IUncharmed of miligatt Daily Seventieth Year EDrrED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF TH UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 hen Opinions Are Fre Truth Wil Prevail ditorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Y, DECEMBER 15, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: KATHLEEN MOORE A S I SEE IT ..* BY THOMAS TURNER '.1*. ~t li PRESSURE continues to mount against the National Defense Education Act's disclaim- er affidavit. The five prominent educational institutions which refused to participate in the program when it was instituted have been joined by it least 11 others, all refusing to disburse funds while the student recipients would have to ign the "negative affidavit," swearing he does not believe in, belong to or support "any or- ganization that believes in or teaches the over- hrow of the United States government by orce or violence or by illegal or unconstitu- ional methods." This list reads like an honor-roll of Ameri- an higher education - Antioch, Goucher, 3ennington, Harvard, Princeton, Reed, Sarah awrence, Yale, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Ha- rerford, Oberlin. They are, of course, all private schools. Tax- upported institutions have thus far been un- animous in maintaining that they must con- inue to offer the funds for students willing o sign the affidavits. While deploring various degrees the in- ringements the affidavit makes on academic 'reedom, the administrations of the public in- titutions have maintained (in the words of he presidents of three of New York City's colleges) their "hands are tied." 1HERE ARE, however, only two possibilities: either one believes the affidavit is an insult o those in the field of education, and an in- fringement on their rights, or he does not. If he holds the former position, the college egent, trustee or whatever has no alternative ut to refuse to participate in the program. Refusal will be both the only alternative, and the only way in which he can be sure he AT THE MICHIGAN: A Soapy Saga With Sexy Sophia is doing his utmost to get the provision erased from the books. If he feels there is no insult, no danger, in the affidavit he will of course have no reason to withdraw. But to maintain that one opposes the affi- davit, but that the financial obligation to the students must precede any ethical obligation, is pure expediency. rTHIS IS where the University stands. The expediency has been clouded over by vari- ous pronouncements: President Hatcher's points that the University as a member of the Association of American Universities has pro- tested through the Association, that there was something unfair about Harvard and Yale dropping out of the NDEA program after agreeing to be represented on an AAU com- mittee to look into the area and that to be con-i sistent one would have to turn down Ful- bright and National Science Foundation loan funds, are all examples of "avoidism." So, too, Is the analogy presented by Regent Thurber at the last Regents' meeting, that for the University to object to the affidavit but continue in the program is comparable to a person objecting to any law but obeying it while it remained on the books. TPHE UNIVERSITY, like its fellow tax-sup- ported institutions, has surrendered ini- tiative to the privately-endowed colleges and universities in an area which should be of prime concern to all members of both groups. And in not joining in the refusals to parti- cipate in the program, the tax-supported schools have sabotaged the attempt to get the affidavit removed. ., ..:" ..:. s. r 6 -d gpv MT ;5 F r 'I 3~ 1 Y 4" - s. y . -. .:.: 00 . ; 59,M I We Poat re o mm " Cs, SLeuW Pos011)kW Herblodk is aimy due to ilkwes MAX LERNER: Ike Shows Little in India 'TI~AT KIND of Woman" asks the question, "Can that kind of woman find happiness with a simple youth instead of with her influential sugar-daddy?" To find out the answer to this vital question, run right over to the Michigan Theater, where So- phia Loren and Tab Huner, with Jack Warden, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn and George Saun- ders as The Man, are lending their various talents and abilities to this high-powered soap opera. Friends, let us not scorn that beleaguered genre, the soap opera, for it thrills without unduly arous- ing the passions, edifies the gen- eral public, and furnishes employ- ment for many actors, who other- wise might be on the welfare rolls. All kidding aside, this is a fair- ly good film. Almost everyone per- forms with the polish and skill that is expected from a group of professionals. This is not the greatest story ever put before a camera but it most definitely is not the worst. The woman in the title is an Italian immigrant (Sophia Loren) who has struck it rich with George Saunders, some kind of war-goods manufacturer and member of the decadent aristocracy. On a train from Miami to New York during World War II, Miss Loren meets TAb Hunter, a simple paratrooper. Slowly she begins to perceive that she is a bird in a gilded cage leading a life of sin. She is then faced with the dilem- ma of being either poor but happy, or rich and miserable. It goes without saying that the forces of good vanquish those of evil. , * , THE ONE blot on this movie's record is Tab Hunter, who is just plain inadequate. His boyish good looks are just not enough to keep him on the plane the other actors have established. One can only wonderhow much better this pic- ture might have been if it had had a stronger male lead. One thing is certain, however - it couldn't have had a much worse one. As Hunter's buddy, Jack War- den is a comic delight and a strong serious actor. Like Misses Loren and Nichols, he marvelously and deftly supplies the third di- THE OTHER SIDE: Gomulka 's Poland 'THE STATE Department's con- firmation of a New York Times report on the defection of a Polish Intelligence chief to the West provides new insight into recent maneuvers within the Gomulka government. "Colonel Monat, director of Po- land's military attaches, took his family to Vienna, turned himself over to United States authorities, and is living in the United States awaiting word on his position for asylum. His defection may prove one, of the most important in years. "So far the Polish government has been silent, and the silence may be ominous for the Polish peo- ple. Monat's defection coincided with the escape of two other Polish officials - one in Tokyo, the other in Paris. Gomulka realizes that the cases are symptomatic of the decay of Communist Party discipline. He is bringing back into power the pro-Moscow Stalinist Party thugs exiled or unemployed since the 1956 'bloodless revolution.' It was the dismissal of these Stalinists, that gave Gomulka his Titoist reputation in the West, and won him the dollars of the United States Treasury and the applause of Walter Lippmann." -The National Review mension that enables him to rise above the script's lack of the un- usual. Special credit must be given to Director Sidney Lumet for his many little directorial touches and skillful evocation of the war- time era. -Patrick Chester DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) business and industry who will inter- view students during the Christmas holdays. These are summer jobs. Com to the SAB, Tues. or inure., p.m. or Friday a.m. in Rm. D528. Personnel Requests: American-Standard Plumbing and Heating Div., has openings for two per- sons with an AB degree in Industrial Design, and four to Ave years of ex- perience in the industrial design of manufactured products. Position Is in Louisville, Ky. McKesson & Robbins, Inc., Chemi- cal Dept., Grand Rapids, Mich., is in- terested In hiring a Chemical Salesman, Sales experience and chemical knowl- edge both preferred but not a must. Alco Products, Inc., Schenectady, N.Y. needs for its Transportation Div. a. service Engr. BS in Mechanical Engrg. or Electrical Engrg. required and ex- perience in maintenance operations and customer relations desirable - but not necessary. Shiawasee County Girl Scout Coun- ci Inc. Owosso Mich. has vacancy for Execvutive Director of their Council available Jan. 1. Should have a BA de- gree and be interested in working with girls. Phillips Petroleum Co. Chicago I. is presently in need of several college graduates to fill positions of salesmen trainees in their organisation and would like to contact for interviews, marketing majors and others primarily interested 'in sales work. Feb. grads. Youngstown Sheet & . Tube Co., Youngstown,. Ohio, has the following openings for Men graduating, gradu- ated and military returnees: Mechani- cal Engrs., Electrical Engr., Chemical Engrs., Metallurgical Engr., General Engrs., and industrial Relations Per- sonnel Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., has vacancies for the following: Ana- lytical Chemists, Bio-chemists, Chem- Personnel, Inorganic Chemists, Mag- nesium Service, Mech. and Civil Engr., Metallurgists, Mining Engr,, Organic Chemists, Physical Chemist, Technical Service & Development, Technical writer, instrument Engr., Sanitary Engr., Production Engr., Physicist, vet- State of Michigan announices exam- inations for: Economic Analyst, Child Day Care Consultant, Information Clerk, Weights and Measure Inspector, Psychologist and Blind School Princi- pal. Closing date for applications for these positions is Jan. 6, 190. Three Rivers Commercial, Three Riv- ers, Mich., has a vacancy for a Report- er - a Feb. graduate. American Newspaper Publishers As- soc., Research Institute Inc., has need of a Training Asst. to instruct man- agement personnel at seminars and to train craftsmen as nstructors. Person would be someone who has dealt di- rectly with classroom teachers. Main function is to teach someone else how to teach. Job requires travel, approx. 50 per cent of the time. "Jurnalim" people, vocational teachers, and graph. ic arts craftsmen are not eligible. For further information concerning any of the above positions, contact the Bureau of Appointments, 4001 Admin. Bldg., Ext. 3371 or 509. Student Part.Time Employment The following part-time jobs are available to students. Applications for these jobs can be made In the Non- Academic Personnel Office, in. 1020 Admin. Bldg., during the following hours: Monday through Friday; 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Employers desirous of hiring students for part-time work should contact Jim Stempson, Student Interviewer, at NO 3-1511, Ext. 2939. MALE 8 Test subjects for Psych. testing pro- gram (Must be over 21, and available at least through June 30, hours be- tween 8:15 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ap- prox. 8 hrs. pr. week) I Psych. Soc. or Ed. major for child, care work. (Min. 32 hrs. per week) 1 Hotel desk clerk. (1:00-8:00 am. 6 mornings per week.) Applicant should be between 45-58 years -of age.) 1 Bartender (5:00 pm. to 2:30 a.m.) FEMALE I Typist (various hours) 1 Psych. Soc. or Ed. majors for child care work. (M. 32 hrs. per week) 1 Sit with convalescent :(full time). 1 Barmaid (10:30 a.m. to 5:00 pm) I TODAY AND TOMORROW The Indian Revolution (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of five special articles by Walter" Lippmann on India and the Middle East, from where he has just returned.) By WALTER LIPPMANN HE PRESSURE from China, about which I wrote previously, has come at a time when India's future depends on far-reaching deci- sions at home and among her friends and well- wishers abroad. There are great but subtle and extremely delicate decisions to be taken pri- marily in Moscow but also in Washington as to how to preserve the peace of inner Asia by the containment of China. There are also deci- sions to be taken, primarily in Washington but also in London, Bonn and Moscow, as to how he economic salvation of India is to be financed. But inside India there are decisions to be made which are no less momentous, and in this report I shall attempt to identify some of hem. The Indian republic is now about ten years nId, and it is still led and governed by the generation of its founding fathers. Of them the greatest, of course, is Nehru. The time has come when the founding fathers have no greater task or duty than to prepare the way for their successors. THE PROBLEMS which India must solve in the next ten years are enormous and they re urgent. They call for nothing less than a revolution in the economy of India, and this revolution, even with all the necessary foreign aid, must be carried out by a new generation which has young energy and fresh enthusiasm md sharp vision. When we speak of the revolution to which ndia is committed, it is useful, I think, to clarify the issue by saying that there are two objectives. One of these must be reached in about six years. India must be made capable of feeding itself before it is overwhelmed by the avalanche of its growing population. The second task can be achieved only if and is the first problem is solved. It is that of pre- paring India, in the course of the next ten or ifteen years, for the day when the country will have an independent and progressive econ- >my which can finance its own development by iormal commercial operations. THE TASK of feeding India is critical, and if it is not carried out, the human and poli- ical consequences will be dire. The task of leveloping an independent Indian economy is a spectacular objective, indispensable, however, f the free institutions of India are to survive n the competition with totalitarian China. Plans for meeting these two objectives are >eing formulated by the, old guard, by the generation of the founding fathers of Indian ndependence. But the plans will have to be arried out by the successors of the founding fathers. Now, it is not clear who these success- rs are going to be, and' they are not being LTER LIPPMANN I succession of power is faced fully and resolved boldly, it will, I venture to think, jeopardize the success, which will not be easy in any event, of the economic revolution. WHEN I RAISED this question with Indians, I was often told that India is a genuine, working parliamentary democracy on the Brit- ish model and .that it has like the British a very competent civil service. The system is such that it will provide for a successor government by the normal procedure of elections and of parliamentary democracy. This is true in the sense that India has political institutions of the Western kind which are virtually unique in Asia. I would not question the confidence of the Indians in the capacity of their own institu- tions to produce a succession were it certain or even probable that India can solve its prob- lems with a normal government constituted more or less in the British style. I do not, how- ever, think that the British themselves could solve their problems without radical political changes if they were faced with problems of the magnitude and the complexity of those in India. What troubled me was the disparity between the revolutionary objectives of the Third Five- Year Plan and the mildness, the almost Vic- torian mildness, and the normality of the Indian political system. I asked myself whether the gigantic economic revolution can be carried out by parliamentary politicians and civil serv- ants without the dynamism and the discipline of an organized mass movement. I DO NOT KNOW the answer to this question. But I have no doubt that it is the crucial question. For the solution of the basic problem -which is how to feed adequately the popula- tion-requires not only materials and the tools which money can buy. It requires also a revolu- tionary change in the traditional way of life of the Indian masses in their villages. I do not see how this revolution, which must go deeply into the Indian social system and the Indian culture, can be brought about by the persuasion of experts alone. I would suppose that it would require the organized pressures of a popular movement under government leader- ship so dynamic and so purposeful that it can inspire people to do voluntarily the kinds of things that in Communist China are done by compulsion. Such popular movements are always dan- gerous. They can get out of control. They can be exploited by demagogues and fanatics, and they can erode the kind of parliamentary democracy which India enjoys. I do not like the medicine, which in too big doses is a poison. But this would not be an honest report if I did not raise the question whether the strong medicine may be needed. I am afraid it is. For India does not have all the time in the world to solve its basic problems by the educa- tion of its masses and by persuasion. The essen- tie1 eAnomic nrnham minc+ hP CnaA wi+hin .a TEW DELHI-If the Administra- tion's ballistic missiles prove as mediocre as the speech President Eisenhower delivered to the two houses of the Indian parliament then heaven help America, both in war and peace. .Before the President left Wash- ington the scuttlebutt was that his advisers were looking frantically for some dramatic, concrete pro- posal he might make for Asia which would not cost too much money. Having given their all in this bargain basement quest they settled for a speceh that cost nothing and meant less. It had every unexceptional sentiment in the dull calendar of political vir- tues-praising peace, freedom, hu- man dignity and disarmament, and damning tyranny, poverty, racial prejudice and destructive war. If it is true as rumored that Kevin McCann contrived this par- ticular gem of piety and pap then he should be crowned emporor in the Kingdom of Platitude. Those who have listened to parliamen- tary debates in the Lok Sabha may reflect that the Indians merely got what they have themselves given, but the President need not have come 10,000 miles to enforce the principle of reciprocity in dullness. President Eisenhower would have done better to rely on his smile and charm exclusively and refuse to make a speech which showed up the poverty of ideas and medioc- rity of language of the advisers around him. * * * HELD IN THE joint chamber of both houses rather than in the familiar, picturesque setting of the lower house, the spectacle was im- pressive but formal and severe. Everyone tried to wangle a ticket, mostly without success, including a high American administrator who has done more for India than most ambassadors or dignitaries and whose request for a seat was not even answered. The press plane contingent from Washington got seats in the press gallery but only a few other for- eign correspondents could get in. I was one of the rejects meant to be kept out of this Eden by the flaming sword of officialdom but my fervor for the President's speechwriters' rhetoric overcame my natural timidity and along with a comrade reject who is a noted Hearst writer displayed my American private enterprise, got past six barricades of turbaned custodians lynx-eyed for every hapless and ticketless miscreant, and landed in the press heaven after all. * * * THE SPEECH was received with polite enthusiasm and frequently punctuated by that discreet strik- ing of desk with hand which con- stitutes applause. When the Presi- dent spoke out against "expansion in power at another people's ex- pense" and when he rejected the "settlement by force of interna- tional issues and quarrels" the applause was quick and spontane- ous It was clear that the shadow of Communist China's aggression lay heavy over the chamber. HOWEVER fiat most of the President's sentiments were, no one can doubt the strength and enthusiasm of his reception by the Indian people. Clearly this re- sponse -is not based on anything that he has said. Partly it is based on his own obvious sincerity and the glow of his good intentions. Yet I am convinced that the overwhelming response of the In- dian people is not so much to President Eisenhower as to Amer- ica itself. Both the Chinese and the Russians should take note of. this fact since it spells a major turning-point in Indian opinion. Had President Eisenhower come here two years ago, when the gleaming Panchsheel friendship with China still seemed uncor- roded, he would have had a differ- ent response. But he has come when the spell of illusion about China has been rudely broken and in turn the innuendoes and lies about American civilization have been shown up by events as in- nuendoes and lies. Hence the eager reception of the American President, as if a dam had broken and the stored up torrent of feeling can now pour out. A PERSON from America has come who is the occasion, not the cause, of this dam-burst. I cannot agree with Adlai Stevenson that the President has turned into a traveling salesman. He is a travel- ing symbol. But the symbol is not enough, nor can the flat, stale and unprofitable rhetoric of his parlia- ment speech be called good sales- manship. He had and still has a chance to make a dramatic concrete pro- posal for another -Marshall Plan, this time aimed at helping the undeveloped economies of Asia and Africa with our purse and skill. He had and still has a chance to pledge the enlistment of the. best American technical and ad- ministrative talents in coping with the triple scourges of underpro- duction, underconsumption and overpopulation which afflict these continents. But that would take boldness and hard thinking, which alas are in short supply with so much abundance of goodwill. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Writer Discusses Implications of Student Loans To the Editor: M R. SILBER terms the loyalty oath demanded by the Nation- al Defense Education Act "simple." It certainly is, but not the way Mr. Silber thinks. He writes, "What is so unfair about request- ing such an oath? To suggest that this simple loyalty oath hinders academic freedom somehow seems a bit absurd." Yes, it does seem absurd, Mr. Silber. But it isn't.M There is an assumption in giving a loyalty oath that the student being asked to vow can't be trusted. Otherwise why ask him to vow? * * * THE STUDENT asked to vow may: (a) believe in the violent overthrow of the government, or (b) not believe in the violent overthrow of the government. If the case is (a), and he lies, you to think fs the right to advocate. The right to think and advocate "dangerous ideas" is what dis- tinguishes the "free world" nations from those behind the "iron cur- tain." It is only a hop, skip and a short jump from asking a person to swear he does nor does. not believe in this or that, to the mid- night visitors of the police state. Go ahead, laugh. It aids your digestion. * * * MOST OF the students will fall into category (b). If they submit to taking the oath, they thereby help isolate those in (a) cate- gory. By avoiding the issue they make it rough for those who do not But if those in category (b) see though the "simplicity" of the oath, and have the guts to stand up for the hard-won freedoms of their Cons~tuon nthev willnnt dollars to the university unless Munsterberg was immediately deprived of his professorship. The "disloyal" professor prompt- ly wrote to the Harvard Corpor- ation, tendering his resignation if the graduate would immedi- ately remit five million dollars to the Corporation. The response of the Corporation was a public announcement: "It is now offici- ally stated that, at the insist- ance of authorities, Professor Munsterberg's resignation has been withdrawn, and that the university cannot tolerate any suggestion that it would be will- ing to accept money to abridge free speech, to remove a profes- sor or to accept his resignation." Mr. Sibler says the withdrawal of the universities from the federal aid progri.m "really" infringes on academic fredom. He is mistaken. They are protecting it courageous- an impossible statement. He wrote that this fight is "for what edu- cators have found convenient to call 'academic freedom." There is a clear implication educators are not acting on the principles they have publicly announced. $ Why, then, are these cash- starved -colleges turning down help? Self-destructive tendencies? Unreasonable aversion to the color green? To subvert the govern- ment? That's it! The colleges -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton - are subversive. Down with them! Why not? "When I hear anyone talk of culture I reach for my revolver," said Hermann Goering. He knew where the danger in a society was, by golly. Mr. Silber's chief argument is that a little loyalty oath is a small price to pay for all the academic freedom the loan brings. Let him remember that you can't buy back ant aspects of natural and physi- cal science research. A high school student in Mem- phis, Tenn., Robert Graham has a very curious, inquisitive scien- tific mind. His biology and physics experiments have netted many prizes at several science fairs. When he recently became inter- ested in the prospect of bacterio- logical life on other planets, he turned to his government for aid in his experiments. He received a. typical reply. The Department of Interior, who received his request for soil samples of very cold environments (He wanted to simulate the con- ditions on other planets), passed the buck to the Agriculture De- partment. They sent Robert a pamphlet on "Stubble Mulching in the Great Plains." Turning to the Soviet Union, Robert sent letters to Khrushchev _ , ttn Crtre Il+rtrs aof."n -J i