PAGE FO SUNDAY; OCTOBER 2I, 2951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FOUR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1951 II Study Group IT WAS SUGGESTED on this page Friday that "a strong and immediate program of pressure is needed on the chapters of the Interfraternity Council" to force removal of fraternity bias clauses. However at this time,rpressure is just what should be avoided. -Last November the Student Legislature and the campus forced the IFC to act hastily on the bias question. As a result the House President's Assembly passed a meaningless resolution which succeeded only in stifling any positive action from their group for, a year. The ITC properly revoked the measure Wednesday night, finally clearing the way for some studied progress. The fraternity bias question is a big one - ,and it will, need, a good deal of considera- tion to find a correct solution. Tihe IFC has admitted that it isn't quite sure of what the problem is. It certainly includes more than 13 Michigan houses removing their dis- criminatory clauses. An IFC-SL committee has been formed to investigate all aspects of the question and to find a practical" solution. A superficial job will result if the committee has to report immediately to soothe an arous- ed campus. Ideally, any attempt to remove bias clauses should stem from the fraternities themselves. At this time, they seem sincerely interested in cutting out the clause. Let's give them an unhurried opportunity. -Sid Klaus 11 .1 i MATTE R OF FACT The Week's News --. IN RETROSPECT . A. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN By JOSEPH ALSOP . .I I I WASHINGTON -Perhaps the strangest characteristic of our time is the dist'or- tion of the sense of history. Because they uttered sentiments in wartime that were widely shared by irreproachable, church-go- ing, Republican-voting, tax-paying, payroll- meeting citizens, unfortunate people areenow hauled before Senatorial bars to answer the charge of pro-Communism."s By way of contrast, a man like Philip Jessup, .who took a thoroughly pernicious part in the "America' First" movement, proudly drapes the "America First" man- tle around . his, shoulders to prove that he is not a Communist. And far from sg- gesting that an extreme America-Firster may not have the kind of judgment need- ed for a post of high responsibility, every- body wags his head and says, "Ah, that's a strong point in Jessup's favor." The whole busrness has become nonsensical. These reflections are inspired by this re- porter's curious experience of sitting for long, weary hours, waiting to take his turn on the stand, while Robert Morris, Counsel of Sen. McCarran's Subcommittee on Internal Security, grilled Henry A. Wallace on select- ed tiny morsels from the distant past. One bf the main subjects of inquiry was a rather silly pamphlet Wallace wrote for the Insti- ,il ON REE Washington Merry-Go-Round WITH DREW PEARSON J4 WASHINGTON-Few people remember it, but the United States faced a situation in Panama in 1947 somewhat similar to the current British crisis in Egypt. For a time Panamanian tempers flared almost as hotly against the U.S., but the situation calmed immediately after the U.S. army got off Panamanian soil. The dispute .affected not the Panama. canal itself, :but adjacent U.S. bases on Panama soil. However, the same basi mistakes have been made by both the United States and Britain-namely, failing to deal with problems before they reached the boiling point. Here is the inside story of what happened in Panama. During World War II the United States was given the privilege of stationing troops on Panamanian soil outside the Canal Zone in order to spot enemy planes. And in the spring of 1946, Julio Heurtematte, counselor of the Panama Embassy,had a friendly talk with the State Department about these bases. "I am telling you as a friend," he said, "that next October the Panama National Assembly will cancel the American leases for those bases. If you get busy now, perhaps we can work something out. If you wait, it will be too late." However, the State Department waited. It discounted fleurtematte's warning, pre. dicted the Panama Assembly would do nothing. Later that summer, Heurtematte warned the State Department again. "The only tbing that can save these bases," he said, ,,is joint occupation by American and Pana- manian troops. If you fly the Panama flag alongside the Stars and Stripes and station Better Business EVERY YEAR scores of salesmen come to campus. Although many of them are reputable business men numerous others are slick merchants of fictitious wares. Since they are not allowed to sell their merchan- dise in the dormitories, the fraternity and sorority members are most often dupes of the dishonest salesmen, Students are often deceived by a win- ning manner and a glib speech. Five .very gullible girls were approached by a woman selling stationery who took their orders and advance payment for sorority crest stationery. The woman asked no 'names or addresses, gave no receipt; and didn't even take the name of the sorority!- 'A few simple precautions will readily pre- gent such occurrences. 1) If accosted by a salesman in a dormi- tory, report him immediately to your house- otherte -2) Ask any salesman for his letter of introduction from the Better Business Board of the Student Legislature. - 3) Read all receipts and any material presented for ydur signature. -4) Never pay for merchandise until it is received. 5) Report ANY salesman, especially dis- honest or unsatisfactory ones to the Be.tter Business Board. The Board uJtempts to see that the stu- dent gets a fair deal. They can either prevent the return of companies to campus as they did in the case of the University Studios, a group of photographers whose work was of a very poor quality, or seek redress for the students as they did in the ease of the publishers of an Encyclopedia. This company offered a high quality edi- a few of our troops With yours, I -think our people would be satisfied. It would have to be a partnership deal, though naturally our troops would be in smaller numbers than yours." *. * * U.S ARMY REAL FACTOR AGAIN THE STATE Department procras- tinated. Behind the scenes, it was the U.S. Army more than the State Department which opposed any joint occupation of Pan- ama bases. Time passed- and suddenly news dis- patches from Panama told of growing re- set.ent against the United States. Fin.. ally, just before the Panama National Assembly was scheduled to vote, Panama's Ambassador called at -the White House,, urged President Truman to make a con- ciliatory gesture before it was too late. Otherwise, he warned, the Assembly was sure to vote American troops out. Truman; however, called in the State De- partment, and once again the State Depart. ment advised that a vote against the U.S.A. was inconceivable. A few days later, the Assembly voted unanimously to cancel the military base con- tract with the United State's. Local senti- ment, as in Egypt today, had become so vitriolic that no assemblyman dared vote for the United States Stunned, the State Department then proposed joint occupation by American and Panamanian troops. It was too late. Public opinion was seething. Panama bluntly refused. Throughout the other Latin-American countries-as throughout the Moslem world today-newspaper head- lines shrieked against the- imperialist of the North. Whereupon Secretary of State Marshall bowed. American troops were immediately pulled off of Panama. soil. The furor sub- sided. In the current Suez crisis, if the British Foreign Office had made its proposal of joint military bases earlier, before public opinion reached a fever heat, Egypt would have accepted. Now King Farouk, who pri- vately has told U.S. Ambassador Caffery he favors the British plan, is powerless. Public clamor is too strong. VISIT TO U.S.A. CAUSES REPERCUSSIONS LIKE ALL AUTHORITARIAN states, Peru under Dictator-President Manuel Odria is forever on the defensive, suspecting its neighbors of sinister conspiracy and treach- erous deeds. This frame of mind, it can now be revealed, was responsible for the sudden attacks by Peruvian troops on Ecuadorian frontier garrisons last August. Odria and his followers, whose under- standing of democracy is so feeble that they think the chance to vote for a single candi- date under a state of siege constitutes free elections, were sorely miffed when President Galo Plaza of Ecuador went to the United States asan official guest,. Their idea was that the invitation should have gone to the Peruvian "strong man" instead. President Odria had overthrown his country's legal government in 1948, but since had "legitimized" his rule by giving the electorate a chance to cast a ballot for him--or cast no ballot at all. Opposition candidates were not permitted to run. Even stronger than jealousy and hurt feel- ings, however, were the dark suspicions aroused by the United States bid to President P10 ,A.n* Wr, An,. tin nir -nln o r, -1, cnn il tute of Pacific Relations in 1944, called "Our Job In The Pacific." Morris treated this unrepaying ten cents worth as though it were a red-hot bomb, confected in the se- cret cellars of the Kremlin, THE PAMPHLET did not mention Ameri- can arms for the Chinese Communists. It did not mention coalition in China. In- deed, it did not even touch upon the Chinese Communists at all, while it included a glow- ingly laudatory reference to Chiang Kai- shek. These points were not remarked upon. The pamphlet was also anti-colonial in gen- eral tone. An American who sympathizes with colonies struggling to be free is not by definition pro-Communist. Yet as far as this implication could be left upon the record, Morris left it. The great point that Morris made, how- ever, was that poor Wallace was pro- Conunist in a series of waffling expres- sions of hope that the Soviets would be nice after the war. In brief, Wallace had writ- ten that the Russians had shown good faith by not previously interfering in Chi- nese affairs (which was wrong, since Marshal Stalin was the first to give active aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan). He had written further that he believed the Russians had no imperialist aspirations, and that he hoped the Russians, Chinese and Ameri- cans would all be able to co-operate cosily in the post-war world. As Morris droned on with his accusatory questions, this reporter automatically sought distraction in an article in the well-known fellow-travelling publication, "Amerasia." This article turned out to contain generous- quotations from two other papers, by the Morris system also by inference fellow-trav- elling, "Life" and "The New York Times." In the spring of 1944, the "Life" editorial had commented on the unusually venomous at- tack on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government by the Time-Life corresepondent in China, Theodore White. Reproducing a few of the more choice White epithets, the "Life" editors remarked: "THE U.S. CANNOT ignore the fact that if China's government should become a fascistic, power-hungry, repressive, land- lords'-and-usurers' government, it is all too likely to get into trouble with Russia; where- as a government which stands for freedom, reform and international co-operation is not. Under no circumstanses would the American people ever wish to be embroiled with the Soviet Union in a struggle in which they would feel politically on the wrong side." This "Life" editorial, so closely parallel- ing Wallace, except that he was genial towards the Generalissimo, closed with the prediction that if the Chinese would only be "freedom-loving, progressive," there would be no trouble with the Soviets. As for the "New York Times," in the fall of 1944 its editorial page ringingly called ipon President Roosevelt to "make it clear to Chiang that his prestige will be en- hanced, not diminished, if he takes certain steps." Among these steps were ceasing to "hold a great part of (his armies) on guard duty against his political opponents (the Chinese Communists)"; making "a gen- uine truce with the Chinese Communists"; and consenting "to take into his govern- ment members of the representative groups and parties." Here, in the "New York Times," was strong stuff indeed. Here was open advocacy of several points that the eminent professional ex-Communist, Louis Budenz, had testified on oath belonged to the Communist party line. Here was worse than Wallace, with a vengeance. But who was on the stand?. Why, Wallace of course, under charges of pro-Communism. The reader can find his own language to characterize this sort of thing. (Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) THIS training for war in time of peace is not a process that comes easily to anti- militarist Americans. Yet only by recogniz- ing the scope of the disaster that awaits us if we falter, and by agreeing to sacrifice convenience and comfort in order to retain freedom, can we or our ideal of freedom manage to survive. -Paul G. Hoffman IT SHOULD be the business of teachers to stand outside the strife of parties and endeavor to instill into the young the habit of impartial inquiry, leading them to judge issues on their merits and to be on their guard against accepting ex parte statements at their face value. -Bertrand Russell CIVILIZATION, in the more important sense, is a thing of the mind, not of ma- terial adjuncts to the physical side of liv- ing. It is a matter partly of knowledge, partly of emotion. So far as knowledge is concerned, a man should be aware. -Bertrand Russell THERE IS nothing to be said in favor of war except that it is the lesser of two _ ; '-- i ; -+ --+,- r nn nr n+- . k = i i N{ X-'-X Daly-Bi Hampton "Then it is resolved, gentlemen, that we choose a committee to investigate the possibilities of forming a commission (which will meet, of course) to submit a report at a time to be decided upon later with a view toward the possible ..." * * * * T HE INTER-FRATERNITY Council removed their anti-bias clause motion from the books on the grounds that it was "mean- ingless," and set up a committee to study future action and prepare a report by Dec. 4. The rescinded motion denied IFC recognition to any house with a clause which fiiled to bring the discrimination ques- tion before the fraternity's national convention, but just what this denial of recognition meant was not too clear to the IFC, or anybody LIBRARY COMPROMISE-Student Legislature clambered down off the limb on which they had placed themselves Oct. 10 by ending the boycott of the Student Affairs Committee and the President's Conference, as the University moved to resume at least part of the suspended library service. After a conference between SL president Len Wilcox and top 'U' administrators, it was announced that the library would reopen Friday nights beginning Nov. 2. The final deci- sion on Sunday service, the principle issue in the library controversy, will be made before Nov. 1. It appears that there is a good chance of resumed summer hours if the library can obtain more funds from the University and solve their problems of staffing the building Sun- days. WOLVERINES ROLL-The Michigan 11 drubbed Iowa yesterday, 21 to 0, for its second conference victory. Sparked by fullback Don Peterson's passing arm, the Big Ten champs took advantage of every break on the rain-drenched field at Iowa City to turn in another Saturday of top-notch play. NEW 'U' PROJECT-A huge new research project, designed to house 14,000 people, is now in the blueprint stage, it was discovered this week. The Regents have not yet approved the plan, and Uni- versity official refused to comment on it, but the wheels seem to be turning somewhere in the Administration Building. TUG DAY-A group of sophomores tugged harder than some freshmen yesterday. * * * *- International. . KOREA-For the fighting man in Korea this week, Panmunjof was just a big word. As truce negotiators continued bickering at the new meeting place, the battlefront saw the fiercest combat since the spring offensives. The Allies rammed ahead through a rain of Com- munist rockets to the tottering Kumsong hub. After bitter fighting in the outlying hills and heavy artillery exchanges, the Allies entered the blood-stained streets of the former Red bastion yesterday. At Panmunjom, compromises were busily being shoved across the table ps UN liaison officers sought to renew the suspended truce talks with the Reds. In Washington, the State Department appealed to Russia to help bring about a Korean peace but Vishinsky came back with the usual. Regardless of underlying motives and plans, it ap- peared likely that truce talks would resume in the near future. EGYPT REVOLTS-The hot spots were boiling this week in the Middle East as the jittery West turned its attention to the see-saw powers. In Cairo, the government scoffed at Western plans for in- cluding Egypt in a new Middle East alliance and ordered the British out of the Suez area and the Sudan. Tuesday, riots broke out in two cities on the canal and redcoats killed and wounded scores of Egyptian uprisers. More British troops were parachuted in and a destroyer flotilla speeded from the Persian Gulf as the rebels swung into full force with tanks and artillery. At week's end, the defense perimeter around the canal was bristling with. tough British reinforcements and the Egyptians pulled back toward Cairo. DEATH IN PAKISTAN-In Pakistan, bullets spelled death for Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan at the hands of a Moslem warmon- ger. Nehru expressed remorse-Liaquat had long been a proponent of peaceful Pakistanl-Indian relations. In his place stepped right- winger Khwaja Najimuddin, friend of the West and respected in, India. OIL DISPUTE-The Iranian oil dispute played on a New York stage this week as ailing "Mossy" Mossadegh, Iranian premier, hauled his aged self from a hospital bed to the UN Security Council chamber where he told the Council to keep hands off. Eager support from the Russian delegation was offered as Soviets hinted a Red veto of any resolutions calling for resumption of oil tanks. The UN shelved the dispute as the world looked toward the United States to be a third party in direct negotiations between the British and the Iran- ians. * * * * National .. . ONE DOWN-Bill Boyle suddenly got bad health. Insisting that he had carried out his duties as Democratic national chairman "with honor and propriety," he quit his post. He had been accused of ac- cepting $8,000 from a Missouri printing firm for "influence" in getting it a huge RFC loan. Democrats were breathing more easily but Republican leaders feared the resignation would bring new pressure on GOP black sheep Guy Gabrielson, Party chairman who also figured in the RFC hear- ings. IN THE RING-Senator Taft did it again-said he'd run for the GOP presidential nomination. On the basis of a long-awaited grass roots survey, the perennial also-tried said: 1) the people want him; 2) the Republican convention will nominate him; and 3) he will be the next president of the United States. --Crawford Young and Barnes Connable (Continued from Page 2) 1 Charles Munch, conductor, will give the following program in the Choral Union Series, Sunday evening, October 21, at :30: Beethoven Overture to "Egmont"; Honegger Symphony No. 5; and the Tchaikovsky No. 6, "Pathetique." The Orchestra will be heard ii a second concert in the Extra Concert Series Monday, Octber 22, at 8:30, in a different program: Suite from "Dar- 1 danus" (Rameau); Symphony No. 4 in D minor (Schumann); Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration" and the Ravel. Spanish Rhapsody. Tickets will continue on sale until Saturday noon at the offices of the University Musical Society in Burton Tower; and on the night of the re- spective concerts after 7 o'clock in the Hill Auditorium box office. Stanley Quartet, Gilbert Ross and Emil Raab, violinists, Robert Courte, vi- ola, and Oliver Edel, cello, will play the first in a series of three concerts at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the Rack- ha Lecture Hall. Assisted by William Stubbins, clarinet, the group will pre- sent works by Beethoven, Ross Lee Fin- hney, and Mozart. The general public will be admitted without charge. Events Today Sunday Night o-Ed Record Concert. 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. U. of M. Hot Record Society. Record program "Bix Biederbecke and his In- fluences on Jazz Musicians," League, 8 p.m. Everyone invited. Intercollegiate Zionist Federation (IZFA) and Hillel. Sichas Torah Party, Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m. Games and re- freshments. Inter-Arts Union, Meeting, 2 p.m.. Michigan room, League. All are wel- come. Town and Country Club. Roast at 4 h tte TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communica- tions from its readers on matters of general interest, aud 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 er withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. Tug Weekk... To the ,Editor; I N MY ESTIMATION it is uttr- ly contemptible that only 35 University students are willing- to turn out f or the beginning of Tug Week activities. After all the plan- ning and hours of thought that hadgone into making the affair a success, it seems the campus is downright apathetic. Gosh, Michigan needs more spirit and here was a fine oppor- tunity to show it. And for those cynics rho think Tug Week is kid's stuff and silly, let me tell you that Ws a lot of fun. I was on the Diag Friday night and had the time of my life pushing some little weaseled up freshman all over the place. I'd tell more about _it now, but have got to hurry off to the Huron River to do some tugging. --Arthur Hunting ton Island Park. Meet at WAB at 5 p.m. In case of rain roast will be held inside at WAB. Canterbury Club: 5:45 pan. Speaker: The Very Reverend Lane Barton, Mis- sionary Bishop of Eastern Oregon. Fol-- lowed by supper and Chorale Evening Prayer at the Church. Congregational-Disciples Guild: 6:00 p.m., Supper: 6:45 p.m., program at Memorial Christian Church. Speakers: Dr. John Nevin Sayre, secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconcl- iation. Roger Williams Guild: 6 p.m., Sup- per; 7 p.m., Dr. Sosson of the His- tory Department speaker: "The Rele- vancy of the Church to the Interna- tional Situation." Lutheran Student Association: Co- munity Open House at the new Student Center, corner Hill and Forest, 2:30- 4:30. Students welcome. 5:30 p.m., L.S.A. supper. 7 p.m., Program: Rev. Henry . Yoder and Mr Frank Norman will speak on their summer experiences in Ger- many. Young Friends Fellowship: ome of Arthur Dunham, 1911 Austin Ave., 5:45 p.m., supper, followed by Work Party and Discussion. Transportation provided at Lane Hall, 5:30 p.m. Wesleyan Guild: Breakfast Seminar, 9:30 a.m. In Pine RoomBible Study 4:15 p.m. in Green Room. Supper and program, 5:30 p.m. Panel discussion: "Right or !Wrong?" Unitarian Student Group: 6:30 p.m., Unitarian Church. Mr. D. Leonard and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Chance will pre- sent the Quaker proposals for peace, and uphold the peace position of the Friends. Coming Events English Journal Club: First meeting of the year, at 8 p.m., Wed., Oct. 24, East Exhibition Room, Rackham Bldg. Panel discussion: "What Is a Good The- sis." Participants: Dr. Warner G. Rice, Dr. Norman E. Nelson, Dr. HT V. S. Og- den, and Dr. Austin Warren. Russian Circle Meeting. Interna- tional Center, Mon.. Oct. 22, 8 p.m. A brief sketch of Pushkin's Eugene One- gin will be presented with some ex- cerpts from Tschaikovski's opera. Rus- sian refreshments and songs around. the Samnovars La Socledad Hispanicainvites all Spanish students to its first social hour at the League, Mon., Oct. 22 4 to 6 p.m. Refreshments and Latin-Ameri- can dance Instruction. Hillel Drama Group: Organizational meeting and tryouts, Tues., Oct. 23, 3:30 p.m., League. Accompanist needed. Everyone welcome. Chess Club: Meeting Tues., Oct. 23. Room 3B Union. The West Quad Radio Club Invites anyone interested in amateur radio or experimental electronics to an open meeting, 7 p.m., Tues., Oct. 23 in "Tie Shack" on the fifth floor of Williams HouLse, West Quad. Barnaby Club. Supper and business meeting in Lane Hall, Mon., Oct. 22. No reservations will be necessary. La p'tite causette meets Monday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. In the south room, Un- ion cafeteria. Deutscher Verein: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday in the Union. There will be ,ongs, speaker and refreshments. Gilbert and Sullivan Soeety: Women's chorus only, Mon., 7 p.m., League. Crcle Francals: Meeting, a 2 . Tues., Oct. 23, League. Skit and re- freshments. 014 } r 2 i i ,i 1 t, l Serenading * 0 0 To the Edtior: T RADITION is dead; long live the University. Last night, as we were serenading a local soror- ity, a husky police officer brusque- ly informed us that we were breaking tle law, and ordered us to disperse. He then proceded to flash his prowl car spotlight on the girls, who were clad only in their pajamas and bathrobes. That we were breaking the law came as rather a surprise, because our fraternity has been serenad- ing Michigan.co-eds since 1889. It is common knowledge that the civil right of the student are far less than those of the average citizen, but when the ancient cus- tom of serenading the girl of your choice is declared - illegal, then things are going too far and it is time for the citizen of Michigan to take notice of the excesses in the use of delegated power being perpetrated by the "servants of the public." -David W. Pethick Thank You . To the Editor: I LIKE the sans-serif headline schedule which you are now using on the women's page. It is really legible and quite attrac- tive-or one might call it refresh- ing. Why not use the sans-serif headline throughout The Daily, or at least on the front page? -Walter Vogtmann Sixty-Second Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control of Student Publications. 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