THE MICHIGAN DAILY
J-mHop Gravy Train
tbNCE MORE a teipting, lucrative gravy
train has steamed away from the IM
building, laden with dollars from the
pockets of thousands of students.
The gravy was shipped out in the form
of high profits for printers, photographers,
dance bands and professional decorators.
The University itself took over $1,000 for
rental, police protection and labor.
For on Friday and Saturday evenings
this campus was the scene of the top so -
cial event of the school year-the tradi-
tional J-Hop. It was a gala occasion, but
it was a costly one too.
The dance grossed over $20,000.
The money came from ticket sales ($6.60
a couple; MSC students paid $4.20 this
year) and rental of small booths at $20 per
night for students to sit in..
Proceeds were not dished out to profes-
sional operators with complete abandon.
But the fact remains that certain groups
did soak up considerable profit from the
dance. They always do. It is a problem
which J-Hop committees must face every
year.
This year's ,committee tackled the Job ad-
mirably. Although the group couldn't halt
the gravy train, it .cut costs in several ins-
tances, generally avoided contract mix-ups,
ended up with prospects of a reasonable
profit, and turned out an excellent dance to
boot. But some previous committees have
been less fortunate.
Because of lack of time and experience,
3-Hop committees and committees of
other big campus dances as well, have
run into trouble which often prevented
them from cutting costs and awarding
satisfactory contracts. However, the prob-
lem is one which could be solved through
help from Student Legislature.
Soon the Legislature may be asked to
pass judgement on a plan to regulate
photography at large dances such as J-
Hop. But the photography question is only
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
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NIGHT EDITOR: JANET WATTS
P''1ice Again
AT 3:50 A.M. Saturday a black police car
drove up beneath a window of a local
fraternity house.
Since it was the J-Hop weekend, a party
was in progress. Those attending the party
happened to glance out the window and
noticed the window-peeking police in their
car.
One of the fraternity's officers opened
the window to see what was up. A rather
surly voice greeted him with "Is that party
4 about to break p.
When the fraternity officer informed the
policeman that the party still had some ten
minutes of legal life remaining, he was told
that the party had jolly well better end after
those ten minutes and that the police would
be back to see that it did.
At 4 a.m. every man had left the house,
and the women guests of the fraternity were
safely locked up inside the house with their
house mother. Ever trustful of student char-
acter, the faithful police appeared a few
minutes later to be sure that all was well.
This sort of thing is ridiculous. It hap
pens all too often around here.
It appears that we are watched all the
time. We may not be sinning, but the au-
thorities seem ever-present, hoping that
they will catch us deep in the wages of'
vice. The process is not too many degrees
less obnoxious than the use of the all-
seeing telescreen in George Orwell's novel
"Nineteen Eighty-Four."
From what I have seen, most students at
this great University have a reasonable sense
of what is right and proper. I think that
they deserve to be trusted more than they
are.
To me, the incident that occurred Satur-
day morning was an insult to the integrity
and the morals of the men and women at-
tending the party, as well as to the house
mother who was in charge of the house at
the time. Window-peeking at its best is a
rather low practice; when it is practiced by
law enforcement officials on college students
it becomes downright loathsome.
-Paul Brentlinger
one phase of the whole question of apparent
rake-offs by private, non-student firms.
SL has the power to take action that
would help level off profits and at the same
time wipe out the type of confusion within
past dance committees which has led to
such occurences as duplicate contracts for
the same work.
And the time is ripe for the Legislature
to step in.
SL should not expect to stamp out rea-
sonable outside profit, but it could curb
unwarranted rake-offs if it would:
1-Speed up its efforts to purchase a
portable bandstand for rental to dance com-
mittees, which now must pay several hun-
dred dollars for construction of a tempor-
ary stand.
2-Lay down definite rules for committees
of all large dances to follow in awarding
contracts to the professionals, most of whom
seeth with eagarness for a crack at a dance
contract.
3-Check and possibly pass approval on
all contracts. The Legislature's Better Busi-
ness Bureau could take care of this easily
and conveniently.
4-Provide for election of J-Hop commit-
tee members in the regular spring elections.
Right now they are chosen in the fall, just
two months before the date of the dance.
But the idea of a student group efficiently
setting up and administering so big a busi-
ness in so short a time is nothing short of
ridiculops.
Such action by the Legislature would
leave dance committees with enough time
and independence to operate effectively,
and it would provide them with concrete
policies to follow.
If bolstered by SL regulation and assist-
ance, the committees could at last maintain
strong hopes of eliminating exhorbitant
profits.
-Bob Keith
Those Nacilbupers . .
FROM Washington comes the report that
Representative Huber (D. Ohio) has-
so it says-"coined a word." He says those
who indulge in the backward thinking of
trying to unite Republicans and southern
Democrats should be called Nacilbupers.
That's Republican spelled backward.
"Coined a word," is it? Filched a word
would come closer to it. It was James
Thurber who manufactured the term, and
that in 1945, in his "The White Deer." Re-
member? Prince Gallow is on his bribe-
paved, red-taped way to the Seven-headed
Dragon of Dragore. As lie nears the Moaning
of Artanis-which happens to be Sinatra
backward-the prince is told by a man in
red, "Fear not the roaring of the dreadful
Tarcomed, nor yet the wuffing-puffing of
the surly Nacilbuper, but ride straight on."
Straight on, it is.
-St. Louis Star-Times
THOMAS L. STOKES:
Pene
IULL UP YOUR dictionary and sit down.
As voters, we're in for a tough time of it
in the 1950 Congressional elections if the
Republican campaign continues along its
present. line.
Such terms as "rugged individualism,"
"Opportunity State," "Welfare State" and
"free economy" are going to be tossed left
and right. Only some one with a com-
mand of semantics is going to have even
an outside chance of coming through
without a confused mind.
But let's not get too hepped up over slo-
gans. The GOP is going to be sadly disil-
lusioned if they expect terms to replace the
platform so badly needed for a healthy
party.
Take the "Opportunity State" for ex-
ample.
In the "Opportunity State" we are to
work against big business monopoly, labor
monopoly and "big government that takes
from the individual his human dignity and
self-reliance." And how are we going to
do it?
First we strengthen the anti-trust laws.
(More government power?) Then we get
banking and stock market controls to com-
bat manipulation and undue sharp fluctua-
tion on the market. (Still more government
power?) Abolish poll taxes, get a Federal
anti-lynch law, establish an FEBC and de-
mand the assurance of equality before the
law for minorities. (More and more pow-
er?) .
We keep Communists out of Federal jobs
and school teaching. (More Un-American
Committees). We expand our conservation
of national resources, develop the St. Law-
rence Seaway and unify our reclamation
and irrigation program. We give federal
aid to housing, education, medical training,
clinical and research facilities.
And the list goes on. All in the name of
decentralization!
Stuff like this can cause the Democrats
to lose their title as leaders of liberalism.
However, I think there is still a chance for
them if they can only get their breath
back after reading the platform, and for-
get to say "me too."
About the only thing in political dialectics
that this "Opportunity State" explains is
what they mean by a "Sickly socialist 'Wel-
fare State'."
Barring the National Health Insurance
Program, which is an attempt to get finan-
cial aid to the sick whereas the "Opportuh-
ity State" would give it to the doctors, the
"sickly socialist Welfare State" of the Demo-
cratic Party is indeed sickly in comparison
with the strong socialist Welfare State to
be called "Opportunity."
--Don McNeil
Primitive Man will meet in. 102
Architecture Bldg. instead of in
Angell Hall.
Bacteriology Seminar: 9:30 a.m.,
Thurs., Feb. 16. Speaker: Mr.
Frederick-Kull. Subject: Hyalu-
ronidase Production by "Clostri-
dium perfringens."
English 2 (Section 11, MWF 9,
Mr. Weimer) will meet henceforth
in 2208 A.H.
Englisl 31 (Section 5, MWF 9,
Dr. Schlbhauer) will meet hence-
forth in 174 TCB.
History 50: Lecture: Monday
and Friday, 2 p.m., 348 W. Engi-
neering.
Section 6: Wednesday, 2 p.m.;
Abramson-Krueger, 2013 Angell
[Tall; Larson-Smith, 1020 Angell
Hall; Spieth-Wetmore, 2014 An-
gell Hall.
Section 7: Wednesday, 2 p.m.;
Adler-Goodstrey, 2014 Angell Hall;
Gregory-White, 1007 Angell Hall.
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Policy Toward Russia
Thanksgiving Holiday.-.
To the Editor:
THIS is a brier report to Daily
readers on the progress of the
Student Legislature in its cam-
paign for a long Thanksgiving
holiday.
When our committee opened its
investigations, we attacked the
problem from the viewpoint that
classes on Thanksgiving weekend
are of poor quality in most cases,
and therefore the University could
very *well have them dismissed.
We gathered a large number of
sound supporting arguments, and
these were well taken by Univer-
sity officials.
However, because of various
state board requirements for law-
yers, doctors, etc., it was explained
to our committee that it was ab-
solutely necessary to maintain the
present number of teaching days;
in the school year.
This meant tlhat if we cut out
classes on the Friday and Satur-
day after Thanksgiving, we would
have to put on two days some-
where else in the school year.
At a meeting of the University
calendar committee, two sugges-
tions to meet this problem were
offered by calendar committee
members:
1-That registration begin two
days earlier than presently and
classes begin on Thursday instead
of Monday, or~
2-That our Christmas recess
be cut down several days to make
up the needed teaching time.
To put it bluntly, these sugges-
tions went over like a "lead bal-
loon" with our committee and
with almost every student that we
polled.
However, there is a means of
meeting the problem which, I feel,
is a sound way of dealing with the
situation. Here is the plan:
1l-Dismiss classes on the Fri-
day and Saturday after Thanks-
giving in accordance with the SL
resolution.
2-Make up the two teaching
days lost by having winter and
spring recesses begin on Saturday
afternoon instead of Friday after-
noon, as is the present situation.
Thus far, both students and fac-
ulty members that we have polled
havembeen overwhelmingly in
favor with this compromise ap-
proach. In view of this we shall
do everything within our power to
have the plan inaugurated next
fall.
-Dave Belin
* * * *
Theatre's Action.
To the Editor:
AS A RELAXING aftermath to
a week of examinations, we
attended the "State" theater. Up-
on handing our tickets to the at-
tendant, we distinctly heard him
say that seats were available in
the balcony or on the extreme
sides of the main floor. We chose
to sit in the balcony, but at the
head of the stairs we were con-
frointed by two young men who
forbade us entrance. When we
asked why, they replied that we
were unescorted. Since they were
casually dressed we thought they
might be looking for "pick-ups,"
so we attempted to brush by them.
They barred our way. We then
returned to the attendant to ques-
tion the validity of their action.
The attendant implied that we
were trouble-making high school
students. When we denied this,
he offered to call the manager
and we agreed. The manager ap-
proached us in a rage; he insulted
us; he refused to answer our ques-
tions; and he did not offer us
any explanation. Instead he gave
us two alternatives: to accept a
refund and get out, or to take
seats on the side aisle.
Doesn't a ticket entitle one to
any available seat in the house?
Weren't we entitled to a reason-
able explanation?
-Nona Murphy, '52
Helen Lawson, '51
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Lectures
University Lecture. "Culturing
Crown Gall Tissue in Vitro." Pro-
fessor Albert Joyce Riker, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin; auspices of the
Department of Botany. 4:10 p.m.,
Wed., Feb. 15, Rackham Amphi-
theater.
Academic Notices
Aero, Eng. 160 (Section I), In-
troduction to Non-linear Systems,
will have an organization meeting,
5 p.m., Wed., Feb. 15, 1500 E. Engi-
neering Bldg., to determine the
meeting hours for the remainder
of the semester. Those interested
are urged to attend.
Anthropology 152: The Mind of
Room Changes in sections in
History 50: Section 3: Will meet
in 18 Angell Hall instead of 2219
Angell Hall as listed in the Time
Schedule.
Section 6: Will meet in 2013
Angell Hall instead of Rm. B,
Haven Hall as listed in the Time
Schedule,
History 92: Beginning Wed.,
Feb. 15, History 92 will be held in
1025 Angell Hall instead of 25
Angell 'Hall as listed in the Time
Schedule.
History ,324 will meet in the
Manuscript Room of the Cle-
ment's Library at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursdays.
Romance Philology 158 - Ro-
mance Phonetics. First meeting to
fix class hours will be Wed., Feb.
15, 12 noon, 102 South Wing.
Philosophy 200 will meet Tues-
days, 7-8 p.m. (instead of Mon-
days, as scheduled), and Philoso-
phy 301 will meet Thursdays, 7-
9 p.m. (instead of Tuesdays, as
scheduled.)
Psychology 31, Section 8 will
meet in 1007 Angell Hall, begin-
ning Wed., Feb. 15.
Zoology Seminar: Thurs., Feb.
16, at 8 p.m., Rackham Amphi-
theatre. Mr. Kenneth W. Pres-
cott will speak on "A Life History
Study of the Scarlet Tanager (Pir-
anga olivacea) ."
Freshman Health Lectures for Men
Second Semester 1949-50
It is a University requirement
that all entering Freshmen, in-
cluding veterans, attend a series
of lectures on Personal and Com-
munity Healtheand pass an exam-
ination on the content of these
lectures. Transfer students and
freshman standing are also re-
quired to take the course unless
they have had a similar course
elsewhere, which has been accred-
ited here.
Upperclassmen who were here
as freshmen and who did not ful-
fill the requirements are requested
to do so this term.
The lectures will be given in
25 Angell Hall at 5 and 7:30 p.m.
as per the following schedule:
Lecture Day Date
3 Wed. Feb. 15
4 Thurs. Feb. 16
5 Mon. Feb. 20
6 Tues. Feb. 21
7 Final Exam Wed. Feb. 22
You may attend at either of
the above hours. Enrollment will
take place at the first lecture.
Please note that attendance is re-
quired.
The University Extension Serv-
ice announces the f o llo w i n g
courses:
Ceramics. A study of th mate-
rials and forms of pottery. Basic
ceramic design applied to the pot-
ter's wheel and simple uses of
glazes. Open to students who have
had previous work in ceramics.
Class limited to 20. Noncredit
course, eight weeks, $8.00. Mate-
rials,'::$5.0. Prof. Grover Cole.
Wed.,'Feb. 15, 8 p.m., 125 Archi-
tecture- Bldg.
Introduction to the Literature
of Music (Music Literature 41).
Designe to bring to the layman
a practical method of listening to
instrumental music and to famiil-
iarize him with the significant
terms and styles of musical com-
positions heard currently in the
concert hall and over the radio.
Its aim is practical and its ap-
proach is nontechnical; no previ-
ous knowledge of music is neces-
sary. The course may be taken as
a noncredit course or for two hours
of .undergraduate credit. If taken
for credit, however, the student
must attend regularly a weekly
laboratory period. The last six
sessions in ther course (March 22
through May 3) will be devoted to
the programs of the 1950 May
Festival and may be taken for a
fee of $7.00. The fee for the full
course is $14.00, credit or non-
credit. Prof. Glenn D. McGeoch.
Wed., Feb. 15, 7 p.m., 206 Burton
Memorial Tower.
Administration in the~ Hospital
Nursing Unit (Nursing 20). A
study of the principles, functions;
and essential activities of admin-
istration in institutional nursing.
Registration is limited to 25 grad-
uate nurses. Two hours credit.
$14.00. Prof. Wilda G. Chambers.
Wed., Feb. 15, 4 p.m., 4408 Uni-.
versity Hospital.
Mental Hygiene in Social Work
(Social Work 269). The funda-
mental biological, psychological,'
and social factors in childhood
which later determine mechanisms
of behaviour in adult life. Various
types of symptomatic behaviour
studied with interpretation of
causes. Case studies submitted
with critical analysis of cause-
and effect relationships operating
in the lives of the clients involved
in a treatment situation. Open
only with the permission of the
instructor. Two hours undergrad-
uate credit. $14.00. Prof. Lenore
V. Gottfried. Wed., Feb. 15, 10
a.m., 3008 School of Public Health.
Concerts
Student Recital: Elsie Kalionen,
student of violin with Paul Doktor,
will present a program at 8:$0
Wednesday evening, February 15,
in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, in
partial fulfillment of the require-
ments for the Bachelor of Music
degree. Her program will include
compositions by Mozart, Vivaldi,
and Beethoven, and will be open
to the general public.
Student Recital: Katherine
Schissler, student of piano with
John Kollen, will present a pro-
gram at 8:30 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 16,
Rackham Assembly Hall, in par-
tial fulfillment of the require-
ments for the degree of Master of
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WASHINGTON-- The public pressure for
some bold and direct move to break the
increasingly tense stalemate with Russia is
greater just now, under impetus of the
hydrogen bomb revelations and the Dr.
Klaus Fuchs atomic spying disclosures, than
at any time since the "cold war" began. This
is manifest in several ways.
ONE, IS THE PETITIONS that have poured
into the White House to President Tru-
man in the last few days from all kinds of
groups ranging from scientists to church
people and including many distinguished
and eminent private citizens.
Another is the ferment in Congress that
found expression in two notable speeches
- by Senators McMahon (D., Conn.),
chairman of the Joint Congressional
Atomic Energy Committee, and Tydings
(D., Md.), chairman of the Armed Serv-
ices Committee, which were significant
because they came from men who head
committees that deal directly with prob-
lems involved in the current arms race
and are thoroughly informed of the is-
sues at stake.
But most significant of all, for it is a
sure barometer of heavy public pressure, was
the reaction finally from top administration
officials in the executive branch who found
it necessary to recognize the public's grow-
ing anxiety. This came, first, in the detailed
explanation of our policy from Secretary of
State Acheson, who felt it wise to acknow-
ledge the urge for peace among our people
and acquiesce in the public's basic right of
criticism and examination of policy. Second
were the replies that President Truman felt
compelled to make under a barrage of ques-
tions at his press conference which, of
themselves, indicated the keen public inter-
est.
* * *
PRESIDENT TRUMAN stands pat on our
present policy and refers to the ex-
planation of it by Secretary Acheson. The
latter spells it out as a continuation of our
efforts to build up strength all, over the
world through our economic and military
programs. He sees that as the only way to
convince Russia and bring it to the point
where it will come to terms on disarmament
and other issues between us. This, he ex-
plained, will be a long process and will re-
quire sacrifice by our people and patience
and very strong nerves.
If this is to be so, if we are to continue
to strap ourselves in this endeavor, it
would seem essential that President Tru-
man, himself, take the people into his
confidence and explain frankly what we
face; for the ordeal, in many ways, is as
trying as actual war and, in some ways,
more so. Already we have had four years
of suspense.
Enlightenment as to his aims is only fair
to the people. It would put the case before
them and open the way for a much-needed
public debate at this crucial point in our
history. The public might accept his verdict
or it might continue to insist on more direct
measures than continual "cold war," or at
least insist on another trial at a more direct
approach.
(copyright, 1950, by United Feature Synlicate, ic.)
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OLD SKELETONS
JOINING AIKEN was Massachusetts' cul-
tured Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who
objected vigorously to digging up the old
skeletons of Yalta and Potsdam in order to
criticize Democratic foreign policy.
"This looks backward when we ought to
be looking ahead," objected Lodge.
Lodge also charged that the labor state-
ment placed the greatest emphasis on re-
taining the name of Taft-Hartley, instead
of correcting the injustices of Taft-Hartley.
Senators Ives of New York and Smith
to education and makes no bones about it.
The speaker even delivered a lecture on
the subject to a group of club women, who
were both astounded by his candor and
charmed by his courtly manner.
In his slight Texas drawl, Rayburn said:
"I am not for federal aid to education.
But I will do all I can to see that it gets
a hearing in the House."
Reminiscing of his days teaching country
school at Dial, Texas, the speaker mused:
"I didn't get much money teaching, but I
didn't organize any lobby to pressure Con-
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What's1'b allergic to 4
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