U[I$trigatt Dail 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 yen Opintow A"re Pr rrutb WJD Prev&il Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. URSDAY, JULY 18, 1957 NIGHT EDITOR: RENE GNAM Atomic Weapons 'Policy' Losing American Prestige 'HE ADMINISTRATION'S atomic weapons policy - if it can be said to have such a ling - must be harder for another nation understand than even the political maneuv- ing and skullduggery between political par- es over the budget. President Eisenhower has said several times at he favors a friendly exchange of atomic .formation. His "atoms for peace" propa- .nda has had wide political publication and otten him a good deal of publicity. In another corner of the Administration's ulti-sided policy, representatives are meet- .g with other nations in hopes of reaching an id to testing of atomic weapons and the dis- ming, to some extent, of the "peaceful" na- ons of the world. Meanwhile, back at home, the armed forces re continuing the testing of atomic weapons, most as if there were no other concern over ie matter. At the same time, the scientists - who, in- dentally, seem to agree that the fallout from hese weapons is harmful-are working steadily ward cleansing the after effects of the atom nd hydrogen weapon explosions. DHERE JUST isn't any uniform, understand- able, sincere policy in the atomic weapons eld on the part of the Administration. The United States, which is trying very hard to retain its dropping status as world leader, is having to pit its reputation against the con- flicting policies of its leaders in the ever-criti- cal eyes of other world powers. These natons find it impossible to under- stand the claims of the American government for cessation of atoms testing and commence- ment of peacetime atoms uses when this gov- ernment continues the hazardous testing of weapons, even at this very time. Just as puzzling to another nation is the lack of agreement even among the members of the Administration itself on these atomic weapons policies. As a result, the United States is finding it still harder to retain prestige as a world leader. And the Soviet power is gaining on this coun- try steadily. Actually, the atoms policies are just a part l of and a reflection of the entire American for- eign policy - which is undesciibable. A great deal more could be accomplished if the present, Administration would set forth its policies - as debatable as they may be - and take a good many firmer stands in world affairs. --VERNON NAHRGANG Editor ONE STUDENT'S VIEWS: Women in the Unwersity? (Editor's Note: The following article, "Keep Women out of the University", by Willie E. Abraham of the University Col- lege of Ghana, is reprinted from the June issue of THE STUDENT, a publication of the International Student Conference, with which the National Student Associa- tion is affiliated.) By WILLIE E. ABRAHAM University College of Ghana r AM CONVINCED that a good dinner is the noblest work of man, and a beautiful woman the noblest work of God. Whereas I have in my time been acquainted with many a bad dinner, womanhood has at all times proved to be of the essence of the good, the true, and the beautiful. I have even known some athe- ists converted at sight of a beautiful woman. It always struck them with apocalyptic force that there must be a benevolent First Cause to account for such a profusion of good looks in one person. Being born already in love, and having spent my minority in a fruitless search for the ob- ject of that devotion, I have come in my ma- jority to develop a radar-like sense of discern- ment in all things feminine. The possession of this is part of my qualification to express the following arguments about the place of women. And this is anywhere but in the uni- versity or the exchequer. THE VIEW that women should be educated in the universities has often been based on certain statements, often advanced as argu- ments, concerning a mysterious equality of' men and women. A fallacy exists in calling these statements arguments. Questions of truth and falsity, even of right and wrong morality, differ from questions of argument and validity, and it is not an argument for equality to make certain statements alleged to be true. When you insist men and women are equal, what is it that you insist upon? That men and women should be given equal work, or equal pay f r equal work? The former absurdity, the latter wisdom! It is true that a donkey should le entitled to equal rewards for equal work; but whether donkeys as well as Smith and Jones should be admitted to the diplomatic service is the essential question thht is left untouched. t It is nothing to the point 'to know that some university. professors are women. No man doubts that a woman's head contains brains, though women sometimes hide the fact. But just as the truth of a statement is no reason why it should be made (doctors don't go about telling patients they are dying), so the fact that some women can succeed in the univer- sities is no reason why they should be sent there. Universities were not created because people could succeed there. No man has yet suggested that because a woman can be pug- nacious she should therefore be drafted into the regular army. AS A SEX, women are distinguished by the possession of all that hinders a successful university education; I mean the possession of Editorial Staff VERNON NAHRGANG, Editor JOHN ILLYER..,......................Sports Editor RENE GNAM.............................Night Editor 1b,4I;C effl hard common sense, a practical down-to-earth outlook, a facility in subjecting reason to pas- sion, an instructive discernment of the truth which short-cuts all reasoned and systematic inquiry. Virtues all of them no doubt, but hardly suitable for a successful university ca- reer. All women wish to argue. Few trouble tQ make sure that they are presenting arguments rather than making appeals. Fewer still trouble to ascertain what precisely it is that they show so much anxiety to defend. Others with a strange kind of ,modesty content themselves with merely repeating the little they have to say as though to. take their position it is only necessary to understand one or two statements. All fail to make it clear to themselves whether they wish to prove a fact or make a recom- mendation. A UNIVERSITY education does positive harm to women. It utfits them for the work which is theirs! in after-school life. A uni- versity education diminishes their femininity. It unsexes them, unfitting them for married life, a state to which their most important con- tribution is their femininity. A university wo- man is a cross between the sexes, like an angel, bust entirely divested of an angel's virtues. Too clever, too scholarly, too free-minded, too opinionated, she spends, at great expense,her girlhood acquiring something she calls a liber- al mind, carefully cultivating in the process all those elegant and expensive habits, smoking and beer-drinking included, which break the heart of every bread-winner. She substitutes everything studied and af- fected for everything natural and ingrained, and begins at the twilight of her youth to lay snares for ecitable young men on the strength of her dilapidated charms. She brings home all the ills of delayed motherhood. She has robbed the family coffers, never to replenish them, and has been a continual source of distraction and mental agony to serious male students. And now that she has ended up as a wife, she must still exercise that fund of coquetry which the superfluity of men in the university community has helped her to create. As a wife, she is too free with other men, and calls this eccentricity the mark of a liberal mind. D0 NOT TELL ME that her university edu- cation has enabled her man to hold con- verse with her. A university education is a most extravagant qualification for housewifery, and if so much of other people's money is spent on a woman only to enable her to chat- ter in a high-falutin' strain with her husband, then to give a university education to a woman becomes a crime. It is not even true that a man befriends his wife. No man converses' with his wife if he can help it. A man would rather spend his 'leisure reading thanuspend it listening to opinions which he thinks he can- not treat with any seriousness. It is even false that a university education enables one to converse, delightfully. The best scholars have not always been best at con- versation, and in fact a university education tends to ruin a man's ability, to converse. It disposes him to a love of exactitude and de- tail which are contrary to the rules of polite conversation, where a fastidiousness, over ex-' actitude and detail is always uncultured. A UNIVERSITY education for women con- stitutes a hindrance to the welfare of so- ciety, sabotaging many of those important items which all men cherish. It has been said that it is a woman's privilege to change her mind. I hope that some of the considerations IN RUSSIA: Zhukov's Future 1 By THOMAS P. WHITNEY Associated Press Foreign News Analyst 'THE LOGIC of Soviet political af fairssuggests that Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov may well be slated for an important promo- tion in the Soviet government hierarchy. Possibly he will be named a first deputy premier. In the longer run -perhaps after a supreme Soviet meeting-there's a chance he may be considered for the post of pre- mier. Nikita Khrushchev last week fired four first deputy premiers- V. M. Molotov, Lazar Kagano'vich, M. Z. Saburov and M. G. Pervuk- hin. Only two first deputy premiers remain in office-Anastase Miko- yan and Joseph Kuzmin, chief of the state planning commission. THE FIRST deputy premiers and the premier form a body known as the Presidium of the Council of Ministers - a group empowered to take action for the entire Soviet Cabinet. In the last two years there have been five or six first deputy pre- miers. All except Kuzmin were full members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Thus there are several vacan- cies in the ranks of first depu- ties. Zhukov as a full member of the party Presidium and head of the most important ministry in the country is an obvious candi- date. In further perspective the posi- tion of Premier Nikolai Bulganin seems shaky. There have been in- dications from Moscow that Bul- ganin in the recent Kremlin show- down may have been somewhat less than stalwart in his support of Khrushchev, who put him in that job. IF KHRUSHCHEV decides the time has come for Bulganin to step down, Marshal Zhukov would be a highly eligible candidate. Since Zhukov is no figurehead or front man like Bulganin such a promotion would give him great authority. One of the questions is whether Khrushchev would be willing to share his authority in the Soviet leadership with Zhukov. But there are good indications that in fact he already does. Detailed and repeated reports of the Kremlin showdown stress that Zhukov saved Khrushchev from his enemies, Molotov, Mal- enkov and Kaganovich. Zhukov reportedly voiced Soviet army support for Khrushchev and this fact carried immense weight in the ultimate outcome. Thus it seems likely that Khrushchev owes, Zhukov an im- mense politicaldebt. So far in every major political crisis of the post-Stalin period, the party leadership has called on Zhukov for army support and received it. In each case Zhukov subsequently received an impor- tant promotion. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin 1s an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michi- gan Daily assume 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. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1957 . VOL. LXVIII, NO. 17 General Notices Regents' Meeting: Fri., Sept. 20. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than Sept. 11. The University Summer Session pre- sents "Bhaskar and Sasha," the well known Indian dance team in andance recital of authentic Indian dances at Hill auditorium at 8:00 p.m. on Fri., July 19. All seats are reserved. Tickets are available at the Hill Box Office. Applications for Engineering Re- search Institute Fellowships to be awarded for the fall semester, 1957- 1958, are now being accepted in the office of the Graduate School. The sti- pend is $1,125 per semester. Application forms are available from the Graduate School. Only applicants who have been employed by the Institute for at least one year on at least a half-time basis are eligible. Applications and support- ing material are due in the office of the Graduate Schol not later than 4:00 p.m., Mon., Aug. 19, 1957. Speech Research Laboratory Open House: Thurs., July 18, from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Open House in the Speech Research Laboratory, 2006 Angell Hall, with Dr. Peterson and his staff show- ing speech films and demonstrating equipment used in the analysis and study of Speech. Lectures Glauco Cambon, visiting Italian crit- ic, will lecture on, "Fight with Proteus: Yeats, Joyce, Mann, and Wolfe" at 4:10 p.m., Thurs., July 18. in Aud. C, Q ;- . C _ °"'"s""' _-.--r"'' -- ,. S'f t"jy,.tir ' l _I , ' C _ ,"_ _. . . ______. _____-._ '' GAS. tCG 0 Jh t. ; V z , ri _ . . 1', s? J: rt ?". _ Lr h 1h r *; r fay r > . i "+7 r ..;...,,. . __ z \ /. .. G ' "Ah, Well, It's An Ill Wind-" WASHINGTON - One of the most skillful jobs of Senate maneuvering in years has been done by Sen. Dick Russell of Georgia and Southern leaders in the civil rights debate. Even before this week's vote to take up the bill, they had come close to arranging private deals by which they should win about 90 per cent of their points. Southern leaders still have two opponents: Vice-President Nixon' on one side, and an embattled group of Northern Liberals led by Sen. Paul Douglas of Illlnois on the other. Nixon, who sees the huge bloc of Negro votes almost within Re- publican grasp; is determined that there be no throw-away on civil rights. As a result he has aroused the undying enmity of Southern senators. They say privately that they can get along with Nixon's fellow Californian, Bill Knowland. Only last January Knowland voted with them on the ending of filibusters, and they exp'ect him to compro- mise now. But Nixon is tougher. The bit- terness against him is intense, Irony is that the Liberal Demo crats, including Douglas, McNa- mara of Michigan, Clark of Penn- sylvania, Pastore of Rhode Island, Neuberger of Oregon, now find themselves led by a man 'they have always opposed, Senator Knowland. Or if he compromises, thenthey may have to go over to Nixon, a man they have opposed even more. For years they fought for civil rights when the going was really: tough. Now "they find the play taken away from them by GOP Johnnies-come-lately. AT LITTLE THEATER: 'Ladies'AtingExcellent £ Washington M err.- G0- By DREW PEARSON 'A INCREDIBLE as it may seem, the Little Theater people have trans- pierced the veil of Percy and Denham's cloying play-surrogate "Ladies in Retirement" and ar- rived at a generally apt and occa- sionally spellbinding performance. Indeed, they have transmogri- fled this Gothic potpourri (accent on pot) into generally effective drama of uncommon interest. "Ladies in Retirement" has all the trappings of traditional con- temporary British horror play: balmy old women, tawdry servant girls, dishonest youths, faded act- resses, and what have you. With- out undue elaboration, the crucial events in this tragicomic invention are the following: Ellen Creed, a quiet but willful old spinster, brings her two balmy sisters, Louisa and Emily, to stay at the country home of rich re- tired actressLeonora Fiske. When Leonora tires of the two old ghouls, Ellen does her in, rather than see her two relatives sent off to Bedlam. Albert Feather, nephew and wastrel, arrives on the set to hide out from the police and make out with Lucy, a tawdry servant girl who would listen to soap opera in the privacy of her wretched cubi- cle 'if she dared. Albert deduces the crime, and verifies his suspi- cions by confronting Ellen with Lucy dressed in Leonora Fiske's shawl and bonnet. Ellen faints uponseeing this spectre. Albert now has a prima facie case, and intends blackmail. * * * MARIAN MERCER as Leonora Fiske, and Robin Hall as Ellen Creed make much of their roles, especially in a scene from Act I, when they quarrel over the two sisters. This is well managed. Mer- cer is in good form in a serious role, while Robin emerges as an effective protagonist in Acts II and III. Bette DeMain and Gertrude Slack are realistically balmy, al- though they seem occasionally uncertain of who is Emily and who is Louisa. Russ Aiuto plays the cockney Albert Feather with a quasi-Southern accent which be- comes acceptable with time. Helga Hover plays a curiously Germanic Lucy Gilham. Sister Theresa, whom I forgot to men-, tion in the protactic paragraph, is played by Janice Bruckner, competently. Maitland's set is adequate. It is the overall high quality of acting displayed which recom- mends this production. The leading. characters all give performances well worth seeing, especially the tristigmatose Ellen of Robin Hall and the trachyphonic Leonora of Marian Mercer. -David Kessel AT THE CAMPUS: India's Hollywood lr ;: AWARA" (The Vagabond), In- dia's contribution to the Cannes Film Festival, is essen- tially sentimental propaganda for slum clearance. The theme - criminals are not born, they're made. Environment's triumph over heredity - is an old issue to most Americans who have been clearing their slum areas for at least a couple of years. Old or not I sus- pect it's a pretty vital issue in In- dia right now. The story is about a boy named Raj who grows up in the slums of India. He tries to shun tne pressing temrptations of his envir- onment.. but he can't. After years of prison and crime, lie winds up on trial for the attempted murder of a judge. Raj is defended by the judge's ward, Rita. She is a lady lawyer and in love with Raj, of course. The film is therefore mostly one long flashback, as we watch Raj fight off his environ- ment. GRANTED this propaganda, the plishments are in is sentimental film's accom- its form. First, INTERPRETING THE NEWS: America A.ll Tied Up the cutting between sequences is abrupt. No one goes from one place to another. Instead he is just there. The action is complex and eventful. Director Kapoor cut from the heart of one action scene to the heart of the next scene. No walking from place to place, no shaking hands; no getting in and out of cars. (American newsreels could take a tip from this). Second, there is an unusual in- tegration of a lavish dream se- quence, strictly out of a musical, right in the middle of this serious drama. Actually, the dream chore- ographically shtws the young lovers Raj and Rita on trial before their gods, one of whom repre- sents mercy and sublimity and the other Dantean hell. After much dancing through oceans of thick cloud effects and flashpots of fire, the lovers are apparently about to be judged be- fore the god over the whole busi- ness when Raj wakes up. As far as I know American films have not attempted to integrate music in a serious drama without giving the audience plenty of advance warning. This was a pleasant sur- prise. Third, there were two or three Indian equivalents to Rock and Roll songs. In other words the In- dian music which is traditionally rhythmic was generously melodic too. The lovers sang a romantic duet, loosely entitled "Oh Gentle Moon, Don't Hide From Me." It wouldn't be nuch of a song if it were only melodic or only rhythmic, but the combination is irresistable. * * * THE FILM is generally about 20 years old by Hollywood standards. , The shading definition is abrupt and the production is jerky. The Indian company has adopted sev- eral of Hollywood's worst habits. For instance, the basic appeal tends toward sensual stereotypes. Rita is Nargis, India's First Lady of the Screen. She is very beauti- ful. Raj is very handsome, so is the judge for that matter. The judge is a millionaire. He owns a Maharajah-type palace; but in- stead of being entirely Indian in design, it is cluttered up with all sorts of European statuary and Rococo frills. And music was often used as a substitute for dialogue to express emotion. The freshest contribution any country can make to the motion picture art is to produce a story indigenous of its people and in a MEANWHILE, here are the shrewd moves made by Southern leaders to strip the civil rights bill down to a skeleton even before the real debate got started. 1. Jury trial - Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas has a jury-tr'ial amendment just about tied up 'in blue ribbons. A good many Repub licans and several Northern Demo- crats are secretly ready to wipe out trial-by-judge in case a judge's injunction is violated, and substi- tute trial-by-jury-in many cases trial-by-white-jury. 2. Other civil rights - This i Section 3 of the bill which em- braces all civil rights, not merely voting rights, and would include the enforcement of school deseg- regation. President Eisenhower and Geor- gia's Dick Russell have now cut a lot of support from this part of the bill. After Dick told the Senate this would permit the Federal govern- ment to force segregation on the south with bayonets, the Presidenti announced that he didn't "parti- cipate in drawing up the exact language of the proposals" and that his only objective was "to prevent anybody illegally from in- terfering with any individual's right to vote." EISENHOWER obviously wasn't familiar with his own power as President; nor hadn't read the civil rights 'bill which has been under consideration in congress foar two years and under active debate f or nine months. He didn't know, among other things, that as President he has always the right to send troops into any part of the United States, and that in this half century other Presidents have sent them into portions of the south. Ike's confusioi about the "exact language" of the bill has bolstered Russell's charge that the.bill is "an example of cunning draughts- manship," and has helped another proposed compromise. Many northern leaders now agree that the bill should ziot pass unless it makes clear that military power will not be used to enforce civil rights. All this happened before the civil rights bill itself came up for debate. (Copyright 1957 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) LE-LTTERS 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.) Taste Questioned.. To the Editor: MAY I QUESTION the taste of your paper in allowing the ad- vertising copy from radio station WHRV to appear in its present ,form? If one of two persons run- I I I } By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst UNLIKE the centipede, which seems to have no trouble in making use of its legs, the United States is always getting its many arms and legs mixed up. For many years now the Army has been reorganizing to use fewer men in smaller divisions with, atomic arms. Cuts in personnel have taken place, and another has just been announced. Such reorganization is not merely a military measure. It has domes- tic political connections, involving government expense. It has diplomatic connections, with regard to the American posi- tion on disarmament and the de- ployment of forces around the world as a deterrent to war. As a diplomatic measure, the government recently decided to abandon Japan as a combat base and withdraw American troops. As a military measure, it was decided that one of the divisions from Japan should replace an- other which 'has been deployed along the armistice line in Korea. deterrent. Two pentomic divisions in Korea are formal notice that if the Reds resume the war there, it will be atomic war, even though "massive retaliation" might be avoided. In the propaganda war, how- ever, the Reds are claiming, de- spite their record of perfidy, that it is the Allies who have abro- gated the armistice by denouncing the clause which sought to freeze the size, of forces and types of weapons to those in use at the end of shooting. ARRIVAL of atomic arms in South Korea gives them something more to cry about. So authorities are wondering whether troubled waters should be further stirred at such a time. It's small complications of this type which the United States faces constantly. They are due to a pos- ture which has been forced upon her by Communist expansionism. She is constantly trying to pro- mote pecae. Her military deploy- ment is designed to deter war. Always in the background, how- eri, s tht -ceantit1 +hat+if war,