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, MIcH. * Phone NO 2-3241 en Opinions Are Free, [ruth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. ESDAY, APRIL 24, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: DICK SNYDER The Need For 'Generation' THE BOARD IN CONTROL of Student Pub- lications - is reportedly considering either merging the campus literary magazine with Gargoyle or the Daily Magazine Supplement, or discontinuing it altogether. Either course of action would be regrettable. In the interests of the University Generatior4 must continue as an independent effort. The main problem is financial. For many years the magazine has lost several hundred dollars a .year-it has, in effect, been subsidized by the more prosperous publications. Reader- ship is low so advertising is low. The magazine is costly to produce, the format is expensive. The Board feels that perhaps continued subsidy is tinjustified.Y MERGING -of the magazine with either Gar- goyle or The Daily Magazine Supplement is not the answer. Both would commercialize Generation. It is not enough to have one or two serious literary efforts appear in what is basically a non-literary publication. Merged with either, Generation would lose its identity. It would be difficult to get contributors of high quality. The artistic format of the maga- zine, so vital a part of the effort itself, would be secrificed. kGeneration is not primarily con- cerned with dissemination of news or with humor. It is more an art medium than either The Daily or Gargoyle, and such is should remain. Discontinuing Generation would be most un- fortunate. It is a serious effort aimed at pro- moting the arts. As such it serves a worthy purpose. Neither its low readership nor its administrative difficulties are reasons for dis- continuing publication. One is to be expected, the other can be corrected. Few projects dedicated to the arts can support themselves. The Metropolitan Opera, the Boston Symphony, art galleries, all need subsidy to continue. The combination of expensive pro- duction and limited appeal is a bad one-fiman- cially. A UNIVERSITY should have a publication devoted to serious presentation of literary efforts of a high quality. It has a responsibility to those students, few though they may be, to provide a medium of expression like Generation. The Board must, in its overall policies, be guided by financial considerations. But perhaps economy can be effected without so serious a loss as discontinuance of Generation would pose. The magazine is worthwhile and should be continued if at all possible. -LEE MARKS "We're Letting The United Nations Stay, But We're Warning Them" -, ii ~--- -\ ~I a. Y . ---.' ' e - , .. p C . Cutting Accident Rates *' s rt e- ) cr a-r ° AT THE MICHIGAN: 'hreshold' Below ' Science Par SOMEDAY, a few loyal fans still hope, Hollywood will produce a science fiction movie on a par with the better literature of that genre. But until that day, still shining on the distant horizon, the hope- ful fans are subjected to either gobbledegook in the form of the creature from whereveritis or reasonably scientific documentaries seemingly designed by our armed forces to entice eligible young men into the khaki-clad ranks. "ON THE THRESHOLD of Space" is a representative example of the latter. Guy Madison, switching roles from cowboy to flyboy, is an Air Force doctor who went to jump school so he could get first hand information on how it feels to do parachute and ejec- tion-seat work. His specialty is space medicine, a growing field that the Air Force is carefully ex- ploring with an eye toward the day when man takes off for the moon. He and Dean Jagger have a plan to send a balloon, carrying a gon- dola stocked with instruments and a two man crew, to 100,000 feet, higher than