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 hen Opinions Are Free Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily ex press the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This nus t be noted in all reprints. URSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL KRAFT LOOKING UP: The Fate of the Union IS AFTERNOON the President of the United States presents his State of the Union message to the assembled Congress in Washington. We dread that it will be inade- quate to the times we are now in. In the best interests of this nation and the world, our wildest hope is that the President might say something as honest as the following: "Friends throughout the world and in the United States. I won't mince words; I wrote this myself. In honesty, I must confess that I have been a failure as President, and be- cause of this my country has been a failure as a world power. The plain facts are that the United States is no longer the most powerful country in the world; the United States is no longer the most generous country in the world; the United States is a compromising, bontra- dictory moral force in the world; and the UTnited States has lost its intellectual leader- ship of the world. Most pitiful, we have be- come a frightened people - nt only afraid of Russian bomb, but afraid that we have nothing to offer the world. And what is Amer- ica without hope, goals and idealism? Indeed, what does a sterile, frightened America have to promise the minds, and stomachs of those who live beyond Maine, Florida, California and Washington? We are losing friends in the world because we speak but don't act, because we act with questionable motives or because we don't act. I yropose to let the world know where we stand and that we stand in the right place. Most importantly, this country believes in the dignity and self-determination of men and nations: To Russians this means that we detest all things in the Soviet system which restrict the freedom and expression of the individual - the slave labor, the forced conformity to the party line, in politics, religion and culture, and the invasion of the state into all phases of human life. We do not object to government- directed production as such, but only as it threatens human dignity through limiting man's freedom, We realize, of course, the dif- ficultiesof industrializing a backward country when there is no middle class to spur private development, but we think socialism can pro- ceed under democratic political processes. Too, once industrialism has been ,achieved, we see less reason for state socialism in the manufac- turing and consumer industries. In the inter- national area, this means we detest attempts to impose Russian national will on any other nation, either by military or economic means as in Eastern Europe. BUT, FOR ALL of our objections to the poli- cies of the Soviet government, we know that if there is to be peace in the world there must be peace between the Soviet Union and the United States, and there must be peace. In light of this, I must make an apology. My administration has been both blind and bull headed in reaching accord with Russia. My friend Foster has not been a great deal as head of the State Department and must go, a move that may be lamented by David Lawrence, but by few others, either in this country or abroad. Our policy has been that Russian policy would, change if pressure were exerted upon the state. It never has changed, and we no longer have the pressure "to exert. We have been blind not to realize the implications of the facts that Russia is rich in natural resources, has a jet plane, an atom ice-breaker, the largest hydro- electric station, the largest synchrocyclotro, three times as many engineering graduates as the U.S., a record of publishing five times as many books as the U.S., Sputniks in the sky and a mighty military machine. We are now no more than an equal power in the world and must solve the major issues realizing this. I am willing to meet Mr. Khrushchev and feel that the major problems- can be negotiated and settled ultimately. I consider the problems P of the two-Chinas, the Middle-East and Ger- many 'of crucial importance and of legitimate concern to both the United States and Russia. AMES ELSMAN JR.l I also consider urgent an agreement on nu- clear arms limitation before they become further dispersed among the nations of the world. In thort, if the world is to have peace it must come mainly through negotiation be- tween the U.S.S.R. and the United States, ,based on a realization of the gravity of our - man's - situation and on a concern for the vital interests of each nation. TO GREAT BRITAIN and France, we must say that our belief in the dignity and self- determination of men and nations applies to all nations. Therefore, we strongly disapprove of any deliberate delay in the granting of in- dependence, where that is the will of the people, in the 'colonial territories. We under- stand the necessity for postponing inde- pendence until the people are politically ma- ture, but we think increased effbrts could be made to bring them to this stage. We find the Algerian situation ridiculous. To the Chinese people, we must recognize them and approve their entrance into the council of the world for we recognize reality, and we recognize that it would be a positive step out of the futureless stalemate we are in, and a step toward rebuilding the tradition- al Chinese-American friendship. Even in the past, of course, we have not recognized the Chinese and other Asians as equals, as our im- migration policies reveal. We must revaluate our immigration act and other measures which discriminate against the Asian of African or even South European and Latin American. To the Latin American people, we must say that we object, again, to tyrannical govern- ment, whether of a communist or fascist na- ture. We think military dictatorships have generally retarded the economic, social and cultural development of peoples and are a clear violation of the self-determination principle. O THE BILLION PEOPLE who live froi South East Asia to Africa to Latin America in the underdeveloped countries of the world We must offer a Marshall Plan of economic aid and assistance, not because Russia is beating us in this area or because we want to buy their friendship, but because they are humans and are starving, unclothedi and diseased - no more. For many reasons, we think it best that they remain uncommitted politically, at the same time exercising moral discernment. We realize that their state governments must di- rect many phases of economic activity in the early stages of their development, but urge that political liberty be maintained and fos- tered. We must make increased efforts to bring students and citizens from these countries to the United States, both to educate them and to provide for cultural exchange - as we must increase cultural exchange with all peoples- and mutual understanding. We must strength- en our U.S.I.A. In these countries. Finally, in the international field we must channel more of our economic and political efforts through the Uhited Nations. M AYI LASTLY speak on the domestic scene. The greatest problem facing this country at home is not recession, but education - the lack of it. In large part, this is why we find ourselves in such a crisis today - both be- cause we are ignorant in the humanities. and in the sciences. But we should build more schools, give more scholarships, hire more teachers and pay teachers better, not because we must beat the Russians, but because knowledge is good for its own,sake and for the health of society. There are many areas we can work in at home to insure that opportunity in this coun- try is based on ability more than anything else. In all areas, the federal government must necessarily play a larger role. We must spend the future convincing our- selves that we believe in these principles and in implementing them. At the present, neither I nor this country has time for golf." "Y ou Were Saying ?" CA I ME) 41MPR c, ~ Y G o b. ta jTH Et FV pL I E '4I :0 r ,, pM , +, .+- , ..c Lc c" CORRELATION: Economic Adjustments Bring Unemployment (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the first of two articles examining economic conditions in the United States at the present time and the out- look for the coming months.) By BERT R. SUGAR Daily Staff Writer THE AMERICAN ECONOMY is an extremely flexible, ingenius, re- sourceful and dynamic system; one which possesses the character- istic of fluctuating at any given time. Prof. J. Phillip Wernette of the business administration school said, "We're moving level for the time being; the inflationary pressure WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: MissiEe Czar ShakeupD By DREW PEARSON A I ANOTHER important purge is due in the Eisenhower guided missile department. This time it's missile czar William Holaday who is getting out. To replace him, the Administra- tion is trying to entice Carter Burgess, former Assistant Secre- tary of Defense and former presi- dent of Trans World Airlines. Burgess had a good record in both the Defense Department and TWA, but finally crossed wires with TWA owner Howard Hughes. Holaday's exit will climax a steady stream of missile experts who have either resigned or been fired or otherwise come a cropper in the Eisenhower Administration. The others are: *,* * 7) TREVOR GARDNER, missile executive for the Air Force who resigned in protest against the Administration's slow m i s s il e progress. 2) Col. John Nickerson, who protested against alleged favorit- ism to General Motors by Secre- tary of Defense Wilson and was court-martialed. 3) Edger V. Murphree, special assistant for missiles, who also exited. Murphree had been in charge of Esso Standard Oil's gasoline experiments with the Nazi cartel, I. G. Farben, before Pearl Harbor-at the time Stand- ard Oil conspired with I. G. Far- ben to withhold vitally important gasoline patents from the U.S. 4) Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, top Army missile expert, who has just resigned in protest over mis- sile matters. Note - Dr. James Killian of Massachusetts Institute 'of Tech- nology was appointed by Eisen- hower, supposedly with full power to direct and correlate the missile program. A few days later, it be- came known that missile czar Holaday disputed this. A new police-state method of using income taxes to pry into the lives of prospective jury members has New York attorneys up in arms. Income taxes are supposed to be sacred and private. It is a peni- tentiary offense for any tax offi- cial to leak information regarding tax returns. Up until the time of Senator McCarthy's investiga- tions, this also applied to other government agencies. However, when Frank Costello, onetime king of the gambling world, came up for trial for in- come-tax evasion in New York, his attorney, alert Edward Bennett Williams, suspected that the gov- ernment had been probing into the tax records of jurors. He asked some blunt questions, and U. S. District Judge Francis X. Mc- Gohey ruled that he could get the answers- despite strenuous ob- jections by government attorneys. * *. * WILLIAMS found that the Jus- tice Department had asked the Treasury for the tax returns of 200 prospective federal jurors and examined them to see whether they were favorable to the gov- ernment, whether they had high or low incomes, etc. On the basis of these returns, government attorneys classified prospective jurors and managed to select for the jury eight favor- able to the government. The jury convicted Costello. Costello is now appealing on three grounds: 1) that his wires were tapped for three years; 2) that the jury had its income taxes looked into by the government; 3) that a mail cover was placed on his mail for the purpose of inter- viewing anyone who wrote him a letter. The New York Bar Association has now filed a brief supporting Costello in his appeal. New York lawyers point out that if a jury is under income-tax scrutiny, it is likely to feel intimidated and vote with the government for a conviction. Mailbag SEN. BARRY Goldwater of Ari- zona - Thanks for your telegram advising me that you asked the Senate Rackets Committee to postpone its investigation of Walt- er Reuther and the United Auto Workers, not because you would be absent from Washington be- fore Christmas, but because you considered Committee Counsel Bob Kennedy unprepared and un- interested; and that you believe he will continue to be uninterested. Constantin Fotitch, ex-Yugoslav Ambassador to the U.S. - I ap- preciated your letter advising that Marshal Zhukov was not given the red-carpet treatment on his trip to Belgrade prior to Zhukov's purge, because Tito must have been advised by the Kremlin in advance that Zhukov was going to be purged. (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) is off, but there is no fear of a recession. In order to analyze contempor- ary economic fluctuations, it be- comes necessary to understand the basic economic terminology. Gross National Product (GNP), the measure of business activity, is the dollar value of all goods and serv- ices produced. The three elements which compose the Gross National Productare business investment, government expenditures and consumer demand. ONE component of GNP is busi- ness spending and investment in new plants and equipment. Indus- try recently has been expanding faster than the markets for its products. Some industries may be pros- perous while others are in a state of depression, Prof. Wallace Gard- ner of the business administration school observed. The industries that feel the pangs of "readjust- ment" are those with backlogs and orders receding, and supply exceeding demand for their in- dividual products. Major industries that bear watching during the coming months are steel, oil, housing, air- craft and automotive, Prof. Gard- ner said that "With the present precarious nature of our economy as it stands, if automobile sales don't pick up, our immediate economy will suffer." * * * WITH readjustments or cut- backs in the various industries, the necessary correlate - layoffs of employees - emerges as one of the problems most disturbing to the public, the politicians and the prognosticators. One cause of unemployment is increased productivity per man, which has been rising at a two to three per cent compound rate, and according to Prof. Daniel B. Suits of the economics department, doubles every 17-20 years. There- fore,bhe said, "If we employ the same number of man hours, we must have a steadily rising de- mand for the resulting output in- crease." With the additional rise in GNP and population, either unemploy- ment will be forced upon the worker or he will be forced to ac- cept shorter hours, unless demand increases, Prof. Suits concluded. THE RISING cost of labor and the ultimate profit squeeze have placed industry in the unenviable position of having to cut back its labor force. Labor, via its strong bargaining position, has increased costs through wage demands. These costs have been passed on to the consumer and once again labor has had to face a higher cost of living, of its owp making. This vicious cycle, known popu- larly as "inflation," has been ar- rested by current employe layoffs, and the economy is presently at- tempting to digest her gains. DAELY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is a official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editori- al 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, JANUARY 9, 1958 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 80 General Notices Parking: Effective Tues., Jan. 7 the restrictions on certain parking lots will be extended through the evening hours until 10:00 p.m., Mon. through Fri., for the use of the faculty and staff. The same regulations that prevail during ,the daytime hours, 6:00 a.m 6:00 p.m., will be enforced from 6:00 p.m.10:00 p.m. except that Staff Meter permits will also be legal in the affect- ed areas between the hours of 6:00 p.m.-10:00 pwm. eachtevening. The en- forcement of regulations during the ex- tended hours of restricted usewill be by the An Arbor Police Department. Fire lanes, drives, dock areas and oth- er no parking zones throughout the Campus will also be patrolled by the Police Department and violators of es- tablished regulations will be issued vio- lation notices. The parking lots affected are:Lot No. 34 between the Chemistry and Natural Science Buildings; Lot No. 33 at the Waterman Gymnasium on East Univer- sity Avenue; Lot No. 32 at Randall Lab oratory; Lot No. 31 at West Engineer- ing; Lot No. 40 at Clements Library. Auxiliary signs are posted at the en- trances of these lots. Student Accounts: Your attention s called to the following rules passed by the Regents at their meeting on Feb. 28, 1936: "Students shall pay all ac- counts due the University not later than the last day of classes of each se- mester or summer session. Student loans which are not paid or renewed are subject to this regulation; however, student loans not yet due are exempt. Any unpaid accounts at the close of business on the last day of classes will be reported to the Cashier of the Uni- versity and "(a) All academic credits will be withheld, the glades for the semester or summer session just completed will not be released, and no transcript of credits will be issued. "(b) All students owing such so- counts will not be allowed to register Jn any subsequent semester or summer session until payment has been made," Sophomore and Freshman Women: Martha Cook Building is receiving ap- plications for Sept. 1958. There will be room form45 sophomoreshandb25 fresh- man women who will then be junior and sophomores respectively. Phone NO 2-3225 any week day between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. for an appointment. International Center Tea, sponsored by International Student Association and International Center, Thurs., Jan. 9, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. at the Inter- national Center. Applications for Fellowships and scholarships in the Graduate School for 1958-59 and supporting letters of recom- mendation will be accepted until 12:00 noon, Sat., Feb. 1, in the Graduate School Offices. Present holders of ap- pointments must file application for renewal at this time. Individual Open Auditions for the "Festival of Song" quartet will be held next week in WUOM studios, 5th floor, Admin. Bldg. Call Ext. 2761 or visit WUOM for advance appointment. Those selected will be paid for weekly state- wide broadcasts, and participate in the spring tour of Michigan. Coffee Hour, for all interested stu dents ,Lane Hall Library, 4:15 p.m., Fri., Jan. 10. Sponsored by the Office of Religious Affairs. January Graduates may order caps and gowns from Moe's Sport Shop on North University. The following student sponsored so- cial events are approved for the coming weekend. Jan. 11, 1958: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Greek Students Assoc. Nu Sigma Nu, Pershing Rifles, Phi Kappa Sigma, Theta Xi.- Lectures Phi Sigma society presents the sec- and in its 1957-58 lecture series: Dr. Irving J. Cantrall, assistant professor of zoology, will speak on "The Edwin S. George Reserve, Its History and Func- tion." Thurs., Jan. 9, 8:00 p.m. in the West Conference Room, Rackham Building. Discussion and refreshments following the talk. The public is in- vited. Play's Tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m. the Department of Speech presents a Lab- oratory Bill of 3 one-act plays. The plays included in this Special Perform- ance are:, "Tinkers Wedding" by J. M. Synge, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet" by G. B. Shaw, "Overlaid" by Robertson Davies. Performances at 8:00 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Special price for these productions all seats - SOc. Concerts University Symphony Band, William D. Revelli, conductor, will present its annual Mid-Winter concert on Thurs., Jan. 9s in Hill Auditorium, with James Burke, cornet soloist. The concert will begin at 8:30 p.m. and will include works by Grofe, Lalo, Tohno, Arban, Burke. Goldman. Williams. Persichetti. w ,V ;p4. ,. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Refugees, Disarmament, SGC Discussed INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Macmillan Proposal By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press Foreign News Analyst RITAIN'S Prime Minister Macmillan ap- pears to have contributed an important service to the Western cause in the cold war. His proposal for an East-West non-aggression pact provided the first real challenge to Mos- cow in many months, and apparently it has embarrassed the Kremlin. The experience of tife Macmillan proposal is likely to point up the advisability of constantly bombarding Moscow with proposal after pro- posal of the sort the Kremlin cannot reject out of hand without risking some of its cherished reputation as peace champion. The Soviet Union is seeking a summit meet- ing of heads of governments to thrash out in- Editorial Staff --S + L--. " TCr '[T!T T.i w ternational problems on a potent propaganda platform, but it is not seeking agreements as such. The prospect of a concrete proposal, in- deed, seems to frighten the Kremlin. 'A non-aggression pact between East and West would imply a set of firm commitments on both sides against aggressive actions, po- litical or otherwise, while the East and West undertook negotiation of the outstanding is- sues. That would take years, and in that time, such ,commitments might tend to hamstring dynamic Communist expansionism. Thus, the Kremlin does not seem to want any such agree- ment, and it probably will have to find ex- cuses for rejecting such approaches. MOSCOW propaganda makes perfectly plain just what Communism wants in the imme- diate future. It wants a guarantee of the status Quo in Enronpe so that it can center its major Fallacies . . To the Editor: LT WAS really interesting to read the letter published in your Dec. 19 issue of The Daily concerning the Palestinian Arab Refugees. I would like to take the opportunity and point out the fallacies in that letter which are always used by Zionist Propagandists in trying to justify their deeds in Palestine. 1) The letter mentions that before the Arab States attacked Israel on May 5, 1948, there were no Arab Refugees. I am sorry to say that historical facts prove the contrary, since hostilities started in Palestine long before May 1948, and the Zionists took over many cities which were purely Arab, by force, (According to the Partition Plan, the area awarded to Israel com- prised 56.47 per cent of the total area of Palestine. Only half of its inhabitants were Jews, and they owned only 9.38 per cent of its area). * * * THE DAIR YASSEN massacre is an outstanding example. It took place on April 9, 1948, when the majority of the inhabitants were slaughtered and the village itself was razed. ' Jon Kimche, editor of the organ of the British Zionist Movement, "Jewish Observer and Middle East Review," wrote a detailed account _r .. ' _ ._._I. L _ a ,help them in going back to their homes. ,2) After these terrorist acts,- the inability of the UN to do any- thing, and the withdrawal of the British from Palestine on May 15, 1948, the Arabs of Palestine found themselves facing an unequal. rival, militarily. On that basis they asked for help from the Arab states, which answered the re- quest in order to protect the prop- erty of the Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinian Arabs, and the Arabs as a whole see that the only solution to the problem is the United Nations resolution which give the Palestinian Refugees the right to go back to their usurped homes. This is a very practical solution, especially because it is supported by the World's Organi- zation. --Isam Bdeir, Grad. Last Laugh To the Editor: AT THE RECENT NATO Con- ference, President Eisenhower spoke of. trends toward decentrali- zation of both power - and ideas within the Soviet Union.: One would think this was a favorable movement to be encouraged by decreasing rather than increasing external pressures. It should also be apparent that the Soviets re- gard missile bases, no less a threat to their existence than bomber Couldn't we reduce the military budget by three billions and use the funds to promote scientific re- search in medicine? And. another three billions for education? An- other three billion for tax reduc- tion through realistic allowances for dependents? And how about three billions more from the "defense" budget to promote scientific and cultural exchange and subsidize travel of ordinary citizens between the U.S. and the USSR? The remaining 20 to 25 billions would go a long way in promoting the general welfare and promoting healthy competi- tion. Not competition of men for fewer jobs, but competition of manufacturers and service agen- cies for the dollars of people on adequate retirement incomes. Socialism? Forgive my dream- ing. Let's go ahead and destroy ourselves. Principle is the thing. Or maybe principal and of course interest! Let us arm to the teeth to save God and free enterprise. We'll have the last laugh. For even if all humanity is destroyed, those godless ones who don't believe in fairy tales won't go to heaven with us! --R. F. Burlingame Members' Time . . To the Editor: THE DECISION of SGC to hold its "members' time" in camera .:- i- A- - - f. t, -- +h should suddenly scurry to privacy to discuss, dilate or explain state- ments made by them earlier in public. At times practical expediency may dictate a legislature, council or committee to hold a closed ses- sion. Such expediency may be necessitated either to prevent pan- ic from spreading within one's own electorate or to prevent dis- cussed negotiations, plans or in- formations from getting to un- friendly groups extraneous to one's electorate. It may be safely presumed that at no time will there arise a situation of the first category. Situations of the second category may at times confront the SGC. Negotiations and conclusions, es- pecially in their exploratory and formative stages, may at times be of an extremely delicate nature. If and when such situations arise, SGC has every right to go into closed session. Such a meet- ing must, however, take the nature and the official recognition of a special closed session convened for a specific purpose or topic. OTHERWISE, the electorate has the inalienable democratic right of access to every statement, how- ever wild and fanciful it may be,. made by a representative on mat- ters or policies affecting the elec- torate. 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