"Dear Boy, Where Have You Been Keeping Yourself?" Sixty-Eighth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 When Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" INTER-ARTS MAGAZINE: 'Generation' Features Fiction, Poetry, Art SINCE THE DEMISE of Hemingway's lost young man with the bitter mouth (one suggested cause of death: Gregory Peck's version of him in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"), young writers have been searching for a posture and a personality suitable to this half of the 20th century. They may have found him in The New Yorker child standing wide- eyed with hands clasped behind his back, while evil swirls about him. To say of Generation that it resembles The New Yorker will be the kiss of death for some segments of the public; not, however', for those who read The New Yorker for J. D. Salinger, Nancy Hale, Jean Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. . AY, NOVEMBER 13, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: RICHARD TAUB IFC Executive Committee Lenient with Beta Theta Pi rHE INTER-FRATERNITY Council's Execu- tive Committee recently found Beta Theta ?i fraternity guilty of violating IFC regula- ions governing pledgeship. The Committee's ction came as the result of a chapter "sweat ession" held on the night of November 4. ['hree of the eight pledges participating re- aorted to Health Service after their supposed- y constructive pledge training. Approximately 0 fraternity'actives looked on while the eight >ledges performed calisthenics for the first 25 ninutes of the "sweat session." Another chain in the fraternity's fellowship vas forged, with the approval of both Beta 'heta Pi's president and its pledge trainer, when the men were required to hold a pledge fire drill." This involved extinguishing a fire n the chapter fireplace by crawling up to the econd floor and returning with mouthfuls of water. 'The actives, perhaps smarting from a )ledge raid the'1previous night, again expressed to objection. The University took a dim view of the Beta t'heta Pi "sweat 'session." A report was com- >iled by the Dean of Men's Office and for- warded to the IFC Executive Committee stat- ng that "The University does not condone or ermit activity of this sort." Beta Theta Pi, he Committee ruled, had broken the IFC by- aw which states, "No man under any cir- humstaices shall be given physical maltreat- nent during his pledge period." The Commit- ee could have, under the power delegated o them by the IFC, subjected the fraternity o a fine of $100 and/or denial of their pledg- ng privileges for one rushing period. Instead, hey decided only to send a letter of "stiff eprimand" to the fraternity and its affiliated roups, including the national office. F E COMMITTEE gave two reasons for their disciplinary action. The Committee con- ended a letter would prove very effective, specially since it would be forwarded to the raternity's national office. The national office, he Committee believes, exerts a great amount f influence over the actions of its chapters. Secondly, this was Beta Theta Pi's first infrac- ion of the rule and, further, the first time such case has been presented to the IFC's Execu- lve Committee for a sentence. The infraction, it seems, was not considered do extreme one as evidenced by the Commit- ee's weak disciplinary action. A "stiff repri- nand" does not, it seems approach the sever- ty of a $100 fine and/or the possible loss of ushing privileges. If the x-rays, arm-slings bd physical therapy did not result from ex- reme "physical maltreatment" in the eyes of he Committee, the casual observer is led to ronder just what physical maltreatment would be considered serious enough to warrant the IFC's maximum penalty. THE INTER-FRATERNITY Council has set a precedent with their Beta Theta Pi rul- ing. It is a precedent to which the IFC will likely adhere for the sake of consistency, in judging future pledging infractions. Fraterni- ties, in effect, can regulate their "sweat ses- sions," "happy hours" and other pledge ac- tivities in accordance with the Committee's lenient decision. One wonders if the IFC Executive Commit- tee, in acting as the delegated judicial body of the University, imposed a severe enough pen- alty on Beta Theta Pi so as to discourage any further infractions of a rule University. spokes- men say they want rigidly enforced. -BARTON HUTHWAITE The Faculty Motto: 'Percolate or Perish' THE CAMPUS proletariat is seething. As if it wasn't enough for the surplus value of faculty labor to be expropriated by low-tuition- paying students, now the faculty is being sub- jected to further exploitation by the powers that be. It's the coffee situation. Ramifications of it are more serious than Queeg's strawberries. You see, last year when our erudite professors, but obsequious husbands, left home in the morning - their wives still in bed and nothing in their stomachs - they could count on home- made coffee in various, but hidden, faculty coffee shops to give meaning to life. But this year they must drink vending ma- chine coffee. The "New Class" of the Uni-e versity machinery, in a stroke some describe as more ruthless than that inflicted on Rus- sia's Kulacks, abolished the private enterprise of the efficient woman coffee vender. Explan- ations range from claims that she made more money than Benny Oosterbaan to speculation the League couldn't meet her competition. The reaction of the faculty has been a true White Collar one - lots of grumbling and pent up steam, but nothing approaching outspoken- ness. The implications portend major changes in the faculty hierarchy. Coffee pot cells are forming throughout Haven Hall. (Students can't get away with it in the quads.) Faculty members are judged as "ins" or "outs" accord- ingly. While gamesmanship used to dictate "publish or perish," it is now "percolate or perish." Instead of bringing apples, students might just as well sponsor their profs on a trip to campus-town with a dime for a cup of coffee. J. E. Jr. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Army Satellites Dusted Of f By DREW PEARSON THERE were some interesting backstage factors behind the Defense Department's decision to launch one of the six Army satel- lites which have been- gathering dust in a Huntsville, Ala., ware- house for about six months. Factor No. 1 was new Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who is faster, more venturesome than good old Charlie Wilson. McElroy is also on the spot and wants to get off. He made the decision to let the Army fire, despite the earlier decision in favor of the Navy., Factor No. 2 was this column of Oct. 25, revealing for the first time that "the Army nas six sat- ellites in a warehouse in Hunts- ville, Ala., all ready to launch. They could have been launched before the Sputnik, thus keeping the United States ahead of the USSR and preventing one of the greatest psychological defeats the United States ever suffered." FACTOR NO. 3 was Dr. Wern- her Von Braun, the Army missile expert, formerly operating for Hit- ler, now an American citizen, who has been conferring quietly with Navy expert John P. Hagen, in charge of satellite "Project Van- guard." Their quiet cooperation led to Navy acquiescence in giv- ing the Army first crack at catch- ing up with Russia. One point readers have ques- tioned me about is a paragraph in the Oct. 25 column which read: "About three -months ago, the Budget Bureau, which operates directly under the White House, actually sent auditors to Hunts- ville to make sure the Army did not spend a nickel on the satel- lite program." This sounds incredible. It's not surprising some readers wonder how this could have happened. The answer is that the Budget Bureau learned that the Army had these satellites, and figured it was trying to pull a "stunt" in order to prove that it had the best missile team in the armed services. Probably the Budget Bureau's suspicions were justified, because this was about the time of the Col. Ni c k e r s o n court-martial. Nickerson had written a secret memo, a copy of which reached this writer's hands, claiming that the Army was ahead of the Air Force in missile production and that Secretary of Defense Wilson was in serious error in stopping further Army work on an IRBM, or Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile. * * * UNQUESTIONABLY, the Army would have gone ahead and fired its earth sateilite, thus beating Russia, in order to defend Ccl. Nickerson and prove the effi-ien- cy of Army missile experts. How- ever, when the Budget Bureau, learning of this, sent auditors to Huntsville, they gave flat orders that not a nickel was to be spent on launching a satellite. It would have taken several thousand dollars to transport the satellite to Cape Canaveral, Fla., and launch it. Furthermore, an order is an order, especially when it comes from an arm of the White House. So the Army missiles remained in their Alabama warehouse while Sputnik beat us into outer space. President Eisenhower's solemn but confident television speech the other night gave no hint.of the frantic search his special writers conducted for some rocket-missile achievement which would make this speech more reassuring. Harried aides scurried between the Pentagon and the White House with secret papers describ- ing what the three services are doing in the missile field. These were dumped on the desk of propaganda specialist Arthur Lar- son, architect of "Modern Repub- licanism," recently pulled into the White House from the U. S. In- formation Agency. * * * INSIDE the Pentagon, Assistant Defense Secretary Murray Snyder, formerly No. 2 man for White House public relations, directed the search. He called in represen- tatives of the Army, Navy and Air Force and ordered them to pro- duce "scientific accomplishments" for the President's speech. The three services submitted papers that told about achieve- ments already publicized. Snyder showed most interest in the Air Force's "O p e r a t i on Farside," which shot a research rocket into outer space, and tried to goad the Air Force into exaggerating its achievements. Snyder, also pounced upon the. Jupiter nose cone which the Army had recovered after a 3300-mile trip that went 680 miles into outer space. The Army had intended to exhibit the nose cone at the Army Association convention in Wash- ington earlier this month, but Snyder ordered the nose cone held for Ike to unveil on television. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) Stafford, and John Cheever. Of the The New Yorker, at least one- fourth were about children, usually immersed in an adult world of cruelty or despair. * * * TWO of the five stories in this autumn issue of Generation pre- sent children in moments of dis- covery. Each is a delight in its own way. Victor Perera's "David and the Philistines" is worth reading if only to come upon these lines: "I did not kill Christ," David said. He was very mixed up, and he began to wonder if he hadn't killed Christ when he wasn't look- ing. After all, he was always step- ping on ants without knowing it." Padma Hejmadi's "A Child Said, 'What is Grass?'" moves from the Whitman in the title to the Indian world of Santha Rama Rau and a child's discovery of God, in a se- quence of highly jeweled images. OF THE OTHER three stories, I thought David Lowe's "Mamma" very readable in the competent manner of James Gould Cozzens. Poetry is well diversified in the issue. The acrid imagery of Sylvia Camu is balanced by various lyric talents, and especially by the rich intricacy of Nancy Willard's Hop- wood Award poems. As always when perusing the art work in Generation. I regret that no patron appears prepared to finance color reproduction in this deserving campus publication. Black and white is better than none, of course. I found Dorothy Suino's cover and lithograph eye- stopping in a gaunt, strong style. A constant reader of Generation may be dismayed by some of the foregoing remarks. Let me hasten to assure Constant Reader that one of the short stories does drift toward homosexuality. So, Genera- tion is in orbit, and all's right with the world. -Prof. Robert F. Haugh Department of English Weather In Politics NE IS INCLINED to overlook the importance of the weather in politics. In China, everything hangs or falls on the harvest: the people's food, exports the national revenue, taxes, and the means $o repay Soviet aid. The Chinese Communists have been unlucky with their weather, and the 1956 harvest was the worst in living memory. Floods and ty- phoons ravaged 40 million acres north of the Yellow River; 70 mil- lion peasants were close to starva- tion. Another bad harvest this year would shake the Communist re- gime far more than the rightists, Chiang Kai-shek and the combined strength of the anti-Communist world. --David Hotham In "The Reporter" 55 stories in the last collection of LETTERS to the EDITOR Incongruous, To the Editor: THfIS LETTER is written to pub- licly thank Mrs. Ele anor Roosevelt for having played the key role in the liberation from a Siberian labor camp of Mrs. Mon- ika Gaucus, her daughter Rutha, 16, and her son, Romualda, 13. According to front page of The Detroit News of Nov. 11, Mrs. Roosevelt's personal appeal with Mr. Khrushchev has been crowned with success: Mr. Gaucus of Chi- cago, after 11 years of separation, has been reunited with his family, which in 1949 has been deported from Lithuania to Siberia. At thesame time, we wish to voice our amazement at Mrs. Roosevelt's contention, quoted in The Daily of Nov. 9, that "In the 40 years since the Bolshevik Revo- lution, Russia has given her citi- zens more security and material wealth than they have ever known." Onlythe factory workers have seen their living conditions im- prove somewhat in this period; yet in the free countries, the con- current betterment has been ten- fold.. Her statement regarding "se- curity" of the citizens of the USSR is even more flagrantly in- congruous. * * * IN VIEW of Mrs. Roosevelt's own role in freeing Mr. Gaucus' family from a Siberian labor camp, this statement stands out as a most characteristic inconsis- tency to which so many well- intentioned do-gooders are prone. One intelligent explanation for Mrs. Roosevelt's praise of Soviet "security" we do find, however. She might be preparing the ground for asking Mr. Khrush- chev's mercy for a few more out of over 10 million unfortunates who, according to the congressional re- port on slave labor camps in the USSR, and according to an AFL investigation, inhabit the Siberian concentration camps. In this case, but in this case only, we apologize for above re- marks. -Emil Lebedovych Pres., Ukrainian Student Club Robbery . . To the Editor DURING the two months that I have attended this school, I have had ample opportunity to experience its excellent facilities and academic standards. However, equally fast I have be- come aware of the appalling con- ditions which exist here for grad- uate students who are not obliged to live in a dormitory. By now, I picture the "regular" Ann Arbor population as a "regular" collec- tion of crooks and thieves. Not only do they rob the stu- dents with regard to prices of all commodities, the racket in apart- ment houses going on here has proportions for a Senate Investi- gations Committee! Most of these establishment are no more than dumps, for which the most fan- tastic prices are asked. I believe the University is missing the boat here, for a big and modern apartment building on campus for unmarried gradu- ate students, leased at reasonable price, could bring in a fortune -Robert O. Kan, Grad. 1 {. b r' TODAY AND TOMORROW: The Turtle and the Bear IN HIS SPEECH LAST WEEK the President had a long introductory section (over two columns of newspaper print) which was ad- dressed to the irrational fears of the least in- formed part of our people. This is the notion that the Sputniks the Russians have achieved a decisive military superiority. To knock over this straw man the President marshalled a long array of facts which show that as of today we have a powerful military establishment. Then at last, but with the utmost under- statement, he came to the outer edge of the real problem: "I must say to you in all gravity that in spite of the present over-all strength and the forward momentum of our defense, that it is entirely possible that in the years ahead we could fall behind. I repeat: We could fall be- hind--unless we face up to certain pressing re- quirements and set out to meet them promptly." To call this an understatement is itself an understatement. For the indubitable fact is that in the field of the longer range missiles and in the penetration of space, we have fallen behind. The question is not now whether "we could fall behind." It is when and how we can catch up, and the President will never restore the confidence of the people until he gives them the confidence that he is telling them the full truth. 'j k SPEECH SHOWS that the President has _ 'ently been listening to scientists and educators. But the main concern of the authors of the speech was to dampen down and to soothe, rather than to awaken and to arouse, our people. That is why they emphasized the false issue of our present strength and mini- mized, if not worse, the far-reaching signifi- cance of the growing strength of the Soviet Union. What the Russians are demqnstrating is that in the science and the technology which deter- mines the balance of power they have achieved a greater forward momentum than our own. In the race of armaments they have come from behind and are now out in front. This does not mean that they now have a decisive superiority. ALTER LIPPMANN I But it does mean that we are threatened with a growing inferiority, which will be registered and discounted in advance in all the Foreign Offices of the world. Estimates differ as to how great is their lead in missiles and devices for outer space. But their lead is, it would appear, a matter of years -perhaps as much as four to six years. This would mean that even with the utmost acceler- ation that it may be some years before we arrive where they are now. In the meantime most probably they will have moved on. Something similar, though in reverse, has happened here to what happened to nuclear weapons. There we had a lead of several years, and although the Russians began to catch up with us by 1949, there is a good probability that we are still well ahead of them in quality and in quantity. In these technological matters, it is like running to catch up with and to pass someone who is in the lead and running faster than you are. THIS CAN BE DONE. But it cannot be done by government as usual, by business as usual, and by playing all the usual records about how rich and how free and how invincible and how efficient and how lovable we are. We are in a situation which, for us, is entirely unusual, that we may become, as compared with our rival, the weaker power. As long as this is the prospect, we shall have to learn how to.defend ourselves in the world by a wise diplomacy. We must prepare our minds not so much for what is conceivable but improbable, such as a sudden attack on the Pearl Harbor model. We must prepare for what is most probably coming-that the Soviets will have operational missiles capable of neutral- izing the Allied bases in Western Europe and the Middle East. If this comes to pass, there will have been underminded the concept of our foreign policy as conceived under Truman and Acheson and developed by Eisenhower and Dulles. This is the concept of the containment of the Communist states by military encircle- ment in the hope that this will in the end compel them to accept as the terms of a settle- ment the equivalent of an unconditional sur- 5 M AS PAKISTAN SEES IT: Indian Kas hmir Policy Called Double-Faced' (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of three articles discussing the Kashmir problem from the Pakis- tani point of viwe. The current series is a follow-up on a similar treatment of the same problem from the Indian side, which appeared last week. Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan is a University of Michigan-University Press Club Fellow. He was formerly assistant to the New York Times' cor- respondent for Pakistan and Afghan- istan. He resigned as Acting Chief of Press Section, U.S. Information Agen- cy, Karachi, Pakistan, to attend the University. President last year of the Pakistan Students' Association at the University, he now edits the magazine of the Pakistan Students' Association of America and directs the Associa- tion's publicity.) By Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan NOTHING has revealed more glaringly the double-faced for- eign policy of India than her stand on Kashmir. Here is a nation that never tires of preaching to others, poses as a champion of liberty and justice, and masquerades as a paragon of virtue and peace. But when it comes to her own ambitions, forgotten are lofty principles and ripped to shreds are all codes of ethics and fair play. Stripped of the facade of mor- a' ty, naked hypocrisy parades it- , Kashmir, has gone back on her own international committments, and has brazenly kept an army of occupation in Kashmr - defying world opinion and suppressing the will of the Kashmiris them- selves. "Before Mr. Nehru's advice to other peoples on how to run their countries could be very effective," protested the Sunday Times of Perth, Australia, "it is necessary for him to demonsrate that he knows how to run his own. He is handing the mailed fist to Pak- istan." .* * * IN AN editorial entitled "You Too, Brutus," De Gelderlander Pers of Holland wrote: "The vio- lent grab at Kashmir proves Mr. Nehru snaps his fingers at all moral standards preached by him- self if it comes to his own politi- cal aims . . . In the light of this attitude, one can only look upon the great Nehru as a hypocrite." Wrote the New York Times: "Mr. Nehru has been giving us all advice about the solution of conflicts. Evidently he finds it easier to solve problems of the world than one in his own back- yard." penser of advice, 1s on the Kash- mir issue deaf to all arguments." "The annexation of Kashmir," asserted Abadi of Indonesia, "places India on the same level with Soviet Russia." "That hissing sound heard around the world last week," noted Time magazine, "was Jawa- harlal Nehru's reputation deflat- ing." "It is shameful to remember that India is still a member of the Commonwealth," said the weekly Time and Tide. Le Soir of Beirut emphasized: "India stands exposed before the bar, of world opinion. India's Nehru has repeatedly said his country stands for peace, coopera- tion and understanding. This is quite different from what he is doing in Kashmir.' *4 * * "HOW COULD INDIA," asked the German paper Wiesbadener Tageblatt, "act as mediator in in- ternational affairs if she herself disregards the moral and demo- crataic principles which she re- peatedly preaches to the world?" Said the New York Times: "The Indian statements in the United Nations . . . were more than pro- vocative. They were defiant, not "We feel impelled to urge the Pakistanis to be patient once more.. Their case is so strong that it should not be weakened by any thoughtless show of violence. The Security Council has once more indicated the proper course of ac- ion. The United Nations cannot afford to let one member, India, flout that collective will." Why do the Indians shudder and perspire at the very thought of a free vote in Kashmir? Why do the Indians get an acute at- tack of hysteria whenever the Kashmir plebiscite is mentioned? The answer takes us into the realms of history. * * * PRIOR TO the British conquest of India, the subcontinent was ruled by Muslims. When the Mus- lim power began disintegrating, the British, who had obtained a trading charter in 1600, became masters. The Muslims were bru- tally suppressed. Almost immediately, Hindu- Muslim tension developed. The Hindus disliked the Muslims be- cause many of them looked upon Muslims as aliens who conquered India centuries ago and made it their home. Also behind the tension was the 4, 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 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. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 49 General Notices New Women on campus are invited to tea at the Martha Cook Building on Thurs., Nov. 14, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. The Martha Cook building is located on the corner of South University and Tappan Streets.