PAGE FoyT THE MICH-IAN D ilf WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1949 -- 'If I Were MATTER OF FACT: Collapsing Cowmmunists Dean . .@ MICHIGAN STUDENTS traditionally com- plain about three things in Ann Arbor: the amount and nature of their food, the pulchritude of the coeds and the quality of their courses. There appears to be no hope for improve- ment in the first two categories but the pic- ture is brighter along the educational line. Students now have a first-rate oppor- tunity to express themselves constructive- ly on this perennial gripe. The Daily is sponsoring an "If I were Dean of the Lit- erary College" contest. So far, however, only a few entries have been received. The contest is only four days old and thus it is a trifle early to say that this re- presents a definite trend, but the response has been anything but heartening. It is The Daily's plan to provide a sound- ing board for student opinion on the curri- culum changes which are currently taking place in the literary college. Here's how the contest works: The Daily will forward to Dean Kenis- ton all suggestions and complaints con- cerning the literary college that it receives from its readers. The best proposals will be printed in the letters to the editor col- umn so that they may be discussed by the student body. All suggestions should be mailed to The Editor, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor. There is no deadline and no cash prizes are being offered. The real reward will be a better education for all students in the Col- lege of Literature, Science and the Arts. The faculty and administration are making a determined attempt to broaden and re-vitalize the departmental programs of the literary college. Dean Keniston has approved The Daily's effort to stimulate expression of student opinion*on educational problems. At the same time he noted that students have taken little interest in such things in the past. From the first few day's results it ap- pears that the dean's misgivings may be well-founded. Some of us, however, believe that students are interested in the one thing which should have drawn them to Ann Arbor and look for our optimism to be justified. -Dave Thomas Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: PAUL BRENTLINGER THERE WAS SOME fine music-making in Rackham Auditorium last night, when the Stanley Quartet played a program of Mozart, Piston, and Brahms. The Mozart Quartet in B-fat major, K. 589, exhibits many characteristics of his late period, especially a certain maturity and a sense of form way in advance of his time. Particularly outstanding is the beau- tiful second movement larghetto. The quar- tet played this music for all it was worth, their attacks, individual entrances, and gen- eral feeling for the Mozartean idiom being particularly praiseworthy. Possibly the only distracting feature of this performance was the first violinist's tendency toward a rather wiry, unlovely tone. This flaw, incidentally, was noticeable throughout the concert. Next on the program was the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Walter Piston, for. which Joseph Brinkman of the piano faculty joined the quartet. This music made a woe- fully negative impression on me. To be sure, there were all sorts of slick rhythms and many attempts at profundity, particu- larly in the painfully boring second move- ment, but there seemed to be little else. The last movement seemed like nothing more than an overly refined barn dance, robbed of its intrinsically simple charm. This need- lessly difficult score was apparently well played. The last part of the program was devoted to a performance of Brahms' celebrated A- minor quartet. Here is music which not only attempts to be strong, beautiful, and profound, but is just that. Witness, for ex- ample, the mysterious third movement, or the restless energy of the last. Here, as previously, the artists played beautifully and comprehendingly. The Stanley Quartet is a group which merits close observation, and if Prof. Ross, the first violinist, can make his tone a little less brilliant, we shall have a group quite comparable to more celebrated colleagues such as the Budapest and Paganini Quartets. -Harris Crohn - By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP - WASHINGTON-It is time to point out that the American Communist Party no longer merits the occasionally hysterical at- tention it has been getting. For the fact is that the party is well on the way to having approximately the same real political im- portance as the Greenbackers or the Single Taxers. Even in its heyday, the CP never had anything approaching a mass following. Yet it has had real political significance. This significance has derived from two vital assets. The first has been the party's very considerable toehold in the labor movement. And the second, in some ways more useful, has been the party's influ- ence with the kind of fuzzy-minded but articulate left-wing intellectual who be- lieved that the Communists were only a particularly eager brand of liberal, and therefore worked with them, as in last year's Wallace campaign. The Communists are now clearly losing both these precious assets. The ridiculous Wallace campaign itself seriously weakened the Communists' hold on the intellectual left-the departure of The New Republic magazine from the Wallace camp was one obvious symptom of this weakened process. But now the process has been vastly accel- erated. For Marshal Tito has given the left- wing intellectuals a new hero, more pala- table than Josef Stalin, in their frantic search for the total answer. THE SAME THING has, of course, been going on abroad. The split has intern- ally rent the French, Italian, and other Communist parties. Yet in Italy and France the Communists have had actual intrinsic power in terms of a popular following. In the United States they have not had this advantage, and they have had to rely heav- ily on the sort of non-Communist "liberal" willing to make a common front with them. Thus it must be with real anguish that the Communists are watching the proces- sion of left-wing intellectuals who last year joined them in supporting Wallace, and who this year are making the pilgrim- age to Belgrade. For the Communists have no alternative but to call Tito a "fascist" and a "running dog of the imperialists." And the left-wing- ers who are not committed to Stalinism find the whole concept of Communism indepen- dent of the unkindly men in the Kremlin al- most unbearably tempting. Besides the pil- grims in the flesh, there are many other Wallaceites who have been privately con- verted without making the junket to the new shrine. * * * ADD THE disastrous defeat the Commun- ists have suffered in the labor move- ment. Only two years ago, when the Com- munists were bidding for control of the United Auto Workers, they seemed in a fair way to control more than half the member- ship of the CIO. Now they will be lucky to hold onto a few small unions like Ben Gold's fur workers. Describing the CIO plans for taking over the m,mbership in the Com- munist-led unions, one CIO leader predicted grimly, "It's gonna be murder." * * * AS FAR AS their real political influence in this country is concerned, the Com- munists are pretty well washed up. Only one thing can restore their influence. That is to make martyrs of them and in so doing to compromise the basic principle of civil liber- ties. And it is worth noting that, althougi the uluations of the Communists tend to obscure it. a perfectly honest issue of evil How You Coming With The Baruades On Your Side?' 0( b (a. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ketep TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publishall lettersrwhichsare 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 from publication at the discretion of the editors.__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ UUUVI, U 7lCtA 11CU a 1U liberties is involved in the matter of jaili the Communist leaders. (Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, In ON THE I Washington Merry-Go-Round WITH DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-Two morals can be drawn from the quiet exit of lusty likable, 250-pound Julius A. Krug from the Truman cabinet. 1-It doesn't pay for a man in public life to be publicized with Hollywood girlies. 2-The Press can't criticize one of Harry Truman's cabinet members if they want him to resign. Criticism merely freezes a man in the cabinet. In the case of Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug, some of the newspapers play- ed up the Johnny Meyers parties and the Hollywood beauties who entertained Krug when he was Chairman of the War Pro- duction Board. And at the time this had a tendency to solidify "Cap's" position in the Cabinet-for the President invariably rallies to his Cabinet's defense when they are under attack. That, however, was three years ago. And for the past year, Krug and Truman have not been getting along at all. The sparks have flown on several occasions. One-scath- ing letter written to the Secretary of the Interior by the President was the kind no President writes to a Cabinet member un- less he wants him to resign. Krug also had more of his Interior De- partment bills vetoed than any other Ca- bineteer in recent history. And when the head of the Cabinet, the President, turns thumbs down on the legislative proposals of a member of his own official family, you can expect a resignation. The tragic fact about Julius A. Krug is that most of his life he was an A-1 public servant. He started with a great career. He did a bang-up job with the Tennessee Valley Authority, then came into the Cabinet at the age of 36, the youngest Secretary of the In- terior in hisory. What really put the political skids un- der him, however, was the girlie episode in Hollywood. When the Brewster Com- mittee got hold of Johnny Meyers' expense accounts, with payments listed to certain ladies for the entertainment of "Cap" Krug, he was in hot water when he went up on Capitol Hill. For while "Cap" testified about irriga- tion and wild life, the Senator's couldn't help having smiles on their faces as they thought of those Johnny Meyers expense accounts. Naturally this undermined "Cap's" ability to battle it out with Congress, made it di i ficult to get his legislative program OK'd, and this, in turn, was one reason for the White House vetoes. * * * * MEANWHILE, Cap was in wrong with his wife, whom he tried to please by buy- ing a convertible, a new house, and other things which she had wanted. Naturally, this took money, and like any man with a fixed income and high income takes, "Cap" couldn't make any real mon- ey without borrowing and trying for a capital gains tax. Probably this was why he made a small investment in the Los Angeles Rams football team, and also wh he borrowed $700,000 to hold an intere in the Brookside Mills, a textile factor in Tennessee. So far as this columnist can see, there w nothing wrong with "Cap" Krug's inve ment in Brookside. He got his original vestment in the mill before he entered t Cabinet. It is true that after he enter the Cabinet, he borrowed $700,000 to secu control of the mill, and later borrow another $750,000 to pay off the first lo However, this type of transaction is no 'd ferent from that practiced by many bu nessmen today. * ** * IN SECRETARY KRUG'S case, howev the deal hurt him in two ways. In t first place, it detracted from the time] spent in Washington. During many weeks] lived five days a week in New York, fl down to Washington Friday morningf Cabinet meetings. The only Interior Department busine in New York is Bedloes Island, on whi stands the Statue of Liberty. Obvious: Krug could not have spent weeks in Ne York worrying about the upkeep of th Statue of Liberty. The other way the textile deal hurt h was that Nathan Steinman, from who Krug borrowed $750,000 on April 16, 19 now wants one phase of his agreementa bitrated. He claims that he was to be t exclusive sales agent for Brookside M: and that Krug and his partner, Thom Epstein, owe him $90,000 in commissions To block this arbitration, Krug and Ep stein have asked for an injunctionin th New York Supreme Court, claiming tha Steinman's proposed arbitration "repre sents a blatant attempt on Steinman part to seize control of Brookside Mil through a misuse of arbitration." Assuming that Krug is entirely right, a Judge Bernard Botein has ruled in his fav on two out of three counts, nevertheless is difficult for any Cabinet officer to ke his mind on intricate financial deals pl the 101 details connected with supervisi Alaskan defense, strikes in Hawaii, the R clamation fight in California, education the Navajoes in Arizona, National Pa] from Yellowstone to Yosemite, and the ec nomic worries of Puerto Rico and the Virg Islands, to say nothing of Bedloes Isla and the Statue of Liberty. * * * * MEANWHILE, several of the newsmen w knew what was happening kept mu They were afraid that criticism once aga would arouse Truman's ire, once aga would freeze Krug in the Cabinet. In a wa this is a reflection on one of the ch functions of the Press-namely to keep eye on and report the operations of pub] officials. Nevertheless, under Harry Tr man's reverse way of doing things, new papers sometimes have to work in rever too. (Copyright, 1949, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ing American Painting . To the Editor: c.) HE REVIEW of the Contem- porary American Painters ex- hibit (in last Thursday's Daily) seemed to arrive at an unnecessar- ily gloomy conclusion. Mr. Egass, in his search for monumentality, apparently overlooks the keynote of the exhibit, which is the ex- ploratory character, the diversity, of American painting. The complaint that this is a s "lonely, rootless art" seems unjus- tified, when one tradition born in Sthis century, in this country, is so st handsomely represented in the y fine Burchfield watercolor. The assertion that these are vas odds and ends of European tra- st- ditions is justified in the obvious in- instance of Dorothea Tanning's he Surrealism, but the canvases of ed men like Seliger and Stamos are clearly assert the emergence of ve new thought in America. red It is a happy, rather than a an. gloomy prospect, that American if~ artists, despite the insecurity that si- experimental painters face, con- tinue to work in new directions. They express confidence in a de- 'er, veloping cultural maturity that ,he will bring understanding and ac- he ceptance of their ideas. he -Kingsley M. Calkins he * * * for Apathetic to SL To the Editor: ss AM quite apathetic toward our ,h Student Legislature. It is true ly that our deans encourage us to y participate in tl is sort of student he government and that they are ov- me erjoyed when we become real so- cial busybodies. im 'It is also true that SL represents om a great percentage of the students 48, and that it is a formal acknow- ar- ledged student body which follows he as best it can the full formalities ills of parlimentary procedure. as But to what avail? What are its powers? What can it do? What -_ has it done? In contrast to The Daily, the me Co-ops and several other useful, at purposeful and excellent student e- enterprises, the SL is a playground 's for boys and girls who, as the ls deans realize, are too young to really take a hand in important nd matters. vor These children of higher educa- it tion learn through play and prac- ep tice the procedures and protocols lus which they may some day have ing to apply in the big, wide world. At the present the student legis- Ze- lators function at their optimal of best in setting dates for pep-ral- rks lies and formal dances at the IM co- building. When they tried to deal gin with discrimination and faculty nd ratings, it was realized that they might fumble the job and to pre- vent such mishaps these functions 'ho were immediately taken over by m. the IFC and University Adminis- tration who, of course, know best. ain At present the SL has as much ain influence or authority on vital ay, matters dealing with my life as a ief student as does Ivan Bourgeowski, an an underprivileged salt-miner of lic Upper Siberia. ru A worthwhile and desirable SL us- should at least have power to: se, 1-Control faculty ratings just as the faculty is rightly judging the students' worth. Under the present system of secret faculty- controlled, faculty-rating I receive no direct benefit from these re- sults; yet they are there ostensibly to serve me, the student. 2-To help decide on the r'e- quired basic student curriculum and code of behavior. 3-To fully control the money earned by students directly, such as football receipts, and partially control the state money. 4-To collaborate with the Board of Regents on general Uni- versity policies. 5--To break the five-store mon- opoly and run a co-op bookstore as several other college SL's are doing. As this would fe of direct benefit to the whole student body, University funds or loans should be used for this purpose. 6-Occasionally to request guid- ance from the faculty; but not too often. These are but half a dozen ba- sically necessary functions of an SL which is worthy of my vote, which is entitled to that name, and which will improve the Uni- versity of Michigan. I believe in the democratic hy- pothesis that the greatest benefit is derived from self-rule; this ap- plies to-university students as well as td national citizens. -Arthur Hecht * * * (Continued from Page 3)) Shock Wave Reflections." Re- freshments. Visitors welcome. Botany Seminar: 4 p.m., Wed., Nov. 16, 1139 Natural Science Bldg. Prof. Wm. Randolph Taylor will speak on :"Characters of the Vegetation of Bermuda." Engineering Mechanics Semi- nar: 4 p.n., Wed., Nov. 16, 101 W. Engineering Bldg. Speaker: Mr. James L. Edman. "Techniques in Experimental Mechanics." Visitors welcome. Physical Chemistry Seminar: 4:07 p.m., Wed., Nov. 16, 2308 Chemistry Bldg. Prof. L. O. Broak- way and Mi. J. E. Bower will dis- cuss "Neutron Diffraction and its Application to Structure Determi- nation." Zoology Seminar: 8:00 p.m. Thursday, November 17. Rack- ham Amphitheater. Dr. Lester G. Barth, Assoc. Prof. of Zoology, Co- lumbia University, will speak on "Recent Developments in Chemi- cal Embryology," Concerts Italo Tajo, Basso of the Metro- politan Opera, assisted by Robert Turner at the piano, will present a program of arias and songs by Mo- zart, Caldara, Pergolesi, Glinka, Moussorgsky, Schumann, Beeth- oven and Liszt, at the Choral Un-. ion concert, Wed., Nov. 16, 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Tickets are available at the of- fices of the University Musical So- ciety in Burton Tower; and will also be on sale at the Hill Audi- torium box office after 7 p.m. on the night of the concert. Carillon Recital: By Percival Price, University Carillonneur, 7:15 p.m., Wed., Nov. 16. Program: Two airs for the Holsworthy bells by Wesley, selections from Mo- zart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute;, Andante cantabile for ca- rillon by Gordon, three American popular melodies, and three Christmas airs. The same program will be re- peated Fri., Nov. 18, closing the fall series of carillon recitals. Organ Recital: By Robert Noeh- ren, University Organist, 4:15 p.m., Wed., Nov. 16, Hill Auditorium. Program: compositions by Franck, Brahms, Liszt, Sowerby and Lang- lais. Open to the public. Faculty Concert: Clarinet Quar- tet, composed of William Stubbins, Dwight Dailey, Norman Rost, and George Roach, will present a pro- gram at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 17, Rackham Assembly Hall. Program: compositions by Mar- cello, Laurence Powell, Jarnefeldt, Kroll, Griffes, and Debussy. Open to the public. Events Today Hiawatha Club: There will be no meeting today as previously an- nounced. Westminster Guild: Wednesday afternoon Tea 'n Talk. 3rd floor lounge, Presbyterian Church. Wesleyan Guild: 4-5:30 p.m., Do-Drop-In, Wesley Lounge. Weekly informal gather- ing, 6 p.m., Pot Luck Supper. 7:10 p.m., Bible Study Seminar. 8:30 p.m., Cabinet Meeting. Social Ethics Discussion Group: 7:15 p.m., Lane Hall. Dr. Arnold Nash will speak. Orthodox Student's Society: 7:30 p.m., Lane Hall. Business meeting. Baptist Students: Tea and "Chat" at the Roger Williams Guild House, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Michigan Christian Fellowship: Prayer Meeting, 7 p.m.; Regular Bible Study Groups, Hebrews VII, 7:30 p.m., Upper Room, Lane Hall. Canterbury Club: 7:30-10 p.m., Rev. and Mrs. Burt are at home to all Episcopal students. U. of M. Rifle Club: NRA Senior Qualification match, 7:30 p.m., ROTC range. All' members with- out class cards to fire. Anthropology Club: 7:30 p.m., 3024 Museum Bldg. Entrance to the building by rear door. Wilfred D. Logan will address the club on "Recent Archaeological Evacua - tions in Missouri." American Society of Civil En- gineers, student chapter: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Rm. K, I, M, and N, Union. Topic: "Underground Ar- teries" (illustrated with movies), presented by Mr. H. W. King, Johns-Mansville Corporation. Delta Sigma Pi: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Chapter House. Ice Skating Club: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., W.A.B. Square Dancing. New members welcome. Folk and Square Dance Club: Meeting, 7:30-9:30 p.m., W.A.B. Special guests: Skating Clib, Greene House, Mary Hinsdale House (New Residence Hall). Everyone invited. A. I. A., student chapter: Meet- ing 4:15 p.m., 247 Architecture Bldg. Subject: Slides of Europe. Women of the University Fac- ulty: Tea, 4 to 6 p.m., 4th floor clubroom, League. Michigan Arts Chorale: Re- hearsal, 6:50 p.m., Rm. B Haven Hall. All members should be pres- ent. Concert will be Nov. 29. Modern Dance Club: Meeting, 7 p.m., dance studio, Barbour Gym. I. A. S.: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., 1042 E. Engineering Bldg. Speaker: Dean Ralph A. Sawyer, Graduate School. Film and talk on the Bi- kini Atom Bomb Tests. Everybody welcome. Sigma GammamEpsilon: Short business meeting, 12:15 p.m., 3054 Natural Science Bldg. Undergraduate Psychology Club: Student-faculty coffee hour, 8 p.m., Union. Speaker: Dean Hay- ward Keniston. Coming Events AIEE-IRE: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 17, Union. Prof. W. C. Sadler will speak on "Patent Problems in Engineering." Society of Automotive Engi- neers: 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 17, 311 W. Engineering Bldg. Prof. C. V. Good will speak on the Engi- neering Research Institute. Political Science Round Table: 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 17, Rack- ham Assembly Hall. Alpha Phi Omega: Regular meeting and election of officers, Thurs., Nov. 17, Union. International Center Weekly Tea: 4:30-6 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 17, for all Foreign students and Amer- ican friends. Forestry Club: Business meeting 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 17, Natural Science Auditorium. Prof. S. W. Allen will speak on "Trial Riding Business" (Illus.). Rrfreshments. 'i '1 Board in Control . . 0 To the Editor: AS A CANDIDATE for the Board in Control of Student Publi- cations, I wonder if I may use this column to voice a few opinions I have concerning this job. I think there are a few basic principles which should be discussed openly before the election if students are to vote intelligently. I hasten to add that comments on the follow- ing opinions are more than wel- come-in fact, they are requested.1 There is but one disqualifica- tion for candidacy for the Board in Control of Student Publica- tions, that is, membership on the, staff of any of the subordinate' publications. I believe this pro- vision is a wise one. It-was design- ed to eliminate persons from the Board who because of contacts, associations, and experience would be less able to discover and cor- rect the faults of the publications. The purpose was to provide IM-1 PARTIAL, EXPERIENCED, and UNOBLIGED administration for University student publications. At the time of the Board's concep- tion, it was felt that such admin- istration could best be provided by students who were experienced in the field of campus journalism and yet did not have any close, direct contacts with the publica- tions staffs. This provision has been neatly circumvented through resigning from the staff to run for the Board, an obvious, but legal. vio- lation of the spirit and principle of the rules. This practice is com- mon again this year. I DON'T WANT TO CAST REFLECTIONS UPON ANY OF THE CANJDI- DATES. However, I would appre- ciate comment from those who would support this practice now and in the future. -Lloyd Putnam Polonia Club: Meeting, . (Continued on Page 6) 7:30 0,14P Atr4igau Daily Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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