JI t c1 t xx :4Iu it~p { .i" t ' Y n. .... ...w. EDITOR'S NOTE See Page 4 Latest Deadline in the State SHOWERS , VOL. LXI, No. 170 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1951 EIGHT PAGES r s U Faculty Split on Deferment Issue. Educator's Views on Various Draft Programs Revealed in Daily Poll E i By VERNON EMERSON Faculty members seem about equally divied on whether or not "they'also serve who sit and study." Of 187 faculty members representing arious departments in every school and college in the University, 66 favor a plan of Universal Military Service for all youths, 73 favor deferring qualified students, and 38 favor a middle plan which would send everyone to the armed services for basic training, but then allow those qualified to attend college. Nearly half of the educators who preferred the plan of draft director Lewis B. Hershey, which is at present in effect, noted that results of the nation-wide college aptitude tests should be used by draft boards in an advisory capacity only. The results were obtained by an unscientific survey in which The Daily attempted to contact every member of the faculty to determiee his feelings about student draft and its effect on the University in the coming year. Three basic choices in draft programs were presented: 1. A Universal Military Service plan such as the one suggested by Harvard's president, James Conant. Under this program any youth reaching his 18th birthday would enter a two year per.iod of service in the armed forces or if physically unfit, would serve a similar period in defense work. 2. A plan proposed by Everett Case of Colgate which would re- quire a brief basic military training for every man when he reaches military age, but which would institute a national test to determine whether an applicant is fit to attend college when this period of training is over. Presumably those not qualified would continue their service in the armed forces for a set period. 3. The plan recommended by Gen. Hershey's Advisory Committee and endorsed by 87 per cent of the nation's college presidents which temporarily exempts students from the draft who have a certain grade standing or receive a passing grade on a nation-wide aptitude test. * * * * MANY OF THOSE who returned The Daily questionnaires felt that they could not make a definite "yes" or "no" answer to either of the three programs. Others okayed more than one proposal. The main criticism of the all-out deferment program was that it is simply undemocratic to let students finish school before serving. Prof. Aarre K. Lahti, of the architecture college, pointed out that the plan does not take basic intelligence and natural ability into proper consideration, and minimizes past education and educational oppor- tunities. He claimed that there are many loopholes in aptitude tests which do not measure the student's seriousness, drive and determina- tion. * * * OTHERS FELT grades alone are a poor measure of college ability. And Prof. Marshall Knappen, of the political science department, said that he does not believe the country is ready to accept the principle of granting deferment from danger because of academic qualifications. William Kerr, of the engineering college, admitted that the program is not fair In the sense that some men have to do the "dirty work." But he pointed out that the whole draft system is unfair in that it calls only upon young men. "A system of this type is used not to equalize sacrifice, but to most efficiently fight a war. Using this criteria, if college trained men are needed to fight the war, the quickest and most efficient way to get college trained men is to defer those now in school." FEW OF THOSE answering the questionnaire who favored defer- ment of students would limit the policy to only technical fields. Prof. Oliver Edel, of the music school, nothed that "It seems fairly obvious that for some time the world had its full share of those who excel in the practice of war, and a lamentably insuffi- cient few who excel In the arts of peace and in the knowledge and ability to preserve it." Another commented that the armed forces needs men who have been exposed to stimuli which encourage thinking along general, non- technical lines. These men are needed in our political, economic and social relations, he remarked. NUMEROUS OTHER considerations for making deferments were suggested, such as honesty, loyalty, dependency status, hardship, evi- dence of serious effort and capability toward potential usefulness. Most were skeptical, however, of deferring students on the basis of leadership in campus activities. One historian, however, said that such leadership is of great im- portance to the armed services. * * * * ALTHOUGH almost half of those favoring the deferment recom- mendations advocated that the test and grade results be used by local draft boards in their consideration of granting final deferment, Prof. Fred Smith of the zoology department, said that draft boards are too heterogeneous to do this. "If used, the test results should be applied on an absolute basis." An economist suggested that students now in school should be allowed to complete their programs to serve as a bridge for the gap that would result if the UMS plan is put into effect. As for the Conant UMS idea itself, the greatest number of objec- tions were raised against the length of the program. Many said they would have okayed the plan if it were cut down to a year. Roland Selmonson, of the business administration school, feared that the plan would impair the incentive of young men to attend col- lege after service. And Prof. E. F. Baker, of the physics department, felt UMS Would impose a great strain on our economy and be wasteful of manpower. "The best age for learning is the period from about 16 to 22," Norman Kurland, of the history department, said. "For those young men needed in college to waste even two of these years in the army would seriously affect the nation's human resources." Irby C. Nichols, Jr., also of the history department, felt, however, that such a plan is the only practical one if the United States is to discharge its global commitments. SEVERAL EDUCATORS suggested that an in-service training program be established. Under such a program, qualified service men would be sent to college to study at government exnense. Reds Invited To New Big FourParley End To Present DeadlockSought PARIS--(P)-The Western Big Three invited Russia yesterday to a Foreign Ministers' Conference in Washington July 23 to discuss ten- sions which are threatening world peace. The invitation was a challenge to the Soviets to end the 13 weeks of quibbling in which the Big Four Deputy Foreign Ministers have been deadlocked here on what subjects their chiefs should discuss at such a meeting-a con- ference originally suggested by Russia. * * * IN IDENTICAL notes to the Kremlin, Britain, France and the United States asked Russia to choose one of three suggested agenda for the Foreign Ministers' meeting. Agreement. has been reached on most of the items to be dis- cussed, but Russia insists none of the agenda is acceptable un- less the North Atlantic Pact and American bases in Europe are included. U. S. Deputy Phillip Jessup, who was chairman of yesterday's meet- ing, read the text of the 600-word American note to Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko at the opening of Reds Bad Beat Weather 'Aids Resistance * * * * * I War Plans Revealed by Sherman Back Allied I Mac Told Forces, Of..*~~ . . ~ 't:HY. 'K ':"j :-' .. ...v i r$ ' S,4i'};if.-: ,J ' ;"'r '-:::{::6:: ::.. .:i\::> -':-yI: }"::.:T:.. ..t ;;;':;:.:} :r." :: .V. In December 1 l' To Prepare the 64th meeting of Foreign Ministers. the Deputy Request for A rbiter in Iran Vetoed TEHRAN. Iran--(.A')-A Foreign Office spokesman said last night the International Court at the Hague had rejected the British request for appointment of an ar- bitrator in the dispute between Iran and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, The statement by the spokes- man was not clear, but he ap- peared to mean that the court held it could not name an arbitrator until after it had considered both the British complaint and the re- ply of the Iranian government. British observers here said yes- terday the government's apparent determination to take over the Anglo-Iranian installations im- mediately left little hope for any settlement by negotiation. Premier Mohammed Mossadegh has stated repeatedly that his chief aim is to kick the British out of Iran's oil industry and stop their "interfering" in Iran's poli- tics. Rent Control Decision Due The future of rent controls in Ann Arbor will probably be de- cided at the Ann Arbor City Coun- cil meeting June 18. The question of whether rent controls in the city should be con- tinued or not is now being'studied by the Rent Control Committee of the council. If the council should vote to decontrol rents in Ann Arbor, the Federal Rent Control Board would be forced to honor the decision of the local governing group. Commencement Orders Available Commencement announcement and personal card orders may be picked up between 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Wed- nesday at the Administration Bldg. for all schools except the law school, the medical school, the dentistry school and the Graduate School. All students must have their re- ceipts, as no announcements will be mailed. A limited supply of extra announcements and booklets has been ordered, and these will Korean Situation Prompted Order WASHINGTON --(R)- Admiral Forrest Sherman disclosed yes- terday the Joint Chiefs of Staff were so gravely concerned over the Korean war situation early last December that they ordered Gen. Douglas MacArthur to get his forces ready for a possible world war. This order went out, he said, after the joint chiefs were told that MacArthur felt the United Nations should accept an armis- tice "on the best terms available" and the army would have to quit Korea unless the war could be carried against Red China. * * * THE CHIEF of Naval Opera- tions gave this testimony to the Senate Armed Services and For- eign Relations Committees in their inquiry into the MacArthur dis- missal. It was the first revelation by any of the top-ranking military chiefs that the winter retreat of the Allied forces had held the peril of World War III. or that MacArthur had sug- gested an armistice.r This period of deep gloom came ten days after the start of the' Red Chinese' first big offensive. Senators ended their question- ing of Sherman shortly after noon and cleared the way for Secre- tary of State Acheson to start his testimony today. Veteran Group To organize HousingUnit The American Veterans Com- mittee of Ann Arbor announced yesterday that it is organizing a non-segregated housing develop- ment. The development is needed be- cause of "the city's inadequate housing facilities and the immin- ent removal of rent controls," AVC member Marvin Tableman said. THE AVC plans to interest as many people as possible in their project, and then collectively choose a site and the type of housing. The development will be set up under the Federal Housing Act, which provides for small down payments and an extend- ed time for full payment. Also the unit will be able to economize by buying building materials in large quantities, Tableman predicted. "Faculty, stu- dents and veterans will find the unit fitted to their finances," he said. The co-op unit is open to any- one interested. Information can. be obtained by calling Douglas Miller at 2-8366, or writing him at 211 S. State. Hut To Continue As Lunchroom The Quonset hut lunchroom on E. University got a new lease on life yesterday as Francis C. Shiel, manager of Service Enterprises, announced that the lunchroom would continue in operation. Earlier plans to convert the hut WILLIAM WIEGAND Need Stress On Subjfect, PoetSays "Poetry to be good has to have good subject matter," Mark Van Doren, famed poet and author, said yesterday, speaking at the Hopwood Awards assembly in Rackham Lecture Hall. "Today we do not hear enough about the subject matter of poet- ry, he emphasized. "Poets are damned or praised for their way with language, as if language were the aim and end of all their art." * * * ?HmEmrSAID the job of the con- temporary poet is what the job of poets has always been-to think and feel as deeply as he can. He explained that the central subject matter for any age is life and truth, justice and mercy. "Much of today's literature spends too much time proving by documentation that the 20th cen- tury is not what some people thought it was going to be." he said. Van Doren asserted that the great poet knows the world and how to live in it. "Others make the mistake of believing that the world is heaven-or worse yet, that it should have been." Because Cervantes understood people, he may be considered a great poet, though he wrote in prose, he said.j "In fact," he concluded, "prose" fiction today is the most interest- ing poetry we have. Our movies, westerns, and detective tales, how- ever good or bad, add to the poetry of this age." Guild Co-Sponsors Needed Next Fall Petitions for groups wishing to co-sponsor Student Legislature Cinema Guild film showings next fall will be re-opened in October, according to Bob Baker, chairman of the SL committee. The first five weekends of the semester have already been given to the Displaced Persons Commit- tee, Inter-Arts Union, Wyvern and Mortarboard, the Women's Glee Club, AIM and WSSF, leaving more than a dozen free weekends from November to January. Wolverine Trips Today is the last day this semes- ter to make reservations with the Wolverine Club for next year's Illinois and Cornell games. Reservations will be accepted from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Ad- ministration Bldg. KATHLEEN MUSSER SAUL GOTTLIEB <. .- Hopwood Honors Go to 14 Students #Kathleen Musser, Grad., copped top honors in the 21st annual Hop- wood creative writing contest yes- terday by winning two awards in the major division, Miss Musser, of Kalamazoo, re- ceived $1,300, $800 for her novel, "Undertow" and $500 for her poe- try, "Diary." * THIRTEEN OTHER University students divided $5,800 more in Cox 's Father Blocks Lie TestAttempt An attempt to submit the "dry ice" story of George Cox, '54, to a liedetector test was blocked yesterday by the youth's father. Cox's father, Robert 0. Cox, refused to allow the test, saying that his son's condition would not permit it at this time, according to Assistant Prosecutor Edmond DeVine. THE PROSECUTOR'S office re- quested the test after a report from state police laboratories in- dicated that there was no dirt on the trousers or socks that Cox had worn on the night of the incident. Earlier, Cox told detectives tha he had crawled and walked several blocks in his socking feet after he was beaten and burned. DeVine said that he offered to get statements from University Hospital authorities saying that Cox was physically able to take the test but Cox's father still with- held permission. IFC To Collect Books Next Week Three IFC Book Exchange sta- tions will be open from 10 to 12 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. next Thursday and Friday for the use of those students who intend to sell used text books through the Exchange next fall. The stations. will be set up at the Main Library, Angell Hall and the Business Administration Bldg. Students will be given receipts up- on acceptance of their books. prize money. Eight awards were given in the major division for senior and graduate students and eight in the minor division for un- dergraduates. Prof. Roy W. Cow- den, director of the Hopwood wards, announced the names of the winners at an assembly in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Another Hopwood double win- ner was Saul Gottlieb, '52, of Willow Run. He won two $250 awards in the minor division. One was for fiction, "Three Stories," and the other for poe- try "To Be a Conscript of 1950.' Gottlieb won freshman awards in all three catagories-fiction, essay and poetry-in 1950, and also received a minor award in drama. The largest individual award of the contest went to William G. Wiegand, Grad., of Detroit, who won $900 for his novel "Spider Love." Wiegand won a freshman award in poetry in 1948, minor awards in drama and essay in 1948, and a summer award in essay in 1949. Last year he was the winner of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Novel Contest. * * 4 AN ADDITIONAL $700 award in the major fiction contest was given to Mrs. Elinor Chamberlain Kuhns, Grad., for her novel, "The Bamboo Plow." In the major drama centest, two awards of $600 each were presented. The winners were Richard McCaughey, Grad., of Keeseville, N. Y. for "Strangers in the Street"; and Kenneth Goldstein, Grad., of New York City for "Live on Air." * * * MICHAEL THORNTON, Grad., of Le Center, Minn., won $700 in the major essay division for "Mis- sissippi Interval." In the major poetry contest, $800 was presented to Francis O'Hara, G r a d., of Grafton, Mass., for "A Byzantine Place." In addition to Gottlieb's award in the minor poetry division, Rose- mary Morris, '52, of Grand Rapids received $150 for "Poems," and Stephen Sheffrey, '53, of Ann Ar- bor, also won $150 for "Poems." In the minor fiction field, a $200 prize went to Matthew Mc- Gregor, '51, of Detroit, for "A Long Hour's Dying," and $150 was won by Allison Shumsky, '52, for "The Infantines." A minor drama award of $100, was presented to Joan Striefling, of Detroit for "Four Aces." Henry Miller, '52, of Detroit, won $250 in th minor essay divi- sion for "A Thousand Citadels." Four Actors, Quit UN Retreats Along North Korean Line Enemy Opens Up Artillery Barrage TOKYO-(P)--Fiercely fighting Communists, aided by some of the. worst weather of the Korean war, today beat back United Nations forces aimed at the sensitive Red assembly centers in North Korea. Stiffened Red resistance w felt all along the line. At some points the Communists counter- attacked and forced UN troops in- to limited withdrawals. * ARTILLERY FIRE defending the major Red bases at Chorwon and Kumwha, 17 and 20 miles north of parallel138, was described in field dispatches as one of the heaviest barrages of the war. An Eighth Army staff officer said a tank-infantry I o r cec slogged through knee-deep mud to reach Yanggu on the eastern end of the Hwachon reservoir. But the force pulled back to its own lines after coming under heavy enemy fire in the town. Allied forces took Hwachon town Sunday and won control aver the dam Wednesday. Detailed reports from the raging central front fighting were hamp- ered by poor communications with frontline correspondents. Censors were reported hacking heavily on all dispatches. Every effort of the Allies to push up the mountainous center of the peninsula have been stopped ex- cept for isolated gains of up to three miles. Field dispatches said the artil- lery barrage was hurled against Allied units driving on the major enemy bases of Chorwon and Kumhwa, 17 and 20 air miles re- spectively north of the 38th paral- lel. By last reports the Allies were about 10 miles south of Chorwon and 12 south of Kumhwa. Senate Delays Vote on Draft Compromise WASHINGTON -- ()-- A last- minute objection yesterday caused an overnight delay in Senate ac tion on the draft-universal mili- tary training compromise. Senator Russell (D-Ga.), chair- man of the Armed Services Com- mittee, had planned to push the bill through to approval late yes- terday. However, Senator Case (R-S.D.) objected to voting im- mediately on a measure of "such far-reaching scope" and Russell agreed to wait until today. Committees representing the House and Senate agreed Monday on terms of the long-debated leg- islation. It would extend the draft law four years, lower the mini- mum draft age to 182 years and lay the foundation of a future universal military training sys- tem. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) support- ed Case in his objection, saying that there was no hurry since the House couldn't act on the bill un- til June 6 or 7. Draft Report Forms Here University men who wish to have a report of their class stand- ing for the current academic year sent to their draft board can ob- tain the proner forms and neces- I World News By The Associated Press