Sixty-Sixth Year
EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THz UNIVERsrrY OF MICHIGAN
_ UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241
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.
NOVEMBER 5, 1955 NIGHT EDITOR: GAIL GOLDSTEIN
Policemen Want To Remain,
But "Gotta Live, Too"
O MENTION that townships are rarely faced underpaid. Often they have worked up to 50
with a critical lack of a police force would hour weeks, with no pay for overtime.
be a masterpiece in understatenient. Enkemanni himself declared the situation
However, yesterday Ann Arbor was forced to "absurd."
face that problem-37 of 45 patrolmen and The city must face reality. The cost of
detectives handed in their resignations to Chief living in Ann Arbor is the highest in the nation.
Casper M. Enkemann. They will beacome ef- These men, working overtime, and expected to
fectver November 18. take chances with their lives to protect the
city and its citizenry, are receiving consider-
The resignations, policemen emphasized, were ably less pay than average laborers.
not to be taken as threats to the city council,
but were merely actions of necessity. The T E city is notorious for spending "no money
letter of resignation clearly stated that all the except for education." As noble as this
men would prefer staying on the force, but may seem, the present need is critical, and the
were not able to make ends meet on their money must come from somewhere, even if some
present salary, or the one recommended by laws make Inter-departmental transfer of
the budget committee, funds difficult.
The committee's recommendations were sub- The police, doubtlessly deserve a raise. They
stantially lower than the ones the police com- deserve to live as any citizen lives, but the
mission advised. occupation pays too little for their necessities.
Still, they would like to stay on the force.
THE city now is faced with the prospect of No one can guess whether or not the council
T eitn owguardedisyfacmeagredawih tp ro tyofwill approve any extension of present police
being guarded by 23 men, a great majority pay Monday night. Or will the police carry
lieutenants, captains, and the chief himself, their plans through, and resign the 18th, the
who would all return to "pounding beats" day before 97,000 football fans will jam the
again. Michigan stadium, streaming traffic across
The prospect is not a bright one for the city roads for miles?
to see, but the prospect of continuing to work The only certain thing is that the situation
under present salaries is even less appealing Is critical, and as one officer summarized,
to the resigning men. "We've gotta live too."
For weeks they have been overworked and -.LEW HAMBURGER
TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Mideast Reappraisal
By WALTER LIPPMANN
"Tell Us More About This"
!i
I -
II
AT THE ORPHEUM:
'.interlude' Tasteful
Des pite Advertising
"1L ICIT INTERLUDE," despite its title and the advertising it has
received, is a delicately wrought piece of motion picture craftsman-
ship.
The conflict is that of "The Red Shoes"-a career as a leading
ballerina versus love, but the story line is quite different.
It deals with an aging ballerina (Mary Britt), Maria, whose three
loves are revealed through a series of well-done flashbacks skillfully
interwoven with present action.
-* -
THE SUMMER she was fifteen, Maria fell in love with Hendrik
(Alf Kellin), a young student. Their love was an idyll brought to
a tragic end by Hendrik's accidental death. Emotionally devastated,
4
U
.
i
=A
.
, , p/S 9S ER
v W
i
T
Mtg.
r '
I~* ~$~44IiiT~A -.rrc.*
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Ex-Editor Asks Less Band 'Talk'
ATHOUGH it has been known since June that
Egypt was talking with the Soviets, the deal
itself has in fact proved to be a surprise with
which Britain and the United States are un-
prepared to deal. What has surprised us is not
so much the purchase of arms as the sudden
appearance of the Soviet Union as a great
power in the Middle East. This is a part of
the world which the Russian empire, Czarist
or Communist, hs never before been able to
enter.
After all that has been done to "contain" the
Soviet Union by the series of pacts set up on
its southern flank, the Soviet Union has jumped
right over the whole containing structure and
has landed behind it, has landed at the stra-
tegic center of the Mediterranean and the
Middle East. She has entered Egypt just as
the British are leaving it.
THE heavy 'arms shipments to Egypt have
undoubtedly aggravated the danger of an
Egyptian-Israeli war. But there is no reason
to think that the Soviet Union wants such a
war, or that it could afford to let such a war
happen.
For no matter what Mr. MacMillan and Mr.
Dulles think it expedient to say now about a
guarantee, the fact of the matter is that Brit-
ain and the United States, and indeed the
great majority of the United Nations, simply
could not stand by and let Egypt and its allies,
armed by the Soviet Union, crush Israel. The
Western powers have no choice about inter-
vening to stop such an aggression. The Soviet
Union would then be faced with the necessity
of deciding whether to abandon its new ally,
Egypt, or to risk an incalculable conflict with
the West.
The real problem is not this threatened war,
which the great powers must and which they
can prevent. The real problem is that the
Soviet Union is by way of acquiring a diplo-
matic base in Egypt. The political effect of
the arms shipments is to buy the influence of
the Egyptian army, which controls the Egypt-
ian government. Beyond the arms deal lies
the project-not as yet consummated it would
appear-of massive Soviet economic assistance
to build the great dams on the Nile River. If
this project goes through, there will be no
doubt at all that Egypt has been drawn into.
the Soviet orbit.
Editorial Staff
Dave Baad ........................... Managing Editor
Jim Dygert................................. city Editor
Murry Frymer ............... Editorial Director
Debra Durchslag ..................... Magazine Editor
David Kaplan ......................... Feature Editor
Jane Howard....................... Associate Editor
Louise Tyor ....................... Associate Editor
Phil Douglis ......................... Sports Editor
Alan Eisenberg ...............Associate Sports Editor
Jack Horwitz ................ Associate Sports Editor
Mary Hellthaler ..................... Women's Editor
Elaine Edmonds...........Associate Women's Editor
John Hirtzel............... Chief Photographer
Business Staff
Dick Alstrom ....................... Business Manager
Bob Ilgenfritz ............ Associate Business Manager
Ken Rogat..............,... Advertising Manager
Marty Weisbard ............................... Finance
WHETHER we like it or not-and of course
we do not like it--the Soviet Union will
now be present and participating on equal terms
in the diplomacy of the Middle East. She has
very strong cards. She is able to incite and
.support nationalist passions which are pre-
dominantly anti-Western. She has a reserve
of obsolescent arms with which to win over
the local army leaders. She is ready to take
the agricultural surpluses of these primitive
economies in payment on easy terms for in-
dustrial equipment.
And being herself the shining example of
an under-developed country which has devel-
oped itself quickly, she knows how to talk
the language of the politicians, the intellec-
tuals and the technicians of the under-devel-
oped nations.
What is about to happen in Egypt should
cause us to make an agonizing reappraisal of
our own policy. For the Soviet incursion into
Egypt may prove to be a set-back for the in-
fluence of the West second only to what hap-
pened on the mainland of China few years
ago.
THE agonizing reappraisal can begin, it seems
to me, by noting that the Soviet Union has
landed in =Egypt just as Mr. Dulles and Mr.
MacMillan were completing their pacts to
contain the Soviet Union. These pacts run
from Yugoslavia through Greece to'Turkey and
from Turkey and Iraq through Iran to Pakis-
tan. In the last analysis these pacts are based
on the notion that the Red Army will try to
march out of its own territory in order to in-
vade and occupy and Bolshevize its nearest
neighbors. The pacts are defensive military
arrangements designed to hold back, to "con-
tain," the supposed march of the Red infantry.
We have now seen that the Soviet Union is
not contained by such pacts because it moves
forward not by marching its army but by
carefully conceived political and economic and
ideological campaigns. The containing pacts do
not stop the Soviets, and when countries like
Iran are included in these pacts, the effects is
to provoke, or at least to give pretext to, Soviet
reprisal.
Why has Mr. Dulles rushed around the world
making these pacts? Because, I venture to say,
he is unwilling to ask and unable to get from
Congress the money to conduct the kind of
realistic diplomacy which the Soviets are con-
ducting in Egypt and elsewhere. The pacts do
little good. But they make the headlines. And
they cost little money. The money they cost is
the kind of money that Congress, when no one
leads it to greater wisdom,-is most willing to
appropriate.
WE MUST not fool ourselves. The under-de-
veloped countries, among which Egypt is a
key country, are determined to develop them-
selves. There is the Western way to develop a
country and there is the Communist way. The
Western way requires the investment, with no
great prospect of a quick or large return, of big
capital funds. The Communist way is to use
force and is less humane. But for that very
reason it is cheaper.
Nevertheless, it to requires capital funds. But
the Soviet Union can trade these funds against
the agricultural surpluses of cotton and rice
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Hartwig was
Managing Editor of The Daily during
the '54-'55 academic year.)
IAM beginning to wonder who
is digeperforming at half-
time-the University of Michigan
Marching Band or the young man
who stands at the microphone on
the sidelines carefully reading the
week's tribute to this or that per-
son or institution.
There was a time when the
band could rely on its own talents
to keep the crowd from heading
for the popcorn vendor between
halves, but now someone has dis-
covered that the stadium has a
loudspeaker system plus a captive
audience of anywhere from 70,000
to 97,000 spectators. The net re-
sult has been to overload the script
of the young man with the well-
modulated voice until even the
venerable "Laudes Atque Carmina"
cannot be heard behind the over-
powering voice of the loudspeak-
er.
There are some of us who still
think the band can hold the crowd,
with its excellent but seldom seen
dance routines and march man-
euvers, minus the well-rehearsed
observations of the announcer.
-Eugene Hartwig, '58L
Please !.
To the Editor:
GEE Mr. Revelli I liked your
band today. They were really
up for the game, played their fin-
est. But somehow it just wasn't
like it used to be. They belonged
to somebody else. Please, Mr. Re-
velli, won't you ask Harlow to
give them back to us?
g-Robert B. Webster, 57L
Confusing Schools ...
To the Editor:
THE "Test Tube Life. . " ar-
ticle in Saturday's Daily was
the last straw. My wrath has
been brought to the writing point.
THE cardinal rule in journal-
ism is "get the facts, and get them
right." In this article you have
waited until your fifth paragraph
before you mention the source of
the research discussed. There you
refer only to "the California
school." Thence on page five you
begin your paragraph "USC cre-
ates new virus" and again you re-
fer to "the California university's
virus lab."
The American College Diction-
ary lists California as possessing
10 universities and 115 colleges.
Your reference to "the California
school" and "the California uni-
versity" are therefore quite vague.
Your allusion to USC is just plain
wrong. Dr. Stanley heads the vi-
rus lab at The University of Cali-
fornia. The confusion of the two
would be considered by a Cal man
(which I am not) as far more in-
vidious than any confusion of the
two state universities in Michigan.
Adjacent to this article on the
front page is the article "Big
Four . . ." which ends, "The dra-
matic highlight of the west's se-
curity bid was a provision to al-
function of any newspaper is to
present the facts accurately, and
in such a way that the paper does
not become a giant game of hide-
and-seek. May I suggest that if
the finances are that tight, you
drop about half your features and
hire some competent proofreaders.
The result would be a paper much
more a credit to the University,
and to its editor.
-Noel de Nevers, Grad.
'Grim Humor'...
To the Editor:
PAUL H. Johnson wrote a stir-
ring red, white, and blue let-
ter about Reds in "Show Biz,"
slapping singer Seeger and wreck-
er Robeson, and starring as hero,
benevolent Bernard (guts) Baruch.
Mr. Johnson is a man of strong
convictions, and nothing a Com-
munist, a "dupe," or an ignora-
mus like myself could say, would
have any effect whatever upon
his opinions.
Why then get excited about
"Red" propaganda? Aren't other
people as strong minded as Mr.
Johnson or as sold on "free" en-
terprise as millionaire Baruch?
Since we all tend to be antag-
onistic toward the arrogance of
self-righteousness, Mr. Johnson's
reaction was normal as far as it
went. Yet a question worth pon-
dering in connection with so-call-
ed un-American Activities Com-
mittee hearings is who was arro-
gant in the beginning? Who is
qualified todetermine what is un-
American anyway? Just where are
the true-blue, 100%, red-blooded
God-fearing so and so's to be
found? Doesn't even the defini-
tion of heresy depend upon an
individual's concept of God?
Possibly our sense of humor is
being sacrificed before the altar
of a fickle god called self-esteem.
And the pathological hatred of
some folks for "you-know-whats"
may be explainable on the basis
of psychological projection. Guilt
complex - scapegoat - wham. Grim
humor, what?
-R. F. Burlingame
Milan, Michigan
Middle East Policy...
To the Editor:
IN an editorial on Thursday, Mr.
Dygert suggested that the West
ship arms to Israel as a policy to
maintain the balance of power and
to combat the Red's current policy
of selling arms to the Arabs. I find
it necessary to correct whatever
wrong impression such a sugges-
tion might give.
Mr. Dygert said "The Reds are
aware of the tensions in the
Middle East, and foresee much
more profit in exploiting them
than in alleviating them." I agree
completely with Dygert on that.
However, I want to remind him
that the West is responsible for
giving the Communists the chance
to win favor in the area, by follow-
ing a one-sided and partial policy
favoring Israel in the Middle East.
By such a policy the West is forc-
ing 50 million Arabs into the hands
of the Communists against their
will. Because of the constant Is-
raeli threat (supported by the
West) the Arabs will find it neces-
sary to extend their hands for
arms to anyone who will sell to
them in order to defend them-
selves and maintain their dignity.
If the Western Powers are really
sincere about easing the tension
in the Middle East, they should
oblige Israel to comply with the
UN resolutions on Palestine. This
involves: The repatriation of the
Arab refugees and compensation
for those who do not want to re-
turn, the internationalization of
Jerusalem, and an enforcement of
the original boundaries set by the
partition resolution. This besides
a cessation of the Israeli agres-
sion against the Arab countries.
These alone may ease the ten-
sion in the Middle East, and pre-
vent the Soviets from gaining fur-
ther popularity in that area.
I put it very emphatically that
if the West adopts a policy of
shipping arms to Israel, the result
will be a disastrous arms race in
the area and ever-increasing Com-
munist influence in the Middle
East.
--Khalid Al-Shawl, Grad.
Maria turned to the licentious man
who had loved her mother, but
soon grew to hate him.
For a long time she devoted her-
self to her dancing until she met
David (Birger Malmsten), and
was reawakened to love. All the
scenes build up to her final choice
between career and love.
Miss Britt's acting is a constant
joy to watch. It is terribly diffi-
cult to believe that the same
woman is playing the part of the
gamin-like adolescent temptress
and the tired, joyless artist of 13
years later. Her characterization
is superb.
s " e
KJELLIN IS excellent as her
young lover and Malmsten is very
good as the maturing influence on
her life. But from the beginning,
the stage belongs to Miss Britt and
she is well aware of how to use it.
Photographic effects are well
done, particularly during the tran-
sitions between scenes. And for
once, black and white seems to
enhance rather than detract from
a film. It is harsh and glaring
when the scenes demand it, but
at other times soft and almost
ethereal.
It istoo bad that the Royal
Opera Ballet of Stockholm was~un-
able to show of f its wealth of tal-
ents a little more fully, but the
"pas de deux" from "Swan Lake"
was very well done indeed.
SUBTITLES ARE for the most
part well done, although occas-
ionally the transposed lines sound
a little silly.
"Illicit Interlude" is on a par
with another Swedish export, "One
Summer of Happiness" for its fine
sensibilities and good taste in ex-
ploring the problems of love.
-Tammy Morrison
AT THE STATE:
'Brunettes'
Rather Poor
"GENTLEMEN Marry Brunettes"
is a very unusual musical com-
edy because no one in the cast can
sing or act.
Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain
are cast as a sister act, Conny and
Bonny (yet) who make their for-
tunes in gay Paris along with other
unfortunates. The plot is so slight
and ridiculous that it need not be
gone into at length. It is enough
to know that Jane is a girl who
can't say "No" to a marriage pro-
posal and suddenly she finds her-
self a man (Scott Brady) who
doesn't propose. Alan Young is
also present to pair off with Miss
Crain and Rudy Vallee plays him-
self, which is as gloomy a job as
can be found for the aged lad.
The songs are mostly good ones,
with great hunks of Rodgers and
Hart thrown in, but unfortunately,
the cast prefers to toy with the
phrasing of the lyrics, the rhythm,
the melody and the idea. Having
the smallest amount of talent im-
aginable, it Is no wonder that
things turn out as they do. Mr.
Vallee, who is supposed to be a
professional at the chanteur busi-
ness, sings as if he has no glands,
but after all he is getting pretty
old. And why not?
SCOTT BRADY, no Gene Kelly
type himself, plays a shrewd and
penniless agent who rooms with
Alan Young, an all-around idiot.
They get the girls and lose them
and get them and lose them and
I'm afraid the whole thing gets a
bit boring.
In the interests of accuracy, it is
necessary to point out that the
film has flashbacks abounding
which show the careers of Jane and
Jeanne's mother and aunt who
had a sister act in the twenties.
They were known as "Mitzi and
something," mostly likely "Mitzi
and her Wonder Dog" but the
name is of little consequence. They
were blond. They are played also
by Russell and Crain. This is what
is known as spreading it thin,
especially since they have enough
of a trial handling the Conny and
Bonny roles.
There is a finale in which "Ain't
Misbehavin'" is sung in an Afri-
can ballet at a night club in Monte
Carlo. All one can do is to cry into
his popcorn.
- * «
THE ONE bright spot in the film
(or two if you want to be techni-
cal) is that Miss Crain and Miss
Russell wear little and look well in
it. They are hanrsomelv nt tn-
Weekend
Movie Guide
ILLICIT INTERLUDE, at Or-
pheum, with Royal Stockholm
Opera Ballet, see review today.
GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUN-
ETTES, at State, with Jane Rus-
sell, Jeanne Crain; "no one in cast
who can sing or act."
PHENIX CITY STORY, at Mich-
igan; "not as risque as viciously
blood-soaked."
SECRET OF CONVICT LAKE,
at Cinema Guild, with Glenn Ford,
Gene Tierney, begins tonight.
SUMMERTIME, at Michigan
tomorrow, with Kathryn Hepburn;
see review tomorrow.
DISTANT JOURNEY, at Rack-
ham Ampitheatre (Gothic Films),
Jewish family under Nazi occupa-
tion, 8 p.m. Monday.
DAILY
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
4
r
THE Daiiy Official Bulletin is an
official publication of the University
of Michigan for which the Michigan
Daily assumes no editorial reponsi-
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, NOVEMBER 5, 1955
VOL. LXVII, NO. 36
General Notices
Veterans who expect to receive edu-
cation and training allowance under
Public Law 550 (Korea G. I. Bill) must
fill in. VA Form 7-199&, Monthly Cer-
tification, in the Office ofVeterans'
Affairs, 555 Administration Building,
between 8:30 a.m. Tues., Nov. 1 and
3:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 7.
Chest Clinic. The Michigan Depart-
ment of Health will have a mobile
X-Ray unit available from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 9, 10 and 14, and
from 8:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Nov. '15 for
staff members of the University who
wish to have a chest X-Ray. This
service is free.
The mobile unit will be parked in the
rear of the Student Health Service.
Staff members will register in Room
No. 58 of the Health Service Bldg.
Women's Research Club will meet
Mon., Nov. 7, at 8:00 p.m. In the West
Lecture Room, Rackham Building. Miss
Grace Louise Wood, Department of
Anthropology, will speak on "Effects of
Modern Civilization on the Tiruray ot
the Philippines."
Concerts
Cleveland Orchestra will be heard in
the third concert in the Choral Union
Series, Sun., Nov. 6, at 8:30 p.m. in
Hill Auditorium, under George Szell,
conductor. Limited number of tickets
available at the offices of the University
Musical Society in Burton Tower. Tick-
ets will also be on sale at the Hill
Auditorium box office the night of the
concert after 7:00.
Academic Notices
Astronomical Colloquium. Sat., Nov.
52:00 p.m., the McMath-Hulbert Ob-
servatory, Lake Angelus, Michigan. Dr.
Leo Goldberg will speak on "Recent
Results with a Solar vacuum Spectro-
graph."
Doctoral Examination for Rudi Siong
Bwee Ong, Mechanical Engineering;
thesis: "On the Interaction of a Chap-
man-Jouguet Detonation Wave with a
Wedge," Mon., Nov. 7, 246 West Engi-
neering Bldg., at 3:00 p.m. Chairma,
G. J. VanWylen.
Events Today
Free Films, Museums Bldg., 4th floor
exhibit hail. "Rice and Health" and
"Life in the Forest," Nov. 1-7. Daily at
3:00 and 4:00 p.m., including Sat. and
Sun., with extra showing Wed. at 12:30.
Placement Notices
PERSONNEL REQUESTS:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu-
tion, Woods Hole, Mass., has openings
for women to work as Research Assist-
ants in Underwater Acoustics, Under-
water Wave Analysis, and Meteorology.
Requires a good background in Physics
and Mathematics.
Du-Wel Metal Products, Inc.-Bangor,
Michigan, has an opening in the Esti-
mating Department involving some cost
control work. An engineering degree
would be helpful, but is not required.
Minnesota Civil Service announces an
opening for Public Health Engineer II.
All citizens of U.S. are eligible. would
like someone who has experience in
professional sanitary engineering work,
with a degree in civil, chem., or mech.
("
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick BibIe,'
I
c..r . ,,
, °
t ,
, frl .,.._
t, 1 ;' ,
'f ' I