J FACE TWO, TH E MICHIGAN DAIL Y THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1947 ___ _ .::::. Fifty-Seventh, Year MATTERO FACT: Lesson o the Disks BILL MAULD)IN Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Managing Editors ... John Campbell, Clyde Recht Associate Editor ......,.....,.....,. Eunice Mint Sports Editor ..................... Archie Parsons Business Staff General Manager ................ Edwin Schneider Advertising Manager...........William Rohrbach Circulation Manager ...............,Melvin Tick Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the -use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it'or otherwise credited in this news- paper. All rights of republication of all other :miatters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, as second class mal natter. 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Any person or foreign agency, says the Callahan Act, failing to "register with the attorney general by filing with the attorney general detailed information concern- ing their membership status, activities, in- come and expenditures and other particu- lars as may be requested by the attorney general," failing to place at the masthead of their publications the legend "'published in compliance with the law of the state of Michigan governing the operation of for- eign agencies,' " and failing to abide by rules and regulations amended and rescind- ed by the attorney general "as may be ne- cessary to carry out the provision of this act," and "other rules and regulations as are deemed necessary or petinent to the purposes of this act," shall be "guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be pun- ishable by a fine of not more than $5,000.00 or imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or both ..." Who are the foreign agents? "'Foreign agent,'" says the Callahan Act, "means any individual, group, club, league, society, com- mitte; association, political party, or com- bination of individuals or individuals acting in concert therewith, whether incorporated or otherwise, subsidized by a foreign govern- ment or serving directly or indirectly the purposes, aims or objects of a foreign power or powers as follows. "(a) Any agency whose origin is direct- ly or indirectly of foreign inspiration and whose object is the control or overthrow of the government; "(b) Any agency, political or otherwise, which acts in conjunction with a simi- lar organization or organizations in other countries in the interest of a foreign pow- er or powers, and which is or has been affiliated with international bodies orig- inating with or dependent upon foreign government or their subsidiaries or un- der their jurisdiction, influence or direc- tion, or whose objects, aims or activities are identical with those of said foreign government or political parties dominat- ing said government." Also listed as foreign agencies are: any publishing enterprise, radio station and or similar institution for influencing public opinion which has originated with the or- ganizations previously specified, or who have come under the control of organiza- tions serving the objects of a foreign power; "labor unions, societies or corporations of all kinds who have originated and remain or come under the control of organizations pr agencies serving the objects and purposes of a foreign power ..., And who is to decide whether a person or agency is "serving directly or indirect- ly the purposes, aims or objects of a for- eign power," is "directly or indirectly of foreign inspiration and whose object is the control or overthrow of the govern- ment," acts "in conjunction with a sim- ilar organization or organizations in other countries in the interest of a foreign pow- er," has aims or activities "identical with those of said foreign government," or or- By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOPI THE FLYING SAUCERS have served at1 least to pound one lesson home. That is that the United States has developed no effective warning system against surprise attack in this age of the new and terrible weapons. For if such a system had been in existence, the military authorities could instantly have ended speculation. They could have given those assurances which MD RATHER BE RIGHT: Melodrama By SAMUEL GRAFTON N OW WE HAVE ANOTHER scare about the stealing of atomic secrets. We are living in a grade-B melodrama. At any moment a hand may reach out stealthily to- ward a filing cabinet, and we may be undone. The course of our history may be changed because somebody climbs over a fence at night. Or, luckily, a dog may bark in time, and save us. Sometimes nations decline and fall be- cause they make those great, slow mistakes in action and policy whose historic re- sults show up over the generations. There is a kind of justice about this sort of fail- ure; it does not offend the moral sense. But it is a sign of the immense disorder- liness of the atomic age that today we may fall because a steel cabinet is left unwatched for a minute. Surely that is a haphazard way for a nation to come to its ultimate cri- sis. We live in a time of senseless peril, in which a moment's bad luck may cancel out two hundred years of history, wjork and virtue. We can no longer depend on Jefferson's "sturdy independent farmer" or on the "honest artisan" of later days to keep the Republic safe; today it is the sturdy, hon- est FBI agent who is the protector of the nation, and the history of our times is a remake of "Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back." It is an unhistorical way to live, chancy and indeterminate. What life suffers fromm most of all in this atomic age is loss of form. What does it matter how much labor you have put into your gardenia bed, or into raising your family, if, any day, you may read in your paper that a foreign power has taken our atomic secrets? And sometime it may even happen. An entire people should not have to live in fear of a Professor Moriarity. For a kind of distortion of life occurs when the melodramatic formula takes over. Listen to those Congressmen shrilling that civilians aren't good enough to control atomic knowledge, that we ought to give it all back to the Army! When American civilians are no longer considered good enough to handle the main lines of our national destiny, then, indeed, a change has come over American life. We are, for the first time, more afraid of the shadows than we are proud of our lamps. This is typical of how the pervasive sense of insecurity at the bottom must somehow affect all other values, twisting them, and bending them off axis. In the end, as the world continues to live the melodramatic life, something like a desire for a crisis may arise, if not on our side, on someone else's, just to get it over with. In the atomic age, one can only win, one hears, by hitting first. Let us remember how often in the melodramas the demon detective fires the fatal bullet at a suspect no worse than sny other, and how eagerly the explanation is always accepted that he got precisely the right one. And the evidence is welcomed just to end the story. The danger is so great that for Russia and the West not to reach a settlement on atomic energy becomes one of history's great absurdities; and the arguments used against a settlement, like Russia's mumble about "national sovereignty," become only lesser bits of the great absurdity. For while it is a commonplace to say that an atomic war will destroy civilization, the more deadly truth is that the mere prospect of such a war also denatures civi- lization. The threat is almost as bad as the execution. The event would be horrid, but the shdow of it is horrid, too, the melo- dramatic shadow which degrades grand questions of national progress into tawdry stories of the reaching hand and the un- guarded alley. What a way to live! If tragedy must be the human lot, at least it should be on the scale of Lear and not of Edgar Wallace. (Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation) WHEN THE SENATE met July 1, the Chaplain, the Reverend Peter Marshall, D.D., prayed: "Teach us, our Father, how to look at the things we see, and to look at them without bias or prejudice -. "We are all too familiar with the 'dirty looks,' 'scornful looks,' 'unbelieving looks,' 'black looks.' Give to us discerning and understanding looks . . . If Thou wilt help us to cast the mote of prejudice and pride out of our eyes, then shall we see clearly . .. .Amen." There followed debate over the nomina- tion of Joe B. Dooley as U.S. judge for the northern district of Texas, with Sen- ator W. Lee O'Daniel, (Dem., Tex.) oppos- an effective warning system would instant- ly provide: ";We know all that passes through the American air. You saw sun- light on the wings of high-flying aircraft-- or you saw nothing-or you saw a meteor in the night sky." No such assurances were forthcoming, We do not have an effective warning system. We are not prepared for the worst. Adequate defensive preparation for an all too possible worst will mean, in the opinions of those charged with planning for national security in this era of the atom bomb and the guided missile, two things. First, it will mean a radar umbrella extending over the whole continental United States, to give instant warning of any object which passed through the air over America. The inci- dental benefits of such an umbrella will be considerable; for example, it will un- doubtedly serve to decrease air accidents. But its real purpose will be to flash in a moment to all defense headquarters news of the direction and weight of any enemy attack. Such a system will be expensive. But the second prerequisite of an effective warn- ing system will be more so. For advance warning bases, pushed out beyond the bor- ders of the country, will also be necessary, to provide those extra minutes or seconds for the launching of the American defens- ive counter-attack. To meet this dire ne- cessity, very little has been done. The chain of joint American-Canadian warning sta- tions and air bases projected along the Arctic frontier is still in the dream stage. One such base, at Churchill, on Hundson's Bay, does exist, for preliminary testing pur- poses. But its value even as a test base is doubtful. For it is the northern terminus of a Canadian railroad, whereas the Arctic bases, on the other hand, must of necess- ity be utterly isolated by endless miles of Arctic waste. .They must be so planned that the technicians who man them will be able to support life in sub-zero isolation for longuperiods at a time, and so that these men can be supplied not only with the means of life, but with the necessary equip- ment, when and where needed. Moreover, such bases, each in itself a major project, must be spaced at 200-mile intervals across the Arctic frontier. For the outer limit of radar range is 100 miles and any gap might render the whole sys- tem valueless. Present estimates indicate that such an advance warning system will require an initial investment of at least a billion and a quarter dollars. Yet unless the nightmare of surprise at- tack conjured up by the flying saucer scare is to become hard reality, or unless a really secure world settlement is unexpectedly achieved, the money must be spent. The reason is simple. Very long-range super- sonic aircraft and guided missiles have yet to be built, either by ourselves, by the Rus- sians or by any one else. Yet such weapons are universally acknowledged to be possible, and therefore, unless there is a world set- tlement, certain to be built within a few years. Moreover, intelligence reports indicate clearly that the Soviets are making an all- out attack, not only on the atomic prob- lem, but on the whole vast mysterious area of the guided missile. In this total effort, the Soviets are being aided by no less than 7,000 hireling German scientists. Indeed, under Soviet supervision, the Ger- man scientists continued to manufacture the V-2s, the first successful supersonic missiles, in the eastern zone of Germany for some time after the war. One achieve- ment of this continued experimentation was the A-9 rocket designed first at Peenemunde during the furor in Sweden some months ago. The chief characteristic of the A-9 rock- et is that it is equipped, not with fins, like the V-2 but with wings. Thus, whereas the V-2 descended almost straight down, at enormous speed, the A-9's wings ease it into a long glide when it reaches the denser atmosphere near the earth. Thus the range is extended by more than 300 miles. Moreover, slowed by its wings, it becomes fleetingly visible at the correct angle of vision. The rockets were timed to disintegrate in the air before contact, but small parts of the weapon were discovered on the Swedish ground. And it is estab- lished beyond doubt that this achievement of the German-Soviet collaboration was re- sponsible for the Swedish mystery. The A-9 is one measure of Soviet suc- cess in their all-out effort. Yet not only has lack of funds prevented even the first steps toward an adequate American defens- ive warning system from being taken, but the American guided missiles program, which would provide the necessary counter- attack, is also limping. Plans for a great supersonic wind tunnel, the real essential for the program, are still on the drawing board. And the tunnel, if it is ever to be built, will cost upwards of two billion dollars, this when the Congress is intent cn tax cuts and economy. Yet surely it is increasingly clear that in the world of today there are things worse than heavy taxes. (Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune) TO THE EDITOR EDITR's NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (vvhich is signed, 300 words or less in length, and in good taste) we re- mind our readers that the views ex- pressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortenei, printed or omitted at the discret ion of the edi- torial director. 0 0o SAC Action To the Editor: I WAS SHOCKED to read in Sunday's Daily that the Stu- dent Affairs Committee refused to grant permission for an Anti- Lynch Tag Day. Since lynch- ings are a" disgrace to America, I fail to see how the SAC could prohibit the collecting of funds for those who are leading the fight against the lynchers in the South. Even Mayor Jeffrics of Detroit has proclaimed Monday, July 14 as Anti-Lynch Day and has urged the citizens of his city to do everything possible to help the fight against lynch terror. I hope that the student body makes its protest felt against this unjust decision of the SAC. -Edward H. Shaffer ON WORID AFFAIRS: UN Inad equacy By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER THRE IS NO MYSTERY about lastweek's Congressional blow- up over the UN. It was overdue. Congressional emotion has been building up during two long years. It broke out in a concerted de- mand that the American Admin- istration take the lead in reform- ing the UN structure so that it can do its job. This job is not keeping the little countries in order. It is not pro- viding a headquarters for inter- national cooperation in matters of health, control of dangerous drugs, economics, finance or education. There are plenty of other ways of doing this. If millions of Americans decid- ed to reverse the isolationist de- cision that followed World War One and become a charter mem- ber of the UN, it is in order that the UN so fortified should keep the peace of the world. In the course of the first two years - as ten Congressmen put it - "experience increasingly in- dicates that the UN, in its pre- sent structure, is not fully ade- quate for this task." Fully cognizant of this situation, the American Administration has sedulously by-passed the UN in its discussion of really important matters. Washington wants atomic con- trol made subject to an autono- mous body responsible only in- directly - if at all -- to the UN Security Council. Washington decided on unilat- eral American aid to Greece and Turkey with only a belated curt- sey to the international organiza- tion at Lake Success. Congressional displeasure with the UN performance showed it- self clearly in this debate over American aid to Greece and Tur- key. Some sixty or seventy Sena- tors and Representatives expressed their sympathy for the UN. A number stated flatly that if the UN in its "present structure" prov- ed inadequate to keep the world's peace, itought to be remodeled. This was a warning. But the Administration chose to ignore it. President Truman has - I im- agine - nothing against a re- form of the UN, but he is not sure that the people yet want it. American Delegate Austin at Lake Success feels - I think --- that reform is probably necessary but premature. But a number of Senators and Representatives prefer to follow the Federation of Atomic Scien- tists in the belief that now and not later is the time to stop the next war. So as intelligent and patriotic American leaders, they have acted. Whereupon, Senator Taylor, preferring the House to the Sen- ate version, collecting his collea- gues Senators Chavez, Pepper, Murray, Johnston and Tobey, and introduced the House version as a second resolution in the Senate. This is a warning that neither the President nor the other Uni- ted Nations can ignore. It is a sign that the patience of the American people is growing short. The next UN General Assembly in December may be decisive. Either at that meeting the present international organization will prove itself able to get results. Or there will be a concerted drive to reform it. The first step will be getting rid of the veto. (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETINI Publication in The Daily OfficiaA Bii~letin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Summer Session, Room 1213 Angel Hall, by 3:10 p.m. on the day pre- ceding publication (11:01) am. Sat- urdays). TIIURSDAY, JULY 17, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 16S Notices Graduate Students expecting August degrees, and other grad- uate students who have not taken the required graduate examina- tion may take it on July 18 at 2:00 pm. m in the East Lecture Room of the Rackham Building. It will not be offered again until October. The two dollar fee re- quired will be payable Thursday, the 17th and Friday morning the 18th at the cashier's office. The fee receipt must be turned in to the Graduate School by Friday noon.a Students, College of Engineer- ing: The final day for DROPPING COURSES WTHOUT RECORD will be Saturday, July 19. A course may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier after conference with the instruc- tor. W. J. Emmons, Secretary Students, College of Engineer- ing: The final day for REMOVAL OF INCOMPLETES will be Sat- urday, July 19. Petitions for ex- tension of time must be on file in the Secretary's Office on or before Saturday, July 19. W. J. Emmons, Secretary Graduate Students: All courses dropped after July 18, will be re- corded with a grade of E. Kappa Chapter of Delta Pi Ep- silon, honorary graduate fratern- ity in business education, will hold its summer business meeting at 4 p.m., July 17, in the Union. Following the meeting will be the anual summer banquet at 6 p.m. in the Anderson Room of the Union. Clifford Woody, professor of ed- ucation and chairman of the Bur- eau of Educational Reference and Research at the University, will speak on "Trends in Research in Business Education"' at the ban- quet. Out-of-state members are cordially invited to attend. Sports short courses for women. Open to beginners in tennis, golf, and swimming. Classes will be held at 3 o'clock daily except Friday, beginning July 21. 12les- sons will be given. New registra- tions will be accepted this week at office, 15 Barbour Gymnas- ium. La p'tite causette meets every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 in the Grill Room of the Michi- gan League and on Thursdays at 4 p.m. at the International Cen- ter. All students interested in informal French conversation are cordially invited to join the group. The French Club will hold its fourth meeting on Thursday, July 17, at 8 p.m. in the second floor Terrace Room of the Michigan Union. Mr. Daniel Moreau, a tudent from France, will speak on: "Paris sous l'occupation alle- mande et apres la liberation" and Mr. Robert Waltz, from the Mus- ic School, will sing a few French songs. Group singing, games and refreshments. All students in- terested are cordially invited. II i s t o r y Final Examination Make-up: Saturday, July 19, 9 o'clock, Room B, Haven Hall. Stu- dents must come with written per- mission of instructor. Preliminary Examinatio nsfor the Doctorate in the School of Education will be held on August 18-19-20, from 9 till 12 o'clock. Any graduate student in Educa- tion desiring to take these exam- inations should notify my office, at once, Room 4000 University High School. Clifford Woody, Chairman of Graduate Advisers in Education Civil Service: Detroit Civil Service Commis- sion announces examination for Senior Construction Equipment Operator; J u n io r Accountant, Semi-Senior Accountant, Junior and Senior Medical Technologist; and Head Ciyt Planner. The U. S. Civil Service Commis- sion announces examination for Geologist (Grades P-3 to P-6), and Social Worker in Veterans Administration (Grades P-2 to P- 7). Call at the Bureau of Appoint- ments for further information. Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf. Pi Lambda Theta initiation ban- quet will be held Tuesday, July 22 at 5:45 p.m. at the Michigan Un- ion. Members who have not al- ready made reservations and who are planning to attend should call Mrs. Shata Ling, telephone 9014 after 6 p.m., by Friday, July 18. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (Epsilon Chapter) will meet on Thursday, July 17, at 7:00 p.m. at the Union, to complete plans for the Summer Session program. All brothers are urged to be present. The Graduate Outing Club will meet on Sunday July 20th at 2:30 p.m. at the Northwest Entrance to Rackham Building for bicycl- ing and swimming. Please sign up before noon on Saturday at the check desk in the Rackham Build- ing and indicate if you want a bi- cycle reserved. Approved social events for the coming week-end: July 18, Jordan Hall; July 19, Sailing Club, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; July 20, Pi Beta Phi, Sailing Cl.ub. A Square Dancing Class, spon- sored by the Graduate Outing Club, will be held Thursday, July 17th at 8 p.m. in the Lounge of the Women's Athletic Building. Everyone welcome. A small fee will be charged. Lectures Professor Frank Whitson Fetter, Professor of Economics, Haver- ford College, will lecture on "The United States and World Trade," Friday, July 18, at 8:10 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. This lecture is one in the Summer Lec- ture Series. "The United States in World Affairs." The public is invited, Sir Bernard Pares, formerly Di- rector of Slavonic Studies at the University of London, will speak on "Russia and the Peace," Mon- day, July 21, 4:10 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Public invited. Concerts Carillon Recital: The carillon program scheduled for 7:15 to- night will be presented by Sidney F. Giles, Assistant Carillonneur. It will open with the playing of Franssen's Goldoliera, followed by Silver Threads Among the Gold, Thine Alone, and Song of Songs. A third group will consist of Mr. Giles' composition, Reverie: Min- net and Trio by Nees, and Avond- Stemming by Lefevere. Other works in the program will be Van Durme's Flemish Dance, Haydn's Andantino, from Piano Trio in E, Dvorak's Largo from the New World Symphony, and Mozart's Turkish March. Now that the record player has been repaired the Regular Thurs- day Evening Record Concerts sponsored by the Graduate School will continue. This evening Bee- thoven's Triple Concerto for pi- ano, violin, and cello, and Schu- bert's Song Cycle, "Die Schone Mullerin" will be played. All graduate students are cordially invited. Organ Recital: Robert Baker, Guest Lecturer in Organ, will be heard in a program in Hill Audi- torium at 8:30 Tuesday evening, July 22. Organist at the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, Mr. Baker is in Ann Arbor as a member of the Summer Session faculty of the School of Music. For his recital he has planneda program of works by Handel, Vi- valdi, Rinck, Bach, Liszt, Andries- sen, Bingham. Langlais, Jongen, and the first performance of Ber- ceuse, by Robert Crandell,.a form- er School of Music faculty mem- ber. The public is cordially invited. Exhibitions Photographs of Summer Fungi of Michigan, Rotunda Museums Building. July and August. The Museum of Art: Exhibi- tion of Prints-Vanguard Group, Ann Arbor Art Association Col- lection, and from the Permanent Collection. July 1-28. Alumni Memorial Hall, daily, except Mon- day, 10-12 and 2-5; Sundays, 2-5. The public is cordially invited. . Museum of Archaeology. Cur- rent Exhibit, "Life in a Roman Town in Egypt from 30 B.C. -to 400 A.D." Tuesday through Pi- day, 9-12, 2-5; Saturday, 9-12; Friday evening, 7:30-9:30; Sun- day 3-5. Events Today Professor Gottfried S. Delatour will hold the first of four con- ferences on European affairs, Thursday, July 17, at 3:1 p.m., East Conference Room, Rackham Building. These conferences are part of the Summer Lecture Ser- ies, "The United States in World Affairs." Professor Gottfried S. Delatour, Visiting Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, will lecture on "The Problem of International Understanding," Thursday, July 17, 4:10 p.m., Rackham Amphi- theatre. This lecture is one in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs," The public is invited. Student Recital: Laurance Me- Kenna, baritone, will present a re- cital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Mase Juflusic at :0 T ursday evening, July 17, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. A pupil of Arthur Hackett, Mr. McKenna has plan- ned a program to include two groups of English songs, a group of Serenades, Cortgiani, from Ver- di's Rigoletto, and four French songs. The public is cordially in- vited. I I i . 4 A r S 7 d { / it l 4 f f r i i f 1 f 5 3 Coming Events The Art Cinema League pre- sents JERICHO, a' f i r s t-run French film with English titles, dealing with the FFI underground resistance against the Nazis, in France. Thurs., Fri., 8:30 p.m. Box office opens 3 p.m. daily. Tickets phone 4121, Ext. 479. Hill Audi- torium. There will be dancing at the Casbah this Friday and Saturday from 9:00 until 12:00 with Al Chase's Band. Stags and couples are welcome. Price $.60 per per- son. Tickets now on sale at the desk at the League. University Community Center 1045 Midway Boulevard, Willow Run Village Calendar of Events Fri., July 18, 8 p.m., Duplicate Bridge Tournament. The Inter-Racial Association is sponsoring the motion pcture "Wuthering Heights," at Hill Au- 9 4 BARNABY.4. i t i_ _ _ _ _ t / _ _. _ _ F t I I .e.v. t a ?3rr / i r __L. n_...-.--_1... ! .__ I -4