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. 0 phone NO 2-3241 I "--Uh-There's Something I Ought To Tell You-" "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. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1956 NIGHT EDITOR: JAMES ELSMAN Condemnation of Russia:t Serious Business or Idle Threat? ON WEDNESDAY the United Nations General Assembly condemned the Soviet Union for her present actions in Hungary. The effectiveness of this vote in supporting Hungary in the struggle against Russia may be questionable if the recent condemnation is not followed by action which demonstrates that the UN means business. The free world is not relying on the UN, for condemnations alone, but for immediate action and direct results. The League of Nations passed a similar vote of condemnation in 1935 when it censured Italy for aggression in Ethiopa. The imme- diate and only result of this censure was Italy's withdrawal from the League, for she was not stopped in her African aggression. The failure of the League of Nations to stem Italian aggression, along with the ag- gression of Germany and Japan, lay in the organization's inability to put force behind its words and resulted in its subsequent de- mise. HE UN IS IN a similar spot, for t must follow through its censure with more force- ful action if Russia does not comply with UN demands. Yet, unlike the League of Nations, the UN can utilize a military force - as was used in the past in Korea and at present in Egypt. The follow-through in this case has been the proposal the UN Secretary-General Dag Ham- marskjold visit Budapest, a somewhat outdated suggestion since he has been trying unsuccess- fully to get into Hungary for several weeks. Further proposals have come from U.S. Sena- tors Knowland, Humphrey, and Capehart, pro- posing economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia if the UN is not allowed to in- tervene in Hungary. This proposal may have more substance than the attempt to get Hammarskjold into Buda- pest, yet it still avoids the ineviable question of using UN military forces in Hungary against the Soviet Union. The danger of setting off another World War is, of course, a prime consideration, and it is with this in mind that the UN must play its role as prqtector of world order. If the United Nations can bring about an end to suppression in Hungary through sanc- tions aganist Russia, then it will not have to face the question of military force. But if no ground is thus gained, then the UN must face the problem - can it continue as an effective body and also avoid military action against Russia. This is perhaps the key to UN success, and is a question which has existed since the or- ganization's founding in 1945. THE SIGNIFICANCE of this vote of condem- nation lies not in the censure itself, but rather in the position of this action in a chain of events - whether this is the beginning or the end of a UN attempt to protect Hungary, If it is the beginning, the true value of the vote condemning Russia can only be deter- mined by the extent to which the United Na- tions will carry out its purpose. -JAMES BOW LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Juno, Paycock, and the Readers ELIOTi Christmas Trees' Nostalgic W HAT has been labeled a new 'poem by T. S. Eliot, "The Cul- tivation of Christmas Trees," lias been published in pretentious for- mat (New York, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1956, 1.25). Actually the poem is two years old, having been published first in Londn. No one attempts to equate mar- ket price with the worth of a poem which, if any good at all, has no measurable value: Has not' Wil- liam Faulkner said that Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies? If the public must be "had," will nothing except Christmas suffice as means? Eliot's intention in the poem is scarcely to add to the commer- cialization of Christmas; indeed, the opposite is true: * * M * "There are several attitudes toward Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being . open till midnight), And the childish..." The publishers must have pre- sumed that the poet's name would attract buyers who will be "smart" at any cost. A single poem from a poet who has been writing since 1909, pro- ducing, admittedly, very little poetry to earn his fame, is no basis for revising one's estimate or re-writing the theses. There are no footnotes and no Sanskrit. Eliot moves in an nostalgic seren- ity, a "glittering rapture, the amazement/Of the first-remem- bered Christmas tree." The verse is straightforward and muscular, even on so abused a theme-source as Christmas. The poem rises above, at least gets around, the character of occasion- al verse through its tenderness, its concentration of all Christias past and present without becom- ing maudlin: "So that before the end, the eightieth Christmas (By "eightieth" meaning whichever is the last) The accumulated memories of annual emotion May be concentrated into a great joy Which shall be also a great fear, as on the occasion- When fear came upon every soul: Because the beginning shall remind us of the end And the first coming of the second coming." The tone of the poem is a changed one for Eliot, more remi- niscent of "Murder in the Cathed- ral" that of the more recent "Four Quartets." Perhaps Eliot is learn- ing, as he nears threescore and ten, to be less modern and more contemporary. "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" is a distin- guished addition to his work, dis- regarding, of course, "the patently comnmercial." -R. C. Gregory With the human tragedy of Hungary and the explosive poten- tialities of Eastern Europe over- shadowing all other issues, there is a growing danger that the Mid- dle Eastern problems will be per- mitted to drift into a prolonged stagnation that could have grave consequences. These problems involve the clearing of the Suez Canal. . .and beyond that there are the ques- tions of a final determination of the fate of the canal and a per- manent settlement between Israel and Egypt. -The New York Times 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 responsbility..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. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1956 VOL. LXII, NO. 69 General Notices Christmas Holidays. While the Uni- versity offices and departments will be open on the Mondays before Christmas and New Year's Day, staff members will have the option of selecting one of the two Mondays as an additional holiday. Those staff members who se- lect the Monday before Christmas as a holiday will work the Monday before New Year's, and, conversely, those who work on the Monday before Christmas will have the Monday before New Year's as a holiday. January Graduates must place orders for caps and gowns at Moe's Sport Shop, 711 N. University, as soon as possible. Caps and gowns are required for Commencement Exercises Jan. 26, 1957. Men who are experienced and in- terested in becoming orientation lead- ers for the spring semester can sign up in student offices from 2-5 p.m. Plans for Midyear Graduation Exer- cises. Saturday, Jan. 26. 1957, 2:00 p.m. Time of Assembly - 1:00 p.m. (except noted). Places of Assembly: Members of the Faculties at 1:15 p.m. In Room 2054. second floor, Natural Science Building, where they may robe. Regents, Ex-Regents, Deans and oth- er Administrative Officials at :15 p.m. in the Botany Seminar Room 1139, Natural Science Building, where they may robe. Students of the various schools and colleges in Natural Science Building as follows: Section A - Literature, Science and the Arts - front part of auditorium, west section. Education - front part of auditorium, center section. Busi- ness Administration - front part of auditorium, east section. Section B - Graduate - rear part of auditorium with doctors at west end. Section C - Engineering - Rooms 2071 and 2082. Architecture - Room 2033. Law - Room 2033 (behind Arch.) Pharmacy - Room 2033 (behind Law). Dental - Room 2033 (behind Pharma- cy). Natural Resources - Room 2004. Music - Room 2004 (behind Natural Res.). Public Health - Room 2004 (be- hind Music). Social Work - Room 2004 (behind Public Health). March into Hill Auditorium - 1:40 p.m. Academic Dress. University Lecture in Journalism. A.T. Steele, foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, will speak on "Asia and Us: A Report on His Re- cent Assignment Throughout Asia". Mon., Dec. 17, atr3 p.m. in the Rack- hamn Amphitheatre. Lectures Pharmacology Seminar, 10:00 '.m. Tues., Dec. 18, Room 205, Pharmacol- ogy. "Experimental Neoplastic Chemo- therapy." Dr. Alexander M. Moore, as- sistant to the director of research, Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit. Coffee will be served in the departmental library at 9:40 a.m. Plays 'Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Ca- sey, will be presented by the Depart- ment of Speech at 8:00 p.m. tonight i the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Ann Kron- quist Fitz-Hugh, Education; thesis: "The Conceptual Structure in Spon- taneous Client Laughter During Coun- seling Interviews", Mon., Dec. 17, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 10:00 a.m. Co-chairmen, E. S. Bordin and H. Y. McCluskey. Doctoral Examination for Walter Duane Kline, Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish; thesis: "The Use of Novelistic Elements in Some Span- ish-American Prose Works of the Sev- enteenth and Eig teenth Centuries," Mon., Dec. 17, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 4:00 p.m. Chairman I. A. Leonard. (Continued on Page 4) 4 I * I '4 A Fear and Frustration IF DISAPPOINTMENT flooded Rackham Thursday over the non-appearance of Hun- garian rebel leader Istvan Laszlo, it was coun- ter-balanced by the insight displayed by two men who did speak. Professor Kish, discussing historical impli- cations of the Hungarian revolt, developed two points which have heretofore been pretty much neglected. First, it has been assumed historically that a people could not rise against dictatorship without a strong leader and an army to back them up. But there was no flame-eyed revolu. tionary at the beginning of this war - men became their own leaders, almost without wea- pons, against unbelievable odds. Second, all relief work has been directed to- ward refugees who, of course, are terribly in need and should be helped. But refugees com- prise one or two tenths of one per cent of the entire Hungarian population. Almost ten million people are still in Hungary, and mo'st of them are still desperately resisting Russian domination. What can be done to help them? LITTLE, it would seem, short of all-out war. We give words of encouragement via Radio Free Europe, but cannot back up the words with arms and men, because that would mean, at least, another Korea and, at worst, World War III. The situation is one of total frustra- tion. No matter how we support the Hungarian people philosophically, fear of war keeps us from practical aid. Al Lowenstein, A past National Student As- sociation president, related the situation more directly to students, paricularly American stu- dents. Although we, as students, suffered compara- tively little in recent wars, we are afraid of another. We have adopted a policy of waiting and praying, hoping the crisis will go away if we pretend it isn't there. Hl UNGARIANS were tired of waiting and de- cided to act, despite the fact that, tra- ditionally, they are among the most abused peoples on earth. They need financial support, but it is not enough. They also need, in that overworked phraseology, moral support. By our fear of the suffering and insane an- nihilation that comes with war, we are paying but hollow lip service to an ideal for which others, no older nor more experienced than we, are glad to give their lives.. -TAMMY MORRISON Jets RDut No Philo: A Decade of Growth THE University has produced a technicolor movie portraying growth and progress over the last decade. Titled "A Decade of Achieve- ment," the movie was filmed by Audio-Visual Center last summer and shown to the Regents yesterday. Narrated by President Hatcher, it starts off with some vivid shots of plant expansion. The camera swings from the main campus to the athletic buildings to North Campus. Next are some fine pictures of students crossing the diag with bar graphs illustrating enrollment increase. Services of the University, such as WUOM and WUOM-TV, are illustrated, as is the Michigan Memorial Phoeniz Project. Also fea- tured, as examples of growth, are research in metallurgy, scientific advancement in jets and new techniques in harbour construction. The movie is technically excellent. Color is clear and camera effectiveness maximized. There is no mention of the humanities or social sciences. -LEE MARKS Abbey Theatre .. . To the Editor: THE "Junorand the Paycock" I saw at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre last night, although sev- eral of the older characters seemed overly nimble and well preserved, their youth shining through their make-up, compared favorably with the Abbey Theatre production I saw in Ireland. -J. F. Powers Visiting Lecturer in Epglish Synopsal Success To the Editor: IT SEEMS to me that most Daily reviews have been eloquently expressed but meaningless. In my opinion, a reviewer should be con- structive in accordance with his praise or condemnation of a per- formance. In other words, he should be completely familiar with the field he is criticizing such as music and theatre. David Marlin's recent review of Juno and the Paycock was explicit indeed. Throughout the greater portion of his review he success- fully synopsized the background of the play, thereby removing the function of the playbill. His short biography of O'Casey was, in this type of critique, entirely unneces- sary. What I had hoped for in his review was a corroboration or de- nial of my own opinion of last night's performance. Marlin let me down in a great many respects. One of the first mood conveyors in any production, even before a line is spoken, is the set. I was greatly surprised that this unique- ly designed and powerful set re- ceived no recognition by the re- viewer. I also feel that Dr. Norton's brilliant job of directing should have been included in the critique. To say that this performance was "generally uninspired" either signifies a lack of awareness to- ward audience response to this production, or a complete insensi- tivity on the part of the reviewer. In my own judgment, I must con- sider a performance inspired when it causes the audience to react emotionally, as this performance did. I gather that the reason for Marlin's brevity, as far as the character portrayal is concerned, is simply due to the fact that he had used most of his alloted space on the synopsis of the play. Al- though I heartily disagree with him on such points as the inter- pretation of the three leads, Ger- trude Slack, Brendon O'Reilly and George Ward, I cannot condemn his opinion. But again I must emphasize his lack of dramatic concreteness in his review. I hope that the Michigan Daily and David Marlin understand that I realize it is much easier to criticize the review than to write the review itself. -Sandy Beer, '58 Pre-Exam Cram . . . To the Editor: THE well intentioned editorial "Where to Participate: Extra- Curricular or Academic" (Dec. 10) is the final proof of The Daily's latent anti-intellectualism. While there is little doubt that extra- curricular activities per se are re- latively harmless the habit of identifying the non-participant as abnormal reaches its ultimately absurdity in the assumption that he is not only a social failure, in- capable of mixing an adequate cocktail or of exchanging witti- cisms, but is a half-educated man as well. The myth propounded here is that the "whole man" set forth in this article is the banal mixer who by cramming the night before an exam acquires a satis- factory point average. Certainly a ghastly caricature of the classic conception of the whole man. The implication in this piece is designed not to awaken the reali- zation that an education can be acquired only by intense intellec- tual labor, and substitutes instead the empty laurels of chairman- ships and organizational recogni- tion. In a university that is al- ready making it all but impossible to obtain a liberal education it is indeed unfortunate that the only major campus publictiy organ en- courages this unhappy trend. While it is perhaps too much to expect a student publication to exert any sort of intellectual lead- ership over the university com- munity it certainly has a moral obligation not to assist in this academic perversion. It is, of course, impossible to tell how many potential students have been rob- bed of the exaltation that sincere intellectual effort can produce by this glorification of the profes- sional joiner, but happily there are still some who realize that the purpose of a university experience is to acquire the special skills obtainable only in an atmosphere of this kind, and who realize that organizational activities will be with us all the days of our lives. -William L. O'Neill, '57 A.A. Playreaders . . To the Editor: I WAS rather surprised by the editorial in The Daily (Dec. 11) which called for the formation of a play reading group. The A. A. Playreading group has been in existence fgr nearly 18 months and has around 100 members. The group is sponsored by the Dramatic Arts Center and meets at the Dramatic Arts Center. -W. V. Caldwell A '4 INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Use of Strike Ironie OPPORTUNITY FOR UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP: Educational Television: Greatest Advance Since Administrators By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst T'HE WORKERS of Eastern Europe could hardly have turned a more ironic weapon against the Communists than the one they are using - the strike. That is the weapon the Reds has appropri- ated as peculiarly their own. It is the weapon that the workers and youth organizations have been taught to use in the Red revolution. Now it is being used by those same workers and youth organizations in the anti-Red revolution. Bereft of the arms with which they only succeeded in arousing Russian repression, the Hungarian rebels are making a day to day dis- play of their distaste for Communists and com- munism. At the same time they have-drawn the Rus- sians-into a posture which completely belies their years-tong claim to big-brotherhood with workers everywhere. Ammes a s .. IT IS THE students and workers of an imme- diate neighbor who testify that the rela- tionship with Russia which the Kremlin has styled "cooperation" is actually the relation- ship between slave and master. In this atmosphere, when she is rattling new chains to replace those the Hungarians were about to break, the Russians accuse the United States of interfering with Eastern European nations. Like the strike, this tactic of accusing the other fellow of what you are doing yourself is not a Communist invention, but an adop- tion, and like the strike, it can boomerang. Unlike the United States, Ru'ssia has never been in a position to meet charges against her with an invitation to investigate. While the Communists fight and dodge UN investiga- tion of their deeds in Hungary, the United States can say "Come ahead." Regardless of the subject, this has been American policy in the UN for so long that you would think the Russians would have learned to avoid the trap. There was a tendency among some delega- tions to ignore the Russian charges and not _ _na n114 - 1- o-n -aacy " n i. th4 - nrl, r By RICHARD SNYDER Daily Editor With the University of Detroit's announcement of its educa- tional television program, it might be wise for administrators here to look into the prospects of a similar program for the University of Michigan. The University's entrance into the area of educational television would perhaps be the first real- istic solution to the problem of educating the nation's citizenry since the invention of administra- tors. Unfortunately, like every other instance where progress threatens an old way of life, there are still a few die-hards who think edu- cation is all right with its present evils. It is difficult to believe there is opposition to progress. But since there is, proponents of edu- cational television must be stead- fast and courageous. TELEVISION has many wond- engage solely in research. The show must have a core if it is to benefit the student, and the faculty must keep abreast of the latest developments. Only by con- stant digging-up new ideas will our standards of education keep pace with advancements which have made ETV possible. Then of course there must be someone to transfer this research into a form presentable tothe students. As those in the industry say, we need writers, choreogra- phers anddirectors. The program must be well-written to keep the student from switching to another class or turning off the sound. LIKEWISE, ETV necessitates correctly staging ,nd lighting. And by proper direction, the show will stay on the right track to insure the best possible viewing audience. One thing to be careful of is timing. Accuracy in this area is essential to the preservation of the notebook-snapping traditions of any university offering a well- rounded education. develop some distinguishing char- acteristic such as continually hold- a lit cigarette or chewing gum. Above all he must be a real person, sincere and full of humility. He must not force his knowledge- filled shows upon students since it might offend them. * * * A TYPICAL PROGRAM might look and sound something like this: ANNCR: This is ETV. The time is 8 a.m., Burton Tower Time. Theme: GAUDEAMUS !GITUR (briskly), then fade) ANNCR: Well students, it's time once again to leave the modern world of today and journey back into ancient Egypt. And today we have with us Professor Harold Ar- gos to turn back the pages of his- tory and take us on another ad- venture in classical archaeology. Take it away, Harry! HARRY: Thanks Bob, and hello again fellas and gals! (beaming smile as audience is warmed up) Today we are about to journey through time and space to the tnm of ncr nt.A n -i ..,,12.. didn't they? That's about it for today, gang. Be sure to tune in Wednesday when Professor Harold Argos will answer the challenging question, "Are the pyramids here to stay?" HARRY: That's right, Bob. And say-don't miss my quizz show Tuesday night when I'll have as my guest Dean Alfred Newman. Until then, so long! (winks at camera) Theme: ACADEMIC OVERTURE (up and out) * * * OF COURSE, ETV will not be a cure-all for all University prob- lems.It will still be necessary to give the students some incentive to study and to test his compre- hension of subject matter. The University should seriously con- sider installing electric eyes above the desks of students to notify the proper authorities when their best effort is not being put forth, Testing could be done on an objective basis by flashing pages of questions on the screen which the student would cover with a Pan~ii nna at, e aould Take the student who is con- tinually complaining about not being able to become acquainted with his professors. This problem could be solved very capably by a series of This Is Your Life pro- grams, with different faculty members featured each week. * * * THERE COULD ALSO be pro- grams with a special incentive to study, such as The 64,000 Honor Point Question and Two for the Four Point. And you could take a mid-afternoon break each day by tuning in for Coffee with Hatcher. ETV would offer a solution to the old problem of the lecture ban. All guest lecturers would have to go through the studio and could be cut off the air if their ideas were too unpopular. Studio controls would do away with the senseless waste of time which typifies an argument and instead present the student with the accepted facts right away. In fact, ETV could even shorten the amount of time it takes to get an education by excluding all the irrelevant matter and getting A