{i 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 .....as .. aen Opinions Are Free, Trutb 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. 'URDAY, APRIL 28, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: JANET REARICK OSU Football Probation Unfortunate and Fortunate "You Mean ese Secrets Have Been Stolen Already?" J WARM r CTS WIT % Rhal ~~ 4* I 9 - AT THE STATE: Cinematic 'Swan' Is Grace-f ul Film SOMEWHERE in the Mediterranean, right this very minute, a blond princess and a not-so-blond prince are sailing about in a yacht on a royal-type honeymoon. But we needn't despair, for at the State theatre, right this very week, the same lady is sailing across the silver screen, again a princess. The publicity boys for "The Swan" think that is a pretty neat tie-in but let's leave it alone right there. "The Swan" stars Alec Guiness and a girl named ... er . . . Kelly or something like that. They are both very charming people as pre- sented in this adaptation of the Ferenc Molnar play, and the Old World flavor comes across very nicely. The essential appeal of the film is its gentle, civilized manner, aided by the fairy-talequality of the script, and the performances of the two stars. ** * * IT IS A DIFFERENT kind of fairy-tale, however, for the plot has a few points to make about the impossibility of bridging the gulf be- I :' °r OHIO STATE'S one-year football probation slapped on them by the Big Ten is both .nfortunate and indirectly fortunate. The unpleasant aspects of the situation are basically three-fold. First, the athletes, ad- ninistrators, and alumni involved in the ex- treme over-emphasis of football by financial aid should not get all the blame; our society nust take a great deal of the burden. With American ideals emphasizing. the winning spi- 'it and doing the best job possible, it is not urprising that athletics has been caught some- what in a web. Americans all want to identify hemselves with a winner, with the better, or he best, in all aspects of their lives. Unfortunately, this competitive spirit can get ut of hand. Secondly, the probation for Ohio State is he second in Big Ten history, all within the ast three years. In 1953, the-then-Michigan tate College was handed a nine-month sus- ension for its fund-gathering "Spartan Foun- ation." it is unfortunate that educational nstitutions, such as these two and some in ther conferences, must be involved so deeply ,nd out of proportion. A ND THIRD, the Ohio State situation is un- fortunate for collegiate football in general. A potentially good team will have to play a season with a cloud-somewhat gray-over its head. On the more positive side, one can perhaps look to the future. The openly unhealthy situ- ation at Columbus has received its just return. Head football coaches have been known to have "short careers" in recent years at OSU. Coach Woody Hayes said and did a little too much, and the smell of roses has been whiffed away because of it. Also, there is the chance that all schools learn by the situation and that maybe some means of solution to the over-emphasis prob- lem can be reached. Certainly a complete re-evaluation of the whole amateur and intercollegiate athletic set- up would not be out of place. Some consisten- cy and uniformity of definitions and rulings are needed. A reasonably liberal stand toward financial aid should be taken and a clear, stiff line drawn for offenders in the future. Maybe then all the fine educating, physical, and social qualities of intercollegiate athletics wouldn't be lost in the shuffle. -DAVE GREY V .-. '*. .PA t D.+ . tt' y' S;CL) s~Po~T*, '"r . . ~.. V. Dulles Paris Trip Unnecessary 0.9g. Trlfs .sr~sthf4$R7 TPc VOrC, T.es: ::.::«: ONE OF THE several duties of a United States Secretary of State is to strive to establish and maintain cordial relations with foreign nations. Thus a Secretary of State of- ten accomplishes by so-called "peace missions," handshaking junkets to 'other lands. But a Seecretary of State can go overboard as far as traveling is concerned. This, it appears, is the case with John Foster Dulles. Dulles leaves for Paris next week on what appears to be an unnecessary, probably unfruitful, journey. It is unnecessary because others have visited Paris for the. same reason and have done exactly what Dulles would do -make rhetorical statements on the threat of the USSR and why the free nations should band together against such a threat. On the basis of Dulles' past "accomplish- ments" in the field of diplomatic relations, the trip will probably be unfruitful as all that will result will be an agreement that we mare NATO stronger. Actionwise, nothing will re- sult. OUR WELL-TRAVELED Secretary says he wants to keep the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alive; he doesn't want it to "dry up." What Dulles means by 'drying up' is not known. At present, we have this statement of "clarification" from the Secretary: in the fu- ture, NATO "either grows or tends to dry up." Isn't it conceivable that NATO could remain at its present status without either growing or drying up? Not that it shouldn't grow- principles of NATO are fine, its objectives are wonderful, but how will Mr. Dulles help? Secretary Dulles fears the Soviet threat to the world. This, he states, is why he is visit- ing Paris in an attempt to strengthen NATO. If Mr. Dulles hopes to help NATO, his state- ments should carry more weight and thinking instead of being merely an expression of tru- isms. In fact, why doesn't Mr. Dulles stay home for a change and let NATO help itself? --RENE GNAM WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Scizo: Too Many} Free Boks By DREW PEARSON tween the peasants and the royal types. Grace is cast as Alexan- dria, a princess without a king- dom, who lives with a very crusty family. All her life, Alexandria's mama has educated her to be a queen, but when the story begins nobody has come along resemb- ling a king. Enter Alec Guiness as Crown- Prince Albert, a worldly and so- phisticated fellow who has a throne coming to him in the near future, i.e. when his mama kicks off. Al- bert comes to look over Grace's possibilities, but her inexperience with men coupled with his bored attitude combine to make social ineptness the rule of the day. There is a tutor in this house- hold, however, played haltingly by Louis Jourdan. He is a French- type tutor, learned and modest, but extremely impassioned. He is in love with the princess but,mel- heureusement, he is of a distinctly lower social class. This pains him; this pains her. And that is the cozy triangle. The complications that develop make up the "Swan" story (I al- most said "Swan song," but I don't want to offend) and the final reso- lution is different enough to make it interesting. * * * THE AFOREMENTIONED Miss Kelly displays her famous regal qualities and amazingly fine feat- ures to good advantage. Her act- ing, too, is enjoyable, although of a perhaps limited scope in the. film. The big moment for the princess is a love scene with Jour- dan, and she does this one with especial grace and feeling. Guiness, as always, is a pleas- ure to watch, although Miss Kelly, in her way, is a sight for sore eyes, too. His Albert is a smooth and polished figure; the well-known Guiness tricks abound, but the role is a departure from the clown we know. The final portrait is a very appealing one and the prince emerges as a person we would like to know ourselves. "The Swan" is a relaxed and touching film; its box office ap- peal, however, will probably be because of those confounded nup- tials. -David Newman AT THE ORPHEUM: e'Gobette'. Gives Moral THE HEAD magistrate of the town of Gray in France feels that a dancing exhibition taking place in his town might be slight- ly indelicate. He sends his Public Prosecutor to investigate the spec- tacle, and especially the perform. er, "Mllq. Gobette." The next evening, when the Prosecutor finally gets back on the job, the Judge commissions him to discover who the shameless man was that spent the night with Gobette, dividing his time between investigations and throwing empty champagne bottles out the window of her room. In all honor, the Public Prosecutor must confess the shameless man was he. And so it goes, for this is a truly remarkable woman(. When the Judge orders her out of town, as a direct result of his Prosecutor's investigations, Gobette reasons that ;the magistrate logically owes her a bed, and so takes over his household, mainly through the theory that, possession of the sleeping-quarters is nine-tenths of the law. The Judge is won over to her philosophy at the very moment the Minister of Justice chooses to visit him. GOBBETTE IS a spirited and loyal girl, however, and one not prone to be overcome by authority. Through a constant and amazing confusion of identity and profes- sion, she works her way, and si- multaneously, the Judges% -from the lower areas of their respective fields to the topmost rungs. Aided by a rebellious doorman, she is able to run rampant and scant- panted over the, very Ministery itself. The moral is . proved again, that where determination lies, so does success. Silvana Papmanini is Gobette, and probably the only actress in the world who can say: "There was a touching scene during which I lost my dress"-and have the entire audience believe her. After all, who can doubt his own eyes? -Culver Etsenbeis *1 i q TODAY AND TOMORROW: ON TUESDAY Mr. Dulles ar the spring conference of t powers which is meeting inl he would join those who wishe the non-military side of the developed. There is a wides] Europe and in Canada that given a new lease of life only exclusively a militaryalliance Mr. Lester Pearson has beer a long time. Gen. Gruenther s; the time'has come to "movee fields" under Article II of th President Gronchi of Italy and ister of France, M. Mollet, are vocates of this view. So, too, government. The question is what can a NATO do on the civilian side ourselves this question, the firc is that there is no obvious a warning not to try to invent NATO to do, not to look abou of made work, a kind of boo the NATO organization busy. W HAT, we must ask ourselv very much needs to be d alone can do? The answer, I v is that the NATO powers ver, find means of forming comm the world that is outside of way to put this would be to; having become a military pom Editorial Staff DAVE BAAD, Managing MURRY FRYMER JIM Editorial Director Ci DEBRA DURCHSLAG.............. DAVID KAPLAN.............. JANE HOWARD.................. LOUISE TYOR................... PHIL DOUGLIS . .... ........... ALAN EISENBERG .......... Asso JACK HORWITZ ............. Asso MARY HELLTHALER,............ ELAINE EDMONDS ....,.... Associa JOHN HIRTZEL..................C Business Staff DICK ALSTROM ............... NATO-Next Step By WALTER LIPPMANN inounced that at able to form and conduct a foreign policy. he fifteen NATO To say this is to differ with those who think Paris next week, that the new function should be in the eco- d to see whether nomic field. Mr. Dulles is, I think, quite right alliance can be in holding that NATO is not the best organi- pread feeling in zation for dealing with economic affairs within NATO can be the Atlantic community. There is a better if it ceases to be agency for that, the OEEC, not only because it . includes Switzerland and Sweden but because ni sayingthis for in, economic affairs it has an expertness and aid recently that an experience that NATO does not have. ahead into other' Mr. Dulles is suggesting that NATO might ie NATO treaty, be used to deal with economic affairs outside i the Prime Min- of Europe. Mr. Mollet and others have pro- both ardent ad- posed that economic aid to the under-devel- is the German oped countries be administered through NATO. I wonder. Is it not certain that the attempt to use NATO, which is primarily a military alli- d? what should ance, to administer economic aid would en- ? When we ask counter, the- bitter opposition of the unaligned st thing we note countries of Asia and Africa? Can anyone im- nswer. This is a agine Burma or Ceylon or Egypt or India or t something for Indonesia allowing NATO to play a leading t for soeeindpart in its economic development? nadoogle, to keep WE COME BACK then to the political field. Here something new.in the way of con- eis thertatsultation very much needs to be worked out. one that NATO venture to think, When we look at NATO today, keeping in y much need to mind the purpose for which it was organized on policies with seven years ago, we find a great change. In NATO. Another 1949 our primary concern was with the defense say that NATO, of Western Europe, which was then in effect yer, needs to be disarmed, against invasion and conquest by the Red Army. In 1956 the greatest concern of the Western Powers is not the military defense of NATO territory but the safeguarding of the vital in- terests of the West in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Seven years ago our eyes were on the frontiers of the NATO countries. Now our eyes Editor are on countries far outside of NATO and not [ DYGERT included in the guarantees of the NATO pact. ity Editor .. Magazine Editor The principal military powers on which the .... Feature Editor military force of NATO rests are today the Associate Editor United States, Great Britain and France. All Associate Editor three are deeply involved outside the European .Sports Editor ciate Sports Editor territory of NATO-the French in Africa, the eiate, Sports Editor British in the Middle East, the United States .. Women's Editor in the Far East. If they are involved in war ate Women's Editor Chief Photographer outside of NATO what can they expect of their allies in NATO? And what can their allies in NATO expect of them? .Business Manager '0-r~n- R..~ne_- Ther r oblemsnr her1whic nhj, ,verymuch SOME INTERESTING t h i n g s have been taking' place in the House folding room where John Maragon, the ex-influence peddler, is now employed. They occurred before he got his job, and involve the man he is supposed to have replaced-Ralph Scalzo. Actually Scalzo lost his job on Jan. 30, two months before Mara- gon was hired. Nevertheless, GOP Congressman William Ayres of Akron made headlines by charging that Scalzo was fired to make room for Maragon. Here are the interesting facts, however, as to why Scalzo was fired: The House folding room is a place where Congressmen get speeches folded and mailed out to voters free. They can also get booklets on baby care, and various Government documents mailed to the home folks either at cost or- up to e certain limit-free. House doorkeeper Luke Hicks has now obtained sworn affidavits to the effect that extra documents, beyond the Congressman's quota, were delivered to the office of Congressman Ayres under the di- rection of Scalzo, the man Ayres didn't want fired. "On several occasions," states. an affidavit by Otis Small, a la- borer in the folding room, "I was ordered by Ralph Scalzo to deliv- er to Congressman Ayres 300 'How Our Laws Are Made.' * * * "THE SECRETARY in the Con- gressman's office told me to put them down by one of the desks in the office. There was no order taken by me and none signed by the secretary." Another folding-room laborer, William H. Brooker, reports that last summer Scalzo told him to deliver about 100 copies of the $2 Agriculture Yearbook to Ayres. plus about 40 or 50 maps, about 500 copies of "How Our Laws Are Made," and three cases of a book- let on infant care. Congressman Ayres was entitled to 40 free copies of "How Our Laws Are Made." Beyond that he was supposed to pay 15 cents each. A congressman is allowed 400 copies of the Agriculture Yearbook and 50 maps in toto. The allot- ment for baby care booklets is much more generous-500 per month. This was the reason Scalzo was fired. It was not to make room for John Maragon. * * * THE U.S. has quietly banned the shipment of luxury cars to Indo- china. The reason: Rich natives were driving around in big Cadil- lacs while the poor were still starv- ing. This was so bad for the people's morale that American ad- visers recommended halting auto- mobile imports to Indochina, ex- cept strictly for relief and reha- bilitation work. Dictator Franco of Spain has of- fered his good offices to help the West settle its troubles with the Arab world. The offer was de- livered personally to President Eisenhower by Spanish Foreign Minister Don Alberto Artajo, who pointed out that Spain has close ties with' the Arab leaders, par- ticularly since he granted inde- pendence to Spanish Morocco. The Navy has reliable intelli- gence that Russia now has the world's largest underwater Navy =-over 400 submarines. Russia is also building new submarines at the rate of 85 a year. Yet the admirals are so busy feuding with the air force over air power that they have neglected our anti-sub- marine defenses. Sub chasers and other anti-sub weapons are still far down the Navy's priority list. TWO STANCH Democratic lib- erals, Senators Morse and Mur- ray, had a heated, off-the-record row over the downstream benefits bill which benefits the private, utilities. "There is nothing you could have done to undermine me more than to vote out a'bill that's No. 1 on the list of the private utili- ties," Wayne Morse bluntly told his old friend, Jim Murray of Montana. "You ought to be the Senator from Montana and' vote your convictions, not the convic- tions of other people." Senator Morse, who is fighting a tough re-election battle in Ore- gon, had canceled an engagement to introduce Senator Kefauver in Oregon, and rush back to Wash- ington when he heard that Mur- ray had voted for the downstream benefits bill. * * * UNDER 'THIS BILL the Fed- eral Government, if locating a dam below a private utility dam would pay the utility for the- cost of storing up water and steady- ing the flow of the stream above. Morse contends that federal damsites are the property of the United States anyway and that private utilities should not be com- pensated for the privilege of gen- erating water power from federal streams. (Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) £( x To The Editor Y .. A OPERATIONS BROTHERHOOD: Medical Teams Serve Vietnamese By RICHARD HALLORAN Daily Staff Writer ONE OF THE finest examples of. humanitarianism and Christian charity in recent times has been taking place for more than a year in the newly-founded nation of South Vietnam. Known as Operations Brother- hood, a program of medical aid has been) undertaken by scores of doctors and nurses from the neighboring Philippine Islands who have volunteered their serv- ices for this work. The mission of the operation is to render medical aid to two groups primarily-those refugees from North Vietnam who fled be- fore the coming of the Communist Vietminh, and the people who live in the areas of South Vietnam which were under Vietminh guer- rilla control prior to the Geneva Conference in 1954. * * * THE 1954 Geneva agreement provided that with the cessa- tion of hostilities throughout In- do-China, combatants would be withdrawn from those areas which on Vietnam's housing, economic and medical facilities. In addition, the people who had lived under Communist domination for' so long needed tangible evi- dence that the new government of the Republic could be of benefit to them. *that IT WAS INTO this situation that the Filipinos jumped with Op- erations Brotherhood. Medical teams began operating in and around Saigon, the capital, serving the .refugees. In the outlying dis- tricts of Camau in the southwest, and Quang Tri, near the 17th parallel partition line. Brotherhood teams followed closely behind the troops of the Vietnamese National Army as they reoccupied the formerly guerrilla strongholds. Due to the huge numbers of people needing attention, treat- ment has had to be limited to serum injections, prescribing of antiseptics, and minor surgery. But as the vast majority of af- lictions are infections, skin diseas- es, and injuries from occupational hazards, the Filipinos have been came accustomed to the Filipirio medicos and discovered that this was not a hoax but a true aid pro- gram, attitudes changed unbeliev- ably. According tc the Brotherhood personnel, the first change came as the patients smiled and ex- pressed their thanks for the help received. Later; the Vietnamese began bringing in gifts such as fruit and appeared to be much more trustful and appreciative of the efforts made on their behalf. Perhaps the best single incident indicating the devotion of the Fili- pinos to their mission occurred during the outbreaks of violence in March and April of 1955, when the Binh Xuyen, an outlaw sect, rebelled against the government. From the very beginning of the fighting, which took place largely within the confines of the city of Saigon and its twin city of Cholon, the Brotherhood medical tears were up in the front lines administering to the wounded. This heroic action was well above the call of duty as the fight was not of their concern. Scholarship Lacking? . . To the Editor: AS AN UNDERGRADUATE at Harvard University I heard nothing but high praise of the University of Michigan in general, and the Law School in particular. When I enrolled in the Law School =eighteen months ago, therefore, I had high hopes of associating with a group of students, who, like myself, applied themselves dili- gently to their studies. Little did I realize the disap- pointment that was in stare for me! During that first fall the conversation between classes' and at lunch was not about the law, but whether Kramer would hit a home run in Saturday's game, or, indeed, almost any other topic except the law. I soon realized that often stu- dents would come to class without having read the assigned cases. This is simply inexcusable if a person is serious about his studies. I have often heard students tell their friends that they were ill because they had spent the pre- vious night at the "Flame" or the "VFW," which I take it are two local taverns. These are but a few of the ex- amples which I could give of the lack of serious scholarship in the Law School..I have not made many acquaintances outside of the Law School, but my observation of several Business Administration students leads me to believe that the situation is equally bad throughout the University. Realizing, as I do, that my views on this situation are not widely shared, I would never have con- sidered writing this letter but for a recent development which cries for correction. A so-called "honoTary" society What is objectionable is the hor- ribly bad taste of the posters which are currently filling the walls of Hutchins Hall. These allegedly "humorous" posters bear pictures of persons resembling various fac- ulty members in very unflattering poses with captions suggesting that the faculty will be attending next week"s baachanalia. What the persons responsible for this out- rageous display do not seem to realize is that such posters are extremely disrespectful of what is probably the greatest collection of legal minds in the country. One of the marks of the great Ivy League schools which distin- guishes them is the great respect which the student body shows to the faculty. I would like to sug- gest that if the students at Michi- gan desire to imitate those schools they would do better to begin by showing a little more of such re- spect rather than by changing the cut and color of their clothing. -Jerome K. Walsh, Jr., '57L Generation . . To the Editor: THE EDITORIAL of Tuesday, April 24, stated quite clearly the need for the continuation of Gen- eration. However, it did not seem emphatic enough in the light of losing the one and only literary magazine on this campus. A sus- pending of publication would not only be a betrayal of faith to those who have put so much con- centrated effort into making Gen- eration the excellent magazine which it is, but would also bring disgrace down upon the heads of the student body and facutly who would be blamed for the downfall through their non-support. Whe- ther Generation is a paying, busi- nac,,li u r n f, ;,. l Aa nn4' ecwam 4 A