6 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1952 , PAE."VfU THE MICHIGAN DAILY ;A .I I s ., , __ __ Merry Christmas WE'RE NOT quite used to greeting folks, In columns oft analytical. But take our word, this is no hoax. We're tired of being critical. For once a year when snow descends And shopping has a zest, We think of all our many friends, The good, the better, the best. So first to Harlan Hatcher goes, A special Yuletide greeting. And Christmas brew to the Mrs. too. We're happy for your meeting. To Plerpont, Niehuss and Ira Smith, Don't tell the freshmen the old guy's a myth. Frank Robbins, Art Brandon, Dean Walter deserve, A season's wish without a curve. Merry Christmas, Bert Watkins and Dean Odegaard. We've got the thought if not the card. Jim Robertson and Walt Bud Rea, We ~won't forget you on the merry day. ,, To Dawson and Slosson and Lionel Laing, Special salutations from all the gang. And how we'd be slipping if we failed to name, Professor John Reed of chicken pox fame. The best to Sam Estep, George Peek and Frank Grace, To Senator Pollock and dear Doctor Brace. We think more of Santa now than Bias Claus, So let's close the wide editorial jaws, And send out the very best that can be, To good King Thorpe and the IF of C. To Willens, Rog Wilkins and old shepherd Berry, We hope for a Christmas that's jolly and merry. And this is extended to all of SL. For you, we ring loudly the gay greeting bell. Throw the red ribbon 'round Ehlers and Jentes, In spite of publicitymen they have sent us. And hang a green wreath in the star cham- ber room, Where Biller and company lower the boom. We salute all the coeds, the loud and serene, Who labor for God, League and Kauffman the queen. We'll have to send holly - we haven't got roses For Captain Tim- Green, who wiped all their noses. In the water. its Jeffries and Davies and crew. In the air, it's Don Hurst-we sing Hallelu To Fritz, Bennie, Fisher and Bill Perigo, We give you our blessings despite sport- dom's woe. And huddled in offices over the fire, To you grass roots folks, we have now no ire For Ostafln, Streiff, Bull Zerman & Co., Three tons of mistletoe speckled with snow. We've forgotten the tales of Moncrieff and Wyllie. Today we can wish them nine lives of Riley. Here's hoping St. Nick turns defeat into joy, For Eldersveld, Meisel and you-know-who of Illinois. And to the proud victors-Ike, Hansen and Cargo, A Joyful vacation on the shores of Key Largo. For Lobanov-Rostovsky - vodka by the bucket. For pestered Don Weir - a rest from the ducat. And whether your soul goes to heaven or hell To you, Comrade Shaffer, a joyous Noel. There are those whom we only infrequently see, Like tl e Ruthvens-to you, a merry Yule tea. Ebgneezer Scrooge changed his mind in this season, So bless you, eight Regents-Noel is the reason. We could go on further except for the space. But believe us, our hearts have a warm, private place, For the one we can't mention-it's sad, but it's true. & very Merry Christmas from The Daily to you. -The Senior Editors: Crawford Young, Barnes Connable, Cal Samra, Zander Hollander, Sid Klaus, Harland Britz and Donna Hendleman. BOVE THE CHEERS at the railroad sta- tions other noises have been increasing- ly audible: the, voices of the professional "antis," yelling for political blood regard- less of national responsibilities; the voice of a military man who seems to be invert- ing his Clausewitz to read, "Politics is the continuation of war by other means"; the voices of the nimble opportunists whose gy- rations would be amusing were these men not in such positions of power; and finally, the most ominous voice of all: that of the tough guy who continues to gey undeserved attention and deference simply because the ... And a Happy New Year " . . 0or. t (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following editorial was written by Leonard Greenbaum, former Daily editorial director, on the occasion of the 1950 yuletide. Mr. Greenbaum's observations seem to be quite applicable as of today.) THERE HAS BEEN much talk about low student morale and the overall. mental depression. In true academic fashion we have all sought far and wide for the answer. We have turned campus problems into sym- bols of universal destruction and tragedy. Cliches have been cast at the flounder- ing students: "Keep a stiff upper lip;" "Turn to your creator;" and "Do your duty toward the academic advancement of mankind." And only a few voices seem to have come up with a rather obvious solution-TAKE A VACATION. Toward December of each year we natur- ally get a little tired of the academic life. The fall months are the longest unbroken period of school we have. An annual let- down is no rarity. On a cold morning it's often more com- fortable to stay under the warm blankets than to trudge across the diag to another early morning lecture. It's the same story every December. Only this year we have got the war and the draft and the A-bomb and the Commun- ists. Why say that we're just a little lazy and a little tired of the routine 'when we can tack the problem onto the extended imagery of a fiery world holocaust. It's grand, its magnificent, its heroic! But a simple VACATION can clear up a great deal of the neurosis. Shrug the world's problems off your shoul- ders and have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. It'll do wonders for your grades. -Len Greenbaum BOOKS HEMINGWAY, THE WRITER AS ARTIST, by Carlos Baker, published by the Princeton Press. IF YOU ARE NOT Ernest Hemingway, one of the quickest ways to find willing read- ers is to write about Ernest Hemingway. It is not going too far, I think, to call Hem- ingway the most surprising living Ameri- can. He is the man that everybody under- stands and that nobody understands. Carlos Baker, professor and critic, has turned his particular attention in his new book to Hemingway, "the writer as artist." This has meant that his subject's fasci- nating personality and background has received only minimal attention. Some re- cent critics have gone so far as to sus- pect aloud that these elements were about all that remained to support Heming- way's reputation. Mr. Baker, however, in focusing his attention on Hemingway's literary efforts, thinks otherwise. In spite of the fact that his volume is as much a tribute to as it is a judgment of these works, the study is substantially fresh, creditably thorough, and at times, even inspiring in its deep, but essentially re- sponsible, admiration for its subject. Mr. Baker primarily is interested, he says, in "examining Hemingway's mature work in detail, as a whole, and outside the critical stereotype of that work which has grown up in the past twenty-five years." Logically enough, this is carried out by a detailed analysis of Hemingway's technique in the five major novels, "The Old Man and the Sea" is mentioned only in a footnote, two non-fiction books, and many short stories. It considerably expands the glimmer- ings of other men who have been finding "affirmations" in the old Hemingway, as well as the new. In rejecting the standard, brand "lost generation" criticism of its sub- ject, it goes on to explore a series of symbols which recur in the various works and which have gone, largely unnoticed until now. The nucleus of all of this is an extremely apt explanation of the ramifications of Hem- ingway's guiding principle: "A writer's job is to tell the truth." Describing "the way it was," Baker points out, is much more than', simple naturalism. It embraces, in Heming- way, a principle of double perception in which the first need "is the abillity to look within and to describe that complex of mixed emotions which a given set of cir- cumstances has produced in the observ- er's mind. The other necessity is to locate and to state factually and exactly that out- er complex of motion and fact which pro- duced the emotional reaction." The basis of Hemingway's power, Baker submits, is his ability to steer a course between the pathetic and theapathetic fallacies. Numerous examples illustrate Hemingway's power to "invert truly." This faculty is, of course, coupled with his talent for bringing the "light. of magic suggestiveness" across the commonplace surface of words. This total entity is what Conrad has called, "the presented vision." This presented vision of course transcends mere naturalistic "truth." With the above foundation, Baker goes on to a systematic analysis of the five major novels and the subsidiary works. In general, he has unalloyed praise for "The Sun Also Rises," "A Farewell to Arms," and "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The "To Have and Have Not" trilogy, Baker regards as a con- siderable technical experiment which only partly came off. With "Across the River and Into the Trees," the thirtieth anniversary work, which found such wide disfavor among the reviewers, Baker is inclined to be charitable. Admitting that the novel shows serious faults of communication," Baker discusses it primarily as a lyrical utterance of the spiritual essence of Hemingway's thirty years. "If," Baker writes, "'A Farewell to Arms' was his 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' his 'King Lear,' this.. mid-century novel could perhaps be called a lesser kind of 'Winter's Tale' or 'The Tempest.' " Throughout Baker's estimate is a con- tinuing sense of Hemingway's growth. The retrogressions in Hemingway's work, Baker submits, has been only apparent retrogres- sion. Each experiment that has not met with complete success has been followed by a work that showed a new awareness. -In fulfilling his capacities, Hemmingway has demonstrated a remarkable ability not to be sidetracked. Criticized for politi- cal apathy, personal eccentricity, and art- istic fraud, he has so far survived every fad and gone on as a devoted craftsman. "Hemingway, the Writer as Artist" en- dows a living legend with several heroic di- mensions. Suffice it to say, that Mr. Baker's analyses are as absorbing as the man he writes about. It is refreshing to find a re- sponsible scholar willing to go out on a limb for the work of a contemporary American author. In case it matters, Professor Baker, in his ivied halls, is pretty much sold on the man as well. -Bill Wiegand Rosenberg Ad ... To the Editor: IN RESPECT to your mail bag, or sometimes called letters to the editor. Life is sweet, isn't it? Now that death faces espionage agents or (those who like to pick up some change on the side) it appears all their little free followers are cry- ing. Are they afraid of what may be in store for themselves? Per- haps! "The Rosenberg Cleme Clemency.' Oh! What a story of half-truths that some of the American Public will swallow as whole-truths. They may even become spirited enough to write letters to Truman with don't kill them, don't kill them. But, wait- think! Half-truths, espionage. How is it to stop? Should the price be paid for such trivial acts? Some would almost think it is like a child being punished for taking a piece of candy without permis- sion. Realize there is more at stake than this, an excellent case to prove to their co-workers that there awaits more than a few years off their life span. Those years being a prison term. Besides these years which mean nothing to them as their business is still going on, they are being paid to be there, they already have been paid for what they have pro- duced in the way of information, they pay no lawyer fees, and yet maintain the concept that they may have their term shortened by continual retrials. Why with the recent publications (paid ads) one would almost think there wasn't any evidence for a trial in the first place, but surely there was as these half-truths try to convey the idea that they are innocent. This is in reply to your well paid ad in respect to the Rosenberg Clemency. I did not believe the Daily or its staff would permit that type of material to appear in its contents. However, a dollar is a dollar no matter where it comes from nowadays, As I sign off in disgust. --Francis Lawrence Wise Up' ,, To the Editor: BY YOUR OWN admission (Un- heralded Vigil-running the same story on Korea two days in a row) no one reads about the Ko- rean War. I wonder how many other stor- ies on your front page day after day attract the same amount of attention? Why don't you wise up and con- centrate on covering events like sports on your front page that people are interested in and other papers don't offer? If I want to read about nation- al and international news, I buy a paper that can give completer coverage than the Daily. -Marshall Cowlick * * * Monroe St. Comment . To the Editor: THIS morning I picked up a copy of your earnest competitor, the Monroe Street Journal and, upon glancing through it, discov- ered an editorial, with the name of one Richard Demmer appear- ing at the bottom. His message, dealing with proposed changes in labor legislation, struck me as be- ing hauntingly familiar. Upon leafing through recent issues of the "real thing," the Wall Street Journal, I found, in the Decem- ber 8th issue, the identical editor- ial. Mr. Demmer apparently thinks along the same lines as the edi- torialist for the Wall Street Jour- nal. In fact, he thinks with the same words, the same puctuation, the same sentences, and the same "Look-Maybe They'll Do It To Themselves" s A's ge 10 t r l wxiriro IPD' budget, choses the bands, etc. The only thing the University does is, through the Committee on Student Affairs, (which includes student members), to approve the Hop just as all other student events must be approved. The decision to hold J-Hop only one night this year was made by the 1954 J-Hop Committee, large- ly through the recommendations of the 1953 J-Hop Committee and Dean Walter Rea, who makes no decisions regarding the huge un- dertaking but who is an invalu- able help and highly appreciated advisor to the Committee. Attendance at J-Hop has grad- ually dropped from a post-war peak of 2,800 couples (when we had 21,000 students and ful wal- lets on campus) to last year's at- tendance of approximately 1,000 paid couples for the, two. nights For the past two years the Hop has lost money on a two-night venture because of low attendance. This loss is the responsibility of the junior class, which cannot' very well hope to make up the de- ficit from the profits of the fol- lowing year's Senior Ball, a dance which has lost money for the past six years. Has the thought ever occurred to Messrs. Wagner and Johnston that the student body, and not the University has brought about the necessity of holding J-Hop on on- ly one night this year? Doesn't it seem ridiculous to hold a dance which only 1,800 couples wish to attend on two nights?. paragraphs. The theme of both is identical: "So, too, will the newc labor laws be shaped by what thef labor unions now do under theirt new leadership." \ The differences are insignifi- cant. The Wall Street Jounral ac- cuses Senator Taft of "acumen,"s while Mr. Demmer; who must ownY a dictionary, feels that the sena- tor is inspired with mere "quick- ness of perception.}' One editorial says "punitive" and the other,A "harmful" (laws, that is, not Taft). It is a strange coincidence. r -J. B. Reid * * * Lecture Committee... To the Editor:I THIS MONTH is a sad anniver- sary. Once again Freedom of1 of Speech has been adjudged an ideal too dangerous to exercise in the campus community. The Bill of Rights, adopted in December1 161 years ago restrains "abridging4 the freedom of speech;" and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN Gener-; al Assembly four years ago thisg month proclaims that freedom.; A fine way we have celebrated at1 this University! We have been deemed anew this December to be unprepared to cope with the ideas exposed to ordinary citizens in the world outside. True, freedom of speech- is not prohibited, but it is definitely abridged. Holders of subversive, erroneous, or unpopular views (some of them, anyway!) may indeed speak off-campus or "privately"; and what happens then? The audience consists large- ly of that inner circle which al- ready mostly agrees with what is being said, the ideas propounded meet with little honest discussion or opposition, and inbreeding con- tinues. Apparently the horrible ideas' from which the Regents and the Lecture Committee would protect us are so strong that they cannot be combatted by the quality of education offered - by the Univer- sity of Michigan! Why not let them be heard under the most favorable auspices possible for the presence and expression of con- trary opinions? Students (who are so often told they are the future citizens of the world) may thus be prepared more successfully to meet in argument unacceptable ideas and to determine for themselves (are they not being educated here?) what ideas must be com- batted. Let us not accept this recent defeat as final, but continue ef- forts to build this University into the marketplace of ideas which it ought to be, in which all shades of opinion may be heard fairly' and judged with the aid, not the' attempted censorship, of those responsible for our education. --Ed Voss * * * Lecture Committee*.. . To the Editor: THE LECTURE Committee has acted again in its traditional manner. The turning down of the SL brief is a clear demonstration of opposition to the will of the majority of students and faculty as represented thru both the ref- erendum and their representative bodies. This action shows disre- spect and, moreover, constitutes a direct slam against SL, the literary college faculty, and other organs thru which student and faculty democratically express their opin- ions. The recent ruling on speakers at private meetings imposes a dan- gerous press censorship and re- stricts freedom of assembly. Al- though it has certain positive as- pects, it seems to have been de- signed as an appeasement measure to placate the original student de- mand for an end to the Lecture Committee. We cannot accept this token. We must continue the fight to bring freedom of speech to this campus. --Marge Buckley * * * J-Ho p , , To the Editor: - IF MESSRS. Ralph Wagner and Wayne Johnston had bothered to find out the facts, their tirade on the "University's" inept hand- ling of J-Hop would not have been the "simple farce" of ina)ccuracies and untruths it was. Evidently these gentlemen cannot even read the Daily correctly. If they will take the trouble to get out old copies of the Daily, they will find that the 1954 J-Hop Committee, not the University, made all, the announcements Messrs. Wagner and Johnston alleged to have been made by the University. The J-Hop is organized by a committee of nine students, jun- iors elected in the all-campus elec- tions by the junior class, which 'is the sponsor "of the dance. This committee makes all the decisions regarding the dance, draws up the . . .... ,...s .. . ..... . o- ..... T ..«S.. r1..1.... ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round F-LouisZa o Finance Chairman 1953 J-Hop Committee * * Orchids . . To the Editor: 0RCHIDS TO the Daily's fightin courage as, exemplified by its- publishing Crawford Young's edi- torial on the University's public relations program. Without a doubt, this article is the flimsiest and vaguest piece of writing that has wandered onto the editorial page yet. You, deserve a dozen orchids for showing your face after that pub- lishing job, Daily. Man, that took real backbone! -Mary A. DeWan P.S. Come on . . . I dare you to publish this! IN the nineteenth century Ameri- cans were borrowers of culture. In the twentieth we are still bor- rowers, according to our critics in Europe and Asia. We have appar- ently, nothing to export in that' line of goods. We have to offer only a flood of mechanical inventions from the motor car and the air- plane to the washing machine, soft drinks, and the deep freeze. The conception that the United States consists of one-hundred- and-fifty-eight million peqple, all of whom are descendants of Eu- ropeans, Africans, and a few Asi- atics who brought over with them and implanted on our soil the seeds of their own cultures, seems to be neglected. We have even. borrowed from the Indians, as well as the Spanish, as anyone can see who visits the Southwest. An American attacked by for- eigners for our materialism has never known what to say. He can speak to no avail of our orches- tras, of the constant stream of classical and modern music that night and day crowds the air- waves, of our theatres, our muse- , ums of art, our vast universities, and of our modern literature translated and read abroad by millions of Europeans. -The Saturday Review Sixty-Third Yea? Edited and managed by students Of.} the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in ontrol of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Crawford Young.......,Managing Editor Barnes Connable . ...City Editor Cal Sainra.. ....... .Editorial Director Zander Hollander...... Feature Editor Sid Klaus........Associate City Editor Harlnd Britz.......Associate Editor Donna Hendleman....Associte Editor Ed Whipple...............ports Editor. John Jenks. Associate sports Editor Dick Sewel..Associate sports Editor Lorraine Butler.......Wowen's Editor Mary Jane Mills, Assoc. Women's Editor Business Staff Al Green............ Business Manager Milt Goetz...:....Advertising manage Diane Johnston....Assoc. Business Mgr. Judy Loehnberg...F..Finance Manager Tom Treeger.C... Circulation Manager Telebhne 23-24-1 with DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - Congressional election probers, digging through the files of big contributors, have come across the amazing way in which one Texas oilman tried to influence the election in 20 states out of the 48. The oilman is H. R. Cullen of Dallas, one of the wealthiest men in the U.S.A., who placed a minimum of $53,000 behind his pet candidates during the recent cam- paign. Naturally the candidates he backed if elected will be inclined to favor legislation backed by Cullen, such as tidelands oil and the 27/2 per cent oil depletion tax allow- ance. Cullen didn't scatter his money. He pinpointed it on certain candidates. Fur- thermore, he didn't confine it to candi- dates in or near Texas. He reached out all the way to Connecticut to spend $1,000 to defeat Sen. William Benton, the Demo- crat who had the courage to oppose Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Likewise he sent $5,000 up to Wisconsin to help Senator McCarthy in his primary, with $3,500 to help re-elect Sen. William Jenner of Indiana, the man who c'alled Gen. George Marshall a traitor. --CULLEN ROLL-CALL - H ERE IS A detailed account of how the big Texas oilman parlayed his political money all over the United States: 4GENERAL MACARTHUR - $5,000 to MacArthur's primary in New Jersey; and SENATOR BREWSTER of Maine-$1,000. Brewster, a Republican, had supported tide- lands oil and various measures Cullen ad- vocated. Defeated. SENATOR WATKINS of Utah-$1.000. Watkins, a Republican, had opposed Cul- len on tidelands oil, but was wavering. He had backed the 272 per cent oil de- pletion allowance. Won. - PAT HURLEY in New Mexico - $1,000. Hurley, a Republican, was former attorney for Sinclair Oil, agreed with Cullen's gen- eral ideas. He lost. SENATOR MALONE of Nevada (R.)-- $1,000. Won. SENATOR ECTON of Montana (R.)- $1,000. Lost. SENATOR KEM of Missouri (R.)-$1,000. Lost. CONGRESSMAN FRED AANDAHL of North Dakota-$1,000. This was an at- tempt to defeat GOP Senator Langer in the North Dakota primary. Langer had voted against tidelands oil and against the 271/2 per cent oil depletion allowance. Langer won. JAMES B. PATTISON-$3,000. Candidate for Congress in Texas. Lost. -- ONLY TWO DEMOCRATS - CULLENNALSO sent $500 to each of the following Republican congressmen: C. W. Bishop and Charles Vursell of Illinois; Donald Jackson, Ernest Bramblett, Oakley Hunter, John J. Allen Jr., and Joe Holt, all of California; Edmund Rowan of New York; x s r I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Personnel Requests. The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University. of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University.Notices shouldbe sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 2552 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (before 11 a.m. on Saturday.) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1952 VOL. LXIII, No. 72 Notices T.I.A.A.-C.R.E.F. There are approxi- mately 175 faculty members who are participants of the T.I.A.A. retirement program who have not yet-stated their desires regarding the College Retire- ment Equities Fund. Since the plan is to go into effect Jan. 1, 1953, for those who do desire to participate, an indi- cation of each member's desire in this Personnel Requests. The City of Saginaw has openings for Civil Engineers. A bulletin with de- tailed information is available to Feb- ruary graduates and others interested. A list of the companies coming to interview before examinations will be posted in the Daily on Jan. 6, 1953. Those interested should check there or contact the Bureau of Appointments, Ext. 371. All seniors graduating in February who are interested in registering with the Bureau of Appointments, or those who have not returned the material, should contact the office as soon as possible. In order to receive assistance in placement one must fill out the necessary forms before leaving school. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Hugh Fer- dinand Schaefer, Chemistry; thesis: "Catalysisin Inorganic Hexammine Synthesis,"' Fri., Dec. 19, 1952, 3003 Mrs. Roth will speak on th'e Algebras of Logic. Doctoral Examination for Eugene Huff Beach, Physics; thesis: "Angular Distribution Studies of P31 (d,p)P32* Reactions," Sat., Dec. 20, 2038 Randall Laboratory, at 1 p.m. Chairman, H. R. Crane. Concert Rackham Symphony Choir, Maynard Klein, Conductor,;will present a Christ- mas concert at the Detroit Rackham Memorial Auditorium at 8:30 Saturday evening, Dec. 20. Soloists will include Arlene Sollenberger, contralto, Robert Kerns, baritone, Mary Jewell and Ver- nette Sublett, sopranos, and Robert Courte, violist. Kenneth Jewell will con- duct the Rackham Singers in one group of songs, and Mary Helen Munson and Justine votypka will serve as accom- panists during the concert. The general public is invited. v. a f-2 a