T I .p Sixty-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone o 2-3241 "Well, Heavens-To-Lizzie!" 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. THURSDAY,.NOVEMBER 10 1955 NIGHT EDITOR: LEE MARKS Supreme Court Tactfully Aoids Delnite Decrees THE Supreme Court, still handling the segre- In addition, the school problem involves chil- gation issue with kid gloves, continues to dren, many of whom have not yet been fully remove the mask of fear and hatred, running indoctrinated with the conceptions of racial rampant in the South since reconstruction days. inferiority. Parents, in whom the hatred or fear In outlawing segregation practices in public is fully manifested, are involved in a more in- parks and playgrounds, the court tactfully and direct fashion. wisely avoided definite procedural decrees, but In the parks, however, adults are involved. followed the tradition of leaving these to lower In many cases they are not the type adults courts, established previously in education is- who will sit down and ponder the situation, or sues. hold town meetings discussing the issue. In- The decision comes as another in the shower stead they are people with strongly imbedded of blows to the "separate but equal" doctrine, opinions which they have had for lifetimes. which has served to legalize segregation in tax- If carried to extremes, town meetings might supported facilities since 1898. A year and a be replaced by violent riots. Instead, the case half ago this same court heldthe doctrine un- will probably result in both groups shying applicable in public schools. away from integration. Now it has been swept away from the gates Events such as the Till Case remain as grim of "white" playgrounds. Results are already reminders that the South is hardly ready to taking form. In Georgia protests are loud, and adopt complacently a program of integration. threats to close all public parks are first in the -LEW HAMBURGER propaganda efforts of the anti-integration quarters. HE COURT'S aversion to dealing with the Wanted: New Record problem of direct implementation of the A new law has come under considerable fire of WANTED: a crowd of 75,000 for Saturday's late. It is attacked as a sign of weakness, and Indiana game. fear that the decision may not be applicable. Why not? The attraction pits one of the great-though erratic-Michigan teams against However, it Is basically a sound method for the always dangerous Hoosiers, the most under- handling the situation. The lower, courts are rated squad in the Big Ten. An attendance of closer to the actual situation, which differs in 75000 coupled with the promised sellout for different sections of the South. the Ohio State contest, would establish a new Actually, this latest decision itself had been all-time gate record for Wolverine home games. authored in an appellate court in Richmond, Va., after incidents in Baltimore, and now up? Right now, Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's men held by the high court, are probably in need of a show of strong sup- Its repercussions will continue to be felt for port on the part of their fans. Everyone loves Itsyrepercsionsd willconnsitionueto bcflty fora winner, but it often takes a good deal of many years, and the transition to racially in- backing to make even a strong team come back tigrated playgrounds and parks is still in the into the winning ranks after a humiliating stage of a pious wish. The actual intigration loss. is a long-term project. Of course, a ticket sales campaign cannot It depends entirely on the will of a people, be intended for the students directly. We have The Supreme Cdurt in this instance may only our tickets, but thousands of relatives and serve as a sensory organ to perceive the emo- friends within a radius of 200 miles could be tions of the people in a particular situation. It interested in taking advantage of their last cannot, as an implementor, bring about the cne ess thky'g aady ou Ohio utoia anynorherer enisin i onitswa chance (unless they've already bought Ohio utopia many northerners envision is on its way. State tickets) to 'see the Wolverines in action THERE are severa factors which stand as at home this season. Michigan is still in a concrete proof against the somewhat idealis- good position to be the Big Ten champion and tic hope thatintigrationis taking place now. Rose Bowl representative In the schools, where integration has been A sale of 75,000 admissions-enough for a carried out, it has been relatively successful, new record-is certainly possible. Indiana However, not a large majority of Negro students drew 85,938 here in 1947. All that's needed now are involved in the programs. It still remains a Is some student spirit to promote what should future problem. be a popular item. -DICK CRAMER -5iii-s+ i[TI K ~)I t s AT LYDIA IWENDELSSOHN: 'Setzuan' Confusing, Tedious Morality Play BERTOLT BRECHT has written a thoroughly confused, tedious and childish morality play better adapted to a philosophical tome than the stage. The Speech Department, apparently more concerned with presenting something different than good, struggled valiantly but mere- ly succeeded, with some noteworthy exceptions, in pointing up its own ineptness. "The Good Woman of Setzuan" can't be dismissed as lightly as this, however, as the author is capable of some striking dramatic effects, if incapable of writing a lucid and cohesive drama. Furthermore, sev- eral members of the cast showed exceptional promise and gave outstand- ing performances in the losing cause. The setting is "a somewhat Chinese town of today." translated, this means that Chinese costumes and make-up effects are used. The story concerns the plight of Shen Te, a local streetwalker who serves as the foil to demonstrate Brecht's thesis: HOW CAN GOOD TRIUMPH T A WORLD COMPOSED OF HAVES AND HAVE NOTS, EVILNESS, STUPIDITY AND SELFISHNESS? Those who stayed until the end know little more than they knew yesterday morning except that the author took three hours to confess that he too hasn't discovered the answer. THIS SEEMS to be a profound theme but the intellectual stimu- lation to make it so is buried beneath some of the most horrendous dialogue and inane situations you VON KARAJON: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Gripes and Razz of M' Gridders I IN THIS CORNER: Stench in Ole Miss Miracle's Over... To The Editor: MAYBE now they'll listen to me. All year I've been yelling about Michigan's inability to move the ball consistently, but I've been drowned out by the people point- ing to our undefeated record (be- fore the Illinois game) and confi- dently stating that our boys al- ways come through when the chips are down. Well, we didn't get our weekly miracle last Satur- day and got plastered as a result, which just goes to prove that the best way to win a football game is to play sixty minutes of good ball per game instead of just ten. I wouldn't mind our usual week- ly heroics if we were just a strug- gling team with average talent, but we've got so many good play- ers that our second team is the equal of many first teams. I know every team we play goes all out to beat us, but that still doesn't explain why Michigan with its "best line in years" has been out- charged more often than not and usually makes less yards by rush- ing than the opposition. There is only one solution to this problem. Bennie must go! He cannot build a consistent attack with all kinds of talent, whereas other coaches do better with half as much material. I attended the University of Illi- nois in 1952, when Illinois had a 2 and 5 Big Ten record. That team had very little talent, but it was a real pleasure to see a well coached team playing up to its full poten- tial. And this was one of the five Eliot-coached teams that have beaten Michigan in the last six years. I'd like to see the score if Eliot had the talent to work with that Oosterbaan has. I don't think we can get Eliot away from Illinois, but we'd be wise to try to get Hank Fonde from Ann Arbor High School (or anyA one else!). And before anyone speaks up in Oosterbaan's de- fense, he ought to try to peddle Bennie off on some other school and see how far he gets. --Charlie Carroll, '56 Sympathies Expressed. . DEAR BEREAVED, WE MEN OF MSU WISH TO EXPRESS OUR DEEP SYMPATHY WITH YOUR GRIEF WITH THE PASS- ING OF THE WOLVERINE MYTH.- WE KNOW HOWEVER, THAT IT WILL BE A COMFORT TO THOSE THREE CONSIDERATE SOULS WHO RECENTLY WROTE THE STATE NEWS OF THE CONCERN AT THE SPARTANS' ALLEGED FALSE FEELING OF SUPERIORITY OVER THE HAP- LESS WOLVERINES THEY WILL BE PLEASED TO REALIZE THAT NO LONGER BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION CAN ANY SUCH FEELING BE CON- SIDERED FALSE.- THIS SUDDEN TURN OF EVENTS, WILL NO DOUBT CON- STITUTE A SEVERE BLOW TO YOUR ALREADY NONE-TOO- WELL-NURTURED EGO, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN MEAS- URES YOU CAN TAKE TO MINI- MIZE THIS FEELING- 1-FORGET COMPLETELY IF POSSIBLE, THAT WHILE YOU ARE BEING RATHER NASTILY MAULED BY THE NAUGHTY OLD ILLINI THE SPARTANS (WHO HAD BEATEN ILLINOIS 21-7) WERE RATHER HANDILY DISPOSING OF PURDUE (WHO HAD ALSO BEATEN THE ILLI- NI) 27-0- 2-UPON ARISING DAILY AND AT LEAST FIVE TIMES PER DAY THEREAFTER REPEAT TO YOURSELF "THE SCORE IS THE ONLY IMPORTANT THING THE FACT THAT THE RELATIVELY UNTRIED SPARTANS COM- PLETELY OUTPLAYED THE. VETERAN WOLVERINES IN NEARLY ALL DEPARTMENTS BUT SCORING MEANS NOTH- ING THE SCORES THE THING." WE SINCERELY HOPE THAT OUR ADVICE MAY BE A COM- FORT TO YOU IN YOUR TIME OF GRIEF.- THOMAS FOX, JOHN CHAPMAN (and 32 others).. Disliked Concert.. . To the Editor: . DURING the past few years, I. have read numerous music re- views in The Michigan Daily. Many of these have been exceptionally good; most of them at least pass- able. But recently a certain de- terioration has been apparent. This deterioration has increased almost exponentially of late, but the Cleveland Orchestra review was something of a landmark in inept- ness. It missed not only the fine points, but the medium and even the, major points of just why the Cleveland Orchestra's performance marked that organizations as sec- ond-rate. The constant straining for ob- scure effectapparent in the Mo- zart symphony; the lack of con- trol during the Strauss; the tempo manipulation during the Schu- mann symphony disturbed even elementary students in music ap- preciation. -David Kessel, Grad. London Orchestra Enthralls LAST night Hill Auditorium's audience witnessed that pe- culiar gender of performance that occurs seldom in a life time. It was more than merely an or- chestra concert, it was a perform- ance of the perfect instrument in the hands of the Master Musician --Herbert Von Karajon. Ever moulding the orchestra to his subtle variations in tempo and dynamics this great conductor proved to be master of the orches- tra at all times. Every measure of every composition bore the mark of Von Karajon's individu- ality which was what enthralled the audience throughout the eve- ning. Sibelius' Fifth Symphony was the high point of the evening. From the beautifully executed Horn introduction to the gigantic climax of the persistant disjunct theme of the brasses that ends the composition, Van Karajon brought new meaning to this work. ALTHOUGH this symphony is written in three movements it can be said to be a four movement work because Cthe first movement consists of two distinct sections. The first part is in double rhythm while the second half of the move- ment is in a fast triple meter. Both' sections use the same melodic ma- terial. The second movement is in a restful relaxed mood while. the third movement brings a dramatic climax to the work with its driving rhythmic melody. It was little wonder that the orchestra's encore is Sibelius' most popular work. With its inspiring melodies and its stirring rhythms Finlandia has great appeal for all. * * * BRAHM'S Variations on a theme by Haydn also received wonderful treatment in the hands of these sensitive musicians from London. After the first statement of the rather lilting theme it is worked through many moods varying from restful lyricism to joyful dancing: Finally the original theme emerges triumphantly in a victorious ver- sion sounded in the brasses. The E-flat Major symphony of Mozart sounded refreshing with the additions of Von Karajon's genius for rhythmic subtlty. -Bruce Jacobson I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN can imagine. Lines like, "Being wicked is just being clumsy" are commonplace. Interesting, but what does it mean? Three gods searching for "good people" float- ing in and out of a sewer and the lead transforming herself into characters embodying the purest good and evil' don't help much either. Credit Brecht with near mastery of several engrossing methods of theatrical form. Credit Bailey Car- roll (who plays a meandering wat- er carrier attempting to provide a touch of clarity), Susan Goldberg (mother of the villain), David Lloyd (barber) and, most of all, Gwen Arner (as Shen Te) with magnificent performances. Then debit most of the on and off-stage crews with an inability to com- municate, but give them your un- divided sympathy. -David Marlin M ISSISSIPPI sat back and sighed today, but there was an unmistakable stench of halitosis in the air. After months of fear and uncertainty, follow- ing the disappearance and murder of 14-year- old Emmett Till, the two white men charged with the crime, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milan, were finally and completely cleared, The latest decision, arrived at yester- day by a Greenwood, Miss. grand jury, was not to indict the men for kidnapping, although they at one time allegedly admitted taking Till from his home "by mistake." Today Mr. Bryant and Mr. Milan were free men. In the eyes of Mississippi, this was as it should be. Even if all the prosecuting attor- nies' "facts" were true, "nigger-killing" was no crime. Not when a Negro had crossed the bounds of the line of "rights" that the South had established for the race. That was the crime, and now everyone could rest assured that it was repaid, justice had been done. Looking down at Ole Miss from the North, the "Yankee" will have little understanding of what this justice means. He will point to the evidence that Till's uncle Mose Wright had stood in the Sumner court room, looked at Bryant and Milan, and told how these two men came to his house and asked for "the boy from Chicago, the one that did the talking at Money." 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 .....................OChief Photographer Business Staff Dick Alstrom ....................... Business Manager Bob lgenfritz ........... Associate Business Manager MURRY FRYMER AND THE Northerner will point to the evi- dence by Wright's niece, Mrs. Mamie Brad- ley, when the defense was denying that the body found in the Tallahatchie River was Till's: "Beyond the shadow of a doubt," she said, "that was my boy's body." And when they found Emmett Till's ring on the dead boy's hand, the Northerner won't understand how the Mississippian could say that some evil plot was responsible for putting it there. But evidence wasn't important in this case.. To the whites in Mississippi, this was all intru- sion, someone was making a mountain out of a molehill. The Negroes were born to pick cotton and remember their places. It wasn't the South's fault that slavery, "a good thing," was abolished almost a hundred years ago. Defense attorney at the Sumner trial, J. W. Kellum hit it right on the nose when he said, if Roy and J. W. are convicted, "where under the shining sun is the land of the free and the home of the brave?" yODAY, EVERYTHING is back to normal again in Mississippi. Or is it? 'For a change, the Mississippian found a great many strangers in his midst, even Negro strangers. But these Negroes were from up North, wearing suits and ties, many of them doctors and lawyers, edu- cators, and even some Congressmen. And more people were talking now, both up North and even in the South. There were some signs of change, slow-moving, almost creeping, but still change. Students at the University of Mississippi had recently joined in to finance a memorial schol- arship in the memory of "Blind Jim Ivy" a long-time Negro football fan of Ole Miss teams. And the Jackson Daily News, also joining in the campaigncould write something like this:, "The Daily News invites newspapers through- out the state to assist in publicizing this memor- ial fund. It. can bring great benefit to the state by helping to educate our Negro young- sters, thereby making them better citizens, better able to take their share in responsibility in the Mississippi community." Admittedly the money goes to a "separate but eaual" institution-but WHITES are talking 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 355; Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for the Sunday edition must be in by 2'p.m. Friday. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1953 VOL. LXvII, NO. 39 General Notices The University Senate will meet on Thurs., Dec. 8, at 4:15 p.m. in the Rack- ham Lecture Hall. Senate members are reminded of the new rule which requires that "All motions or resolutions, in order to be included on the "agenda, must be submitted to the Secretary of the Senate at least fourteen days before the meeting at which they are to bq introduced ... All students planning to meet the Directed Teaching requirement for the Secondary School Teaching certifioate' during the Spring Semester 1956, must file their applications in Room 3206, University High School before the end of the present semester. Anyone failing to make application will seriously jeopardize his chances for securing an assignment. Martha Cook Building. Those inter- ested in the few February vacancies at Martha Cook please call 23225 any week Iday between 6:00 a.m. and.6:00 p.m. for appointments. 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Remuneration will be based on the individual's regular salary with ap- propriate allowances for transportation, increased living costs, etc. Further in- formation and application blanks may be obtained in the Graduate School Office. iEhe Following Student Sponsored So- cial Events are approved for the coming week-end. Social chairmen are remind- ed that requests for approval for social events are due in the Office of Studeht Affairs not later than 12:00 noon on the Tues. prior to the event. Nov. 10: Alpha Kappa Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi. Nov. 11: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Theta Phi, Jordan Hall, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Winchell House. Nov. 12: Acacia, Allen-Rumsey, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Betsy Barbour, Chi Phi, Cooley-Strauss, Delta Chi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Pi, Delta Theta Phi, Gomberg House, Greene House, Henderson House, Kelsey House, Lloyd-Chicago, Phi Alpha Delta, Phi Alpha Kappa, Phi Chi, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Rho Sigma, Nu Sigma Nu, Reeves House, Scott EGYPT PLAYING BALL WITH COMMUNISM? Visit By She pilor Creates Dangerous Situation (EDITOR'S NOTE: Egypt is wary of communism yet is playing ball with Moscow.- That is one of many factors complicating the Middle East tinder- box. How this situation developed is explored by William L. Ryan, in this article, second of three.) By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst Only about three months ago, Western diplomats were express- ing cautious hope for prospects of stability in the Middle East. But on July 23, an important guest arrived in Cairo to help cele- brate an anniversary of Egypt's anti-Farouk revolution. Shortly thereafter this guest had long conferences with the youth- ful Premier, Gamel Abdel Nasser, and other leaders of Egypt's revo- lution council. From that point on, the Middle East sitution grew steadily more dangerous. THE GUEST was Dmitri Trofi- movich Shepilov, named just a of the soil. The revolutionary rul- ers were young, ambitious, unskill- ed in government and foreign af- fairs, jealous of their independ- ence and eager to make Egypt the leader of the Arab world if not the whole world of Islam. THIS GOVERNMENT showed great promise. Its leaders were reat promise. Its leaders were military men, but men who had experienced the war in Israel and respected the Israeli military punch. But the government was beset with all sorts of internal problems in a poverty-stricken and extremely nationalistic coun- try. The defeat of the Arab world at the hands of Israel still smarted. The chance to join the Sudan to Egypt in a lasting union that might guarantee Egypt's' interests in the Nile waters for a long time to come was fading rapidly. The Sudanese seemed to prefer the the word "liberation." Cairo prop- aganda pumped the idea constant- ly into French North Africa. ** * THEN, BY a single stroke the Russians, after Shepilov's visit, injected an entirely new factor into the situation. Egypt could have arms in quantity from the Com- munist bloc nations - 200 MIG Soviet fighters, 100 Russian tanks, a half dozen submarines, quanti- ties of artillery and other arms-- all at fantastically cutrate prices. Whether this equipment was castoff and obsolete from Euro- pean standpoints hardly mattered. It could tip the balance in the Middle East. More " than that, there was a promise of Communist arms for other states thirsting for revenge on Israel. There would remaifn only the problem of training Arabs to use modern arms. Red bloc technicians are doing that now. As matters stand Western ob- -European (Time) PREMIER ABDEL NASSER ~ .. receives dangerous visitor In Red jargon, "democratic" means Communist. As for the s: ln int - 1A 1 -. - -A ril