PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY ................. Oniy Choce .THROUGH two decades of violence, the Chinese people have looked towards peace and a stable government as a vague dream and have continued a weary struggle for existence. Now some of them mrn to expect the Chinese Communists to satisfy their universal longing for stability. Since the V-J Day which brought no peace to the Chinese, America has poured billions of dollars into the war-weary na- tion in an effort to bolster the tottering Nanking government. Now we see all too clearly that these dollars have brought far too little in relief-too much in resent- ment. Americans are alarmed at the prospect of a Communist China. But the possibility of sending American troops to "save" the Chinese-to fight for what the Chinese themselves are no longer willing to fight- is both financially and politically impossible. We must instead look for and expect a Communist victory. But the nature of this victory can be gravely altered by the posi- tion we take. America can ignore the new government. But we can be sure that Russia will give the aid and recognition that we Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: DON McNEIL c withheld. The new government will not be allowed to fail. On the other hand, we could conceiuvably extend aid to the new government, wheth- er it is a coalition group or completely Communist. We can help the Chinese materially, offer diplomatic recognition, make free trade a reality between the United States and China and continue the education of Chinese students in this country. Adopting this stand would seem to put the United States in the strange position of condoning in Eastern Asia what they have condemned on the other side of the con- tinent. But the Chinese people, most of them, do not see thepresent struggle as an ideological one. To them, this is a choice between a government which refused to serve the people and another group which promises to hold the needs of the common man above those of a minority. The strong background of 40 centuries of Chinese culture and the individuality of the Chinese people have already proved a hindrance to the complete Communization of northern China. These facts should help to allay our fears that the new government will be a mere pawn of Moscow. With American approval, it is even more certain that the new_-government can be a servant to the people of China, rather than Russia. One thing is certain. The new government is the only one which can in the near future give the Chinese people more to eat than bitterness. -Jo Misner. [ I4ie 7te (Editor's Note is written by Managing Editor Harriett Friedman.) RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT of ten re- search fellowships for faculty members may have gone relatively unnoticed, but these grants are of first importance. The fellowships, established by the Graduate School, cover the eight-week summer session, and will enable the fac- ulty member to accomplish a definite re- search project during the time he would ordinarily be teaching. Pay is approxi- mately the same as a summer teaching salary. This is a big step forward in improving teaching calibre and boosting the value of our faculty. Young professors without funds to continue their own studies will be given a chance to take time off for learning and still stay financially afloat. The only pity is that the University can- not obtain enough money to budget such fellowships regularly, Such a step forward only accents the month old plea of President Ruthven, who warned that unless more state money is forthcoming the standards of the Uni- versity may drop. A University is as good as its faculty, and the only way to hold good teachers is to pay them well and give them opportunities for research and improvement. President Ruthven emphasized those objectives in his statement, but unfortunately the Univer- sity may not be in a position 'to carry them out fully. With the University facing a tougher financial situation, the Graduate School fellowships provide a ray of hope that the objectives will be kept in mind. We can hope that the faculty grants will be continued year after year, and that some- day the University will be further able to provide in this and other ways for maintenance of a first rate faculty. Little' UN SENATOR RALPH FLANDERS, of Ver- mont, and a group of his senator friends are drafting a "Little UN" which would be composed of the 12 Atlantic Pact powers. They are planning to throw it to the Senate at the same time that they vote to ratify the North Atlantic Pact. It is not clear just what such a body would accomplish, but there seem to be 'Gosh, I Haven t Seen Those Since Last Halloween" }MN1 R{ t NTRUJMAN PORO'GIfAM '(00 N Ro S II 4-r DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN L ---I Letters to the Editor- + CINEMA. + A t the ir pheum ...The cast is excellent to the last man. Olivier's Hamlet is occasionally a more virile HAMLET, by W. Shakespeare, with Laur- one than some I've seen, yet he demon- ence Olivier. strates the restraint and sensitivity neces- sary for the tragic bewilderment of the LAURENCE OLIVIER'S film version of soliloquies. Apparently he himself doesn't "Hamlet" has, since it was first-shown take too seriously the over-simplified nature in this country ten months ago, been pretty of the man indicated in his preliminary universally acknowledged as the best filming pronouncement. of Shakespeare to date. And it appears to Jean Simmons invests the role of Ophelia be well deserved. with an honest, open innocence. Basil Syd- Whether or not you are willing to go along ney makes of Claudius a crafty and power- with Olivier's introductory suggestion that ful opponent to the Prince, and Felix Ayl- "'Hamlet' is the story of a man who couldn't mer is outstanding as the old maxim-mon- make up his mind," you will have to agree, gerer Polonius. There are equally competent I think, that his version of the greatest performances by Eileen Herlie as Gertrude tragic hero in literature is honestly and in- and Norman Wooland as Horatio. telligently worked out.T There are certain departures from the play The film is made in black-and-white be- as Shakespeare wrote it. Rosencrantz and cause, as Olivier points out, Hamlet" be- Guildenstern have been omitted for pur- tongs in black-and-white. The diffcult poses of brevity, as has been Fortinbras, and problem of limited settings, is solved by a there has been some trimming of lines and constantly moving camera and the extensive there has bseesofedtpimminhofoginesy.n omission of scenes. If you are one of those use of depth photography. who insist that Shakespeare cannot be Background music, supplied by William juggled with, then the Olivier version is at Walton, is excellent. least that far wrong. But it seems to me Scenario was provided by a Mr. Shake- that Olivier's revisions are moderate, careful, speare, whose birthday it is today. I think and, in view of the medium within which he would be well satisfied. he's working, defensible. -W. J. Hampton. two main possibilities. One is that the group would of super defense council; the only the Atlantic Pact powers included might indicate that. body would have no veto, so iti either controversial defense plans be a kind fact that would be This new could pass that failed MATTER OF FACT: Some Senators By JOSEPH ALSO? WASHINGTON-For once in a way, there was an interesting afternoon in the Senate the other day, when the Bricker amendment to the housing bill was being de- bated. To begin with, the amendment itself, injected a certain element of grim, ironic situation comedy. For this seemingly pro- gressive proposal was a slick gimmick, ac- tually designed by the real estate lobby to kill public housing by arousing the south against it. Thus Senators Wherry, Bricker, and Capehart, every one of whom had lent aid and comfort to the Southern fili- buster against civil rights, were osten- tatiously weeping crocodile tears for the under privileged Negroes. It did not in- Narrowed Meaning IT'S ODD HOW words take on strangely narrow meanings-even words like ac- ademic freedom. In the last few years, that phrase has become rather closely associated with one problem: "How liberal shall we let oii1r teachers be?" Or, to put it still more narrowly: "Shall we allow Communists to teach?" A remark one of our professors made the other day drove home to us the more fundamental meaning of academic freedom. "Sure, let Communists teach," he said. "But, at the same time, why not hire a Catholic medievalist, for example?" He was suggesting that what might be called an out-dated and biased set of be- liefs be given expression. And we felt that he had rather strikingly pointed out what academic freedom should mean in its whole and truest sense. Of course the schools should be the arena, perhaps the battleground, for pro- gressive ideas of politics, art, literature. But they should be more than that. There terest them that, with or without segre- gation, the bill will aid the ill-housed Negroes more than any other American group. Their only aim was to please the housing lobby, and to add to their records a specious counter poise to their sabotage of civil rights. By way of contrast, the same Northern Democrats and Republicans who had sin- cerely favored civil rights now sincerely fa- vored public housing. They were thus in the uncomfortable position of having to fight the Bricker amendment. Yet the interest was provided far more by the interplay of personality than by the inherent irony of the situation. In this regard, Douglas again carried off the prize. Among the new progressive Sen- ators swept into office by the last elec- tion he has, thus far, made the strongest impression. He must have needed his good temper to withstand the baiting of the leaders of Senatorial reaction. Capehart and Wherry had cast Douglas, evidently, in the role of the schoolboy intellectual. They went after him with all the heavy wit, all the harsh, complacent rudeness, of class bullies putting the clever boy in his place. The cynic or the pessimist, surveying this curious legislative show, might be inclined to draw gloomy conclusions. Yet the be- liever in the American democratic process ought on the contrary to find here cause for encouragement. Such phenomena as Taft's change of style, and the emergence of men like Douglas among the progressives, mean that this is a country whose politics are wonderfully adaptable, perhaps comic, yet richly complex and capable of great de- velopments. This is good enough. (Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) New Books at General Library Ernst, Morris and Loth, David-The People Know Best. Washington, D.C., Publc in the UN or it could pass less world-shaking measures which would amount to little more than routine security plans. In the former case, there seems little value in passing an atomic control plan without Eastern support, and for the routine matters, there is no need for a permanent organization. If there ever seemed to be real danger, of course, the Atlantic powers would meet anyway, as the terms of that pact clearly state. The second main possibility is thatethe "Little UN" would be simply the Western bloc in the same old UN, an organization dedicated to the concept that if nothing can be accomplished with Russia in the UN, perhaps certain measures can be passed without her. This seems the more likely of the two, particularly inasmuch as Flanders has said that, far from killing the big UN, the "Little UN" would "put life into what is now the debilitated condition" of the bigger grou. One wonders why, too, the other Western countries that aren't in the Atlantic Pact, such as the Latin American lands, wouldn't be included. Quite possibly the 12 pact signees would be expected to admit other Western nations once they got rolling. This kind of organization would prob- ably pass on measures which were blocked in the big UN by an Eastern veto, or perhaps they would prepare bills, put them up for vote in the general assembly with a "Here's what the West is doing; approve it or leave it." In either case, the action would be just about one per cent better than leaving the UN altogether, as there has been talk of the Russians doing. True, the bills would have had a chance to be approved by the Soviets,, but the important things is that the West would be acting pretty much by itself. So in summary there seems to be no need for either a super defense council or a Western UN, a UN whose members would rarely disagree among themselves because the main rift in the world is be- tweeh the East and West. The only way to even leave open a path for one world is to stick completely by the UN, grim as the going may be. -John P. Davies. Looking Back 30 YEARS AGO: Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Office of the Assistant to the President, Room 2552 Administration Building, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication '11:00 a.m. Saturdays). SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1949 VOL. LIX, No. 141 Notices Scholarships to Mexico: Mem- bers of Sociedad Hispanica who wish to apply for annual scholar- ships to Mexico must write to So- ciedad Hispanica, Room 414, Ro- mance Language Building, before May 6. Please include following information: class, Spanish courses studied, and club activities in which you have participated. Lost and Found Glasses: The Health Service has quite a collec- tion of such glasses, and students may come to the Cashier's Office at the Health Service to identify such. We will keep them for about 10 days. Warren E. Forsythe, M.D. Director. The State University of Iowa announces a number of part-time assistantships for the year 1949- 50. These require teaching expe- rience. Those selected will be re- quired to teach from 8-10 hours weekly in the University High School. There are openings in the following fields: Industrial Arts (some coaching experience); Physical Education for Girls; English; Social Studies; Social Studies and Science; Vocal Music; Library; Commerce; and Home Economics. For further informa- tion, call at the Bureau of Ap- pointments. The Los Angeles, California, City Board of Education an- nounces an examination for teach- ers of Kindergarten, the Primary Grades, and Elementary Grades. This examination will be given in Los Angeles on July 27, 1949. For further information call at the Bureau of Appointments. The Detroit Civil Service Com- mission announces open competi- tive examinations for Social Case Worker, Medical Social Case worker, Student Social Worker, Junior Publicist, Intermediate Publicist, Head City Planner, Semi-senior Accountant, and Sen- ior Accountant. Additional infor- mation may be obtained at the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Building. University Community Center at Willow Run Village: Sun., April 24, 10:45 a.m. Inter- denominational Church Service and Nursery. Mon., April 25, 8 p.m., Sewing Class. Cosmopolitan Club. Wives Club Refreshment Committee. Tues., April 26, 8 p.m., Student Wives Club: "Don't Keep A Steak Waiting," a Kroger Film. Wed., April 27, 8 p.m., Bridge Night. Ceramics. Choir. Thurs., April 28, 8 p.m., Ceram- ics. Water Color, Textile Painting. Metal Work. -Lectures University of Toronto, will lecture on "On Beginning to Read Spen- ser" at 4:15 p.m. on Monday, April 25, in the Kellogg Audito- rium. The public is invited. Professor Frye will speak infor- mally to graduate students in English and members of the Eng- lish Department at 8:00 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. His subject is "What to Do until Finnegan Wakes." Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Ivor Cornman, Zoology; thesis: "Cy- tological Phenomena Observed DuringSelectiveand Non-selective Injury to Malignant Cells in Tis- sue Culture with Penicillium Ex- tracts and with Nitrogen Mus- tards," today, 3091 Natural Sci- ence Bldg., at 9:00 a.m. Chairman, A. F. Shull. Doctoral Examination for Her- man Theodore Epstein, Physics; thesis: "The Arrangement of Molecules in Monolayers and Mul- tilyers of Organic Acids," today, West Council Room, Rackhan Building, 4 p.m. Chairman, R. C. Williams. Doctoral Examination for Ed- ward Lewis Schumann, Pharma- ceutical Chemistry. thesis: "Cyclic Acetals and Ketals, II and II," Monday, April 25, 2525 Chemistry Bldg., at 1:30 p.m. Chairman, F. F. Blicke. Concerts Carillon Recital by Sidney Giles, Assistant University Carillonneur, 2:15 Sunday afternoon, April 24. The program will include Prelude No. 1 for Carillon by Van den Gheyn, a group of songs arranged for the carillon by Mr. Giles; com- positions by Franssen, Loos, Nees; Liebestraum by Liszt, MacDow- ell's To a Wild Rose, and Sonatina No. 5 by Pleyal. Cancellation of Recital: The program by Jean Drake, pianist, previously announced for Monday, April 25, in the Rackham Assem- bly Hall, has been postponed. Events Today Saturday Luncheon Discussion Group, 12:15 p.m., Lane Hall. Midwestern Intercollegiate Weightlifting Championships: Free to the public, at 2:00 p.m. today in the Intramural Sports Building. Feature event of the meet will be the lifting of Pete George, World's Champion, and member of the U.S. Olympic Team. Gilbert and Sullivan Society: Painting and construction workers are urgently needed for work on the set for "Patience." Set workers will meet at 2:30 p.m. today, Lane Hall Balcony. Costume and makeup workers are asked to call Fred Scheffler, 213 Wenley House, 2-4401. The Modern Dance Club, under W.A.A., presents TOSIA MUND- STOCK and her group tonight at 8:00 at the Barbour Gym Dance Studio. The public is invited. The University of Michigan The Maly accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for publication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general po- icy is to publish in the order In which they are received all letters bearing the -writer's signiture and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters and letters of a defama- tory character or such letters which for any ther reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. * * 0 Re: Rent Control To the Editor:I R. ROATEN'S letter of April 14th was a statistical and arithmetical masterpiece. It must have taken him three or four hours to gather all that data and cram it into a mere 300 words, Unfortunately, I am in the Bus. Ad. school ta good place for all us reactionaries, eh wot?) and haven't the time to spare on such exhaustive "research." Besides I refuse to bore The Daily readers with such mountains of statis- tical mumbo-jumbo. For the sake of the record however, the Pro- ducers' Council Survey in its re- port "Our Housing Improvements Since 1940" says, "The American people are better housed today than in 1940 . . ." And to support its statement, gives facts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, among which are: (1) In 1948 alone, new construction provided an estimated 1,125,000 additional non-farm units. (2) The propor- tional number of married couples living "doubled up" is 7 per cent lower today than in 1940. If Mr. Roaten is further interested, I refer him to the Feb. and March issues of the Congressional Rec- ord. Mr. Roaten submits as evidence of a housing shortage, a quota- tion from a Duke University pub- lication which says, "it is a rea- sonable statement to describe the social need for housing as ranging from 8 to 12 million units." As Jack Benny says, "I can go along with a gag." Not only will I admitthis "social need," but I will go'you one better Mr. Roaten, and say that the social need for housing is probablysgreater than 8 or i2 million units. The rub is that "social need" and economic need are two very different things. One might say that here is a social need for 140 million bath- tubs, or a half a million tons of manure for the university cam- pus;- and so on. But if the con- struction of these 140 million bathtubs means that there will be no, steel available for making automobiles (or pitchforks), or for building apartment houses, tonight at 8:30 in the Assembly Room of the Rackham Building. Refieshments. Tickets may be purchased from Interest Group chairmen or Mrs. John Payne, 331 Packard; they will also be sold at the door. Coming Events Sociedad Hispanica: Social Hour, Monday, April 25, 4 to 6 p.m., International Center. Russian circle meeting, Monday, April 25, atthe International Cen- ter at 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Prof. Beardsley; subject: Tartar influ- ences on Russian culture. Gilbert and Sullivan Society: Business meeting and rehearsal for all officers, principals, chorus, and construction crew on Sunday, April 24, 2-5, Michigan League. Presentation of slate of officers and ratification of the Constitu- tion. Monday-rehearsal of the Dra- goons, 7:00 p.m., Michigan League Tuesday-rehearsal of the Maid- ens, 7:00 p.m., Michigan League. The Armenian Students' Asso- ciation will meet Mon., April 25, at 7:30 p.m., at the Union in Room 3-K. Graduate Outing Club meets Sunda', April 25, at 2:15 p.m. at northwest entrance to Rackham for hike. All Graduates welcome! UWF Discussion Meeting Sun- day, April 24, 8-9:30 p.m. at 318 E. Madlison. Topic-North Atlan- tic Pact, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation -UJA Festival Sunday, April 24. All invited. Members of the University of Michigan Dames Bowling Group will meet Mon., April 25, at the Women's Athletic Building, Uni- versity of Michigan campus, at 7:45 p.m. then social and economic need .re in direct conflict. A statement of a social need for 8 million housing units is not proof of a housing shortage. A statement to the effect that there is less housing per capital now than in normal times would be proof of a housing shortage. Mr. Roaten has shown us no such statement. Incidentally, my fattier is not a landlord or a real-estate agent; hie sells tii'es. -harry McCreary. For Better Singing To the Editor: CONGREGATIONAL singing should be sincere and enthus- iastic. In this manner the mem- bers of the congregation receive a greater sense of being part of the service. Singing from the depth of the heart rather than uttering melodious sounds creates an atmosphere of true devotion. Knowing the story behind a hymn; knowing the situation in which it was written is of great significance to the conscious, sin- cere individual. It aids him to see visions together with his own ex- periences which deeply impresses upon his mind the hymn's im- portance to his life. "The afterglow of a radiant Sabbath-drenched Brixham with quiet splendor, but under the graying glory there was gloom in- stead of peace. That morning the village pastor, weak and ill, had preached his farewell sermon. On the following day he was to start for Italy in the hope of recovering his health. Loving eyes were turned to the rectory, in the low- ering darkness, a light shone from the study window. That afternoon some of the villagers had seen their pastor walking in the garden among the flowers he loved. Many prayers were said for him that evening. In his study, the pastor, the Reverend Henry F. Lyte, was busy at his desk. He was not writing next Sunday's sermon, He realized that he would probably never preach again. He was writing a hymn, the words and first music of which he handed to a relative when he came out of his study that evening. Not an academic literary pro- duction, but a song of the heart, "Abide With Me" came out of the experiences of the day and of the grief of farewell which had made the morning service so difficult for the sick man that at times he had wondered if he could go through with it-out of the peace and quiet beauty of the afternoon in the garden in sight of the sea he loved-out of the soothig glow of the sunset came this great hymn." 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