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 THE QUIZ PROGRAM SCANDALS: The Responsibilities-and What Now then Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions' of staf writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. )AY, OCTOBER 21, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: KATHLEEN MOORE Time Running Out For 'U' on Discrimination 'OURTEEN California college presidents have agreed to try to band discrimination in mpus organizations on their campuses by 64. This action is in keeping with a trend ward liberality which has shown itself in ucational institutions for some years. Affiliates attending the "liberal" Eastern hiools have bucked their national organiza- ins in selecting their members. Now university esidents in the West are fighting discrimina- )n. What is being done at the University? OR THE history-minded, a similar proposal agreed to try to ban discrimination in rsity's Student Legislature only to be vetoed University presidents twice in one year. iident leaders called the action regrettable; esident Hatcher didn't say much of anything cept "no," to the proposal. The Sigma Kappa fiasco last year has heated mpers to the point that any sensible action in is area will have to wait for some time. What action, then, can the University-a ±te-supported institution-take regarding dis- niination in campus organizations? 'OLICY to date has been one of going slow on the issue and hoping things will work themselves out. There is little doubt that in time things will work themselves out one way or another. But the University should take another stand on this issue rather than saying "We're up against it." It is no credit to an institution if it sits back and lets time run its course without doing anything to help move things along, THE FACULTY has shown ihterest in action as have the students. All that is wanting is a nod from the administraiton and the Re- gents. Although no Big Ten schools have adopted anything comparable to the California action, this is no reason why the University should not lead the way. There should be no place for discrimination. in a university community; and the University's policy seems inadequate to meet the pressures being brought to bear from various sources. The Regents shgould adopt a definite policy- which would call for the withdrawal of Univer- sity recognition from any organization, regard- less of the time it came onto the campus,, that restricts membership on the basis of race, religion or nationality. And the rest of the University should carry it through. This school should lead the way; we are now too many years behind. (Continued from Page 1) THEREFORE, if the entire show were to be held as an adver- tisement, to stimulate the sales of a commodity, the FTC could easily exert the necessary author- ity to handle quiz shows, as an infraction of the Federal Trade Commission Act, because of the failure to reveal the material facts pertaining to the representation that all is above board, notably that the show is "Fixed." Prof. S. Chesterfield Oppenheim, a member of the law school fac- ulty, and an expert in the field of Federal Antitrust Laws, feels that, contrary to Chairman Earl Kin- ter's opinion that the FTC now lacks the proper authority to police quiz shows, by the necessary interpretation of the Federal Trade Commission Act, all quiz shows failing to reveal the material facts that they are rigged, and deemed to be an advertisement, could come under the jurisdiction of the FTC. However, even if the FTC could police the programs, it would do so only after the networks had failed to impose self-restraints. The Na'tional Association of Broadcasters now polices the sta- tions throughout the country, giv- ing out equivalent seals to those of "Good Housekeeping," for keep- ing within proper bounds on ad- vertisements. BUT THEIRS is the subjective opinion of six men, tried and true, who, from their position of chair- men, could easily become a cen- sorship board, and invade the sacred province of freedom of the press and speech. Anyway, the National Association of Broadcast- ers is, of the moment, too pos- sessed with their innermost morals concerning the advertisements of personal commodities, to take on any battle of greater significance. Of late the NAB has refused or withdrawn its seal to stations carrying ads which are not within the bounds of "good taste," in- cluding those advertisements for hemorrhoid cures. This continued policing has brought many angry retorts from local stations, and might dull the initiative of the NAB to take on the larger net- works. a * * THE PROBLEM of internal reg- ulation lies with the advertisers and the advertising agencies, and not in the production of the pro- gram content of the show. How- ever, according to Kintner, the in- dustry has failed to combat the falsification of programs and com- mercials, and a threat is posed, "brought on by too much lip serv- ice to high principles and not enough diligence in enforcing com- pliance with them." The proper organization to encourage an ad- vertising code is the American Association of Advertising Agen- cies (the 4 A's), which does, at times, promulgate codes which are adhered to within the advertising fraternity. Assuming it can be effective, internal controls appear to be the best answer. However, the question of what can be done about the quiz shows resolves itself to the moot question of the necessity of advertising, and such is not the point for the in- vestigatory committee or the au- thor. The answer seems to lie in proper internal controls before the government is to enter the picture in the proposed "policing" role. THE FINAL question to the en- tire quiz show disturbance appears to be "So what?" What if the shows were fixed? Who was hurt? The "$64,000 Question" gave away $2,106,800 in cash and twenty-nine Cadillacs before CBS took it off the air on November 4, 1958, ac- cording to the New York Herald Tribune, and invites an investiga- tory committee to spend all of its time and the nswspapers to devote most of their space to its happen- ings. The parasitic Mafia sucks the bloodstream of Americans for bil- lions annually and receives no more than a glance from investi- gators. The reason for the investi- gations must lie in the desire for publicity, the mainstay behind the American politician. Publicity "made" Charles Van Doren; and well might break him, as well as the modern-day quiz show, but where will all of this stop? Frank Stanton, CBS president, has just announced that a ban has been placed on all deceits common to television, including the canned applause and laughter, and "spon- 1 t. ON THE AIR-The author (left) Is congratulated by a contestant after bringing his winnings up to $6,000. Sugar has noted that the girl (who missed two questions out of three) was only able to be in New York for one day. taneous" interview shows that are actually, rehearsed. This madness must stop somewhere before "Mav- erick" is taken off the air because he fires blanks, while critics holler "fix." The rationale behind quiz shows has never been anything but "en- tertainment," and the American public surely enjoyed just that. Then what is that is so bad about quiz shows, canned applause, etc? The bromide of P. T. Barnum is undoubtedly eschewed by network executives with integrity, that there's "a sucker born every min- ute," but there remains little doubt that now and in the future all of us adhere at one time or another to Mike Todd's statement that "People are impressed with big- ness, regardless of content." I -THOMAS KABAKEI Steel Strike: The Big Threat R [CHE DEED has been done. President Dwight Eisenhower has finally asked for the cooling f period in the steel strike. Now what? Steel workers will return to work, but noth- g has been solved. However,-let us hope that ow that the Taft-Hartley Act has been put to effect, the collective bargaining it allows me for will accomplish something. It is generally accepted that neither the un- n or management is completely in the right i this controversy - a situation usually true i all disputes. TOWEVER, up to now management has been egotiating with the union with one big trump ird up their collective sleeves - the Taft- artley Act. Now that this card has appeared out in the open, maybe the negotiators will get down to business and reach a fair solution. A bigger problem than the present negotia- tions now hangs over the horizon. If the talks get nowhere - and there are still no promises for an early settlement - Congress, and the people of this nation for that matter, may get so fed up with the mess that legislation may be passed that neither side will want - com- pulsory arbitration and price fixing. Some have spoken in veiled terms of nationalization of the industry. If management and unions don't become more reasonable soon, someone may have to take them by the hand and lead them to ac- cord. --JOHN FISCHER By Any Other Name .. . -.. .- Y=j " a,,, !! - y at. 4} ".17 'it'; Yr -. [AX LERNER: Is NehruIndispensable? TO *I Honestly . To the Editor: I SYMPATHIZE with poor people because there are many neces- sities they cannot afford to buy. I would defend a man that stole food or clothing because he was hungry or cold. I do not, however, condone stealing anything else. I had just completed three years of active duty in the Army when I came to this University. I was impressed by the high level of in- telligence among students as com- pared with the decidedly low in- telligence level in the Army. I have found, though, that some students at the University are no brighter than some of the morons I met in service. Last week a stu- dent stole my bicycle but he claimed to have "borrowed" it I never knew that "borrowed" is a synonym for stole. Today anoth- er ignorant student stole my bi- cycle. I was lenient with the first stu- dent that stole my bicycle. I could have placed him in jail but I let him go. Fortunately for him, I didn't catch the second 'thief. X sympathize with this poorer element in the University. .1 pro- pose that a collection be taken up so that we can give them bicycles- for Christmas. Yes, I really sym- pathize with their money prob- lems but I pity their ignorance. I pity even more the next student I catch with my bike. Lawrence L. Cutsinger, '63 Jazz.. To the Editor: IF ALL the drivel published on the subject of jazz in one year were laid end to end, it wouldi 'forma yellow page,'five columns wide, stretching from here to New- port, completely engulfling Free- body Park, and postponing panel discussions indefinitely. Didn't you omit the photo of Bud Freeman with his arm around Lennie Tristano? Please tell us fans when we can expect more of that ". . . jazz favored by Chi- cago," or maybe a reprint of that classic halftone of Duke Ellington wearing a sequined-and-satin suit, which also failed to appear in your anthology. You have scored a solid hit for the Kingston Trio. "Man," "like" I'll "dig" you "later," -Bob "Fingers" Molay ii DAILY OFFICI1AL BULLE~TIN NEW DELHI - With Nehru approaching 70 (his birthday falls on Nov. 14) there will be the inevitable question of what India would be without his leadership, who would succeed him and whether the nation would indeed survive as a nation. If ever the term "indispensable" had any meaning it applies to Nehru. As the leader of a democratic India his faults have often been discussed - a measure of vanity, a willfulness about his own perspective, a naivete about world communism as a naked power system, verbal fluency so great that he tends to take the word as the reality. But they are genial faults and are far outmeasured by a brilliant vision, energy, tactical shrewdness and charm that are rarely combined in a single leader, Rarely has so much in a nation so large hung on the thread of one man's mind and life. IDON'T MEAN that if anything happened to Nehru, India would be swept by violence and civil war, although unquestionably' there is a treak of suppressed hysteria and violence even n the peaceful Indian character. But the prob- ems are all around and they would mount - Food, landlessness and overpopulation, mass il- iteracy, superstition, rural backwardness, a >abel of tongues, a myriad of regional walls, he threat of Communism and (even worse) he rivalries and hatreds of Communalism, the ncrusted traditional divisions of language and religion, and most of all, the terrible shadow f passivity which history and tradition cast ver the present. The problems would mount and there is no ne on the political horizon of India today who ould deal with them and keep the basic trust f elite and masses alike as Nehru does. VEN INDIA achieved its independence, there was a group of remarkable national' eaders available, Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Raja- opalacharia, Jayaprakash Narayan., Gandhi was assassinated. Sardar Vallabhbhai 'atel, who was the practical man and boss of he Congress Party, performed-one of the hard- st tasks of the new nation when he managed o dissolve the princely states and pensioned iff the maharajahas and the nizams, mostly 'ithout violence except for the tragic attack n Hyderabad. But he too died in 1950. Rajago- alacharia, the last governor-general of India, s still in Madras, past 80, a bitter opponent of rehru and one of the founders of the new Swa- antra Party. Two other men have shown a capacity for boundaries to the various language groups in India. The announced splitting-up of Bombay. into two states is an instance. But Pant also is an elderly man and must husband his strength. THERE REMAIN two men, both in Nehru's. cabinet, whose names come up in most dis- cussions of his successor. The more obvious one is the Finance Minister Morarji Desai, who has been in London and Washiligton discussing Western aid to India. A former governor of Bombay, Desai was largely respnosible for the prohibition law which affects that state. He has great ability but is a colorless figure. On his arrival in Lon- don he was almost ignore dby the British press while Krishna Menon was surrounded by news- papermen. The second is Food Minister S. K. Patil, a newcomer to India's top governing group, who has the least enviable job in the whole govern- mental array. Under the present system India is fragmented into a number of 'food zones' in which controls can be imposed in case of emer- gency food shortages. Patil is determined to re- move these zones gradually and have a single all-India food zone and a single food-bank so that surpluses can be moved to deficit areas and controls imposed by the central govern- ment. But this would mean the overriding of the state governments and Patil knows it would mean making enemies. As a food minister he must also make enemies when he moves against profiteers. He has the further disadvantage of not being close to Nehru as Desai is. But I should not write him off. "rHE PRIME MINISTER," one of Nehru's colleagues has remarked, "is like an oak. Nothing grows under his shade." Certainly the great Indian national leaders were the earlier ones who flourished under Gandhi, and in the past decade few younger ones have grown to stature. The most tragic story is that of the split be- tween Nehru and Jayaprakash Narayan, whom I mentioned earlier. Educated in the U.S., Jaya- prakash came back to India a Marxist and worked with Nehru to build a socially conscious wing in the massive nationalist Congress Par- ty. But their paths parted. Nehru became increasingly absorbed with the burdens of great decisions while Narayan in- creasingly turned against what he saw as a too rapid effort at industrialization, a rigid bu- reaucracy, an inherent corruption, a neglect of +1% , AneYn ~r -rl fV 1-nm Hlerblock is away du~e to illness Com"K vlsbt 1q5 Te PllmerPub~lme CaG THE STATE OF THE STATE: Financial Woes Not Solved by New Tax Plan By NAN MARKEL Daily Staff Writer ANY DAY NOW the State Su- preme Court will tell the state whether or not its new taxes are legal. The decision on the emer- gency tax package created late last summer was expected by the middle of the month. It didn't come, and the hush with which it has been awaited all month has become an expectant panting. But although the tricky bit of patchwork looms all-important, it is not. No matter what the deci- sion, the state is. still a financial mess. Use and business activities tax returns have been coming in-still, yesterday State Treasurer Sanford A. Brown and State Controller James W. Miller said the cash crisis is worse now than it was last year when payments to the Uni- versity and Michigan State and Wayne State Universities were sus- pended. * * * THE STATE is in debt to the tune of $96 million, as compared to a general fund deficit of $21 mil- lion a year ago. And the new taxes will in no way ease this deficit, which one to Michiganders whose senses have been blunted with repetitions of crises and debits. Few blink now when it is said that local and municipal govern- ment is in serious difficulty be- cause it lacks the usual state aid. And it is not impressive to say the state already owes the public schools $30 million for this fiscal year, not counting $24 million still due from last year. * * * IT IS DIFFICULT to tell whether or not the University is numb to the problem. Yesterday Vice-Presi- dent for Business and Finance Wilbur K. Pierpont, along with officials from MSU and Wayne Statei demanded that the univer- sities' future finances be clarified. Pierpont told the state adminis- trative board, "Another black mark in this fiscal year could not be erased," and, "We suffered damage last year when our monthly share of state funds was withheld." When the universities did not receive their monthly payments at the State Ad Board meeting sev- eral weeks ago, the officials figured the payments would come at yes- terday's meeting. They went to Lansing to pressure for the pay- ments But the 6.5 million did not "future financial clarification," rests an assurance that funds will be found. No such faith is justified. The money will not come from taxes, at least not enough to bolster the deficit and at the same time allow for a hundred and one expenses,, of which the University is not the most important. Even State Treasurer Brown was no* as confident of the state's ability to pay the universities as were University officials. "We hope there will be sufficient money," he. said. All lobbyists in Lansing might stop agitating for their particular payments and start asking how these payments will be financed. They might discover this is a loaded question. The University will probably re- lease its budget request Friday.. There is a chance the state will never find the money to fulfill it, despite use and business activities taxes. , The Daily Official Bulletin is as official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which Tho Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form * Room 3519; Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1959 VOL. LXX, N O. 26 General Notices International Student and Family Ex- change: in Ems. 103 and 528 in the basement of the Student Exchange Bldg. on Wed., Oct. 21 from 7:30 to 9.:00 p.m. and on Thurs., Oct. 22 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Research Club of the University: First meeting for the year will be on Wed., Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. (Council at 7:30"p.m.) at the Rackham Amphitheater. Papers: Robert M. Thrall, "some Examples of Operations Research" and Rbert R. White, "The Institute of Science and ,Technology." Members only. Playbill1959/60:The Department fd Speech is now accepting mail Orders for season and single tickets at$6.00, $4.50 and $3.00; single tickets for the major plays at $1.50, $1.10 and 75c; major opera, $1.75, $1.40, $1.00; single tickets (general admission unreserved seating only). for Don Pasquale, $t.00; single tickets for the premiere per- formance of the original, 75c. Orders should include first, second and third preferences of performance dates. Checks payable to Play Production. Productions will include: horse Eats Hat ("An Italian Straw Hat") by, Eu- gene Labiche and Marc-Michel, Wed.- sat., Oct. 28-31; Don Pasquale by Doni- setti (With the School of Music), Thurs.-Sat., Nov. 19-21 Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, Wed.-Sat., Dec. 9-12; Das Rheingold byWagner (with the School of Music), Tues.-Sat., March 1-5; The Way of the World by William Congreve, Wed.-Sat., April 6-9; Look Homeward, Angel (if available), Ketti- Frings'aadaptation of Thomas Wolfe's novel, Wed.-Sat., April 27-30; and the premiere performance of an original play, Fri.-Sat., May 13-14. Orders should be mailed, with a self- addressed,, stamped envelope, to: Play Production, Box Office, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Mendelssohn box office open 10-5 start- ing Mon., Oct. 26. International Center Tea: Thurs., Oct. 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m., at the International Center. All students welcome. University of Michigan Non-Academ- ic Employees Local Union No. 1583, AFSCME, AFL-CIO will hold a regular meeting Thurs., Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. in Em. C204 of the Ann Arbor High School. Besides regular business including., se- lecting permanent stewards and offi- cers to fill vacancies, representative Douglas Cook will report on the Michi- gan State Employees Union Conven- _:t 1 I t