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Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or
the editors. This must be noted in all reprints.
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: DIANE LABAKAS
City Council
Cramps Student Parking
ANN ARBOR'S decision to cut night-time and many parking lots, all free during this
parking in half on streets which University time.
students have long used for parking came as
somewhat of a bombshell. IT WAS little more than a month ago that,
The decision will certainly affect University City Administrator Guy Larcom assured
Students. Although the volume of night-time council members, during discussion on the
parking is not as large as the day time volume, 2:00-5 :00 a.m. downtown parking plan, that
the plan whereby parking will be banned residential areas near downtown would not be
on opposite sides of the street on alternate affected.
nights, will still mean some students will be It would be very beneficial to University
hard put to find a place to park. students, and only slightly inconvenient to the
University or city parking lots are few. far Council, if the Council would modify their
between and expensive for night after night plans slightly and prohibit parking only on the
parking. The fact that both the University days when street cleaning was desired.
and the City must consider is that for years to Perhaps this would entail some system of
come, city streets will remain the principal putting up temporary no parking signs on the
parking facility for student-owned cars. streets to be cleaned that night. This would
cost more money than has passing this ordi-
E EASON the'city has given for the ban nance. But spaces in Ann Arbor are too scarce1
is facilitation of snow removal and street to be wasted, too scarce to have it, in effect,
cleaning. Making snow removal easier we do legislated out of existence by a Council who
not consider an adequate reason. In fact, we perhaps cannot fully appreciate the parking
cannot see why this was given as a reason. problem.
After a snow fall, it will be very inconvenient
for car owners to go dig their cars out of the MEANS OF initiating action in this case, for
snow so that the cars can be moved to the other action should be taken, are certainly in-
side of the street. definite. Perhaps the Office of Student Affairs
Ann Arbor will have the cleanest streets in could consult with the City on ways of modi-
Michigan if it cleans the streets as often as the fying the parking restrictions. Perhaps Stu-
daily alteration would give it a chance to do. dent Government Council, as the student body
Obviously, streets won't be cleaned this often, concerned with student problems, could initiate
and Ann Arbor could conceivably get along with action.
a different plan for clearing streets for clean- "Perhaps" could go on forever, but these two
ing. seem most qualified to deal with a problem that
Perhaps this "no parking" system has worked should be dealt with before the action becomes
downtown with few complaints. But this is an irrevocable in the minds of the council.
area where there are comparatively few people --LANE VANDERSLICE
TODAY AND TOMORROW:
By West Capital Fund
By WALTER LIPPMANN
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Add Zest to Weak Stew
FUNNY FACE, playing at the Michigan Theater this week, is a nice
but uncomfortable musical stew served up with excellent photo-
graphy.
It is seasoned with almost everything available from Astaire to
Sartre. In between there are large doses of Paris, Kay Thompson, high
fashion, Gershwin music, and Danny Kayeish intellectualism.
But the real taste in this stew is Audrey Hepburn. With the help
of some remarkable photography by Richard Avedon, she manages
to make all these things fit together. She sings, she dances, she charms
her way through this skit night in never-never land.
She even justifies it. Fred Astaire feels a little awkward in all
this, but he is still everything his fans expect. Kay Thompson suffers
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUN.D:
Isolationism on Upswing
By DREW PEARSON
N ARGUING the case for the foreign aid
appropriation, it will be best to admit at the
outset that there can be no such thing as an
exact estimate of the amount that is necessary.
Thus, between January when he submitted the
budget and mid-April, when he wrote his letter
to Speaker Rayburn, the President had reduced
his own estimate by a half a billion dollars-or
by more than 10 per cent. The reduction is in
military aid. Yet apart from the uproar all
over the country about the size of the budget,
had anything been happening in the outer
world during those three months to explain
such a big reduction in the military estimates?
Nothing had happened to make it more prob-
able or less probable than either the old esti-
mate or the new estimate is too big or too
small. The old estimate was an educated guess,
in the last analysis by the Pentagon, as to
how much arms and how much subsidy are
needed from us for NATO, for Korea, Formosa
and South Vietnam, and for those other allies
or clients with whom we have military pacts.
The new and reduced estimate is simply a re-
educated guess as to what our military allies
can get along with. Between January and April,
according to the President's letter of April 18
to Speaker Rayburn, it became possible to save
$500,000,000 mainly because of "new manage-
ment techniques through which lead time
financing has been reduced."
All this goes a long way to explain why Con-
gress is not profoundly impressed by one esti-
mate rather than by another, or prepared to
accept the view that the estimate in April is
more final and authoritative than the estimate
in January.
HAVING ADMITTED the difficulty of making
estimates, we must ask ourselves what we
are trying to estimate. It is the cost of carrying
what are, in fact, two related but essentially
distinct policies. One is the policy of supporting
and subsidizing our huge network of military
alliances. At least three-quarters of all the
money devoted to foreign aid is earmarked for
this purpose. Here there are two kinds of ques-
tions which Congress can ask. First, is it a vital
American interest that we should maintain our
various military alliances, which extend from
NATO in Europe to Korea in Eastern Asia?
Could we do without all or even without some
of these alliances? And second, could we main-
Editoral 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 GREY ........................ 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
WITLIAM PUSCH .........Advertising Manager
tain them effectively at less cost? If so, on
whose judgment as to how to do this should we
rely?
The argument which I find compelling, is-
reduced to its elements-as follows. There have
come into existence since the end of World
War II some nineteen new nations in Asia
and Africa. They contain about 700,000.000,
people, and there is among them a mounting
demand that, having won their political inde-
pendence, they shall proceed rapidly to raise
their standard of life.
THIS CANNOT be done without the invest-
ment of capital in the basic productive
capacity of each country - in roads, ports,
transportation, machinery and the like. The
under-developed countries have virtually no
capital of their own. There are two main ways
in which capital can be raised in an under-
developed country. One is by loans on very
easy terms from North America and from
Western Europe. The other is by forced savings
at home, which is the way that the Soviet
Union developed its industrial economy.
It is often said that the capital should be
provided by private investors. For a number of
reasons they are not likely to provide enough
capital in the places where it is most needed.
Thus American private investment abroad has
been averaging about $2,000,000,000 a year dur-
ing the past two years. But most of this money
has gone to Canada, to Europe and to other
"developed" areas. About $400,000,000 has on
the average gone to Latin America. Asia, Africa
and- the Middle East have averaged $200,000,000'
a year. But of this the bulk has been invested in
the countries of the Middle East where there is
oil.
There are a number of reasons why there is
a shortage of Western private capital available
for investment abroad. One is that the political
risks in the under-developed countries are so
considerable. Another is that owing to the
unprecedented and revolutionary policy of full
employment, which now prevails in Western
Europe and in North America, there is a high
demand and great business activity. As a
result, there is, on the one hand, a big demand
for the investment of capital at home. In
Western Europe at least there is, on the other
hand, owing to the much wider distribution of
income which is available for consumption, a
drying up of savings for investment.
Thus the managing director of the Inter-
national Monetary Fund, Mr. Jacobsson, said
recently that "practically no European country
has at the moment any surplus funds available
for new foreign loans. Even in Switzerland
with its ample flow of savings, the amounts be-
coming available on the capital markets seem
at present to be invested altogether within the
country, with the result that in the second half
of 1956, there were no foreign loans issued on
the Swiss market."
FAILING ADEQUATE private investment in
the under-developed countries, there are
two ways left to them. One is to copy the
Soviet Union, as China is doing, and to raise
capital by extracting it forcibly from the people,
particularly from the peasants. The other way
is to provide a fund of public money in the
Western world from which capital can be bor-
(Editor's Note: Drew Pearson's
column today takes the form of' a
letter to his grandson.)
Dear Joe,
THIS IS your birthday. You are
three years old - an age when
the world lies at your feet. I
watched you last week scooting
around my. garden on your toy
tractor; and making all the girls
in my office stop their work -
just because of you. You will nev-
er be three again. But today you
are master of the world.
Someday, many years from
when you read this letter, you will
understand what I mean. You
will know how little a man is mas-
ter of his fate as he grows older,
how lucky he is to be master of a
garden when he is young.
In Civil War days, your great-
great-grandfather, who founded
the Chicago Tribune, was an ad-
viser to Lincoln, when our coun-
trymen were foolish enough to go
to war against each other.
WE ARE MORE sensible now.
But what sometimes keeps me
awake at night is that I can de-
tect an almost imperceptible drift
in this country right now toward
war - a world war.
It's a drift that you can't do
anything about. You are three
years old. But I should be able
to do something about it. I am
older. And I have seen two cruel
and bloody wars engulf the world.
I know that the drift which begins
now may mean that 15 years from
now you will go out to fight a war
which you don't understand,
didn't cause, and shouldn't be sac-
rificed for.
Yet, if the present drift con-
tinues, you probably will. For wars
today don't begin overnight. They
begin 10 or 15 years before they
break. And they are caused by
man's inertia, man's greed, and
man's unwillingness to sacrifice a
little of his worldly goods before
it's too late and he has to sacri-
fice his life.
What I detect now in Washing-
ton and in the nation is the same
unawareness, the same isolation,
the same let-the-other-fellow-go-
hang attitude that ruled Ameri-
can thinking in those days be-
tween World War I and the drift
to World War II.
Those were days when people
talked about "getting back to nor-
mnalcy;" when the stock market
was more important than the
League of Nations; when invest-
ments abroad were more impor-
tant than peace abroad; when,
more than anything else, people
were just plain bored with foreign
affairs and wished that all the
disagreeable, trouble-making peo-
ple in the world would go jump in
the ocean.
THAT'S THE KIND of atmos-
phere in which wars are bred, and
that's the kind of atmosphere
which exists today. The shout and
clamor for economy in Congress
is exactly like the shout and cla-
mor in Congress against the
League of Nations, against the
World Court, against world co-
operation between World War I
and World War II.
It was only a few short years
ago - so short it seems like yes-
terday - that the nation was at
a white-hot pitch of patriotism
over Pearl Harbor and your daddy
was marching off with the Ma-
rines. We were united then. It
was only a short time ago that
we hailed the founding of the
United Nations. We were united
behind it, too.
Now we are pulling apart. We
are disunited, blase, disinterested,
isolated - because it's easy to
unite in time of war, hard to unite
in time of peace. There are no
brass bands playing as we march
down the road to peace.
And the people who don't want
to ratify Eisenhower's atoms-for-
peace treaty are motivated by ex-
actly the same reason they didn't
ratify Wilson's League of Nations.
They don't seem to understand
now, as they didn't then, that in
this complicated world we live in,
we can no longer live alone. They
don't realize that this world is
being pulled closer together by
modern science and that Moscow
will soon be only 30 minutes away
by long-range guided missile.
* * *
THEY DON'T seem to realize
that four and one half billion
dollars, spent to help certain
countries work toward peace now,
could save $440 billion spent to
support allies in a war later.
They don't realize that a tax
rate of 55 per cent to help world
peace now is far better than a
tax rate of 90 per cent to win a
bloody war later,
But then the people who are
shouting for lower taxes now
won't have to go off and fight
wars. They are too old.
The people who will fight the
wars brought on by the tax-re-
ducers of today will be the little
boys like you, who scoot around
gardens on toy tractors today, not
knowing what is in store for them
in the future.
Love,
Granddaddy.
(Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.)
THE ONLY thing wrong is the
plot - what there is of it. It is
the same old thing with a pseudo-
intellectual twist: normal man
meets pseudo girl, girl meets eso-
teric young philosopher, nice man
worries, audience worries, philo-
sopher acts up, girl says:
"I came here to talk to a phil-
osopher. But you're talking like a
man." Philosopher twirls beard
and says, "But I am a man!" So
audience stops worrying and Old
Man River just keeps rolling
along.
But when the plot becomes ob-
jectionable, Audrey just smiles
and the photography gets mystic.
Everyone in sight begins dancing
and singing and nobody cares
about plots. After all, °we're in
Paris,
BUT SOMEHOW, the satire
never succeeds. With imaginative
photography like this, with'all this
talent, with the material at hand,
something better could have been
done. The mannerisms of the
fashion industry aye probably ab-
surd. This is what the movie ap-
pears to be saying. But it never
quite succeeds. What was satire
in the beginning turns to sympa-
thy by the end, as if the producers
were either afraid of offending, or
had had their opinions changed
ini the middle of the movie. In
either case, the result is simple
stew and not good Parisian souffle.
But the ingredients acting sep-
arately still leave a pleasant taste.
Even if the consistency is lumpy,
it is still pleasant. Better to have
good stew than fallen souffle.
-Bob Tanner
On Guard -
Silent Sam
' By The Associated Press
YOUR OWN Silent Sam Sentry
standing guard duty in your
home to warn of approaching H-
bombers, tornadoes or other dis-
asters is ebeing developed in Kan-
sas City.
This sentry is a little plastic-
covered electronic box. You plug it
into an electrical socket, or it
could come built into a radio,
clock or other appliance.
It goes on immediate, continu-
ous duty, but makes no sound un-
til civil defense or other authori-
ties must warn you of approach-
ing trouble or disaster.
Then it will buzz loudly or ring
an alarm, perhaps automatically
switching on your radio and tun-
ing it to Conelrad for further in-
structions.
* * *
SILENT SAM will come to life
because a coded signal is fed into
the power line carrying ordinary
current into your home. That will
make Sam talk.
It will be cheap, costing perhaps
a few dollars. It will cost no more
to operate than an electric clock.
The Daily 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
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fore 2 p.m. the da preceding
publication. Notices for Sunday
Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday.
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 195
VOL. LXVII, NO. 163
General Notices
Activities must be calendared so as
to take place before the seventh day
prior to the beginning of a final ex-
amination period. (Committee on Stu-
dent Affairs, March 23, 1950), No ac-
tivities may be scheduled for the week-
end of May 24-25.
Lectures
Mathematics Lecture, Prof. A. W.
Tucker of Princeton University will
talk on "Dual Systems of Homogeneous
Linear Relations," on Mon., May 20, at
4:10 p.m., in Room 3011, Angell Hall.
Coffee and tea In Room 3212, Angel
Half at 3:30 pm. (Note: There will be
no Colloquium on Tues., May 21),
Plays
Laboratory Playbill of three one-act
plays will be presented by the Depart-
ment of Speech at 8 P.M. Friday and
Saturday, May 17 and 18, in parbour
Gymnastun}: "The Rising of the Moon,"
"Pantaloon' & "The Flower of Yeddo"
Academic Notices
Attention June Graduates: College
of Literature, Science, and the Arts,
School of Education, School of Music,
School of Public Health, and School of
Business Administration: Students are
advised not to request grades of I or X
in June. When such grades are abso-
lutely imperative, the work must be
made up in time to allow your in- ,
strutter to report the make-up grade
not later than noon, Mon., June 10,
1957. Grades received after that time
may defer the student's graduation un-
til a later date.
.Recommendations for Departmental
Honors: Teaching departments wishing
to recommend tentative June gradu-
ates from the College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts, and the School of
Education for departmental honors (or
high honors in the College of L.S.&A.)
should recommend such students in a
letter delivered to the Office of Regis-
tration and Records, Room 1513 Ad-
ministration Building, by noon, Mon.,
June 10, 1957.
Seminar in Mechanics of Turbulent
Flows Tues., May 21 at 1:00 p.m. in
Room 1075, East Engineering Bldg.
Prof. A. M. Kuethe will discuss "Sta-
bility of Laminar Flows and Their
'Transition to Turbulent State."
Playwriting (English 150 and 298) will
meet at 6:55 p.m., Tues., May 21, for
reading of a long play and important
announcements.
Doctoral Examination for Ralph The-
odore Dames, Mathematics; thesis:
"Stability and Convergence for a Nu-
merical Solution of the Goursat Prob-
lem", Sat., May 18, 246 West Engineer-
ing Building, at 10:00 a.m. Chairman,
R. C. F. Bartels.
Doctoral Examination for Robert Har-
ry Wasserman, Mathematics; thesis:
"Formulations and Solutions of the
Equations of Fluid FloV", Sat., May 18,
247 West Engineering Building, at 1:30
p.m. Chairman, N. Coburn.
Doctoral Examination for Oswald Ul-
rich Anders, Chemistry; thesis: "Ab
solute (d, alpha) Reaction Cross Sec-
tions and Excitation Functions," Mon.,
May 20, 3003 Chemistry Building, at
2:15 p.m. Chairman, W. W. Meinke.
Doctoral Examination for Gertrude
Dorothy Zemon Gass, Education; the-
sis: "The Attitudes of Eighty-Five Wo-
men in their Middle Years toward their
Narrowing Role and the Relationship
of these Attitudes to their Content-
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
National Budget, Atomic Fallout Draw Comment
Hue and Cry * . *
To the Editor':
MR. WEICHER'S editorial in
The Daily of May 18 is simply
one more instance of the present
hue and cry to cut the national
budget at what appears to be any
cost. And like many of those
whom he joins, there are a few
essential errors in his argument.
The first of these has to do with
the raising and use of tax funds
for government programs. His ar-
gument that funds could just as
easily be raised by the states with-
out the federal government taking
a "middleman's" cut is somewhat
specious.
Although he does not omit the
fact that taxes are raised nation-
ally by income and corporate as-
sessments he does forget to con-
sider the methods which the
states employ. Recently, the
Michigan Legislature considered a
tax measure which would raise
the tax on liquor and tobacco.
This is a tax which takes a dis-
proportionate amount from the
income of the worker, since the
consumption of these items dif-
fers only slightly among these
groups while their incomes are
same federal programs.
If Mr. Weicher's side does not
like a large central government,
then the best thing to do is come
out and say so'. This approach
would be preferable to cutting its
operations by failing to allocate
funds.
Basic to any such argument
would, of course, be a list of func-
tions which should properly be
carried out by a governmental
unit. Then it would be necessary
to determine whether the feder-
al or state level is best suited to
perform these.
Against the argument of a large
federal government is the asser-
tion that ultimately the people will
lose control of the government.
The state must contend with the
accusation that until the federal
government began the various
programs there were curious few
states who has such vital pro-
grams as that of social security.
Which argument is best is hard
to decide. But the economy argu-
ment bypasses the issue complete-
ly and makes societal government
little more than that of an effi-
cient banking house.
-Arthur Oleinick, Spec.
think from their unconcern that
this is "the best of all possible
worlds."
Yet the tragic paradox is that
we live in a world where mass
destruction or perhaps worse, ra-
diation sickness, is a constant
threat.
This week, The Reporter Maga-
zine has devoted its issue to the
discussion of the atomic tests in
Nevada, a new series of which was
due to start May 15. It is as
frightening a picture as one could
possibly imagine, coincident with
this issue is Dulles's refusal to stop
these bomb tests when asked by
Japan to do so.
Yet one wonders how many
people will give these tests and
their effects a second thought.
They think it doesn't affect them,
and besides, it's too painful to
think about honestly.
It's much easier to repress it
and pretend it doesn't exist. But
someday it may be children and
adults, not horses and cattle,
dying from radiation sickness be-
cause their progenitors were too
apathetic to care in 1957.
It goes without saying that if
people want to make their opin-
ions known, they will have to take
There is no other way to be
effective in a mass society: if
one wants to be, Heard, one must
speak, and it is clear that the
issue is grave enough to speak on.
-Judy Gregory
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