PETITIONING VALUE NOT SEEN A Seventieth Year of Editorial Freedom :IaitF CLOUDY, WARMER High--60 Low-35 Scattered showers expected near nightfall. See Page 4 rjvj~ L~N'i~ ~J~& YAL*W.~b m Vnr. LX. * Noea, . 27- ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1959 FIVE CENwTS SIX PAGES I , Y vl1. auatst ,div. O WO Hannah Backs Branch Colleges 0 MSU President Urges Expansion In Areas with Sufficient Students By. The Associated Press.. ! Envisioning a continued growth of junior and community colleges in Michigan, Dr. John A. Hannah, Michigan State University presi- dent, declared recently they should be given every encouragement to increase capacities and. enrollments. "We're not carrying the torch for a lot of branch colleges," Hannah commented. But "the ideal situation," he asserted, "would be to have a junior or community college in every area of the state that has enough students within driving distance to Legislators Meet Await, - Tax Decision LANSING (P) - Michigan's stop-and-go Legislature, still awaiting Supreme Court word on the use Isales) tax increase, con-- fined itself to odds and ends for four hours yesterday and quit un- til Oct. 29. Acting Chief Justice Leland W. Carr said yesterday the State Su-, preme Court will hold a confer- ence today to consider the use tax case. But he did not promise a final 1decision.. No Decision Promised "I suppose the matter will come up in the usual way," Justice Carr said. "An opinion or opinions may come down or may not." The brief legislative meeting produced these, main develop- ments. 1) The Senate, reversing a pre- vious decision, approved qualify- ing Michigan for $4,100,000 in benefits under the National De- fense Educatioi Act. House agree- ment next week will be needed to clear the bill. 2) Ar additional $9,000 was vot- ed to finance an investigation of State Highway Department land- buying practices led by Sen. John, H. Stahlin. (R-Belding). Set Study Groups 3) Set up 11 more special study committees to look into assorted problem areas, including unfair trade practices in the dairy indus- try, public pension system, high- ways and state fiscal reporting. 4) The Senate passed and re- ferred to the House a bill to bring Michigan law relating to unem- ployment compensation into con- formity with federal statutes. State Predicts 'U' To Receive Payroll Funds Though the State Treasury was emptied Tuesday, Acting Gov. John B. Swainson said yesterday, "We anticipate we will be able to pay the universities next Tuesday in the full amount we owe them.:" "Sales and new 'use tax collec-. tions for the month are just ar- riving," State Treasurer Sanford A.Brown added, assuming these will provide money for payment to the universities. He promised that if other state payrolls are met, the. University's needs will be met also. Brown said the universities told him they could operate until Oct. 28 without state money, so their 'allocation was deferred. The Administrative Board met Tuesday and distributed the $9 million in the State Treasury, in- cluding 41/2 million for today's state payroll. Appraising the -present financial picture, State Contrqller James W. Miller commented, "We have a X 100 million deficiency in cash and the situation is steadily deterior- ating." 'r he Administrative Board will meet again next Tuesday, at which time allocations to univer- sities will again be considered. Members Tap New V ulcans Mighty Vulcan, holding court on his forge, Mt. Aetna, sat em- '+i v,.3 a+ m n , mimen of hit h- support it." Establish Branches Michigan State and the Univer- sity have both expanded into the branch college business in recent years.t Some legislators have expressed alarm over the growing trend- their main concern is the added drain on tax dollars. And the legislative study com- mittee survey of higher education in Michigan directed by Dr. John Dale Russell came out in opposi- tion to the wholesale spawning of branch colleges. Sees Adequate Number Hannah emphasized that he saw no need for more than three major state universities offering courses for graduate degrees in the state. "The most sensible 'thing," he said, "is to have the brightest possible people think through on what kind of a program of higher education would best serve the citizens of Michigan in the next 50 years., So far, there has been a lot of talk but not much has been done about it."' The future of branch colleges, he went on, would probably be decided by the Legislature or by an over-all planning committee for higher education.' Should Begin Task "If the decision in Michigan is to be that existing institutions are to assume responsibility for the development of branches offering work at the junior and senior level in conjunction with locally spon- sored junior collees where addi- tional four year colleges are justi- fied, we should be getting at that task," Hannah said. s The current problems of higher education, he continued, should not be settled on a piecemeal basis, since an emergency situation of increased enrollments resulting from the, high birth rate during the war years of the '40's is al- ready facing the universities. The main question demanding an answer, Hannah asserted, is how to coordinate the state's edu- cational institutionsso that there will not be a 'duplication of effort. Foresee More Enrollments All educators foresee a tremen- dous increase in college enroll- Inents by 1970 because of increase, in school-age population, higher level of prosperity and require- ment for college training in a variety of career areas. Grand Rapids is actively plan- ning a new four-year college. Both the University and MSU have been approached as possible spon- sors. The Saginaw-Bay City-Midland area wants a college of its own. Other communities have similar ambitions. . Among well-established colleges, the trend has been to reach for university status; there has been a concomitant mushrooming of jun- for and community colleges. AT SGC : Feidkamp Proposal Postponed By MICHAEL BURNS Student Government Council yoted last night to table a motion to establish a committee on "re- striotive" practices. John Feldkamp, '61, treasurer, in moving to establish the com- mittee, said he expected it to be a fact - finding body which would gather information from various sources such as Interfraternity Council and the administration, for the purpose of recommending to the Council specific action to be taken concerning discrimina- tion. This committee would consist of five Council members and would submit a monthly report to SGC. Ron Bassey, '61, moved to amend the motion to include the presidents of Panhellenic Associa- tion and IFC in the composition+ of the committee. Asks Objective Work Feldkamp further declared that the committee should not include vested interestsbut should work objectively toward recommenda- tions. He did say that interested groups would be coiitacted and asked to present information and suggestions to the committee. James Martens, '60BAd., IFC President, urged the committee to consider the whole problem logi- cally, not to just argue their per- sonal feelings. He also supported the inclusion of Bassey's amendment because it would allow affiliates to present the committee. Requests Clear Aims Al Haber, '60. asked that. the committee's aims be clarified be- fore establishing it and that it be decided whether the group was a fact-finding or policy formulating body. He agreed with other mem- bers that the group should co- ordinate its efforts with IFC and Panhel. The new Regulations Booklet was finally approved, ending sev- eral weeks of dicsussion. The question of whether recog- nition of a fraternity by SGC was recognition of the local or the na- tional organization was clarified. Tom Patterson, '60, Union presi- dent, explained that SGC recog- nizes the local but also realizes that it is part of the national group when it approves the fra- ternity. In other action SGC considered a motion to suggest to the admin- istration that impounding of bi- cycles as a corrective measure to the parking problem be stopped. Group To Talk About Welfare The second meeting of the seminar group discussing "Social Security and its Relationship to a Free Economy" will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Honors Lounge of the Undergraduate Library. Prof. William Haber of the eco- nomics department will lead the seminar sponsored by the SGC Reading and Discussion Com- mittee. The primary book for the semi- nar is "The Affluent Society." The 'ieeting, which is open to the public, will begin with ques- tions on the notes from the first seminar. These notes are available in the main lobby of the Under- graduate Library. Court Suspends Injunctiou Steel Committee Questions 'U' Rental Policy Urges Positive Moves Against Housing Bias Vice-President for Student Af- fairs James A. Lewis received a letter yesterday from the executive committee of the Ann Arbor Hu- man Relations Commission saying it "is interested in a more positive (University) policy towards land- lords who discriminate on the basis of creed, color or national origin." Copies were sent to University President Harlan Hatcher, the Board of Regents, and Ellen Lewis, '60, chairman of the Student Hu- man Relations Board. The letter referred to a policy which permits Ann Arbor land- lords to post "for rent" notices on University bulletin boards if they do not contain discriminatory restrictions. No Follow-Up It is not the University's policy, however, to follow up these notices, checking whether or not discrimi- nation is actually practiced. The executive committee letter said that the Human Relations Commission" continues to receive reports of discrimination by land- lords who have the privilege of posting vacant rooms and apart- ments on University bulletin boards." The specific case cited in the letter involved a Negro woman student who rented an apartment through a notice posted at the Dean of Women's offices. Paid Deposit She went to see the apartment, agreed to rent it, paid an $85 de- posit and was given the key. Several days later she received a call from the landlady who said her husband had previously rented the apartment. Return of the key was asked, and a refund of the deposit was promised. The refund was not received for several weeks, the letter noted. "By this action on the part of the landlord she was not only humiliated and discouraged but put to the additional expense of long distance phone calls, the letter continued. According to the executive com- mittee, this landlord is permitted continued use of University facili- ties to advertise vacancies. "In view of the stated policy of the University of non-discrimina- tion in University housing .. . the executive committee of the Human Relations Commission would ap- preciate a meeting at your con- venience to discuss appropriate action with the proper University officials," the letter concluded. Richard J. Mann, a member of the executive committee, said he thought the move fell within the investigatory powers assigned to the committee. TALKS ABOUT RUSSIA: Bryan Cites Desire for Aloneness By CAROL LEVENTEN "The 'oppression of one room' is the greatest problem of the Rus- sian people today," Julien Bryan, photographer-journalist and 12- time visitor to the Soviet Union, decided. "There are five million people in Moscow and four million of them live in one room each; they cannot stand this. There is no sense of being alone-even to read a poem," Bryan said recently. He is in Ann Arbor as tonight's first speaker in the Platform At- tractions Series. Privacy a Symbol The wish for privacy becomes a symbol of every thing desirable, especially to the students, who have no home life as such and accordingly are almost forced to find privacy-and personal identity -in going to parks and walking alone, Bryan explained. "You see them everywhere-so many thou- sands all keep walking up and down." He attributed this to the singu- lar history of Soviet values. Even before the military comes propaganda, he said, and personal considerations are inevitably at the bottom ofthe pyramid: even a college professor, who makes five times as much as a worker, will be unable to find proportionately better housing. "They don't even use steel in their apartment houses!" he said, -Play Series To Open With 'Madwoman' Strike Judge Grants Needed St USW Must Appeal Within 24 Hours To Prevent Order To Continue; -Daily-Jim Warneka POLAND PHOTOGRAPHER ARRIVES--Julien Bryan, traveler and photographer, gives personal views of Russia and tells of his experiences in Poland. He will speak at 8:30 tonight in Hill Aud. The speech department series of admission-free one-act plays will begin with act two of Giradoux's "The Madwoman of Chaillot" at 4 p.m. today in Trueblood Audi- torium. The play is a philosophic fan- tasy-comedy, featuring chats with non-existent dogs and individuals addressing absent audiences. Giradoux asks (and answers) the question of how evil is to be met and greed dealt with in his development of the "madwoman," a frumpy manager of a Paris cafe in the Chaillot neighborhood, who gets involved with plutocrats con- spiring to dig for oil under Paris. Set in cafes and cellars, the play has been analyzed as Giradoux's reaction to the war economy; it was written in 1939. His charac-_ ters are type-symbols in curious juxtaposition - he pictures the insane and the misfits as saving the world and the normal element of the population as predators. Other up-coming one-acts in the weekly series include Moliere's "Les Femmes S a v an t.e s" a n d. "Rouge Atomique" by N. Richard Nash on Oct. 29 and Chekhov's "The Boor" on Nov. 5. "Rosen- crantz and Gildenstein" by W. S. Gilbert will be featured Nov. 12. almost irascibly. "And you can; drive 200 miles without seeing a paved crossroad." Bryan first went to Russia 30 years ago, and returned from his{ most recent visit last week. . "I was very young, handsome and thin then; I went with a friend, Morris Hindus, a great ora- tor and writer, who was born in a Russian peasant village and we spent two months visiting his relatives," he recalled. Punctures Notion He punctured the widely propa- gandized notion of the superior- ity of the Russian student. "Nine- ty per cent of them don't go on to college and many of those who do have a terrible time with cal- culus and flunk advanced physics," he said.. "Absurd educators come back with absurd reports," he suggest- ed. Students go to school at a great sacrifice, "living on 30 dol- lars a month," and do so "in the hope that if they're very brilliant they'll make four or five times the average wage," Bryan explained. Russian propaganda convinces students that the Soviet govern- ment wants them to study in the United States but that we won't welcome them, he said, suggesting thta "if everyone were sent out as an exchange student, half would probably defect." , 'Like College Yell' "Like giving the old college yell to the football team - very col- legiate and adolescent" was Bry- an's description of the govern- approximated, and commented that if a Russian farmer has "his own house, an acre of land, a cow and a pig or two, he's called a capitalist - and can never make enough to survive." Bryan, who will give an illus- trated lecture on Poland at 8 p.m. tonight in Hill Auditorium, was the only foreign correspondent in Warsaw during the 1939 Nazi in- vasion. He took extensive photo- graphs of its results and returned last year to trace his original sub- jects. Recalls Trip He recalled being surrounded by 300 journalists and photographers when he arrived in August, but "by the fifth of September they'd all left. "Frankly, I thought I'd run like hell - and maybe I stayed only because I was actually cowardly. Now, I tend to talk about it all like a civil war veteran," he re- flected, and said that he wa~s ar- rested on the average of four times a day. He has given his films and stills 'of this period to the archives of the Polish government, and has also compiled them in a book and documentary film, both titled. "Siege." PITTSBURGH (R) - A United States District Court Judge yes- terday issued a Taft-Hartley in- junction to halt the 99-day steel strike for 80 -days. However, a stay of the injunc- tion was granted by the United States Third Court of Appeals - meaning that the strike continues. The injunction was issued by Judge Herbert P. So g of ; the United States Distric, Court in Pittsburgh. The United Steel- workers Union immediately ap- pealed. Within an hour. Judge Austin Staley of the United States Third Circuit Court stayed execution of the injunction until the three- judge circuit court can hear a United Steelworkers' appeal. Judge Staley said the union had challenged the constitutionality of a section of the Taft-Hartley Act granting courts the right to ban strikes. He added, that the con- tention merited further explora- tion. Must File Appeal Staley said that the legal papers for the appeal must be filed by. to- day or the stay will be voided. However, if the appeal is filed the stay will be in effect, until the court rules further. Judge Staley said his stay would remain in effect until i.0 a.m. to- day. "After that it will remain in effect until the Third Circuit Court rules," the jurist added. Court Will Sit Judge Staley declared the cir- cuit court will sit today in Phila- delphia to accept the union's ap- peal. Thy union counsel, Arthur Goldberg, earlier had indicated the USW was prepared to act im- mediately. Staley said he felt sure that the circuit court judges would arrange to hold a hearing on the appeal quickly. Goldberg said Judge Staley's de- cision would be "an important de- cision for both the industry and the union." Government attorneys objected to a stay of execution. Judge Staley recessed court about 3:45 p.m. and promised a decision within a short time. Law Centennia To - Feature Justice Harlan as Speaker i 7 t' 1 l . J .i I i I t SGC SPONSORS DISCUSSION: _..._. Speculate on 'Place of God' in ment's enthusiasm for its agricul- Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court John tural system. Harlan will be'the featured speaker at the Law School CentenniE "The collective farms I saw in convocation at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Rackham Lecture Hall. Siberia this summer were poor and inefficient, hersaid. An Amer- The three-day Centennial will begin today and will' include a ican farmer produces probably five dresses by visiting dignitaries. Gov. G. Mennen Williams and, I times as much as a Russian, he Hon. John R. Dethmers, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Cot are slated to speak at a lunche tomhorrow afternoon at the Uni / 'ballroom. (However,' Dethmers presently hospitalized and'it not known. if he will attend.) toderClt rGriswold To Talk loder culuff Following this, Erwin M. Gr. wold, dean of the Harvar~d L School, will discuss "Frontiers A dapt tion Legal Education," at Rackham. M end nhal Ass rtsThe outlook for' federal-stE Mendenhall Asserts Adaptationrelations and individual liberty 41111 "the next cerntgry will be discuss Of Religion to Cultural Changebe, Hon"JohnR. Boy . Uni1ted States Circui* Jud By STEPHANIE ROUMELL (Houston, Texas) and Ralph Rapoport Denies Role of God In Moderit Thought, Culture "God cannot play any serious role in culture, and it is a mistake to try to make him assume such a role," Prof. Anatol Rapoport said recently in introducing his views on "The Place of God in Culture." Speaking at the faculty symposium under the auspices of the SGC reading and discussion committee, Prof. Rapoport said the more clearly God is described the more preposterous He seems. Faith and ethics are indispensible "even to the most rigorously scientific thinker," Prof. Rapoport averred. "But neither need be bolstered by divine authority." He noted that there are several "acts of faith" upon which he h.e- hi life "Whatever else it may be, religion is certainly, in almost all cases, man's hope of salvaging something of permanent value in the midst of change," Prof. George Mendenhall of the near eastern studies department said yesterday at SGC's faculty symposium. Religion has continually faced crises and has adapted itself to ithe most far reaching changes in culture, the professor continued. "And presumably it will continue to do so." Prof. Mendenhall said his meaning of the word god is radically a4-f . mn.r nnnwot' ."TProf. Ranonort begins his concept Carson, a New York attorney. Judge To Speak Browr will speak tomorrow 9:30 a.m. and Carson at 10:45 a at the Rackham Auditorium. The Right Hon. Lord Har Shawcress will also speak tom row at a banquet in the Un ballroom at .7 p.m. on "The R of Law in World Affairs." University President H a r I WMAHMM