"Thanks A Lot, Fellows" Sixty-Eighth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ,hen 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 must be noted in all reprints. URDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS BLUES ,}I'' ,, ,,.-,. l G _ ,h u N u p G./ .,R - _*fr'f a I,. ::-., s A AT THE STATE: Hunchback Features High-Pitched Drama THE FOURTH film adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic "The Hunch- back of Notre Dame," now playing at the State Theatre, is indeed a worthwhile production, thanks to the fine performance of Anthony Quinn, as the tragic hunchback Quasimodo, and to above average cinematography. It is held from the category of excellent and memorable motion pictures by several factors, the major one being the messy hair and overly emphasized busom of Gina ("she sings, she dances, she enter- tains the boys") Lollobrigida. Quinn shows sensitive understanding of the deformed Quasimodt, and he p'lays the role with a careful restraint which brings out lividly IHC Shows Farsighted Concern in Two Areas 'WO INTER-HOUSE COUNCIL projects, out- lined yesterday by Drake Duane, MHC presi- nt, stretch far beyond this year and reach reral problems which are basic in the men's ildence halls. ' The two projects are the planning of initial ps' in seeking additional financial aid for sidence halls and the consideration of men's uses which would contain only freshmen or ly upperclassmen. The former idea has not been pursued thor- ghly at the University and would be especially eresting if financial aid were sought from deral sources as well as the state legislature. 1e IMC would be introducing a subject valu- le in attracting student interest as well Nas portant in attempting to solve the problem rising dormitory living costs. Still, the basic purpose of this program could ry well be lost in debate 'ad conjecture. ie primary value of - studying residence hall ancing is to save the student from rises room and board rates. With the necessity for ilding new dormitories on the present self- udating basis, the raising of living costs ems inevitable. T HE SECOND PROGRAM also presents prob- lems as it attempts to solve other problems. Freshmen and upperclassmen living in-separate residence houses would hinder- an important purpose of University living-the sharing of college backgrounds. However, if the separate floors in the same house were set aside for freshmen or upper- men only, then there would still be opportunity to exchange backgrounds. Perhaps the most definite advantage to this program would be more an academic emphasis in the residence halls. Counseling and discus- sion with other students of the same year level in dormitories is a necessary supplement to education in the classroom. An objection to both projects is that they are so extensive that few University students may benefit from them this year or even in the years which they will spend at the University. Yet, this objection is also an important fea- ture of these programs, for it is commendable that a student organization is initiating pro- grams which may not see reality in the next few years. -JAMES )OW , " -" 1K 4 A' . - = : ,. _ T { -. ~ .- 'gap -44 'R'L.IiCK 6Slf4'$7 T116 r w .Si1 6'Tz,,4" Pos e --"-'^ Ike Didn't Go Far Enough A BEEPING DOGHOUSE seems to have done what the threat of all-out nuclear war, and even previous evidence that the Russians indeed possessed an ICBM, could not do. Sputnik II has at least managed to bring American policy- makers partially to the point of realizing the immense dangprs of the present world scientific situation. Even now, the intensity of response seems rather feeble compared to the magnitude of the problem. On the fortieth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, the Russians had already sent up two satellites, the latest weighing over a half- ton and carrying a live and apparently healthy dog. There is also the very real possibility, ex- pressed by American scientists, that the Rus- sians will soon-perhaps in the next.few weeks --launch a rocket to the moon. Certainly, they already have the technical capability to do so. In accomplishing these feats of technology, the Soviet Union has demonstrated clearly that it possesses a scientific potential beyond our greatest expectation of their strength. The Russians admit to having a new,\super rocket fuel and are evidently in possession of other remarkable discoveries in the physical and bio- logical sciences. AT THE, SAME TIME, the United States is -by comparison-in possession of a failure- ridden missile program, several 20 pound spheres ready for launtffing "some time next March," and a president who has finally become alarmed enough about the situation to take a few more scientific advisors into the govern- ment and give the nation a few pep talks while displaying the nose cone of a United States missile prominently on his desk. The gap between American and Soviet science is evident even in the President's pep talk. He called attention to the facts that America has fired an IRBM, or intermediate range ballistic missile, 3500 miles in a recent experiment, solved the problem of missile re-entry into the atmosphere and= "fired three rockets to heights of 2,000 and 4,000 miles." The significance of these observations is that they were made separately, not in one com- pact, Sputnik-like package. There is a great technical gap between being able to do all of these things separately and being able to fire a satellite 1,000 miles up, put it into an orbit, and-possibly-bring a living occupant back to earth safely. The gap between the United States achievements and hitting the moon is even greater. Thus, the importance of the President's nosecone lies in the fact that it is sitting on his desk, not carrying a dog-or a man- through outer space. As to the President's appointment of a special advisor for science and-his statement that more scientists would be brought into government, it is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, but only a small one. The President, himself, seemed to be excusing the general insignificance of adding a few, more priority adjusters to the government when he said that, while in. a war the Russians might do great damage, we still had tremendous retaliatory power. f[E WAS UNDOUBTEDLY RIGHT in saying this, although we can't help but feel that he understated the case. In the case of an all- out war, both the United States and the Soviet Union have the ability to completely destroy each other. The point is that, short of an all- out war, we are forced to compete with the Russians to maintain the confidence of our allies. If the United States wishes to remain a first-rate power, it must compete with the Russians on their terms-namely, it seems, in scientific progress. It is undoubtedly proper of the President to be concerned about keeping up national spirit. However, this does not seem to be a case where "the only thing to fear is fear itself," and it would be even nicer if the President would think of some workable ways to get United States science back into a competitive position. Contrary to the President's implications, United States science is lagging seriously behind the Russians in many militarily important areas, and a m6ve more drastic than the ap- pointment of some new advisors is necessary if we are to have any hope of regaining a com- petitive balance. Yet another of the administration's "agoniz- ing reappraisals" is now called for. --LEWIS COBURN WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Cultural Exchange Lags By DREW PEARSON SAN FRANCISCO - Out of the clear blue the other day, Ben- jamin Bufano, California sculptor, received a telegram from Moscow. It read: "We invite you to visit Moscow as a guest of the Soviet govern- ment to help promote an exchange of art and culture. You will be free td travel at will through the Soviet Union. Please contact the Soviet Embassy in Washington to arrange travel details." The telegram was signed by the Russian Committee for the Ex- change of Artists, Professors, and Scientists, equivalent to the "people-to-people friendship" com- mittee appointed by President Eisenhower, * * MEANWHILE, HERE IS how people-to-people friendship, an- nounced by Eisenhower at the Geneva "Summit" Conference as, the official policy of the United States, is progressing in Washing- ton. Last April, Alvin Eurich of the Ford Foundation, returning from Russia on a survey of education, was asked by the State Department to come !to Washington for a con- -ference. While in, Washington; Eurich asked Ambassador William Lacy, in charge of cultural exchanges behind the Iron Curtain, to permit Prof. A. D. Alexandrov, head of the University 'of Leningrad, to come to Washington. Prof. Alexandrov is probably the top mathematical physicist in the world. He is the Russian scientist who is working on plans to reach the moon, and has stated publicly that it will be quite feasible 't place an observation platform on the moon. Ambassador Lacy asked Eurich to yrite him a letter, which Eurich did on May 20. In it, he again told how Prof. Alexandrov desired to come to the United States, and outlined how such a visit could benefit American scientists. As of this writing, Eurich had no reply to that letter. He did get one telephone from the State De- partment in June. * * * "DO YOU KNOW' what's in- volved in bringing Prof. Alexan- drov to the United States?" asked W. Paul O'Neill, a member of the State Department Office on Cul- tural Exchange. "Would you be prepared to meet him and accom- pany him every place in the United States?" Eurich said that he would be prepared to meet Prof. Alexandrov, but could not accompany him every place in the United States, as he had other commitments.' "Would you be prepared to have a responsible person meet him at every airport?" asked O'Neill. "Yes, I would." "Would you be prepared to have a responsible person accompany him on any train?" Eurich replied in the affirmative. "May I then invite him?" Eurich asked. "Yes," said O'Neill. "But we are not yet prepared to issue a visa.", "Then I'm not going to embar- rass Prof. Alexandrov by inviting him and having him wait for a visa which might not arrive," said Eurich. He was so right. As of this week, Prof. Alexandrov had not received the visa and had not been invited. This despite the fact that he had shown Eurich the Russian cyclo- tron and everything else in the University of Leningrad labora- tories. Furthermore, since Russia seems to be far ahead of us in developing the, Sputnik and other means of space travel, it would appear that Prof. Alexandrov could steal no secrets from the United States, while American scientists might benefit from talking with him. * * * LEARNING these facts, I tele- phoned O'Neill at the State De- partment. He did not remember an "Alexandrov," and seemed com- pletely vague regarding any appli- cation for his visit. He said he would look the matter up. I also called Ambassador Lacy. He did remember Prof. Alexan- drov, but he didn't recall that permission had been asked for his entry into the United States. Thirty minutes after my phone call, however, O'Neill got on the telephone to Eurich in New York to tell him that Prof. Alexandrov was now cordially invited to visit the United States. Note: Prof. Alexandrov visited Canada last month, but, unable to come to the United States, went all the way back to Russia. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) the magnanimous soul beneath Quasimode's grotesque exterior. His gutteral speech is neither ex- aggerated or affected. He does not seem to sustain this sensitivity throughout the film as memorably as did Charles Laugh- ton in the 1939 version, but judg- ing Quinn's performance on its own merits, it is certainly superla- tive. THE PHOTOGRAPHY realizes well the advantages of the motion picture medium, in expressing and emphasizing the depth and feel- ing of Quasimodo's character, as well as the atmosphere and wdy- namic level of the whole play. Especially well done is the scene in which a naive poet wanders into the Kingdom of Thieves and Beggars. Incidently, he somehow comes out of the scene married to Gina Lollobrigida on a "purely Platonic basis." Ah yes, Miss Lollobrigida. I sup- pose there are a good many who will flock to a movie to see a grimy woman do a belly dance and strut herself about. Myself, I go to the Gayety Burlesk for this. Now of course, the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, whom Gina por- trays, is intended to be quite an earthy woman, but she is also richly loving, sincere, and under- standing. Gina fails quite success- fully to demonstrate any thorough understanding of her role. Her acts of kindness toward Quasimodo seem superficial, and it is difficult to understand her relationship with Quasimodo, ex- cept with the explanation that she is a "clean cut kid," which she is not supposed to be at all. THE WORST job of, acting, however, is turned out by Jean Dam, who portrays the soldier Phoebus loved by Esmeralda. Little can be said about his unconvincing performance, except that Ted Mack would probably have re- jected him. Alain Cuny, as the brooding alchemist who loves Esmeralda, broods perhaps a little too much, but his performance is satisfactory even effective. The plot of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" portrays the search of the deformed cathedral bell- ringer, Quasimodo, for love, which he finds only indeath with Esmer- alda, whom -he could never holda in life. The film starts off unfortunately with a number of seemingly dis- united scenes, and it takes some time for the viewer to tie every- thing into the general pattern of action. But once this task is ac- y complished the film moves smooth- ly at an intense dramatic pitch. This production is well worth seeing. The cartoon is not funny, and the short feature (a travelogue about Singapore) is boring, so you need not worry about getting there on time. -Dale McGhee LETTERS to the EDITORT Competition... . To the Editor: IN THE FOLLOWING some sen- timents are expressed which, though they have been made by many, cannot be overemphasized at the present time. There has been much concern about Russia's technological devel- opments and much resulting talk that the U.S. must step up the quality and quantity of its output in a number of fields of endeavor. The latter are sentiments that a society always has to be concerned about. To tie this sentiment solely to the need never to let the Russians get ahead-and such seems to be the predominant, if not the only characteristic of most statements on the subject-leaves an opening for the charge that the society's motive for progress is based on the need to stay "on top" pure and simple. Should therenot be more ex- pressed satisfaction about new' horizons in knowledge apart from the idea who got there first? Should there not be an intensified insight that there is even more to be gained from some form of inter- national cooperative effort now than before? It has been suggested that the new technological developments by the Russians increase the threat to other nations. Given an atmos- phere of considerable hostility be- tween certain nations, such is in- deed plausible. However, one attitude which will guarantee a continuation of hostile feelings is the attitude that genu- ine accomplishments in one camp must in the other camp stir the, motive to compete rather than the motive to get to know and learn from the accomplishers. --John Gyr Suggestion . To the Editor: IN COMPLETE agreement with Mr. Blues "woof-woof" editorial of Nov. 6, I would suggest that the dog lovers of the world, instead of observing a one minute silence each day on behalf of Curly, ob- serve instead a 24 hour per day silence. Most of us like dogs, I'm sure, but these objections by the Na- tional Canine Defense League etc. are ridiculous. -Harold Richards, '59 *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 sentain TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing,'before 2 p.m. the day peceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1957 VOL. LXVII, NO. 46 Plays Last performance tonight at 8. The Department of Speech presents Joseph Kesselring's farce-comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace." Lydia Mendelsohn Theatre. Box office open 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Concerts The Clieveland Orchestra will give the fourth concert In the Choral Union Series, Sun., Nov. 10 in Hill Auditorium, at 8:30 p.m., with George Szell, con- ductor. Tickets are on sale at the offices of the Musical Society until noon Sat., and the Hill Auditorium box office will be open Sunday evening at 7 p.m. Academic Notices Economics Club. Dr. Hans W. Singer, Secretariat of the United Nations, New York, will speak on "Inflation and the Process of Economic Development in Under-Developed Countries" Mon., Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. In Aud. B, Angell Ha~ll. All staff members and graduate students in economics and business adminis- tration urged to attend. All others in- vited. Doctoral Examination for Llewellya Williams Hillis, Botany: thesis: "A Revision of the Genus Halimeda," Mon., Nov. 11, Rm. 1139, Natural Science Bldg., at 1:30 p.m. Chairman, W. R. Taylor. A A 4 S. . -t UNIVERSAL ENLIGHTMENT NEEDED: Kashmir Problem a Challenge to Democracy I- INTERPRETING THE NEWS: PYCCKU CAOI3AP By THOMAS P. WHITNEY Associated Press Foreign News Analyst S IX WEEKS AGO few Americans had heard the word Sputnik. Today it's on the way into the dictionaries, as one of the Russian langu- age's rare contributions to English.. In Russian, sputnik means satellite in an astronomical sense. Thus the moon is a sputnik of the earth as well as in the sense of an artifi- cial satellite. But in English all sputniks are artificial. The Russian word sputnik also means a traveling companion. The Russian prefix "s" means with. The word "put" pronounced "poot" means road, way or path. The suffix "nik" is commonly used to make a noun from a general root-and give it a diminutive sense. Editorial Staff PETER ECKSTEIN. Editor JAMES ELSMAN, JR. VERNON NAHRGANG Editorial Director City Editor DONNA HANSON ................ Personnel Director TAMMY MORRISON ................Magazine Editor EDWARD GERULDSEN .. Associate Editorial Director WILLIAM HANEY .................... Features Editor The Russian, word "laika" doesn't seem to have caught on as well. This is the given name and the name of the breed of ,the dog put up in Sputnik II. IN A SPECIFIC SENSE laika refers to a breed of dog common in Russia and Siberia. In a more general sense laika-derived from "lai," meaning bark-is approximately equivalent to the English "bow-wow" and can be applied to any dog. Some Russian words now in the English vocabulary come from politics and government. Kremlin, used to describe the ancient Fortress in Moscow and also the Soviet government as a 'whole, comes from the Russian kreml. This means not just the fortress in Moscow but any elevated fortress in the heart of a Russian town. In English bolshevik may be used to describe any violent revolutionary. Originally in Russian it meant "one of the majority"-the majority being that in the Russian Social Democratic party and in the early years of this century when it split. The opponents of the Bolsheviks became known as the Mensheviks-men of the minority. THE WORD SOVIET, now common in Eng- (Editor's Note.: This is the last of three articles dealing with the Kash- mrproblem from the Indian point of view. The author is studying at the University under the Foreign Stu- dent Leadership Exchange program.) By VIRENDRA PATHIK Daily Staff Writer HOW RIDICULOUS is the basis of the Kashmir problem, like many of our other problems, may be effectively felt only if we try to realize the drastic change we are undetgoing today. There has been a growing real- ization, though not in the common masses yet, but certainly, in the pioneer minds of those who matter in shaping the destinies of our future generations, of the ilnpoft- ance of striving for a world which is "unbroken into fragments by narrow domestic walls; and where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way in the dreary desert sands of dead habit." * * * ' TODAY, it is easy to see that even the masses of the Free World are looking forward to meeting the challange of the future to create a world "where democracy is with- out vulgarity and ignorance; ex- cellence is without arrogance; and differences are without hate; where the answers, to error is not terror, the way of progress is not subversion, respect for the past drifting the hopefull future of man into dark valleys of feai and frus- tration? My purpose of presenting the Indian point of view on the Kash- mir problem was merely to stimu- late the above stated realization. If I have stated this Indian point of view vigorously, condemning. only the other side (Pakistan), my purpose is not actually to con- demn them, but just to let them feel. that other party, too, feels about her interests as fanatically and intensely as they do. In such an atmosphere of con- flicting interests, where really the basis of our problems are purely petty and selfish - against our common understanding of them, the solutions can really never be attained by betraying an opinion or by creating a deadlock of hatred and misunderstanding, but by at- tempting to understand the dif- ferences without involving feelings of hatred. * * * PERHAPS few people can deny that democratic rights can never represent a 'glorious slogan of our age' unless they are preceded by a universal enlightenment of the democratic values. History has re- peatedly demonstrated that appli- cation of democracy without the prerequisite of education has only betrayed the people involved lead- of nation just because of some petty differences among them- selves. Even while our Indian leaders were fighting for their independ- ence against Britain, they always looked forward to a nation where people live in harmony, peace, and unifoymity in spite of diversity; where there are ideological and religious differences but without hate and mental barriers. That is the dream of Nehru, who is engaged so passionately in building the destiny of one-sixth the population of our planet. At least when I speak -of Nehru, I don't speak of him as an Indian National leader, but as a world citizen with the future of man foremost in his mind. (I have heard many people, even great statesmen, very narrow-mindedly condemning Nehru of the viola- tion of ideals for which he has stood so firmly. * * THEY HAVE never tried to go deep into the stand of this great man on international and national problems, which always tend to strike at the far-reaching effect of the problems. I believe that it is only his pas- sion for the ideals he holds, the dreams he has cherished, that, even at the cost of his popularity in the Western World, he stands firmly on the question of Kash- stead of indulging in the mean tactics of instigating guerilla war- fare, and hatred. Her real attempts to struggle against the wants of her people in Pakistan and occupied Kashmir could have proven to her her stronger claim for Kashmir than her feverish propaganda on which she spends so much money in order to betray the opinion of the Western masses. To the Western people I will say only this. Kashmir is not be- hind the Iron Curtain. Go and see for yourself how peacefully the people of Kashmir are living in India, enthusiastically engaged in their economic efforts to fight the menace of communist totali- tarianism in their area. * * IN THE LIGHT of these facts, we may perhaps realize better how futile are the points of Pakistan while they advance their claims for Kashmir. Mr. Khan might have been thinking of his points in his first rejoinder as irrefutable and difficult to grapple with, but now, perhaps even he, may realize how meaningless and futile are his arguments for us. We have never looked at Mos- lems as aliens because they com- prise 50 million of the population of our country. Our leaders, even up till now, don't consider Pakistan as a foreign nation. 4' A M '. '