Sixty-Ninth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN en Opinions Are Pre$ UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ruth Will Prevail" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. ! ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 :ditorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. AY, JULY 24, 1959 NIGHT EDTrOR: SELMA SAWAYA SENIOR CITIZENS: Problem of the Aged rolmheConcerns Senators By ART HUR EDSON Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer POLITICALLY SPEAKING, 15 million old people can't be wrong. So scarcely a day passes without some Congressman leaping up to reassure the old folks that he's in their corner, lock, stock and pen- sions. Right now a Senate Subcommittee on Problems of the Aged and Aging is holding hearings, trying to decide what, if anything, is to be done for this rapidly increasing segment of our population. In 1900, three million Americans were over 65. By 1975; there will be more than 20 million. And the difficulty is that older people, like younger people, can't be pushed together and stuck into any convenient pigeon hole. They dif- fer, and their problems differ. t , ; U.S. Space Game N eeds Some Cooperative Effort I ITHIN the last two years an almost en- tirely new field of scientific investigation, ce, has blossomed and the inevitable com- ations of democratic processes and free en- )rise in this, nation have dogged its heels slowed things down. i the push to conquer space, or at least something up there in orbit, scientists and ineers have mainly cognated their interests the programs of our three military divi- s, the Army, Navy and Air Force. The 'ci- 3n point of view, expressed by the National onautics and Space Administration pro- ELATIONS between East and West may not be improving, but recent events indi- that communication, in a way, is strong- han ever. isits and exchanges between Russia and United States are rife. Frol Kozlov, second momand in the Kremlin, toured the United tes, and this country, not to be outdone,: sent its own number two man to the So- Union. t rue, Comrade Kozlov received a less-than- m reception in many places throughout the ritry, and Mr. Nixon seems to be experienc- a like degree of coolness. But they are at t communicating. ommunication seems also to be thriving )ugh press publication of words and actions the part of each nation. Thus, President mnhower's declaration of "Onslaved Satel- s Week" was communicated swiftly to Pre- r Khrushchev, and Khrushchev's acrid iments were just as swiftly relayed back to President.-"Nothing official, mind you, but ununication nonetheless. VD THROUGH it all, the Foreign Ministers hiold session after session at Geneva, dis- sing -- in loud or soft tones, as the oc- on ' warrants - the knotty problems of world. One plan after another is commu- ted between sides; and rejection after re- ,ion is quickly communicated back. resumably a summit conference is now in offing, and the world can look forward to a more communication between East and grams, and a scattering of independent re- search projects, have influenced the picture, but emphasis remains with the military. THIS IS NOT surprising. The drive to "keep up with the Joneses" (or the Russians) is mighty strong these days. Motivated by the healthy desire to increase our prestige in a world riddled by international tensions - if, we let things slide we may just slide into ob- livion -- we seek to outdo the Russians, to alternate threats of war (backed up by new and more powerful displays of weapons) with promises of world peace, promoting cultural, exchanges and trade negotiations to support our stand. The improvement of military "weapons" is thus of prime importance in our little game of cat-and-mouse and speed of accomplishment, even more essential. At this point, the "demo- cratic way" hits a stumbling block - it does no4l allow for a concentrated, government- controlled program aimed at getting imme- diate action. Space research and development have pretty much come under government control here, for the federal government has the funds and needs the services ,but restrictions are few and the competition for attention and funds among the military branches working on space- proj- ects is stiff. THE NAVY recently suggested a unified mili- tary space command consisting of repre- sentatives'from each of the military branches and NASA under the direction of a chairman chosen from each of the branches in succes- sion. Such a plan need not indicate tightened governmental control, but merely coordination of the diverse projects now in progress. Each of the military wings and the civilian agency undoubtedly .have an individual point of view on the types of programs that should be undertaken, an essential feature for the continued development of the variety of tech- niques and machines needed to man space ef- fectively. Yet, without coordination of some kind, repetition is practically inevitable-with the result that brainpower is wasted and ad- vancement impeded. Space beckons. We want to get there - in a hurry. Well, boys, a little mutual aid never hurt anyone, so how about pooling resources at least until we get off the ground? --KATHLEEN MOORE * * * THIS POINT HAS BEEN made by the Subcommittee's chairman, NUMBER 51?-Movements for Puerto Rican statehood are gaining momentum on the island, as these pictures show. Cars gather before the Rock 'N' Roll Club (left) for a statehood rally, one of them (right) bearing .a determined sign proclaiming Puero Rico "Estado 51." Cari6beat Canuel By TOMAS TURNER --S. H. Epiaph for Renewal IRBAN RENEWAL for Ann Arbor is dead, IT IS HARD to hope for much for the future. and on the whole it seems to be a real loss. For one thing, many people are tired of Ur- he slaughterhouse, the Junkyard and the ban Renewal. For another, Creal's committee dy shop will remain where they are. It will may not do much, though it can do something. hard to remove the unrepairable houses in He does not seem at all anxious to get it go- e area, since most likely the city will have ing. He has had a month to appoint it, and so relocation program and will only be able far he has outlined its structure and publicly condemn them. On the other hand, of- named two members. It is true, of course, that urse, few 'people if any will- be forced out its chairman, Gordon McDonald, is out of town. their homes. But a tentative list of members of its block- organization sub committee, as Councilman Some people \ill at last decide to put In ime Lloyd Ives said Creal presenIted it to Council ovements on their homes, now that they're a couple of weeks ago, include motly fore re Urban Renewal won't affect their plans. memberseof te Nort CntluPesmosty ormr ifortunately, they'll still have a hard time members of the North Central Property Own- tting loans, unless Mayor Cecil O. Creal's ers Association. At least 17 of the 2 Creal mmittee really gets an the ball. tentatively named were members of the As- sociation, including Walter S. Wickliffe There would, of course, probably have been (NCPOA president and chairman of the com- >uble even if Urban Renewal had been put mittee), Lydia Newman (NCPOA secretary), rough somehow., Condemnations and rezone. John Kampas, George Wedemeyer, and Paul gs would still have had to be done. Some City McCoy and George MacVicar. These people >uncil members would have balked at them. have vigorously opposed Urban Renewal, and here would have been delays, more argu- they do not seem at all eager to put it through ents, and bitterness, and' the plan might even in a watered-down form. ye been made less effective. -PETER DAWSON INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Trut and Falsehood SAN JUAN, P.R. - Admission of Alaska and Hawaii as the 49th and 50th states has been a real shot in the arm for Puerto Rico's Statehood Party. On several weekends recently I've seen "Estadista" rallies in small towns near here. Lines of cars, flying red - white - and - blue bunting from their aerials con- verge on the rally site (in one case a roadhouse called "The Rock and Roll Club," in another instance a movie-house). Signs reading "Puerto Rico - 51st State" are everywhere, and the air is filled with music and slogans from soundtrucks. All the action isn't rural - the Estadistas held a banquet here in San Juan recently, at which New Mexico's , Senator Dennis Chavez was the main speaker. Chavez, hitherto best known on the island for his stand in the '40s against Spanish as the language of the public schools, told the audience there was no reason, financial or otherwise, why Puerto Rico.should not become a state. * * * BUT DESPITE the noise it is difficult to tell whether statehood has anything near majority sup- port. Gov. Luis Munoz Marin op- poses statehood as suicidal, and Munoz has been the darling of the voters for 20 years. But the possibility remains that his supporters favor his economic program but disagree with him on statehood. Likewise, some support given the Statehood and Inde- pendence Parties in the past is doubtless protest against Munoz. Puerto Rico is now an "Estado Libre Asociado" within the Ameri- can Union-the legal translation for this relationship is "Common- wealth." She is internally autonomous, but shares the foreign policy of the United States Puerto Ricans are American citizens, but the income taxes they pay go to San Juan, not Washing- ton; so too do excise taxes paid on rum and other products of the island. This income has been a major factor in making possible Puerto Rico's unique "Fomento" - the Economic Development Adminis- tration. Fomento woos stateside industry by. building factories to order, by recruiting workers for them, and so on, and has greatly increased the island's prosperity. PUERTO RICO receives all serv- ices granted by the federal govern- ment to the states: the postal sys- tem, urban renewal, the coast DAILY, OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an off icial publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. the dayrpreceding publication. Notices for Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1959 VOL. LXIX, NO. 23-S General Notices Astronomy Dept. Visitors' Night. Fri. July 24, 8:30 p.m, Rm. 2003 Angeli Hall. Dr. Edith A. Muller "Solar Eclipses." After theAlecture the Stu- dnet Observatory on the fifth floor of Angell Hall open for inspection and for telescopic observations of Jupiter, Sat- urn and Double Star. Persons wishing their name and ad- dress added to the mailing list to re- ceive announcements of -plays pre- sented by the Department of Speech as part of Playbill '59-60 may have this done by calling extension 3383 between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. or 2:15 and 3 p.m. Sen. Patrick V. McNamara (D-Mich; standards; who is up for reelec- tion next fall, and whose home state has 600,000 persons who are over 65.j McNamara's 6bservations: Some old people are in good health, but most aren't. Some work, but most don't. Some have adequate incomes, but most don't. Some get private pensions, but most don't. ,Some live with their spouse, but most don't. (I don't know why, but even after_ 23 years my wife still doesn't -look =like any. spouse to me). While peering into such prob-, lems as ,housing, medical costs, nursing homes, job discrimina- ;ion for those past 45, the Sub- committee has listened to the real experts on this subject - those who have grown older.. One who testified was Paul R. Leach, a newspaperm'an who re- tired in 1956 after.46 years on the Chicago Daily News. Almost half .of those years he headed its Washington bureau-. * * * .. REPORTER L EACH'S com- ments may help those who aren't aged, but are aging. Aim for good health, Leach says. "A millionaire gets no fun'out of retirement if he is chronically ill or bored stiff." . Get interested in doing some- thing useful. "My late father had to retire for health reasons some years ago. He never paid Iuch attention to politics, but when he become a precinct captain in our Indiana town, he forgot the old. pump was ailing.." Begin early to have some recre- ation besides your work. "I .have learned an important truth," Leach said, "that a man must have within himself the ability to use leisure time. If he lacks that, legislation is not go- ing to do him much good." ' For Leach the story has a hap- py ending. "I am retired," he said, "and like it." 3)', STATEHOOD RALLY-Cars flock around Puerto Rico's Rock 'N' Roll Club as their owners attend a meeting inside calling for state- hood for the island. LETTERS to the EDITOR To The Editor: T AM INTERESTED in Mr. John- son's views in his letter (July 22 Daily) challenging two of my im- pressions of Germany:. Certainly his four years' study ther'e would give him a ,more varied experience upon which to form opinions than did my brief thirty days. On June 7, the day I left for Germany, The New York Times Magazine ran an article under a Bonn dateline entitled "Whit Ger- man Youth Knows About Hitler." Several surveys of German youth revealed that very few German young people (only one in ten in one of the studies) knew what happened in their -parents' gen- eration and the role of Hitler in all of this. The reason offered for German youth's ignorance of re- cent history is clearly summarized: "They have not been taught and they have seldom been told." Text- books dealing with the recent past are found to treatatherNazi period inadequately. Teachers are re- luctarit to deal with this period and often do not reach it in their history courses. The Hamburg newspaper "Die Welt" is quoted: "Curricula do not fall from heav- en. . . . Somebody draws them up.... There is something rotten in our schools." WHEN I WAS In Germany I sought to check the views in the article by asking university pro- fessors, gymnasium (i.e. secondary school) headmasters, teachers and education ministry officials. All agreed that this problem Is real and serious. Recent history cannot be taught without interpretation. Teachers have had to change interpreta- ,tions in line with changes in gov- ernmental policies' in 1919, 1933, 1945 and 1950. They regard it as a painful subject very easy to avoid. I sought information about uni- versity research centers dealing with recent history and everyone to whom I spoke mentioned only the institute at Munich. My views, therefore, reflect Tan experience quite different from Mr. John- son's. His final point stating that the whole article was misleading be- cause there are no student leaders and stu'dent activities in Germany' I reject emphatically. I spoke with student government leaders and observed activities in seven differ- ent universities. Their programs are generally impressive, broad in objective and beset with many of the same problems connected with' student activities in American uni- versities. -James M. Davis, Director International Center p 1. Si 1 ,,' guard and light-house service, and so on. As an American product, Puerto Rican sugar enters the continental United States duty-free. Without this edge it would not be able to compete with sugar from Cuba or the Dominican Republic, where the soil is richer and labor cheap- er. Statehood for Puerto Rico would kill the goose that lays the golden egg, Munoz argues, for it would change all this. He meets the argu- ment that Puerto Rico should carry her share of the United States' financial load or get out by saying the island's contribution to the national treasury is increas- ing and will further increase as. she grows more prosperous. Successive columns will be de- voted to otherarguments for and against statehood. . who is 64, a child by Senatorial Y ' CAPITAL COMMENTARY: Democratc By WILLI W ASHINGTON - For the first publicans understandab time in decades the Demo- wish to assist in taking cratic party generally is more ocratic antagonists of afraid of seemingto be afraid of Some of them, at man labor than it is of offending labor. many places in both This is the "gut" truth which Congress, are dropping underlies all the current Con- gears. % gressional maneuvering over labor Moreover, no domest reform bills. In a word; a whole been bedevilled longer long era of highly simplified poli- ism and by stereotype tical alignments - here were the slogans. While the ultr Democrats plus "Labor" neatly ar- tives want to make lab rayed against the Republicans plus less unconstitutional,l "Business" - has come to an end. tends to demand the There is, now, widespread Dem- Labor has largelye ocratic recognition - not just honorably kept its hig among conservatives and moder- ates but also among the bulk of the liberals-that the public reso- lutely demands action against labor excesses. The new and funda- mental reality is this: the Demo- crats now believe that while it surely would be dangerous for Congress to enrage labor by puni- tive legislation, it would be even more dangerous to go home with- out acting at all. THE DEMOCRATIC party simply cannot afford to have the public think it lacked the courage to act., ~ In one sense, the. Democrats have been delivered from an old bondage to the labor leaders., In another sense, they have inherited almost insoluble problems as to how to conduct themselves in this phase of new freedom-and new risk. For the great mass of the Demo- crats are by no means "anti-la- bor." They are simply no longer automatically "pro-labor." This is mainly because of the disclosures of corruption made by. the long investigations of the Senate "rack- ets" committee. There is an ultra-conservative Democratic handful in, Congress that would like simply to punish labor. There is an ultra-liberal quarter-handful that almost would go to the point of exempting labor from all laws, including the traffic laws, if it could. a.~ Labor Pains AnM S. WHITE" bly have no their Dem-. f the hook. y times and" houses of sand in the tic issue has by extrem- es and stale ra-conserva-' bor more or labor itself whole loaf. earned and gh place in American society. But rather than helping the temperate Democrats to bring off a reasonable solution, some labor leaders are crying "no" to nearly everything. The climate of public opinion is similar now, by every sign. Again, however, labor leaders are refusing to give effective support to those temperate men, such as Senator Kennedy, who are earn- estly-and above all competently- trying to protect labor's. and the public's legitimate interests. (Copyright 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) a - By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst PRAVDA, the official Communist Party news- paper in Moscow. is all upset because Con- gress, and President Eisenhower at its sug- gestion, have recommended prayer; in behalf of the "enslaved nations" of the Communist sphere. With customary subtlety, the paper promptly, replies that the Communist-controlled nations are the truly free ones, and that it is the capitalist countries which enslave the masses. Now the odd part about such Communist fulminations is that they are not merely cynical manifestations of the ideological -war. Relatively speaking, few Americans have ever talked with a real, dyed-in-the-wool Commu- Editorial Staff SUSAN HOLTZER ROBERT JUNKER Co-editor Co-editor nist. There aren't enough of them in this country to go around. IF YOU EVER HAVE, you have probably ex- perienced a certain feeling of mental block, of unreality, and a lack of ability to communi- cate. Even the professionals of the international . Communist movement, who began as able and clever 4Russian expansionists wearing Com- munism as a disguise, seem to fall victim of the obsessions they seek to implant in others. I've heard them talk this enslavement stuff before American workmen who own their own homes and drove to the meetings in their own cars. They attempt to play upon the human psychological factor of dissatisfaction regard- less of the current level of achievement. Yet publicity and privately they give every indica- tion of sincerity, as President Eisenhower said of Gen. Zhukov. THEY ARE ABOUT as easy to argue with as believers in voodoos .4, n , CL .. '-N °r PtI 1UIt'. M . , .