Sixty-Eighth Year _ - EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Lons Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STXJDENT PUBLICATIONS i'l Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BIDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 s printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Sunshine (I f J, x.7 Iv tE ~- A 'A rsenic' Hilarious, 0 Macabre Production IN THE THEATRE of the thirties and early forties, the wild lur farce was an extremely popular form. People running, doors si ming, whistles blowing and ladies screaming made organized bed into an art. One of the best pieces to. emerge from this era was seph Kesselring's three-act madhouse, "Arsenic and Old Lace." Last night, in a fast and furious production, the Speech Dep ment gave it the full treatment. The show had its one problem, the end result was a rollicking and hilarious evening of theatre: A brief chronicle of the plot will show the germs of the probl 8, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: JAM S BOW Red Tape, Not Red Scare, ills Plans for Polish Speaker iN THE HEELS of the tremendous success of Carl Sandburg's appearance and talk on npus, it may be a little sacrilegious to ex--, ass 'a little regret over the way in which it s finally decided he would be asked to speak. The choice before the students planning In- nationa Week eventually came down to ndburg or a representative of the Polish egation to the United Nations, who had ten- ively agreed to speak. With the political zatipn in Poland somewhat of a mystery, t possibly representing a hopeful trend in stern European politics, a speech by an of- al; of the Polish government might have wen very interesting. But he would un- ibtedly have been a Communist, at least in ne, and this raised questions as to his ac- tance by the University Lecture Committee. William West of the International Center, ed on behalf of the students planning the gram in phoning the secretary' of the lec- e committee, Prof. Carl Brandt. According West, Brandt indicated that the Lecture mrmittee would quite probably approve the aker as long as the administration - spe- cally President Hatcher and Vice-President rton - approved. Brandt says he doesn't remember the conver- ion, which was, of course, informal and un- icial. Since the Lecture Committee is an onomous group responsible to the Regents, I not to Dr. Hatcher, Brandt, as well as .er members of the Lecture Committee, said ently they do not see why it would be neces- y to get administration approval. Vest then called Vice-President Stirton, who aembers the call, but only vaguely. He says did not realize he was being contacted for' official opinion, and he sees no direct con- -tion between his job and the approval of akers and has no desire to move into that a. But he recommended Sa'ndburg, either ause he wished the Polish official wouldn't invited, which West emphasizes, or because thought (correctly) the University commu- y would enjoy Sandburg, which Stirton em- isizes. However, Stirton went about recom- riding Sandburg over the Pole. As a result the conversation with Brandt, Stirton, West. I the students thought it would be very cy to invite the Pole, since Lecture Com- tee approval to them seemed doubtful. Be-4 ise it was important to schedule someone initely and soon, the students decided to n up Sandb'urg and forget about the more, itroversial Pole. HE QUESTION is not which of the speakers would have been a more appropriate key- er for International Week - that choice s for the students planning the, program to ke. Nor is it a question of Lecture Commit- rejection of a speaker - it was not asked approve anyone. But there 'is a question as whether the selection of speakers should be result of the free choice of sponsoring paps as to which would be the most inter- ing and appropriate. n this case the st'udents weren't able to ke a really free; choice. Had they not been discouraged by the prospect of a great deal of red tape and wrangling - however unre- alistic that prospect may actually have been- they might well have invited the Pole to speak.' But they were discouraged when Prof. Brandt indicated that President Hatcher and Vice- President Stirton might have to approve the speaker, as well as the Lecture Committee. And they were discouraged when Stirton recom- mended Sandburg, whether or not he actually predicted administration disapproval, as West says. They uidoubtedly should never have been referred to Stirton in the first place. As the man in charge of legislative relations, he prob- ably has an official - though not necessarily a personal - bias against controversial speakers. And there is no reason for, the Lecture Com- mittee--which is directly responsible to the Regents - to consult with the administra- tion before approving speakers. To do so only, increases the possibility that they will be rejected. THERE IS little indication that the Lecture Committee would actually have rejected the Pole had he been invited. But the problem is that not enough pros- pective sponsors of speakers are clear on the rather simple procedures required to get speaker approval: Sponsoring organizations need merely pick up a petition at the Office of Student Affairs in the ,Activities Building, fill it out and return it. Routine approvals are handled personally by Prof. Brandt, but if serious issues are involved they may be re- ferred to the whole committee, which can be convened in a matter of days. There is no ban on speakers for their political beliefs, but merely a Regental requirement that organi- zations guarantee that the outside speaker will not violate- the "recognized rules Hof hos- pitality" or advocate subversion, and that the lecture "shall be in spirit and' expression worthy of the University." Urging modification of the governnient by unlawful means or "con- duct which violates the fundamentals of our accepted code of morals" are prohibited. While these provisions - especially the more vague ones - represent a possible threat to academic freedom here, they would, if interpreted liber- ally, bar few serious speakers from'coming here. The biggest obstacle to freer expression is not the Regents by-law, and not even the Lee- ture Committee's interpretation of it, but sim- ply the spectre of administrative difficulty and lack of understanding of the committee's op- erations. Brandt's conversation, as described by West, only contributed to these. . Almost all groups are' worried about planning events well ahead of time and of being sure about the acceptance of a speaker, and pro- cedural confusions and informal opinions, much morethan any actual rulings or even policies of the Lecture Committee, have proven again to have deterred the sponsors of a speech who would rather be "safe than sorry.". -PETER ECKSTEIN Editor L r~:~:~'~~ .#s~4sc R y. W# fl5 T ,e ..A..4r.- STC WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Inter-Service Feud Flares THE ARMY-AIR FORCE feud over guided missiles flared up sharply during the closed-door briefing which Pentagon officials gave Senators Russell (Ga.), Johnson (Texas), Democrats; and Bridges (N.H.), Republican. Richard Horner, Air Force as- sistant secretary in charge of re- search, was describing the Air Force's anti-missile missile, the Wizard. He explained that this was part of the Air Force's Air Defense Mission. Whereupon Dr. William H. Martin, Army research director, leaped to his feet and shouted: "I would like to dispute that!" Martin started to protest, but Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy cut him off. "This is neither the time nor the place foran inter- service wrangle," said the ew secretary of defense gruffly. Dr. Martin meekly took his seat, and the Air Force spokesman con- tinued briefing the Senators. EARLIER, Lyndon Johnson had compared the Sputnik launching with his heart attack. Lyndon told the closed-door group: "My doc- tor told me if I hadn't had this warning and done something about it, I would have had a much more serious attack later." He said that the Sputnik should alert the nation in the same way that his heart attack alerted him. It was better to have a warning, he said, so long as it wasn't fatal. Each service was allotted one hour to brief the senators. How- ever, the Army spent two and a half hours and made powerful By JACK ANDERS claims for jurisdiction over ballis- tic missiles. Senator Russell sided with the Army. At one point, he bluntly asked the Air Force why it was in the ballistics business, which he considered the Army's field. "I understand all the Jupiters have been successful and only 'part of the Thors have been suc- cessful," Russell declared at one point. He demanded to know w)hy the Defense Department had been "holding back" the Jupiter. The Navy, for its part, told the senators it was dissatisfied with the Vanguard program, had never liked it, and had been forced into it. THE AIR FORCE claimed all its missile projects were on sched- ule. Regarding, the Thor, it claimed all the failures had been purely mechanical and that noth- ing basically wrong had been dis- covered. On the other hand, some of the Jupiter's failures had been caused by basic malfunctions, the Air Force claimed. The Air Force also argued that its Thor was a production-line model, whereas the Jupiter was hand-built. Undersecretary of D e f e n s e Quarles did most of the speaking for the Defense Department re- garding the Sputnik. He made no attempt to belittle the Soviet achievement. Sputnik, he said, was launched from a point east of the Caspian Sea at a 65-degree angle. This required far more power, he told the senators, than we would use to launch our Sput- nik at Cape Canaveral at a 35- degree angle. It's impossible to' exaggerate, the alarm felt in the Pentagon re- garding Russia's latest Sputnik. The alarm is based on the fact that Sputnik II is of such size-that it could become an electronic spy on every military installation in the United States. ie dog-carrying Sputnik is probably peaceful enough. But the next could be equipped with in- struments able to locate all United States defense installations and spy on our military movements. Sputnik, can communicate is findings every four hours by se- %cret code to Moscow. It could re- port on what it sees'in the United States, in NATO, or anyplace else in the world.. OUR SCIENTISTS also figure that Sputnik might even locate our secret stockpile of atomic bombs. If so, Ruslia. would hiave the most priceless secret in the en- tire United States, and would be able to strike at this stockpile first in case of war. Even if we moved the stockpile from place to place, Sputnik'stelectronic brain would be able to spot the change. That's why there have been such urgent conferences inside the Pentagon on how, to shoot down Sputnik. Though the White House is worried about our lag in launching a satellite, the Penta- gon is more worried about find- ing a way to shoot down any elec- ectronic espionage satellite which the Russians may launch next. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) "Arsenic and Old Lace" is about cheerfully poison 12 elderly men (to release them from their lone- ly empty lives) and bury the bodies in the cellar. One of their nephews, a weird monster who has a murder record stretching from Indiana to Mel- bourne, and a face that has been plastic-surgerized to resemble Boris Karloff, arrives on the scene. He brings with him a fresh corpse and a grizzly assistant named Dr. Einstein (first name, Herman). The nephew's nasty ways shock the old gals, and soon they are having conflicts in the burying of their respective victims. * * * ALL THIS is augmented by an- other member if the household who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt,. blows a bugle in the middlesof the night, shouts, "Charge!" all the time and insists he is digging the Panama Canal in the cellar. In short, the stage is full of nuts. The timing and the pacing were just right - fast and funny. The trouble was that occasionally it became difficult for the actors to sustain this feverish kind of comedy without losing the neces- sary spontaneity. When this happened, one be- came aware of the actors working like mad to be funny, sweating their laughs, and falling into sheer- decibles and acrobatics. It oc- curred a few times last night and took some of the quality away. * * * BUT MOSTLY, the show was smooth, slick and stylish. The audience never stopped laughing and the play never stopped mov- ing. The acting was rightly broad, and director Jack E. Bender showed a farcical flair that is well-developed. The high honors go to Valerie Schor and Patricia Marthenke, as' the lovable ladieswith the homi- cidal bent. Together, they looked, like the Trilon and the Perisphere, or a female Mutt and Jeff. And together they displayed brilliant control, subtlety, and style as they romped about the stage. They alone never had to resort to the rolling-eye and broad ges- ture to get laughs. They got them and they deserved them. Herb Iline, as tbe hero and only sane fellow in the piece, showed fine timing and a smooth way with dialogue that made his performance really ingratiating. Occasionally he was guilty of fall- ing into bombacity when -it could have been toned down, but for the most part he played with insight and wit. * * * NORM HARTWEG, as the ma- niac nephew, started off a bit too hoody and loose-limbed - more Brando than Karloff. But by the second act, he legan to get the sinister feeling across and his per- formance reached a high level of macabre humor. Credits, also, to Phillip Smith at Einstein, Paula McConnell as a forthright miss, and Ezra Hen- don and Robin Ollivier as two cops, one friendly, the other gar- rulous. -David Newman two jolly Brooklyn spinsters who LETTERS to the EDITOR Spirit." To the Editor: THE DAILY, and in particular its sports department, has taken to grumbling about the sad condition of student spirit on the Michigan campus. It seems, however, that The Daily itself could do with a little pumping up in this regard. Tuesday morning, for example, readers of the sports page were treated to a two-column press- agent photo of somebody named Eddie LeBaron, whose claim to fame on this particular occasion was that he had suffered a "slight concussion" in a professional foot- ball encounter between Washing- ton and Cleveland. Of what possible concern cans this bey to' the vast body of Wol- verine fans? ISurely, last Saturday's crucial game with Iowa must have produced enough action photos and how-and-why analyses for a dozen pertinent dope stories: * , * MOREOVER, the same sports page contained not one but two accounts of how Texas A&M man- aged to maintain its No. 1 national ranking. The story fdr Ann Arbor fans happened to be that Michigan was now in the No. 11 spot, but this was nowhere mentioned, pre-. sumably because the Associated Press didn't bother to list more than 10 teams on its regional wire. A simple phone call to; theA? bureau might have given The Daily the coverage it lacked. Perhaps the flesh was willing. But the spirit just wasn't there. -Bob Sheldon, '59 Ashamed. . .. To the Editor: AS AFOURTH generation alum- nus of the University, I was deeply ashamed of the indignities inflicted last Saturday upon the marching band. The program of transcendently vulgar popular . music bore no relation to the tra- ditions of the University. That the prestige of the Univer- sity was lent to a drummer, who has served a prison term on a nar- cotics charge isnot as humiliating as the superficiality of his qetual perfornce.' Theapplause with which this debauchery of a long tradition 'of scholarship was apparently greet- ed suggests that the faculty and administration must have aban-. doned their position of intellec- tual leadership. Perhaps the whole:situation jus- tifies a national survey, reported in one of the alumni publications, which assigned a distinctly sec- ondary status to the University of Michigan. -. B. Reid, Jr., '51 Democratic Victories Qualified )EMOCRATS, locally and across the nation were hailing Tuesday's landslide re-election f Mayor Wagnbr in New York 'City and the ecisive re,-election of Gov. Meyner in New Jer- ey as indications that voters are -dissatisfied ith the administration's economic policies-as ell as our apparent scientific lag behind the- tussians, especially in guided missiles. They' also are pointing to the fact that there ere no indications that Negro voters had elped Republican candidates in any of Tues- ay's contests as a result of President Eisen- ower's use of 4federaltroops to enforce court- rdered integration in Arkansas. Many observ- rs had- expected the GOP to pick up support n this quarter because of President Eisen- ower's use of federal troops to enforce inte- ratibn of Little Rock's Central High School. Democrats are also joyful about capturing number of local victories in what are con- idered GOP strongholds in smaller cities in pper New York and in Pennsylvania. IHE REPUBLICANS, including the Presi- dent have shown definite concern over their rospects in 1958 for regaining control of Con- ress and are beginning to realize the work :at they have ahead of them. Especially disheartening to the GOP has een the loss of the traditionally Republican ew Jersey State Assembly to the Democrats >r the first time since 1937, and by the big- est margin since 1912. Along with this came he re-election of Mayor Wagner of New York y a record plurality and-the loss of many lo- al elections' in traditionally Republican up- -ate Pennsylvania and New York. -Actually, however, the plight of the Republi- an Party is not as bad as the Democrats might ke to believe. It is true that events of the last month have aused party prestige to dwindle somewhat mong the citizens because of rising costs of ving and spectacular Russian achievements Neither of these were directly the fault of the administration, but Democrats pounced on both issues with determination, and, the tem- porary decline of popularity of the adminis- tration ensued. THESE SITUATIONS, however, along with what were mostly local issues, caused a somewhat bleak picture when the results were tallied. The GOP lost no significant national or state posts in the elections. Their poor showing in traditionally Democratic New York City was almost a certainty, and their failure to .beat Gov. Meyner, a well-known figure and middle- of-the-roader with ,upport from Republicans as well as Democrats, was no upset. The Republican Party still has an excellent chance to regain Congress in '58 and to elect a President in 1960. Off year elections have often proved poor measures of either party's -strength in the past, because too many things can happen before the next general election. This looks like the case again this year. -JOHN AXE DAILY COUNCIL COMMENTARY: SGC Candidates Show Little Interest in Meettngs Sandburg Speech Informal, Candid By RICHARD TAUB Daily Staff Writer CANDIDATES for Student Gov- ernment Council are showing remarkably little interest in Stu- dent Government Council. With the exception of the in- cumbents. SGC candidates haven't bothered to attend meet- ings. Last week, only one candi- date managed to stay for the en- tire meeting, and he is on an SGC committee. Wednesday night, there could not have been more than two hopefuls at the meeting, and none were there for any length of time. It seems that anyone running for the Council would show some interest in the organization's pro- teedings; especially the week be- fore elections. * * .** THE DAILY seems to have be- come somewhat of an issue during the campaign. Joe Collins, Council president, has told many groups that the Daily is "immature" for devoting so much space to criticizing the Council and not enough to all of SGC's activities., He also thought The Daily was "immature" (he was referring to similar to Collins'. The Daily criti- cizes the Council too much, he said. M ort Wise also _wants to see The Daily publish more informa- tion on SdC. However, he thinks the failure of The Daily to do this is "SGC's fault." Joe Collins' announcement at the meeting Wednesday night that he was going to meet with the deans of men and women "probably on Tuesday or Wednes- day," brought a rather strong re- action from the Council. A great many people objected to such a move. Janet Neary and Ron Shorr were already planning to meet with these people on Thursday- after the meeting. Collins said the plan was to in- crease communication and to get the deans' ideas about different matters. He felt it would be very valuable to him. * * * JEAN SCRUGGS thought com- munication could be better ef- fected if those meetings were aft- er Council meetings, so the deans could be told what the Council did. "You can't always know what the Council is going to do before Through such action, Eckstein said, "you begin to let people think things fall within thei jurisdic-' tion, when in fact they do not." Some might think, after an opin- ion was asked of them, that we would be "duty-bound to accept their opinion." In members time, 'Collins said; this reflected a "lack of trust" of the Council president on the part of the members. Collins also' warned the Coun- cil about making rash statements, especially when there is "an audi- ence present." Jo Hardee had said earlier that "If we terminate com- ,mittees because they don't do any- thing, we'd soon be committee- less." Collins pointed up that a great many groups do do things and. work quite hard. * * * MAYNARD GOLDMAN pre- sented the Council with a report on the University Lecture Com- mittee. This year, because of the efforts of SGC, two students have voting rights on the committee. He said he thought the mem- bers of the committee "very re- ceptive/ and cooperative." When asked about the committee's at- time. Almost'all of the reports had been dittoed up and passed out several days before the meeting, so that Council members had had an opportunity to read them. This prevented long, drawn out, dull reports, which are usually read word for word. And the re- ports were quite thorough too. Unfortunately, onily 13 of the' 18 voting Council members were present. The Council decision to look into the Summer Placement pro- gram is commendable. The pro- gram is rather extensive now, with listings of thousands of sum- mer jobs for students. However, as Drake Duane ex- plained, costs are going up for students, and summer job oppor- tunities should be maximized. In fact, the Student Activities Building Board's decision to set up the summer placement office in the SAB is indeedk a signpost of growing interest in this area. * * * . THE COUNCIL decided not to have an Academic Freedom Week this year. It had made this de- cision last year, but thought it should look into the situation again. Many felt that the Forum pro- OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an off icial publication of the Univer- sity% of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices shoul4 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, NOVEMBER 8, 1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 45 General Notices Because of the lecture by Mrs. Frank lin D. Roosevelt, the Office of Religious Affairs will not conduct its Coffee Hour on Friday jfternoon. Summary, action taken at meetini of the Student Government Counci held November 6, 1957. Approved minutes of previous meet ing. Approved activities: Nov. 2, Turkish Club, Hungarian Rhapsody's Program 8 p.m., Lane Hail (Interim action, Exec Corn.); Nov. 6,. India Student Assn., Shanta Rao Indian Classical Dances 7:30 p.m., Hill (Interim Action); Nov 13, Inter-House Council and Assembly IHC-Assembly) Sing, 7:45 p.m., Rack- ham; Nov. 14, 15, 16, Soph Show, 8:0 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn; Nov. 19, In ternational Students Assn., movie, 7:3 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. Approved Jan. 11 for social events. Accepted report on Residence Hail financing including recommendation that this report terminate the activity of the Residence Hail Finance Commit teep and be turned over to the Student CARL SANDBURG'S speech Tuesday night was interesting not only in itself but for \vhat it revealed about speeches in general at the University. It showed speeches can be given which will interest more than just an esoteric group. It was evident, too, that students did not come to Sandburg's speech because it was one in a speech series to which they had already sub- scribed. They came because they wanted to see Sandburg. Sandburg's reputation brought them to Hill