40 AT RACKHAM: Sixty-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 Tio 'en Oplnlorw Aro Free Truth wUJPre"W"' Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. DAY, JULY 16, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: RENE GNAM State Hospital Incident Should Waken Legislators AST WEEKEND'S incident at Northville State Hospital, where six inmate youths at- cked a guard and escaped, has resulted in a ries of charges and counter-charges that give n even stronger underlining to the conditions our state hospitals. Hospital officials have claimed appropria- ons cutbacks in their budget have necessi- ,ted cutting their staffs to below the "safe" argin. Republican Legislators, in turn, have charged .ismanagement at Northville and have vowed investigate the matter. Democrats in the egislature have so far sided with Northville licials and laid the blame to the Republican alse economy." The result: A political entanglement that .ay result in investigation but will never ac- )mplish the needed searching into the deplor- ble conditions of our state hospitals. CTUALLY, the searching has already been done. Legislators have been made aware of iese conditions-the crowdedness, the under- affing, the lack of needed funds-but the wmakers have done little to correct them. Newspapers throughout the state have "re- ealed" the present situation of the state hos- itals. Several noteworthy series of articles vae appeared, describing and documenting the eplorable way in which the mentally ill or re- arded are taken care of in the State of Michi- At the same time, these conditions have been generally recognized by state officials and by legislators. Where, then, is the help the hospitals need? It certainly has not come from the Legisla- ture, which apparently finds many other under- takings more deserving of financial aid than the mental hospitals. Instead, as one Northville official has charg- ed, the Legislature has forced the hospital to cut back still further. The hospital, the official said, has had to discharge part of its staff, leav- ing an insufficient number of attendants on duty. At the same time, crusading Republican Sen- ator Elmer Porter (of Blissfield) has said he will order a "full dress" investigation of the management of Northville State Hospital. WHETHER or not Porter will discover some- thing remains to be seen. We can only hope his "investigation" gives him an insight into the actual needs of the hospital and, in effect, goes beyond the usual political bickering. But there have been enough investigations into the state hospitals. What is needed now is action on the part of the Legislature toward increasing aid to these institutions, action that shouldbe beyond political considerations. -VERNON NAHRGANG Editor Health and Habit SOMi three centuries ago an English gentle-, man came to American shores in search- of realms and riches. He gave the redskins some beads and bits of shiny glass. They gave him an aromatic herb and showed him what to do with it. The gentleman learned to use it so well that his servant one day doused him with a bucket of water, thinking Master was on fire. Perhaps a billion souls puff on Raleigh's weed today. We're one of them, incidentally. It's time something positive and binding were done to examine and attack the tobacco habit. There is evidence enough of its danger and the problem has become vital enough for concern. The now-famous medical report of last year was sufficiently scary to cause a ripple in cigarette sales. But manufacturers soon restored normalcy with twenty thousand tiny filters and undisclosed millions of big dollars in it's-nothing-to-worry-about adver- tising. Conclusions from the cancer society's four- year non-medical survey on smoking should make us all start chewing gum instead. Our only rather pitiful rationalization of the thfeat is that the evidence is "statistical"-a fact that hucksters were quick to point out. THERE is an executive department with cabinet ranking called Health, Education and Welfare (the one which fuddled the Salk program a few years back). This agency is admirably suited for taking up an investigation of smoking on our health and social welfare. It shouldn't be one of those spinejess and hedge-ridden surveys Washington is so fond of making, but a comprehensive, hard-hitting inquiry with recommendations for legislation or executive action as a minimum objective. It could, for instance, recommend that funds be provided to a separate agency 'for further study. The University's Survey Research Cen- terd would be a likely and commendable choice. A de-tobaccoed society is, of course, an ap- palling thought. But government has a moral duty here. If it isproved conclusively-and how conclusive must we insist the matter be?- that smoking is harmful, an obvious measure becomes necessary: tobacco must get the same illegal treatment as the opium poppy. -ERNEST ZAPLITNY Summerfield Service Pays Off After All IT APPEARS that Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield's four years in the Post Office are beginning to pay off in more ways than just simple service. A report released last weekend reveals that olive drab Post Office trucks have to date been involved in 849 accidents, while the new Sum- merfield red, white and blue lorries have had only 622 mishaps. Such foresight on the part of our postmaster general must be recognized. It has saved the taxpayers from bearing the undoubtedly high cost of 227 motor accidents. Besides, we knew all the time there was some reason for painting all those trucks red, white and blue. -VERNON NAHRGANG Satisfties IT IS DIFFICULT to determine just where the fault lay - whether with the sultry atmos- phere of stuffy Rackham, the quality of the music, or the per- formance-but the Baroque Trio failed to achieve their usual high charm Sunday night. But even when not at their best, the trio are still very accom- plished musicians. Nelson Hauen- stein showed great ability with the Vinci Sonata for Flute, with low and middle registers being dis- played in all their warmth and mellowness, amid nimble leaps and octaves. Florian Mueller, oboist, did his best with the Fischer Suite in G, but the music often seemed medi- ocre. However, as is expected, his tone is superb, and especially en- joyable were the four short minu- ets, typical of the periwig era for which they were composed. * * * THE UNSUNG HEROINE of the Baroque, Trio, Marilyn Mason, seems doomed to an accompanist's role at the harpsichord. She per- forms the important bass continuo function, with added harmony, but sometimes this is not sufficient to clarify her part. It is unfortunate that most trio sonatas of this period relegate the keyboard to a minor role in the polyphonic struc- ture, since Miss Mason's technique finds poor grounds for display. Still this is her virtue as an en- senble performer. A Trio Sonata by Loeillet, and the Graun Trio Sonata inD com- pleted the first half of the pro- gram. Both were typical Baroque works, and offered not too much in the way of "aesthetic thrills." THE LATTER section of the program was devoted to an ex- tended work, the eleven-piece Suite I in C, from Marais' Pieces en Trio. This relatively unknown composer, a contemporary of Lully at the French court, was quite a figure in his day, his books for viola di gamba being considered among the highlights of the French literature for strings. The Suite itself, this being its premiere in America, consisted of short sections in many dance styles. The closing was a chaconne, with variations on the ground bass. However, the work fails to impress, due perhaps to the nas- cient condition of French Trio Sonatas at the time this was writ- ten in 1692. The Baroque Trio is a wonderful group; their playing is intimate, cooperative, subordinated to the needs of the music. Their tech- niqtle, tonal ability, and interpre- tative insights are of a high char- acter. Unfortunately, last night something went awry, and al- though we had a competent, enjoy- able evening, it was not the occa- sion expected. -Brendan Liddell RESURGENCE: Germany Rebuielding By WARREN ROGERS JR. COLOGNE, Germany (W) - The building crane has become the symbol of postwar Germany. Wherever you go in West Ger- many, the building crane is never far from sight. It is the symbol of the digging out of destruction. It tidies and re- moves mountains of rubble, helps erect schools and hotels and apart- ment houses and parking lots and even American-type skyscrapers. The, skyscrapers themselves are a symbol, perhaps, of German faith and hope that the bombs will never fall again. They tell a story in Frankfurt about the man who came back after the war to his once lucrative hotel, the Savoy, just near the railroad depot. He found only a heap of rubble. He , gathered together what scrap there was and, with his own hands, he built a one-room apart- ment and rented it out. With the money and his hands again he built another room and rented it out. And so on. When the currency reform and American dollar aid came in 1949, the bankers were happy to lend money to so good a risk. He re- built the Savoy and it thrives. THIS REPORTER, in Germany on a tour of North Atlantic Treaty country newspapermen, extended his stay to talk here with the re- builders. Eduard Pecks, a courteous and precise man, is in charge. One of his top aides is an English-speak- ing redhead, Kurt Jatho, an engi- neer who does the planning for the heart of Cologne. fl- - Power .amp .OW w- - P ct w .. Washington 1erry- By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - The leader- ship of three Congressmen is going to cost the taxpayers about two billion dollars extra for the new Federal Highway Program. This will be the approximate amount to be paid to the gas, elec- tric, telephone, and water com- panies for moving their )poles, pipes and conduits when the high- ways are widened. In the past this has been paid by the utilities themsees. BuL the utilities are now telling state legislatures that Uncle Sam will pay 90 per cent of the bill, so the states might as well let the Fed- eral government pay for moving poles, pipes and conduits. The three Congressmen who paved the way for this juicy hike in the Federal Highway Bill are; ex-Congressman George Dondero of Royal Oak, Mich.; Gordon Scherer of Cincinnati, Ohio; and Harry McGregor of West Lafay- ette, Ohio, all Republicans. Three other Congressmen warned their colleagues what would happen: Jack Dempsey of New Mexico, Robert Jones of Ala- bama, and Brady Gentry of Texas, all Democrats. However, Congress ignored their advice and decided to let each state decide whether to make the utilities pay. * * * C ?r9S - A S L..IA44i46r opa.4 AT THE CAMPUS: 'Snow' Dirty, as Sartre's 'Hands' THOSE WHO have read Jean- Paul Sartre's "Les Mains Sales" or, even better, seen the film ver- sion of the same name shown here as "Dirty Hands," will recognize the same theme of a Frenchman's trying to justify his existence in Georges Simenon's "The Snow Was Black" now at the Campus The- ater. To aid in viewer recognition, actor Daniel Gelin has convenient- ly played both parts. In "Les Mains Sales" he search- ed for political existence in a war- torn world of negotiations among classes and parties. His was the existentialist philosophy of Sartre. In "The Snow Was Black," he searches for an existence in the face of his upbringing in a house of ill repute and the knowledge gained as a child of, his mother's occupation. Both films are set in the second world war and concern black mar- keteering, patriotism, agitation and cowardice. Undoubtedly be- cause of Gelin's being in both roles, the viewer is twice faced with the incomprehensible unwil- lingness to act on the young man's part. Yet "The Snow Was Black" is not just a carbon of "Les Mains Sales." The current film presents a young man affected mentally as a child, a man with parental com- plexes. ** * THOSE WHO have not become familiar with "Les Mains Sales" will enjoy "The Snow Was Black" if they like the "action-packed" type film with psychology and prostitution added as preserva- tives. Detective fans will recognize au- thor Simenon as the parent of the voluminous Inspector Maigret se- ries. General readers may recog- nize the name which has appeared on an equal number of other works. Simenon probably writes more novels a year than any oth- er living writer. Yet many of them are quality novels. The current film is an adapta- tion of one of his "in-between" works. Gelin splays Frank Friedmaier, the young man who doesn't know what to do with himself and con- sequently does little-except kill and steal to earn his spending money. Gelin is perhaps the most ex- pressionless or "deadpan" actor in French films. He has been seen in "Adorable Creatures" and Hol- lywood's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (James Stewart-June Allyson), in addition to those mentioned, and in all four the viewer wonders what is going on behind that grim face! In "The Snow Was Black," Frank flouts danger with the occu- pation government, finally is pick- ed up by the Nazis and jailed. His mother takes time off from her "work" to tell him again she loves him, but it doesn't impress him this time, either. His mother, Mme. Irma (Valen- tine Tessier) is not the lovable sort at all. Frank is influenced only by his neighbor, Suzy Holtz (Marie Man- sart), who loves him as much as he loves her-but she admits' her love and he holds out. The end for Frank is inevitable from the beginning. * * * ALL IN ALL, the sort of life led in "The Snow Was Black" is a fairly dreary life - but it is plausible enough to be authentic. The grimness and corruption of France's occupation years is ob- trusive and compelling. The risque "house" theme is used for all its worth and often becomes distaste- ful In spite of its "thriller" charac- ter, the film is interesting for the problem it poses-the same as in "Les Mains Sales"-but which it never comes as near answering. --Vernon Nahrgang AT THE MICHIGAN: Friendships Never Die I. .. .1 TIHE STATE is now playing host to Mr. Pat Boone and com- pany. The picture is "Bernardine" and is Pat's first. Needless to say, part of his screen debut includes some singing, but the picture is not a musical in the sense that "Carousel" is a musical, but more of that in a moment. The plot line is roughly boy meets girl and loses her; and the most important people concerned with the development of this line are members of the "Misunder- stood Generation." Specifically focus is on Sanford Wilson (Rich- ard Sargent), who is trying not to flunk out of high school and is trying to develop technique with the girls. Involved in his adventures are his pals, who form a close knit group, led by Beau (Pat Boone). Numerous other people get in- volved in the tangle of which the principal ones are Jean (Terry Moore), Mrs. Wilson (Janet Gay- nor), and J. Fullerton Weldy (Dean Jagger). INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Inflation and the West . By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst INFLATION, which so far has aroused little more than academic debate in the United States, is 'becoming an increasing problem throughout the Western community of nations. The debate in Great Britain follows lines close to those in the United States. Will tight money, and a voluntary lessening of labor union pressure for higher wages, be sufficient to halt the trend? Those are the two points about which most British comments revolve. They make the point made by President Eisenhower, that there is too much pressure for wage increases which are not based on in- creased productivity. But labor is caught in the spiral, too. The chronic inflation in most Latin-Ameri- can countries has now broken into a gallop. France is under tensions which have not yet come to a head, but which constantly threaten her with devaluation. She has continued a good many wartime con- trols. Right now she is faced with two prob- lems. Editorial Staff VERNON NAHRGANG, Editor She is increasing her reliance 'on import quotas in an effort to stop the outflow of for- eign exchange, while trying to increase exports. This concern with exports in turn has its effect on domestic inflation. France has price controls with which she seeks to prevent the automatic wage increases which accompany rising living costs there. She is even making what is for France a rather revolutionary effort 'to collect taxes. But since World War II she has had heavy military expenses in Indochina and Africa, and the pace is telling. Italy has tried to stiffen her money and hold price lines. One result has been to increase un- employment, already a serious political and economic problem, without reducing pressure for increased wages. The stability of all these countries is vital to the United States, as hers is to them. All are running into trouble during a period of relative prosperity. Britain's economy has been going through one crisis after another ever since the war. One of the basic reasons why Britain's anti- inflation measures have not worked is that in- creasing industrialization around the world constantly weakens her place as artisan of its raw materials and banker for its development. Congress is trying to find out why there should be inflation in the United States in a period when there is a relatively good balance between supply and demand. T" .n . n-ho n- -vn- +'a Amai - AT THE STATE: Fine A cting, Fine Film The gang manages to get Wil-j son through his final exams, but he is on his own as far as girls are concerned. Beau's brother 'steals Jean and so Wilson goes into the Army and grows up all in motion. Thi doesn't sound like much of a plot and it isn't. * ! * THE MAJOR concern of the movie seems to be showing that Pat Boone can sing, that teen- agers are incredibly brilliant in managing their lives and that their parents are abysmally stu- pid. The moyies concerning the "Misunderstood Generation" have come to have stock parts like the western has developed. These movies usually have a tightly knit gang, stupid parents, hot rods, and bongos. Sometimes these elements can be turned into an effective picture, such as in "Rebel With- out a Cause." But in "Bernardine" there is no development of reasons for such incidents as the misunderstanding between Mrs. Wilson and her son. Another explanation for the lack of plot might have been that the picture was a musical. Pat Boone does sing "Bernardine," "Love Letters in the Sand" and "Technique" and there is one pretty good bongo number, but this hardly constitutes a musical. A third explanation for the pic- ture might have been that Holly- wood just needed something in which to present Pat Boone. Although Pat sings very well, his acting leaves much to be de- sired. His is the kind of casualness that sets your nerves on edge and you begin to wish that he would say just one loud word to break the monotony. THE OTHER actors didn't have much to get their teeth into, but do the best that they can which isn't too bad. Janet Gaynor re- turns to the screen with a poor part, but she manages to make the character of Mrs. Wilson sym- pathetic. Richard Sargent, as her son, IT WAS A golden opportunity for companies like AT&T, which promptly unleashed its lobbyists in the various state legislatures. Now the Bureau of Public Roads reports that in 38 legislatures laws have been either introduced or passed to pay the utilities for moving their facilities as old high- ways are widened into modern- highways. The utilties get valuable access rights along public roads without paying a cent for the privilege, also frequently write off moving costs against taxes. Hence most states in the past have required them to move at their own ex- pense. Rep. Gentry has retired from Congress, but Dempsey and Jones are backing a new laW that would prohibit any further handouts to. the utilities, also bar them from receiving free access rights along new Federal-aid highways. THIS COLUMN recently told the inside story of how Capt. Rob- ert Moore, skipper of the USS Saratoga, spent $65,Q0 toredec- orate it for Eisenhower's overnight cruise. Members of the Saratoga's crew mimeographed a thousand copies of the column for distribution aboard ship. When Captain Moore got wind of it, however, the mime- ograhed- copies were confiscated. / Captain Moore strides the bridge with a long cigarette hold- er clamped between his teeth, is as sharp a ship handler as the navy has. But here are some oth- er incidents taking place aboard the "Sara," our biggest carrier, which create a morale problem the Navy might well investigate. Efficient Captain Moore once sent two bedspreads to the ship's laundry. One came back more shrunken and faded than the oth- er. Irked, Moore claimed he had sent matching bedspreads to the laundry and confined the whole laundry crew to riuarters for two days until his wife discovered he had send the wrong bedspread to the laundry. Moore tried to take a shower in his cabin and found no hot water. He summoned the chief engi- neer and ordered him to shut off the fresh water to theengineering gang's quarters. For four days, some 700 men couldn't take a fresh-water shower. Moore carefully preserves pic- tures and clippings about himself in fancy photo albums. Once, a, ship's photographer took a bad picture of a cake-cutting cere- mony. Moore transferred the pho- tographic officer. These are a few of the incidents which explain why morale is bad on the Navy's biggest carrier. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate Inc.) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN BURT Lancaster and Tony Cur- tis turn in perhaps their best screen performances to date in a reniarkable movie now playing at the Michigan, "Sweet Smell of Success." Developing the idea of the great-man expose, and ex- panding beyond it, this film takes in the entire world of a big time gossip columnist, breaks it into pieces and lets us watch its tiny inhabitants writhe. The experi- ence is a gripping and painful one. New York, the city of the kow- tow and the scandal, the city of the night club brawl and the dirty rumor is both the location and the subject of this story. The people involved, - a guitar player, a press agent, a journalist, and a girl, - seem somehow to be only the different facets of the city's nersnnalitv fnCa-ht in their en_ rison). People jump and dance at his command, but his weakness, not his strength, dominates the film. Curtis, a slimy and unprin- cipled publicity agent who pro- vides the columnist with his daily dirt and squirms every time the pressure is put on; fits his role un- believably well and acts with un- expected skill and finesse. Dramatically, the film is intense and fast moving. Curtis is sent to break up Miss Harrison's romance with a clean cut guitar player and succeeds. in creating nastiness al- most everywhere he goes. The web of lies that he and his associates spin around themselves in their quest for some unattainable mea- sure of success seems to bind the audience and the actors together in a hideous sort of fascination. Each character is given a chance 1 l 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.ms Friday. TUEnAY .hT.Y 16 .1957