On Thanksgiving, A Few Moments of Thanksgiving See Page 4 Y t editgau Latest Deadline in the State~ 743 4 & op , a t ty 4 @ *. o VOL. LXV, No. 56 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1954 SNOW FLURRIES 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 4 Student Pa rticipation in ' Affa irs I T t * * * * * 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 . 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. U.S. PL S ECO 0 iC ID E a 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. FOR EIG 11 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- JL- 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. '7+ __'f1^aftar