Us 4r Ate tau Da~ily Sixty-Seventh Ywr 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 Wil Prevail" ditorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: ALLAN STILLWAGON Panhel's Good Faith Called Into Question 1HE NEWS that Panhellenic Association will officers says was the result of "deep thinking" petition Student Government Council for a -without atleast indicating in what sub-group revocation of the Council's deferred rushing that thinking took place, why it was not in resolution is greatly disturbing. the special Research Commitee, and what are Pending presentation of the rationale behind the general lines of its rationale. Surely the the decision, which Panhel has promised be- reasons which supposedly necessitate a re- fore Wednesday's Council meeting, specific dis- turn to fall rush came first, were thoughtfully cussion of the difficulties involved in calen- considered, and then the proposal was for- daring a spring rush must be postponed. mulated. If this is so, then the case for fall But SGC's action in the area of rushing rushing - over and above the reasons which ustMa c'reprsetednanthrgfeelingshag SGC rejected in its decision last March - last March represented a strong feeling that should be on the tip of every Panhel officer's there were interests other than those of the tongue. why then, does the organization re- sororities which had to be taken into account fuse to indicate even in the most general terms -primarily those of future freshman women whatomptedeiteuestageveralote faced with the prospect of being rushed into Cat pr pted it to request a reversal of the rush. The importance which SGC and the cam-S pus attached to the whole issue of spring rush- 3) For the same reasons, and for reasons of ing would lead one to think that almost no general propriety, one must question the pass- scheduled event should be allowed to stand in ing, by a 19-1-1 vote, of a resolution for which the way of the orderly implementation of the only the briefest reasons were given, with a full March, 1956 SGC decision. rationale promised for the meeting following the one at which action was taken. How the UT ASSUMING - for the purposes of argu- Board of Delegates can first pass a motion sug- ment only-that there are calendaring diffi- gested by the Executive Council and then wait culties which made the implementation of for the executive body to explain why the mo- spring rush impossible, Panhel's handling of tion was passed is quite incomprehensible. the rushing question is open to question on sev- eral serious counts. ND If Panhel was so dead set against de- 1) For at least three months, according to ferred rush that it did not even require a reliable sources, Panhel has considered rush- statement of reasons before it voted to request ing calendars which did not, as SGC had ruled revision, its effectiveness as a body determined they must, begin rushing in the second se- to find a means of implementing deferred rush- mester. The latest proposal, which was re- ing must be questioned. leased Thursday in The Daily without any help 4) Parts of the last two Panhel meetings were or confirmation by the Panhel executive coun- conducted in secrecy, and only parts or gen- cil, called for the first set of rushing parties to eral descriptions of the executive sessions have begin Dec. 6 - a full two months before the been unofficially revealed to The Daily. The beginning of the second semester. Pre-rush Panhel council balked at any attempt at having registration was scheduled for November, not its calendar proposals made public. If Panhel December as called for in the SGC resolution. truly has nothing to hide in its allegedly dedi- Assuming the Panhel Researcli Committee cated attempts to find a time for spring rush, studied the calendaring in good faith, with it would demonstrate this better by letting the intention of implementing the SC deci- the public know all of what goes on at its meet- son, it could not have discussed a mid-first ings, as well as by not stalling the announce- semester rush until it had satisfied itself a sec- ment of its findings until it is difficult to do qnd semester rushingaprogram was impossible, anything about them. It must, therefore, have reached this concu- The campus humbly but curiously awaits the 4ion months ago, when the fall rush calendars formulation of a statement of rationale for were first discussed. To have waited so long theation Thursateen a ingte before informing the campus and SGC of the the action Thursday. But even assuming the reasons for it are sound, we may long wonder impossibility of spring rush - still assuming why so old a decision was so long in the ex- for the purposes of argument that it was im- pression why Panhel is not immediately ready possible - was an affront to the authority of with its reasons, how the Board of Delegates SC and to the campus which the Council could so strongly endorse a proposal for which so little rationale was presented, and why such VTHEthe campus has exhibited such inter- extreme secrecy has been required for actions of public concern. est, and SGC had devoted so much time and energy to the formulation of a spring rush- When SGC rendered its decision, the Pan- ing plan, one can only question impulses which hel president graciously accepted it and re- would lead Panhel to do other than immediate- fused to call the Board of Review into session, ly and publicly inform SGC of the prospects although sorority alumni groups eventually for its well-laid plans. SGC would be ill-advised did. SGC followed up by entrusting Panhel to allow itself to be hurried into reverting to with the responsibility for doing the initial a fall rush or accepting a winter rush by a lack research required for the calendaring of spring of time for which Panhel itself must accept rush. The good faith which Panhel appeared full responsibility. to demonstrate and which SGC assumed, is 2) It is difficult to see how Panhel can pre- called into question by Thursday's action. sent so drastic a proposal - which one of its -PETER ECKSTEIN Ike Doctrine--Stllorn KYon See-Propaganda Everywhere" -- a I i i AT THE MICHIGAN: Spirit of St. Louis' Effective Suspense IT WOULD BE difficult to imagine a more effective treatment of the Lindbergh legend than "Spirit of St. Louis." With a minimum of nonsense.Warner Brothers has put together a fast moving, entertaining film which concerns itself with the famous New York-Paris flight. An occasional flash-back briefly brings the audience up to date: Lindbergh's early air mail flights, barnstorming days and flight school episodes. Something of the anti-airplane prejudice of the 1920 period, an unfortunate era when the country was populated largely by nar- t ', '- . . 'cac - ,i'm-,. -r c A.r4,AtSiro.v -A $*t,. C. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Sts By OR of Doghouse Dy DREW PEARSON row -minded fools, is brought out. B ut mainly, the story is Lind- bergh, or rather James Stewart's Lindbergh. Stewart is fairly well adapted to the tall, soft-spoken, fearless role by now, surely, and so he appears in this film. Also, since the story is told in a quasi - narrative style, Stewart's well-known voice is used to ad- vantage here and there. The scenes of the actual flight are tremendously effective. The suspense is well-managed. This is especially difficult since most of the audience knew ahead of time that the flight was probably going to succeed, for it seemed unlikely that Warner Brothers would crash poor Stewart into some cliff for the sake of shocking the crowds. Even so, the various mishaps which occur during the flight will excite all but the most thick head- ed clod who should be home watching TV anyhow, SOMETHING of the 1920 scene is captured in this film. The obvious items are all present of course: the old autos, the flimsy airplanes, - the curious looking females. Something less easily named is the general feeling of authenticity which settles about Spirit of St. Louis, so that when, at the end of the film, some genuine films of Lindbergh's re- ception at New York City are shown, the break in time is barely evident. Certainly these films are black & white, instead of Warner-Color, and perhaps not intended for so wide a screen, but the continuity is unbroken. * * * AT THE END of the long flight, the huge reception awaiting Lind- bergh in Paris is almost a surprise to the audience; as well as the pilot. Some of the crowd scenes are almost frightening, Many of the problems of the motion picture biography a r e avoided in this film, since only one specific incident in Lind- bergh's life is presented, and this lends itself quite well to drama- tization. Perhaps this is the only sort of effective biography we can expect, since the tendency to re- write men's lives for the sake of a more suitable script is always re- grettable but always present. -David Kessel Memorial HE CHICAGO Daily News dis- closes that one of the items in the projected 72 - billion - dollar Eisenhower budget is $4,710 to cover "traveling in and around Washington to find a spot for a memorial to Franklin D. Roose- velt." This is redundance. Clearly the budget itself is enough of memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt. -National Review A significant development has taken place in United States disarmament negotiations, and in the life of disarmament negotiator Harold Stassen. John Foster Dulles has begun to like "the Childe Harold." This is important. It wasn't the case before. Stassen, once referred to as "the wonder boy" when he became a young prodigy Governor of Minnesota, was formerly deep in the Dulles doghouse. When Har- old held a background press con- ference last December to paint a rosy view of Russian disarmament proposals, Dulles, then in Paris, held a background next day to tell the press how wrong Harold was. Stassen was then working di- rectly under White House orders. Because Dulles didn't like either him or this arrangement, Stassen was transferred to the State De- partment, where he would have to take orders direct from the Secre- tary of State. * * * STASSEN has been a good sport about this, continued to work hard for disarmament, and, believe it or not, Dulles has come to like him. He has been impressed by Statsen's ngeotiating ability, now shares his view that there is defi- nitely a chance to make some hay with the Russians on disarma- ment. Stassen has detected an appar- ent desire on the part of the Rus- sians to wrap up some kind of dis- armament agreement. This coin- cides with a rather favorable re- port from retiring Ambassador Charles Bohlen that the Kremlin is concentrating on domestic prob- lems, doesn't want war. Result is that Stassen has gone back to Europe with the green light from both the President and the Secretary of State to go all-out for a disarmament agreement. * * A MEMBER of the Eisenhower Cabinet, believe it or not, was a substantial contributor to Ameri- cans for Democratic Action, ,the liberal political group which car- ries on the traditions of FDR. ADA discovered during a recent house- cleaning that Secretary of Labor Jim Mitchell contributed $100 when ADA was launched 10 years ago . .. Those who met Mexico's charming comic Cantiflas at the Mexican Embassy the other night say he's done American-Mexican relations more good than the U.S.- Mexican presiden" I confab at White Sulphur Springs last year. Mexican Ambassador Manuel Telloe gave a jam-packed reception for the movie star after "Around the World in 80 Days" opened in Washington . . . CAB Chairman James R. Durfee expects domestic air travel to exceed rail travel for the first time next year . . . United States Chamber of Commerce offi- cials are wondering if they weren't too successful in their campaign for government "economy." House economizers took the cue from the Chamber by eliminating the Busi- ness and Defense Services Admin- istration of the Commerce Depart- ment, the Chamber's chief lobby for big business in the government. REPUBLICANS who don't be- lieve in Ike's "Modern Republican- ism," plus conservative Democrats, have more method than madness in cutting key portions of the bud- get. Certain significant slices will un- dercut certain laws which the sol- ons don't want enforced. Take, for example, the $200,000 slice out of the office of the Solicitor of the Labor Department. The public doesn't understand what this means, but it will result in the fir- ing of 35 lawyers from the solici- tor's department. This, in turn, will mean that the Minimum Wage Act, the Walsh- Healy Act, and the Davis-Bacon Act will not be enforced. These are laws which conserva- tive Republicans-Democrats voted against in the first place, and the easiest way to undercut them is to hack away at .their enforcement appropriation. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) UN, NEW YORK: Ditplomatic Difficulties By The Associated Press MEMBERS of New York's robust young diplomatic colony usu- ally lead busy but orderly lives, their days filled with speeches luncheons, teas, cocktail parties, dinners-and a few hours at home. But now and then, a member adds a bit of spice by spitting in the eye of a policeman or dunking himself in the Hudson River. This 11-year-old international set, attracted here by the United Nations, has all the usual problems of a diplomatic colony plus many which don't arise in capital cities suph as Paris, London and Wash- ington. The New York diplomatic corps is so new the diplomats and the city are not yet fully adjusted to each other. Some Negroes and other non- white diplomats, have run into housing problems. Some have had trouble in hotels, restaurants and other public places. Communist diplomats have been picketed and hooted as they entered and left their delegation offices. THERE HAVE been occasional legal skirmishes between diplo- mats and the police-mostly traf- fic violations, some speeding, some parking. Former Secretary General Try- gve Lie once made a test case when his chauffeur was arrested for speeding. He established the chauffeur's immunity, with the State Department support, because the chauffeur was on an official mission. After establishing the principle, Lie waived immunity and paid a $10 fine. The delegate who spat in a policeman's face and got away with it was Rodolfo Munoz of Ar- gentina. The. incident occurred in New Jersey some years ago when the Latin American lost his temper during an argument over a traffil violation. The case was settled after State Department officials interceded and got the policeman, in the in- terest of good international rela- tions, to accept an apology. Another delegate who made a big splash was George B. Steven- son of Liberia. He fell into the Hudson River at 3:20 a.m. one chilly October morning after an evening on the town. He was fish- ed out by an unknown passerby and was standing wet and shiver- ing on the pier when police ar- rived. The case was closed with this brief notation on the police blot- ter: "Apparently intoxicated. Was walking on pier piling. Lost bal- ance. Fell in." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLET.1IN The Daly Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michi- gan Daily assumes no editorial re- sponsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building, be- fore 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices forSunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957 VOL. LXVII, NO. 145 General Notices Women students living in the Mar- tha Cook Building, and those accepted for September, 1957, wishing to apply for the Anne E. Shipman Stevens scholarship may call at the Building for an application blank before May 1. Qualification is based on academie standing, financial need, extra-curri- cular activities and contribution to group living. Attention all Seniors: Order your caps and gowns for June graduation at Moe's Sport Shop on North University as soon as possible. Plays Shakespeare's Richard III will be pre- sented by the Department of Speech at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Tickets for both performances are on sale at the box office 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Films Department of Journalism. Open to 4 THE EISENHOWER Doctrine seems lost in the shuffle of events in Jordan. King Hussein, who is by no means anti- American and could certainly use some help against the epmmunists, has said "no" very definitely to any application of the Doctrine in his country. This situation raises a host of interesting conjectures. For one thing, there is the possi- bility, which apparently no one in Washington had considered, that the Middle Eastern coun- tries don't want to be protected by the United States. They have good reasons for this, in their own minds, such as the fear of colonial- ism. Dead as this bugaboo may be, it is hard to convince people who have spent their lives fighting it that this is so. In this case, the administration has put its foot in its mouth by proposing the Doctrine in the first place. An unsolicited offer of "aid" from a great power to a "little" state has an air of aggrandizement about it that suggests the communist conquests of Eastern Europe and- China. Indeed, if King Hussein is successful, the Editorial Staff RICHARD SNYDER, Editor RICHARD HALLORAN LEE MARKS Editorial Director City Editor GAIL GOLDSTEIN .........'.......Personnel Director ERNEST THEODOSSIN ............ Magazine Editor JANET REARICK ........ Associate Editorial Director MARY ANN THOMAS ....... .Features Editor DAVID GTREY.............Sports Editor RICHARD CRAMER ........ Associate Sports Editor STEPHEN HEILPERN ........ Associate Sports Editor JANE FOWLER and ARLINE LEWIS .........Women's Co-Editors JOHN HIRTZEL................Chief Photographer Business Staff DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN ... Associate Business Manager whole Eisenhower Doctrine may become a moot point. Already Saudi Arabia's king, Ibn Saud, has ordered his troops to help Hussein if it is necessary, and Iraqi troops are at another bor- der. The former of these moves is doubly signi- ficant, since Saudi Arabia, along with Jordan and Syria, has been regarded as one of the chief allies of Gamal Abdel Nasser. THIS WOULD appear to mean that both Saudi Arabia and Jordan are moving away from Egypt. Except for weak Syria, Nasser is thus left virtually friendless in his own neigh- borhood. The doctrine, originally promulgated to oppose an increase in the Egyptian or. Rus- sian sphere of influence, thus would be mean- ingless, since Russia will not move into the area without support from most of the Arab states. The show of force of moving the Sixth Fleet to the Eastern Mediterranean is pointless and even stupid, in view of Hussein's statement of independence. Jordan is a landlocked country, and the only conceivable way by which United States troops could get to it would be through Israel -- which would certainly be a major er- ror. Hussein is first and foremost an Arab na- tionalist, with no more use for Israel than Nas- ser. Such a move would perhaps cost Hussein his throne; in any event, it would drive him completely away from the Western powers. Yet the Sixth Fleet must do something if it remains near Jordan, unless the country is to look foolish and vacillating in the eyes of the Arab nations. This, also, would dispose of the Eisenhower Doctrine. In effect, Hussein has finished the Eisen- hower Doctrine as an important part of Amer- ican foreign policy by his refusal of help. The United States must now look for another policy in the Middle East, and must find and formu- late one soon. -JOHN WEICHER New Books at the Lihrarv LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: USIA, Cinema Guild Draw Comment Firepower . To the Editor: BELIEVE Mr. Halloran is hold- ing an untenable position in his editorial on the budget of the United States Information Agency which appeared in The Daily of April 25th. His statements to the effect that. we should buy pumps for the rice farmers and give 4way surplus grain to the starving have nothing to do with the USIA. The economic aid is taken care of under the Foreign Aid Bill, and heushould be arguing that a larger portion of that bill should be for economic help. The USIA, however, is not an aid organization, but a propaganda or information organization. Is it not obvious how success- ful Russia has been in giving little aid but abundant propaganda to the nations of Asia and the Middle East, and how unsuccessful have been our attempts at influencing these people with some economic help, large amounts of military as- sistance, and for all practical pur- poses no food for thought? In China (and I speak from personal experience) we gave mil- lions of dollars for military pur- poses every year. Yet many then realized, and most observers real- ize now that the revolution in China was an ideological one and not one where military strength prevailed. *D*r * s DUPING the critical years after How could we hope to win with these against an unceasing flow of books, pamphlets, movies, and radio broadcasts from the North? And in those days the budget of the USIA was approximately the same amount to which next year's budget has been cut. The pattern was repeated in Southeast Asia, and now in the Middle East again we think of men's minds too late. We still de- lude ourselves into thinking that "rice christians" have been truly converted. If we think that our ideology is better than that of Communists, is it not time that we try to ex- plain it to others? Is it not time to show the world the true basis of our economic success, instead of giving only of our surplus wealth and might? I do not believe that cutting the budget of the USIA will help make it more effective and strengthen our position against an ideological tyranny. Any cuts will weaken our propaganda firepower. -James P. van Putten, Grad. Monopoly? . .. To the Editor: IT IS sad to say that under the moral covering of high-sounding words, free competition is crushed in an enlightened campus as the University in a country universally recognized as the greatest democ- racy in the world today. One of the most well-known cx- aVmml PC .is the, ,4nn rnnl rr cinrl the "University Eegulations Con- cerning Student Affairs, Conduct and Discipline" that "Such grct' s (campus organizations) aro )e- ouested not to s h Cule their show. ing during the vt.ekend so as nor to be in confit with weekend Cinema Guild s-':wings." But to the oowers that deside, this 'request' 1 tmes a law never to be broken. It is argued that tht , Cinema Guild is an orgaz'i'ion that gives :fnac:u al aid to ary campus organat cn that is nc t cal.able of managing its owl finar- cial needs and that, as such, it should be closely protected from all competition. However noble the cause may be, the means adopted is a nega- tion of free competition. -Thomas S. David, '57E A tI I ,.