"Pav No Attention To Rover. He Just Likes To Join In"
Sixty-Seventh Year
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: DONNA HANSON
Where to Participate:
Extra-Curricular or Academic.?
AMHERST COLLEGE recently completed a in broadening themselves outside the class-
study indicating that the students with the room.
highest academic standing were those who
were most active in extra-curricular activities. ONE OF THE tenets supporters of a "liberal
education"\ try to instill in students is that
The study also showed that more than 90 the persons educated in the humanities is the
.per cent of the undergraduates participate in well-rounded man, learned not only in science
an organized, college-sponsored activity out- and literature but actively interested in the
side the classroom. At the present, the Am- world about him. He has the initiative and
herst psychology department is conducting re-wd aotin e as ths inte an.
search to find ways of motivating the other 10 drive to continue pursuing his interests.
per chnttotkn da nmtao gthera-hurricula It is a paradox in our educational value sys-
per cent to take advantage of extra-curricular tem when the faculty, claiming they attempt
activities.
,Amherst's attitude in emphasizing the im- td educate the "whole" man, must deny a stu-
portance of extra-curricular activities in col- dent admission to an honors program because
lege is a manifestation of a sound educational of hisnextracurricular obligations.
value disputed by people who believe that pa- Is reasonable to ay that a student must
vleiput ebyp ewoextra--curricularacivieshatdevote time to study a subject thoroughly. On
ticipation in extra-curricular activities Is a the other hand, it is impossible to see how the
detriment to academic achievement, development and encouragement of a student's
The belief that such participation interferes d eest and enua emeasudedt'n
with a student's academic work and conse- interest and enthussree ime" he can devot
quently lowers his grades is disputed because to Investigation.
students who are recognized for their extra- Amherst's research for a means to motivate
curricular and athletic leadership are in the mestesearhpfrtacmeatomota
uppe rak o thir lasswhie to-tird of more students toward participation in extra-
upper 'rank of their class while two-thirds of curricular, activities indicates a wise application
those who did not participate in activities were of the principles of a liberal education.
in the lower half. -SHIRLEY CROOG
INASMUCH AS it is true that people active
in large campus organizations feel they are
not a prepared for an examination as they o e ' Ju c
would have been had they more time, it is sig-
nificant to observe that first the grade dif- Avoids R lsm
ference is usually not too significant. Further-
more, these busy people, faced with responsi- WOMEN'S Judiciary Council has proclaimed
bility of their positions, usually budget their late permission during the week before
study time more carefully than they would Christmas recess to be Thursday and Friday
without the extra pressure. Above all, they are nights of that week.
aware of the vast cultural and academic oppor-, In the past, late permission has been granted
tunities placed before them in the classroom, for the two nights before the recess, thus en-
To an extent, they suffer because they realize abling a house to participate in caroling parties
it Is impossible to take advantage of all of with the benefit of an extra half hour.
these. opportunities. According to the rules the letter of the law
The argument popularly asserted against is upheld. It apparently makes no difference
the increasing enrollment in lecture sections- to the Council and the Administration that
pointing out that students turn to extra-curri- scarcely a soul will be on campus Friday the
cular activities and lose their academic inter- 21st..
ests because of decreased contact with the The Council claims that only confusion
professor - is fallacious. would result by giving late permission Wednes-
Those who maintain that a student turns day and Thursday nights.
to newspaper, student government, or Union Why, after careful deliberation given the
activities for recognition and self-expression problem by the Council, did they ever arrive
neglects the consideration that some students at such an unrealistic decision?
in a large -University are genuinely interested --THOMAS BLUES
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AT THE STATE:
Army Life Satired
AP, Zap, Zap, Zap! Four girls walked through my office and I was off
on the most fantastic orgy of all time. But first let me tell you about
a movie I saw last night.
The Girl He Left Behind, is a film more or less written by Marion
Hargrove, the self-styled chronicler of army life: its trials, tribulations,
and humor.
Main protagonist in this melodrama is Pvt. Shaefer, played by Tab
00,
Hunter, a curiously named fellow.
He. is a somewhat overprotected
young football hero of the college
variety who gets drafted because
his girl (Natalie Wood, the Girl
He Leaves Behind) wants him to
Grow Up, stop necking and get
serious. Only he can't quite see it
her way, so she leaves him high
and dry, and he breaks up, fails
the-big Psych exam and gets taken
away by the boys in Khaki.
Army life is just one big joke
for Pvt. Shaefer; he does a stretch
at KP for leaving something un-
locked, annoys the noncoms, and
the officers, but sooner or later
shapes up, becomes a level headed
young man, a corporal too, and
proceeds to boss the new recruits
around in the approved manner.
Beyond any doubt this film is
pretty funny, although I wonder
whether the remarks from the
crowd of engineers sitting behind
me didn't supply most of the hu-
mor. Well, there are always other
engineers.
It is a trifle surprising that the
5th division co-operated in the
making of this film, since it is
really not much more than one
big satire of army life,.with moth-
erly sergeants, seductive captains,
stuffy generals, fatuous congress-
men, and goofy soldiers all thrown
into one big wide screen.
As such it will be received with
mixed emotions by the student
body, some of whom face service
eventually in the armed forces
Iwith something less than enthu-
siasm.
From the outward appearances
of The Girl He Left Behind, it
would seem that allis not lost up-
on leaving College for Army; but
that perhaps a good screenplay
can come from the experience.
So go see Girl He Left Behind
for a good laugh and a preview of
things to come.
Speaking of things to come; up
next at the State is something aw-
ful called The Mole People which
looks like a real gasser.
-David Ressel
LETTERS
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Congressional Double-Cross
By DREW PEARSON
T HE UNIVERSITY community was treated to
a rare pleasure last Friday and Saturday
nights when The Reader' Theatre presented a
reading of Jean Cocteau's "The Infernal Ma-
chine."
Sponsored by the speech department, billed
as a Second Experimental Playbill and read by
15 students, the performance gave all the satis-
faction of the conventional play which would
have had scenery, costumes and pantomimic
action.
Reader's Theatre, with last week's perform-
ances and professional works of previous years,
has a definite place in a community where
theatre plays any part at all.
Play reading is beyond a doubt the best
medium in which to present plays in which
the action and plot are subordinate to what
the author has to say to the audience.
PROFESSIONAL troupes recently did Benet's
"John Brown's Body" (not a play, but a
poem) and Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" in this
manner. The effect of the performers standing
in formal dress on a nearly bare stage is very
striking, and even more so when a chorus
is added for special effects.
Besides Shaw, there are many other authors
whose works could very well be read instead
of acted out, among them Shakespeare, Fry,
Eliot, and many of the French playwrights.
There is a wealth of material just waiting for
such a group as Reader's Theatre to organize
and perform, if for no other reason than to
expose theatre goers to works that could not
be shown locally for technical and other rea-
sons.
Furthermore, Readers' Theatre is about as
economical a way to produce a play as could be
imagined. As performed last week, there are
no costs or expenses for such an undertaking-
but these could be added later if Readers'
Theatre were to continue and attempt to
achieve any sort of professional aura.
MEMBERS of last week's performing group,
as well as the speech department, should be
encouraged to carry their efforts beyond the
experimental stage and into permanent Ann
Arbor theatre.
--VERNON NAHRGANG
THE SOREST man in America
today against the Eisenhower
Administration is Adaim Clayton
Powell, the Negro Congressman
from Harlem, who bolted the Dem-.
ocrats to plug for Ike and now
finds himself before a grand jury
for income-tax evasion. The in-
side story is illuminating.
Early last summer, Powell learn-
ed that he faced an income-tax
probe. Three of his assistants had
been indicted for tax violations.
He went to see Vice-President
Nixon. Just what happened be-
tween them is not known, but
Powell, as reported in this column
on August 19, wrote Nixon that
he was "ready and willing" to
campaign for Eisenhower.
Powell then went abroad, duck-
ing out on the crucial part of the
Congressional fight for schools and
civil rights. From Italy he tele-
phoned his assistant, William
Hampton, now under indictment,
and dictated another letter to
Nixon, plus a letter to Max Rabb,
the White House assistant in
charge of minorities, expressing
his willingness to campaign for
Eisenhower-Nixon.
This was quite a switch for the
Negro congressman from Harlem.
He had been severe in his castiga-
tion of Eisenhower in the past.
* * *
EARLIER, however, Powell's 1954
campaign manager, Joseph Ford,
had broken with him and taken
with him some of the congress-
man's financial records. Ford got
together with Powell's primary
opponent, Herbert Bruce. A letter
was written to the Justice Depart-
ment which led to the income-tax
investigation of Powell and the
indictment of his three secre-
taries.
Among the financial transac-
tions investigated was the manner
in which Powell's staff, while
working for him in Washington
and paid by the taxpayer, also
worked for his various private in-
terests in New York.
Two of Powell's congressional
secretaries, Acy Lennon, now con-
victed, and William Hampton, now
indicted, were each paid $8,000 a
year in addition to the congres-
sional salaries from the Dorie
Miller houses on Long Island. This
was an interracial housing co-
operative project in which Powell
was interested. Its promoter, David
Kent, loaned Powell $3,000 to buy
an imported European sports car,
and internal revenue agents have
been invistigating to see whether
the $3,000 was ever paid back, and
if not, whether he paid taxes on it.
This writer has unearthed evi-
dence on three congressmen for
taking kickbacks from their secre-
taries, which led to their convic-
tions. But in the case of repre-
,sentative Powell, it was his secre-
taries who went to jail or were
indicted, not he who presumably
benefitted from the alleged kick-
backs.
* * *
THE ATTORNEY who handled
the original grand jury investiga-
tion of Powell and his staff last
spring was Sam Pierce, Jr., a Negro
attorney with a fine record, then
assistant U.S. attorney in New
York. He either indicted or helped
prepare the indictments of Powell's
three secretaries. Then suddenly
he was transferred to Washing-
ton, first to the Labor Department,
then to a job with the House Ju-
diciary Committee under GOP
congressman Keating of New
York. Later he took leave to cam-
paign for the Republican National
Committee.
During all this investigation, an
ultra-secret meeting was arranged
between Congressman Powell,
Democrat, and Max Rabb, White
House aide, plus Charley Willis,
former White House aide, now an
official of the Grace Steamship
Company.
Nixon had turned Powell's letterv
over to Willis to arrange for the
switch to Eisenhower in a manner
which would swing the most votes.
For some time during the cam-
paign this fall, the chief job of
Charley Willis was to chaperone
Powell and make sure nothing
went wrong with his switch to Ike.
The Powell Declaration was
considered so important that Max
Rabb went to New York person-
ally to bring him to Washington
to meet the President. In Wash-
ington Powell met separately with
chairman Len Hall; Val Washing-
ton, Hall's Negro assistant; Sher-
man Adams; and finally with
Eisenhower himself. Afterward
Jim Hagerty called a special press
conference for Powell to make his
announcement. ,
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SO YOU CAN SEE why the con-
gressman from Harlem, after get-
ting all this attention, is now sore
at finding himself before a grand
jury.
However, this was not all.
Charley Willis and Max Rabb went
back to New York where the con-
gressman held another press con-
ference in Harlem.
(Copyright 1956 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Agonizing.
To the Editor:
IN TWO short
Reappraisal
years, Sigma Kap-
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1956
VOL. LXVII, NO. 65
General Notices
TIAA-College Retirement 'Equities
Fund. Participants in the Teachers In-
surance and Annuity Association re-
tirement program who wish to change
their contributions to the College Re-
tirement Equities Fund, or to apply for
or discontinue participation in the
Equities Fund, will be able to make
such changes before Dec. 14, 1956.
Staff members who have Y or 13
of the contributions to TIAA allo-
cated to CREF may wish to change to
a i, basis, or go from the latter to a
1 or 13 basis.
Late Permission: All women students
who attended the Musket Show "Brig-
adoon" at the Michigan Theatre on d
December had late permission until
12:05 a.m.
Board in Review, Student Govern-
ment Council: In action taken Decem-
ber 9, 1956, the Board in Review of Stu-
dent Government Council withdrew its
stay-of-action with respect to the a-
tion adopted by the Student Govern-
ment Council at its meeting of Dec. 5
concerning National Sigma Kappa sor-
ority.
Trained fencers - men and women,
students and faculty members - are
invited to meet and fence with a new-
ly organized mixed fencing -group
Wednesday evenings in the main sec-
ond floor room of the W.A.B. located
at Forest and North University. Foils
and some protective equipment can be
provided. Usual time is 7-9 p.m. but
this week only the time will be 9-10
p.m. Spectators are welcome. Fencers
unable to participate at this time or de-
siring further information are urged
to call NO 2-2400.
Lectures
University Lecture. Auspices of the
English Department. Dr. Walter Starkie,
"The Irish Theatre." Rackham Ampi-
theatre, Tues., Dec. 11, 4:10 p.m. (For-
mer member of the Board of Director
of the Abby Theatre, Dublin.)
Lecture, auspices of the Department
of History. John A. Hawgood, professor
of modern history and government and
chairman of the School of History,
University of Birmingham, England,
will speak on "The British Foreign
Office and the United States Depart-
ment of State: A Comparison of Or-
ganization and Methods." 4:15 pm.,
Dec. 11, Aud. C, Angeli Hall.
Sigma Xi. "Twins, Monsters and
Teratology" by Dr. Bradley M. Patten,
Chairman. Department of Anatomy.
Dec. 12, 8:00 p.m., Rackham Amphi-
theater. Public Invited. Refreshments
served.
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures:
"Greek Architecture in Ancient Italy",
by Prof. William B. Dinsmoor of Col-
umbia University. Fourth Lecture: "The
Ancient Approach: Construction and
Decoration," Tues., Dec. 11, Aud. B, An-
gell Hall, 4:15 p.m. Fifth Lecture:,
"Temples of the Archaic Perfod", Wed.,
Dec. 12, Aud. B, Angell Hall, 4:15 p.m.
Research Club in Language Learn-
ing is sponsoring a lecture, "Approach
and Techniques in Phonetics Teaching
at the Summer Institute of Linguistics"
by May Morrison. Wed., Dec. 12, 7:30
p.m., Room 451, Mason Hall. Open to
public.
Concerts
Student Recital: Beverly Baxman p-
anist, will perform works by Bach,
Beethoven, Bartok, and Schubert in
partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree, Master of Music. 8:30
p.m. Wed., Dec. 12, Rackham Assembly
Hall. Miss Baxman is a pupil of Ben-
ning Dexter. Open to the public.
Academic Notices
Sociology Concentrates: present and
prospective. Panel discussion of job 'op-
portunities for Sociology B.A.'s by Pro-
fessors Lenski, Sharp and Rabinovitz,
and Miss Webber of the Bureau of Ap-
pointments. 4:00 p.m. today, Room 2402,
Mason Hall.
Special Meeting of the Mathematics
Club-Mathematics Colloquium. Prof.
J. Barkley Rosser, Cornell University,
"Axiomation of Infinite Valued Log-
ics." Room 3011, Angell Hall, 3:15 p.m.,
Tues., Dec. 11. Refreshments in. 3212
A.H.following Prof. Rosser's address.
Please note the change of time and
place. There will not be a meeting of
the Club Tues. evening.
Student ACS meeting, Wed., Dec. 12,
7:15 p.m., Room 1300, ChemistryBuild-
ing. Student panel will discuss sum-
mer job opportunities.
Doctoral Examination for Alice Knar
Barter, Education; thesis: "A-Study of
Elementary School Teachers' Attitudes
Towards the Woman Principal and To-
wards the Elementary Principalship as
a Career", Wed., Dec. 12, 1600 University
Elementary School, at 9:00 a.m. Chair-
man, R. S. Fox.
pa has grown from an idea to
one of the most valuable mem-
bers of the University community.
There has been no evidence of dis-
crimination by the local chapter.
The Tufts and Cornell cases have
yet to be brought before Sigma
Kappa's national convention.
SGC, in judging Sigma Kappa, is
assuming judicial power, which is
improper for a legislative body ac-
cording to American democratic
traditions. In attempting to des-
troy Sigma Kappa, SGC is disre-
garding the opinions of the stu-
.,dents to whom it is responsible.
In denying "Galens" the right
to hold a fund drive, SGC is black-
ening the name of a great and
generous University. It is denying
us the right to contribute to any
charity we choose.
SGC seems more concerned with
increasing its power, and the no-
toriety of its members, than with
expressing student opinion. Per-
haps it is time to re-examine SGC,
not Sigma Kappa!
-Dick Booth, '57
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INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Russian Barbarism Stressed
HUNGARIAN STRUGGLE:
Historical Correlation, 1848-1956
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
THE UNITED STATES could hardly have
done anything more designed to wound the
Russians more deeply than to insinuate, by
cutting off cultural exchanges in reaction to
the Hungarian terror, that they aren't fit to
associate with.
Since Stalin, the Russians have been at
great pains to offset the widespread impres-
sions abroad that they are barbarians.
A part of the psychology of the Stalin era,
when the Russians claimed to have discovered
everything and invented everything, was to
assert that they were, too, civilized.
The new regime worked like a social climber
tQ secure invitations for its leaders to visit
Editorial Staff
RICHARD SNYDER. Editor
RICHARD HALLORAN LEE MARKS
Editorial Director City Editor
Business Staff
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other countries. It relaxed Russia's own travel
barriers and press restrictions in order to have
its citizens accepted abroad.
Then came the Hungarian revolt, and the
Russians acted in the only way they know how
to act when cornered,
IF BRITAIN AND FRANCE had not acted at
almost the moment to hang at least a
partial counterweight around the neck of the
free world, communism might have been com-
pletely ruined.
As it is, the ruin may only be postponed.
For many years a good many historical phil-
osophers have believed that communism, god-
less and full of contradictions of the general
moral code which man has developed over long
ages to make possible his existence with other
men, would die of its own weight; that, the
peoples under it would not forever submit to its
regimentation and repressions.
This belief has been based upon another,
that the Iron Curtain would not forever pre-
vent these people from learning about the
freedoms they lack.
Russia is now faced with a repitition of what
she did after World War II. She set up virtual
concentration camps for soldiers returning
(Ed. Note. The following article
was written for the Daily by a form-
er Hungarian, now an American citi-
zen. The writer served in the Hun-
garian underground in World War II
and worked for two years under Rus-
sian domination helping people to
get out of concentration camps. Now
studying at the University, the auth-
or's name has been withheld as he
has relatives still in Hungary.)
HISTORY is a momentous and
fascinating discipline.
For the Romans it was the
teacher of life, for the fatalist a
proof that there is nothing new
under the sun. Gibbon called the
register of the crimes, follies and
misfortunes of mankind while the
great Menendez Pidal claimed
that history does not repeat it-
self; it was man who always com-
mitted the same mistakes.t
News is heavy with the tragedy
of Hungary in 1956 while the
world watches spellbound the epic
struggle of a people heroic even
in defeat. With Hungarians it is
nothing new; it is the continua -
tion of what they have been doing
for a thousand years: dying de-
fiantly for their western ideas at
the hand of Tartar, Turk and Rus-
really repeated itself, down to the
most minute details.
As in 1848 and in 1918 the Hun-
gary of 1956 has fought for ideals
and fallen. As in 1848 and in 1918
it is America." again that reaches
out a helping hand and offers
both encouragement and hope.
And most fascinating of all, it is
Henry Cabot Lodge III who voices
the feelings of America as did in
1918 his illustrious forbear Henry
Cabot Lodge II. And seeing the
collection of money gifts, the air-
lift of refugees and their scatter-
ing in America, one cannot but
marvel that this is only the con-
tinuation of the first real refugee
relief act, that of 1850, which re-
solved to set apart a portion of
the public domain, to be granted
free of all charges, to the exiles of
Hungary already arrived and
hereafter to arrive in the USA, as
well as to the exiles fleeing from
oppression in other European
countries.
The astonishment grows when
we read the message of President
Taylor to the Senate in 1850 that
it was his purpose to have ack-
nowledged the independence of
' im rr r lh ich e ci m
could all be printed as a vivid re-
port of the current events in Hun-
gary.
We feel Clayton's concern when
he tells that "the eventful scenes
which convulse Europe have been
watched with close attention by
the government and people of the
United States. In this desperate
conflict Russia has chosen to as-
sume an attitude of interference
and her immense preparations for
invading and reducing the Hun-
garians awaken the most painful
solicitude in the minds of Ameri-
cans. It is impossible for us to loop
on as unconcerned spectators.
Hungary to us has been hither-
to a comparatively unknown re-
gion. She may succeed in placing
her independence upon an im-
movable basis. Our best wishes at-
tend her. To the contemplation of
the American statesman, Hungary
at this time offers the interesting
spectacle of a great people vastly
superior to the enormous oppres-
sion which has so long weighed
her down. She is now described
to us by those who profess to un-
derstand her position as the rep-
resentative of republicanism and
The sword would enforce obe-
dience and law would wrest the
last cup of nourishment from the
industrial pursuits for the suste-
nance of the sword. Apart from the
sympathies, European questions
would then assume an American
importance not known since the
adoption of the constitution .
what exciting, what sublime or
appalling spectacles may I not be
permitted to witness on the banks
of the Danube. . . Kindred spirits
in the great cause of humanity
and national liberty triumphing
over an unequal and unnatural
enemy or their death struggle . .."
* * *
THROUGH 64 pages of corres-
pondence we follow the death
throes of the Hungarian nation
and but for the dates ti could be
printed as today's latest news.
The repression in bloodofsthe pa-
triots. the cruel and unjust harry-
ing of their leaders, the glorifica-
tion of the traitors and so on and
on to the most minute details.
It reports the words of the czar
boasting that he has now demon-
strated to the world what his arms
were capable of performing in put-
fin, tnwa r s llnn'-wi
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