THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 26,149 . .. . ,! IT SO HAPPENS... 9 Academic and Otherwise Revolutionaries. . STUDENT LEADERS last night blasted the final exam schedule, saying it will pro- vide "a hellish ordeal" and calling for "posi- tive steps to remove the ill effect of this edu- cational gas chamber." A manifesto drawn up by the group hint- ed at direct action planned for tomorrow. It concluded with the words: "Seniors, arise; you have nothing to lose but your degree!" Scientific Test .. . "OBJECTIVE" TESTS are the greatest in- vention since lipstick, according to one toed who encountered them in a psych test. Armed to the ears with irrelevant facts, t he went into a make-up exam in which t her instructor handed her the usual sheaf of ambiguous questions. She was stymied by some of the questions, but gritted her ! teeth and filled in all the blanks. The next day, the instructor greeted her 'With the information that he had mistakenly given her a test for a course three steps ,.rnore advanced than the one she was tak- He asked her if she'd like to accept the grade on the test as the make-up mark. She nodded, and got a B-plus. AND SPEAKING of the demon drink, a friend of ours described a wonderful in- vention at a party we attended recently. It was a beer keg with an adjustable spigot that would pour forth milk at the sound of a knock on the door or the sound of a window being jimmied. Now all he has to do is invent the gadget. Fisler Ex Pro... AFTER MONTHS of profound silence the. name of Gerhardt Eisler has hit the front pages of the nation's newspapers once again. The man who arrived in 1941 on an illegal passport, and spent eight years of unwel- come visiting in the United States, decided to go home. In spite of being under $23,500 bail, and awaiting deportation proceedings, Eisler managed to slip out and stow away on a freighter bound for Communist-dominated Poland, only to end up in a London prison. The British government which removed Eisler from the ship and is holding him iU without bail asks only one question: Is Eisler a political refugee, or a fleeing con- vict? The extradition treaty between England and the United States guarantees England the right to harbor political refugees, but specifically demands the return of fugitive * criminals. While it may be true that Eisler's in- famous political activities in the United States, and his numerous lecturing cam- t paigns (to which even Ann Arbor was subjected) did earn him the title of the nation's No. 1 Communist, these facts are irelevant in the extradition proceedings. For the American government hardly wants Gerhardt Eisler back in order to prosecute him. The fact that he is a Communist, or any t other "ist," means nothing; Gerhardt Eisler fled the United States after being released 'on bail. Eisler is guilty of passport fraud and contempt of Congress, and has been con- victed of both these charges by a high American court. His appeal has been denied, The British lawyers defending Eisler may * shout "persecuted Communist" till the tow- er of London crumbles an falls, but Ger- hardt Eisler must come back to the United States and face whatever punishment Amer- ican justice may mete out to him. S--Herb Cohen. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. I NIGHT EDITOR : PAUL BRENTLINGER Intercepted Letter ... AN "INTERCEPTED letter" printed in a Detroit newspaper was addressed to the president of the Sigma Phi house. It said: "It is shocking to learn that there is drinking at Michigan fraternity houses. When did this terrible vice begin?" Fitting Tribute UNIVERSITY STUDENTS yesterday paid tribute to an outstanding teach- er and scholar, Prof. Hereward T. Price. The recognition was noteworthy, not only because Prof. Price's long career as THE teacher of Shakespeare at the University is ending, but because the tribute is completely appropriate. With funds collected from many pres, ent and past Price students, a special Shakespeare lecture has been established for next year. This lecture will also be published for the benefit of all students, here and else- where. In addition, shorthand notes were tak- en in both Shakespeare and Chaucer courses this semester, and have been transcribed and bound to "form the mat- rix for the most outstanding contribution in the history of Shakespearean criti- cism ..." There could be no better recognition of Prof. Price's long career at the Uni- versity. His students have provided as- surance that Prof. Price's work will be continued and preserved, and that his enthusiasm and love for Shakespeare's works will still be transmitted. -Harriet Friedman. tradition Con... GERHARDT EISLER, anti-Fascist and Communist, fled Germany in 1941. On his way to Mexico, he unwillingly landed in the United States. Eisler's transit visa was completely ig- nored by American custom officials. As a result, he was forced to remain here for four years, until he finally received an exit visa. Four months later it was re- voked without an explanation. He was called before the House Un-American Ac- tivities Committee and for refusal to dis- close his political affiliations, was sen- tenced to a year's imprisonment. Before thi sentence had terminated, he was convicted of misstatements on his appli- cation for an exit visa and an additional prison sentence of one to three years was imposed. Eisler has repeatedly protested his innocence. In 1948 he was sent to Ellis Island and held for a time without bail, which he ob- tained after staging a prolonged hunger strike. Held in this country as a political prisoner, with occasional court sentences passed on him, Eisler saw one way out. He attempted to flee this country in the same manner that he fled Germany eight years ago. He stowed away on a Polish shop, Batury, of the Gydnia-American Line. He was discov- ered, whereupon he disclosed his identity and paid his passage to Gydnia, Poland. When the ship docked at Southampton, Scotland Yard detectives were there to greet it. The British, under an extradition treaty with the U.S., are authorized to free any fugitive whose offense is political. Eisler was persecuted by the Nazis be- cause he was an anti-Fascist. He has been persecuted by our government because he is a Communist. He has become a symbol of the Communist cause. And there have been signs that the Brit- ish government does not wholeheartedly agree with the United States policy towards Communists. Harold Laski, former British Labor Party chairman made this statement: "I don't understand how a Labor govern- ment can envisage sending back a man who has not been recognized guilty, to a political trial which will take place in such an at- mosphere as to render his conviction a cer- tainty." -Ein Corben. ID RATHER BE RIGHT: Losing Li ghts By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE FIGHT over whether to oust David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission is in reality a fight over the future of the American soul. I am will- ing to grant that those involved in htis campaign, including Senator Hickenlooper, Mr. Lilienthal's one-time supporter and now his severest critic, are acting on the highest possible motives. But the fact remains that if we bounce Mr. Lilienthal on the basis of the petty charges raised against him, we will be taking a standing broad jump away from our traditionally daring American con- ceptions of freedom and of life, straight in the direction of the tight-shut, sealed and battened, closed-down, fearful and nervous security state. We are not only deciding what the. Atomic Energy Commission is going to be; we are deciding what we are going to be. * * * THE COMMISSION, under Mr. Lilienthal, has offended the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy by granting a fellowship to a man described as a self- avowed Communist, and by waiting some six or seven weeks before reporting the loss of a small amount of Uranium-235 to the FBI. These charges can be made to sound rather awful; in our present agitated national state there is enough thunder here for even a bush-league orator to mount any platform and have himself a whale of a half hour. But the fact is that the fellowship now in controversy had nothing to do with secret information, and, as regards the loss of material, the Commission appar- ently had no reason to believe that any- thing surreptitious was involved, and has, in fact, recovered most of the missing substances from wastes. In terms of loss or danger to the public, both incidents weigh very little. The hulla- balloo that is being raised about them is all in terms of potentials, of what would happen to us if the Commission were blithely to put Communists into positions con- cerned with secret data, or if it were to go gamboling over the fields of May, scatter- ing Uranium-235 out of a basket, while sing- ing a song of spring. - * * THERE IS NO INDICATION that the Commission has any such intentions, that it has any partiality for Communists, or that it plans to station agents on street corners to give out uranium samples. It is true that a smoother, slicker operator than Mr. Lilienthal, one who was more concerned about getting along with the important people, would have hesitated about letting the Commission get involved in the fellow- ship incident. There are thousands of such smoothies around, but"the question for us is whether their sometimes smug circumspection is as valuable to us as Mr. Lilienthal's anx- ious effort to reconcile the conflicting claims of freedom and security, to strike a balance between the demands of the atomic age, and the traditions of free scientific inquiry. We can get any number of executives who will give us dull conformity but it seems to me that that nation is fortunate which finds a man who combines a sense of duty with a passion of freedom, and who tries, in his own thinking, fairly to resolve the conflict between the uncertain atomic present and the great American past. T HE CASE against Mr. Lilienthal boils down, in a sense, to the complaint that he has been trying to deal with the whole problem, with the questions of what we are, what kind of a country we are, along with the questions of .what we have, what we own. It would be much easier for Mr. Lili- enthal if he were simply to leave out and disregard the awkward positions of this problem. But he is not the kind of man who can take the easy way. If we want such a man we can, as I say, readily find him. But the question, as remarked at the beginning, is that of the future of the American spirit. It is the question of whether we are going to keep alive the cool daring, the moral courage, the re- spect for traditional rights, which have made us great, or whether we are going to plump, whole-hog, for a kind of security state, in which we will depend for our safety entirely on police work, the well- closed door, the mounted guard. I believe Mr. Lilienthal is man enough and executive enough to be able to keep the greater questions alive, while seeing that no danger comes to us. To those who, from whatever motives of high patriotic anxiety, urge the other course, the course of a me- chanical approach to security, I would like to suggest that under such an approach we are likely to lose just as much uranium as we are ever going to lose under Mr. Lilienthal, and, in addition, we are likely to lose our way, to lose ourselves, to lose, in some degree, the lights by which we have always steered. (Copyright, 1949, New York Post Corporation) Uneasy Conscience ,.r un rrW TN nThTRT TNT m.a a tnrir and (Continued from Page 3) cation for the purchase of an Ath- letic Coupon Book. The date shown on the Employees' Univer- sity Identification Card shall be considered as the date of employ- ment. Cost of Coupon Book: 1. Faculty and full-time em- 4. 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Surplus stock disposal -- 3"x 5" and 4"x 6" blank index cards of assorted colors are offered to Uni- versity departments by the Print- ing Department at 40 cents per thousand. No special sizes will be cut. The cards are of regular in- dex-bristol grade but no choice of colors may be made. White is not available. These may be pur- chased only by departmental req- uisition through the regular chan- nels. The offer applies until stock on hand is exhausted. E. E. Lofberg, Supt. of Printing The Bureau of Appointments Fillmore Thomas and Co., Inc., wholesale lumber dealers of La- peer, Mich., are looking for men with a business adm. background and arithmetical ability for sales positions with their company. The Bureau has a request for a librarian to work in a large com- pany in Detroit starting in June. The Bureau has received the following Civil Service announce- ments: U.S.-Booklet on opportunities for career service in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. MICHIGAN-Announcement for adult corrections trainee. The last date for filing applications is June 15. The Metropolitan Chicago Ford Dealers Association an noun c es openings for college graduates in- terested in the selling phase of the retail automobile business. Further information concerning the above may be obtained at the Bureau , of Appointments, 3528 Administration Bldg. Summer Work: Toledo Y.M.C.A. Camp, Napo- leon, Michigan, is looking for men counselors in crafts, nature, and riflery. $150, room and board for season. Camp Pinemere (girls, private) Minocqua, Wisconsin, is looking for experienced waterfront direc- tor and small craft director-age 25; and a dramatics counselor at least 21. Opportunity for girls, residents of Grand Rapids area, and expe- rienced as waitresses, to work at summer resort near Cheboygan during coming summer. Opportunity for graduate chem- ical engineer (preferred) or chem- ist with background in physical and organic chemistry and fa- miliarity with synthetic resin field to work in research project during summer months. Opportunity for sophomore or junior mechanical engineers,resi- dents of Rochester, New York area, to work as boiler operators in steam generation plants. Newburgh, New York Girl Scouts are looking for two assistant coun- selors 19-20 years of age. Clearwater Camp for Girls (pri- vate) Minocqua, Wisconsin, is looking for an experienced riding counselor. Representative of H. J. Heinz Company will be at Bureau of Ap- pointments, Fri., May 27 to inter- view men for positions at pickle collecting stations in Michigan. Involves physical and some cleri- cal work. Opportunity for junior engineer -with surveying experience and mathematics through calculus to do drawing and computations for civil engineer in Ann Arbor area. Representative of Mandeville and King Company, seedsman, will be here Wednesday morning, June 1, to interview men with cars inter- ested in working with their travel- ing sales force during the summer months. Salary, expenses, and bonus. For further information con- cerning the above call at Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Adminis- tration Building, Bureau of Ap- pointments. Lecture Hopwood Lecture: "The Respon- sibilities of the Critic." Dr. Fran- cis Otto Matthiessen, Professor of History and Literature, Harvard University. The Hopwood Awards for 1948-49 will be announced at this time. 4:15 p.m., Thurs., May 26, Rackham Lecture Hall. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Paul Kircher, Business Administration; thesis: "Accounting for Invest- ments", Thurs., May 26, Dean's Conference Room, School of Busi- ness Administration, 1:45 p.m. Chairman, W. A. Paton. Doctoral Examination for Joan Morton, Psychology; thesis: "Hu- man Performance in a Walk- through Maze" 7 p.m. Thurs., May 26, 3126 Natural Science Bldg. Chairman, J. F. Shepard. Doctoral Examination for Woodrow Wilbert Morris, Psychol- ogy; thesis: "The Prediction of Personality Attributes by Means of the Rorschach Method", Mon., May 30, 2134 Natural Science The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for publication in this column. Subject to space limitations,the general p1 icy is to publish in the order in which they are received all letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters and letters of a defama- tory character or such letters which for any other reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. * * * Liquor Ban .. . To the Editor: WASN'T the timing of those raids admirable? Who ever would have thought of having them just before the end of school? Pre-exam tension: surely the party will tend to be damp. Everyone is immersed inj cramming, so there will be no time for a mass student protest against such high-handed methods. And just think: only half-a-dozen issues of The Daily left to go! By the time the alumni find out, or the students can meet to talk it over, and-Heaven forbid!-or- ganize, vacation will be here. Run along now, children, and play for three months. You won't have to give another thought to this whole nasty affair. Why, we'll even bet a cookie that by the time vacation's over, you've forgotten all about it! Isn't this fun? We can hardly wait to do it again, when things have died down a little. . . Liquor: Ugh! -Harold T. Walsh. To the Editor: IS THERE NO LIMIT to the au- daciousness of the University administration in interfering with with the personal freedom of stu- dents? Truly, it seems, students have no rights which the Univer- sity must respect. I respectfully suggest that the Interfraternity Council appoint a committee to go to Lansing and confer with Govehrnor Williams with the object of securing an ex- ecutive .investigation of the high- handedbehavior of University of- ficials. There is every reason to believe that such a body would be well received by the governor. University officials should be made cognizant of the fact that they are running a university, not a penal institution. -Melvin K. Brighton. * * * No Trasure ... To the Editor: WHEN IN 1941 I first came to this University, there was a corridor in the League where music n records was played six hou's" each' day, and could be heard by anyone who came by. The records were from a collection donated by Carnegie (or his Foun- dation), and was intended for the pleasure and education of the stu- dents here. I happened once to see this col- Bldg., at 10 a.m. Chairman, M. L. Hutt. Doctoral Examination for Kirk Haskin Stone, Geography; thesis: "Alaskan Group Settlement: The Matanuska Valley Colony", Mon., May 30, 210 Angell Hall, at 3 p.m. Chairman, S. D. Dodge. Doctoral Examination for Elwyn Lyle Martin, Geography; thesis: "Land Types of the Saginaw Drainage Basin", Tues., May 31, 210 Angell Hall, at 3 p.m. Chair- man, K. C. McMurray. Doctoral examination for Felice Hilda Davidson, Mathematics, the- sis: "Algebras with Radical: An Investigation of the Class QF 1-3", Mon., June 6, 3001 Angell Hall, at 1:45 p.m. Chairman, R. M. Thrall. English 212L meet in 3209 An- gell Hall, Thurs., May 26, 2 p.m. Seminar in Applied Mathemat- ics: Thurs., May 26, 4:15 p.m., 247 W. Engineering. Dr. W. M. Kin- caid will speak on "Eigenvalues of certain nonlinear differential equations. English 1 - Final Examination -Thurs,, June 2, 2-5 p.m. Markman, 2225 AH; Miller, 2225 AH; Moon, 229 AH; Niblett, 229 AH; Reeves, 202 SW; Robertson, 2225., AH; Sparrow, 3251 AH; Stockton, 201 UH; Van Syoc, 4003 AH; Walton, 200 SW. English 2-Final Examination- Thurs.,: June 2, 2-5 p.m. Ball, 205 MH; Barrows, 205 MH; Benish, 205 MH; Bennett, 205 MH; Boys, 2003 AH; Burd, 2003 AH; Chapman, 16 AH; Clark 18 AH; Coit, 25 AH; Coyle, 2219 AH; Culbert, 2219 AH; Donaldson, 35 AH; Eastman, 25 AH; E. Engel, 231 AH; R. Engel, 231 AH. (Continued on Page 5) lection; it was kept in one of the League offices and provided with an elaborate card-file index. The scope of the collection is unbe- lievable, so I'll not describe it. I am sure, however, it would take many months to play it all through once, even at the rate of six hours a day. This music was much to me in my pre-war days here, and was perhaps the hardest of all things to leave behind. When I returned it was still being played four hours a day, but little by little the time was cut to where now there exists, as I am told, a "concert" each Sunday evening at eight. This last bit of information I had great difficulty prying from an attendant at the League desk, and I was afraid to ask if men could attend. Today I'm sure many students are not even aware of these facts. I wish here to call it to their at- tention. At Yale University the same set of records is kept in the Music School, where any student may check out an album like a library book and play it in one of the rooms provided for that purpose. At Michigan it is cae- fully preserved, as for posterity. If the League is so occupied with grandmaternal and alumnistic ac- tivities that it can find no time and place to play this music, I recommend it be removed to a more suitable spot on campus, and somehow made audible. We have a great treasure in our midst, but a treasure in a hole in the ground is just no treasure at all. -Ralph Alexis Raimi. * * + Logic To the Editor: IN A RECENT editorial defend- ing the Supreme Court ruling in the Terminiello Cae, Miss Friedman remained consistent in her advocacy of absolute freedom of speech, but appeared somewhat inconsistent in light of her strong fight against discrimination. Can Miss Friedman with one stroke coidemn discriminatory clauses, which,- although perhaps unde- sirable in spirit, nevertheless in no way deprive any citizen of lawful rights, and at another uphold the right of a man to actively and ef- fectively incite violence against a minority group, in this case the Jews? According to this, since Terminiellos words incited a mob to violence, a man who stirs up a mob so that they lynch a Negro or smash in the store of a Jew is all right as long as this man does not join a secret society which might bar membership of one or the other. If one were to carry this line of reasoning to its logical, if admittedly ridiculous conclusion, one might argue thus: If a man is not guilty of disorderly conduct when he stirs a mob to the same, then a man should not be guilty of murder simply be- cause he arouses men to murder or pays men to murder. I'm sure Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin as well as Father Ter- miniello were well pleased with the decision. Miss Friedman, your company is showing. -Mort Eldridge. IL DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Letters to the Editor - L Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Harriett Friedman ....Managing Editor Dick Maloy .............City Editor Naomi Stern.. ...Editorial Director Allegra Pasqualetti ...Associate Editor Al Blumrosen .........Associate Editor Leon Jaroff.........Associate Editor Robert C. White.....Associate Editor B. S. Brown ............. 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By calling for arbitration of the three- week-old Ford stalemate, the UAW shows that it understands that the days of months-long deadlocks between labor and management are gone. Double Indemnity LLOYDS OF LONDON has a new insur- ance policy for golfers. Because of high wages many factory men have felt a strong security. They have felt that they could afford to lose time from work in strike debates. This attitude was clearly demonstrated to me at a spontaneous union meeting in a Chrysler plant last summer. A squabble had arisen over a line speed up in one of the shops. The union steward told the men that the company was ready to talk the matter over, and he seemed inclined to this method of settlement. When he asked the men what they thought should be done, they answered BARNABY Gridley, the Fire Pixie here is a salamander by trade. -e r She poetic personification of the spirt of a chemical process,by 1Too windy! which fl aeneral terms. oxvaen in P ~n..4' r .A t G~dleyrcan tell you something y firefighting days, eh? I