PAGE TOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY", MAX 6, 1952 PAGE FOUl TUESDAY, MAY 6. 195~ The Acacia Plan's Platitudes IT WAS interesting to note that over the weekend that curious document of plati- tudes, the Acacia Plan, won adoption by the Big Ten convention of Inter-Fraternity Councils and Panhellenic Associations. It was also interesting, if not distress- ing, to note that the Michigan delegation apparently represented the apex of lib- eral thinking at the conference, and that it was only with their strong backing that any action was taken. On the credit side of the ledger, there are several things to be said for the move. First, it does represent a step forward. This is the first time any such group has subscribed to the principle that bias clauses in an abstract sense are a bad thing. Second, the educational and counseling approach is perhaps, if effectively imple- mented, the most constructive method for dealing with the long-range problem of eliminating both clauses and discrimination. Third, the new president of the IFC ap- pears sincerely interested in carrying out the educational and counseling provisions of the Big Ten Acacia Plan. It is significant that he strongly opposed the Acacia Plan as in- adequate when it was first passed by the IFC. However, neutralizing these healthy signs are the obvious limitations of the Acacia Plan. It is based on the deplorable premise that a fraternity or sorority may retain discrimination if it so desires as a fundamental principle at a state institu- tion dedicated to ideals of racial and re- ligious equality. There is no provision in the plan compelling fraternities or sor- orities with clauses even to accept the ax- i om that discrimination is morally wrong and work with the educational and coun- seling service towards eliminating them from national constitutions-without any time limit. The plan, in rejecting the coercive ap- proach, presumes that the IFC's and Pan- hel's leadership is responsible and interest- ed enough to make any non-coercive meth- od work. While coercion is admittedly not the best mode of operation if any other workable scheme is available, the past rec- ord of the local IFC is not one to inspire belief that alternatives relying on moral su- asion are practical. . In all fairness to the Big Ten group, led by Michigan, one cannot pre-judge the func- tioning of this plan. Perhaps the attitude of IFC's as typified by the local group will un- dergo a metamorphosis. Potentially, the responsibility of provid- ing the leadership in the Big Ten in anti- discrimination work will give the local IFC and Panhel the necessary incentive to implement the Acacia Plan. We have the pledge of the new leaders that something wil be done. On the other hand, the fact that the past record of the local IFC and Panhel has been one of negation compels an attitude of skepticism. It can only be hoped that this will be the long-awaited occasion when IFC's, here and elsewhere, begin to live up to their obligations to the campus and the fraternities to lead the way in solving, the discrimination problems of the Greek sys- tem. -Crawford Young Th1 / ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round{ WITH DREW PEARSON "Been Coining High, Hasn't It ?" i. ett ei' 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. V WASHINGTON-The Senate is accustom- ed to hear Republicans criticize Demo- crats, but the other day Washington's barb- tongued GOP Sen. Harry Cain delivered an unprecedented, sarcastic speech lampooning his fellow Republican, jolly Sen. Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin. In order to get past the Senate rules, Cain pretended to defend Wiley. However, Sthe gravel-voiced Washingtonian actually ridiculed him with syrupy, double-edged praise. By this subterfuge, Cain could not be called down for violating the Senate rule against attacking a fellow senator. The instigator who really put Cain up to this devious speech was Wiley's own col- league from Wisconsin, Sen. Jumpin' Joe McCarthy, who frequently uses Cain as a mouthpiece for subjects that are too deli- cate to handle himself. What provoked Mc- Carthy's ire was a speech by Wiley, endors- ing the bipartisan foreign policy of the late Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. So, with the grinning McCarthy looking on, Cain read to the Senate a Washington Times-Herald editorial denouncing Wiley- on the pretext of defending Wiley from the editorial. "This editorial implies . . . that the sen- ior senator from Wisconsin was an illiter- ate country bumpkin, inflated to a point of bombast by the fact that the purely auto- matic processes of seniority had hoisted him to the dizzy height of senior Republican member of the foreign relations committee," mocked Cain. Actually this was not the language of the editorial. It was Cain's own language. He got away with it, however, by sarcas- tically adding: "The sterling character of my colleague, the senior senator from Wisconsin, shines forth. Are we to believe that, having denounced Alger Hiss in Wis- consin, he would come back to Wash- ington and truckle to the Secretary of State who said he would never turn his back on Hiss? No, a thousand times no!" The Washington senator then proceeded to read a batch of Wiley quotes from Wis- consin papers-quotes obviously supplied by McCarthy, largely from his home news- papers. Wiley ignored Cain's barbs, but let it be known privately that he will go on doing his own thinking on foreign policy. NOTE 1-McCarthy solicitously tried to get Wiley appointed as ambassador to Nor- way before the last elections-which, co- laterally, would have made McCarthy the senior senator from Wisconsin. NOTE 2-Cain also served as McCarthy's mouthpiece recently to defend Jumpin' Joe's war record. Too many constituents were ask- ing why he, McCarthy, quit the Marines in the middle of the Pacific fighting, and Mc- Carthy needed someone to put up an alibi. ** s --OUT-OF-DATE JAMS-- All you have to do is look at the ages of some of the leading prisons in this country to get the answer for prison riots. One of the oldest in the nation is that where one of the first riots occurred-the New Jersey prison in Trenton, N.J. It was first built in 1798, not long after George Washington crossed the Delaware, and while most of the present buildings ac-, tually date back to 1838, at least one of the original cell blocks built in 1798 is still in use. Runner-up for age is the Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown, Mass., built in 1805, and in use up to the present though it is now being replaced by a new prison. Here is the roilcall of other antediluvian jails, all of them state-operated: Maryland State Prison, Baltimore-1865. Only partly modernized) Illinois State Prison, Joliet-1858. A new institution at Statesville opened in 1927 to replace old plant but increased prison population has kept Joliet in use. Connecticut State Prison, Wethersfield- 1827. Portions of old structures are still in use, although additions have been made over the years. Indiana, Michigan City-1859. New addi- tions have been made over the years and several of the old cell blocks remodeled into dormitories. Michigan State Reformatory, Ionia- 1878. New cell houses added in 1928 but portions of old cell house still in use, Massachusetts State Reformatory, West Concord-1877. Built originally to serve as a state prison to replace old state prison at Charlestown but this plan was discarded and Concord was designated as reformatory in 1884. Most of original structures still in use. * * * -POLITICAL MERRY-GO-ROUND- When Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune was in Europe recently, 20 of his top editorial pundits held an informal poli- tical poll. Result was pretty much the oppo- site of the Colonel's editorials-namely, nine for Eisenhower, five for Taft, five for Tru- man, one for Kefauver.. .. Before Governor Stevenson of Illinois bowed out of the presi- dential race, he received an amazing letter from Eisenhower's campaign manager, Paul Hoffman, stating that he, Hoffman, could sleep well on election night if he knew that either Stevenson or Eisenhower would be in the White House . . . . A secret poll 'taken by Ike's headquarters lines up 586 delegates for Eisenhower at the opening of the Chicago Convention. The rest of Ike's delegate poll is 481 for Taft, 76 for Governor Warren, 25 for Stassen, two for'MacArthur, 47 undecided Naturally, Taft disputes these figures .... The Democratic National Committee is beginning to worry about campaign ex- penses. Except for their big political din- ners, the Democrats are only getting a trickle of the money they'll need for their big campaign this fall. (Copyright, 1952, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 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: DONNA HENDLEMAN 1. . Ought to be. .. To the Editor: UNSETTLED BY a fear that the University's conduct of the McPhaul Dinner affair was with- out legal precedent, I recently set about searching for one. I am gra- tified to be able to present not one, but two, which I copied down from an obscure 19th century text. The first applies to the indictments and the trial: dAt this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook, called out 'Silence!' and read out from his book 'Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court." Everybody looked at Alice. 'I'm not a mile high,' said Alice. 'You are,' said the King. 'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen. 'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice; 'besides, that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.' 'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King. 'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice. The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily. 'Consider yourverdict,' he said to the jury, in a low trembling voice. The second justifies the final disposition of the matter (it is an index of the improvement of manners since the rude age of Victoria that decapitation appar- ently was not even considered in the present case): " 'Then the words don't fit you,' said the King looking round the court with a smile. There was a dead silence. 'It's a pun!' the King added in an angry tone, and everybody laughed. 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sen- tence first-verdict afterwards.' 'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of having the sentence first!' 'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple. 'I won't!' said Alice. 'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice." Thus it may seem that the Uni- versity rests its case on clear and apposite juridicial precedents, and the authorities should take some comfort from their disclosures. -Robert L. Chapman ** * * Give 'em Time .. . To the Editor: OBSERVE IN THE D. O. B. for this morning (May 1st) that a dissertation for the doctor's de- gree in this university is being pre- sented on the subject, "An Experi- mental Study to Determine the Effectiveness of Two Different Methods of Teaching Tennis." It seems a pity that so much research should be wasted on the compara- tively minor sport of Tennis. May I suggest that some one in the near future undertake a doctoral dis- se'rtation on "Differential Empha- sis in the Teaching of the Punt, the Pass, and the Prayer in Mod- ern Football?" -Warren E. Blake PHILOSOPHY can make it eas- ier for mankind to take the right steps in action by making it clear that a sympathetic and in- tegral intelligence brought to bear upon the observation and under- standing of concrete social events and forces, can form ideals, that is aims, which shall not be either illusions or mere emotional com- pensations. -John Dewey THOSE IN whom reason is weak are often unwilling to admit this as regards themselves, though all admit it in regard to others. -Bertrand Russell + MUSIC + I DORIS FLEESON: Florida Primary To Test Sen. Kefauver's Chances# JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-The New South will match its strength against the Old South when the adherents of Senators Kefauver and Russell vote in Florida's presidential primary today. The effects of the voting will reach much further than the individual fate of the candidates. This contest could prove to be the last gap of the secessionists who for almost a century have barred Southern statesmen from national leadership. Senator Kefauver has deliberately challenged them. He has rele- gated sectional issues to a minor role. He has gone over the heads of many southern politicians and senior statesmen with direct appeal to the people below the Mason-Dixon line to vote as Americans first and Southerners second. Senator Russell, a popular and respected national figure in Wash- ington, has been more or less trapped by circumstances into assuming the sectional coloration of such Southern conservatives as Governor Byrnes and Senator Byrd. There is reason that he is embarrassed by the support of such men as Governor Talmadge of Georgia and Gov- ernor Warren of Florida but he is helpless to escape them. An internationalist and a new dealer in the field of agri- culture, public power and other important matters, Senator Russell is bearing down here on the civil-rights, issue and at- tempting to convey that his Tennessee colleague with whom he has often voted is far to the left. With a really substantial Florida victory, the Georgian may be able to hold together a solid bloc of upwards of 250 southern delegates, influence the course of events at the national convention, and con- ceivably get second place on the ticket with a not too belligerent northern liberal. A near miss for Kefauver here may prove a moral victory as he privately admits this is the most difficult of the primaries in which he has been entered. A clear-cut victory would almost certainly widen into chasms the fissures already appearing in the Russell ranks in Alabama, North Carolina and Arkansas. It would dispose of the legend that Kefauver is unacceptable to his native South which has been strongly argued against him. But the odds are still on Senator Russell in Florida because of the preponderance of his official support, the many Georgians in the state, and his well-financed campaign. But nobody is counting out Kefauver any more until the votes are in. (Copyright, 1952, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP: Tension in Germany WASHINGTON-For the first time in a good many months, the storm warning is being officially displayed. The Kremlin has invited us to stop the business of making peace with Western Ger- many into the Atlantic community, in order to begin discussing the reunion of Western Germany and the Soviet zone. We have refused and will continue to do so. Thus the Kremlin is expected to take the usual next step, which is to resort to naked terrorization. The agreements granting substantial independence to West- ern Germany and giving German divisions a place in the new European army, are expected to be negotiated and signed in a matter of weeks. Thereafter these agreements must be ratified by the German, French and other Parliaments. If the Kremlin follows the course now anticipated here, the im- plied threat of war will be used in order to prevent the completion of these agreements. Or if this proves impossible, then the attempt will be to frighten the French Chamber or German Bundestag out of ratifying the agreements. As to what form the Kremlin's implied threat may take, thus far there is only speculation rather than solid evidence. Berlin is perhaps the most obvious arena for a drama of force and terror. The continued status of West Berlin as an island of freedom amid enslaved Eastern Germany, will become still more intolerable to the Soviets when a re- arming Western Germany is integrated into a rearming Europe. Wes- tern Germany's independence and attachment to the free world will then contrast too sharply with Eastern Germany's subjection and attachment to the Soviet empire. In recent weeks, the always-present tension in Berlin has been noticeably increased. Leaders of the puppet government in the Soviet zone have bellowed threats of force, if the West German rearmament project is not dropped. Not long ago, a mass attack on West Berlin was launched by the Free German Youth, which is the Soviet substitute for the Nazi Youth Movement. And in the last few days, an Airi France airliner was attacked in flight by a Soviet jet fighter-quite probably intentionally and as a preliminary demonstration, according to the view widely held here. On the other hand, full-scale renewal of the blockade of Berlin will be an all but irrevocable act, openly and rather insistently inviting a war. It is still'-strongly believed that the Kremlin does not want war and does not want to risk war. Hence American official opinion, while very far from ruling out Berlin as the main future storm center, in- clines to the vie wthat in Berlin the Soviets will content themselvese with multiplying such episodes as the attack on the Air France air- liner. In Vienna also, there have been some warning incidents-in- terruptions of traffic between the Soviet and Western zones of (Continued from page 2) Concerts Student Recital: Marilyn Palm, violin- ist, will present a program at 8:30 p.m., Tues., May 6, in the Architecture Audi- torium, in partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music. A pupil of Emil Raab, Miss Palm will play compositions by vivaldi, Hindemith and Franck. The general public is invited. Voice Class Program, 4:15 p.m., Wed., May 7, in 506 Burton Tower. Soloists: Glenna Gregory, soprano, Esther Mc- Glothlin, Mezzo-soprano, Sally Hansen, Contralto, Lloyd Evans, Tenor; accom- panists: Janice Clark, Lucille Stans- berry, Margaret Strand, Esther Mc- Glothlin. Open to the public. Woodwind Quintet, Nelson Hauen- stein, flute, tare Wardrop, oboe, Albert Luconi, clarinet, Ted Evans, French horn, and Lewis Cooper, bassoon, with Benning Dexter, piano, will be heard Iat. 8:30 p.m., Wed., May 7, in the Rack- ham Lecture Hall. The program will include Trois Pieces Breves by Ibert, Quintet by Deslandres, Sarabande et Menuet, Op. 24 by D'Indy; Suite (d'ap- res Corrette) by Milhaud, and Sextour by Poulenc. The general public is in- vited. Events Today ed. For further information call Bill Wise, 30521, ext. 252, or Eve Kadden, 30715. Hillel News: Hillel Publications Com- mittee will be interviewing people who are interested in working on the Hillel News staff, Wed., May 7, 4 p.m., at 1429 Hill. For those who can not attend, please contact Beki Fagenbaum, 30715, or Joan Fried, 9322. Weekly Union Bridge Tournament. Wed., May 7, 7:30 p.m., small Ballroom, Union. Open to all students. Late per- mission for coeds. Undergraduate Botany Club. Business meeting, 7:30 p.m., Wed., May 7, at Dr. Clarer's house, 1522 Hill St. Elections for the fall semester. Speaker at 8 p.m., Dr. Wehmeyer, Botany Department. Michigan Arts Chorale. Meet at 'r p.m., Wed., May 7, University High SchoQ1 Auditorium. Canterbury Club. Holy Communion and breakfast, 7 a.m., Wed. Canterbury Club: Friday through Sunday, May 9- 11, is the time for Holiday House, a conference for college students held at Pine Lake, Michigan, under the aus- pices of the College Commission of the Diocese of Michigan. If you would like to attend, please mecke your reserva- tion immediately at Canterbury House. A fee will be charged. Hiawatha Club. Picnic, 8 p.m., Fri., May 9. For further details call Caroline Clucas, 22591; Don Hurst, 31013; or Doris Schweikert, 23225. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN CURRENT MOVIES Afternoon Concert THREE DIFFERENT works with entirely different purposes made the fifth con- cert of the May Festival the most varied, and perhaps, for this reason, the most en- tertaining. The opening number, the third Leonore Overture of Beethoven, is essen- tially dramatic, with such devices as the trumpet call in the development, contrast of the introduction to the allegro, and sud- den dynamic changes, contributing to this characteristic. Thor Johnson certainly had this in mind, but I felt that because of a sameness in crescendos, obscuring the dy- namic curve and feeling of climax in the work, the performance was not as suc- cessful as it could have been. But in the choral work, Belshazzar's Feast by Walton, Johnson was at his best. This is a work of theatricality. It makes use of many orchestral effects, and uses the chorus in a declamatory manner. And where the work maintains a consistency, by virtue of its many effects and declama- tory style, it tries to achieve intensity and climax by a continual pounding away in loud, fortissimo choruses, with the result that a real feeling of climax is never felt. But Johnson, the Choral Union, and solo- ist Mack Harrell, did a magnificient job in bringing out the bombast and theatri- cality of the work. The most rewarding performance of the program was the Beethoven concerto in G major. This work brought to the campus a young pianist of real talent. Jorge Bolet played the work with a sincere understand- ing of its lyricism. In this work Beethoven was concerned with sustaining a lyric flow while retaining the classic concerto struc- ture; Bolet always played through the phrases, keeping the totality of the work in mind. He deserves to be heard more often. -Donald Harris Evening Concert GOOD FELLOWSHIP flowed freely at the final concert of the 1952 May Festival. After it was all over, conductor and soloist embraced with enthusiasm, the University's "youngest alumnus" (Ormandy was granted an honorary doctorate Thursday night) pay- ed tribute to his new alma mater with a rendition of the "Victors," and the response of the delighted audience sounded more like a gridiron than a concert hall. The soloist for the occasion was Patrice Munsel, a charming and diminuitive so- prano who is so graceful, poised and the- atrically gifted that it would seem quite unnecessary for her to sing. However, she did sing-a potpourri of tuneful members which taxed her vocally not at all, and which were ideally suited to her histrionic talents. Her voice is a pleasing one. It thins out at the top, but has- considerable flexibility in the middle range, and sur- prising carrying power in the low register. The post-intermission suite from "Die Fledermaus" was made up of some of the most tuneful moments in a deliciously tune- ful opera. The prevailing tone was one of high-class musical comedy, made more em- phatic by Miss Munsel's dramatically timed entrance, whole-hearted portrayal of the flippant role, and piquant mannerisms. Rest- ful as the occasion was, for audience and artists alike, one cannot fail to wonder if a tone of high-class musical comedy is, after all, the most satisfying choice for a festival of music. Following the Haug "Passacaglia" and Miss Munsel's first group, the general level of the performance was considerably elevated by a masterful reading of the Si- belius Fifth Symphony, in which the or- chestra got its only workout for the eve- ning. Despite its paucity of musical ideas, and its constant reiteration and reworking of eamnrn nf hm~am thmatie material. At The Michigan. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, with Gene Kel- ly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Con- nor. WITH AN AUDIENCE of people made light-spirited by various stages of spring madness, this zestful musical manages to be very entertaining. Opening with a delightful bit of satire, on the Hollywood of the late Twenties, .the pic- ture later slows down to a true-to-formula but nevertheless exuberant romance. Gene Kelly, as a matinee idol who camne up through the ranks of show business, finds himself facing the drastic switch to talkies. Hie makes the change easily, but the leading lady with whom he is teamed is not so fortunate. Jean Hagen, who plays this part well past the hilt, is cast as a dumb but unprincipled actress with an incredibly squeaky, nasal voice. Playing a highly talented and very nice young lady who leaps out of cakes in a night club, Debbie Reynolds is easily perceived by Kelly as the perfect leading lady for both his screen and private lives. So the prob- lem is to relieve the squeaky-voiced one of both roles, to which she clings with un- derstandable tenacity. For a while this struggle gets lost in a rather long musical within the musical, but it emerges finally and is successfully solved. In the inner movie Cyd Charisse and Kelly do a couple of sultry dances, one of which has Miss Charisse trailing what seems to be a hundred yards of windblown white gauze. Included perhaps for an arty effect, this sequence leaves one with the impression that it was leftover footage from the more lavish "An American in Paris." It doesn't fit in with the jubilant air of the rest of this pic- ture, and could have been profitably left out. -Bob Holloway d-IONSTDER HOW great is the encourage- 't Science Research Club. May meeting 7:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Election of Officers and constitutional amendment, Program: "Blood Flow, Studies on Mammalian Muscle with Particular Reference to the Effects of Curare,"' by Leonard H. Elwell, Physi- ology. "Determination of Age by Radio- activity," by H. R. Crane, Physics. Mem- bers only. Christian Science Organization: Tes- timonial meeting, 7:30 p.m., Upper Room, Lane Hall. Ballet Club: Barbour:Gym Dance Studio; Intermediates: 7:15-8:15 p.m. Beginners: 8:15-9:15 p.m. Hillel Choir. Organizational Meeting, 7:15 p.m., 1429 Hill St. All those inter- ested in choir work are invited. The Society for Peaceful Alternatives is sponsoring an open discussion on the question of Germany. 8:30 p.m., Union. A business meeting will be conducted from 7:30-8:30 p.m., including a report from Madison. Phi Eta Sigma, honorary freshman fraternity. Initiation banquet, 6:15 p.m., Rm. 3-D, Union. Next year's offi- cers will be elected. Speaker: Dr. Peek, of the Political Science Department. Cercle Francais: Meeting, 8 p.m., League. Short movie, presentation of actors of French Play and songs by a student. SRA Intercultural Department pro- gram, Lane Hall, 8 p.m. David Plumer will show slides taken during his 10 months as technical research assistant, Center for Japanese Studies field sta- tion in Okayama, Japan, All students invited. Square Dance Group meets at Lane Hall, 7:15 p.m. SRA Executive' Committee meets at Lane Hall. 4 p. m. J-Hop Committee will p.m., Room 3D, Union. meet Wed., 7 ul 4P f- 3ti4 t~3~ii e. Sixty-Second Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the* Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Chuck Elliott ........Managing Editor Bob Keith ..................City Editor Leonard Greenbaum, Editorial Director Vern Emerson ......... .Feature Editor Ron Watts ............Associate Editor Bob Vaughn ...........Associate Editor Ted Papes ................Sports Editor George Flint .. ..Associate Sports Editor Jim Parker .. .. .Associate Sports Editor Jan James .............Women's Editor Jo Keteihut, Associate Women's Editor ftners Sta f7 Bob Miller ...........Business Manager Gene Kuthy, Assoc. Business Manager Charles Cuson .. .Advertising Manager Milt Goetz.........Circulation Manager Austria and the like. 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