"Pav No Attention To Rover. He Just Likes To Join In" 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 "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, 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 Nd Readers' Theatre 33ii( titl > 1~~ f' Ji / 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 to the EDITORT n rr i rasr 'f" ' 'F , L d C ylf9S6 t {y +tit/ ,tftt C.T't .v 'f S"' . WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: $* u, 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. , *i 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- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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. Notices for Sunday Daily due-at 2:00 p.m. Friday. 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 f .{ 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 DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MTTq'f)il' 1 TrfiT W 'F.TN nocn* rn .ec---'.- ''- .ten 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 '4 .