THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH II At LongLast AT LONG IAST, the irrepressible Sen. Joseph McCarthy is being called to ac- count for his five-year misuse of the public trust reposed in him by the people of Wis- consin. At long last, the good Senator commit- ted the possibly fatal error of failing to cloak his bald lies in Congressional im- munity, that all-purpose protection for the demagogue. At long last, the smiling Republican has encountered in Drew Pearson an enemy whose shrewdness, tenacity, and sheer fight equal, if not overbalance, his own, and whose energies are not channeled into sheer destructiveness. At long last, the extroverted legislator has found a $350,000 price tag placed on the truth-a price which he can ill afford, if one would believe his inicome tax re- turns. At long last, the impetuous 100% Ameri- can has found that his below-the-belt phys- ical attacks as well as his verbal blows can be expensive - Pearson asks another quarter-million for discomfort caused by McCarthy's famed groin punch. At long last, the shoe is on the other foot. McCarthy is being called upon to defend in court some of his gross traves- ties of truth. Let us hope it pinches hard. -Crawford Young Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The D ily staff and represent the views of the writrs only. NIGHT EDITOR: BOB VAUGHN /9"roqram flLOkiJ (Editor's Note-This is the first in a series of columns which will appear in The Daily com- menting on current activities in music, art, drama and literature in Ann Arbor. Today's Program Notes were compiled by Bob Cagen, Ed Chudacoff and Dan Waldron.) It's been a week of premieres: the Arts Theater Club opened its season; the Speech Department produced two student-written plays; and the School of Music presented new works by Michigan composers. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, filling two diferent stages at the same time, seemed on the way to becoming Ann Arbor's prevailing playwright last week. The Flies, which end - ed Friday, sbared the bill with the two student-written one-acts. The Respectable Prostitute launched Arts Theater Cub and continues through this week. IN THE NEW WORKS by three University composers and two members of the Mich- igan Composer's Club last Wednesday, it seemed to us that those by Cacioppo, Sca- varda, and Chudacoff were more radical than those by Miss' James and Mr. Hern- red. We were struck by the interesting affinity to Bartok in the more contrapuntal student works. * * * * T HE FIRST PROGRAM of the Beethoven Violin Sonata series, presented by Gil- bert Ross and Mabel Rhead Field last Tues- day night, revealed the range of Beetho- ven's expressive power, especially interest- ing when his earlier works-Op. 12, No. 1, and Op. 30, No. 2-are set beside the later Op. 96.' In this program expressive qualities ranged from driving momentum and almost agonized intensity to singing pastoral lyri- cism. The earlier works show increasing drive and drama, greater and greater fullness of sonority and expansiveness of sound. The Op. 30, No. 2 sonata, we believe the most dramatic chamber work Beethoven ever did, is the climactic expression of these quali- ties. It is fascinating to see how a composer defines and fixes the emotional character- istics of his work. In Op. 30, No. 2 the im- passioned dynamic rush which pervades the first and fourth movements is most striking- ly defined by the two scalar outbursts which occur near the end of the otherwise quiet, slow movement. Beethoven could go no further in these directions; the direct onslaught was to be tempered by lyricism, harmonic richness, and by the intellectual qualities which characterize the late works. In Op. 96 all the lovely and singing quali- ties which the later romantics were to go after are present, but used to prepare for the infrequent moments of dynamic impact and strength. These elements surprise us in this sonata. The simplicity and sensuous beauty of the work, well-suited to the violin, does not fit the stereotype we are given of Beethoven. To find them here is exciting. The performers caught all these qualities. Never has Gilbert Ross played so well. The lyricism of Op. 96 was as well achieved as the drive of Op. 30, No. 2. And it was won- d'erful to see an instrumental soloist subor- dinate himself, give-and-take with the pian- ist, to allow the musical ideas to speak. This was real sonata playing. Labor's Walkout The Week's News . .IN RETROSPECT .. LABOR'S WALKOUT on the government points up the whole ineffective, jumbled mess that has been set up to serve as a mobilization program. The administration established the pro- gram not only to mobilize the nation for defense, but also to strengthen the coun- try's economy to the point that it can stand an all out war effort. So far neither has been accomplished, and labor is com- plaining. In the first place labor leaders are grum- bling that although the government says it opposes inflation, it has not taken effective action to prevent it. They seem to be right. Prices continue to spiral upwards in spite of the administration's control plan. The way the plan is set up with loop holes galore- more being added haphazardly all the time -does nothing to check the price climb. Labor can well complain. A lid has been clamped on wages, and even though it al- lows wage hikes to cover the rise in living costs, it does not adequately provide for pro- tection against future price climes. Labor's second grievance is that it is not properly represented in the wage stabiliza- tion government. Because of this ,it has walked out on the government and its lead- ers say they will not return until they get direct access 'to Defense Mobilizer C. E. Wilson, and larger representation on the wage board. Both points make a farce out of the mobilization program. As Ron Watts pointed out on this page last week, the administration is trying to please too many people. Were the government ser- ious about its plan it would close up the escape clauses it has left for its support- ers. If the emergency is pressing enough to merit any mobilization plan, it should be an effective one. And labor's action shows that it also is not serious about the need for mobilization. If it were, the walk-out against government would not have taken place. No government plan has even the slightest chance of suc- cess unless it has all the support it can get. This will mean sacrifice on all sides. Gov- ernment and labor leaders have already said this dozens of times-the trouble is they apparently do not yet believe it. --Vernon Emerson iette/d 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. . . J1 F .I Drama on Washington Street ONE OF THE BEST things about an Ann Arbor spring is the wide variety of en- tertainment activities whose initial stirrings accompany the jonquils' first thoughts of burgeoning. Already in the semester we have had a visit from the Budapest String Quartet, a bill of one-acts, several good movies from the Cinema Guild, and a student player's production. The Orpheum's fare seems to be improving and other commer- cial theatres, perhaps sensing a strong competitor in mother nature, will prob- ably schedule better films when possible. In the weeks to come there will be a bal- let production, the annual Mozart opera, Easter organ recitals, the May Festival, a major speech department production and three-day Union Opera run and, if the Daily reviewers haven't dealt a mortal blow, a production by the Student Players. The Gilbert and Sullivan Club will have a spring number ready soon, and there will be the usual number of outdoor sports and social affairs such as organized dances and unorganized ramblings in the arboretum. By the last of May, the Drama Season will be under way with a sprinkling of Broadway names. Student recitals, canoe outings and penny pitching contests will be ready with their heady lures should the student have a spare hour or two left over. This spring is particularly to be wel- comed, however, because it has brought us a resident professional drama group which hopes to establish itself perma- nently in Ann Arbor. Operating in a third floor arena play- house at 209% East Washington, the Arts Theatre Club is putting on the best drama which will be seen in Ann Arbor this se- mester. The first production, "The Respectable Prostitute," is both polished and spirited, a fine evening of entertainment, and the refreshingly varied program of forthcom- ing productions appears equally reward- ing. The Arts Theatre Club seems clearly to have justified the high note of optimism which attended its founding. While there has been a gratifying box office response from both the city and the university com- munity, a larger membership would not on- ly benefit the new members to the extent that they can individually profit from good drama, but would aid in insuring the con- tinuance after this season of a valuable cul- tural addition to the locality. -,Dave Thomas -Daily-Bill Hampton "And this is our Unwritten Code of Engineering Ethics. Any questions?" * * * * DORIS FLEESON: Presidential Dark Horses WASHINGTON-Powerful Democrats out- side the government and across the country are slowly moving toward an agree- ment that their various Presidential dark horses must be built up. They put it that the nomination must not be forced upon President Truman for lack of a substitute candidate. As the mink coat stories touching the White House multiply and the strains of war increase, Democratic desire for a change is bound to increase. Meantime the feeling that the President is disinclined to run again is taking hold. And it is accepted as virtually certain that Vice President Barkley will bow out. Hence no cold winds are blowing on the ambitious Senators now crowding to the CURRENT MOVIES .At The Michigan .. . THE MAGNIFICIENT YANKEE, with Louis Calhern and Ann Harding. AS A WHOLE this picture is a disappoint- ment. It has some good performances, a few honest sentimental moments and sever- al interesyng historical sidelights. Looking at it as a biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, however, it becomes a tasteless cliche and something of a mockery of one of the pioneering liberal spirits of the cen- tury. Lovable as it was of Holmes that he ador- ed his wife, that he picked crocuses in the spring and 'that he could become very crot- chety in the presence of people who dis- agreed with him; still to leave him dra- matically without anything close to a single positive principle is to prostitute the whole purpose of the biography. There is, of course, no requirement of documentary ac- curacy in filming a man's life but any kind of loyalty .to the spirit of Holmes and what he stood for cries for something more than the weak philosophical inconsistencies that he displays in Emmet Lavery's script. Even the stage play, from which the mov- ie is adapted, managed to keep the charac- ters in one place long enough to consider a few of the vital issues in which Holmes was front in the kingmakers. hope of attracting the 1952 *C* * * SIGNIFICANTLY the senators are work- ing with a majority leader-Ernest Mc- Farland-of their own choosing, not a White House selection. But even if Senator Mc- Farland were inclined to carry water for the President, he would find it risky to annoy his aspiring colleagues since he has only a two-vote majority in the Senate to depend on. It has been interesting to watch such astute veterans as Senators Connally, Russell and George giving their juniors their heads. When it comes to sensing political winds, the southerners have few equals and no superiors. Nothing very overt is going to happen. The well-known water will flow under the bridge in large quantities in times like this before the national convention convenes. But the absence of the usual stumbling blocks is noticeable. This is a far cry from 1949 when a frown from Mr. Truman's national chairman, Wil- liam Boyle, effectually dissipated a New York dinner being planned by the admirers of the then Secretary of Defense, Louis Johnson. ANOTHER CASUALTY of the altered situ- ation is the view that the President might not run but would try to name as his successor his Chief Justice, Fred Vinson, who is as popular as ever personally but he has npt been brought into the prepared- ness picture and he has seemed more and more to be settling into the Supreme Court groove. With a very real competition for the nomination building up, Justice Vinson becomes increasingly less likely to seek it. Why all this change? One reason is that the present twilight war zone in which the government is oper- ating is bad for the President's fortunes. It has all the inconveniences of war without the actual perils which might inspire aj don't-swap-horses mood among the people. The scandals hurt the White House. The President has hurt himself with his letter writing, above all the colloquial letter to music critic Hume. The constitutional amendment limiting the President to two terms has technically no bearing on the matter since it does not affect Mr. Truman. It perhaps has some psychological effect. The President's leadership in the national committee is weak. Chairman Boyle is em- ivn- l f_ . r--A ln btl hiF hn Z - -nn A KNOTTY CASE of University discipline came to light this week. 1 It was revealed that an engineering student has been expelled from I school for breaking an NROTC contract after becoming a conscien- tious objector. According to a faculty discipline committee, the stu- dent, Robert J. Lapham, '52E, was not ousted for his religious views but for his "unethical and irresponsible" attitude regarding the con-1 tract.. In short, he did not live up to the unwritten engineering "code of ethics", the committee said omnisciently. Around the World... KOREA-UN forces slithered forward all along the front this week against mounting Red resistance. G.I.'s took the devastated central Korean communications hub of Hoengsong on Friday. PLEVEN OUT-As sure as springtime, another French cabinet toppled this week. Premier Rene Pleven's eight months old coalition resigned Wednesday over an election law dispute. By the week's end two former premiers, Georges Bidault and Henri Queuille, had failed to form a new cabinet. It was the 16th time since her liberation that France had been caught without a government.a National . . GREAT DEBATES-Two great debates shaped up in Congress this week. The first, troops for Europe, was a continuation of an argument which has raged outside of Congress for months. In the second hearing, on Tuesday, former President Herbert Hoover gave the narrow view. He claimed that the plan to send four divisions to Europe would "most likely lead" to a land war with "utmost jeopardy" to the United States. The day before, another prominent Republican, Sen. Robert Taft, had demanded that Europe guarantee an army strong enough to defend itself before we send any troops. Gen. Lucius Clay, former governor of the U.S. zone in Ger- many, differed. He said that if the plan to send troops to Europe is speeded, within a year Russian aggression will "seem unprofit- able." On Thursday, President Truman declared that he wished Congress would hurry up and settle the matter, lest our relations with the West- ern Allies be endangered. The other debate, begun in Congress on Monday, concerned the' question of the 18-year-old draft. Military men stressed the utmost necessity of such a move, while certain Republican senators have countered by asking compromises. Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared that 18-year-olds must be drafted, "in the interests of genuine security." The core of the debate was the Morse amendment to lower the draft age only to 18 and one-half years, instead of 18. The senate will vote on this amendment tomor-. row. NO THIRD TERM-The 22nd Amendment was voted into law Monday as the 36th state ratified it. The amendment bars future presidents from serving more than two terms, or 10 years. LABOR CONFUSION-In what seemed a compromise move, this week, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston placed into effect the con- troversial ten percent wage increase formula, including several amend- ments designed to liberalize the action. A few days before, the three labor members had walked out of the Wage Stabiaation Board meet- ing in protest to the ten per cent limit. Johnstn's action this week hardly soothed the situation. On Wednesday, the labor leaders promptly declared a boycott on the whole home front control pro- gram, advising union men to resign immediately from every govern- ment mobilization agency. In the last few days, some holes have been poked through the stiff formula, in an effort to assuage labor. Chief among these was Johnson's approval of all "escalator" wage clauses contracted before Jan. 25. These allow wages to increase according to the Labor De- partment's cost of living index. RAIL SETTLEMENT-A break came in the two year old rail dis- pute this week as one million non-operating employes were granted a raise in pay. Local ... J-HOP-Michigan's gala J-Hop has been slipping in popularity during the past few years. Unable to see the trend, last year's chair- man defended all the elaborate expenses-and consequent high ticket prices-and said "if you pay out less your dance will suffer all around." This year, however, with prospects of a slight financial loss for the recent dance, and with the draft threatening next year's affair, the committee has suggested some long overdue reforms. Chief among these is a proposal to hold J-Hop elections in the spring in- stead of in the fall, when the committee hardly has time to get or- ganized. Along with this, some committeemen favor a wholesale cut- ting of expenses, even if it means limiting the dance to one night. DIRTY RUSHING-Last Tuesday, two members of the Inter- Fraternity Council Enforcement Committee, charged with policing rushing, stalked into a private boarding house. In a room they dis- covered two Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity men in the company of Reviews ... To the Editor: I HAVE READ good reviews in The Michigan Daily, and I have1 read poor reviews in The Daily. But never have I read such an intesti- nal-clogging, invalid review as W. J. Hampton's on the Speech De- partment's Third Bill of One-Act, Plays. It is apparent that Mr. Hampton does not realize that the presentation of student directed and staged plays is comparable to a "laboratory" (as the program words it). These students are not suffering under the illusion that they are perfect. On the contrary, they welcome "crticsm." But for a critic to make such generaliza- tions as" . . . Their performances were uniformly poor" is not only invalid, it Is uncalled for. I am sure the Mr. William J. Hampton of our English Department will support me here. And to compare a student writ- ten and directed play with such an established success as Arsenic and Old Lace would be about as ridiculous as comparng W. J. with a drama critic. Mr. H{ampton goes on to end his nine inches of bilge with an entire- ly inept criticism of Sartre's Flies. If nothing else on the whole bill deserved proper reviewing, at least Mr. Rovner's fling of imagination in staging the Flies did. Until Mr. Hampton can remove himself from his plane of perfec- tion expectancy, I would strongly suggest that he concentrate on his Daily and Gargoyle cartoons. They are much better than his "re- views." -Chuck Hoefler. (EDITOR'S NOTE-For proof that W. J. Hampton's "plane of perfec- tion expectancy" is not wholly un- attainable, we refer Mr. Hoefler, set designer for the one-acts, to Hamp- ton's review in Wednesday's Daily.) C * * Capital Punishment .. . To the Editor: I HAVE BEEN following the cap- ital punishment controversy with some interest, and I believe that I have arrived at the only two possible courses of action. Which course we take depends on how we answer the question: Are killers made or born? 1. Ifkillers are born, it seems reasonable that a test could be de- vised by means of which all po- tential killers could be discovered by the time they were, say, six years old, and eliminated then. In this way, society could wreak its vengeance on the would-be murderers before they have had time to do any harm. 2. If, on the other hand, we believe that there were other than hereditary or biological factors at work on the killer, it would be a simple matter to weed out those who were associated with the mur- derer. First we would take the potential or actual murderer's life, and shortly thereafter through on his parents and siblings. Since his neighborhood was an accomplice to the criminal tendency, we TON say, exterminate all those who have lived in the same block with him at any time previous to the crime. Since his teacherand class- mates were also probably casual we would have to eliminate the' also. The implications in this lasi course of action are far-reaching Since we know that most murders are committed by those from slun areas, we could have our revenge eliminate the killer, and clear the slums all with the same act. The one serious drawback to thi method, of course, is the declin in population. It would just have to be looked at as our sacrifice i ridding the State of Michigan o: killers and their accomplices. The one big advantage, o course, is that we can have our revenge not on just the murderer, but on all sorts of people who also contributed to the killing. An- other advantage is that the psy- chologists, wardens, and whoeve else are wasting their time in the rehabilitation of murderers; could be left free to concentrate on more normal people, like ourselves, wh don't go around killing people. It seems to me that in this way over time, we could rid the state of killers, and thus have a safe and better life. -Thomas Lough * *R Revue has been most gratifying to the sponsors and participants of the show. In answer to Harry Reed's flattering proposal gn the editorial page of Wednesday's Daily, we would like to thank all the people who made the 1951 Re- vue such a success and also to explain why .the sponsoring com- mittee feels that it would be im- possible to have a repeat per- formance. Gulantics is a fairly recent in- novation on the campus. Three years ago, the Men's Glee Club, The Union, and The League (hence the name "GUL" antics) decided that some medium was needed to give talented students a chance to gain local recognition. The Glee Club handled publicity and financial support, the League the talent, and the Union the set. In practice, each organization co- operated in all phases of the pro- duction. Gulantics has grown in popularity and excellence stead- ily, and this year the committee feels that it has lived up to .its originators' dreams. Gulantics this year was not only an enter- tainment success, but also a fi- nancial success for the first time. The proceeds from the show are added to the Glee Club Scholar- ship Fund which is open to every male strdent on Campus. The committee agrees with Mr. Reed that "the talent unveiled and the antics of the clowning faculty men . . . were too good to be shown only one night",but feels that the difficulties of rounding up the same talent, booking an auditorium, circulat- ing publicity-in the face of the necessarily absent competitive spirit-would make it impossible to produce a show on a par with last Saturday's. We promise the enthusiastic audience that Gulantics will re- turn next spring. With your con- tinued support and that of our versatile faculty performers, the sponsors illl again produce a show worthy of your time and praise. -Roy Duff President, Michigan Men's Glee Club -Ron Modlin, Michigan Union Executive Council -Maxine Pearson, Michigan League Council Available Tools T HE strong man meets his crisis with the most practical tools at hand. They may not be the best tools but they are available, which is all-important. He would rather use them, such as they are, than do nothing. t r, j ;A i 41 r- _. * 1 e e r, -Raymond Clapper A R t Sixty-First Year Edited and managed by students Of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Jim Brown.. ......Managing Editor Paul Brentlinger............City Editor Roma Lipsk~y...... 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Subscription during regular school year: by carrier. $6.00; by mail, $7.00. 't A, j r: a rushee. The next night, at an IFC meeting, SAE got a fifty dollar fine GutanutCsl ueturn . . for dirty rushing. A bunch of Sigma Chi's also turned up at the meet-t ing, primed to refute allegations that they had been dirty rushing To the Editor: in dorms. However, they quickly ducked out when it was found that RE: Harry Reed's editorial no charges had been brought against .them. "Gulantics Return" -Bob Keith and Chuck Elliott Campus response to Gulantics ;. 4 BARNABY * * * * ONIGHT we get to hear the Chicago Symphony do Hindemith's Four Tem- As the boy's Fairy Godfather, and as the family's advisor in legal as well n . .# 4U.*p I WfI ,wn t P Iaru Dear me, O'Malley! 1 won't even discuss such a thing as a law suit against the child's parents! Such hostility! Such rancor! If's going to take all my time, patience, and legalistic skill [ :..