SOUTH AFRICA: PRELUDE TO DISASTER SeePage4 Y Si urnre Seventieth Year of.Editorial Freedom 41P t CONTINUED COLD High-33 Low-25 Cloudy with snow flurries; rather windy in the afternoon. VM.LXX, N. 123 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1960 FIVE CENTS SIX PA D I ISTR TOR SEES R S HOU U, F CULTY PROGRESS LAC I& -Daly-Jim Gallo OFFICERS--John Feldkamp (lower left) was reelected Student Government Council president, Nancy Adams (lower right) was chosen executive vice-president, James Hadley (upper left) was named administrative vice-president and Per Hanson was elected treasurer. Council Unanimous On OfcrChoices By JEAN SPENCER John Feldkamp, '61, was reelected Student Government Council president last night as all officer positions were filled by acclamation. Nancy Adams, '61, is the new executive vice-president and James Hadley, '61, will serve as administrative vice-president. Per Hanson, '62, was elected treasurer. In other action, the Council voted to support and endorse "direct non-violent action being taken against the Cousins Shop on State Street for reasons of their refusal to give equal service to Negro patrons." The Council further encourages all students to make known their opposition to the discriminatory policy of the Cousins Shop by Southerners, Chain Store Answer SGC Student Government Council President John Feldkamp, '61, re- ported last night on replies to letters the Council sent to four store chains and governors of eight Southern states supporting student protest against lunch counter segregation. The New York office of F. W. Woolworth, Co., one of the stores contacted, wrote that their com- pany "had absolutely nothing to do with the establishment of the custom" of segregated eating facilities. "Our company has always con- sidered itself a guest of any com- munity in which it is located," Woolworth said. "As such, we are expected to, and endeavor to be good neigh- bors and to abide by the local custom established by local people for the conduct of business in their town." "tinder the above policy, it naturally follows that we will always welcome the opportunity' to cooperate in any serious local endeavor calculated to improve the cultural and business climate and race relations of the com- munity," the letter concluded. Alex W. Bealer, an Atlanta' businessman, suggested SOC con- cern itself with local problems and "leave the South's problems to the South." "We did quite well before you came along and will undoubtedly do equally well after you have gone and can no longer advise us," he added. "You probably don't know it, but in every Negro there is a latent streak of immorality and savagery, no matter what you dreamy - eyed do - gooders may think," he concluded. A letter from a Louisiana citi- zen asserted that SGC should confine its letter writing to may- ors of Michigan towns like Dear- born and Owosso, which "will not permit Negroes to move in." Paul H. Stockdale of Baton Rouge added that his wife is a native of Michigan, "so, you see, we know that the insular, pro- vincial Midwest is not perfect- just hypocritically inclined." "South - baiting is America's favorite indoor and outdoor sport '1) personally talking to the pro- prietor of the shop, 2) supporting and participating in non-violent pickets against the shop and 3) withdrawing their patronage, and encouraging others to withdraw their patronage from the shop. Some members thought this problem lay outside the jurisdic- tion of SGC and might better be handled by the City Human Relations Commission or the SGC Human Relations Board. Al Haber, '60, said of his mo tion that on a national and inter- national level "too much is going on for us not to get involved" in the area of race relations prob- lems. "As students, as citizens, as hu- man beings, we have a commit- ment," he asserted. The Council defeated a related motion which would have affected local branches of four chain stores with similar boycotts. Members said that since the local branch is not implicated in the charges of discrimination, the boycott would be unjustified. Haber, IFC President Jim Mar- tens, '60, and Feldkamp were ap- pointed a committee of three to draft a motion "clearly" incor- porating the views of the Council and other interested parties ex- pressed to date in the area of non-discrimination in student or- ganizations, to be considered at the April 6 meeting. The Council also passed a mo- tion to consider present Univer- sity rules and regulations con- cerning "possession and consump- tion of alcoholic beverages, with the possibility of seeking a relax- ation of present rules and regula- tions concerning this matter." Linker Wins Lit School Presidency May Vice-President; Election Draws 200 Donald G. Linker and Lawrence May were elected president and vice-president, respectively, of the literary college senior class yes- terday. Two hundred second - semester juniors, first-semester seniors and other 1961 graduates voted in the balloting called by Joint Judici- ary Council to replace the elec- tion of March 15 and 16 in which irregularities were discovered. Over 400 voted in the original balloting. Linker had 89 votes to 44 for Richard Meyer, 28 for Michael Gilman, Richard Gavril's 22, 17 votes for Robert Vollen and one write-in vote. May had 95 votes for vice-pres- ident against 49 for Robert Wood and 47 for Ronald Greenberg. Ronald Seigal had been elected treasurer in the original election, and Tina Tarler was chosen sec- retary. These elections were de- clared valid at the time, and these two will be the remaining officers of the class. The new officers will be mem- bers of the Senior Board, an or- ganization of all senior class offi- cers in the various undergraduate schools and colleges. The new election was called by Joint Judic because enough stu- dents had voted contrary to the election rules to possibly influence the result. MS UStudent To Vacation In County Jail By The Associated Press "I hope my bomb goes off on time," James A. Draves said casu- ally as he placed his luggage on the scales at the Capital City Airport. Yesterday he was sentenced to 10 days in a St. John's, Mich., jail. Draves, a sophomore psychology major at Michigan State Univer- sity, pleaded guilty to a charge of making a false report relating to a bombing. A He was sentenced by Justice Albert E. Wert to a $40 fine, $15 costs, and 10 days in the county jail. Draves was seized by local and Lansing police Tuesday night as he was about to board a Miami- bound plane. No bomb was found and the plane took off 32 minutes late without Draves aboard. "I was just having a little fun," he said. "For the first time in mankind's history we have cause for opti- mism," internationally-known Finnish cartoonist Karl Suomalai- nen said in a lecture here yester- day. "Man hasn't changed, but peace has become allied with another primitive instinct-fear. Fear is aroused by nuclear weapons." As the fear of nuclear weapons prevents man's fighting instinct to find an outlet (in war), there remains only one possibility, Suo- malainen said. The future war will be ideological and psycholo- gical. Psychological War Previously psychological war was, in the form of propaganda, a part of armed war. From this time on the arms are moving over to become a part of psychological war. "As a modest contribution, po- litical cartoons belong to the tac- tical weaponso f psychological war," he said. But if cartoons are going to be more than political sarcasms, a cartoonist ought to be acquainted with the principles he desires to defend as well as with those he opposes. "Communism is a system that believes in one sole formula which contains all solutions. Therefore it is easy to popularize it and to make it understandable even to the masses. Non-System "Free democracy on the other hand could be determined as not a system but a non-system," Suo- malainen said. "There exists no common popular philosophy of de- mocracy nor any absolute auth- ority. In psychological war this is in a way a deficiency." The problem is what the demo- cratic ideology means in t h e thoughts of the man in the street, he said. "The best way to strengthen democracy is to make clear the nature of the two conceptions on which freedom is based-equality and human value." Religious Concept Democracy's conception of hu- man value in all its irrationality is primarily a religious conception, the cartoonist said. But this is seldom emphasized. "Democracy naturally does not recognize any barriers for any- body's possibilities to develop him- self according to his abilities. But be we ever so liberal, we have to put the limit somewhere. "With all this I have tried to say that if we do not acknowledge the true basis of human value, we will step from error to error," he continued. Should Know Origin "But if its metaphysical and di- vine origin, independent of any characteristics, is clear to us, we can respect one another regardless of race or sex. Else democracy rests on slender grounds, gets in- to conflict with itself every little that the beginning of con- struction of the combined Physics -Astronomy -Institute of Science and Technology Building should do much to improve faculty morale. The mathematics and astrono- my departments were cited as es- pecially critical areas. Niehuss pointed out resignations during the past year of "four of the top" professors in the field of theor- etical mathematics. He also noted the astronomy de- partment has been "gutted" by resignation of two top-ranking space experts-Prof. Leo Goldberg and Prof. William Liller. "Salaries are not involved," Nie- huss said. "We would not hesitate to match the salaries they would get at the other institutions. But there is a general feeling of a lack of progress at the University, a feeling that we are not going ahead without building programs and other necessary expansion. In Ann Arbor last night, Prof. George Piranian of the mathemat- ics department told of a classroom in the basement of the West En- gineering building where he taught last year that was so badly ven- tilated it was "insufferable" if the door was closed. Mathematicians Prof. Raoul Bott and Prof. Gail Young left the University last year for posts at Harvard and Tulane. -Daily-James Warneka SOUMALAINEN MEANS FINN -- Finnish cartoonist Karl Soumalainen keeps on defending his country-at-Russia's-back- door. His cartooning has moved the Soviets to official protests at times; he spoke at a University-sponsored lecture here yesterday. ARMS BRING PEACE: Cartoonist Sees Hope in War Threat N~iehuss Itquesi Greater Suppor- Says New Construction Projects Would Boost Morale of Faculty By THOMAS KABAKER University Vice-President and Dean of Faculties Ma L .Niehuss warned the State House Ways and Means ComI tee yesterday of a "feeling of frustration" among the fac due to a sense of "lack of progress." He urged the committee to restore the $500,000 cut I Gov. G. Mennen Williams' $35.8 million budget recommer tion for the University during the academic year 1960-1 Niehuss stressed, however, that he did not want to the impression that the University's faculty was giving and about to quit. He said" while and is constantly exposed to attacks." "Communism does not acknowl- edge the existence of any divin- ity," Suomalainen said. "In its coarse materialism it belongs to the mob of ideologies. Mankind's history means to It merely pro- duction and distribution. Its goal of life is well-being, and thus it does not essentially differ from the philosophy of life of cats and dogs. "According to its materialistic nature Communism tries to move the fight of ideologies to commer- cial fields. If we accepted such a challenge, we would in fact ad- mit that our goals are the same and that the difference is only in methods. Ideological Abyss "It is therefore important to bear in mind the ideological abyss that penetrates the fundamental questions and that divides the free democracy and Communism." If we have a clear picture of the grounds of democracy, we escape the danger of psychological fa- tigue in an ideological war, the cartoonist said. And in this psychological war, a cartoonist can, if he so de- sires, act on a wider basis than as a mere commentator . . . he is in a way comparable to a guer- illa who carries on his.one man's war. NCAA SWIM CHAMPIONSHIPS: '111M' Favored in Quest to Retail Dennard Labels 'Untenable' Local GOP Renewal Stand By ANDY HAWLEY "The Ann Arbor Republican Party holds what is essentially an untenable position regarding urban renewal," Richard Dennard, incumbent Democratic candidate for the City Council said last night. Dennard is opposed in the race for the First Ward seat by Mrs. Lydia Flannery. Their ward, in the north central section of the city, is the one most immediately affected by a rehabilitation program. "The Republicans say neighborhood improvement should be based on individual responsibility; that people should save their money and solve this problem," Dennard told Young Democrats. "They are absolutely opposed to any kind of federal aid, and ignore the second level problem-that of discrimination in employment and promotion," he continued. He insisted that in order to insure reasonable, organized im- provement of inadequate facili- ties, a disinterested distribution of a federal loan fund is neces- sary. Such a fund was availablelast year, he pointed out, when the Council's application to the fed- " ; eral government was accepted. STheCouncil voted to accept the a kaid, but Mayor Cecil 0. Creal's veto defeated the motion. Dennard said that under the planfor federal aid, interest rates on loans for neighborhood im- provement would have been five and one-half per cent; current rates on loans from private con- cerns are six and one-half to seven per cent, and possibly