PAGE FOUR THE MTCHTCAN DATTY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1950 a. aa.il 111 V11 1V2' 1\ LCY1L1 k a FRIDA+,;Y. NvEMBER 10a.. W0vv . ::, . The New Congress IN A TIME of world crisis such as the pre- sent, it is only natural that a national po- litical campaign should have been waged with main emphasis on international ques- tions. And it is in the field of international relations, especially as regards American foreign policy ana relations, that the results of the election are so unfortunate. In the total result, the Democrats still retain control of Congress. But the real, controlling majority in Congress is the Southern Democratic-Republican coalition. The real victor in the election is reaction. Many of the Democrats who went down to defeat in the Senate-Tydings in Mary- land, Douglas in California, Lucas in Illi- nois, Thomas in Utah, Myers in Pennsyl- vania--were all supporters of wise policies. And many of the Republicans who beat them -Nixon, Butler, Bennett-are men who sup- port reaction, McCarthy-like tactics, and a basically unsound foreign policy. The Republican-Southern Democratic coa- lition includes all the slashers of Truman's aid programs, and all the critics of the far- eastern policies. For the rest of the world viewing the American election with keen interest, the news must be very discouraging. Europe, so fearful of another war, now sees a Congress whose majority favors an increased arms budget and decreased aid expenditures, and a majority which evaluates the social ex- periments underway in many countries with derogatory labels ranging from "subversive" to a sneered "socialistic." Indeed, Western Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: BOB VAUGHN Car .Ports MEMBERS OF THE University com- munity can now get a brighter look on their faces when the parking situation is mentioned. A long range program backed by the City of Ann Arbor has been designed to relieve the situation. W. J. Brown, mayor of Ann Arbor, has revealed that by Sept. of 1951 construction of a car port in the University area will be un- der way. Elsewhere in this issue of The Daily is an article explaining the current prob- lems faced by auto owners who park in the University area. Hardest hit are the 3,000 holders of driving permits who are forced to spend valuable time prowling up and down the side streets of Ann Arbor searching a parking space. Their search is compli- cated by the untold numbers of Ann Arbor people who park on the street students who drive cars illegally (their cars are not registered with the Uni- versity) and anyone else who happens to be in the vicinity. .For proof that this situation is slight- ly frustrating, one only needs to look at the places some people are forced to park. Several cars can be found parked one half mile or more from campus, in front of cross walks and near corners. Each day 50 to 75 car owners are apprehended in University regulated lots. The immediate prospects for relief are not too bright. But Ann Arbor's long range plan is a step in the right direction. The car ports which have proven so successful in downtown Ann Arbor are probably the best answer we have to the parking situation. The City of Ann Arbor is certainly to be commended for this positive action toward solving an acute problem. -Ron Watts The Weekend In Town FOOTBALL MICHIGAN'S WOLVERINES will attempt to climb back on the gridiron bandwagon when they meet Indiana University at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the stadium. * * * DANCES NEW YORK CITY'S famous cabarets and hot-spots will dot the skyline of "Midnight in Manhattan," the annual Panhellenic Ball, at the League Ballroom. Each of the League's second floor rooms has been transformed into a gay night club. Gay Claridge and his or- chestra, from Chicago, will do the musical honors from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. today. MOVIES MACBETH, produced and directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Roddy McDowall. A stirring interpretation of-the Shakespeare classic. At 8 p.m. today and tomorrow at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. PAGLIACCI, with English titles. Superbly acted by a top-rank Italian cast. Music by Rome's Teatro del 'Opera. All weekend at the Orpheum. ALL ABOUT EVE, starring Bette Davis, George Sanders and Anne Baxter. An un- beatable motion picture experience. Held over today at the Michigan. THE MEN, with Te- Europe's reaction to the election of Republi- cans who campaigned on the trumped-up charge that their opponents were trying to undermine the nation with "socialistic" ideologies can not be expected to be a very happy one. In the Far East, the situation is even bleaker. Political experts in many quarters have called the Chinese Communist inva- sion in Korea a contributing factor in the Republican gains. Yet, as was pointed out in Tuesday's Daily, the Republicans have still to come up with some proposals for a workable foreign policy of their own. We may, therefore, see a Republican victory in this country resulting in a Communist vic- tory in Asia. The logic behind Truman's Point 4 pro- gram, that the best-and possibly only- way to successfully combat Communism in this most crucial world area is through an effective aid program, including land reforms, institution of modern agricultural methods, and, in general, a program to raise the standard of living in the poverty- striken overpopulated Eastern lands might well be undermined by a Congress stress- ing military support for often corrupt gov- ernments in this area. This will not result in a victory for democracy in the Far East, but might lead directly to total war. But bleak as the legislative picture looks today, there still remains a chance that the Democrats of the McMahon-Lehman-Doug- las variety, along with capable Republicans Tobey, Morse and Duff, will be able to en- courage their colleagues to take a long and careful look at the world, and support 'a program that leads to security and peace. --Roma Lipsky MUSIC T HE TWO School of Music concerts this week were of considerable interest. On Monday evening Gilbert Ross conducted a student string orchestra in music of the 17th and 18th centuries; on Wednesday evening Paul Doktor and Benning Dexter gave a viola and piano recital. Both occasions were distinguished by musicianly performances of unhackneyed works. Mr. Ross and the string orchestra played a suite of Ayres and Dances by Purcell and the Concerto Grosso in D by Germiniani. They then accompanied Messrs. Theodore Johnson and Unto l9rkkila in Bach's Con- certo for two violins. The program con- cluded with Mozart's superb Divertimento in B Flat, K. 287 for two horns and string . orchestra. This last was the high spot of the evening for me; the Divertimento is a work of moving contrasts: dramatic intensity alternates with lyric expressive- ness. I was troubled by the small harpsichord which played the continuo part in the ear- lier music. The instrument was too weak to provide anything except a faintly archaic air. In loud passages it was inaudible, and in the soft ones it's faint, undifferentiated use of a piano would have probably out- raged the purists, but I feel that an audible piano might have more fully realized the coiposer's intentions than a decorative but inaudible harpsichord. Paul Doktor is an ideal string player. His technique is amazing; his musician- ship and his high seriousness stamp him as an artist of the first rank. Mr. Doktor and Mr. Dexter played an evening of chamber music which showed them at home in all styles and periods. Hindemith and Milhaud represented the modern school, Schumann the romantic, and Dit- tersdorf the classical. The Milhaud sonata is based on 18th century themes and is engagingly archaic. The Hindemith sonata (Op. 11, No. 4) is anr early work, revealing the composer's con- summate knowledge of the viola. The work shows both romantic and neo-classic traits and is a virtuoso piece in the best sense of the word. All this adds up to music of A healthy ecelecticism. In the Schumann Maerchenbilder Op. 113 Mr. Doktor resisted all temptations to sentimentalize this ob- viously juicy music. Instead he gave us a reading which made the most of its fan- tastic and romantic aspects without "inter- preting" Schumann in terms of his own per- sonality. Despite the high standards of perform- ance at both concerts, I noticed a number of empty seats. I wonder how many members of the Melchior fan club were present. -Harvey Gross. 4 ' Election Musing's THE TREND discerners, like gravedriggers in the wake of a massacre, are out in force today and will continue digging busily in the weeks ahead. But for ordinary non clairvoyants, a less conclusive election would be hard to imagine. Foggy-issues, non-differentiated candidates and sectional prejudices com- plicate almost all the returns. Therefore, it would be well for the newly elected candidates not to go charging off in a search for "mandates." The election shows that this country is as diverse as it has ever been and thus as unified as it has ever been. So no "mandates," please. There just aren't any. * * * THE New York City race leaves one man sitting prettily, beholden to no one but the voters who put him in the mayor's of- fice. Impelliteri emerged from a campaign in which charge and countercharge befouled the air. The graft-ridden machinery O'Dwyer left behind him poses a challenge to Impelliteri but also a tremendous opportunity. In his appointment and support of Police Com- missioner Thomas Murphy he has made a good beginning in carting away the dirt which encrusts New York politics. The New York election proves once again the political axiom of the Truman election; the American voter loves a fighter. * * * IF IT weren't for the fact that Scott Lu- cas' defeat in Illinois puts Everett Dirksen into the Senate, one could almost rejoice in the outcome. Lucas played the major role in conniving the McCarran Anti-Subversive Bill through the Senate and this disservice to democracy probably lost him enough votes to cost his seat. It is quite likely that a part of the liberal vote stayed home when faced with a choice between a Lucas, who sacrificed principles for expediency, and a Dirksen without principles at all. So while we don't applaud Lucas' losing, we can at least say, "He deserved it." THE MAN whose absence the Senate will really feel is Millard Tydings of Mary- land. In his defeat we can chalk up another victim to "Jumping Joe" McCarthy. It is the usual sad commentary when we realize that the words of a man who has voiced nothing but lies in the past, was enough to ruin a man like Tydings. Tydings was a good senator and a more difficult loss to sustain than Lucas, who theo- retically should be the greater inasmuch as he is Senate majority leader. m .1. RETURNING TO New York, there is one voter whose name should be enshrined somewhere or other. This anonymous hero, waiting in line with some fifteen others at a polling place, saw Gov. Dewey's limousine pull up, and the candidate stride briskly to the head of the line-the photographers snapped merrily away, taking the traditional shots of the candidate voting for himself. The voter, outraged, stalked out of the polling place, probably costing Dewey a vote. ANOTHER VICTIM to be added to the debit column of McCarthy and "Mc- Carthyism" is Helen Gahagen Douglas, who lost out to a budding, replica of the Wiscon- sin senator, Richard M. Nixon. Senator-elect Nixon, however, has quite a way to go before he catches up with the "old master." But he's trying. WITH NO intention to disparage Lieut.- Gov. William (no relation to the Senator) Vandenberg's vote-getting ability, it seems to us obvious that his impressive showing is not wholly of his own doing. Lieut. Gov. William's father deserves some credit for having had the foresight to bear the name of Vandenberg and live in Michi- gan-a political coup if there ever wa§ one. -Zander Hollander CURRENT MOVIES At Lydia Mendelssohn. MACBETH, the Orson Welles version. IACBETH, as interpreted by Orson Welles, presents an intriguing study in mood and movement. ,Welles strives for mood rather than meaning and achieves this through the use of heavy shadow, swirling mists and damp dripping. But concurrently, he sacrifices contrast and color, light and vitality; it is black and depressing almost to the point of tedium. The moments of levity employed to such advantage by Shakespeare (the porter scene at the castle gates) are entirely ommitted. Consequently there is a peculiar conflict in the static pictorial tone and the unusual mobility of the camera which glides smooth- ly through the windswept heath and dreary castle catching every nuance of meaning and emphasizing sometimes incoherent lines (As originally filmed, "Macbeth" was done en- tirely in a heavy Scotch brogue. Later much of the sound track was changed, but not all of it). It is the camera which saves the film from being just another reading of Shakespeare; for not even Shakespeare can support himself unassisted. The camera fol- lows the action like a thing alive, searching, probing, ever inquisitive; never on the hors- ?OL~LCA (AP uWX O4 Eff