"Oh, There Ought To Be a Cease-Fire Any Time Now" Seventy-First Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ins Are Fe UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. " ANN ARBOR, MICH.* Phone NO 2-3241 s printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staf writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. CINEMA GUILD: ~A rfulSimpitcity' In Russian Fim PUDHOVKIN'S "The End of St. Petersburg" is an old silent film pro- duced in Russia about the Bolshevik Revolution. Its impact comes from its artful simplicity. The plot is a crude account of the villainous capitalist and the heroic worker. By contrast, the acting and the photography are elegant. This planting of an obvious theme within a subtle production yields a bountiful dramatic experience. The art does not conceal the plot. Only by an effort of critical analysis can the two be separated. Like Goya's pictures of war brutali- ties, "The End of St. Petersburg" is at once hideous and beautiful, con- crete and abstract. - - - - FOR THOSE OF US who are used to dismissing Communist art ' 29, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN ROBERTS Kennedy's Request For Secrecy Unjustified C0NFLICT between government secrecy, d press responsibility has raged and sim- periodically over the years. President ly made his contribution to the struggle ay night, in a speech to the American per Publishers' Association in New tially, the President asked for increased isorship of the American press. He very newspaper to consider each story y-not only asking "Is it news?" but it in the national interest?" en suggested that the newspapers might >gether and impose certain restrictions. iemselves-restrictions similar to those -time government censorship-in the i the cold war. MPORTANT QUESTION, of course, is v does one define the "national inter- responsible newspaper is going to print y damaging information; no irrespon- wspaper is going to listen to the Presi- pleas for. caution. The American press if anything, towards over-censorship-- v York Times' repression of its story, on itude atomic tests in the south Pacific entire year is only one example of thisj ing trend. his is not the point. The President, in i and general way, is attempting to' line for the newspapers of Ameria-a. Wealth INITED AUTOWORKERS are going to the 30-hour work week at, their con- this weekend. hort week, coupled with 'the regular week's pay-certainly will become one benefits that growing productivity and al skill will confer on this nation and 1 today's America, there is too much be done-schools to be built, roads to tructed, public health and, assistance~ s to be taken, even arms to be made. ie nation cannot yet afford the short a4 its present concomitant cutback ifi on of wealth. --P. SHERMAN; line which no government really has the right to draw. rJ1IHENATION, in an editorial on press cov- erage of the Cuban invasion, quotes the London Times of 1851, on a similar problem: "The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the com- mon property of the nation." This is an ideal which a newspaper must follow to the best of its ability. A free press is' not a partner of the government, a' comforter, of the people, or anything else except the pur- veyor of information. The more information it can give to its readers, the better the news- paper is. What does Kennedy imply when he asks the American press to consider the "national in- terest?'" Does he feel that the U-2 affair should have gone unmentioned in the Ameri- can press-or that no attempt should have been made to find out the actual facts before' the CIA deigned to release them? Even more important is the implicit rebuke this speech gives to the press handling of the. Cuban invasion. Does the President feel that the American public had no right to know about the preparations for invasion on Ameri- can soil? Is this in the "national interest?" WHAT IS THE "national interest" anyway? It would seem, from a newspaper's point of view, that the national interest must be decided by an informed public, by a public able to react to events armed with complete information. It would also seem that the newspaper has the responsibility of supplying this information. We cannot have an ignorant public in a democracy, not even if it is in the interests of the CIA. Scott Newhall, editor of the San Francisco Chroniacle, said in response to Kennedy's speech, "The whole concept of secrecy and the return to secrecy verges on hysteria and panic. Generally I consider secrecy the weapon of the weak." 'The cold war has offered an excuse for too much secrecy over the last 10 years, secrecy which has hindered the adequate operation of the American press. Now is no time to con- sciously augment this trend. . ..-FAITH WEINSTEIN Acting Magazine Editor f as superficial and merelydidactic, ing. Certainly it is propaganda.' But it is also a triumph of social realism. The integrity of Pudhov- kin's imagination translates the party line into poetry. The dual nature of this film- its simple content and skillful treatment-makes it particularly fitting to the audience for which it was intended. No proletarian could miss its message. And no intellectual could fail to admire its sensitivity in, telling that mes- sage. * * * THE STORY concerns a peasant boy who leaves rural poverty and comes to St. Petersburg in search of a better livelihood. He soon discovers that the poor of.the city are equally unfortunate. With his stolid peasant desire to avoid trouble, he hopes to end a strike by revealing the names of the agitators to the authorities, only to discover that he has caused the arrest of his own kinsman. This guilt of betrayal he later absolves 'by fighting for the Bol- sheviks. The movie ends with the 'reconciliation of the boy and his relative. Worked in with this primitive tale are many shots of factory, workers, soldiers, and stock-brok- ers. The constant shift between intimate and public scenes makes of the private drama an allegory for the national fate. The silent film technique of ale- ternating captions with related ep- isodes quite effectively maintains the starkness of allegory in the dialogue, while giving the fullness of realism in the superb acting, -Edmund White Our Guy NEWSWEEK,.April 24, p. 62 says that in the Cuban Army -of Liberation single men receive $175 a month, married men $225 plus $25 for each child. This does not make them mercenaries, as the crude-minded Castro broadcast- ers allege, but they are certainly the best-paid freedom fighters in recent history. this film should prove enlighten- AT THE MICHIGAN: Walt ,Goes ToColl1ege WALT DISNEY is really whip- ping out the movies these days, and some, as is to be ex- pected, are better than otheis. There was "Swiss Family Robin- son," and then there was "101 Dalmatians," (probably the best of the three), and now there is "The Absent-Minded Professor." The movie is, literally, fantas- tic; it involves complete "suspen- sion of disbelief" to find the hu- mor, which is even then a little forced in spots. Fred MacMurray is the professor, affectionately called "Neddie the Nut" by his students. THE PLOT is already under way when the picture opens: Ned is being married at 8:30 p.m. to a lovely young lady, but becomes immersed in a crucial experiment in physical chemistry, which sub- sequently explodes and leaves him unconscious in his lab until the next morning, when his house- keeper finds him. This makes the third time he has missed his wedding, and his erstwhile fiancee decides to call him out. In steps the rival-Rut- land, the head of the English de- partment at Medfield's rival col- lege. He is only too happy to squire lovely Beth to all campus events. * S S MEANWHILE, back at the lab. Ned has discovered that his ex- periment has achieved a "break- through" - an anti-gravity sub- stance he dubs "flubber"-"flying rubber." (The sound'effects, not to mention the equipment, in this garage-lab are straight out of Buck Rogers.) Amidst all this homey small- town-college atmosphere, Disney manages to drag in the. Pentagon and a batch of jets. -Selma Saways YANKEE TOOL? Corps Needs UN Supervision a Death Penalty and Morality AD and frightening to note that in its lay session the California Assembly abolition of capital punishment in the better than a two to -one ,majority. an we ever hope to establish order out ioral chaos the world is in when 54 I men voting in a state legislature are ng to deny the basic concept of the >f the individual and of human life?- lerhanded military maneuver, no cold- first degree murder is as hideously in- as the decision of a jury to extinguish Wisdom' NIVERSITY has had almost 125 years cquire a bureaucracy through which are made; Michigan State University- has had a year and a half. This dif- is clearly evident in recent handlings of luke box crises at both institutions. a juke box moved into the Michigan rrill this week, it was by order of a :ommittee whose power was delegated' ard whose members are elected or ap- in formal procedures and who are i by elaborate rules and constitutional - emoval of said juke box now seems come only through legislation volun- y or foisted upon the Union Board e or more formal petitions are cir- and submitted for "due consideration." 3U-O, a juke box suddenly appeared udent union. Its installation was ren- mply. by an individual who assumed owers. ke box's view of the MSU-O world was ity as its face was quickly covered with of petitions asking for its removal, i the administration, or criticizing the ng process itself. ke box was quickly removed from that the life of one solitary human being. The cal- culating efficiency with which a state carries out the murder of a convict is the same busi- nesslike, approach one uses in scheduling 'an airplane flight. On a grander scale, it is pre- cisely the approach Adolf Eichmann used in exterminating the Jews--economical, systemat- ic and practical. In fact, the only distinction to be made be- tween the atrocities committed ,by a state in the name of justice and those committed by the Nazis in the name of Aryan supremacy is one of numbers, and in a moral question, num- bers do not .count. SOCIETY CAN NEVER be certain that the man whose life it is snuffing out is guilty, and even if it were positive, playing the role of supreme judge is still indefensible.. How, when Eichmann is on trial before all the world, can anyone fail to see the realaques- tion of human value which he defied? How, when the moral voice of an entire nation pro- tested the killing of Caryl thessman last year, can the California Legislature, supposedly com- posed of rational human beings, be deaf enough to the demands of social bonscience to permit the crime to be perpetuated? . How can'we ever hope to convince dictators and militarists, racists and hatemongers that wiping out nations and cultures is wrong if we cannot even convince one morally responsi-, ble group of men that deliberately taking one life is wrong? If life is so cheap that even defenders of "freedom, justice and the American way" will not defend its sanctity, why should we expect nations to? What example would they have to follow? -JUDITH OPPENHEIM By IRIS BROWN Daily Staff Writer AMERICAN AMBASSADOR to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson recently asked that the UN Economic and Social Council consider the use of volunteer workers in UN operational pro- grams and related agencies at its sessionin Geneva this summer. In view of the nationalistic concep- tion of the Peace Corps held by many groups, this statement offers the hope that the project will not be converted by the government into a 'cold war corps," but will instead become a truly humane effort to aid the peoples of the emerging nations. S* 5 A PEACE CORPS under inter- national control would eliminate many of the objections which have been voiced by citizens in poten- tial host countries; it removes the sting of propaganda and alleged Yankee imperialism which is as- sociated with American efforts. The Daily Times~ of Nigeria has suggested that the corps might be a means of planting American spies around the world under the guise of selfless service to human- ity. A Cairo newspaper viewed it as further proof "of the uninter- rupted joint American-Zionist im- perialistic plan against the Arabs." To dismiss these views as extreme and therefore unworthy of con- sideration, is to unrealistically dis- miss a great barrier which ,would confront members of-a United States Peace Corps. To assume that. ours will be the' only such group established is also highly unrealistic; youth from all over the world will soon be com- peting, in selfish rather than self-, less enthusiasm - with national rather than humane motives. Some Americans have suggested. that corpsmen be thoroughly in- doctrinated in the tenets of Soviet dogma, the techniques of Soviet propaganda, and the platitudes of, democracy so that they will be capable of effectively lashing back at' Soviet-trained minds. In this way the Peace Corps would become nothing more than a reflection of the cold war subject to all the fluctuations of policy and opinion in both home and host countries.. This instability would hardly facil- itate effective long-term planning of projects. SUCH A national Peace Corps would not be in a position to aid countries which are Communist dominated' or with whom the United States has broken diplo- matic relations. This would deny our aid to over half of .the two- thirds of 'the world's peoples. who live in underdeveloped areas. Thus we would fail to help great num- bers of people who as human be- ings are worthy of our assistance whether or not we agree with the policies of their governments. These difficulties are inherent in a project solely under United States government control; they are alleviated under the control of an international body. A UN Peace Corps would strengthen not only the existing programs of specific agencies, but, more im- portant, would strengthen the image of the UN as a unified body committed to helping the people of the world to eliminate condi- tions of illiteracy, poverty and dis- ease. The corps member participating in an international co-operative- effort would have the ."intense prim fore i thee efort. -he Ntio LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: 1 learning experience of working with young people of diverse cul- tural backgrounds and varied poli- tical beliefs. * THE UN CHARTER reads: "We. the peoples of the United Nations, determined ... to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of . .. nations large and small and ... to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends . . to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and socialadvancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our ef- forts to accomplish these aims." A UN Peace Corps should be a -The Nation I I Let's Talk It Over at the MUG To the Editor: IT SEEMS AS THOUGH a lot of of people are talking about the Michigan Union these days (and that's quite a change). And all of the talk is about the snack bar and the new Union policies. No card playing, chess playing, and then a juke box. To some that was the last straw. The first day found bent coins, bubble gum in the slot, and one fake out-of-order sign. Reactions have been varied, and, overwhelmingly negative among the people who usually inhabit the snack-bar. Some people circulate petitions, others plot ways to steal the juke box and drop it off the Union tower, or bathe it in the swimming pool. Some international and grad students swear never to return. The high school population has trebled in two days. The help who clear the tables in the MUG has managed to keep juke box going all afternoon, spending more than the 65 cents an hour they earn. The Union's desire to get people in, spend their money, and get them out seems to be working. The bridge players, once upset about not being able to play downstairs, tried upstairs recently and one of them said it was great--had the whole place to themselves. I asked if anyone from the desk had checked on them. No. So it seems that you can't gamble downstairs anymore. But it's all right up- stairs. * * * TO MAKE the Union a place where "college kids" can hang out. We just saw an example of what that is. A floor show. Next it will be a barn dance. And a pig-raffle. It might as well be Michigan State. Some people want an eco- nomic boycott; others a sit-in demonstration. "50 intellectuals protest Rock-n-Roll by playing chess." Last Friday on the diag the folk singers made up some lyrics- "The Union is against us-we shall not be moved, We'll all play chess Union is losing money not having. enough diners its hard to under- stand how "Bee Bop a Lu La" is going to solve their problems. The next thing will be no beards, no girls in bermudas, and no blue, peans. Civil Liberties. Its funny how the Union staff, doesn't mind joining the artsy-craftsy set in the Bus. Ad. School coffee lounge at 10 in the morning, but objects to them at 4 in the afternoon in" the Grill. NOT EVERYONE has a club basement to drink beer in. Some have to go to the Union and drink coffee. It was the last quiet, in- tellectual atmosphere left on cam- pus. The only place a middle-class sophomore girl could meet a foreign student. Anyone for a pinebox and a coffee pot in the Alumni Museum? The rumor is that if enough stink is put up the Union will take the jukebox out. There appears to be a-lot of internal dissension., Comrhittees and Boards and super- visors and all that. So I suppose if you are one of the people who is a little disturbed by the chain of events, you should make your. voices heard. The Union President has an office. Its, on the second floor. And if you can fight your way past elfs dressed in green and blue clown suits; maybe you can talk to him about it., There must be two sides to all of this. Each must have its good reasons. I suppose everybody ought to get together and talk it over. And the Union staff should be there. Maybe about 3 o'clock in the third room of the Grill Mon- day. --Frank Starkweather, '61' Union Executive Council, '58--'59 Suggestion. To the Editor: I WAS MISQUOTED in the Daily of April 27 relative to the new addition to the Union snack bar. I understand that. the music selection is to be changed each week. I think it would be a good idea for the Union Board to pro- vide some easily accessible means for students to indicate their music preferences. Certainly being able to >make suggestions would tend to increase one's feeling that. the Union is indeed an organiza- tion in which the average student can have some say. THE ONLY REFERENCE I made' to "softer numbers" when inter- viewed -was in reference to the volume of the machine, not the type of music offered. I think that when the place is fairly quiet, the music should be turned down somewhat too, rather than left to blast away all the time and re- verberate throughout the en'rire' floor. It is almost deafening much, of the time and certainly not .on- ducive to coffee date ehit-chat, quiet conversations,.etc Perhaps the reporter who in- terviewed me might find it easier to take notes when he's on an as- signment, rather than trying to remember what all those he has interviewed have said until he gets; back to the Daily building to write' his article. Certainly it would be easier to be entirely accurate if he did so. -Sharon P. Carey, '62; Bon the Box! . To the Editor: IT SEEMS the Union has gone gone berserk in an effort to promote greater use of the MUG. The first step was to declare war, on a hazily defined group of people' deemed "undesirables." Next the playing of bridge and chess was eliminated. And finally a move to completely alienate Union "desir- ables" has been undertaken with the addition to the MUG of a 200 lb. monster that emits loud shreiks and booms. The reason for this ad- dition is not clear, but the word elite? Ieaven forbid! Take away the juke box! Bring back bridge and chess! Expand the League! Action must be taken -Joseph Sinclair, '63 Dinner Music? To the Editor: I WOULD LIKE to voice my dis- approval of the music tastes of the directors of the Michigan Union. I buy breakfast and dinner in the Union and I find this new music a very poor companion for meals. Just wlat is the purpose of a cafeteria, particularly a univer- sity cafeteria? Surely the people who enjoy this music can find a hall, or auditorium for their rock and roll concerts, and give up back dinner musicat dinner. I suppose all- the homesick kid- dies are overjoyed by this replace- ment for their corner drug store of high school days. I detest it. Incidentally I hope the reporter for the Daily who said that the noise couldn't be heard in the other two sections of the cafeteria was there this afternoon between 5 and 6. -West Frazier, '62 Got a Nickel? To the Editor: IN THE .PAST - the Michigan Union Grill has been known as the only place on campus where students, could get together in an atmosphere conducive to intelli- gent conversation. I at least was proud of the intellectual atmos- phere and freedom given to the patrons. Is there another place where one can relax and talk without being called a. "psuedo- intellect" by the split level -pin, wearers? Of course the Board of Directors of the Union have been systematically destroying this at- mosphere. They created a list of "undersireable" people whose «, No Comment ble points out, the your and wisdom the old coul -M. OL Editorial Staff THOMAS HAYDEN, Editor SEVERAL TIMES last fall state Sen. Elmer nig often Porter (R-Blissfield) threatened to cut d profit- Wayne State University's budget. The Senator ~was disturbed by the school's liberality in its speaker policy. The Senator was also head of the powerful appropriations committee. Sure enough, the committee recommended a cut of $200,000 in WSU's budget. With the ap- propriations bills ready for passage in the House, it looks like the committee's verdict will stick. but reiuctant tn itm n t ncusins-a. A DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN__ The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The