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NOVEMBER 6, 1955 NIGHT EDITOR: GAIL GOLDSTEIN
is Lausche Best Choice
For Democrats? Two View
"What Is This - A Gamer"
Ohioan Could
Unite Interests
H E KEEPS saying 1960 is the year to push
for the Democratic presidential nomina -
tion, but friends close to Frank Lausche, gov-
ernor of Ohio, think his timetable might be
moved up four years. Lausche himself is quiet
on the subject, but influential forces in the
Democratic Party are making opening n'ioves
to send the governor into contention for nomi-
nation in 1956.
And when everything is considered it's dif-
ficult to figure why Lausche wasn't pushed
into the limelight earlier. There are few Dem-
ocrats in the country more acceptable to the
widely diverse elements in the party. It must
have been that, before Eisenhower's heart at-
tack, Democrats thought Lausche too valuable
for the future to sacrifice in the 1956 cam-
paign.
As for the past eight years Democrats will
go to the convention widely split over the
platform and just as split over who the nomi-
nation should go to.
In 1948 the Dixiecrat Party evolved and
in 1952 the South swung strong support to the
Republicans. Both occurrences followed tem-
pestous conventions leaving nobody satisfied
and the party widely split during the ensuing
campaign.
MOST prominent Democratic presidential pos-
sibilities sorfar seem to be Adlai Steven-
son, Averill Harriman and Estes Kefauver with
favorite sons like G. Mennen Williams, Rich-
ard Russell and Lausche hovering on the side-
lines.
Most liberals will again -rally to Stevenson's
support. There is little doubt he is the out-
standing intellectual leader 'in politics today.
He empitomizes the liberalism idealists of .the
Democrats, but at the same time has a touch
of enlightened conservatism that makes him
more lucrative than one of the "Young Turks"
of the 1952 convention.
However Stevenson has lost once. Losers
don't make good candidates no matter how
certain their victory might be. Tom Dewey's
and William Jennings Bryan's experiences at-
test to that. Democratic delegates will keep
this in mind at convention time.
Harriman and Kefauver won't get support
from conservative portions of the party. Both
tried for the nomination in 1952 and both were
backed primarily by northern liberals.
Some say Kefauver being from Tennessee is
a good compromise between the conservative
_south and the liberal north. But Kefauver's
voting record is one of the most liberal in the
Senate and the Russell's and the Shivers' would
be hard pressed to stomach the crime investi-
gator.
,AUSC IEis liberal enough to be termed pro-
gressive by a leading Republican magazine,
wbut conservative enough to get the support of
Russell and Shivers. They have already come
out backing Lausche if he decided to seek the
nomination. He has also intimated to confi-
dents that Adlai Stevenson might be his secre-
tary of state choice if he were elected, a move
extremely pleasing to most liberals.
In Ohio Lausche has helped liberalize un-
employment and workmen's compensation pro-
grams, pushed through statewide slum clear-
ance bills and sponsored the recently completed
east-west Ohio turnpike.
It wouldn't be surprising if the 1956 con-
vention came to a choice between Stevenson
and Lausche. In the clutch convention poli-
ticians are going to think about who's going"
to win and here Lausche will have the upper
hand.
On the basis of who would be most out-
standing as president it will be hard for Demo-
crats to discount the former Illinois governor.
But if the question is who would the Demo-
crats unite behind, and who could win the
election, then Lausche seems like a logical
choice,
-DAVE BAAD, Managing Editor
Conservativism Will
Lose Northern Dems
THE Democratic Party is heterogeneous if
nothing else.
While its leaders constantly deprecate the
"two-headed elephant," Democrats like arch-
liberal Hubert Humphrey and oily-conserva-
tive Allan Shivers meet in the same convention
hall every four years.
They try to reconcile their differences but
eventually come right out and admit that one
party's not big enough for all of them, not
even the Democratic Party. So they go their
separate ways come election time, but three and
a half years later always seem to try the whole
thing over again.
THE main obstacle to party unity seems to
be the non-existence of the "universal
man," oie whose position is so ambiguous or
popularity so non-political that he would ap-
peal to both Herbert Lehman and Jimmy
Byrnes.
Some claim to have found such a man in
Frank Lausche, the spectacular vote-getting
governor of Ohio. A conservative, he appeals
to many in the South who have wearied of
having their candidates labeled as sectional.
The South's traditional candidate, Richard
Russell, Sen. John McClellen and Shivers have
all recently lauded the curly-mopped governor.
Unfortunately, Northern Democrats, who also
vote, have thus far failed to jump on the
Lausche bandwagon, perhaps with good cause.
The explanation isn't difficult. The same
conservatism that appeals to the South makes
the Northern Democrats cringe a little.
LAUSCHE favored Robert Taft's reelection in
1950 over the Democratic senatorial can-
didate. While the governor's stand on specific
national issues is not well-known, a clue 'can
be obtained froh a recent speech in which he
praised Eisenhower for the "unity and confi-
dence" he has given the American people, who
"more than ever feel, the grave need of his
leadership."
There is no doubt that Gov. Lausche is sin-
cere in his statements. There is some ques-
tion however of the wisdom of trying to "out-
Ike" the Republicans or of nominating a can-
didate who will try. The Republicans have
Eisenhower. The Democrats cannot succeed
with the "me too" approach, if only because
they won't be believed. They must offer some-
thing better.
Fortunately, they have something better.
While Adlai Stevenson will never inspire wild
cheers from the unreconstructed Dixiecrats, he
has broad appeal to Democrats and Independ-
ents. He shows an unusual ability to attract
moderate Southerners and liberal Northerners
as well, while completely alienating only the1
conservative extremists.
HIS 1952 candidacy has given him national;
prominence far above that of the relatively
unknown Lausche. A Stevenson victory next
year would be precedented by at least four
Presidents who had previously met defeat.
Few Democrats will deny that Stevenson
was their best potential vote-getter against Eis-
enhower in 1952. Against any other Republi-
can in 1956 he seems the man most likely to
win, through his ability to aggressively and
honestly offer a reasonable alternative to four
more years of Republican rule.
-PETE ECKSTEIN t
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Hall Says Ike Won't Runt
NOTHING has been said about it
officially but GOP National
Chairman Len Hall has told
friends that President Eisenhower
will announce late in January his
decision not to run.
Ike might even declare his in-
tentions in his State of the Union
message to Congress on January
20, Hall has confided to friends.
The President, he explained, must
take himself out of the race at
least 90 days before Ohio's May
8 primary; otherwise he could be
put on the Ohio ballot against his
wishes.
The President is also under pres-
sure from the politicians to make
his announcement in plenty of
time for them to build up a suc-
cessor.
HALL ADMITTED privately,
however, that some of the Cabi-
net have not given up trying to
coax Ike to run for a second term.
Attorney General Brownell and
Postmaster Summerfield have al-
ready talked to Ike's doctors who
are quite happy about the Presi-
dent's steady comeback.
The political members of the
Eisenhower entourage - namely,
Brownell, Summerfield and Hall
-will make one or more appeals
to Ike to change his mind and
run on the ground that he has
become a symbol of the "Geneva
Spirit" and is needed to continue
the crusade for world peace.
By DREW PEARSON
The genial and realistic Nation-
al Chairman has acknowledged,
however, that the President prob-
ably will turn them down. For
one thing, Ike has always main-
tained that good health is essen-
tial to the man in the White
House. Secondly, he has drummed
into his political lieutenants that
there is no such thing as the "in-
dispensable man." As a result,
Hall glumly expects the President
to go through with his January
announcement not to run again.
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IT HAS BEEN kept under diplo-
matic wraps, but the Russians
tried to kick up an international
incident over an American colonel
who turned up in Rome recently
in a priest's cassock. Soviet dip-
lomats thought they had detected
an American spy in disguise and'
triumphantly reported their dis-
covery to the Italian authorities.
The officer in priest's clothing
turned out 'to be Air Force Col.
Berkley Harding, who was making
no secret of his new attire. He had
resigned from the Air Force in
order to study for the ministry. As
a student at a Catholic seminary
in Rome, he had exchanged his
Air Force blues for the black robes
of the cler-gy.
Italian officials satisfied them-
selves that Harding was no spy,
but at last report, the Russians
were still suspicious.
LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
Busy Selling Cars ...
To the Editor:
F OR six years as I watched the
Michigan Marching BaDA take
the field, I proudly believed that
there was no other in the land
that was their equal. This fall,
however, an annoying thought
kept creeping up that perhaps the
band was going stale, losing some
of that old sparkle and brilliance,
but I brushed the thought away
with the rational enough excuse
that it was still early in the sea-
son. Just wait until Homecoming,
I kept telling myself, and you'll
see that incomparable sparkle
again.
The great day came, but instead
of the finest marching band in the
nation, all I saw was a big Buick
with fouled up spark plugs (AC,
that is) tearing up the turf where
immortal sports figures of the past
and present have added glory to
the tradition that is Michigan.
Alas, Revelli's boys were so busy
selling cars that they had for-
gotten how to lead the nation with
their famed dance steps, precision
marching, and fine music.
And in the meantime, while
brushing up on their salesmanship,
a Battle Creek high school and an
East Lansing college brought their
bands to town with the sole pur-
pose of entertaining, and gave
surprisingly creditable perform-
ances in so doing. Perhaps Michi-
gan is right in forsaking bands-
manshipfor salesmanship, but let's
not have SOCselling Mercuries on
the Diag, while the band is faith-
fully peddling Buicks-after all,
who contributes more to the coffer,
GM or Ford?
-Louis .Zako, '57M
Liked Greer Concert . .
To the Editor:
THE other night I witnessed one
of the most delightful of mu-
sical performances, when I at-
tended the concert by Frances
Greer, soprano, in the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theater.
Miss Greer was the artist in
every sense of the word. She has a
rare ability to be an interpreter
of the composer's music while
combining with it an even more
rare ability to captivate her audi-
ence. From her very first entrance
to 'the last of her seven curtain
calls, Miss Greer held her audi-
ence in the palm of her hand.
She is one of the very few ar-
tists who can create a mood which
engulfs her audience. She is not
afraid, as some artists are, of act-
ing out her song if the acting
will 'either create or enrich the
mood.'
Something should be said about
Miss Greer's extraordinary diction
in singing pieces in a foreign
tongue. In her rendition of the
de Falla "Sept caciones populares
espanolas," not only were the
many interpreted changes of mood
helpful, but also Miss Greer's easy
and good diction made it possible
to follow completely the lyrics and
mood of the song. The same may
be said for her singing of French,
especially in Ravel's comic aria,
"Oh! la pitoyable aventure," from
"L'Heure Espagnole."
These various elements, present
in Miss Greer's performance, clear-
ly distinguish the difference be-
tween the artistic performance and
the artist. The artistic perform-
ance is for the purpose of show-
ing off the singer's voice, not for
the interpretation of the compos-
er's music. The artist, on the
other hand, uses his voice to show
off the music. He is the middle-
man between composer and audi-
ence. Such was the role portray-
ed by Frances Greer.
-Donald P. Duelos, Grad.
Tribute to Le Sapio..
To the Editor:
IN order to get the band back
in the good graces of Mr. Baad
who is so "disgusted" with its last
two performances, perhaps the
band's Indiana show should be a
tribute to Carmen de Sapio and
the Ohio State halftime a descrip-
tion of the wonders of Yalta!
-Bill Hanks, 156 BA
AT THE MICHIGAN:
Katie Goes
Woooosh
BASED on the Broadway play,
"Time of the Cuckoo," "Sum-
mertime" is a travelogue excursion
into romantic, idyllic Venice. As
a photographic expose of the city
of gondolas, canals, and free-lance
lotharios, it rates accolades and
cheers and should increase the
tourist population of the land of
pizza pie and sunshine.
But as a tour-de-force for
Katherine Hepburn, "Summer-
time" is thin spaghetti sauce.
Most of the meat of the original
play has been deleted, and the
story bears heavily the fate of a
scissors-happy editors' party. Im-
portant sub-plots from the play
are gone and the only philosophi-
cal notion left is the play's ex-
ternal message: middle aged sec-
retaries ought to go to Europe
where people are amorous and
amoral and let loose for a few
nights.
Like the spinster Miss Hepburn
plays, "Summertime" is so bar-
ren that entire quarter hours go
by when nothing is accomplished
but a picturization of quaint Vene-
tian sights; in fact, like dozens of
other films on Italy, one can
draw some interesting common-
place generalizations from "Sum-
mertime": all Italians love to love
and ignore family responsibilities;
the natives all frolic and cavort
in the city squares; everybody
goes to little chamber music con-
certs in the evening; everybody
in Italy is twice as romantic as
everybody in the United States.
"Summertime" may be intellec-
tually impotent, but when Katie
goes woooosh in the arms of virile,
grey-templed Rossano Brazzi -
thousands of American women will
yearn for their own Venetian
nights when they, too, can go
woooosh.
--Ernest Theodossin
ONE THING that John Foster
Dulles did not know when he
made his surprise trip to see Dic-
tator Franco, was that Franco
seems just as much worried about
his position in the USA as Dulles.
seems worried about the American
position in Spain.
For Spain now tops the list
of foreign governments spending
money to propagandize U.S. news-
papers, radio and the American
public generally. Franco's array
of public relations men and legal
experts registered with''the Jus-
tice Department as foreign agents
is greater than that of any other
country.,
Significantly these agents, paid
to sway U.S. public opinion, are
paid indirectly by the people they
are supposed to sway-the tax-
payers. For the U.S. government'
is subsidizing Franco by building
American bases on Spanish soil
and without this support the Fran-
co regime would have been in ser-
ious economic trouble long ago.
MEANWHILE Franco's kept press
has been talking of late about
warming up to Russia, also has
been warning the United States in
rather harsh 'language to step up
its payments to Spain. The smiles'
to Moscow and the demand for
American money have all the ear-
marks of polite blackmail.
(Copyright, 1955, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1955
VOL. LXVII, NO. 37
General Notices
Personnel Workshop: Senior and grad-
uate students' invited to a conference
on "How To Attract and Retain Profe-
sional Employees for the Public Serv-
ice" Tues, Nov. 8, Rackham Building.
General session at 10:00 a.m. in the
Amphitheater, with several discussion
groups meeting at 1:30 p.m. Sponsored
by the Michigan Chapter of the Civil
Service Assembly, in cooperation with
the Extension Service and the Institute
of Public Administration.
Seniors: College of LS&A, and Schools
of Business Administration, Education,
Music, and Public Health.
Tentative lists of seniors for Febru-
ary graduation have been posted on the
bulletin board in the first floor lobby,
Administration Building. Any changes
therefrom should be requested of the
Recorder at Office of Regfstration and
Records window number A, 1513 Ad-
ministration Building.
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 of
the Philippines."
Near East Research Club will meet
Tues., Nov. 8, 8:00 p.m. in Room 4,
Tappan Hall. Dr. Richard Ettinghousen
of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian
Institution, will speak and show slides
on "The Riddle of a Famous Persian
Pottery Plate."
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
n sale at the Hill:Auditorium box
office tonight after 7:00.
Composers Forum, 8:30 p.m. Mon.,
Nov. 7, Aud. A, Angell Hall; open to
general public.
Academic Notices
Mathematics Club. Tues., Nov. 8, at
8:00 p.m., West Conference Room, Rack-
ham Building. Dr. J. W. Addison will
speak on "Unsolvable Mathematical
Problems."
Actuarial Club Meeting: Tues., Nov.
8, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 3017 Angell
Hall. Richard Roeder will speak on
"The Possibilities of Consulting Actu-
arial Work." Refreshments at 4:00
p.m. 1n. Room 3212 A.H.
Seminar in Chemical Physics. 4:10 p.
m. in Room 2308 Chemistry Building.
Dr. R. C. Taylor will speak on "Intensi-
ties of Raman Bands." I. Tues., Nov. 8.
Doctoral Examination for Rudi Siong
Bwee Ong, Mechanical Engineering;
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S 4. Police Issue Hurt By Extremes
THE police resignation controversy has come
down to a "you can't scare me" basis which
promises a stubborn, hard-headed battle for
any sort of compromise.
Whether Police Chief Casper Enkemann is
willing to admit it or not, twenty-three police-
men cannot maintain any sort of adequate pro-
tection for a city of over 50,000.
Nor is there any realism in Mayor Brown's
assertion that he could commandeer every
able-bodied citizen to protect it. In the long
run, a city that isn't willing to pay its law
enforcement their minimal demands won't
have any law enforcement, despite Mayor
Brown's claim.
The issue that has burst forth by the resig-
nations has been smoldering for some time.
Recently the policemen requested the city
council's budget committee for $500 to $600 in-
seem illogical. The policemen have used "dur-
ess" to voice their claim for immediate nego-
tiations, because other claims have failed.
Someone has to give way somewhere.
On the other side of the fence, the police-
men's action cannot be staunchly commended.
The "raise or quit" demand coming from 37
men at once is in effect a strike, and although
getting around a Michigan law forbidding
strikes, still has the same purpose.
Somewhere the city of Ann Arbor is going
to have to' find money for the pay increases.
The policemen may be held off until next
spring when budgets are worked out for the
city, but probably no longer.
THE only source of money would have to
come from taxation. Ann Arbor citizens
have voiced opposition to further taxation, es-
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Daily Television Writer
ACCORDING to the latest Tren-
dex ratings NBC has more
viewers in the 8-9 slot on Satur-
day night than CBS.
Perry Como holds down the full
hour for NBC while CBS splits
the hour between "Stage Show"
and "The Honeymooners." At this
time, however, the Gleason half of
the hour holds a slight edge over
NBC.
If the trend keeps up Como will
surpass Gleason's half hour with-
in the next two weeks and still
maintain the edge he now has
over "Stage Show." This will
mean that the Number One tele-
vision show of last year will not
even be in the coveted "Top Ten"
this season. The reason for Glea-
son's decline is two-fold.
First, NBC has poured a great
deal of money into the Como stan-
za, with the hiring of top guest
stars and television's best comedy
writer, Goodman Ace. Como has
a big following and has turned
into a good master of ceremonies
as well as being a top warbler.
BUT SECOND, and more im-
portant is the fact that Gleason's
new series is filmed. Even though
the show is filmed in Dumont's
technical quality, for they still re-
collect a "live" Gleason.
Other top-rated shows, such as
"I Love Lucy," never ran into this
problem for they have been on
film since their inception and the
viewing public just takes the film
quality for granted.
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THE BIGGEST surprise in tele-
vision is why "The Big Surprise"
is still on the air. This show, in
which contestants can win $100,-
000, is just one half hour of gim-
micks. Stunts ranging from an
automatic typewriter that types
up the questions to an actual ar-
mored car to carry away the loot
are employed.
But the topper on the show is
the IBM machine that selects
three people in the U.S. that most
closely resemble the contestant.
If a contestant misses, one of these
three people is rushed to the
program to "rescue" him.
Maybe this machine can select
the three most related shows of
this type and rescue "The Big
Surprise," for it has certainly
missed in the eyes of "$64,000
Question" fans.
The same man (Louis G. Cow-
an) produces both "Surprise" and
"Question."
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-Bill Hanks, '56 BA
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
WE'l NAVE TO SIT
C0N*e ALONG, FREDA-
WE'RE OUT OEGAS
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show. Add to this salaries for
Hal March, Barbara Britton and-
other personnel and the show runs
almost $20,000 a week.
Granted this is cheaper than,
the "Spectacular" or the big va-
riety shows, but it is still not a
cheap show. Nobody ever claimed
that high-rated panel shows such
as "What's My Line?" and "rye
Got A Secret" were cheap shows
when their total production costs
never came to more than $6,500.
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by Dick Bibler
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