THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MIAY 11, 1948 II I Misplaced Shenanigans REPORTS FROM Washington have it that Bob Taft and his Republican following in the Senate are going to plug for two years instead of the regular five in the re-ap- pointment of the members of the Atomic Energy Commission. As this is an election year perhaps it could be passed of f as the same kind of political shenanigans that saw the Re- publicans cutting the President's budget last year with great fanfare, and then find- ing it necessary to quietly appropriate more than had been originally asked for at the close of the session. This recent move, however, is much more serious than puerile budget juggling. Appointments on a committee as vitally important as atomic energy should not be regarded as political plums. David Lilienthal, the present chairman of the committee who has been associated with the project from the first, is regarded by most impartial observers as by far thej most competent man for the job. Of course, in the eyes of the Republicans, he has com- mitted the cardinal sin-that of being New Deal board-chairman of the TVA, one of mankind's most noble works. This same fact, it will be recalled, led to the hubbub over his nomination two years ago. We may be sure that Parnell Thomas and his gang; will not miss the opportunity to dig up some Editorials published in The Michigan Daily ire written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: HAROLD JACKSON sensational (and of course, equally un- true) charges to fetch the cameramen. IT IS DIFFICULT enough to lure high- calibre men into low-paying government jobs. Many, however, are willing to put up with wages substantially below those which they could earn outside government employ. They should not be asked to have their work constantly interrupted by asinine po- litical bickering, or to subject their repu- tations to unjust defamation by irrespon- sible Congressional committees. The Condon fiasco is another case in point. The FBI had previously exonerated Dr. Condon, but typically the Un-Ameri- can Activities Committee saw a chance to get in the public eye and also insure their appropriation for the coming year, and so subjected an innocent man to needless ridicule. And now Congress is insisting that all security investigation files be opened to them so that they can expose more officials to the Thomas com- mittee's libelous slander. If the government hopes to attract the top flight executives and scientists, which it so badly needs it must raise the absurdly meagre salaries, and, what is more impor- tant, Congress must cease this stupid and dangerous practice of subjecting government officials to needless humiliation. The fact that Congress upped the Thom- as committee's appropriation and estab- lished a new committee of inquisition to be headed by Michigan's amateur G-man Homer Ferguson, at the beginning of the year, seems to further destroy any hope that the politicians are taking seriously their obligation to the American people. -Dave Thomas. I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Mundt Buckshot By SAMUEL GRAFTON THERE ARE ALREADY federal laws against attempting to overthrow the government by force and violence. In fact this type of activity is disapproved through- out the world. There are very few countries which tolerate or encourage it and revolu- tion is illegal almost everywhere. What, then, is new about the Mundt Bill, brainchild of the House Un-American Ac- tivities Committee? What is new about it is precisely what ought to make Americans recoil from it in horror. It is the doctrine that the government should be allowed to punish men for attempting to overthrow it without having to prove it on them. The bill contains a clause which forbids, under penalty of high fines, long imprison- ment, and loss of citizenship "any attempt in any manner" to set up a totalitarian die- tatorship in this country under foreign or- ders. And, of course, anybody who actually tried to set up a totalitarian dictatorship here, under foreign orders, or exen without them, might properly be considered a low type, who should be discouraged. But this bill does a remarkable thing. MUSIC THE ALL-STUDENT Symphonic-Swing Orchestra, premiered Sunday at Hill Auditorium, displayed some interesting at- tempts at original orchestration while some- what lacking in technical proficiency. Allen Chase offered the most successful arrangements in his versions of "How Deep Is the Ocean," and "Laura." Unfortunately, however, the dreamy mood of "Laura" was shattered by a blaring climax. Chase's orig- inal "Suite: Factory, Catnap and Niteclub," was the only student composition that showed promise of more mature things to come. His "Invention" was amorphic and another student composition included in the program, "Moods" by Josiah Dilley did not quite capture the moods it set out to portray. The Deal Fisher "Gershwin Medley" which opened the program, while not star- tlingly different from othey such medleys, was competently done and one of the best executed numbers of the evening. "Marguerite," a ballad in beguine tempo by music students Don Wynant and Wil- liam Edmunds was the vehicle for an ef- fective tenor solo by Archie Brown. Possibly in an attempt to get away from the many standard arrangements of "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" which treat that ever-popular ballad in a gay, lightsome manner, Wilfred Roberts has swung entirely in the opposite direction and come up with a version that is almost sombre. Roberts redeemed himself later in the program with a "heart-throb" version of "This Heart of Mine." Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," fare for any musical aggregation with "modern" pretensions, would better have been left un- played. Neither the orchestra or Floyd Werle, the soloist, were ready for it. Of all the student conductors, Emil Raab got the most cooperation and spirit from the orchestra. The Symphonic Swing group is obviously a fine idea, and most welcome on campus, ov- ', h. 1In .wo, cfii, ,r n. tip4-nj.n c a t i nmlam .r.A3 In its preamble and in its supporting verbiage, it sets up the doctrine that anybody who Joins the Communist party, or who works with it or some of its mem- bers in any organization, or, even, who looks as if be does, is in effect helping to set up a totalitarian dictatorship under foreign aorders. And here, the bill ceases to be one aimed against actions of a certain kind, and be- comes a bill aimed against people of a cer- tain kind. It sets up a punishment clause barring certain activity and then, by a sweeping legislative declaration, seeks to establish that all people of a certain kind are engaged in the prohibited activity; and that is what one means when one says that this bill allows the government to punish without having to supply proof. It is like setting up a penalty for burglary and add- ing a postcript to the effect that all men who wear brown hats are burglars, in which case the district attorney, presumably, need only prove that the prisoner was wearing a brown hat. * * '* AND THE SHADOW of illegality thus sud- denly cast over activities previously legal spreads very far. For under the bill any organization whose activities make it "reasonable to conclude that it is under the control of a Communist political or- ganization" could be legally labeled as a Communist front. And there are those in this country who recent ly felt that it was quite "reasonable to conclude" that Frank- lin D. Roosevelt was under Communist con- trol. The actual registration burdens placed on Communist front organizations are slight, perhaps to keep liberal' opinion from becoming too alarmed. But the chain of guilt by association is there, formally set up on the loosest ground, so that in the end a housewife who belonged to an organization which demanded more day nurseries, and in which there was one Communist or maybe even none, might find herself connected right back u to the Kremlin, and thus brought within reach of the penalty clause. That clause, with its grim and sweeping prohibitions against "any attempt in any manner" to set up Communism might easily cover such actions as attending a meeting, or buying a book. This bill would substitute fear for knowl- edge as the active principle in our Amer-. ican behavior, for it seeks to meet Commu- nist persuasions with legalistic clubs in- stead of with counter-arguments and coun- ter-persuasions. It would change the very textare of our life, introducing something like a doctrine of less majeste which can make treason of a sneeze. We must, like all countries, protect our- selves against treachery, but that is an ad- ministrative job; it is like the job we did against sabotage during the war. This bill is a legislative effort to take over this ad- ministrative function, and it seeks to do it by the buckshot method, by proceeding against people in the mass instead of against actions in the particular. It must not become law. (Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation) WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH the flying saucer, submarines-off-the-coast and balls-of-fire stages recently, and right now St. Louis has a queer-bird mystery which it is enjoying immensely. This creature, which Easter in Greece By PHIL DAWSON ATHENS, May2- Delayed) -Christmas, New Year's and the Fourth of July combined would be only a little less of an event than Easter in Greece, which was celebrated throughout the nation last week. During Holy Week, the fasting of Lent culminates for the devout in almost total abstinence, while great pains are taken with preparations for the religious festival. Good Friday is a national day of mourn- ing for the Crucixifion. All afternoon the churches of the city are crowded and the bells ring ceaselessly. In the evening there is a funeral procession around every church, to the accompaniment of solemn chanting. An hour before the archepiscopal proces- sion the main square in Athens was jammed. As the first contingent swung into view the flickering lights of thousands of candles appeared. The bier of Christ, carried by four priests, was preceded by the Archbishop Damas- kinos and followed by a church choir. In front and behind marched members of the cabinet, soldiers, sailors, aviators, police, firemen, students, boy and girl scouts, mem- bers of the congregations and four brass bands representing the participating churches. Many of the thousands of people lining the streets sang with the choir as the little group of priests bearing the bier and the 6-and-a-half-foot archbishop passed by. The importance of this yearly ceremony in the lives of the people was everywhere evi- dent. Saturday, also a day of religious observ- ances, events took an unexpectedly dramatic turn-the Minister of Justice was assassi- nated on his way home from holy mass. Rumors flew: The attack was part of a Communist plot; martial law (allowing un- limited arrests) would be declared.) Leading Liberal ministers were unques- tionably in danger; just as elsewhere the moderate and progressive leaders here are the real enemies of the Communist Party. That night, the streets leading to Cathe- dral Square were lined with soldiers; all traffic was stopped, and in front of the cathedral itself stood two platoon of rifle- men. In the center of the square was a large platform'facing the church.-On every side an enormous crowd was hed back to the sidewalk by a line of soldiers. Shortly after 11, the dignitaries began to arrive: the General Staff, representatives of the diplomatic corps and cabinet members, of whom few liberals attended. A swarm of altar boys and a choir her- alded the archbishop, towering majestically abpve the officials. At the arrival of the King, a band struck up the national anthem and special police on the platform intensi- fied their scrutiny of the crowd. The reading of the Gospel with chanted responses was punctuated by an occasional clatter as the infantry presented arms. The archbishop intoned the words ."Cjhristos anesth" ("Christ is risen.") At this, ecclesiastical and military cele- brants joined in proclaiming the good news; the massed choir and two crass bands burst into powerful, though different, songs of praise, and the clanging from the cathedral belfry was almost matched by the muffled booming of artillery on Mt. Lycabettos, while the cheering crowds contributed a barrage of fireworks to the general din. This was a ceremony combining religious and national feelings. But throughout, the dominating figure was the archbishop, not the king. In the midst of the bitter war Greece is fighting, evident in the extraordinary mili- tary precautions, this Easter was a national religious festival in which most Greeks could unite. Current Movies At the State . "A DOUBLE LIFE," with Ronald Colman and Signe Basso. IN HIS PORTRAYAL here of an actor who merges himself too realistically in his roles, one is led to believe that Mr. Colman is subject to the same tendency in his own career. His acting is magnificent, and com- bined with the direction, musical score and supporting cast it is easy to understand how it won him the academy award. The story is that of Anthony John, a great actor who undertakes the part of Othello, despite the protests of his estranged but devoted wife and 'leading lady who hopes to reconcile their marriage. She fears his habit of becoming the person he plays bodes ill for this part especially, and she is so right! Students of Shakespeare can take it from there, but I, like the multitude of other coeds with hours, had to hie myself home at the crucial moment. -Gloria Hunter. At the Michigan,, STATE OF THE UNION, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Van Johnson, An- gela Lansbury. AFTER SIX WEEKS of build-up we were finally allowed to gaze upon this 135 minute scoop of inside politics in and around Washington. The cast is big, and every part is beautifully acted. Van Johnson gets away from the innocent kid roles he has been For further infornation and appointments, call the Bureau of Appointments. Camp Positions. A representa- tive of Jackson Michigan Coun- cil of the Girl Scouts camp at Wampler's Lake will be here Tues., May 11, to interview applicants for positions of Assistant Direc- tor; Unit Leaders; Assistant Unit Leaders. Summer Positions: Opportun- ity for women residents of Ro- chester, N.Y., or vicinity to work at the Rochester YWCA Day Camp, June 24.-Aug. 6. Opportunity for men with cars to work during summer months in the traveling sales force of the Mandeville & King Seed Co. Playground Positions: Oppor- tunity for senior girls, residents of Grosse Pointe or the east side of Detroit, to work on playground staff of Grosse Point Community Services. For further information, call at the Bureau of Appointments. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Don- ald Winslow Fiske, Psychology; thesis: "Consistency of the Fac- torial Stuctures in Personality Ratings from Different Sources," 3 p.m., Tues., May 11, Room 2121, Natural Science Bldg. Chairman, E. L. Kelly. Doctoral Examination for J. A. Aurele La Rocque, Geology; the- sis: "Pre-Traverse Devonian Pele- cypods of Michigan," Wed., May 12, Room 4605, Naturday Science Bldg., 4 p.m. Chairman, G. M. Ehlers, Electrical Engineering collo- quium: Room 2084, E. Engineer- ing, 4 p.m., Wed., May 12. Mr. J. A. Morton of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, will discuss, "A New Microwave Triode." Students, College of L.S.A.: Advisory Series on Professional Schools: Tuesday, Mayg11, 4:15 p.m. Room 231 Angell Hall, "Teaching as a Career, " Dean J. B. Edmonson, School of Education. Concerts Two programs of organ and choral music: 4:15 and 8:30 p.m., Tues., May 11, Hill Auditorium, sponsored by the School of Music in honor of the Michigan Chap- ters of the American Guild of Organists. The afternoon program, by Wal- ter Baker, concert artist from New York, will include compositions by Bach, Reger, Karg-Elert, Vier- ne, Dupre and Durufle. The evening program will be presented by William MacGowan, J. Bertram Strickland, Marilyn Mason, Kathryn Loew and Lor- raine Jones, organists, Richard Dunham, trumpet, the University Choir, Raymond Kendall, direc- tor, and a String Orchestra con- ducted by Emil Raab. Both will be open to the public without charge. Student Recital Shirley Fryman Goldfarb, pianist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., May 13, Assembly Hall. A pupil of Mrs. Maud Okkelberg, Mrs. Goldfarb will play Sonate, K.281 by Mozart, Opus 76 by Brahms, Beethoven's Sonate, Op. Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memo- rial Hall: Prints by Lovis Corinth and Creative- Design and the Con- sumer, Container Corporation of America, through May 16; Water Colors by John Marin, through May 25. Tuesdays through Sat- urdays 10-12 and 2-5; Wednesday evenings 7-9; Sundays 2-5. The public is invited. Architecture Building: Photog- raphy by Roger and Patti Hollen- beck; through May 28. Events Today Radio Programs: 5:45 p.m. WPAG-The German Series-Prof. Otto Graf and Dr. Kurt Berg. 8 p.m. WHRV-About Books- Discussion conducted by Mr. E. G. Burrows. University of Michigan Mathe- matics Club: 8 p.m., West Confer- ence Room, Rackham Bldg. Mr. Lynn U. Albers will speak on "Existence Theorems and Le- Ray-Schauder Methods." 14th Annual Pharmaceutical Conference, sponsored by the Col- lege of Pharmacy. This afternoon and evening. Rackham Amphi- theatre. Those interested are in- vited. Gilbert and Sullivan: Full re- hearsal 7 p.m., Pattengill Audi- torium. i i IV-I / ITI M AY 7 > DAILY OFFICIAL, BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) 53, and Grieg's Ballade, Op. The public is invited. 24. Welcome Republicans To the Editor: WE, the Young Democrats of T the campus whole-heartedly welcome the apparent support to the Democratic administration policies recently adopted by the campus Young Republican Club. We refer specifically to the ad-j vocacy of "free trade and reduc- tion of tariff barriers."t Now let's take a look at the record. In the 14 years since the enactment in 1934 of the Roose- velt-Hull Reciprocal Trade Act,. the House Republicans voLed on the act five times. Only once, during the war, was a majority of GOP votes cast for the law. But in 1945 the GOP reverted to support of the high tariff. And at this very moment in 1948, one month before the present act ex-~ pires, the Republican-dominated House Ways and Means Commit- tee has launched a series of closedj hearings, admittedly designed to emasculate the Hull reciprocal trade policy, keystone of the government foreign policy, and framework for the success of the European Recovery Program. While this Republican action is going on behind closed doors in Washington, Republican spokes- men are making vigorous pre-elec- tion enunciations of support for the Hull policy. They know they cannot kill the TradeyAct withut facing the public's wrath just be- fore election time. The strategy seems to be: Wait till next year! Rep. Gearhart (Rep., Calif.), subcommittee chairman, is quot- ed as saying: "Next year the new Congress and the new President will write a new policy." We compliment the local Young Republicans for paying lip-serv- ice to the Roosevelt-Hull recipro- cal trade agreements. But the American people will be convinced of Republican sincerity only if the present Act is extended for the usual three year term. -Joseph Cote, Chairman, Young Democrats Club * * * ntercult uril Exchange To the Editor: IT MAY SHOCK some of us to hear it suggested by a Religious Educator that Religion is seldom a 100 per cent blessing. Like sci- ence or art, Religion is partial. It is essential nevertheless. Relig- ion, therefore has its place with- in the culture. Like science or art it is no complete substitute for culture. There are Religions and Relig- ions. Interchange is necessary, first because with its distinctive past and its peculiar present, Hin- duism for example has something very important to say to the young, dynamic and self-willed west. That Eastern Orthodox re- ligion wherein Christianity from Constantinople, during the years when European Christians were at war with an aggressive young Islam, was by more peaceful methods winning vast Russia, with the satalite countries, to the Cross. Judaism, ever prophetic, never stationary, always daring to suf- fer for its vision of God, has a message to deliver to all other faiths. Mother of the Nestorians, Islam and the long line of West- ern Chtristians stretching from Roman Catholics to Lutherans, Calvinists, Reformed Hpiscopali- ans, Presbyterians, Hussites, Bap- tists, Congregationalists, Method- ists, Unitarians and all the young- er brotherhoods, Judaism this parent faith continues to be, first of all, a Teacher. Why an intercultural exchange? Because only thus can we learn. Why must the Religion of the culture be a matter of planned in- terchange, you ask? Because in all tre Faiths of mankind reside the goals worth dying for. Be- cause at men's altars they have registered not merely their tools and their thoughts. At their altars they put down their heart-long- ings, theirdeeper loyalties. From those altars they have carried away acknowledged obligations, contracts unbreakable when men were at their best, ideals about to become institutions, patterns of actions in the shape of dreams first and laws of behavior later. Give us an interchange of the Re- ligions of mankind and we will begin to possess that degree of Community on which a peaceful world can be constructed. Give these 100,000 students a year from any ten Near Eastern or Far Eastern countries and take to their Universities 100,000 Amer- ican boys, girls and in a generation not only a United Nations will be possible but a World Government whose obligations are sacred both to the citizens everywhere and to the Central- World Agency. Re- NOT'TO THE QUEEN'S TASTE lgious interchange and Youth in. terchange must be synonomous. -Edward W. Blakeman, Research Consultant in Religious Education Answers Progressives To the Editor: RECENTLY, The Daily publish- ed a letter of mine in which I tried to point out why the Pro- gressive Party does not have a sound basis for effective existence - despite the fact that neither of the major parties is satisfac- tory. Saturday, the Progressives' answer appeared and it was just the answer I had hoped for - pointing, ut the difficult, but not insurmou-table problem of the American liberal. Atide , om the let s !sague generalities with regard to the Progressive positions, there is a more basic theme which has a familiar ring. That is that the liberal is a somewhat soft-minded individual who does little but think about all the things that arc wrong, but never acts because he never finds a perfectssolution. The letter grants that disagree- ment with Wallace's explanation of our ills may be possible, but vaguely points out that simple programs for the preservation of civil rights and the solution to the housing problem are still accept- able . What is it that the Progressives offer us? They point out that the bi-partisan policy of government is a bad one . . . They note that the government is over-emphasiz- ing the Russian dilemma and waving off domestic problems (with the right hand, presumab- ly). Their answer; simple, always simple - Just reverse the situa- tion. Wave off the problem of dealing with Russia and over- emphasize the domestic situation in the process. That is only slight- ly worse than no answer at all. Our major parties do not offer us a solution of our problems at home - civil liberties have yet to be soundly established for all our citizens, inflation grows con- tinually worse; the problems are innumerable. The Progressives, on the other hand, offer us no solution to the conflict of ideals and the clash of manifestations of ideals between this country and Russia. What sort of a choice is this? Now we have an alternative mistake!! The Progressives will fail to elect a President in 1948 and they will fail to gain a balance of pow- er in the Congress. They will fail because of tactics like those in Illinois where they have split the Progressive vote and they will fail because the Progressive Party is not a party in fact. It is only a protest, not a solution. -Robert Leopold Fifty-Eighth Year N Letters to the Editor. I' 14th Annual p.m., Rm. 3505, Bldg. Election of formation on picni Pharmaceutical E. Engineering officers and in- ie. iho Fraternity: .m., Room 316, 'r , Alpha Meeting, Michigan Chi R 7:30 p Union. t Sigma Rho Tau, Engineering Stump Speakers' Society: Meet- ing, 7 p.m., Michigan Union. Cir- cle training, "Hall of Fame" con- test, preparations for the National Convention, and election of offi- cers. All members requested to at- tend. Le Cercle Francais: Last meet- ing, 8 p.m., Assembly Room, Rack- ham Bldg. Guests of honor: the actors of "Les Corbeaux" and all those who helped in the play. Pro- gram: a French comedy, a singing French quartet and an instrumen- tal trio. Refreshments. All mem- bers of Le CercleRFrancais and members of the Romance Lan- guage Department are invited. La Sociedad Hispanica: Final meeting, 8 p.m. Wed., May 12, International Center. Short pro- gram, three scholarships to Mex- ico will be announced, and off i- cers will be elected for next year. I.Z.F.A. Election of officers for next term. All members urged to attend. Report on I.Z.F.A. sum- mer camp, and the I.Z.F.A. Na- tional convention in Detroit. Sing- ing and dancing. All welcome. Christian Science Organization: 7:30 p.m., Upper Room, Lane Hall. 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