ow u r A'*r44,0l gtttt Bao1y "A Little Less Ballast And We'd Have Cleared It" 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 The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in al reprints.. VARY 22, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR, LEE MARKS Icr!1 iother Fund Drive, But Education, Not Charity i Friday University students asked to contribute to an- 'er, it is not a charity drive. 11 be contributing to the aid er the world who are only upport themselves. id University Service's rules d is given to one of its 38 cat nation must raise a cer- i within its own country. If ry is unable to raise money, e, its students work on WUS rofit organization, operating nmittee of Student Govern-, tional and International Af- Nationally, the service works ,h UNESCO, the United Na- Scientific, and Cultural Or- a recent WUS organizational' Tuture Is Our Future," was alph J. Bunche, one of the mericans in the United Na- The film told of WUS's a and showed what the ser- to accomplish. e major accomplishment of In addition to helping the countries get some sort of vice is building up a price- ween the United States and he world. This friendship is hen the world is divided and iend is valuable to the West- ; United States is getting friends in the parts of the world where friends are scarce. As the WUS film showed, most of the aid is now being directed to South Asia, where it is sorely needed. ALTHOUGH the main purpose of WUS is to help education-hungry students get the learning they seek, it often goes much further. As brochures being distributed by WUS repre- sentatives point out, the service aids refugees, establishes loan funds, and provides medical care for students all over the world. Perhaps the most important of these is the medical care. It is a well known fact that more than 12 per cent of Japanese students, for example, have tuberculosis. The coming fund drive is not the result of a sudden decision or a whim. The local WUS organization has been working toward Febru- ary's drive since early last October. Co-chair- men Alice Greenberg and Anne Woodard have met with a group of representatives of campus government and religious organizations weekly. Long hours of conference and planning have gon into the coming fund drive. Brochures and pamphlets have been prepared. A lot of time and energy has been expended. It's up to the student, then, to make the work of WUS successful. While showing the service that their work has not been wasted, the students, by contributing generously tomor- row and Friday are also going to be building international relations for the United States-. And, above all, these generous donations are going to build other campuses where students can make use of the type of educational facili- ties that surround us here. -VERNON NAHRGANG .w~-ww--.. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:Grn Ga nWerests in A fori By DREW PEARSON e' Who's Violating What? NATIONS Mixed Armistice ensured Egypt yesterday for lagrant violation of the Arab- argreement. >, Security Council member he Egyptians that the French ns shipments was not aimed at Egypt. Another Security Council member, the U.S. dispatched 18 tanks to Saudi Arabia, and Great Britain admitted arms shipments to both Middle East belligarants. The Mixed Armistice Commission seems to be out of step with policy. -M. F. I I -RETING THE NEWS: -east Troubles Increasing By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst CARD to see now how the United States avoid being involved in at least a limited race in the Middle East. e are some of the factors involved: part of the mutual defense program, the d States made a deal last spring to send tanks and other equipment to Saudi pparently was part of, or a corollary of, rrahgement by which the United Stateg ains its great air base at Dhahran. n after this deal Russia made one for the v of Czech arms to Egypt, major threat t the existence of Israel. The American etion was not publicized, but the West much of the Communist attempt to leap- ito Middle Eastern squabbles. el demanded balancing arms shipments the West. The United. States hesitated, rg to know, for one thing, whether the ce of power had actually been upset. ,. Pakistan, Britain and Turkey formed -orthern Tier" defense group under the dad Pact, -and Britain immediately in- d her arms shipments to Iraq, who how- continued her alignment with other Arab against Israel, despite the bitter Egyptian e toward the Baghdad Pact. 1 ABIA, Syria and Egypt signed pacts against Israel. arently is sharing her Communist th Syria. one reference to the possibility war has come from Israel, on hat she cannot afford to wait until re filly armed. There are about :'lion sraelis, forty million Arabs. Editorial Staff 3aad *..,....................... Managing Editor ,ygert ,.. , ..........,................ City Editor Fryrier .....,«".............. Editorial Director Durchslag ..........,......... Magazine Editor Kaplan ....................... Feature Editor :oward *..................... Associate Editor Tyor ........ ............e..... Associate Editor ouglis .........«................. Sports Editor isenberg .....«..,...... Associate Sports Editor lorwitz ................. Associate Sports Editor HeUthaler ... ................... Women's Editor Edmonds ..,....... Associate Women's Editor H rtzei .........................Chief Photographer Business Staff astrom ........................Business Manager With the ship about to sail, the President heard of the Arabian tank deal and held it up for nearly two days. In the end an American agreement was recognized as an American agreement - and, presumably, Dhahran was recognized as Dhahran. Israel is now redoubling her efforts. The situation is complicated by the fact that Britain has continue to sell carefully doled arms to both sides. Presumably, she could, if the United States asked her help, step up sales to Israel. But Israel wants more than arms, and more than a mutual assistance agreement with Britain, France and the United States, who are already committeed to guarantee her borders. It looks very much as though she wants the appearance of approval of her policies which American arms shipments would give. Since those policies include retaliation against Arab activities along the disputed borders-com- pounding violations of the United Nations true-the United States is unwilling. The chances are good, however, that Israel is going to get some quid for the Arabian quo, and that America's troubles in the Middle East are beginning to multiply. New Books at the Library Laing, Frederick-The Giant's House; N.Y., Dial Press, 1955. Leonard, Elizabeth Jane & Goodman, Julia- Buffalo Bill; N.Y., Library Publications, 1955. Lord, Walter-A Night to Remember; N.Y., Henry Holt, 1955. Lundgren, William R.-Across the High Fron- tier; N.Y., Wm. Morrow, 1955. MacKenzie, Donald-Occupation Thief; N. Y., Bobbs-Merrill, 1955. Masters, John-Bugles and a Tiger; N.Y., Viking Press, 1955. Pearson, Lester B.-Democracy in World Pol- itics; Princeton, Princeton U. Press, 1955., Pierce, Glenn-The Tyrant of Baghdad; Bos- ton, Little, Brown, 1955. Priestley, J. B. & Hawkes, Jacquetta-Jour- ney Down a Rainbow; N.Y., Harper's, 1955. Randall, Ruth Painter-Lincoln's Sons; Bos- ton, Little, Brown, 1956. Rice, Grantland-The Final Answer and Oth- er Poems; N.Y., A. S. Barnes, 1955. Roberts, Kenneth - Boon Island; N. Y., Doubleday, 1955. Robertson, Terence -- Night Raider of the Atlantic; N.Y., E. P. Dutton, 1955. Sharp, Paul F.-Whoop-Up Country; Min- neapolis, U. of Minn., 1955. Sheehan, Marion Turner - The Spiritual IT'S EASY to understand why Senator Knowland, the GOP Senate leader, is deftly maneuv- ering to get the gas-lobby probe out of the hands of forthright young Senator Gore of Tennessee. Knowland comes from Califor- nia. And all you have to do is look at how the Superior Oil Com- pany influences politics in Cali- fornia, plus the fact that all sorts of gas money was never recorded as campaign contributions, to see why Knowland wants to shift the investigation to a more docile bi- partisan committee. Any thorough investigation is bound to hit a lot of people in very high places in both political parties, so leaders of both parties want an investigating committee that will -be "reasonable." TAKE ONE small but very sig- nificant fact. -The Keck family of Superior Oil did not record one single campaign contribution in the 1952 or 1954 election. Perhaps they followed the same pattern they did when they gave 25 $100 bills to Senator Case-cash. Cer- tainly Keck money has been dropped into both state and na- tional elections, with some $300,000 raised by the Kecks and kindred interests to defeat Gov. Earl War- ren in 1950. Significantly, the man who is conducting the grand jury probe of Keck's man John Neff and the $2,500 Case contribution, knows the Keck situation in California intimately. He is Warren Olney, close friend of Chief Justice War- ren, appointed by Warren as coun- sel of the California Crime Com- mission, in which job he had a chance to know something about the techniques used by oil-gas lob- bies to 'dominate the California legislature. Olney will push an exhaustive Justice Department probe, while his fellow Californian, Senator Knowland, is trying to avoid the exhaustive Senate probe planned by Senator Gore. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD of Superior Oil is William Keck. President of the company is his son, Howard B. Keck, who put up the money for Senator Case. The Keck family owns 51 per cent of Superior Oil, wealthiest independ- ent oil-gas company in the Na- tion, with stock valued at over $1,000 a share. It shot up $120 a share on the day the Senate passed the gas bill. Operating for the Kecks in Washington has been registered lobbyist Monroe Butler. He was here during the gas debate last summer and approached various California congressmen, asking them to vote for the bill. He also contributed to some of their cam- paigns. Republican Congressmen from California voted almost in a bloc for the bill, and the amount of money they may have received from the Kecks might have been in Senator Knowland's mind when he proposed that the probe be tak- en away from Senator Gore. ACTIVE IN lobbying before the California legislature was not onlyI Keck-lobbyist Monroe Butler but Keck-lawyer Harold C. Morton, one of the ablest attorneys in Los Angeles. Between them these two men exerted more power with the California legislature than even famed Artie Samish, lobbyist for the beer and whisky industry. Partner in the Morton law firm was Charles Lyons, who when Speaker of the California Assem- bly was convicted and jailed for ,taking a so-called "lawyer's fee" for influencing legislation. Lyons, a Republican, was three times speaker of the assembly. * * * YOUNG SHELL, son-in-law of Keck's attorney, was active in pass- ing the Tidelands Drilling Bill governing the operation of oil companies in offshore areas; also in the battle over gas-oil conser- vation.- This battle, similar to that in Nebraska, disrupted the California assembly into one of the bitterest battles in recent years. The show- down came over a milk-toast sub- stitute for conservation called the "Ward bill" which left control of conservation in the hands of a committee of 30 oil-gas producers. The bill was emphatically opposed by another Californian serving in the justice department, Stanley Barnes, Assistant 'Attorney Gen- eral in charge of antitrust activi- ties. He charged it with being in violation of the anti-trust act. Despite this, the gas-oil lobby won. Their victory, according to Assemblyman Lloyd W. Lowrey of Yolo County, was due to the cam- paign contributions of Keck-lob- byist Harold Morton. (copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) LETTERS to the EDITORj Letters to the Editor must be signed and limited to 300 words. The Daily reserves the right to edit or withhold any letter. Wardrops Justified ... To the Editor: IT SEEMS to me that there are too many students on this cam- pus with broken legs-caused by hopping on and off the "band wagon." This time it is the "cru- cify the Wardrops" band-wagon. As a good friend of these two young men, I feel it is my duty to shed some evidence on the other side of the issue (as opposed to the adverse "ink" the boys are getting). Unlike some who are too quick to criticize, I do not wish to be- come involved in a personality dis- pute; with these people Christian charity all too often yields to emo- tional upheaval. I feel that I have the true picture which goes back to other years and was culminated in the four man discussion immedi- ately after the 220 yard race. Al- though, admittedly, it is difficult for me to be objective about this, I definitely contend that Bert and Jack are 100% justified in their conduct. However, the point as I see it, and in the final analysis, goes much deeper. It rests on the fun- damental principle of the integri- ty of the individual. It is inter- esting to note that my friends' enemies (almost to the man) are those who do not really know the boys. Those of us who have the privilege of knowing them (unfor- tunately we are relatively few) have nothing but respect for them. As a student and graduate dur- ing the past years I have known many many athletes (including a room mate who was football cap- tain, some all-Americans, and world record holders)-I am not impressed by an "M" sweater. Yet I covet Bert and Jack's friendship because they are men (not boys) of outstanding character who I feel are real Michigan men. They have a sincere and warm interest in the problems of their friends, for ex- ample. Space does not permit me to list all the fine attributes which I feel my friends possess; trul champions in or out of the pool. If those who criticize unjustly and without regard for fact took a little time to meet and know my foreign friends they would indeed be surprised. The attributes of personality all too often associated with them just are not true. Try meeting and knowing them-you will never regret it! --Arthur E. Rogers, Grad. Investigate Book Prices To the Editor: A CONDITION of excess profit- eering by certain merchants at the expense of the students ex- ists here in Ann Arbor. The University of Michigan is the only University to my -know- ledge which does not have a uni- versity book store. The Regents are of the opinion that competi- tion among local book stores would result in fair, representative prices. Has it? Two of my text books which had recommended publishers' list prices were sold to me at Ann Arbor prices which were 10% and 20% above the publishers' prices. These extra mark-ups can re- sult in a total extra-ordinary prof- it- of $100,000 per year at the ex- pense of the students. I suggest that Student Govern- ment investigate this situation. In their investigation they should compare text book prices in Ann Arbor with those in other college towns that have university book stores. If it is found that book prices in Ann Arbor are out of line with prices in other similar cities, it should be suggested that either prices get into line or the Univer- sity open its own book store. -Richard N. Meyers, Grad Overlooked the Obvious To the Editor: HE attitude of Dick Halloran in his Sunday editorial wa disgusting. In his futile attemp to prove that military exemption of fathers is "unfair inconsisten and undemocratic" he has over looked the obvious reason for thi exemption. This reason is tha military service for such individ uals would inflict undue financia hardships upon them-a hardship which is not justified in peace time. I doubt very seriously that Dick Halloran is concerned with th great injustice of this exemption to any greater extent than it ma increase his personal chances o becoming a member of the "un lucky many" to be drafted. I the young, uninformed pseudo-in tellectuals of this paper must writ editorials on the draft law, per haps a far better topic would b the deplorable loopholes in th BULLETIN THE Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room. 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notics for the Sunday edition must be in by 2 p.m. Friday. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1856 VOL. LXVII, NO. 8 General Notces Any Veteran who expects to receive education and training allowance under Public Law 550 (Korea G.I. Bill) during the Spring semester must have his cutre rent elections checked in the Office o1 veterans' Affairs, 555 Administration' Building, this week between 8:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. if he has not already done so. '. The following houses have also been accepted for using the new late per- mission plan: Mrs. O'Leary's League House, Mrs. Vogt's League House, Mrs. Yost's Annex. .. Allresidences that are interested in the late permission plan must have their notification submitted to the Women's Judiciary Council by Feb, 29. Delta Delta Delta announces its an- nual scholarship competition Feb. 15 through March 14. Two scholarships of $125.00 each are offered for the benefit of any deserving women student, independent or affili- ated, who shows evidence of scholastic capability, superior citizenship, and who has financial need. The scholar- ship must be used on this campus for the fall semester of 1956. Applications may be obtained from the Office of the Dean of women. These should be completed and, with the three specified letters of recom- mendation, returned to the Dean's office. Winners of the competition will be announced at League Installation Night. 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. Agenda, student Government Counc Feb. 22, 1956. Minutes of the previous meeting. Officer reports: President, Vice-Pres dent, Picture, Appointment to 800 Va cancy, Treasurer. Committee Reports: Panhellenic Rush ing Study Committee, information, Jane Germany; Panhellenic Selectivity report, Debbie Townsend. Book Exchange, summary, Fall opera- tions, Bill Diamond. Housing Committee: Report on pro gress, Donna Netzer. National and International Affair , Free University of Berlin, Paul Vit. Calendaring: Addition, Slide Rule 1 Ball, May 11; Closed calendar period before examination period begins, one o'clock closing night involved.(May 28); Campus Affairs: Criteria for activities approval, Joe Collins, Activities booklet. Campaign expenditures, Joe Collin, ,University Calendar, 1956-57, Joel Ta. ber. Activities: May 5, Barristers' Society, J Crease Ball, League, 9-1. (Calendaring approved); May 12, Men's Glee Club, annual spring concert, Hill Aud.,8:30 p.m. College Students interested in taking the Selective Service College qualifica- tion Test have until midnight, Mon., March 5, 1956, to submit application, it ; was announced today by Mrs. Gladys H. Jones, test supervisor. The test center in this area is 100 Hutchins Hall, University of Michigan. The purpose of the testing program Is to provide evidence for local Seletv Service boards so they may consider student deferments for military regis.. trants.- To be eligible to apply for the test, scheduled to be given April 19 to college students in 875 test centers throughout the United States, Alaska, the Canal Zone, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, a etu dent must intend to request deferment as a student, be satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction, and must not have previously taken the. test. The test was developed by Science Research Associates of Chicago, one of the nation's leading publishers of edu cational testing, reading-improvemet, and guidance materials. Students interested in taking the test to qualify for possible draft deferment in order to continue their college educa- tion are urged to have their completed application postmarked no later than midnight, March 5. Applications dated t after March 5 will not be accepted. rFor additional information, applica-. tions, and addresses of -test centers, students should consult any Selective Service board. -Lectures Professor I. J. Gelb of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, will speak 'on "New Light on the Origin 1 of our Alphabet" Feb. 22, at 4:00 p.m., s Auditorium B. Angell Hall. The publie is invited. t _ n~t Concerts - The Toronto Symphony Orchest S Sir Ernest MacMillan, Conductor, wil be heard in the Choral Union Serie Wed., Feb. 22 at 8:30 o'clock, in Hill - Auditorium. A limited number of 1l tickets are available at the offices of p 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 Auditoriumbox k office. e n Faculty Recital. Patricia Joy Arden, Instructor in Piano in the School of y Music, will present a recital at 8:30 f p.m. Thurs., Feb. 23, in Lydia Men- - delssohn Theater. Works by Bach, Beet- f hoven, Della Joio, Schumann, and Cho- pin. Open to the general public without e charge. -de )e Academic Notices e Schools of Business Administration, DAILY OFFICIAL LETTERS to the EDITOR- Liked Edit . .. To the Editor: KO S to Dick Snyder for "Auto Power Without Brain Power" -one of the most powerful and constructive editorials you have ever run. -Wm. Bender, Jr. Script Editor WUOM CAMPUS HUMOR: Schulman Boo Good For A Laugh , UNDER the supervision of gradu- ate wit, Max Schulman, auth- or of Barefoot Boy With Cheek and others, fifty years of college humor magazine production has been raked over with a ten foot pole in a search for material suited to commercial hardback presenta- tion. It must have been lots of fun. The material finally was amass- ed; the book, Max Schulman's Guided Tour of Campus Humor, has been published, and such col- lege scene gems as these can now turn a respectable face to the world: Freshman Girl's M o t t o: "Mother Knows Best." Sophomore Girl's M o t t o: "Death Before Dishonor." Junior Girl's Motto: "Noth- ing Ventured, Nothing Gained." there continue to be character- istics common to all college hum- or. These are: "a) an irreverence toward auth- ority, b) a love for the outlandish, c) a preoccupation with sex." All three categories are heavily represented within the pages of Schulman's Guided Tour. Hap- pily, most of the jokes have their inspiration in the undergraduate's attitude toward life. , This wise editorial policy gives the antholo- gy some depth and suggests over the space of 456 pages a fairly rounded student outlook on the world in general. As for the entertainment value of the book, it is good for a thous- and laughs, if the contents are consumed in small doses. For ac- tually, there has been some pretty good material collected in it. * * * A Gargoyle editor was once heard to say, "What we print in the Gargoyle is original. It may not be funny, but it's original." To anyone but the editor, origi- nality in a humor sheet is of the smallest importance. Whether the stuff that is printed is "funny" or not is, of course, the measure of its worth. Frankly, we couldn't pass a re- liable judgment on the Gargoyle's current worth if our life depended on it. We know we don't chuckle through each issue as we once used to. But somewhere among old papers there are some seven- and eight-year old Gargoyles that we recall as some of the most amusing relics out of our own early college days. Clearly, then, the only fair jury for each new issue of a student humor magazine is the under-