Sixt y-Seventh Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Opinions Are Free' ,h Will Prevail" rials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. AY. AUGUST,14. 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: RENE GNAM Summer in Review. The Summing Up A5 THE, SUMMER draws to a close and The Daily winds up its publication for another month, we find we must comply with the time-honored summing up, the reflective look over the past eight weeks of instruction and of putting out a daily newspaper. for such a university community as Ann Arbor. 'These reflections have been in a way tradi- tional. They have at times been ignored or passed up, and at other times they have been written only with ap eye toward the future and a complete disregard for the recent past. Every editor has written his last editorial (as editor) In his own way-and each has somehow found a way to discuss or present the ideas that have haunted him or have occurred to him during his" long or short tenure. Although, like recent summer editors, we will return in another capacity in the fall, we nevertheless cannot avoid the necessary sumn- ming up-in hopes that something constructive may be gained by it. ERE CAN be little doubt that it has been a quiet summer. On the campus, an exciting but routine lecture-and-special-events program with a special theme managed to unify the six weeks of school it covered. In the city, there was little news save what came from the weekly council meetings. On the national scene, a civil rights bill' debate in the Senate was of mojor concern to all Americans. For nterna- tional news, the disarmament talks and the endless negotiating and ,bickering among na- tions seemed to keep the wire services running In spite of themselves, BHt= there were several worthy happenings that did stand out this summer: The Regents of the University gave their approval to initial' cotruction plans ,at Dearborn ,Center, the city established a new Human Relations Com- mission, the niversity of Detroit made plans for education television for freshmen this fall, Student Government -Council established a student health insurance program on a volun- tary "basis, and a former University mathe- matics instructor was finally convicted of con- tempt of Congress (on.26 counts)' It was a quiet summer, for most of these events were continuations of or climaxes to 'work and planning that had been going on for some time. Yet it was in some ways a signifi.- cant, summer for the occurrence of these events. ERHAPS most significant of all these to the University was the approval and announce- ment of. the Dearborn Center plans by the Regents. Dearborn Center, the University's new "east campus," is in reality a part of the long-range plartning intended to alleviate the problems of rising enrollments and overcrowd- edness in the state's schools. The actual establishment of Dearborn Cen- ter, however, means much more than a simple answer to high enrollments. It provides eco- nomic means for more qualified men and women to take advantage of a college educa- tion when otherwise their financial situation would forbid it. In addition, Dearborn Center embodies the important concept of industry aiding education directly-for it was a grant from the Ford Motor Company, of land and money, that made the Dearborn Center pos- sible. This cooperation of industry and education is especially noteworthy, for Dearborn Center will be not only an engineering school, but a liberal arts college as well. Admittedly, the liberal arts is dominated by the engineering and business administration schools in plan- ned-for sizes, but the working agreement is noteworthy. The ability of industry and education to cooperate here suggests even greater coopera- tion between two, natural 'go-tgethers: The one has the money, the other everything but money-which includes the training, the ex- perience and the readiness to teach. If only industry could take a more liberal view of education and acept a responsibility i the area extending beyond mechanical training, then the problems of crowding and standards would be solved. Dearborn Center, it seems, is a step in this direction. Its success as a part of the University will be watched with eager- ness and expectation. IN THE ANN ARBOR community, an area of greater importance to the town's 40,000 citi- zens has been that of human relations. This summer saw, after some disoussion and recom- mendation, the setting up of a Human Rela- tions Commission composed of prominent and experienced members of the community. This summer also saw the commission begin immediately the work before it-with the rec- ognition that the problem of educating the Editorial Staff VERNON NAHRGANG, Editor JOHN HILLYER.......... . .... ...Sports Editor RENE GNAM.. ..........................Night Editor Business Staff people, particularly the youth, was the most important consideration before the group. While there are individual case problems and matters of discrimination to be dealt with, the Human Relations Commission realizes that its real work is the planning for the future that includes educational functions and influences. For no permanent gain can ever be made with- out a change in foundation that will insure the future's acceptance of the change. And education corrects that foundation quietly and carefully and thoroughly. It seems obvious that the human relations problems of Ann Arbor are the same thing as the civil rights issues of the nation-reflected, of course, on a lower, more concrete level. And the ability of Ann Arbor to deal with its prob-\ lems through education, it seems, should point the way for the nation to solve some of the segregation problems that plague the South today. Undoubtedly there has been a beginning in this direction. ANOTHER issue in the educational realm, that of television's place in the University, was also underlined by events of the summer. The University of Detroit took steps this year' to prepare part of its fall freshman class for participation in a televised education course in which the students would take most of their learning at home, in front of their television sets. We discussed what we saw as the dangers of such a 'program, particularly the taking away from the student of the personal inspir- ation and stimulation which close contact with a good professor is supposed to bring about in the student-teacher relationship. We pointed out that mass mechanical learning could not substitute for serious study and personalized lecture. But we might have gone further and looked at the more positive side of television - as implemented by educational programs. Cer- tainly the state of television today is one of an entertainment media and not nearly the informative and educational media it should be. Where it has tried to do these things, it has failed considerably. Yet it can and should make greater efforts toward the pleasant teaching of the people through its entertain- ment functions. Why television has not made sincere attempts at-this is incomprehensible. IN STILL another area of summer accom- plishment, Student Government Council proved, by finalizing plans for a voluntary stu- dent health insurance for fall, that it could work on into the summer if necessary to com- plete what it had begun during the academic year. The health insurance itself will be of indi- vidual importance to students returning to the University in September, but as a project and achievement, it stands for a ready and work- ing Student Government Council that can find, investigate and solve the problems of the student body at the University. Health In- surance will not only be a student benefit next year; it will be a tribute to a powerful student government only two years old that promises to live up to its name and' be a definite force at the University., In fact, a.number of late-spring alterations in the structure of SGC, coupled with the yearly turnover in Council members, indicates that next year's SGC may be one of the most seriou and deep-thinking so far. A 'number of far-reaching studies and programs have , already been launched; they promise to bring satisfactory advances in lecture programs, in understanding of rising enrollment and other educational matters, and in still other student concerns. AND, in this quiet'summer, there were oth- er happenings perhaps deserving of men- tion in this summation. But inevitably the ones most deserving the applause are those which assume the appearance of everyday functions, of normal occurrences little realized or appreciated until one of them is suspended or halted temporarily. The daily classes, the lectures or the labs, are inseparable from the University, yet sel- dom draw any particular attention to them- selves. A professor's work often goes appre- ciably unnoticed outside his own classrooms and spheres of influence; yet this work is fore- most in the educational process and its normal functioning. Unfortunately, this otherwise attractive pic- ture has been, as usual, marred by the uncon- cerned hurriedness of the summer session's student body. "Summer school is fast and fu- rious," they said at the beginning of the year -and then proceeded to live up to it. The quietness of the students certainly helped to make it a quiet summer. NOW, with the summer at an end, our sum- mation leaves us at the beginning of anoth- er school year - and at the beginning of the National Student Association Congress, which more immediately can serve to awaken some, of this quietude before it can carry over into the coming year. For this void in expression is, on a Univer- sity campus, a matter insisting upon correc- tion. The problems and issues and important hnnrnias of the summer need 1the considers .LETIERS to the editor (Editor's Note: Letters to the Edi- tor must be signed, in good taste, and not more than 300 words in length. The Daily reserves the right to-edit. or withhold letters from publication.) On Democracy . . To the Editor: JOHN Woodruff is highly in- debted in his wayward fancy for his sweeping statements on the place of Science in politics in his article, "Irresponsibility in1 Government," in the August 9' issue of the Daily. The statement by Mr. Woodruff that the recent policy of trying 'to keep ,science out of politics' will lead to 'abysmal public ignorance in scientific matters' is as devoid of logical congruency as, say, the argument that an effort to keep 'religion out of politics will lead to abysmal public ignorance in matters religious. Such a policy of keeping science out of politics will be judicious as well for the advancement of science as for the channelizing of scientific knowledge to purposes peaceful and beneficial to man- kind. The advancement of science is stifled and stunted in an atmos- phere of secrecy and security classification. Further, free exchange of all scientific, knowledge amongst the scientists of the various politically opposed ententes is apt to further the cause of peace. For it is absurd even to think that in an International S'cientific Congress, where in an atmosphere of free and open pursuit of knowledge scientists of the Free World and the Russian Bloc gather together to discuss some law or facet of their beloved Science (for to sci- entists, Science is, indeed, their lonely but winsome bride), they will ever turn their attention to investigate ways and means of destroying each other's country. Every effort to keep science out of politics or Democracy (if some prefer the latter term) is laudable and beneficial to man. -Thomas S. David INTERPRETING: Dulles By J. M ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst EVERY NOW and then the State Department creates misunder- standing because someone dis- cussing a specific point makes a broad statement which can be misinterpreted as applying to gen- eral policy. The same thing happens when a "let it blow over" attitude is taken toward some slip of the tongue that needs explanation. Examples of both situations have occurred recently. The other day Secretary Dulles, testifying about th'e administra-, tion plan for long - term "soft" loans to countries which the United States wishes to save from communism, said: ' "Not for one minute do I think the purpose of the State Depart- ment is to make friends. The pur- pose of the State Department is to took out for the interests of the United States. Whether we make friends, I do not care." The record of American action clearly shows that the secretary meant the United States was not trying to buy friendship with these loans, but trying to build a prac- tical barrier against Communism. Dulles is connected with many, projects, such as the United States, Information Service, including the Voice of America, which are di- rectly concerned with creating friendship. President Eisenhower has ini- tiated or endorsed numerous pro- jects for that purpose, and says the United States wants to be friends with everybody. But the secretary's statement is open to misrepresentation. It gives a handle to foreign propagandists. But for the moment he was applying himself to a specific atti- tude in a specific case. It would have been better if he had phrased it to make that clear. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michi- gan Daily assumes no editorial re- sponsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Building, be- fore 2 p.m the day preceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 35 Concerts flVol 4GO 'IQ hN~ lam- F t },IC~ "We're Giving Him A Real Pasting This I Merryd Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-When you're the Army, Navy, or Air Fo and receive orders from your c< manding officer to attend a so function, you obey. If you also an order to contribute toward present for the commander's w you also obey. For orders are ders in the armed forces. However, mandatory social tivity and compulsory genero is not helping morale in the aI forces. Here's an illustration of w] happened at Lake Charles Force Base, Louisiana, when Robert I. Barrowclough retired commander of the 69th Bombs ment Wing. All officers recei a etter from the deputy co mander, Col. A. J. Bratton, It read: "The 69th Bombardment W will sponsor a farewell party Col. and Mrs. Robert I. Barr clough on the night of Friday July, 1957. Each officer of wing will be charged the follov amounts for the party by rank "1. Colonels $25; 2. Lt. Col $15; 3. Majors $10; 4. Capta $8.50; 5. Lieutenants $7; 6. W rant Officers $7. "Each squadron commande responsible for collecting' amount from each officer in squadron. This money must turned in to the wing adjut listed by name not later than:. hours, 3 July 57." Itwas also explained that above would include buffet, dri entertainment, dancing, andi: I for Mrs. Barrowclough." The officers went. They c tributed. Many of them u strong for the commander ahd wife. But they felt a little so after being required by mar tory order to ante up for t farewell party. * ,' * ON THE SCREEN: No Ghoul Like an Old Ghoul By DAVID KESSEL Daily Staff Writer EVER since the early success of "Phantom of the Opera," the film industry has produced a suc- cession' of fantastic and super- natural thrillers which find a ready audience. The early efforts in this direc- tion were concerned mostly with down-to-earth topics like mon- sters, vampires and werewolves; audiences came to expect Frank- enstein back with the' spring thaws, Dracula flying by night. So little or no explanation forr these somewhat unusual creatures was given. They were just there, and frightened villagers never, stopped to ponder, as they were, chased and eaten, the way of it. Lately this naive approach has been thought insufficient, so there has come a more sophisti- cated treatment wherein the re- volting and unnatural behavior of the monsters and ghouls are explained away by devious means, mainly radiation and medical manipulations. * * * NO LONGER can a werewolf' simply roam the woods. He's got to be put there by an unprincipled physician injecting werewolf juice into the horrified veins of a young man. A monster cannot be casu- ally stitched together in the Frankenstein fashion. It must be carefully nourished in a radio- active climate, then activated with gamma rays from krypton. The 'days of bearded and gloomy scientists are over The beautiful young lady chemist dis- covers how to trap the sea demon and kill the giant beetle. The grinning lab assistant is no more Igor the half-ape, he's young Dr. Figby, the Tarzan of the laboratory. The hazards of radiation are nowhere so well described as on the screen. The genuine effects of this strange force are odd enough, but they are now ex- panded to include production of all manner of giant insects and shrinking men. * * * RADIATION can explain a stu- pefying assortment of unrelated observations. In "Creep From the Deep," two scientists come upon a boat with a burnt bottom. When asked to explain this, one of them nods slowly and exclaims: "Ra- diation burns, of course. The sudden change of scene from the dank' basement to, the clean, well-lighted laboratory; the use of nuclear physics and medi- cine to explain matters best left to the shocked imagination: This reliance upon scientific jargon instead of witchcraft has serious- ly diluted the stream of horror. Bring back the ghouls and leave details of their metabolism to the metaphysicians. ANNUAL GAME: Hunters at, Work, TH4 ANNUAL game of apart- ment hunting is in full swing now, with eager young students pouring into Ann Arbor to beat' the housing rush. Little do they dream that a well planned organ- ization is ready to greet them with horrors beyond description. For the dubious benefit of any of these unfortunates who might chance to see this publication, we offer a few definitions of terms in common usage. Spacious Four Room Apart- ment: - A bathroom, kitchen, closet, and front. hall, none of which exceeds eight feet in the longest dimension. Private Entrance - If you have a helicopter; you can use the sky- light. Kitchen Privileges You can leave beer in the icebox for the landlady to drink. Share The Bath - You clean the tub. Centrally Located - You can see Burton Tower from the roof. Working Couple Preferred - You'll both have to work to pay the rent. Carpet Furnished-We couldn't scrape it off the floor. No Smoking or Drinking - The Regents meet downstairs. Ideal For Students - Who else would live here? Unfurnished - The men eie coming with the windows next week. Young Couple Preferred - Its eight flights up and the stairs are broken. Bath and Shower - The roof leaks. Available for Immediate Occu- pancy - Hurry before the cock- roaches come back.- On Qtiet Street Opposite East Quad. Excellent View - Opposite Stockwell. Spacious One-Room Apartment' -The kitchen is under the bed, the bathroom is under the sink, and the bed is under the bathtub. -David Kessel CONGRESSMAN Oren Har the Arkansas Democrat, wai until' a majority of congressm had left theinterstate comme committee of which he is cha man the other day after he h indicated that nothing "coni versial' was coming up. After they had gone, he liters railroaded a special railroad through his committee. It we permit the railroads to get gether to .reduce rates tot government in order to under the small airlines. His bill was designed to reve a previous court ruling by Uni States District Judge Joseph I Garraghy that while the railro could reduce rates to the gove inent, they could not conspire gether to reduce rates. The railroads had put th heads together to fix a joint i which would underbid the sm airlines in carrying GI's to d ferent parts of the United Sta The Harris Bill not only leg ized such conspiracy, but mad retroactive, t h e r e b y legali:2 what had been done.in the ,p ,1his would sidetrack a $45,000, triple damage suit the small lines had won against the r roads. After congressman John Din (D-Mich.) found out what h pened, he led a fight to bring Harris Bill back to the commi' for reconsideration. ' By this time, however, the r road lobby was roaring thro congress like a fast express. I now buttonholing senators to them to reverse an earlier st against the.railroads. (Copyright 1957 by Be11 Syndicate D SCREEN'S-EYE VIEW Silent Generation' Speaks-On Television By WILLIAM HAWES Daily Television Writer A COUPLE of Sundays ago "Outlook" (NBC-TV), a pro- gram which feels the pulse of the national scene, echoed Thorton Wilder's comment that this is a "silent generation." "Outlook" claimed that it had difficulty in finding people with opinions. In fact only at the fringe of society did it find them, one a hermit and the other an off-beat comedian. Recently John Crosby devoted his column to the same idea, "the growing homogenization of Amer- ican society." Crosby quoted Ar- thur Schlesinger, Jr. who wrote about it in the New York Times. And so it goes. In short, the stif- ling of individual expression. We have ourselves to blame for creating the cult of conformity, Individual enterprise and the spirit of revolution, the dual basis upon which our countrywas built, are virtually non-existent today. Instead, anyone expressing his individuality lacks humility and is not acceptable in "common" society. Anyone breathing revolu- tion of course, even if i's a'revo- lution in soda straws, is 'a Red or an un-American gangster who reeavaluation of religion, less family responsibility, fewer tap roots. But most of all it wants greater individual freedom to ex- press itself, especially in the choice of a job and in the choice of artistic hobbies. THE triumph of the group over the individual is extremely no- ticeable in television commercials. It's not that Lawrence Welk drives a Plymouth but rather his whole band; it's not that one sportsman uses Gillette razors but rather all do; likewise everybody uses Ialo. There's even a skunk selling a deodorant now and you can't ap- peal to a more common group than that. The individual expresses his group these days, not himself. But' is this so bad? The individual star has ruined the theater, radio and television, We don't gg to p' ys anymore, we Ego to see personali- ties. And most of these, especially the singers,"are pretty bad. Several "big name" individuals are detrimental to show business and should retire. I refer to old- timers who have made a vareer out of being a personality. I don't weep one little bit when Dennis Hooper, Tom Tryon, and Gordon Gebert in drama and By- ron Palmer, a fine singer. A few of the better actresses include Phyllis Love, Betsy Palmer, Inger Stevens, and Elizabeth Monte- gomery. The same detriment to TV is caused by warmed over radio for- mats: "Blondie" (N B C - TV), "Mayor of the Town" (CBC-TV), and "Gang Busters' (CBC-TV). * $* EVERY NOW and then some- body breaks fresh ground. Bob Maxwell does this with "Teen Room" (WWJ-TV). Maxwell in- troduces celebrities performing in Detroit and teenagers from the Detroit Parks and Recreation, The talent is usually superior to Ted Mack's "Amateur Hour" (NBC-TV), and often surpasses the professional talent on God- frey's "Talent Scouts" (CBS-TV) and Welk's "Top Tunes and New Talent" (ABC-TV). In the first place the show has life. It has a teenage audience which views the acts informally. The pacing is rapid and varied - singers, instrumentalists, dancers, even a swimming team recently. Earl Stuarts Orchestra pro- vides music well in tune with "Teen Room" is more enter ing than the "Ed McK Show" (ABC-TV), a similar gram. The McKenzie Show series of commercials with sional acts. SOME of the talented yo sters on last Saturday inc Kathy Johnson singing a Yodeling song. Afterward sh interviewed by the audience. Someone asked, "How r records did your first one - She said, "I don't know - 35. I know I bought one an mother bought one." (She viously isn't acquainted witi Jockey and admen exaggerati "The Glowworms," a four combo, worked up a rock an storm. Then several singers are appearing in the Detroit : and Recreation productio: "Roberta" performed. Jerry Winters and Jc Powers both had difficulty m< ing lip movements to their recordings. Neither sounded good on record (compared the live singers) and their m ings looked worse. Another ture of the program is a Room Date Book which a d ent young reporter reads