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THE MTCHTGAN DATIY
FRIAY. OCTOB~VER 8, 1949
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Opportunity
IT LOOKS LIKE ten years of discussion,
planning and research have really taken
faculty evaluation at the University of
Michigan out of the dream world.
Apparently glued to its place on the
proverbial shelf, the program was almost
forgotten until 1946, when the newly
formed Student Legislature decided to see
what they could do.
With the help of Professors Theodore
Newcomb and Donald Marquis of the psy-
chology department, Legislature members
drew up a questionnaire. It would provide
information ranging from the instructors
knowledge of his subject, to his ability to
arouse interest; and from the fairness of
exams to the value of the textbook. The
questionnaiire was thoroughly tested by the
psychology department whose report said
the form was "a stimulating device" but was
not yet the answer to the problem.
However, with amendments made by the
psychology department, and with final
approval of a special administrative com-
mittee, it looked like things were ready
to go. . . until "administrative difficulties"
:sent the program back to its well-worn
niche in somebody's files.
NOW, FINALLY, the last wrinkles are
ironed and the program is going into
effect. Although the student side of the pro-
gram will only be "weighed in with the rest
of the data"-compiled by fellow faculty
members and departmental committees, the
final success of the program rests squarely
with the student body.
The Student Legislature, the psychology
department and the deans of the literary
college are to be heartily congratulated
for the painstaking work and effort they
have given to the plan.
And now, if the cries for better teaching
are to be answered, (and if tic-tac-toe anc
classtime thirty winks are to be pleasantly
obliterated) literary college students must
accept this new and important responsibility
to "themselves.
A successful faculty evaluation system
provides a positive opportunity for students
.to help shape their own education.
--Naomi Stern.
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: AL BLUMROSEN
Whither?
MANY a bewildered coal miner is saying
"Whither now, John L.?" to the boss of
the United Mine Workers today.
John L. Lewis surprised the 40th annual
UMW convention by demanding that the
Union hike-its yearly membership dues from
$24 a year to $48 and zoom its initiation fee
from $10 to $50.
And when Lewis says 'do' the Union 'does'
because in the past their gruff leader's
commands have worked out.
In past years they have followed his
lead on a path that wandered from AFLI
to independence, to CIO, to AFL and back
again to independence. But in all of these
moves, he appeared to have the miner's
problems at heart.
They even followed his tune when he reg-
ularly swapped political parties on the basisI
of what he could get for UMW. He supported
Franklin D. Roosevelt twice. Then men were
satisfied.
When war came, every coal-heaver relig-
iously followed him when the strikes he pro-
posed interfered with war production. If he
said "Go out" they went out; and they
got the wage demands and privileges that
were rightfully theirs.
"Send the old dictator to Jail'" was
the popular cry recently when one of John
L.'s "no work" commands threatened to
choke our basic industries at a delicate
moment in Russian relations. Many with-
held their judgment..UMW had a right to
at least partial control of the miners'
pension plan and once labor bowed to
"national security" the way would be open
for complete subjugation of labor.
The workers dismissed the idea that their'
leader was a neurotic old man with a dic-
tatorial yen because everything he did was
apparently for their benefit in the longest
run.
But now Lewis wants to jack up union
dues 100 per cent. Not that the union needs
money-it certainly doesn't-but because
membership is "more valuable" with the
pension plan in operation.
A rich man's union for coal miners seems
somewhat incongruous.
Whither Now, John L.?
-Craig H. Wilson.
Talk Fest
THE GATHERING of about a hundred
students in front of the diag Tuesday
and Wednesday to discuss politics was
healthy sign.
The whole thing started out calmly
enough. Members of the Wallace Pro-
gressives stationed themselves in front
Board of Review
P. T. BARNUM was wrong.
There's one born about every 10 seconds
and Hollywood, bless its silvered heart,
knows it. In fact, the old cash register in
the flickers capital must ring with joy every
time a new citizen begins life-a life during
which each little patron can reasonably ex-
pect to see at least a thousand pictures.
But the smirk which masks each movie
magnate's map must diminish each time
the nation's theatres display his latest
"sensation." For nowadays the face of
the average movie goer, we are willing
to wager, falls an average two inches
every time he sees an "average" picture.
The sad fact of the whole matter is: Mov-
ies are getting worse. And what is sadder
is the fact that they are deteriorating so
rapidly. And the exceptions, worst of all,
are quickly becoming phenomena.
"So what?" comes the old question. No-
body has to go to the movies. Theyare
there, and in a free country nobody is
coerced to patronize them; they can take
them or leave them at will, they can thrust
their four-bits back into their pockets with
the self-determination and good judgment of
a small boy who resists the temptation of a
ten-cent circus side show.
All of which is, superficially, a good
argument. But consider this, that in many
American cities and towns the movies are
virtually a monopoly, as far as enter-
tainment goes. They are either the only
medium of dramatic art for everybody or
they are the only medium the man with
the average income can afford.
So its not really a take 'em or leave 'em
matter. In fact, in Ann Arbor, on a Sunday
night anyway, you can go to the movies or
stay home, and that's all.
This staying home idea is one of two
solutions to the problem. The other is the
establishment of a National Board of Motion
Picture Review that would, or would not,
recommend pictures on the basis of their
educational, entertainment or cultural value.
Under government supervision, this board,
composed of experts, would disseminate
its opinion and let the people decide whether
or not to follow it. True, it would be only an
opinion, and as people's opinions vary, there
would be a lot of disagreement.
But the board could uncover, before
this nation of suckers could bite, the worst
of Hollywood's efforts, the atrocities fall-
ing into the "How could they do it?" class.
What about free enterprise? Well, it's time
the nation started questioning a free enter-
prise that can foist upon the innocent
public such inferior, defective, falsely ad-
vertised products as have been appearing
recently.
Free enterprise implies freedom for the
buyer, as well as the entrepreneur. You
can buy a good car and pay.a high price,
or you can buy a poorer car at a lower
price.
By that reasoning, "Another Part of the
Forest" should have cost us 50 cents,
which it did. But "The Miracle of the
Bells," then, should have cost about a
nickel.
We shelled out the same for both.
What kind of free enterprise is that?
-George Walker
"Day In, Day Out, Him And His Damn Muscles"
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Letters to the Editor,..
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DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Dull Campaign
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
THE REASON this has been such a dull
election campaign is that the people do
not expect anything good of the near future.
Somewhere near half the population has to
expect, and has to have reasonable ground
for expecting, that something good may or
will happen in order to make a hot cam-
paign, a hard-fought, exciting campaign.
In the Roosevelt campaigns the issues were
relief or not relief, jobs or not jobs, then,
later, isolation or not-isolation, and the cam-
paigns were really campaigns. One fought
for the future.
The future isn't an issue in this cam-
paign, and that is enough to dull down any
election contest. So far as the people can
see, the future will be about the same re-
gardless of which party wins, a state of
permanent crisis in foreign affairs, and,
at home, a disorderly, unplanned, uncon-
trolled retreat from the postwar boom.
They look around for a break somewhere
in this picture, and they don't see it.
It is, as a result, a sad, complex election.
All the splendid emotions of just a few
years ago, our feelings on behalf of estab-
lishing this as one world, and our feelings
on behalf of improving our society by driv-
ing hard at steady, sensible reform, are now
bottled up. And it is not that the people no
longer want these things; the trouble goes,
deeper-they cannot seem to find a way to
get these questions put on the agenda, to
get them mentioned and included in the
order of the day.
And it is customary, especially among
Mr. Wallace's supporters, to explain all
this on the basis of a sinister agreement
between the major parties against peace
and reform. I could almost wish this were
true; it would reduce our problems to a,
babyish simplicity. Instead, I find I have
the truly terrible feeling that the thing is
much worse than that, that our disloca-
tions are quite real, that the bipartisan
agreement, if there is one, is the result of
our dislocation and the cause of it.
We cannot continue our reform movement
during a jumping inflation any more than
one can make a wild and somewhat drunken
party come to order for the purpose of hear-
ing a few well-chosen words on the subject
of human happiness. The aims of our re-
form movement, complete employment and
increase of purchasing power, have all been
accomplished, in a distorted, leering way by
the inflation itself; enough so to cripple
reform, if not enough so to make us safe.
And in the foreign field, the point is
that nobody in the world really knows
whether peace is possible. The position is
unprecedented; there has never been this
situation of a world divided, half into cap-
italist and half into communist spheres,
and there is no one who can truly and
positively say whether the halves can
make peace.
To disregard this huge, planetary shift,
and to say that we are currently unhappy
only because a few Democrats and a few
Republicans feel like making war is absurd;
that does not solve the world problem, it is
merely a pretense that there is no such
problem. But there is, and the bipartisan
agreement is only a sign of it, not the cause.
If the people sensed a real hope of makin
an agreed peace, the bipartisan agreement
would crack; it exists because the world,
problem exists, and not because a few men
have whispered together. The Russians
could crack it themselves, by significant ges-
tures toward peace; and if it be said that
they can't make such moves, that is all the
more evidence that our problem is genuine,
position. And the vocal fracas got pretty
and must be lived through, and not imagi-
nary and to be shrugged off.
So the final sad word is that our problems
are quite real, even if our candidates' speech-
es are not. Our trouble goes so deep that
our election itself is more a sign of it than
an answer to it. And it is only by realistically
accepting these grim perspectives that we'
can make even a beginning toward wisdom
and a solution.
Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation)
Current Movies
At the Michigan ...,
"LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOM-
AN," with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jour-
dan..
THIS AGONIZING tale of a great one-
sided love is rather obviously designed
to clutch at your heartstrings. And although
we admire honest effort, we are forced to say
that this particular tear-jerker doesn't quite
come off..
For ninety minutes, Miss Fontaine sustains
an unrelenting flow of tears in her vain pur-
suit of Mr. Jourdan. And although she re-
mains body-and-soul for Louis from valup-
tuous girlhood through middle age, he stead-
fastly refuses to give more than a passing
damn for her. Eventually, after several reels
of emotional agony, the tale drags to a weary
conclusion.
It must be said that Miss Fontaine does
her level best to turn in an Oscar-worthy
performance. Mr. Jourdan, however, ap-
pears to have no more interest in the'pic-
ture than in Miss Fontaine's selfless love.
As the grim-visaged caricature of the
handsome cad, he fails miserably in meet-
ing the acting standards that Miss Fon-
taine labors to achieve. Although he may,
euphemistically speaking, possess some de-
gree of "box office" appeal, he is sad sup-
port for a sincere actress.
In spite of this harsh opinion, however,
the central fault here-as in many pictures
seems to lie in the scenario. Love may be
a powerful emotional force, but the reason-
less obsession shown in this pictude is not
even sentimental-it is pathetic. Further,
Miss Fontaine was handed a number of lines
that brought the audience to laughter when
it was supposed to be hauling out the
hankies.
The movie-going public is usually willing
to bend over backwards in accepting the
improbable. But this is just too much t.o
take.
-Bob White.
* * *
At the State .. .
"ARE YOU WITH IT?" with Donald
O'Connor.
A MISPLACED DECIMAL point is just
something for an embryonic engineer to
cuss over, but to Actuary Haskins, it seemed
the period to his career at Nutmeg Insurance
Co. Brooding over his one mistake, Donald
O'Connor, Harvard's gift to the number's
racket, encounters carnival man Lew Parker
and finds that his way with dance steps
and slide rules can have a livelier out on
the midway.
"He gets with it" as the performers put
it, and his ex-secretary and would be wife
comes along to save him from the gals in
gilt and the wicked life. With the flimsiest
kind of a plot to keep things going, every-
body gets to show his stuff, and the in-
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Academic Notices
Biological Chemistry Seminar:
Rm. 319, W. Medical Bldg., 4 p.m.,
Fri., Oct. 8. Subject: "Thiocyanate
Metabolism." All interested are in-
vited.
Electrical Engineering Depart-
ment Colloquium: 4 p.m., Fri., Oct.
8, Rm. 2084 E. Engineering Bldg.
Prof. A. D. Moore will speak on
"Electrical Engineering and Bi-
ology."
Forestry 194 Examination: 8
a.m., Fri., Oct. 8, Rm. 25, Angell
Hall.
Exhibitions
Drawings and Water Colors from
the collection of John S. Newber-
ry, Jr., and Prints by the Graphic
Circle: Museum of Art, Alumni
Memorial Hall, daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sundays 2-5 p.m. The public is
invited.
Events Today
Visitor's Night, Department of
Astronomy-7:30 to 9:30 p.m., An-
gell Hall (fifth floor), for obser-
vation of the Moon. Visitor's Night
will be cancelled if the sky is
cloudy. Children must be accom-
panied by adults. (Other Visitor's
Nights during the first semester
will be held on Oct. 22 and Nov.
12.)
Geological - Mineralogical Jour-
nal Club. 12 noon, Rm. 3056 N.S.
Speaker, Dr. E. Wm. Heinrich, of
the Department of Mineralogy.
Subject of the illustrated address:
"Pre-Beltian Rocks Near Dillon,
Montana." All interested persons
are invited.
Art Cinema League presents
Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," French
film starring Raimu and Charpin
at 8:30 p.m., Fri., and Sat., Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre. All seats
reserved.
Delta Epsilon Pi, Hellenic Fra-
ternity, invites all students of
Greek descent and Phil-Hellenes
to attend its open meeting, 7:15
p.m., Rm. 3-B, Michigan Union.
Plans to hold the Mid-West Re-'
gional Convention in Ann Arbor
will be discussed.
German Coffee Hour: 3-4:30
p.m., Michigan League Coke Bar.
All students and faculty members
invited.
Roger Williams Guild will hold
an "All Hands Party" at 8:30 p.m.
at the Guild House. Come in jeans.
Hillel Foundation: Sabbath Eve-
ning Services, 7:45 p.m., followed
by "International Night" social
hour.
SRA Coffee Hour: 4:30-6 p.m.,
Lane Hall Lounge.
S.R.A. Coffee Hour: 4:30 p.m.,
Lane Hall Lounge.
Student Peace Fellowship will
meet in the Meditation Room at
7:30 p.m., Lane Hall.
Coming Events
Alpha Epsilon Iota invites all
medical women students to their
Annual Tea, Sun., Oct. 10, 4-6 p.m.,
119 Park Terrace.
Inter-Guild Functional Com-
mittee Workshop: 2 p.m., Sat.,
Oct., 9, Methodist Church. All
Guild committee members and
presidents and all Inter-Guild
representatives are urged to at-
tend.
W.S.S.F. Area Conference will
meet Saturday at Lane Hall. Reg-
istration, 9 a.m.
S.R.A. Luncheon Discussion
group: 12:15 Saturday in Lane
Hall. Reservations may be made
by calling Lane Hall before 10
a.m. Saturday.
1948 Pacific Tour members and
friends are invited to see color
slides and snapshots of the tour
Wed., Oct. 13, 7:15 p.m., 904 Pack-
ard Street, Ann Arbor.
Russian Circle: Meeting, 8 p.m.,
Mon., Oct. 11, International Cen-
ter. Slides on peoples of Russia
with commentary; short talk on
Study of Russian in Czechoslo-
vakia.
The Daily accords its readers the
privilege of submitting letters for
publication in this column. Subject
to space limitations, the general pol-
icy is to publish in the order in which
they are received all letters bearing
the writer's signature and address.
Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti-
tious letters and letters of a defama-
tory character or such letters which
for any other reason are not in good
taste will not be published. The
editors reserve the privilege of con-
densing letters.
* * *
Ignorant?
To the Editor:
Many eop1e who support
Thomas K Dewey for President do
so without actually knowing the
interests they are serving. An an-
alysis of the financial backers of
Dewey's campaigns, since 1940,
shows that they are leading figures
in top financial and industrial
circles. The most prominent group
is the oil trust. Among these con-
tributors are: John D. Rockefel-
ler, Jr. of the Standard Oil; Joseph
N. Pew, Jr. of Sun Oil; Winthrop
Aldrich of the Chase National
Bank (Rockefeller Bank); Alfred
P. Sloan of General Motors;
George Whitney of J. P. Morgan
Co; The Guggenheims of Kenne-
cott Copper; Elisha Walker of
Kuhn, Loeb and Co.; John T. Pratt
of Standard Oil.
An important influence on
Dewey is Frank Gannett, a power
in upstate New York Republican
Politics, publisher of a string of
newspapers, founder and head of
the Committee for Constitutional
Government, termed by Congress-
man Wright Patman as "the sinis-
ter lobby in Washington," and the
"No. 1 Fascist organization in the
United States.'
One key to Dewey's political ad-
vance is thathe has always adapt-
ed himself to the policies of the
wealthy men who control the two
old parties, and has gained their
confidence as a willing servant.
Another key to Dewey's success
is his ability to adapt himself to
the corrupt Republican political
machines and hack politicians.
His three chief political opera-
tors are Herbert Brownell, Edwin
F. Jaeckle, and J. Russel Sprague.
Brownell is a member of the New
York law firm of Lord, Day and
Lord, which has memberships in
many large corporations and con-
nections with Wall Street figures.
Sprague is a politician from Long
Island, who acts as peronal rep-
resentative for Dewey.
Dewey has established close
connections with reactionary Re- I
publican machines all over the
country. His alliances are not
based on policies but on the old-
fashioned political devices of deals
and patronage. His verynoia
ntion was assured by a deal with
the Grundy-Pew machine of Penn-
sylvania, the Old Guard of the Re-
publican Party with specially close
connections with the oil trust and
the high tariff crowd.
Henry A. Wallace has a program
to beat the Monopolies. Only the
Progressive Party can act to break
Monopolies because unlikethe
Democrats and Republicans it does
not depend on them to win.
-Max Dean
* * *
ir. Foreign
To the Editor :
There is a certain white-haired
old man who walks the streets of
Ann Arbor almost every night.
This man, whom for the sake of
identity we shall call Mr. Foreign,
is a man in whose body is repre-
sented the evils of the world to-
day.
Mr. Foreign, on first sight, gives
the appearance of a kindly old
man--who to many of us brings
back memories of our own grand-
fathers; however if we should stop
and listen to this person talk we
would soon find out that he has a
great love of freedom-FREEDOMI
FOR HIMSELF but none for the
Negro, Jew, Catholic, Chinaman,
Jap, or, for that matter, anyone
who was'not born with his beliefs
and prejudices.
Having heard Mr. Foreign speak
on several occasions I began won-
dering actually how many of these
self-styled Puritans do we have
amongst us. It is an old truth that
claims that only out of the mouths
of the very young or very old do we
hear exactly what men think. IfI
we only could have more old men
in this world of ours we might at
least know where our enemies are.
Under existing conditions though,
not one of us, not even Mr. For-
eign, will survive in our present
form if we have too many of his
type to contend with. Our state is
a large state and we must use all
our energy to see that it is not de-
stroyed from the outside; let alone
from the inside.
I am all for the principle of hav-
ing anyone say anything any-
where, but I also believe that it
has now come to a point where we
must define what this concept of
"free speech" means. (that state-
ment is not ambiguous.)
Why should an individual or a
group suffer because of another ,
individual's or group's prerogative
to stand behind the staunch de-
fenses of our great constitution
and verbally atack everything that
the total population stands for?
Yes, let us listen to all our Mr.
Foreigns; let us attempt to answer
them; let us try to reason with
them; and if we must, let us also
find a way to end their mis-use of
one of our so-called basic free-
doms-Freedom of SPEECH.
--Daniel Elyachar
* * *
To the Editor: ..
ON FRIDAY, October first, the
Daily carried on its front page
a feature article on this year's
drum major for the Michigan
Marching Band.
The article was a fine coverage
of Mr. Breidenbach, who, I aim
sure, is a very competent drum
major. However, the first para-
graph of the story made a state-
ment with which I beg to differ.
"Found at long last-a drum
major who! can also play an in-
strument."
Did the writer of this statement
ever stop to realize the unfairness
of such a statement? If he will
take the trouble to go into the
records of only last year, he will
find that the drum major of this
same organization, the Michigan
Marching Band, was one Noah
Knepper.
Mr. Knepper not only played an
instrument in the Concert Band
(perhaps the reporter should also
look up the relative merits of the
Varsity and Concert Bands), he
was solo oboist in this organiza-
tion. This, of necessity, means that
Mr. Knepper had to be one of the
finest oboists in the University of
Michigan. Certainly he "can also
play an instrument."
A little more research and a few
less rash statements would have
helped to make this story more en-
joyable to those who are accus-
tomed to accuracy in newspapers.
-Jean Willets.
ALEXANDER M. McCOLL has
just made hinmself a headline,
though a small one. Entering Har-
vard as a freshman at the age of
14, McColl has attracted the big
type because he admits liking to
read Latin. It's a disturbing re-
flection on the age that the ad-
mission should be considered news.
-St. Louis Star-Times.
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BARNAB'Y
[ Hello! Scoop O'Malley speaking. Tear up the
front page. I'll have a big story on a fire.
As soon as I get my notes together-Hello? ...
Use the kid's story of a fire
drill? Not a bad idea. Call
U I
This is Dr. Riggs, the Principal.
The newspaper? Yes, there was a
fire drill. Er, that is, the fire