d $ t iatt Batty Seventy-Third Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSrrY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 'Truth 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. POLITICS IN PERSPECTIVE: Election Results Upset Precedent Y, NOVEMBER 9, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: GERALD STORCH IFC and the Elections: Friendly Persuasion (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the sec- ond of two articles analyzing the results of Tuesday's election. Yes- terday's article analyzed the Michi- gan results. Today's discusses the rest of the nation.) By GLORIA BOWLES and H. NEIL BERKSQN N AN OFF-YEAR election which must go down as one of the most interesting in history, Amer- ican voters sized up gubernator- ial and congressional candidates in a manner that will keep the pun- dits puzzled and guessing for years to come. The only trend easily discernible is one of contradiction. The elec- torate crossed party lines with recklessrabandon,rupsetting re- nowned personalities of American politics and bringing unfamiliar faces to the fore. "S HEAMERICAN Fraternity system . is a laboratory in which the democratic prin- ciples of this nation are brought home to every young person in such a manner that he cannot help but absorb them, if he but tries." These, the high ideals of the affiliate sys- tem, were set forth by EditorJohn Myerholz in last year's rushing booklet, "Fraternities at Michigan." This year, Interfraternity Council President John Meyerholz, in participating in the Stu- dent Government Council campaign, is impart- ing new significance to these nble concepts. N A MEMO to IFC members who will be campaigning in behalf of IFC-endorsed can- didates, Meyerholz demonstrates not only a strikingly original interpretation of the demo- cratic ethic, but also a remarkable faith in his constituents within the affiliate system: This document, chock-full of helpful hints for IFC's students of grass-roots democracy, begins by listing the five candidates whom IFC, after "deliberating until early morning," decided to back for SGC: Steve Stockmeyer, Tom Brown, Russ Epker, Frank Strother and Chuck Barnell. That's funny: they're all fraternity men! LL, THAT'S ONLY NATURAL, since, as Editor Meyerholz pointed out last year, fraternity men are the leaders on campus. And, after ,all, it doesn't really make too " much difference if one candidate, for example, staunchly supports a speaker bylaw he's never read; thinks that discrimination in the af- filiate system has been eliminated, and should be eliminated immediately, but not too fast; insists that The Daily should cover SGC more thoroughly, but doesn't know how it is covered now; and hadn't been to an SGC meeting in six months, until the campaign started-Does it? And it isn't really too crucial that at least three of the candidates are totally unable to articulate any consistent philosophy of student government; and that four (if not all five) t of them have expressed no really new ideas for g" SOC- is it?- -. NOW, ON THE SURFACE, it may seem that some of these gentlemen fall slightly short of the criteria by which, Meyerholz explains, they were selected for IFC endorsement: know- ledge and understanding of SGC structure and issues, and "potential for being an active and responsible member of SGC." However, this apparent contradiction is eas- ily resolved further on in the memo, as Meyer- hols explains what this really means. Under the title, "Importance of Voting," he explains: "Since they (SGC) have control over us, we had better get our people on it." Elaborating further, he instructs IFC cam- paigners, "Also drop the fact that we wanted candidates who are best for Greeks." President Meyerholz's concern for the campus as a whole is indeed in keeping with "the democratic principles of this nation," so elo- quently expounded by Editor Meyerholz. 11OWEVER, Politician Meyerholz is no fool. He perceives that, despite such remarkable candidates and such a unique and provocative philosophy, certain (shall we say) techniques may be necessary in order to convince those affiliate men and women who might be slow in appreciating the virtue of the IFC lineup (possible due to some chance oversight within their house's leadership training program). Buyers of Ai First, the IFC reps, in talking before affiliate groups, are advised to "go over each of the five candidates in alphabetical order." Good idea: if, as Mr. Meyerholz seems to imply, fraternity men are rather slow-witted, they's probably forget and mess it all up by voting for the wrong candidates otherwise. Next, the IFC speakers are to "tell the house that we will give their presidents a list of the five candidates next Monday as a reminder for each of them." Great, great! He'll get through to 'em yet! MEYERHOLZ'S FINAL admonition is parti- cularly inspiring: "Above all, don't oversell the idea that we are telling them to vote for our candidates. We are merely suggesting to them the best candidates from the Greek's standpoint. If they have any questions that you are not able to answer, tell them that they could obtain a more accurate answer if they would contact one of the senior officers of IFC. "In this way you are not admitting that you do not know the answer; you are just look- ing out for their interest by providing them with a more perfect answer." What a stirring tribute to the men of the fraternity system! AT FIRST, one might think that the com- ments in this column could apply with equal force to, say, Voice Political Party. Meyer- holz might well commend Voice for following his example and selecting candidates on the basis of their political beliefs. However, Voice, still clinging to such archaic concepts as forthrightness and integrity, makes the silly mistake of admitting that it is a political party and committed to a certain political view-even going so far as to publish a platform, and plaster it all over where every- body can see it! On the other hand, Meyerholz's superior prudence is evident, as he keeps IFC above the messy problems that arise when one admits to such a political commitment. Or, one might argue, The Michigan Daily displays political finesse equal to IFC's-for it, like IFC, makes recommendations to the voters, while not admitting to being a political party, either. However, for some reason, The Daily's editors just can't seem to get over the goofy idea that competence to serve on SGC is a more important criterion than the presence or absence of a fraternity pin. As a result, they go around indiscriminately supporting candidates, no matter where they live. Though predominantly liberal in their own beliefs, the editors have frequently found them- selves in the inane position of recommending a conservative-just because he's qualified. Some- how, these amateur journalists just fail to comprehend the profound difference between a Fraternity Man and an ordinary man-a dis- tinction which Meyerholz appreciates in all its far-reaching significance. THE STUDENTS, of the fraternity-sorority systemn, and indeed of the whole University, should keep in mind IFC's creative corollaries to "the democratic principles of this nation" as they go to the polls next Wednesday. They should remember that, were it not for contributions such as these, student government on this campus could never have become what it is today: a stagnant mess. --KENNETH WINTER -EDWARD HERSTEIN NELSON ROCKEFELLER ... narrow margin Richard M. Nixon lost a desper- ate bid to regain a power position in the Republican party. Long- time Republican Senators Homer Capehart (Ind) and Alexander Wiley (Wis) were unseated. Min- nesota Congressman.Walter Judd was turned out of office. Demo- crats captured the statehouse in Vermont and the statehouse and a Senate seat in New Hampshire for the first time in memory. ON THE OTHER HAND, Demo- cratic Governors John Swainson (Mich), Michael DiSalle (Ohio), and Steve McNichols (Colo) lost their bids for re-election, and the Republicans took the Oklahoma governorship, an office they have never held before. The GOP took large strides to- kard making the South a two- party region - netting five new House seats. Republican g o v e r n o r s-elect George Romney in Michigan and William Scranton in Pennsylvania have brought new life to a GOP currently devoid of national per- sonalities. IF ANY overall winner can be declared, it will have to be the Democratic party. Historically, the party in power has lost an average of five Senate seats and 39 House seats in off-year elections. The Democrats lost only four House seats. More significant, the Re- publican-Southern Democrat coa- lition remained stagnant while Kennedy Democrats increased their strength. The 88th Congress will have even more Democrats than the 87th. The old balance was 64-36. The Democrats netted four seats Tues- day to increase their margin to 68-32. Included in the new lineup will be such important freshman Dem- ocratic liberals as Abraham Ribi- coff of Connecticut and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. The governorships give both par- ties cause for celebration and dis- appointment, but, on the whole, this was one Republican strong- point. The pre-election lineup of 34 Democrats to 16 Republicans will probably remain unchanged. But the Republicans captured or maintained control of several pow- erhouse states: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan., Besides picking up House seats and the Oklahoma governorship in the South, the Republicans made an unbelievably strong bid for Lis- ter Hill's (D-Ala) Senate seat and a creditable showing in the Texas governor's race. * * * THE OUTSTANDING facts of the election are these: 1) The Republican party failed in its attempt to reverse its minor- ity position in American politics. Republican National Chairman William Miller had predicted gains in the House of Representatives and governorships which never materialized. 2) Neither Cuba nor medical care for the aged under social se- curity, nor any other foreign or domestic issue dominated national voting patterns in anything like trend proportions. 3) The voters had a field day splitting tickets. Party loyalties were apparently at low ebb. In Ohio, for instance, Democratic Governor Michael DiSalle lost by 400,000 votes; Democratic Sena- tor Frank Lausche won by the same margin. 6) While statistical changes were slight, both parties gained poten- tially important footholds in cer- tain states where they had been relatively weak. 7) In certain notable cases leg- islative gerrymandering did not have the expected effect. 8) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who campaigned vig- orously across the country, was again unable to turn his popularity into Republican votes., 9) Conservative candidates ran poorly except for scattered South- ern victories and Peter Dominick's Senate victory in Colorado. Four avowed Birch candidates ran; all lost. Following is a breakdown of sig- nificant races: THE ATLANTIC STATES A victory margin of over 500,000 votes was not enough to satisfy re- elected New York Republican Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. Rockefeller has all but admitted he will seek the Republican presidential nom- ination in 1964 and hoped for a plurality of 800,090-1,000,000 to prove his vote-getting power. Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits in winning re-election top- ped the governor's totals, Javits even carried normally Democratic New York City. New York's Republican legisla- ture drastically altered the state's congressional districts for the ex- press purpose of giving the GOP a 25-16 edge. Demoratic voters did not go along, however, so that the actual New York delegation split in the 88th Congress will be 21 Republicans, 20 Democrats. A Democrat to watch is Samuel S. Stratton who unsuccessfully sought the gubernatorial nomination with the claim that he could get votes in upstate Republican areas. Strat- ton did just that, winning a House seat from upstate by a 2-1 margin against overwhelming odds. * * * THE GOP scored one of its most impressive victories in Pennsylvan- ia where William Scranton defeat- ed Democrat Richardson Dilworth by over 400,000 votes. The race was supposed to be close, but Scranton ran a professional cam- paign while charges of corruption and his own temper ruined Dil- worth. Scranton, however, could not transfer his own popularity to the defeat of Democratic Sen. Joseph S. Clark. Clark chalked up a 100,000 vote victory. The young Republican governor- elect Scranton, seems destined to play a major role in national poli- tics. He is a smooth campaigner with a now-proven ability to attract Democratic votes. Mr. Scranton's views are very' similar to Nelson Rockefeller's-much more so than George Romney's, for instance - and if the Rockefeller wing pre- vails in the GOP Scranton may one day find himself running for President. * * * IN MARYLAND the Democrats stayed in the governor's mansion and picked up a Senate seat. Re- publicans captured a House seat when they defeated Democratic incumbent Thomas F. Johnson, re- cently indicted on charges of abet- ting mail fraud. NEW ENGLAND EVEN THREE DAYS later, the New England elections are up for grabs. Recounts in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont are forthcoming. However, as is often true in New England, name candidates and family ties proved very significant. Two men with relatively good fam- ily names and relatively poor qual- ifications battled for the Senate seat in Massachusetts. Teddy Ken- nedy won as expected. It will be interesting to see what he does in Congress. The Kennedy victory aided an- other Democrat, Endicott Peabody, in his bid for the governorship. A recount will decide this one, but Republican Gov. John Volpe was supposed to win easily. Peabody, by the way, is another famous Massachusetts name. * * s ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, who left the Department of Health, Edu- cation and Welfare to run for the Senate in Connecticut, won as did Democratic Gov. John Dempsey. Former Gov. Wesley Powell of New Hampshire wasn't even run- ning for office, but scored a vic- tory nonetheless. Powell, spurned by his party in the primaries, came out in support of Democratic challenger John W. King. King won and pulled in a Democratic senator for the state, Thomas J. McIntyle. Needless to say, New Hampshire's Republican party is in shambles. Pending a recount Democrat Philip A. Hoff has apparently tak- en the governorship in staunchly Republican Vermont. Recounts will also tell whether the Democrats have taken Republican Maine and whether the Republicans have tak- en Democratic Rhode Island. THE SOUTH LONG DORMANT Republicans continued to pick up strength in the South. This is one area where the Republican party has really na i.l __, nr_ hn iacn o, ihar Martin centered his race around labelling Hill the "number one Kennedy man" in the South and protested the President's use of troops to enforce desegregation at the University of Mississippi. * * * REPUBLICAN Thruston Morton seeking re-election to the Senate from Kentucky, was supposed to have trouble. He won easily. Mor- ton's popularity helped the Re- publicans to take Kentucky's third congressional district from the Democrats. Republicans increased t h e i r House delegation to 14 by picking up seats in Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky and Texas. One interesting race in Florida produced a- victory for old Demo- cratic New Dealer Claude Pepper. The former senator returns to Washington as a congressman, and his fiery voice will certainly be heard in support of the New Fron-' tier. THE GREAT LAKES THE GREAT LAKES states pro- vided the biggest upsets, and, in most cases, Republicans were the ones who fell out of the boat. In Indiana long time Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who thought he had victory in the bag because of Cuba, lost. The victor was 34-year-old Democrat Birch Bayh. Capehart, stunned byahis 10,000 vote defeat, has declared he will never run for public office again. Another surprise was in store in Minnesota where the popular Re- publican Congressman Walter Judd, keynoter of the 1960 Re- publican National Convention, was defeated by Democrat Don Fraser. Both men attributed the results to reapportionment. * * * THEN, in Wisconsin, Gov. Gay- lord Nelson unseated Senator Alex- ander Wiley, ranking Republican , on the Senate Foreign Relations; Committee, by an impressive 65,- 000 vote margin. Nelson pulled in Democr t John Reynolds, running for governor against favored Re- 1 i 1 i 7 i The Democrats never had a chance in Kansas. The GOP kept the governorship, two Senate seats and ousted the lone Democratic congressman. THE MOUNTAIN STATES DEMOCRATIC victory parties were few and far between in the mountains. Democratic incumbent Gov. Stephen L. R. McNichols lost his bid for re-election to a politi- cal novice, John A. Love. Liberal RICHARD M. NIXON ... - bid fails Democratic Sen. John A. Carroll was also bested by a Goldwater Republican, Peter Dominick. Wyoming voters showed their displeasure at the political she- nanigans of Sen. J. Hickey, a Dem- ocrat. Hickey was governor when a Senate vacancy occurred two years ago. He resigned his office, passed over the Republican lieutenant- governor to appoint Democrat, Jack Gage as governor and had Gage appoint him to the Senate seat. The outcome: Republicans swept both Hickey and Gage out of office THE SOUTHWEST THE MOST interesting race in the Southwest came in Oklahoma where Republican farmer Henry C. Bellmon did what no other Re- publican has been able to do since the state was admitted to the Union in 1907-he took the gov- ernorship. Bellmon took advantage of Democratic feuding to accom- plish the feat. The Democrats picked up a gov- ernorship in New Mexico, however, where Jack M Campbell ousted four-term incumbent Edwin L. Mechem. Campbell accomplished a minor miracle by uniting the constantly feuding factions of New Mexico's Democratic party. In Texas Republican Jack Cox put up a strong fight until rural returns gave the governorship to former Secretary of the Navy John Connally, a Lyndon Johnson pro- tege. Texas Republicans did pick up a House seat, however, and their surge of strength-which be- gan when John Tower won a spe- cial Senate election in 1961-shows no signs of abating. THE PACIFIC STATES RICHARD NIXON'S 250,000 vote defeat has overshadowed all else out West, including some other significant California results. An important, and somewhat over- looked, factor in the Nixon-Brown race is the superb way California's Democrats mobilized their voting strength. Early Tuesday the turnout in Los Angeles County was very light -a danger signal for Gov. Brown. But the Democrats had prepared in advance for such an emergency. They swiftly moved extra poll workers into every precinct and so reversed the trend that off-year voting in the county set a new record. In Southern California the Dem- ocrats defeated three John Birch candidates running on the Repub- lican ticket. The losers included incumbents Edgar W. Hiestand and John H. Rousselot. Redistrict- ing substantially helped the Demo- crats inall House races in the state as they took a net gain of nine seats. * * * HAWAII was one of the few states to evince a pattern of straight ticket voting. Democrat Daniel K. Inouye won his Senate race by landslide proportions and carried the entire state ticket with him. Along the way Democrat John A. Burns scored an upset victory over incumbent Republican Gov. William F. Quinn. In Oregon, while Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield won re-elec- tion as expected, his vote margin was not as large as he had hoped. kiaileld has long been mentioned for the vice-presidential slot on the Republican ticket in 1964, but his victory was not large enough to enhance his chances dramat- ically. THE DEMOCRATIC party can look upon the 1962 elections with much satisfaction. The party has shaken a long-time American poli- tical pattern which dictates that the party in power must necessar- ily lose congressional and guber- natorial seats. The results are, in part, a vic- tory for the President. While the country has not shown itself ready to follow him with blind devotion, it has not shown itself dissatisfied with his administration. Kennedy certainly has the ten- tative approval of the voters. If he were running today he would undoubtedly win by more than the 100,000 votes which barely elected him two years ago. THE 88TH CONGRESS will probably be more amenable to Kennedy's legislative program, though the-e is no indication that any of his defeated measures face certain success. Democratic gains in the Senate do assure passage fore much of his program there. Most of the Kennedy proposals passed the Senate last time. The outstanding exception, Medicare, lost by two votes. The new Demo- cratic senators are primarily lib- eral-they will vote that way. But the President suffered most of his defeats in the House. Time and again the conservative coali- tion of Republicans and Southern Democrats voted Kennedy spon- sored bills down. An interesting paradox may be that with a small- er majority Kennedy will have a bigger bloc of support AN OVERVIEW of the House races shows that Republican via- tories were mostly at the expense of Democratic conservatives. Dem- ocratic liberals picked up strength from the the California results and other scattered races - the Staebler victory in Michigan is one example. The balance of liberals and con- servatives is still such, however, that only pork barrel bills and cer- tain foreign policy bills are assured of House approval. One final question concerns the meaning these elections have for the presidential campaign two years hence. The Republicans have added some promising personali- ties to their list of hopefuls. More- over, they have taken control of a powerhouse block of states: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. The governors of these states have much patronage to distribute, and patronage is the crux of a powerful state organiza- tion. * * BOTH PARTIES have gained strength in new areas: the Re- publicans,.primarily in the South; the Democrats, primarily in the Midwest. They will work hard to keep their gains. Perhaps the most important por- tent of this election lies in some- thing it has not done-it has not signalled a resurgence of grass roots Republican strength. While personalities on the Republican ticket continue to win, Republican organizations are inherently strong in few states. There is no indica- tion that the Democratic trend in the country-which began with the New Deal and was merely in- terrupted by General Eisenhower -is about to be headed. I rn Arbor... AN INTERESTING SIDELIGHT on our jet- age existence is that whereas in general we are moving faster and faster, there is one area in which we are compelled to pull up on the reins. I refer to the ever-increasing length of time required to read an advertise- ment without being led sadly astray. One of the largest areas of study to which the analyst of misleading advertising can de- vote himself lies in the realm of record stores. One local distributor (who must remain name- less, albeit not blameless), for example, seems to have the-"habit of inflating his prices with a semantic bicycle pump. Whoever thinks up the ads for the nation-wide chain of stores has a magical knack for making discounts sound better than they actually are. 'HUS ONE MAY read in a newspaper such an attention-getting notice as "50% OFF LIST PRICE" in bold face 50 point-or-larger type. The average reader is so bowled over by this that he fails to notice one slight fallacy in this pronouncement. Next to the huge type offering "50% OFF" is a miniscule asterisk, which directs anyone keen-eyed enough to notice it to a line of all-but- microscopic type adding the proviso that the buyer must purchase a record "at our discount price" before he is privileged to buy one at any advertisement which seems to say one thing and says another. Nor, I am sure, does the purchaser retain a goodimpression of any advertiser who in- dulges--even fleetingly-in such chicanery. rJO BE SURE, this particular distributor is not alone in trying so hard to attract cus- tomers that at times it oversteps the bounds of integrity; nor is such a habit peculiar to record dealers by any means. Any store can put on sale hundreds of articles (books, for example), one or two of which are, priced at 19c, and advertise a sale at "19c AND UP." Any store can display a sign, "Up to 50% OFF," in which the "50% OFF" can easily be read from across the street,. whereas the "Up to" is visible only to someone with his nose pressed against the windowpane. The question is not whether such misleading practices can exist, but rather whether or not they should exist. I am sure that disreputable advertising practices have been around us as long as has the art itself; but it seems that lately they have been running rampant, so that the reader hardly knows what to believe any more. This is hardly to be condoned in any locality; but in a community such as Ann Arbor, where prices of certain commodities (for example, books) are jacked up to begin with, it seems BOURKE HICKENLOOPER .. . retains seat publican Philip Kuehn. This con- tinues a post-war two-party trend in Wisconsin, a state that has been traditionally Republican. The eloquent senator from Ilii- nois, Everett Dirksen's win was not surprising. But the margin of that victory, a small one, did leave most observers impressed with the showing of his opponent Sidney Yates, a seven-term Democratic representative from Chicago. Dirk- sen, who won by 300,000 votes in 1956,ifinally spurted ahead in an election it looked as though he might lose, finally squeaked by with a 150,000 vote lead, * * * VOTE SPLITTING was evident in Ohio, where the re-election of Democrat Frank Lausche to the United States Senate was the only happy news for the Democrats. This election saw State Auditor General James A. Rhodes, rela- tively unknown, defeat the Demo- cratic incumbent, Michael V. Di- Salle, by the largest margin ever recorded in an Ohio gubernatorial race. DiSalle, in an embittered, Nixon- like press conference, c a 11 e d Rhodes unfit for public office, and also attacked several of the state's big city newspapers for support of Rhodes. An unknown in the nation, Rhodes is still listed by some spec- ulators as a prospective contender for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination. THE PLAINS STATES THIS NORMALLY Republican territory provided some pleasant surprises for the Democrats. In Iowa Republican Gov. Norman Erbe was unseated by Democrat E. B. Smith. Smith's victory was to- tally unexpected. Also unexpected was the trouble Republican Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper encountered in regaining his seat. Hickenloop- er won-mut not as strongly as he should have. Nebraska Democratic Gov. Frank Morrison was not expected to win his bid for re-election, but did. His opponent, former Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton, thus adds to the list of -Eisenhower _n hr~n .i nl . .. In_ _ -_ ,+ Rmi LETTERS to the EDITOR To the Editor: BARBARA LAZARUS' editorial on the "New Conservative Voice" can be read in two ways: as a personal attack on the news editor of WCBN, Harry Doerr, or as an attack on WCBN itself through Doerr. I believe:it is meant as both, and that it represents a new low in The Daily's editorial responsibility.. I am not affiliated with WCBN in any way, but I know enough of its operations and audience to realize that it is The Daily's only rival as a student news medium. This rivalry is given spice by the fact that The Daily is essentially liberal in attiude, and WCBN is conservative. Though WCBN's fa- cilities are not as extensive as The Daily's, it has outdone The Daily in news coverage on several oc- casions-for instance, "Operation Foil" on October 13, which WCBN covered thoroughly, 'while The Daily article-written by Miss Laz- arus-confused the facts. The editorial purports to be a discussion of the dangers of "extreme conservatism" on SOC; but it degenerates into an attack that seems incomprehensible until the reader remembers The Daily- WCBN conflict. THE MOST GALLING statement in the editorial comes when Miss Lazarus wonders if Doerr consid- ers those opinions libelous which are nnnned to his own .T'h nDail ak..,. . _...: