rl Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ere Opinions Are Pre* STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. "Rockets Here, Rockets There, Kids Will Forget How To Use Their Arms" DECEMBER 2, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH BLEIER U.S. Must Uphold Principles In Aiding South Korea T IS ABOUT TIME the United States de- decided just exactly what it intends to sup- ort in this world. The USSR seems quite lear on this point, and has the immense ad- antage of consistent pursuit of its objectives. 7e, on the other hand, have not defined what ut "national interest" is, even to ourselves, nd we continue to bewilder all nations on hat we want for the world. One case in point is South Korea, which eems to offer an excellent opportunity for pen declaration of our principles. General 'hung Hee Park, present head of the military unta which seized control from civilian Pre- iier John Chang last May, promises demo- ratic elections in 1963. Meanwhile, political parties have been ban- ed, trade unions and strikes have been for- idden, assembly has been outlawed, and the ress has been censored. Left-wing student coups have been ordered to keep quiet. Lib- rals have been lumped with Communists in drive against "anti-state organizations" and iousands of suspects have been arrested. Nine rovincial governors, legally elected under the te Chang regime, and mayors of large cities ave been ousted and replaced by military ficials. The secret police can send almost nyone to jail for almost any offense. )NE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT facts about South Korea is its level of education. :rean colleges granted 23,000 liberal arts egrees last year alone, while there are hardly lore than 100 indigenous college graduates in .1 of Laos. With unemployment so high, how- ver, these college graduates often have nothing do but sit around and perhaps discuss >litics-if they are allowed to assemble. Such level of education, however, strongly sug- ests that the Korean people are capable of nderstanding their problems realistically, if zey are allowed to discuss them. F THESE RESTRICTIONS are continued, even if elections are held in 1963, the Korean eople will know so little about what problems e immediately facing their country that this xercise of "demo'cracy" will be meaningless. nly free discussion now can prepare them r decision in the future. Park's promises for "democracy" seemed ibious from the very beginning. The gov- 'nment of John Chang was indeed rife with irruption in the old Syngman Rhee tra- tion. Andministration was grossly inefficient id Chang himself was a weak, though well- tentioned, leader. However, he was the vic- r in the first honest elections in South orea, and deposition of his government show- I little respect for the democratic process. At that time, the coup was led by General hiang Do Yung. Only 3,600 troops, all re- rves, were needed to topple the legal gov- 'nment. Young became the new Premier, but 'en then, observers suspected that Park was e real force behind the move. Under the inta, martial law was proclaimed, the former abinet members were arrested, and cen- rship began. The revolutionary government's first com- munique stated that "To oppose Communism is our primary objective" and added other goals: "to solve the misery of the masses, transfer power to new and conscientious politicians and return to our original duties." The last three are commendable, but that opposition to Com- munism should be the primary goal in a coun- try where 25 per cent of the labor force is unemployed and actual starvation afflicts millions is hardly laudable. It is despicable as naive, and ironic when coupled with Com- munist-like methods. PARK HIMSELF was once an avowed Com- munist under the Rhee dictatorship, but was converted and subsequently informed on the whole Communist network. He is now vio- lently anti-Communist-so much so that he ousted and arrested Yung and seven of his cabinet members in July as "Communist col- laborators." According to "Newsweek" and "Time," Yung was suspect because he had con- tributed $770 to, a South Korean relief society aiding widows of victims of a massacre of alleged "Communists" under the Rhee regime. If Park considers relief even in the form of charity to be Communistic, he is certain to fail in "solving the misery of the masses." Now Park is in charge. Two million people are unemployed in the cities. Poverty over- whelms the farms, so that many peasants are forced to mortgage their crops at 80 per cent interest. Inflation is stiffling the economy. The Korean Reconstruction Bank has $15 mil- lion in bad debts on its books and $40 million in overdue loans which it has not bothered to collect. Economic growth for 1960 was 2.3 per cent. But one third of the South Korean budget has been used for military expenditures, and the government has been so involved in suppression of "troublemakers" that it has not had much time to devote to these problems. Reforms so far seem to be of the type that has cut the fee for dance-hall hostesses from $5.30 to $2. The effect of this action upon starvation on the farms has yet to be shown. A FEW WEEKS AGO, Park came to the United States and conferred with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Fowler Hamilton, head of the Agency for Interational Develop- ment on a $2.4 billion five-year plan for South Korea. He was assured of considerable eco- nomic and military aid from the United States, perhaps including jet planes. But jet planes cannot be of any real value to a nation whose instability is largely based on human de- privation. The way we handle the Park regime may well help to determine what we stand for in tke eyes of the Afro-Asians. Park can repre- sent a fresh start in our foreign policy. Theoretically, we believe in democracy, in free expression and in the elimination of economic misery. We cannot support Park's programs unless we insist that civil rights be restored now in preparation for democracy. MARTHA MacNEAL AT THE CAMPUS: Cheaters' Wrings True 'THE CHEATERS," which first ran in 1958 under the title "Youthful Sinners," is another "new wave" but dated treatment of a set of wild young Parisians who seem so tough, irresponsible, and unprin- cipled as to let American "beatnik" editions appear pale and benign. According to director and scriptwriter Marcel Carne ("Port of Shadows" and "Children of Paradise") "these lost young people of Paris . . . are totally unaware of the personal sacrifices they are mak- ing as they are denying themselves any sentiment and are cheating themselves out of geuine love." Well, the not-so-lost young people of Ann Arbor will understand that comment any time, for one can iden- tify with that type of cheating. As for the antiquity and the romantic, pseudo-sophisticated slush of a considerable number of scenes, one will have to compromise. The consequences of an affair between a college boy (respectable type) and a girl (not so respectable) are by all means sad. First the boy is introduced to Left Bank beatniks, the girl's crowd, and under- goes a metamorphosis. He is now barren of conventional morals, not to mention conventional emotions. When the two join a game of Truth at a large party, they sacrifice their love for each other. If they were alone she would admit her affection but the presence of the crowd demands a performance of how hard she is. She denies her love when she should not have-for then tragedy takes over. JAQUES CHARRIER acts the boy in a peculiarly congested man- ner. Like the first ninety minutes of the film, he never seems to quite get off the ground. Pascal Petit as Mic the girl surprises with fluidity, as does Laurent Terbieff as sly instigator. Perturbing are the sopho- moric and admirably persistent efforts of the cast to utter their views on life, an occupation which with all its "horrible" work is oh, so bor- ing. It may be that movie-making has changed since 1958 to such a wholesome degree that every slice of life that does-not drip with reality is contemptuously shrugged off as contrivance. "The Cheaters" are all wrung out. -Wolf -Dietrich Blatter AT THE MICHIGAN: 'Bachelor' Hope-full "BACHELOR IN PARADISE" is a frequently amusing, occasionally insipid domestic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lana Turner. Backing up these veteran performers is a full cast of veteran jokes and gags, all time-tested, many of which are still surprisingly funny. Hope portrays an author who spends his time sampling and writing about love-making techniques of various nations. Suddenly made penniless by 'the Internal Revenue Department, he returns to a California suburban development and commences work on a classic to be entitled How the Americans Live. Walking into the real-estate office, the author is amazed to discover that the salesman is really lovely Lana. Fortunately this tired retread is not typical of the film's humor, although it and similar episodes are frequent enough to become a bit tedious. "Bachelor" reaches its high point in its depiction of American Suburbia, land of modern inconveniences, sprawling shopping centers and astronomical birth, rates. Hope's misadventures in a large grocery store are nicely described, and the neighborhood kids are suitably lovable little vermin. UNFORTUNATELY, Mr. Hope is not, and wild never be, an actor. He is an accomplished comedian, and when he's playing himself the result is usually amusing. When he's portraying Lan Turner's lover, however, the result is still amusing. This dramatic inability leads to an ending which even in a comedy is overbearingly amateur and maudlin. Janis Paige turns in a clever performance as the wandering wife who throws herself at Hope as recklessly as he drops chicken bones into his undependable garbage disposal. The film's bright color photography reflects the shiny plastic facade of American materialism as well as the ,glory of Lana's blonde hair. The accompanying music does little more than fill in the spaces where laughter should have developed and didn't. -Ralph Stingel ,1 $ } SIDELINE ON SGC: Advise and Confuse IW Capitalist Peace Corps By PETER STUART, Magazine Editor By CYNTHIA NEU Daily Staff Writer WITH THEIR well-intended but inept attempt to aid fraterni- ties and sororities in formulating their membership statements, Stu- dent Government Council created more fog than it lifted. Fraternity and sorority presi- dents have received four commu- nications from various parties list- ing possible contacts for help in formulating their statements. And with these letters the con- fusion begins. * * * A LETTER dated January 17 from John Feldkamp, then Presi- lent of the Council declared: "Please feel free to contact me or appropriate University officials in working to comply with this regulation." A letter also sent Jan. 17 from Vice-President for Student Affairs James A. Lewis read: "If you need help from this office, the Dean of Men or the Dean of Women, please feel free to call on us." A letter from Nohl dated May 26 urged: "Do not hesitate to call on me concerning any questions or problems that arise over sub- mission of a statement." A letter from Nohl on Oct. 25 announced: "The only official in- terpretation of the regulation of Dec. 13, 1960 and the requirements set forth therein, may be obtained through the President of SGC. Please direct your questionst to this office, 1544 Student Activities Building." * * * FRATERNITIES and sororities were offered no end of assistance in their endeavors to comply with the regulation-assistance from so many directions and from so many communiques that it would be no wonder if they were confused. 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. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 General Notices The Women's Research Club of the University will meet on Mon., Dec. 4, at 8:00 p.m. in the West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Dr. Nancy Lurie will speak on "The Dogrib Indian of the Canadian Sub-Arctic." .Part-Time POSITION OPENINGS: Dentist's Office, Ann Arbor Area - Dental Office Assistant to be complete- ly in charge of office !% the time. In- volves all desk work, typing, etc. Ex- per. helpful but not essential. Must have typing skill & knowledge of of- fice procedures. Medical Economics, Inc., Oradell, N.J. _'Pnifinc n , n nw-.11 n ny F c m. Vice-President Lewis has ex- plained that his office hasn't play- ed a part in helping any sorority or fraternity draft statements and "doubts if the Dean of Men or Dean of Women's offices have." Instead, Lewis said his office has referred any such requests to SGC. Nohl explains he has received requests for information on how to file statements, but not on inter- pretation of the content of these' statements. Nohl pointed out at the meeting that he has been reviewing some of the statements already fiid with the Office of the Vice- President for Student Affairs and found some of them are "inade- quate." THE MOTION passed Dec. 13, 1960 provides:, "All fraternities and sororities shall file with the University -(in the Office of the Vice-President for Student Affairs) a statement which lists all current rules, regu- lations, policies, written or oral agreements, or any other written or oral agreements, or any other written or unwritten criteria which in any way affect the selection of members. "Accompanying such shall be the group's interpretation of these provisions as to their ability to comply with the University Regu- lation on Membership" - whicn provides that "recognized student organizations shall select members on the basis of personal merit, and not race, color, religion, creed, na- tional origin, or ancestry." This in itself would seem to state quite clearly what is de- sired. However, there. could be cases where a house, acting in good faith, thought it had compled with the regulation when in the Council President's mind it had not. * * * THE HOUSE with problems drafting their statement has no clear idea where to turn for help because of SGC bungling in their offers of a foggy wide-range as- sistance to houses. Second, the fault also lies with the sororities and fraternities who, if they had questions, did not seek help. If they had contacted his office, according to Lewis they would have been referred to SGC. This leaves the problem in the Council's lap. IF THE 'COUNCIL does not pass a deadline for statements comply- ing with the regulation, it will hamstring the work of its own Committee on Membership in Stu- dent Organizations. At the same time, unless the Council makes it clear exactly which statements already submit- ted are incomplete and allows these houses an opportunity to 'HE CREW-CUT young American with a just-out-of-college confidence about him ood up beside his modern steel desk, loosened s neck tie and unfastened his tab collar. He took off his dark Ivy League suit coat and aped it over the back of his swivel chair. ien he picked up a packet of technical dia- ams, opened the door and stepped out of his -conditioned office into the sweltering Cey- iese sunshine. Strolling over to a group of Ceylonese tech- chians standing dwarfed beneath the tanks d towers of a sprawling oil refinery, he began plaining to them in fluent use of their own ague how to solve a perplexing refining oblem. 'HIS SCENE is repeated daily in all parts of the world by recent college graduates. By embers of the Peace Corps? By agents of the ternational Cooperation Administration? No, ese people aren't employed by the govern- mnt. They are, to put it simply, "young capital- s"-young men and women taken off Ameri- a college and university campuses, specially ined by business- and industry, and sent road to the companies' foreign. plants and fices. The image of the American who lived and rked in a foreign land used to be one of onely fugitive from his homeland who spent st of his time with a bottle of rum or a tive maiden. No more. roday the American with a Job abroad is pically young, clean-cut, well-dressed, well- justed and universially likable. He's also THE TRAINING GROUND which America's international business concerns rely on more than any other is not the big-name uni- versities, but a small, specialized training school on the Arizona plains. Bearing the imposing name of the American Institute for Foreign Trade, the school trains a maximum of only 300 handpicked students each year on its compact campus near Phoenix. But it boasts a list of some 500 of the coun- try's largest businesses and industries which compete for it graduate, as well as a board of directors and advisory council which in- clude many national figures in business, gov- ernment and communication., Since its founding 15 years ago, the institute has turned out 3,000 graduates from its one- year, post-graduate .curriculum designed es- pecially for young executives to be sent abroad. THESE 3,000 YOUNG BUSINESSMEN of the world have been hailed as "America's best- trained and most highly-respected corps of good-will ambassadors" by Sen. Barry Gold- water (R-Ariz), who, the institute proudly points out, is a member of the board of direc- tors. Other members of the board of directors and advisory council indicate the institute's high standing in national political and economic circles: Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce (former am- bassador to Italy), Lewis W. Douglas (former ambassador to Great Britain), Howard Pyle (administrative assistant to former President Eisenhower), Lowell Thomas (author and com- _r - n,1 r"A rn ..r n- ran.. intr hlci.-f By WALTER LIPPMANN MUCH HAS BEEN CHANGED since Dr. Adenauer was here last April. There have been elec- tions in West Germany, which took place shortly after the build- ing of the wall which has com- pletely sealed off West Berlin from East Germany. Dr. Adenauer has lost his independent majority, and he comes here now as the head of a coalition founded on agreements which are not known publicly and explicitly. As the coalition was being form- ed in West Germany, the German Ambassador in Moscow, Dr. Kroll, was talking with Mr. Khrushchev. and despite public criticism by some officials in the foreign office at Bonn, Dr. Adenauer has con- firmed Dr. Kroll in his post and has sent him back to Moscow. If there is a common factor in these events, it is that since last summer, in fact since August 13, West Germany has been engaged in the difficult business of facing the realities which for the past ten years have been deliberately and artificially ignored. The of- ficial fiction has dissolved,, that East Germany would beliberated from the Soviet power and absorb- ed by a free election into the existing West German state. In place of this fiction there is now the real German question, which is how to make a workable German policy out of divergent elements. One is the solemn com- mitment to the Western Alliane. Another element is the perennial desire of the German nation to be reunited. And the third is the need for an accommodation with Eastern Europe and the'l Soviet Union. * " * IF FOR THE time being there Is consideable confusion and doubt and disarray in Germany, it lf HA{ b~YH 1'_ S ~. }! 1H correc tthem, it would be grossly unfair to penalize them. The Council only recently be- latedly set up the mechanism for reviewing the statements already submitted for completeness. Nohl is now doing this, but no letters have been sent to this date to any houses whose documents are "in- adequate." Either the Council must set a deadline for some sort of state- ment trusting sororities and fra- ternities to comply with the ruling to the best of their ability and handle the ;question of "adequacy" later, or SGC must provide some mechanism for warning those groups who are operating under the supposition that the state- ments they have already submitted are correct, that there are flaws in them, and give them an op- portuniy to correct them before a deadline for complete, adequate statements arrives. TODAY AND TOMORROW: The New German Situation Berlin, which is to insure it-against conquest or blockade, is no longer, perhaps was never, crucial. Khrushchev has been able to change the situation of West Ber- lin radically without invading it or blockading it. Now that West Berlin is separ- ated from East Berlin by the wall, the problem is not how to defend its freedom but how to save it from a slow but certain death. As the young men leave, the future of West Berlin as a living city is a poor one. If West Berlin can be saved at all, it can be done only by a successful negotiation of an international agreement which gives the city something definite to live for. This is what the school who want to stand pat and stand firm have never understood. Barring accidents and irrational impatience in Moscow, the Berlin crisis, as it was expounded during the early summer, has subsided to the point where it is negotiable. What really concerns us all are the larger consequences of the German situation as it is now revealed. Now that the old fiction. which has pretended to be a policy is gone, in what direction will the German nation go? WE HAVE many reasons for supposing that the German na- tion will move in some variant of its historic national policy. It will move, that is to say, towards one of those accomodations with Russia which have for two cen- turies followed its many wars with Russia. Recent events in West Germany support this hypothesis. The Free Democratic party, which is con- servative and nationalist, was the chief gainer in the August elec- tions. It has never lost sight of Germany's interest in the East. The West German Ambassador in ncrnwn, n,. .,rn1 1i. s - n na abnormal and dangerous pull to- wards the East. Reunification, the rectification of the eastern fron- tiers, the opening of vast markets in Russia and in China, will exert a strong pull on Germany policy. ** * WHILE IT IS most important to recognize and understand this problem, the wrong way to deal with it, I am sure, would be to force the Germans to choose be- tween their role int the Western community and an accommodation with Eastern Europe and Russia. Germany as a whole is by -its geography compelled to face two ways, and we shall be less than wise if we do not use our power and influence to work with the Germans, never forcing the issue and never demanding that they male an absolute choice. We can afford to be cool about it. While there is a great likelihood that the West Germans will even- tually make an opening to the East, there is no real and present danger that they will suddenly surprise us with another Hitler- Stalin pact. There is popular sup- port for the policy of alliance with the West. In the nuclear age Ger- many, even if it were reunited, could not be a great world power. Moreover, the reunification of Germany ris now possible only in the environment of an accom- modation with the East, and a German government, though per- haps not this one, is bound to pursue it. Knowing this, we should not adopt a position of our own which causes us to try to make water flow uphill. Nor is there, I think, any serious danger that in seeking an ac- commodation with the East, West Germany would withdraw from the Common Market and from the still larger market which is about to come into being in the Atlantic I Sophist OHN E. COSGROVE, assistant mrI .. Av ffh a larol, ffi 4