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"Yes? You Were Going To Say Something?"

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.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1955 NIGHT EDITOR: MARY LEE DINGLER
Districting Can Help -Alleviate
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THE Student Government Council recently
-decided to undertake the study of de-
ferred fraternity and sorority rushing.
One may question the compositional ade-
quacy of SGC to give such a proposal a fair
hearing. Of the eleven elected members to
SGC, ten are affiliates. However, according
to Chairman of the University Housing Com-
mittee only 13% of the student population
lives in affiliated houses, 33% live in the Resi-
dence Hall system, and 37% live in private
homes.
Adjusting for the affiliates who live in pri-
vate homes, the affiliates still place third
population-wise to the Residence Hall inde-
pendents and the private home independents.
The conclusion is simple and obvious: affiliates
are over-represented, independents are under-
represented on SGC.
When the Student Government Council takes
such controversial and crucial proposals as
deferred rushing under its wing, this dispro-
portionate representation is a democratic lia-
bility. However,, the affiliates should in no
way be assailed for the current non-represen-
tativeness of SGC.
Indeed, the affiliates may correctly be
thanked for sustaining student government by
their interest and participation in it. The
fraternities and sororities have contributed
many open minded leaders to SGC, but when
the interests of the Residence Halls and the
affiliates are at loggerheads on an issue like
deferred rushing, open minds will be a scarce
goof.
T IS rather the electoral system that should
- be assailed. The provision that students be
elected "from the campus at large" has two
crippling defects.
First, it pays a premium for political or-
ganization. The closely knit and indissoluble
bonds of the Greek organization can collect
this premium. The Residence Halls suffer a
handicap in this respect, being a comparatively
loose knit group of independents.
Their main function is to introduce new
students to the University. Add to this the

continual turnover of the residents and it is
more evident why only one independent is on
SGC., Independence and instability in politics
is a dragging anchor. The 7200-plus students
who live in apartments have even less oppor-
tunity to be directly heard on SGC, handi-
capped also by their inherent independency.
SECOND, the electoral system, adding to
SGC's campus aloofness provides a thriv-
ing climate for student apathy.
For example, this revealing query was offered
at a dinner table conversation shortly ago,
"If I had a problem that I thought SGC could
help me with, where would I go?" He couldn't
speak to his representative because he doesn't
have one. In theory, all eleven elected repre-
sentatives are interested in his problem. In
reality, SGC is a body isolated from the pulse
of student opinion.
What is the solution? A single-member dis-
trict system, while not a panacea, would ameli-
orate SGC's two shortcomings. No longer
would SGC be dominated by members who
have the organizational ability to win office,
the affiliates, but would be fairly representa-
tive of the various interest groups within the
student body.
The electoral processes of the district system
could be framed to give a proportional voice
to every major interest group on campus. Only
then would SGC be competent to "represent"
more than 20,000 students on issues as im-
portant as deferred rushing.
Another corollary of the single-member dis-
trict system would be constituency responsi-
bility. Individual students would then know to
whom to channel their problems. Representa-
tives would be held accountable and with this
accountability would develop a closer bond of
affinity between the student government and
the student body.
SGC can well afford to direct immediate
effort to investigate its present shortcomings
and to legislate a single-member district system
to remedy them.
-JIM ELSMAN

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LETTERS,
to the
EDITOR
Facts Side-Stepped .. -
To the Editor:
SEVERAL days ago I was inter-
viewed and asked by The Daily
my reasons for running for SGC.
You can call it distorting the facts
or conservatism, call it what you
may, but my attempt to stir stu-
dent interest by including some
life and a little humor in my plat-
form was neatly side-stepped by
The Daily.
I had hoped to be intelligible
and honest, yet effective, with my
opinion, but The Daily's dark
cloud foiled my attempt by draw-_
ing their own conclusions from a
portion of my statement.
Though my first paragraph was
quoted correctly, it served as a
target for their subtle humor.
Their initiative expelled any of
the statement's effectiveness by
their simply saying that I also
"mentioned" I would. like to see
SGC handle its duties within the
central committee instead of dele-
gating them to other groups.
What I did originally say was
that "the SGC has apparently
taken an interest in organized
baseball through their farming-
out their obligations and responsi-
bilities."
We all know that no government
could be effective without its sub-
ordinate groups, but our Student
Government Council and its groups
lacks coordination and efficient
communication. Perhaps they've
too big a farm system.
-Jerome Spielman, '5
A Quaint Custom .. .
To the Editor:
AS AN answer to Mr. Konstie-
czny's deploral of Ann Arbor
movie behavior I would like to add
this note of explanation. It is ob-
vious that Mr. K. does not under-
stand the quaint Ann Arborian
customs, otherwise he would have
a greater tolerance for them and
perhaps on occasion even indulge.
An Ann Arborite visiting a tribe
of cannibals in their native en-
virons may not approve of their
eating habits nevertheless if he re-
mains ethnically objective he can-
not let such idiosyncrasies stain
his judgement of their character.
The "boo" and "hiss" of a Michi-
gan Man in an Ann Arbor thea-
ti does not (I hope) stem from
maliciousness or vulgarity of spirit.
It is the expression of joyous re-
lease and vigorous exchange of
emotions and I for one think it
greatly enhances the performance.
When an American producer
makes a movie, that is, those of
the character which are being sent
to two well-known local theaters
(which shall remain anonymous),
he is devoting his creation in a
sense to the theory of "Pure Re-
action.'
The feelings he wishes to evoke
have no relationship to subtlety or
sophistication. Productions are
purposely modeled from a primi-
tive ideal and to criticize them in
a highly civilized adult manner
would merely prove extreme so-
phistry ad lack of understanding.
In fact to sit through any of these
performances and seriously under-
take what may give the illusion
of ideas would be a gross insult to
any self-respecting movie-maker.
Thank God Ann Arbor produces
students of the high caliber and
insight to know the true dimen-

sions of sincere criticism.
-Mitzi Honigman, '57

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:Y
Israel May Try W arNow
By DREW PEARSON

Another Step Forward

MANY VAGUE words and exciting phrases--
some optimistic, some not - have been,
accorded the approaching era of automation
by both business moguls and labor leaders.
Big business--and business has to be big to
develop automation-claims the new era of
technology will bring magnificent increases in
productivity. Labor leaders worry about de-
creases in available jobs, but find consolation
in a greater probability for a four-day work
week.
One of the men who know the most, about
automation is William C. Newberg, vice-presi-
dent of Chrysler Corporation and president of
the Dodge Division. Chrysler has a highly auto-
matic plant that turns out new Plymouth
engines at 150 per hour. Its production lines,
Newberg believes, are the most compact and at
the same time the safest, the most flexible; and
the most versatile of any in the industry.
Cylinder blocks move automatically on two,
1,600-foot lines, each of which has 70 machines
performing 157 operations. The lines are inter-
connected so that the blocks can be transferred
from one line to the other at nearly any stage
in the operation. When an individual stops for
a tool change or for repair, the line continues
operating at normal pace by drawing on banks
of blocks stored at stations between the lines.
Automatic assembly machines are equipped
electronically to avoid making mistakes. For
example, the machine that assembles the con-
necting rods is equipped with "memory sta-
tions," which prevent it from trying to screw
a nut on a bolt if the bolt is not in position.
Each part of the machine remembers what the
other parts have done or have not done, and
automatically rejects all assemblies that are
incomplete.
MACHINES ON the assembly lines means less
men are needed for assembly work. But
this doesn't conclude that automation will de-
:rease the number of jobs. But men are needed
Editorial Staff
Jim Dygert .............................. .City Editor
Murry Frymer .......... Editorial Director
Debra Durchslag ..................... Magazine Editor
David Kaplan ...................... Feature Editor
lane Howard.................... Associate Editor
. ouise Tyor ........,,.........,....Associate Editor
?i Douglis .......................... . Sports Editor
Alan Eisenberg ................ Associate Sports Editor
Jack Horwitz ................ Associate Sports Editor
Mary Hellthaier ............... ....Women's Editor
Elaine Edmcnds ............ Associate Women's Editor
John Hirtzel ..................O.. Chief Photographer
Dave Baad ... ...................... Managing Editor
Business Staff
DickC Alstrom .................... Business Manager
Bob tlgenfritz ............ Associate Business Manager

to build the machines, so that automation may
in fact bring additional jobs.
If automation lives up to its press notices
and increases productivity enough so that costs
are reduced, or so that laborers can accomplish
in four days what now takes six, manufacturers
should be able to pay workers enough to main-
tain the demand needed to support the in-
creased productivity. The result should be a
higher level of living for everyone.
In the words of Newburg, "One of the most
important meanings of automation is that it
is placing in the hands of men new advanced
forms of power-driven equipment that are
making life in the factory safer, less fatiguing,
less monotonous, more productive, more inter-
esting and more demanding on the intelligence
and skill of the worker.
"With every year that passes we are going
to need more men who understand complex
mechanics and electronics-more men who can
read intricate blueprints and hunt down trouble
in our automated equipment-more millwrights,
electricians and repairmen. And this trend
means not only more interesting and more
challenging lives for factory workers, but higher
ratings and higher pay."
THE MOST attractive promise of automation
seems to be in the change it will bring in the
kind of work factory workers will be doing.
Decreasing the amount of work they must do is
important, but the change in kind is much more
rso. " . .. less fatiguing, less monotonous, more
interesting and more demanding on the intelli-
gence and skill of the worker." This is the
real human value in automation.
Automation will take away the monotony of
fastening the same nut to the same bolt 150
times an hour for eight hours for five days for
50 weeks for years and years. The machines
will do this, and the worker will understand the
machines, or maybe he will be making one.
Much of the dreariness of factory work will.
be removed, which should work some kind of
miracle in human life. Some people now be-
come resigned to the monotony of work so
much that-they even like it. Automation would
give them a new and more fascinating per-
spective of life.
And it is a grand accomplishment whenever
this can be done, even in a small way. It's
another step forward.
--JIM DYGERT, CITY EDITOR
New Books at the Library
Perowne, Stewart The One Remains; New
York, E. P. Dutton, 1955.
Phillips, Thomas Hal-The Loved and the Un-
loved; New York, Harper & Bros., 1955.
Rodell, Fred-Nine Men; New York, Random
House, 1955.
Samuel, Maurice--Certain People of the Book;
New York, Alfred A.4Knopf, 1955.

WHAT'S going on in Israel today
is exactly what's been going
on inside the Pentagon among
some of our top defense planners-
a debate over preventive war.
For about four years certain U.S.
military men have been warning
that Russia was rapidly catching
up with the United States' lead on
atomic-hydrogen weapons, that it
would be a wise policy to precipi-
tate war when we still had the
atomic advantage. They argued
that war was inevitable anyway
and it was better to have it come
now than later.
Likewise in the Near East, Israeli
leaders, especially the young army
officers, have pointed to the six
shiploads of Czech-Russian weap-
ons already unloaded in Egypt,
have argued that once the hitherto
untrained Egyptian Army becomes
armed and retrained by Russian
technicians, Israel will be in grave
danger.
They urge, therefore, preventive
war.
* s* *
ACTUALLY, Israel has a small,
well-equipped determined army
that probably could walk right
through Egypt and capture Cairo--
if war occurred today. Some ob-
servers compare the Israeli Army
with that of the Prophet Moham-
med who with a small fanatical
band of zealots walked right
through North Africa conquering
armies 10 times its size and did

not stop until it swept over Spain.
But in another six months or a
year, with Red arms pouring into
Egypt, that situation would prob-
ably be reversed. That is the rea-
son for Israeli restlessness today.
* * *
CHIEF REASON for the fester-
ing Middle East as far as the
United States is concerned is that
we concentrate our attention on
the Far East. For two years.
thanks i'n part to the China Lobby
and the tremendous amounts it
spent to influence American opin-
ion, we worried about Formosa and
Chiang Kai-Shek.
Last spring Congress was even
required to pass a resolution giving
the President free power to drop
the atom bomb on the mainland
of China, if necessary, to defend
the small offshore islands of Que-
mo '-Matsu.
During this same period late last
spring, U.S. diplomats were given
their first warning that Egypt
planned to get arms from the
Communists. Premier Nasser told
the absolute truth when he said
last month that the State Depart-
ment knew about the arms pur-
chase long before, for he person-
ally had informed U.S. Ambassador
Henry Byroade of his plan, and
this writer reported the facts at
the time.
However, Secretary Dulles fig-
ured Premier Nasser was bluffing.
WEEKS DRAGGED by; months.

The State Department continued
to be absorbed with the Far East
and a divided Germany. The Amer-
ican public continued to be ab-
sorbed with booming prosperity.
Only top official who concen-
trated on the Near East was Eric
Johnston, special Eisenhower en-
voy who struggled valiantly to
persuade Israel, Syria, Lebanon
and Jordan to accept his play of a
TVA for the River Jordan. Johns-
ton, an able, patriotic citizen, did
a fine job. But it was probably a
mistake to appoint him in the first
place because, as head of the mo-
tion picture industry and a former
supporter of the American Zionist
Movement, he was marked in Arab
minds as being pro-Israel. Though
this was unfair, it made his nego-
tiations difficult.
S * * *
THEY HAVE now reached an
impassable stalemate.
Note 1-Johnston's motion pic-
ture producers headquarters in
Washington, apparently recogniz-
ing the stalemate, recently invited
friends to a preview of "Hill 24
Does Not Answer," the most am-
bitious of Israeli films produced
to appeal to the American market.
Note 2 - The Czech-Egyptian
arms deal is actually a barter deal
for cotton. No cash is involved.
Meanwhile Secretary Dulles won't
let Benson sell U.S. surplus cotton
on the world market for fear of
hurting the Egyptian economy.
(Copyright, 1955, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1955
VOL. LXVII, NO. 38
General Notices
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 ServicerBldg.
Principal-Freshman and Junior col-
lege Conference. New students who
received notices of appointments to con-
fer with former principals, counsels, and
deans on Thursday morning, Nov. 10,
should keep those appointments care-
fully. Faculty members are reminded
of this Conference and are Invited to
attend. Information is available from
Clyde Vroman, Director of Admissions,
1524 Administration Building, Telephone
Extension 2951.
Michigan Junior College Transfer
Students who transferred to the Uni-
versity in June or February of 1955 are
invited to meet with their junior
college deans on Thurs. morning, Nov.
10, at the Michigan League between
9:00and 11:00 a.m. Call at the registra
tion table on the second floor opposite
the Ballroom for information as to the
exact location of your junior college
representative.
All students planning to meet the
Directed Teaching requirement for the
Secondary School Teaching certificate
during the Sprng Semester 1956, must
file their applications in Room 3206,
Uiniversity High School before the end
of the present semester.
Anyone failing to make application
will seriously jeopardize his chances for
securing an assignment.
Late Permission: Because of the Pan-
hellenic Ball, all women students will
have a 1:30 late permission on Fri., Nov4
11. Women's residences will be open
until 1:25 a~m.
Lectures
The editor of the Toledo Times, Mr.
George Benson, will give a short talk
and answer questions about the field
of Journalism in the Journalism con-
ference room, Thurs., Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m.
"The Spectrophotometric Determina-
tion of Iron in Strong Alkali Media.?
Alfred A. Schilt, University of Illinois.
4:10 p.m., Room 1300 Chemistry Bldg.,
Wed., Nov. 9.
University Lecture. Auspices of the
English Department. Prof. E.M.W. Till-
yard, Master of Jesus College, Cam-*
bridge. "Blake and the Common Read-
er." Thurs., Nov. 10. Aud. A, 4:10 p.m.
Concerts
Concert. The Philharmonia Orchestra
of London, with Conductor Herbert von
Karajan. Extra Concert Series, Nov. 9,
_ at 8:30 p.m., in Hill Auditorium, aus-
pices of the University Musical Society.
Limited number of tickets are available
at the offices of the University Musical
Society in Burton Tower; and will also
be on sale the night of the concert
after 7:00 p.m. at the Hill Auditorium
box office.
Academic Notices
Sports and Dance Instruction. Women
students interested in sports and dance
instruction may register on the first
floor of Barbour Gymnasium on Tues.
and Wed., Nov. 8 and 9 from 8:00 a.m.
to 12:00 noon. Instruction available in:
Apparatus, ballet, badminton, basket-
ball, fencing, figure skating, modern
dance, P.F.C., riding, swimming, life
saving.
Admission Test for Graduate Study

in Business: Candidates taking the Ad-
mission Test for Graduate Study in
Business on Nov. 12 are requested to
report to Room 140, Business Adminis-
tration at 8:30 a.m. Sat. Be sure to bring
$10.00 registration fee (check or money
order).
Law School Admission Test: Candi-
dates taking the Law School Admission
Test on Nov. 12 are requested to report
to Room 100, Hutchins Hall at 8:45 am.
Sat.
Sociology Coffee Hour. Wed., Nov. 9
at 4:00 p.m. in the Sociology Lounge.
Sociology and Social Psychology stu-
dents and faculty invited.
chemistry Department Colloquium.
7:30 p.m. in Room 1300 Chemistry Build-
ing. B. Zemel, "Reactions of the Chlor-
oaquochromium (III) Ions"; Orville Mc-
Curdy, "Recent Developments in the
Chemistry of Alstoniline." Thurs., Nov.
10.
Engineering Seminar. "Professional
Registration for Engineers" discussed by
L. J. Richards, director of engineering,
Dow Chemical Company, Thurs., Nov.
10, 4:00 p.m., Rm. 311, West Engineering
Building. Senior engineers urged to
attend.
Events Today
The Good Woman of Setzuan, i
Chinese Parable for the theatre by
Bertolt Brecht, will be presented by
the Department of Speech at 8:00 p.m
in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
Placement Notices
Representatives of the Sales and Man.
ufacturing Departments of Cutler.
Hammer, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin-
Pioneer Manufacurers of Electrical Con-
trol Equipment will interview prospec-
tive graduates in Electrical, Mechanical
and Industrial Engineering or Business

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NEW VICTORY FOR COMMUNISM?
Soviet Gamble In Middle East Threatening West

(EDITOR'S NOTE: What is happen-
ing in the Middle East? Is interna-
tional communism about to score a
major victory there? William L. Ryan,
familiar with the area and with cur-
rent Communist objectives, pictures
the situations a threat to the West's
long line-of defenses-and a Sovietj
gamble. This is the first of three
articles.)
By WILLIAM F. RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst
Communism, flushed with recent
successes, is making a calculated
gamble in the Middle East.
The signs point to this conclu-
sion: Moscow is gambling that
short of touching off a third World
War it can mark the United States
permanently with the stigma of
colonialism - and therefore nail
down a formidable bridgehead in
the Arab and Moslem world.
The policy has element of black-
mail. The Soviet Union demon-
states it can, and will, raise cain in
the Arab East. It makes no bones
about the goal: To shatter Western
defense alignments. Some nations,
hoping that would be the full price,
may be panicked into deserting
he cause of anti-Communist unity.

energetic Western countermeas-
ures, the prospect seems at best to
be crisis after crisis; at worst an
explosion which could lead ulti-
mately to the big war nobody
wants.
This is the other side of the
"spirit of Geneva" coin. Soviet
policy now plainly attempts to ex-
ploit tensions across 3,000 miles of
Asia and Africa, all the way from
Pakistan's borders to French North
Africa.
Here, in effect, is the sort of
ultimatum expressed by Moscow
radio recently:
"Only a cessation of the policy
of setting up military blocs, a ces-
sation of interference in internal
affairs of the states of the Near
and Middle East, and respect for
their right to decide their own af-
fairs independently including ques-
tions of their security, can put an
end to the tension in that area and
secure a calm and stable peace for
its peoples."
* * *
IN PLAIN language, this means
that only a breakup of the Bagh-
dad pact. linking NATO to eastern

The campaign took advantage of
a chink in American armor. While
attempting to demonstrate that
the United States was neither
colonialist nor imperialist, Ameri-
can leaders were forced by cir-
cumstances in many cases to sup-
port colonial powers.
Even in the balmy air of the
Geneva spirit, the Russians con-
tinue to depict "the colonizing ap-
proach of the Western powers to
the Arab countries."
* * *
WHILE WESTERN attention is
focused on the immediate danger
of an Arab-Israeli war, Soviet ac-
tivity is farflung.
Afghanistan swarms with Soviet
technicians. Communist bloc arms
are being offered that country as
well as Egypt. Afghanistan is en-
gaged in a bitter quarrel with Pak-
istan.
Syria, where the extreme left is
growing in strength, is reported
entering Soviet overtures for an
arms deal.
Saudi Arabia has confirmed a
Russian arms offer.

and proposed to supply arms un-
der "very satisfactory terms." The
broadcast quoted a "responsible
source" that the proposal was wel-
comed by Lebanon.
In Beirut all Lebanese sources
deny the arms offer and describe
the attaches' visits as courtesy
calls. Lebanon has important trade
connections with the West and it
is unlikely such an offer would be
accepted at this moment. But if
the other Arab states accept such
arms, Lebanon might be pressured
into going along.
Communist activity in the Arab
world is not confined to the Middle
East Area. Cominform propaganda
and Red help try to keep in fer-
ment the situation across the Arab
Maghrib-the North African coast-
al countries. This tends to ag-
gravate any divisive tendencies
among the non-Communist na-
tions.
PRESENT indications are that
Moscow is anxious to keep the
situation from getting beyond a
point where it might blow up in
the Soviet leaders' faces. The

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