THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1349
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ON THlE
Help Tito
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION can be expected
in the UN very shortly when Yugoslavia
catapults itself into the midst of the cleav-
age between the United States and Soviet,
Russia.
With the Ukraine's term as a non-per-1
manent member of the security council ex-
piring at the end of the year, an election
will be held to choose an Eastern European
successor. Russia is supporting satellite
Czechoslovakia for the past. But, to Rus-
sia's high irritation, Yugoslavia has an-
nounced her candidacy and will be strong-
lybacked by the United States. One of
the hottest debates in UN history is f or-
seen when the issue comes before the
Assembly.
At the core of the projected fight lies the
United States' support of Premier Marshall
Tito in his rebellion against Joseph Stalin.
Through his defiance of the Soviet lead-
er Tito has become a powerful force in
weakening the whole front of Moscow-
bossed Communism. Russia wants a deep
security belt against the West and Tito's
Yugoslavia effectively blocks the forma-
tion of this belt.
The United States could ask for nothing
better. Seizing its opportunity, this country
has come to the Yugoslav Premier's aid,
supplying him with over $20 million in loans
and backing him in his bid for a UN seat.
Our action puts Stalin in a serious di-
lemma. There is little he can do to thwart
Tito short of pittingthe Red Army against
Yugoslavia's 500,000 troops. And if the
Soviet leader does this, he would risk in-
tervention from the West in a form which
could conceivably lead to full-scale war.
Because Stalin isn't ready to risk touch-
ing off a major calamity, he finds him-
self stymied.
Through supporting Tito, economically
and in the UN, the United States has dis-
covered an excellent means of aiding in the
diruption of the Kremlin's plans for im-
perialism. This country has found a vulner-
able spot in the vanguard of Soviet Com-
inunism and ought to make the best of it.
-Bob Keith.
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent tht views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: ROMA LIPSKY
Olds
THE FIGHT to block confirmation of Le-
land Olds to the Federal Power Commis-
sion is just a pinprick to things like the
steel strike and the atom bomb, but it sym-
bolizes the clash of two worlds. . . . Olds
is the man who made your and my gas elec-
tic bills cheaper.He's been the sparkplug
on the Commission for 10 years. . . . And
the great utilities are gunning for him. Why?
Because in late years utilities and mo-
nopolists have opened a new line of at-
tack-exemption from control. With "con-
trol" accepted in theory, there have been
fights to exempt industry after industry,
to cut the railroads and insurance com-
panies loose from the anti-trust laws, to
pass the tidelands oil-exemption bill, to
take atomic energy from the people, and
now the bill to exempt big gas producers
from the Federal Power Commission. Olds
is on trial before the Senate on the charge
of having defended the people....
If Olds and what he stands for are re-
jected, we feel in our very bones that the
utilities will eventually rue the day. This
sort of thing can well lead to public owner-
ship of all basic natural resources.
-From the New Republic
Peron' s Gag Law
PRESIDENT PERON'S Argentine gag law
is the worst of his many offenses against
the freedom of the press and in violation of
the commitments his government made in)
becoming one of the United Nations. Now if
any editor "offends the dignity" of any pub-
lic official he may be sentenced to jail for
two months to a year, and truth is no de-
fense... .
In the Charter of the United Nations,
Argentina pledged itself to encourage and
promote "respect for the fundamental
freedoms for all."' Freedom of the press
is a fundamental freedom, which the Ar-
gentine government, duty-bound to sup-
port, is trampling... .
Argentina's suppression of the press de-
serves the most unequivocal rebuke by the
United Nations. A special obligation to con-
trast the Peron government's performance
with its promises rests on the United States,
which may recall without pride that it spon-
sored the admission of this pledge-breaking1
government to the UN at San Francisco in
1945.
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The Military Mind
"THE PROFESSIONAL military mind is
by necessity an inferior and unimagina-
tive mind; no man of high intellectual qual-
ity would willingly imprison his gifts in such
a calling."
-H. G. Wells.
Washington Merry-Go-Round
"Why Not All Tribes Use-um One Kind Wampum?"
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WITH DREW PEARSON
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WASHINGTON - When good old Clyde
Hoey, the swallow-tailed senator from
North Carolina, announced there would be
no more hearings on General Vaughan, John
Maragon and the five-percenters, it didn't
surprise anybody on the inside.
For insiders have known how much
pressure has been exerted by the White
House to shut the investigation up.
One month ago it was announced that
public hearings would be suspended in order
to give the committee staff a chance to do
more investigating, also to give committee
counsel Rogers a two-week vacation. Since
then, however, White House pressure has
been terrific with even staff investigators
threatened with loss of government pen-
sions.
Since then also some sensational leads
have been glossed over by committee in-
vestigators or carefully stowed away in
pigeonholes.
One of the most interesting figures whom
Senator Hoey and his staff have turned
their back on is David A. Bennett, the per-
fume manufacturer, who sent seven deep
freezes to General Vaughan, Mrs. Truman
and other bigwigs at about the time
Vaughans' friend, John Maragon, was trying
to smuggle Bennett's perfume into the Unit-
ed States disguised as champagne for the
White House.
YACHTS AND DEEP FREEZES
HERE ARE SOME other interesting
things about Mr. Bennett which the
public doesn't know, and most of the record
is in government files where any Senate in-
vestigator could easily dig it out.
For instance, Mr. Bennett, at the time'
he was giving away deep freezes, acquired
four luxury yachts, three of them from the
U.S. government.
Four yachts are a lot for any one man
to have. However, deep-freeze-giver Bennett
wasn't satisfied with four yachts and wanted
to buy another.
Bennett already had the following luxury
yachts: "Carnan," 600 horsepower, 121 foot.
221 tons; "Valerie V," 84 foot, 124 tons;
"Caroline," 45 foot, 24 tons; "Nedra B," 111
foot, 101 tons. All these, except the "Valerie
V," were purchased direct from the Mari-
time Commission. And when the Maritime
Commission was asked to disclose who else
bid on the vessels, and how much was bid,
the information was refused.
The yachts were used for some of the
famed Truman-Vaughan poker parties,
and this long-time intimacy between the
President of the United States and the
President of the Verley Perfume Company
may be why Maragon felt that he could
with impunity label his perfume as con-
signed to the White House and try to
smuggle it through U.S. customs.
At that time-around 1945-one Bennett
yacht was moored on the Potomac, another
at Saugatuck, Mich., and another in Florida.
Since then-perhaps because he has been
less active in lobbying-Bennett has dis-
posed of three yachts, but still keeps the
Nedra B.
(Copyright, 1949, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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MOVJIE
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MR. SOFT TOUCH, with Glenn Ford-
and Evelyn Keyes, for the soft-headed.
AFTER A CERTAIN number of movies,
Hollywood can reach the point of dimin-
ishing returns. And they've passed that point
in capitalizing on the tough-guy possibilities
of Glenn Ford's small eyes and protruding
lower lip.
For Ford's facial peculiarities have been
trusted to put over his characterization
of the soft-hearted boy who turns to
crime to avenge wrong-doing, Ford re-
signedly goes through the stereotyped plot
and dialogue; unfortunately, the same can
be said for Miss Keyes, the prudent social-
worker who sets about to put Ford on the
right path. Never noted for her great dra-
matic talents, she outdoes her previous
amateurishness in "Mr. Soft Touch."
Redeeming features to the film are the
supporting players, John Ireland, as the sar-
donic columnist; Beulah Bondi and Percy
Kilbride, as characters-about-the-settlement
house; and a bevy of humorous policemen.
The various characters spend the film
interacting and doing their darnedest to
bring the movie to an exciting climax, in
speed of action if in nothing else.
But just about the time the climax should
be reached, the plot harks back to a repeti-
tion of the opening action which gives one
to think 'this is where I came in.'
Then the frenzied activity starts again and
Ford quietly achieves Miss Keyes, but loses
the money he stole by pouring'it into a new
settlement house although not before the
audience has been informed via Christmas
carols, that it was a thoroughly moral,
therefore, good, film.
-Fran Ivick.
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Publication in The Daily Official
Bulletin is constructive notice to all
members of the University. Notices
for thesBulletin 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).
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949
VOL. LX, No. 11
Notices
Colleges of Architecture, Litera-
ture, Science and the Arts, Phar-
macy; Schools of Education, For-
estry, Music, Public Health and
Graduate School:
Students may not add courses
after noon Oct. 8.
A-Hop - Intramural Building:
Women students attending the
A-Hop Oct. 8, IM Building, will
have 1 a.m. permission. Calling
hours will not be extended.
Mail is being held for the fol-
lowing students in the Graduate
School Office.
Abdul Karin Ahmed, Dorthea A.
Ammerman, Robert Beck, Loretta
Cheong,rWalter B. Cline, Hyman
Datz, Cruz A. Cancel Ferrer, Bud
Hall, Patricia E. Hungerford, Cor-
agreene Johnstone, Howard Klein,
Harry Carl Mantle, M. Lee Me-
kemson, Henry T. Murphy, Robert
F. Reinke, Milton Sherman, Gene
M. Simons, R. H. Thompson, Jerry
J. Trubow, Alfred K. Zutle.
Hansan M. Ali, Manuel Hen-
rique Barbosa, Robert Boltwood,
Tan Tek Chuan, Thomas A. Dar-
dis, James Dent, Harold Goldberg,
Robert Holmes Johnson, Lois Anne
Johnson, Jerry M. Jones, Gilberta
Gomez Laurens, Richard Mason,
Alice Mori, Edythe Reed, Marta
Sepulveda, Noah Sherman, P.
Pritan Singh, Artemus W. Town-
ley, Moe S. Wasserman.
If mail is not claimed by Oct.
14, it will be returned to the
sender.
Women's Dorms, League Houses'
and Co-ops: Themes and titles of
Fortnite skits must be in by Sat.
noon, Oct. 8 in order to be ac-
cepted. Contact Jani Stephenson,
9388.
Presidents of student organiza-
tions, chairmen of committees,
and managers of publications and
projects are charged with the re-
sponsibility of certifying the eli-
gibility of students serving with
them in extracurricular activities.
Eligibility list forms may be se-
cured in the Office of Student Af-
fairs, 1020 Admin. Building, and
are due Oct. 14.
Certificates of Eligibility are be-
nig issued in the first floor lobby of
the Administration Building fron
1 p.m.-4:30 p.m. through Oct. 7
Certificates must be secured im-
mediately for the following activi-
ties: Officers an'd members of
standing committees in a student
organization, staff members of stu-
dent publications, representatives
in student government groups,
participation in a public perform-
ance or rehearsals for such per-
formance, candidates for class of-
fices, committee members for ma-
jor campus dances or projects.
College of Pharmacy: All phar-
macy students are expected to at-
tend a brief meeting in Rm. 1400.
Chemistry and Pharmacy Build-
ing, Fri., 7:30 p.m., Oct. 7. Follow-
ing this meeting there will be a
reception for all students and their
dates with dancing at the Michi-
gan League.
Bureau of Appointments:
Mademoiselle Magazine is ac-
cepting applications for guest edi-
torships for the Mademoiselle Col-
lege Board in June 1950. Applica-
tions are due November 1, 1949.
The Detroit Civil Service Com-
mission announces an examination
for Junior Civil Engineer and for
Librarian II. For each of these
Women-First Semester 1949-50
It is a University requirement
that all entering freshmen attend
a series of Health Lectures and
pass an examination on the con-
tent of these lectures. Transfer
students with freshman standing
are also required to take the
course unless they have had a sim-
ilar course elsewhere, which has
been accredited 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 the
Natural Science Auditorium at 4
p.m. and repeated at 7:30 p.m. as
per the following schedule:
Lecture 1, Mon., Oct. 10; Lecture
2, Tues., Oct. 11; Lecture 3, Wed.,
Oct. 12; Lecture 4, Thurs., Oct. 13;
Lecture 5, Mon.. Oct. 17; Lecturp
6, Tues., Oct. 18; Lecture 7 (Final
Exam.), Wed., Oct. 19.
Please note that attendance is
required and roll will be taken.
Enrollment will be held at the first
lecture. You may attend at either
of the above hours.
Academic Notices
Astronomical Colloquium: Fri.,
Oct. 7, 4:15 p.m., at the Observa-
tory. Members of the Observatory
staff will speak on 'cooperative
Projects of Michigan and Mount
Wilson and Palomar Observato-
ries."
Orientation Seminar for Be-
ginning Graduate Students in
Mathematics: First meeting, Fri.,
3 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall.
Mathematics Colloquium: Pro-
fessor G. W. Mackey of Harvard
University will address the Uni-
versity of Michigan Mathematics
Colloquium at 4 p.m., Fri., Oct. 7,
in 3017 Angell Hall. His topic will
be "Imprimitivity for Representa-
tions of Locally Compact Topolo-
gical Group."
Concerts
Carillon Recital: Continuing his
series of Fall Concerts, Professor
Percival Price, University Caril-
lonneur, will play a program at
7:15 this evening on the Charles
Baird Carillon. It will include
Cuckoo Prelude by M. Van den
Gheyn, five French children's
songs, Sonata No. 5 by I. Pleyel
and selections from Samson and
Delilah by Saint-Saens and
Gounod's Faust.
Nelson Eddy, Baritone, with
Theodore Paxson at the piano, wil
open the Extra Concert Series
Sun., Oct. 9, 7 p.m., Hill Audito-
rium. Other concerts in the Extra
Series include the Boston Sym
phony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Conductor, Tues., Oct. 25; Tossy
Spivakovsky, Violinist, Tues., Nov
22; Eugene List, Pianist and Car-
roll Glenn, violinist, in joint re-
cital, Fri., Jan. 6; and the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner
Guest Conductor, March 12.
A limited number of tickets fo
either the entire series or for in-
dividual concerts are on sale a
the offices of the University Musi-
cal Society in Burton Memoria
Tower.
Student Recital: Mitcheles
Douglas, Pianist, will present
program at 8:30 p.m., Fri., Oct. 7
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, i
partial fulfillment of the require
ments for the degree of Bachelo
of Music. It will include compo
sitions by Mozart, Brahms, Beeth
oven, Debussy and Chopin. Mis
Douglas has studied with Mau
Okkelberg, and is at present a pu
pil of Helen Titus. The genera
public is invited.
Events Today
U. of M. Hostel Club weine
roast at the Island; meet at Lan
-Hall at 5:15 p.m. Call Mary Ed
r wards for reservations (2-2823:
Everyone welcome.
Canterbury Club: Tea and Ope
House, 4-6 p.m., for all student
and their friends.
- C.E.D. (Committee to End Dig
- crimination): 4:15 p.m., Unioi
- All representatives of organize
t tions and interested individua
- are urged to attend.
dent Legislature: 4 p.m., Rm. 3K,
Union.
Roger Williams Guilders: Party
tonight will be a "Full-MOON"
affair. Meet at' the Guild House,
at 8:30. Wear old clothes.
Women's Athletic Building Open
House: 8-12 p.m., WAB; Every-
one invited; bowling, dancing,
ping pong, bridge, refreshments.
Small admission charge.
SRA Coffee Hour: 4:30 to 6 p.m.,
Lane Hall. Foreign students will
be special guests
Moonlight Hike and marsh-
mallors at the Island. Meet in
Presbyterian Chigrch Recreation
lallat 8 p.m.
Coming Events
TV Football and Post-Game
Weiner Roast-To those donating
their Amy game tickets to some
disabled veteran: The Westmin-
ster Guild invites you to view the
game via television, 2rd floor
lounge, Presbyterian Church.
Everyone invited to weiner roast
at the churdh following the game.
SRA Saturday Luncheon Dis-
cussion: 11:30 p.m., Lane Hall.
Reservation for lunch may be
made at Lane Hall before 10 a.m.,
Saturday.
The Economics Club meets Mon.,
Oct. 10, 7:45 p.m., Rackham Am-
phitheater. Prof. Clare E. Griffin,
Fred M. Taylor Professor of Busi-
ness Economics will talk on "Some
Observations on Britain." Gradu-
ate students and staff members in
Economics and Business Admin-
istration, as well as other inter-
ested persons, are invited.
LeCercle Francais: First meet-
ing, Tues., Oct. 11, 8 p.m., League.
Election of officers., A short infor-
mal talk by Prof. C. E. Koella, Ro-
mance Language Departmenta:
"L'Europe a vol d'oiseau." All stu-
dents invited to become members.
"If we apply any other test than
competence in determining the
qualifications of teachers, we shall
find that pressures and prejudices
will determine them. . . Teachers
mayhbe expected tosobey the law
1of the land. But it is still permis-
sible, I hope, to ask whether a law
is wise. To discriminate against
teachers-to act as though they
were all disloyal-and to put them
1 under special legal disabilities
seems injudicious if we want able,
independent men to go into the
teaching profession."
-Robert M. Hutchins
of the University of Chicago
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by JOSEPH ALSOP
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W ASHINGTON-A good rousing row is al-
ways good rousing fun, but it is a bit
dangerous to forget that serious issues may
be involved. Despite the distracting drama
of hole-and-corner passing out of confi-
dential documents, serious issues are in-
volved in the current tempest in the Navy.
Captain Crommelin's blast against serv-
ice unification and its various sequels are
not merely episodes in the struggle be-
tween the Navy and the Air Force. They
are also symptoms of a bitter split within
the Navy itself, between the sea officers,
led by the Chief of Naval Operations, Ad-
miral Louis Denfeld, and the naval avia-
tors, led by the Pacific Fleet Commander,
Admiral A. W. Radford.
In war time, the naval aviators met only
the inferior Japanese Air Force, and from
this experience conceived an exceedingly du-
bious theory of the potentialities of naval
aviation in land warfare. Postwar, the naval
aviators for a time dominated naval policv.
To put it bluntly, their plans for extensive
encroachment on the functions of the land-
baser Air Force offered the best chance of
building the vast naval establishment that
all admirals, battleship or other, instinctive-
ly desire. Thus all admirals supported the
aviators.
The passage of the service unification bill,
and the subsequent brilliant work of General
of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, had the
effect of forcing the Navy back into its pri-
mary mission. The job of controlling the seas
looked almost big enough to the sea officers
like Admiral Denfeld, who is himself a sub-
mariner. But the resulting limitation of
their expansive plans enraged the nave:
aviators like Admiral Radford, to the point
of the rather open insubordination that has
now been displayed.
The fury of the naval aviators has been
directed, not only against the President
and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson,
but also against Admiral Denfeld and the
other sea officers like him. The thought
seems to be that Admiral Denfeld has
been criminally weak to accept the fact
that the Navy cannot make its policies
and develop its strength in total inde-
pendence, and even in defiance, of both
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United
States Government. And the motive of
the recent outbursts has been as much to
embarrass Admiral Denfeld as to build a
fire under Secretary Johnson.
It must be considered a symptom of shock-
ingly low morale, if the requirement that the
Navy adapt itself to a national strategic plan
can send so many of its officers off the
deep end.
If morale is in question, it surely cannot
be vastly improved by exhibitions of fairly
open insubordination by high officers in
responsible positions. And open attacks on
the more cooperative naval officers like Ad-
miral Denfeld and Admiral Forrest Sherman
(who was exiled to the Mediterranean for his
part in the unification bill) cannot help
morale much either. In short, the drama is
pleasing, but the facts are not.
(Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
TrHE RANK AND FILE worker often sees
an issue more clearly than his organiza-
tion leader. The Illinois Federation of Labor
offers an illustration. The resolutions com-
mittee at the state convention at Spring-
field recommended against a resolution call-
ing for complete lists of state payrolls. The
committee thought it might "hold up to
positions the Residence Rule is
waived.
The Board of Education, Chi-
cago, Ill. announces examinations
for teachers of the following sub-
jects: Kindergarten; elemqntary
grades; art; modern Greek; Ital-
ian; Homemaking; Library Sci-
ence; Vocal Music; Physics; Pol-
ish; and several types of shop
work. For further information
concerning the above, call at the
Bureau of Appointments.
The Michigan State Civil Serv-I
ice Commission announces an ex-
amination for Unemployment
Claims Examiner I. There is no
experience requirements for col-
lege graduates but such graduates
are preferred to have courses in
economics, labor relations and
public unemployment insurance.
Applications are due no later than
Oct. 12, 1949, and may be obtained
at the Bureau of Appointments,
3528 Administration Building.
Student Identification Cards foi
the R-Z group will be distributed
today, 8:30rto 5, in the lobby of
the Administration Building.
Students who were unable to se-
cure their cards at the regular
time may pick them up Saturday
morning 8-12 in the lobby. Satur-
day is the last date for the dis-
tribution of cards.
Lectures
University Lecture: "Britain To-
day." Lady Violet Bonham Car-
ter, former President of the Lib-
eral Party Organization of Great
Britain; auspices of the Depart-
ment of Political Science. 4:1
p.m., Mon., Oct. 10, Rackham Am-
phitheater.
Freshman Health Lectures fo'
Fifty-Ninth Year
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Looking Back
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25 YEARS AGO:
THREE THOUSAND extra tickets for the
coming football game were placed on
sale to students. Each student could buy
two making a total of four he was eligible
to have. "It is our belief that students should
have as square a deal as possible," said one
athletic official.
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20 YEARS AGO:
Reversing past policies, Dean J. A. Bursley
announced that fraternity and sorority
house dances held on Saturday nights after
football games could be attended by non-
No use your Fairy Godfather
tutoring you for college now,
Barnaby. Not if you can't
afford to go until 2180...
t'd rather 90
when I'm bigger-
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Yes.:You're pretty small for
football now. I may want to
change your course of study,
too. Latin, for instance...
Probably won't be many
people speaking Latin in 2180.
forget f#
and have.
some fun,
huh, Mr.
O'Malley?
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Wave your magic cigar. Make
something exciting happen-
!' like try, m'boy. ..
But I've just remembered
an important engagement-
They've installed a television
set at Paddy's Bar and Grill
and the ball game will be on
in approximately ten minutes-
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Well, Ellen.. .1 bought a television set
today. I figure it's a good investment if
it makes Barnaby forget that imaginaryj
Darned old television! Since Paddy's
Bar and Grill put in that set, my
Fairy Godfather hasn't been around
You're supposed to be the father coming
home from a hard day's work and...