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 "The Trouble With You, Charlie, Is That You Say What You Think" I 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. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1957 NIGHT EI)ITOR: JAMES ELSMAN 44Ell AT THE STATE: 'Oklahoma' Movie: Corn Served Fresh "OKLAHOMA" is Hollywood's cook-over version of Broadway's most famous bushel of corn. It has been served up with whatever trim- mings four or five million dollars can buy these days--but if one must have corn, the fresher the better. To be completely fair, one ought to consider "Oklahoma" in its historical context. Back in the early forties it was a minor national sensation and a major theatrical innovation. It was fresh; it was American; it was wholesome. It had ballets, pseudo-psychology, clean jokes (at least by Broadway standards). It became to American musical comedy what "Swan Lake" is to Russian ballet and "King Lear" is to English tragedy. IT WAS NO time at all before "Oklahoma" became the most admired production on the musical stage. It served as a prototype The Thinking Citizen- A Restatement of Purpose -f ,fffjjl 4 z. t THE OPENING of the second semester is an appropriate time to take stock, to examine concepts on education, to ask again the ques- tion "why are we here?" Whatever one's goafs are in education - training in medicine, business administration, engineering, teaching or any one of a myriad of fields of study offered - one objective should be the acquisition of the attributes of a think- ing citizen. Although the attainment of certain skills through which economic and social sta- tus may be improved is certainly a valid goal of the educational process, if education is limited to this, a vital element is missing. This is not education, in the highest sense, but a degradation to vocational training. Something more than acquiring the tools to earn daily bread is an essential purpose of higher education. The thinking citizen is one who is trained in the techniques and process of thought, of ideals and ideas, of concepts and principles around which individual and community life is built. He is one who makes a responsible, positive contribution to the well- being of community at the local, national, and international levels. Such citizenship has vast implications. It is not just paying taxes and voting but is a day-to-day concern for and participations in the affairs of the community. With this in mind, education becomes more than learning how to earn a living. In its essence, it is train- ing in living itself. MUCH CURRENT discussion on education centers on the necessity of producing sci- entists, engineers, and other specially trained personnel in order to stay ahead in a race for survival with Soviet Russia and the Communist world. ' While not denying the importance of this effort, if American education degenerates into a mere instrument employed in' the fight for survival, we will have already lost a vital wea- pon. The worldly, external threat to the United States is sizeable but the internal threat of a decadence of spirit, of encroaching material- ism, of unconcerned, complacent citizenry is of far more immense proportions. Greater harm will be done to America in the long run by a loss of vitality in the mind and heart than by Russian guided missiles. The education of young Americans into the ways of construc- tive citizenry will provide a solid stone in the foundation of American security from threats both external and internal. Without doubt all of this has been said be- fore. Nevertheless, it bears repeating. We are human beings with human weaknesses and need reminders from time to time to recall our objectives and to give ourselves a re- newed sense of direction. Much more than has been done along this line could be done by the faculty and adminis- Seldom an A V , THE UNIVERSITY has had a lot of news- paper headlines in recent months. It has been making front pages from the East coast to Chicago with amazing regularity. A lot of people are coming to know the University, forming impressions of it. First there was football. We were a Sat- urday afternoon entertainment spectacle, like the New York Giants or the Cleveland Browns. And when the post-football calm began to set we had a food riot to keep up spirits. Our sister schools, MSU and Wayne, chortled and offered to send us Care packages. The exag- gerated accounts were page one material. Before the smoke could clear a coed was beaten up in her dormitory room, another ran away and became the object of a nation-wide search, and a foreign student left his car with a suicide note near Niagara Falls and took off for Florida. There was "good" publicity also. Ford gave us six and a half million dollars and an im- Wl~r £idpuw uaifui 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 rHOMAS .............. Features Editor DAVID GREY ............... Sports Editor RICHARD CRAMER......... Associate Sports Editor STEPHEN HIEILPERN.........Associate Sports Editor VIRGINIA ROBERTSON..... .....Women's Editor JANE FOWLER ............Associate Women's Editor ARLINE LEWIS................Women's Feature Iditor JOHN HIRTZEL .............. . Chief Photographer Business Sta ff DAVID SILVER, Business Manager MILTON GOLDSTEIN Associate Business Manager WILLIAM PUSCH . .... ...... Advertising Manager tration. From the Regents to the newest teach- ing fellow, there is a need for exploration, de- velopment, and above all articulation of ideas as to where we are going. The student body should hear about this more often, especially from the President of the University. FROM THE faculty, we ask more immediate guidance. We would ask this morning that professors not only outline the academic goals of the courses they are about to teach but to go beyond an explanation of how the course fills a distribution requirement or fits into a major to show how and why the material to be presented can aid the individual student to become more aware of the world around him and his place in it as a thinking citizen. This then-again-is the task before us- students, faculty, and administration alike- as we undertake another educational expedi- tion. -RICHARD HALLORAN Editorial Director Registration a Mystery; But Effort Appreciated REGISTRATION -that unfathomable psy- chologist's horror from which neither starry-eyed incoming freshman nor learned Ph.D. candidate can escape, a truly wondrous creation well beyond the comprehension of fallible, mortal man. Going through the semi-annual enrollment process, one wonders if it is a monstrous night- mare or is indeed real, if this is Life in its actual proportions and not a maze designed by a madman lurking in the background, watching the human rats scurry through the series of corridors and over the obstacles he has placed in thefr paths, emerging unerringly, at the end, thus proving that even man can be trained and conditioned to respond to in- comprehensible stimulus. One cannot but stand-a bit dazed-in awe of the efficacy of this mass movement, of the certainty with which one does reach the end of the tortorous way to step forth from the labyrinth into the clear sunlight and clean air, overjoyed at the completion of the journey, but not a little stunned and unsure about what happened. For the people who planned, organized, and administered Registration, we have only words of praise for a monumental job well done. What shortcomings there may have been were more than compensated for by the efficiency and speed of the entire operation. For a thankless job, they deserve a short note of appreciation. It must be admitted, though, that this is one student who is deeply relieved that he does not have to go through the maze again. -R. H. eademic Note pressive site for a new college; and the Univer- sity put out a movie which pointed out how many new buildings we've put up in the last decade. THE DANGER is that we are constantly be- ing spoken and written of in terms that submerge the real purpose of our existence. We are associated with fall entertainment, indus- try, college "pranks." But it is seldom that the University is mentioned in an academic con- text. Our fame and prestige are built not on scholarship but on clowning and bigness. We should pause occasionally and reflect on the non-spectacular academic accomplish- ments of the University. There are many. There is the work of University Press which has made available at low cost vital works that other publishers wouldn't handle. In the humanities we can cite the work of Prof. Arthur Burks of the philosophy depart- ment, who has extended Russell's notions of logic so they can handle causal relationships a contribution to scientific methodology. AND THERE is the Middle English Dic- tionary, gradually being published after two decades of labor - a definitive work on a major historical period in the evolution of the English language. Prof. Bredvold of the English department has recently published an important work on John Dryden and Prof. Super has written a definitive biography of Walter Savage Landor. A study of American diplomatic history has recently been completed by Prof. Drummond of history. Two recent presidents of the American Mathematical Society have been University professors and last spring the math depart- ment's Prof. Lohweer was one of the two Amer- icans invited to a math conference in Moscow. Many departmental journals, such as those of history and math, have international circu- J-0/ 44 e'R$L O ®'S'S', TliV t A.S44J-46Ttw4 oSTCo.. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Criticism of Rubinstein Review Letters to the Editor must be signed and limited to 300 words. The Daily reserves the right to edit or with- hold any letter. Sophistication? . To the Editor: WITH reference to your review on the Rubinstein concert. I, myself thought Rubenstein especi- ally good in the Schumann-par- ticularly the delicate, tinkly stuff, I had thought his pace in the Appassionata a little hasty, result- ing in considerable fuzziness, lack of clean-cutness, in the fortes. I had not found him perfect. The Beethoven was not Schnabel's. The Chopin was not Cortot's. The De- bussy was not-who is the defini- tive Debussyist? Whoever he is, I believe that he would be a little surprised to hear the essential quality of orthdox Debussymanship characterized as "ethereal"; and I am quite certain that he would be astonished to hear that little potted-palm gem "La Plus que Lente" called "the best and most typical of Debussy's style"! (Can our critic be confus- ing Debussy with Chaminade?) Then Albeniz and Granados. "Mediocre pieces from Spain," he says. The selections so described are admittedly unlikely to displace the Ninth Symphony - but they are good; they are music. And what would our critic name as an un-mediocre piece from Spain in lieu thereof? And poor old Frederic Chopin! "Rubato, feeling, and schmaltz." And Beethoven-"flashy" and "a show-piece." The good Saints pre- serve us! Finally we learn that our critic was particularly annoyed by the artist's "eccentricity" in striking a "crashing chord" before the Beethoven and performing "key- bord flittings" (good phrase, by the way) between numbers, which, he says, have "no place on the concert stage." Depends on which concert stage you're talking about. The platform of Carnegie Hall is scarred with hundreds of deep gouges dug by the preliminary crashing chords, and thousands of little scratches scored by the interim keyboard flitters, or dozens of artists rang- ing from Paderewski and Rubin- stein and Horowitz on down. May- be some don't warm up with crashing chords and keyboard flittings; but Rubinstein does - and Rubinstein rates it. Who says him no? I think that what we have here is Brilliant Young Sophistication. May I suggest to the critics of the arts in The Daily that the word "criticism" has no necessary rela- tion to the word "derogation," de- spite their semantic association in ordinary speech? Let's have our sophistication with the small "s." -E. S. L. Goodwin Rubinstein 'Show' To the Editor: IN HIS REVIEW of the Rubin- stein concert, Mr. Liddell com- plained about the pianist's extra- musical activities at the keyboard. Mr. Rubinstein was only conduct- ing the well 'known practice of "modulating" between numbers, which was the habit of almost every pianist years ago, and is still done by many artists, including Wilhelm Backhaus. For example, I was in a position to see that Mr. Rubinstein's "pre- liminary crashing chord" was in C Major, preparing for the tonic, F Minor, of the Beethoven sonata. The "keyboard flittings" were of this same modulatory nature. Mr. Rubinstein's left hand may have seemed "ponderous because it tired noticably, particularly dur- ing the last movement of the "Ap- passionata," and he had to play from the wrist alone on all but the sofetest chords. His right hand barely made it through the coda. Mr. Rubinstein said after the per- formance that "The piano was better last year," so this may ac- count in part for his difficulty. Mr. Liddell called the "Appas- sionata" sonata "a showpiece," rather a superficial appelation in connection with this work, but he is quite right in that Rubinstein played it as if it were exactly that. However, it was pretty obvious from the program alone that this pianist has no great estimation of the intellectual capacities of the Ann Arbor audience. His perform- ance was more of a show than anything else. -Matthew Paris On Refereeing . . To the Editor: IN JIM BAAIYS coverage of the recent hockey game with Michi- gan State he mentions the con- spicuous absence of fights and skirmishes which usually mark the meeting of .these teams. At this point, it might be well to mention the reason this game was kept under control instead of degenerating into the usual melee, namely, COMPETENT REFEREE- ING. Collegiate hockey has suffered tremendously under the handicap of referees who seemingly know far less about 'the rules than the players, rely on "cheap" penalties to keep both teams appeased and thereby ruin the game, and often are flagrant "homers." Local fans witnessed a great im- provement in the game officiated by former National Hockey League referee Doug Young, who prior to his career as a referee in the NHL played a fine game of professional hockey for the Detroit Red Wings. It is gratifying to see Michigan take the lead in bringing a better caliber of officiating to the great game of hockey. Let's hope other schools will follow this lead. -Mary Simms for dozens of stage and screen musicals. But time will cast its shadows, and "Oklahoma" wears an unmistakable five-o'clock sha- dow. Agnes DeMille's daring and original dance movements have become cliches; Rodgers and Hammerstein's songs may be sur- prisingly fresh, but the surprises are no longer very big; and the wholesomeness has been revealed as sentimentality in disguise. "Oklahoma" has done its duty. It probably has enjoyed more popularity than any other Amer- ican musical comedy, and its only likely rival for old-age honors is "My Fair Lady." It has now been put on film for the masses, but the current rendition has done little to liven up a marrowless ghost. FIRST, the casting is uneven. Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones are pretty people with pretty voices and little acting talent. Gloria Grahame is dreadfully miscast; she has a way of making a funny song like "I Cain't Say No" sound like a third-rate joke. Gene Nelson has a new dance routine in a railroad terminal that looks like every Fred Astaire solo; and Rod Steiger, with his convul- sive Actors' Studio mannerisms, is completely out of place, a wounded grasshopper in the cottage cheese. Second, the original dances, so integral a part of the show, seem utterly wrong in the film. The big ballet, staged in a scarlet-and- black brothel with highly erotic movements, shatters the picture's tone entirely. Third, "Oklahoma," like "Guys and Dolls" and "The King and I,' is predominantly a filmed stage show. There are exteriors and there are gigantic sets and there is real sunshine and there is real food in the kitchen, but the pro- duction is still theatrical, overlong and static, completely lacking in cinematic imagination. The cast and crew have forgotten the screen is a vastly different medium from the stage. -Ernest Theodossin Stock Market NEW YORK (P)-A wavering stock market, shocked by Tues- day's steep break, had a late rally yesterday, giving the list a slight bulge to the upside. But Wall Street observers saw nothing convincing about the small recovery which was accom- plished on dwindling turnover from Tuesday's. There have been a recent series of declines. The professional element on Wall Street had little confidence that past history would be repeat- ed in the form of a vigorous rally from an oversold condition. The market was lower at the start but steels and motors re- sisted the downtrend until mid- session when they, too, joined the retreat. This phase, at which prices were at their worst for the day, followed President Eisenhower's statement to the effect that the government will have to move in with some. form of inflation controls if busi- ness and labor fail to deal with the problem adequately on a vol- untary basis. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 3) Hoaglrnd, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology will speak on "The Research Program of the Worces- ter Foundation for Experimental Bio- logy - Studies on Stress and Mental Diseases" Feb., 7, 1:15-3:15 p.m. at the Conference Room, Children's Hos- pital Special Music Lecture by Luigi Dal- lapi cooa, Italian composer and pianist, 4:15 .m. Fri., Feb. 8, in Ad. A, An- gell Hall. A member of the faculty of Queens University, (New York), he will discuss his compositions, particularly "Canti di Prigiona." Open to the gen- eral public. Academic 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. Aeronautical Engineering Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate -Students: A number of special scholarships and fellowships will be available for the academic year 1957-58. Consult the announcement on the Aeonautical En- gineering bulletin board for futhr details. Psychology Colloquium: "Application of Information Theory and Decision Making Theory to Interpretations of Environment." Wilson Tanner Jr., as- sociate research psychologist, Engineer. ing Research Institute, 4:15 p.m. Fr., Feb. 8, Aud. B, Angell Hall. Placement Notices Beginning with Tues., Feb. 1 the following schools will have represen- tatives t the Bureau of Appointment to interview teachers for the 197-SO school year. Tues., Feb. 12 Grandville, Michigan - Elementary; Elementary Music; Junior and Snic High Art/minor. Mt. Eden, California - Elementary (K-8). Mt. Clemens, Michigan (L'Anse Cruse School) - Elementary; English; Shop; Chemistry; Mentally Retarded; Speech Correction; Visiting Teacher. White Plains, New York - All Ee- mentary (K-6); Elementary Art; Ele- mentary Music; English; Social Studies; Mathematics; Science; Industrial Arts. Wed., Feb. 13 Pomona, California - All Elemen- tary Grades All Secondary Subject Fields. Thurs. Feb. 14 Pomona, California - see above. Wayne, Michigan - All Fields. For additional information and ap pointments contact the Bureau of Ap- pointments, 3528 Administration Build- ing, NO 3-1511, Ext. 489. Personnel Requests: State of New Jersey, Board of Child Wef are, needs Social Work Personnel having had courses in Psych., Soc., or Econ. The exam will be open to all qualified citizens of the V.., but pre- ference will be given to legal residents of New Jersey. The agency isalso pre- pared to accept a limited number of volunteer works during this summer's vacation period. A local research organization is look- ing for a man with an M.S. in Mech. or Chem. E. to work in fluid flows to design paint spray guns, and for a man with a B.S. or M.S. In Mech. or Chem. E. to work in heat transfer. International Salt Co., Detroit, Mich- igan, has an opening for a woman to work. as Assistant in Personnel. Ionia State Hospital, Ionia, Michi- gan, needs a man with a B.A. in So- cial Work to work in a rapidlyex- panding Social Service Dept. Mich. State Civil Service Comm., po- sitions located in Lansing, announces an exam for Personnel Technician. For further information contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528, Admin. Bldg., ext. 3371. SUMMER PLACEMENT: The Women's Army Corps is now of- fering a WAC Summer Training Pro- gram for college juniors. The training will cover a four week program from July 14 to August 10, 1957. The program does not entail any military obligation after college. Vicks Chemical Co. has numerous openings in various divisions all over the U.S., for juniors interested in ad. vertising, sales, merchandising, pro- duction management, engineering, sci- entific research and development, ac- counting and financial management. For further details on either of the above, attend the Summer Placement Meetings on Wednesdays, from 9-4:45, in Room 3-G of the Michigan Union, beginning Feb. 13, or call the Bureau of Appointments, ext 3371. Organization Notices Use of this column is restricted to OFFICIALLY REGISTERED student or- j A I I I I4 A4 TODAY AND TOMORROW: Can We Not Afford to Support U.S. Education? 'I By WALTER LIPPMANN IN OUR own home affairs the President has given top priority to the proprosal that Congress grant Federal aid to states in or- der to build public schools. The case for this Federal aid rests on the hard fact that since the war the number of children ready for schools has grown much faster than has construction of school rooms in which to teach them. This year the enrollment in our schools exceeds their normal ca- pacity by more than two million children. This means over-crowd- ing in the class rooms to the point where great numbers of children are being denied a decent educa- tion. This denial is in the true sense of the term an emergency. For when a child misses an education, the loss cannot be repaired easily later on. Children who do not re- ceive a decent education when they are of school age are almost certain to go through life without Yet this large number will not be enough even to replace class rooms that have become obsolete and unusuable and to provide for the new enrollments, which are in- creasing each year. Just to stand still where we are, there are seed- ed all the class rooms that have been built this year. In the mean- time, against the total efforts of the local authorities, there is a backlog deficit of 150,000 class rooms. * * * IN A RECENT publication of the Department of Commerce, it was estimated that for school con- struction four bi]' . dollars would be needed annually for the next ten years. This would mean that the rate of expenditure would have to rise 60 per cent over the current level, which is 2.6 billions. This increase would be a rise of 1.4 billions a year. The President is asking the Federal government. to contribute lessthan one-quar- ter of this amount annually, hop- Federal assistance in eliminating this shortage is not theory, but demonstrated fact. It cannot now be said - realistically - that the states and communities will meet the need. The class room shortage has been apparent for a number of years, and the states and com- munities have notably increased their school building efforts. Each year, for several years, they have set a new record in school construction. And yet in the face of a vast expansion in enroll- ments each year, many areas are making inadequate progress in re- ducing the shortage." YET THE PRESIDENT'S pro- posals face formidable obstacles in Congress. There are those who on the principle of state's rights object to any Federal action in re- lation to the public schools. There are Catholic taxpayers who feel that the parochial schools should not be excluded from Federal aid. There are the Negro politicians, led by Representative r-well of New York,'who wish to have Fed- est of pressure groups. There is, of course, some truth in this. But as a generalized rule, it is untrue and grossly unfair. In the case of Fed- eral aid for schools, it is truer and fairer to say that the opposi- tion comes from pressure groups, whereas the support is truly na- tional and public spirited. There is no special interest which is going to be favored spe- cially by the adoption of these proposals. The demand for them comes from teachers and from school superintendents, from par- ents and from civic leaders who are worrying about our failure to provide a large part of the com- ing generation with adequate schooling. INDEED, THE SUPPORT of education - by the localities, the states, and the Federal govern- ment - is like the support of the national defense. It is a public and -patriotic duty v hich this genera- tion owes to the next. Can we af- ford to support American educa- tion? The answer is that we can- ,0