i cl4i mlrdggan :Batly 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 "This Needs Action, Let's Send Them Sympathy Cards" f I I 11 11 f "When Opinions Are res Truth Wm Preval" 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 l 11/r t ,. ' .? .,a, , k' °r: f ; . 4, ' yA !' 3 a a f. ! . ' h r 7 r J J 7c . -.- .. _. AT THE MICHIGAN: Hepburn, Astaire 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 only a little from having to play a part other than herself or Eloise. I I,, w - y 't <> d And the rest of the c dancing its way ti Gershwin score. ast seems to be having a hrough the | good time singing and W illi millillilim ~Q \ M V ;a , ,c, ,,a t'4 '.. C , , fly . . " - , ' SS.:.: ti' . g:' - w , y . _ . 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 3519 Administration Building, be- 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- (Continued on Page 5) r DAIELY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ,fi f 4 t.; A 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 II LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler 4' F {C TSN 1 s t w' a tV7 Ai