PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1951 , I __ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ __ e Phoenix Complaint MATTER OF FACT By JOSEPH ALSOP Shake 'Em All Out DORIS FLEESON: t SOUR GRAPES don't seem to be the mo- tive of the scientists whose blast at the Phoenix Project was published yesterday. After talking to them, it seemed apparent they were quite sincere and that they had calmly and rationally arrived at their thesis: that ideal scientific experimentation was being hood-winked by the processes of Phoenix. But despite their apparent sincerity, they appeared to lack a realistic attitude toward the more practical aspects of a large project such as the one that has been organized here at the niversity. The group of graduate students and teach- ing fellows agreed that the Phoenix Project was limiting scientific potential both in holding the research down to atomic energy and then by limiting the specific research grants. Dean Ralph Sawyer, who is the Phoenix Project's director, has said that when the War Memorial Committee was searching for a suitable memorial, they wanted to select something more attractive and more endur- ing than a building or a monument. The idea of a research project was de- cided upon. The committee would have liked to make large sums of money avail- able for pure research, making grants as the protesting group has suggested, to the man and not to the project. But as good business, the committee realized that such an idea was unattractive -that its nebulous character would not stir alumni, students and friends to provide the necessary financial support. And so the idea of a project dealing with the peaceful applications of atomic energy Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writer only. This must be noted in all reprints. NIGHT EDITOR: SID KLAUS was chosen. An ambitious goal of six and a half million dollars was arrived at and a fund campaign was begun. The success of the drive, which is almost assured, is testimony to the good judgment of these administrators. Their idea hit the public just right. But the young scientists also claim that within the field of atomic energy, the alloca- tion of research money to specific projects is not ideal from a scientific viewpoint. The scientists will certainly agree that money can not be handed out indiscrimi- nately. Some sort of administrative group must be organized to make decisions. There is only so much money tand it must go to the projects that these men feel are most worthy. Some researchers will be left out, not necessarily because their work isn't in the field of atomic energy but because there is, in the opinion of the committee, more worthwhile potential. The complainents say that some scien- tists in their desire to get Phoenix funds will sacrifice their pet projects and move their efforts to something less to their likings The group calls this "channellling intellectual effort." This problem is associated with more than the Phoenix Project. As long as economics have anything to do with science, money will go towards those things that the spon- sors and contributors feel are most valuable. There will always be a challenge to sci- entists to do things on their own if the fund allocators don't include them in their plans. Things won't always go the scientists' way. It is often left to their scientific curiosity to go it alone. This may seem like idealistic talk but it's a necessary consideration that scientists make in planning their work. Funds have a strange effect on men, in- cluding men of science. As long as money re- mains such an integral factor, it must be approached with a realistic outlook. -Harland Britz WASHINGTON-The tax scandals have now succeded the R.F.C. scandals. Next will probably come the scandals in the Of- fice -of Alien Property. And then, if the Con- gressional investigators find the guts to stop scratching for peanuts and to begin digging for the big potatoes, we may see other, infinitely larger influence scandals. All these different scandals are widely said to result from a sort of moral relapse in the United States. In fact, however, they result from certain vital changes in the relationship between business and politics. And since this problem has be- come very serious and very urgent, the present report is the first of three concern- ing the cause and cure of this trouble which is worrying everyone. The first change to note is the staggering change in the pattern, and therefore in the expense of modern American politics. As late as the middle thirties, a statewide pri- mary was the natural opportunity of any ambitious young Southern politician who owned an old jalopy, picked the right issue and could pay for his own fatback and hominy during a year of cultivating the grass roots. In this manner former Sen. Ro- bert R. Reynolds defeated the late Cameron Morrison, mainly on the ground that the prosperous Morrison had become an addict of "red Russian fish eggs"-or in other words, caviar,-while representing the plain people of North Carolina in sinful, luxurious Washington. % ' 4 i i . . W. +t 'v. . a,:. m u' ^ -r -'p. .~:y' a: or 'r Y f s h C u s t c r k c s z i r t j a :. _ , _; - : . 'x i -' , t. _ T v . : r A f .," K f r i r r K DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN MacArthur's Press WASHINGTON-An American institution for which Gen. Douglas S MacArthur continues to show a splendid disdain is the press con- ference. This useful medium for disseminating information and correcting such errors as affronted Americans may believe they discern in pub- lished reports is employed with press and radio by the White House, Congress, General Eisenhower, businessmen, labor unions-indeed, universally, except at the Little Pentagon in New York. Very often such exchanges serve an intangible purpose as im- portant as the news that flows from them. They clear the air be- tween people who, since they are all continuously active on the public's business, can punish the public far more than each other by sustained misunderstanding or ill will. The Little Pentagon, however, hands down its ukases in circum- stances permitting no healing back talk. The latest is an article sold to a friendly publisher by General MacArthur's controversial former chief of intelligence, Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby. Under the MacArthur imprimatur, General Willoughby reveals the MacArthur black list of war correspondents and news magazines. It is a distinguished roster, well able to defend itself. The effect on the press corp here is principally amusement, especially that the general should punish so strongly one or two of his admirers for the slight deviations from hero worship they occasionally permitted them- selves. White House sources have some comments however on Gen- eral Willoughby's charge that the "mendacious press" was the major cause of the MacArthur-Truman split. To begin with, one of President Truman's favorite works is a two- volume study of the Civil War, "Lincoln Finds a General," by Ken- neth Williams. For all his Confederate ancestry, the President has felt proud of copying Lincoln in forbearance with gifted generals. Mr. Truman thinks he understands very well the role the President should play in sticking to facts that he knows, excusing mistakes made in the field and.above all, in not "Monday morning quarterbacking." In the opinion of some of his staff, the President personally learned at Wake Island that he was doing all the cooperating. Two instances are cited of the MacArthur attitude which are understood to have convinced Harry Truman that the presidency, of whose dig- nity he is extremely jealous, was being slighted. The first Washington plane to arrive at Wake Island brought Secretary of the Army Pace and General Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Upon alighting they asked if General MacArthur had arrived. They were told yes, that he was sitting in a jeep beside his plane. General MacArthur made no move to greet either the Army Secretary, who, though so much his junior, was his boss when he wore one of his hats as head of the Far East Command, or the distinguished Bradley, whose rank equals General MacArthur's. Shortly afterward The Independence landed with President Tru- man and his staff. As the President came down the steps, General MacArthur got out of his jeep, with great deliberation knocked the dottle out of his corncob pipe, strolled- over and offered his hand to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force. "I hope Truman kissed it," murmured one editor to whom this story was related. The President gave no sign. When the conferences began General MacArthur was, of course, seated at his right. Taking out the famous pipe, the General filled it, packed it, lit a match. The ceremony all but completed, he said to Mr. Truman: "Do you mind?" "Not at all," replied the President smoothly, "expect I've had more secondhand smoke blown in my face than any man in America." It was an edged exchange, according to the witnesses. The President has let it be known that his doubts about General MacArthur's willingness to follow policy with which he disagreed began a year prior to the firing. That such personalities sharpened them would not be surprising. (Copyright, 1951, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) /ettepi TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all lettersrwhich 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. hS t i '1 ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round WITH DREW PEARSON l j{ ) .,4 WASHINGTON -- The Senate Hearings have barely scratched the surface of the scandals in the Ohio election in which Sena- tor Taft defeated Jumpin' Joe Ferguson in 1950. The inside story is that Senate investi- gators uncovered shocking law violations on both sides. Believing that honest elections are the backbone of democracy, this column has obtained a copy of the Senate investiga- tor's secret report. It shows a wholesale winking at the laws, and should be pub- lished as a warning to the voters in 1952. Here are some blunt statements which conscientious Senate investigators wrote of the Ohio campaign: "It was found that the policy of the Ohio Republican Finance Committee was against filing reports of contributions received be- fore May 1 and after election day. This po- licy appears to constitute a serious evasion of State law. Our evidence also indicates that the Ohio Taft for Senate Committee may have concealed the fact that it received substantial contributions . . . "We have uncovered evidence," the re- port continues, "that an unauthorized check-off was used to obtain $1 from each of 2,000 Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Northern Ohio. Violation of the Fed- eral Corrupt Practices Act, both by the Labor Unions and by the clothing com- panies involved, seems apparent. "Both sides were found guilty of filing re- ports with the County Board of Elections when they should have been filed with the 'OCIINI\A [I Secretary of State in Columbus," the report adds. "Both sides tended to ignore the re- quirement that contributions of things of value other than money are required by the Ohio law to be accounted for and reported." -LAX OHIO OFFICIALS-- HOWEVER, THE report blasts the "lax at- titude on the part of State officials" as contributing to an "attitude of carelessness on the part of political committees in com- plying with the law." Specifically, the investigators' report scorches Ohio Secretary of State Ted Brown. "Secretary of State Ted Brown informed our staff that he did not consider it his duty to search out violations of the law," blisters the report. "The function of his office, in his opinion, was merely to serve as custodian of the reports actually made." The report then quotes the Ohio Law that requires the Secretary of State to report "promptly" any violations to the Attorney General, who "shall forthwith institute such civil or criminal proceedings as may be ap- propriate." The secret report also warns sharply that an election trick used in the Ohio campaign "promises to play an important role in the 1952 general election com- paign." "This device," say the Senate investigators, "was the use of pseudo-political advertising which created an atmosphere favorable to one of the candidates. The principal exam- ples in Ohio were the large display adver- tisements and the short 'reader' advertise- ments of the Timken Roller Bearing Com- pany, and the 'free enterprise series' spon- sored by the publishers of the Columbus Dispatch and appearing in 13 leading Ohio newspapers. * * * -QUAKER OATS POLITICS- "W HILE NONE of the advertisements sup- ported Taft or attacked Ferguson, some of them contained fairly direct attacks on the CIO, on collectivism and on adminis- tration spending and wastefulness. The report points out that the adver- tisements were paid for by 269 sponsors, who contributed from $50 to $1,500 each. All but six were corporations, including such out-of-state corporations as Quaker Oats, McGraw-Hill publishing company and Standard Oil of Indiana. Pointing out that the ads were published only during the election campaign, the re- port comments: "the view that the adver- tisements were politically motivated, of course, is strengthened by the observation that publication of the names of the spon- sors would weaken the effectiveness of the advertisements'. . . . "It is possible," adds the report, "that several of the free enterprise and Timken advertisements could be classified as 'poli- tical.' If this were true, the Federal Corrupt Practices Act and the Ohio Election Law would apply." NOTE 1-It was only two decades ago that Senator Vare of Pennsylvania, Republican, was barred from the Senate because he spent nnnoximately$ 200,000 in the Republican IN THE NORTH, elections have always been more expensive. Yet as late as the twenties, Truman H. Newberry was expelled from the Senate with bellows of indignant horror, because he had laid out a couple of hundred thousand dollars to get himself elected in Michigan. Those simple, inexpensive days are over now, thanks to the cost of radio, television and other means of mass appeal to the voters. The cheapest Southern election now costs several tens of thousands of dol- lars, even for a professional gallus-wearer. In the north, in the Ohio Senatorial cam- paign in 1950, the friends of Sen. Robert A. Taft are reported to have laid out more than five times the Newberry figure. National elections, meanwhile, have also come to cost more and more millions of dollars, with highly visible results. In 1948, when the financial plight o the Democrats was at its grimmest, President Truman's campaign was reportedly bailed out by a single corporate contribution of $80,000; and no one should be astonished that this corporation has since enjoyed an unusual degree of influence. In the Re- -publican case, moreover, the shape of the 1948 campaign itself was strongly influ- enced. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey believed he only needed good organization to win. Organizing cost money. And it is an open secret that Dewey avoided taking a clear stand on the farm problem and several other crucial issues, in order not to an- noy the big contributors, and thus to keep the big money coming in. The increasing need for money to finance campaigns has in turn produced a situation that may not be new in pattern, but is en- tirely new in scale. In the later Roosevelt years, in the "clear-it-with-Sidney" period, the Labor groups made large political contri- butions to the Democrats and enjoyed pro- portionate influence. At present, however, businessmen and corporations pay at least 85 per cent of the American political bills, mostly under the table. * *' * THE BUSINESSMEN are hardly to be blamed, for politics have become enor- mously important to them, and they can purchase political influence that may be worth many millions for sums which they and their corporations hardly feel. The poli- ticians are no more to blame than the busi- nessmen, since the campaign bills have got to be paid somehow. Meanwhile, the results are increasingly manifest. In the Congress, on the one hand, any informed observer nowadays can show you rows of Senators whose votes are controlled when the chips are down by the banks, the local utilities, the min- ing and mineral interests and other big business groupings which play big parts in state politics. In the Federal administration, meanwhile, influence born of campaign contributions has tended to become the decisive factor in the sectors of the government which have special importance to big business, such as the Civil Aeronautics Board. And hand in hand with this growth in the power of mon- ey influence, has gone the general lowering of standards typified by the scandals now engaging the national attention. (Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Flu Shots FLU SHOTS are being offered again this year-but this time students have to pay for them. Last year the University started out by requiring that the shots be paid for-then reversed its position because of a flu epi- demic overseas and in nearby cities. Must we wait for an epidemic again this The Daily Official Bulletin is an Co-ed Sunday Night Record Concert:t official publication of the University League Library, 8:30-10 p.m. Program:I of Michigan for which the Michigan Organ Sonatas, Robert Noehren; Brahms Daily assumes no editorial responsi- 1st Symphony; Prokofiev-Symphony No. bility. Publication in it is construc- 5. tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent Movies of the work being done in the in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room West Coast Laboratories of Naval Ord- 2552 Administration Building before nnce Test Station, Civil Engineering 3 p.m. the day preceding publication and Research, Missile Test Center, Bu- (11 a.m. on Saturday). reau of Standards' Institute for Nu- merical Analysis, Electronics, and Ra- Saturday, December 1, 1951 diological Defense. n7:30 p.m., Mon., VOL. LXIV, NO. 58 Dec. 3, 348 West Engineering Bldg. All engineers are invited. Notices Graduate Outing Club: Meet at the1 rear of the Rackham Building, Sun., Women Students. There will be sev- Dec. 2, 2 p.m. Tour of University Ob- eral vacancies in the women's residence servatory. hall personnel staff (Resident Assistants and Residence Counselors) at the be- Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music ginning of second semester. Interested fraternity for women: Annual Christmas graduate students should make an ap- Candlelight Service, Sun., Dec. 2. 8 pointment with Mrs. Healy in the Of- fice of the Dean of Women as soon as public is invited. possible.m Application for fellowships and scho- It is no slight to Gordon Gray larships in the Graduate School for to say that the Psychological War- 1952-53 are now available. Application fare Strategy Board which he di- for renewal should also be filed at this rects has only begun to get out of time. Competition closes Feb. 15, 1952. the mud. Mr. Gray is a tireless Blanks and information may be ob- tained in the Graduate School Offices, public servant who has proved his Rackham Building. mettle in a host of. difficult as- Employment Interviews: signments. Since he took over the Mr. Rinehart of North American Avia- new psychological board last June, tion, Downey, California will interview however, he has been hemmed in February graduates of Aeronautical, Me- by bureaucracy at its worst. The chanical and Civil Engineering Depart- result is that he has had to devote ments for employment in the Aerophy- full time to what he agreed to sics and Atomic Research Division. Aeros will be interviewed in the Aero take as a part-time job. Mr. Gray Department on Mon., Dec. 3 and Me- is returning to the presidency of chanical and Civil students in the Me- the University of North Carolina chanical Department on Tues., Dec. 4. in January and his successor, Dr. Because of the Paul Bunyan dance, Raymond B. Allen, now president all women students have a 1:30 a.m. of the University of Washington, late permission on sat., Dec. 1. presumably will face the same red tape unless it is remedied in the Academic Notices interim. Michigan Rotating Seminar in Mathe- -The Washington Post matical Statistics: Fall Meeting Sat., Dec. 1, 2:15 p.m., Conference Room, Physics-Mathematics Buildig, Michi- gan State College. East Lansing. Speak- ers will be Professor Ingram Olkn, of Michigan State College, and Mr. Charles m iru itf l D a l t H. Kraft, of wayne University. Persons interested in securingrtransportation please see Professors Craig or Dwyer. Events Today r_ Michigan College Chemistry Teachers_ Association will meet in the Chem- - istry Building, University of Michi- gan. The following addresses will be open to visitors, in Room 1300, Chemistry Building: 10:30 a.m. Prof. L. E. Brownell, Department of Chemical - - and Metallurgical Engineering, on "The - Use of Atomic Radiation in Food Pre- Sixty-Scon d Year servation " 111 n i Dr. sy C g Edited and managed by students of "Non-spreadingt Oi Drops on Films of the University of Michigan under the Organic Molecules. authority of the Board of Control of Orgaic olecles' IStudent Publications University Rifle Club. All members are requested to be at the ROTC Rifle Editorial Staff Range at 1:15 p.m., to help with Chuck Elliott ........Managing Editor details of the Sectional M a t c h Bob Keith .................City Editor with OSU, MSC, and U. of M. Leonard Greenbaum, Editorial Director All firing members of the team have Vern Emerson...........Feature Editor been notified by telephone. The range Rich Thomas ..........Associate Editor opens for practice at noon and the Ron Watts ,.......Associate Editor match is to start at 1:30 p.m. Bob Vaughn ...........Associate Editor Ted Papes ................Sports Editor Congregational - Disciples Guild: 3:45 George Flint ...Associate Sports Editor p.m. All-Guild Assembly, Guild House. Jim Parker ... Associate Sports Editor 6 p.m., Indian Supper, by reservation, Jan James ............Women's Editor Guild House. 7:30-8:30 p.m., Fireside, Jo Ketelhut Associate omen's Editor Guild House. Miss Angela Trindade, visiting Indian artist, will speak on Bsns tf "Religious Arttin India Today." tnBusiness Staff Bob Miller ..........Business Manager School of Music Student Council. Gene Kuthy. Assoc. Business Manager Meet in 404 BMT. The meeting will be Charles Cuson .,. Advertising Manager at 1:30 instead of the usual 11 o'clock. Sally Fish ...........Finance Manager _- Stu Ward ,......,Circulation Manager Saturday Luncheon Discussion Group: Lane Hall, 12:15 p.m. Telephone 23-24-1 Com ing Eveniis Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusvely At The Orpheum . . RENDEZVOUS WITH TOMORROW star- ring a cast of faces new to the screen, IN THE EARLY PART of November, TIME presented an editorial entitled "The Younger Generation." In effect, it was a three page expose' of today's youth, in which their hopes, dreams, desires et cetera vere laid bare. The French film industry has gone the editors of that magazine one better by putting the story of "the younger genera- tion" on the screen. Because of the candid method of presentation, it will not be a comfortable picture for some to see. The camera is completely honest and frank in depicting the lives of the various charac- ters and covers a range of personalities with which one can readily identify. Specifically, the producers employ a con- temporary, biographical technique in which the lives of half a dozen young people are intimately revealed. The camera achieves its emphatic effect by photographing ex- tremes: it rolls from the universally exper- ienced family quarrel at the dinner table to the less experienced "bedroom" scene that end with a "fadeout" in movies and with ".. ." in novels. MSC Protests .. , To the Editor: WE FEEL that the Student Leg- islatore has committed a ser- ious miscarriage of jostice in re- fusing to seat Major on the legis- lature. It is our understanding that he was elected by an over- whelming plurality of voters who obviously want Major to represent them. However the elections com- mittee has hushed the facts of, the case. Enclosed you will find a copy of the story printed in the State News concerning this incident. Needless to say, a large part of the M.S.C. student body is greatly upset over' the questionable elec- tion procedures of our neighbor- ing university. We feel it our duty to ask fur- ther investigation into the way in which the elections committee handled the case. It's surprising that the campus canines associa- tion, as well as such groups as the C.E.D. and the Humane Society, haven't already raised quite a howl over the issue as this is a di- rect f o r m of discrimination against either group. For many years the canine gov- erning element at Ann Arbor Jun- ior College has literally gone to the dogs. It is time that this deficiency in canine representation be corrected and that Major be permitted to officially voice his views on cam- pus affairs. -Stan Brown Atrocities . . . To the Editor: DURTNG THE past few weeks I have read numerous articles and letters in various publications dealing with aspects of the recent atrocity revelations in Korea. There have been a number of let- ters recently in the Daily concern- ing the subject. In the interest of truth I add this comment: My re- action to these and other accounts of enemy cruelty will always be tempered by the memory of Am- erican violations of war conduct during World War II. It is witha sense of profound shame and re- gret that I recall the wanton mur- der of several German prisoners by certain members of my infantry, squad in Europe during the spring of 1945. -Robert C. Hafner * * * Reviews. . To the Editor: GET A kick out of the musical reviews. I get a bigger kick out of the people who write letters to the edi- tor complaining about the musical reviews. I get a still bigger kick out of the people who write letters to the editor complaining about the peo- ple who complain about the musi- cal reviews. But I get my biggest kick out of people who get a kick out of the whole business. Let's call the whole thing off and complain about other things; I'm tired of getting kicked. -John McCreary The National Safety Council has given an indirect vote of confi- dence to the American driver's ability to increase the number of automobile fatalities by restating its prediction made earlier this year that the one-millionth traf- fic death since 1899 would occur before the end of 1951. The Coun- cil stated that through Thanks- giving Day 996,500 persons had been killed as a result of automo- bile accidents. It is now estimated that the one millionth person to be killed in a car will have his life snuffed out at the end of the third week in December-just be- fore Christmas. -The New York Times .4 i k Y Women's Research Club. Meeting, Mon., Dec. 3, 8 p.m., West Lecture Room, Rackham Building. Speaker- Dr. Mary Swindler, Fine Arts. "A Rec- onnaissance of the.7th and 8th Century Sites in Turkey" (illustrated by pic- tures taken recently by the speaker during the period of her research study in Turkey). The new members will be welcomed into the club at this meeting. entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or otherwise credited to this newspaper All rights of republication of all other matters herein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor. Michigan. as second-class mail matter. Subscription during regular school year: by carrier, $6.00; by mail, $7.00. i BARNABY *e An important part of my r research info your planet's Yes, of course. But of. Naturally. They're in most kinds of food. In gkmorf Cons?... Where do you find this strane nrev? iC