Sixty-Eighth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN When Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth 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 must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT JUNKER 'State Senator' Ballot Designation -A Ttle of Value? The Fish Didn't Keep Wel . .-.4 4TTXPA YEA .. FACULTY RECITAL: 'U' Baroque Trio Performs in Conference' THE MICHIGAN UNION BALLROOM was the scene of the second concert of the summer by the University's Baroque Trio. The group, composed of Marilyn Mason, Nelson Hauenstein. and Florian Mueller, performed as a feature of the current Band Conductors' Conference. The past two days have witnessed a great deal of Baroque music in Ann Arbor with the Brandenburg Concertos of Bach on Sunday and this program the following day. However, one of' the finest results of this has been the realization that music from this period does not belong in the textbooks or in the private chambers of musicologists, but can be and is enjoyed by the public in a very real fashion. The Baroque Trio has made a great effort for many years to present ) little known, but sentative picture era. interesting music of the Baroque ALTOUGH it happens every election time, disputes over candidates never seem to lack verbal participants. The traditional election time controversies has even hit Washtenaw County for the forth- coming Aug. 5 primary. Mrs. Beth Milford, seeking the Republican nomination for state senator, said last week that incumbent Sen. Louis Christman (R-Ann Arbor) is taking an "unfair advantage" in us- ing his title on the ballot. At least from a legal viewpoint, the designa- tion question was actually settled last week when the State Supreme Court upheld a 1957 legislative act permitting state senators and representatives to use their incumbent desig- nation on primary ballots. ASIDE from the legal question however, there remains the ethical and even practical doubts about the use of titles by those seeking re-election. In bringing the dispute to the Su- preme Court, Richard Kuhn, a candidate for Adams Can't Quit Too Soon RUMOR has it that Sherman Adams is go- ing to resign. Over the Labor Day weekend, the inside sources say; and his resignation won't come any too soon. The resignation of Sherman Adams will put an end to naive arguments over whether Adams was "guilty" or not of accepting bribes. In his own mind, Adams may indeed be as clean as a hound' tooth. But as th Senate Sub-committee on Legisla- tive Oversight unfolded the story of the Adams- Goldfine friendship, it must have appeared to the public that Adams and Goldfined belonged more to a mutual remuneration society - Adams getting expensive gifts while Goldfine got, or thought, he got, Adams' influence in important cases. F ADAMS is "not guilty," then he very ob- viously lacks that brand of common sense which has led wiser public officials to exercise extreme caution in what they accept - even from "friends." In a way, the Adams case is sad, because Adams is undoubtedly not the only one who has accepted "gifts." Too, he is the political sitting duck of the year, not an enviable posi- tion for anyone, and one certainly far out of aline with what his deeds warrant. But In politics, appearances are nearly every- thing, because of the opposite political party and because the unsubtle mind of the nation cannot grasp all the facts and nuances of a case like that of Adams. His case is a sad one; we only hope that the lesson in political moral- ity is well learned by others, too. -LANE VANDERSLICE the Senate from Pontiac, contends that the lawmakers passed the measure in a "move to self-perpetuate themselves in office." While the statement may be an over-evalu- ation of the designation's power, it does point to its effect. With presidential, senatorial or congressional races attracting most of the at- tention, the legislative contests probably re- ceive the smallest portion of voter interest or thought. Any designation here probably gives the legislative incumbent a disproportionate advantage, Kuhn estimates it's 25 per cent of the vote. Even Sen. Christman admits it's free advertising. The whole tone of the law is that of "stacked cards," for in effect, it is the Legislature which sets the rules and this rule evidently is to the advantage of those already in office. Sen. Christman comments the privilege of designa- tion is a matter of law, and "if the Legislature so decreed, it is their business." IT IS THIS arrogant attitude and its implica- tions in a theoretically democratic state that makes one question not only the concern of certain legislators for the people's business but also whether a member of the present legis- lature can find practical value in being labeled as a "state senator" or "state legislator." Sen. Christman, in admitting that the desig- nation is free advertising, said "it seems a shame for a candidate to have to go out and spend money. I'm trying to practice the same economy here as I do in the Legislature." The economy, as practiced in the Republican controlled Legislature (Sen. Christman fol- lowed the party's austerity line) resulted in numerous' setbacks to the state's institutions of higher education. Here, in Sen. Christman's home district, the University received a mil- lion dollar cut in its budget and is forced to reduce the staff by 207 positions. Research is being curtailed in some areas, completely stopped in others, the proposed Institute of Science and Technology was shelved and the faculty-teacher ratio again is rising, MEANWHILE, despite the quick approach of the "war babies" who are about to reach college age, the recession-caused low in build- ing costs and the realization that it takes a couple of years to begin and utilize class and laboratory buildings, the Legislature appro. priated no funds for new construction. Sen. Christman says, "I am a Senator. Why not let people know it?" Sputnik III is visible over Michigan's skies this week. Perhaps Sen. Christman should look up and answer his own question. In view of the Legislature's actions in cut- ting back higher education at a time when it is needed most, one wonders whether the des- ignation "State Senator" or "State Represen- tative" can be used either proudly or practi- cally. -MICHAEL KRAFT Co-Editor (Herblock Is on Vacation) WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: k2 'I'm Against Bugging Rooms' By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - Here's more on that bugging of the Sheraton- Carlton hotel room in the Gold- fine case. After the microphone was dis- covered, Lloyd Purr, the private detective hired by Goldfine's at- torney Roger Robb, handed his card to my assistant Jack Ander- son. "The next time you want a real professional job done," he said, "give me a ring." He was right. Purr is a skilled professional and it now develops that both he and Mr. Robb were involved in an eavesdropping case in a hotel room on behalf of commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Mr. Robb was quite indignant the other night when he an- nounced to the press that the Harris committee had placed a microphone next to the door of Goldfine's public relations man, Jack Lotto. "We are going to show you that the committee has engaged in electronic eavesdropping," Robb announced, his cigar cocked at a jaunty angle. APPARENTLY he forgot the electronic eavesdropping in which he had engaged at the Burlington Hotel, just a few blocks away from the Carlton, in 1953. At that time two Maryland Republican leaders, Joe and Abe Weiner, were lured into a Burlington Hotel room by the same private detective Lloyd Furr, and an associate, Leonard H. Harrelson. The room was wired and Robb eavesdropped on their conversation in an adjoining room. Mr. Robb, asked for comment on the bugging of the Burlington Hotel room as against the Carlton Hotel room, said: "That was Furr's own room he put the microphone in. All Purr was do- ing was making a record of what was said in his own room." "But you were in another room listening in." "That's right," replied Robb frankly. Lotto, the ex-INS newsman whose new job it is to glamorize Goldfine, has an interesting rec- ord. He has written much of the record himself and it showsthat those who live in glass hotel rooms should not throw stones. IN AN interview published in Editor and Publisher, Dec. 22, 1956, Lotto told in detail how he and two other newsmen. includ- ing the late Bert Andrews of the New York Herald Tribune, bugged th Hotel Commodore room in which Richard Nixon was holding a secret conference between Whit- taker Chambers and Alger Hiss. "To this day Nixon probably doesn't know how we knew what was going on inside," said Lotto. "We got a hearing aid used by the third reporter, pressed it to the door, turned up the volume, and tuned in on it, play by play. The papers had the story by the time Nixon came out of the room." Note - This puts three of the Goldfine group who protested the Sheraton-Carlton microphone in the same bugging category. Jack Lotto, the third, once boasted of putting a -microphone to the door of Richard Nixon's room at the Hotel Commodore in New York. Two wrongs don't make a right, and I'm against bugging people's rooms at any and all times. Jack -Anderson, my assistant, was present when the chief in- vestigator for the Harris commit- tee bugged Lotto's room, which I regret. Unfortunately, this isthe kind of atmosphere which per- vades Washington. (Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The program opened with the Trio Sonata in D by Alessandro Stradella, which was featured on their program of June 24. The use of the cello on the continuo in that concert proved that this in- strument is vital to the proper ensemble in Baroque trio sonatas. After having heard it then, its absence in last night's perform- ance was even more noticeable than previously. However, it had been explained to this reviewer that circumstances prevented its inclusion in this program. It is the intention of the trio to in- clude the cello whenever possible in the future. MR. MUELLER was featured as the soloist in Valentine's Sonata in F for Oboe and Harpsichord. This is a charming piece which gives the soloist opportunity to display his talents in slow ornamented music as well as the fast move- ments requiring dexterity. As in the past, Mr. Mueller proved that he is a very fine artist. The oboe often proves to be a difficult instrument to deal with. Mr. Mueller has overcome all the obstacles and performs with a beauty of tone, flawless technique, and splendid musicality that are unique with this instrument. Mr. Hauenstein performed as soloist in Reid's Sonata in C for Flute and Harpsichord in the last half of the program. Aside from a breathiness of tone, his perform- ance was excellent. Perhaps the acoustics in the ballroom account for this tone quality. Miss Mason, performing in every number at the harpsichord, again revealed her dependable talents. Since the other two artists are featured as soloists, would it be out of place to hear Miss Mason alone? - Robert Jobe Ike on Adams Eisenhower Press Conference - May, 1956: "If anyone ever comes to any part of the Government and claiming some privileges for even as low as an introduction to an official he wants to meet on thc basis that he is part of my family or of my friends, that he has any connection with the White House, he is to be thrown out instantly . . . I can't believe anybody on my staff would ever be guilty of any indiscretion. But if ever anything came to my at- tention of this kind, any part of this Government, that individual would be gone." Eisenhower Press Conference - June, 1958: Ike to Sherm. "I need him." -Sen. Pat McNamara in a Newsletter which demonstrates a more repre- MOTHER GOOSE: Old Rhymes -Updated THE SPACE CHILD'S MOTHER GOOSE. Verses by Frederick Winsor. Illustrations by Marian Parry. 85 pp. New York: Simon and Schuster. $3.50. A VERY delightful collection of 45 long and short rhymes thor- oughly illustrated with care and precision, The Space Child's Mother Goose is a clever book of parodies on those verses that ev- ery child is taught, the Mother Goose rhymes. In the pages of this up-to-date version of the timeless verses, Little Jack Horner is not "eating his pumpkin pie," but "extracting cube roots to infinity." Replacing "this little pig went to rmarket" Is "this little pig built a space- ship." And the pumpkin-eater who "had a wife and couldn't keep her" has become "Peter Pa- ter Astrogator . .. ." All the familiar favorites, from Solomon Grundy to Bo Peep, from Little Boy Blue to Margery Daw- all have their futuristic counter- parts in Winsor's book of verse. Some of them end up happier, too, than they did in the original rhymes. With the aid of a time machine, Humpty Dumpty is "good as new." Little Miss Muffet, with a "force field around her," is no longer bothered by Mr. Spider. In (this way, Winsor does more than mimic Mother Goose; he creates his own verses with theiy own meanings and ironies; he sometimes sets things straight, but when he does so, he pokes fun at Mother Goose in the manner of the best satire. He has still more fun with his own verse by taking one of the rhymes, "Probable-Possible, my black hen ...," and translating it into French, German, Greek, Swahili, Chinese, and hieroglyph ics at intervals throughout the book. Accompanying the Greek, Swahili, and Chinese versions are literal translations back into Eng- lish - with remarkable results that show very different concepts and ways of reasoning in the for- eign cultures. Scientific terms used in the verse are footnoted with riddles and defined in the answers sec- tion - the Space Child's Diction- ary - at the back of the book. A major part of The Space Child's Mother Goose are the delicate illustrations by Marian Parry. The mouse-like, fineline figures that skip and float in space above and below the verses are often as intriguing and as en- joyable as the rhymes. Both illustration and rhyme, throughout Winsor's book, have fairy-like and realistic qualities that insist upon being read on more than one level. Space and the future come to represent, for Winsor, those same universal qualities that make Mother Goose timeless for all children everywhere; space and the future bring Winsor's verse to this pinnacle, too, for those who have learned their Mother Goose well. -Vernon Nahrgang LETTERS to the EDITOR In Holland .. . To The Editor: THE Netherlands may be going places and doing things, but your reporter John Weicher is just another innocent abroad, who does not bother to learn anything as he goes places. American popular culture made its way into Holland (for better or worse) as early as the late twenties, but Mr. Weicher's dis- covery of Du Maurier, Spillane and Gardner on the book shelves has blinded him to the rows of works by Hemingway, Faulkner and Steinbeck on others. So the Dutch remember "the part the U.S. played in two great wars in liberating Holland"? They're overdoing the gratitude, since Holland remained free dur- irig World War I. . ;I :1 AT THE MICHIGAN: New Faces at Monster Rally INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Coup Rocks west's Position By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst CONSOLIDATION of the Arab nationalist coup in Iraq would be a tremendous vic- tory for international Communist policy. Since World War II that policy has. en- visioned the eventual interdiction of European access to the raw materials of Asia and Africa, and the most important of these is Middle Eastern Oil. By that token, quick action of some sort by Britain is a foregone conclusion, and pres- sure for cooperation by the United States will be terrific. The urgency is even greater than in the case of Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal two years ago. IN WORLD WAR II, when a Nazi-inspired re- volt threatened Britain's position in Iraq, Britain threw her army into the balance with- out :equivocation. In peacetime, however, a similar reaction against Egypt's Nasser drew world condemnation and the British-French expedition to Suez was withdrawn. There is a difference, however, when the West faces the possible loss of the entire oil production of the Arab lands. That is not to say that the British reaction will be military, although she has treaties with Iraq which might offer better excuse than did Egypt. Nor does the Eisenhower doctrine or the Editorial Staff MICHAEL KRAFT DAVID TARR Co-Editor Co-Editor ROBERT JUNKER.............. Night Editor EDWARD GERULDSEN................ Night Editor SUSAN HOLTZER ..........Night Editor LANE VANDERSLICE . ......... Night Editor RICHARD MINTZ..............Sports Editor FRED SHIPPEY ................ Chief Photographer Baghdad Pact cover a situation produced by an internal military coup. Incidentally, one of the great surprises for Western diplomats is the fact that the army has spearheaded the attack on the pro- Western government. Premier Nuri Said was believed to have the army under control. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S sudden con- ferences with Secretary Dulles and the mili- tary and financial leaders of Congress, how- ever, indicate a canvass of all the possibilities. As yet, reliable information from Iraq is so meager that nothing is known of the remain. ing capabilities of the pro-Westerners, if any, All of the news comes from the rebels. The developments in Iraq are, of course, a great boost for the rebel forces in Lebanon, where up until Sunday strong hope had exist- ed that an eventual compromise would be reached. If the Iraqi revolt is consolidated it is hard- ly conceivable that the Hussein regime in Jor- dan will be able to hold out. Nationalist forces in Saudi Arabia, already shaken in its allegiances to the West by ad- vancse of the Nasser doctrine, can be expected to burst into the open. It is doubtful that even the invasion of South Korea threatened the West's strategic position as much as it is being threatened today. New Books at the Library Miller, Max-Shinny on Your Side and Other Memories of Growing Up; N.Y., Doubleday, 1958. Rush, J. H.-The Dawn of Life; N.Y., Double- day, 1958. ' San Lazzaro, G. di-Klee: A Study of His Life and Work; N.Y., Praeger, 1958. Soldati, Mario-The Confession; N.Y., Knopf, 1958. Rlolrnrlrat, T ha n man in +he Wrnds: FRANKENSTEIN has done it again! Another monster has emerged from the settling tank to plague the world. What can one do, confronted with this seem- ingly endless parade of patchwork people, assembled from odds and ends from the dissecting table, and activated by lightning bolts. Although the original Boris Karloff monsters are remembered with a gruesome tenderness, it must be admitted that this new batch adheres much more closely to the original monster, written up by Mary W. Shelley so. many years ago. The modern monster, like thc modern Republican, is sensitive, sincere. even philosophi- cal. Medical students may wince at the sight of human brains tossed around like so much raw meat, delicate operations undertaken without antiseptic precautions, while Doctor Frankenstein collects spare parts from his ward pa- tients. But granted a few preposterous assumptions, it does follow, re- motely ,that a brain could be per- petuated by an occasional re- planting, if it's watered carefully and packed in well. "The Revenge of Frankenstein" is somewhat revolutionary, since Dr. Frankenstein himself returns as the "monster," only not look- ing very monstrous at all. The op- erative technique has improved with the change inafilm com- panies, so that the Creep walks and talks quite naturally. "The Revenge" is a valuable documentary film for those inter- ested should not be missed by his- torians in the monster tradition, and neo-gothic novelists. * * *- SUPERSTITION dies hard, ac- cording to an old saying, and the motion picture industry is doing its bit to keep superstition alive. Vampires, werewolves, sea mon- sters, and assorted curiosities all owe renewed vigor to over-imagin- ative and sub-intelligent script writers. "Curse of the Demon" is anoth- er in the lvil-wnrshin series. this plot, but with a series of un- wholesome additions including such extraneous matter about hypnotism, psychology, extra-sen- sory deception, and similar non- sense. Dana Andrews, lonely without the horse and badge, plays a young psychologist-skeptic who almost provides the main course at a monster picnic; the inevitable pretty girl is Peggy dummings (probably spelled wrong; and the demon is played by Greta Pftong, Dean of Demonic State. -David Kessel r w -Daily-Charles Lott AT RACKHAM LECTURE HALL : ,Brandenburg Concerti Excellent f I DIFFICULT if not impossible is it to carry ones instruments into a hot Rackham Lecture Hall and attack the opening Allegro of the first Brandenburg Concerto without a warmup. A school of music group essayed this feat last Sunday with much success. A little r agge d n e s s plagued for a few bars; but there- after all was fine. The first, third, and fifth con- certi were presented in the after- noon; the sixth, fourth, and sec- ond, in the evening. This curious order was presumably chosen so that the two most brilliant sound- ing concerti might end the re- spective programs. The works were presented with very small ensemhle - rnrity anda Dnea- body of strings simply cannot ar- ticulate so rapidly as a single in- strument. For those who savor the larger string tone, ample and adequate recordings are available. Which approach is more appropriate to the composer's intentions is a matter for much discussion else- where; suffice it to say that the stage at Rackham would not hold a large group anyway. THE FIRST concerto suffered somewhat from sluggish articula- tion through the use of French horns in'the concertino. The play- ers are to be commended for their efforts, but the instrument just does not move - its very sound is THE FIFTH congerto received a stunning performance. The key- board concertino' part was given to a piano, to which some may ob- ject. Mr. Benning Dexter, how- ever, was particularly successful in not overpowering the small en- semble. Further the available sonorities of the instrument en- abled him to make rather more of the first movement cadenza than is usual; his was a highly individual, rather romantic treat- ment. Conceivably it might not wear well on repeated hearings, but that is not the point: one goes to a concert rather than listening to ones records (again) precisely to hear a different interpretation -. t "