C rmtr4tgalt Daily Sixty-Eighth Year '_ EDITED AND MATNAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This mus t be noted in all reprints. MRDAY, NOVEMBER 2,.1957 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN WEICHER rro per . HE UNITED has given a c t is seriously+ ower among i y the special S knd the AFL-C ake the effects A major pubb he vicinity of ounteract adv nvestigations. U;FL-CIO has to t can plan on a omes up withs Labor's effort he American s f ten difficult nands is too va ctions of a s rhich has chose ore that of the Anti it must b lement is sma nly large unio eadership has1 abor movemen f the AFL-CIO ver 15,000,000, ndesirables do But the effec he publicity th usness of thea [be AFL-CIO ounteract it. )NE MAY QU CIO spendin nembers' dues hould be realiz er is the one novement is giv nd, more parti Furthermore, )iate for labor ;s relations wi ates of big bus ear telling th The labor mn ad relations it y James Hoffa eems little dou he nett session be labor mover ences of the ab We commend cal stand it h orruption. This uspension of t ther smaller u ated public rel If the labor i uch strong an eason to belie e necessary in Debate on the Propriety Of AFL-CIO Expenditure S. - . mpro per . . AMERICAN labor movement JUSTLY CONCERNED over the public opinion Blear and decisive indication that effects of James Hoffa, the AFL-CIO Execu- concerned with the abuses of tive Council recently decided it is worth spend- ts leadership, revealed recently ing $1,200,000 in attempts to regain some lost Senate inivestigating committee. public sympathy. IO has made it plain it will not But in authorizing a boost in the budget for of these revelations lying down. its public relations committee, the labor move- lic relations program costing in men is merely adding to the questionable activi- $1,200,000 is being planned to ties that have already darkened its name. erse effects resulting from the With one segment of labor, the Teamsters, The Executive Council of the already under fire for misusing union funds, ld its public relations committee and the UAW on trial this week in Detroit for budget of this size providing it 'violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act in a satisfactory program g the 1954 election, any further use of union funds for ;purposes not readily justifiable to s to win a respected position in paying members deserves a close second look. ociety have been extensive and True, the public impression of labor gener- The position labor now com- ally may have been unjustifiably lowered by dis- iluable to be lost because of the closures of corruption in certain unions. And mall section of its leadership likewise, it must be acknowledged that, as the en to put individual welfare be- union radio commercials say, the vast majority rank-and-file membership. of those connected with the labor movement e emphasized that the "corrupt" are solid citizens of unquestionable honesty. ll. The Teamsters union is the Yet, 'for these very reasons, the appropria- on (1,400,000 members) whose tion of money derived from these honest mem- been found undesirable to the bers is a further misuse of funds that does not t. Considering that the leaders represent the best interests, needs or perhaps unions direct a membership of even the expressed wishes of the rank and file. the numerical percentage of And strangely enough, the Executive Council es not seem excessive. approval of a huge advertising budget comes t of the investigations through at a time when the AFL-CIO is losing the $840,- iey have received, and the seri- 000 a year tax paid by the recently ousted abuses, is quite another matter. Teamsters. (This represents about 10 per cent recognizes this and wants to of the AFL-CIO's inc'ome, according to the New York Times.) ESTION the ethics of the AFL- WHEN THE COUNCIL decided, several weeks g over a million dollars in union ago, not to renew two union-sponsored ra- to toot its own horn. But it dio news programs, this was viewed by outside ed that the rank-and-file mem- observers as a necessary reduction in expendi- that will suffer if the labor tures. But in reversing its position and approv- en a black eye before the public, ing a budget costing twice as much as the ra- cularly, before Congress. dio programs, the union leaders are moving it would hardly seem inappro- even farther away from the interests of a mem- r to sped. haly tomprnmope-bership that refused to support a "get Taft" r to spend heavily to promote- crusade when the author of the "despised", th the publ when the ag- Taft-Hartley Law ran for election in 1950. This ness lavish untold millions each is the same rank and filerthat cast votes for the Loeentublo hs alradufered"big business" viewpoint of President Dwight ovement has already suffered . Eisenhower n excess of the ill deeds done Instead of, as expected, spending money to and associated hoodlums. There renew sponsorship of radio programs heard by bt that legislation will result in an audience already favorable to labor, instead n of Congress that will -retard of pouring funds out of the coffers to pay for ment as much as prevent recur- advertisements that would likely be quickly re- uses uncovered this year. jected by those already alienated by labor's ac- the AFL-CIO on the unequiv- tivities, the unions would better represent their has taken on the problems of members and create a sounder impression by stand has been reflected in the showing a little more discretion with funds. the powerful Teamsters union, Unfortunately, buying a few more gallons unions and now in the antici- of whitewash will not maintain a sparkling ap- ation campaign. pearance for the public view. Only by turning novement can continue to show within themselves and showing through sin- d positive actions there is little cere action that their foundations are strongly ve "publicity campaigns" will rooted in honesty and public concern can the the future, unions earn a lastinig public support. -DAVID TARR MICHAEL KRAFT Union Senate Assessed "Think It's Really One Of Those Two-Stage Jobs?" x2:, co4 i~ AcE E5 S S -- emy v SPECIAL EXPERIMENTS: First Steps Taken Toward Space Travel By ALTON BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter HUMAN SPACE TRAVEL has already partiallybegun. Our jet pilots are flying so high that much of the earth's 'air is beneath them. They are already meeting and conquering some major problems involved in trips to the Moon or Mars. Human volunteers in special experiments are producing answers as to, whether and how, humans can stand greater and more severe challenges higher in the void of space. But don't fall for the pitch of some promoter offering you bargain- 'I I I I ',} WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: T yphoonResearch Curtailed By DREW PEARSON IT MAY seem a long way from a closed-door meeting in the Weather Bureau recently to the prestige we lost over Sputnik, but there are certain connections just the same. If the United States could dis- cover a way to control hurricanes or predict their paths more ac- curately, it's hard to overestimate the propaganda victory we would win in the Far East and South America. Japan, the Philippines, and the countries of Southeast Asia suf- fer millions of dollars of property damage and lose thousands of lives from these tropical storms which in the eastern hemisphere are called "typhoons." Should the United States divert just one ty- phoon away from the flimsy wooden houses of a Japanese city, it would win the respect and gratitude of millions of Asians. * * * HOWEVER, despite this, and despite Defense Secretary Mc-El- roy's new concern over basic re- search, the top brass of the Air Force are still refusing to keep three Air Force planes flying next year in the National Hurricane Research Project. At the closed-door meeting at the Weather Bureau, officers of the Air Weather Service of the Air Force reluctantly refused to dis- cuss keeping the three research planes flying. They agreed with Weather Bureau meteorologists that the project is the most hope- ful hurricane research in history. But they were under orders from Defense Department economizers not to discuss the three Air Force research planes now being stripped of their electronic record- ing equipment at Palm Beach, Fla. Prospect now is that the Weath- er Bureau will have to get along by installing a small amount of electronic equipment on the 20 hurricane "Hunter" planes still assigned to it by the Air Force and Navy. In most cases, Weather Bureau meteorologists will be un- able to ride along as they now do on the three specially equipped research planes. The National Hurricane Re- search Project was planned with the help of the world's top me- teorologists three years ago, aft- er a rash of hurricanes brought havoc to United States coastal cities. * * * METEOROLOGISTS pointed out three years ago that the av- erage hurricane is 350 miles wide and eight miles deep, filling the fantastic total of one million cu- bic miles. The only way to dis- cover how to, control them, they said, was to record conditions in each of those million cubic miles --not once, but perhaps as often as every hour. This can only be done with an airplane equipped with electronic recording devices, since the human hand can't write fast enough while an airplane is flying through a storm. The three special research planes can take readings every 10 seconds. By contrast, the "Hunt- er" planes, when equipped with a small amount of electronic equipment, will supply perhaps one one-thousandth as much data. They will continue. The other planes will not. Note - It's ironic that the Air. Force, which has abandoned its special role in hurricane research, is frequently the first to brag whenever one of the "Hunter" planes discovers a hurricane in time to warn a city. When President Eisenhower at- tended centennial church services for' Teddy Roosevelt on Sunday, few members of the congregation knew that one of Ike's chief lieu- tenants on Capitol Hill had pre- viously scuttled a resolution call- ing for national honors to Teddy. Earlier this year, Sen. James Murray (D-Mont.) introduced a resolution designating 1958 as a Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Year. This was to be in honor of the first national conference on conservation called in 1908 by Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Murray's resolution was backed by 63 senators and received unanimous approval in the Sen- ate. However, when it got to the House Judiciary Committee, Ken- neth Keating of New York, an Eisenhower Republican, led an onslaught on the bill that emascu- lated its provisions. As a result, it never did get a final okay from Congress. * * . KEATING COMES from the same state that sent Teddy Roose- velt to the White House - New York. But, goaded by private util- ity lobbyists, Keating fought to water down the resolution. He feared public power enthusiasts might use the Teddy Roosevelt celebration as a base for attack- ing Eisenhower's contrary power policy. Keating's amendments would have limited expenditures for the Roosevelt Centennial to a paltry $20,000 and barred the so- liciting of private contributions. Ike had probably forgotten these facts when he attended the services at Grace Reformed Church here. He was spared addi- tional embarrassment when the Rev. Dit. Daniel L. Marsh, Chan- cellor of Boston University, in his sermon identified the greatest Presidents as Washington, Lin- coln, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Dwight D. Eisenhow- er. The name of another Roose- velt was diplomatically omitted. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) price reserved tickets to the Moon that easy. Indeed, there are some scientists and experts who say space travel is forever out of the question-men couldn't stand it, or be protected well enough. There's a middle opinion that human journeys into space are a very long way off-perhaps no earlier than the end of this cen- tury. But enthusiasts say the first space Columbus-John or Ivan- has already been born or now is even in school. They see initial space journeys within five to 10 years. * * * JET PILOTS are flying i such thin air that they must carry their own oxygen, use pressurized cab- ins and special suits, or their blood would boil at these heights. Their planes are overcoming prob- lems of heat from friction at high speed in the air they meet. The pilots are experiencing sensations of no gravity-weightlessness-at times in the flights. There is a large number of diffi- cult problems connected with space flight. Can human life withstand the radiation men will meet in space from cosmic rays, and from intense ultraviolet light and X-rays from the sun? Our blanket of atmos- phere blocks out most of these rays, which might quickly kill or damage the unprotected body. Our air also burns up most of the meteors whizzing in at us from space. How crowded is space with this cosmic dust, or with big me- teor -chunks traveling faster than any cannon shell, and just as lethal if they barreled through a presurized space cruiser? * * * BABY MOONS - United States and Russian-equipped with sensi- tive instruments and radios, will report what these hazards are, or what unsuspected dangers may exist. Monkeys have gone up 80 miles high inside United States rockets. Russians report sending dogs 130 miles high. Just in the last few days, a Soviet scientist said a next step could be to put dogs or other animals in baby moons, with instruments recording and reporting what happens to them. But the real step would be hu- man volunteers testing the practi- cability of space travel. Women might be the first choice because, say male psychologists, they can tolerate boredom and monotonous tasks better. R ae Politics ACCORDING to records sub- poenaed by the U.S. Senate, the Mennen Company, of which Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy) Wil- liams of Michigan is a director and stockholder, once did business with Johnny Dio, notorious labor racketeer. Far from being discomfited by the imminent disclosure of this fact, Gov. Williams actually boasted of having been "victim- ized" by Dio. Why the glee? Possibly because Dio represented the United Auto- mobile workers of the American Federation of Labor, and any- thing that could be said against him would automatically boost the stock of Walter Reuther, Wil- liams' chief vote-getter, who hap- pens to head the UAW-CIO. --National Review by 1960 or 1965. It just won't be INTERPRETING: Sabres Rattle By WILLIAM N. OATIS Associated Press Staff Writer THE TOUGH TALK of the cold war has been revived lately in the United Nations General As- sembly. An example came in debate on Syria's Soviet-backed complaint that Turkey has massed troops on the frontier for an attack. When Turkey asked for a delay to allow time for mediation, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Grom- yko accused the Turks of wanting to delude public opinion: "They want to throw dust into the eyes of naive and credulous people, while at the name time they engage in their own business which is the preparation of ag- gression against the independent state of Syria ... They were caught red-handed." The Assembly president, Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, en- tered a procedural point. Grom- yko wagged his finger and re- torted: "If I feel the need for advice, I shall request it. . . I believe it would be better, Mr. President, if you did not waste your energy on interrupting statements and if you focused these energies on a correct and organized way of conducting these meetings." * * * LATER, GROMYKO said the United States "is openly inciting Turkey to attack Syria." He con- cluded that what was needed was "to withdraw the Turkish forces from the Syrian, frontier and to stop blackmaling Syria-to stop the sabre-rattling." United States Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge put in a few words of his own. He spoke of "the insin- cerity of the Soviet contention." He said the Soviet Union had gob- bled up Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania. He accused it of butchering Hun- gary. Of the Soviet Union he observed: "Here is the chronic lawbreaker, not only seeking to be regarded as a good citizen, but actually try- ing to sit in the judge's seat and sentence the whole law-abiding community to jail. * * * "HERE IS the arsonist, trying his best to start another fire, and demanding the right to lead the fire brigade." Turkish Ambassador Seyfullah Esin declared certain' Syrian charges were devoid of good faith. Syria Foreign Minister Salah Bitar spoke of "a slanderous; campaign" against Syria Gromyko, in his last appearance, refrained from repeating his ear- lier threat that Russia would "take all the necessary steps to extend assistance to the victim of aggres- sion" in case of an attack on Syria. And Communist chief Nikita Khrushchev said Tuesday night there would not be a war. This led some to hope that the tough talk and the cold war at- mosphere were on the way out. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin Is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which the Michigan Dailyaassumes no edi- torial 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. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 40 General Notices Women's Hours: Women students have 1:30 a.m. permission on Sat., Nov. 2. The Women's Research Club will meet on Mon., Nov. 4 in the West Con- ference Room, Rackham Building. Prof. Adelaide Adams of the Fine Arts De- partment will speak on, "Mission Churches of the Southwest." Academic Notices Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business: Candidates taking the Ad- 4. .A. A 4 ON THE SURFACE, the Union Senate seemed to be pretty much of a travesty of its original purpose as it held its first meeting Thursday night. With a four-topic agenda scheduled, the Senate didn't even get the first topic disposed of before the meeting broke down into a series of motions, counter-motions, and still more mo- tions. The difficulty lay in determining exactly how, and by whom, the meeting was to be run. A good part of the evening was taken up in discussion of these questions. At approximately 10 p.m. It became apparent that answers to these questions were probably going to take more time to work out than remained in Thursday. The different solutions that had been proposed by the seven discussion groups com- prising the Senate were referred to the Senate planning committee. The planning committee met yesterday and worked these ideas into definite plans which will' be presented at the Nov. 14 meeting of the Senate. But amidst the confusion of Thursday's meeting, two impressions stood out. The Senate representatives displayed a surprising degree of interest in the problems that confronted their group. Together with this interest, the repre- sentatives came up with many potentially use- ful suggestions on the problem of football game spirit. These two impressions stein from one source -the Senate representatives. First indications are that some capable people comprise the Senate. BUT although the representatives have dem- onstrated themselves to be individually cap- able, the Senate as a group has not. The Sen- ate must now show that it can hold a meeting to discuss campus issues, not itself. It will probably demonstrate this in the next few meetings. But partcular care should be taken by both the Union and the individual interested in discussion of their problems, often the problems of the whole University com- munity, and ideas and proposals for tpeir solution. If the Senate fails to discuss these problems soon, student interest now aroused by the Senate will be blighted, and the Senate will cease to exist as a body of any importance. The advice to both the Union and the Senate representatives is twofold: Get the best possible procedure worked out; work it out as quickly as possible so that the interest centered in the Senate will not vanish and with it the value of the Senate to the Universiy. -LANE VANDERSLICE Pipe Smoking: How Long A Man's Domain? ALTHOUGH women have seized men's styles from ivy slacks and button-down shirts to Bermuda shorts which resemble a male's un- mentionables, men seem to be holding their own as traditional pipe smokers. From brush cuts to buck shoes, women's fads are males' outfits turned inside out. Whenever the masculine sex begins a fad or borrows it from the 'years gone by' file, wo- men suddenly discover that by ripping some material apart or adding a piece to another area they can acquire the collegiate look as well as any man. Last year one of the advertised fads for fe- males was pastel-shaded pipes decorated by three or four rhinestones along the bowl. Per- haps Mammy Yokum lent unfavorable con- notations to this idea, but anyhow, it failed to become the vogue as was expected. After taking men's styles in clothes, why didn't women make claims to the pipe? Pouches could be madeafromsrhinestones cre- ating a matching outfit for the smoker with jeweled match box to accompany the entire LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: 'Meet Russian Threat with Determination' To the Editor: IT WOULD SEEM that any sober approach to a problem as crucial as the successful perpetuation of our national unity should be han- dled with great care and thought. The editorial director of the Uni- versity's newspaper exhibited nei- ther of these indispensable requi- sites in his explanation: "Realistic Pacificism Suggested for World's Ills." This title in itself embodies the first contradiction, and it is suc- ceeded by an abundance of logical fallacies which are as flagrant as they are pernicious. Not only has pacifism been an historically con- sistent symbol of sterility, but the body of Mr. Elsman's article would seem to be incompatible with his conclusion. It would be folly not to acknow- ledge Russia's foreign policy suc- cesses since the close of World War II. A mere look at the map should convince the most obtuse person of Russia's aggrandizement. If we ly reminiscent of Ghandi and the Indian Mystics, a retreat is sug- gested in the direction of Tahiti or some other ostrich paradise. What could be less realistic? Only one thing, and that's Mr. Els- man's next statement: namely,. that the United States should dis- arm, commit out defense appro- priations to "the poor and back- ward abroad," and trust that the Russians would not dare defy world opinion that so ineffectively tried to deter Russia's historically successful aggression and tyranny. Indeed, the effects of Mr. Elsman's article are more pernicious than his hollow panacea. Would it not be more realistic to conclude from the given premises that a policy of directed action would provide more fertile grounds for increased Western success? To borrow Churchill's phrase, the storm has gathered and now our policies must make the transition from those of reaction and reluc- Tribute.. . To the Editor: IT IS INDEED unfortunate when a touring orchestra of the sta- ture of the Florence Festival group must, through some misguided concept of international relations, attempt to ingratiate itself with the American public by offering such a spurious tribute as the overblown "Sinfonia Americana," played here last week. Unfortunate and downright em- barrassing! The intention was cer- tainly laudable, a musical greeting from them to us-in our terms. We should have been charmed,' I sup- pose. And most assuredly, many in the audience were. But others, I'm afraid, could only grieve. The work was inchoate, preten- tious, trite, and vulgar, as are most efforts to incorporate eloquently simple and moving folk tunes into a symphonic form. In recent years, the long winded, rump stirring, all-American salute,, usually a melahnge o f folktune~s aond fuinda- Friends Center, 1416 Hill Street. It took many hours of painstak- ing work by the mother of two small children to paint the phrases "Ann Arbor Meeting of the Reli- gious Society of Friends (Quak- ers)" and "Meetings for Worship Sunday's 10 and 11:30 a.m." Since I hesitate to ask this mother to undertake all that work again, I would greatly appreciate the return of the sign to the Friends Center. -Robert 0. Blood, Jr. Chairman, Friends Center Committee So Bad... To the Editor: I WAS QUITE disappointed to find in the classified ads of Fri- day's Daily a request for student help which carried a restriction that the person desired be of a certain skin color. I regret that things are so bad that our school publication must ; . "A tN-