PAGE FOUR THE MICU16AA bAkik'k l:xi it ,6i3AY, IVIAACGA 4, 1964 PAGE FOUR Lt~E I~i143hi4iA% IJLLkL~ ....__..._..... .. ...# ..a s..ar ;cy ....var T 0 4itp s Tate By HARRY LUNN Daily Managing Editor PANHELLENIC Association's still unre- solved rushing controversy unfortunately has grown into a complicated tangle of is- sues which almost defy understanding let alone solution. On the surface the problem seemed relatively easy: sorority women were to weigh the merits of fall rushing, which hadbeen tried the last two years on an ex- perimental basis, against those of spring rushing, which had been in effect prior to the experiment. But a cumbersome three-fourths majori- ty is necessary to make any change in rushing rules under Panhel's present con- stitution, and when Panhel officials dis- covered that there was no "status quo" to fall back on if neither method got a three- fourths endorsement, they decided to seek a constitution change to put the vote on a two-thirds basis. Logically the vote should have been taken on the issue of approval or disapproval of the experimental fall rushing system with the old "deferred" or spring rush established as the status quo. The trouble here goes back to the decision two years ago to adopt the ex- perimental fall system when it was evidently not established that deferred rushing should remain in the background as the "status quo." Had this decision been made, the is- sue now would be simply an endorsement or rejection of fall rushing. An endorsement would then change the 'status quo" to the fall method while rejection would have def- initely thrown the system back on the de- ferred plan. Then the women would have been able to establish at what time of the year rushing would be deferred to. The danger that has arisen from not mak- ing this basic decision is that the vote may have to be diluted to a two-thirds or even a simple majority to arrive at a concensus. Although the three-fourths requirement may seem unreasonably high, the time for chang- ing it is not during a heated controversy about any issue as touchy as rushing. Grant- ed that some reform may be needed for this part of the constitution, the reform should be made as part of a larger study of the charter and not as a stop-gap measure. Another important issue raised by the rushing debate is the extent to which the Student Affairs Committee .should exercise its discretion in approving or rejecting the final Panhellenic decision. It has sometimes been argued that SAC should accept these decisions with little question and not inter- fere with internal organizational matters. However, in this case the decision reaches far beyond the sorority world and touches on the individual as a rushee and the independent houses as well. For this reason SAC is on excellent ground in at- tempting as thorough a study of the mat- ter as possible and arriving at its own de- cision. The final decision is uniquely a function of SAC: its members must consider the ram- ifications of the sorority vote as it affects each segment of the campus and arrive at a decision based on their own knowledge and experience. [CURRENT MOISJ Rackham Auditorium . . LOUISIANA STORY, produced by Robert Flaherty, last of the Festival sponsored by the English Department "CWT= " the showing of "Louisiana Story," made in 1948, the Robert Flaherty Fes- tival came to an end last night at Rackham. The four programs, which featured Flaher- ty's major works, were well attended, an en- couragement possibly to attempt other sim- ilar festivals in the future. The subject of "Louisiana Story" is a family in the bayous and how their life is affected by the introduction of an oil well into their neighborhood. The particular hero this time is a young boy who is as fascinated by the piece of machinery in his front yard as he has been by the mysteries of the swamp before the strangers with the drills arrived. Climax of the film is an explosion in the well, quickly remedied by the know-how of the oilmen, although the boy continues to believe that it is his own good-luck charm that has saved the op- eration. Obviously this is a great deal of plot, much more than Flaherty had previously under- taken. There is also something like a thesis; that is, that the invasion of industry into the virgin areas works out to the best interests of all. Bayou people are good; oil drillers are good; the "old" ways are good, but civiliza- tion is good too. To blame Standard Oil, the film's spon- sor, for this would probably be unjust. Flah- erty was evidently given free rein and it is not surprising that he would be as inter- ested in man's capacity to handle machines as he was with the use of more elementary tools. In centering the story, however, for the first' time on a boy -(Moana was a young man), Flaherty sentimentalizes him. He uses the pet raccoon and the alligator with design that seems irrelevant to the integrity of the film. He employs natural dialogue, but too often simply as plot device. Distance, of course, lends enchantment to TODAY AND TOMORROW: A Booby-Trap for Geneva Solution To Nothing - - 'cv /etter 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. By WALTER LIPPMANN THE GENEVA conference which is to meet at the end of April and is to deal with Korea and Indo-China, is not an event which we can look forward to with much pleasure. We are entagled in a warwhere, though we lack the power to decide the issue, we stand a good chance of making ourselves every- body's scapegoat. This was already a possible outcome when Mr. Dulles was in Berlin. But aft- er his return to Washington, the Senators, led by Mr. Knowland, have made it very nearly unavoidable. Nobody knows, I believe, what are the real terms on which Moscow, Peking, and the Viet Minh would agree to an armistice. But there is every presumption that admission to the UN is part, but by no means the whole, of their irreducible terms. Now the more nearly absolute and unconditional is our refusal ever to agree to their coming into the UN the easier it is for them to offer terms that are more attractive to Europe and to Asia than they would in fact be willing to agree to. For they take no risk of having their bluff called. Senator Knowland and his friends have for all practical purposes given them a written guaranty that the United States will not call such a bluff. It is astonishing that politicians on Cap- itol Hill should be so unaware of the booby- trap which they have been rigging up for American diplomacy to fall into. Yet how often have they seen a member of Congress take a position on some measure which he does not wish to have prevail--once he has made sure that the bill will fail in the final roll call or be vetoed by the President? They have seen this happen again and again. A guaranty that the bill will not pass liberates the Congressman who is playing politics from the risk of having to make good on his vote, and of having to face the prac- tical consequences of passing the bill. Now this is what the absolutists in the Senate have done for the Geneva confer- ence. They have gone as far as it is pos- sible to go in giving a guaranty to the Communist powers that they need not show their hand, that since they cannot negotiate and will not have to negotiate, they can promise the moon, and count on the Senate to protect them from having to deliver it. 'BO( With this alnost ironclad guaranty. against any of the risks of diplomacy and negotiation, they have a standing invita- tion to make a demonstration to the French, to the rest of Europe, to the uncommitted peoples of Asia. They can maneuver them- selves into the position where they are able to say: You see, the Americans do not want peace ... but the American refusal to con- cede what almost all of you have already conceded, or are willing to concede, there would be peace in Indo-China ... and the last shooting war would be coming to an end .. . * * * * 11OW is this booby-trap to be avoided? By allowing Secretary Dulles the diplomatic freedom to force the other side to show its hand, its real terms for a negotiated arm- istice. He cannot do that if the Senate insists upon an obsolute and unconditional refusal to admit Red China to the UN. He can force the Communist powers to show their hand, the disclose their real terms, only if the American position on Red China in the UN is realitive and conditional. For if there are no conditions under which we will ever agree to the Red Chi- nese being admitted to the UN, then how can Secretary Dulles compell them to dis- close their real conditions for peace in Indo-China? It is quite plain that Sec- retary Dulles agreed to the Geneva con- ference because he knew that an attempt to negotiate an armistice was necessary. In agreeing it was plainly his intention to make the Communist powers show at Ge- neva what their real terms are by wraw- ing them into a negotiation instead of an exchange of propagandist broadsides. In order to do this he had to have a nego- tiable position himself. That is what the Senators are doing their best to take away from him. If they have their way, the Unit- ed States will appear at Geneva unwilling to fight in Indo-China and unable to nego- tiate. It is very difficult to imagine the terms. of an armistice in Indo-China which would sat- isfy the honor and vital interests of the main belligerents and of their principal allies. But no one who knows the facts of life can doubt that the attempt must be made, and it would be the utmost folly for this country to make itself-in a frenzy of blind feeling-the self- appointed scapegoat of a predetermined failure. (Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) )KS+ tempts to convey corresponding effects in English are often dense and ungraceful. There are times, however, when Pound uses his predecessor merely as a point of depar- ture. He arrives at magnificence in the fol- lowing translation from Daniel, "Twixt Nile 'n' where the suns miscarry To where the rain falls from the sun." or in these lines from Cavalcanti, "Yea from my mind behold what tears arise . . Forth move they making passage through the eyes Wherethrough there goes a spirit sor- rowing Which entereth the air so weak a thing That no man else its place discovereth Or deem it such an almoner of Death." The Japanese Noh Plays, although pred- icated with a lengthy explanation by Pound, lose their impact when they are merely read. So much depends upon stage, costume, mask and tradition that the texts mean little unless accompanied by an extravagent knowledge and imagina- tion which few of us are prepared to en- joy. Perhaps Pound achieves his most startling effect in the "Seafarer" in which he uses a metric line composed almost en- tirely of trochees and spondees. This is an interesting book; this is a con- troversial book; it is not a book for hasty perusal. Moreover, all the poetry in it is worth calling poetry. A New University For Belgian Congo A NEW UNIVERSITY college at Louvan- ium near Kisantu in the Belgian Congo opens this month. As there are so few fully developed secondary schools in the Congo, the first year's teaching will be preparatory. The college is starting in a small way with some two dozen students and half a dozen lecturers, but is planned to grow much on the lines of the university colleges in Nigeria and the Gold Coast. The intention is to admit white as well as African students, and to have no social or educational color bar. This is a very important development in policy for the Belgian Congo. So far government has been "paternalistic"; health and social services have been pro- vided for Africane n a sale r raely see . i x 4 4.::.-.4.-. - Wire Taps T WOULD like to question the ef- ficacy of Mr. Brownell's proposed bill to authorize the presentation of wiretapped messages as evidence for prosecution. 1. Will the bill decrease espion- age? No, because the FBI already uses wiretaps and presumably in- tercepts any attempted passage of material, as in the case of Judith Coplon. 2. Will the bill increase the num- ber of convictions of future espi- onage agents? No, because future agents will probably use the U.S. mail or couriers for any "private" communications. 3. Will the bill decrease the numbers of espionage agents in the future? Probably some profes- sional spies will be forced out of the business due to increased op- erating costs from hiring cour- iers, etc. However, the numbers of agents doing espionage for ideal- ogical reasons, who I believe are in the majority, probably will not decrease very much. For these reasons I believe that although Mr. Brownell is interest- ed in our security, his proposed bill will, in fact, affect our security to a negligible degree. -N. R. Williamsen, Jr., Grad. * * * * Driving Ban.,. THE announcement by President Hatcher of the indefinite post- ponement by the Regents of the driving ban issue was quite a sur- prise to me. I did not believe that the Regentsor the administration would ever stoop to cowardice. Every one of the reasons given by the President of the Univers- ity "explaining" the postponement was a reason for refusing the SL proposal not postponing it. If the administration really believed the President's reasons, they should have acted accordingly and de- nied the SL request. But they did not and the only logical reason seems to be that they did not want to flaunt the referendum in which students overwhelmingly (3% to 1) demanded a change. Perhaps they did not care to give SL an issue to strengthen itself in the next election. Such issue are nasty for University public rela- tions. It is not too difficut to see why the Regents did not pass the SL proposal; even if one does not set much store by the stated reasons, at least one must acknowledge reasons were given which might possibly explain outright refusal. But what kind 'of action is no action? If this is our elected Board of Regents then I am certainly go- ing out to scare up some fresh candidates for the next election. And if, as is more likely, the trouble lies in our president, then I'm still going out to look for some Regent's candidates who might be able to cure the malady. --Jerry Laker I . -ER a.o .s 9 THE TRANSLATIONS with an introduction (New Directions) OF EZRA POUND by Hugh Kenner By ANNE STEVENSON AN unprejudiced reader confronted with a book by Ezra Pound tends to be both impressed and annoyed. No poet of the twentieth century has done so much to make the past available, the remote tangible. Be- fore Pound, translations were confined large- ly to the classics; Pound's unprecedented ex- plorations of less frequented cultures have revived the art of curiosity and the art of poetic transposition. With Auden and Eliot, he has established a cult of the poetic craft. He has promulgated a reverence for tradi- tion and for an imaginative sense of the past. Unhappily, however, he has performed this service with a chip on his shoulder. In discovering and extolling the virtues of the unfamiliar, he seems to have con- cluded that whatever is known is inferior, that cultures differing from our own in habit and tradition are invariably better. Now, mature consideration discounts as childish the notion that, because Japanese Noh drama has perservered in its thou- sand-year-old uniformity through a flux of empires, our own variegated drama is by contrast ephermeral and superficial. Nor is it logical to assume with Hugh Ken- ner, who supplies the introduction to the Translations, that because Milton translated foreign poetry into an idiom palatable to the 17th century, he is ipso facto inferior to Pound, who translates it into idioms agree- able to the 20th. Pound and Poundites are in danger of becoming victims of their own polemic dogma. Although they say much that should be said, their arrogance breeds an at- mosphere of self-conscious snobism which antagonizes readers and put them on their guard. This is the more the pity because as a poet-translator, Pound is unquestionably ex- cellent. In this new collection of Transla- tions (which by no means includes all of them) are included a large number of son- nets, ballate and canzone of Guido Cavalcan- ti, poetry of Arnaut Daniel translated from the Provencal, selections from the Chinese Cathay, the Anglo-Saxon "Seafarer," and a series of Japanese Noh Plays. Among all of them, the Chinese translations stand out as, if not the most accomplished, at least the most genuinely lovely. A poet with the skill of a Pound'is often in danger of sacrificing lucidity in his preoccupations with form, rhythm, rhyme and word. In the poetry of Cavalcanti and Daniel, devices are, to some WASHINGTO.N - When John Foster Dulles, the sincere, indefatig- able Secretary of State testified before the Senate Foreign Rela- tions committee last week, he almost wept. His voice choked as he said: "I secured an agreement in writing that the Geneva conference would not constitute recognition of China, but even so I can't seem to please you gentlemen. It looks as if there's just no way we can conduct foreign relations to your liking." What upset the Secretary of State was the persistent, relent- less heckling bf the man who is supposed to lead Eisenhower's poli- cies in the Senate-William Knowland of California. The Demo- crats were sympathetic and asked helpful, encouraging questions. The Republican majority leader heckled and objected. The incident illustrates one phase of the growing split in the Re- publican Party-a split not caused by Senator McCarthy, but widened and brought into sharper focus by him. It also illustrates the problem Eisenhower himself sooner or later will have to tackle. The longer he puts it off, the harder it will be. At present he has the prestige and popularity to tackle it successfully. If he puts it off, it may be too late. What President Eisenhower has to realize is that the Republican Party for years has been divided between the isolationists and those who believe in world cooperation.. He has to realize that Senator Mc- Carthy and the little group which brain-washed his Secretary of the Army, represent the extreme isolationist wing of the party, some of them neo-fascist. And he has to realize that he has to side with one group or the other and begin leading the nation before the extremists take away control altogether. -LESSONS OF THE PAST- EISENHOWER, a lifelong military man, probably doesn't realize it, but the Dulles-Knowland incident of a Republican Senator heck- ling a Republican Secretary of State has occurred often in the past. This newsman, as a young reporter covering the State Department, watched example after example. The accumulation of three incidents eventually paved the way to war. Here are some of them: Republican split No. 1, as far back as I can remember took place during the London Naval Conference in 1930 when some of us news- men wrote stories that Henry L. Stimson, then Secretary of State and one of the most revered leaders of the Republican party, proposed a consultative pact. This pact merely pledged the United States to con- sult in case war threatened. It pledged no use of troops or anything else; merely that we would talk things over. But after our news stories broke, Stimson called a press con- ference in London at which he confirmed them while Her- bert Hoover called a press conference in the White House at which he denied that the United States would 'enter a consultative pact. The islationist wing of the GOP triumphed. GOP split No. 2 occurred when the Japanese war lords entered Manchuria on Sept. 18, 1931. Secretary of State Stimson immediately saw this for what it was-the beginning of a Japanese attempt to dom- inate all Asia. I remember writing that he had contacted the Canadian, Mexican and Chilean governments to ask if they would cooperate with us in the Pacific in case of war; and I remember Stimson calling me up to his house that night to ask that I not write any more along that line because it was making things difficult for him at the White House and with the isolationist wing of the Republican Party. The story, he said, was true, but embarrassing. * * * * -HEADING OFF WAR-- WHAT STIMSON wanted was to head off Japanese aggression before it blossomed into war. The isolationists, on .the other hand, didn't want to get even remotely involved. And later when Stimson instructed the U.S. consul general at Geneva to sit in as an observer during the League of Nations' efforts to block Japan, the isolationists even forced him to withdraw the observer. Had Henry L. Stimson, an energetic, liberal Republican, been able to build up the peace machinery of the world when the seeds of war first sprouted in 1930-31-32, there might well have been no second' World War. But he was blocked by the isolationists. GOP split No. 3 was tackled by another great Republican, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. It was Vandenberg who worked with Roosevelt and later Truman to try to keep American foreign policy out of partisan politics. And I remember a talk I had with Vandenberg about a year before he died. He looked tired and com- plained about his headaches. But even more, he complained about the trouble given him by his own Republican colleagues in the Senate. And he named McCarthy, Knowland and some of the men who are giving Eisenhower and Dulles trouble today. It was Vandenberg, of course, who picked Paul Hoffman for the important job of-administering the Marshall Plan. It was also Van- denberg who arranged with Dean Acheson to put John Foster Dulles right inside the State Department alongside the Democrats. But Vandenberg is dead now, and the man who in part has taken his place as -.Senate Republican leader has been the chief heckler of the Eisenhower foreign policy. (Continued from Page 2) School of Music students Elaine Fried- man, Fred Fox, Gordon Sherwood, Jud- ith Marcus, and Barbara Garvin. The works will be performed by Anita Carl- ton, Ellen Sherman, Bruce Wise, Anne Young and Constance Jackson, plan- ists; Sophia Fedonis, mezzo-soprano, and Dawn Waldron, soprano; Barbara Garvin, violin. A discussion period will conclude the program. Open to the general public. Events Today E e t ToaAriadne of Naxos, Richard Strauss' comic opera, will be presented in Josef Blatt's English translation tonight at 8 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Tickets for this Department of Speech and School of Music pro- duction are on sale at the Lydia Men- delssohn Box Office 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. for $1.75-$1.40-$1.00. Sigma Rho Tau, Engineering stump- speaker's society, will hold a mixer this evening at 7:15 p.m. Guest speak- er, Prof. E. T. Vincent, will discuss "The Diesel Engine and the Gas Tur- bine." Kappa Phi. There will be a cabinet meeting tonight at 7:15 p.m. Please be present. The Deutscher Verein Kaffee Stunde will meet this afternoon at 3:15 will meet on Thurs., Mar. 4, at 3:15 in the Union taproom. Dr. M. Dufner and Dr. A. L. Weinkauf, members of the German Dept. faculty, will be pres- ent. All are welcome to this informal group to improve and practice their conversational ability. Arts Chorale. The regular weekly re- hearsal will be held this evening from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Auditorium D, Angell Hall. Work will be begun on music for our Spring Concert, so attendance is important. The International Tea, sponsored by the International Center and the Inter- national Students' Association, will be held today from 4:30 to 6 o'clock. The Modern Dance Club will perform at the floor show this week. La p'tite causette will meet this afternoon from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the wing of the Michigan Union Cafeteria. If you speak French, or if you want to learn to speak French, this informal group is just the thing! All are welcome!I La Sociedad Hispanica will meet to- night at 7:30 p.m. in the Hussey Room of the MichiganmLeague. Slides on Mex- ico will be shown, and the chorus and a guitarist will be on hand with songs. Refreshments will be served. We'll make plans for the annual pageant, and se- lect committees to work on it, and also on the play. All members are urged to attend, and bring any interested friends. Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Re- hearsal for entire casts of "Thespis" and "The Sorcerer" tonight in the League at 7:15. Orthodox Students Society. There will be a meeting tonight in the Upper Room of Lane Hall, 7:30 sharp. Rev. .Harry Magoulias, pastor of St. Con- stantine and Helen of Detroit, will give an illustrated (slides) lecture on the Orthodox Liturgy. Refreshments after- wards. Bring your friends. Hillel. 4:10, Religious committee meet- ing in the Hillel Lounge. 6:30, Mlnyon. 8 p.m..Music-For-All. All reservations or cancellations for Friday evening kosher dinner must be made by this afternoon. Cali 3-4129. Christian Science Organization. Tes- timony meeting today at 7:30 p.m., Fireside Room, Lane Hall. All are wel- come. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Congregational-Disciples Guild. Midweek Meditation in Douglas Chapel, this afternoon at 5:05-5:30 p.m. Fresh- man Discussion Group at Guild-House, from 7 to 8 p.m. Coming Events American Association of University Professors. Governor G. Mennen wi-. liams will address a meeting to be held Wed., Mar. 10, at 4:15 p.m. In Rackhama Amphitheatre. All members on the staff are invited. Psychology Club. There will be a dis- cussion meeting on Fri., Mar. 5, at 3:30 in 2429 Mason Hall. Projects for this semester will beabegun. All mem- bers and prospective members are urged to attend! 3rd Laboratory Bill of Plays for the 1953-1954 season will be presented by the Department of Speech next Friday and Saturday, Mar. 12 and 13. at 8 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelsohn Theatre. In- cluded on the bill which is in observ- ance of March as International Theatre Month will be Aristophanes' The Frogs; Rupert Brooke's, Lithuaniakand Frank Wedekind's The Tenor. Tickets for the 3rd Laboratory bill will go on sale at the Lydia Mendelssohn Box Office March 10. All seats are reserved at 25 each. Wesleyan Guild. Friday afternoon at 4, Dr. David Aberle of, the Sociolog Department will lead a discussion on the American Indian problem. In the evening, we will meet at 7 in the lounge to attend "Martin Luther" as a group. Roger Williams Guild. Meet at the Guild House Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. to leave for a joint retreat with the Ypsilanti Baptist Group on Devo- tional Life. The sessions will be led by Dr. John Casteel, of Colgate Roches- ter Divinity School, and the topics are as follows: Afternoon-"The Disinte- gration of Personal Life Today." Even- ing-"The Christian Integration of Per- sonal Life." Episcopal Student Foundation. Tea from 4 to 5:15 at Canterbury House, Fri., Mar. 5, followed by Student-Fac- ulty-led Evensong, Chapel of St. Mich- ael and All Angels. All students in- vited. Episcopal Student Foundation. Can- terbury Club, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Mar. 5 at Canterbury House. "A Lenton Ration- ale:" Panel discussion with Mrs. Pres- ton W. Slosson and the Chaplain. + .1 lg Sixty-Fourth Year Edited and managed by- students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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