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DAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961 NIGHT EDITOR: FAITH WEINSTEIN
Fear of Control Obstructs
Kennedy Education Aid Plant
ONCE:
Festival of Prem
t
To Present New Music
THIS WEEKEND AND next, an unusual event is taking place in Ann
Arbor. A group of native Michigan composers who have received
training at the University School of Music have succeeded in planning
and implementing a festival of contemporary music. The series of four
programs, entitled ONCE-A Festival of Musical Premieres, will include,
in addition to the young Americans, works by well established avant-
garde European composers.
ALTHOUGH THE LAST few years have brought a welcome rise
IESIDENT John F. Kennedy's $5.7 billion
aid to education program, espoused in his
i to Congress Monday for federal action,
n example of the vigorous action he prom-
i during the campaign. The great need for
reased education at our primary .and sec-
ary levels is imperative. Many of our states
e overtaxed facilities, antiquated buildings
fixtures, and out-dated texts. Teacher sal-
s in a number of school districts are so poor
to compare unfavorably with unskilled
'ker wages. t
oome of these problems are due to the unwill-
ness of local citizens to vote tax increases
provide an adequate education for youth. In
er communities, taxation has been imple-
nted extensively, but the necessities are too
at for the localities to meet alone. Help from
er sources is needed.
n order to aid these communities, it is neces-
y to offer federal supplements. States are
r, doing what they can to assist school pro-
.ms. What is needed is a program that can
istribute monies to those areas that are most
need. The scope of the federal government's
ation power would appear to make it the
ural agency toward which to turn.
ENNEDY'S MESSAGE was political in two
respects: use of federal funds to church
ools was denied because the President said
s unconstitutional. He also avoided stating
ether monies would be withheld from segre-
ed schools, leaving any clarification on the
ject to an administration -spokesman. The.
Y commitment on the issue was the state-
at that monies could not be used to support
rate schools in the states.
[owever, due to the inclusion of the pro-
ons for paying teacher salaries with fed-
I funds, Kennedy has alienated powerful,
igressional forces. The fear of federal con-
of education, of its entry into a field for-
ly reserved for the states, is a hurdle which
President's proposals must clear if they are
become law.
egardless of the reasons for opposing fed-
1 intervention, be they ideological or based
other less philosophical objections, the ar-
nent must be overcome, or the Kennedy
gram will go the way of every other bill
ich has proposed federal aid to education.
EE REAL OBJECTION even among Demo-
crats (including House Speaker Sam Ray-
n) is the provision which would use federal
ds to pay teachers salaries. This seems to.
>1y a stronger control of curricula and teach-
philosophy than aid for construction of
ssrooms. The amount of the federal grants
Lch will be used for salaries is up to the
cretion of the state receiving the funds,
ich would seem to offset any serious whole-
e federal control. And Kennedy has stipulat-
that states must maintain a reasonable con-
)ution to education in order to receive na-
ial aid.
Still the shibboleth that federal aid means
rigid federal control scares many Congressmen.
The establishment of a national education
standard which states receiving aid must meet
would seem to be a part of the President's pro-
posals, but this does not appear to be rigid
control of educational material.'
HOWEVER, THE REAL threat to federal con-
trol of education has come about through
intimidation of teachers and suppression of aca-
demic freedom by localized organizations and
from the congressional investigating commit-
tees which sent McCarthy to his zenith. The
influence of a national administrator of funds
could not be a more serious threat to education
than these menaces.
The local groups, such as teacher and ad-
ministrator organizations, influence curricula
and methods. The influence of the National
Education Association has very strong unoffi-
cial ties with the Department of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare, but is already making its
influence felt in a more direct way through its
teacher members.
Patriotic organizations have had much to
do with censorship of public school material
and deciding what should be taught. These
groups influence education at the state and
local levels also.-
AwQd
in the number of "contemporary"
adventuresome. Social inertia and
political organization make it dif-
ficult to instigate anything which
is without precedent.
This is especially true in the
field of art, where personalities
and emotions are deeply involved.
Thus, when an attempt at dis-
playing innovative art is made,
there are almost inevitable con-
cessions to famous names, to local
or personal interests. (It seems
that there must be an excuse or
a justification for such risky en-
terprise.)
* * *
THIS IS, OF course, true of the
present endeavor, but for several
reasons the effect is not as serious
as it often is. In the .first place,
the music written by the Michi-
gan composers is truly contempor-
ary. Because of this fact, the ori-
ginal tenor of the whole under-
taking has been preserved.
Inappropriate works have not
been included just because they :
are_ local products. Neither have,
less interesting or timid works of
the well known progressive com-
posers been admitted.
S * * *
PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT
is the fact that, to some degree,
the community is involved. The
acceptance of any new approach
to or in art eventually becomes a
public concern. The basic problem
is unfamiliarity and the best solu-
tion is personal involvement.
Management, publicity, financial'
support, the use- of space for re-
hearsal and performance, as well
as the performers and composers
themselves are largely products
of ,the Ann Arbor community.
There have been many dona-
tions-of time,; talent, and equip-
ment. New are has become, at least
.momentarily, a community con-
cern, and this fact is cause for
excitement.
--Roger Reynolds
THE FACT IS that these organizations, al-
though formidable when judged by national
strength, operate even more powerfully on the
local level. If anything, the federal adminis-
tration of funds might tend to equalize many
of the pressure groups operating in the United
States which try to determine educational poli-
cies in the nation's school districts.
Local organizations that do not exist-'on a
national scale will continue to influence edu-
cation regardless of federal aid. Some of the
most ridiculous and severe restrictions have
come from these groups. It is this which the
country must fear.
FEDERAL CONTROL of education came
about in a more effective and severe 'way
when McCarthy's committee was stifling aca-
demic thought and placing a fear in the
minds of teachers. This censorship was a
thousand times stronger than a federal aid
administrator's could be. And this national in-
hibition was not even remotely connected with
federal aid to education. Congressmen would
do well to remember that it was one of their
own colleagues, rather than a federal adminis-
trator, who only recently caused a conformity
in education that the nation has not yet for-
gotten.
The school system needs a cure and Dr.
Kennedy has prescribed the remedy. If the fear
that the medicine will be too strong for the
patient is still present in the mind of Con-
gress, it had better take another look-a good
look-at the symptoms.
-MICHAEL BURNS
TIME RACE:
World War May Beat Progress'
)M OTHER CAMPUSES:
C ensored for HUA C Opinion,
v EDITORIAL COLUMN written for the
Daily Texan by Chandler Davidson, Uni-
ity of Texas philosophy student, has been
sored by Harrell E. Lee, editorial advisor for
as Student Publications.
avidson, a regular columnist for the Texan,
icized in his usual polemical style the un-
erican Activities Committee proposed in the
as House.
o Eichmann, Daily Texan editor, told the
erver the column had been censored "on
grounds that it ,was both an unnecessary
sonal attack and that the subject had not
ni discussed in our news columns.
There are ways of sayiig something the way
ndler said them without being so inflamma-,
," Miss Eichmann said.
HEN AN ARTICLE is censored, an appeal
may be made to the board of Texas Stu-
t Publications. Miss Eichmann said she and
'idson discussed an appeal. "We thought it
>ably wouldn't do any good," she said. "I
no possibility whatever for success. It's a
,ter of fighting your fights (before the
rd) on the things that count."
ee said the column "was considered to be
unduly violent personal attack on certain
nbers of the legislature." The student pub-
tions handbook, he said, "has certain pro-
ons that when controversial matters are dis-
sed dealing, with government they should
centrate on issues rather than personali-
avidson, in a letter to the Texan letters
imn, said "the blame . . . is not upon Jo
imann. It rests entirely with Mr. Lee." Most
he deficiencies of "supposedly liberal col-
newspapers," he wrote, "could be overcome
ve had fewer censors whose main concern
ot to offend anyone, anytime, anywhere."
KCERPTS from the censored column follow:
the majority of the legislators, the bill never
gained support, and, in fact, never got onto the
floor-which was probably just what its spon-
sors had intended: they could return to the
home-folks parading as Defenders of True Re-
ligion Against Atheistic College Professors and
Other Subversives.
Reps. W. H. Miller and Don Garrison want a
Texas Un-American Activities Committee. , , ,
Miller, his spear sharpened and his horse
poised, has chosen for his windmill that target
the very mention of which strikes fears into
the hearts of all good reactionaries-the sub-
versive.
Says Miller: "If we have a man on the capi-
tol steps calling for the overthrow of the gov-
ernment, that's an overt act and easy to con-
trol. But do we have laws controlling the pro-
fessor of philosophy who might be teaching
treason and sedition covertly?"
PERFECT STRATEGY! Not only has he chos-
en Subversion for his witch hunt, but he
has chosen the most dangerous, insidious; wiley
subversive of all: the professor of philosophy.
AND OF COURSE it is well known (ask the
Austin Anti-Communist League) that our
churches are infiltrated by Communists, Intel-
lectuals, and Agitators From The North--the
Rev. Criswell's congregation in Dallas being ex-
cepted. Miller, Garrison, & Co. could have a
fine time insuring that American sermons were
preached and un-American sermons burned
From there they could purge all wrong think-
ing universities of Left Wing teachers, burn
Left Wing literature, take down statues of Left
Wing statesmen, and remove all Left Wing
mottoes from the buildings (the one over the
entrance to UT's Main Building, for exam-
ple) .. .
But alas! This is daydreaming. I don't think
By JAMES RICHMAN
Daily Guest Writer
MET A young Russian in Yalta.
He was married and would soon
be a father. He was a doctor and
spoke with pride of his home, and
family. He spoke about World War
II, of how, with his mother and
sister he had left his father and
Yalta, of how they shelled and
strafed the train that was taking
them to safety in the Eist. He
spoke of how they returned to
Yalta at the war's end and lived
on dog meat and chocolate bars.
I thought about my World War
II. I though about John Wayne
and Randolph Scott, and how
they Won the war for us every
Saturday afternoon after the car-
toon show.
For me the war had meant sav-
ing tinfoil, a sharp decline in the
quality of bubble gun, and school
drives. We talked about the next
war. He had served his term in
the army and didn't like "playing
at the game of war." He asked
about the U-2 and I asked about
the Russian subs off Long Island.
Then we asked for something to
drink.
* *
I MET A beatnik in Prague. He
idolized Ernest Hemingway and
had grown a beard in flattering
imitation.. His uncle lived in Ari-
zona ... he was wearing levis...
a gift from America. "Someday I
will go to Arizona and live on a
ranch," he confided. Yet now, he
was afraid to go to the American
Embassy to seek the address of
Hemingway's publisher.
* * *
I MET A grandmother on the
train from Stuttgart to Prague.
She was a Sudaten German, and
is now a Czech national. She had
just returned from seeing her son's
families for the first time in seven
years. She was old and tired and
admitted she was going back be-
cause it was the only home she
had ever known. She would prob-
ably never see her grandchildren
again.
"Did the Americans really want
peace?" she asked.
* * *
I MET AN AGING prostitute
turned secretary in Frankfurt.
She had lost her husband in the
War. He was a former SS officer
and was killed by the Czechs at
the war's end.
"You Americans are all alike,
and you talk and you talk. And
your soldiers get drunk and think
they own the world. But there was
a time when we talked even ldud-
er, and times were good then, and
will you buy me a drink?"
I MET FOUR North Koreans on
the train from Warsaw to Moscow.
They had finished their studies
in Warsaw and were now travel-
ling home. We swapped cigarettes
and stumbled through Rushing-
type conversation in a horrible
mixture of German, Russian, and
gestures. Had the Korean war gone
on we would have been swapping
bullets. They would have been
"gooks" and I a "yankee invader."
* * *
WE ARE MODERN men, we are
thousands of years out of the
trees: We have the ability to
throw our "stones" at the moon,
nrA h~r^A NT-hn."nu ' a
To the Editor:
IT IS EXTREMELY regrettable
that the murder of Lumumba
has been exploited by the Soviet
'Union and her sympathizers to
attack the United Nations and
Secretary General Hammerskjold
in particular. The accusations
against the Secretary General are
not only without any base, but
they actually rest on allegations
which are the precise opposite of
the facts.
Far from having been opposed
to Lumumba, the United Nations
operated in the Congo and the ac-
tivities of Hammerskjold himself
always favored Lumumba. For ex-
ample the UN authorities in the
Congo never recognized Colonel
Mobutu and his High Commission-
ers as the, legitimate government
of the Congo although President
Kasavubu had appointed them.
* * *
HAMMERSKJOLD'S personal
representative in the Congo, Ra-
jeshwar Dayal of India, has con-
sistently been charged with pro-
Lumumba bias, and President
Kasavubu requested some time ago
that Secretary General Hammer-
skiold recall him. This Hammer-
skjold refused to do.
While Mobutu's forces had had
orders to arrest Lumumba for
many months, he lived in his villa
ni Leopoldville protected by United
Nations soldiers who prevented
any attempt by Congolese soldiers
to carry out Mobutu's orders. His
subsequent capture is due only
to the fact that he escaped from
his Leopoldville villa in .order to
join his followers in Stanleyville.
THE ENTIRE HISTORY of the
UN Congo operation shows a con-
sistent bias in favor of Lumumba.
The Soviet attempt to convince
the world that black is white is in
her typical Orwellian tradition,
but it should not fool anyone who
is familiar with the facts. The pur-
pose of the Soviet tactics is ob-
viously to make the United Nations
Secretariat a tool of Moscow -
and ILumumba's murder is as good
an issue as any other to use as a
lever for achieving this goal.
-Ernest G. Fontheim
Associate Research Physicist
Radiation' Laboratory of the
University of Michigan
Sorry State.. .
To the Editor:
LOVE, SO-CALLED, is at a very
low mark of quality on the
campus of the University of Mich-
igan. Any observer, who is still
sensitive to the true, the beautiful
and the good, and who has stood
in front of the girls' dormitories
at night when the p-nclin hnou
could hardly be called love. Those
involved do not even say they
love each other: they do not know
how for they do not actually feel
genuine love for each other. They
are putting in time-acting auto-
matically; following drives, not
human sentiment. They are just
downright out of context.
LOVE, TRUE LOVE is some-
thing much sweeter, much more
tender. Love in youth is the wish
to share with another what are
perhaps the most exquisite human
emotions, in an atmosphere of re-
spect and control, of concern fro
the other nerson's dignity. True
love does not look for the cheap
hit and run thrill; trite love does
not corner and pressure, does not
use, does not think of one's own
egoistic self first ,and foremost.
True love is, in a word, sweet and
tender.., always, no matter how
short or how long the acquaint-
ance.
The practice of the type of love
found on this campus is attribut-
able in the author's mind tq four
main factors: a) ignorance and
laziness on the part of; boys, b)
going steady, c) settling for less
by girls, d) absence of teaching
of time-proven moral principles in
school.
* C *
SEXUAL URGES HAVE come to
boys, but they have never under-
stood their true meaning. Never
have they organized them or
humanized them like they have
the other forces they experience.
In this connection they have not
gone to the trouble of under-
standing the psychological and
emotional make-up of girls. Lack-
ing control, lacking knowledge of
girls as. they truly are, their ap-
proach to feminine companionship
is possessive, animalistic.
The "primitive stuff" is not
really, in the well-nigh totality of
cases, what girls want. They would
much prefer respectful, yet how
sweet and tender, affection. Yet,
because the primitive stuff, in too
many cases, is all that the boys
seem' capable of offering, they
settle for it. If only they could stop
and take time to rediscover them-
selves emotionally, rediscover the
power of the old slap in the face.
If the boys whose company they
keep cannot be simply sweet and
tender, then they are not worth
the trouble.
In "going steady" appears the
notorious safety complex. Girl and
boy hang on to each other for
dear life in order to be always set
and ready to go to various social
functions, particularly in order not
to be alone when the week--end
rolls around. This going steady-
under the nresent circumstannes
havedbeen told what to do with
the drives that were assailing us,,
told their real purpose, their hu-
man significance, it was in school.
Home influence has to be excep-
tionally strong to tackle the job
alone. The schools have cheated
us. They have given us courses in
art appreciation and a hundred
other things, but never any course
in these important formative years
in appreciation of clean and moral
living ad the rules to follow to
secure it. Here again there is a
right answer, and a wrong one.
Traditional morality is based on
knowledge of the true nature of
man.
In.conclusion there is a special
and correct context for passion.
In the wrong context passion
cheapens, makes you -feel "all
empty iiside," gives no joy. On
the contrary affection freshens,
heartens, enriches, gives lasting
joy. Our is a time and. context
for affection, the finer art of love.
Away now with the inconsider-
ate and selfish in love. Forward
with the sweet and tender and
profoundly human. There is so
much to be gained.
-Name withheld
Fraternities ..
To the Editor:
THE ISSUE OF fraternity dis-
crimination recently brought to
the fore by current events in the
state of California brings many to
,the defense of the bias clause. One
of their main arguments holds
that the forced disposal of the
bias clause from certain fraternity,
and sorority charters or constitu-
tions infringes on an organiza-
tion's right to select its member-
ship.
The question is not "whether or
not a fraternity or any other or-
ganization has the right to choose
its membership by its own stan-
dards." This right it undeniably
has. The basic question is "whether
or not a bias clause of the sort
found in the ATO or Sigma Nu
charters abridges the right of any
individual to choose for himself."
The individual is discriminated
against in the sense that his field
of choice is clearly restricted un-
der conditions which he cannot
change-- that being race or color.
A fraternity or sorority can still
exercise its freedom of choice in
selecting members without a bias
clause, simply by lack of support
for an individual seeking mem-
bership. However, some indivi-
duals seeking membership cannot
exercise their complementary free-
dom of selection if an organiza-
tion's charter or constitution con-
tainns discriminatory provisions
haps God and our own technology
will beat them to it, for, if nuclear-
armed push buttons are left in
the hands of man this is to be
the end result. It seems as though
our scientific aptitude is always
a few thousands years ahead of
our common sense. At least that's
how long it usually takes for man-
kind to find the cure for his self-
created disease. Have we now
reached perfection. Do we at last
have a "new improved, instant"
killer?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Lumumba Murder Exploied by Reds.
festivals, few have really been
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General Notices
Regents' Meeting: Fri., March 17. Com-
munications for consideration at this
meeting must be in the President's
hands not later than March .'
Student Leadership Exchange fellow-
ship applications are now available at
the Scholarship -Office,2011 Student
Activities Building. The application
period will be from Feb 21 :through Sr
pM. March 6. This fellowship includes
all expenses, except travel, for a year's
study at University College, University
of London. Scholarship and; leadership
are the main criteria for receiving the
fellowship. The recipient must meet
all requirements for admission to the
University College, University of Ln-
don. Leadership in student activities
will include active participation in any
recognized extra-curricular activity.A
superior academic performane is also
essential as this would indicate ability
to cprry on study at the University
College in London.
F
Ben and Lucile Braun Scholarship ap-
pication forms are now avalabe at
the' Sholarship office, 2011 Student
Activities Bldg. Undergraduate students
with an average of "B" or better and
financial need are eligible to apply.
Those students completirwg a General
Undergraduate Scholarship application
ilwill be considered for this scholarship
and others of the same type. These
awards will be announced later nthe,
spring and will take affectwth the
fal semester.
Agnes de Mile to Speak Monday
Night. Agnes de Mille, noted choreog-
rapher and author, w111 be presented
Monday 8:30 p.m. in HillAd Ticketsx.;
are on sale today, tomorrow and Mon-
day at Vhe Aud. box office. Students
are offered a special reduced rate on
all tickets.
Buton Holmes Travelogue "Englar" "
tonight;. The new color motion patie
"England, Roundabout London" Will be
shown tonight 8:30 p.m. in Hill Aud. as
the first; of the series of Thursday.
night travelogues presented by the Uni-
versity Platform Attractions. Robert
Mallett will narrate. Tickets are on
sale today 10 a.m.-8:30.m. in the
Auditorium boxoffice. Season tickets
for the complete series may be pur-
chased through tonight,.
Events Friday
Faculty Recital: Millard Cate, tenor,
and Eugene Bossart, pianist, will pre-
sent a recital On Fri., Feb, 24 at 8:30
p.m. in Aud. A.
' Psychology Colloquium: Prof. Norman
Guttman, Department of Psychology,
Duke University, will discuss "Stimulus
Generalization and the Definition' of
Behavior" on Fri., Feb. 24 at 4:15 p.m.
in Aud. B.
Placement Notices
Beginning with Tues., Feb. 28, the fol.
lowing schools will have representatives
at. the Bureau torinterview for the
. 1961-1962 school year.
TUES., FEB. 28-
Battle Creek, Mch.-Elem.; Jr. HS
Eng./SS, Gen. St.; Jr. or Sr. HS Math,
Eng., Set., Home Ec., Id. Arts, BUS:.
Ed., Girls PE, Library; Spec. Ed.; Sp.
Corr., Ment. Ret., Deaf, Blind, Ocup,
Therapy, Sl. Diag.
Humbolt, Calif,.(Humbolt St. Col.)-
Bus. Law, Eng./Journ., Geol./Earth Sci
Psych., Women's PE, Physics, Zool,
Muskegon, Mich.-Elem.; Spec. Ed.
(All Types);' Reading Specialit, HS..-
Eng., Math.g,
Royal Oak, Mch.-Elem., Vocal Mus.;
Spec. Educ. Ment. Ret., Sp. Corr.; S
Eng., Hist., Soc. Stud., Math, Sol.
WED., MARCH 1-
St. Louis, Mo. (La Due, Schools) --
Elem.; Jr. HS Lang, Arts/ss, Nat.
Sci./Math, Phys. Sll. Pre., Span., Home
e., Library, Conserv., Art, Music, PE/
Swim. Coach; HS Eng., re.,, Span.,
Math; Elem. & Jr. HS Phys. Educ.
Toledo, O.-All Elem. & Secondary ex-
cept Men's , Spe. Ed.: Deaf, Speech
Therapist, Slow: Learner.
THURS., MARCH 2--
Carmichael, Calif. (San Juan Unif.
Sel. Dist.)-AAl Fields.
Crystal Falls, Mich.-Elem. (K-6); Jr.
HS Eng./Speech, Soc. Stud.; Camp Per-
sonnet.
FRI., MARCH 3--
Berkeley, Calif.-Elem., Jr. HS Bus.
Ed., Eng., Eng./Soc. Stud., Home Ec.,
Math, Math/Sci., Math/Ind. Arts, Span./
Pre., voc. *us./SS, Rem, Read.; ES
Bus. Ed,, Eng., Math, Metal Shop, Life
Sci., Boys PE/Coach Football, Soc.
Stud., Span., Stagecraft.
La Grange Park, III.-Elem.; Spec.
Ed. Phys Hdcp., r. Ment. Hdcp., Multi.
Hdap., Sp. Corr., Soc. Worker; Lang.
Arts,.. Soc. Stud., Math, Sci., Library,
Art.,PE Home Ec., Ind. Arts; Elem.
Music.
San Jose, Calif.-Elementary (K-6).
Stockton, Calif. (Lincoln $ch.) -
Elem. (K-6); Music (K-8) Band, Strings,
Choir; HS Ind. Arts, Girls PE, Eng.,
Math, Soc. Stud., Caen. Sci., Physics,
Russian, Boys PE Head Football Coach,
Football Coach/other teaching field.
The Independent Schools Association
will hold a meeting at the School of
Education n Wed., March 1, at 7:30
p.m. Anyone interested in teaching in
private schools in the Detroit area
should attend.
For any additional information and
appointments contact the' Bureau of
Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg., NO
3-1511, Ext. 489.
INTERVIEWS; BUREAU OF APPOINT-