PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1951 THE MICHIGAN DAILY I I SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 195: :1 The Horsemeat Scandal The postponement of hearings 'til Dec. 5 on the illegal flow of horsemeat to Ann Ar- bor restaurants provides an opportunity to reflect on the "great horsemeat scandal." There are out-of-the-way facets to be viewed, charges to be made and above all, lessons to be learned. A little fast work by a heads-up Health Department would have gone a long way the Wednesday of last week, when the story broke. Instead local health officers took cognizance of the horse-meat violations only when stung by gibes and prods from several quarters. Even 'then, the man who should have concerned himself with what was a clear violation of state and federal food adul- teration statutes, turned his energies to the conclusion of the job to which he had devoted his whole day--a children's Hal- loween party. Meanwhile the offenders, and there were several scattered through the downtown and campus areas, cleaned out their refrigera- tors, doctored their meat invoices and gen- erally covered the hoofprints leading to their doors. * * * HE following day saw the health depart- ment comparatively galvanized into ac- tion as representatives paid calls to restaur- ants who had done business with the Belle- vile Packing Co., shippers of the horse- meat. Oddly enough, nothing was found be- yond what was already reported in The Daily. Moreover, city and county offi- cials embarrassed by the brightness of black-on-white, pooh-poohed the whole thing. Their absence of results was cited as proof of innocence. Health authorities kidded themselves along until it became clear that newspaper ac- counts were right, that the horsemeat had been sold here, that some local citizens had been eating horsemeat in the guise of beef. Only when the repercussions from those 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 citizens were heard did the health officers act, after a fashion. Since then, life has been a harried af- fair for local restaurant owners. Fre- quent visits from health officers and sur- prise appearances by meat inspectors have complicated their lives all week. This is certainly unnecessary. The time to act was last Wednesday. The places to inspect were those suspected of violations. What has been going on is sheer nuisance and is giving honest restaurant-owners a bad name along with their less honest bre- thren. N THE welter of reproof which can be thrown at the local health department, the responsibility of other branches of gov- ernment must not be overlooked. For one thing, Detroit, and particular- ly its police officials, must share the blame. Their precipitate action in arrest- ing the truckers before the horsemeat de- liveries were made, ruined what could w have easily been an air-tight case. Had they held off, all participants in what Judge John D. Watts has concluded was a "conspiracy," would have been caught red- handed in the act of receiving unlabeled, uninspected horsemeat. Another brickbat which must be thrown in Detroit's direction is the failure of that city's authorities to inform authorities in both Ann Arbor and Detroit of the horse- meat discoveries. This, in turn, made possible the disap- pearance of the two truckers. Unappre- hended, a good part of the case againstj the meat packer, Theodore Pappas, dis- appears with them. There is also a lesson and a warning for the City of Ann Arbor, in "the great horse meat scandal." To expect one man, unassisted to patrol and inspect with any degree of conscience, all the markets, restaurants and groceries of this city, is patently foolhardy. The changes which the "horsemeat eat- ing public" have a right to expect from last week's events are these: 1) closer coordination between branches of government. 2) improvement, expansion and sharpen- ing up of the local health set-up. 3) a realization on the part of local health authorities that sound and fury are only the accompaniments of action and not sub- stitutes for it. -Zander Hollander Election Trend THE RESULTS OF last Tuesday's elections in many major American cities makes it apparent that the voters are highly aroused over the issue of official corruption. In New York, Rudolph Halley, with only splinter party support, was able to wrest the coveted position of President of the City Council from the powerful local Dem- ocratic political machine-Tammany Hall. Halley was legal prosecutor for the Senate Crime Committee which uncovered evidence that could indicate a linkage between high municipal officials in New York and under- world figures. In Philadelphia, a team of Democrats, Joseph Clark and Richard Dilworth. beat the local Republican machine and a sixty-seven year-old voting precedent when they cap- tured the posts of Mayor and District At- torney of that city. Throughout its long years of Republican regimes, Philadelphia had received the deserved reputation of be- ing "corrupt and contented." For many Clark and Dilworth had been attempting to per- suade the Republicans to clean out City Hall. The principle plank in their platform was, like Halley's in New York, opposition to off i- cial corruption. One more significant blow was dealt to political crime in Boston where James M. Curley, one-time all-powerful boss of a controlling, grafting political machine was forced to withdraw from the mayorality race because of lack of popular support. The results of each of these elections show well-entrenched political organizations suf- fering substantial defeats because of their questionable honesty. It appears that Am- erican voters are determined to lick offi- cial corruption. Whether this determination will make itself felt in future elections is a big 'if' in American politics today. -David J. Kornbluh -1 ' $.; k. :K_- (( + f -' f . ± Li V . ' Cy '. .i s Now If That Fellow Runs- /r4F DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ., ;} ,, IetteP4 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. DRAMA 1I MATTE R OrfEACr By STEWART ALSOP 1 CAIRO-It is absolutely hopeless to try to arrange with the present Egyptian gov- ernment any kind of compromise settlement of the menacing crisis here. To understand why, it is necessary to know something of the interesting cast of characters in the strange, sullen drama which is being played out here. The first player in the drama is the Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, an agile, leathery man in his later seventies, with an energy and shrewdness remarkable in a man of his age, and an odd personal charm. As one of the founders of the Egyptian independence movement, Nahas Pasha has a perfectly genuine prestige in Egypt. But if only because of his age, the key figures in Nahas Pashas Waafdist party (which once had something of the drive of most revolutionary movements, but has now become a haven of corruption and a convenient vehicle for the tiny rul- ing class) 'are two younger men. One of these is the Minister of the Interior, Serag el Din Pasha, who looks like a Middle Eastern version of Thomas E. Dewey. He is the party boss and patronage dispenser, and the heir apparent of Nahas Pasha. Although, with the obvious intention of sending shivers up American spines, Serag el Din has been making vague gestures in the direction of Moscow and the Communists, he is account- ed a conservative, like most party bosses. It was Serag el Din who some days ago clamp- ed down hard on the street mobs, including the present state of sullen, explosive calm in Cairo and Alexandria. He derives his real political strength from the Pashas who fi- nance the Waafdist party, and who have no interest in seeing the mobs get out of hand. SALAH EL DIN, the Foreign Minister, who also wishes to succeed Nahas Pasha, is called "a prisoner of the streets," for he de- rives his power from the mobs rather than the Pashas. With a large, smiling mouth and filmed, expressionless eyes, he looks like a smaller version of Othello in the old Shakes- Peare prints, and he is accounted both per- sonally honest and fanatically ambitious. All three of these men are publicly and ines- capably committed to the evacuation of all British troops from the Canal Zone as a precondition to any sort of settlement. Nahas Pasha, in an interview with this reporter, seemed to modify this position, saying only that evacuation would "create a better atmosphere" for defense discus- New Books at the Library Algren, Nelson-Chicago: City on the Make. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. sions. But in fact this government is trap. ped by its own extremism, and incapable of any real compromise. They are commit- ted to getting the British out and at once. And the British are simply not going to get out, if only because the whole Middle East would then be left nakedly-defense- less. Moreover, it would obviously be insane for the British, or the Americans for that mat- ter, to reward a government which has kick- ed the Western powers in the teeth, by talk- ing compromise. Therefore, for the time be- ing, the only thing to do is to stick it out, which the British are perfectly capable of doing. But here there enters the real dif- ference between Serag el Din and his rival Salah el Din, a most important difference. Because he controls the Waafdist party machinery, Serag el Din can afford to be patient. For Salah el Din, this is the last chance. He has never held top office be- fore. He owes his present post to the pa- tronage of the aging Nahas (whose secre- tary he was) and to his popularity with street mobs, which he has won by taking consistently the most extreme position against the British. It is therefore believed that in the final crisis which is rapidly overtaking the govern- ment, Salah el Din will favor unleashing the mobs. If the mobs really got out of hand, the British would retake Cairo and Alexandria in a matter of hours. Salah el Din could then become either a national martyr (he has the temperament for martyrdom) or the leader of the national resistance, probably in alli- ance with the fanatical Moslem brotherhood or even the Communists. In such circum- stances the Communists, not an important factor now, would soon become so. * * * FOR THE IMMEDIATE future, mob vio- lence is the real, the terrible danger here. Total, bloody chaos in the great cities of Egypt, followed by a British reoccupation of Cairo and Alexandria, would spell poli- tical disaster for Western interests through- out the Moslem world, with consequences al- most too appalling to contemplate. And it is here that the fourth character in this Eyyptian drama enters-King Far- ouk. Despite his capricious affections and love of the gaming table, Farouk is given credit for courage and decision in a time of crisis. Obviously, a final crisis is on the way here. As the lease of life which the government bought by defying the British runs out, the government will have to de- cide whether to force the issue by letting loose the mobs. When this time comes, bold, shrewdly AS ITS SECOND production of the new season, the Arts Theatre Club last night presented The Knight of the Burning Pestle, by Beaumont and Fletcher, a comedy which was probably first acted as early as 1607. In this play, which combines burlesque, sa- tire, parody, and sheer broad farce, we watch a London company present "The Lon- don Merchant," at the same time that we watch a cockney grocer and his wife make life miserable for the players by their well- meant and fervernt directions for adding in- terest to the play. The cockney couple suc- ceed in thrusting their apprentice, Ralph, into the play, and for them-as for us, but for different reasons-interest is most read- ily aroused by watching Ralph's valiant struggle with the heroics demanded by his part. The play-within-the-play itself pre- sents a complication of plot that has to be seen to be believed: "Where be we now, child," Mrs. Merrythought asks her son early in the play, and I for my part scarcely ceased to echo her question to myself from that moment on. But we always know where we are with the cockney spectators, nicely and comfortably done by Sonya Raimi and Strowan Robertson, and we also know where we are with Ralph, whose long, taxing role is done with quite marvelous force and variety by Don Douglas, new to the com- pany this year and obviously a first-rate addition to their strength. The Knight of the Burning Pestle has of course an established reputation as a classic of English comedy, and all the handbooks and histories say pleasant things about it. Nevertheless I think one realizes as one reads it that in a modern performance as much is going to be owed to the director and performers as is owed to the authors. To a modern audience, as distinguished from the scholarly reader, certain of the objects of the burlesque and satire are hopelessly buried by time, and humorous interest must be maintained by other means. This situation ofen re- sults in a production which is a perfect wilderness of the most nauseous drollery, and the present production is by no means free of Olsen and Johnson tactics, false noses, and rather frightful ad hoc jovial- ity. Granted all this, however, the group has made of the play an occasion to display a very wide range of comic tech- nique, both of direction and acting, and although I sometimes feel that I myself get rather less out of an evening of hil- arious theatrical knockabout than most of my neighbors seem to be getting, one's total impression is of a warm, genial en- tertainment which has its moment of genuinely high style. Virtually all the company seems to be involved, and there are some other fine performances besides those already men- tioned. Dana Elcar, who has shown the depth and poise which he is able to bring to serious roles, adds here a comic role which is the funniest in the play, Robert Laning also exhibits a lightness of touch which we might not have expected possible from watching him in The Sulky Fire. Paula Karell, as the heroine of The London Mer- chant, is extremely lovely to look at, and East Germany .. . To the Editor: MR. FRANK NORMAN writes of our "glorified impression of conditions behind the iron cur- tain." He states, "Nor did the peo- ple (East Germans) whom I met speak of material abundance or personal freedom." Mr. Smale and I make no extravagant claims about intimate knowledge of East- ern conditions. In the process of theatregoing, watching parades, and shopping we met a great num- ber of East European youth and East Germans of every age. These people seemed to be quite open, friendly and sincere, even occa- sionally willing to criticize their governments. Narration of this fact is as close as we came to claims of "personal freedom."' Concerning material progress Mr. Smalh said in his speech to the Young Progressives, "-the stand- ard of living in the Eastern zone of Germany, although rising faster than in the West, is still below that of the West." What was pointed out at the YP meeting is that the rate of increase of production, in general, is much higher in the East than in the West. With perhaps Germany excepted, Eastern Euro- pean countries far outstrip West- ern European countries in per- centage of postwar production over prewar, although perhaps not al- ways in total volume. For example figures can be quoted from the United Nations Bulletin of Statis- tics for production in Dec. 1950 as compared with 1937. Some of them are: France 122%, Italy 129%, Po- land 26%. The question of religious free- dom in the East remains highly controversial. I was personally quite surprised to find out that one of the three leading parties active in the East German government is a Christian-Democratic party. -Vincent E. Giuliano The Stars & Bars .. . To the Editor: NJOST PRESENT-DAY Souther- ners will agree that the Lost Cause was better lost and that it was for the best that the Union survived. The present fad of dis- playing the Conferedate Battle Flag, mostly by Yankees, can therefore certainly not be the in- dication of a revival of slavery, re- bellion or disunity as inferred by Mr. Recker. If he insists upon finding a deep reason for this dis- play (and what fad ever had a rea- son?), perhaps we can call it the unconscious deep freezes, undue Iinfluence in the RFC, and all the socialistic plans of the Truman Regime. I agree with Messrs. Goldstein, Loring and Martin that critics of the South should review a little of the history of that section. I res- pecfully suggest they begin with that twelve years of Hell that started April 9, 1865, under the di- rectorship of Thaddeus Stevens, who paid no more addition to the moderation desired by President Johnson than to the ideas of his mistress. But Messrs. Goldstein, Loring and Martin weed a lesson in his- tory also, and it is all the more la- mentable since they are apparent- ly Southerners themselves. The flag in question, gentlemen, is the Confederate Battle Flag, which never had any official status in the South. The Stars and Bars was the 1861 flag containing three bars of red and white and a circle of seven white stars on a blue union. -F. R. Scott Recker's Answer ... To the Editor: S WAS expected, those who are interested in reestablishing the Confederacy as some sort of an entity have been smoked out.- However, in true McCarthy-esque fashion theytry to cloud the issue and claim that by denouncing their activities I myself am responsible for a "breach." Nothing is farther, from the truth. The Confederate flag represents a division. I oppose the Confederate flag, therefore I oppose the division. Actually my sympathies are with people of the southernmost states. I join in denouncing Sherman as a blackguard. I admire the women of Vicksburg who decorate the graves of Civil War veterans. I would admire them if they decor- ated only the graves of Confeder- ate veterans. But I do not admire the faction of southerners, and northerners, too, who flaunt their flag at the United States and say, in effect, "We are above your laws, we have no need of your civil rights." To me the Stars and Bars must connote a desire for slavery. Who can say that this desire was not the underlying cause of the Civil War? And even now, the so-called "surface" issue, states' rights, is used by southern senators to keep the Negro race in a subordinate position. For that reason I find that flag distasteful. Because I cannot recognize its existence as such I do not hate the South. Those persons who would resurrect it and wave the symbol of its resurrection should have expected opposition from those whose symbol is the Stars and Stripes. This is one nation with one flag. Those who would have two flags cause the friction, no one else. -Charles Recker Southern Slogans . *.. To the Editor: [T SEEMS that if you criticize the South, the Southerner will invariably reply, "What do you know, you've never been there, go there and find out what a para- dise on earth it is." If you go there and still criticize it he'll say, "Look, we live there, you had a glimpse of it. we know the place better than you." Finally if you say, as in my case, "Well, I've lived there for twenty years and finally moved because I couldn't stand the atmosphere of the place," the Southerner replys, "You're a traitor." You see, the Southerner always has some rationalization to ans- wer any criticism of his region. You say, "What about the poll tax which disenfranchises the majority of the population of many South- ern States (more poor whites than Negroes), an obviously undemocra- tic institution in a democratic country." The Southerner replys, "If the North will leave us alone The Daily Official Bulletin is anI 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 we'll eventually become democra- tic, it's a slow gradual process, tak- ing a lot of time." Time. When will the South become democratic? It's 86 years since the Civil War, shall we wait another 86 years for the South to gain democratic insti- tutions? -Porky Jackson * *' * Peace Group ... To the Editor: THE RECENTLY organized So- ciety for Peaceful Alternatives has started in an aura of rather questionable publicity. Confusing editorial slant with objective re- porting, the story in this morn- ing's Daily (Friday) lays unneces- sary emphasis on the fact that two of our members had attended the Communist-sponsored youth rally in Berlin last summer-an event which never once was even men- tioned at last night's meeting. It is a sad commentary on the state of hysteria among our own populace when it takes a couple of students in part inspired by an impression received in East Ger- many to arrange organization of a peace committee on this campus. It Is more important, though, to observe the refusal to be intimi- dated by "guilt by association" when so many who fail to be in- spired at all by the Communist line support such an organization- al meeting by their attendance, heir membership, and their will- ingness to serve in office. Most of us who plan to work, as long as we can do so in good faith, in and for the SPA abhor the perversion of man's spiritual and biological nature which Commun- ism represents. However, we do not therefore feel that civilization need be annihilated on the battle- field. We maintain that there are other ways to settle problems- ways that will better capture the vision of more of the world's peo- ple. We are determined that it is our duty to explore those ways. We invite all those who share our faith that war is not inevitable to join with us in our search for means that are more moral, more practical, and more in accord with the ends sought. -Ed Voss EDITOR'SNOTE: The fact that the Society's two organizers attended the East Berlin Peace Conference is more pertinenththantslanted. And men- tioning this fact in the eighth para- graph cannot be regarded as empha- sis of any sort. * * * Briley's Reply .. . To the Editor: SINCE I have kno .. brother, John Briley, for 24 years, I have good reason to support Mr. Davidson's move to improve cam- pus morals by shutting Briley up! I hope it will not be considered immodest of me as a member of the family to point out that Mr. Davidson erred in accusing John of blasting only Hollywood in his Mc- Carthy-like broadside. If Mr. Da- vidson will check, he will find that John also included the comics, TV and radio soap operas in his ignor- ant and falsified attack. I agree with Mr. Davidson that Miss Grable can do many things that she does not do in the films, a point John neglected entirely. I also appreciate, along with Mr. Davidson, the way Miss Grable displays her "humility." Furthermore, I happen to know that John acquired his knowledge of the "bumps and grinds" at a' certain infamous spot on Wood- ward Avenue and not from Betty Grable, though I must confess that in his ignorance he makes quite a case for the similarity of the per- formances. I also find it very refreshing and liberal to find someone accusing an opponent of McCarthyism in- stead of Communism. Mr. David- son is to be commended for his courage. -James Briley 1 J E SHOULD behave toward our country as women behave to- ward the men they love. A loving wife will do anything for her hus- band except trying to improve him. We should cast the same affec- tionate but sharp glance at our country. We should love it, but al- so insist upon telling it all its faults. The noisy, empty "patriot," not the critic, is the dangerous citizen. -J. B. Priestley, Rain Upon Godshill (Harper) 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (11 a.m. on Saturday). SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1951 VOL. LXIV, NO. 41 Notices Attention Women Students: Lateness- es, owing to the past Arts Theater per- formances. are excused. In the future, late permission must be obtained from individual house mothers beforehand for Arts Theater or any other function which is not recognized as a University function. Judiciary Council Activities sponsored by student or- ganizations, including social events; must be calendaied to take place before the tenth day prior to the beginning of a final examination period. Final ex- aminations for the present semester be- gin January 21. Social chairmen of student organiza- tions are reminded that requests for approval for social events are due in the Office of Student Affairs not later than 12 oclock noon on the Monday prior to the event. Personnel Intervies: Tuesday, Nov. 13, a representative of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., will be interviewing men for their home office training program. For appointments, contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg. Academic Notices Game Theory Seminar: Monday. Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Room 3001, Angell Hall. Professor Suits wil speak. Events Today Music School Student Council meet- ing, at 11 a.m., room 404. Burton Tower. Saturday Luncheon Discussion Group, Lane Hall, 12:15 p.m. Rev. Henry Yo- der, of the Lutheran Student Associa- tion, will tell of his experiences with the change of the church in Russian- occupied Europe. Phone Lane Hall for reservations. Canterbury Club: work party for all beginning at 1:30 p.m. Dress Infor- mally. Coming Eveiis Women's Glee Club: Rehearsal Sun- day, Nov. 11, 3:00-4:15 p.m. Attendance will be taken. Graduate History Club: Monday, Nov. 12, 8 1.m. East Conference Room, Rackhaj. Panel discussion on Per- iodization in History. Refreshments. Sunday Night Co-Ed Record Concert (8:30-10:00 p.m.) Program: Ippolitow- Caucasian Sketches (Boston Sym- phony); Franck-Symphonic variations (Gieseking); Beethoven-Symphony No. 6. All concerts in League Library. Hillel: Supper Club and Mixer will be held at the Zeta Beta Tau House, 2006 wahstenaw, Sunday, Nov. 11. A cost supper wu.i be served 5:30-7:00 p.m., followed by the Mixer. U-M Hot Record Society: Program in the League Sunday, Nov. 11, 8 p.m. Everyone invited. Inter-Arts Union: Folk Dancing at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, League Ball Room. Everyone is welcome. HAVE A real reserve with every- body and a seeming reserve withbalmost nobody; for it is very disagreeable to seem reserved, but dangerous not to be so. -Lord Chesterfield i t. K 4 I' f4 4 Sixty-Second Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control cif Student Publications. Editorial Staff Chuck Elliott .........Managing Editor Bob Keith ............. .... City Editor Leonard Greenbaum, Editorial Director Vein Emerson........ ..Feature Editor Rich Thomas..........Associate Editor Ron Watts ............Associate Editor Bob Vaughn..........Associate Editor Ted Papes............... Sports Editor George Flint ...Associate Sports Editor Jim Parker ... Associate Sports Editor Jan JTames.........Women's Editor Jo Keteihut. 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