ai PAGr F OUR Tft:7,7MI-C- -WAN- w Tiii l MTCTT.1 .fAiN DATT Y11 ., . r ix~itX, 4, J.Z n T;fu 3ruder! E THOUGHT the non-fraternization policy in Germany was over with, fini, passe, kaput, as dead as Prohibition, or what have you. But no! The military coinman- dant of the American Sector of Berlin tells his occupation troops and his Department of the Army civilians to stop fraternizing with Russians. In a UP dispatch in Tuesday's "New York Times," Col. Frank Howley is quoted as saying: "None of my men are going to -Aay footsie-wootsie with the Russians under such conditions as their intolerable blockade." Apparently the commotion was chiefly caused by the overt act of an American official wishing a minor Rus- sian official "all the best" for the New Year and inviting him for dinner. Pretty funny. Personally, we aren't wor- ried. We did once have a talk with Russians, but that was in May, '45, and even the girls weren't at all good-looking. They kept marching around the parade ground next to Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. the DP barracks and were waiting for the time when Comrade Stalin would let them make war against Japan. They seemed to think they were our allies. We also saw unspeakable Russians in Berlin, that is, Russians who did not speak. Most of them were standing in front of monuments the Red Army put up, with long faces and long rifles at their side, and they were in no mood to fraternize. And maybe we had forgotten too much of our Russian 31 and 32 to make New Year wishes in that language. Or maybe wishing any Russian a good year is subversive. It might be construed as a support of the "bestial" Berlin blockade, the Five Year Plan, the Marxist-Leninist principles, and the Soviet version of "Auld Lang Syne." Non-fraternization was once a good idea, but it did not work. Too many temptations were occupying the occupiers. However, the term was flexible, and Patton's classic dic- tum was: "It isn't fraternization if you don't stay for breakfast." Will this new prohibition to associate with Russian blockaders work? It all depends on whether a good bottle of vodka is as much a temptation as the siren calls of the tra- ditionally good-looking Fraulein. If it is, Col. Howley might as well give up. John Neufeld NIGHT EDITOR: MARY STEIN CURRENT MOVIES At the Michigan may come when we shuffle off to the li- brary! AN INNOCENT AFFAIR, with Fred Mac- Heck! Let's go to the show! --Bob White. Murray, Madeleine Carroll, and Buddy Rogers. * * At the State, S IT GOOD? Well, gee whiz, I laughed quite a bit, and there were nice lush sets, PITFALL, with Lzbeth Scott and Dick and the music was okay, and the photog- Powell raphy was typically good .. . GRANTED that several lives can get all Is it bad? Well, land sakes, it's the same mixed up over a single incident, and old husband-wife intrigue you've seen a granted that there may be rats of the cali- hundred times, and it drags like most of ber protrayed by Raymond Burr, "The Pit- these pictures do, and you sometimes feel fall" is nonetheless a pretty contrived kettle like you're laughing from force of habit. of trouble. Yet the dialogue, acting and gen- Do you want to see it? Well, it's nothing eral handling of the plot keep your interest ohud your tokseeitn W, git nthg and curiosity going until the last hopeful And th dropyt's fiin tert to 'n speech. Lizbeth Scott is a lovely and plaus- hen again-it fairly entaining ible reason for three men to get hepped up, once you're comfortably seated in the the- but for insurance investigator Powell, the atre. idyll is short and firmly terminated. Shucks, I don't know what to tell you. Raymond Burr, however, won't let well It's pleasant to see Madeleine Carroll again, enough alone, and his methods of wooing And Fred MacMurray is as funny as he ever involve manipulating manslaughter among was-and you can take that remark any his rivals. (A Sidney Greenstreet size ver- way you care to). The seldom-seen Charles sion of Peter Lorre, Mr. Burr has a bright "Buddy" Rogers completes the handsome future at this sort of thing.) and likeable trio. Things go from bad to worse, as they al- 'We can give you a plot summary in a ways do in the middle of the picture, and very few words: Advertising Executive by the time everyone is properly confused courts flush female account, Exec's wife over what will happen to whom, an un- suspects foul play and acquires own suitor, happy but logical climax is deftly unfolded. fireworks ensue. It's not a picture that rates either orchids or onions, but merely a "B" budget drainer To go or not to go? 'Tis nobler in the mind that does all right for itself. to study, of course . . . but what boredom --Gloria Hunter I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: NewColor By SAMUEL GRAFTON A VERY NEW CONGRESS: What the last election really did was to nation- alize Congress. It is never again going to be a haphazard collection of winners of local popularity contests. It is now, and I believe it will continue to be, a body elected on na- tional issues, as part of a national political struggle. It will make the laws, but without being a law unto itself, as it certainly was during the years when it was able, incredi- bly, to defy the most popular President in our history, in spite of his three re-elections. Mr. Truman's name will grow when we look back and see what he accomplished in the last election by making the Eighti- eth Congress the chief issue. He broke an interest. It'was an interest as clearly rec- 'ognizable as the farming interest or the steel interest. It was an interest composed of conservative Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans, who, though they never had the endorsement of the major- ity of the people (except maybe for about five minutes in 1946) had nevertheless been able to take control over the most important segment of our government. They did this through a combination of archaic House and Senate rules, of over- representation for the undervoting poll- taxed districts of the South, and of over- representation, too, for some of the rural regions of the North. It was a structure built of spit and tissue paper, but it was strong enough to dominate Congress for ten years. It enabled a handful of men on, say, the Rules Committee, to tell the House what it could or could not vote upon, or even discuss; a setup which made Congress itself an issue-as much of an issue as any issue before Congress. That power has now been smashed. The change in Rules Committee procedure is more than a mere reform of Congressional methods. It is a shift in the vary basis of power in Congress, a change of control. Ultra-conservatism, long ago beaten on the level of content, on the level of mean- ings, had intrenehed itself on the level of form, on the level of methods. It has now been pursued even into this area, and there defeated. We are making the forms of things correspond to their content; that is the meaning of the revolt against the House's rules. A NEW KIND O CONGRESSMAN: And I think that now the very color of our lives will change a bit. The all-too-charac- teristio Congressman of the last decade has been the angry Congressman, telling the people. We may now get more Congressmen who listen to the people instead. The typi- cal, finger-waving Congressman, threaten- ing to do something very severe, to labor, to the consumer, to anyone at all is, I feel, about to pass into history. This formidable figure, who has been able to rule the country without being able to win or influence a national election, has had his day. AND AS FOR THE REPUBLICANS: The coming changes will show up on the Republican side, no less than on the Dem- ocratic. It seems to me that the Demo- crats, by having had the courage to beak with their conservatives, have made it in- evitable that the Republicans will lose their liberals. There is a very good chance that the old bi-partisan block will now be stood neatly on its head, with many Re- publicans voting steadily, on key issues, with the majority Democrats. Forty-nine of them voted so, in defiance of party policy, on reform of House rules. They'll have to do more of this. They can't help themselves. They've read the election returns. REMEMBER? : One last word. These im- mense changes have taken place in two months. It is hardly ten weeks since a num- ber of American liberals felt that all was up, all was over. There must be some kind of a moral here about realizing that policy in this country is going to be shaped by the underlying needs of the people, and by simi- lar realities, regardless of anybody's passing panic or temporary exultation. (Copyri;ht, 1949, New York Post Corporation) , ?' ' .. , . r _ . 1 e 7r 6 gN4S 4 o 1 "n,, . 3 - ' - 9, ! } (/1 ,\ t u -" , 1 4 - - ryc tE . l E Tr" .E - i CopyrigF , t949, Mex Yok', tpr tM Bill Mauldin "Cease fire, do you hear? Cease fire!" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Letters to the Editor j !. MATTER OF FACT: a Foggy Bottom Upheaval By STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-There is now at least a chance that something will actually be done to bring order out of the chaos in which the State Department operates, al- though every previous such attempt has failed abysmally since the days of John Adams. A Hoover Commission subcommit- tee, in a yet unpublished report, has recom- mended a long overdue and far-reaching reorganization of the department. And per- haps this time some sort of action will re- sult. The basic problem which the report boldly attacks is that of responsibility and authority. As things now stand, there are jest four men in the State Department with the authority to act on American foreign policy in any of its aspects and in any part of the world. These are the Secretary, the Under Secretary, the Coun- selor and the Chief Planning Officer. Looking Back FORTY YEARS AGO: Announcement was made of a new cam- pus literary magazine to be published Jan. 20. "A joke department" of size and im- portance" was to be featured. Financial problems ended the four-year "friendly rivalry" between Michigan and Vanderbilt. Money to cover expenses for the jaunt to the Nashville, Tenn., gridiron was difficult to obtain, University officials explained. The Union Opera of 1909, "Culture," netted about $2,000, general chairman How- ard L. Barkdull said. A Daily advertisement advised coeds that they could get tan rubbers to fit their tan shoes at a local shoe store. "Exclusively styled" dress shoes were selling for $4.00 and under. THIRTY YEARS AGO: At present, all four of these officers, George C. Marshall, Robert A. Lovett, Charles E. Bohlen and George Kennan, are men of great ability and energy. But they are badly overburdened. And this concen- tration of authority in so few hands has led to a sort of paralysis in the lower ranks.; One consequence is that, in order to spread responsibility where no individual can take final decisions, a grotesque com- mittee system, fantastically time-consum- ing, has developed. (One wag has sug- gested that the theme song of Foggy Bottom, as the State Department is not very affectionately known, should be "Set Up Another Committee," sung to the tune of "Give Us Another Old Fash - ioned.") This committee system has in- evitably led to a tendency to shove all but the most absolutely inescapable de- cisions under the rug, in the same way that a lazy man puts off answering a letter until it is no longer necessary. to answer it. Yet there is a further problem, aside from internal reorganization of the department, which obviously has worried the authors of the report, but which they have not suc- cessfully attacked. The State Department is the agency of the government charged with making foreign policy. Yet there are vast areas of policy in which the depart- ment has- either lost or abdicated its au- thority. One has only to remember the in- dependence with which General Lucius Clay and General Douglas MacArthur operate in Germany and Japan, or the way ECA Ad- ministrator Paul Hoffman appeared recently to revise American policy in China, or the serious charges hurled on his own hook by ECA Deputy Howard Bruce at Great Britain, thus infuriating our only dependable ally, to recognize this fact. As a consequence, American foreign pol- icy has shown a tendency to go galloping off in several directions at once, which is certainly a dangerous tendency in these (Continued from Page 2) ments call Ext. 371 or at 201 Ma- son Hall. The Marathon Corp., Menasha, Wisc. will be unable to come for interviews before examinations, but they will be glad to receive applications. They are interested in personnel, sales, accounting, re- search, and manufacturing trainees. Information and appli- cation blanks may be obtained at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall. Lectures Economic Lecture: Kenneth E. Boulding, Professor of Economics at Iowa State College, will speak on "Foundations of Wage Policy," 4:15 p.m., Tues., Jan. 11, Rackham Lecture Hall; auspices of the De- partment of Economics. The pub- lic is invited. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for John Wesley Steedly, Jr., Chemistry; thesis: "The Absorption Spectra of Some P-Aminoaryldiaonium Derivatives," 2 p.m., Fri., Jan. 7, 3543 Chemistry Bldg., Chairman, L. C. Anderson. Doctoral Examination for Paul Henry Eschmeyer, Zoology; the- sis: "Reproduction and Migration of the Yellow Pikeperch, Stizoste- dion Vitreum Vitreum, in Michi- gan," 9 a.m., Sat., Jan. 8, 3091 Natural Science Bldg. Chairman, R. M. Bailey. Doctoral Examination for Paul Richard Annear, Astrnomy; thesis: "An Investigation of Ga- lactic Structure in a Region of Cygnus," 9:30 a.m., Sat., Jan. 8, Observatory. Chairman, D. B. Mc- Laughlin. Astronomical Colloquium: 4:15 p.m., Fri., Jan. 7, Observatory. Speaker: Miss Ruth Hedeman; Subject: "Current Status of Mi- cro-Wave Astronomy." Biological Chemistry Seminar: 4 p.m., Fri., Jan. 7, 319 W. Medical Bldg. Subject: "Human Nutri- tion." All interested are invited. Electrical Engineering SPE- CIAL Colloquium: 4 p.m., Fri., Jan. 7, 1042 E. Engineering Bldg. Mr. J. A. Morton of Bell Tele- phone Laboratories will discuss Transistors. Concerts Ginette Neveu, distinguished French violinist, will be presented in recital by the University Musi- cal Society in the Choral Union Series at 8:30 p.m., Jan. 8, hill Auditorium. Miss Nevcu will play the follow- ing program at her Ann Arbor; debut: Concerto in G major, No. 3, Mozart; Chaconne (violin alone), Bach; Sonata, G major, Op. 30,1 No. 3, Beethoven; Piece en forme de Habanera, Ravel; Etude in Thirds, Scriabin; Nocturne et Tar- entelle, Szymanowski.9 Tickets are available at the of- flee of the University Musical So- ciety in Burton Memorial Tower; and will also be on sale at the Hill Auditorium box office one hour preceding the concert Saturday night. Cancellation of Recital: . The student recital by James Merrill, pianist, previously announced for 8 p.m., Mon., Jan. 10, Rackham Assembly Hall, has been post- poned until a later date. Organ Recital: Elva Wakefield, student in the School of Music, will present a program in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree at 8 p.m., Fri., Jan. 7, Hill Auditorium. Miss Wakefield has been studying with Frederick Marriott, and has planned a program to include compositions by Bach, Schumann, Karg-Elert, Mendelssohn, Vierne, Jongen, and Franck. The general public is invited. Exhibitions Art privately owned in Ann Ar- bor Art Association; Alumni Me- morial Hall, daily 9-5, Sundays 2-5. The public is invited. Events Today Bill of One-Act Plays will be presented at 8 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre by the de- partment of speech. Admission is free to the public and no tickets are required for admission. Doors of the theatre will be open at 7:30 p.m. and be closed promptly at 8 o'clock. Playstosbe given include "Love and How to Cure It," by Thornton Wilder; "The Lovely Miracle," by Paul Johnson; "Man of Destiny," by George Bernard Shaw. Music-Student Council mem- bers: Meeting 12:30 (noon) at the School of Music. Review of pro- posed Constitution, and neces- sary procedures for official recog- nition of the "Music School As- sembly." Student Religious Association Coffee Hour: 4:30 p.m., Lane Hall. German Coffee Hour: 3-4:30 p.m., Michigan League Soda Bar. All students and faculty members invited. 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 00 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. Winter Carnival To the Editor: NRESPONSE to the question of why the winter carnival is to be'held on February 2 and 3, Pat McKenna and Dick Slocum, gen- eral co-chairmen have issued the following statement. We realize that in some respects the dates Feb. 2 and 3 seem un- reasonable and arbitrarily set. However, in deciding the date, we had to consider a great many fac- tors. I. The best weekend for cold weather and snow is Jan. 22 and 23 according to the weather sta- tion at Willow Run. 2. Jan. 22, 23 is the weekend between the two weeks of final examinations. Many students will have left for home, and many will be studying for their remaining exams. 3. Jan. 15, 16 is just preceding final exams. 4. Jan. 8, 9 is the final week- end after Xmas vacation and would give little time for prepara- tions. 5. Jan. 29, 30 are during vaca- tion between semesters. 6. Feb. 4, 5 is during J-Hop weekend. 7. Feb. 11, 12 would be suitable in many respects except that fra- ternity and sorority rushing would prevent participation of all rushees and affiliated men and women, especially the women. 8. Any later date is not prac- tical because of the unpredicta- bility of the weather. Feb. 2 and 3 were decided upon as the most logical date for the carnival. Registration will start on the 2nd, orientation of freshmen will be underway and school will not be in session. The booth prep- arations will not require more than a few hours attention by each organization planning one. With these reasons for our choice of dates for winter carni- val, dorms, leagues, fraternities and sororities will not feel that these dates were chosen with the intention to favor any group of students or with complete disre- gard for a number of students present on campus during the days of registration. We hope your winter carnival will be a smashing success, and with your support we are sure it will be. Why not plan to be in Ann .Arbor on Feb. 2 and 3 as well as for the J-Hop on the 4 and 5 and start the new semester off with a bang? -Dick Slocum. Praise to W UOM To the Editor: W UOMDESERVES much praise for its numerous excellent and varied special holiday programs. From both technical and program standpoints, WUOM is one of the best educational stations on the air anywhere. When the broad- cast day and power output are increased, WUOM will have even greater prestige. WUOM offers many fine pro- grams of wide variety. Foreign language broadcasts, "Here's to Veterans," excellent children's program, and others suit a wide range of tastes. Full sports cover- age and special concerts make outstanding listening. Programs such as the Medical Series and Hymns of Freedom heard for years on other stations are even better listening on full- range FM. It would be only a slight exaggeration to state that a few hours of listening to WUOM would be worth the price of a good FM radio. The nightly two hour period of recorded music are welcomed by many who find 6 to 8 p.m. a dead spot on most stations. Listeners are glad to find long broadcasts rather than a choppy diet of many short ones, especially if the commercials are numerous and religion in the curriculum and the election of a vice-president. Graduate Outing Club will meet at 2:15 p.m., Sun., JTan. 9, at the northwest entrance to Rackham Building for ice-skating and hik- ing. Sign list at Rackham Check- room desk. All graduates wel- come. Elf ty-Nith Year unpleasant. Freedom from adver tisements possible on an educa tional station and advantages o FM help to make WUOM a fa vorite arpong radio listeners i: this area. Its many fans wish it good.for tune in 1949 and years following and hope and expect a continue and expanded fare of good listen ing. -Carl H. Zwinck. Health Insurance To the Editor: PROPONENTS, of compulsor health insurance point wit alarm to the high rate of selec tive service rejections and tell 'u the health of our nation is de plorable and that our present sys tem of medical services is woe fully inadequate. A recent edi torial and a letter to the edito inquire why so many young me: were refused in the draft. Recent surveys of the probler indicate the rejection rate is nea 30 per cent, rather than the 5 per cent quoted by the President Even this is an alarming figur and would bear further analysis About 44 per cent of all rejection of 18 year-olds in 1944 were for mental reasons. Another 9 per cent of all re jections were for cardiovascula defects, largely due to rheumati fever, a disease controllable mor by living conditions than by pre ventive medicine. Next follow per cent due to musculoskeleta defects, made up mostly of resid uals from accidents and polomy elitis, neither preventable by me ical means at present. Eye and le defects make up another 11 pe cent, followed by five per cent du to neurological defects, includin epilepsy and residuals from polio myelitis and accidents. Thus about half the rejection were for mental reasons, and a least another 20 per cent well due to conditions neither prevent able nor remediable by medic means. Dr. Leonard Rowntre former service medical. director has stated that rejections fai remediable defects constitutec about 15 per cent of all rejec tions or about 6 per cent of al men examined. Yet Federal Se curity Agency propaganda claim one-half to two-thirds of 'rejec tions could have been prevente' by adequate medical care. It would appear there is littl basis for such hysteria in then draft rejection figures. Whim some form of voluntary healti insurance to provide financial aiF probably is desirable, the health o our country is not in such a des perate state that control of med ical care must be surrendered int( the hands of an all-powerful fed eral agency which has been re sponsible for such distorted prop aganda. -H. T. Johnson, M.D. At Architect. Auditorium THE 39 STEPS, with Robert Donat, Mad' eleine Carroll and Peggy Ashcroft. Direct- ed by Alfred Hitchcock. T'HOSE of you who became avid followers of Hitchcock after THE PARADINE CASE will find in The 39 Steps the fas- cinating fare through which he established his reputation. The film begins in London at a weird sort of a vaudeville show which is sud- denly transformed into a brawling panic by a couple of shots fired into the audi- ence. In the ensuing riot, a beautiful brunette appeals to our hero, Robert Do- nat, for refuge which he is only too glad to proffer. However, this simple act has different ramifications than might be expected. The lady has run amuck of powerful interests and her persecutors turn up almost imme- diately. Thus Hitchcock sets up his plot Roger Williams Guild: 8:30 p.m., Guild House. Party, Coning Events Economics Club: Prof. Kenneth E. 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