BEHIND THE LINES See Page 4 Y Swv4JUU Daiti r- '%l%' =' f% i 1 W i Latest Deadline in the State CLOUDY VOL. LXIII, No. 121 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1953 e SIX PAGES Agriculture Department Change Seen Benson Clashes With Committee By The Associated Press President Eisenhower proposed yesterday to give Secretary Ben- son blank check authority to re- organize the Agriculture Depart- ment and its far-flung field agen- cies. The purpose, he said, is to cut costs and simplify operations in farm aid programs. * * * SEN. TAFT (R-Ohio) quickly forecast congressional approval. He told reporters the plan closely follows recommendations made by the Government Reorganization Commission led by former Presi- dent Hoover. Eisenhower's proposal was ad- vanced in the form of a reor- ganization plan for the depart- ment, submitted to Congress by the White House. Such a plan goes into effect automatically in 60 days unless either the House or Senate votes against it. It could go into effect earlier by affirmative action of both hous- es. The plan would give the depart- ment three assistant secretaries instead of the present one, plus an administrative assistant sec- retary to aid Benson. The big de- partment now has 54,000 full time employes and the assistance of about 95,000 farmer committee- men who perform administrative tasks on a part-time basis. JUST HOW FAR Benson would go in shaking up existing agen- cies was not immediately disclosed. Specifically, the plan would transfer to the Secretary of Ag- riculture all functions and au- thority not now vested in him but delegated by law and prior administrative orders to such agencies in the Department as the Forest Service, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the Soil Conservation Service, and the Rural Electrification Ad- ministration- Meanwhile Benson and some members of the Senate Agricul- ture Committee crossed verbal swords again yesterday over the issue of government support of farm prices.j Appearing before the committee for the first time since he took office in January, the new GOP farm chief expressed hope that a better farm program, involving less government financing and more farmer freedom and respon- sibility, could be developed. Analysis Given Of Linguistics By Lecturer "Linguists are not anarchists," Henry L. Smith Jr. of the State Department Foreign Service Insti- tute said in his talk yesterday on "Recent Research in the Structure of English." Speaking to the general public t in the afternoon and to the Lin- guistics Club in the evening, the well known lecturer explained that &, the study of linguistics is based on a rigorous system of analysis which uses well established prin- ciples and precise techniques. Linguistics, which is concerned with studying the relation between cultural groups and language, be- gins its study by taking sentences and words out of context and an- alysing them phonetically and phonemically, Smith said. This is the sub-branch of linguistics call- ed microlinguistics. Metalinguistics, on the other hand, is concerned with analysing language in a referential context. This study shows how different parts of a country will use cer- tain inflections and ennunciations not indigenous to other sections of the country, he concluded. Sigma Chi Porter 'Playboy' Rehearsal SL Requests Seats on 'U' Committees Student Voice Asked by Group By VIRGINIA VOSS Student Legislature advanced the cause of student representa- tion on University committees last night in a lengthy pre-election meeting winding up the present Legislature's business.' Climaxing several months' work in the field, SL approved by strong majority votes motions to appoint student representatives to a liason committee with the University Senate Advisory Committee, and subcommittee of the Executive Committee on Radio. Both these groups have agreed to work with student members. ** * IN ADDITION, SL voted to re- quest student appointments to the following three groups:. Commit- tee on Student Loans, Committee on Intercultural Relations and the Undergraduate Advisory Council of Education School. Breaking the Quiet Red Negotiations Requested byU.S. New Move Announced at UN Meeting; Designed To Ease World Tensions By The Associated Press The United States told the Russians and the UN yesterday it is eager for negotiations with the Soviet Union to ease world tensions and will meet the Russians half way any time. The U. S. statement was made 'significantly on the eve of Soviet Chief Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky's return to the UN from talks is the Kremlin with the new Malenkov government. * * - * * TO THE CHEERS of the public gallery, Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. also warned the Russians and the 60-nation UN Political Committee that the U. S. program of mutual security aid NANCY Born, '53, Bette Ellis, Grad., Elise Simon, '54, and Jerry Richards, '56, rehearse a scene from the satiric Irish com- edy of John Millington Synge which will unfold on the stage of the Arts Theater at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow when the group gives its opening performance of "Play- boy of the Western World." Set in the wilds of the Irish country-side, Synge has built his play around a young man who be- -Daily-Tim Richard lieves he has killed his father, Jerry Richards will portray the playboy, who suddenly finds him- self a town hero because of this naf ri dnt' dnal nefarious ueeu. Teresa Hughes, the newest mem- Originators of the several mo- ber of the company, will be cast tions felt that increased repre- in the role of Pegen Mike. Beth- sentation would strengthen Sheva Laiken will be seen as the channels of communication be- Widow Quinn and Ken Rosen, '53, tween faculty and administra- will appear as the unhappy father, tion and students. Old Mahon. Len Rosensen is dir- ecting the production. SL's Campus Action and Culture and Education Committees will t fntinhl to zark n df nt fren_ 'HE MAN using the pneumatic drill in front of Angell Hall has a long job ahead of him. For the past two months he and his fellow workers have been mov- ing down S. State St. from Wil- liams placing rubber gaskets on -Daily-Tim Richard the cast iron gas pipes beneath the street. The purpose of this street-rip- ping operation is to halt the leak- age of gas from the 70-year-old pipes. Work will be finished when the drillers arrive at Hoover St. VA HOSPITAL: YFW Pressure Charge Denied by Furstenberg By HELENE SIMON Dean Albert C. Furstenberg of the Medical School denied charges yesterday that the University medical staff "pressured" the Veterans Administration into opening the new Ann Arbor Veterans Hospital as a general hospital rather than a tubercular center. The accusation was made by Veteran of Foreign Wars Service Officer Joseph W. Mann at a VFW administration council meeting held last weekend in Lansing. "AT NO TIME that I know of has an administrative officer of the Medical School appeared before a Veterans Administration officer to designate what kind of hospital H Ushould be built here," Dean Fur- El Bk Ng stenberg said. Mann said the medical staff T Play H ill ; was able to "shunt aside the To LU a ft recommendation of the VFW to ' provide only tubercular treat- Alexander Brailowsky, noted mentat the new center because Russian-born pianist, will replace the University would "derive Myra Hess in the opening con- revenue and important training cert of the May Festival on April facilities for doctors" in a gen- 30. eral hospital. "The decision to make the Vet- Miss Hess underwent a serious erans Hospital a medical and sur- gall bladder operation a few days gical center was planned from the ago and has been forced to cancel beginning by the administrative the rest of her tour this season. officers of the VA," Dean Fursten- In addition to a concerto by berg emphasized. Brailowsky-to be announced lat- Donald C. Bachman, State Leg- er-the April 30 program will in- islative chairman for the Disabled lude the first Midwestern per- American Veterans and head of formance of Serge Prokofieff's the local veterans center, said that Symphony No. 7. Originally, the as far as he knows the Medical Philadelphia Orchestra was to School has exerted no pressure. play Prokofieff's Symphony No. 6. "Knowing Mann, however," Bachman added, "I am sure he *T would not make such charges with- SDA M eetng out facts to back him up." Students for Democratic Action Bachman said he is "perfectly will meet at 4:30 p.m. today in !,satisfied" with the Veterans Hos- the Union. I pital, which is set to open in July. cr Clllue UO Wo1 ti su eI p-e resentation with individual facul- ty-administration groups. Wheth- er students will have a voting voice or not will be decided ac- cording to individual committees. i i IN OTHER action last night, the Legislature voted 23 to four to urge the local Phi Delta Theta chapter and Inter-fraternity Council to press for removal of the suspension of the Phi Delt chapter at Wil- liams College in Massachusetts. The Williams College frater. nity was suspended in Febru ary for pledging a Jewish stu- dent last October against con- stitutional membership provi- sions. Sam Davis, '53, who proposed the motion, included in it a "re- affirmation of SL's belief in the undemocratic nature of discrimin- atory clauses in the constitutions of student organizations.' Actionmon the motion will take the form of a recommendation to the National Student Associa- tion to enlist the support of mem- ber schools in asking that the sus- pension be rescinded. Sen.Jenner ! Will Address YR Convention' Sen. Wiliam Jenner (R-Ind.) will be one of the featured speak- ers at the Mikwestern Federation of Young Repudlicans convention at Indiana Univeisity in Bloom- ington, Ind., this weekend. The seven member s of the local YR organization who will leave for the convention tomorrow in- clude: Charmaine Harma, '55; Jas- per Reid, Grad.; Ron Seavoy, '53; Seymour Greenstone, '55; Ed Lev- enberg, Grad.; Burrell Ross, '56, and Diane Decker, '54. Reid is chairman of the feder- ation's taxing and conference com- mittee. Seavoy holds one of the two elected offices, secretary- treasurer. KEYNOTER FOR the conven- tion, at which 35 colleges will be represented, will be either Vice- President Richard Nixon or ad- ministrative coordinator Sherman Adams. Businessman Robert Voegler, who gained national fame when he was held captive by the Reds and later returned to the Unit- ed States, is also expected to attend and address a luncheon meeting Saturday. Voegler was active in the GOP campaign last fall. The purpose of the convention is to set views of the federation down in a platform-like document and to give college YR's an opportun- ity to hear prominent speakers. Five Candidates RADIO TRIBUTE: Queen Mary Eulogized By Churchill in Speech LONDON-UP)--Prime Minister Churchill termed Queen Mary a figure of almost legendary distinction in a broadcast tribute last night as the Royal Household prepared for her funeral Tuesday. "Queen Mary was loved and revered far and wide, as perhaps nobody has been since Queen Victoria," Churchill said in an address to the British Commonwealth which was heard also in the United States. . . . . THE QUEEN, who died Tuesday night at 85,1 the changing scenes from the Victorian to the and she lived to see the British crown "far more moved easily through atomic eras, he said, broadly and securely U.S. Troops Give Upa Old B~aldyPeak SEOUL-(A)-U. S. Seventh Di- vision troops completely abandon- ed the strategic peak of Old Baldy on the main invasion route to Seoul early yesterday after three days of bitter fighting. Shortly after dawn, Fifth Air Force planes roared down on the Chinese-held hill in a terrific bom- bardment. The air pounding was still under way late in the morning. * * * EARLIER, fresh 7th Division troops had moved into position on the shell-pitted hill during the night while an Allied artillery and air bombardment held the Chinese in their holes on the crest. Maj. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, Seventh commander, had pre- dicted, "We will retake Old Baldy-and soon." Seventh Division troops before the withdrawal were pinned down 125 yards from the crest. AP Cor- respondent Stan Carter reported from the front they had spent an uneasy night under a rain of Com- munist artillery and mortar fire. An Eighth Army headquarters spokesman said the 7th Division infantrymen pulled completely off the southeastern quarter of Old Baldy-the only section they still held-in the predawn hours. Ban Threatens Two Schools CHICAGO - (P) - Two import- ant basketball powers-Oklahoma A&M and Bradley University- were threatened with disaccredi- tation yesterday by the North Cen- tral Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Action against the Oklahoma school was recommended largely because of "subsidization of ath- letes." Bradley, in Peoria, Illinois, was accused of educational weaknesses and 'of conducting an unsatisfac- tory athletic program. The Association's commission on colleges and universities recom- mended to the full association that the Oklahoma Aggies be removed from the list of accredited schools on July 1, and that Bradley be placed on probation for one year effective immediately. Skit Night All those interested in ush- ering for Skit Night should call 3-8508 today, according to Da- vid Smerling, '55, of the skit committee. World Nei Rounduj By The Associated Pre --t'based on the people's love and the nation's will than in the sedate days of her, youth." WVS A private funeral will be held for her Tuesday in St. George's Chapel of Windsor Castle, for jienturies the final resting place of British kings and queens. ess The regal old matriarch, who to the free world will stop only when the threat of Communist aggression ends. "Our mutual security program will stop when the threat of aggression-not only for us but for all the free world-is lifted," Lodge said. "The United States, like all the free world, prefers peaceful settlements -to a dan- gerous and burdensome arma- ments race. We do not enjoy that. We long for the day of honest negotiations which my government, asked for in this committee last week. We will meet the Soviet Union half way at any time." Sir Gladwyn Jebb of Britain called on the Russians to match soft words with deeds. Jebb also said the free world will remain strong, resolute and calm in the face of Communist threats. * * * MAJOR attention of the dele- gates concentrated in speculation on the meaning of the return of Vishinsky, former foreign minis- ter who is coming back as Malen- kov's permanent delegate to the UN. Some American quarters and other veterans in the UN indi- cated they did not expect the Russians to land today complete with a brand new olive branch of peace. They said they believ- ed Vishiusky will not show any drastic change immediately, but they indicated a belief that the Russians might want to talk business. Meantime, dispatches from Ran- goon, Burma, said the Burma .government has sent to the UN a complaint asking the UN to help~ move 12,000 Chinese Nationalist guerrillas from its areas bordering on Communist China and Thai- land. The United States has been trying to settle this dispute quiet- ly behind the scenes but the dis- patch indicated it has had no suc- cess. The National Chinese gov- ernment said the leader of the guerillas, Gen. Li Mi, is a patriot acting on his own. Hill Concert Will Present Easter Theme Centering its selections around the theme of Easter, the Univer- sity Symphony Orchestra will pre- sent its first spring concert at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditor- ium. The 101-piece student orchestra under the direction of Wayne Dunlap will open its performance with Frescobaldi-Kindler's "Toc- cata," the only selection that does not pertain directly to the Easter theme. Termed by Dunlap "one of the few contemporary. masterpieces," Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" will be played. His "Concert of the Angels," "The Entombment of Christ," and "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" are also scheduled. Also to be included in the pro- gram will be symphonic excerpts from "Le Martyre de Saint-Sebas- tien" by Debussy and Rimsky-Kor- sakoff's overture, "The Russian Easter, Op. 36." The concert, sponsored by the University School of Music, will be open to the general public free of charge. Ticket Price Cut To 'Right You Are' ATLANTIC CITY N.J. - Walter died just two months short of her P. Reuther was re-elected unani- 86th birthday, will be buried in mously yesterday to his fifth the chapel beside the body of her straight term as president of the husband, King George V, who died CIO Unitec1 Auto Workers. in 1936. Their son, King George * *VI, is among others who lie be- BALTIMORE - An Air Force neath the ancient stone floor. two-engined B25 crashed near It had already been made clearl Baltimore's Friendship Airport that Queen Mary .will be granted 10 miles south of here last night her dying wish-the coronation of and police said three men were her beloved granddaughter, Queen killed. Elizabeth IIL will go on as sched- * * * uled June 2. WASHINGTON - Premier Rene Queen Elizabeth decreed only a Mayer of France and leading mem- month's court mourning. QUIET CAMPAIGNS: bers of his government arrived in Washington yesterday for a round of talks which are expected to pro-, duce a French request for in-' creased military aid against the Communists in Indochina. WASHINGTON -- Draft calls may taper off to 37,000 men a month or less after June, the Defense Department said yes- terday. * * * BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Ezequil Pedro Paz, former publish- er of the famed newspaper La Prensa, died yesterday at the age of 82. Senate Postpones Tote on Bohlen WASHINGTON-(R)-The Sen- ate yesterday postponed a votej on President Eisenhower's nomi- nation of Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen, as ambassador to Moscow amid signs of stiffening opposition byj a small Republican-dominated group. Senate Republican Leader Rob- ert Taft of Ohio made the deci- sion to delay the showdown until tomorrow. o Burning Issues Face Present SL Candidates Candidates for all-campus elections Tuesday and Wednesday are using standard campaign procedures to make their names known on campus, but they will have a harder time than usual getting their ideas across. Reason: no "burning issues." * * * *o t a l PRE-ELECTION disputes over fraternity bias clauses, football de-emphasis and library hours.gave last spring's Student Legislature candidates ready-made issues to plank their platforms with. Fall SL hopefuls had the Legislature's stand on discrimina- tory scholarships and the Lecture Committee controversy to take to the campus. The situation facing this term's SL candidate is one in which old issues have either been settled or abandoned for the time and new ones have not yet become concrete. MAIN CAMPAIGN PLANK for candidates currently making the; round of open houses and dinner talks is the campus reorganizationI DEMOCRACY SURVEY: Students Vary Widely in Definitions (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of two articles dealing with democracy. Tomorrow's ar- ticle will present opinions of faculty members on democracy.) By ERIC VETTER What does democracy mean to a college student? The Daily attempted to find this out during the past two weeks and ment as an example for a de- scription of democracy.! Representation as it functions in the United States played the key role in these answers. One senior summed up several opinions, by saying "Democracy means the popular election of reprsentatives by the general public. This is best seen in the United States. tunity and freedom to do and think as you please came under this heading. Many modified such freedoms by saying "freedom to the extent that it doesn't hurt others," or "free- dom only inside the law." One freshman woman said "democracy means an organization . of gov- ernment which provides the great-