4I .AGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950 China -- Two Views British Hong Kong ... FROM HONG KONG last week came the same old dismal report of a western na- tion short-sighting its way to an early end in the Communist graveyard. With the Red China armies on its bor- der since last fall and speculation running high as to when the Reds would try to take Hong Kong itself, a quick and just solution to the colonies latest labor crisis appeared mandatory of its British rulers. Dissatisfaction among Hong Kong's labor force had been on the rise for months. The influx of many upper-class Chinese with plenty of smoney, has sent prices zooming far above the wages being paid by Hong Kong's employers. When trolley conductors of the colony began allowing free rides for everyone to back their demands for a 50-cent-per-day wage increase, the employers fired the con- ductors and halted service. Next day the conductors, sporting red armbands and waving Communist flags, showed up to picket the carbarns. Crowds, gathered in front of the union's head- quarters, shouted and chanted Communist songs. For several days the situation remained deadlocked, while the conductors, who in many cases I4ad been receiving below-sub- sistence wages, went without work and other Hong Kong utility unions restively waited the outcome of their own wage in- crease demands. Then, at the end of the week, the British colonial government acted. They announced that they had assumed broad emergency powers, which included the right to requisition : manpower, bar strikes and lockouts. What good will Britain's words do (she recognized Communist China to try to save Hong Kong, among other things) when deeds such as these so overwhelm- ingly negate; them? Should Britain try to use these powers, and continue such heavy-handed govern- ment, she may as well kiss Hong Kong and her other China interests goodby. -Rich Thomas Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent theeviews of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: ROMA LIPSKY U.S. Recognition .. . FACTS ARE FACTS and they might as well be faced. It is a plain fact that the Chinese Com- munists are in control of China. Whether the Chinese people, or for that matter, whether anyone likes it, makes no difference. The Reds have won the civil war. In most civil wars foreign nations are cautious about recognizing the rebellious faction, even if it has won. The Civil War threw European leaders into a turmoil as to recognizing the South. The problem of the recognition of Soviet Russia after the First World War, which was solved through general non-recognition, creased tensions between that country and the West. Now the world is faced with the same problem-the recognition of Red China. It would be little trouble if it were an India or a Palestine, but the word "Red" makes it a difficult problem. If the United States or any of her satel- lites were to accept the government of Mao Tse-tung as the official representative of the Chinese nation, it would be recogni- tion of the fact that China is ground lost to the Russians. Great Britain has recognized the fact and with it the Chinese Communist gov- ernment. "Britain has bartered the soul of a na- tion for a few pieces of silver-I say for shame to Great Britain," Mme. Chiang Kai Shek said in denouncing the British move. Sen. Ferguson, of Michigan, said the move makes him wonder if the British really are on our side in the cold war. And Sen. Wherry, of Nebraska, predicted that the action will bring American retaliation in the form of slashes in Economic Cooperation Administration aid to Great Britain. Mme. Chiang's ideas on the question are understandable. Her husband's government will suffer directly by the British move. Her denunciation of Great Britain back down to a final appeal for more American aid. The Chinese' leader must remember, however, that British support to China was not based on sentimental grounds but rather on protecting her own interests. Now that the battle is won, the British are still protecting their own interests in giving the Reds recognition. Perhaps the view of the Senators is un- derstandable, even though absurd. They feel that John Bull has deserted us in the fight with Communism. They feel that to recog- nize Mao and his henchmen is to give up the whole battle. The Senators seem to forget the Reds have accomplished what they set out to do, and that our back-turning policy does not stop the new government from func- tioning. It is true that the victory of the Commun- ist forces in China is a setback to Western powers. But the threat of Red domination of all Asia, is now the problem to be faced. Recognizing the defeat does not prevent us from still carrying on the fight against Communism in the rest of the world. -Vernon Emerson. Generation GENERATION, the new quarterly de- voted to student artistic expression, fills a gaping hole in the ranks of student publications. To be published, like The Daily, the 'Ensian, and the Gargoyle, un- der the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications, it will includq short stories, poetry, playc, musical com- positions, painting, sculpture and draw- ings, and critical and interpretive es- says on the arts. In fact, everything in the magazine will be done by students - and done artistically, from advertising to zinc- etching. Generation will depend on student contributors even more than the ordinary student publication; we hope the editors are swamped with con- tributions by the January 26 deadline. Nearly as important as the support of contributing artists is the attitude of Generation's public. The first issue, March 17, wil provide a new opportunity for students and faculty - to appreciate the best creative work being done in the University - and we hope that all will make the most of it. -The Senior Editors. CIINIEMA At Architecture Ad... . TOPPER TAKES A TRIP . . . with Roland Young, Billie Burke, Connie Ben- nett. The advantages of invisibility seem doub- ly blessed with Thorne Smith doing the plot- ting and such expert laugh-getters as Ro- land Young, Billie Burke and Connie Bennett doing the maneuvering. Situation comedy of the highest calibre, "Topper Takes a Trip" loses no opportunity to exploit the possibili- ties of a luscious blond who can vanish and reappear at will. The film, although slightly toned down for the kiddies, sticks pretty close to Thorne Smith's novel of the champagne and high-living crowd. Connie Bennett as a playful ghost doing her hellish best to perform the good deed which will get her into heaven pushes Roland Young into the necessary embarrassing predicaments and leaves him to fumble his way out Billie Burke, although cast as Mrs. Topper plays Billie Burke with all her usual addle- pated verve. It's hard to say whether she was made for the part or vice-versa. Plot and continuity are conspicuous by their absence, but when you're -laughing, which is most of the time, you forget about such details. The film has just the sufficient amount of story on which to hang a number of delightfully impossible incidents.._ Rounding out the sophisticated comedy crew are Franklin Pangborn, the perennial hotel manager, and Allan Mowbray, the epitome of all impeccable butlers. And of course there's always Asta, a fox- terrier, who appears and disappears with Miss Bennett, guaranteed to nip an ankle if things get too quiet. They seldom do. -Fredrica Winters Maybe We'd Better Do Our Campaigning Right Here" /-I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I 1\1 CON.CRE'SS \C. f I I-iL (Continued from Page e 3) :r t. G tr 1 Q Nov r Etc( 3 PlaNS - , a V '. 4 .4, I F I (N-°- UdNFIPJISklE gUSIdEISS -['.. 1< Xet/teP TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all lettersrwhich 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. MATTER OF FACT: The Scandal By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-It is a little hard to con- vey, to a naturally peaceable people, the real meaning of the defense "economies" in the President's new budget. This is parti-. cularly true when the Secretary of Defense. himself publicly asserts that defense savings are being "made without any reduction in our state of preparedness," as Louis John- son recently told the National Manufactur- ers' Association. Fortunately, however, there is one very easy way to show what a gross deception is now being practiced. Consideration has recently been given to revising the capa- bilities plan of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to provide for withdrawal from Japan, Okinawa and perhaps the Philippines in case of war. This is how far we have come, under Louis Johnson's "economy" pro- gram. Our naval weakness in the Pacific has now caused the war-time fate of our garrisons in Japan and Okinawa to be called in ques- tion (which makes Secretary Johnson's project for a Formosa adventure look pret- ty sick). Our Pacific Navy is hardly strong- er than at the time of Pearl Harbor. This might not matter, since there is no Japanese navy to oppose us. What is really far worse is the fact that only the smallest beginning is being made on the task of combating the new, high-speed, radar-proof German sub- marine which the Soviet Union is building in quantity. C ONTINUED PENNY-PINCHING on our own anti-submarine effort, plus Soviet submarine development, can add up to only one outcome. The trans-Pacific lines of communication will be indefensible. Our Japanese and Okinawa garrisons will be cut off, and left exposed. The trans-Pacific positions will become untenable. Furthermore, this situagtion involving our trans-Pacific bases is by no means special or untypical. The requirements plan of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (and every other serious study) calls for an American Air Force of seventy groups as the minimum consistent with reasonable security. By 1955, according to official calcplations, the Johnsonian "economy" policy will leave us with an Air Force of iI about thirty-five groups equipped with modern aircraft, plus some cats and dogs. If the people were frankly consulted, and if they then freely chose to denude their own defenses, no one could criticize Secre- tary Johnson. But what is being done is a grave scandal-there is no other word- against the background of the kind of state- ment the Defense Secretary made to the assembled manufacturers not so long ago. ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round WITHDRtEW PEiARSON Negro Basketballers .. . To the Editor: SPECTATORS of the Michigan- Indiana basketball game saw an historic phenomenon. Bill Gar- rett, Indiana's star center, was a Negro. Garrett is the first Negro to break the color line which exists in all Big Ten sports except foot- ball and track. Who wants this lily-white pol- icy? Certainly it is not the fans. When Garrett left the game on fouls he was warmly applauded by the Michigan audience despite not having played his best game. The audience seemed to appre- ciate his unusual achievement. It is also apparent that the white players do not welcome Jim Crow. The responsibility must rest wholly with the University's ath- letic policy makers. They, of course, will say merely that there have been no qualified Negro ath- letes. Without any immediate facts we can see theabsurdity of this excuse. Year after year Mi- chigan has had top Negro foot- ball and, track stars. Why only these two sports? State high school competition always sees Negro basketball players excel every year. Why has the University NEVER had a Negro on the basketball team? Why does this policy per- sist throughout the Big Ten? The answers are obvious. There is a deliberate and conscious po- licy of discrimination against Ne- gro athletes. Or perhaps you would tell us where we err, Mr. Crisler? -Charles Bisdee, Jack Barense, Tim Harvey, Executive Board, Inter-Racial Association. (EDITOR'S NOTE: This letter was inadvertently left out of yesterday's issue, where it should have appeared in conjunctioncwith basketball coach Ernie McCoy's answer, as quoted in a news story by Rich Thomas on page one. McCoy's reply was substantially that there is no University or Big Ten policy against Negroes playing basketball, and that there have been other Negroes playing Big Ten basket- ball besides Garrett of Indiana. "To my knowledge, as a matter of fact, discriminatory practices in Western Conference or University athletics have never even been discussed in or out of official circles," McCoy said. He also said that at Michigan "there has been only one Negro to try out for the basketball team in the ten years that I'vebeen here - and he was Len Ford," and that "as a coach, I can only pick, from the boys who try out for the team, the five who I think will do the best job. You can be sure that any man who is good enough will be playing for us regardless of his color.") * * * Unrepresented Women To the Editor: 1 HE UNIVERSITY Administra- tion fosters democracy by hav- ing student representatives on the Student Affairs Committee. This is all to the good. The women on campus are re- presented, as such, by three mem- bers of the committee; a woman member of the Student Legisla- ture, the President of the League, and the chairman of the Woman's Judiciary. But neither the League President nor the Chairman of the Woman's Judiciary can be considered as representatives of University coeds. Both are appointed by the elec- toral board of the League, which consists of six officers of the Lea- gue and three members of the Uni- versity administration. As I un- derstand it, both are elected from the ranks of women who have been active in League activities. The majority of campus coeds how- ever, do not care to work on such typical League activities as Soph Caberet or Junior Girls Play, ev- en to work themselves up to high positions on the League. I fail to see how women elected within such a system which operates only amonga small percentage of wo- men students can be considered representative of the total women student body. The Student Affairs Committee deals with matters of University policy. Many of the issues on which it acts are highly contro- versial, such as its refusal to re- cognize new organizations having discriminatory clauses in their constitutions. The League Presi- dent may be a good administrator, but this doesn't make her opinions on such matters (not that we have ever been informed of her opin- ions) necessarily representative of what the majority of women want. There are several alternative so- lutions to this problem. The chair- man of the Woman's Judiciary Council should be elected either by all the women students or by the Student Legislature if she is to have a vote. Since it is probably necessary for the League Presi- dent to be elected in the present manner, she should be deprived of her vote on the SAC. Her place should be taken by a woman elec- ted at large by the women stu- dents or elected by the Student Legislature. Women students, by the present system, are in effect being depriv- ed of representation on the SAC. These two representatives can be expected to vote only as League officials and do not derive their authority from the women on campus. -June Sachar, '50 Mercy-Killing.. . To the Editor: [ READ WITH interest and won- der the apparently well meant article by Mr. George W. Byers on mercy killings. (Michigan Daily 10 Jan 1950) I will restrain myself from elaborating against such of his phrases as: "infatua- tion with the sanctity of human life", "to make life less of a bur- den to those who are burdened with it"-(the implication, that a mercy killing which accomplishes this is all right, condones, I pre- sume, suicide as well), etc., to pre- sent an answer to his more gener- al contentions. It is pathetic indeed that we cannot lower the problems of our civilization-the hungry children, the tired and hopeless aged, and, yes, even the incurably sick-to his level of simplification. I am not completely capable of sitting in judgement of Dr. Hermann N. Sanders' action; no more capable than he of sitting in judgement of the life of a fellow human. This is a question, not of reliev- ing a dog from suffering, but one of Christian ethics and, while this is a generation which is inclined to an "ethics-smethics" attitude, in applications from February graduates for positions on their sales staff. Applicants must be permanent residents of the Chi- cago area. A representative of the New York Life Insurance Company will be at the Bureau of Appointments Tues. and Wed., Jan. 17 and 18. They are interested in men for training in their sales program in Michigan. Specific opportuni- ties exist in Bay City, Saginaw, Flint, Port Huron and Detroit. Trainees are paid a salary plus a commission. Mr. H. F. Holtz, personnel man- ager of the Hardware Mutuals Casualty and Fire Insurance Com- pany, Grand Rapids, Mich., will be at the Bureau of Appointments on Jan. 17 and 18 to interview for their training program. They have openings for two credit correspon- dents, one sales correspondent and four or five salesmen. Applicants for the positions of credit corres- pondent should have at least 3 or 4 semesters of accounting. The sales positions in the casualty field pay a salary plus a commission. The credit correspondent and sales correspondent positions are in Grand Rapids, the sales positions available are in the Detroit area, Kalamazoo, and the Upper Penin- sula. For further information on the above announcements, call the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad- ministration Bldg. Lectures University Lectures in Journa- lism: Leland Stowe, noted author, lecturer, and foreign correspond- ent, will deliver two addresses Fri- day and Saturday, Jan. 13 and 14. Continuing the departmental se- ries, "Dynamics of Today's News- papers," he will speak Friday, 8 p.m., in Room E., Haven Hall. His Saturday address will be at 10 a. m., News Room, Haven Hall. Uni- versity students are welcome. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Wil- liam Orville Winter, Political Science; thesis: "Annexation as a Solution to the Fringe Problem. An Analysis of Past and Potential Annexation of Suburban Areas to the City of Flint, Michigan," 10 a.m., Sat., Jan. 14, 304 South Wing. Chairman, A. W. Bromage. Doctoral Examination for Robert Lado, Education; thesis: "Mea- surement in English as a Foreign Language with Special Reference to Spanish-Speaking Adults," 3:15 p.m., Fri., Jan. 13, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Chairman, C. C. Fries. Astronomical Colloquium: 4:15 p.m., Jan. 13, at the Observatory. Speaker: Dr. Freeman D. Miller, Department of Astronomy. Sub- ject: "The Physical Constitution of Comets." Dentistry Admission Test: Cand- idates for admission to the School of Dentistry in the Fall of 1950 it must be judged in that light. We founded our Society on a basis of Christian principles; it has pros- pered, under those principles to its present level. If we are now ready to make as complete and danger- ous a break with these ideals as to condone the mercy killings and killings to improve the race for which, only recently, we voiced loudly our condemnation of Hitler -if we can see nothing more than physical suffering or well being in the life of man, then the bless- ings we have enjoyed as a Chris- tian Nation may be no longer expected. And we have lost the last war indeed. -Charles J. Zoet * * * 'New Voice ...' To the Editro: 1 E: MR. JAMES GREGORY, ' "New Voice in the Land." I have just read your article: c2&% -'&(') & % -??**"hZ"' &"/2 &-" **Z"'j (* ) can't make it Out. (&'~$* ("& 1%:) (" &1/2- "> &"/2-Z:.) ('&$% "&" () ) ( (**444* ('&-% "1/2c --- O.K. () ,'&%-" CAN'T MAKE IT OUT, PAGE FOUR THURSDAY JAN- UARY % lllkdjdhd Are you a cubist? -R. Marti Seek High Output DETROIT-MP)-High volume output again is the rule in the nation's auto plants where slightly more than 140,000 units are scheduled for assembly this week. are required to take an admissions test, Jan. 14, 130 Business Admin- istration Bldg. Candidates should report at 9:45 a.m.' for the first session. English 71: All students wishing to enroll in English 71 should get permission from Mr. Wikelund, 3220 AH. MWF from 1-2 and 3-5. Events Today Geological - Mineralogical Jour- nal Club: 3055 N.S. 12 noon today, Fri., Jan. 13. Dr. B. A. Tator, Louisiana State University, will speak in Rm. 2054 at 12:30 p.m. on "Valley Widening Processes in the Colorado Rockies." Wesleyan Guild: Good Luck Square Dance party, 8 p.m. Re- freshments. Canterbury Club is host this week to a tea at Lane Hall, 4:30- 6 p.m. No tea at Canterbury House. B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation: Friday night services at 7:30, fol- lowed by panel discussion "Are Mercy Killings Justified?" Saturday morning services, 10. Westminster Guild Squirrel Cage: Snow Party if snow. If not, an IM Party. Meet in recreation hall at 8:30 p.m. Lutheran Student Association Party: Ping pong and other games, 8 p.m., Student Center, 1304 Hill Street. Exhibition halls of the Univer- sity Museums Building will be ope to students and the public, 7 to 9 p.m. Motion pictures: "The Sea," "Born to Die," and "The Snapping Turtle," 7:30 p.m., 3024 Museums Bldg. "Invertebrate Life of the Al- pena Region, Michigan, three hun- dred million years ago" is on ex- hibit in the rotunda. I.Z.F.A.: Executive council meet- ing, 4:15 p.m., League. Roger William's Guild: Party, 8:30 p.m., Guild House, 502 . Huron. German Coffee Hour: 3:15-4:30 p.m., League Cafeteria. All stu- dents and faculty members invited. C.E.D.: 4:15 p.m., League. Elec- tion of officers. Important that all members be present. Generation-Inter Arts Magaz- ine: Business Staff Tryout meet- ing, 4:15 p.m., Student Publica- tions Bldg., Conference Room. Ad- vertising, circulation, fiance, and advertising photography. Coming Events Inter-Arts Union: Meeting, 2 p.m., Sat., 500 BMT. Interested persons welcome. U. of M. Hostel Club: Square and folk dancing every Sat., 8:15- 11 p.m., Jones School. -'4 Y 1 .4 i ;r WASHINGTON-This series of columns is written as my contribution toward cleaning up an ever-widening area of big- city government in which gambling murders flourish. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee has wisely put his finger on this menace in his proposed probe of interstate gam- bling rackets. And last summer, Sen. Clyde Hoey's investigating committee un- earthed an important clue linking the gambling rackets to Washington. This clue was a statement by John Mara- gon, now under indictment, that he had worked for a man named Kastel. "Dandy Phil" Kastell, an alumnus of Atlanta peni- tentiary and associate of murdered gang- leader Arnold Rothstein, is the long-time partner'of the current king of the gamblers, Frankie Costello, and of Bill Helis, the "Gol- den Greek" of the race track world. It had long been suspected by those who have carefully watched the peculiar oper- ations of John Maragon and his amazing entre at the White House, that Maragon was linked to Frankie Costello. It was also suspected that Maragon might have been the funnel by which Costello poured Cam- paign contributions in to Maj. Gen. Har- ry Vaughan. It is said by some that the Pendergast machine and big-city politics have now moved into the White House. While this columnist does not altogether agree with this-for reasons to be shown later-yet it is true that, when Frankie Costello controls a $2,000,000,000 gambling business, he can afford to spend a .fortune electing men whom he can influence.. - MURDER IN CHICAGO - AND THOUGH Costello now claims to be a man of peace, other gangsters, reach- inf r the nrenr onfits of the sint machine wire, Regan suddenly found himself with a partner, but shortly thereafter he found that he wasn't even a partner himself. The syndicate had taken over. This was the story which Regan unfolded to this writer in great detail in a Chicago hotel in the spring of 1946. He told how Pete Locivella was gambling dictator in Detroit, how Dan Corotello of the Sicilian society dominated Chicago, how territory was divided between gangsters, how it was impossible for a night club or tavern to operate without buying ice cubes, towels and beer, renting slot machines and hiring bar- tenders through the old Capone syndicate. - GAMBLING MONOPOLIES - THE GANGSTERS not only had gone in for gambling, but they had set up an em- pire controlling every activity connected with the night club, tavern or beer hall business. It was a monopoly more tightly run than anything ever conceived by big business. Returning to Washington, I placed the facts before Attorney General Tom Clark and J. Edgar Hoover. Jack Regan, I told them, knew where all the bodies were buried in Chicago gang- sterdom for years back, and he had promised to cooperate. And he did. The Justice Department as- signed 12 FBI men to act on the tips Regan gave them, and for a time it looked as if Chicago gangland was in for a cleanup. But suddenly, Regan was shot. He had told me that he probably would be shot, and had hired a bodyguard to be with him night and day. But driving hompe one af- ternoon, his car stopped for a red light. Alongside him, as he waited, pulled up a vegetable truck, and from under the crates hlzerd av on11evr ofnnfire .Rean crnmnucl Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Leon Jaroff.........Managing Editor Al Blumrosen...............City Editor Philip Dawson...Editorial Director Mary Stein..........Associate Editor Jo Misner...........Associate Editor George Walker ........ Associate Editor Don McNeil.........Associate Editor Alex Lmanian......Photography Editor Pres Holmes......... 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