PAGE FOUR THE MCMGAN DAMT SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24,1954!, PAGE FOUR TIlE MICHIGAN DAIlY SUNDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1954 , .. . .__ ,... _ ... .... .. a, . The Independent Voter Prepares To Act Like an Egg-Head SHORTLY BEFORE the 1952 presidential election someone connected with the history department made a hopeful forecast for the coming election. The substance of his remarks was that Adlai Stev- enson would win the independent vote and become the 34th president of the United States. He assumed, and it is a safe assumption, that the independent vote is the key to winning or losing for the Democrats and Republicans at each bi- annual test of their respective platforms. However, there was a serious flaw in his further reasoning and is was this flaw that caused his prediction to be incorrect. He thought that the independents were the intellectuals, the people who read and study world and national problems and ideas proposed to them at every election. Their background would keep them from being influenced by prejudices and the 'do as my father didism' that plague many vot- ers' thinking. He thought that Stevenson with his logical, liberal and couragous platform would appeal to these thinking people - they became known as egg-heads-and a Democrat would be in the White House another four years. Professors, men of science and the arts did flock behind the former Illinois governor but when the votes were tabulated Dwight D. Eisenhower with his cliches and continual vacillation on the cam- paign issues had five million more votes. Four years previously Harry S. Truman had accomplished a presidential victory with much the same type cam- paign. There was little doubt that Eisenhower must have won the independent vote and as disappointing to idealists as it may be, the key fluctuating group doesn't seen to be those on the history instructor's intellectual plane but rather those primarily inter- ested in easing the burden of their own personal problems. Such things as a quick reduction of taxes interest them. These are the people who fear but know little about the cause of wars. who be- cause they seldom read past the headlines are easy victims for the shrieking about the Communist threat and corruption when the newspapers choose to publicize it. Considering the continually chang- ing nature of the Mid-Weest vote the farmers also appear to be an independent element. When Stevenson attacked the campaign issues he refused to paint rose-colored solutions for them because he felt, and the last 18 months have born him out, none were available. He of- fered steps for alleviating the disagreeable situa- tions but his foresight prevented him from prom- ising Utopian results from his proposed plat- form. His liberal, well grounded concept of the national and world situation would have made him an excellent leader of the United States. * * * * HOWEVER, STEVENSON and the Democrats will never lead United States policy as a minority group. It has been suggested by some Democratic sympathisers that Stevenson's attempt to 'talk sense' to the American people was founded on impractical ideals. If the Democrats were to regain control of Congress this fall and perhaps elect a president in 1956, Stevenson and his running mates would have sacrifice the admirable principle of re- maining above the slam-bang, sometimes illogical glorious phrase-like campaigning that unfortunately wins elections. Instead a negative campaign should be substituted for the positive one of 1952. Stevenson did not take such suggestions. He has resolutely continued the pattern of his 1952 cam- paign. It appears that by waiting two extra years for the Eisenhower type campaign to backfire his Democrats will regain a majority this fall without resorting to similar tactics themselves. The inde- pendent voter was influenced two years ago by many inviting promises but the independent voter is also conscious of the many unfulfilled Republican Party promises. Laboring men in many parts of the country en- thralled two years ago by Eisenhower's tax cut- ting promises and continued prosperity have just spent a summer standing outside factory gates or shifting from one insecure construction job to another. Farmers who heard Dwight D. Eisen- hower during the fall of 1952, announce that he favored 100 percent parity will remember that he helped push through a program for sliding parity 82 to 90 percent. Citizens in the northwest sec- tion of the United States who heard Pres. Eisen- hower support public power won't forget Dixon- Yates or the Republican private power policy on Northwest river projects. The independent voter will cast the decisive votes when the polls open Nov. 2. If present trends con- tinue (Maine, Alaska) he will return a Democratic majority. Such an outcome would demonstrate the fallacy of the 1952 Republican campaign. The in- dependent voter may not be intellectual, he may not be particularly logical in his thinking, but he can remember that he was promised many benefits two years ago and he will scrutinize rather close- ly the extent of the benefits he received. --Dave Baad The Week in Review Local ... W r A DETERMINED name and an even more determined platform, the "Common Sense Party" announced its first all-campus meeting. Homecoming frenzy failed to affect the budding organization as it soberly met to draft a final plaform, including plans for stronger student gov- ernment and liberal women's hours. The embryonic group sets a precedent on campus as the first stud- pnt political party. ACTIVITIES & SPACE-Heads of leading campus organizations got together to discuss the how and what of the proposed Student Activities Center. Ap- proved in principle by the Regents last May, the building is being planned to provide meeting and work space for crowded student groups. It will be the job of the 10-man committee to report to the Regents on how this can be done, HOMECOMING-Michigan prepared itself for the annual invasion of alums with nostaligic foot- ball memories. Displays depicting gophers in various undignified poses peppered the campus, along with such festivities as a St. Bernard Char- lot Race. And the Little Brown Jug was brought across the field to the Michigan bench. BIG TEN LOOK-Commenting on the "Big-Ten way of life," LIFE magazine came out with a pic- ture-page splash on college fashions. The Univer- sity was represented with a slice of the Michigras Carnival and a rosy-looking P-Bell party. Michigan students, however, were inclined to cast a dubious look at LIFE's idea of "colorful conformity." DAVIS PAY-The issue of severance pay for H. Chandler Davis, dismissed mathematics instructor, became a dead issue, at least for a while, as far as the Student Legislature was concerned. The motion was presented to SL but returned to committee for further study mainly because SL couldn't figure out if the issue was under its jurisdiction. National... ELECTION CAMPAIGNS were reaching their height with only two weeks left for either party to make its impression on the electorate's mind. Sixty-Fifth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Eugene Hartwig...........................Managing Editor Dorothy Myers............................City Editor Jon Sobeloff........................... Editorial Director Pat Roelofs......................Associate City Editor Becky Conrad...............................Associate Editor Nan Swinehart..............................Associate Editor Dave Livingston.......................Sports Editor Hanley Gurwtn............ Associate Sports Editor Warren Werzheimer.................Associate Sports Editor Roz Shlimovitz............................ Women's Editor Joy Squires... .............Associate Women's Editor Janet Smith............... ...Associate Women's Editor Dean Morton.......................Chief Photographer Business Staff Lois Pollak.......................,....Business Manager Phil Brunskill...................Associate Business Manager Bill Wise....... .........A d'vti sina an ge Observers tended to see the race as an "uphill battle" for the Republicans, with Eisenhower popu- larity the most important part of the GOP strategy. In the heat of the fray, Ike gave a nation-wide "non-political" address last week that hinted at his possible retirement. DAMAGE TOLL-By the beginning of the week, a rambunctious Hazel had spun her last hurri- cane. It had churned up out of the Caribbean and cut across the North American continent from the Carolinas to Hudson Bay. Causing 100 million dollars worth of damage, it was the season's most vicious tropical storm. SALK VACCINE-Currently being evaluated in a nationwide study, the Salk polio vaccine again hit the headlines. The National Foundation for In- fantile Paralysis contracted to buy enough vaccine to treat nine million persons next year. The action is a "calculated risk" admits the Foundation, since results of Salk effectiveness will not be ready until next April. Meanwhile, three American scientists were awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for work which made a rapid develop- ment in preventive measures such as the Salk vac- cine possible. * * * * International,.. THE HISTORIC treaty to end Britain's occupation of the Suez Canal zone was signed last week, pro- viding for the 83,000 British troops to leave within 20 months. The treaty ends a 72-year occupation. SAAR-A perennial problem was giving the Big Three Western Powers some perennial trouble last week. The economic future of the Saar, the rich coal and iron region between France and Germany, was being debated, with revival of the old conflict between the two countries. Work was reported to be progressing in a favorable direction, however. GERMANY--Foreign ministers of nine anti-Com- munist allies of the Western world virtually com- pleted the agreement on formation of the Western European Union, linking West Germany to NATO. The Union will include the arms and men of an all but fully soverign West Germany. Agreement to bring the Bonn republic into the proposed seven- nation Union was coupled with a decision to end the nearly 10-year occupation of Germany. -Debra IDurchslag WfITH THE REPUDIATION by the French Na- tional Assembly of the European Defense Com- munity, the Atlantic world has given itself over to an orgy of mutual criticism, complaint, frustra- tion, and hypocrisy. The chief object of this com- munity exasperation is France. The exasperation with the French may be well justified. EDC was a French idea; we bought it at French insistence over deep initial misgivings, did our best to nourish it, had faith in the French plan long after the French themselves had begun to doubt it. We are baffled as well as annoyed, because this French Govern- ment is the first since the war that is doing what our diplomacy has always urged as France's first duty-putting its own house in order, to make France strong, to secure the base that must be firm under the weight of France's responsibilities. But to see France as the root of the Atlantic crisis is to misread the moment entirely. It is not a post-mortem apportionment of guilt that is re- DREW PEARSON' Washington Merry-Go- Round WASHINGTON - Officials of th Disabled American Veterans had a brief moment of anxiety about President Eisenhower's fi- nances during a recent White House visit to launch the DA's annual "forget-me-not" drive for hospital- ized vets. As Mrs. Virginia Turner Chair- man of the drive, handed Ike the first forget-me-not, the Presi- dent opened his billfold to make a donation. It appeared to be empty. "It's easy to see that you have just returned from your vacation," quipped Waldron E. Leonard, Dis- trict of Columbia Director of Vet- erans Affairs. "Wait a minute," said Ike. Then he opened another section of his wallet, revealing a tidy sum of crisp, new folding money. The Pres- ident fished out a five-dollar bill and dropped it in the DAV canister. * * * JENNER TO REPLACE JOE INDIANA'S Senator "Breezy Bill" Jenner will probably deny it, but he is scheming privately to move into Senator McCarthy's shoes as the nation's no. 1 Red hunter. Jenner expects the Senate to slap McCarthy down with an overwhelming censure vote, thus curbing his headline appeal. This, Jenner feels, should leavethe top spot open for him and he is quietly preparing to move up. Meanwhile, Jenner's chief coun- sel, Col. Alva Carpenter, is tight- ening his authority over the Inter- nal Security Subcommittee staff. Carpenter has laid down the law to the staff that he, and he alone, should have contact with senators and the press. In a confidential directive to staff: members Carpenter ordered: "Liaison initiated by a member of the staff with the chairman and members of the subcommittee will be undertaken only after authori- zation by me. Liaison initiated by (committee members) with any member of the staff will be prompt- ly reported to me to prevent dupli- cation of effort . . . Material to be distributed to the press will be ap- proved by me before stenciling." Carpenter apparently wants to make sure no other staff member will be cozying up to the senators and the press. * * * NO MORE HURRICANES W EATHER BUREAU experts say they expect no more hur- ricanes this year. Meanwhile, in case you are wondering how hurri- canes happen to be given female names, it isn't because, as one wit has suggested, they are so "unpre- dictable." Hurricanes are becom- ing more predictable every year, due to the constant vigilance of the Air Force, Navy and U.S.Weath- er Bureau. As a consequence, the loss of human life has greatly declined, though property damage in 1954 has been the greatest in the last 20 years. Carol, Edna and Hazel alone caused direct or indirect property damage of close to a billion dollars, according to un- official Weather Bureau esti- mates. Hurricanes have been given fem- inine names because they come from the sea and the sea is sup- posed to be feminine-though a move is on by some of the ladies' organizations to change this be- cause hurricanes are too rough. However, individual names are carefully selected in advance each year by government weather au- thorities and the names of Carol, Edna, Hazel, etc. were selected as early as last February. The names selected must be pho- netically clear and easily under- standable in radio reporting; also, must not duplicate typhoons, which also have a feminine termindlogy. Hurricane names chosen last February for this year were: Alice, Barbara, Carol, Dolly, Edna, Florence, Gilda, Hazel, Irene, Jill, Katherine, Lucy, Ma- bel, Norma, Orpha, Patsy, Queen, Rachel, Susie, Tina, Una, Vicky and Wallis (the name of the Duchess of Windsor). Weather authorities ignored the last three letters of the alphabet, X, Y, and Z, figuring that the storms in the 1954 hurricane sea- son would not number more than 23. So far, we have had eight, counting Hazel, and no more are contemplated, except of a freak- ish variety, since the hurricane season usually doesn't run beyond October. Highest previous 'record of hur- ricanes was 21 in 1933. There were 16 in 1887 and 17 in 1936. Note-The word "hurricane" is of Carib-Indian origin and means "big wind." * * * FIRETRAP SCHOOLS WHILE McCarthyites have been c o o k i n g up a synthetic "march" on Washington, educa- tors from all over the country have been staging a real march, aimed AT THE MICHIGAN . .. SABRINA A FILM with somewhat limited appeal, Sabrina is the Cinder- ella story neatly wrapped up with yards of sophisticated charm. Women will probably say it is Interpreting The News By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst IF FRANCE now permits the question of the Saar to block all the new arrangements which have been made for incorporating Germany into a Western Europe- an defense system, she is going to be accused, rightly or wrongly, of never intending to go through with German rearmament. France and Germany had just about agreed on the Saar when France killed the European defense Community program. The territory would have remained integrated in the French economy with its in- ternational relations controlled by the supranational EDC council. The death of EDC and proposal for extension of the Brussels trea- ty to bring Germany into a pri- marily military arrangement with- out any supranational political controls put Bonn into a bargain- ing position on military matters which strengthened her ability to seek further concession on the Saar. There is no question that the German atttitude has toughened. For one thing, she is now demand- ing free trade with the territory, whereas before she had appeared satisfied with lesser concessions. She is now demanding the right for herself and the presently ban- ned pro-German Saar parties to agitate for return of the Saar to Germany at an eventual peace conference. Before she had agreed to a final settlement on the basis of "Europeanization." In these respects, Germany plays her part in the deadlock. But it is France, not Germany, which reit- erates that there will be no return of German sovereignty, no Germ- any in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, until she is satisfied about the Saar. Frenchmen are saying frankly that they take this stand because they can never expect to get what they want except in a trade of this sort. They figure that sovereignty and rearmament are more impor- tant to Germany than the Saar. France's need for the comple- mentary Saar economy to give her greater parity with Germany is well recognized by all the nations. "That's NA Eamle" [L "cute"; men may find it "corny." At any rate, the reactions are like- ly to be extremely varied. Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) lives with her chauffer father (John Williams) over the garage of the plush Larabee home, from whence she gazes adoringly upon David Larabee (William Holden). David, a regular ladies' man, just ignores her. But father sends Sabrina to a Paris cooking school, and the kid picks up a few pointers on men, along with souffle recipes. When Sabrina walks in on a Larabee party wearing an Edith Head original, she takes the sit- uation well in hand. David promptly falls in love with her. Even tycoon brother Linus Lar- abee (Humphrey Bogart), sent by Papa Larabee to break up the romance, falls under Sabri- na's enchanting spell. Needless to say, Sabrina eventually gets a husband, loads of money, and a honeymoon in Europe. Audrey Hepburn makes an ap- pealing Sabrina. She is still play- ing the princess role from Roman Holiday; and whether she is a ca- pable actress, or just a fresh per- sonality, is difficult to decide. She has the bony body of a ten-year- old boy and a piquant face, with large eyes, dark eyebrows, and a pounting little smile. Miss Hep- burn is nymph-like, wistful, de- lightful-in short, worthy of the many adjectives lavished upon her by an adoring public. But how long her personality will remain fresh will decide how long she re- mains a star. The film's biggest surprise is Bo- gart. With calm assurance, he steals every scene; no young up- start performers can push him aside. Holden handles the playboy role with ease; and the support- ing cast is adequate in standard type-roles. Like no other picture in re- cent film history, Sabrina con- centrates entirely on being charming. It attempts to spread nearly two hours of slick, glos- sy charm over its audiences' minds. This is, of course, a ra- ther difficult thing to do; and Sabrina does well only part of the time. When it should have the viewerroaring withlaugh- ter, it provides a few chuckles; when it should leave an impres- sion of sustained hilarity, it gives only a 112 minute smile- and it is often rather difficult to keep smiling that long, unless there is a good belly-laugh to break up the monotony. It is probably chiefly because of Producer-Director Billy Wilder's talents that Sabrina never gets overly bearing with its sentiment, sweetness, and romance. -Ernest Theodossin N(STRN *,t CURREN'rMEVI At the Dramatic Arts Center... ARMS AND THE MAN, by George Bernard Shaw, presented by the Dramatic Arts Association WITH THE BEST WISHES of Governor Williams, Mayor Brown, President Hatcher, and hosts of lesser folk who live, in the Ann Arbor area, the Dramatic Arts Center opened its doors a little timor- ously on Thursday, welcomed its guests a little grandly, and pre- sented its first play, Shaw's "Arms and the Man" a little awkwardly. Nothing daunted, they look like a solid group with solid backing and will probably go far. The Center company has obvious talent, the Center board offers sound support, and both share high ambitious ideals about the theater. Still, on opening night, then show was logy, perhaps because the performers were still "too much in the sun" of pa- ternal benevolence. Everybody was a little too nervously on his best behavior. The best theaters, I think, are rebellions. The Abbey Thea- ter was; the Group Theater was; so was the Art Theater. Although the Dramatic Arts Center presented a "rebellious" play, they did not act as if they knew that. They had so many people to be good "for"; and nobody, no movement, no vested interest to be good "against." As a result, their styles, their sets, their whole method of presentation was no more than vaguely, eclectically pleasant. Even at this early date, it seems as if the Center's genuinely selfless urge to embrace everybody could wind up in their embracing nobody, The choice of "Arms and the Man" to open the season might have seemed like a good idea, except that it is kind of an old idea, seeming that it is revived all the time. It is also a play about an "old idea." The "old idea" is, of course, that military men are really choc- olate soldiers down deep, and it is mostly fickle women who make them heroes in order to gratify female whimsies. This "idea," as such, has little power to surprise us any longer, and I sort of doubt that any great quantities of people were "'shocked" by it when it was orginally presented. (Shaw, I suspect, won his popularity from the quasi-sophisticated who gained a sense of superiority by just knowing that their neighbors were terribly shocked by Shaw's plays.) But in order for the play to have any zip any more, it ought to be invested with some mock rebellion, some pretense that this is a "pow- erful" idea. Of course, it will not be a straight-faced pretense; good melodrama is never completely straight-faced and good comedy is at its best when some inner Olympian "eye" is provided by the writer to contemplate what is going on on the stage, thus to refine the dimension of the comedy and help it to be intellectually acceptable. Probably "Arms and the Man" is one of Shaw's duller exer- cises, even if you pretend its ideas are still energetic. If you do not; If you try and summon up energy strictly from its characters, as Director Joe Gistrak did, I think you really go off. InAct One, for example, he has Irma Hurley as Raina, skipping about, sollIlo- quizing to photographs, and in general, managing herself like a hyperthyroid adolescent. Two acts later wer are told that her hero worship is only a pose and that she is really a mature and stable twenty-three. Her Swiss "hero," Captain Bluntschli finds this hard to believe, but accepts it, although I never could. Raina's mother and father offer.further problems. James Coco plays the latter role like an affable Akim Tamiroff, slapping his wife on the rear, shouting for more coffee, and simulating the constant puzzlement common to middle-aged folk in comic opera. His wife, played by Barbara Lawrence, wears a peasant costume, but acts in it more like a gypsy on the midway than a nuevo-riche Bulgarian. Sergius Saranoff is Raina's cavalry-charging betrothed and William Andrews plays the part with a Hamletian melancholy that is occa- sionally interesting. Elaine Swire and Wilfred Kaplan play Louka and Nicola, the servants, respectively, like Carmen, and EBrendel. All this is not said for satiric purposes. Clearly, there is talent in the company, but of the cast, on opening night, only Ralph Drischel1 as Bluntschli really gave the show the proper touch, the curre't outer contemplation, the right kind of mockery. And it is hard to explain just how you do this right: there is involved something like the char- acter knowing he is acting as well as the actor. It is a business of getting into the character and somehow getting out of it again too. Otherwise, the wit gets lost in a welter of posturing. On a technical level, the Dramatic Arts Ceter arena is like the Arts Theater in Cinemascope. The plays are "centrally staged," of course, but in a much. wider area than the Arts Theater had: occasionally opening night audiences had to turn their head fro one end of the arena to the other to follow the conversation. Sets one were bright, almost Technicolor, both tasteful and not tasteful; but presumably the Bulgarian Petcoffs have every right to be shrewd in the garden and dull in the library. The only bothersome mechanical feature of opening night was a bad "light spill" from the technician's control booth which prevented anything ap- proaching total darkness on the stage. This seriously damaged all curtain effects. But so much for "Arms and the Man" which is after all only an opening production. A new theater has been born in Ann Arbor. A new professional theater with large ideals has been born in Ann Arbor . Let us hope that they succeed. -Bill Wiegand LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I 11 1 DRAMA 4 WUS Thanks.. * To The Editor: THE WORLD UNIVERSITY serv- ice committee would like to thank all those who gave of their time and energy in helping on our recent bucket drive. The coopera- tion we received from all sides was excellent. The committee also acknowledges the support given the program by the many student and faculty members who contrib- uted. Speaking on behalf of the uni- versities which will benefit from this drive, we hope you will con- tinue to give WUS your support. -WUS Committee Edna Carlson, Chairman Doris Harpole, Advisor 4 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication (be- fore 10 a.m. on Saturday). SUNDAE', OCTOBER 24, 1954 Vol. LXV, No. 29 Notces Attention All Students: There is an Anti-Discrimination Board set up to work actively for the removal of dis- crimination in the general area of serving and hiring of students in the Ann Arbor business community. The Board is interested in learning of any cases of possibly discriminatory prac- Angel Hal. Dr. Maurice Aualander will speak on "Cohomology and Commuta- tor Subgroups of Free Groups." All students planning to enter the Law School for the first time in Feb., 1955, MUST, unless they have already done so, take the Law School Admis- sion Test at the Nov. 13 administration. Applications for this test must be in the hands of the Educational Testing Service (20 Nassau Street, Princeton, New Jersey) not later than Nov. 3. Ap- plication blanks and further informa- tion may be obtained in Room 311, Hutchins Hail. There will be a meeting of the Edu- cational School Council Mon., Oct. 25th, at 4:15 p.m. in the Educational School Lounge. Please be prompt. Concerts num, Conductor, will present the fol- lowing program: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Debussy's "Aft- ernoon of a Faun," Rudolph Escher's "Musique pour l'esprit en deuil," and Stravinsky's "Suite from The Firebird." A limited number of tickets are available, at the offices of the Univer- sity Musical Society, in Burton Memo- rial Tower. Tickets will also be on sale at the Hill Auditorium box office after 7:00 on the evening of the perform- ance. Events Today Movies. Free movies, "Arizona" and "California." Oct. 19-25. 4th floor Ex- hibit Hall, Museums Building. Films are shown daily at 3:00 and 4:00 p.m., in- cluding Sat. and Sun., with an extra showing on Wed, at 12:30. The Unitarian Student Group will Oct 24. Student Panel Discussion ony the topic, "Experiencing the Reality of Christ" at 4 p.m., Lane Hall. Re- freshments will be served. Everyone is cordially invited. Wesleyan Guild, Sun., Oct. 24-9:30 a.m. Discussion-Basic Christian Be- liefs, 10:30 a.m. Discussion - Great Ideas of the Bible, 5:30 p.m. Fellow- ship Supper, 6:45 p.m. Worship and Program. Movie: "Beyond Our Own." Episcopal Student Foundation. Sun., Oct. 24. Canterbury House breakfasts following both the 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. services. "Faith of the Church" lec- ture series, 4:30 p.m., at Canterbury House. Student Supper Club, 6:30 p.m., at Canterbury House. Coffee hour at the Student Center following 8:00 p.m,. Evensong. Hillel: All those interested in joining the Hillel Chorus come to the first s 4 4 -1 1