PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1953 PAEFUIH IHGNDIL ENSAMY1,15 r, 14PAir4gan ~faii4 Sixty-Fifth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1955 NIGHT EDITOR: LOUISE TYOR A MATTER OF DEGREE: Wiretapping Aids Law Enforcement, But Restrictions Needed "Yeah, It's Really Sad, Isn't It?" . "x4~ C3. RECENT HEARINGS in Congress pointing out the prevalence of wiretapping have brought this old issue to the fore again. Wiretapping involves a basic American con- flict. Ideals of freedom and individual priv- acy are challenged by the need to use modern techniques to fight crime and protect national security. Presently there is no federal law specifically outlawing or 'condoning wiretapping. Court cases involving wiretapping have been based on Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act. Cases testing this provision have resulted in prohibiting the use of wiretap evidence in federal courts. Nevertheless the practice has continued. There have been no prosecutions of wiretappers because the federal government hesitates to bring charges against -a practice which it alsp illegally employs. IT ALSO SEEMS quite a paradox that many states can legally do what the federal government can't. State and local police as well as private tap- pers are asking extensive use of this modern convenience. New York police regularly tap pay stations at race tracks, baseball parks, and restaurants to check on bookies and gamblers. At the same time, they are able to listen in on hundreds of private individuals who would be fine prey for blackmail. While many local, state and private tappers are violating personal privacy, the federal gov- ernment is "legally" unable to use this modern technique to deal with treason, espionage, sabo- tage and kidnapping. Yet modern law enforce- ment should be able to meet with contem- porary problems by employing all modern tech- niques. However, there is a thin line beyond which they must not go. It will do no good to catch spies, if at the same time we allow ourselves to lose the Constitutional safeguards we are trying to protect-personal liberty and indivi- dual privacy. It has always been an American ideal that it is better to allow some law of- fenders to go free than to use unjust means to convict them. LEGALIZING WIRETAPPING would involve many dangers but in the light of the ex- tensive practice of wiretapping today, the need for modern techniques in crime detection, and the confused, and inadequate existing laws, some new legislation definitely is needed. At- torney General Herbert Brownell has proposed that wiretap evidence be used in court. He would like the federal government to be able to wiretap in cases involving national security and kidnapping. Authorization of the practice would be in the hands of the Attorney General. This would permit the use of wiretap evidence already on file. Heavy fines would be imposed for illegal tapping. Brownell's proposal puts a great deal of pow- er into the hands of the Attorney General who would be able to interpret "cases involving the national security" to include almost any form of investigation. However, he strongly objects to other bills which permit wiretapping by the Attorney Gen- eral with the added restriction that the inter- ceptions be authorized by a federal court order. ' HE OBJECTS on the grounds that it would conflict with the special need for speed and secrecy in investigations of Communist con- spiracy. The court order provision also makes wiretap evidence now on file inadmissable. However, the dangers to personal rights re- quire that a practice such as wiretapping be very restrictive. Its use should be limited to only cases of extreme necessity involving na- tional security and possibly kidnapping. The power to authorize wiretapping should not be left only to the conscience of the Attorney Gen- eral but should be subject to court order. Provisions could be made to use past wire- tap information and to allow adequate and effi- cient speed in obtaining the court order. Illegal wiretapping should be severely pun- ished as a violation of a federal law protecting basic individual rights-for if modern snooping devices are allowed to get out of hand the state of affairs depicted by novelist George Orwell in "Ninteen Eighty-four" will soon be a techno- logical possibility. -Arlis Garon DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN -r 4w 4 A i ../r'" ;. ,.a. . ,.y - s.... " ,1M/I T A O ftAA 1 3K. -..L rv.. '.s ..r.+t ' a WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Record of SCI Head Dubious PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN: Dems Ponder Ike Attack FOR MONTHS past, an uneasy backstage ar- gument has been going on among Demo- crats in Washington. In its essence, the issue is this-whether or not to open a direct attack upon the President himself as the chief source of Administration confusions and contradic- tions. This seems to be the prevailing conviction at Democratic National Committee headquar- ters, where a strong desire exists to take this line publicly and persistently. There is a fairly large group of Congressional Democrats who share the conviction but oppose making it a public,issue and another group who oppose it as an issue because they are not convinced of its validity. There is some evidence that their na- tional leaders, Adlai Stevenson, is doing con- siderable brooding about both the thesis and the tactic. What is important is that uneasy, unorgan- led Democratic pressures for making Mr. Eisen- hower himself the target are building up behind the dam of restraint composed largely of polit- ical, fears directly related to the President's strong popularity in the country; a few cracks are beginning to appear in the dam. That is the significance of the recent public attacks on the President by Senator Matthew Neely of West Virgiia: and it is because of this back- ground that the maiden floor speech of North Carolina's Senator Kerr Scott is important. The Scott speech received little attention from the press. Whether the Scott analysis is accurate or inaccurate, it is pretty safe to say that his arguments will correspond closely to the main current of the general Democratic attack, if and when their dam does break. IN BRIEF, the Scott argument is this: that the President is not the patient, wise com- The Dai Staff Editorial Staff Eugene Hartwig ......................Managing Editor Dorothy Myers ........................ ... city Editor Jon Sobeloff..............Editorial Director Pat Roeloss ............. .Associate City Editor Becky Conrad.Associate Editor an Sinehart.................... Associate Editor Dave Livingston ................ ..... Sports Editor Hanle, Gurwin....... ... Associate Sports Editor Warn Wertheimer ........... Associate Sports Editor Roz Shlimovitz.. , ........Women's Editor Janet Smith.......... Associate Women's Editor John Hirtzel ......................Chief Photographer Business Staff Cois Pollak................ .... Business Manager mander, occasionally victimized by subordi- nates who do not fully comprehend his poli- cies, but that he is, in reality, the chief cause of administrative troubles because he does not take personal responsibility for the acts of his subordinates and because, when they go out of line, he does not follow through with discipli- nary action. Scott's direct implication is that the President's subordinates now know this and will, therefore continue to say and do as they wish. Scott gives various examples. One is the Yal- ta papers release. The president was not con- sulted on this in advance, and even after he stated his opposition to using them for politi- cal purposes his party leaders went ahead pre- paring the papers for that purpose. Scott cites the rash of contradictory policy statements during the Indo-China crisis last year and the similar rash during the current Formosa crisis, He cites the President's refusal to accept re- sponsibility in the Ladejinsky security case, holding FOA Director Stassen responsible in- stead. He cites the President's refusal to en- dorse or oppose his Labor Secretary's policy on the important issue of the right-to-work state laws. He cites the Attorney General's ignor- ing of the President's strong declaration on the right to face one's accuser and the Presi- dent's failure to do anything about it. And so on. Scott argues that the old rule, in govern- ment, business, or the military-the old rule that the buck is always passed up-has been reversed, that the President passes the buck down the line of, command, that this is the real cause of the troubles, and that only the President himself can correct it. WHETHER the people will accept these ar- guments, or history endorse them, no man can know. What is important right now is that they are straws in a wind that is blowing a bit stronger all the time in the ranks of the Oppo- sition party. --Eric Sevareid CBS Radio New Books at the Library Hagedorn, Hermann-The Roosevelt Family at Sagamore Hill; New York, Macmillan, 1955. Hahn, Emily- Chiang Kai-shek; New York, Doubleday, 1955. Bowen, Elenore--Return to Laughter, New York, Harper, 1955. Chotzinoff, Samuel-A Lost Paradise, New By DREW PEARSON IT LOOKS AS if the boys who run things for Ike at the White House either didn't do much screening or else don't care what kind of Democrats they appoint on certain commissions, where, under the law, they have to appoint De- mocrats. They have just appointed to the Subversive Control Board a vital body which rules on loyalty and subversives, an ex-Congressman from Georgia, John S. Wood, who ordinarily might have some diffi- culty passing a security test for a government job. Here is his record: When Ralph Stanfield, a teen-age boy of Tate, Ga., was seriously injured by an Army truck on Jan. 2, 1944, Con- gressman Wood introduced a bill, as is customary, compensating him for $10,000. On this his law office collected a fee of $1,000. This is against the law. A Congressman is paid a regular salary to introduce legislation. He is paid by all the taxpayers and is not permitted to collect from any one individual taxpayer no matter how many fav- ors he does. Any such fees are a penitentiary offense. * * * HOWEVER, here's how the fee was paid. First, Charles Holcombe, according to a statement by Mack Stanfield, father of the injured boy, suggested that part of the $10,000 be paid back to Congress- man Wood. Later; Carl Tallant, the Con- gressman's law partner in the firm of "Wood and Tallant," suggested a fee of 10 per cent. Tallant not only was Wood's law partner, but got a salary from Uncle Sam of $7,092 as Wood's assistant, and handled law cases from the van- tage point of Wood's office, This in itself is highly unusual if not unethical. So Tallant made out a check for $1,000 and Mack Stanfield, fa- ther of the crippled boy, signed it ... I have a photostat of the check, dated Sept. 13, 1947, on the Bank of Canton, Canton, Ga.... It would have been easy for the FBI to verify this. Furthermore, Wood once admitted it publicly on the floor of Congress. Yet Eisen- hower appointed him anyway. * * . A CONGRESSMAN is supposed to recommend the award of mail routes on merit, not because of any fee, direct or indirect . . . Here is how Congressman Wood awarded them, as told in a sworn affidavit by Weldon C. Bennett of Canton, Ga. He took an examination for Ru- ral Mail Carrier in June, 1949, and two weeks later went to see C. D. Holcombe, Secretary to Congress- man Wood . . . "I offered C. B. Holcombe $1,500 for said route," Bennett states. Mr. Holcombe is the secretary who originally ap- proached the elder Stanfield about the $1,000 fee. Two other sworn affidavits signed by Ralph Clark of Flowery Branch, Ga., and Har- old W. Puckett of Buford, Ga., state that in September, 1949, Con- gressman Wood told them he was awarding the Flowery Branch mail route to Homer Reeves because of the large fee he had received in connection with a lawsuit brought by Reeve's father in breaking the will of the late Dr. George Bryce . . . Reeves stood sixth on the eligibility list. , * * AS CHAIRMAN of the Un-Am- erican Activities Committee, Wood was supposed to probe alleged Communism wherever he found it, including Hollywood. However, when his committee started to probe certain Hollywood film writ- ers in, 1945-46, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, hired an obscure Georgia attor- ney, Edgar Dunlap, living in Con- gressman Wood's district. Mysteriously, t h e Hollywood probe was postponed . .. Later the Republicans took over Wood's commnittee and the 'probe went forward. However, attorneys for film writers Robert Kenny and Bartley Crum were informed in advance by attorneys for the film industry that Congressman Wood would ask friendly questions. The officialrecord of the hear- ings shows that Wood did. He fell all over himself to be nice, kind, and gentle .. .. The current ques- tion is: Would Wood be especially kind to others brought before the Subversive Control Board if they hired a lawyer from his district in Georgia? (Copyright 1955, by the Bell Syndicate) (Continued from Page 2) office help; kitchen help & first & sec- ond cooks; bartenders; desk clerks, etc. For further information, see material at the Summer Placement meeting, Thurs. May 19, from 1:00-4:45 p.m. in Room 3G of the Michigan Union SUMMER PLACEMENT INTERVIEWING REQUESTS Gibson Company, Mich. will inter- view candidates for Field Representa- tives for sales of home freezers in Jack- son, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Ionia and Battle Creek. Mr. Anderson will interview candidates in Room 3G of the Michigan Union, from 1:00-4:45 p.m., May 25 instead of on My 19. PERSONNEL REQUESTS: U.S. Civil Service, Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads, announces exam for Engineering Aid, GS-1 through GS-6. (Highway Surveys, Construction and Research). For further information contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad. Bldg., Ext. 371. PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS: Representatives from the following will be at the Bureau of Appointments: Tues., May 24 Gen1. Motors-Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild-men, any field but especially in- teresting to speech majors, for posi- tions of Field Representatives. Positions run from August 29 to December 29 with possibility for further opportunities with the Gen'l. Motors Corp. These po- sitions involve traveling throughout the U.S. after a three-week training pro- gram in Detroit. Gen'l Motors-Central Offices, Detroit, Mich.-women for secretarial positions and also women who'are interested in figures. For appointments contact the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad. Bldg., Ext. 371. Lectures Hopwood/Lecture. Archibald MacLeish will speak on Modern Poetry: "Why Can't They Say what They Mean," in Rackham Lecture Hall Thurs., May 19I at 4:15 p.m. Presentation of the Hop- wood Awards for 1955 will follow the lpcture. Open to the public. University Lecture, Prof. Nidamarulu Srinivasan of Andhra University, Walt- air, India, will speak on "The Foreign Policy of India" wed., May 18, 4:15 p.m.in Rackham Amphitheater. Spon- sored by the Department of Political Science. Academic Notices Recommendations for Departmental Honors: Teaching departments wishing' to recommend tentative June gradu- ates from the College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts, and the School of Education for departmental honors (or high honors in the College of L.S.&A.) should recommend such students in a letter delivered to the Office of Registra- tion and Records, Room 1513 Admini- stration Building, by 12:00m, Mon., June 6, 1955. Zoology Seminar. Dr. John E. Bar- dach, assistant professor of Fisheries,' will speak on "The Temperature Sense of Cold-blooded Vertebrates," May 18, at 4:15 p.m. in the Natural Science Au- ditorium. a Sociology Colloquium. Dr. Dorothy Thomas will discuss "A Study of Popu- lation Redistribution and Economic Growth," Wed., May 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the East Conference Room, Rackham. Doctoral Examination for David Ed- ward Harmer, Chemistry; thesis: "The Reaction of Chlorine with Certain Aro- matic Componds under Intense Gam- ma Irradiation," Wed., May 18, 2024 Chemistry Bldg., at 10:00 a.m. Chair- man L. C. Anderson. Doctoral Examination for Paul Wil- liam Miller, Fnglsh Language and Lit- erature; thesis: "The Effectiveness of Rhetorical Devices in Elizabethan Epyl- Iia," Wed., May 18, East Council Room, Rackham Building, at 3:00 p.m. Doctoral Examination for David Hel- man, Electrical Engineering; thesis: "Synthesis of Electric Filters and Delay Networks Using Tchebycheff Rational Functions," Wed., May 18, 2084 East En- gineering Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, A. B. Macnee._ Doctoral Examination for Donald Lee Dean, Civil Engineering; thesis: "A Static and Dynamic Analysis of Tall Flexible Towers," Wed., May 18, 307 West Engineering Bldg., at 2:30 p.m. Chairman, L. C Maugh. Doctoral Examination for Phillip Al- exander Yantis, Speech; thesis: "Ef- fects of Inner Ear Pathology on Aural Overload," Wed., May 18, 1007 East Hu- ron Street, at 1:00 p.m. Chairman, George Herman. Doctoral Examinatin for Harold Bier- man, Jr., Business Administration; the- sis: "The Effect of Inflation on Depreci- ation and the Computation of Income of Public Utilities for the Years 1940 to 1953." Wed., May 18, 816 School of Business Administration, at 3:30 p.m. Chairman, W. A. Paton. Doctoral Examination for Walter Co- hen, Psychology: thesis: "Comparisons of Homogeneous danzfelds with Gans- felds Containing Simple Figures," Wed., May 18, 7611 Haven Hall, at 10:15 a.m. Chairman, C. R. Brown. Doctoral Examination for Jane Hag- gart, Pharmacology; thesis: "On the Mechanism of the Vascular Action of Morphine," Wed., May 18, 103 Pharma- cology Building, at 10:00 a.m. Chairman, L. A. Woods. Doctoral Examination for Charles Overton Handley, Jr., Zoology; thesis: "A Revision of the American Bats of the Genera Euderma and Plecotus," Wed., May 18, 3024 Museums Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, E. T. Hooper. Doctoral Examination for John Ed- ward Williams, Fisheries; thesis "Deter- mination of Age From the Scales of Northern Pike (Esox lucius L.)", Wed., May 18, 2124 Natural Science Build- ing, at 9:00 amn. Chairman, K. F. Lag- ler. Seminar in Organic Chemistry. Thurs., May 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 1300 Chem- istry. John J. cllaha will speak on "Nucleophilic Displacements in Nitro- phenyl Halides." Seminar in Analytical- Inorganic- Physical Chemistry. Thurs., May 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3005 Chemistry. Sis- ter Mary Brandon Hudson will speak on "Spectrophotometric Measurements of Molecular Complexes." 402 Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Application of Mathematics to Social Science will meet Thurs., May 19, Room 3401 from 4:00-5:30 p.m. Philip Runkel will speak on "Formalizations of New comb's A-B-X System." Seminar in Applied Mathematics will meet Thurs., May 19, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 247 West Engineering. Dr. T. Kaplan of WRRC will speak on "Power Spectra and Pulse Radar." Seminar in Mathematical Statistics will meet Thurs., May 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in Room 3010 Angell Hall. Donald Lamphiear will speak on Chapter 12 of Cochran's Sampling Techniques. Doctoral Examination for William Al- lan Lunk, Zoology; thesis: "The Rough- winged Swallow: A Comparative Stupy Bse on Its Breeding Biology in South- ern Michigan," Thurs., May 19, 2089 Natural Science Building, at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, J. VanTyne. Doctoral Examination for Grace Jean Thomas, Zoology; thesis: "Some Aspects of the Biology of Sphaerium (Muscu- lium) Partumeum (Say), Thurs., My 19, 2089 Natural Science Building, at 9:00a.m. Chairman, F. E. Eggleton. Doctoral Examination for Robert Ar- thur Gillies, Bacteriology; thesis: "A Comparison of the Effects of Radiation and Heat Steriliztion of Nutrilites on the Rate and Yield of Lactic~Acid Fer- mentation," Thurs., May 19, 1566 East Medical Bldg., at 8:30 a.m. Chairman, L. L. Kempe. Doctoral Examination for Yu-Chun Hou, Chemical Engineering; thesis: "Physical and Thermodynamic Proper- ties of Trifluoromethane," Thurs., May 19, 3201 East Engineering Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, J. J. Martin. Doctoral Examination for Harvey Al- len Lund, Botany; thesis: "The Biosyn- thesis of Growth Hormones in the Pis- tils of Flowers Preliminary to the Set- ting of Fruit," Thurs., May 19, 1139 NaturalScience Building, at 9:00 g.m. Chairman, F. G. Gustafson. Doctoral Examination for Kuel-sheng Chang, Geography; thesis: "Chinese Great Explorers: Their Effect upon Chi- nese Geographic Knowledge Prior to 1600," Thurs., May 18, 210 Angell Hall, at 4:00 p.m. Chairman, R. B. Hall. Doctoral Examination for Hayden Kenna Carruth, Speech; thesis:y"Cur- ricular Speech in Michigan High Schools," Thurs., May 19, East Council Room, Rakl .m Bldg., at 2:30 p.m. Chairman, G. E. Desmore. Doctoral Examination for Harold Woolley, Physics; thesis: "The Calc- lation of Thermodynamic Functions for Asymmetric Rotator Molecules and Oth- er Polyatomic Molecules," Thurs., May 19, 2038 Randall Laboratory, at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, D. M. Dennison. Concerts Student Recital. Joseph Savarino, pi- anist, 8:30 p.m. Thurs. evening, May 19, in Rackham Assembly Hall, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. A pupil of John Kollen, Mr. Savarino will play w a by Scarlatti, Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. Open to the public. Events Today Drama Season. "Gentlemen, The Queens," starring Helen Hayes. May 18- 21, Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. 8:30 p.m.; matinee Thurs. and Sat., 2:30 p.m. (Continued on Page 6) 4 a a ; AT THE MICHIGAN- Lengthy 'Eternal Sea' Combines Various Plots "THE ETERNAL SEA" is a film that works itself into 'at least four different Hollywood story formulas: the war story, the brave hero story and the good-old-American-never-say-die story. Naturally, it cannot handle all of these at once, although it tries, oh how it tries. The result is a lengthy film, abounding with cliches. It is a true story, based on the career of Rear Admiral John Hoskins, but this does not guarantee anything. Sterling Hayden, as Hoskins, has a trying time keeping up the blood-and-guts front as the film follows him through World War II, peacetime maneuvers, w I. I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR So Little Room... To the Editor: BEFORE we all settle back after viewing the recent events of a peaceful nature in international affairs and conclude that the forthcoming Big Four conference is going to straighten things out, it would perhaps be wise to re- flect and speculate a little on nature and possibilities of the con- ference and its accomplishments. Let us consider, first of all, that the principal participants .will be comparatively new men at this sort of thing, except for Sir An- thony Eden. What, then, would come of the conference? For one thing, it would save us the embarrassment of hypocracy, since we have been preaching for such a meeting for so long. Secondly, it would comfort our European allies who are more exposed to the tensions and poten- tial destruction of a third world war. Thirdly, it would give the Communists a chance to show if they really have anything to of- fer, which, of course, can be ex- pected to turn into another propa- ganda loud-speaker. How, then, should we look at the coming meeting at the sum- mit? Should we assume that heads of state just tire of the slowness Navy jet development and Korea. *.1* * HE LOSES A LEG somewhere along the way, and the picture capitalizes upon this fact so often that it becomes tiring and a bit distasteful. Undoubtedly, his heroism was great and admirable, but when an artificial limb becomes the sub- ject for jokes, tears and corny sit- uations, the real deed loses out to phony sentimentality, which per- vades throughout. Examples? Cer- tainly: the soprano in the back- ground music who hums inspiring- ly when certain ships flash across the screen, and the choir breaking into "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" at the end. THE MOST BELIEVABLE and exciting moments in the film are the scenes of battles and navy maneuvers, some of which are au- thentic. Along with Mr. Hayden is Alexis- / ; , ,//, ., ,, - ,, .. 1/ afr t. 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