Fr AkIt Sixty-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIvERsTY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OP BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 a I 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. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1955 NIGHT EDITOR: ERNEST THEODOSSIN Democrats and Labor, Danger of A One-Class Party S THE Democratic Party becoming too much A CHARACTERISTIC of democracy is that of a one class party? -it places the common interests of the whole In the North, at least, past election cam- above the interests of any particular segment. paigns and results would seem to point heavily D in that direction. Tuesday's elections indicate Democracy has the difficult task of recognizing a growing influence of labor in the Democrat all the various groups and, interests of a society Party. without imposing the will of a single group on Although reputedly of little significance as all other aspects of society. a political trend, this week's elections resulted Perhaps the Democrat Party has come too in definite victories for Democratic candidates. close to forgetting this important fundamen- And they were held primarily in cities-normal tal. Present circumstances certainly would centers for industrial activity. Impressive vic- indiPrtetichas s tories in these localities suggests the effect of idicate that it has. the labor vote and Democrat reliance reliance In a large, complicated society as in the upon it. United States, political parties operating in a A similar conclusion might well be drawn two-party system must appeal to more than one specialized interest to win the support of from the results of Detroit's 15th District Con- the majority. This has lead to the generally gressional primary. The Democrat who won the lo ortureTof amean poltic alt nomination had the support of both the CIO loose structure of American politicalparties and AFL while an opponent who is a member that has developed. of the Democratic National Committee and If the Democrat Party identifies itself too would be expected to have party backing, ran closely with labor interests, it is in danger of a poor fourth. losing valuable support of other groups in Can the Democrat Party afford to be known American society. merely as another "Labor Party?" -MARY ANN THOMAS No Trophies Needed SIGMA ALPHA MU fraternity has offered to nize individual extra-curricular achievement. put up a trophy to "that fraternity which As far as incentive goes, it is unlikely the has attained the highest level of achievement trophy will provide the slightest degree of it. In the three most important phases of frater- nity life: scholarship, athletics and activities." STU1ENTS enter activities for numerous /Interfraternity Council Executive Commit- reasons - prestige, social, fraternity pres- tee has considered the proposed trophy and sure-but the ones who stay usually do so for referred further consideration to fraternity the incentive provided by the activity itself. district meetings. Demands on time and energy are far too ar- Main purpose of the trophy, according to duous to hold the student who joins for super- SAM President Lou Kwiker, is to provide in- ficial reasons. centive.. There are too many trophies and awards on First obvious objection to such a trophy is campus already. Perhaps values are being that only a few fraternities will have any distorted. It's discomforting to think frater- chance of- winning it. It will circulate among nities- will strive to improve themselves for the four or five largest fraternities, which have something as superficial and unnecessary as an overwhelming edge in activities and ath- a cup. letics. Most are doing a fine job because they want Second awards are already given for scholar- to. Let's keep it that way. ship and athletics. Numerous honoraries recog. -LEE MARKS TODAY AND TOMORROW: Can We Muddle Through By WALTER LIPPMANN 'Say-I Think We Can Save A Buck On This Trip" -m 0' .1rA ".p !A AT THE STATE: G 'T~ender Trap' Clever Bachelor Comedy "THE TENDER TRAP" is a sharp little semi-musical-comedy that twits the predatory female but comes to the conclusion that marriage isn't such a bad idea after all. Charlie (Frank Sinatra) is a Nei York agent with a gorgeous apartment, some money and few idiosincrasies; ergo, he is very, very eligible. Among the women chasing him are Sylvia (Celeste Holm), a violinist with the NBC Symphony and Julie (Debbie Reynolds), a young 9,rm~ 4dA~t.*a~M~~g-a. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Football Loss Incites M' Fans What's Wrong? To The Editor: 1 HATE to be disloyal, but I'm almost glad Illinois beat us. I've gotten sick of seeing an overconfi- dent Michigan team putting on lethargic performances week after week and I'm glad that ridiculous. "miracle team" myth has been completely shattered. Our team's performance in the Big Ten this year has been dis- gracefully mediocre considering our wealth of material. We have outscored our opponents by a small margin and they have outgained us by a small margin. All of our conference games but one have been closely fought right to the finish. The other was a sound trouncing and we came out on the short end of that one. In other words, our 4 and 1 rec- ord could easily be 3 and 2 or 2 and 3 except for a healthy share of breaks. And yet Michigan is re- puted to have at least two good players at every position and three All-American candidates in the first line. Why haven't we made a stronger showing? Many people point to the fact that every team we play is up for us. This is true, but it is also true that we play seven of our nine games in the friendly confines of huge Michigan Stadium with tre- mendous crowds cheering us on. In our two away games, both against second division Big Ten teams, we eked out a one-point win and then got smashed. Since shortage of talent is not the cause for the team's lack of good, consistent performances, the only remaining explanation is poor coaching. This is not the first year that Oosterbaan has failed to make good use of his material. Let's make it the last! Bennie won great glory for Michigan in the '20's and has been more than re- paid with coaching jobs ever since. Let's not give him another chance to make a mediocre team out of a great one, --Jim Barber, '57E Blaines Bennie..,. To the Editor: THE Michigan football bubble has almost burst. After heroi- cally staving off the inevitable for four weeks our team has toppled from the unbeaten. With the two greatest ends in the country, a top fullback, linebacker, two adequate, though erratic, quarterbacks, and fine depth ip both the line and backfield, the team has looked good only in the second half of the Iowa game. With each Army loss, that vic- tory looks more and more unim- pressive. Our Big Ten victories have been made by terrific deter- mination and downright luck. There must be a reason. The un- impressiveness of a most talented team is something to be concerned about. The fault lies with the head coach, Bennie Oosterbaan. Admittedly, Oosterbaan was a great player but the game has pro- gressed in that time. His coach- ing techniques have not progress- ed. He uses, the majority of the time, an outdated formation which depends on the size of both the line and backs. It requires a long- er time to run off a single-wing play which means there are small, but fast linemen to open and keep open the holes for a longer time. This is a difficult job and this can be shown by the complete re- moval of the formation from the pro ranks. Beyond this Oosterbaan uses this formation badly. He passes only on obvious - situations and shows a complete lack of imagi- nation. He never gambles or looks for the big play. In general he is playing the game of the twenties. He refuses to progress to the fast, gambling game which make a good football team great. With such good material, spirit and depth, it is a crime to watch mediocre per- formances week after week. It's time for a change. -John Loeb, '5g starlet who want marriage, not a career. Charlie's foil is Joe(David Wayne), who has been married 11 years and has three children. The plot is a simple case of the grass being greener on the other side of the marriage license. Char- lie thinks he really wants to be married, and Joe thinks he really wants to have women falling all over him. QUITE ASIDE from all the far- cical horseplay and snappy dia- logue, tlie picture has a lot to sa' about career versus marriage. Miss Holm's cynical comments on ca- reer girls and their marital pros- pects are funny, but they are leavened by wisdom and a real awareness of the 'tragedy of the situation. Except for Miss Reynolds, all the performers do a very good job. Sinatra and Wayne have a feel for the kind of parts they play and their sense of comedy timing is perfect. Miss Holm has the meat- iest part and she squeezes it dry in the manner of Eve Arden, with quite a bit added. But Miss Reynolds isn't quite up to snuff in her two rather dramatic interchanges with Sin- atra. However, most of the time her role requires nothing more than a dewy-eyed, appealing look, and she sings well. * * ' * SPEAKING of singing, the pic- ture's one ditty (Title: The Ten- der Trap) is a bouncy little thing that seems to have been written just for Sinatra. He is aware of the honor and does it full justice. -Tammy Morrison ARCHITECTURE AUD: Jordan' Fun Show "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," a 1941 excursion into heavenly whim- sy, marked the formal movie de- but of St. Peter's modern-day counterpart: calm, composed Mr. Jordan, a-gentleman who welcomes souls into the spacious reaches of eternity. Since then, Mr. Jordan has es- corted Terpsichorean Rita Hay- worth "Down To Earth" in 1947 and been the subject of much re- vamping, in an attempt to retell his marvelous exploits. But he has never been, or is he likely to be, as charming as in this wonderously clever comedy.' Prizefighter Robert Montgom- ery's soul is accidently brought to heaven by over-anxious Celestial Messenger No. 7013 (Edward Ever- ett Horton) long before.the lad is to depart from life. Because his original "in the pink" body has been cremated by Fight Manager -James Gleason, it is up to Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains) to find the fellow a suitable, substitute "in the pink" body so he can covort in earthly fasion for another half decade. Extra "bodies" are not readily available, but Mr. Jordan manages to locate several "spares" with great ease and fun. "Here Comes Mr. Jordan's" comic exploits have been often re- peated in the past 14 years by zealous imitators. But the film still retains most of its cleverness and ingenuity and manages to keep its fantasy foot off the ground for the most part. Only when it resorts to elaborate plot structures and some Platonic-like dialogues on the division of soul and body does it seem to be digging a grave; and this occurs sufficiently seldom to let the picture remain a very funny show. Ernest Theodossin DAILY OFFICIAL BTLLETIN THE Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daiy assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for the Sunday edition must be in by 2 p.m. Friday. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1955 VOL. LXVH, NO. 40 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, muxst be submitted to the Secretary of the Senate at least fourteen days before the meeting at which they are to be introduced . Martha Cook Building. Those Inter- ested in the few February vacancies at Martha Cook please call 23225 any week day between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. for appointments. Sophomore and Junior women without second semester con- tracts are eligible to apply. Any out- standing applications should come in at once. Late Permission: Because of the Pan- hellenic Ball, all women students will have a 1:30 late permission on Fri., Nov. 11. Women's residences will be open until 1:25 a.m. Student Government Council: Summary of action taken at meeting of Nov. 9 APPROVED: Minutes of previous meeting. Cinema Guild reports, including finan- cial report, 1954-55. Cinema Guild policy statements as follows: Should the distribution of profits to sponsors in any one month, fall 25% short of the expected amount, the Board will automatically take the matter up for consideration. A maximum need shall be set by the Cinema Guild Board upon each spon- sor's request, and any amount above this figure shall be put into the Cinema Guild Development Fund. Janet Neary to replace Phil Bery on SGC Structure Study Committee. Activities: Monte Carlo Ball, Nev. 18, Union; Sigma Rho Tau, Freshman En- gineers' Speech Contest, Dec. 6, 7, 8; Assembly Fortnight program, Nov.21, 7:30-10:30 p.m. HEARD: Preliminary report of Driving Reg- lations Study Committee. Members of the Faculty are invited to apply for a visiting teachers grant of- fered through the Carnegie Corporation. The undergraduate colleges at Chicago, Columbia, Harvard and Yale are collab- orating in a Joint Program for Intern- ships in General Education. Colleges and Universities may nominate one of their own staff members to spend a year at the institution of his choice as a visiting teacher in the general educa- tion program. Assistant professors and associate professors are urged to apply. A leave of absence will be granted for one year and the visiting teachers salary will be paid by the host institution frou funds provided by the Carnegie Corpora- tion. 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. Lectures "The Kinetics and Mechanism of the Reactions between Iron (III) Complexes and Hydroperoxides." Dr. Warren L. Reynolds, University of Minnesota. 4-:1 p.m. Room 1300, Chemistry Bldg., Fri., Nov. 11. Academic Notices 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). dLaw 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 a.m. Sat. Doctoral Examination for Frank Glenn Ireland, Education; thesis: "Factors Re- lated to the College Choices of Akron High School Graduates in 1951," Fri., Nov. 11, 4019 University High School, at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, H. C. Koch. Doctoral Examination for Edward Paul Coleson, Education and Geography; thesis: "Educational Change in Sierra Leone," Fri., Nov. 11, 4024 University High School, at 3:00 p.m. =Chairman, Claude Eggertsen. Events Today The Good Woman of Setzuan, a 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 George Baker, personnel director of r r° 4 4 WE ARE facing serious decisions arising out of a very great expansion of the political power and influence of the Soviet Union. The problem has been dramatized by the sale of arms to Egypt and the acute tension which that has caused between Egypt and Israel. But the expansion of the Soviet power is not limited to this one area around Suez. It is making itself felt in Spain despite Franco's celebrated anti-Corhmunism, it is making it- self felt ifi French North Africa, in the Balkans and in Cyprus, and across Southern Asia into the South Pacific. There have long been Communist propaganda and infiltration in these parts of the world. What is new and recent is that the Soviet Union has now entered these lands openly and directly in the role of a great power. Until the past few months the Soviet Union has been a diplomatic outsider, acting indirectly and exerting a clandestine power. Now she has taken her place as a principal player in the big game of power politics. This is something very new for which London and Washington have been quite unprepared. Until the past few months they have been liv- ing under the impression that Russia was ex- cluded, as she has been for centuries, from the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Sudden- ly they find that in these critical and unsettled lands, there are no longer three great powers, namely France, Great Britain and the United States, but four great powers. The appearance of the fourth great power, the Soviet Union, has altered radically the fundamental relation- ships throughout this region. T HE EGYPTIAN affair illustrates the nature and mechanism of the change. Formerly, the choice for Egypt and for the other weak countries was to join the coalition of the At- lantic powers or to be refused aid and to be ignored politically and to be scolded for their lack of public spirit. Now these countries can turn to the Soviet government and they can trade and manipulate their way between Mos- cow and Washington. If they play the game skillfully, they can use Moscow's favors and Moscow's promisese to frighten London and Washington, and they can use Western favors and Western promises to get more favors and more promises out of Moscow. This game can become very dangerous. But as long as Egypt, for example, or for that mat- T ACCEPT the challenge and to compete for influence and power is to undertake something very big indeed. It will require massive expenditures on a scale that will up- set the whole financial policy of this Adminis- tration. It will require also truly agonizing choices affecting the national interests of our allies in NATO. For the Soviet Union can do more than supply arms, it can do more than give'aid in the under-developed countries. It can give these countries political support, which costs the Soviet Union nothing, in their struggle against France, Britain, Israel and the United States. The alternative to accepting the challenge is to recognize the Soviet Union as a great power in that part of the world, and to negotiate something in the way of a political truce. The objection to negotiation is that it will at once raise the political prestige and bargaining power of the Soviet Union to unprecedented heights, and thus may make exorbitantly high the price of an agreement. For either line of policy it will be necessary to reappraise and revise the doctrine, as we in practice apply it, of containment.. We have held that all nations must join our military alliances or be considered as fellow travelers on their way to becoming Communist satel- lites. This dangerous dogma has poisoned our relations with India, the greatest and the most influential of the free countries of Asia.rIt has earned us the reputation from Morocco to Indonesia of interfering in the internal affairs of the new countries in order to support fac- tions which favor alliances with us. T HIS OFFICIAL infatuation with military alliances has deeply misled the Administra- tion and the Congress. For it has allowed them to believe wishfully that 'it was unnecessary to do anything important about the under- developed countries if only these countries had signed a military pact. The combination of military pacts, which are extremely unpopular in all countries, and the withdrawal of eco- nomic aid, has left us wide open and vulner- able to the Soviet campaign. The Soviets give arms without demanding that people sign on the dotted line in military pacts. They are increasing their economic aid at the very moment when Mr. Hollister is trying to reduce ours. The trouble with all this is that it calls for new decisions at the very highest level, at the SOVIET VERSION: Geneva Spirit' Extended to Afghans 4 By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst According to Soviet propaganda, the "Spirit of Geneva" can be vio- lated only by the West. Recently Moscow announced Premier Nikolai Bulganin and So- viet Communist boss Nikita Khru- shchev plan to visit Afghanistan. The announcement was accompa- nied by this comment: "The Soviet leaders' visit to Af- ghanistan is worthy of attention because it is a blow to the in- trigues of those acting against the spirit of Geneva, those who do not want a relaxation of international tension." But the real reason for the visit to Afghanistan appears to be the shift of scene in the cold war- away from the standoff produced by the' Geneva spirit in Europe and into the volatile Middle East. * * * AFGHANISTAN has been an historic buffer to Russian imperial ambitions. Czarist and Soviet ex- pansion stopped on its northern frontier. It separates the pres- ent-day Turmen, Uzbek and Tad- lik Soviet republics from the Indian sub-continent. To its West is Iran, the link between Europe and Asia in the anti-Communist defense framework. Today Afghanistan represents an anchor of the current Soviet drive to splinter the line. At the moment it swarms with Soviet technicians who have built a cot- ton izinnina ntn.l id ahut 600 --in view of the country's current bitter dispute with Pakistan it is likely to do so-it will be of ' a piece with the Soviet bloc offers of arms at cut rates to Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Arms to the Arabs threaten a new Arab-Israeli war. Arms to Afghanistan could mean conflict, or at the least explosive tension, with Pakistan over .the future of the seven million Pathan tribes- men in Pakistan's northwest fron- tier province. ON THE OTHER flank of the West's defenses, there has been C o m i n f o r m interference in France's troubles in North Africa. Thus far Western observers can pin down nothing more specific than a flood of Cominform propa- ganda to North Africa and the of- fer of Communist help to extrem- ists there. The goal obviously is to prevent any stability in the strategically important area. The French Communist party plays an important role. Russian offers of arms to the Middle Eastern countries have co- incided with the signing of bi- lateral military pacts, Egypt - Saudi Arabia and Egypt-Syria, providing for unified commands and pooled expenses. These pacts tage the place of the All-Arab League Defense Pact of 1949 which followed the Pales- tine War and was ratified by all states of the league except Libya and the Yemen. less dangerous than it seems on the surface. They cite the amount of training the Arabs would re- quire in the use of the arms, and Israel's presentisuperiority in fighting potential. But others point out that this overlooks two things: First, there is a possibility of Is- rael's taking the bull by the horns and launching a preventive war before the Arabs get too strong. Second, by the time the dust set- tled and the West could sense the danger, it might be too late to do anything about it. 1 Scribbling by Mike Marder, :.:,.