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3AY, NOVEMBER 12, 1957
NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN WEICHER
"Careful, Men - Don't Break The Furniture"
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CHORAL UNION SERIES:
Cleveland Orchestra
Nearly Faultless
PLAUDITS FOR SZELL, Bruckner and Cleveland, Sunday night's
concert by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra consisted of only two
works, Haydn's Symphony No. 99 and Bruckner's Symphony No. 9. These
two works, representing almost the extremes of symphonic composition,
were both presented in near faultless performances by conductor George
Szell and the orchestra.
Haydn's Symphony No. 99, one of his last, and understandably
one of his favorites, was performed with the usual small orchestra:
strings, woodwinds plus a stand each of horns and trumpets.
Education Must Answer
Challenge to Free World
,ARS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT last Friday
joined .the ranks of prominent Americans
xpressing concern over education.
In describing her trip to Russia, she dwelt
ipon the Soviet Union's effectiveness in turn-
ng out engineers and scientists.
Yet, as she noted at a press conference, edu-
ation there is compulsory - as is everything
- and the strict discipline contrasted with the
nore relaxed and individually-oriented educa-
ional approach of American schools.
Education is a serious business in Russia,
)nly through his studies can a student hope to
,limb into the group of scientists and profes-
ionals that comprise the most privileged strat-
im of this so-called "classless society." And the
government, recognizing the importance of
raining its young people, provides subsidies
and added inducements to those entering sci-
entific fields,
Here, only athletes seem worthy of subsidi-
zation.
A look at the emphasis Russians attach to
education suggests that, by contrast, our free-
dom of choice has become freedom to loaf.
AT THE RECENT Conference on the Ameri-
can High School held in Chicago, wide-
spread dissatisfaction was expressed with high
schools and their failure to focus on rigorous
intellectual training.
Bright high school students suffer under the
anti-intellectualism often shown by their class-
mates and the lack of pressure to develop the
intellect has made life miserable for the bet-
ter-than-average student, Prof. Theodore
Schultz, chairman of the University of Chicago
economics department told the conference.
A high school superintendent, William Corn-
og of New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill.,
declared that high schools should exist to train
young minds to reason, not to give pat answers
or to entertain.
In view of this, and such additional indica-
tions as the recent University survey showing
only 13 per cent of the nation's high school
girls want to go to college for scholastic rea-
sons, it appears evident that somewhere, some-
how, the gap between what high school stu-
dents should do and what they actually ac-
complish is far too wide.
Again, much of this undoubtedly represents
the attitudes of the society that qurrounds stu-
dents and the parents who raise them.
When the pressure for intellectual discipline
is absent, and emphasis on social activities is
substituted, as it is in many high schools (and
even the "fishbowls" of some universities),
"training young minds" becomes unnecessarily
difficult.
However, in recent years a paradoxical force
has been developing to counteract this weak-
ening influence. More and more pressure is
coming to bear on colleges as an increasing
number of students go on to higher education.
College costs are rising with enrollments as are
student expenses.
Thus, the competition for admission and
scholarships is greatly increasing, notes Clyde
Vroman, director of University admissions.
Long in close contact with high schools and
students, Vroman observes that students have
gradually been getting more serious. Also, in
the last two years, there has been a noticeable
increase in numbers of students taking mathe-
matics and science courses.
Here at last are some signs of response to
the needs and concerns of the times. It may be
that the younger generations themselves will
reflect through their actions and attitudes, the
need to rise to the challenge facing the Free
World.
Yet, this is not enough. Even the most de-
termined students cannot remain untouched
by the bounds, restrictions and challenges of
their educational environment.
Nor, as certain boards of education seem to
think, does a proper environment necessarily
mean the newest, fanciest and most luxurious
high school in the county. Too often, these
showpieces are built at the price of adequate
salaries for teachers and a lack of concern
about what is being taught.
WHERE changes must be made is in attitude
and approach to education of schools and
administrations. An abandonment of the cradle
in the classroom and a cutting of social adjust-
ment emphasis to its proper level is necessary
before high schools can provide a clear path
to training of the reason:
Already, some cities are adopting some form
of an honors program. Spurred by Sputnik,
others will probably place greater stress on
mathematics and science.
Perhaps with this will come a tightening of
standards and the interested attention of all
citizens,
Without this, the nation's future leaders who
must bear the burdens of the modern and fu-
ure society will continue to lack mental pre-
paration to face what Mrs. Roosevelt called
the outstanding challenge to the Free World-
matching and surpassing the Russians without
sacrificing our freedom.
-MICHAEL KRAFT
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Ilye, Truman May End Feud
r ~By DREW PEARSON\
The whole work was well played.'
duction was suitably contrasted by
The Adagio second movement dis-
played both the lyric quality of the
orchestra's strings, and the deli-
cate solo playing of the principal
flutist.
The performance of the Menu-
etto was as dancelike as its form
indicates. The playing was crisp
and very precise. The concluding
movementwasslively, happy and
spirited. Throughout the work,
Szell was the complete master. A
wave of the hand or a flick of the
baton and hitherto inaudible inner
parts instantly appeared.
* * *
BRUCKNER'S seldom performed
Ninth, or "Unfinished" symphony
occupied the major share of the
concert. It's three movements
alone total nearly seventy minutes
of playing time. The mere inclu-
sion of this work for performance
is a feat worth applauding. The
sheer physical job of coordinating-
some 135 performers is not easily
accomplished, but Szell managed
beautifully.
Bruckner, although a great ad-
mirer of Wagne unlike him shun-
ned the programmatic in prefer-
ence to the traditional forms. In
this symphony especially, the
forms are apparent.
* * *
THE FIRST MOVEMENT, mark-
ed "Solemn," opens with a very
Wagnerian passage, complete with
full brass. Throughout the move-
ment there are echoes of Wagner,
especially in the use of long melo-
dic lines leading up to a semi-
climax. This utilization of sheer
sound, the mere volume of which
is all-engulfing, is an example of
Bruckner's magnificent orchestra-
tion at its best.
The second movement is the
most individual of the three. In it
is much anticipation of the 20th
century idiom. There are intricate
rhythmic patterns--and non-scale-
wise melodies. It is both melodi-
cally and harmonically more com-
plex and dissonant than most
music before 1900.
THE ADAGIO last movement 1T,
like the first, extremely lyrical.
There are nice periods of inter-
play between the woods and the
horns, and several instances of
really lush writing for the horn
section alone. Throughout the long
work the brasses are given an
especially hard workout, and they
performed admirably.
The whole evening's perform-
ance was always expertly control-
led by Szell, and was marred only
slightly by a few minor wrong
notes from the brasses in the
Haydn. They acquitted themselves
well in the Bruckner.
Mr. Szell and his orchestra are
to be heartily congratulated on
their admirable performance.
-Allegra Branson
The slow, almost mysterious intro-
the lively vivace which followed.
AT THE MICHIGAN:
'Godfrey'
Unfunny
"Y YMAN GODFREY" would
probably make an excellent
half-hour domestic comedy for
television. As a movie, it just
doesn't work. There aren't many
things in the free West much
harder to endure than an unfunny
comedy. "My Man Godfrey" isn't
exactly unendurable, but no pre-
meditated farce should have such
poor success in getting laughs.
The plot is a little hard to tol-
erate. David Niven plays the aris-
tocratic wetback who is taken un-
der the downy wing of a screwy
but sympathetic playgirl, bril-
liantly miscast as June Allyson.
Naturally, he becomes the but-
ler for her maladjusted family.
Here's where the fun is supposed
to begin. The movie had gotten
off to a slow start, and it never
does pick up much speed.
* * *
NIVEN, as Godfrey G. Godfrey
(the G is for Godfrey), is a sort
of "man Friday" for the decaying
aristocracy that employs him. The
Bullochs are the film industry's
typical society family. They repre-
sent a fictional amalgamation of
Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure
Class" and Darwin's "Origin of
the Species."
Godfrey, as the miraculous do-
gooder, is also celluloid. At one
point, he proudly proclaims that
he jumped ship and sneaked onto
United States shores because, "I
fell in love with the Statue of
Liberty."
Something should be said about
June Allyson's performance. It is
pleasant to note that she is fi-
nally growing old and wrinkly.
Perhaps someday soon she'll re-
tire.
THERE are bright spots in "My
Man Godfrey." In an effort to
protect herself from her fierce
older sister, June Allyson acquires
a gigantic, but cowardly blood-
hound named Rasputin. He is
easily the film's most comic per-
sonality. As an added feature Eva
Gabor, complete with Hungarian
accent, is around to provide at-
mosphere.
The best thing to be said about
"My Man Godfrey" is that it is
unpretentious. It was meant as
good, clean, solid, American fun
with snobbish overtones.
-Beverly Gross
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THE CRISIS over Sputnik may
finally end the long grudge
President Eisenhower has held
against former President Harry
Truman.
It's reported from members of
the palace guard that, in order to
attain more national unity and
Democratic support for his Ad-
ministration, he will call upon
Truman and ex-Secretary,, of
State Dean Acheson for advice.
Eisenh~ower bitterness toward
Truman was first evidenced when,
as President-elect, he called at
the White House on Jan. 20, 1953,
to pick up retiring President Tru-
man to drive to the Capitol for
the inauguration. General Eisen-
hower did not get out of his car
and go into the White House, as
is customary, to greet the retiring
President. Truman waited inside
the White House; then, rather
than create an incident, went to
the front door and got in the car.
* * *
LATER, when Eisenhower vis-
ited a cattle show in Kansas City,
Truman tried to pay a courtesy
call on him at the Hotel Muehle-
bach, but was told the President
was too busy. Mr. Truman, who
has a strong sense of respect for
the office of President, no matter
who occupies it, felt that he
should pay his respects to Eisen-
hower when he arrived in Tru-
man's home town, Kansas City.
On one occasion, the former
President told me: "One of the
first things I did when I became
President was to invite Herbert
Hoover to the White House. I told
him, 'Whenever you ome to Wash-
ington, I want you to consider this
your home, and the White House
cars yours.'
"But these people," said Mr.
Truman a little wistfully, "don't
seem to like me."
I didn't realize at first whom
he meant by "these people." La-
ter, I realized he was referring to
one man - Eisenhower.
Again last spring when the
Greek government invited Tru-
man to come to Greece on the
10th anniversary of the Truman
Doctrine, the President refuseddto
give him any official status, and
Truman refused to go.
I talked to Truman last week
in Los Angeles, and while this
subject didn't come up, I have a
hunch that if Ike makes the first
move, as now reported from White
House advisers, Harry will be de-
lighted to bury the hatchet, roll
up his sleeves, and work for his
country.
It was hushed up in a closed-
door meeting, but way back last
April, Dr. Wernher Von Braun,
top U.S. missile expert, warned
members of a House Appropria-
tions Subcommittee that Russia
was making important strides in
rocket technology.
* * *
THE COMMITTEE was exam-
ining the Defense Department's
1958 request for guided missile re-
search funds. Some congressmen
were perplexed by Secretary Wil-
son's proposal to cut $22 million
and questioned the man who first
l a u n c h e d Hitler's V-2 rocket
against England.
He warned that the first coun-
try to develop an intercontinental
missile would probably also be the
first to the moon.,
"The larger and larger ballistic
missiies will provide he basic mis-
sile hardware to get more and
more payload into an orbit in out-
er space or to the moon," he told
Pep. Harry Sheppard (D-Cal.).
Von Braun also warned that
the Russians had more than just
good scientific research. It takes
a competent "electronics industry
capable of making such things as
gyroscopes or good electric con-
nectors and cables," he said.
Sheppard asked Von Braun if
he thought the Russians were
concentrating their resources on
military and scientific advance-
ment.
"I am convinced this is the
case," said Von Braun.
Congressman Erret Scrivner,
Kansas Republican, pooh-poohed
Soviet advances.
"I do not see it. Perhaps my
philosophy is entirely different
from anybody else," he said. 9I
have yet to lose a night's sleep
over the problem of a Russian
bomber attack on this nation."
"If our scientists told me they
were going to fly to the moon, I
would ask just two questions.
When? and why?" Scrivner said
later.
* * *'
"THROWING a few pounds of
magnesium to the moon and ig-
niting it on impa t so you can ob-
serve the flash with astronomical
telescopes - we could probably
do it in five years, if somebody
will foot the bill," replied Von
Braun.
"To answer the question of
why, I believe it comes down to
a very fundamental question of
what makes research tick," con-
tinued Von Braun. "I believe the
fundamental stimulation of re-
search is just plain curiosity, and,
it should stay that way."
(Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.)
L.
UN Charter: Art. II, Para VII
IN ITS SHORT LIFE of three years, the Al-
gerian War has taken the lives of 40,000
men. The Algerian question is more than a
pending problem-it is an explosive crisis that
has shattered France economically and poli-
tically; and it has the potential of shattering
to pieces the Western block. The problem con-
cerns not only Algeria, but France, and through
France the whole free world. Is it not also,
within the realm of possibility, that Russia's
next pawn in her game of expansion and en-
circlement will be North Africa?
The urgency of the problem has awakened
the Western world to action, for the Algerian
question, once again, goes before the United
Nations in the next few weeks.
However, the United Nations is presumably
defeated before it even begins debate on Al-
geria. For a shadow of pre-destined failure
hovers over the United Nation's actions con-
cerning the Algerian question. This untangible
element of failure lies within a principle in
the United Nation's Charter. Article 2, para-
graph 7 states, "Nothing contained in 'the
present Charter ,shall authorize the United
Nations to intervene in matters which are
essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of
any state or shall require the Members to sub-
mit such matters to settlement under the
present Charter...."
THE HEART OF THIS PRINCIPLE is con-
tained in the two words "domestic jurisdic-
tion." Laurence Preuss, formerly of the Uni-
versity faculty, said of domestic jurisdiction,
"It delimits those areas of interstate life which
are regulated directly by international law. It
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furthermore fixes the extent of the competence
of international organizations." France has
latched on to this vague, relative, nebulous,
principle of "domestic jurisdiction," and has
flaunted it-so fiercely in the face of the United1
Nations that the "extent of the competence"
of the United Nations has been challenged. All
France has had to do (as she did last Febru-
ary) is claim that the Algerian question lies
within her "domestic jurisdiction," and the
United Nations is powerless to act. France
agrees that the question needs "discussion," but
since Algeria "is an integral part of France,"
as Pineau said several months ago, the United
Nations may not intervene. Of course there may
be debate, and this seems to be all France
wants from the United Nations.
The trick of claiming "domestic jurisdiction"
over an embarrassing situation is not a new
trick-Hungary did it, and avoided any United
Nations interference. The Netherlands in re-
sorting to police action in the newly formed
Republic of Indonesia claimed that such action
fell within their "domestic jurisdiction," and
they expected no objections 'from the United
Nations. However, the difference between the
former and the latter case was that the Dutch
failed to convince the Security Council that
their Indonesian action was solely a Dutch
"domestic" problem. Consequently, the Security
Council took action.
W E SUGGEST that the Security Council re-
tnexamine France's claim of "domestic juris-
diction" in Algeria. For as Preuss continues,
"The sphere of domestic jurisdiction is not an
irreducible sphere of rights which are some-
how inherit . . . it does not create an im-
penetrable barrier to the development of inter-
national law."
For, in challenging France's claim of juris-
diction, the Security Council would not only
strengthen itself as a unit, but more important
she might be able to bring to an end a slaughter
that has already killed 40,000.
-MARGARET SCHULTZ
New Books at the Library
Carmicahel, Omer and James, Weldon-The
Louisville Story; N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 1957.
Chute, Beatrice J.-The Blue Cup and Other
Stories; N.Y., Dutton, 1957.
Clarke, Arthur C.-The Making of a Moon;
N. V H.r. 1 1957.
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THE CULTURE BIT:
Under the Blatt Baton
By DAVID NEWMAN
WE WERE a little late reaching
Harris Hall. By the time we
bounded noisily nto the rehear-
sal room, the University Sympho-
ny Orchestra, preparing for next
week's concert, was finishing up
the first movement of Mozart's
34th Symphony.
We found ourselves a seat di-
rectly behind the bass fiddle sec-
tion and sat down. Our chair
rattled, but we blamed it on the
basses, all going at once. The bass
fiddle section isn't the greatest
place to dig Mozart, but man .. .
it was . .. like, you know, stereo-
phonic sound. Hi-Fi. And it
sounded wonderful.
All around us were intent stu-
dent musicians, olaying like mad,
eyes glued to the improvised po-
dium. There, gently swaying his
arms and smiling a pleased smile
was Prof. Joseph Blatt, conductor
of the University Symphony for
the past five years. He looked
pleased with his people. Mozart
was doing well.
* * *
ALL THIS activity was prepara-
tion for a concert at Hill Audito-
top," a violinist whispered to me,
ever so metaphorically.
Prof. Blatt, clad in tan suit and
blue bow-tie, is a quiet but jaun-
ty figure on the podium. He
hummed a bit of the music and
then brought the movement to a
close. "All right, next. movement,"
he said in a sprightly Austrian ac-
cent. Without a grumble, the mu-
sicians all cued up and hit the
downbeat. It flowed smoothly and
Mr. Blatt again looked pleased.
His manned was appreciative
and benevolent. No screaming. No
histrionics. No baton breaking. We
were a little disappointed, but it
sounded so nice we didn't worry.
WHEN the second movement
came to its end, we were shken
from our revery by Larry Hurst,
'59Mu., student manager of the
orchestra. Hurst, who bows bass,
elucidated, "This is a tough thing
to play. Not tough like Strauss
(Richard) because of the notes,
but tough because Mozart has to
sound just so."
We remarked, ;omewhat stu-
catch and I asked this horn play-
er what it was. 'I don't know,' he
said, 'I didn't even know he was
conductor till I read it on the pro-
gram.' "
This hail-fellow humor is all by
the way of saying that the orches-
tra thinks highly of its conductor,
who has wielded the baton with
the Met and the New York Phil-
harmonic.
Then Prof. Blatt called for the
third and last movenent. This
time he smiled less. We caught a
fe wgrimaces. He stopped them.
"Take Section D again, please,"
he directed, quietly. And they
few grimaces. He stopped them.
this time, but apparently it wasn't
quite enough. When the move-
ment, ended, he glanced at his
watch, smiled apologetically and
said, most politely, "Let's play this
movement just once more?"
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AND SO' they did, watching a
little more closely this time. Prof.
Blatt nodded, smiled. His hands
moved from section to section,
unobtrusively but definitely. It
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Lectures
Lecture, auspices of the University
Committee for the Program in Russian
Studies. "Travelers' Accounts of the
Soviet Union Today," Andrei A. Loba-
nov-Rostovsky, professor of history,
chairman. "Camera Shots of the Rus-
sian People," Deming Brown, associate
professor of Slavic languages and lit-
eratures; "Geographer's Impressions of
INTERPRETING:
Russ ian
Troubles
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
GEORGE F. KENNAN, who had
much to do with laying the
foundations of American policy in
fighting the cold war, always gets
a serious hearing when he speaks
up on Russia, where he once served
as ambassador.
Kennan initiated the Communist
containment policy of the Truman
administration, is a staff member
of the institute for Advanced Study
at Princeton and now a visiting
professor at Oxford University.
Kennan has chosen a time when
Nikita Khrushchev had just ar-
rived at an enhanced position of
power in the Soviet heirarchy to
question the Communist leader's
real strength.
He doesn't think Khrushchev is
going to last long.
KENNAN'S reasons are more
important than his point. He con-
siders Khrushchev's fate against
the background of Russian politi-
cal instability. His context, rather
than any single direct statement,
suggests a feeling that the Soviet
system itself faces inevitable re-
adjustment as Russia, with her
growing industrial complex, meets
the same problems which more
mature economies face.
Kennan's estimate of political
crisis between Communism's lead-
ers themselves and between them
and the people coincides with re-
ports from Russia indicating a
slackening in the rate of Russian
industrial progress.
MANY OBSERVERS believe this
to be due to a diversion of atten-
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