1 AGE i t TIlE MICHICAN DA LY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27,.1949 ______________________________________________________________________________________ I ___________________________________________ I __________________________________________________________________ I - The American Story ACT 1-MICHIGAN rE SCENE was on the Michigan campus, A student of the Jewish faith encoun- tered a friend on the diagonal who belonged to a fraternitythat the Jewish student had rushed and been rejected by. "Tell me," he asked, "was I rejected because of my religious beliefs?" "Yes", was the reluctant answer. Then an amazing thing happened. The Jewish student lit up a broad smile. "That's great! I've been worrying that Crackpot Club ONE WAY TO solve the world's problems is to lugh them off. At least that is the way the Crackpot Club, Inc., feels. The club is made up of a group of:Grand Rapids Business men who think the world is too "stuffy." The latest "laugh" that the club has thought up is a "Friendship Train in Re- verse" on which all "un-American charac- ters would be shipped to Russia. Each member of the club would donate $10 to charter a ship for the people "who make their money in America and then think that a country like Russia is a better place to live in." This attempt to give lightness to the world situation lands with a heavy thud. In place of aleviating any pressure arising from the Russian situation attacks of this sort merely keep the spot sore. Business organizations of this type could help relieve world tensions. In place of crackpot schemes to "laugh off" trouble, these men might turn their thoughts to plans that can take the heat out of world affairs. -Vernon Emerson. it might have had something to do with me personally." And the two friends parted. * * * ACT II-PENNSYLVANIA THE SPEAKER on the platform was Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, former mediator of the United Nations, the occasion a memorial to the founders of a small town. "To him, all men, irrespective of their race or creed were brothers. But if he were to return today he would still find the same bigotry which characterized his day and age," he said. Dr. Bunche was followed to the speaker's platform by Justice Felix Frankfurter of the United States Supreme Court who told of the American "bold experiment of free- dom." "This heritage is always endangered by inertia and complacency, by timidity and reluctance to keep abreast of the needs of a progressive society." "This is a graver challenge than any from without. With active devotion to the ideals we profess, it would be unworthy of our whole past to fear challenge by any rival system." Then, as the speakers finished, more than 1,000 townspeople of Aaronsburg, Pa. acted out the story of the man whom they were honoring: One hundred and fifty years ago, the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church opened the doors of its first house of worship on property given by Aaron Levy, a Dutch im- migrant of the Jewish faith who founded the village. This day, October 23, 1949, twenty thou- sand Americans of all faiths had gathered in the tiny village to pay honor to a fellow citizen who was "A citizen of the world, a man of tolerance and vision." -Don McNeil. WASHINGTON-Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., has an 8-year-old son named Christopher who may turn out to be another chip off the old block. Recently Congressman Roosevelt called his son on the telephone in New York and asked him if he would like to come to Washington. Chris- topher said he would under certain condi- tions. "If I come to Washington will I be able 'ditorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff end represent the views of the writers only. ,Ill NIGHT EDiTOR: DAVE THOMAS RAMA At Lydia Mendelssohn . is SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, with Stan Challis, Allan Balter, James Reason, Mar- garet Pell and Betty Ellis. TWO CENTURIES of dramatic evolution haven't dimmed the appeal of this old comedy; it was funny then, is now, and un- less people forget the fine art of laughing at themselves, ever shall be. When the Speech Department set out to produce this play in the spirit of the 18th century, they had before them the curious task of acting the part of actors. And, de- spite the difficulty of mimicing this ancient spirit, of capturing the zeal of the old the- atre, the entire cast skilfully produced a wonderfully lively, and hilariously funny performance. Everything is just as it was in the Com- media dell' Arte of 200 years ago. The pain- ful project of moving scenery is transformed to a pleasure by a corps of comically garbed stagehands, who really delight in their work. The atmosphere throughout is intimate, with plenty of offsides and comments directed to the audience. This gives the audience a feel- ing of being within the plot, of sharing in the multitude of secrets which the cast maintain. Stan Challis as Truffaldino, the servant of two masters, has a surplus of zest and energy, which he deftly wields in a vast repertoire of contortions, gesticulations and expressions. He is wonderful. And so are the rest of the cast, notably Margaret Pell, Allan Balter, and Richard Rifenburg. Far from being a play of momentary ap- peal, "Servant of Two Masters," as skillfully performed as it was last night, will long endure as an excellent example of what comedy should be. -George Walker. THE FRENCHMAN is conceited frc/= sup- posing himself mentally and physically to be inordinately fascinating both to men and women. An Englishman is conceited on the ground of being a citizen of the best to see the President?" asked Christopher. "I think so," replied Congressman Roose- velt. "Well," continued Christopher, "will he let us sleep in our own beds in the White House?" Roosevelt roared. When Christopher arrived in Washing- ton, his father drove him around the capital, then tried to park to go inside a government building. Only a tiny space was available, so Roosevelt asked a police- man if he could park in a restricted area. The policeman, noting FDR, Jr.'s Con- gressional license plate said okay. As Roosevelt and his son got out of the car, Clristopher turned on, the traditional Roosevelt grin, looked up to the policeman and said: "Officer, meet my Congressman." * * * INSURANCE LOBBY CONGRESSMAN Walter A. Lynch, New York Democrat, and a conscientious member of the Ways and Means Committee will head a subcommittee to investigate an important loophole in the tax laws whereby life insurance companies do not pay income taxes. The life insurance companies-with ad- mitted assets of over 50 billions and invest- ments in practically every kind of business -paid not a dime in income taxes to the federal government for 1947 and 1948. And they will pay none for 1949. Despite months of negotiations with tax experts in the treasury department, spokes- men for the insurance companies have re- fused to agree to a recommendation for even a token "stopgap" tax payment of $45,000,000 a year for 1948 and 1949-even though going "scot free" for 1947. At present the $1,500,000,000 annual net investment income of life insurance com- panies is not taxed-either as to the com- pany or as to the policyholders. The job of the Lynch Committee is to decide what taxes should be collected, and then to pre- pare legislation to close the loophole in the present law. The committee has to do all this in the face of a lobby considerably more powerful than the real estate, oil or public utility lobbies. It will be interesting to see how Congress- man Lynch makes out in his lonely battle against the giants. * * * NEUTRAL NEHRU SOME PEOPLE were disappointed when Prime Minister Nehru of India issued his statement that India would take no sides in the cold war. In view of India's strategic position between the East and West, his words fell with the unwelcome reverberation of a rock on a polished ballroom floor. Nehru's neutrality, however, was not news to state department officials who invited him to this country and who knew that, as between the Russians and the British, Nehru had spent most of his life fearing the British. To change this sus- picion of the western world was specifically why they invited him. Nehru spent 13 years in a British jail, considers Russians more Asiatic than Euro- pean, governs a people who are not much more than one rice bowl ahead of starva- tion. Instinctively, Indians think of Russia MATTER OF FACT: Jigsaw W ASHINGTON-Like the parts of a puzzle, the basic facts of great national prob- lems are generally meaningless until they are fitted together. Last week, within forty- eight hours, three impressively authoritative Americans gave separate utterances to the three basic facts in the major problem now confronting the United States. * * * FMST, Dr. Harold C. Urey, one of the lead- ing American nuclear physicists, warned the country that the Soviet Union "can and probably will" wipe out the American "atomic lead," which has now replaced "atomic monopoly" as the Maginot line of our fond hopes. Writing in the authoritative "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists," Dr. Urey forecast that the Kremlin would possess a decisive stockpile of atomic bombs "in a rela- tively short time." He suggested further that this time would probably be two years. Second, Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson, who two years ago defined the Soviet Union as "expanding and aggres- sive," revised and strengthened this defi- nition. Speaking at a dinner of the Al- fred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, Ache- son described Soviet Russia as "the ag- gressively imperialist power of our times," which was "seeking to expand its dominion wherever its grasp and its reach coin- cide." Third, Secretary of Defense Louis John- son, winding up the lamentable hearings on the complaints of the Admirals, publicly ad- mitted what has already been reported in this space-that further great cutbacks in our defense effort are now planned by the Truman Administration. * M q THESE STATEMENTS require very little annotation to bring out their full signifi- cance. In connection with Dr. Urey's fore- cast, however, it is well to remember that our highest military planners regarding our 'atomic monopoly" as the main deterrent to Soviet aggression, until the monopoly was broken by the explosion of the Beria bomb. In connection with the remarks of Sec- retary Acheson, it should be borne in mind that the Soviet Union is making a gigantic armament effort, comparable to the effort of Nazi Germany. By this effort the Kremlin's "grasp and reach" must con- stantly be extended, if no compensating effort is made by the free world. And in connection with Secretary John- son's admission that our defense effort is being cut back, it is well to investigate the meaning of the word "economy," which he employed rather freely before the House Armed Services Committee. Specifically, Secretary Johnson rauled sig- nally to admit that reductions in outlay will greatly impair our already inadequate strength. It is true, of course, that the services have been very wasteful. But a wasteful defense establishment is like a fat man, who can only be safely reduced by a long, slow and careful course of diet and exercise. A fat man cannot lose fifty pounds the next moning, without going to the surgeon and having a leg cut off. Secretary Johnson is commendably trying to cut down Army, Navy and Air Force waste in the right way. But he is also amputating the legs and arms of the services in economy's sacred name. This may be quite all right. Perhaps Dr. Urey is wrong, and the Soviets will always be deterred from aggression by their inferiority in the absolute weapons. Or perhaps Secretary Acheson is wrong, and the intentions of the Kremlin are not "aggressively imperialist." Yet one point is very clear. If President Truman and Secretary John- son really think it prudent to impair our defenses in the year of the Beria bomb, it is up to them to explain plainly what they are doing. And it is even more up to them to explain why this is the safe thing to do, in 'the face of the situation portrayed by Secretary Acheson and Dr. Urey. (Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Sartorial Contest HOW LITTLE Western dress sets off men's figures and personalities is being em- phasized by the changes in garb of visiting Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. On arrival he was wearing Indian dress, on which there is now much emphasis in his native land. In his long-skirted, tight- fitting, chocolate coat, buttoned to the chin, and his white "overseas" cap and white jodh- purs, he was regal, slender, tall looking. Later he donned a dark Western world business suit (single breasted at that) and shrunk no- ticeably. Since then he has been wearing on certain occasions his native dress, each time regaining a distinction not wholly due to the difference of his costume. His changes to Western attire may be founded on practicality-the motif under- lying the design of Western men's clothes. Or it may be a delicate compliment to his hosts. At any rate, the Indian leader's alter- nation of the two garbs may remind Western men of what they lost about a century and a half ago when they began to be regi- mented into the drab functional attire of today. --The Washington Post. TT T S rr nn.cx ..o.f The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for p)ublication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the order in which they are received all letters bearing thetwriter'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. Russia and the Bomb.. .. To the Editor: IN LEON JAROFF's Editor's Note on Tuesday, he quotes observa- tions which claim that Russia has acquired the atom bomb in jig time, and will overcome our A- bomb lead in two years. Then, in seeking the reason for their speed- ier scientific advances and a cure for our lower rate of progress, he espouses the view that our se- curity restrictions are the prime obstacle to rapid achievement. It should be obvious that free exchange of scientific information accelerates progress. But we are not concerned as much (at pres- ent) with absolute progress as with relative progress. So there appears to be a paradox: Russia, far more security-regulated than America, exceeds the rate of Amer- ican scientific advancement be- cause America is too security-reg- ulated. -Taylor Drysdale. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Security-regu- lated Russia encourages and forces all qualified persons within its borders to work on atomic energy projects. Among these persons, for example, are many formerNazi scientists who could hardly be considered god se- curity risks. On the other hand, many brilliant scientists and techni- cians in the U.S. suspected of being remotcly connected with Communist and leftist organizations are either barred from atomic work or so har- ried by Congressional committees that they resign in disgust. Partial freedom of research is not enough.) * * * Liberal Education To the Editor: IN LINE WITH Dean Keniston's brilliant and trenchant an- alysis of the liberal education and its problems and procedures, I would like to add a few remarks from the standpoint of the stu- dent here at Michigan. I would disagree with nothing that Dean Keniston said, but I do see a factor that militates against the average student achieving a lib- eral education of the type so beau- tifully elicited by the Dean. This factor is the intense grade oriented competition which I believe to be aow operating beyond the point of diminishing returns. We at Michigan are forced to expend so much time and effort over learning the rote material of our four or five courses that any unchanneling of interest or effort into the other vast areas of human learning or any attempt to relate these courses with the other areas or even with them- selves, is done at the risk of jeop- ardizing our scholastic standing. Even a moment of inadvertant un- departmentalized reflection may prove fatal in the mad, feverish effort to survive this intellectual race track. A degree from the University of Michigan no longer has the strong connotation of the liberally educated, but instad con- notes a sort of sportive intellectual species that has managed to sur- vive a grueling contest in which a blind, narrow perseverance was the plain survival factor. It seems evident to me that if we continue to worship at the al-.. /eittei TO THE EDITOR tar of the normal curve in this scholastic environment we shall be victimized by the competitive dogma which stresses elimination rather than realization. What is the validity of this dogma? Are our medical schools turning out the best doctors possible or are they graduating the narrowest,' most competitive, ego oriented sur- vivors who will undoubtedly make the poorest practitioners? We know from experience that the progress of liberal science was thwarted by the war induced com- petition which channelized work and perspective. Is there any evi- dence what this competitive dogma will have an inverse effect upon those striving for a liberal educa- tion. On the contrary, all evi- dence points to the fact that the operation of this dogma among those seeking meaningful knowl- edge and perspecitve, often is to eliminate those most qualified and to graduate the'hair-splitting, de- partmentalized pedants. In curve on the part of some faculty mem- bers exhibits a lack of sympathy with the student as a personality, and a lack of appreciation of the vital nature of the liberal educa- tion in a civilized society. -Charles Dixon. * *** NSA Experience... To the Editor: NSA, NSA! We have been read- ing many garbled accounts of this NSA in your column and have heard it condemned as being com- munistic and SL-istic. I would like the readers to become acquainted with my NSA experiences. Last spring, I purchased for $1.00 an NSA Purchase Card. The card states that I am entitled to rights under the Purchase Sys- tem, also I am to receive a year's subscription to thecNSA News. The fact that I have never seen nor heard of the NSA News since my purchase doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that the Ann Arbor merchants who were supposed to honor these cards have refused to do so. For one week after purchase the filling station that was listed on the NSA list of participants gave a dis- count when I showed my card. Then the remaining 51 weeks of my card's use was nullified by ac- tion of the Ann Arbor merchants, as they decided to have nothing to do with the system anymore. Will some fellow traveler answer these questions? 1. What happened to the $1,000 or more which was collected by the NSA at the University of Michigan last year? 2. Where are my copies of the NSA News? 3. Is the $1,000 being used to print copies of the song "God Bless Free Enterprise" as reported by reader Howard Hartzell? -Charles R. Fuller. * * * Hammer & Sickle .. To the Editor: MICHIGAN SCORES again! Per- haps some if not most stu- dents overlooked a news item re- leased from Moscow Aug. 19 by the AP. It read: "The Communist Party newspaper Pravda today re- ported to its readers a version of life in the United States. "The newspaper said the FBI, having investigated everything else, was going to undertake loy- alty checks on grade school chil- 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). THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1949 VOL. LX, No. 28 Notices Faculty, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Freshman five-week progress reports will be due Fri., Oct. 28, in the Academic Counselors' Office, 1210 Angell Hall. Students, registering with the Bureau of Appointments, who are graduating or whq will be avail- able for placement in February, 1950, are reminded that their reg- istration material is due at the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Building, on Fri., Oct. 28. New York Civil Service Commis- sion announces examinations for openings in the following fields: Engineering and Conservation, Health, Motion Picture, Farm Placement, and Clerical Adminis- tration. Detroit Civil Service Comniis- sion announces examinations for the position of Intermediate Real- ty Appraiser. Additional infor- mation may be obtained at the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad- ministration Building. University Discipline Committee: At a meeting of the University dren. It suggested that nursery schools and maternity hospitals would also be likely fields for un- covering Communist propaganda. "Pravda-also reported an eating contest between a four-month-old piglet and a Michigan University student. It commented: "The 'fact that such, a contest is held characterizes with suffi- cient clearness the morals of the standard bearers of dmllaraciviliza- tion." Forgetting that the contest wasn't even held, I think we would agree that it is doubtful that such a broad implication can be drained from an incident having prac- tically no relation to our society or our moral standards. It's like saying - that a Russian peasant kissed her husband last night. Ergo, the Russian nation is a lov- ing one. I think, however, that we can say quite justifiably that such irresponsible, deceiving, unethical, and propagandish reporting char- acterize'" 'with more than suffi- cient clearness the morals of the standard bearers of hammer and sickle civilization. * ** Naive .. . To the Editor: REFERRING to the interview of Prof. Kamrowski published in the Sunday issue of The Michigan Daily, let me point out that: 1. "Magot" does not mean "flea" in French. It is either a grotesque Chinese statue or a kind of a mon- key. 2. This very "Cafe" is not the place where Existentialists meet. It is famous because it was there that "Surrealistes" met in the earlier '20's. Existentialists are supposed to meet at "au cafe de Flore," next door. The rest of the article is of about the same accuracy. In look- ing for a five-word "definition" of Existentialism shows how naive people can be. --Claude Meillassoux. Reply to Thumme.. .. To theEditor: THIS WILL not even attempt to argue the issue of whether or not national compulsory health in- surance is socialized medicine. Students' f the subject agree al- most unanimously that it very definitely is not, but even such studied unanimity will never be sufficient to convince those who have bowed to the emotion created by the misnomer "socialized." It seems unfortunate to us, how- ever, that the emotion-stricken opposition must rely upon state- ments such as that made by one Lyle Thumme in a recent letter, to the effect that the proposed pro- gram "will astronomically multi- ply the number of patients." We cannot agree that it would be a horrible mistake to provide medical -care to countless thou- sands who have heretofore been unable to afford such proper care. And we wonder if, deep in his heart, Mr. Thumme can justify his position that an individual does not deserve to be healthy-unless he can pay for it. It seems unfortunate to us. -D. B. Murray. Discipline Committee on October 25, 1949, the following actions were taken: Three under-aged students were fined $25.00 each for conduct un- becoming a student. One senior was fined $35.00 for furnishing intoxicants to minors. One minor was fined $25.00 for using a borrowed birth certificate and draft card in attempting to il- legally purchase beer. In addition to the monetary fines imposed, all five students were placed on probation for mis- conduct for the balance of the cur- rent semester. Lectures American Chemical Society Lec- ture: D. Richard Ogg, Jr., will speak on "Unimolecular Reactions and the Decomposition of N205", Thurs., Oct. 27, 8 p.m., 1300 Chem- istry. University Lecture: "Britain Plan for Health and Social Wel- fare." Margaret (Mrs. G. D. H.) Cole, British author and lecturer; auspices of the Departments of Sociology and Economics. 4:1 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 27, Rackhaan Lecture Hall. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Harry David Lamb, English; thesis: "The Escapes of Jupiter. A Transcript of the Holograph Manuscript of Thomas Heywood Representing Folios 74-95 of the Egertan M 1994 in the British Museum and a Consideration of its Nature and Time of Composition," Fri., Oct. 28, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 7 p.m. Chairman, H. T. Price. Doctorial Examination for Hart old Edgar Crosier, Chemical Engi- neering; thesis: "Washing of Liq- uids from Porous Media and Con- duits," Fri., Oct. 28, 3201 East En- gineering Bldg., 3 p.m. Chairma, L. E. Brownell. Seminar in Applied Mathemat- ics: Thurs., Oct. 27, 4:15 p.m., 247 W. Engineering Building. Prof. C. L. Dolph continues his talk on "Theory of linear prediction." Astronomical Colloquium: Thurs. Oct. 27, 4:15 p.m., Observatory.. Speaker: Mr. G. M. Sisson, Gen- eral Manager, Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons & Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Subject: "Astronomical ' Tele- scope Building at Grubb Parsons." Philosophy 307 will not meet this Thursday. Oct. 27. Transfinite Numbers Seminar: Thurs., Oct. 27, 2014 Angell Hall. 3 p.m. Professor Dushnik will talk on the Elementary Concepts of Ordinal and Cardinal Numbers. The results of the Graduate Ap titude Examination given in Octo ber are now available at the Infor- mation Desk of the Graduate School. (Continued on Page 6) { DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 4 4 / 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 Leon Jaroff........... Managing Edited Al Blumrosen............City Zdit(W Philip Dawson ....... EditoriaV Director Mary Stein...........Associate Editor Jo Misner............Associate Editor George Walker.......Associate tr Don McNeil........... AssociateEdr ito Alex Lmanian.. 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BARNABY Now if Gus would model himself after this character here-My!J My Fairy Godfather needs them... So Gus the Ghost wil ot ideas onn arumtiner See, Barnaby! The mad scientist is turning the atomic ray on this monster Cuamocree! " 7/iMr. O'MatnlIv-