"When Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" Sixty-Seventh Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNJVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Democrats, Republicans Back Candidates Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. 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 mns:un~ tnnetm4a ~ l r~ ..-- ' ----------- "It Came From Out Of Nowhere" 4 ms - a s ..Mgw+s+.:rr +rr- c^ 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. ** * 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. - - . ., .,., 1 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 .4.. .. . . - & i . . .... 41 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 .-ro a cmrltni. hni.,a TA