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the editors. This must be noted in all reprints.

UESDAY, JULY 23, 1957

NIGHT EDITOR: RENE ONAM


Federal School Aid
Vs. Civil Rights

ALTHOUGH the Senate's battle on civil rights
may overshadow other happenings on Capi-
tol Hill this week, there is an equally important
matter coming up for consideration in the
House-the Federal school aid bill.
Unfortunately, this bill may also be em-
broiled in the civil rights controversy because
of the segregated schools' questionable right
to a part of this aid.
Predictions have already been made that
the aid-to-schools bill will not receive the
necessary support and that attempts to amend
it in consideratioxi of the segregated schools
problem will produce negative effects delaying
or halting passage of the bill altogether.
TH E IMPORTANCE of this Federal aid bill,
however, transcends the comparatively petty
fight over civil rights. The question of whether
students will be separated by color before
attending school is subordinate to the question
of the kind,,and quality of education they are to
receive in their respective classrooms.
Of course there should be Federal aid to
those districts of the nation where the schools

need it so desperately. All public schools, segre-
gated or not, have a right to the aid that will
build their classrooms, their teachers and their
students.
For, after all, a good education will bring its
pupils even greater understanding and know-
ledge in the problems of segregation, and this
education will eventually lead its recipients to
taking action in matters of civil rights that will
not require legislation.
Indeed, it is education that forms the mind
of the American, not the laws of the country.
It is education that forms the laws.
Congressmen would do well to realize this;
they will accomplish more by seeing to the
passage of the,'desperately-needed Federal aid
to education bill.
This, in turn, would achieve the necessary
long-range attack against segregation in the
South that the civil rights bill could never
realize without a good deal of bitterness over
the "law enforcement" approach.
-VERNON NAHRGANG
Editor

Beauty: Skin Deep?

T HE SENSE of values of an individual is a
highly personal thing. But when these
values become distorted, affecting a great num-
ber of people, it is time for both analysis and
evaluation.
Last week two curvacious young ladies made
headlines throughout the world's newspapers,
originally for their respective beauty, but one
day later because of their deceit, thus leaving
us to wonder if there might still be truth in
the old saw of "beauty being only skin deep."
We refer, of course, to the Misses Gladys Zen-
der and Leona Gage (alias Mrs. Ennis).
Each of them chose to tell deliberate lies to
achieve their foremost goal: to be acclaimed,
as the Universe's most beautiful girl of 1957.
In order to be eligible, Miss Zender had to
state her present age as 18, although it is
really 17, and Mrs. Ennis had to tell officials
that she is not, and never was, married.
THAT BOTH resorted to lying to achieve an
ambition can certainly not be condoned.
But, it is the ballooning of the value of beauty
contests out of all proportion that should be
held directly responsible.
Where or when the first contest for the
determination of the "fairest of the fair"
originated is unknown, but since the time of
Christ is a conservative guess. From that start-
ing point, shrewd promoters and advertising
men have accurately surmised that the pres-
ence of lovely female countenances means
many extra dollars.
Displays' of feminine pulchriture have ac-
quired the distinct flavor of commercialism. In
fact, not one single beauty contest comes to
mind in which it hasn't occurred primarily to
advertise something.
The annual Miss America Pageant to be held
next month in Atlantic City, N. J., will bring
thousands to that resort city. The same is true
of the Miss Universe Contest in Long Beach,
Calif. The influx of so many gorgeous creatures
tends to create the illusion of enhancing the
surroundings, which, of course, the Chamber of
Commerces in both cities have taken into
consideration.
Absolutely the most fraudulent .of all these
contests are those sponsored by various inde-

pendent manufacturers. The most pathetic
note is that the girls selected as Miss so-and-so
Beer, or Miss Sauerkraut of 1957, actually con-
sider it a great achievement. It should be
considered an insult of the very highest degree.
Even the "purest" of these debaucles, some-
thing like the crowning of a homecoming dance
queen, doesn't escape commercial aspects. It
undoubtedly creates higher interest in the
school, bringing a greater audience to the
event. This University can and does take great
pride in being of the few coed institutions in
the country not sponsoring such contests, even
though some consider it nothing but prudery.
HERE IS NOTHING more artificial than to
see a bevy of beauties parade up and down
a long, wooden plank wearing only a swimsuit,
with eagle-eyed 50-year-old judges, scrutinizing
them as carefully as they would a prime steer
on market day.
Is this sort of thing, with all its deceit and
commercialism, that future Miss Universes will
try to attain through deceiving others?
--FRED KATZ
Senatorial Service
Simply Amazing
WE DECIDED last week we should expand
our reference library with a copy of the
Congressional Directory, a Washington publi-
cation with all sorts of cross-listings, facts and
figures about the people (all the people) who
have anything to do with our nation's legisla-
tive body.
So, taking advantage of the excellent service
to be had from the legislators, we sent off a
letter to our Republican senator. That was
Tuesday.
On Friday we received the following tele-
gram:
"REURLET SIXTEENTH WAS PLEASED
TO MAIL TO YOU TODAY LATEST DIREC-
T9RY REGARDS - CHARLES E POTTER
US SENATOR"
We're amazed.
-VERNON NAHRGANG

fTRto the editor
(Editor's Note: Letters to the Edi-
tor must be ,gned, In good taste, and
not more than 300 words in length.
The Daily reserves the right to edit
or withhold letters from publication.)
Woman's Place . .
To the Editor:
I HAVE this day perused Willie
E. Abraham's article, "Women
in the University," printed in
Thursday's Daily, and I feel
moved to reply. It has been
pointed out to me that the article
was no doubt published in the
spirit of good, clean fun, source
The Student, publication of the
International Student Conference
with which the National Student
Association is affiliated. A
thoughtful re-reading compels me
to agree.
However, years of conscientious
eavesdropping on people's conver-
sations, intellectual and otherwise,
men vis-a-vis men, in mixed
groups and in groups of three,
have led me to believe that there
exists a great deal of confusionI in
men's and women's minds as re-
gards their 'real' role in society,
and what might be termed their
intellectual stance toward one an-
other, if not the value of intellec-
utal interchange generally.
Therefore I shall proceed in my
fallible, feminine fashion to exam-
ine Mr. Abraham's article with
some seriousness and in no small
detail.
* *
IF WE MAY believe him, Mr.
Abraham seems to have cher-
ished in his heart the image of a
beautiful woman, whom he pic-
tures happily enshrined 'in kitch-
en and nursery. Not an interesting
woman, not a complete woman,
not a responsible nor a cultured
one, just beautiful, who is not
handicapped by an education in
bringing into being his children,
cleaning his floors, cooking his
meals, and doing the otherwise
therapeutic, onerous chores which
so become beautiful women.
His analogy of a beautiful wo-
man to a donkey struck me first
of all as curious. He avers he does
not understand 'equality' of the
sexes. I don't believe an exquisite,
overexacting, uncultured 'equality'
is desired by most women, but I
believe they like to be considered
members of the genus, homo
sapiens.
He does admit that some Uni-
versity Professors are women, er-
go, they must have brains. Appar-
ently then, a University Professor
need have nothing but a brain.
Mr. Abraham suggests in one
breath that 'some women can suc-
ceed in a University: In the next
he indicates that this is no reason
why they should be sent there. I
agree. Presumably they acquire
much morein breadth, in human-
ity and in understafiding than the
privilege of saying, 'I got through.'
Mr. Abraham regards possession
of such qualities as hard common
sense, a practical down-to-earth
outlook, the subjecting of reason
to passion and discernment of the
truth, all female qualities he says,
as handicaps to a successful edu-
cation.
Is he suggesting that our Uni-
versities do not prepare men and
women to take\ responsible roles
in a society which is moving at
break-neck speed, in a society -
a world society - that is exper-

encing convulsions of growth,
where men and women must think
and work as never before to con-
struct an adult, law-abiding world
for their children, not to mention
assuming sound, productive social
roles for themselves?
** *
DOES Mr. A. secretly regard the
world as an exclusive club with
men holding the memberships and
women waiting on table? Our
world might be better likened to
an armed camp..
He would exclude women, fig-
uratively at any rate, from the
'diplomatic service,' a prime ide-
ological error.
Sophisticated and amusing a5
his article may be, it contains
within itself all the attitudes, any-
thing but light and anything but
trivial, which' make it difficult if
not impossible for women to con-
tribute constructively to an ever
increasingly complex and explo-
sive society.
I am led to believe that Mr.
Abraham cherishes unbeknownst {
to himself a secret contempt for
things intellectual, which in the
long run are the arbitrations of
reality, ever dynamic, ever chang-
ing. I would reassure him. I am
sure that he will find himself a
platform and a battleground with
more worthy use of his critical
talents. Life eventually draws us
into its realities.
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AT THE STATE:
Wake Up, Sweet Prince

ANN ARBOR audiences with a
mind for such matters can
visualize the transformation from
third rate play to second rate film
occasionally. Such an opportunity
presents itself now.
The film "The Prince and the
Showgirl," currently being shown
at the State theatre, is adapted
with reasonable improvement
from Rattigan's play "The Sleep-
ing Prince," which was part of
the late unlamented drama sea-
son.
To the delight of local nympho-
leptics, Marilyn Monroe is cast as
the showgirl, Laurence Olivier is
the Prince, and the others in the
cast are even better.
Billed as a "modern fairy tale,"
this film relates how the kiss of
a showgirl awakened an otherwise
adequate Prince to the subtleties
of Life which he had hitherto
missed.
* * *
OLIVIER plays an impressive
and expressive Prince who can
convey all the inherent humor of
his role with his usual elegance.
His mother-in-law is a similarly
grand lady who provides an Oscar
Wilde touch where needed.
Marilyn Monroe, on the other
hand, has only one expression,
visible from the rear, which she
uses to great effect every now and
then.
"Prince and the'Showgirl" takes
place in 1910 London, with a dele-
gation of royalty on hand for the
upcoming coronation. Olivier, the
Grand Duke of Carpathia, sends
out a foreign office flunkey (well
acted) to procure a dame for the
evening.


"Look-I'll Let a Few of You Have Dates with Her"

This turns out to be Marilyn, an
American Showgirl. She arrives,
impressed with the embassy trap-
pings, gives the Prince a hard
time, eventually decides she loves-
him, and passes out from drink-
ing five gulletfulls of Vodka.
Next morning is the coronation.
The showgirl somehow gets in-
vited to the coronation, marve-
lously photographed, settles an in-
ternational situation, and reforms
the Prince, who promises to send
for her when the time is ripe.
IN THE original play, the
Prince has a wife, and much of
the comedy is derived from the
curiously friendly relationship
which springs up between the
Prince's wife and his showgirl.
The screen writers have decided
that this situation is too advanced
for us simple folk and have pro-
vided his Highness with a mother-
in-law instead, so that our ten-
der sensibilities are spared the
disconcerting sight of a married
prince seducing. a showgirl. No-
blesse Oblige lives on.
Although the humor of the
Prince-Showgirl ,affair beginsI to
wear a bit thin after a time, Oli-
vier and the cast have done the
best possible to wring what they
could out of this quasi-farce.
The photography is mostly ex-
cellent, especially the coronation
interlude. The costumes are pre-
posterous.
So for a jolly good time, tear
out to the State Theater to see
what all the 'New York papers are
blowing their gaskets over.
-David Kessel

DAILY
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TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1957
VOL. LXVIII, NO. 20
General Notices
Applications for Engineering Re-
search Institute Fellowships to be
awarded for the fall semester, 1957-
195, 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.
Exhibit of Children's Art: Fifty paint-
ings of Paris scenes by French school
children are on exhibit on the sec-
ond floor of the Romance Languages
Building through July 30.
Lectures
Speech Assembly 3 p.m. today in the
Rackham Amphitheatre. Prof. Robert
Gunderson, Chairman of the Depart-
ment of Speech, Oberlin College, will
speak on "Reading Lincoln's Mail."
Asian Cultures and the Modern Am-
erican. "The Political Crisis in the Phil-
ippines." Robert Aura Smith, New York
Times. 4:15 p.m., Tues., July 23, Aud. A,
Angell Hall.
Prof. Gordon H. Fairbanks, of Cor-
nell University will speak on "The
Comparative Method and Indo-Aryan,"
in a summer Linguistic Institute For-
um Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tues., July 23,
in the Rackham Amphitheatre.
Linguistic Luncheon Lecture, Wed.,
July 24 at 12:10 p.m., Michigan League.
Prof.S. M. Sapon from Ohio State Uni-
versity will speak on "A Note of Pro-
gress in Dialect Geography."
Music Education Lecture, auspices of
the School of Music. "Building School
Orchestras in the Medium Sized
Towns." A. Eugene Burton, Newton,
Iowa. 3:00 p.m., Wed., July 24, Aud. A,
Angell Hall.
Dr. Ronald C. Mason of University
College, London will speak on "Chemi-
cal Carcinogenesis and Molecular
Structure," at 4:00 p.m., Wed., July 24
in Room 1300, Chemistry Building.
Plays
The Desperate Hours, Joseph Hays'
suspense drama, will be presented by
the Department of Speech at 8 p.m. to-
night in the Lydia Mendelssohn Thea-
tre.
Concerts
Stanley Quartet, Gilbert Ross and
Emil Raab, violin, Robert Courte, vi-
ola, Robert Swenson, cello, 8:30 p.m.
Tues., July 23, Rackham Lecture Hall.
ThisIs the second in a series of three
summer concerts. It will include
Haydn's Quarter in E-flat major, Op.
33, No. 2, Stravinsky's Three Pieces for
String Quartet (1914), Bartok's1 Five
Pieces from the Midrokosmos, and
Brahms' Quartet In B-flat major, Op.
67. Open to the general public without
charge.
The Men's Glee Club will present
Count Basie and his orchestra with fea-
tured vocalist, Joe Williams, in a musi-
cal concert at Hill Auditorium at 8:00
p.m. Wed., July 24. All seats are re-
served. Tickets are available at the Hill
Box Office.
Academic Notices
Schools of Business Administration,
Education, Music, Natural Resources
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WWashington
Merry-
G;o=
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON - The .long-de-
layed school construction bill
comes up for a vote in the House
of Representatives this week.
For almost four years it has
been held up - either by Mrs.
Hobby's go-slow tactics, by the
Powell Amendment, or by United
States Chamber of Commerce op-
position.
Passage now is going to depend
on how hard the White House
works for it. Officially Eisenhower
is for it. Unofficially, Republican
leaders intimate that Ike is less
than lukewarm for it. Signifi-
cantly, all Republican members of
the rules committee voted against
it.
The White House lobby on Capi-
tol Hill is more efficient than at
any time since the early days of
Roosevelt.
Every president tries to get his
program passed through Congress
and uses a White House staff to
do it. They' buttonhole Gongress-
men, promise postmasterships,
jobs, other favors.
The White House, when it goes
into action, can be the most
powerful agency in the nation, no
matter who is president.
And Ike has used his efficient
lobbying machine to kill the Pat-
man banking probe, to stall Hell's
Canyon, and to pass foreign aid.
The interesting question will be
whether this same machine will
be thrown into high gear to pass
another part of the Eisenhower
program-school constructionr.The
bets on Capitol Hill are that it
won't.
* * *
SEN. PAUL DOUGLAS of Ii-
nois sits all day crouched over
his desk on the Senate Floor. He
listens to the debate, sometimes
lifts his withered hand up on the
desk to hold down a sheaf of
papers.
Douglas is a Quaker who be-
lieves in peace when he can have
peace, but will fight when he has
enlisted in the Marines as a pi-
vate 'at the age of 50.
And he began battling for Civil
Rights nine years ago when many
Republican senators, now for Civil
Rights, were part of the coalition
which opposed.
Douglas is now fighting with
the same intensity that he fought
the Battle of Okinawa. And as on
Okinawa he is getting wounded.
Some of his old friends feel he is
too intense, too uncompromising.
But whether they agree with him
or not, they respect him.
The other day, Douglas was
talking about the apparent lack of
understanding of the bill in cer-
tain quarters.
"We should debate this bill long
enough," he said, "for every mem-
ber of the Senate-and even the
President-to understand it."
"None of us,"' replied Senator
Humphrey of Minnesota, "will
ever live that long."
* . * *-
PROBABLY at no time during
his four and a half years in the
White House have Republican
leaders been more furious at their
own president than durilg the
civil rights battle.
Their ire comes from the fact
that they don't know where their
leader stands.
First flare-up cane about two
weeks ago when Eisenhower start-

ed backing down on his previous
stand for civil rights. He told a
press conference he wasn't famil-
iar with the bill, wouldn't go for
some of its provisions.
This was exactly the opposite of
what Ike's own leaders had been
telling GOP congressmen.
Ex-Speaker Joe Martin of Mas-
sachusetts had long had an under
standing with Southern Demo-
crats to oppose civil rights, but
he went down the line for civil
rights when he got word that the
President wanted it.
Charley Halleck of Indiana and
Les Arends of Illinois, the other
GOP leaders, joined with Martin
in telling GOP congressmen Ike
demanded the Civil Rights Bill,
that he must have a strong bill,
that it must be passed exactly as.
written, no comma or semicolon
must be changed.
It was not easy to roll up such
a heavy Republican vote, but the
leaders used Ike's name all over
capitol hill. The bill was passed as
a 100 per cent Eisenhower "must."
SO WHEN the man who tie-
manded the bill said he wasn't
familiar with its language and
only wanted to protect voting
rights, it sent the three GOP lead-
ers scurrying to the White House
telephone. Last week they saw
Eisenhower, expressed their com-
plaint personally.
This seemed to bolster the presi-
dent. Afterward; July 16, he issued
a much strong statement. Vice-
President Nixon, worried over Ike's
wishy-washy position, helped to
draft the statement.
Next morning, July 17, Know-
land called a meeting of all senate'

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AT THE CAMPUS:

INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Communist Activation

Old Pic, New Theme

By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
OT LONG before he died, Stalin ordered
Communist parties throughout the world
to resume cooperation with "progressive" and
farmer-labor groups.
The Communist party in the United States
immediately answered the call.
The object was for Communists to identify
themselves with left-leaning minority groups,
adopting their complaints and, later, to take
over the groups.
It was not a new effort. The tactic had been
in use, when it fitted the Kremlin moods, for
many years.
A version of it was applied to Socialist parties
in the Eastern European satellites after World
War II. The American Communists had tried it
during the heyday of the Farmer-Labor party
after World War I.
Nikita Khrushchev revived the idea in con-
Editorial Staff
VERNON NAHRGANG, Editor
JOHN HILLYER...................... Sports Editor
RENE ONAM.............................Night Editor
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nection with de-Stalinization. He returned to
it the other day while visiting Czechoslovakia.
He advocated greater cooperation between
Communists and "progressive" elements every-
where.
Only a few days passed before the American
Communists picked up the tune again.
In 1952 the program- was directed primarily
at redevelopment of a Farmer-Labor party.
The Communists, of course, were willing to
do all the organizational work and expected
to turn up with control.
The program ran headon into a national
wave of anticommunism, and made no head-
way.
Now the American Reds are trying to co-
ordinate that line with another old one - a
general exploitation of the complaints of
minorities.
The party's National Committee, while pick-
ing up the Khrushchev line, adopted another
resolution establishing a national cultural com-
mittee to appeal to Negro, Puerto Rican, Mexi-
can, Jewish, Italian and other national and
racial groups.
They revived the old promise made by the
Kremlin soon after Stalin's death and never
yet carried out, that Jewish cultural rights in
Russia would be restored.
The minorities having failed to coalesce
around a general movement, the Reds will now
work on them independently.

A SEMI-WESTERN with an old
theme is playing at the Cam-
pus Theater this week. What
might have been a trite presenta-
tion of that old theme has been
made into generally well-acted
and fairly interesting movie.
The plot runs like this: Papa is
hated by Sonny because he left
Mama and Sonny fourteen years
before. He needed new land to
graze his cattle on because of a
drought and wanted to leave.,
Mama didn't want to leave her
nice home and the luxuries of life
so she refused to accompany Papa.
This is all unknown by Sonny,
however, because he was too young
at the time to understand all the
quibbling.
Papa comes back and finds that
Mama has committeed suicide and
Sonny wants no part of him. Son-
ny decides to accompany Papa
from then on however, because he
looks like Mama and thinks that
his face will remind Papa of the
grievous wrong he has done.
Papa, meanwhile, has spent his
fourteen years looting around
with a gang and killing all sorts
of people. So when he and Sonny
go out to meet the world, the rela-
tives of all those sorts of people
are out to get him.
In those fourteen years, Papa
has also met a girl. He saved this
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up all the people that have been
bothering Papa because he killed
a few of their relatives. Papa of
course is now righteous and on
the side of the law.
Papa must be gotten out of the
way somehow so that the girl can
have Sonny, so Papa is very con-
veniently killed in the last gun-
fight.
Jack Palance is 'a rather mis-
cast but interesting Papa. His be-
lief in the Stanislavsky school of
acting is quite evident; one growl
to ever yvowel. Anthony Perkins
as Sonny turns in a f ine perf or-
mance; believable in every respect,
he is excellent as a boy who grows
to man-hood in a few months.
An outstandingly poor job is
dope by Elaine Aiken as the girl.
She wanders through the picture
saying her favorite word, FYeah,'?'
in a thoroughly unconvincing
manner.
THE TWO minor leads are
played by Neville Brand and Rob-
ert Middleton who do a really fine
job. Brand nearly steals the show
in several places. And well he
might, for his is the meatiest char-
acter role in the movies.
Two shorts are running with the
"Lonely Man," which are recom-
mended," -which are recommended
highly. "The Romance of Trans-
portation in Canada" is presented

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