rt THE MICHIGAN DAILY' .1 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY23, 1951 CQitorv 6 tite i ". I DORIS FLEESON: Back To The Good Old Days , By JIM BROWN T HE FORMAL organization of the new President's Conference yesterday after- noon should be hailed as a milestone in the improvement of student-University rela- tions. Earlier last fall we censured the Uni- versity officials for their apparent failure to recognize students as mature indi- viduals who can, if given a chance, con- tribute substantially to the formulation and administration of the University's policies and programs. We pointed out that the administration has been largely responsible for the creation of an atmos- phere of bitterness and cynicism here on campus-a bitterness on the part of stu- dents towards the apparent philosophy that students are children who must be pampered and coddled. This bitterness and cynicism arose not so much because the University's policies were poorly conceived or unjustified. It stemmed rather from a failure on the part of the Constructive Pledgingo-- THE DELTA TAU DELTAs are to be com- Wnended for defying tradition and turn- ing this spring's Hell Week into a Help Week. Instead of wasting their energies by for- cing the pledges into sadistically idiotic situations, the Delts directed the efforts of their new men into useful channels. In so doing, they have not only gained the gratitude of the group they aided (as can be seen by a letter in today's column) but they have also acquired the respect of a good many sensible people. Fraternities have been notorious for their senseless and sometimes brutalizing treat- ment of pledges during initiation week. Their inane shenanigans have never served any good purpose. Instead, they often lead pros- pective actives to give up in disgust, while they merely strengthen the feeling of those who believe fraternities have no business existing in the first place. More groups would do well to follow the lead of the Delts. By the time the new crop of rushees are ready to be initiated, we hope they will have decided to do so. --Donna Hendleman Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGET EDITOR: VERNON EMERSON I The Weekend 1 administration to take the students into their confidence-a failure to make any at- tempt to convince the student body that certain restrictions and regulations are ne- cessary and justified. The formulation of the President's Con- ference, however, is a real and concrete step towards the removal of at least part of this cynicism and bitterness. While it should not be expected that the Conference will result in any swaeeping changes in Uni- versity policies, it at least assures students a channel through which they can air their grievances and point out the student atti- tudes toward campus problems. And equally important, it affords the officials. them- selves an opportunity to explain their view- point. There have been other signs of a grow- ing willingness on the part of the Univer- sity to recognize students as citizens and not subjects. We pointed out earlier this year the need for University officials to explain publicly their positions on various regulatory or dis- ciplinary actions-to call together all inter- ested students and openly discuss any par- ticular problem or grievance which might have aroused the student body. While no specific problem-such as the Speakers Ban -has arisen, both Regent Roscoe O. Bonni- steel and former Vice-President Robert P. Briggs have addressed speech assemblies in the Rackham Building on University af- fairs. These meetings were open to ALL students. We can only hope that the Uni- versity officials will continue this practice, especially if a specific policy or disciplinary action arouses antagonism among large groups of students. Another indication of increased will- ingness on the part of the University to give a greater degree of responsibility to students and to incorporate them in the administration of campus affairs is seen in the placing of a student on the Board in Control ofResidence Halls in a non-voting capacity. It is seen again in the greater degree of authority which the joint-judi- ciary council has been handed in dealing with student disciplinary cases. These advances, along with the organi- zation of the President's Conference, have and will continue to contribute greatly to the alleviation of widespread cynicism and bitterness on campus. We can only hope that they are the beginning of a trend and not the end of the road. Manpower Preparedness Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. -Song of Solomon, 11, 15. WASHINGTON-The little foxes are de- spoiling the one preparedness vine in the confusion of Washington that was plant- ed only after the most intensive and expert attention had been given to the problem. Harry S. Truman was running the Tru- man committee when 16,000 18-year-old American soldiers, many of them inade- quately trained, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. In the whole broad field of manpower, one fact repeatedly placed be- fore him with utmost urgency was that, in comparison with the enemy, this coun- 'try is short of manpower, therefore must manage that resource more intelligently than any other. Months ago the President promised Con- gress to cooperate with them fully in sur- veying the problem and said he would get the best expert he could find in the country for it. Gen. George C. Marshall came up with the hard-headed labor consultant for the greatest U.S. industrialists, Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg. Senate Armed Services chair- man Richard Russell turned the hearings over to Sen. Lyndon Johnson's preparedness subcommittee. * * * * THE JOHNSON subcommittee sat for five solid weeks, hearing not only Mrs. Ros- enberg and a galaxy of brass but leaders in education, agriculture, civic life and re- lated fields. Hard on their heels, House armed services chairman Carl Vinson bent his experienced energies to the same task. The weight of evidence piled up about the cost in blood and money of past half-heart- ed stabs at a manpower program proved so formidable that the tough-minded Senate armed sevices committee of 13 members had, in conscience, to accept a hard pro- gram. They voted unanimously to approve a draft of 18-year-olds and 26 months ser- vice which for those 18 must include four months training. Chairman Vinson said it was all neces- sary and more too and gave his personal en- dorsement to the bill. * * * * WHAT IS NOW happening in Vinson's committee is that a small bloc, led by Rep. Paul Kilday of Texas, is attempting to substitute their personal social and eco- nomic predilections for the expert work on which so much toil has been expended. Representative Kilday is proposing to post- pone drafting 18-year-olds, he is asking for six months training, he protests removing the ceiling on women in the armed services precisely at the time when the basic decision should be made that women are an asset to their country. The provision to allow 75,000 students-who would first have four months basic training and then in the end serve 23 months-is under attack. A skillful job of recruiting prejudices is being done in the House committee until the whole structure of the bill is threatened. Mrs. Rosenberg recounts what it means: no safety margin for the planned army, so no deferments for married men, for men to dispose of their businesses, or for farm labor; increased call of reserves, a poorer quality army, in the end fewer technicians, etc., etc. The mayhem goes on in closed session naturally; it would be a real risk to the perpetrators if they pushed it in open de- bate on the floor of the House where the facts can be argued. (Copyright, 1951, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 1 - 19 (Continued from Page 2) C 1 IINIEMA DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I i 1 In Town EVENTS OF INTEREST ABOUT CAM- PUS: SPORTS ... SWIMMING MEET with Ohio State. Ohio State is unbeaten, and we're not far behind. And the schools, it may be said, are rivals anyway. It's 4 p.m. tomorrow at the IM Bldg. WRESTLING, also with OSU,. will take place at Yost Field House, 7:30 p.m. tomor- row. HOCKEY MATCH today and tomorrow at 8 with the University of North Dakota at the Coliseum. INDOOR TRACK with our neighbors to the South, Michigan State Normal, at Ypsi, 7:30 p.m. today at the Field House. GYMASTICS, again with Ohio State, at the IM Bldg. 8 p.m. tomorrow. DANCES ... THE LITTLE CLUB, an institution as close to a night club as the University will permit, will be held tonight from 8:30 to midnight. Dancing to Bob Leopold's com- bo. At the League, and sponsored by As- sociation of Independent Men. CADUCEUS BALL, a semi-formal affair given by the Galens for medical students and staff, but open to one and all, will in- elude a skit, "Dr. Mal Practice," which will be presented in the form of a radio program. Frank Tinker's orchestra. At the Union, to- day, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. UNION DANCE with Frank Tinker's or- wood-Award-Winning play about the ap- :ow to midnight. Friday Union dances will be suspended for the rest of the semester. DRAMA . .. HANLON WON'T GO, Tom Danelli's Hop- vood-Award-winning play about the ap- >arently indestructable Danny Hanlon is >eing produced at Lydia Mendelssohn by the Student Players. Tonight and tomorrow iight at 8. See review this page. Architecture Auditorium CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS with Fran- coise Rosay, Alirme and Louis Jouvet. IT IS A pleasant task to report that this Grand Prize winner of the 1936 Venice Film Festival still holds up wonderfully well today. The print is brand new with nary a splice to mar the continuity. The sound track seems fresh and inventive and the sub-titles have mercifully been kept down to a minimum. The plot is a familiar one combining ov- ertones of Lysistrata and, as someone point- ed out, certain elements of Restoration co- medy. The mise en scene is Flanders in 1616 resting uneasily under Spanish rule. The town of Boom is about to be occupied over-night by a ducal contingent. While the good burghers temporize over the crisis, the women, led by the strong-willed mayor's wife, organize their own unique defense. Their plan does prevent the expected pill- aging and riots, but also produces some amusing complications. Francoise Rosay has the time of her life switching about as the energetic, yet whol- ly feminine, wife of the town's leading citi- zen. Alerme cuts a richly comic figure as the bumbling and suspicious mayor, while Louis Jouvet in a much too small part as a Dominican friar ontributes some typically Gallic spoofing of the church. The large cast is almost uniformly excellent and the quality of the photography is such that much of the robust freshness of Brueghel the Elder seems to have been captured on film. --D. R. Crippen S* a At Lane Hall... (One showing only at 7:30 P.M.) "Greed" directed by Erich Von Stro- heim, starring Zazu Pitts, Gibson Gow- land and Jean Hersholt. Von Stroheim's silent version of Frank Norris' novel, "McTeague," famed landmark in film history, marks one of the earliest and most influential efforts at screen rea- lism. Its portrayal of the destruction of three personalities by greed proceeds with a heavy-geared naturalism sharply reminis- cent of Zola at his best . . . and at his worst. Sordid details are focused and re- focused upon with a sometimes ludicrous, more often devastating effect. Magnificent " performances by the three principals and the brutal intensity of separate scenes have intrinsic value. Students of the film will be interested in evaluating one of the primary sources of movie naturalism. -Jacquelyne Greenhut Mo f Rnnk "t th F p lh ra'IJ"r Xe tteA 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. Pledge Painting . . .T They painted until 3 a.m. and Mr. Russel Pryce and Mrs. Jan- To the Editor: ice Maxwell, who were the stal- THE PICTURE and story you warts of the Shop personnel, said carried on the Delta Tau Del- they turned to and helped them ta fraternity boys helping the put the stock back in place and Thrift Shop, as their civic project, even washed windows. during their rushing week, only The boys cleaned the paint told half the story. brushes and rollers (which had You have no idea the "upleft" been loaned for the occasion by these fourteen boys (pledges plus the local paint shop merchants) a few of the actives) gave the shop. and they scrubbed the floor. It was We now are painted a beautiful a tremendous task and the attitude blush pink and our wares show off of these fraternity pledges in do- to much greater advantage and ing the job was remarkable. If the have real appeal-we hope-for young men of our country are as our clientele. dependable and willing to serve a These boys did a masterful job' charitable group, as these Delta -and worked under certain hand- Tau Delta young men-our coun- iicaps. try need never be concerned about We had to push all our mer- the future. They were and are su- chanise to the center of the shop perb. and they had to work around it. We, of the Thrift Shop, are At midnight the husbands of a proud .to acknowledge with grati- few of the members arrived with tude the spirit of these young men cokes and sandwiches and during of Delta Tau Delta-we salute the intermission the boys were in- them! doctrinated in the history of the Mrs. Russel T. Dobson, Jr., Thrift Shop. President, Thrift Shops N THE Washington Merr'y-Go-Rouid mith DREW PEARSON EX-SENATOR WHEELER EX-SENATOR BURT WHEELER of Montana, long one of the most powerful figures in Washington and the northwest, has been itch- ing to get back into politics. Already he has been maneuvering for a possible Senate comeback, and that was the backstage reason for a recent blow-up inside the office of price administration. Senator Wheeler, a thorn in the side of Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and later Franklin Roosevelt, cleaned out the Harry Dougherty mess in the Justice Department and put across some of FDR's most im- portant new Deal legislation But after a quarrel with the adminis- tration, he was defeated for re-election in 1946. But the other day, When Adm. John Hoover resigned in a huff as chief price enforcement officer, it was a tip-off to those in the know that the powerful hand of Burt Wheeler was operating again. For Wheeler, in order to attract GOP support had arranged for the appointment of two Montana Republicans, ex-Governor Sam Ford and Ernest Immel, to important jobs 'in price stabilization. Wheeler had cleared these with his old friend, Harry Truman. But as an afterthought a White House aide called Senator Murray of Montana, bitter foe of Wheeler's to get his OK on the appointments. "You had better read the Congressional Directory again!" ex- ploded Charles Murray, son of the Democratic Senator. "The Senator from Montana is named Murray, not Wheeler." As a result, the White House killed the two Wheeler appointments. Simultaneously, another Wheeler appointee inside the price stabiliz- er's office got sore and resigned-Admiral Hoover. When Hoover re- signed, however, he did not mention that he was the brother of Har- old Hoover of the Anaconda Copper Company, biggest backer of ex- Senator Wheeler. - WASHINGTON PIPELINE - ENATOR BILL LANGER of North Dakota tried to delay the sale of the old German Embassy, claiming the sale should wait for the appointment of a new German Ambassador. The Embassy, seized by the U.S. Government during the war, is a decrepit building in down- town Washington, long by-passed by the shifting of embassies toward swank.northwest Washington. Langer's delaying tactics failed and in the end the Embassy was purchased by Morris Cafritz, Washington's most enterprising realtor . . . The French Chancery is having a Mo- hammedan Mosque built almost in its front yard. The Arab League, having raised a small fortune to finance an ornate mosque with min- ists and chemical engineers at the Bureau on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 27 and 28. These positions are for production, research, and training program. Men with either a bachelor's or master's degree are eligible. A rep- resentative from the International Bus- iness Machines will be interviewing at the Bureau on Tues., Feb. 27. They are looking for mechanical and elec- trical engineers for production, re- search and development and customer engineering. Positions will be Pough- keepsie and Endicott, New York. Cus- tomer engineers will be placed all over the country. A representative from the Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut will be interview- ing mentfortpositions as group service representatives at the Bureau on Wed., Feb. 28. For further informa- tion and appointments call at the Bureau of Appointments, Room 3528, Administration Bldg. Personnel Requests: The Bureau of Appointments has had the following personnel requests: The Trane Company, La Crosse, Wis- consin, needs mechanical, electrical, civil, industrial, and chemical en- gineers for their sales training pro- gram. Candidates must be interested in air conditioning. The National Re- search Corporation, Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, is looking for physical and organic chemists and chemical en- gineers for research work. The Foster Wheeler Corporation, New YorksCity, needs June graduates in the following fields: mechanical, civil, electrical, chemical, and sales engineering. The Master Electric Company, Dayton, Ohio, is looking for mechanical and electrical engineers. The Chemical Division of the United States Rubber Company, Painesville, Ohio, needs graduate en- gineers and chemists. The Department of the Army, Office of the Surgeon General needs young women who are majoring in the biological sciences or physical education for positions as phy- sical therapists. The Ordnance Corps Headquarters, A be r de e n dProving Ground, has an immediate need for aeronautical, chemical, civil, structural, electrical, electronics, mechanical, met- allurgical, ordnance, and general en- gineers, physicists, physical chemists, engineering draftsmen, and instructors or training administrators. Teaching and General Division Candi- dates: All registrants in the Teaching and General Division of the Bureau of Ap- pointments should come to the office to fill out their spring schedule hours. Academic Notices Anthropology 152, The Mind of Pri- mitive Man, will not meet today. Language Examination for the A. M. in History will be given Fri., Mar. 2, 4 p.m., Room 2029, Angell Hall. Those planning to take this examination must sign list in History Office, Room 2817, S. Quad. Game Theory Seminar: Mon., Feb. 36, 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Mr. Henry Dihm. Stochastic Processes Seminar: Mon., Feb. 26, 4 p.m. Speaker: Mr. Frank L Spitzer. Topological Groups Seminar: Fri., Feb. 23, 4 p.m., Room 3011, Angell Hall. Michigan Circulating Seminar in Mathematical Statistics: Secondmeet- ing for the year, Room 3201. Angell Hall, 2 p.m., Sat., Feb. 24. Speakers: Prof. H. L. Harter, Michigan State College, and Prof. Donald Darling, University of Michigan. Concerts Organ Recital: Marilyn Mason Brown, Instructor in Organ in the School of Music, will be heard at 4:1 Sunday aft- ernoon, Feb. 25, Hill Auditorium, in a program of compositions by Handel, Kerll, Ducasse, Durufle, and Robert Crandell. Open to the public without charge. Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Hal. Portraits-Museum of Art Collec- tion; Art Privately Owned in Ann Ar- bor; Kyoto (LIFE photographs) through Mar. 7. Weekdays 9-5, Sundays 2-5. The public is invited. Events Today Westminster Guild: Open House, 8:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church. Sat., Feb. 24, trip to Dodge Community House In Detroit; leave Church at 7:45 a.m. Make reservations at church of- fice by Friday noon. Roger williams Guild: Open House at the Guild, 8:30-12 midnight. Congregational - Disciples-Evangelical & Reformed Guild: Open house at the Guild House, 7:30 p.m. Wesleyan Guild: Banquet and Op- eretta, "The Last Recital" and "Ital- ians in Deliria," 6:30 p.m., First Metho- d ist Church. Public invited. Canterbury club: 4-6 p.m., Tea and Open House. Lane Hall Coffee Hour: 4:30 p.m. Hillel: Friday evening services, 7:45 p.m., Lane Hall, Upper Room; Satur- day morning services, 9:30a.m. IZFA: Executive meeting, 4:15 p.m., Un idn. Hillel: Organizational meeting of the Play Reading Group, 5 p.m., Upper Room, Lane Hall. Hillel: Graduate mixer at the S.D.T. House, 1405 Hill, 9 p.M. All graduates welcome. Triton Film Society (S.R.A.) Erich von Stroheim's "Greed" will be shown at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Lane Hall. Mem- berships available from 1 to 2 and from Country;" and with the most modern fuel possible, Atomic Fuels, illustrated by a movie on "Atomic Energy." Films shown at Kellogg Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Acolytes: Meeting, 7:45 p.m., East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Saul Wineman will speak on "Historical Relativism." Graduate Outing Club: Sports Nite, IM Bldg. Meet i lobby, 7:15 p.m. Bring gym clothes and shoes, bathing suit, ID card. Hostel Club: Sports and swimming at I-M Bldg., Fri., Feb. 23. Potluck Supper and Square Dance at Presby- terian Church, 6 and 8:15 p.m., Sat., Feb. 24. Call Jae Finkbeiner, 7804. Deutscher Verein: . Kaffeestunde, 3:15-4:30 p.m., Union cafeteria, and every Friday thereafter. Coming Events Law School Admission Test: Candi- dates taking the Law School Admission Test, Sat., Feb. 24, are requested to re- port to the Architecture Auditorium, 8:45 a.m. for the morning session. Aft- ernoon session, 1:45 p.m. Cadidates must be present at both sessions. Canterbury Club: Sat., Feb, 24: Roll- er Skating. Meet at Canterbury House first for supper, 6:30 p.m., or join group there at 7:30 p.m. Phi Beta Kappa: Annual meeting, Thurs., Mar. 29, 4:15 p.m., Room 1035, Angell Hall. The Eecutive Board pro- poses an amendment to the By-Laws to be voted on at this meeting to abolish the election of graduate students after the spring of 1951. Section 3 - II con- cerning the Members in Course should be amended as follows: Delete last phrase of first paragraph "and from the students registered in the Gradu- ate School as candidates for an ad- vanced degree". Also delete paragraph 3 "It is further provided that graduates must be chosen from those who as un- dergraduates have not been eligible for election to membership in this or any other Chapter". The By-Laws may be amended by a three-fourths vote of the active mem- bers present at any annual meeting provided one month's notice has been given to all the active members." Graduate Outing Club: Sun., Feb. 25: Out of town trip.uMeet in Outing Club room, northwest corner of Rack- ham, 2:15 p.m. Bring cars. Open to all grads. Film: The Antioch College moving picture Campus Frontiers will be shown Sat., Mar. 3, 10 a.m., Room 4009, UHS. visitors welcome. Forum on College and University Teaching: Library Lecture Hall, 3-5 p.m., Fri., Mar. 2. Suject: Good Teachers-Why Are They ood? Panel: Frank X.'Braun, Assistant Professor of German; Alfred M. Elliott, Assistant Professor of Zoology; Phillip S. Jones, Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Wilbert J. McKeachie, Assistant Profes- sor of Psychology; William B. Palmer, Assistant Professor of Economics; Algo D. Henderson, Professor of Higher Edu- cation. Beacon Association: Meeting, Sat., .Feb. 24, 2 p.m. Osman Badran from Egypt will talk about his country. Russian Circle: Mon., Feb. 26, 8 p.m., International ceter. A movie "Peo- ples of the U.S.S.R." will follow election of officers. LeCercle Francais: Meeting, Mon., Feb. 26, 8 p.m., Grand Rapids Rooi, League. Election of officers. Prof. Marc Denkinger will give a lecture with slides on "Les Adventures de M. Vieux- Bois" by Toepffer. 4 .r A N .N.. DRAMA U. At Lydia Mendelssohn... "Hanlon Won't Go" - by Tom Danelli. SIXTEEN SHOTS, three glasses of beer, three fifths of whiskey, and a carton of Sterno-soaked oysters, consumed on stage, failed to lubricate the Student Players pro- duction of "Hanlon Won't Go" to much above mediocrity. This former Hopwood Award winner, like Hanlon, asks for a handout-but from the audience. It seeks the indulgence of all who attend and asks them to remember constantly that this is a student written play. For without this reminder the play would be silently replaced in its niche among the dusty volumes in the Hopwood Room. Though the work is called a tragi- comedy, it is neither tragedy nor comedy. The play fails by jumping into the natural pitfalls of a young author. The writing, a curious combination of Saroyan and Ar- thur Miller, is uneconomical and strained. The gag lines are as stale as the true- detective. story plot. The characters are dull pinpoints. Whether Hanlon dies from his friends' efforts or recovers from his alcoholism, which is the pivot of the play, is of no concern to anyone. As the play progressed the hope was always present that it would turn into anything but the obvious. The denouement gave us the feeling that we were witnessing a private joke carried on by the cast. It was as if they were simply disgusted with the entire turgid mess, and had decided to brhlesaer the ending. Sixty-First Year Edited and managed by students Ot the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control Of Student Publications. 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All rights of republication of all other matters herein are also reserved: Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second-class mail matter. Subscription during regular school year: by carrier, $6.00; by mail, $7.00. A, A Al A aret, chose as its site a location immediately in front of the French 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Lane Hall,. Chancery and not far from the Brazilian, British and Venezuelan University Museums: Friday Evening Embassies. Program will deal with Fossil Fuels, il- (Copyright, 1951, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) lustrated by a movie on "The Coal MOVIES ... CALL ME MISTER, based apparently all- too-loosely on the 1946 stage hit, may be seen at the Michigan, today, tomorrow and Sun- BARNABY Wait Mr. O Malley-- That's .L- .L, right, Mr. Shultz. Jane and I brought L_ , .- - . t L I- A Oh, that old money. But the bag the crooks .1 I I III