FOR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1354 FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, D54 Is Nixon the Man To Answer? IT TOOK A FORMER Democratic candi- date for the presidency to finally pro- vide the incentive for the Republican Party to lower the boom on a very junior Sena- tor from Wisconsin. Although Adlai Stevenson spoke only briefly in Florida last week, he was able to drive the Republican Party into a po- sition which it either found politically inexpedient to uphold, or one which it did not want to be forced to uphold. Stevenson charged that the Republicans are divided between the McCarthy faction and the Eisenhower faction. From this po- sition he launched a bitter and accurate at- tack on the present Administration's hesi- tancy to stop McCarthy's never ending in- cursions into the Communist investigating arena. The Republicans were left with the choice of either ignoring or denying the attack or deciding it was about time to silence Mc- Carthy and put an end to the damage he was wrecking on the party. The President or his advisors decided that now was the time to stop McCarthy and also to challenge Stevenson's allegations. Radio and television time was procured with the ostensible piirpose of answering the titular head of the Democratic Party. At the same time the move cut the ground out from undet the Wisconson Senator. McCarthy squawked and is still calling for heads, but for the first time in mem- ory he has been beaten to the punch. Whether this was done intentionally or not cannot be ascertained but it had the same effects as that of a carefully de- signed manuever. However, instead of presenting an answer to the former presidential candidate him- self, President Eisenhower inadvertantly tossed the job to his Vice-President, Richard Nixon. This is not comforting to some persons who have fought against McCarthy for so long a time, since Nixon has come under constant fire from Democrats for his lean- ings toward the points of view constantly expressed by McCarthy. One wonders just how able Nixon is to deliver an answer to the former Democratic candidate for the presidency and whether or not the speech will end up by being sheer blustering. It strikes this writer that the President's choice of spokesman was not only inadvisable but a blunder of the great- est proportions. However, Nixon said yesterday he would be expressing the President's views on McCarthy versus the Republican Party and indicated his speech would be an of- ficial pronouncement of the party rather than the Vice-President. This remains to be seen. But while we may herald the fact that McCarthy, for the first time, is on the de- fensive, we cannot and should not prema- turely believe that his political days are over. There still remains the day to day battle of whipping the junior Senator from Wisconsin at his own game. It must be remembered that throughout the course of this affair not one harsh word has been said against McCarthy by the Re- publican Party; possibly Nixon's speech will do this-possibly not. However, for the first time members of the President's party have begun to de- nounce the Senator on the floor of Con- -gress. The opening blast came yesterday from Senator Flanders (R-Vt.) His re- marks were some of the most violent, ac- curate and damaging ones on McCarthy, the man and the ism. They need no comment. He asked what in the battle between Communism and democracy "is the, part of the junior senator from Wisconsin?" And answered, "He dons his war-paint. He goes into a war-dance. He emits war- whoops. He goes forth to battle and proudly returns with the scalp of a pink Army den- tist." -Mark Reader gmusic The Wire Tapping Controversy I Interested In Which People? RE?. CHARLES HALLECK, Republican leader in the House, said yesterday in a statement concerning tax reductions: "This week should demonstrate to the Am- erican people in a very convincing way that the Eisenhower Administration and the Re- publican Congress are now moving in high gear to fulfill the promises that have been made." And what are those promises? Before the elections, it will be remembered, the Republicans loudly proclaimed tax te- ductions for the people. And indeed, there has been a reduction for the people: the people in General Motors, the people in Standard Oil; in fact for most people in big business. And now, the Administration is proposing another tax reduction bill. This tax measure allows corporations even greater tax deduc- tion allowances on research and develop- ment, losses incurred, and depreciation. The purported object of these tax deduc- tion allowances Is to give business a needed boost. As Walter Reuther pointed out re- cently, however, it is becoming increasingly and painfully clear that what is desperately needed at this time is not a stimulant to business but an increased consumer pur. chasing power. Demand for goods has fall- en off tremendously. This, in turn, has re- sulted in the current unemployment scare. Government assistance, In the form of tax reductions, isn't needed by producers, who are producing more than they can sell al- ready. Increasing production at a time when more Is being produced than can be con- sumed is a little like carrying coals to New- castle. The solution lies, rather, in increasing consumer purchasing power by reducing personal income taxes, especially in the low income brackets, and eliminating as many retrogressive excise taxes as pos- sible. Both if these measures have been grudgingly put into effect to a very lim- ited degree, but they have been forced on the Republican Administration by pre- vious campaign promises and current po- litical expediency, rather than by any fundamental change in philosophy. In general, these economic principles are alien to the Republican tradition of eco- nomics. The R'epublican policy of helping big busi- ness to grow and trusting that the country will follow is nothing but a thinly disguise sophistication of the principles that led us into a depression. The Eisenhower Adminis- tration, famous (or infamous, as you like) for its reliance on business executives, dis- plays an almost child-like trust in the "big- heartedness" of "big business" personalities. The "million-dollar cabinet" is a case in point. It hardly need be stated, in this day and age, that what is good for General Motors is not necessarily good for the country, Charles E. Wilson notwithstanding. The in- terests of big business, in fact, are in many cases directly opposed to the interests of the country as a whole. Helping big business will not necessarily alleviate the current business recession. The only answer to the problems of rising unemployment and reduced personal in- come lies in both direct and indirect gov- ernment aid to those in need of it. This means reduced personal income taxes, in- creased welfare benefits to the unemploy- ed, and increased government deficit spending. That the Republicans have failed to in- stitute these measures, proved l y hard ex- perience in the thirties, is another indi- cation that they are not the party of all the people, but only of special interests. -Arthur Cornfeld Rackham Auditorium . 0 STANLEY QUARTET-Haydn: Quartet in C major, Op. 74, No. 1; Villa-Lobos: Quartet No. 14 (First Performance); Beethoven:Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130 T HE LITERATURE of the string quartet is especially noteworthy for its serious and profound works. It is generally assumed that composers save their best, most intimate and personal, and, in the kindest sense of the word, most -cerebral thought for cham- ber music. Few works of slight or flippant character enter the repertory. The Quartet No. 14 by Villa-Lobos, which was dedicated to the Stanley Quartet and premiered by them last night, is more than likely not his best, nor his most profound, intimate, or cerebral. Neither is it flippant, but it is slight. Because it is harmonically static, like popular dance melodies, emotion- ally contained, in comparison to the Haydn that preceded it and the Beethoven that* came after like a tiny figurine in an art museum, and of moods that glorify the pop- ular idiom of today, it achieves an effect which is pleasant, delightful-particularly the the melodic slow movement-but of no major musical consequence. The work pretends no more than this. Except for the fact that in first hearing the final movement adds nothing to the work but just an extra cadence, Villa- Lobos has succeeded admirably in his pur- pose. Villa-Lobos is of course famed for his study of Brazilian folk music and in- corporation of these melodies into his style. This may have bearing on last night's work, but not obtrusively. The work is just an exceedingly simple, almost ban- al, exposition of popular moods, which is expressive in its own way. It is not one of the University's most significant commis- sions, but the Stanley played it as if it were. After this year's chamber music festival of the University Musical Society, it is nice to hear the Stanley again and realize that they hold their own with the best, in a per- formance like last night's Haydn even bet- ter. The technical execution was perfect, the speed with which they took the last move- ment and their ease in playing it being in itself superhuman. But the way they brought out the moods of the piece, emphasizing cli- maxes and elucidating structure, was the real beauty. The work spoke with a clarity and vitality that its inspiration deserves. The concluding Beethoven was a happy indication of what is to come in next year's all Beethoven quartet cycle which the Stan- ley will give. They played the Op. 130 with- out the Grosse Fuge which is its intended last movement, and even giving greater than normal stress to the slow movement could not obscure the fact that Beethoven's ATTORNEY GENERAL Brownell, in a re- cent speech in Ann Arbor, supported current .proposals to legalize limited use of wire tapping and its evidence in federal courts. The controversy surrounding the legal- ity of wire tapping is an old problem. For a long time it was argued that it was a violation of the constitution. However, in 1928, the Supreme Court in the Olm- stead v. United States case, ruled in a 5-4 decision that wire-tapping does not violate the Fourth Amendment. The Amendment applies only to "actual phy- sical invasions" of privacy, and not to "projected voices," the Court claimed. Justice Brandeis, one of the four dis- senters, stated: "The evil incident to in- vasion of the privacy of the telephone is far greater than that involved with the tam- pering of the mails. Whenever a telephone is tapped the privacy of persons at both ends of the line is invaded, and all con- versations between them upon any subject, and although proper, confidential, and pri- viledged, may be overheard." The concern of Congress with this prob- lem was expressed in 1933 in the form of a rider to an appropriations bill. It stated: "No part of this appropriation shall be used for or in connection with wire tapping to procure evidence of violation of the Na- tional Prohibition Act." This act was the product of four years of unsuccessful leg- islation following the Olmstead case to pro- hibit wire tapping by federal authorities. It would seem that the intent of Congress at this time was to prohibit interception of telephone lines. In 1934 the Federal Communications Act was passed. Section 605 of the Act states: "No person not authorized by the sender shall intercept any communication and divulge or publish the existence, con- tents, or substance of such intercepted communications to any person." The reason for the present controversy lies in the interpretation of Section 605. One side claims that both interception and divulgance are illegal. However the Justice Department has taken the position that only divulgance of the intercepted informa- tion is illegal. Therefore wire tapping has become the established practice of the F.B.I. But even though wire tapping is endorsed by the Justice Department, the informa- tion collected is inadmissible in federal courts. The precedent was established in 1937 in the Nardone v. United States case. The de- fendents in the case (who had been found guilty of liquor smuggling) appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the evidence used against them had been gathered through wire tap- ping thus violating Section 605. The gov- ernment attorneys replied that Section 605 did not apply to federal agents. The Court reversed the convictions, ruling that Sec- tion 605 included federal officers as well as others within its sweep, and that testimony based on interception of a telephone mes- sage constituted a "divulgance" and was thus a violation of the communications act. The second Nardone case in 1939 ex- tended the interpretation of Section 605 to include evidence obtained from wire tap leads-which Justice Holmes aptly called "fruit of the poison tree." Then in United States v. Weiss, the Court ruled that 605 also prohibited evidence in fed- eral courts obtained by intercptance and divulgance of intrastate messages. What Brownell is asking for is the limited use of F.B.I. wire tapping authorized by the Attorney General for defense and security purposes andthe use of the evidence col- lected in federal courts. The sole favorable provision of such leg- islation would be the inclusion of disciplin- ary measures against the many who tap wires for illegal purposes. For wire tapping is indiscriminately used throughout the country by the police, politicians, gamblers, divorce seekers and crooks in general. Con- sequently blackmail thrives and many in- nocent persons' rights are violated. For when a public phone booth is tapped by the police to acquire information on illegal ac- tivities of bookies etc., the private lives of the law abiding are monitored as well. However, even limited tapping is a dan- ger and an encroachment on our freedom. First it would put too much power into the hands of the Attorney General-power which might easily be abused. The right to decide what is dangerous to the security of our country could be determined solely by political bias. The supporters of Brownell's stand claim that the ban of wire tap evidence in fed- eral courts is a thorn in our nation's de- fense program. They point to the Coplon case as an example of this weakness. But is it likely that any spy would discuss his activities over the phone if F.B.I. wire tap- ping were an established technique and the overheard information could be used in court against him? Certainly it is better to let some crimi- nals have their freedom than endanger the freedom of all. As Justice Brandeis said, the makers of the constitution in seeking "to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations," clearly conferred "as against "Yeah - I've Been Cut Up A Little, Too" L- -- S ~ y \\\ ,q. 9" 'eaN. w. ca ysroN T oSe^0 Laingt Plan .. . I To the Editor: WHILE IT seems evident that' all is not well with the Stu-j dent Legislature, I don't believe that this warrants scraping the organization for the proposed Stu- dent Executive Council tentatively favored by the Laing Study Com- mittee. Many people, myself included,! believe SL's major difficulty does, not lie in its structure but inI something much less tangible. Many SL members don't honestly know why they're on the organ- ization. They haven't any expli- cite ideas and goals and hence are left with an activity which is in many cases meaningless for them. This flaw would not be remed- ied by the Laing plan since it provides a new structure but does not provide the basic things S.L. lacks-ideas and sincere initiative. This is not to say that SL may not stand in need of a new struc- ture. I personally think it does. But the problem of how student government should be organized would not be solved by the pro- posed Student Executive Council -it would merely be extended. The Council is to be composed of seven student heads of campus organizations and anywhere from eight to thirteen elected members I have always been under the im- pression that to be of one of the campus organizations is a rather time consuming job. How would these individuals be able to give to student government the great amount of time it requires when they must also attend classes, study, run their respective organ- izations and I imagine sleep oc- casionally. Also to have at the very most only thirteen elected members on the council would, I think, have the effect of removing student government even further from the student body. Many people feel that student already has too much of a clique atmosphere about it. This clique feeling would grow, I think, if the organization were made up of heads of organizations and only thirteen elected members. It may very well be that all of these difficulties would not mater- ialize and that the Student Exe- cutive Council would succeed in coordinating the activities of the major student organizations and also represent the student. But it doesn't seem to me that with all theseinherent flaws in the pro- posed re-organization we can con- fidently look to the Laing proposal for the solution of our search for a good student government. -Joan Bryan f 't ON THE WASHINGTON MEIRRY-GO-HOUND WITH DREW PEARSON ietteP4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. WASHINGTON-When the Republican party threw a big cheese party for newsmen at the opening of Congress, Joe McCarthy came up to John Foster Dulles, put his arm around his shoulder and said~ "Haven't I been a good boy lately?" What McCarthy referred to was the fact that he had laid off criticising the State Department for a few weeks, partly as a result of a compromise agreement patched up with Vice- President Nixon in Miami in December. Nixon had urged McCarthy to lay off the witch hunting and turn the problem of Communism over to Senator Jenner's Internal Security Committee where it properly belongs. In turn, Nixon prom- ised that Attorney General Brownell would turn over to McCarthy various cases of alleged graft and inefficiency which Nixon said would reflect on the Truman Administration. Thus McCarthy would continue to get the headlines, though probing something that legitimately came under his government operations committee. McCarthy agreed. But no sooner had he returned to Washington, and was asked by newsmen about the agreement, than he denied it. * * * * JOE REMAINS SWEET DESPITE THE DENIAL, however, McCarthy did live up to the agreement for about two weeks. Then quietly he handed Senator' Welker of Idaho, sometimes called the "Junior McCarthy," a copy of a speech he, McCarthy, had prepared blasting Dulles' law partner, Arthur Dean, then special ambassador' for the Korean peace talks. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN {, (Continued from Page 2) Amphitheater. All members of the staff are invited. Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Box Of- fice will be open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. today for the sale of tickets for the 3rd LABORATORY BILL OF PLAYS presented by the Department of Speech. Included on this bill are Aris- tophanes' satiric comedy, THE FROGS; Rupert Brooke's thriller, LITHUANIA; and Frank Wedekind's ironic comedy. THE TENOR. All seats are reserved at 25c each. The College of Engineering and the Audio-Visual Education Center will pre- sent the premiere showing of a dramat- ic color motion picture entitled The First Hundred, commemorating the Centennial of Engineering at Michigan, in Auditorium A, Angell Hall, this evening at 7, 8, and 9 p.m. The Literary College Conference Steer- inc' Committee will hold an important Probably Secretary Dulles didn't know that the man who put. meeting today at 5 p.m. In Dean Rob- his arm around his shoulder so affectionately at the GOP cheese ertson's office in Angell Hall. party was the real author of that speech. And he may not know it JGP Central Committee. There will even today. be a meeting of the JGP Central Com- But McCarthy had prepared the speech as a blast against Dulles mittee tonight at 8:30 p.m. Please be last December after the Secretary of State had issued the most forth- present and prompt. right statement so far made by any, Eisenhower cabinet member Pershing Rifles. This is the last week against McCarthy after his nation-wide radio broadcast answering new pledges wi lbe accepted for join- agistig esing Rfe. All men itrse Truman. report to T.C.B. at 7:30 p.m. in un- Though McCarthy had drafted a hot answer to Dulles, it rpared in the chool of the soldier and remained undelivered-thanks to the persuasive and personable airman with arms. Len Hall. Mr. Hall, the smooth-talking chairman of the Repub- Pershing Rifles. All Pershing Rifle- lican National Committee, had sweet-talked McCarthy into dis- men report to T.C.B. at 1925 hrs. in uni- carding his blast at Dulles just as he sweet-talked Eisenhower form. Bring gym shoes. With a drill out of basting McCarthy last week. meet just a few weeks off, attendance is ugrently requested. But McCarthy kept the text and gave it to Senator Welker who The Generation Poetry Staff meets blasted Dulles instead. today, at 7:30 p.m. ,in the Generation' * * * * office, Student Publications Building. APPEASING JOE Please to have read all manuscripts by that time. r .+, Mar. 11, following a Lenten theme. Mid-Week Meditation in Douglas Chapel using the devotional book "Manhood of the Master," 5:45-5:30 p.m., Thursday. Deutscher Verein-Kaffee Stunde will meet on Thursday at 3:15 in the Un- ion alcove. Dr. C. K. Pott, Professor in the German Dept., will be there. All German students are urged to come to practice speaking in an informal, friendly atmosphere. Graduate Study Group on "Christian Liberty and Academic Freedom," Lane Hall Library, Thurs., Mar. 11, 7:30-9:00 p.m. The International Tea, sponsored by the International Center and the In- ternational Students' Association, will be held Thurs., Mar. 11, from 4:30 to 6 o'clock, third floor, Rackham Build- ing. Mrs. Tula Kurath will perform North American Iroquois Indian dances, and there will be songs by the Chinese group and Chinese instruments will be played. I.A.S. Important meeting Thurs., Mar. 11, 7 p.m., Room 3-A, Michigan Union. Mr. Woodham, of the Guggenheim Air Safety Foundation, will speak on "Air Safety Considerations. Elections, spring paper competition, spring enrollment, and refreshments. La p'tite causette will meet tomor- row afternoon from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the wing of the Michigan Union Cafeteria. Anyone interested in speak- ing French is welcome to this informal conversational group! Christian Science Organization. Tes- timony meeting Thurs., Mar. 11, at 7:30 p.m., Fireside Room, Lane Hall. All are welcome. Episcopal Student Foundation. Stu- dent Breakfast at Canterbury House fol- lowing 7 a.m. service of Holy Com- munion, Thurs., Mar. 11. Episcopal Student Foundation. Stu- dent-Faculty led Evensong, Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels, 5:15 p.m., Thurs., Mar. 11. 1 mAtrcigwn ait _W I i< THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATES the basic problem President Eisen- hower faces with Joe McCarthy. He faces first the fact that one wing of the Republican party is definitely, almost avidly, for Mc- Carthy; second, the fact that McCarthy never stays put. He can be appeased one day; and one day later, or even one hour later, he's right back slugging at the man who appeased him. The President himself and his Administration have made no fewer than ten attempts to appease McCarthy beginning back in the days when he was running for President. Here is the roll-call: Appeasement No. 1-Prior to Ike's Milwaukee speech, Tom Dewey persuaded him to include in the speech two paragraphs critical of McCarthy. When GOP Chairman Summerfield heard of this he, with three old guard Senators, hired a special plane, caught up with Ike's campaign train and talked him out of it. However, Ike wrote into the speech a paragraph praising his old chief, Gen. George Marshall, whom McCarthy had castigated. Again Summerfield arranged for McCarthy to come up the back elevator of the Pere Marquette Hotel in Peoria where McCarthy talked Ike out of the Marshall praise. Appeasement No. 2 occurred after Harold Stassen told Mc- Carthy to keep his nose out of Greek ship problems. Vice- President Nixon, with White House blessing, persuaded Stassen to get together with McCarthy and eat crow. Appeasement No. 3 was after the President's book-burning speech at Dartmouth. Next day McCarthy talked the White House out of broadcasting the speech over the Voice of America. He also got the President to issue a statement that the speech meant no reflection on McCarthy. Appeasement No. 4-Attorney General Brownell whitewashed the unanimous Senate report on McCarthy's peculiar financial transac- tions; also the Senate report on irregularities in the Maryland elec- tions. Appeasement. No. 5-McCarthy's close friend, Robert E. Lee, who was implicated in the Maryland elections, was appointed to the Fed- eral Communications Commission, making two McCarthy men on this key body. Appeasement No. 6-H. L. Hunt, staunch McCarthy supporter and employer of Mrs. McCarthy, was given a tax deduction of 20 per cent on contributions to his TV program, "Facts Forum." Appeasement No. 7-The Army turned over to McCarthy carbon copies of its investigation of Fort Monmouth. This en- abled McCarthy to take the Army's reports and the Army's wit- nnccPC and Qftin h;.. nwn, nrahP. mnnlrner it ,n,r thtfhe Lane Hall Symposium. "The Nature of the Church," led by The Rev. John F. Bradley, Ph.D., at Father Richard Cen- ter, 8:15 this evening. sigma Alpha Eta will initiate its new key members during thehmeetin to- night at 7:30 p.m.' at the Women's League. Dr. Harlan Bloomer, Director of the Speech Clinic, will be initiated as an honorary member. Students and fac- ulty are invited to attend. Hillel. Reservations or cancellations for Friday evening Kosher dinner must be in by Thursday afternoon-Call NO 3-4129. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw, Lenten vespers today at 7:30, with the sermon by Air Force Chaplain Theodore Kleinhans. Academic Freedom Sub-commission of SL will meet at 4 this afternoon in the Union. Student League for Industrial Democ- racy. Meeting tonight in Union at 7:30 sharp. Ratification of constitution, election of officers, discussio period. All interested faculty and students are cordially invited. Episcopal Student Foundation. Stu- dent-Faculty led Evensong, Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels, 5:15 p.m., today. Episcopal Student Foundation. Silent Luncheon for students and faculty members. Canterbury House, 12:10 p.m., today, Wesleyan Guld. Leten Matin in the chapel today 7:30-7:50 a.m. Be in the lounge from 4-5:30 this afternoon for the mid-week refresher tea! The Congregational-Disciples Guild. 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