PAGE FOtR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TWORSDAY,, MAY zo. 1954 PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1954 ~ An Editorial T HE PRESIDENT'S decision to take no immediate action against the two students who testified before the Clardy Committee was a reassuring break in the cbn- fusion and bad feelings which have resulted from the investigations to date. Although it puts but one of the several current issues in the clear, the decision is concrete evidence of the good faith the administration has frequently professed. As the situation stands now, a Joint Judiciary hearing will not be requested unless Congress sustains contempt charges against the students. The President's no-action stand was soundly reasoned from the premise that the Judiciary itself should not attempt to resolve the difficult legal issue of contempt. Alhough there is disagreement as to when and if Judiciary should take up the case of a student cited for contempt, the crucial point is that the administra- tion should neither suspend nor dismiss the students until a court finds them guilty. Congressional action does not constitute conviction. For the present, we hope that the President's decision points the way back to a renewal of shattered confidence in the University's ability to keep itself-- and its ideals intact. --The Senior Editors-Harry Lunn, Eric Vetter, Virginia Voss Mike Wolff, Alice B. Silver, Diane D. AuWerter, Helene Simon By HARRY LUNN Daily Managing Editor SINCE THE first indication that University faculty members and students might be called. before the Un-American Activities Committee, President Hatcher has main- tained that the greatest harm to the Uni- versity from the investigations would be disruption of the internal affairs of the institution. From the outset he pledged that every effort would be made to prevent the irreparable internal dissension between fac- ulty and administration and students and administration which has occurred at other institutions, and he took immediate action to implement the policy. Ufitil last week his policy was extremely successful, but quite ironically it has been seriously impaired by his own action in suspending the three facul- ty members and appearing before the Ui- versity Senate Monday. The sincere effort of the President, the administration and faculty and student lead ers in setting up procedures to guide, as far as possible, handling of cases aris- ing from attitude or testimony before the Committee should not be ignored in an evaluation of University policy. The prep- aration, however, was only a background for the hearings" and the charges which might arise out of them. At 9:45 a.m. Monday, May 10 the crucial test, began, and before the end of that day three facul- ty members and two students had appeared .before the Clardy sub-committee and re- fused to cooperate with the inquiry. It was at this juncture that the first serious mistake occurred: the President undertook an investigation of the three faculty mem- bers, which was entirely necessary in light of their testimony, but also ordered. their suspension, which was totally unnecessary to the conduct of the investigation. The sus- pension was undertaken, according to the President, without prejudice to the three faculty members' cases, but this reasoning is unsupportable-suspension definitely gives prejudice to the case which mere investiga- tion would not. The second serious mistake came this Monday in the President's handling of Prof. Raymond Wilder's motion for an investiga- tion of the alleged breach of confidence be- tween the administration and Prof. Mark Nickerson on the latter's alleged Communist activity. Certainly President Hatcher was put in an almost impossible position by the motion which, in effect, did imply bad faith on his or the administration's part. How- ever, by tabling the motion in an atmos- phere of extreme confusion and tension without entering into a thorough discussion of the issue, he gave the Senate and the public the unfortunate, .and we believe er- roneous, impression that faculty opinion was of little consequence to him. Release by the President of the Senate proceedings through the University News Service only added to the bad feeling of many faculty members toward him. They considered Senate meet- ings closed and were disturbed to find the action made public. The situation was made difficult for the President because the pro-. ceedings were certain of reaching The Daily and other newspapers within a few hours of their occurrence. Under the circumstances it seems to us an intelligent move to have had an official statement released though it would have been wise to have informed the faculty of this intent. To many faculty mem- bers, however, the news release was unwar- ranted. Granted that the situation is serious, that the feared internal disruption has occurred, what course should be taken by the faculty and the administration? At this time it is important that a reas- sessment of attitudes occur, for if no effort is made to understand the complexities of this difficult situation only loud charges and replies will result with no resolution of the problem. The basis of this understanding from the faculty and student viewpoint must be a conviction that the President is sincerely concerned with the faculty cases and with the integrity of the faculty and the Univer- sity. Though differences in opinion on policy toward the three faculty members is cert.ain to persist, the insinuations of bad faith on the President's part must be dispelled. His commendable action in the cases of the two graduate students proves beyond doubt the sincerity with which he approached that problem and formulated a solution. Understanding on the President's part must stem from a conviction that the faculty is sincerely interested in their fellow mem- bers under suspension and in the preserva- tion of the University's freedom. He must recognize that real concern and not personal antagonism basically lay behind the motion at Monday's meeting and the faculty ques- tions, although the suspensions quite prob- ably contributed, an attitude of resentment and distrust toward him on the part of some faculty members. Recognition must be shown that two distinct, and largely irreconcilable view- points, pertain on the issue of the three faculty members. The President and one segment of the faculty maintain that a duty to answer to legally constituted groups is imposed on faculty members, while an important part of the faculty sfeels that the Committee questions are legally improper and present no obliga- tion to answer on those questioned. Out of the faculty investigatiins and hearings of the three teachers some recommenda- tion will be made ,and possibly will fall somewhat between the viewpoints, but it is folly to assume that. everyone will be pleased about the outcome. The University has always been a great institution and those associated with it rea- lize this with a sense of pride, but seldom is this greattess put to a test as important as that which we now pass through. If the internal disruption persists, we shall have failed that test, and this is the most sober- ing thought of the stormy series of events which has occurred in the last ten days. Perhaps in realizing this we may achieve the needed direction to proceed with dignity and pass through the crisis. The integrity of the University is the issue at hand and we must rise above the pettiness of continued criti- cism of the President. Lamenting the sus- pensions or the conduct of Monday's meet- ing does nothing to solve our problems. Rather we must look toward the faculty group hearing the three cases and the Presi- dent to whom they will submit their recom- mendations for the leadership needed to re- store the internal ordef which the University had successfully maintained for the long months prior to the hearings. TODAY AND TOMORROW by WALTER LIPPMANN MUCH WAS SAID last week about "expe- diting" the disgraceful and degrading McCarthy-Army hearings. But nothing could come of the talk because what was intended was not to expedite them but to shut them down. The only proposals considered were designed to turn off as soon as possible the television and the publicity. What the people are being shown is one of the great Constitutional crises of our his- tory. But from neither end of Pennsylvania Avenue, neither from the White House or the Congress, has anyone in authority made a move to clarify the issue of this crisis, or indeed said much to show that he knows what it is. Politicians realize that they are being scorched, some more and some less, by the bright lights in which they are caught. But because the actors do not understand the fundamental issues of Constitutional prin- ciple, they cannot think of anything to do about their discomfiture except to hope that the people will soon become disgusted and bored enough to permit them to get away with turning off the lights. THE REASON the hearings are so long, so confused, so incompetent, and so irrele- vant is because the two branches of the gov- ernment are locked in a struggle-of which neither of them has as yet grasped the meaning. The hearings run on and on and never get to the point because none of the principals seems to know what is the point that he is quarreling about. The point can- not be whether Private Schine did duty on a week-end. The whole country has be- come involved in trying to settle that mo- mentous problem. Yet the whole sordid fight was precipi- tated by flagrant and systematic trespass upon the Constitutional prerogatives of the President, and it goes on and on because he does not defend his rights. This affair is degrading and disgracing the United States government with our own people and in the eyes of the whole world. * * * * IT IS THE PRESIDENT whose prerogatives are involved, and it is by the President and only by the President that the remedy can be applied. If and when he acts to re- cover his prerogatives, the balance of the Constitution will have been restored, and the remedies that Congress alone can apply will begin to be used. Some one whom Gen. Eisenhower trusts and to whom he will listen should explain to him that the action he needs to take is not to issue a statement telling the world what a so-and-so he thinks McCarthy is. No one is asking him to demean the dignity of his office, only, but only, to defend its dignity. 0 eLJIeIpJ to IAC & Ltlop... Avoid Apathyf..S c h o o l Bell International Living is carrying on should be noted. To the Editor: Nelson House was set up to pro- --; vide a residence where American T THIS time, when the prestige > and Foreign students would be and academic reputation of the 5 table to live together within a small University of Michigan are threat- group. A small group relationship ened by actions of its own Ad- is the best means for securing an ministration, we must at all cost intimate exchange of ideas, be- avoid a philosophy of cynicism, cause personal contacts with hopelessness, and apathy. o'everyone in the house is frequent. The Administration believes it is When a foreign student comes to taking "the path of least resist- the University for only one or two ance" in suspending faculty mem- years of study ,it is very easy for bers who invoked protections guar- him to retire into a dull, lonely anteed by the Contitution before R life and not make the great effort the Un-American Activities Com- required to establish relationships mittee. It is up to the University with American students. This pro- community to provide the needed I cess of integration becomes almost resistance here, to show the Ad- automatic within a group such as ministration that the way to avoid ours. "trouble" is not for the University And what is just as important, to protitute herself for the paltry Nelson House enables American compliments of ignorant and students to broaden their horizon fiercely opinionated Congressmen. I through more than chance asso- The case of the three faculty ciations with foreign: students. members is unfortunately not one There is a spirit of mutual interest that will be decided on its merits. that makes relationships valuable W that the th ld and which allows us to iron out have been no suspensions in the difficulties within a cooperative first place. The testimony of the framework. faculty members before Clardy's As part of our program we have facuty mmbes beoreClary'sinternational dinners cooked by committee reveals an unquestion- national groups lagke ta able devotion. to American demo- FE cu nationality groups, language ta- able deointtimrca eo les, guest professors for after cratic ideals on the part of all bder gals, rnd an Aer three; and Dr. Davis' testimony Adinnhouse faly w nhich provides a in particular reveals a courage and I-feeling of American family life. intellectual integrity much to be else can wee be in shape for dem Classify the diplomatic corps, the Our experience has been very en- commended. As Silver, Voss and ( big gamez? I wunce herd sum fel- armed services, the radar early- riching; we are glad that this cam- AuWerter stated with force and la say he new someone dat had a warning net, and nuclear weapons riching;owe a la t ths clarity in their Daily editorial, class wunce on campus. He said production. On the other hand we pus supports at least one house there is no cause for reprisals lotz of waisted time an muney wuz suggest that, because of the small that is successfully integrating in- against the three men. spent on sum stuff like Mason Hall numbers of communists involved, hoethaltheidemans oe What will decide the case of which cud hav been spent on sum- the entire main stream of our so- hope that the demand for more the suspended faculty membei, tin necessary like dem new poolz ciety is as stable againstl a Com- such houses will not be long in is a matter of which side can bring and stuff deys billding now. By munist conspiracy as against the coming. the most political pressure to bear golly dat Romance languages German American Bund of 1940 or - echuk Sunguroglu on the Administration: the forces buildings good for another 100 as against organized crime. This Wyman Chung symbolized by the word "McCar- years. I alsew tink profs don't'situation could change, but (one thyism," or the desires of liberal- need mor muney an yu wood tu if may believe) only in the event of a! thinking neonlen We mustni ake ya saw de nastie old plant were major depression. Hopeful . . . X. .1 ii those desires known to the Admin- istration, in a forceful and dra- matic way. We share in the guilt if we allow the Administration to perpetuate a crime against the ac-E ademic rights of all. -David R. Luce workin out in now. i no allde other sportz feal de same way. Sinse I'm majorin in hand tennis I aint got more time tu rite. Yurz truly, X (Witnessed by Harlan Givelber) A~1 Y(e/l AE *Y * I' */ For the forseeable future, then, the writer advocates as a funda- mental principle for the academic and the national community the idea that an internal Communist conspiracy, in any but "sensitive" areas, is not a real danger. There To The Editor: r I * *rfradise or Paradox? . . are good reasons or making up ones mind on this point, because Why to epl " 0 * To The Editor: if the danger is an illusion it is To the Editor: . NN ARBOR is a small agricul- surely a harmful illusion, creating FOR ROUGHLY a week or so tural and light-industrial town power for McCarthy and others I've been reading letters discuss- in southeastern Michigan, U. S. A. without high moral standards, and ing the discrimination practiced at It's a quiet, peaceful little town. diverting attention from real prob- Mrs. Freeman's league house and There's a University there-a place lems such as Indo China and theE the stand which the a ministra- to go to get an education. Ann Ar- need for evacuation plans for De- IT WAS good to see Mr. Shark S explanation and apology for his conduct before the Clardy Com- mittee. Since he announced he would be "unco-operative" I just wonder if his present apology might be an afterthought, an af- terthought to the threat of a con- tempt citation which he earned by his disgraceful conduct before the committee. One humorous part of his letter of apology was his allusions to a bull fight. On this score I think * * * * WHAT IS IT that he should do? It is easier to say, I admit, what he should have done twelve weeks ago when this brawl began-that is to say after McCarthy's as- sault on Gen. Zwicker. At that time he should have done himself, firmly and un- equivocally, what Secretary Stevens-acting on the decency of his instincts ratherthan on serious Constitutional principles-meant to do. President Eisenhower should have ordered all personnel in the Executive branch to refuse to deal with McCarthy on the ground that he was abusing the Congres- sional power to investigate and was invad- ing the Constitutional rights of the Execu- tive. There is no question at all that the Senate would have upheld the President by an overwhelming majority if his decision to boycott McCarthy had ever been put to a test. Almost certainly McCarthy himself never would have been willing to put it to a test. Had the President acted to defend his rights, as his predecessors have had again and again to do, Congress would have been denied not the right to investigate but the right to abuse the power to investigate. The question of whether the Army was dealing efficiently with security risks at Fort Mon- mouth or elsewhere would have been put where it belongs-with the committee that is concerned with the Army as a whole- that is to say with the Armed Services Com- mittee. In this imperfect world there is no such thing as an automatic panacea, and no one can be sure that even this committee would always have worked effectively and soundly, If a McCarthy were by the rule of seniority to become its chairman, the committee would surely work badly. And then the President would have to defend his rights before that committee. But as a matter of fact this is now a committee that is concerned with the honor and the morale and the welfare and the interests of the Army, and the-members of it would not have allowed a public degra- dation and humiliation of the Army. That then is what the President should have done-actually on that Wednesday af- ter Washington's Birthday when he came back from his vacation in Palm Springs. Having failed to act, and having let the country stumble into this television show in consequence, what can be done now? The hearings will have to go on. The President cannot afford to agree to any scheme which in fact protects McCarthy and Cohn from the full and prolonged ex- posure to the bright lights that Stevens and Adams have had. But the exposure of pub- licity will not settle the issue or restore the deeply damaged prestige of the government tion has taken on it. In light of all this criticism it has both puzzled and irked me that the adminis- tration has made no reply. If Miss Bacon feels she was justified, why does she not attempt to justify herself? Apparently there are many of those who think she was not justified. -Tom Kreger * * * Charaicter Building . To The Editor: I FOUND ANUDER student to rede The Daley to me toda and wuz happy to here dat dem Re- gunts has come across wid sum mor mussel makin plantz. We boys I bor is a happy place-plenty of Tr UIL- MrV±. ,IncUpe im~ust ae a exper-neI dances, parades, football games, The application of these ideas to certainly knows how to throw the parties and teas. It's a nice place actual situations should be con- bull" as exemplified by his recent for a boy to meet his future wife. sidered. One will not usually know letter. There's no suffering in this town; about a card-carrying Communist Also Mr. Sharpe's conduct was that is, a person has to look around at a university because one will not almost as bad as Miss Miesner of a little before he sees any suffering inquire. The government will not Wayne U. And since she was ex- here. create a branch of the justice de- pelled from Wayne U. perhaps People who graduated from this partment to deal with internal Michigan might be wise to follow University like to come back and security. We would take steps to this precedent inhMr. Sharpe's think of the good old days. Most dissipate the climate of semi-offi- case We will watch with interest of them thinlk of this place asI cial sentiment which has led stu- -and with hope too. paradise. A few call it a paradox. dents tobelieve in the role of po- -H. Redfield, '52 -Mike Simpson, '57NR litical informer. The three faculty* * -Mk s members would not have been sus- 'Mis lled' 1 End I 'v.pended and would now be rein- E nconsistency - - - stated. To The Editor: To The Editor: The ideas contained here may -TEASEb e informed of vour'mis- Cf I needs dem to strainthin our flabby selves. And furthermor dey has atE last come to de realizasion dat ath-I eletic fasilities is mor importantj dan akidemic onez. Don't tink us sportz am ignoramusses needer cause any trampoline prof says were de biggest nincompoops he's THE PRESENT deliberations rel- ative to three faculty members present a conflict between the need' of our society for self protection and an equally pressing need for preservation of individual liberty. The writer would like to suggest a resolution of the dilemma based on suppositions which perhaps not, for all our community, form r ake"in the puication of my an acceptable basis for action. Butl take in the pubication of my let s deandof a alernaiveletter appearing in the 5/15/54 is- let us demand of an alternativei view that it resolve this deep in- sue of the Daily. Besides erroneous cositency :haiwesolits indid- punctuation, & mispelled words, a can fseedcy: we nw lmitindivid-phrase was left out in the 2nd to t free in n-the last paragraph. It should read aing i-P. V C. Hugh"which is piloted by McCarthyism, -P.. rC. og Phys or as E. Davis says, "the rise of Asst. Prof. of Physics primitivism." Please check the or- iginal letter to rectify this mis- Nelson House . . . print. t , { ever seen. Since I an de odder many can believe. We suggest that sportz sumtimes cum up tu campus i the positions in our government I been tinkin dat de $300,000 press and society which lead to "con- To The Editor:- box is wasted. It's becus the se- tact" with the Communist alliance T h dtr ment is tu hard for us an wez tin- be "classified" (as they now mainly IN CONNECTION with kin dat de muney cood be better are) and require complete investi- tional Week the succes spent on carpetin de walks. How gation of the men who fill them. gram that the Nelson H .-J. N. Hantula Interna- sful pro- louse for IDAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN N ol 4r p'' .4 (Continued fvom Page 2) Concerts University Choir and Symphony Or- chestra, conducted by Maynard Klein, will perform Verdi's Requiem at 8:30 Thursday evening, May 20, in Hill Audi- torium. Soloists will be Ruth Orr, so- prano, Arlene Sollenberger, contralto, Harold Haugh, tenor, and Stanley Kimes, bass. The general public will be admitted without charge. terested in changes in the Assembly system is urged to attend this meeting. The American Society for Public Ad- ministration and the Political Science Roundtable will jointly sponsor a lec- ture by Prof. Edward H. Litchfield, DeanE of the School of Public and Business Administration at Cornell University, this evening, 7:45 p.m., Rackham As- sembly Hall. Prof. Litchfield will speak on "Creating and Controlling a Respon- sible Bureaucracy in Indonesia." Ques- tion period and refreshments will fol-1 Christian Science Organization. timony meeting tonight at 7:30 Fireside Room, Lane Hall. All are come. Tes- p.m. wel- Honorary Hazing: Very Inferior. The Bahal Student Group will spon- sor its last meeting of the year at 8 to- night in the Conference doom, Nom- en's League. "Can Religion Offer a Realistic Approach to Problems FacingI Society Today?" Everyone is welcome. The Arts Chorale will have its elec- tion of officers this evening at 7 p.m. in Sixty-Fourth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. TRECENT INITIATIONS among some of the men's honorary fraternities on cam- pus have pointed out a strong need for re- vamping of such ceremonies. Supposedly affiliation with, these honor- ary organizations signifies an outstanding student; one with intelligence and a deep concern and interest in University affairs and activities. Maturity, as well as leader- ship, are assumed to characterize these men. Yet if recent behavior in initiation pro- ceedings is indicative, the intelligent stan- dards of the honoraries have deteriorated considerably. Good clean antics are expected as members of an honorary dragged their initiates around the diagonal in chains. One student with a previous back injury now has a slipped disc in his back because of rough initiation activities. The annual complaints of excessive noise and confusion in the dormitories and making fools of campus leaders are also to be considered. The honoraries might well stop and take note of the implications of the Big Ten IFC-Panhel Annual Conference which was held here in April. A resolution was passed outlawing all paddling and hazing. Any bodily harm to initiates was also included as illegal. Prohibition of informal initiation outside of the fraternity honse is aa hvh-l of low. All are cordially invited. Auditorium D, Angell Hall. It is es- Editorial Staf Carillon Recital, Thursday evening, I pecially important that all membersEdtraSaf May 20, 7:15, by Percival Price, Uni- I'Deutscher Verein - Kaffeestunde will be present. Refreshments will be serv- Harry Lunn...........Managing Editor versity Carillonneur. The program will meet this afternoon at 3:15 in Union ed following the elections and a short Eric Vetter.................City Editor include Bach's Presto, from the "Glock- cafeteria. All are welcome to practice rehearsal. Virginia Voss.........Editorial Director enspiel" Toccata, Stephen Foster's Old 3 their conversational German in the In- Mike Wolff........Associate City Editor Black Joe, and Old Folks at Home; formal atmosphere of this group. U. of M. Sailing Club. Important Alice B. Silver.. Assoc. Editorial Director Sonata for Thirty Bells by Percival meeting tonight at 7:45 in 311 West Diane D. AuWerter .. . .Associate Editor Price; variations on two sacred airs; The International Tea, sponsored by Engineering Building. Everyone try to Helene Simon..........Associate Editor the International Center and the Inter- be present; elections for officers for Ivan Kaye............Sports Editor by Percival Price; Variations on two national Students' Association, will be the coming year will be held. Sailing Paul Greenberg.... Assoc. Sports Editor sacred airs; Price's Variations on an held thi safternton from 4:30 to 6 this weekend at Base Lake. Marilyn Campbell. ... Women's Editor Air for Bells by Sibelius, and three, o'clock at the International Center. The_____ Kathy Zeisler...f..Assoc. Women's Editor. folk songs. tea will honor Miss Carolyn Little and Chuck Kelsey ......Chief Photographer Miss Marya Wester. Coming Events Student Recital. Mary Ann Tinkham, I Business Staff Soprano, will present a recital in par- La p'tite causette will meet this aft- Hillel Foundation. Sabbath Services, Thomas Treeger......Business Manager tial fulfillment of the requirements for I ernoon from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Fri., May 21, 7:30 p.m., Hillel Chapel. William Kaufman Advertising Manager the Bachelor of Music degree at 8:30 Michigan Union Cafeteria. All interest- Harlean Hankin....Assoc. Business Mgr. Friday evening, May 21, in Auditorium ed students invited! Wesleyan Guild. Annual Senior Ban- William Seiden....... Finance Manager A, Angell Hall. A pupil of Chase Baro- quet tomorrow night at 6:15 in Social Anita Sigesmund..Circulation Manager neo, Miss Tinkham will sing composi- i Hillel Foundation, Reservations for Hall. Drama Workshop will present "The tions by Handel, Haydn, Purcell, Schu- Friday night dinner must be in by Stone House," 8:30 p.m., in the Lounge. Telephone NO 23-24-1 mann, Schubert, Chausson, Koechlin, Thurs., May 20. Call Hillel, NO-3-4129. f