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1URSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: CAROL PRINS
Branch School Expansion
Healthy Educational Imperialism
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"IESE branch school and consultation re-
quests directed* at the University from at
ist 11 state-wide communities loom as the
>st momentous events since the University's
unding in 1817.
In a real sense, the University, with the
anch operation of the Flint Senior College
is year, has entered the field of educational
perialism. Its plant and administration have
en projected away from the Ann Arbor moth-
land to the 'far away land' of Flint.
This of course is imperialism by consent. It
so is a philanthropic imperialism - the giv-
g of what the University has, resuorces and
perience, not, growth for growth's sake.
But now, before the University spreads its
ngs further into branch schools, should coni'e
pause that might refresh - a search for per-
ective.
"HE premise underlying any analysis of what
the University should do is this: the State
edfs immediately increased facilities for high-
education.
Iow? Private colleges live a shoestring
istence. They can't increase their facilities,
alone build new colleges in the State. This
ints the finger of responsibility to the St'ate
gislature. It must finance the plant expan-
n in higher education.
How? They can channel dollars directly to
edy communities such as the 11 that have
ught aid from the University. They can direct
pansion funds- to the established institutions
the state and let them absorb the enrollment
rges. Or they can, and should, combine the
ove methods, increasing apppopriations to
e established state schools (UM and MSU),
it earmarking portions of the money to be
ed for branch school programs.
Why have the University, Michigan State
niversity, and perhaps Western Michigan im-
rialising local communities in need of col-
ges? Because these institutions know the
pes of administration, academic standards,
id other essentials that add a polish of quality
a college. A fledgling college can acquire
ese assets only through long experience.
VHY not just expand the present facilities
in Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Kalama.
boo? It's cheaper to attend college at home.
This is a real hawking point for the branch
school idea. More students will be attending
our Flint branch and for less money than a
college education for a Flintite nestling in Ann
Arbor for nine months a year would cost.
Also, land availability near the state col-
leges is at a premium. The University had to
broad-jump a mile over surrounding commu-
nity houses to build on North Campus.
Gradually, the University must become pri-
marily an institution providing graduate -
engineering, medicine, law, and top-level un-
dergraduate training. Admissions requirements
for freshmen should become more stringent
than the (top third of senior class and prin-
ciple's recommendation) policy now existing.
Betty Coed and Joe College can hang
around home, attending a University branch
school for their undergraduate training, and
let persevering scholars trek to Ann Arbor for
their master's degrees. With such extensive and
intensive facilities existing here for graduate
studies it would be extremely imprudent to
duplicate them in institutions throughout the
state.
Thus, necessity and practicality dictate the
wisdom of the branch school program.
AN AWESOME problem remains - the possi-
bility of a jealousy-ridden struggle between
the University and our neighbors ip education
to the northwest, Michigan State University, for
hegemony over the branch schools of the State.
Great institutions don't avoid the human frailty
of jealousy. This was evident in the competi-
tion for a Grand Rapids branch school last
spring.
This possibility can be avoided by Legisla-
ture direction of the branch school program.
A line of demarcation should be set up, where-
by the resources in which each school excels
should be put to use in communities that ask
for that type of resource.
Central direction of this apparent panacea
of the State's needs - the branch school -
by the Legislature can avoid rifts and inculcate
in the minds of educators and citizens the im-
portant concern - the bestest education of
the mostest for the-cheapest.
-JAMES ELSMAN JR.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Adlat's Race Poorly Run
By DREW PEARSON
LETTERS
to the
EDITOR
Letters to the Editor must be signed
and lmited to 300 words. The Daily
reserves the right to edit or with-
hold any letter.
No Renata Tebaldi . .
To the Editor:
THE purpose of a person who
sets out to write an intelligent
criticism of a concert is to inform
his readers of what caliber and
range are the artists. One asks
from a critic not only, "Did the
crowd applaud, and was she good
looking?" The expected answer
constitutes an "obituary" review
of the type written by Mr. Tsugawa
on Thursday night's recital.
A critic also must promote the
idea that music does exist on this
campus and that it can be of high
quality. In depreciating the efforts
of Herva Nelli, and in many cases
without backing up his opinions
with sound musical judgement, Mr.
Tsugawa has publicized damaging,
unwarranted opinion that reduces
musical interest in this commun-
ity, and which on a purely musical
level is highly debatable.
Mr. Tsugawa states at one point
that Miss Nelli ". . . displayed no
control of her voice: her attacks
in the upper register were sloppy.
She tended to slide into pitch, and
she swooshed up and down be-
tween the top and the middle reg-
ister as if she just couldn't help
it." This is, as far as I can see
grossly unqualified.
Mr. Tsugawa apparently disre-
gards the fact that Herva Nelli's
selections were in themselves quite'
difficult, certainly more difficult
than those of Claramae Turner.
Miss Nelli had to make use of
almost every technique available to
lyric, coloratura, and dramtic
sopranos. "L' Altra notte in fondo
al mare," from Boito's Mefistofele,
attests to Miss Nelli's control, and
also exhibits her weaknesses. Per-
forming this aria, which tells a
story of remorse, the unfaithful
love of Faust, and suggests Mar-
guerite's oncoming death, Miss
Nelli demonstrated superior con-
trol of her breathing and vocal
coloration. Her control, however,
used up the reserve, necessary to
reach the utmost climax. Yet, she
can sing soft and loud, and can
change dynamics with the skill of
a true artist.
Herva Nelli is no Renata Tebaldi
of 'today or Claudia Muzio of a
number of years ago, both of whom
I mention because they have in-
terpreted so skillfully the music
and the words of Boitp. I should
like hearing Miss Nelli in recital
again. Perhaps most of all I would
like to read a music criticism that,
instead of , damaging the music
community through careless judg-
ment, adds to one's music appreci-
ation through acute perception.
-Arthur S. Bechhofer, '58
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Reader Bechofer
should note that it is not the policy
of The Daily nor its reviewers to build
musical interest in thiscommunity
but rather to render honest and
thoughtful opinion on the proficiency
of an artist's or group's performance.
If a performer does not reach the level
of performance which can reasonably
be expected of him or her, we feel
tAat the reviewer not only has a right
but an obligation to give hi con-
sidered estimation of this fact. Mr.
Tsugawa, we firmly believe, Is not
guilty of careless or unwarranted
judgment.)
New Books at Library
Heckscher August, Ed. - The
Politics of Woodrow Wilson. Selec-
tions from his Speeches and Writ-
ings; N. Y., Harper, 1956.
Holden, Curry - Hill of the
Rooster; N. Y., Holt, 1956.
Kold, Annette-Mozart; Chica-
go, H. Regnery Co., 1956.
Confusion Over Sabin Vaccine
THERE are several doubtful aspects sur-
rounding the relative positions of the Salk
vaccine and the recently announced Sabin vac-
cine.
From the hesitance of eminent epidemio-
logists to .praise, degrade, or even comment on
the new development, it must be assumed that
the conception of a live vaccine, administered
once orally, at a price assumed to be far be-
low even the 60-plus cents cost per shot of the
Salk vaccine, is not yet fully acceptable, in
spite of these obviously great advantages.
Yet Dr. Sabin has stated that the vaccine is
proven safe and effective.
If his colleagues are in doubt, they should
voice their misgivings.
AT THE same time, the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, foremost among
non- government entities in the fight against
polio, first on a research front and now in the
distribution of the .Salk vaccine, has shown
a petty peevishness in their acceptance, or
rather non-acceptance, of the new vaccine.
If the new vaccine is successful, it could
be expected to replace entirely the "obsolete"
Salk vaccine. Potentially, the Sabin vaccine
would cost as' little as the placebo it would be
used with in the large-scale testing program.
Yet the Foundation stated Saturday,' without
e~planation, that it would be "tragic" if Dr.
Sabin's plans for mass testing of the new vac-
cine should interfere with present use of the
Salk vaccine.
This amounts to premature nonacceptance
of a development in a polio immunization pro-
cedure which may possbily prove far superior
in all respects to the Salk vaccine.
T HE FOUNDATION doesn't seem to be work-
mg in full behalf -of the American public in
the achievement of maximum dissemination of
polio immunization.
In the interest of public health, it would
be expected that immunization programs, like
the national 'defense program they resemble,
would work on a highly cooperative basis be-
tween research, production, and administration.
In this case, the cooperation appears to have
been between only the researcher and the pro,,
ducer - Sabin did announce that a pilot plant
had been arranged for.
The research in this direction is not brand
new. Several individuals and firms have been
aware of the potential merits of the attenuated
virus relative to the killed virus including Dr.
Salk himself. Parents are going to be expected
to pass judgement on an immunization pro-
cedure for their children which, at the moment,
seems more dangerous than the one presently
in use.
If Dr. Sabin had wanted the most favorable
reception possible, he would have done well to
keep the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in-
formed of his project, or at least wait for their
backing of the principle before making the
announcement.
Several individuals have acted unwisely
and perhaps even selfishly. This may waste
time, and that in turn may waste lives.
-ROBERT BALL, JR.
NEW YORK-Len Hall may not
know it, but while he's been
goading the President, John Foster
Dulles et al into greater activity, a
significant battle has been going on
inside the Stevenson camp which
should cheer him up. The Demo-
cratic candidate and his top advis-
ers are at sixes and sevens on at
least four important problems:
1. Adlai's failure to attack
Eisenhower with body blows. Ad-
visers worry over the way he pulls
his punches when it comes to Ike's
solar plexus.
2. Failure to work out and fol-
low long-range speech-writing and
campaign structure, plus lack of
advance work prior to Stevenson's
speeches.
3. Failure of Stevenson to come
through as a person over TV as
effectively as he did in 1952.
4. Failure to facilitate press re-
lations with anywhere near the
same efficiency as thenpress ex-
perts around Nixon and Eisen-
hower.
ONE OF STEVENSON'S troubles
is that his law partner, William
Wirtz, has the last look at his
speeches. He is the final editor,
and Wirtz insists that there be no
direct body blows at Eisenhower.
When the speeches reach Ste-
venson, it's usually about three
hours before delivery, and by the
time he finishes tinkering with
them to insert personal touches,
it's late in the evening-too late
for good coverage in the big east-
ern morning papers. At Yale the
other night he got off one of his
masterpieces, but it was not re-
leased in time for many morning
papers. Again he delivered a great
speech before the liberal party in
New York, without benefit of much
publicity.
In contrast, both Eisenhower's
and Nixon's major speeches are
released six hours or more in ad-
vance.
Another, organizational defect is
the failure of Stevenson's cam-
paign managers to give him
enough time to go over his
speeches in advance. President
Eisenhower is coached by one of
Madison Avenue's best TV experts,
Robert Montgomery; he brings a
make-up man down from New
York to fix his face, and also works
with the teleprompter operator in
a rehearsal of his speech, but
Stevenson in contrast rushes be-
fore the TV cameras cold.
* * *
IT IS NOT easy to adjust the
speed of delivery to the speed of
a teleprompter without practice,
and Stevenson's inability to co-
ordinate on these new-fangled
mass media of politics has left him
behind as an effective TV per-
former. Eisenhower on the other
hand has mastered the techniques
like an old pro. No one watching
him today would dream that he is
the same Eisenhower who cussed
audibly at the teleprompter at
Chicago in 1952 and delivered such
a poor speech at Abilene, Kans.,
in 1952 that the Scripps-Howard
newspapers described him as "run-
ning like a dry creek,"
One trouble is that Stevenson's
campaign managers route him on
a handshaking tour of a super-
market where he can greet at the
most 900 people, but don't give
him enough time to rehearse for
television where he greets 9,000,-
000 people. And that television bill
takes around $250,000 hard-col-
lected funds out of Democratic"
coffers.
,Lack of advance work has also
spoiled much of Stevenson's ef-
fectiveness. Nobody bothered to
arrange a grand entrance for him
when he attended the second game
of the world series at Ebbets Field.
Walter O'Malley, owner of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, is an ardent
Democrat who would have been
delighted to give him the same
motorcade across the ball park to
the grandstand that was given
Eisenhower in the opening game,
but Stevenson's advance men did
not make the arrangements.
* * *
LIKEWISE WHEN Stevenson
toured the garment district of
New York nobody even bothered
to notify Dave Dubinsky, head of
the International Ladies Garment
Workers. When a Democratic
presidential c a n d I d a t e moves
through the garment district the
place goes wild. When Stevenson
drove through he got an ovation,
but nothing compared to what
could have happened had tlhe gar-
ment workers known in advance
that he was coming.
On the other hand, when Eisen-
hower traveled through Brooklyn
en route to Ebbets Field, the route
was publicized two days in ad-
vance, and local GOP leaders had
instructions to turn out the crowds.
The crowds, its true, were disap-
pointing and not as good as Stev-
enson got without -advance plan-
ning, but New Yorle and Brooklyn
are about 70 per cent Democratic.
A meeing was held in New York
last week between Adlai's law part-
ner, William Wirtz, and some of
the best brains'of the TV-theatri-
cal entertainment world. With the
Republicans able to mobilize the
advertising moguls of Madison
Avenue on a commission basis, the
Democrats got TV-treatrical art-
ists-free.
(Copyright 1956, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1956
VOL. LXVII, NO. 19
General Notices
An Encyclopedic Survey, Part VIII,
edited by Walter A. Donnelly. is now
available at The University of Michi-
gan Press offices, 412 Maynard street.
It gives descriptions and history of
many departments. institutes, and most
buildings on campus. Price is $2.50.
Blue Cross Group Hospitalization,
Medical and Surgical Service Programs
for staff members will be open from
Oct. 8 thru Oct. 19, 1956, for new ap-
plications and changes in contracts now
in effect. Staff members who wish to
include surgical and medical services
should make such changes in the Per-
sonnel Office, Room 3012 Administra-
tion. Building. New applications and
changes will be effective Dec. 5, with the
first deduction on Nov. 30. After Oct.
-19, no new applications or changes' can
be accepted until April, 1957.
student Organizations planning to
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 regstration are
available in the Office of Student Af-
fairs, 1020, Administration Building.
Non-music students interested in free
one-hour private piano lessons given
by senior and graduate Piano Majors
in the School of Music, should contact
Helen Titus, Room 219, SM on Oct. 13
between 10 a.m.-12 noon. To qualify
for lessons, a background of 4 years of
Instruction is required, and students
must arrange for practice facilities out-
side Music School. Applicants who are
accepted must practice a minimum of
onehour a day and attend piano class
on Wednesdays at 3 in the Congrega-
tional .Church.
The following student sponsored so-
cial events are approved for the coming
weekend. Social chairmen are reminded
that requests for approval for social
events are due in the Office of Student
Affairs not later than 12:00 noon on the
Tuesday prior to the event.
Oct. 12: Alpha Epsilon Phi, Delta
Theta Phi, Huber, Phi Delta Phi.
Oct. 13: Alpha Chi Sigma, Alpha
Delta Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Ep-
silon Phi, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha
Tau Omega,, Beta Theta P, Collegiate
Sorosis, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Thet,
Phi, Fletcher Hall, Inter-Cooperative
Council, Kappa Alpha Theta, Lambda
Chi Alpha, Newberry, Nu Sigma Nu,
Phi Alpha Kappa, Phi Chi, Phi Delta
Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Epsilon P,
Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi
Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Rho
Sigma, Phi Sigma Delta, Psi Omega, Pst
Upsilon, Prescott, Reeves, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Phi,
Stockwell, Strauss, Tau Delta Phi,
Theta Chi, Theta Xi, Triangle, Zeta
Beta Tau.
Oct. 14: Martha Cook, Phi Delta Phi.
Lectures
University Lecture. David Boyden,
University of California, Berkeley, on
"The 17th and 18th Century Concerto
in Fact and Fiction" 4:15 p.m., Fri., Oct.
12, in Aud. A, Angell Hall. Apspices of
School of Music; open to the general
public.
Astronomy Department Visitors' Night
Fri., Oct. 12, 8 p.m., Rm. 2003, Angell
Hall. After a short lecture, the Student
-Observatory on the fifth floor of Angell
Hall will hge open for inspection and
for telescopic observations of the moon
and Mars. Children welcomed, but must
be accompanied by adults.
Concerts
Concert. Mantovani and his New Mu-
sic in the opening concert of the Extra
Series (sponsored by the University Mu-
sical Society) tonight at 8:30 in Hill
Auditorium. Tickets or further infor-
mation may be procured at the offices
of the University Musical Society in
Burton Tower throughout the day; and
the box office in Hill Auditorium will
be open at 7:00 p.m. preceding the con-
cert.
Carillon Recital: Percival Price, Uni-
versity Carillonneur, will continue his
series of Thurs. evening recitals at 7:15
this evening on the Charles Baird
Carillon in Burton Tower. Professor
Price will play compositions which were
included in the published music of the
time of DeGruytters, famous Antwerp
carillonneur. They cover works by Lulli,
Corelli, Locatelli, vivaldi, Couperin, and
Handel.
Academic Notices
Medical College Admission Test: Ap-
plication blanks for the Oct. 30 admin-
istration of the Medical College Ad-
mission test are now available at 122
Rackham Building. Application blanks
are due in Princeton, N. J. not later
than Oct. 16, 1956.
Engineers: "Plant visits" will be dis.
cussed by Prof. John G. Young, assis-
tant to the dean of engineering, at a
meeting open to all engineering stu-
dents. Thurs., Oct. 11, at 4:00 p.m. in
Room 311, West Engineering Building.
Physics Colloquium this week on
Thurs., Oct. 11, 4:00 p.m., 2036 Ran-
dall. Prof. J. A. Prins of the Technical
University, Delft, Netherlands will speak
on: "Scattering of Light and X-rays
by Anisotropic Molecules in Liquids."
401 Interdisciplinary Semi ar on the
Application of Mathematics to Social
Science, Room 3401, Mason Hall, 3:00-
4:30 p.m. Oct. 11. Dave Birch (Univ.
of Mich.), "Prediction of Response to
a Compound Stimulus."
Graduate Students expecting to re-
ceive the master's degree in February,
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Main Issue One of Eisenhower's Personality?
INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
No Real Campaign Issues
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
ANY IDEA that President Eisenhower would
sit back and issue high-minded statements
about government in general and his adminis-
tration's record in particular has been dis-
pelled.
"I wonder what kind of man they think
I am," he said as he pitched in.
The dreamiest, wishing-well campaign in
a long time began to perk up. But still it doesn't
promise much.
Altho"'ugh Stevenson has been swinging
hard from the start, reports from the country
generally record a lack of public interest in
politics as a whole.
N New York City this is registration week,
but the figures are way off despite the four-
year increase in qualified voters since 1952.
Some attribute it to the World Series and ex-
pect it to pick up during the last three days.
New York has been one place where there was
supposed to be some interest, due to the acti-
vity of labor leaders.
"Dream" statements have been made on
both sides of the political fence in an effort
to stir interest, but actually have seemed to
increase the public view that there are no real
national issues.
The political business of claiming credit
or attributing blame for events which just
happen during a particular party's period in
power doesn't seem to be as profitable as it
used t1]P..h~
By WALTER LIPPMANN
IT IS rather generally agreed
among experienced newspaper
correspondents that the campaign
is a contest between a resurgent
Democratic Party and Eisenhower
personally, who is so much strong-
er than his party. The observers
are also agreed that they are not
finding the contest interesting.
I wonder whether the main rea-
son for that does not lie in the fact
that while the real issue turns on
Eisenhower personally, it is al-
most impossible to debate that is-
sue. This would account in a large.
part for the widespread feeling in
both parties that the issues which
are being discussed do not come
to grips with the realities of the
election.
At his press conference on Fri-
day the President was asked two
questions by Mr. E. P. Morgan of
the American Broadcasting Com-
pany. They skirted the central is-
sue of the campaign. Mr. Morgan
reminded the President that "one
of the reasons impelling you to run
"completely revitalized
hower Republicans."
as Eisen-
* * *
THE POINT of these two ques-
tions was to raise, though indi-
rectly, the problem of the relation
between Eisenhower personally and
the Republican Party.- Mr. Mor-
gan's first question, about the
third term amendment, points to
the probability, which is almost a
certainty, that the President's con,
trol of his party will decline dur-
ing a second term. For during his
second term the question of who
is to succeed him will play a de-
ciding part in the calculations of
candidates, of the party leaders
in Congress, and of the managers
of the party organization.
There is every probability that
Mr. Nixon's power and influence
will 'be enormously greater in a
second term than they have been
in the first. For in the first term
all political interests and hopes
have depended on what Eisenhower
would do in 1956. In a second
term, they will depend on what
axe to' grind when he called the
amendment unwise. For in his case
it is irrelevant. Whereas Roose-
velt was 58 when he finished his
second term and ran for a third,
Eisenhower would be 70. For that
reason alone, he himself, the coun-
try and above all the professional
politicians, will, if he is re-elected,
treat him as a President who will
retire at the end of his turn.
There can be little doubt, there-
fore, that his influence will be di-
minished and that he will as time'
goes on become increasingly a
political lame duck.
* * *
THE BASIC PROBLEM, which,
it is so hard to discuss in the cam-
paign, is that of the succession:
How is the power of the President's
office to be exercised in the next
four years? This problem has many
facets since no one can predict
what- will actually happen. Mr.
Morgan's first question raises the
problem of Eisenhower's declining
influence in a second term, even
assuming that his health and vig-
substantial about what he dreams
of doing, to make a revitalized and
modernized Republican party. For
Dirkson was a virulent opponent of
Eisenhower's first nomination and
Bender is an undistinguished old-
fashioned Republican.
THE PRESIDENT'S answer to
Mr. Morgan's question was that
Sen. Bender has supported his leg-
islative program and that Sen.
Dirkson, at his request, led the
fight for the foreign aid appro-
priations. That was hardly an an-
swer to the real meaning of the
question. For this is an election
year.
Both Dirkson and Bender are up
for re-election. Self preservation
has demanded that they cling to
Eisenhower's coat tails. The ques-
tion is whether they are really Ei-
senhower Republicans who can be
counted upon to carry on when
Eisenhower is in retirement or is
no longer in the White House. Or
will they not look for a leader who
represents what they really be-
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