I I PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER8, 1949 .. yh 7A4 CORNER... E OF THE less successful educational units in a modern university is likely to be its college of engineering. This fact finds recognition in the numerous tales about en- gineering students who can't read or write or understand anything except a diagram. The trouble with the ordinary engineer- ing college is not that it doesn't teach stu- dents anything, but that it teaches them too much about engineering and not enough about anything else. The professional training of the engi- neer is so narrow and limiting that it is only the unusual engineering student who is able to discuss anything but sine functions, elec- tron beams, stress, and torque. * * * WHISMAY NOT SEEM important to the moguls of the engineering profession. An engineer, after all, is a specialized worker: there is no necessity for him to be able to engage in light conversation-or any con- versation, for that matter. But an engineer is also a professional worker, a public servant. Even if he is only after profits, he has a responsibility to other people which he cannot meet ade- quately with the aid of specialized knowl- edge alone. Furthermore, an engineer, like anyone else, ought to be able to enjoy life on some- thing more than the animal level, and en- gipeering colleges generally fail to provide for this need. THE ENGINEERING college, in short, is a generation or more behind the times. Around the turn of the century, it was possible to go directly from high school to law or medical school. Since then the ten- dency has been to lengthen the period of training for these professions so that four years of general college work intervene between high school and the specialized school. Engineering colleges, largely ignoring this trend, continue to admit students directly from high school, and to prepare them only for their vacations, a procedure which most often results in good, old-fashioned ignor- ance of everything else. -Philip Dawson Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. "In Two Words, Yes And No" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I WASHINGTON-Most interesting fact in the Army record of the mysterious Maj. George Racey Jordan, who now claims ura- nium secrets were shipped to Russia during the war, is that it was the Russian comman- der who urged Jordan's promotion. Two letters are in the Army files from Col. Anatole Kotikov, commanding officer of the Russian Lend-Lease staff at Great Falls, Mont., praising Jordan and asking that he be promoted from the rank of captain to major. And when the gold- leaf cluster of major was finally given to Jordan, it was pinned on by no less than Kotikov himself. All the official records on Major Jordan's background so far scrutinized indicate that he was on the friendliest terms with the Rus- sians and at one time complained because Russian officials were being held up too long on the border by customs and immi- gration regulations. *, * * N MARCH 1944, Jordan reported that he was confused as to the scope of his duties regarding shipment of mail and cargo pass- ing through Great Falls for Russia. He asked whether he should inspect it and espe- cially wanted to know whether it had diplo- matic immunity. The only report the Army has that he might have been suspicious of Russian ship- ments was at this time, when Jordan said he thought the volume was unusually large but said the bulk of it was mail. He told a counterintelligence agent at the time that he had no experience with diplomatic mail and was unable to know how to handle it. Jordan pointed out, however, that the bulk of the mail was chiefly American newspapers and periodicals. The only government reports he mentioned were not regarding uranium, but regarding U.S. shipping rates and methods of load- ing cattle and horses. The Russians had picked up a Department of Agriculture bulletin on loading livestock into freight cars. At no time did Major Jordan make any reference to Harry Hopkins, Henry Wallace, uranium, bomb powder, or secret documents. He gave no indication he had broken into any pouches, crates, or suitcases. He did comment that Russian packages were well- guarded around the clock. The whole tenor of Jordan's report and his conduct at Great Falls was friendly to the Russians and Army files indicate that after he left the service he made a speech before a civil club in New York praising "our gallant allies," the Rus- sians. * * * JORDAN IS NO amateur at peddling sto- ries to the newspapers. In fact, he has spent most of his life in the public rela- tions field. From 1919 to 1933, he was an ad- vertising representative for McGraw-Hill. During the 'thirties, he worked as a public relations expert for various brewing com- panies, including Schaefers, 1933-34, for the Brewing Corporation of America, 1934-35, and for Ruppert, 1938-39. Between brewer- ies, 1935-37, he did odd jobs as a free-lance public relations man in New York City. The last job he held before going into the Army was as publicity man for the Luckenbach Steamship Company in Bremerton, Wash. It is interesting to note that Jordan was not concerned enough about his story to report it to the FBI. On the contrary, the FBI came to him, after he had tried to give the story to Time magazine and a representative of Walter Winchell. Time magazine incidentally rejected his story after examining his diary. After his discharge from the Air Force, Jordan stayed around Washington as an ex- pediter, otherwise known as a five percenter. That's how he eased in to his present job. (Copyright, 1949, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Continued from Page 3) a plications must be filed by Dec. 10. For further information call at the Bureau of Appointments. Overseas Teaching Positions: ThesNear East CollegeAssocia- tion is looking for teachers for schools and colleges in Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon. Positions start in September, 1950. Con- tracts are for three years. Single persons are required for most of the positions. Vacancies exist in English, Mathematics, Sciences, Piano, Psychology, Philosophy, Po- litical Science, and Physical Edu- cation for Women. Experience is required for many of these posi- tions. For further information call the Bureau of Appointments, Ext. 489. Academic Notices Algebra Discussion Group: 8 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 8, 3201 Angell Hall. Prof. Harvey Cohn, Wayne University, will speak on Critical Lattices. Astronomy 30: Examination of 11 o'clock section on Fri., Dec. 9, will be held in 205 Mason Hall. Transfinite Numbers Seminar: 3 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 8, 2014 Angell Hall. Mr. Joseph Shoenfield will continue his talk on "Solutions of a Certain Type of Ordinal Equa- tion." Events Today Student Science Society: 7 p.m., 1300 Chemistry.°Trip to the ob- servatory. American Society of Civil Engi- neers: Meeting, 7:15 p.m., Rm. 3KLM, Union. The chapter pic- ture will be taken; officers will be elected; Movie. Polonia Club: Meeting, 7:30 p.m.. International Center. Films about Poland. Interested students are urged to attend. American Chemical Society: Dr. Gordon K. Moe will speak on "The Pharmacological Action of Some Quaternary Ammonium Salts," 8 p.m., Thurs., 1300 Chemistry An- nual business meeting. Student-Faculty Hour: Honor- ing the Germanic and Classic Lan- guage Departments, 4-5 p.m., Grand Rapids Room, League. U. of M. Hostel Club: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Lane Hall. Election of new president. Prof. Allen will show slides on trail riding. Re- freshments. International Center Weekly (Continued on Page 5) M t1 ettteP4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily 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 from publication at the discretion of the editors. Mythical Man . . . MATTER OF FACT by STEWART ALSOP I NIGHT EDITOR: JANET WATTS Snowballers IT IS GENERALLY assumed, that by the time students reach the college level that it no longer ought to be necessary to discuss the proper time and place for snowballing. Unfortunately, however, it was made apparent following Tuesday night's bas- ketball game that some students have not reached the maturity expected of them, as many college 'men' and even fur-coat- ed coeds joined high school boys in harass- Ing the crowd with snowballing. There is absolutely no reason for the throwing of snowballs into a crowd of peo- ple, and this exhibition either shows gross immaturity or a perverted sehse of humor. Many of those firing snowballs along State Street claim that they were not aiming at the crowd but at specific individuals who were throwing them back. If these snowballers are such good marksmen that they can hit those people they are aiming at in a crowd of about 4,000 people, they should be on one of the athletic teams where their skill could be used more advantageously. Tuesday night's snowballers not only displayed immaturity but also poor sports- manship as they annoyed, inconvenienced, and endangered their fellow students and the adults present at the game. However much some people may hate to admit it, snowballs have caused permanent injuries sometimes resulting in the loss of an eye or impairment of one's hearing. The temptation to throw snowballs is great but people in college should be able to real- ize that snowball fights should be reserved for backyards or at best among small groups where no innocent bystanders may be af- fected. -Harold Tanner "ONE OF THE first actions of a truly in- telligent government would be a law disqualifying university graduates from elec- tion to public bodies and particularly from teaching." * * * - "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -Georfe Bernard Shaw WASHINGTON - Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson's statement that "the United States has no intention of rearming Germany" may be true-for the present. But the fact should be noted that Johnson's statement flies flat in the face of the pro- fessional assessment of the Western mili- tary chiefs, including the French. German rearmament has been generally regarded as a wicked project of the American and British military men. But the fact is that both French general staff chief Georges Revers and Western union ground comman- der de Lattre de Tassigny, who bitterly dis- agree on everything else, agree on purely military grounds that there must be some degree of German rearmament. Both recent- ly said as much to a leading American Sena- tor with close French connections. De Tas- signy's view, moreover, presumably reflects the assessment of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's Western union staff. * * * THE FACT IS that all the Western mili- tary chiefs are convinced that the de- fense of Western Europe is likely to prove enormously difficult in case of war, without German ground troops. They are wholly convinced that the defense of Germany it- self is totally impossible without German troops. This conviction is underlined by the news that the Russians are now preparing to build a German army of their own in their zone of Germany. This military assessment has obvious po- litical implications. The Germans them- selves are quite as conscious as the western military men that in case of war they simply cannot be defended from the East German army and the Red Army itself by the Western nations. As long as the Ger- mans know that they are totally exposed, there is an obvious danger, which will grow rather than decrease with time. This is that the Germans will try to make a deal, at whatever price, with their future conquerors. A Germany controlled by or allied to the Soviet Union would be a catastrophe which could result only in war or a surrender by the West. The informed French are as aware of this as their British and American colleagues. Yet it is French opinion which makes the alternative-some degree of Ger- man rearmament-impossible "at this time." Indeed, Johnson's statement was obviously designed primarily for French consumption. Here the dilemma of Western military plan- ning comes full circle. * * * THE FRENCH attitude springs not only from a traditional-and natural-fear of Germany. It springs also from fear of Russia. While the Russians have been pre- paring to build their own German army, they have been carrying on an effective psy- chological offensive. Their satellite diplo- mats have been hinting widely that rearma- ment of Germany by the West would be con- sidered a casus belli by the Soviet Union. Try to rearm Germany, the line has been, and the Red Army will sweep to the Atlantic. This psychological offensive has been effective for a simple reason. The Red Army is still quite capable of sweeping to the Atlantic, and every Frenchman knows it. Moreover no Frenchman is yet con- vinced that the United States really in- tends to help make the defense of the continent feasible, or really intends to join in the defense of the continent. The French military chiefs themselves believe that in case of war the British will make for Dunkirk, and the Americans, if they ever arrive at all, for Cherbourg or an- other port. This French defeatism has in turn under- mined the attempt to build a defense for Western Europe, to which the French must clearly contribute the bulk of the ground troops-probably at least thirty divisions. And this is why the American government has recently been approached at the highest level, with requests for an informal but firm commitment to the French. This commit- ment would be that the American strategic concept calls for the defense of the conti- nent, and that American Forces will partici- pate in that defense. THE FACT is that the question of rearm- ing the Germans is ,only a part of the larger question of defending the Western world as a whole-including the United States. Tt is quite obvious that it would be suicidally dangerous to rearm the Germans while the other European nations are pa- thetically feeble and the United States is gutting its defense program. All the military experts are agreed that the first priority must be given to building real military strength in the United States and among its European allies. But no really serious effort to do this is being made. And because not enough is be- ing done to give the French military reassur- ance, it is necessary to make political con- cessions to the French. And these conces- sions are in turn dangerous. For it may in the end become a hard necessity to include some measure of German rearmament, with- in the larger framework of the Western mili- tary structures, and under firm western con- trol. This is certainly at best a dark and dangerous prospect. But the plain fact is that Russian rearmament of Eastern Ger- many will probably leave us in the end no alternative to arming Western Germany. And it is about time some plain facts were faced. (Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) To the Editor: I THINK John Davies is all wet. He says, "The Michigan Man's life is moral, no doubt, but prob- ably not a full one." And from his article, no doubt, one can infer that the Joe College dizzy days of yesterday were immoral and full. Full of what, I'd like to ask. Be- cause the average college man of today is much too busy thinking and studying the grave problems facing society today than to fool away all his time in a tux or in a frat that excludes other races or creeds, does that mean that he is living a cloistered, narrow life? Because he isn't the kind of guy who is wasting his father's money or his own precious time putting on fancy "skid row" par- ties and the like, does that mean that in the future he isn't going to be able to serve his country in the honest, efficient, sincere manner it deserves, having placed higher education at his disposal? The founders of this country would be glad to know that the "Mythical Man" of Michigan has been replaced by the thinking stu- dent . . . eager to prepare to re- adjust the wrongs in a world where former Mythical Men, ham- pered by the perverted, sophisti- cated (call it social if you must) dizzy days in their own college careers, are in no position to help. Mr. Davies' full life seems to be synonomous with a selfish one. -Jim Hemming * * ", The CED will continue with or without the help of the AIM whose motives in regard to the elimina- tion of discrimination have now become suspect. It seems that the AIM was using discrimination in the frat system as a political football with which they could gain support from the sympathetic student body to put AIM candi- dates in the SL. The election over, the AIM attacks that very organi- zation that first raised and brought to the fore the question of discrimination. Belin calls CED a splinter group. CED represents over 20 campus organizations. Who does Belin re- present? Who actually does the AIM represent? Let's find out who the SL represents and in what ways it can make this representa- tion. Their most disturbing remarks were charges of extremism in CED and of the need for a more moder- ate, rational policy which only the SL could provide. These gen- tlemen should not be surprised to find the most diehard proponents of discrimination giving them voluble support on this. Speak up for the record, Belin and Hansen. How has the CED been too extreme? What are these ultra-left 'tendencies you have observed? What is your more "moderate" and "rational" point of view? Is it possible youcannot meet CED's demand of more than lip service? The CED is a coalition commit- tee that invites representatives and cooperation from all campus groups, SL included. The Daily should take credit for some lousy journalism, headlin- ing the article as it did. The AIM has neither the power nor the ability to "disband" the CED. --Jerry Green tion becomes one of how do we eliminate discrimination on this campus without interfering with the civil rights of those who can- not recognize the equality of min- ority groups. To us, the solution appears sim- ple. If, in the interests of this greater idealism, the university would step forward and assume the burden of systematically re- fusing admittance to all except white Gentiles, the problem would be solved. Or to state this in a positive fashion, if Negroes, Jews, and Orientals were denied admit- tance, racial and religious prejud- ice would be only a memory on this campus. -Richard Y. Nakamura, Marvin B. Greenfeld, William O. Cain, Teodoriro Bensang, J. D. D. A. Dickson, James B. Rusin. On Slosson . . To the Editor: PROFESSOR SLOSSON in his Saturday review of education reveals how discouraged any pro- fessor becomes in lecturing to "an inert mass of tired receptivity." Arousing from my intellectual tor- por, I would like to suggest there is nothing so intellectually stulti- fying as being lectured to Monday, Wednesday and Friday, week after week. Perhaps it would be fair to state that both professor and stu- dent are bored with each other, not so much because of their indi- vidual natures, but by the lecture method in which they meet. Stu- dent responses and "explosions' so yearned for by all professors evolve from a classroom rapport not usually in evidence on this campus. To establish classroom harmony among students them- selves and between students and professors would entail according to Professor Slosson "small class- es . . . . doubled teaching staff .. ..heavy taxes to the Michigan public." This action being obvious- ly utopian, the professor imme- diately dismisses the lecture prob- lem and turns to the time-honored problems of cheating, examina- tions, and grades. Before resuming my habitual role as part of the "inert mass",, I would like to venture a comment to discouraged professors. It does- n't cost a nickel, nor does it re- quire the addition of a single member to the faculty. Instead of lecturing to the end of the hour in every lecture period in every; week, have you ever tried cuttingj some lectures short by 15 minutes, and dividing your audience into small discussion groups? Each group to discuss a question or problem posed by your lecture. At the end of the allotted time, the viewpoints reached in each group could be presented to the entire3 body as it reconvenes. If your lectures are at all provocative and adequately presented, you may be surprised by the reactions from "inert mass." In my opinion, such discussions if staged intelligently, will tend to break down the an- onymity of classroom. relation- ships, stimulate learning through< self-expression, and by estabilsh-1 ing an informal rapport bring out: "explosions" suppressed under thee traditional passive lecture method. -Allen Hurd 'Romeo.. . To the Editor: FOR THE FIRST TIME, I feel very sincere in complimenting one of the best performances I have ever seen put on by students. I am referring to the play pre- sented Saturday night, Romeo and Juliet. Never before have I seen students put their heart and soul in acting out parts attempted by professionals so perfectly and I'm sure that many in the audience felt the same way. But the audience was rude and unappreciative. T h e y expected something more elaborate and professional, as they have been accustomed to seeing in the mov- ies. To each and every one of those actors and actresses I wish to say, with little authority as I have, that they were great! --George Kadian Headline , To the Editor: T UESDAY'S Daily runs a front- page headline, "UN Votes for Atom Count, Reds Refuse." As we read on, we find that not only did the UN vote against the atom count, but the "Reds" were the ones who proposed it and virtually the only ones who voted for it. Was this a pure slip or purpose- ful distortion? -Hazel Tulecke. (EDITOR'S NOTE: This was a pure slip, for which we apologize to readers.) l~rljj4r iI Atr~tgn Dail 5 Lip Service . 0 To the Editor: LAST TUESDAY'S DAILY gave prominence to some inane re- marks by representatives Belin and Hansen of the AIM.I These people suggest that the CED be disbanded and supplanted by a sub-committee of the Student Legislature "because it alone is the representative body of the entire campus." The same logic would suggest that the Republi- can Party, of which Belin is so shining a member, the Democratic Party, and all other politically and socially oriented organizations on the American scene should dis- band inasmuch as the present Congress, to paraphrase Belin, is alone the representative body of the American people. His logic would suggest that the NAACP, the Negro people and their or- ganizations, interested c h u r c h groups, the Civil Liberties Union, the Civil Rights Congress, etc., dis- band their cooperative efforts and defer initiative and action on civil rights to Congress. They'd wait till hell froze over before such action would occur. Thank God, they know better. The fight for civil rights is of concern to all the American people. The fight against discrimination here on ,ampus is the concern of all stu- dents and campus organizations, notwithstanding Belin, Hansen and company to the contrary. It is warming to see how many have responded by joining with qED in routing discrimination. (The Daily might print a list of these organizations.) CED & SL . . 0 To the Editor: THE PRESENT dissension in the CED is full testimony to the complex problem which besets the society in which we live. It is apparent to all of us that discrim- ination is much more than a word -that it is a thrombosis that threatens to stop all the palpita- tions which indicate that society is alive and thriving. But to recognize that there is a disease endangering your life is only a step in a direction which should culminate in a cure. If the doctor has difficulties, what then is our opportunity to effect a cure to the disease of bigotry? Legisla- tion, though effective in other fields, is of no more avail to the forces of liberalism, than would be a law abolishing love. No, the only answer lies in education-in the hope that enough people will rec- ognize that there is a brotherhood of man and apply its principles. And where is a better place to educate than in a university? Eli- minating discrimination on a world-wide or even a nation-wide basis is an affair difficult of solu- tion. But here in a university community, it is possible to create an oasis of justice which could spread and engulf its neighbors with its truth. So then, the ques- Edited Fifty-Ninth Year Edtdand managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Leon Jarof............Managing Editor Al Blumrosen.........i......City Editor Philip Dawson...Editorial Director Mary Stein ..........Associate Editor Jo Misner...........Associate Editor George Walker.......Associate Editor Don McNeil ..........Associate Editor Alex Lmanian......Photography Editor Pres Holmes........Sports Co-Editor Merie Levin .......... Sports Co-Editor Roger Goelz..... Associate Sports Editor Miriam Cady......... Women's Editor Lee Kaltenbach..Associate Women's Ed. Joan King ................Librarian Allan Clamage.. Assistant Librarian Business Stiaff Roger Weilington... .Business Manager Dee Nelson.. 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