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By HARRY LUNN
Daily Managing Editor
INDICATIONS rapidly becoming more ap-
parent that all is not well within the Eis-
enhower Administration hold little hope for
immediate solution of the President's
troubles and point to more serious political
difficulties ahead during the next months.
The agricultural "crisis"-brought to a
head by dissillusioned farmers and cattle-
men who find the golden stream from the
Treasury narrowing-is impossible of so-
lution in terms of the pre-election prom-
ises of less subsidization and more compe-
tition.
Wisconsin's highly publicized congres-
sional upset has shown that farmers will be
tempted to turn Democrat at the onset of
lower prices even with a moderate support
program.
Promises of a well-balanced farm plan
to be worked out in a few months by the
President will do little to comfort the farm
groups feeling a financial pinch now.
Certainly the Ezra Taft Benson program
of indirect supports is more economically
sensible than out and out subsidization, but
economic sense can also mean political sui-
cide, and there is doubt about the Adminis-
tration's ability to hold its program of par-
tially returning farm produce to the compe-
titive sector of the economy.
Although Benson now ranks as cabinet
member most on the spot, the former
holder of the title, Secretary Dulles, is
having his troubles too. As if a sticky Ko-
rean situation were not enough, Dulles is
in the middle of a serious Trieste situa-
tion, bothered by a difficult Israeli mess
and at an impasse in the exchange of
notes with Russia over the Big Four for-
eign ministers meeting.
In Korea the United Nations gained a
substantial propaganda victory when the
Communists had only microscopic success
in persuading North Korean and Chinese
Communist soldiers at the neutral compound
to return home. Meanwhile, the UN gained
a slight victory in persuading one of the
two dozen UN soldiers refusing repatriation
to come over to our side.
These victories are insignificant, how-
ever, beside the worsening situation of the
political conference which has opened on
so many notes of discord that the Rhee gov-
ernment position that solution of major
problems in this manner is impossible has'
become more and more justified.
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PROGRESS HERE and in the projected
Big Four foreign ministers meeting rests
largely on Russian willingness to cooperate.
Since initiative in this case rests with Rus-
sia, little hope can be offered for any easing
of the power struggle. With the Malenkov
government apparently trying to consolidate
its position internally, our main chance to
gain initiative could come with further signs
of ~discord in the Soviet periphery when
stronger United States action than taken in
the July German uprisings would probably
give us a significant victory.
Trieste and Israel are likely to be per-
ennial problems, but in both cases our
dramatic action has neither won friends
nor solved basic troubles. Though the
withdrawal from Trieste may have been
a logical recognition of our position there
over the last years, it merely contributed
to tenseness in the area, and put us in a
position where no matter what is done,
we stand to lose support.
The Dulles statement withdrawing Israel
economic aid as punishment for the Israeli
contribution to starting further trouble in
that unsettled area is another cropper.
Though we have been charged with favor-
ing Israel over the Arab states, Dulles' press
conference declaration will make the Arabs
little happier-they will not be ultimately
satisfied with anything short of return of
Palestine-and will only infuriate the Jews.

To placate the Jews in Israel and the United
States, the Secretary probably will have to
restore aid at a later date with consequent
embarassment.
A press conference also proved the nemi-
sis for another cabinet official, Charles E.
Wilson, who got into the most difficulties
earlier in the year. Holding an Ann Arbor
conference last week, the Secretary made
several unconsidered observations on the
security program while discussing the Milo
J. Radulovich case. His remarks indicated
a new defense department policy: the na-
tion has been soft in the past on security
(Ft. Monmouth) and now will drastically
tighten up-his classic comment was "we're
going to be fair, but doubtful cases will be
resolved in favor of the nation rather than
the individual."
With this philosophy running rampant
in other areas, President Eisenhower's
earlier, more reassuring comments on in-
vestigations are failing to stand up.
Though the . Ft. Monmouth revelations
show extremely lax conditions, the solu-
tion is a stronger policy still built on
consideration of individual cases rather
than an extreme blanket pronouncement
that raises the state above the individual
in all cases.
The President himself has been the big-
gest disappointment lately, as he has been
all along. In light of the difficulties, and,
in some cases, transgressions of his cabinet
members, the nation could expect a greater
sense of leadership. Hard pressed by GOP
opponents in a headstrong Congress, the
President created much unrest among his
own most loyal supporters by indicating they

EDC and European Unity

First Touch Of Frost

EUROPE, ONLY slowly recovering from a
devastating war, has realized the neces-
sity of unity and for many reasons. One is
the natural interdependence resulting from
the geographical location of the countries.
Another, and most important, is the Russian
'peace offensive.'
The European Defense Community
plan has been designed with this unity
as a goal. It would permit Germany to
contribute military forces to the combin-
ed European army, and therefore is im-
portant as an element of Western defense
and as an important step toward conti-
nental unity.
France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium,
Holland and Luxembourg have been included
in EDC by virtue of a treaty signed eighteen
months ago by the governing bodies of each4
nation. The representatives of these coun-
tries have actually agreed to yield some sov-
ereignty (that is, in control of armed forces)
to a "supranational" government in hopes
of achieving some degree of European unity.
Under present plans, a chamber of na-
tions with representatives chosen by direct
popular vote and each country's numerical
representation proportional to its popula-
tion would be in charge of EDC adminis-
tration and policy.
There are, however, obstacles to this
joint defense, the most obvious being na-
tionalism and the reluctance of nations
to relinquish any degree of sovereignty
even in the light of possible agression.
Any surrender to a common discipline be-
yond national borders would be for these
nations a risk considering the fact that
each nation has industry and agricul-
ture to protect; none of them is eager to
take the needs of other nations into con-
sideration. The economic aspect of EDC
presents itself as another obsticle to the
nations concerned. Each has a fear of
being burdened with added costs to sup-
port the defense community and yet
economic balance is necessary to main-
tain military strength. The more imme-
diate needs of material and human re-
sources are most important to those na-
tions which have not yet fully recovered
from World War II.
The basic objection France has presented
to the EDC plan is of course the arming of
Germany. Still recovering from heavy losses
in the war, France sees this as not only a
valid argument, but one that finds support
in Great Britain, especially in the Labor
party's left wing.
The British Conservative government,
however, has analyzed the situation a little
differently, coming to the conclusion that
the only way to rearm Germany is through
EDC, but that Germany should not domi-
nate the defense community. Security
- against the Soviet Union through a unified

Western continent, and security against pos-
sible German military ventures through pro-
visions of the community's organization are
then the goals of England at present.
In light of this recent British enthusi-
asm about EDC, France is becoming some-
what more favorable to its ratification.
France also insists that EDC be governed
by a truly international and effective po-
litical community.
The other countries involved in the would-
be defense community, which would, if
unanimously ratified by the six countries
involved, end Allied occupation of West Ger-
many, have objections to be considered also.
Italy, for example, will not ratify EDC
until the Trieste problem is settled; perhaps
in the light of recent action they will con-
sider the situation under control and will
ratify the united defense project.
And Benelux representatives are behaving
somewhat timidly in the situation, in fear
both of losing national sovereignty and of
witnessing German rearmament.
Konrad Adenauer's.recent electoral victory
in Western Germany was perhaps the most
optimistic boost EDC has received since its
initial stages fmore than a year ago. Pledged
to a united Germany, most of all to a unity
of Western powers on the continent, Ade-
nauer has suggested that once a defense
community is created it should sign a non-
aggression pact with Russia.
In light of the fear held even by the
Soviet Union of German unity and re-
armament, it was pointed out by Secre-
tary of State Dulles that Russia must
have assurances against a possible attack
from Germany. Thus, in order to prevent
a sudden dangerous first move by a fear-
ing Russia, EDC must guarantee that it
will not be a party to aggression against.
the Soviet Union or its satellites. Ac-
cording to some political scientists this
guarantee would see endorsement by all
of the members of EDC.
Another problem facing EDC is the para-
dox of arming for war to assure peace. With
the goal of a United Europe in mind, a
hasty step to arm before talking to the most
powerful European nation of all, Russia, is
certainly not reassuring to the Soviets. Fur-
thermore, in the light of the power Russia
wields, the importance of England as a mili-
tary power between the U.S. and Russia, and
the suggestions England has made consider-
ing Russia's change of tune since Malenkov
became the Soviet Union's leading figure,
we should perhaps more seriously regard
England's position on the matter of EDC.
Although time is of the essence, a United
Europe cannot be built in a day. And since
unity is the chief goal, militarization should
not be the chief means of attaining that
goal.
-Pat Roelofs

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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.

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ON THE
WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-HOUND
WITH DREW PEARSON
(EDITOR'S NOTE-Drew Pearson continues today his series of columns
on the farm situation and the economic hardships the farm belt is suffering.)
WASHINGTON-Down in Southwest Missouri the other day, an
Ozark farmer, looking out at his parched fields, summed up
drought and politics this way:
"I remember the drought we had back in 1930 when Herbert
Hoover was President. It was so dry here and down in Arkansas
that the tree toads hardly stayed alive. And Senator Thad Cara-
way began hollering about it even louder than the tree toads. They
was too weak to holler much. Despite the hollering, President
Hoover wouldn't do anything. He rSat and thought. And the louder
the Senators hollered the more he sat and thought.
"That drought was the beginning of Mr. Hoover's trouble. The
farmers just didn't forget how he sat in the White House and did
nothing when their farms were being sold at auction. And I don't
think they'll forget a couple of years from now either."
This opinion is probably a little stronger than that of the aver-
age farmer-but not much. And when 17 per cent of the farmers using
REA electricity in Howell County, Missouri, have their meters taken
out because they can't pay their bills; and when 100 families moveI
out of Taney County; and when dairymen are selling half their herds

Believe It or Not.. .
To the Editor:
COMPLETELY agree with Mr.
Buchele's letter that "any fool
knows that once a communist al-
ways a communist and anyone
who associates with him is a fel-
low traveller." But now that we
have taken care of the fools, let's
look at the other side. Believe it.
or not, Mr. Buchele, every com-
munist isn't a fanatic bent on des-
troying the country. Many of them
are rational, clear thinking people
who have just as valid a reason
for believing in communism as we
do for believing in democracy or
capitalism or whatever the case
may be. After all there is just
as well a developed philosophy and
set of reasons behind communism
as there is for any other system of
government.
During the great depression
many brilliant and not-so-bril-
liant men felt sincerely that a
change was needed if our country
was to continue developing. Today
some still believe this but most of
them have reconsidered and de-
cided against communism and for
democracy. For my part I have
much greater respect for one of
these men than I do for an old
party Democrat or Republican who
hasn't thought in years, since
what the party says is always right.
As for anyone who associates
with a communist being a fellow
traveller that I can only answer
for myself. It makes no difference
to me whether my friends or asso-
ciates are Republican or Commu-
nist as long as we have other
mutual interests. Also believe it or
not, talking with someone who
holds radically different views is
both' stimulating and enlightening.
You are indeed right that the
cloud of fears hangs over us but
it gets darker everytime someone
is convicted of "Guilt by Relation"
or some other totalitarian practice.
-Robert Wine
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subversion, treason. The charge
against Mr. Radulovich is that his
father once read a radical- news-
paper, and his sister espoused left-
wing causes; for that, a career is
to be shattered, a technical edu-
cation wasted.
Unfortunately his is not an iso-
lated case, but one of a whole ser-
ies of injustices premised on 'the
idea that political conformity is
the proof of loyalty. A pattern is
manifest in the arbitrary dismis-
sal of teachers and government
employees, in the deportation pro-
ceedings under the McCarran-
Walters Act affecting thousands
of foreign-born Americans, in the
harassment and imprisonment of
persons with real or alleged Com-
munist affiliations.
Were we polite, we might speak
of this pattern, and the premise
equating loyalty with conformity
which is its'motif, as the product
of hysteria, the result of a well-
meant but misguided anti-Com-
munist zeal; but not being polite,
I speak of it as outright intimida-
tion, as a deliberate attempt on
the part of our government and ,
the powers prevailing in our coun-
try to suppress all opposition and
criticism. That these repressive
measures have repercussons ex-
tending even to the non-political,
as in the case of Mr. Radulovich,
is a warning to us all that our
democratic traditions are in seri-
ous danger of being supplanted
by McCarthyism.
To meet this danger, we must
re-affirm the principle that no
stigma or penalty should attend
unorthodox views, even should
those views be radical or Marxian
or Communist; for to stand firm
on this principle is to attack Mc-'
Carthyism at its roots.
--David R. Luce

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Religious Faith .. .
To the Editor:

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to keep the other half alive, you can understand why they are bitter. On Radulovich .
They are not particularly bitter against President Eisenhower.
They feel that, as a soldier, he doesn't understand these problems, To the Editor:
that he has a right to delegate farm decisions to others. However, THE RADULOVICH case is an
they do feel bitter at his Secretary of Agriculture. obvious injustice based on ab-
Much of this bitterness may be unjusified; nevertheless it is very surd premises. It is a consequence
real, very potent, and will be a very definite factor in the election.d of the idea of guilt by association,
Skipping the reasons for Benson bitterness, however, let's take and of the idea that radical poli-
tics is equivalent to disloyalty,
a look at the stark tragedy the drought-ridden farmer is up against.
WIDE DROUGHT AREA

DAN HALBERN, and others who
wrote in criticizing Janet
Smith's letter: if you ask me hers
was the best letter of the bunch.
It is too bad that those people who
still have a deep religious faith in
God and in Christ must be torn
down by those who feel too intel-
lectually sophisticated for such
belief based on faith. Blind to the
evidences of God which are all
around us, they sit back and claim
they need "scientific proof."
--Carol Balgooyen

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UN Responsibility
In the Arab-Israeli Crisis

CHARGES AND countercharges and at-
tacks and counterattacks have charac-
terized Arab-Israeli relations for several
years, but this month the situation flared
to its most dangerous crisis since the armis-
tice agreement.
The uneasy peace of the armistice line
between Israeli and her four Arab neigh-
bors has been disturbed many times be-
fore with all parties concerned being res-
ponsible at one time or another. However,
the events of the past week were serious'
enough to provoke world criticism of Is-
rael, to bring the matter before the Se-
curity Council, and to cause the United
States to discontinue economic aid to
Israel.
Where the guilt. lies seems uncertain. In
the first incident Syria claimed that Israeli
plans for hydroelectric power would affect
Syria's irrigation. The United Nations' com-
mission ordered Israel to discontinue the
project but Israel refused to comply until
an investigation had taken place.
In the second and more serious incident
the Israeli army shelled the Jordanian vi-
lage of Kibya and killed more than 50 peo-
ple as a reprisal for the killing'of a mother
and child in the border area.
The Arab world charges that the guilt
is obviously Israel's and Israel's alone. On
the other hand, Israel claims to have been

attacked by Arab marauders many times
and holds that the Kibya attack was the
result of unjust provocation. Undoubted-
ly Israel's action in the Kibya massacre
cannot be condoned and the world has
rightly expressed its horror, but the prob-
lem goes far deeper.
The responsibility for the crisis does not
in the main lie with either the Arabs or the
Israelis but with the United Nations. When
an armistice was signed between the coun-
tries concerned a commission was set up to
enforce that armistice. The commission hats
lamentably failed inits task; if it had been
less lax or had had more power to keep
the peace, border conflicts would not have
reached this crisis point.
In addition the United Nations, and es-
pecially the United States and Great Bri-
tain, had the responsibility to see that a
more permanent peace was worked out.
Both the United States and Britain could
bring pressure, to bear on the countries
involved that would force them to come to
some agreement. Certainly Britain could
strongly influence any Jordanian decision.
Now that the situation has developed to
the point where the peace of the Near East
is gravely endangered it is up to the United
Nations and the United States and Britain
to see that war does not result.
-Arlene Liss

IT HAPPENED that Mother Nature was most niggardly with rain ov-
er a wide part of the United States this year. ,The niggardliness
extended all the way from Massachusetts through Virginia and Mary-
land to Oklahoma and Texas. But no part of the country has been
worse hit than Southwest Missouri and adjacent Arkansas, whereI
only one good rain has fallen since May 17.
In this area, dairy cows usually worth $300 are now selling
$50, simply because farmers can't afford to feed them. It costs
$42 for a ton of haw, and since two tons, or $84, are necessary to
carry a cow through the winter, some of the finest herds in that
part of Missouri are being decimated. And with each herd shipped
to market the price has edged down just a little bit further.
After long delays, hay relief finally was arranged by Secretary
Benson. It came, however, after Senators Hennings and Symington of
Missouri had spent weeks bombarding the White House and telegraph-
ing Secretary Benson. And when it did come only $10,000,000 was
allotted to 13 states, whereas Missouri alone will need about $15,000-
000.
Meanwhile, loan restrictions have been so tightly drawn that inj
some counties farmers cannot get drought loans unless they are vir-
tual paupers. Nor can they get loans if their wives, in order to save
the farms, go to work teaching school, or their boys go into town to
work.

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lands" (Prairie chicken in color). Free
movies shownat 3 p.m. daily, including
Sat. dnd Sun. and at 12:30 wed., 4th
floor movie alcove Museums Building,
Oct. 27-Nov. 3.
The Young Democrats will hold a
meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m., in
Room 3-L, Union. A lesson and a dis-
cussion of practical politics led by Dr.
Samuel Eldersvelde of the Political Sci-
ence Department, chairman of the Ann
Arbor Democratic Party, will be the
chief business. Ann Arbor's ward chair-
men will also be present. The final de-
tails for the "Egg Head Dinner" will be
ironed out. Important meeting!
The Congregational-Disciples Guild.
Tea at Guild House, 4:35-6:00 p.m.
Episcopal Student Foundation. Tea
from 4 to 6 at Canterbury House. All

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This is where the resentment against Ezra T. Benson comes students invited.
in. The Secretary of Agriculture is not really to blame for the Square and Folk Dancing, everyone
operations of county relief committees. Farmers also realize that invited, new calls and callers. Lanej
prices started skidding before he entered office and, finally, they Hall, 7:30-10:00.
don't blame him for the lack of rainfall. E S.R.A. council meets at L ne Hall,
But they do remember that when drought hit these same sections. Religious symposiun1953. Panel of
last year, Secretary of Agriculture Brannan stepped in with a hay Mrs. Preston Slosson, Professors Al-
program-almost before protests were registered-and arranged for bert H. Wheeler. John W. Reed, Frank
0. Copley, and Prank L. Huntley, mod-
the railoads to haul hay at half price with the government absorbing erator, "Religion Motivates Occupa-
the other half. tions." Tonight, 8 p.m., Rackham Lec-
* * tue HallaReception following in Lane
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p.m., Room 3-S, Union. D. L. Chestnut
will talk on "Developments in the Pow-
er Field."
Linguistics Club. Meeting Wed., Oct.
28. 7:30 p.m., East Conference Room,
Rackham Building.James W. Marchand,
University graduate student and in-
structor in German, Wayne University,
will speak on "A Note on the Historical
,Explanation of the Gothic vowel Sys-
tem," and Dr. Kenneth L. Pike, Associ-
ate Professor of Linguistics, will speak
on "A Linguistic Excursion to Britain,"
All students and faculty members in-
terested in the scientific study of lan-
guage are invited.
The congregational-Disciples Guild.
Discussion group Wed., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.,
Guild House. Interested students are
cordially invited,
The Russky Chorus. Meeting will be
held Wed., Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m. in Audi-
torium D, Angell Hal. All students en-
rolled in Russian classes are invited to
attend.
Spanish Play. All men interested in
trying out for the Spanish play report
to 414 Romance Languages Building on
Wed., Oct. 28, or Friday, Oct. 30, be-
tween 3 and 4 p.m.
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A t the Mlichigan .
TORCH SONG, with Joan Crawford
TECHNICOLOR seems to have entered its
regressive period if this film is any in-
dication of its future use. Much like the early
3-D movies all the emphasis is bent on
exploiting its technical possibilities while
carefully avoiding any reference to plot or
acting.
Flitting among the various kaleidoscope
effects is Ginny Stewart, singer and ef-
fiency expert extraordinaire. By pervert-
ing the old Greek view that the universe
revolves around the earth, Ginny is con-
vinced that the universe revolves about
her. Such is the course of her life until

finally result in love and psychiatric
treatments at the same time.
In trying to see beneath this rather nebu-
lous plot, one is brought to the realization
that perhaps this is but a psychological pro-
jection on the part of Hollywood. If this
be the case it is a sad commentary on the
level to which arts in America have fallen.
Only the crudest dialogue is used. Each
scene is more garish than the preceding
one. Mechanical contrivances are exploited
and exhibited in their most idealized form.
The logical extension of this development
can only lead to the replacement of actors
by mechanical robots and, the eventual evo-
lution of movie'theaters into "feelies."
Joan Crawford's participation in medio-
crity is disappointing. Even her experienc-

BENSON'S SPEECHES
MOST OF ALL, however, farmers resent Benson's speeches. To!
them his warnings that he's going to abandon dairy supports
and his foreboding about other price supports are like rubbing salt in
open wounds. Furthermore, he seems to have a depressing effect on
prices.
Whatever may be the reason for this depressing effect, the '
farmer reads speech after speech by the Secretary of Agriculture
predicting that the price of cattle is going up, and each time he
makes a prediction the price goes down.
"I think the general undertone of livestock prices is substantially
solid," said Benson on Feb. 5. Beef prices were then $19.70.
"The beef market is pretty stable. It has been strengthening,"
said Benson on Feb. 27. But by this time prices had dropped to $18.80.

Coming Events
Le Cercle Francais will meet tomor-
row evening at 8 p.m. in the Michigan
League. An excerpt from "Le.Bourgeois'
Gentilhomme" will open the meeting, a I
movie "Cite Universitaire" will add a
touch of Paris, and French songs and
dancing will complete the evening.
Everyone is invited!l
Phi Lambda Upsilon. The Delta Chap-
ter will hold its first fall meeting at
7:30 p.m., Wed., Oct. 28, West Confer-
ence Room, Rackham Building. Profes-
sor W. J. Eiteman, of the School of
Business Administration, will discuss
investments, "Some Aspects of theI
Technique of Bull and Bear Riding,"
at 8:30 p.m. Refreshments. The public'
is cordially invited.
Roger Williams Guild. Yoke Fellow-
ship meets Thursday morning at 7
a.m. in the church Prayer Room. You
are cordially invited to join in with this
continually growing group.
Roger Williams Guild. Tea and Chat
Wednesday afternoon, 4:30 to 6:00, at
the Guild House.

"There has been a very marked increase in livestock prices."
said Benson on March 2 despite the above decrease.
"Within 30 days after taking office, we checked the cattle price
decline," Benson again boasted on March 8. Yet, instead of increas-
ing, prices dropped on March 15 to $17.80, and on April 15 were $17.30.
"We believe the seasonal rise in the price of fed cattle between
late spring and fall will occur again this year," said Benson on June
11. Yet, on June 15, cattle prices dropped to a new low of $16 per
hundredweight.
"Substantial recovery in price of cattle in drought areas since

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