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A F .OLLOWING WORLD WAR II there appeared a series of novels
..impc of various wartime situation on morality.
Some of this breed of books were bitter in tone. Some saw humor
.in the clashes between alien cultures. "Until They Sail" is a Holly-
wood hybrid of the two.
The story is set in New Zealand and concerns itself with the trials
and tribulations of four sisters whose husbands, gathers and lovers
" : have departed for the war. Each sister chooses a different colored pin
s s to stick in a map indicating the wh-ereabouts of her nearest and dear-
a aest. In doing so, they symbolically reveal their personalities. Ann (Joan

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OESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN WEICHER
Board in Review Exceeds
Jurisdiction in Sunday Meeting

A

CRITICS OF THE conduct of Student Govern-
ment Council meetings would do well to
have attended Sunday's meeting of the SGC
Board in Review. It represented a shamefu
performance, either from the standpoint of
observing-limitations on the Board's jurisdiction
or from that of achieving a bare minimum of
relevancy in its discussions.
The trouble began as soon as did the meeting,
called to discuss the SGC motion which "in-
structs the Campus Chest Board to organize a
solicitation of the University faculty and au-
thorizes it to solicit in any section of Ann Arbor
it deems desirable." The Board's solefunction,
as outlined in the SGC plan, is to meet to
review actions of the Council which might
involve "a question of the Council's jurisdic-
tion" or require "further consideration in view
of regental (sic) policy or administrative prac-
tice."
But the chairman, Prof Lionel Laing of the
political science department, in calling the
meeting and in discussing the reasons for his
action failed to offer more than a few faculty
complaints about the prospect of being solicited
by Campus Chest after having already donated
to the Ann Arbor United Fund. He did not claim
the matter of a Campus Chest drive might be
outside SGC's jurisdiction which includes the
initiation of student projects nor did he cite
any Regental policy or administrative practice
possibly being violated. But he did make clear
that some faculty members were upset and
thought SGC had gone too far.
The debate should perhaps, in the interest
of order, be discussed under each of the three
categories of possible review-jurisdiction, Re-
gental policy, and "administrative practice" -
although it was seldom clear which of these
possible grounds for review, if any, was being
discussed at any one time.
JURISDICTION was probably the most inter-
esting discussion. Dean Earl Moore of the
music school called the Council's action in
establishing a solicitation "an invasion of the
rights of the faculty." Dean of Women Deborah
Bacon described the instructions to the Cam-
pus Chest Board, (a body subordinate to SGC,
as someone should have pointed out at the
meeting) as an "order coming from the student
government" to the faculty.
Dean of Men Walter Rea, who had been
sitting through a great deal of extraneous
discussion with a remarkable degree o patience,
finally told the Board he couldn't "place too
much significance on this whole matter" and
calmly pointed out that the only instructions
were to the Campus Chest Board, which would
then be inviting the faculty members to con-
tribute to a chraity drive.
Dean Bacon was undeterred. She found the
words "instruct," "authorize," "organize," and
"solicit" in the motion. "It is one thing to
invite or suggest, another to instruct." The
whole motion, she suggested, was authoritarian
-it had an "Achtung" tone to it. These four
words were in the motion, but the first three
were directed at the Campus Chest Board, not
the faculty. Only "solicit" referred to the
faculty. Webster defines it to mean "to make
petition to; to entreat; importune; as, to solicit
the king for relief (hardly an instruction!);
often, to approach with a request or plea."
Prof. Leo Schmidt of the business adminis-
tration school attempted to bring the board
down to earth when, rather than just answer
the irrelevancies, he suggested to the Board
that its jurisdiction, like SGC's, had some
limits. When he saw the motion, Prof. Schmidt
recalled, he said to himself that it might be a
little unwise. "But I did not have a feeling that
it invaded any rights," he commented.
PPARENTLY Regental policy was not a
major bee in the Board's bonnet. Prof.
Laing at one point suggested that there might
be something relevant in the Regents by-laws
"if we had them before us,"- but neither he nor
any other members of the Board had taken the
trouble to find out.
No one has any real idea what "administra-
tive practice" is. The phrase is as meaningless
and amorphous a one as was ever conceived by
constitution makers, past masters at the art.
The problem is that while SGC's jurisdiction is
written into the University regulations booklet
and the SGC plan and while Regental policy

may be found in the Regents' by-laws and other
documents, "administrative practice" can mean
any one of a number of things. Many students
and some administrators feel that for the
phrase to have any definable substance it must
refer to those parts of the regulations booklet
which do not represent, except by tacit ap-
proval, Regental policy. Otherwise, the phrase
is exceedingly dangerous. It can get the Board
into areas other than jurisdication and fixed
policy, into reviewing actions on the basis of
likes and dislikes, discretely known as "wis-
dom." It can mean that SGC represents none
of the wide student responsibility which was the
basis of the Laing plan setting up SGC. It
would mean that the Council, like the old
,gii1P TPmcaf rP is n n iranonsib1e body.

Early in the debate Prof. Laing inquired as to
what procedures SGC had used in arriving at its
decision, a relevant- point only if SGC actions
are to be reviewed procedurally as well as
substantively. Dean Bacon at one point criti-
cized the "tone" of the resolution in question.
She later chided the Council for its "failure to
take precautionary advice" from the adminis-
tration, (certainly the last thing for which the
Council is vulnerable to criticism.) Such re-
marks as this have a rather ominous tone com-
ing during the discussions of the Board in Re-
view as it meets to consider vetoing action by
the Council.
Dean Earl Moore was critical of the Coun-
cil for acting when there was "no indication of
faculty sentiment" on the question of solocita-
tion, and it was a major part of his rationale
for voting against lifting the stay of action
automatically imposed on the Council's motion
when the Board was called to meet. Dean Bacon
complained that neither the Faculty Senate nor
its Advisory Committee was consulted when
the Council instructed the Chest to solicit fac-
ulty members.
Dean Rea could make no more of this argu-
ment than that it would have been "nice" had
SGC consulted the advisory committee first.
SGC President Joe Collins, an ex-officio board
member, agreed, but added that this could not
conceivably be grounds for reviewing the Coun-
cil's action.
DEAN BACON contended such consultation
would have been more than "nice"-it would
have prevented the Council from being "un-
diplomatic" and "unwise," two criteria which
she apparently feels free in applying to any
SGC action she sees fit, and in her capacity
as a member of the Board in Review.
Whether or not "wisdom" and "diplomacy"
are included in the definition of University "ad-
ministrative practice" (and we would not pro-
pose this as an empirical proposition having
universal validity here) seems not to concern
the Dean of Women. At one point in the meet-
ing, after much discussion had taken place,
Collins hopefully suggested that it would be
helpful if Prof. Laing or some other member
of the Board would present a specific charge
as to what policies or practices might have been
violated, a sine qua non of any responsible judi-
cial or quasi-judicial body. Dean Bacon objected
to this, saying that she hoped the Board would
not "move in the area of charges and viola-
tions, all of ,.which are literal" and would not
concern itself with "the letter of the law," but
rather with the "wisdom" of the action. In
other words, without an authorization from the
plan which sets tip the Board, Dean Bacon
would set that body exert unlimited jurisdiction
over SGC. Thus the Board is placed in the
almost laughable situation of criticizing SC
for extending its bounds while at least one
member of the Board shows near-contempt for
the Board's own single mandate of reviewing
SGC action in view of the Council's jurisdiction,
Regental policy and "administrative practice"
and while a majority of the group takes action
which is clearly outside that mandate.
That action came when Dean Bacon formu-
lated her most serious criticisms into a motion
that "it is the sense of the Board in Review
that where matters before the SGC extend
beyond the student body the properly author-
ized organizations or agencies should be con-
sulted in advance of taking action." (Together
with her warning earlier in the Board meeting
against SGC's ignoring "precautionary advice,"
this adds up to a pretty picture indeed. Collins
had been forced to leave by the length of the
meeting and by a prior committment, (a curious
provision of the SGC plan allows the deans but
not the SGC President to be replaced by a
proxy), and only student member Roy Lave was
left to vote against the motion. A strong be-
liever in prior consultation during his recent
Council term, Lave explained that this was an
internal matter of Council public relations and
effectiveness and hardly a matter for the Board
in Review. But the unfortunate implication
stands that if SGC takes any action affecting
any other group in any way without first con-
sulting with that group in a thorough and
"diplomatic" manner, however non-compulsory
that action may be, the Review Board may step
in. The motion cannot be considered, as it was
represented at the meeting, as a rationale for
the Board's action, since it offers no clue as to

why the Board approved SGC's motion but told
merely why it almost did not. The motion was,
as many Board members put it, an effort to
give "advice to SGC," although it is rather omi-
nous advice coming from so potentially powerful
a body.
THE PATERNALISTIC instincts of the mem-
bers of the Board are all very nice in their
place, but unfortunately the Board was not set
up to advise or warn SGC. It is a Board in
Review, not a Board of Advice or a Board of
Precaution. If its non-student members are so
interested in giving advice on the wisdom of'
Council actions, perhaps they should come to an
occasional meeting rather than display the

WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Four-Year Mystery Solved
By DREW PEARSON

T HE 'SENATE Rackets Commit-
tee has found the answer to a
four-year-old mystery that may
shatter the aplomb of white-
maned, grandfatherly Nathan
Shefferman, who breezed through
his first Senate hearing last spring
but has now been subpoenaed for
a return engagement under the
Klieg lights.
The foxy grandpa will be kept
on the sidelines while a parade of
witnesses, starting today, tell what
they know about his amazing ca-
reer as a professional company
man. They will testify that he
used corrupt labor leaders, like
Teamster bosses Dave Beck and
Jimmy Hoffa, to suppress unions
and flimflam the workers.
Biggest case has been turned up
by Chief Counsel Bob Kennedy in
hi, home state-a shocking story
of how the Sears, Roebuck stores
in Boston, Mass., overturned a
three-to-one vote by their em-
ployees to affiliate with the retail
Clerks Union.
KENNEDY WILL simply take up
where the National Labor Rela-
tions Board left off four years ago.
Despite months of investigation
and volumes of testimony, the
NLRB never uncovered Sheffer-
man's hidden hand in the Sears,
Roebuck case.
However, Kennedy has now
found the missing link-a mys-
terious stranger who suddenly
showel up in Boston to lead Sears'
fight against the union. The offi-
cial, NLRB hearings identified him

only by the name he called him-
self, James Guffey. But Kennedy's
boys have learned that he is a
man of many aliases whose real
name is James Nielsen, a con-
fessed embezzler, on Shefferman's
payroll.
The NLRB report charges that
Sears employees were sent in small
groups by their superiors to Niel-
sen's hotel room, where, posing
as Guffey, he cajoled and threat-
ened them. He called the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor "Com-
muiist dominated" and warned
that Sears would "never tolerate
the AFL" as a bargainiing agent,
the NLRB report claims.
,S* *
ASKED WHY he used phony
names, he explained: "For the
same reason Bob Kennedy used
a different name. in Seattle. He
didn't want Dave Beck to know he
was there. When I go out on a job,
I don't want the unions to know
about it. They would be gunning
for me. Of course, I don't mean
with real guns."
Sears, Roebuck managed to fend
off an NLRB crackdown for near-
ly two years. Then, in one of the
most amazing decisions on rec-
ord, the NLRB acknowledged that
the findings against Sears were
true, but simply called for anoth-
er election.
This time the Teamsters mys-
teriously came to Sears' rescue by
claiming all the employees in one
warehouse. This reduced the num-
ber of pro-union - employees who
were willing to risk their jobs to

fight for affiliation with the re-
tail clerks. Sears also used other
high-pressure tactics, such as
gathering dossiers on employees,
grilling them to learn their un-
ion sentiments, forcing them to
listen to anti-union speeches, and
making false charges against the
Retail Clerks.
In the second election, Sears
won and the union was thrown
out.
THIS MAY EXPLAIN why Shef-
ferman entertained Beck and Hof-
fa so lavishly and showered them
with purchases at wholesale price.
In fact, the Senate committee
will charge that the 70-year-old
Shefferman was frequently a mid-
dleman between corrupt union
leaders and greedy employers in
short-changing employees.
Queen Elizabeth's arrival in
Washington was rehearsed with
the care and security of a wartime
maneuver. The Military District
o. Washington issued a secret 50-
page "security order" containing
elaborate instructions for the
Queen's safety from the moment
she deplaned, and even diagram-
ming where the President and
other official greeters would stand
at Washington Airport. Incoming
commercial planes were allowed
to land on schedule during the
greeting ceremonies, but, to keep
down the noise, takeoffs were
banned and the airport was closed
to all private planes.
(Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.)

Fontaine), who is cold and intol-
eran chooses green. Barbara
(Jea 4Simmons), who is faithful
and tolerant, chooses white. Delia
(Piper Laurie), who is too warm
and too tolerant, chooses red. And
Evelyn (Sandra Dee), who is ado-
lescent, chooses black.
THE appearance of the Ameri-
can Marine Corps amidst this un-
accustomed loneliness complicates
their predicament. The rest of the
story recounts the love affairs of
each sister. The general idea is
that each sister comes to under-
stand much better the degenrated
moral climate and to adapt to it.
The first part of this picture is
hurt badly by the blatant stereo-
typing of the characters. A typical
example: Captain introducing
himself to Ann, "I went to Har-
vard. I was a Rhodes scholar."
The women are burdened with di-
luted, uninspiring dialogue. San-
dra Dee, who is as poised a juven-
ile as there is around today, car-
ries the movie through its initial
stages.
With the appearance of Paul
Newman the pace and dialogue
pick up somewhat. Newman plays
a Marine major whose answer to
the emotional conflict is a kind
of bottle-bound Stoicism. He gives
an excellent rendition of the con-
quest - of-girl-through-appeal-to -
sympathy line.
* * *
THE MALE characters do not
emerge as complete personalities,
and therefore, the audience can-
not feel much compassion for
them. They merely go off to the
wars, are killed, and the story
moves on unfeelingly and unhin-
dered. Paul Newman has reduced
the very valuable techniques of
Actors Studio to a p e r p e t u a l
brood. Piper Laurie, who achieved
fame as a double-jointed comedi-
enne, is a definite miscast. The
great acting talents of Joan Fon-
taine are wasted on a watered-
down role.
Fortunately, the stories of each
sister are kept intertwined, which
is not true of so many of the ear-
lier versions of this plot. The po-
tential moviegoer would do well
to keep this latter idea in mind:
this is an old plot and not par-
ticularly well done. The movie is
little more than a high class soap
opera.
-Paul Mott
AT THE MICHIGAN:
Payment:
A Trend?9
"N0 DOWN PAYMENT," the
movie now playing at the
Michigan Theater, is the story of
four average, young, up-and-com-
ing families who are horribly con-
fused. Although they all live in
shiny new houses with shiny new
appliances, the spirit of moral
decay. lurks behind every bit of
formica.
The great short coming of this
film is it's confusion. Four sepa-
rate, supposedly inter-related plots
are going at the same time. Al-
though there is not enough ma-
terial in any one particular story
as it stands, the movie would have
been far more successful if one,
or at most two plots, received ex-
tensive development. Were it not
for a forced connection between
two of the families-a man gets
drunk and rapes his neighbor's
wife-and the fact that the four
families live in adjacent homes,
the film would be a series of sepa-.
rate vignettes.
PERHAPS THE MOST alarming

thing about "No Down Payment,'"
alarming because it might be true,
is that along with such character-
istic American features as new
cars, new homes, and down pay-
ments to make all of this possible,
one finds such an interesting ag-
gregate of neuroses and pseudo-
psychoses. Amongst the four smil-
ing couples are to be found: a lost
baby; a man who covet's another's
wife; a man on his way to alcohol-
ism with serious delusions about
his talent; a woman who covets
another woman's husband; an ex-
war hero who is seriously dis-
turbed; an average fellow who has
doubts about his job, his integrity
and his wife's fidelity.
4nBeneath this mess of jangled
nerves, "No Down Payment," poses
a serious question: is the mental
confusion an integral part of. the
ne av umo f i it a naturai nut-

BANAL TRENDS in movies, like
fads in cars and clothes, soon
exhaust themselves. The g oo d
films usually survive any amount
of progress and innovation; for-
tunately for the public, the poor
ones ordinarily outdate themselves
in a relatively short space of time.
The domestic comedy was, sev-
eral years ago, the most frequent
clutterer of neighborhood theater
screens. The stock of clean, funny
domestic situations, however, is
limited and today the labored de-
scriptions of the family troubles
of George and Mary Jones have
for the most part been relegated,
along with the spy stories and the
westerns, to the television screen.
Only a miracle now, or at least
an entirely new approach, can
make this kind of film even re-
motely platable to the general
public.
* * *
"FRUITS OF SUMMER," the
French film currently playing at
the Campus, seemed to promise
just such a fresh approach to the
domestic situation. The liberality
of the French film codes allowed
a slightly more pungent story than
could be presented with ease by
Hollywood.
The results were often amusing
but, unfortunately, even spice and
liberality cannot always save la-
bored acting and hackneyed coxi-
edy.
The story is slightly humorous
and slightly complicated. The hus-
band of a still young and rather
beautiful French matron returns
after many years of separation to
see his wife and 18 -year - old
daughter.
Shocked to find his child com-
pletely spoiled, he demands that
his wife put the girl under the
care and training of a competent
governess.
With threats of divorce pro-
ceedings acting as an impetus, the
mother hurries to hire an ancient
lady to educate her child. This is
no easy task, since the girl takes
no pains to please the applicants
for the position, but a Mary Pop-
pinsish character finally prove
acceptable and is hired.
* * *
HERE some )f the really funny"
moments of the film occur. The
training of young Juliette must
begin, it seems, with the complete
destruction of all the girl's few
remaining inhibitions. They are
destroyed. Within a few months
the governess leaves, and the girl
reveals to her mother that she is
pregnant.
Juliette refuses to marry her
lover (she likes him too well) and
the mother, to save her daughter's
social position, decides to pretend
that the forthcoming baby is hers.
To make her bluff seem authen-
tic, she sets out to seduce her
estranged husband who, it turns
out, is angling for a political ap-
pointment as the High Commis-
sioner of Juvenile Delinquency in
France. Everything, naturally, soon
gets confused and the film ends
with a droll, if exasperating, jolt.
-Jean Willoughby
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THE CULTURE BIT:

"DEAR FOLKS," the student
writes home, "I have not done
much studying this week because
I've been busy stuffing napkins
into chicken wire." And all of this
for Art, partly!
Culture has many disguises and
one of the most peculiar is the
Homecoming Display. Yeah, you
heard me. The building of the dis-
play is the year's most concen-
trated effort by the largest group
of students to produce what pur-
ports to be a work of art.
Of course, the quality of the art
is often questionable, but the
questionable ones don't win. In
most cases the idea is to really
produce something artful, and
that - in this day and age - is
a bit phenomenal.
* * *
AND WITH WHAT dedication
the student does create! Students
forsake their books not only to
stuff napkins in chicken wire, but
to stir glue, paint wood, climb
scaffolds and who knows what all
else?
Some of the especially gifted
design the things themselves and

homecoming Artistry
By DAVID NEWMAN

trying to get their display ready
for the morning.
The problems differed, though,
as we watched the artisans and
craftsmen step in paint buckets,
dangle from scaffolds and wonder
if they would ever get it done.
By far the most spectacular
sight of the night was the Chi Phi
house where a large group was en-
gaged in the construction of a
mammoth cyclops. When we came
upon them, they had gone as high
as the waist and were still work-
ing.
The structure was slated to
reach forty feet, and was still sur-
rounded by scaffolding. "Massive
thing, isn't it?" we observed to
a leather-jacketed active.
"We think big," he said. Then,
struck by the enormity of it all,
he whimpered, "It should be an
all-nighter, though. It may topple
yet - we've got a three hundred
pound motor to put on top."
* * *
A CRY rang out, agonized and
intense - "Hey, who's workin' on
sheets and glue?" called a be-
labored brother.
"Be patient," said another, "and

neatly over a knee-high wire as
we exited.
The Alpha Sig house was nearly
finished -. their facade covered-
with white sheets, their pillars al-
ready up. Seven gents were pull-
ing a black robe across the oracle
statue. We learned that telephone
poles were inside pillars and that
everyone hoped to win. What was
the slogan, we asked a spectacled
artist. -
"Michigan can't Myth . . . no,
wait . . . I mean Mythigan can't
myth . . . no, that's not it . . ." He
scratched his head woefully. Just
then a redhead with a smoking
cigar came dashing by. "Every-
body's a co-chairman!" he cried
to the winds and ran on.
At the Sammy house, a kind of
organized chaos reigned. It was
two o'clock in the morning, but
the 1812 Overture blasted out of
a second-story window, cannons,
bells and all. It was the loudest
performance we've ever heard,
and we venture to think the rest
of the residents on Hill agree.
* * *
A LARGE mountain of paper
napkins was constructed, and

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