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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: WILLIAM HANEY
Alumnus Dewe .Dredges
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N THE first speech during his current cam-
paign to make "a Dewey" out of Stevenson,
Republican two-time loser Thomas E. Dewey
managed to dredge the muddy depths of par-
tisanship.
While he graciously admitted that Stevenson
"is a man of peace and a man of the best in-
tentions," most of his speech was designed to
obliterate any such notions his audience might
have had, and his argument took many turns.
One was the attempt to label the Democrats
as the "war party." While again using the
deny-but-suggest technique, Dewey refused to
argue that recent Democratic Presidents were
"each responsible for getting us into war,"
perhaps because the point is unarguable.
But in his next paragraph he went on to
imply just that when he said, "It is to be re-
membered that three times in this century
clever and effective speeches helped win elec-
tions and each time thereafter the country
was plunged into war."
HIS CASE against Stevenson, expressed large-.
ly in negative terms, centered around re-
cent proposals by the Democratic nominee on
the draft and on hydrogen tests.
He called Stevenson's suggestion that the
draft might be ended within the foreseeable
future - if found consistent with national
security - the "stuff of which wars have been
made in the past."
Had Stevenson expressed his suggestion in
the form of a promise - which he was careful
not to do - it might be vulnerable on such
grounds. But Stevenson qualified his statement"
on the draft so carefully as to make it as
meaningless as Vice-President Nixon's recent
predictions of shorter worling hours if Eisen-
hower policies are continued.
What is disappointing in the Stevenson state-
ment is not that It represents any peril to our
security, but that it is hardly in keeping with
its author's 1952 intention to "educate and
elevate a people whose destiny is leadership."
One of the Democratic nominee's most ap-
pealing traits has been his willingness to sac-
rifice momentary political gain in order to
contribute to a public opinion equal to the
responsibilities of America's world position.
His statements have been unaccompanied by
any convincing evidence that our defense pos-
ture could be maintained without the draft,
a'nd in such a form they appear to be the sort
of "easy solutions" which the candidate in 1952
warned against suggesting to the voters.
Stevenson can be accused of a certain amount
of intellectual dishonesty on the draft issue,
in that voters who do not read his draft state-
ments with a. lawyer's eye for hedges may get
the impression he is promising an end to the
draft. However, one must assume that Dewey
does get more than a headline-reader's view of
the newspapers, and his charge that a Ste-
venson victory would leave us all dead is hard-
ly excusable coming from a man of Dewey's
sophistication.
THE other Stevenson proposal which Dewey
says could lead to war was a perfectly sound
one. Many free nations, especially in Asia,
where the United States has used the atomic
bomb, and a large segment of the thoughtful
American public has been revolted by the tre-
mendous advances being made in, atomic-
PROFITS OVERRATED:
'U' Bookstore-
Difficulties Explained
hydrogen weapons by both sides in the cold
war. Not only are they concerned over the des-
tructiveness of the weapons themselves, but
several noted geneticists have warned of the
harm which may be befalling future genera-
tions merely from the frequent American, Brit-
ish and Soviet tests.
At a time when this country's peaceful in-
tentions are questioned in much of free Asia,
Stevenson has proposed that we display our de-
sire for disarmament in a way far more graph-
ic and meaningful than the President's much-
praised proposals for "open skies" and "atoms-
for-peace."
By unilaterally cancelling all atomic and hy-
drogen testing we would not, as Dewey charged,
be "stripping the free world of its best defense--
our leadership in the field of atomic energy."
What he chooses to ignore is Stevenson's oft-
stated condition for cessation of the tests --
that the Soviet Union likewise discontinue
atomic detonations. Modern detection methods
permit the whole world to be aware of any
atomic explosion on the scale of a weapons test
within days after it ,occurs.
IF THE Soviets followed suit it would be a
victory for the cause of weapons control
and the genetic continuity of the human race,
while in no way jeopardizing our present "lead-
ership in the field."
If Russia failed to discontinue testing, it
would be a great help in our attempts to con-
vince the-world that the Soviets are responsible
for the Cold War and are the real enemies of
world peace. The few months any tests might
have to be postponed would certainly not be
decisive in the arms race but would be time well
spent in this period of non-militaristic "com-
petitive co-existence."
What then is there to justify Dewey's chai-ge
that Stevenson's bomb test proposal "indicates
that the New America would be a place where
most of us would not°live long enough to en-
joy it," which is as serious a charge as any yet
made in this political campaign.
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THERE is much more in the Dewey address
which should be discussed-his great build-
up of the Administration's role in ending the
Korean War coupled with a refusal to specify
a single change in American policy contributing
to the armistice, his great emphasis on the cur-
rent struggle for the uncommitted nations while
ignoring the Adminisration's inflexibility and
moral righteousness in this area, his distorteI
version of the record of the 84th Congress.
But the war-scare portions of Dewey's speech
were the really irresponsbile ones.
The Republicans in 1952 succeeded in gener-
ating healthy public concern over the Korean
War into near-hysteria, capping their efforts
with General Eisenhower's "I will go to Korea"
speech. The lack of such feverish public atti-
tude today is actually jeopardizing Republican
chances in November. Dewey's current speak-
ing tour - if its kick-off is any indication -
appears to be a campaign to recreate 1952 at-
titudes by painting a picture of imminent war
and devastation should Stevenson be elected.
The present members of the University com-
munity need feel no pride that Alumnus Dewey
chose his alma mater as the starting point of
such a campaign.
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interest in student problems. His article, explaning the difficulties of es-
tablishing a University-owned bookstore, takes the form of a "Letter to the
Editor")
To :the Editor:
IN Tuesday's DAILY Mr. Richard J. Giannone writes regarding
the university's "unfortunate neglect of its responsibility to establish
a bookstore." As a bookseller not engaged in the text-book business as
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
New York Democrats Loafing
By DREW PEARSON
AS IT looks today, Adlai Steven-
son and the Democrats will lose
the most populous state in the
union - New York.
Reports trickling in to Demo-
cratic headquarters from the farm
belt, from the South, and from the
Northwest all look good for the
Democrats. But from New York,
with its huge block of electoral
votes, the reports are bad; also
from New Jersey and Connecticut.
Chief trouble is Carmine De
Sapio, head of Tammany and
mastermind of Governor Harri-
man's abortive attempt at the
nomination in Chicago. He isn't
working. The organization men
around Carmine also aren't work-
ing. New York is as dead as a dodo
as far as Democratic political ac-
tivity is concerned.
* * *
CHIEF REASON: They don't
want to lose their man-Bob Wag-
ner-as Mayor of New York. If
Wagner goes to Washington as
Senator, he can't do them any fa-
vors. If he stays in Manhattan as
Mayor he can do plenty.
DEMOCRATIC politicians also
have -no great love for Abe Stark,
the Brooklyn clothing-store man
and president of the city council,
who would automatically replace
Wagner.
Meanwhile, ex-congressman Jack
Javits, despite lukewarm Republi-
can support at first, is expected to
win a heavy Jewish vote in a city
where the population is prepond-
erantly Jewish. It was Javits who
administered the surprise defeat
to Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., for New
York Attorney General two years
ago.
A WASHINGTON taxi driver
pulled up alongside Vice President
Nixon's limousine at an intersec-
tion the other day.
Recognizing Nixon in the back
seat, the cabbie yelled: "Hi, Mr.
Vice President."
Nixon rolled down the window,
leaned out and replied cheerfully:
"How do you do?"
"Better enjoy that big Cadlilac
while you can," advised the cabbie
amiably, "because you won't have
it next January."
INSIDE FACT about those 24
F-86 jets which Canada is selling
Israel is that Secretary Dulles lit-
erally hounded Canada's foreign
minister Mike Pearsoi into selling
them. I
From the moment Dulles heard
that Canada had some spare Sabre
jets, he made Pearson's life miser-
able. Finally Canada came across
with the planes for Israel.
This is part of the Dulles policy
of trying to curry favor with the
Arabs yet at the same time please
the Israelis.
He has consistently told Colonel
Nasser and other Arab leaders that
the United States would not sell
arms to Israel. But last spring he
arranged with Gen. Alfred Gruen-
ther of NATO to get the French
to sell 24 Mystere jets to Israel.
An American okay had to be giv-
en for such a sale, since the jets
were part of the NATO forces built
up with American aid. The United
States did more than give its okay,
however, it actually arranged for
the sale.
* *. *
THE ARABS were not fooled.
They protested the sale, but they
d did not protest to Paris. They laid
their protest right at the door of
John Foster Dulles.
Only trouble with the sale of
these planes is that Israel, facing
a backbreaking job of financing
its country, hasn't the money to
pay for weapons. It needs them,
but can't afford them. It faces the
fact that Russia has bartered 200
MIG's to the Egyptians - jets
which could make a bombing raid
on Tel Aviv from Cairo in about
30 minutes. So it must have jet
planes to defend itself.
All this results from Russia's
policy of dumping arms in the
Near East - a policy which has
made Near Eastern countries
spend most of their budgets on
arms when, according to the al-
leged Marxian theory, they should
be spending money to improve the
lot of the common man.
* * *
DEMOCRATIC strategists might
well take a look at the record of
one member of the Eisenhower
truth team - the group sent to
follow up Stevenson-Kefauver and
supposedly tell the American pub-
lic the real truth.
Most vigorous, vitriolic mem-
ber of the truth team is Sen. Bar-
ry Goldwater of Arizona.
It would be interesting to ask
Senator Goldwater to undergo a
lie-detector test regarding his
friendship with the late Willie
Bioff, famed labor racketeer who
went to jail for shaking down the
motion picture industry.
After he got out of jail, Bioff
lived in Phoenix under the as-
sumed name of William Nelson,
and ran a poker game at a Phoenix
club. Goldwater was once presi-
dent of the club. He became so
chummy with the convicted labor
racketeer that he flew to Las
Vegas with him onhone occasion
and registered at the same hotel.
The same Senator is now trav-
eling around the country checking
on the truth of Adlai Stevenson.
WASHINGTON PIPELINE -
The White House ordered the
Army to get out of the coffee busi-
ness and give up its'roasting plants
this summer. The price promptly
shot up from an average of 75
cents to 84 cents a pound. The
taxpayers pay the difference to
the big coffee companies . . .
Theon Wright, boss of the gaso-
line pump manufacturers associa-
tion, has warned that gas pumps
aren't keeping up with the auto
industry.. Pumps now used in gas
stations won't be able to pump the
volatile, high-powered gasoline to
be used by the auto engines of the
future..-.
(Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
the term is usually employed per-
haps I might be regarded, if not
as an unbiased commentator, at
least as one able to shed some
light on the situation.-'
Mr. G's letter discusses a good
deal of mis-information and fails
to consider many aspects very ger-
mane to the question he raises.
1. He is unhappy about the jam-
up in stores at text-book time. So
is every text-book dealer. It is
economically impossible for any
store, regardless of its ownership,
to handle 10 to 20 times its normal
business without a certain amount
of confusion for a two or three
day period twice a year. This con-
fusion is of the nature of the
beast - a store which handles at
most two or three hundred custo-
mers a day on 340-odd days of the
year is suddenly confronted with
two or three thousand customers
or more on four-odd days of the
year. With the jam-up at regis-
tration, a university-run function,
fresh in Mr. G's mind, why loes
he suggest a university-run book
store would be any different?
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2. Mr. G. is concerned about the
prices he pays. As far as new books
are concerned, prices are fixed by
the publishers and are uniform
throughout the country. If Mr. G.
wants to say that prices on text-
books as set by publishers are too
high, this is his privilege, and
could be considered in another
letter. But it is palpably irrespon-
sible to talk about "Ann Arbor's
array of high-priced bookstores"
without first ascertaining who es-
tablishes these prices, and without
considering the Fair Trade Laws.
(Again, if Mr. G wants to discuss
the pros and cons of fair trade,
let'shave it, but until such a dis-
cussion, let's not damn the local
merchant who is bound by these
!laws.)
w3. On used books, Mr. G. is on
shaky ground also. He suggests
that the student book exchange is
a step in the right direction. Let's
look at this. The student book ex-
change is subsidized by the Uni-
versity, Student Government, and
the Union. It receives FREE rent,
heat, light, water, janitor service,
insurance, tax-exemption, adver-
tising, and LABOR ... yet appar-
ently its prices are not signifi-
cantly lower, if at all, than those
of the 'capitalist" stores where
none of these costs are free.
If the prices were appreciably
lower how could the existing stores
continue to, operate in the used
text' business? What more would
Mr. G. have the University furnish
in the way of a subsidy than that
it now furnishes to student book
exchange? The plain facts are that
even with a very heavy subsidy of
every cost save that of the books
themselves, even with student
book exchange paying NONE of its
operating costs, it still does not
compete successfully with stores
which must pay ALL their operat-
ing costs.
4. THE MOST interesting of Mr.
G's remarks concerns situations
at other campuses. On these cam-
puses the situation is not quite
as we havesit presented to us.
Rather glibly we are informed that
"the university-run bookstores
give an automatic discount to all
students, say ten or fifteen per-
cent." Mr. G., this just is not so,
and you owe it to your readers and
to yourself to ascertain facts be-
fore you make such sweeping
statements.
None of Mr. G's examples are
tax-supported institutions. At both
Harvard and Yale, two of the three
mentioned, there are cooperative
stores. These have been formed
with capital provided by their cus-
tomers, who also serve in a mana-
gerial capacity thru elected offi-
cers and the like. There is no
"automatic discount" in such co-
operatives but rather a share in
the profits (if any) on the basis
of the amount of patronage by
each member.
* * *
IF MR. G had written endorsing
the idea of a cooperative book-
store, this would be a legitimate
point and could be discussed on
its merits. As a onetime member
of the board of directors of the
now-defunct Ann Arbor Coopera-
tive Society I should be delighted
to see Mr. G. activated in this di-
rection. That he would succeed,
however, is not likely, because the
increased costs of doing business
in all retail establishments, in-
cluding book stores, has stopped
the growth of American coopera-
tives to put it mildly.
This fact should be emphasized.
Mr. G. obviously is not aware that
recently-published figures by'both
+he Avamin'R. n nrne11a. A Cgrn.
dent spends no more than fifty
dollars a semester on books and
supplies, this means the local mer-
chants, contrary to the vitupera-
tive statements of Mr. G., are
sharing a net profit of $3.00 per
student MAXIMUM PER YEAR.
Divide this up between Follett's,
Overbeck's, Slater's, Wahr's, Ul
rich's, Morrill's, Music House, Mu-
sic Center, Music Corner, plus the
supply business of all the drug
stores and the dime store, leave a
few pennies for Bob Marshall, and
you'll see that none of us are
getting rich in the "book business".
THERE IS one clear point in
Mr. G's argument, however. If the
University wants to subsidize a
book operation, and spend a good
deal more money on it than they
do even on studentrbook exchange,
they could undersell the local
stores. This does happen in some
schools. They could undersell to
any degree they want, not just 10
or 15 percent but 100% if the uni-
versity wanted to subsidize that
heavily. But let's be clear about
this: the economics of the book
business at retail, as I can testify
from very close and at times sad,
experience, just doesn't allow even
an efficient operation more than
a 2 or 3 per cent net profit.
Savings beyond this must come
from a subsdiy of one form or an-
other. And if the university is pre-
pared to do this, wouldn't it be a
lot simpler just to reduce tuition
fees to the amount the subsidy
would cost?
Before Mr. G. wrote his letter
he should have checked with the
work which has been done over
the years on this campus by stu-
dent governmental bodies. I have
Imet with three such committees
in the past 7 years.
*Speaking as a professional book-
seller who feeds his family because
of his ability to cope with these
figures, I can say that these com-
mittees did their work well, ended
up with a good grasp of the retail
book business. After each investi-
gation they decided it was not
economically feasible to set up a
non-profit book operation. Per-
haps Mr. G. should have studied
these reports before his blast at
my colleagues.
In conclusion, I very much wish
Mr. G. was closer to the mark -
that profits were as substantial
as he implies. For the going in the
book business is tough, there are
fewer book stores in this country
than in 1900. The financial re-
wards are even lower than those
of the professorial commnity!
-Bob Marshall
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VOL. LXVII, NO. 9'
General Notices
Urgent notice. All persons who were
selected as ushers for the coming season
for the Choral Union, Extra Series, and
Lectures, whose names were listed in
this column Tuesday, Sept. 25, will
please pick up their usher tickets at
Hill Auditorium Box Office either on
Thursday Sept. 27 from 5 to 6 p.m. or
on Sautrday, Sept. 29, from 10 am. to
noon.
Vetrans who expect education and
training allowance under Public Law
550 but have not yet made application
to the Veterans Administration for
benefits mustreport to Office of Vet-
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Building, before 3:00 p.m. Tues., Oct. 2.
Applications for Phoenix Project Re-
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wish to apply for grants from the Mich-
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peacetime applications and implica-
tions of nuclear energy should file
applications in theePhoenix Research
Office, 118 Rackham Building, by Wed.,
Oct. 3, 1956. Application forms will be
mailed on request. Telephone 2560.
Social Chairmen. Open houses before
and 'after home football games are
authorized in orgnaized student resi-
dences on the Saturday of the game
between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. for
pregame functions and between 5 p.m.
and 7 p.m. for postgame functions.
Guest chaperons are not required, and
registration of these events in the Of-
fice of Student Affairs is not necessary
provided they are confined to the hours
indicated.
The following student sponsored so-
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Arab-Israeli Truce Not Enough
T HE CRISIS in the Middle East between Is-
rael and the Arab countries seems almost
to have reached the boiling point again.
Dag Hammerskjold, Secretary General of the
United Nations, made a hurried trip to the
Middle-East hot spot last spring in hopes of
bringing the hostility between the two foes to
a standstill.
Troubles between the two had been increas-
ing since the creation of Israeal in May, 1948.
Editorial Staff
RICHARD SNYDER, Managing Editor
RICHARD HALLORAN LEE MARKS
Editorial Director City Editor
GAIL GOLDSTEIN .......,... Personnel Director
ERNEST THEODOSSIn............ Magazine Editor
JANET REARICK ... ..Associate Editorial Director
MARY ANN THOMAS ............ Features Editor
DAVID GREY .:.................... Sports Editor
RICHARD CRAMER...,.... Associate Sports Editor
STEPHEN HEILPERN ........ Associate Sports Editor
VIRGINIA ROBERTSON ...... ...... Women's Editor
JANE FOWLER.............Associate Women's Editor
ARLINE LEWIS ............. Women's Feature Editor
VERNON SODEN ..............Chief Photographer
Some of the causes of the rivalry can be traced
back centuries to cultural and religious differ-
ences.
This cultural difference has been aggravated
by the presence of Arab refugees on the Israeli
borderline and reprisal attacks by Arabs on
Israeli territory.
Hammerskjold managed to secure a tentative,
uncertain truce between the two nations and
lulled the Western powers into a false sense of
security concerning the Arab-Jew problem.
THEN ONLY six short weeks after the truce
was declared, fighting began again with
skirmishes along the border. This week it has
flared up once more.
However this problem is not one concerning
the two rivals alone. It has been made a world
wide one bringing in the two greatest powers
in the world today, Russia and the U. S.
Russia indirectly put her foot in the Middle
East by encouraging the Arabs with promises
of military assistance. She has made good her
promise by backing such military aid as the
Czech-Egyptian arms agreement in 1945.
In turn the Israeali government in Tel Aviv
requested American aid. While the U. S. re-
fused direct aid she made it clear she would
not protest if aid were given by her allies in
the West.
Thus the problem left unsolved by Hammer-
skjold is increasing day by day with military
armaments being built up by both sides.
If the problem which has been simmering
for so long reaches the boiling point it may be
the sark which ronula na~cPa. n +nlT.-1-
LETTERS
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EDITOR
More Bookstore . .
To the Editor:
Cheers and a few bouquets for
Richard Giannoe for his recent
letter asking why the University
has not established a book store
for the benefit of students. The
situation as it stands in Ann Arbor
today is just plan outrageous. Con-
sider the unbound collection of
mimeographed notes needed for
an E. M. class and selling for $5
in local book stores.
Much as we like to poke fun at
State, it might profit all U of M.
students if a delegation was sent
there to study some of the features
found at that school. A Univer-
sity book store where books may
be purchased at reasonable rates
and a system of registering stu-
dents that takes a fraction of the
time and effort expended here and
requires no 'railroad ticket' are a
few of the more outstanding fea-
tures that could well be found
here.
Perhaps in the face of Univer-
sity reluctance to take any posi-
tive steps toward relieving the
burden Dlaced on students by in-
Business Staff
DAVID SILVER, Business Manager
MILTON GOLDSTEIN .... Associate Business
WILLIAM PUSCH ............ Advertising
.CHARLES WILSON .............. Finance
PATRICIA LAMBERIS .......... Accounts
HENRY MOSES..............Circulation
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