"Thar She Blows" Sixty-Seventh Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNvTEsrrSY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD -IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBcrONs STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MIcH. * Phone NO 2-3241 -When opmiar~ya At Pr TM ~ bWW rem Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: RENE GNAM Civil Rights Issue Lacks Real Understanding THE SENATE this week takes up floor action Rights Bill under consideration in the Senate in its own legislative way on the Civil now is that it attempts to do too much. Perhaps Rights bill - and the result, whatever it may it is too demanding from one side and not be, will come only after, long and costly con- understanding enough for the other side. sideration. Certainly there is no domestic issue more All sorts of threats and speculations have crucial to the United States today. It is a been made about the handling of the bill, problem that calls for deep understanding and the least likeable but most likely of which is careful consideration. At the same time, it a filibuster longer than any other before. There is a problem that will never be settled in the seems little chance now for a compromise. The forseeable future - not with the deep-felt prospect is a long, long talk. attitudes that Americans have today concern- But this is not the usual procedure for Sen- ing the problem. ate consideration of important matters. For the most part, the forces on both sides of an VET THE Civil Rights issue is one that will important issue are able to get together and be worked out. It will take time, but there effect a workable plan for compromise - or can be no doubt that the nation will eventu- defeat - on the particular issue. Senators can ally come to a mature, broad understanding ordinarily "work things out" to some sort of in the matter. mutual satisfaction for all persons involved. For the lawmakers to attempt to hasten this Yet this is by no means an objectionable way understanding too greatly would be dangerous. of lawmaking - partly because it is done so There is always the possibility of great dis- much and to such good effect, and partly be- harmony within the nation that must be cause the end result is the same as if the mat- avoided, even at the cost of one side's toler- ter had been considered formally on the floor ating undemocratic practices within the oth- of Congress and worked out there. e'r's stronghold. 0CCASIONALLY there is the exception - But the lawmakers should be working, be- like the Civil Rights bill. There comes the hind the scenes, to effect compromises and issue so ingrained, so incensed and implanted temporary pieces of legislation that will both in the minds of lawmakers that these men gain ground and gain it slowly enough to keep are unable even to see the, issue in an under- both sides friendly to the other. standing light. -VERNON NAHRGANG Perhaps the very trouble with the Civil Editor ImportanCe of Specialization THERE IS a trend away from specialization in education which should be a matter of concern to schools and colleges, particularly to educators who must decide what is requisite in specific fields. Responsible persons are increasingly vocal in the theme "broader education", 'for what is variously described under the heading of "gen- eral awareness". Recently an official of the federal Office of Education, speaking on this campus, said a "glaring weakness" of American education is its failure to prepare youth for understanding of global problems. Educational institutions should adopt a new curriculum, he advises, "to include information about the whole of the world and its people." Such a curriculum would be a staggering one. of course, there can be no quarrel that the need for broader education always con- fronts us. But there is peril in approaching the mat- ter through the individual student - and we assume this is what the speaker intends since most college curriculums are reasonably com- plete in "information about the whole of the world." FIRST, THERE is a danger of planting a vogue among impressionable youth. There is excitement and glamor in pondering world problems. In an atmosphere of disparagement against specialization, students will be prone to scorn the pick-and-shovel courses requir- ing disciplined thought in favor of more dra- matic subjects with "intellectual" flavor. It would not be unreasonable to say that much of this is already in evidence. The more insidious danger is that educators will succumb to the influence and in fact re- vamp curriculums to the satisfaction of anti- specilizationists. Convinced that specialists are degenerating into protoplasmic robots, deans may insist that budding mathematicians, physicists and engi- neers be inoculated with the whole battery of social science serums. Conversely, physical science departments may be required to include popularly-oriented capsule-type courses to "broaden" the literary arts student's "experience" - in an age, it might be added, when science teacher vacan- cies are the 'glaring weakness'. IT SHOULD be kept in mind too that school- ing is only preparatory. "The great end of life is not knowledge but action," Thomas Huxley reflected. The student should seek to contribute, and he can do so only by becoming thoroughly knowledgeable and, more import- ant, responsive in a single field. Understanding, we are sure, will precipitate when one begins to use his school-wrought tools in society. The comprehension, the "awareness", will not be dramatic. Rather, with tangible contributions, with action, should come degrees of humility - the real denomina- tor of global brotherhood. The efficacy of specialization to the exclu- sion of so-called global awareness is illustrated by two notable contributors to our society's welfare. We would all be in worse circumstances had Einstein dissipated his incomparable mind on international crises, or had Alexander Fleming not spent all his waking hours among his anti- biotic molds. Yet as citizens of the world, per- haps none qualify better. IN THE APPLICATION of "broadening" we should be guided by some highly probable effects on teacher training, always a favorite target for innovation. Course standards would slip-with broadening comes leveling. Perfunc- tory response would be accorded to required subjects. That successive generations of teach- ers fall short of proficiency because of diffu- sion of effort is an uncomfortable prospect. We would like to see not only constant vigi- lance against misguided diletantism, but pub- lic defense of specialization in answer to its active discreditors. --ERNEST ZAPLITNY Today fy and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN MARSHAL TITO, it turned out, has more than enough to do without being drawn into the dis- cussion, which was started by Khrushchev, about socialism and American grandchildren, This may have been mere dis- cretion but I rather suspect that Tito has learned from his own varied experience that long-range predictions about the future of a social system are almost certain to express little more than the prophet's hopes or fears. Although Marxists like to think that they possess the secrets of history, no Marxist foresaw, or could have foreseen, what now goes by the name of socialism in Yugoslavia. The only thing we know for certain is that in the twentieth century, there is a rapid and un- predictable evolution in every society, except perhaps in the most primitive and isolated. Khrush- chev does not know, he cannot know, what will develop in Russia in ten years, much less in America in thirty years. *s * * THE COMMUNIST world from China to Yugoslavia and Poland, including Russia itself, is not pro- ceeding according to some grand plan, revealed by Marx and Lenin, which leads to a common end; the various Communist regimes are feeling their way, seeking reme- dies and solutions for their tacti- cal difficulties, and they are ra- tionalizing the absence of a grand and universal principle by saying that there are many roads to socialism. As they take these many and differing roads, they will become many and differing societies. If no one knows what socialism will be like in two generations, neither does anyone know what the American economy will be like, But we can be sure that while our grandchildren will experience great changes in the American economy, these changes will npt be a reaction to and a recapitul~a- tion of the Russian and Chinese experience. Communism may represent a future to a primitive country like China. But for America, Commun- ism is irrelevant, having nothing to do with our highly advanced and complex economy. > a * THE AMERICAN social order has changed greatly in this cen- tury, so greatly that terms like capitalism and free enterprise and competition, which come down to us from the nineteenth century, no longer describe our economy intel- ligibly. There have been the wars, and the rise of the United States as a world power with a great military establishment. There has been the fabulous, indeed explosive, in- crease of the American population. There has been not only the deep and wide technological de- velopment, but, with the organi- zation of scientific research, a indically new pace in the applica- tion of science. There has been also, so at least it seems to me, a non-violent but nevertheless revolutionary change in the inner principle of our own social economy.h. This is the new principle, which gces by the prosaic name o "full employment"-the imperative that the government must use the fiscal and other powers of the state $o keep the demand for labor at least equal to the supply. Until the present generation this principle was unknown to, much less was it the policy of, the United States or any other capital- ist nation. Its adoption marks a profound change. It would not in my view be an exaggeration to say that it has brought about a revolution in the West which has made the Comn- muAst revolutionary propaganda irrelevant and antiquated. For when the government is committed to the maintenance of full employment, the bargaining power of labor is underwritten. This means a decisive change in the balance of forces within our society. THE NEW principle of full em- ployment was formulated during the great depression between the two world wars. Its technique is based on the discovery during the first world war that a government can promote production, regard- less of the gold supply, by man- aging credit and the currency. The impulse to apply the tech- nique of war finance to the peace- time economy came from the huge unemployment and the vast misery of the great depression. The commitment to the new policy comes from the voters who, having learned that unemploy- ment can be prevented, will not tolerate any government which does not prevent it. i >71 i c y,.7 Q j9T &- w J C- £3 ~ - 5141.4 51-0,4 'f~,..s~r- C. v. AT THE STATE: Pastoral Interlude ONCE UPON A TIME, in the dismal Louisiana swamp, there lived a simple girl named Tammy, her goat, and her aged grandfather. Every morning, a make-up man would arrive, spray an obtrusive coat of paint on Tammy's face. Every noon, a nurse would drop in to spray her goat with chlorophyll. Then, the script girl would check the scene, and Tammy would talk. This was very pleasant. One day, this elemental setting was interrupted by the crash of a light plane into the swamp containing a real live man. Tammy and Grandfather rowed out to see what had happened and found this Man floating on an old log. So they drug him back to the houseboat and healed him up. After five days of relative un- consciousness, Man awoke clean shaven and healthy. Then he left. Tammy was broken-hearted. * * * SOON AFTER, Grandfather was locked up for brewing rotgut on the sly and Tammy went off to stay at Man's house where Grandfather said they would take care of her. To her astonishment, she found that Man was a titled and wealthy Southern Gentleman, with a big house, cook, mother, father, and aunt. But the big house was in danger of falling into ruin because the tomatoes wouldn't grow. A dismal depression had settled everywhere because none of these people had any Courage. Tammy straightened them all out, after a time. Father, a bookworm, was brought out of his shell. Mother, a shrew, was tamed. Aunt, a lousy frustrated artist, became a lousy non-frustrated artist. And all the other decadent southerners were put in their places. Then She and He were To- -N r -I No-l - Yl M - L .4 4 gether in the swamp just as Grandfather got sprung. The charming fairy tale above is a boiled-down version of "Tam- my and the Bachelor", currently showing at that CinemaScope place. Debbie Reynolds is Tammy, and she sings too. Leslie Nielson is the Fellow, Grandfather is Wal- ter Brennan. All the southern accents are curious if unrelated, especially Brennan's which is a southern accent from Swampscott, Mass. * * * THE ESSENTIAL charm of this film would be lost if too close at- tention is given to occasional flaws of which there are many. Aside from a maudlin streak, it holds together if you can some- how believe that this untrained girl from the swamp is a combina- tion psychologist, goat-milker, farmer, seer, and soprano. The much publicized title song is ap- propriate enough, lending an un- real tinge to the film. Everything considered, "Tammy and the Bachelor" is a colorful pastoral interlude full of stock characters with stock philosophies which will entertain an uninhib- ited audience. -David Kessel DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official pubication 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. Notice for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 pm. Friday. TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1957 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 10 General Notices Ushers are urgently needed for two events to be given in Hill Auditor- ium: the Indian Dance Recital by Bhaskar and Sasha Fri., July 19, and the Count BasieShow on Wed., July 24. Any regular season ushers who are on campus this summer are urgently requested to help with these two events. Any other persons enrolled in summer School may usher if they so desire. Please come to the Box Of- fice in Hill Auditorium on Tues., July 9, Wed, July 10 or Thurs., July 11th, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. to sign up for these two events. Lectures Eighth Summer Biological Sympo- posium, auspices of the Division of Bio- logical Sciences. All sessions in Audi- torium C, Angell Hall. Tues., July 9. Afternoon session. 'Endocrines and the Evolution of Viviparity in Vertebrate Animals," Frederick L. Hisaw, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Pro- fessor of Biology iBological Labora- tories, Harvard University; "General Features and Functions of Plant Growth Substances," Folke K. Skoog, Professor of Botany, University of Wis- consin; Discussion led by Paul A. Wright, Associate Professor of Zoology. 3:30 p.m. Evening session. "Endocrine Regulation of Body Growth," Roy 0. Greep, Professor and Dean of the School of Dental Medicine, Harvard University; "The Roleof Hormones in the Growth of Insects," Dietrich Bod- enstein, Medical Laboratories, Army Chemical Center, Maryland; Discussion led by John M. Allen, Assistant Profes- sor of Zology, 7:30 p.m. Speech Assembly, auspices of the De- partment of Speech, at 3 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphtheatre. Prof. Garnet R. Garrison of tie Department of Speech and Director of Television will speak on "Television in the Mod- ern World." Asian cultures and the Modern Amer- ican: "India - Problems, Plans and Prospects." G. L. Mehta, Ambassador from India. 4:15 p.m., Tues., July 9, Hill Audtorium. Plays Moliere's The School for Wives, sec- ond play on the Department of Speech Summer Playbill, will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. Concerts Faculty Recital: The stanley Quar- tet will present the first in a series of three concerts this summer on Tues., July 9, at 8:30 p.m. in Rackham Lec- ture Hall. The members of the Quar- tet are: Gilbert Ross and Emil Raab, violins, Robert Courte, viola, and Rob- ert Swenson, cello. The program includes: "Quartet in B-flat major. Op. 64, No. 3", Haydn; "Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1922)," Webern; and "Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1" Brahms. Open to the public without charge. Student Recital: John H. Bauer will present a recital as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music (Wind Instruments), on Wed., July 10, at 8:30 p.m., in Aud. A, Angell Hall. He will be assisted by Barbara Barclay, piano and harpsi- chord. Open to the public. Washington Merry- ; Go- Round By DREW PE4ESON WASHINGTON - While U.S. Steel was touching off a chain reaction of inflation which will hit everything from bobby pins to automobiles, it was simultaneously pulling wires for a 40-foot chanel in the Upper Delaware River so bigger ore ships can reach its giant fairless works at Morrisville, Pa. Deepening the channel will cost the taxpayers an estimated $91,- 738,000-a free gift to U.S. Steel because it is the only company planning to use super ore carriers on the Upper Delaware. This cost- ly project, benefiting one private company, was quietly pushed through the House Appropriations committee vby Chairman Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.), Property owners along the Dela- ware claim a deeper channel wilI increase the flood menace. They point out that the last damaging flood in August, 1955, was caused by hurricane-driven water forced up the Delaware, A 40-foot channel would permit more flood water to be driven up the river. If the taxpayers have $91,738,000 to spare, they say, it should be spent on flood control for the benefit of all the property owners. THE WHITE HOUSE is in- censed over the way U.. Steel thumbed its nose at President Eisenhower by hiking the price of steel one day after his appeal against inflation. It remains to be seen, however, whether the White House will op- pose spending $91,738,000 to dredge a private, dead-end passageway up the Delaware River for the same U.S. Steel. Observers note that in the past Ike has frequently rewarded his opponents in the field of big busi- ness; even appointed Ben Fairless, a backstage power in U.S. Steel, to a high advisory post in his admin- istration, LAST WEEK'S crucial Kremlin crisis caught the state department completely unprepared. It's star ambassador, Chip Boh- len, had been transferred to the Philippines through pure whim, and the new ambassador, Llewel- lyn Thompson, was still "winding up affairs" in Austria. Ike was golfing at Gettysburg. The secre- tary of state was vacationing at duck island. The new American counselor, Richard Davis, had arrived in Moscow only a few weeks before. He's a good man, but was in no position to begin reporting on the most difficult and secret govern- ment operations in the world. Because of his low rank, Khru- shchev and Bulganin did not come to the July 4 reception at the American embassy, as would have been the case if an American am- bassador were in charge. it is at these receptions that, some of the best leaks occur in Moscow. Note-Ambassador Bohlen was transferred from Russia to the Philippines not because he wanted it but on the order of John Foster Dulles. Bohlen is one of the few career diplomats who speaks Rus- sian fluently, (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) SUMMER WORK: Russian Farming By THOMAS P. WHITNEY AP Foreign News Analyst IN THE Soviet Union 300,000 young people are packing their bags and boarding trains for cen- tral Asia and central Siberia to help get in the harvest. They'll return in the fall to their schools or jobs-but not un- til the grain has been reaped and delivered to government procure- ment statlons from millions of acresof new lands put to the plow under Nikita Khrushchev's virgin lands schere. The mobilization from European Russia is becoming an annual event. Success of the eastern har- vest depends on it in large degree. The y'uths, drafted thrcugh the Communist party and particularly the Young Communist League, are called volunteers. Most of them actually have little choice about going. The party tells the Young Communist League to deliver 300,000-and they're de- livered. A lot of them may enjoy it. The work is hard and continuous, but it's in the fresh air and only for the summer. 'T', 4.nt m, 4.1, a,vni mer nannia 4 .rt 4 ;, , I f, M ' AT THE CAMPUS: 'Moulin tRouge,' Cogntac JOSE FERRER and a cognac bottle share equal billing at the Campus Theater this week. Animate hero and inanimate villain respectively, they unfold together the life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec in this presentation of "Moulin Rouge." Based on the novel of the same name by Pierre LaMure, "Moulin Rouge" is the biography of 'Toulouse-Lautrec, artist and lover. His earlier life is pictured briefly, and only to point up his physical deformitory: legs that are half their normal size. This was a result of a fall down stairs, after which the bones did not knit properly. As a result, INTERPRETING THE NEWS: European Cooperation By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst VVER SINCE the end of World War II France and West Germany, those long-time ene- mies, have been leading Western Europe to- ward greater unity. In spite of their own postwar reconstruction problems, in 10 years of constant effort they have laid the foundation for a type of cooper- ation :which then appeared next to impossible. On Friday the West German Parliament, as it has done every time the chips were down during the regime of Chancellor Adenauer, ap- proved another step toward unity - Euro- market, a common market for 175 million con- sumers, and Euratom, a cooperative for mutual development of atomic energy for peaceful uses. Editorial Staff VERNON N ?ARRO~fANGU. REditor Tuesday the French Parliament is expected to do the same, to the cheers of the Benelux countries which will join before next year. Most significant feature of the plans lies in the fact that the European Coal and Steel Community, established six years ago, has worked so well the nations are willing to extend its system into the other fields. A control authority, something in the nature of a non nationalistic parliament, will admin- ister all three organizations. That means the pooling of the economies of Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg under a control group whose re- sponsibility is to the community rather than to the nations which appoint or elect its mem- bers. In arriving at the new organization, France and Germany have each made two great con- cessions over the years, not to mention their compromises over Western European Union, a separate military organization. France yielded her political control of the Saar in order to create a climate in which the his personality, too, is warped, and his cognac serves as a release from his feelings of physical in- feriority. The two girls he loves, one a product of the Paris gutters, the other a lonely, more refined model, both miss Toulouse-Latrec the man, the first because she never cared to look and the second be- cause although she loved him and understood him, she needed a kind of security he could not provide. JOSE FERRER is unnecessarily stilted in his portrayal of Tou- louse-Lautrec; the rest of the act- ing only fair. Zsa Zsa Gabor is particularly well-suited to the role she plays, that of the singer at the "Moulin Rouge." Collette Mar- chand and Suzanne Flon play the two loves of his life; the first one quite badly and the second most competently. The high point of the picture is man whose height is less than five feet. One even wonders about this when one should be following the plot. *' * * THIS PLOT is extremely thin; it says nothingsthat hasn't been said before in many more different and novel ways than this. The same old presentation runs something like this: Great artist-- a disability-disappointed in love - becomes bitter and cynical - turns to drink-falls down stairs while drunk-end of artist. The photography is very good; the authenticity of the period is captured exceedingly well. The character parts are captured quite convincingly to add to the flavor of the 1890's and 1900's. *i * * FOR THOSE interested in some very beautiful prints of Toulouse-