04r Ar~i gn iUzztg 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 Then Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: JAMES BOW Partisan Potshotting Blurs State's Economic Plight MICHIGAN'S POLITICIANS now have even more ammunition thanks to the recent decision of an air rifle manufacturer to move to Arkansas. Unfortunately, their partisan potshotting is more likely to riddle the battered ship of state I with more holes rather than aim it towards the right course. Among the victims will be all those groups depending on the state for sup- port, including the universities. Once again, the controversy centers around the tax and wage situation in the state. The loss of the 700-employee manufacturing opera- tion is blamed by Republicans on the combina- tioi of high wages, high taxes and the "present uncertainty in the state government." Democrats charge that all this is part of a propaganda campaign to lower wages in the state. LAST SATURDAY night, at a testimonial dinner in honor of Gov. G. Mennen Williams, someDemocrats heard Prof. Haber of the eco- nomics department say taxes are "seldom" the 'basic reason for a firm leaving Michigan. This may please the Democrats; but his statement that excessive Michigan wage rates were a factor in the loss of 700 jobs to the South should not cause any merriment among the UAW-CIO members who are the bulwark of Michigan's Democratic party. However, the University's concern for the present political fracas goes far deeper than after-dinner comments by a professor. For much of the Republican and Democratic exercise in political oratory is merely condition- ing the next legislative session which begins in January. With businessmen thinking taxes are too high, with legislators thinking that firms may be forced out of the state by higher taxes and with the state's income falling short of its needs, it appears evident that appropriations for state supported institutionps will again be checked under a "hold the line" policy. This in turn may Tribute to Inte SELDOM IN recent years has any project at the University been carried out with the success that last week's International Week enjoyed. The Week was significant if for no other reason-than that almost everything went according to plan, but its accomplishments are far more important than just that. Perhaps the most important aspect of the Week is that a great many international stu- dents worked with a large number of American students toward a common goal. The Week could not have been carried off by any one group on campus. It required extensive co- operation between students and between organi- zations from the planning stage to its comple- tion For example, the Union, the League, SGC, the International Student's Association, IFC, IHC, Assembly, PanHel, the University Christian Federation and other organizations contributed to the success of International Week. The two lecturers, Carl Sandburg and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt were well chosen speakers. Both were qualified to address the University- Sandburg because of the work he has done on the "Family of Man," the theme of Interna- tional Week, and Mrs. Roosevelt because of her long experience in the United Nations and world politics. It was unfortunate that the speaker from the Polish Embassy was not brought to campus. He certainly could have done much to make the selection of speakers international, both in view and in fact. Even though he was not mean, as recently suggested by a key legislator, that tuition fees could (shudder) rise again, It's a complex situation with many factors, but the political hot air only clouds the clear vision needed to find an effective solution to the state's financial problems. By stirring up charges and counter charges, the political potshotters, including the Demo- cratic governor of the state and the Republican Speaker of the House are helping create a con- fusion of attitude in which the facts and the state's best interests become secondary to politi- cal expediency. UNFORTUNATELY, what really seems to matter is not if taxes are high enough to moni- tarily hurt Michigan firms, but whether busi- nessmen think they are. Nor is it important that companies might actually find it profitable to move out of the state if taxes are raised, but rather whether legislators have the impression they would. Some hope is seen in the form of a study com- mittee under the chairmanship of Prof. Harvey Brazer of the economics department which is examining the effects of taxes on state business. The report, however, will not be ready for the Legislature until the 1959 session and until then, the steps of the state capitol will continue to be soiled by political mud. Perhaps it's even expecting too much that when the report .is finally finished, it will be examined not through the eyes of partisan interests, but with concern for the entire state. When groups as important to the nation's strength as institutions of higher education are affected by .the political sparring, it be- comes a game the state and country can no longer afford. If the leaders of both parties are unwilling to rise above their political blindness in exam- ining Michigan's economic plight, they must stand ready to accept the blame for this state's decline. -MICHAEL KRAFT rnational Week invited, one and possibly two more speakers should have been included in the Week's pro- gram. THE SUCCESS of the dinners, teas, coffee hours and desserts in the residence halls, fraternities and sororities varied from house to house but the idea behind them was good. Getting to meet American students on an in- formal basis has always been a problem for international students, whose purpose for study- ing in the United States is as much to meet and learn about Americans as to study. These affairs provide many opportunities for further meetings between students. From an attendance and participation point of view, the World's Fair Friday night was the outstanding accomplishment of International Week. World's Fairs have been hel'd at the University before but they have all been failures as far as reaching the campus. They were held in small buildings with only a few people par- ticipating. This World's Fair, however, was so large and successful that even the two floors of the Union reserved for it proved too small to accommodate all those who wanted to attend. Undeniably this year's International Week was a success-both from the standpoint of having had many people attend and from the far more important aspect of the spirit of cooperation which arose, both between campus organizations and between international and American students. It was a fine effort and well worthy of repetition in the years to come. -IHILIP MUNCK "It's Just A Matter Of Space" /S "AA - ltI% 'WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Adams Expected To Bow Out By DREW PEARSON ) Jr To The Editor No-Exclusion Policy . To The Editor: ALLOW ME a few comments concerning Barton Huthwaite's front page news item and his editorial of Oct. 31 dealing with total rushing opportunity here at Williams: To begin on the positive side, Mr. Huthwaite is absolutely colrect that such a system could never operate on a large campus such as the University. As an Ann Arbor resident of some 10 years, I have had more than ample opportunity to come into complete agreement with this conclusion. On the other hand, there seems to be abroad a rather significant i. DON'T BE SURPRISED if still another member of the famed "Eisenhower Team" steps out of harness in the not too distant future. He is "assistant president" Sherman Adams, one of the most powerful men in Washington. Adams is powerful because of FEisenhower absenteeism and dele- gation of authority. As a result. relations with Congress, and, con- tacts with every agency of govern- ment except the State Department operate through Adams. Every cabinet member except John Foster Dulles is asked to stop in Adam's office after a talk with the President and dictate a memo regarding the points he took up with Ike and what was agreed to. For, in the long run, it's Adams who carries out any commitments made by the President-or in some cases reverses presidential com- mitments. * * * THE TOP ASSISTANT to any President is important, but never in the years I have covered Wash- ington has any man been given such leeway in the White House as the dry, efficient, square-dancing ex-governor of New Hampshire. However, Adams is now being made the. scapegoat for missile- satellite 'failures, has rubbed Vice- President Nixon the wrong way, and has pulled wires wholesale in the independent agencies. If the Moulder watchdog committee ever gets the files from these commis- sions, supposed to be quasi-judi- cial, independent agencies, it will be seen that, instead of answering the will of the people, they have been answering the will of Sher- man Adams. So, along with other members of the palace guard dominating the Washington scene for five years, the tight-lipped Assistant President is expected to leave Washington quietly for the pine- forested hills of New gIampshire. Note-It is rumored around the White House that Alger Chapman, a Dewey partner, will replace Adams. When contacted by this column, Chapman said no one around the White House had talked to him. Edward N. Gadsby, the Boston lawyer who now heads the Securi- ties and Exchange Commission, doesn't like to be investigated by Congress. His job is to investigate Wall Street, to see whether it's on the up-and-up. But he just doesn't like having Congress investigate him to see whether his commis- sion's on the up-and-up. WHEN THE Moulder Committee tried to ascertain whether SEC commissioners had received any favors from corporations they are supposed to regulate, Chairman Gadsby really reared back on his back bay dignity. Joe Conlon, investigator for the Moulder Committee, had previous- ly asked SEC commissioners for a list of 'all correspondence be- tween the SEC and the White House and with members of Con- gress. He was looking, among other things, for the hand that rocks the SEC cradle-Sherman Adams. For -in Washington, it's said: "The Adams hand that rocks the cradle is mightier than the Eisenhower hand that wields the sword." "May I ask you, sir, whether you prepared such a list?" Conlon asked, "No," shrugged Gadsby. "Do you intend to prepare such a list?" asked Conlon. "No," said Gadsby. Noticing a stenographer busily taking notes, Conlon demanded: "Is there a transcript of this meeting being taken?" Gadsby replied "No," and the stenographer abruptly stopped writing. "If there is," continued Conlon, "I would like a copy of the re- marks made." "There is no stenographer," re- peated the SEC boss. "Then may we have'a stenogra- pher?" suggested Conlon. "I would like a stenographer." * * * "We don't provide that sort of thing," barked Gadsby. "With an appropriation of $300,- 000, I think they can provide their own stenographer," broke in SEC counsel Dan McCauley. "Perhaps we should adjourn un- til I can get a steographer, and we can meet tomorrow," offered Conlon. "I don't know whether thef Com- mission will be willing to meet you tomorrow," siorted Gadsby. "The Commission is not going to submit to an inquisition.", (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) misconception regarding the means There has been in the past few years a good deal of agitation for liberalization of the rushing pro- gram here. This year's Senior class will be the first to have gone all the way through school under a deferred rushing setup, u n d e r which students rush in their soph- omore year, the week before fresh- man orientation begins. Last spring, the administration announced a Trustees decision to end hazing of pledges. Student dis- cussion of many phases of liber- alizing fraternities has been in- tense, and many pamphlets have, been printed on the subject. * * * IN THE LITTLE over a year that I have been here, such events have occurred as a very extensive College Council committee report on racial discrimination in rush- ing, a proposal to buy the frater- nity houses and make assignments of students to the 15 social units thus created, and reiteration by the Trustees of their insistence that all chapters must be free to elect members on the basis of per- sonal merits-and requirement of a report from the house presidents on this matter during second semester of this year. Contrary to all reports that seem to have reached the press no arbi- trary body entered into the matter in any way. It was a simple matter of the houses working the question out within themselves until finally the last man was picked up. At no time was any house pressured by any person outside its member- ship and pledge class to pledge any of the 15 men eligible to be picked up. The factors causing houses to pick men up are too many and varied to detail here, but the most important seems to have been an intense desire for total oppor- tunity. As can be seen, the chances of continuing this depend almost entirely upon the hope that a significant precedent has been set; under the conditions which prevail here at Williams, this is a very well-founded hope. * * ,* THE ESSENTIAL point here is that no arbitrary group and no invasion of the houses' rights of selecivity has existed in any way. Perhaps, then, a word is in order as to why a no-exclusion policy could not work at Michigan. To begin, there does not exist at Michigan the situation which exists here, whereby virtually all social life is centered around the fraternity. Indeed, less than 10 per cent of the student body is generally outside of fraternities altogether. Moreover, while the fifteen houses here are perfedtly capable of feeding their 40-and-up mem- bers (though not usually able to house over half of them), neither housing nor feeding the some 600 non-pledged rushees would be at all feasible at Michigan. -John Woodruff Sigma Phi, Williams College by which this was achieved here. AT THE CAMPUS: Italian .Fun At Its Best VITTORIO DE SICA is on the rampage again. The long trail of leers and innuendoes which be- gan with Bread, Love, and Dreams has been continued in Scandal in Sorrento, now at the Campus. The debonair Commandant is now the chief of the Metropolitan Guard of Sorrento. His latest bosom friend is Miss Sophia Loren, an actress of sufficient stature to 1111 the tradition of the rOle she is called upon to play. Now this sort of role is not of the sort usually associated with the loves of the protectors of the public morality. So much for the scandal. So much for the plot. Beyond this the beautiful world of Sorrento is full of voluptuous women, passionate men, and grumblingdcitizens. Put together these produce some of the most delightfully hypocritical, sophisti- cated slapstick since Moliere. DE SICA'S posturing is superb, from his courtship of his saintly landlady (whom he perceives as a "neurotic sensualist") to his demagoguery as police chief and back to his poetical courtship of the voluptuous Sophia. Seldom has charming hypocrisy been more beautifully characterized. And Sophia herself is highly successful as a comedienne of sex. Her mambo is about as explicit as comedy can be, and if the rest of part does not even require her to change her name, so much the better. This comic ability does not stop here. Every bit player seems to be as good as the stars and out to prove it. Nor does the humor ever lag badly. If there are any faults in the movie, they are in the mis- leading title and the occasionally poor sound dubbing. But double meanings come through beauti- fully. With these actors, even when then cannot be heard, they can be seen. THIS GENERAL competence is much more than usually fills the Cinemascope screen. Buy beyond this it is filled with good photog- raphy, beautiful scenery, and in- triguing appearing blondes, bru- nettes, and redheads. Too often movies of this sot have lost their appeal before their ending. But here again Scandal in Sorrento succeeds, roaring through to an ending that is a classic of humor. And if anyone is worried, the Commandant is left in a posi- tion where one can hope all this will happen again. -Bob Tanner 'Merger A UNION MERGER between the scandal-ridden Teamsters and the racket-infested International Longshorement's Association is in the talking stage. ILA President William Bradley is passing word to bosses of his locals that alliance is set for "about six months" after the Teamsters are expelled from the AFL-CIO for corruption. -Time DAILY I 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. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 50 General Notices The following student sponsored so- cial events are approved for the com- ing weekend. Nov. 15: Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Theta Phi, Phi Delta Phi, Wenley. Nov. 16: Alpha Chi Sigma, Alpha Ep- silon Phi Alnha Ensilon Pi, Alpha Kan- } 1- t 4_ STRUGGLE BETWEEN MUSLIMS, HINDUS: Creation of State of Pakistan Recounted 4- INTERPRETING THE NEWS:. Mobilization for War By J. M. 4OBERTS Associated Press News Analyst THE UNITED STATES is busily reminding Russia there is a difference between a rocket that can launch a satellite somewhere in space and planes which are gassed-up and bombed-up ready to pinpoint targets in nonstop flights around the globe. Ready are the huge jets which can circle the globe nonstop, with the aid of tanker-planes which can meet them 8,000 miles from their own home bases. Those are for massive retalia- tion. Ready are the so-called light bombers, able to enter "brush wars" 8,000 nonstop miles away in 17 hours. Ready are the atomic stockpiles. E AMERICAN Secretary of Commerce tells the business community it must support a "less butter and more guns" federal budget. "The Soviet Union's sensational exploits in satellites have posed the most serious challenge of this tension-wracked age," he says. NATO is worried about Russia's big sub- marine fleet, and her extensive effort to develop an ocean-going surface fleet at a time when the rest of the world pays little attention to surface fleets. The Soviet fleet is already re- ported to be larger than Britain's and second only to the United States. President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan of Britain hope to arrange, through NATO, a great centralized military science effort. THE PHYSICAL MEANS of the world are ' being mobilized for war.' In a tiny enclave on Manhattan Island, owned by. 82 nations, delegates to the United Nations are still talking about disarmament. The great powers which came to stalemate on the subject in London last summer are being urged to try again. Russia said she wouldn't talk any more in a meeting where she was outnum- bered 4-1. She asked the 82 nations to form a disarmament committee-of-the-whole. The Western powers carried their point that (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the second in a series of three articles dealing with the Kashmir -problem from the Pakistani point of view. The Author was president of cam- pus chapter of the Pakistani Stu- dents of America last year, when he attended the University. He is pres- ently editor of the Association's magazine and director of publicity.) By Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan DESPITE the persistent efforts of men of good will of both the communities, the Hindu-Mus- lim tension in India continued to grow. Outnumbered three to one, the Muslims were discriminated against in education, service, jobs, and business and were invariably the victims when religious riots flared up - a phenomenon which became very common as inde- pendence neared. As long ago as 1900, a Muslim leader, Nawab Viqar - ul - mulk wrote:-"The manner in which Muslim rights are being trampled upon, and attack3d from all sides, it is becoming impossible for the Muslims to be mere passive ob- servers." * * * DISCRIMINATION and riots against the Muslims continued; in 1906, the Muslim League was formed to try to safeguard their rights. In 1916, it came into an Dr. Suhrawardy said in a note to the Simon Commission in 1930: "No Muslim ever got into the Imperial or Provincial Councils by election except in the rarest of instances." The Government of India Act of 1935 brought autonomy to In- dian provinces and the Congress Party came in power in most of them. Discrimination against the Muslims continued and their fears were aroused that, in-independent India, their rights, culture, their very existence would be in jeo- pardy. In 1940, the Muslim League demanded the creation of a separ- ate state formed of territories in India where the Muslims were in a majority. This demand was made as a last resort; previously the Muslims had gone along with the Hindus. In fact, the man who conceived of Pakistan, a Kashmiri Muslim- Iqbal, had written: "Religion does not preach religious hatred and intolerance. We are all Indians and India is our motherland." And the man who led the Muslims to Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, belonged formerly to the Congress Party and left it only when he was disillusioned. * * * INITIALLY, .the Hindus and T~nifc7 vti~rnonrt fhnrlmm .,,_717 _" had 40 million Muslims - seven per cent of the population. Pakis- tan, population 83 million, had 10 million Hindus-12 per cent. Mr. Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, told the Parliament: "You may be- long to any religion or caste or creed-that has nothing to do with the fundamental principle that we all are equal citizens of one State. ... With that as our ideal, you will find that Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, but in the political sense as citizens of the State." Hostility toward Muslims then took the form of Indian hostility toward Pakistan. It had been de- cided that Pakistan would get one- fifth of the assets of British India. Yet Pakistan's share of military supplies hasn't been given even now. Pakistan's share of money was also at first denied; it was finally given only when Mr. Gandhi un- dertook a fast-unto-death to pro- test India's injustice. Shortly after, he was shot dead by a Hindu. * * C AFTER THE :zair-raising blood- bath of 1947, when five million Hindus fled Pakistan and eight million Muslims fled India, calm has prevailed in Pakistan. Since 1950 there has not been a single _, _,___ _,2 c+ ,_ n+ 7 ._birfn Tv% Tn - states ruled by maharajahs were given the option to remain in- dependent or join India or Pakis- tan, depending on the religion of the peo'ple, the-geography and the economy. In this way, all 600 states joined India or Pakistan. Disputes arose over Hyderabad, Junagadh, Ma- navadar, and Kashmir. Hyderabad had a Muslim ruler but Hindu majority. The ruler w i s h e d independence, but on friendly terms with India and Pakistan. He offered a plebiscite to determine the people's wishes. But the Indian army attacked it from three sides and, after five days of fighting, Hyderabad sur- rendefed. Hyderabad's appeal to the UN is still on General As- sembly agenda. * * * JUNAGADH and Manavadar had Muslim rulers and Hindu populations. They joined' Pakis- tan. India protested and Pakistan entered into negotiations with In- dia to solve the issues. But India suddenly attacked and took both states. Kashmir had a Hindu ruler but 77 per cent of its people were Mus- lims. All of Kashmir's rivers flow- ed into Pakistan. But the ruler imported Hindu gangs to terrorize #.ha W1ierli4m wla hanrmann.A ar t :4' y. r I a 4