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the editors. This must be noted in all reprints.
)AY, FEBRUARY 21, 1956
NIGHT EDITOR: DICK SNYDER
Auto Power Without Brain Power -
A Case For the Speed. Laws 0
SOUPED-UP Ford, two human beings, ex-
cessive speed-and then there were none.
Two lives were claimed in a crash on US 112
near Saline Sunday, a crash which provided
vivid, if not terrible, evidence of the need for
enforcement of Michign's new 65 mile per
hour speed law.
As several adults speculated on the possible
cause of the accident while viewing the re-
mains of the car that night, a six-year old
boy provided the best explanation of the acci-
dent. "They were going too fast-that's what's
the matter!"
State Police investigating the crash arrived
at the same'opinion as the six-year old. And
acquaintances of Vernon and Lee Irelan said
the accident, though tragic, was no surprise.
Following the crash, a' friend of the victims
called The Daily "in the hope that this Will
take the starch out of some of today's crazy
drivers."
HE unidentified friend went on to say that
"Vern always had an angel sitting on his
shoulder. I guess it just wasn't there Sunday.
I had been over that same stretch with him
several times and he never drove under 100.
He had to have the hottest car in the state
and nobody could catch him, including the
cops. If he had half a chance to get away
from a cop, he'd try it and go at it just like
somebody plays football. He lived and breathed
on cars and that's where he died. I don't know
why his license wasn't taken away from him."
Evidence of the friend's testimony is what
remains of the car, a '56 Ford Mainliner with
a factory-built, high-horsepower motor and a
four-barrel carburetor. No one will know
what happened. Sunday afternoon traffic was
absent at the precise moment the accident oc-
curred. The roads were dry.
But neither of these favorable conditions
stopped the car from careening off the road
for 357 feet, striking a tree which ripped the
Counseling
WITH REGISTRATION so recently com-
pleted, students still have interviews with
academic counselors fresh in mind.
For many Literary College students it was a
disappointing experence. Those seeking educa-
tional advice found something more closely
resembling a rubber stamping process.
In seeking to understand this lack of per-
sonalized counseling in the Literary College it
is possible to put the blame upon the rapidly
increasing enrollment. This would be a partial
explanation. Certainly the counseling depart.
ment is understaffed in proportion to the num-
ber of students handled this year.
However ,the lack of personal counseling is in
a large part intended. It can be understood
when a look is taken at the ideology behind ft.
In its counseling program the Literary College
is adhering to its belief that as soon as possible
the student's education should be his own re-
sponsibility because the process of planning
his program is part of the education itself. The
'freshman is given some counseling, but by the
sophomore year the student is encouraged to
make his own decisions. The burden of respon-
sibility, it is felt, aids the student in maturing
more rapidly.
A system such as evidenced by some of the
eastern schools where each student has a tutor
top completely off and continuing on to rest
84 feet later. The best, summary of the acci-
dent came from an onlooker: "Every little
bit of horsepower she had went into tearing
her to pieces."
The Saline accident has a lesson. But there
have been other accidents with other lessons
in the past. They are easily forgotten, except
by those who were fortunate enough to catch
a glimpse of unembalmed bodies and shattered
steel. They have not prevented criticism of
the state's new speed law designed to curb
Michigan's part in leadership of the nation's
mass highway slaughter.
It is argued that there is no sense in having
new high-horsepower cars "when they can't
go beyond 65. This limit is inconsistent with
advances in car design and power..
Probably so. But the thing that is forgotten
is that with the increase in automobile power,
there must come increase in responsibility and
brain power on the part of drivers. The fact
is, however, that while our country's auto manu-
facturers have gone to the ridiculous in power-
ful cars, the driver has remained a mental
midget capable of controlling neither himself
nor his car.
THUS the reason for a 65-mile an hour limit.
And the factthat many car accident vic-
tims are the result of other drivers provides
the necessity for rigid enforcement of the new
law.' Had enforcement authorities taken ac-
tion on the string of violation tickets which
Vern Irelan had received previous to Sunday,
then he and his brother, legally deprived of
the use of their car, might still be alive today.
Until sufficient enforcement does become a
reality, the sbest we can hope for is that care-
free drivers and "non-chickens" be able to
witness first-hand a similar mixture of auto-
mobile parts with human flesh a~nd blood.
-'DICK SNYDER
atnd Maturity
to direct his reading and curriculum would be
strongly objected to by the Literary College
as a hinderance to individual responsibility.
The student,, it is claimed, becomes too de-
pende ntupon an outsider in a system such as
this.
F WE HAVE to choose between no advice and
too much advice then probably the Literary
College has made the right choice. But can't
we have advice which doesn't hinder maturity?
If the advice remains merely advice and doesn't
tend to become command it could be more
beneficial than harmful. The counselor does
have a better knowledge of the nature of a
particular course merely from being more
familiar with the University curriculum. And
because he has knowledge of the aptitude and
intelligence tests the student has taken, he
ften has a greater knowledge of the student's
capabilities than does the student himself. Yet
with the assembly line system the Literary
College uses now, the student seldom benefits
from the counselor's knowledge or experience.
A much-needed conference will be held
Thursday at the Union to discuss the counseling
problem. Students who are dissatisfied with the
present system have an obligation to attend.
-ETHEL KOVITZ
AT THE MICHIGAN:
I'Darling'
Nois
Farce
LONG AGO Lucille Ball and Desi
Arnaz got married. It was an
auspicious marriage, as later events
have proved, for they have been
making money out of it ever since,
both in television and movies.
Their most recent pot of gold
will no doubt sit at the end of a
rainbow called "Forever Darling,"
now showing at the Michigan.
In "Forever Darling" Miss Ball
plays the scatter-brained wife of a
hard-working entomologist (Mr.
Arnaz). The pair have been mar-
ried for five years, and as the
years have slipped by, the paths
of their lives have grown farther
and farther apart. Mr. Arnaz has
become more and more enchanted
with his bugs, and Miss Ball has
become more and more enchanted
with some obnoxious friends whom
her husband can't stand. Miss Ball
intensely resents Mr. Arnaz's snor-
ing at night and his habit of leav-
ing cigarette ashes everywhere but
in the ash trays. These and other
serious conflicts are threatening
to disrupt what was once a happy
marriage.
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THINGS BEGIN to look pretty
bad for the spouses when one day,
in a blinding flash, Miss Ball's
guardian angel appears in her bed-
room. Now, at first she is terribly
frightened of him, not being .very
familiar with guardian angels and
such,mbut gradually she gets used
to him.
The angel looks like whatever
she wants him to look like-in this
case, James Mason, without wings.
Now Mr. Ma'son, looking very cool
in a grey flannel suit, manages to
snatch their marriage from the
very jaws of disaster constitutes a
dull and completely unstimulating
story,
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Neither Miss Ball nor Mr. Arnaz
possess any real ability as comedi-
ans. They show themselves to be
quite inept at handling the few
funny lines in the film, and hence
they must rely on the purely physi-
cal tactic of making strange noises,
faces, and gestures to wring laugh-
ter from the audience.
The only pleasing thing about
the whole works is the luxurious
use of color, further testimony to
the technical wizardry of Holly-
wood.
-Phil Breen
DAILY
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
-Daily-vern Soden
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
By DREW PEARSONf
CHIEF problem of the Democratic
party, rebellion in the South,
rose to plague the Dixon-Yates is-
sue, one of the best the Democrats
have, during a secret session of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Democratic Senators led by Es-
tes Kefauver have been pushing
for the appointment of a special
attorney both to defend the gov-
ernment in the Dixon-Yates claims
suit, and to prosecute those guilty
of any Dixon-Yates conflict of in-
terest. There appears to be a
clear-cut case of finangling inside
the Budget Bureau with Adolphe
Wenzell placed inside the govern-
ment to push and later finance the
Dixon-Yates deal.
So far, Attorney General Brown-
ell has not made the slightest move
toward prosecution. So Demo-
cratic Senators want to appoint a
special attorney.
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HOWEVER, one lone Southern
vote, that of Senator McClel-
land of Arkansas in the secrecy
of the Judiciary Committee, con-
sistently opposed this move. With
every Republican on the commit-
tee except Langer of North Dako-
ta voting against the Democrats,
McClelland's lone vote was all-
important. He backstopped Sena-
tor Butler of Maryland, who car-
ried the ball for the Republicans.
Here is what happened during a
stormy session of the Judiciary
Committee when Senator Kefauver
attempted to push through his
resolution for separate counsel to
prosecute Dixon-Yates.
"Let me get down to the meat
of the coconut," said Kefauver,
reading from the pro-Dixon-Yates
testimony given before, the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission by
the Justice Department.
"Having twice gone on record
in favor of Dixon-Yates," Kefauv-
er argued, "the Justice Department
should be disqualified from de-
fending the government in the
damage suit brought to recover
$3,500,000 in cancellation charges."
However, when Kefauver tried
to enter the Justice Department
testimony as evidence, Senator
Butler objected.
* * *
"ONLY THESE specific pages?"
asked Butler. "Only two pages?"
"I offer a substitute motion," sug-
gested McClelland, backing up
Butler, "that all the records of
the SEC be procured and filed for
reference in this committee."
This would have made the rec-
ord so voluminous it would be too
expensive to publish and no one
would have read it anyway.
"We should also have as part
of this record before the commit-
tee all of the hearings in the anti-
monopoly subcommittee," added
Butler, complicating matters even
further.
* * *
FINALLY, Sen. Arthur V. Wat-
kins (R., Utah) came to Kefauv-
er's defense. Pleading for fair
play, he demanded that the Ten-
nessee Senator be allowed to state
his case.
"I think probably we ought to
hear the evidonce," said the
square-shooting Watkins. "I would
not want to object to him bring-
ing in evidence. I want at least
to consider it."
Butler was still adamant, how-
ever, so Chairman Harley M. Kil-
gore (D., W.Va.) tried to change
the subject by shifting to other
committee business.
Butler wouldn't hear of it. "I
insist that we continue with this
business," he declared. "I ob-
ject. Let us go on with this."
S * * *
SO KEFAUVER resumed the
presentation of his arguments, this
time questioning Assistant Attor- .
ney General Warren E. Burger.
"The executive departments have
denied us certain records and
statements," said Kefauver, "on
the grounds that they are privi-
leged. Are you going to insist
and bring out in the defense of
the (government) these matters?"
"I can best answer that," re-
plied Burger, "by saying. that the
staff lawyers in charge of this
case will do everything that they
think is honorable and proper to
do to win this lawsuit."
* * *
MEANWHILE Senators Butler
and Welker of Idaho were watch-
ing the clock. Noting that it was
past noon, they demanded an end
to the meeting. The full Senate,
they said, had just convened.
"For the purpose of the record,"
shouted Butler, "when we have a
pending order of business and we
had agreed among ourselves that
we would not go after 12 o'clock,
to ask permission on the floor (for
an extension) without notifying
the members of this committee is
not right!" Butler's voice continued
to rise.
"I am fully convinced," Kilgore
replied, "that the senator from
Maryland is trying to put on a
little personal filibuster.
Eventually the committee room
settled down and the hearing re-
sumed. But Butler, with the sup-
port of Senator McClelland, still
insisted that the record be clut-
tered up with hundreds of pages
of extraneous testimony so as to
befog the issue.
(Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc,)
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1956
VOL. LXVIII, NO. 7
General Notices
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active during the second semester must
register in the Office of Student Af-
fairs, 1020 Administration Building, not
later than Feb. 24. Forms of registra-
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Social Events sponsored by student
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Official Bulletin on Thursday of each
week.
A Meeting will be held Wednesday,
February 22, at 4 p.m. in Business
Administration Room 31 for- those inter-
ested in forming a student chapter
of either the Society for the Advance-
ment of Management or the American
Management Association. All those in.
terested are invited to attend.
Academic Notices
Linguistics Club: Prof. I. J. Gelb, of
the Oriental Institute of the University
of Chicago, will address the Linguistics
Club at 8:00 p.m., Tues., Feb. 21, East
Conference Room, Rackham Building.
"Problems in Dialetological Investiga-
tions in Ancient Mesopotamia."
Seminar in Conflict Resolution (Prob-
lems in the Integration of the Social
Sciences, Economics 353) Tues., Feb.
21, at 3:00 p.m. in the conference room
of the Children's Neuro-psychiatric Hos-
pital. Charles Stevenson will speak on
"Problems in the Resolution of Ethical
Conflicts."
Botanical Seminar. Robert T. Wilce,
of the Dept. of Botany, will speak on
"Ecological Studies of Marine Algae in
the Ungava BayAN. Laborador Dis-
tricts." Wed., Feb. 22 ,4:5 p.m., 1139
Natural Science. Refreshments "t 4:00
p.m.
Doctoral Examination for Duane Neu-
man Sunderman, Chemistry; thesis:
"The Development and Evaluation of
Radiochemical Separation Procedures for
Barium, Calcium, Strontium, Silver and
Indium," Wed., Feb. 22, 3003 Chemistry
Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, W. W.
Meinke,
The Extension Service announces
that there are still openings in the
following classes to be held in Ann
Arbors
Semantics: The Science of Meaning
:00 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21'
Eight Weeks. $10.00 Professor Emeritus
Clarence L. Meader, Instructor.
Registration for This Class may be
made in Room 4501 of the Administra-
tion Building on South State Street
during University office hours, or in
Room 164 of the School of Business
Administration, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., the
night of the class.
Aeronautical Engineering Semnpr:
Mr. Phillip E. Culbertson of CONVAIR
(Aerodynamics Group), San Diego, will
speak on "Application of the Area
Rule to the Design of a Supersoni
Airplane," Wed., Feb. 22, at 4:00 p.m.,
in 1504 East Eng. Bldg.
Mathematics Colloquium: Tues., Feb.
21, at 4:10 p.m., in Room 3011 A.H.
Prof. Annette Sinclair will speak on
"A Topological Approach to a Class of
Approximation Problems in Analytic
Function Theory." Tea and coffee will
be served in Room 3212 A.H. at 3:45
p.m.
General Undergraduate Scholarship
application forms may be obtained at
the Scholarship Office, 113 Administra-
tion Building Basement. Applicants
may be enrolled in any of the under-
graduate units of the University and
should have an academic average of
"B" or better and financial need. Ap-
plications must be completed by March
1, 1956.
The Make-up final examination for
Botany 1 will be held in Room 2004.
Natural Science Building, on Tues.,
Feb. 21 at 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Sociology Colloquium: Dr. Leo Silber-
man of Oxford University will speak
on "The Theory of Games and Its Ap-
plication to Human Ecology" on Wed.,
Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the East
Conference Room, Rackham Building.
Open lecture.
Architecture and Design Students may
not add any courses after 5:00 p.m.,
Fri., Feb. 24.
M.A. Language Examination in History
Fri., March 2, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 1408 Mason
Hall. Sign list in History Office. Dic-
tionaries may be used.
Make-up Examinations in History -
Sat., March 3, 9:00-12:00 a.m., 447 Mason
Hall. See your instructor for permission
and then sign list in History Office.
Concerts
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
Sir Ernest MacMillan, Conductor, will
be heard in the Choral Union Series
wed., Feb. 22 at 8:30 o'clock, in Hill
Auditorium. A limited number of
tickets are available at the offices of
the University Musical Society in Bur-
ton Memorial Tower, and will also be
available after 7:00 on the night of the
performance at the Hill Auditorium box
office.
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To The Editor
IN THIS CORNER:
A Baffling Tradition
By MURRY FRYMER
FRATERNITY HAZING is probably the most
baffling aspect of a college campus for
anyone who has ever, had the perplexing ex-
perience of seeing it or being a participant.
It's baffling because it does take place on a
college campus, and by men who, at least at
times, pride themselves in intellectual attain-
ment. The main object behind it is to somehow
degrade the initiate, and do .so in exactingly
painful process.
What is perhaps even more baffling about
this typically college behavior is its universality.
It's as much in evidence at little Podunk college
as it is at proud Harvard, or Yale, and it is
very much accepted here at Michigan.
Like most typically, collegiate behavior, tra-
dition plays a big part in the whole process.
Yet, outside of this, it is rather difficult to find
a satisfactory reason for these ludicrous antics.
It doesn't actually accomplish anything, and
Editorial Staff
Dave Baab .......................... Managing Editor
Jim Dygert ............................... City Editor
Murry Frymer................. Editorial Director
the harm that has been done on numerable
occasions is horrifying and pitiful.
The recent drowning of a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology student, undergoing a
fraternity stunt, is one extreme example. But
there are many others, cases of students on this
campus who have undergone some extreme
physical punishment, many who carry around
its marks for life.
OUTSIDE of its traditional motives, the pro-
cess of hazing has one golden rule: "Do
unto others as you have had others do unto
you." This gives the more sadistic members of
the power group their moment of glory, and a
ridiculous moment it is. Abandoning individuals
many miles away with little clothing and no
money is a common device. Or, if you're lucky
enough to make honorary status, you might be
forced to slosh through mud while stale beer is
tossed into your bleery eyes.
The most disturbing part of the whole hazing
process is its lack of meaning. If the initiates,
through mutual suffering, develop closer friend-
ship, it is often at the loss of friendship for
the active group. For the honorary, it accom-
plishes somewhat more, a certain notoriety
which distinguishes campus leaders from the
common mass.
This recalls an incident two years ago when
one ofthe many campus honoraries was wal-
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Obligation Not Fulfilled
To the Editor:
AS SOON as I heard Mr. Thayer
Soule call Egypt 'mysterious'
and sunset 'the traditional hour,'
I know what type of Near East-
ern lecture we were in for. Fac-
tual errors were abundant. There
never were two million people at
Baalbek, nor does anyone think
that the Tower of Babel was
there; Israel does not extend to
the whole of Palestine as shown
on his map; Kerbela, not Kad-
himain, might be called the sec-
ond holiest shrine of Shi'ite IEA#
lam; the monastery near Aleppo
was St. Simeon's, not St. Sebas-
tian's; the Arabic number was 52,
not 25; etc.
But these errors were trivial
compared with the distortion in
the general picture of life in the
Arab countries today. These coun-
tries were presented as a museum
and their people were among the
exhibits. I felt that the traveler
never really made contact with
them as human beings. Perhaps
this explains the solemn looks of
the Syrian peasants at their vil-
lage dance, of whom he made such
a joke. Pictures of peasant life
showed mainly the Nubians of Up-
per Egypt and the Arabs of the
desert fringes of Syria and Jordan,
representing the most primitive
people in those countries.
All modernization was attribut-
ed to British, French and Ameri-
can efforts and nothing was said
or shown about the efforts of the
Arabs themselves: for example the
textile industry in Syria has been
built up by Syrians, not by the
French, and the new Aswan Dam
is an Egyptian government proj-
ect.
I am sure this distorted picture
of the Near East was not due to
any malice in the lecturer, but
only to his desire to present the
picturesque and the ancient. Still,
a travel lecturer has an obligation
to give his audience a reasonably
accurate impression of his subject.
In the first Burton Holmes lec-
ture, this obligation was not ful-
tilled.
From the current "Political Af-
fairs"-we can see that the Com-
munist Party itself is not taken in
by such hogwash.
P 47-"The fact is that there
are presently in all Party districts
members in various people's or-
ganizations who have direct ties
with youth work and young people.
The problem has been that we
have not met with these comrades
and guided their work." (Which in
the future will be remedied -
meaning)
P 47-"Throughout its 6 year
history, LYL has made many out-
standing contributions to the right
for youth's needs and in the build-
ing of democratic unity of the
young generation."
P 48-"Many League members
have developed strong ties with
the established youth organiza-
tions."
P 48-"Without a policy of work
with young people in the estab-
lished youth organizations, not
only would the League have been
unable to exercise the deep going
influence on youth developments
which it did, but it is doubtful
whether the League would have
been able to survive the sharp at-
tacks which were directed against
it."
P 49-"The LYL is preparing at
this time to make an important
change in one major aspect of its
organization; its personnel and
method of functioning, to more ac-
curately reflect certain new trends
and developments among the
youth, especially teen-aged youth.
"Of major consideration is the
formation of a teen-aged division
of the LYL that will function with
a high degree of autonomy and
thought a variety of more flexible
forms and activities. The most
rapid growth of the LYL can take
place today among teen-agers."
"This section of the LYL must
be provided with advisors and
counselors who have direct ties
with the LYL and the labor and
progressive movement. It will
be united with the LYL primarily
by the circulation of New Chal-
lenge that will serve as the major
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