PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY rillltu sr:%. I,.y t NA~ r f.. Yr..at u, . .iJFi Election Reactions Don Juan "For Extraordinary,.Endurance- " GOP View DISSATISFACTION with the Democratic Administration and confidence in the man who led the Allies to victory in Europe during World War II combined Tuesday to bring about the much needed change in the White House. General Dwight D. Eisenhower deserves congratulations on winning the election and extra plaudits for the convincing manner in which he did so. Reservations must be made at this time, however, until Eisenhower proves to the nation that he will fulfill his campaign promises. For along with his great personal ap- peal, Eisenhower swept to victory because of his pledges to fight Communism both here and abroad. The American public has not endorsed iso- lationism as some Democratic pundits say. Instead they have chosen a man for Presi- dent who campaigned on an internationalist level and who has proven himself to be vitally concerned with stopping Communism in Europe and in the Far East. In selecting Eisenhower they bypassed a great administrator and an intellectually honest man. Stevenson's loss did not stem from his own acts, but from the record of he current Administration which was rid- den with corruption, 'infiltrated with Com- munist sympathizers and unable to create national security. The defeat of Stevenson is also due to the low morale of the nation. Inflation, the Korean War and general distrust of the Administration added to the above factors to create this mental state. Eisenhower's tremendous victory will do much to restore the nation's confidence. But only by waging a vigorous fight for those things he has promised to do will he main- tain this confidence. Therefore, as the nation awaits his as- sumption of duties, he must work toward achieving these goals. He, must not bow to the powerful midwest block of reactionaries headed by Senators Jenner, McCarthy, Taft, Bricker and Ecton. If Eisenhower should succumb to their pressure he will have repudiated the wishes of the public. The announcement of men to fill his cabinet will be the tipoff as to the course he will follow. He has men like Dewey; Lodge, Hoffman and Duff to choose from. If these men are appointed, Eisen- hower will have made a start on fulfilling his calling. -Diane Decker Harry Lunn Eric Vetter Mike Wolff Democratic View ADLAI E. STEVENSON talked sense to the American people. But apparently this approach of political sanity backfired. To the many who wondered whether an intellectual campaign would appeal to the nation at this time, the election returns poured in a discouraging "no." In contrast to President-elect Eisenhower, Stevenson deliberately refrained from mira- culous promises. He based his high level campaign on a deeply honest philosophy, the crux of which was that the problems facing the nation and world today are complex and intricate and must be explained to the peo- ple as such. Polarization and personaliza- tion of the issues were consistently absen4 from Stevenson's remarks. In his final campaign speech Stevenson pleaded with the American people to dedi- cate themselves to a belief and trust in themselves "on which the greatness of our country rests." But the time was not agreeable to such a faith. The Republican victory was only on the surface a reaction to the Truman administration. It was perhaps a desperate groping for relief from fears and insecurities grounded in and intensified by the pres- sures of the cold war. Without a prior con- demnation of the next administration, it is not difficult to speculate that if world ten- sions mount, the psychological tendency of the citizenry to seek orthodoxy and to place its faith in the hands of a protector wil increase to frightening proportions. But for the moment these considerations are negative. This is hardly the time for the disillusioned to get bogged down in at- tempts to reconcile the democratic process with what may appear to be irrational elec- tion returns. The liberal must avoid the tendency to join forces with the extreme left out of desperation or discouragement. The problem of presenting a strong, sane opposition to today's pressing threat of re- action, is the most solemn challenge which has ever faced the American liberal. -Alice Bogdonoff and Virginia Voss "OUR PERSONALITY shoots, grows and ripens without ceasing. Each of its mo- ments is something new added to what was before. Indeed it is not only something new, but something unforseeable." -Henri Bergson "THROUGHOUT THE WEST human indi- viduality is precious and things must be used for the sake of man rather than man for the sake of things. --D. E. Trublood In Hell . , JetteP' 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. MATTER OF FACT By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP "DON JUAN IN HELL" is a testing piece- testing for the author because it is theatre without any of the theatres essen- tials, testing for the actors for they all re- main under a microscope for every minute of the act, testing for the audience because it is drama without plot or action. Authors, actors, and audience survived last night's performance triumphantly. Twenty years after his play had been pro- duced, Shaw wrote, "I took the legend of Don Juan in its Mozartian form and made it a dramatic parable of Creative Evolution. But being then at the height of my inven- tion and powers, I decorated it too brilliantly and lavishly. The effect was so vertiginous apparently that nobody noticed the new reli- gion in the center of the intellectual whirl- pool." Even shorn of its surrounding comedy, its preface, its Revolutionary's Handbook and the final display of aphoristic fire- works, the effect remains bewilderingly brilliant. There are so many startling di- versions-such as the diabolical diatribe on man's prediliction for the arts of war, and an address from Don Juan on the subject of marriage, which if properly understood but a spiv intelligent enough to match Don Juan argument for argument in dia- lectic. Heaven in contrast is a place of realism and hard work-the work of helping nature to achieve perfect self realization in the superman the cause of which Don Juan is the passionate advocate. As Don Juan, Char- les Boyer is a truly sensitive preacher. After a life in the world being disillusioned with just those things to which hell is dedicated, he seeks relief from boredom in this arduous heaven. Dona Anna's father, a military com- mander who retains in after-life the form of the statue which commemorated him in death, bored with the teleological serious- ness of heaven, seeks relief in the senti- mental frivolites of hell. Sir Cedric Hard- wicke does all, and more than all that can be done with the lines of this minor part-- his beautifully timed coughs are as eloquent as the sentences of Don Juan. Nature works through love towards its own ideal.-Shaw interprets love, Schopen- hauer did, as the Will of the Race ex- pressing itself through the desires of the individual often contrary to his or her hap- piness. It is the deep instincts of the wo- man that select the eugenically most de- sirable mate, and therefore it is the wo- man that is the true pursuer. Byron said once that he had never seduced a single woman, but that he had been a victim more often than anyone else in Europe. Dona Anna is Everywoman, and therefore her chief attributes are an urge towards fecun- dity and infinite hypocrisy. Needless to say, Agnes Moorehead plays her beauti- fully-again the words are wonderfully spoken, and the silences are literally graced by a series of postures on a stool that should make every young American girl arch her back in envy or in emualtion. But the secret of the Quartet's power to hold our attention is in theskill with which that attention is switched from one char- acter's ideas to another's. All who are in- terested in the English language at its most vigorous, all who are interested in the pos- sible beauties of the speaking voice, all who are interested in the stimulating clash of conflicting ideas should go to hear them. And all who are interested in none of these things-they above all should go, and be- come infected with the lasting pleasures of these interests. -M ike Faber INTERPRETING THE NEWS: The 'Dirtiest' Campaign Ends By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP News Analyst A GOOD MANY commentators have been bemoaning the low levels to which some of the politicians stooped during the cam- paign. Most of them seem to overlook one point. The mudslinging and bitterness, the tor- turing of issues, the misquoting, the ap- peals to prejudices, were all tactics cal- culated to win. Thus they represent a cyn- ical evaluation of the American people and what it takes to appeal to them. "There has been a lot of talk by and about men who do not, or should not, matter. It was the dirtiest campaign since 1928. Both Eisenhower and Stevenson started out to keep the campaign on a level of a reasonable discussion of the issues. Step by step, they were led by their partisans into immoderation and villification. Both candidates were nominated as men of outstanding character. One was a great national hero with a record of successfully administering some of the world's most dif- ficult tasks. The other had intellectual qualifications designed to hold the confidence even of people who would vote the other way, and a political record far better than many. Now the new president goes into office with a certain part of his original standing .-- i s Xis ° I? _ THE Y. k CAMPAKA a X OF 1952 do LY NOVEM S 4 ,I WASHINGTON-In the turmoil of the campaign, the most important fact of all has been virtually forgotten. All the great policy decisions of the recent past have been subjected to venomous partisan debate. But the new President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, is going to have to make just about the hardest decisions for the future any President has ever been call- ed upon to make. In these last heated months, these im- pending decisions have been ignored. Yet two closely related, vitally important, se- cret struggles about these decisions were wracking and agitating the American gov- ernment, even while the Presidential cam- paign was reaching its climax. The most important of these struggles centered around an attempt to draft a new paper on certain aspects of defense policy for the National Security Council and the President. This paper was supposed to define "Soviet capabilities and intentions." Assume, for ex- ample, that in the fairly near future the So- viets could knock out the American indus- trial potential, at the same time over-run- ning the Eurasian land mass. Does this mean that the Soviets would do so? This question goes to the very heart of American defense and foreign policy. Do So- viet capabilities equal Soviet intentions, and if so, what do we do about it? In the end, the disagreement within the government was so wide that this vital question was glossed over by a wordy formula. To understand why the issue was thus muffled, it is only neces- sary to consider the second crucial struggle which has been dividing official Washington in a warring camp. Sometime ago groups of eminent scien- tists and highly qualified experts were asked to consider, coldly and objectively, the ability of the Soviet Union to deliver an atomic attack on this country, and this country's ability to defend itself and re- taliate. The scientists and experts con- cluded that the Kremlin would almost certainly be able to deliver -a "crippling" atomic blow against the United States within two to three years. They further reported that improvements in Soviet air defenses would make it impossible for us to repay the Kremlin's crippling blow by crippling the Soviet Union in our turn. At the same time, the scientists and ex- perts also reported that "technological breakthroughs" have made possible new kinds of American defense and offense. We by the National Security Council and the President, has generated a first class row .for several reasons. On the one hand, the Air Force has charged that it was "by-pass- ed" by the scientists and impartial experts. On the other hand, the problem of air of- fense and defense has become involved in the argument about Soviet capabilities and intentions. As a result, everyone has agreed to leave the final judgment to the man who will occupy the White House in the next four years. Thus, on the very day he takes office, Eisenhower will find on his desk papers demanding decisions which will in turn require a root-and-branch recasting of American defense policy. These decisions will intimately influence his domestic eco- nomic program. And meanwhile, he will also be confronted with urgent demands for many other decisions on other prob- lems reaching right around the globe, from Korea to Iran, from Tokyo to Paris and London. Again, the new President will find that these problems of foreign relations will in- fluence his domestic program. For example, the most difficult and most complex of all the local situations which will confront the new President is in Western Europe. This threatened breakdown involves the relations of the European powers with the United States and with each other. The Europeans are becoming just as disgusted as we are with the frustrating system of propping up the European economies with American money subsidies. They are begin- ning to demand an entirely- new economic approach, including some sort of interna- tional stabilization fund, to hold their cur- rencies in a firm relationship with the dol- lar, plus a lowering of American tariff bar- riers, to permit them to export more pro- fitably to this country. Prime Minister Churchill is plainly already planning to come to the UnitednStates to discuss these matters with the new administration. Pro- jects for a great new departure in American policy are also being studied within our own government. These projects, if adopted, may be counted on to touch off .unholy rows in Congress but if such projects are not considered and adopted, the whole Western alliance may well succumb to the strains which are be- coming increasingly unbearable. Energetic action can still solve all these vast problems. And in this respect, at least, ON THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-HOUND WITH DREW PEARSON WTASHINGTON-With the hectic election period over, the United States will have to give some attention to our badly neglected field of foreign affairs, particularly to the wave of anti-American pro- paganda now sweeping the various parts of the world. For some time, due to the charges and countercharges of the !candidates, positive policy by the State Department has been pretty much suspended. So, likewise, with some of our most im- portant Allies. Both Foreign Secretary Eden an Foreign Minister Schuman have delayed any important pronouncements on foreign affairs until after elections; in fact, even urged other United Nations members to postpone the General Assembly meeting un- til after November 4. One of the most shocking developments which the United States will have to do something about is the barrage of scurrilous propa- ganda in Korea, charging us with atrocities against Korean women. The details in some cases are almost too revolting to be printed in family newspapers, but Russian and satellite publications are spewing this poison every day. While the Voice of America is trying to counteract it, its bud- get, thanks to the pruning of irascible Sen. Pat McCarran, has been drastically cut. Here are illustrations of what the North Koreans are telling Asia about us. EERIE TALES N ORTH KOREAN newspaper Minchu Chosen reports this eerie ac- count of UN troops in the district of Echu: "American soldiers picked all the young women out of the crowd (of natives) and locked them in empty warehouses. All the women were then raped. The American butchers began to brand patches on the women's bodies with heated irons and nails. "All the women who resisted the ravishers had a wire put through their nose by the Americans and they were led b this wire through the village. The monsters gouged out the eyes of many women and hacked lumps of flesh out of their bodies. "The Butchers disembowled several pregnant women who fell into their hands during the temporary occupation of the town of Sariwen." The Journal New Korea also reported in a recent issue that Americans "tortured more than 700 patriots near Mount Mirosan" This lying article, obviously dictated by a higher Communist Echelon, went on to say: "The murderers seared them with heated irons, knocked out their teeth, cut off their noses, and gouged out their eyes. They led the women naked through the streets and then shot them. In the village of Duchen, Pyonyang district, the American bandits arranged a so-called exhibition of Reds.' After tying the hands and feet of 130 patriots, they bound them to trees and for a long time gave them no food. All the 130 people died. "Once," the Communist article continued, "the American but- chers led out more than 30 young women and girls on the street in this village. Many of the women had children. The American monsters brought this group to the Nekyagor Gorge, where a pit several meters long was already dug. "The women were placed at the edge of the pit. One of the es- corts went up to a woman with a child in her arms and bayoneted her from behind and then kicked the body into the pit. Seeing this, the remaining women attempted to save themselves by flight, but the enemy bullets overtook them. All the women were killed and their bodies thrown into the gorge." GORE AND LIES W ITH TYPICAL Communist relish for mixing gore and lies, the New Y1Korea added: "in the village of Saphenni, senen rural district, about 200 women were subjected to mockery. Outraging the defense- less women, the butchers stripped them naked and tied them up in groups of five and ten. The butchers used these women as live targets for pistol shooting. "During the withdrawal from the district of Yanyan, the oc- cupiers took With them a large group of the inhabitants of the dis- trict. These exhausted people were told by the Americans that they were being evacuated to a safe place. The Americans then called up aircraft by radio. "Fighter planes dived on the defenseless people and brutally be- gan to machine-gun them. In this way more than 300 guiltless people died." We know, for instance, that the Communists long ago trademark- ed the brutal practice of leading Koreans and Chinese they considered "traitors" or "pro-American" down a village street with a wire through their noses. This also happened to American officers captured by the Communists in Seoul. COMVMUNIST BRUTALITY T HE CUSTOM OF tying victims together in groups and to trees be- fore murdering them also is a Communist practice. The above- mentioned "gorge" murders near Duchen, falsely charged to Ameri- cans, also have a striking parallel in the brutal mass murder of 12,000 Poles by the Russians in Katyn Forest early in World War II. Many of the Poles were tied to trees and shot through the head before being dumped into a huge burial pit. The number and pattern of bullet marks in the execution trees indicated the vi- tims were used for pistol-shooting practice by the Russians, a- Please, Mr. Editor.. . To The Editor: THIS IS THE first letter I have written to you or any other col- lege newspaper editor. Please don't feel that I have been ignoring you deliberately. The only reason I have never written before is that I was quite satisfied with your pa- per and I was unable to find any articles so distasteful to me that they warranted my criticism. Today, however, I must criticize you for permitting a change in one of the best humor articles in your paper. I refer to the movie review column which is usually written by Mr. Tom Arp. When I first read one of Mr. Arp's reviews, I thought it was an honest attempt to criticise one of the features playing at a local movie house. But as I continued to read Mr. Ar's "reviews" I was gradually convinced that Mr. Arp was really a very clever humorist and satirist who was adeptly lam- pooning those movie reviewers on the, staffs of the supposedly sophisticated and cosmopolitan newspapers and magazines. Once I realized that Mr. Arp was not really seriously reviewing movies, I read his column with unfettered joy. I chortled, I chuckled, I guffawed at the contin- ual bitter attacks Mr. Arp directed at almost every movie he discussed. Of course my immense pleasure arose from the fact that I under- stood the true purpose of Mr. Ar's reviews. Mr. Arp was, in my esti- mation, a very clever fellow. He was clever, his humor was clever, his satire was clever, and he cer- tainly merited my praise for the amusement I received reading his article. At least he did until Tues- day. Mr. Editor, in today's "Daily" Tom Arp reviewed the picture "Ivanhoe." In that review, Mr. Editor, the picture was almost praised. Do you hear me, Mr. Editor? Praised, praised, praised! Tom Arp resorted to praise. Please Mr. Editor, resolve my confusion, dispel my doubt, restore my faith in. Mr. Arp. Reprimand him, cut his salary, or better yet, the next time you assign him to report a movie, give him some lemons to suck on while he watch- es the picture. Perhaps this is all the inspiration Tom needs to re- sume his old caustic, satirical, acidic, humorous ways. If you do this, Mr. Editor, I and all the rest of Tom's faithful fans will once again be amused by the best hu- mor article appearing in your fine newspaper. -Malcolm Lawrence L'54 **y * Anti-Absolutist .,. To The Editor: WOULD LIKE to make a few comments on a letter which appeared in The Daily of October 30 by Mr. Marc Laframboise. Marc seemed interested in a "This I Believe" article by a graduate stu- dent in physics. I did not read this article, but some of Mr. La- framboise' remarks seemed quite unreasonable and made without too much thought on the subject. He states, "Man cannot make binding laws upon his own moral behavior. That obligation must come from a higher authority." This is not true. Man has made and will continue to make his own moral laws. That they do not come from a 'higher authority'is evidenced by the many systems of moral laws prevalent around the world in various cultural groups. In the same paragraph, Mr. La- framboisef states, "As for the im- mortality of the soul this is a view held not only by Christians in the main, but also by peoples of eras prior to the birth of Christ." This is no argument for the immortal- ity of the soul. People of eras prior to the birth of Christ were generally ignorant, superstitious, and entertained beliefs almost none of which we would adhere to today; e.g. the earth being cen- te rof the universe, or the "rain- spirit" causing rain. Next, Marc poses a question: "Are we to assume that the most virtuous saint and the most vic-1 ious reprobate both fall into the same blissful oblivion after their' departure?" Though it may be somewhat unfair to the saint, the answer is yes. Death has long been considered the hand, under which all are equal. Which leads us to Mr. Lafram- boise' final point. He says, "Sup- pose there is no God and no after life? Why should humans bother' at all about moral behaviour or, succeeding generations?" The an- swer is simple : people are con- cerned about this life on earth; life is both wonderful and enjoy- able. Moral behavior makes for a better life on earth. The joys of This I Beliee... To The Editor: WOULD LIKE to question Prof. Slosson's premises in reasoning toward the conclusion of the im- mortality of man. Prof. Slosson writes, "His (man's) personality which through a long lifetime (during which every cell of his body has been repeatedly replac- ed), seems to be something other than his body, and not destined to the same fate. Therefore, I be- lieve in immortality." Without questioning the logic sequence It- self (which is questionable), I would point out that every body cell has not been replaced and particularly no cell of the cerebral cortex of the brain. We neither gain nor replace these cells after their psysiological death. But more important, although personality is something other than body, as Prof. Slosson main- tains, it is none the less common knowledge today that personality is intimately associated with cere- bral cortical function as evidenced by the striking personality chang- es evoked by brain destruction, even to the point of reducing a man to a vegetable state. There- fore, a man's personality must die with his body, and if Prof. Slos- son did not mean personality, what did he mean? Was he afraid to say soul? I would be too. In short, I believe it is a mistake to attempt to rationalize mystic be- liefs on the basis of our knowledge of life experience, and since this is the only knowledge we possess, I submit that speculation in this realm is intellectually interesting but pragmatically futile. -Henry LeBost * * . This I Believe ... To the Editor: READ with much pleasure your This I fBelieve" series. Miss Polk's discourse on "Strong Faith" is the kind of writing that does much toward preservation of the American ideal of freedom of er- ligion. When religious convictions are stated in the first person sin- gular, with no attempt made to generalize, then there is no pres- sure on the reader either to accept or reject those convictions. I know of no better way to preserve the ideal of religious freedom. -Sherman Poteet 'Thanks' .. . To the Editor: THE VARSITY Committee of the Student Legislature thanks all those whose support helped to make "Autumn Nocturne" a suc- cess. We regret that we were un- able to accommodate all those who wished to attend the dance; our apologies to those whom we had to turn away, due to the fire regu- latons at the Intramural Build- ing. Thanks again to all those who helped us; we hope you enjoyed the dance. -Cris Reifel Ticket Chairman Autumn Nocturne The Great Midwest ... To the Editor: GRAHAM HUTTON, in his thought-provoking book, "Mid- west at Noon," states: "The mid- westerner always distrusted intel- lectually outstanding people, geni- uses of the mind . . " It is clear to me, after the Republican vic- tory, that the Midwest now extends to the Atlantic ocean, to the Gulf of Mexico and to the Pacific ocean. -E. M. 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