THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950 PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY U New Voice in the Laid S OMETHING is wrong with America. More and more, a new voice is being beard among the people-a siren voice in- finitely more deadly than that which tempt- ed Ulysses across far waters long ago. The r voice is different to everyone who hears it, but this is what it is saying: "Security can be yours-security against all the evils that life has held in the past: poverty, sin, hunger, disease, poverty, homelessness, poverty . . . Reach out for it! Complete security is attainable, and what's more it is the eleventh article in the Bill of Rights, if not the eleventh com- mandment. Reach out for it and see ... " One of the ways in which the voice speaks is through little men, men greedy for office and power and that elusive security they preach. Their names are written on every election ballot. And the voice is being heeded. There are price supports for farmers. (Never mind the consumer, appalled at the mounting price of eggs. He hasn't the votes to matter.) There is rent control. (What's that you say about the landlord? He put his life sav- ings into building a few houses, and now he's barely getting enough to pay for taxes and repairs? Never mind him. He hasn't the votes to matter.) There are company paid pension plans. (What? The employer thinks we should contribute toward our pensions? Well, who's going to live on those pensions-him or us? Besides, he hasn't the votes to matter.) There is round after round of wage in- creases. (Why not? Prices are high. You say they're high because wages are high? Well, keep prices down and take the raise out of the Company's profits. The Com- pany isn't human; it doesn't need to eat. What? You say there weren't any profits this year? Now, what kind of an answer is that' Fleece the Company. It hasn't the' votes to matter.) There are shorter and shorter working days and earlier retirements. (Work is drudgery. It's hateful. A person's dead when he's working, and he only comes to life at quitting time. Pride in your product? Enjoyment of a task? Say, are you kidding? Brother, wait until I'm 55 and retire--that's when I'll start to live! Hang pride. It hasn't the votes to matter.) More of the same is on the way. Compulsory health insurance, for exam- ple. (Junior is fine, thank you. He was cir- cumcised at birth, had his tonsils out at one, his adenoids at two, his appendix at three, his teeth at fifty-one, his kidney at fifty- two, his liver at fifty-three, and his self- respect somewhere along the way. But never mind his self-respect.. It didn't have the votes to matter.) Where is the daring that braved a stormy sea even unto Plymouth? The courage that defied Indian arrows? The initiative that built a nation where there had only been an idea? They are still among us, if we will only look for them. -James Gregory. f. 4- ': S f. b i 1 Order and Change "THE STRUGGLE of what is old, estab- lished and set with the forces of de- velopment, expansion ,and change, is al- ways the same. All order finally turns into pedantry. To get rid of the latter, people destroy the former, and some time elapses before the need to re-establish order makes itself felt. Classicism versus romanticism, rigid guild rule versus laissez-faire, a policy of large estates versus one of small holdings -it is always the same conflict which ulti- mately generates a new one. The most in- telligent policy on the part of those who govern would be, therefore, to moderate this struggle so as to effect a compensating swing without the destruction of the one side . ." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. MATTER OF FACT by STEWART ALSOP .1 WASHINGTON-The case for launching * another Manhattan District Project, in order to build a "super-bomb," seems at first hearing like a Walpurgis night dream of total destruction. Yet this case is being seriously made, at this moment, by import- ant personalities on the highest govern- mental level. The worst nightmares have a way of coming true, nowadays. The essen- tial arguments must therefore be set down. In brief, it is theoretically feasible to build 'a hydrogen bomb with something y like 1,000 times the force of the uranium- plutonium bomb that fell on Hiroshima. It may cost anywhere from $2 to $4 billions,j to build such a bomb in the shortest possible space of time. The real issue in debate-a bitter commentary- on the state of the world-is whether such bombs can be sure- ly delivered to their proper targets. T0a BE BLUNT about it, the vital centers of the Soviet Union are the obvious potential targets, whether for the hydrogen bomb of the future, or for our existing stockpile of uranium-plutonium bombs. Great distances, uncertain topography and other factors will always make it extremely difficult to hit targets in Russia with reas- onable accuracy. And the chief attraction of the hydrogen bomb is that it will reduce the premium on accuracy in any bombing attack. This is simply because such a bomb should theoretically devastate an area of from sixty to 100 square miles, in one ghastly detonation. Hence it should transform what would be a wide miss, even with a uranium-plutonium bomb, into a~ direct hit consuming a whole city. Even for conventional bombing, this is crucially important. Furthermore, its importance may later be increased very Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: JIM BROWN Calendar Calculation THIS IS LIKELY to prove as futile a cam- paign as the one to disabuse people of the notion that Mark Twain said "Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it." Still it's a battle that must be fought, so let's get on with it. All right, then -- the midnight of New Year's Eve that's just ahead will NOT- repeat NOT - mark the midpoint of the 20th century. The year 1950 will NOT be the start of the second half of this hun- dred years. Obviously everything would be tidier if the calendar worked the way most people assume it does.- After all, 1950 is an impres- sively round number; it just looks as if it ought to be an important milestone. But the cold facts of time's recording greatly, by the development of guided missiles. long-range Provided a pilotless aircraft is the type selected, it has been possible to build the airframe of a long-range missile at any time since the war. The most talked-about design is a stripped-down pilotless jet bomb- er capable of several thousand miles of flight, at just sub-sonic speeds and at very high altitudes. How to guide such a missile has always been the question. * * * IN THE LAST YEAR, however, the basic obstacle to long range 'missile guidance has been successfully surmounted. As was reported in this space a "non-precessable" gyroscope has been designed at M.I.T. This almost miraculous instrument is simply a gyroscope whose accuracy is not disturbed by friction. Because it is dependably stable, it provides the long-sought "brain" for missile guidance systems. The new gyroscope can, for example, form the basis of a mechanism that will control a missile during thousands of miles of flight by automatic celestial nav- igation. Equally, it can be married to the radar target locater that will send the missile home in the last stage of its long course. And while these, or other, guid- ance methods can hardly achieve pinpoint hits, they should bring the missiles quite near enough to their targets, if the war heads are hydrogen bombs. Already, therefore, fleets of inter-conti- nental guided missiles, carrying hydrogen bombs, are expected in certain authoritative quarters to be the strategic attack force of the future. With all due allowance for in- evitable disappointments, some such devel- opment is certainly feasible in theory. Those who expect theory to be translated into practice are the advocates of an immediate special effort to build a hydrogen bomb. THE OPPONENTS of such an effort, on the other hand, are sharply critical of these lurid visions of the future. They do not attack the underlying theory, although they note in passing that our present, cha- otic research and development program is unlikely to achieve the sort of result out- lined above. Their criticism rests, rather, on their belief that, in air warfare, the defense is now being developed even more rapidly than the offense. Within the past fourteen months, American strategic air capabilities have already been materially reduced, by the appearance of an excellent Soviet jet fighter and the beginning of a Soviet air warning net. Piloted and pilotless air- raft alike are already threatened by the prototype of an effective anti-aircraft guided missile. The whole present theory of bombing could be upsetrby already- discussed devices to janm radar target locaters. If progress with these defensive weapons really out-distances progress with the weapons of offense, even a stockpile of hydrogen bombs will be largely a frozen asset. DREW PEARSON: Washington Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTON-The world has read a lot of great Christmas stories, from Dick- ens' Christmas Carol to Heywood Broun's famous column, but this year we have a Christmas story of doing which ranks with any of them. It's the story of veterans who have fought our wars, who don't want to fight any more wars and do want to build up friendship abroad. Recognizing that wars have come in cycles of about every 20 years, they have gone out to woo Europe's children of today - who can be our best friends or the enemy soldiers of tomorrow. That's one factor behind the "tide of toys', campaign, by which American children who can spare an extra toy immediately after Christmas are urged to send it, via the American Legion, to lesse fortunate children in Europe. There was a time when the public thought of Legionnaires chiefly in connection with roughhousing at annual conventions. But a new sense of international responsibility and determination to play a part in world diplomacy is growing in the Legion today. And that is one reason why Legionnaires, at this, the busiest time of the year, have been cutting short their holidays to promote what amounts to a friendship train of toys to Europe. CONNECTICUT BATTLEGROUND'..'.... MOST SIGNIFICANT political battle of 1950 will be fought in Connecticut where the Republicans are lining up a glamor team to oppose equally glamorous Democratic stars. On the Republican side, Claire Boothe Luce, blonde authoress, ex-Congresswom- an, and wife of the Time-Life publisher, is being groomed to run for the Senate against Brien McMahon, who has done a notable job as chairman of the Senate Atomic Energy Committee. In Connecticut's second Senatorial elec- tion, Congressman John Lodge, brother of Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, will probably run against newly appointed Dem- ocratic Senator William Benton, advertising executive and former Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Voice of America. And for Governor, the Republicans are grooming the ex-mayor of Hartford Wil- liam Mortensen, a popular vote getter, to run against Democratic possibility fNr president or vice president. Two motives are behind Republican de- termination to make Connecticut a testing ground in 1950. One is that they, want to knock off the ex-OPA chief, who has proved to be so right about price control. The GOP doesn't want the ghost of high prices, led by Bowles, haunting them in 1952. Second, whoever wins Connecticut in 1950, with the governor elected for four years for the first time instead of two, will probably control the state for some time to come. , * * * MERRY-GO-ROUND WHEN SHERMAN MINTON was a law student, one of his teachers was ex- President William Howard Taft, and after a heated discussion with Minton, Taft re- marked: "Well, that's the law and the only way you will be able to change it is toget on the Supreme Court" Minton is now there .. . The Supreme Court has before it five cases involving the right to picket, of which perhaps the most important is that of John Hughes and Louis Richardson vs. the State of California. Hughes and Richardson picketed one of the Lucky stores in Rich- mond, in an attempt to induce them to hire Negro employees in proportion to the num- ber of Negroes patronizing the store. The Supreme Court of California issued an in- junction banning this picketing. To get the proper background on picket- ing, the nine old men have gone back through medieval dictionaries to trace its history . . . Here is an indication of how concerned the American people are with peace: After Leon Pearson had Quaker leader Clarence Pickett as guest on his television broadcast, he got almost as many requests for the Quaker booklet on U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations as another TV show, "Who Said That?" which staged a contest for a free TV set ... Tom Morgan, able head of Sperry Gyro- scope, was sounded out on taking David Lilienthal's place as chairman of the atomic energy commission. He wasn't interested. KICKBACK PREVENTIVES HOTTEST PROBLEM facing Congres- sional leaders as they got back to Wash- ington was how to prevent another Parnell Thomas kickback scandal. This will be a major topic at a secret meeting of the House Republican steering committee early next week. House GOP leader Joe Martin will tell his lieutenants that House Republicans must immediately rid their payrolls of any non-working em- ployees who draw salaries from the tax- payers. Also, he will do some blunt talking about members who bring disgrace upon them- enlv an d or-in hir n ,.*byx r lxr ,ninalrin.- Honor System .. . To the Editor: . AFTER reading the editorial on thehonor system written by Miss Iglauer, one would be in- clined to draw the conclusion that the honor system in the engineer- ing school is very successful, and that we would do well to institute it in other colleges of the Univer- sity. However, having worked with the Honor Council of the College of Engineering last year, I have come to the definite conclusion that the honor system has not been successful. There is one main reason for this failure. The majority of the students in the engineering col- lege will not, if they see someone cheating on an exam, openly ac- cuse him of dishonesty and pro- cure two -witnesses to support his charges. This was brought out last year by a questionnaire which was given to approximately 1000 engineers by one of the school's honorary organizations. Of the 750 that were filled out and re- turned, about 65 per cent said that they would not report someone if they saw him acting suspiciously on an examination. These students have good rea- sons for their opinions. They i'eal- a a ยข -it n "There's nothing wrong with your iambic pentameter on the boys' room wall." /ette' 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. Bill Mauldin ize that in the long run the dis- honest student will be the loser, and therefore they are more con- cerned with their own success on the exam than in seeing that no one else uses unethical methods. Obviously, one has enough to do when taking an examination with- out supervising the affairs of others. To verify this lack of coopera- tion, one needs only to examine the records of the Honor Council. Last year there was only one case of dishonesty brought against a student by another student. How- ever, there were not less than 40 cases instigated by professors whose suspicions were aroused by similar looking bluebooks. I do not feel that you can con- demn the students for this reluc- tance to watch the conduct of others. In the first place, con- trary to popular opinion, the hon- or system was not conceived at the students' demands. In the sec- ond place, if a student wants to confine himself strictly to taking his own examination, that is his own personal business. After all, considering the theoretical basis upon which the honor system was evolved, that is all he should have to do. -Ned Hess Yt sion announces examinations for Junior Scientist and Engineer, grades from GS-3 to GS-7. Clos- ing date: Jan. 31. The Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission announces examina- tions for Junior Enforcement Of- ficer, Assistant Enforcement Ex- aminer, and Report Examiner for the Penn. Liquor Control Board. Closing date: Jan. 6. The New York State Civil Ser- vice Commission announces exam- inations for positions in Education, Library Science, Soils Engineering, Social Work, Occupational Ther- apy, Dietetics, P u bl i c Health, Photofluorography, and X-ray. Closing date: Jan. 13. Examina- tions also announced for Junior Laboratory Technician for resi- dents of Chautaugua county only. Closing date: Jan. 13. The Michigan State Civil Service Commission announces examina- tions for Library Assistant. Closing date: Jan. 18. For additional information on the above announcements, please call at the Bureau of Appts., 3528 Administration Bldg. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Van Thomas Harris, Zoology; thesis: "An Experimental Study of Habi- tat Selection by the Deermouse, Peromyscus Maniculatus", Thurs. Jan. 5, West Council Room, Rack- ham Bldg., 2 p.m. Chairman, L. R. Dice. Doctoral Examination for Edgar Lindsley McCormick, English; the- sis: "Thomas Wentworth Higgin- son as a Literary Critic", Fri., Jan. 6, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 7 p.m. Chairman, J. L. Da- vis. Seminar in Applied Mathema- tics: Thurs., Jan. 5, 4:15 p.m., 247 W. Engineering Bldg. Dr. I. Marx will speak on "An eigenvalue prob- lem in the theory of minimal sur- faces.". - Concerts Carroll Glenn, Violinist, and Eu- gene List, Pianist, will be heard in a joint recital, 8:30 p.m., Fri., Jan. 6, Hill Auditorium. This concert will. be the fourth in the Extra, Concert Series sponsored by the University Musical Society. Pro- gram: Haydn's Concerto for Vio- lin and Piano in F major; Saint- Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso; Ravel's Ondine; Lis- zt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6; and the Franck Sonata in A ma- jor. Tickets are available at the of- fices of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tow- er. Composition Forum, 8.30 p.m., Thurs. Jan. 5, Rackham Assembly Hall, under the direction of Ross Lee Finney. The program will op- en with Sonata for Violin and Pi- ano by Walter Piston, followed by compositions by School of Music students George Wilson, Donald Truesdell and Dean Nuernberger, pupils of Professor Finney. Parti- cipating will be Dolores DiLorenzo, piano, Julian Hamrick, horn, Ed- ward Troupin and Andrew Lisko, violin, and Joan Bullen Lewis, cel- lo. The public is invited. 'Events Today Lecture and Discussion of Car- er Opportunities for College Graduates in Chamber of Com- merce and Trade Association work will be discussed by Mr. John C. Beukema and Mr. Otis F. Cook at 7:30a pm., 131 Business Adminis- tration Bldg. La P'tite Causette: 3:30 p.m., Grill Room, League. International Center Weekly Tea: 4:30-6 p.m., for all foreign students and American friends. Alpha Phi Omega: Meeting, 7 p.m., Union. Inter-Racial Association: Meet- ing, 7:30 p.m., Union. Plans for Washington lobby and CED to be discussed. American Ordance Association: Open meeting, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 3-S, Union. Col. James R. Gunn, Jr., will speak on the subject "Japan Today." Druid Meeting Postponed. Next meeting to be announced by cards. Inter-Fraternity Glee Club: Or- ganizational meeting, 7:30 p.m., 5th floor, Burton Tower. All mem- bers are requested to attend. Hillel - I.Z.F.A. Hebrew class, 8 p.m., League. Polonia Club: Meeting, 7:30 p.- m., International Center. All mem- bers are asked to attend. Coming Ev'ents U. of M. Sociological Society: Coffee Hour, 3:15 p.m., Fri., 307L Haven Hall. I 6. Non-memoers will be charged a nominal fare. Three outstanding one-act plays at Mendelssohn Theatre tomorrow night. The curtain will go up on Thornton Wilder's "Queens" of France" a comedy. The second play on the bill will be "Poet's Cor-, ner" by Mary Parkington, based on the life of the poet, John Keats. The bill will conclude with JeaW Cocteau's "Orphee" a farce treat- ment of the Orpheus legend. The, plays will be presented by the Dept. of Speech and are directed by advanced sutdents in the the- atre classes. A minimum fee will be charged for admission. Tickets) go on sale Friday, 10 a.m. through 8 p.m. Performance begins at 8 p.m. German Coffee Hour: Fri., 3:15- 4:30 p.m., League Cafeteria. All students and faculty members in- vited. Economics Club: 7:45 p.m., Jan. 9, Rackham Amphitheatre. Dr Woodlief Thomas, Economic Ad- viser to the Board of Governors: of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C., will speak on "Current Problems and Procedures of Monetary Policy." Graduate students and staff members in Economics and Business Adminis- tration, and other interested per- sons invited. U of M Hostel Club: Sat., Jan. 7, Square Dance at Jones School, 8-11 p.m. Everyone invited. Sun., Jan. 8: Leave League at 10, a.m. for ride by car to Kensington Recreation Area for hike through woods. Bring lunch, return by 6 1 p.m. Call leader Bill Walton, 2- 5235, about transportation. I.Z.F.A.: Executive council,*meet Fri., 4:15 p.m., Union. PolicePowers IT WOULD be hard to devise a more admirable statement about the limits of police authori- ty in a free society than that writ- ten for -the George Washington University's monthly bulletin, Confidential-From Washington, by John Edgar Hoover. The fact that it comes from the director of the Nation's most formidable and most respected law-enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation, is immensely reassur- ing. Mr. Hoover recognizes that "the -functon of law enforcement, as the servant of the people, is the essence of democracy." He sees "no need for a national police system" to deal with the challenge' of communism and declares that "police state methods can only en- courage the growth of the very evil we abhor." Unfortunately, these profes- sions have lately been transgressed by the FBI itself. The pretrial hearings before Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan in the toplon- Gubitchev case have revealed that FBI agents extensively tapped the telephone *wires of both defend- ants. They went so far, indeed, as to monitor confidential conversa- tions between Miss Coplon and her attorney - a form of con- fidence traditionally inviolable. This is conduct that is by no means consonant with the demo- cratic tradition or with the "high standards" of law enforcement as h~ Mr. Hoover has so eloquently de- fined them. The Supreme Court has declared unequivocally that. information gained directly or in- directly from wire-tapping may not be used in a Federal prosecu- tion. Wire-tapping itself is, as Justice Holmes called it, a "dirty a business," to which the police of a free people ought not to resort. It is, in fact, one of those "police state methods" which, as Mr. Hoover observed, "can only en- courage the growth of the very evil we abhor." -Washington Post. 2 i .- '{ DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructivenotice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Office of the Assistant to the President, Room 2552 Administration Building, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Saturdays). THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950 VOL. LX., No. 72 Notices All Veterans enrolled under the G.I. Bill who plan to use this bene- fit elsewhere next semester must obtain a supplemental Certificate of Eligibility. Call at the Veterans Service Bureau, 555 Adminis- tration Building, for necessary in- structions. Veterans: Veterans Administra- tion regulations state that when a veteran who is enrolled under the G.I. Bill (P.L. 346) interrupts training at the official close of a semester he will automatically re- ceive an additional 15 days of sub- sistence allo w a n c e deductible from his remaining eligibility, un- less he notifies the Veterans Ad- minitration, U n i o n Guardiani Building, Detroit, Michigan at least 30 days prior to the semes- ter's close that the leave pay is not desired. Faculty bibliography r e p o r t forms are available in the Gradu-. ate School office for members of the faculty who failed to receive them through the campus mail. Telephone 331. The Harvard Business School announces the award of Midwes- education in the Spring Semester should file application immediately in 2509 University Elementary School. Approved Student sponsored so- cial events for the coming week- end: January 6 Jordan Hall January 7 Anderson House Alpha Delta Phi Alpha Phi Alpha East Quadrangle Waiters Eta Kappa Nu Michigan Christian Fel. Phi Kappa Tau Psi Upsilon Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sigma Delta Tau Tau Delta Phi Theta Xi Registration Meeting for Sum- mer Employment. Students inter- ested in registering with the Bu- reau of Appointments for employ- ment during the coming summer months are requested to attend the registration meeting Thurs., Jan. 5, 4:10 p.m., Natural Science Audi- torium. BUREAU OF APPOINTMENTS: The U.S. Civil Service Commis- sion announces examinations for Engineer a n d Civil Engineer (Trainee) for the Bureau of Re- clamation. Positions open in var- ious western states. Grades GS-5 and GS-7 are open. Closing date, Jan. 26. The U.S. Civil Service Commis- sion announces examinations, for Physicists, Chemists, Metallurgists, and Engineers; grades are open from GS-3 to GC-7. Salaries from 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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