Sixty-Seventh 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 "Yeah, Those Mushrooms-In-The-Skv Are So Much Nicer" When Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: PETER ECKSTEIN NoOutside Force Should Dictate Fraternity Membership CHORAL UNION: Berlin Philharmonic Overwhelming THE Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan gave a thrilling display of their musical virtuosity Sunday evening. The orchestra is unquestionably a marvelously coordinated and vig- orous group, and von Karajan an orchestra genius of extraordinary sensitivity towards the poetry and drama of sound. It was technical brilliance directed to a sincere and proper end - the music itself; and the compositions were indeed most intriguing. The "Symphonie liturgique" of Honegger proved itself the most thought provoking number of the evening. Without much waste of words, it got, via a few scratching-grunting dissonances in the strings, into the "contemporary" trumpet blares. Honegger took the audience by somewhat of a shock; several of my neighbors muttered oh-s and ah-s and "it's modern stuff!"; and for a moment I was looking I IT IS A FAIRLY SAFE assumption that dis- crimination in fraternities is immoral. To deny membership in such groups because of racial stereotypes certainly isn't in line with basic Democratic principles. However, imposition of these principles on any social group by an outside force is equally unfair. Fraternities are clearly social and living units; and as no agency has the right to force one to socialize with people he doesn't like, there is no reason why fraternity members should be forced to do so. Fraternity members live together, eat to- gether and hold parties together. Any one who is clearly inimicable to other members, no matter how specious the reasoning, shouldn't be forced upon them. A person may know logi- cally that members of another race or religion are equal, but if he is to feel discomfort around them, he should be permitted to avoid contact. CERTAIN MINORITY religious groups are afraid to integrate for several reasons. In the first place, a "they don't want us, why should we want them?" attitude may prevail. Second, some minority groups have a desire to maintain identity with that group. Integra- tion could cause total assimiliation, something they are resisting, hence another fear of such a move. Further, there is no democratic prin- ciple saying they-must assimilate. These arguments don't have to be logical or reasonable. The important thing is the welfare of the fraternity members. ,JNSTITUTIONALIZED segregation, of course, is even worse. University pressure for inte- gration are aimed at the development of strong moral principles, while bias clauses or special rituals are aimed at their destruction. Fraternities should feel obligated to their local chapters rather than to the fraternity as a whole. No outside force should impose restric- tions on whom the group may or may not take as members. Here, a university's desire to outlaw estab- lished bias clauses stands of firm ground. One members of a fraternity with a bias clause discussing recent rushing described "a Jewish fellow who was really a good boy. We would have liked to taken him, but after all, we have to think of the fraternity as a whole." THERE IS NO REASON why he should think of the fraternity as a whole. Whatever a local chapter does has little bearing on the national, and pledging the man in. question could conceivably strengthen the local chapter. Whatever the rationale behind it, fraternity membership in local chapters should not be dic- tated by any outside force. -RICHARD TAUB l , --- . - F L'F'.- oor T.w &44o&4T9'IPo~sTC4 President and Candidate WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND -:- Lyn Hall Gets a Letter By. DREW PEARSON S IKE"running scared"? After insisting that he would not barnstorm throughout the U.S. to seek reelection, President Dwight D. Eisenhower has changed his mind. He has toured the country from Peoria, Ill. and Des Moines, Iowa, to Los Angeles and Tacoma, Wash. belting away at the.Democratic candidate and his party. While never mention- ing Adlal Stevenson by name, Ike has left no question in the minds of his listeners at whom his attack is directed. In his Peoria speech he struck hard at Stev- enson for "mockery and deceit" on the farm' problem. At Cleveland, he ripped into "politicians ... Who go about the country expressing . . . their worries about America and the American people and suggested that such "worry-warts" should "forget themselves for a while" and "get out and mingle with the people." EISENHOWER is a man of a changeable mind. In thepre-campaign months of 1952 he emphasized that he would not carry on a whis le-stop campaign for the presidency. Yet the Eisenhower campaign of 1952 was one of the most strenuous in U.S. history. Perhaps the defeat of the GOP in the Maine elections was a factor in drawing Ike off his front porch. Republican party chairman Leon- ard Hall and other GOP higher-ups, afraid of another Dewey fiasco, urged Eisenhower to abandon his White House porch-television cam- paign. The GOP leaders know that the election is not merely an equation involving Republicans and Democrats. It is a case of Ike on one side and all the Democrats on the other. With Ike ready to campaign vigorously, the GOP could very well win the presidential race. The urgings of frightened GOP leaders and the Eisenhower tendency to get his "dander" up has succeeded in getting Ike out among the people. Any pre-campaign hiope that President Eisen- hower could separate himself from Candidate Eisenhower have disappeared. -CAROL PRINS I.D. Cheek at Stadium Appears Foolish and Pettr REQUIRING students to show I.D. cards to get into last Saturday's football game strikes us as a bit foolish and a bit petty. Northwestern, although a league game, was not a major opponent and did not draw a ca- pacity crowd. Conditions for scalping were among the least likely of the season. On the other hand, the two Saturdays pre- vious saw Army and Michigan State in town and chances for scalping were ripe. Some ef- fort by the University and local police cut down on scalping but no effective measures were taken and the illegal sale of tickets was reported rampant. The clamp-down last Saturday appears to be closing the barn down after the horse is long gone. Also seems to be, to borrow an Army term, a bit '"chicken". --R.H. OP chairman Len Hall got a hot letter the other day from a lady. She is rather an import- ant lady, Katherine Kennedy Brown of Dayton, one of Sena- for Taft's closest friends and a top Republican in Ohio. Mrs. Brown protested to Hall, who was trained under-Tom Dew- ey, that he was ignoring the Taft wing of the party. Her letter is not supposed to be publi'shed, but here it is anyway: "My Dear Len: "You have just sent me the list of your appointments to the ex- ecutive committee and I am shocked by your utter unwilling- ness to try to unify the party. You have persistently ignored prac- tically every friend of the late ISenator Taft in all of your ap- pointments and you even contin- ue to appoint people who I have reason to know are harming in- stead of helping the Republican party. * * * "YOU NAMED only one man to the executive committee who was a supporter of Senator Taft, and you named 14 who were not. I am glad that you did name Ray Bliss, for he is doing a grand job for our party. I suppose you are utterly indifferent to the fact that you are ignoring the bulk of real Republicans in this country by failing to appoint people who rep- resent them. "It is a poor return for the self- sacrifice which Bob Taft made and were he alive today, I am confident that he would say to you just what I am saying, for I worked so closely with him, served as the only woman on phis nation- al strategy committee, and our re- actions to things political were almost always in complete accord. "I am sorry that you have made it necessary for me to write you in this vein, but unlike some of your friends, I am unwilling to let silence give consent to things which I consider absolutely harm- ful to our party. You know better than to do such things. Who is back of it? I "Sincerely yours, "Katherine Kennedy Brown" * * * BELIEVE IT or not, the present Republican White House has been using one of the famous brain trusters of the White House in Roosevelt's day to squelch criti- cism of the Eisenhower Adminis- tration. He is "Tommy the Cork" Cor- coran, one of the most astute brain trusters ever to help pilot the destinies of presidents, and he has noV managed to sidetrack some scathing criticism of three top men in the Ike Administra- tion which the Democrats were about to release. Here is the in- side story: T h e House Small Business Committee has prepared a highly critical report on the operations of three powerful Ike commission- ers: Jerome Kuykendall, chair- man of the Federal Power Com- mission; S i n c 1 a i r Armstrong, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Ed- ward Howrey, ex-chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. However, after the small busi- ness committee prepared an ad- vance copy of the report, it was sent as a courtesy to Congress- man McCulloch of Ohio, Republi- can, who promptly slipped it to the White House. Then the wire- pulling began. * * * THE CONTENTS were circlated to the three commissioners, who together with the White House, began to pull wires. Ex-FTC chairman H o w r e y telephoned John Wheelock, assistant director of investigation for the trade commission, and told him he was considering a libel suit against Congressman Joe Evins of Ten- nessee, chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee. Howrey knew that Wheelock was from Tennessee and would immediately leak to Cong. Evins. He did. Evins hesitated. Simultaneously, another mem- ber of the committee in Chicago got even more-worried. He was Sidney Yates, Democrat. He got on the telephone to Congressman Evins. 4* * HOWEVER, the final damper on the scorching report on Ike's three commissioners was applied by "Tommy the Cork." Tommy knows the way to get things done in Washington. He's been around a long time. He went, straight to the boss of Congressmen Evins and Yates-to Cong. Wright Pat- man of Texarkana, Texas. Tom- my is working for the Texas Gas Transmission Pipeline Company, which does a lot of business in Texas. He is also a friend of Cong. Pat- man. The small business commit- tee report was buried-at least until a f t e r November sixth, though because of the leak to the White House, Cong. Evins insist- ed on giving copies to Democrats who had testified before his sub- committee. (Copyright 1956 by Bell Syndicate, IInc.) forward to seeing somebody get throw something at the music- ians. But the evening failed to assume historic importance (re- member the "Rite of Spring" or the "Riot concert" in Vienna a few years ago?), and everybody settled down dutifully. THE SYMPHONY contained probably the most dissonant mo- ments of music that I have ever heard. Whereas some listeners were blessed with a natural talent for enjoying such matters, others were graciously assured by the program notes that everything would become meaningful in terms of the "story," the grand ascent from the shrill cries of ter- ror of judgment day, and the earthly follies into an illumined, angelic sphere, a sort of a hell-to- heaven tour in three easy chap- ters. ** * * HONEGGER invented the pro- gram probably to compensate for his lack of the gift of melodic in- vention. Only "a chordal theme in fifths, sharply accented, in- toned by the strings" (whoever wrote these program notes!) in the first movement and a birdcall for flute and piccolo later were memorable. The rest were unre- vealing scale fragments, or clum- sy chromaticisms between con- ventional harmony tones, lacking coherence, sometimes even shamefully banal, as in the trum- pets in the last movement. Surely, the rhythmic thump of the piano and basses of the "Dona nobis pacem" brought about an exciting development in percus- sive play; and the earsplitting culmination of the movement was an utterly enjoyable catharsis. Yet now the image of the work has become rather uninviting, musically unmemorable, and somewhat hollow. The most rewarding music of the evening was in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Full of exquis- ite melodies, masterly architec- ture, humor, reflection, energetic growings and climaxes, it was an indisputable masterpiece. I would be wasting words trying to tell you more about it. I feel but sorry for those unable to attend this re- markable event of the new season. Avo Somer AT THE STATE: Run In Sun Off Base' "Run For The Sun" is claimed to be based on Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game". If so, all I can say is that it's pretty far off base. Connell's story was a reason- ably good adventure-type story as I remember. The film version got crossed up somewhere so that the final result is somewhat short of what one might like to think of as good. Briefly, the film tells more or less coherently about the efforts of two escaped war criminals, holed up in the Mexican jungles, to track down and kill an Ameri- can writer and a newspaper wo- man who have stumbled into their hide-out. As such, the story is not unexciting, although any' resemblence to the original is il- lusory. But what a fortuitous set of circumstances are necessary to get our side out of hot water. Guns jam, dogs get lost, snares work perfectly, motors start, and plump Jane Greer's makeup doesn't even get smeared after two days hike through the jungle wtihout food. But whatever its minor incon- sistencies, R.F.T.S. will keep most of the urchins in their seats until it's over. (After all, modesty has ruined more kidneys than al- cohol.) Now, I raise a question. In the advertising, the statement "A raging animal of a man, more savage than any jungle killer" is made. Who is this raging animal? Is it Trevor Howard, a strangely fatuous British traitor? No. Is it Peter Van Eyck, a strong, silent, careless German? No. Is it Rich- ard Widmark, gentle but hard drinking writer whose wife runs off with another man? No. It must be that Indian we see brief- ly in the first scene. He is a rag- ing animal, far too savage for our soft audiences. up, walk out, pull a punch, or AT THE MICHIGAN : 'Intrigue' A trocious MASOCHISTS take note: "For- eign Intrigue" is now playing at the Michigan. What we have here, kiddies, is a Spy Picture that out-Spies any Spy Picture you've ever seen. At one point in the film, there are three men on the screen and every blasted one of them is wearing a trenchcoat. There isn't a single character in the film, except per- haps an old blind lady the author threw in for laughs, who can be trusted. Don't believe anything anybody says in this picture. They are just the sneakiest bunch of people ever, oozing all Qver the screen, lurking in dark alleys, hid- ing behind pillars, making anony- mous phone calls, clubbing their friends from behind and just gen- erally carrying-on in a wild and undisciplined manner. Mercy, what a lack of decorum! * * * AND ANOTHER neat thing aboutsthis picture, buddies, is that it has no ending! Doesn't that sound like fun? Here you are sit- ting in this movie theatre watching all these spies, counter-spies, coun- ter-counter-spies, intelligence ag- ents, counter-intelligence agents and who know what-all and when the last piece bf footage vanishes into limbo, you suddenly realize that the story isn't over. A few people are cauglgt, but the prob- lem of tracking down the Big Vil- lians is not yet solved, and our hero, Robert Mitchum, goes walk- ing off in the distance, his foot- steps echoing down the cobbled streets of Venice, still on his quest. You know what that means, don't you? It means A Sequel is on theway. And with that horrify- ing prospect before us in an elec- tion year, one wonders why both candidates are keeping so hush- hush about the matter. Hey, may- be Stevenson and Eisenhower are spies, too! After this picture, you don't know whom you can trust. But-you can trust me, folks. I somehow have emerged unscathed from "Foreign Intrigue" although I am inclined to be a teeny-bit bilious. LET ME ALSO CALL your at- tension to a "musical theme" in the soundtrack that sounds like a four-handed ping-pong match ac- companied by a bass fiddle. A loud bass fiddle. Allow me to further cite a member of the cast, one sexy girl named Ingrid Turean who has a thick Swedish accent that renders her every word prac- tcially intelligible. Well, maybe it's better that way. Take your Tums along to this one. Be prepared. -David New'man DAILY OFFICIAL BUILLETIN 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. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 956 VOL. LXVII, NO. 29 General Notices A 12-hour course in programming for the IBM 650 Computer will be held be- ginning Oct. 29. Tentative times for the course are-Mon., Wed., and, Fri., from 4-6 p.m. during the weeks begin- ning Oct. 29 and Nov. 5. Please cal Mrs. Brando at extension 2942 or 2128 for reservations. Anyone who has rooms to rent to alumni on football weekends, please call the Michigan Union Student Acti- vities Offices. A I i A t Housing and Cultural Contact W ITH THE prospect of a new international center, a different viewpoint toward inter- national students also seems well worth con- sidering. The proposed center would provide living quarters for 1,000 students as well as more ade- quate space for meetings and social gatherings. The proposed International House might also serve a very different purpose. An attitude of American students-an atti- tude that could segregate foreign students with the idea that now they have their own place to live, why should we care about -them-might very well isolate international students and defeat the purpose of an international center. t , W HILE THE DESIRE to give foreign students a place to live, have meetings, discussions, Editorial Stafff RICHARD SNYDER, Editor and parties is undoubtedly sincere, it still doesn't express the most significant purpose of such a center-that is, the exchange of ideas and cultures among other foreign students and Americans. However, the full purpose is implied in the proposal for the International House, which would include living space for Americans as well as foreign students, thus providing an opportunity for exchange of ideas on less im- portant, everyday problems, perhaps in the long-run as important as the big issues. Some might be tempted to construe this sharing of ideas as an attempt to "integrate" or "Americanize" foreign students. Yet, a more selfish, but perhaps more honest viewpoint would exclude this idea and better serve both foreign and American students. American students would-receive much in per- sonal benefits, a chance for new perspectives, by living with students from other nations. CERTAINLY, it is difficult to make a person feel "at home" without taking an interest in him, and certainly it is just as difficult to appreciate the ideas, personalities, and cultures of foreign students without realizing their value to us. The University can build a new international center, but international students can offer much in return, much that American students would never see, hear, or appreciate without extensive travel. One often hears of the opportunities of the shrinking world, with distances compressed by jet planes and telephone cables; yet, when there exists at the University a condensation of many nations, it would be foolish not to try to absorb some of the many benefits in four years of college. -JAMES BOW i 4 KHRUSHCHEV IN HOT WATER: world Propaganda Defeat RICHARD HALLORAN Editorial Director LEE MARKS 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 By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst NIKITA S. Khrushchev, remini- scent of a country politician making his first splash in the big time, seems to be in hot water. The Soviet Communist party boss's experiments in winning friends and influencing Western socialists are blowing up in his face. He has brought the Commu- nist party face to face with a dis- astrous world propaganda defeat. The Khrushchev line, ever since he began to throw his weight. around in a clumsily dictatorial manner, has been that the Soviet Union had to make itself respect- able in the eyes of the outside world. Then it would be in a bet- ter position to direct external Communist parties in the cam- paign to lure all left-wing ele- ments into a common front and eventually to dominate them. At the least, he expected this sort of courtship to result in isolating the United States from the rest of the world. ately been hanged, proper apolo- gies would be made. It was Stalin who was to blame-not the Com- munist party. . But a little freedom proved dangerous. Not only did the pub- lic in :Iungary and Poland leap at the chance, but a rift developed in the Communist parties, be- tween those who leaned on Mos- cow throughout their careers and those who stood for independent development. Khrushchev's trouble was that he had buried Stalin, but not Sta- linism. Secret police methods might have been modified, but economic oppression remained. Khrushchev remained true to the basic Stalin tenet - all for heavy industry to build the might c; a Communist empire. The public could wait. - I THROUGH Khrushchev's efforts, Georgi Malenkov fell as Soviet Premier. With him fell the prom- ise of a flowering consumer'ry to satisfy some of the denied yearn- This was most striking in Hun- gary and Poland, whose people bow to none in their dislike of Russians. In Poland, the resist- ance was hardening. The trend threatened to rip to shreds Khrushchev's whole canvas of a new and respectable Communist leadership. He tried a bit more re- laxation. * * * HUNGARY'S R a k o s i was whisked to Moscow, out of harm's way. Nagy, the "Little Malenkov," returned to prestige. In Poland, courts went easy on "bread and freedom" rioters. Freedom-loving Czechs stirred restively. Strikes broke out in Communist East Germany. But in Poland above all, the danger was imminent. The resur- rected Titoists there pushed for a clean break from Moscow domi- nation. At last Moscow was scared. Khrushchev and an escort of Soviet military brass flew to Poland to try to stem the tide. They were met by a rebellious f Student Art Print Loan, Collection. Stude ts who have signed up for pic- tures for the current semester must pick them up by 5:00 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 25. On Tues., Oct. 39. the Collec- tion will be open for rentals for those pictures which remain. Fellowships are being offered by the Bell Telephone Laboratories for pre- doctoral study. The field of study should have a direct bearing on elec- trical communications and may in- clude such fields as Electrical Engi- neering, Mathematics, Physics, Chem- Business Staff DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN.....Associate Business WILLIAM PUSCH.................Adertising CHARLES WILSON...................Finance: PATRICIA LAMBERIS..............Accounts Manager Manager Manager Manager