THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, I19
I U I I
Wanted: Scholarship Takers
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS are puzzled. what to do with the money is further compli-
In a period of rising prices, effectigg cated, chairman Prof. Kenneth Jones re-
everything from the cost of bluebooks to the vealed, because many of the students who do
month's board bill, it would seem that many apply for scholarships really should not. In
students might need extra financial aid. It this class, Prof. Jones listed students with
would also seem logical that a sizeable group low averages who are not supporting them-
would apply for University scholarships. selves, and students who are only seeking
Instead, the officials find themselves with scholarship for the honor attached to it.
money to give away but with a dearth of Three criteria are used in making scholar-
takers. ship awards: grades, financial need and
This seeming contradiction in human promise as a future citizen. All literary col-
nature was unearthed in a revelation by lege students are eligible to apply, and can
the literary college scholarship commit- pick up applications in Rm. 1006 Angell Hall.
tee. With less than a week before the Although grade point averages are con-
March 15 scholarship application, only 21 sidered important,.applicants are not always
students had submitted applications. ruled out by low marks. If the scholarship
In itself, this would appear only mildly committee, which holds a personal inter-
interesting, but when the committee revealed view with each applicant, feels that outside
inteestngbutWhe th comitee eveled work has contributed to poor grades, it is,
that this was about one-fourth of the schol- likehatctri dl gradsip.
arships granted last year it became over- likely that they will grant a scholarship.
whelmingly obvious that there must be at In past years, Prof. Jones said, some of
least 75 worthy students who are missing a the most deserving students have had to
stupendous chance to pick up financial as- be asked to apply by teachers and academic
sistance. advisors, often long after scholarships have
The scholarship committee's problem of already been awarded. At such a belated
time only small emergency funds are avail-
able and the student receives much less
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily than he otherwise would.
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only. The money is there. The only way it can be
effectively put to use is for students who
think they qualify for a scholarship to apply
NIGHT EDITOR: LEONARD GREENBAUM for one.
-Leonard Greenbaum.
MATEByrP AOFP FAT
By JOSEPH ALSOP.
LEIPZIG-Being arrested tends to be a
memorable experience under any cir-
cumstances. Being arrested (or at least
"detained for inquiry") by the Russian-
managed political police in a satellite state,
is also an experience that instructs and
enlightens. Such was the culminating epi-
sode of this correspondent's second annual
visit to the Leipzig fair, where rough notes
for this report were somewhat nervously
made.
In crude outline, what happened was
simple enough. In one of the black Leip-
aig squares, another newspaperman in
the party took a snapshot of a Free
German Youth military band-pinched,
cold-encircled young faces, cheeks air-
swollen, and many battered trumpets ele-
vated at the old Nazi angle. A political
police plainclothes group then picked up
our party, shadowed us for four hours,
and pounced at the instant when the,car
was being started for the return to Berlin.
If the tough intelligent German political
policeman had had his way, all might have
ended there, after proof was given that our
party was not a batch of British agents. But
the German veteran of the Spanish civil
war and the anti-Nazi underground has had
to yield, as a matter of course, to his
pimply, excited commavery youthful Russian
"colleague."
And so we were taken to the huge head-
quarters of the People's Police. We were
interrogated for a while. We were even
vouchsafed a majestic glimpse of the Peo-
ple's Police President of Leipzig (a military-
style figure, strikingly reminiscent of the
all too well remembered pictures of leading
Nazis ten years before). And we were finally
released, with many a handshake, after the
offending rolls of films had been developed,
and all its blurry family pictures had been
sternly studied.
to find a Russian, German-speaking,
plainly trained for the position, at work
in the Volkspolezei at the low level of a
plainclothes man. It meant that the
reputation of the People's Police in East
Germany had now been carried through
to the end. It revealed, as a keyhole
reveals a room, the completeness and dir-
ectness of Russian control of the satellite
government. There was no question about
the domination of the young Russian over
the much older, much more intelligent,
much more experienced German.
And it was deeply interesting, also, after
the young Russian had decided he was mis-
taken and stopped covering us with his pis-
tol, to talk to these men who should, by all
the rules of political drama, have been such
instinctively hostile groups.
BRUTAL, RUTHLESSLY, cruelly brutal,
no doubt they sometimes were, when the
rules of their work demanded it. Yet their
conversation was like an endless grama-
phone record of complex self-justification-
all the slogans of Soviet propaganda re-
peated over and over again, in a tone that
pleaded for assent.
And behind the gramaphone record one
sensed the human beings themselves-in-
doctrinated yet puzzled, cast In inhuman
roles but not themselves inhuman, long-
ing so to speak to assert their humanity.
In these times, indeed, indictments must
be broad, not against individuals or na-
tions, but against the clanking systems
which have humanity in their grip.
Finally this odd police experience drama-
tized the development of the Soviet system
in East Germany in the last year. Material
conditions have improved. A sort of gray,
semi-starvation is no longer the general
look. But the police have become omni-
present. Russian control has been made
definitely more acute. The indoctrination
of the servants of the system has been prov-
ed and intensified, until even a shrewd ex-
perienced man, like the Spanish civil *ar
veteran, has no room in his mind except for
tinny slogans: The system works, quite
smoothly, quite well, and entirely for the
benefit of the masters of the Soviet Union.
This is the prime East German legend.
(Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Locked Doors
LATE-COMERS have always constituted a
menace to the efficient operation of or-
ganized enterprises. Especially classroom lec-
tures.
"Fifteeh after" scholars are indeed
worthy of dire punishment-a vicious glare
from the podium, a public rebuke, threats
of fines, extra blue books, or hospital
work. Anything but the new fad which is
sweeping the University faculty-locked
doors.
It is true that some professors are exceed-
ingly sensitive to the, creaking of doors after
ten minutes past the hour; that these pro-
fessors are severely disoriented from the path
of their discourse by penetrating whispers
and the reshuffling of feet as the tardy ar-
rival stumbles and squeezes toward his seat
in the far corner of the room.
But consider the dilemma of the late-
comer. Not only must he brave the wrath of
his unnerved professor, but he must also
contend with a lecture, which, having com-
menced illegally at seven and one-half min-
utes past the hour, seems curiously unrelated,
seven and one-half minutes later, to any-
thing previously discussed in the course. To
add to these hardships, the fresh spring air
and the call of the links beckon many of the
potentially tardy to abandon their journey
from Burton Memorial Tower to the Archi-
tecture Auditorium.
But resolution and the desire to learn
triumph, and at quarter past, the student,
breathless but determined, reaches the class-
room door. It is locked.
Think of all that will power gone to waste.
It's enough to drive a student to the movies.
It hardly seems in keeping with educa-
tional principles to punish a student so
diabolically for his desire to absorb a lit-
tle knowledge-even five minutes of it,
should he choose to discard the other
forty-five.
Perhaps the locked door faction considers
punctuality a matter of ethics. They might
better give a nod to the new Johns Hopkins
learn-as-you-go program-a concrete ap-
preciation of the fact that people move at
different rates of speed. -
-Nancy Bylan.
DORIS FLEESON:
Congressional
Hearings
WASHINGTON-A well-conducted Con-
gressional hearing is often the equiva-
lent of a semester in government at a great
university. Currently on display are several
extremely educational examples, all gar-
nished with colorful characters and quotable
phrases.
Prof. J. William Fulbright on RFC, Prof.
Estes Kefauver on crime and Prof. Lyndon
Johnson on preparedness are perhaps the
most exciting. Of even keener interest how-
ever to practical politicians-who are, un-
fortunately, rather calloused to scandal and
rely upon the short memories of the peo-
ple-are Sen. Mike Monroney's hearings on
the Maryland Senatorial election.
This is not because of the personalities in-
volved. The victor, Sen. John Marshall
Butler, was obviously one of the least telling
elements of his own campaign; the van-
quished, Millard Tydings,does not return
forthwith to the Senate if Mr. Butler is un-
seated.
But the story now being unfolded of
how "The Big Doubt" served Maryland
Republicans in 1950 is one for the political
textbooks. Democrats frankly fear the
Republicans will try to apply it nationally
in the 1952 presidential election.
The beauty of it is that it can be almost
wholly an import, springing like Minerva
from the head of Jove. Thus any local in-
hibitions need not interfere and the candi-
date himself can-in Jon M. Jonkel's capti-
vating phrase-work the front street.
MR. JONKEL, Senator Butler's campaign
manager and a Chicago publicity man,
himself labeled the technique "The, Big
Doubt." His testimony helps to define Mc-
Carthyism, which has passed into the lang-
uage as a synonym for reckless accusation,
unsupported by proof and depending upon
guilt by association. He shows how "The Big
Doubt," based on McCarthyism, can be de-
veloped as a pervasive appeal to voter emo-
tion.
The outlanders who brought the show
to Maryland include Senator McCarthy
and his staff; Mrs. Ruth McCormick Mill-
er, who gave time, money and the use of
her Washington Times-Herald facilities;
broadcaster Fulton Lewis, and the China
lobby. Mr. Jonkel was presumably ac-
quired through Mrs. Miller's Chicago Tri-
bune connections.
BEFORE THE committee is the "on the
record" newspaper, containing the fa-
mous composograph showing Mr. Tydings
ostensibly in intimate conversation with
Communist Earl Browder. It appeared as
required by Maryland law under the impri-
matur of "Young Democrats for Butler."
Mr. Jonkel concedes their major contribu-
tion was a willingness to sponsor it.
The hearing record (not a composograph)
shows Mr. Jonkel defining "The Big Doubt"
as follows:
"We worked with the fact that a very,
very big doubt existed in the minds of the
people of Maryland. I said: 'Let's not
get into the business of proving whether
or not ITH (the Tydings investigation of
the state Denartment) was a whitewash.
IFC Rushing
To the Editor:
freedom of opinion does not in-
clude the privilege of printing
unqualified statements of half-
truth and misrepresentation, and
"Just A Minute! I'll Hold That Ladder For You"
Xettei/ 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.
E d i t o r Brentlinger's expose
branding the IFC's rushing rules
as "ridiculous" and "absurd" was
founded on misinformation:
1. Although The Daily reported
February 17 that "today is the last
day to register for spring rushing,"
a check of the rushing rules would
have revealed that one may regis-
ter "at any time during the rush-
ing period." The rushing period
extended to March 4! Any IFC
rushing official knows this.
2. A complete, up-to-date rush-
ing list, in the form of the rush-
ees' card file, was available to all
fraternity men during the entire
rushing period. Any fraternity de-
siring the naies of rushees not
included on the two printed IFC
lists was encouraged to obtain
these names from the card files.
This was deemed more plausible
than compiling 14 supplementary
lists, each with an average of eight
rushees' names.
3. Registration during the en-
tire rushing period was instituted
so that men, undecided about
rushing, would have an opportun-
ity to evaluate the fraternity sys-
tem for themselves before paying
the $2 rushing fee. Refusal by
the IFC to register these men
would have cut the pledge lists by
nearly 30%.
Admittedly, the fraternity rush-
ing system is not perfect, but only
constructive criticism, founded on
full knowledge of the fatcors in-
volved, will lead to improvement.
-Pete Thorpe
IFC Rushing Committee
Editor's Note: The Daily reported
on February 17 that "today is the
last day to register for spring rush-
ing" because it was told that this
was thercase by the IFC's chief of
public relations.)
Condemnation . . .
To the Editor:
W ITH A MATURITY, factuality,
W and sense of perspective which
is rare on the pages of The Michi-
gan Daily, Mr. Lee Setomer has
expressed clearly thedcontempt
with which many students and
faculty members regard the less
responsible and intelligent side of
our student newspaper.
The series of innuendos, half-
truths, and outright misrepresen-
tations in the stories of Mr. Davis
Crippen are precisely those qual-
ities which responsible Americans
deplore in the national press. It
is unfortunate, even tragic, that
this great University's student
newspaper must carry such out-
rageous journalism.
Mr. Crippen is not alone in his
poor brand of journalism. Altho
his stories were more insidious,
harmful, and excitatory, they were
not much above the level of some
of the ill-informed and highly
slanted editorials which appear
in The Daily. Certainly, Mr. Crip-
pen's stories (or perhaps fables is
more accurate) are no more useful
than the callow, flippant, and "de-
lightfully sophisticated" reviews
of plays, movies, and concerts,
such as Mr. Hampton's recent vili-
fication of the recent one-acts.
It is time that the editors *of
The Michigan Daily realized that
that the place to wipe out Mc-
Carthyism is in our own front
yards.{
--Manard Pont, '51
Herbert Brode, '51
Wilber Friedman, '53
M. K. Resnick, '51
Herman Abrash, '51
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Generation .
To the Editor:
THERE SEEMS to be a great stir
among the readers of The
Daily about man's inhumanity to
man. Critics are inhuman, the
condemners of Willie McGee are
inhuman. To this list I would
like to add the editors of Gener-
ation.
For almost a year this campus
has been subject every now and
again to cries of "Generation for
sale." The students of the Uni-
versity of Michigan are interested
in the Arts. It is not fair, how-
ever, to inflict such poor work on
the long-suffering students.
Take the cover of the two issues
put out this year. One was a col-
lection of amoeba-like Christmas
tree ornaments, the other the yel-
low hand of a police officer. Just
too arty for words.
The fiction which is published
is a poor imitation of James Joyce.j
The poetry defies my intelligence
to understand it. The drama, if
included at all, is second rate.
Eight pages of the last issue were
devoted to a musical score which
was absolutely beyond me since I
don't have a piano and couldn't
play one if I did. The photogra-
phy is interesting but the "bot-
tom" and "top" of the page should
be indicated. The ads, on the
other hand are wonderful. For
the first time, one can read an
ad and not tell what is being ad-
vertised.
Perhaps someone can tell me
why even one copy of such a
magazine is sold. So far it seems
to prove that our intelligensia can
imitate the multiferous little mag-
gots.
-Ken Mill
Just as strongly as Colonel Mc-
Kean. The goal is the same; only
the means are different. Bob feels,
along with some other people, that
other methods than war will "help
preserve the foundations of gov-
erment." "The primacy of the
individual" should also include a
recognition of the right of the in-
dividual to change his mind.
In connection with Arthur
Freedman's letter (Thursday's
Daily) we want to point out that
,Bob Lapham will most definitely
not have to serve in the armed
forces, since, as a conscientious ob-
jector, he has received his 4E rat-
ing, which means that no military
service of any nature is required.
He might be asked to work onal-
ternative civilian service projects
should such projectsrbe establish-
ed. For this privilege he would be
obliged to pay the government
thirty dollars a month. He can re-
fuse this, however, and then, if
the government will not let him
alone,rhe may be put in jail. For
men requesting a 4E status and
not receiving it, refusal to serve
in any military capacity is, of
course, much more apt to mean
jail. This explanation is made so
that you can see that no one has
to serve in the armed forces if he
really objects..
-Joyce Schreiber
J. Lee Kaufman
Dark Alleys .
To the Editor:
CANNOT understand why The
Daily devoted so much space to
such an uninformative, poorly
written article as Volney F. Mor-
in's "Letter from Korea." Three-
fourths of the letter is devoted to
stating some Army statistics which
prove little, if anything. In the
other fourth Morin attempts to
"preach" about the complex inter-
national situation in terms of sim-
ple "lawyer logic."
Morin seems to be under the im-
pression that strength and a show
of that strength will alone pro-
tect the United States. Perhaps a
U.S. victory in Korea will tem-
porarily prevent a world war. But
a nation which relies on power
alone soon discovers that it is
alienating friend as well as ene-
mies. Tactics such as our threat-
ening not to send food to India
because of policy differences and
our ignoring the wishes of our al-
lies in the UN are tactics which
certainly will not serve us as pro-
tection in Morin's allegorical
"dark alley." Morin, in his enthu-
siasm for meeting the "bully" with
strength has completely overlook-
ed the possibility of peaceful al-
ternatives.
He further believes that in his
"dark alley" we should protect
ourselves from the Russian "bully"
by hiring a small time Chinese
thug. Although it is certainly ob-
vious that our conflict with Rus-
sia is the threat to world peace,
to ally ourselves with Chiang, a
man whom the Chinese people
consider a bad dream of the past,
is one of the steps which could
precipitate an all out war. If we
helped a man return to' a coun-
try from which he has been exiled,
who then, Mr. Morin, would be
the "bully"?
To present both sides of a ques-
tion is, of course, desirable, and
an intelligent, well reasoned de-
fense of power politics would be a
valuable contribution. But to print
an article which is scarcely on a
college level of thought and com-
position adds nothing to an al-
ready confused situation. Let's
hope that in the future The Daily
will not take up space with articles
by those lost in "dark alleys."
-Alice Bogdonoff '54
(Editor's Note-Mr. Morin's letter
was printed because of its interesting,
if not literary, description of a re-
serve unit called back into action.
An editor's note, inadvertently left
off the letter as it appeared in print,
explained this.)
* * *
room-their prices could be cut
even more substantially.
It is extremely doubtful wheth-
er the cost of future Union ex-
pansion should be levied on the
present student body. The bene-
fits from life memberships which
Mr. Brentlinger discussed in ,an
effort to explain this proposition
are somewhat far-fetched in view
of the magnitude of the sum in-
volved.
Whether accumulation from stu-
dent fees and profits should be
continued, or whether these should
be used to cover current expenses;
demands serious consideration. A
meeting of all Union members is
called for.
-F. G. Adams
Don't Cry
To the Editor:
"FOUL, FOUL," rs the cry that
rings across our sport pages
from coast to coast. "How could
they do such a thing?" ....."Why"
... "It's terrible, simply terri-
ble.. ...
If only the general public knew
the real reasons they would take
this evil thing by the throat and
wrench from it every moral good
it has so willingly swallowed.
Be prepared, alumni and all you
loyal followers, be prepared to pay
double what you are paying now
for the athletic youngsters of Am-
erica. Because the newspapers are
revealing to the people the high
costs of what they once thought
was a great American Institution.
Who will dare send their brave
young men into a trap? A trap
that has been laid out ever since
the first gin-soaked baritones
were heard on Saturday after-
noons in the Colosseums around
the country. Come, entertain us,
for our college schedule is tough
and we need you to relieve the
emotional strain.
It was bearable when we only
had to give a little money, a little
time and a few strains from the
vocal cords. But that crisp dollar
bill has a strange effect on the
adolescent mind. We didn't stop
till we had traded our morals,
conscience, and any other good
we inherited from our fathers.
"Give me a million dollars and
I'll have the American people
wanting cancer."
What right have any of us to
cry when we hear of the "govern-
ment within a government?" We
have nurtured it, caressed it and
poured the fuel to it till it has
burned out every trace of any
moral judgment we previously
possessed.
Don't cry, then, little children,
don't cry.
-G. Shepherd
So There! .
To the Editor:
ACCORDING TO the editor's
note attached to a recent let-
ter, I made the dire error of ac-
cusing the city editor of having
changed his mind.
How could I have done such a
thing? He did not-so there!
The soundness of the refutation
is doubtful. But I apologize-sG
there too!
-Leah Marks
lMr4a zI
t.
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THERE IS NO SPACE here for the sensa-
tions experienced while you mount five
flights of dark, echoing stairs in a Russian-
managed police headquarters with the
thought inevitably in mind that you have
been denounced by Andrei Vishinsky in
person as a leading ,war-monger. In the
end, it must be said, the little visit became
positively cosy. For all their servitude to an
iron system, the policemen, and especially
the German Communist veteran, were not
bad fellows. Two friendly rounds of vodka
(the local "victory gin") in a rather nice
little black-market restaurant patronized
by the police were the unexpected finale of
our experience.
But even if we acquired no interesting
campaign stars, it was deeply interesting,
none the less, to observe the system at
first hand. Especially it was interesting
County Eyesore
APPEARING on the back of today's Daily
are some pictures of the Washtenaw
County Building that should convince anyone
looking at them that the county needs a new
structure immediately.
There are few people in the county gov-
ernment who deny this need. In fact visit-
ors, students and many citizens all agree
that the present antique is an eyesore that
disgraces Ann Arbor by its existence.
There must be a good many county voters,
however, that are content to let the ancient
edifice remain as it is-a cramped fire
hazard. In the spring election last year
Washtenlaw voters turned down proposals to
build a new county building. Whether they
will get a chance to rectify this mistake in
the near future is doubtful.
At present there are no official plans to
Union Finances
.
Looking Back
35 YEARS AGO
SEN. GORE (D-Ida.) charged that Presi-
dent Wilson had stated that the United
States might go to war unless Germany
backs down on the submarine issue.
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25 YEARS AGO
SECRETARY MELLON declared that a
proposed Presidential investigation of
public opinion regarding prohibition would
be useless. He said he doubted that the
investigation would impress the public with
the aims of prohibition or assist in enforc-
ing the law.
20 YEARS AGO
BENITO MUSSOLINI,, in an exclusive
statement for the Associated Press,
hailed as "a great international event" a
naval agreement with Britain and France.
Mussolini predicted that the agreement
would end the costly armament race among
the three countries.
-From the pages of the Daily
Principles
*0*
To the Editor:
WE WOULD most heartily com-
mend Alice Sutton's answer
(Friday's Daily) to Colonel Mc-
Kean's letter (Thursday's Daily)
concerning the unfortunate ex-
pulsion of Bob Lapham from En-
gineering School.
We know Bob to be a mature,
responsible, conscientious indivi-
dual who is sincere in his beliefs.
As we understand the situation
from talking to Bob and the peo-
ple around him, when he realized,
after thinking things through,
that he did not want to be obliga-
ted to the Navy for its previous
support, he said that he would
pay back what he owed. This was
as open and above-board as his
first avowal to the Navy that he
was a conscientious objector. We
are sure that he wasn't just trying
to "get back in."
We also feel certain that "the
primacy of the individual" is a
principle for which Bob stands
To the Editor:
IN HIS recent series of articles
on Union finances Paul Brent-
linger raises an issue which de-
serves more attention than it has
received.
Mr. Brentlinger indicates that
in the year ending June 30, 1950,
the Michigan Union received ap-
proximately $112,000 in student
fees from the University, $4,000 in
profits from current operations,
and $19,000 in income from invest-
ments. Of the total of $135,000,
$112,000 were placed in a build-
ing fund, while the remaining $23,-
000 presumably became increased
operating balances. During the
same period, sales were approxi-
mately $1,100,000.
I would like to point out that, if
the $135,000 had been used to cov-
er current expenses, a reduction
in prices of roughly 12.3% could
have been made. Moreover, were
the benefit limited to certain wor-
thy Union services alone-for ex-
ample, were prices reduced in the
cafeteria but not in the dining
Sixty-First Year
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Nancy Bylan. ....,*,,.Associate Editor
James Gregory........Associate Editor
Bill Connolly............Sports Editor
Bob Sandell.... Associate Sports Editor
Bill Brenton.. ..Associate Sports Editor
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Pat Brownson Associate Women's Editor
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BARNABY
As her legal advisor, I suggest
something demure for your mother
in twarwhennor cae cnme on in
"The impression a defendant makes on
the court is ten per cent of the verdict."
That's an old law saw some old lawyer
The plaintiff's garb is no concern of the
defense attorney. Poor shabby old Gus-
I