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"It's Time We Ended the Vestiges of World War II"

it Atygau Ua f
Seventieth Year
EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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Men Opinions Are Free
Truth Will Prevail"

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Increasing Danger
In Fidel Castro's Cuba
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Drew Pearson's column, Washington Merry-Go-Round,
Mill appear regularly beginning today.)
HAMERICAN embassy in Havana is quietly warning all Americana
whose presence is not necessary in, Cuba to leave the country.
The warning is based upon the fact that Cuban soldiers have been
stirred to such a frenzy by Fidel Castro's tirades against the United
States they have threatened to hang American citizens from Havana
lampposts.
The embassy is also fearful that street crowds might get out of
hand. In addition, the American embassy is planning staging areas for

Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers
or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints.

MARCH 11, 1960

NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS HAYDEN

'Sit-Ins' and Pickets:
Effective Discrimination Protest?

ro... *

IT'S SORT OF pleasant to get mildly involved
in other people's moral dilemmas - it's very
much like going to the theatre. There's "ca-
tharsis" and "escape" and all that sort of
thing.
But when one suddenly finds that one must
commit himself to a moral choice just as com-
pletely as the actors, one's position becomes
somewhat less comfortable.
This latter position is the one Ann Arbor is
now in.
WHEN THE NEGRO college students in the
South began their sit-down protests, it
was an interesting topic to read about every
day, and it was interesting to discuss the situ-
ation and the ethical problems involved. But
there was no urgency; there was no need to
commit oneself to any position. One could
wait and see what developed.
Provided that there was no violence, ending
discrimination at lunch-counters is certainly
a defensible objective. But what if violence
breaks out?
LTHOUGH this might make one squirm,
there was still no demand for commitment:
one could say, "There is no move to picket in
Ann Arbor, so I have no need to take any
stand."
But now picketing has been organized-and
Student Government Council has endorsed
such action. There will be picketing this after-
noon. Now one must commit himself. Should
the picketing be supported? Will picketing en-
courage tension in the fight and lead to vio-
lence? Is it fair to the stores? Should chain-
stores throughout the country be hurt because
of a custom of the South?
To answer these questions, one must deal
with the specifics of the Ann Arbor situation.
THE PICKETING group will picket The
Cousins Shop, a local dress shop. A Human
Relations Commission report received by the
City Council charged the owner of The Cousins
Shop with discrimination against a Negro
and with subsequent refusal to cooperate with
the Commission in discussing the complaint.
The picketers also plan to operate around
the local S. S. Kresge and F. W. Woolworth
stores. This picketing is merely intended to
demonstrate their sympathy with the efforts
of the Southern Negroes to obtain equal serv-
ice. The picketing seems to be intended not
as an economic boycott, and therefore seems
justified.
SGC, however, would go farther. The Council
passed a resolution Wednesday which would
back economic boycotts against the four chain
stores involved in discriminatory practices in
the South.
At least for the present, SGC's position ap-
pears indefensible. If picketing is not success-
ful, and if it can be demonstrated that the
stores are contributing to the problem in the
South-as opposed to being merely the battle-
ground on which two other forces, the South-
ern white and the young Southern Negro,
choose to fight - economic boycotting may be
necessary.
But today is the day for immediate commit-
ment, not speculation. Today, peaceful picket-
ing seems to be the right course of action. We
can make further commitments later.
-JAMES SEDER

Con ".
DISCRIMINATION, whether based on color,
national origin, or any other arbitrary
basis, has no place in our society.
The elimination of discrimination is vital.
But the means of achieving complete integra-
tion are equally as important.
Various groups throughout America are
seeking integration, not "desegregation,"
which has a bad psychological connotation.
Ann Holden, a member of one of these
groups, the Congress of Racial E q u a l i t y
(CORE) told the Political Issues Club on
Thursday that all efforts toward complete in-
tegration must be on a basis of "passive re-
sistance."
MISS HOLDEN said that the most popular,
peaceful approach to integration is the
"sit-in" where Negroes, often assisted by
whites, demand service at segregated lunch-
counters. "Persistence is a key element," Miss
Holden declared.
CORE is believed to be the organization that
started the recent "sit-ins" in Greensboro, N.C.
Since the first protests appeared in February,
sympathy has spread throughout the country.
Spontaneous sympathetic reactions are occur-
ring everywhere, including Ann Arbor. An un-
official group has planned to meet today and
picket a dress shop and local chain stores
which have sister stores in the South that
actively practice segregation.
ALTHOUGH passive in nature, these persis-
tent demonstrations could aggravate the
tense situations in the South,. rather than
serve any benefit. Such "sit-in" is not passive
resistance then, but "passive hindrance."
Miss holden said that there are not as many
laws enforcing segregation as people might be-
lieve. "When an issue comes up, the officials
of a town pass laws to meet the situation and
maintain segregation," Miss Holden declared;
"Sit-ins" may well aggravate even more re-
pressive laws.
HERE ARE other, better, ways to bring
about integration instead. The NAACP, un-
til recently, had the right idea. The NAACP
advocated change through the processes of
the law and worked for an equitable legal sys-
tem. However, the NAACP is now favoring the
methods of organizations like CORE. Evi-
dently, they prefer the immediate results of
sit-ins, standing-lines, picketing, and boycot-
ting.
The NAACP has made a mistake by prefer-
ring "passive resistance" to "educational
means. This does not mean that people should
not work for integration. It does mean that
people should not go out and take part in
demonstrations. Everyone is aware of the issue.
Demonstrations will only aggravate this sore
spot in our society, with little chance of ob-
taining positive results./
The SGC is taking a good step in the direc-
tion of complete integration. They are send-
ing letters to governors of Southern states and
to chain stores urging the end of discrimin-
atory policies.
There is no absolute solution to the prob-
lem. The integration issue will not end tomor-
row. The slow but sure processes of education
and legal reform must eventually prevail. Time
will prove that patience is prudence.
--HENRY LEE

the larger 'evacuation of American
sary. Meanwhile, the United States
Navy has prepared emergency
plans to defend the Guantanamo
Naval Base at the Eastern end of
the island. Guantanamo could be
seriously endangered merely by
curtailing the fresh-water supply
from Cuba.
However, the Navy has Installed
a desalinization process which
could supply the naval base with a
limited amount of water for some
time.
a a s
THOSE CLOSE to the White
House say that the President came
back from his Latin-American trip
seething against Castro and con-
vinced that his patient policy of
leaning over backward has now
gone far enough.
Talks with the Presidents of
Argentina, Brazil and Chile con-
vincde Eisenhower that he would
have the support of the major
Latin-American governments if he
started to crack down on the
grandstanding dictator who reigns
supreme only 90 miles away from
the American coast.
This was behind the rough lec-
ture which Secretary of State Her-
ter gave to the Cuban charge d'
affaires following Castro's charge
that American saboteurs had
blown up the French munitions
ship In Havana harbor.
MEANWHILE, the American
embassy in Havana has cabled the
State Department that more and
more moderate elements in Cuba
are lining up against Castro,
though as yet nowhere near ap-
proaching a full-fledged revolt.
Some State Department officials
are worried that Ike's new, tough
policy may strengthen Castro and
actually solidify his support from
the Cuban people.
(Copyright 1960, by the Bell Syndicate)

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VOL. LXX, NO. 121
General Notices
Tickets now on sale by mail order
for forthcoming Playbill productions,
presented by the Dept. of Speech.
William Congreve's "The way of the
World," to be presented April 6-9,
Wed.-Sat.): $1.50, $1.10,'750.
Ketti Frings' adaptation of the
Thomsa Wolfe novel, "Loofomeward.
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The premiere performance of anct.
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To order tickets, send check, pay-
able to Play Production, with self-
addressed stamped envelope and first,
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formance, to Playbill, Lydia Mendels-
sohn Theatre, Ann Arbor. For furth-
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3045.
Recitals
Program of American Music: The Al-
pha Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota wilt
present its annual program of Ameri-
can Music in Aud. A, on Sun.. March
13, at 8:30 pm. Students participating
in the recital are Joellen Bonham,
piano; Patricia Martin, flute; Martha.
Rearick, piano; Nancy Oirawemeyer, vi-
olin-Susan McKinney, viola Carolyn
Halik, cello; Joan Olson, piano; Alice
Camp, EnglishEhorn; Susan Tanner,
piano. Mary Ellen Henkel, contralto;
Joanne Wiseman, soprano. The Sigmaft
Alpha Iota Choir, directed by'm
{Continued on Page 5)

COMMUNIST CHINA:
Men into Machines

By JUDITH DONER
Daily Staff Writer
A POTENT propaganda system
is necessary in China since the
Communists insist that the popu-
lace publicly approve of all gov-
ernment practices.
The people's thoughts must be
directed by and kept attuned to
the leaders' thought, for a dicta-
torship is that much stronger
which has the people both believ-
ing in and proclaiming its merits.
Communists realize that propa-
ganda is most effective when it is
delivered personally. The individu-
al agent, who forces his charges
to repeat the articles of faith and
who gives them the "benefit" of
direct announcements of public
policy, along with "patriotic"
priests of the Catholic Church
who guide their flocks along

proper Red paths play an im-
portant part in the system.
* * *
BELIEVING unquestionably in
what one is told to believe is
hardly an Intellectual process. It
compresses mens' minds and
makes them ethically nonfunc-
tional. But since the Chinese lead-
ers' prime use for their peoples'
minds is as receptacles for Com-
munist doctrine. That they do not
function freely is not only ac-
ceptable, but highly satisfactory.
Communization of literature is
extremely dangerous to a people
and at the same time a superb
method of maintaining dictatorial
control.
Knowledge being a catalyst of
discontent, informed sources re-
port the Communists cannot per-
mit any thought to be printed
which has not been approved by

STUDENT GOVERNMENT:-i
ITheoyori Pratice?

This Land is Your Land

. . .

LIFE in these United States (with grudging
apologies to Readers' Digest) .«.
Thousands In the South and East boycott
stores and march in protest, seeking strong
civil rights legislation.
In Lansing, Negroes sing on the Capitol
lawn. Rep. Gibbs, chairman of the House State
Affairs Committee, ducks out of the Capitol
chambers before his committee can vote on
releasing civil rights bills. Real estate man
Donald Sargent comments, "Negroes have to
learn to behave themselves, and then they'll be
accepted."
In Houston, Felton Turner, a 27-year-old
Negro, is taken to a quiet glade where four
Editorial Staff
THOMAS TURNER, Editor.
PHILIP POWER ROBERT JUNKER
Editorial Director City Editor
CHARLES KOZOLI .............. Personnel Director
JOAN KAATZ ....,,«............ Magazine Editor
JIM BENAGH......«..... ....... Sports Editor
PETER DAWSON............ Associate City Editor
BARTON HUTHWAITE .. Associate Editorial Director
JO HARDEE... ...... ... . .... Contributing Editor

men beat him with chains, then slice "KKK"
into his chest and stomach.
In Washington, the Senate hesitates, then
continues to filibuster. After all, it's an elec-
tion year.
pRESIDENT EISENHOWER says American
relations with foreigners are better than
ever.
At Alabama State College, race rioters cool
off somewhat.
In Ann Arbor, young liberals plan to spend
a Saturday afternoon picketing a dress shop
and two dime stores.
The public is invited.
-THOMAS HAYDEN
New Books at the Library
Bakeless, John - Turnocats, Traitors, and
Heroes; Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1959.
Becker, Stephen - Comic Art in America,
N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 1959.
Bernstein, Leonard-The Joy of Music; N.Y..
Simon & Schuster, 1959.
Blanshard, Paul -- God and Man in Wash-
ington; Boston, Beacon Press, 1960.
Bruce, Robert B. - 1877: Year of Violence;
Indianapolis and N.Y., The Bobbs-Merrill Co.,

By JEAN SPENCEI
Daily Staff Writer
LATELY Student Government
Council is finding it difficult
to reconcile what it believes with
what it is willing todo.
Twice Wednesday night the
Council discouraged action which
would follow logically from pre-
viously stated beliefs. An increas-
ing trend of such direct contra-
dictions between theory and prac-
tice indicates either indecisive-
ness or unsound thinking.
The most striking of the con-
tradictions involves examination
files. A lengthy, wandering debate
in the Council meeting produced
a stand against the free circula-
tion of exams in a statement to
be sent to the Dean's Conference.
During the discussion the Council
attempted to clarify its philoso-
phy on examination files; the mo-
tion passed would presumably re-
flect this.
Twice, however - before and
after passing the policy statement
against exam files - the Council
refused to abolish its own exam-
ination file.
IN ITS consideration of the
Haber-Miller motion, which sets
up a committee to gather and
consider evidence in discrimina-
tion cases in student organiza-
tions, a member called attention
to the "affidavit" requirement.
The motion proposes requirement
of a yearly statement of non-dis-
criminatory practices from all
student organizations.
In the light of the Council's re-
cent stand against the affidavit
and loyalty oath provision of the
National Defense Education Act
loan plan, such a requirement
seems highly illogical.

Debate opposing the require-
ment of the statement noted that
both affidavit requirements "as-
sign a degree of guilt to an or-
ganization" before any considera-
tion of evidence.
THESE two procedural inci-
dents show up an insufficient re-
lationship between the philosophy
and practice of SGC.
Strong beliefs weakly carried
out can only result after a time
in a student government theor-
etically strong and practically
weak.
Council members must ask
themselves whether theoretical
or practical strength is the bet-
ter index of an effective Council
--f in fact either strength is
meaningful without the other.
I Swear...
GOVERNOR Rockefeller says he
favors the loyalty oath for stu-
dents who accept federal scholar-
ships.
Thinking it over, we agree. Let's
impose virtue by oath. Wives, for
example. Why not require them to
swear twice a year that they have
remained faithful to their hus-
bands? It might be objected per-
haps that husbands should swear,
too. But this misses the point.
Oaths are imposed on inferiors.
The starveling student in his
attic or the drudging wife in her
kitchen - they should be taught
who's boss. In America, thank
God, the husband rules. What was
that odd noise, Mrs. Abernathy?
Oh, come now - really! Mr.
Rockefeller, help! Mr. Rock .. .

the government. Though the gov-
ernment-controlled Federation of
Writers and Artists, the creative
Chinlese are directed in their work
and lives.
If authoritative reports are to
be believed, the Chinese Commu-
nists have cracked down severely
on the Cheng Feng, or "Let the
Hundred Flowers Bloom" cam-
paign which they inaugurated
several years ago. The program
was characterized by a consider-
able relaxation in previously strict
governmental control over the in-
tellectual and artistic output of
the Chinese. Some criticism of
the government was even allowed.
But when the movement ap-
peared to be getting out of hand
some time ago, the Chinese gov-
ernment immediately took steps
to stamp out any resurgence of
free thought and analysis. Many
who had criticized the govern-
ment were subsequently purged,
and the Chinese writers and
thinkers were again put under
rigorous governmental control.
* * *
THE CHINESE 'writer is checked
very closely by the government
and by the people. If he makes a
wrong move in his daily living or
writes something unacceptable, he
is subjected to intimidation by the
masses and to persuasion by his
associates.
He may be assigned novels by
the government and he has no
choice but to write them. He must
submit his work to preliminary
censorship and must rewrite to
government order when requested.
Above all, his work must expound
official ideology.
And since everyone's reading
isn't restricted to contemporary
novels, the Communist must
closely regulate the older books
which may be read. For according
to several reports, in the large
attempt to spread literacy across
the nation, the young people of
China have developed a compul-
sive desire to read.
More than half the books avail-
able to Chinese book stores are
translations from Russian.
Newspapers are similarly ori-
ented. They have given up any
pretense of informing and merely
instruct. They are the govern-
ment's direct propaganda organ
and no Chinese could ever hope
to find any other than Communist
dicta in them.
The Communists seem to have
the system down pat; the Chinese
is indoctrinated at each step in his
daily life, controlled so rigidly that
his least misdemeanor is dis-
covered, attired and thinking so
much like everyone else that he is
no longer an individual and al-
lowed to write and read only what
is approved by the government.
China, in effect, has been de-
humanized and men have turned
other men into machines.

reserves the right to edit or withhold any letter.
political
Dismay facultyr
To the Editor: mayber
Stephen Ruebelman: ing not
I have read with interest and big piec
no small measure of dismay your gem can
comment (Michigan Daily, March consequ
8) on my article in the recent
issue of Generation. In my view, I BUT1
have said nothing that any priest Polle. T
worthy of the title would not also ing toe
say regarding hypocrisy and the events.
transfer which substitutes a reli- seems to
gious device for religion, carefule
I have in no sense attacked the parently
Catholic Church or any other reli- they co
gious organization. I have in no effects c
sense attacked the practice of athletic
carrying a religious figure in the their ob
automobile, nor have I sneered at in one
the faith that properly motivates tossed it
the practitioner. athletic
* *«Anom
IF YOUR reading of "98c Jesus mittede
with a Suction Cup" is repre- Olympic
sentative of the readings it may because
have had, then the author has ent to ;
failed to communicate; and com- a count
munication failing, all pretense pete in
to art vanishes, by prac
But if it is I who "stink," then cess, ch
surely it is an involuntary author only on
of the poem you read, not as a very
author of the poem I wrote. NCAA
-D. D. McCormick, Grad. sports a
wrestlin
others,a
Athletics , ., in Olym
To the Editor: the Oly
Furth
The Ivy League schools came t son ev
their sense a long time ago, viewed
Recently some of the other vee
schools in the Big Ten have "seen light th
seen b
the light." When will the Univer- big mig
sity of Michigan rise above this licity a
attitude of the mediocrity, thatpelling,
intercollegiate athletics advances golof
the interests of higher education, goal of
*football'.
--R. Young cable i
slion tos
Unfortunate . . SAs F
To the Editor: the NC
IP IDAY'S no postseason compe- ball tou
tition decision by the Confer- Football
ence athletic directors was, I four -
think, an unfortunate reaction to the seas
the outcome of the Rose Bowl ation of
vote, their si
Detroit Free Press Sportswriter ment va
Bob Pille believes it to be only a hockey,;

maneuver directed at the
representatives. Maybe so,
not. If so, they are play-
with pawns but with the
es, and this kind of strate-
n easily lead to unwanted
ences.
I AM NOT so sure as is
hey may be sincerely try-
end so-called post-season
Their action, however,
o have been taken without
enough premeditation. Ap-
generalizing from what
nsider to be undesirable
of football bowl games, the
directors have tied up
bjections to those effects
large bundle and have
t at the Conference's entire
program.
alous was the sole per-
exception: the quadrennial
e tryouts. It is anomalous
it surely must be appar-
the athletic directors that
ry cannot effectively com-
the international games
cticing (and, in the pro-
oosing the contestants) in
e of every four years. In
real sense, the annual
and AAU meets in such
as swimming, gymnastics,
g, and track, among
are more crucial to success
npic competition than are
mpic trials.
er, I believe that post-sea-
ents in most sports are
with an entirely different
Tan are the bowl games as
rfootball enthusiasts, The
ration; the spectacle; pubes
A infinitum; and the im-
overriding, almost singular
team victory-these are
's, an dare seldom appli-
n any comparable dimen-
any other college sport.
OR MYSELF, I feel that
AA basketball and base-
urneys are anti-climactic.
1 bowl games - three or
are excellent capstones to
on, but the recent prolifer-
f these games has dulled
gnificance and their excite-
lue. NCAA meets in skiing,
and gymnastics are to me
y desirable but are integral
f the season. And where
weight lifting be with the.
So on.
rdless, however, of the de-
interest which I have in

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