PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1953 SIdito6' Bete] By HARRY LUNN Daily Managing Editor Caught up in the spirit that pervades Ann Arbor once a year, hordes of alumni and parents descend on Ann Arbor today to watch the Maize and Blue and check up on the state of the University or the investment 'represented in their progeny. As always, the hugeness of the physical plant will im- press those who have been away any period of time-this year, indeed, a complete new campus near the Huron River got under way with dedication of the Cooley Memorial Re- search Building. The concept of the University is also broadening with remarkable speed, con- tinually reaching out to include new areas of research while maintaining the under- graduate balance which has been a major reason for its success. Alumni and parents will, be reassured there is little concern over the on-coming investigations of Re- presentative Clardy and his group who will open shop in Detroit one month from today. Having squelched several "dan- gerous" elements petitioning to appear in the hallowed University halls with Lee- ture Committee bannings, the administra- tion has removed one source of embarrass- ment. Then too, the Young Progressives folded last spring, and a Daily series ear- lier in the year showed leftist activity to be about one per cent of that alumni clubs commonly think occurs on campus. A little harder .to measure, but still signi- ficant, is the degree of progress or regression of the student mind. We have read a flurry of articles attempting to characterize this generation and pin down its foibles and virtues, but one of the most sensible ap- peared this week and deserves consideration in any assessment of the University student body. Newsweek magazine studied a variety of schools and decided this group is a more conservative crew than has appeared in years-conservative not only in politics but also in dress, manner and thought. If the University is typical, there won't be any goldfish swallowed tonight in Ann Arbor un- less by alumni who turned the same trick .25 years ago, and stadium custodians will find fewer empty bottles in the stands than they might have in 1928. There won't be the political arguments of the thirties nor the veteran austerity of the late forties. - Instead the alumni and parents will find a stolid group inhabiting the new build- ings, but with their stolidness goes more than a little sense of dullness and a sus- picion that for many students the moder- ate, sensible veneer masks a lace of thought or perception. The final test will come in years hence, but we wonder if the parents and alumni will realize as they visit today that the growth of the University plant has not been matched in the intellectual growth of the students, and that the increased techni- cal skill of -the graduate has not been equal- led in training him to live. -DREW PEARSON: Wasington Merry-Go-Round Washington-Sen. iHarry Byrd never dreamed, when he shared a Virginia lodge with Attorney Ted Dalton, that Dalton would turn around and give him the poli- tical fright of his life. That's what's happening today, however, in an amazing Virginia election in which the Republicans, for the first time since reconstruction days, are given a chance to elect a governor. What happened was that the Republicans, encouraged by Byrd last year to vote for Eisenhower, have taken him seriously and now propose electing other Republican of- ficials. To do so they picked the best candi- date in the state, Ted Dalton, close friend of Harry Flood Byrd. The truth is that Dalton wasn't particu- larly enthusiastic about running. An inti- mate of Byrd's, he had enjoyed a cozy politi- cal cooperation with Virginia's No. 1 Dixie- crat by which he, as a Republican, got some of Byrd's support on the national front, while giving Byrd support on the local front. But Eager-Beaver young Republicans who took seriously the organization of a Republican party below the Mason-Dixon line, pushed Dalton into the race. A dis- tinguished lawyer, with an unimpeach- able record, he was obviously the logical candidate for governor. And his cam- paign has gone so well that the Byrd machine for the first time in years has been scared. (Copyright, 1953, by the Bell Syndicate) The Easy Way HJlear, hear," said the original thinkers, "this will never do. We must get up a petition, to whit: all Europe shall wear :white cockades in their hats to prove con- clusively they do not discriminate against aristocrats." And so 643 powdered heads bent over the parchment and a petition for a referendum of all Europe was signed. With dispatch the original thinkers whisk- MATTER OF FACT: Formosa --- The China That Might Have Been By JOSEPH ALSOP Taipei, Formosa-The room is handsome, the servants are soft footed, as befits the headquarters of a chief of state. The man at the big desk is in his sixties now and looks more sage than soldier, yet he is still lithe and erect. The wise smile, the superb courtesy, the air of timeless dignity-these traits are quite unchanged. Such is Chiang Kai-shek today. As basically simple. "The enemy has lost the people yet their system drives them always to make new aggressive moves. Our time will sure- ly come." It is nearly thirty years since this man cooly expelled the Communists from the Kuomintang. It is getting on for twenty years since the Japanese attacked, in order to forestall this mans unification of China. It is nearly four years since he fled from the mainland, leaving his lifework in ruins behind him. Through all these vicissitudes, his courage has never failed him. It is reasonable to admire such a man, and the current fashion is even to be senti- mental about him. There are not many after all who have never bowed their heads. There are not many who can be cool in victory and still serene in defeat. Chiang Kai-shek, beyond doubt, is one of the great men of our time. Those who deny his greatness are fools or worse. Yet it is also prudent, although not fashionable at the moment, to remember that the weakness of this man helped to bring disaster upon him and his people. God knows, American policy in China was idiotic enough in the crucial period. Yet it was not American policy, it was Chiang Kai-shek himself, who entrusted the highest responsibilities of the state to such slimy villians as Chen Yi, such flagrant traitors as Fu Tso-yi who sold Peking to such blither- ing incompetents as Tu Liming who lost Manchuria, and to such public jokes as the rapacious old Ennuch who commanded the Chinese navy until he went over to the Communists. Here in Formosa you can see what might have been, from the job that is being done by the Chen Chengs and the Sun Li- jens and all the other able and honest men whom the Generalissimo never used to like or trust. There was something in Chiang's nature that usually led him to prefer pliant bad lots to independent minded good men; and this tendency, plus the character of the pre-disaster Kuomintang, had infinite- ly more to do with the loss of China than any American folly. Today, furthermore, just as you can see Chiang Kai-shek's greatness at work here in Formosa, so you can also see the in- fluence of his weaker side. There are certain lessons of the past that Chiang and those around him can be count- ed on not to forget. The troops will never again be left unpaid and cheated of their rations. The currency will never again be casually inflated. If Draconic punishments can keep the government clean, the gov- ernment will never again be allowed to relapse into corruption. Yet there are other lessons that have not been learned in particular, the really first class men who were put into the key governmental posts in'the first flush of determination to make a fresh start, are gradually yet perceptibly losing ground again. Brave old Prime Minister Chen Cheng has less influence. The remarkable able and courageous former governor of For- mosa, K. C. Wu, who joined with Chen Cheng to put through the land reform and to give a voice in government to the For- mosan people, has been removed from of- fice after a palace row. The new gover- nor, O. K. Qui, is also an able man, but one of those who do not argue, and he comes from the former entourage of Doc- tor H. H. Kung, which has its own signifi- cance. Again, in the army, the command belongs to Sun Li-jen, but the command is a very limited business. There are nearly 50,000 surplus officers, there are more than 1,000 surplus generals, all intriguing for appoint- nents. Since the Burma days and before, Gen. Sun Li-,jen has never possessed the Generalissimo's personal confidence. But that confidence is still given to some of the most deplorable survivors of the old days such as Gen. Hu Tsung-nan and Gen. Tang En-po. * * * * American influence has just led to Hu Tsung-nan's removal from the critical command on Ta Chen, the most advanced and strategically important of the Formosan island outposts. But army and divisional and sometimes even regimental and battalion commanding officers are still being chosen, not for efficiency, but by the influence on he Generalissimo of Hu Tsung-nan and others of his kidney. Cutting across this situation, and in- teracting with it, there is the emergence of the Generalissimo's son, Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo as a major power here. For- tunately, Chiang Ching-kuo appears to be a man of the highest capacity, brilliantly intelligent, hard as nails, absolutely hon- 'est, ruthless no doubt, but with exceptional abilities of the sort that are badly needed. Unfortunately the Americans here have tended to exude disapproval of Chiang Ching-kuo, because he heads the Army Political Department, and because he is not by any stretch of the imagination a "democfatic" leader. There are other cross currents. such as one between Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, one. of whose wretched nephews Chiang Ching-kuo once goaled for currency black marketeering. But the main present tendency is for Chiang Ching-kuo, the rising man Lnd perhaps thej strongest man after his father on this island, to ally himself with the old bad lots instead of with the abler and more forward look- ing Chinese who are pro-American. These political complications have a greatsbearing on the value of our For- mosan investment. One requirement of American police here should certainly be to build a bridge between Chiang Ching- kuo and such men as Chen Cheng and Sun Li-jen. But even this will not be good enough. The truth is that the Generalissimo's ten- dency to prefer the pliable bad lots to the independent minded good men stems from desire, a perhaps natural desire, to have something or someone he can absolutely rely on. He has never felt at home with the more modern minded and forward looking Chinese.. Even now, he does not feel con- fident of continuing American support. But let the United States adopt a clearly defined Formosa policy-a policy Chiang can rely on more confidently than on the favorites he dominates. Let one condition be -the solution of the problems outlined abgve. They Generalissimo will then "cheerfully take the needed action to make Formosa the lean, hard, muscular show, ready for anything, that Formosa ought to be." (Copyright, 1953, N.Y. Her. Trib., inc.) .etteJ to t 6dditor . The Cure that Diseases "Eli? Oh, Yes-Very Pretty" leagues to folow through on To the Editor: in the past but had since neglect- ed. The spaker's ban, discrimina- WOULD like to clear up a point tory scholarhips and the driver's in James Dietz's letter to The ban demanded more than casual Daily. He claims that I think "that IIIlip-service. The reaction I receiv- the Communist Party is just an- ed was, "But Sam, we must be other political party." I assure Mr. tactful, diplomatic . . . after all, Dietz along with anyone else who - we don't want to arouse resent- might think this that I fully rea- ment." Certainly not all the legis- lize the Communist world threat. r.lators felt this way but it seemed However, if the cure is worse to be the prevailing attitude. than the disease what good is the After banging my head against cure? If in our process of saving - . this wall of misguided tact and ourselves from the Communist diplomacy for eleven months, I threat we destroy our democratic sat down at a meeting one night principles, then what good will we and watched my colleagues con- have accomplished by saving our- sider the question of Academic selves from this threat? Freedom. Although one of the co- -Gilbert Friedman authors of the notion, my sole con- S* * tribution to the discussion was a A G rim Picture plea for action, pro or con, not procrastination. Five weeks lat- To the Editor, er, and with considerable Daily T HE NEWS of the last few days editorial pressure, SL passed an has been very revealing as to academic freedom motion. It was the policies and effects of the na- obvious at the first of these meet- the oliies nd ffecs o thena-ings that a decision would be long tional administration. The most s appaling perhaps is the item that in coming. Not wishing to subect General Motors sold$8 billion myself to any more amateur for- Geea oossod$ ilo ensics then necessary and with a worth of products in the first nine -hnic hedncesr adwta months of 1953. This is a 43 per .. chronic headache from repeated m s.Trcontact with that "wall of mis- cent increase over their sales in SA guided tact," I stopped attending the same period in '52. Ex GM sB ,gf~ chief sae pion '52. Ex meetings. I was subsequently re- chieharl soti s good or the moved from office for lack of at. for General Motors is good for ttendance but it didn't really mat- country) being head of defense has nothing to do with it, of course. was no disagreement between signatures. Furthermore, the Hu- ter, did it? It was also announced that them on the subject! man Relations Committeehas been --Sam L. Davis living costs stand now at the A little reflection will show that I studying the problem this fall; it * * * highest in U.S. history. For sev- there is nothing unnatural about has not been procrastinating. en straight months the consumer this. Both groups are composed of I Reader went on to make certain price index has risen. It might students, and anyone who would I derrogatory generalizations on the To the Editor: seem that the government is a encourage encroachments on the SL itself. One can ask whether any friend of business. right of free thought and scholar- person who possesses neither com- A RECENT editorial accused Stu. No wonder you open the paper ly inquiry forfeits his claim to the plete nor accurate information is dent Legislature of jamming a to see "Eisenhower Shuns meet- name "student." truly competent to observe at all, totally childish referendum on the ing with Malenkov." This meeting This is the sort of event that much less make a value judgment ballot. SL is actually guilty only4 could result in decreasing world should serve notice to the demo- Student government is like any of having democratic regulations tension and that might lead to gogues that the fight to keep our material structure. Its size and which make it mandatory for SL to cuts in armament contracts. How- universities free is not being waged stature depend on the material present any question to the cam- ever, the administration is having by politically partisan or fringe and work put in to it; its strength pus for a vote if at least 600 stu- a tough time resisting pressue grus h desre te depends on the firmness of its dents show their desire to have for such talks. For this Eisenhow- present cold war between the in- constructive support. such a referendum by petitioning er has to keep sendin his men quisitors and American Education i efor it. around Western Europe and Asia. are not liberals and conservatives ; SLtpassee tatm h Arlotunf peplein thisEuntry ndon't orRepublicanfuture, Mr. Reader's journalistic Last semester SL passed a reso- A lot of people in this country don't Rp an neagerness can be equalled by the lution approving the anti-discrim- like what's going on either. Well, the spokesmen for what is most accuracy of his information. ination sticker campaign. At that McCarthy, Velde and their boys admirable in our civilization and are doing their best to take care the agents of encroaching barbar- -Hank Berliner timedthe plan was placed in the of that. Undaunted by Army de- ism. Our campus is united in the dref nials McCarthy continues to blow effort to repulse the latter. T he JTall of Tact .. of the SL Human Relations Com- up a big spy story down at Fort -David J. Kornbluh mittee All that remained for com- * " T~~o theEdtrrnte.Altareandfrom Monmouth. In the first four,* *pletion of the plan was for work to months of the administration's new Get the Facts . . . SOME OPINIONS of mine were be done by Human Relations Com- security program 1,456 government ?SM woerst phra b ,4en firernmc To the Editor: recently printed in a Daily news mittee. Because the sponsor of the darticle. Their essence was that sticker campaign was also chair- pus we have the Radulovich case. iT IS doubtful whether any ar- "the Student Legislature is so con- man of the committee in charge, It's easy to see why people now- (! ticle in the Daily has ever been as cerned with being innocuous that I there was no reason to doubt adays are afraid to sign a peti- inaccurate as Mark Reader's "ed- it forgets its basic function as a swift accomplishment of a rea- tion. itorial" on Student Legislature ref- student government - to take a sonably priced, attractive sticker. How will it all end? I suppose Brenda. 'stand on things and to represent 'Granting that the sticker cam- that's up to us. Mr. Reader criticized the SL for student opinion."' paign is a minor problem for SL Steve Smale. trying to get "off the hook" by sub- The basis for this opinion arose one must also admit the Legisla- . * * mitting a question to the campus from my experiences as a member ture could not be expected to sit T-Hee . which it would not answer itself. of the Legislature where I at- with baited breath watching each If Mr. Reader had taken 30 sec- tempted to coax, cajole, even co- move of the Human Relations To the Editor: onds to read the provision for ref- erce my fellow legislators into tak- Committee toward completion. tNLY trouble with having an erenda in the SL constitution, I'm ing stands on current and often Very recently the need to com- sure even he would see the absurd- controversial issues-to fulfill the plete this plan was again pointed economics major review Speech ity f hscrtsm lacfutonfreeetngt- Department plays is that he might tA o stide iicismnizabasic function of representing stu- out to SL. Due to such minor is- k himself. ny s og- dent thought. Apparently my en- sues as academic freedom, the Ra- I jus may g to The Heiress to ividual may submit a referendum thusiasm for a dynamic SL quali- dulovich case, the U.S. National see Nafe Katter gives his "uni- -e ampspoieu petin fStudent Association; the sticker l bearing 600 signatures is submit- task of revitalizing a dying com- campaign has not yet reached the formly mature and rntelligent ted. It does not require SL approv- mittee. Appointed chairman of floor Ls (theamteisain 5 al, nor can SL refuse a properly the Human Relations Committee (the name is Sloper submitted petition. which, a few weeks earli, the Placing this topic on the ballot Chick La Due There was no outside organiza- I Legislature had . considered abol- as a referendum does not speed ac- tion, "disatisfied with SL's procras- ishing, I initiated several projects t.at at least 600 students believe T i backer,. ,.tination," on the question of anti- of a "controversial" nature (a SL apale ocesid studen discrimination stickers for Ann Ar- Fair Play program for Ann Ar- To the Editor: bor merchants. A former mem- bor merchants, off-campus hous- opiion, it delays action until the ber of the Legislature, recently ing investigations and a "bias supposed mandate' is receied of i forced to resign for inattendance, clause" project). on November twelfth. some of the assertions made by submitted the petition with the 600 I Also, I repeatedly urged my col- Student Legislature shows no sports editor Ivan Kaye in his ar- fear of antagonizing merchants title concerning linebacking, . when it provides the campus with He makes the argument thatp student book exchange and rea theoretically the linebacker should sonably priced movies. Certainly make every tackle. I submit that merchants who discriminate de- this is not true, in theory or prac- PJ ILjjFFIIIA BULLEI N serve no more consideration than Lice. istuJ the merchants give those against .On end sweeps and off-tackle whoin they discriminate. ys se atthe primary (continued from Page 2.) p.m. Call reservation to Lane Hall, -Leah Marks job of a lineman is to strip the in- 3-i511, Ext. 2851. Students and faculty .1 r t n C uRRNTMIYJ/ei At the OIphe inn-..- THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS LIKE LA RONDE, .this picture sets out to have a hearty, forthright laugh at some of the commoner failings of mankind. It is somewhat similar to that picture in conception, too: a series of episodes are strung together on the device of a narrator- emcee with something of the conjuror about him. The Seven Deadly Sins, however, doesn't approach anything like La Ronde's total effect; it is never more than seven little stories arbitrarily pitched together. One re- calls the subtle irones La Ronde developed as its theme was counterpointed and varied. The Seven Deadly Sins quite frankly offers nothing more unifying than the label "sin" for the vice of each episode; and, quite as frankly, one can find it partially unsatisfac- tory for this reason. This is not to say that some of the indi- vidual episodes are not very entertaining. Although no credits are attached to this print of the film, the variety of technique and approach would seem to indicate that a different writer and director worked on each story; combined sometimes with ex- cellent acting, a few of the teams turned out fine little vignettes. The most successful episodes are the light comedy ones, and the best of these is the one about gluttony. It is a simple, straight- forward member of that vast army of farm- almost none. There is the stranded travel- ing salesman, masquerading as a doctor, who is looking for a bed for the night, and the surly but hospitable farmer, and his un- predictable wife. The whole thing moves smartly along in the manner of the best after-dinner speakers, to a rousing series of punch lines. One detects a distinct de Maupassant flavor in the story of the once-rich and very proud girl who takes a last, bitter fling at high society. It is good de Maup- assant, too: sentimentalism which loses its curse by economy of detail and preci- sion of dramatic development. The episode about a serious, intelligent little girl who thinks she's pregnant has some fine points: the contrast between her madonna-like acceptance of the fact, and her elder's frivolous, day-to-day lustiness is powerfully developed. This is the only point in the movie at which a genuine concept of sin, and the fall of man, enters. The rest of the stories one can take or leave. They suffer either from half-hearted whimsy or incompleteness. And the grand finale, which tries to give a point to every- thing by pulling a big, close-to-home moral out of the bag, is very obnoxious. It is a point in this movie's favor that it resists the temptation to be sensational in the peep- show sense until the last few minutes. -Bob Holloway New Books at Library Gibson. Walter-The Boat:Boston, terference. However, from tackle Hall at 8:45 Monday morning. The ses- welcome. to tackle, the object of a lineman sions are from 8:45 to 12:00 and 1:45 is to tackle the ball-carrier. His to 5:00. Candidates must be present at Homecoming Dinner will betspon- both sessions, sored by the Newman Club tonight first worry is the offensive line- at 6:30 p.m. in the Father Richard man. The interference on such j Center. Spaghetti will be served as the plays is generally aimed at either Concerts main course. Tickets may be obtained the linebacker or the secondary. A e virtuosi Di Roma, consisting of at the Center. Everyone is welcome to The irtosiDi omaconistng f attend. guard or tackle, when he is knif- s fourteen Italian instrumentalists, chos- ing, aims at stopping the ball car- en from the leading music centers in Hillel Foundation activities for the rier behind the line of scrimmage. Italy, will be heard in the third concert week-end: If he left that up to the lineback- inthe oral Uion Series, Monday e- Sat., Oct. 31, 4:00 p.m-Open House. er, there would seldom be lost ium. Sun., Nov. 1-10:30, Council Meeting; 500. Hillel Chorus; 6:00, Supper Club; yardage -in football. The following program will be heard:8:00, If the lineman on up-the-middleI Corelli's Concerto Grosso in D major.0, IF paer :ji:3,Gaut Ithie inrferenhe ill Op. 6, No. 4; Bonporti's Recitative fro Mixer-A graduate students and sen- plays stops theCterference he will Concerto in F for Violin and Strings; ior girls are invited. also stack up the ball carrier. It and six compositions by vivaldi: Con- hardly seems logical that he should certo in D minor for Viola d'amore and Law School. Daphne R. Leeds, As- insist that the linebacker hurdle Strings; Concerto in A minor for Two sistant Commissioner of Patents, U. S. athe interference, ard'violins and Strings; concerto in B-flat Patent Office, will speak on "Federal him and h for Oboe, Violin & Strings; Concerto in Registration under the Trade-Mark thereby stop the back. G for Cello and Strings; and Concerto Act- of 1946," 250 Hutchins Hall, today The trouble with Mr. Kaye's inA major for Strings. at 9 a.m. theory is that it goes too far. The Tickets are available at the office of j linebacker is an important man the University Musical Society in Bur- The Congregational-Disciples Guild. ton Memorial Tower daily; and will also After-game open house at Guild insofar - as stopping up holes be on sale after 7 o'clock o'n the night House. wrought by offensive lineman, and. of the performance at the box'office in making tackles on end sweeps. He Hill Auditorium. Episcopal Student Foundation. Cider is not the team's sole tackler. and doughnuts after the game, at Can- -George S. Flint Exhhibinon terbury House. Sixty-Fourth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staf Harry Lunn..........Managing Editor Eric Vetter................City Editor Virginia Voss........Editorial Director Mike Wolff.......Associate City Editor Alice B. Silver.. Assoc. Editorial Director Diane Decker...,.......Associate Editor Helene Simon...........Associate Editor Ivan Kaye.................Sports Editor Paul Greenberg.,...Assoc. Sports Editor Marilyn Campbell. Women's Editor Kathy Zeisler... .Assoc. Women's Editor Don Campbell.......Head Photographer Business Staff Thomas Treeger.......Business Manager William Kaufman Advertising Manager Harlean Hankin....Assoc. Business Mgr. William Seiden.......Finance Manager James Sharp......Circulation Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Mmer r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r YR-YD Agreement . . To the Editoy : FEW days ago three members f+ +e vrnina- mnrr-atc m+ Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Wesleyan Guild. Homeoeming Bar-B-Q eoiahonoring the alumna immediately fol- Hall,Purcell and Elmslie, Architects, lowing the game. through Nov. 3. Framing, Right and linhgaCF. Wrong. Oct. 30-Nov. 20, 9-5 weekdays; Michigan Christian Fellowship. Alum- 2-5rong.Sunt.day-Ns.he ,ublc-isinvekd ni banquet and party 6:15 to 10:30 to- 2-; on Sundays The public is invited night at Lane Hall. All members and ' Ifriends welcome.