26 Seventieth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS Of THE UNIVERSITY Of MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OP BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. ' ANN ARBOR, MICH. 9 Phone NO 2-3241 'Sure We Have Two Parties-The Quick And The Dead" I e... Opinions Are Free h Will Prevalr RACKHAM GRANT: Vidar on Exhibit A lumni Museum MONT ATHOS is a theocratic federation of 20 feudal monasteries on a peninsula at the northern end of the Aegean Sea. Its isolation has preserved a world and culture centuries old. It was at Mont Athos that Frede Vidar began the work which is now exhibited at the Alumni Museum. In the artist's words, "Athos is an anachronism . . . a state of mind as much as a state of being." In regard to the exhibit he states, "I have accepted all the flexibilities of the Byzantine compromise . Specific approaches to individual problems rather than one general approach toward the entire subject have been used." Acuriousfeature of this exhibit is that as the pictures progress stylistically from the representational to the abstract their frames printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Y ARCH 22, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDY DONER World Faces Grave Population Problem r OFTEN PROVES true that political sores are not nearly as serious as they seem and ten will heal themselves if the public and the gislators refrain from picking at them. On the other hand, there are those that ntinue to grow and fester even after public ror has subsided, until they can be ignored o longer. The population of the world increases by over e and one-half per cent per year. If this rate ntinues (it will probably increase), and if the ath rate remains constant (it will probably down), there will be six and a half billion of in the year 2000-more than twice as many today. One hundred years later there will be billion. The problem is not that people insist on aving children, but that once the children rive they want to stay alive as long as pos- ble. Since 1650 the average life expectancy as risen from 30 to 70 years. In other words, hile the birth rate has remained more or less instant the death rate has varied sometimes pward, but usually downward. rHE RESULTING explosion in population is because of all the cultural revolutions- rban, industrial, medical, etc. - that have lade life easier and safer, and has taken place i Western Europe and America to a far reater degree than elsewhere. This does not mean that there are more eople in Europe than in India, for example. It oes mean that the population of Europe is resently increasing at a much greater rate ian that of India. Most of the underdeveloped countries in frica, Asia, Central and South America are bout in the position Western Europe held in 650. These countries have not really felt the npact of the several "revolutions"; their death ates have not started to decline significantly. ni India the birth and death rates are fairly lose together, and the average life expectancy only 32 years. )UT IT WILL not take three hundred years to cover the ground the Western nations ave covered before. Since Ceylon was com- letely sprayed with DDT in 1946, virtually liminating malaria, the death rate has halved nd the life expectancy increased from 40 to 0 years. Similar changes are going on now r are feasible elsewhere. They are going on in India, where we can xpect the death rate to halve in 30 years, which will result in 400 million more Indians in 1986 than today. Because of their youth, most of these will be consumers and not pro- ducers, and per capita income now around $60 per year will have to be divided among them. This will lead to reduced savings per capita and will have a crippling effect on the economic development that India wants and needs. The obvious answer to this problem is to persuade people that they don't want five or six children, and to make available for them facilities for birth control. But the social structure in underdeveloped countries is such that large families are most absolutely essential for income and social security in sickness and old age. Until these necessities are provided by other means families will be big; and until families are smaller, it will be very difficult to make enough economic progress to provide them. This, obviously, is somewhat of a dilem- ma. ASSUMING that small families became prac- tical for everyone and everyone agreed to have only a few children, population would still be a serious problem. In the United States, for example, large families are not necessary. The average family includes about three children. But in our healthy, comfortable society nearly everyone survives to bear children, and nearly everyone marries. and reproduces. Consequently our birth rate increases at about the same speed as the world's as a whole, and at that speed (one and six-tenths per cent per annum) there will be 650 million Americans by 2050 A.D. The world population problem is by no means critical-yet. With an improved social and eco- nomic structure several times as many people can be supported today. But even so, such im- provement is constantly accompanied by lower death rates. Sooner or later there will be the grave threat of having just too many people. The recent brief domestic political contro- versy about giving crowded countries means for birth control gives us a glimpse at the growing problem. The controversy seems to have subsided, but that it all: the real problem continues and grows. Sooner or later it will have to be met on a world-wide basis by an organization far more powerful than the United Nations is today. -ANDREW HAWLEY (EDITOR'S NOTE: All of the statistics and mo't of the conclusions drawn herein were presented by Prof. Ronald Freedman at the SGC seminar March 17.) LW ropirr 40,w change from horizontal to vertical. The four paintings "Coenobic Structure," "Athos Structure, "Idi- orhythmic Anachronism," and "Imagery in Retrospect" are the most abstract, having no human figures or literal representation. They are all in vertical frames. The next most abstract, contain- ing human and animal figures structured with various cruciform and cruciate figures, are five in number, and all but one in vertical frames. Continuing from the abstract to the representational, the next pic-. tures, "To Theodorius," "To St. Athanasious," "Vatopedi," and "Devastation Docheiarion" are horizontal. The first two are an uncomfortable clutter of figures, cruciforms, and cubistic buildings. Their only interest is that one is a kind of mirror image of the other. The last two are predomi- nantly representational. There are three striking por- traits, "Anchorite I," "Anchorite II," and "Mentor." The Anchor- ites are, in their particular way, two of the best works in the show. "DIONYSIOU" and "Simopelia" are both -scenes characteristic of Mont Athos: high rock buildings on the hillsides. These paintings are cleverly executed, being pre- dominantly of a thick, chalk-white surface. The details of the build- ings and foliage are almost carved out of this surface. Views at the white heat of midday. The most representational work is in numerous facile studies of the Athos landscape. Four pictures are difficult to fit into this progression. "Sectional" and "Transition" are liquidly or- ganic, a strange couple isolated from the rest of the exhibit. "Flight to Athos" is in byzantine colors, several very stylized men in a very stylized boat. "Panagea" is unusual because it is the only female (the Lady of Athos) in the entire exhibit. Frede Vidar's wide range of diversetechniques and styles des not essentially distract from or weaken the unity of the exhibit. The spectrum between the extreme poles of the representational-ab- stract duality perhaps reflects the state of mind of this artist as he journeyed from 20th century civil- ization to the anachronism of incredible Athos. -Gordon Mumma COLOSSUS OF THE EAST: The Chinese Dragon's Shadow LX LERNER: ,4Talk with UINu, - - , W - - w NEW DELHI-On April 1 the new Burmese Parliament will meet, and U Nu will once again become Prime Minister. I had a talk with him here on the occasion of his two-day visit to New Delhi. He was sitting in the bedroom of a modest guest suite at Nehru's house, and during the half-hour of our talk he sipped a glass of cold water and talked of a wide range of things, his face still almost boyish-smooth and unflawed, his eyes gentle and laughing despite his quarter-century of political struggle. Later that afternoon, at a Burmese-Indian Friendship Society tea, U Nu denied that he had come, to India to confer with Nehru and Khrushchev when all three met at Calcutta. It was sheer chance, he said, that brought him to the right place and the right persons at the right time, there would have been broad smiles of disbelief. But U Nu's angelically pure smile almost melts your disbelief. Everything he does seems to partake of the ceremony of inno- cence. That is probably .why his political op- ponents have found him a difficult man to beat. v o viva v Nk-If A. i WOW I ASKED U NU, in our morning talk, whether the size of his electoral victory as leader of he "Clean" faction over the "Stable" faction had surprised him. He agreed that it had. But he added, "The people evidently liked us," and grinned as he said it. I asked about the Burmese Army, since it was well known that Gen. Ne Win and the high Army Command-although officially neutral in the elections-leaned toward U Ba Swe and U Kyaw Nyein, of the "Stable" faction, who had accused U Nu of being ineffectual in dealing with the Communists. U Nu refused to talk about the Army. But he did talk of certain "resistances" he had faced in the election, and his meaning seemed clear. But this was only for a fleeting moment. Then his Dale Carnegie affirmations triumphed. The past, he sad, must now be forgotten. From now on the slate will be wiped clean, and both factions must start afresh as friends. I was reminded of Jefferson's triumph in 1800 over the Federalists, and of his First Inaugural sentence, "We are all Federalists, we are all Republicans." I fully expect U Nu to say "We are all Cleans, we are all Stables." My own guess is that the struggles will go on. U Nu's real problem when he resumes his munists in check. If he fails, Ne Win is still there to intervene as he did earlier. The fact that he laid down his power voluntarily and held civilian elections, from which he excluded himself and the Army, means there will be no. doubt about his good faith. ASKED U NU how he felt about the United States now, and the future relation of the Asian states with the American government. They will be good, he said, provided the United States follows a policy of non-interference in their internal affairs. Again he refused to be any more specific, but he didn't need to. Burma is clearly another case where the Eisenhower Administration picked the wrong horse, guess- ing that U Nu was through, and putting its bets on the "Stable" faction and the Army. This led me to the question of aid. The United States gave a grant to Ne Win's gov- ernment, for a motor road and for some Uni- versity buildings. I asked U Nu whether he would continue this policy of accepting eco- nomic aid. He answered that he would go through with the projects that Ne Win had started, and honor the commitment. But as a broad policy he still stuck with his old posi- tion, which we had discussed when I was in Rangoon five years ago-loans, Yes; aid, No. Behind this, I should guess, is the old fear that to take aid is to become vulnerable to American pressures, and to swerve from the non-alignment position which U Nu holds along with his good friend Nehru. Perhaps there is also the fear that it would invite reprisals from the Communist Powers. It is worth noting however that the Chinese Communists offered to settle their boundary dispute with Ne Win, and made the deal with him even though he had shown his leaning to- ward the United States. HOW DOES U Nu now feel about the Sukarno agitation for getting Asia nations at the summit conference, I asked, and gave my own guess that Russia would not enjoy having China represent Asia. "But China is China," he answered, "and China can only represent China. How can it represent Asia?" (Shades of Bandung, I thought.) How about Burma? I asked. Burma, he said, is a small nation, and doesn't presume to repre- (EDITOR'S NOTE: Although the United States does not recognize Red China, the U.S. Department of state has concluded the colossus of the East cannot be ignored any longer. Here is a report on Com- munist China's military might. drawn from intelligence sources.) By BEM PRICE Associated Press Writer THE COMMUNIST Chinse dra- gon now casts a lengthening shadow. There is no longer much doubt that Red China is developing into the third greatest military power on the globe after the United States and Russia. For the time being, China's mili- tary power is chiefly defensive and confined to the Asian conti- nent, but .. . Pentagon intelligence officers be- lieve: t (1) Red China will become an atomic power within 10 years. (2) Red China already has a short - range missile capability, supplied by the Soviet Union which also retains control of the atomic warheads. (3) Within 10 years Red China will have developed a long-range missile capacity roughly compar- able to that now possessed by the United States. WITH SOVIET technical aid, Red China is already building jet airframes and assembling com- pleted aircraft, using power plants supplied by the Russians. The shipyards just north of Shanghai are learning to build long-range submarines of the Russian "W" class. The "W" class boats are diesel- powered snorkel types capable of operating off the United States west coast for two weeks at a time. The "W" class can include missiles, probably deck launched, although it currently is doubtful whether these missiles are in Red China's arsenal. China has an army of 2,600,000 men-150 divisions-equipped with a hodgepodge of World War II weapons, some American made and seized from the Nationalist Chinese. This emergence of China as a world power is finally being recog- nized in the West. Ten nations-five each from the East-West camps-met last week in Geneva to talk disarmament. The United States, Britain, Can- ada, France and Italy represented the West. Russia, Bulgaria, Po- land, Czechoslovakia and Ro- mania, the East. * * * BEFORE the meeting, the U.S. Department of State conceded that any agreement by the 10 nations would simply be a prelude to a second, enlarged conference. Without Red China any agreement on disarmament would be mean- ingless. Red China's foreign minister, Chen Yi, has told the National People's Congress that "while China is ready to commit itself to international agreements, any RED CHINA 'has a 2,000 jet air force, including approximately 500 light bombers of the sub-sonic IL28 type, which have a range of 1,200 miles. The 7,500-man naval aviation unit flies these light bombers almost exclusively. The Chinese Communist navy, consisting of about 250 ships of all types-has almost no large offf'ensive capability though it does have harassment value. The fact that the Chinese are developing a submarine building and repair capability, however, in- terests the U.S. Navy mightily. Some intelligence personnel think Chinese submarines are part of a long-range plan by the Com- munists to blackmail Japan into neutrality. The fierceness of Russian and Chinese attacks in late January on the Japanese - American mutual defense treaty seemingly would substantiate this belief. , * * AS FOR the Chinese army, it' has some armored units, but it is primarily an infantry force-and with good reason. In the first place, China now produces only 50 per cent of her oil needs, and mechanized armies consume an enormous amount of petroleum. In the second place, China is unbelievably mountain- ous. There are few areas where the highly mechanized armies of the West could operate efficiently. China's greatest military asset, of course, is its manpower. There are 85 million fit men in the military age bracket, 18 to 40 years. Some 500,000 Chinese are conscripted annually for three years of army service. BAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin Is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan- Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- Ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1960 VOL. LXX, NO. 129 General Notices Bicycle Control Program-All bicycles Impounded prior to Jan. 1, 1960 will be sold at auction on Sat., April 9. Any- one wishing to reclaim one in this group must do so before the begin-. fing of Spring Vacation (March 26). Persons who have lost bicycles dur- ing the past two years are urged to check the impounded bicycles as many of these either have no license or one that has been defaced. The Bicycle Storage Garages, located on the south side of East Washington St. between Fletcher and Forest, are open Mon., Tues., and Tur., between S... and 8 p.m. and Sat. from 10 a.m. to noon. For further information ,regard- ing the Bicycle Control Program, call Ext. 314. Bicycles must be stored at the owners' I place of residence during vacation. Campus racks will be cleaned out dur- ing the Spring Vacation. May we also. remind all bicycle owners that, to comply with City and University regu- lations and to protect your property, you must register yourtbicycle at the City Hall and attach the 1960 liese. Regents' Meeting: Fri., April 22. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than April 12. Please submit nineteen copies of all com- munications.- Students who are definitely planning to transfer to the College of Literature, :Science, and the Arts, School of du-. cation, School of Music, School of Nur- ing, College of Architecture and De- sign, or the College of Pharmacy in June or September from another campus unit should come to the Office of Ad- missions, 1524 Administration Building, immediately to make application for transfer.. LSA students planning on doing col- lege work during this summer at other educational institutions should immedi- ately file the proper summer oure ap- proval form. These forms are avalble in the Office of Admissions, 1524 Ad. Building. May 16 is the last day for presenting these forms. International Student and Family Ex- change. Open Thursday mornings each week, 9:30-11 a.m. at the Madelon Pound House (basement), 1024 Hill St. Topcoats and sweaters for men and women. Infants equipment and cloth- ing and children's clothing. These are available for all Foreign Students and Families needing the above Items. Graduate Students in Linguistics: The preliminary examinations for the doctorate will be given on Friday and Saturday, May 13 and 14. Students in tending to take the examinations must notify Prof, Marckwardt by nonlater than Fri., April 8. June teacher's certificate candidates: All requirements for the teachers cer- tificate must be.completed by May 2nd. These requirements include the teach- er's oath, the health statement, and the Bureau of Appointments material. The oath should be taken as soon as possible in room 1439 U.E.S. The office is open from 8-12 and 1:30 to 4:30. The German Department Announces Prize Competitions for students en- rolled in sophomore, junior, and senior German classes. The KOTHE-HILDNER PRIZE Wwith stipends of $50 and $35 for first and sec- ond place respectively Is intended for students enrolled in either German 31. 32, 35 or 36. The Competition will con- sist of a translation from German to English and of a Comprehension Test. The BRONSON-THOMAS COMPETI- ITION with a prize of $75 to the first place winner is open to students en- rolled in German 81, 82, 91 or 92. It consists of an English essay on a lit-- erary work treated in these courses. The EDGAR SCHWAIBOLD COMPE- TITION with stipends of $100 and $50 to the first and second place winner Is open to seniors concentrating In Ger- man. An essay in English and one in German on subjects of a literary na- ture will make up this Competition. All the Competitions are open only to students of American High School and College training and will be held on Thur., Mar. 24, 1960 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Frieze Building. Stu- dents interested in participating In these competitions snould contact their instructors in German for further de- tais.The deadln frapplicatin (blanks available in the German 'De- partment Office) is noon, March 23, 1960. History 30 Midsemester, March 22, 9:00 a.m. Valone and Hanna's sections, Aud A, Angell Hall; Simpson's sections, 231 Angell Hall; Zahniser, Gerber, and Holli's sections, N.S. Aud. Sports and Dance Instruction-Women Women students who have completed the physical education requirement may register electively on Tues. and Wed., March 22 and 23 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Registration will be held on the main floor of Barbour Gym. Agenda, Student Government Coun- cil, March 23, 1960, 7:30 p.m., Council Room, 3540 SAB, Constituents' Time 9:00. Minutes of previous meeting. Agenda. Officer Reports: President, Procedure: Execi-ve Vice-President, Remarks ;,Ad. To the Editor: T rHE DAILY'S editorial policy had implied a rather sarcastic attitude, often being iconoclastic merely for the'sake of its novelty. But this is editorial freedom, and as long as no great injustices or wrongs are committed, there are no grounds for strongly criticizing it. However, Tuesday's SGC edi- torial evidenced an appaling viola- tion of editorial rights. The Sen- ior Editors have not only over- stepped their bounds, but done so in an obnoxious and oppressive manner. In the first place, there was no common criterion by which the candidates were judged. One was evaluated for his "original" views on discrimination; another on his attitude about SGC. But there was no common ground on which all candidates were judged, making it difficult - almost impossibly.so - for the reader to impartially de- cide for himself on the merits of the editorial's views. * * * THIS LEADS to another point: it was obvious that the editors knew some of the candidates much better than others - hardly mak- ing justifliable many of their im- pressions and definitely coloring their feelings. At the same time, by resorting to such practices as the twisting of facts and taking sections of platforms out of con- test they were able to hamper the chances of the candidates whom they did not know as well. And to further go beyond the boundaries of good taste, this same editorial was placed on the front page. A rational for this action could be that the importance of the election warranted it. A better rational might be as follows: since only a small minority of the stu- dent body (even of those voting!) actually take the time to read the candidates' platforms, an easy way for them to use some basis for feel righteously powerful and im- portant -- but did- you consider the injustice you have done Michi- gan students by the biased, in- comprehensive views you expressed about the candidates? Is this edi- torial freedom or is it, perhaps, better described as editorial tyr- anny? Certainly an injustice has been done, an irreparable act which makes one doubt the integrity and wisdom of the Senior Editors. -Richard Helzberg, '62 Unwanted. To the Editor: ONCE AGAIN we see that Ann Arbor does in reality want the students. The city wants us so much that Mr. Larcom, the City Administrator, has said that full time students will be counted as residents of Ann Arbor in the coming census. This sounds rea- sonable until one finds out how hard it is to obtain a vote in this' town. Come now, are we or are we not residents? It would seem that residents should have a vote and yet they wish to withhold this right -from us. They want us as residents for the simple reason that if we are counted they get an additional $11 per year for the next ten years for each student who is counted. This hardly seems like fair treat- ment. We wish to be counted in our home towns. * * * IT DOES NOT seem logical 'iot to be able to vote here and yet have the city derive the benefits from us as if we were residents. And furthermore, just what are these benefits that we derive from city? According to Mr. Larcom's plan, we are non-voting residents of Ann Arbor, paying out of state tuition. Let's be one place or the other. dents' will is not taken into con- sideration and SGC moves on, oblivious to the plebiscite of silence. May I suggest that by refusing to vote, we (and we are in a majority), have, indeed, taken a stand against the very existence of our campus-wide debating soci- ety? It might well be pointed out that what SGC can do is immaterial, any extension of this would be presumptuous. -Ron Rowley, '61 Amused.++ To the Editor: AS PRESIDENT of Scott House, I was highly amused at the recent attempt of The Daily to explain Scott's original rejection of the IQU constitution. The editorial of March 17 (signed by Kenneth McEldowney) asserted that Scott -was errone- ously misled in believing that dues were an innovation of the IQC. However, the slightest in- vestigation on the part of The Daily would have shown that Scott has been deeply involved in dues controversies before and was certainly aware of their previous existence. The reason for the re- jection was based on fears of 'the highly centralized structure of the new IQC. Following an interview with IQC President Tex Chertkov, Scott reversed its original deci- sion.1 * * * IF THE DAILY is going to at- tempt explanations of campus ac- tivities, it should concern itself with actual facts instead of mak- ing unenlightened assertions with the apparent purpose of filling editorial space. -John DeVries, '61 President, Scott House Thanks To the Editor: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Daily Editorial Policy Unfair'