Sixty-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICR. * Phone NO 2-3241 "Yahoooo!" 4 en Opinions Are Free, 'ruth Will Prevail 0~ Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. ; . ?v. t : a s^.'yti'.d' r nti . x 'c;!- S M j{ ,. Y AT THE ORPHEUM, Fernandel Triumphs Over Devil's Disciples A POOR OLD strolling musician and his faithful little monkey seek shelter from a snowstorm at a country inn. The musician is brutually murdered; the circumstances by which the assassions are brought to justice is the story of "The Red Inn." The rather high-strung but effective instrument of truth is Fer- nandel, the man with the unbelievable face. URDAY, MARCH 3, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: DICK SNYDER Southern Leaders Foresaking Leadership For Politics TENSION in the South is building up at a fearful rate. The scene for a general erup- tion of violence is being set with each passing day. "Southern leaders, more anxious for their political security than for the general welfare of the areas they are pledged to serve, are doing little to ease the tensions-indeed, they are do- ing their utmost to excite them. Two defenses are generally made for the utterances of political leaders in the South: 1) they could not, if they wished, avert hos- tilities because the issues involved are too deep- ly rooted in the emotions of the people, and 2) in telling the people what they want to hear the southern leaders are just acting as politicians always act.- The first defense is illogical. As obvious as it may appear that the governors and senators from the South could not end racial hatreds by simply.supporting the Supreme Court man- date, it is just as obvious that they could pro- vide an element of leadership-leadership which now-resides in the mobs. Politicians are always prone to defend their actions on the grounds that they are just "politicking." This is a good defense in many cases but not here. Existence of a serious crisis is a point at which the politician must value his political neck after the responsibili- ties ahead. ONE OF THE more disturbing aspects of the segregation issue is the reappearance of the dangerous Doctrine of Interposition. Basi- cally it claims the states have the right to de- termine the constitutionality of federal laws and ignore those it finds unconstitutional. In effect it places sovereignty of the states above that of the federal government. The Doctrine is as outmoded as the Articles of Confederation. When last espoused, and brilliantly so by John C. Calhoun, it led the country to war-The Civil War. Permitting the states 'to protest 'unconsti- tutional' acts of the federal government is fully consistent with our principles of government-- the individual citizen enjoys this right. But in giving the states the right to deter- mine which acts are or are not constitutional the Doctrine poses perhaps the most serious possible internal threat to democracy. The danger is simply that once invoked, the Doctrine can not be adjudicated. Once the Southern states declare their re- fusal to abide by the Supreme Court decision, using the Doctrine of Interposition as the ra- tionale, they preclude any peaceful attempt to reconcile the opposing views. The Supreme Court cannot declare the Doc- trine unconstitutional and prohibit its use be- cause the states, again relying on the Doctrine, declare the prohibition itself unconstitutional. UNLESS either the states renounce the Doc- trine or the federal government acknow- ledges it as legally binding, only force can settle the dispute. It is a difference in principle which admits no middle ground. It is, of course, extremely unlikely that the Southern states will carry the fight that far. The recent flares of violence resemble the last intense fight of a cornered squirrel. It is much more likely that after saving face and screaming for a while the southern leaders will quietly, if reluctantly, attempt to enforce mandate of the court. But the inherent crime is that they are will- ing to excite the emotions of a tense people (both black and white) and take the risk, no matter how small, that lies in using the Doc- trine, to save their political faces. -LEE MARKS ^ .f,}k, Z'! .:iY ! i _) + §.J .. . t 's ' 41UeI INE .+ ; a ° q y oJASHr t ront POST The three inhuman monsters killing their overnight visitors for some twenty years: the innkeep- ers, a man, his wife, and a gigantic African with a fixation for knives, have found this a highly profit- able business. Theirs is a profit with little risk, since they drug the guests before business hours, and, as an extra dividend, they have constantly refreshed soil for their summer gardens. WHEN providence deposits a stagecoachful of unexpected guests at their hearth, the inn's hosts are overjoyed, particularly since the exchange with the musician had been unsatisfactory, one scarcely covering overhead and incidentals. They set out to make the most of their opportunity, doubly indust- rious at their work with the pros- pect of peaceful retirement beck- oning to them upon completion of a final killing., They did not reckon on the re- sources of the wily priest, a man who carrys part of St. Frances' tibia in a golden vessel, and to whom St. Frances converses in dialect; this man is Fernandel. Uncovering the truth of the dreadful household when the inn- keeper's wife coyly confesses to him through a griddle that the firm has dealt with something over a hundred guests, the priest real- izes he must play it close to the chest or else all the unsuspecting visitors mightabehadded to the list as well as the team's first priest and non-secular prize. DRUMMING HOME the moral as underlined in the majestic bal- lade that opens and closes the film-the moral that all those are protected who cherish virtue-the priest is able to keep one step ahead of the vile three and so revenge the musician's monkey. This is not a film, as you might have gathered, for the strictly orthodox or militantly pure; the priest is a man who must save the travelers' lives with any means he has, and luckily he finds a snowball on hand at tie crucial instant. FERNANDEL'S MAIN antagon- ist, aside from the gigantic African who occasionally exchanges knife for hammer, is Francoise Rosay, who plays the innkeeper's wife. Together with the innkeeper, these two make up as gruesome and deadly a trio as have ever crossed the screen: they are a threesome of such extraordinarily evil capabilitfes they are worthy of testing the mettle of even such a man as Fernandel. -Culver Eisenbeis AT THE STATE: who run the Red Inn have been DAIL'Y 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. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for the Sunday edition must be in by 2 p.m. Friday. SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1956 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 17 General Notices Kappa Delta Alumnae Scholarship Award of $150 will be made payable at the time of Registration for the 1956-57 academic year. Given to any sophomore or junior woman who is a regularly en- rolled student at the University of Michigan, on the basis of scholarship, activity record, and need. Apply at the Office of the Dean of Women, where applications must be filed by noon, Sat., March 17, 1956. Students and Staff Members who have already rented one picture from Art Print Loan and wish to secure another one may do so Monday and Tuesday, March 5 and 6. Hours 8-12 and 1-51 510 Administration Bldg. (basement) There is still a fine selection of prints avail- able. Summer Housing Applications for graduate and undergraduate women's housing will be accepted from, women now registered on campus beginning at noon, Wed, March 7. Applicants will be accepted for both residence halls and supplementary housing, Office of the Dean of Women Late Permission: All women students who attended the Arthur Rubenstein Concert on March 1, 1956, will have 11:20 late permission. Judiciary Council Lectures Dr. C. Freeman Allen will lecture on "Fatty Acids of the Tubercie Bacillus, on Mon., Mar. 5, at 4:15 in Chemistry Bldg. 1300. i 4 4 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Problem of a aRnnin-Mate By DREW PEARSON: Found-An Issue AT LAST an issue which is a challenge to the deep-thinking and inventive minds of the Democratic and Republican parties! Past campaigns have merely grazed the vast intellectual resources at party disposal. At last an issue on which men can meet as men, to consider the state of health-not of the nation (lesser minds have sullied that is- sue), not of the world (the public cannot ap- preciate the immensity and dignity of that topic), not of the cosmos (and lose, our earth- bound heritage?)-but of the state of health of that fine and venerable gentleman from Abi- lene. In past campaigns we had the feeling that the burning issues of the day burned only for newspaper headlines. We do not question the sincerity of political candidates; we only as- sert that until now they have not had a subject worthy of their truest, deepest expression. At last they will be able to exercise their fullest powers. Furthermore, we face a campaign which promises to give the unexpected its proper! prominence. The battle-scarred General catches a cold on an early morning stroll around the farm-a sudden upward swing for his oppon- ents! In past years Mamie's bangs were the subject of devoted emulation; in 'this campaign, Ike's neck-warmer. We look forward to a year of inspiring politics. -DEBRA DURCHSLAG; Magazine Editor BIGGEST backstage p o 1 i t I c a 1 hassle since Ike passed out the word has been over who would be his running mate. Actually the hassle began be- fore Ike gave the word, as reported in this column on Feb. 3, but it has become more intense today, Originally there were two camps -pro and con Dick Nixon. Today there seems to be one big camp against Nixon, with only one man in the other camp for Nixon. That one man, however, has more weight than all the others-Dwight D. Eisenhower. As long as Yee favors Nixon, and as long as he is running, Nixon will remain on the ticket. .* . HOWEVER, the forces on the other side are considerable. They were first led by Gen. Lucius Clay, former Commander of the U. S. Forces in Germany, now head of Continental Can. Lined up with Clay has been ex-Gov. Tom Dewey, and ex-Marshall-Plan Administra- tor Paul Hoffman. These are among Ike's closest friends; are sometimes called his New York brain trust. More recently, some of the Cabi- net members who like Nixon and still are for him personally have turned against him politically. They include such men as Secre- tary of the Treasury Humphrey, has always befriended Nixon, At- torney General Brownell, and even GOP Chairman Len Hall.. Hall is publicly emphatic that Nixoh should be on the ticket. But privately, all these White House intimates know that the American people, come next November, will be voting as much for the Vice President as the President. They know that with Nixon- there is no middle course, people either like him or dislike him. There was no question but that President Eisenhower at one time had definitely and categorically de- cided not to run again. He had even shied away from running be- fore his heart attack, and the first weeks following the attack drove all thought of running again out of his mind. . s . HIS CHANGE of mind was ac- complished by one of the greatest sales jobs ever accomplished in political history. It was put across by a small group of White House friends and advisers, part of it carefully planned, part of it impromptu. They weren't quite sure up until the trip to Thomasville, Ga., that they had succeeded. Even now there could be a change before the convention. The first salesman to get into action was James Hagerty, the White House Press Secretary, who' has become quite close to Eisen- hower and who flew out to Denver immediately after the heart at- tack. One of Hagerty's first moves was to work with Dr. Paul D. White, the talkative Boston heart specialist, to make sure he talked only with Hagerty at his side. Once, when Dr. White made a statement in Boston voicing pessimism over Eisenhower's ability to run again, White immediately heard from Hagerty. After that he spoke only with Hagerty present. Second salesman was the astute Len Hall, Chairman of the Repub- lican National Committee. He was among the first to reverse the political despair which immediate- ly settled over Republicans by ad- vising a wait-and-see policy. Ike, he cheered, might well run again. About the same time, Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey, At- torney General Brownell, Assist- ant President Sherman Adams de- vised the strategy of taking P, certain amount of work out to Denver for signature: first, to re- store confidence to the country; second, to restore confidence to Eisenhower. S -s EISENHOWER w a s terribly bored at Denver. This helped get him in the mood to run again. Later, at Gettysburg, Ike was also bored. This was one of the biggest factors helping the little group of salesmen who were de- termined to make him run again. The salesmen had decided on the strategy of telling every- one that Ike was going to run again. They had nothing to base that on. But they figured that if they assumed he would run and kept telling themselves and the country this was a fact, the unani- mity of this determination was bound to have its effect on the President. It did-though not until quite late. (Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 1 I, TODAY AND TOMORROW: Behind Ike's Decision By WALTER LIPPMANN THE PRESIDENT has had such a hard time making up his mind that, as he said on Wednesday, he was still debating the question on Tuesday. He has made it abundantly clear that the question for him has been whether he could conscientiously say that within his physi- cal limitations he could carry the burden of the Presidency for another five years. In the end what he did was to let himself be persuaded by his friends, and with the approval of doctors, that he should not say no. But because he himself had such serious doubts, he accepted the view that after telling the truth about his condition he could leave the final decision to a referendum of the voters. Thus, he himself made his own fitness the central issue of the campaign. The argument to which he yielded was that there are compelling reasons why he should head the Republican ticket. There is no other Republican who has a good prospect of win- ning the election, none who can keep the party reasonably united on a policy of modera- tion, none who can keep the country united on the issues of war and peace. Four years, as he said Wednesday evening, have not been long enough to reorganize and modernize the party. A defeat this year would precipitate a disastrous internal struggle between the Taft and the Dewey wings of the party. If, there- fore, Eisenhower himself does not lead the party victory, these four Republican years will have been no more than a brief interlude in Editorial Staff Dave Baad ...,....................... Managing Editor Jim Dygert ............................... City Editor Murry Frymer ...................... Editorial Director Debra Durchsiag .................... Magazine Editor David Kaplan ......................... Feature Editor Jane Howard "....................... Associate Editor Louise Tyor .......................... Associate Editor Phil Douglis ................. ... Sports Editor that period of the Democratic Party's suprem- acy which began in 1933. This, in effect, is the argumenft which has prevailed with the President. He himself dis- likes the word, but the argument is in fact that he is the indispensable man. And so far as the safety of the nation depends upon having a Republican President, Eisenhower is indeed the indispensable man. THIS IS A POWERFUL argument. But the President did not yield to it without a struggle of conscience. He did not hide his feelings on Wednesday evening and that was why, though he made himself available, the burden of his talk was what he could not and would not be able to do. It was the talk of a man who has managed to say yes but is still full of doubt and misgiving. This was unavoidable. Given his age and his illness, the one thing the doctors cannot promise him is that he may count on having the extraordinary energies required by the Presi- dent of the United States. They may tell him, as they have told him, that by following a regime the risks of death or disability are no greater in his case than for any other man. But the realrisk is that of a diminishing chief executive in what promise to be increasingly difficult and trying days. Five years are a long time at the President's age, and under our system of government there is no way to dele- gate the critical responsibilities of the office. When the President is diminished, there is no one who can anticipate, seize, and master the great issues. Then the basic line of policy is to muddle through somehow. Uncertainty about the Presidency has be- clouded all our affairs for several months. The uncertainty has not been cleared away. The debate which has been going on inside the White House and in the President's mind is now to become a public debate in an election year. The people are to decide the most un- usual question which has ever been put to a democracy. It is a big gamble. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:F Foreign Students Position ISA and SGC . . To the Editor: T APPEARS that some miscon- ceptions have arised in certain circles on campus as a result of the publication in The Daily of Wednesday, Feb. 29th., of an inter- view between a reporter from the Daily staff and myself on the topic of the forthcoming S.G.C. elections, and the role of I.S.A. in these elections. It has been the practice in pre- vious years for candidates for of- fice on the student governing body, to meet with the international students, to present their programs and obtain support in the election. The international students have long felt the need for more oppor- tunity to play a part in the matter of student government, and it is generally agreed that this end would be obtained if an interna- tional student should be elected to the Council. That international student re- presentation on S. G. C. is a de- sirable thing hardly needs com- ment. We feel that this repre- sentation could best be obtained by actually having an interna- tional student on the Council. Now, every international stud- national candidate. This could be done through ex-officio member- ship. This point was made quite clear but appears to have been ove '- looked in the article. The Inter- national Students Association has been working very closely with the S.G.C. this semester, through the S.G.C. sub-committee on Interna- tional Affairs. To state that the I.S.A. as an organization is seek- ing an office on the Council is tantamount to implying that I.S.A. is not satisfied S.G.C. co-operation. This would be untrue. I.S.A.'s role in these elections is to spread interest in them through the international student body, and will devote much more effort to this end than previously. This effort will extend so far as to urge students to consider becoming candidates for the election, and if the response to this is good, the I.S.A. will feel that it has done its job. If on the other hand the response is bad, the Association will attempt to induce a candidate to come forward to represent the international students. The As- sociation is acting in this respect as a "safety valve'' and not as a "shut out." We have no desire to pledge support to one candidate, he would be competent to assist in solving some of the problems which would crop up. This, basically is our feeling in this matter, and it is unfortunate that the write up of the article should have indicated otherwise. The necessity of such a letter as this reflects, I think, rather badly upon the ability of the Daily to report, impartially, the facts. The misconstruction placed on my" remarks has caused some con- cern, and I wish to state very em- phatically that I.S.A. will not seek organizational representation in the S.G.C. elections. While we are on this subject, I would like to draw attention to the report in this morning's Daily (Thursday, March 1st.) that the International Center would be en- tering a float for Michgras. This should read I.S.A. --John A. Wallwork, Grad. New Books at Library Pernoud, Regine--The Retrial of Joan of Arc; N.Y., Harcourt, Brace, 1955. Pugh, John-Blade of Honor; Boston, Little, Brown, 1955. Revnnlds .am - - .. 'Bottle' Aims At Too Much "THE Bottom of the Bottle" is a movie which tries to do too many things at once. It sprawls itself across the screen and spreads out, too thinly, in too many direc- tions. It deals concurrently with the problems of marital relations, brotherly love, degeneratersociety, acute alcoholism, and law and order. It takes a mighty swing at each of these, but somehow never quite lands a solid punch. Based on one of George Sime- non's rapidly written pocket-size paper-backed tales, "The Bottom of the Bottle" is advertised as an expose of the evils of modern Ari- zonaranch society. This is what it starts out as, but it soon gets ham- strung by the usual Hollywood chi- canery: wild and bruising fist fights, hair-breadth escapes from death, and to top it off a chase- mounted posse and all. * * * AT THE BEGINNING of the film we are introduced to Pat Martin (Joseph Cotton), wealthy lawyer and gentleman rancher - a loved and respected pillar of society in the small Southwestern commun- ity he lives in. He has worked hard to get where he is. He has a big house, a large estate, a beautiful wife (Ruth Roman), and a host of hard-drinking, fast-talking, plea- sure-seeki g friends. Suddenly, without warning, a hand reaches out from the past and taps him on the shoulder, and in so doing threatens to ruin his life. The hand belongs to his younger brother Donald, (Van Johnson) an alcoholic ne'er-do- well. Donald, being pursued by the forces of the law, drops in on brother Pat and asks for a night's refuge. WHEN AN UNEXPECTED flood forces Donald to remain a' few more days with his brother. the Concerts Teresa Stich-Randall, distinguished operatic star, who has made sensational operatic successes in Europe, will give one of her four American concerts in the Extra Concert Series, Fri., March 9, at $ :30 o'clock in Hill Auditorium. Tickets are available at the offices of the University Musical Society in Bur- ton Memorial Tower and will also 14e available after 7:00 o'clock on the night of the performance at the Hill Auditor- ium box office. Academic Notices Aeronautical Engineering High Alti- tude seminar. Mr. L. M. Jones of the Upped Atmosphere Research Group will speak on "Survey of High Altitude Re- search," Mon., March 5, at 4:00 p.m., in Room 1504 East Eng. Bldg. Open to seniors, graduate students, andstaff members. Seminar: On "Future Trends in the Helicopter and vertical Take-off Field," by Mr. Norman C. Taylor, Chief Engi- neer, Piasecki Helicopter Corporation, Morton, Pennsylvania, Mon., March 5, at 5:00 p.m., in Room 311 West Engineer- ing Building. Placement Notices SUMMER PLACEMENT INTERVIEWS: Sat., March 3: Mr .Leonard Baruch, Camp Petosega, Petoskey, Mich., will interview for Counselors, Michigan Union, Room 30, 2-5:30 p.m. The following schools will have repre- sentatives at the Bureau of Appoint- ments to interview teachers for Septem- ber. Mon., March 5: Otsego, Mich.-Teacher needs: Elemen- tary; High School Football Coach. Tues., March 6: 'Grand Rapids, Mich.-Teacher needs: Elementary; Music; Physical Education, Boys; Special Education. Clarkson, Mich. - Teacher needs; Elementary; Junior High Math; Science: High School Industrial Arts; Arts & Crafts; Special Education - Mentally Handicapped; Speech correction; Elem, Instrumental Music. Wed., March 7: Hazel Park, Mich.-Elementary. Battle Creek, Mich.-Teacher needs: Elementary; Elementary Physical Edu- cation; 7th Grade Core-Social Studies; 8th Grade Core-science/Math; High School Commercial Math. Thurs., March 8: Detroit, Mich.-Teacher needs: All fields. Midland, Mich.-Teacher needs: Ele- mentary; Librarians; Science; Vocal Music; Arts;' Girls Phys. Ed. Fri., March 9: Montclair, N. J.-Teacher needs: Ele- mentary: School Librarains; Reading Consultant; Junior High Ind. Arts; English/S. S.; Junior or Senior High Science; Consultants in Health/P E, Music and Art. Park Forest, Illinois (Rich Township Schools)-Teacher needs: High School English; English/S S; World Studies; Physical Science; Biology; Algebra; Math.; Art; Typing and Gen. Business. For additional information and ap- pointments 3528 Administration Bldg., NO 3-1511,' Ext. 489. The following schools have listed vacancies for September, 1956. They will not send representatives to the A t i 1