~1 I-; "When Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" 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 "I Don't Know If He's Running Scared, Bt He's Not Running Sacred Any More" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or - the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: PETER ECKSTEIN Sigma Kappa National Obligated To Explain Actions - C 66> M, r ." rte, ,OW©VE .M,4411 t ICS r AT THE MICHIGAN: 'War and Peace' Visual Delight ''HERE HAS BEEN, and probably will continue to be, a great deal of controversy over the artistic merits of Dino DeLaurentiis's production of "War and Peace." Some may wish to compare it with Tolstoy's novel, others may want to be assured that it is a "great" film. The former will have an immense amount of difficulty, for "War and Peace" has been transcribed to the screen in nearly total visual terms, and retains little of the literary; the latter will have to ask the semanticists-those of them who know what "great" means. Let it suffice that "War and Peace" is a film of unique interest: it has its weaknesses as drama, but there are sufficient pictorial values 4 STUDENT Government Council acted last night to clarify Sigma Kappa's position on campus. Although the final motion leaves something to be desired it is encouraging to see the Council moving quickly to a solution. SGC's motion points out that if Sigma Kappa national organization is in violation of SGC regulations then there are two alterna- tives: reinstatement of the Cornell and Tufts chapters and clarification of membership poli- cies, or disaffiliation of the local from its na- tional. There was one important omission. The Council should have made explicit the obliga- tion of national officers to come forward and explain their actions. Further, it should have gone on record as telling the national it can't hide behind refusals to comment. SGC member Don Good claimed last night the Council is not a court. "We shouldn't act unless we get a written admission of guilt from the national," he told the body. It is this sort of reasoning which SGC must look out for. They should have established, before gathering the"facts, what sort of proof will be necessary to determine violation of regulations. N ANSWER to Good: There are only two pos- sible hypotheses. The two chapters were sus- pended for pledging Negro girls or they were suspended for some other reason. The facts so far are these: Two chapters pledged Negr~o girls. These were the only two chapters expelled. The national has beenasked repeatedly to explain its actions. It refused. It was asked if it would deny that pledging Negro girls was the cause. It said it would not. This body of fact fits the first hypothesis. It does not fit quite so well wtih the second. The only group which can supply facts con- sistent with the secord hypothesis is Sigma Kappa national. It refuses to do so. Logically, it is reasonable to assume that the first hypothesis is correct until Sigma Kap- pa officers supply convincing evidence that it is not. To reason otherwise would be to claim that you can never take action against some- one unless they publicly announce their wrong. This, of course, renders impossible any at- tempt to enforce regulations. THE SECOND part of SGC's motion asks rushees to consider the local chapter in the same light as any other sorority and urges them to consult the Panhel rushing counsellor if there are any questions about membership policy. It would have been better if the Council had called on local Sigma Kappa to state what its membership policies are. Local Sigma Kappa is caught in a tight squeeze play but the silence they have shown so far may not be the best way out. Rushees ought to know what the local chapter's attitude on discriminatory policies is, and in what light it regards its national's actions. A clear, simple statement from the local chapter would be convincing justification of the confidence we have in them. As much as they'd like to wait until the trauma of rushing is over, in fairness to rushees, they should not. --LEE MARKS Daily City Editor e 01956v4 ,.'7049wSrG TOI4 p.QST c,. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Airline Probe Cancel By DREW lPEARSON Voting Procedure Confusion THE STUDENT voting registration picture in Michigan is, in a word, confused. Throughout the state, each college town f seems to employ a different interpretation of the law, and in Ann Arbor different representa- tives of the city clerk's office seem to employ different standards in granting or not granting voting rights. This was demonstrated reently when the same student was once refused and later accepted for registration when he called a few days later. All this can be explained by the fact that the law on student voting is also confused and drawing the line between residents and non- residents is dfificult. Still, there should be one standard for Ann Arbor and preferably one for the whole state. THE STATE and the city understandably do not want their lections swamped by per- sons whose real homes are elsewhere, but at. present some legitimate voters are being dis- couraged from registering by the ambiguous standards which prevail. They too have an understandable desire - to help elect not only local but also the nation- al officials of their choice. In many cases, es- pecially among married students, Ann Arbor is the only home the would-be voter has, and it seems unreasonable to prevent him from ex- ercising his voting rights simply because he may be leaving the community after graduation. Much of what local government does is of a transitory nature, and as apartment renters and even home-owners many students are con- tributing a full share in city and county taxes. Ann Arbor authorities do not appear to be unreasonable in their general interpretation of the law. They have frequently allowed non-stu- dent wives of students to vote - under a 1931 law allowing wives to establish residency apart from their husbands - while denying the right to the husbands. Presumably the wives are more permanent residents of Ann Arbor than their husbands, and the authorities' willingness to allow them to vote indicates that they would also allow their husbands that right if they thought the law permitted it. THE MAJOR fault then is with the law it- self, perhaps with the constitution of the state of Michigan. These are not things easily changed, but written in an age when students rarely settled down so firmly as many have in Ann Arbor, and they do. not now realistically reflect the facts of residency of many students in Ann Arbor and other university towns. Another aggravating factor for some stu- dents is that not all states have absentee ballots for students. Pennsylvania is probably the largest holdout against extending the fran- chise to absentees. However, the question of residency should be a fact not contingent on the question of wher it is easier to vote, and as Prof. Pierce of the law school has pointed out, arbitrary shifts in residence for voting pur- poses can have unfortunate repercussions. UNTIL the law is changed, Ann Arbor stu- dents will just have to be patient and not too critical of the city authorities. But until Ann Arbor practice is standardized around leni- ent criteria, the clerk's office can expect stu- dents who don't at first succeed in registering to try, try again. --PETER ECKSTEIN T HE Securities and Exchange Commission was quietly and efficiently investigating the scan- dal surrounding the purchase of Northeast Airlines stock when sud- denly it got a phone call from the Justice Department. Attorney General Brownell, SEC officials were informed, wanted the SEC investigation called off. SEC Chairman J. Sinclair Arm- strong obediently bowed. The probe was canceled. The securities and exchange commission, established by law un- der Roosevelt to prevent stock- market manipulation, is a- quasi- judicial agency. It.is supposed to act independently of the executive branch of government. It is not supposed to take orders. It was so established in order to prevent any stock-market tampering such as influenced the 'disastrous Wall Street crash of the Hoover Admin- istration. *.* * DESPITE this, Chairman Arm- strong called off his probe just as his agents started to question some of the 40 or so people who bought Northeast Airlines stock after it was awarded the lush route between New York and Miami, but before that award was announced. The stock shot up 14.5 points, and a lot of people made a killing. Behind the killing are some very embarrassing facts, so embarrass- ing that Attorney General Brow- nell doesn't want them investi- gated-except by his own agents. One is the fact that Georgia's Republican boss, Robert Snodgrass, bought 1,000 shares of Northeast for a quick profit of $2,500. Three aides of an important GOP sena- tor also were in on the deal. Also embarrassing are two re- ported phone calls by two Republi- can members of the Civil Aeronau- tics Board. CAB member Harmar Denny has denied that he leaked any confidential information to Delta Airlines' Washington repre- sentative, Robert Griffith. Griffith has also denied this; has also de- nied passing any information to his Georgia friend, GOP mogul Snodgrass. GRIFFITH would have faced some explainingunder oath, if the SEC investigation had not been called off. For investigators have turned up a telephone slip which shows he made a long-distance call to Georgia shortly after the CAB made its secret decision to favor Northeast Airlines for the New York-Miami route. Also it's become known that a party was held on the same night that CAB members voted for Northeast. Some of the CAB mem- bers were present at the party. So also were some of the insiders who next day made a fast buck on the stock market. These were some of the embar- rassing facts which would have been revealed had not the Justice Department intervened. Official excuse for the Justice Depart- ment's intervention was that the FBI had taken over. Justice De- partment officials admitted that any FBI report until after Novem- ber 6 was highly unlikely. Note-The Senate Investigating Committee has considered digging up the Northeast Airlines scandal. An affirmative decision, however, is doubtful. John McClellan, Ar- kansas Republican, seldom investi- gates anything which might em- barrass his Republican friends. led THOUGH the President decided against Judge William Hastie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the U.S. Supreme Court, his advisers have in mind appointment of an- other Negro to the federal bench. He is Scovel Richardson of St. Louis, now chairman of the Fed- eral Parole Board. Richardson is due for appointment in the next few weeks as a U.S. district judge in Eastern Missouri. Though there is one Negro, Judge Hastie, on the court of ap- peals, no Negroes have been ap- pointed to a federal district court. Mr. Richardson, born in Nashville, has been a practicing attorney in Southern Illinois and St. Louis for some time, was appointed by Roosevelt as attorney in the Office of Price Administration, and has been an assistant to the chairman of the 'Republican National Com- mittee. JUSTICE department insiders indicate that Attorney General Brownell may have a dual motive in appointing Richardson to the federal bench in St. Louis: 1) recognition of a prominent Negro who would help with the Negro vote; 2) a slap at senior judge George Moore. Judge Moor, who has served for two decades on the federal bench, has resented some of the Justice Department's tactics and hasn't hesitated to ride Brownell hard. Judge Moore also has his own ideas about Negro judges on the federal bench. Justice department offi- cials don't believe he would relish a Negro judge on his court. (Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) as cinema to offset many of its weaknesses The most outstanding achieve- ment of "War and Peace" is its wealth of detail; its director, King Vidor, has not only embued it with a sense of pictorial realism, creat- ing the cities and architecture of his period, but he has also managed to consistently convey a strong sense of dramatic tone through the careful selection of color and a strong handling of the camera. THE COLORS are not the gaudy, glaring hues one hascome to asso- ciate with Technicolor, but range from pastel to vibrant shades-an immense range that has been used with the personal touch and care- ful planning of a painter. For ex- ample, in the scene where Audrey dies, various shades of orange sug- gest and grasp pictorially the near mystical revelation about mankind that Audrey has achieved. Mr. Vidor's conception of Tol- stoy's world is a place of infinite natural beauty against which the drama of human life is unfolded; sometimes, as in the Napoleonic death march back to France in the beautiful swirl of a blinding bliz- zard, nature seems to be tauntingly destroying man vwith the most marvelous of her creations. There are individual scenes of amazing power: a duel fought at sunrise on a sheet of glistening ice: the balls and operas of Czarist Moscow; the quiet, fertile lushness of nineteenth-century country es- tates; a happy family sleighriding through a , moonlit forest, black and white and laughter-the list is endless, the beauty immense. And the film's sound effects - the alternate quiet and noisy con- fusion of battle, the softness of peace-these, too, are masterfully done. PARADOXICALLY, it is just the immensity of visual detail that weakens "War and Peace" drama- tically. It is structured like a series of separate musical chords, each played with a feel for naunce-but these chords are never combined in any kind of phrase or dramatic statement. Everything is staccato: CINEMA GUILD: 'Bells' Farce Hilarious "THE Bells of St. Trinian's" stars Alastair Sims and Joyce Gren- fell but you would never think it. Th entire show is stolen by a group of escapees from an insane asylum cast as teachers and a delightful group of young ladies, probably on parole from a local reformatory, playing the part of the students of St. Trinian's School for Young Ladies. The plot itself is mediocre and has been done before, but never with such a cast of naturals. Al- though the plot is relatively com- plicated, in brief an old "nothing but nice" headmistress is faced with the harsh reality of a mer- cenary world. She finally wins out over her difficulties by the useful expediant of betting on the ponies expedient of betting on the ponies ite. Her task of saving dear old St. Trinian's is made all the more difficult by the influx of wicked professional gamblers who will stop at nothing to see that their horse wins. The owner of the "sure thing" horse is a Sultan of "some- thing or other," and it just so happens that his daughter by a twist of fate is enrolled in St. Trinian's. The dramatic acting leaves much to be desired. However, this type of acting is mercifully limited to three scenes which are really so poor so as to get laughs anyhow. * * * TIMING and incidental music are good. Many of the camera angles were faintly reminiscent of the Keystone Kops flickers. The successtif the show is the underexaggerated acceptance of the totally bizarre and unbelievable (an English type of humor). The dear little girls in this school busy themselves with manufacturing bathtub gin and the sale of same to the local bootlegger. The athletic program includes a field hockey game with another school. The game itself turns out to be a pitched battle with St. Trinian's winning decisively. The younger girls in the school seem quite proficient in the manu- facture of deadly booby-traps. Some of the older girls are mar- characters appear for 20 minutes, disappear for 15; Director Vidor has five love stories running simul- taneously, together with a docu- mentation of the Napoleonic in- vasion of Russia, numerous family difficulties, and a look at Russian society under Alexander I. What this proves is that while Tolstoy was able to handle such material easily within the confines of a novel, it is simply too much for the screen to handle properly in a 208-minute running time. "War and Peace" grasps its ma- terial pictorially; it cannot do so on any other level. The camera, the color, the settings become the major point of emphasis, and while they portray a great deal, Tolstoy and the performers seem only to suggest. Audrey Hepburn plays Natasha. Physically she is perfect for the role; dramatically, one always has the uneasy feeling that he may not really be as fascinated by the character she is portraying as he is by Miss Hepburn. Nonetheless, the facial beauty and expressive- ness of Mis Hepburn are memor- able. Henry Fonda as Aierre brings to his interpretation all the talent and skill which he possesses. He has a technique that quietly builds and builds, so that in the scenes of power and itensity, he seems not to be exploding to the limits of his lung capacity, but to be behaving in a totally natural manner. Un- like many another player, Mr. Fonda is never guilty of throwing himself into and out of a charac- ter: his is the talent of sureness, confidence and intelligence. Mel Ferrer as Audrey suggests the sullen melancholy of dissi- pating aristocracy, a rather stereo- typed interpretation which some- times reduces Audrey to the level of secondary character. Anita Ek- berg as Helene delivers her spe- cialty, pure voluptuousness. THE SUPPORTING cast, largely European, uses accents ranging from Italian to cockney English but never Russian. Still, this is a minor detail, for words are not the important tools with which "War and Peace" has been fashioned. The battle scenes are undoubted- ly the most billiant ever seen on the screen; they are staged with clarity and movement, and they take the art of screen spectacle to the heights from which it has fallen since Laurence Olivier's "Henry V." If there is little to learn from "War and Peace," there is stfil much to see. -Ernest Theodossin DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an of- ficial publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. No- tices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preced- ing publication. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1956 VOL. LXVII, NO. 14 General Notices Regents' Meeting: Fri., Oct. 26. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands by Oct. 17. Student Organizations planning t be active during the present semester are reminded to complete registration by Oct. 12. The Student Directory will include a list of student organizations and their presidents as registered on this date. Forms for registration are available in the Office of Student Af- fairs, 1020 Administration Building. University Directory. All additions and corrections for listings already sent in must be reported by Fri., Oct. 5. For further information, call Florence Boyd ext. 2152. University Terrace and Northwood Apartments - Zero, one and two bed- room apartments are now available to any person who is married and has a full-time academic appointment at the University. You must have. one child to be eligible for the one bedroom units and two children to be eligible for the htwo-bedroom units. Contact E. H. Melhuish, 1060 Administration Building, or phone NO 3-1511, Ext. 2662. The General Electric Educational and -Charitable fund is offering 34 fellow- ships for the academic year 1957-58. Fields will include Physical Sciences, Engineering, Industrial Management, Arts and Sciences, and Law, and Busi- ness. The stipend will b $1750 for a Fel- low who is single, and a minimum of $ i2500 for a mar'ried Fellow with chil- 4 4 Preventing Scalping TODAY AND TOMORROW: Eisenhower vs. The Democrats IT'S SELL-OUT football game time again and city and University authorities are supposedly hard at work thinking up preventatives for the fall pest, the ticket scalper. Unless the Athletic Administration makes a radical change in policy, however, the only discipline the student scalper has to fear will come from the direction of the Ann Arbor police department in the form of fines and jail sen- tences. Although it is quite possible that awareness of such penalties will reduce the scalping problem, Editorial Staff RICHARD SNYDER, Editor RICHARD HALLORAN LEE MARKS Editorial Director City Editor GAIL GOLDSTEIN ............ Personnel Director ERNES'1 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 ROBERITSON..... ...... Women's Editor JANE FOWLER.............Associate Women's Editor ARLINE LEWIS ............. Women's Feature Editor VERNON SODEuN............... Chief Photographer Business Staff DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN .... Associate Business Manager WILLIAMEUSCH.............Advertising Manager CHARLES WILSON..........Finance Manager University authorities should be~ terms of punishment for violators transferrable ticket code, thinking in of the non- By admission to the Athletic Department's policy concerning students selling their tickets has been one of "being extremely reluctant to levy severe penalties on students for the viola- tion of the ticket privilege." TECHNICALLY, any student who gives his ticket to someone else for admission to a football game could lose his tickets for the remainder of the season. Obviously no one, including University officials, can be expected to detect or chastise those students who give away their tickets. However when students make a money-maker of a University athletic contest, University officials should be more concerned about en- forcing the regulations. Discipline in the past has extended only to some sort of a nebulous, ineffective and inade- quate method of admonishing the student for his mercenary conduct and then returning his ticket with a stern "Don't do that again." With two sell-out football games scheduled for the neA two Saturdays, the scalping menace threatens to be more acute and widespread than ever before. Certainly a policy of bawling out students, and then returning their tickets will not go very far towards cleaning up a problem Univer- sity authorities keep claiming they want to eliminate. CONTRARY to what most of us thought would happen, the big set speeches on television are not reaching the undecided voters on whom the outcome depends. Be- cause the campaign managers are agreed on this, they have Steven- son, Kefauver and Nixon constant- ly on the road, and there is mount- ing pressure on Eisenhower to keep him moving about. The voters, it would seem, are not much interested in hearing what the candidates have to say, in listening to their arguments, and in finding out where they stand on questions of policy. The voters are interested in seeing the candidates, in watching them, in having a look at them, and in siz- ing them up. We are having, ore might say, not a great debate but a great inspection. There must be a number of rea- sons why in both parties there is such a clamor for personal appear- ances, rather than for big orations. But all the reasons derive* from what is, I think, the fundamental choice on which the undecided voters are crystallizing their hun- ches and making up minds. The exceptions, that the speaker wrote the speech he is reading. The public have come to think of the television speeches, not as a marvelous means to get close to the candidate but, as an act, given the prepared script, the make-up and the rehearsed business, which hides the real man. What the un- decided voters are trying to make up their minds about is whether they can depend on Eisenhower's vigor, whether they trust Nixon, whether Stevenson and Kefauver give them confidence. Hence, the demand for personal appearances, for the candidates in the flesh so that they can be observed and sized up. The people do not trust, they are not really convinced by, the television pictures. For they know that often men look worse, that sometimes they can be made to look much better, than they look when you see them face to face. * * * THE DECLINE of the big televi- sion speech is probably temporary in that the decline is due to the special character of this campaign. The matters with which the voters are most concerned are deeply human questions of capacity and The public would be shocked by any such discussion and would find it offensive. It is hard for anyone to find the right words to describe the real issues. But we are not too far, I believe, from the crux of the matter when we say that the basic issue of the cam- paign is the personal. figure of Eisenhower as against the rally of the Democratic party around Stev- enson and Kefauver. * * * UNLESS I am mistaken, the con- test for the Presidency is not be- tween Eisenhower personally and Stevenson personally. Nor is it a Contest between the Republican party and the Democratic party. It is, at bottom, a contest between a man and a party, between Eisen- hower who is much stronger than the Republicans, and the Demo-j crats who, when they are united and. aroused, are the majority in the nation. The fact that Eisenhower's strength is so personal to him, that it is apart from the lesser strength of his party, is why his health, his age, his ineligibility for a third term, and Nixon, play so big a part, so much bigger than appears on the surface, in the con- ,