"Merry Christmas To You, Sir" Sixty-Seventh Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN "When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of stay writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: CAROL PRINS Dearborn Branch Marks Acceleration Of Three Educational Trends To The Editor Letters to the Editor must be signed and limited to 30o words. The Daily reserves the right to edit or withhold any letter. I ' Q T J'HE grant of $6,500,000 and 210 acres by the Ford Motor Company and the planned es- tablishment of a Dearborn branch on the pro- perty represent a landmark in the history of the University. Monday's action dramatized and furthered the progress of three significant trends in American education, two of which are highly commendable. The biggest news made Monday was the cul- mination in at least one company of a grow- ing awareness in American industry of the ex- tent of its reliance on educational institutions. Until now, the major cost of the expensive and highly specialized educations required by in- dustry has been borne by federal and state'gov- ernments and other non-industrial sources. The Ford grant should lead the way for oth- er companies to similarly acknowledge their obligatiton to share the tremendous financial burden imposed upon universities by the fan- tastic growth of technical educational faciltiies industry will require in the coming years. A'SECOND healthy trend dramatized and furthered by Monday's announcement is that toward University branches. Not only will it lessen the costs of education for the residents of areas in which branches are icoated, but it also represents an acknowledgement of some practical limits to. the educational expansion upon which this and other universities are so intent. It may be futile in this age of mass produc- tion- to argue that there is a point of diminish- ing returns in efforts to run more and more students along an educational assembly line, a point where quality lost is greater than quan- tity gained. But apparently the deans and administra- tors are willing to recognize some distant limits to the capacity of one University community- Ann Arbor - to continually expand yet remain a community. The establishment of the Flint and now the Dearborn branches, along with the contemplated establishment of several oth- ers, should take some of the pressure off the already-strained communications and contin- uity (to say nothing of physical facilities like housing of the Ann Arbor educational commu- nity. THE THIRD trend in education signified by the Dearborn Center is toward further em- phasis on vocational training as the function of a university. To some extent this is com- mendable, especially in the light of the na- tional need for trained engineers. But the en- rollment estimates for the Dearborn school, in which liberal arts are expected to occupy 22 per cent of the students, are disappointing. Just what will be the effect of the establish- ment of the Dearborn branch as a primarily vocational school is difficult to determine. It may be that it will draw a larger total educa- tional allocation from the legislature or pre- vent the necessity for a greater distribution of legislative funds, for direct vocational train- ing. Or it may be that the financial needs of Dearborn Center in excess of the $6,500,000 grant will be largely met at the expense of oth- er branches of education and research. If the latter is the case, one can only raise a quiet, perhaps overly sentimental voice of protest at one further evidence of declining importance of the humanities and social sciences and a hope that the decline is relative to other forms of education and not absolute. A FURTHER hope might be registered - that industry might oneday see a comparable ,self-interest, both direct and indirect, in the development of liberal arts training and ack- nowledge that interest on a simhilarly large scale. --PETER ECKSTEIN WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Ike and Jehovah's Witnesses By DREW PEARSON 'Lawful' Isolate . . To the Editor: WE have noted with interest the editorial (Dec. 14) entitled "Contradictions of Library Func- tion", wherein your writer makes a plea for increased accessability of legal works in the Law Library. However it seems to us that his conclusion that undergraduates should be permitted freer access to Law Library materials is manifest- ly absurd. Rather, it is imperative that the Director of the Law Li- brary take drastic measures to bar all undergraduates from the build- ing as the only means of assuring to law students, for whose use and benefit the library is maintained, proper access to the research and study facilities. The study of Law at this University is extremely ex- acting and arduous work. The competition for academic survival is intense. Bona fide legal research requires an intense concentration which can be accomplished only in an environment free from the fri- volous distractions of giggling coeds whispering to their under- graduate "study dates" little girl- ish confidences about the latest sorority dance, and who is now "pinned" to whom. The under- graduates of both sexes have been turning our Library into a "Teen Age Canteen"-type social center for the pre-Pretzel Bell crowd. The distractions confronting the serious student of the law are be- coming well nigh intolerable: the odds favor his being unablebeven to find a seat; should he be so lucky, he will find himself in the middle of an ocean of restless idlers whose "need for legal ma- terials" is demonstrated by the elementary Speech or Sociology books open on the tables in front of them. Should the Law School authori- ties continue to ignore this ever increasing plague of adolescent visitors, we soon may expect the installation of a Coke Bar and a giant glittering Juke Box for in- formal dancing in the Main Read- ing Room. Undergraduates: Please spare us your society. Leave us alone. Get out and stay out. Find other space for your gossiping, giggling, and letter writing, and other ears to hear your chewing gum snap- snap-snap. We need the chairs, the books, and some semblance of peace and quiet for our own law- ful pursuits. N. W. Stroup, '58L Society's Plight . . To the Editor ONE of your editorial writers states (Dec. 16) that "power politics is presented by members of the political science department as an established game. War is matter-of-factly an effective in- strument of national policy." If political scientists are to be judged by their classroom state- ments alone this may seem to be a fair reflection of their thinking. I should like to call the attention of your readers, however, to. the fact that one of the chief motives of many political scientists is the desire to find a peaceful alterna- tive to war. Two of the great lead- Russian Claims Ridiculous R ECENT SOVIET CLAIMS that the Hungar- ian revolt resulted from external pressures are ridiculous and another example of Russian propaganda. Examination of the facts prove the revolt could only be a spontaneous, unplanned display of internal dissatisfaction with Soviet domina- tion. The riots began as a demonstration by students of the University in Budapest. When a nervous Soviet soldier fired on the mob, the revolt was on. Hungarian refugees have testified to the to- tal disorganization of the revolution. Leaders of workers and students were appointed on the spot as more and more volunteers joined the revolutionary mob. No definite plan of attack was evident. The attack on Stalin's statue and the Budapest radio station were pure mob ac- tion. Another factor in the revolution is the al- most total leadership by the students. Were a foreign nation stimulating a revolution, the army or a guerilla force would more likely pro- vide more organized and effective leadership than students, untrained in revolutionary tech- niques. If Western powers encouraged the revolution, which the Soviets claim, why then was no aid given to the Hungarians. It seems reasonable that once the revolt had started, the U.S., Bri- tain or France would offer aid. The fact that the Hungarians at the present time have no arms or food, is testimony to the fact that no aid, secret or otherwise has been given. THAT THE MORAL 'FORCE of the free world is with the Hungarians is clearly evident. From recent refugee reports it is also evident that the Voice of America and Radio Free Eu- rope encouraged the rebels in protesting against Soviet domination. Yet, it seems hardly probable that these somewhat vague promises would initiate a full scale revolution such as has been in evidence in Hungary. Analysis of the situation can only lead to the conclusion that the cause for the "scrap" was internal, clearly caused by Russian domi- nation and oppression. -CAROL PRINS Early Exodus Shows Inadequacy of Calendar THE REACTION of both students and pro- fessors to the shortened Christmas vacation suggests an inadequacy in the present calen- dar. Few students are staying around for Satur- day classes. For that matter many have already left and the exodus from Ann Arbor promises to continue throughout the week, well in ad- vance of the official vacation. A number of professors seem as unenthusias- tic toward classes this week as their students. Several have hinted that they will give "bolts" on Saturday. The week before Christmas is a good time to earn money. Also, as the Christmas spirit grows stronger, the inclination to study grows weaker. The late start of Christmas vacation is a serious shortcoming of the present calendar. It deserves consideration. Besides, many are simply disregarding the official calendar any- way. -LRM PRESIDENT Eisenhower, whose mother once sold Bible tracts for the Jehovah's Witnesses, is looking for a delicate way to clear the family name of this affiliation. He is sensitive about the fact that Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in saluting the flag or serving under arms. At the same time, he doesn't want to appear prejudiced against any religious sect. Both Ike and his brother, Mil- ton, have discussed the problem with spiritual advisers. But they haven't quite figured out how to disclaim Ida Eisenhower's relations with the Jehovah's Witnesses without offending the sect and perhaps stirring up charges of religious prejudice. Inside story is that Ida was influenced in her old age by a nurse who belonged to the sect. Being Bible-minded, old Mrs. Eisenhower cheerfully agreed to help the Jehovah's Witnesses ped- dle Bible tracts. * * * ACTUALLY, both of Ike's par- ents were stanch members of a small sect called River Brethren. They brought the Eisenhower boys up to belive in the Bible. It was a reverent, if sometimes rowdy, household. One teaching of the River Brethren was that only adults should participate in the formal church organization. This ex- plains why Ike waited so long to accept a church membership. Two of his brothers also waited until after marriage to affiliate with a church. Now the Eisenhower brothers would like to find a graceful way to announce that their mother was not, at heart, a Jehovah's Witness. * * * WASHINGTON whispers: Sec- retary of Labor Jim Mitchell has told intimates he'll take a pro- longed vacation in January, then make it permanent in February, Reason: he would like to make more money. Chubby, chipper Sen. George Bender, (R-Ohio), voted out of a job last November, is angling for appointment as Post- master General. The White House is trying to coax him to settle for a post on the Subversive A c t iiv i t ie s Control Board. Foxy Sen. Jim Eastland (D- Miss.), White-Supremacy cham- pion, called on Deputy Attorney General Bill Rogers for a small favor. "You Republicans ought to be grateful to me," drawled the Mississippi Democrat. "I gave you five million votes." The Hungarian airlift will cost the Air Force four times what the independent airlines offered to do the job for. Present esti- mates indicate the cost will run around $12 million. Yet the inde- pendent lines offered to fly all the Hungarian refugees to this coun- try for $3.5 million. The Defense Department, how- ever, wanted to make a grand- stand gesture. So the independent airlines were turned town. The taxpayers are now paying the difference. SECRETARY of Agriculture Benson is quietly digging out from under the mountain of surplus food the farmers annually dump on him. For the first time since he be- came custodian of the annual avalanche, he is unloading food almost as fast as he is storing it. Biggest accomplishment: he has sold every last pound of butter that had been in danger of going rancid in government warehouses. Benson has peddled, bartered, and donated food to almost any- one who would -take it. He has given it away to State govern- ments for school lunches, to chari- ties for foreign relief. He has traded some to hungry countries for strategic minerals. He has un- loaded vast quantities on the Armed Forces and Veterans Ad- ministration. (Copyright 1956 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ers in the establishment of politi- cal science as an academic dsi. pline in this country, Francis Lieb-" er and John W. Burgess, were combat veterans who decided t study political science for this rea- son. Many of those now teaching political science are also veterans who have similarly had their fill of living dangerously. Political scientists must earn a. living, and society has determined that education should be in terms of the world as it is and not as it should be. If the general public, or a significant segment of it, would support a program to pro- vide a realistic and peaceful al- ternative to war as an instrument of national policy many political scientists would be only too glad to devote their energies to such a cause. Marshall Knappen Rare Praise .. To the Editor: I would like to commend the Daily for reviewing the Detroit Sym- phony concert in Detroit, Thurs- day night. I would also like to applaud the two music reviewers for their very fine suggestion -about starting a bus service from Ann Arbor for these concerts. These concerts are of first rate quality and prime musical impor- tance. I think many students and citizens would greatly enjoy them if the trouble of the drive down and back were eliminated. The fine fleet of buses at the plant department, as it is, are used only a fraction of their potential. Let's hear more on this score. Walter Anderson Not Entirely So! .. . To the Editor: lN your editorial (Dec. 16) on re- ligion, you stated that it was not important for Johnny Freshman to be active in his Ann Arbor church just because he was active in his church back home in Hick- ory Corners. As a resident of Hick- ory Corners, residing on this cam- pus, I reserve the right to disagree with you. Although I do not attend the Methodist Church in Hickory Corners, and incidentally there are two which are always at odds, I attend the church of my choice here in Ann Arbor and my inter- est is anything but passive. As a regular visitor to Lane Hall, I should mention that I do not seem to be alone. At any rate, there are a few of us, back in Hickory Corners and elsewhere that have been able to correlate reason and religion, and have been able to transfer our in- terest and thought to this campus, Therefore, instead of pointing out the passive attitude of students, let us all remember that there are some religious organizations on this campus that are actively carrying on the work you feel Is missing. Marianne Preston, 157 Hickory Corners, Mich. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an of- ficial publication of the UniversIty of Michigan for which the 7fchigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. No- tices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN A 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. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 195 'y VOL. LXVII, NO. 72 General Notices Regent's Meeting: Fri., Jan. 25. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than Jan. 16. Women's hours for the week before Christmas vacation: Dec. 19, regular 10:30 night. Thurs., Dec. 20, 11 o'clock p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, regular 12:30 night. Automatic late permissions can be taken as usual on Wed. night. SGC: Student Activities Scholarship Board. Petitioning open for three po- sitions on the Student Activities Schol- arship Board through Dec. 19. Petition forms availablea1020 Administration Bldg., Mrs. Callahan. Institute of Internation Education has announced foreign study grants avail- able for the year 1957-58. Awards will be granted to the following countries: Austria,Brazil, Ceylon, Cuba, Denmark, England, France, Germany. Iran, Israel,; Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and S'witzerland. Students may apply for Fulbright Travel Grants (travel only in conjunction with some of these awards. Further information about these grants may be obtained in the Office of the Graduate School. Noon Showing, Wed., Dec. 19, 12:30 p.m. Audio-visual Auditorium, 4051 Administration Building. "Children of Germany," "Life in Mountains (Switz- erland)," "Scandinavian Lands: Nor- way, Sweden, Denmark." THE OUTSIDER, BY COLIN WILSON: Success: Flatter the Reader; Tell A Good Story Western Ignorance of Asia T HE PRESENT world situation is the most fluid it has been since the end of World War U. This is particularly true in Asia. The steady rise of nationalism and the growing number of nations obtaining independence has chal- lenged the wisdom of ignoring this area of the world. A. T. Steele, of The New York Herald Tri- bune, speaking Monday in Rackham Amphi- theater, stressed the need for this country to see the problems of Asia as Asians see them. Editorial Staff RICHARD SNYDER. Editor RICHARD HALLORAN LEE MARKS Editorial Director City Editor Business Staff CAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN. Associate Business Manager WILLIAM PUSCH................. Adertising Manager CHARLES WILSON ........... Finance Manager PATRICIA LAMBERIS ........Accounts Manager STEPHEN TOPOL and He indicated that our prestige today is up in Asia by virtue of our vote in the United Nations condemning the action of Britain and France in their Suez venture. Retaining this new-found prestige calls for a new outlook by both our government and the American people. THE TYPE of understanding needed is a type generally foreign to us. It seems only natural for, with the best of intentions, to try to mold others in our image. However, with rare exceptions, nations resists attempts chan- ges in their culture. Seeing Asian problems through Asian eyes means acceptance, on our part, 'of people for what they are. It is easy to understand a pea- son if he acts like he likes us. It is not so easy if he acts and believes differently. It will take a conscious effort on the part of our people as well as our government to ac- cept and understand ways of life we may con- sider as inferior to ours. This idea of inferiority lacks substance in itself. Many Asian nations can point to histories and cultures of the highest level. For the West to look down on them is: ethnoceantrism of the ImnPt nrrir The Outsider by Colin Wilson, Houghton Mifflin Company, $4.00. 281 p1p. THERE was a year for Gone .Withthe Wind and a year for The Robe - this is the year of The Outsider. Like those two pre- decessors The Outsider has not re- ceived universal critical acclaim, and, like them, the more erudite the pretensions of the critic the less likely the acclaim. But wheth- er one likes it or not the term "Outsider" is the catchword of ,the season and its twenty-five year old inventor, Colin Wilson, is the caught lion. The wonder of the critics - particularly the Americans who have not treated Mr. Wilson quite as kindly as have his British com- patriots - is why the book is sell- ing like a novel with a big bed in every chapter. The answer is not very difficult. Mr. Wilson's success is based on two tried and true formulas: He flatters the reader and he can, when he wants to, tell a very good story. As tosthe flattery - it is as ob- vious as that employed in a Cad- illac advertisement. It becomes evident in some of Mr. Wilson's various and varied definitions of the Outsider: "He is an Outsider because he stands for Truth," or . the Outsider's chief desire is to cease to be an Outsider. He cannot cease to be an Outsider simply to become an ordinary bourgeois." After such definitions who wants to be an Insider? (Miss T'wc hia r ry -vcns nno. v to write about - Sartre, Blake, Kierkegaard -is indeed heady company to keep. And who would not want to join the fraternity of the gods? * * * BUT, AS I SAID, there is a sec- ond and more important reason why Mr. Wilson's book is on the best seller list. That is because he can tell a good story. The Out- sider is not fiction, but it is that near relation of fiction - impres- sionistic criticism. While reading The Outsider one thinks of the lit- erary criticism of Macaulay, R. L. Stevenson, and Carlyle. Like those Victorians Mr. Wilson wrote his book for the reader to whom Nietz- sche and Dostoevsky were but great names residing in that never never land of a library shelf. And like his Victorian masters Mr. Wilson jumbles up the biogra- phy of a writer, the writer's work, and his own impressions of the writer into a kind of potpourri which often gives us a better pic- ture of Colin Wilson than of the person under discussion. He can define the Outsider as a man who wants to be free and then include T. S. Eliot who makes it quite clear in "Ash-Wednesday" that he wants no such thing. This may be rather shocking to a modern critic, but Mr. Wilson knows that the nineteenth cen- tury understood so well - that all people couldn't or wouldn't read Dostoevsky and that for them it was easier and more pleasant to learn about Bunyan in an essay by Macaulay than by reading The to forget that the author claims to be writing a kind of religious treatise for our time and to go along just for the pleasure of some of the portraits of the fa- mous. When Mr. Wilson is at his best-as he is in the fourth chap- ter entitled "The Attempt to Gain Control" where he discusses T. E. Lawrence, Van Gogh, and Nijim- sky - he can carry the reader along by the power of the story he is telling. Especially interesting is his link- ing of these three Outsider types- Lawrence the man of action, Van Gogh the painter, Nijinski the dancer - as three men attempt- ing to give purpose to their lives and all three ending their lives in various forms of insanity. It would be a dull reader indeed who after this chapter did not feel some curiosity about the Diary of Vaslav Nijimsky. If one wishes to criticize Mr. Wilson's treatment of his subjects it would be on the same basis as one would criticize any impres- sionistic work of this type - the more the reader knows about the particular writer under discus- sion the less satisfying is the auth- or's characterization of him and his achievement. This is the nat- ural consequence of a type of crit- icism which tends to substitute the impressions of the critic for the experience of the work itself. But sometimes Mr. Wilson makes serious errors of fact that could come only. from a careless BUT IT IS not in the display of his extensive reading - which is certainly impressive enough - that Mr. Wilson fails. It is in his attempt to offer some unified and logical explanation to the prob- lem of the Outsider, the person who, as he says: ". . . is the one man who knows he is sick in a civilization that doesn't know it is sick." Mr. Wilson, as in the cases of Nijinsky and T. E. Lawrence, oft- en gives excellent illustrations of individual Outsider types, but when he attempts to generalize, his lack of adequate definitions and his failure to indicate wheth- er he is still talking about one par- ticular Outsider or all Outsiders, often makes his statements con- tradictory nonsense. When he says: "The Outsider's wretched- ness lies in his inability to find a new faith," and then classifies Blake, who was neither wretched nor without a new faith, as an Outsider the reader is apt to be- come wary of all of Mr. Wilson's pronouncements. But no one need be surprised if a solution to the world's problems is not to be found in this book. Somewhere Mr. Wilson has said that what the world needs is a new religion and that he intends to do some work in that direction. Well, the last religion to come out of the British Museum - where this book was written - was brought forth by Karl Marx and,