THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947 0;4e Alr4togan Baltil MATTER OF FACT: The Innoce nts Abroad IBIL MAULDIN Letters to the Editor... Ai Fifty-Eighth Year i of Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff John Campbell...................Managing Editor Clyde Recht ..........................City Editor Stuart Firlayson ................Editorial Director Eunice Mintz ....................Associate Editor Lida Dailes..................... 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Collegiate Press, 1947-48 Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: JOAN KATZ Inquisition HERE'S ANOTHER big investigation on in Washington. The Un-American Activi- ties Committee has launched its periodic investigation of disloyal elements in the nation. In the typical manner of such in- vestigations it is being conducted in the best style of show business - replete with flash bulbs, name-calling,' accusations, and big names. Star of the show thus far is Adolph Menjou, of whom committee member Mc- Dowell (Rep.-Pa.) says, "Of all the peo- ple with whom I have discussed com- munism, I have never met anyone with the profound knowledge and background of Mr. Menjou." The eminently qualified Mr. Menjou told committee members Tuesday, "I'm a red baiter, I make no bones about it." During his testimony the "expert" on communism accused Stalin of "getting rid of" Lenin and Gorky. He didn't elaborate upon how this was ac- complished except to say that "he (Stalin) acted a great deal like Mr. Capone." Getting down to cases, Mr. Menjou testi- fied that he had "heard" that film writer John Howard Lawson was a communist, but admitted that he couldn't prove it. Menjou related that the Independent Citizens Com- mnittee of Arts, Sciences and Professions had been "labeled a communist front." Because it had refused to adopt a noh-communist resolution, Menjou maintains that mem- bers must be communists. Asked if he knew of any members of the Screen Actors Guild who are communists, Menjou replied, "No, but I know a great many people who act an awful lot like communists." There is a great of abundance of opinion and hearsay in Mr. Menjou's testimony and apparently very little proof or fact. During this session, lawyer Charles J. Katz, counsel for the witnesses, was forcibly ejected from the committee room by capital police for objecting to part of the testi- mony. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas was quoted as directing the police to "throw him out." Later another lawyer retained by the witnesses was 'threatened with the same treatment. Occurences like these suggest the word inquisition rather than investigation. Such is the beginning of the latest of Washington's very interesting investiga- tions. We have a world-famous actor, who professes himself to be a red-baiter, term- ed an expert on Communism by one of the members of the impartial Congres- sional investigating committee conducting the hearings. In addition lawyers repre- senting the subpoenaed witnesses are ejected or threatened with ejection from the hearings for objecting to testimony being presented to the committee. These inquisitional methods are danger- ous. We played our part in strengthening the fascist states in the 30's in the hope that they would eliminate communism. We paid dearly for that support in the 40's. We must not allow our fear of communism to cause us to abandon our civil rights. -Quentin Nesbitt DURING WORLD WAR II nearly 10 per cent of the U.S. population found its way into service with the Armed Forces. By JOSEPH ALSOP! TRIESTE-The wanderers are going home already. Athens a day or so ago ex- pected only one more Congressional visita- tion. At Rome, after a long summer of gruel- ing waits for lawmakers at air fields, rounds of official appointments and indoctrination lectures, the embassy was visibly beginning to revive. Here in Trieste at the moment, Representative John Lodge was the last, lingering specimen of this new kind of an- nual migration, which has filled all Eu- rope with the bustle of its movement as the passenger pigeons once filled Kansas with the sound of their wings. The process of collision between mem- bers of our Congress and the grim facts of our time has been, to be serious about it, extremely reassuring to watch. The goose- flesh-raising horrors of the Congressional junkets of the past have not once recurred, although more than 200 members, many of them not averse to pleasure and the bottle, have been loose in Europe this summer. Without exception, the Senators and Representatives have shown a new so- briety in both senses of the word, and above all, a desire to learn everything that could be learned. Most of them went through schedules that would have fin- ished men and women not habituated to the grind of campaign trips. ['D RATHER BE RIGHT: War or Freedom By SAMUEL GRAFTON TO WORK for freedom, we must work for peace. War and freedom do not go very well together. I do not mean this in the corny way in which isolationists used to argue that the sugar ration, or some other such necessary wartime restriction, killed freedom dead. There is a deeper sense in which war, or the expectation of war, may slaughter freedom. If we can have peace with Russia for fifty years, we can have a true testing of systems, under the cracking pressures of time. In fifty years Communism would have to show whether it can produce the goods or not. But in the present state of tension, Russian leaders do not have to argue Communism, even with their own people. They can argue nationalism in- stead. They can rally the Russians to the defense of the motherland, as well as to the defense of Communism. They can drag out malodorous ancient czars, give them a dusting with ideological D.- D.T., and make them non-political na- tional heroes and defensive symbols. In one sense, American pressure lets Rus- sia's Communist leaders off easy. We give them the simple job of defending them- selves, instead of the historical task of proving themselves and their system to be viable. Throughout Europe and much of Asia the Soviet line of the moment is not that Communism is good, but that America is bad. Thus war, or a state of tension, par- alyzes whatever evolutionary trend might otherwise be at work within the Com- munist fold, and endows the defense of an ideology with an emotional quality the ideology itself might not necessarily en- gender. On our own side, too, we can see that freedom and international tension do not march well together. The current Hollywood investigation is a child of the international situation, and its chief characteristic is its nervousness, the to-do that is being made over who said what, and when, and who wrote what line, and who stuck it into what film, as if a revolution could be made by sneaking a phrase into the fifth reel. The investigation has already shown that a man can fall under suspicion mere- ly for ridiculing the rich; as if the man- ufacture of ironic comment about the rich were not a traditional American sport, indulged in by almost every writer of consequence we have had in the last fifty years. But to kid the rich now has international implications, and so we can see how on our side, too, nationalism and social ideology are getting a little mixed up, as on the Russian side they have been deliberately mingled. I don't believe the Russians want war, any more than we do, but in a sense it is true that war is a trap into which capitalism falls, almost always landing on its head, and almost always breaking something im- portant. It is a matter of high Communist theory that capitalism means war, and Communism takes a double gain from these disasters, by blaming capitalism for them when they happen, and by picking up the pieces after they have happened. It is true that war is sometimes clearly necessary in defense of freedom, and when that is so, Americans have always known what to do. But in the present case the friends of freedom will be those who in- sist on masterful action to organize the peace, and for a relief of tension, so that truth can show its face; the truth about us, and, gradually, the truth about the other side, too. To be stubbornly, fur- iously, for peace is the way to cross the dope, and to put the burden of proof e nn the o vetsem. The reactions were so standardized that they can be catalogued rather easily. The relatively small number of members who had already grasped the real nature of the American role in the world despite the dis- tance of the world problem from our shores found in contact with the facts new strength and new reassurances. They will be pretty hard to intimidate or argue with when the special session convenes. Far more significant, the large, decisive group of middle-of-the-road members were visibly and deeply affected. These were the men who had gone along part way, or had gone along reluctantly, with a constructive American foreign policy. They had feared the political conse- quences. They had often managed to de- lude themselves as to the meaning of the facts abroad. With the facts plainly set out before their eyes, they found self- delusion impossible. With evident reluc- tance, yet surely and rather completely, they moved over to transform the minor- ity of active interventionists into an ef- fective majority. Equally meaningful, however, was the re- action of the confirmed isolationists. Only one or two of them were open to reason or conviction. They continued to repeat their familiar slogans. Yet they could not wholly brush the facts aside. And thus these men, who have done everything in their power to obstruct measures to prevent war, were suddenly heard saying, all over Europe, that "We might as well have another war and get it over with." Nothing could better illuminate the degree of willful blindness, of sheer inability to think, which charac- terizes their position. You would suppose that any sensible man would prefer to spend a few billions on a stable peace, rather than talk complacently about another war which will certainly cost hundreds of billions and may, quite probably, result in the collapse of Western civilization. Yet the beginning of the conversion of these men into a preven- tive war party was quite evident. On the unfavorable side, one more item of evidence must also be mentioned. As the homecohiing statement of Representa- tive Christian A. Herter plainly discloses, even the best-intentioned members of Congress have adopted a sort of political double standard. Under the Victorian double standard, all women were required to be as pure as the driven snow, while the male sex was permitted to frequent saloons and even burlesque shows. Under the new double standard, all European politicians must be willing, at the drop of a hat, to subject their people to the most Draconian measure, while American poli- ticians continue to behave like American politicians. This is silly and dangerous. None the less, the experiment seem to have proved itself. No doubt it will be re- peated again next year. It is to be hoped that it will. But next year, it might be well for ambassadors to be relieved of the task of meeting members of Congress at the plane, which must this summer have taken a third of the time of every American chief of mission in Europe. This is going too far even in the education of Congressmen. (Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune) CINEMA At Lydia Mendelssohn.. . I LIVE AS I PLEASE, with Ferruccio Tag- liavini, Silvana Jachino and Carlo Cam- panini. THE CURRENT attraction at Lydia Men- delssohn is an Italian product in which the Horatio Alger theme has been set to music. The protagonist of this threadbare theme is a young and misunderstood peasant with lyrical tendencies. His flight from rags to riches or, more precisely, from horse- tending to operatic stardom, is carried off in what struck me as a highly unlikely fash- ion. Of course, this sort of thing is stock material for musical comedies, but I had somehow expected the Italians, adept as they are at matters musical, to add some- thing to the technique. They haven't. Instead, their plot conforms so strictly to type that I'm sure you'll find your -mind running a good 300 feet ahead of the film all evening. The comedy is equally standard and reminiscent of Hollywood. In spite of thin plot and sterile comedy, though, a certain amount of enjoyment can be salvaged from the picture since it does have a very pleasing musical score. In this respect it is several cuts above the average American effort. The musical selections have variety and there are many of them. They are handled almost exclusively by the star, Ferruccio Tagliavini, who seems to have en- joyed his assignment. A novel and interesting documentary deal- ing with pre-Roman history and art ac- companies the feature. -Kenneth Lowe. J i j i 1 DAILY OFFICIAL BULTIN EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints every letter to the editor re- ceived (which is signed, 300 words1 or less in length, and in good taste) we remind our readers that the views expressed in letters are thoserof the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. * s " Isolated To the Editor: W E AT WEST LODGE some- times feel deeply our isolation from the Campus, not only when the bus service fails, but when we fail to catch the 7:45 bus for that 9 o'clock date and find that the next bus leaves at 9:45 or discover that a certain needed reference book still is on a library shelf at the University and we can't get there in time. Of course, time heals everything .. . if we should live so long. One of the foreign students al- most couldn't wait. He heard of a room available right beside the, campus. But, he had to break the lease here at West Lodge and in the process of asking how to do it found that that room in town was being offered him at Rite prices. He is still here. This week, he expects to get his first change of linen for his bed. It seems that he had not read the typewritten notice pasted beside the door in his room that told that beds should be stripped by the occupant on a certain day of the week when the maid would leave clean linen. I showed him the notice and explained it to him. He had not stripped his bed. Another foreigner who has the same experience remarked about the maid: "Bad lady." The other day a fellow moved someone else's dried wash off the rack in the washroom and hung his own wet wash there. The next day there was no wash. Evi- dently, someone else, probably color-blind and in a hurry to catch the bus for town, had come for his laundry. Of course, he saw his mistake later and returned the laundry. Sometimes, the condition re- mains halitosic . . . like the wash and the linen, matters eventually right themselves. But, having tried to get publicity from The Daily for a West Lodge Theatre Group and having failed in the last three attempts, this writing feels more the chasmic breach between the Lodge and the school. If The Daily, which circulates this se- mester to every other room in the area for a price, would be more interested in us and our endeav- ors here, we would feel more al- lied to the BMOCs. --Ivan O'Lane. --Mike Cetta. Paper Shortage? To The Editor: THE EXPLANATION of the pa- per shortage is at last un- earthed! All the missing paper is over at the Bureau of Appoint - ments. The other day I went over to register for job placement, and after filling out a file card, I was handed a large envelope contain- ing registration material which was to be filled out and returned to the Bureau within a week. Upon opening the envelope and exam- ining its contents, I was appalled at the outrageous mass of blanks which registrants are required to fill out. The registrant was ex- pected to write an essay telling all about himself-his education, rec- reation, amusements, and upbring- ing--even his fear problems-not for the enlightenment of prospec- tive employers, but for the in- formation of the personnel staff of the Bureau. I was surprised that fingerprints were not also requested. Up to now I have always dreaded the ordeal of filling out the long railroad ticket we have to suffer at registration time each semester in this university, but now I know that that is less painful than the lulu dreamed up by the Bureau of Appointments. What did I do about it? I put the blanks back in the envelope unanswered and returned the whole mess to the Bureau, firm in the conviction that Icould find myself a' job in less time than it would take to write my way through the rigamarole. If you need any paper, please apply to the Bureau of Appointments. -Ralph J. Hansen, Jr. * * * Notre Dame Game To the Editor: COACH FRANK LEAHY of Notre ' Dame has declared that his team will play our Wolverines "any Saturday, any fall." The Knights of Columbus have invited both teams to play a game at their convenience in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium as part of a charity drive. Leahy has issued the challenge, and certainly the K of C invita- tion is indicative of a growing enthusiasm for the game. Notre Dame is willing to play us. November 29 should bring good football weather. Probably 141 of the 142 million people in the U.S. would like to have the game played and half of them would pay to see it. Play it in their stadium, our statium, Yankee Stadium, Sol- dier Field, or in Honolulu, but play it, I say. It would make a tremendous amount of money for any charity or for the schools to split 50-50. Certainly Coach Crisler, Pres- ident Ruthven, Comnissioner Wil- son, James C. Petrillo, whoever holds the strings, would not veto the game if he sampled public opinion on the subject. -Lee H. Wilson. P.S.: They could donate the pro- ceeds to a fund for GI students who do not get their checks on time. Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices f or the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Assistant to the President, Room 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). OCTOBER 24, 1947 VOL. LVIII, No. 28 Notices School of Business Administra- tion Assembly: Seniors in the School (both BBA and MBA can- didates) are invited to attend an assembly to be held in West Gal- lery, Alumni Memorial Hall, Tues- day, Oct. 28, 3 p.m. Dean Steven- son and Professor Jamison will discuss procedures for placement. Five-Week Grades for All Freshman Engineers are due in Dean Crawford's Office not later than Saturday, November 1. Personal cars used for official University business: The minutes of the meeting of the Regents on September 26, 1947, read, in part, as follows: The Board voted that as of Octo- ber 1, 1947, the rate for the reim- bursement of employees for the use of their personal cars on offi- cial University business be increas- ed from five cents a mile to six cents a mile. To Faculty Personnel: All those holding appointments payable on the University Year basis will receive their first check on October 31. Should an emer- gency exist in any individual case, checks which would be collected on October 31, may be obtained previous to that date by coming to the Payroll Department, Room 9, University Hall. Business Administration Sen- iors: All students expecting to graduate in February must turn in diploma applications in Rm. 108,dTappan Hall not later than Saturday, Oct. 25. Faculty, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: The fresh- man five-week progress reports will be due Saturday, Oct. 25, in the office of the Academic Coun- selors, 108 Mason Hall. February 1948 Graduates in Mechanical & Industrial-Mechan- ical Engineering: Students who expect to gradu- ate in February 1948 in the above divisions should call at once at the Mechanical Engineering De- partment office and fill out a per- sonnel record form. This is neces- sary for those who wish to take advantage of interviews for posi- tions with industrial organiza- tions; and is important as a perm- anent record for future reference. Interview schedules are now being arranged. Freshmen and Sophomore Men, who are single, veterans, residents .of the State of Michigan, present- ly living in the Willow Run Dorm- itories, and interested in Univer- sity Residence Halls accommoda- tions for the Spring Semester 1948, are asked to call at the Of- fice of Student Affairs, Rm. 2, l University Hall, before October 31. Pre-football guest luncheons1 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and after-game open houses from 5 to 7 p.m. held in organized student residences will be approved, chap- eroned or unchaperoned, provid- ed they are announced to the Of- fice of Student Affairs at least one' day in advance of the scheduled' date. Women students who hold scholarships or fellowships from the American Association of Uni- versity Women are requested to communicate with the Office of the Dean of Women as soon as possible. Veterans who paid their tuition this fall semester because they lacked sufficient eligibility 'time, are asked to come to the Veterans Service Bureau, Rm. 1514, Rack- ham Building, at their earliest convenience. Approved social events for the coming weekend (afternoon functions are indicated by an as- terisk). October 23: Hillel Foundation.* October 24: Kappa Sigma, Pi Lambda Phi, Sigma Alpha Mu,r Theta Chi, Zeta Beta Tau. October 25: Acacia, Alpha Del- ta. Phi, Alpha Epsilon Phi.* Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Kappa Psi, Alpha Rho Chi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Phi, Chi Psi, Delta Delta Delta,* Delta Kap- pa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Delta, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Alpha Theta, Lambda Chi Alpha, Michigan Christian Fellow- ship, Newman Club, Phi Alpha Kappa, Phi Chi, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Del- ta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Sigma Delta, Phi Sigma Kap- pa, Pi Lambda Phi, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, SigmaPhi, Theta Delta Chi, Theta Xi, Trigon, Zeta Psi. Teacher's Certificate Candi- dates: The Teacher's Oath will be given to all February candidates for the teacher's certificate on October 23 and 24 between the hours of 8-12 and 1:30-4:30 in Rm. 1437, U.E.S. Lectures University Lectures; Prof. Mau- rice Frechet, The Henri Pinca Institute, Paris, France. "Proba- bilities Associated with a System of Compatible and Dependent Events," Thurs., Oct. 23, and "Asy- mptotically Almost Periodic Func- tions," Fri.. Oct. 24. Both lectures will be given at 4:15 p.m., Rm. 3017, Angell Hall; auspices of the Department of Mathematics. Roy Bishop Canfield Memorial Lecture. The Honorable Charles S. Kennedy, M.D., Regent of the University, will deliver the first annual Roy Bishop Canfield Me- morial Lecture at 11 a.m., Sat., Oct. 25, Rackham Amphitheatre; auspices of the Phi Rho Sigma Medical fraternity. The public is invited to attend. Mr. J. C. McCarthy, Secretary of the National Association of I 4 A I I .1 A Furniture Manufacturers, will; speak on the subject, "What an association secretary can do for; the membership," at 11 a.m., Fri., Oct. 24, West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. All students in the Wood Tech- nology and Furniture programs should make every effort to attend this meeting. Any others inter- ested are welcome to attend. Academic Notices Seminar in Differential Geome- try in the Large: Fri., 3 p.m., Rm. 3201, Angell Hall. Seminar on Differential Opera- tors: Because of the lecture of Professor Frechet, the seminar will not meet October 24. Next meeting: October 31. Biological Chemistry Seminar: Friday, Oct. 24, 4 p.m., Rm. 319, West Medical Bldg. Subject: "Lip- id Antigens." All interested are invited. Concerts The University Musical Society will present the Chicago Sym- phony phony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski, conductor, in the sec- ond program of the Choral Un- ion Concert Series, Sunday, Oct. 26, 7 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Dr. Rodzinski has arranged the following program: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Bach; Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, Brahms; Suite from the Ballet, "Appalachian Spring," Copland; Three Dances from "Gaynne," Khatchaturian. Exhibitions Exhibit of Living: Fall Fungi of Washtenaw County, Michigan. Department of Botany, 2nd floor, Natural Science Building, through November 1st. "Natural History Studies at the Edwin S. George Reserve, Uni- versity of Michigan." October through December, Museums Bldg. Rotunda. MUSEUM OF ART: FINE ARTS UNDER FIRE, LIFE MAGAZINE Photographic Show, through Oct. 30. Alumni Memorial Hall: Daily, except Monday, 10-12 and 2-5; Sunday, 2-5; Wednesday evening, 79. The public is invited. Modern American Houses, cir- culated by the Museum of Modern Art, Architecture Bldg., through Oct. 27. Events Today The Angell Hall Observatoy will be open to the public from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., for observation of the moon. Children must be ac- companied by parents. The Open Night will be cancelled if the sky is not clear. The Art Cinema League and Mu. Phi Epsilon present . Tagliavini, the singer who received a great ovation at last year's May Festi- val, in I LIVE AS I PLEASE. Ital- ian dialogue, English titles. Fri. and Sat., Oct. 24 and 25. Box of- fice opens 2 p.m. daily. Reserva- tions, phone 6300, Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. Women's Bowling Club: Free in- struction will be given to Univer- sity women who wish to join the W.A.A. bowling club at 5 p.m., Women's Athletic Bldg. Wear tennis shoes or bowling shoes. SRA Coffee Hour: 4:30 p.m., Lane Hall. The Board of Regents and the Christian foreign students are special guests. Everyone is welcome. Canterbury Club: Open house at +no ,r nicnna C lflnfean I d A0 q I d .4 4 A i BARNABY...* m f-' " - 1 - -"_ .tr3. t.1 I = AV Uns 111 rn nf if nrnn 'ty NP i .. .eaols ZERO... .Mmmm . .. i W- r. I I !" 'I I