t t fat :4 Eai Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN s - UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are F. STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Preva l" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1962 e NIGHT EDITOR: GERALD STORCH "Some Of You Have Perhaps-- Hrmph - Heard Of These Tribes" y ISK --. Cod" ON COL. a . : . .h i .i ?i I . LAST TERRITORY: Dutch Evacuate New Guinea Colony Gubernatorial Candidates View Education Superficially GOv. JOHN B. Swainson and his opponent, knight in not-so-shining armor George Romney, have something in common politically: appallingly limited and parochial views on edu- cation. Both candidates have talked in generalities; neither of them has expressed a really sound program for Michigan higher education in the '60's. Instead of realizing the vastness and the complexity of the problems facing state- supported colleges and universities, they have chosen to deal superficially with only two issues, expansion and research. EACH CANDIDATE has promised to do his best for higher education. Each one has also made the appeal to parents about "will Michigan's colleges and universities be able to admit your child." Each has promised or in- ferred that if elected he will be able to help public colleges and universities be ready for the post World War II baby boom that will soon inundate higher education. These promises are nothing less than sheer political dishonesty. It is already too late. The University is planning only gradual expansion as University President Harlan Hatcher' noted recently. There is even some question of whether the University may ever attempt to expand in proportion to the number of those requesting admission. After all, there is almost certainly a point not far from the University's present enrollment point where further expan- sion would seriously injure quality. The two other large public universities, Wayne State University and Michigan State University, whether or not they are willing to expand, simply do not have the facilities. The capital outlay program which these univer- sities, as well as the University, had requested throughout the '50's was never forthcoming. Neither were the appropriations necessary to expand or eyen simply to hold faculty. In ad- dition, it is doubtful that these institutions would want to undergo a 20-30 per cent en- rollment increase in a three to four year period since their student bodies, like the University's, already number well over 20,000. MICHIGAN'S SMALLER universities are sim- ilarly unprepared for drastic and rapid ex- pansion. Although the growth of the state's smaller institutions might have been the best alternative for meeting increased educational demands, these institutions would require mas- sive injections of funds for both capital outlay and operation as well as time to prepare. Thus Michigan's state-supported colleges and universities are not and cannot be prepared for the first wave of the baby-boom. Any can- didate for public office who claims that they can be prepared for massive growth within the next two years is simply playing politics. Two or three years cannot undo the lack of progress and foresight among legislators over the last five. Furthermore, there is a misconception of what public universities ought to be doing. The constant emphasis of both candidates, espe- cially Romney, has been the role of higher edu- cation in the Michigan economy. Romney has gone so far as to say that thedmajor reason for locating the automobile industry in the state has been Michigan's leadership in higher education. One may well question Romney's proposition. But aside from any doubts one. might have in this direction, it is certainly a limited view- point on the function of higher education. It is especially significant when one considers that Romney does. not seem to have made any com- ment on any function of state-supported col- leges and universities unrelated to economic pursuits. OF COURSE there is nothing inherently wrong with the University being the train- ing ground for technicians and various other persons interested in industry-related fields; but a university's function extends far beyond teaching technical and professional skills.' This economic view of universities extends into the candidates' view of research. Research obviously helps the state economy. The Uni- versity is an internationally known research center. Therefore, Romney has proposed a space research center probably to be located at the University and Swainson has charged that this proposal shows Romney's ignorance of the existence" of the Institute of Science and Tech- nology. The space institute would help Michi- gan attract space firms to the state. Swain- son's proposals for increased research appro- priations are aimed at substantially the same goal. Perhaps increased space research would at- tract industry to Michigan. But again, both candidates have failed to take any notice of the broader function of research in a scholarly community. They have failed to consider the great amount of research which may have no direct or immediate economic effect but which may be of great value in a scholarly field. TheI University is not and ought not to be a research factory for industry. STILL ANOTHER AREA of higher edcation' which neither candidate has even mention- ed is graduate education. So concerned have they been with the baby-boom, that they have not even chosen to comment on the growtha of graduate study, especially at the Universityi where it has been greatest.1 Another major, fault in both campaign plat- forms is their failure to provide a really sound plan for financing higher education. Swainson has consistently advocated larger educational appropriations but he has been unable to in- fluence the Legislature to grant them. Romneyt has said that the future of Michigan's higherr education is tied to economic progress. But itx is hardly a suitable system to make UniversityI appropriations a function of automobile sales.I There is still another difficulty with adequatec appropriations. Even if a fiscal reform program centered around an income tax passed by the Legislature in its next session, at least twoe moderate Republicans have predicted that itx By HENRY HARTZENBUSCH Associated Press Feature Writer HOLLAND-I A, Dutch New Guinea-The Dutch are pulling out as fast as they can from West New Guinea - their last colonial territory of the once great Dutch East Indies. There is no panic, but they leave with a mixture of emotions-deep regret, sadness, relief and some bitterness. As one Dutch trader said: "We knew we had to leave sooner or later. But it is always sad when you are actually faced with leav- ing. Our role in this part of the world has been played out. We have reached the end of the road." This tropical territory astride the equator with most of its 161,- 000 square miles consisting of dense jungles, coastal swamps and undeveloped lands, will be trans- ferred from The Netherlands to a United Nations administration for a seven-month interim period Oct. 1. Next May 1 Indonesia takes over. Stone Age Native Papuans in the central highlands of this California-sized territory still live in the stone age and have little or no contact with white men. Since the Dutch-Indonesian ceasefire on Aug. 15, the departure of women and children has been accelerated. Many dependants of Dutch officials began leaving more than a year ago, when the Indo- nesians threatened military action to recover what they claimed to be part of the former Dutch East Indies. Of a total Dutch population of aboutn16,000. only 400 to 500 will remain after Oct. 1. These are mostly Dutch officials who plan to be home by Christmas. Although the United Nations is offering double salaries to the Dutch who remain during the transition, only a handful are willing to stay. Chartered Flights Airports at Biak and Hollandia are packed with women and chil- dren boarding regular and char- tered airline flights to Holland and some to Australia. Airlines and ships are booked solidly through the end of the year. Many homes are for sale but there are no buyers. The Dutch are shipping their autos home because there are no takers. Business in Hollandia has been almost paralyzed since the cease- fire agreement. The flow of capi- tal back to Holland has quickened. Businessmen are remaining to see whether they will be able to salvage some of their stocks after the territory is transferred to the United Nations. Stocks Depleted Banks have stopped credits. Business is limited to cash sales. Shops are running out of goods and shelves are getting bare. All building projects have been halted. Many Dutch came here from In- donesia in the 1950's after they were forced out because of nation- alization and other restrictions. "We have had our fill, doing business with Indonesians," said one Dutch trader. "I assure you I want no part of them again." Some Dutch are bitter at the United States for pressuring them into a surrender of the territory. They also find the short transition period under the United Nations a huge joke. Administration o f f i c e s are emptying rapidly. Of 2,200 gov- ernment employes about 400 are remaining with the United Na- tions. Schools are closing. Hilly City A Dutch oldtimer sadly shook his head as we drove through hilly Hollandia. "We gambled on securing inde- pendence for the Papuans in three to four years. We hoped we could continue business here. I am not a blind idealist but the Dutch gov- ernment, perhaps trying to make amends for the sad experience in Indonesia, began pouring in about $30 million a year for administra- tion and development of this ter- ritory. We got little in return but here was some growth and some progress. "It is possible we attempted too much too soon at this late stage, remembering the mistake we made in Indonesia when we forgot to give the Indonesians responsible positions. "We promised. Papuans inde- pendence. But any hope of inde- pendence in the near future is gone. It is the end of an era." COLD WAR SUCCESS: Our Economic Strength Paradise Lost SAN FRANCISCO is going to have a tremen- ous hangover Sunday morning. The "damn Yankees" are in town. The hangover is going to be caused by either unfulfilled expectation or else a fully deserved culmination and triumph. The biggest party seen In California since 1959 will be held, or rather be riotiously thrown if the Giants win. Even Hollywood parties of the past, known for their grandiose sizes, will be belittled into obscurity by a town caught in the fall frenzy The entire state will rock along with San Francisco, except, for a sad county about 300 miles to the south. THE TITANTIC struggle will have reached its climax. Heroes. immortal in the minds of many, will have locked bats. Homers will have been walloped, great catches and plays made, and sterling pitching hurled in this World Series battle, but the outcome will rest on some mental lapse, some careless misplay, or maybe some "pitch that got away.". After six months and more than 160 base- ball games, after thousands of hits, hundreds of thousands of pitches, thousands of swings, and thousands of outs, the whole season will be drawn together and condensed into a period of .six or seven games.M All the tension of the past six months will be drawn around the diamond and projected to millions of people across the nation. FRUSTRATION AND joy will be compounded in the bad bounce or a gust of wind. Every- thing will be forgotten. The cold war, astro- nauts, and varied crises will be pushed aside till the mighty end. With transistor radios locked to millions of ears and probably more eyes glued to television sets, a whole nation be- comes hypnotized by a white spheroid weigh- ing only nine ounces. Like the almighty struggle described by Milton life itself is being deter- mined for two cities while many others look on. But, when its over, one will be named "Paradise Lost." --MICHAEL JULIAR Business Staff LEE SCLAR, Business Manager SUE FOOTE .....,............ Finance Manager RUTH STEPHENSON............. Accounts Manager SUE TURNER .......... Associate Business Manager THOMAS BENNETT.........Advertising Manager Editorial Staff MICHAEL OLINICK, Editor JUDITH OPPENHEIM MICHAEL HARRAH Editorial Director City Editor CAROLINE DOW ............... Personnel Director By ROBERT SELWA THE WESTERN world is not losing and perhaps is winning the Cold War at this stage of his- tory. The best proof of this lies in the way the Western world is be- coming stronger and more united while the Communist world floun- ders and becomes more splintered. The Common Market is such a success that: The United States is. liberalizing its trade policies so as to be more closely integrated with the Euro- pean Economic Community; Great Britain, Norway, Denmark and Ireland are applying for full membership in it; Greece, Turkey, Spain and Por- tugal are asking for associate membership as a prelude to full membership; Austria, Sweden and Switzer- land, three neutrals, are also ap- plying for associate membership; Israel and Iran are seeking a general trade and tariff agree- ment with it; and Premiers Khrushchev of the Soviet Union and Tito of Yugo- slavia are denouncing it as vig- orously as their Marxist dialogue will allow. * * * THE COMMON MARKET is such a success that many leaders are now seriously considering not merely the economic but also the political union of Europe. Thus, the Western or so-called Free World unites, prospers and trengthens, irritated but not really worried about most of the threats of the Communists. Of course there are several threats to worry about, such as China's develop- ment of nuclear weapons and the possible move by the Russians and East Germans to gobble up West Berlin, which is still Khrushchev's objective. Aside from these very real dan- gers, there is much to be optimistic about. The economies of the Coi- munist countries are doing poorly, particularly in agriculture and in consumer goods. The neutrals, while staying off the West's band- wagon, are going for no rides with the Communists either (India, the argest and most important neu- ral, is even actively engaged in military battle with the Chinese Communists over the lines of heir mutual border). FURTHERMORE, the Commu- nists are split six ways: The Russian Communists are no onger leaders of any Communist nternational because internation- al Communism no longer exists. The Chinese, joined by the for- mer Russian satellite of Albania, re denouncing the Russians for being soft on capitalism. They are eing militant in foreign policy while trying to develop the nuclear weapons needed to make this mil- tancy effectual. The Yugoslavs have been at dds with both the Russians and he Chinese for a long time. How- ver, in the past two weeks Yugo- lavia and Russia have been taking THE UNITED STATES treats each of these groups in a different way, and here is where one of the paradoxes of the Cold War arises: the administration seeks to trade with and give aid to two Communist countries-Yugoslavia and Poland-in our national in- terest, while seeking to stop trade and aid by anyone to another Communist country-Cuba-in our same national interest. Congressional opponents of such trade and aid have been more articulate and defiant this session than in the past. They tried to eliminate Poland and Yugoslavia from our programs and they suc- ceeded in mending President Ken- nedy's trade bill so as to make commerce more difficult with these two countries. Perhaps it is be- cause of this extensively reported Congressional opposition that Yu- goslavia now seems to be moving back into the Soviet camp. The standard response is that conservatives, instead of hindering, are helping the Communist cause this way. But the question might then be asked: Is it better to have unified, weaker enemies or divided, stronger enemies? * * * WHAT MANY Americans would like to see would be the people overthrow the Communist regimes from within and the establish- ment of more democratic govern- ments. But before a subjugated people can think of revolution they have to think of food, which is scarce in Communist states. Thus, when we give our surplus food to people under Communism, we are not only humanitarian but also political: we better prepare them to fight off oppression.} But at the same time we lessen a source of their discontent. Aid in surplus food thereby makes the oppressed more able but less in the mood to revolt. Furthermore, they remember that when the peoples of Hungary and East Ger- many revolted, the West was not able to help them much, since the sending of our troops would have been aggression on our part and could have provoked the final world war. While Communists of the world are divided, they exercise firm con- trol in their separate states. And while the 20th century has shown that it is Communism, not capital- ism, that contains the seeds of its destruction, and while in C. L. Sulzberger's words some of these seeds are already sprouting shoots, at the same time the "plants" will not produce fruit for at least ~ev- eral years. And while it is true (with the possible exception of Czechoslo- vakia) that no people have ever voted themselves into Communism, it is also true that no people once under Communism have ever been able to throw off the yoke. If this event would occur, we might look for it to ocur, and help it to occur, in Poland and in Cuba. The Castro regime is still young and the Polish people are restless and brave. Soviet authoritarianism, they have instead reverted to their own authoritarianism cpupled with eco- nomic planning. Africa has resisted Communism, but LatinAmerica remains ripe for it, and one Latin American country has already adopted it. Problems of Latin America that could result in Communist take- overs are the spirit of anti- Yankeeism and the extremes of rich and poor with the virtual ab- sence of a middle class. The Al- liance for Progress aims to solve these problems with $20 billion of mutual assistance over the next 10 years. So far the Alliance has had little success, and the impa- tient conservatives in the House of Representatives tried to lop off $75 million from this year's ap- propriation for the Alliance. * * * COMMUNIST expansion was halted in the late 1940s and. in the 1950s greatly due to the eco- nomic aid that we supplied war- devastated Europe. We strengthen- ed the economies of European na- tions and helped them help them- selves through the Truman Doc- trine and the Marshall plan. Now Europe has the admiration of the world for its strength and energy. In the same way we can help the peoples of Latin America and Africa 'help themselves, defeating Communism.at the same time. The Communists of the world are di- vided; the non-Communist world should seek to become more united. Those who despair about taking the initiative in winning the Cold War ought to give more vigorous support to freer trade, foreign as- sistance and loans, and the Al- liance for Progress. To the Editor: THE UNIVERSITY of Michigan Professional Theater Program is a windfall. Thanks to the Uni- versity for asking' the troupe to come,-and thanks to the troupe for coming! By 'all means let us also praise ourselves, the applauding patrons. "School for ScandsA" promises a lively season. The per- formance was charming. The ac- tors spoke clearly. The soliloquies were direct. The costumes were more than adequate. The Prologue and Fpilogue were given entire. I see no reason, however, to dismiss the first play, as The Daily did, with a patch of fulsome rave. This is not Broadway, we care very little for "stars." Ours is a repertory theater, a theater play- ing to a university town. It will improve by responsible criticism; and this means, at least at the outset, a little discussion of theory.' Ellis Rabb and the directors should settle one basic question to his, and if possible to our, satis- faction: whose is the play, the playwright's or the actor's? (I am willing to grant, both.) There is reason to presume that the play- wright k~nows best what he is after; the actor is to follow the playwright's intention--so- long as that intention has been made clear and is perceived. Miss Harris was cute, she was delightful. But the unconverted Lady Teazle is rather a bitch than a cutie. Sir Benjamin had designs on Maria. What hap- pened to those designs? What hap- pened to Maria's huge fortune; always a deus ex machina in com- edies of manners? * * * MORE IMPORTANT, Moses dis- appeared! The first two scenes in Act III were both emasculated, cut and rewritten to the point where the playwright's plot and handling were jumbled. Is the Research Center of the Midwest unable to sound that holy and much abused word - Jew? Must every stage rogue and usurer be, like Mr. Pre- mium, a Christian? Is every men- tion of Jew (as in the expurgated dialogue between Sir Benjamin, and Crabtree in I,1) to be euphe- mised away? Are we so afraid of appearing "anti-Semitic" that we must mod- ernize Sheridan? (I ;ather suspect that Sheridan, who was quite a democrat, and might even feel the temptation to modernize us and our Mississippis, would dismiss our pious efforts with contempt.) If the company takes on "The Mer- chant of Venice," are we to expect a Scotch Shylock? When the play- wright puts a bite in his play, let us not knock him toothless. Sheri- dan had cause to sting the usurers for, I regret to say, he was sting ing back. THERE ARE, I believe, two rather general rules in play pro- duction: reproduce everything, and follow the dramatist's divisions. Neither rule is holy. Both are to be applied by the imagination of the producer. But any deviation from the rule .must be if not pa- tently justified at least clear- headed. We should not cut the cast: as Trip, Careless and Moses were cut. Nor omit songs: as the only song, and a good one, was omitted. Nor shorten the play in 'the interests of a single 'nter- mission: this eighteenth century play was not meant to be done "straight through." It is better to have a role acted poorly, if neces- sary by an apprentice, than to have it acted not at all. I would offer one final sugges- tion, that the program notes in- clude at least vital statistics for play and playwright. Where was it acted first? When, and by whom? All this is of interest to a university, audience. Who wrote the Prologue? What was Sheri- dan's position in the succession of English dramatists? I see no rea- son why one of the lettered mem- bers of our Enalish Department LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Constructive criticism TODAY AND TOMORROW: European Grandeur wouldj higher means not an if the crease dined mean a great deal of extra money for education. Fiscal reform, they said, only a redistribution of the tax burden, increase in it. They also said that even moderate Republican program did in- revenue, many Legislators might be in- to use the money for paying off the state deficit and it might be years before higher education received any substantial ben- efits.% Furthermore, neither of them has publicly announced a position on the still simmering question of out-of-state students. Although strictly speaking this is the concern only of the various governing boards, the governor may well be called upon to exert his influence on the action of the Legislature. Many members of the Legislature are in favor of some form of limitation. Nobody knows what either Rom- ney or Swainson think about it. IT MAY BE said of many of these problems of education that, as with out-of-state stu- dents, they are strictly the concern of the various governing boards. But very often the governor and other state officials are consulted hv these same governing boards on these ques- N l t t lE I ( t n c II ai bV Vt ei sl By WALTER LIPPMANN THERE IS a puzzling difference between the world as seen from Washington and the world as seer from Paris. On this side of the Atlantic we are preoccupied with the Soviet challenge in Cuba, Ber- lin and elsewhere. Across the Atlantic the focus of interest is how the Western com- munity is to organize itself, and where are to be the centers of power and decision. Our Euro- pean allies are concerned with the internal relations of the Western coalition. We are concerned with its external relations in Germany, South Asia, and Latin America. European and American feelings differ about how urgent, imme- diate, and earthshaking is the Soviet challenge. Our European allies are not getting ready to call up reserves, and they are much less hot and bothered about Mr. Khrushchev than we are. Their attention is on the ef- forts of Gen. de Gaulle to woo and envelop West Germany in order to create a new center of world that the Soviet Union cannot face war with the West, and that in conflicts short of war-as, for example, East German harassment of West Berlin-'the retaliatory means available to the West are preponderant. For Gen. de Gaulle there is no great urgency 'in the skirmishes and scuffles of the cold war, and it is quite unnecessary, indeed undignified and foolish, to let Moscow hypnotize us and monopolize our attention. Thus for Gen. de Gaulle the challenge and menace of the So- viet Union are transitory, and in the course of time, if firmly con- tained, Russia is destined to re- join the Europe to whicn she be- longs. For Europe, in Gen. de Gaulle's mind, extends from the Atlantic "to the Urals." In the meantime, history goes on and we cannot be stopped in order to listen to the latest tidbit from the Kremlin. There is much to be done which has nothing to do with the cold war. Franco-German emnity must be buried. The perennial British intervention in continenta.affairs.