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VOL. LXV, No. 56 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1954
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SIX PAGES
SAC Barcks
Cites Education
Activity Values
Lowers Membership Requirements;
Common Sense Party Recognized
By GENE HARTWIG
Daily Managing Editor
Student Affairs Committee yesterday unanimously accepted a five
point resolution "endorsing the basic idea of student participation it
affairs of the University."
The resolution cited the University's responsibility for creating
opportunities for such participation as part of the total educational ex
perience of the student.
Arguing that the future of student government should not rest
solely on the degree of participation in the Dec. 8-9 all-campus elec
tions, SAC members said that the basic reason for getting out the
vote lies in the educational value of active student interest and par-
ticipation in student government.
Designed To Aid Student Government
The SAC resolution, designed to promote continuation and growth
" of student government during the
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Housin Study
Group Accepts
Dorm Report
Operation Inquiry's committee
scrutinized last night the report on
dormitory student government by
Robert Baker, '55L.
The study committee, organized
last December to investigate the
success of the Michigan House
Plan, earlier this month checked a
survey report on Plant and Facili-
ties.
Baker's report was termed excel-
lent and complete by Inter-House
Council President Stan Levy, '55,
who was quite optimistic about the
progress of last night's meeting.
Earlier he had feared Operation
Inquiry was moving to a gradual
collapse because of apparent ina-
bility of the committee's students
to find time to do their assigned
reports.
Although the initial deadline for
final approval of all reports, Dec.
1, cannot be approached Levy was
hopeful the other reports would
be approved in the near future.
The report on staff appraisal is
scheduled to be approved at the
next meeting Dec. 7.
Operation Inquiry members in-
clude Prof. Charles Olmstead of
the engineering school, P r o f .
John Dawson of the Law School
and students Howard Nemorovski,
Grad., Robert Baker, '55L, Mark
H. Piper, -'56L, Bernard Berman,
'58M, and Roger Kidston, '56L.
Hiss To Leave
Jail Saturday
After 3 Years
Alger Hiss will be released from
prison Saturday after serving three
years and eight months of his five
year sentence for perjury.
The charge laid against the for-
mer State department official was-
denying he stole Government se-
crets for a Communist spy ring.
Hiss went to Federal prison in
1951 after the Supreme Court re-
fused to review his second trial at
which he was found guilty on two
charges of perjury before a grand
jury. The first trial, three years
earlier, had ended in a deadlocked
jury.
Prosecuting evidence came al-
most entirely from Whittaker
Chambers, a self-confessed ex-
Communist, who testified Hiss had
passed to him secret documents
for transmission to Russian spies
in 1937 and 1938.
Hiss has steadfastly maintained
his innocence.
Curtice Sees
period of indecision as to the future
of Student Legislature, reads as
follows.
1) SAC endorses the basic idea
of student participation in affairs
of the University. It conceives of
opportunities for student participa-
tion as a part of the total educa-
tional experience of the student
The University has a responsibility
for creating opportunities for par-
ticipation which are beneficial to
the student and the total Univer-
sity community.
2) The SGC plan is one effort to
define such profitable areas and
modes of student participation.
While SAC takes no stand for or
against SGC, it does heartily en-
dorse the effort to arrive at a plan
for student participation.
3) SAC does not feel that the
validity of the conception of stu-
dent government rests with the
fate of SGC at the polls. If this
plan is not approved by the stu-
dents and the Regents, the Uni-
versity has a continuing responsi-
bility to develop another which will
meet with approval from these
bodies.
4) SAC will join with other cam-
pus units in their efforts to inform
students about the plan currently
under discussion. It shares in the
general responsibility for achieving
an informed and representative
student opinion in the referendum.
5) SAC strongly approves the ef-
forts of the SL to enlist qualified
candidates to run for the legisla-
tive positions.
SAC Functions Would Go to SGC
With a membership consisting of
six student leaders, six faculty
members and the dean of men and
dean of women, SAC would be abol-
ished and its functions of recogniz-
ing and supervising student activi-
ties taken over by the proposed
SGC.
In another major action SAC
voted to reduce the minimum
membership requirements of cam-
pus organizations from 30 to 20.
See SAC, Page 6
Hatcher Speaks
At IFC Dinner
University President Harlan H.
Hatcher spoke briefly on "A Joint
Enterprise" at the Interfraternity
Council Presidents' Dinner held
last night at Delta Tau Delta fra-
ternity.
Two scholarship trophies were
presented by IFC Scholarship
Chairman Rod Comstock. The Zeta
Beta Tau trophy for the highest
scholastic average among frater-
nities went to Zeta Beta Tau, and
the Improvement Trophy of the
Alumni IFC Council was won by
Trigon fraternity for making the
greatest gain in scholarship over
the previous semester.
Allows CSP
Sponsorship
Designation
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SL Motion Puts
Party on Ballot
By DAVE BAAD
Student Legislature last night
n directed elections director David
Levy, '57, to designate Common
g Sense Party candidates (CSP) on
the ballot for the Dec. 8 and 9
SL elections.
t The motion presented by Bar-
bara Hillman, '55Ed, passed 20 to
nine after heated discussion last-
- ing more than an hour.
Earlier SL approved giving CSP
sponsorship of a Cinema Guild
movie to help raise $150 opera-
tional expenses for the coming
e campaign.
Dispute Financial Aspects
Although there was some dis-
pute over the question of the legis-
lature giving financial support in
f this manner to some candidates
_ running for SL and not others the
- sponsorship passed 14 - 12 with
three abstentions.
Ruth Rossner, '55, SL cabinet
- member at large explained the
money would be used for opera-
tional expenses primarily and not
for direct support of individual
candidates.
Relinquishing the gavel, SL
President Steve Jelin, '55, noted
other political organizations had
been awarded movie sponsorships.
Levy raised the question of
(CSP) designations when he told
SL the ballots had been sent in
and if there was no objection
asterisks would be added to names
of Common Sense Party candi-
dates.
SL had directed Levy at an ear-
ier meeting to use his own discre-.
tion in arranging the ballot. How-
ever, at the time Levy indicated
he would not differentiate between
names on the ballot.
(CSP) was substituted for the
asterjsks by Miss Hillman because
asterisks might tend to confuse
voters who missed an accompany-
ing asterisk explanation; secondly,
people interested in the election
will know what CSP means with-
out explanaton.
Claim SL Hoodwinked
The opposition to differentiat-
ing Common Sense Party candi-
dates, led by Hank Berliner, '56,
Bart Cowan, '55, and Bill Adams,
'57, thought CSP had slipped
something over on SL.
They pushed for recognition on
the ballot for candidates support-
ed by other campus organizations
such as Inter-House.Council, In-
terfraternity Council, Pan-Hel-
lenic and Assembly.
Levy, in an effort to give CSP
opposition a chance to form an
opposing party to support candi-
dates said he would hold ballots 24
hours and if a party was formed
he would designate candidates on
the ballot supported by the party.
After the meeting Berliner said
no party would likely be formed.
Cowan said the 24 hours wasn't
adequate time for forming another
party.
Levy announced last night that
34 candidates will be on the bal-
lot with 12 being Common Sense
Party aspirants.
SL also passed a motion last
night reapportioning Cinema Guild
profits on the basis of 60 per cent
for sponsors, 20 per cent for Stu-
dent Legislature and 20 per cent
for the Cinema Guild Develop-
ment Fund.
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Committee
Blocks Free
ColegIdea
LANSING (A)- A Legislative
committee yesterday opposed the
idea the state should provide a
free college education to any one
who wants it.
The Interim Committee on
Higher Education drafted prelim-
inary recommendations to the
1955 Legislature.
The committee's decision was an
endorsement of a recent widely-
publicized statement by the Rev.
Fr. Celestin J. Steiner, President
of the University of Detroit. He
said completely free public edu-
cation through the college level
tended toward socialism.
Committee Hears Coleman
Sen. Creighton R. Coleman (R-
Battle Creek) told the committee
he believed no one should be de-
prived of higher education be-
cause of inability to pay for it,
but that the committee should not
recommend "everyone be given a
free college education regardless
of ability to pay."
Probing ways of expanding high-
er educational facilities to meet
an expected heavy enrollment in-
crease, the committee proposed
that the state's four teacher-train-
ing colleges expanded to become
"general liberal arts" colleges.
Absorb 10,000 More Students
The committee said these could
absorb another 10,000 students
this way.
Ferris Institute should be ex-
panded to meet any needs with-
out changing its basic character
as an "opportunity" school, the
committee said.P
Michigan colleges were urged
by the committee to make better
use of classrooms, possibily by us-
ing them on two shifts, and the
Legislature was urged to devote
its funds to expanding classrooms,
not such structures as gymns and
auditoria.
Recommend Mutual Aid
The committee recommended
legislation permitting local gov-
ernmental units to contribute
taxes to help a neighboring school
district operating a junior college
or community college which bene-
fits youths of the entire ara.
Johnston Play Run
Continues at DAC
Denis Johnston's "The Moon in
the Yellow River" can be seen at
the Dramatic Arts Center this
week'end.
Curtain time will be 8:15 p.m. for
the Thursday through Sunday per-
formances, at the Masonic Temple.
The cast of Johnston's philosoph-
ic comedy includes six profession-
al actors, one University teaching
fellow and three townspeople.
Currently in its second week the
play will run until Dec. 5. Third
presentation on the Center's play-1
bill, "She Stoops to Conquer" by
Oliver Goldsmith will open Dec. 9.1
At .Last
DALLAS A) -bAfter a 36-
Year absence, a book was back
on the Dallas Public Library
shelves yesterday.
With it came a letter saying
not to expect payment of the
$262.94 fine that had accu-
mulated in overdue fees at two
' cents a day since the date of
the checkout incOctober, 1918.
T. K. Irwin, Jr., of Dallas,
who found the book in cleaning
out an old law office, said he
didn't check it out since "I was
only two at the time and un-
able to read."
The title of the book-"The
Model T Ford."
U.S. Protest
Red Chinese
Jailing 13
WASHINGTON (I)-The United
States strongly protested yesterday
Communist China's condemnation
of 13 Americans to prison terms
on what the State Department
called "trumped up charges."
A State Department spokesman
told newsmen the American con-
sul general at Geneva, Switzer-
land, is being instructed to make
"the strongest possible protest" to
the Chinese Communists.
Disregard for Justice Charged
The Red Chinese decision was
labeled in the State Department
statement as "further proof of the
Chinese Communist regime's dis-
regard for accepted practices of
international conduct."
Simultaneously, the Defense De-
partment issued a statement call-
ing the Chinese charges "utterly
false."
The Peiping radio, in announc-
ing the sentencing, said the Amer-
icans were spies. Thirteen Ameri-
cans were sentenced to serve terms
ranging from four years to life.
Geneva Only Official Contact
The State Department acted
through Geneva because that is
the only official contact the United
States has with Peiping. It was
set up during the Far East con-
ference at Geneva.
Besides saying the 13 Americans
were condemned on trumped up'
charges, the department contend-
ed the imprisonment of the two
civilians among the 13, John
Thomas Downey and Richard ]
Deorge Fecteau, was deliberatelyI
concealed during the Geneva con-
ference last May.
First Word on Civilians 1
"Today is the first word we have
had that they are being held bys
the Chinese Communists," the
statement said.
The Defense Department in its
statement said the Peiping radio
announcement of the sentencing
"illustrates again the bad faith,;
insincerity and amorality which1
have characterized" the Peiping1
regime's conduct throughout its in-I
ternational relations.<
-Daily-Dean Morton
ON YOUR TOES-Paul McDonough, '55L, accompanies the Union
Opera dancing chorus in a routine for this year's production, "Hail
to Victor!" scheduled for local performances on Dec. 8, 9, and 10.j
Tickets for these performances .will go on sale Monday in the
Michigan Union lobby.
UN VOTE:
West Russia Approve
A toms-For-,Peace Plant
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. OP)-The Western powers and Russia
joined yesterday with all UN members in a rare unanimous vote
approving President Dwight D. Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan.
The action took place in the UN Assergbly's Political Committee
which adopted a resolution endorsing negotiations for an interna-
tional atomic agency to supervise the program and for an inter-
national scientific conference on the atom to be held next summer,
probably in Geneva.
Second Joint Action
After eight years of dreary stalemate on major issues, it was the
second time in three weeks the West and the Soviet Union had
AOacted together on a major subject.
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Plan Aimed
At Non-Red
Asian Areas
Dodge Assigned
To Study Policies
WASHINGTON (A) - Adminis-
tration officials reported to be
considering a big new foreign
economic program which may lead
to the investment of billions of
dollars in under-developed coun-
tries of.the world, notably in non-
Communist Asia.
The project is regarded here as
activating, in effect, a new front
in the struggle with the Commu-
nist powers for lands threatened
by subversion and political aggres-
sion.
Some basic recommendations
for operations in the new field
may come before Christmas from
Joseph M. Dodge, former budget
director, Detroit banker and gov-
ernment adviser on various eco-
nomic and financial problems over
many years.
Dodge Asked To Study Polies
Dodge has been assigned by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
to study the government's overall
economic policies and come up
with some recommendation for ac-
tion. It was learned reliably that
the problem is under active con-
sideration in other departments of
the government.
One fact reportedly emerging in
the studies is that there is great
opportunity and, from the politi-
cal and military point of view in
the cold war, great need for a new
era of economic progress in South
and Southeast Asia.
Capital Investment Needed
This progress, it is felt by some
authorities here, can only be made
by substantial American capital
investment in power dams, fac-
tories and farm and other develop-
ments which add up to industrial
progress. and higher standards of
living for people.
How rapidly the program can be
developed and presented to Pres-
ident Eisenhower for considera-
tion is not yet clear.
The President has stood be-
tween two essentially contradic-
tory pressures throughout his ad-
ministration, with Treasury Sec-
retary Hubert H. Humphrey an
advocate of budget balancing and
tax cutting, on 'the one hand, and
persons like Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles and other
advocates of expensive military
and diplomatic policies on the oth-
er.
A clue to the trend of official
thinking came Monday when For-
eign Aid Director Harold E. Stas-
sen told a news conference the
United States has started talks
with European countries about
their participating in an enlarged
Asian aid program.
General Tells
of Red Might
LONDON WA'-Gen Alfred M.
Gruenther said yeserday the "mili-
tary potential of the Soviet bloc is
increasing constantly,"
The supreme commander of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion told the Constitution Club
the effectiveness of Soviet forces
was "going up considerably," al-
though their size still was approx-
imately the same as when Gen
Dwight D.Eisenhower took over
SL Candidates
To Broadcast
Quad radio station WCBN will!
broadcast a series of programs
featuring Student Legislature can-
didates beginning Monday, WCBN
business manager John Schick,
'57E, announced yesterday.
The 15-minute programs will be
broadcast weekdays through Dec.
8, first day of the two-day all-
campus elections.
Schick emphasized that time on
the programs is available to all
SL candidates. Any candidate who
wishes to take advantage of the
radio facilities offered by WCBN
may contact Jim Midgley, '56E,
200 Michigan House, West Quad.,
WCBN has a two-fold purpose
in presenting the programs,
Schick said. First, its aim is to
give SL candidates a chance to
present their views to the student
body, and second, to provide stu-
dents an opportunity to hear them.
On Nov. 4, the Assembly by
unanimous vote instructed the UN
Disarmament Commission to re-
sume talks on limitation of arma-
ments and on prohibiting atomic
weapons. These talks will begin in
January.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief
American delegate, who acted as
spokesman for the seven powers
sponsoring the approved resolu-
tion during delicate and secret{
talks with the late Soviet delegate
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, hailed the
occasion as a "historic moment."
The General Assembly is expect-
ed to follow suit quickly. Negotia-
tions on an international atomic
agency likely will be accelerated.
Last Issue
With this issue The Daily
ceases publication until Tues-
day, Nov. 30. During this time
all Daily business and editorial
offices will be closed for the
Thanksgiving vacation.
TRADITIONAL EXODUS BEGINS:
Student Population Leaves for Thanksgiving Vacation
'Good Yeare-
FLINT (t-An optimistic apprai-
sal of business prospects for the
year ahead was made yesterday by
Harlow H. Curtice, president of
General Motors Corp.
Celebrating production of the 50
millionth car built by GM in the
United States, Curtice predicted
next year's car demand will re-
quire production of 5,800,000 pas-
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Dorm Menus Feature Turkey
Dormitory residents unable to leave Ann Arbor during the holi-
days will feast on a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.
Over 450 men and 275 women will be present to enjoy the two
meals being served in East Quadrangle and Mosher Hall dining rooms.
East Quad, West Quad, and South Quad students will eat in the
By 5 p.m. today, most of Ann Arbor's student population will
be starting on their way home for Thanksgiving vacation, traveling by
bus, train, airplane and car.
Although figures are not available on the number of students
leaving by automobile, a local travel agency yesterday reported that
more than 600 persons have made reservations to fly from Willow
Run airport yesterday and today.
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Local Churches Honor Holiday
Religious organizations in Ann Arbor plan to commemorate
Thanksgiving day with special services tomorrow.
The First Presbyterian Church will hold a Union Service at
10:30 a.m. Members of the Ann Arbor Ministers Association will
present The Rev. Dr. Herbert Beecher Hudnut of the Woodlwar1
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