f 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 NO 2-3241 .1 Editorials printed in The Mich and represent the views of the WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1955 IOn a A"& IK-L14A- igan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff ie writers only. This must be noted in all reprints, NIGHT EDITOR: GAIL GOLDSTEIN 4~iET~$BU~I IO ~ RJKES - . B N S O } I1 ! N A IN TODAY'S co conflict is in a The so-called F the headlines for does not mean t fading away. On the calm before1 The time has review the situat a revision of poli is, at best, a temr to pressures froi Communist sour Would it not1 which in recent affairs in the ma other nations r own positive pro offensive and at nent settlement before it blows u We are in a potentially unte position and sh ourselves while v roIpo~ai .ri r Far East- Our recent eff ficial and short- the heart of th outlook. The cur be maintainedf doesn't act whil over the situati hand and we w: in which we aga tion. In turn, we ma which' will not b not be to our liki A POSITIVE so States recom that that body the' Communists following compr relipquish its te: Nationalist Chin tion of re-invai in the settlemei affshore islands should be joined As for the futu should advise t. ment that we wi Republic of Ta permanent govei further recomm do likewise and representation 1 General Assemb: by Nationalist C There are goo experience for tb alist government on Taiwan' in 1 since the island and stronghold sweeping impro been made and evidence. Furth a fairly strong pendence movem It should be re are many cultu: as an ethnic gro Chinese. Many o union with the in power there opportunity tof This proposal by either of the certain realities must. The Nati Communist regi Drop Support of Chiang ld war, one area of East-West in Peiping. Chiang simply does not have the state of temporary quiescence. military wherewithal to forcibly retake main- ormosan question has not hit land China. This is not a pleasant fact for any some time now. This, however, Chinese to admit as it leaves him with but hat the situation is gradually two alternatives. If he wants to return to his z the contrary, it could well be home in China proper, he will have to live the storm. under Communist rule. Or he can remain in come for the United States to Taiwan and build a new life for himself, a ;ion off the coast of China with course many have already chosen to follow. cy in mind. Our present policy However one looks at it, the relentless reality porary one and quite vulnerable exists that the Communists are in full control in m both Communist and non- China an dthe Nationalists haven't a prayer of ces. getting back without full scale intervention, i.e., be well for the United States, aldl out American participation. ; years has conducted foreign in by' reacting to the moves of THE COMMUNISTS, on the other hand, will aither than putting forth its not lightly give up the cry for Taiwan's oramhero akeputheilomtic "liberation." They must be made to realize that tempt to reach a semi-perma- they cannot invade the island without tangling teof the Formosan problem with the United States Seventh Fleet immedi- p in our faces. ately. To do so means to engulf themselves and probably their allies in a major war. The presently uncomfortable and most informed estimates today are that the nable military and political Russians want to avoid this sort of all-out iould take steps to extricate fight. we still can to advantage. Several reasons exist for leaving Matsu and forts have been largely super- Quemoy to the Communists. First, the offshore sighted rather than aimed at islands are indefensible and have no real e matter with a long range value from a military standpoint. They have no rent policy on Formosa cannot economic worth to Taiwan but rather are eco- forever. If the United States nomically, geographically, and culturally part le we still have some control of the mainland. Letting the Reds have them on, it may easily get out of may erase a point of contention and will rid ill be confronted with a crisis the United States of a liability arising from the ain hold the unfavorable posi- unwarranted importance placed upon them in Nationalist propaganda, the intention being to y be forced to accept a solution keep the United States embroiled in Far East- e of our making and may well ern politics in a position favorable only to ing Nationalist China. In America, three major criticisms will be lution would be that the United made of this whole proposal - 1) this is aban- mend to the United Nations donment of the Nationalists and appeasement sponsor negotiations between of the Communists; 2) it will lead to the and the Nationalists with the diplomatic recognition of Red China; and Dmise in mind-that Red China 3) this will lead to the admission of Red China rritorial claim to Taiwan, and to the United Nations. a, in turn, renounce its inten- diag To the first objection, it is pointed out that ding the mainland. Included the proposal is neither abandonment nor ap- at would be the controversial peasement but is facing up to and acting upon , Matsu and, Quemoy, which political realities. We would be according an 1 with the mainland. accurate degree of importance to Nationalist re of Taiwan, the United States China in the current international power politi- he present Nationalist govern- cal picture. 11 recognize a newly established On the second point, the United States must iwan as the legitimate and recognize, at least to itself, that Communism rnment of Taiwan. We should in China is there to stay for as long as can end that the United Nations now be foreseen. To ignore this reality is award the Republic of Taiwan d'angerous self-dilusion. Whether or not we by giving her a seat in the accord China diplomatic recognition is yet an- ly, replacing the one now held other question and one to be decided on its own hina. merits. d reasons other than political Thirdly, arriving at a settlement such as is is move. Although the Nation- suggested here is not tantamount to admission got off to a pretty rocky start of Communist China to the United Nations as the post World War II days, the two issues are not directly connected. Red has become the headquarters China must first prove her intentions of ful- of Chinese Nationalism, wide- filling the obligations imposed by the United vements in government have Nations Charter before she will be considered economic progress is much in for admission. er, during the past few years, Despite the unpopular reaction that negoti- indigenous Taiwanese inde- ation of this sort may have in some quarters, sent has developed, it is time for the United States to become more emembered that although there positive and imaginative in the conduct of its ral similarities, the Taiwanese foreign policy than it has been in the recent up are quite distinct from the past. We've been caught off guard and put f the Taiwanese are against re- under pressure too many times, having to mainland regardless of who is adjust our policy to meet the aggressiveness of and would eagerly seize the the opposition. By taking the offensive in at- establish their own nation. tempting to negotiate a settlement with Red will not be accepted happily China the burden of proof of easing Far belligerents but they must face Eastern tensions, and contributing to world as also we in the United States peace can be placed squarely on the shoulders analists must recognize that the of Peiping. ime is unalterably entrenched -DICK HALLORAN i WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:{ Taft Wing Getting Restless By DREW PEARSON LETTERS to the EDITOR Clarification,., To the Editor: I WISH to express my thanks to you for your interest in the Uni- versity Museums, as indicated by the space given us in your issue of December 8. However, certain statements greatly distort the trth, and it is quite important to clarify them. The Museum Operating Commit- tee, which is compose& of the Di- rectors of the four museums in the building, is vitally interested in the progress of the Exhibits Program and has made every ef- fort to insure its success by staff- ing it with competent people and providing it with an ever expand- ing budget. The fact that the new exhibits of the past few years have uni- formly merited approval has re- duced the necessity for close and constant supervision. The "free run of things," alluded to in the article in question is free only within the prescribed limits de- fined and approved by the Operat- ing Committee.' The exhibits planned and pre- pared in the last few years rank with the best in the country, and credit should be properly shared. I have prepared the general plan, I do decide what exhibits shall be next on our agenda, and I do prepare a general outline for the individual exhibits in the Hall of Evolution and the Hall of Biologi- cal Principles. However, from that point on, the final plan becomes a cooperative procedure. The statement that the gradu- ate school takes little interest in the Museum (meaning exhibits) implies apathy. The exhibits are not designed on a graduate level of education, and the reason that the exhibits in general are little used by the graduate students in the natural sciences is because the research units of the University Museums maintain tremendous collections of research and study specimens, many thousands more than are on display. The previously published misin- terpretations of my statements to your reporter present a false pic- ture of the independence of the exhibits program from the Uni- versity Museums in general. There is no one among the some one hundred employees in the build- ing who is not interested in the ex- hibits at least to the extent of de- manding that a high level of tech- niques and accuracy be adhered to. -Irving G. Reimann Prefect of Exhibits University Museums A Note of Thanks... TO THE Christmas Capers en- tertainment, the acts, the song leaders, and the accompanists, for a great performance; to the host- esses, for putting the show on a personal, "just for you," level; to the sororities and dorms, for the favors which will remind the patients of a few happy moments for many days; and most espec- ially to our wonderful Central Committee, for the countless hours of work to which we attribute the success of our Christmas Hospital Parties; we wish to extend our most sincere thanks. We are sure that you, like no- one else we know, will have a truly Merry Christmas. -Ursula Gebhard '56 Michigan League -Russ McKennan, '57E Michigan Union New Book at Library Kovacs, Imre-The Ninety and ine. New York, Funk and Wag- nells Co., 1955. Moody, Dr. Joseph P.-Arctic Doctor. New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1955. Kempton, Murray-Part of our Time. New York, Simon and Schu- ster, 1955' O'Conner, Flannery --A Good Man is Hard to Find: and Other Stories. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1955. O'Hara, Constance-Heaven was not Enough. New York, J. B. Lip- pincott Co., 1955. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preapding publication. Notices .for the Sunday edition must be in by 2 p.m. Friday. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1955 VOL. LXVII, NO. 64 General Notices Since both Christmas and New Years fal on Sunday, the University will observe December 26 and January 2 as holidays. Personnel Office. Automobile Regulations - Christmas Holiday. The automobile regulations will be lifted when classes are com- pleted on Fri., Dec. 16, and will be resumed again at 8:00 a.m. Tues., Jan. 3, 1956. All Students who have not registered an Ann Arbor address with the Univer- sity or have moved and failed to report change of address, please register this information with the Deans of their respective colleges before leaving for Christmas vacation. The Following Student Sponsored So- cial Events are approved for this week: Dec. 14 (11:00 late permission): Delta Tau Delta, Delta Theta Phi, Lutheran Student Association, Nelson Interna- tional House, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Chi, Stockwell, Theta Delta Chi, Tyler- Strauss. Dec. 15 11:00 late permission): Alpha Sigma Phi. Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Chi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Forestry Club, Helen Newberry, Kelsey, Prescott- Hayden. Dec. 16: Korean Students Club. The General Library will observe the following schedule during the holiday period: Open: Fri., Dec. 16, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Mon.-Fri., Dec. 19-23, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Tues.-Fri., Dec. 27-30, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed: Sat.. Dec. 17, Dec. 24, Dec. 31; Sun., Dec. 18, Dec. 25, and Jan. 1; Mon., Dec. 26, Jan. 2. The Divisional Libraries will be open on shortened vacation schedules on the days that the General Library is open. The hours are 10-12 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. unless otherwise noted. The schedule for each library will be posted on its door. Information as to hours of opening may also be obtained by calling University Extension 652. Academic Notices February Teacher's Certificate Candi- dates: The Teacher's Oath will be ad- ministered to all Feb. candidates for the Teacher's Certificate during Dec. in Room 1437 U.E.S. The office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. The teacher's oath is a re- quirement for the teacher's certificate. Chemistry Department Colloquium 7:30 p.m. in Room 1300 Chemistry. Mr. L. Bruner will speak on "rgnar Reagents and Azides." Mr. S. Shore will speak on "Reactions between Borohy- dride and Ammonium Salts in Ether; the Preparation and Properties of Ammonia-Borane, H3NBH3. Doctoral Examination for Edwin Charles Blackburn, History; thesis: "Stainless Leszczynski: A Study in the Enlightenment," Wed., Dec. 14, 3615 Haven Hall, at 3:15 p.m. Chairman, B. W. Wheeler. Students interested in the Work-Study Program in Counselor Education at the National Music Camp are invited to see movies and obtain additional informa- tion regarding this work on Wednesday evening, Dec. 14, at 7:30 in the fencing room, Barbour Gymnasium. Sociology Colloquium: Professor Nel- son Foote, Director of the Family Study Center, University of Chicago, will speak on the topic, "Role Playing with En- gaged Couples" on Wed., Dec. 14, 4:10 p.m. in the Michigan League. Room to be posted. University Lecture, auspices of Dept. of Journalism. Charles Schulz, creator of "Peanuts." 3:00 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. Events Today Christmas Concert by University Choir, Maynard Klein, Conductor, 8:30 tonight in Hill Auditorium. Open to the gen- eral public without charge. Film Preview. "All I Need Is a Con- ference." Audio-Visual Education Cen- ter, 4051 Administration. 12:30 pm. Free Films: Dec. 13-19. "Biologist in the Tropics" and "Introducing the Reptiles." 3:00 and 4:00 p.m._daily, including Sat. and Sun., with extra showing Wed, at 12:30. 4th floor exhibit hail, Museums Bldg. Placement Notices PERSONNEL REQUESTS: Evangelical Welfare Agency, Chicago, (Continued on Page 6) i A U X., L ATEST medical report on the President's health has deep- ened the conviction among the old Taft wing of the Republican Party, now led by Senator Know- land, that it would be extremely difficult to run Eisenhower at the age of 66 again. It has also deep- ened their suspicion that Dewey- ites around the White House are stalling for time, not necessarily to run Ike again but to groom their own candidate. The blunt inescapable facts, when drilled down to bedrock, are that the load of the Presidency is a crushing one even under the best of conditions; second, that Ike himself showed every sign of not wanting to run again before his heart attack; third, that he has actually done little since the at- tack, compared with what he would have to do if he ran for President again. UNDER THESE circumstances, grumble GOP leaders of the Know- land-Taft camp, why should the party not proceed to warm up a few pitchers on the side-lines in- stead of waiting until the last minute to put a cold rookie in the Republican box. Newsmen who have covered the President both at Denver and Get- tysburg know that he has been subjected to very little strain. And he shouldn't have been. At Denver he was positively bored with inactivity. It now de- velops that he was informed on few problems. , And that Cabinet members who went to see him did not even discuss such matters as the walk-out of the French from the United Nations or the basic problems of the Geneva Foreign Ministers Conference. ALL TIS is natural. In fact it's necessary and inevitable. It's also natural that a man who suf- fers an "acute" heart attack at the age of 65 must go through a long period of convalescence, and that Dr. Snyder when he reported "fatigue" obviously was telling the truth. The job of being President of the United States can't be done with the left hand, points out one resentful wing of the GOP, and those Republicans who criticized the Democrats for letting the na- tion drift downhill during the ill- ness of Woodrow Wilson should be the first to recognize it. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS intend to demand the resignation of Douglas McKay as Secretary of the Interior when Congress recon- venes. They will base this on a give- away of 300 acres of Douglas fir and sugar pine in the Rogue River National Forest in Oregon which McKay's colleague, Secretary of Agriculture Benson, did not want to dispose of. Oscar Chapman, when Secretary of the Interior, had refused to sell this same Rogue River acreage, called Al Serena and belonging to the McDonald family of Mobile, Alabama. The U.S. Forest Ser- vice and the Bureau of Land Man- agement also consistently and vig- orously recommended against the sale - under both Democrats and Republicans. * * * BUT McKAY reversed them on the basis of an old mining law which gives timber rights to any- one owning mineral rights - pro- vided those mineral rights are valuable enough for development. Earlier assays of gold found on the Al Serena mining claim were without real value. But when Mc- Kay's solicitor, Clarence Davis, consented to ship ore samples all the way to the home town of-the McDonalds, Mobile, the assay showed significant gold and silver. Then mysteriously the ore samples disappeared. Here, ac- cording to sworn testimony before a Congressional committee, is what happened: "Sometime afterwards, Mr. Mc- Cormick came to (see me)," testi- fied R. N. Appling of the Interior Department, referring to the Mc- Donalds' engineer, D. Ford Mc- Cormick. "We picked up the samples from the State Depart- ment of Geology office and de- stroyed them." "How were they destroyed?" asked Committee counsel Robert W. Redwine. "They were shaken from the en- velopes and dumped into the riv- er," replied Appling. (Copyright, 1955, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) V NO FINE POINTS OF ACTING? DAC Deserves Stronger Direction INTERPRETING THE NEWS: About Questionable Dr. John By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst IT WOULD seem reasonable to suppose that if the Communists of East Germany and their Russian tutors wanted desperately to keep Dr. Otto John in custody, they could have done 3o by the same methods they have always applied to their prisoners. There is a decidedly piscatorial odor about the escape of Dr. John, the man of a thousand secrets who, on the record at least, has double- crossed just about everybody. There were many dispatches from Berlin hinting that John was under close surveillance by the Communist police, that he was planning to skip to West Germany. It is quite unlike the Communists, with all this forewarning, to let so obviously an important man slip through their fingers. It is also a bit odd that appar- ently a number of people in West Germany knew in advance that Dr. John was about to skip. V VEN his wife in England, it would seem from cape. It is hard to believe Soviet intelligence could be so stupid. Unless Dr. John can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that he was kidnaped into East Germany a year and a half ago and forced into doing the things he did, he is utterly worthless to the West except as a piece of propaganda against the East German paradise, and thus should be put on ice for keeps. The West German government at Bonn can- not afford to overlook the possibility that the Communists deliberately let Dr. John escape. The Bonn government will have to explore the possibilities of why such a thing might have been done. It may even wonder if John is back with his most important assignment. Germany at the moment is at a crossrdads in her history. The Communists are employing all possible devices to "increase contacts" with the West German republic while undermining its established authority. Only a year ago Dr. John was the cause of a near-crisis in the West German government. By ERNEST THEODOSSIN Daily Drama Staff Writer , DRAMATIC ARTS Center people are busily romping through Moliere's "The Physician in Spite of Himself" this week, a satire on 17th century doctors. Moliere's farce seems an ideal property for the company, and Director Joseph Gistirak has used his players' flair for slapstick comedy to advantage. What is most amazing is that performers who have not been particularly outstanding in dramatic shows, prove engaging and absorbing comedians and comediennes. This is not the first time that Gistirak has attempted broad comedy, but it is the first time that the business of doubletakes and bellyflops has come off so well. Last season he used the same approach in interpreting Gold- smith's "She Stoops to Conquer" and Checkhov's "The Boor," neither of which is suited to this style. "Conquerer" is a drawing-room satire and "Boor" a subtle study of nineteenth century protocol. Farcial approaches seemed totally inappropriate. ** * i BUT IF Gistirak has hit unon fellows-but they are also human beings with a wide range of nec- essary expressions and emotions. Further, in selecting Elaine Sin- clair for his ingenue, Gistirak fais to give her necessary direction. This was particularly obvious in "Seagull," which Miss Sinclair played exactly like her previous chore in "Thieves' Carnival.' Checkhov's Nina is a "child of nature" for three acts, naive, in- nocent and terribly romantic. Be- tween the third and fourth acts she undergoes a change: she ex- periences an unfortunate love affair, loses an illegitimate child, is proven a flop on the stage-- becomes a humiliated and hard- ened woman. MISS SINCLAIR expressed none of this transformation--except for -Checkhov's words and minor cos- tuming changes she might still have been the child of the first three acts. These people have talent, and they can put on a top-notch comedy that pleases audiences very much. But dramatically, they often do not know what to do with their hands, or how to walk with ease. These are the fine points of acting. They can come after much hard work. but they need the aid of a LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler JOSEPH GISTIRAK ...,a hit, a miss "The Seagull") and Bannerman (Anouilh's Carnival"' can carry a their own. Margaret "Thieves' show on 7--01,1 4f- ttr r / r' 4 i- However, the in-resident per- formers are generally inexperi- enced people who require a strong director-and Gistirak does not often give them enough support. He will relegate a fzally out- .+nrfnff anreto rir Ralnh nDris-