THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1952 IU President Ho The Acacia Plan's Merits PRESIDENT Harlan Hatcher deserves congratulations for his commendable action regarding discrimination in campus fraternities and sororities. His short, well reasoned statement, which accompanied the veto of the Stu- dent Legislature's unnecessary anti-bias plan, deserves attention by everyone who is sincerely interested in bias dlause re- moval, for it outlines the only effectual way of achieving such removal. The statement-"We believe that the processes of education and personal and group convictions will bring us forward fas- ter and on A sounder basis than the pro- posed methods of coercion"-is the essence of the Acacia Plan, which is now the basic policy not only of the Michigan Interfra- ternity Council and Panhellenic, bit also of the Big Ten IFC and Panhel organizations. The slate is now clean of unwise, in- timidating proposals. The responsibility for removal rests where it should: with the individual houses having bias clauses. Though other students may be concern- ed with discrimination, it is unfeasible that students outside of the affected houses should dictate fraternity policy, since they know nothing of the problems br troubles co-incident with bias clause removal.. Moreover, as a matter of record, houses respond with negatism when they are con- stantly subjected to uninformed pressure tcher's Veto The Acacia Plan's Inadequacy MUCH HAS BEEN said by all sides about President Hatcher's veto of the Student Legislature's anti-bias clause resolution. But in spite of the welter of emotion surround- ing the topic there are still several facts remaining which speak for themselves. The only plan left with the avowed purpose of removing discriminatory claus- es is the Inter-fraternity Council's ."Aca- cia Plan." This plan, which provides edu- cational and counseling services to ac- commodate fraternities who want to re- move their clauses, was passed with high hopes last semester but has, until recent- ly, been left to gather dust. It was revived at an IFC House President's Assembly meeting three weeks ago when Acacia fraternity demanded that the IFC take some action for the plan's implementa- tion and asked for help in removing its own bias clause. But, thus far, there is no reason to be- lieve that anything but talk will come from the Greek Stoics. To date, no other fraternity other than Acacia has asked for help. Definite material, outside of some old Daily articles, which would help "educate" fraternity men, has *not been gathered, and no action has so far been taken in arranging lectures which would aid in stimulating a bit of thinking. It should be pointed out that IFC's sup- port of the plan has risen and fallen with the threat of outside action. It therefore seems that fraternities, 'in the future as they have in the past, will use the plan merely as a symbol of their unprejudiced altruism. It is still questionable whether many fraternities want to remove their clauses. Six of the 14 houses with bias clauses, when questioned Thursday by The Daily, indicated that they were not sure what stand they will take on bias clause re- moval at their national conventions. This fact also remains-that many stu- dents, because of their race or religion, will be unjustly hurt in the future by frater- nities which insist on keeping and enforcing an irrational and anti-democratic clause. -Jerry Helman DORIS FLEESON: oups. r' Indeed, if the SL sponsored proposal had been passed, it would probably have been a step toward a full-fledged time limit meas- ure, which eventually would have proved disastrous for many houses. In this event we might have lost five, ten or fifteen houses from the campus. Though oppon- ents to 'the fraternity system (many of whom have crusaded for a time limit) would find this pleasant enough, it would be a dis- graceful result from the standpoint of tle: campus as a whole. It is far better to under- take a gradual process than to force any groups off campus. From the statements of fraternity and sorority presidents printed in yesterday's Daily, it is evident that many houses with clauses are working on their own problem and intend, on the whole to take. some ac- tion at their next national conventions. We cannot be impatient with the houses affected by clauses for they must meet formidable alumni opposition and will have trouble convincing all their chapters that clauses must be removed. We should not be discouraged if efforts this summer prove unfruitful, but through the new Big Ten Counseling and Information Service, constructive work can be undertaken which will make clause removal easier to achieve. It might well be suggested that critics of President Hatcher's action accept a more rational viewpoint and support the IFC- Panhel group in their work, for it offers the soundest, most constructive method of removal. On the other hand, fraternities and sororities must live up to their responsi- bility and earnestly work to remove their clauses through this method. -Harry Luna 1940, depriving people of their liveli- hood for holding or investigating un- popular ideas was not one of the major po- licies of Congress, nor was it a lucrative private profession sanctioned by influential elements of the population. In 19404 the hoodlums were not so solidly entrenched in our culture." --Brooks Atkinson, reviewing 'The Male Animal' in the New York Times Ike & Clay WASHINGTON - When General Eisen- hower comes home, the development of greatest interest to his many managers,will be the extent to which he himself seizes the reins of his campaign. The politicians who have put them- selves back of the Eisenhower candidacy are committed no matter what happens. What they would like to do is to improve their personal contacts with him. For it is no secret among them, when they talk privately, that the decisions they are cur- rently carrying out are being cleared through General Eisenhower's personal friend and military associate, Gen. Lucius Clay. Which one dominates in the Eisenhower- Clay conversations, the politicos can't quite tell. As of now they incline to the view that Ike defers to General Clay's judgment. They do not criticize that judgment as such; they only hope that Ike does not think politics is too important to be entrusted to politi- cians. Some of Ike's backers feel that Clay's ex- treme conservatism in domestic matters is influencing General Eisenhower to take po- sitions to the right of Senator Taft and that this is not desirable. Senator Taft is one expert who says Ike is rapidly moving to the right of Taft. Should the trend con- tinue the liberals will probably be heard from on the subject of General Clay and his influence. (Copyright, 1952, by The Bell Syndicate) The Abortive 'Rally' A SMALL CREW OF students gathered in front of the Administration Bldg. for a while yesterday, armed with a ghastly red-smeared sign and some more- or-less husky shouting voices. They were the leaders, and happily the only participants, in what was apparent- ly conceived as a protest rally against President Hatcher's Veto of the bias- clause bill. For a little more than an hour they alternately shouted for the Presi- dent, called down the veto, and demand- ed their rights. For lack of support, this abortive demonstration came to a foolish end. Of course many students resent the President's veto. But fortunately, the majority of them know that pure emo- tional harangue is a useless mode of ex- pression, even if a cause is right. Whatever the intentions of the rally- ing crew, the demonstration succeeded in nothing other than making them look exceedingly ridiculous. Their action had no place on a supposedly rational cam- pus. -Donna Hendleman DREW PEARSON: Washington Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTON-For months able Con- gressman Frank Karsten of Missouri has been sitting on various congressional proposals to investigate the China Lobby. He has been authorized by his committee chairman, Congressman William Dawson of Chicago, to proceed with a probe of mis- expenditure of U.S. funds sent to China, and various material along this line has reached his hands. However, Karsten hasn't moved and some people are wondering why. Here is a secret Chinese cable which may give the answer. It indicates that in any probe of the China Lobby, other Con- gressmen would be involved, and members of Congress have an unwritten rule against embarrassing a fellow member of the "club." The cable, dated March 1, 1951, was sent to Chiaig Kai-Shek from his military atta- che in Washington, Gen. Pee Tsung-Kan, and involves Congressman Walter Judd of Minnesota. It indicates first, how American politics have been mixed up in Chiang's af- fairs; second, how changeable Chiang has sometimes been about different American leaders. The cable reads: "Yesterday your humble subordinate called upon Congressman Judd to deliver your oral message. Judd requested me in turn to cable the following message to you: "Last year Congressman Judd . cabled General MacArthur persuading him to ap- point General Wedemeyer to go to For- mosa to assist us. However, General Mac- Arthur, after his visit to Formosa, discov- ered that we were utterly disgusted with General Wedemeyer and intended not to accept him. Therefore, the proposal made by Judd ended without action. Now, Judd is trying to convince us to forward a secret message to General MacArthur expressing our intention of welcoming General Wede- meyer." INTERESTING ANGLES One significant question raised by- this cable was whether Congressman Judd was violating the Logan Act by trying to get certain U.S. officials appointed to foreign posts when it was not within his province to do so. It is a criminal offense for an American citizen to tamper with foreign affairs when not so entrusted. Another revealing angle is the manner in which Republicans in Congress ap- parently have bee'n operating with Gen- eral MacArthur for some time behind the back of the White House. March 1, 1951, when the cable was sent, was before Mac- Arthur was fired and at a time when Truman had already warned him to re- frain from meddling in State Department policy in Formosa. The White House had long suspected Mac- Arthur of working secretly with ex-speaker Joe Martin of Massachusetts to whom he sent the final letter resulting in his dis- missal. However, the Judd contacts with MacArthur were unknown. NOTE - During the war Wedemeyer spurned an offer from Chiang to resign from the U.S. Army and go to work for the Chinese Nationalist army for a five-million- dollar fee. This is probably how he got on Chiang's black list. POLITICAL MERRY-GO-ROUND' LEN SCHMITT, Republican leader who ran against Governor Kohler of Wis- consin, is being urged. by GOP politicos to take on Senator McCarthy in the Wisconsin primary in September . . . Senator Mc- Carran's advertising boycott of the Las Vegas Sun has begun to backfire. Mark Pe- terson, one of the twelve apostles of the Mormon Church and on the Board of Direc- tors of the Deseret News of Salt Lake City, official Mormon newspaper, has gone on record publicly against McCarran's boycott. Since the Mormon population of Nevada is considerable, this will not help the Senator from Nevada when it comes to votes. Hank Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, HURRAH FOR the rock-ribbed incorruptible principles of The Daily and the SAC! Safely nestled in their cleft in the Rock of Stupidity, neither the winds of logic nor the storms of intelligent reason shall prevail against them. Alexander Ruthven, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Laws, Doc- tor of Science, president-emeritus of the University, and Harlan Hatcher, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Laws, and Doctor of Letters, president of the Univer- sity-both acclaimaed as being among the country's top educa-; tors and administrators-reacph the same decision regarding the anti-bias clause; viz., that it is an infringement on the affiliated mi- nority's liberty and that no person has an inherent right to member- ship in an organization (as Dr. Ruthven put it). Yet their years of experience are forgotten, and from the lofty heights of four years on campus the DAILY writ- ers have the temerity to look down and call Hatcher a "fresh- man president" because he is Immaturity' . To the Editor: newly arrived in Ann Arbor.F It was incongruous to print Mr. Samra's defense of college stu- dents' maturity on the inner pages of a paper whose headlines bla- zoned forth another peevish, ado- lescent temper-tantrum against fears at such a brotherhood gay the decision of wiser, cooler heads. meeting. If the die-hard independents Could you please send it back to seriously are interested in reform- me now? I shall be very. grateful ing the membership policies of for your cooperation and believe fraternities and sororities, let me when I go back home, I shall, them sign up for rushing, join the be glad to find another dagger for groups involved, and try working you. It so happened that this dag- from within; if they object to fra- ger was bought to be presented to ternities on principle, let each go a very dear American friend to his separate way, and let theni whom I do not-wish to say, "Your stop trying to meddle in the af- dagger was stolen at the Univer- fairs of groups in which they have sity of Michigan." no other interest. I live in Stockwell Hall, 2033. The affiliated groups aren't Thank you. fighting among themselves and -Dounia Mrowa killing the IFC and Panhellenic , M Associations, as the independents killed the AIM; the affiliated ISA Plait ... groups had nothing to do with the t puerile "panty riot" here which To the Editor: set the precedent for springtime . N BEHALF of the International fun on the nation's campuses; and Students Association I would the affiliated groups, though they like to point out that the Michi- work actively in all phases of gan Daily coverage of policy mat- campus life including the SL and ters carried out at the last ISA similar administrative bodies, ob-' meeting was incomplete, and in serve the rights of others and some places inaccurate. The ISA don't attempt to run thedonaffairs passed unanimously the following of groups to wh heyd e-esolution which was introduced long.- by Richard LaBarge of UNESCO President Hatcher's decision and seconded by Lisa Kurcz of the was just, intelligent, and in the Student Legislature: "Be it re- light of the childish howling di- solved, that the International Stu- rected at it, courageous. Undoubt- dents Association ask the President edly it's a great comfort to him to of the University of Michigan to know that his freshman footsteps give serious study and considera- along the thorny and tortuous tion to a program whereby mem- path of educational administra- bers of the faculty of the Univer- tion are being guided by the in- sity Law School would be made finite wisdom of his senior ad- 'available to foreign students with- visors on the DAILY, the SL, and out charge for cases involving im- the SAC.dmigration and dportation diffi- ( , result of the current Indian pend- ing deportation case. The motion was passed by the members be- cause it was felt that there has been a need of long standing for such counsel regardless of current events or future threats. A "Special Investigating Committee on Legal Advice" has been established to prepare a thorough and complete bried regarding the needs for the proposal. In it will appear the numerous instances requiring the legal advice program. This com- mittee is due to report before the main body of the ISA before No- vember 1, 1952. Upon its reporting the brief will be reviewed by the main body of the ISA before pres- entation to the President of the University. In the meantime this committee will strive to secure the passage of similar motions in other representative organizations on campus and serve to mobilize pub- lic opinion in favor of it. -Edouard Planchon, Secretary International Student Association * * * A Parable ... To the Editor: N THE DAYS when gods tripped lightly through Elysian fields sipping Ambrosia while men toiled lightly for their sustenance, Her- mes - God of Commerce and Trade, Cheats and Thieves among others looked out at the world filled with beautiful flowers and attractive fruits. But in several places, poking up their ugly heads, Hermes noticed vile weeds. The sight of this ugliness appalled him. He straightway conceived a plan and flew to the foot of Mighty Zeus' Throne. "Almight Zeus," he intoned, "the vile weeds' ugliness revolts me. I know that the sun causes the vile weeds to grow. If you would only prohibit Helios from driving his chariot across the skies, then the vile weeds with all their evil would lose their nour- ishment and die." Zeus in his infinite wisdom knew that Hermes must learn by ex- perience. So Almighty Zeus grant- ed Hermes' petition. The next morning Helios did not rise with the sun. The fiery steeds champed in their stalls. And so it passed day after day. The vile weeds with- ered and died-but so did the "This Will Keep Out Competition" GOODS OF ;~i:iy~ c~YJ FOR MAL -i.- ONLY } , £..j tiy-I beautiful flowers and the attrac- tive fruits. Men poured out their libations to the Gods to return Helios to his path. And the Gods supplicated AlmighV Infinite Ze- us. "Our God, Our God, why hast thou forsaken us? Hw long, oh Lord?" Finally Zeus called Hermes to his feet and explained to him how the destruction of the several vile weeds also caused the destruction of the myriads of beautiful flowers and attractive fruits. And so Zeus summoned forth Helios again, and revitalized the world. And that is why now, because of the infinite wisdom of Zeus, the ". . . Dawn with her rose-tinted hands" ., still lights . . . "the East." Moral: Down with the Lecture Committee. -Sam Davis and Dan Greenberg Sincerest Regret?.. . To the Editor: AS A STUDENT of the Univer- sity I would like to express my sincere thanks to the members of the Administration for the un- paralleled educational opportuni- ties they have presented to us in the past several years. As guardians of the highestn American Education they have en- abled us to learn the principles of Greek Grammar, Quantum Phy- sics, Baroque Painting and even advanced Ethics. Moreover we soon will be allowed to learn of the purest in Christian aspira- tions and indeed of the quintes- sence of all religions. Last, but not least, through their outstanding example they have imbued us with an abiding belief that action and belief do not coin- cide, can not coincide, and should not coincide. It is with the sincerest regret that ' will leave this, my Alma Mater, a year from now, secure'in the knowledge that nothing im- proper will ever be said on its cam- pus; that nothing improper will ever be done on its campus-se- cure in the knowledge that demo- cratic ideals will forever be tip- held-within its halls. Thank you Sirs, for your best taught lesson. -Carl E. Wulfman The Veto . . To the Editor: PRESIDENT HATCHER'S arbi trary decision of vetoing The Student Legislature Anti - Bias Clause bill is to be condemned by every student on this campus who believes-in democracy and in stu- dent government! Following in the path of his predecessor who waited until vir- tually the last day of the semester to issue a veto, President Hatcher has delivered a slap in the face to student government which will take a long time to forget. It is indeed regrettable in these times of bigotry and fear that we do not have bigger men sitting at heads of our great Universities! -Gene Mossner On Record... To the Editor: MAY I FOR ONE go on record as saying that the debate "Is the U.S. Government Prac- ticing Genocide Against the Negro People" was more interesting and educational to me than some of the courses offered by the Uni- versity. -Bunker Clark 'I I tItMt t.l . - -.eer to *e o . . . i .4 Y - A .i A. I -Jas. E. Brodhead III (EDITOR'S NOTE: After reading Mr. Brodhead's letter, Mr. Samra takes back everything he said about the maturity of college students.) * * * , Stolen Sabre.. . To the Editor: IT SEEMS everyone admired the displays of the Arab Club booth during the International Ball on Friday, May 16, at the Michigan Union Ballroom. Someone must have enjoyed it so much that he felt compelled to take a little sabre from those displays. It took me great pains to shop for it when I was at home, and it did really hurt all of us in the Arab Club to find it missing in spite of the as- surance of the International Cen- ter officers that we should have no culties when the International Center ' cannot take further ac- tion." The motion definitely does not request free legal aid for all cases in litigation. The members of ISA felt that the extreme ex- pense that some times arise from immigration and deportation cases constituted an unfair burden upon the financial resources of the for- eign student. At the present time the International Center provides legal council to foreign students in good standing but once the stu-. dent has lost his status a federal ruling prevents the International Center from acting as an official attorney to the student in cases of pending deportation. At present the procedure is to turn the case over to a private attorney. One such case recently cost a student $750. The ISA action is not the specific ;4, 'A- May Festivals 4. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article, writ- ten by music critic Julian Seaman, is reprinted from the May 13 issue of The Toledo Blade.) M AY WOULD seem to be a month of song and fiesta. The Music Festival, out .and indoors, becomes rampant; multitudes, winter toward circumscribed sound and its indifferent or casual through the darkling blandishments, brave thick heat, sticky and ill-ventilated halls or churches, to hear once more what they have been bearing all along. It is a flat diversion nowadays, stem- ming from a European counterpart now become an avid lure for tourists. Inter- vening years have built a tradition, and some festivals in this country have en- dured, by momentum alone, long after original purposes and visions have been forgotten. Unfortunately, the managements of these cultural ventures have not grown with the years around them. Hence a dull, myopic routine has replaced the first zest and ad- venture. So we have mediocrities, inepti- tudes, the bromides of sound, and programs cleansed of all thought or excitement. Two specimens come to mind. They are old enough to have sustained the moss of age, they have just concluded current se- ances, both show the same symptoms of inner decay and boredom. The 59th annual May Festival at Ann Becket also is dying of dry rot. J. H. Thu- man has been manager since 1908. I have just reviewed each concert in both of these festivals: six in Ann Arbor; four in Cincinnati. In each, I have found much the same situation-each, started in high hopes on a national basis, has deteriorated over ti years into a predominently local affair. A disposition on the part of each management to rely upon limited, semi- informed judgments for selection of artists and programs is apparent. Enterprise, ori- ginality and professional shrewdness are en- tirely absent. No commissions for new works by emi- nent American or European composers have been extended; no American debuts of outstanding European artists, in every category, have been arranged; there have been no efforts to invite the cooperation of varied organizations; the degree of scholarship and musical perspicacity em- ployed in the choice of works to be pre- sented has been infantile. All festival managers in this country should spend some time every year in the musical purlieus of Europe; should survey carefully, in the light of past standards, the field of musical artistry and resource here and abroad. I would recommend, in the cases of Ann Arbor and Cincinnati particularly, 'I. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility.. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 2552 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (11 a.m. on Saturday). SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1952 VOL. LXII, No. 166 Notices Late permission for women students who attended "Come Back, Little She- ba" on Tues., May 20, will be no later than 11 p.m. Late permission for women students who attended "Come Back, Little She- ba" on Wed., May 21, will be no iater than 10:55 p.m. Late permission for women students who attended the University Choir Con- cert on Wed., May 21, will be no later than 11 p.m. Department of Anthropology and the Center for Japanese Studies. "Incidents in Asian Folklore." Eiichiro Ishida, Pro- fessor of Anthropology, University of Tokyo. Mon., May 26, 4:15 p.m., Rack- ham Amphitheater. Academic Notices seminar in complex Variables. Mon., May 26, 3 p.m., 247 W. Engineering. Mr. Brauer wil conclude his discussion of "Jentzsch's Theorem." Doctoral Examination for James Sid- ney Murphy, Aeronautical Engineering; thesis: "Some Effects of Surface Curvat- ture on Laminar Boundary-Layer Flow," Sat., May 24, 9 a.m., 1077 E. Engineering Bldg, Chairman, A. M. Kuethe. aDoctoral Examination for Seymour Calvert, Chemical Engineering; thesis: "Vertical, Upward, Annular, Two-Phase Flow in Smooth Tubes," Sat., May 24, 10 a.m., E. Engineering Bldg, Chairman, G. B. Williams. Doctoral Examination for Richard Al- Management," Mon., May 26, 1:30 p.m., East Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Chairman, S. T. Dana. Doctoral Examination for Roy E. Sommerfield, Education; thesis: "The Relationship of Reading Ability to Measures of Perceptual Span with Spe- cial Reference to Tachistoscopic Span for Digits," Mon., May 26, 1:30 p.m., West Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Chairman, L H. Anderson. Doctoral Examination for Dorothy Eyke, Chemistry; thesis: "A Polargra- phic Study of Some N-Mono-Substi- tuted Ethylenediamine Complexes of Copper, Cadmium, Lead, - and Zinc," Mon., May 26, 2 p.m., 3003 Chemistry Bldg. Chairman, R. W. Parry. Probability Seminar. Mon., May 26, 4 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Prof. D. A. Darl- ing will be the speaker. Zoology Seminar. David R. Cook will speak on "Genera of the Hydracarina in Michigan, with a Revision of the Michigan Arrenuridae," Mon., May 26, 8 p.m., 2116 Natural Science Bldg. Sixty-Second Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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