THE MICHIGAN DAILY

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1952

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DORIS FLEESON:
The President's Book

WASHINGTON - President Truman has
handed to William Hillman, an old
friend and a commentator for the Mutual
Broadcasting System, the choicest literary
plum of the year in the way of a book
called "Mr President" which will go on
sale March 18. The book will promptly take
all prizes for frankness on the part of a
president in office and will result in red
faces up and down the land.
While authorship of "Mr. President" is
ostensibly that of Mr. Hillman, in actual-
ity the book is the President's own. He
has made available to the editor a vast
quantity of presidential letters, memo-
randa, and diary entries. These consti-
tute some 35,000 words of the volume.
There are 30,000 additional words based
on conversations with the President which
appear in direct quotation. Mr. Hillman
gets into the act with about 15,000 words
of his own, but this is mere bridgework
to help the reader identify and place the
documents and remarks.
Its publication is bound to start old
wounds bleeding again. Included, for in-
stance, is Mr. Truman's long letter to Ber-
nard Baruch, reproaching him for turning
down the request to serve as finance chair-
man for the 1938 campaign. The postscript
reminding the'elder statesman of the honors
which had been heaped on his brother Her-
man is also there.
A number of documents known to exist
by very few people are published in detail.
One of these is a long letter the President
wrote to James Byrnes while the latter was
Secretary of State in which he upbraids the
Secretary for not keeping him advised of
what his department was doing. The letter
was never mailed. It was read to Brynes over
the telephone and helped to widen the rup-

ture which eventually sent Byrnes back to
the stamping grounds of the Dixiecrats.
Great names abound in the pages. There
are letters or diary notations about scores
of nqtable figures of our time, John L.
Lewis, Senator Taft, James Forrestal,
Mrs. Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins and many
others.
In a letter to Hillman authorizing the
publication of the book, the President wrote,
"I expect there will be those who will con-
strue this as a political act. You and I know
better." Denial or not, the book certainly
will be construed as a political act, but it
will not prove much to those who will read
it to find out whether Mr. Truman is going
to run again. Among the few people who
have had a chance to read it there is al-
ready a sharp division. One group reasons
that it must be the Truman swan song. The
other group is convinced that it was written
as a clever campaign document. Which
leaves us precisely where we came in.
Mr. Truman keeps a wary eye on the
history books. He has an abiding interest
in what histprians of the future may say
about his own performance on the world
stage. He is mindful of the fact that
President Roosevelt died before he could
write the books he planned to write on
leaving office and the resulting partial
interpretations in innumerable books by
others.
Perhaps Mr. Truman decided to get his
own licks in first. In any event, from the
President's lengthy remarks on the Pender-
gasts and his relationship to them, his sub-
sequent career, his thoughts about the presi-
dency as an institution, this book is an as-
tonishing performance. Its publication is
being awaited in Washington with bated
breath.
(Copyright, 1952, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

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JF FACT4

By STEWART ALSOPr

WASHINGTON-Few ordinary voters have
ever heard of the Federal Power Com-
mission, and certainly no one knows Dale
E. Doty, the career official from the Interior
Department whom the President has just
nominated as a Federal Power Commission-
er. Yet this nomination represents a vital
turning point in a truly tigerish political
struggle, waged for money stakes that
should impress anyone.
For example, just one of -the Power
Commission's recent rulings, freeing na-
tural gas producers from Federal control,
is due to increase the bill of the nation's
gas consumers by a couple of hundred
million dollars annually. And this same
single ruling, according to the estimate
of former power commission chairman
Leland Olds, Increased the value of the
proven natural gas reserves of just one
corporation, the Phillips Petroleum Com-
pany, by a cool $700,000,000.
The issue in this struggle was, very simp-
ly, whether the natural gas and oil people
would retain control of this commission
which is supposed to regulate them.
SOME time ago, the Federal Power Com-
mission was captured for the natural gas
industry by the President's oil and gas mil-
lionaire friend, Senator Robert S. Kerr of
Oklahoma, who is now aspiring to the Presi-
dency himself. But the control was jeo-
pardized when Presedential crony Mon C.
Wallgren left the commission chairmanship,
reportedly to take a fat job with a natural
gas pipeline company. Furthermore, the
President then chose Thomas Buchanan, the
only commissioner who voted for the con-
sumers in the Phillips Petroleum case, to
succeed Wallgren in the chairmanship.
Hence it was essential for the industry to

get a friend into the vacant
job, in order to hamstring
Buchanan.

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The roster of the industry's forces in the
fight says a lot about the frustration of
President Truman's Fair Deal. Senator
Kerr, a serious aspirant for the Democratic
Presidential nomination, was general-in-
chief of Capitol Hill. Federal Power Com-
missioner Nelson Lee Smith, who had helped
Kerr capture the commission for the natural
sion. And the allies at the White House
gas people,-was inside man on the commis-
were Presidential Aides Matt Connelly and
Donald Dawson and the man they used toi
hate, Ex-Presidential Advisor Clark Clif-
ford, who is now a lawyer, with the Phillips
Petroleum Company among his clients.
Besides these, other agents of the indus-
try worked to put over the industry nomi-
nee who got the biggest play, Nelson Lee
Smith's assistant, William S. Tarver.
There are excellent reasons to believe that
the word was passed, through subterran-
ean channels, that $500,000 of oil and na-
tural gas money would enrich the coffers
of the Democratic National Committee
within a week after the day Tarver's name
went to Capitol Hill. Tarver was warmly
supported by the President's own aides,
and the consumers' candidates were
damned, by the same powerful voices, for
"not being team players"-a cardinal sin
in the Truman lexicon.
Moreover, when the President rejected
Tarver, the tactic of beating down the con-
sumers' candidates, one by one, was adroit-
ly used. Nelson Lee Smith meanwhile, pro-
duced a swarm of other candidates. And
Senators Lyndon Johnson of Texas, Warren
Magnuson of Washington (who also pro-
duced one of the swarm of industry candi-
dates from his own back office), and the
feeble Herbert O'Conor of Maryland were,
mobilized to help the industry get its way.
* * *
ON THE consumers' side of the fight, be-
sides the lonely Commissioner Bucha-
nan, the chief forces were a number of
Northern Senators from natural gas con-
suming states; the labor groups; Secretary
of the Interior Oscar Chapman, and, signi-
ficantly enough, the new Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, Frank Mc-
Kinney. Before McKinney entered the strug-
gle, the industry's friends had already
knocked out first consumer-minded candi-
date, C. W. Smith, an able permanent offi-
cial of the power commission staff. But Mc-
Kinney waged a determined fight for the
second choice of the consumers' friends.
This was former Maritime Commissioner
Raymond McKeogh, who probably earned
his reputation for "not being a team player"
because he was the last apostle of decency
in the Maritime Commission's rottenest
days. In the end, however, Senator O'Conor
carried word down from The Hill that Mc-
Keogh could not be confirmed; and at this
point, evidently, Secretary of the Interior
Chapman put forward the name of Dale
Doty. As a man with a good record on
power but no knowledge whatever of natural
gas regulation, Doty was a compromise, and
the President took him.
It may well be that even Doty will be
fought by the natural gas industry's power-

"You'll Take The High Road, And I'll Take The
- Low Road; I'll Be In The White House Afore You"
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WASHINGTON-Though the King Committee probing tax finagling
has made a healthy contribution toward cleaning up corruption,
the fact remains that the best insurance against a congressional in-
vestigation is to get elected to Congress. Though congressmen are
quick to accuse others of whitewashing, the truth is that Congress it-
self is the most exclusive protective association in the world. If you
belong to Congress you don't get investigated. Furthermore, if con-
victed of a crime, you can continue to sit in Congress-as witness Con-
gressman Drehm of Ohio-and keep your son on the payroll.
Here are some examples of how Congress has adopted a double
morality standard for congressmen.
1. The Senate has criticized RFC officials for taking so much
as a 12-pound ham, but has blissfully overlooked the free air-
plane rides that Sen. Owen Brewster, Maine Republican, accepted
from Pan American Airways at the same time he was sponsoring
legislation to benefit Pan American.
2. Congressman Cecil King, California Democrat, who has been
investigating others for influencing tax cases, made a gesture of in-
vestigating himself for the same offense. But while the charges
against high government officials were made in public, the charges
against King were heard in private. Finally, after three days of secret,
whirlwind hearings, King's committee issued a public statemeit white-
washing King.
This column, however, published the secret hearings which ex-
plored in the most superficial, spit-and-polish manner the charge that
King had interfered in the tax investigation of Tom Gregory, presi-
dent of the Long Beach Federal Savings and Loan.
This column, continuing where the King Committee left off,
then discovered that King had personally pressured the Justice
Department to settle all Gregory's troubles with the government.
King's proposed settlement automatically would have ended the
tax investigation, ordered in 1946 by then Attorney General Tom
Clark.
3. One of the most sensational facts that came out of the tax
hearings was that Sen. Styles Bridges, New Hampshire Republican,
and mystery-man Henry Grunewald both made representations at the
Internal Revenue Bureau in behalf of Hyman Klein, a Baltimore li-
quor dealer. Klein was up to his ears in about $7,000,000 worth of tax
trouble.
Yet the King Committee glossed over the embarassing testimony
about Senator Bridges, and has made no move to put him on the wit-
ness stand like the others. Meanwhile, it still hasn't been explained
what a New Hampshire Senator was doing intervening in the case of a
Marylander, or why Bridges made a Senate speech proposing a salary
increase for Charley Oliphant, who had been asked to fix the Klein
case.
4. Last June, this column revealed how Congressman Frank
Boykin, Alabama Democrat, got a $455,758 RFC loan for the Stutts
Lumber Company of Thomasville, Ala., which happened to be buy-
ing timber from Boykin and which used $300,000 of the RFC mon-
ey to pay off an overdraft at a local bank.
Boykin also wangled a $750,000 RFC loan for the Mobile Paper
Company, after which he and his four children suddenly showed up
with a large chunk of stock in the same company. In a public show of
innocence, Boykin invited the Senate Banking Committee to investi-
gate him. This investigation was turned over to Senator Hoey's Sen-
ate Investigating Committee by Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, in a

letter dated September 12.
"We were unable to complete our investigations prior to the ex-
piration of our special authority, the exhaustion of our funds, the dis-
missal of our staff and the conclusion of our study," wrote Fulbright
to Senator Hoey of North Carolina.
"Accompanying this letter are the subcommittee file and the
RFC files on the Stutts Lumber Company and the Stone Container
Company (successor to the Mobile Paper Mill Company)," added
Fulbright.
Fulbright also reported in the confidential letter that "the FBI
has also taken an interest in both these cases, and its representative,
Mr. Harold Hair, has had the use of both the RFC subcommittee file
and the RFC files."'
Yet Senator Hoey and the Senate Investigating Committee have
failed to follow up, have shown a notable lack of interest in Congress-
man Boykin.
5. The House has demanded the resignation of Internal Reve-
nue collectors, but has refused to expel one of its own members, '
Congressman Walter Brehm, Ohio Republican, who has been con-
victed of taking kickbacks.
-CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES-
IT-PAYS-TO-HAVE-CONNECTIONS -- Hugh Fulton, former Chief
Counsel of the Senate Truman Committee, which boosted the Presi-
dent into the White House, has been doing all right lately. So has
Fulton's law partner, Rudolph Halley, who jumped from the Kefauver
Crime Committee to be President of the New York City Council.
They have just signed up a new client in South America, the Cor-j
poracion Peruana Del Santo, an agency of the Peruvian government.
It is paying the Fulton-Halley law firm $18,000 a year retainer to swing1
an Export-Import Bank loan for the Zinc and Aluminum industries
in Peru.I
(Copyright, 1952, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1952
VOL. LXIV, NO. 90
Notices
Library Hours on Sundays. On Sun-
days during the second semester the
General Library will be open from 2
to 6 p.m. Holders of stack permits will
have access to the stacks and may
withdraw books. Other users of the
Library may return and renew books,
but not charge them, at the Circula-
tion Desk.
Service will be given in the Medical
Reading Room, the Periodical Reading
Room, and the Main Reading Room.
Study Halls will be closed, but books
desired for Sunday use may be re-
served by students on Saturday.
Student Book Exchange will be open
in ROOM 3K, Union, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.,
Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 18 & 19, to'
return unsold books and checks for
sold books. Any student not claiming
his books at this time will lose all title
to his book as stated in his receipt.
Personnel Request
Lt. Duke and Ensign Kramer, Wave
Officers, U.S. NAVY will be on the cam-
pus Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
February 18, 19, and 20, respectively,
to interview women students. Fresh-
man, Sophomores and Juniors, who
are interested in receiving officer com-
missions in the Naval Reserve (Waves)
through training in the Reserve Offi-
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hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, 3528 Ad-
ministration Building. Group meeting,
Mon., Feb. 18,5 p.m., 4508 Administra-
tion Building.. For appointments call
Ext. 371.
Lectures
University Lecture, auspices of the
Department of Classics. "Literature
and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt."
COLIN ROBERTS, Reader in Papyro-
logy, Oxford University, England. 4:15
p.m., Mon., Feb. 18, Rackham Amphi-
theater.
Academic Notices
Italian 62.. Organizational meeting,
Mon., Feb. 18, 7 p.m., 406 R.L.
Classical Studies 51: class will not
meet Tues., Feb. 19, but students are
asked to attend the lecture by Colin
Roberts, Mon., Feb. 18 at 4:15 p.m. in
Rackham Amphitheatre.
Seminar in Complex Variables: Mon.,
Feb. 18, 3 p.m., Room 247 W. E. Mr.
Crisler will prove the Hardy-Littlewood
Converse of Able's Theorem.
Astronomical Colloquium. Mon., Feb.
18. 4:15 p.m., the Observatory. Dr.
Donald H. Menzel of the Harvard Col-
lege Observatory will speak on the
"Origin of the Aurora Borealis."
Aero. 250 - Theory of Nonlinear Os-
cilations: Class will meet on Tuesday
and Thursday, 8 a.m., 1512 E. Engineer-
ing Building.
Zoology Seminar: Dr. David C.
Chandler, Professor of Limnology at
Cornell University, will speak on
"Limnological Studies in the Western
End of Lake Erie" on Mon., Feb. 18, 8
p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. This
seminar is being sponsored in coopera-
tion with Phi Sigma Society, and the
Great Lakes Research Institute.
Lie Groups Seminar: Mon., Feb. 18,
TO THE EDITOR
GOP Poll...
To the Editor:
The second paragraph of Sam-
ra's story on the Daily poll for
presidential candidate preferences
states "though the Daily does not
pretend the poll was scientific,
here are the results."
This is an impotent excuse for
a front page two column spread
that should never have been pub-
lished. Polls must be scientific to

have any value. If not they should
not be read because of the mis-
leading information provided.
Your night editor seemed so im-
pressed by the results that he gave
it more space than any other front
page story. This was utterly ridi-
culous.
The poll was ineptly conducted.
I can remember that on the way
to the second floor of the gym,
with more important things on my
mind I heard someone yell out,
"Who do you want for president?"
and near the sampler were a
couple of booths for some of the
Republican candidates. It there-
fore appeared that this was a
sampling of preferences for a Re-
publican. I sincerely doubt if there
is a four to one ration between
Republican and Democratic choi-
ces on this campus-and these are
the figures you stated.
In the future I would recom-
mend that the Daily refrain from
publishing misleading and value-
less information.
--Joel McKible '53

3 p.m., 3011 Angel Hall. Mr. Rosenberg
will speak on "Homogeneous Spaces."
Doctoral examination: for William
Elliott Jenner, Mathematics; Thesis:
"Block Ideals and Arithmetics of Alge-
bras," Sat., Feb. 16, 3012 Angell Hall, 3
p.m., Chairman, R. Brauer.
The University Extension Service an-
nounces that enrollments are still open
in the following classes meeting on
Monday evening:
Freehand Drawing. Open to those
who are interested in doing creative
work in freehand drawing, using still
life, model, or freely chosen subject
matter. Designed for the beginner as
well as the mature student. Lectures,
group discussions, and studio ativi-
ties. Frank Cassara is the instructor.
Noncredit course, $16. Mondays, 7:3
p.m. 415 Architecture Building.
Factory Management (Mechanical En
gineering 135, two hours credit). sIan-
agement problems and methods in.
volvel in the operation of manufactur-
Ing institutions, including location,
layout, equipment investment, motion
study, time study, methods of wage
payment, inspection, organization pro-.
cedures, production control, material
control, and budgets. Lectures, reci-
tations, and problems. Instructor is
Quention C. Vines, Associate Professor
of Mechanical Engineering. 16 weeks,
$16. Mondays, 7 p.m. 165 Business
Administration Building.
Electron-Tube Circuits. ?Design of
electronic circuits for specific applica-
tions such as rectifiers, welding con-
trols, motpr controls, high frequency
oscillators. Basic theory and analysis
of practical circuits will be presented.
Laboratory exercises. Instructor, Ste-
phen V. Hart. Noncredit course, 16
weeks, $25. Mondays, 7 p.m. 2084 East
Engineering Building,
Information about these and other
courses in the Ann Arbor program may
be had from the representative of the
Extension Service who will be regis-
tering students in Room 164 Business
Administration B uil1d ing Monday
through Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m.,
or by calling the Extension Service dur-
ing office hours at 3-1511, Ext. 354.
Concerts
May Festival (6 concerts), May 1, 2,
3, 4. By purchasing season tickets,
which are now on sale, a considerable
savings is made-$8.00, $9.00 and $10.00
-at the offices of the University Mu.
sical Society in Burton Memorial Tow-
er.
Events Today
Inter-Arts Union. Meeting, 2A30 p.m,
League. All who wish to submit manu-
scripts for the festival in March may
do so then.
School of Music Student Council:
Meeting for both old and new mem-
bers, 11 a.m., 404 BMT.
Coming Events
Faculty Sports Night will be held on
Feb. 23 as facilities could not be ob-
tained this Saturday, Feb. 16.
Delta Sigma Pi professional fraternity
invites all Business Administration and
Economics majors to an informal rush-
ing smoker on Sun., Feb. 17, from 2
to 5 p.m. at the chapter house, 1412
Cambridge Road.
Intercollegiate Zionist Federation of
America (IXFA): "The Israel Melting
Pot" will be the theme of IZFA's meet-
Ing Sun., Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. League.
A film and a speaker will be presented.
Everyone welcome.
Graduate Outing Club. Meet at the
rear of the Rackham Building, Sun.,
Feb. 17, 2 p.m. Hiking if weather per.
mits.

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MUSIC

Then fate steps in and deals Deeds what
almost turns out to be a fatal blow. His
uncle, whom Deeds has never met, is killed
in an accident and leaves him twenty mil-
lion dollars.
Deeds receives the news with equanimity
and goes to the big city to assume his re-
spossibilities as a millionaire. New York,
however, is peopled with sharpies who al-
most succeed in ruining Deeds and getting
all the money. With stern New England
common sense Deeds manages to thwart
their craftiest plots and emerges the victor.
I mention the story at length because
of its similarity with three or four other
films fashioned after the Gary Cooper per-
sonality. "Meet John Doe," in fact, differs
from "Mr. Deeds" only in particulars; the
movies could interchange whole scenes
without much difficulty.
If you've seen any of these movies and
liked them, you'll probably enjoy this one.
For my part, "Mr. Deeds" is just a little too
cute and sentimental, although I always get
a kick out of Frank Capra's rather nice
capitalist-knocking.
Cooper is his awkward, gangling, honest
best in the title role. Jean Arthur, a news-
hen who almost ruins Deeds with her slant-
ed news stories before falling in love with
him, plays equally well. Capra's direction is

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LAST NIGHT the Rackham audience wel-
comed an evening of superb chamber
music with warm applause. If anything, it
seemed that the fine musicianship of the
Budapest foursome was imbued this year
with an even finer sense of ensemble than
one remembered. It is a rare hallucination
in music when the surface of performance
recedes far enough to let the piece speak
clearly for itself. The open, singing pharac-
ter of Haydn's E-flat Quartet, Op. 64, no. 6,
was fully realized within a close dynamic
range, heightened in the Andante by the
delicate phrase and tenuous line of Rois-
man's violin.
Less gentle, and certainly less self-con-
tained was the Lucas Foss Quartet in G
Major that followed. At first hearing,
one is struck by evidence of an uncommon
imagination, more often brilliant than
sustained. At every turn, the piece is.
fashioned by a watchful sense of what
seems right for the ear, the criterion
lacking in much new music, that lures
Foss at the same time into a fondness for
quoting back small bits for the sake of a
new /inflection. Certainly he would mis-
handle the larger form if he were not
equally master of development and climax.

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What's wrong now?
Mom says
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Fairy Godfather anymore, will you?

It's a rule of your profession, isn't it,
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