I 04r :ftrigant HlJ 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 Trutb 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, JANUARY 8, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: VERNON NAHRGANG Dodge and Ford Grants Also Create Problems T FIRST GLANCE, the Dodge and Ford grants to MSU and the University seem highly desirable. Universities are always in notorious need of money, and gifts totalling 20 million dollars are almost a reason for dancing in the streets. To question the value of such donations is near blasphemy. Now, after the cheering has subsided, a close examination of the ramifications of these gifts, a look below the facade of generosity, is necessary for their proper evxaluation. The Dearborn school will be established on a co-operative basis, with students working at "local industry." Ford is lopated at Dearborn. The Dodge gift is going toward a branch school to teach engineering, business and the arts-in that order. It would appear that both Chrysler and Ford will be getting their own technical schools- not unlike G.M. tech-with the state footing the bill. One wonders just how long General Motors will continue to pay for their techni- cians' education, particularly when they can unload their burden under the guise of a char- itable act. THERE ARE PROBLEMS presented by these schools more important than the motivation for their establishment. Money for support of the two new schools is to come from the State Legislature. Last year the University asked for 17 milliondollars for capital improvements and received only 8 million. Governor Williams, whose assiduous avoidance of unpopular moves has become somewhat of a political legend, had out the request even further than that. It would appear from this there is not an unlimited supply of funds pouring from Lans- ing; that there are times when money will go no further. States taxes do more than pay for Universities. It takes a great deal of cold, hard cash to maintain a first-rate quality educational insti- tution. This is not only for plan expansion and improvement and salaries high enough to attract top professors, but for enough pro- fessors to keep the student teacher ratio at a respectable level. Can the state afford to take the responsibility for two new schools and maintain high standards of education? ADMITTEDLY, BOTH NEW institutions, or branches, will provide educational oppor- tunities for many more students, students who might have been unable to receive them without the schools. But, the University has been expanding steadily to accommodate more people. Projected plans call for 40,000 students by 1966, and the engineering college has recently announced a vast expansion program. This expansion is being attempted without sacrifice in quality of education within the limitations of great size. A degree from the University, so we are told, carries a great deal of weight and prestige, and most people in the administration, again we are told in count- ,ess public relations speeches, would like to see it remain that way. Can it possibly continue with the new Dear- born branch? COMMENT ON THE decreasing status of the* liberal arts caused by this type of gift is apparently futile. At least Michigan will be able to turn out engineers to help meet the Russian threat, and thereby do its bit. University officials dream of ten million dollar windfalls. if they dare, but these must be carefully examined for accompanying pit- falls-that is, if they want do do more than present degrees to the greatest possible number of people. --RICHARD TAUB Possible To Put Fund To More Worthwhile Use? ONLY 33 to 40 per cent of approximately $1,000,000 available to students in the form of loans is being used for that purpose. At the present time a study is being carried out by Frederick Oliver, general accountant in the business office attempting to discover ways and means of making loans more interesting to students. Perhaps the best answer would be to convert the loan money into a scholarship fund. It must be acknowledged that a loan fund is necessary for students who occasionally feel a financial pinch. But why is such a large fund not being used? The University makes short term investments with unborrowed loan money. It might prove feasible to invest a large portion of the million dollars and award scholarships financed by the returns on the investments. A plan to make the funds available in the form of scholarships would certainly be better than allowing dollars meant for students to be used for other purposes. -THOMAS BLUES "However, We've Been Pre tty Successful In Keeping American Newspapermen Out Of China" - - I I $ / '7 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Senator orse ides Nixon By DREW PEARSON I LETTERS LW to the EDITOR ii I I A BRIEF, pointed exchange be- tween two men who don't love each other occurred when Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon took the oath before Vice-President Nixon. Nixon had gone out to Oregon twice to defeat Senator Morse. The campaign against him was considered the "Yale Game" of all the Senate elections. A member of the Eisenhower Cabinet had even resigned to run against Morse. So, when Morse came up to the Senate rostrum to take the oath and shake hands with the Vice-President, he said: "Mr. Vice-President, I want to thank you for those speeches you made in Oregon. They helped elect me." Mr. Nixon gulped, then recovered quickly. "Well, I'm glad they helped, he shot back with a smile. "They certainly did," replied Morse. "YOU ROLLED with the punch- es," chuckled Nixon. "And you threw a few your- self," said Morse. It was all over in 20 seconds. No one except the two men knew what had happened. (Note - Though there was a slight note of sarcasm in Morse's voice, he halfway meant what he said-that Nixon's speeches had helped. For, when Nixon first came to Oregon he gave a pep talk to GOP leaders at Salem urging them to go out and get Morse. "Don't pay any attention to is- sues," he said, "get out the vote." AT THE MICHIGAN Day and Jordan Tense, Tense, Tense "JULIE" is one of those suspense movies "well-calculated" to keep you in a constant state of anxiety. Throughout the film Doris Day has the most fearful look on her face while trying to escape the vengeful hands of her murderous hus- band, Louis Jordan. There is never a clear explanation of how she ever got into the mess in the first place. But it seems that Bob (her first husband who Later ex-Secretary of the Interior Doug McKay got this confused. "Issues are not important," he told the audience. "It's the votes that count." Morse hung this around Mc- Kay's neck. In speech after speech he said: "I want to let you in on a big secret. You know the position of my opponent, that issues aren't important. Well, at 2 a.m. on November 7 he's going to discover that issues were im- portant after all and that he's going back to that struck auto agency of his in Salem and sell Cadillacs again." * * * DEMOCRATIC SENATORS are really throwing the hooks into John Foster Dulles on his mid-east policy, and doing it deliberately. Shortly before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met with Dulles last week, Senate leader Lyndon Johnson phoned four members of the committee-Mans- field of Montana, Sparkman of Alabama, Fulbright of Arkansas and Humphrey of Minnesota__ advising them not to pull any punches. They didn't. On top of this Johnson attended the closed-door session himself and wrote notes to the senators suggesting ques- tions to ask the secretary of state. Democrats were ired at the way the administration was forcing "Eisenhower Doctrine" by the bar- rage of publicity leaked to the press in advance. They gave Dulles such a rough time that at one point he said: "There's only one man respon- sible for the foreign policy of the United States-the President." "Then why are you coming to us with this resolution?" the sena- tors cracked back. "If the Presi- dent has the responsibility, let him exercise it." *I * * VICE-PRESIDENT Nixon's sur- prise statement that he believed the present filibuster rule "un- constitutional" actually had been carefully worked out in advance. The people who worked with him were none other than some of the most liberal Democrats in the Sen- ate, led by Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. Humphrey went to Nixon in ad- vance of the showdown vote, asked point blank if Nixon would answer a "point of order" if it were asked of him during the debate on end- ing filibusters. A point of order is a parliamentary inquiry which is not binding on the Senate. "Don't get the'wrong idea," said Humphrey,. "we're not trying to put you on the spot. But if you give the right answer it may make another Abraham Lincoln out of' you." Nixon listened sympathetically., "If you give the right answer," Humphrey continued, "We think it would influence some Republi- can votes and that's why we're asking you." Nixon discussed the matter care- fully, indicated he would probably give the right answer. Later he did. His statement should have far-reaching effects on his Negro voters if he runs for President in 1960. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate, Inc,) Letters to the Lditur must he signea and limited to 300 words. The Daily reserves the right to edit or with- Please, LEAVE ... To the Editor: T THE present time, the Medi- cal Library often remains un- filled because medical students do not itilize the facilities. Neverthe- less. when students enrolled in schools other than Medical School attempt to study in the seats which would otherwise remain vacant. they are requested to leave. This is a waste of facilities and something should be done about the situa- tion. One suggestion could be for stu- dents from other schools to be restricted to a certain area of the library, and a medical student could be given the privilege of re- questing such students to leave, providing that the remaining seats were occupied. This plan keeps in mind the fact that the medical library exists primarily for medical students and yet it does not encourage waste of the facilities by senselessly keeping it exclusive to them. -Marsha Firk, '60 -Raylene Abrams, '60 The Liberal Engineer To the Editor: CONGRATULATIONS to Fred Lochner, Jr., (Daily, Jan. 4) for an intelligent and very learned discourse on the world situation today and its relation to the engi- neer. You are entirely correct. He who wastes the least amount of time liberalizing makes biggest and best bomb. But contrary to Pro- fessor Johnson's notion that the American engineer has a reason- able background, and your impli- cation that he has an excessive background in liberal arts, the United States still makes a pretty fair brand of bomb. The average enginesering sched- ule at this university calls for 6 or 6 hours of non-technical electives and a few engineering English courses, geared to enable the stu- dent to produce a reasonable fac- simile of coherency in his technical reports. These few courses are to be sandwiched adroitly among a whole battery of technical courses in order that the student might graduate with his sanity intact. Then clasping his diploma in one hand and his slide rule in the other, he looks around to see the world ituation just as you de- scribe it. The world peers out from behind curtains of fear, propagan- da. and bomb shelter material at the monstrous power created by petty, narrow-minded men, utter- ly devoid of the message of the humanities. I do not assert that these men are engineers, but only that the engineering student of today rep- resents a definite potentiality of becoming mired in this rut of tech- nological improvement to the ex- clusion of everything else. So, why don't we just eliminate all attempts to liberalize our en- gineers Then we could attain a univ?ersal mediocrity in that field. Let's not worry about the prob- lems of humanity. Leave that to the ivory tower 'boys in Angell Hall. Alan MacKellar, '58E S by Dick Bibler is already, dead before the movie begins) and Miss Day were enter- taining Jordan as a house guest. Jordan had become infatuated with Miss Day and one evening Bob, for no apparent reason, com- mitted suicide by hanging him- self from a pipe in the basement. * * * MISS DAY is already married to Jordan when the film starts. (Her grief over Bob's death is quite short, it seems.) Her new husband is rather a jealous and ferocious man and just can't stand to see Doris even talking to another male. One night Jordan admits that her first husband hadn't committed suicide at all, but had been murdered out of his intense love for her. He hints strongly that the same thing might happen to her if she ever tries to leave him. The remainder of the evening is one of extreme terror for Doris. When morning comes, she tries to get away from the house as fast as possible. After getting her husband away from the house on a phony errand, she stupidly de- cides that she must pack her clothes before she runs away. THIS INCONSISTENT action is thrown into the story to enable Jordan to sneak back to the house, remove a vital part of the engine - and sneak away again. Doris hears the hood slam, and gets even more frightened - if that's possible, and decides not to pack her clothes after all. She rushes out to the car, finds that it will not work, and then frantically runs down the road until she hitches a ride to Los Angeles. FOR THE REST of the film, her mad husband pursues her up, down, and over the Pacific Coast with the intent of murder. We never find out how he was able to locate her all the time, but mental telepathy or something keeps him two paces behind her. The picture starts off at the height of an emotional crescendo and never lets down. The situa- tion is tense, tense, tense, Murder may be committed at any minute! And after a while we wish that the homicidal maniac would get the girl so that the fiasco would be over. * * * WE WON'T reveal the ending, but will advise those who plan on seeing "Julie" to bring along a spare set of fingernails. You'll be biting them'until the very end of the picture. -Sol Plafkin LDDILL OFFICIAL j BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an of- ficial publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editaial respbnsibmity. 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, January 8, 1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 77 General Notices Student Driving Regulations will b lifted between the first and seconc semesters, from 5 p.m., Wed., Jan. 16 1957 to 8 a.m., Thurs., Feb. 7, 1957. Al student driving permit holders are re- minded that new automobile license plate numbers are to be reported tc the Office of Student Affairs within days after being changed. Student Accounts: Your attention is called to the following rules passed by the Regents at their meeting on Feb. 28, 1936: "Students shall pay all ac- counts due the University not later than the last day of classes of each semester or summer session. Student loans which are not paid or renewed are subject to this regulation; how- ever, student loans not yet due are exempt. TAny unpaid accounts at the close of business on the last day of classes will be reported to the Cashier of the University and (a) All academic credits will be withheld, the grades for the semester or summer session just completed will not be released, and no transcript of credits will be issued (b) All student. owing such ac- counts will not be allowed to register inrany subsequent semester or sum- mer session until payment has been made." General Electric Fellowship Applica- tions must be received in the Graduate School, Room 1020, Rackham Bldg. by 4:00 p.m. today, Jan. 8. Spanish Play. Tryouts on Tues., Jan. 8, and Wed., Jan. 9, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., in 408 R.L. Handicaps in Foreign Policy SINCE THE END of World War II the foreign policy of the United States and the men who make it have been the target for constant attacks by various segments of our country. Three primary reasons for this continuing stream of attacks can be seen. First, foreign relations are of vital importance. Secondly, there is the mistaken belief that our policy has been an almost total failure while Soviet policy a nearly flawless success. Thirdly,some have set an impractical goal which requires all nations to love us like a bride loves her hus- band on their wedding day before our policy can be considereq successful. Apparently little consideration is given to the immense problems that confront the nations of the world. A quick glance at the multitudiness world problems such as distrust between France and Germany. hundreds of year of wars among European nations, animosity between Arabs and Jews, the powerful rise of international communism and their admitted goal of con- trolling the world, the grinding poverty and overpopulation of the nations of the Far East and their intense drive for independence, the desperate clinging of England and France to fast fading glories of the past, and the scare of two giant world wars in the last thirty years make it a minor miracle that a third war has not yet destroyed us all. Editorial Staf t RICHARD SNYDER Editor RICHARD HALLORAN NLEE MARKS Editorial Director City Editor GAIL GOLDSTEIN ............... Persoonnei Director ERNEST THEODOSSIN........ Magazine Editor JANET REARICK Associate Editorial Director MARY ANN THOMAS ..... Features Editor DAVID GREY..............Sports Editor RICHARDCRAMER...........Associate Sports Editor STEPHEN HEILPERN.........Associate SportQ Editor VIRGINIA ROBERTSON .... Women's Editor JANE FOWLER ...........Associate Women's Editor ARLINE LEWIS................ Women's Feature Editor .TOHN HIRTZEL............... Chief Photographer FOREIGN POLICY is not conducted in a vacuum where brilliant ideas meet no re- sistance. It is carried on by mortal men with all their human failings and by nations with their prides and vanities, different aspirations, unequal status in the world hierarchy, varying degrees of wealth, dissimiliar internal problems and a general lack of understanding which has so plagued the world through history. Like a football game, it is easy to shots from the stands where the critic pressure and has no responsibility decision should it go wrong. call the feels no for the Much of the criticism of the Eisenhower Administration is1 alleged lack of "boldness and Such criticism fails to fully horrible results of the failure of policy of the based on an imagination." consider the "bold" action. Banning of the Atomic Bomb without ade- quate controls on the invalid premise that Russia would not dare cross world opinion, armed intervention. in Hungary on the belief that Russia won't fight, or the keeping of Western troops in Egypt in the hope that Soviet threats to send "volunteers" is a bluff could bring total world disaster should our assump- tions be wrong. Perhaps the critics would be a little less "bold" if the results of a wrong guess were personalized. if he realized that the dangers, which seem far away and a little untrue, could lead to the elimination of himself and his fam- ily The line between boldness and foolishness is thin indeed. ANOTHER IMPORTANT aspect of policy which critics neglect is the attitude of the American people toward that policy. Make no mistake that the 'conduct of foreign affairs takes place only in Embassy Row in Washing- ton and in foreign capitals. That policy must be satisfactory to our people first and to other nations second. The success of any given policy is largely dependent on the ability of the administration in power to convince the people of its soundness AT THE STATE: For the Young in Mind: 'Baby Doll' " A B Y D O L L" (pronounced Bahbe Dahl) is Tennessee Wil- liams' latest pastoral paean to the decadent South, the land of crumbling mansions, moonshine and natural cleavage. Baby Doll (Carroll Baker), a 19- year-old shepherdress type with a fourth-grade education (she can't do long division), is married to Archie (Karl Malden), a middle- aged lout with shattered nerves. Archie's nerves are shattered be- cause he can't consummate his marriage until Baby Doll's twen- tieth birthday: they made a "bar- gain." Baby Doll likes the simple pleas- ures in life- she lies in her crib and sucks her thumb. Archie runs a cotton gin. But the industrial revolution has made its way into the countryside. A Sicilian named Silva Vacarro (Eli Wallach, has established a syndicate tton gin. and Archie can no longer make a living. The credit union takes Archies furniture away an( Baby Doll warns him: no furniture, nc fun. So Archie, drunk with capitalistic doctrine, burns down the syndi- cate gin to increase his business. Silva sets out to prove that Doll coos. "I'd like to take a nap," Silva answers. She leads him to her crib and tucks him in. so that he, too, can enjoy the simple pleasures. * * * THERE ARE TWO basic things wrong with "Baby Doll:" 1) it keeps "suggesting," but fails to carry through, a tiresome business; 2) it never decides whether to be a primitive suburban tragedy, a roaring farce, or a tone poem to Bacchus Director Elia Kazan doesn't help much either, despite the good performances he gets from his players. especially Miss Baker. Mr. Kazan has by this time de- veloped such a self-conscious art technique that every scene looks like it was mapped out with slide rule and vernier caliper. As for Mr. Williams-well he is still trying to rewrite "Bambi" from Zola's point of view: he has yet to learn that barnyard fowl wil) never replace domesticated animals * * * "BABY DOLL" has created im- 'nense national controversy. Its de- fenders have claimed it as a pro- gressive step in the attempt to its intense naturalism, its relish for pictorial detail and its studied photography will probably pass for "art." Some may even find it studded with metaphysical sym- bolism of the noblest variety. -Ernest Theodossin LITTLE MAN ON CAMPU -AN NOW HAV ANICE ~'' (( VACAm ON, D LETS tt CONE SAC ALL- 'R F21 AANA-ET i Ml Business Staft DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN Associate Business WILLIAM PUSCH ............. Advertising CHARLES WILSON ..............Finance PATRICIA LAMBERIS......... Accounts Should Washington fail to do so, how intrinsically good a plan may' it prove unpopular for any one of a reasons, it will not work. no matter be. should number of Manager Manager Manager Manager While. of course not every move since World I