PAd*3 ~'i _:. TIE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEIMFRt 1O0,14; U 1 The IFC's Chance ONE OF THE most powerful forces in Greekdom, the National Interfraternity Council, will meet at Washington D.C. this month and will undoubtedly consider the question of discriminatory clauses. A little background investigation of this organization, which includes repre- sentatives from each campus IFC and most national fraternities, indicates how- ever that any constructive answers out of this group would be startling to say the least. At its last meeting, the NIFC passed a resolution encouraging the elimination of discriminatory clauses but adding "The wis- dom or desirability of social considerations affecting membership, including religious, racial or national qualifications are the con- cern of the fraternity itself." Another resolution said that "An in- dividual member may cast his vote upon discriminatory considerations, when con- sidering a candidate for membership. He may concede or refuse to concede to the opinions or even the prejudices of his fraternity brothers." In addition, the group voted 25-12 against eliminating clauses which bar negroes,'and it is significant to add that not a single Negro fraternity has been membership in the NIFC. admitted to Yet, despite what would seem like the overwhelming attitude of the NIFC, nine college IFCs, members of the New Eng- land Regional IFC, have endorsed a re- solution to that National Council calling on the fraternities to drop their discrimi- natory clauses. It would be a strong answer to the doubt- ing Indepedent thomases on the Michigan campus if our own IFC were to send dele- gates, instructed to work and vote for the proposal of the New Englanders. For the national fraternities will be repre- sented at this conference by that group which the undergraduate chapters complain is the source of all their difficulties-the alumni. - This is an excellent chance for our IFC, operating as a group, to by-pass the' slower method of work by individual chapters of these fraternities, and face the alumni with their arguments. It would be an expression of IFC's deter- mination to act on the ideals it has thus far only said it supports. Don McNeil. + Arr.i®riRT THE EXHIBIT of Contemporary American Painters that opened Monday at the University Art Museum, in Alumni Mem- orial Hall, is a rather good sampling of the kind of painting that is being done in our country today; some of the finest examples available are shown. The canvasses arej about equally divided between selections from the Cranbrook Museum and an ex- hibition circulated by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and seem to give emphasis to the younger men who have emerged within the last few years. Nevertheless, most of the more prominent trends are emphasized. For example, Reginald Marsh, one of the old-timers, shows us the beach at Coney Island, with all its lovemaking inj one tangled but healthy mass. The gen- eral style was developed in Italy more than 30 years ago. Marsh hasn't changed it much, except in subject matter. This is one reason why some people will love it and others hate it. In the furthest wing of the opposing camp are, of course, the non-objectivists. Prob- ably one of the most subtle colorists in this group is Theodore Stamos, a 27-year-old New Yorker, whose splotchy, microbe-like forms seep across the eerie shallows of his canvas. Dorothea Tanning belongs to the Sur- realists, who tell us their dreams with a. skilled, almost-photographic realism and a Freudian vocabulary. In her painting, " irthday," Tanning shows us a rather handsome woman, with a skirt of moss and growing branches, poised at a vista of half-open doorways that stretches out into a hollow infinity. And grand old John Marin is here too, with a completely personal interpretation of cubism. This time it is another of his Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: ROMA LIPSKY great watercolors of "Lower Manhattan," with all the explosive violence and peculiar poetry that many have found in New York. Doris Lee's "The Fisherman's Wife" is in that pseudo-primitive tradition that has been so popular here ever since Grandma Moses became successful. Carl Zerbe's "Chandelier," on the other hand, strikes me as an extremely intelli- gent and sensitive use of distortion. A collection of incongruous and rather self- consciously arty still-life objects rests on a table level with the floor; but the gaudy, overly intricate chandelier trips backward into space, as does the whole back wall, so that the degenerateness of the subject-matter is re-enforced by the disintegration of space itself. All of the paintings are technically ma- ture in terms of the stage they represent, and most of them are good. They are, in fact, a sampling of the best that is being done in America today. But none of them is great. There is, it seems to me, no great American painting. Because, in the pro- foundest sense, there is no American paint- ing. There is, of course, painting of typical- ly American scenes and subjects. But in all great schbols of painting, reality, either material or spiritual, is modified by the peculiar style and rhythms of the .artist which in turn reflect the beliefs of the region of which he is a part. That universals are also expressed is of course true. But American art uses an Italo- French Academic style to review American genre, or, in the more intellectual level, an Italo-French Surrealism to express Freudian universals, or an Hispano- French extreme abstractionism to convey the artist's. Perhaps there is no confidence in America's cultural maturity. Perhaps the position of the artist in American society is so insecure that he cannot identify him- self with it. Perhaps there is no longer any genuine agreement among Americans on what they themselves believe. In any case, American painting, when it is not an art of escape, is a lonely, rootless art. -Robert Enggass, Undemocratic, 13i partisarnsh ip THE RECENT Senatorial election in New York threw the spotlight on our foreign policy. John Foster Dulles' supporters claimed that it was essential for the ef- fective continuation of the bipartisan for- eign policy that he be elected to the Senate, These statements illustrate the great im- portance given to biparsanship in the con- duct of foreign affairs. Yet there are many reasons for seriously questioning the pri- ciple of bipartisanship. The bipartisan foreign policy is undemo- cratic, for two reasons. First, the American voter has no chance to pass judgement on it since both major parties support it. The citizen who happens to disapprove of our present strategy abroad has little choice but to support candidates who disagree with him. His only alternatives are to back minor party candidates who cannot possibly win, or not to vote at all. Thus our foreign policy is not subject to control by the people through the ballot. Second, a premium is placed on con- formity. Those who oppose the foreign policy are vilified and labeled Commu- nists or fellow travelers. A striking il- lustration of this fact is furnished by the calumnious attacks on Henry Wallace during the 1948 election campaign. The bipartisan foreign policy is also un- satisfactory because it does not fulfill its major objective of taking foreign policy out of politics. A vivid proof of this is the vio- lent criticism by the Republicans of our present attitude toward China. The Re- publicans claim that they were not con- sulted in the formulation of our Chinese policy. This shows that so-called bipartisan- ship could easily flame into bitter political warfare. In reality the policy might fail. Those members of Congress who are against certain aspects of our foreign policy do not dare to openly oppose it. Therefore they seek to make the policy ineffectual by slashing its appropriations to the danger point under the banner of econo- my and balancing the budget. Another practical danger is that unwisd measures could be passed in an atmosphere of crisis; legislation relating to foreign pol- icy does not undergo the critical scrutiny other bills do. Finally, there is no party responsibility. Since both parties support our foreign pol- icy there is no one party to take the blame in the event that that policy turns out badly and there is no party with an alternative program. In short, the bipartisan conduct of for- eign affairs is both undemocratic and in effective. The time has come for a re- evaluation of the principle of bipartisan- ship. -Joe Tannenbaum. CII NIEMA At Lydia Mendelssohn .. SOMEWHERE IN BERLIN ..-. pRESENTING a somewhat sugar-coated picture of post-war Berlin, "Somewhere in Berlin" nonetheless offers American mov- ie-goers some interesting things to think about. The picture deals primarily with the hordes of German children who have noth- ing to do except play among the bomb rubble and stir up mischief. They are not the brutal, hungry little scavengers pic- tured in newsreels of scarred Europe; in- deed these children are exceedingly gentle considering the conditions of their lives. They get into the usual boyhood scrapes and their pranks are no more dangerous than those of slum children anywhere. Fortunately for the youngsters in "Some- where in Berlin," they come into contact on- ly with very understanding adults. However, I do not think it is reading too much into the picture to say that incipient militarism and violence can be seen in some of the children. One wonders what would have hap- pened if the older people had not been en- dowed with almost saintly understanding of the trials of boyhood. We are reminded in the film that the returning German soldier faces the same problem of rebuilding his life as was faced by our own returning veterans. But in Germany they must often rebuild their homes and businesses too. A little of the bitterness and futility which must fill such men is shown, but like everything else, it is toned down to the point where you can not help thinking the picture is primarily for American consumption. Most of the characters exist in an aura of benevolence and goodness which doesn't quite square with human behavior under conditions of deprivation. I can't bring my- self to believe that these are really the con- ditions in Berlin today; but there are ele- ments of truth in some of the characteriza- tions. If you're going to swallow it, take more than the proverbial grain of salt. --Fredrica Winters ....All There Is in .Livia ' "THE RIDERS in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind unin f rin ris a nd fn Znv T1 fn nnwf',Z caif "And So You Have This Feeling Of Being 'Not Wanted' " - 1 -A - '-~ X e TO THE E DITOR 'fie lnaily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in, length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed, edited, or withheld from1 publication at the discretion of the editors. ___te__ 4r DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Acid," Fri., Nov. 11, 2525 Chemis- try Bldg., 2 p.m. Chairman, F. F. Blicke. Doctoral Examination for Charles Balch Hicks, Education; thesis: "The Technical Business Vocabulary of General Business Education," Fri., Nov. 11, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 3 p.m. Chairman, J. M. Trytten. Seminar in Applied Mathemat- ics: 4:15 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 10, 247 W. Engineering. Prof. C. L. Dolph continues his talk on "Theory of linear prediction." Transfinite Numbers Seminar: 3 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 10, 2014 An- gell Hall. Mr. Seymour Ginsburg will con- tinue his talk on the recent re- sults in the Arithmetic of Alephs. Concerts 1 t l J 1 7 1 Mating Calls ,. . To the Editor:t N TUESDAY'S Letters to the Editor column there was a com- munication from the President of Delta Gamma sorority which de- plored the conduct of the East Quadrangle residents during a. pinning serenade. Now we in the East Quadrangle have nothing against pinnings or serenades except when they both occur at once directly across the street from us at 11:30 on a night before a school day. These are the days of mid-se- mester examinations, and when we in the East Quadrangle want "fine singing" at 11:30 at night we'll turn on the radio. We "East Quadders" also sin- cerely hope to maintain the friend- ship that has existed between Del- ta Gamma and the East Quad- rangle, so for that reason I would suggest that the sororities along I ill Street exchange their mating calls with the fraternities out in the arboretum or some other suit- able place. Harold L. Ward * * * Carg Sellout . To the Editor: IN REFERENCE to J. M. Clark's letter in yesterday's Daily, wherein he contends that the Gar- goyle will not sell out again for another 26 years - what are his odds? -Joe Stone * * * USSR News... To the Editor: IN YOUR Saturday issue I have read the quotation from the "Nation" concerning the foreign correspondents in the U.S.S.R. The author of the quoted article says, "The government of the U.S.S.R. shall let some American and other foreign correspondents in U.S.S.R. A group of objective correspond- ents - says the author - will write about the positive sides of the Soviet life and will counteract the Hearst-like reactionary jour- nalists." But I, a member of a most op- pressed by Russian Bolshevish's nations -- a Ukrainian who lived for two years in a Soviet-ruled country, Eastern Galicia in the years 1939-41, am sure that the author is wrong. These state- ments might be true in a demo- cratic country whose government needs nothing to keep secret. But the Soviet government fears' the objective correspondents, be- cause it knows that to write only positively about U.S.S.R. can only be done by a communist-minded correspondent, who offers the truth and objectivity to his Krem- lin bosses, or a correspondent who sees only the things shown to him by agents of Inturist, a Soviet traveling agency for foreigners. The really objective correspond- ent, who will have the opportuni- ty to move free i-n the entire U.S.- S.R. will see and find out quite dif- ferent things. We will see the life in the U.S.S.R., will hear from the eye witnesses about the compulsory :ollectivization and its victims - these millions of the Ukrainian and other farmers who died from fam- ine or were compulsory displaced wo concentration camps for slave labor in woods, mines and great zonstructions of Sovietic Asia, where they died from famine, dis- ases, malnutrition, frost, and mal- treatment. He will hear about millions of inhabitants of the Ukraine, Baltic Countries, Crimea, Republic of Volga - German and others - displaced or murdered in Katyn, Winnitzn and other places for their love to their native coun- tries, faith in God, freedom and private enterprise. He will hear about cruel liquida- tion of the Ukrainian Orthodox church in East Ukraine and about a no less cruel liquidation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in West Ukraine in the years 1945- 1948. He will hear more similar things: This is the reason why the Soviet government does not like the for- eign correspondents. -Dr. Roman Weres THE CAMPAIGN to substitute socialism for communism as "the great menace" in American politics, which began immediate- ly after Governor Dewey's defeat in November, 1948, is being accel- erated. Senator Taft, in "Collier's," warns that "we've gone about as far as we can go' in the di- rection of the enervating wel- fare state. Speaking in Los Angeles, Rep- resentative Ralph W. Gwinn of New York somberly informed a luncheon group that "there are ten or twelve men in the House of Representatives who have con- cluded that the fight against so- cialism has been lost. The only hope is to take the issue back to the folks at home and to rally for another battle." Rear Admiral Leslie E. Gehres (ret.) believes that the threat of a Labor-Socialist government is a greater menace to the United States than are the Russians with their atom bomb. Then there is the national ad- vertising program of the Insti- tute of Life Insurance, in which rugged American workers are praised for having rejected all efforts of the welfare state to assist them. The high priests of "public re- lations" have spoken: the menace for 1950 is socialism. -The Nation Challenge DANIEL C. ESTERHUYSE, of South Africa, milked a full- grown lioness in order to win the hand of his beloved. He did a hard and hazardous thing. Nevertheless, he should feel glad that he does not live in the United States. Suppose he were an Ameri- can and the father of his girl asked him to do something real- ly difficult and dangerous, such as: Settling a coal strike. Student Recital: Edward Trou- pin, violinist; will present a pro-l gram in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of1 Master of Music at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 10, Rackham Assem- bly Hall. Mr. Troupin is a pupil of Gilbert Ross. Program: works by Beethoven, Bach, Piston and Ravel. The public is invited. Events Today ' Delta Sigma Pi presents Joseph P. Wolff, Commissioner of Build- ing and Safety Engineering, De- troit, speaking on "Management's Responsibility for Safety in In- dustry." 8 p.m., 130 Business Ad- ministration. Michigan Actuarial Club: Open meeting, 3 p.m., 2013 Angell Hall. Mr. John Morrow and Mr. Charles W. Knowles, district managers of Prudential Life Insurance Com- pany will speak on industrial and' group insurance. La P'tite Causette: 3:30 p.m., Grill Room, League. Student Science Society: 9 p.m., 2033 Natural Science Building. All prospective members invited. International Center Weekly Tea: 4:30-6 p.m., for all Foreign students and American friends. Michigan Crib: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium. Guest speaker: Mr. Edward N. Barnard, well-known trial lawyer from De- troit. Reception after the meeting, Rm. 3R, Union. Hillel Social Committee: Meet- ing, 4:15 p.m., Rm. 3K, Union. Final arrangements for this Sat- urday night's big dance. All wel- come. Modern Poetry Club: 7:30 p.m., League. Discussion: Poetry of e. e. cummings. Inter-Racial Association: Meet- ing, 8 p.m., Union. Prof. T. M. Newcomb will speak on "The Psy- chology of Group Prejudice." Hillel--I.Z.F.A.: Hebrew class, 8 p.m., League. Everyone welcome. American Society of Civil Engi- neers: Student Chapter will hold a joint meeting with the chapters of Michigan State, University of Detroit, University of Toledo, and Wayne University, 8 p.m., Archi- tecture Auditorium. Speaker: Franklin Thomas, A.S.C.E.'s na- tional president. U. of M. Hostel Club: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Lane Hall. Ski pics. Everyone welcome. Committee for Displaced Stu- dents: Meeting, 4 p.m., Lane Hall. All groups participating in D.P. Student program are asked to have their representatives present. Student-Faculty Hour: 4-5 p.m., Grand Rapids Room, League. Hon- oring the history dept. Refresh- ments. Giving a simple explanation of the basing-point muddle. Persuading Congress to pass a realistic program for the support of farm prices. Getting unification in the arm- ed services. Detective Saved Lincoln A Chicago detective, Allan Pink- erton, saved Abraham Lincoln from an earlier assassination. And the Other End? The "bitter end" was originally nautical lingo, applied to the end of a ship's cable. Corning Events Westminster Guild Interna- tional Party: 8 p.m., Fri., Nov. 11, church recreational hall. Coffee Hour: 4:30 to 6 p.m., Fri., Nov. 11, Lane Hall Library. Hillel Foundation: Friday eve- ning services, 7:45 p.m., followed by a program presented by IZFA. Everyone invited. Economics Club: 7:45 p.m., Mon., Nov. 10 and 11, Rackham Amphi- theatre. Dr. Wolfgang F. Stolper, Department of Economics, will speak on "Incomes, Exchange Rates, and the Dollar Shortage." Graduate students and staff mem- bers in Economics and Business Administration, and other inter- ested persons invited. American Association of Uni- versity Professors, Michigan Chap- ter: Meeting, 6-8 p.m., Fri., Nov. 11, Dining Room of the Faculty Club, Union Cafeteria. Dinner portion of meeting begins at 6 p.m. Program and business portion of the meeting, 7-8 p.m. Address: "Academic Freedom in the State Universities" by Hon. Ora Wil- dermuth, Chairman, Board of Governors, Indiana University. Hon. Alfred B. Connable, Jr., member of the Board of Regents, University of Michigan, will in- troduce the speaker. Members of the faculty who are not members of the chapter are invited. Film Program for students, fac- ulty, and general public. Tropical Lowlands-Brazil and Horsemen of the Pampus-Argentina, 4 p.m., Fri., Nov. 11, Kellogg Auditorium. Sponsored by the Audio-Visual Education Center and the Exten- sion Service. No admission charge. Cleveland Club: Any member who would like transportation to and from Cleveland over Thanks- giving in the bus sponsored by the club please contact Elaine Madden 2-6419 or Dave Baird 3-4141 by Mon., Nov. 14. Physical Education - Women Students: Registration for the next eight weeks' classes in Phy- sical Education will be held in the fencing room, Barbour Gymna- sium, as follows: Fri., Nov. 11, 7:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Sat., Nov. 12, 8 a.m. to 12 noon. German Coffee Hour: 3:15-4:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 11, League Cafe- teria. All students and faculty members invited. U. of 1K. Hostel Club: Nov. 12-13, Hikers Camp-Out in Brighton Recreation Area. Bring sleeping bag, tents. Phone Bernard Judwig, Ty 68348, Detroit. Nov. 12-13, Work Holiday Week- end at Harmony Valley Youth Hostel to help finish new bunk room in barn; also Hiking. Call Dick Hudson, TW34420, Detroit. PrI 6 ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round WITH DREW PEARSON AWTASHINGTON-Resignation of isolation- ist insurance man James Kemper as treasurer of the GOP national committee was dressed up in a high-sounding smoke- screen about foreign policy in order to cover up a bitter personal GOP feud. Ac- tually, his resignation was handed in one hour aftr Guy Gabrielson of . New Jersey became the new national chairman last Au- gust, but it was agreed to delay the an- nouncement until the political horizon was calmer. Kemper's exit puts the spotlight on some red faces and raw nerves inside the GOP committee, which probably will be smoothed over now that he is out. Al- though Kemper talked big about lack of founds in the GOP treasury, real fact is that he was never much of a money- raiser. The best GOP money-raiser was the man Kemper and Dewey ousted as GOP national finance chairman after the 1948 convention-Walter Hope. Hope, an able New York lawyer, learned of his resignation by reading it in the morn- ing papers, and his friends claim that the shock was responsible for his death a month or so later. Hope left in the trea- sury a surplus of $800,000 after the Phila- delphia convention. He was replaced by Bourbon Prince Harold Talbot, eager aspirant to the court of St. James, whose family had al- most ordered their clothes for their pre- sentation to the king-when they heard the news of Dewey's defeat. Between ferences. The same night, however, Talbot dined with an oil executive who reported back to the new GOP chairman that Talbot had begun his attack all, over again. U.S. STEEL VS. U.S. GOVERNMENT WHILE THE U.S. Steel Corporation was using its influence against a settlement of the strike, it was also trying to increase its tremendous hold on the steel industry through the U.S. government. Its latest proposed acquisition is a government wartime shipyard at Orange, Texas, which it plans to convert into a factory for making steel pipe for the oil industry. The shipyard was purchased by U.S. Steel's wholly owned subsidiary, Consolidated Steel, upon whose property the yard was built. Then alert Herbertj Bergson, head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, ruled that this would increase U.S. Steel's monopoly position and would be against the best interests of the U.S.A. However, this didn't please Congressman J. M. Coombs and other Texas politicos who thereupon pushed a resolution through both houses of Congress authorizing the ship- yard facilities to be sold to U.S. Steel. Once before, Congressional and White House pressure was used to increase U.S. Steel's hold on the industry. After the war, when the government advertised its Geneva, Utah, steel plant for sale, once again the Justice Department's Anti- trust Division ruled that any sale to U.S. Steel would be against the best interests 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 Editor Al Blumrosen.............City Editor Philip Dawson.......EditorlaV Director Mary Stein...........Associate Editor Jo Misner..............Associate Editor George walker........Associate Editor Don McNeil.........Associate EItor Alex Lmanian.....Photography Etor Pres Holmes........Sports CO-Editor Merle Levin .......... Sports, Co-Editor Roger Goelz.....Associate Sports Editor Miriam Cady.........Women's Editor Lee Kaltenbach..Associate Women's Ed. 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