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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: VERNON NAHRGANG
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DRAMATIC ARTS CENTER:
Oe Is Pay Poor;
P erfrmance Good
4R ITS SIXTH offering of the current season, the Dramatic Arts
Center has unfortunately chosen a bad play. Clifford Odets' "The
Country Girl," despite the Oscars of its film stars, is a sad work with
a happy ending and no transition between the two.
Odets seems to operate under the theory that any emotional mess
can .be straightened out if only one understands one's motivations.
Consequently, he goes in heavily for third-act psychoanalysis, where
all the characters sit around and pick at each other's traumas. But
between the psychoanalysis and the play's resolution, however, there
is no transition. We are not allowed to watch the characters change.
IN "THE COUNTRY GIRL," Odets attacks the problem of a fine
actor-turned-drunk, Frank Elgin tRalph Drischell), who loas a chance
St. George and the Dragon-
Humphrey and the Budget
S HE SURVEYED the world from the office
of the head of the Mark Hanna enterprises,
George Humphrey cultivated a great distrust
of bureaucrats, economic planners and govern-
ment spenders. That distrust didn't completely
vanish, either, when an appointment by Presi-
dent Eisenhower led George to join the ranks
of the enemy.
But for several years he seemed happy in the
office of Secretary of the Treasury, a portrait
of. Andrew Mellon smiling approvingly from
the wall. He could slash a little off this budget,
a little off that, and glory in the notion that
whatever governmental service he was cutting,
the American Businessman would have to pay
fewer taxes because of it. Incentive, which had
long been absent from the business world,
was being restored, confidence was being bol-
stered, investment spurred, and jobs created.
George was the strongman of the Cabinet,
and for a while he was able to see to it that
creeping socialists stopped wasting the people's
money. That's what Mark Hanna was doing
when he was running McKinley, and Mellon
with Hoover, and those were the days when a
man, a rugged individual, like George for ex-
ample, could get ahead.
ATMONTH the bubble apparently burst.
The Eisenhower Administration, which came
into office with a target budget of $60,000,000,-
000 was recommending something over $70,000,-
000,000, and as Secretary of the Treasury
George was forced to approve it. It seems you
can only put off national needs so long. The
budget called for increased defense costs, aid
to education, increased welfare appropriations
and, while offering a small surplus, left no
room for the tax cuts which would keep Amer-
ica strong, even in time of inflation. George was
clearly uncomfortable.
He called in the press. He wasn't, he ex-
plained, criticizing the current budget, but he
hoped Congress would cut it. It was a good
budget, a fine budget to be sure, but if the
government kept up this way--spending, taxing,
spending, taxing, even if at levels no higher
than those the Administration was currently
recommending-George could predict a "de-
pression that will curl your hair." After all, said
George, "you can't spend yourself rich," and if
anyone ever tried to deliberately unbalance a
budget, say to pump money into the economy
to fight a depression, he would resign.
Newsmen, who remembered the President's.
promise to use any Constitutional methods to
combat depressions, responded with a gasp.
Newsweek magazine, which remembered last
year's corporate tax return, responded by put-
ting George's face on its first possible cover.
LATER IN THE WEEK, during a television
interview, George clarified things a little.
There was no hyprocrisy in his stand. He ad-
mitted he hadn't been doing a very good job as
Secretary of the Treasury, else all this spend-
ing never would have happened, and he was
determined to do better.
As for depressions, confidence was what was
really important. Imaginative television viewers
swear that as he spoke George's face rounded,
cheeks flattened, and collar stiffened. Though
George didn't quote sources, it was like Herbert
Hoover always said, you needed a balanced
budget always, always, always; in depressions,j
with which Herbert had had some experience,'
it was especially important, "indispensable to
the restoration of confidence."
As George rephrased Herbert, it was truej
that government spending in excess of receipts
might in itself prove valuable in time of depres-
sion. But It's the repercussions that are harm-
ful. The government only spends one dollar
for the many businessmen and consumers have
to spend. (As to just how many George's
figures were consistent only in always being
too high.) If the government's spending of that
one dollar, as a weapon against depression, so
terrified businessmen and consumers (a re-
markably timid lot, apparently) that they cut
their spending, i.e. if confidence was destroyed
by deficit financing, then the depression Is only
made worse, and besides it costs money. "You
can't spend yourself rich."
AND GEORGE IS almost right. You can't
spend yourself rich. But if no one spends, no
one grows rich. And, as even George seems to
imply, consumers can spend businessmen rich,
businessmen can spend labor rich, and govern-
ment, if the economy is operating at less than
full speed, can spend them all rich by simply
buying more goods, making for more jobs and
more profits. Profits which result from govern-
ment spending can make jobs just as nicely as
can profits resulting from tax cuts, and both
come faster, when jobs have to be made,
when the budget is unbalanced.
And he's almost right on another point, too.
Confidence in the future of the economy can
bolster consumer and business spending. But
maybe a government which tries to counteract
a downturn by buying more goods than it pre-
vents from being bought via taxation does
more for confidence than a government which
clings to the fetish of an annually balanced
budget whether or not taxpayers can afford
one.
On the other hand, George may be right, and
confidence may be better restored when the
government contributes to a depression by at-
tempting to balance the budget in the face of
a downturn. But if he is right, isn't this a
terrible reflection on the intelligence of the
American Businessman, and wouldn't enlight-
ened people like George be better off teaching
businessmen the value of intelligently flexible
government spending policies rather than re-
inforcing their ignorance which, after all, is
the only obstacle he cites to the effectiveness
of such policies?
THE STORY may yet have a happy ending.
Time magazine reports that George may
soon be leaving the Cabinet. Down the portrait
of Andrew Mellon will come from the Secretary
of the Treasury's office, and up it will go onto
a wall in the Mark Hanna enterprises.
And maybe, after he's gone, the timid busi-
nessmen of America will no longer have their
all-important confidence shattered by nonsensi-
cal predictions by responsible officials of de-
pressions that will curl their hair and obstinate
refusals by those same officials to use the
powers the people gave them and the brains
God gave them to counteract such depression.
--ETER ECKSTEIN
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: .
Problems With King Saud
By DREW PEARSON
THE STATE DEPARTMENT has
had its problems in handling
King Saud and his retinue. Some
of the problems, such as the re-
fusal of Mayor Robert Wagner of
New York to greet the King, have
been widely publicized. Most of
them haven't.
One problem, for instance, is
purely budgetary. The State De-
partment is restricted by Congress
in the amount of money it can
spend on entertaining foreign not-
ables, and therefore has set a rule
that Chiefs of State cannot bring
along more than 10 retainers. This
was stretched to include 15 aides
for President Sukarno of Indo-
nesia, but the State Department's
budget will not~stretch to the point
of King Saud's retinue of 70.
Therefore the Saudi Embassy,
with an assist from the Arabian-
American Oil Company, is pick-
ing up the check for the balance.
ng u>.e .
SAUDI ARABIA, not the United
States, also paid for the King and
his retinue's passage on the USS
Constitution. When the King
leaves, he will go by way of Europe
and will be flown by a U.S. plane,
though not the Columbine.
Twenty of the King's party are
at Blair House, paid by the gov-
ernment, and the rest at the
Shoreham Hotel, paid by Aramco.
The housekeeper at Blair House
was only ready for a three-day
visit by his majesty and has really
been sweating since Saud decided
to spend his entire 10 days in
Washington. Ten days, incidental-
ly, is the unofficial limit on time
a Chief of State is supposed to re-
main at government expense.
The King's change of plans also
caused a sweat at the State De-
partment. Originally, it was plan-
ned to take him on a tour of Am-
erican factories and farms to im-
press him with modern America.
But he said no. He was very posi-
tive on this point, said his two
sons could make the inspection
trip, that he would relax in a
near-by palace. Hastily the State
Department arranged for him to
stay at the Greenbrier, White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Then he
changed his mind a second time
and decided to remain in Wash-
ington. Blair House, across from
the White House, was quite good
enough.
* * *
ANOTHER MINOR problem for
the State Department has been
the procurement of the King's
lamb. The King doesn't know it,
but two-thirds of his lamb while
in Washington has been purchas-
ed from either Jewish or Catholic
wholesalers.
The District Hotel Supply Co.,
owned by Morris Kraft, supplied
the top-grade saddles of lamb for
the King's dinner at the May-
flower. The Southern Hotel Sup-
ply Co., owned by Thomas Keane,
sold 12 loins of lamb and 30 ribs
of top midwest beef to the May-
flower for another dinner.
The Columbia Hotel Supply.
owned by Armour and Co., sold
a lot of whole lambs to the White
House for the King. A govern-
ment agent accompanied the ship-
ment.
Another problem that worried
the State Department was an
earlier arrangement to have young
Prince Mashur treated at the
Kessler Institute for Rehabilita-
tion at West Orange, N. J., one
of the leading institutions for
treating crippled children. At the
last minute, arrangements were
canceled, because Henry Kessler,
head of the institute, is Jewish.
The State Department was not
prompted by any distrust of Dr.
Kessler,. who it knew would treat
the Moslem Prince just as con-
scientiously as any other patient,
but rather from the fear that
King Saud would misunderstand
if anything went wrong. The
State Department itself knew that
Arab children are given exactly
the same treatment as Jewish
children in the government hos-
pitals of Israel.
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BARBERSHOP singing was the
main entertainment when Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Mamie en-
tertained an elite group of the
Supreme Court, Congress, and
the Diplomatic Corps the other
night. The program was given
by the Society for the Preserva-
tion and Encouragement of Bar-
bershop Singing (SPEBS), and
included "Minnie the Mermaid,"
"Back Home in Indiana," "Caro-
lina in the Morning," and "Wait-
ing for the Robert E. Lee."
Ike, an alumnus of West Point
quartets, seldom sings at the White.
House but likes to see his guests
join in . . .there are few "silent"
men left in Congress. One, how-
ever, is GOP Rep. 'William R.
Willianis of Cassville, N. Y., a
former sheriff, a fourth-termer
who boaststhathe "has never
made a speech in Congress and
probably never will." He raises
potatoes and is known to col-
leagues as "Potato Bill." His dis-
trict, however, is better known for
its cheese.
Congresswoman Edith Green of
Oregon has been raiding the
staffs of present and retired Sen-
ators to build up an experienced
team in her office.
(Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Reviewers
A short meeting for all re-
viewers will be held in the
Conference Room, Student Pub-
lications Building, at 7 p.m.
Monday. Those who have previ-
ously reviewed for The Daily
are asked to attend. Those in-
terested in becoming reviewers
are also invited.
to make a comeback offered him
by director Bernie Dodd (John
MacKay), Without his wife Ger-
gie's (Audrey Ward) backing, he
hasn't the self-confidence to do
the part succesfully. But because
he is unable to reveal his own
weakness, Elgin blames it on Geor-
gie, and Dodd becomes convinced
that she is the cause of Elgin's
trouble. When Dodd tried to get
rid of her, Elgin goes to pieces.
But Elgin needs more than his
wife to regain his self-respect, and
Odets' ending is far too facile and
inexplicable. The play is also
hampered by last-act love interest
between Dodds and Georgie, a
love-interest that is both super-
fluous and unconvincing. And the
dialogue is a mass of cliche which
AT THE ORPHEUM:
'Adlver"se'
R .eview
STUDENTS of Comparative Lit-
erature in Ann Arbor will be
pleased to note the arrival of an-
other twentiethhcentury epic at
the Orpheum this weekend. En-
titled Anthony Adverse, the film,
an adaptation of the old best-
seller, is a fascinating conglomer-
ation of historical trash.
Apparently, in the past twenty
years, audience taste has changed.
Of the same vintage as the Monte
Cristo movies, the picture is noth-
ing but an unsubtle series of
swashbuckling scenes from the
days of fine horses and fine wine.
The episodes, (interspersed with
written comments intended to
connect the action,) are extreme-
ly unconvincing and, if one pays
iattention to audience reaction,,
also extremely funny.
Anthony Adverse is the aban-
doned son of an obnoxious Span-
ish lord, or at ,least, the son of
his wife. Apprenticed unknowing-
ly to his Scotch grandfather, the
boy grows up filled with a grim
determination to make his name
mean something in the world. He
tries many methods and never
quite succeeds.
THE STRUGGLE for self iden-
tification, however, seems to lead
Anthony all over the world. Aft-
er traveling from Italy to Cuba on
a business deal, Anthony spends
five years in mysterious Africa
as a slave dealer, and after a fur-
ther sojourn in Paris, ends up on
the way to Mexico. His wife, the
buxom daughter of his grand-
father's butler, is predictably un-
faithful and eventually ends up
in France with a rotund charac-
ter known by name, although not
recognizable, as N. Bonaparte, I.
The curious thing about this
film is its complete lack of subtle-
ty or even, probability. Every sort
of incongruous situation imagin-
able, from slave hunting to opera
singing, appears at least once
within the two hour stretch. No
pretenses of reality are made, for-
tunately, for none of this could
possibly be believed.
A final note: Don't be fooled
by the names of well-known ac-
tors on the marquee; they hadn't
learned to act yet when this was
filmed.
-Jean Willoughby
E.
is incompatible with the supposed
intelligence and sensitivity of the
leading characters,
' IN LIGHT of the poor property
with which it worked, the DAC
did a surprisingly good job. Most
of the acting was adequately
handled, some of it very well done.
Dirschell, in an unaccustomed
switch from comedy to drama.,
displayed his usual polish, al-
though he was most convincing in
scenes requiring humor. MacKay
and Miss Ward lapsed occasionally
into melodrama, but for th most
part they were realistically in-
tense. DAC Director Joseph Gis-
tirak, as producer Phil Cook,
built to a peak in the first act and
had no place to go thereafter.
The play's best performance was
turned in by Reg Graham, as
author Paul Unger. His British
accent was incongruous amid Am-
erican nasality, but he was con-
sistently likeable and convincing.
And Nell Burnside's Nancy Stod-
dard was properly bouncy and en-
thusiastic.
The performers coped admirably
with 'an inferior vehicle, but at
'times, Odets' flat prose and lack
of dynamism dragged themdown.
With the mobility of the arena
theater and the world's stage lit-
erature at its fingertips, the DAC
should be able to present a better
play than "The Country Girl,"
--Tammy Morrison
DAILY
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Quad Expulsions-A Messy Affair
R ECENT expulsion of three students from
South Quadrangle raises a number of dis-
turbing questions.
Two of the students called the Detroit pa-
pers during the recent food riots, presumably
to get publicity. The third rooms with one
of the two. All three deny participating in the
riots..
All three petitioned to leave the dormitory
and were denied permission in January, a
month after the riot. At the close of the se-
mester the three received curt notes from Resi-
dent Director Mark Noffsinger telling them
to get out of 'the dorm 24 hours after their
last final and stay out.
Two were called "undesirable residents."
Reasons given were "good of the community"
and "ethical considerations."
PROCEDURALLY the whole affair is messy.
South Quad Judiciary was completely by-
passed, despite Mr. Noffsinger's claim that he
wants to build a strong quad judic, and none
of the three were given an opportunity to ex-
plain their actions before the decision to ex-
pel them was reached.
Editorial Staff
RICHARD SNYDER. Editor
RICHARD HALLORAN NLEE MARKS
ditoriai Director City Editor
Business Staff
DAVID SILVER, Business Manager
MILTON GOLDSTEIN Associate Business Manager
WILLIAM PUSCH ............. Advertising Manager
CHARLES WILSON .............. Finance Manager
PATRICIA .AMBERTS----------AccontMan aer
The University's antics in denying them per-
mission to leave so it could expel them are
amusing. This appears to be a modification
of the "don't quit, you're fired" routine, which
should be too adolescent for University officials.
More serious were Mr. Noffsinger's references
to "undesirable residents" and "ethical con-
siderations."
Asked to explain if the "ethical considera-
tions" consisted of phoning the Detroit papers,
Mr. Noffsinger said the three were always
complaining loudly.
We see nothing unethical in complaining,
and judging from the lack of rapport between
staff and students, we can understand that it
is often loud.
iT ALSO seems unreasonable to claim that
students have an ethical obligation to pre-
vent the University from incurring bad pub-
licity. The University has a highly competent
public relations bureau for this job.
While it is fair to expect that in their con-
duct students will reflect creditably on the in-
stitution, it is not fair to expect that they
will help hide its defects.
The food incident was not isolated. The riot
occurred after a 'number of frustrating at-
tempts to get someone in the administration
to listen to sincere complaints.
Instead of picking on such a little point and
making "scape-goats" of three students to
soothe their ruffled feelings, quad adminis-
trators could better spend their time trying
to improve the food.
T HERE is one more shibboleth that should be
thrown out - that it is a privilege to live
in the residence halls. For some unfathomable
reason. quad administrators often invoke this
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1957
VOL. LXVII, NO. 82
General Notices
The University of Michigan Wolver-
ine Band will play for the Basketball
Game Sat. evening, Feb. 9. Conductor,
George Lavender, asks all memberas
to be present at 7:20 p.m. in the field
house for this engagement.
Tryouts for the 3rd Experimental
Playbill presented by the Department
of Speech will be held at 7 p.m. Mon.,
Feb. 11, Room 252, Temporary Class-
room Building.
Lectures
University Lecture in Journalism,
touglass Cater, Washington aorres..
pondent of The Reporter magazine,
will speak on "The Role of the Press
in the Conduct of Government" Mons,
Feb. 11 at3 p.m. in the Rackham Am-
phitheatre.
A cademic Notices
Candidates taking the National Tea-
cher Examinations on Feb. 9 are re-
quested to report to Room 130, Busi-
ness Administration Bldg. at 8:30 a.m.
Sat.
Sports and Dance Instruction-Wo-
men Students: women students who
have completed their physical educa-
tion requirement may register for
classes electively in Barbour Gymna-
sium on Mon. Feb. 11 8 a.m. to 12 noon.
Instruction is available in swimming,
diving, Red Cross Water Safety In-
structors course, fencing, modern and
social dance, and riding.
Placement Notices
The following school has listed va-
cancies on their teaching staff with the
Bureau of Appointments.
Dearborn, Michigan: Junior High
Art; Girl's Physical Education; (Se-
nior High Auto Mechanics; Social Stu-
dies (begins now.) Grade 1 (begins
March 9). Grade 3 (begins February
22), Grade 3 (begins April 1). Grade 4
(begiais in April) Elementary Girl's
Physical Education (begins March 31).
Senior High Auto Mechanics (begins
September 1957).
For additional information contact
the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad-
ministration Building, NO. 3-1511, Ext.
489.
Personnel Interviews:
Representatives from the following
will be at Engrg.;
Thurs., Feb. 14
Beech Aircraft Corp., wichita, Kansas
-al levels in Aero., Civil, Elect. and
Mech. for Summer and Regular Re-
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ter, Structures and Test. U.S. citizens.
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-all levels in all E. programs and Bus-
Ad. for Research, Sales, Development,
Production, and BusAd.
Civil Aeronautics Administration,
Kansas City, Mo. - all levels in Elect.,
Instr., and Engrg, Physics, B.S. or M.S.
in Civil. Constr.. and Mech. for Sum-
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TODAY AND TOMORROW:
Mathematics in United Nations Problems
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By WALTER LIPPMANN
THE AMERICAN position in the
United Nations has become
very difficult, especially during
the past year. We find ourselves
relying more than at any time in
the past on the competence and
the capacity of the United Nations
to deal with great issues-as in
Eastern Europe and in the Mid-
dle East.
When we say the United Na-
tions, we really mean the General
Assembly of eighty nations which
is now the central organ of that
institution. In this General As-
sembly, since the admission of so
many new members from Africa
and Asia, we can no longel count,
as once vve could, on a working
majority vrho agree 'vith us.
From this fundamental weak-
ness come the confusions, the
equivocations, the double stand-
ards of the UN's dealings with the
Soviet Union over Hungary, with
T H E GENERAL ASSEMBLY
consists of blocs, and American
foreign policy is in very large
measure determined by the desire
to have the United States play a
leading part in a combination of
blocs which will yield a majority
when the votes are counted. We
are acting on the official belief
that we must not be pushed into
the opposition within the United
Nations, that we must participate
in the ruling majority.
The mathematics of our prob-
lems are worth fixing in mind.
The General Assembly has eighty
nembers. But since South Africa
and Hungary are absent, there are
now in fact seventy-eight mem-
bers. On any important question
a two-thirds majority is needed,
which means fifty-two votes.
Now what is the maximum num-
ber of votes that we can hope to
rally on an issue which is of prime
importance to the Western world?
There are twenty-one inter-Amer-
ican states ,al of the Western
with the situation for the United
"tates, to find the necessary eleven
votes? There are ten Soviet. votes
and there are eleven Arab votes
that he cannot get. That makes
twenty-one votes that he cannot
get and it takes only twenty-
seven votes-one more than one-
third of all votes-to veto any pro-
posal the United States makes.
There is still one more bloc of
fifteen votes, and it hols the bal-
ance of power. This is the Afro-
Asian bloc. In it we can count
fairly reliably on four votes, the
Philippines, Thailand, P a k i s t a n
and Nationalist China. But. as we
have seen, we need eleven votes
to get a majority. So we are still
short seven votes. These we have
to obtain by bargaining with India,
in plain fact by working out com-
promises with Mr. Krishna Menon.
This means that the United
States, working loyally through
the UN, can on the crucial issues
take no positive or afifrmative
position to which Mr. Menon is
that the United States incr.ices the
Western blocs to vote with the
Arab, Soviet and Afro-Asian blocs.
The first of the resolutions passed
last week, the one calling for the
withdrawal of Israel to its old
frontiers; is an example.
The other condition of agree-
ment in the General Assembly is
that the real differences between
the Westerners and Easyrners are
befogged to the point where none
of the blocs is publicly committed
to anything specific. The second
resolution, which appears to deal
with the substantial issues in Pal-
estine, is an example of an agree-
ment by deliberate equivocation.
What goes on behind this equiv-
ocation? What goes on is secret
diplomacy-the only kind of dip-
lomacy that has the remotest
chance of working in the conflicts
of the Middle East. The General
Assembly is a place where nobody
can afford to stand up in public
and be resonable. He will be re-
garded at home as s traitor.
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