THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 19 * The City Editor's SCRATCH PAD By BARNES CONNABLE CAMPUSYoung Progressives are planning to do it again. The Lecture Committee issue is no longer a sensational headline in a Detroit newspa- per. Presently, a group of interested campus leaders are preparing a brief to submit to 'the Board of Regents with the Student Leg- * islature proposal for changing University lecture policies. The mood is one of ration- x ality and diplomacy. So-YP circles have been abuzz all week about inviting party-line author Howard Fast to speak on campus. The key question on lecture petitions is:t "Is the proposed speaker a member of, or active in, any Communist or Communist- front organization?" A "Communist-front" ais defined on the back of the application, in .the words of the Internal Security Act, as: "any organization . .. which is substantial- ly directed, dominated or controlled by a Communist-action organization and is pri- marily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to a Communist-action or- ganization, a Communist foreign power or the world Communist movement ..." On Oct. 6, 1951, Howard Fast became a member of the Board of Publishers New Press, Inc., publishers of the Daily Work- er. Seven members of the board are ad- mitted Communists.. Fast was convicted of contempt of Con- gress in 1947 and served a three-month jail sentence beginning June 7, 1950. He is a member of the World Congress for Partisans for Peace which blasted the Atlantic Pact and accused the United States of "arming to the teeth" for aggression. On April 24, 1949, he told the WCPP that U. S. jails are "filled with political prisoners." In a letter to Russia's Literary Gazette of May 2, 1948, he praised the "artistic freedom" of Russian artists as opposed to "capitalistic chains" that bind American artists. It doesn't take a Pearson to predict what will happen when the Lecture Committee looks over the petition. Fast will be banned, reporters will be thrown into action, irate setters will appear on this page and we'll be back where we started. We don't have an abundance of faith In the chances of SL's resolution getting through the Regents. But we think things are on the right track. We think reason should be given a chance before the pla- cards go up again. We don't think It's feasible or morally justifiable to give i to either the status quo or the damn-the-torpedoes school. There is little cause for YP's or anyone else to believe that Fast will be permitted to speak at the University. The pattern of the Lecture Committee is clear. There are no indications that it will change overnight. Accordingly, the question arises as to the purpose of the YP request. On the basis of past actions of the group and the general characted of it membership, there is little doubt that the move is designed to embarass the University. It will do so to some extent, but not as a means to the desired end of protecting free- dom of speech. The administration's fear of adverse reaction to. subversive, and alleged- ly so, speakers on campus will become more crystallized. The University, rightfully so, is not to forced into anything. The issue at present is not whether Howard Fast should be permitted to ad- dress a campus organization on property owned by the citizens of this state. The question is rather how in the future a man of comparable reputation can do so with a minimum of hullabaloo. This should be the concern of campus liberals. The record of YP gives effective testimony to its concern with the attack rather than the improvement. Three years ago, for ex- ample, when the Committee to End Discrim- ination was starting on the road of sound, constructive progress, YP members disap- peared from the CED. Students who seek change in this focal point of society are being duped if they accept any shade of bedfellow because of his stated goals. There is no connection between the ends of liberals and Commun- ist sympathizers. They are, in reality, the deadliest of enemies. The former seek to eradicate the blots on democracy. The latter seek to entrench as many hypocrisies as they can expose or dream up. Every step of progress to them means one less fault to exploit. A decade ago idealism on college cam- puses was inter-meshed with naivete. Today we can't afford to kid ourselves. The stakes are too high. Books at the Librar Baker, Carlos -- HEMINGWAY: THE WRITER AS ARTIST. Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1952. Cloete, Stuart-THE CURVE AND THE TUSK. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Ellsberg, Edward - PASSPORT FOR JENNIFER, New York, Mead & Co., 1952. Huxley, Aldous--THE DEVILS OF LOU- CONGLOMERATE CREW: Ike's Cabinet Appointments Lieeri to the 6dop PRESIDENT-ELECT Dwight Eisenhower is showing by his series of cabinet ap- pointments that he intends to run the gov- ernment for the next four years in much the same manner he conducted the war in Eur- ope and his duties as NATO commander. In these Jobs, Ike served as coordinator of many different interest groups. At NATO headquarters he was constantly pressured to do things one way for the French, another way for the British and still other ways for Germany, Belgium, Italy and the rest. His cabinet appointments thus far are a curious mixture of Republicans who re- present diverse factions of the country. Included in the new array of government posts is a Taft man, an Eisenhower strate- gy leader, a leading industrialist, a some- what independent Republican in Stassen, a career diplomat and a pre-convention Ike man who did little campaigning for the General and who was rarely mentioned for a cabinet post in speculation prior to the announcement. A quick rundown on the new men dis- 'closes the following: The new Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, Jr., is a successful lawyer in New York City who was Ike's top strategy leader in the GOP convention and who in 1948 was Gov. Thomas Dewey's campaign manager. Brownell was often mentioned for the post in speculative articles. His appointment is a considerable improvement over the string of law enforcers Truman appointed in the per- sons of Tom Clark, J. Howard McGrath and James McGrannery. ' John Foster Dulles, as the new Secretary of State, did a excellent job as architect of the Japanese peace treaty. A top aid to Dewey in New York, Dulles is an in- ternationalist who will probably place a little more emphasis on the Asian theatre then Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The selection of Charles E. Wilson for Defense Secretary brings to government years of industrial training. Also an inter- nationalist, Wilson has an invaluable back- ground for his job as director of the giant defense program now in full swing. George M. Humphrey, the new Secretary of the Treasury, is a leading Taft support- er and is president of the M. A. Hanna Coal company in Ohio. His appointment is considered a concession to Taft and may be the sign of a more leniant corporate tax policy. Bypassed for the post were bankers Winthorp Aldrich of New York and Joseph M. Dodge of Detroit. Two close political friends of Eisenhower were overlooked when Ike selected Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon for Secretary of the Interior. Retiring 'Gov. Val Peterson of Nebraska and Gov. Dan Thornton of Colo- rado were considered the leading candidates for the post. McKay was an active Ike man prior to the convention but did little cam- paigning during the campaign. He is a lead- ing conservation advocate and stated that a Republican administration would not let up on government dam construction. Finally, the appointment of- Harold Stassen as director of the Mutual Security Agent is a blow to the Taft forces. He was a foe of Taft during the last three Republican conventions and it was the switch of his Minnesota convention votes that gave Eisenhower the nomination this year. His appointment strengthens the internationalist flavor of the cabinet. With four appointments yet to make it is hoped that Eisenhower will continue to select men from different segments of the population who represent a number of dif- ferent opinions. --Eric Vetter The 'Good Neighbor' Problem AMERICAN PEOPLE and the United States government forget all too often the exis- tance of the tumultous lands south of the Rio Grande. Millions of predominantly Spanish-speaking human beings eking out a precarious living in the underdeveloped areas of Central and South America, are either constantly ignored by most of us, or looked upon as a curiosity by romantically inclined tourists. In recent years the United States govern- ment has fostered the "Good Neighbor Po- licy," with the hope of improving diplomatic relations with these countries. Under the Point Four program, American technical and economic skill has been utilized by several nations. But these approaches have proved high- ly inadequate.- As a people we have failed to gain the respect of most of these coun- tries. The United States is commonly looked upon with hate, fear and jealousy by the' smaller nations. This intense dislike is fostered partly by economic penetration on the part of Ameri- can businessmen. Capitalizing on this coun- try's need for raw materials, they have put large investments into some of the more po- litically stable localities. The result has been some improvement in local conditions, but the people are concerned primarily with the huge profits which go to the foreign Americans. Nationalists and communists usually band together to fight "Yankee imperial- ism," which Is grossly exaggerated for the DREW PEARSON: W ashington Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTON - What Harry Truman told Dwight D. Eisenhower and vice ver- sa is known directly only to the new men themselves. But what is known is what President Truman told intimates he said to Ike. Both men were obviously nervous before and after their interview. One friend who talked to Truman just before he saw Eisen- hower, noted that he looked fidgety and dropped some papers. Eisenhower also looked nervous and wiped perspiration from his barren brow after the conference. The version which the President gave one of his closest friends also indicates that the two men were a little tense at first. But he broke the ice by telling Ike something like this: "I've been in politics for 40 years. Some- times you win and sometimes you lose. That's politics. "Sometimes you have to say some harsh things in politics, because everyone's out to win. But let's forget all that. "The only important thing is the future. I want to help you in every way. I want you to have as much assistance as we can give you between now and January 20. "I only wish I could have been briefed lbefore I took this job. President Roose- velt's death hit me like a thunderbolt. I didn't even know he was ill. I had only talked politics with him, and hadn't even sake of home consumption. American in- vestments are looked upon with suspicion, and charges of exploitation are leveled regularly. Factual information about the true strength of communism in these parts is difficult to ascertain. In many sections the Communists have been extremely vociferous with little actual power. On the other hand, the slow industrialization in the southern countries has tended to spread the move- ment. Paradoxically enough, most of these gov- ernments clamor for American loans. Not only are their demands so exhorbitant that they cannot possibly be met, but in the past many of our grants have mysteriously found a resting place in the pockets of the rich, leaving the mass of the people totally un- aided. Many of our blunders are inherent in the haphazard selection of ambassadors and the State Department's policy toward foreign service experts. Because most of the ambassadors are ap- pointed for domestic political reasons, they often lack a speaking 'knowledge of the language in their areas. What is worse, they appear to have neither an understanding of, nor sympathy for, the South American. Department staff assignments to these countries are for so short a period that the political experts in the embassies have no time to examine the problems which face them. Few objective conclusions can ever be reached by our field men. In a few of the embassies, unfavorable re- ports concerning some of the foreign gov- ernments are squelched by ambassadors who have been captivated by the charms of a person like the late Eva Peron. (One Ameri- can ambassador reported that "Evita" was a true democrat.) Although the situation is bad, it far from hopeless. In a large segment of the ppula- tion a strong feeling of respect for certain of our leaders is still apparent. The images of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the retired Henry Wallace continue to be the most real Americans to many of the south- ern nationals. Both of these men had the foresight to visit our neighbors during their political careers. To understand the reason for this feel- ing of admiration, Americans must grasp the fact that most of these people have a tremendous sense of "dignity," a term which can only find its equivalent in the Japanese concept of "face." By ignoring the South and Central Am- erican countries we have dealt the pride of the people a great blow. Any recognition of them on our part would be one of the best actions that we as a nation could take. During his campaign, Dwight D. Eisen- hower said, "I am convinced that our co- operation can be closer and I have every intention of contributing to that purpose." The incumbent president has every means at his disposal to make this promise a reality. He can appoint more competent men to serve in the south lands, and possibly sug- gest to John Foster Dulles, his Secretary of State, that tenure in office be given to our foreign experts. The most important thing he can do, is to accept the invitations of Chile and Mexico, and visit these and other nations in the Western Hemisphere. All our economic aid, fine words, and pro- fessed sympathy would not do as much as n+. 1,, a a +., T.- An A n he + Hare System ... To The Editor: MARK READER presents some powerful arguments against the Hare system of Proportional Rep- resentation. Yet, he fails to realize the essential democratic nature of this system of electing representa- tives. The Hare system eliminates the "Unrepresented Minority." It does away with the possibility of 49.99 per cent of the voters (those who vote for the losing candidate) not having any say at all in the choice of a legislator. The "ward" sys- tem, which Mr. Reader suggests, would make it virtually impossible for significant minorities to have any representation on the Student Legislature, as they probably would be sponsoring losing can- didates in each of the districts. The Hare system guarantees representation to all significant interests in number of legislators proportional to the percentage of votes cast for that point of view. Every voter (with the exception of those few whose ballots are in- validated) has his say in the elec- tion of one representative on the legislative body. It may be his first, fifth, or tenth preference. Stili his vote counts. The lack of apropriateness of the Hare system or any other sys- tem on this campus lies in the type of campaigns conducted by most of the candidates. They are mostly "popularity contests" However, this situation could be alleviated by the formation of student political parties. This has met with great success at our neighbor college, Wayne Univer- sity, in Detroit. There, student po- litical groups have been organized, representing a fairly clear dichot- omy between "liberal" and "con- servative" interests, also allowing room for many "independents." When the ballots are counted, the practical democratic operation of the Hare system is clearly borne out. No matter how overwhelm- ing the vote is for one group, the other group is assured of represen- tation on the legislative body, roughly proportional to the strength they have shown at the polls. Let us hope that the next S.L. election sees more vigorous cam- paigning on real issues and less emphasis on "Who likes Who" and which fraternity or sorority is more popular on campus. -Sol Plafkin, Grad. Is This Fair? ... To the Editor: THURSDAY morning an elec- tion was stolen; stolen because of the false system which "elects" men to student legislature. The hour was growing late, the candidates for the two re- maining positions on student leg- islature were narrowed to four. As the vote stood the leader had 271, the next candidates in order had 239, 235, and 232. The lowest per- son was dropped with the votes distributed to the remaining three. The quota was lowered with addi- tional votes distributed. Again a tally was made. This time the two lowest candidates were tied at 255 votes. The rule presented states that the candidate receiving the high- est number of votes on the last ballot is elected in case of a tie. Candidate three with a gain of 20 votes was elected over candi- date two who had gained 16 votes though the vote totals were equal. Is this fair?,Doesgthis mean that if the people voting for candidate two had cast not third or fourth place votes but instead sixth or seventh place votes, thus delaying his total to a latter ballot, he would have been elected? Indeed it is a hallow victory for the man elected because his op- ponents' constituents voted for their candidate for third or fourth place and not for sixth or seventh place. Indeed the whole system of Student Legislature elections is shaken when a sixth place vote counts more than a third place vote for the same candidate. I say that Joe Schwartz was denied a place on Student Leg- islature he rightfully won. I say that place should now be made available to him. Destroy this tra- dition of unfair vote counting. Let the rightful winner hold office. -Alan Strauss * * * * Driving Ban ... To the Editor: S THE RECENT referendum indicated, the students are in favor of a change in the present driving ban. As the University has shown an interest in modifying the ban, it is up to the students to help the Office of Student Affairs to draw up these modifications. The S.L. does not seem to have any definite ideas on the subject, so I would like to make some sug- gestions. I think that the requirements for the commuting permit should be lowered so that a student liv- -Daily-Stu Ross ANGELL HALL-AFTER THE BAN those who have to park in the campus area. They realize that the addition of even 1200. more cars would make an impossible sit- uation of an already difficult one. I agree with them on this point, but I believe I have the solution to the problem. The time at which the situation is most acute is be- tween 8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Therefore, I propose that the driv- ing ban be lifted at 6:00 p.m. each day from Monday through Satur- day and all day Sunday. At these times there are relatively few non- students in the campus area and the only parking problem would be among the students themselves. I feel that these two proposals would be acceptable to the Admin- istration, the townspeople and the students, and I hope that they will help in some way in the so- lution of the problem. Roger Bachmann, '56 N.R. * * * * Arizona Band .,. To the Editor: I AM STATIONED at Fort Bliss, a few miles from El Paso, the home of Texas Western College, Last night I witnessed a football game between T.W.C. and the University of Arizona. As football teams go I'm sure the Michigan J.V. squad would have no trouble defeating either team, but the spectacle that was of special in- terest to me was the Arizona Marching Band. Their band is di- rected by Joel Lee, who arranged the formations of our famous band for four years. Mr. Lee, in the short time he has been at Arizona has made their 60 piece outfit one of the top college bands in the Southwest. 'The Arizona forma- tions are an exact duplicate of those of Michigan, including the famous rhumba step, Showboat and South Pafific routines which we all enjoyed watching our band interpret each football Saturday. Once again another instiution is reaping the benefits of our talent, in this case Michigan's loss of Mr. Lee is Arizona's gain, and I'm quite sure you'll be hearing a lot about this band in the near fu- ture. ' --Pvt. Harvey Gorden, '52 Btry A 5th ING BN Spec. .AAA-RTC Fort Bliss, Texas * * * To the Editor: W HY, Mr. Epstein, are you so fanatically upholding athe- ism? Is it because you feel that you are being attacked by the "be- lievers," because you are unsure of the ground on which you walk, or what? Are you aware that you may sound in your letter very much like some of those whom you are so opposed to? Do you realize that your arguments are at times as unconvincing as those of your opponents? Without getting involved in per- sonalities and arguments I would like to suggest a few things to you, and to anyone else who feels as you do. Please consider again se- riously whether or not you have given the question a fair chance.. For instance, did you make a thorough study of religion (both new and old), or did you do as so many do, be content with presen- tations by and examples of mis- informed and bigoted exponents of a .few of our better known churches? You may find, as I did in the Baha'i Faith, a religion so completely practical, so surpris- ingly modern, and so brilliantly formed that you will be unable to stand intelligently against it. Alsd, have you mistaken that church for religion (i.e. your example of Spain), and'have you, by con- demning religious thinkers as "in- fantile" and "self-righteous knot- heads," exhibited your claim to "intellectual and emotional ma- turity"? You have a right to be dissatisfied with things as they exist today both in and out of church, but why jump to the con- clusion that it is the fault of re- ligion? Religion is the practicality and the most misunderstood field of human endeavor in existence today, and it is, when shorn of its trappings, a fascinating and relatively unexplored science. -Don Hawley * * * The Affair Blum To the Editor: THE STUDENT Legislature and the Inter-Fraternity Council should be congratulated for bring- ing The Affair Blum to the cam- pus. Not only was this film enter- taining bt it had educational value. The picture brought out very clearly the fact that Anti-Semi- tism coupled with Anti-Left hys- teria'served as a smoke screen for the attempted frame up of a Jew- ish industrialist on a murder charge. The responsibility of the police, the judges, and the legis- latures all "eminently respectable people" was striking. The stories manufactured in the press all pointed to Blum's guilt. The implicit offer of the police of leniency to the unstable mur- derer Gambler in turn for his tes- timony which would frame Blum gives real insight into police meth- ods and the psychology of inform- ers. What can be said of the re- spectable people wanting to put a feather in their cap by framing innocent people. Then when the case fell through how quickly did these same people try to wash their hands of the whole thing. Gabler when presented with unques- tioned scientific evidence of his guilt could only cry the Reds are behind this. It was all done on the pretence of justice, impartiality, and de- mocracy. Discrimination in Ger- many? Nonsense! The German court system unfair? Blasphemy! The German press anything but impartial? Treason! Most Americans who saw this film enjoyed it and condemned the Nazis. I wonder how many stop to think that this could happen in the U.S.? What of the Rosenbergs sentenced to die for alleged es- pionage? Did some one say-but this is the U.S.-it couldn't hap- pen here! Let us see that it doesn't. -Robert Schor ** * * Prediction Parley ..0 To the Editor: WE WONDER who General Eis- enhower is considering for cabinet posts besides the three he named yesterday. We wonder how the House and Senate will be or- ganized and what Senator Taft's position will be in the new admin- istration. We are fortunate in having the opportunity to hear some author- itative guessing. The Young Re- publicans are sponsoring a talk this Sunday afternoon by recently re-elected Representative George Meader at 3 p.m. in the Union. We invite everybody to attend, -Ronald E. Seavoy ** * The Compass... To The Editor: This is in reply to Berkly Branche-Eddins. Many of us have always felt the need for a news- paper in this country which would forthrightly champion the cause of justice everywhere-and do this without "any strings." Such a paper was not the New York Com- pass. The New York Compass was the creature of that ambivalently sen- sitive group who is able to recog- nize injustice, and inhumanity in every country in the world (and a great deal of this does exist) ex- cept in the Soviet Union and her satellites . There are many 'of us who are "for" things. But certainly not for the ruthless dictatorship of one man or even one party, cer- tainly not for slave labor camps. When has the Compass exposed these? Yes, the Compass has been "for" "good" things too. Some of them you enumerated in your letter. But you surely are not fooled by all this. It is inconceivable that anyone who writes as intelligently as you do, does not know, that the Compass was no more than a case of the "devil mouthing Scrip- ture ..:. -Louis D. Lodigani '50 THE FAULTS and shortcomings of America - which, unlike those of the Soviet Union, are wide open to the world and freely discussed by Americans themselves -have led too many people in Europe - to lose their sense of judgment and ignore the plain fact that the U.S.A. has recently been the best "top nation" since Rome. It establishes order, resists the aggressor, defends the attack- ed, strengthens the weak, and suc- cors the poor. The U.S.A. is the first world power to give money away, to tax itself for the foreigner in peacetime. We are too little astonished at the unprecedented virtuousness of U.S. foreign policy and at its good sense; the masterly handling of Yugoslavia, for in- stance, and the European Pay- ments Union. We pay altogether too much attention to the lunatic frine in U.S.A. We forget the workday, the decent, the poor, the intelligent American 'citizen. We even forget the influential citizen, the President himself. Ordinarily when the tumult and the shouting dies the U.S. government turns out to have done the right thing. ., In short, the power of the U.S.A. (including the atom bomb), far from meanacing Western Europe, is the safest guarantee of its con- tinued independent existence. -From Britain and the Cold War, a publication of the Oxford Radical Association, "a small group of University teachers in Oxford. i r: {, [DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Phi Lambda Upsilon. Meeting, Mon., Nov. 24, Rackham Bldg., West Confer- ence Room, 7:30 p.m., Dr. Lloyd Kempe will speak on "Microbiology in Chemis- try and Engineering." SRA Electorate meeting, Lane Hall, Tues., Nov. 25, 7:30 p.m. La P'tite Causette will meet tomor- row from 3:30 to 5 p.m., North Cafe- teria. Union. through Fri., 12:40 and 3 p.m., 4th floor, University Museums Building. Wesley Foundation. Turkey Roast, Tues., Nov. 25, 8 p.m., Wesley Lounge. Young Democrats will meet on Mon., Nov. 24, at $ p.m. in the Union, Room 3-D. Prof. Samuel Eldersveld, of the Political Science Dept., will speak on the implications of the recent elec- tion and propose a positive program for action. All those interested are in- vited. 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 Britz.......Associate Editor Donna Hendleman.....Associate Editor Ed Whipple...............Sports Editor John Jenks......Associate Sports Editor Dick Sewell.....Associate Sports Editor Lorraine Butler.......Wowen's Editor Mary Jane Mills, Assoc. women's Editor Business Staff Al Green...........Business Manager Milt Goetz........ 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