THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947 j A ifty-Sevenl an Fifty-Seventh :Year MATTER OF FACT: Unnecessary Mystery BILL MAULDIN 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 't Business Staff 3eneral Manager ............Edwin Schneider xAdvertising 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 3redited to it or otherwise credited in this news- caper. All rights of republication of all other natters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, as second class mail matter. Subscription during the regular school yeai by carrier, $5.00, by mail, $6.00. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1946-47 Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: LIDA DAILES Spy Testimony ONE OF THE top news stories Tuesday concerned the testimony of Victor Krav- chenko, formerly a member of the Russian purchasing commission, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The general nature of his charges was that Rus- sia's international policy is leading to war and that the United States is infested with Russian spies in the form of official repre- sentatives of the Soviet Union. That this testimony should be considered "news" is doubtful. If it is "news" then it indicates an incredible naivete on the part of American government officials. Whether or not the actions of any na- tion will lead to war no one person can say. There are too many "ifs," too much depends on what other countries may do. KIravchenko's charges on this matter may be put down as the opinion of one person, others can be found to confirm it but there are as many in dissent. His asser- tions, however, that "every responsible representative of the Soviet government in the United States may be regarded as an economic or political spy," is based on ex- perience and therefore must be considered as having some basis. Having accepted its truth, it is pertinent to ask, "exactly what do we know now that we didn't, or shouldn't have known before?" The answer is-nothing. It is true that the average citizen who has never considered carefully the duties of foreign representa- tives may feel some shock at the thought that these gentlemen' do other things be- sides deliver notes of protest. But it is un- believable that government officials have been living in the same ignorance. Similar reports on Russian activities have been heard many times before, and even if they hadn't, logic and history should have been sufficient to indicate what is going on. One of the duties of foreign representatives is o report information concerning the activ- ities of the nation in which they are sta- tioned to their own governments, and in these reports they are expected to include not only what is handed out through the press for public consumption, but also any other material available. Realizing this fact we have no reason for surprise if in- formation which we consider secret gets out of the country. The "news" in Kravchenko's testimony is not that Soviet representatives have been looking for this information, but that we have been gullible to give them access to it. -Alegra Pasqueletti "Y FORCE of circumstances, the United States is deeply involved in the Dutch Army's offensive against the Indonesian Re- public. Our State Department has so far only murmured faint disapproval of what is going on. Unless we speak with a firmer voice; and speak in accordance with our fre- quently proclaimed ideals, we shall find our- selves on the wrong side of a contest for power which may be crucial to peace in the Southwest Pacific. What is going on is fairly plain. The Dutch government, having reached what ap- peared to be a reasonable settlement, with the Indonesian Republic looking toward virtual independence, is now using planes, By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP AN UNNECESSARY mystery has been made of the Administration's time- table for action on the Marshall plan for Europe. At home, rumors abound. Abroad, the British and French leaders of Europe's effort to organize for reconstruction have been bitterly disheartened by President Tru- man's intimation that the Marshall plan would not necessitate a special session of Congress. As Ernest Bevin sadly remarked, "Europe is bleeding to death," and if the tourniquet is- not applied in a reasonable time, the patient wil expire. There is no earthly reason for the Ad- ministration's air ofaimlessness and uncer- tainty about the special session. President Truman, Secretary of State Marshall and the Congressional leaders have in fact al- ready mapped out a perfectly sound ten- tative strategy of action. In brief, there will be no prolonged special session unless Europe begins to come apart at the seams, and the quick- est American aid is therefore imperative, But during the recess, all preparations will be made for the promptest possible Congressional action on the Marshall plan, immediately following the opening of the regular session on Jan. 1. The State Department's planning sec- tion is now completing its studies of the po- litical aspects of the problem. The Presi- dent's committee of nineteen, under the chairmanship of Secretary ofeCommeite Harriman, is now tackling the economic as- pects. Secretary Harriman expects to be ready by Oct. 1 with an American balance sheet, showing this country's ability to pay the bill for a broad scheme of world recon- struction. Thus by Oct. 1 all the data needed for action will at long last be available. At that time or shortly thereafter, there is good reason to expect that Senator H. Vanden- berg, of Michigan, and Representative Charles A. Eaton, of New Jersey, will call into session the Foreign Relations Commit- tee of the Senate and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House. In view of the enormous importance of the Marshall plan to this country and the world, it is neither feasible nor desirable for the Congress to pass upon it without the most careful study. If the presently mapped tentative strategy is followed, this study will be completed bye the two committees at hearings held dur- ing October and November . If this is done, in turn, the commit- tees will then be ready to report out an amended, completed bill as soon as Con- gress meets, and the debate can begin in- stantly. Since the debate is likely to be extremely prolonged, there is some thought of taking the edge off the Con- gressional itch for self-expression at a holding committee hearings in the ab- sence of Congress will make it possible to bring the Marshall plan to final vote be- fore Feb. 1. Thus the tourniquet should be available to stanuch the terrible wounds of Europe before the grim winter has brought disaster. The final decision as to whether to adopt this novel expedient has not yet been tak- en. Its obvious good sense seems likely, however, to commend it to all concerned. For President Truman, it exorcises the nightmare which has been visibly haunting him. He will not have to cope with a spe- cial session of a hostile Congress with only one piece of business before it-a situation bound to prove the truth of the old rule that "satan finds work for idle hands to do." For the members of Congress, it removes the need to curtail their vacations and to in- terrupt the vital labor of mending fences back home. And for the country and for Europe, it assures action to avert the dan- gers now menacing us at a date very nearly as early as could be achieved by a special session. ['D RATHER BE RIGHT: Free Riders By SAMUEL GRAFTON HAVE LETTERS from readers who are disturbed about the Marshall Plan be- cause some of its supporters, quite obvious- ly, are chiefly interested in a German in- dustrial revival. But it is wrong to walk out on the Mar- shall Plan for that reason. In a democracy every issue carries free riders on its back, and some of these are strange passengers, indeed. One does not ask for his gloves and stick, and beat a hasty exit therefore; not unless one is prepared to be much alone. One stays and fights for what is good in the Marshall Plan, and to repel boarders, for that is what it means to live the demo- cratic life. Nor does one defend the Marshall Plan blindly, professing to see no danger what- ever of a German revival, or of a grotes- que miscarriage of the original idea. Life is a little tackier than that, and after the first six weeks of human existence one's eyes are supposed to remain open, at least during the daytime hours. Both the blanket defenses and the lugubrious good- byes forever are overdone. It isn't a ques- tion of what the Marshall plan is, for it isn't anything yet; it is whatever we shall make it. Stick around, friends; it might be a good fight. For on Thursday of last -week every- body and his aunt were sure the Marshall plan foreshadowed a major revival of Ger- man industry. But on Friday, the French protested (through M. Bidault, who is no communist) and on Saturday our State Department and the British Foreign Office called off the German revival until at least September. That is a 'fairly good example of the little surprises offered by the demo- cratic way of life. In a democracy, therefore, one doesn't make up one's mind about an issue after one quick glance, any more than one does about a baby. One sits up with it, hope- fully, and feeds it, and changes its clothes and teaches it manners, until finally something comes of it. It is only in a dictatorship that a gov- ernment plan or "line" is more or less' complete when it is first presented to the world. That is not true in our society. Amongst us a process of elaboration (or erosion) begins tie moment after the offi- cial pronouncement, and it never ends. And, in a democracy, one does not hope to have his own way completely. One looks for good fighting positions, and a fat share in the final compromise. One hopes that, if one is right and has taken his stand well, even the free riders who have boarded the issue fol purposes of their own, will, in the end, find themselves jockeyed out of posi- tion, and working for aims perhaps quite different from those they originally had in mind. This is the life, as the saying goes. At least it is our life, and no better one has ever been contrived. The Marshall Plan offers a fine fight- ing position to any liberal. Its volunteer supporters, including some of the dubious ones, have given hostages to the angels by voicing ideals of which they may be remind- ed in tight spots later. Just to recall the political mood of a few months ago is to recognize that the Marshall Plan repre- sents dynamic progress toward a heightened political morality, and that remains true even though some of the participants in the march may be dragging their feet. Not to share in all this is not to share in the life of our time, and to give a final verdict on the Marshall Plan as it now stands is like giving a verdict on a day in the calendar. Was Tuesday good or bad? But there will be Wednesday, to fill out Tuesday's meaning. And the calendar is not the least powerful of the odd but ef- fective weapons the good democrat carries in his quiver. (Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation) - F t ta r -. ,,k~ Cp I yi. e~ Syndiu.te.Inc. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN short special any case, the session in December. In hope is that this device of 1. . CURRENT MOVIES At the Michigan .. . That Way With Women, (Warner Bros.), Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet. SYDNEY Greenstreet gets funnier and funnier with each new picture. As a grumpy; retired auto magnate, with a liking for work and "working people," he takes the nonors from Martha Vickers and boy friend Dane Clark. People say Dane Clark is terrific, but he was not in this picture. It wasn't his fault. He had a bad part. Greenstreet has enough good cracks in the pic..ure to keep it pretty much alive. Martna Vickers, a local lass before she hit the flickers, also enlivens the action by canging costume 17 times. She's a knock- out. Of course the whole plot is screwy. Green- strdet disguises himself as his gardener-chef, buys part of a gas station, helps young Clark make a go of it, finally marries his daughter off to him, after a short stretch for stealing tires. -Fred Schott At the State ... Publication in The Daily Officia Bulletin 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 Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day pre- ceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 22S NoticesC Veterans receiving government educational benefits and who are enrolled for either the 52 or 6 weeks Summer Session are re- minded that their absence reports are due by July 28th and may be deposited at any one of the sta- tions designated on the reverse side of the absence report card or may be mailed to the Veterans Service Bureau, Rackham Build- ing. Veterans are further reminded that the filing of an absence re- port is a University regulation and must be complied with., Robert S. Waldrop, Director Veterans Service Bureau The English Journal Club will present Mr. R. G. Shedd and Mr. A. Bezanker in a discussion of The Comic in Art, on Tuesday, July 29, at 7:45 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. They will apply the concepts of Aristotle, Meredith and Bergson to Congreve's Love for Love and Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace. The audience is invited to participate in discuss- ing the subject. Doctoral Examination for George Greisen Mallinson, Educa- tion; thesis: "Materials of Con- sumer Science for the Junior High School," Friday, July 25, at 7 p.m. in the East Council Room, Rack- ham. Chairman, F. D. Curtis. Ralph A. Sawyer Psychology 165s will meet until further notice on Monday in Room 1035 A.H. on Tuesday in 1025 A.H. on Wednesday 2013 A.H. and Thursday in 1025 A H. Phy- chology 109 will meet until fur- ther notice in Room 1025 A.H. Civil Service: City of Detroit Civil Service Commission announces exaicna- tions for Intermediate- Clerk (Male); Jr. Public Health Nurse; Communicable Disease Nurse; General Staff Nurse; and Public Health Nurse. Call at the Bur- eau for further information. General Placement: The Proctor & Gamble Dis- tributing Company, Detroit, will be at the Bureau of Appointments on Monday, July 28, to interview men interested in Sales. Call ex- tension 371 for appointment. Victor Chemical Works, Chica- go, will be at the Bureau on Wed- nesday, July 30, to interview grad- uates for Chemical Engineers, and Chemists (Analytical, Organic, Bio-chemistry, and food Technol- ogy). Call extension 371 for ap- pointment. Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf. Women students attending the Starlight Ball have 1:30 permis- sion. Calling hours have not been extended. Office of the Dean of Women Women students who are plan- ning to be in Ann Arbor after the close of the regular summer ses- sion may call at the office of the Dean of Women in regard to housing during this period. If enough applicants wish to sign in advance for suite accommodations at the special student rates in the Michigan League Building, reser- vations may be made after refer- ral by the office of the Dean of Women. Teacher Placement: Lingnan University in China desires to engage two teachers. One teacher for the Department of English; and one teacher for an elementary school maintained on the campus of the University for children of the American fac- ulty and of other foreign resi- dents of the city. Contact the Bureau of Appointments for fur- them information. The American College for Girls in Istanbul has a vacancy for a woman instructor in Physical Ed- ucation. The position carries a three-year contract with board, room, laundry and round-trip travel provided by the College. Further information may be ob- tained at the Bureau of Appoint- ments. Civil Service: The U.S. Civil Service Commis- sion announces federal examina- tions for Accountant and Auditor, Grades CAF-7 to CAF-12 posi- tions are in Washington, D.C. and in nearby Virginia and Maryland; Engineer, Grades P-2 to P-8, po- sitions located in Dayton and Wil- mington, Ohio, with the Army Air Forces, War Department. State of Michigan Civil Serv- ice Commission announces exam- ination for Industrial Part-Time Education Supervisor IV; Right of Way Assistant, II & III; and Conservation Representative. Con- tact the Bureau of Appointments for further information. General Placement: A representative from the Girl Scouts' Chicago Office will be at the Bureau of Appointments on Tuesday, July 29, to interview women for openings in their Field Department. Requirements in- clude a degree and some experi- ence in Education, Sociology, Per- sonnel, or Group Work. Twenty- three years is the minimum age acceptable. Call extention 371 for appointment. Davidson'sBrothers, Inc. Detroit, will have a representative at our office on Tuesday, July 29, to in- terview men and women interest- ed in executive training for de- partment store work. Call exten- sion 371 for appointment. Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf. La p'tite causette meets every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 in the Grill Room of the Michigan League and at 4:00 on Thursdays at the Internationl Center. All students interested in informal French conversation are cordially invited to join the group. General Placement: Attention, Civil Engineers: The Design Service Company of Cleve- land, Ohio will interview at the Bureau on Thursday, July 31st. Call extension 371 for appoint- ments. Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf. Visitor's Night will be held at the Angell Hall Observatory Fri- day, July 25 beginning at 8:30 p.m. The Moon and Jupiter will be shown. If the evening is cloudy or nearly cloudy the Ob- servatory will not be open. Child- ren must be accompanied by adults. Approved social events for the coming week-end: July 25, Zeta Beta Tau; July 26, Phi Kappa Psi, Zeta Beta Tau. There will be a meeting of Al- pha Kappa Sorority Friday at 7:00 p.m. at the Britt League House, 1136 E. Catherine Street. The Graduate Outing Club will meet for swimming and outdoor sports on Sunday July 27 at 2:30 p.m. at the Northwest Entrance to the Rackham Building. Please sign up before noon on Saturday at the check desk in the Rack- ham Building. Lectures Dr. Hugh Borton, Chief of the Division of Northeast Asian Af- fairs, Department of State, will lecture on "United States Occupa- tion Problems and Policies in Ja- pan and Korea," Tuesday, July 29, at 4:10 p.m., Rackham Amphi- theatre. This is a lecture in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs." The public is invited. Dr. John H. Giese from the Ball- istics Research Laboratory, Aber- deen, Maryland, will give three lectures on "The Differential Geo- metry of Compressible Flows with Degenerate Hodographs. (Parts I and II: Steady Potential Flow. Part III: S t e a d y Rotational Flow.)" The first lecture will be sched- uled for Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m., the second for Tuesday, July 29, at 4 p.m., and the third for Wednesday, July 30, at 4 p.m. All lectures will be given in Room 317 West Engineering Building. Dr. John P. Humphrey, Direct- or of the Division of Human Rights, United Nations, and Gale Professor of Law, McGill Univer- sity, will lecture on "The Inter- national Protection of Human Rights," Saturday, July 26, at 8:10 p.m., Rackham Amphithea- tre. This is a lecture in the Sum- mer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs." The public is invited. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, form- erly Commander in Chief, United States Asiatic Fleet, and Com- mander of the Allied Naval Forces in the Java Area, will lecture on "The United States and the Paci- fic Ocean Areas" Monday, July 28, at 8:10 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. This is a lecture in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs." The public is invited. Dr. Donald D. Brand, Profes- sor of Anthropo-Geography and Head of the Department of An- thropology, University of New Mexico, and recently Cultural Geographer in Mexico for the In- stitute of Social Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, will lecture on "Scientific and Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico," Thursday, July 31, at 4:10 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. This is a lecture in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Af- fairs." The public is invited. Concerts Student Recital: Jerry Pickrel, Pianist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Master of Music at 8:30, Tuesday eve- ning, July 29, in the Rackham As- sembly Hall. Mr. Pickrel, a pupil of Joseph Brinkman, will offer a program of compositions which includes works of Bach, Beetho- ven, Schumann, and Prokofieff. The public is cordially invited. University Symphony Orchestra, Wayne Dunlap, Conductor, will be heard in its annual summer concert at 8:30 Wednesday eve- ning, July 30, in Hill Auditorium, The program will open with Bee- thoven's Prometheus Overture, followed by Mozart's Piano Con- certo No. 27 in B flat Major, K. 595, in which James Wolfe will appear as soloist. The second half of the concert includes Faure's Suite from the Stage Music to Haraucourt's Comedy, with Howard Kellogg, Tenor as soloist. The public is cordially invited. Student Recital: Harry Burton Ray, Pianist, will be heard in a recital at 8:30 Friday evening, July 25, in the Rackham Assem- bly Hall, as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Mr. Ray is a pupil of John Kollen. His pro- gram will include compositions by Brahms, Schubert, Dohnanyi, and. Chopin, and will be open to the general public. Student Recital: Frank W. Baird, cornetist, assisted by Grace Harriman Sexton, pianist, Noah A. Knepper, oboist, and Mary Al- ice Duncan, pianist, will be heard in a recital 8:30 Friday evening, To the Editor: T'S A DOWNRIGHT sorry sight to see The Michigan Daily suc- cumb to the current anti-Soviet hysteria with which the press is seized. The editor responsible for play- ing up Victor Kravchenko's "rev- elations" before the House Com- mittee on un-American Activities (Daily, Wednesday, July 23) was surely aware of two facts that ought to have conditioned his judgment of the newsworthiness of the Kravchenko dispatch. First, the House committee be- fore which Kravchenko appeared has been time and again discred- ited as either a reliable or a fair forum. It seems peculiarly to have attracted, from its inception in 1937, an assortment of extreme Right wingers whose viewpoints, however worthwhile they seemed or however privileged they were, have gained no notoriety for eith- er their veracity or their pro- fundity. More serious, in the immediate instance, is the editor's excision of a significantly revealing portion of Kravchenko's testimony, re- ported in the same Associated Press dispatch that was printed in part in The Daily: "He de- clared that a person who reads the Communist newspaper, the Daily Worker, knows it for what it is; but not so with the Chicago Sun or New York PM. Kravchenko said it is his opinion that Mar- shall Field, publisher of the Chicago Sun and PM, is more dangerous and causes America more trouble than some 30 per cent of the Communists about whom we know what they are doing." All of Which just about con- vinces me that this exiled Rus- sian "democrat" would rather see imposed on the peoples of both his native land and ours the brand of freedom that is, in Chi- cago, espoused by the Tribune, and, in New York, by the Sun (whose childishly hysterical three- line, front-page-wide headlines about theft of atomic secrets were virtually discredited). Please-let's not add an Ann Arbor newspaper to this gentle- man's list of preferred reading. -Robert Copp August 1, in the Rackham Assem- bly Hall. Mr. Baird, a student of Haskell Sexton, will play compo- sitions by Haydn, Hindemuth, Em- mauel, and Barat. The program; presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music Degree, will be open to the public. 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 Pri- day, 9-12, 2-5; Saturday, 9-12; Friday evening, 7:30-9:30; Sun- day 3-5. Events Today Theoretical Physics Colloquim: Professor Victor Weiskopf will give an extra colloquim on Nu- clear Binding Energies on Friday, July 25, at 4 o'clock in the staff room of Randall Laboratory. The second Fresh Air Camp Clinic will be held on Friday, July 25, 1947. Discussions begin at 8 p.m. in the Main Lodge of the Fresh Air Camp located on Pat- terson Lake. Any University stu- dents interested in problems of individual and group therapy are invited to attend. The discussant will be Dr. Daniel C. Siegel, Neur- opsychiatric Institute of the Uni- versity Hospital. Art Cinema League and Camuipis Chapter American Veteran's Com- mittee present a great first-run French film Children of Paradise. English titles Friday, Saturday, July 25, 26, 8:30 p.m. Box office opens 3 p.m. daily. Hill Auditor- ium, phone 4121, Ext. 479. University Community Center Willow Run Village TO THE EDITOR EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (which 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 shortened, printed or omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. 44 F It I s t A Hysteria "N 4' l f. -L N z. Undercover Maisie, MGM, Ann Barry Nelson- AT LAST! Maisie with black bangs. Southern, hair and If you enjoy a harmless crusade against the forces of crime and don't rebel at the rehashing of a character in a long series of pictures, you'll get a bang out of Undercov- er Maisie. i With only her physical attributes and her skill in the art of the brush-off to recom- mend her, Maisie does all right as a female detective, her accomplishments in judo making the masculine cast look like babes in the woods. Barry Nelson resembles an immature Or- sen Welles at times, but what he lacks in allure he more than recovers in his luck in lines. His crack, "I'm .ust as human as the next guy" tops the others in overstatement. -Beverly Dippel 1 BARNABY... r ' r C-..M 7017, )te A'-ooger Pl4, inc.