THE MICHIGAN DAILY suNDAY, JULaT i, 19 Congressional Calendar fihte Pe by b. s. brown, co-managing editor [ED A one-night stand at At 8:30, that awfully cute nurse reap- rvice. peared, with a pink pill. It was a sleeping ised to say that the crew pill, she explained. It seems that taps are parish is friendly and effi- at 9 p.m. I hesitated in consuming the pill. It al- 't have any gripes. I stag- most wasn't necessary. The music of Del ront door, was directed to Elliott's orchestra at the League nearly e third floor and then re- lulled me to sleep. of my life. I buzzed for my cute little nurse. She ked at me sympathetically ran in with a worried look on her face. to her desk. When I told I nodded out of the window and asked her she asked if I would like if she wanted to dance. Under unreason- I nodded. weakly in the able pressure, I then took the pill. she said, "But it will cost Before I fell asleep, I began to say a prayer for the nurse for the pill had had its effects. was putting it on rather I felt just as though I had guzzled a pint s. It's a good thing I wasn't of the almighty spirits. place, unconscious. I would At 6 a.m. (my usual rising hour, of course) 2 able to tell her that I another nurse gently awakened me by quietly the payment of the dollar shouting a "good-morning" in my left ear. lying there. As I opened my mouth to answer, she thrust r did come promptly and a thermometer beneath my tongue. room, after I had filled out Two hours later they brought me break- vere almost as bad as the fast, consisting of orange juice, white it registration. gruel and coffee. I took the liquids. The nosis declared that I had gruel I returned to the kitchen with many eat in a variety of restaur- happy returns of the day. know that the food isn't Then Shirley came in. She was beautiful. you get at home, but I Blonde hair (feather cut), a sparkling smile it to be bad enough to send and a shapely nurse's cap. She walked up to rvice. me, slinkily, took me by the hand and yanked eries are raking in a fair me out of bed. She made my bed. no reason why the food I asked her for The Daily. I knew it had perly prepared. And it was been delivered. I had seen the delivery boy ere was a slip up some- sleepily walk up to the entrance when I was awakened in time to greet the early te nurse handed me some morning light. ich tasted like melted cam- She finally brought me The Daily at 10 rew it down bravely and a.m., about five minutes before I was ter threw it up, just as discharged. The doctor asked me if I would like to inner. It was the most de- stay for lunch just before I left, but I ale I ever tasted. About thought of the gruel and smiled a thanks s feeling fine. I asked if I but no, thanks. ith the inevitable answer But don't get me wrong. I love Health earance of my clothes. Service. Especially Shirley. - - :V :y yAY Letters to the Editor f LAJONIEPAT a IO ,~~ .jL16 FECloiV ilie Daily accords its readers the Sivitege oft sublittintg letters or piitic.t ion In tlii', co( U1711. Stlb)jet' to space limitations, thLe general pub- ic\ is to piblish in th.eC order in halit they are received all letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters ,andletters of a defaia- tory character or such letters which for any other reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of coi- dezsing letters. Viola Enthusiast . .. To The Editor: A few evenings ago some friends and I happened to attend a concert sponsored by the Cercle Francais. The entire program was unusually delightful and we were very much impressed with the ar- tistry of both the violist and the pianist. The concert was of parti- cular illLt'I' l to m' beause I ha1d nev'r b-for "'erd a whole pro- grain w ith the viola as a solo in- struent. I .1fond hatiltthe viola has a rich mellow tone, with var- ied enough possibilities to make it and excellent choice for solo work. Why thcen isn't it used in this manner more often? Thele has been good music written for vi- ola. On questioning a musical friend on the subject, I find that is just isn't the style. I vote for initiating a new style. This friend further told me that twenty years ago solo cello concerts were almost unheard of in America and now a days are a common occurence. Eo perhaps there is some hope that. the viola will have its day soon. -Alice Rabson 1 i I r rMr: it i DAILY OFFICIAL BULLIIN T f=t rs. ._ o... .. eu+vrr , a...K w , _... ,,,..w ... DREW PEARSON ON 1he WASHINGTON ___ MERRYGO-ROUND i I11 MATTER OF FACT by STEWART ALSOP im-Like almost everything other side. Something very like a vacuum peculiar country, the in- now exists. The question is how to fill it. istinct low comedy flavor. Siam has an army of some thirty thousand one of Siam's large collec- reasonably good infantrymen, sufficient to >rime ministers, a man of assure at least the ,internal security of the and real intelligence. Yet country, except that they are very badly 11 Siamese, about half his armed. Siam is looking for arms. a window seat wriggling his Small arms alone are not enough .g and telling jokes. to bring this lesson home, .either here or 1 attempt was made to in- elsewhere. What is needed above all is a note into the conversation, firm, clear American policy, which wilt' kely to happen, the former convince Southeast Asia first, that the d, if Indo-China as well as United States is not interested in restor- Communists, and pressure ing colonialism in Asia; second, that the on Siam? He giggled. "We United States is nevertheless not prepared d, giggling merrily, to witness the substitution of a Communist iggles, this prediction was imperialism for a European imperialism; rfectly accurate one, as and third, that the United States is a ,nd, in the view of the power to be reckoned with. ere. For many years, Siam To devise such a policy, and to make it nly independent state in stick, is as hideously difficult a problem as For all these years Siam has ever confronted the United States. Yet it its independence, not by is not enough for the American policy mak- but by a carefully cal. ers merely to throw up their hands in de- af caving in when caving spair, for then the giggling prediction of ble. the former prime minister, with all its dire 'nt cavein occurred during meaning, will certainly come true, and not Marshal"n hibul Songgram only in Siam. Vnashno w.When ghrap-n (Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) W ASHINGTON - The idea oft Congress repealing the law of gravity is an old joke. Neverthe-t less, the Senate is actually study- ing what laws may be needed to regulate man-made hurricanes. The issue was brought up by General Electric which asked Con-1 gress to exempt the company froml damage suits for any wind, hail or1 rain storms it may cause. General Electric is dead ser- ious about this. For it has a con- tract with the Navy to conduct weather-making experiments in the mountains near Schenec- tady, N.Y. and wants to make sure it is not held responsible in case a bad storm is brewed. The Navy appealed to Congress on behalf of General Electric, warning that its experiments "may cause certain weather conditions -rain, snow, hail and even in some instances may develop hur- ricanes and other high wind storms." This worried Senator Harley Kilgore, West Virginia Democrat, who called a hearing of his judi- ciary subcommittee, nervously asked about the danger of start- ing a hurricane. Earl Dressler, meteorologist forJ the Office of Naval Research, ex- plained: "We have found that in seeding the cumulous-type cloud that causes tornado or thunder- storms, different results have come about. Sometimes the cloud will dissipate from the sky. So it is very possible that one of the things we may come out with is the elimination of the tornado or the elimination of hail from the coun- try.", Relieved at this, Kilgore went on to another problem. He was suspicious that General Electric might learn how to control the weather, then patent the proc- ess. "The next thing you know," he snorted, "General Electric will have this whole thing patented, and we will pay them a royalty every time we turn around. It has been my experience with General Electric, Bell Research, Westing- house . . . That they spend our money and then turn around and patent the results and they soak us for it." "If they could break the spell of weather we have just been hav- ing, Senator, I would be willing to contribute," suggested the Navy's Captain Chester Ward. "I do not like to pay twice," grunted Kilgore. Meanwhile, General Electric must go on experimenting with the weather at its own risk. Con- gress will not pass a law-at this session. FORGOTTEN GOOD NEIGHBOR Despite the North Atlantic Pact, ex-Congressman Maury Maverick found President Truman quite Mexican-minded when he called at the White House the other day. "It looks as if you folks in Washington have your eyes so focused on Europe that you can't see south of the border," Mav- erick told the President. "In fact, it looks as if Mexico would have to move over to Europe in order to get any attention from the U.S.A." Mr. Truman listened carefully, took notes copiously. He showed surprising knowledge of things south of the border. "I certainly agree that we can't neglect our friends in Latin Amer- ica," he told Maverick, and point- ed out that he personally had taken two trips to Brazil and to facilitate the sale of beef from a friendly neighbor, Mexico, rather than from an unfriendly dictator- ship, Argentina. HOT-WEATHER TEMPERS Tempers are as hot as the tem- peratures these days on Capitol Hill, with usual parliamentary po- liteness broken by flashes of anger. Two sparring partners, often at each other's throats, are Sen- ate majority leader Scott Lucas of Illinois and Senator Pat Mc- Carran of Nevada, both Demo- crats. It's got to a point where they don't even take the trouble to expunge their heated remarks from the record. Latest flareup was over funds for the watchdog committee sup- posed to keep an eye on the Mar- shall Plan. Created by the Repub- licans, the committee is now chairmanned by McCarran, and when Lucas argued that the com- mittee was costing too much money,uthe Senator from Nevada flared up. "I think it would be well," he piped, "for the Senator from Illi- nois to have some conception of the law before he says this com- mittee is trying to branch out all over the world." "I thank the able Senator from Nevada for that last con- tribution of his," purred Lucas, in a voice as sticky as molasses. "I well know what a distin- guished lawyer he is."' "I did not ask the Senator for that," snapped McCarran. "I am not giving itto him be- cause I like the Senator from Nevada, and he is a great lawyer," Lucas replied, sweetly. "I would not, under any circumstances, at- tempt to compete with the great legal ability he exercises on the floor of the Senate." At this the Nevadan puffed up and exploded: "The sarcasm of the Senator from Illinois . . ." But Lucas cut him off with a sharp: "I did not yield for that." "The Senator was addressing me personally," squeaked McCarran. "Will he not yield?" "I decline to yield. I hope the Senator understands it!" snapped the majority leader. "I do understand it!" yelled Mc- Carran. Finally Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, leader of the weekly wor- ship hour for spiritual-minded Senators, broke in. "Peace, brethren, peace!" he soothed. * *1 * NATURAL GAS MAY STRIKE The natural gas lobby seems to have concluded that John L. Lewis is not the only controller of fuel who can strike. In Telegrams to Congressmen, the lobby has threatened to shut off the nation's natural gas -- unless Congress passes a bill exempting indepen- dent producers from Federal reg- ulation. The warning was sent to members of the House Com- merce Committee just before they were scheduled to meet on the bill. Signed by Richard Wag- ner, president of the Chicago corporation-a holding company which holds the purse strings to many natural gas companies -the telegram said: "We are convinced that failure to pass (this) bill would mean hardship to consumers generally, as most producers are determined to avoid any sale in interstate commerce until the natural gas act is clarified." This threatened strike by pro- ducers is the climax of a long. All notices for the Daily Official i Bulletin aresto be sent to the OfficB of the Summer Session in typewritten B form by 3:30 p.m. of the day preced- j ing its publication, except on Satur- day when the notices should be sub- mitted by 11:30 a.m., Room 3510 Ad- ministration Building. SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1949 VOL. LIX, No. 30S f( t Notices i The Creole Oil Co. is in needP of two women teachers for itst school in Venezuela. One position s calls for a primary teacher, theA other, for a teacher of the inter-N mediate grades. Experience is re- quired. For further information, call at the Bureau of Appoint- ments.T Public Administration Students: Films on administrative manage-B ment will be shown on Tuesday, August 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. in theE East Lecture Room, Rackham Building. All interested persons p cordially invited. Student Loan Prints: All Stu- n dent Loan Priits rented for thes Summer Session are to be returnedV to Room 508 (basement), Admin-' istration Building, by August 5.P A fine of five cents will be chargeda for each day the picture is heldc after that date. The office is open from 8-12 a.m. and 1-5 p.m. Monday throughC Friday. v La Boheme, Puccini's world fa-t mous opera will open Wednesdayt night at Lydia Mendelssohn The-r ater, 8 p.m. This last summer pre-t sentation of the Department of Speech will be produced in con- junction with the School of Mu-n sic. "La Boheme" will have a five day run, Aug. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8.1 Tickets are on sale at the Theaterl box office, open from 10 a.m. to1 5 p.m. Square Dance sponsored by theQ Graduate Outing Club will be held Wednesday, Aug. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Graduate Outing Club rooms< on the Ground Floor of the Rack-4 ham Building. There is a smallI admission charge. Everyone in- vited. Russian Circle Meeting, Monday,f Aug. 1 at 8 p.m. at InternationalG Center. Program: Movies about1 Russia. All interested are invit- ed. Graduate Outing Club will meet at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, July 31, at the Northwest Entrance of the1 Rackham Building, for swimming.k All Graduate students are invited. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for John Krapcho, Pharmaceutical Chemis-i try; thesis: "Synthetic Analgesics. Cycle Analogs of Amidone," Tues-( day, Aug. 2, 2525 Chemistry Bldg.,c at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, F. F. Blicke.1 Orientation Seminar in Mathe- matics. Tuesday, Aug. 2, 3-5 p.m. Tea at 4 p.m., Room 3001 Angell; Hall. Mr. Arnold will speak on1 "Euclidean Areas and Volumes." Mr. Lubelfeld will speak on "A decomposition of the surface of a sphere." . Botanical Seminar: Wednesday, evening, Aug. 3, room 1139 Nat- ural Science Building. Dr. Ken- neth L. Jones will discuss his work on "Screening for Microbes that Produce Antibiotics." Everyone interested is invited. Doctoral Examination for John Krapchio, Pharmaceutical Chem- istry; thesis: "Synthetic Analge- sics. Cyclic Analogs of Amidone," Tuesday; Aug. 2, 2525 Chemistry Bldg., at 2 p.m. Chairman, F. F. Blicke. Refresher Course in School Vo- cal Music, Hussey Room, Michigan League, Monday, Aug. 1. Program: 9, Creative Activities in School ng, Jon Curry, Leola Hoke, Edith 3ugg, Robert Bartholemew, Mar- orie Hubbard, Frances Gillett. Lectures The Linguistic Instliute lectures .or the coming week will feature hree outstanding visiting ling- ists. On Tuesday evening at 7:30 n the Rackham Amphitheatre Professor Thomas A. Sebeck of the University of Indiana will peak on "The Meaning of 'Ural- Altaic. On Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the Michigan Union Professor W. E. Bull of Washington University, t. Louis, will discuss "Objective Determinants Affecting Tense- Time Systems." The third lecture will be by Professor W. Freeman Twaddell of Brown University on "Analogy." He will speak in the Rackham Am- phitheatre on Thursday at 7:30 .m. Lecture: Miss Josefina Mesa, ioted Mexican costume artist, will speak on her experiences in art, West Gallery, Rackham Building, Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 8 p.m., aus- pices of the Sociedad Hispanic and Casa Espanola. The public is cordially invited. Summer Session Lecture Series. General subject, sixth week: Quo Vadimus? Edwin G. Nourse, Coun- cil of Economic Advisers, Execu- tive Office of the President, "Na- tional Resources and Maximum Production," 8 p.m., Rackham Lec- ture Hall, Monday, Aug. 1. Tuesday, Aug. 2: Lecture. "Ro- man Law and Its Influence on Western Civilization." Professor H. E. Yntema, professor of com- parative law. 4:15 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Tuesday, Aug. 2. India Collo- quim. "Hindu Thought from Rig- Veda to Rabindranath Tagore." Speaker: Professor Benoy Sarkar. Chairman, Professor Hans Kurath. 4:15 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham Building. Lecture. Tuesday, Aug. 2. "The Meaning of 'Ural-Altaic'." Pro- fessor Thomas A. Sebeok, Univer- sity of Indiana. 7:30 p.m., Rack- ham Amphitheatre. Concerts Student Recital, auspices of the School of Music. Arthur Kennett, pianist, 8 p.m., Rackham Assem- bly Hall. Monday, Aug. 1. Carillon Recital: Percival Price, University carillonneur, will are- sent a program on Monday, Aug. 1, at 7:15 p.m. His program will include compositions as follows: 4 old Italian Pieces; 2 Carillon compositions; and 6 Latin Ameri- can Songs. The Rackham Terrace is open to the public for those who would like to listen to the concert. Student Recital, auspices of the School of Music. Mary Crawford, pianist. 4:15 p.m., Rackham As- sembly Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 2. Faculty Recital, auspices of the School of Music. Stanley Quar- tet. 8 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 2. Chamber Music Program: Stu- dents of Paul Doktor and Oliver Edel will present a program of chambertmusic on Wednesday; Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League. Their program will include a quar- tet by Beethoven, a quarte by Mozart, and a sonata for viola and piano by Milhaud. This program is open to the public. Exhibitions Rackham Galleries, east gallery. Paintings by Willard MacGregor. Visiting Professor of Piano, School I :~ t4duu k{ cess if the Com-' vhich is in many Communist drive Fifty-Ninth Year L) gains sufficient Editedand managed by students of the University .) gins uffiient of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Siam. Phibul has Control of Student Publications. mmunist line and Yet someone will Editorial Staff B the only sensible B. S. Brown..................Co-Managing Editor Craig Wilson ...............Co-Managing Editor Merle Levin......................Sports Editor mean a full fledged Marilyn Jones............... Women's Editor Bess Young........... .Librarian ntually, no doubt,B uld be transformedusiness Staf RobertC. James ............. ...Business Manager acy," complete with Dee Nelson....................Advertising Manager arxist Leninist ex- Ethel Ann Morrison..........Circulation Manager James McStocker................Finance Manager 's. But at first it is Telephone 2 3-24-1 would merely be- _6_ of Japanese power, o suit Communist Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited ios. Siam will cave to it or otherwise credited to this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein from one side, and are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michi- a vacuum on the gan. as second-class mail matter. cnod did afin job friofrtaing our