WAGE FOUR Tr H~a ui i X6-1A IAlit S The City Editor's_ SCRATCH PAD By ERIC VETTER Daily City Editor JOINT JUDICIARY'S "secrecy" policy has started the organization on the road backward. A product of recent years, Judiciary ap- peared to have reached full maturity at the beginning of the school year. The young struggling years were behind and It no longer needed the aid and coopera- tion of other groups to stand on its own. Now, however, Judiciary appears to be heading in the other direction. It is los- ing the respect and confidence of those who have worked with it and those who have lent support in past years.1 The ill advised secrecy policy on group discipline cases, which was adopted at the beginning of the senirester is beginning to make its effects felt. By refusing to make public the names of groups involved, the circumstances and penalties involved at the time discipline is undertaken by Judi- ciary, the campus judicial body is causing embarassment for itself and the University. More important, it is causing the o-ganiza- tio to lose respect of the student body. The picture Is thrown in bold focus fol- lowing the violation of University regula- tions by Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Deke spokesmen claim the theft of two, water pitchers from the American Legion Memorial Home was responsible for a $1,000 fine and the placing of a resident advisor in the fraternity house. Past misdeeds were cit- ed as a reason for the severity of the penalty. Judiciary members, rather than clear the situation up with a statement as to the real nature of the circumstances be- hind the fine, have left themselves open for criticism from all quarters by refusing to comment. To all who have read the news stories of the incident and heard radio accounts, the Joint Judiciary at the University of Michigan appears to be a most unjust organization. If a frater- nity can be fined $1,000 for the theft of two water pitchers by four members of the fraternity, the student body at the University needs some other organization to judge student misconduct. Because of its short sighted, naive public, information policy, Joint Judiciary is in danger of losing the confidence of the stu- dent body. Similar cases will arise in the future. Rumor, half-truths and falsehoods circulate rapidly following penalties on house groups. Only by making public the facts at the time action is taken can Judi- ciary dispell misinformation. Judiciary must reconsider its policy stand. It must , come forward with clarification of the Deke case. It must begin to act again in a- res- ponsible fashion. A Cut-Bach To International Understanding ' Ya"Thinking About My Security Or Yours?" !I JUST AT THE time that understanding of foreign peoples and countries is most needed throughout the world, Congressional budget-cutters have hindered one of the best means for promoting such understand- ing. The Fulbright Scholarship funds, which enable students from the United States to live and study for nearly a year's time in any one of a multitude of foreign coun- tries, and which bring hundreds of for- eign students to this country for gradu- ate work, have been cut approximately in half by Congress. The number of Am- erican students who will be able to study abroad in future years will come to about one-fourth of the present total, because of the way in which Congress legislated the reductions. Curiously, while the United States is mtft proudly extolling its position, both here and, abroad, as the Enlightened Leader of the Free Western World, it has seriously cur- tailed one of the most effective means of securing future informed ileadership throughout the world. Hopefully another Congress, which does not so openly stand against educated "egg- head" leaders, will restore the cuts made by the present session and put the Fulbright Scholarship program back on its feet. -Dorothy Myers - . s ;. ;t, r - , '° ..,, >r . " ^. s r s + "Y II f r s , , - ' l 6 { .... ,. a, _ . . , , .T lfU d . ,9 , FR o ..- t . ~ ; -. % F . - _ l ' ' wi.. e- . ., t TODAY AND TOMORROW: The Oppenheimer Case DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I 14;.. -a , II,.$bML (Continued from Page 2) D. Roe -- Teacher needs: Elementary; Kdg. thru sixth. Jr. High: Core, Math., Science. Language, Commercial, Health Ed., Art, Music, Audio-Visual, Librar- ian, Driver Training, Remedial Read- ing, Counselors. Thurs., April 22 Northville, Michigan - E. V. Ellison -Teacher needs: High School: Instru- mental Music, Art, Science, English, Accellerated Reading, (Northville is about 23 miles from Ann Arbor. Davison, Michigan-C. J. Thomson- Teacher needs: Band, Machine Shop, English and Latin, English and French. If you would like to be interviewed by either one or more of the above School Representatives, contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg., NO-3-1511, Ext. 489, It is advisable to call at least a day in advance to be sure there will be time available for you. Si PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS Tuesday Ed. Schuster & Co., Inc., a Milwaukee department store, will have a represen- tative at the Bureau of Appointments on April 20 to interview June and August men and women graduates in Bus Amd.rLSA nfPr the store's Man- J. L. Hudson Co. of Detroit will vis- it the campus on April 20 to talk with June men and women graduates, Bus. Ad. or LS&A, about trainee positions in Buyin andMerchandising, RylLiverpool Insurance Group, New York City, will be at the Bureau on April 20 to interview June and Aug.- ust men graduates in Bus. Ad. or LS&A for the firm's training program leading to positions as Sales Promotion Repre- sentative, Risk Analyst, Special Agent, or Administrative Assistant. Canada Life Assurance Co. will have a representative on the campus on April 20 to talk withJune men graduates Saboutpositions in life insurance sales, Students wishing to schedule appoint- ments to see any of the companies list- ed above may contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Bldg., Ext. 371. By WALTER LIPPMANN THERE IS A fundamental .rule of a free press that when a case is in the courts, the proceedings may be reported but all comment, whether direct or indirect, must be withheld. Indeed, to comment on a case which is being tried is to be in spirit and, depending on the usages of the jurisdiction, literally in contempt of court. The charges brought against Dr. Op- penheimer, on which the Gray-Morgan- Evans Board is. now sitting, are of a very great-indeed they approach a capital-- gravity. He must answer to "allegations which, until disproved, raise questions as to your veracity, conduct, and even your loyalty." What is alleged is not bad judgment or youthful indiscretion but acts which, if they have been committed, are very serious crimes. Now if these allegations were be- ing tried and determined in the- judicial system of the country, the journalistic rule of no comment would surely apply. But the fact is that they are not being tried in the judicial system. They are being tried be- fore an administrative tribunal. Because of that I believe that public com- ment is justified, and, in my view, required at this point. The point which I wish to make does not reflect in any way on those who now have the case under trial-that is to say on the Board of which Mr. Gordon Gray is chairman, on the Atomic Energy Com- mission, of which Admiral Strauss is chairman, and on the Joint Committee of Congress, of which Rep. Sterling Cole is the chairman and Sen. Hickenlooper the ranking member from the Senate. The point which has to be raised is that they are trying a case in which enormous consequences depend upon the conclusive- ness of their judgment on issues-veracity and loyalty-which can be determined fin. ally only by the courts. THE ALLEGATIONS require a conclusive verdict. Either Dr. Oppenheimer has lied, or the charge that he has lied is false. Either heahas beendisloyal orthe charge that he has been disloyal is false. There is nothing in between guilt and innocence on these two allegations. Lying and disloyalty are not matters of degree. They are not matters on which there can be differences of opinion. The evidence on which the allegations oef ly ing and disloyalty are based can be prov- ed or disproved. The paramount question at this point is whether the issues can' be judged with that finality by administrative tribunals and administrative agencies. Finality of judgment depends not only upon the thoroughness, the penetration, the judiciousness, and the independence of the board, the commission, and the Con- gressional committee. It depends also on whether the public will accept their find- ings as conclusive and final. This is a case which has to be judged now,, not left un- settled and to be dragged about from one tribunal to another and from one Congres- sional committee to another. This would mean, it seems to me, that there should be a concerted effort by the prosecutors and by the defense to bring the issues of veracity and loyalty before the courts. Certainly that should be their object if there is any issue which' cannot be disposed of conclusively and in effect unanimously by the administra- tive tribunal which is now trying the case. by the Atomic Energy Commission and by the Joint Committee. The case is one in which the verdict must be conviction or acquittal of very serious crimes. It is imperative that when the ver- dict is reached, it shall be final. It ought to be unnecessary for us to re- mind ourselves what enormous consequences will flow from this case. There is at stake the life and the work of a man-a man who has performed historic service and is of the greatest eminence in the highest realms of science. There is put to the test the capacity of our institutions to protect the innocent and to punish the guilty. We cannot af- ford to fail in that test. We shall have failed in it unless the judgment that is reached is conclusive, unless the judgment is one that no reasonable and disinter- ested man in the civilized world can question. To get a verdict of this kind it may not be enough to rely alone upon the new and little tested procedure of administrative in- quiry. We should have it in mind from the beginning that it' may also be necessary to subject the verdict to the judicial process. (Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) ON THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-IIOUN I WITH DREW PEARSON W ASHINGTON-It is no secret that Joe McCarthy has been nursing S as a trump card the charge that Communists held up production of the hydrogen bomb and that Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, onetime head of Los Alamos, was responsible. Joe had planned to spring this charge in his Texas speech April 21 so its headlines would blanket the newspapers next day when the Senate probe of the McCarthy-Cohn- Army fracas begins. It has also been no secret that the H-bomb was delayed-not 18 months as Joe alleged-but for about three months. And the story of the delay was published in this column on Jan. 23, 1950, before Joe made any of his charges about Communism in govern- ment. The backstage story did not involve Communistic motives, but, as E chairman Sterling Cole of the joint Atomic Energy Committee, a Re- publican, has stated, honest differences of opiniin. Four years have passed since the question of whether or not th# U.S.A. should build the hydrogen bomb was beaten by the Truman cabinet, and during that time many people have forgotten the doubts and misgivings of that period. They have also forgotten how Henry L. Stimson, a Republican who served in the cabinets of Taft anda Hoover, proposed to Truman that the United States share the secret of the atomic bomb with Russia. Elder statesman Stimson, no traitor to his country, was overruled by Truman, but he sincerely believed at' that time, 1945, that we could still get along with Russia and should+ share our most precious secret. BACKSTAGE STORY H ERE ARE EXCERPTS from the story of the hydrogen-bomb de- bate, as recorded in this column when the battle was hot, Jan. 23,j 1950, four years before McCarthy decided to dig it up as a national issue: "At a secret meeting with General Bradley, atomic energy chairman Lilienthal made a last-ditch, emotional plea against the hydrogen bomb. In effect, he said: 'We must exhaust every means of reaching an agreement with Russia to outlaw atomic warfare before we make this bomb. We should appeal over the heads of the Kremlin to the Russian people. They will force Stalin to come to terms. f '. PERSONNEL REQUESTS. The Food Machinery and Chemical Corp. would be pleased to hear from June graduates in Chemistry or Chem- ical Engineering whorare interested In Westvaco Chemical or any other divi- sions of the corporation. The Illinois Civil Service Commission has anounced examinations for job op- portunities in many fields including po- sitions as, Child Guidance Counselor, Child welfare Worker, Laboratory Tech- nician, Personnel Assistant, Psychiatric Social Worker, Recreation Worker, San- itary Engineer, and State Library As- sistant. Ilinois residence requirements have been waived for many of the ex- aminations being given. The Board of U.S. Civil Service Ex- aminers of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Dearborn, Mich., is offering examinations for probational appoint- ments as Medical Laboratory Techni- cian, Medical X-Ray Technician, Den- tal Technician, Dental Assistant, and Practical Nurse. The Pure Oil Company, Chicago, Ill., is interested in receiving applications from June graduates for its Manage- ment Training Program for pre-super- visory employees in Engineering, Sci- ence, and Management. The Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, In Detroit, Mich., is looking for an Ac- countant. Russell-Miller Milling Co., Minne- apolis, Minn., has openings for recent or June men graduates in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering for positions in the fields of flour, wheat, prepared mixes, and poultry nutrition. Harvard Uivrit.Cambridee e s. Doctoral Examination for Robert Stearns Butsch, Zoology; thesis: "The Life History and Ecology of the Red- Backed Vole, Clethrionomys gapperi gapperi vigors, In Minnesota," Fri., April 16, 3030 Museum, at 9 a.m. Chair- man, W. H. Burt. Doctoral Examination for william Potter Davis,' Jr., Physics; thesis: "The Lateral Structure of Large Air Showers at High Altitude," Fri., April 16, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 1:30 p.m. Acting Chairman, D. A. Glaser. Doctoral Examination for Azire Block Segal, Psychology; thesis: "The Predic- tion of Expressed Attitudes toward the Mother," Fri., April 16, 7611 Haven Hall, at 2 p.m. Chairman, G. S. Blum. Doctoral Examination for John Pat- erson, English Language and Literature; thesis: "The Return of the Native: A Student in the Ge-nesis and Develop- ment of a Novel," Sat., April 17, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 9 a.m. Chairman, A. L. Bader. Student Recital. Esther Miller Reigel, pianist, will present a recital in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music, at 8:30 Saturday evening, April 17, in Au- ditorijum A, Angell Hall, A pupil o John KAllen, Miss Regelawill play com- positions by Bach, Beethoven, Bartok, Debussy, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Her program will be open to the general public. Events Today Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Planning Group will meet today at 3 p.m. 244 West Engineering Building. Pro- fessor John McNown, of the State Uni- versity of Iowa, will discuss laboratory developments. Interested parties in- vited. Lutheran Student Association. Good Friday Services will be held at the Lu- theran Student Chapel, Hill and'Forest Ave., at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Holy Communion will follow the 1:30 Service. Episcopal Student Foundation. Three- Hour Service (12-3) with coffee and hot-cross buns following at Canter- bury House. Episcopal Student Foundation, The Way of the Cross, this evening at 8 p.m. Coffee hour following at Canter- bury House. S.R.A. Coffee Hour, Lane Hall, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw: Good Friday Service, 1:00 to 1:50, with the Rev. Alfred Scheips preaching on "Why We Glory in the Wondrous Cross." The Congregational-Disciples Guild. Individual Communion-Meditation in Guild House Chapel, 12:30-5:30 p.m. Coming Events Work Day at the Fresh Air Camp for all those who have attended Fresh- man Rendezvous, Sat., April 17. Come to breakfast at Lane Hall at 7 a.m. Transportation provided. We will be back in Ann Arbor at 7 p.m. Call Lane Hall for reservation. Phi Beta Kappa. Initiation Banquet, Michigan Union, Thurs., April 22, at 6:30 p.m. Prof. David Rlesman, Profes- sor of Social Science at the University of Chicago will be the speaker. Reser- vations should be made at the office of the Secretary, Hazel M. Losh, Observa- tory, by Monday afternoon, April 19. Members of other Chapters are Invited. Lydia Mendelssohn Box Office will open Mon., April 19, a 10 a.m. for the sale of tickets for th Department of Speech premiere production of Eugene Hochman's 1953 Hopwood winning play, Veranda on the Highway, which will be presented in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre April 22, 23 and 24, at 8 p.m. Tickets are available for $1.20-90c-60c, with a special student rate of 50c in effect opening night. All seats are re- served. The Inter-Arts Union will hold its weekly meeting 2 p.m. Saturday in the League. All interested persons are in- vited, 1I r I I I CURRENT MOVIES A rchitecture Auditorium GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT, with Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire, JUST AT THE END of World War II, the Hollywood movie studios underwent some- thing like a small Renaissance. There was a break in the steady output of mediocre, reliable films assuring a mediocre, reliable audience that all was for the. best in this best of all possible worlds. There was an attempt to face up honestly to some of the immediate problems. Some of these pic- tures, like The Best Years Of Our Lives, succeeded completely. Not only did they get their material from the troubled society around them, but they turned it into imag- inative, exciting films. Others, like Gentle- man's Agreement, although they rely some- times on shopworn dramatic and film tech- niques, still have the excitement of dealing with fresh, important ideas. The problem in Gentleman's Agreement is anti-Semiticism. It is treated in its most widespread form: in the intelligent liberal who says that some of his best friends are Jews, but who goes along with the restricted hotels and residential areas because one man's opinion doesn't mean much, after all. The attitude and the type have become a cliche, but they are not less real and vicious for that. Gregory Peck plays a writer for a big, liberal magazine, assigned to do a series on anti-Semitism. He decides to pass for Jew- ish himself, and make the series autobio- graphical. He gets more than he bargained for: his sensitive, enlightened fiance, Dor- othy McGuire, in the name of-good breed- ing and good taste, almost abandons him to his ruthless honesty. But probably the weakest poinc in the picture is Miss Mc- Guire's convresion to genuine tolerance. It is an eleventh hour affair, after she devel- oped in the opposite direction all through the rest of the movie. Occasionally, too, the picture is weakened when it philosophizes about tolerance when it should be drama- tizing it. For the most part, though, it is an exciting and honest movie. Yn iz .7n. s_-- OP RA OPERETTA-Gilbert and directed by Jerry Bilik: and "Thespis." Sullivan Society "The Sorcerer" LAST NIGHT'S performance featured the world premier of "Thespis," which was the first operetta on which Gilbert and Sul- livan collaborated, but to which the original Sullivan score has been lost. The enterpris- ing Mr. Bilik has therefore.composed a new score in the style of Sullivan, and has done so with almost unbelievable success. It is no exaggeration to say that the new score has captured the same delightfully nonsen- sical flavor that we find in the best of Sul- livan's music. The whole score is full of tunes with exactly the catchiness that their subject demands, it is grateful for the sing- ers, and the orchestration is deft and witty. I can see no reason for this work to die with the performances of this weekend. It could surely hold the stage with the G&S operettas. Gilbert's book is by no means the potboiler one might be led to expect. The ending is somewhat anticlimactic, but the plot moves rapidly, and there are many amusing lines. The casts of both operettas performed New Books at Library Ayme, Marcel-The Secret Stream; New New York, Harper,1954. Balanchine, George-Complete Stories of} the Great Ballets; New York, Doubleday, 1954. Botkin, B. A. & Harlow, A. F.-A Treas- ury of Railroad Folklore; New York, Crown, 19 54 with skill and obvious relish of their parts, and I wish I could single them all out by name. This being impossible, the names of the most prominent characters will have to suffice. In "Thespis" Dave Dow, Mary Ann Belin, Ara Berberian, and Sidney Straight were properly dignified as the slightly seedy Olympian gods whose places are usurped for one year by a group of mortals. And Jimmie Lobaugh, looking like a combination of Captain Marvel and the man on the flying trapeze, was very much in evidence as Mercury, the all-too- efficient messenger. As the mortals, Dawn Waldron was most charming as Nicemis, the heroine, and John Geralt handled the role of Sparkeion with assurance and ease. Alan Geralt handled the role of ease. Alan Crofoot contributed his unusual abilities as Thespis, and Joanne Wilson was a very attractive Paphne. The chorus did its chores well and the set was an ef- fective one. "The Sorcerer" was performed on the first half of the program. The story of the extra- ordinary carryings-on which take place on the day of a village wedding. If the per- formance of the Sorcerer seemed a little slow-moving, Gilbert's book is probably largely at fault, as it moves at a rather lies- urely pace. Lynn Tanel made a gracious Aline, and she sang well. Clarence Steph- enson, as Alexis, seemed a bit stiff, but then, so do all G&S heroes. He contributed some very amusing moments to the show. Marion Mercer was the ideal picture of the ladv who has seen hetter davs, and Jimmie "Lilienthal speaks for a tormented group of scientists who made will have positions open to June women the atomic bombs used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and who agreed graduates as Medical Laboratory Tech- -somewhat against their better judgment-that the bombs should nicians (chemistry or biology back- be doppd o eney ctie. #ground), Secretaries, Office Assistants, be dropped on enemy cities. Library Trainees, Course Assistants "It is sill a secret in the files of the Manhattan District, but the (background in Economics or related atomic scientists were sharply divided into three groups. One did not subjects), Computers and Research As- want the bomb used at all. They urged that the President announce sistants (math or physics background) For additional information about that we had the bomb and would use it unless the enemy surrendered. these and other employment opportu- ''Group No. 2 wanted the atomic bomb dropped over an unin- nities, contact the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 3528 Administration Bldg., Ext. 371. "Group No. 3 approved the action taken at Hiroshima. This in- cluded Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and Dr. Harold Urey. Lectures "But when the photographs of seared flesh and the medical reports from Nagasagki and Hiroshima came back, these scientists Psyeology CoLlqu , ,aus ceFors of went through the tortures of the damned. Their souls were on Conflict," Dr. Fritz Heider of the Uni- fire, and they started a burning private crusade against the hy- versity of Kansas, Fri., April 16, 4:15 drogen bomb that has divided the Atomic Energy Commission. p.m., Aud. C, Angell Hall. "The spirit of these scientists was expressed by Dr. Oppenheimer! a dm i A1J to a Congressional hearing as follows: 'Many times we scientists I L5dU a e thought the war might end before we had a bomb. But some of us Logic Seminar will meet Fri., Apr. 16 did not stop because we wanted the world to see the atomic bomb. at 4 p.m., in 411 Mason Hall, when Prof. R. C. Lyndon will speak on "Un- It was to us the greatest argument for world peace.' decidable Theories." STRAUSS STRONGLY BACKED Graduate Examination in Zoology. The first two parts of the Graduate "rFHESE SCIENTISTS and Lilienthal are planning to organize a Examination in zoology will be given o on Sat., April 17. Part 1, 9-12 a.m.; C lobby of church groups to carry on the 'crusade' after Lilienthal's Part 2, 2-5 p.m. Room 2091 Natural Sci- resignation from the atomic commission in February. ence. All students working toward the "The other side in the hydrogen-bomb argument is championed doctorate in Zoology are required to take the examination once each year by a philosopher and ex-banker, Lewis Strauss. Strauss is quoted as until it is passed at thepreliminary saying, 'all hope of international agreement to outlaw the atom bomb level. was killed when Russia refused to accept the Baruch proposals for j inspection. That was the great shock of our times. Now we cannot 16 4:ronomical o ourvtry. ir. Eur afford not to make the new hydrogen born ,.'We must maintain our gene B. Turner of the Physics Depart- superiority over any possible aggressor. is the chief hope left ment will speak on "Application of } Shock Tube Techniques in Experimental for peace. Astrophysics." "From the beginning of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lili- enthal and Strauss have been in different corners. During the first year, Strauss was a lone dissenter. He offered to resign, but President Truman refused. Today, Strauss is the majority leader in the commission and his view on the hydrogen bomb is backed by both the National Security Council and the Atomic lEnergy Committee of Congress.I "The difficult decision of whether to build the dread hydrogen bomb is now up to President Truman." * * *' * LOOKING BACK THE ABOVE is the basic story of the debate over the H-bomb.- 't Since then, other details have become known, but it doesn't change the basic story. It has become known, for instance, that the debate over building the H-bomb began right after the Russians ex- ploded their first A-bomb on Sept. 23, 194q. During the debate, how-E ever, our scientific work on the H-bomb continued, so that little if any n - -- a+ a - a nn s notr The Seminar in Potential Theory will meet at 4 p.m. on Fri., April 16, in 3010 Angeli Hall. Dr. J. L. Ullman will speak on "The Maximum Principle for Har- monic Functions." DR. J. ROBERT Oppenheimer is one of the nation's most bril- liant scientists. The contribution he made to the atomic strength of the United States through his work at Los Alamos and elsewhere has been surpassed by no other individual, Such eminently quali- fled spokesmen as Dr. Hans Bethe, president of the American Physi- cal Society, say that we might not have even had the atomic bomb, without his genius. Sixty-Fourth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Harry Lunn...........Managing Editor Eric Vetter................City Editor Virginia Voss..........Editorial Director Mike Wolff........Associate City Editor Alice B. Silver. Assoc. Editorial Director Diane D. AuWerter.... .Associate Editor Helene Simon........Associate Editor Ivan Kaye................Sports Editor Paul Greenberg.... Assoc. Sports Editor Marilyn Campbell......Women's Editor Kathy Zeisler....Assoc. Women's Editor Chuck Kelsey ......Chief Photographer Business Staff Thomas Treeger.. 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