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HAL BOYLE:
Sam Greater Than Davy?

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Ike's Public
Statements
By PAT ROELOFS
'RESIDENT EISENHOWER was perfectly
correct when he said this week it is "per-
fectly stupid" for the world to spend so much
on arms. What sane person who honestly be-
lieves in peace would think of fighting to pre-
serve it by building up the biggest army in the
world?
But it is only the first half of the Presi-
dent's public statement that makes sense. He
spoils the new impression of sound thinking
he has made with "it is perfectly stupid for
the world to continue to put so much in these
agencies and instrumentalities that cost us so
much, and if we don't have this war, do us so
little good,"
What this nation's leader seems to fear is
that we may be building up our stockpiles of
armies and bombs and new streamlined weap-
ons for no purpose-what a waste! On the
other hand, they may come in handy, he im-
plies. He is bemoaning the fact that the agen-
cies and instrumentalities of war may not be
used-what an inference for the leader of the
world's leading nation to be making! What we
should hope he would be aiming for is that we
will not have to use these arms, and to re-
joice in peace, not fear peace may continue!
The President sometimes says the right
things for the wrong reasons. Another example
of his muddled thinking (or perhaps this is his
nervousness at a news conference with the
ever critical and high pressuring press) came
out in the same Wednesday statement.
He said he was delighted that the city of
Memphis, Tennessee is planning to build, its
own power plant, that "this is in accordance
with the philosophy in which I believe." The
President's "this" here probably refers to pub-
lic power companies, as opposed to private pow-
er companies, for supplying hydro-electric pow-
er.
We would be glad to identify ourselves with
a president who actually did believe public util-
ities were: a sound investment because they
alone can afford to furnish power at a mini-
mum cost (private companies need to work for
profit). But if Eisenhower did mean what this
new statement seems to indicate, he has radi-
cally changed his attitude in one year.
It was exactly a year ago this month that
'resident Eisenhower ordered the Atomic En-
ergy Commission, which was called in to act
as contracting agent, to award Dixon-Yates a
contract for the $107,000,000 Memphis generat-
ing project, against the protests of both the
Tennessee Valley Authority and the AEC. The
Administration's official statement at that time
was, "Dixon-Yates will be a good example of
how free enterprise, works." (Though, it was
pointed out that free enterprise furnishing elec-
tric power would cost taxpayers $140,000,000
more than TVA power within a few short
years)
Now, Dixon-Yates isn't wanted by the Mem-
phis people themselves. The President, always
wanting to win the approval of the people, has
round it necessary to change his tune to keep
that approval. The trouble a sincere bystander-
has when the President reverses his point of
view, is trying to figure out what the Eisen-
hower philosophy really is. The President's
tactics seem from here to indicate that a rath-
er unsteady, too-flexible man is sitting in the
White House. *

The Stock

Market Boom
By CAL SAMRA
STOCK MARKET reports last week left us
a bit awed by the apparent virility of the
American economy. The nation seems to be
riding the crest of another business boom. On
Wall Street, the trading has been brisk.
The current business splurge, however, is
causing some malaise in certain governmental
quarters, and for. a good reason. Economists,
both liberal and conservative, have always been
uneasy in the face of rampaging bull market,
but this time it's'the incredible expansion of
credit buying that's worrying them. Lurking.
in the background is the painful memory of the
'29 bust, caused in part by heavy marginal
buying.
The Administration is now being urged to
clamp more direct controls on the stock market
via the Federal Reserve Board, which has the
authority to jack-up marginal requirements.
The problem is, essentially, to institute such
control without disrupting the delicate ma-
chinery of the stock market. Nothing can
plunge the stock market into a panic more
easily than government interference.
On the other hand, it's important that the
Administration exercise caution and be ready
to up the marginal rates if necessary. Confi-
dence in the future is a fine outlook, but it oc-
casionally has a mesmerizing influence.
-TO 'ER' IS HUMAN-
THE OTHER day, Edward Stasheff, of the
Speech Department, was chiding a member
of one of his television classes for bumbling
through a recorded interview.
"You've got to watch your 'ah's' and your
'er's," admonished Stasheff. "Too many 'ah's'
and 'er's'."
"To 'er' is human," piped a voice in the back
row, "To forgive is divine."
Child Reading
Do you know what a necronomicon is? Prob-
ably not. But for thousands of children
this is part of their education. They know
that a necronomicon is a creature that, of
course,' drinks People's blood and eats their
flesh. Maybe you aon't know either how one
stops a man who is drinking a child's blood.
That is easy; a man with a crucifix chants
prayers while another man stabs the vampire
through the heart. Let me conclude this little
quiz about what we give our youngest children
to read with a last question. Why does a
woman leave her husband? You may not
know; but many little boys and girls could
tell you; She is sexually attached to a big, black
gorilla - "I MUST GO TO HIM!" she says,
"I MUST!"
For years now parents, educators, doctors,
child psychologists, moral teachers, and re-
ligious leaders have permitted good children
to be exposed to this kind of reading, indis-
criminately and in enormous numbers.
The Kefauver Senate Committee to investi-
gate organized crime whitewashed the crime
comic book industry. The Hendrickson Senate
Subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, although
admitting that many comic books "stress sadis-
tic degeneracy," also specifically rejects legisla-
tion.
-Dr. Fredric Wertham, in
Saturday Review

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By HAL BOYLE
MARYVILLE, Tenn.-,PG-Davy
Crockett, king of the wild
afrontier?
Why, man, there are people here
in Davy's old home state who'll
tell you he was nothing but a wet-
eared boy in an oversized coonskin
cap compared to Sam Houston.
Davy died in the Alamo, but big
Sam, who spent his youth here,
was an even greater soldier and
statesman and led Texas into the
Union. It was hard today to ima-
gine what Texas would be like if
it hadn't been for Sam Houston
I(and oil wells, of course).
Young Sam might have been
judged a juvenile delinquent by
modern standards, but he outgrew
it. And to Mrs. Boyd McKenzie,
one of a group trying to preserve
as a historic shrine the old one-
room log cabin in which Houston
once taught school, Davy isn't in
the same class with Sam as a fron-
tier hero..
"We'd never even heard much
of Davy Crockett until six months
ago," she said firmly.
Mrs. McKenzie is the descendant
of a family which owned land next
to the farm on which Sam Hous-
ton's widowed mother settled in
Tennessee. She made the trek here
from Virginia with her nine chil-
dren.
Young Sam was an avid reader
andraverse to farm work. He used
to run away and live with the
Cherokee Indians who named him
"The Raven."
"His first mention here was for
public drunkenness at the age of
18," said Mrs. McKenzie. "He walk-
ed up and down the streets beat-
ing a drum and was charged with
disturbing the peace."
During the next year he opened
a school here to pay off debts of
$100-a big amount in those days.
He had run up the bill buying pre-
sents for his mother and some In-
dian maidens.
"The previous teachers had
charged $6 a semester tuition,"
said Mrs. McKenzie, "but Sam
raised it to $8 and insisted that a
third be paid in cash.
"His pupils ranged in age from

6 to 60 years, and so many came
that he had to turn some away."
Houston's teaching career was
brief. He ran up more bills, as he
himself later admitted, in "riotous
living." In March, 1813, a recruit-
ing officer came to town, beat on
a drum and called aloud: "Hear
ye; hear; if ye want to join Lien.
Jackson's army to fight the savage
Indian, come and take a dollar
from the drumhead, and this will
regularly enroll ye."
Big young Sam, egged on by a
friend, stepped up and took his
dollar and became a soldier.
His military and political rise
after that was swift. He became
a governor of Tennessee; he; later
commanded the army of Texas,
led the Republic of Texas, served
as a U.S. senator and governor of
Texas'after it entered the Union.
He was deposed as governor be-
cause he opposed the entrance of
Texas into the Confederacy, and
died in 1863 at the age of 70 with
the fate of the Union still un-
settled.
During his last years someone
once asked him which of all his
posts of authority had given him.
the most pleasure. And rather
wistfully the old frontier hero said
he remembered best the task of
being a schoolteacher in the flood-
time of his youth.
The. simple old schoolhouse.
weathered by the winds of 161
years, still stands. Wealthy Texans
have tried to buy it and move it to
the Lone Star State, but Tennes-
see isn't about to sell it. (Or about
to fix it up properly either, judg-
ing from its present look of dis-
repair.)
In 1924 a pair of ancient# lead
knucks with Sam Houston's name
scratched on them were found
hidden above the doorway. Did
young Sam enforce discipline on
his pupils with lead knucks? No-
body knows.
"But it isn't likely he needed
them," said Mrs. McKenzie. "At
18 Sam Houston was 6 feet 6
inches tall apd weighed 200
pounds."
Big enough even to handle Davy
Crockett.

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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
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By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON -President Eis-
Fenhower seemed to exude op-
timism over the Big Four Con-
ference at his recent private talk
with GOP Congressional leaders.
"We do not expect to work any
miracles at Geneva," the Presi-
dent told them, in brief. "We are
going into the conference with our
fingers crossed, as we must in any
meeting in which Russian repre-
sentatives are on the other side of
the table.,
"It would be foolhardy to ex-
pect a formula for a just and
lasting peace, but we have reason
to believe that the Geneva Con-
ference will be a step in that di-
rection."
Ike pointed out that "cold war
pressures" have caught up with
Russia and are now operating in
our favor. The best way to stop an
"armament race," he told the
Congressional leaders, is to prove
that we have the potential to pro-
duce armaments faster than any
other nation without crippling our
domestic economy,
"We have done this. We know
it. As a result, we approach the
Geneva Conference in a strong
position."
II forced to do so, the United
States is in a position to continue
an armament race for a long time,.
he said, pointing out that Russia,
with a national income far less
than ours, cannot long continue
to devote a much larger share of
its national earnings to war pre-
parations.
The main reason Russia agreed
to the Geneva Conference, the
President said, was that increasing
population behind the iron cur-
tain has forced the Kremlin tem-
porarily to stop thinking about
conquering the world and begin.
thinking about "local economy."
"The strongest F argument for
world peace at the Geneva meet-
ing will be our productive capa
city," he said, in brief. "People
must eat. They also need clothes
and other necessities. The United
States has the greatest productive
capacity for war in the world-if
we have to go to war.
"Russia is still sacrificing its
civilian economy for armament
production to a point where insur-
rection is a serious problem not
only among its own agricultural
people, but everywhere behind the
iron curtain."
OLD FEUD-NEW FRIENDSHIP
AS SEN. Lyndon Johnson, the
stricken Democratic leader lies
in a sickbed, he probably looks
back to one particular incident in
his recent debate over Senator
McCarthy with the greatest satis-
faction of all.
That debate, which not only put
McCarthy in his place but anni-
hilated the Republican platform
as far as the Communist charge
against Democrats was concerned,

the Senate, shows statesmanship
of the highest order. The rejection
of the resolution which would
have injected the Senate into the
very delicate negotiations regard-
ing the so-called meeting at the
summit, was a very fine contri-
bution to the dignity, the order-
liness, and the security of this
body and of our Constitutional
system. I wish to say that I think
the senior Senator from Texas has
made a very great contribution to
the work of the Senate and to the
security of the nation."
What few people realized was
that the man who paid that tri-
bute was the man who led the at-
tempt to defeat Johnson for the
Senate leadership in late 1952. At
that time, Adlai Stevenson had
just been defeated. And, knowing
that the Senate leadership was
something which few Democrats
really wanted, the young Senator
from Texas came to Washington
early, contacted Senators by long-
distance telephone to sew up his
election as Senate minority lead-
er.
Johnson's action was somewhat
unusual because ordinarily the
Senate leaders is picked by a cau-
cus of his own party. But the ener-
getic freshman Senator from Tex-
as went after votes the way a col-
lege freshman corrals votes to be
president of his class.
So when Senator Fulbright of
Arkansas and other Johnson op-
ponents returned to Washington,
Lyndon had the Democratic lead-
'ership practically in his pocket.
Fulbright, in turn, led a small
group of Senators who did their
best to block Johnson, but Lyn-
don won, and the Senator from
Arkansas has sometimes been a bit
resentful over the way Johnson
buttonholed votes in advance.
Therefore, it's easy to under-
stand why the above tribute, com-
ing from Fulbright, was really ap-
preciated.
Senator Johnson, rising, replied:
"Mr. President, I can only say
that there is no member of the
Senate whom I would rather have
feel that way about me than my
friend of long standing, the Sena-
tor from Arkansas. I appreciate it
very, very much."
Those Senators who knew what
had happened three years ago al-
so knew that Lyndon Johnson
really meant what he said.
ALUMINUM HOG
W HEN A House Small Business
Subcommittee ended its hear-
ings on shortages in .the aluminum
industry recently, it was apparent
that not even the glare of a Con-
gressional spotlight could budge
the Reynolds Metal Company from
its determination to hog its raw-
metal output for itself.
The subcommittee had finished
its probe of how the big three pro-
ducers-Reynolds, Kaiser, and Al-
coa-had distributed 150,000,000
pounds of raw aluminum which

erated their willingness to sell
their share of the released raw
metal to small businessmen. But
again Reynolds demurred, insist-
ing on the right to use the alumi-
num in its own fabricating plants
so it could sell the more profit-
able aluminum products.
". . . Assuming that the metal
is turned back," queried Illi-
nois Democratic Congressman Sid-
ney Yates, "will you make it avail-
able only to those nonintegrated
users who purchase it in the form
of pig, ingot, or billet?"
"No," persisted M. M. Caskie of
the Reynolds Company, somewhat
sheepishly.
"The answer is no'?" demanded
Yates.
"That is right," Caskie shot
back,
"All right," said Yates disgust-
edly.
"Excuse me, Mr. Yates," Caskie
continued, "but did we leave you
in any doubt as to that in the
answers to your questions?"
"If your answer is 'no'," replied
Yates, "there is no doubt on it."
"All right," declared Caskie of
the Reynolds Company.
That ended that. Despite the
fact that the Government put Rey-
nolds in the aluminum business
with all sorts of loans, subsidies,
and price supports, Reynolds re-
mained adamant against, sharing
raw aluminum with the small fab-
ricators.
HELL'S CANYON BANTER --
Senator Millikin of Colorado has
been bluntly told by the Democrats
he'll get no frying pan irrigation
project, long coveted by drought-
stricken Colorado, unless he votes
for Hell's Canyon . .. Senator Ku-
chel of California likewise has
been warned the Trinity River
project will get the ax unless he
votes for Hell's Canyon . . . Demo-
crats, however, were extremely
late in getting tough. They could
have made a deal long ago for a
GOP OK of Hell's Canyon in re-
turn for a Democratic OK of Echo
Park Dam on the Upper Colorado.
Big mistake was that they trusted
their own leader, able Sen. Clint
Anderson of New Mexico, who
meant well but had his own ax to
grind. He wanted the Upper Colo-
rado project so badly that he put
it through without first making
a deal with the Republicans. To-
day the Democrats have no bar-
gaining power left over Senator
Watkins of Utah who has his Echo
Park Dam tucked in his breast
pocket. But they still have with
Millikin and Kuchel . . . unless
Millikin can bring home the fry-
ing pan project his re-election
chances won't be worth much in
Colorado. (Of course, he may not
want to run again.) ... In contrast
to the Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee's makeshift probe of ex-Con-
gressman John B. Wood for ap-
pointment to the Subversive Con-
trol Board, Senator Anderson sent
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At Architecture Aud. . .
CALL ME MADAM
B RINGING a Broadway musical to the screen
with any degree of success is a most dif-
ficult. accomplishment, but one which Twen-
tieth-Century-Fox has achieved remarkably
well in this 1953 version of Irving Berlin's
"Call Me Madam."
"Madam," vaguely based on Pearl Mesta's
appointment as Minister to Luxembourge dur-
ing the last Democratic administration, still
retains its spontaneity and vigor, although
much of its politically-oriented comedy is rath-
er out-dated.
With Ethel Merman as a somewhat crude
lady diplomat, the film has a kind of irrepres-
sible gaity and sparkling quaity that is essen-
tially a function of Miss Merman's personality.
No interval of time is likely to render this im-
potent.

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

Miss Merman, a singer whose voice has been
compared to a calliope, is one of those rare
entertainers who holds her audience's attention
constantly, whether she is singing or clowning.
To watch Miss Merman is to see a woman com-
posed of 95 per cent energy belt out one song
after another in the most clearly enunciated
English the musical comedy field has ever
known: when Merman rips into a song, it stays
sung; and a top level Merman performance is
something from which a theater or cinema pa-
tron recovers only with great difficulty.
"jADAM".tells the story of a female minister
to Lichtenbourg, a mythical European
country, who falls in love with a foreign min-
ister (George Sanders). There is also a sec-
ondary romance between a young newspaper
man (Donald O'Connor) and a princess (Vera-
Ellen). As long as both these romances pro-
vide the framework for comedy-and especially
when Miss Merman is on view, shattering the
staid, proper court life with her complete
abandon of protocol-the film maintains a
high degree of entertainment value.
The Berlin music, most of the original Broad-
way score with a few old-time numbers, is
among the song writer's best material. Miss
Merman has five songs, each one a show-
stopping tour de force. George Sanders, long
buried in villain-type roles, presents a pleasing
baritone voice and makes an appealing ro-
mantic partner for Miss Merman, as does Billy

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VOL. LXVI, NO. 13
Notices
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interested in making first-mortgage
loans as investments of its trust funds.
The Investment Office, 3015 Adminis-
tration Building, will be glad to consult
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ing mortgage or land contract. Ap-
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advanced study and -training in the
natural and applied sciences. Those
eligible to apply are postdoctoral stu-
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25, D. C. For further information come
to the Office of the Graduate School.
Late permission for women students
who attended the performance of "Bell,
Book, and Candle" at the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theater on July 6 and 7 will
be no later than 11 p.m.
Lectures.
Sixth Summer Biological Symposium,
auspices of the Division of Biological
Sciences. 'Endocrine System Integra-
tion. Chemostasis and Behavior." F. A.
Beach, Sterling Professor of Psychology,
Yale University, 8:00 p.m., Mon., July 11,
Rackham Amphitheater.
Academic notices
Schools of Business Administration,
Education, Natural Resources and Pub-
lic Health, and Music. Students who
received marks of I, X, or 'no reports'
at the end of their last semester or
summer session of attendance will re-
ceive a grade of "E" in the course or
courses, unless this work is made up by
July 20. Students wishing an extension
of time beyond this date in order to
make up this work should file a peti-
tion, addressed to the appropriate offi-
cial of their school, with Room 1513
Administration Building, where it will
be transmitted.
Doctoral Examination for . Frank
Stuart Stillings. Music: thesis: "Arc-

a recent paper by D. G, Chapman Cu
"The Estimation of Biological PopulR-
tions."
Concerts
Student Recital, Marvel D7awn Wald-
ron, soprano, assisted by Francs Home,
piano, Rosalie Savarino, flute; and Jack
Snavely, clarinet, in a recital at. 8:30
p.m. Sun., July 10, in Aud. A, Angell
Hall. Presented in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the Bachelor of
Music degree, the program will include
works by Bach, Boyce, Brown, Mozart,
Schubert, Fourdrain, Hue, Cantelbrnbo,
Griffes, Arensky, Gibbs, Warren,. and
will be open to the public. Miss Waldron
is a pupil of Harold Haugh.
Stanley Quartet, Gilbert Ross and
Emil Raab, violins, Robert Courte, viola,
. and Oliver Edel, cello, first summer con-
cert at 8:30 p.m. Tues., July :12,'in
Rackham Lecture Hall. Haydn's Quar-
tet in F major, Op. 77, No. 2; the.first
performance of Robert Palmer's Quartet
No. 3, commissioned by the University
of Michigan and dedicated, to theStan-
ley Quartet; and, Mozart's Quartet nA
C major, K. 465. This concert and the
others to follow on July 26 and. Aug 1
will be ope4 to the general public with-
out charge.
Events Today
Bell, Book and Candle, John van Drut-
en's comedy, will be presented by the
Department of Spedech tonightat 8:00
p.m. in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
Tickets are available at the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre Box Office for $1.50-
$1.10-75c. 10:00 a.m.--8:00 P.m.
Rides leaving North End of Wonen's
League for Sailing Club Area at Base
Line Lake. Sat. 9:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m.,
10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m. Sun. 9:30 a.m.,
10:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00
p.m.
"
Coming Events
Michigan Christian Fellowship. Sun,
July 10, Lane Hall, 4:00 p.m. Lecture
by Arthur Saunders, affiliated with the
China Inland Mission. Tues., (every
week) Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m. Group Bible
studies.
Congregational Disciples Guild. Sun.,
July 10, 7:00 p.m., Congregational
Church. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Whitney
of Ann Arbor, guest speakers: "The
Gospel of the Plow in Portugal East
Africa."
Tuesday, July 12, 4:30-5:45 p.m., tea
at the Guild House, 524 Thompson St.
Graduate Outing Club meets every
Sun. at 2:00 p.m. at the North Entrance
to the Rackham Bldg. Wear old clothes,
bring a bathing suit.
Music Education Summer Conference,
July 11-12, sponsored by the School
of Education and the School of Music.
Registration 2nd Floor, Michigan Union,
Mon., July 11, no fee. For further in-
formation contact Prof. David Mattern,
708 Burton Tower.
Folk Dance. Learn international and
traditional folk dances. Mon., July 11,
7:30-10:30 p.m.. Lane Hall.

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