ennedy T By CAROLINE DOW President John F. Kennedy in his annual State of the Union message today will indicate that higher education needs the special attention of the nation, i.e. Congress, in the coming year. This will signify the beginning of compromise for the administra- tion as it swings into the second try at fulfilling its campaign promises. Aid to education, one of the most controversial of all Kennedy's domestic campaign issues, is definitely marked for compromise, which it needs if any aid is to be passed this session. Education Bill A general education bill died in the house last July when the rules committee voted not to report it out. The bill went on the rocks over the issue of aid to parochial schools. Specifically, no faction in the House Rules Committee could muster a majority so the bill was simply not reported out. The committee was split into five splinter groups. Northern and eWstern Democrats favored the Administration's pro- gram, the Catholic Democrats, led by Rep. John Delaney of New York, wanted aid to parochial schools included before they would vote out any measure. The pro-education' Southerners would not vote for any bill in- cluding religious schools. The Dixiecrats, led by Chairman of the House Committee on Rules Howard Smith of Virginia, opposed all federal spending for schools and were joined by the old guard Republicans who were the only GOP members of the Rules Committee. No possible combination could muster a majority and the bill died on July 18. ) Propose S Again this session, the administration will be working, with Con- gress to put through some type of federal aid to education. Situation Bleak From a tactical point of view the situation looks rather bleak for the Pennsylvania Avenue side. Protagonist Kennedy has lost his best general Sam Rayburn. The antagonists have had half a year to muster all arguments and alliances to fight the boogy of federal aid. Kennedy's new novice-general, House speaker-to-be John McCor- mack, was for aid to parochial schools in the last battle and now must swing around and back the administration no matter what his personal opinion. Issue Rebuttal The Catholics, meanwhile, have issued a rebuttal of the federal stand on school aid and are prepared to fight to the bitter end on aid to parochial schools. Sage Ribicoff (Tiresias better known as HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff) is predicting the actual outcome compromise. He says that total education will be stalled off for another year, but, to ease con- sciences on all sides, much needed aid to higher education will be introduced and probably passed. It will probably include aid to paro- chial, private and public higher education, indiscriminately. Ribicoff Comments Ribicoff has about said this in his statements in the past weeks. He has stated his intention to propose an additional bill to raise the quality of public school education through improving the teaching. chool Aid Compromise Some details of this program have been released by "official sources." (Generally, official sources are the secretary himself.) The majority of the program seems to be aid to higher education. It includes a broadening of the fellowship programs now offered under the National Defense Education Act for science, mathematics and foreign language teachers. They will now include one year scholar- ships to any university for instructors in any field. Advanced Study Short term institutes for advanced study for teachers and grants to the states for special projects, such as programs for gifted, retarded or underprivileged children and improved equipment or better libraries are included. Also mentioned were direct grants to colleges and universities to strengthen teacher education programs, and grants- to colleges and universities and educational agencies to strengthen cooperative re- search and demonstration. The majority of provisions in this program will aid higher educa- tion either directly or indirectly. Good Chance The administration has a very good chance of passing this bill because the issue of aid to private schools is not as pertinent here. The majority of institutions of higher education in this country are private, parochial or both. There is no alternative to supporting both. There are no opposing systems as there are in the lower grades. If there is to be effective federal aid to higher education, Congress is going to have to support public, private and parochial institutions. There are two other considerations attached to this program. First, this bill, needed in itself, will make the passage of an education bill easier for the following session. For, by passing this bill, Congress will have tacitly agreed to the principal of federal aid to education. Actu- ally, of course, Congress has already agreed to federal aid to education and to all schools, in the NDEA provisions "impacted" areas legislation in the GI Bill. The present NDEA provisions provide federal funds at various levels for scholarships and the stimulation and improvement of teach- ing and equipment in science and other fields related to defense. These funds have gone to both private and public schools. The impacted area legislation provides federal flunds to areas with increased school populations as a result of federal projects, while the GI Bill provided scholarships remitted to the schools for veterans attending any school, public or private, in the nation. Second, although congress will not have solve dthe major educa- tional problems that face this nation, this administration will have fulfilled its campaign promise and made progress toward meeting the future educational pressures by providing better teaching quality. Due to the aforementioned political lineup this may be the only educational aid passed in the next few years. Thus the bill is laudable by that fact alone. Today, Kennedy will make a plea for aid to higher education. This aid will probably take the form of Ribicoff's program and this may be the only aid passed this session. In fact, it may be the only aid for education for quite a while to come. ilirian IatIl Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXH, No. 82 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY il, 1962 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES-Vice-President Lyndon Johnson greets Democratic Senators George Smathers of Florida and Mike Mansfield of Montana as they meet at the resumption of the 87th Congressional Session. WASHINGTON (W)-Congress opened a new session, installed a new speaker of the House and told President John F. Kennedy yesterday it was ready to buckle down to business. Kennedy's ideas, of what the business should be will be sketched out today. He will deliver his State of the Union message in person then, in the House chamber, shortly after 12:30 p.m. EST. Some of his ideas are old ones, some of, the new ones are known in general terms, and some of both already have stirred up controversy. Lines Drawn So skirmish lines already were well established for what could be a rough, explosive, election-year session. And the opening day ,T.o. Ask Aid For School . By The Associated Press Gov. John B. Swainson will be stressing the needs of state col- leges and universities in his State of the State message this morn- ing to a Legislature that seems more conducive to increases in college aid than last year. These indications that state college will receive large increases in aid from the state are: House Speaker Don R. Pears (R-Buchanan) says the 1962 ses- sion, which began yesterday, will provide more money for ,mental health, Aigher, education, school aidand congressional reappor- tionment, to create a 19th Dis- trict.- Rep. Arnell Engstrom (R-Trav- erse City), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, pre- dicts state school aid at the $205- a-student level will require an ex- tra $10 million for 45,000 new pu- pils in 1962-63 and $5 million more' for a minimum of 5,000 more col- lege students. Republicans as well as Demo- crats are favoring more spending and new taxes, and predict that the Legislature will approve an operating budget of $40,000 to $100,000 higher than last year's. Many consider this a crisis year. Rep. Gilbert E. Bursley (R-Ann Arbor), chairman of the joint leg- islative committee on economic growth,, is proposing a $500,000 state appropriation to encourage basic research at state universi- harmony and pleasantries may melt away quickly. As It looks now, the big squabbles will center around administration bills for such things as tariff-cutting authority, medical care for the aged under social security, aid to education, farm legislation, more spending, tax changes; for- eign aid, and the federal purchase of $100 million in bonds to help the United Nations out of a fi- nancial. jam. With these and perhaps other controversial proposals in the off- ing, the mood still was one of gay camaraderie, if only for the mo- ment. Off-Floor Meeting Senate and House members held various off-floor meetings for as- sorted purposes. They roamed the capitol greeting fellow legislators they hadn't seen for three months. Due to the death of Sam Ray- burn, the House opened its session with no one in the speaker's chair.- The vacancy wasn't allowed to stand for long. John W. McCormack (D-Mass) who served as Democratic leader under Rayburn for 21 years, was elected speaker . amid standing ovasions and salvos of bipartisan acclaim. The entire democratic leadership in the House moved up a notch, Rep. Carl Albert of Oklahoma, the party whip, took over the leader- ship post from McCormack. Rep. Hale Boggs (D-La) was tapped to become the new whip, a job which involves rounding up members for crucial votes. The only contest over a leader- ship role in either Senate or House involved the chairmanship of the Senate Republican Policy Com- mittee. Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts challenged Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa for the position left open by the death of Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. Hickenlooper came out on top, 21 to 14, at a party caucus behind closed doors.I WASHINGTON (A') - Walter Lippmann said yesterday "the root of the frustration and confusion which torment us" is that "we do not have any other reliable way of dealing with issues that used to be resolved by war." "It is enormously difficult to make peace," the veteran news- papercolumnist said in a speech prepared for the Women's Na- tional Press Club. "It is intoler- ably dangerous and useless to make war ... " He added: "For as long a time as we can see into the future, we shall be living between a war that cannot be fought and a peace that cannot be achieved. "The great issues which divide the world cannot be decided by a war that could be won, and they cannot be settled by a treaty that can be negotiated. "The world today," Lippmann said, "is divided as it has not been since the religious wars of the 17th century, and a large part of the globe is in a great upheaval, the like of which has not been known since the end of the middle ages ... "President Dwight D. Eisen- hower and new President John F. Kennedy are the only two Ameri- can Presidents who ever lived in a world like this one .. . "The poor dears among us who say that they have had enough of all this talking and negotiating and now let us drop the bomb, have no idea of what they are talking about," Lippmann said. Picketers Condemn Company By HELENE SCHIFF The Ann Arbor Area Fair Hous- ing Association,ra group of citi- zens from Ann Arbor and sur- rounding area, picketed the Pitts- field Village apartments between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti yester- day. The group was protesting the fact that qualified Negro appli- cants are not accepted by the De- troit rental agent managing the apartments. Picketing followed exhaustive attempts to negotiate with the De- troit agents, who have recently refused to see the group or discuss the matter. The Ann Arbor Area Fair Hous- ing Association has run several tests to determine whether or not racial discrimination is practiced in Pittsfield Village. Despite the company's claims that it has no racial policy, the test proved dis- crimination. No Negro has been permitted to live in Pittsfield Village since it opened at the end of World War II. The interracial group of pick- ets marched in front of the rental office in zero weather. The group plans to continue its protest un- til a change in policy is effected. Economists Advocate More Intervention Three-fourths of all educators teaching undergraduate economics courses think the federal govern- ment should intervene more in the nation's economy, the Na- tional Opinion Research Center reported recently. "Only one teacher in six thinks the Federal government should decrease its participation in the economy," the center said. This per cent generally recommends less intervention in agriculture and less regulation of industry. l f OSA GROUP: Forum Demonstrates Study's Thoroughness By KENNETH WINTER Tuesday's public forum of the Office of Student Affairs Study, Committee reassured the committee members that they had not over- looked any important questions in the four-month study of the OSA. "There seemed to be no questions or comments that revealed areas or facts not heretofore considered by the committee," its chair- man, Prof. John Reed of the Law School, said yesterday. "As a consequence, members of the committee are encouraged to believe that the study to date had touched upon all the areas of SGC Delay Vote on Plan Student Government Council last night postponed consideration of, a motion by John Vos, '63, to amend the Council plan to include a procedure for initiative and referendum in order to allow mem- bers additional time to iron out particulars of the motion. The motion would provide "Any member of the student body may initiate legislation to be brought before the student body for its approval at the next regularly scheduled election." An amendment provided that such initiative could occur only in relation to functions D, F, G, and H of the Council plan: rules governing eligibility of students participating in extracurricular ac- tivities, origination of student pro- jects, expressions of opinion, and discussion of University policy. "A majority of those voting on the issue will constitute adoption except in cases of changes in the Council plan, where a two-thirds vote of those voting on the issue will be required," providing that in each case there are 75 per cent of those voting in the SGC elec- tion or 3,000, whichever is greater. Engstrom Sees Rejection For wSU major concern to the students in. terms of the Office of Student Af- fairs," he said. Specific Policies. He noted that some questions were asked concerning specific problems (such as women's cur- few and control over off-campus housing) which the committee had not considered. But these omissions were not oversights, Prof. Reed explained. They were intentionally excluded from the group's deliberations be- cause the committee's role was not to evaluate specific regula- tions. Concerning the ultimate results of the committee's efforts, Prof. Reed, said, "I expect thatdthe re- port as finally formulated will recommend a number of specific changes to implement the philo- sophical statement. Expresses Optimism "I am optimistic that most, if not all, of the suggested changes will be adopted." "The optimism is based on the feeling that the University com- munity at large is ready for these changes." He said the large and enthusi- astic turnout at other discussions held between students and com- mittee members also illustrated the interest of the campus in the operations of the OSA group. College Asks Le islature For Decision Representative Wants To Consult Officials From Other Schools LANSING (M--The chairman of the House Ways and Means Com- mittee said yesterday he sees little hope for legislative approval this year of Wayne State University's plan to boost tuition in return for more state funds. Rep. Arnell Engstrom (R-Trav- erse City) made the prediction after WSU officials urged legis- lative finance leaders to hurry up with a decision. "This is a rather new 'dea and I think it ought to be cleared with the other state universities on some basis before Wayne puts it into operation," Engstrom said. Increase Tuition WSU officials and the univer- sity's board of governors offered last October to increase the spring semester tuition for resident stu- dents from $140 to.$155 if the Leg- islature would agree to boost the school's current budget by $217,- 000. ANTOINE GIZENGA' . ..defies Adoula Defies Call For Return LEOPOLDVILLE (RP)-Antoine Gizenga, the Congo's absentee de- puty premier, defied a parliamen- tary deadline yesterday and re- fused to return to the capital to face charges of secession. f The leftist leader, once officially recognized by the Soviet bloc as Congo premier in succession to the slain Patrice Lumumba, was given a 48-hour ultimatum Mon- day to return from his isolated headquarters at Stanleyville in Oriental Province. Destroy Secession In a sarcastic telegram to pre- mier Cyrille Adoula, Gizenga said he would show up only when the government got in earnest about1 destroying the secession of Ka- tanga. There was no indication as to what parliament or the govern- ment will do now. Diplomats spec- ulated that he may face arrest or expulsion from the job of deputy premier. He has spent only three weeks in Leopoldville since he ac- cepted the job in a coalition gov- ernment last August. / Common Crime Financial Plan KNEES CHATTER AT RECORD LOW: Campus Dons Long Johns to Brave Cold The appropriations, they said, would restore the cut made in the university's appropriation for the current year. In the future, the university proposed to increase student tui- tion in each of the next three years, with part of the fees being paid in cash and the rest in loans payable after graduation. In return, WSU asked the Leg- islature to commit itself to in- crease tuition income atja 4 to 1 ratio, about what it is now. Coming Meeting "The House Wayns and Means Committee and the Senate Ap- propriations Committee will have a meeting on the proposal within two or three weeks and make a decision," Engstrom said. "I don't think that we will go for it this' year." Dean Arthur Neef, WSU pro- vost, and other school officials advised legislators that the spring semester at WSU will start next month and a decision must be made soon. U. S. May Up Debt Ceiling WASHINGTON P)-Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va) said yesterday Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon is seeking a quick $2 bil- lion to $3 billion increase In the national debt limit. It was disclosed Monday the aA.e-.,ic.4-,a m4rn wniisA a Con- Numb? Blue? Broken Bones?- The smartest people in Ann Arbor either stayed indoors or donned their long underwear yesterday as the mercury plunged to five below zero. A new record was set which replaced the Jan. 10, 1957 mark of six above zero. Across the nation temperatures dropped to sub-zero with the lowest reading of 47 below in Drummond, Montana. - The Ann Arbor weather bureau predicted a warming trend for the next few days with a high of 18 degrees today. More snow is ex- pected by the weekend. The University Hospital has admitted 11 'ice victims' who suffer- ed broken bones, back injuries and lacerations. The cold wave has also presented a problem to the maintenance department. Salt will melt the ice on the sidewalks and streets only if the temperatures are above 20 degrees. Therefore, the plant de- partment has to use sand in place of the salt. The University, how- ever, has a real advantage over the County and City because with so In his reply Gizenga sarcasti- cally asked if it was a common crime to stay away from Leopold- ville, and if it was why the prob- lem was not taken up in the courts instead of in parliament. Further, he said it was Adoula's responsibility to ask parliament questions about executive activi- ties, not Gizenga. Adoula's office in a statement replied immediately that Glzenga "was not entrusted with any mis- sion in Stanleyville or any other part of the Congo" by the govern- ment, and his activities were not in accord with the government. Once considered a serious dan- orv o haOnfn~ iiy i7- a He has tentatively suggested it the University's Institute of ence and Technology receive 10,000, and the Phoenix Proj- and the Institute for Social' search $50,000 of the appropri- :n. I l I