Aj P'AGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1953 I I The Danger Of Catch-Phrases IN A RECENT speech before an assembled student group at Rollins College, Florida, General of the Army Omar N. Bradley pin- pointed one of the most pronounced psy- chological problems now manifesting itself in the thought of the American people. Bradley stated that the public must restrain itself in attempting to resolve the "tormenting" problems of the world by the use of "catch-phrase terminology." He particularly hit out at the blind ac- ceptance of such phrases as "Let's face the facts, we are already in World War III," and warned that the continued use of these catch-phrases might be the forerunner to a general curtailment of freedom by more extreme groups, who would capitalize m the use of this term. Without underestimating the Communist threat, Bradley made it patently clear, that most people are jumping the gun in order to have something decisive to cling to in an insecure world. He also warned that if terms about the reality of World War III remained unchecked, an atmosphere would be produced in which the public would has- tily demand that extreme measures be used against the projected enemy. This, he went on, could involve us in war, a possibility which the general still feels can be avoided. Obviously, the general would also frown upon such statements as were made by Senator Robert A. Taft-"people seem to be asleep to the fact that we are at war with Red China now. "Taft's state- ment is exactly of the sort that Bradley has warned against. While it is true that American military equipment and sol- diers are engaged in battles throughout the Far East, we have not yet reached the stage of full scale global war. When we accept the idea of a third world war before it has actually descended upon us, we have taken a major step in bringing it about that much sooner. Unbridled fear on the part of any na- tion is bound to produce an explosive situ- ation. General Bradley's warning should remind the American people that, while they must remain alert to the Communist men- ace, they must not succumb to unwarranted war hysteria. -Mark Reader THE POST-WORLD WAR I I SAAR: "Steady Now, Pal - Don't Hamstring Me In My Work" German Hearts, French Stomachs (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a se- ries of interpretive articles on the present situa- tion in the Saar basin. Miss Greene has just returned from a ten-month tour of Western Europe.) By GAYLE GREENE EVENTY-YEAR-OLD George Geiger, pro- German member of the Saarbrucken City Council died November 21, 1952. "Political murder" charged the Bonn press; from the French came shouts of indignation. A gang of toughs had burst into the Geiger home and demanded to know if he or his family possessed "illegal documents." When Geiger protested at the intrusion, he and his family were pushed around a bit. Two hours later the elderly Saar official died of a heart attack. George Geiger's death in an area which was already a hotbed of controversy set off a barrage of epithets flying back and forth across the Rhine River. The same old story of violent dissension was being re-enacted in the Saar. We had heard it before in 1934 as Germany strove to make an impressive showing in the Saar plebi- cite. When a defeated Germany was divided into three occupation sectors in 1945, the Saar was included in the French zone. Instead of fatally dismantling Saarland machinery and carting it back to France as the spoils of victory, the French set up a policy which combined clever fore- thought, generosity and a determination to link the Saar's economy to that of France. They instituted a French-Saar economic and monetary union, prying the area away from its German ties. This led to the estab- lishment of a de jure Saar state. In 1947 a constitution was adopted, a landtag elect- ed and Gilbert Grandval traded his title of Saar High Commissioner to that of French Ambassador to the Saar. To Germans, this recognition of the Saar as an independent state was a bit premature. Such decisions were supposedly to follow the approval of the German Treaty, not to pre- cede it. To surrender the Saar without a bat- tle would also lessen their claim to land now held by Poland. ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round twith DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - President Eisenhower tweaked Republican senators at a pri- vate luncheon recently for blocking some of the budget cuts they clamor so loudly for. As fast as extravagances can be weeded out of the budget, Ike chided, "they tell me you fellows try to keep them in." Ike confessed to the economy-minded Republicans that he was "just beginning to see the justification" for many federal expenses. He firmly added, however, that "we will have to get on top of government operations" in order to cut costs. But it will be a tough job, he predicted, "to find the places and do it." The President started off the luncheon by promising not to "talk shop.", "I know you get tired of talking shop," he grinned. Then he turned to Iowa's Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper on his right and got into a discussion of pheasant shooting in Iowa. This brought up the question of stor- ing the downed pheasants, and Idaho's Sen. Henry Dworshak cracked: "Do you still have Harry's deep freeze?" Ike ducked slightly at this reference to the deep freeze that Harry Vaughan got from a Wisconsin lobbyist for Mrs. Tru- man. However, Minnesota's Sen. Ed Thye soon got the conversation off trivial- ities and onto Eisenhower's controversial Secretary of Agriculture. The Minnesota ehicken-farming senator told about a speech he had made on the Senate floor, slightly critical of Secretary Benson but at the same time refuting "the impres- sign the Democrats are trying to make that the cattle drop is the result of the Republicans." "The fundamental difficulty," the Presi- dent broke in, "is that we have the largest cattle population we have ever had." As for his Secretary of Agriculture, Eis- enhower added: "Every time I see Benson, I am impressed by his tremendous sincerity." The President acknowledged, however, that it takes more than the right program. "We must present it to the people so they understand what we are doing," he declared. Meanwhile, Ike indicated that he has plenty of problems to go around. "Some of my people come up to me with a problem," he said. "'That is one of your problems,' I tell them. 'You send out the answer.'" NOTE-The President took time out to show the Senators some of his watercolors. He found it difficult to paint now, he said, "with guards always looking over my shoul- der." * * * GRIM WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING 1XACTLY WHAT happened inside the from the White House to pronounce the state of the world "grim." Briefly here are the non-security high- lights of what the congressional leaders were told: 1-THE CHIEF FRICTION POINT IS BERLIN. Intelligence Chief Allen Dulles, brother of the Secretary of State, warned that the Communist party might try to squeeze us out of Berlin this spring. Dulles could not predict whether they would try to choke us off with another blockade or send East Germans into the west sector to stage serious riots. However, he warned that trouble was coming. Meanwhile, the Air Force has a master plan ready for another Berlin airlift to be used at the drop of the Red flag. 2-DRIVE IN FRENCH INDO-CHINA. The Congressmen were told that the Krem- lin was likely to hit the west in several places at the same time, and one of these, according to, Allen Dulles, is French Indo- China. Russian and Chinese leaders, he said, had been conferring on this recently. General Bradley, however, claimed the Chinese didn't have a large army on the Indo-Chinese border, though he said guer- rillas and supplies did seem to be pour- ing into Indo-China. As a countermove Dulles urged that American supplies be stepped up to aid the French. The French, he said, were asking for a 5-year plan during which we would send half a bil- lion dollars worth of supplies each year to Indo-China. This brought an exclamation of surprise, and incredulity from Sen. Alex Wiley, chair- man of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee. * * * . MILLION-MAN CHINESE ARMY 3-A COMMUNIST DRIVE ON KOREA. General Bradley reported, was not to be discounted. The Chinese are using a new rotation plan and have put two new divi, sions in the front lines. Unfortunately, lift- ing the embargo around Formosa hasn't drawn any Chinese troops out of Korea to defend the mainland opposite Formosa. The Chinese Communist force in Korea remains one million men. On the other hand. the United Nations has 10 per cent more American troops in Korea today than on January 1. The rea- son, Bradley said, is because other UN units had to be rotated. Any big UN drive in Korea, the congressmen were warned, would cost us total casualties of around 50,000 men and would not be possible without sending more American divisions to the front. 4-COOPERATION IN TIE BALKANS --The Secretary of State, John Dulles, reported one favorable piece of news, namely that three traditional enemies- Stating the French case as high com- missioner in 1951, Grandval insisted: "France cannot possibly give up her union with the Saar . . . both for reasons of her foreign trade and because this union bal- ances the forces of European production." Along with the Saar, which produces 25 percent of its steel and 28 percent of its coal, France entered the Coal and Steel Com- munity on just about equal terms with Ger- many. France buys more from the Saar than from any other country except the United States; the Saar is France's third best cus- tomer. The Saarlanders themselves are still smarting from the wounds received as Hitler's goosestepping warriors. If their hearts belong to Germany, then their stomachs are for France. I spoke to var- ious Saarlanders on that rather ambig- uous concept-Europeanization-and not one rejected the idea. They seem to want only to be left alone with some sort of compromise that would allow them a spe- cial economic status, and seem greatly enthused about the idea of a European Saar and the possibility that Saarbruck- en might become the capital of a United Europe. One politician felt it would be a "prop for a tottering Europe" and a link that would bind France and Germany. Union with Ger- many could only mean higher taxes, a re- sponsibility to accept a portion of West Ger- many's refugees and conscription of Saar- landers into the new German army. In an effort to reach a compromise and make a joint statement, France's Robert Schuman and Germany's Conrad Adnaur met last spring. Germany refused to g'along with France's demands as long as "demo- cratic" fair play was lacking in the Saar (As long as pro-German parties were out- lawed). An impasse was reached, the talks broke off and the Saar election was set for Nov. 30. A flood of propaganda emenating from Germany was unleased on the Saar, re- minding one of the press under Goebbels. The Easter issue of one daily poured an anti-Semitic tirade on Grandval and was followed by reminders of how anti-Ger- man voters were punished after the 1934 plebicite. The Catholic Bishop of Trier, whose diocese covers most of the Saar, ad- vised the Saarlanders that they had no Christian obligation to vote in an elec. tion that would separate them from "the German fatherland." Hundreds of Saar- landers received letters to vote blank bal- lots or be black listed. Others were in- structed to bring home their blank ballots, as they would be required to produce them by a new regime.k The death of George Geiger was used as a rallying cry, and even the cars of the French Diplomatic Mission were plastered with such exhortations as "The Saar re- mains German." In the face of all this, the French mis- sion stirred uncomfortably. Officially, they predicted a low abstention (to abstain was the only way to register a pro-German vote), but the concern and pessimism was undenia- bly present. Despite a cold, grey downpour, election day brought an excellent turnout and a63 percent vote for the pro-French parties. Only seven percent of the registered voters stayed away from the polls. But almost 25 percent cast tither blank or mutilated bal- lots. Yet the jubilance over the French vic- tory was not without bitterness. The French were accused of running a police state, of bannipg German newspapers as well as parties and public meetings. By the same token, the Germans were charged with using Nazi-like intimidation. The Saarlanders had let their stomachs and memories decide the issue, giving the German nationalists a sharp, final rebuff. VCURRENT MOVIES Atthe*Michigan.. THE I DON'T CARE GIRL, with Mitzi Gay- nor MUSICALS about entertainers have this in their favor: they can go into extrava- gant song and dance productions with a min- imum of explanation. But if one considers that a musical should be first of all refresh- ing and entertaining, the pseudo-biograph- ical convention is nothing but a hindrance. Platitudes about Show Business and the same old backstage romances are simply a dead weight on this particular movie. The producers have attempted to revive the legend of a wildly abandoned show- girl of the twenties, Eva Tangpiay. Disap- pointingly, Mitzi Gaynor plays an ordinary nice girl, very like a typical co-ed. Her leading man, an averagely handsome young fellow, has an equally watered-down role and is about as interesting as cold oatmeal. Miss Gaynor undeniably brings a certain verve to singing and dancing. Such talents, unfortunately, can't function too success- fully in a vacuum as great as this. At best, the musical productions might be called pleasantly gaudy. The sequences featuring George Jessel and Cooperation .. To the Editor: I AM grateful for the letter by B. Houghton which appeared in the Daily of February 26. It is ap- parent that I did not make my- self clear in my previous letter of February 22. First, let us observe that there is a difference between "chasing" and "Mutual cooperation." Chas- ing seems to me -to be a one way affair where one party assumes the responsibility of continuing the relationship and the other par- ty does nothing. I feel that this form of behavior is unhealthy for both parties, whether the chaser is a he or a she. Mutual coopera- tion is an interaction between -two personalities which makes pos- sible a fair and healthy relation- ship where both personalities can grow and improve. I am an advocate of mutual co- operation. The spirit of mutual cooperation is eloquently summed up in the golden rule: "do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Mutual cooperation re- quires the effort and responsibili- abundance of bones and the "Kib- bled Biscuit" appearance, looked like a dog's delight. They also had the audacity to pass off as an ex- tra, for the second consecutive day, a weird pot-pourii called Meat Salad. This did so little to discourage the overall effect, thatl we were surprised as we sifted the' mess, not to find the name "Rov- er" printed on the plates. From the foregoing we want to state explicitly that we do not advocate the use of Quad food as susten- ance for dogs, as this would cer- tainly prove disasterous, and bring down the wrath of the Humane Society. The West Quad can, however, produce a good meal provided the impetus is great enough. Two weeks ago we were honored by a visit from Mr. Schaadt and Food Service higher-ups. The kitchen went overboard and produced one of the finer lunches of the year. Why do we get good meals only when guests come? Why don't these same people make an un- expected, surprise visit and see what they get? 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. 4 MA'rER OF rAC By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-Sometimes news is too big and too shapeless to fit into a headline. Families know, for instance, when their children reach voting age, and twenty-first birthdays can be marked with special festivities. But how is one to know just when a new national Administration has reached political maturity, and is ready to face facts honestly and to deal with them realistically? Nothing could be more important. Nothing could be harder to measure. Nonetheless, last week can reasonably be celebrated as the time when the Eisenhower Administration came of age, and the Republican party began to rise to the challenge of its vast new responsibility. Tax policy was really the decisive test, as it has been from the start. After all, lower taxes have been promised by every Republican, on the easy theory that the budget could be balanced by "cutting out waste." But when the hard budgetary facts were honestly analyzed, this theory did not hold water. President Eisenhower and Budget Director Joseph Dodge instead discovered, as previously reported in this space, that they had only three choices, all unpleasing. They could balance the budget and re- duce taxes, by abandoning all pretense of creative foreign policy and effective national defense. Or they could lower taxes and pay the bill for national security, by running a gigantic deficit. Or they cduld balance the budget and meet all reasonable security requirements, by careful, undramatic economies plus maintaining taxes at present levels. In his stirring press conference, Eisenhower revealed that he had chosen the third course, as had been forecast here. The deci- sion to ask for continuance of the excess profits tax, or for its replacement with another tax of equal yield, is a truly dramatic decision. It implies the highest and finest kind of political cour- age-the courage to do the disagreeable thing when the general welfare so demands. It also implies strong tendencies, if not actual decisions, in other vital. policy areas. If taxes are not to be reduced, it means that President Eisen- hower and his advisers have firmly set their faces against the kind of "defense economy" that was customary in the time of Louis A. John- son. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Under-Secretary Roger Kyes are to do their job the right way, with the first emphasis on na- tional strength, as they have set out to do it. If taxes are not to be reduced, it also means that there are to be no meat-axe slashes of foreign aid. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is to be allowed to get on with his great task, of unifying and reinvigorating the Western Alliance, without having the fiscal rug pulled out from un- der him. All this is only another way of saying that even the strongest considerations of political expediency have not swerved Dwight D. Eisenhower from acting in character. Beyond any doubt at all, the speed of the Administration's coming of age is due to the President himself. He is doing his job not as Franklin D. Roosevelt did, by domi- nating and directing in every important sphere. He is doing his job not as Harry S. Truman did, by permitting policy to be ready- made by others, and then abruptly accepting or rejecting .it. He is doing his job, rather, as one of the closest Eisenhower associ- ates has put it, as "an ideal chairman of the board." Eisenhower takes the chair, regularly and with the most positive effect, at three weekly meetings-with his Congressional leaders on Mondays, with the National Security Council on Wednesdays, and with his Cabinet on Fridays. These gatherings-even the usually meaningless Cabinet meetings-are no longer perfunctory and trivial. Each has its agenda, to which any of the company may contribute. Every item on the agenda is thoroughly discussed, so that even the meeting with the Congressional leaders often takes two hours. If disagreements emerge, they are not brushed aside; instead the Presi- dent, even it le has already made up his own mind, undertakes to persuade the malcontents before the next week's meeting. The aim is to have the Party leadership, the cold war directorate, and the larger full Cabinet all move forward together under the President's leadership. There have been disagreements, of course. All-out de-control of prices and wages was opposed in Cabinet, for instance, by Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin, as well as by Mutual Security Director Har- old Stassen and U.N. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who spoke in their role as experienced politicians. That time, Eisenhower sided with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey and Secre- tary of Defense Wilson, the most ardent de-controllers. Again, there have been sad disappointments. When the tax story was told to the Congressional leaders, Speaker of the House IJoseph Martin is reported to have remarked mournfully, "Well, let's make clear anyway that tax reduction is still our aim." Yet the governmental "team," which is so often talked about and so rarely found in action, really seems to have been formed by Eisen- hower. Under his leadership, the hard decisions are beingi smoothly taken, the tough jobs are being boldly tackled. (Copyright, 1953, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) ty of both he and she. We optimistically hope, now, -yDavid R. Reitz that with declining prices, the : . West Quad will take this oppor- tunity to improve the quality of Qu ad Food " e their meals. If the Quad having To the Editor: the material 'and ability to pro- THE ISSUE OF West Quad food duce good meals, does not, "its has been laying dormant for time for a change." some time now, but in this present -Bil Ewald period of declining food prices, L we are looking forward to mealsk which rise above mediocrity and never fall below as themeals of Fri. & Sat. Feb. 20 & 21. Friday nite the kitchen camej up with their usual "choice," cre- mated liver, and an unnamed fish that Squanto originally caught. As usual, they provided a tartar sauce, of questionable culinary art, to disguise its rancid flavors. Saturday's meal featured anoth- er delicacy only West Quad could produce. Spareribs, and dried bread which was passed off un- der the label of dressing. The BE KINDLY affectioned one to another with brotherly love. -Romans 12:10 THOU SHALT love thy neigh- bour as thyself. -Leviticus 19:18 ii DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I. Sixty-Third Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Crawford Young.......Managing Editor Barnes Connable.........City Editor Cal Samra.... ......Editorial Director Zander Holander......Feature Editor Sid Klaus.......Associate City Editor Hariand Brit.........Associate Editor Donna Hendleman..Associate Editor Ed Whipple...... ........Sports Editor John Jenks......Associate Sports Editor Dick Sewell....Associate Sports Editor Lorraine Butler,.......Women's Editor Mary Jane Mills, Assoc. Women's Editor Business Staff Al Green.............Business Manager Milt Goetz..... ...Advertising Manager Diane Johnston....Assoc. Business Mgr. Judy Loehnberg.......Finance Manager (Continued from page 2) exam, one must have 2 years' graduate study, in addition to 2 years' experience for grades GS-11 and 3 years' for GS-12. Application blanks are available, and there is no closing date. The Department of State announces examination for appointment as For- eign Service Officer. The exam will be held Sept. 14-17 in various locations throughout the country. To qualify for the examination, one must be at least 20 and under 31 years of age; be, and have been a citizen for at least ten years; if married, married to an Amer- ican citizen. Application blanks and announcements are available. For further information concerning these and other openings and for ap- pointments, contact the Bureau of Ap- pointments, 3528 Administration Build- ing, Ext. 371. Lectures University Lecture, auspices of the Department of Botany, "Chemical Reg- ulation of Growth and Organ Forma- tion in Plant Tissues." Dr. Folke Skoog, University of Wisconsin, Fri., Feb. 27, 4:15 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. French Lectures. Mile Elizabeth Nizan, former actress and "societaire" of La Comedie Francaise will offer two lec- ture-recitals today: "Les Comediens et leurs Auteurs" (reserved for the facul- ty and French students) in Room 3-S of the Michigan Union at 11:10 a.m., and "Actualite de La Fontaine" in Au- ditorium A, Angell Hall, at 4:15 p.m. The latter is open to the general pub- lic. These lectures are under the aus- pices of the Department of Romance Languages. Mathematics Lecture. Prof. David G. Kendall, of Magdalen College, Oxford University, will speak in 3011 Angell Hall, at 4 o'clock on Fri., Feb. 27, and at Make-up Examination for German is scheduled for Wed., Mar. 4, 2-4 p.m. All students concerned should report im- mediately to 108 Tappan Hall. Academic Notices Faculty Concert. Emil Raab, violinist, and Benning Dexter, pianist, will be heard in a sonata program at 8:30 Sun- day evening, Mar. 1, in Auditorium A in Angell Hall. It will open with Faure's Sonata in A, Op. 13, followed by Stra- vinsky's Duo Concertant (1932). Bee- thoven's Sonata in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2 will be played after intermission. This is the fourth in a series of facul- ty concerts, all of which are open to the general public. Concerts Organ Recital. The first of two Sun- day afternoon organ recitals by Rob- ert Noehren, University Organist, will be played at 4:15, March 1, in Hill Au- ditorium. It will include organ music of the following contemporary composers: Zoltan Kodaly, Anton van der Horst, Marcel Dupre, Jehan Alain, Jean Lang- lais, Gaston Litaize, Hsomer Keller, Ar- thur Honegger, Louis Vierne. Homer Keller, whose "Sonata for Organ" will be given its first performance during this recital, is a member of the faculty of the School of Music. The general public is invited. Events Today World-famous opera "Faust," present- ed by Department of Speech and the School of Music, opens tonight for a five-day run at Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, including tonight, Sat., Mon., Tues., and Wed. Specially priced seats are available for 1students to Monday night's performance. Remaining tick- ets are on sale at the Mendelssohn Box which Prof. George Mendenhall will be the guest speaker. SRA Coffee Hour. Lane Hall, 4:15- 5:30 p.m., Hillel Foundation, co-host- ess. All students invited. La Tertulia of La Sociedad Hispan- ica meets today, 3:30-5:00, in the Rum- pus Room of the League. Roger Williams Guild. Treasure Hunt pjarty at 8 p.m., will feature fun 'and food, so come dressed to roam in the weather of the day to find the treasure that's in the way! International Coffe Hour. Informal coffee hour and discussion of "Current Trends," Department of Conservation Office 300 West Medical Building, at- 4:30 p.m. All interested foreign and Ameri- can students invited. Wesley Foundation. Meet in Wesley Lounge at 7:45 p.m. to attend opera. Coming Events Chinese Students Club will have its first Welcoming Party at the Women's Athletic Building on Sat., Feb. 28, 8 p.m. Hillel services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. IZFA Regional Seminar. As part of this seminar Sherm Lieber, IZFA na- tional president will speak at the Sat- urday services at 9 a.m.; Dr. N. M. Efimenco, Dr. William Haber, and Dr. Max L. Hutt will hold a panel discus- sion at 1:30 p.m., and there will be so- cial dancing and the movie "The House on the Hill" at 9 p.m. Purim Frolics will be held on Sunday from 6 to 10:30 at 1429 Hill. The eve- ning's events will include a supper club, 4