T 4, Hiclpjgan Dailg Sixty-Seventh Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY Or BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 "Do You Think There Really Is An America?" "When Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" AT LYDIA MENDELSSOHN Juno and the Paycock' SEAN O'CASEY is one of the least produced contemporary play- wrights. The Speech Department deserves a commendation for remedying this situation with last night's production of "Juno and the Paycock." Although the charm and impact of O'Casey's rhetoric were frequently forcibly presented, it is regrettable that the per- formance was generally uninspired, sometimes unintelligible and re- Editorials printed' in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: TAMMY MORRISON Need for Creative Thinking To Solve Housing Shortage E CONTINUALLY saddening picture of housing at the University unfolded a little further last week when administration officials announced that some doubling-up in the men's Residence Halls will be necessary next fall. This should come as no surprise to anyone who looked at the projected enrollment in- crease published earlier and realized that no new dormitories were being completed. The announcement should help to emphasize a most unusual situation at the University to- day. It can quite accurately be said this school is now in a great state of transition-transition from a pre-war average sized institution to a huge post-war institution of mass education. Only now are the real, lasting effects of the post-war world being felt in growth. The giant enrollments immediately following the war were only artificial and not intended or ex- pected to last. Tie mass influx of students of the last few years and which is continuing" today, is the first real challenge the University has faced in converting to large scale operations in education. That this growth will continue is unquestioned. ONLY THIS YEAR, have administrators and faculty members of this and other universi- ties come to face the full significance of the greatest problem in expansion-housing. It is being more fully realized that the University must assume the responsibility of housing its students and that the size of an institution will depend directly on how many housing units it can supply. We believe that most administrators fully realize the housing problem; they need only look at the women's Residence Halls this year and both the women's and men's next year, But we wonder if the right people in the administration are aware of the heart of the problem: the inability of the University to meet projected growth rapidly enough under the present system of finance. It is becoming more evident that self-liqui- dation (whereby students help pay for new dorms) under which the University now builds Residence Halls is woefully inadequate. But even though the self-liquidation plan appears to be unrealistic, the administration continues to look to students for new dormi- tories. THE PROBLEM IS, indeed, gigantic and will not be quickly or easily solved; but it must be solved and within the next five years. To find that solution there is going to have to be be a great deal of creative thinking over in the administration building. We would like to sug- gest that while not denying the ability of business administrators, most of this creative thinking has yet to be done. -DAVID TARR Hungarian Rebel WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Pre-Election Promise Probe By DREW PEARSON IF YOU don't have a bluebook to write or a class to teach you might profitably drop over to the Rackham Amphitheatre at 3:00 this aft- ernoon. Istvan Laszlo will speak. He will tell this campus how 65,000 soldiers and civilians - more than the number of Americans killed in the Korean War - were butchered in a few weeks. He will explain to us why even yet there is fighting and striking in Hungary by people who are contesting long odds - the Red Army. Prom him we will learn why the "left wing youth" of a satellite country were the turn- coats that led the rebellion. Laszlo lived the story he will tell. It was he who led 5000 Hungaridn "minute men" in the early phases of the skirmishes with the Red Army. He has also been in and out of commu- nist prisons for his anti-Soviet utterances. He is' president of the student council at the Uni- versity of Sopron and is barnstorming the United States representing the student body and faculty of that institution. For those who haven't already contributed something to the plight of the Tiungarians, a collection will be taken, the funds of which will help solve the problems of the 100,000-plus refugees that have poured into Austria. I ASZLO is being, brought "to campus by the United States National Students Associa- tion and an infant political club on campus, the World Discussion Society. WDS, recognizing a sterility in campus discussion of the issues of the day, is planning future discussions with an eye to giving campus discussion a shot in the arm. Their first program today should serve a dual purpose of getting WDS off on the right foot and of opening a number of eyes to the brutality of the Kremlin toward a proud people. -JAMES ELSMAN, JR. ISA Forum Loses Value THE extent to which the Repub- lican Party won votes last No- vember by promising liberation of the satellite nations is an inter- esting question sure to be probed by Congress in January. Already Senators Humphrey of Minnesota and Neuberger of Oregon have in- dicated they will press for such an investigation. A.B. Herman, the astute and able director of the minorities division of the Republican National Com- mittee hasshad some interesting things to say on this point. Mr. Herman unquestionably did an amazing job of swinging the for- eign-language vote to Ike and from a cold politcial viewpoint de- serves credit. A few weeks ago, prior to the tragic bloodshed in Hungary, he was willing to take credit. He then explained to newsmen that he had figured as early as 1952 that it was important for the Republicans to swing the big mass of votes among Poles, Slovaks, Italians, Hungarians and East Europe generally away from the Democrats where they had stead- fastly voted ever since the early days of Roosevelt. So he developed the technique of taunting the Democrats with the Yalta agree- ment pertaining to the satellites and simultaneously pledged liber- ation of the satellites. "During the 1956 campaign," Herman further explained, "We pinned George Kennon on Ste- venson." KENNON IS the former Ambas- sador to Russia under Truman who advocated the policy of con- tainment - namely, thdt the United States couldn't afford war with Russia but should contain Russia and wait until the huge bloc of nations she had bitten off gave her political indigestion. "We figured," said Herman, "that if revolt did take place be- hind the iron curtain we could tell 'em this was all Ike's doing." _ "What about the fact that you don't liberate 'em?" Mr. Herman was asked. "Well, it's kind of coldblooded," Mr. Herman admitted, "but it's the way you win votes." * * , VISITED LATER , after the Hungarian bloodshed, Mr. Her- man was not so talkative. He did talk about the big swing of the foreign-language group over to Eisenhower, and he felt that they would remain in the Republican column. He was also willing to have newspapermen inspect lit- erature which the Republican Na- tional Committee had circulated among Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, et al. Part of it was in the lan- guages of those nationalities. Part consisted in editorials from for- eign-language newspapers and showed photos of Eisenhower with American citizens of Czech, Pol- ish, Hungarian descent taken on the White House steps. ONE REPUBLICAN booklet was captioned "Republican Policy of Liberation to Turn the Tide Against Communism." Another, on the GOP national platform, contained significant promises to the satellites as fol- lows: "Our own initiative the political, aspects of NATO are being devel- oped. Instead of being merely a military alliance, NATO will pro- vide a means for coordinating, the policies of the member states on vital matters such as the reunifi- cation of Germany and the libera- tion of the satellites." Since Nato is a military organ- ization, a pledge to use it behind the iron curtain went further than any pledge ever given by either political party in the past. * * * IT SHOULD BE noted that Mr. Herman is a compassionate, de- cent gentleman who would not knowingly encourage a situation which might lead men to slaugh- ter. Doubtless therefore Congress will want to see whether this was his policy or whether he was fol- lowing policy handed down from above. Inthis connection, the speeches of President Eisenhower and of Foster Dulles will doubtless come in for review, especially Ike's speech of Aug. 25,1952 beforethe American Legion when he said: "We must tell the Kremlin that never shall we desist in our aid to every man and woman of those shackled lands who seeks refuge with us, any man who keeps burn- ing among his own people the flame of freedom or is dedicated to the liberation of his fellow men ... The American conscience can never know peace until these peo- ple are restored to being masters of their own fate." (Copyright 1956 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) markably misunderstood. "Juno," produced by Dubln's sey's second play. He wrote of what he knew best: the slums of Dublin where he grew up, the Irish rebellion in which he parti- cipated and a revulsion-for pover- ty and cruelty. At this period in O'Casey's de- velopmenthe stillhad hopes that Ireland and, more broadly, the world, could overcome the greed and selfishness that result in war- fare and wretched living. He sym- bolized this hope in Juno, an Irish mother who embodied the virtues of the Irish, by investing her with tolerance, compassion and astonishing endurance. "JUNO AND THE Paycock" is set in a Dublin tenement and is the story of the Boyle family, rep- resenting similar slum dwellers. Juno (Gertrude Slack) is the uni- fying force of the Boyles, a hard- working woman who bears up un- der superhumian burdens supplied by the members of her family as well as the turbulent revolution which forms the backdrop of the action. Juno's husband, "Captain Boyle (Brendan O'Reilly) is the Pea- cock, a dissolute and inneffetual husband and father, but one of the most charming and rollick- ing characters O'Casey has pro- duced. The daughter, Mary (Bea- trice Minkus) is a pretty lass with ambitions of rising from the sur- rounding squalor. The son, Johnny (Father Raymond Schneider), has already lost an arm fighting with the Irish Republican Army. The permeating force is poverty and O'Casey has attempted to show the helplessness and tra- gedy that befalls those who supply the foundation of a revolution - those who must fight and suffer the consequences of a war. The enduring beauty of "Juno," in ad- dition to O'Casey's unparalleled dramatic language, is the author's realistic mixture of comedy and tragedy. HEREIN LIE the chief defects of the production. Juno is more of a shrew and a hysteric than the strength of Ireland; the "Captain" is strident and deplor- able instead of whimsical and pitiable. In addition, the cast comes close to mastering the dif- ficult Irish dialect but, in the at- tenpt, sacrifices some audience comprehension. Both Mary and Johnny are ad- mirably portrayed. George Ward, as the irascible drinking compan- ion of the "Captain"; Reginald Graham, as a pedantic school teacher; Laura Webber, as an un- inhibited friend, and Albert Phil- lips, as an Irish trade unionist, turn in credible and intelligent performances. "Juno and the Pay- cock" should be seen because O'- Casey is a powerful dramatist. If the Speech Deprtment mises the mark, its aim is still good enough to supply enough humor, excitement and pathos to enthrall the viewer -David Marlin LETTERS to the EDITOR Critic Protest . . To The Editor: Suffer the hapless music critic for a moment to cease criticizing the performers and join Miss Prins in condemning local audiences. True late-comers' are an annoy- ance, but at least their clatter does die down somewhat as the concert progresses; nearly everybody has arrived by intermission time. I would here denounce another practice, niore common in Amer- ica than in Europe; that of ap- plauding whenever the fancy strikes, even in the middle of a composition. The Sixth Symphony of Tschai- kowsky is often decried as a mus- ically empty work, y(' it does succeed in creating a mood of despair. The climax of the work comes at the junction third and fourth movements. The third movement is a brilliant scherzo which comes as close as the work does to gaiety, yet it is a gaiety held in check by an underlying stern rhythmic impulse that does not stop. Immediately on the heels of this musical attempt to break the bonds of despair comes a mar- velously tragic chord wrenched from the orchestra, which ushers} the final gloomy pages. It is quite a dramatic moment. Yet in concert this, the acme of the work, is usually lost because the third movement ends in a few Abbey Theatre in 1924, was O'Ca- AT THE MICHIGAN: 'Tension' Familiar WHY IS IT that once Hollywood gets hold of a good idea, they refuse to let it go? The number of plots available for use in Westerns is understandably limited, but since the success of High Noon the limitationsupon variety of story and mode of presentation seem to have been doubled at least. Like High Noon, and like Shane, Tension at Table Rock is a West- ern that takes itself seriously. Des- pite the obvious misfortunes of be- ing filmed in Technicolor and Cinemascope, it, too, comes com- plete with psychological conflicts and bar-room ballads. As a Western, though, Tension at Table Rock really isn't bad. It tells the story of big Wes Tancred a cowboy criminal who runs from his bad reputation, and saves a town from destruction along his lonely, noble way into the desert. Wes, an invincible if slightly in- articulate hero, is played by Rich- ard Egan, who seems to have a fondness for this sort of thing. THE POOR MAN shoots his best friend with good cause, but is soon chased out of the gang, the town, and even the bars, for his reputed lily-livered treachery. In the course of his flight, Wes assumes an alias, and stops off at a stage coach stop, where he be- comes an unwilling friend to the owner and his son. The old man gets shot in a scuffle with some stage coach bandits, but Wes shoots the nasty bad men, and starts off to town with Jody, the little boy. In the town of Table Rock, we find, of course, that Wes has only gotten out of one mess to get in- volved in another. The boy's uncle is sheriff of Table Rock, and is in the midst of a conflict between saving his own skin and standing up for law, order, and his wife. BY MEANS of a few wholesale murders, the betrayal of one of his old buddies, and the revela- tion of his real name, Wes helps the sheriff to get out and act like a man, instead of remainin at home like an anemic tomato. Then Wes, still haunted by his name, rides off alone into the purple sage. -Jean Willoughby LB DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletins 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. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1958 VOL. LXVII, NO. 67 G'eneral 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 Equitie Fund, or to apply for or discontinue participation In the Equitleq Fund, will be able to make such changes before Dec. 14, 1956. Staff members who have 1 or V of the contributions to TIAA allo- cated to CREF may wish to change to a 1,z basis, or go from the latter to a / or 1/3 basis. February Graduates must place orders for caps and gowns at Moe's Sport Shop, 711 N. University. before Dec. 21. caps and gowns are required for Cam- mencement Exercises Feb. 26, 1956. Try outs for the annual French play: Thurs., .Dec. 13, Fri., Dec. 14, Mon., Dec. 17, Tues., Dec. 18 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 408, Romance Languages Building. All students interested in taking part in the play invited. Those unable to attend may call Mr. Car- duner; Ex. 405. The General Electric and Charitable Fund is offering 34 fellowships for the academic year 1957-58. Fields will in- elude Physical Sciences, Engineering, Industrial Management, Arts and Sci- ences, Graduate Law, and Business. The stipend will be $1750 for a Fellow who is single, $2100 if married with- out children, and $2500 for a married Fellow with children. Tuition and fees are also paid. Application forms and further information may "be obtained 4 THE INTERNATIONAL Student's Associa- tion forum, "Europe Doesn't Matter Any More?" contributed some worthwhile ideas but left much to be desired. The forum, widely publicized and well at- tended, promised to be an intelligent, rational, dispassionate discussion of the present status of Europe in world affairs. Unfortunately, the panel, consisting of a' Pakistani, an Israeli, an Egyptian and an Am- erican, forfeited the constructive value of the forum and used it as an instrument for express- ing private prejudices. Europe was discredited by one speaker as being "imperialistic". He also claimed that colonialism and anti-semitism were European contributions to world culture. The old cry of imperialism is almost always dragged out when European and Asian politi- cal affairs are discussed. To forget the deep bitterness of the past will be difficult, but in- creased international understanding would re- sult if concentration on a constructive atti- tude toward Europe were adopted. IN SPITE of the vindictive attitude of some of the speakers, many stimulating ideas were presented. In reply to the claim that European technology was far superior to Asian, it was pointed out that the Asians had a slower start than European nations enjoyed. Industrializa- tion and technical knowledge of Asian coun- tries is advancing rapidly because of adoption of European techniques. Due to this rapidly in- creasing technology, Asia is coming to play a major part in the world affairs in the future. ISA is to be commended for it's positive ac- tion in providing a forum where ideas can be exchanged. Such discussions lose value, however, to the University community when they degenerate into an occasion where petty prejudices and vindictive insults are aired. ISA forums can serve much more signifi- cant purposes. I -CAROL PRINS TODAY AND TOMORIROW: Rep airincg the NATO Alliance l LSA Honor System? THE IDEA of an honor system in the literary college, a product of the Student-Faculty- Administration, Conference, presents a definite challenge to lit. school students. The plan should appeal to a conscious feel- ing of integrity among the student body. Here- 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 tEWIS..............Women's Feature Editor JOHN HIRTZEL.................Chief Photographer Business Staff DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN... Associate Business Manager WILLIAM PUSCH................Adertiaing Manar in lies the greatest advantage, perhaps nebu- lous, but real nevertheless. Two previous abortive attempts to form or at least investigate the possibility of an hon- or system, student apathy was reflected. Five years ago a small group of students proposed a system. Three years ago, Student Legislature conducted an investigation into the eventual adoption of an honor system. In both cases, no record of results of any investigations are avail- able. THIS YEAR, however, the situation could be somewhat changed with the presence on campus of an effective student government. SGC could, by backing the idea, lead the inves- tigation into student interest, working closely with the Literary College Steering Committee. Assistant Dean James Robertson has suggested that the facilities of the Survey Research Cen- ter might be made available for sampling 'stu- dent opinion. And SGC, while its functions are more as- sociated with the overall student body, could coordinate the efforts. A necessary feature of the system would be n Lt A 4rnn "r n nii- -mnil"+f t+n vc+- By WALTER LIPPMANN EVERYTHING is being said, in fact everything has been said by everybody, about the import- ance of repairing the NATO alli- ance. "It is our firm purpose," said Mr. Dulles on his arrival in Paris, "to bury past discords in a future of peaceful and fruitful cooperation." There could scarcely be any better purpose to be firm about, and the question is how to " achieve that purpose. This will not really be done by helping with oil and money -- necessary though they are - to soften the consequences of the Egyptian disaster. The discord arose because the -British and French governments came to the desperate conclusion that they had vital interests in the Middle East which their ally, the United States, was not effectively deter- mined to protect and to promote. The American view was that al- though these interests were genu- ine and legitimate, they could not. lawfully be protected and pro- moted by military intervention, The American opposition to the been compelled to desist. But un- less the problems themselves are taken seriously in hand, we may be sure that the discord will burst forth again. THE BIGGEST business which the NATO allies have ahead of them is to work out a common policy on the Europe which lies east of the dividing line. At bot- tom, NATO has been based on the fact that Germany and Europe are divided between the Soviet orbit and the Atlantic alliance. To be sure, the division has never been accepted in principle. The allies have never ceased to advocate the reunion of the two Germanies, and they have hoped for the liberation of the captive countries. Neverthe- less, in the planning and organi- zation of NATO, the division of Europe has been accepted as a fact, and NATO has never yet had a policy for the unification of Europe. The good things that, have been happening in Poland, the horrors will be faced with the most sinis- ter choices. IT WILL BE a case of inexcus- able neglect if the NATO govern- ments do not prepare themselves for what might at any time in the next months explode into a European crisis of the first magni- tude, The way to prepare for this crisis is to anticipate it, and to avert it with negotiable proposals which are directed towards the unification of Europe. The Hun- garian horror cannot really be ended, something like it elsewhere cannot surely be prevented, unless the NATO powers can work out with the Soviet Union an all- European security system. Merely to go on passing reso- lutions in the UN is not nearly good enough. These resolutions do .not gather force and effectiveness by being repeated. They do not liberate anyone. Nor do they re- duce the threat of a European ex- plosion which lies just under the surface. A European policy is ur- gently needed to provide a frame- work of guarantees within which the occupied European countries