"Well, I See Harold Got Him To Swallow Something" 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 a* - - 01: "When Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" I tt #- f Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily, ex press the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. UDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL KRAFT FACULTY RECITAL: T enor H augh Displays A rtistry, Sncerity HAROLD HAUGH, professor of voice in the University's School Music, gave a recital of songs by American composers in Ly& Mendelssohn Theater last night. The program was highlighted by t: tenor's artistry, sincerity, and musicianship. Mr. Haugh is well known for his work in oratorio and concert, which he has had long and vast experience. All his work in this progra reflected his maturity and depth of approach. The tenor's voice is not the most brilliant'in existence, but it lovely, warm, resonant and well-controlled. Every time I hear him si: I feel a surge of admiration for the condition and beauty of the voic The program opened with a group of songs by Francis Hopkinso None of these songs are of really excellent quality, but there are man Inter-Departmental Courses for the Rest of Us THE CREATION of three new inter-depart- mental courses for Honor students in the literary college represents an important and valuable step for the University. The courses-one in social science, one in the humanities and one in the natural sciences -were created by the Honors Council because it felt this type of program would make a signi- ficant contribution to the education of the superior student. We find one criticism of this program. Be- sides being created too late, it was created only for the "superior" student. In short, the literary college should have done a great deal more with the integrated program and aimed it at more people. It is really unfortunate that it took the pressures and needs of an Honors Council to arrive at such a program. We believe that the interdepartmental course, specifically the inter-departmental course where there is common ground, is almost a necessity for a first-rate university. It's importance increases for any large, sprawl- ing university with its high-class cafeteria, assortment of courses. Its value goes up even another notch when exigencies of time, a large student body, and a small counseling staff force counseling to become totally impersonal and primarily a rubber-stamp function. HE STUDENT, especially the freshman or sophomore, looks at the bewildering array of courses, and then, if he is a good student, takes those which look as though they might be interesting. Very often, he is taking four or, five different courses which seem to have abso- lutely no relation to each other. Often the only time relationships become apparent is when he is taught the same thing in different courses, and then, the value of repetition ex-, eluded, the courses become a needless waste of time. The fortunate junior or senior may begin to see his education experience as an organic entity, but by then he wishes he had done something else with his freshman and sopho- more years. In fact, he often wonders what he did with his freshman and sophomore years. The new integrated courses are able very often to fulfill this need by relating different materials to each other. They' enable the stu- dent to see his education as a single structure. They are able to pull diverse blocks together, and at the same time help the student plan his program from there. They may also help to emphasize the basic role of education as a means rather than an end in itself. Certainly, if somebody's program is headed in a direction he can see, he will see that it is taking him somewhere. If he works from final exam to final exam, this can not be the case. The scholar in English is not a scholar unless he can see where literature fits into the general pattern of things. Literature in not an entity alone, but rather the results of many societal. forces. The student cannot really hope to un- derstand the literature of a certain period unless he knows something of the times-the government, the ideas and other forms of art in that age. A similar case can be made for the social and natural sciences. An integrated program may also act as a valuable catalyst and stimulus for the student. Inter-reaction or recognition of basic patterns very often provide the means for intellectual excitement. The Honors Council saw fit to establish integrated courses for the superior student, because it saw that integrated courses can make a valuable contribution to someone's education. We hope the literary college would continue to increase its use of the integrated courses, and even the integrated program, not merely as a means to provide superior education for the superior student, but also to prove a more meaningful education for anybody who wants it. -RICHARD TAUB C) Ttf-c ;r-. YI t . , , , . , .,,. ps95' T*E rs rtrs-ol. on r moo, WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: ME m GOP Powers in Hot Water By DREW PEARSON Our Satellite Success Must Not Fog Issues THIS country's "most sophisticated" rocket- the Navy's Vanguard-blew some Army- donated United States rocketry prestige out the window when it rose to 20,000 feet, faltered, split in two, and had to be exploded by the Cape Canaveral range safety officer early yes- terday morning. Ironically, the bits and pieces of Navy's debacle fell - this time - into the Atlantic Ocean. At the Vanguard's first abortive launch- ing attempt on Dec. 6, the highly publicized rocket rose four feet into the air before ex- ploding and destroying its launching pad. It is regretable the latest Vanguard attempt had to fail at a time when Army scientists had just succeeded in taking the stigma of Sputniklessness off the United States. For the first time in four months of clear, beeping evidence of Soviet rocket domination, scientific eyes in this country were beginning to clear of satellite-launching, frenzied haziness. Scien- tists were beginning to think of realistic basic changes in educational systems and of other ways to consolidate U.S. gains and forge ahead to the goal of Sputnik-parity, We hope this latest failure will not cause a regression to the frantic "we must have satel- lites up there fast and to hell with the rest" attitude of the past four months. Rather, it is evident from both the Army's success and the Navy's failure that a radically different empha- sis is called for, The United States still faces a long pull to catch up with the Russians. This is evident from the statements of leading missilemen such as Wernher von Braun, "father of the Jupiter-C," who said it would take this country five years to catch up with the Russians even if our work- achievement rate was twenty per cent ahead of Russia's.. IN THE FACE of this long haul-predicted by a man who should know-two points become clear. First, because this country's one successful satellite-carrying missile was constructed and launched primarily under the direction of Ger- man-born scientists who were transported to the United States after World War II-von Braun is a good example-it becomes clear that there is a need for new blood-and money-to be pumped into our educational system so that this country will not have to depend so heavily on foreign imports in the future. From the practical point of view, between the United States and Russia, the European reservoir of missile brain-power has been just about cleaned out. Thus, the creation-through education-- and extensive tapping of home reservoirs is necessary both to insure future productivity and as a program token of future potentiality. Concerning the second point, it has become evident from the Navy's two failures that the ''we must have satellites up there fast" attitude, coupled with intra-service rivalry over missile control and the "fight" for favorable publicity, is severely detrimental to this country's inter-, ests. The Army was lucky. The Navy, working on a "artificial moon or bust" basis, has failed twice-badly both times. The Navy's first abortive launching came when the Sputniks were still fresh reminders of this country's lag. Prompted by defense de- partment publicists and its own desire to "beat Army" with public avengeance, the Navy pro- ject received a build-up out of proportion to the expected results. When the project failed, this country received a year's worth of un- favorable publicity. The Navy's second failure came-coincidentally-only a few days ,after the Army satellite threatened to displace per- manently Navy's death-hold on long-range mis- siles and missile appropriations. Clearly, the Navy has shown that overall control of missile development should be given to a bureau of government which will not easily fall victim to haste and intra-service rivalry. The Killian study of this matter gains added significance in view of Navy's second demoraliz- ing failure. When the time comes to assess the merits of the various service claims for missile control, we hope Dr. Killian will recall the Navy mis- sile's not-so-strange affinity for water. -LEWIS COBURN THE ARKANSAS traveler, Con- gressman Oren Harris, has kept such a throttle-hold on the Moulder Committee and so fumed and fulminated over leaks to this column that it's sometimes diffi- cult to report what goes on behind closed doors. That's why this column is a little late in reporting a highly significant secret debate which took place before Congress con- vened when Bobby Hale of Maine and John Heselton of Massachu- setts rushed down from New Eng- land to try to block the Federal Communications Commission in- vestigation. These two New England Repub- licans made the trip because three other eminent New England Re- publicans were in trouble. THE THREE in trouble includ- ed the highest dignitaries in the Grand Old Party: Sh er m a n Adams, former governor of New Hampshire, now Assistant Presi- dent, Sinclair Weeks of Boston, former national GOP treasurer, now Secretary of Commerce, and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, former governor of Massachusetts, now senator. Heselton and Hale were valiant and effective. They did not refer to the above distinguished blue- bloods. They just stormed against the general investigation. "This is the worst thing I have seen since I have been in Con- gress," shouted Congressman Hes- elton, usually a moderate. He was referring to a questionnaire ask- ing top officials on regulatory commissions to list gifts received from businessmen they regulate. Heselton accused Schwartz of preparing the questionnaire in se- cret and not letting congressmen see it in advance. Schwartz sug- gested that Heselton examine his file. The congressman from Mas- sachusetts thumbed through the cardboard folder he had brought to the meeting. "Oh," he said sheepishly, "you don't mean this questionnaire of August 30th?" * * * IN THE END, the Committee agreed to accept the questionnaire but keep the answers under lock and key. The power of public opinion has now forced out an- swers regarding free TV sets and free travel received from the TV industry. But much more searching prob- lems remain to be examined, in- cluding the real reason the two New England congressmen hastened back to Washington to protect their high-up New Eng- land friends. For one of the most interesting cases of wire-pulling w h i c h Moulder Committee probers have poked into is that of the Boston Herald and Traveler and a TV li- cense worth about $20,000,000. This choice TV plum went to the staunch Republican Herald and Traveler after FCC Examiner James Cunningham recommended against it, but after Messrs. Sher- man Adams, Sinclair Weeks and Leverett Saltonstall put their powerful fingers in the FCC pie. The multimillion-dollar TV channel was also granted after amazing threats by the Herald and Traveler that it would put the Boston Globe out of business. These threats are now a matter of official record. They have been filed by the owners of the Boston Globe, an independent newspaper, who told how Robert Choate, owner of the Herald-Traveler, had tried for two years to force a merger of the Globe and the Herald-Traveler. CHOATE then angrily threat- ened "to do his best to put the Globe out of business," charged Globe President Davis Taylor in a sworn affidavit, and, if he won a TV license, "to use his newspa- per, radio station and television station to injure the Globe." The FCC is supposed to allocate TV channels on the basis of free competition, not to monopolize either advertising or news dis- semination. Despite this, thanks to wire-pulling in high places, FCC commissioners did a loop- the-loop and gave the monopoly- making TV channel to the Herald- Traveler. (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) effective moments in them. The most interesting of these was "My Generous Heart Disdains." The varying moods and emotions were Icaught admirably by the artist, both vocally and visually. Probably the most interesting part of the program was a cycle of songs on texts from Benjamin Franklin called Poor Richard. Upon first hearing, one is im- mediately taken up by the clever- ness of the texts and the effective setting which Ross Lee Finney (also of the School of Music fac- ulty) gave to them. * *. * MR. HAUGH'S excellent and effortless diction brought out all of the words and meanings. How- ever, I wasdstruck by the fact that the extremely witty and striking texts served as a detriment to the music. The audience reacted heartily to the words, but I wonder how many really listened to the music..Mr. Finney's music was not only a very fine vehicle for the texts, but, was of interesting and high quality on its own. It seems to me that contem- porary composers are all too often interested in setting self-sufficient words which only defeats the mu- sic. If one is dealing in a musical form, which I trust present day song composers are, the music must never be subordinated to the words. * * * FOLLOWING the intermission, Mr. Haugh returned to perform a group of songs with a general Protestant religious expression in the words. Fortunately, most of the songs were not of the usual tasteless nature generally perpe- trated upon the average Protestant congregation. Sarah Dittenhaver's "Lady of the Amber Wheat" and Sven Lek- berg's "A Ballad of Trees and the Master" proved to be quite inter- esting and effective. Mr. Haugh's performance of these, as in all of this group, revealed deep convic- tion and feeling. The final song of this group was "The Better Prayer" by Char- lotte Lockwood. This song was dedicated to the tenor. When the introduction began, I expected rather nice things. However, with the entrance of the voice, the ac- companiment became somewhat trivial. The vocal writing was flu- ent and lyric and reached a good climax. The final section was a mis- cellaneous group which, in general, left me rather cold. One exception was the last song, Nearly all the songs on the pro- gram fell into the "nice" category with many effective moments. However, except for the Finney cycle, I did not hear much beyond some superficial craftsmanship. The accompaniments were pro- vided by Charles Fisher of the School of Music faculty and his performance never fell below ex- cellent. --Robert Jobe DAILY BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editori- al responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- Ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1958 VOL. LXIII, NO. 87 . General Notices The following student sponsored so- cial events are approved for the com- ing weekend. Social chairmen are re- minded that requests for approval for social events are due in the Office of Student Affairs not later than 12.1 o'clock noon on the Tuesday prior to the event.° February 7. 1958 Alice Lloyd Hall, Chicago House, Del- ta Theta Phi, Michigan Christian Fel- lowship. February 8, 1958 Alpha Delta Phi, Chicago, Delta The- ta Phi, Graduate Student Council. February 9,.1958 Delta Theta Phi, Greene House. Applications for Grants in support of Research Projects: Faculty members who wish to apply for grants from the Faculty Research funds to support re- search projects should file their appli-= cations in the Office of the" Graduate. . School not later than Mon., Feb. 10. Ap- plication forms are available in the office of the Dean, Room 1006 Rackham Building. Student Organization Sponsored A- tivities: All activities and projects spon- sored or produced by student organiza. tions must receive the approval of Stu- dent Government Council. Only recog- nized organizations are eligible to sub- mit a petition for consideration. A pe- tition should be submitted to the Council at least two weeks before thei event is to take place. Forms may be secured from the Administrative Sec- retary of Stuaent Government Counl in the Student Activities Building (Room 1538 or 2011). Activities are to be scheduled so as to take place before the seventh day prior to the beginning of a final examination period. For the+ present semester the examination per- iod begins May 30, 1958. Publicity for an event may not be released until ap- proval has been secured. For detailed procedures and regulations relating to student organization activities, see UNIVERSITY REGULATIONS CON- CERNINGASTUDENT AFFAIRS, CON- DUCTS, AND DISCIPLINE, copies of which are available in the Office of tudent Affairs, 2011 Student Activi- ties Building. Recognition of new campus organi- zations falls within the jurisdiction of the Student Government Council. En- - formation concerning procedure and as- sistance may be secured from Student Government Council offices in the Stu- dent Activities Building or from the Administrative Swretary, Mrs. Calla- han, Summary, action taken by Student Government Council at itssmeeting Jan. 15, 1958. Approved: Minutes of pre- vious meeting. Appointed: Stan Levy t- SGC Evaluation sub-committee. Post- poned action on recommendations for appointments to Membership restriction study committee. Established date for spring elections as March 25, 26. ,Ap-. proved activities as follows: Feb. 15, Ga- lens, Caduceus Ball, Union, 9-1 a.m, Feb. 14, 15 Ukranian Student Club, Sym- posium "A Critical Analysis of the Sov- let Education System," six lectures: 15 Ukranian Student Club, Ukrainian Ball. Rackham,8 p.m. and 22 Michigan Un- ion "Jazz at Ann Arbor" show, Hill, 9 p.m. The following activities were cal- endared March 3-7, Michigan Union, Union Madness and March 8 Jr..IFC, Jr. Panhellenic, dance. Change of date for Military Ball from March 7 to Mar. 14 was approved. Assembly Bal, previ- ously calendared for March 8, was dropped. Adopted statement relating to final examination policy. Approved Forum program, John Gates, speaker (speaker subject to approval by Corn-, bmittee on University Lectures). Lectures United Nations Lobbyist. Dr. Elton Atwater, will speak informally during the Office of Religious Affairs Coffee Hour, 4:15 p.m. Fri.. Feb. 7, Lane Hall Library. Norman Thomas, director, Post-War World Council, will speak on "Arms and the Economy," Fri., Feb. 7, at 8:00 p~m. In Rackham Auditorium. Spon- sored by the Economics Club. All staff and graduate students in economics and business administration urged to attend. All others invited. Concerts Organ Recital: 4:15 p.m. Sun. Feb.. ,: in Hill Auditorium, by David Craig- head, Head of Organ Department, East- man School of Music, University of Rochester. Sponsored by the School of Music, the recital will be open to the general public without charge. It will include works by Bach, Buxtehude, Mo- zart; Robert Russell Bennett, Stanley, Sowerby and Maurice Durufle. Academic Notices Medical college Admission Test: Ap- plication blanks for the May 11, 1958 administration of the Medical Col- lege Admission Test are now available at 122 Rackham Building. Application blanks are due in Princeton, N.J., two weeks before the test date. f OFFICIAL /. c r u 3. , THE ARAB POINT OF VIEW / United Arab Republic-Realization of a Dream By THOMAS TURNER Daily Staff Writer THE UNION of Egypt and Syri'a as the United Arab Republic is being regarded as the realization of a long-held aspiration of all Ara- bic peoples, interviews with stu- dents from the new country reveal. Arabs have felt united for many years, Louis Greiss, a graduate student from Egypt declared. "I can go to any Arab country with- out feeling a foreigner," he said. This universal feeling among Arabs is now being felt by leaders in their governments, Greiss con- tinued. President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the new republic is such a leader, he believes. King Hussein of Jordan, King Faisal of Iraq and others who oppose united Arab action and belong to or favor the Baghdad Pact do not represent the sentiments ofdtheir subjects. Union of the Arab states is an economic necessity, he said, since without a market of their own, pressure such as last year's boycott of Syria can be employed by an outside power. * * * AHMAD DALATI, Spec. E., a Syrian, corrobated most of Greiss' points. He agreed that Arabs everywhere are rejoicing at the news of the first significant merger of Arab states since King Ibn Saud formed Saudi Arabia out of the desert kingdoms of Nejd and Hejaz. They need much more develop- ment of their natural resources. Political considerations are not so important because the will of the people will be felt. He saw no long-run difficulty in incorporating absolute monarchies such as Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf Sheikdoms of Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, into the United Arab Republic. "I have heard rumors," Dalati said, "that the Imam of Yemen, also an absolute monarch, will re- sign to become a spiritual leader. This could set a good example for others." Leaders such as Jordan's Hus- sein may face "revolt," Dalati said at one point, but later tempered this statement to "change," * * * BOTH ARAB students were somewhat vague or unrealistic in facing questions as to how King Saud, for example, could be made to step down, or the British per- suaded to abandon their protec- torates on the Gulf. Loose federation of existing Arab governments would be a welcome first step toward union, the Syrian added. American policy should encour- age the new country, Dalati said, remarking on reports he had heard that Secretary of State John Fos- ter Dulles should be fired for al- lowing the merger to occur. As things stand now, he said parenthetically, the only reason C[o r a ctfn ,in ot ,~ new republic toward its neighbor Israel, Greiss first declared that the only solution lay in respecting the terms of the United Nations settlement, which called for a re- turn of Israel to her 1947 boun- daries, and return of Palestinian refugees to their homes or other suitable compensation. He admit-; ted, though, that even an Israel reduced in size would be unsatis- factory from the Arab point of view and that only integration of Jewish Palestine into the Arab Republic would work. Dalati pointed out that Israel is at present near the saturation point in population, while her neighbors are sparsely populated. Expansion is thus inevitable, and friction will inevitably follow. CONSIDERING these points, Dalati concluded that the United States should no longer back Israel for its own good. Such an attitude would appear to allow for emo- tional commitments on the part of Arabs, but ignore those of others involved. Asked to comment on the for- mation of the UAR and on the statements of Greiss and Dalati, Prof. George L. Grassmuck of the political science department agreed that Arabs have a feeling of unity that transcends national boun- daries, but questioned the assump- tion that the initial merger would work so easily. Prof. Grassmuck's background The economies of the two coun- tries and national characted of their inhabitants are likewise not the same. Even in their armed forces, merged on paper some months ago, there exist points of controversy, such as differingpay scales. Considerations of .this sort cannot be overlooked, the profes- sor feels. He cited the case of the two legislatures, members of which do not wish to lose office. Prof. Grassmuck illustrated his points in terms of an attempted merger of New York State and North Carolina without the bene- fit of our national government in Washington. Regardless of the wishes of officials and even of the people, he said, the two states are separate geographically, economi- cally and in certain social traits. . * * * REGARDING the point that Nasser may have used union to keep control of Syria, Prof. Grass- muck said the impetus for the union from Syria's Arab Ressurec- tionist Party, and while other parties would not dare come out against a Pan-Arab nation, they do not favor the mover for several reasons, not all political. Similarly, Prof. Grassmuck said he knew several Syrians here in Ann Arbor who did not favor the merger of their country with Egypt, but "for them to say so would be to say they did't want to go home." ; g IticI4uan New Books at the Library Editorial Staff PETER ECKSTEIN, Editor JAMES ELSMAN, JR. VERNON NAHRGANG Editorial Director City Editor )ONNA HANSON ................ Personnel Director AROL PRINS............ ....Magazine Editor DWARD GFRULDSEN .. Associate Editorial Director VILLIAM BAND~Y................. Features Editor ZOSE PERLBERG ................ Activities Editor IANE FRASER ............ Assoc, Activities Editor 'HOMAS BLUES .......... Assoc. Personnel Director AMES Y3AAD .. ....... ... Sports Editor RUCE BENNETT ............ Associate Sports Editor OHN ILLYER.............Associate Sports Editor RUCE BAILEY.........,.......Chief Photographer Business Staff Goldberg, Alfred, ed.-- A History of the United States Air Force, 1907-57; Van Nost- rand, 1957. Harwell, Richard B., ed.-The Confederate Reader; NY, Longmans, Green, 1957. MacLean, Fitzroy-The Heretic: The Life and Times of Josip Broztito; NY, Harper, 1957. Noyes, Alfred-The Accusing Ghost of Roger Casement; NY, The Citadel Press, 1957. Thiel, Rudolf-The There Was Light; NY, Knopf, 1957. Warren, Joyce-Peacocks and Avarice; NY, Harper, 1957. West, Rebecca-The Court and the Castle; NewH roavan Vole niv res. 15 7