I A World Left Behind 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 Vhen 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. AT THE MICHIGAN 'Kiss Them for Me' -Comedy in War THERE WILL NEVER be another "Mister Roberts." Movies like "Kiss Them For Me" prove this over and over again. But this vehicle for two femmes fatales and an aging romantic idol is fun as long as it does not take itself seriously. What this Kiss does prove is that war and the people who fight it can be funny. but shore leave can be funnier. With Cary Grant as the Navy flier who wants to "get drunk and chase girls," the humor is dry even when the characters are soaked. When a reporter asks about Grant's war experiences, he counters with "Which war?" then goes on to describe the various inter-service wrangles that are carried on. "Anything that happens to the enemy is A '4 a AY, DECEMBER 5, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL KRAFT Campus Drinking Restrictions Beg Re-evaluation PI LAMBDA PHI fraternity was fined $400 and placed on social probation because its had a drinking party. Actually Pi Lam's only sin was that it was unfortunate enough to get caught and stupid enough to register the hotel rooms in which the party was held in its own name. There is a University regulation which says: "The use or presence of intoxicating beverages in student quarters is not permitted." But this regulation is notoriously myopic and equally unfair. It just runs counter to the facts. A very large prcentage of the students on campus are over 21, the legal state drinking age, and they're not permitted to drink at their residence, whatever that may be. Students in residence halls drink liquor in the residence halls. Students in fraternities drink liquor in fraternity houses. Students in apartments drink liquor in their apartments. Almost all fraternities have pre-parties some- where else before their parties, whether it be in a hotel room or an apartment. These are the facts. The rule is unfair. Students over 21 should be permitted to drink in their residences. In fact, few people would dispute that, yet these students still cannot drink. The regulation is a dangerous one. It encour- ages students to set up one night a week to go off somewhere and get "smashed"-and then drive home. ND THE UNIVERSITY regulation does not. really do the University any good. In fact, it is harmful. Certainly one regulation nobody respects will lead to disrespect of other regu- lations, in fact, of the University itself. Yet, changing the regulation involves a tre- mendous number of problems. The machinery to bring about such a change is complex. The University, of course, cannot have a reguation contrary to the state regulation, which prohibits people under 21 from drinking. And then there are alumni groups, church groups, and the like to keep satisfied. But it is becoming more and more apparent that a change is necessary, Right now work is being done on revising the University regulations book. This is indeed an appropriate time to work on this rule. It is also heartening to note that administrators are showing interest in the drinking regula- tions. Perhaps this might even be an area for student government to look into. But whatever happens, we must hope for some improvement in a regulation which is unfair, impracticaland perhaps even dangerous. -RICHARD TAUB Temperature Change Problem SUGGESTIONS to the Plant Department: That the room temperature of classrooms in campus buildings be regulated so all are within the same approximate range. According to a somewhat unofficial survey, it was found that there is a temperature drop of at least ten degrees when entering Haven Hall from Tappan,Hall. From Haven to Mason the temperature re- mains stable; however, as one ascends to the higher reaches of Mason the temperature drops in an inverse way. It has been reported that somewhat the same situation is true in the Natural Science Build- ing where basement lab temperatures drop to sub-zero levels while the first floor auditorium reaches stifling proportions. This situation creates a severe threat to the health of students, who, exposed to the peculi- arities of Ann Arbor's climatic conditions are already susceptible to the ravages of numerous pneumobacilli. -C. P. (Herblock Is on Vacanon) Copyright, 1957. The Pulitzer Publishing Co. St. Louis Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: The Case o Dr. Condon By DREW PEARSON TODAY AND TOMORROW: . why Muddle Through? By WALTER LIPPMANN A DECISION of great moment was taken in the White House la'st week. It was that once again, as on the two other occasions when the President was disabled, it will be possible for the government to muddle through somehow until the President has recovered. The hard issue, which was whether he should' for the period of his convalescence delegate his powers, was avoided. Instead, the President and his intimate advisors decided that he would per- form token actions symbolizing the activity of a President, such as signing a few official docu- ments or attending meetings, while the real powers of the office were exercised by various individuals and committees. The country has twice accepted this method of dealing with the disability of the President. It is not at all sure that the country will accept it this time, and there are signs that there is a big change in the public mood. It can perhaps be described by saying that in the past there was an overwhelming popular desire that Eisen- hower should continue to be President of the United States. Now there is a mounting anxiety and insistence that somebody should be Presi- dent of the United States. The nation is deeply disturbed by a growing- realization of the painful situation into which it has been allowed to drift. It will not long put up with the appearance of leadership. It will demand the reality, and it will be acutely conscious of the difference between acting and play-acting, between the formalities of power and the substance. HIS DOES NOT MEAN that the country disbelieves the President's doctors or that it does not devoutly hope that he will have the full recovery which the medical bulletins indi- cate. It is that even before the President was stricken this time, the country had already become increasingly aware that he- was a partial invalid in partial retirement, and that he was notsequal to the full demands of his office. It is because his energies had already failed so much that his third illness is having such a deep effect on the public mind. This is the hard truth of the matter, and the White House will best serve the country and 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 JAMES BAAD........................ Sports Editor BRUCE BENNETT............Associate Sports Editor JOHN HILLYER ............ Associate Sports Editor CHARLES CURTISS ............Chief Photographer Business Staff the President himself by examining it with sympathy and with courage. If it is true, as I believe it is, that the country will not now accept token leadership, we shall by trying to muddle through be heading into a great political storm when Congress reconvenes. The Administration will be taking enormous risks if it comes to Congress with a budget, with legislation to implement its foreign policy, and with military plans which, though offered in the name of President Eisenhower, are known not to be genuinly his own. There will be a disorderly search for the men who are in fact responsible, and there are ominous signs: that there will be appointed scapegoats from inside the White House. THE CRUCIAL PROBLEM, which is created by the President's health, is that while he retains the responsibilities of his office, he is unable in any full and adequat sense to exer- cise the powers of his office. If the tactic of muddling through won't solve the problem, there is a choice between resignation and the procedure, unprecedented but indubitably legi- timate under the Constitution, of delegating to the Vice-President the powers and duties, but not the offices of the President. There is in Washington a remarkable body of opinion which holds that all things con- sidered-our situation in the world and the President's failing energy-the right course is for the President to resign. This cannot be ruled out as the eventual solution. But it is drastic and irrevocable, and there are considerations which warrant trying at first the moderate compromise of merely passing the powers tem- porarily to the Vice-President. One of these considerations is that if, as the nation devoutly hopes, the President makes a very good recovery, the country is entitled to have the President which it elected. Another consideration is that Mr. Nixon, whose position cannot be easy no matter what is done, might be better off if he were allowed some time to make his peace with the opposition and to gain the confidence of the country. It is, of course, true that it will be trying and difficult for him to be the temporary Acting President while the elected President is still in office and living in the White House. But Mr. Nixon has shown the necessary tact and delicacy. On the other hand, as this is a period when critical decisions must be taken, it will be better to have them taken by him with legal power and legal responsibility, openly and with public accountability. In the meantime, the President, freed of responsibility and the worries that go with it, would probably have a better chance of a good recovery. This solution, let it be said again before it is scornfully dismissed by Mr. Hagerty, is the one recommended last spring to the Congress by Attorney General Brownell and by President Eisenhower himself. 1441 .m Vn.&.. ral T.ih na fir LOS ANGELES - One of the most important parts of our missile development is the nose cone. It must be strong enough to withstand a speed of several thousand miles an hour, yet light enough not to bog down the mis- sile. In the latter part of 1954, the man who did the pioneer work on missile noses, Dr. Edward U. Con- don, drove from Corning, N.Y., to Washington in his station wagon to deliver a new nose cone to the Navy. The Navy, however, refased to accept it. It had called in Dr. Condon and asked him to put his inventive genius to work devising the new missile nose. It needed the nose badly. But now it refused to ac- cept it. BEHIND THIS paradoxical po- sition was one of the most shame- ful chains of events in United States government. It illustrates why scientists were driven out of government and why the U.S. is so tragically behind Russia in sci- ence. What happened was that Rich- ard Nixon, as congressman from California and member of the Un- American Activities Committee, had staged an investigation of Dr. Condon in 1947-48, when Condon was director of the Bureau of Standards in Washington. There was no accusation that Condon was a member of the Communist Party, only that his wife was gossipy, that they had attended a Yugoslav cocktail par- ty, that he was guilty by associa- tion. Condon was one of the best men ever to head the Bureau of Stand- ards, was credited by Dr. Edward Teller with shortening develop- ment of the H-bomb by one year. Yet Nixon, sitting on the powerful Un-American Activities Commit- tee, investigated every sentence he ever uttered, checked on every im- portant person he'd ever talked to. Averell Harriman, then Secre- tary of Commerce and Condon's boss, defended him. Condon was cleared. But eventually, tired of being hit over the head by Nixon's investigation, he, like so many other scientists, decided to get out of government. He went to work for Corning Glass at Corning, N.Y. To work for Corning, however, he had to clear another loyalty in- vestigation, since Corning was handling government contracts. This was extremely thorough. Be- cause of Nixon's earlier charges, the Eastern Regional Security Board took from July, 1953 to 1954 to act, at which time it completely cleared Dr. Condon. IT WAS IN July, 1954, after he was cleared, that the Navy asked him to go to work on the badly needed nose cone for missiles. And it was in October, 1954, that the Navy refused to accept it. In between, here is what had happened. The same Nixon, by then Vice-President and cam- paigningin Montana for Republi- can candidates in the 1954 elec- tion, learned on October 19 that Dr. Condon had been given a final security clearance. He picked up the phone and called Washington. Two days later, October 21, Sec- retary of the Navy Charles Thom- as removed Condon's security clearance. The record on Condon was one foot high and weighed 10 pounds. It had taken a loyalty board of experts one year to study the rec- ord. But the Secretary- of the Navy, after word from Nixon, act- ed in an hour. He could not pos- sibly have studied the record. In thus acting, he not only drove another valuable scientist away from a government project, but he hurt his own missile program. For Thomas's subordinates, a day or two later, refused to ac- cept the missile nose cone which Dr. Condon had rushed to com- pletion and driven to Washington in his station wagon. Condon argued with the Navy that he already knew the secret of thefmissile nose cone, since he himself had developed it. You can't put the egg back into the chicken. he said. * * * IT MADE no difference. Con- don's security clearance had been removed, thanks to Nixon, and the Navy refused to accept the nose cone. Dr. Condon drove it back to Corning, N.Y. Three weeks later, the Navy called Condon, sheepishly said they would take the missile nose cone, after all. As developed by Condon, the cones are now the ba- sis for our present-day missiles. Later, however, the Air Force blacklisted Corning Glass because Dr. Condon had no security clear- ance, and, rather than handicap his firm, he resigned. His boss, staunch Republican Amory Houghton, now made Ambassador to Paris by President Eisenhower, thought so highly of Condon that he put up $100,000 for his inde- pendent research. But Dr. Condon still is lost to government-thanks to the political terrorism of Vice- President Nixon. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) purely coincidental," says the Commander, and the audience may believe him. War looks downright peaceful after fighting off P-T boat ty- coons, the shore patrol, and Jayne Mansfield, not to mention never having anything smaller than a hundred-dollar bill. * * PERSONALITIES are the best part of the film. There is the Navy public relations man who can nev- er stop promoting ala Madison Avenue, but cannot remember a new "client's" name. There is the Hartford (Conn.) politician who wins the "hard way . .. without a wound." Obsessed by the political advantages of battle scars, he sighs enviously over an- other flier's h o s p i t a 1 record: "wounded twice, two purple hearts -the lucky stiff could be a Sen- ator" Then there's Jayne Mansfield in her usual role as dumb blond ("and it's natural, except for the color"). Making noises like a mouse trapped in a wall, she un- dulates through her part with all the talent one can expect from an actress of her dimension. SUZY PARKER, one of Amer- ica's top fashion .models, in her first motion picture role is cooly beautiful, as much contrast to Miss Mansfield as a violin to a brassy trumpet. Unfortunately, the lovely red-head has neither the depth of the violin nor the sparkle of the trumpet. She is convincing as long as she says nothing, but when she acts, she almost reads her lines. Technically, the reading is not bad, but it lacks emotional quality or comedy flair. But Miss Parker has a peculiar quality, perhaps that of appear- ing a lady, that makes her per- formance satisfactory, if vot com- pletely competent. IT IS WHEN the personalities stop being amusing and try to be profound that the movie becomes reminiscent of the monster-films created during the war. War, according to some observ- ant soul, is hell, perhaps more so when it is being laughed at. Cer- tainly, it is less so when it is be- ing used as a grandstand. "Kiss Them for Me" gets its sparkle from people like Cary Grant for whom the plot and characters are vaguely familiar. This is probably what saves it from being mediocre, but keeps it from being a classic. -Jo Hardee Snap Course Apropos the alleged superiority of Soviet education: 'A boy who studied for seven years in Russian schools told newsmen.. . that the work there wasn't any harder than the work in American schools -at least in grades one through seven. Russian children, like their American counterparts, he said, often sign up for snap courses, the most snap of which, according to him, is the course in the Soviet Constitution. National Review ORGANIST German i Skillful THE FEW hundred people who heard Vatican organist Fer- nando Germani at the Detroit In- stitute of Arts Tuesday evening, were privileged to hear one of the world's unquestionably great ar- tists. Germani performed Bach's Toe- cata, Adagio and Fugue in C Ma- jor so skillfully that he made it look elementary. He played the Toccata for what it is - a virtuo- so improvisation demanding ut- most dexterity and coordination in both hands and feet. One can safely say that Ger- mani trills as fast and evenly with his feet as he does with his hands. He has complete facility and does not depend upon peculiar phras- ing or unusual registration for ef- fect. * * * THIS straightforward, highly musical approach characterized Dialogue, Basse et Dessus de Trompette, and Recit de Nazard, by the classicist, Clerambault, with, which Germani opened the concert. Neither the fragile elegance of these French works nor the aus- tere auditorium in which they were performed destroyed their relevance to a liturgical function. Onthe lighter side, Germani played a set of variations on a carol, Noel, by Daquin, a Frencfh organist of the early 18th cen- tury. Germani again demon- strated the ease and delicacy with which he handles prolonged trilled notes. The Italian organist performed Vivaldi's Concerto in D Minor with a slow, majestic first move- ment, which was the best inter- pretation of the evening. The sec- ond movement profited from the loud-soft echo effect created by the swell bo: of the four-manual Casavant organ (a modified Bar- oque-type organ). Germani played the third movement with a very snappy tempo and with smoothly executed ostinato passages. THE FINAL work of the even- ing was Franck's Grand Piece Symphonique - a magnificent performance technically. The only fault in the work and in the en- tire evening's playing was the in- ability of the organ to produce tones as softly as Mr. Germani wished. In the very quiet portions of this work, the organ had a ten- dency to produce second and third harmonics before it produced the principal, thus creating a blurp effect. Germani's conception of thi romantic work, nevertheless, was grandiose. Set after set of rich, full chord progressions poured out of the organ in a manner pleas- ing to both musicians and hi-fi enthusiasts. As an encore, *Germani played Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D. -Arthur S. Bechhoefer 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 pblication. Notices for Sunday Dily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1$57 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 64 General Notices Professional Qualification Test: Na- tional Security Agency. Students tak- ing the Proressional Qualification Test on Dec. 7 are requested to report to Room 130, Business Administration Building at 8:45 a.m. Sat. Students who were notified by letter of Nov. 27, 1957 concerning completion of Monthly Certifications of the 96 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. TIAA - College Retirement Equities Fund. Participants in the Teachers A * 1 4 r LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Consequences of Unilateral Disarmament Let Us Disarm! . . . To the Editor: BY ALL MEANS, let us go through with unilateral disarm- ament! Poland was stabbed in the back by the Soviet Union because she was a belligerent nation: she was fighting Hitler's Germp-N7 then. Finland was attacked by the Soviet Union because she possessed weapons and foolishness to use them. The Baltic states were occupied because their armies and six mil- liou inhabitants threatened the security -- Soviet Union's Grand Old Party and its 180 million slaves. Korea came about only because we had guns and dared to use them. And Hungary was massacred only because the free world was arming itself to avoid Poland's, Finland's, Estonia's, Latvia's, Lith- uania's, Korea's fate. By all means, let us be quick to disarm ! THEN WE WITT. not have to genuine chance to live in a social- ized America. Then we shall have 1984 now! By all means, let us disarn! * * * . LET US NOT heed the voices of 15 million troublemakers in Si- beria! Let us close our ears to the warnings of those who experience Communism in body and soul! Let us listen only to the hypo- critical propaganda machine in the Kremlin which knows no ethics, feels no compunction to achieve its ends. Let us sleep, for "who sleepeth, sinneth not." Let us disarm! Disarm the guards at Alcatraz and Sing Sing, disarm the police ... and the murderers and crimi- nals will not dare to rise against the public opinion, will not dare to murder innocent, defenseless fools. They truly will not. Or? And then? -Valters Nollendorfs, Grad. Deep, Beep . * "Sputnik, Sputnik, what'd you do?" Shocked your U.S. through and through. "Sputnik, Sputnik, Be- Be- Be- Beep. what's the joke?" Go on, laugh until you choke. Be- Be- Be- Beep. "Sputnik, Sputnik, why the cheer? We will win this war with fear. Be- Be- Be- Beep. "Sputnik, Sputnik, aren't you mad?" If I am, it's just too bad. Be- Be- Be- Beep. "Sputnik, Sputnik, think of love." Ha! my friend, let's see your dove. Be- Be- Be- Beep. "Sputnik, Sputnik, what of man?" Use a mirror if you can. Be- Be- Be- Beep. "Sputnik, Sputnik, why the sigh?" Sad to see your free folks cry. Be- Be- Be- Beep. "Sputnik, Sputnik, prophesy." Change your ways or else you die. Be- Be- Be- Beep. sity students performing or lis- tening to Handel's oratorio, the Messiah. While being confronted with this powerful and sometimes emo- tional music, I wonder how many will give any serious attention to its words. To a student in a modern cul- ture, are the words a folk story (the Messiah has a plot) - an- cient superstition?; e.g., "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a soh, and shall call His name Emanuel: God with us." Moreover, are the words: "All we like sheep have gone astray" actually true? Of University stu- dents? Thishthoughthis followed by: "And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all." This apparently isn't attestable enough to be taught in a class- room. Such a question would be diffi- cult to research. Is it then un- founded folklore? Perhaps( of greatest interest are words such as. "Come unto Him . . . and He will give you rest." Are these an effective answer to prevalent mental disturbances 4 I