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 "Well, Men, What'll We Refrain From Doing Now ?" "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. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: PHILIP MUNCK A Study in Similarities IT IS RARE when ideas expressed in a lee- worldism" ' detachment of the classroom from ture are illustrated so effectively as was the the outside world." case last week. "When you're in your room you want to Prof. Philip Jacob of the University of Penn- be as content as possible." sylvania gave a political science lecture Thurs- "We're here for an academic education." day. The same day, Inter-House Council met, primarily to discuss roommate integration in Jacob lecture: "The pivot of this composite residence halls. student personality is self-centeredness .. The group heard Nan Murrell, head of the "I am under a impression that there are Human Relations Board of Student Govern- a vast number of students who would react ment Council, ask the group to approve a poli- violently" (to random selection of roommates.) cy of completely random roommate selection. Jacob lecture: "Higher eudation is not dis- Reaction to the proposal could best be de- charging its obligation to liberate students." scribed as cautious. Here are some sample com- The IHC meeting ended when it was pointed ments, interspersed with quotes from the cov- out there was no longer a quorum. erage of Jacob's speech: Jacob lecture: "an extremely thin line of "Are you aware, Miss Murrell, that there leadership supports student activity on most is quite an international cross section already campuses." in residence halls?" There are people who would say that all the Jacob lecture: ". . . Most students are quite above illustrates is the clever use of quotes. We contented." would hope this is the case. "Social education is a side issue." But we don't think so. Jacob lecture: " 'There is a kind of two- -LANE VANDERSLICE Sobell Deserves Hearing THE PLIGHT of a University graduate - in to the United States border at Laredo. Appar- prison for almost eight years after convic- ently the men were not officials of .the Mexi- tion of "conspiracy to commit espionage" in can government. While the prosecution later the trial which sent the Rosenbergs to their claimed that Sobell had been "extradited," the deaths - was called to the attention of at Mexican government does not substantiate this least a few members of the University commu- claim, Mrs. Sobell said . nity last week. After his forcible return to the United States, Helen Sobell charged here that her husband's Sobell was not indicted for several weeks. Dur- conviction came as a result of testimony from ing this time, Mrs. Sobell claimed, "repeated an "admitted perjurer" at the height of Mc- attempts to have my husband become a prose- Carthyism when "accusation was tantamount cution witness" were made. When he refused, to conviction." she said, the prosecution merely added his Mrs. Sobell pointed out that the testimony name to the indictment already drawn up against her husband, Morton Sobell, was so against the Rosenbergs. "vague and tenuous" that atomic scientist Har- At the trial, principle witness against So- old Urey remarked after reading the trial bell was Max Elitcher. Elitcher, who was a col- transcript, "I do not know what it is that So- lege friend of both Rosenberg and Sobell, tes- bell is supposed to have done." tified that he had served as an intermediary The case of the People of the United States between the two, transmitting information vs. Morton Sobell is perhaps one of the most which he thought was espionage. Mrs. Sobell tangled in the history of American jurispru- noted that Elitcher admitted he had perjured dence. Essentially separate, it has become inex- himself in other testimony. The importance of tricably intertwined with the Rosenberg case. Elitcher's testimony to the case against So-. In fact, while the Rosenbergs were charged bell was emphasized in the trial judge's charge with transmitting atomic secrets to the Rus- to the jury. sians, charges against Sobell only specified that After conviction, Sobell was sentenced to 30 he had "conspired" with the Rosenbergs -. years in prison with the recommendation that not necessarily on atomic matters. Mrs. Sobell he not be paroled. observed that -her husband was at first ar- raigned for having "conversations" with Julius THE CASE against Morton Sobell, with all Rosenberg. of its complications, can be summed up Sobell, who received his master's degree in in one word: tenuous. As Mrs. Sobell pointed electrical engineering from the University in out, even charges that the Russians got heir 1942, had been a classmate of Julius Rosen- atom bomb due to the Rosenbergs' alleged spy- berg's while an undergraduate at the City Col- ing become increasingly hard to swallow as we lege of New York. During the war - at the observe the rapid progress of Soviet science. time of the so-called conspiracy - he worked The guilt of the Rosenbergs is still questioned for General Electric and, as Mrs. Sobell noted, by many. And if the Rosenbergs were inno- did not have access to information on the cent, Sobell must also be guiltless. atomic bomb. Even if the Rosenbergs were guilty, the case against Morton Sobell is not exceedingly IN 1950 - before arrest of the Rosenbergs-- strong. It may well be that he was merely an Sobell and his family traveled to Mexico. unfortunate victim of the net the prosecution Mrs. Sobell explained the trip by saying that spun around the Rosenbergs: a net drawn her husband had just completed a government tighter by a scared witness. Mrs. Sobell's re- project and was taking a "vacation." This trip mark that "a number of other people who were became one of the principle side-issues of the in the same class with my husband and Julius trial. It is of course easy to suppose that Sobell Rosenberg" were threatened with involvement made the trip because he was guilty. As Mrs. is significant. Sobell pointed out, however, the Sobells used The Supreme Court has refused to hear the normal tourist transportation in going to Mex- many attempted appeals by Sobell. It is true ico. If he had wanted to escape the country, that the case will not probably set any new it seems probably that Sobell would have at- legal precedent of importance. Nevertheless tempted to lose himself in a much more se- several important procedural and factual mat- cretive manner than by flying to Mexico City ters in the case deserve the attention of this and taking an apartment in his own name., country's highest judicial body. Questions have A few weeks after the Sobells' arrival in Mex- been raised which demand an answer. ico City, the Rosenbergs were arrested. A case which has been compared to that In the early morning, a few days later, five of Sacco and Vanzetti must not be allowed to armed Mexican men knocked on the door and remain restless on the conscience of the na- burst into the Sobells' room. Mrs. Sobell said tion. her family was then piled into a car and driven -LEWIS COBURN Committees Require Consideration - ; ' ' .' ry F !!!: d ' .i .P . ". _< b ., t s 'L~ * ~ p ~ * ..-.-*w---,- FORE (cit~i VOMES'r ic: t 1 AT THE CAMPUS: Olivier's 'Henry' Returns in Style LAURENCE OLIVIER'S fine production of Henry V has returned to Ann Arbor for at least the third time since its opening here a decade ago. The first Shakespearean play to receive the "extravaganza" treat- ment, "Henry V" has been re-released this year in "Superscope"- presumably in an attempt to take advantage of the interest aroused by Olivier's recent, award-winning presentation of Richard III. For those who have not seen the film already, "Henry V" is both an interesting and an exciting experience. Not entirely successful in some of its more experimental aspects, it is nevertheless a good example of the success with which cinematographic techniques can be used to 11000-1 ,. Y I WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Powell Probe Stymied By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - Justice De- partment officials have been jit- tery as a cat on a hot tin roof over the federal grand jury in New York which now appears ready to hold its own independent inves- tigation of the income taxes of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, the Negro Congressman from Harlem. In the summer of 1956, this col- umn reported that Powell, a Dem- ocrat, had discovered he was un- der tax investigation and that three of his secretaries were be- ing indicted under circumstances which involved giving salary kick- backs to the congressman. Powell, in the past a rootin' tootin' Eisenhower critic, then got in touch with Vice-President Richard Nixon and became a rootin' tootin' Eisenhower boost- er. As a Democrat he urged Ne- groes to vote Republican. A spe- cial press conference was ar- ranged for him, first in New York by Max Rabb, the White House aide, and John Roosevelt, the GOP member of the FDR family. Later another press conference was arranged right inside the White House by Jim Hagerty him- self. * * . THEREAFTER the grand jury investigating the Harlem Con- gressman mysteriously came to a halt. On Nov. 24, 1956, this col- umn reported: "The United States Attorney's office in New York wants to press the case against the congressman. However, there are indications that the Justice Department planned to drop the case in return for Powell's cam- paigning for the Republicans." Last week, 18 months later, full confirmation of this came from Thomas A. Bolan, the Assistant United States Attorney in charge of the Powell Grand Jury. Asked whether it was true that on March 18, 1957, he was in- formed by his superiors that on orders from Washington the United States Attorney's office in New York was abandoning the in- vestigation and turning it over to the Treasury Department, Bolan replied: "That is correct." "Is it correct that you were asked to write a letter to the At- torney General advising that the case should be handled by the Treasury and that you declined?" "That is correct," Bolan replied. He did not say so, butitwas clear that he did not go along with any political fix in the Pow- ell case. MEANWHILE here are some of the facts in the files of the United States Attorney's office which have prompted the jury to take the Powell case into its own hands -whether the Justice Department likes it or not. In 1954, Powell's campaign manager, Joseph Ford, broke with Powell and thereafter some of the Congressman's financial records reached the Justice Department. Subsequently two of Rep. Pow- ell's secretaries, Acy Lennon and Hattie Dodson, were convicted; a third, William Hampton, was in- dicted, while John Henry Harmon, treasurer of the Federal Credit Union of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, pleaded guilty to em- bezzlement. Powell is pastor of the church, one of the biggest in the world, and has been president of its "Federal Credit Union." His secretary, Hattie Dodson, was treasurer. Both resigned when the tax investigation started, and ,Harmon, succeeding Mrs. Dodson, p l e a d e d guilty. Lennon and Hampton, two of Powell's secre- taries, received salaries of $8,000 a year from the Done Miller houses in addition to their gov- ernment salaries. * s PART OF the deal arranged in the election campaign of 1956 was that the Congressman's secre- tary, Hattie Dodson, should be released as soon as possible from the Women's Federal Penitentiary at Alderson, W. Va. She became eligible for parole on Sept. 25, got a hearing that same day, and was granted parole effective Oct. 17. Mrs. Dodson had been convicted of income-tax evasion after pay- ing salary kickbacks to the Con- gresman. This writer has helped to convict three Congressmen for taking kickbacks, and in each case, they, not their secretaries, were prosecuted. In the case of Rep. Powell, however, the secre- taries were prosecuted while he campaigned for President Eisen- hower. Indicative of the jitteryness of Justice Department officials over the Powell Grand Jury is the fact that Herbert Brownell, former At- torney General, never held a press conference in Washington after the Powell case came up. NOTE-In contrast to the Jus- tice Department's maneuvering to stymie the Powell Grand Jury, the same Justice Department called three grand juries in Omaha, Kan- sas City and St. Louis in an effort to try to indict Ex-Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder and other high officials of the Truman Ad- ministration. In the end former Assistant Attorney General Lamar Caudle and Matt Connelly, secre- tary to Truman, were convicted, not of taking bribes, gifts, or of tax evasion, but of "depriving the United States of their best serv- ices." (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) convey a spirit and an atmosphere as well as a story. Those more familiar with the old film will find that the addition of "Superscope" to this release is, unfortunately, of dubious value. Already larger-than-life characters are blown up to unnecessarily gi- gantic size, too often at the ex- pense of a head or a hand at the top of the screen, and the film itself is often flickery and uneven. * . * RATHER THAN drawing the audience immediately into the action of the play, Olivier begins his production with views of an Elizabethan audience filing into an apparently accurate replica of the Glove Theatre. The prologue and first few scenes are presented as they might have been on the stage of the original theater. The rhetoric moves along magnificent- ly in these scenes, despite inter- ruptions by catcalls, confusion, and rain, but the emphasis of the film in this early part seems to lie far more on the interesting aspects of Elizabethan play pro- duction than on the lines or plot of the play itself. The minute the play moves away from London, however, a note of unashamed fantasy is in- troduced and the movie becomes a drama instead of a document. "Henry V," of all the history plays, is the most spectacular and pag- eant-like; the producer happily makes fewtconcessions to the "average human" level of presen- tation or to strict verisimilitude. e * HENRY V is the final play in a series of three and in it, England through the rational courage of her king, achieves the victory and peace for which she had struggled throughout the earlier two dramas. it is primarily a symbolic play and one which is necessarily abstracted from life. Olivier's King Henry is superb. An entirely sympathetic character, Hal is at the same time a symbol of the ideal ruler. Presented against a tapestry of vari-colored situations, Henry is as sharply defined as the ordinary fairy tale hero and far more convincing than most. -Jean Willoughby I ussia ... Ni kita Khrushchev evidently doesn't believe what he reads in the (United States) papers. Any clipping service could have sup- plied him with 10,000 items since Sputnik proving, by declaration of nine-tenths of our local authorities on the subject, that the Soviet educational system is so far be- yond anything the free world of- fers that the only sensible thing for an ambitious young scholar to do is enroll at Moscow University. But Khrushchev-perhaps looking over the figures on Soviet student expulsions and engineering break- downs-has just issued a blast de- nouncing the methods of the So- viet schools, and demanding that Soviet educationists start showing better results, or else --- And when Khrushchev says "or else," brother, the little boy at the back of the classroom doesn't yell, "Aw, shaddup." -National Review DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer sity of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, beforS 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1958 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 147 General Notices June Teacher's Certificate Candi- dates: All requirements for the teach- er's certificate should be completed by May 16. These requirements include the teacher's oath, the health statement, and the Bureau of Appointments ma- terial. The oath can be taken in Room 1439 U.E.S. The office is open from to 12 and 1:30 to 4:30. Women of the University Faculty, dinner meeting, April 29, 6:00 p.m., In- glis Estate, 2301 Highland Road. Elec- tion of officers; informal talk by Mrs. James Inglis. All students who expect education and training allowance under Publo; Law 550 (Korea G. I. Bill) or Public Law 634 (Orphans' Bill) must get in- structors' signatures at last class meet- ings in April on Dean's Monthly Certi- fication form and turn the completed form in to Dean's office by 5:00 P.m. Fri., May 2. Fall Orientation Leaders (Male) - Sign up at the Union Student Offices on the 2nd floor. Mon., April 28 Tues. April 29; and wed., April 30 between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. Lectures University Lecture. Sponsored by the English Dept. Prof. F. E. L. Priestley of the Univ. of Toronto will speak -on "Sciencevand the Poetic Imagination" on Tues., April 29, in Aud. A, Angel Hall, at 4:10 p.m. All interested per- sons are cordially invited to attend. The English Journal Club will present Prof. F. E. L. Priestley of the Univ. of Toronto, who will speak on -The Dual Newtonian Tradition." He will speak on Tues., April 29 in the W. Conference Rm., Rackham Bldg. at 8:00 p.m. Lecture: "Atomic Power at Laguna Beach." Myron Beekman, Director of the Nuclear Power Development of De- troit Edison Company. Wed., April 3, 8:00 p.m., Aud. B, Angell Hall. The Henry Russel Lecture will be de livered by verner W. Crane, Prof. of American History, Wed., April 30, ab 4:15 p.m., in the Rackham Amphi- theater. Dr. Crane's lecture topic to "Dr. Franklin's Plan for America." Psychology Colloquium: Prof. Cornet Giurgea, Inst. of Physiology, Rouma- nian Academy of Science will speakon "The Experimental Approach to the Problem of Time and Space Perep- tion." Wed., April 30, 4:15 p.m., Ra. 443, Mason Hall. Concerts Student Recital: George Papich, who studies viola with Robert Courte, will present a recital on Tues., April 29 at 8:30 p.m. The recital, which is present- ed in partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Master of Mu- sic, will be held in Aud. A, Angell Hall. The program will include compositions by Haydn, Hindemith, Brahms and vi- valdi. Open to the general public. Student Recital: Elmer Thomas, bari- tone, assisted by Shirley Dabora piano and Raymond Lynch, oboe, will present a recital at 8:30 p.m. Wed., April 30, in Aud. A, Angell Hall, In partial ful- fillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Mr. Thomas, who studies voice with Harold Haugh, has included in his program, works by Dowland, Rosseter, Jones, Bach, Han- del, Williams, and Copland. Open to the general public. Academic Notices Student Teaching in Music: All stu- dents who expect to register for Stu- dent teaching in music next year (eith- er first or second semester) must sub- mit an application on or before Mon. May 5. Majors in music education may obtain forms from their advisors oth- ers may obtain them at 10 School of Music. Instrumentation Engineering Semi- nar: "Prediction and Filtering for Ran- dom Parameter Systems," by Dr. F. J. Beutler of the Aeronautical Engrg. Dept. Tues., April 29, 4:00 p.m., Rm. 1508 E. Enggr. Bldg. Medical College Admission Test: Can- didates taking the Medical College Ad- mission Test on May 3 are requested to report to Rm. 130 Bus. Admin. at 8:45 a.m. Sat. Selective Service Examination: Stu- dents taking the Selective Service Col- lege Qualification Test on May 1 are requested to report to Rm. 130 Bus. Ad- min. at 8:30 a.m. Thurs. Operations Research Seminar: Wal- lace W. Gardner, Assoc. Prof. of Sta- tistics, School of Bus. Admin., will lec- ture on "OR as a Philosophy of Man- agement" on Wed., April 30. Coffee hour will be held in Rmn. 243 W. Engrg. at 3:30 and Seminar at 4:00 in Rm. 229 W. Engrg. All faculty members are welcome. Botanical Seminar: Dr. George H. Lauff, Dept. of Geology will speak on "The Productivity Concept in Limolo- gy" Wed., April 30, 4:15 p.m., 1139 Nat. Sci. Refreshments will be served at k-. 4 I THE CULTURE BIT: STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL de- pends to a great extent upon its numerous committees. The areas they cover are many. The action coming from them is often nebulous. The assumptions under which these many committees are established are often com- mendable. But too many times committees are set up with little regard as to the effective ac- tion which will come from them. Such is the case with the committee recently organized to study drinking regulations at the University. Many students have expressed the belief that drinking regulations on this campus are an unnecessary limitation on their actions. Re- stricting students, regardless of age, from drinking within their quarters seems to be a superfluous extension of the state law. If students under the state's legal age of 21 are found drinking, state enforcement of regu- lations would provide punishment. Rowdiness as a result of drinking by students over 21 years old can be curbed by the enforce- ment of University rules governing student conduct. The rule states that any student found conducting himself "in such a manner as to make it apparent that he is not a de- sirable member or part of the University, he Considering this, SGC's interest in acting in this area seems definitely valid. This is an area of student concern and, if surveyed, student opinion would probably support elimination of the regulation. But when the SGC action taken involves the establishment of a committee to investigate the regulation, one questions the effective action which this committee can take. The committee was set up "to explore pos- sibilities of modifying the so-called University Drinking Regulations;" but it is doubtful that modification of the rules will result from the committee's work. THE RULE has been on the books for count- less years and student opinion on the sub- ject has not changed during that amount of time. About the only action the group can take will be to send a recommendation from SGC to the faculty Committee on Student Conduct proposing possible re-evaluation of the regu- lation. This, then, is an example of an SGC com- mittee. The intent behind it is good but the effectiveness of it will probably be poor. It seems time for SGC to begin to think a 1+ifl ama, nrani ,-wh t i qt- fn++,-in n,. nm H ow the Pros Do It By DAVID NEWMAN WITH SUMMER looming, most college students are hunting for jobs that will garner them as much loot as possible. It was with some fascination, then, that we visited a group of collegians who cast aside financial gains in a quest for artistic hoop-la during the hiatus. The occasion was prompted by that growing part of show bsuiness known as summer stock. Producer Bill Adams and his staff were in town to audition college talent for the Detroit Music Circle Theatre and the Flint Musical Tent. They holed up at the Union, in a room with a beat piano and a lot of chairs. When we arrived a grin- ning coed washvainly attempting to cope with the lyric of "I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy." Steadfastly refusing to look at the sheet music, she blushed her way through two stumbling choruses and then lapsed into eight bars of "La-la-la-la." Her face bespoke .- .. - I . ...-..a .. . ,_-I- .,a ager Bill Wilkins. "I think there's been a very good showing this year," he said, in a voice that rang with professional eclat. "We've had some good talent from Music School." He pressed a ream of folders on us, explaining that the two stock theatres were profes- sional companies that employed a resident cast with visiting stars. Scanning the star list, we picked out such luminaries as Frank Par- ker (without Marion Marlowe, be- gorra!) and skater Dick Button. We were about to ask what Button would be doing, when the next aspirant stepped up to do a turn. * * * ADAMS, a genial, white-haired fellow, stood up. "I should ex- plain," he announced. "Singers will be notified in two weeks. Dancers in three. Those of you who will sing in the chorus must face the fact that you'll be singing with people from the Met chorus and the City Center chorus." well. Everyone leaned forward, the better to watch her move well. "Dear," said Adams, "do a series of twirls across the stage for me." She rapidly executed a bunch of spin-, almost colliding with the piano. * * * AN OPERATIC tenor followed and impressed everybody. Adams quizzed him on his past experi- ence, complimented him on his rendering of "This Is My Beloved" and asked him, "Are you going to brave New York next fall?" "Yes, sir," answered the tenor. "Oh, you fool," chuckled Adams. Manager Wilkins showed us the rating cards of some of the previ- ous tryouts. Along with the name and vocal range were scrawled such comments as "Possible ap- prentice," and "Nice voice, but too fat." "Most people who break into show business," said Wilkins,'"they break in as apprentices. There's lim -_ __ n T- --r T r -A iffa nv 4, e :