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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1949

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Freedom
Shortage
E GREYING Sunfield Michigan minis-
ter probably never realized that what he
was writing in a letter to a magazine, an ex-
pression of his own beliefs, would lose him
his job.
He probably thought that the once-
hailed American right to speak one's mind
was still prevalent in modern society. And
so he wrote.
He wrote that he believed the superpatri-
otic organizations, the Legionnaires and the
Vatican were contributing to a trend towards
war; that he thought our present national
policies were not leading towards peace.
Today, Rev. Albert Kauffman is without
a job because of what he said. By the pres-
sure of the American Legion, he is no
longer superintendent of Sunfield's Pub-
lic Schools.
It si signifcant that today is Human Rights
Day in the U.S., in memory of the signing
of the United Nations Declaration of Human
Rights last year.
If the students at Sunfield schools learn
anything about those rights from what has
happened to their superintendent it will be,
we hope, that the American Bill of Rights,
which our super-patriotic organizations are
ready to hail as "100 per cent American," are
in fact only so many words, unless there is
tolerance.
Was Rev. Kauffman's right to speak in-
fringed upon. Our patriots may say no.
But when a man can only speak with the
realization that he will lose his job, his
prestige, and perhaps the means of sup-
porting his family, then it is obvious there
is a shortage of freedom.
From the poem, "Freedom Train" we can
get a summation:
"Freedom ain't Freedom when a man
ain't free."
-Don McNeil

MATTER OF FACT:
Pity the Poor Republicans

"Oh, No! - No!"

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN,

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By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON - If anyone wishes to in-
vestigate the practical causes for the
present plight of the Republican Party, a
good place to begin is with Guy Gabrielson.
It must be hastily added that the unhappy
chairman of the Republican National Com-
mittee is the victim, not the cause. of, his
party's misfortunes. Nonetheless, a call on
Gabrielson speaks volumes.
As the new chieftain of their national or-
ganization, the Republicans have chosen a
kindly, genial, solidly successful New York
lawyer, who made his own way in the world,
and has now achieved the blameless pinnacle
of suburban prosperity. His lack of politi-
cal experience makes him a bit suspicious at
first, but before very long he will talk
straightforwardly to any caller who talks
straightforwardly to him.
THE REASON why a visit to Gabrielson
speaks volumes at this time is that the
Republican national, chairman is in an
acutely uncomfortable predicament. Gabriel-
son's discomfort derives, from the difficul-
ty of doing the job he was named for.
In the plainest terms, Gabrielson was
chosen to head the Republican National
Committee because he was thought to be a
good money-raiser. But, particularly since
the defeat of John Foster Duiles in New
York, he has met with severe resistance
from the check-writers:
"Tell us," they have said to him, "what
the Republican party stands for; and we
will do our stuff generously. But if we don't
know what Republican principles are, we
won't write any checks."
Accordingly, Gabrielson is now em-
barked on another of the recurring franc-
tic efforts to discover just what the Re-
publican party stands for. He has queried

Slackers in SL

STUDENT LEGISLATURE members who
work hard for several weeks to get elect-
ed seem to think that once they are in they
can rest on their laurels and let it go at that.
And with this attitude they tie up Legisla-
ture meetings by parliamentary mumbo-
Jumbo and for the sage of argument.
These people obviously are of no use to
SL, but is there any way to get them out of
the Legislature? The only way at present
short of ineligibility is to miss three Legis-
lature meetings without an excuse. It's
easy to attend a meeting every two weeks,
and that's the only rule SL requires its
members to adhere to.
A glaring example of this combined leth-
argy-apathy is the degeneration of SL's "re-
treat" this weekend into an afternoon ses-
sion today. The retreat was to be a two-day
session 12 miles out of Ann Arbor to get Leg-
islators away from town and its diversions
to plan activities for the coming semester, to

set up committee projects and to train new
Legislators (and some of the old ones) in the
workings of the Legislature and of its stand-
ing committees-all calculated to be of
greater service to the students.
The retreat was rejected by all but the
pathetic number of 11 Legislators who
planned to go. Those who didn't plan or wish
to go didn't for the slight expense or the
work that would be involved, but because
they "just didn't have the time." Besides, the
Legislature, only two weeks previous, had
voted in favor of it.
If they haven't the time to learn of SL
projects how the Legislature works and
how to participate intelligently in meet-
ings and committee work, they haven't
time to be on the Legislature. Those who
attend will assuredly benefit by it, but not
as much as by the retreat. Attendance will
not be required, but roll will be taken, and
names of absentees printed in The Daily.
As it stands now, Legislators are elected to
office, and are immune to being replaced.
But SL has been toying with- the possibility
of proposing an amendment to the consti-
tution to make possible a referendum and
initiative. It might be a good idea to include
the recall of those persons who aren't doing
the job to which they were elected.
-Peter Hotton

nearly 7,000 state and county chairmen,
plus 125,000 workers and contributors.
Later, Gabrielson plans to rally his fellow
committee members and the Republican
delegations in House and Senate, and pre-
pare a new charter for the party.
It does not take a prophet to predict that
the new Republican charter will come out
strong for free enterprise, an early spring
and a late fall, and will boldly denounce defi-
cit spending and the man-eating shark. This
kind of comedy has been played before. Even
the rather ludicrous postlude, with the voters
responding with massive inattention, can be
clearly foreseen.
WHAT IS INTERESTING about this busi-
ness, in fact, is only its beginning-with
the fat cats. It is to satisfy the fat cats that
the whole comedy is to be played. And here,
of course, is the hidden curse of the Repub-
lican party. The Republican fat cats, who
lay the cash on the line, know nothing
whatever of politics (in sharp distinction
from the Democratic contributors). Hence
the Republican fat cats want their politi-
cians, to whose support they contribute, to
sing the kind of song they like to hear. Un-
fortunately the voters do not like this kind
of song.
Great successes have already been
scored, by intelligently conservative Re-
publicans like Senators Ives of New York,
Lodge of Massachusetts and Morse of Ore-
gon. These men have been bold enough to
defy the former large contributors and
take their own line. In most of the still
Republican states, however, no party lead-
er has dared to make this jump from old
style to new style Republicanism.
Thus the really representative Republi-
cans in Congress are still such men as Wher-
ry of Nebraska, Capehart of Indiana and
Bridges of New Hampshire. The result is the
kind of situation that would have arisen
after the death of Andrew Jackson, if there
had been no Whigs, and most of the oppo-
sition had gone on forever, clamoring for the
revival of the Bank of the United States.
The voters now, like the voters then, do not
want the past revived.
(Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
CIINIEMA
At Architecture Aud. .
BECKY SHARP, with Miriam Hopkins
ALTHOUGH there's a certain projective
thrill in watching a beautiful, un-
scrupulous woman get away with all sorts
of double-dealing, this doesn't save "Becky
Sharp" from mediocrity.
Thackeray wouldn't like the manner in
which Hollywood has reduced "Vanity
Fair," a novel of sharp social commentary
to the mere delineation of the machina-
tions of a materialistic woman. Nor would
he care for diminution of Becky's shrewd
mental processes and the emphasis on her
less subtle physical appeal; this despite
the fact that Miss Hopkins does things
for the Empire style.
Of course half of Thackeray's charm lies
in his descriptive passages and commentary
on the doings of his characters. These are,
of necessity, absent from the film. However,
there is still more than enough in "Vanity
Fair" to make an engrossing movie. Un-
fortunately, major incidents have been tele-
scoped to the point of practical non-exist-
ence, giving an unsatisfying synoptic quali-
ty to the production.
Miss Hopkins' rompings and throwings-
of-herself-about do not set a particularly
high standard for the rest of the actors to
live up to, and most of them take their cue
from her. Nigel Bruce as the fat and
fatuous Joseph Sedley, fortunate in that hiss
character has been left intact by the script
writers, is easily the best performer in

"Becky Sharp."
"Vanity Fair" joins the ranks of the
many novels that are literary classics, but
not film classics.
-Fredrica Winters.
Christmas Gifts
CHRISTMAS HAS always been a time of
giving, but most people regret this fact as
they jam into department stores to buy gifts
for relatives or when they receive bills at
the end of the holiday season.
The custom of giving gifts works for
dissatisfaction also when you receive a
drab necktie in return for an expensive
flower pot. When the whole business is
over, it may seem pretty silly.
Indeed, most Christmas giving has degen-
erated into nothing more than a headache
for people making out gift lists; a chance
for the tots to cash in and the merchants
to fill their tills.
Commercial interests are probably to
blame for much of this decline in meaning
of Christmas present. But most people have
become so engrossed in the mechanical side
of giving that they fail to attach any other
meaning to it.

SATURDAY, DECEBER
VOL. LX, No. 65

10, 1949

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XetteP4 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.

Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: DOLORES LASCHEVER

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ON THE
Washington Merry-Go-Round
WIT RE aW PEcARSON

Drama Criticism .. .
To the Editor:
MICKEY SAGER confuses the
Daily drama critic with those
who attend the "green-room"
critiques following quickly upon
the performance of a play. The
function of the Daily critic is a bit
different. His interests are identi-
cal with those of the entire cam-
pus.
A poor play, though encased in a
fine production, can still be an aw-
fully bad show. "Family Portrait"
is an excellent example of the
genus. A tedious three acts writ-
ten in the great hack tradition
proved even too much for the
speech department. The perform-
ances were fine, the settings ad-
mirable, and some of these things
were noted in the Daily review.
But the show was dull. That is
what is important to those who
buy tickets.
Only very few come to the thea-
tre to savor the quality of the per-
formances in an animated soap
opera, no matter how many nights
the actors have worked on the
show.
Miss Sager is hitting below the
belt when she blames the reviewer
for a few proof-reading errors.
These are not limited to the drama
reviewer, in The Daily.
-Arthur H. Friedman
* * * .
CED&SL...
To the Editor:
IN RESPONSE to Mr. Hotton's
editorial, "SL 'Procrastina-
tion,' " (December 4) I, for one,
would like to have the phrase,
"knowledge of the entire subject,"
clarified in relation to these
points:
1. The scope and extent of
CED's "knowledge of the entire
subject;"
2. The areas or topics (of that
knowledge) omitted by CED,
which SL would work on.
Limited space in The Daily
might make such a discussion un-
feasible-if so, I would appreciate
it if Mr. Hotton would contact me
so we could discuss this topic.
-Richard Y. Nakamura,
* * *
Unrepresentative Judic
To the Editor:
MISS TRAPP completely missed
the point of my letter. She has
turned a dispute about the rep-
resentatives of the Women's Ju-
diciary into a personal quibble.
Her letter stimulated me to look
into the question further, however.
It seems the Men's Judiciary is
selected by adirectly elected stu-
dent legislature. But how are the
member's of the Women's Judici-
ary picked?
Well, I finally managed to find
out from a copy of the League
Constitut.ion. (A copy can be found
in small print in the back of any
"League Lowdown.") I found that
Judiciary members are selected by
a complex system of petitioning,
interviewing, recommending, and
finally election by an electoral
board of the Michigan League. A
further scrutiny showed that the

electoral board is made up of six
League officers and three perma-
nent members from the Dean's Of-
fice; Dean Bromage, Dr. Margaret
Bell, and Miss, "Mac". It appears
that there might be some repre-
sentation by the League officers
until you find out later that they
are selected by this same electoral
board. It's a self-perpetuating
system.
Sound complicated? It sure does.
That's probably why so few women
ever find out how the officers are
elected who represent them. These
officers represent and often vote
for the women students on such
committees as the Student Affairs
Committee, the University Disci-
pline Committee, the Michigan
Forum, and the Administrative
Board of the Literary College. Yet
few women even know who they
are.
Now for the question of women
being able to change their own
rules when they see fit. Section 1.,
Article XLIV. of the Constitution
says: "The Judiciary Council shall
not amend, delete, or add new
rules to the House Rules Pamph-
let unless approved by the Dean
of Women, a three-fourths vote
of the voting membership of the
Michigan League Undergraduate
Council, and a three-fourths vote
of each organization of the Board
of Representatives."
Watch out, this last item might
be said to represent the women on
campus. The Board of Representa-
tives is made up of the house
presidents, who are oddly enough
elected directly by ,their houses.
But you can see that, even if the
women on campus passed a new
rule or struck out an old one
through their house presidents, it
would not go into effect. It would
still have to be approved by the
Dean of Women and officers she
has helped to select.
. Actually we have no gripe about
this. One of the stipulations of
women attending this University is
that they follow rules set up by
the Office of the Dean of Women.
And I suppose we must have a
Judiciary to see that the rules
are kept. But why can't the Wom-
en's Judiciary at least be elected
by student legislature as is the
Men's Judiciary? They would then
be in tune with student opinion
and could act to change rules as
they become obsolete. And, as the
chairman of Judiciary sits in on
the Student Affairs Committee al-
so, she could vote as half-way
representative of Michigan co-eds
instead of the League.
Or, failing direct election, would
the Women's Judiciary and Miss
Trapp, as a member of it, refrain
from declaring so defiantly that
they represent women students,
and that women make their own
rules!
-Alice Scott.
Defoe wrote the wholly imagi-
nary "Robinson Crusoe" because
a jail sentence for satire taught
him he could lie convincingly.
DO YOU KNOW .. . Chuck Ort-
mann is nearing the all-time Big
Ten total offense record?

Notices
Freshman-Sophomore Forestry
Conference: 7:30 p.m., Tues., Dec.
13, 2039 Natural Science. Speak-
ers: Prof. Kenneth Davis. School
of Forestry and Conservation, and
Prof. Charles Davisson, School of
Business Administration. Atten-
dance required of freshmen. Soph-
omores urged to attend.
Housing over the Christmas va-
cation for women students who
wish to remain in Ann Arbor may
be arranged through the Dean of
Women's Office. Women living in
University residence halls will re-
ceive information through their
house directors. Women who live
outside University residence halls
should apply at the Dean of Wom-e ' fiet esresa ei h
en's Office to reserve space in the
Michigan League Building.
Approved Christmas caroling
parties:
December 12
Mortarboard-Senior ' Society -.
Sdroll-Wyvern
Wenley House-Jordan
December 13
Collegiate Sorosis
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Tau Delta
Mary Louis Hinsdale,
Kappa Kappa Gammna-Sigma
Alpha Epsilon
Kappa Sigma
League Houses and West Quad-
rangle
Lloyd House-Kleinstuck
Newberry Residence
Alice Freeman Palmer House
December 14
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi-Alpha Sigma
Phi
Angell House
Beta Theta Pi-Pi Beta Phi
Betsy Barbour
Congregational Disciple Guild
Delta Upsilon
Delta Zeta
Deutscher Verein
Hiawatha Club
Interco-operative Council
Jordan Hall-Prescott House
Phi Kappa Tau-Alpha Gamma
Delta
Sigma Chi-Delta Gamma
Sigma Delta Tau
Stockwell Waitresses
Theta Xi
Theta Chi
Winchell House
December 15
Acacia
Canterbury Club
Adelia Cheever
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Nu
Lawyer's Club
Michigan Christian Fellowship
Mosher Hall
Phi Gamma Delta
Phi Kappa Sigma
Roger Williams Guild
Stevens Coope'rative

Concerts
Rise Stevens, mezzo-soprano of
the Metropolitan Opera Coiany,
radio, motion pictures, and con-
certs, will give the sixth program
in the Choral Union Series Monl..
Dec. 12, 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditoriun.
Program: Songs and arias by lHaI-
del, Massenet. Schumann, Strauss.
Brahms, Wolf, Rachianinoff, St.
Leger, and Bizet.
A limited number of tickets are
available at the offices of the Uni-
versity Musical Society, and will
also be on sale at the Hill Audito-
rium box office one hour preceding
the concert.
Handel's "Messiah" will be pre-
sented in two performances by the
University Musical 'Society Satur-
day, December 10, at 8:30, and
Sunday, December 11, at 2:30, in
Hill Auditorium.
Lester McCoy will conduct the
participants, which will consist of
Chloe Owen, soprano; Anna Kas-
kas, contralto; David Lloyd, ten-
or: Oscar Natzka, bass; with the
University Choral Union of 300
voices; a special orchestra, with
Mary McCall Stubbins at the or-
gan.
The Saturday evening perform-
ance will be broadcast; and ac-
cordingly, the audience is respect-
fully urged to come sufficiently
early as to be seated on time,
since obviously latecomers can-
not be seated.
A limited number of tickets are
available, and will be on sale at
the offices of the University Mu-
sical Society until noon Saturday;
and at the Hill Auditorium box
office one hour preceding each
performance.
Events Today
Christmas Tree Decorating at
the Congregational - Disciples
Guild at 4:30 p.m.
Le Cercle Francais: the picture is
exhibited in the Romance Lan-
guage Bldg. Place your orders be-
fore vacation with the Secretary
of the Romance Language Depart-
ment, Room 112.
Auditions for the Gulantics Re-
vue: 1 p.m., Room 3-G, Union. Acts
of all types are needed. The best
three acts will receive $100,$50,
and $25. Those unable to attend
this audition, please drop a card to
the Men's Glee Club, 1020 Admin-
istration Bldg. The Show will be
the last weekend in February.
Inter-Arts Union: Meeting 2
(Continued on Page 5)

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mem>ers 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.
on the day preceding publication
(11:00 a.m. Saturdays).

3001 Angell Hall. Miss Ingersoll
will present Brouwei's, "Tle Na-
ture of Geometry."
Organic Cieist-ry Seminar:
7:30 p.m., Mon., Dec. 12', 11100
Chemistry. Topie: Tlie Hooker Ox-
idation of 2-Hyd roxynaphthoquin-
ones. Speaker: Gilbert Sloan.


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WASHINGTON - One of the things you
have to remember about the wartime
shipment of supplies to Russia-now under
such hot discussion-is the then official pol-.
icy to keep Russia appeased.
The late Wendell Willkie, returning from
Russia in 1942, told this columnist in graphic
detail how he had attended an official ban-
quet at the Kremlin where various toasts
were proposed to allied solidarity and where
the atmosphere seemed completely friendly,
when, suddenly, Stalin rose to his feet.
Willkie said that he almost fell off his
chair when Stalin began shaking his finger
at the British ambassador and scolding
him.
Relations between the United States and
Russia were excellent, Stalin said, but he
wanted Willkie to go back and make sure
that no more supplies were sent to Russia
by way of England. Because, he added, the
last time an American ship stopped in Eng-
land, American fighter planes promised to
Russia had been taken off by the British and
used for themselves.
Willkie said that the British ambassador
sat stunned while this torrent of abuse
poured about his ears.
Later investigation showed that the fighter
planes had been taken off at Scotland be-
cause, General Eisenhower and Gen. Carl
"Toeey" Spaatz had asked the British to do
so. ' However, the incident illustrates the
constant strain which existed between the
Allies over the shipment of supplies and the

the Caucasus with Basra, the Gulf of Persia
port. To win Stalin's acquiescence, Harri-
man promised that the United States would
also inaugurate an air route via Alaska to
Siberia for the shipment of nonbulk goods.
The Alaskan base, accordingly, was set up
almost exactly the way the Russians wanted
it. They decreed that they would take de-
livery of all American goods in Fairbanks,
Alaska, not in Siberia. They then sent their
own personnel to Fairbanks, including avia-
tors, women clerks, etc. The expediting base
for the Alaskan-Siberian air route was at
Great Falls, Mont., where Maj. G. Racey
Jordan was stationed.
On the whole, relations with the Rus-
sians at Fairbanks were friendly and har-
monious. However, in Washington there
was constant friction, not so much with
the Russians, but between American of-
ficials as to what should and should not
be sent to the Soviet.
For instance, in the summer of 1942, the
Russians asked for and were granted per-
mission to take delivery on two old oil re-
fineries at Tyler and Longview, Texas. Sec-
retary of Interior Ickes, then in charge of
the War Petroleum Board, OK'd the ship-
ment of these refineries on the ground that
it would save American tankers in shipping
millions of gallons of oil to Russia. At that
time the submarine war was at its height
and anything was considered better than los-
ing tankers at sea.
However, other American oilmen opposed

Science 366 will meet
time Monday in 406

Bureau of Appointments:
Contrary to the regulations in
practice, exceptions will be made
as follows:
The office will see students on
five days-Dec. 12 through Dec. 16.
Representative of Camp Charle-
voix (boys, private), Charlevoix,
Michigan, will be at the Union,
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs-
day, Dec. 13, 14, and 15, to inter-
view men interested in general and
specialty counseling positions for
the coming camp season. For ap-
pointments call at Bureau of Ap-
pointments, 3528 Administration
Building or call Ext. 2614.
Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination for George
Maurice Grover, Physics; thesis:
"Design of a New Type of Cloud
Chamber and its Use in the Study
of High Energy Particles," 1:15
p.m., Mon., Dec.. 12, West Council
Room, Rackham Bldg. Chairman,
H. R. Crane.
Doctoral Examination for Stan-
ley Schachter, Social Psychology;
thesis: "Deviation,Rejection, and
Communication," Sat., Dec. 10,
East Council Room, Rackham
Bldg., 10 a.m. Chairman Leon
Festinger.
Mathemaltical Logic Seminar:
7:30 p.m., Mon., Dec. 12, 3217 An-
gell Hall. Mr. G. Spencer will con-
clude his discussion of recursively
enumerable sets of positive in-
tegers and their decision problems.
The Mathematics Orientation
Seminar: 3 p.m., Mon., Dec. 12,

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