SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Student Safeguards W ITH THE curtain set to rise next month on the local performance of congres- sional committees investigating elucation, University officials are at present faced with two proposals for a' policy stand in regard to students who may be called to testify. Two weeks ago the Student Legislature unanimously endorsed a set of criteria under which a student would be open to charges by the University only if he vi- olated a state or national law, or "at- tempted to represent the University com- munity or any segment thereof" in giving his testimony. In a second student action on Monday the Joint Judiciary Council requested the power to consider all cases concerning dis- ciplinary action toward students which might arise from the January hearings. If the University were to grant this power it would be a significant step in the direction of recognition of student respon- sibility and of the ability of students to govern themselves. Even more important such a step would protect students from emergency suspen- sion by University officials. Such action was taken a few weeks ago against elev- en students who made liberal use of their paintbrushes on the Michigan State Campus Just before the football game against MSC. An individual charged with misconduct before an investigating committee, or in any other situation, is entitled to have a full hearing of the charges against him. University officials have not yet decided what stand they will take either on the Judiciary Council's request or on the cri- teria recommended by the Student Legis- lature. Although a full, thorough study of the issues involved is important before a definite stand is taken, administrators should not allow the vital questions in- volved to go unanswered until the arrivel of the Clardy committee. It is to be hoped that the policy of al- lowing students to pass judgment on the legal violagtions of other students, which is often employed in cases of simple infrac- tions of University rules, will be extended to such cases as those which might arise from the investigations, cases which could conceivably involve a student's entire fu- -Phyllis Lipsky 'operation Inquiry' '- IITTER-HOUSE Council gained sig- nificant Importance with its bold action Thursday night In initiating "Operation In- quiry" which is designed to obtain a full evaluation of the present Michigan Hous- ing Plan. In understaking this task, IHC entered an area of work which it should have en- tered long ago, both for the sake of the quad system and the Council's prestige. In the past many students have thought of IHC as being simply a "service committee" to create social activities for Quad resi- dents. A great deal of criticism had for- merly been heard about IHC's seemingly useless acts and frantic attempts to prove their potency as a campus organization. By actively cooperating now with the ad- ministration in the supervision of the spa- cious quad system, it is highly possible that IHC can become one of the most useful and important organizations on campus. That the University can use some assist- ance from IHC in running and planning the services offered by the residence halls is quite obvious. There must be some basis for the infinite student gripes about Quad food. services, and residence organization. Few r corrections have been made in the past be- cause the administration, in the attitude of an inconsiderate monopoly, has tended to ig- nore student opinion on significant issues. It is highly desirable that the IHC henceforth take the responsibility of spurring the Uni- versity into effecting some of the numerous recommendations offered by the students. The IHC's "Operation Inquiry" can be es- pecially useful by helping the University avoid past mistakes when it constructs its future residence halls. Although the issue has not yet been decided, construction of an- other dorm in the style of South Quad would be a great error. South Quad has been criti- cized as having an "unfriendly and impers- onal hotel-like atmosphere," an opinion which carries weight when one considers the "panty-raids" that have taken place since its construction. A careful evaluation of the Quads can help prevent the University from investing money in defective residence halls. However, it is hoped that the University will not tend to take its usual "know-all" attitude and ignore any advice on major issues offered by IHC as being meaningless griping by never-satisfied students. This has often been the tniversity's outlook and the result is that the student's antag- onism towards dorm officials has risen to a new peak. Students in protest have mi- grated en-masse to inferior apartments and rooming houses. Through serious efforts by the people co- r.wn+4n n 4 +in ,.A n and an ,fally e.rinl ' TODAY AND TOMORROW: The Constitutional Crisis Of Democracy - Europe's Dilemma "I Hear He's Going To Demand Equal Time In The White House" By WALTER LIPPMANN W ASHINGTON-In Bonn one evening af- ter dinner a German official, who knew that I had just come from Paris, asked me what people were saying there about the outlook for the ratification of the European Army. It was said, I replied, by those who were as likely as any to know, that there might be a small numerical majority in favor of E.D.C. if the question were pitt to a vote at that time and if the necessary pressure were applied. But this must at once be qualified because it was impossible to bring the treaty to a vote until after the new President had been elected and a new government formed and established. Nor was that all. For while there might be a numerical majority, the critical fact was that the majority which might be collected in order to ratify the treaty could not be held together as a working majority , to govern France after the treaty was ratified. It would be a mere collection of individuals who were not united or capable of(working together on any of the other great issues of policy, in- cluding the implementation of the treaty itself. Under these conditions ratification could at best be nominal. The contro- versy in the divided nation would not be ended by any vote that could now be taken. For these reasons, if we look to the sub- stance 'and not merely to the form, we would have to conclude that at the present time France was incapable of participating in the proposed European system. It could re- sume its participation in such a system, of which it had always been a leader in the past, only when the internal constitutional crisis had been resolved and overcome. The German official nodded, saying yes of course. Then, remembering what a part he had played in the German recovery since 1948, I asked him what he would prescribe for a French- recovery. The French economy, he said, is funda- mentally sounder than the German and it would not, be difficult to bring about a French recovery if one condition could be fulfilled. The one condition was that there should be a French government which could not be overthrown for two years. He went on to explain, illustrating his points from his own experience in Germany, that the first measures of genuine financial and economical reform have to be painful and unpopular. If they are not painful and unpopular, they are not real measures to deal with the subsidies, the special privi- leges, the favoritism to pressure groups, and the corruption. A reforming government must, therefore, be able to outlive the ini- tial period of its unpopularity. If it can do that, then the time will come, as it did in Germany, when what was originally painful and unpopular is proved successful 'and becomes popular. HETHEN WENT on to say that the Ger- man constitution was deliberately de- signed to make it very difficult to over- throw the government. It is unique among democratic constitutions of the parliament- ary type in that a vote of no confidence made up of a majority of the extreme right and the extreme left has no effect. No majority counts against the government in office unless that majority can itself form a government which commands a vote of confidence. You had, I suggested, an additional in- surance against having a weak govern- ment, did you not? You have lived under a very benevolent occupation which would not have encouraged the overthrow of a government it favored. Yes, said the Ger- man, and also we had no empire outside Europe to worry about. But; I put in, the German people are great workers and organizers, and does that not account for their spectacular recovery? Yes, he said, they are great workers. But without a strong government capable of producing an honest currency and of en- forcing the laws, their hard work would not be enough. We learned that under the Weimar republic, which was a weak govern- ment, and in the early years of demoraliza- tion after the war. There is, I believe, an immense body of evidence which shows that the crucial trou- ble today inside the Atlantic community is the constitutional disorder in certain of the leading democracies--especially in France and Italy, and, for the time being, in the United States. The constitutional crisis turns upon the present inability of these democracies to form governments in which the executive power is sufficient to cope with the great issues. The future of NATO, of the move - ment for European unity, of some kind of reasonably secure co-existence with the Communist world, depend, all of them, upon the resolution of this constitutional crisis. * * * A FEW YEARS ago I would have supposed that the reason the governments are so weak is that the people have become di- vided by the totalitarian movements. There is no doubt about the terrible mischief of movements which do not recognize the amenities necessary to a people living under the same constitution. But I now think it truer and more signi- ficant to say that it is the weakness of the. democratic governments which is perpetu- ating and emphasizing the division of these countries into two irreconciliable nations. The democratic governments, which have been kept going by Marshall aid since 1948, have had only hte strength to survive. They have not had the strength to govern. Their weakness in coping with the great issues, and their weakness in dealing with subversive and irreconciliable factions' among them, has deprived the people of the feeling that the government is the pro- tector of their interests and of their liberty. It does not make it easier to resolve the constitutional crisis of democracy in Eur- ope as long as it is only too evident that there is a crisis of the same kind, though not now of the same degree of virulence, in Washington. Perhaps we shall begin to turn the corner of our own constitutional crisis. Perhaps we shall begin to see the turn against the usurpation of Congress. If the turn is com- ing, it will not be one minute too soon. (Copyright, 1953, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) - 0 r _ Xettep, 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. The Olther Sevepn aints'fort from the people who write To the Editor: M . MIKE Sharpe, Chairman Labor Youth League, writes in his letter to The Daily of Decem- ber 3; "The corner-stone of the case against the League is the so- called parallelism of our policies with those of the Communist Par- ty. We are accused of following ELEVEN policies, among which are: etc. . . ." He explained four, only. Did Mr. Sharpe forget to mention the other seven points of the said "parallelism?" or will the Subversive Activities Control Board add one more similarity of both organizations, that of omit- ting the essential and exagerating the irrelevant? It is rather dis- tressing to read the letters, edi- torials and commentaries that base their arguments on substan- tives and adjectives such as "Mc. Carrarn, Mc. Carthyism, Commu- nistic etc. . . ." Wouldn't a course in Introductory Logic help these people-base their thoughts and ar- guments in something else but Mc. Carthy's name and "subversiv- ism?" Perhaps then it will be easier to use our reason to state where we stand as opposers of Dialectic Materialism and Russian politics. -J. Teran. Critics .. . To the Editor: HOPE I'M not paying 5c a day (except Mondays) just to give you an opportunity for an adven- ture in good writing, for if that's the case, then I've been squander- ing my pennies. A college newspaper as reput- able as The Daily deserves more from its music, drama, and movie critics than the by-lined and vaguely emotive glob which they have turned in to date. And I think The Daily's readers are worthy of a more responsible and less of a pseudo-intellectual ef- the reviews. I doubt whether many of your readers turn to the re- views for an evaluation, for sound, constructive comment. Instead your reviews have become some- thing to laugh about and at, something obnoxious at best. Admitted, "The Robe" isn't the greatest thing that has run for $1.50 a head, but in trouble-shoot- ing your way thru it you've miss- ed a lot of its richness, much of which those who didn't see the movie might like to hear about. And so it has been with the mu- sical programs and dramatic pre- sentations, etc. In Tuesday's Daily Mr. Roe, '26 Lit., made a good comment about "college-boy" sophistication and would-be liberalism. You might read it. And next time you go to the movies leave your Thesarus home; buy a box of popcorn in- stead. --R. E. Wright, '54 POLICY announcements are de- signed to detonate as loudly as possible. Sometimes the bomb- shell inflicts great damage to the prestige of the Administration it- self; sometimes it turns out to be just fireworks or a dud. The ma- nipulators of'the bombshell are particularly concerned with its bang, and usually see that there are enough microphones at the right spot at the right time so that the greatest number of peo- ple may be jolted. In the case of foreign-policy an- nouncements, prior to consultalo tion with the leaders or diplomats of the foreign nations directly in- volved is considered old-fashion. ed. Tito had no inkling of the Trieste decision, and the Arabs first learned from the newspapers that Eric Johnson had been dis- patched to bring the TVA brand of "creeping socialism" to the Middle East. --The Reporter CURRJ It I{ PAQMVIES WASHINGTON-You might have thought the secret of the H-bomb. ^ was to be revealed, judging by the way ex-President Herbert Hoover pledged everyone to secrecy at a recent meeting of the Com- mission to Investigate Government Waste and Operations. However, this writer is able to report what went on inside the closed-door meeting. One important subject, which the pub- lic is certainly entitled to know about is Hoover's plan to investi- gate the government's public power program, This question is of such vital interest to private and public power groups, as well as to the general public, that one member of Hoover's commission, Congressman Chet Holifield of California de- manded to know why someone with a public power background wasn't appointed to the 26-man "task force" which will investigate govern- ment power projects. "It strikes me as most unusual that not a single member of the task force is representative of the public power program," Holifield told Hoover during the secret session. "On the other hand, there are a number of anti-public power spokesmen on the task force. How can the investigation be objective with that kind of a setup?" Hoover stoutly denied that the task force was stacked one way or the other. He insisted that no member was directly con- nected with public or private power. "We endeavored to select people of ability and integrity who would be'completely objective," said the ex-President. "Well, let's consider a few of them," shot back Holifield. "One of the members is Bracken Lee, Governor of Utah, who is against Hell's Canyon and who has a vigorous record of opposition to the public power program." Holifield also cited Harry Polk, former president of the Na- tional Reclamation Association, who wrote a news article Sep- tember 25, 1952, attacking public power and the TVA; also Ro- bert W. Sawyer, Oregon newspaper editor, who has consistently opposed federal development of low-cost electricity. "The integrity of those men cannot be questioned," bristled Hoo- ver. "I do not question their integrity," countered the California Con- gressman, "but I do question the qualification of men to sit in judg- ment on the government's public power program, when they have preordained views against it. And I intend to discuss the matter openly in the next session of Congress." * * * * PEACE PACT WITH RUSSIA? H OTTEST ITEM on the Big Three agenda as the Bermuda confer- ence got under way was a nonaggression pact with Soviet Russia. Discussion of the proposed pact was not publicized in advance, and most observers have rated the top Bermuda topic as the coming four-power conference of foreign ministers. However, before President Eisenhower left Washington, the State Depart- ment received a confidential memo from the British that they would like to discuss offering Russia a nonaggression pact in order to ease her fear of the United European Army. Subsequently, the State Department queried other interested government bureaus to get their reaction and to prepare the Presi- dent in advance of his trip. The British and some State Department officials have felt that a nonaggression pact might have certain useful benefits. 1. It would take the curse off Moscow's continual harping on the idea that the United States is warmongering and that the United European Army is for the purpose of attacking Russia. 2. It might conceivably persuade the Russians to relax their military might, lift some parts of the Iron Curtain and re-establish a certain amount of cultural exchange between East and West. On the other hand some advisers inside the Administration fear that a nonaggression pact would merely lull the Western world to sleep. This is the problem placed at the top of the Bermuda agenda. NOTE-Also on the Bermuda agenda is a question so secret there will be no announcement-future strategy regarding the atom and hydrogen bombs. * * * * BROWNELL'S PERFECT TIMING EVIDENCE HAS just come to light that Attorney General Brownell had been sitting on the Harry Dexter White case since last Aug- ust and carefully timed it just after GOP defeats in New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin. Patten gill Auditorium. . JULIUS CAESAR. an independent pro- duction made at Northwestern University THE TARDY general release of this semi- professional production of Shakespeare's "julius Caesar," made at Northwestern five or six years ago, puts it in competition with the newer film version of the play recently produced at Twentieth Century Fox. Al- though I have not seen the Hollywood edi- tion, the Bradley picture can stand up to most competition with few allowances. It is a sensitive job of film-making, full of imagination and considerable cinematic versatility. In addition, there is full attention to the lines, hardly a word being lost in any of the precisely articulate reading. The sound recording and amplifying indeed was arranged in such a way that at times the dialogue and action seemed each to be going its own way without customary close attention to synchroniza- tion. Strangely enough this was not at all bothersome. It permitted the poetry clear definition at all times and there was something clean about not interrupt- ing it with spotted sound effects or over- wrought visual spectacle. The man behind the picture is David Bradley who produced, directed and acted the part of Brutus in the film. The under- taking followed an earlier fling of Bradley's at "Macbeth" which did not have as for- tunate an outcome. Parlaying his past ex- perience with intelligent use of Chicago locales, he finished "Caesar" and has since won considerable acclaim for it. Publicity says the film cost $15,000, which may be advertising it a bit skimpy. Regard- less, the small cost demonstrates again how At the Orpheum .. THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT j IKE A GOOD many other British films made primarily for export to America, this one seems to have as its highest aim the sys- tematic exploitation of the cliches of British quaintness. It is built around a central cliche, the invincibility of Tory individuality in the face of the worst the Labor party can do. Even this theme (which was treated suc- cessfully in a picture about amateur boot- leggers not too long ago) is handled very shoddily and gets lost in a welter of super- ficial sentimentality.y The situation centers around a group of villagers who want to preserve the de- crepit branch railroad that has served them faithfully for uncounted generations. Opposing them are the calloused Ministry of Transport; two shifty proprietors of a bus line; and the mountainous difficulties of operating on enthusiasm rather than experience. Also its difficult to raise capi- tal. Perhaps these difficulties might have been utilized, in more ambitious hands, to form an exciting little drama. But the pro- ducers of this movie are so anxious to get on to the jolly good fun of playing with trains that they seem to grab the quickest (and least convincing) way out of each scrape. Nor are the characters more convincing than the plot. At best they are average re- presentatives of hackneyed types. There is some notion that putting these well-estab- lished types in ludicrous situations will re- sult in irrepressible hilarity. A clergyman stoking a boiler, however, is not really bril- liant social comment or a madcap lark. It's dull. Ponderously quixotic situations (like pit- tinz- a.steamroller nizainst n. locomotive) also DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETINj 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, DECEMBER 5, 1953 VOL. LXIV, No. 62 Notices Children's Recreation Workef. The Michigan Children's Institute is in need of a woman to work full time as a supervisor of children's activities in Ann Arbor. Must have a Bachelor's de- gree. Interested persons please contact Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Admin- istration Building, Phone NOrmandy 3-1511, Ext. 2614, for further informa- tion. Lectures University Lecture, auspices of the Geological and Mineralogical Club, "The Geology of Minnesota," Dr. George M. Schwartz, Director of Minnesota Geo- logical Survey, Minneapolis, Mon., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., Natural Science Auditorium. Academic Notices Actuarial Seminar, Mon., Dec. 7, at 2:10 p.m., 37 School of Business Ad- ministration. Mr. Bicknell will continue his talk on "Forces of Decrement in Insurance Mathematics.' Interdepartmental Seminar on Ma- chine Computation. Mr. Donald E. Lamphiear, Survey Research Center, will speak on "Computing Census Prob- lems on the UNIVAC." Mon., Dec. 7, at 4:30 p.m., 429 Mason Hall. Mr. Lam- phiear has had experience with the Bureau of Cendus UNIVAC, having worked at the Bureau before coming to Michigan. Geometry Seminar, Mon., Dec. 7, at 7 p.m., in 3001 Angell Hal. Dr. D. Kaz- arinoff will continue his talk on "Two Circles in Space." Doctoral Examination for Allen Whit- marsh Phillips, Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish; thesis: "An- alisis Estetico de la Obra Poetica de Ramon Lopez Velarde," Sat., Dec. 5, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 10 a.m. Chairman, E. Anderson-Imbert. The Mathematics Orientation Semi- nar will meet Mon., Dec. 7, at 3 in 3001 Angell Hall. The topic is in discus- sion of "Mathematics and Language." Concerts Christmas Concerts. "Messiah" will be given two performances Saturday at 8:30 and Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in Hill Auditorium, under the auspices of the University Musical Society. Performers will include Maud Nosier, soprano; Carol Smith, contralto; Wal- ger Fredericks, tenor; Walter Scott, bass; the University Choral Union; the Musical Society Orchestra; with Mary McCall Stubbins, organist; and Lester McCoy, conductor. Tickets will be on sale until Satur- Hillel Foundation. Fifth day of Han- ukkah-candie lighting, 7:30 p.m. I a.m.-Community Services. S.R.A. Saturday Lunch Discussion. Mrs. Mildred Scott Olmsted, U.S. Execu- tive Secretary of the Women's Inter- national League for Peace and Free- dom, will discuss "Possibilities of Peace," 12:15 noon at Lane Hall. Call reservations to NO 3-1511, Ext. 2851. Michigan Christian Fellowship invites all students to attend the reception to- night in the Methodist Student Lounge following the Messiah performance. S.R.A. Packing Party, today from 2:15 to 4:00p.m. Pack clothing for Free University of Berlin and Korea. All stu- dents welcome. Coming Events Students Interested in the Field of Social Work areinvited to a social hour, sponsored by the Huron valley Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers, to be at the League on Mon., Dec. 7, from 4 to 6. Oppor- tunities in social work will be described, and refreshments will be served. All stu- dents are welcome. The Women's Research Club will meet Mon., Dec. 7, in the West Lecture Room of the Rackham Building at 8 p.m. Miss Adelia Beeuwkes is to speak on "Applied Research in the Field of Nu- trition" and will show moving pictures on the subject. The Graduate Outing Club meets at 2p.m. at the rear of the Rackharm Building. There will be a cross-coun- try hike followed by an indoor supper at Rackham. Those who have cars are urged to bring them to help with trans- portation to the country. 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 Staff 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 Setden......Finance Manager JameseSharp...,.. Circulation Manager Telephone NO 2 3-24-1 It memo World is now learned th,.t Brownell discussed the secret FBI mentioning White's name with editors of U.S. News and Report as early -s last August. The Attorney General was interviewed by the editors for the September edition of their magazine. 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