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Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or
the editors. This must be noted in all reprints.

)AY, FEBRUARY 2S, 1956

NIGHT EDITOR: ERNEST THEODOSSIN

Social Enigmas Puzzling
In. Pre-Thaw Period

MONTHS like this one, made colorful by the
medley of slush and ice underfoot, lead to
uniquely critical frames of mind. Life's petty
injustices don't, as usual, pass unnoticed, but
loom disturbing and enigmatic.
Why, for instance, does common etiquette
allow men to hitch-hike anywhere they're go-
ing, while women must walk? Females, al-
legedly the weaker of the sexes, must waste
precious strength and time plodding along in
observance of obsolete tradition. Men, with
more stamina and bigger footstrides, still are
free to get rides they don't really need by a
mere upward twist of the thumb. Is this just?
It should be obvious to most drivers that a
saddle-shod young lady with an armful of
books and a plained grimace, walking near cam-
pus, probably is a student en route to a class,
and not the disguised leader of a band -of
thieves. And it should be just as obvious that
she'd welcome the ride she's too shy to ask for,
far more than would her bolder male contem-
poraries.
AND why does the cliche have it that Mon-
days, by virtue of their dullness, are blue?.,
Blue's a good color, quite suited to describe
some of life's pleasanter experiences and ideas.
To attribute it to the invariably, dismally and
utterly gray Mondays is to malign it.
Why, too, is .it claimed that these are neces-
sarily the best years of our lives? It's not
overly cheering, on one's more sullen days,
when one's hair all but screams for a shampoo
and one has overslept and/or lost a bridge game
and/or flunkel a quiz, to be reminded that one
will never be lovelier or handsgmer or happier
than one now is.
One wonders, under these circumstances,
what the downhill part's going to be like if one
already has passed the summit.
ANOTHER imponderable: why must adver-
tising agencies change the spelling of words?
Especially from "c's" to "k's"? Why must a
perfectly average motel, equipped with cozy
enough cottages and owned by a Mr. Clarke,
be billed in neon as "Klark's Kozy Kottages?"
Does this facilitate matters for the bed-seeking
public?
And why can't a quick-acting cleaning fluid
be named aptly, instead of called "Kleen-
kwik?" Surely the public taste hasn't sunk to
depths so low as to forbid the deciphering of
vernacular words. Or has it?
Why do drugstores charge an added penny
for matches when they've already sold 25 or

so cents' worth of tobacco? Can't they content
themselves with this substantial profit?
WHY DO psychologists and sociologists feel
impelled to veil whatever substance there
is in their fields behind polysyllablic and
meaningless terminology? The paper industry
might find a handy surplus if such scholars
would say what they mean in their treatises, be-
queathing expressions like "economico-psycho-
physico-socio-pathic" to the next new field
of study.
Nobody denies that many more spectacular
problems than these are now facing humanity.
But in the pre-thaw, post-ice time of the year,
these seem challenging enough for any standard
mentality.
-JANE HOWARD, Associate Editor
No Extension Needed
For Rushing Report
WEDNESDAY, March 7, will be an important
night for the Student Government Council.
That is the deadline for the Rushing Study
Committee report. Last October, by direction of
SGC, a committee composed of members of the
Interfraternity Council and the Inter House
Council undertook the study of "any problems
that may arise in connection with the acquisi-
tion" of new fraternity members.
A like committee with identical instructions,
seating members of Panhellenic and Assembly
Associations, was instructed to study problems
peculiar to sorority rushing.
THE SO-CALLED Frank motion asked for the
reports no later than the first week in
March. Progress reports to SGC by Bob Wein-
baum, '56, and Carol De Bruin, '57, said there
will be no delay.
The two committees were further requested
to submit recommendations for handling future
fraternity and sorority rushing.
SGC delegated responsibility for making
recommendations to the committees of the four
housing groups with the assumption the,,groups
would labor in good faith and be mindful of
the larger interests of the University. SGC was
told by the housing groups that their com-.
mittees could come up with united solutions..
The committees have been studying the rush-
ing situation for three months. With eight
days remaining to the deadline the committee
should be working diligently on recommenda-
tions for SGC so no extension of time is neces-
sary.
--JIM ELSMAN

REFRESHING:
Coca Ki*ds
Spectacular
TV Shows
LIVING up to her last name Imo-
gene Coca proved once again
that a ninety minute pause to
watch the original comedienne of
television perform is a pause that
refreshes.
Starring in the Sunday Spectac-
ular "Panorama" which spoofed
television Miss Coca and her sup-
porting players succeeded in an
act which just about every comedy
show has at one time or another
attempted, and which few have
accomplished-making fun of their
own profession.
Considering the fact that it was
a review and that there was a
large cast which included many
stars, Miss Coca was on Camera
for an enormous portion of the
program. There ,could be no ob-
jection to this, however, for Miss
Coca was at her best.
t * *
TONY RANDALL, a newvcomer
to television comedy shows, was a
welcome addition as he capably
introduced the sketches. Eileen
Barton, Richard Hayes, Alan Dale,
Johnny Desmnd and Bambi Linn
and Rod Alexander satarized the
oft-seen "salute shows" with a
salute to the worst songs ever
written.
The most effective sections of
the show were those which were
short and to the point. The first
of these came at the very begin-
ning when Max Liebman made
fun of Max Liebman by having
the typical Liebman opening-a
chorus dancing as the credits are
being shown. Only this time the
credits included over a hundred
ficticious names and at the end
of the list of credits all the dancers
had collapsed and were lying on
the stage.
Another sketch in this category
pictured an emcee of the Ed Sul-
livan species showing a Hollywood
film clip and then introducing thbe
star of the picture "right here on
the stage, live, in person, in the
flesh, right here, on our gtage."
/
* * *
OTHER SHORT SATIRES were
presented on the opening thirty
seconds of "Your Hit Parade,"
"Producer's Showcase" and a sus-
pense show which offered mystery,
murder and cash prizes.
It was on the last portion of the
program where Miss Coca really
shone. Here she performed in an
operetta, "The Merriest Widow,"
and gave her famous characteriza-
tion of "The Tramp" These acts
of buffoonery are similar to those
which made her famous on the
now defunct "Your Show of
Shows."'
Except for a few film clips the
show was presented in RCA's mag-
nificent compatible color. Seeing
shows of this caliber in color real-
ly makes them "spectaculars," and
it was made possible for this re-
viewer through the courtesy of
Casey's Appliance Store.
The show did not produce the
belly - laughs synonymous with
most television comedy shows. It
was not geared for that. But for
those who enjoy their comedy with
their tongue secured ,firmly in
their cheek this was indeed a wel-
come relief.
-Larry Einhorn

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
CostelloM)y RE DeAorted
By DREW P'EARSON :

A TTORNEY General Brownell is
moving vigorously against an
underworld figure regarding whom
the Democrats for a long time
pulled their punches-Frankie Cos-
tello.
On July 21, 1947, almost nine
years ago, this ~'column pointed
out: "It's not generally known, but
the kingpin of American gamblers,
Frankie Costello, could b6 deported
from the United States if anyone
really wanted to get tough about
it."
The column then proceeded to
point out that "Costello did not
tell the. government, when he took
the oath as a citizen, that he had
previously served a term in jail
for carrying a concealed weapon.
"Even more important, a new
citizen of the United States takes
an oath to uphold the laws and
constitution of the United States.
Yet At the very time Costello was
taking his solemn oath as an
American citizen (1925) he was
engaged in the largest scale vio-
lation of the Volstead Act and the
18th Amendment in the history of
prohibition."
* * *
FOLLOWING PUBLICATION, I
personally talked to various mem-
bers of the Justice Department
urging action against CostellO, but
it was not until Senator Kefauver
had focused the spotlight on him
that Attorney General James Mc-
Granery finally moved.
Brownell is now moving with
considerable vigor, and Alfred O'-
Hara, one of his bright young men,

Assistant U.S. Attorney in New
York, will go to trial against Cos-
tello some time in April on three
counts, two of which were outlihned
in this column.
They are: 1, failing to give his
record of arrests; 2, listing of an
erroneous occupation when filing
for citizenship; 3, failure to be
loyal to the laws and constitution
of the United States.
* * *
IT LOOKS LIKE the breach be-
tween Adlai Stevenson and Harry
Truman is widening. Stevenson
forces appear to be frowning on
Harry Truman as keynote speaker
at ' the Chicago convention.
On February 7, Jiggs Donohue,
campaign manager for Senator
Kefauver, wrote a letter to Demo-
cratic National Chairman Paul
Butler, urging Truman as the key-
note speaker. Donohue pointed out
that Truman was for no one candi-
date, was a strong advocate of
Party harmony, and would be the
ideal speaker.
Two weeks passed. No reply.
Came Feb. 20. Donohue wrote
Butler a second letter asking for
a reply. This time he enclosed a
carbon copy to Truman.
Finally, on Feb. 23, Butler re-
plied: "We have not gotten to the
point in our plans and preparations
for the convention where we are
ready to select the keynote speak-
er. However, I can assure you that
your suggestion will be carefully'
considered by the committee called
upon to make recommendations to
the full national committee."

Naturally, a copy of this brush-
off was immediately sent to Harry
Truman. Since Butler was hand-
picked by Adlai Stevenson to be
Democratic Chairman, and since
Governor Harriman, the other
leading Democratic candidate, also
had proposed Truman as keynote
speaker, Harry isn't likely to be
happy about Adlai.
THE WHITE HOUSE requested
photographers covering the recent
heart fund luncheon at the May-
flower not to take pictures of Mrs.
Eisenhower with famed comedian
Victor Borge, because it might give
him publicity. As long as the com-
edian was within camera range
of Mamie, the orders were "no
shots." Photographers obeyed the'
orders. The incident was import-
ant only because it shows how one
part of the press definitely kow-
tows to the White House.
3 * * *
Mrs. Eisenhower is opening the
annual drive to aid victims of
nephrosis. This is a crippling kid-
ney disease that ravages children
and costs their parents as much
as $10,000 in medical and doctors'
bills.
* * *
Said Vermont's Senator Fland-
ers when asked whether he thought
Ike would rufi again: "I'm not a
prophet. I would be more sur-
prised if he doesn't than if he
does." Sounds like another Ver-
monter-Calvin Coolidge.
(Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1956
VOL. LXVHI, NO. 13
General Notices
Petitions to the Hopwood Committee
must be in the Hopwood Room (1006
Angell Hall) by March 1.
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Elliott League. House and Yost League
Douse have been added to the residences
that are eligible to use the late permis-
sion syste. The deadline for submit-
ting plans to the Women's Judiciary
Council is Feb. 29.
Petitioning now open for the student
Government Council. exhange scholar-
ship witgthe Free University of Ber-
lin, for the academic year 1956-57.
Covers all costs but travel costs to the
German border. Petitioning closes
March 16. Petitions available in Quon-
set Hut A, Monday through Friday, 3-S
p.m. Forother information phone Paul
C, Vitz, NO 2-3176.
Detroit Edison Upper-Class Scholar-
ship. Applicant shall be a resident of
the State of Michigan and shall have
completed at least one year of study in
the University in the field that relates
to the electric utility industry such as
economics, accounting, business, and
personnel administration . Applications
should be on file by March 15. Award
will be made in late March for the
present semester. Applications may be
obtained at 113 Administration Bldg.
Noon showing of new - films every
Wed. at 12:30 p.m. in the Audio-visual
Education Center's auditorium, Room
No. 4051, Administration Bldg. This
week two health films, "Understanding
Vitamins" and "Sneezes and Sniffles"
Blue Cross Rate Increase. Effective
March 1, 1956, Michigan Hospital Service
will increase its rates for the hospital
care portion of the Blue Cross-Blue
Shield program. The new rate increases
are .33 a month for a single person
and $1.14 a month for two persons and
family coverage.
Beta Alpha Psi, National Accounting
Honorary Fraternity will meet Wed.,
Feb. 29, 2:30 p.m., fifth floor conference
room, School of Business Administra-
tion, to elect new members.
Lectures
U Nu Lectureship in Burmese Culture.
Tuesday seminar presented by Daw Mya
Sein of Rangoon University held at 3
p.m., Feb. 28 in Room 2407 Mason Hall
instead of 408 General Library. Series of
no credit, no fee lectures open to stu-
dents, faculty and townspeople.
University Lecture. Prof. S. N. Eisen-
stadt, chairman of the Department of
Sociology at the Hebrew University, will
speak on "The Social Structure of
Israel" Feb. 29 at 4:10 p.m. in Ad. A,
Angell Hall. Open lecture.
Academic Notices
Applications for scholarships for the
academic year 1956-57 available in Room
1220 Angell Hall. All applications must
be returned to that office by March
12, 1956. Applicants must have had at
least one semester of residence in this
College.
Schools of Business Administration,
Education, Music, Natural Resources
and Public Health: Students, who. re-
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the end of their last semester or sum-
mer session of attendance, will receive
a grade of "E" in the course or
courses, unless this work is made up.
In the School of Music this date is
March 10. In the Schools of Business
Administration, Education, Natural
Resources and Public Health, the date
is March 13. Students, wishing an
extension of time beyond these dates
in order to make up this work, should
file a petition, addressed to the appro-
priate officials of their School, with.
Room 1513 Admiistration Building,
where it will be transmitted.

Doctoral Candidates who exspect to
receive degrees in June, 1956, must have
at least three bound copies of their
dissertations in the office of the Gradu-
ate School by Fri., May 4. The report
of the doctoral committee on the final
oral examination must be filed with
the Recorder of the Graduate School
together with two copies of the theseis,
which is ready in all respects for pub-
lication, not later than Mon., May 28.
Graduate Students expecting to re-
ceive the master's degree in June, 1956,
must file a diploma application with
the Recorder of the Graduate School by
Fri., March 2. A student will not be
recommended for a degree unless he has
filed formal application in the office
of the Graduate School.
Makeup Examinations in Economics
51, 52, 53; 54, and 153 will be held Fri.,
March 2, at 3:00 p.m. in Room 207,
Economics Building.
Mathematics Colloquium. Tues., Feb.
28, at 4:10 p.m., in Room 3011 A.H.
Dr. Maxwell will speak on "Fixed Points
of Multi-Valued Functions." Coffee and
tea at 3:45 in 3212 A.H.
Philosophy 34 make-up final examina-
tion Thurs., March 1, 1:30 to 4:40 p.m.
in 2208 Angell Hall.
Doctoral Examination for Frank Zago,
Bacteriology; thesis: "Studies on the
Mechanism of Adsorption of Neurotro-
pic Viruses," Tues., 'eb. 28, 1538 East
Medical Bldg., at 3:30 p.m. Chairman,
W. S. Preston.
Placement Notices
SUMMER PLACEMENT:
There will be a meeting of the Sum-
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INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Dul~les and U.S. Policy

By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
SECRETARY DULLES seems to be becoming
argument-prone, just as some people are
accident-prone. f
Sometimes he even seems to be arguing with
himself.
That is not as unnatural as it sounds Any
serious student of world events over the past
several years can sympathize. Emphasis and
tactics in the cold war have been constantly
shifting. Many situations cannot themselves
be described succinctly, and there are few oc-
casions when there is time or space in speeches
and statements to relate many of them to each
other.
This has resulted in spotty reports to Cong-
ress and the public.
For many years American diplomats have
been criticized for not working up a general
policy and sticking to it. In a fundamental
way, there has been general, continuous policy.
To oversimplify, it has been based first on
strength and then on aiding other countries to
arrive at economic situations which dampen the
appeal of Communism.
Editorial Staff
Dave Baad ..... ................ Managing Editor
Jim Dygert .... .............. ............ City Editor
Murry Frymer ..................... Editorial, Director
Debra Durchslag ................... Magazine Editor
David Kaplan ......................... Feature Editor
Jane Howard ..,................. Associate Editor
Louise Tyor . .... ............. Associate Editor
Phil Douglis ....................... Sports Editor
Alan Eisenberg ............... Associate Sports Editor
Jack Horwitz ............... Associate Sports Editor
Mary Helithaler ............,. .. Women's Editor
Elaine Edmonds ........... Associate Women's Editor
John Hirtzel ...................... Chief Photographer

ONE TROUBLE with the situation now is that
the -Administration seems to think it needs
a victory over Russia to help out in the election
campaign, despite its own emphasis on, and a
fairly good public acceptance of, the long-term
nature of the struggle. Dulles is being criti-
cized for not changing policy.
What Dulles says about the Communists
having been forced to abandon certain sinister
aspects of their policy is true. Whether he is
correct in thinking that Moscow's new-type
attack can be met within the general frame-
work of present policy remains to be seen. And
when the Reds may return to previous policy,
or when old and new may be amalgamated
into a campaign using both force and eco-
nomics, none can tell.
It is a disquieting fact, however, that the
Washington Administration seems to be view-
ing the shifts in Russian tactics with more
calm-perhaps more complacency-than other
free world governments.
Arguments for it can be made. It would
seem that Russia, in choosing economics for
the new battlefield, is challenging the West on
its own ground. Indeed, if the West finally
decided it must make this all-out struggle, that
premise would be true.
BUT RUSSIA can ignore the living standards
of its own people to a large extent, in order
to conduct this contest. Democracies cannot,
unless they are able to convince their peoples
that economic mobilization is worth the same
degree of sacrifice which old-type war required.
That is a very difficult thing.
The West, and particularly the United States,
has done enough dabbling with economic aid
programs to demonstrate that there is a great
deal to be learned about their application. The
technique of fitting them into local political
and cultural situations is far from mastered.
The Western administrators do not have the
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PROF. THEODORE NEWCOMB:
Value of Social Psychology Today Presented


By ERNEST THEODOSSIN
Daily Staff Writer
DR. THEODORE M. Newcomb,
chairman of the social psy-.
chology program, is one of the
nation's leading social psycholo-
gists. Below, Dr. Newcomb answers
some general questions about the
background and purposes of his
feld.
Q. What is included in the
study of Social psychology?
A. Social psychology has to do
with human behavior, either with
the single individual as socially in-
fluenced or with groups of inter-
acting individuals. Much of social
psychology has therefore to do
with individuals viewed as. group
members and with the process of
social interaction.
Q. What are some applications
of social psychology?
A. Applications range from pub-
lic opinion polling to problems of
leadership and administration to
considering industrial morale and
group therapy.
Q. What job opportunities are
there in the field?
A. The kinds of jobs that post-
Ph.D.'s can go into tend to be in

published entitled "Experimental
Social Psychology" indicating that
it has a research basis of at least
a quarter century.
But it has been only since the
last world war that people have'
been specifically employed as social
psychologists. I suppose this hap-
pened because there was need for
studies of troop morale in armed
forces, of morale in enemy coun-
tries, and experiments on com-
munication. Social psychology is
relatively in its infancy, but the
fact that it was a relatively late
child gave it certain advantages
by way of borrowing from more
mature developments in related
disciplines.
Q. How much ofr social psy-
chology is really "scientific'?y
A. It is perfectly true that a
great deal of what has been called
social psychology is at the level
of opinion rather than fact. After
all, everyone is his own social psy-
chologist. But fortunately, insofar
as one is committed to testing
one's opinions or hypotheses by
empirical and scientific methods,
one has a kind of built-in correc-
tive for mistakes.
A good deal earlier experimental

A. It is often said that the social
sciences are lagging behind the
physical sciences and that if so-
ciety was able to control itself as
well as it can control natural

this field are most often em-
ployed by professional workers,
how is the accumulated knowl-
edge of social psychology likely
to affect this "average man'?
A. This raises the danger of
exploitation by the "expert" of the
inexpert. People like George Orwell
have painted the kind of "Hell on
Earth" that could arise from what
I would regard as an unfortunate
application of theoretical findings
of social science.
My own reply to this would be
that every advance in ,nowledge
carries with it a danger-the dis-
covery of atomic knowledge being
the most recent illustration. Quite
literally there has been no inven-
tion which has not been unwisely
used and often with -consequences
of injustice or even death. I think
social science knowledge is in no
respect different from this.
I like to remember a sentence
from theanti-democratic writer
Gustave Le Bon in 1895, "It is
fortunate for the progress of civ-
ilization that the power of crowds
only began to exist when the great
discoveries of science and indus-
try had already been effected."'

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