TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1951 I m 4% SL & The Library STUDENT Legislature won a victory Wed- nesday when a compromise settlement of the library hour dispute was announced. But just how much of a victory this is, remains to be seen. There are indications that the triumph may be less significant than it appears. In the first place, the University was planning to take action on the library hours anyway-the problem was already under study, and a change might well have been made independent of SL's Gromyko act. Further, the central issue in dispute has not definitely been resolved--there has been no promise that Sunday service will be re- sumed. SL president Len Wilcox is optimistic, but the library will not announce their decision till Nov. 1-a possible stall although there are problems to work out before Sunday hours can be re-established. Credit, however, must be given where credit is due--and SL must at least be credited with being a precipitating force in working towards a library settlement. Undoubtedly the bad publicity received Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: SID KLAUS by the University when the SL boycott story was printed all over the state has- tened their efforts to find a compromise. SL must also be praised for showing the courage of their convictions by placing themselves way out on a limb with their boycott. By tlh time of the conference with President Hatcher et al, "Wilcox con- fessed that a "sawing noise was becoming very audible." In this instance, SL made an effort to forcefully represent a rather apathetic, inert student opinion. SL must also be congratulated for gain- ing a certain measure of prestige and in- fluence with their victory, though it be of undetermined size. To the idealist, this will mean a strengthened student government, something for which the students have long been striving. To the skeptic, this will mean a more powerful campus clique, something of dubious desirability. Not to be neglected is the provision calling for periodic conferences of Presi- dent Hatcher with "Wilcox. This perhaps is the biggest element in SL's victory-at least a step towards a greater voice for students. Again ,whether this is an ef- fective voice remains to be seen. So SL is entitled to some chest-beating. Possibly they will emerge from this as a real student government. But before any wild rejoicing takes place, the dust must be allowed to fully settle-SL's victory must be analyzed in view of the final outcome of all the unresolved issues. -Crawford Young Taft's Chances SENATOR TAFT'S announcement that he would seek the Republican nomination, would win it, and would win the Presidency has been accepted by many political ob- servers as a rather optimistic statement. The wise observers will say that the Republicans may have to nominate Taft for want of a somewhat more dynamic personality such as Eisenhower, for it is crtain that unless Eisenhower makes some indication of his feelings toward the nomination in the near future, Taft will have the convention lined up behind him. However, there are many politicians both 0; inside and outside of the Republican Par- ty that regard the nomination of Taft as the end of Republican chances to win in 1952. They feel that there are too many strategic states that will need .a strong Presidential candidate to swing close sen- atorial elections, but in their search for these close votes, Taft's influence and prestige should not be too heavily dis- counted. If he follows his announced stra- tegy, he will be striking at the weakest points of the Truman administration: so- cialism in government; corruption close to the President; and foreign policy, parti- cularly in Asia. Taft's problem will be to offer a positive Republican plan that will strike at the ex- cesses and mistakes of the last eighteen years, and still not frighten the voters into thinking that some of the benefits of the last administrations will be destroyed. The Republicans have two alternatives for 1952: 1 Nominate Eisenhower, if he is available, or some other Republican with "appeal" and- wage a constructive campaign which would be carried on actively and wholeheartedly by all factions of the party. Eisenhower has the personality and the administrative ex- perience as his wartime efficiency and re- sponsibility as European Theatre Command- er will attest. 2. Nominate Taft and have an all out last ditch fight for conservatism in opposition to the Truman "welfare state." Taft does not have the personality of an Eisenhower, but he has the administrative and legislative ex- perience and the political integrity and in- tellectual honesty that is so wanting in the present administration. Rank and file Republicans feel that they can surely win with the first combination, but they are doubtful about winning with the second. Let them remember, though, that the Taft type of campaign could be very effective on top of the present uncer- tainties of the foreign situation, the pro- mise of an even more staggering tax load, and the steady loss of American life in Korea which mark a strong contrast to the administration's assurance. 7 Ya,.4-. "Somebody Fail To Measure Up?" DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 'iS j I 1 7 i 1 .r ., $ Y 1-. .,- M The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 2552 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (11 a.m. on Saturday). SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1951 VOL. LXII, NO. 23 Notices Members of the Graduate Faculty: Applications for Summer Faculty Re- search Fellowships for the Summer Ses- sion of 1952 should be filed in the Of- fice of the Graduate School by Sat.. Oct. 27, 1951. Application forms will be mailed or can be obtained at 1006 Rackham Building, Telephone 372. Curtiss-Wright Scholarships of $500 each are now available to Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering students who have completed at least the fresh- man year of study in the Engineering College, or its equivalent. To be eligi- ble, students must be American citi- zens, partially self-supporting, with an academic standing above average. Ap- plications should be filed with Prof. H. W. Miller, Chairman of the Committee on Scholarships, 414 W. Engineering Building by October 26. Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical' Fellow- ship of $1000 available. Recipient is ex- pected to complete the requirements for the M.S.E. degree in Aeronautical Engineering. Appointments to these fellowships will be made by the Execu- tive Board of the Graduate School on recommendation of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering and with the approval of the Curtiss-Wright Corpor- ation. Applications should be addressed to Prof. E. W. Conion, Chairman of the Department of Aeronautical Engineer- ing, 1501 E. Engineering Building by October 26. ,Lectures Dr. Isador Lubin, U.S. Representative in the Economic and Social O5uncil of the United Nations, will deliver a Uni- versity Lecture on "The Economic Basis of world Peace," Mon., Oct. 22, 4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre, auspices of the Department of Econo- mics. Academic Notices Phi Sigma Symposium. Mon., Oct. 22, 8 p.m., Rackham As- sembly Hall. Subject: "Eplanations of Major Discontinuities in Plant and Animal Distribution.' Panel for the Discussion: T. H. Hutbbell, Division of Insects, Museum of Zoology: Stanley Cain, School of Natural Resources: Wil- lam H. Burt. Division of -Mammalogy. Museum of Zoologyi and G. Winstou Sinclair, Department of Geology. Seminar on Probability. Mon., Oct. 22, 4 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Prof. Raimi will speak on "Ergodic Theory." Doctoral examination for Terrell C. Myers, Chemistry; thesis: "Syntheses of vinylogs of Known Plant Growth Regu- lators and Syntheses and Reactionsof Some Substituted Cyclohexenones and Cyclohexane-1, 3-Diones," Sat., Oct. 20, 3003 Chemistry Bldg., 10 a.m. Chair- man, A. S. Dreiding. Town and Country Club. All stu- dents interested in co-ree outing acti- vities are invited to a roast at Island Park, Sun, Oct. 21. Meet at WAB at 5 p.m. Events Today Hawaii Club. Muu-Muu and Aloha Shirt Social. 8-11:30 p.m., Wesley Lounge, Methodist Church. Wesleyan Guild: Interguild Workshop, 3 to 5 p.m., Lane Hall. Topic: "The Impact of Guilds on Campus through Their Individual Members." Smoras- board at 5 p.m. Members of all Guilds are welcome. t ...ar ,k"' .p.:.z , - :-. "rM 7MF +o.Mwtt rift """ I. MATByTEAR OF AQSOP By STEWART ALSOP Phone Call DURING the 75 years since the telephone was invented its use has been extended across the world and its mechanism so per- fected that a person in Ann Arbor can talk to a party in China within minutes. However, as far as the situation in the men's and women's dorms is concerned, the telephone might be some new-fangled contraption dreamed up by Bell yesterday. Indeed the plaintive calls of 'operator, oh operator' that are heard down the line when the receiver is removed can be likened to the few feeble words that were transmitted over the first line. The impatience and anxiety felt by Bell and his assistants in the moments during which the first call was made are nothing compared to the hours spent by students throughout the entire system trying vainly to complete a call. Of course, the inadequate phone service does hav ie tsadvantages. Fascinating conversations can be carried on with booth haunters in other dorms-any one except that desired. Interesting reading is being provided in some booths by com- plaint sheets posted on the wall that read like the notes of a prisoner, scratched on the walls of a cave. "Twenty minutes, to get an operator, call misplaced, gave up." "Waited fifteen minutes to get operator cut off in middle of call, had to wait 15 more to replace the call, no answer." Those who finally give up trying 'to place an important call through the dorm switch- board, and decide its worth while to splurge a nickel on the luxury of a dial phone, find a lineup outside the pay booth and are foiled again. Since the hall phones in women's dorms are discontinued after 10:30 p.m. the line waiting to use the one remaining booth is especially long. Thus far, although a lot of paper has been filled with statistics reporting the inadequacy of the situation, nothing has been done to correct it as yet. Time is passing, the situation isn'tim- proving And the supply of patience and nickels is being steadily depleted. --Marge Shepherd DRAMA Taft can certainly win the nomination as things are going now, and quite possibly he can carry off the election. Don't discount his chances! -Harry Lunn .. y LAST NIGHT the Arts Theatre Club open- ed its second season with The Sulky Fire, by Jepn-Jacques Bernard, a play which in its French version (Le feu qui reprend mal) has at one time or another been in the repertory of the Comedie Francaise, and which in the present English version has been revived in London at least once (1944) since its first performance in 1921. The sulky fire: the flame which will not rekindle -in literal terms, the relation between a husband and wife who have been separated by the war and who discover, when the. Ct.IINIEMA At The O1pheum .. . VAUTRIN, THE THIEF, starring Michel Simon. DAILY reviewers are often wont to praise a foreign film simply on the ground that it is an import, rather than base their opin- ion on the overall merits of the production. This tendency may be explained by the asumption that American movie distributors will not introduce anything buts Europe's best. Unfortunately, this assumption is rebut- table, for "Vautrin" is definitely not one of France's stellar productions. However, it is good movie entertainment and deserves ap- probation on several counts. It has the ex- cellent photographic technique common to most foreign films, and this, coupled with music particularly appropriate (and directed by Charles Munch), tends to enhance the overall design of the plot which is based on a story from Balzac's multi-volumed Come- die Humaine. The movie literally opens with a bang, when the harried constabulary fires a cannon to announce the escape of Vau- trin (France's "most diabolical scoun- drel"), from the local bastille. The cam- era then follows the escaped convict through his various more or less exciting adventures, which include deceit, bribery, blackmail, pandering, manslaughter and husband has returned from a prison camp, that what they went through separately during the war years is nothing compared to what they must go through now. An American officer has been billeted in the house; the husband, after the first joy of his return--Bob Laning, as Andre Merin, makes this return the most poignant mo- ment of the play-becomes suspicious and jealous, and throughout the play we watch the couple struggle with this suspicion, as they try to understand what the truth is about themselves and about each other. As the two characters grope their way through this unmarked treacherous pas- sage of their relationship, there is built up in the minds of the audience an im- pression of the frightfulness, the futility of the Eituation which is almost too con- vincing It is a hard play to watch. And, I imagine, an inordinately difficult one to act. J. J. Bernard is an exponent of "the theatre of silences," believing that the speeches of his characters should be as little emphatic as they would be likely to be in actuality, and that they should be punc- tuated with the silences which may mean more than words themselves, or which may simply allow the words to take on their full meaning. However readily this principle commends itself to us in theory, in practice it seems to mean that the actors are con- stantly struggling-by gesture, by intona- tion, by more business with the tea-cups than it is quite right for any one play to hold-to give a meaning to the colorless, flat-toned speeches. When every speech is isolated by silence, it is difficult to make any gradations in intensity. In the end, while we feel that nothing has been conceded to sensationalism, that we have seen something honest and true, we also feel that it's gone on a very long time, that much of it has been thin and dull, that not many of the silences had much going on in them. The actors, par- ticularly Robin Good and Bob Laning who have almost the whole weight of the play on their shoulders, do a heroic job with material which would try any actor to the utmost. ,.nc wh rnrteuni ff r- DORIS FLEESON: Atomic Control WASHINGTON-An astute member of the Atomic Energy Committee with much prior experience in military affairs, declares that Defense Secretary Lovett and Chair- man McMahon of the committee are both right oh the question of weapons for de- fense, despite their apparent conflict. His comment followed committee approval of a resolution calling for maximum expansion of the atomic weapons program. Both, the committeeman explained, were addressing themselves to reasonable fears. The Secretary of Defense is afraid that the public will be led to expect quick and easy Atomic-weapon victories, that con- gress will too quickly cut down on pre- sent "conventional" rearmament. Senator McMahon fears that the military, lacking the congressional prod, will not do that pioneering in Atomic weapons which atomic development makes possible and ur- ~gent. The McMahon resolution firmly directed the Atomic Energy Commission and the De- fense Department to transmit to the Atomic Committee by January 1 next a "definite and concrete report on maximizing the role Atomic energy can and should play in the defense of the United States." In a recent Senate speech, the Chair- man declared that a proper and eventually possible Atomic weapons program would result in an eventual defense saving- of $30.000.000.000 a year. The Secretary of Defense then felt it was necessary to knock down any immediate optimism about mir- acle weapons and miracle savings result- ing from them. The Secretary has now cautioned the press and public. Senator McMahon in turn has won unanimous approval of his demand for stepping up the atomic weapons program. The resolution will not, however, be acted upon by congress but go directly to the A.E.C. and defense. This is only because Congress is so close to adjournment, ac- cording to Senator McMahon. There is little doubt that congress would fail to approve. Any step that would promise relief from present staggering defense budgets would have nation-wide appeal. BEVAN THE SCENE IS A huge dance hall, hideously decorated with vaguely Latin murals, in this grimy industral town. On the platform, fac- ing the tight packed crowd is a heavy man with a half-angry, half- amused expression on his broad, pink face. This is Aneurin Bevan, the Labor rebel often described here as "the next Prime Minister but one," and certainly one of the two or three most interesting political figures in England. What manner of man is this, the former coal miner who as- pires to the office once held by a Cecil, a Pitt, a Diraeli, a Church- ill? He looks, oddly, rather like a bad little boy-his thick grey hair is brushed like a little boy's, straight out from the part, as his mother might have brushed it in the dreary Welsh mining town where he was born. And he has something of the wicked humor and the brimming vitality of a small boy. As soon as he begins to speak, it is clear that he has something else-that rare electric quality which brings his listeners to the edge of theh seats, anxious not to miss a word. He starts quietly, in his musical Welsh accent, with a few jokes-his face is not pretty, he says, but at least the audience can see he has no horns on his forehead. Then he begins to talk with an oddly intellectual seriousness, using phrases like "our collective reaction to the external situation." THE TORY hecklers smuggled into the hall soon get to work, and Bevan abruptly changes his tone. "Oh, sit down, Moustache," he shouts at a heckler, or at a strident lady Tory, "I can't abide meat twice cooked or a'-nattering woman" "What about Abadan?" one heckler yells. "I am coming to Abadan," Bevan shouts back, "and sooner than you'll like." Then he comes to Abadan. The Conservatives don't want war, he says, with an air of sweet reason. No sane man wants war. But the Tories are "not adjusted" to the changed "external situation." The smaller coun- tries have rights now. "If the United States of America established an industry in Great Britain we would not let the American Con- gress say what was to be done about it." Although the Tories do not know, what the Tories really mean when they talk of force is-and here his voice rises to a bull roar-"WAR, WAR, WAR." The crowd roars back. No, Bevan says, that Is not the solution. There is another solution. Small countries, like Persia or Egypt, have a right to manage their own affairs. But-and here his voice rises again-THEY HAVE NO RIGHT to deny to the rest of the world what the world needs to live; oil or communications. Thus the matter must be settled within the world organization, the United Nations. This is the real solution. The crowd seems entirely satisfied by this "solution" and Bevan shifts to firmer ground. He recalls, bitterly and vividly, the miseries of unemployment in the Thirties, and points with genuine pride to the raised standards of living for the workers, and the social services, un- der the socialists. The crowd responds with violent enthusiasm, and as Bevan ends his speech and sits down, it is clear that here is a politician of stature, a man who must be reckoned with. * * * * - FROM THIS VIEW of Bevan in action, and from a previous personal contact, certain impressions emerge. First, Bevan is neither a would be dictator nor the leader of an anti-American crusade. He has an itch for power, certainly, but he is not of the stuff of which dicta- tors are made. As for the anti-Americanism of the Bevanites, this has been wildly exaggerated. There are occasional pin pricks, certainly, but also occasional bouquets. According to those who have followed closely, anti-Americanism is in no sense a serious issue in this election. Yet Bevan should be taken seriously by Americans all the same. For this brilliant man has now become the focus for wish- ful thinking among a minority of socialists as Chamberlain once was among a majority of Conservatives. Bevan's "solution" for the creeping dry-rot in the Middle East is no more a real solution than Chamberlain's was at Munich. And just as Chamberlain's Con- servatives put business as usual before national security, so the Bevanites are putting free dentures before the armed strength necessary to survival. What is really surprising, in this tired, war-battered country is not that there are Bevanites, but that there are so few of them. The fact is that the British are still basically united on the essential points- the need to rearm, and the need to maintain the Anglo-American al- liance. For they know instinctively that if the dry-rot continues much longer, if Britain ceases to be a great power, it will be nonsense to talk of free false teeth-or even a toleable standard of living-for the peo- ple on this crowded island. One suspects that Aneurin Bevan himself is fully aware of this, and would act on the knowledge if he ever attained the power he seeks. Even so, it is well to remember that the sort of wishful thinking and flaccidity we ourselves have recently displayed in the Middle East could render a left-wing brand of appeasement a real force in England, which has travelled so long and so weary a road that the temptation to appease is wholly natural. (Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Xettem 1 TO THE EDITOR The Daily waelcomes communica- tions from its readers on matters of general interest, aad will publish all letters which are signed by the writert 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 t publication at the discretion of the editors. Democracy . To the Edior: MANY of those iho were privi-7 leged to sit in Hill Auditorium Thursday night and hear Vice President Alban Barkley, must have realized that the man who stood before them on the plat- form was truly a very great states- man in every sense of the word. At any rate, he demonstrated that feeling to me. He showed that he was a man thoroughly versed in the principles and art of Ameri- can government, and he showed wisdom in being able to transmit his knowledge to the people. Besides this, the Veep showed us that he was a common, sincere man, who, in these days of pessi- mism and fear, still has faith in America's possibilities, and still has a vision that someday we may yet rid the world of want, misery, and bloodshed. There are a few so-called "intel- lectual giants" who thought that the Kentucky gentleman's speech was childish, trite, and for the most part, just a repetition of history. That it was a repetition of American history I will not deny, but to call that history trite and childish, seems to indicate a lack of appreciation on the part of the critics. When the day has come that we think we are "too big" to listen to a talk on the his- tory of our country, I think we have grown pretty big for our britches. But, there is little use to argue with the "intellectuals," for they believe they are always correct in their thinking. Most people, how- ever, who went away from Hill Auditorium last Thursday, went away very pleased, I think, and years from now they will recall that pleasant October night when a good and great statesman came to a little college town to speak on the type of government that is able to make a common farm boy a Vice President of The United States. -Gene Mossner 7 i 3 Air Force R.O.T.C. Band members: Special rehearsal, Sat., Oct. 20. 9 a.m.. 229 North Hal. Will need music 1 es as we will be outside part of the time. Roger Williams Guild Work Shop, Lane Hall, 3-5 p.m. Beacon Luncheon. 12 noon. League, followed by a picnic, leaving the League at 1 :30 p.m. Saturday Luncheon Discussion'Group: Lane Hall, 12:15 p.m. Topic: 'What S.L. expects of S.R.A.' Phone reserva- tions to Lane Hall. Coming Everts U. of M. Hot Record Society. Record program "Bix Biederbecke and his In- fluences, on Jazz Musicians,"' Sun., Oct. 21, League, 8 p.m. Everyone invited. Sunday Night Co-Ed Record Contcert League Library (3rd floor), 8:30-10 p.m. Program: Bach-Concerto in D minor for piano & orchestra; Prokofiev-Con- certo in D Major for violin & orches- tra; Siebelius-Symphony No. 2. Russian Circle. Meeting Interna- tional Center, Mon.. Oct. 22, 8 p.m. 4 brief sketch of Pushkin's Eugene Onae- gin will be presented with some, ex- cerpts from Tschaikovski's opera. Rus- sian refreshments and songs around the Samovar. La Sociedad Hispanica invites all:r Spanish students to its first social hokur at the League, Mon., Oct. 22 4 tot6 p.m. Refreshments and Latin-Ameri- can dance instruction. Intercollegiate Zionist Federation (IZFA) and Hillel. Sichas Torah Party, Sun., Oct. 21, Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m. Games and refreshments. Graduate Outing Club. Meet at the rear of the Rackham Building 2 p.m., Sun., Oct. 21. Canoeing and hiking. Communion Breakfast, sponsored by the Newman Club, Sun., Oct. 21, St.. Mary's Chapel. 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