PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1954 PAGE POUR TUE MICHIGAN IAILI ~l UESDAY, MAItCH 16, 1954 IT SEEMS TO ME: The New Anti-McCarthy roup . . . It's Chief A By ALICE B. SILVER crats were in. His Associate Editorial Director then only the Den REW PEARSON isn't lonely any more. The GOP said li He has good respectable company now tacked Acheson a in his anti-McCarthy fight, Pearson told his seldom a word ab radio audience Sunday night, thy and company er liberal organiz Actually Pearson should never have and ACLU, encou been lonely. There have always been Am- teachers and indu ericans in the anti-McCarthy camp. But truth orgies which now "respectable" Republicans like Eis- And even now, enhower, Nixon, Mundt, Knowland, Hall, leaders are begin Stevens, Flanders etc. have come into line down, they have within the last few weeks. about the condit The picture which seems to emerge is a which the Senator group of strong leaders concerned with fair The Jenner's, I play and truth battling against the lies and de's still remain. smear tactics of McCarthy. continue to "try This is so much hocus pocus. ment employees As pointed out before in this column, Mc- hearsay evidence Carthy cannot run wild with the Republican The Republican Administration as he did with the Demo- sh ielct crats because he is a power threat. The problems. For th GOP is no longer willing to move over and terested only in c :make room for the Senator. In short, no er drive. one -likes to be a punching bag for a rival If by squeezing power. publicans create t It follows from this that the new anti- in dedication to1 McCarthy forces are more concerned with of fair play, it w the man than the 'ism'. This is not hard to political hoaxes ev( see. people. .il s means were odious, but -mocrats held their noses. ttle when the Senator at- nd Marshall. There was out fair play when McCar- "burned books," went aft- ations such as the ADA uraged loyalty oaths for alged in all the other half h made McCarthyism. when the Administration nning to push McCarthy not said one strong word ions of fear and smear r helped to create. the Clardy's and the Vel.- Congressional committees y" individuals. Govern- are still dismissed on e. And so on. n Administration has not be concerned with these he moment, they are in- checking McCarthy's pow- the Senator out the Re- the myth that they did so the traditional standards ill be one of the greatest ver played on the American tell. McCarthy rose to power when the Demo- November will1 Sidelights on L'af faire McCarthy The City Editor's SCRATCH PAD By ERIC VETTER Daily City Editor IN THE past two weeks, newspaper editors have been confronted with an almost in- soluble problem. The naisy Washington- McCarthy controversy has placed newspap- ers in the position of giving considerable time and space to a subject distasteful to the general public and personally repre- hensible to the editors. By running mater- ial on McCarthy a paper spreads his fame and notoriety and inadvertently the lies and distortions he often makes public. A paper fails in its responsibility, how- ever, if it does not cover the news and re- port as many sides as possible. The New York Times has followed a policy of playing down McCarthy's verbal blasts and noisy charges. Traditionally, they fol- low a policy of a conservative format and small headlines. McCarthy is assigned a relatively minor news spot generally, and the final effect is rather subdued news play for the Wisconsin Senator. At times, how- ever, McCarthy occasionally draws the top news spot and The Times has provided in- side page space to transcripts of hearings and documents made public during Mc- Carthy incidents. In Kansas yesterday, the Manhattan Mer- cury-Chronicle announced in a front page editorial that "just for a change of pace and as kind of a damper on the yakkety yak" their readers would find McCarthy news on page 3 for a week unless something unexpected developed. The new policy change came, the editors said, after talking to readers who were sick of the Senator and McCarthy's own plea that he was tired of the "yakkety yak." The Daily has maintained a policy of giv- ing rather prominent coverage to McCarthy for several reasons. First, the very serious nature of the conflict makes it imperative for The Daily to provide its readers with de- tails of the controversy. Many Daily read- ers do not have regular access to other news- papers, and radio accounts are necessarily brief because of time limitations. Due to our own space limitations we are not able to relegate McCarthy to in- side pages as other newspapers do. We try to make up for abbreviated account on page 1 by giving the stories more pro- minent play. And finally, in a University community where a great amount of keen interest is maintained in political and social affairs, The Daily serves the great bulk of its readers by giving space to this type of news. But at the same time The Daily would like to hear from its readers on this subject. We ask you what the role of the newspaper should be in this controversy? Where should the newspaper draw a line in its coverage? Should we play down the news as the Kan- sas paper has decided? We welcome your thoughts on this subject and ask you to write letters to the editor so we can con- sider your opinions. ,1NTon-Corns' CHIEF AMONG the sidelights of l'affaire McCarthy seems to be the emergence of a split within the right-wing of the Repub- lican Party. Such men as Senator Dirksen of Illinois, and Senators Potter and Fergu- son of Michigan seem to have warmed up to the project of curtailing the powers of the Senator from Wisconsin. Potter has demanded a full investigation into McCarthy's tiff with the Army, Fer- geson has expressed disapproval with sev- eral procedural matters of the Wisconsin Senator's committee and Sen. Dirksen has become publicly annoyed at an al- t~ged betrayal of a trust by the Senator in question. In other words there seems to be a gen- eral jockeying for position to fill the gap to the right of the party which the Senator from Wisconsin is beginning to find diffi- cult to maintain. A TELEVISION reviewer for The New York - Times has pointed up another problem which has stemmed from the Mc- Carthy furor-namely, the tremendous pro- paganda potentials to which the medium can be put. According to this reviewer, the Ed ward Murrow shov (which relied heavily upon filmed excerpts from the career of the Wisconsin Senator) demonstrated just how powerful the infant communications media ,can be for influencing the public mind. While praising Murrow for the decorous manner in which his material was selected and used, this reviewer is quick to point out that if the same technique were used by a less cautious commentator, the re- sults could be frightening. If Murrow was able Ito arouse the public's indignation in so little time what could the dema- gogue do? the Times reporter asks. From this source also comes general praise for the stand taken by NBC and CBS net- works in refusing to give McCarthy free air time to answer Adlai Stevenson. This he At the Michigan . . MISS SADIE THOMPSON is the latest film version of W. Somerset Maugh- am's famous short story, "Rain." However, a discussion of the film with reference to the original source is impossible, since any resemblance between this movie and "Rain" is purely co-incidental. The film writers have decided to bring the story up to date; but in so doing they have destroyed Maugh- am's Freudian theme and have produced a thoroughly unbelievable tale. Rita Hayworth is Sadie, the only white woman stranded on a lush, tropical island with a company of marines. Mr. Davidson, a self-styled missionary played by Jose Ferrer, is visiting the island to inspect native me- dical supplies. When Davidson sees Sadie singing and dancing to "The Heat is On." he realizes that he must save her soul. He remembers Sadie from a raid he and the police made on a Honolulu brothel and dis- covers that she's also wanted for a gang- land crime in the U.S. What Davidson ap- parently does not know is that Sadie is now a good girl. She sings Sunday school les- sons to the native children and has gotten the marines to give up intoxicants in favor of pineapple juice. The main flaw in the film is the char- acterization of Davidson; and a good deal of the blame rests upon the script writers who have made all of his actions implaus- views as an advance for the medium in free- ing itself from unwarranted censorship by the public. * * * IT MAY BE interesting to note that the Murrow show is sponsored by the Am- erican Aluminum Company which hereto- fore has been one of the most reactionary groups in the country. Few can forget its use of the phrase "stop creeping socialism" in the recent presidential campaign via the medium of television. However, the company seems to have adopted a hands-off policy toward Murrow -all to the public's advantage. ANOTHER UPSHOT of the affair may mean that the Senator from Wisconsin is in for a bit of a shake-up in the manner in which he conducts his committee hear- ings. Leaders of the Republican Party seem to feel that it is about time that the one- man committee hearing is put by the boards. Although this is the expressed sentiment a debate is in the offing on just whom should tell the committee how to operate. McCarthy has said that no other member of the Sen- ate can tell him how to operate his com- mittee and In this respect he may be on sound ground. However, it still is necessary that a revision of the methods of conduct- ing McCarthy's hearings is drastically need- ed. *s * * One final note. In the past the news- papers of the country have relied heavily on McCarthy's word for reports of what has gone on behind the closed doors of commit- tee sessions and instead of attributing their information to the Senator as a source- the papers have been guilty of 'running his word of the proceedings as if reporters had been on hand to witness the event. This is still being done to a great degree, but it can be hoped with the newspapers' sudden turn against the Senator a more stringent test of validity may be applied before running the Senator's word as an accomplished fact. -Mark Reader the islands is never made clear, nor is there any explanation for his attacking Sadie and committing suicide. However, much of the faul lies in actor Ferrer's bad performance. His acting will be a shock to those who remember him as Cyrano. Rita's Sadie is probably the best portray- al of her career. Her hip swinging is up to its usual level and she coos her songs in much the same manner that one expects of her. The big surprise, however, is her fine acting throughout much of the film. She seems more than adequate in most scenes, but it may be that this appears so only be- cause of Ferrer's inadequacy. Aldo Ray, as the marine who loves Sadie, appears to have been added at the last min- ute to provide romantic interest. The sup- porting cast consists mainly of wise-crack- ing marines. Evidently, they have no com- manding officers and no duties. The most strenuous thing they do is to jitterbug with Sadie. The island photography was done in the Hawaiian Islands and is excellent. The mu- sical background and the songs for Miss Hayworth are likewise well done. However, the only good reason for seeing this film is Rita-and for those who don't particularly like the lady, Miss Sadie Thompson offers little in the way of worth while entertain- ment. -Ernest Theodossin Middle Easterners - .- - To The Editor: IN THURSDAY'S article about the International Center there appeared the following statement: Middle Easterners accept the Cen- ter because many wealthy stu- dents from their countries are gen- erally favorable to rightest bias in this country. The exact meaning of this state- ment is not altogether clear, but if the writer means by being (fa- ' vorable to rightest bias) that the - Arab Students-whose countries , comprise the major part of the Middle East-are in favor of any: kind of discrimination, then I feel I bound to state that this is a most # irresponsible and malicious accu- tion. The Arabs throughout their longE history were never guilty of any discrimination, be it on the basis of color, race, or religion. The accusation is all the more fantastic since the Arab World includes different races and re- ligions who live harmoniously to- gether. G k By referring to the Arab Stu-j dents in this country as being wealthy, the writer betrays a deep ignorance of the facts over and above his misleading interpreta- tions.. It is very strange indeed that the writer did not interview a is to further the mutual under- Middle Easterner but rather re- standing of different peoples of lied on wild guess or hearsay. he earth, the subject of interest Throughout his article the writ- should be the study of the cul- er portrayed a definite lack of tures of various peoples, of which knowledge, many unfair charges religion is only a part of a much were leveled on staff members more encompassing world. while the main fault of the Center Mr. Robinson's statement that was never mentioned. The Center "Every man has some kind of re- is suffering from an acute handi- ligion" is false in that it is not cap, this is obvious when one rea- true that every man chooses to lizes that the facilities as well as E accept a supernatural reality. It the capacity of the Center has not is my opinion that man will better increased appreciably since it was understand others when he con- founded, while the number of Ietae i fot nrltn foreign students has quadrupled. :entrates his efforts on ,relating f sh dto the world about him instead of -Anastas Farjo, wasting his efforts in trying to President of Arab Club relate to a world of which he has no knowledge. For these reasons Und ergrad Course . . . I think that time would be morei To The Editor: constructively spent in a course WJE WERE very pleased to read in Anthropology and that a re- the interesting and timely let- quired course in religion would ter of Edwin S. Robinson which only be superfluous and unnec- appeared in The Daily yesterday. essary. He suggested that the University -Victor Bloom offer a required course in Compar- ative Religion in order to further Newsletter . .. tolerance and understanding. To the Editor: We believe that this is a valu- RECENTLY received from the able suggestion, but it does not e Student Committee On Aca- go far enough; it would stillsleave demic Freedom at the Univ. of the education of the undergrad- Chicago an Academic Freedom uate highly incomplete. There- Newsletter. I have arranged to fore we offer the following modest Newsletterputar ne proosas.have thi Newsletter putb in te proposals. periodical room of the library. If a course in Comparative Re- eThe Newsletter tells of an Aca- ligion is to be required, surely we demic Freedom Conference at the should make American History a Univ. of Chicago, listing the reso- requisite. And, in order to remove lutions passed there. It also tells misunderstandings, etc., we should of Academic Freedom activities at also require students to take at Swathmore and Columbia. The least one course in World History. Newsletter discusses various cases However, even this does not fulfill relating to AcademicFreedom. the need for an intelligent under- I hope that many students will standing of history. Another re- find the time to read the News- quired course, based on Spengler letter and that it will be interest- and Toynbee's theories is also ing to them. L..t./.l. \ 4f~~.~ -0~ that the Democrats of the Senate, fearing that Democratic Alaska would not be admitted to the Union on its own merits, succeed- ed in combining the Hawaii and Alaska statehood bills? The Dem- ocrats would refuse statehood to both territories unless assured of the Democratic Alaskan seats. This is clearly an evasion of the issue, which is: Is this territory or that one ready for statehood? Why should the unreadiness of one territory block the statehood of the other? Who will say that this is not a desperate partisan attempt on the part of the Demo- crats to keep their slim Senate ma- jority? -J. C. Beatty * * * Detroit 'U' Project . . To the Editor: AT A LEVEL which we ironically label "higher learning," un- questionably a certain amount of original thought should be striv- en for. The word "education," even though it is parried about today in the most irreverent manner, still evokes from a few of us the feel- ing that there exists "someplace" an imposing, a meaningful . . . a grand value. Clearly, that value has become overshadowed and dis torted by the institutions which were optimistically erected in or- der to secure and reinforce it. The present state of the spirit that purposed to apprehend some cer- tain and meaningful principles about the universe and the nature of its inhabitants, after having kindled in the great contemplative world of Greece, and burned into history a fructuous nineteenth century intelectual tradition, now flickers ... almost OUT. Education, long the womb of knowledge, has in twentieth cen- tury America been grossly barren. The result: a university system that requires one to learn by rote lecture notes that consist in a jum- ble of brute, disconnected facts; a situation that excludes any chance to wonder, to question, to achieve a sense of original thought by the student qua individual. These con- sequences are understandable. Through such media as Arthur Godfrey and his friends, newsreels that depict supposedly significant people putting their time away on golf greens, and second-rate bour- geois magazines that devote space to third-rate feminine lobbyists, the American consciousness has taken on a middling quality. Edu- cational institutions come to re- flect this mediocrity and even de- mnand it. At this level the medioc- rity gets reinforced and thrown back out into society in the form of what we ludicrously call edu- cated citizens. The cycle is viscious and the re- sults obnoxious. Politicians that mouth their high school valedic- tory speeches to believing mass media audiences, a chimeric world view in philosophy that would have us discover truth by defining words precisely and demonstrat- ing relations among numbers, and a consumer taste that vividly re- flects the abhorrent materialism of our decadent way of life, are but several varied manifestations of these consequences. I applaud the intentions of the Detroit University project. -Norman Starr Dimmer Wits«. To the Editor: ON READING the articles, "U of D Exempts Top Students from Classes," and "Unlimited Cuts Granted to Upperclassmen at NYU," I wept at the cruel irony imposed once again by the cold heads of the academic world. It seems that certain superior stu- dents have the option of attend- ing classes or not. If the paradox escapes your minds, allow me to illumine the distressing scene. Imbedded in this obfuscating action is the noble seed of Know- ledge, however, certain persons were judicious enough to cover it with the earth of- practicality. Not that it may prosper, but that it may be hidden. The action im- plies that getting grades and at- tending classes is not the same as getting knowledge. With this I agree. However, the favored few are first to be subjected to the concept that grades are important before they are allowed to seek knowledge. The proponents of this act may question, "Is it not so that these same who received "A's" have been seeking knowledge already and on their own time, how else to ex- plain the good grades?" I say why free them from the good discipline of grade getting and class going, unless it limits their search for knowledge? And if this is so, why not free us all? However, if these superior stu- dents received their marks by con- centrating on the grade getting and class going, why free them to lose what little they have? It seems to me that if a student has to concentrate on getting "A's" to be allowed to freely pursue knowledge, by the time he suc- ceeds in his mark getting and is freed, he will have forgotten what he seeks. Or if he truely sought knowledge all the time, he would soon give up in the grading race and consequently jeopardize his freedom. Let us not step down into a compromise. If the value of an educational institution is the dis- seminating of knowledge, then do not feather the caps of those that place the greater emphasis on achieving good grades. This action by the U of D and NYU is not a step toward better education, but it is a compromise where the bright lights are dimmed to har- monize with the dimmer. I woulp say if you truely seek a better, freer educational system, look abroad. 4 'A IT IS SOMEWHAT amusing to picture Army ROTC graduate who will enter Army under certain rules set by theI partment of the Army. the the De- Because of a slim budget, the Army has said it may commission only part of the graduating class of 1955. The balance of the group will get "certificate of comple- tion" which will enable the students to ap- ply for non-commissioned posts when they are drafted. It is to these unfortunates we refer. The brand new second lieutenant has al- ways been accepted with a condescending grin by non-com and officer alike in the Army. But those who would be taken into the service and given non-commissioned posts on the basis of "certificates of com- pletion" of ROTC work would be in an en- tirely different category. The Army non-com must at least have a solid background of technical skills to per- form most of the Army's jobs. Leadership may come natural to many men, but one doesn't learn the operation and care of a Walker tank or a 105 howitzer overnight. It is the noncom who is responsible for car- rying out the details of any operation, be it the digging of a gun pit or moving a divi- sion. There is bound to be a humorous side to this plan: picture the expression of a career sergeant wearing several hash marks and half a dozen stripes, when J. College, late of the University of Michigan, steps into the orderly room to apply for "one of those non-com positions." -Wally Eberhard TWO YEARS ago a Japanese student and an American student who had just re- turned from a year's study in Berlin sat down together to explore the possibilities of mak- ing the relationship between foreign students and their college.- Swarthmore - a morej personal one. Both felt that more could be done, and that the college frequently was unaare nf nrnhlms n fa nrsonal nature vital. j History is not the only field that has been neglected. To further interpersonal relations we should require general Psychology, Soc- iology, and Marriage courses. Any reasonable person will admit that American students do not have an intelligent background with which' to appreciate the arts. Therefore the Fine Arts and Music Appre- ciation courses should become re- quisites. Now,., if we wish to increase in- ternational understanding, what better method is there than to learn foreign languages. The re- quirement now is too low. If the citizens of Switzerland can speak four languages, why can't we? In our modern world an under- standing of the physical and biological sciences is imperative. Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, and Zoology are but examples of the many courses needed in this field. Some might think that such a program would be too overwhelm- ing for the average student. Of course the tradition of the four year education is strictly passe. Our humbly suggested program would call for no more than six years of distribution requirements. Of course if the student wished to study something in detail with which to earn a living he could spend an extra two or three years. Eight years of undergraduate college work would have one final advantage, Mr. Robinson. It could easily keep one draft exempt till he passed the legal maximum age. -Robert Stewart John Somers Etta Gluckstein Chairman Academic Freedom Sub-Commission - * * * Another Coincidence .. To the Editor: ARTHUR Cornfield's enlighten- ing revelation in Friday's Daily, entitled "Strange Coinci- dence," is merely another good sample of the bias so frequently found on the editorial page of this paper. How can anyone be so hyp- ocritical as to impute to the Re- publicans a "low, partisan attempt . to gain another vote" when we- see on page one of the same issue i DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Room of the Rackham Building. Dr. Leslie A. White will speak on "Facts and Theories in Culturology." The meeting will begin at 7:45 and re- freshments will be served. Everyone is invited. Westminster Student Fellowship. Bi- ble Study of II Corinthians in the se- ries "Christ Through the Eyes of Paul." Meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. in 205 at the Presbyterian Church. Everybody wel- come. Square and Folk Dancing. Everyone welcome. Lane Hall, tonight, 7:30-10:00. S.R.A. Workshop Committee will meet at 7 p.m., Lane Hall. Epscopal Student Foundation. Tea from 4 to 5:15 at Canterbury House fol- Slowedby Student-Faculty led Evensong, Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels. The Congregational-Disciples Guild. Tea at Guild this afternoon from 4:30 to 6. Museum Movie. "Horsemen of the Presentation: :"What Does Research Show About Effective Teaching Meth- ods?" John E. Milholland, Assistant Professor of Psychology. Chairman: Algo D. Henderson, Profes- sor of Higher Education. Le Cercle Francais will meet Wed., Mar.17, at 8 p.m. in the Michigan League. Mr. C. G. Christofides, of the French Department, will speak on "Modern French Painting" with the aid of a group of slides he has prepared. Dancing, singing, and refreshments will complete the program. All interested are invited. Members are urged to attend! American society for Public Admin- istration Social Seminar. You are in- vited to a special Social Seminar on Mar. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the West Con- ference Room of the Rackham Building. Our guest for therevening will be Dr. Henry Reining, Jr., Dean, School of Public Administration, University of Southern California. Episcopal Student Foundation. Stu- dent Breakfast at Canterbury House following 7 a.m. service of Holy Com- munion, Wed., Mar. 17. Episcopal Student Foundation. Silent Luncheon for students and faculty members, Canterbury House, 12:10 p.m., -John Erickson 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 Erie Vetter. ..... .....City Editor Virginia Voss.........Editorial Director Mike Wolff...... Associate City Editor, Alice B. Silver..Assoc. Editorial Director! Diane D. 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