PACE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1953 The Kaiser Motors A ffair ONLY 13 MILES away from Ann Arbor, in tiny Willow Run Village, with its rows of trailer houses, and a federal hous- ing project set up for bomber plant em- ployes during the War, the 5,600 inhabi- tants are faced with a multitude of prob- lems, getting more complicated every day. Most serious is, of course, the mass un- employment caused by the Air Force con- tract cancellations. At the present time some 8,000 automotive and aircraft workers are unemployed, while 4,000 by fortune of sen- iority rights, are still keeping the assembly line in action. The future is indefinite; some plant officials have been encouraging the men to "sit tight" and wait to be called back to work possibly in the next ten days. Others, with their families, are packing up belongings and returning to the south from whence they came during the War. Some, who are experienced in a specific field have already been absorbed into industry else- where in the state. To add to the labor problem which may have even more serious economic consequen- ces if not solved in the very near future, the jobless Villagers have a possible rent in- crease to add to their worries. According to housing officials in Chicago, federal housing units in midwestern states may face a 10% wage increase, and the Norwayne unit at Willow Run Village would then be included. Fortunately, the rent hike has been post- poned until Nov. 1, it was announced yes- terday. According to Air Force officials, the con- tracts were cancelled because of the high cost of plane production at the Kaiser plant compared with production of the same plane by Fairchild. But there are several ex- planations given by Henry J. Kaiser, plant officials and union members from the Kai- ser plant for the high KM production costs. are paid for doing nothing. They are re- ceiving wages and not adding to the pro- ductive capacity of the plant. The result is an added cost to the finished product from Kaiser Motors Coporation without added production results. Another reason given by the Air Force unofficially as to the why of contract can- cellations was reported Thursday; as a lagging labor force,' disinterested unions, etc. at the Kaiser plant. An interview of plant employes does indicate that some dis. crimination against experienced workers in favor of seniority rights has occurred, but most workers believe that the union Local 142 is working in the best interest of labor- ers, does give them bargaining strength and necessary representation to industry. Ex- cept for a small group of higher-ups in the Local, who because they are paid by the National CIO, do not always consider the best interests of the local men, Willow Run people have remarked that Air Force allu- sions to the 'lagging labor force' are exag- gerations. However, the do-nothing super- visor-situation does merit closer examina- tion by unions and plant officials. As a result of the series of problems that have exploded in the faces of 12,000 Kaiser Motors Corporation employes, their representatives and plant officials in the past two weeks, one wonders why the problem arose, why the sudden tragedy in our midst. Perhaps high production costs is a reason, but the possibility that the Air Force is making charges against la- bor to avoid investigation of its motives should not be discarded. A feeling that Henry Kaiser is at all times working in a democratic way for his thous- ands of employes can be found elsewhere. Dark glances toward the big business ele- ments ruling Eisenhower's cabinet are a result of the feeling by many of our Wil- low Village neighbors that Charles E. Wil- son and his cabinet colleagues are battling for more control for their respective indus- trial interests, and in the jealous scurry, labor and democratically operating manu- facturers are victims of a serious labor- management-economic. problem. Next week's meeting between labor re- presentatives, Kaiser plant officials and Air Force officials may prove to be crucial not only for the laborers involved, but for all of Washtenaw and Wayne counties' economic stabilization. --Pat Roelofs 4_D RAMA FANTASY has taken over the local theater scene with "The Madwoman of Chaillot" at Lydia Mendelssohn and now John Van Druten's "Bell, Book and Candle" being produced by the area's new acting troupe, the Saline Mill Theater. The Saline group, judging from its schedule, is not theater in either an ex- perimental or in a vital sense. Rather it is summer stock theater aimed solely at entertainment. Besides the present pro- duction, they have booked Shaw's "Arms and the Man," Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," and Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." Bell, Book and Candle is a good start, but it could be a much better one wih some added emphasis on the comic element of the play. The actors are dealing with a not too well written vehicle, the plot being over- ly dependent on the magical powers of the witches and the war locks (male version of a witch) to increase the complications and effect the entrances. The main asset of the play is the juxtaposition of rationality with superstition and magic-the question of how much of the human action depends on coincidence and love, how much on potents and spells. The over-seriousness of the main witch and the main warlock tend to detract from this juxtaposition, to insist too much that there is "Witchcraft Among Us," (i.e. New York City) and to remove the air of incredulity essential to so much of the humour. The actors were for the most part quite up to the play with Gene and Flor- ence Rupert and Ed Bordo turning in the best performances. One of the worst possible cases of opening night jitters, however, tended to detract from what should be a consistently steady produc- tion from this point on. Physically, the Saline Mill Theater has an excellent plant. Situated in what must be the fanciest ex-soy bean mill in the country, they are employing the popular and effective theater-in-the-round. The theater is located on Route 112 in Saline, only eight miles from Ann Arbor. The cur- rent production will last through July 19th. -Leonard Greenbaum "What Time Does It Begin?" - -. - r'"' 'J 1 7 '" \ t 1 = i :' , .." tt Y I .. .,_ " ' DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3510 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceeding publication (be- fore 11 a.m. on Saturday). SATURDAY, JULY 4. 1953 VOL. LXIII, No. 9s i -h { ,....._ c: t. _" °_ , s. , .:, - ..- _.. L - 4 . 'Ft c o++ 's +qc .r wr r ON THE WASHINGTON ME RRY-GO-ROUND WITH DREW PEARSON 1) According to Henry, pays higher wages than plant pays its laborers. J. Kaiser, KM the Fairchild 2) According to Willow Run plant em- ployes, equipment and parts shipped from Fairchild to the Kaiser plant for plane production are dented, scratched and many of them virtually unusable, and new parts must then be ordered and im- ported from Fairchild at Kaiser's expense. 3) According to employes, men are paid to supervise plant operations, but there are more supervisors than needed, and these men are not kept busy; rather, they The High School-College Gap (First in a series) AMERICA'S EDUCATION system is uni- que. Charles Judd and John Dale Rus- sel have pointed out that our kindergarten was first developed in Germany, the ele- mentary school followed a Prussian model, the high school is an American product, the college originated in England and the grad- uate school was imported from Germany. Any system built from such a varied base is bound to suffer from deficiencies, result- ing from non-coordination of the various parts. Such a defect, I feel, is especially noticeable in the last two years of High School and the first two years of college. A second increasingly noticeable' failing of the American educational system is the lack of sufficient flexibility to accommo- At the Michigan.. . DANGEROUS WHEN WET, with Esther Williams, Jack Carson, and Fernando Lamas. ESTHER WILLIAMS, starring in "Dan- gerous When Wet," swims gayly through 'the time proven but somewhat watery plot of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, and finally, with a few songs, laughs, and minor crises, boy marries girl. Esther, an Arkansas farm girl who is, of course, an excellent swimmer, is recruited by sales promoter, Jack Carson, to swim the English Channel to provide publicity for a healthgiving lightning elixir. Carson's en- tertaining but stumbling efforts to win Es- ther's love are no match for the musically inclined South American parisienne, Fer- nando Lamas. Though somewhat distracted by her mil- lionaire lover, Esther eventually wins the race across the channel. The happy ending results, of course, in the inevitable marriage of Esther and Fernando. Adding unexpected imaginative fantasy to this virtually formula Hollywood musical, Esther swims in a dreamworld under water ballet with an animated cat, a mouse, four sea horses, and a blue octopus. If you're still not enchanted, relax in the air-conditioned theater and enjoy the tech- nicolor and Esther Williams' bathing suits. If you would rather watch Miss Williams swim in the English channel, than go swim- ming yourself in one of Michigain's less dis- tinctive, but nevertheless adequate lakes, spend your money and see another one of date the wide differences of ability, interest and maturity that prevail among students of the same age. This, too, is easily seen in the 11th to 14th grades. The Jacksonian ideal of education has been extended so far as to obliterate the Jeffersonian concept of the -right of every able student to the best education from which he is capable of profiting. It is unfortunate that a student marches lockstep through high school with little attention paid to any of his special tal- ents. And when he reaches college, he finds that he spends much of his first two years repeating what he has already learned in High School. This is especially true in the sciences where the student in college takes the same science he had tak- en in High School. And yet the Fund for the Advancement of Education reports that in such classes, the grades of the "repeaters" are not significantly higher than students that had not taken the course in High School! What can be done about such problems? Can such waste be avoided? Could a stu- dent's education be accelerated? Why must the under-prepared student use valuable time in college remedying deficiencies in high school preparation, while the overpre- pared students wastes college time duplicat- ing educational experiences he has already had? Is there a "right age" for entering college? ThegFund for the Advancement of Edu- cation, a part of the Ford Folndation, of- fers three approaches to a solution of the above questions. "First, we need to view the educational process as a whole and to clarify and arrive at broader agreement on the functions of each of its institutional parts so they are clearly and logically related. Second, we need to re-examine critically the existing curricular and other arrangements and wherever necessary alter them to insure a more effective articulation between succes- sive educational stages. Finally, we need 'to find economical and effective ways to incorporate greater flexibility in our edu- cational system to accommodate the widely differing needs and capabilities of indivi- dual students and to promote rather than discourage their interest in learning." This committee is now attacking the problem along four main lines. 1. Three preparatory schools, Andover, Ex- eter and Lawrenceville and three univer- sities, Harvard, Princeton and Yale are inquiring into a study of the programs of these three prep schools and the various colleges of the three universities trying to compare the teaching of various fields in all schoolsand also tracing the educational paths of the graduates of these prep MATTER OF FACT By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-A fortnight before the announcement of Stalin's illness a cur- ious announcement appeared in "Pravda." A certain Maj. Gen. Kosynkin was stated to have met with "an untimely death." Kosyn- kin had never been heard of before, but his death notice revealed that he had held a key post-Commander of the Kremlin guard. From these .facts, a deduction was drawn, which is now accepted as logical by a very large number-perhaps a majority-of the ablest students of the Soviet enigma. If this deduction is correct, Kosynkin died in the performance of his highest duty, to protect the person of Stalin. Lavrenti Beria, Chief of the Secret Po- lice, and those who were allied with him, both had the means and was thought to have the motives to arrange such an epi- sode. Then, within a few days after,the death of Stalin, the old man's chosen heir, Premier Georgi Malenkov, began to lose ground. Starting with the exposure of the doctors' plot, projects sponsored by Malenkov and personalities close to him were dramatically attacked or actually liquidated. The reor- ganization of the Communist Party Secre- tariat, the purges in the governments of Georgia, the Ukraine and Latvia, and cer- tain shifts in the official party line, were all obvious blows to Malenkov's position. Malenkov's name all but vanished from the Soviet press, Malenkov's power seemed to decline, the policies and supporters of Lavrenti Beria appeared to carry all before them. At this juncture, what pass for the so- cial columns of the Moscow press supplied a sharp corrective. An announcement ap- peared that the whole leadership of the Soviet state had honored last Saturday evening's performance of the opera, "De- kembristy," at the Bolshoi Theater. Malen- kov's name headed the list, but the name of Beria alone was not included. And this absence of Beria from the theater party on Saturday has now started speculation on a new line, that Beria is in trouble rather than Malenkov. This feverish summary is by no means in- tended to reflect upon those who seek to un- riddle the Soviet enigma. On the contrary, it is altogether probable that Stalin was murdered. It is quite certain that the other Soviet leaders have been hard at work cut- ting Malenkov down to size. And it is even possible that the non-appearance of Beria at the Saturday opera has a significance not visible on the surface. What this summary is intended to indi- ce. is the extreme fluidity and dohtful- P HILADELPHIA-The mayor of Philadelphia has invited me to broadcast from the east room of Independence Hall tomorrow,; from the table at which was signed the Declaration of Independence. For 177 years free men throughout the world have been marchingf into battle to champion the ideas scratched on a piece of parchmentE in that room, and some people today are asking whether we haveF lived up to them or retrograded.E When Thomas Jefferson rented a room in the home of a Germanc bricklayer just across the street from Independence Hall and for 18i days wOrked on drafting the Declaration, democracy was considereda as deplorable as slavery and a lot more dangerous. Men at that time were by no means equal, and the right to vote was held only by the roperty-owning few. The signers of the Declaration therefore were considered ra- dicals and sometimes received angry glances as they walked ther streets of Philadelphia. Furthermore there was no rejoicing whene the Declaration was signed. No mob stormed the doors of Inde- pendence Hall clamoring for a decision. The Liberty Bell did not ring out until July 8-four days later-all because this great Declaration was an awesome, difficult step totake and every man as he stood up to sign, knew that he. would be hanged by his neck until dead if the British ever caught him. Yet, despite uncertainty and opposition and the fact that ther equality of men was then unheard of, the 56 founding fathers did signt that great human document, the most far-reaching since the dayst of Christ, *# * * *1 WOULD WE SIGN TODAY? NOW LET US SEE how we have lived up to it. Would we sign it again if the occasion arose today? Two years ago the Madison Capital Times of Wisconsin and the New Orleans Item circulated petitions among 4th of July crowds ask- ing people to sign the same resolutions contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Out of 112 people approached in Wisconsin, 111 refused to sign, refused to reaffirm their faith in the same principles contained in the two great documents that gave Americans their freedom. In New Orleans, 26 out of 34 refused to sign. Those who refused1 called the documents Communistic, or said the "FBI ought to checkl up on this sort of thing," or that "my family's with the government and it might get them into trouble." One man read Jefferson's stirring words, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it," and remarked: "that sounds Russian to me." Their refusal to sign was due first to ignorance, second to fear. Many of them had never taken the trouble to read the great words which founded our republic. Ignorance, since that time, has been partially remedied by a printer in Richmond, Va., Mr. August Dietz, who has printed several million copies of the Declaration of Independence and has distributed them at less than it costs him to print them, a nickel each, through the schools of the nation. The Sertoma Clubs and other service groups have done a great job of helping him and this might be a good time to prepare for a new drive to make this great document familiar to everyone. FEAR OF FREE THOUGHT BUT THE OTHER REASON for modern-day reluctance to sign the Declaration of Independence, fear, has probably increased. There was a time, before the signing of the Declaration, when our early ancestors burned witches and Quakers in New England, not. for what they did, but for what they thought. There was also a time when they stoned Catholics in the streets of Philadelphia, not for what they did, but for what they thought. But the 56 men who had the courage to sign the parchment setting a pattern for our nation --- abhorred these things, tried to set standards that would preventf them.1 And they would be shocked to4 learn that a Senate committee, J " 1C. 'tfl t 11 with as drastic subpoena power over modern-day Americans as the British had over colonial SixtyThird Year settlers, is now demanding to Edited and managed by students of know what books are on State the University of Michigan under the Department shelves by such au- authority of the Board in Control of Depatmet shlve by uchau-Student Publications. thors as radio commentators StudentPublications. Elmer Davis and Raymond Editorial Staff Gram Swing, such a great jur- Harland Britz.........Managing Editor ist as Judge Learned Hand, and Dick Lewis ..............Sports Editor such a devoted pastor as Dr. A. Becky Conrad...........Night Editor Powell Davies. Gayle Greene.............Night Editor They would be grieved to learn FPat Roelofsn............Night Editor that a congressional committee had reached into the churches to Business Staff plague and probe such devoted Bob Miller. .........Business Manager churchmen as Bishop Browley Ox- Dick Astrom..... Circulation Manager nam. Dick Nyberg...... ..Finance Manager And they would doubtless won- Jessica Tanner. Advertising Associate rip, whether a Rnntnr rm.+h, Bob Kovacs.......Advertising Associate Notices The General Library and all the Di- visional Libraries will be closed, Satur- day, July 4, a University holiday. Lydia Mendelssohn Box Off ice is open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. today. Season tickets for the Department of Speech summer play series are still available at $6.00-$4.75-$3.25. Tickets for the individual plays are also on sale now at $1.20-90c-60c for the plays and $1.50-$1.20-90c for the musical comedy and opera. The Department of Speech summer play series includes The Madwoman of Chaillot, Knicer- bocker Holiday, The Country Girl, Pyg- malion and The Tales of Hoffman. Next week, July 8, 9, 10 and 11, the Department of Speech will present Max- well Anderson and Kurt Weill's delight- fully satirical musical comedy, Knick- erbocker Holiday. This popular musical uses New Amsterdam in 1647 as the setting for making fun of present day political activities. "September Song" is one of the popular tunes from Knick- erbocker Holiday. Miss Esther Schloz, of the Detroit Public Schools and guest instructor in the Women's Physical Education Department, is creating and directing the choreography. Paul Milier, Grad. Music, is conducting the orches- tra and chorus. The entire production is under the direction of William P. Halstead of the Department of Speech. All performances are in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre at 8:00 p.m. Veterans eligible for education bene- fits under Public Law 550 (Korea G.I. Bill) must report to Office of Veterans' Affairs, Room 555, Administration Building before 5 p.m. July 6 if they have not already done so. Failure to check through that office may result in receipt of no, or only partial allow- ance for the Summer Session. The student sponsored social events listed below are approved for the com- ing weekend. Social chairmen are re- quested to file requests for approval for social activities in the Office of Stu- dent Affairs not later than 12 o'clock noon on the Monday prior to the event. Lect ures On the symposium on X-Ray Dif- fraction, Monday, July 6 at 9 am., Professor P. P. Ewald of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, will speak on "Fourier Transformation and X-Ray Diffraction by Crystals." At 10 a.m., Professor William N. Lipscomb of the University of Minnesota will speak on "Experimental Studies of Crystal Struc- ture: Examination of Diffraction Pho- tographs and a Discussion of Their Interpreting The News By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst PRESIDENT Eisenhower's policy of persuasion rather than pres- sure in dealing with Congress be- gan to show signs of paying some profit this week, but there was certainly no indication that this Congress would ever become a presidential rubber stamp. The President himself was very moderate in his assessment of progress made, confining himself to a remark that the Republican party is gradually showing its ability to assume responsibility and carry it out. Physocal Basis.' The lectures will be in 1400 Chemistry Building. For the Speech and the Preacher Con- ference Monday, July 6 there will be a: introduction to the Conference at 10:00 o'clock in the morning in the+ Rackham Amphitheater, at 10:30 there will be the speech sessions. At 1:30 in the afternoon there will be a panel discussion on "Current Practices in Re- ligious Broadcasting" in the Rackham Amphitheatre. At 2:45 and 4:15 p.m. there will be group instruction. The lecture topics for the Symposium on Astrophysics will be Galaxies: Their Composition and Structure," by Dr. Walter Baade, of Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, at 2:00 o'clock, and "The Origin of Chemical Elements" by Dr. George Gamow. Professor of Physics, George Washington University. at 3:30 p.m. The lectures will be in 1400 Chemistry Building. For the Conference of English Teach- ers on Monday, July 6, Professor Joseph C. Blumenthal of the MacKenzie High School of Detroit, and Miss Anna Yam- brick, of Flint Northern High School, will use as their topic "Common Sense Approaches to Grammar and Usage" at 4:00 p.m., Auditorium C, Angell Hall. For the College Professors' Workshop, Monday, July 6, from 2-4 p.m. Professor Tremaine McDowell, Chairman of the Program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, will discuss "New Developments in the Humanities." Professor Louise E. Cuyler, Associate Professor of Musicology, will give a com- mentary on the Stanley Quartet Pro- gram, at 4:15 p.r., Monday, July 6, in Auditorium D of Angell Hall. For the Radiation Biology Symposium Dr. G. W. Beadle, Chairman, Division of Biology, CaliforniaInstitute of Tech- nology, will speak on "EffecH of Radi- ation on Mechanisms of Heredity," Monday evening, July 6 at 8:00 o'clock in Room 1300 Chemistry Building. Alan W. Gowans, visiting Assistant' Professor in Fine Arts, from Rutgers University, will lecture on "America's New Folk Art" at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, July 7, in Auditorium D, Angell Hall. The talk will be illustrated, and is to be a commentary on the summer ex- hibition, "Popular Visual Arts" now being shown at the Museum. On Tuesday, July 7, at 2 p.m. in Room 141 Business Administration, Professor Trmaine McDowell will speak on "New Developments in Teaching the Humanities." A cademic Notices Doctoral Examination for Elizabeth Virginia Davidian, Education; thesis: "~The Comparability of the Ratings. of Teacher Graduates at a Selected Teach- ers' College by Training Supervisors and School Employers," Monday, July 6, East Council Room, Rackham Build- ing, at 2 p.m. Chairman, H. C. Koch, Make-Up Examinations in History-- Saturday, July 11, 9-12 a.m., 2407 Mason Hall. See your instructor for permis- sion and then sign list in History Office. M.A. Language Egamination-Friday, July 10, 4-5 p.m., 3615 Haven Hall. Sign list in History Office. Can bring a dic- tionary. Graduate Symposium Radio; Monday, July 6, 4 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. Dr. Edgar E. Willis will be the speaker. I 1: +Y, I Indeed, a major portion of ad- ministration effort so far has been devoted to spadework. The fight over the excess pro- fits tax, indeed, was a prelimin- ary. The extension is designed merely to keep governmentre- venue up until an integrated tax program can be worked out next year. It provided a point, too, on which persuasion fail- ed and party pressure was re- quired for success. But it did appear that the administration had won. Indeed, the administration had been decisively beaten at only one point. That was on a proposed congressional resolution to dis- sociate the U.S. from wartime agreements which had been per- verted by Soviet Russia for her own acquisitive purposes. The Re- publican Congress wanted to turn it into an arraignment of the two preceding Democratic administra- tions, thus damaging its world propaganda value, and the whole thing fell through. Extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act was anoth- er interim measure designed to carry things along until there could be a sweeping re-Rssess- ment of trade policy as a whole, and on this Congress appeared willing to give the President time, too. Persuasion and faith in the President's military, knowledge were prime factors in resolving the fight over the military bud- get. Congress got in its licks, but the administration was de- Concerts Special Choral Demonstrations (First Series) by Maynard Klein, conductor of the University of Michigan Choirs, Mon- day, July 6, 11 a.m., and 3 p.m., and Tuesday, July 7, 11 am., in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. Individual conferences may be arranged with Prof essor Klein by signing for appointments. A list of available hours will be posted on the door of Room 708 Burton Tower, where conferences will be held. Open to all interested. A second series of choral demonstra- tions with Marlowe Smith, Eastman School of Music, will be held July 10 and 11th. Student Recital: Richard Harper, Or- ganist, will present a program in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements for the 'degree of Master of Music at 8:30 Wednesday evening, July 8, in the Hill Auditorium. His program will include works byABuxtehude, Bach, vivaldi, Langlais, Alain and Durufle and will be open to the public. Mr. Harper is a pupil of Robert Noehren. Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Hall. Popular Art in America (June 30 -August 7); California Water Color So- ciety (July 1-August 1). 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays; 2 to 5 p.m. on Sun- days. The public is invited. General Library. Best sellers of the twentieth century. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Gill- man Collection of Antiques of Palestine, Museums Building, rotunda exhibit. Steps in the preparation of ethnolo- gical dioramas. Michigan Historical Collections. Mi- chigan, year-round vacation land. Clements Library. The good, the bad, the popular. Law Library. Elizabeth II and her em- pire. Architecture Building. Michigan Chil. dren's Art Exhibition. Events Today *Play, presented by the Department of Speech. The Madwoman of Chaillot, by Jean Giraudoux, 8 p.m., Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. Chinese Students Club picnic. Michigan Christian Fellowship, July 4th, picnic at Silver Lake. Meet at Lane Hall at 11 a.m. All students invited. } L A S.R.A. Intercultural Outing. Satur- day and Sunday, July 4 and 5. Leave Lane Hall at 2 p.m. for Saline valley Farms Cooperative. Return Sunday aft- Sernoon.Call2reservations to Lane Hall, 3-1511 ext. 2851. All students and fa- culty welcome. A .. 1