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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: TAMMY MORRISON
Union Meeting Reveals
Emotional Nati onalis
FRIDAY NIGHT, students who jammed a
Union meeting room to condemn Israel,
France and Egypt for violation of the United
Nations Charter, witnessed a most spirited
and educational function. Evident amidst the
vociferous cheers and hisses which pervaded
the boiling meeting were significant disclosures
giving the complex Middle-East crisis a dimen-
sion it could only have been given by persons
immediately concerned.
Statements by French and British subjects,
chastizing their governments for unilateral
acts of violence in Egypt, contrary to the very
principles of the UN, indicated to all the sever-
ity of dissenting opinion that must exist in
these countries.
Arabs bared the status of refugees who had
been evicted from their Palestinian homes and
now live in tent colonies. Indeed, the great
unanimity of opinion on the part of the inter-
national audience, in damning the action of
Israel, France and Great Britain, illuminated
a tenor of world opinion.
PPARENT THROUGHOUT the three and
one-half hour session was a violent emo-
tional nationalism. The emotional nature of the
meeting had been justifiably anticipated for
most of the Middle-Eastern students were
frantically concerned for the welfare of their
friends, relatives and countries.
But few people present could have left with-
out feeling some degree of fright at the behav-
ior of these people, who must represent an
intellectal hierarchy of their homelands. One
Arab shouted that President Nasser would
live in the hearts of every Arab and expressed
dying devotion for the leader who four years
ago come to power through a "coup d'etat"
of 300 military officers.
When an Israeli ineffectively pleaded the
case of-his nation and suggested peace, a roar
of "peace never" and "we will fight to the
end" moved through the Arab students. Another
Arab decried the Jews with a rationale that a
German student present called reminiscent of
Adolph Hitler's.
The outbursts were not solely limited to the
Arab students. Through pressure of the aud-
ience, an Israeli was permitted to state what
he thought were the justifications of his coun-
try's action in Egypt. Several of his remarks
might have provoked a fist fight had he been
taken more seriously.
T WAS IN THESE emotional rumblings of
the meeting that a good part of the educa-
tional significance lay, for many Americans
present had never seen and thus never com-
prehended the passion that nationalism can
engender.
For them perhaps, Friday night's display
provided an insight into the strength behind
the student uprisings in Hungary, and the
revolutions that have shaken the colonial world.
ARLINE LEWIS
TheDark Horse
F rom Okeefenokee
AMIDTHE dirt throwing and drum-thump-
ing, the greatest candidate has quietly re-
vealed that he is running again . . . the sure-
thing dark-horse.
Yes . . . POGO is running again!
POGO'S qualifications are unmatchable.
He is surrounded by a BRILLIANT entourage.
America needs the STRAIGHT-FORWARD
character of POGO!
What a cabinet he'll have! "Owly," Owl for
Secretary of Defense . . . shrewd, cunning and
efficient. Albert Alligator for Secretary of
State ...built-in crocodile tears for the ap-
propriate occasions.
And there is the SIMPLICITY of Okeefe-
nokee politics.
What a relief to know that we have the op-
portunity to elect the one man who can give
the United States a CLEAN agrarian GOVERN-
MENT. Perhaps even sub-agrarian!
Why must straight-thinking, clean-think-
ing Americans be bothered with the crooked
dirt of industrialized, social security-ized me-
chanized society? Why must AMERICANS be
politically vitaminized, revitalized, tranquilized?
If we are to get out of the ruts that mark
the modern day world, we have but one course
of action ...LET'S GO POGO!
-DAVID GELFAND
Stevenson
Ietter fit
For office
By Students for Stevenson
and Young Democrats
S TUDENTS FOR Stevenson and
Young Democrats urge you
to vote for Mr. Adlai Stevenson's
election as President of the United
States because we believe that he
is better fitted than Mr. Eisen-
hower to make national policy and
in a very much better position to
put policy into effect.
Only a blind partisan would at-
tack the motives of either candi-
date. Both men clearly seek the
well-being of the American peo-
ple and the peace of the world. But
we believe that, as President, Mr.
Stevenson would keep in intimate
and personal touch with national
affairs, whereas Mr. Eisenhower
would continue to receive informa-
tion as his coterie of advisors have
chosen to interpret it, and would
hence be making decisions which
were only partly his own. -
In addition, Mr. Stevenson now
leads a party which will support
him after election-most of the
members because they agree with
him, the rest because he can put
pressure on them; whereas a large
number of entrenched Republican
leaders deplore Mr. Eisenhower's
moderation, and will desert him as
soon as they have finished using
him for their electioneering; nor
will he then have any means of
controlling them since he cannot
succeed himself.
PROSPERITY-We believe Mr.
Stevenson is better able to deal
with economic facts than is Mr.
Eisenhower. His private, public and
educational experience has been
such as to acquaint him with the
nation's economic foundations and
problems.
Mr. Eisenhower, on the other
hand, has little knowledge of the
nation's economy. Perhaps it were
well to admit straightforwardly
that for this knowledge he substi-
tutes a child-like trust in what a
little club of millionaires tells him.
The following facts, among many
others, are symptomatic: (1) un-
der the "Eisenhower prosperity,"
the very rich have been getting
richer at about three times the
rate of the average person; (2)
nevertheless the federal govern-
ment has significantly lightened
the tax burden not of the average
person but of these very rich men;
(3) Mr. Eisenhower has remained
genuinely unaware that the instru-
ments of government have been
operated preferentially on behalf
of very rich men.
Let us be repeated that we are
not attacking Mr. Eisenhower's
motives. A childlike trust in mil-
lionaires is no more naive than a
total distrust of them, and it is a
great deal more winsome. But we
profoundly believe that Mr. Eisen-
hower's understanding of the na-
tional economy and of other do-
mestic matters is notably inferior
to Mr. Stevenson's.
Therefore, we would rather have
control of our economic institu-
tions in Adlai Stevenson's hands
as opposed to Dwight Eisenhower's.
CIVIL RIGHTS-The desegre-
gation of schools in the South
has become an article of national
law and the success with which it
is carried out now depends sole-
ly on political and legal tactics.
Mr. Stevenson has committed him-
self more forcefully to carry out
the policies that both men be-
lieve in. He has the firmness to do
so steadily, the imagination to do
so effectively, and the tact to do
so without engendering needless
ill-will.
When we consider the bitterness
and racial animosity that has per-
meated the South in the last two
years, the absence of presidential
direction and persuasiveness is ap-
parent. The four years of Mr.
Stevenson's administration as gov-
ernor of Illinois contrasts sharply.
From 1948 to 1952, Governor Ste-
venson's administration desegre-
gated the National Guard, issued
and enforced orders against dis-
crimination in employment and
supported desegregation of pub-
lic schools in southern Illinois.
HUMAN WELFARE-In addi-
tion to the candidates, we must
also consider the parties. Here the
disparity between campaign prop-
aganda and achievements is clear-
ly distinguishing. We should be
constantly reminded that our pub-
lic welfare legislation-social se-
curity, bank deposit insurance,
public housing, farm supports,
public power and much more-has
been sponsored and affected by
the Democratic party and usually
over stiff Republican opposition.
Adlai Stevenson's record and the
detailed program he has presented
for approval in this campaign in-
sure that these policies will be im-
proved; not skillfully sabotaged as
the Republican administration has
done for the past four years.
FUTURE PEACE-World condi-
tions have so changed within the
past few years that this nation
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CAMPAIGN ISSUES:
Candiates React to Suez Issue
Plan For Student Forums
A T ITS NEXT MEETING, Student Govern-
ment Council will do something it should
have done long ago.
It will consider a plan for Student Forums.
The original SGC plan specifically stated that
one of the Council's functions was "to provide
orderly means for student discussion of campus
issues, particularly by means of a forum."
Although SGC has been a going concern for a
year and a half, it has done nothing in this
area to date.
Tentative plans call for a general discussion
of matters pertaining to SGC, such as Sigma
Kappa or the Lecture Committee. Such dis-
cussions would probably be held in one of
Angell Hall's auditoriums every few weeks.
Led by five or six Council members, the dis-
cussion would be open to any student who
wished to join.
Such forums would be valuable for two rea-
sons. First, they would give students an oppor-
tunity to air their opinions on campus issues
openly, a situation which exists now only on a
limited basis. Second, they would give Council
members a yardstick for student opinion, some-
thing which they now sadly lack.
It is unfortunate that the Council had to
wait so long before carrying out a most impor-
tant part of its plan. In spring, SGC's two
years on campus will come up for review.
Whether or not the Council is allowed to con-
tinue at that time will depend on how well it
has fulfilled its functions.
If SGC is to become the efficient and
thoughtful student government it has, upon
occasion, demonstrated that it can be, it can-
not ignore the Student Forum plan.
-TAMMY MORRISON
(Ed. Note. This is the last of a series
of articles summing up the stands of
the major candidates in the cam-
paign.)
By MICHAEL KRAFT
W ITH the fast moving develop-
ments in the Middle East
shaking the structure of American
foreign policy on the eve of a
national election, the Administra-
tion has been forced into the poli-
tically unavoidable role o'f an in-
jured quarterback.
In a nationwide speech delivered
before Friday's offer by Britain
and France to withdraw if the
United Nations would send a force
of troops to protect the Suez
Canal, President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower declared the United States
would not become involved in the
present hositilities in the Middle
East.
The President said the United
States believed the armed actions'
of Britain, France and Israel "to
have been taken in error" and that
it "can scarcely be reconciled with
the principles and purposes of the
United Nations Charter."
In attempts to end the fighting,
the President had made an urgent
personal appeal to England and
France to abandon their plans for
intervention. With this, Secretary
of State Dulles presented a reso-
lution first to the UN Security
Council and then to the General
Assembly.
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MEANWHILE, Democratic nom-
inee Adlai Stevenson called upon
President Eisenhower to avoid
"precipitate military action" that
might pit the United States, in
company with the Soviet Union
and Egypt, "against our demo-
cratic allies." He further warned
against any "abrupt action" which
might lead to "further breakdown
of our relations with our western
allies."
Attacking the Administration's
handling of foreign policy in gen-
eral and the Suez crisis in particu-
lar, Mr. Stevenson declared that
"during four critical years of on.
rushing history, we've been patted
on theghead and told everything's
all right. This is dangerous-to
our very survival in a troubled
world."
Stevenson then presented his
own four-point program for re-
storing peace and American pres-
tige in the Middle East. He said:
1) "SECURITY must be re-
stored" along the Israeli border
with recognition of her existence
from her neighbors.
2) There must be "an interna-
tional concern for the passage of
ships through the Suez Canal."
3) We must launch an "all out
attack" on the "problem of resettl-
ing the 900,000 Arab refugees who
now live in misery and hopeless-
ness."
4) A program must be present-
ed to "improve the economic con-
ditions in the Middle East for the
benefit of the people."
IN EARLIER attacks on Ameri-
can foreign policy, Mr. Steven-
son said, "Half of Vietnam has
slipped behind the Iron curtain
. . . the Communists have seized
a foothold in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean, our bases from Iceland to
Japan (are) crumbling," and the
Russian "economic and political
influence (is expanding) through-
out the world."
President Eisenhower, defend-
ing his foreign policy, cited the
ending of the Korean War, the
saving of Iran from the Com-
munists, the settlement of the
Trieste problem, and the "repul-
sion" of Communism from Guate-
mala and, before Suez, general
world peace.
Eisenhower
Sets Policy
For 1957
By Young Republicans
IN ITS philosophy, work, and pro-
posals, the Eisenhower Admin-
istration has charted a middle-of-
the-road policy which will meet
1957's problems with 1957 answers.
It is a program which the bulk of
Republicans, the great majority
of independents, and a goodly
minority of Democrats can-and,
in fact, have-supported.
But let's be specific.
FOREIGN RELATIONS - Cer-
tainly no living American can
surpass Dwight Eisenhower in the
eyes of the world in experience,
as a leader, and as a man of
peace.
In his four years we have seen
peace settlements in Korea, Indo-
China, and the Formosan straits;
a settlement of the oil crisis in
Iran; an end to the Austrian occu-
pation; an overall reduction of
restrictive tariffs; an end to com-
munism in Guatemala; a marked
strengthening of our Pacific chain
of defense; an increase in West-
ern Europe's economic and mili-
tary strength followed by a loos-
ening of Soviet ties to the satel-
lites in East Berlin, Poland and
Hungary; and a forced change in
tactics by the Kremlin's Katzen-
jammer Kids, Bulganin & Khru-
shchev.
Mr. Eisenhower has not suc-
cumbed to the unscientific "at-
omphobia" of more emotional
minds. He has not fraudulently
attempted to woo and frighten
the "mother vote" by losing sight
of the over-all problems of dis-
armament. Among his ideas are
the Atoms-for-Peace pla; the
Geneva offer of inspection of mili-
tary preparations; the offer to cut
armed forces to 2,500,000 men if
the Soviet Union will reciprocate;
the promise to negotiate personally
any time, anwhere it will do any
good; and a new, carefully-con-
ceived program of economic and
military aid (both are needed).
And in the multitudinous Mid-
dle East crises, where Britons,
Frenchmen, the combatants, and
Democrats have lost their self-
control, only Mr. Eisenhower has
remained rational-thinking, pro-
posing, negotiating.
Can any man claim to have come
up with such a wealth of ideas
as distinguished from making
noise about one or two?
R A C I A L INTEGRATION is
probably the touchiest domestic is-
sue of the day. The Eisenhower
philosophy is this: nothing can be
accomplished if we Americans are
in two armed camps, calling each
other "radical Reds" or "racist
reactionaries." What is needed is
a third force which is "ready" to
approach this thing with modera-
tion but with the determination
to make the progress that the Su-
preme Court asked for."
He is the record of that pro-
gress: integration required of firms
getting government contracts; in-
tegraIon achieved in veterans'
hospitals, Navy shipyards, Army
bases, and Washington D.C.; in-
tegration achieved-without fed-
eral saber-rattling-for a quar-
ter of a million colored school
children in border and some Sou-
thern states.
But Mr. Eisenhower has not
stopped there. He has proposed
six bills to Congress to help im-
plement the High Court's decision.
One, for example, called for a bi-
partisan commission with sub-
poena power to investigate civil
rights abuses-far better than the
Opposition's proposed "confer-
ence." But to pass any legislation,
a Republican Congress is needed.
The Democrats-with Dixiecrats
to the right of them, Dixiecrats to
the left of them, and Dixiecrats
heading the committees-are in-
capable of achieving progress.
THE ECONOMY-The last four
years have been years of few
strikes, great labor gains, and un-
precedented prosperity for the na-
tion. The fact that UAW President
Reuther plans next to achieve a
four-day work week, when all polls
indicate an Eisenhower victory, is
certainly a vote of confidence
which has been seconded by the
announced mammoth expansion
plans of many industries. Labor's
share of the national income, now
70 per cent, is an all-time record.
Alarmists who point to small
business failings neglect (conven-
iently) to emphasize new records
in business formations-the key
to a dynamic, progressive society.
To preserve vigorous competi-
tion, the President has called for
closer inspection and regulation of
large business and bank mergers
and a raising of penalties for Sher-
man Act violations.
Truman's "cheap money" infla-
tion has been replaced by Eisen-
Meaningful Commencement
APPROXIMATELY one thousand students
may have an opportunity to end their college
careers on a meaningful note this February.
Mid-year graduation exercises have been pro-
posed by the Senior Board, which has had its
idea approved by President Hatcher. Tenta-
tive planes now call for commencement -
featuring a noted speaker-to be held at Hill
Auditorium. A r6teption at the President's
home would follow the exercises.
But thus far, no steps have been taken to
make mid-semester graduation a reality; Presi-
dent Hatcher and Dean Erich Walter want
the initiative for the project to come from the
students themselves.
So many complaints have been voiced in the
Editorial Staff
RICHARD SNYDER. Editor
RICHARD HALLORAN A 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
Business Staff
DAVID SILVER, Business Manager
MILTON GOLDSTEIN.....Associate Business Manager
WILLIAM PUSCH..................Adertising Manager
past concerning the mechanics of the June
graduation exercises-most of which are invalid
in this case.
SINCE THE EXERCISES will be held before
the final examination period, and must of
necessity be somewhat less formal than a June
commencement, the mid-semester graduate
would be saved the nuisance of having to wait
around Ann Arbor for commencement exercises
to be held.
In addition, some mid-year graduates living
in the Ann Arbor area return to the University
in June for the commencement program. A
February graduation would be far more mean-
ingful for these students who take part in
exercises five months after they leave the
University.
And last, though hardly least important, are
the parents-those long-suffering souls who
have paid the major part of the graduate's
expenses for four years. Though Junior likes to
hide the fact, they DO like to see him receive
his degree. And for all of those who do not
return in June, the "Footers of the bills" do not
have this opportunity.
But a mid-semester commencement will not
come about unless individual students voice
their opinions on the matter.
--JANET REARICK
Associate Editorial Director
Neiv Books at the Library
Koenig, Louis W., ed - The Truman Ad-
ministration: its Principles and Practice - N.
Y., N.Y. University Press, 1956.
Laicaster, Bruce - Roll Shenandoah -
Boston, Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1956.
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TALKING ON TELEVISION:
Steve Allen May Leave 'Tonight'
By LARRY EINHORN
Daily Television Writer
STEVE ALLEN has asked for his
release from the nightly "To-
night" show so he will be able to
concentrate completely on the
Sunday "Steve Allen Show." If
NBC grants his request Allen will
exit the "Tonight" show shortly
after the first of the year. The
most likely prospect to take over
Allen's spot is Ernie Kovacs, who
has already replaced Allen on the
Monday and Tuesday night shows
so that Allen could spend more
time preparing his Sunday show.
If NBC does let Allen leave the
"Tonight" show they will be all but
conceding the late night-time
hours to the stations (including
many CBS and ABC outlets) who
have adopted the first-run fea-
ture policy for the wee hours.
With the recent release of the
20th, MGM and RKO backlog for
television use these other stations
are currently drawing a much
higher audience than "Tonight."
And with Allen gone, "Tonight"
should fade out of the picture com-
pletely.
But NBC, who has plunged great
amounts of money into live radio
and television (on a money-losing
basis) for they feel it is their duty
to preserve live radio and tele-
vision during all times nf the day
Presents" series. This is believed
to be the first time in the history
of television that a three-part sus-
pense program will be done for
exclusive television viewing. It
will be a televersion of the Eng-
lish melodrama "I Killed The
Count" by Alec Coppell.
Mr. Hitchcock said that the tele-
play would be seen on three suc-
cessive Sunday evenings after the
first of the year.
This event will cause one thing,
for sure. Almost every librarian
in the country will be looking for
copies of this melodrama, which
probably has just been collecting
dust on library shelves before.
Who can wait three weeks to
find out the ending of an Alfred
Hitchcock presentation?
SOMEBODY SHOULD crown
Dinah Shore the "first lady of
television." She is seen twice-
weekly on her regular 15 minute
musical program. And every fourth
Friday she stars in an hour revue.
Last Friday night was a fourth
Friday and so Dinah starred in the
hour-long "Chevy Show."
Her guests on this show were
Betty Grable, Hildegarde, Jaye P.
Morgan and Hal March. The fast-
moving hour was filled with good
music, clever original songs and
just the right touch of humor. And
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versa) almost doubled the rating
of the NBC Spectacular "Born
Paul Douglas. Even the $1,000,000
worth of jewels worn by Miss Mar-
tin couldn't surpass the draw of
Presley. Perry Como out-rated
Jackie Gleason for the first time
this season and Gordon Jenkins'
"Manhattan Tower" finished a
poor third behind ABC and CBS.
* * *
NBC NEWS should be praised
for their fine coverage of the re-
cent international conflicts. They
have been on the spot at the UN
and at their studios with live com-
mentaries and up-to-the-minute
films from the troubled areas.
With only a few more hours un-
til the networks begin coverage of
the election results it would seem
as though all of the TV political
stories would have been exhausted.
However, the Democrats have
cancelled some of their television
shows. The reason-lack of funds.
The Democrats cancelled some of
their NBC shows because they just
did not have the money to pay for
them. At CBS the situation was a
little iore embarrassing, for CBS
had to take the initiative and can-
cel one show because the Demo-
crats couldn't meet the contracted
stipulation of payment in advance.
* *
AND WHEN NBC officials -were
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