schools receive textbooks supplied and paid for by public funds. Prof. Kauper is correct in stating that the r'ationale of the Everson decision and the prin- ciple of federal aid 'make limited parochial school help feasible. Certainly buildings, texts and teachers do as much for the ultimate good of the young student as proper and safe trans- portation. This is the unfortunate part of the Court's decision. It compromised on one point in an effort to be benevolent, whereas separation must be absolute. Even money for buses seems to contradict Justice Black's principle in the majority decision on the Everson case: "No tax in' any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institu- tions, whatever they may be called, or what- ever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion." UNLESS 'the "broad brush approach" is used, little encroachments of the Oregon variety will continue. Having lost the bus issue at the 'national level, affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union are fighting to keep separation intact on the state level. Its Connecticut unit "has said "Transporta- tion of pupils has become an essential function of our public school systems; it is a large item in board of education budgets. To call it a health or safety service confu~es the issue. The real issue ... is this: can public funds be used to support any part of private schools?" Some state constitutions say 'no' to this in clear terms; others leave it up to localities. On both levels, the conflict continues. This may seem to be a major war over small points. But since Protestants generally do not operate private schools, public money to help Catholic schools in any way is favoring one sect over another (which is unconstitutional), according to the Court). THE CHURCHES might well worry about the possibilities of state control inherent in fi- nancial ties. The immediate perversion is one of the state, which shifts, its position in rela- tion to private organizations and beliefs. The harm to the church would be much more long- range. Another non-immediate danger is that Protestants, finding Catholic schools are receiv-, ing more and more aid, will be inclined to set up their own schools to get in on these hand- outs which can be used to inculcate their par- ticular ideologies. This could have a much more divisive and harmful effect on our school- age population than has been caused by the present extent of schooling-by-religion. In all the battles on church-state relations being waged at the state and local level, per- haps more valid than the dictums of this Su- preme Court case are these words from Him whose name is proclaimed by most of the pri- vate schools in question: "'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." -ROICHARD OSTLING Associate Editorial Director - -7*. - ~ ~ - *'~* U - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: YR Proposals. Dynamic Dorm Evaluations: Immoral IN WHAT MUST RANK as one of the most assinine decisions of the year, Student Gov- ernment Council has voted to voice its ap- proval of confidential non-academic evaluations in men's residence halls. This issue had been hanging in the musty SGC air since last spring and apparently the bored and tired- minds finally settled the bothersome question. May- be things will go better at the next session when the problem of similar evaluations in the wom- en's dormitories will be reviewed. The arguments -against the pink slips in the quadrangles, and the somewhat parallel ques-. tionnaires in the. dorms, are becoming just as tiresome as the defenses. Pink slips are sneaky,' pink slips are a necessary aid to counseling. Pink slips inhibit honest counseling; pink slips keep undesirable residents out of the quads. The fact that pink slips are sneaky and that they do inhibit honest counseling and that many other things are wrong with them has not upset most of the Council members. I The basic issues involved are not primarily of a practical nature. As it stands now, the eval- uation reports are to be used exclusively with- in the residence hall system. The SGC motion eliminates their use as a recommendation or, source of information to employers, which is good, and they will no longer be sent to aca- demic counselors, which is not so good, be-' cause the material on the evaluations was fre- quently valuable to academic counseling. The. pink slips are now to'be utilized only within the residence hall system, and only as guides to whether the inhabitants should be readmitted, to the quadrangles if they desire to. Thus their usefulness has diminished to the point of non- existence, because many residence hall coun- selors dislike taking the time to fill the reports out and because residents refused readmittance to the system would rarely be primed to re- turn anyway. THUS the real underlying issue in the pink slips is a moral one rather than a prag- matic question. The tragedy of the pink slips is that they assail one of the most inalienable rights of an individual: the right to know about himself. The confidential nature of the reports simply denies an opportunity for an individual to improve himself or to understand himself. It is surely apparent that self-introspection is most difficult and somewhat futile in the absence of outside reference, and it should be even more obvious that personal analysis is most crucial and necessary in a University community where converging thoughts and ideas supposedly coerce a sense of disorien- tation within the individual. To any student' who is at least half awake, this mental tur- moil provokes an endless series of moral crises: what is beautiful, what is- good, what should .be good and,' most important, what, am I? It must gall him to learn that ?petty men pre- sume the right to withhold parts of this self- knowledge. It would be a fantastic proposition to defend the secrecy and confidential nature. of the personal evaluations as not contrary to the ideals of any university. But even on a practical level, the pink slips' confidential nature is untenable. If quadrangle counselors are to evaluate the residents, they obviously have to become acquainted with them. But interpersonal relationships in which one party has the task to privately appraise the most personal characteristics of the other will thus be very incomplete and shallow. NOW, if residence hall administrators still deem it necessary to have full reports for admission purooses and not counseling objec- tives, they will want the evaluations to be as first-rate as possible. With the confidential amenities ever-susuended over the quadrangle scene, the counselors cannot nossibly become oialified to evahmite the inen. This " wialifica- tion" has a direct correlation to the dnth of " the relationshio. and denth of relationshin is imukely when nart of the association is con- fidontial and inhibited. As things now stand, residents rejected for housing readmission can demand and receive a list of reasons, but cannot see the report. The oresent fears among ouadrangle counselors are that if the students are allowed to see the evaluations of themselves, and if part or all of the report is critical, the residents will react with anger and resistance. But if the residents eannot accent nersonal criticisms fairly and tolerantiv. egnectally in'er the oen policv noc- escarv for the nerusal of the renorts. they most certainly would be of little desirability for the int ranne system and would have no place in an academic community. If the reaction is To the Editor: MR. PERLSTADT'S editorial, which appeared i Wednes- day's Daily was filled with assump- tions which, for the most part, are ;partially or completely false. Regarding appointments to the college governing boards by the State Legislature, he states that it (the Legislature) "is a highly political body seething with par- tisan dissention." The group he refers to is the law-making body of the state, elected by and re- sponsible to the citizens of Michi- gan; for the most part, its mem- bers are men of integrity and dedication, and to suggest that they have no regard whatever for the best interests of their con- stituents, is a rash, if not mythi- cal, assumption. * * * IF MR. PERLSTADT had stud- ied the entire report of the con- con conference, he might possibly have noted that the YR's suggest elinination of the long ballot. It is unrealistic, as well as imprac- tical to expect the electorate to nominate, study the qualifications of, and elect numerous minor of- ficals, especially those in advisory rather than administrative posi- tions; a joint legislative. commit- tee can do the job much more effectively in relation to the selec- tion of members, of 'the college governing boards. Changing the partisan election to a non-partisan one would hardly solve the problem Mr. Perl- stadt presents. Non-partisanship is merely a shield behind which lurk political powers. Mr. Perl- stadt would condone the present method of selecting members of the College governing bodies; we would bring to his attention the situation at MSU, where the Democrat - dominated Board of Trustees has allowed labor union philosophies to distort educational objectives. MR. PERLSTADT writes that "the possibility of economic choice shifting from the particular in- stitution to the impersonal board is great." We disagree. The pro- posed coordinating ; board would have no possible way of taking economic autonomy from the in- dividual schools. Its purpose would be to "investigate completely the annual 'budgets of the state- supported colleges and univer- sities before they are submitted to the Legislature." The basic idea of the coordin- ating board is to put into practice the proposal for "uniform account- ing' procedures" as proposed by the State Council of College Pres- idents. At the present time, each school differs from every other school in accounting procedures. Consequently the State Legisla- ture is unable to make a valid comparison between the budgets of the different schools. A co- ordinating board would make po- sible a more realistic view of corresponding costs and account- ing procedures; a valid appraisal of theneeds of each school could then be drawn by the Legislature. Following Legislative approval, the allocated appropriations will quo, -and will promote a strong and effective educational system for the State of Michigan. --Steve Stockmeyer, chairman -Tom Pyper, treasurer Young Republican Club Band Money... To the Editor: WOULD LIKE to comment, particularly to Brian Mac- Clowry, that at least one state-. ment in his column, "Affair to Remember," published on October' 11, "ain't funny, MacClowry!" While realizing the entire com- ments of his column was an at- tempt at hyperbole, I cannot let his statement, "This is the only schobl in the conference that hands out more scholarships for marching band than for football," go unchallenged. The truth of the matter is that the marching band has no scholarships to use in a recruiting program. At the end of the season Band Awards of $40 are made to about 140 members of the band. This is the extent of the financial aid available to band members. In my opinion, the undefeated record of our band does not depend on a scholarship program, but rather upon the hard work put out by the members of the band and its directors, Dr. William Revelli and Mr. George Cavender. I feel better now that I have set the record straight as the abo,.e quoted sentence out of con- text could be most misleading and is certainly not a fair statement. -Ivan W. Parker Assistant Dean of Men Secretary, Committee on University Scholarships To the Editor: THE DAILY is to be applauded for its comprehensive coverage of the McComb, Mississippi situa- tion, a development of interest and concern especially for the. student generation of America.' The Student Council reflected this concern in the telegram forwarded to Robert Kennedy. In fairness to the actual-situa- tion, (as reported and photograph- ed in the Daily). however, the use of "mob" in connection with the beating is a gros exaggera- tion. Does one plumber constitute} a mob? As worded, the appeal to the Attorney General - was mis- leading in the details and emo- tional in its connotation. Emo- tions and prejudices create such situations, but they seldom foster solutions. It is the hope of this reader, that in the future the Student Council will continue to express anti interest and concern in such matters but in doing so will not find it necessary to digress from. the truth. -Phil Ballard, Grad , The PreA-'ss WE SHOULD BEAR in mind that, in general, it is the ob- ject of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a' point-than to further the cause of truth. -Edgar Allen Poe, 1842, - quoted in American Opinion, the John Birch Society magazine the gate. Many people benefit from little crippled boy, whose academic ambitions are brought to the at- tention of the local storekeeper who sends him to the school he has dreamed of entering. The same boy later heads a drive to collect money for Bobby's license, and so it goes. S * * * * EVEN THE juvenile audience for whom this film is intended may not be entirely satisfied. The open- ing moments of the story deal at rather great lengths with the death of Bobby's friend and mas- ter, an old shepherd who has been forced to leave his beloved home in the country and coughs his way through the city looking for a place to die. The scenes of Edinburgh and the Scottish countryside through which the movie roams are per- haps the best part of the entire production, although here again the mood is rather depressing. The city is initially pictured as a cob- blestone jungle beside which the Bowery takes on the aspect of a tropical resort. * . * * IT WOULD BE UNFAIR to co- clude that the best performance of the movie is turned in by the dog.> After all, it's pretty 'easy to be- astar whenthe script gives you all the good lines. His human co- workers deserve at least honorable mention for their perseverance in the face of overwhelming odds. -Ralph Stingel Knned y's Next Step WE WONDERED, as many Democrats must, why the President is picking so many Re- publicans for the top jobs 'of his Administration. It has been ex- plained to us now by Mr. James .Reston, who sees Mr. Kennedy regularly, In a Jubilant report over the President's cleverness in naming John A. McCone to head the CIA (New York. Times, Sept 29), Mr. Reston says Mr. -Kennedy is mak- ing it hard for the GOP to attack his foreign policy by putting Re- publicans into key posts dealing with security and foreign affairs: McCone at the CIA, Wm. C. Fos- ter to run the new Disarmament Agency, Lucius Clay as his special emisary to Berlin, Douglas Dillon as Secretary of the Treasury. "How can Bary Goldwater," Mr. Reston exults, "find fault with the Administration's intelligence and determination when two solid Re- publicans. like Allen Dulles and John McCone are running the CIA?" Now that Mr. Reston has opened our eyes to this strategy, we are overcome with admiration, too, and anxious to contribute to it. Wouldn't it even be more devilishly clever if Mr. Kennedy just went ahead and made Barry Goldwater Secertary of State? -I. F. Stone's Weekly- Bobby's presence-among them a DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The SMichigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Building before 2 p.m.; two days preceding publication. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 General Notices Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. Nomina- tions for Woodrow Wilson fellowships for the academic year 1962-63 for first year graduate work leading to a career. in research and college teaching are due Oct. 31, 1961. only members of the 'faculty may nominate candidates. Letters of nomination should be sent. to -Dean Richard Armitage, Graduate School. Ohio state University, 164 W. 19th Ave..Columbus, O. For additional information consult Prof. M. Greenikt,i 2634 Haven Hall. President and Mrs. Hatcher will hold open house for students at their home Wed., Oct. 18 from 4 to 6 p.m. Preliminar:y 'Examinations in English: Applicants for the Ph.D. in English who expect to take the preliminary examinations . this summer are re- quested to leave. their names with Dr. Ogden, '1609 Haven Hall. The examina- tions will be given as follows: English Literature, 1550-1660,,-Tues., Nov.m4, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.~ English and Ameri- can Literature, 1660-1790, Sat., Nov. 18, 9 a.m. to 12 m.; 1790-1870, Tues., Nov. 21, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.; and 1870-1950, Sat., Nov. 25, 9 a.m. to 12 m. The Tuesday evaminations. will be given in Room 171, Business Admin. Bldg; the Satur- day examinations will be given in Room 1412, Mason Hall. Events Monday EFreshmen Nursing Students will meet Mon., Oct. 16 in 5330 Medical Science Bldg. at 3 p.m. Engineering Mechanics Seminar, Mon., Oct. 16, at 4:00 p.m. in 305 WestEng- neering Bldg. Walter Debler, Asst. Prof., wi speak on " .Hydro-dynamic Stability of an Unsteady Flow." Coffee at 3:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. Automatic Programming and Numer- ical Analysis Seminar: "The Future of Computing" by Daniel D. McCracken on Mon., Oct. 16 at 4:15 p.m. in 311 West Engrg. Bldg. Events Tuesday University Lecture: Dr. Jaroslav Pell- kan, Prof. of Historical Theology, Uni- versity of Chicaeo, will -speak on "One Nation Under God-Religious Resources for National Unity," 4:15 p.m., Tues., Oct. 17, Aud. A. Open to the public. Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures: "Rome and the Latins around 500 B.C." will be discussed in the first of the series' lectures by Andrew Al- foldi, Prof. of Roman History, Insti- tute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. on Tues., Oct. 17 at 4:15 p.m. in Aud. B. Botanical Seminar: "ome Aspects of Plastid Inheritance" will be discussed by-e Dr. Wlfried Stubbe,. Botanical In- stitute, University of Cologne, on Tues., Oct. 17 at 4:15 p.m. in 1139 Nat. Si. Bldg. Tea will be served at 4 p.m. Graph Theory Seminar: John Dwyer will conclude his discussion of "The Evolution of Rianom Graphs," Tues., Oct. 17, at 3 p.m. in 2450 Mason Hall. PlaceMent- POSITION OPENINGS: 'John Hopkins Univ., Applied Physics (Continued on Page 8) ..r. . r................v "": :..vr";..;.. . . ;v... .......w , . ' . .. ...., " .. . . .n.,. . n. w rs. r r '" yr .^. r. nF .Fr.:.r .. ," t«.. ........... n... ...... . .:o:{f.V " ." i~.v..k".. .. }.O. .$.. . . .'.:..A. f..r . . t.} "" ".". r. { i , { ''s" .n.r :. ." . v ,} P;. J.D.'s Second Coming: FRANNY AND ZOOEY: By J.' D. Salinger. 202 pp. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., $4.00. THIS is a condemnatory review of Franny and Zooey, two "critical entries in a narrative se- ries from a five year old issue of The New Yorker. Apparently Salinger's devotees-those disci- ples of beat Zen-are illiterate. At least each diamond cast be- fore them is not swallowed up for according to a less liberal journal, Time, "Weeks before the official publication date, Sal- inger's followers queued up, and bookstores sold out their first supplies." What mystic kick were those grown-up teen-agers off on when their master spoke non- sense to them long years ago in a reputable magazine? Franny, in the first glimpse of an ill-defined family named Glass, is a nit-witted co-ed who deludes herself into believing that the 'Jesus prayer' will compen- sate for an earlier use of a con- traceptive. The modern Helen, Jocastra, Francesca, Portia? Ed- ucation forbid. * * * "'WAY THE HELL early last month wasn't it?' He shook his asked to believe in freudian char- acters of unreal, remedial read- ers of the great mystics. Franny speaks: ""I'm. off that's all. Don't pay any 'attention to me.' OK, I won't. Nor to Lane either.. The second and longer sketch of the amorphous cloud-kook-ku Glass family in this bound-to- gether - between -rthe - boards. sketches snatched from The New Yorker concerns Zooey, a twen- ty-five year old juvenile delin- quent, and a whimpering Franny, "the Wise Child" 'who now, ain this second section, deludes her- self into believing the "Jesus prayer" is a substitute for Kleen- ex or a barbituate for middle- class mediocrity. * * * I DON'T SO MUCH mind the trash and triviality of Franny and Zooey, as I do the back- handed indictment of American education. Who. is what all about? Les Glass, Father, non-existent except he can do soft-shoe and brought his daughter an unwant- ed tangerine. Bessie Glass, Mother, appears in a less than obscene bathroom conversation with her transpar-r ent TV son, Zooey. each and. every one were radio "Whiz Kids," Franny and Zooey included. They had each mem- orized all sorts of facts, figures, and fancies; they add up their knowledge of facts, figures and fancies to second-rate frustra- tions. One is in college, one has graduated to TV.i And what do they do, ,how do they react? Franny, at the end of telephon- ic therapy: "A dial tone . . . She appeared to find it extraordinar- ily beautiful to listen to, rather as if it were the best possible substitute for the primordial sil- ence itself." And Zooey, age 25, TV satellite, bar-man, etc.? Where is his only refuge, his sole hiding place: "his slight torso' fitting in rather tightly between the 1932 Stromberg-Carlson table radio and an overfilled maple magazine stand." ZOOEY has had formal under- graduate education. Franny is pregnantly absentnfrom it But this is pounded into the reader, they were "Wise Kids" who won prizes for knowing all the an- swers. They know all and under- stand nothing. This is the indict- ment mentioned above. Marcus Aurelius, Epectitus, Issa, The hony back of a bedroom door. The col- lege that granted him a degree should take it back. They grope darkly in a cloud of unknowing; untaught, un- trained, undisciplined. They pre- figure the fringe benefits of a chaotic society. They lack goal, purpose, self - discipline and (whatever has happened to this word) free-will. Too bad Fran- ny and Zooey in their literary shambling around haven't dis- covered Milton. ...So will fall- Hee and his faithless proge- ny: Whose fault? SWh sebut his own? ingrate, he had of inee All he could have: I made him Just and right, Sufficient to h a v e stood, though free, to fall. Plot: Sobbing sister and slob- bering brother. Italics: I won't bore you with Salin- ger's use of the italic. If I heard a human being talk like such, I'd believe him a chimpanzee /edu- cated from birth at Eloise. Metaphors: One will suffice: "It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a 'S 's 'V.' cy