FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955 FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955 ODAY AND TOMORROW: Economic Warfare, Not Tariff Level, The Real Problem' "Anchors Aweigh" [ EADING the President's message on foreign economic policy, one is left with a general npression that American tariff rates are too igh and that what he is asking for is authority o lower them a little bit by reciprocal agree- ients arrived at by international bargaining. wonder whether this puts the real problem in is proper focus. Perhaps we can reach a clearer efinition of that problem by saying that the vain trouble today is not the level of the tariff ates. In the United States they are by and arge not exorbitantly high any longer. The real problem is economic warfare. All Le governments have armed themselves with egal powers which they use to interfere with hie international markets for goods. They use bem offensively and they use them defensively o cut down, to cut off, to divert, to penalize, to ubsidize buying and selling so that the pattern f transactions is different from what it would e under the free operation of supply and de- nand. * * * * [THINK I AM RIGHT in saying this, that the main trouble is not the level of the tariff ates established by the legislatures. If only he levels are known and are not subject to Luick and arbitrary change, the trading com- nunity throughout the world can and will dapt itself to the rates. Provided the rate is table, the question of whether it should be digher or lower is primarily a domestic issue. t is a domestic question whether industries hould be protected for reasons of national de- ense or whether they should be exposed to nternational competition for reasons of effi- iency and for the service of the consumer. * * * * THERE is no inherent reason why the level of the tariff rates should be determined by eciprocal bargains. The real reason why we n the United States have used the reciprocal nethod for twenty years is that we have found t easier, as a matter of domestic American poli- ics, to lower a tariff over the protests of a lomestic producer if we could confront him with an American exporter who was going to ain access to a foreign market. Tariff reduc- ion by reciprocal bargaining has been essen- tally a device for neutralizing one vested do- nestic interest by another. rHE FACT of the matter is that trade is, that trade has to be, reciprocal and no inter- national agreements are needed to make it eciprocal. It is an optical illusion to believe he contrary. If we lower an American tariff ate and allow some foreign goods to be sold in he United States, the dollars earned by the foreign importers will in the end have to be ised to buy goods produced in America. The iotion that the American markets can be 'flooded" with foreign goods all coming one way cannot be true. For what on earth would the foreigner want to do with the dollars he earns? What good are American dollars to a foreigner unless, he or someone to whom he sells his dollars, spend them in the markets where dollars are the currency? Almost anywhere in the world today, and for all I know perhaps also in the Communist world, an American can pay his bills with dollars. But why should an Italian taxicab driver or a French shop-keeper be glad to be paid in American dollars? Because he believes that he can always exchange the American dol- lars at a good rate for lire or francs. With whom can he exchange dollars, With someone who intends, or with someone who knows some- one else who intends, to buy something in America that can be bought only with American dollars. If the foreigners who earned American dollars by exporting goods to this country did not get those dollars spent in America, they would not be selling their imports to us. They would be giving them to us! * * * * ALL OF THIS is to say that, except as a matter of domestic practical American pol- itics, tariff rates do not need to be fixed by reciprocal bargains. The real point of reciprocal bargaining power lies elsewhere. It lies in the field of what we might call the ending of eco- nomic warfare and the beginning of economic disarmament. Almost all countries, and we are well in the lead among them, are armed with economic weapons of offense and defense. These weapons include such devices as import quotas, which limit or even prohibit citizens from buy- ing certain commodities, regardless of the price, the quality, the supply and demand. The weapons include exchange restrictions, export subsidies, preferential treatment for public con- tracts as in the Buy American Act, preferential rates as in the British Commonwealth, the "peril point" gadget and the "escape clause," which make almost all tariff rates unstable and subject to quick and arbitrary change. The characteristic of these weapons of eco- nomic warfare is that they are not the fixed rules and laws of trade but are operated by administrative decisions made, often under political pressure, by bureaucracies. WHAT WE CALL the liberalization of trade might also, indeed might better, be called the objective of economic disarmament. The essential condition of economic peace is that trade among friendly nations should not be subject to the arbitrary acts of administrative and political officials, that trade should be sub- ject to laws enacted deliberately and openly and after debate and not changeable except by equally careful deliberation. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. p ~ ..A HO S .... "" fir, _ "Yi.P 'Na44> . >WA . A IN c i .. LOVE'S LETTERS LOST: Latest 'How To' Book Suggests 'What Next' "HOW TO WRITE A LOVE LETTER" by Marc L'Heureux. Vantage Press, New York, 1953. H AMLET says the flesh is heir td a thousand natural shocks, and no one has ever said him nay on that count. One admits the truth of the' lines and adds, perhaps, that being unprepared for crises is another truth. A third might be that one shock presages a series of lesser ones. I am unrecovered from a recent shock. Quite by accident I noticed a small book on a library shelf, one with an interesting title: "How to Write a Love Letter." Author: Marc L'Heureux. Here, I thought, is a pleasant trifle, a frightfully cerebral satire, since the author ap- peared to be French and the Gallic people, however earthly and ac- complished in the boudoir, have always impressed me as being de- lightfully intellectual in literary exposition of love. But no. Numbness fell as I turned pages and recognized the book as another in a prodigious series of how-to-do-it manuals. Imagine-- anyone needing instruction in writing love letters. Clearly everything sacred has now gone the way of modern houses; henceforth our heart's messages are to be as open and uniform as our external lives must appear through the expanses of glass called picture-windows. SENTIMENT or sentimentality, modesty or self-consciousness; I don't know the correct label, but I am loathe to part with my idea that love and all its pleasures are a private matter. A poet cele- brates his love for a woman for all the world to see, but he has the justification of art, the forgiveness of thousands who expect him to say what they can only feel. Has ever there been a man who could not write his own love letters? Think what this can mean. In a decade there will be no vicarious pleasure for a grown-up lady of ten to join a companion, just become eleven, in a prowl around the attic to read the courtship letters her father wrote her mother. The letters will be the same as those they read the day before at the companion's home, beinning, perhaps, with one of these greetings suggested by M. L'Heureux: 1. Hello, Magnetic Encouragement, 2. Hi, Little Guided Missile, 3. My Favorite Option, 4. Hi, Root of My Efficiency. Only four possible salutations are quoted: H. L'Heureux gives exactly 199 more, none better, even though nearly every job or profession is in some measure reflected. Of course, there may not even be an attic DAILY OFFICIAL BULLE TIN DRAMA REVIEW Lydia Mendelssohn. SECOND LABORATORY PLAWBILL T HE THREE one-acts on this Speech Department bill dem- onstrate just about the complete range of the genre: a society sketch, an historical vignette, and a fantasy. Of these three, the last, Paul Rebillott's "The Foolish One" seemed to me the most general- ly satisfactory. Directed by the author, the production is quite antic and elegant. The hero, played very ably by Norman Hartweg, is a man newly sprung from the earth and in doubt whether he is animal, vege- tablehor whatever. He is beset on the one hand with a lot of rather bruitish sensual creatures (Queen Eetann Runn), and on the other by an ascetic group who bandy metaphysical ques- tions about. The upshot is that he decides to remain an exile, and happily finds a kindred soul of the opposite sex. The charm of the play-and it has a great deal - is enhanced by Donald Harris' music, which smoothly puts across transitions that might otherwise have been clum- sy, and by Edward Andreasen's set, which corresponds nicely to the structure of the play itself. Although the play is full of subtle touches, it occasionally seems too glib with its Alice-in- Wonderlandisms, and tends to oetize a little too self-conscious- ly. "Careless Wilderness" is dated in more ways than just being about Lincoln's childhood. The air is sometimes so thick with "O Pi- oneers" bravery that one wonders how the characters can get down to earth enough to eat their por- ridge. Nevertheless, the director, George Bamber, and a good cast manage to breath some life into the play. Renee Silverman, as Lin- coln's mother, is the focus of the play, and she is able to hold things together most of the time. The children, young Abe and assorted little girls, speak their lines with- out preciosity. Although the cast occasionally has trouble bringing off the homespun Ohio dialect, they move about unaffectedly in the appurtenances of frontier liv- ing. Unfortunately the cast in "A Connecticut Comedy" has no such facility with its prop: they often seem to be holding on to their highballs, pipes, etcetera, for dear life. The play has what might have been an interesting angle in it: the hero is actually three men, two of them always taking turns being invisible, in the Topper mode. Unfortunately, the production brings out no contrasts, which might have lead to humor, in the three. With the "angle" grossly underplayed, what is left is a decidedly dull collection of medium-high so- ciety jokes. Altogether, the three plays make an interesting evening, whether one wishes to visit the Speech De- partment's laboratory as a scien- tist or as jdst an ordinary theatre- goer. --Bob Holloway CURRENT MOVIES : 4t the State ... - IRVING Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business is what is known in the cine- ma world as a "heartwarming musical." This means chiefly that musical selections are in- terspersed withsob-scenes, an old device that by this time provokes only the mild interest. The story is about The Two Donahues (Ethel Merman and Dan Dailey), a vaudeville song- and-dance team who enlarge their act by pro- ducing children. The Two Donahues eventually become The Five Donahues, split up after the intrusions of singer Marilyn Monroe, and are reunited in a tearjerking finale. On the musical level, Show Business is a very unoriginal, dull affair. The main effort is a huge production number of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" that goes on and on: first it is sung by The Five Donahues; then it is given a Tyro- lean rendition, a Scottish rendition, a Pari- sienne rendition, a concert, grand piano ren- dition; it is then reprised by The Five Dona- hues; later it is re-reprised for the firjale. The song may never be heard again, E THEL MERMAN, of course, comes through with the irrepressible energy and vitality that is her trademark. But even with all her energy, her songs and dances with Dailey ("When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabama'," Simple Melody," "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody") are only mediocre, the kind of entertainment that killed vaudeville. Miss Monroe solos in the film's best produc- tion number, "Heat Wave," which is unusual for its striking background dance patterns and its opulent coloring. She also has a clever trio number with Donald O'Connor and Mitz Gay- nor, "Lazy," and later undulates through "After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It," done in a flesh colored, transparent gown in one of the freest hip-swinging sessions ever put on film. Her efforts are hardly brilliant, but she deserves credit for holding her own among the film's other members, all polished professionals. MITZI GAYNOR'S main effort is "A Sailor's Not A Sailor Till A Sailor's Been Tatooed," done with Miss Merman. Other than this, her numerous talents are only lightly touched. O'Connor, also, has little to do; his chief musi- cal contribution is a tap dance, "A Man Chases A Girl," a dreary composition with Grecian suatues coming to life in a fountained terrace; his chief dramatic-comic contribution, a series of drunk scenes which get progressively hu- morless. Johnnie Ray is disposed of early in the film when he becomes a priest. His singing manner- isms are so frenzied that one fears he will fly apart at any moment, SHOW BUSINESS is a loud, gaudy, colorful musical that is just Hollywoodian enough (six name stars, dozens of songs, Cinema- Scope, Stereophonic Sound, color, a $4,000,000 budget) to become a financial success. -Ernest Theodossin LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Mixed Ide ttieS .. . To The Editor: UNDER A picture of myself and three Republican Party lead- ers (Daily, Jan. 12, page 2), there 04r Sixty-Fifth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigar, under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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All rights or republication of all other matters herein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor. Michigan, as second class mail appears the name of Tim Green. Evidently your writer has me con- fused with Merritt ('Tim') Green, who was captain of the football team a couple years back. I was deeply flattered. I once had the pleasure of meeting the real Tim Green and found him to be a pleasant person to chat with and a rather rugged-looking fel- low. That The Daily has confused me with him is ample proof that my Charles Atlas course was worthwhile. Many thanks, dear Editor, and my blessings on thy gentle, lib- eral heart! -Tim Richard, President Young Republican Club Unwanted Trophy!. .. To the Editor: THE FOLLOWING letter was sent this date to the editor of the "Michigan State News" re- garding the theft of the governor's Paul Bunyan trophy: Many students and alumni here at the University of Michigan will be grateful if the "Operation Res- cue" team will come back and steal the rest of Governor Wil- liam's monstrous Paul Bunyan trophy. The trophy was never wanted here in Ann Arbor, and when of- fered originally by the honorable governor, was never officially ac- cepted by our athletic staff or coaches. To us it is symbolic of nothing except Soapy's sense of publicity. As a trophy representing victory in a football classic it has no basic tradition to make it wor- thy of the great athletic rivalry between the two schools, nor does it do justice to the sportsman's ideal of playing the game for the pleasure of the nlaving. the way "Turn Your Attic Into an Attractive Rumpus Room for Only a Few Dollars," has caught on. PICTURE this same young lady a few years after. First love as delivered in bulky, blotted en- velopes will contain no blush. The young swain will surreptitiously appropriate his father's copy of "How to Write a Love Letter" and plan his strategy along the same lines that marginal notes indicate captured (or wore to desperation) his mother. Perhaps it was such a paragraph as this: "Hurrah! I have another letter this morning! May I repeat that you do write lovely letters. You know, (name), I have not, re- covered yet from the most wonder- ful time we had last weekend. Since then, an endless chain of sweet memories has haunted me." (One hopes the recipient of this paragraph will not have read Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"; little sweetness was lost between the fettered ghost of Marley and old Scrooge, and that is probably the best-known instance of chain- haunting.) Or was it one of these soulful bits? "As I have told you before, I just love to change things around. Last night I moved all the furniture around. The dresser is now in the north- east corner (the side the street is on). Your sweet face hangs on the warm south wall right over my pillow. I bought my- self a new rug all decorated with roses. Drop in sometime and see how you like it." (If one's lover's head hangs over the pillow, something may be amiss; even Bluebeard had the decency to set aside a special room for corpses. In addition, I'm not sure Miss Mae West will be at all pleased if she hears what her famous "Come up and see me sometime, big boy!" has come to.) "It is now six o'clock in the evening. The click-a-tick of silverware has just ceased. Having downed a good bowl of vegetable soup, a thick and juicy slice of ham, boiled po- tatoes, salad and a succulent piece of apple pie, I now feel strong enough to answer your long and sweet letter." (With such a bill of fare, two nev- er could live as cheaply as one. No letter ever contained so much passion that it required that much strength to answer it.) M. L'HEUREUX provides more paragraphs of equally sus- tained and uninspired insipidity; he even includes a few dozen things that men and women in a state of love enjoy hearing, thus prolonging the notion that being in love is akin to being moon- struck. A woman likes to hear "That shehas a special quality of beauty all her own," "That she is ambitious," "That she is enthu- siastic about everything." A man likes to hear "That he is intelli- gent, even though he does not like to admit it," "That he is a man of action," "That he is ener- getic." And after first love has faded into the dim oblivion of dance cards, party favors, snapshots, and other incunabula, second or third nove will he a state to be dreaded. nesting robins can swoop to the sidewalk, and feel blessed at the shower of shredded paper drifted there. Not being possessed of great brains, they'll go on with courtship, mating, nest-making, family-rais- ing, and annual trips to south lands as they always have. T HINK NEXT of literature. Give M. L'Heureux two generations with a good sales program and some editor, perhaps himself, will be able to preface a series of let- ters with "These are anyone's and everyone's love letters," and he'll not be puffing his product at all. His edition of love letters wont have to be from the same pen; there won't be any searching for lost papers in ruined castles. If one is missing, the editor can sup- ply another from countless iden- tical sets, obtainable from Maine to California. The post office will do a dead letter business of land office proportions without even realizing it. Its pastel-colored res- ponsibilities will have contents about as lively as a Peruvian mum- my. And, if the postmen discover the truth-I expect this by a third, at latest a fourth, generation hence-they'll have no occasion to look up from the sidewalk or whis- tle or hum, since they'll never be rewarded by the sight of any one tearing open a letter with tremb- ling hands or a face suddenly lighted with private pleasure as a certain hand-writing is recognized. In such a world a clever young man in the collections department of a store plagued with delinquent accounts might hope for rapid pro- motion. All he will have to do is think of how to write an original invitation to pay up and accounts will be liquidated first thing in the morning. With love letters so dull, people will be excited about receiv- ing bills. On the other hand, they may want to get more letters, so they'll be more delinquent than before. The young man shouldn't be too clever or he'll get proposals rather than cash, and publishing history will be made when his 'Collected Bills" are rushed into print in a first edition of a million copies. Still, some young man eag- er for commercial success should have an even chance. PIERS AND depots and terminals will be drearier than now. What man would be even a por- ter in a place where young couples part-one hopes they'll still use tears-screaming to each other: "Don't bother writing! Get your rest! Don't Write!" Half the hell- fire of parting is cooled, it seems to me, by the prospect of letters yet unwritten. All this will be gone. Tremor after tremor racked me as I stood in the library. The wild scheme of buying every available copy passed my mind, but it's too late because the book has been in print over a year and while twen- ty-five cents is more than enough for the value of all copies, value has little to do with price. Besides some diabolical publisher undoubt- edly has retained the plates. REALIZED then as my mental seismograph started working crazily, indicating shock every- where, that I was powerless. I could make a plea for book-burn- ing, but that's unpopular. Trap- (Continued from Page 2) Istration .material at Room 244, West Engineering Building, Mon., Jan. 17 through Wed., Jan. 19. The hours are 8:00 a.m.-12:00m. and 1:00-5:00 pa. Ma- terial will also be available Jan. 31 through Feb. 4, from 8:00-12:00m. and 1:00-5:00 p.m., and on Feb. 5 from 8:00- 10:30 a.m. Doctoral Examination for Elizabeth Barto, Zoology; thesis: "Bogger, an In- herited Abnormality of the Deermouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, Characterized by a Tremor and a Staggering Gait," Mon., Jan. 17, East Council Room, Rack- ham Building, at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, L. R. Dice. Doctoral Examination for In-Cho Chung, Botany; thesis: "Manual of the Grasses of Korea," Mon., Jan. 24, 1139 Natural Science Building, at 1:00 pan.. Chairman, H. H. Bartlett. Doctoral Examination for Catherine Ann Ackerman, English Language and Literature; thesis: "Fashionable Pla- tonism in Caroline Poetry," Mon., Jan. 24, East Council Room, Rackham Build- ing, at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, L. I. Bred- vold. Doctoral Examination for Gerald Dyk- stra, Romance Languages and Litera- tures: Spanish; thesis: "pectographi Analysis of Spanrh Sibilants and its Relation to Navarro's Physiological Pho- netic Descriptions," Fri., Feb. 4, Fast Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, L. B. Kiddle. English 143 (Playwriting) Correction: Prof. Rowe will be in his office Tues. Jan. 18, 2:30-4:30 p.m. instead of 9:30- 11:30 a.m. TheVienn ColrBoys will be heard inteseventh c-ncert in the Choral Union Series, Sun., Jan. 16, at 2:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. The program will include a light opera by Franz Schubert entitled, "Schubert's Prac- tical Jokes;" and two groups of songs: Pueri Concinite by J. Gallus; Mozart's Ave verum; Mensch, steh still by Bloch; Brhm's Der Brautigam; Dvor- ak's Humoresque; three GermanFolk- songs; and Strauss' "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" A limited number of standing room tickets are on sale at the offices of the University Musical Society until noon Sat. and after 1:30 p.m. Sun. at the Hill Auditorium box office. Events Today A sacred concert by the Collegians of Emmanuel Missionary College win be given in Lane Hall Fri., Jan. 14, at 7:30 p.m.nunder the auspices of the Univer- sity of Michigan Seventh-day Adventist Student's Association. Episcopal Student Foundation. Can- terbury Club at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Jan.14, t Canterbury House. It will be an infor- mal pizza party and business meeting. The Congregational-Disciples Guild: 8:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 14. Guild Open House at the Congregational Church. Refreshments, recreation, records, re- laxation. Hillel: Reservations must be mde and paid for, for Fri. Evening Supper at Hillel by Thurs., Jan. 13. Hillel: Fri. Evening Services 7:15 p.m. Acolytes will meet at 8:00 p.m. Fri., Jan. 14 in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Building. James Frank will speak on "Freud's Metapsychology." Coffee Hour will be held in the Li- brary of Lane Hall Fri., from 4:15-6:00 p.m. The Unitarian Group is guild host. During the examination period, coffee and tea will be available at Lane Hall after 4:00 each afternoon. Movies. Free movie, "Al-Dhubab, The Story of the Fly," 4th floor Exhibit. Hall Museums Building. Daily at 3:00 and 4:00 p.m., including Sat. and Sun., extra showing Wed. at 12:30. Open to public. Wesleyan Guild. Fri., Jan. 14. Meet in the lounge to go to the Ice Hockey Game at 7:00 p.m. Westminster Student Fellowship will meet at the Presbyterian church at 8:00 p.m. for an Intramural night at the IM building. Lutheran Student Association-Fri., Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m. A skating party is panned and if the weather permits, we will go to Burns Park rink. If the weather is unfavorable the party will be at the Center. Meet at the Center corner Hill St. and Forest Ave. Coming Events Roger Williams Guild. First Baptist Church. Wed., Jan. 19, 4:30-5:45 p.m. Tea in Guild House. 7:00 MaSawHam, Burma, will speak on the "Opportuni- ties and Responsibilities of Christians in Burma." Sun., Jan. 16, 9:45 a.m. Guild studies Ephesians. 11:00 The Price of God's Presents. 6:45 Mrs. C. A. Har- ris will review "The Mind Alive." Pershing Rifles. Sat., Jan. 15 our com- pany will be inspected by regimental' HQ. Be at TCB at 0900 hrs. in uniform. International Center Tea. Thurs.,. Jan. 20 and 27, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Interna- tional Center. Episcopal Student Foundation. Can- terbury House breakfasts following both the 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. services Sun., Jan. 16. Student Supper Club at 6:00 p.m., Sun., Jan. 16, at Canterbury House. Coffee hour at the Student Cen- ter following the 8:00 p.m. Evensong Sun., Jan. 16. Wesleyan Guild. Sun., Jan. 16, 9:30 a.m. Discussion-"Basic Christian Be- liefs;" 6:00 p.m. the movie "John Wes- ley" will be shown in the social room. Westminster Student Fellowship will meet at 6:45 p.m., Sun., Jan. 16 in the studeclnt ce~nter of the Presbyterian- I ++I A; INTERPRETING THE NEWS k' 1 . . { By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst IMPORTANT inferences may be drawn from information brought back by a young Ameri- can from the horrors of a Soviet slave labor camp in the arctic. The most important of these seems to be: A totalitarian regime, based primarily on repression and terror, is caught in its own trap. The post-Stalin regime in Moscow has found in many instances that even if it should want to open a safety valve and relax its total grip on the population, it cannot do so without grave risks. To neople for so many years deprived of prisoners who had been sentenced to hell on earth for offenses which no normal nation could consider serious crimes. There was a notable relaxation on many fronts in the Soviet Union. BUT THERE was also a bitter struggle for power going on. The internment of millions of Soviet citizens in slave labor camps had built up a vast bitterness among the popula- tion which smoldered under the gray ashes of resignation. Fanned to flame, that could be a powerful political instrument. Noble said he and other inmates of Vorkuta believed the rebellion there was inspired and