PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1953 ..1 SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1953 By CRAWFORD YOUNG Daily Managing Editor ANOTHER campus campaign draws near its climax-and we find a discouraging round of half-baked and ill-informed prom- ises being showered on the electorate by the current crop of candidates. It would seem that the great bulk of those in the running are seizing on the lack of issues to promise an assortment of sugar plums which bear little connection with reality. Undoubtedly the worst offenders are the J-Hop candidates. Admittedly it is diffi- 'cult to find constructive campaign issues for a dance committee-there is consider- able question whether a campus election is the best procedure for selecting a group to run a dance. But the election method is apparently here to stay-and it is un- fortunate that candidates for the position have to resort to foolishness to put on a campaign for it. First point on an amazing number of platforms is cutting ticket prices. To advo- cate a slash invevenue in view of continued losses by the dance in recent years is to completely disregard the facts of the situa- tion. One candidate recommended at least a two dollar cut in price-but had no clear idea on how to make up the $2500 loss of revenue this would entail. The way to cut the price of the ticket, obviously, is to lower the quality of the dance. But no candidate is in favor of that. The student bookstore proposal is back for another stand on the posters. And, as usual, there is nothing of substance sug- gested in the way of new approaches or knowledge of old ones, used in several years of SL work on the project, "Coordination" is a favorite promise- yet none have defined whether they mean by this a coercive coordination power, or a program of voluntary "coffee hour" wheedling. Everyone is for more coor- dination. Until a means for effecting this happy purpose is introduced into $Ve dis- cussion, oratory is rather vacuous. Other candidates are calling for work towards voting representation on faculty- student committees, deiding the present Lecture Committee representation and other existing ,forms as completely useless with the students unable to adequately present their opinions. Certainly increasing participation in this sphere is desirable-and SL is making prog- ress toward it, as those candidates who at- tended last Wednesday's SL meeting must realize. But it is simply not true to state that there has been no worthwhile accom- plishment, and that the Legislature has not made strides in this direction. For example, although the student resolution on the Lec- ture Committee situation was not adopted, it received full consideration by the com- mittee. This is not to paint an entirely black picture of the present group of contestants. They are to be commended for avoiding the "I'll work with pep and enthusiasm" ap- proach to a greater extent than in past cam- paigns. But in the zealous search for attractive issues, too many have wandered into the Land of Oz for wistful promises which bear little relation to the factual framework. SL Committee Rep.reS.entation ELECTION TIME is traditionally a ques- tion-asking period but the extent of the questioning about Student Legislature elec- tions seems to be "What does SL do?" Last spring, SL fortunately had such accomplishments as the extention of li- brary hours to point to as an example of its work in the student interest. This was something with all-campus appeal. But when voters in the spring elections Tues- day and Wednesday apply the traditional question to SL's record of the past semes- ter, they will be given no such concrete answer. This requires a word of explana- tion. Legislative records, in the first place, can- not always be filled with immediately effec- tive accomplishments. The proposals which will be beneficial in the, long run require months of groundwork and this inglorious function has been SL's main concern for the past semester. Take as one good example the motions passed last week to secure stu- dent representation on administrative and faculty committees. The committees named -the subcommittee of the Executive Com- mittee on Radio, a liaison committee with the University Senate Advisory Committee- are little publicized groups. But they, among several others, have been contacted by SL personnel and have agreed to seat students. Wednesday night's motions were the beginning of a long-term project to put the aphorism of "student representation" into working effect, and the importance of such a project should be recognized. The campus has seen this semester a few VOICE OF THE FACULTY: A Guide to Confusion Anatomy of the New Soviet Regime tettet4 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. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article is an- other in a weekly series of commentaries by prominent University faculty members. Today's author, Prof. James H. Meisel of the political science department, is a Soviet government spe- cialist who keeps in close touch with reports of the latest changeovers in Soviet positions and personalities. He also reads TIME and THE NEW YORKER.) By JAMES H. MEISEL DJUGASHVILI,Joseph, son of Bessarion: Caucasian dietician (mentioned by ail- ing V. I. Lenin as a 'cook of peppery dishes"). Sometimes confused with STALIN, Joseph, son of Bessarion: Author of some pamphlets on subjects of political economy. Became a man of some distinction after he married Rosa, sister of Politbureaucrat Kaganovich (see KAG- ANOVICH). Known as "good, old Joe" c1941-45and, again, since March 5, 1953. Succeeded by MALENKOV, George, son of Maximilian. (for other successors, see: BERIA, MOLO- TOV, BULGANIN, KAGANOVICH KHRU- SHCHEV.) How to pronounce Malenkov: Simple rule-accent of three-syllable Rus- sian names either on first, second, or third syllable. Owners of accent on second syl- lable fiercer than those with accent on first; those with accent on third fiercest of all. MalenKOV. Appearance invariably: pudgy. Hitler cowlick. Dangerous peace- monger (see also COEXISTENCE), held in check by warmongers Beria, Molotov, Bul- ganin, who could not permit Malenkov a war for which they would receive no credit. Malenkov's career facilitated by timely death of Politbureaucrat Andy ZHDANOV in 1948. Was officially declared to be vic- tim of heart trouble, but actually murdered by 9 (nine) doctors of STALIN'S own med- ical staff. This revelation made by Stalin disciple Malenkov last January, when he ac- cused the (dread) Secret Police of criminal negligence. Police controlled by Malenkov's closest assocate, less close since, bespec- tacled, meek-looking BERIA, Larry. Fellow-countryman of both Djugashvili, Joe, and Stalin, Joe (see above). Startling resemblance with Prof. G. Kish, but only externally. Smooth operator. Func- tions: Minister of Internal Affairs, which also includes Infernal Affairs: the (dread) Secret Police, re-educational camp facili- ties and Red Phoenix Project. Beria, to be watched, though only accent-on-first-syl- lable man, has strong ties with BULGANIN, Nick. Second syllable. Goa- tee. Minister of War, which he likes cold. Extremnely unpopular with army because of his party background. Was, therefore, forced to accept, as his deputy, Marshal ZHUKOV, disgraced conqueror of Berlin (Germany), who, because against '(cold) war, very popular with army. However, Political Administration of Army under A. A. Kuznetsov (not to be confused with V. V. Kuznetsov, see below), a Beria man. Kuznetsov therefore hostile to Zhukov. Zhukov is or is not potentially a Malen- kov man and thus suspect to Malenkov, Beria, and Bulganin. Bulganin (the one with the goatee) is protg of MOLOTOV, Vyacheslav, n Scriabin, nephew of noted bourgeois cosmopolitan composer Scriabine (who, but for his-Scri- abine's--premature death, would have been purged by culturologist and cominformer ZHDANOV). Molotov, fondly called "old ironpants" by Western statesmen whom he outsat at many a conference, took back For- eign Ministry from that well-known humor- ist Andy Vishinsky, son of January. Through friend Shvernik, removed from USSR Pres- idency in favor of Voroshilov (see below), but re-installed in his former Trade Union chairmanship, Molotov controls vast labor bureaucracy. Therefore, though falling short of inheriting STALIN'S premiership, really stronger than he looks. In cahoots with glum, baldish, handlebar-mustachioed KAGANOVICH, Lazarus. Ulcer man. In- dustrial troubleshooter, very tough. Togeth- er with Beria, Molotov, Bulganin, "first dep- uty premier of Council of Ministers." Calls no one ministry his own, but controls half a dozen (heavy industry). Among them that of Saburov, former chairman of Planning Committee. New Gosplan chairman: Kos- yachenko, not to be confused with former' Politbureaucrat, now Minister of Light and Food industry, Kosygin. Number of min- istries sharply reduced. This probably due to Kaganovich, who has accent on third syl- lable but none on last; hence probably less powerful than Malenkov whom he discover- ed and thereby antagonized. The same might have been but was not true in the case of KHRUSHCHEV, Nicki. The final "ev" frequently pronounced "ev," but in this in- stance it is "off": Khrushchoff. Add accent on last syllable and you realize that here is a man to be watched. KAGANOVICH-trained like Malenkov, squat, billiard-headed farm-expert Khrushchev surprisingly did not turn against his old sponsor but against pal Malenkov from whom he took away, with an assist from geria, Molotov, Bulganin, Kaganovich, No. 1 position in Central Committee Secretariat, main source of party patronage. However, the four other secretaries Suslov, Pospelov, Shatalin and Ignatiev, are all Malenkov men. Ignatiev must not be confused with ex-secretary and Central Committee man, Ignatov. Another ex-secretary, Panteleimon Pono- marenko, State grain collector, was given the newly-created Ministry of Culture, a position in vain coveted by party political theorist Suslov (there is no good reason why egg-heads should be more successful in the Soviet Union than they are else- where). Suslov's new assignment: to re- state STALIN'S celebrated doctrine of COEXISTENCE, peaceful, of Communism and Capitalism. His definition: "If you can't ick them, don't join them!" THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF POWER in the post-Stalin USSR thus runs along lines which could not possibly be drawn more sharply: Jointly with Beria, Molotov, Bulganin Kaganovich, G. M. Malenkov holds the Presidium of the Council of Ministers (government) as well as the Presidium of the Central Committee (party). These two executive presidia must not be con- fused with the (legislative) Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, now chaired by STA- LIN'S crony, Clem Voroshilov (Hitler type mustache). Another STALIN crony, S. M. Budenny of civil war cavalry fame (han- dlebar mustache, but pronounced Boud- ionny) is not in the government. He does not mind, however, since the Soviet gov- ernment is not really the government, which is the Communist Party, which, however, is not really a party but a bur- eaucracy-only it does not operate from within the government but through the famous "transmission belt" system. This was invented by Vassili Kuznetsov (not to be confused with A. A. Kuznetsov, see above) while employed at River Rouge. Kuznetsov is now trying to install the transmission belt, as Molotov's deputy foreign minister and ambassador in Pe- king. The Soviet rulers, with reluctance, had to fall back on a man with Ford ex- perience ,since all eligible candidates with G. M. background had already been pre- emptied by another government. IN CONCLUSION: The new clarity and stark simplicity of political organization in the USSR is the greatest single factor work- ing for and making possible PEACE IN OUR TIME. With apologies to TIME and THE NEW YORKER 1 'HE RUSSIANS' recent success in cap- turing the initiative from us Westerners by taking up this Western heresy called Communism and radiating it out into the world in a cloud of anti-Western poison gas does not, of course, mean that Communism is destined to prevail. Marx's vision seems, in non-Marxian eyes, far too narrow and too badly warped to be likely to prove perm- anently satisfying to human hearts and minds. What it tells us is that the present encounter between the world and the West is now moving off the technological plane onto the spiritual plane. -Arnold J. Toynbee -Daily-Bill Hampton "But the room rent increases are administrative business, Mr. Logan. The decision hardly concerns you students. Pay the cashier on your way out." Student Arts Festival Opera . . THE PREMIERE of the new op- era by Karl Magnuson and Anne Stevenson was a colorful and eventful inaugural. "Adam and Eve and the Devil" is a hilarious one- acter cast as mucin in the opera buffa tradition as the zaniest farce of Rossini. For composer Magnuson the production was blessed with every conceivable asset. Miss Stevenson's libretto was heaven-sent, with all the humorous delights that would cause it to be banned in Boston and beloved everywhere else. Jamie Ross's set was so compli- mentary that it not only enriched the mood but functionally became organic to the action by itself tak- ing part in the movement, don- ning different guises, from a lofty tower to a seductive bed. It is an opera of action, of burlesque exaggerating every movement, every turn of phrase both verbal and musical, enab- ling it to linger enchantingly on every ounce of comedy. Both Strowan Robertson and Geraldine Miller, respectively stage and dance directors, did excellent jobs in delineating its character. Richard Thuston conducted with precision, with hardly any of the flaws that usually mar first per- formances. It is unfortunate that the only liability occurred here. With no adequate pit, the orches- tra was too loud. The performers were unbeliev- able. Joan Saint-Denis was thrown aroundalike a football,wmade to waddle like a duck, and still had breath enough to turn in a very musical performance. Likewise for Russel Christopher and David Murray who are both masters at vaudeville. This is not conventional opera, and makes no such claim. The music sets the mood and main- tains it with a minimum of me- lodic interest. If a flaw must be found, it would be here. With a less successful performance or repeated hearings, there would be a need for more melodic in- terest and for the singer's hal- lowed high notes. It would be possible to get more of the com- edy from musical devices rather than acting. But Magnuson has a real gift for satire, an ingenious knack for orchestral timbre, and a pungent rhythmic vitality. His music is in- deed a success. He, Miss Steven- son, and M. Ross have given Ann Arbor a team reminiscent of Di- aghileff, Stravinsky, and Picasso at the beginning of this century. that beckons to an unlimited hori- zon. The opening work on the Fes- tival program was Dance Suite by William Doppman, with Mirapgan Bal*Ig 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 Hollander......Feature Editor Sid Klaus------Associate City Editor Harland Brit,........Associate Editor Donna Hendleman....Associate Editor Ed Whipple ...... ...... Sports Editor John Jenks.... Associate sports Editor Dick Sewel.....Associate Sports Editor Lorraine Butler------..Women's Editor Mary Jane Mills, Assoc. Women's Editor Don Campbell ... Chief Photographer Business Staff Al Green..........Business Manager Milt Goetz..... Advertising Manager Diane Johnston.....Assoc. Business Mgr. choreography by Robin Squier and Henrietta Hermelin. Since there was barely one rehearsal for the work, and two of the musical numbers were unable toi be choreographed in time for the performance, criticisms will have to be in the form of suggestions. Doppman's music showed con- trapuntal inventiveness and a clever incorporation of tympani into dance movements. However each piece could be extended to allow a more substantial dance. As it was the dance was more fragmentary than it need be. With lengthy and unnecessary costume changes, and a reduced operating area since the musicians were on the stage,the movements seemed too contained. But this did not prevent Miss Squires and Miss Hermelin from displaying sure technique and in- ventive juxtaposition of patterns. They both have expressive bodies, and gave every indication that when the work is finished their spatial projections will define very, interesting movements. -Donald Harris Play . . The Inter-Arts dramatic of- fering, a one-act play by Robert Rice, called "The Late He and She" depicted a cross-section of the life of the novelist, Scott Fitzgerald. Possibly this is the type of play that is better read than seen; at any rate, it was not well produced. With a few exceptions, the acting was stiff and the lines swallowed and garbled. There was an effort to keep the performance in a nostalgic half- glow, designed apparently to catch the quality of wasted lives and squandered dreams. The directors, however, provided no focus in the action and consequently the pre- cise final meaning of lives like Fitzgerald's was lost in the con- fusion. Rice himself showed grasp of the one-act form and deserves credit forundertaking something beyond the usual gimmick one-act formula. In groping with the meaning of the Twenties, how- ever, his writing occasionally be- came murky and brittle, veiling his point in a welter of symbols; the disillusionments were too slick. His language too, although often lyric, missed the real flavor of the era. At that, a good production might have made some of these weak- nesses. seem secondary. As it was, the performance accented them. -Bill Wiegand Poetr'y THE CRAFTSMANSHIP of the student poets represented in yesterday's Inter-Arts Festival il- lustrates the current preoccupa- tion with problems of technique and structure rather than content. Though the poems read are not without substance the em- phasis upon form is predominate and-most encouraging of all- that emphasis is devoted to re- establishing and vitalizing the poetic tradition. This trend is a vigorous response to the de- mands of the "new criticism"- which, like the poetry it calls for, is only natural in an age when man's world so badly needs a little ordering. Harvey Gross's "Vienna: Win- ter, 1952" was perhaps the most mature work presented during the program, though all of the poets displayed a surprising degree of competence. The large proportion of under-graduates represented should be a great encouragement both to the Inter-Arts Union and to the students themselves. However, the ineffectiveness Disillusioned . . . To the Editor: WOULD like to explain to all my friends who have seen my posters on campus that I am no longer a candidate for S.L. For the greater part of the week I have been a "no visitors" patient at health service and find that I am in dire need of rest, a virtue that has too few advocates in the present frenetic legislature. I have gained considerable knowledge about the workings of the Legislature during my weeks as candidate. I have seen candi- dates destroy other candidates' signs and abuse the privileges of resident halls with carefree aban- don for the rights of the resident. I have seen students apathetic to the S.L. at best and generally an- tagonistic to the mere sound of the name. I have seen the legisla- ture members arrogantly swelling with pride in a non-existant pow- er and channel their misguided liberalism into directions that could only ultimately destroy whatever influence the pitiful or- ganization possesses at present. Examples of this were in profusion at the last two meetings: aid to the Free University of Berlin and WSSF trips abroad with NSA, and a complaint to a national fra- ternity on the nasty way they chose to admit members. I was running on the pledge to make the S.L. effective, but now I have considered the results of an ef- fective legislature would be ca- tastrophic. This is because under the present set-up, the S.L. voice is the result of the action of a few vociferous legislators elected by a diverse set of pressure groups. In a sort of log rolling attempt to make everybody happy each legis- lator gets his pet project passed. This system may be the cause of an all campus drive for funds for the Free University of Berlin and WSSF. The drive for WSSF is be- ing pushed by one legislator against the wishes of the Campus Action Committee and the Inter- national Relations Committee. Thus I discovered that I had no' desire for glory at the risk of my health to belong to a pompous Student Legislature and become a public figure with no real public function. -Ken Bronson Bohlen & McCarthy To.e.i To The Editor: THE CONFIRMATION of Chip Bohlen and repudiation of Joe McCarthy by the Republican dom- inated Senate marks the begin- ning of the end for the unscrupu- lous Senator. Secretary of State Dulles, in breaking with McCar- thy has indicated that he is pre- pared to oppose this demi-god. Though the repudiation of Mc- Carthy is indeed a blessing, one wonders why he was not opposed by these same Republicans when the Democrats were in power. Mc- Carthy was the same a year ago, but perhaps at that time he served a useful purpose in provoking hys- terical fear of the "great Com- munist infiltration of our State Department." It was President Eisenhower's support of the Sena- tor that very likely brought about his reelecton in Wisconsin, and yet McCarthy was the same crafty demi-god. I believe that the Tru- man-Acheson administration de- serves full clearance from the charge that its state department was riddled with Communists. And furthermore, the policies of Mr. Truman, so viciously attacked as unsound, are the very same policies that the Republicans are continuing. Especially is this true in regards to foreign policy, where the bases of our foreign relations innovated by the man who could do nothing right, Dean Acheson, is precisely the same under the RepublicanhAdministration, and promises to remain substantially similar in the future. Also indicating the continuation of Democratic policies is the reali- zaton that taxes are not going to be cut, and that present taxes are absolutely necessary for the wel- fare of this country and the free world. This all points to how much value the citizen can place on statements made by men who seek power. When the Republicans hungrily aimed at control of the government, their policy was to condemn Democratic action and little more, but as soon as they themselves are in control, they pursue the policy which they pre- viously condemned. At any rate it is gratifying to see the Repub- licans shed their reactionary ten- dencies. climaxed by the appoint- ment of Bohlen,' for the sound policies of Harry S. Truman. -Richard Seid Bored... To The Editor: I JUST WANTED you to know that I don't care who wins the SL elections. If you want, you can throw the whole darn thing out the window. They're just a .talk- ing society for thersuccessful.as- pirants of the campus popularity contest. -James Ryan CAN YOU "prove" to a conserva- tive that a course in Keynesian economics or Marxist theory is sound? To a reasonable person, yes; but people are not alwa3s reasonable, especially when tem- pers have been raised or votes are at stake. Can you "prove that a professor's teaching is sound? A good teacher tries to upset fixed ideas and make men think for themselves, but investigating Con- gressmen may not see him in that light. -The Manchester Guardian Y I 1. [ __ _....._ __I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN] (continued from Page 2) Westminister Guild. Bible Seminar, 10:30 a.m. Important Cabinet Meeting for both present and newly elected officers of the Guild, Room 205, at the Student Center at 3:30 p.m. Guild meeting at 6:30 p.m. with service of worship using the fine arts to com- memorate Holy week. Hillel Foundation. Bridge Tourna- ment, 8 p.m. Graduate Outing Club meets 2 p.m. at the rear of the Rackham Building. Hik- ing and games. Cars provided to take hikers to the country. Gilbert and Sullivan. Trial by Jury re- hearsal tonight at 7 and Pinafore. re- hearsal at 8:15. Both are at the League. Comin g Events Deutscher Verein, meeting, Tues., at 7:30, third floor, Michigan Union. Dr. Nordmeyer: lecture, Omar Khayyam in German verse; comments in English. Open Forum. Free-for-all discussion of "The Problem of Evil," Lane Hall Fireside Room, Mon., 8 p.m. La Petite Causette will meet tomor- row from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the North Cafeteria of the Michigan Union. All interested students are invited. Motion Picture. Ten-minute film, "Beach and Sea Animals" shown Mon. through Sat, at 10:30, 12:30, 3, and 4 o'clock and on Sun. at 3 and 4 o'clock only, 4th floor, University Museums Building. Zeta Phi Eta. Meeting Mon., Mar. 3, in the Student Faculty Lounge of the Woman's League, at 4 p.m. Bring mon- ey for pins, fines, and semester dues. CURRENST AMOVIES I Little Man On Campus by Bibler At the Michigan... THE STAR, with Bette Davis. BE TE DAVIS has, with the exception of "All About Eve," been unable in the past few years to make anything but mediocre or just plain bad pictures. "The Star" is indeed very bad. Miss Davis portrays in it an aging ac- tress, out of work for several years and, as a consequence, bankrupt. Save for one scene in which she produces the most violent fit of anger I have ever seen, she plods steadily along through a slough of despond, always waving her flag of pride, and then in the final episode suddenly awakens to the glory of being a woman. There is no logical character de- The story in some ways tries to recap- ture the effect of "All About Eve." There are constant references to Barbara Law- rence, an up-and-coming young actress (until we begin to wonder if she hasn't financed the picture and demands recog- nition) ; there are the same megalomaniac illusions, and the same fears of growing old; but this is all done with such a lack of subtlety, in such a really unintelligent manner, that it loses all the force it might have had. It seems evident that Miss Davis' success in the past has been due not so much to her supreme talents as to capable direction and suitable roles. This is in some ways very dis- illusioning, and leaves only the hope that Mankiewicz will again take her in hand. If she isn't careful she will find herself in the , ...._. __. /I 1' . 151 M/ I i - : 2 G R d' l t " f ,%r ' Etj J/' i+ c Itirlj rf rJ1 t <1. 11 f f't