PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY FEBnUARY 23, '' 1953 PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1955 .. .. .vas a. , .+++:+ rv aa.+ a +v vv I WHAT PRICE DORMITORY? Rent Hike Reaction Shows Weakness of Quads, IHC IT BEGINS to appear, for the benefit of those who may have missed the first performance, that a somewhat unfortunate dormitory situ- ation exists at present. In the midst of a series of interpretive articles dealing with the services, history, and future of the Inter-House Com- mittee, it was learned that the administration of the University had about decided to raise dormitory rents some $38, which would be used as a general building fund. Greatly pleas- ed, IHC, and the Joint Assembly-Dormitory and League House Council (which is yet unabbre- viated) announced that they were being con- sulted by the administration. (Strange how that term "administration" has developed an unpleasant sound after so many years.) It is claimed that new dormitories are need- ed because many students now live in unsani- tary, unsafe, and unhealthy private housing, or overcrowded fraternities, or other such unsuit- able places, and that more students are en- rolling every term. IHC FINALLY did reluctantly accept the rent raise plan, but named a number of condi- tions which must be met before its rubber stamp of approval would be inked. A signifi- cant pair of conditions are: 1. Re-evaluation of contract termination policy. 2. Investigation of outside dormitory finan- cing. The second condition seems like a rather reasonable request. But the need for the first points out an unhealthy situation, namely that some students are virtually imprisoned in dor- mitories here. In the same issue of the Daily, in which IHC gave its reluctant approval to the rent raise, it was mentioned that existing policy is to deny fraternity men permission to leave a dor- mitory unit which is not filled. In other words, fraternity men are to be packed into dormi- tories to fill vacancies. Small wonder (as the saying goes) that IHC wants some sort of re- evaluation of this contract termination policy. Assembly Association also accepted the rent raise, not reluctantly, but again with a few conditions. The first two concerned investi- gation of outside financing, and desirability of students helping to plan new dormitory units. But, again significantly, the third condition was: "-the ruling requiring women to stay in dorms be reviewed-" IT SOMEHOW seems regretable that two housing groups feel the need of attempting to use this problem of rent increases as a means of directing administration attention to the large numbers of students who are unwill- ing dormitory residents. Thus, tvo significant observations may be .drawn from this present situation, 1. IHC, for all its hectic beginnings, and Op- timistic future, is still on rather uncertain ground, politically speaking, when it must re- luctantly accept dormitory policy of the ad- ministration regardless of the obvious student, disapproval of this policy. 2. Some re-evaluation of the dormitory liv- ing conditions is called for, with two dormitory groups both attempting to use this rent raise question as a wedge to force open the doors to allow a few more unwilling dormitory residents to escape. It would seem that before more dor- mitories are built, it might be valuable to dis- cover why such a large percentage of dormi- toroy residents are eager to forsake the many advantages, of dormitory living for unsanitary, unsafe, and unhealthy private housing. -David Kessel Spread of Stock Ownership Bringing 'Communism' BECAUSE Russia's so-called Communism has an identity with totalitarianism and a pen- chant for violence, we tend to forget the real neaning of communism, and not to recognize our own falling into the dreadful sounding system. The core of communist theory concerns the common ownership of wealth, evolving from a clash between the capitalists and the prolet- s'riat. A continually rising standard of living under capitalism in this country has made the theory look somewhat ridiculous, and the de- velopment of the corporation as the dominant form of business has made it obsolete. But it is this same development, the core poration, through which we are gradually ap- proaching communism, in a non-violent, un- conscious sort of way. Ownership of stocks gives the common people ownership of the wealth which that stock represents, and con- trol over it if they wish to exercise it. ALTHOUGH stock ownership may not be as extensive as the National Association of Manufacturers advertises, there can be little doubt as to the process of diffusion in the ownership of the country's wealth through cor- porate stocks. As this process continues, ownership will approach a state of being common. All that will remain needed is a realization on the part of stockholders that they are, in fact, owners, and an inclination to match that ownership wtih the control that is there for the wanting. If stockholders never deem it worthwhile to take advantage of the control they possess over the nation's business (the largest per- centage of the national income is now ac- counted for by corporations), we would have common ownership without common control. In other words, we would have unconscious communism, but communism nevertheless. I F STOCKHOLDERS, to the very smallest, do decide to take advantage of their poten- tial power, then we will have communism con- forming to the best of Karl Marx' definitions, but without the previous violence. It would have evolved from capitalism, ironically from the institution that is considered to have de- stroyed communist theory, the corporation. This kind of corporate communism would differ from the present theory in one other major aspect. Communism has always been identified with materialism. In fact, com- munism has always been an idealism, a fa- natic religion for an ideal of material equality. A CORPORATE communism, on the other hand, could look for its mother to true materialism, American style, in which the em- phasis is on each man obtaining the material most for himself. The only equality considered is one of opportunity to make yourself wealthy. People are doing this through acquisition of stocks, which will lead us to a corporate com- munism. It is materialism that is leading us to communism peacefully and unconsciously, and idealism that insists violence is necessary. We are leading ourselves toward a material equality which we never professed wanting by fighting the ideal of material equality we have persisted in hating and misunderstanding. History is the definition of irony. -Jim Dygert DREW PEARSON: Hall May Get Legal Bonanza WASHINGTON - Big, bluff, wise-cracking Len Hall, who rode herd on the Republican Com- mittee without rubbing any fur the wrong way last week, may not be in that spot when the cam- paign gets going in '56. Though Ike likes Len, he feels happier with Jim Murphy, head of the Citizens for Eisenhower Committee; so Len Hall may get one of the prize plums of govern- ment, the law business of Gener- al Aniline and Film. This is the big German company seized and operated by the U.S. government. The job pays about $75,000. For a time it looked as if ex- Gov. Tom Dewey was slated to get General Aniline legal business. Word came to the Justice Depart- ment from Dewey several months ago that his old friend, Attorney General Brownell, should clean all Democratic holdovers out of Gen- eral Aniline. That was why Jack Frye, a Republican appointed by Truman, was ousted as president. Dewey apparently was not look- ing for legal business for himself, however, but for an easy way by which Len Hall might retire from the Republican National Commit- tee. NOTE-Top jobs in American- seized foreign companies have us- ually been political. Louis John- son, former Secretary of Defense, was former counsel for General Aniline. Frye, retiring president, is an old friend of former Attorney General Tom Clark who got him the General Aniline job when Frye exited from Trans World Airlines. Blitz Campaigning STRATEGY BEHIND the GOP plan to hold the Republican National Convention at the latest date ever is twofold: 1. The boys around Ike know that he won't go for a long cam- paign. It wears him out, makes him nervous, interferes with doc- tors' orders that he must take regular rests. If confronted with a three-month drag of oratory and whistle-stops, they figured he would throw up his hands and re- fuse to run. 2. GOP campaign experts also figure that by astute use of their advertising agent friends on Madi- son Avenue, they can accomplish the same political results in six weeks that they could in the cus- tomary twelve. This was what happened last November. First tried, however, in 1952, the blitz campaign was worked out by Lester Weinrott and Rosser Reeves of the Ted Bates Advertising Agen- cy, with Red Rudge of Fisher, Rudge and Neblett. Weinrott took Ike to a Long Island film studio and spent a whole day filming and recording one-minute TV and ra- dio spots. Then Reeves persuaded the big advertisers to relinquish their network time. Because most of the big adver- tisers were Republicans (only one big New York advertising agency is Democratic), it was a simple matter to get the TV and radio time relinquished. The plan work- ed miracles, and present strategy is to repeat in 1956. (Copyright, 1955, by the Bell Syndicate) Sixty-Fifth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Eugene Hartwig ......Managing Editor Dorothy Myers .............City Editor Jon Sobeloff .........Editorial Director Pat Roelofs ......Associate City Editor Becky Conrad .........Associate Editor Nan Swinehart ........Associate Editor David Livingston .......Sports Editor Hanley Gurwin ....Assoc. Sports Editor Warren Wertheimer -...--.-......Associate Sports Editor Roz Shlimovitz.........Women's Editor Janet Smith Associate Women's Editor John Hirtzel........Chief Photographer Business Staff Lois Pollak ..........Business Manager Phil Brunskill, Assoc. Business Manager Bill Wise .........Advertising Manager Mary Jean Monkoski Finance Manager Telephone No 23-24-1 Member The Associated Press Michigan Press Association Associated Collegiate Press The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited to this newspaper. 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 matter. Published daily except Monday. Subscription during regular school year: by carrier, $6.50; by mail $7.50. Taking Stock . .. To the Editor: WHILE AMERICAN praises its way of life, as opposed to the slavery of Communism and Social- ism, it might be a good idea to take stock of one aspect of that way of life-our economic system. We accuse the Russians of grinding the souls and bodies of her people to produce goods, yet we conveniently ignore the condi- tions existent in this country be- tween post-civil war days and the First World War when men, wo- men, and children lived in poverty and squalor to produce capital goods so that one percent of the population could own 50 percent of the wealth. In echoing the greatness of our system, we ignore the fact that we have ever been victims of recurring cycles of de- pression or recession. We emerged from the First World War richer than before, and the switch to consumer goods in the '20's gave us prosperity. Rather than re- invest and distribute the accumu- lated wealth, our entrepreneurs chose to overproduce and specu- late, with the unforgettable results of 1929. Rather than do something about the ensuing disaster, Hoover gave us spiritual comfort, and it was left to Roosevelt to save not only the people but the system as well, for if his reforms had really been radical, there would not have been 11,000,000 unem- ployed in 1937. World War II gave us our great- est prosperity and full employ- ment, but the post-war days again brought a recession. Korea came along to save us, and now we are again in a recession, with rosy predictions for 1965. Now to save our sagging economy we rearm the Arabs (for peace in the Mid- dle East), we rearm Japan (though it is against her Constitution), we rearm Germany (against France's real interests), and rearm our- selves (we are building for peace). We have come to a point today where we think recessions, war- prosperity, and constant unem- ployment are part of a normal, continually "readjusting" econo- my. Do we actually believe we can sell such a program to the world? -Judy Gregory, '56 Steering Council . To the Editor: IT SEEMS that some members of The Daily staff are somewhat confused about the exact function of the Student Government Coun- cil Steering Committee. In her re- cent editorial, Miss Roelofs criti- cized the present work of the Steering Committee inferring that it was merely falling into the same pitfalls of non-action that the Student Legislature has been ac- cused of in the past. At this time we would liketto pointout to Miss Roelofs an'd others that the Steer- ing Committee was set up to run the SGC elections and settle other matters of implementation for the SGC. The Steering Committee is not the body to decide any issue and it is not its function to con- sider issues such as the driving ban, the bias clause or sorority fall rushing. It would seem that such discussion or action on the part of the Steering Committee would not only be out of place but completely beyond its jurisdiction. We sincerely hope that, no student would want an interim body to undertake projects or assume pow- ers beyond its limits. -Lucy Landers President of the Women's League and Member of the SGC Steering Committee -Hazel Frank "Oh Dear-They Seem To Be Going Right Ahead" 1~C~"A~fSR&INItRA *M C HEREl 00.PROGRAM y7 . e e pT R H EI LE TITERS TO THE EDITOR DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN at least equal importance. Over- crowding is the first which comes to mind. As a high school English teacher I have just short of two hundred pupils in my classes. These pupils range from those who cannot write a simple sentence to those whose performance is al- ready at the college level. I, like all teachers and all schools of education, have been unable to find a simple solution for teaching this range and this number with- in a twenty-four hour day. Due to the limits of space, I can only mention some of the other pressing problems of the high school teach- er: low salary, parental apathy, counseling, administrative short- comings, the lessening in value of the high school diploma and, per- haps most important, the normal adolescent resistance to forced learning. Evennassuming that Miss Roe- lof's major premise is correct and that a well-trained teacher could overcome these may other ob- stacles, her condemnation of the School of Education is hardly jus- tified. Again we find her blaming the teachers; in this case, the teacher of teachers. While I never thought to find myself defending the educators, I would say that a large share of the blame must fall on the students who enroll in the School of Education. Many of these students are poorly inform- ed in their fields even though they have taken courses from some of the outstanding men in the lit- erary college. Is this the fault of their professors or is it due to the students' own innate mediocrity? While I have not found the doses of educational theory of much use in actual teaching, I couldn't with any justification call them harmful, and it is worth consid- eration whether or not it actually is possible to teach anyone how to teach. -Janet Klaver Economic Angle .. . To the Editor: THE RECENT editorial on Rus- sia by Tammy Morrison shows either a complete ignorance of economics or is an artful piece of wishful thinking. Her main bone of contention is that Communism is inherently unworkable. How would she ex- plain then the 15 percent growth for every peacetime year in in- dustrial power which is twice the top level of boom spurts here, and 3 to 5 times our best long-term rate of growth. How does she ex- plain the 3%'/ fold rise in living standards since 1913 or a lower death rate than the United States. She uses a trifling example about nice clothes and electric washing machines to show we have a better living standard. Yet it is a basic necessity in economics that capital and industrial goods must be produced before consumer goods and that exports must ex- ceed imports in order to raise capi- tal to produce consumer goods. Again, she ignores the fact that in the early days of our indus- trial growth we did not enjoy our present standard of living. What does she want from a country on- ly 35 years out of complete stag- nation and 10 years out of a de- vastating war? Just where is the great individu- alism that she talks about in Am- erica? Do our recurring cycles and resultant economic insecurity show respect for the individual's wel. fare? Did the rugged individualists of laissez-faire show their respon- sibility to the people when they overproduced and speculated in the 20's, precipitating the crash of '29? Where is the respect of the individual when less than 5c of The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication (be- for 10 a.m. on Saturday). Notice of lectures, concerts and organization meetings cannot be published oftener than twice. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1955 Vol. LXV, No. 95 Notices President and Mrs. Hatcher will hold open house for students at their home Wed., Feb. 23, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Uhers are needed for Skit Night, Fri., March 11 in Hill Auditorium. Persons interested in ushering for this event may sign up in the office at the Union and at the League, starting Wed., Feb. 23. Variety Concert series ushers are re- minded that Gulantics is number four In the series and is Sat., Feb. 26 instead of Fri., as indicated on your cards. Your presence is urgently needed for this event. Be there not later than 7:15 p.m. General undergraduate scholarship ap- plications may be obtained at Room 113, Administration Building. The com- pleted applications must be returned by March 1. All applications must be accompanied by University transcripts. SUMMER PLACEMENT PERSONNEL REQUESTS Rocky-Bar-O Ranch Camp, Big Fork, Montana needs a waterfront counselor and an evening program counselor for teen-age girls. For further information and for interview contact Mrs. Janet R. Shapiro at Normandy 2-1636 after 6:00 p.m. Camp Rising Sun, Rhinebeck, New York needs counselors who are in- terested in working in a boys scholar- ship camp with an international at- mosphere. Guest campers are invited from all countries. Personal interview is required. Recreation Department, City of Port Huron, Michigan, has positions open for 2 or 3 people to teach tennis or/and organize tennis tournaments for a city program. Contact Stanley Stenek, Su- per. of Recreation, 624 Wall St., Port Huron, Michigan. Four-Way Lodge, Torch Lake, Mich. has openings for an experienced male sailing instructor and an experienced male canoeing instructor at their girls camp. Salary is $500 for an 8 week sea- son. Prefer older married men and will accommodate the men's wives. Contact Mrs. M. F. Eder, Dir., 5699 Belmont Av- enue, Cincinnati 24, Ohio. Camp Jened, Hunter, New York, a coed camp for the physically handi- capped, needs counselors, therapists and general workers (waiters, wait- resses, caretakers, etc.) Peacock Camp for Crippled Children, Lake villa, Ill. needs a male waterfront director and a male recreation director for theirtcoed camp. Season Is from June 26 to Aug. 26. Salary range from $200 to $300 for the season and in- cludes full maintenance. Bellefaire, Cleveland, Ohio, a coed residential treatment home for emotion- ally disturbed children, has openings for 9 group counselors, an arts and crafts specialist and a swinming in- structor. Counselors receive 'special in- service training in weekly sessions. Ex- perience in working with groups of children is essential. Counselors sal- ary ranges from $125 to $150 per month, plus full maintenance. Hoover Bail & Bearing Co., Ann Ar- bor, is interested in Mechanical Eng students who have completed gradu- ate work or are graduating this year and who are desirous of locating in Ann Arbor. Prospects may contact the Personnel Department of Hoover Ball & Bearing Co. Monday through Fri- day., The Detroit Arsenal requests that En- gineering students interested in work- ing during summer vacation fill out Civil Service Form 5' and forward to Civilian Personnel Office, Attention: Mr. C. E. Alfsen, Detroit Arsenal, 28251 Van Dyke, Center Line, Mich. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management is inter- ested in receiving applications (Civil Service Form 57) from Civil and Agri- cultural Eng. students to work in New Mexico this summer. Positions require use of the transitand telescopic alidade and completion of course work in surveying. Applications should be filed before March 1. Devoe &rRaynolds Co. of Louisville, Ky. and Detroit, Mich. requests that students majoring in chemistry and chemical engineering who are inter- ested in summer work in the organic Lab work in Detroit or Louisville, Ky. contact them. (We have application blanks for this.) For additional information and/or application forms inquire at the Bu- reau of Appointments Summer Place- ment meeting at the Michigan Union in Room 3B Wed., Feb. 23 from 1:00- 5:00 p.m. SUMMER PLACEMENT: The Bureau of Appointments will hold a meeting at the Michigan Union in Room 3B from 1:00-5:00 p.m. Wed., Feb. 23. At this time all present summer job opportunities listed with Summer Placement will be presented. Petitions to the Hopwood Committee must be in the Hopwood Room, 1006 Angell Hall, by 4:00 p.m. Tues., March 1. Freshman Testing Program: Make-up sessions for Freshmen who missed any of the Aptitude tests given during Ori- entation .Week Jan. 31-Feb. 4 will be held Wed., Feb. 23 and Thurs., Feb. 24. Report to Room 110, Rackham Build- ing at 7:00 p.m. For further informa- tion call Ext. 2297. The following Public School systems are interested in teachers in the fol- lowing fields: Michigan Battle Creek, Michigan --(Springfield School) Teacher Needs: First Grade, Second Grade, Seventh Grade, Integrat- ed Subjects, Arts and Crafts for Ele- mentary, and Secondary Combination, Science, English and Social Studies. Clarkston, Michigan-Clarkston Com- munity Schools. Teacher Needs; Com- mercial. English. Indiustrial Arts Math. Tecumseh, Michigan-Teacher Needs: Jr. High Mth and Science, Senior High Social Studies, Librarian and Fourth Grade Teacher. California Los Altos, California-Teacher Needs: Early and Later Elementary, Seventh and Eighth Grade, Girls' Physical Edu- cation, Vocal Music, Speech Correc- tionist, Specialist in Reading, Industrial Arts and Home Arts Teacher. Los Angeles, California - Teacher Needs: Mathematics, Science, Industri- al Arts, English, Social Studies, Girl's Physical Education, - Early and Later Elementary. A. G. Andresen and H. W. Baldwin, Personnel Administrators, will be in Chicago, Illinois interviewing prospec- tive teachers Feb. 26, 27, 28 and March 1. For additional information, contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad- ministration Bldg., NO 3-1511, Ext. 489. PERSONNEL REQUESTS: New York State Civil Service an- nounces the following exams: open to N.Y. state residents, applications ac- cepted up to April 1, 1955, Insurance Sales Representative, Compensation Claims Investigation and Compensation Investigator, Senior Account Clerk, Bridge Repair Foreman, Construction Wage Rate Investigtor, Matron, Associ- ate in Industrial Education, Case Work- er, Junior Case Worker, Assistant Super- visor of Case Work (Child Welfare), Senior Nurse; candidates for following exam must be legal residents of the following counties: Bronx, Kings, Na.- sau, New York, Queens, Richmond or Suffolk--Senior Office Machine Opera- tor (Calculating), applications accepted up to April 1, 1955; candidates for fol- lowing exams open to any qualified citizen of the U.S.-Senior Social Work- er (Child Welfare), Superintendent of Recreation, applications accepted up to April 1, 1955; exam for Thruway Toll Collector, must be legal resident of N.Y. state one year, applications ac- cepted up to April 15, 1955. Hurley Hospital, Personnel Dept., Flint, Mich.-announces an opening for a female Physical Therapist, must have B.S. in Phys. Edu. plus advanced train- ing in Physicl Therapy, or graduation from School of Nursing; applicants must be registered with American Registry of Physical Therapists. Western Adjustment & Inspection Co.,-Chicago, Ill., - offers continuou training program for young men in- terested in Adjustment profession; Company maintains 247 branch offices in thirteen Mid-western states., For further information concerning the above positions, contact the Bu- reau of Appointments, 3528 Admin. Bldg., Ext. 371. PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS: Representatives from the following will be at the Bureau of Appointments: Mon., Feb. 28- Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., home office - Hartford, Conn. ,- men with B.A. or M.A. in BusAd or Liberal Arts for Management Training Program In Administration, Technical Area, Sales, and Sales Management for positions throughout the country and in Hartford. Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio-men in BusAd., Marketing, In- dustrial Management, Ind. Engrg Transportation, and related fields for Training and Development Program in Purchasing and Traffic. National Security Agency-interview- ing Monday for Technical People, men and women, all levels of Electronics, Elect. and Mech. Engrg., non-engrg. Math., and Physics. B.S. level of Phys- ics only must have Electronics or En- gineering option. Tues., March 1- Nat'l. Security Agency-interviewing Tuesday for gen' Liberal Arts People, men and women, majors in History, Intl. Relations, P01. S., English, etc., with minors in a Foreign Language, B.A. level only, M.A. candidates con- sidered only if they have a good read- ing knowledge of a non-Romance lan- guage. Procter and Gamble Co.-men with basic Accounting courses for Admini- stration Training Program in Comb- trpller's Division. P.M. only, P. & G.-any background men for Sales Management Training for posi- tions anywhere in country. Ohio Boxboard Co., Rittman, Ohio- men for Training Program in Sales, Production Supervision, Accounting and Finance. Electro-Metallurgical Co., Div. of Un- ion Carbide and Carbon Corp., Niagara Falls, N.Y.-men in BusAd and LS&A for Production and for Manufacturing Office, rotating training program. Plants are in various locations. Wed., March 2- . Norton Co., Worcester, Mass.-Tech and Non-Tech. men for Sales, Research, and Production. (Company makes abra- sives, grinding wheels, etc.) Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp,To- ledo, Ohi-BusAd & LS&A men for Sales, Purchasing Cost Control, and Personnel. Thurs., March 3- J. I. Case Co., Racine, Wis.-men in Econ., BusAd or with Agriculture back- ground for Sales Div., company man- ufactures power farm machinery. Pan American World Airways--men with any background fer Management Training Program including Sales. Internat'l Business Machines-offices in various locations-men with BusAd, Accounting, Liberal Arts for (1.) Sales, (2.) Math. - math people interviewed will be BA for sales program, M.A. or PhD for Applied. Sciences. (3) ~Women will be interviewed for Systems Serv- ice Representative positions, BA or BS in any field with Accounting or Educ. preferred, 21-28 years old. Fri., March 4- Sutherland Paper Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.-BusAd and Econ. men, single, for Sales. For appointments contact the Bu- reau of Appointments, Ext. 371, Room 3528 Admin. Bldg. Lectures The William W. Cook Lectures on American Institutions - Eighth Series: "The Politics of Industry." Walton Hamilton of Washington, D.C. All lec- tures will be given in Room 100, Hutch- ins Hall, at 4:00 p.m. The public is cordially invited. Lecture I, Wed., Feb. 23: "Separation of State and Economy." Lecture II, Thurs., Feb. 24: "Revolu- tion and Counter-Revolution." Lecture sponsored by the ACS Stu- dent Affiliate. Thurs., Feb. 24, 4:00 p.m. in Room 1400 Chemistry. Louis F .iF. ,Y GENERATION GENERATION, slim and elegant, goes on sale today. Among those who approach its sales stands, there may be some who do not feel com- mitted to.buy, or pass by, without looking at a copy first. Such independents, given space enough and time to thumb through the issue between classes, are likely to be surprised by its competent good looks. The lay-out makes fullest use of contrasts in black and white, ranging from the stark and dramatic to the modulated and warm. Either of these effects could easily have damaged the other if not combined with clear planning, knowledge of the potentialities and limits of the medium, and deft execution. As it is, the effects work together creating an appearance that is clean, not sterile, and warm, never sloppy or diffuse. The cover, by Ann Thuma, is perhaps the best example of this. A quality of decision was need- ed to give the cover this appearance, and this quality seems to have gone beyond both the ap- pearance of the magazine and its cover to set an integrating tone. It is a tone marked by in- telligence and experience, and it pulls many of the contributions, as well as other aspects of the magazine, together toward a whole. CERTAINLY the contributions that best could stand on their own have this tone of intel- ligence and experience. The particular merit of the layout is that, in possessing a similar tone, it is able to associate itself with the superior contributions, leaving an impression, even when issue of Generation. Its body, a description of Ives' Concord Sonata, is of interest to laymen as a statement of the importance of music in a man's life. Written with warmth and wit by David Tice, this article re-inforces its theme by the proportions of its structure, proving its title to be more apt than it might at first sound, "Charles Ives as Composer." The first article presents the history of the translation of a Babylonian prayer under the perhaps overly diffident title, A Translator's Worksheet. Peter Viereck once remarked that one method of criticism is to shoot your arrow and then draw a bull's eye around it, but Louis Orlin seems to be doing something more diffi- cult in his translation, "A Babylonian Prayer to the Gods of Night," and in the article that precedes it. He very successfully meets stand- ards previously set up. HOWEVER, his "ground rules" for translation, particularly his dictum demanding good English, would force harsh judgments on sev- eral of the other translations in this issue. L. H. Scott is certainly exempted from this criticism by his excellent poem, translated from what I believe is Russian, not Greek. One might criticize the editors for my hesitation on this score; they might have provided a little more guidance among the array of translations with- out necessarily giving the effect of a Cook's Tour of World Literature. Doris Parson's trans- lations should also be exempted; her sonnet by Verlaine, especially, cannot be appreciated I f !f