THE MICIIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, EERRUAJ~Y ~O I04~J .__.. Class Cutting r1HE "DROP" in attendance which gener- ally marks the end of the second week or the beginning of the third week of classes may be short lived this year, if persistent ru- mors we've been hearing the past few days prove to have factual basis. As we understand it, the University may, in the near future, officially inpose penalties for student cuts. Several pro- fessors have "warned" students that ex- cessive cutting could lower grades-even by a whole point. Some, formerly indif- ferent to attendance taking, have attribu- ted the new individual rulings to "orders from above." One professor informed his class that any student absent from class more than three times, unexcused, would have to take an oral examination in his presence. At any rate, it's fairly clear that profes- sors as a whole are tightening up on atten- dance. And whether or not by directives from the deans, the revival of you-better- be-here "rulings" look like just another symptom of the "students-are-babies-and- should - be -.treated - accordingly" attitude which is again becoming more and more obvious. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: MARY STEIN THE lFACT remna ills that professors who find more than one third of their students cutting class consistently should look to their own lectures before trying to force at- tendance. (At least two professors of our acquaintance who rarely if ever take atten- dance and who make it quite clear to stu- dents that they needn't attend class if they wish otherwise, have the most consistently good attendance we have yet seen. Their lectures are their drawing power.) No stu- dent who is forced to listen to a dull lec- turer, day after day, is going to "get any- thing" from the course. And the student who can do his work well without the help of his instructor should not be penalized by a lower grade because of "irregular" atten- dance. It's about time somebody realized that most of the students on this campus are 1) interested in a solid education and 2) are adult enough to know how to get it. Poor attendance records might be dis- tinctly bettered by revamped lectures and courses and we have an idea that the fac- ulty rating results might indicate just that. When the University realizes that it is dealing with serious minded adult students for the most part, and starts showing it in actions such as lifting the liquor ban, the speakers ban and many of the Victorian re- strictions on women students, the coopera- tive and intelligent response it gets from its students will carry a revealing jolt. -Naomi Stern MORE THAN TEN years ago, Heifetz' pie- definitive interpretation of this fifth con- ture adorned my wall, and I hung certo of Vieuxtemps, which mangles the around stage doors collecting numerous the technically challenging with simple lyric. identical Heifetz autographs. The two Paganini-Kreisler Caprices illus- My devotion to Heifetz as THE violinist trated one reason why Heifetz remains in a has always remained--although in slightly class by himself. His masterful technique different form-and so I feel quite inade- is not used for its own sake, but can even quate in writing a "critical review" of his turn what are essentially exhibitionist con- concert in Hill Auditorium last night. tortions into flowing lines. As usual, Heifetz was aided by the model If anyone had any lingering doubts about accompanist, Emanuel Bay, who also provea Heifetz' ability to handle the complete range his musicianship in sharing honors wtih the of violin music, the purity of his Bach, andt violinist in the beautiful Mozart Sonata No, the brilliant dazzle of the Ravel Tzigane 8. Particularly in this sonata and in the provided the answer. Vieuxtemps concerto, Heifetz again proved I can only echo all the recent comments how ridiculous is the dull parroting cry that which applaud Heifetz on returning from he is a "cold" musician. his brief retirement an even more perfect As he has done for so many concertos, and warm musician. Heifetz presented what is undoubtedly the -llarriett Friedman. MATTER OF FACT: Pacrtand the Senarte Welfare Pim (OMING AT A 'IME wen LIlei stronger need than ever for leaders to direct the growing functions of goernment, the Department of Welfare proposal reprt - ed out of Committee in the House is com- mendable indeed, in its educational facets as well as its health, social welfare and social security angles. Concentrating these powers under a cabinet-rank department with "the duty to foster and promote the general welfare of the people" as the bill reads, the co- ordination of these similar activitis with each other will be more effective. P'cw will argue the need for better a - mir strators and political leaders; fewer still can argue that it is not the responsibility of the whole United States to better cducate the people in areas in which our poorer states cannot possibly aford to rai- the necessary funds. In an age of fast transportation which can set an uneducated bachoodsman or sharecropper in the center of a modern society in a matter of hours it is im- portant to the people of that better de- veloped area that all people be prepared to take on the duties of a citizen. The people of Michigan are very much inter-- ested in the intelligence of a backward people who are brought to the state by the exigencies of war and the need for manpower; many of them never to go back to their old homes but rather t take an important part in the social and governmental activities of that state. And this is a relatively selfish attitude. We should be concerned from a broader point of view, as college students,5, witihth recognizable fact that we cannot stand for true democracy when these people live in squalor and ignorance. By concentrating the educational duties of the Federal government in on depart - ment and providing it with the funds end personnel which President Truman request-- ed in his State of the Union message, the dream of many for a I Bill for civiaans seems to have moved one step closer )o realization. Coupled with the welfare and social se- curity programs which have been proposed, and coming at the threshold of Brotherhood Week the action of reporting the Depart- mental bill on the floor seems to indicate that the people recognize the relative im- portance of our own living conditions to say Foreign Relations or the other Depart- ments. They seem to answer once again the age old question "Am I my brother's keep er?", with a firm.Yes". -Don McNeil I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Basic Unrealit By SAMUEL GRAFTON IT SEEMS TO ME there is a good deal of unreality at the bottom of the debate about the proposed North Atlantic Defense Pact. In the first place, the pact-or some- thing like it-already exists. It exists be- cause it is inherent in our political and geo- graphic situation. The fact that we have joined Western Europe in two wars shows that something like the pact exists, whether we adopt it or don't adopt it, ratify it or don't ratify it. When Germany turned west in May, 1940, we dropped our domestic argu- ment and were galvanized into the first billion-dollar defense program overnight-- without a pact. We are therefore negotiating to achieve something we already have, to ratify some- thing which already exists. That hardly seems like inspired diplomacy. D3iplomacy should be aimed at adding new and help- ful factors to our situation, not at para- phrasing existing realities. We have achieved little that is worth the hullabaloo which the negotiations for the pact have caused. It was perfectly obvious, before the pact was mentioned, that we were ready to help Western Europe; the negotia- tions have merely started a big debate over how much we are ready to help Western Europe, and when, and under what terms. By negotiating for the obvious, we have only thrown the obvious into doubt. It is said, of course, that Western Eur- ope needs formal "reassurance" that we will help it, in a military way. Back of this must be the idea that if Western Europe does not receive this sort of reassurance it will do-what? Pout, thrust out its lower lip, go over to Russia? One doubts this. Western Europe is in the same predica- ment in which we are, and it does not add to clarity to assign to it a power of choice which it obviously does not have. It will be argued, too, that a formal pact is needed in order to permit military plan- ning in advance of an emergency, to pro- vide for allocations of material, etc. But that is a two-sided game. Distribution of American materiel excuses and justifies dis- tribution of Russian materiel. To get a last- ing "jump" on the situation is exactly what, in the nature of armament races, is never permitted. The proposed pact is, therefore, concerned partly with the obvious, partly with the dangerous and partly with the im- possible. It seems to me clear that we ought to look for more promising fields in which to exercise our talents for negotiation. It has always seemed to me that the best instinct in diplomacy was to keep questions 4We All Get A Bi. Bing Out Of This, Boy" Leters to the Editor.. P.,, , . _- y5, .. 4r V '/ 'J - ' y± ' t , t t'. . , w } .- , Y. 'ENSfC} Y' " '' gig VETS i!C . Lr j. ~IJAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ,i % By STEWART ALSOP THE MUDDLED DEBATE in the Senate on Monday, together with Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvard Iange's visit to Washington, have left the real issues in- volved in the proposed North Atlantic pa'ct in a confused tangle. For one thing, the idea has become current, largely as a con- sequence of Lange's visit, that the United States has been trying to bully the Scan- dinavian countries into joining the pact. in point of fact, Lange's. visit was strictly his own idea, and caused consid- erable dismay in the State Department. Indeed, as soon as word of the proposed ,visit reached Washington, the department began preparing a message suggesting politely that the time was inopportune, and that the trip be postponed. Before the message was drafted, it was discov- ered that Lange was already on his way. Py-ramids ZOOMING IN FROM out California way, a tidal wave of pyramid clubs is now engulfing southeastern Michigan ind threat- ens to disrupt city and University non- gambling doctrines. The get-rich-quick scheme, involving ladder-like ascents to paydirt by individ- ual dollar contributions and telephone transactions, recalls to mind the famous "chain letter" epidemic of the 1930's. The only fundamental difference, discounting collection methods, is seen in the ardor with which local authorities are attempt- ing to crush the craze before too many people lose too much money. Although the game has just, recently mushroomed here, Wayne and Washtenaw County law enforcement officers have lost no time in an all-out anti-pyramici cam- paign. Residents and students alike have received the word from state legislators ar.d all prospective participants warned against the many risks offered. All complaints, no Tratter how small or vague, have been thor- oughly investigated by alert legal officials. It's easy enough to be taken in by a seemingly fool-proof investment, but the laws of chance have always proven too much in the end for similar foolhardy ventures. Countrywide lotteries of all types seem to crop up continually, and hundreds of pages in history can be written about the disillu- sionments of "suckers" who figured they were a cinch to win but had nothing to show for their dreams except empty pocketbooks. Tn +nhn nnfesinz- diseilef, we need The consequences of the visit, as the State Department foresaw, are obviously unfortunate. If Norway now decides not to adhere to the Atlantic pact it will be wide- ly assumed in Europe that Lange had a good look at the terms of the pact, and decided it was worthless. And if Norway does adhere, it will be equally widely as- sumed that this is a result of American pressure, despite Lange's repeated assur- ances to the contrary. In fact the episode stemmed not from American pressure, but from the Swedish version of a Scandinavian pact. The Swedith idea boiled down in reality to little more than an extension of traditional Swedish neutrality to the whole of Scandinavia. The Swedes opposed any sort of under- standing with the Atlantic pact powers -indeed, the Swedes would not counten- ance even informal staff talks between the two groupings. This Swedish concept of complete Scandinavian neutrality ob- viously raised the vital question of Green- land, which is a dependency of Denmark. As for the Senate debate, it has a curious "Alice in Wonderland" quality. The argu- ment about "moral' commitments really made no sense at all. For, as Senator Arthur Vandenberg sensibly remarked, the Atlantic pact will merely "acknowledge the facts of life as they are." The facts of life are that if any of the proposed signatories were at-! tacked by the Soviet Union in the foresee- able future, the United States would be at war in a matter of days. The manner in which these facts of life are expressed in words no doubt has psychological impor- tance. But the words will be no more than a prelude to what really matters. What really matters is the nature of joint planning and military aid between Western Europe and the Western hemisphere after the pact is signed. Here arises the basic issue, which far. transcends the wording of the pact, and which is yet unresolved: What is to be the real American objective in helping Europe to rearm? Another school of thought is convinced that the defense of Western Europe is a practical matter, given some time and a determined effort both here and abroad. This effort would be aimed at building up a hard core of about thirty superior divisions and decisive air .superiority, to hold the Red Army in case of war until the mobilization of the whole Atlantic community could take effect. Surely here is an issue a good deal more important than whether the naughty word "military" shall appear in the text of the --.+ mf o--- - ,'a nt* all sufficinlt- (CiiC Hi((I Udfron lPag 2) -B u t For Further Information on the 1 following notices, call at the Bur-S eu of Appointments, 3528 Admin- istration Bldg. Archer, Daniels, Midland Com- pany of Minneapolis, Minn., hasv pesitions open in the research di-s vision for people with Ph.D. or Masters degrees in oil, fat, or pro- ten chemistry. Also posit ions openltorBS's vw.ithiaptitude to- wxaid resae-eli work. Sales service openings are also available fors nen with a B.S. degree in chem-.. istry or chemical engineering.L The Public Schools of the Terri-r tory of Hawaii will need a number L of teachers for the year 1949-50r in the following fields: Kindergar-a ten, Upper and Lower Elementaryt grades: and a few openings exist in the Junior and Senior High Schools. Holders of the M.A. or p those with the A.B. and one yeara of experience are preferred. B The Merrill-Palmer School of n De roit will offer a summer ses-d ion of work in Child Develop-i Ia.nt.. This course is open to hol- n ders of the A.B. in Education, Psy-2 cililogy, Sociology, Nursing, orD Homcie Economics. C The Department of Education, Naval Government of Guam is in c need of teachers in the followingi fields: Early and Later Elemen-c v .ry Grades, Industrial Arts, Music, Home Economics, English,< Commercial, Social Studies, Math- ematics, and someone with a mi- nor in Art. Two years' experiencek is desirable. For further infor-k mation, call at the Bureau of Ap-c pointments 3528 Administration Bldg. Lecture Mrs. Madeline Strony, Educa- tional Director of the Gregg Pub- lishing Company, will speak on "The New in Shorthand" (a lec- ure on the revisions of the Gregg Manual) at 7:30 p.m., Mon., Feb. 21, Raekham Amphitheatre. In- trested students and faculty are1 invited. University Lecture: Dr. Armand J. Quick, professor of biological chemistry, Marquette University S,-,hool of Medicine, will discuss "Recent Progress in the Study o' the Coagulation of the Blood," on Thurs., Feb. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rack- ham Graduate School. The lec- ture is under the auspices of the Department of Biological Chem- istry and the Medical School and is open totall interested. Cornelia Otis Skinner, distin- guished actress, will be presented by the Oratorical Association, on Thurs., 8:30 pim., Hill Auditor- ium, as the fourth number on the 1948-49 Lecture Course. Miss Skinner will give one of her most famous solo-dramas, "The Wives of Henry VIII,' in costume. Tic- kets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the auditorium box office,. which will be open daily this week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Academic Notices Makeup Examination in Eco- nomics 51, 52, 53, 54 Thurs., Feb. 24, 3 p.m., Rm. 203 Economics Bldg. Any student expecting to take this examination must leave his name with the Departmental Secretary before the examination. History Final Examination Make-- Up: Sat., Feb. 26, Room B, Haven Hall, 9 a.m. Students must come with written permission of in- structor. Concerts Student Recital: Lydia Pekar- sky, pianist, will be heard in a pro- gram at 8 p.m., Sun., Feb. 20, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, pre- sented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music. Miss Pekarsky is a pupil of Joseph Brinkman, and her program will be open to the general public. Student Recital: Gratia Boice, pianist, will be heard in a recital at 8 p.m., Mon., Feb. 21, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Her pro- gram, presented in partial fulfill- ment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music, will include compositions by Franck, Mozart, Schumann, and Chopin, and will be open to the public. Miss Boice is a pupil of Marian Owen. Student Recital: Mary Kelly, cornetist, will present a program in partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music on Tues., Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. in Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. Miss Kelly, a pupil of Clifford Lillya, will be assisted by Anita Denniston, pianist, and by a trombone quartet composed of Paul Wallace, Leslie Bassett, Glan Yarberry, and Charlene Symmonds. Her program will in- clude works of Haydn, Beethoven, Barat, Tuthill, Bassett, and Gian- nini. The public is cordially in- vited. Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Mem- orial Hall. Recent accessions: Egypt (Life photographs). Week- days 9-5, Sundays 2-5, through Feb. 27. The public is invited. Events Today lWorld Student Day of Praye sponsored by Inter-Guild. Worship Service, Baptist Church, 4 p.m Address by Rev. William Hender. son. Supper and fellowship, Meth- odist Church, 5:30 p.m. Program 6:30 p.m. Small discussion groups on "The Ecumenical Movement.' All organizations in Inter-Guild will participate. Canterbury Club: Evening pray- er service, 8 p.m. Coffee hour at Canterbury House. Wesley Foundation: Student Sem- mar resumes with Hayden Car- ruth as discussion leader, 9 :3 a.m. in the Pine Room. "The Methodist Primer" will be used for discussion. U. of M. Hot Record Society Business meeting and program Sun., 8 p.m., Michigan Leagu Ballroom. Ensian pictures will b taken. Everyone invited. Coming Events La p'tite causette: Mon., 3:3 The Daily accords its readers the f privilege of submitting letters for si publication in this column. subject to space limitations, the general pl- f icy is to publish in the order in which theya :r receied all letters bearing the wrier's signatutre and address. r Letters eceeding :500 words, repe ti-' tious letters and letters of a defama- tory character or such letters whichT for any other reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. si Re: 1iidszen tyTrial' c o To the Editor: a la The trial of Cardinal Mindszen- d ty has provoked much discussion t here and abroad. The coined syl- o logism and high voltage word havee appealed to tensions still preval- b ent in our post war world. Indeed i one no one will deny is the strain- ed relations between Russia and the United States. News today n falls into a defense of capitalistic ° democracy and an attack on e Marxian communism or vice ver-n sa. Every human event must owet its allegiance to one of these dei- fied poles without possessing anI innate character of its own. Butw ideas, unlike sensations. are theT monopoly of no culture or peo-d pl e.e One example. In 1910-17, Mex-J ic uprooted the feudal land sys-d tem of absentee land lordism and peonage. Agrarian reforms were carried out without the volitionw of dialectic materialism a la KarlE Marx. Mexicans acted in Mexico for Mexican benefits. The Amer- ican press screamed everythinga from Radicalism to Viscious An-h archy. "The Bolsheviks run Mex- ico" was the headline slogan. Buta the sky didn't fall down. Mex-E icans are now better off, and to-g day both the U.S. and Mexico aref "Buenos Amigos".C But Hungary is different. There, sympathizers of our "enemy" wish to divide the lands. Cardinal Mindszenty owned 1,000,000 acresn of peasant-tilled land, 650,000 ofn which have recently been distrib-t uted. His opposition to agrarianc reforms that would have begun to I take Hungarian serfs out of peon-s age, was to the Hungarians, a civilt misdemeanor.t The intransigent beliefs and absolute values he upheld werei never a secret, no more than thet pro-fascist ideals and activities of Cardinal Play Daniel, Spanishf defender of Franco Fascism, ares today, or those of the Argentinel hierarchy who materially, moral-k ly, and politically aid Peron's neo-1 fascism. Privilege wishes to per-_ petuate itself whether it be fromC communist attack or any other. Liberal Catholics have protested the actions of those mentioned, in Hungary, in Spain, in Argen- tina, and wherever they were not censored. After Cardinal Minds- zenty used the pulpit to read poli- tical attacks in the Temple of Holy worship liberal Hungarian Catho- lics protested. Peasants through- out Hungary were incited to re- volt. Unlike Mr. John B. Nahan who proposes in a letter to The Daily, Feb. 15, the "selection" of pub- lishable material, this writer be- lieves that censorship cannot up- hold what our historic ideals en- deavor to profess. Censorship is what the Soviets have more than we. In spirit, it is anti-individual p.m., Grill Room, Michigan Lea- . gue. Sociedad Hispanica: Social hour, Mon., Feb. 21, 4-6 p.m., Interna- tional Center. Senior Society will meet at 7:15 p.m. Mon., Feb. 21, in the ABC Room, Michigan League. Jazz Concert Ushers. Come to Mill Auditorium Box Office Tues., Feb. 22 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. to pick up your tickets to the Jazz at the Philharmonic Concert, Fri., Feb. 25. The Play Reading Section of t the Faculty Women's Club will meet at 1:45 p.m., Tues., Feb. 22, Michigan League. Sigma Rho Tau Smoker. The Engineering Speech Society pre- sents its annual Smoker, 7:15 p.m., Tues., Feb. 22, 3rd Floor, Michigan Union. Guest speaker: I. C. CraAford, dean of engineering school. Tonic: "The Educational -, Object, of the Engineer." All en- e gineers welcome. e Merchant Marine Veterans: Or- ganizational meeting, 7:30 p.m., Tues., Feb. 22, Rm. 3-D, Michigan Union. All Merchant Marine vet- t erans invited. reedom: in function, it is intran- gent. American ideas should be 'ree; discrimination, enpensive. -Manuel Ii. Guerra : in uncist TridfI ro The Editor: - WAS BORN and raised in New York-Southern District, and 'd always been under the impres- ion that New York was a "liberal" ity, with liberal traditions. It was nly recently that I learned that foul system of Jim-Crow, anti- abor Juries have prevailed in that istrict's federal courts for at least he last ten years. And the shame of that is only rivaled by a virtual ndcrsement of that jury system by a Daily editorialist, Jim Brown, n Wednesday's issue. Thte other evening, a radio corn- mentator reported the testimony of a government witness to the 'ffect that in the last several years not one jury notice was sent to the Harlem or the working-class areas of East New York, whereas more than seven thousand notices were sent to the wealthy areas. The poorer areas comprise by far the majority of that district. Fed- eral Judge Knox openly boasts of his hand-picking. The presiding Judge Medina himself challenged this viscious system several years ago, but didn't have the documen- tary evidence now compiled, to win a Supreme Court decision. Mr. Brown's alleged jury-rigging" is a fact. But Brown is more inter- ested in his "trial by newspaper" attack upon the defendants, than he is in the white-supremacist. anti-Semetic, anti-Labor jury sys- tem which is rigged for conviction. Brown bemoans the exposure of this system as "casting a distaste- ful shadow on our nation's courts". Courts of that nature are some- thing more than distasteful. Brown says that ". . . if these men are really innocent, they have nothing to fear . . ." from this type of banker's jury. Such wise counsel 'was given to Sacco and Vanzetti, Mrs. Ingram and her sons, and is today being given to the six framed Negroes in Tren- ton, N.J. And Brown might be mterrested in the additional information that the twelve indicted Communists Niio now seem to be the only ones fighting for a democratic jury system, are being tried in a crim- ial court not for any overt act, but for "teaching and advocat- ing". This in itself is the most dangerousj)departure from demo- cratic jurisprudence. -MAarvin HI. 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