I Set iy-Fift Yaw EDrrE AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY O BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Wkeve Opinions Are Fr, 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARsg, MIct. NEWS Pi-oNE: 764-0552 Tnrth 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. FRIDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 1965 NIGHT EDITOR: LAUREN BAHR "You Think It's Safe For Me To Go In Now?" TODAY AND TOMORROW: President Attends to Problems at Homne 4 Alternatives to University Involvement in State Politics RELATIONS BETWEEN the University and Lansing became a little tauter yesterday morning with the airing in The Daily of administrative dissatisfaction with the budget cut recommended by the governor's office. The possibility of political surprises notwithstanding, the wisdom of. carrying the battle for a more generous University General Fund appropriation to the Leg- islature is questionable. Arguments over education problems and policies must not be undertaken in the Legislature. The continuing spectacle of college and Uni- versity lobbyists in Lansing corridors hardly adds to whatever luster higher education in Michigan may have. THERE ARE SEVERAL alternatives to this present structure. These alterna- tives should not be lost sight of in the full-scale hassle heralded by the open- ing shots of two days ago. In the book "State Politics and the Public Schools," Nicholas Masters and others discuss how education policy is formulated in Michigan, Missouri and Illinois. In the latter two states, formulas have been developed to achieve con- sensus. The Missouri School Teachers Association, representing virtually all of the claimants, adjusts its demands each year to what the other partici- pants in the decisions will accept, and consequently most of its recom- mendations are adopted. Similarly, in Illinois the School Problems Commis- sion, combining the stated goals of the professional educators with a rec- ognition of political realities is able to formulate proposals acceptable to all elements within the Legislature, as well as the governor.... In Michi- gan, there is no group that has come to represent the "best thinking possi- ble to solve the state's education problems." GIVEN MICHIGAN'S very high financial commitment to education and this lack of a means of reaching consensus on educational policy, disarray and non-poli- cy result. H. NEIL BERKSON, Editor KENNETH WINTER EDWARD HERSTEIN Managing Editor Editorial Director ANN GWIRTZMAN ............... Personnel Director BILL BULLARD ........................ Sports Editor MICHAEL SATTINGER .... Associate Managing Editor JOH1N KENNY............ Assistant Managing Editor DEBORAH BEATTIE .... Associate Editorial Director LOUISB LIND ........Assistant Editorial Director in Charge of the Magarine TOM ROWLAND............. Associate Sports Editor GARY WYNER .............. Associate Sports Editor STEVEN HALLER..............Contributing Editor MARY LOU BUTCHER .. ........ Contributing Editor JAMES KESON................Chief Photographer NIGHT EDITORS: Lauren Bahr, David Block, John Bryant, Robert Johnston, Michael Juliar, Laurence Kirshibaum, Leonard Pratt. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: William Benoit, Bruce Bigelow, Gail Blumberg, Michael Dean, John Mere- dith, Barbara Seyfried, Judith Warren. Business Staff JONATHON R. WHITE, Business Manager SYDNEY PAUKER........... Advertising Manager JUDITH GOLDSTEIN.......... Finance Manager BARBARA JOHNSTON .........Personnel Manager JAY GAMPEL ........... Associate Business Manager JUNIOR MANAGERS: Susan Crawford, Lynne Edel- stein. Joyce Feinberg, Judith Fields, Judith Grohne, Judith Popovits, Patricia Termini, cy Wellman. ASSISTANT MANAGERS: Harry Bloch, Samuel Cha- et:, Julie Emerson, Doris Giant, Jeffrey Leeds, Gail Levin, Susan Mikulski, Susan Perlstadt, Jill Tozer. Subscription rates: $4.50 semester by carrier ($5 by mail); $8 yearly by carrier ($9 by mail). Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning. When expenditures reach these (Michigan's) levels, most legislators are not inclined to make any distinc- tion between money needed for pub- lic schools and money needed for higher education. Rather, we were told by one informant they think simply in terms of "How much money will the educators want this year." This attitude has been very telling in the budget appropriations of recent years. And it shows again that the Leg- islature is hardly the place to seek fi- nancial redress based on broad consid- erations of educational policy. The State Board of Education, give new powers under the new constitution, will hopefully become powerful and in- fluential enough to alleviate these prob- lemns so the educators can go back to educating. ALTERNATIVELY, the University could disregard state support and look to other sources. With respect to federal and voluntary alumni support, the Uni- versity is already doing very well. But one possibility has been largely ignored. The University is presently granting de- grees at the rate of about 7000 per year. Working on the rough assumption that each of these degrees is worth about $100,000 in the course of a lifetime, the degrees represent about $700 million worth of earning power bestowed by the University every year. The recipients are presently paying about $14 million per year in the form of tuition for this service. There are many ways in which the University can get more return for the education it is providing. Tuition could be raised con- siderably and long-term loans provided, to be repaid by the students when they are reaping the rewards made possible by the University. Or the University could insist that some of those extra dol- lars earned be returned to it. Ten per cent of $700 million is a $70 million an- nual fillip to the University budget. Both of these schemes make those that receive the benefits pay the costs, which is preferable to getting money through a gerrymandered tax structure which places the costs on whoever buys cigar- ettes, liquor or food. There is no inher- ent correlation between these groups and those who are benefiting from the high- er education offered at the University. IF THE UNIVERSITY wishes to run it- self according to the dictates of what it thinks to be the best educational poli- cies, it should have no formal responsi- bility to outside groups. It could then simply act as a seller of goods-educa- tion and some research and advice - whether to students, the state, industry, the nation or the world. A recent article by Peter Drucker in Harper's ("American Directions: A Fore- cast"), says that "the center of our poli- tical stage is now being taken over by a new power group: a professional, tech- nical and managerial middle class - very young, affluent, used to great job secur- ity and highly educated." That last at- tribute is the distinctive offering of the University. Higher education is highly valuable and is recognized as such. The University's bargaining position vis a vis the rest of society is potentially very strong. It Is silly in such a situation to beg. --ROBERT JOHNSTON By WALTER LIPPMANN SEEN FROM the sidelines, it has been particularly impressive to note how the beginning of the Johnson administration has been marked by a change of emphasis and direction. For the first time in the 25 years since the start of the second world war, the main attention of the President is not fixed upon the dangers abroad, but on the problems and the pros- pects at home. It will be a great mistake, I am sure, to read this as meaning that the country is withdrawing into isolation, having lost interest in the world abroad. What has hap- pened is that there is for the time being a conjuncture of events abroad which makes it safe and prudent for the country to abate its anxiety and to pay attention to its own affairs. For these af- fairs have been sacrified and grievously neglected for a quarter of a century. THE PRESIDENT'S budget and his messages compose, it seems to me, a brilliantly contrived and in- tegrated program for initiating those progressive reforms which are at once necessary and prac- ticable. Read as a whole, the col- lection of messages shows the President to be a bold innovator who is likely to succeed because he is deeply in touch with the great central mass of American sentiment and opinion. We have rarely, if ever, seen at the beginning of a new adminis- tration such a coherent program, such insight and resourcefulness. The President has grasped the nettle of race relations, of church and state controversy, of business confidence and the welfare state with a sure and skillful hand. There is an international con- text for the explicit Johnson pro- gram. Though the President did not talk about it because it is not ripe to be talked about from, his office, the state of the world to- day permits and justifies the pre- occupation with American domes- tic affairs. I do not, of course, pre- sume to know or to say how the President -- if he were given to generalization and speculation, which he isn't--would describe the state of world affairs which is implied in his policies and pro- gram. But the state of the world can be described somewhat as follows. THE POSTWAR period which has lasted for 20 years has kept us all preoccupied with the un- finished business of the world war. It has not been possible to make a settlement of that war, either in Europe, where Germany and the Continent are partitioned, or in Eastern Asia, where Korea, China and Indo-China are partitioned and Japan is separated from the Ryukyus. This postwar period is now end- ing. The period we have entered upon is already plainly visible in Europe, and quite dimly it is just beginning to appear in East Asia. This post-postwar period will see a general movement toward the settlement of the second world war. The hard core of the settlement will be the inevitable return to normal after the convulsions which the world war produced. Thus, in Europe the collapse of Hitler's Nazi empire brought the Russians to the Elbe'River in the middle of Europe. The Soviet tide will have to recede. In fact, it has quite visibly already begun to re- cede. In East Asia the collapse of the Japanese empire brought the United States to the Asian main- land and to some of the islands off its shores. This is an exten- Sion of our political power beyond its normal and natural limits, and like the Russians in Europe the American tide will have to recede. * * * IT IS AS abnormal for the United States to be in Seoul, in Okinawa, in Quemoy and Matsu and Formosa; in Saigon and Hue as it is abnormal for the Russians to be in Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia. The settlement of the world war, which must come someday is cer- tain to mean correction of the great displacements of power-of the Russian power into the heart of Europe and of American power onto the mainland of Asia. The historical reality cannot be understood in terms of battles which are won or lost. The whole historical process is more like a geological phenomenon, like the subsiding of the earth and the re- turn of the waters after a great upheaval. It is a callow kind of jingoism to talk of victory for us and defeat for the Soviet Union as it accommodates itself to the growing intercourse between the two halves of Europe. And it is panic-mongering to flagellate our- selves into paroxysms of anguish and shame at the prospect of ne- gotiating settlements which end our entanglements in East Asia. The role of the United States in the world today is to use its power, its resources, its brains a~d its experience to see that this in- evitable readjustment in Europe and Asia comes to pass decently and honorably. The time has come to stop imagining ourselves to be the "leader" of Europe. The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policemen to the human race. (c), 1965, The Washington Post Co.k T r' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bill Negates Property Rights To the Editor: VIOLENCE or lack of it is not the test of the public accom- modations section of the Civil Rights Bill. Laurence Kirshbaum (Aftermath of the Rights Act, Jan. 28) misses the wholeepoint: the accommodations section is bad because it is a clear negation of the property rights of men to use their privately owned facili- ties as they wish, but without force or fraud. The section is a precedent which clearly establishes that any busi- ness which caters to the public, which means any business not a private club, does not have the right to govern its own, operations, which is tantamount to unstated and implicit socialism. The government did this in the name of civil or human rights. But the juxtaposition of human and property rights is a gross contradiction (although I have heard a professor of intellectual history attempt it). The right of the indidivual to act on his own behalf to acquire and use pro- perty is the most fundamental of all human rights outside of the right to life itself. IF A MAN is not allowed to con- trol the use of his property (ac- quired and used without force or fraud), then he does not "own" his life. He is then a slave. Man is thus relegated to the status of servant-of the state, society and the bureaucracy. Is this the end of the search for civil rights? Stated or unstated, this is the only end possible if property rights are sacrificed to ill-defined, un- based, so-called civil rights: re- version to slavery. And no one has more to lose from destruction of property rights than the Negro; for instead of establishing long-term econom- ic independence through acquisi- tion of property, the Negro would simply be switching his depend- ence from the racist segregation- ists to the bureaucracy. Neither is trustworthy. The libertarian defense of pri- vate property is the only way to achieve a theory of ownership fully consonant with economic in- dependence. Thus the Civil Rights Bill is inimical to the interests of all men and should be repealed at once. -Michael Hyman, '65 Sniffles To the Editor: DOES IT really matter that Johnson had a cold, or that Rusk caught the sniffles? Wouldn't it even be irrelevant if they both had bronchitis? I think it was very shoddy and inexcusable the way we were rep- resented at the Churchill funeral. No doubt it wouldn't have hasten- ed their recovery, but I think that we owe Churchill and our closest ally more than a couple of Health Service excuses. But then I forgot that it is .o much more important '.o appear coatless and virile at a pol i al function, than to make a states- man-like gesture. -Anita Streeter, '65 Stay-In To the Editor: JUST THE other evening, I had finished building an FM-stereo tuner, when I was amazed to hear, through the speaker on the left, the news from a Harvard Univer- sity station that an alliance of Young Republicans, student g,v- ernment, The Daily and unspeci- fied faculty groups had urged a "stay-in" at Ann Arbor theatres to protest high prices. The naive mind might imagine that a boycott of some sort might be more to the point, but clearly, .the achievement of such a con- sensus should not pass completely unnoticed. In Cambridge, of course, the $1.25 price has come to be accept- ed, almost welcomed. Except for the Brattle Theatre, which keeps the traditional $1 price even for the current Bogart Festival. I DISCUSSED the "stay-in" concept briefly with some Har- vard students who, perhaps ser- iously, thought that the best de- fense against those who over- charge students would be buying things somewhere else. This is easier said than done in Ann Ar- bor, of course. In any event, I offer. my sym- pathies to all concerned with this "stay-in" which seems so obviously destined to fail. Especially, I am thankful for being away from Ann Arbor now; the thought of sitting through an extra half-hour of most recent films is about as frightening as thought of SGC, The Daily, and the Young Re- publicans finally reaching agree- ment. -David Kessel, '60 Cambridge, Mass. Protest To the Editor: FROM THE DAILY, Jan. 23: "..pickets fromn . . . , the Independent Socialist Club, and ... marched ... in front of the Michigan and State Theatres" in protest against increases in the prices of theatre admissions. This action demonstrates that the self- styled socialists are ignorant of the nature of capitalism and of the goals of socialism. It establishes that the so-called socialist protestors are nothing more than capitalist reformers who mistakenly believe that the undesirable effects of capitalism can be eliminated without elim- inating the capitalist system, a system in which all useful things including labor power are com- modities. The values of commodi- ties, including that of labor power, are measured by the "cost of pro- duction." The prevailing prices of com- modities reflect the conditions of the market, conditions which are born out of the commodity status to which all useful things are subjected under capitalism. By and large, prices are not subject to the whims or desires of individuals or groups, no matter how much such individuals or groups may be affected by prices. AS COLLEGE STUDENTS be- come workers (employes) vhich most of them will be, will they be as concerned about the price which they receive for their labor power which, in the long run, represents the exchange value of their labor power? Will they then realize that the goods and services which they deliver to their capital- ist employers represent a great deal more than they, the em- ployes, are being paid for? And if they do, will they then organize to establish genuine socialism in which each will receive the full social value of his labor rather than the small fraction which is now returned to eachnworker in the form of wages? If they fail to recognize their wage slave status under capitalism and unite with all vworkers to make the means of production social property and to establish a functional socialist industrial gov- MAXINE AND MISS JELKES RESTRAIN SHANNON 1 FEIFFER ~AY I5M ., 0i' MOP FY GAS~ AF1'1.- NUXT J.5MRW cL4P IN MY - 6y,PAG~T3N " CutMOTA W- Fy I W UUTH '1it HOW4 FIXA17E MORNU1'J AE 60N~E. / OF MY~~ MOUTh1 , 'NIGHT OF THE IGUANA': Civic Theatre Performs with Only Minor Flaws TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' "Night of the Iguana" is the third produc- tion of the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre. The play is representative of Williams' style with its collection of babes, battle axes and lost souls. Heading the latter category is Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, an ex- Episcopal clergyman who has been reduced to conducting groups of fearsome females through the tropics. On this particular journey, Shannon is haunted by a brassy young babe, a middle-aged monster and a sporadic "spook." But Shannon is not without a shoulder to lean on-in fact, he has four. The first pair belong to Maxine Faulk, the over-bearing manager of the Costa Verde Hotel, the second pair to Miss Hanna Jelkes, a spinster painter who travels with her grandfather. * * * * GENE GILLIAM (Shannon) seems to be struggling for something in his performance which he never quite attains. He frequently over- plays Shannon's anguish, pushing the character almost beyond the point of credibility. Carol Duffy (the brassy Maxine) gives a most convincing per- formance as does Loraine Reid, who plays the demanding Miss Fellows. Again, both seem to push their characters a bit harder than necessary. Karen Henes gives a generally admirable portrayal of the cool, but compassionate Hannah Jelkes. * * * * i i CJ'(v6 my HcA MAV L2A1$ N6 C4 54 M61 HIS BY FAR, THE best performances of the evening are given by Kingsbury Marzolf (Nonno) and Jennifer Groves (Charlotte Goodall). Although the marts are small and limited, the portrayals assuredly are a Al I r