I THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1950 Tug Week TODAY IS Tug Week. So is tomorrow. In joyous commemoration of all this, classes will not be held tomorrow after- noon. Neither will a home football game. And President Truman will probably say something in Washington. It is indeed a hallowed occasion. Supposedly non-existant school spirit will burst forth in manufactured glory. And it will be directed into proper channels. So will some students. That is, if they affix themselves to the wrong end of a rope stretched across the Huron River. If they don't, there can't very well be a Tug Week. However, if SL can't get enough people to man the ropes perhaps two large bulls would do just as well. But then it would have to be called Bull Week. Which perhaps wouldn't be a bad idea af- ter all. -Chuck Elliott and Bob Keith. Newspaper Ethics "It's Too Small To Play House. Let's Play School" A BASIC ethical standard in journalism is that no matter how original or sensa- tional a set of charges may be, the news- paper must always consider the source in assigning them space and position. Thus, "who says what" is just as important in running a story as what "who" has to say. Reduced to everyday practice this means that a story from a reputable source should be given a higher position and a larger play than a comparable story from an unreliable source. This is the journalist's way of saying "honesty is the best policy" or "truth will out" or "crime does not pay." Adhering to this principle, a fair-minded newspaper editor would find it difficult to understand how the Chicago Daily Tribune could report the opinions of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy with the position and length of coverage that they did on Oct. 24. McCarthy's comments, which ran in a 1 1 ,#I ON THE Washington Merry=-Go-Round WITH DREW PEARSON WATCHING THE CANDIDATES LOS ANGELES-These are days so many. claims are made by candidates that it's hard for the average voter to sift the true facts before election time. As a result, voting in a hurry and re- penting at leisure sometimes saddles un- fortunate congressmen on the nation. As a guide to voters, therefore, this col- umn will attempt to point out some of the phony statements issued by candidates. Take for instance, Jack Hardy, GOP can- didate for congress in Helen Gahagen Doug- las's old district in Los Angeles. His cam- paign literature features pictures of himself and wife with his three children. The pic- ture even names the children "Tertie, Mar- garet and Charlie" and quotes them as say- ing: "We live with Jack (Hardy) and know what kind of a person he is at home. We know he is a professional man, not a pro- fessional politician." The three Hardy children, whom the GOP candidate thus features in his literature look to be around the ages of 12 to 14. How- ever, the interesting thing is that candi- date Hardy married his wife only last May and Tertie, Margaret and Charlie are not his children. They are the children of his present wife, Georgia Sibley, by a former marriage. Furthermore, the only child of his own which candidate Hardy ever had was the daughter of actress Fay Helm, who di- vorced him five years ago. At that time, Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: RON WATTS The Weekend In Town EVETS OF INTEREST ABOUT CAMPUS DRAMA STUDENT PLAYERS will present Moss Hart's comedy, "Light Up The Sky," at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow at Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. An erstwhile Broadway smash success, the 'play pokes good fun at a group of ambitious show people. Tickets available at the theatre. Review on this page. DANCES WfITCHES and hobgoblins will get stellar billing at "Witchery," the League's annual fall dance. Amid a Hallowe'en setting, couples will prance to the music. of Johnny Harberd's band. Be there from 9 p.m. to midnight tomorrow, at the League Ball- room. THE WEEKLY Union frolic still features Frank Tinker and his orchestra, from 9 p.m. to midnight today and tomorrow. MOVIES DEAD OF NIGHT, a British psychological masterpiece, "well off the beaten Holly- wood path." Stars Michael Redgrave. Pre- sented at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. today and tomorrow at Architecture Auditorium, by the Student Legislature Cinema Guild. SO YOUNG, SO BAD, starring Paul Hen- reid and assorted wayward girls. Today and tomorrow at the State. Sunday's offering will be COPPER CANYON, with the charms of Hedy Lamarr and the suave ruthlessness of Ray Milland. DARK CITY, with Lizabeth Scott and newcomer Charlton Heston. A mediocre hunter-and -hunted, psychologically sea- soned. Today at the Michigan. THE PETTY GIRL, with Joan Caulfield and 50 beautiful girls comes to the Michigan tomorrow. FRIC-FRAC, with three top-notch French stars, is the Orpheum's weekend fare, start- Hardy relinquished all rights to custody of his baby," including even the right of visitation. It was agreed however, that he would contribute $35 a month to the baby's support. However, even this mere pittance was too much. He defaulted on payments to the tune of $800 and, under a new court decree, now pays nothing. Yet the man who now aspires to sit in the halls of congress plays himself up in his campaign literature as a great family man, and quotes his stepchildren who have been with him only since May as saying: "We live with Jack and know what kind of a person he is at home. We know he is a pro- fessional man, not a professional politician." Query-When you bring another man's children into politics, just how political can you get? * * * NO WARTIME PRODUCTION PLAN The inside story has never been told of the shocking inefficiency and neglect that forced Hubert Howard out as Chairman of the Munitions Board. Meanwhile, President Tru- man has let six weeks go by without appoint- ing a new Chairman to clean up the mess. The public doesn't realize it, but the Munitions Board is just as vital to pro- duction planning as the Joint Chiefs of Staff are to military planning. The Board is responsible for charting the nation's industrial needs and stockpiling rubber, tin, quinine, manganese and other ma- terials regarding which we were caught short at Pearl Harbor. featured position on the Trib's front page, consisted of a series of smears on the repu- tations and loyalties of a number of Chicago scientists and educators. He made no at- tempt to substantiate the charges and so their worth rested solely on his own reliabil- ity as a source. But a look at his record would have told the Tribune's editors that McCarthy is a completely irresponsible and unreli- able source, if not an outright liar. Time and again he has made charges against groups and individuals and then failed to offer any substantiation for them. They remain improved to this day. Moreover, evaluations of McCarthy in- clude his being called a "fraud and a nefarious hoax" by one Congressional re- port and a "liar and perjurer" by Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations sub-committee which re- viewed his charges. 4 On the basis of past performance Mc- Carthy's latest diatribes certainly did not merit the Trib's featuring them as if they were important and reliable news. Logically and ethically they belong with the Tribune editorials and other fairy tales. -Zander Hollander. CIINIEMA Architecture Auditorium DEAD OF NIGHT, with Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns and Googie Withers. HAVE YOU EVER, in the middle of some prosaic action, had the feeling that you had done all this before, somewhere, some- how, someplace, perhaps in a dream? Usual- ly it is just a passing feeling, a small frag- ment of what seems to be a larger, more important experience, but when you try to concentrate on it, it recedes back into your consciousness just beyond reach. It is a universal experience. But what if you found that you could remember almost everything; the things that you felt were to come to pass did happen; the people you expected to meet did arrive; the man you knew you had to kill stood before you, helpless. "Dead of Night" probes deep into the mind of the man who was afraid that his dreams were coming true, for he could predict the future. But it is an objective, as well as subjective study. For every weird fantastic experience there is a scien- tific psychological explanation, but with a delicate touch it is the inexplicable, the impossible which seems to have validity. Ordinarily the attempt to reproduce the impression of chaos by being chaotic is a dubious procedure, but somehow here it is particularly effective. The picture employs a series of flash-backs (in one of which Michael Redgrave does a superlative job as a schizophrenic ventroloquist) to buttress the central fantasy whenever it shows signs of sagging. But the success of the film lies in its perfect blend of the mundane with the supernatural, the light humor with the dead serious, from the innocuous beginning to the terrifying climax. -Allan Clamage I.a ette'J 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. Yet the tragic fact is that Korea found our stockpiles dangerously low and with no production blueprint at all for the future. Even to this day, the Munitions Board hasn't come up with a single plan or estimate to guide wartime production. This nearly resulted in disaster a week before the Inchon landing, when the Air Force almost ran out of aviation gasoline. The manufacturers were supposed to keep a 30-day supply on hand in the Far East, but had no production goal to guide them. As a result, the supply ran dry on September 6, and our planes were nearly grounded on the eve of the Inchon landing. A gasoline ship- ment arrived in the nick of time, but the supply dropped dangerously low again while our troops were storming Seoul. Meanwhile, the producers hastily adjusted their pro- duction gears and stepped up the flow of aviation gas. . * *. BIG PRODUCERS HAVE BOARD'S EAR The Munitions Board also permitted the nation's wool supply to dwindle so low that the Army is short of wool to clothe its troops for the severe Korean winter. As a result, the government is now frantically bidding for wool on the Australian market. The irony is that the Agriculture Department had plenty of wool last year but couldn't get the Muni- tions Board to take it over for stockpiling. Anxious not to get caught short of cotton, for uniforms, the Agricultural De- partment asked the Munitions Board in August what its needs would be. No answer was received for more than 30 days, then a note came back from the Muni- tions Board, advising that the man in charge of the cotton problem was out of town. Des- perately, the Agriculture Department made its own estimate by going over the Board's head and getting figures direct from the armed services. One trouble with the Munitions Board is that it listens to the big producers, which want to use raw materials in normal civil- ian production, and not have them stock- piled for emergencies instead. For example, the Munitions Board has been lulled by the giant aluminum company of America and, as a result, has done virtually nothing about stockpiling precious aluminum. Yet in case of total war, 90 per cent of our aluminum output would be used up by the military, leaving civilians almost none. One reason for the Board's inefficiency is that it has inherited too many cast- aways from the three military services. When the Board called upon the armed Human Progress .. . To the Editor: THE OCCASIONAL letters of Dr. Francis S. Onderdonk appear- ing in The Daily have always been a fruitful source of thought for us, and we look forward to the pub- lishing of his book. His thesis, bas- ed on what he terms an "evil polar- ity in men" is both a profund and a provocative one. Yet-it leaves us with a badly troubled feeling. We feel that somehow this "evil polarity" is far from being all of the story. Some of the questions that arise are these: Could any educational process have prevented the catastrophes he mentions, or would they have met with the same cynical, self- indulgent non-belief that-in cer- tain quarters at any rate-greets any attempt at moral teaching on the college level? The student of whom he speaks was a classics student. Could he have avoided the reading of Plato and Aristotle? Why did their teaching leave him cold? Why do philosophy teachers -for instance-steadfastly refuse to admit that the ethics they teach has any application to real life? We get the feeling, too, that a field of study which might be even richer than the study of crime would be the study of non-crime, of socially approved evils. Or, to put it another way, are there no ways in which a whole society is criminal? For instance, the firing of Haven Hall is an acknowledged bad, and the man that did it is most certainly a social deviant. But what about the Marine with the flame-thrower that destroys the Korean native hut? Or the bombadier that utterly destroys the Korean city? The Naval gun- ner that stops firing only when there is no longer any target? There was little indication, when we read about these three, that there was any disapproval of their actions. Are the actions therefore to be considered less criminal? And we wonder, finally, if there might not be a fruitful field for study in the possible existence of a "polarity for good" in men. We often doubt that such a force ex- ists; yet there occasionally appear what may be consideredverifica- tion of it. An item in the pacifist magazine "Fellowship" today tells how Robert Lewis, former bomba- dier in the U.S. Air Force who pressed the button which released the atom bomb of Hiroshima, has entered a monestary because he has "lost his inner peace." Can this "inner peace" be a force for good more persuasive than any class- room mobility? We do not wish to give the im- pression that we are contradict- ing Dr. Onderdonk, but we do won- der if his investigations have not led others to ask questions similar to ours. -Roger Quentin,'46 * * * German Armament ..-. To the Editor: MR. NUECHTERLEIN says the Germans don't understand nor particularly appreciate our con- cept of democracy. Unfortunately there are few people anywhere who do. However that has little bear- ing on the importance of rearming Germany, or better put, rearming the Germans. The question is no longer on our hands. The Russians have already done so. Not only have they created an army, a hard tough cadre core for a future much expanded army-reminiscent of the post-Versailles army which was later much expanded with little loss of efficiency-but even recon- stituted a navy, consisting at pre- sent of torpedo boats. Fortunately at the present we need not fear the Germans going over wholesale to Communism-mainly because they are anti-Russian, it's true, not anti-Communist, for there is basically little difference between Communism and what they had. However, with the years, and with the spirit corrupting influence ex- ercised by the espionage system, many people seeing no hope and being constantly exposed to the eastern propaganda will succumb and add more fuel to the Commu- nist fire. Therefore, at a time when our very existence is at stake, when the Russians are training an East- German army, which would cer- tainly be far more formidable than the likes of the N. Koreans, and might attempt the unification of Germany as they did of Korea It would certainly be very much to our advantage to have some force in Europe capable of withstanding them. - Who could supply that force? England has been straining its economy to keep conscription since the war. It would be unfair if not impossible to have her make a sizeable increase to the forces now in Germany. France, beridden with Communists and sympathizers, would need at least a month of war emergency measures before it could root out the Communists who reach right down to the core of French life. If the Russians strike, only a much expanded American army in Germany could give Italy and France (not to mention the U.S. or England) that month or two we so desperately need. Such an expanded American army if maintained for an extended period would menace the national econ- omy upon whose success the fate of the free world is dependent. The- only logical and necessary alternative is to rearm the Ger- mans on a volunteer basis. Al- though Fritz is gun-shy now, we could still raise enough volunteer troops to perhaps make Russia back down on some of its more bellicose policies. Naturally there must be safeguards for this force. The French have been using 40,000 Germans in Indo-China for two years. By putting future German forces under a UN command with- out an air arm there would be lit- tle to fear from such a measure. If the emergence ends in Europe those who would not wish to be disbanded could serve as part of the UN police elsewhere in the world. -Norman Luxenburg Grid Programs . . To the Editor: THE NEWS of the recent dust- ing-off and enforcement of a long-dead city ordinance has cre- ated quite an unfavorable impres- sion on me, among others. Why should students be forced to pay $7 per Saturday to obtain per- mission to sell programs? Capt. Gainsley says, "The enforcement was due to the traffic hazard the student salesmen were creating." But was it really? Perhaps, to some extent, it was, but surely that was not the main reason. How can a few hundred widely scattered salesmen constitute a traffic hazard when literally tens of thousands of spectators are en route to the stadium? In my opinion, the explanation Capt. Gainsley gave was fabricat- ed to conceal the real source of complaint; namely, H. .0. Crisler et al. The "M" Club sells pro- grams inside the stadium for 50 cents. Perhaps these high-priced programs haven't been selling too well. It would be quite easy for the athletic department, on be- half of the "M" Club, to influence the common council, in view of the trade it brings to Ann Arbor merchants each home game. Pos- sibly the, "M" Club felt it necessary to remove the 10-cent programs from competition. The action taken will accomplish that end. The weekly $7 fee will discourage many, if not all, of the would-be student salesmen because they have little surety of making a profit sufficient to justify their efforts. I strongly suspect that the fee was imposed, not because the program-selling caused a traf- fic hazard, but because the "M" Club wanted no more com- petition. By enforcing the ordinance, the common council has deprived many industrious students of a means of earning a few extra dol- lars before each football game. The council is clearly interfering with private enterprise and frus- trating the attempts of students to contribute to their educations. It is indeed a shame. -Russell Chappell, '54 * * * Panacea ..,. To the Editor: EDWARD G. VOSS, Grad, sug- gested in Saturday's Letters column that we defeat war by renouncing it. The efficacy of his treatment may be doubtful, but if it contains the clue to success, what a boon to mankind is he. Like most other human beings, I, too deplore war. Likewise I de- plore disease, crime, etc. Hence I rejoice at the tidings of a bland method whereby man may over- come things deleterious to his wel- fare. Lo, we shall renounce them. We all admit to the evil of war, disease, and crime, but we are not agreed upon the most effective way of coping with them. There are a number of professions dedicated to combating them, and preparing for times of crisis during times of peace. Professions such as the the medical and constabulary, al- though possibly misguided, are not antagonistic to the hygienists and clergy who, with lay support, are endeavoring to educate mankind to avoid evils. Indeed, these pro- fessions exist for a different pur- pose: to-overcome the forces of evil when they do break out, dur- ing the period of imperfection be- fore the millenium. Doctors breed disease germs and hold them in readiness to fight epidemics. They keep their knives sharp for the eventuality of an operation. Alas, they emulate the war strategist by fighting disease with disease, and in extremities, by actually severing living parts of whole human beings like warriors eliminating aggres- sive parts of populations bent on overcoming them. Similarly, police exist, and maintain implements the use of which constitutes the very substance of the crimes they oppose. Now if Edward G. Voss, Grad. is right, and all we have to do is renounce evil to overcome it, no longer need we endure Typhoid or Capone or Pearl Harbor. Poof! they are renounced. But before we relegate all doc- tors, police and armed forces to the boneyard, I suggest that we test the efficacy of his prescrip- tion in less fatal fields. Let us be done with sophistry, for example, not by logic which is a virtuous attack in kind, but by renuncia- tion. --Taylor Drysdale Moscow Dispatch... To the Editor: I THINK THAT The Michigan Daily should reprint some of the articles by Harrison Salisbury, N.Y.. Times foreign correspondent in Moscow, in order to present an objective picture of what's really going on behind the so-called "Iron Curtain." Just in case the Daily editors do not agree, let me quote at length from one of his articles, datelined' Moscow and headlined, "Peace- time Air Of Moscow Indicates People Expect No War." The ar- ticle goes on: "There are no queues today in front of food stores in Moscow. The price of butter has not risen. There is no hoarding of sugar. There are more shoes for sale in Moscow stores than there were last spring. Prices are lower and quality has improved. "Those statements are not So- viet propaganda. They are plain truths, vouched for by this Ameri- can correspondent . . . The list could be extended indefinitely. ". ..there is not today in Mos- cow anything an honest observer could possibly describe as ,war scare" or ,war hysteria"a. ,w. ". ..there is no feeling among the people of Moscow that war with the United States is immin- ent. "Having just returned to Mos- cow after several months in the United States, I am aware that some of the statements in this dispatch may come as a.surprise to most Americans . . . these are ob- served facts, . . . sufficient to pro- vide important conclusions regard- ing the mood and temper of the Soviet people and their govern- ment. "The atmosphere of Moscow and of the part of Russia that I cross- ed in traveling here from Poland, is not one of war nor of prepara- tion for war. There are no re- cruiting posters in the streets, and there have been no appeals for recruits in the public press. In World War II Soviet mobilization was carried out through public announcements in the form of pos- ters and notices in the press ... "Today, no additional classes have been called to the colors. No reservists have been summoned to duty. No classes have been kept in the Soviet Army beyond their normal release dates ... "There are in Moscow today no signs of hoarding or panic buying of foods or consumer goods as might have been expected if the public felt that war was near or likely. "Possibly more important than any of these facts is the evidence that exists on every side, that the Soviet Government has made no radical alteration in its economic program as a result of the war tension. "Textiles, leather and metal for civilian use are becoming more plentiful. "The Government has not, of course, neglected 'its program of military defense . . . Russia pos- sesses military forces incompar- ably superior to those of any other power on the entire land mass of Europe and Asia... "What is interesting about the Soviet situation is that as of to- day, so far as research can de- termine, there has been no sub- stantial change-over of the econ- omy from its predominantly peace- time aspect to one of preparation for, or anticipation of, war." Let usecompare this article with two brief quotes from Friday's Michigan Daily. "Attack Russia, Bentley Urges," headlines one article about a speech to the Young Republicans. This Bentley goes on to say: "The United States should attack Rus- sia before she attacks us . . . inas- much as Russia is headed for war, we should not sit by and wait for her to make the fist move." Another dispatch: "The United States told the UN yesterday that two American planes strafed a Russian airfield Oct. 8, and offered to pay for the damage." Draw your own conclusions. -Al Lippitt (EDITOR'S NOTE-Space limitations generally prevent The Daily from re- printing news stories from other papers. However, we do feel that Mr. Salisbury's article is more of an in- terpretative piece of writing than the obLective picture of Russia indicated by Mr. Lippitt.) 1_ I D RAMA I urrwr. . rn ' 1 At Lydia Mendelssohn .. "LIGHT UP THE SKY," with Pat Skinner, George Stevenson, Carroll McCortney, Bette Ellis, Ron Soble, and others., "ACTORS (particularly the female variety) are vicious" seems to be the message with which Moss Hart wishes to light up his sky, with the foot-note that all directors are pansy idiots and a producer is an amalgam of lead-head and gold-palm. There is, how- ever, the author who will save the. theatre. In the middle of the second act this idea became clear when Pat Skinner, Dale Stev- enson and Carroll McCortney, the hacks in- volved in this sky-writing, created a welcome lull in the pyro-technics. Whatever hurts show business may have given Moss Hart, he has always done well by. that crazy cock- eyed business in return, and Light Up The Sky, presented by The Student Players, is as full of crazy cockeyed people as his pre- vious pieces. Bette Ellis, wasted but welcome in her role as the star's mother, and Ron Soble, who plays the angel with perception and fine humour, attempt to carry the whole business. They receive some support in the last two acts, particularly from a brief performance by Herbert Sherbin as a Shriner who somehow got involved. Ex- cept for a staggeringly vulgar characteri- zation of an angel who is no lady, given a curious adenoidal gusto by Miriam Le- vine, the rest of the cast got lost in a stage which was not lighted up at all. A match applied to the cheezy furniture donated by an architectural fraternity and that garish set, might have made things a lot brighter. If Mr. Sanowitch. the play's producer. 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