STUDENTS WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE See Page 4 L Seventieth Year of Editorial Freedom 441iit CLOUDY, COLD High--36 Low-&7 Continued cold; snow late tomorrow or Friday. VOL. LXi, No. 45 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1959 FIVE CENTS EIGHT PAGES 0 ernor ights e a1 ans SW, 4~GOP Agee On Progrram .. ::.a;}ti{: i":j;" \(}:::tl'}J:C.:\ i ' tv~~ G etY:Y ,. ... . .::.;.^ ' . :.i::".{\i :?rri":1:\' nT o C a s h " i. \:' " Senate To Set Republicans $72 Million Sees New Funds To Go to Schools Williams Says Universities To Get Appropriations if GOP Keeps Word By NAN MARKEL Fighting for support for a $110 million tax plan, Gov. G,. Mennen Williams warned Ann Arbor educators yesterday the public schools will receive "rubber checks" under the Repub-, lican tax proposals. State universities will see no cuts in appropriations this year - if Republicans follow through on promises to continue state services already provid-j" --,Daly-Thomas Hayden EXECuTIVE COMMITTEE-The new Student Government Council officers for the next term are shown around the Council table last night. Seated (left to right) are Nancy Adams, administrative; vice-president; John Feldkamp, president; Roger Seasonwein, executive vice-president; and Bill War- nock, treasurer. Feldkamp Heads SGC , By KENNETH MWELDOWNEYv and MIKE BURNS John Feldkamp, '61, beat out Phil Zook, '60, last night in the race for president of Student Gov- ernment Council. In the other offices, the Council chose Roger Seasonwein, '61, as executive vice-president Nancy Adams, '81, as administrative vice- president and William Warnock, '61BAd., as treasurer. Feldkamp was elected following a nominating speech by Jim Mar- tens, '6OBAd., president of the In- terfraternity Council. Stresses Roles In his speech, Martens stressed the role of president as being one that falls into three areas: chair- man of SGC, student body presi- dent and head of SGC administra- tion. Honor Soeiety Taps 'Squires' Know all ye citizens that all true knights must go through squireship go by starlight Know all ye citizens that many squires train by starlight to becomes sires Know all ye citizens your obligations for these men train to lead our nation Know all ye citizens by the Five Stars of SCABBARD AND BLADE Squires these men are: Trost, R. A. Major (honorary), Bodmer, C. E., Eick, J. D., Ehrnstrom, G. C., Fenske, F. J., Fillion, B. P., Frei- tag, W. W., Galazzi, S. P., Good-l rich, J. K., Hodgson, T. J., Hoops, F. K., Joose, S. P., Kissam, J. B., Kolod, J. R., Lee, J. A., Lunn, J.3 W., Mitchell, J. A., McGuire, J. J., Robson, J. E., Sutcliffe, W. G., VanderHyde, K. D. --THE FIVE] STARS HAVE SHONE.? In urging Feldkamp's election, he pointed but that in the position of treasurer he had completely re- organized the financial system of the Council. Martens. also spoke of the services that Feldkamp had performed on such committees as the one that compiled the recent Rules and Regulations Booklet. A The nomination speech for. Zook Hurst Cites Role of LawV Though usually thought of as a source of conservatism in so- ciety, law has actually helped in- crease impact of new ideas in America, Prof. Williard Hurst said yesterday. Giving the third Thomas M. Cooley lecture, the University of Wisconsin law professor described how legal processes have served as a channel for change. "We believed in constitutional (responsible) power in regular procedure and the legitimate claim of law to oversee all arrangements of power in our society," Prof. Hurst said. In this respect we were conservatives. "Also, however, we were ready to use resources we could mobil- ize through law -- tax monies, public property, creation of public franchises, the use of public force -to structure positively the social continuity. In this we were lib- erals." Law has worked four ways to create leverage for a sense of awareness and a direction in our society, Prof. Hurst amplified: Arming men to choose among legitimate courses of action; pro- viding legal channels of dissent; helpin gadvance knowledge and exploit its findings; and provid- ing a means for more rational law- making processes. "Force and Fruition" is Prof. Hurst's topic for the fourth Cooley lecture, which will take place at 4:15 in Rm. 100, Hutchins Hall. was given by M. A. Ryder Shah, Grad., a new member of the Council. In recommending his election, Shah emphasized the services Zook has already given through the offices held and ideas originated. Following his election, Feldkamp was handed the gavel by the out- going president, Ron Gregg, '60, and conducted the rest of the meeting.- Before the nomination speeches were made for president, Season- wein regretfully informed the Council that Al Haber, '60, will not now or in the probable future be a candidate for office. Haber, who is now interned in St. Josephs Hospital with an undetermined ill- ness, had previously been unde- cided about running for the office of president. Two for Office The contest for executive vice- president was between Zook and Seasonwein. Katy Johnson, '60, president of the Women's League, nominated Seasonwein while Miss Adams supported Zook with a seconding speech. In his election,. Seasonwein replaced Jo Hardee, '60, who resigned from the Council before the fall elections. Four Council members, Ron Bassey, '1BAd., Miss Adams, Lynn Bartlett, '63, and Zook were nomi- nated for administrative vice- president. However, Bartlett and Zook declined their nominations leaving only Miss Adams and Bassey. The seconding speech for Miss Adams was made by Tom Turner, '60, Michigan Daily Editor. Bassey was supported by Zook, the out- going administrative vice-presi- dent. Warnock was the only Council member nominated for the final executive post of treasurer. As a result of Council action his elec- tion was made by acclimation. SGC also voted last night to direct the manager of the Student Book Exchange to investigate the possibility of selling new textbooks as an expansion of present serv- ices. LANSING A'P) - Majority Re- publicans in the state Senate yes- terday agreed on a.72 and a half million dollar emergency tax pro- gram to meet Michigan's cash, crisis. The package calls for new or in- creased levies on cigars and pipe tobacco, cigarettes, beer, liquor and putting the sales tax on serv- ices not now covered -including telephones and telegrams. Sen. Frank D. Beadle of St. Clair, Republican majority leader,, made the announcement after a 24 hour Republican caucus., He said bills to carry the pro- gram into effect will be pushed ahead for a final Senate vote early next week. They would next go to the House. Expect Permanent Solution Beadle said the caucus agreed also to insist on its plan for a vote on an increase in the sales tax next 4year as a permanent solu- tion to state revenue woes. The nuisance taxes would remain in effect only until after the state- wide vote on a 4 cent sales tax in November, 1960, he said. Here is the stop-gap tax pack- age: A one-cent a pack increase in the five-cent state cigarette tax- 8 and a half million dollars. Beer Tax A tripling of the $1.25 a barrel tax on beer-14 million dollars. A tax on cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff and other tobacco products, excepting cigarettes, At 20 per cent of the wholesale price-4 million dollars. A doubling of the present 4 per cent exicse tax on liquor-6 mil- lion dollars. Extension of the existing 3 per cent sales tax to services not now covered, including automobile, ra- dio, TV, and house repairs, laun- dering and dry cleaning, but not professional services. -Daiy--Thomas Hayden STEPPING INTO CROWD-Gov. Wiliiaims steps down from the rostrum after his talk here today to answer questions. REFLECTS NATIONAL TREND: 'U' Engineeringy College Sees DegreeIncrease I ZBDT Drops Seven men Seven students at Michigan State University were ordered ex- pelled from the local Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, a member of the MSU chapter trustees reported yesterday. The seven had admitted taking part in an illegal hazing incident last Saturday the "State News" reported. MSU's IFC withdrew recognition from the fraternity's local chapter Monday, reportedly with the com- plete backing of the university president and dean of students. MSU has designated the former fraternity's newly constructed house as "approved housing" which will permit former members to live there. The "State News" said that ZBT needs 38, members to live in the house to break even. However, non-members of the fraternity can live in the house, and the "State News" said even before the hazing incident a few did. Campus opinion at MSU on the whole called MSU's action too harsh, and rumor has it that ZBT may be re-recognized by spring term, the "State News" reported. Editor Mary Huff reemphasized this was only rumor and that no IF official had commented on it. The students involved were Rob- ert Appel, and Irwin Elson, both of Detroit; Jack Kerner, Flint; Lloyd Wexler and Clifford Klein- baum, both of New York City; Lawrence Milman, Long Beach, N.Y.; and Lawrence K. Ginsberg, Baltimore, Md. To Give Tall About Poetry Drawing upon the experiences I By KATHLEEN MOORE The University's engineering school reflects nationwide upward trends in number of master's de- grees awarded and academic qual- ity of entering freshmen, officials here said. They commented on the "unex- pected 16 per cent jump in mas- ter's degrees during the 1958-59 academic year" recently reported by the United States Department of Health, Education and Wel- fare. Students receiving masters degrees numbered 6,761 last year. The jump compares an 11 per cent increase across the nation in 1957-58. Notes High Records The report also noted that, de- spite the "sharp 11 per cent de- cline" in freshmen enrollments in the fall of 1958, these students' high school and first-year college records were "higher than usual," indicating more of them will re- main in engineering to receive bachelor's degrees. At the University, 319 master's degrees were awarded in engineer- ing last year,.as compared to ,293 in 1957-58, Arlen Hellwarth, as- sistant dean and secretary of the engineering college, reported yes- terday. This is slightly below the national rate of increase. The diversity of graduate pro- grams and a growing stress on basic science in the undergraduate college were pegged by Hellwarth as fartors contributing to the size- able increase in master's degree programs at the University. Tends To Basics With expanding diversity in fields of study, the University's undergraduate "engineering cur- ric'ulum tends to be basic science and mathematics rather than practice courses," he added, mak- ing graduate study more impera- tive. Another reason for the rising, popularity of degree programs, he suggested, may be inherent in the "obvious improvement" in profi- ciency of the entering freshman for the last five years. As the reports noted, these stu- dents also have higher scholastic ability and less tendency to drop from engineering colleges. Although some decline in fresh- man enrollment has been noted across the nation. Hellwarth said it has been accompanied by a corresponding rise in physical sci- ence programs. The national in- crease in these areas, particularly physics and chemistry, has just about paralleled the decline in en- gineering enrollments, he noted. Generation Set To Publish Issue Today "Generation," the University Inter-Arts magazine, will go on sale today at the regular rate of 40 cents per copy. The magazine will be available in Angell and Mason Halls, at the Union, on the Diag and at all lo- cal bookstores. Guest contributor for this is- sue will be Prof. Geoffrey Hill of the English department, visiting lecturer and poet from England. ed for, the governor said. He added, however, that univer- sity appropriations in 1960-61 will not increase since "the growth factor in the Republican tax plan is clearly insufficient." Seeks Fund Cashing Liquidation of the Veteran's Trust Fund is the only way high- er education may "stagger from pay period to pay period," Wil- liams told the near-500 person crowd packed into the Union ball- room. Speaking after his prepared speech for benefit of the Univer- sity-oriented audience, Williams also told questioners the GOP $70 million tax program does not al- low for capital outlay for 1959-60 or 1961. In other words, the University will receive ,nomoney for new buildings, including the Institute of Science and Technology, he said. Barnstorms State Williams' quick talk here is part of a three-day barnstorming tour. He told educators in Kalamazoo and Bay City essentially what he said here: The $70 million cannot do the work of $110 million. "It is ridicu- lous to suppose that the Legisla- ture raised $40 million more (un- der the use tax) than the state needed." "After a little investigation," he said it is clear the $40 million dif- ference will come out of the schools, School aid comes from two sources, the school aid fund and the general fund. Tap General Fund "Because the school aid fund does not provide sufficient money to pay out the school aid formula of $205 per child less deductible millage, the Legislature has prom- ised that it will appropriate later an amount from the general fund to make up this difference," the governor indicated. The difference is $35 million. And it is this $35 million the Republicans seek to cut, Williams warned, because anx across-the- board cut cannot be made under law. Thus Washtenaw County schools will be short some $700,000 in pay- ments, the governor continued. School districts which fail to re- ceive funds will be forced to bor- row, if possible, and then bear the added burden of interest pay- ments, . he, said - "the kind of hand-to-mouth financing which has already cost local taxpayers a lot of money." Cites Two Errors Then he chastised the Governor for two "errors" made months ago by the Democrats. Finally, Sallade suggested Prof. John White of the political sci- ence department might learn more about the operation of state gov- ernment. Speaking from his seat in the audience, Prof. White had called Sallade "a flea on the Republican elephant." Calls Senate Roadblock The real roadblock to a tax solu- tion lies in the GOP-dominated Senate, where Sallade exercises no influence, Prof. White had charged. The Governor stepped to Sal- lade's defense, saying the profes- sor's attack had "no place in this discussion." "I haven't any influence over the Senate either," Williams la- mented. Share Responsibility Earlier, the Governor sat quietly on the speaker's platform while Sallade told him "I feel respon. sible for m9y share of the blame for the tax situation, and so should you." The Democrats' first mistake came last spring, Sallade said, when they refused to support put- ting a penny sales tax increase up to the voters in the April general election. "If the public had voted and supported the sales tax increase, we'd have $110 millions in tax re- turns. As it turned out, we passed a use tax program in August, and it was unconstitutional. No Income Tax Hope "After we failed to get together on that ballot issue, there was just no hope to get together on any in- cometax plan," he continued. Turning to the Governor, Sal-, lade proposed that the Democrats trade a few votes favoring a sales tax referendum next November in return for Republican support of an income tax plan -- preferably the Sallade plan, which would take one per cent of each individual's gross adjusted income. "How about a compromise," he asked Williams. "Maybe you and I should get in your car, go back to Lansing, and do it." Following Sallade's speech, Wil- liams told the audience, "Mr. Sal- lade always has something inter- esting to say to us." Both Parties, Governor Hit By Sallade By THOMAS HAYDEN Rep. George W. Sallade '(R-Ann Arbor) was at his irregular, best yesterday as he jousted with Gov. G. Mennen Williams and a Univer- sity political scientist. The local Republican, who splits often with his own party as well as the opposition, spoke impromp- tu in the Union Ballroom, "wel- coming" the Governor's party on its speaking tour of the state. Agreeing with Williams, Sallade criticized his GOP colleagues for insisting Michigan needs only $70 -million in tax returns for the rest of fiscal 1959-60. I SPEAKS TO YOUNG'DEMOCRATS: Black Asks Law Revision By ARNOLD SAMEROFF "The quicker we get at the job of having a constitutional con- vention, the quicker we'll get on the road out of this mess," Judge Eugene Black of the Michigan Supreme Court declared last night. In an address before the Young Democrats, Justice Black spoke on the "History of the Constitutional Convention." Next to dealing with the financial crisis, Michigan's most serious need is for a revision of its constitution, he said, indicating the present constitution, ratified in 1908; has too many restrictions for efficiency in the legislative branch of government. Justice Black gave a short historical survey of the attempts to alter the present constitution. In the 1948 elections a proposal to have a convention passed by 200,000 votes. However the State Board of Canvassers decided the proposal had not passed because the number of votes for it did not represent the majority of voters in the entire election since more people voted for governor. At that time Justice Black was the Republican Attorney General of T~ihirAn14v. nri hrmiaht, +1,a 4...,,.. hanr +1... ..J,.J. Cyrrr~a! 3 1 t t 1 1 r 1 Williams Tastes Union Food Religion The many aspects of religion's changing role in the modern - a:: s: :"ati. t: ,. .. .. .. ....: ti :t ..... SEII