Sixty-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORrY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 -~.- inlons Are Free, will PrevaU" als printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. AY, MARCH 20, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: MARY ANN THOMAS Governor Playing Politics With Mental Health Bill GOVERNOR'S actions in the mental th dispute are far from exemplary. His ts to prevent passage of the Coleman ye managed to confuse the basic issues d and endanger much needed reform es. Gov. Williams may be sincerely. op- o the methodology proposed in the Cole- il but all he has demonstrated so far is nism for Sen. Coleman. e sincerity and logic are called for the or has come up with politics. basic issue is simply that Michigan is ting a good return on its investment in health. The Governor acknowledges id claims to advance the "brains not approach advocated in the Coleman itial feature of the "brains" philosophy t at the root of the mental health prob- enlarging training and research pro- instead of simply building more and ospitals for the mentally ill. Coleman Bill proposes to place the g and research programs in the hands nmittee responsible to the Board of Re- rhe Committee is to include representa- rom the University, Wayne, MSU, the health commission and probably the. r of the Lafayette Clinic. Bill is patterned after the famous "Kan- >gram" engineered by Dr. William C. ger. Despite Gov. Williams' attempt to nninger as an adversary of the Bill, it ar to the plan Menninger proposed in WILLIAMS introduced deedless con- )n when he quoted from Menninger's The Coleman Bill does not, as Mennin- gested, place the program in the hands University. The basic program is ad- red by a state-wide committee. True, it, nsible to the Board of Regents but this ily because it must be responsible to onstitutional body-preferably one not ed with Civil Service. eason for circumventing (the Civil Serv- o avoid limitations of salary and other e which would hamper efforts to at- )p talent.I Governor claims he wants cooperation he University and Wayne but not con- is sounds good for the press but in the of specific proposals for implementing I mental health program it isn't likely many of the mentally ill. likely the Governor's motives for oppo- diversity control are not as altruistic as es them out to be. Mental Health Commission (which now the program) claims the Coleman L1 "sound the, death knell" to further S. is a hard pill to swallow. Under the sion there hasn't been a great deal of progress. Their contention, voiced by Director Charles Wagg, that separation of training and research from patient care is not logically sound is true. But the Coleman Bill just doesn't call for the degree of separation Wagg would have the public believe it does. Control is separated but the Coleman Bill calls for coordination of the two functions - a lot of coordination. The Governor's opposition to the bill makes sense--but only from a political viewpoint. He isn't doing much to help advance the State's mental health program. -LEE MARKS Allen's Alley Loses Neighbor AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED and probably best known thoroughfare has seen its last pedestrian. Allen's Alley is no longer open to the public. Fred Allen started in vaudeville. He gained national prominence in radio. He tried, unsuccessfully at first, to maintain this status in television. Two years ago he once again climbed to the top as a panelist on "What's My Line?" Sunday night his colleagues paid tribute to him by presenting "What's My Line" as usual. "The show must go on." Portland Hoffa has lost her husband. Mrs. Nusebaum, Senator Claghorn and Titus Moody' have lost their neighbor. America has lost one of its greatest humorists, --LARRY EINHORN An Uncluttered Book STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL is to be congratulated for its work on next semester's Student Activities Booklet. Printing a campus manual that will include space for all University organizations is com- mendable. Such a manual would eliminate many needless leaflets issued by activity groups. In the past, when individual campus organi- zations published descriptive material concern- ing their activities, emphasis was that students should join the particular activity therein de- scribed because it would benefit them in in- numerable ways. Incoming students were sub- jected to this on all sides. Each activity claimed to be vital to the student's "well-rounded education." It is hoped that Student Activities Booklet will eliminate unnecessary propaganda about campus organizations and print only what is essential to convey the purposes and functions of these groups. Let this stand as a plea for an uncluttered, compact Student Activities Booklet. -RENE GNAM "Ah, That Good Old Sunshine" \ i .~z(jgo P~Fo ---.--- - ,.S :F 4r r --j WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:u Dems LTletabor Counsel yES By DREW PEARSON ti ; Two Books On Writers & Writing TWO brand new titles have ap- peared on the book stands re- cently, both the work of well, known figures. One of the books is about writers, the other is for writers. Since a book written on virtually any aspect of the re- spected profession of creative writ- ing generally finds a very large and interested audience, these two works fall within the broadest public domain. * * * The Writer Observed by Har- vey Breit, World Publishing Co. Harvey Breit is perhaps best known as a writerfor the brief interviews with authors of note which he contributes to the pages of "The New York Times Book Review." He has had this "Times" assignment for some eight years now; and, in the process of ful- filling his interviewing mission, he has come up with a new, miniature literary genre-the fingernail per- sonality sketch. The Writer Observed is a col- lection of sixty-one of these little one-shot impressions written by Breit while patrolling the contem- porary literary scene.' The figures he describes are familiar to every American reader, and herein lies much of the charm of the pieces. We are given informal glimpses into the personalities of such old- timers as Maugham, Eliot, Mar- quand, Faulkner and Hemingway as well as nicely drawn portraits of relative newcomers of the like of Truman Capote, Saul Bellows, Nelson Algren and James Jones. It is extremely interesting to ob- serve Breit at work on these word pictures. Seated at a table, the late Robert Sherwood is "an elon- gated jack knife of a man;" Ed- mund Wilson has a face of. clas- sic profile "all in all looking a good deal like a top-level Roman Sena- tor;" James Jones "retains his fighter's figure . . . He has a prize fighter's relaxed poise, a sort of easy-going quality that, obviously, one mustn't take advantage of or misjudge." This collection of Breit sketches is an interesting sampler for the most casual of readers; and, for the record, the author has pre- faced the .book with a long his- torical and technical exposition on the what, how, why, when and wherefore of the conceiving and writing of these miniatures for the country's leading Sunday lit- erary supplement. * * * HOW TO WRITE A STORY AND SELL IT by Adela Rogers St. Johns, Doubleday. The author of this random man- ual, Adela Rogers St. Johns, apol- ogizes in her first sentence for the title of the book. Any reader of this work will agree that it is only proper that she do so. How To Write A Short Story And Sell It is & very personal ac- count of the author's love affair with creative writing. Mrs. St. Johns is an active, successful writ- er who has published to date about two hundred short stories (almost exclusively for the women's maga- zines), the very latest of which is available this month at any news- stand. The organization of the book is such that it must be read as a story. There are no chapter head- ings, no thematic divisions. Actu- ally, it is a story of sorts-of what the author has learned, how she has learned it, and how long the whole process has taken her. Her advice to writers is sound and standard: the short story writ- er must be honest, must observe everyone and everything constant- ly, must write exclusively about what he feels, and must believe in what he writes. It should be noted here that the book itself cannot be accepted as a model for would-be writers, for it is marred by numerous defects in the prose which, one ;feels, can be most readily explained as by- products of hasty composition. In the final analysis, if the book does fail to-suggest any succinct, operative method for short story writers, as the title infers, it does have one other redeeming factor. The book is an eloquent, illustrated restatement of the claim that pro- 'fessional creative writing offers one of the most pleasant and reward- ing careers imaginable. -Donald A. Yates HE HACKLES bristled on the necks of 11 Denocratic Con- gressmen at a closed-door, highly secret meeting in the office of Congressman Graham Barden, Democrat of New Bern, N.C. Barden is the courtly Carolin- ian, Chairman of the House Ed- ucation and Labor Committee who began life as a school teacher but is now bitterly opposed to aid to education. He has become one of the most reactionary members of Congress. Barden is so reactionary that he has held not one meeting of his Education and Labor Committee since Congress convened in Jan- uary, instead rules the committee with his own iron hand. Though he took time to arrange a nice committee junket to Puerto Rico, he will not take one hour to call a regular meeting. What forced this impromptu meeting of Democrats only in Barden's private office, was the fact that he had hired a recog- nized labor-baiter, James M. Brewbaker, as counsel of the com- mittee-a committee which is en- trusted with liberalizing the Taft- Hartley Act, broadening wage- hour laws and passing Federal aid to education. * * * YET WITHOUT consulting a single member of the commit- tee, Barden had hired a "labor ad- viser" who had spent 11 years working for the anti-labor Nation- al Association of Manufacturers and later formed his own anti- labor outfit, the Association of Industrial Mobilization. Eleven glowering Democrats, therefore, gathered in Barden's of- fice. Barden, in turn, matched their glowers. "We should wash our linen within the confines of our own committee," he said, frowning at Congressman Jimmy Roosevelt, who had issued a press statement criticizing the Brewbaker ap- pointment. "I don't agree," replied Roose- velt. He went on to point out that when the committee chairman ap- pointed an anti-labor counsel without consulting other Con- gressmen, he had every right to express his view publicly and em- phatically. Two Southern Democrats did DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN : IN THIS CORNER: The College Thinker not bristle. They defended Bar- den. "We should stay withlthe chair- man," insisted Rep. Carl Elliott of Alabama. "The committee grant- ed him the authority to hire the counsel and I will stay with him on his choice." * * * REPRESENTATIVE Phil Lan- drum of Georgia, nodded agree- ment. The other Democrats did not agree. And for three hours they expressed their views in no uncer- tain terms. Those who protested Barden's high-handed operation were: Kelley of Pennsylvania, Bai- ley of West Virginia, Perkins of Kentucky, Wier of Minnesota, Metcalf of Montana, Chudoff of Pennsylvania, Green of Oregon, McDowell of Delaware, Thompson of New Jersey, and Udall of Ari- zona. "I never dreamed anyone would question his integrity," .Barden protested, referring to Brewbaker. The courtly Carolinian was be- ing naive. For Brewbaker has gone about-as far as possible to. go in professional labor - baiting. After 11 years with the NAM, he estab- lished his own Association of. In- dustrial Mobilization which adver- tised to industry that for $1,000 a year it would supply them with so-called industry "research stud- ies." WHAT THESE "research stud- ies" actually were was disclosed in Brewbaker's trustee memorandum No. 4, which promised that Brew- baker's organization "would 'pre- pare educational material designed to inform the American people of those activities of organized groups which, if carried to excess, will destroy free collective bar- gaining and eventually free com- petitive private enterprise." Brewbaker's first study was "Union Political Expenditures," based on material from the Sen- ate Republican Policy Committee. However, business groups didn't seem interested enough to pay $1,- 000 a year for this labor-baiting service, and $xewbaker was avail- able for another job. Congressman Barden obliged by giving him a key post where he could pass on labor laws for the entire United States. (Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Continued from Page 2) Seminar In Conflict Resolution (Prob- lems in the Integration of the Social Sciences, Economics 353) will'meet Tues., March 20, at 3 p~m. in the Conference Room of the Children's Psychiatric Hos pital. Dr. Ralph W. Gerard will speak on "Cooperation and Conflict as Modes of Integration." Botanical Seminar. Herman F. Becker, Department of Botany, will speak on "An Oligocene Flora from the Ruby River Basin in Southwestern Montana." 4:15 p.m., Wed., March 21, 1139 Natural Science. Refreshments at 4:00. American Chemical Society Lecture. Wed., March 21, 8:00 p.m., Room 1300 Chemistry Buding. F. E. McGrew, Assistant Research Director, DuPont olychemicals Dept., will speak on "Mile- stones in Understanding Polymer Struc- ture." Placement Notices The representative from the Albion Public Schools at Albion, Michigan will be unable to interview candidates for teaching positions on Tues., March 20 as previously announced. We are can- celling all his appointments. For additonal Infopnation please con- tact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Bldg., NO 3-1511, Ext. 489. SUMMER PLACEMENT: Meeting of the Summer Placement Service In Room 3G Michigan Union, 3G, 1 to 4:45 p.m. Types of jobs range from technical and non-technical business to camps and resorts. SUMMER PLACEMENT INTERVIEWS: Representatives from the following will be at the Michigan Union, Room 3G, 1 to 4:45 p.m. Thursday, March 22: Arnet Cole, Ann Arbor YMCA Camp, will interview for Counselors. Mrs. H. Gross, Ann Arbor YWCA, will interview for Counselors. Stanley J. Michaels, Camp Nahet, Ortonville, Mich., will interview for male and female Counselors. *Sam Marcus, Fresh Air Society, De- troit, Mich., will interview for Coun- selors. Ronald Thompson, Chief Ta-Kee-Ko- Mo Day Camp, Ann Arbor, will Inter- view for male and female Counselors. Mrs. Christine Pickett, Manage for Michigan Education Association of New York, publishers of "The volume Li- brary," will interview for Salespersons. Terry Adderle, Russell Kelly Office Service, Detroit, will interview women for Typists, Stenographers, General Office Clerks to work in offices of Detroit firms for the summer. sidney Weiner, Div.-Supervsor, The Easterling Co., Ann Arbor, will inter- view for Salesmen. PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS: Representatives from the following will be at the 'Engrg. School: Wednesday, March 21: Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mss.-all levels in Ch.E., Elect., Mech., Physics, and Chem. for Operations, Re- search and Digital Computation. Thursday, March 22: Linde Air Products Co., Div. of UCCC, Indianapolis, Ind.-PhD in Elect. X. for Research and Devel. Thurs., Fri., March 22, 23: Westinghouse Elect. Corp., Detroit, Mich.-all levels in Aero., Ch.E., Civil, Elect., Ind., Instru., Math., Mech., Eng. Mech., Metal., Naval and Marine, Nu- clear, Physics, and Science for Research, Devel., anud Design. U.S. citizen. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio-B.S. and M.S. in Ch.E., Elec., Ind., Mech.; B.S. in Civil and Metal. for Research, Devel., Design, Prod., and Constr. Friday, March 23: Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, Calif. M.S. or PhD in Mech. and Aero. U.S. citizen. No ROTC applicants. Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., De- troit, Mich.-B.S. ini Ch.E., Elect., Ind., Mech., Metal., and Accounting for Prod., Sales, Quality Control, and Acctg., U.S. citizen. Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Chicago, Ill.-all levels in Civil, Constru., Ind., and Metal, for Devel., Design, Prod., Constr., and Sales. U.S. citizen. U.S. Rubber Co., Tire Devel. Div, Detroit, Mich.-al levels in Chem.E., Elect., Mat., Math., Mech., Physics, and Science for Research and Devel. U.S. citizen. Olin Mathleson Chem. Corp., New York, N.Y.-a elevels in Ch.E. B.S. and M.S. in Elect., Ind., Mech., Physics, and Science for Research, Devel, Design, and Prod.. Sikorsky Aircraft, Div. of United Air- craft Corp., Bridgeport, Conn.-B.. or M.S. in Aero., Civil., Elect., Ind., Instr., Mat, Math., Mech., Metal., Physics and Science for Devel., Design and Prod . American Gas and Elect. Serv ce Corp., New York, N.Y.-B.S. or M.S. in Elect. and Mech. for Devel., Design, Prod., Constr., and Sales. Sangamo Elect., Springfield, 1.-all levels in Elect., )Mech. and Ind. for Summerand RegulareResearch, Devel., Design, Prod., and Sales. U.S. citizens, Danly Machine Specialties, Chicago, Ill--all levels in Elect.;, Ind., Mech., Metal., U.S. citizens, for Summer and Regular Research, Devel., Design, and Prbd. Wyman-Gordon Co., Worcester, Mass. -all levels in Mech. and Metal, for Summer and Regular Research, Devel., Prod., Sales and Lab. Corning Glass Works, Albion, Mich.- all levels in, Ch.E., Instr., Mat., Mech., and E. Mech.; B.S. and M.S. in Elect. and Ind. for Prod., Equip., Glass Tech., Ind. Quality Control, Sales, and Re- search E. For appointments contact the Engrg. Placement Office, 347 W.E., Ext. 2182. PERSONNEL REQUESTS: Hdqs. Army and Air Force Exchange Service offers opportunities in France, Germany, Libya, Fr. Morocco, and Eng- land for Buyers, Supervisors of Food, Automotive Equipment, General Man- agers, and Secretaries; in Japan for Arch. Engrs., Auto part Purchasing Agent; in Korea for Manager of Branch Exchange; in Germany for. Dept. Mgrs., Tailors, Automotive Specialists, Senior Claims Examiner, and Shoe Buyer; in Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland, Saudi Arabia, Eniwetok, Caribbean area, and Panama for Managers. Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich.,ahave openings for S' immer Employment. College wom- en and high school graduates are needed for positions as guides. I To The Editor S YQU APPROACH the end of four strug- gling college years, there's a mild sense of hock to have this headline flash before you one norning: "College Students Can Think." , Sidney J. Harris is the writer who comes to his opinion in one of his recent "Strictly ersonal columns. Says Mr. Harris, in visiting the Illinois Wes- eyan college campus he was struck by the fact' hat the college newspaper's editorial page was 'coolly and clearly written" and dealt with 'matters which all too rarely appear in grown- ip journals." Now this does any college editorial writer's ieart good, despite the slight shudder at being eft out of the "grown-up" class. But what is disturbing is that the collegian's bility to think out such problems as "con- ormity to mass opinion, and the wave of anti- tellectualism in the country" is such a sur- >rise to Mr. Harris. Editorial Staff ave Baad......................... Managing Editor im Dygert .,..".................. .... City Editor urry :rymer:...::.................. Editorial Director ebra Durchslag ... ................. Magazine Editor avid Kaplan ..........:............. Feature Editor ane Howard ....................... Associate Editor oulse lyor ......................... Associate Editor hi1 Douglis . ...........,.......... Sports Editor Ian Eisenberg .............. Associate Sports Editor ack Horwitz ............... Associate Sports Editor lary Helithaler .............. Women's Editor laine Edmonds ........... Associate Women's Edito ohn Hirtzei ........................Chief Photographer Business Staft ick Alstron2 ........... Business Manager ob lgenfrlt, .......... Associate Business Manager :en Rogat ............... Advertising Manager Larty Weisbard .....................Finance Manager ilt Gnlrtein .. ............. Circulation Manager MURRY FRYMERI I wonder if this might not be a common pub- lic conception of the college student. Under- graduates are pictured as perpetual panty- raiders, college editorial writers as rabble rous- ers, and graduates as impractical intellectuals. The one exception to all this is the engineering or science-math concentrate who has kept his mind on the stable concrete scientific fact that allows him to take an early role in the "grown up society," Perhaps more than other college students, the graduating liberal arts concentrate comes into contact with these opinions. The society puts on a gala show of welcome to the engineer, the man who will create the world of tomorrow. He can go where he wants, get an early finan- cial stability and feel himself an important cog in progress. But the 'immature' political science or his- tory or English grad-has to look for the back door opening and grab the first one he sees because it won't be very wide. Certainly, the giant corporations and other big businesses are interested in the salesman or the public relationst man. $ut it's difficult to substitute idealistic plans of-if not "saving" humanity-at least helping it along a bit, with a lifetime of selling soap or automobiles or something else. COLLEGE STUDENTS CAN think, says Sid- ney J. Harris. But behind this world-shak- ing recognition, Mr. Harris forgets to point out that most of society isn't particularly inter- ested. Business needs sellers, not thinkers. Politics needs politicians, not thinkers. The - thinkers of the Illinois Wesleyan editorial page aren't particularly in demand on "grown-up" editorial pages. Finally, Mr. Harris exclaims that an Illinois Wesleyan editorial "Why Humanities?" is such a reasoned and moving argument for the ex- tension of humanities courses in colleges, that "it should give heart to those young people TT.'A A-- ...---63- tlAN in_ 4 , - . +1,__-, ^,-a1,+ - I What About Kumquats? To the Editor: IN REGARD to the story in Sun- day's Daily concerning Senior Night Festivities, some aspects were not covered about which the following questions arose: 1. The article said the girls will march from the Library to the League. What arrangements have been made for closing off traffic on North U? 2. Are the candles which the married coeds will be carrying, the same ones they held in the window during their pinning cer- emony? 3. According to the ceremony procedure, pinned girls will depos- it their pins on a cushion and wear a safety pin instead. Will girls who promised their mates that they would wear the pin "al- ways" be able to attend the pro- gram anyway? 4. Engaged - girls are to suck lemons. Will those allergic to lem- one be able to suck kumquats?' If the Daily could supply the, answers, plans could be made more concretely. -Mike McNerney, '57L No Apologies . , To the Editor: ON THE BASIS of the Emmett Till and Clinton Melton cases, Murry Frymer, in a brief editor- ial, stated that Negro-killing ap- pears to be legal in Mississippi. Anyone who read about these two cases could not help agreeing with Mr. Frymer's conclusion, cynical and sad as the conclusion may be. But obviously there are many aennineristr+'nr the Smith like PDo cations of desegregation. But un- like Mr. Reynolds, or so it seems, they also feel a sense of indigna- tion and shame that two human beings can be murdered incold blood without society punishing the perpetrators. The issue of desegregation and the murders of these two people are no different from wars; you may understand with perceptive logic the economic, political, and psychological reasons for war, but if you are a sensitive human being, you are filled with an overwhelm- ing horror at the needless and barbaric massacre of human life. It's all very good to understand, Mr. Reynolds, but how long can you keep apologizing? -Judy Gregory Pioneer, Artist . . To the Editor: FRED ALLEN was snubbed by The Daily in death, just as he was rebuffed by the American public in life. The baggy-eyed comedian from Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts was worth but four lines to the Daily Sunday morn- ing. And a great entertainer passed on while one of the world's highest intelligence - per-capita populations remained uninformed of the would-be important fact; important because Fred Allen was a pioneer, Fred Allen was an art- ist. The nasal-voiced commentator on everything was the greatest ex- ponent of the art of spontaneous wit that the world has ever seen. He was probably the most intelli- gent man that ever chose show business for a way of'life. The big nam mrc nt. in hio rlca+h hilt in t -- -1 - -il-,