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 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. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS BLUES Outside Pressures And SBX.Expansion TIT' THE State Legislature trimming the indicative of the student interest in saving University's budg'et, tuition raises and money. hikes in dormitory room and board fees threat- Suggestions have been made that the pres- en to boost the cost of the "over-all education ent Student Book Exchange help the process package," about which the Regents have ex- by expanding and selling supplies, an area pressed concern. wnere great savings could be made. A committee is already investigating the pos- As any student's parents realize, that expen- Aicoite sive education package also includes, in addi- sibility. tionto ee ad lvingexpnses suh thngs In a sense, this could be considered estab- tion to fee and living expenses, such things lishment of competition with local merchants as clothes, travel costs, and that basic require- and the head of the SGC sub-committee was ment of an institution of higher learning - told there was "a general feeling on the part books. of the University against it." Worried about the last category, a Student A Board of Regents by-law prohibits the Government Council subcommittee examined University from engaging in competition with the possibility of establishing a student book- Ann Arbor merchants. store on campus. While finding the price of Much work remains to be done by any com- text books in Ann Arbor was roughly the same mittee investigating the expansion of SBX. as at other schools, the study group found a But if the interest in keeping the "over-all high profit margin in supplies, such as paper, education package" inexpensive is sincere, it drawing equipment and notebook. would be unfortunate, and indeed hypocritical if the committee's attempts to expand SBX are A GREAT deal of work went into the com- hampered by any outside pressures. mittee's work and their fine job is perhaps -MICHAEL KRAFT Questionnaires and the Calendar SOME 200 students, according to recent es- rHAT IS precisely the danger that faces the timates, still hold in their hands the suc- new University Calendar Committee. cess of the University Calendar Committee. With all the good intentions of Prof. Kohl, In attempts to determine accurate student the faculty, student and administration mem- opinion in the area of the academic calendar, bers of his group, there is still a needkfor rep- the committee mailed questionnaires to 400 resentation of accurate opinion to keep the University students early last week. About 200 overall picture in mind while the group works of these have been returned. -AHith details. The survey of the calendar committee is one- that has been worked out with the aid of Sur- vey Research Center. The questions are de- Education Reboun s signed to elicit meaningful answers, and the sample of students polled was set up to indicate On Communists an accurate cross-section of opinion. As a result, all 400 of the questionnaires WITHIN A YEAR, there have been student- should be returned. Failure of a large =number led uprisings in Tiflis, Russia, in Poznan, of students to observe this would bring about a Poland and in Budapest, Hungary. Last week wide disparity in the final tabulations. reports seeped out of China concerning student demonstrations at' two schools - Chengting MORE THAN anything else, an accurate in- and Tsinghua. dication of student feelings is needed by . An educated segment is a thorny problem for the committee. any Communist regime, the leadership of which Late last year a calendar committee met initially comes from the log-cabin proletariat, once and decided to forget about the problem who, once in power resist disentrenchment from area. Student opinion had not been represented the ambitious intelligentsia. effectively to that group. In China, the problem is more irksome for Previously, another committee had worked Mao's regime, because the educated class has hard for two years. That group came up with traditionally been the ruling class as far back the present school year plan, a school year of as the Middle Kingdom. Mao, Cliou, Liu and compromises and adjustments unsatisfactory Chu, the 'big four" of China politics, are from to the majority of students and faculty mem- proletariat-military vintage. The literacy cam- bers on campus. paign and the associated rise of the intellectuals A lack of a broad sense of student feeling which the "big four" are promoting may boom- led that committee to be concerned more and erang on the stability of the present Peiping more with the minor details of the calendar government. rather than with the whole, unified picture. -J. E. INTERPRETING THE NEWS: U.S.- USSR Propaganda Arena "Maybe I'd Better Show You Where The Fire Is" FI ALARMJ a ;1957 £JASI t'O,? CA. AT THE MICHIGAN: Fancy Frosting For Silly Situations V'HE M-G-M answer to Spring Madness blew into Ann Arbor yesterday on a cliche-lined cloud, with Warnercolor fringes and a wide-screen bottom. Designing Wyman is slick as a page out of the New Yorker, charm- ing as a freshman coed smiling at an English instructor, funny as a cream puff in the face, and imaginative as a turtle egg. Irresponsible good-natured crusading simple Greg Peck, a sports writer for the New York News meets rich pretty nervous designer Lauren C 4 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Price Supports-End in, By DREW PEARSON PRESIDENT EISENHOWER and Secretary Benson have a new farm program about ready to spring on the farmers. It will prob- ably mean: the end of all farm price supports. Meeting with Republican leaders in Congress last w-ek, the Presi- dent gave a preview of the plan. He described the present farm price support program as a vicious circle. When crop surpluses are dispoced of abroad, he pointed out, the law requires that domestic p:'ice supports inciease. "This means that farmers in- crease their production and we have more surpluses," the Presi- dent said. "If oun present laws are inadequate to deal with this situa- tion, then they ought to be chang- ed. We are not wedded to any pro- gram, if it isn't working," An over-all review of the crop price and surplus situation would be made with an eye to corrective legislation, Secretary Benson re- ported. Farm organizations would be consulted. However, he empha- sized that congress should assume a great part of the responsibility. He didn't want to be left carrying the ball alone, declared the secre- tary of agriculture. * * * ANOTHER objection raised by Eisenhower was the high cost to the taxpayers of maintaining the current Benson program, as re- flected by the Agriculture Depart- ment's budget of $5,300,000,000. In this connection, congressional leaders reported that some farm senators felt that the cost of send- ing surplus farm goods abroad should be charged to the foreign aid program, not the farm pro- gram. Eisenhower said he was opposed to this, pointing out that farmers "get the benefit of the surplus disposal program." The President also contended that the bulk of the benefits under the presenr program were going to big farmers. and that "the small farmer isn't getting his rightful sbare." One reason for this, it was brought out, was thai big farmers could make a living out of Ben- son's soil. bank program, even if they take a large part of their soil out of production-something little farmers cannot afford to do. HERE IS more of the inside story on why King Hussein sud- denly got up enough nerve to fire his pro-Communist premier and army chief. King Saud of Saudi Arabia tele- phoned the 22-year-old king, pledging that his troops would rush to the latter's aid in case of any fighting. He told King Hussein that he could consider himself commander-in-chief of the 3,000 Saudi troops already stationed in Jordan and that they would fight to the death for him. This dramatic phone call gave Hussein the courage he needed to crack down on pro-Russian leaders and take over as the real boss of Jordan. So it looks as if Ike's en- tertainment of King Saud has be- gun to pay off. *