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RIPE FOR REVOLUTION:
Turbulent Indonesia-
Far East Powder Keg
By JOHN AXE
Daily Staff Writer
DURING THE PAST WEEK, a problem which has been bothering
American and Western statesmen for a long time came back into
the headlines.
Thep roblem-Indonesia and into whose camp this strategic and
wealthy island republic will finally land-has been botiering the Free
World ever since the young nation won its independence from the
Dutch nearly a dozen years ago.
At first the republic was threatened by Dutch attempts to hold on
to what was its most valuable colony by military action. Next came
)AY, DECEMBER 18, 1957
NIGHT EDITOR: JAMES BOW
Exporting Our Best
To South East Asia
t
VEN' IF THE Student Government Council
Southeast Asia steering committee never
iches its goal of sending six students to
e Far East next summer, it will give students
iO attend its meetings a deeper insight into
e problems of this critical area.
And, if funds are raised to send University
dents to Southeast Asia, then the student
egates will have the opportunity to give
ian students a -deeper insight into what
so abstractly term "the American way of
'," and perhaps more importantly, our
dents can learn of the diverse South East
an ways of life. The preparation necessary
student delegates to discuss the United
ites with Asian students should prove as
allenging as the trip.'
Sending "unofficial" delegates-neither gov-
anent representatives nor :mere sightseers-
a practice that has been used by the Soviets
many years. India and nations of Southeast
[a have been influenced by Russians who
ne to Asia claiming'no other motive except
"cultural exchange." The fact is important
-that University students are trying to initiate
a type of program often overlooked by our own
government and often used by the Soviets.
COMBATING COMMUNIST propaganda is
certainly an important responsibility of
University Southeast Asian delegates, although
a genuine cultural exchange should be the
primary purpose of the Asian trip.
The idea of such a delegation is not new, for
the University of California tried it last year.
But one idea of the trip is still new to our
government-the fact that as much, if not
more, can be done to fight communism by
sending to Asia people instead of dollars.
The United States sends money, food, ma-
chinery, and famous personalities to other
nations, but we seldom think of sending our'
most valuable commodity-the American citi-
zen.
-JAMES BOW
A Phone in Every Room
ALL THE GIRLS on "The Hill," and all the
boys in East and West Quads, can likely
have phones in their rooms-if they want them.
With the phones would also come private exten-
sion lines.1
Leonard A. Schaadt, Residence Halls Busi-
ness Manager, is prepared to have the telephone
company submit a report on the ways and
means of putting phones in the old dorms
which presently have the buzzer system. Once'
student interest is evinced, it is more than
possible that individual phones could be sup-
plied.,
Under the present budget, Mr. Schaadt says,
or under any other conceivable one, considera-
tions of expense make it impossible to provide
more trunk lines. The only other way to in-
crease efficiency is to do awaSr with the buzzers,
although this would still probably entail an
additional five dollar charge per semester for
the students. But the charge would be made by
rooms, since each room 'would have a phone,
and the cost could be split between roommates.
Actually, the charge does not cover the expense,
it would merely serve to defray it.
Boys in South Quad where 'the individual
phones system is now in effect seem to think
the service is worth the charge. For girls it
might be doubly worthwhile.
HOW DOES THE BUZZER system decrease
efficiency? It is mostly a matter of time
lost at the switchboards and in the rooms. The
switch'board operators in South Quad have only
to ring the extension to'complete a call. Opera-
tors with the other setup must wait for the
phone to be answered after buzzing the room.
A report prepared for the Residence Halls
administration by the telephone company
shows that between 6:45 and 7115 on an average
evening at the switchboard in Alice Lloyd Hall
twelve out of fifty calls observed were not
answered in 10 seconds. One was answered after
more than a minute and a half. Ten seconds is
the allowable delay, most delays are longer, and
even 10 seconds is too long. Multiply it by the
number of calls in a day coming over the
switchboard; the product is a great deal of
time lost which would not be lost with indi-
vidual phones.
IN 1950, when South Quad was built, the
Residence Halls administration proposed a
change in the phone -system for the girls on
"The Hill" and the boys in East and West
Quads. However, through some misunderstand-
ing, the students in these older dorms were told
that they would have party lines. Wanting to
maintain what little privacy they had, they
vetoed the proposition. With the understanding
that more phones would also mean private
extensions, a re-vote now might have a dif-
ferent result.s
The present residence halls telephone system,
excepting South Quad, is outmoded and in-
efficient. It is both practicable and possible to
change it. Proper student organizations, such
as Assembly and IHC, could start the ball roll-
ing. ILike the weather, we all complain about
the setup but we never do anything about it.
Why not?
-NAN MARKEL
(Herb ock Is on Vacation) C° rbi1. 1 M, a ss-P atch .
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Highlights of Gaither Report
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON - An extremely
hush-hush dinner was.held at
the home of William Foster,
former Deputy Undersecretary of
Defense, now chief sparkplug of
Olin-Mathieson. It was held not
so much in honor of Vice-Presi-
dent Nixon, as reported, but was
inspired by Nixon in order to pry
loose the suppressed Gaither Re-
port.
This report, one of the most im-
portant in the history 'of the na-
tion, concludes that the United
States is on the way to becoming
a second-class power because of
the missile lag.
It also hints in guarded terms
that the United States may have
to desert its traditional policy of
never going to war unless at-
tacked first. The first attack in
modern atomic war would be so
massive, the report points out,
that the country which makes the
attack would probably win. And
with the arms race going against
the United States, the inference
is: we can't afford to wait.
This, in blunt language, is pre-
ventive war.
* * *
THOUGH the White House
wants the report suppressed, Vice-
President Nixon and the business
executives who wrote the report
want the American people alerted
regarding the danger facing the
nation.
Because of the importance of
the report, this column has been
able to secure the main highlights
and they are published below:
1) The report strongly urges
educating the public on national
defense. The security of the na-
tion, it points out, depends upon
the understanding of the people.
2) The USSR probably will have
operational ICBM's with mega-
warheads by the end of 1959. By
this time, Soviet military supre-
macy over the U.S. should be
complete.
3) Russia was stronger than
America following our disarma-
ment after V-J Day, but we
caught up and jumped ahead of.
Russia during the Korean War.
Recently we have dropped back.
Though our strength today is
about parallel, the Soviet is
swooping ahead so rapidly that
it will be well ahead of us in the
next 18 months.
4) The report urgently calls for
stepping up the "initial operation-
al capability" of our IRBM's (in-
termediate-range missile) four
times the present goal. Even more
vital, it recommends increasing
our planned ICBM (intercontin-
ental missile) capability almost 10
times.
5) THE REPORT sketches a
five-year program that would
boost our defense spending almost
$20 billion. It recommends a $3
billion increase in 1959, $4 billion
in 1960, $5 billion in 1961, $4 bil-
lion in 1962, and $3 billion in 1963.
6) The report declares solemnly
that the fate of the U.S. and its
population today rests on the
Strategic Air Command. The re-
port urgently recommends wider
dispersal of SAC's striking power
and quicker reaction to an alert.
SAC can now get one-third of
its bombers into the air within 15
minutes after an alert. The report
urges increasing this capability
by at least dhe-half. It also calls
for improving the warning net-
works.
7) The report recommends
"hardening" of our bomber and
missile bases either by building
concrete shelters or putting them
underground.
Note - Assistant Defense Sec-
retary Mansfield Sprague fought
inside the committee for an even
stronger report. This is signifi-
cant, "since he is an Administra-
tion man.
He argued for a 'stronger rec-
ommendation on the question of
letting the enemy hit us first, and,
though not advocating preventive
war, he made the point that if
war appears inevitable some time
in the future, it would be disas-
trous for us to wait until the
Kremlin strikes the first blow.
WASHINGTON PIPELINE -
John L. Lewis won't hook up with
the ousted Teamsters. He feels he
has enough problems, what with
competing fuels and shrinking
coal production. Lewis also is
planning another safety campaign
in Congress to make every coal
mine in the country subject to the
Federal Mine Inspection Act. Sev-
eral hundred smaller coal mines,
with 15 or fewer employees, are
still exempt.
(Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Communist rebellion, Islamic un-
rest, numerous coups and coun-
ter-coups, and most important, a
decline in the economic situation,
which usually accompanies such
turmoil.
Only one man, President Su-
karno, has been able to ride out
the repeated storms, and he is
known to be more than sympa-
thetic toward the Communists,
who are the majority party on
the republic's most heavily popu-
lated island, Java.
$y the end of last week, how-
ever, Sukarno, who had long been
attacked as a political opportunist
pitting faction against faction to
stay on top, was, most observers
believed, out of the picture, at
least for the time being.
* * *
THIS CAN be said to be a bright
spot in a bleak picture, for Su-
karno, after a recent trip behind
the Iron Curtain, called for a
"guided democracy" to be run by
a coalition regime which would
include the Communists.
Then, despite strong opposition
to his plan by the Moslems, who
were so opposed to it that they
began to form regional governing
councils almost completely inde-
pendent of the capital, Jakarta.
Sukarno attempted to restore na-
tional unity by agitating the un-
settled issue of Netherlands New
Guinea, which the Du'tch still
control.
This issue, which was to be
negotiated later in. the agreement
which gave Indonesia its acknow-
ledged independence, has never
been settled.
Last month, Sukarno warned
that if West Irian, the Indonesian
name for the Dutch-held region,
was not given to Indonesia
through United Nations action, he
would take more drastic meas-
ures.
* * *
ON DEC. 1, a general strike was
called against all Dutch firms;
this was followed by a series of
anti-Dutch decrees, including one
ordering 46,000 Dutch nationals
to get out of Indonesia.
What happened after this is
still not completely known out-
side of Indonesia because of gov-
ernment censorship of news..
Apparently, the Communist led
labor, peasant and youth groups
in a widespread seizure of Dutch
ships, offices, estates and ware-
houses.
Last Tuesday, however, the sit-
uation took a turn for the better
as Premier Djuanda declared that
Dutch nationals would be pro-
tected, and in so doing put a stop
to much of Sukarno's "hate the
Dutch" campaign.
Finally, on Thursday, the Pre-
mier announced that President
Sukarno would go abroad for "re-
cuperation" and that the chair-
man of the Parliament would
serve in his absence. He also an-
nounced that the army would
supervise control of all Dutch
enterprises, quite likely to pre-
vent the Communists from step-
ping in.
* * *
SUCH IS the situation today.
The Army is presently in control,
apd the Communists seem sub-
dued for the moment. In the face
of what has happened, however,
this cannot be expected to last
for any great length of time.
Too much is at stake for the
Communists to take this setback,
if it actually is that, and do noth-
ing in return. The Russians have
long regarded this new republic
as ripe for a Conmunist govern-
ment with the accompanying ties
to Moscow and Peiping.
One' spark could set off a dis-
astrous revolution in which the
Communists might well emerge
victorious.
Indonesia is, with good reason,
the powderkeg of the Far East.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1957
VOL LXVIII, NO. 75
General Notices
Regents' Meeting: Fri., Jan. 10. Com-
munications for consideration at this
meeting must be in the President'*
hands not later than Tues. Dec. 31.
PLANS FOR MID-YEAR
GR bUATION EXERCISES
Sat.," Jan. 25, 1958, 2:00 p.m.
TIME OF ASSEMBLY-I :15 p.m. (except
noted)
PLACES OF ASSEMBLY
Members of the Faculties at 1:15 p.m.
In Room 2054, second floor, Natural
Science Building, where they may
robe.
Regents, Ex-Regents, Dean and other
Administrative Officials at 1:15
p.m. in the Botany Seminar Room
1139; Natural Science Building,
where they may 'robe.
Students of the various Schools and
Colleges in Natural Science Building
as follows:
SECTION A - LITERATURE, SCI-
ENCE AND THE ARTS-front part
of auditorium, west section
EDUCATION-fron part of audi-
torium, center' section
ARCHITECTURE-front part of
auditorium, east section
SECTION B-GRADUATE-rear part
of auditorium with doctors at
west end
'PUBLIC HEALTH-Room 2004
SOCIAL WORK-Room 2004 (be-
hind Public Health)
SECTION C-ENGINEERING-Room
2082
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -
Room 2071
LAW-Room 2033
PHARMACY-Room 2033 (behind
Law)
DENTAL - Room 2033 (behind
Pharmacy)
NATURAL RESOURCES - Room
2033 (behind Dental)
MUSIC-Room 2033 (behind Nat.
ural Res.)
MARCH INTO HILLmAUDITORIi -
1:45 p.m. Academic Dress
International Center Tea, sponsored
by International Student Association
and International Center, Thurs., Dec.
19 from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. at the In-
ternational Center.
Fellowship applications are now
available for the Margaret Kraus Rams-
dell Award. This Fellowship is used to
assist students who are graduates of
the University of Michigan in pur-
suring graduate studies in this coun-
try or abroad, in religious education or
In preparation for the Christian min-
istry. Both men and women may apply
for the fellowship. Applications should
be made to the Dean of the Graduate
School, on forms obtainable from the
Graduate School. The deadline is March
15, 1958.
Lectures
Research Club December meeting,
Wed., Dec. 18, at 8:00 p.m. in the
Rackham Amphitheatre. Two paper
will be presented: Ernest Pulgram
(Romance Languages and Classical
Lnguistics): "The Etruscans: Old Prob-
lems and Current Answers;" Donald A.
Glaser (Physics): "Bubble Chamber
Holiday Performance of Ginna Sche-
American Meterological Soc., South-
eastern Michigan Branch. Prof. Sydney
Chapman will speak on "Sunstorms and
the Aurorae," Thurs., Dec. 19 at 8 p.m.,
in the Rackham Amphitheater. Re-
freshments; everyone welcome.
Concerts
Annual Christmas Choir Concert, 8:3
p.m. Wed., Dec. 18, in Hill Auditorium,
performde by the University Choir and
the Michigan Singers, Maynard Klein,
conductor. Bach's "Break Forth, O
Beauteous Heavenly Light," Willan's
"The Three Kings," Vittora's\"O Mag-
num Mysterium," Palestrina's "Hode
Christus natus est," Brahm's "O Ba,.
viour, Throw the Heavens Wide"
"Sing Ye to the Lord," and Verdi's "Te
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INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Kohler of Wisconsin
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By SAUL PETT
By The Associated-Press
SI#EBOYGAN, Wis. - After 3 12 years, the
sound and fury of the country's longest
major strike have subsided into a quiet war
of mimeograph machines.
Each side of the strike at the Kohler Co.,
makers of bathroom fixtures, continues to roll
out opposing statements. But the violence-the
shouting, the slugging, smashing of windows
and splattering of paint on private homes-has
long since banished.
What remains, among people directly affect-
ed, is hate-deep, abiding, stone hate.
BUT EVEN HATE has gone underground.
After so long a time, it becomes pointless
to call your neighbor names, to paint "scab" on
his sidewalk, to spit as he goes by. You have
not moved him, he has not moved you. So you
just don't talk and you go on, hating each
other-across 30 feet of lawn.,
Even now, 43 months later, some marriages
continue to break up in Sheboygan because
of the strike, and this in a generally religious,
stolid community where divorce is not taken
lightly. Even now, 43 months later, brothers
who split over the strike still dn't talk, don't
recognize each other on the street.
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 PERJBERG ................. 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
Few people now discuss the strike. Most try
to forget it-with varying success. For obvious
business reasons, merchants and town boosters
shudder every time the national spotlight
focuses on Sheboygan as a strike-torn town
and study in human tragedy.
BUT THE SPOTLIGHT is swinging back.
Early in Janury, the Senate Rackets Com-
mittee is expected to take up the dispute, the
early violence, the national boycott of Kohler
products by the United Automobile Workers.
The company, the town's biggest single em-
ployer, continues to operate with men who
never favored the strike, with strikers who
weakened and went back, with outsiders who
moved into town or commute from other
communities. Most of the other strikers now
work elsewhere-in furniture or toy or enamel-
ware plants in Sheboygan, in breweries or
steel plants in Milwaukee, 60 miles away. Many
have moved out of the state completely.
But the strike goes on and so does life, in
Sheboygan. To the visitor, it appears no differ-
ent from many towns in the Midwest. Its 45,000
people are mostly of German and Slovak
ancestry. Located on the west shore of Lake
Michigan, the town is rich in elms. Its streets
are wide, clean, unhurried. It is a friendly
town.
Economically, the' town seems to have boun-
ced back from 1954, when the Kohler plant
was shut down for 54 days by mass picketing.
But no major new industry has been attracted
to Sheboygan in the. past three years, probaly
because of the strike publicity. Various efforts
have been made locally to counteract that
publicity.
The physical signs of stike are now few.
At the Kohler plant, three miles from town,
there's only token picketing. Much of the time
the pickets leave their sign standing unmanned
at the gate and retire to a car to play a
Teutonic card game, "schafskopf."
In town, the UAW maintains strike head-
quarters over Klein's clothing store, directs
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
'Eliminate Letter Grades'
Q
Grading s*"*
To the Editor:
THE PRESENT grading- setup
used at the University is the
point system.
This system evaluates the stu-
dent's' achievements by assigning
to him a prescribed number of
points per course hour. These
points are derived from letter,
grades which the student receives
from his instructor. These letter
grades are, in turn, derived from
the average of the numerical
scores which the student receives
on his exams.
If this sequence is examined it
may be observed that the final
grade a student receives is a num-
ber - from a letter - from a
number. An obvious inference is to
eliminate the letter grade entirely.
Another suggestion might be an
extension of the present system,
e.g., place everyone with a 2.5 or
better into category "X" and
those below 2.5 into "Y".
Then our grades could go from
a number to a letter to a number
to a letter ... This would also save
the poorer students considerable
to smother the question of alco-
holic regulations in a wet blanket
of pedogogical pacifism.
While I entirely disagree with
Mr. Beebe's solution to the drink-
ing regulations at Michigan, I ad-
mire him for having the guts to
take a stand on the problem. The
dignified silence advocated by Mr.
Andrews, would be of littledvalue
in the mutual exchange of ideas
and opinions which is the only
means by which progress is ever
realized.
Consequently, while I and those
few unenlightened students who
drink are relaxing at the P-Bell in
the peculiar light reserved for
those who discuss controversial
matters, I trust Mr. Andrews will
be functioning his mature judg-
.ment in the Arboretum with the
rest of the campus trees, who if
not particularly neat, are at least
as stable as he could wish.
-Jim Clabault, '60L
Misleading? ,,,
To the Editor:
THE ARTICLE published today,
(Tuesday) publicizing the spe-
cial study made for President
Miss Holtzer and The Daily are
entitled, of course, to evaluate
this study as they please; how-
ever, both in the light of the ac-
tual phrasing of the university re-
lease, and in the light of our own
experience in visiting high schools
on accreditation visits, we must
disagree with this evaluation.
There is a lack in high school
mathematics, not only in the
number of advanced courses of-
fered, but in the quality and con-
tent of those courses which are of-
fered.
To imply otherwise is to do a
disservice to those who are work-
ing to improve mathematical in-
struction in the high schools.
-Prof. R. K. Ritt
--Prof. N. D. Kazarinoff
--Prof. A. J. Lohwater
Department of Mathematics
(Editor's Note: The lead paragraph
of the story in question ("Survey
Shows No Lack In Math, Science
Fields;" Dec. 17, pg. two) was a para-
phrase of a portion of a University
News Service release which read:
"Mathematics and science are well
represented in the curricula of 668
Michigan high schools accredited by
the University of Michigan.
"Each of the following subjects is
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