Sixty-Eighth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN hen Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MIcH. * Phone NO 2-3241 I Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: DAVID TARR I U.S. Basic Research Could Use Likes of Prof. Erdos 'The Big Question - ti r-'C,' ' ., " M/ * " . IAT THE CAMPUS: The Lost Continent Effective Travelogue rE LOST CONTINENT" is not a science fiction film, nor does it concern itself with Atlantis or any other "lost" or mythical world; billed as a documentary, "The Lost Continent" is primarily a travelogue. And where it differs from the travelogue, the film has its significance. The contin'ent of the title is Asia; it is lost only so far as it is obscure and hidden from Western eyes. The camera, however, has penetrated into the depths of deepest Borneo, visited the sea rites of the Balinese and attended the vow-taking ceremonies for a Buddhist nun. As in any travelogue, these are rare sights for the camera. But in F ., ,w . *.v~ .. 9.. I' )UBLIC AND SENATORIAL indignation has risen in recent months because of evidence iat the armed services have been more intent i fighting each other for the right to control fissile development than on actually developing issiles, all in the face of rapid Soviet advances. While it is true that "inter-service rivalries" nd the wastes of time, money, and'manpower hich they entail, are justifiable cause for ablic indignation, more glaring evidences of onflict of interest" in other departments of ie Federal government have been overlooked i the scramble to pin the blame for lack of U.S. putnik-parity directly on the most easily seen+ eak point. A major, though overlooked, contributor to e United States' also-ran position in the ientific race with the Soviets is John Foster ulles's State Department team. In particular, e Dulles team's unfortunate "policy" of main- ,ining policies which are years behind the mes has been severely detremental. An example of State Department backward- ess .was illustrated in a recent Daily story hiick described an incident involving several niversity professors. The story concerned a eunion" of Prof. Paul Erdos, world-renown, ungarian-born mathematician, with some irty colleagues from Indiana and Michigan. gnificant in the story was the fact that the eeting had to be held on foreign soil - in anada - thanks to State Department "policy." )ROF. GEORGE PIRANIAN of the mathe- matcs department explained that Prof. dos, who came to the United States at the ginning of the second world war, left the =ntry in 1954 to attend an international meet- g of mathematicians in Amsterdam, Holland. fter he left the United States, Prof. Erdos was nied permission to return by the State De- rtment. Since the meeting, and after visiting s mother in Hungary, Prof. Erdos has held rious lectureships and is now at the University Toronto. For over two years, the American Mathe- atical Society has requested-unsuccessfu1y- at the State Department re-admit him-Prof. -dos is well-known as an anti-communist, iti-fascist socialist. He is considered a leading thority on number theory-a generally non- restricted field of basic mathematical research. More important, Prof. Erdos is known as an "idea man" who can inspire colleagues in basic research fields. It may well be true, as Prof. Piranian sug- gested, that Prof. Erdos "aroused the suspicions of some minor official whose mother had been frightened by the senator from Wisconsin," by being .a socialist and an individualist or by visiting his mother in Hungary, but the Erdos case is not an isolated example. Other scientists have been lost at the hands of other "fright- ened, minor officials." EXCLUSION OF ERDOS and others like him on grounds of being free-thinkers or social- ists was never in the best interests of the coun- try. Even in the period of super-secrecy, con- sistent practice of this policy would have led to results which could only be termed ridiculous. Einstein was, after all, a socialist and an out- spoken man-not to mention a great scientist and a -believer in democracy. It seems likely, therefore, that the State Department excluded Erdos and others with little popular personal, merely as-a concession to the tenor of the times. The Erdos case is a relic of the time when the general policy of the government was "better be secure than sure." That policy is on the wane as a partial result of Sputnik. Supposedly, even such secrecy-minded organizations as the Atomic Energy Commission are declassifying formerly secret information because of the relaization that super-secrecy and super-secur- ity can only put a brake on all important basic research. Thus, the especially disturbing part of the State Department's continued refusal to re- admit Erdos is the implication that even after a change in governmental attitudes, the' State Department continues to hold to a policy which was not in the first place intelligent, but only designed as a concession to the times. It is obvious that such a flagrant "conflict of interest" cannot be tolerated, especially when it effects the now vital field of basic research. The United States can no longer afford the luxury of having a State Department which is not only out of step, but also severl steps behind the times., -LEWIS COBURN Ut~ V1 PROGRAM . - -S - cHrboc I V..i;) ..-" (Herloc Ison Vcaton)Copyright, 97 The Pulitzer Publishing Co. Is VacatSt.)Louis Post=Dispatch f WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Tired Champ Fights On By DREW PEARSON The Persuasion of Provision SOVIET SUCCESS in launching the two Sput- niks has been valuable to America in one instance at least. The subsequent investigation of Russia's intense educational programs has stirred" Americans to look inside their. own modern, functional classrooms to see what is actually going on. And what we find there may make us ex- tremely uncomfortable. While communities have concentrated on ultra-modern new schools, they have negleeted the quality of what is taught. And, while every attempt should be made to assure the safety and health of primary and secondary school students, the first aim of edu- cation is not comfort. Yet, we have distorted John Dewey's philosophy of the importance of childhood adjustment so that there is often very little academic challenge for the above-average, student. RUSSIA PROVIDES the other extreme in requiring students to study physics and chemistry beginning when they, are ten years old. Certainly the material results are evident in Russia's scientific progress, even if the indi- vidual is questionably educated but rather only trained. It would be unfortunate if American schools followed Russia's example and forced students to study science; however, it would be fortunate if children could be introduced to the physical sciences' and languages while they are still in elementary schools. And we may even find that junior enjoys his French or chemistry as much as his finger-painting. -JAMES BOW WHEN YOU WATCH what's go- ing on at the White House today, you can't escape comparing it to the heroic stand of a great, over-age boxing champ, egged on by his managers to go in there and slug it out. It's nearing the last round. The Champ has taken three 'bad falls. But each time,' the managers are in there splashing water on his face, rubbing his arms, massaging the biceps, ;telling him he has to get back in the ring. The box-office receipts depend on it. They are out of luck, out of jobs if he 'doesn't perform. He goes back slug- ging. He knows that the life insurance tables are against him, that his wife has implored him to retire from the ring, that his son wants him to live the rest of his life in peace. But the box office, the man- agers-their position and prestige, the Grand Old Party demand an- other round..Game to the end, he fights on. Jim Hagerty, chief coach of the management team, rushes back from Paris. Before he takes over, his assistant, Mrs. Anne Wheaton, omits the Madison Avenue pep talk, the adjectives, lets the doc- tors' bulletins speak for them- selves. But Jim is an old hand with the megaphone. Twice before, he got the Champ up from the mat, help- ed persuade him he was better than before, in one case sent him off to Panama from a sickbed to prove it. It made no difference that the Champ, at Panama, told the President of Brazil, himself a doc- tor: "I feel sick and tired all the time." The wobbly knees, the tired feeling made no difference. The managers were in there to win. Jim Hagerty had the megaphone. He knew how to drown out the murmurs of protest from the Champ. He even drowned out the news story of veteran United Press newsman Merriman Smith when Smith quoted the Champ: "I had to say yes because they told me they didn't have time to build up another candidate." They had also told him he wouldn't have to do much work, they would handle things for him. But he had found out different. On the third fall, the managers had known the history of strokes, known the likelihood of recurrence when a champ is old, when he's under stress- and strain, when he has to sweat over tough decisions. But the managers threw water in his face, massaged the muscles, told him to get back in there and fight just the same. Jim Hagerty knew all too well how difficult it was to get the champ to tackle major problems. He'd been with him at Newport when the Champ didn't want to tackle Little Rock, almost had to be hauled off the golf course to tackle it. The managers also knew how the. Champ was finding it difficult to concentrate. They knew the medi- cal history of older people when less blood flows to the brain; how their mental functions decline, how it's difficult for an older man to make decisions under stress and strain-which is why the, military service insists on retiring men shortly after 60. The managers knew how the Champ wanted all reports brought him in capsule form, how he sel- dom wanted to study problems more than 20 or 30 minutes. They knew, too, of the testimony of Dr. John W. Gofman, the Univer- sity of California specialist: "Ar- teriosclerosis of the brain, that is, narrowing of the blood vessels of the brain, is definitely related to arteriosclerosis of the heart. When the blood vessels of the heart are narrowed, so on the average are the blood vessels of the brain. This takes an enormous toll of lives, and more than that it affects usefulness. It is not only a problem in that its victims oc- cupy mental hospitals in older age, but of much more vast importance is the loss of effectiveness due to diminishing blood supply to the brain in large numbers of crucial individuals in their most effective years." Finally, the Champ's managers knew how distressed he had been over the headaphes and heartaches of the past year-over Little Rock, the missile failures, and the bick- ering inside his own cabinet. He had been accustomed to tough body-blows in wartime, but he writhed in surprise and inward hurt when his good friend and Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey, publicly lambasted his budget. An attack on the budget by a member of the Cabinet was un- precedented.It had never happen- 'ed before in history. But the Champ didn't fire his critic, as his predecessors would have done. He went instead to visit at Humph- rey's Georgia plantation, thereby adding to the budget confusion There was more confusion when the Secretary of Commerce pub- licly blasted wage and price con- trols one day after the Champ had OK'd wage and price controls to stop inflation. Publicly slapping the Champ, now seemed to be contagious. Charlie Wilson was the next to slap back when he and the champ differed over federalizing the Na- tional Guard. Charlie, visiting the White House, old newsmen: "This isn't my dunghill." ... The news- menhad to clean up his remark, ... Later Mrs. Wilson slapped the champ hard, as only a woman can slap and get away with it. She was rewarded by a special trip south in the champ's private plane. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) this award-winning production, th more than capture themselves on the screen and make themselves strongly felt. Photographic and sound tech- nique are applied to an otherwise ordinary travelogue to create a great presence for the viewer. At the ceremony for the Buddhist nun, the faint clicking of the scis- sors and the rasp of the razor as the priests remove the subject's hair give a sense of realism, of belief, seldom found in films. When the ever-present danger of volcanic threats to a nation's security is presented, the misty air view of the crater and the faint native chant in the distance sur- mount in suspense that created by any mystery filmn. IN ANOTHER part of the con- tinent, the rice fields and their crucial importance to the lives of millions of people are brought out in their water-retaining, hanging- gardens formation and the season- al cults that accompany the growth of the rice. "The Lost Continent" is basically a study of comparative religion in Southeast Asia. Through its quiet, calm narration by John Gunther, its excellence of sound effects and the "beauty and poetry of its im- ages" (for which it won a Cannes Film Festival award), the film im- parts a strong impression of these primitive religions-and their like- nesses and similarities to religion everywhere. In this religion-in-man ap- proach, "The post Continent" finds its unity. A curious structural but only superficial unity for the film centers about an Italian expedition that supposedly sees the continent as photographer-explorers. We see the expedition only three or four times, however, and only for a few minutes - circumstances probably due to the editing of this 1954 pro- duction. ACCOMPANYING this film at the Campus is another award-win- ning short, "The Red Balloon," in which a bag of air is humanized. Imagine a simple story about a boy and his dog in which the latter is eventually killed by other mean boys-then substitute red balloon for the dog, and there's "The Red Balloon." It is a simple, quaint, but unusual picture in which little is said and nothing needs to be. University students from south of the border will be amused at the additional color travelogue on "Cuba Today" and its beautiful, growing cities and fine leader Batista-with not even a hint of the civil strife and closed schools to be found there today. -Vernon Nahrgang Challenge NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV has challenged the United States to compete with Soviet Russia "in the peaceful things such as pro- duction of radios and televisions and vacuum cleaners." Knowing the Soviet ability to surfeit its own population and those of its satellites with all man- ner, of high - grade consumers' goods, we would not be surprised to hear tomorrow that one of the Barnum & Bailey midgets had challenged Ted Williams to a home-run hitting contest. Or, as the mouse shouted afte his third cocktail, "Bring on that . - cat!" -National Review re General Notices Regents' Meeting: Fri., Dec. 13. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than Dec. 4. Late Permission: Women students who attended Fortnite on Nov. 25 had late permission until 10:45 p.m. Late Permission: Women students who attended the concert at Hill Audi- toriumn on Tues., Nov. 26, had late bier- . mission until 11:05 p.m. All women students who attend the Stanley Quartet Concert Dec. 3 will have 45 minutes to return to their residences after it is over. All Choral Union and Extra Series ushers are hereby reminded that one performance of the Messiah is included in each series of concerts. The help of each usher is very urgently needed at these concerts as they are especially difficult to handle. Absence from these concers will count against you at May Festival time. Students who were notified by letter of Nov. 27, 1957 concerning completion of Monthly Certifications of the 9 series for education and training allow- ance under Public Laws 550 and 634 are reminded to report to the,Office of vet- erans' Affairs, 555 Administration Build Ing; before 5:00 p.m., Fri., Dec. 6 to fill in those forms. General Meeting of University varsity debaters at 7:30 p.m. Tues., Dec. 3, in Room 2040, Frieze Building. All inter- ested persons may attend. Fall Meeting of the Michigan Linguis- tic Society at 1:30 p.m. Sat., Dec. at the Kellogg Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Reservations for the luncheon preceding the meet- ing may be made through Dr. Ruth Hok, secretary-treasurer of the Sociey. Applications for Engineering Research Institute Fellowships to be awarded for the spring semester, 1957-58, are now being accepted in the Office of the Graduate School. The stipend is $1,175 per semester. Application froms are available from the Graduate School. Only applicants who have been em- ployed by the Institute for at least one year on at least a half-time basis are eligible. Applications and supporting material are due in the office of the Graduate School not later than 4:00 p.m., Tues., Jan. 7, 1958. Disciplinary action in cases of stu- dent misconduct:' At meetings held on Oct. 24, 31, Nov. 7 and 14, cases involv- inga50 students and 1 fraternity were heard by the Joint Judiciary Council. In all cases the action was approved by the University Sub-Committee on Discipline. 1. Conduct unbecoming a student in that state laws and city ordinances re- lating to the purchase, sale and use of intoxicants were violated: lk a. Drank In violation of state law, in student quarters and pleaded guill- ty in Municipal Court to the charge of being drunk and disorderly. One student fined $10.00 and warned. b. Drank in student quarters and pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to the charge of being drunk and dis- orderly. One student fined $10.0.0 and warned. c. Drank, in violation of state law, and pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to the charge of being drunk and disorderly. One student fined $10.00 and warned. d. Supplied intoxicants to minors. One student fined $15.00 and warned. e. Drank, in violation of state law, on University property. Five students fined $10.00 each and warned. f. Pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to the charge of driving after drink- ing. One student given a written warning. 2. Violation of University driving regulations: a. Failed to register automobile: 1 student fined $35.00 with $20.00 sus pended; 1 student fined $35.00 with $15.00 suspended;. 1 student fined $25.00; 1 student fined $25.00 with $15.00 suspended; 1 student fined $25.00 with $10.00 suspended; 1 stu- dent fined $20.00. b. Driving without authorization: 1 student fined $40.00 with $15.00 sus- pended; 1 student fined $25.00; stu- dent fined $25.00; 1 student fined $15.00 with $10.00 suspended; 2 stu- dents fined $15.00. c. Misused special business permit: I student fined $25.00; 1 student fined $25.00 with $10.00 suspended; 1 stu- dent fined $25.00 with $15.00 suspended. 3. Apprehended for disfiguring the campus at Michigan State University. Four students fined $15.00 and warned and 1 student fined $25.00 and warned. 4. Illegally lending University identi- fication card to admit another person to a football game. Fourteen students given a written warning. 5. Attempted to sell a football ticket for more than the face value, 1 student fined $10.00; 1 student fined $10.00 all of which was suspended and 1 stu. dent fined $5.00 and1nstudent given a written warning. 6. Committed an act of petit larceny (bicycle). Two students fined $25.00, each and warned tha1.t ftz~ureiotin, DAI LY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin Is$a 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 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 62 are beauty and sensuality that S-, J' ,.' . .A (5 1~ 4 INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Israel:, The Perpetual Canker By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst 1HE MERE TOPIC of peace in the Middle East has become so explosive that United Nations, observers feel confident Dag Ham- marskjold is sticking closely to immediate short-range objectives during his current visit. Arab sources have expressed some doubt, fear- ingthat Jordan's improved relations with the West might produce an effort to get her to make a settlement with Israel, thus weakening the Arab front and punching a hole in the Arab' blockade. The communique after the conference be- tween King Hussein ands the UN Secretary Gen- eral, however, was careful to point out that border trouble was their only topic. Indeed the belief is that Jordan is displaying a revived offense against Israel in order to convince Egypt and Syria that she still stands with them against Israel regardless of other differences. A T ANY RATE, Jordan, whose Palestine refu- gees represent a majority of her population, is in no position to take up Arab-Israel peace single-handed. Any pressure from the West now would be likely only to undo tht advantages gained when Hussein withstood pro-Nasser elements. Hammarskjold is expected to follow a similar spot-job course during his effort in Damascus to stop the recriminations between Syria and Turkey. About the best that Western observers hope to get in the Middle East now is neutralism, and soften some of the points of abrasion, then per- haps new approaches from the Western powers can have some effect. By getting down to bargaining with Egypt over a Suez settlement, and by showing some interest in helping develop Arab countries for the Arabs instead of as part of their own determination to hold on to oil, the Western powers may retrieve part of what they have lost. ONE THING that may have to be adjusted is loan costs. Syria provides a case in point, and it is an important part of the background of her recent gyrations. Syria came to the West shopping for money before she ever turned to Russia. As her minis- ter of public works tells the story, she first set aside 200 million dollars of her own money to start development projects. Then she asked the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, but was met with a 5 per cent interest rate. Europe's rates were higher, and long-term accommodations not available. Syria turned to Russia for loans at 2.5 per cent, and to Czechoslovakia for a 16- million-dollar oil refinery. Syria claims it's all strictly business. She may not know. BUT EVEN if the West should attempt and succeed i establishing truly cooperative relations with the Arab states it would not necessarily mean coexistence between the Arabs and ,Israel. A part of King Hussein's trouble is that the 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Comment on Controversial Film, U.S. Education Explanation, . To the Editor: - APPARENTLY it had become rather widely known that The Daily had agreed to publish a re- view that I had agreed to write, following a recent showing of "The Birth Of A Nation," under the sponsorship of the Cinema Guild. At any rate, I have so frequently been queried about the failure of this review to appear that perhaps I am justified in using a little of The Daily's space to explain the matter. The non-appearance of the re- view, which was written and sub- mitted to the office of The Daily only a few hours after I had seen the film at a special showing, re- sulted exclusively from a misun- derstanding, for which I myself was in part responsible. * * e THERE WAS also evidence, I be- lieve of littlencarelessneg snme- whites who are concerned about realistic approaches to interracial problems. Some of the groups most directly involved in such problems, locally, came to the conclusion that the film could most effectively be "countered" not by attempting to ban it, but by attempting to extend the public understanding of it, from the point of view of some social scientists. Hence it was agreed that The Daily would pub- lish brief statements by Prof. Cut- ler and by me. My own review would have been little noted nor long remembered had it appeared, since a significant part of it had already been covered by a regular Daily reviewer. I POINTED out that rather dra- matic changes in public opinion had occurred in this country in the forty years since the film first appeared, and asked how it could happen that this incomparable Questions * / To the Editor: IN RECENT WEEKS, many words have been spent on the merits or lack of merit of Soviet and Aneri- can education. Analyses and dvalu- ations presented have focused on a comparison of accomplishments and future expectations from the Soviet system coupled with askance for a reappraisal of the American system. With such a deluge of opinions intermixed with statistics, one might easily quip, "So what? Whatcha gonna do about it? What's all this gotta do with me?" Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell has declared that if the country is to survive it is impera- tive to set up a counseling system whereby youths are channeled into vital occupations. This smacks of wholesale acceptance of the cur- rent Soviet approach, that of gear- ing education to fit particular U.S. educational system is just a step beyond, may I suggest that the central planning committee for our new counseling organization consider the following questions. They have been asked by man since the twelfth century. 1. "Who is so stupidly curious to send his son to school in order that he may learn what the teach- er thinks?"-St. Augustine. 2. "Who are the really educated and up to what age are we obliged to study?"-Moses Maimonides. 3. "To what degree is higher education necessary? What pur- poses are the universities expected' to fulfill?"-J. E. Wallace -Stirling, President of Stanford University. VITTORINA DE FELTRE, re- iterating an ideal already enunci- ated by Isocrates and Quintilian, said: "Not everyone is called to be a lawyer, a physician, a philoso- pher, to live in the public eye, nor A