NO MORE SLAVES See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State A A& Butt L y 1 r U *7/j U ? CLOUDY, COwD. VOL. LIX, No. 110 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Program Speakers DR. ELDRED TIIIEHOFF will continue the Religion In Life Week program with his seminar on "Marriage and the Family" at 4:10 today at the League. * * *. T. Z. KOO, advisor to the Chi- nese delegation to the 1945 San Frayncisco Conference, who conducted the Religion in Life seminar on "World Outlook for Christianity" yesterday. * *' 4 Leaders Descri'be L i Role ofChristianity Three Religion in Life speakers demonstrated the role of Chris- tianity in world government, race relations and campus life in stu- dent seminars yesterday. The speakers were T. Z. Koo, Herrick Young and Mrs. Vera Lowrie. T.Z.Koo... KOO, ADVISOR to the Chinese delegation to the 1945 San Fran- cisco Conference, vouched for the power of student religious move- ments in his talk on "World Outlook for Christianity" at Rackham. . HE TOLD THE AUDIENCE of students and townspeople that "arguments developed over the phrasing of the preamble to the Conference declaration. Some delegates wanted to include the idea of cooperation between nations on a basis of equality. "It was interesting to see the very ideals for which the 50 year old World Student Christian Federation has been constantly fighting verbalized in the United Nations charter. "Small religious groups do the hard spade work but see little evidence of the material structure," he said. "On the other hanc nations have written the constitution to set up world wide governing force, but they have forgotten about the ground work." THE ONLY WAY to combine these two forces is through indivi- dual personalities working in both capacities, according to Koo. The United Nations is structurally sufficient to preserve peace but the spiritual background for peace is lacking, the religious leadel said. Herrick Young. . . "CHRISTIANITY IS ON TRIAL in the eves of the colored peoples of the world to see if we really do believe in the universal rights of man." These were the words of Herrick B. Young, international lecturer and secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He labeled racism one of the "basic stumbling blocks of Chris- tianity all over the world" before one of yesterday's Religion in Lifc Week Seminars. The discussion entitled "World Race Relations" was held at the International Center. S * .* * U.S. RACIAL PROBLEMS are capitalized by the Soviet Union, he pointed out, "as one of its strongest propaganda lines." "Communism as it advances equality to the have-nots," he said. "is preempting something we had first but did not practice." When he visited Lagos, Nigeria, Young said he found the African outlook toward whites changed. Up to World War II, they had been schooled to regard whites as gods. After fighting with the French against Hitler's invasion, they discovered they were stronger and better "shots" than the whites. After this they won't be "pushed around so much." Race problems, he emphasized, are worldwide in scope, but the approach to changing prejudices is through the individual. Vera Lowrie ... "STUDENTS MUST REALIZE that campus life is not apart from the rest of life, but is directly related to what has gone before and what is to come," said Mrs. Vera Smith Lowrie, speaking on "Chris- tianity on the Campus." MRS. LOWRIE pointed out that campus morals are set by young people between the ages of 18 and 22 who refuse to be influ- enced by standards set up by older college administrators. f J ell-Suited NEW YORK-UP) -President Truman has been outdone- by his Secretary of State. The Custom Tailors Guild of America, announcing today its choices for the 10 best- dressed men in the country, chose Secretary Dean Acheson over Mr. Truman in the gov- ernment category. In the motion picture cate- gory Clark Gable received the nod over Richard Widmark. Russian Spy Not Immune Expert Says Valentine A. Gubitchev, accused Russian spy, is liable for prosecu- tion in U.S. courts, according to Prof. Lawrence Preuss of the po- litical science department. "The only international right that applies to this case is Rus- sia's right to be certain that its citizens are given fair trials in for- eign courts," he said. Preuss, professor of interna- tional law, and leading authority on diplomatic immunities, said that the issue has been confused by a misunderstanding of the dif- ference between the rights and immunities of international or- ganization personnel and that of diplomatic personnel. * * i GUBICHEV was originally a member of, the Russian UN staff before his transfer to the secre- tariat in a technical capacity, he said. "But there is no legal status deriving from the fact of his being a Soviet national." His status is therefore regu- lated by the Internatonal Or- ganizations Immunities Act passed in December 1945." This act gives immunity from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts for all acts connected with the func- tioning of the UN, he said. "Since Gubichev's act is not of this nature, he remains fully sub- ject to the jurisdiction and laws of the U.S." NSA Outlines Travel Plans Blanks Available Today, Tomorrow NSA summer travel applications and books outlining tours will be available from 4 to 4:45 p.m. to- day and tomorrow in the Office of Student Affairs, according to Sue Siris. Tour applications must be in by next Tuesday, Miss Siris said. The NSA tour book outlines Aight week trips to Europe and Latin America ranging from $555 to $640 in cost. STUDENTS ON the Tri-Nation tour of Holland, England and France will study political, social and artistic activities in these countries. The Northern Tour will cover England, Scandanavia and hol- land, the Southern tour, France, Italy and Switzerland. Honor Code Voting Civil engineers may still obtain questionnaires on the Engineering Honor System in Rm. 306, West Engineering Building. The questionnaires have been prepared by the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers to give students a chance to express their opinion on the system. Rent Control Menaced by House GOP Would Transfer Siuhs to States By The Associated Press Democratic leaders ran into new obstacles yesterday in their race to secure enactment of a 15- month rent control extension bill before the old controls expire on 1March 31. The administration's rent bill has been cleared for House action later in the week but House Re- publican leaders are busy lining up support for a GOP Policy Com- mittee proposal to continue rent controls for only 90 days. THE SHOWDOWN battle on the floor of the House is scheduled to open Thursday with a final vote! on the controversial issue likely Friday. House Republican leader Mar- tin (Rep., Mass.) said yester- day that a mass meeting of GOP House members over- whelmingly supported the idea of ending Federal rent controls and turning the problem over to the states. After the closed door meeting Martin said: 1. The Republican members, "are overwhelmingly in support" of only a 90-day exten- sion of federal rent controls, and I same want these controls to die when the present law expires March 31. 2. That if any controls are con- tinued, the House should first adopt an amendment proposed by Rep. Browl (Dem., Ga.) providing that the landlords, so far as prac- ticable, must be given "a reason- able return on the fair value of their property." IF AND WHEN the rent control bill gets through the House, ad- ministration leaders must figure some way to push the measure through the Senate which is cur- rently stalled by a southern Dem- ocrat's filibuster against a rules amendment. The filibuster was interrupted yesterday by a Republican sen- ator who launched a seven-hour. attack on the nomination of Mon C. Wallgren for chairman of the National Security Re- sources Board.' Senator Cain (Rep., Wash.) de- manded in his speech, which he had originally scheduled to last 16 hours, that a Senate committee investigate charges made by col- umnist Drew Pearson concerning a "crap" game from which Wall- ren was supposed to have won $50,000. iZarichny Talk SidestepsBart James Zarichny neatly skirted the University Lecture Committee last night. The expelled Michigan ; Statte College student who had been de- nied permission to present his case at an open campus meeting spoke at Chicago House and a wire re- cording of the talk was played at a meeting of the Young Progres- sives. The Lecture Committee's juris- diction does not apply to speakers in residence halls. "I have never been told by the Michigan State College adminis- tration why I was expelled in De- cember," he said. "Indirect sources informed me it was because I attended an off- campus meeting where a commu- first spoke." But Zarichny said that his probation, which prohib- ited his taking part in extra-cur- ricular activities, did not apply to off-campus meetings. TO SL To Argue Speech Ban, SchoolSpirit New Proposals To Be Studied Student Legislators will come to grips with the speakers ban and a plan to "revive college spirit" at "7:30 p.m. today in the Grand Rap- ids Room of the League. The Legislature will hear re- ports on speech ban developments of the last two weeks including the Regents action, and University Lecture Committee moves in the Zarichny case. Proposals ranging from a re- quest for student members on the Lecture Committee to the appoint- ment of an advisory group of stu- dents to work with the Commit- tee will be considered. * '* LEGISLATOR Bill Gripman will present his plan for the re- vival of college spirit, backed by statistics he has been gathering for the last three months. Gripman's plan envisions the establishment of a "Frosh- Soph week" shortly after the beginning of each semester when freshmen will wear "bean- ies." The week will include a pep rally, a "well supervised" tug of war across the Huron River and a talent show for freshmen and sophomores at Hill Auditorium on Friday to finish the week. Purpose of the week, according to Gripman is to get the incoming freshmen integrated in activities, both academic and extra-curricu- lar as soon as they hit the campus. GRIPMAN, delegated last win- ter by SL to study the school spirit situation claims he has the back- ing of 1,113 students with 343 against the measure. He sent cards asking student residences their opinion on the plan. lie received 125 affirmatives and 37 negative answers. He then added the number of stu- dents represented by each house and came out with 1,113 for and 343 against totals. Rumor in Legislature circles had it that members opposed to Grip- man's proposal will present a mod- erate plan of their own for the re- vival of class interest and college spirit. IFC To Study Bias Clauses Campus fraternities will grapple with the problem of discrimina- tory clauses in nationaldfraternity charters in a new way when IFC representatives attend the Uni- versity of Minnesota's Greek Week from April 21 to 25. A gathering of Big Ten IFC's, the Greek Week will feature the discrimination problem in all its discussions. Talks by, Minnesota Governor Youngdahl and Ulhi- versity of Pennsylvania President Harold Stassen are other features of the Greek Week it was re- vealed at an IFC meeting last night. Phoenix Fund Be Launched WORLD'S RECORD BREAKER-Lanky Bill Odom emerg globe-circling "lucky suit," from his plane after brea world's record for non-stop flight from Honolulu to Te N.J., four miles from New York City. It was his second at the 5,000 mile flight, which he completed in 36 hours first comment about the flight was "It was easy." Ne coffee or pills to keep him awake for the long stretch, "All I did was listen to the radio.' Poets RepeatSelves Throu gh A ges ---Dan By MARY STEIN" Poets today must say essential- ly the same things that poets said 3,000 years ago, and there's noth- ing they can do about it, Prof. Edward Davison, Dean of Wash- ington and Jefferson College said yesterday. The experiences and emotions of men that ancient Chinese poets made into "poems painted with a brush" are still, the same, the British-born poet told a Rackham amphitheatre audience. AND POETS have to write about them if they're to be worth their salt-"to feel these universal emo- tions and communicate them is to be a poet." "When poets say they aren't going to write about the com- mon experiences of life - its anguish and distress, its yearn- ings - ask yourselves, 'Who the hell do they think they are?'" "The unchanging mood and the eternal situation are the poetic tradition. Changing customs have nothing to do with it." HOW CAN NEW poetry be writ- ten if there is nothing new under the sun, poetically speaking? Prof. Davison explained that though the poet's experiences are familiar to every man in every age, each poet learns about them all over again for himself. This personal re-discovery ofI age-old feelings and experiencesI is what makes men keep on writ- ing poetry, he said. Interview .. They're neglecting their job. That's what Prof. Edward Davi- son had to say about "obscure" modern poets in a post-lecture in- terview yesterday. HE DIDN'T name any names, but he did say that "they've lost touch with their audience." It's Black To Give PoliticalTalek Former State Attorney-General Eugene Black will speak on the ai in 1950 Memorial To Study Atom's Potentialities Lang Will Head Financial Drive Following nearly a year of in- tensive organizational planning, it was announced yesterday that a nation-wide fund-raising cam- paign for the Phoenix Project, University living War Memorial, will be launched in the fall of 1950. At the same time it was re- vealed that Chester H. Lang, vice- president of the General Electric Company and a prominent alum- nus of the University, has accept- ed the national executive chair- manship of the Memorial fund campaign which will finance the Project. Serving as vice-chairman will be Clifford B. Longley, a promi- ent Detroit attorney and civic tender'. ges in his * * * king the LANG AND LONGLEY will di- Atersboro, rect a -drive which will contact attempt the 125,000 alumni of the Univer- Odom's sity, explaining the Phoenix plan domg noto them and soliciting their finan- eding no ialeand moral support. A sep- he said, arate campaign for special gifts will be conducted during the re- mainder of this year. Present organizational plans call for a special student com- mittee to assist in the 1950 campaign and in the actual planning of the Project. It is s80 11 thought that the University's 20,000 students will be a potent force in publicizing the drive mmunicate in addition to the work of amo- they're not fessional promotion agencies. d. The Phoenix Project, dedicated to students and faculty members or them- who died in World War II, will her-why, be devoted to peacetime research oking into in the development of humani- tarian uses of atomic power. * * * eaders are poets, Prof. THE CONCEPT of a "func- ly "spend- tional" war memorial originated deaning' at on Dec. 18, 1946, when the Stu- erson Col- dent Legislature went on record as approving such a plan. Off i- cial sanction came when the Uni- versity Board of Regents named a s faculty-student Memorial Com- mittee in September, 1947. 11 E The idea for an atomic re- searchcenter was conceived by Fred J. Smith, a prominent New York publisher and one time Must University student. It was his itiltio ssu ggestion that the Memorial iib deiOi designedhto "make atomic energy the slave of man, rather group was - than his master." constitution Following the enthusiastic sup- ent Affairs port of the Memorial Committee, sterday. the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis- Association, See WAR MEMORIAL, Page 6 esidents of n mbir Last Chance-®- tions Club Ensian Prices Veterans' zed pending Jump to 6 Aitutions. A _tp 0 0 anized un- _ivil Rights The Ensian sales staff will sell atic group, the 450-page yearbook at $5 for me Theater the last time at 10 p.m. tonight in ted campus the Publications Building. s titutio n The book is bigger and better than ever, according to Slug Ket- ed a Drives tier, associate sales manager, who [uling only pointed out that there are 21 more s next se- pages in the House Groups see- and Fresh tion, as well as an increase of 31 pages in the Organizations sec- tion, as compared with last year. ews "THIS MEANS that the cam- pus is eceiving better representa- FT tion this year," he declared. The Sports section, under the direction of Potsy Ryan, contains Press approximately 60 pages. Four of court con- these are devoted to the Michigan ministers on Olympic champs, Bob Sohl, Herb treason to Barten, Eck Kautonen and Cliff sentenced Keen. prisonment. Ten inter-collegiate sports are one to 15 fully coVered by pen and photo e others. in the yearbook, including everything . from tennis to the poets' 'job to co with their readers, and doing that, he declare "They're writing f selves or for each ot it's as if they were lo a mirror." Meanwhile, those r moving away from thei Davison, who's current ing most of my time ' Washington and Jeff( lege," said. SAC Okay Junior Pa Foulr Grouips Change Of1si One new campusi recognized, and fourc ognized pending c changes, at the Studl Committee meeting ye Junior Panhellenic to be composed of pr ps nbellenic associatiol pledge classes, is now campus group. The Industrial Rela and Merchant Marine Club have been recogniz certain changes in cons Civil Rights group, org der the name of the C Congress, and adram organized under the nar SGuild, also will= be grant standing after cor changes. The SAC also approv Calendar report sched three campus tag day mester: Galens, WSSF Air Camp. World N Rotud-i By The AssociatedI SOFIA-A Bulgarian victed 15 Protestant m charges ranging from rumor-mongering and four of them to life imr Prison terms of from years were assigned th ,T * * "They must learn things for ence," she said. themselves through actual experi- I AT MENDELSSOHN THEATRE: BEAT INFLATION! You have until 10 P.M. tonight to buy the '49 MICHIGANENSIAN for $5.00 . . . Tomorrow the "These young people are sow-' ing without reaping -- they haven't lived long enough to learn what one can reap from the things he sows." She ex- plained that things in the sow- ing stage look much less offen- sive than in the reaping saage. If students expect to be treated as adults with adult privileges, she continued, they must accept re- EVENTS TODAY SEMINARS: "Marriage and Family"--Dr. Eldred Thiehoff, Hussey Rm., Puccini Opera Bill Opens Tonight * * * Opera by Puccini will spotlight* the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre at 8 p.m. tonight when "Sister Angel- ica" and "Gianni Schicchi" are presented by the speech depart- ment and themusic school. Tickets for the productions, which run for the next four nights, may be purchased at the theatre box office. BACKED BY the elaborate and writing in which the wily Gianni Schicchi leaves the most valuable possessions to himself so that young Rinuccio can marry Schic- chi's daughter and live happily ever after. THE LEADING roles include Malcolm Foster, SM, as Gianni Schicchi, Carol Neilson, '50SM as his daughter Lauretta, and Rich- . =