I "Yeah - I'm Still In" Sixty-Eighth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVE~RSITY OF MICHIGAN When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICAONS Truth ,WiiI Preval"' STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. " Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This ius t be noted in all reprints. URDAY, JANUARY 11. 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: DAVID TARR ,,: ~ -'4 ''4f .4j. t~4---- * .-N--yj' -i 1 Y A Human Relations Commission Sports Commendable Record PDEPART"MEMTY ~~ pIsARt4AMEAT 4-'f 3 4 r , I f INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Soviet Peace Drive Aimed at'Summit' By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press Foreign News Analyst SOVIET PREMIER Bulganin's lastest peace offensive barrage has painfully obvious motives. The No. 1 aim is to force some sort of meeting at the "summit" which would create a new "Geneva spirit." The West can meet this challenge, and probably can top it, if it faces frankly and honestly the hardly debatable conclusion that the last "spirit of Geneva" turned out to be a haunting specter for Western policy. The 1955 summit meeting of the three powers' government chiefs with the Russians opened the doors for a determined Soviet diplo- matic offensive. Once the "spirit" was established at Geneva, where President Eisenhower and Communist boss Khrushchev attempted HERE IS A GROWING TREND in many American cities to attempt to solve com- nity problems with much emphasis on isical plans for the "ideal neighborhood," using developments, and expensive commun- centers. Ann Arbor has begun work on an )an renewal program to save rapidly-deteri- ting areas of the city, but at the same time ther group, the Human Relations Com- ssion, has been studying a problem which is ic in any physical re-development program. ?oint A of the city ordinance outlining the ectives of the Human Relations Commission ds as follows: "Promote mutual understand- and "respect among all racial, religious, and tionality groups, and work to discourage and vent discriminatory practices against any h group." A Master Plan designed to better living aditions of citizens is not complete without, attempt to find some common meeting und for all racial, religious, and national ups. Mayor Eldersveld is to be commended proposing. a Human Relations Commission t spring. And, judging from recent programs, Commission's members are doing a com- ndable job. In addition to the handling of specific uses the area of human relations the Commission recent weeks has been working on the lowing projects: I L) The Human Relations Commission's ising subcommittee has asked the city at- torney to investigate the possibility of a no- bias law concerning the purchase of property. TME SUBCOMMITTEE reports that there are "restrictive covenants" in many parts of the city. They cite as an example the following portion of an Arbordale subdivision deed: "No portion of the land herein described shall be occupied by persons other than of the Cauca- sian race except as servants or guests." 2) The Human Relations Commission has planned to survey the opinions of minority groups and workers, and at the same time a survey of neighborhood reactions to new minority neighbors will be taken. 3) A television program and a monthly lecture are also planned to acquaint the citizens of Ann Arbor with the work of the Human Relations Commission and the problems of minority groups. Also,.-an educational booklet is being planned to list the goals of the Commission and the local, state, and national Civil Rights Laws. 4) Postcards will be sent to employers who have hired or who might hire minority groups, in order to find out their opinions. 5) And, especially significant to the Uni- versity, a plan to question apartment owners who discriminate against minority groups is being considered by the Commission. Foreign students from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East have long faced the problem of finding living quarters in Ann Arbor. -JAMES BOW 4 QXrN i - nAS 4 LCrO Pm"G WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Some tayed Home EVIDENTLY THE ATTRACTION of meeting with two new Regents was not appealing enough to seven of the eight East Quadrangle presidents to tear them away from their home- work, or dates, or whatever occupied them last Thursday night. Evidently the seven vice-presidents of the houses also didn't care enough, not only to meet the two Regents,,but also to assume some re- sponsibility and gain some experience from the meeting to put in an appearance. This prompted Herb Sigman, East Quad President, to apologize to the IHC members present for what Sigman said was a very disappointing performance. He was surprised at the failure of seven hduses to send anyone to the meeting and could give none but con- jectural explanations. He placed all of the blame on East Quadrangle for IHC's failure to have a quorum, which it must be said is the first time IHC has failed to have one this semester. '- But although not in the grand manner of East Quad, five other houses in South and West Quadrangles were not represented by either $heir president or vice-president, which passed unnoticed last night and in general would not be considered a bad average by those who know IHC. One non-voting member of the South Quadrangle represented his house, but he would have had to be there anyway, and so he put forth very little special effort. IT WAS BROUGHT OUT at the meeting that the Presidium had to settle what was going to be done with the IHC Assembly show. Some had assumed that IHC was going to sponsor a show with Assembly while others pointed out that IHC had never officially decided to hold a show, and thus the question could not be decided without a quorum. This was possibly a natural difference of opinion compounded by a few possibly natural oversights, but it is significant that when a straw vote was taken to determine which day and which time next week was most convenient for a special meeting to be held to decide 'the question, only 10 said they could make it at the most convenient time, 7 p.m. Monday night, Although admittedly the meeting is only a few days before finals, the IHC-Assembly show can be a moneymaker for IHC, which needs the money for educational projects, and ho'use presidents should realize this. It would seem from these facts that many of the presidents of the various houses lack responsibility to Inter-House Council, to the dormitory system as a whole and to the members of their individual houses, whom the presidents are supposedly representing as best they can. The Regents saw only that IHC did not have a quorum; they did not see the "circus," as one member put it, that went on after they left, but simply the lack of a quorum would possibly be enough to make the Regents wonder how interested house presidents really were in resi- dence hall problems, and how much IHC's opinion was thus really worth. IN MUCH the same manner two legislators and several University officials were. openly surprised at the poor turnout for the IHC symposium on living costs. Although the event was poorly publicized, we did see one house president who came in only long enough to see what was going on,"and we cannot see how, any house presidents, assuming they had any contact with IHC at all between meetings, could fail to know the time of the symposium. But because they, at least, were not there, two of the legislators most sympathetic to students' problems could not help but be given a poor impression of student leaders' concern for the problems that face residence hall men. The presidents might well ask themselves how they can ask busy men to concern themselves with residence hall problems when they are un- willing Ito show much concern. But most of all it has made us wonder why house presidents cannot realize that together, as Inter-House Council, is the only way they will be able to have any say in the important things that face the residence halls. Too, the more intelligent interest and part they take in IHC the more say they will have, and the higher they will stand in the estimation of the people with whom they must work. House presidents should realize that they are the important part of IHC, and thus IHC is only as good as they make it. We only hope Monday's meeting, and succeeding meetings in the nextj semester, will show that they realize this. -LANE VANDERSLICE SINCE President Eisenh health got shaky mor two years ago, he has disl with handshaking at the r Tuesday meetings with the legislators, usually confinin self to a formal "Good mo gentlemen." But as if to emphasize t was feeling his old self aga gave a special greeting to ea publican leader as Congress vened. He waved his am claimed cheerily,, "Well, back again," then wenta the table shaking hands wit ,caller, beginning with GOF Leo Allen of Illinois. Eisenhower remained in spirits all during the meeti said he had been reading a "nonsense" about theZ States lagging far behind R added that he wasn't "w about such criticism. It wa tically inspired, he said, or from sources which didn't the facts.1 "We are in excellent shr missiles and all other pha military science to mee emergencies that may aris insisted.g * * * Ike's optimism waned when Senate GOP leader V Knowland and House lead Martin predicted that th posed $74-billion balanced- Ike Remains Unworried By DREW PEARSON power's would have tough sledding in men out of work in M ethan Congress. 2, he recalled that J pesd~* * chaired the UnpreparE regular THE BASIC problem of the lnittee for two years e GOP Democratic party -- one-man ing anything about -n g him- domination of its policies - was that its was Symingt orning, raised even before Congress con- souri and Jackson of r vened, by a freshman senator, Pat who had been the hat he McNamara of Michigan. He wrote warn the nation long in, Ike Senate Democratic leader Lyndon ing our missile lag. ch Re- Johnson a blunt letter reminding So theblunt-spo recon- him, in effect, that Democratic from Michigan who exn- Senate caucuses were supposed to as a pipe-fitter's ax we're be democratic with a small d, Lyd asw around 'not dictated to by one man. Lyndon: * * h each The public doesn't know it, but "THE CURRENT P Rep. not since last January have Dem- looks at our prepar ocratic senators held a caucus. ress, a the lack of good Under previous Democratic lead- resortack of erscaucses ere eld very are important," he sai ng. He ers, caucuses were held every minimizing the impo lot of month or so to decide policy. ever, I am very disap United When the late Alben Barkley was the 'briefing' is the or Russia; Democratic leader, he held cau- e orried" cuses every couple of months. e oneaenda of s poli- Lyndon Johnson, however, doesn't rare conference of came relish discussion, decides party satos"n's as ; r cameat Johnson's failure to know policy largely on his own. ocratic caucus for a So when Senator McNamara re- Johnson promptly ape in ceived Senator Johnson's notice Namara in Detroit, ases of that a Democratic caucus had other problems, suci t any been called to "brief" the Demo- ployment and inflati e," he crats on the work of Johnson's up for discussion at Senate Preparedness Committee, Johnson went furth itaraised some hackles on McNa- them on the agend mara's neck. they were never disco a bit No. 1, he figured there were week's closed-door me Villiam other problems facing the Demo- be interesting to see er Joe crats than being briefed on John- calls another meetin e pro- son's Preparedness Committee - them. budget among them more than 100,000 (copyright 1958 by Bell S [ichigan. No. Johnson had ,edness Coin- without do- missiles; and ton of Mis- Washington senators to ago regard- ken senator started life pprentice in _a letter to searching edness prog- it, certainly id. "Without rtance, how- pointed that ly item list- an extremely Democratic a direct dig o call a Dem- whole year. phoned Mc- assured him ;h as unem- on, would be the caucus, er and put a. However, ussed at this eeting. It will if Johnson g to discuss y Syndicate, Inc.) valiantly to out-smile one another matter of months, the "spirit of Geneva" became a mocking ghost for the West. At the 1955 meeting, Khrushchev appeared to have satisfied him- self that the West, with the United States calling the shots, would go to any lengths to avoid the risk of a new total war. Khrushchev was able to gauge the political climate, and he appeared to have done so with uncanny accuracy. *k * * THE FIRST "summit meeting" seemed to have satisfied Khrush- chev that a determined Soviet offensive in the direction of the Middle East involved no real dan- ger of touching off World War III. Two or three months after the "Geneva spirit" was established, Egypt closed a deal for Commu- nist arms, Syria was dickering for them and the USSR was prepar- ing the way to arm Yemen, which could harass Great Britain on the Arabian peninsula Soviet policy hardened by the Fall of 1955, and a foreign minis- ters' conference on outstanding international issues got nowhere. Now it is time for Khrushchev to test the world atmosphere once again. This time, he would widen the summit conference, for a variety of reasons, to take in a number of other nations and make the meeting a perfect sounding board for Red propaganda. This gambit would havenothergoals, too. k * k THE UNITED STATES rsponse to the' Soviet Union's strides in scientific weapons indicates a crash program in the West, under Wash- ington's leadership, to retain over- all military superiority. Soviet propaganda is trying to head off that program. In addition, the Russians are attempting to build fires under non-Communist governments throughout the world by joining with all left-wing forces in a move, as the Communist party news- paper Pravda frankly puts it, to "compel the parliaments and gov- ernments of many countries to resist the aggressive policy of the imperialist circles." The drive, Pravda says, must be aimed against growing military budgets, Bulganin's latest note, which obviously was dictated by Khru- shchev and his Communist lead- ers, asks for such things as agree- ment between West and Commun- ist East Germany on prohibiting storage of nuclear weapons on their territory, and participation of the Chinese Communist gov- ernment in talks on international tensions IN THE ONE CASE, the Rus- sians seek the implicit recognition of East Germany as a sovereign state by the West Germans, and in the other, the implicit recognition of Red China. The West has responses to these moves. Actually, the United States itself could propose and set the date for a big summit meeting on its terms. This time it could go to the summit meeting forewarned in the light of the 1955 experience.- It could take the offensive in firing challenge afterchallenge to the Russians. It could be first with the challenges, instead of simply reacting to Soviet moves. It could lay down its terms for peace in clear, unmistakable terms, while making it plain to the Rus- sians that the West is prepared to resist aggression of all sorts. Economic Appraisal DESPITE the fabulously complex growth of the United States economy, no major study of the country's monetary system has been undertaken for nearly 50 years .. . Early this year Congress turned down President Eisenhower's ap- peal for such a study, and almost every previous Congressional in- vestigation has turned into a par- tisan political probe. Recently, the Committee for Economic Development announced receipt of a $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for the- first full-scale inquiry into United States monetary policies since the Aldrich Commission of 1908, which laid the foundation of the Federal it I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Arab-Israel Debate Continues DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN things began to pop. Within a The Daily Official Bulletin is an 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. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1959 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 82 General Notices The next "Polio Shot" Clinic for stu- dents will be held Thurs., Jan. 16, only from 8:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 1:00, p.m. to 4:45 p.m., in the Health Service. All students whose 2nd or 3rd shots' are due around this time are urged to take advantage of this special clinic. Students are reminded that it is not necessary to obtain their regular clinib cards. Proceed to Room 58 in the base- ment where forms are available and cashier's representatives are present. The fee for injection is $1.00. January Graduates may order cape and gowns from Moe's Sport Shop on North University. L Eighth Annual Conference on Teach- ing of High School Mathematics, au- pices of the School of Education and the Department of Mathematics. Sat., Jan. 11. Sessions at 9:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m., Natural Science Auditorium. Regulations for the 1959 Hop, Feb. . 1) Dancing must cease at 2:00 a.m., and the lights will be out in the Sports Building at 2:30 a.m. 2) There shall be no spectators; the only persons admitted to the hall shall be those bearing tickets issued by the Hop Committee. 3) No corsages shall be permitted to be worn at the Hop. Committee ex. cepted. 4) There shall be no decorating of in- dividual booths, except by the Hop Committee. 5) All charges for taxicabs in excess of the rates authorized by the city ordinance should be reported to the Committee. 6) Control of lighting shall be in the, hands of the Hop Committee and not delegated to the orchestra leaders. 7) The Hop Committee shall be re- sponsible for the proper conduct, while in the gymnasium, of all those attend- ing the Hop. The use, possession, or showing the effects of intoxicants will not be tolerated. Offenders will be ejected from the hall and their names reported to the Joint-Judiciary Coun- ci. 8) Smoking in the booths or on the floor of the hall is absolutely forbidden, and is permitted only in the place pro- vided for the purpose. 9) No person shall re-enter the build- ing after once leaving. 10) violations of the regulations ot the Hop traceable to any group, but not to individuals, shall render the entire group liable to penalty. The responsi- bility for the maintenance of proper conduct in any booth and for the ob- servance of the rules by the members of a group having a booth, shall rest upon the president or highest officer present of said group.° 11. The furniture for the booths may be taken into the Sports Building only between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12 noon on Tuesday, February 4. Four men from the group must be present Wed- nesday, February 5, at 10 a.m. to aid the cartage company in removing the furniture or the group will be subject to forfeiture of the booth deposit. Women's Housing and Hours 12) Arrangements for housing women over night during J-Hop period, in Men's Residences must be separately approved at the office of Dean of Wo- men. For fraternities occupied by wo- men guests, a chaperone-in residence must be approved by the Dean of Wo- men. The chaperone selected is to be , in residence for the entire period and is not to attend the Hop. 13) Fraternitiesthaving over night women guests must vacate their houses by 1:00 p.m. Monday, February 3, aft- er which the wome-n guests and chap- erones shall move into the houses and regular men's calling hours will be in effect Monday afternoon and Tuesday. On Wednesday morning the houses will be opened to men at 10 a.m. to return furniture from the Hop. 14) Occupancy of houses by J-Hop guests shall not exceed that which is approved by the University Health Service. 15) Women have 2:30 a.m. permission for following parties on February 3 and 4:00 a.m. permission following the J- Hop on February 4. Regular calling hours in women's residences will not be extended. This includes fraternities which are housing women if no party Is scheduled. 16) Fraternities housing women guests must remain open during the hours of the Hop. and the chaperone- in-residence mustbe at the house. Regulations for Parties 17) Student groups wishing to have parties during the J-Hop period are instructed to seek approval from the Office /of Student Affairs following usual procedures. Requests for approv- al for specific social events should be filed on or before Friday, January 17. Chaperones are subject to the approv- al of the Dean of Men. Two married - couples, 26 years of age or older, or one such couple and the chaperone-in- residence are required as chaperones. Exception: For dinner precedingand breakfast following the J-Hop dance, only one qualified married couple or the chaperone-in-residence is required. It is suggested that chaperones be se- lected from such groups as parents of students, faculty members, or alumni, TODAY AND TOMORROW: The Space Race By WALTER LIPPMANN T IS UNUSUAL for the leader of the oppo- sition to make a statement, like Sen. John- son's on Tuesday, just two days before the President delivered his message on the state of the union. But the circumstances are unusual in that the President, when he \ faced the country on Thursday, had, for the first time in his experience, an audience which does not accept his military judgment on-his own say-so. The two speeches he made after the Sputniks, and the various comments that have emanated from Mr. Hagerty and others in his official family, have only added to the mood of skepti- cism and doubt. He cannot now tell the country what to believe. He had to convince it. Besides presenting a summary of the issues and problems which Congress will expect the President to deal with, the Johnson statement makes a point of principle which has in it the Sen. Johnson, who has plainly learned much from some of the best minds among us, puts this point of principle as follows: "We have, for many years, been preoccupied with weapons. We are, even now, concerned with what some currently regard as the ultimate weapon. But, when we perfect such a weapon for ourselves we may still be far behind. The urgent race we are now in-or which we must enter-is not the race to perfect long-range ballistic missiles," important as that is. "There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over earth that lies somewhere out in space." Sen. Johnson, it seems to me, has weakened, has diluted, the truth he had got hold of by setting up the notion that the conquest of outer space would now lead to physical, mili- Retort . . To the Editor: TO READ statements such as those written by Isam Bdeir in his recent letter to The Daily might not be quite so shocking if it were not for the fact that Mr. Bdeir, a graduate student, should be presumed to at least possess a minimum of respect for the in- telligence of the student body as a whole. It is one thing to shout innuen- does at thousands who have been taught to live on false promises, an another entirely to shout the same innuendoes at thousands who have been taught to examine what they hear in terms of the facts of the situation. Mr. Bdeir states that the Par- tition Plan awarded to Israel land comprising 56.47 per cent of the total area of Palestine. He then glibly states that its Jewish in- habitants owned but 9.38 per cent of the land. * * * BUT SURELY Mr. Bdeir is aware that over 83 per cent of the land was under government own- ership, and that by the United Nations decision, was turned over to Israel. He also fails to mention the fact that every inch of Arab land is still held for them by the Ministry of Lands of the govern- ment, even though they left it of their own volition and in defiance seek to. I only point out that it ,would be a good idea if Mr. Bdeir examine the hands of the Pales- tinian Arabs before he points to blood on the hands of the Jews. But most irritating of all is Mr. Bdeir's closing point. First he states that "the Arabs of Pales- tine found themselves facing an unequal rival militarily. On that basis they asked for help from the Arab states." Why, Mr. Bdeir, was there any reason to consider the situation in military terms? Israel is a com- pletely democratic country. The Arabs still there (over 200,000) have their own political party, and representatives in the Knesset. Were the Palestinian Arabs who left afraid to live under a demo- cratic system? From the looks of the govern- ments surrounding Israel, I don't doubt it, but the facts seem to in- dicate a different conclusion. The war started from outside of Israel, and you need only read the state- ment of your own Arab leaders at the time of the partitioning to verify this. , There never was a government of the Arab half of Palestine, so who, in your wildest imagination, asked for help from the other Arab nations? Did all the Arab residents of Palestine write let- ters to the heads of their neigh- boring states? *T * * sein to give up Trans-Jordan which he has annexed? This, if you remember, made up the ma- jority of your "Arab state." Reality has made it impossible for both Arab and Israeli to roll back history to 1947. The two groups are faced with many intri-. cate problems at present, fore-' most of which is the 900,000 Arab refugees. Israel has repeatedly offered to sit down and negotiate about them - The Arab bloc, led by Egypt, has refused to even talk about it except in propaganda terms. I can have little respect for a country which uses starving people for its own purposes, and is perfectly content to keep them starving so long as it will help. One last thing, Mr. Bdeir. Would you please go to the li- brary and find out what Zionism" is before you talk about it so much. Remember now, you're talking to intell-igent people. -A. Gross, Grad. L High Time . . To the Editor: ENCLOSE January 2, 1958 Sports Edition, Los Angeles Times. It is true that payoffs are made on the score, but the score does not reflect the true situation. The outcome of the game was really a