Federal Communications as To I jigaa t1; pinions Are- Free Wi1l Prevail" ,Sixty-Eighth 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 printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This ius t be noted in all reprints. Y, FEBRUARY 23, 19583 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL KRAFT *w erE nous (eo'rIt4K NIKOI47.1 .ai+ i ~%iLILAT:r Double Feature - Music Noise Names IN TE "Winter Wonderland of Top Hats" promised by the mar ment of the State Theatre, no one will be "snowed" by the cui attraction, "Summer Love," and "The Big Beat." As a follow-up to the "April Love" of a few weeks ago, the film lacks much more than Pat Boone. It is doubtful that ever magnetism could save the film from its astounding mediocrity. "Summer Love" is filled with nice healthy kids doing nice her things (talking bop, whatever that is; dancing rock; taking rom The Public's Trust' Of Public. Trusts V PEARSON has been telling the nation years, in both Republican and Democrat trations, that influence peddling in the regulatory agencies has reached dis- proportions. Surprisingly, such revela- ave riot irked the public enough to cry a thorough investigation of this "mess hington." It might almost be said that ptance of the legitimacy of persuasion ure dollars, and favors has become part national political ethic. "Thems that es; that's politics." of late, by the accident that a New York fessor would not content himself with wash investigation, the nation has been .to an investigation of the disgusting i of the Federal Communications Corn- and associates, as Herblock draws them wealth which they represent are most to blame; seeking favor by most means at their disposal will always be the course of vested interests. Rather, those who are appointed-and elected' -to make decisions guided most by the public interest, should be held responsible. Since this category includes, we are convinced, many elected men in the legislative and executive branches of both parties-the very men who will decide to pursue a thorough investigation' or not-only public anger and concern can prompt a needed clean-up. We do need regulatory agencies; the alterna- tives are state ownership or the irresponsible private monopoly control. But there are organi- zational changes which could insure better the interests of the public, such as making the personnel of the bodies less subject to party appointments or of making the bodies more responsible to Congress. But, as always in a democratic society, the final influencer of good government or bad will be the public and what it expects of its civil servants and elected officials; the final harness on public men will be how far they think they can go without going beyond the public's tolerance. -JAMES ELSMAN JR. Editorial Director shock after romantic shock in tru done in a nice healthy atmosphere that should be healthier and nicer are the plot, the acting, and the songs. \ ' But/ the youhger set - high school, that is - that inhabited much . of the State Theatre last night seemed to appreciate the efforts of Johnny Saxon and com- pany. The preferred; if audience participation is any clue, the "pro- gressive" noise of the "Summer- Love" soundtrack to the more sedate music that was the tempo of" The Big Beat.", - -** * e teen-age drama style.) All th e, a summer camp. The only t1 QUARTET: lBrahn Shines I. ~T4~VOW WEKCO t1 tie' Ows %*E MA 44f.4TC Src he eve that the Florida Channel 10 .e of g number oaf stinks that the sible for; we can also believe that peddling is the course of a days other regulatory agencies also- ore prevalent and of larger scope . Power Commission, where the dollar decisions' of public-or-n are made. VOUL NOT propose that large n. and the giant aggregates of Mc(ecI~qs 'HIS WEEK ON CAMPUS: Pitfalls of Dormitory Survey WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-R6UND: Battle Over Reparations By DREW PEARSON BEST NEWS on campus this week was he decision by the Residence Hall Board of rnors to completely survey the room as- nents in men's and women's residences. s the proper response to the petition circu- by the Congregational Disciples Guild. If astuation is above criticism, then such a y will bolster student confidence in the ence hall officials; if the situation leaves r to be desired, as we suspect it does, then a survey is the best way of articulating and atIzing the problem and bringing about ovement. Two years ago the Board of Gov.- r' was reluctant to initiate such a survey we would take this week's move to repre- a decision on the part, of tae board to :uay abandon whatever discriminatory ices may remain, since they should quickly or when exposed to the light of day. ere are some real dangers, however, in a survey. Even one which describes with dete accuracy the general situation in the ence halls will be useless unless it isolates In crucial factors. rt of all, it obviously must isolate those mates who were assigned together from who specifically chose each other, as only former are relevant to an evaluation of ,ondly, since in the men's houses assign- * are made largely, If not entirely; by the emothers in each house, there are 21 les, rather than one, in the men's system. verall figure or set of figures for the men's as would not tell very much-the good and ad might somewhat balance each other, g a piture which was neither satisfactory darming. Only a complete house-by-house sdown would reveal the actual policies in Aen's system; there is ijo problem of statis- error, since one is dealing with a total ty, not a sample. Policy in the women's n., which is determined exclusively in the L of Women's office, could be revealed by dering the system as a whole, HIRD DANGER in the survey concerns the lassification of answers to the questions he room application blanks. The men's s asks "Are you interested in a roommate rationality or race other than your own?"; vomen's requests "Specify any' preference alifications you have regarding a room- ." When one is comparing answers to these dons with actual roommate assignments, 40a1 question is how one classifies the ers. . e man who says "Yes," he is interested in ming with someone different, and the an who says "I would like to room with a gn student" are very easy to classify, and 6uld be interesting to see how many of Editorial Staff PETER ECKSTEIN Editor [ES ELSMAN. JR. VERNON NAHRANG Editorial Director City Editor A HANSON................Personnel Director $L PRINS . ... Magazine Editor LRD GERULDSEN .. Associate Editorial Director IAM HANEY .......... Features Editor PERLBERG., ...............Activities Editor A BAAD -....................... Sports Editor ,l£ BENNETT ............ Associate Sports Editor HILL~ER.......ssocateSports Editor E FRASER .............. Assoc.aActivities Editor IASO BLUES ...........Assoc. Personnel Director E BAILEY ................Chief Photographer Busiessstat such people are actually granted their wishes. It is likewise easy to classify the woman who asks to be roomed with a co-religionist and somewhat easy to classify the man who answers "No" to the "Are youinterested .. ." question, although he may only be saying that, while he would not object, he does not want to see the housemother go out of her way to place him with someone different. The real problem, however, lies with those men who leave a blank after the question ask- ing whether they are "interested" in someone different and those women who do not mention race, religion or nationality (or who mention only race) in their answers to the "preferences and qualifications" question. If these persons are automatically interpreted as saying they are not "interested" or did not "prefer" to be placed with someone else and therefore desire to be segregated by nationality, race or religion (as it is sometimes charged some of those making the room assignments interpret such answers), then the survey will be next to mean- ingless. The survey must recognize at least three categories of students, those who, by their an- swers on the application blank, prefer to room with someone different, those who prefer to room with someone similar and those who just don't consider the question relevant or worth answering. And one might even fnd it neces- sary to enlarge the categories, since each might apply differently to the questions of race and the question of religion. Thus, the same person might object to being roomed with someone *of a different race but not care about being roomed with someone of a different religion. Unless the survey takes account of these subtleties, it might just as well not be taken, for all the light it will yield. * * .* IF THE RESIDENCE HALL officials planning the surveys must prepare carefully, so must the various student groups who are interested in seeing residence hall policy changed. If they are to present a united front to the Board of Governors, which would certainly maximize their effectiveness, they must resolve one key issue: whether they want assignments to cor- respond as closely as possible to student prefer- ences'or indifferenees, or whether they want all assignments to be on a purely random bsis. The problem lies with those residents who either prefer or object to an integrated rooming situation, for both may be disappointed under a random system. No one, however, has pro- posed a random system in which students could not transfer rooms upon failing to ad- just to their new roommates. We would suggest that the most realistic proposal would be something of a mixture. A general policy should be recommended of placing students according to their preferences or indifferences, which, we would expect the forthcoming survey will show, is far from the situation existing- now. For example, a Daily sample survey taken last year found ten Jewish students reporting that they did not ask for Jewish' roommates and only two of them placed with non-Jews. But in addition, the student grpups should insist that if present plans for two freshman houses are carried out, and if incoming fresh- men are given a choice as to living in those houses, the description of them should include the sentence, "No effort will be made to assign roommates on the basis of race, religion or na- tionality." If the freshman house plan falls through, such a sentence could be included in the description of one of the quadrangles, e.g. South, which students are able to choose be- , ------ WASHINGTON-Not even the White House staff knew ex- ac.tly what the shouting was all about, but a recent White House meeting on paying $125,000,000 to Germany for war-seized property' broke up in a verbal free-for-all. Several top government officials had been summoned to the White House to discuss what to do about pagring off German firms whose assets were seized during World War II. For ten years, a free-spending German lobby has been pulling} wires to get back the money which, under a postwar agreement, the United States isn't obliged to pay. The lobby even hired a promin-. ent Illinois Republican, Gen. Ju- lius Klein, founder of the Jewish War Veterans, to work with Hit- ler's former financier, Hermann Abs, in order to tap the U. S. Treasury for the return of Ger- man property. KLEIN IS an influential gentle- man with .friends in high places. He sold Secretary Dulles on the phrase "Sanctity of private prop- erty" which President Eisenhower later used in describing the new policy for the payment of German property. At the White House meeting, two Presidential lawyers, Edward McCabe and Roemer McPhee sat in for Gerald Morgan, Ike's coun- sel, who couldn't attend because of illness. The meeting was sup- posed to be strictly secret. How- ever this column can report what happened. Doug pillon, ex-Ambassador to France, now Deputy Undersecre- tary of State, passed out a docu- ment marked "limited official use.". This spelled out in legal language a proposal to charge American taxpayers $125,000,000 to pay off both American and German war claims up to $10,000 each. He de- scribed the proposal as "an equit- able plan arrived at after much hard work," and suggested that. "it should be acceptable to every- one." "As you know," Dillon added, "the Cabinet approved this last July." Budget Director Percy Brun- dage jumped to his feet. "Don't tell me what.the Cabinet decided!" he thundered. "I was there!" Brundage, who has to find thee money to balance the budget, bluntly announced ,that he would never agree to using public funds to make good these war claims. He reminded Dillon that the State Department was "apparently will- ing to forget" about the U.S. agreement with its 17 World War II allies not to require reparation payments from Germany, but to keep German property seized in the United States and other al- lied nations in lieu of reparations. in what was described as "utter chaos." Note-The State Department has been hoping to'build American good will in Germany by paying many small citizens who held property worth $10,000 or under. This would get a lot of support if it didn't require dipping into a tight U.S. Treasury already faced with a deficit. The big economic meeting at the White House between Cabinet members and Republican congres- sional leaders was enlivened by some blunt, realistic 'lecturing by Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, assistant GOP chief of the House. "I'm getting a little fed up with all this loose talk from both sides on our economic problems," declared Halleck. "From the Re- publican side, it's a mistake, in my opinion, for our guys, to be sounding off continually with these optimnistic- assurances to the na-, tion. If we*keep it up, people will begin to wonder if we are pro- testing too much." - * . "THE BIG BEAT" did not "keep, you rockin' in your seat" as ad- vertised or promised by Fats Domino, who came closest to mild hysteria in presentation. In sheer name and number,' the "Beat" promised, if not great, then good things. Sometimes it was delivered. Fats Domino was Fats Domino. Hans Conried was delightfully stereotyped as a Russian sculptor (rather unimpresisve) and a benevolent chain store magnate. Harry James was there, with horn, briefly. Charlie Barnett was there, more briefly. Jeri Southern sang, in the background. In its entirety, "The Big Beat" was a showcase production that smacked of press agent promotion. One wonder how much stock the producer owns in which recording companies. As a hcontrol-room-eye view of the record business, the film was. unlikely at best. As a love story, "Beat" painted an interesting pic- ture of the female as a long-suf- fering, aggressive, but beautiful little creature yearning for home and family and the day she can, throw away the nasty recording contract, stop signing autographs and settle down. Ah, bliss! * * * BUT BEFORE the joyful day can come, there are 350,00 records, to be sold. Will "young ideas" tri- umph over-conservatism? Will the young executive 'remember to kiss his girlfriend-secretary goodnight? Will he find in his college text- books the answer to his dilemma? (Does anyone' ever? ) Fortunately, the plot is a device for presenting snatches of good music by great performers (and some good ones, too) and not an' end in itself. --1o Hardee. Temperanc~e THE SOVIET UNION'S top tip- pler, Nikita Khrushchev, has turned upon one of" his closest friends, John Barleycorn, accord- ing to Pravda. ' In Minsk for a pep talk to collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his' subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners. "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the State, against 'society, and deserves pun- ishment!". This brought him around to his ,distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita sober- ly: "I have seen a film, 'Before It Is Too Late,' made by the Lithu- anian film studio. In this film the hero drinks vodka very often. It . is not seldom in plays on the stage the hero is 'shown with a large bottle of vodka. We must not per- mit drunkeness to be made a cult!" -Time A CAPACITY AUDIENCE of e thusiastic music lovers greet, the Budapest String Quartet in second appearance of the curre Chamber Music Festival. The Quartet played with t same virtues and many of t same faults noted in the first pr gram. The surprise of the progra for me was the final selectic Brahm's String Quintet in F mr jor, Op. 88. Again Robert Cou: of the Stanley Quartet complet the ensemble. In the past I have been son what cool towards the chaml music of Brahms. His approach the small string ensemble seer to be too monochromatic a tedious, especially in the extre: length of many of his quartets. - * * * HOWEVER, this Quintet was distinct contrast as far as my a preciation and reaction were cc cerned. On the program the we appeared to be of .'formida quantity, but in performance came out in three movements moderate length. The Budapest Quartet withA Courte gave this work a 'shini and spirited performance. It % one of the very best performan I have heard from them. The multi-sectioned second p tion of the Quintet was contras' in tempo, dynamics and color a moved strongly through the ma musical ideas Brahms poured it it. The Finale was quite erierge and lively. At times, the melo ideas were drowned out by so of the busy work going on. Ho ever, it was a stirring performar for a very nice work. . *ry THE MODERN work on t program was the Milhaud Str Quartet No. 7. This is an intere ing work with a good deal lyricism which was emphasized this performance. As in the Bar Quartet of the first program missed the needed rhythmic ir siveness and drive. There is no I in the playing of this group. v lovely tone is produced and ti they seem to be content to sit their laurels and bathe in t flood of mellifluous sound. The Milhaud suffered throw out by the lack of brilliance a spirit. The program opened with B, thoven's String Quartet in A n jor, Op. 18, No. 5. The work v given a smooth and pleasant p formance. The Andante cantal movement was quite long and v not aided by the dull, repetiti tone color in which. it was play -ROBERT JOB] ANDY MGUMRE, General Coun- sel for the Foreign Claims Settle- ment Commission, pointed out that there was $82,000,000 in the war claims fund, barely enough to settle all American claims against Germany. These have been pressed by American citizens whose property in Europe was damaged by the war. McGuire, with Brundage chim- ing in to agree, urged sending a bill to Congress to pay off Ameri- can claimants against Germany, but not German holders of war- seized property. By this time, Dillon, who never got a chance to explain the State Department's proposal, tried to get the- floor. He was shouted down, and the meeting broke up "THEY WILL wonder if we are telling them the score, and they may get the idea maybe that we don't know .the score ourselves. "On the other hand, I think we; ought to begin calling some of. these professional gloom doctOrs on the Democratic side. They were predicting the same gloomy pros- pects in 1953, but they were wrong. We pulled out of the 1953-54 downturn, when unemployment averaged about what it is today, into the prosperous years of 1955- 56-57. "We are hearing the same free- swinging statements from the oth- er side today, that we are going to pieces economically. It only makes matters worse by upsetting the confidence of the people." (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DAIY' OFFICIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: SPros, Cons of Course Critques D.iscuse d, HERE IS a definite need at the University for a student course critique. Often the catalogues of the various colleges leave much to be desired in terms of the useful information that is given to stu- dents about the course. One example might very well be Philosophy 141. The statement in the college announcement is that the course "is an analysis of the fundamental problems of so- cial philosophy with special at- tention to the way in which theory may function as a guide.to spe- cific policies." If one is not sure in the first place as to exactly what social philosophy is, this information adds nothing. I THINK that the valuable con- tribution of suggesting areas of study is partly reduced because there is no further information of what courses are, which, in this case, would be very important. Also, often academic counselors are only able or willing to state the fact that a course will or will not santisfy the distribution re- they didn't really want and have regretted their decisions, which were based largely on inadequate information. While it might be educationally beneficial to "force, a student to learn what he didn't expect to learn" it is definitely very beneficial to aid students to learn what they do want to learn, In The Daily of Wednesday, February 19, Peter Eckstein wrote an editorial pointing out some of the alleged difficulties of present- ing the information in the form. of a booklet and suggested filing the polls taken, unedited, in the' Undergraduate Library or some other central place. There are several things which I would like to state about the booklet.' * * * - MR. ECKSTEIN's first objection to the booklet was that the ten- tative number of fifty returns would exclude small upper class courses. I might say that rather than the number 50 for a mini- mum that the percentage of 50 would be more realistic in light of the varying size of the courses. naire to present a myriad of cross evaluations. The people who compile the. booklet will take into considera- tion the expected grade of the in- dividual as well as his major field and class. This'information will be provided by the evaluation! sheet. I would hope that the quality of evaluation would be such that a professor would not have to be a comedian to receive a favorable evaluation. Sincerity and intellectual ap- proach would be as important, ift not more so, than an entertain- ing delivery to most University students. A poll such as this might even be an effective method of evaluating just how much real in-' tellectual development and dis- cernment is contributed by the University to its students. * * '4. MR. ECKSTEIN referred to Harvard's "professionalism" in its booklet, which I would rather term Harvard's maturity and which T Iam snur ecn h hieved the. library as upperclassmen would. While upperclass courses are usually smaller than those of freshmen and sophomores, the up- perclassman has better opportuni-t ty and is more likely to talk to the professor of a tentative course, or will know those who have tak- en the course. On the other hand, freshmen especially have little opportunity to receive informa- ' tion about a course and could make use of the booklet. While I believe that the booklet would serve the underclassmen quite well, I also believe that the filed evaluatioiis would be feasible and beneficial to upperclassmen. ** * ANY FORM of presenting stu- dent opinion of course material and administration is prone to be used by the wrong people for the wrong reasons. The thing to keep in mind, though, is that this evaluation would be a service to the serious student in whom we are all interested, especially in this pae TaH would be nhle to BULLETIN The Daily official Bulletin is ar official publication of the Univer sity of Michigan for which the .Michigan Daily assumes no editori" al responsibility. Notices should sent in TYPEWRITTEN form t ,Room 3519 Administration Build Ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sundai Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1955 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 101 General Notices General Undergraduate Scholars) application forms may be obtained the Scholarship Office, 2011 Stud Activities Bldg. Aplicants may bee roled in any of the undergradu units of the University and shoe have financial need and an acader average of "B"or better. Applioati must be completed by March 1. Lectures Arthur Larson, special assistant the President of the United States a former Director of the U.S. Informat Agency, will be presented Monday eve ing at 8:30 in Hill Auditorium as sixth number on the Lecture Cou Tickets for his talk "What We Are-P are on sale at the auditorium box fice Monday 10-8:30. Lecture by W. D. Ballis, Professor Political Science, on "Contempor Conditions' in Russia," with elie Tues., Feb. 25, 7:00 p.m., East Qt Dining' Room No. 4, South Entran Public invited. f Concerts SAT Muslcale Postponed. The sig Alpha rota program previouslys nounced for Mon. evening, Feb. 24, Auditorium A of Angell Hall, has b postponed until Sat., April 19.