Sixty-Ninth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Z WiU Prevall" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 orials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. .Y, JULY 7, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS HAYDEN The University Conceives TwBodMoves UNIVERSITY is analogous to things or- anic. It expands and develops, alters its arance, shifts direction. Unlike other or- sms, however, the University moves toward vn goals: "quality education," the develop- t of critical thinking, the heightening of intellect. eref ore, any, move or policy decision ought e judged in terms of whether or not it ;ts the institution toward these goals. rhaps because of its massive size, the Uni- ty is sometimes sluggish or conservative t taking dynamic steps in the direction s goals. >wever, the recent creation of one insti- Talent? REE LONG and rousing cheers for Con- ressman Walter, whose virtually super- an capabilities in almost any area of en- or are again demonstrated to us - this in the field of art. veral years ago, in the McCarran-Walter igration Act, he showed his amazing wis- and fair and impartial judgement of hu- ity by setting up restrictive quotas for le from various countries who wished to r and settle in the United states. w, as an art critic of Bernard Berenson- insight, he finds the quality of the paint- the United States Information Agency is ing to Russia to be Communist in nature, ng also that many of their authors "have ficant records of affiliation with the Com- ist movement." Even President Eisen- er, whose dabblings apparently qualify him his field, doesn't like the modern art we sending to Moscow. He, it seems, doesn't rstand it too well. The President, even, is to be impressed by Rep. Walter's pro ity. ell, it's wonderful to be living in the United es, where our duly elected representatives men whose capacities . for wisdom and, ement are so immeasurably great - and are offered, and take, the opportunity to them so often. -PHILIP POWER tute and the near-crystallization of another are welcome affirmations of the University's purposes and pursuits. THE CREATION is that of the Center for Conflict Resolution, dedicated to research on the problems of peace and war. The pur- pose - settlement of world conflict - could not be more lofty or idealistic. The Center is admittedly an experiment, and the University is not pouring any funds into its operation until some results are pro-. duced. Yet, by approving installation of the Center here, the University is fulfilling one "of. its great obligations: experimentation, or as one Regent put it, the "obligation to take a risk " If universities are not willing to take chances on just such institutions as the Cen- ter, no one else would, and more than one dis- covery or invention would never have been created. The near-crystallization is that of the In- stitute for Science and Technology, for which the State Legislature appropriated operating funds last week. A spawn of the Satellite Age, the Institute might prove of incredible worth to science, the University and its intellectual climate, not to mention the state, nation and world. THE INSTITUTE will be erected on North Campus, perhaps next fall, at the same time the Center for Conflict Resolution begins op- eration. The functions of the two institutions are not unrelated. Both are working for im- proved world conditions and the elusive stratum of peace, and the Center will be striv- ing indirectly to make the Institute a unit devoted completely to peacetime exploration. Both are bold undertakings, of which the University and the public can be proud. Both are symbols of worthwhile growth at a Uni- versity which some persons feel has grown too much. Both are in line with a university's proper functions and goals. And if one of these goals is to train not only authorities but in- dividuals who will not be taken in by authori- ties, then the University has taken not just a large step, but a gigantic and reassuring one. --THOMAS HAYDEN "Ah, Yes- We Have Many Things inComon" MI-r//(A ..i695:Ti'Ewst 1 Z~ 's "a thus increase his empire. Dorothy McGuire gives to the role of the daughter who cares for the old man in anticipation of gaining control of his empire one of the most memorable performances in recent months, although many of her lines are inferior to her great talent. JEAN SIMMONS, as the girl who is about to bring still further vineyards into the family domain, is sensitive and successful. Rock Hudson as the illegitimate product of somehow misarranged mar- riages is as usual the dramatic weak link in an otherwise strong cast. The film, which could easily have been a successful psychologi- cal drama, loses much of its punch in a very episodic ending in which every conceivable dramatic climax is summarily dealt with and then dismissed too quickly. The vast potential psychological jolt is lost because the directors and script writers were more concerned with closing dramatic bravado, But because of the fine acting jobs by Raines and Miss McGuire, all is not lost. And bescause of the rather weakly written closing, series of events, the top actors as- sume a dominance which allows the viewer to imagine his own psychological finish. - - - A PROTEST must be offered here. Film makers are anxious to make money and Rock Hudson: is a top audience drawer. Thus he is handed a role far beyond his limited abilities and as a result a potentially magnificent movie is handicapped. "A Farewell To Arms" was ruined this way; "This Earth Is Mine" suffers badly but not fatally. Totalling the results: The top- notch acting of Raines and Miss McGuire plus some above-average color photography make the dis- appointment worth it. -Robert Junker LETTERS to the' EDITOR AT THE MICHIGAN: Fine Acting Featres Variable 'Earth' Plot "T HIS EARTH IS MINE" belies its tawdry beginning to present a film of almost fine quality. Some of it is magnificent; some follows Hollywood's cheapest tradition. The story possesses potential which is barely touched. The wine baron, admirably portrayed by Claude Raines, has built an empire of vineyards, not always following the most ethical means to his end. Prohibition has temporarily ended his wine production, yet he turns no where else; he plows under his grapes to enrich the soil for the day when he can again make fine wine. Around him are gathered his family. Some of them, like his daughter, he has married off to men owning adjoining vineyards which Seeking. To The Editor: YOUR EDITORIAL about a new book which speaks of faculty members as "status-seekers" seems to call for some comment. I am not interested in the contents of the book, which seems to be com- pletely unimportant. But we need to be more on our guard against letting the English language de- generate into jargon. We are all lured by it into a foolish idea of what science and objective reporting really should be. If we say that a good rain wets the soil, that is nothing. But if we mike the observation that any precipitation in excess of a trace modifies the condition of the soil with respect to humidity, we think we really have something. The author of the book in ques- tion says that professors are "sta- tus seekers." That looks like social science making an important dis- covery. And when a man begins to think that he is the multiplication table, I cannot argue with him. But if we speak 'plain English. we would probably say that mem- bers of faculties try as best they can to be men of standing in their profession. And that seems to be laudable, and to be true of most of them. Those who are not try- ing, are open to criticism. Jargon is not only a linguistic deterioration, it is a bad habit which can lose for us our cdmmon sense and our understanding of society and human nature. --Louis I. Bredvold (Status) Professor Emeritus of English A CAPITAL COMMENTARY: Push Algh By WILLI W ASHINGTON - General sell their story withou Charles de Gaulle's French emotionalism most peo government has opened in this ways associated with tl country a remarkable able -- and French character. oddly "un-French" - new cam- It is a startling ch paign to influence American opin- almost as though cert ion in favor of France's position spokesmen had take: in Algeria. course in London from What the French desperately masters of the techniq seek, of course, is what they have ingly casual persuasior never had: the support of the ish. United States for their policy of The most effective Fi implacably suppressing the Al- over the Algerian qu gerian rebels in what, after all, for are not those of Fren a century has been legally as much France. They are those a part of France as Texas is of men from Algeria who the United States. gerian members oft Chamber of Deputies. They know that the lon'g process C D * of condemning France for her ac- tions in Algeria will begin all over THESE AUTHENTI again this fall in the United Na- Frenchmen are ablet ions.the French -Frenchn never do. They are ab not as accused "colo THERE IS nothing new about exploiters of Algeria1 the muddle of Algeria, where the tives of that area wh rebels have long since captured claim to love that la much of the free world's easy much as the Algerian sympathy with:their cries for "in- or say they do. dependence" and against "cold- It is rather as though nialism." What is entirely new is States government wer the whole nature of the present tack for not allowing I French propaganda drive. to become wholly separ This is being watched here by dependent, and we sele certain specialists in international our answer freely elf propaganda, some of them in offi- gressmen who were cial position, with some sympathy "Americans" but also --but even more professional in- waiians. terest and curiosity. For the the French undergrou French have suddenly begun to the Nazis. tanfPosition A M S. WHITE' TODAY AND TOMORROW: Th e Soviets in New York t the Gallic ple have al- ,he "typical" ange. It is tain French ;n a quick the world's ue of seem- n, the Brit- rench voices aestion now chmen from of French- are also Al- the French C Algerian- to do what men could ble to speak mizers" and but as na- o can fairly ,nd quite as rebels do, h the United re under at- Hawaii, say, rate and in- cted to give ected Con- not only native Ha- nd against BASICALLY, the case these' visitors are trying to make is this: 1) Algeria, far from being a fat source of profit for France, is utterly dependent economically on France. Algeria, all the same, is being retained by France for, the same reason we would insist on re- taining Alaska in the Union. That. is to say, Algeria simply is a part of France-and in military terms a strategic part. 2) The French can understand the irritation of France's allies that the bulk of the French army has long been pinned down in Al- geria. But the French believe these troops are serving the common Western defensive interests. For the loss of Algeria to the rebels would give to the forces of chaos -and forces with Communist sup- port- a foothold in North Africa. North Africa has been historically a bridge to coniquest by aggres- sors . 3) The French are convihced they will have broken the Al- gerian revolt altogether by the end of this year. They see no pos- sibility, however, of being able safely to recall the French forces to European France for years to come-unless. The "unless" is that the United States alters its own policies and quits directly or in- directly encouraging the rebels. (Copyright 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)' By WALTER LIPPMANN N HIS SPEECH at the opening of the Soviet Exposition in New York, Mr. Nixon spoke about Soviet-American relations briefly but pointedly and with much good sense. Both countries haves gone to a lot of trouble and expense-the Russians at the Coliseum in New York, we in thecoming fair in a Moscow park-- to how each other our most attractive faces. Yet we are deeply at odds.not only about the future of Germany but also about the future of Asia, of Africa, and some measure of Latin America. This is not the result only, said the Vice President, of "a lack of understanding" which can be cured by more contact, more cultural exchanges, more trade. There are no doubt misunderstandings which, are based on fear or false information: But the root of the trouble is not misunderstanding. On the contrary it is the understanding that "there are basic conflicts of interest and deeply clash- ing ideologies that are not easily removed." The prime example here is Germany where each side deems is its own interest to bring the whole of Germany within the orbit of its own military and political system. But overriding these conflicts of interest, there is, as Mr. Nixon pointed out, a recogni- tion on both sides of "the folly of allowing them to develop into a conflict which would result in the destruction of our civilization." We have to co-exist with bur conflicts of in- terest unsettled because, the balance of power being what it is, there is no way of achieving a victory which could settle them by war. Therefore, as Mr. Nixon put it. "We increased exchange and contact between our two peoples so that our differences can be discussed in the best possible climate of understanding." A CLIMATE of understanding would not be possible if there did not exist a profound military stalemate. This stalemate could con- ceivably be dissolved if this country did what the Soviet Union will certainly not do-if it ceased to keep even in the race of armaments. But thanks to those who have been ringing the alarm bell, the fact is that this country will keep the balance even. Editorial Staff SUSAN HOLTZER ROBERT JUNKER Co-editor Co-editor PETER ANDERSON ................, Sports Editor THOMAS HAYDEN .....................Night Editor KATHLEEN MOORE ....................Night Editor r f Within this stalemate and in part because of this stalemate, the paramount fact in the world situation is that not only in Russia and the United States and Canada, but all over Europe both East and West, and in all the other continents a period of swift and fascinating and all - absorbing industrial and, technological change has begun. There is no important power capable of waging a big war which does not see its best future in its own internal develop- ment. The post-war era with its ruins and its desperation is over, and the world has come into an age, in some ways like the second half of the nineteenth century, when there have opened up vistas of great progress in the rise of the popular standard of life. WHAT THE RUSSIANS are saying by their exposition in New York is that their own internal development is their paramount in- terest. If this is true, as it appears to be, how is it to be reconciled with the idea, which un- doubtedly prevails also, that Communism is on the way towards world supremacy? Since 1917 there has been a change in the Communist doctrine. The original idea was that the workers of the world would follow the Rus- sian lead and would rise up in a world revolu- tion. They did not do that. This was followed by the idea that the Communist realm would expand by the entry of the Red: Army into adjacent countries which had been subverted by local and imported Communist agents. This idea, though not abandoned entirely, has been largely frustrated by the Western policy of con- tainment. The current idea is that the example of the spectacular development of the Soviet Union will be contagious in the backward countries of Asia and Africa. For the present day Com- munists are able to say that Russia has proved by its example what a backward country can do and how it can do it quickly; the United States, on the other hand, though it is an industrial and technological marvel, is not an example which a crowded and backward country can follow. Therefore, in the peaceable competi- tion, the Soviet Union will gain influence and the West will lose influence. THIS IS THE inner- nature of the Soviet .L challenge, and the sooner the professional anti-Communists among us understand it, the better it will be. For when we understand the real challenge, which in the perspective of history is enormous, we shall be asking our- selves some very searching questions about whether we are paying enough attention to our own internal development. INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Russian Economy Shows Post-War Rejuvenation By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst WESTERN ANALYSTS, regardless of how they may evaluate the- intentions of Soviet Russia's ruling autarchy, have been inclined to accept at face value the almost unanimous reports of travelers that the Soviet people do not want war. Deputy Premier Kozlov has used the high war death rate in his own family as an example of why. The Population Reference Bureau, a Washington nonprofit or. ganization which analyzes world population statistics as they relate to food problems, industrial potential and the like, has come up with : i 4 BUT EXHIBIT INTERESTING: Soviet Exhibitors Cool, Unresponsive By JAMES SEDER Daily Staff writer NEW YORK - To the amateur exhibit-attender, perhaps the most striking observation at the Soviet Exhibition here is the con- trast between the Russian exhibi- tors and the American cops on duty. The difference seems to be'more than merely the difference in their respective intelligence, education and cultural levels. The Russians were cool, distant and - it seemed - condescending. The cops were folksy. They joked with the patrons, and the other cops. When it was time to close the exhibit hall, they herded the crowd out with stand- ard orders like, "Okay folks, break it up." THE RUSSIAN exhibitors re- mained distant. When asked ques- tions they answered precisely, but volunteered no information except that explicitly called for. There was no chatting; the Russians re- fused to be drawn into casual con- versation. The English of most of the ex- hibitors was halting; most of them had bad British accents; rather than American. One of the exhibi- tors explained that they were not professional interpreters-instead, they were technical experts who were capable of thoroughly dis- cussing the intricacies of their specific product; and some, demonstratively, worked well. For example, their closed- circuit color television was far clearer than home reception on American color TV sets. Their automobiles seemed. quite similar to the American Lark. Two particularly arresting gadg- ets were an underwater television camera and a genuinely portable television camera. The camera it- self was no bigger than a press camera and the power pack was, strapped on the model's back. There was no live demonstration of either of these devices, however. TO THE LAYMAN, the Russian industrial equipment looks very similar to American equipment. The Russian tractor, for example, looked almost exactly like one this writer has driven. An announced purpose of this exhibit is to pro- mote trade in industrial equipment between the two nations. With one conspicuous exception, the science and technology ex- hibits looked like they were de- signed on Madison Avenue. The exception was a model of a nose cone of a Russian space rocket. It was placed in a fairly prominent location, but there was no other attention drawn to it. Several exhibitors refused to say if they were pleased with thel American response to the exhibit, but several proudly pointed out that they were averaging 60,000 visitors a day. (That figure is cor- rect.) new figures which can be applied on this point. IMMEDIATELY AFTER World War II, Soviet casualties were estimated at from three to seven millions. In 1946 the World Al- manac said civilian casualties re- presented about half of a total of between 12 and 15 million. The Reference Bureau, study- ing birth rate and other records published in connection with the 1958 census, now puts the total at between 15 and 20 million. Additional millions-practically all the people of the U.S.S.R. - have been affected in their lives. MILLIONS WERE evacuated from the actual war areas, and many of them have remained to populate new cities east of the Urals. In 1939 only 32 per cent of the 170,000,000,people lived in cities. Now, it is nearly half of 208,000,000. This rapid growth of cities is a testimonial to the already known- industrial growth of the country as well as to improved agricul- tural methods requiring less man- power for increased production. Kozlov expressed irritation over the Western idea that Russia's' women work like mules. The cen-' sus figures make it clear, however, that female labor has been a necessity in the economy of a country which emerged from the war with a pdpulation of some- thing like 155,000,000, but with an able-bodied labor force of only, 25,000,000. WESTERNERS WHO are al- ready painfully conscious of the Communist bloc's tremendous manpower may also ponder what will happen when new generations, unaffected by the war losses, will begin to arrive. DAILY, OFFICIAL The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan fSor which The Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsiblity. Notices should be sent In TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Administration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication. Notices for'Sunday Daily due at 2:00 p.m. Friday. TUESDAY, JULY ,7, 1959 VOL. LXIX, NO. 10-S Jim 1, jv .A Willie's fWords 0 L4ectures Forum Lecture, Linguistics Institute. "Spanish verb Inflection." Harold v. King, Asst. Prof. of English. Tues., July 7, 7:30 P.M., Rackham Amphitheater. Biological Symposium sponsored by Division of Biological Sciences: George E. Palade of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, "Functional Changes in the Organization of the Animal Cell" Tues., July 6, 4:00 p.m. Angell Hall, Aud. A. Concerts Carillon Concert: Percival Price, Uni. versity carillonneur, concert' trom Bur- ton Memorial bell-tower Tues., July 7, 8:30 p.m. Academic Notices Classical Studies Coffee Hour: Tues., July 7, E. Conf. Rm., Rackham Bldg. 4:00 p.m. All students and friends of the classics are cordially invited. Shir- ley Barlow, London, England, speaker. Language Exam for M. A. in History Fri., July 17, 4 p.m., Em. 407 Mason Hall. Dictionaries may be used. Sign the list in the History Office, 3602 Haven Hall. Sociology 1 Make-up Final will be given wed., July 8. from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Students should report to Em. 5633 Haven Hall. 4 NX7 V * : - : 'T ALIM-L",