PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1953 U I t!no __le rte By HARRY LUNN Daily Managing Editor WITHOUT ANY particular fanfare, the Student Legislature Wednesday regain- ed much of the ground lost three weeks ago when the student members of the Student Affairs Committee were asked to nominate two students for the Development Council Board. At that time, a majority of the SAC student members protested the logic of turning the appointive function over to them, and asked that in the future it be restored to the Legislature. The test of this recommodation came, in a sense, on Wednesday when Assistant to the President Erich A. Walter asked SL to name five students to the special commit- tee which will study exam schedule re- visions. Reasoning behind the Development Coun- cil decision centered on the belief that ap- pointments could be made only by a group recognized in the Regents' by-laws. Since SL does not presently hold this recognition, the Council felt it impossible to let it name the students. Considerable opposition arose over this decision since many student leaders felt its logic was shaky considering the wide range of appointments SL has made in /the past and continues to make every year. In light of this opinion it was re- assuring that Walter chose to reaffirm the Legislature's appointive function. The two incidents, however, point up a very serious problem which SL, sooner or later, must face-the problem of gaining official Regents' sanction through an addi- tion to the by-laws. The Legislature could well devote considerable thought to making this one of their objectives this year. Win a Game, Get a Trops-hy WHAT WE REALLY need is a trophy to be awarded to the winner of the annual Michigan-Michigan State football contest. As Frank Blackford, Governor G. Mennen Williams' legislative secretary, chose to put it, "The trophy would serve to highlight the traditional rivalry between the two Michi- gan schools, just as the 'Little Brown Jug' is a major feature in football games between Michigan and Minnesota Universities." Why didn't someone think of this be- fore? I must have been exceedingly dull for the Wolverines and Spartans to trudge onto a gridiron together once a year with no other incentive than to outscore each .other. And now that both teams are in the Big Ten, the affair will undoubtedly assume the atmosphere of an afternoon . tea. Such a trophy may even create some spec- tator interest. Witness the pitifully infini- tesimal gatherings at the last few meetings of the teams. A year ago only 97,000 at- tended, and it would have been less if the stadium wasn't so big. With' a trophy at stake, the game may also rate a small graph at the bottom of page 32 in some newspaper. Furthermore, the trophy may tend to raise a rivalry between the two schools, a rivalry which, as rumors have it, has been lying dormant since the Spartans admitted Michigan had the better chess team._ Suggestions for the design of th trophy " include Paul Bunyan standing on a map of Michigan. When those who can get on- ly one channel on their television sets are stuck with the "Game of the Week," fea- turing Michigan against Michigan State, on November 14, they can learn how one goes about standing on a map of Michigan without stepping on East Lansing. Only one thing remains. The trophy, in the interest of not confusing it with other trophies, needs a name. There is just one answer. Run a state-wide contest, and to 'the person who submits the best, the most inspiring, and the cleverest title, give him the trophy. --Jim Dygert New Books at Library Bellow, Saul; The Adventures of Augie March-New York, Viking Press, 1953. Forester, C. S.; Hornblower and the At- ropos-Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1953. Macartney, Clarence Edward; Grant and his Generals-New York, The MacBride Co., 1953. Rodahl, Kaare, M.D.; North-New York, Harper & Brothers, 1953. Roosevelt, Nicholas; A Front Row Seat-. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. ULilman, James Ramsey; The Sands of Karakorum-Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1953. Warren, Robert Penn; Brother to Dra- gons-New York, Random House, 1953. NLIKE ITALIAN Communism, French Communism seems to have lost most of its aggressiveness and zest. It does not lose ground but it does not advance much A Note of Discord Another Success Story ALTHOUGH THE State of Michigan em- bodies more than 57,980 square miles of territory, state officials seem to have reach- ed the conclusion, that land here is at a premium. When they started building a convict labor camp on property adjoining the Interlochen National Music Camp, they made.a move which will almost certainly doom the camp to failure in spite of its present nationwide popularity. Relatively few parents, even the most musically minded, will send their children to a camp within walking distance of sev- eral hundred convicts. And with Inter- lochen's failure would go nearly the total value of $1,750,000 worth of buildings on the present site, a figure which could be only slightly reduced if the music camp found another location. On the other hand, the state officials might have made the decision feeling that music wafting across the picturesque lake would have a beneficient, soothing and mor- ale-building effect on prisoners, forgetting at the same time, however, that many of the convicts might find the fresh lake air and melodious strains so pleasing that they would have no incentive to ever leave the site W9y maintaining good behavior. Already music lovers throughout the country have begun to raise angry objec- tions to building the prison camp. The only solution for the harrassed state offi- cials would be to cease the construction and plan a new site for the prison camp. Then the weary officials could go home in the evening to rest and listen to record- ings of good music-in peace. -Dorothy Myers IetteP4 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. (VNPy 95 4M~t, -JIpeCoEt - /~ ~44O~ fovREP - "-''SUR t w co,. n~l!~IT~ In Answer .. . To the Editor: AN INTELLIGENT, courageous student government does not, necessarily condemn those who disagree. It may take more cour- age to calmly live the democratic: principles of American life, than to destructively criticize those who agrees with Miss Rossner on any question does so out of fear? Sure- ly Miss Rossner vastly underesti- mates her fellow legislators and those who elected them to office. -Mike Jessup Bassett Fred Hicks * * * Wht to Wear . PAATi'ER OF FACT By STEWART ALSOP best experts in the field, if not a minute WASHINGTON-A serious minded citizen i these days can hardly be blamed for The other arguments advanced by Secre- feeling a little like one of those laboratory tary Wilson against a major air defense ef- rats which, exposed to conflicting stimuli, fort, which are echoed by high Pentagon is. reduced to a condition of quivering ro- sources, are equally confusing and conflict- dential neurosis. For American citizens in ing. At his press conference on Wednesday, recent days have been subjected to an ava- for example, Wilson intimated that no more lanche of wildly conflicting statements about than the half lillion additional he proposes the Soviet air-atomic threat, ,all emanat- could be spent, even if much more money ing from supposedly well-informed officials. was available. "Operation Candor" looks like becoming On the very same day, Gen. Benjamin "Operation Confusion." Chidlaw, Chief of the Air Defense Com- The confusion has been compounded, mand, also had something to say. He re- moreover, by the nature of Secretary of marked sadly that it was impossible to pro- Defense Charles E. Wilson's arguments vide even "adequate" protection under pre- against any really major effort to streng- sent money and other limits. "I feel con- then the continental defense against nu- fident," he added, "that when it becomes clear attack. Secretary Wilson has said fully apparent to our national leaders that that he proposes to spend no more than an adequate degree of protection cannot be an additional half billion or so for air provided within the limits imposed, the pre- defense, as against the very much larger sent restrictions will somehow be relaxed." effort recommended in the Lincoln Pro- The conflict with Wilson's statement needs jest report, the Kelly Committee report, no underlining." the Bull Committee report, and a host of Another argument is that nothing more other special expert studies. can be done under present manpower ceil- In support of his decision, Wilson says ings. Actually, a study of precisely this that "it will be perhaps three years before problem, under Air Force sponsorship, known they (the Russians) have a reasonable num- by the coode name of "Operation Corrode," ber of bombs and airplanes that could deliv- has concluded that a deep area defense can er them." This statement is subject to be manned with available manpower. Even argument. Secretary Wilson apparently re- if this conclusion is over-optimistic, it is fers only to hydrogen bombs, for example, surely a little odd to argue that a nation conveniently overlooking the fact that for of 160,000,000 people cannot provide the men more than four years the Soviets have to prevent its own destruction. been stockpiling atomic bombs. A mere half A final argument is that it is no use dozen or so big atomic bombs could des- making a big investment in air defense, troyain ,hbigargvestment in aisrcoudry.nse. troy the larger cities in this country, since Soviet perfection of new devises like Again, Secretary Wilson remarked in sup- the intercontinental ballistic missile will port of his decision that "panicky" persons render such a defense obsolete. This flies were giving the Russians credit for "some straight in the face of the reassuring es- bombers they don't have." Presumably one timates of Soviet capabilities cited above. of these panicky persons is Wilson's Chief What is more, it is precisely like saying of Air Staff, Gen. Nathan Twining. Twining that it is no use going to a doctor, since said some months ago that the Russian everyone must die in the end anyway. "long range, bomber force is now so big"! that the Soviets no longer need to "increase This is a complicated subject, full of its size" but only to improve the quality of thorny technicalities. It is possible that the plane. Secretary Wilson and those who agree with him are right, and that for some undis- But let this pass. Assume that Secre- closed technical or other reasons the great tary Wilson is perfectly correct in esti- number of experts who have studied the mating that it will be three years before subject are wrong. It is possible that these the Soviet Air Force can devastate the reasons have nothing to do with the desire United States. By any reasonable test, to lower taxes and balance the budget, or this estimate is the best possible argu- with the congenital affection of the mili- ment for going all out immediately on a tary for the utterly out-dated "balanced major continental defense effort. Under force" or three-way-split concept. But the any circumstances, it will take a long reasons so far advanced for a penny-wise time to build a fully mature early warn- approach to the continental defense prob- ing net, and above all the weapons to res- lem, which is really the problem of national pond effectively to the warning. But if survival, are confusing, conflicting, and we do indeed have three years grace, the very far from convincing. job can still be done, according to the (Copyright, 1953, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) r q ON THE WASHINGTON MER RY-GO-HOUND WITH DREW PEARSON do not seem to be acting out our To the Editor: own interpretation of them. WOULD IT be possible in the -Leah Marks future for the editor of the society page to be more explicit SL Motion . . . when describing the type of dress To the Editor: to be worn at dances. To the best THE QUESTION of academic of my knowledge "formal" and freedom has been extensively "informal" are not the only words considered by the Student Legis- ever used. While "formal" is com- lature at their past three meet- plete enough, "informal" is far ings. Since Ruth Rossner has pre- from adequate. The word "in- sented her views through a letter formal" covers every occasion to the editor, we feel obligated to" from a picnic to a cocktail party. present some other considerations If a less ambiguous description involved on this problem. was used it would be a great help Although we sympathize with to the coeds of this campus. Miss Rossner's views at the meet- -Nancy Fisher ing, we feel that her accusations* that the Legislature as a whole' Philosophical Error . . . voted out of fear on the academic Eio freedom question is biased and in- To the Editor: accurate. The question of con- HOW'S THIS for size! demning those methods employed Your "Philosophical Photo- by the Congressional committees, grapher" (Daily-Oct. 7) has dis- which victimize the individual regarded the Maracana Stadium- without providing adequate pro- the Municipal Stadium of Rio de tection of his rights as a citizen, Janerio, Brazil, in declaring the gave rise to twopronounced fields University City Stadium in Mexi- of thought. We feel that there! co City with a scant seating capa- was, however, honest and sincere city of 110,000 as the "Biggest in difference of opinion on both sides. (the) world!" To say that those who disagreed The Maracana Stadium has a with your opinion did so out of seating capacity of 160,000 and fear is a completely subjective was constructed for the world's view. soccer championship (July 1950). We wonder if everybody who dis- -Jules Kliot DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN WASHINGTON-Secretary of State Dulles has clamped such a strict censorship on news from Korea that the American public doesn't realize the dangers building up in that country again. Uncensored military dispatches report 35 Red airfields have been built in North Korea since the armistice. All are in violation of the truce agreement. In addition 800 Red jets have been smuggled into North Ko- rea from China since the truce. Dulles has hushed all this up, was even responsible for the order which prohibited the Korean pilot who flew the Russian MIG to Seoul from telling what airfield he took off from. Reason the name was censored was because the airfield didn't even exist before the truce. Dulles' private explanation for the censorship is fear of upset- ting the forthcoming political conference. Dulles is desperately and understandably anxious to get the Russians to sit down at the confer- ence table, and if the Reds are too much embarrassed by revelations of their buildup, he's afraid they will sabotage the talks before they even begin. BOHLEN'S MYSTERY TRIP AMBASSADOR CHIP BOHLEN, whose appointment as envoy to Russia was so bitterly opposed by Senator McCarthy, was sum- moned back to Washington for conference during the McCarthy wed- ding. Paul Porter, lanky ex-chairman of the Federal Communica- tions Commission, bumped into Bohlen, asked why he was home. "I haven't the vaguest idea," replied the ambassador. "They tele- graphed me to fly back, but now that I'm here I don't know why they wanted me." "Perhaps," remarked Porter, "they wanted you to serve as best man at Joe McCarthy's wedding."E I i I 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 should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 2552 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (before 11 a.m. on Saturday). SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1953 VOL. LXIV, No. 17 Notices McCARTHY MeNO-TES Faculty, College of Engineering. There SENATOR McCARTHY, whose finances were in the red before he hit will be a meeting of the Faculty of this on the Communist issue, is now rolling in dough. He received College on Fri., Oct. 16, 4:15 p.m., 348 West Engineering Building. $100,000 worth of wedding presents alone, ordered two Senate cops to guard them . . .. Most of Joe's financing comes from Texas oil mil- Medical College Admission Test. Ap- lionaires. Once he brazenly asked Clint Murchison for an oil well ..,. plication blanks for the November 2 Yet Joe was so hard up at the end of 1949 that his banker wrote: "The admisration ofarthe Medical Cle a directors have now given me an outright order to the effect that un- 110 Rackham Building. Application less your loans are paid up full, I am to immediately sell out your y blanks are due in Princeton, N.J., not later than Oct. 19, 1953. Square Dance, sponsored by SRA. Students and Faculty welcome. No ad- mission charge. Lane Hall, 8:00-12:00 p.m. The Congregational-Disciples Guild. After-game Open House at Guild House. Coming Events Cultural Exchange Program. The first program of the Cutlural Exchange Se- ries will be held at the International Center on Sun., Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m. Miss Alice Russell, Secretary of the Alumnae Council, will speak on "Know Your University." Her talk will be 11- lustrated, with colored slides. Foreign and American students are invited. Re- freshments will be served. Deutscher Verein Kaffeestunde-Mon., Oct. 12, 1953, at 3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Tap Room of the Michigan Union. Everybody welcome, especially beginners. Hillel Foundation activities for the week end: Sat., Oct. 10, 4 to 6 p.m., football open house. Sun., Oct. 11, 10:30 a.m., Hillel Stu- dent Council meeting; 6 p.m., Supper Club; 8 p.m., first meeting of Hillel Chorus; 8 p.m., Grad get-together. Registration stillropen for classes in Jewish History, Hebrew, and Modern Is- rael. Membership on the Music, Edu- cation, and Publicity committees Is open. Communion Breakfast will be held Sun., Oct. 11, after the 9:30 Mass at the Father Richard Center. Monsignor Carrol F. Deadly will be the guest speaker. Tickets may bebpurchased at the Chapel. Everyone is welcome. 4 I ~JRREN MOVPA .® . . A rchitectur e A uditoriumn KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, with Alec Guinness IN THE TWO OR THREE years this movie has been in circulation it has attained the status of a minor classic. Like The Importance Of Being Earnest, it has a specially right combination of the world's best comic elements-satire, whimsy, and wit. Not only would one's inclination lead him to get up from a sickbed to see a re- vival, but it might be a wise thing medically; it restores faith in man's ability to be gen- uinely funny. Much of the unique excellence can be attributed to Alec Guinness, superb actor and probably the most accomplished comedian of the age. He plays, in succes- sion, six members of a noble English house. Denis Price, an obscure and am- bitious scion, kills them off one by one on his way to the dukeship. Half the fun of Guinness' metamorphoses comes from recognizing his almost inhuman versatil- ity. From the suffragette, airsick but in- domitable in her balloon over London, to the dodderinE. nort-swilling curate. each The picture is not simply a series of imi- tations though. The coal simplicity of Denis Price's motives for his bloody career, his admirable despatch in putting plans into action, are part of the picture's perfect urbanity. Nor does the dialogue lag behind this standard. It has the elegance, the meas- ured irony, of Oscar Wilde's turn of the century characters, Like most genuinely entertaining things, there is more than a glittering surface to the movie. Its good-natured satire takes sharp aim at some quite tangible institu- tions. First of all, it sets off a veritable forest fire among England's noble family trees. Abstract privilege may or may not be a reprehensible thing, but the abusers of privilege can always stand a few lumps. And the grossest abuses of all are under fire here: stupidity, insensitivity and worst of all dullness. Subtle as it is, the movie is not above the direct approach; there is the sweet irony, for example, of seeing a peer caught in the man-trap he had set out for poachers. Anglo-Saxon justice, too, is seen ponderously appre- hending the most notorious criminal in the annals of drama for a crime he didn't commit. collateral. I might add that no telephone calls, telegrams or letters will bring about any extension of these loans." . . . . Two months later, McCarthy delivered his first speech against Communists, and over- night the money started rolling in from well-meaning people whot wanted to help the cause. Senate investigators dug up prooftthat Mc- Carthy used part of this money on other things-such as speculating on the' commodity market . . . . McCarthy has just sent a subcommit- tee to investigate atrocities against American prisoners in Korea. Yet' it was McCarthy who defended the Nazi war criminals after they had been found guilty of murdering defenseless American prisoners in cold blood. McCarthy went so far as to accuse American officers of torturing the condemned Nazis. His speeches in the U.S. Senate stir- red up so much anti-American feeling in Germany that the army never did carry out the death sentences. ARMY MORALE SUFFERS A GRUFF, TOUGH master sergeant, who has fought in two wars, called this column the other day to complain about the "raw deal" servicemen are getting.- Before he could finish, his voice choked. What he was trying to say was that he couldn't make ends meet and support his family. He was both proud and embarrassed, which 'was probably why he choked up. He had been in the Army for years, but couldn't figure any way out except to give up his Army career. After he hung up, this column began investigating Army liv- ing standards, found other hard-bitten soldiers in the same boat. Another master sergeant with five kids and 20 years' service said he was already looking for a civilian job. A staff sergeant claim- ed his food bill would shoot up one-third, completely out of reach of his meager budget, if Secretary of Defense Wilson goes ahead with his plan plan to cut out commissary Ifrivileges. A chaplain' admitted gravely that the morale of the noncoms-the backbone of the Army-is worse than in the 'thirties. Here are the reasons : 1. Food-Thechain-store lobby has put the pressure on Congress and the Pentagon to close down commissaries, which sell food to G.I.s cheaper than the local supermarkets. Through such powerful Sena- tors as Bill Knowland of California. and Willis Robertson of Virginia, the lobbyists got the Senate Appropriations Committee to slip a "rider" into the appropriations bill ordering the Defense Department either to close the commissaries or turn them over to private management by December 31. Now the pressure is on Wilson to shut them down al- together. Simultaneously, the ration allowance for enlisted men has been dropped from $1.20 to $1.10 per day, and the cost of meals at field messes has gone up, resulting in a monthly loss to most officers of $30 to $35. 2. HOUSING-Housing around army posts is still below standard, yet the rent in many cases is exorbitant. Theoretically, rent control is still supposed to be in effect around 24- congested military posts. But Congress furnished only $60,000 to enforce these rent ceilings-barely enough to pay for eight offices to cover 24 areas. 3. PAY-Last year, the cost of living shot up over 12 per cent, while the military got an approximate 4 per cent pay raise. Meanwhile, extra pay for overseas service has been eliminated, except for a meager bonus for enlisted men. 4. TRAVEL-The mileage allowance for servicemen has been cut from eight tosi' nc not snermi. A le-Ardutin h.s ln nen p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Mr. W. ADhahir will speak on the Commutativity and Line-Geometry. The Mathematics Orientation Semi- nar will meet Mon., Oct, 12, at 3 p.m. in. 3001 Angell Hall. Mr. George Murphyj will continue histalk on current math- ematical literature. Doctoral Examination for Robert Jan Wolff, Social Psychology; thesis: "The: value of Member Contributions as a Determinant of Attraction to a Group," Mon., Oct. 12, East Council Room, Rackham Building, at 7:30 p.m. Chair- man, A. F. Zander. Concerts Organ Recital. The first in a series of three Sunday afternoon organ recitals will be presented at 4:15, Oct. 11, in Hill Auditorium, by Robert Noehren, Uni- versity Organist. His first program will be one which was given by Felix Men- delssohn in St. Thomas Church, Leip- zig, on August 6, 1840. It will include the following works by Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in E-flat major; Chorale~ Prelude "Deck Thyself, My Soul, with Gladness;" Prelude and Fugue in A minor; Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor; Pastorale; and Toccata in F ma- jor. The general public will be admit- ted without charge. EricaMorini, violinist, will open the Extra Concert Series, Monday evenin, Oct. 12, at 8:30, in Hill Auditorium-tak- ing the place of Guiomar Novaes, pre- viously announced. Ticket-holders will please use ticket "A," reading "Guio- mar Novaes" for admission. Miss Morini will play the following program on this occasion: Handel'sI Larghetto; Praeludium and Allegro (Pugnani-Kreisler); Bruch Concerto in G minor; Brahms Sonata in D mi- nor; Godard's Canzonetta; Wieniawski's Valse Caprice; and Sarasate's Faust Waltz. Tickets for the series of five concerts, or for individual concerts, are available. at the office of the University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower, un- til 4:30 p.m. on the day of the concert; and after 7 o'clock at the Hill Audi- torium box office on the evening of the concert. i 3 . The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Hos- pital-Medical-Surgical Care Plans will be o eriduring the period from October 5 through October 20, for new applica- tions as well as changes in contracts now in effect. These new applications and changes become effective December 5 with the first payroll deduction oni November 30. I Academic Notices Geometry Seminar. Mon., Oct. 12, 7 The Graduate . Outing Club meets at 2 pm. Sunday at the rear of the Rack- ham Building. Cross-country hike plan- ned. Students with cars are reqiested to bring them to help with transpor- tation. In case of unfavorable weather, the picnic supper will be held in Rack- ham. Elections will be held this Sun- day. 1955 J-Hop Committee. 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