TWO THE MCHIGANV DAILY MA"TRnAV tWvMlt" 0 IGIM _ __ U A lWT?"AY, VVAISLU S * 3~JIM~L JXCK , l1935 I E4r £fripan Bui4 Sixty-Sixth Year EDIED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF -STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MicH. * PPhone NO 2-3241 "G;row!v - i I I , i x t , - I - my T-- , -g * I I [A 41 ____EL~1 -I --f 1 I 4 To The Editor (Letters must be signed and limited to 300 words. The Daily reserves the right to edit or withhold any letter.) H IL F Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, OCTOBER8, 1955 NIGHT EDITOR: LEE MARKS Unimited Expansion Is Wrong Answer MOST serious problem facing the University 'The Residence Halls Board of Governors today is anticipated expansion. The day has responded to the housing shortage by pro- is not far off when 40,000 will register for ceeding with plans for a new 1,000-student dor- classes. Closer still is the enrollment increase mitory. This will ease the shortage slightly of 7,500 expected in the next five years. but more such unites will be needed. Well Much study and discussion by students, aware of the impending housing crisis, the faculty and administration is needed on the Residence Halls Board is prepared to spend vital questI--can the University afford un- long hours planning ways to meet it. limited expansion without vital harm to the Fraternity and sorority housing will have University community? to increase proportionately. Big problem is Many faculty members feel unlimited ex- finding available real estate. Nonetheless the pansion, no matter how well anticipated and fraternity and sorority systems, working prepared for, will seriously lower academic through their respective organizations, should standards. prepare now for expansion. SOME schools have responded to increased en- ADDITIONAL sororities are woefully needed. rollment through teaching by television The ratio of sororities to fraternities was and eliminating all tests which can't be graded valid once - a long time ago. It is now totally by IBM. Such measures would not be desirable unrealistic. One sorority president expressed here. regrets recently that only one third of girls What will happen to the essential unity of rushing could be accommodated. the community, Michigan spirit, tle traditions Interfraternity Council and Pan Hellenic and feelings of the school once the campus is Association should devote a great deal of time totally decentralized, as it appears it will some in the immediate future studying need and day be? Loss of these intangibles may well means of expanding their systems. incur irreparable damage. In many instances Ann Arbor realtors have Unlimited expansion is the wrong answer. not responded to the increased demand for No amount of preparation can adequately com- housing in admirable fashion. Rents in many pensate for the numbers anticipated. In part cases are unreasonably high. The situation the result would be a lowering of academic may well get worse in the next few years. standards, an overcrowded town, development It would be expedient for local realtors of a cold "commuters"' community-loss of and Chamber of Commerce members to de- the intangibles that make the University great. vise a means of meeting what promises to be a sore spot in "town and gown" relations. BUT the inevitable trend seems to favor stu- Encouragement of low-cost housing and dents, more students and more students. establishment of a rent grievance board would If we're not going to limit enrollment, we'd be a starting point. better be ready to take care of what we get. -LEE MARKS TODAY AND TOMORROW: Looking Back At Geneva Meeting -BY WALTER LIPPMANN -___ y Ii -t .1 . I-9 - ~~.-- r A . _ _ - - a -- V- I r-j -7 "I" -- - l" W IL - t C- I 71 a -ro- b'° v.' "r=' r~ = y' e _. t' :m.e' 4 M, I.1 " .I vI? ;r e,,,, °. 1t"c y~i Q 1 : " - ,s . " + ' Y 5 O ,_ y r ." -~ 1M jj, < u'*°1-.'. .-a 9'"! ! W .k 6TG 't.- C K L.wo~s- .ea WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Truman May BackAverell -BY DREW PEARSON (EDITOR'S NOTE: Walter Lippman will stop writing for three weeks in order to make a tour of Europe. This is his final column until his return, Octobjer 3.) NOUGH time has passed and enough has happened to enable us to see more clearly and concretely the significance of the meeting at the summit in Geneva last July. I am afraid that an honest examination must show that Moscow has had the initiative, and that it has taken formidable advantage of the mili- tary and political situation. It has adapted its foreign policy to the fact tlftt there is a military stalemate, and it is exploiting this fact in an astute and carefully calculated diplomatic campaign. The cam- paign is designed to undermine the western military system and to neutralize American power in Europe. We shall soon be asking ourselves what is wrong with our own policies. We shall be asking ourselves whether they have not re- mained frozen in the pre-Geneva mold, and whether as a result we are not coming off second best in the diplomatic duel in Germany, in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean. In retrospect it is clearer than ever that what happened at Geneva was a public ack- nowledgment by the headls of states that they cannot wage an atomic war. The words used at Geneva were in the form of declarations and pledges that they would not go to war. But the underlying reality was that the governments knew from their scientists and* military leaders that in the existing balance of power war has to be avoided. That simultaneous public acknowledg- ment about war was all that was agreed to at Geneva. But that agreement was enormously important. For on both sides of the Iron Curtain there have been built up during the cold war military and political structures of alliances based on the expectation of a third world war. There is no doubt about this in regard to the foreign policy of the United States since the declaration of the Truman Doctrine. And in the East the threat of encirclement by the United States has long been used to justify the domination of the satellites and the police repression within the Communist orbit. IT IS clear enough now, I think, that some time last winter the Kremlin, realizing that there was an atomic stalemate, formed a diplo- matic policy based on that fact. The major premise of the policy was that the fear of Soviet military aggression, which had been so strong since the Korean agression, should be removed from the minds of the people of the Old World. - Then when the fear had been removed, the Soviet Union would be able to exploit diplomatically the great divisions of the non- Communist world - that of the two Ger- manys, that of France and Germany, that of Islam and Europe, etc., etc. The removal of the fear of Soviet mill- Stary aggression was easy enough because, as a matter of fact, Soviet military aggression was impossible in the existing stalemate. On this point the Soviet policy was not to deceive the West. The policy was to advertise the stalemate which neither East nor West could alter. The amiability of Moscow since the spring may reflect a number of things that are hap- pening in the Soviet Union. But on the mili- tary level it has expressed the fact that war is at this time impossible. What the Kremlin wanted and what the Kremlin got at Geneva was a spectacular demonstration that there was no longer need to fear Soviet military aggres- sion. THlE removal of that fear has made it diffi- cult to keep the democratic parliaments vot- ing the military appropriations. It has also produced a reappraisal of their foreign policies. The fear of a Soviet military conquest having been largely dispelled, there is a new order so to speak, of priorities in many nations. Among the Germans, for example, reuni- fication has become more important than the military alliance with the West. Greece and Turkey have allowed themselves a quarrel over Cyprus that they would never have dared to indulge in if they were still afraid of being conquered by the Soviet Union. Egypt, and perhaps also Syria, are feeling free to maneuver for high stakes, something they would not risk if they thought the Red Army might roll down upon them. The strength of the new Soviet diplomacy is in the fact that in these various conflicts they have worked themselves into the classic position where they hold the balance of power. This is most evident in Europe where they are now in a position to play upon the balance be- tween the two Germanys, the balance between France and Germany and the balance of Ger- many with Poland. THE Western position is inferior. For one thing the Soviet Union holds the biggest cards-namely Eastern Germany and the lost German territory beyond the Potsdam fron- tier. For another the Soviet Union is stronger because it can be more flexible. It is not bound as Britain and America are bound to a German policy which is not negotiable. As a result, because the Kremlin can ne- gotiate while we cannot, the prospect in Ger- many must suit Moscow only too well. For the situation is shaping up for direct dealings with Germany while the English-speaking peoples are on the sidelines. THE next Democratic candidate* for Presidernt of the United States may be partly picked this week end as Governor Averell Harriman entertains ex-President Harry Truman in the rambling gay-nineties Governor's Mansion in Albany from which have come many Presidents of the United States. For Truman, hitherto a stanch Adlai Stevenson advocate, has changed somewhat. He has told close friends that the Democratic race should be wide open, that the Democratic Party has several fine candidates, and that, while he's still strong for Adlai person- ally, the latter's defeat in '52 may jinx him for '56. { Truman has also confided that he thinks the strongest Democrat-' ic ticket would be Harriman for President and Kefauver foar Vice President. HOW FAR the toughest fight- er in the Democratic Party will go in confiding all this to his old friend Averell Harriman as they huddle together this weekend re- mains to be seen. But Harry Tru- man has two reasons for backing Harriman. And being Harry Tru-- man he's likely to be frank about them. No. 1 is that Harry, more than any other recent man in the White House, has been loyal to his friends. And Averell Harriman was one Democrat who when the dead cats were flying all around both the front and rear porticoes of the White House, never waver- ed. Other New York Democrats like Bernie Baruch held their noses at the hams and the mink coats, and took a walk. But not Harriman. In 1948, when the political pic- ture looked darkest, he dug down in his jeans, raised money and campaigned for Truman. * * * HARRY IS one who never for- gets these things. Reason No. 2-Truman figures that Harriman has some made- to-order qualifications as a candi- date. His name is a household word in New York. He lives at Har- riman, N.Y., named for a family that helped pioneer the railroads1 of the nation. He's big business, yet he's\ ardently pro-labor. He was head of the third or fourth largest railway, the Un- ion Pacific, part owner of the Illinois Central, part owner of Western Union, yet his coal mine, were rated by John L. Lewis as having the best safety record in the nation. Labor has backed him 100 per cent. HE'S ALSO had experience. Not only can he read a balance sheet, having been a Wall Street invest- ment banker, but he's been Secre- tary of Commerce, ambassador to Moscow and London, head of Mu- tual Security, and head of NRA. Yet he's appointed some of the stanchest Roosevelt New Dealers to his cabinet in New York. Truman has indicated to friends that he ought not to back any one candidate too far ahead of the Chicago Convention, that the party must choose its own man. Privately, however, he has some vigorous views, thinks Harriman and Kefauver would make a win- ning ticket. Note-Harriman's chief handi- cap will be age. He's now 63, and the American public, following Ike's illness, is sensitive about age. Friends counter this by pointing out that Harriman skis, plays polo, and has the figure of 35. Poor Switch... To the Editor: THE decision to supplant The Alsops and Walter Lippman with Drew Pearson and Murry Frymer (with all due respect to Pearson and Frymer) was a sor- ry one indeed! -Theodore N. Ferdinand, Grad. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Walter Lipp- man's 'Today and Tomorrow' is featured twice each week in The Daily.) Just Play.. .. To the Editor: I WOULD like to suggest the use of more band music and less intricate maneuvering on the part of the University Band on game days. I, for one, would be thrilled to hear this splendid band give us such old-time marehes as "The Thunderer," "Washington Post," "On the Mall," and "National Em- blem." The pictures which are depicted by the band between halfs never seem to be in focus from my van- tage point in the end zone. This must be true of about 45 per cent of the crowd, I would think. -Donald J. Porter, '21 Misplaced Blame ... To the Editor: HAVE a feeling that the stu- dents on our campus are being, unfairly blamed for causing the general disturbance in Ann Arbor during and after the State pep rally. If The Daily had not written such an unnecessary article on past performances before the Michigan-Michigan State game the students would never have been found to act as they did. Maybe a few censors should get to work. -Ann Mills More Than Shocked*..*. To the Editor: O say that I was shocked by the tone of the Page 1 editorial on the panty raid (sic) of Septem- ber 30 would be a colossal under- statement. The attittide taken by the editors in the article, (if in deed the article was written by the editors) shows a distinctly narrow-minded point of view. This letter is not written to de- fend panty raids, but to put the subject of panty raiding in its proper perspective. If one wereto judge' solely by the tone of the editorial, one would think that a serious crime had been committed. Rather, it was a quite natural out- burst of pent-up enthusiasm of students completing their first week of classes and using excess energy generated by the pep rally to perform what they considered a common college occurrence and certainly not destructive or detri- mental to the prestige of the Uni- versity. You say that blame can't be placed on anyone but the students. Of course it can't! Since the stu- dents were the only ones partici- pating whom else can be blamed? The main question is, however, should anyone be blamed? I say no. To conclude, I would like to say that cliches, hackneyed phrases and overworked adjectives do not make an editorial. Neither does one panty raid ruin the repu- tation of a University as fine as the University of Michigan. Edi- torials written during a period of excitement are usually not cap- able of offering constructive help. Yours was no exception. -Stephen P. Schwartz Helpful Hints ... To the Editor: WE HAVE a new problem on our campus now that enrollment has increased, and that is the mass invasion of bicycling stud- ents. It seems that the number of bicycles has increased consider- ably, a fact which is evident from the over-crowded bike racks. With this increase in the num- ber of. bikes a lot of traffic prob- lems have arisen. It seems to me as I ride around the campus that very few people are aware of the accidents that can occur on bi- cycles. This letter is an urgent appeal to students with bikes to observe the same traffic precau- tions they would if they were driv- ing a car ... Ride on the right side of the walks ... During change of classes, if students must ride their bikes down the crowded walks they should at least go slow enough to stop quickly... When making right and left turns a hand signal would help a lot... On rainy days speed can and should be forsaken . . . Speed should be cut down, not only on rainy days but in areas where accidents can happen. Passing people and other bikes also requires precaution .u. . A word to pedestrian students: please help the poor bike riders. If someone is trying to pass you, pull over to the right. We all know the dangers of driving a car, but let's not forget that two wheels can be as danger- ous as four. -Barbara Rosen, '57 Television Preview Some of the highlights of the coming week on television: BIRTH OF MODERN TIMES, on Omnibus,' will recreate the color of the year 1492, Sunday at 4 p.m., CBS. RESCUE OF GI'S from infa- mous Japanese prison camp in Manila, on 'You Are There,'Sua- day at 5:30 p.m., CBS. SHOW BIZ, color spectacular, with Groucho Marx, Eartha Kitt, Rosemary Clooney, Sunday at 6:30 p.m., NBC. I.1 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN A t STATE GUBERNATORIAL RACE: GOP Hopes Center On Four By PETE ECKSTEIN Daily Staff Writer Republican hopes for upsetting Gov. G. Mennen Williams, the vet- eran of four successful guberna- torial campaigns, center around four men, none of whom has clear sailing to the nomination. Detroit's Mayor Alfred Cobo is said to be receptive to the idea of running, but is putting off a pub- lic commitment until the direction of the political winds can be bet- ter determined. Cobo's popularity in Democratic Wayne County is his major politi- cal asset. His liabilities include his health-a heart attack several years ago is expected to receive. much public attention since the Eisenhower illness. * * * COBO IS under strong pressure to resign as mayor before mak- ing the race. Those who fear his doing otherwise feel it would weaken Detroit's non - partisan government. He may not be willing to give up the mayoralty in exchange for the risky business of running against Williams. He will lose much support, however, particu-I larly among Detroit newspapers, should he run without resigning. Michigan State University Pres- ident John Hannah is the favor- ite of several of the young repre- sentatives. They stress that his Republicanism is undoubted, hav- ing served in a top defense depart- ment post under Eisenhower. Held to be an able administra- Rep. Alvin Bentley is mentioned both favorably and otherwise by Republican leaders. His youth is in his favor, and he has a claim to fame (in fact his primary one) in that he stopped several bullets fired by Puerto Rican nationalists in their bloody raid of the House of Representatives. State Chair- man Feikens met with much agreement when he told the Re- publicans that the Michigan GOP is "sunk" without an Eisenhower- type program. Bentley, however, draws criti- cism for an anti-Eisenhower stand on many issues, both domestic and foreign. Much of Bentley's sup- port seems to be limited to his district, where his House seat looks attractive to would-be heirs. * * * BY TALKING to Donald Leon- ard one gets what is perhaps an- exaggerated picture of the im- portance of another bid by the 1954 candidate. The likable and intelligent former Detroit police commissioner is handicapped by a 250,000 vote defeat in the last gubernatorial race. Though he has not announced a candidacy, Leonard gives the im- pression he is anxious for another crack at "Soapy." He mentions his strong showing in last year's Republican primary and a vigor- ous election campaign, blames his defeat on voter attention to na- tional issues including the lifting of corporation taxes and high un- employment. Leonard calls the recent Democratic sweeps in Mi- chi- an art i~os;_ , on farm prices. They are sincere in their belief that Williams'.pop- ularity is undeserved, that he has not exercised proper leadership, choosing to criticize the legisla- ture's work rather than propose programs of his own. Most are convinced that the "Eisenhower approach" is the right one, fewer will agree just how that approach can be trans- lated into Michigan political terms. But they disagree most on a candidate, knowing it will take a strong one to beat the inde- fatigable "Soapy." 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. Notices for the Sunday edition must be in by 2 p.m. Friday. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1955 VOL. LXVII, NO. 2 General Notices M a r y L. Hinsdale Scholarship, amounting to $117.94 (interest on the endowment fund) is available to un- dergraduate women who are wholly or partially self-supborting and who do not live in University residence halls or sorority houses. Ghis with better than average scholarship and need will be considered. Application blankcs, obtain- able at the Alumnae Council Office, Michigan League, should be filed by Oct. 20. Blue Cross Group Hospitalization, Medical and Surgical Service Programs for staff members will be open from Oct. 10 to Oct. 21 for new applications and changes in contracts now in ef- fect. Staff members who wish to en- roll, or change their coverage to in- clude surgical and medical services, should make such changes at the Per- sonnel office, Room 3012, Administra- tion Building. New applications and changes will be effective Dec. 5, with the first payroll deduction on Nov. 30. Lecture, auspices of the Dept. of Bacteriology. "Effects of Adrenal Steroids on Mechanisms of Resistance to Infection." Edward S. Kass, M.D., PhD, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass. 4:15 p.m., Mon., Oct. 10, Rackham Amphitheater. General Library on all Sundays dur- ing the current academic year, begin- ning Oct. 8, the General Library will be open from 2 p.m.-6 p.m. As in the past, service will be given in the Main Readfng Rom, Periodical Reading Room and at the Circulation Desk. In addi- tion, the First Floor Study Hall, in which smoking is permitted, will be open, and reserved books regularly shelved there will be available. Other Reading Rooms and Study Halls in the building will be closed, but books needed for Sunday use may be re- served by students on Saturday. Holders of stack permits will have access to the stacks and may withdraw books. Other users of the Library may return and renew books at the Circu- lation Desk. Academic Notices Admission test for graduate study in business: Students planning to take this test on Sat., Nov. 12, should leave their names at the Information Desk, Scribblingb y Mike Marder 4. ( Wit:, " : >- is :::>: ? i