PAGE FOUR IlHE 'MITTGAS DAlty WEDNESDAY. OCTOOER 29. 1941 tt sc a ar sa u ul s ..+.... v s v .-tea.. as r v a v g 3iC4gj3au &Dily Fifty-Eighth Year MATTER OF FACT: Comrade Vidali BILL MAULDIN - 'I Edited and managed by students of the Uni- Versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Stafff John Campbell................Managing Editor Clyde Recht.......................City Editor Stuart Finlayson ...............Editorial Director Eunice Mintz..................Associate Editor Lida Dailes .....................Associate Editor Dick Kraus ..........................Sports Editor Bob Lent ..................Associate Sports Editor Joyce Johnson.................. Women's Editor Betty Steward.........Associate Women's Editor Joan de Carvajal ..................Library Director Business Staff Nancy Helmick.................General Manager Jeanne Swendeman......... Advertising Manager Edwin Schneider................Finance Manager Melvin Tick..................Circulation Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this news- paper. All rights of re-publication of all other mnatters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan, as second class mail matter. Subscription during the regular school year by carrier, $5.00, by mail, $6.00. Member, Assoc. Collegiate Press, 1947-48 Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily stafff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: HARRIETT FRIEDMA}T By JOSEPH ALSOP TRIESTE-In these days Trieste is a toy state on the scale of Lichtenstein, where nothing, agreeable or disagreeable, is easily hidden. Even the Communist Party, ordi- narily habituated to dark places, has its headquarters just across the broad water- front street from the headquarters of the Anglo-American forces. The Communist chieftains share with British General Airey and American General Moore the splendid panorama of Trieste harbor, which the ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD PROBE- HOLLYWOOD went on location last week. Some observers entitled the new drama "Washington Snoops at Hollywood." But a few days after the Thomas Committee began its investigations, it appeared that an unex- pected second feature had been added to the program. Its title might be "Hollywood Sneers Back at Washington." Some. of the film colony's notables testi- fied that other notables were Communists. They cited movies like "The Best Years of Our Lives," in which a banker is shown as hard and tight-fisted. "Song of Russia" which spoke well of the Soviets was an- other example of "Communist" propaganda. But others of the motion picture industry formed themselves into "The Committee for the First Amendment." They flew to Wash- ington to protest what they called an obvious violatidn of freedom of thought and ex- pression. They joined an ever-mounting pro- test against Congressional smear tactics and what they called the general un-American attitude of the Un-American Activities Com- miittee. A few press comments on the new inves- tigation: Bill of Rights A GLANCE at the pages of the newspapers of the past few weeks will serve to prove that America's representatives in the UN who say that our government cannot stop -people from speaking because of the Bill .of Rights, are talking through their collec- tive hats. Hollywood stars and starlets are in Washington this week to protest just such an attempt to restrict their rights under the first amendment. Congressmen are dictating in no uncertain words that there must be more anti-communistic movies and that movies deriding, certain of our institutions must not be made. And Holly- wood is not the only example. Unfortunately, no investigation was made, before governmentemployes were told they could be fired for their political beliefs. Consequently they have not had Hollywood's chance to protest. The restriction against their freedom is so great that should author- ities choose to do so, they may fire them without recourse; brand them as enemies of their country without any formal charges being made, without any chance for defense. It would seem that deprivation of free- dom of speech depends entirely upon which side of the fence one is on politically. Call- ing for immediate arms for war (Winchell) or preserving the atomic bomb stock piles (Hearst), or even openly asking for war, (Byrnes), is "American" and cannot be lim- ited. Anything opposed to the current polit- ical party-line is "un-American." These are indicative examples of the current trend. They foretell a possible totalitarianism of the Russian type, or the German. Anyone who laughs them off with "It can't happen here" is opening the door to dictatorship. It happened in Germany and Italy and the excuse given was a dictatorship to stem the Com- munist tide. Freedom of speech is not something we can take away for a little while during an emergency and then return when things have quieted down. History shows that it is never returned. We did not have to restrict it during the war, why now? One great American,-Patrick Henry, has said: "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -Don McNeil. Classroom Manners STUDENT classroom manners are at a new low in some of the larger lecture and recitation periods. Crowded conditions serve to amplify trou- bles that might not otherwise deserve com- ment. The announcement of the next bluebook or mention of "tomorrow's assignment" is all too often greeted with a groan a sailor at the mast, receiving whiplashes, would be proud of. Simple puerility is the only exnlanation THE LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL points to the f ilm colony probe as the "coup de grace" which will shatter the al- ready tried prestige of Congressional inves- tigations. The movies which Mr. Menjou and the others regard as the wrong kind, the Cour- ier-Journal points out, are those in which our "Man of Distinction" finds sly, subtle, un-American, class-struggle angles . . . They are those which suggest that things are not all they should be, that intolerance, discrimination, neglect, and lack of oppor- tunity exist in our land and that we must not rest till they are removed." Is this trea- son, asks the Courier-Journal? The committee's investigation is, in the judgment of the Courier-Journal, "a drum- head court-martial, cut and dried in prej- udice and half-truth." * * * T'HE CLEVELAND PLAIN-DEALER scores for the opposite side of the ledger. If the actors and writers who have been ac- cused of trying to inject Communism prop- aganda into the films are innocent, they have nothing to fear from the investigation, in the opinion of the Plain Dealer. But if they are guilty, "the public should know about it . . . No violation of the constitu- tional guaranty of free speech can possibly be involved in the effort of the' committee to bring out the facts." * * * THE NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE as- serts that not Hollywood, but Washing- ton is being investigated, "and once again the testimony indicates that the system of Congressional investigating committee needs overhauling. The entire process, in which a committee chairman is allowed unlimited freedom and his targets must remain simply targets, is inherently offensive," according to the Herald-Tribune. The investigation, the Herald-Tribune re- marks, has brought out "an abundance of unsubstantiated charges, some dizzying new definitions of Communism, a satisfactory collection of clippings from Mr. J. Parnell Thomas' notebook," but little else. * * * GEORGE SKOLSKY and WESTBROOK PEGLER, writing for Hearst's Detroit Times, have some bitter words (again) for Communists in general, and the Hollywood brand, in particular. Sokolsky derides the "buffoonery" of the Hollywood Communists who have written a script, designed to make the Thomas Committee investigation ridic- ulous. The Congressmen, "unaccustomed to vaudeville," will, like the Brewster com- mittee, be smeared by Hollywood. Pegler speaks of the "Hollywood-White House-Kremlin axis." He is ashamed of the "proud" United States government which has played along with gross vulgarians in Hollywood, "including mincing Castle Gar- den greenhorns of 50 years (ago) ." They have made political movies extolling Com- munism, flattering Russia, and "deceiving the great American boob." (That last ex- pression is Hollywood's view of its public, as Pegler sees it). * * * THE DAILY WORKER, lashes out at the ''semi-literate ravings of crackpots like Kremlin is seeking to bring within the So- viet sphere. Among these fortunate and hard-working men, there is one worth closer study, as a symbol of the problem posed for the free world by the existence of a powerful im- perialist state possessing agents everywhere In the disguise of advocates of high-sounding ideals. His name is Vittorio Vidali, and al- though not the front man, he is almost cer- tainly the controller of the Communist party apparatus and the direct representative of the Kremlin in Trieste. He must now be in his fifties. At any rate, he was a minor figure in the Italian Socialist party at the close of the last war. In the turmoil of the Kremlin's first great effort to destroy the democratic non-Com- munist Left in Europe, he became a Com- munist. Thereafter, probably because he had to flee from the Italian Fascist terror, he left Italy and began the wandering life of an agent of the Comintern. For some time he was in the United States, and for some time in Moscow. With- out doubt in Moscow he attended the Com- intern schools which can now boast as many eminent politician graduates as Brit- ain's Eton in its heyday as a production line for Cabinet ministers. For some time also he was one of the Communist agents in Spain who helped to wreck the Loyalist cause from within while the Fascists at- tacked it from without. Then, he was trans- ferred to Mexico. There he must have formed part of the special war-time American ap- paratus organized by the late, unlamented Ambassador Oumansky, the N.K.V.D. bigwig who rose to greatness by betraying his super- iors without ceasing for an instant to smile his broad, gold bestudded smile. Finally, in 1943, the Comintern was or- ganizing the Italian Communist partisans- a special brand of partisan who spent al- most as much time fighting future demo- cratic competitors as the more widely pop- ular enemies of those days. Vidali was brought from Mexico and smuggled into Italy to help in this effort. He must be able and courageous, for he survived the con- siderable tests of that time and emerged as the big man behind the scenes in Trieste. The official Trieste leaders are Slovenes, since Slovenes constitute a huge majority of the local Communists. But Vidali, in view of his record, is unquestionably the real fount of power. He has two missions. His first and minor mission is to watch over the Trieste station on the underground railway to Yugoslavia. This is the organization responsible for recruiting and delivering to Yugoslavia, sometimes legally and sometimes illegally, idealistic young people from all oveE Eu- rope. These are being invited "to help build Yugoslav democracy." A good many thou- sands-the large numbers are well con- firmed-have already been brought into Yu- goslavia, ostensibly as volunteer workers on the roads and railways. In practice, there are the best possible grounds for believing that once they cross the Yugoslav frontier, the best of them are trained for and in- corporated into the new international brigade. This is the weapon, of course, which the Kremlin is preparing for possible emer- gencies in Greece or elsewhere. First, the Communist party busily infil- trates every possible organized manifesta- tion of the life of Trieste, whether labor unions, or social clubs, or humble cultural organizations. The Cosuliches, the rich fam- ily who own the shipyards, have been unap- petizing employers. Most of their workers are Slovenes. Naturally the union is Com- munist controlled. Thus it was the San Marco shipyard workers who sought unsuc- cessfully to lead the general strike, timed to coincide with the even more humiliatingly unsuccessful Yugoslav coup d'etat on Sept. 15. Method No. 2 is economic infiltration. The lire looted by the Communist partisans are almost exhausted, but from Belgrade, where the whole Communist effort in Trieste has its zone of the interior base, ample addi- tional funds are forthcoming. Phony firms are being formed. Fronts are being acquired for every kind of transaction aimed to give the Communists a foothold in Trieste's eco- nomic life. Finally, the third and last method is simple terror. Dangerous opponents, like the anti-Tito Slovene editor, Ursic, are made to disappear. Or when it is feasible, they are even more publicly done away with, like the Istrian priest, Bulesich. In the little Slovene villages still included in the free territory, and among the Slo- vene population in the city, these methods have been successful. Despite the discour- aging spectacle of seven Yugoslav divisions hungrily living off the countryside across the border, these people would either like to join Tito or dare not voice their opposition. Among the Italians, little headway has been made. If the Anglo-American command in Trieste continues to be supported and to do the same good job, Vittorio Vidali's mission is likely to last a very long time. But it is interesting to watch the process here, even though Vidali may be frustrated. (Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune) 3i1+ : . i3 x ' j; 1' je. il ' sr a co RP ..., . i. .. - , N I.. I. " *IIRr IRR I R I f .. I R R II I : * 1 R f " r J f ".: a i I i 1 ~ Copy. IW47 by IYWt*d FtWm.Synd'.cat. e. 10 Z9 1 "This is a stickup." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN iJ S7C1 5 AM&r fix QG GOV Ll . '1 Letters to the Editor ... EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily operation we got from The Michi- prints every letter to the editor re- gnDiyi epn omk u ceived (which is signed, 300 words gan Daily in helping to make our or less in length, and in good taste) last production, "Ten Nights in a we remind our readers that the views Bar Room,' the smash-hit success expressed in letters are those of the that it turned out to be. We are writers only. Letters of more than going to put on another play, 300 words are shortened, printed or "Murdered Alive" (Nov. 7, 8, 9 omitted at the discretion of the edi- and we have received every indi- t e . cation that The Michigan Daily carillon Recital will continue to give us the won- Carilon Reitalderful cooperation we have re- To the Editor: ceived in the past. A lot of hard EVERY SUNDAY afternoon at work and time has gone into our three, Ann Arbor citizens and production of "Murdered Alive" and we are counting on the con- students are privileged to hear an tinued cooperation of The Mich- unusual and beautifully performed igan Daily and the good-will of carillon recital from Burton Tower the student body to make this pro- by Dr. Price or one of his asso- duction the smash-hit it has the ciates. The programs presented, possibilities of being. See you all and the excellent treatment given at the play- them, afford much pleasure to -Mike Cetta. music lovers. For these same music lovers, School Spirit however, Sunday afternoons pro- To the Editor: vide a difficult internal struggle. THIS WEEKEND was marked by For it so happens that it is only atremendous blast from my at this particular time that radio Dad-a homecoming alum. A 1920 stations in our vicinity carry any man-back when men were men worthwhile musical programs. It and women liked them that way. has been my experience that those First the pep rally-What rally who enjoy the Symphony hours he wanted to know? Where was are also appreciative of Prof. the march from the Union behind Price's talents. Yet they are forced the band? Where was the cheer- to choose between hearing the one mgto him or cheers were but or the other. pins in a great silence as compared or te oter.with way back. When he read the Yet the problem is not so simple front page of The Daily this as this. For you cannot decide to morning a volume of oaths filled hear the Symphony or anything the air. It says "led by the Wol- else while the Carillon is in opera- verine cheerleading crew, the .. . tion. Even tightly closed windows throng ... riotously snake-danced (assuming one could be so crass) its way . . . to the campus area. do not prevent the bells from The jumping-jacks must not have penetrating every corner of Ann eaten their Wheaties yesterday, Arbor. The results are not only because with both my 49-year-old Arbr. hereslt ar nt olyDad and myself right behind unhappy, but grotesque (try itDa an myefrgtbhd sometime) them they couldn't even hold out smetime r mto Packard. Where was the riot- It is therefore my sincere sug- ing and spirit of former days? gestion that, since there is little This morning brought another chance of changing a nationwide burst of outrage. The paint fac- custom, the time of the weekly tories walking vainly through the Carillon recital be moved either front door of the Union, just as forward or back, thus enhancing though they owned the once sac- the opportunities for enjoyment red portals. He almost sat down and relieving the frustration of and cried. the entire musical community. Then this afternoon came the the-ud eniramsialcom ny, climax-while THE BOYS were -Judy Laikin. fighting for the old home what were the armed chair quarterbacks Daily Publicity doing. Whenever there was need To the Editor: for a cheer (and there were plenty of times in that game today) what THIS LETTER is to apologizeto were the cheerleaders doing- TeMichigan Daily for the NOTHING. Or else trying to stand letter which its office received Fri- on each other's stomachs. What day, Oct. 24, in which the writer we need is less jack-in-the-boxes complained about the lack of co- and more fellows who can pit a operation the Willow Run the- cheer across. The most surprising atre group received from The fact to him however is that no- Michigan Daily in regard to the body seems to know the cheers. advertising campaign. It was then that I remembered This attitude is certainly not that at the Stanford game with indicative of the way we in the about 200 voices-the other team's Willow Run theatre group feel. We cheering section made the other feel the complaint was unjus- 83,433 Michigan rooters look and tified and want to take this op- sound awful sick. portunity to apologize for the Has the spirit and tradition that letter sent to the editor. We in has made this school great died the theatre group are extremely forever? It's up to us- grateful for the wonderful co- -Robert A. Prince. I Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for 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). WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 1947 VOL. LVIII, No. 32 Notices Notice of Regents' Meeting: No- vember 22, 8:30 a.m. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the Pres- ident's hands not later than No- vember 13. Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary Community Chest Contributions: All University employees who have not yet turned in their Commun- ity Fund pledge cards to their building or department represen- tative are urged to do so by Wed- nesday, Oct. 29. By Tuesday noon of this week, the University has attained 55 per cent of its quota of $22,000. Headquarters, Campus Community Fund Com- mittee, Ext. 2134, 3103 Natural Scienqe Bldg. Faculty Members-Reserve Of- ficer Duty Project at the Com- mand and General Staff College: During the summer of 1947 a group of 13 Reserve Officers who were members of faculties of ci- vilian colleges, were on duty at the Command and Staff College for periods varying from two weeks to eight weeks' and accom- plished a number of projects such as' (1) Planning a remedial pro- gram in reading and arithmetic, (2) Planning for a remedial pro- gram in study techniques, (3) Study of methodology and cur- ricular organization in relation to the organization of the student body for learning purposes, (4) An analysis of the preparation of ex- tension courses, (5) Preparation of text matter for selected topics of the course, (6) Preparation of ob- jective examinations and exer- cises, (7) Analysis of data on a test of background military knowledge of students,(8)iRe- view of text matter in statistics for the School of Personnel. All of the officers were of the opinion that this experience was worthwhile to them personally and profession- ally. It is the plan of the Command Staff College to continue this pro- gram on a larger scale in 1948 and thereafter. Any faculty member who is a Reserve Officer and is wil- ling to be assigned to duty at the Command and Staff College dur- ing the summer of 1948 is urged to see or call the Adjutant at Room 200 Military Headquarters, 512 S. State St., Phone: Univ. ext. 306 prior to 1200 hours 5 November 1947. Approved social events for the coming weekend (afternoon func- tions are indicated by an asterisk): October 29 Deutscher Verein* October 31 Adelia Cheever, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Al- pha Omega, American Veterans Committee, Congregational Disci- Association, Les Voyageurs, theran Student Association, terweil Cooperative, Pi Beta Wenley House. November 1 Lu- Os- Phi, Alpha Delta Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Fletcher Hall,* Greene House, Michigan League Dormi- tory, Phi Delta Chi, Sailing Club, Theta Chi, Theta Xi, Zeta Psi. Eligibility lists are now due in the Office of Student Affairs. Be- fore permitting any student to participate in an extra-curricular activity, the officer, chairman, or manager of such activity shall (a) require each applicant to present a certificate of eligibility (b) sign his initials on the back of such certificate, and (c) file with the Chairman offthehCommittee on Student Affairs the names of all those who have presented certifi- cates of eligibility and a signed statement to exclude all others from participation. Blanks for the eligibility list may be obtained in the Office of Student Affairs, Room 2, University Hall. 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, University Hall, before Oct. 31. I i 4 I t Debaters: All debaters check the schedule ofi posted on the bulletin fourth floor, Angell Hall. should debates board, in the series will be shown in 1025 Angell Hall, not 231 Angell Hall. Earl Britton Richard Boys Seminar in Engineering Me- chanics: The Engineering Me- chanics Department is sponsoring a series of discussions on applied mechanics. The next seminar will be at 4 p.m. Wed., Oct. 29, Rm. 406, W. Engineering Bldg. Prof. H. M. Hansen will discuss the distribution of energy in vibrat- ing systems. Women students now living at Willow Run who wish to move for the spring semester should call at the Office of the Dean of Women beginning November 1 to apply for other accommodations. Academic Notices English 31: Mr. Weimer will not meet his section of English 31 (MWF 2) on Wednesday, October 29. Graduate Students in English intending to take the Preliminary Examinations in English literature this fall should notify Professor Marckwardt before October 30. Biological Chemistry Semkinar: Fri., Oct. 31, 4 p.m., Rm. 319, W. Medical Bldg. Subject: "Proteolytic Enzymes." All interested are in- vited. Seminar on Complex Variables: Thurs., Oct. 30, 3 p.m., Rm. 3017, Angell Hall. Mr. Boothby will speak on the Sigma-functions. Seminar in Applied Mathe- matics: 3 p.m., Oct. 29, 247 W. Engineering Bldg. Prof. Coburn will speak on Three Dimensional Flow of Compressible Fluids. The movie of David Copperfield arranged for our classes in the English novel will be held on Wed- nesday, Nov. 5, instead of Oct. 29, at 4:15 p.m. In the future, begin- ning on Nov. 5, all of the movies ples Guild, Cooley House, Delta Epsilon Pi, International Student Geometry Seminar: Wed., 29, 2 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. D. K. Kazarinoff will present' -Villarceau Circles." Oct. Mr. "On Concert String Orchestra Concert, un- der the direction of Gilbert Ross. 8:30 p.m., Tues., Nov. 11, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Soloist: Nor- ma Swinney Heyde, Soprano, and Oliver Edel, Cellist. Program: Two Fantazias by Purcell, Three Arias from "Eteocles e Polinices" by Lengrenzi, Concerto in G Major, No. 3 by Boccherine, and Mozart's Divertimento in D Major, K. 334. Open to the public without charge. Exhibitions Exhibit: Living Fall Fungi of Washtenaw County, Michigan. Department of Botany, 2nd floor, Natural Science Building, through November 1st. 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, 7-9. The public is invited. "Natural History Studies at the Edwin S. George Reserve, Uni- versity of Michigan." October through December, Museums Bldg. Rotunda. Events Today, Celebration of the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Turkish Re- public: Auspices of the Turkish Students' Club. Addresses by Pro- fessors Howard M. Ehrmann, An- drei A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Law- rence Preuss, and Preston W. Slos- son, 8 p.m., Rm. 316, Michigan Union. Delta Sigma Pi, professional Business Administraition frater- nity: professional meeting, 8 p.m., Rm. 305, Union. Short talks will be given by Mr. George D. Bailey, Mr. John W. McEachren, and Mr. Donald J. Bevis, of the accounting firm of Touche, Niven, Bailey, and Siart. Pledge meeting at 7 p.m., same room. Sigma Gamma Epsilon: Meet- ing, Wednesday noon, Rm. 3056, Natural Science Bldg. A.Ph.A. Student Branch: Meet- ing, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 151, Chemis- try Bldg. Active members are re- quested to attend. All Pharmacy students and others interested are invited. Refreshments. Institute of Aeronautical Sci- ences: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 1042 E. Engineering Bldg. Colored film on jet propulsion and its op- eration plus. "Planes without Pfl- ots." Any tentative member is urged to attend. Gilbert and Sullivan Operatic Society: Choral rehearsal, 7 p.m., Michigan League. Wolverine Club: Meeting, 7 p.m., Michigan Union. All members should be present and new mem- bers are invited to attend. Roll will be called. AVC, University Chapter: Exec- utive Committee meeting, 7:30 I BARNABY ..