FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY- UNIAY, JUNE 26, tIy pocrites A UNIVERSITY MEDICAL professor re- cently said that compulsory health in- surance should never be imposed on Amer- icans because it is the first step towards socialized medicine. That may very well be, but let's start from the beginning and find out if compulsory health insurance is so bad in the first place. There's a doctor in my hometown that won't examine a patient who hasn't first handed over $25. Payment by installments won't do, and if a patient can't afford that kind of money, he goes elsewhere. Another doctor was once driving in his car when he saw a man lying by the side of the road. The doctor stopped to examine the man. The man had been drinking, but he had also been hit by a car. Asked the doctor, "Do you have any money?" Groaned the man, "No." Said the doctor, "Then I can't waste my time." These are isolated events, and I am sure that not all doctors are like this. In fact, every time I turn on my radio, I discover that the country is chuck-full of Dr. Chris- tians. But as long as there are doctors who are hypocrites in spite of the Oath of Hypocrq- tes, and jvho worship the almighty dollar before their sworn duty, then the public *must have some means of protection. That is why national health insurance programs and maybe even socialized medi- cine are necessary. -Arlynn Rosen Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: B. S. BROWN - Executive Reorganization TODAY A BATTLE is in process, a fight for executive reorganization in which every citizen can take part. The primary weapon at our disposal is the report of the Hoover Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. It will not be an easy victory, for as in the past there are three major obstacles to the launching of needed administrative reform. In the first place is the apprehension of government personnel who might be affect- ed by such a program. Many bureaucrats and agencies have unofficially lobbied against the granting of blanket reorgan- izational powers to any executive bureau, for they have been afraid that an executive program might place their status in jeopar- dy. Also, Congress has been hesitant to en- trust much discretionary power to the chief executive, in whom is already con- centrated an overwhelming amount of au- thority. And finally, apathy of the aver- age American toward the pressing need for immediate reorganization of the na- tional administration has steadfastly ham- pered the enactment of an effective re- modeling program. Previous attempts at reorganization have progressively weakened the arguments of groups opposed to the needed reform. Few capable government officials have lost pres- tige because of administrative revision, and Congressmen have almost never undone an affected administrative change. In turn, the people of the country have been rewarded with a strengthened national government that has been somewhat better correlated by these previous acts. * * * THE HOOVER COMMISSION has conclu- sively shown that the machinery of ad- ministration is in great need of a general overhauling. Because our government has not been built up systematically, but rather MATTER OF FACT: East-Wes By SAMUEL GRAFTON I SEE that the editorialists are earnestly counseling the Senate not to cut the next Marshall Plan appropriation by $1,000,000,- 000 or by $740,000,000, or whatever. It sounds like the editorials of a year ago. But this is not a repetition of last year's fight. The pundits will be making a great mistake if they think that it is. Much is changed in the Marshall Plan picture, and the usual hol- ler about keeping our role in the world, etc., is not going to be quite as persuasive as it was. In the first place, a recession has begun. In the second place, the current fight against the Marshall Plan is being carried on more by the "right than by the left, which makes it harder to beat down. In the third place, it looks as if we shall have a budget deficit, raising the almost insuperable temptation to balance the books at the expense of Euro- peans, who don't vote here. In the fourth place, almost nobody really believes any more that the Marshall Plan is going to bring about a complete state of balance and recovery in Western Europe, so that the very strong argument about giving a lot in a hurry so as not to have to give any ter is weakened. In other words basic difficulties and po- tential contradictions that were buried deep down in the Marshall Plan setup (and that were easy to keep buried during a boom) are now coming to the surface. The idea that we needed deliberately to weaken our own competitive position made sense at a time when every other country was stretched out flat on its destiny; may- be it still makes sense during an American recession, but this time you have to use Slick Chicks ABOUT THE SMARTEST thing a guy can do is take his girl swimming. This is the theory put forth by the "Swim for Health Association," 60 East 42nd St., New York. They claim there are three ways to beautify women through use of permanent (fresh water) waves. 1. Swimming creates a symmetrical body because it brings all the important muscles into play. This helps the body to lose ac- cumulated flesh in various parts "that are infrequently exercised." 2. Swimming increases their appetites and creates flesh to fill unsightly hollows. 3. Swimming even helps the digestive sys- tem and eliminates complexion troubles caused by poor functioning of the internal organs. Well, Hi Ho! It's off to the beach. But swim ourselves. Oh no! Think what might happen? -Craig Wilson t Trade figures, charts, and four-color diagrams to prove it. Things are getting more complicated, a little thicker - statesmen, for example, who tell the people they cannot have new hous- ing because we must economize, may find it increasingly difficult to speak loud and clear for full Marshall Plan spending. In many ways, this is the morning after, and we look upon the Marshall Plan in the gray light of an unattractive dawn. * * * AND IT SEEMS to me that all this is a kind of historic judgment on us because we once closed ours eyes to certain facts. Let us go back into history for a moment to see exactly how we did this. The original Marshall Plan conception, if you remember, was based squarely on the idea of an expanded trade between Western and Eastern Europe. Partly be- cause of Russian suspicions of the Mar- shall Plan, but partly also because it was found much easier to put the Marshall Plan through Congress on a note of fear of Russia, the original idea of east-west trade got lost in the shuffle. More than one observer was pained, during the original debate, to see us throwing away the only perspective which could make the Marshall Plan work, as the price of getting it passed. We passed it anyway, solemnly setting up a scheme for the recovery of half a world. * * * T HAT WAS THE midnight enthusiasm of which this is the morning after. The Marshall Plan, even with some of its main arteries severed, still did a lot of good. I was for it, still am for it, thought Europe needed it, still thing it needs it, with or without eastern trade. But the moment it became a closed-orbit plan, its ultimate objectives were vitiated, and that is why the news from Western Europe, especially from Britain, is of gathering economic trouble. We can now learn the lesson, and work for a revival of east-west trade, showing ourselves knowledgeable enough to seek out the line of greatest advantage, no mat- ter how difficult or complex - or we can continue to mock at the need for such trade and squabble among ourselves over how to keep the appropriations up. The plain truth is that enough of us just haven't seen that it was more important, even from the viewpoint of combatting Com- munism, to build up east-west trade and thus a natural Weste:n economic stability, than it was to give a short-range expression to our defiance. (Copyright, 1949, New York Post Corporation) IN HIS YOUNGER days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her. --Marcel Proust. by piecemeal addition, there is an obvious lack of integration and coherence in its structure. The creation of many agencies for the sake of temporary convenience has in many instances resulted in unrelated or- ganization, duplication of effort and admin- istrative confusion. While Secretary of Commerce in 1925, Mr. Hoover discovered to his amazement that brown bears were under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture, grizzly bears under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and polar bears under his own jurisdiction as Secretary of Commerce This is an example of the tremendous ob- stacles that the chief executive encounters in his job as manager of the national ad- ministration. With his experience as head of the na- tional administration, Chairman Hoover directed the committee's efforts into ques- tions of organization and procedure. The group's recommendations in these fields could undoubtedly be best effected through a permanent organization, similar to the Bureau of the Budget, which would be able to supervise and instigate improvements in the organization of the Federal govern- ment. This "Bureau of Administrative Management" is the most logical means for repairing the loose and planless gov- ernment structure. A systematic regrouping and consolida- tion of administrative agencies would un- doubtedly be the main objective of a bureau of administrative management. Lines of responsibility could be clearly drawn, and the operational area of each agency could be defined so as to eliminate as much dup- lication and divided authority as is prac- ticable. AND A BUREAU of administrative man- agement could also organize a civil serv- ice system that would classify all govern- ment personnel, except policy-making offi- cials in the top echelon of the administra- tion. This would not only result in increased operational efficiency but would also main- tain the national government on a more stable basis during a change of adminis- trations. The present complexity of the func- tions of the Federal government neces- itates an immediate remodeling of its organization.sUnity of administration is the key to success in any large enter- prise, and the future of this nation neces- sitates an instrument that can adequately cope with the problem. The instrument best equipped to effect the recommended changes is a permanent executive agency charged with continual government modernization and directly re- sponsible to the President. Until such an agency is organized to carry out the recom- mendations of the Hoover Commission there can bed little hope for an effective and co- herent national administration. -David W. Belin The Daily Suggests: Sunday, again. What to do in Ann Arbor? Well, it depends. Have a date? Or are you going with your husband or wife, which ever the case may be? Perhaps you're all alone this weekend? If you come under the head- ing of a male or female, read on ... The Michigan Theatre is offering today, "Edward, My Son," the Broadway hit, with Spencer Tracy. If you're married or are taking in the night air on a stag basis and you enjoy dramatic performances, it's the Michigan for you. But if 'you have a date, and want to get in the mood, Bing Crosby is just the guy vo help you out. Der Bingle teams with Rhonda Fleming, for romance, and William Bendix, for comedy, in Mark Twains' im- mortal "A Connecticut Yankee," beginning today at the State Theatre. But that's only half the evening. If you're one of those who have a date, we're sure your fertile imagination will carry you for the remainder of the lassie's time allotment. If you're married or alone, you're beyond Daily aid. In spite of the generally acceptable at- mosphere of the local cinemas, for those who want complete privacy, there is the Huron- not to bathe in, however. Take a jaunt out to the stream where it meets Longshore Drive and rent an Old Town canoe. We can't tell you what to do once you get there, because we're not sure we know the fundamentals of canoeing. In case you missed it, "Adventures of Don Juan," with Errol Flynn, begins today at the Weurth Theatre, on Main Street. This is one production that will really get you in the mood. It will also be somewhat frus- trating. Errol is just a bit too good when it comes to amorous intrigues. Listen for Errol's resigned remark, when he is caught by one flame's husband-quite appropriate. Interested in art? The third annual ex- hibition of the Michigan Water Color Soci- ety is being shown at Alumni Memorial Hall, from 2 to 5 this afternoon. Looking Back Ci 35 YEARS AGO: The 1914 Michigan baseball team boasted its best record in history piloted by a former Chi- cago Cub. The captain of that year's team was one George Sis- ler, St. Louis Brownies' first base- man in the 20's. A new $25,000 contagious di- sease hospital, financed by Ann Arbor and built behind University Hospital by the University, was opened for business, accomodat- ing students and Amb Arborites alike. 25 YEARS AGO: William J. McAdoo led the field for the Democratic presidential nomination, with governor of New York Al Smith a close second. During the convention, the dele- gates put on an old-time Demo- cratic demonstration in honor of Woodrow Wilson. Babe Ruth led the Major Leagues in the home run slot with 17. Olympic teams will have a chance to keep in shape while making the trip to Antwerp on the S.S. America. A racetrack was built on the promenade deck and a swimming pool was set up with enough room for fancy diving. Rowing machines were installed to keep the crews happy and the ship was even equipped with a station- ary javelin to keep the spear- throwers in the right condition. 20 YEARS AGO: Henry Ford made a deal with Thomas A. Edison and bought oner of the inventor's first shops, at glass-blowing shop at Parsippany, N.J., where he created his carbon-1 filament electric lamp. The shop was to be moved to the Edisonian Institute at Dearborn. Plans got underway to build a memorial to Man o' War, after a German big-wig was impressed by the horse at the Derby. The me- morial will be a life-size repro- duction in bronze of the "great-c est racehorse in history."t 10 YEARS AGO: New additions to the campus for the year were the mall in front of the League, the Rackham Build- ing and the two Men's Quads. Haven Hall was then the old Law Building. Two-ton Tony Galento got the beer knocked out of him by JoeN Louis in his futile attempt to takef the championship from the Brown Bomber. Tony's fate came in the fourth round when he was so bat- tered that he couldn't see; so the referee stopped the fight. One haymaker Tony wound up on missed the champ by a "good twoa yards," in the words of announ- cer Don Dunphy. 5 YEARS AGO: Five officials of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Cir- cus were arraigned for manslaugh- ter after the big top went up in flames at Hartford, Conr., kill- ing 152 and injuring 250 more.1 Most of the victims were women and children. Not one circus em- ployee was killed or injured andk all the animals escaped harm. Only a few days before, one of the officials said, the big top had been water-proofed by a gasoline- parafin solution. 1 YEAR AGO:C American planes started shut-t tling into Berlin with powdered milk for babies and other suppliest for the German capitol's 2,000,000 starving citizens, as the three-day old Berlin Blockadeeby the Rus- sians showed signs of tightening rather than abating. -From the Pages of The Dailyf "Hell With The Uranium--Here's What Wer After" I! I tI~~nL./ - ii.WiRIILii1tij M ii 1 Y' -75 nMr, t. ., yy~ra+ruta 4 Week int Review By CRAIG WILSON (Co-Managing Editor) The inevitable began to happen last week in New York and Wash- ington as the trial of twelve Communists, the Judy Coplan espionage case and the Alger Hiss perjury trial dragged on. The three were being called "The Communist Trials" and news- papers were putting aside a special half of the front page for them. * * * * Win . . WINNER BY SIX lengths was the Hiss Trial: U.S. Supreme Court Justices Felix Frankfurter and Stanley M. Reed and Boston U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Justice Calvert Magruder testified to Hiss's good reputation. Then Hiss took the stand in his own defense and repeated the denials of Communist Spy charges made by Whittaker Chambers which brought about his indictment by a New York Grand Jury. THE REAL TEST will come Monday. Defense attorney Thomas Murphy will cross-examine Hiss and try to prove Hiss lied when he told the Grand Jury that he did not see Chambers in 1938 and give him secret government papers. If Murphy is successful, he may break the case wide open. Con- viction carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and a $4,000 fine. p* * * * Place. . JUDITH COPLON was grilled to until she burned up. Chief Prosecutor John M. Kelley, Jr., spent the week cross-exam- ining her - tracing her actions in her Justice Department job, her admitted love for Russian UN construction engineer Valentine A. Gubitchev, and her affairs with other men. She stuck to her story that the "secret FBI reports" she allegedly was smuggling out to Gubitchev were: 1. to help her prepare for a Civil Service examination; 2. part of her work, and 3. material for a book she destroyed rather than turn over to the FBI. After the ordeal was over, Miss Coplon let loose an emotional blast at the government's case against her. She said she was being "framed." "I'm not a Communist and never was a Communist . . . God knows how many decoys and all kinds of frame-ups you hlave put in this case . . . I will always say that I'm innocent.." [It So Happens1 Mistaken Identity .. . THERE'S ALWAYS at least one good chuckle coming out of registration each semester. This one involves a Southern gentle- man from New Orleans. When one of the young ladies asked him for his railroad ticket (Michigan slang for the registra- tion forms), he drawled, "Ah'm sorry, ma'm. Ah just got in from New Orleans this morning but ah came by bus." * * * Pun Fun . . A YOUNG LADY was complain- plaining to her professor in English recently about the diffi- culty in interpreting Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound." "I really had to plough through that stuff," quoth the young lady. "My," re- plied the professor, "that must have been a harrowing experi- ence.", x << t t i r Show ..,. THE FOURTH DEFENDENT in the Communist conspiracy trial, Gilbert Green, Chicago, chairman of the Communist Party, joined three others who will sit out the trial in the clink. Federal Judge Harold R. Medina lost his patience when Green testified that his party has done more "to abolish all forms of ex- ploitation of human relations" than any other group in the nation. Washington Whirligig MICHIGAN NEWSPAPERS continued their grassroots campaign for enactment of administrative reform based on the Hoover Report. Under new streamlining procedure, President Truman submitted plans for a tenth cabinet post, Department of Welfare, and some shuffling of the bureaucratic cards. The gimmick was that if Congress did nothing for sixty days the plan would go into check. Theoretically, what could be more easy for Congress to do but nothing? But there existed the possibility that Congress would adjorun within sixty days - slapping a more-or-less "suspensive veto" on the President's plans. * * * * Capitol Capers*... No. 1 HOSTESS Mrs. Perle Mesta will be throwing her parties in the Duchy of Luxembourg in the capacity of a minister. They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach and Pearle was currently feeding Democrats. * * * * PRESIDENT TRUMAN blamed Russia for failure of the most recent Four Powers talks on Germany. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Louis A. Johnson spent $80 million redecorating a couple of aircraft carriers. CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS groomed legislation to: Support a trimmed-down version of the President's housing pro- gram, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr, promptly introduced. Raise the minimum wage from 45 cents to 70 cents. * * * * Assorted,.., THE UNIVERSITY got money from operations after July - but $1 million less the State Legislature for than they wanted. F .....vim..., BARNABY . T = LIF F, r 11 Of course, it would have been most unfair for a 300 bowler to remain in the Catskill League. So, Y7. - Fl-v I'm VERY sleepy, O'Malley. Here. Hold my sand-pail and I'll catch forty or so winks So, as Pete the Sandman slept, I, with his sand-pail - -E So, as Pete the Sandman slept, l chanced upon '7 Ah! To sleep-to sleep. T'would indeed be most ...so, because my good wife Your story t can't sleep. . .she talks. . . I wish there the more she talks, the less way I could H wonderful to sleep. '\ Im