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The Governor and the Goon
GRINNING BOYISHLY above the polka dots,
Michigan's Gov. G. Mennen Williams has
dmitted, more than once, that he wouldn't
urn down any chances for the 1956 presiden-
jal nomination.
"If any plums come my way," he has said,
I'll be there to catch them."
But, for the Democratic Party to toss any
lums, however minor, in Lansing's direction
rould be foolish. Proof of the governor's in-
dequacies for higher office-if any is needed--
as developed as a sidelight of the Kohler, Wis-
'nsin strike.
The governor's involvement in the strike has
nderstandably, from his viewpoint, been sub-
ued. For more than a year he has sheltered a
etroit labor goon, John Gunaco, who is want-
i by Sheboygan, Wis., authorities on two
'arges of assault with intent of great physi-
al harm. For more than a year Gunaco has
raded a Wsiconsin trial-courtesy of Gov.
rilliams.
On July 4, 1954, Gunaco accosted and beat
p two Sheboygan laborers. He returned to
etroit, and crawled under the governor's pro-
ctive wing, which has since kept him safe
om a maximum prison penalty of three
ears.
Gov. Williams has stubbornly ignored at-
mpts of Wisconsin officials, including Gov,
ralter J. Kohler (who isn't related to the con-
oversial plant) to have Gunaco extradited
and returned for his trial. A recent formal re-
quest by the Wisconsin governor made no dent
in Gov. Williams' stand.
Shaky, at best, Gov. Williams' grounds for
sheltering Gunaco rest on the contention that
a fair trial would be impossible in the inflamed
labor sentiments of the Sheboygan area.
For any public servant to base such an eva-
sive stand on a mere hunch about the relative
justice of another state's courts is preposter-
ous. The governor was not elected to protect
criminals, even when in his judgment a fair
trial for them would be unlikely. Fairness of
any trial must be proven in the course of the
trial itself-not thwarted by the bigoted logic
of an outsider.
Clearly Gov. Williams should extradite Gun-
aco. Clearly he should base all his actions on
sound theories. But his refusal in both respects
marks another incident in a long career of "ig-
noring" unpleasant obligations. His interest in
labor, to which he owes his re-elections, is com-
mendable in itself, but at a certain point it
becomes absurd.
The Kohler incident is such a point. Hope-
fully, the Democrats will aim elsewhere when
next summer's national political plums are
thrown. And we may also hope that the gover-
nor's fumbling and disastrous techniques can
eventually be checked where they started-on
the Michigan level.
-Jane Howard
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The New Military Reserve
Plan Offers Aiternatives
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Dulles Frowned on Early
Russian Visit to Nation
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By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON - OP) - This is an ABC on
the military reserve bill just passed by
Congress to build up a pool of trained men.
President Eisenhower is expected to sign it
into law shortly. It will go into effect at that
moment.
It has significance for those now in the
armed forces, those going in after the new law
becomes effective, and for teen-agers who wis i
to join the reserves or the National Guard and
thus avoid the draft.
To see what the new law means, first look
at the reserve program as it stands under a
law passed in 1951.
Under that law everyone discharged from
the armed forces, unless he served eight years,
must then go into the reserves so that his to-
tal active and reserve service is eight years.
There are three kinds of reserves:
1) Ready reservists who train. They drill
one night a week, from 12 to 48 weeks a year,
and spend 17 days a year in camp. They get
paid, according to rank, for the days and
nights they drill.
2) Ready reservists who don't do any train-
ing. They get no pay.
3) Standby reserves. They, like the second
group of ready reservists, do no drilling.
Both groups of ready reservists, in case of
war, would be called into active service ahead
of the standby reserves. Who, under present
law, goes into the ready reserves and into the
standby reserves?
1) Anyone with less than five years in the
armed forces must, upon his discharge, go in-
to the ready reserves. But whether or not he
takes reserve training is voluntary. He can
choose to go into the non-training reserves. If
he doesn't take the reserve training, however,
he must stay in the ready reserve forces and
the trained ready reserves, and transfer into
the last-to-be-called standby reserves until his
eight years are up.
That's the way it is now. It will remain that
way for all those who enter the armed forces
before Eisenhower signs the new bill: they have
a total obligation of eight years on active serv-
ice and in the reserves.
For those who enlist or are drafted after the
new bill becomes law, the total obligation will
be six years instead of eight.
They will have to put in combined service of
five years in the armed forces and the trained
ready reserves, and one year in the standby
reserves.
They won't have a choice as exists now-of
choosing to go into the non-training ready re-
serves when they get out of the armed forces.
They'll have to go into ready reserve training.
Congress made a special provision for men
already in the* armed forces. When they get
out. Since they're covered by the old law, they
can choose to go into the nontraining ready re-
serves.
But Congress said the government-in ligtit-
ed numbers and only until July, 1957-could
offer them this deal, which they could take or
reject:r
A man in active service for 12 months can
be discharged provided he agrees to go into
the trained ready reserves for a period which,
when added to his active service, would total
four years. Then, since under the old law he
still has an eight-year obligation, he could
serve his remaining four as a standby.
Or a man who has filled out his enlistment
or draft term, if he volunteers to go into the
trained ready reserve, will have to serve only
one year in that group. Then he'd serve out
the rest of his eight-year obligation as a stand-!
by.
On Poetry .
To the Editor:
IT IS ALWAYS amusing to see
what the explicators in the
English Department at O.S.U.
read into the writing of their
young female poets. If they had
talked with their colleagues on
third floor, I am sure they would
have learned the poem was not
one expressing fear but one of
precontrolled thought. PhD's in
the History Department can read
symbolism too.
Then if the young graduate stu-
dent working on his PH.D had had
the forethought to visit the Psy-
chology Department and talk with
the explicitors there, he would
have learned that emotional shock
in a sensitive, reflective mind may
often have a delayed reaction,
namely, "Psychoneurosis with con-
version hysteria."
My own interpretation of the
poem is as follows:
"Humpty Dumpty sat on the
wall,
"Humpty Dumpty had a great
fall.
"Now all the King's Physicians
"Can't put Humpty Dumpty to-
gether again."
--E. A. Schmidt
The Drama Critics .,.
To the Editor:
DONALD YATES' appreciativej
review of Walter Kerr's con-
troversial How Not To Write a
Play is a fine recognition of an
important book, but perhaps does
not fully indicate the far-reaching
scope of Kerr's attack on con-
temporary theatre.
Kerr, probably the best of the
Broadway critics, believes that
current drama is too heavily the-
matic and not truly dramatic. It
lacks insight, imaginative language
and dynamic movement. It does
not attempt to establish an emo-
tional rapport with the audience,
instead relying on an intellectual
appeal, which is not really appeal-
ing.
Kerr claims that playwrights
are actually hostile to their own
audiences and that they don't
really enjoy their own plays, which
are for the most part slow-moving
mood studies of frustration and
loneliness.
Many of today's playwrights
have taken a pseudo-realistic ap-
proach by portraying only the
duller aspects of our lives. Their
concern is with the kind of people
whom we avoid in real life-may-
be because the playwrights, with
a few notable exceptions, are those
kind of people.
In the perspective of today's
avant garde, which is not really as
avant as it thinks, this is in es-
sence a philistine viewpoint. Kerr
wants people to like the theatre-
even the kind of people that Shaw'
locked out, the instinctive dolts
who seek pleasure and excitement.
These days we dolts are finding
more stimulation in the movies.
Contrary to Ernest Theodossin
rap on the screenwriters on the
same page as Yates' review, the
box office tells the story. And, as
Kerr points out, if dramatists con-
tinue to scoff at movie-goers in-
stead of analyzing why it is theyj
have rejected the theatre, thej
screen-writers will grow increas-
ingly, and justifiably, wealthy.
-Al Connable
Handbill Rule,.
To the Editor:
A N ARTICLE in Friday's Daily
headlined "Marshall Tests
Handbill Rule" suggests some fur-
ther comment from the "tester."
My original intent in preparing,
printing, and distributing leaflets
advertising my store's Bargain
Day specials was strictly business
. . . the only thing I was "test-
ing" was the pulling-power of an
unusual leaflet with an original
built-in "gimmick."
Because all cities have leaflet-
controlling ordinances of one sort
or another I naturally checked
with my attorney first. We were
quite certain our distribution com-
plied with local ordinances.
As I understand the ordinance
cited its purpose is to prevent the
littering of our streets. This is
worthy and necessary. Therefore
as a regular part of our distribu-
tion one employee, and at times
myself, picked up any leaflets
dropped by pedestrians. There
just was no litter. Viola, we are
complying with the law, we are
doing some good advertising.
But about 10:30 we were or-
dered off the streets by the police.
After a lot of phoning we re-
turned to the distribution about
11:30, again were ordered off.
More phoning, and then back to
complete the distribution. As a
result of this experience it ap-
pears fair to state that the police
-though acting in a very cour-
teous and friendly manner-are
prepared and are trying to pre-
vent any leaflets from being dis-
tributed, using the anti-litter or-
dinance to do this.'
It was in this connection that I
was prepared to be arrested, so
that a court ruling could be ob-
tained. (Your article is not at all
correct when it stated that "Faced
with arrest, Marshall said he
would pick up any leaflets dropped
on the city streets." We had been
picking up dropped leaflets for
well over an hour before we had
the slightest notion that the po-
lice felt we were violating any or-
dinance, before there was the
slightest thought that it would be
necessary to "test" any ordi-
nance.) The police did consider
making an arrest but decided
eventually not to do so.
I maintain any individual or
firm has the right to circularize
or distribute handbills saying just
about anything save libel or sedi-
tion. Like all our rights this one
must be tempered . . . in this case
in terms of courtesy and litter.
Certainly my initial motives in
this instance were mundane and
profit-seeking. But the principle
remains. Recognizing the problem
of keeping our streets clean, there
is still a more basic concern-the
constitutional guarantee of free-
dom of speech. The issue vis-a-vis
leaflet distribution in Ann Arbor
is still cloudy, but I believe that
in a calm and non-cantankerous
manner we have established a vi-
able precedent.
-Bob Marshall
W ASHINGTON - Eisenhower
would have invited Premier
Bulganin and Marshal Zhukov to
Washington during the Geneva
talks, if Foster Dulles had let him.
It was definitely discussed and the
Russians were itching to come-
right away-but Dulles said no
... Ike got irritated at times at
his Maginot-minded Secretary of
State.
Reason behind the current, his-
toric talks with the Chinese Reds
was -a repeated warning from Al-
len Dulles, head of Central Intel-
ligence that the Reds would begin
a devastating bombardment of
Quemoy-Matsu immediately after
the Geneva Conference. Ike decid-
ed it was better to talk than re-
treat . .. Hitherto any intimation
that we would talk to the Chinese
Reds without Chiang Kai-Shek
being represented has brought
screams of anguish from the
Knowland wing of the Republican
Party. Its members are still irate
but less vocal . . . State Depart-
ment advisers have raised Cain
with Chiang Kai-Shek's trigger-
happy public relations men who
have published stories about Chi-
nese Red planes piloted by Rus-
sians diving on Nationalist planes.
A lot of these incidents didn't
really happen, and the State De-
partment is trying to tone down
inflammatory news stories. You've
seen a lot less of them lately.
POLITICAL SIGNS
AND SIGNALS
[UST BEFORE he was stricken
with a heart seizure, friends of
Senator Lyndon Johnson planned
to launch a Presidential boom.
The friends included Russell of
Georgia, Smathers of Florida, and
Symington of Missouri. They were
all set to make a public announce-
ment when Lyndon felt the ef-
fect of his gruelling work and
was carried to the hospital.-,
Arrow-tongued Senator Bob Kerr
of Oklahoma, one of the few who
took on Douglas MacArthur, is
"willing" to take the Senate lead-
ership if either Johnson or Clem-
ents don't want it next year. (He's
both willing and eager.) . . . The
big shambling hill-billy from Ten-
nessee, Estes Kefauver, has taken
terrific stride stoward the Demo-
cratic nomination without exert-
ing any noticeable effort. He's
one of the few Democrats who
know how to fire political shots
like Sergeant York of Tennessee
-to kill. And unlike some of his
colleagues he's not afraid to fire.
. Carmine De Sapio, head of
Tammany and the political gen-
ius behind Governor Averell Har-
riman, isn't wedded to Adlai for
the nomination as is his friend
Averell. De Sapio.is for any good
Democratic campaigner. . . . Re-
publican leaders arenowsfeeling
much happier about prospects
that Ike will run again. If they
can keep him absorbed with in-
ternational affairs and not wor-
ried about Talbottism or Dixon-
Yatesism they figure he'll be
ready and willing for '56. . . .
George Bender, the singing Sena-
tor from Ohio, hasgot hissignals
crossed again. Usually he takes
them from his good friend, Secre-
tary Humphrey, who comes from
Bender's home town, Cleveland.
But while Bender has been Secre-
tary Talbott's chief defender in
the Senate, Humphrey has been
Talbott's chief critic in the Cabi-
net . . . Once before, Bender got
his signals crossed on the St.
Lawrence Seaway. After vigor-
ously opposing it, he found that
Humphrey was its chief pusher.
So Bender switched pronto. After
all Humphrey has been his big-
gest campaign contributor.
NIXON SCORES
ON KNOWLAND
RUMORS PERSIST that Vice
President Nixon won't run
again, will retire voluntarily to
practice law. All outward indica-
tions, however, are to the con-
trary. It was Nixon himself who
sold Ike on letting him hold a
cabinet meeting in Ike's absence
--a pure public relations stunt.
Almost never are cabinet meet-
ings held by Vice Presidents, and
never in the memory of Washing-
ton observers have pictures been
taken of vice-presidential sessions.
But Nixon not only held a mee inr,
but got a photo to prove it.
His grandchildren will be happy.
... Nixon's public relations build-
up last month was gall-and-
wormwood to the other young
man from California. Bill Know-
land came down to the airport in
the rain to welcome Ike home
from Geneva, but didn't look hap-
py at seeing Nixon in charge of
welcoming arrangements.
Knowland is expected to resign
BENSON GOES INTO REVERSE
BACKSTAGE reason why Secre-
tary Benson suddenly modified
his plans to dump surplus cotton
on the world market was a story
released by this column on July
14, disclosing that Benson's assist-
ant. James A. McConnell, had met
secretly with five Southern Sena-
tors at the Raleigh Hotel and Re-
vealed his plan to dump cotton.
Economic repercussions from this
story were such that Benson re-
versed himself. He got some tough
warnings from political leaders to
go slow. . . . Congratulations to
Senator Jimmy Phillips of the
Texas legislature- for his expose of
Texas Commissioner Bascm Giles
for rooking veterans on land deals.
Phillips' crusade forced Giles' tri-
al and conviction. . . . If the
Kremlin is really sincere about
its smiles, Hungary might be a
good place to start. Last week,
Communist Hungary deported ap-
proximately 800 relatives of Hun-
garian exiles who had been work-
ing for Radio Free Europe. One
exile, Lajos Hajddu, is former
Vice President of the Hungarian
Peasant Union. Fifteen of his rel-
atives, including cousins, aunts,
and in-laws, were corralled, load-
ed into trucks, and shipped off to
Rumanian border. . . . Other rela-
tive of other exiles have been
picked up without notice, loaded
into police trucks, and told to find
their own transportation at their
own expense to Rumania. They
can take with them only what
they can carry. . . .It's one of the
most brutal recent cases of Com-
munist persecution, and took
place while Bulganin was smiling
at Ike in Geneva.
BATTLE OF THE COLORADO
AFTER HOUSE leaders agreed
to drop the Administration's
controversial Upper Colorado Riv-
er reclamation project, someone
asked Colorado's Democratic Con-
gressman Wayne Aspinall whether
he thought the issue was dead,
"No," replied the optimistic As-
pinall. "I think it's still breath-
ing."
Aspinall was one of the hardest
workers for the Upper Colorado
project, which would have been
of great benefit to the parched
state of Colorado. So he was op-
timistic. However, few measures
before the 84th Congress have
aroused more spirited attacks, and
a more amazing coalition of ene-
mies. Groups with nothing at all
in common joined together to
spike the big reclamation project
to develop the waters of the Up-
per Colorado River at federal ex-
pense to benefit the sparsely pop-
ulated arid areas of Utah and
Colorado. Here is the unusual line-
up that helped stall the bill:
1-Conservationists in both par-
ties, who fear that the proposed
Echo Park Dam in Dinosaur Na-
tional Monument, although elimi-
nated from the bill by a House
subcommittee, might ultimately be
brought back in.
- 2-Pseudo-conservationists like
Pennsylvania's Republican con-
gressman John P. Saylor, who
have nightmares over the high
dollar cost of the project, but
who disguise their opposition by
stealing the more seductive argu-
ments of the true conservation-
ists.
3-Californians of both parties,
like Democrat Chet Holafield and
Republican Craig Hosmer, who
fear their state might suffer if the
Colorado River is diverted before
it reaches the west coast.
4--Crop-support opponents and
farmers, who both dislike the idea
of more land being brought under
cultivation.
5-Private power enthusiasts in
the GOP, who automatically stand
in the way of any proposal that
might encroach on private utili-
ties.
6-Public power enthusiasts in
the Democratic Party, like Illi-
nois' Senator Paul Douglas, who
calls the Upper Colorado the "big-
gest boondoggle in history" and
who refuses to go along with cost-
ly projects like the Upper Colo-
rado until Congress passes more
economical public reclamation
proposals like Hell's Canyon.
With such an imposing array of
foes lined up against the bill,
House Republican leaders agreed
at a recent caucus to let it sleep
until fall. Colorado Republicans
William S. Hill and J. Edgar Che-
noweth fought hard for the proj-
ect, even circularizing fellow
members of the GOP policy com-
mittee. But in the end, minority
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CURRENT MOVIES
At the Michigan ...
NOT AS A STRANGER, with Olivia de
Havilland and Robert Mitchum.
THERE ARE a few things about this film
which are different, and for those I suppose
we ought to be grateful. But these things are
not of proportions which warrant the "stands
alone" advertising that the picture has re-
ceived.
The Innovations are easily recognized --
there are shots, rare in commercial films, of
internal films, of internal organs during surgi-
cal operations; and there is an obtrusive
tendency to treat the medical profession with
the utmost frankness. These, of course, have
become almost cliches on television's Medic
program, and over-careful editing makes the
Not as a Stranger version seem even a bit
squeamish. It's all very well known what goes
on in a university medical school - if the
events and attitudes portrayed here do actually
exist-but the attitude of the film itself in-
clines toward startling revelations motivated by
sensationalism.
T1HE STORY wrapt in these shock waves is
slightly less substantial. As in Marty the
characters specialize in being just folks with
normal capabilities and weaknesses. Here they
are in a situation which relies pretty heavily
upon professional activities, and producer-di-
rector Stanley Kramer has to work hard to
keep their humanity to the fore. Perhaps for
this reason, though there may be others, the
non-professional part of the plot falls easily
into well-established melodramatic routine,
Anger leads to sviolence, disappointment to
tears, and inebriation to brutal revelation of
truth.
Robert Mitchum plays the role of Lucas
Marsh, an idealistic medical student who
develops himself into a successful small-town
doctor. Marsh is a very odd sort, dividing his
psyche pretty evenly between unrealistic
idealism and super-realistic opportunism,
ruthlessly using his acquaintances to achieve
high moral goals. Mitchum has some difficulty
being young, and a great deal of difficulty
being a wholesome-minded dreamer. He is most
convincing when dissipating a la Jekyll.
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VOL. LXVI, NO. 29
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talk to men for sales, anywhere in
U. S.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu-
tion, Woods Hole, Mass., needs several
Marine Scientists, men with degrees in
Physics, Geophysics, Biophysics or
Math. Physics.
City of Detroit announces exam for
a Junior Art Curator.
For informationcontact the Bureau
of Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg.,
Ext. 371.
PERSONNEL INTERVIEW:
A representative from the following
will be at the Bureau:
Tues., Aug. 2.
Mich. Bell Telephone - Women for
Lectures
Special Summer Session on Digital
Computers and Data Processors. "Three
Years of Operation of the MIDAC
(Michigan Digital Automatic Com-
puter)," Dr. John W. Carr, associate
research mathematician, Willow Run
Research Center; Boyd T. Larrowe,
research associate, Willow Run Re-
search Center; and Ralph W. Johnston,
research assistant, Willow Run Re-
search Center. 7:30 p.m., Tues., Aug. 2,
Aud. C, Mason Hall.
Linguistic Forum. Prof. William G.+
Moulton of Cornell University will
speak on "Linguistics in the Teaching
The Daily Staff
Managing Editors.....................Cal Samra
Jim Dygert
NIGHT EDITORS
Mary Lee Dingler, Marge Piercy, Ernest Theodossin
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