"But I Was So Careful To Keep It Safe" 00 A10010gan Daily 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 ...4. ..16 Opinions Are Free h Will Prevail" CHORAL UNION SERIES: War field Displays Outstanding Artistry WILLIAM WARFIELD'S recital in Hill Auditorium last night proved to be one of the vocal highlights of my concert-going in Ann Arbor during the last three years. He possesses a very fine, rich baritone voice of amplitude and suavity, which he uses with great subtlety and nuance. It is obvious that Warfield is a serious and mature artist who is very sincere in his approach to his art. For such a young man, he searches deep into the music he performs and reveals the whole mean- ing of the texts in his interpretation. The recitalist is in a peculiar position where he needs to comet- nicate a-great variety of meanings from song to song. This poses very serious problems for the singer which are overcome only by the great- itorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. X, NQVEMBER 27, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN WEICHER What Have You, To Be Thankful For? ER THE FIRST ten weeks of school, ere probably is not one of us attending rniversity who is not glad to be going . or. otherwise getting four days of com- ve rest over the Thanksgiving vacation. at matter if the trains are crowded, plane tight, and taxis impossible to get and t impossible to pay for. Those that are home are willing to put up with all these veniences. And those that are staying care hat Ann Arbor will seem like a compara- host town. the things we have become wary of in ast few years are the exhortations to be ful which accompany the Thanksgiving 1. se reminders come from various sources, t seems to me that the exhortations all asize what each source thinks important. its emphasize the importance of being ful for our denocracy, pastors emphasize nportance of being thankful to God and educators emphasize the importance of being thankful for the fine education we re- Cive. TH SO MANY others stressing thankful- ness, we, tend to avoid it ourselves. If we think of it at all while we are eating our, Thanksgiving dinner or watching the TV foot- ball game afterwards, we have an inclination to dismiss everything as being either not worth being thankful for, or, as mentioned above, too cliched to be worth reiterating. But why? The only ones that can really say what we are thankful for are ourselves, and to pass up the chance- to evaluate what we are thankful for is to pass up a chaInce to see what is worthwhile to us. No cliche should be a cliche when applied to us personally, and we should know what is important in our lives. This vacation is only four days long and much has to be squeezed into it. But there should still be time for an honest consideration of for what, exactly, we are thankful. -LANE VANDERSLICE) 1'' I META 'If It Doesn't Af feet Me. - - F':8 f--Q t!-7r9r'7 1" tr' ' 4 1 tr.c T'Ont Pds " c a, 0 " PON LEAVING campus today, many stu- dents will take their first step into the 'out- ' world since September. On campus, these lents live a life of oblivion. Well, not entire- The 24 hour day is taken up with classes, ng, sleeping, studying and perhaps dating . life goes on unwitnessed in the 'outside' ld. Everyone seems concerned over the thy of students but few realize this may be. ta result of the atmosphere of today's cam- 'e world for many students IS the Univer- campus, everything else is as remote as sar's Rome. "The Russians-sent up anoth- moon" or "It is snowing today" - both unents seem to receive the same amount of busiasm. Statements such as "Boy, did I ch on- my econ exam" or "Guess who I'm ng out with Saturday?" seem to express the in concern of students. Few read the news- era and less listen to news on the radio. urally there are notable exceptions, but the lority of the students fall into this category. 'heir day begins at 7:55 a.m. when they ultaneously comb their hair and tear across te Street to an English class. Breaks be- en classes are Spent sleeping, studying, or alizing. The day ends at supper and an ning of study looms ahead. With calculus blems, Emerson's "C o m p e n s a t i o n," or ud's "Analysis .of Dreams" to plow through, > has time to read the headlines about idle-East tensions or Ike's budget? Besides t knowledge won't help one pass tomorrow's m so why waste time? A news broadcast es only five minutes, but one can study more easily to music. A study break to listen to serious matters defeats the purpose. A RECENT SURVEY conducted at Indiana University fo'und that 10 per cent of the freshmen and sophomores didn't know Russia had launched a 'moon' satellite. Everyone would like to think that University of Michigan stu- dents are better informed, but the percentage of those who have actually thought about it or are particularly concerned is probably very lw. Why are students oblivious to the outside world, and why is the news that does filter into this 'isolation booth' met with the same reaction as a lesson in history? This seems to be the very nature of a college campus today. Everyone is' concerned with his own private life and has little time to worry about others or the world at large. His main concern at the moment is tomorrow's classes or this semester's grades. For the first time, many students realize that the only person -who really is concerned about their future, their grades and their so- cial adjustment is themselves. The individual is concerned with himself and has little time to wonder about the world. The future of the entire world or of society seems remote in comparison to the future of the in- dividual student. This may be the reason for the apathy seen in the student of today. It ex- tends even to campus activities such as stu- dent government. Until the student is made conscious of the importance of the outside world this apathy will continue. A prevailing attitude among the student body seems to be- "If it doesn't directly affect me at the moment, why bother?" -DIANE FRASER WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Heat on Defense Department By DREW ?EARSON est artists in this field. It is there- fore encouraging to report that Warfield has come a long way to- ward fulfilling this very subtle role. Warfield's voice is not an ex- ceptionally large one, but he is capable of a good deal of grada- tion in dynamics. By means of his excellent projection and diction he is able to fill such large halls as Hill Auditoriuin.i * * * - ALL THINGS considered, this voice is one of the truly beautiful instruments of our time. There- fore, it is unfortunate that he is not using it perfectly. Signs of strain appear in the top notes, es- pecially when he sings loudly. In long, sustained passages a de- cided tremolo appears which can only be attributed to effort. Also, the voice is at times drawn back too far into the throat, which causes a binding quality and throatiness to appear. The program opened with a group of late 17th and' early 18th century songs by Handel, Lully, and Bach. The first Handel aria, "Thanks Be To Thee" from Israel in Egypt found the artist employ- ing excellent dynamic shadings and superb English diction. A GERMAN group followed, in which two songs of the little known 19th century composer, Loewe, were sung. The first of these, "Suesses Begrabnis" was an eloquently sung lullaby; the see- ond, "Hochzeitlied," a cheerful and lively drinking song. In this last work, Warfield revealed his excellent acting talents, vocal and visual. Three songs from Schubert's lovely cycle, "Die Schoene Muel- lerin" continued this group. All of them are familiar and all re- ceived fine performances. Perhaps the finest moment of the recital was the performance -of "Unge- duld" in this group. * * * THE RECITATIVE and aria "Infelice e tuo credevi" from the second act of Verdi's Ernani closed the first part of the program. This is a bass aria which taxes the range of most singers assigned to the role of Silva. Mr. Warfield has the range, but signs of strain at the, top and gruffness at the very bottom did not help his excellent interpretation. The second half of the programj began with a group of Old Amer- ican Songs arranged by Aaron Copland. The songs were interest-j ing and very nicely sung. The pro- gram closed with a group of spiri-1 tuals in which Mr. Warfield has undertaken to take over the mantle of Roland Hayes and Marian Anderson. He has all the necessary qualifications for this honor. --Robert Jobe WASHINGTON - Congressmen Dan Flood of Pennsylvania and Robert Sikes of Florida, both Democrats, chewed out high De- fense Department officials like Marine sergeants training recruits at Parris Island when they heard about some of the lags in the sat- ellite-missile program. The public was barred from the two-day, electric-charge sessions. However, here are some of the things the congressmen heard which made them indignant. The United States was produc- ing four Thor intermediate ballis- tic missiles per month, when Eisenhower economy cut it down to two. When Pennsylvania's Dan Flood heard this, he looked as if he were going to jump down Defense Sec- retary McElroy's throat. He looked even more' explosive when he learned that Russia was already producing and had stockpiled sev- eral thousand IRBM's. * * * WHILE IT'S true that Russia's intermediate missiles travel only 800 miles as against our range of 1500 miles, the Russian range i ample to knock out all our Stra- tegic Air Command bases over- seas. Furthermore, they have mis- siles, we don't. By pointing 25 missiles at each U.S. base and firing them simul- taneously, the Russians could knock our bases out in Turkey, Italy, Libya, and western Europe. At least one missile out of 25 would be sure to hit. And one mis- sile is enough to blow a base into smithereens. These SAC bases are for the purpose of carrying war to the heart of Russia. They are offen- sive bases, from which we would launch bomber attacks. These are the much-publicized attacks Pres- ident Eisenhower has been talk- ing about in his chin-up television broadcasts. Yet, according to the informa- tion given secretly to the House Armed Services Committee, these bases are now almost valueless - thanks to Russians superior missile development and to our compla- cency. "We are so far behind," ex- claimed Congressman Sikes, "that it may cause some of our Allies to panic." Secretary of Defense McElroy nodded in agreement. * * * CONGRESSMAN Dick Wiggles-- worth, the sober Milton, 'Mass., Republican, disagreed, however. So did- GOP Congressman Errett Scrivner, whose district embraces the stockyards of Kansas City, Kans. They defended the Administra- tion, argued that the situation was not as dangerous as it seemed, that the Russian Sputnik had no defensive implications, and that the United States couldn't have got ahead any faster even had it spent extra money. However, even they had a hard time defending the second amaz- ing revelation, namely that, the Defense Department had known five months in advance that Rus- sia was going to launch its Sput- nik, didn't let the Army put its six satellites at Huntsville, Ala., into the air first. *' * * DR. EDWARD. TELLER, father of the H-bomb, has recommended flatly " against building a moon rocket as a "scientific stunt." Called in by the White House to review the moon rocket proposals, he decided none of them looked promising enough to justify the expense, suggested holding up construction of a moon rocket un- til more basic research problems are solved. - This appears to put Teller in about the same position as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, who was de- nied a government security clear- ance because he hung back against producing the hydrogen bomb. Teller testified against Op- penheimer. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) 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-' toral responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 pm. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 61 General Notices Regents' Meeting: Fri., Dec. 13. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the President'o hands not later than Dec. 4. German Department. Please continue to use Tappan Hall addresses for Ger- man Department staff. Announcement will be-.made when Frieze Building ad- dresses and phone numbers will be ef- fective. An students who expect education, aeid training allowance under Publi Law 550 (Korea G. I. Bill)- or Puli.- Law 634 (Orphans' Bill) must turn in- structors si g nat ur e form (Deans Monthly Certification) in to Dean's of-, fice by 5:00 p.m. Wed., Nov. 27. Women's Hours. women students have 11:00 p.m. permission on Tues., Nov. 26 and Wed., Nov. 27. Library Hours during Thanksgiving vacation. The General Library and all -divisional libraries will be closed on Nov. 28, Thanksgiving Day. The Gen- real Library and divisional libraries, with the exception of the Medical Li- brary. will be closed Sat., Nov 30. There willbe no Sunday Service on bec. 1, except in the Medical Library. The General Library will be open on Wed., Nov. 27, and on Fri., Nov. 29, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. All units within the building will be open on their reg- ular schedules Fri., with the exception of the Graduate Reading Rooms which will be open 9 a.m.-12m., 1-5 p.m., and the Map Room which will be closed. Divisional Libraries will be closed Wed. evening. Most of the divisional li- braries will be open on short schedules on Fri., Nov. 29. Schedules will be post- ed on the doors. Phone Ext. 3184 for in- formation. The Scandinavian Seminar for Cul- tural Studies is offering a year's study in 1958-59 in Norway, Sweden, or Den- mark for professional people with an - interest in education, college graduates, and undergraduates who wish to spend their Junior Year abroad. Students will live with Scandinavian families while becoming acquainted with the lan- guages and customs of the country and then will spend 22 weeks at one of the residential colleges in the coun- try. The cost of study for the year, in- cluding travel, is approximately $1500; however, ten scholarships and scholar- ship loans will be given in 1958-59. The deadline for applying is April 1, 1958 although applications received before Jan. 1, 1958 will be given priority. Ad- mission applications and more informa- tion may be obtained in the Office of the Graduate School. The Institute of International Eiu cation has announced foreign study -grants available for the year 1958-59. Awards will be granted to the following countries: Austria, Brazil. Cuba, Den- mark, England, France, Germany, Iran, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Student may apply for inulbright Travel Grants (travel only) inconj unction with some of these awards. Students In the fields of phys- ics, chemistry, mathematics, and met- allurgy will be considered for supple- mentary grants-in-aid if they are sue- cessful in the competitions for the various awards. The deadline for apply- ing for most of the awards is Jan. 15, 1958. Further - information about these grants may be obtained in the Office of the Graduate School. Professional Qualification Test -,Na- tional, Security Agency: Application blanks for the Dec. 7, 1957 administra- tion of the Professional Qualification Test are now available at 122 Rackham building. completed, applications must be received in Princeton, New Jersey on or before Nov. 30, 1957. Lectures Readings by members of the English Department. "Archy, Mr. Dooley, and other Hidden Persuaders." Assistant Prof, Eric W. Stockton will read selec- tions from Don Marquis, Finley Peter -Dunne, and other Twentieth-century American humorists on Tues., Dec. 3, at 4:10 p.m. in Aud. A, Angell Hall. All interested persons invited. The English Journal Club presents "Literature in an Age of Social Sci- ence," an exchange of ideas between Prof. Roger W. Heyns, Department of Psychology and Prof. Norman E. Nelson. Department of English Language and Literature, on Tues., Dec. 3. at 8:00 p.m. in the East Conference Room, Rackham. Films A 30-minute color film, "Life in the Netherlands," will be shown at-the In- ternational Center, Tues., Dec. 3, at 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. The film is sponsored by the International Center in cooperation with Netherlands-American University Fellowship. Concerts Stanley Quartet, Gilbert Ross. first violin, Gustave Rosseels, second violin, Robert Courte, viola, and Oliver Edel, cello, will perform the second program in the current semester at 8:30 p.m. Tues., Dec. 3, in Rackham Lecture Hall. 9. fI .A :L I a,. k 'Vr INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Russian Genius in the West By THOMAS P. WHITNEY Associated Press Foreign News Analyst TH SCIENCE GENIUSES Russia possesses today have startled the world with Sputniks and other firsts, but the geniuses Russia lost through emigration have made enormous con- tribution to Western progress. Talented people born in Russia who left home to settle in the West and become leaders in science, business, culture and politics are num- erous.enough to staff several Manhattan Pro- jects and scores of business and artistic organi- zations. They are men and women who instead of working for the Soviet government, as they would have had to do had they remained in their native country, have worked efficiently and in many cases brilliantly in such countries as America and Israel. RUSSIA'S LOSS was the West's gain. The big names among them are world-famous: Igor Sikorsky and Alexander P. de Seversky in air- craft design and development; Selman Waks- man and Chaim Weizmann in science; Serge Koussevitsky, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rach- maninoff in music; David Sarnoff in business; David Ben-Gurion in politics; David Dubinsky and Sidney Hillman in labor. There are just a few. And beyond the big names there is literally 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 ROSE PERLBERG..................Activities Editor CAROL PRINS ........ Associate Personnel Director JAMESu AAn . .nOrts Editor an army of Russian-born people in the West, particularly in the field of science, who though they are scarcely known to the public are recog- nized by authorities as leaders in their special- ties. More than any one other single man, Rus- sianborn Dr. Vladimir Zworykin was responsible for development of modern television. He head- ed from 1929 to 1954 the electronics research of RCA, a company headed by Russian-born David Sarnoff. He personally developed the system of electronic scanning which made modern TV possible. Zworykin, born in Murom in central Russia in 1889, came, like many other Russians, to the United States after the Bolshevik Revo- lution. RUSSIAN-BORN SCIENTISTS played impor- tant roles in development of the atom bomb. Prof. George Kistiankowsky of Harvard is an example. A brilliant physical chemist, he is an expert on explosions. He is chairman of the chemistry section of the National Academy of Sciences and has received national citations for his work as a weaponeer. Kistiankowsky fought with anti-Communist forces in the civil war in Russia and came to the United States in 1926. Prof. George Gamow is responsible for work- ing out the theory of nuclear disintegration for the Manhattan Project, in which he was a theoretical consultant. Russian-born scientists are prominent in aerodynamics and chemistry. The little country of Israel is particularly wealthy in Russian-born chemists who are carrying on the outstanding work of Israel's late President Chaim Weizmann, discoverer of a process for manufacture of acetone which played a key role in World War I. Now working at the Weizmann Institute are such outstanding chemists as Weizmann's sister, Anna, the brothers Aaron and Ephraim Kachal- ski, Isaac Kalugai and a recent escapee from Hungary, Russian-born Dr. R. Pauncz. They LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Political Activities, Housing Draw Comment S Still With Us .. . To The Editor: THE Political Issues Club wishes to thank David Tarr publicly for his excellent editorial in Sun- day's Daily, concerning the void of public discussions and activities on this campus. We know that his comments about our group were meant in a constructive manner and we sincerely appreciate his ef- forts on our behalf. But we do feel that he was somewhat premature in lamenting our demise. The lack of an immediate fol- lowup has been due neither to or- ganizational difficulties nor lack of enthusiasm, but to the simple problem of scheduling meetings in a period already occupied by many potentially competing events. Many of the suggestions for fu- ture topics of discussion have al- ready been considered by our pro- gram committee; in fact, speakers are being contacted for early pre- sentation in the first two areas suggested in your editorial. * * * WHILE WE therefore feel that the "tragedy of the Political Issues Club" is an overstatement, to say the least, we would like to take this opportunity not only to second Mr. Tarr's call for more active dis- cussion of basic social issues, but to suggest that concern be rein- forced by action. As in any organization, we have a basic need for people willing to do the all-important work con- cerned with publicity, member- ship, and programming. It is this day to day work which can re- tertaining, indeed. And the com- plaints we have all heard about the squalor of off-campus housing, and what some observers may whimsically describe as "The Rob- bing Merchant League" appear to have new relevance. Some think that Ann Arbor's business people and property own- ers live prosperously by charging high prices and exacting exorbi- tant rents, that Ann Arbor towns- men are in a great league dedi- cated to cozening all students they meet. Whether this is really altogether true or not may be a matter for some reflection; but it is pleasant to think we are victims of a con- spiracy to rob us of our money, for then Ann Arbor could belong to the charming tradition found in other university communities. As long ago as 1577, William Harrison wrote in his Description of England in Shakespeare's Youth much the same thing that we are hearing about today: * * * ' THIS ALSO is certain, that the the townsmen of both (Ox- for and Cambridge) are glad when they may match. and an- noy the students, by encroaching upon their liberties, and keep them bare by extreme sale of their wares, whereby many of j them become rich for a time, but afterward fall again into pov- erty, because that goods evil gotten do seldom long endure. If there are such unpleasant wrongdoers in this community, FUB Exchange . . To the Editor: I'M A STUDENT at the Univer- sity of Michigan. I have Univer- sity student government, Univer- sity living quarters, University food service, University entertain- ment, and especially University homework. What do I care what happens to the outside world; it just doesn't work into my time budget. This seems to be the representa- tive opinion of the University stu- dent - at least as held by some of our Studeit Government Coun- cil representatives: the relations between Ann Arbor and Berlin will be severed pending SGC de- cision. After two large feature articles on the values and opportunities of the Free University of Berlin ex- change program and much' thought, I was convinced of its merits; Saturday, to my dismay, I noticed a microscopic article in The Daily stating that applica- tions for the FUB program will be made available pending SOC de- cision whether to continue the program. * * * THE PURPOSE of this program is to promote better interhational understanding - a thing so des- perately needed at this very mo- ment. The value of the program is inestimable. The exchanged student is placed in a site which is geographically tangent to the Communist world and is uniquely and compactly renresentative of the ideologica1 cellent educational methods of the Europeans. The United States is healing some old war scars and growing in their place strong, vigorous tissues of friendship. The student world is gaining closer c o-o p e r a t i o n among its members and tending toward a universality of knowl- edge and problem solving - social necessities that can't be solved by any form of the rampant technol- ogy; it is giving -recognition to those suppressed students who had the raw courage and the throbbing ambition to rise above and conquer the usurpers of their freedoms; it is building tomor- row's world governors. The free world is benefitting by this cementing of relationships between the United States and Germany: picture the power of a close cooperation between the U.S. and Germany - their combined scientific ability and knowledge; their combined economic stability; their'combined industrial produc- tivity. AS PROF. POLLOCK stated, "Germany is our most powerful ally." We can profit much from her strength and learn much from her methods. In a day when scientists are cry- ing for, exchange, how can SGC conceive of smashing such a po- tentially powerful program as this? Who can sanely say such a program is not worthwhile, or the University student is not getting his money's worth? Are we losing our values? V y. /'