THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1951 A Note to President Hatcher SL's PROTEST against the recent cut in library hours brings into sharp focus the uncomfortable relationship between the ad- ministration and the students. Whether effective or not, the walkout from SAC was a spirited protest against the slicing of the library budget, and even more important, against the administra- tion's brush-off policy towards SL and towards the student body as a whole. Some recent events stand out as examples of the administration's negative attitude to- wards the students. Because these events form a pattern, and because this is the beginning of a new school year with a new president, it is time to re- examine past events and their implications regarding the whole complexion of adminis- trative policy. In the current dispute over the sale of dime programs, the arrogance of the Ath- letic Department became obvious when it actually called in the police to arrest mem- bers of the student body. The administra- tion has not even graced the students with a satisfactory explanation. Even more arbitrary than this administra- tive act, was retired President Ruthven's veto last spring of the SAC approved anti-bias clause. Here a university president denied the students the right to take a progressive step on the intriguing grounds that property Editorials Published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and refresent the views of the writers only. BARNES CONNABLE: Night Editor rights are more important than human rights. Earlier in the spring, when Lane Hall was put under the wing of the administration, it was clearly a protest against the freedom of Lane Hall which opened its doors to such groups as the Willie McGee committee and various peace conferences. A precedent for this sort of restriction was set two years ago when a faculty lec- ture committee banned the Phillips- Slosson debate, revealing that it thought the students too immature to hear the Communist, Professor Phillips, speak on campus. That same year was the scene of a three day all-campus debate on the racial issue held on the diag. This, however, was viewed as dangerous by the administration and eventually has been outlawed. Some of these issues are, of course, more important than others. Three, the Lane Hall ruling, Phillips debate, and the Diag ruling, involve student intellectual development. One, the bias clause veto, involves human rights, and the dime program ban hits the students' pocketbooks. The unifying implication of all, however, is the indication of a general administra- tive disregard for student welfare, and stu- dent opinion. This is an appeal to our new president, Harlan Hatcher, to whom, in effect, these protests are directed. It is your duty now, President Hatcher, as chief administrator of the University, to en- courage a second try for the bias clause, to intervene in the dime program ban, and, in general, to promote in every way a policy which reflects an administrative recognition of the value of a democratic education. -Alice Bogdonoff Concert Series THE CHORAL UNION SOCIETY has done it again. Opening its concert series with Victoria de Los Angeles, who gave an unin- spired if ambitious performance albeit "aid- ed" by one of the worst professional accom- panists in the country, it continued with the presentation of Gladys Swarthout, who gasped through a program which exempli- fied, at best, mediocrity. Monday night, Joseph Szigeti was fea- tured, who, though shedding an occasion- al tear of greatness (immediately drowned in an ocean of sub-par performing) lack- ed the depth and warmth of feeling, the brilliancy of technique, the clarity of tone which characterize a true virtuoso. In short, a triumvirate of lemons. In a cultural center with the prestige of Ann Arbor, the audience has sound justi- fication for refusing to accept performers of this caliber. An occasional slip-up in schedul- ing is only human, but a trio of such slip-ups shows a definite failure, which in this case, appears to be two-fold an nature. A heavy share of the blame rests on the shoulders of the artists themselves. Too many of the "sacred cows" of the musical world seem to regard a University perform- ance as an opportunity to pick up some easy spending money en route from Chicago to Detroit. Admittedly, every performer is not a Munsel or a Heifetz. No open-minded con- certgoer expects him to be. Secondly, the finger of guilt points at the Choral Union Society. Again, they cannot possibly fill a complete series with perform- ances by such groups as the Robert Shaw Chorale or the Boston Symphony. However, there must be young, fresh talent to be ob- tained which, though not yet achieving no- toriety, at least provides vitality and prom- ise, such as soprano Barbara Gibson, Jerome Hines, or Cesari Seipi. If such performers cannot be found, and the audience is to hear a season with a few outstanding performers and the remainder "fillers" of the type presented to date, the Choral Union Series might well be dis- continued and a few isolated top quality concerts given. The vacancy created then in Hill Audi- torium might well be filled with a number of all-campus talent shows, which would pos- sibly unearth artists on a par with, if not superior to, those appearing bn the Choral Union Series so far this season. -Diane Decker I. II "Can It Be That Such A Lovely Girl Is Lonely?" tW aa _ -. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN r, (Continued from Page 2) Academic Notices Botany Seminar: "Botanizing in the Iron Mountains and Coastal Deserts of Cuba," by Grady L. Webster and Roy N. Jervis., Wed., Oct. 17, 4:30 p.m., 1139 NS. Engineering Mechanics Seminar: Wed., Oct. 17. 101 W. Engineering Build- ing, 3:45 p.m. Prof. J. Orrnondroyd will speak on "J. Willard Gibbs and His Scientific Work." Physical Chemistry Seminar. Wed., Oct. 17, 2308 Chemistry Bldg., 4:10 p.m, Speaker: Prof. E. F. Westrum, Jr. "The Heat Capacity of Chain and Layer Crystalline Structures." Concert Carillon Recital: Percival Price, Uni- versity Carillonneur, will be heard at 7:15 Thursday evening, October 18, in a recital on the Charles Baird Carillon in Burton Tower. The program will include a group of Irish melodies, and compositions by Wm. Bender, and Rob- ert Schumann. Universty symphony Orchestra, Wayne Dunlap, Conductor, will be heard in its first concert of the school year when it plays the final program in the Com- posers' Festival at 8:30 Wednesday eve- ning, October 17, in Hill Auditorium. The all-student program will include compositions by Leroy Eitzen, Robert Cogan, Grant Beglarian, George Balch Wilson, and Frederick Don Truesdell. Mr. Truesdell will appear with the or- chestra in his Concerto in A. The con- cert will be open to the public without charge. Events Today c 3 l 1 3 ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round with DREW PEARSON I MATTE JF rA By STEWART ALSOP .I BONN-Two rather elderly men neatly sum up in their own persons the dangers which threaten Western policy in Germany. They are Dr. Kurt Schumacher, who rules the powerful Social Democratic party with an iron hand, and Dr. Konrad Adenauer, Christian Democratic leader and Chancellor of the Bonn republic. Political leadership in Germany is an eggshell-thin crust, because the Hitler regime killed off so many potential leaders, and these two men wholly dominate West German politics. Schumacher, whb lost an arm in the first World War, and a leg, his teeth and his health in a Nazi concen- tration camp, is a physical symbol of the hell through which his country has passed. There has been a good deal of nonsense written about the rebirth of Nazism in Ger- many. Actually, only an insanely stupid Al- lied policy could revive anything really like Hitlerism. Yet it is also wrong to suppose that Germany could have lived through Nazism, military triumph, devastation, de- feat, and partition, and then emerge poli- tically completely rational. * *.. TO HEAR THE angry passion of Dr. Schu- macher as he explains his views is to sense the deep undercurrents of irrational- ism in Germany today. Schumacher has only a fierce contempt for the French or any other Continental nation. He bitterly de- nounces the Schuman plan and the Euro- pean Army project, and he would support German rearmament only on terms which are physically impossible to meet, on the one hand, and which would lead straight as a die to a third world war, on the other. There is no doubt at all that there is perfectly genuine support for such views, irrational though they may seem to an American. Yet there is equally no doubt that there is very genuine support for the quite different views of Dr. Konrad Ade- nauer. Adenauer makes a strange contrast to his chief rival. He is precise, dryly unemotional, icily rational. And he believes deeply that Germany's future lies in nothing short of total political, economic and military inte- gration into a Continental system. Obviously, if Schumacher and those who think like him were to gain total control of German policy, the result could only be sheer disaster for the West, Germany in- cluded. Obviously, the only hope for a rational German settlement lies with those who think like Adenauer, at least in the foreign field. Yet, through no fault of the able high commissioners'. Al- lied policy in Germany tends more and more to strengthen the Schumachers and weaken the Adenauers. For one thing, the Pentagon timetable for German rearmament has frozen the Allied position. Because they know, or think they know, that the West must have a rearmed Germany at any cost whatsoever, politicians of Schumacher's stripe feel quite free to re- ject proposals like the European Army, and to demand impossible terms for German re- armament. At the same time, aware of the grave dangers implicit in rearming Germany, the policy makers in all three Allied capitals are wishfully hoping that Germany can be rearmed and simultaneously controlled by elaborate indirection. This further strength- ens the Schumachers and weakens the Ade- nauers. * * * THE INDIRECT CONTROL which the planners in Washington, London, and Paris wishfully expect to exercise is em- bodied in various "annexes" to the "con- tractual agreement" now being haltingly negotiated. According to this fine print in the contract, Germany is to promise, for ex- ample, to continue in force occupation sta- tutes like the decartelization laws, and to guarantee neither to make nor to carry out scientific research on a variety of weapons. More important, the high commissioners are to become a "Council of Ambassadors" with the power to resume, in effect, occupa- tion authority by declaring a "state of emer- gency." According to some of the ablest men here, this sort of thing simply will not work, because it will become the obvious aim of German politicians to defy, for political advantage, such words on paper. The principal danger is that the German objective, like that of Dr. Schumacher, will be, not defense, but the liberation of the Eastern provinces, so that the German tail will wag the North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization dog. Yet this sort of danger cannot be dealt with by words on paper. Indeed, here in Germany it becomes en- tirely clear why Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has become wholly converted to the idea of Continental unification. There is just no other way to deal effectively with the grave risks of German rearmament. But it is no use going halfway. Most reasonable Germans conceded that certain rights, like agreeing to the terms of German unity, must be re- served to the Allies. Apart from this, the only practical way to bring West Germany into a unified Western Europe is to offer Germany genuine equal partnership, with real internal sovereignty. The only way to strengthen the Adenauers and weaken the Schumachers is to offer the Germans a clear-cut choice between the DiRAMA I, WAR AND lesser politico-socio-economic TVeruptions generally have a destructive effectupon a nation's cultural development. With the democratic West engaged in a hot and cold running war for apparently many years to come, it is encouraging to witness the dramatic revival which has enveloped the country in recent years. One partiqu- larly gratifying ramification of this fact is the dramatic renaissance which has de- veloped in Ann Arbor since 1946. Today there are five active groups pro- ducing plays around town where there were only one or two during the war. They are the Student Players, the University's speech department, the Ann Arbor Civic Theater, the Inter-Arts Union and the Arts Theater Club. Add to this the six- week spring season of the Drama Festi- val, which brings to Ann Arbor many of Broadway's best players, and the number is six. All of these organizations are doing in- teresting work; the Speech Department and the Student Players are perhaps the most conventional, usually presenting either mod- ern or historical plays of proven worth. The Ann Arbor Civic Theater is a healthy at- tempt to interest non-professional people, housewives, businessmen and others in the theater through their actual participation in play production. Both the actors and their audiences have a fine time in the process. The Inter-Arts Union, which pro- duces occasional plays, does perhaps the most original of the student work. None of these organizations, however, can contribute nearly as much as the Arts Theater Club. Begun last year, it is Ann Arbor's first resident professional play group. During last year's season, which for a first year was successful, it was accused and praised for many things. Some did not like the intimacy of their Arena style thea- ter, others thought them "arty" or objected to the complete originality of the enterprise. More important, the Theater Club was never accused of dullness or unimaginative tech- nique. More important still, even the loud- est critics are back this year waiting for the season to begin: for the truth is, anyone who has ever seen an Arts Theater produc- tion has liked it. If not some phases of its staging, di- rection or interpretation, they have, at the very least, liked the idea and its con- ception. They feel that a professional theater of this nature is a fine addition to the com- munity, that the present company of ex- perienced actors can and have done excep- tional dramatic work, that the groups will- ingness to produce experimental plays as well as the traditional leads to interesting productions and t';at they have had good times at the Arts Theater after all. The fall season will open Friday with Jean-Jacques Bernard's intimate drama "The Sulky Fire." Last near rthe cmrnmiv grew strong WASHINGTON-The two old tyrants of the Senate, McKellar of " Tennessee and McCarran of Nevada, tried to browbeat the na- tion's top secret out of Atomic Energy Chairman Gordon Dean the other day. It's none of their business, but they demanded to know this country's exact number of atomic bombs. This is too precious a secret to be repeated around Congress, whose employees are not cleared for loyalty like other federal employees. It would be particularly dangerous for Senator Mc- Carran to know, since a parade of ex-Communists is constantly streaming through his office. Though they have denounced their Communist ties and come to McCarran to confess, the FBI is frankly skeptical of some of them. Nevertheless, McKellar and McCarran got the Atomic Energy Chairman behind closed doors of the Senate Appropriations Commit- tee and hounded him to tell the exact number of bombs in our Atomic stockpile. "Ifwe are going into war, we ought to be ready, and we ought to know what we have," rasped Tennessee's McKellar. "You are asking for more money, and it is unusual to ask for more money just before the Congress adjourns. What I would like to know is what you have done with the money that we appropriated last year?" "We have done a great deal of work, and we have, expanded the Atomic Energy program-fold," replied Chairman Dean. (This column has been advised that the exact Atomic expansion should not be made public.) "How much of your last year's appropriation went into bombs? How many bombs do we have?" demanded the Tennessee Senator. "A very substantial amount," parried Dean. "That does not answer the question," exploded McKellar. "How much has gone into bombs?" -SECRET AMOUNTS OF URANIUM- ET ME SAY this," Chairman Dean tried to soothe the old man. "Everything in the way of fissionable material which is produced in our whole program goes into bombs. It is stored there, and if you want it out and later use it somewhere else, you can use it. But today it goes right into bombs." "What is the process of deterioration?" broke in McCarran. "There is no deterioration," Dean reported. McCarran then changed the subject from the exact number of bombs to the exact number of carloads of Uranium ore that goes into each bomb. Dean tried to evade the question, which is also top secret. But MCarran, who represents a western mining region, kept hammering until Dean finally gave him the secret figure. Later McKellar got back to the number of bombs again. "Now we made you trustees last year, and we appropriated all of this money for you. Sure you can tell us what you have done with it," persisted the aged Tennesseean. "It has gone into bombs," repeated Dean. "That doesn't mean a thing," snapped McKellar. "You have got two bombs or you have got 1,000 or you have got six or 17, and we don't know what you've got, and we don't know whether you have got enough to fight a war or not." "That raises this question, Senator, that troubles me a little bit," Dean observed delicately, "and that is whether the committee actually wishes to have precise numbers of weapons." -SENATOR CORDON OBJECTS- "N0, FOR HEAVEN'S sake, no!" blurted Oregon's conscientious Sena- tor Guy Cordon. "If you would trust an order of magnitude answer," Dean tried again to placate the grizzled Tennesseean, "miy I say that we have a very substantial number of bombs that have been bought by the money that has been appropriated by this committee. It is not a small group; it is a very substantial number." "What would be a substantial number in one man's eyes would be very different in another man's eyes," snorted McKellar. "You are asking us to furnish you all of these sums of money, and all we are asking you is what have you done with the last year's money we have given you.' "Last year's money, as I tried to indicate, on plant and equip- ment . . . "the Atomic Chairman started to explain. "That doesn't mean a thing in the world to me," bellowed McKellar. "I think you should answer the Senator's question," chimed in McCarran eagerly. "The gaseous diffusion plants and piles have been the large ex- pansion ... "Dean began again. "That doesn't give us any information," blurted McKellar. "What have you got to show for it? How many bombs do you have?" "It is coming out of those plants, Senator," Dean declared firmly. "We do not know about it, and you are not willing to tell us, and you are not willing to take us into your confidence," McKellar raged. "Why should we take you into our confidence when you will not take us into yours?" But Dean held his ground and refused to divulge the priceless secret. (Copyright, 1951, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Roger Williams Guild: Tea, 4:30-6 p.m. Society of Automotive Enginqers: 7:30 p.m., 203 W. E. Annex. Group discus- sion on model engine supercharging. Tour of University Automotive Lab. Everyone welcome. Industrial Relations Club. Organiza- tional meeting, 7:30 p.m., Room 3D, Un- ion. New members are invited. Polonia Club. Meeting 7:30 p.m., In- ternational Center. Following a short business meetng, there will be square dancing and refreshments. All stu- XetteMo TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communica- tions 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. To Lansing . To the Editor: HURRAH for Dave W. Belin ! ! Once more he has come through with a solution. (Letter to the, Editor, Oct. 12) Have the SL go directly to the State Leg- islature for "positive" action. The Student Legislature has been in the past a weak organiza- tion. Students are constantly los- ing all belief in the body that is supposed to represent the stu- dent's interest. What good is a Student Legislature if they have NO power? ? ? And what ever happened to our Thanksgiving vacation? -Michael Schwartz ** * Anglo-Egyptian ... To the Editor: A T Cairo there is a public ap- proval to the Government's abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936. The main cause of this action is the balance of power which Egypt wishes to es- tablish in the Arab League. She fears the Confederation of Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon may be a threat to her future security. The present tension in Iran seems to provide an adequate opportunity for ousting Britain from the Suez. Finally, she fears the existing na- tionalism in the Sudan and Brit- ish interference may hinder her future occupation of the Sudan. Africans, in general, believe that the Suez area should be handed over to Egypt. The problem of over-population in Egypt can be solved by lawful emigration into other parts of Africa. Above all,, we believe the Sudan should re-I main for the Sudanese; and that it should be given her independ- ence under the U.N. protection. Neither Egypt nor Britain should be allowed to continue her exploi- tation of the .Sudan. It is very doubtful that Egypt will acceler- ate the independence of the Su- dan. The Sudanese rebellion of 1881 and the desire of Uma's Party are concrete evidences that the people believe in "Sudan for Su- danese." Good-neighbor exploita- tion cannot be preferred to For- eign Imperialism. -Chigbu Ememe dents of Polish descent and their friends are invited. Pre-Medical Society. 7:30 p.m., 1400 Chemistry Bldg. Congregational-Disciples Guild: Sup- per Discussion Groups meet at 5:30 at the Guild House. Two discussion topics: The Concerned Student & U.S. Foreign Policy; A Philosophy and Faith for These Troubled Times. Episcopal Student Group: Chaplain's Open House at 702 Tappan, 7:15 p.m. Gilbert & Sullivan Society: Split cho- rus rehearsal, League 7 p.m. Hillel Seminar on "Modern Jewish Problems" will hold Its opening meet- ing at 4 p.m. in Lane Hall. Under the direction of Rabbi Lymon, the group will choose and discuss topics of in- terest to it American Chemical Society, Univer- sity of Michigan Section, presents Dr. H. E. Carter, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois, in a lecture on "The Chemistry of the Cerebrosites and the Sphingomyelins," at 8 p.m., Room 1300 Chemistry Building. Visitors are welcome. Wesleyan Guild: Do-Drop-In for tea and chatter, 4 p.m., at the Guild. Bring your friends. Electrical Engineering Research Dis- cussion Group: First meeting, 4 p.m., 2084 E. Engineering Bldg. Mr. Welch of the Electronics Defense Group will speak on the "Comparison of Electronic Traveling-Wave Devices" Michigan Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration will hold its first Social $emnar, 7:30 p.m., East Lecture Room, Rackhami Buldng. Guest speaker: George Bean, City Manager of Grand Rapids. "Some Problems in City Management." Members, wives and friends are invited. Scabbard and Blade. Active and alumni members are requested to at- tend the meeting at 8 p.m., 220 Tem- porary Classroom Bulding. Bridge Tournament The Union is presenting its first all- campus bridge tournament of the year, in the Union Ballroom, beginning at 7:15 p,m. Everyone is invited to compete for the trophies, Women may obtain late permission by signing out with their house mothers for 11:30 p.m. Engineering Council: Meeting, 7:15 p.m., West Engineering Annex. All members please attend whether notified by mail or not. Folk and Square Dance meets at s p.m., at Barbour Gym. Everyone wel- tome. University of Michigan Rifle Club will meet at 7 p.m., R.O.T.C. Rifle Range The Rifle Club represents this Univer- sity in intercollegiate matches. MIMES. First meeting of semester, 7:30 p.m., Ann Arbor Room of they League. Members are requested to at- tend, Research Club: 8 p.m., Rakham Am- phitheater. Papers: "Some Biological Aspects of Medicine," by Dr. Robert Gessell, Professor of Physiology; "The Invention of the Ethical Calculus," by Louis I. BredvoId, Professor of English. Coming Events Episcopal Student Group: Holy Com- munion at 7 a.m. and breakfast at Can- terbury House on Thursday. International Center Weekly Tea for foreign students and American friends, 4:30-6 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 18. I 1 .w DORIS FLEESON: Boyle Trouble WILLIAM H. BOYLE, JR., never got on top of the hungry characters attracted by a $68,400,000,000 federal budget of which $27,000,000,000 is spent for major procure- ment for the military services. In a vague way he supported the aims in whose name that budget is collected from the taxpayers but he never really perceived that it demand- ed a sterner moral code or, speaking practi- cally, that the- burdened taxpayers would not be satisfied with politics as usual. A year ago his health began to reflect his realization that somehow, some way, this wonderful job of national chairman handed him by his friend, the President, was beyond him. But the President stood by and lesser executives were brought in to bolster the national committee. It did- n't work and the RFC-Internal Revenue disclosures of the past few months furth- er weakened committee morale and func- tioning. A new national chairman will face the same conditions with which Boyle could not cope. Yet, with a presidential campaign rpom- Ing up, he will have to play astute politics. 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