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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1953
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BOOK REVIEW:
Why Did They Kill?
WHY DID THEY KILL, by John Bart-
low Martin, Ballantine Books.
BACK IN NOVEMBER of 1951, the "Morey
case" ended with the conviction of three
local young men for the murder of a nurse
on Washington Heights Avenue in Ann Ar-
bor. During the three months, when the
case was "hot copy," there was much editor-
ial comment in this newspaper and else-
where about the possible implications of the
case; there were the usual cheap true-
detective magazine articles; later came the
election campaign speeches in which the
case was used in some manner.
But it has remained for John Bartlow
Martin, recent biographer of Adlai Stev-
enson and "one of the best non-fiction
writers in the business" to synthesize the
truths and falsehoods of the case and to
come as close surely as anyone has to the
infinitely complex factors that led to the
mallet-slaying of Pauline Campbell. Al-
though I understand that local people on
both sides of the case find substantial
flaws in Martin's interpretations, if the
book errs at all, it is perhaps overly soft.
It is a much more thorough account of
the case than the condensed serialization
that appeared last summer in the Satur-
day Evening Post; it is first-rate report-
age and certainly up to the .very high
standards of the rest of Martin's work.
The facts of the Morey case briefly were
this: one warm Saturday evening in Sep-
tember of 1951, William Morey, 18; Max
Pell, 18, both of Ypsilanti; and David Royal,
17, of Milan were out driving in Pell's car.
Having consumed a case of beer between
them, they were cruising in the hospital
area of Ann Arbor when they, spontane-
ously or otherwise, suddenly decided to at-
tack a young nurse, alone on the streets,
allegedly in order to rob her. In a matter
of minutes, Morey had left the automobile,
and trailing Miss Campbell down the street,
struck her in the darkness with a mechan-
ic's mallet. Miss Campbell's body was then
apparently dragged toward the car, and her
purse was taken; whereupon the three' fled
in the car, their victim dying a few mo-
ments later.
Four days later, in the middle of an im-
passioned manhunt, a tipster finally led
police to .the three assailants. Morey and
Bell, it turned out, had also been respon-
sible for a similar non-fatal attack on a
nurse earlier the same week that Miss
Campbell had been killed.
At their trial six weeks later, Morey and
Pell were convicted of first degree murder,
and David Royal of second degree murder.
Morey and Pell are serving their sentences
at Jackson; Royal at Ionia Reformatory.
But those were only the bare outlines.
People began to recognize that if murder-
ers could spring from families as appar-
ently sound and respectable as the Mor-
eys, the Pells, and the Royals; if crimes
of violence could breed in the atmos-
phere of "uplift" and "child-care con-
sciousness" common to the communities
of this county, then inventories ought to
be held, attention ought to be paid.
While Washtenaw County was staring at
its reflection in the muddy waters, the case
grew to national importance. Martin gives
these reasons for his own interest:
- "I wanted a case involving boys in whom
any of us might recognize our own children;
parents in whom we could recognize our-
selves. Only in that way could the story have
a wide application-could it extend beyond
the single case itself and get at some of the
fundamental problems and weaknesses of
our world as a whole, and more especially
of the way our world rears its children. I
thought this of the utmost importance be-
cause only then could the story stand a
chance of throwing some light on such gen-
+ MU
ALTHOUGH the weather last night had
apparently little effect on the large
number of local chamber music enthusiasts,
they had cause to wonder whether it might
have tempered the performance of the Stan-
ley Quartet at the Rackham Lecture Hall.
Although stormy might be a somewhat harsh
description of the opening Serenade in G
for quartet and double bass by Mozart, it
was, to say the least, turbulent, and at the
risk of being trite one is forced to observe
that Eine Kleine Nachtmusik was not very
"kleine."
Notwithstanding the impression impart-
ed by the program notes for the Minneap-
olis Symphony (by which this music was
most recently played here), this was writ-
ten for quintet, and it is still my conten-
tion that this is the best medium for it.
However, the Stanley Quartet, together
with Clyde Thompson, gave it turgid pro-
portions exceeding those of the orchestral
transcription. With the first measures it
was apparent that they were playing with
more gusto than usual, and the first move-
ment was brought to such a pitch of ex-
citement that it incited spurious applause
in the audience-which is a rarity at these
concerts.
This style of playing caused frequent dis-
tortion of balance between the players, with
eral questions, and thus perhaps perform-
ing a real service.
"The Morey case happened. I went to
Ann Arbor and looked into it. It seemed to
be what I had been looking for-a crime not
readily explained by any of the standard
'causes' of juvenile delinquency, a crime
that by all the rules should not have hap-
pened but that did happen.
"I think it was probably the most diffi-
cult story I ever worked on , -.-
John Martin's conclusions about the
Morey case are too complex to be stated
in detail. In simplest terms, however,
the answer to the question he states in
his title is that murder occurred in Ann
#Arbor because two factors came together
-a psychopathic personality and a de-
linquent society.
As Martin indicates, these factors-the
Morey personality and the development of
the society-are intricately inter-related.
Psychoses are not produced in a vacuum. If
maternal over-protection and a distorted
set of values help to breed them in an in-
dividual, it is idle to believe these are the
private mistakes of a single family. They
represent whole patterns of a society.
Although this may seem subtle and a
little beyond remedy, the surface picture
presented of Washtenaw County, "the de-
linquent society," is not. Here the records
of official neglect and social hypocrisy
clearly emerge between the lines of Mar-
tin's restrained, unsensational narrative.
It is this portion of the book which is still
resisted by top officials, which still meets
the frozen denial of the best citizens. One
group, in fact-the Ypsilanti Chamber' of
Commerce-reportedly considered bring-
ing suit against Martin for false renre-
sentation after the publication of the Post
series on the case.
I presume they do not appreciate Mar-
tin's asking, for example:
"What of the responsibility of a 'leading
citizen' who . . . condoned the boy's drink-
ing? What of the responsibility of the ta-
vern keeper who sold beer to the boys?
What of the responsibility of the gang of
rowdies whom (Morey) ran around with?
Of the authorities that didn't arrest them?
Of the parents who protected them? Of the
businessmen who once raised a fund to pro-
tect a young delinquent because he was a
promising athlete? We are all involved in
this. Roadside signboards, radio and tele-
vision commercials urge people to drive fast
and to drink. Are we surprised that kids do
drink and drive fast?"
Still Martin, in what he has omitted,
may have been kind to Washtenaw Coun-
ty. He is not a viewer-with-alarm and he
likes to think of Washtenaw County as a
typical cross-section of the country. Pos-
sibly that is not true since Washtenaw
County should have all sorts of initial
economic advantages that other areas
do not have. But whether or not the lo-
cale is "typical," Martin has written per.
ceptively about people living in a parti-
cular environment. It Is perhaps enough
to say that the accuracy of his facts and
the "rightness" of his descriptions can be
vouched for throughout by anyone who
has an acquaintance with the principals
of the Morey case. Having such an ac-
quaintance, I believe he has done a fair
and accurate job.
As for the final meaning of the Morey
case, that is subject to anyone's interpre-
tation. Martin has brought the raw mater-
ials to those who are interested. Many will
see why the Morey case should have been
raked up once more for examination.
Some few may gain a new sense of the
kind of town, county, and maybe even the
kind of world they are living in.
-Bill Wiegand
SIC +
intonation completely foul, leaving an ex-
tremely bad impression of the entire work.
Whether this impression was carried
over to the next work, Milhaud's First
Quintet (1951) for quartet and piano, is
difficult to say, but the mood of the Mo-
zart seemed to have been sustained in the
opening movement. I do not pretend to
comprehend the complex texture of poly-
tonality (simultaneous melodies in differ-
ent keys), but this movement did nothing
to further my understanding.
The second movement was somewhat less
chaotic, with a fugal style seeming to offer
some justification for the entrances of the
different tonalities. The third movement,
still slower, exhibited a sincere and deeply
felt emotion, and was, in its simplicity, the
most readily ejoyable.
The final movement was in the mood
of a jolly rondo, enploying the French folk-
lih- themes which are Milhaud's wont to
use. So far as I could determine the per-
formance did the composition justice, in-
cluding some rather tricky piano passages
neatly accomplished by Benning Dexter.
After intermission the members of the
Stanley Quartet settled down to some ser-
ious playing, as applied to the last of the
three quartets in his opus 59 which Beeth-
oven dedicated to Count Rasoumovsky.
What had been bombast in the first half
On Price
Controls
WITH WEDNESDAY'S lifting of the re-
maining price controls, the Eisenhower
administration ended a notable stage in its
efforts to free the national economy from
government shackles. The next few months
should tell the tale of its success or failure.
So far, the gradual removal of controls
over a six week period has not upset
prices nor resulted in the economic disas-
ter which many critics were predicting.
It is encouraging that the automobile in-
dustry, a key industry in our economy,
did not hike the prices of cars when the
controls went off. Most stable consumer
goods such as meat and milk cave also
remained at usual prices.
The cautious decision of the administra-
tion to remove the controls gradually has
prevented any mass hysteria on the part of
both merchants and consumers that might
have arisen had the controls been lifted all
at once.
Some merchants, of course, have taken
advantage of the removal to up their prices,
and others will probably follow suit. Reli-
able economists predict, however, that given
a little time, all prices will level off of their
own accord.
The Government is now relying on in-
direct controls, such as taxation, credit
controls, and restrictions on government
spending to curb inflation. Direct controls
had been imposed in January of 1950 to
curb the inflationary pressures brought
on by the Korean War. Now that the
economy has become more stable, these
controls have become dead weight which
are not 'ecessary to retain.
On the other hand, if, after a few months,
stabilization does not occur as expected, the
nation's economy could suffer a serious set-
back. Rising prices would necessitate a rise
in wages, and the United States might be
caught in another inflationary spiral which
could damage both the war effort and in-
ternal peace and order.
The Administration, having foreseen
this possibility, is taking steps to combat
any sudden skyrocketing of prices. A bill
is being considered in the Senate which
could grant the President special powers
to slap on controls for 90 days in case of
any national emergency.
It would be wise to have some such safe-
guard in the event that prices get out of
hand as a result of unforeseen economic
pressures.
--Freddi Loewenberg
Subversion?
NEWSPAPERS HAVE the habit of bury-
ing stories which reflect the asininity
of our times on their inside pages.
If by chance someone stumbled across
the following article it might have re-
sulted in a momentary reflection.
Monday, six members of New York City's
municipal colleges were fired. The reason
-they refused to answer questions put to
them by a Senate investigating committee.
They were asked if they had Communist
Party affiliations.
The interestipg thing about this story
is the total insignificance of these men
in their profession. Two were physical
education instructors. Two taught Eng-
lish, two were clerks in a 'registrar's of-
fice.
One needs the most exaggerated Swiftian
imagination to see how these six men could
subvert our entire educational system and
all the students within it.
-Mark Reader
DREW PEARSON:
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
WASHINGTON-A Congressman's back-
ground at the time he's elected usually
crops out in Congress after he's elected. The
background of Harold Velde, who now wants
to probe churches as well as schools, is a
case in point.
Velde was elected with the financial
backing of the gambling-liquor fraternity
around Peoria, Ill., one of the toughest
areas south of Chicago, near which he was
a Tazewell County judge. During his first
election race in 1948, one of Velde's cam-
paign managers had this significant con-
versation with Harry Neumiller, presidernt
of the Hunitube Manufacturing Co.
Mistaking Harry for his brother, L. B.
Neumiller, president of Caterpillar Tractor
Co., Velde's representative asked for a cam-
paign contribution. Harry Neumiller de-
clined.
"You better think that over," replied
Velde's representative. "Don't forget that
Judge Velde sits on the Tazewell County
Court and has a lot to say about setting.
taxes for the county. Don't forget that
the Caterpillar Tractor Company's pro-
perty is all in Tazewell County."
"You happen to have the wrong man."
replied Harry Neumiller. "But if you think
blackmail will get a campaign contribution
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tette,'j TO THE EDITOR
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and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or
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MATTER OF FACT
By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP
(Continued from Page 1)
BUT NOTHING but a complete air defense with a 100 per cent kill
rate will fully guard our most vital defense industries-the atomic
production plants. More importantly, an air defense that is merely
effective, with a kill rate of 70 to 80 per cent, will still leave our huge
urban population in considerable danger. Hence the need for the
additional civil defense program, which can bring up the global total
of spending for insurance against air-atomic attack to a fantastic
$22 to $27 billion.
The civil defense problem was carefully studied by another
major government research group, Project East River, which co-
ordinated its work with that of Project Lincoln. Presumably the
civil defense program now before the Security Council is based
on Project East River's findings, scaled down to take account of
Project Lincoln's promise of effective but not complete air de-
fense. It is understood that providing deep shelters for the urban
population and special protection for key industries are the main
outlays proposed.
President Eisenhower may decide' after all, to buy air defense
without civil defense. On the surface, it seems essential to provide
protection for the people of our cities when one in every five attackers
is expected to reach his target. Failure to buy civil defense looks like
taking one chance in five that the population of any given city will
experience the fate of Hiroshima. In fact, however, the chance taken
will be far smaller. For the odds against an attack being delivered at
all will rise steeply as our air defenses are improved from their present
sorry state.
This grim arithmetic does not alter this additional civil defense
program's very great significance. In effect, the air defense program
may be regarded as the culminating symbol of the great choice his-
tory has thrust upon this country between comfortable prosperity for
the short run or national security for the long run.
Choosing national security will not reduce the need for de-
fense economy, in the sense of the long, over-due attempt to re-
duce the high unit cost of American defense. True defense econ-
omy will remain as urgent as ever. But economies in unit costs
will inevitably be swallowed up by new outlays, necessitated by
the remorseless forward march of military technology and the in-
creasing power of the Soviet war machine.
A long range guided missile with atomic war-head, probably a
two-stage version of the German V-2, is now known to be eventually
possible. In their search for such a missile, the Soviets are using
many of the best German missile experts captured at Penemunde.
Most of the best American jud'ges think that the Soviet investment in
a long range guided missile program is very heavy indeed. Our invest-
ment is relatively light, for the long range missile project is only one
among twenty-seven other projects in a Pentagon missile program
with an appropriation of about $1,000,000,000.
FURTHERMORE, WE ARE NOT merely running the risk of falling
behind Soviet development of these dreadful weapons, which in
themselves may decide the world power struggle. We are not even
making the effort to find out all we can about Soviet programs.
The firing of such huge missiles causes violent ionization. The
resulting ion cloud can be detected by appropriate instruments
as it travels through the atmosphere, just as the radio-active
cloud is now detected after anr atomic explosion. But we have not
even purchased the appropriate instruments to detect the ion
cloud and thus to tell us definitely whether the Kremlin has, or
has not, this all-important new weapon. What are we to do about
these related deficiencies?
Again, there is the case of the seven groups of B-36s, which now
constitute the backbone of our Strategic Air Command. These are our
only bomber groups with inter-continental range, and thus the only
groups not dependent on foreign bases. They are also, in all prob-
ability, the only groups that can carry the hydrogen bomb.
As is well known, there is considerable argument about whether
the lumbering B-36s can get through the existing Soviet air defense
system, which consists of MiG-15s directed to the general vicinity of
the enemy by ground radar. The B-36s will go from being obsolescent
to being completely obsolete, however, if and when a critical item of
recent intelligence is directly confirmed.
This intelligence report is credited by the usually reliable
British as well as by our own A-2. It is to the effect that the
Soviets are now producing a high speed, high altitude jet-fighter-
interceptor, with its own air-intercept radar. Such an aircraft
would be able to seek and find the B-36 in the chilly upper air,
besides out-performing it in every other way. Re-equipment of
the Soviet Air Defense groups with this new aircraft will virtually
render useless all the American Strategic Air Command groups
that are still using B-36s.
The planned replacement for the B-36 is the B-52, an enlarged
version of the B-47 jet bomber. The B-47 has just, at long last, been
given its final triumphant test. The B-52 has not yet been fully
tested, but the Strategic Air Commander, Gen. Curtis LeMay, has
such great confidence in the new plane that he utterly disrupted the
Air Staff, a few months ago, by demanding no less than fourteen B-52
groups at a cost of $10 billion. Single line production of the B-52 has
just begun. But the existing production line, even when working full
speed, will take a matter of about four years to replace the B-36s with
B-52s.
Having regard to all these facts, and after the most prolonged
soul-searching, former Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett and former
Secretary of the Air Force Thomas Finletter, took a very grave budget-
ary decision. Although the B-52 was still incompletely tested, and
also the cost was very great, they included funds to start a second
B-52 production line. Their aim was to speed B-36 replacement, in
order tn forestall the evnected Soviet fighter-interceptor with air in-
'Fraught' . .
To the Editor:
WORD FROM Ann Arbor has it
that Cal Samra labeled the
Stalin death as "fraught with sig-
nificance." I am glad he thinks
so. I feared the news might be
buried in an obituary column.
-Peg Nimz
Chicago
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Miss Nimz is an
erstwhile humorist.) *
Civil Defense . .
To the Editor:
ALMOST EVERYONE realizes
that Russia has planes which
can fly to America. What every-
one doesn't realize is that enemy
planes can easily penetrate our
defenses. Many tests have proven
that planes can go long distances,
through several states in some
cases, without being detected.
The most effective means of de-
tecting and identifying planesis
the human being, not radar. This
is the reason the Ground Observ-
ers Corps was organized. Though
there are many high administra-
tive officials in the GOC, all of
their activities revolve around the
individual, patriotic, volunteer ob-
server. This brings the responsi-
bility of civil defense right down
to you and me.
At the Ann Arbor obseivation
post volunteers are desperately
needed in order to keep the post
open 24 hours a day. You can vol-
unteer by calling the supervisor
of the post, Mr. George Smith at
2-0788. Volunteers in some cities
spend hundreds, even thousands
of hours a year working for the
GOC. All you are asked to do is
give two hours a week to the de-
fense of your country. Volunteer
now. Defense can't wait. ......
-Bob McConnell
* * *
Androcles . .
To the Editor:
THIS IS really to film reviewer
Bob Holloway, regarding his
review of ANDROCLES AND THE
LION. Mr. Holloway declared G.
B. Shaw to have "made a superb-
ly intelligent estimate of Chris-
tianty that treads with equal vig-
or onthe toes of churches and
states." Mr. Holloway, that is a
superbly unintelligent statement
and estimate of Christianity and
Mr. Shaw; and it treads on no-
body's toes except Mr. Shaw's, as
he is the one really up for inspec-
tion. If you believe that Shaw's
film Is concerned either with real
Christians or with pagans of any
time and place, I only wonder that
you make such statements on
what is evidently not even super-
ficial knowledge but sounds rath-
er more like superficial prejudice.
G. B. Shaw may have thought
ANDROCLES AND THE LION was
a condemnation of both Romans
and Christian martyrs, but using
his great gift for wit in order to
make both groups appear ludi-
crous is not only poor manners but
poor thinking.
You remark that Lavinia, the
heroine, is "the rare Christian
who can see the point in martyr-
dom." Yes-she is a rare Chris-
tian, ready to die, as she says, for
what may be and probably is
nothing. She is really a fool, you
know. I never heard of anyone,
Christian martyr or otherwise,
who was ready to die for nothing.
Such nonsense, Mr. Holloway,
hardly gives "an aim larger than
comedy to the picture." It merely
makes Mr. Shaw look ridiculous,
supposing he believes himself to
be portraying any real Christian.
Remember-there is a differ-
ence between a man who is a
Christian and one who labels him-
self such. I saw none who were in
Shaw's "comedy."
I hope you will not consider my
tone too harsh; my motive is one
of genuine concern that you and
Shaw's followers will not be mis-
led into thinking that he has said
the last word on Christianity. He
has said nothing about Christian-
ity but a great deal about what he
thinks is Christianity. Christian-
ity is not just an affair of the
heart, nor just an affair of. the
head. It is a matter concerning
both. Mr. Shaw saw it like one
whotviews two people in love. He
knew the manifestations and the-
ories, but believed it all a subjec-
tive hallucination, merely because
he was not in love.
-John Huebler
* * *
Cam aign Rules
To the Editor:
THE Student Legislature in its
last meeting refused to act
upon a motion designed to prevent
a future "Perry" case. The motion,
as a potential addition to the SL
by-laws, would have given the
Joint-judiciary the power to act
upon any infractions of the rules
designed by the individual houses
of the Men's and Women's Resi-
dence Halls to keep campaign lit-
erature of prospective SL members
where the houses wanted it, not
where every candidate felt it
should go.
By not passing this motion, the
SL has literally denied that hous-
es have the right to formulate any
laws relating to themselves, and
their actions. It is the same as
saying that the guest has the
right to dictate the actions of
himself and his host.
After the last elections the
Joint-judiciary advocated the
adoption of some policy to enforce
house rules. These rules are need-
ed, and SL as a representative
body of the students on campus
should be the first to recognize the
rights of the houses and act ac-
cordingly.
-Dieter Hanauer
Van Tyne House
South Quad
* * *
Appeal
To the Editor:
LET'S GET the tennis nets up
as soon as possible. A day like
Tuesday was perfect for playing
but only four nets were available
for many more students.
-Al Strauss
Sixty-Third Yea
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