NEVER UNDERESTIMATE MR. McCARTHY See Page 4 Y L Lw 43U :43 a t I]y f a a *' 4 Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LXIV, NO. 119 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1954 CLOUDY SIX PAGES Poll Reveals Heavy Curbs On Freedom Campus Restrictions Shown in Six Areas By LEE MARKS An analysis of questionnaires sent to 50 colleges and universities in the state of Illinois has indicat- ed heavy curbs on freedom in six areas of campus activity, accord- ing to the Christian Science Moni- tor, Prof. Willard A. Kerr, of the psychology department at Illinois Institute of Technology, disclosed the following restrictions on aca- demic freedom: 1) Freedom to hear outside speakers on any subject without regard to the popularity of the. speaker. 2) Freedom of criticism by stu- dents of the faculty and adminis- tration. 3) Freedom to form associations for any lawful purposes and to af- filiate these with national organ- izations, including political organ- izations, provided that these are not forbidden by law. 4) Freedom of press, such as student newspapers and maga- zines, with free access to staffs of publications and with adequate provision in case of monopoly for the expression of minority views. 5) Freedom to petition faculty and administration with respect to curriculum, tuition and other con- ditions of student life. 6) Freedom of off-campus ac- tivity, subject'to law or community standards of taste. In particular, freedom to engage in political ac- tivity with minority groups. THE MORE than 200 question- naires showed that lack of free- dom to hear speakers with unpop-. ular views catised the greatest con- cern among students, commented the Monitor. Prof. Kenneth Boulding, of the t economics department, noted speakers with unpopular views was "certainly very real." Commenting that he was not too close to student life, and there- fore not too conscious of the other freedoms, Prof. Boulding said that he thought the only' striking re- striction on the Michigan campus was that concerning speakers. Another point mentioned ljv Boulding was that "it is difficult for small groups of students to or- ganize. The ruling that requires campus groups to have 30 members is a severe handicap." * * * THE LACK of freedom in re- gard to campus speakers was re- iterated by Charles Sleicher, pres- ident of the Young Democrats. Sleicher felt that points three and four also held valid at the Univer- r sity. "We are in a good situation with regard to the faculty," said r Sleicher, "but this is certainly not true on the student level." Sleicher noted that the Students Affairs Office is a "regulatory group. It does not encourage the growth of campus organiza- tions." See MONITOR, Page 2 IHC Launches New Project Inter-House Council's new pro- ject of informing undergraduates about career opportunities avail- able at the University opened this week with discussions of public In addition to broadcasting a daily series of Ispot announcements about the field of public health over the dormitory radio station CBN, IHC has arranged lectures to be given in each of the quads. Today, School of Public Health faculty members, William H. Hen- derson and Robert Bowman, will speak at 6:45 p.m. in South Quad on the topic of health adminis- tration and sanitary science. The same lecturers along with Prof. Solomon Axelrod and Prof. William Gibson will talk at 6:45 p.m. tomorrow at East and West Quads. An open house from 1 to 5 p.m., Thursday, at the School of.Public Health located on Observatory St. across from the women's residence halls will conclude the project. All House Postpones Vote. on Seaway Temporary Shelving Causes Comment Among Congressmen WASHINGTON-(0)-St. Lawrence Seaway legislation got a tem- porary shelving in Congress yesterday but the Republican leadership discounted proponents' fears it might be permanent. The House Rules Committee, after a two-hour hearing on whether to send the Senate-approved bill to the floor for a vote, adjourned until April 1 after listening to only a few of the many witnesses scheduled to be heard. PROPONENTS OF the bill, which would authorize the United States to join with Canada in building a 27-foot-deep channel to the Great Lakes waterway, took a dim view of the delay. K atona Sees Min.Rep).John A. ma. Minn.) who, like many seaway supporters had expected the Rules Committee to act Monday, Du said: "This action to postpone is a double shuffle in which they (the opponents) are taking ev- Econo ery advantage to delay." Chairman Leo Allen (R-Ill.) of the Rules Committee, who has an- By RONA FRIEDMAN nounced that he is not only for The results of the 1954 Survey the measure but expects its pas- f . sage by the House this session, of Consumer Finances indicate a said "There is no intention on the "downturn" in our nation's ecop- part of the House leadership to omy, George;Katona, program Di- delay." rector of the Survey Research Cen- "I am personally in favor of it," ter which conducts the yearly sur- Allen told a reporter, "and it will vey said yesterday. be out of this committee in time However the decline is a rela- for passage this session. tively small one and our economic CHAIRMAN George D. Dondero level is still high, he added. (R-Mich.) of the House Public * * Works Committee, one of the few THOUGH THERE has been a witnesses heard by the Rules Com- decrease in economic activity since mittee yesterday, said he was not 1953, it is at the same level as the. sure whether the delay would af- 1952 level,.Katona pointed out. The fect the bill's chances on the floor. difference is, however, that last It was approved by the Public year our economy was expanding, Works Committee on Feb. 3 by a, he continued. 23-6 vote. Dondero, in urging the Rules While consumers are purchas- Committee to send the bill to the ing more home goods, such as House floor, reiterated that if washing machines, the sale of the Congress fails to act at this new automobiles and television session Canada will build the sets have decreased. Katona ex- waterway on its own side of the plained that this is due to the St. Lawrence River. large purchase of automobiles Rep. Otto Passman (D-La.), a and. television sets last year. former opponent of the project, Since the articles are still fairly told the committee in which he new, consumers have decided to described as a "confession rather wait until a more promising time. than a statement" that he had -+ , ,.A been wrong in his opposition. World News Roundup By The, Associated Press Debt Limit WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey said yes- terday he thinks "weare almost sure to break through" the pres- ent 275 billion dollar national debt limit ceiling before the end of the year. Loyalty.. . WASHINGTON - The Army disclosed yesterday it has order- ed all officers to sign new loyal- ty certificates and has put a new speedup system into effect to no- tify the Pentagon high command of any cases involving "Fifth Amendment" incidents. H-Explosion,. .. NEW YORK-Rep. Chet Holi- field (D-Calif.) said yesterday the March 1 hydrogen explosion at Bikini Atoll "was so far beyond what was predicted that you might say it was out of control." War Games.. . IWO JIMA -- Marines fan- ned out over volcanic Iwo Jima yesterday in the third day of the biggest U. S. war games in the Pacific since World War II. State Budget . LANSING-Legislative commit- tees were told yesterday they will have to get along without a re- vised budget by Gov. Williams to take into account a 6 to 10 mil- lion dollar pay raise imposed by the Civil Service Commission. The appropriating committees asked for the new budget to replace the balanced budget submitted last January before the pay raise was announced. - * * * Pakistan Mission . KARACHI, Pakistan-An Amer- ican military mission arrived last night from London to survey Paki- stan's military requirements for the' purpose of U.S. military aid to this country. The 11-man mission will spend two weeks in Pakistan touring military establishments. Coffee ,Boycott.. . CARACAS, Venezuela - Sam- uel Waugh, U.S. Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce, told the 10th Inter-American Conference yester- day no one can keep housewives from boycotting coffee sellers if they thought the price was too high. Foreign Aid Hits Record Of 61 Billion 'Trade Debts' Repaid to U.S. WASHINGTON-(MP-U. S. for- eign aid hit a record high of over 61/ billion- dollars last year, en- abling foreign countries to pay their trade debts and tuck 2% bil- lions into their gold and dollars savings, the Department of Com- merce said yesterday. Foreign countries were able to build up their gold and dollar re- serves even though they received about 2% billion dollars less than they spent in commercial trans- actions with the. United States in 1953., FOREIGN reserves outside the Iron Curtain reached an all time high of 23 billion dollars in readily available gold and U. S. and Ca- nadian dollars at the end of 1953, the Commerce Department report- ed. But to what extent other coun- tries were approaching the point where they could get along with- out U. S. aid was still uncertain, the department's report on the balance of payments for 1953 in- dicated. This despite the big ad- dition to gold and dollar reserves abroad. The picture was clouded by the fact that foreign countries get two direct types of aid from the Unit- ed States, plus another big injec- tion of dollars which might or might not be considered aid. Allies getting direct military help in the form of equipment made in this country received $4,- 300,000 worth of such equipment in 1953. Additionally, friendly countries received approximately two bil- lion dollars worth of nonmilitary governmental aid. That made a direct aid total of $6,300,000,000. The highest previous total was six billion in 1949. Stason SpearKs On Legal Side Of Atomic Act Presenting four legal problems created by atomic energy, Dean E. Blythe Stason of the Law School participated in a panel discussion on "Atomic Energy-Where Are We. Where Are We Going?" for the Detroit Economics Club luncheon yesterday. Dean Stason emphasized that the existing Atomic Energy Act must be amended if private in- dustry is to undertake extensive private development of atomic power. Since patent rights under this law are very limited, he sug- gested giving broader patent rights to encourage private devel- opment and research programs. Further difficulties, he stated, lie in the state rate regulation of atomic electric power plants and damage to persons and property by atomic radiation. As part of the University's Phoe- nix Memorial Project, Dean Stason and faculty members conducted an intensive study of the Atomic En- ergy Act of 1946, the background and its influence on traditional roles of private industry and gov- ernment in the development of peacetime uses of atomic energy. Pre-Med Meeting The Pre-Med society will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in Angell Hall, Auditorium C. A movie entitled, "The Doctor and the Patient," will be shown in addition to a talk by Dr. Bob Goldsmith, intern at University Hospital. The public is invited. Potter Blasts Proposed Use of Lie Detectors 0 I n McCarthy Inquiry IABA Chief -Daily-Dean Morton ROBIN HOOD'S MERRY MEN, University of Michigan branch, ready their green feathers for distribution on the Diagonal today. Students and townspeople are participating in the drive. Green Feather _-Drive rr O I 0To Open Here Tdayv By MURRY FRYMER Four thousand green feathers will be distributed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today on the diagonal in a one-day drive designed to issue a student protest to "totalitarianism, whether it be in the guise of McCarthyism or Communism." Approval for the campaign required a special polling of mem- bers of the Student Affairs Committee last night, and sponsorship by the Student Legislature to enable the drive. SINCE THE STUDENTS working on the green feather drive did not constitute a recognized organization, University grounds could not have been given to the Many people, the survey dis- closed, believe that prices of dur- able goods which are too high now will decline later. Prices generally are expected either to drop or hold steady. * * * CONSUMERS, for the most part, are less confident about their per- sonal financial outlook than a year ago, the survey showed. The nation's overall economic prospect was regarded as generally good. Some, however, pointed out that the national business outlook seemed like their personal money prospects-"unfavorable." The percentage of consumers planning to buy new houses dropped from 8.8 per cent to 6.8 this year but the proportion planning home improvement rose approximately two per cent to 19.2 per cent. Families planning to buy furni- ture and major. house-hold appli- ances such as refrigerators declin- ed from 31.9 last year to 26.8 per cent this year. The purchase of new cars is ex- pected to be 7.8 per cent as com- pared to 9 per cent determined by last year's survey. However the percentage is higher this year than in early 1951 or 1952. Used car sales, the survey re- ported, will be the same as last year, but consumers expect the prices to be lower. ATTENTION KIDDIES! Boys and G To .Be Sold Open House Open houses for candidates running in the all-campus elec- tions March 30 and 31 will be held today at the following houses: 6:15 p.m. Chi Phi; 6:30 p.m., Chi Psi; 7:45 to 8:15 p.m., Al- pha Gamma Delta. Lecture Committee Makes Decisions on 'U' Speakers. (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an interprertive article on the function and background of the University Lecture Committee.) By ARLENE LISS In a year, the Lecture Committee has shifted from the object of a raging controversy to a position of comparative obscurity.' An unofficial survey taken yesterday showed that over half the students questioned on the Lecture Committee did not know the function of the committee. Some had a vague idea that it sponsored the Oratorical Association Lecture Series while one student described the function of the committee as "giving dinners for visiting $celebri- ties." GIVING DINNERS for speakers is one of the duties of the com- mittee, but it is not intended to be the primary reason for its exist- ence. Established in 1935 by the Board of Regents, the group was originally set up to clarify jurisdictional disputes over who should ap-