PAGE FOURE THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1950 U I I Kcrean Nationalism IN A MOVE that ranks of selfishness and personal ambitions, the Government of the Republic of Korea, despite its' practical non-existence two months ago, has placed nationalism over and above United Nation's rule and the welfare of the Korean people. Led by President Syngman Rhee, the Republic has rejected as "unacceptable" the U.N. resolution calling for a national election and restricting South Korean authority to territory south of the 38th parallel. The Republic has stated in a telegram sent to all U.N. members that "the Govern- ment of Korea finds these proposals un- acceptable as being wrong in principle and untenable in practice since they disregard the sovereign status and right of the Gov- ernment of Korea ... " Simultaneously the South Koreans issued a "Little White Paper" in which they duti- fully and politely thanked the U.N. for help- ing them get back their country-and in the same breath added that they do not intend to allow the United Nations to tamper with the sovereignty thus regained. The U.N., in calling for a nation-wide election, is following the plan of the State Depaftment to rehabilitate North and South Korea, remove all causes of resent- ment and suspicion and promote local responsibility. Rhee's government does not fully approve. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: CHUCK ELLIOTT Davis' Citizenship GARRY DAVIS, self-described "world citi- zen No. 1," is an unstable young man, who has, one must suspect, a strong dose of exhibitionism mixed in his milk of human kindness. Two and a half years ago he renounced his American citizenship, he said, to dram- atize world citizenship. He' founded a movement for world -government, then withdrew in order to stand in dramatic aloneness. He came back to the United States and got married, again dramati- cally. Then he fled from the U. S. once more, protesting what he called American "intervention" in Korea. Now he wants his American citizenship back again, and he wants it in a hurry. It is certainly true, as Davis says, that it is possible to be a citizen of the world without being disloyal to the United States. It is aso true, and this is something that Davis did not see until recently, that it is possible to be a citizen of the United States and a citizen of the world at the same time. In fact, the best way to be a responsible citizen of the world is to fulfill the ideals of American citizenship. A person who is a good member of his family does not re- nounce his personality; instead, he fulfills it. A person who is a good citizen of the United States fulfills his state citizenship. This is something that many youg Americans who did just as much as Davis did in World War II, who hate war and yearn for world order just as much as Davis does, have always instinctively taken for granted." If there is any reason to deny Davis citi- zenship it cannot be found in the fact that he made a mistake. Everybody makes mis- takes. Nor can it be found in the fact that he disagrees with the wisdom of America's policy in Korea. That is his privilege. He is not accused of being disloyal. He can, however, be accused of not understanding fully the meaning of American citizenship. It is not something to cast away and resume according to mood. Millions of Americans have won their citizenship the hard way. Millions of non-Americans would give their right arms for American citizenship. Nobody askedi Davis to give up his citizenship. He will have no valid complaint if he finds he must now wait several years like everybody else. -St. Louis Star-Times. At The State .. . ROCKY MOUNTAIN, with Errol Flynn and Patrice Wymore. FRROL'SBACK in the saddle. This time it is not the Light Brigade vainly charging in the face of heavy Russian artillery fire, nor is it the Seventh U. S. cavalry at Little Big Horn heroically standing off a host of ferocious Sioux, but rather a valiant band of Confederate volunteers on personal orders from General Lee hoping to provoke an uprising in California and secure the state for the Confederacy. This situation is tailor made for Flynn's meagre talents. He has little else to do but draw a gun occasionally, bark a crisp com- mand, squint interminably through a tele- scope at the encroaching aboriginies gal- loping across the valley floor, reminisce mistily about the old plantation with the white cotton fields gently sloping down to the river. If one listens closely, a faint rustle of crinoline can be heard. Rather it would have an election only in North Korea to fill the 100 seats left vacant in the Republic's Assembly-and an election under South Korean supervision. The U.N. proposal would force the mem- bers of the present South Korean Assembly, all of whom were elected in May, to resign and run for office again. It would place Rhee, who will be president until 1952, in a precarious position as his party lost heavily in the spring elections. Thus, many U.N. members regard Rhee as a repudiated leader. Rhee does not agree. His recent triumphal march through the streets of Seoul with General MacArthur is a political plume in his hat. The nationalistic aggressiveness of Rhee's government is revealed in the not too published report that one reason why the United States did not heavily arm the South Koreans against attack was that we feared they would start an invasion of North Korea if they had the supplies. Today the South Korean government that would have been eclipsed but for the U.N. is belching like a full fledged power. There is one interest apparently prime in their minds-retention and expansion of power. We, to be sure, did not enter the Korean war for purely idealistic reasons. Our gov- ernment does3 not care who rules Korea as long as it is an anti-Communist power that can serve as a buffer state between us and the Soviet Union. Should the South Korean Republic be allowed to rule all of Korea it would serve as the necessary buffer but an insecure one due to the threat of internal eruption. Though the State Department's goals are essentially for our protection they also appear to be the best answer to the prob- lems of Korea. The recent war was not waged without a heavy civilian toll, a wrecked economy and homeless millions. If Rhee's government holds the whole hearted interest of the Korean people foremost it would cease to voice opposi- tion to the United Nation's proposal. If it is interested only in the short range plan of retaining seats in the Assembly it will continue the present dissenting attitude. Whatever the South Korean's future course be, their present action points out, the constant threat of selfish nationalism to the work of the United Nations and world security. -Leonard Greenbaum. NSA Action AT ITS RECENT national convention here, the National Students' Association passed several commendable resolutions. One of these was a condemnation of the curtailment of free speech at Michigan State, where the student newspaper was suspended for the summer and is now publishing under the censorship of a pro- fessional newspaperman. The details of the case are familiar to a great many students on this campus. The immediate cause of the suspension was an editorial printed in the MSC News, stating that the Lansing chapter of the American Legion showed tinges of mili- tarism. The issue at stake is clear. Whether or not the State editorialist was justified in his attack does not enter into it; nor does the question of whether it is just to penalize the entire newspaper staff, and in effect, the entire student body, for the actions of the individual who wrote the fatal editorial. The only issue is: does an -individual have the right freely to express an opinion without fear of reprisals? The first amend- ment to the Constitution says that he does; certainly the whole tradition of academic freedom and students' rights at our uni- versities seems to show that he does. And the National Students' Association believes that he does. Apparently the con- vention recognized this situation for what it is-an attack on freedom of the press, and essentially an attack upon the rights of the entire student body. The students' news- paper, their voice, the organ for their opin- ions, has been suppressed. And NSA has condemned this suppression. But resolutions alone do not bring results; the time has come for something more. In accordance with the excellent decision of the national convention, action should now be taken on a local level. The convention has announced its dis- approval to the world at large; now the local offficers must announce their dis- approval to the State administration. It is the clear and obvious duty of the Student Legislature, now acting as the Uni- versity NSA Committee, to find some ade- quate and efficient means of protest, and to register this protest immediately. As the voice of this campus in national student affairs, it should act at once to restore to the students at State their right to express their opinions freely and safely through their own newspaper. -Edward Lanning. "Well, If It Doesn't Work Right Why Don't You Put Your Thumb On The Scale?"' \~ W,.- ette' TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters whichsare 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 discretionsof the editors. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I ON THE Washington NMerry-Gio-Round WITH DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-Just as the ill-fated hos- pital ship Benevolence sank recently without lowering a lifeboat, the same thing could happen to seven troopships which are still equipped with cumbersome lifeboat gear, almost useless in an emergency. These troopships are plying the Atlantic and Pacific today, crammed with G.I.'s going to Korea and Germany, or with dependents coming home. In case of an emergency, they may not be as fortunate as the Benevolence passengers who went down within easy range of San Francisco rescue boats. These seven troopships carry their life- boats cradled in navy triple-bank davits which don't even meet the minimum safety standards of the Coast Guard. It takes ship's power to swing the davits out with any de- gree of speed. Yet ship's power usually fails in any emergency serious enough to require lifeboats. Though substitute handcranks are attached to the davits, the mechanism is too slow and cumbersome to swing the lifeboats in position within the 10-minute Coast Guard time limit. The troopships still using triple-bank dav- its are the Generals W. M. Black, Le Roy Eltinge, W. G. Hann, Stuart Heintzelman, W. C. Langlitt, M. B. Stewart and S. D. Stur- gis. All were inherited from the Army but are now operated by the Unified Military Sea Transport Service. As military vessels, these ships do not come under Coast Guard juris- diction. However, the ships' officers have complained repeatedly about the unsafe life- boat gear. So far, their warnings have gone ignored. NAVY EXPLAINS A mate who sailed on the SS General Sturgis told this column: "Emergencies like- ly to be encountered on ships at sea, such as fires, strandings, founderings and collisions, would not only make lifeboats necessary but, on this ship, would make them almost use- less." A Navy spokesman explained that the Military Sea Transport Service has been so hard-pressed for troopships, since the Kor- ean war began that there hasn't been time to improve the ships inherited from the Army. The same spokesman denied, however, that a power failure had prevented the Be- nevolence's lifeboats from being lowered. He insisted the hospital ship was not equipped with triple-bank davits which require ship's power, but with simple gravity davits. Yet Capt. Barton Bacon, Jr., commander of the Benevolence, told a Coast Guard in- quiry that lack of power had made it im- possible to get lifeboats over the side. The frantic crew was able to cut loose only one lifeboat, which immediately capsized. With illegal, Russian-made mines floating loose in Far Eastern waters, the Navy may last ten days of the campaign. Mr. Truman, however, has remained lukewarm. The inside reason for his coolness is not the official explanation at the White House -that the President is pressed with urgent problems. It is his own fear that he cannot repeat his 1948 victory in an off year, Presidential secretaries Matt Connelly and John Steelman threw the most cold water on the speech tour, because: "If the boss goes out and does his best and we still lose seats in Congress, he won't be the champ any more. That would hurt in 1952." Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle and act- ing Campaign Director, Sen. Clinton Ander- son, on the other hand recommend that Mr. Truman take the last 10 days before election to stir up excitement and get voters to the polls. Their reason: confidential and alarm- ing reports that reveal the Democrats will lose key seats unless they get out a big vote. The surveys show the Democrats must get 55 to 75 per cent of the registered voters at the polls in order to carry such strategic states as New York, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and California. A smaller vote would lop off Democrat incumbents, and a big turnout would increase the Administration strength in Congress. In most areas, Democrat scouts report apathy among the voters. Headline charges of Communism, responsibility for Korea, and appeasement of Russia have not stirred up any excitement in the grass roots. One cor- respondent wrote, "I wish the Republican war cry of 'Communism, Korea and Confu- sion' was clicking better, so the Democrats would get out and work." Note-The Truman-MacArthur meeting was considered a compromise between the two groups of Presidential advisers. The trip keeps the President in the war news, and also reminds voters that he had something to do with the big decision of Korea. * * TRUMAN REWARDS GOP A quiet move is under way by the AFL, CIO, and Railway Brotherhoods to beard Mr. Truman in the White House and blunt- ly ask him why labor has been ignored in favor of Republican big business executives in making recent mobilization appointments. One labor official complained to Don Daw- son, President Truman's personnel man, "There is only one labor man in all the new defense setup-Eli Oliver on Symington's Resources Board." William Green and Phil Murray have also griped to sympathetic Congressmen. The appointments that particularly rankle them are: William Henry Harrison, former executive of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., as director of the new National Produc- tion Authority. Alan Valentine. ex-President of the Uni- Eliot on Critics .. . To the Editor: CONGRATULATIONS! We do et weary of college music critics who,swhatever the music, invariably set out to show how much more discerning they are than the rest of us poor oafs who were loutish enough to enjoy the concert. So we wish to express our delighted gratitude to whoever is responsible for the stroke of in- spiration which placed, beneath the critics' latest bilious-attack (in today's, Wednesday's, Daily), T. S. Elliot's mnost adequate character- ization of said critics' personality- type: Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle To think well of themselves. We don't want to be too hard on this particular critic-he's no worse than the rest of his kind. But we're sorry for the guy. He misses a lot of joy in life. Maybe Melchior's voice was better when he was younger-we wouldn't know. We know it's still got what it takes to make impecunious folk like us glad we paid the ticket money. Or perhaps our critic was referring to Melchior's voice in the last number, after all the encores the enthusiastic audience had de- manded! And besides the music, at no ex- tra charge we were privileged to watch the work of a genius in the very fine art of showmanship - and we don't mean "cheap vaude- ville tricks"! We're talking about the way Melchior communicated the warmth of his personality, and won our hearts by his naturalness. But perhaps our critic had no heart to be won. Wayne and Helen Kuhns McCarran Bill .. . To The Editor UNTIL very recent times intelli- gent men have found it im- practical to overthrow the govern- men of the United States. Now, happily, recent legislation has rendered overt contemplation of such normal joys odious and cor- rupt. It only remains to congratu- late the Congress of the United States for its present mastery of the human nervous system. All of our difficulties-social, political, economic-any way one cares to classify them-are ob- viously caused by the existence of Communism. Communism is to the state of our country and the world as sex is to freudianism. Let us not be deceived, the origin of evil is in Moscow. But, presently we shall elude the devil with a well thought out law. We may soon have a presidential impeachment. Harry S. Truman has taken a stand on what, is now an act that smacks of communist influence, though God save us!, he has disagreed in spots with the party line. Fortunately, the a n a r c h i s t strength in our country is slight. Can we imagine anything so con- trary to the stability of civiliza- tion as a group which plans to overthrow a government and re- place that government with noth- ing? But, we are saved by follies in the Spanish Civil War from such a hideous spectre. Can we con- ceive of not being told precisely what to do by government experts? No indeed! Need we any morethan suggest that anarchy is the natur- al reaction of people living in a world in which the power of the state is growing so rapidly? Clear- ly there should be a specific law against not only thinking in terms of an anarchist movement, but a law against the existence of an- archists. We must preserve civili- zation from those who have not as yet the power to destroy it. We must save the world from domi- nation .by the insects, spiders and higher anthropoids who in the final analysis could never equal man in the, building of a better world. Patrick H. Doyle Movie Criticism .. . To the Editor: IT'S a shame that John Briley, who wrote the criticism for FAUST AND THE DEVIL, spent so much time in.degrading this pro- duction and so little time lauding the truly wonderful parts. I notice that nothing was said of the brilliant voices of Tajo, Cor- radi, and Mattera. Could it be that Mr. Briley is not in any way a music critic? If so, maybe he bet- ter go back to westerns. He men- tions the fact. that he had difficul- ty following the action. The movies are not places to go to sleep, Mr. Briley. I am one, also, who has come to expect superior films from Italy, and it was my impression as I left the theatre that this particular film substantiated that view. How about a little more under- standing of the human elements and situations being given their just. place in Daily reviews? Let's get away from the sneer that comes from those who would look down their noses at human en- deavors. There is really much to be said for them-and let's not be afraid of a little praise where it is justified. Roger Wall UNTIL you have become really, in actual fact, a brother to every one, brotherhood will not come to pass. No sort of scientific teaching, no kind of common in- terest, will ever teach men to share property and privileges with equal consideration for all. Every one will think his share too small and they will be always envying, complaining and attacking one another. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky THE true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon. -Franz Kafka Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is contructive notice to al i" ri' es of the Univsity. N otics for the Bulletin should be sent in lvpew ittcn form to the Office of the Assirtait to the President, oom 2552 Adm~nistrtion Building, by 3:00 p.m. on The day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Saturdays). TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1950 VOL. LXI No. 18 Notices Dance Classes: A few tickets available for the Couple Dance Class on Tuesdays, 8:15 p.m., Lea- gue Ballroom. University Community Center- Willow Run Village: Tues., Oct. 17, 8 p.m., Wives' Club. Wed., Oct. 18, 8 p.m., Ceramics Class. Thurs., Oct. 10, 8 p.m., Ceramics Class, Choir Practice. University Bteture: auspices of the Department of Romance Lan- guages' and Literatures. "The French Stage, 1945-49" (in French). Charles Dedeyan, Pro- fessor of Comparative Literature, The Sorbonne, Paris. 4:.15 p.m., Wed., Oct. 18, Rackham Amphi- theatre. David. Lilienthal Tomorrow Eve- ning - Mr. Lilienthal, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, opens the 1950-51 Lecture Course at 8:30 p.m. to- morrow in Hill Auditorium, "The Atom in Peace and War" will be the subject of his address. Tickets are now on sale at the auditorium box office, which is open 10-1, 2-5. Season tickets for %he com- plete course will be available through Wednesday night. Academic Notices LS&A Students: Any student with the grade of "I", "X", or "no report" on his record for a course taken the last period he was in residence, must have the course completed by Fri., Oct. 20, or the grade will lapse to an "E". Ex- tensions of time beyond this date to make up incompletes will be for extraordinary cases only. Such ex- tensions may be discussed with the Chairman of the Academic Counselors (Freshmen and Soph- omores) or the Chairman of the Board .of Concentration Advisers (Juniors, Seniors, and NCFD's). Pol. Sci. 216 will meet Tues., 1 to 3 in the Geography Seminar room, 210 Angell Hall. The University Extension Ser- vice announces a six-week course on Positive Citizenship on the Lo- cal Level to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Rm. 131 School of Bus. Admin., Monroe at Tap- pan. Dates, topics, and speakers are as follows: Oct. 18-State-Lo- cal Relationships, John Huss; Di- rector of the Michigan Municipal League; Oct. 25-Mayor-Council Government in Ann Arbor, Prof.- Arthur W. Bromage, Dept. of' Po- litical Science; Nov. 1-Council Manager Government in Ypsilanti, N. G. Damoose, City Manager, Ypsilanti; Nov. 8-Financing Our Local Governments, Prof. Robert S. Ford, Director of U. of M. Bu- reau of Government; Nov. 15- County and Township Govern- ments, Marvin Tableman, Dept. of Political Science; Nov. 29-Eval- uating Our Local Governments, John Iglauer, Assistant Director of the Michigan Municipal League. Enrollment, which is $3.00 for the series, is open to all citizens who wish to be better informed about the local governments of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Wash- tenaw County. Lectures University Museums Lecture: "Pearls and Buttons or the Old T HE bonds that untie another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwith- standing the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, po- liteness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself; that knows his fel- lows only in himself; when he as- serts the contrary, he is lying. -Marcel Proust A MAN MAY SEE how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? -William Shakespeare Shall Game." Dr. Henry van der t chalie, Associate Professor of Zoology. 8:15 p.m., Tues., Oct. 17, School of Public Health' Audito- rium. Dr. Alwin Walther Lectures: The lecture scheduled for Tues., Oct. 17, has been changed to Thurs. at 2 p.m. The second lec- ture, scheduled for Thurs., Oct. 19, at 4 is unchanged. Both lec- tures will be held in Room 1042 East Engineering Bldg. These are sponsored by the Departments of Aeronautical Engineering and Mathematics. The 2:00 lecture will be on "Mathematical Ma- chines and Instruments in Ger- many"; the 4:00 lecture on "Some Remarks on Special Mathematical Functions" will be in conjunction with the Seminar in AppliedMa- thematics. Bacteriology Seminar, Wed., Oct. 18, 10 a.m., 1520 E. Medical Bldg. Speaker: Dr. Abraham I. Braude; Subject: Experimental Brucella Infection. Set Theory Seminar. Wed., Oct. 18, at 3 p.m., 3201 Angell Hall. Mr. Jack Miller will speak on set rings and fields. Botanical Seminar: Wed., Oct. 18, 4 p.m., 1139 Natural Science Bldg. Professors L. E. Wehmeyer, C. A. Arnold, W. R. Taylor will speak on "The VII International Botanical Congress at Stockholm, July 1950." Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memor- ial.Hall: Art Schools, U.S.A., 1949; through October 22. Weekdays 9- 5, Sundays 2-5. Public invited. Events Today Congregational, Disciples, Evan- gelical and Reformed Guild will have Tea this afternoon at the Guild House, 438 Maynard, from 4:30 until 5:45. Leadership Training G r o u p meets at Lane Hall, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Square Dance Group meets at Lane Hall, 7 p.m. Everyone wel- come. S.R.A. Council meets at' Lane Hall, 5-7 p.m. The Women of the University Faculty will have a dinner meet- ing Tues., Oct. 17, at 6 p.m. in the dining room of the Michigan League Building. A social hour and welcome to the new members will' follow the dinner. Gilbert & Sullivan Society. Full Chorus Rehearsal, 7 p.m., Michi- gan League. Christian Science Organization: Testimonial meeting, 7:30 p.m., Upper Room, Lane Hall. American Society of Civil Engi- neers: Opening meeting on Tues., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Room 3-KLM, Union. Speaker: Don P. Reynolds,' (Continued on Page 5) firid* a* *t43 I Sixty-First Year and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authoritya of the Board in Control of Student ?ublications. Editorial Staff Jim Brown......... Managing Editor Paul Brentlinger..... City Editor Roma Lipsky.........Editorial Director DaveThomas..........Feature Editor Janet Watts ....... .. Associate Editor Nancy Bylan........Associate Editor James Gregory....Associate Editor Bill Connolly . Sports Editor Bob Sandell Assoaate Sports Editor Bill Brenton .. 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She said she'd tell the newspaper- F lok.m'bov i "Children who, on the eve of Fairy Godfathers Day, put out toys to be fixed and painted at the toy depot might find in the morning that a new Leprechauns!... What have they got to do with Fairy Godfathers Day?... Or toys? That ShrdT jr i ,