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IN AMERICA:
'13Black Revolution'
Pushes Human Dignity
By JAMES SEDER
Daily Staff Writer
SOME day in the distant future, a historiai is going to write a book
entitled "The White and Black Revolutions: America's Contribtit on,
to Civilization."
The book will point up the parallels between the revolution fought
in the 1760's and 1770's to free the American colonies from the indig-
nity of colonial status and the revolution 200 years later to free
America from the indignity of discrimination.
The author will point out that it is more than a curious coinci-
dence that the sparks that finally set off both revolutions were bev-

kTURDAY, APRIL 9, 1960

NIGHT EDITOR: KENNETH McELDOWNEY


Civil Rights Legislation:
Dilemma for Conservatives

THE XVOLE dispute over civil rights puts
the conservative into a rather anomolous
position. There is a deep split between his na-
tural desire to prevent any undue expansion
of government, on the one hand, and his na-
tural dislike of segregation in any form on the
other. This split is present at all levels, from
student to national government.
On the local scene, the action Student Gov-
ernment Council attempted to take against
Sigma Kappa was seen by many to be an un-
warrented encroachment upon the rights of a
private organization.
On the other hand, the Council's letters of
complaint recently sent to southern governors
and those chain stores affected by sit-ins are
good and valid actions as an expression of
student opinion.
IN ANN ARBOR, many regard the actions of
the Human Relations Commission in charg-
ing the Cousins Shop with discrimination to be
undue interference action by a governmental
body. Again the feeling of the conservative
is that there are certain realms of private
property and business that government has no
right to encroach upon.
On a statewide level some conservatives have
supported fair employment legislation while
Ungentlemanly? -
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JOINT JUDICIARY COUNCIL recently
published a report of action take at
the meetings held between Feb. 10 and
March 24. The report mentioned that one
student had been found guilty of "con-
duct unbecoming a student-in that he
conducted himself in an ungentlemanly
manner."
Men, the message is clear-don't fail to
tip your hat to passing girls, particularly
Joint Judic members.

at the same time opposing similar provisos in
areas of private housing .
And nationally, of course, there is the con-
flict between government intervention in the
South as in Reconstruction days, and no fed-
eral intervention at all, as Southern reaction-
aries would prefer.
PERHAPS the answer to the problem mayj
lie in an examination of the functions of
government. If a government is to be of all the
people, certainly government itself cannot dis-
criminate against any of its constituents. And
such actions as Vice-President Nixon's com-
mittee to eliminate discrimination in business
done under federal contracts is a fair use of
government power to eliminate discrimination.
This ought also to extend as far as fair em-
ployment codes, now established in several
states, for economic discrimination is the most
effective way to create second-class citizens.
However, one would suggest such action should
not be opened to government intervention. For
it discriminates against a group in telling them
that they must live with, or even sell to, some
particular group. No categorical judgements
may be made, because this is no realm of ab-
solute standards. But much of it remains
private.
MUCH CLEARER is the area of civic rights.
No conservative would assert that any
state government that claims to be American
has the right to deny civil rights because of a
citizen's color. This includes voting, the right
to a fair trial, or equal prosecution for a crime
-in Southern states trials of whites for crimes
against Negroes are startlingly rare.
But government should restrict itself to in-
suring only such civil rights. Even if the ma-
jority of the nation favors Integration, there
still must remain minority rights. When gov-
ernment usurps these rights, no matter how
righteous its reasonsare, dangerous and evil
precendents will have been set. Further action
must be left to the private persons who want
more change.
--PHILIP SHERMAN

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MAX LERNER:
Nasser and Nehru

CALCUTTA-President Nasser, who covets
little strips of real estate belonging to his
Arab neighbors, is now traversing the vast
stretches of an India that makes his own
domain seem puny.
After the standard Delhi airport greeting,
the standard ride between lanes of people
transported by government buses, the standard
civic reception with flowery compliments, the
standard speech before a- joint meeting of
parliament, he is now being given the standard
grand-circuit treatment at steel mills, factories,
hydro-electric dams, shrines.
His reception has been friendly and warm if
not always fervent. He got a degree from Al-
gaxh University, a Moslem Institution currently
racked by an unsavory scandal of corruption.
A special performance of the Indian classic
Shakuntula was given for him, but the theater
was only half full. Having suffered defeats, he
is no longer the glamorous rising figure he
was after Bandung. He is only another of a list
of soldier dictators strugling with internal
economic problems while they talk big on
diplsmacy.
He got a few headlines and a scattering of
editorials. Compared with the men of power
streaming steadily through Delhi, his power
is less than middling. Besides, the seemingly
tireless cohorts of Delhi greeters were tired--
just tired.
ONE AMUSING episode happened at the
Joint parliament session.,"The irrepressible
House speaker, who has chronic foot-in-mouth
disease, made an eloquent oration.
When Nasser came last time, he said, he was
the head of Egypt. Now he came as the head
of Egypt and Syria. On his next trip he would
be the head of all the Arab world. There was
dark talk that Saudi Arabia would formally
protest, provided they could take the speaker
seriously enough.
Mostly.Nasser's pronouncements were on safe
topics like peace and Afro-Asian unity. The
South African massacre , came in for timely
and indignant comment. In his speeches he
continued to milk the Aswan Dam and Suez
issues, reviving his martyrdom at the hands
of Dulles and Eden and thanking India for
standing by him.
When he was shown a big hydro-electric
power turbine built by Indian engineers, he
commented that it would not take India long
to beat the Western nations. No one pointed
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out that India's development rae .< not with
the West but with China.
T HE FACT is that since the Bandung Con-
ference Nehru has drawn closer to the West
while Nasser still beats the old anti-imperialist
nag. Nehru in the intervening years has stuck
correctly and formidably to his policy of non-
commitment to either camp but Nasser's posi-
tive neutrality is ironic for a nation bristling
with Russian tanks and jets.
Nehru has preached and practiced non-ag-
gression but Nasser keeps his Arab neighbors,
Kassem of Iraq and Hussein of Jordan, con-
stantly on guard against assassination. Nehru
recoils from any concept of racist aggressive-
ness or of political communalism while Nasser
still tries to keep alive the tired battle cries of
Pan-Arab unity.
Nehru would be horrified at the idea of
absorbing the neighboring little countries of
Nepal or Ceylon, but since Nasser's last visit
he has dined royally on his sister Arab country
of Syria, although he has still not managed to
digest it fully. In fact he postponed his Indian
visit because of proconsul trouble in his Syrian
satrapy,
HAVE CITED enough diIlerenccs between
the two men to suggest why the Nehru-Nas-
ser axis is no longer what it was. I might add
that Nasser, who has hated Eisenhower ever
since the Sixth Fleet landings at Beirut de-
prived him of Lebanoti as an easy prey, could
not have been happy at Eisenhower's triumph
in New Delhi last December, nor could Nehru
have been wholly happy when Nasser broke his
promise to Hammerskjold about Israeli ship-
ping in the Suez.
Why then the continuing partnership be-
tween two leaders so diverse in personality and
outlook-the unlettered soldier with a quick
talent for diplomatic maneuver dreaming of a
Pan-Arab empire and up to his armpits in
intrigue, and the intellectual aristocrat veteran
of freedom battles, mentor of new nationalist
regimes, ambitious to be known in history as
the man who led a cold war to peace,
GOT A CLUE to the answer from an ir-
reverent Indian newspaper cartoon showing
Nehru and Nasser, each dreaming of himself
as an Atlas upholding the Afro-Asian world,
with the caption, "Two Minds with a Single
Thought." The kernel of insight here is that
each man has built his world standing on his
claim to a leadership extending beyond his
own domain. Nehru and Nasser are like two
girls after the same man, constantly together
because neither dares leave the other out of
her sight.
As for Israel, Nasser warily refrained from

WASHINGTON -- The cleavage
between President Eisenhower
and his chief Cabinet officer on
health benefits for the aged was
brought sharply into !Yeus during
a recent closed-door grilling of
INTERPRETING:
Bri tain
In Grave
By J. M. ROBERTS
A-, oiated Press News Analyst
O European advisory groups,
one of them including Canada
and the United States, have been
meeting in the past few days to
consider issues which are far
graver than appear on the surface.
The threat comes from London,
where fm- weeks officials have
been "leaking" the thought that
Britain will have to withdraw her
troops from Europe if the Com-
mon Market freezes her trade and
advancing political unity freezes
her voice in continental political
affairs.
Britain became frightened last
year over the extent of Franco-
German economic and political
cooperation, and by the Common
Market's aim to lower tariffs be-
tween its six members while erect-
ing a common tariff structure for
imports.
* * *
FUEL HAS BEEN ADDED to
the flames in recent days by the
Common Market's intention to
rush completion of the tariff wall
and by German Chancellor Aden-
auer's reports of President Eisen-
hower's support of that purpose.
All the old British suspicion of
Germany's reliability as an ally
has been revived, and the resent-
ment has now been extended to
France. With President De Gaulle
in Britain, the Financial Times of
London yesterday described re-
lations in that quarter as severely
strained.
Against that background, the
European Parliament, an advisory
body established after the war to
supervise economic and political
cooperation between the six-
France, Germany, Italy and the
Benelux three-met last week. It
continued its talk of eventually
becoming a political Parliament,
which is sufficiently frightening
for Britain, and voted approval
of the Common Market's tariff
speedup.
EUROPE WAS continuing to
move without Britain.
At the other end of the scale,
the 24-nation Economic Commit-
tee, fostered by the United States
in an effort to compromise the
differences between the Inner Six
and Britain's Outer Seven (Euro-
pean Free Trade Association), be-
gan its deliberation by organizing

By DREW PEARS
Health Secretary Arthur Flem-
ming by the Ways and Means
Committee.
The Congressmen knew that
Secretary Flemming had favored
a liberal plan of federal aid to
women over 62 and men over 65 in
need of hospital care. In fact, they
had understood he was privately
for the Forand Bill, which the
American Medical Association has
labeled "socialized medicine."
They also knew that President
E i s e n h o w e r had emphatically
opposed the Forand Bill. Finally
they knew that after various
White House huddles, Ike had in-
structed Flemming to. draft a
voluntary" health program for
the aged which would be handled
by the big insurance companies.
. . .
BUT THEY COULDN'T get the
embarrassed Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare to elabor-
ate on the differences between
himself and the President.
Isn't this so-called voluntary
program that the Eisenhower ad-
ministration favors really a sub-
sidy for private insurance firms?"
asked Rep. Aime Forand of Rhode
Island, author of the aid-to-aged
bill. "I would like a 'yes' or 'no
answer, Mr. Secretary."
Flemming hemmed and hawed,
finally agreed with Forand's con-
clusion.
"What happened at the White
House meeting?" pressed Demo-
cratic Rep. William Green. "We
have heard reports that you advo-
cated some form of the Forand
approach to helping the aged. It
that true? If not, what program
did you advocate at the White
House?"
"As you know. Congressman
Green, what transpires at White
House meetings is a matter of
executive privilege," replied Flem-
ming. "I am not at liberty to talk
about it."
Rockefeller To Speak
UNLESS he can be talked out of
it, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller will
begin next month to set forth his
views on major issues in a series
of speeches that will be highly
critictal of Vice President Nixon.
For the plain truth is that
Rockefeller dislikes and distrusts
Nixon.
The dynamic New York Gover-
nor is planning the speeches with
Emmet Hughes, former White
House aide who wrote Ike's
famous "I - will - go - to - Korea"
speech, but later broke with him
over foreign and defense policies.
Both Rockefeller and Hughes
believe Nixon lacks the vision to
lead the nation into the surging
new era which the Space Age is
opening up. They believe he is so
obsessed with what he is against
that he is incapable of construc-
tive, forward leadership.
* * *
THEY HAVEN'T D E C I D E D,
however, whether to make these
charges against him by name or
leave it to the newspapers to in-
terpret that Nixon is the target
of the Rockefeller speeches.

ON
take an honored spot on the Nixon
bandwagon, obviously he would
be in an awkward position to crit-
icize Nixon.
Rockefeller has assured friends
he would rather be Governor of
New York than Vice President
under Nixon. But some advisers
have urged him in the interest of
party harmony to keep peace with
Nixon and to deliver the keynote
speech,
Whether he will give in to the
pressure remains to be seen.
Doerfer vs. Durfee*...
NOW that President Eisenhower
has fired Chairman John
Doerfer from the Federal Com-
munications Commission for ac-
cepting yachting and fishing hos-
pitality from a broadcaster he was
regulating, it will be interesting
to see what the Democrats "do
about a CAB commissioner now up
for confirmation to be a Federal
Judge.
James R. Durfee, Chairman of
the Civil Aeronautics Board, also4
took an interesting hospitality
trip. He went in a special pullman,
to Pinehurst, N.C., Oct. 19-21,#
1956 as guest of the Flying Tigers
Airline and the Overseas National
Airline.
Some guests dubbed the junket
the "golfing, drinking, and inside
straight society."
On the junket was another CAB
commissioner, Hilmar Denny; also
Juan Trippe, head of Pan Ameri-
can Airways, and the deputy head
of MATS, the Military Transport.
Line.
PURPOSE OF THE TRIP was
to divide up part of the armed
forces transport business and give
it to the Flying Tigers, Overseas,
and Pan American. Other com-
panies who did not happen to be
along on the junket to Pinehurst
were left outside in the cold.
Nothing was heard about the
pleasant journey by private pull-
man at the time. But later, Sports
Illustrated inconsiderately pub-
lished a picture of "high-flying-
golfers." Now Commissioner Dur-
fee is being promoted ;to be a
judge on the U.S. Court of Claims,
and the Democrats are stuck with
the question of whether they're
going to apply the same hospital-
ity standards to Durfee as Ike did
to Doerfer,
Some of them say, incidentally,
that Ike might do this himself, by
withdrawing Durfee's name.,,
(Copyright 1960, by the feli syndicate)

erages-tea and coffee. At first
glance, the White Revolution be-
gan rather foolishly and inglor-
iously: the colonists threw a ship-
load of tea into Boston Harbor,
because they objected to paying
a minimal tax on the tea.
But the colonists's action were
neither foolish nor inglorious. The
colonists were fighting to estab-
lish the principle that they gov-
ern themselves. This, they felt,
was necessary to their dignity as
human beings.
IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED
that this White Revolution was
fought to relieve the colonies of
the oppression of George III or
the British Parliament's tyranni-
cal policy of "taxation without
representation." But it has never
been convincingly demonstrated
that the colonies were, in fact,
particularly tyrannized.
More recently an economic ex-
planation of the White Revolution
has become popular. In the earjy
part of this century Charles Beard
began the fad of interpreting
American history from an entirely
economic point of view. This
school has advanced many con-
vincing arguments, but it doesn't
explain everything, It doesn't
even explain Thomas Paine, Pat-
rick Henry or the Boston Tea
Party.
In order to tie up the loose end
in any theory about the White
Revolution, one has to include the
idea of a rebellion against indig..
nity. Not only can this be seen in
the speeches and writings of men
like Paine and Henry, but it can
be seen in the actual plans for
society drawn up by Thomas Jef-
ferson.
*9 *
T H E COMMON OBJECTION
offered to this point of view is
that at the time ofnthe Declara-
tion of Independence 25 per cent
of the nation was in bondage, 19
per cent were slaves and six per
cent bonded servants. But this
objection is not valid as it only
points out that the conception of
human dignity was severely limit-
ed and inadequate.
Time and a few great leaders-
Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roos-
evelt, Woodrow Wilson and Frank-
lin Delano Roosevelt were among
the greatest-continually enlarg-
ed that conception. Finally, and
more or less spontaneously, Amer-
icans began to realize that all
citizens were entitled to the legal
and social privileges of society;
the pursuit of happiness is the in-
herent right of everybody.
During this century, exciting
things began to happen. The
South was forced to educate the
Negro. In the North, fair employ-
ment, housing, and education acts
were passed-even voluntary open
covenent agreements were ar-
ranged.
BUT THEN a few months ago,
a group of young Negroes threw
tea once again into the ocean:
they decided that they were en-
titled to the dignity of drinking
their coffee sitting down like
everybody else. This set off the
Black Revolution. Before it ends,
this revolution will go farther
than merely ending some of the
more grotesque features of the
Southern segregation s ys t em.
Young revolutionaries throughout
the nation will demand and force
an end to all discrimination. The
enlarged concept of human dig-
nity that the pursuit of happiness
is the inherent right of everyone
will become self-evident as the
truths propounded by Jefferson.
This is the meaning of the Black
Revolution.
When "The White and the
Black Revolution" is written, the
author will probably conclude that
mass production and assembly-
line techniques were not the

unique contributions of America
to civilization. America will have
contributed to civilization its
greatest idea: human dignity.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1960
VOL. LXX, No. 137
General Noties
School of Music Honors Program: Ap-
plications now are being received for
the first semester, 1960-1961. Forms are
available in the School of Music office.
Deadline for receipt of applications by
the Honors Council, Fri., April 22.
Extra ushers are needed for the Hal
Holbrook-Mark Twain Show on Tues.,
April 12. Anyone who is interested
please report to the east door of Hill
Auditorium at '7:30 p.m. on" Tuesday.
All regular Lecture Series ushers are
reminded that this event is the 5th in
the series and was postponed from Feb.
27. Please be there,
Recitals
Student Recital - Ruth Biggerstaf'
will present a recital in partial fulflll-
ment of the requirements for the de-
gree Bachelor of Music in Aud. A, one
Sat, April 9 at 4:15 p.m. She will per-
form compositions by Beethoven, Cho-
pin, D Scarlatti, and Arthur Shepherd,
and her recital will be open to the
general public.
Student Recital: Louise Scheldrup
will present a recital of compositions
by Telemann, Vivaldi, Mozart, and
Hindemith, Sun., April 10 at 8:30 p.m.
in Aud. A. She will be accompanied by
David Effron, Pianist and harpsichord-
ist. Miss Scheldrup also will be assisted
by Paul ToppEr, violin; Janice Miner.
violin; Elizabeth Lichty, viola; and
Marjorie Ramsey, cello.

Concerts
The University Symphony Band, Wil-
liam O. Revelli, conductor, will present
a concert on Sun., April 10 at 4:15 p.m.
in Hill Aud. The Band will play com-
positions by Latham, Rossini, Creston,
Verdi, Mueller, Brisbin, Jacob, Bach,
Strauss and Sousa. Open to the general
public without charge.
Academic Notices
Social Work-Social Science Colloqui-
um: Dr. Henry J. Meyer, will speak on
Caseworkers Perceptions of their Cli-
ents" on Tues., April 12 at 12 noon in
the 4th floor lounge, Frieze Bldg.
Doctoral Examination for Rex James
Burbank, English Language & Litera-
ture; thesis: "Thornton Wilder: A
Critical Study" Mon., April 11, East
Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at. 3:00
p.m. Chairman, J. L. Davis.
Doctoral Examination for Anthony
Kallet, Psychology; thesis: "Differences
in Cognitive Processes Between Two
Levels of High Intelligence", Mqn.,
April 11, 6625 Haven hall, at 3:30 p.m.
Chairman, Daniel Katz.
Placement Notices
Personnel Requests
Community Consolidated School Dist.,
Glen Ellyn, Ill., has need for a Secre-
tary to the Supt. .
Firm in Ann Arbor Area has need of
a Salesman to sell Business Office
Equipment. Man, no degree specified or
necessary.
Central Foundry Div., G.M.C., De-
fiance, Ohio, has opening for Super-,
visor of Pattern and Machine Shop Op-
eration. Man with BSME or BSIE; Age
25-35; plus practical experience.
U.S. Atomic Energy Comm., Lemont,
IIl., and Oak Ridge, Tenn., and other
U.S. locations has the following open-
ings: Physical Science Admin., Organic
and Sodium; Project Repr, Geological
Engrs, and Mining Engrs. Reactor
Engrs., Physicists, Chemists; General
Engr., Scientific Analysts; and Physi-
cist. Call the Bureau for details and
location.
.Blaw-Knox, Co., offices in various
cities, has vacancies for: Design Engin.
eer, Detailers and Designers, Methods
and Tool Engr., Cost Estimator, Mech-
anical Engr., Technical Sales Engr.,
Manager of Mfg. Engrg., Mech. Design
Engr.,eEstimator, Piping Job Engr.Pipe
Checkers or Detailers, Pipe Hanger'
Engrs., Development and Research Met-
aliurgist, Sr. Development and Research
Metallurgist, and Research Metallur-
gist.
Bendix-Westinghouse, Evansville, Ind.
is looking .for two young engineers,
either Mechanical or Electrigal for open-
ings in the Engrg. Dept. and in the
Sales Dept.
State of Calif., Sacramento, is cur-
rently seeking to fill a number of
vacancies in the Fisheries BiologistaII
classification. Final filing date for ap-
plications is April 15th.
Detroit Arsenal, Center Line, Mich.,
has a vacancy for Supervisory Physicist
(General).
YMCA, Joliet, Ill., has a vacancy on
their professional staff for a Physical
Director for their Women and Girls'
division.
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochest-
er, N.Y., has various openings for Sec-
tion Heads, Project Director, Physicists.
Engineers of all types, Draftemen, Tool
and Machine Design, Chief Inspector
Procurement Engineer, Buyer, Adver-
tising, Sales Engrg. Call the Bureau for
details.
Kimberly-Clark Corp., Neenah, Wis.,
and other locations, has openings for
Manufacturing Trainees. Will consider
men with BS/BA or MS/MBA degree:
Chem. Engrs., Mech. Er~grs., Foresters,

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To The Editor

Disgusted *
To the Editor:
WAS quite disgusted by the
account of the recent "riot" in
the Club 600 of South Quad. What
type of students do we harbor in
the residence halls, anyway?
I am, in general, very much lit

the rioting students showed their
true natures. The main result and
purpose of the incident seemed
to be vandalism. What does de-
stroying furniture and stealing
cigarette machines have to do
with protest over the removal of
the television?