THE MICHIGAN DAILY 'U! ' r: : 11 :r.ir1Y, il'i i 4, 1Sa1 mmwwmmmmmm Memorial Day AFTER A TEN YEAR lapse, Memorial Day has regained its place in Ann Arbor as a day of remembrance. A relatively small event, a parade of Ann Arbor's Gold Star Mothers, Moms, veterans' organizations and school children, has caused this rede- dication. Since 1941 there has been no parade in the city and last year, Me- morial Day passed with bare recogni- tion. As the most sacred of our-patriotic holidays, it has for 83 years served as a time to stop from the commotion of our daily life and honor the dead of past wars. But to many students Memorial Day means a day for baseball double-headers, a 500-mile automobile race or merely a day off from classes. Before they came to college the celebrations in their home towns were different. Perhaps they went to the cemetery to pay their respects to the dead. Or else they went downtown and saw the parade. At any rate, they knew that it was Memorial Day and they knew why. But when they came to Ann Arbor, Memorial Day sort of lost its meaning. Any attempt at flag waving in a sophis- ticated college community doesn't us- ually get very far. At today's, parade there will doubtless be those who will look down their noses as the crowd cheers at the passing flag. But perhaps we could use a little pa- triotism once in a while. Presumedly we're proud of our American heritage of democracy and liberty. But most of us wouldn't let our best friends know this, With the return of the parade today, let us hope that the campus will pause a moment from its diversions and stop to think of what Memorial Day really is: a day for remembrance and dedication to our American ideals. -Harland Brits Ann Arbor Rent Control "It's Fine For You, But It Sure Kicks Hell Out Of My Stories That They're Warmongers" THE RECENT open meeting held by the Ann Arbor City Council on rent' controls provided an interesting example of an at- tempt by groups of city residents to push through a ruling which will benefit them alone. The groups, the landlords of the Washtenaw County area, and their oppon- ents, the tenants, tried to urge rent control as they would prefer it by presenting moun- tains of facts and hopeful conjectures. As it turned out, the only logical and concrete suggestion made during the en- tire evening was that made by Leah Marks speaking on behalf of the Student' Legislature. She asked that the council bypass the figures presented by these groups and instead appoint an indepen- dent organization to make a survey of the rent situation and then report the results of their findings back to the council. This suggestion is the best one yet offered in view of the present situation. 'Propagandists' for the landlords did put across some valid points. They showed that the cost of maintaining a rental unit had risen eighty percent in the last ten years while income had only risen approximately twenty-five percent. Further they showed that other communities in Michigan have decontroled rents without ill effect. Supporters of decontrol also entered the hearing with facts and figures galore, almost all of them contradicting what was said by the landlords. One person speaking on be- half of the tenants pointed out that many landlords illegally raised rents as high as sixty 'percent over the former price and as a result the landlords aren't as bad off as might be supposed. The landlords admitted Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: HARLAND BRITZ this, and a spokesman for the Washtenaw County landlords stated that he did not blame house owners for illegally raising rents in view of the present situation. Tenants also argued that the landlords were adhering to a false analogy when they said that Ann Arbor would not suffer from rent decontrol because other Michigan com- munities had encountered no ill effects for there are few cities in the state, indeed in the country, that are in the same position as Ann Arbor. This city, they pointed out, has a large student population, almost one- third of Ann Arbor's population as deter- mined by the recent census. Decontrols would probably raise rents-again the land- lords admitted this-and there. are very few students that can afford such a raise. All of which shows that one can get fig- ures to support any contention if one cares to search through magazine articles and government statistics diligently enough. Therefore the situation is. now at a statistical standstill, with both sides hav- ing their arguments bolstered by facts, figures and logical conjectures. To solve the problem there is but one fair thing the City Council can do and that is to hire an outside organization to conduct a survey of the rent situation as it exists in Ann Arbor. One such organization that was suggested was the University's Survey Research Cen- ter, a group with a nationwide reputation for efficiency and accuracy. No matter what group they choose, the suggestion by the SL representative that an impartial survey be conducted should be adopted. --Jerry Helman Foreign Stundents ALL OF US have experienced that terrify- ing feeling of strangeness upon enter- ing the University for the first time. For the foreign student this feeling of newness is intensified. Equipped only with. the meagre store of information that he has been able to glean from the official bulletins, the foreign stu- dent turns in his need to other foreign men and women who are experiencing the same difficulties. To solve their dilemna the Student Leg- islature is instituting a. system whereby an American student can write to a for- eign student who will be studying here next year, can answer his questions, and possibly show him the campus next fall during orientation. Both students will derive benefit from this association; each will have learned more about how the other lives than any number of geography lessons could have taught him. Any student can participate in this pro- gram by leaving his name, address, and the date of his return to school next fall at the Student Legislature building. A few hours of spare time this summer can mean the difference between success and failure of this project. -Barbara Goldblum IRed Empire By The Associated Press1 MORE THAN a half billion people have come under the domination of the So- viet brand of Communism since the end of World War II, and with the capitulation of Tibet to Communist China, Soviet Com- munism now dominates an area outside the Soviet Union of about 4,000,000 square miles. With the Soviet Union's 8,700,000 square miles and its population of roughly 200,000,- 000 million, Stalinist Communism dominates 12,700,000 of the earth's 58,000,000 square miles of land mass, and roughly 750,000,000 _:t a 't ._..". } { , a .. - .,rW s. ..A.% st DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN tion which would prevent the ar- bitrary destruction of property rights, and thus there is also lit- tle foundation for the second of Dr. Ruthven's two points on which he based his veto. To limit membership in any University approved group on an irrational basis of race, creed, and/or color is antithetic to our democracy. Dr. Ruthven should have realized that such arbitrary discrimination is not in keeping with the ideals of a great Univer- sity such as ours. -Dave Belin * * * Filialism .. . To the Editors: PATERNALISM indeed! All over the campus the big complaint is about paternalism on the part of the University. What about all of the pressure groups so active on the campus? Each little group has its own particular reasons for pres- suring something out of existence, so that as a result, these individual groups end up by censoring far more than the University would ever dream of censoring. Take, for example, the film situ- ation. "Birth of a Nation" is con- demned as being "anti-Negro"; "Oliver Twist" is objected to be- cause it is "anti-Jewish"; "The Miracle" is banned from public showing because it is "anti- Catholic"; so goes the list.:Thus you have these small minorities dictating to the majority as to what they should be allowed to see. It is the student population which cries about being mature enough to make its own decisions. Is this making our own decisions? If something, whether it be book, film, or speaker, is bad, or- anti- something or somebody, can't the majority decide for itself whether or not it is good or bad, without some little group stepping up and saying "you can't see that because it is anti-something"? Enough of this crying "Paternal- ism" at the University. Let us first stop this all-too-frequent censor- ship imposed upon us by certain small pressure groups. What a riot would be caused if the University Regents banned "Oliver Twist" or Karl Marx from the campus, but when it is a student pressure group that does the same thing, it is per- fectly all right with the majority of people. It is said that "charity begins at home." So d o e s "clean-up." Cleanse the student organizations from these Fascist and Commu- nist-like pressure groups before crying Paternalism. -Allegra Branson, '54 * * * Wheat to India. To the Editor; WE WOULD like to thank those who aided the Wheat for India drive in this community. By donating money, and by cir- (Continued from Page 2) 'V MATf R OF FACT 11. By STEWART ALSOP J5 WASHINGTON-The National Security Council, with the concurrence of Presi- dent Truman, has now at last arrived at a decision of the greatest importance. After endless travail, the Natipnal Security Coun- cil has decided precisely what the American government wants to achieve in Korea. What the American government wants is a negotiated settlement of the Korean war, based on the partition of Korea at the Thirty-eighth Parallel. This is, of course, a minimum objective. And to this objective certain conditions are attached. One condition is that such a.settlement must involve no commitment whatsoever on the status of Formosa or on Communist China's admission into the United Nations. Another condition is that United Nations observers must be freely admitted into North Korea, to make certain that Chinese Com- munist troops are actually withdrawn. A third probable condition is the establish- ment of a demilitarized buffer zone along the Thirty-eighth Parallel. This National Security Council decision is of the utmost significance in a great many ways. For one thing, such a settle- ment would be far short of the "victory" which Gen. MacArthur demands, a fact which has all sorts of domestic political implications. But although a settlement on the Thirty-eighth Parallel would not mean victory for this country, it would certainly mean defeat for the Soviet effort to seize all Korea by force. * * a* of negotiating such a settlement. Here the evidence, while certainly not conclusive, is at least interesting. About two weeks ago, as first reported in this space, there came the first ex- ceedingly veiled hints of a Soviet willing- ness to negotiate on Korea. Despite de- nials, one such hint came from Soviet United Nations delegate Jacob Malik. Another, stronger hint, which carried the implication that the British might act as intermediaries, was conveyed to British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison. And at the same time, the Soviet propaganda line underwent an abrupt change, which has received remarkably little attention in this country. Previously, the universal Communist line had been that the "American imperialists" must be driven into the sea. Then the Krem- lin's Moscow mouthpiece, the newspaper "Pravda," suddenly gave much space to an obscure Senate resolution introduced by Colorado's Sen. Edwin Johnson. This reso- lution proposed a negotiated cease-fire on the Thirty-eighth Parallel. Instantly the Western Communist press, and especially the New York "Daily Worker," obviously acting on urgent orders from the Kremlin, began beating the drums for the Johnson resolution. It is true that the other Kremlin mouth- piece, "Izvestia," mildly disputed "Pravda," asserting that the Johnson resolution was no more than "imperialist camouflage."; The Chinese Communist propaganda ap- paratus has adhered rigidly and exclu- sively to this line. EVEN SO, the best of the experts take the signs and portents listed above very seriously indeed. These signs and portents at least might mean that the Soviet rulers, since the defeat of the Communist spring of- fensive, have concluded that Soviet victory in Korea is impossible without world war, and have therefore decided to cut their losses. If so, a settlement will require two stages. The first stage will be that of secret ne- gotiation with the Soviets-which one official has described as "a process both as clumsy and as delicate as the mating of whales." If-an enormous if-this pro- cess is successful, it will then be up to the Soviet rulers to force their Chinese satellites into line. Rightly or wrongly, none of tfie experts believes that there is the slightest doubt about the Soviet ability to do this. The second, formal stage of negotiation will then start, in which a settlement already arrived at will be pub- licly ratified. No one in his senses will predict that any- thing like the foregoing will actually come to pass. The Soviet hints and, the Soviet propaganda switch may be no more than a trap for the unwary. Any one of a number of events, notably an explosion in Iran, or a "91_ . nv .irtir. a 1P~in PCw ~ e tures at the University on May 31 un- der the auspices of the Mathematics Department and the Survey Research Center. The first lecture will be at 4:15, 3017 Angell Hall. The title of this lecture will be "Estimation from the Geometrical Point of View." The sec- ond is scheduled for 8:15, Room 113, School of Business Administration, on the subject of "Errors of Measurement in Social Science Research." The ec- tures are open to the public and stu- dents of mathematics and of social sciences are urged to attend. Academic Notices History 50 Final Examination, June 8, 9 a.m.; A-H, Natural Science Auditor- ium; I-z; Waterman Gym. History 182 Final Examination, June 6, 9 a.m.; 215 Economics Bldg. Room Assignments for Final Exami- nation, English 1 and 2,, Wed., June 6, 2-5 p.m. Allison, 2225 AH; Amend, 1035 AH; Armstrong, 231 AH; Baker, 1035 AH; Barrows, 1020 AH; Bennett, 1035 A; Bollnger, 2003 AH; Boitwood, 231 AH Brown, 1025 AH; Burd, 110 Tap; Carr, 1018 AH; Chandler, 1025 AH; Cherniak, 1025 AH; Cobb, 1025 AH; K. Cox, 1025 A,; R. Cox,1025 AH; Coyle, 1025 AH; Culbert, 2225 AH; Dckey, 3017 A; Dxon, 231 AH; Donaldson, 2014 AH; E. Engel, 215 Econ; R. Engel, 2225 AH everett, 3011 AH; Feheim, 2013 AH; Felver, 4 AH; Fletcher, 225 AH; Foster, 3017 AH: Gilman, 2203 A; Gross, 1035 AH; Hampton, 3017 AH; Hendrick, 1007 AH; Hendricks, 16 AH; Hill, 209 AH; Huntley, 6 AH; Maloff, 2231 AH; Mark- man, 2003 AH; Marshall, 2219 AH; Mc- Caughey 231 AH; Miller, 1209 AH; Moon, 2203 AH; Muehl 35 A; Needham, 229 AH; Newman, 2235 AH; Oppewall, 2003 AH; Orel, 3231 AH; Pace, 225 AH; Paterson, 231 AH; Pearce, 35 AH; Pills- bury, 108 RL; Pnkus, 35 AH; Ross, 212 AH; Shedd, 1053 NS; Simpson, 35 AH; Slatoff, 2235.,AH; Speckhard, 2029 AH; Stockton, 2116 NS; Super, 3209 AH; Swander, 2215 AH; Vande Kieft, 2016 AH; Wait, 18 AH; Weaver, 3010 A; Wemer, 2225 AH; Whan, 2029 A; Woodruff, 2219 AH. Doctoral Examination for John Doug- las Eyre, Geography; thesis: "Salt from the Sea: A Geographical Analysis of the National and International Pat- terns of Japanese Salt Production and Trade," Wed., May 30, 11 Angell Hall, 10 a.m. Chairman, R. B. Hall. Doctoral Examination for Joseph Ford Bennett, Psychology; thesis: "A Method for Determining the Dimensionality of a Set of Rank-Orders," Tues., June 19, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 1 p.m. Chairman, C. H. Coombs. Doctoral Examination for R u t h Hirsch, Linguistics; thesis: "A Study of Some Aspects of a Judeo-Spanish Dia- lect as Spoken by a New York Sephardic Family," Sat., June 2, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 9 a.m. Chair- man, L. B. Kiddle. Concets Carillon Recital: Sidney Giles, As- sistant Fniversity Carillonneur, will play the Thursday evening recital in the current series of programs present- ed on the Charles Baird Carillon in Burton Tower. It will begin at 7:15 and include the following: Prelude No. 2 by Giles, three compositions by Boch- erini, Schubert and Mozart; Reverie by Giles, Alfred Bells (Suite for carillon) by Lefeere, and three religious selec- tions, Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desir- ing, Schubert's Ave Maria, and the Welsh Air, All Through the Night. Student Recital: George Exon, Pian- ist, will present a program at 8:30 Thursday evening, May 31, in the Rack- ham Assembly Hall, in partial fulfill- ment of the requirements for the de- gree of Master of Music. It will in- clude works by Bach, Mozart, Honneg- ger and Beethoven, and will be open to the public, Mr. Exon is a pupil of Joseph Brinkman. Student Recital: Emile Simonel, vio- list, will be-heard in a recital at 8:30 Tuesday evening, June 5, in the Rack- ham Assembly Hall. A pupil of Paul Doktor, Mr. Simonel will be assisted by SieglindeuSauskojos, pianist, and a string quartet. The recital will be open to the public. Exhibits Student Exhibition-College of Archi- tecture and Design. June 10-27 in the Museum of Art Galleries, Alumni Me- morial Hall. Monday through Satur- day, 9-5; Sunday, 2-5. The public is welcome. Events Today Graduate Outing Club: Outing and picnic at Kent Lake. Meet at club room, northwest corner of Rackham at 1:30 p.m. Bring swim togs and cars. Annual SRA Picnic, meet at Lane Hall, 2:30 p.m. Wesleyan Guild: Do-Drop-In for tea and chatter, 4 p.m. at the Guild; Cab- inet meeting for both old and new cabinets, 8:30 p.m., Green Room. All Guilders are invited. All Marching Band Members are re- quested to be present in full uniform and with instruments at the Stadium today at 9 a.m. to resume taking pic- tures for RKO. Some cars will be available for transportation from the Union about 8:45 a.m. Bridge Tournament: 7:30 p.m., Un- ion. Everyone welcome, Coming Evets University Museums Friday Evening Program, June 1:. Three films at Kel- logg Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., "Wooden Faces of Totomicapan," "Panama - Crossroads of the World," and "Colom- bia and Venezuela." Delta Sigma Pi: Business meeting, Thurs., May 31, 7:30 p.m., Chapter House, 1212 Hill Street. Sailing Club: Meeting, 311 W. En-. gineering Bldg., Thurs., May 31, 7:30 p.m. Roger Williams Guild: Open House, Fri., June 1. hillel: Work Scholarship applica- tions for next year are available now at the Hillel office in Lane Hall. International Center Weekly Tea for foreign students and American friends, 4:30-6 p.m., Thurs., May 31. Hostel Club: "Farewell" Get-together at Pinebrook. Bikers meet at League at 1:30, Sat., June 2. For car transportation, call John Amneus, 3-0917. Wolverine Club Trips: Early reservations for next year's Illi- nois and Cornell football trips can be made Thursday at the Administration building box-office, 1-4:30 p.m. X etter4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communica- tions from its readers on matters of general interest, and will pubilsl 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. Bias -Cause , To the Editor: PARADOXICALLY the president of the "greatest university the world has ever known" is closing his term of service with a deci- sion which puts property rights above human rights. Nearly as lamentable as the action is the tenuous reasoning involved. To those familiar with the reso- lution in question it is obvious that it in no way seeks to give any individual an "inherent right to membership in any particular or- ganization," as Dr. Ruthven would have one believe. Furthermore, there were provisions in the mo- House. (a name soon dropped by the house) in his first article. For although there is a socialist wing to cooperatives, there is also. an anarchist one, supported by such old-timers as Dr. Peter War- basse, who thinks that coops should remain a group within the general capitalistic framework. "Anarchy" here applies to the or- ganization within the coop, not to a general political theory. That is, the anarchist school believes that there should be' a minimum of compulsion and executive pow- er within the group. The socialist wing, as I understand it, believes in a higher integration of the group with somewhat less individ- ualism, but this does not mean that the individualists have to be Socialists. The Rochdale Principles, under which coops operate, are thor- oughly democratic, giving each member one vote only. All student cooperators are stockholders of the Intercooperative Council, which was incorporated in 1944 in order to reduce financial lia- bility when the ICC started to purchase houses instead of rent- ing them. Cooperatives flourish i demo- cratic countries, such as the Unit- ed States, Great Britain and Swe- den. In. totalitarian states there are coops in name only. I Nazi Germany cooperative societies re- mained, but guess how much the members had to say about the conduct of affairs. The Soviet Union set up many coops, especial- ly cooperative farms. But you don't think that they operate un- der the Rochdale Principles which demand neutrality in race, re- ligion and politics? So you see that although coops cannot prevent anybody from "in- filtrating," true coops as a group and Communism are incompatible. -John Neufeld * * * Toujours, L'amour. To the Editor: WHY ISN'T something done' about the open display of lovemaking that has become so disgustingly public? Must inno- cent passersby continually bear the shame of those who, haven't any left? Aside from their own moral corruption, they have ob- viously lost all regard for the de- cency and respect they owe the public if they haven't any left for themselves. They brazenly parade their unchaste actions for all to see, children and adults alike. The public certainly doesn't go out of their way to see it, they can't miss it! Are they weakly trying to ex- cuse themselves by condoning lust for love? Are they of such soft backbone, that they have now be- come slaves to' immoral conduct even in public? Because of a minority carrying on like pagans, the good suffer by being auto- matically classified along with their trend. Actually their personal moral conduct is up to themselves, but when it becomes so impersonal, something should be done abbut it. That's the least the public deserves and should demand. -Helen Houston k. t4 9 4 *1 r I THIS RAISES the obvious question whether there is any real chance at all r k AMA THE COCKTAIL PARTY, presented by the Ann Arbor Drama Season. THE Drama Festival, for the first time this season became exciting with the opening of "The Cocktail Party." This is a new T. S. Eliot -and a T. S. Eliot at his best in the buoyant expression of his most serious point of view. It is not that the point of view of this most recent of his works differs substan- tially from that of "Four Quartets" and "Murder in the Cathedral." But.simply that the play represents, in its paradoxical wit, a new and attractive aspect of the point of view. The quality of this production did not let the play down. The cast was almost uni- formly excellent and the performance of Henry Daniell in the role of Eliot's psychia- trist--priest stressed the paradoxical quali- ties of humanity and wisdom which is in fact the central import of the play. Pamela S)mpson, as Julia, who succeeded for most of the play in duping the audience into accepting her as a silly, meddling old wo- man, Edward Ashley and Madeleine Clive of the earth's 2,300,000,000 people. The lineup: Country Population Tibet ..............3,000,000 China.............450,000,000 North KoIea.......8,000,000 Vietminh (N. Indochina) - - - East Germany .+-' Poland ........... Hungary........,.. Romania-......... Bulgaria........... Albania ........... Czechoslovakia,... 18,000,000 23,000,000, 10,000,000 17,000,000 7,000,000 1,150,000 12,500,000 Yt Area (sq. mi.) 470,000 3,032,000 48,500 41,400 121,000 36,000 91,600 42,800 10,600 49,300 3,943,000 ugoslavia culating and signing petitions, the students, faculty, and townspeople who gave their support to the mea- sure have been part of a nation- wide movement to bring about the passage of the Congressional bill. The petitions which were signed on this campus were presented on the floor of the House by Repre- sentative George Meader of Ann Arbor. After personally receiving the petitions, influential House Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke from the floor strongly urging passage of the bill. According to Friday's New York Times, "The crumbling of opposi- tion to the bill, once so strong that outright rejection was feared, was attributed by some legislators to a concerted campaign by church groups, newspapers, and others for aid to India as an act of national charity and in the interest of maintaining friendship for this country in the Far East." The importance of this state- ment offers some insight into the realistic value of student and com- munity social action. It shows that the combined efforts of individuals can and do add up to a large enough voice to bring about results. When the need is obvious, it is the responsibility of students and educators as citizens to take direct and positive action. -Don-David Lusterman Chairman, Social Action. Dept. Student Religionls Association' Coops and Communism To the Editors: AM GLAD that Harland Britz in his interesting and com- mendable series on campus coops, got around to saying that "co-op houses are not hot-beds of Com- munism and other degrees of left- ism," although he states knowing- ly that this is a generally accepted view. As a former denizen of co- ops, I was worried about all the references to Michigan Socialist C AVAMI 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 Lipsky .........Editorial Director. 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Subscription during regular school year: by, carrier, $6.00; by mail, $7.00. - TOTALS..........549,650,000 x-estimates unavailable (Not included in this list is which, while still Communist, has broken away from Moscow domination. Yugoslav- ia's population is 15,750,000; its area about 100,000 square miles.) New Books at the Library Bolles, Blair, Tyrant from Illinois, Nor- ton & Co., New York, 1951. Huston, James A., Biography of a Batta- lion, Courier Press, Gering, Nebraska, 1951. McCollum, Vashti, One Woman's Fight, Doubleday, N.Y., 1951. Noble, Peter, Hollywood Scapegoat, For- tune Press, London, 1950. THE FASCIST revolt is obviously more perverse than the Communist one. There ,,, I A. -t BARNABY 1"l I I Lucky for your Fairy Godfather that 1 - ..- ~Y7I I1 71 -jr- ackmorle ; y V-- ~I . <, <: