6 "And Now The Latest Returns On The Presidential Possibilities-" Seventieth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 own Jil 'when Opinions Are Free 'Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must b, noted in all reprints. ;NDAY, APRIL 10, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS KABAKER qjRA-a FE P SAT SFIEp AT HILL AUDITORIUM: Hail to the Victor- Unmelancholy Dane AS TO THAT HEADLINE: all I can say is that it wasn't my idea;' well, not exactly. Someone last evening in Hill Auditorium re- quested that Victor Borge work the Michigan song into, his impromptu rhapsody. He worked it and the Third Man Theme into most of the rest of the evening, often amusingly. The impromptu itself was actually interesting musically. It:was on an elementary level, of course, but entertaining. Seriously, a few such efforts, using familiar tunes, might serve a valid purpose in music education as an introduction to the process of thematic varia- tion. WITH REGARD to serious musicianship, though, Borge is a zero. Before intermission he made occasional darts and stabs at the piano, I Increasing University Size Offers No Feasible Answer PRESSURES on the University for expansion are mounting to nearly unbearable heights as application rates increase and qualified Michigan residents are turned down in grow- ing numbers. The University, unwilling to accept more 'students in its already overcrowded facilities, is now severely limiting the proportion of ad- missions to applications received, leaving many qualified students out in the cold for the first time in its history. Director of Admissions Clyde Vroman bewails the fate of the "average student" caught in this rising rat race, where First Step JOINT JUDICIARY Council has seen the light! After a recent policy meeting with the Faculty Subcommittee on Discipline, it has decided that students wishing to have wit- nesses present at their hearings "certainly should be allowed to have them there." Requesting a new and more liberal interpre- tation of the power of the chairman to allow witnesses into the hearings, the group asked that those connected in any way with either the case or the individual be admitted. Of course, this same power has been in the hands of the chairman since the creation of the Council, so the question of why this right was never used before might be asked. But better late than never. ONE MIGHT also wonder just how much of the normal procedure other than the cus- tom of closed meetings is merely a matter of "interpretation": what about the presence of the representatives of the deans' offices at hearings and the much maligned "double jeopardy?" Are these merely interpretations? If so, perhaps they too could be changed. But no matter how much remains that seems to deserve correction, Joint Judic de- serves to be complimented on its first step forward. -ROBERT FARRELL MAX LERNER: scare psychology and the influx of war babies have raised application rates by 27 per cent from last year alone. Out-of-state students declare that "Michigan accepts people by some kind of magic formula: one of the smart- est kids I know got a 2." or only a conditional acceptance. THE POSSIBLE results of this pressure could be devastating to the future of the Uni- versity. Increased selectivity may leave out the "average student. And University expan- sion to an even greater size could irreparably damage the education of the good student, already burdened with over-large classes and too many enormous lectures. If students are the "silent generation," it may be because they have been give no chance to speak be- cause classes are too large for discussion and the student-teacher contact is limited to writ- ing. Vroman's pleas for additional higher edu- cation in the state were founded in an ab- stract, and surely excellent concept of survival: the survival of America's right to be educated, and the national survival of the United States through increased education of its manpower. BUT THERE is a far more specific kind of survival involved. The survival of the Uni- versity as a first class institution depends on increased attention on quality and a more than verbal attention to the problems of increasing size. "We should have increased our freshman class by 12 per cent just to keep up with the population increase," Vroman said. But would increasing the size of the University have done anything for the new freshmen, who would be faced with even larger classes and more crowding, or for the prestige and quality for the University itself? If necessary, it seems that the choice be- tween increased selectivity and increased size can have only one educationally feasible an- swer. The merits of the University cannot be sacrificed to the needs of the "average stu- dent." --FAITH WEINSTEIN =no Y'Y 9t un fA4GA ~?~ WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Cubans Begin To Turn By DREW PEARSON The Visitor from Paradise CUBANS are now finding some sly, roundabout ways to express their opinion of Fidel Castro's communist alliances without vio- lating Cuban censorship. One method is to cheer and applaud any appearance of Presi- dent Eisenhower in the newsreels shown at Havana movie houses. This is matched by stony silence when Castro himself comes on the screen during Cuban newsreels. In each case, there are always a few dissenters who boo or hiss Ike and clap for Fidel. But they are so few that the contrast is sig- nificant. FURTHERMORE the practice has begun to get under the skins of government supporters. The other day, the newspaper "Revo- lucion"-organ of Castro's July 26 movement-ran a front-page box railing against "opposition 'heroes' who show their courage in the dark." After Castro and Anastas Miko- yan signed a Cuban-Soviet trade agreement in February, official propaganda started singing the praises of Moscow's "sympathetic attitude" so loudly that direct criticism became unwise, if not actually dangerous. But the manner in which polit- ically sophisticated Cubans are getting around that taboo turned up in a two-column, eight-inch advertisement published in the March 30 issue of "Prensa Libre," which is one of only two Havana dailies still operating independ- ently. The ad, placed by a wholesale grain-and-feed house, was headed "Remembering Marti." This re- ferred to Jose Marti, Cuba's na- tional hero, whose memory is as widely revered there as that of Washington or Lincoln in the United States. w . S QUOTING FROM a letter by Marti to the editor of Buenos Aires' "La Nacion," written Jan. 13, 1889, the text of the ad read: "The Russian will revive. He is a patriarchal child, blood and stone, sublime. He has wings of blood and claws of stone. He knows how to love and to kill .... Under his dress suit he wears a suit of armor. If he eats, it's a banquet; if he drinks, a debauch .... When he rules, he's a tyrant; when he serves, a dog . ..- The Russian eye gives off light -an eye that has something of flame and something ,of the Ori- ent, tender as a dove's, change- able as a cat's, cloudy as a hyena's ... He moves clumsily under his French cape, like bearded Hercu- les in child's clothing. With white gloves on, he sits down to the table where a whole bear's carcass lies steaming. Hero Marti's words could not be censored, yet their warning against Castro's new link with Russia was not lost on the Cuban people. Retired Brass Hats .. . IN the long parade of retired generals and admirals who are drawing down big salaries from big munitions companies, there is at least one brass hat who is out of step. He is Gen. "Lightning Joe" Law- ton Collins, the man who took Cherbourg with such speed after D-day and later became United States Army Chief of Staff. In- stead of drawing big fees from a big munitions firm, General Col- lins draws a modest retainer from the Pfizer Drug Company which has no defense contracts, and also spends a lot of time helping for- eign students get to know the USA. General Collins has now been elevated to Honorary Chairman of the Foreign Student Service Council, but he still gives time to this when needed, rather than to the munitions lobby., but not intimating that he might be about to attempt some- thing. This little interplay of an- ticipation and disappointment was a considerable part of his humor. After intermission he did attempt to play something; the disap- pointment unmingled with antici- pation was more pathetic than humorous. As a funnyman, Borge has at his disposal a large stock of old jokes, a supply of good standard responses to "audience participa- tion routines, facility at pace- changing, good hand and body gestures and a rubber face, and moderately good timing. As a wit he has a good eye for the almost absurd,'which, by ex- aggeration beyond the almost he builds into some of his best moments. The hand and seat banging rendition of Liszt seems to get at the bottom of the prob- lem of interpreting this composer. It indicates, among other things, how he antedated the tone clus- ters of Cowell. . * , NOT SUCCESSFUL were his at- tempted variations on Happy Birthday in the styles of diverse composers. Each was little more than a short excerpt from a fa- miliar work by the composer in question followed by perhaps two- thirds of Happy Birthday and a pair of shoulders shrugged in mock disgust. The best section of last night's Smorgas-Borge was one of the oldest. The name phonetic punc- tuation is self-explanitory. The period becomes "pffft" (but said with resonance); the comma, "kzzk"; the dash, "whsshht." Read fluently, with good timing and a gradual accelerando, this routine still came off well. Small wonder. After twenty-five years he should have it down pfft! -J. Philip Benkard New Books at Library Shannon, David A. - The De- eline of American Communism; NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1959. Taylor, Peter - Happy Families Are All Alike; NY, McDowell, Obolensky, 1959. Yee, Chiang - The Silent Trav- eler in Boston; NY, W. W. Norton & Co., 1959. CHESSMAN: Pity For Allt Involved "FOR ALL our science, we know so little of what makes or un- makes a human life. We only know that in every man there is a self, an inner being, that somehow, some time, may assert itself. We also know that legal systems and justice are not the same, and that even the best legal system is al- ways an approximation of justice. "We feel a profound pity for the men most directly involved in the Chessman case. We feel pity for 'Pat' Brown, this good governor who, despite his hatred of capital punishment, tried his very best to avoid acting on Chessman's behalf but in the end had to yield. We feel pity for this probably de- praved, rambunctiousman, Caryl Chessman. For too long he has lived in the limelight of death row. If he deserves life imprisonment, let us hope he will spend it in the obscurity of a penetentiary. "And let's abolish capital pun- ishment." -The Reporter DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Dailyaassumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWR EN 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. SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1960 VOL. LXX, NO. 138 General Notices President and Mrs. Hatcher will hold open house for students at their home Wed., April 13 from 4 to 6 p.m. Extra ushers are needed for the Hal Holbrook-Mark Twain Show on Tues., April 12. Anyone interested, please re- port to the East door of Hill Ad. at 7:30 p.m. 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. Applicants for the Joint Program in Liberal Arts and Medicine: Application for admission to the Joint Program in Liberal Arts and Medicine must be made before April 18 of the final pre- professional year. Application may be made now at 1220 Angell Hall. Look Homeward Angel, Ketti Fring' dramatic adaptation of the Thomas Wolf e novel, will be presented April 27-30 by the Department of Speech, 8:00 p.m. Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Tick- ets currently available by mail order only, to Playbill, Mendessohn Theatre, Ann Arbor. Patrons ordering by mail are asked to enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope with check payable to Play Production, and to express first, second, and third preferences of per- formances. Tickets $1.50, 1.10, 75c. Fur- ther information: NO 3-1511, ext. 3383 or 3048. June Teacher's Certificate Candidates All requirements for the teacher's cer- tificate must be completed by May 2. 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.. The office is open from 8-12 and 1:30 to 4:30. Recitals 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 beaccompanied by David Effron, Pianist and harpsichord- ist. Miss Scheldrup also will be assisted by Paul Tpper, violin; Jaice Miner, violin; Elizabeth Lichty, viola; and Marjorie Ramsey, cello. The program. will be open to the general public. Concerts The University Symphony Band, Wil- lam D. Reveli, 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.' Lectures Lecture: R. Sauer, Prof. of Mathe- matics, Technische Hochschule, Munich Germany will speak on - "Stability of Transonic Flows Past Profiles" on Mon April 11 at 4 p.m. in 311 West Engineer- ing. Lecture on the "Pathogenesis of Con- genital Malformations in the Mouse" by Prof. Hans Gruneberg, Department of Genetics, University College, Lon- don, England. 4:15 p.m., Third Level Amphitheater, Medical Science Buil- ing. Dr. Henry J, Meyer, Prof. of Social Work and of Sociology, speaking on "Caseworkers' Perceptions of their Clients". Tues., April 12, at 12:00 noon in the 4th floor lounge, Frieze Build- ing. Mathematics Club: Prof. William J. LeVeque will speak on "Binary Dio- phantine Equations", Tues., 4pril 12, at 8:00 p.m. in the West Conference Room, Rackham Building. Refreshments will be served. Graduate students are invited to attend. (Continued on Page 8) NEW DELHI-India is a country where any- thing can happen-and does -including the visit of a Chinese Prime Minister who is coming for a week's stay with neighbors whose territory he has occupied, to discuss the un- discussable, negotiate the un-negotiable, and smooth over the unforgivable as if nothing had happened. It is a surrealist country which makes out an impossible agenda for its visiting poten- tates, and exhausts them by shuttling them around a grand circuit of tombs, monuments, caves, temples, state farms, steel plants, and wreath-layings at the Gandhi Memorial. But the man who was invited to dinner and an after-dinner conversation, and who ended by inviting himself for a seven-day stretch, will not have to undergo the grand circuit. He will get a correct if somewhat cool reception, as befits an earth-shaker determined to vault the Himalayas and lusting for the role of the Moghul conquerors of India. And most of the time he will sit with Nehru, talking through a Chinese interpreter despite his tolerable know- ledge of Nehru's English and his somewhat better knowledge of French-talking, talking, talking, in his high-pitched chanting voice. WHAT THEY will talk about is clear enough from the logic of the situation. Chou is coming on April 19 to do actual negotiating, and Nehru's opposition in Parliament and the press is wasting breath by trying to hold him to his promise not to negotiate until the Chi- nese had agreed to withdraw., There will have to be give and take on both sides, since the alternatives are a war or con- tinued alienation between the two countries, Neither Nehru nor his Defense Minister, Krishna Menon, dares envisage a war. As for Chou and Mao, they do recoil from the idea of a bloody encounter. But they would rather get the half-loaf of their immediate aims, without a full-scale war and without outraging Asian opinion further, Can they get this half-loaf? They have a good chance. They muted their quarrel with Soekarno over the Indonesian treatment of overseas Chinese. They signed an agreement with Ne Win settling, at least for the moment, the boundary conflict with Burma. And they have just signed an agreement with Prime Minister Koirala of Nepal, who came to Peking to negotiate the border quarrels and get eco- nomic aid. Obviously Chou's whole strategy is to iso- late India, leaving it for the last, and-if there is no agreement on April 25-depicting it as the only intractable Asian neighbor. Nehru had a chance in the fall to make common cause with all of China's targets - Burma, Nepal, Indonesia, even Pakistan and Japan- and present a solid front to it. He scorned such a strategy as smacking of the system of pacts and alliances. This allowed China to make bi- lateral agreements. And it will make it hard for Nehru to answer Chou's argument that he is the only holdout. W HAT HALF-LOAF does Chou count on get- ting? Since he has built the road across Aksa-Chin in Ladakh, he will not surrender it. His troops have penetrated perhaps 75 miles into Indian territory. Having swallowed so much he may be generous about disgorging a little-but not much. As for NEFA, in the Northeast, the Chinese and the Indians may agree to create a demilitarized, de-adminis- tered zone roughly along the McMahon Line while a boundary commission works at demar- cating it. What this amounts to is a horse-trade of the Chinese gains in Ladakh for the McMahon Line in the Northeast. The Opposition would storm and the house of their wrath would fall around Nehru's ears. But he has repeatedly spoken of how barren and bleak the Ladakh mountains are, and how hard it is to know where the border is in Ladakh. Krishna Menon's now classic phrase-that India will not surrender any "administered" territory-has been tortuously reinterpreted, but its meaning stands: The Ladakh border is unadministered by India. He told me that the Chinese were foolish about building their Aksa- Chin road in secret-they might have asked India for permission, and something might have been arranged. Actually Foreign Office people have been saying the same thing. INDIAN OPINION is, of course, divided into a "hard" and a "soft" school about border policy. Nehru and Krishna Menon are in the soft school. The Opposition-including the Socialist leaders, Acharya Kripilani and Asoka Mehta, and the Rightist parties of Jan Sangh and Swatantra-all are in the Hard school. Partly they are moved by political advan- tage, but mainly by a conviction that Com- munist China has a Grand Design to harass, humiliate, undermine, subvert, and ultimately rule India as a puppet, in order to introduce it to the joys of Communist Paradise. Whether they are right or wrong, they do have a clear ~ ~r r.. --- ___3 T- .S-...L- - ._. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Discuss Picketing Objections To the Editor: AM WEARIED by persons who oppose anything just for the sake of publicity, and also those who speak out on a subject before they become informed about it. A possible example of such a person is Mr. Mahey who stated to The Daily (April 9, 1960) that he ob- jects to picketing and that it em- barrasses the community and the University. He also reported that the results of the Cousins Shop test cases are inconclusive in prov- ing discrimination in their serv- ice to Negroes. Several weeks ago Mr. Mahey reported rather vaguely to The Daily that after talking to a clerk in the Cousins Shop, he felt the test cases were unfair. So far he has heard only one side of the story. * * * I HAVE ATTENDED the meet- ings of the demonstrators and I have as yet to see Mr. Mahey there to suggest other means of protest against discrimination besides picketing; to talk to the persons who served as test cases to find out what transpired atkCousins when they tried to make pur- chases; and to talk to some, of the demonstrators to determine their personal reasons for picketing. Until he attends some of the meetings and becomes more in- formed, it seems to me that Mr. Mahey should keep his mouth shut because he is performing a dis- service to the demonstrators and their principle of nondiscrimina- Kodaly . . To the Editor: IN A REVIEW of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert of April 6 Mr. B. the reviewer makes some statements about Boltan Ko- daly, which clearly indicate that he is very unfamiliar with the subject. Mr. B. states that Kodaly, con- trary to Bartok, is not national- istic, and his music is foreign to certain extent to Hungarian tradi- tions. This is entirely false. There is hardly any Kodaly composition which is not based on typically Hungarian motives, or taken di- rectly from folk songs and folk dances. If Mr. B. does not recog- nize this fact, then it means that he does not have much familiarity with Hungarian music. WRITING specifically on the performed piece (Peacock Varia- tions) Mr. B. criticizes among others "miscellaneous intrusions" which smother the "little folk tune." If he wants to hear this theme without intrusions he should listen to Kodaly's choral work "The Peacock" (Felszallott a pava). The title of the composi- tion performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is Variations. This traditionally implies changes in rhythm, appearance of added melodies, and other modifications of the original theme. If he knew a little more about Hungarian mu- sic 'M'r.' B.would haiv recgnizePd (which is a usual device in varia- tions) the music may sound simi- lar to Chinese, but this doesn't mean that Kodaly had to go all the way to China to find melodies for his compositions. We also call his attention to the "little intruding melody" at the beginning of the finale which is considered to be one of the oldest Hungarian folksongs known (also in pentatonic scale). This may help to correct a wrong impression which might have been created by Mr. B.'s otherwise in- teresting review. --Peter Katona, '60 Marianna Katona, '61 The Thinking Man ,,,yy yyRR ..