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"Let's Have More BIGGER-THAN-EVER Golden Eggs!"
EUROPEAN DATELINE:
French Pessimisutc
On New Negotiations
Y. DECEMBER 8, 1961
NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH OPPENHEIM
City Taxes for Michigan:
Excising the Detroit Cancer
FAKER OF THE HOUSE Don R. Pears
R-Buchanan) has proposed the state re-
its financial aid to cities in exchange
granting those cities a certain amount of
ng autonomy. This marks the most sen-
approach yet to Michigan's money prob-
r some years the 81 outstate counties
se beyond the 'Detroit area) have been
ng out more than their share of the taxes
eal with the growing costs of urbanization
cities. (For instance, outstate employers
paid a one per cent emergency Detr6it
nployment compensation assessment for
five years.)
it now the tax figures have just about
hed the. saturation point. Some outstate
nesses and citizens in the outstate coun-
now refuse to pay any more money. If
are burdened with one more tax, they
as they have threatened, move out.
id they're not kidding.
'Thon
THE PROBLEM in Michigan is a cancer. It
must be removed or it will eventually be,
the destruction of a once-great state.
That cancer is Detroit.
Since the post-war production boom slacked
off, Detroit has faced an ever-increasing prob-
lem of unemployment and growing urbaniza-
tion. The residents of Wayne County, under the
existing city and state tax structures, have
been getting more money than they have been
paying. The balance, getting larger every year,
has been made up with tax monies outstate.
At first t ere was an objection to this. The
outstate taxpayers did not begrudge a little
money to help tide Detroit over a temporary
problem.
But that problem never went away; it just
got worse. Today it curtails the expansion of
our colleges and universities; it hampers proper
functioning of the mental health program; it
adds increasing and burdensome taxes to
the entire state.
IT JUST isn't fair. '
Just what could be done to solve this issue
is a ,matter of great disagreement. The out-
staters say Detroit has made no attempt to
clean house, but Detroit retorts it is doing its
best.
Probably the only way ever to find out who's
right is to test it. Cut Detroit loose and force
her to 'raise her own money. It will either
raise its or eliminate the need, you can be
sure of that.
WHICHEVER the result, Michigan stands to
gain by it. Perhaps if the state used the
new-found surplus money education, the Uni-
versity could resist the exodus of faculty
members, or build a new and adequate music
or achitecture school, or update many anti-
quated facilities at University Hospital.
Perhaps the mental health patients would
at last receive proper care. Perhaps-well, per-
haps many things. At any rate, Pears pro-
posal deserves a try. The welfare of the entire
state has too long been subordinated to the
special interest of a very small, self-centered
area.
-MICHAEL HARRAH
By GLORIA BOWLES
Daily Correspondent
PARIS - The contradictory re-
ports reaching New York and
Paris on the De-Gaulle-Macmillan
talks at Birch Grove recently may
be explained, in part, by the use
of two different "reliable sources."
But the contradiction also seems
to underline a basic difference in
American-European attitudes to-
ward negotiations with the Rus-
sians on the Berlin question.
From London, Drew Middleton
cabled to the "New York Times"
on November 27 that the De
Gaulle-Macmillan talks "restored
harmony to British and French
policies on Berlin." He added that
the two leaders seemed agreed on
the advisability of negotiation, but,
aside from this general accord,
there was no decision on the exact
form such negotiations should
take.
* * *
"LE FIGARO'" in Paris head-
lined "Negative result of French-
British talks .. . General De Gaulle
stands firm ... the moment has
not come for negotiations with
Moscow on Berlin."
Roger Massip, 'Le F'garo's Brit-
ish correspondent, wrote on No-
vember 27 that "the talks would
render no result." He added that it
was "in vain that Macmillan and
Lord Home insisted on a number
of signs that appeared to them
relatively encouraging" for Rus-
sian willingness to engage in ser-,
ious, give-and-take negotiation.,
However, reported "Le Figaro,"
the General insisted he could say
little before seeing Konrad Ade-
nauer of Germany (who was slat-
ed to arrive in Paris this week if
his illness doesn't keep him bed-
ridden). This attitude on the part
of "Le Grand Charlie," had Brit-
ons believing that the talks at
Birch Grove would have been much
more satisfying if they'had taken
place eight days later. Massip's
sources al~so noted that if Ad-
nauer seemed to be taking a more
flexible attitude since his talks
with Kennedy, De Gaulle seemed
to be all the more inflexible.
* * *
SUCH A MARKED difference in
reporting may well reflect what
seems to be a marked difference'
in attitudes among Americans,
who seem often to find the op-
timistic, the bright side, in a
given political situation and Euro-.
peans who, generally speaking, can
see little hope for solution of the
world's political problems.
How can one account for Euro-
pean pessimism? Geography plays
a role-gigantic Russia is only
a slight missile's throw from
France and Germany. Too, unlike
many Americans, war on their
own soil has sobered Europeans,
made them more fearful of con-
flict, and more prone to war
scares.
BUT THERE IS another-and
more important-side to this pes-
simism and general hopelessness
'where world peace and the suc-
cess of negotiation is concerned.
The French, for one, are encum-
PIONEERED BY Southern Senators and a
bearded fellow from Cuba. The Talkathon
raze is fast becoming a collegiate fad of gold-
ish-swallowing magnitude. Creative minds are
,lready at work devising new 'thons, and
ager masochists are lining up to follow and
bey the 'thon theme thinkers' thoughts.
We will soon be confronted with a striking
anorama: every able-bodied youth in America;
a a conscientious effort to waste more time
han his neighbor, compulsively and con-
inuously talking, walking, eating. drinking,
moking, crying, giggling, scratching, sleeping,
.riving, necking, screaming, fighting sitting,
wearing, breathing, perspiring, reading, steal-
ng, or spitting. The Communists will then
Ind it a simple matter to walk in and take
ver.
Has the Un-American Activities Committee
eard about this?
-K. WINTER
U.S. STRATEGY:
Major Crisis in Vietnam
SGC SdstesRsosblt
T IS IRONIC that on the same night over
in-the SAB, the SGC is discussing the mat-'
er of giving more authority to these respon-
ble students," an observer said at the panty
aid Wednesday night.
However, the Student Government Council
ever got to asking, the administration for'
tore power. In a show of irresponsibility al-
lost as bad as that of the raiders, the
ouncil did not consider Daily Editor John
oberts' and Brian Glick's motion on student
uthority. Instead they spent four hours de-
ating, often in nonsensical'terms, a motion
set deadlines for., membership statements
i fraternities and sororities.
This farcical debate ended at 2:15 a.m. It
as apparent that the Council would not be
any condition to. consider Roberts' and'
lick's motion and that a delay would render
ae Imotion meaningless. Ignoring the sponsors'
arnings that the OSA study committee would
ave written the first draft of its report before
1e Council would have another opportunity to
insider their proposal, SGC peevishly waved,
aside and adjourned.
FHE LAST FIVE MINUTES of debate were
quite revealing-symbolic of the'irrespon-
ble and petty tone of the whole meeting.
Why should we debate this . . when we
robably know what the outcome would be,"
ouncil President Richard Nohl snapped. In a
.nilar manner Union President Paul Carder,
eclared that he saw no reason why a special
ssion was needed and that indeed the only
sult of such a sesion would be a "slipshod"
ib.
It was to no avail that Administrative Vice-
resident Robert Ross correctly noted that
its motion is probably the most important
ie SGC has ever considered. Roberts reminded
the Council that it had passed in September
a strong resolution demanding a role in setting
OSA policy and that the Council had to
recognize its responsibilities.{
Women's League President Bea Nemlaha
then moved for a suspension of parliamentary
procedure so that the members could speak
freely across the table. The object was to come
up with a suitable time for a special session
to consider the one motion alone. But John
Martin, SGC executive vice-president, who
was chairing the meeting, refused to suspend
proceedures until a. flood of amendments sug-
gesting times became unmanagable. Realizing
his mistake, he suspended the rules.
In the dicussion that followed, the general
attitude of most Council members seemed to
be that Friday and Sunday afternoons were
too sacred to spend on a motion which would
radically change the nature of student govern-
ment on this campus.
Thus when the matter came to a roll call
vote, it was defeated 8-5.
ROBERT'S AND GLICK'S MOTION would,
greatly increase the Council's power and
responsibility. But for some strange reason
most members of the Council do not seem
ready to accept either. SGC had before it the
long - standing anti-discr i mination motion
which is a first step toward enforcing the
Regent's anti-discrimination Bylaw 2.14. This
measure is very important and should have
been passed long ago; but irresponsible pro-
crastination and indecisiveness delayed con-
sideration of this motion until the last two
meetings.
However, the Council failed to deliberate it
with the intelligence the motion warranted. The
four hour debate on the fraternity-sorority
membership statement had more than its share
of ludicrous and disgusting moments.
In this manner the Council hashed and
rehashed-touching the same issues over and
over again. Finally, by some miracle, the
Council actually passed a motion. Never mind
that the motion means nothing-they passed
it after two meetings and nine hours of
deliberations, and this is a thing to cheer
about.
COUNCIL ACTIONS Wednesday night in-
dicate certain members are unwilling to
undertake the great responsibilities to the
student community entailed in Roberts-Glick
motion. Their pettiness marks many of them
as minor bureaucrats, not as the broad minded
student leaders needed to effect such a viable
government. Major policy decisions require
more competent members than most of those
presently sitting on the Concil.
By JAMES NICHOLS
Daily Staff Writer
THE RECENT RASH of shout-
4 ing, shooting and wall-building
in Berlin during the past few
months has partly obscured the
less spectacular but equally dan-
gerous conflict in the jungles of
Vietnam.
But in Washington this struggle
and its importance have not been
forgotten. President Kennedy re-
cently sent Gen. Maxwell Taylor
to Vietnam to study conditions
and submit a report on which fu-
ture United States policy will be
based. Contents of Gen. Taylor's
report have not been officially an-
nounced, but the actions taken
since then may indicate what is
to come.
Vietnam came into existence fol-
lowing eight years of -war between
the Viet Minh, who were the Com-
munist-led nationalists and sol-
diers of France with their puppet
government in Saigon under Bao
Dai. The Communists have follow-
ed a pattern very similar to that
of the Red Chinese in their Civil
War.
** *
IN BOTH CASES the Com-
munists have preferred hit-and-
guerrilla tactics and .bloody raids
on individual villages to open mass
warfare. In both cases these meth-
ods have succeeded in neutralizing
the numerical superiority of their
enemies. In both of these Asian
conflicts the Communists .have
been successful in recruiting not
only dogmatic Marxists, but many
of the Nationalists, poor peasants
hoping for agrarian reform, and
educated people who oppose cor-
ruption and Western Imperialism.
In China, the Red-led forces
were almost completely successful.
President Kennedy and his ad-
visers are determined to prevent
the completion of the analogy in
Vietnam.
THE GENEVA agreement which
was supposed to end the fighting
in Vietnam left that country divid-
ed roughly in half along the 17th
parallel, as Korea is now divided
along the 38th. The same "Viet-
nam" has two different meanings
on opposite sides of this line. There
are two governments; reasonably
free South Vietnam, under Presi-
dent Ngo Dinh Diem, with its
capital at Saigon; and the Demo-
cratic Republic of Vietnam, under
firm Commun'ist control, with its
capital at Hanoi.
The 1954 agreement at Geneva
provided for an election which
would have reunited the country.
But conditions in the North made
a free election unlikely, and South
Vietnam's President Diem, whose
delegation had refused to sign the
Geneva declaration, did not per-
mit the vote to be held.
Today the. divided country is the
the secene of almost daily clashes
between Diem's army and forces
of the northern Viet Cong. The
rebels, many operating from
Communist-held villages in neigh-
boring Laos, continue to make the
area an important trouble psot,
especially dangerous in these days
of long-range missiles and. short-
AMERICAN STRATEGY is re-
portedly developing along three
major lines. The South Vietnamese
army is to be trained, increased
and possibly reorganized. It is to
be supplied with more potent
weapons, which the Communist
guerrillas do not have. Finally,
consideration will probably be
given to increased efforts to sub-
stitute more capable local gov-
ernment, in an attempt to bring
wavering villagers, back to our
side.
President Kennedy is trying to
avoid using American forces
against the attackers. And Presi-
dent Diem does not seem overly
enthusiastic about the pressure the
United States would apply on him
to reform his, government if we
did send troops to fight for it.
The fear in Washington may be
partly inspired by the unpopular-
ity of the Saigon government with
the Vietnamese.
American demands for reform
in Saigon have not been gratefully:
received. The press in "free" Viet-
nam is wholly censored by the
government. Diem's government is
vigorously applying itself to
stamping out all opposition, Com-
munist or not. Instead of the in-
spiring leader the Saigon Viet-
namese vitally need, Diem has
proven to be jealous, incompetent
and thoroughly unpopular. Again
one is struck with the, similarities
between this situation and the one
preceeding the fall of Chinese'
Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-
shek/
* * *
WHETHER the tide of Com-
munism can be checked in South-
east Asia may well depend on the
outcome of the Vietnam struggle.
The outcome, in turn, may well'
depend on the domestic successes
of Diem's anti-Communist regime,
and these successes undoubtably
depend on the far-reaching re-
forms proposed by Washington and
so far violently resisted by Presi-
dent Diem.
bered by tremendous internal
problems. They cannot, for ex-
ample, see their way out of the
Algerian war.
To ask political optimism of
the French, therefore, is to ask
a lot. It is also to ask a lot
when one demands faith in nego-
tiatipns of a population which
waited patiently for a settlement
of the Algerian problem by that
means, and was finally warned to
take up arms at the city hall if
Algerian parachutists bombarded
Paris one night last spring.
The Algerian problem at home
seems to the French far from
solution: "I think it's the duty
of my son to go to the army, a
Parisian mother told me, "but
when it all seems so useles . ..
Parisians haven't an answer -
many of them call for the ouster
of De Gaulle, generally unpopular
in the capital, but they have no
ideas fot an alternative govern-
ment.
The weight anid heartache of
their problems at home render the
French cautious in the matter of
East-West talks.
GERMANS MAY appear slightly
more enthusiastic for negotiation.
But they are not without fears.
They are, first, afraid of Western
concessions and Soviet gains.
Moreover, they are afraid of the
complete failure of such talks.
Harrassed by the threats over
Berlin, Germans were all the more
sobered by the building of the wall
between the two Berlins.
Constant Soviet threats have
embittered the population: since
they can see little ground for
agreement, Germans look upon
negotiations-and world peace in
general-with a great deal of pes-
simism ad hopelessness. Their own
past war history and the shame
that accompanys it does not help
brighten the picture.
ON THE 'OTHER HAND, ac-
cording to the way many Fenh
and German observers tell it,
Britons are a little too anxious to
negotiate.
An united Western stand on the
question "to negotiate or not to
negotiate" is, obviously, impera-
tive. If Drew Middleton's reliable
source is correct, we are closer to
that accord.
1But if "Le Figaro" and Robert
Massip have provided a more cor-
rect report, we have, as usual, to
contend with the "black sheep"
member of the alliance, General
De Gaulle and his France.
AL YOUNG:
Fruitfull
Pilg rimsAge
VACATIONING from a pilgrim-
age in San Francisco, Al Young
visits Ann Arbor with fresh ma-
terial and style.
He has added to his already
large range of songs and moods
fresh and topical music such as
Malvina Reynolds' "The Rand
Corporation" and Betty Sander's
"Talking Unamerican Blues," Both
of these he handled with an irony
As always, Young's selection was
rich with a variety of countries
and themes. He shifted from the
delicacy of the English ballad
Who Killed Cock Robin" to the
raucous French drinking song "Sur
La Route.
OF AL the traditions Young
handles, however, his blues re-
main the best. He performs them
with a sense of the history of
suffering thateproduced them -
and a bitterness and intimacy that
make them his own. "Rocks and
Gravel" and Leadbelly's "Bour-
geois Blues" were especially well-
done.
Not a member of the sing-along
tradition, Young has achieved
greater control both of himself
as a performer and of his au-
dience. Although he will never be
known for his voice alone, it is
smoother and time has given
it richness and depth.
HIS SENSITIVITY to the au-
dience has increased since the
days he perched on a stool in the
Promethean Cafe, but it is only
a greater technical ability to
handle his listeners. He remains
aloof and cool,
Perry Lederman, a self-styled
"folk instrumentalist" who threat-
ens to be number one guitarist in
the country, brought the evening
to a sizzling finish.
--Susan Steinberg
DAILY OFFICIAL
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
MUG Clientele Screened?
To the Editor:
WAS WONDERING what is the
standard for deciding which
persons you required to present
student I.D.'s to enjoy the com-
forts of the MUG? I watched as
a women with a badge saying
"Mrs. Cavanaugh" made her
rounds of the various booths and
tables one night recently and was
somewhat confused as to the
modus operandis
She did not ask the boys in the
booth in front of me whether they
had I.D.'s, nor did she ask the.
girl sharing my booth (who, by the
way. attends Cleary College),
though she did make a point of
asking the four Negro boys in the
booth behind me whether they
were students at the University.
When she found they were not,
she regretfully informed them that
she was afraid she would have to
ask them to leave.
This duty fulfilled, she walked
to the other end of the MUG
passing by the three white boys
in the very next booth-one of
whom is a high school senior and
the other two Ann Arbor High '61
graduates presently working, and
not attending the U. of M. in
any capacity.
-Karen Carey, '65
,joke?..
To the Editor:
SURELY MR. OSTLING was jok-
ing when he wrote of changing
our present system of floor coun-
selors. These boys are necessary,
to the well rounded growth of the
freshman men that enter this in-
stitution.
Many floor counselors have cars
and this is 'certainly a boon to
those of us forced to live in dorms.
Their chauffering serves as a
means of transportation to rival
honesty. What is more, I see him
as a man capable of deciding
right and wrong. Even if he is
nearly illiterate and unable to
read the house codes that deter-
mine what is right and wrong in
the dormitory he is still willing to
judge.
While my knowledge of this in-
stitution's floor counselors has
fortunately been restricted I still
must opose Mr. Ostling's idea of
changing the floor counselor pro-
gram. That is, I oppose it unless
he wants our older advisers, i.e.
our floor counselors to help the
freshmenbecome men.
-Peter Goodstein
Housemothers. .
To the Editor:
PERHAPS THE TIME has come,
for someone to know just what
one of "the women" think. Your
article "Women's Halls Need Phi-
losophy" stated that our house-
mothers are enigmas . . "a symbol
of antiquated ,gentility." This as-
sumption is too much..
It is often said that a college
student, in his deliberate four
year (more or less) academic
search for truth, is sheltered from
the real world. We are a society
of university students, and many
of us feel the artificiality of our
environment in terms of a larger
society.
Therefore, I, for one, feel that
my relationship with a house-
mother is a welcome and prudent
addition to my student's world.
She is not a rule, or all rules, but
she is a very real, capable person
with whom I live here at the Uni-
versity. She may not be of my
generation, but this fact cannot
hold back my ideas; neither can
my ideas and actions deny the
fact that other generations exist.
* * *
devote attention to student af-
fairs above and beyond the extent
which even the officers of their
dormitories imagine. And, believe
it or not; they are not all frustrat-
ed, didactic finishing-school teach-
ers. In fact, they can be sympa-
thetic listeners, enthusiastic per-
sonal counselors and interesting.
people-on their own time--if we
let them.
-Lynne Holton, '64N
Emergency...
To the Editor:
AT A LECTURE in the Union
Dec. 5th, one of the people
who was attending had an epi-
leptic seizure. He was carried out
into the hall, and a member of
the Political Science Department
(which was sponsoring the lec-
ture) went to call a doctor. What
ensued was indeed disgraceful.
The man called the Student
Health Service, since he natural-
ly presumed that the epileptic was
a student. However, no one pres-
ent knew whether or not he was
a student, and the man on the
phone did not know the sick per-
son's name. As a result; he was
kept on the phone for more than
ten minutes before he even got
to speak to a doctor.
ALTHOUGH it is true that the
Health Service is only for stu-
dents, that is no reason for what
happened. It could not be deter-
mined whether or not he was a
student, and it was imperative that
a doctor be contacted. Even if
the Health Service was not the
proper place to call for an emer-
gency case (although it seems to
me to be the place, assuming the
person is a student, as was
thought in this cas) give the
,*
THE LAST few years, perceptive Americans
have noted a frightening tendency on the
rt of some of their fellow citizens.
This evil practice can best be described as
e-stringing-together-of-words-by -means- of -
'phens. Is is frightening in its implications.
In the old days, all we had to contend with
s plain old Communists. Then it was anti-
immunists, then anti-anti-Communists, and
,-... .
OUT THE EXAMPLE that may well have
dangerous soco-politico-economic conse-
ences for the future is the Soviet practive
including in the designation of its dogma
e name of every man influential in shaping