PAGE FOUR; THE MICHIGAN DAILY Headline Hunting WHEN THE GOING gets tough in the news business, you can always create your own headlines. Something obscure can be played up as something big: or, better yet, you can goad somebody into headline- making action. When 500 Windsor high-school students, armed with clubs, broom handles and rubber hose, broke into offices of a Cana- dian political party last week, the Detroit News gave the mob action banner headlines. The story told how the youths beat up three members of the Labor-Progressive (Com- munist) party and left their offices a mass of wreckage. The story explained how the mob had gathered to break up a party meeting in their school auditorium, and how they had marched on party headquarters when the meeting failed to come off. The story added that "no arrests were made and no one was questioned officially." What the News story did not explain was that much of the incentive for the raid came from directly across the Detroit River. For just three days before, the News had completed its series titled "Communist Plot Exposed." A letter from Prof. Preston Slosson, of the history department here, published on the News editorial page, warned of the danger* inherent in the News' scare cam- paign.. Pointing out that while factually the articles were "largely correct," some ques- ditorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: ARTHUR HIGBEE tionable inferences had been drawn from the facts. Prof. Slosson questions the inference that because a small group of Communist Party members had taken power in Russia, an equally small percentage could do the same thing here. As a matter of fact, he says, the "Bolsheviks had the support of some- where between a third and two-fifths of the total population. "Does anyone think that the Communists in the United States have sympathizers, followers or "fellow travelers" amounting to a third, a tenth, or a hundredth part of the American population?" Prof. Slosson goes on to point out that not only suppoi't of a large segment of the population, but "a youthful and inexperi- enced democracy," and "a moment of acute political or economic crisis" would be neces- sary to bring the Communists to power in this country. He concludes: "Undoubtedly we should take every sensible precaution against treason and sabotage, but there is no need to fall into undignified panic and imagine that a few thousand Communists could master 140,- 000,000 non-Communists in this nation." Unfortunately, Prof. Slosson's sober warn- ing came too late to keep 500 Windsor students from "undignified panic" in their raid on a legally constituted Canadian party. It's a safe bet that not one of them read the letter on page four of last Mon- day's News. But they could not have helped being impressed by repeated headlines given top play for nearly a month before. The News made an investment there in continued violence and hatred, enough to give them headlines for months to come. -John Morris. ti. IT SO HAPPENS.. . e Ick To Work -I Worldly Tolerance THREE DAILY staff members, one male and two females, were, traveling back from New York at the end of last week's vacation. One of them had a lower berth' in the Pullman "Inwood Club." While the three reporters were eating a "sumptuous" meal in the dining car, the porter made up the lower berth. Returning from dinner, the three settled themselves comfortably on the bed and began to dis- cuss the state of the world. . After a half hour, the porter hearing muffled laughter coming from behind the half-closed curtains of the berth stuck his head inside. He paused for a moment to take in the scene-the two females and the male resting comfortably on the bed-and then, turning to leave, said: "No smoking allowed in here." 'o * * Right Away NO DOUBT this happens every year at blackfoot ball time. Anyhow six little children rapped on Alpha Chi Omega door yesterday, pointed to the "tracks" on the walk, and asked "When's the giant com- ing out?" Stan Kenton Please Note: THE COMMUNIST PARTY in Russia dis- cusses the "anti-democratic" musical ART T WO NOTEWORTHY paintings have been added to the Museum of Art's permanent collection, works from which are now being shown at Alumni Memorial Hall as an interim exhibit, Most startling picture in the entire col- lection is Max Beckmann's "Begin the Be- guine," on exhibit in the North Gallery. It is. the sort of painting you want to turn away from, but can't. Violent, vibrating blues and greens, distorted figures heavily outlined in black, interact in a powerful design which compels you back to the piaiture. Beckmann, who has been called a "Teu- tonic Roualt" shows less of this style in "Begin the Beguine." Mere is a picture of the type Beckmann producd to show the wrongs of Nazi society and to get him- self exiled to Amsterdam in the Hitler re- gime. Strongly impressionistic, it is .painted in the technique of his earlier works, but with an added brutality which he has since subdued in his more recent painting in this country. Lawrence Kupferman has produced the other new accession to the University col- lection. Entitled "Protozoan Community," it is a fascinating tempera design with a flowing rhythm in unusual color and inter- esting linear pattern. Of the older works in the exhibit, David Fredenthal's "Subway" is the only one of outstanding merit. Done several years be- fore the artist's war sketches, it embodies many of their fine qualities. He has caught the mood of the passengers, has given us interesting characterizations, all in a very excellent composition. In the South Gallery, pictures of the late work of Vano Muradeli in these familiar words: "The music is feeble and inexpressive. It does not contain a single memorable melody or aria. It is confused and disharmonious, built on a series of dissonances, on combina- tions of sounds that grate upon the ear. Some lines and scenes with pretensions of melodiousness are suddenly interrupted by discordant noises wholly foreign to the normal hearing and having an oppressive effect on the listeners." Sporting Mood AN AMUSING juxtaposition appeared in an old copy of the Communist Daily Worker we ran across the other day. The following headline was high up on the sports page: "Reds Set Sights On First Division" WASHINGTON WIRE: Shallow Policy By IRVING JAFFE WASHINGTON, March 22-The hardest thing for us to face as the Adminis- tration and Congress prepare to bolster our military might is that we are embarking on a course which has neither moral right nor historical wisdom. We shall probably never fully face it; the notion that you are proceeding full speed down the wrong road is too devastating to accept. We are developing a shallow, brittle foreign-military policy because we have failed to fashion a policy of depth, un- derstanding and the necessary self-sacri- fice. When the war ended, both our own sur- vival and the progressive, peaceful recon- struction and development of vast areas in the world where our influence became the dominating force, required a wisdom which we apparently lacked. The old, acquisitive, chaotic anarchy of unrestrained capitalism and so-called free enterprise had to be re- placed by far-sighted economic planning and forbearance at home, and encourage- ment-not the discouragement we actually have shown-for nationalization and eco- nomic democracy abroad. We failed to provide this kind of influ- ence. On the contrary, at home we elected to our Congress representatives of grab-all- you-can, devil-take-the-hindmost big bus- iness. Abroad, we have failed to under- stand the needs of impoverished, battered peoples, we have supported corrupt govern- ments, we have discouraged measures to bring about greater economic equality, and we are watering down the positive economic aspect of the Marshall Plan and emphasiz- ing its utility as a threatening big stick. And is it necessary to detail how we have helped kill the United Nations through the sham of our Palestine policy? We have failed to provide the world with what the world needed, we have failed to provide the understanding, the leadership, the inspiration which alone could have coped with the spread of Russian domina- tion. We do not understand why we have arrived at the present impasse. So we arm, and, as we arm, we become evei more wrong morally. We play the very power I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Taft §alks By SAMUEL GRAF'TON SENATOR TAFT (I am continuing an account of an interview with him) cer- tainly wants peace; his feeling goes deep. But it is a little hard to pull out of him any new scheme or better policy for making peace. A little less Marshall Plan and a little more air force is about as far as he goes, and it isn't very far. It would be fair to say that his belief does not lie so much in making a deeper, more organic peace as in fashioning a less expensive truce. I asked Senator Taft whether he thought it would be practical to propose a new conference to the Russians. "A new President might have a better opportunity to ask for such a conference," he said. "Any move of that sort now would be looked upon by the Russians as appease- ment. The Russians are so consciously aggressive . . . I don't really object to our' present policy, though it looks as if we're not always working for peace the way we might. The Wallace line is peace at any price. We tried the Wallace policy at Yalta, etc., and it didn't work. It was Vanden- berg who turned Byrnes away from that road." All right, then, what road should we take? The question seemed to hang in the air, and Taft searched for the words in which to express his differences with the administration. "Foreign policy," he said, "is made up not so much of great doctrines and formulas, as of the way the thing is run from day to day. You have to be sensible, you have to use good judgment . . . it seems to me we have somewhat initiated some of these controversies." Was it possible, I wondered, that this cool man of reason, and he is one, was also a man caught in a conflict? No one could like the Russians less than he, yet he also hates war, and the result is this qualified approval of much of the Admin- istration's policy, plus the criticism that it all ought to be done, somehow, better, more cheaply, more sensibly . . . I wondered what peace really meant to him. What is this "peace" that he cherishes? "In the days of my father," he said slowly, "people felt they did not want to go to war. War was a failure. It was a last resort. Now you might almost say there's a Freudian complex in people, a desire for war. . . . Peace means getting back to our normal lives and our business." And this is what Mr. Taft hopes to achieve, I think, by hanging a great air force between ourselves and the Russians. The "great air force" idea fascinates top Republicans today. The Russians have an iron curtain; they would have us hang up a buzzing air force curtain made up of 2,00i horsepower Pratt and Whitneys. Behind it, we could, perhaps, live our nor- mal lives and go back to business. One could see why Taft opposed the full- scale Marshall Plan; it meant interference with our normal lives, a drain on the econ- omy. One can see why he opposes universal military training; it means interference. Perhaps, he seems to feel, the great gadget of the giant air force can do it, without too much cost or interference. But it is an untidy peace thus proposed, behind a curtain woven of jet fighters' smoke trails. It would be a truce, and a truce is only an unanswered question. One has a feeling that this is the best Taft hopes for, an unanswered question kept in- definitely in suspense at cut rates by an air force. It might be peace, of a kind. It is not quite the same as a belief in the possibility of reaching through the curtains and resolving all questions. That last would take a special kind of faith and effort. One suddenly has a feeling that- mankind is divided, not into two classes, but three: peace lovers, war lovers, and curtain lovers. (Copyright 1948 New York Post Corporation) Hu lIli Les Pla LAST FALL a new course, humanities, was introduced into the literary school curriculum. It was devised and put into operation on a two year experimental basis. The classes, limited to freshmen, read six- teen of the world's great books from Plato and Aristotle to Dante and Milton. The course is similar to one at Columbia University where it is compulsory for all freshmen. There it was initiated after the first world war. Since that time the great books idea has spread to other universities and colleges. Many city libraries have a great books" plan for interested adults. There are, of course, some flaws in the plan as it is given today at this university. No unit credit in any of the three required fields, social science, language, and science, is given for the course. Only freshmen are allowed in the classes, although many up- nr~r.l,5 Yn-, ' niui io to p t e,, By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP DISCUSSIONS that may somei day be regarded as markingt turning point in history have been1 quietly going on in Washington during the last few days. They concern the future relationship between the United States and1 the western European union - the eventual formation, in fact, of an "Atlantic Union." which will constitute an integrated powert grouping even stronger than the1 new Soviet empire. The many problems involved in this gigantic task are being stud- ied carefully by the higher staffs of the State and service depart- ments. They have constituted a chief topic of Belgian Prime Min- ister Spaak's fruitful talks here. And informal preliminary con- tacts have already been made with the other Western union nations -Britain. France and the Nether- lands - through regular diplo- matic channels. With the habi- tual majestic slowness of diplo- macy, the stage of a formal ex- change of views should be reach- ed in a week or ten days. Even within the American ad- ministration, there are consider- able differences of opinion on sev- eral major points. Eventually, there must be a treaty between the United States and the west- ern European union, but should it be now?What is theubest way to fit the projected Atlantic un- ion into the U.N. framework? And how can we prevent an American military guaranty of the western European countries from seem- nations which are actually in greater danger, such as Greece, Italy and the countries of Scan- dinavia. These are complex tech- nical questions, which require most careful consideration. Then too, immediate proposals to Congress will be made only if the Senate seems sure to ac- cept them, and even Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg has yet to ba consulted. Nor can such proposals be formulated until there is agreement on the dip- lomatic level, and even the Western union countries have not absolutely agreed among themselves. All want a treaty which would make the "Atlantic union" a for- mal grouping resting on a solid legal foundation. But the French, who always prefer everything in writing, are particularly insistent on treaty-making without delay. The British share the French view without being so insistent. And Prime Minister Spaak, represent- ing Benelux, has placed greater emphasis on the practical than on the legal aspects. Joint planning of the defense of Europe against aggression, and mutual co-opera- tion to provide the means for this defense, are what interest Spaak most at the moment. The American policy-makers warmly approve Spaak's empha- sis and are also troubled by two MATTER OF FACT: The Atlarntic tUnioii other tactical factors. First, it is important that the Western un- ion nations should not be tempted to relinquish their own responsi- bilities because America has guar- anteed them against aggression. Their own staffs must meet. They must make their own defense plans and decide on what and how each of them will contribute to carrying out those plans. The need for a unified command, the need to apportion contributions of man- power, and other thorny obstacles must be surmounted. Only when all this has been done should the United States be asked for its special contribution, which will largely take the form of renewed military lend-lease. But as yet the necessary Anglo-French-Benelux staff talks have not been held, and Western union's secretariat has not been appointed. Again, the American policy makers do not wish Western un- ion to become an exclusive club, relying on the American guaran- ty rather than on genuine pan- European cooperation. The mood at Brussels, when Western union was formed, was partially exclu- sive. Admission of Scandinavia was envisaged, and Norway and Denmark at least are expected to join Western union soon after it has been guaranteed by this coun- try. But the French and the Bene- lux countries were initially i'e- luctant to take in Italy. And while this opposition to admission of Italy is likely to be changed by the election results, all five West- ern union nations were and are anxious to avoid assuming any commitment with regard to Gree ce. Nor are these by any means all the ramifying probilems which must be carefully exam- ined. For instance, the pre- liminary tentative estimate is that forty-six divisions would lie needed to hold the line of the Rhine against the Red Ar- my. It will be hard enough to find the European manpower for forty-six divisions, even al- lowing a high proportion of re- servists. It will be still more difficult, in the present strain- ed condition of American pro- ductive capacity, to find the American equipment for any such force. None the less, the mood today' is one of sober optimism. Per- haps the for'mal exchange of views' will result at first inga simple American declaration guarantee- ing the defense of western Eur- ope, followed by the practical steps which interest Premier Spaak. Perhaps treaty-making will begin at once. Most probable of all is an American declaration of guar- anty, combined with a commit- ment to negotiate a formal U.S.- Western union treaty when a practical basis for it has been laid, But the main point is that the great adventure has begun. (Copyright, 1948, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) p.m., Wed., April 14, has post- Co p~oned her program until May 31. C1 It will be presented at 8:30 on Michi that evening, in Lydia Mendels- Thurs., sohn Theatre. Club din -- lock wil Student Recital: Frederick Eg- on the gert, Clarinetist, will present a Faculty, program in partial fulfillment of Nelson the requirements for the degree of sent "TI Master of Music in MusicEduca- ing Fell tion, at 8:30 p.m., Fri.. April 16,1 Rackham Assembly Hall. He will Ullr I be assisted by Warren Bellis,1 week. F Charles Hills, Bernard Leutholtz. p.m., and Robert Sohn, and will be ac- Union. companied at the piano by James present. Merrill. The public is invited. Events dy Manage Manufa Radio Program: speak oi 2:30-2:45 p.m., WKAR, The adUo Hopwood Room. Interviews con- nut"ii] ducted by Edwin G. Burrows, Ar- 10 a.m., thur K. Orrmount agent for Far- to the p rar Straus, Inc. 2:45-2:55 p.m.. WKAR. Th Engin School of Music. Michigan Con- nor Clas cert Band with Mr. William D. neering Revelli. Parker, 5:45-6 p.m.. WPAG. Today's Manage World and Local Problems. "Can- Compan ada-U. S. Education," Dean J. B. subject Edmondson, of a Ci April 15 Sigma Xi: Open meeting, 8 p.m., ,, rium. Rackham Amphitheatre. Prof. D. L. Katz, Department of Chemical AIEE Engineering, will speak on the gineri Enmerm wPressue Olndgineerin subject, "High Oil and Clair,' Gas Fields." meeting Student Legislature Agenda: IRE, T Wednesday, April 14. .Mr Gec Committee Reports: Eng. of N.S.A. Committee: Weisberg ison Cc report on I. U. S. action. Power1 Campus Action Committee: In- cludes next year's election plans. Annu Cultural and Educational Com- Fac~ mittee: Report on Speakers. Stu- Francai dent Expert report. Henry Social Committee: Report on LdaI next year's I.M. dances. All inter- Lydia ested students are invited to Alpha speak. Service New Business:activs Discuss election or appointment April of N.S.A. delegates to the national convention this coming summer. Schoo Interested students are invited to 3:30-5:, speak. Couzem interest Pre-Medical Society: 7:30 p.m., Rooms 318-20, Michigan Union. Interr Dr. Reuben L. Kahn, chief of the 4:30-5:: Serology Laboratory and Serolo- Hostess gic ConsuTtation Service, will and Mi speak on "Medical Research as a Career." All pre-medical and Youn medical students invited. p.m., T speaker Delta Sigma Pi, Prof esional morrow Business Fraternity. 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Pledge meeting, Amer Room 110 Tappan Hall.DAeltnPh ming Events pan Chapter, A.A.U.P.: April 15, 6 p.m., Faculty ling room. Prof. J. K. Pol- l present "Some Remarks Economic Status of the and Professors N. E. and John Arthos will pre- he Problem of the Teach- ow. Open to the faculty. ~ki (Club: no meeting this inal meeting of year, 7:30 Ved., April 21, Michigan All members try to be urdette Green. Secretary- r of the American Walnut cturers Association, will n the subject "Production lization of American Wal- lustrated . Fri, April 16, Kellogg Auditorium. Open ublic. eering Council: The Jun- s of the College of Engi- presents Mr. James W. President and General r of The Detroit Edison 1y, who will speak on tihe "The Engineer in the Role itizen" at 8 p.m., Thurs., , Natural Science Audito- -IRE: "Your Career in En- g," presented by T. G. Le Vice-president, AIEE, at of student branch AIEE- hurs., April 15, 7:30 p.m., Engineering Bldg.; also rge A. Porter, As't Chief Power Plants, Detroit Ed- ., will speak on "Delray Plant." al French Play: Le Cercle s will present "Les Cor- a comedy in four acts by Becque, April 27, 8 p.m., Mendelssohn Theatre. I Phi Omega, National Fi'aternity: Meeting of all. and pledges, 7 p.m., Thurs., 5, Michigan Union. a of Nursing Informal Tea: 30 p.m., Wed., April 21, Hall. All women students ed in nursing are invited ational Center weekly tea: 30 p.m., Thurs., April 15. es: Mrs. Jason Hammond rs. Arthur Dunham. g Democrats: 7:30 p.m., hurs., April 15. Place and s will be announced to- ican Society for Public stration: Evening social r, sponsored by the Uni- Chapter. Mr. Robert F. an, Professor of Govern- t Wayne University, will the administrative prob- the Federal Scientific Re- Program, Thurs., April 15, Kalamazoo Room, Michi- ague. Open to interested I Pyramid Club, Tau Fraternity: 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Delta Phi Room 302, 7:30 p.m., Sigma Michigan Delta Chi: Union. seminal versity Steadm ment a discuss lems of search 8 p.m., gan Le persons DAILY OFFICIALBULLETIN Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity: Rushee open house, 7-9. All eligi- ble rushees are invited. Sigma Gamma Epsilon: 12 noon, Rm. 3055 NaturalScience Bldg. Mr. John A. Darr and Mr. Walter Wheeler will speak on "The Geol- ogy of a Part of the Ruby River Basin of Montana." Gilbert and Sullivan Society: Full rehearsal, 7 p.m., Michigan League. This is the last chance to be measured for a costume. Those who are not measured after this rehearsal will be eliminated from the production. Fifty-Eighth Year I (Continued from Page 3) teacher candidates in the follow- ing fields: kindergarten, elemen- tary grades, elementary science, elementary art, elementary li- brary, elementary industrial arts, vocal music, commercial subjects, and special education. The Assistant Superintendent of the Dearborn Public Schools will be at the Bureau of Appoint- ments on Wed., April 14, to in- terview teachers in the following fields: kindergarten, early ele- mentary grades, later elementary grades, speech correction, social studies with a background in world geography, and high school mathematics. For appointments, call 3-1511 Ext. 489. University Community Center Willow Run Village Wed., Apr. 14, 8 p.m., Plays and Games Group. (Gymnastics for women); General Meeting, Coop- erative Nursery; Village Church Fellowship Choir. Thurs., Apr. 15, 8 p.m., Arts and Crafts Group. Instruction provid- ed. Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Tilley Edinger, Research Associate in Paleontology, Museum of Com- parative Zoology, Harvard Uni- versity, will speak on the subject "Brains and Fossil Brains" il- lustrated), Fri., April 16, 7:30j p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre;1 auspices of the Museum of Pal- eontolgy and the Department of Anatomy. The public is invited. Professor G. B. Harrison, Chair- man of the Department of Eng- lish at Queen's University, will lecture on Hamlet at 4:10 p.m., Fri., April 16, Auditorium, Archi- tecture Bldg. The public is invited. University Lecture: E. A. Have- lock, Associate Professor of Clas- sics at Harvard University will speak on the subject, "The Greek Origin of Intellectual Man" at 4:15 p.m., Friday, April 16, Kel- logg Auditorium; under the aus- pices of the Departments of Clas- sics and Philosophy. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Fred- erick Schenck Barkalow, Jr., Zo- ology; thesis: "A Game Inventory of Alabama," at 9 a.m., Fri., April 16, 3291 Natural Science Bldg. Chairman: W. H. Burt. Zoology Seminar: Open meet- ing, Thurs., April 15, 7:30 p.m. Rackham Amphitheatre. Mr, P. S. Eschmeyer will speak on "Ob- servations on the Life History of the Yellow Pikeperch, Stizoste- dion vitreum vitreum, in Michi- gan." Mr. R. E. Serfling will speak on "Quantative Estimation of Plankton from Concentrate Samples." Concerts Student Recital Postponed : Lois Forburger, pianist, whose re- cital has been annowneed for 8:30 v; U. of M. Flying Club: meeting, 7:30 p.m., 1042 E. neering Bldg. Open Engi- U. of M. Rifle Club: Discussion of plans for a party or picnic, 7 p.m., at the rifle range. Sociedad Hispanica: Michigan Union. Latin entertainment. 8 p.m,, American Square Dancing Class, spon- so'ed by the Graduate Outing Club: 8 p.m., Lounge, Women's Athletic Bldg. Small fee. Everyone welcome., Opening rally of the campus Al- lied Jewish Appeal campaign: 4 p.m., Hillel Foundation. Speak- er: Murray Aronoff, crew member of "Exodus 1947." Technicolor film, "Assignment Tel--Aviv," narrated by Quentin Reynolds. Italian Language Conversation Group: Coffeee Hour, 2-4:30 p.m., Michigan League Cafeteria. Be- ginners welcome. Wesleyan Guild: All Methodist students and their friends are in- vited to a Project "X" Tea-in the Wesley Lounge, 4-6 p.m. today. Roger Williams Guild: Weekly "chat" at the Guild House, 4:30-6 p.m. Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff John Campbel'......Managing diltor Dick Maloy.............. City JEdiltor llarrlet Friedman .. Editorial Director Lida Da les............ Associate Edilor Joan Katz........... 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Your Uncle Ralph is bringing records of a radio show to olav for his sponsor- Mr. O'Malley says people are tired of talking dogs. So Gorgon will just bark. Like that- Your father's a difficult audience. Or else it isn't much of a part- .