G1je Shihdgn &tiIy Sixty-Eighth Year EDrITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN en Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Tr'uth will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This nus t be noted in all reprints. ISDAY, JUNE 26, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: SUSAN HOLTZER Highwrv Commissioner Mackie, Not Adams, Raises Trust Question "When Do We Get Out Of This Depression?" LYDIA MENDELSSOHN: Love's Labor's Lost /^"" V ur r"' -17 t "NAVARRE shall be the wonder of the world; Our court shall be a little Academe," So resolves Ferdinand, King of Navarre, and so resolve Berowne, Longaville, and Dumain: to live and study for three years, sleeping but three hours a night, fasting one day a week, eating but one meal the other days, and mainly, not speaking to women. Oddly enough, this resolve lasts one full act, then falls about the royal bosoms of the Princess of France and three Ladies in Waiting who come to Navarre on serious business. Meanwhile, the clownish Costard and the pompous Don Armado both pursue a country wench, damsel, maid and/or virgin named 'Finely Put Off!' [E SHERMAN ADAMS affair has brought nto public focus the question of morality ublic office; the do's and don'ts of a man .nfluence in a position of responsibility. ever, the subtler forms of abuse of public uence hqave become buried under the scare the rise of the vicuna. ae Adams affair is not an abuse of politi- norality in any sense of the word. Adams pted (and gave) gifts to Bernard Gold- an old friend. The American public at stmas spends millions to give gifts,. and idealized consensus is that one expects ing in return for these. They are tokens ffection, a noble expression of the brother- I of humanity. Goldfine did some good is for his friend, Adams, much as one gives garette to a friend. However, Goldfine can rd more lavish gifts. hraham, of Biblical note, wanted to give a gift and chose his son to sacrifice. This was not accepted, but thousands of cattle h were sacrificed throughout the Old Tes- ent were. Gifts have a long history and ap- ntly everyone, including God, accepts . - gift is a gift, and if everyone gives and ves gifts why should one man be perse- I for it? If the gift system is outmoded, a general overall, not a limited'persecution, in order. is A REAL VIOLATION of public morality exists, not in the Adams case, but in the type of case which rests closer to home, in Lansing. John Mackie state highway com- missioner has used his office in a subtler, but perhaps more serious way. On each highway construction project signs are being erected saying, "Your tax dollars at work." These no- tices are signed, in foot-high letters, "John Mackie, State Highway Commissioner." What this amounts to is not information, for every- one knows who builds roads and that their financing is not philanthropic. Rather, these signs can be considered political advertising for Mackie, who has his name appearing all, over the state in large letters for no readily, discernible purpose. This may well aid Mackie in becoming a more well-known figure throughout the state, and serve as well as campaign posters for future elections. The point, however, is not that Mackie has his name on billboards but that the state highway department is paying for this type of free ad- vertising. ACKIE MAY FEEL this is courtesy, letting the people know who is °building roads and who heads what state road-building agency. It can also be considered a breach of public trust, which would make it a much more seri- ous situation than the Adams case. Since Mackie's name 'serves no official purpose, as the secretary of state's signature does on driv- er's licenses or the governor's does on bills to make them laws, it can appear only as adver- tising or at least a very peculiar form of ,hu- manitarianism. It seems odd that this type of situation, which occurs at all levels of .government throughout the country, has raised harry a whimper while gift-giving has created a furor. Mackie's offense is certainly more readily ob- servable than Adams', yet it continues. Now is the time for all good men to rush to the aid of their .country, either to condone Mackie's actions and all those more innocent, or to make would-be headline-politicians turn their efforts 'to the real abuses of public trust. Everyone loves little children who receive gifts; no one, today, loves Sherman Adams. ROBERT JUNKER ;; ,_, t i r , . : t f '°- F - r 'P' y1 Y .- .R. ,;,... r, ! ,yn ,i .ice r Jaquenetta. But all's well that ends well, and this little comedy of errors draws on to its worthy con- clusion; much ado about nothing to be sure, but wit, measure for measure with humor, just as you like it. The king and his men for- sake their oaths, the Princess and her ladies forsake the men for twelve months, and Love's Labor is, for a time, Lost. * s IT HAS BEEN SAID that one cannot talk about Shakespeare to well-bred people without appalling them, but one could praise the Speech Department's production at great length, and appall only rival groups, perhaps. Ralph Duckwall's scenery and Marporie Smith's costumery are of the best; with William Hal- stead's rapid-paced direction most commendable. The theme of the play is obvi- ously Transparency, with a trans- parent contour curtain, transpar- exit letters,- shields, swords, books; in shorts almost everything is to some degree transparent except the women's costumes, more's the pity, which aren't even particu- larly translucent. * * * ESPECIALLY noteworthy per- formances came from Howard Poyourow, the studious Berowne; Brendan O'Reilly, the scholarly but athletic King; Howard Green, the preposterous Armado; L. (for Lila) Beck, Armado's witty Page; and Norman Hartweg, the insuf- ferable Pedant Holofernes. Philos- ophum non facit barba indeed! A cunning, if historically ques- tionable touch was added at play's end when th e ghost of Queen E., who had hitherto watched silently from her box, appeared on the front apron to make off with Be- rowne, a character supposed by some to be a satire on S~ir Walter Raleigh. Music by David Bates, Robert James, and Donald Young was simple yet curiously appropriate for this, one of the Speech Depart- ment's finest productions within recent memory. -David Kessel CAMPUS: Lad Killers' Hilarious T HE LILT and zest with which the British approach murder is one of their greatest gifts. For those raised in the Puritan rigidi- ties, Mr. Guiness' frivolous treat- ment of it in "The Lady Killers" may make some cringe, but they will surely laugh also. The film is funny with so many implications and on so many levels, from the straight slap- stick-prat-f all variety to the most exquisitely 'malevolent sat- ire, that the hilarity of murder, larceny, fraud, violence and de- linquency, in general are ines- capable. Mr. Guinness gives here one of his most hilariously subtle per- formances gloriously matched by that of Miss Katie Johnson as the .lady to be killed. The film is a gracefully insidious and highly skilled spoof of all the pompous normality of the common decen- cies. ** * THE SECOND film on the cur- rent Campus bill is quite another dish of British tea. It may be that Guinness, like beer, can cloy in large doses,' but in this case disinterest is more than satiety. "To Paris With Love" is predi- cated on the notion that anything French is gay, sexy, hilarious. Such a sad misconception. If one must go into details, an English father (Mr. G. again) takes his son to Paris to show him "Life." It was rather a pretentious bore, and no one was more bored than Mr. Guinness. A bit of judi- cious timing and consultation of time tables will enable one to miss "Paris" while still enjoying fully "TheLady Killers," -David Guillaume mrS sS nts trA.sfirrt.cz'x ." v's-r' . Library Needs Your Ticket WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Lebanon Result of Intervention ''' - By DREW PEARSON RT RUMMAGING, University students. member that little green ticket you got gistration, that said "cashier's receipt?" T need it. e reason: Mother library, and all the little 'ies think their books are going to be :ed away by sly University students who I-D cards but are not in summer session. who are just waiting around for the e to steal books and spirit them on home., ibraries figure to foil this by requiring little green cards. you have any books that have to be taken nd you've host your receipt, we would st memorizing library hours. I if you're waiting around to steal books, iggest an alternate course of action. Find f those green tickets -- it should be easy. -LANE VANDERSLICE. BRITISH and French diplomats aren't letting the State De- partment forget the fact that they could have saved the United, States the problem of interven- tion in Lebanon, f President Eisenhower hadn't intervened to stop the Anglo-French-Israeli fighting in Suez on the eve of the 1956 Presidential election. 'Today, the United States is being drawn into the Near East crisis to stop the spread of Nas- serism, whereas it could have sat back and let the French, British and Israeli armies do it in 1956. French andgBritish diplomats were bitter against the United States following the Suez inter- vention andathey haven'taforgot- ten it today. They recall how President Eisenhower himself phoned Prime Minister Eden in London, bawled him out in bar- rack-room language and demand- ed that British troops accept a cease-fire immediately. Eden, shaken, picked up the telephone, called Premier Mollet in Paris and relayed the demand.. Mollt remonstrated, but finally decided that France would have to follow the British and Ameri- can lead. Nasser, who had been cringing in a bombproof cellar in the out- skirts of Cairo, has been busy un- dermining American policy in the Near East ever since. Mysterious maneuverings have been taking place inside the Kremlin, the full impact of which are difficult to fathom. However, observers in the satellite coun- tries which make it a point to know what goes on behind the walls which affect them most have this explanation for the exe- cution of Ex-Premier Imre Nagy of Hungary: * * * KHRUSHCHEV was getting worriedibout too much freedom in the satellite nations and de- cided that the best way to prevent further freedom was to make an example with someone else's neck. The execution of Nagy and Mal. Gen. Pal Malter was a cool. and calculated warning to the heads of other governments in the Soviet bloc that they might suffer the same fate. Khrushchev knew that forces were stirringain Poland, Hungary, Rumania and- Czechoslovakia which would mean a gradual drift toward the West. It was this drift that Sen. Jack Kennedy of Mas- sachusetts and the State Depart- ment wanted to encourage by of- fering aid to iron curtain coun- tries, which Senator William Knowland of California stopped. It will take a long time for the public to realize what a setback Knowland gave to the American, policy of winning friends behind the iron curtain. * * * BENEATH the GOP gloom over the Sherman Adams disclosures, some Republicans are secretly gloating over his predicament. One is Renah Camalier whom Adams squeezed out as a District of Columbia Commissioner. Adams summoned Camalier to the White House and frostily no- tified him that the President wanted his resignation. Another Republican who has had his fingers frostbitten by the' icy Assistant President is New York's Congressman Pat Kearney. Adams once called him and asked how he would like to be Veterans Administrator. Kearney accepted the offer and prepared to resign from Congress. The appointment was cleared with top New York Republicans, including Ex-Gov. Thomas Dewey and Sen. Irving Ives. After a long wait for an official announcement from the White House, Kearney phoned Adams to find out what was holding it up. "You aren't under considera.- tion for Veterans Administrator," said Adams. (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) T ODAY AND TOMORROW: Adams' Departure Likely' By WALTER LIPPMANN AT THE MICHIGAN, 'Kathy O' Casts Spell HE PRESS CONFERENCE last week which followed the explosion about Sherman aams must have been as unpleasant an ex- rience as President Dwight D. Eisenhower s passed through in his charmed and lucky 'eer. He, was in a painful dilemma, 'to aban- n a friend on whom he depends or to aban- n the standard of public behavior with ich he has identified himself. What he did s to ask the country to, let him evade the ue, to let him keep Sherman Adams and o his reputation as a champion of high- public virtue. His reaction, which is very human, has been hope that by making a personal declara- 'n of his faith in, of his liking for, of his ed of, Adams, the country would overlook whole unpleasant affair. But he did not cceed. The damnable hotel bills would not away and disappear, and there is every lication that the clamor for the resignation Adams is rising, and may become irresist- e. The horrid dilemma became all to evident the press conference when Mr. James Res- 1 asked the President the crucial question. d the rule he is applying to Adams apply also all other Federal officials? In other words, s it now the rule that they too could accept ts from persons who had dealings with encies of the government - agencies over .ich the officials could, even if they did not d would not, exercise influence? Was it a be if they exercised influence and was it ly a friendly gift if they did not exercise luence? HE PRESIDENTS problem is how to save Sherman Adams without making a ambles of his standards of public propriety d public virtue. As of now, President Eisen- wer has hoped to solve the problem by reaf- ming his moral principles, by denying that ams has seriously violated these principles, d by pleading .or compassion. Thushe lay w'n the stern rule that "I expect the high- possible standard not only of conduct but appearance of conduct." Then to justify his aining Adams, despite the bad appearance the hotel bills, he made what was in effect Editorial Staff a personal plea on his own behalf, that the country show forbearance because as Presi- dent he has so great a need of Adams. The conduct of Sherman Adams remains a mystery which no one has explained. But the key to the President's reaction to Adams' con- duct is almost certainly his personal depend- ence upon him in conducting his office. This dependence is unprecedented, at least in re- cent times. It is true that President Wilson had his Col. House and that Franklin Roose- velt had his Harry Hopkins. But neither played a role comparable with that of Sherman Adams. Thus, Col. House did not even live in Wash- ington. He kept in touch with the President by letter, telephone, and periodic visits to the White House, and while his influence was very considerable, his official role, apart from a certain amount of Texas politics, was that of a confidential diplomatic agent. Harry Hope- kins did have an office in the White House, and for a time a bedroom too. But while he in- tervened in a great variety of things, he was never the man who administered the Presi- dency. MANY THINGS have combined to give Adams his unique position. The President's duties have multiplied enormously, and Presi- dent Eisenhower, who had had no political education or training, had to have the deci- sions, which as President he must make, re- duced in number and greatly simplified. This has become all the greater because of the was the task of his Chief of Staff. This need has become all the greater because of the President's long absences from Washington, his illnesses, and his need to economize his energy. The idea of dismissing Sherman Adams must seem to President Eisenhower like an ap- palling disruption of his personal life. No doubt, other men can be found who are at able and efficient. But there can be none who knows a fraction of what Sherman Adams knows about how to serve and to handle Presi- dent Eisenhower himself. The President is, used to Sherman Adams and it might be hard for him to get used to someone else. -Yet there is no way around his dilemma. He must choose one horn or the other, and there is every reason to believe that he will have to reconcile himself to the idea of letting Sher- man Adams go. 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. MOVIES about children seem to have a magic spell about them . , , a spell that can almost cover up poor plots and poor writing. Such is the case of "Kathy 0," the current film being shown at, the Michigan Theater. Like some neu- roses, it is bad, but enjoyable. Dan Duryea plays the part of Harry Johnson, a publicity man out in Hollywood. The agency that Harry works for is dependent upon the popularity of a ten-year-old child movie star, Kathy O'Rourke, to keep money in its till. This LINKS PENINSULAS: Mackinac Bridge Aids State's Economy (EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer of the following discussion on the affect of the Mackinac Bridge upon the Upper Peninsula is. a native of the region.) By DOUGLAS VIELMETTI Daily Staff Writer ST. IGNACE-Michigan's Upper Peninsula shares the spotlight with the mighty Mackinac Bridge as the whole nation turns its attention to dedication ceremonies at the Straits of Mackinac this weekend. But far more important than the festival queens, fireworks, digni- taries, and displays of the coming weekend will be the effect of the bridge on the economy of the Upper Peninsula. For this is the new corridor, the new link which is expected to bring a rebirth and re- vitalization to the peninsula. Once the Upper Peninsula was industrially great. It had the largest iron and copper mines in the United States, its stands of white pine were the finest in the world, and small manufacturing hummed at a steady pace. Now, although low grade ore developments are rapidly expanding and forest products still rank as the area's chief industry, additional industry is needed to keep the peninsula alive and growing. Population declined by 20,000 between 1940 and 1950,' and although figures show an estimated net increase of about 1,000 since 1950, general population trends translate this into a loss. Although armed forces survey teams are showing great interest in the Upper Peninsula for industrial purposes, and a natural gas pipeline will span its breadth if Federal Trade Commission consent is given, industrial problems will not be solved. Development will be localized. Even with the construction of several new plants, relatively few of those living in the 300 mile span between Ironwood and Sault Ste. Marie will benefit.Y BUT THE MACKINAC BRIDGE may be the very factor to solve many of the Upper Peninsula's economic ills. First, "The Bridge" is a firm link between Michigan's two peninsulas. A rather abstract link, perhaps only a psychological link, but neverthe- less creating a bond previously felt impossible because of the five miles of water separating the two peninsulas. It will build a trade route never before exploited. This trade route will be further expanded when the International agency has been successful in making Kathy's millions of fans think that she is the sweetest girl who lives. But the real truth is that Kathy is a Scrooge with blond pigtails. She hates everything especially Christmas parades) and everybody except herself. And she makes no qualms about telling people around her how much she hates them. But as long as the agency can keep the "real Kathy" out of the public eye it can still pay off its mortgages. One day a New York journalist-- a very sophisticated lady-decides to fly to Hollywood to write a story about, Kathy, This lady, Celeste, has the reputation of writing the absolute truth about people. $o of course Harry, along with the rest of the agency, is a bit disturbed because Kathy's reputation and their jobs are at stake. The story is ordinary and poorly written. The characters themselves are stereotyped. Dan Duryea has noth- ing to do except act frustrated. He is outplayed in every scene with the result that, as the film pro- gresses, he becomes merely a voice that fills in the otherwise silent spots. Jan Sterling plays, with no difficulty, a sophisticated Celeste looking for a man as well as a story. Her voice is louder than Duryea's so she doesn't lose her identity as much. Patty McCor- mack plays Kathy, a little girl who just doesn't strike you as a little girl. Nevertheless, she is quite en- chanting to watch and does a good job with a poor part. --Jack Clark DAILY OFFICIAL MACKINAC BRIDGE-The five-mile long link between Upper and Lower Peninsulas is expected to open up a new trade outlet. They must be ready to pursue the tourist industry with the willing- ness with which they developed the Marquette Range ore mines and dug the deepest mines in the world as they dug copper out of the ground in the Keweenaw peninsula. Yet, there may be difficulties. Some of the people of the Upper Peninsula will be selfish. They will spurn attempts to cultivate the tourist industry, They will not want their fish taken by anglers from the south, nor will they want their woods overrun with hunters. They want BULLETINI The Daily Official Bulletin is a official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editor- ial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m., the day preced- ing publication. THURS DAY, JUNE 26, 1958 VOL. LXVIII, NO. 3-S