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HILL AUDITORIUM:
Loud CorTal Concer t
Mozartean Fiasco
OF THE more than 626 extant works of Mozart, a good many must
be trash: and the Missa Brevis (K. 192) is one of them. Last night
it was given a very successful performance since one of the major
characteristics of the work was eloquently communicated.
The Michigan Singers not only sounded uninspired, but looked
with boredom on this music of mostly school boyish polyphony. The
AY, MAY 25 1956
NIGHT EDITOR: PETER ECKSTEIN
The Farm Vote:
Republicans Take The Lead
THE FARM PROBLEM, having long served as
a "political football" in domestic pastures,
appears to be partially solved, with the passage
of the new farm bill.
It appears also that the Republicans under
the guidance of Dwight D. Eisenhower and.
Ezra Benson have out-maneuvered the Demo-
erats in the race for the farm vote.
Exclamations of Democratic rejoicing were
hieard after the passage of the first omnibus
farm bill. This bill ignored all the Administra-
tion requests for farm aid expect for the soil
bank plan, which would allow farmers 1.2 bil-
lion dollars in payment for the withdrawal of
land from crop production.
PASSING)a bill which included such Ben-
son-disapproved provisions'as the rigid price
supports on basic crops, the Democrats hope
to put Eisenhower on the spot by means of
political strategy.
Ike had two choices, he could either O.K.
the bill which was directly opposed to the Re-
publican policy of a sliding scale of parity sup-
ports and thereby hope to increase Republican
chances of gaining farm votes; or he could veto
the bill sticking to sound economic policy and
standing a chance of losing the farm vote.
Eisenhower vetoed the bill, thereby uphold-
ing his party's principles and not descending
to.a level of making the farmers plight a "poli-
tical football."
FURTHERMORE, Eisenhower seems not to
have lost farm support but gained rural
votes as seen in the recent Indiana primary
which show that the farmers still like Ike.
To add to this victory, Ike and the Adminis-
tration have sponsored a new farm bill which
has passed both houses of Congress.,
This new farm bill includes the soil bank
provision which was the major Republican pro-
posal in the omnibus bill. It also includes the
sliding scale parity price supports on basic
crops instead of the high rigid supports favored
by the Democrats.,
IT IS INTERESTING to note that the soil
bank proposal included a Republican spon-
sored provision whereby farmers would get
advance payments up to 50 per cent as soon as
contracts for withdrawing surplus-producing
acres for next year are signed.
This provision, which would have bene-
fited the farmers immediately, was vetoed by
the Democrats. It is surprising that the Demo-
crats, who in the omnibus bill came out for im-
mediate' rural aid through high rigid supports
would veto a provision which proposes to do
this very thing.
ON THE OTHER HAND perhaps; it is not
surprising. The Democrats are 'losing out
politically on one count, the Eisenhower veto,
want to make sure the Republicans do not
make any more advances on the rural vote.
It is interesting also to note that the Demo-
crats who insist on playing politics with the
farmer's plight and using poliical strategy to
gain rural votes' are, losing and the Republicans,
led by Eisenhower, have remained constant on
party policy and seem to be taking the lead in
the battle for the farmer's vote.
-CAROL PRINS
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Mrs. Luce, Nixon-Diplomats
By DREW PEARSONa
Education, Not Rules
1OLICE RECOMMENDATIONS embodied in
their final report on last Friday's traffic
tragedy are disappointing. So is speculation on
what effect it will have on the driving ban.
The emphasis is on tighter restrictions, greater
supervision of parties and continued failure to
recognize that restriction and regulation are
invitations to abuses.
Rules and regulations are not the answer
to preventing tragedy. The approach is nega-
tive. Students will continue to drink despite
the rules and, unless properly educated, drive
while drunk.' Overly-restrictive regulations are
themselves an incentive to commit excesses.
In addition, they force enforcement agencies to
ignore constructive measures aimed at safe
drinking and driving.
Closer supervision of pre-parties, as police
suggest, would be a good idea if the party-goers
didn't hold their parties in secret. But as long
as students want to drink and legally can not,
the pre-parties will be held illegaly, they will
not be supervised, and drunks will drive. Un-
fortunately, the situation is as ridiculous as it
sounds.
NOR DOES the answer lie in greater enforce-
ment of regulations. First, is is impossible.
Second, we have faith in the student's ingen-
uity an discretion.
The answer may lie in education--a positive
approach. Creating a community awareness of
the effects of combining drinking and driving
would prevent more accidents than prohibiting
the two. Teaching students to drink safely
would entail overlooking the regulations pro-
hibiting drinking but it
drinking which is more
can claim.
might yresult in safe
than the regulations
-LEE MARKS
'Spring Recitals'
Plague Coeds
IT HAPPENS every spring. Women's housing
units are plagued by fraternity members
exhibiting their opera talents in the wee hours
of the morning.-
This practice invariably reaches its peak
during the few weeks before final examinations,
and particularly delightful for those who are
trying to obtain a few hours of sleep between
study sessions.
The activity is extra-curricular to the pin
serenades which are an integral part of the
Michigan tradition, but seem to be far more
entertaining (at least for the fraternity mem-
bers).
Perhaps these "men" are those with an
unlimited amount of intellectual curiosity about
whom the University is so concerned. Appar-
ently the academic challenges are not suffi-
cient for the affiliated men on campus..
The coeds must be understanding, however.
These sensible, sober young men are probably
merely trying to find an outlet for their un-
tapped intellectual curiosity. .
Nevertheless, Michigan coeds are in the
market for old shoe collections.
-JANET REARICK
IF I WERE Ike and truly wanted
to rescue the disastrous skid of
American foreign policy, I would
bring Clare Boothe Luce lack to
Washington and appoint her to a
top place in the State Department,
perhaps even as Secretary of State.
And if her health would not per-
mit Mrs. Luce to work full time, I
would appoint Richard Nixon Un-
,dersecretary.
Some readers will probably fig-
ure that I have been smitten with
the lady's charm and beauty; and
that I want to get Nixon out of the
Vice-Presidential race. But the
fact is that Mrs. Luce has shown
more imagination and statesman-
ship tha nany other U. S. diplo-
mat, while Nixon hasp developed a
shrewd showmanship and knack of
winning friends abroad.
IT WAS Mrs. Luce who, after
some initial mistakes, helped to
guide Italy's galloping Commun-
ism into pre-Western, pro-demo-
cratic channels. She steered
American arms orders to Italian
factories in such a way that the
giant Fiat company's labor unions
voted to throw out Communist
leadership; and she deftly, unob-
trusively helped the Italian gov-
ernment put acrossyland reform
and revamp its tax system so as to
put a proportionately greater bur-
den on the rich than on the poor.
It was Mrs. Luce, also, who saw
The winning essay of the
Academic Freedom Week Essay
contest will be published in
Sunday's Daily,
in President Gronchi a new, mo-
derate leader of Europe; and she
persuaded Eisenhower to invite
him to Washington. Here Gronchi
was the first to warn our head-in-
the-sand John Foster Dulles that
NATO was falling apart and must
be broadened with economic and
political functions.
Mrs. Luce's husband's Time
magazine has castigated me al-
most every week with weird dis-
tortions of the truth. I have no
reason to be prejudiced in her
favor. But I have watched her
work for years-in Congress and
in Rome-and she is a person of
judgement, brilliance, and imag-
ination. She would be a great
asset to the nation if used to
guide our entire foreign police in
Washington.
THIS GOES back to the manner
in which Premier U Nu was re-
ceived in the U.S.A. Dulles receiv-
ed him politely, but perfunctorily.
The State Department denied one
of his statements. But, worst of
all, Secretary of Agriculture Ben-
son kept him cooling his heels in
an ante-room, didn't even seem to
know he was coming. So the
Prime Minister of Burma walked
out.
Neither John Foster Dulles nor
Ezra Taft Benson nor a good many
other U. S. functionaries seem to
iealize that "face" is everything
in the Orient. Pride, prestige
means more to these new brown-
black-yellow nations than millions
of dollars of relief or thousands
of words of propaganda.
Premier U Nu was humiliated.
He lost face in America.
Invited here as the head of an
extremely important new nation,
he was kept waiting and joked
about. So, while Bulganin and
Khrushchev had flowers tossed in
their path and wreaths placed
around their necks, John Foster
Dulles had to be content with look-
ing down on Burma from an air-
plane as he flew by.
.' * *
HE WAS not invited to land.
Those are some of the things
Vice President Nixon understands
and did not permit to happen to
President Sukarno of Indonesia.
Tomorrow I'll write further on
our skidding foreign relations and
why they need someone like Mrs.
Luce and Mr. Nixon to get them
back into gear.
New Books at Library
Pasternak, Joe-easy the Hard
Way; NY, Putnam's, 1956.
Pate, Lloyd-Reactionary!; NY,
Harper, 1956.
Rajendra, Prasad-At the Feet
of Mahatma Gandhi; NY, Philos,
Lib., 1955.
Saroyan, William - Love; NY,
Lion Lib. Ed., 1956
Sanderson, Ivan - Follow the
Whale; Boston, Little, Brown, 1956.
Sansom, William-A Contest of
Ladies; NY, Reynal, 1956.
Seymour, John-One Man's Af-
rica; NY, John Day, 1956.
Shaplen, Robert-A Forest of
Tigers; NY, Knopf, 1956.
Shaw, I'win-Lucy Crown; NY,
Random House, 1956.
Shotwell, James -The United
States in History; NY, Simon,
Schuster, 1956.
unimaginative dynamics of the
performance was stilted and sud-
den;a steady forte with occasion-
al strained fortissimos. The one
refreshing musical moment came
near the end when a soprano
voice incanted her first agnus del
with more subtlety than the rest
of the reading which in general
was like the progress of a bull-
dozer through ravines and laby-
rinths of blurred counterpoint.
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THE MAIN WORK presented
was the Requiem Mass (K. 626),
performed with piano accompani-
ment by William Doppman. The
piano turned out to be a fortunate
substitution, for at many moments
it pointed out the lyrical, lineal
aspects of the orchesttral music:
and it was frequently a pleasure
to hear the unornamented piano
line sweetly singing away under
the heavy choral onslaught, es-
pecially in the "Hostias."
The choir's conception of the
Requiem, sung with heavy blunt-
ness, seems to be that "we are
brutish being filled with frenzied
terror at the unknown. All eter-
nity is an infinite and disembodied
shriek." In some passages like the
"Rex tremendae," this unsubtle
bellow ing made for properly ani-
mal 'sounds shouted in forceful
unison at some unreasonable land-I
lord. But one hankered for a
transparent pianissimo after a
while.
In all this there were some won-
derfulimusical interludes, especial-
ly from the excellent quartet of
soloists, and the pianist. At every
juncture, they managed to /phrase
intelligently, and to articulate vo-
cal lines boldly and surely.
But I think Mozart's ghost would
have wept.
-A. Tsugawa
AT THE MICHIGAN:
Monster.
Rally
YESTERDAY afternoon, I was
banished to the Michigan to
muse upon the so-called Top Shock
Show of All Time.
"Phantom from 10,000 Leagues"
is traditional, traductionist tripe.
A plump, well meaning scientist
finds a atomic-type death ray in
the ocean guarded by a man in a
rubber suit playing monster and
all kinds of fun follows. Funniest
line is when the scientist, upon
observing charred bottom of a
boat, exclaims; "radiation burns!"
o, well.
"Day the World Ended" has more
meat on its bones, mostly contam-
inated. Big atomic war percolates
everyone except for a handful of
typical Americans: a sea captain
who foresaw the catastrophe years
ago, his pretty daughter, a smirk-
ing gangster, a stripper, a geolo-
gist, and a half-radiated village
idiot type.
It's dog eat dog as these rugged
men, their emotions stripped raw
by gamma rays, fight for the love
of these gay wenches, while hor-
rible monsters peer from the
wings
The poor sea captain's daughter
is strangely attracted to one of
these monsters; presumably a for-
mer lover, now turned professional.
Explanation for the monsters is
that they are the result of radia-
tion changing men into monsters.
Bdth these pictures suffer from
incredible misconceptions of radi-
ation. If producers someday real-
ize that radiation burns don't char
wood or turn men and animals
into monsters, we may yet get
some decent films out of the
atomic age.
-David Kessel
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VOL. LXVIII, NO. SO
General Notices
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Memorial Day, May 30 1958. Residence
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INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Leadership and Friendship
PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS:
Union Art Exhibit Outstanding
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
W EN PRESIDENT Eisenhower says the
United States is trying to be friends with
everybody he touches one of the most difficult
and one of the weakest facets of American
foreign policy.
Qualified leadership hardly ever succeeds
in beling friends with everybody. In attempting
to, it may fail in friendship with anybody.
There is a difference between friendship and
an even-handed leadership in international
affairs.
HAT THE President was saying was that
the United States sought to avoid involve-
ment in controversies between those with whom
she sought. friendship.
This 'is more difficult in international than
in personal relationships.
One of the chief embarrassments of the
United States over a period of years has been
to maintain her position with Europe's colony-
holding powers without abandoning her tradi-
Editorial Staff
tional sympathy for the underdog and her
belief in self-determination of peoples.
SHE HAS stepped in twice in disputes involv-
ing colonialism or hegemony. She helped
the Indonesians obtain independence, and her
advice went far toward the British-Egyptian
settlement of their military treaty dispute.
She earned no profits in either case from either
side.
By not stepping into other disputes, the
United States, since she is publicly allied with
and aiding the economies of the colonial pow-
ers, has acquired the taint of colonialism her-
self in the eyes of many Asiatics and Africans.
There is a serious school of thought which
contends that, instead of trying to be neutral
'on problems which arise -between component
parts of the free world, the United States
should actively follow her conscience. This is
the role of leadership, rather than the role of
mediation.
THEY POINT OUT that Americans are in-
clined to take the attitude that those who
are not with them in the cold war are against
them. That means submerged peoples must be
granted the right to feel the same way about
those who are 'not with them in their' revolu-
tion against European hegemony.
The overwhelming difficulty, of course, is
that much of Europeis strength depends upon
its economic relationships with these sub-
merged and now emerging areas.
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STUDENT paintings and draw-
ings will be on display at the
Union Art Exhibit through Friday.
The talent exemplified in these
art works is worthwhile seeing.
Judging the Art snow this were
were three men closely associated
with art: Marvin Eisenberg of the
Department of Fine Arts, Donald
Gooch of the Art Department, and
Richard Wilt also from the Art'
Department 'and the Ann Arbor
Art Association. The judges have
awarded first and second prizes,
and an honorable mention in each
of three categories: oils, drawing
and water colors.
In the oil painting category, the
first prize went to Florence Wili-
kins Rohe's Still Life. A chiaro-
scuro study in tone. As a subtle
blending of pastel shades aside
darker grey and brown tones, her
picture possesses an interesting
quality of surface tension. Her
flat burnished use of pigment al-
lowing the texture of the canvas to
I show through creates interest in
the medium as well as in the sur-
I face pattern.
mention for her Swing! in enamel
on metal. Amazing though it may
seem, ten dripped enamel lines can
convey a felling of mobility.
Carol DeBolt won a first prize
for her Fish, a naive water color
drawing.
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THE SECOND prize in this field
was given to S. E. Morello for a
nameless painting, which has more
character than the first prize
painting in this category. The
greens, blues, and yellows are
fresher and clearer, while in the
first painting, the colors atop each
other appear rather muddy.
Honorable mention was awarded
in this category to Diana Marcus'
modified cubist painting. The'
freshness of water colors is inevit-
ably lost in such complexity; this
complicated type of design seems
better left to oils. Yet with the
juxtaposition of shapes, the pic-
ture is well-composed.
BESIDES THE water color prize,
S. E. Morello wan o first p la c e
award in the drawing category for
a still life. The composition of
this ink drawing, while assymetri-
cal, creates a pleasantly balanced
picture. Yet the artist worked
with enough freedom that the
awarded to Roger Core for a re-
clining nude. His shading care-
fully interprets the contours, yet
the drawing retains a nice fresh-
ness and unbelabored quality.
Many more prizes could have
been awarded, for much of the
work presented in the Union Art
Exhibit is outstanding.
-Linda Goodman
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Managing Editor
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THE JUDGES awarded Mar-
garet J. Williamson a second place
for her Winter Mountains, which
in its simplicity, sharpness of form,
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