'I ' TE MICHIGAN DAILY IMMT1SDAY,3ULY 27, 1950 Phit Ti4 Corke .. . Em ________________________________________ "HE DETROIT CITY COUNCIL, in ban- ning the sale of "subversive" publica- ns on city property, seems to have been st blindly lashing out at an enemy whom e Councilmen do not understand or know >w to defeat. Their action is worse than tile. It is actually subversive itself. And the ost disturbing thing about it is that the uncil does not give any sign of knowing lat is being subverted. The Council resolved to order Detroit olice to stop the sale of "subversive news- apers and literature." The Councilman ho offered the resolution explained that ommunist papers were giving "aid and omfort to the enemy" while the U.S. is ighting in Korea. He said that their sale "treasonable." The action affects news stands located on ,y property, which includes sidewalks. It is based on the fact that street news inds are not licensed by the City. They yve only "squatters" rights," according to e Council. When police found a news stand near City I selling the Daily Worker, the Council opted a new ordinance banning this stand a nuisance and making no mention of ibversive literature." They hoped in this y to avoid a long court test on the consti- tionality of their action. UT EVEN IF THIS DEVICE is constitu- tional, the Council's purpose is obviously prohibit the sale of the Communist pubes ations. And it is still true that nothing 1 be gained-and a great deal may be t-by their action. The Communist Party will continue to action. Those who believe the Party's pro- ganda will continue to believe it-and will atinue to read it. Those who might be per- aded by the Party's arguments about cap- list totalitarianism in the U.S. will 'be esented with just one more pro-Commun- argument. At the same time, those who disagree ith the Communists are denied the op- ortunity of examining the propaganda hey are attempting to combat. A "great %mpaign of truth," such as Secretary cheson proposed, cannot have much ef- et if those who are to undertake and ipport it are not allowed to examine tlsehood. If there is one thing the Nazis proved, it that force cannot conquer an idea. And it is the idea of Communism, as much as aggressive political power, that we art ainst, then we must fight it by showing at democratic ideas-such as freedom of ech and of the press-are better. HERE IS ALWAYS, of course, the bare -possibility that the Communists may neday be right about something. The City uncil is not only inadvertently aiding the mmunists' propaganda campaign; more portant, it is giving up our traditional re- rce upon freedom for even the most ex- me opinions as a means of arriving at .th. And the fact that Communism is an in- ternational conspiracy does not remove the obligation to protect freedom of thought. It is one thing to insist that Communists not be given responsible posi- tions in the government. It is quite anoth- er to prohibit them from advocating their ideas in peaceable fashion. Our governmental agencies, including the Detroit City Council, should be prepared to tolerate Communist propaganda so long as it is not a clear and presentdanger togthe existence of the government. And, while Communist conspiracy is a present danger, Communist propaganda is not-at least not yet. S* * * THIS BRINGS ME to the most dangerous feature of the Council's action: the as- sumption that Communist propaganda is "treasonable". If true, this premise means that what we are engaged in is not a police action in Korea but an all-out military war against Communists all over the globe. If Communist propaganda is treasonable, then there is no hope whatever of getting along with the Russians or any other Com- munists; the only possibility is full-scale military war, which might as well begin im- mediately before the Russians are too stroxtg to be beaten by us. Communist propaganda cannot be treas onable unless it constitutes a clear and pre- sent danger to our government. And this propaganda cannot constitute a clear and present danger unless people who read it are likely to rise in rebellion, or desert from Ar- my, or engage in violent action against our government. The Detroit City Council, and others who agree with them, are apparently ready to say that this is so. They seem to think that we must give up the conflict of ideas in order to engage in a conflict solely of force. They must believe that a general war is inevitable. And by acting on this assumption, they are prepared to make it so. If we assume that World War III is in- evitable, and tailor our thinking to that as- sumption, we will miss all the opportunities that present themselves to avert a world war. We have such an opportunity now in Korea. Our policy there is to stop aggres- sion by force, if possible. And our future policy ought to be to do all we can to es- tablish the positive conditions of demo- cracy there. But we cannot do this if our policy is to be subverted at home by peo- ple acting on the assumption that we are in a world war. To confuse the Korean war with a world war, as the Detroit City Council has done in banning the Daily Worker, is not only to miss the whole point of Truman's action there. It is to subvert our world policy, or what should be our policy, of attempting to aid in the spread of democratic ideas and practices while at the same time preserving the basis for negotiation with an anti-demo- cratic power at the earliest real opportunity. -Philip Dawson THOMAS L.-STOKES: GOP Indirection WASHINGTON-A diverting theme has been parroted constantly by Republi- cans in their attack on the majority report of three Democratic members of the Foreign Relations subcommittee, who called the charges by Senator Joe McCarthy of Com- munists in the State Department a "fraud and a hoax." As if by common accord, Republicans who have risen during the debate-which has been prolonged to the exclusion of, much more pressing business-have said in varying phraseology that the subcom- mittee's investigation was, as Senator Ives put it, "aimed primarily and exclusively at the senator from Wisconsin." The fact is that the committee, under di rection of Senator Tydings, its chairman, gave Senator McCarthy, who alone brought the charges, days and weeks in which to pre sent his case, which he did in elaborate and nauseating detail. Quite humanly, committee members became annoyed as the senator rambled on at his complete lack of proof. But they always acceded to his repeated re- quests for more time, which in the end only brought more of the same unsubstantiated stuff. One who has watched Congressional in- vestigations for more than a quarter of a century can attest that this committee was far more patient with the senator than .any other investigative group in that time has been with private citizens. That probably comes under the license of what is known hereabouts as "senatorial courtesy" which is extended by members to one another. One by one, the committee went ex- haustively into all cases submitted by the senator, including an exploration of the files, and the three Democratic members constituting the majority-Senators Tyd- ings, McMahon and Green, reported they found nothing to uphold his allegations and excoriated their Republican colleague. But there is another side of this case which has been overlooked. That involves the pub-' lic interest-and the Senate. '* * TO THE EXTENT that the committee did question Senator McCarthy as to his facts, it was not only entirely justified, but it would have failed in its duty to the pub lie, and itself, if it had not done so. It was justified, in fact, in going much further. Under the Constitution the Senate, as well as the House, is the sole judge of its members. It has the duty to sit in judge- ment under the Constitution to protect both itself and the public, and this it has done in many instances in its long his- tory. It has called its members to account. At times its judgement has gone so far as expulsion, at others to votes of censure. Senator McCarthy slandered citizens from behind his cloak of Congressional immunity. Because of that immunity, these citizens an, the public in general have no protection whatever in cases of this kind. That makes it incumbent upon Congress, in whichever branch the breach of public interest occurs, to assume its duty to protect the Constitu- tional rights of citizens, as well as to protect itself so that it will not lose the public con- fidence necessary for the proper exercise of its functions in our systems. Never in the history of Congress has one member traduced so many private citi- zens without reason. In normal times, with an absence of the emotion and, prejudice that suffuses these times, he would have been called more strictly to account, aS. othersahave been, and by members of his own party as well. The Republican position is somewhat hard to understand, even if you dismiss it as mere politics designed either to take a fell. low member off the hook, or to keep alive the rumors he circulated for effect in the fall elections, or both. The give-away of the weakness of this case is that no one has risen to defend the Wisconsin Senator. You can find out from cloak-room conversation what most of his Republican colleagues really think of his performance. The resort instead, is to technicalities, a round-about approach, a defense by indirection without going to the root of the matter. (Copyright 1950, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ettei'J TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which arse signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any ;eason are not in good taste will be condensed edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. Scottsboro Case... To the Editor: I WISH to take exception to the editorial, "Scottsboro Case- Finis," which appeared in The Daily on July 20th. In the first place, the title of the editorial represents an erron- eous assumption. The Scottsboro Case is not ended. The refusal of Governor Williams to extradite Haywood Patterson means only that Patterson is free to live in Michigan. For the "last of the Scottsboro boys" the case cannot be ended until a complete pardon is granted by the state of Ala- bama, so that Patterson will be free to live in any state of the Union. For the Negro people, and other American citizens, the case cannot be considered ended so long as the conditions under which the original assault on the principles of justice, decency, and democracy took place still largely persist. True, Haywood Patterson if free (while he stays in Michi- gan), but at the present time other Haywood Pattersons. are facing death. At this writing 27 Negro men and boys are facing death through "legal lynchings" in nine states of our country. The "ultimate justice of democracy". which took eighteen years to catch up with Patterson, may be too late to save the lives of Willie McGee of Mississippi, the "Mar- tinsville Seven" in Virginia, or the nineteen other Negro Ameri- cans who are victims of Jim-Crow justice. The Scottsboro Case cannot be ended so long as the pattern it so vividly portrayed is still a part of the "American way of life." For in the last analysis, the pat- tern of Negro oppression in Am- erica is buttressed, not only by unjust courts, but by intimida- tion, the threat and use of lynch terror, and, Mr. Samra to the con- trary notwithstanding, bullets. As long as this pattern is allowed to continue, we must expect other colored peoples of the world to regard with suspicion and dis- trust our professions that we are seeking unselfishly to protect and foster their democratic aspira- tions. We send American troops 8,000 miles from home "to combat Communism" and ensure free elections to the colored people of Korea. How many people in this country would support the send- ing of troops to combat fascism and ensure free elections to the coolred people of Alabama (home of the Scottsboro Boys) and Mis- sissippi (home of Willie McGee)? While we rejoice that Heywood Patterson, "last of the Scottsboro Boys" has secured at last a meas- ure of freedom, we cannot afford to relax our struggles to make all America truly a land where pro- gress can be won through the bal- lot. -Thomas Byers, Grad. .* * 'Peace' Petition To the Editor: IT APPEARS obvious from The Daily's account of physicist Dean Sawyer's speech on atomic energy that he is not too well versed in sociology, military tac- tics, or logic, and that he may never even have read the Stock- holm Peace Appeal which he so easily classifies as a Communist- Russian plot designed to emascu- late the U.S. of her military viril- ity. The Dean implies in his attack on the Peace Appeal that it only asks the U.S. to destroy her atom- is bombs. Actually, the Appeal mentions neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R. and instead asks for an international ban on atomic wea- pons with "the institution of strict international control to enforce this." It is no radical proposal. Both ourselves and the Soviets have in the past proposed, the same in the UN, being unable to agree on particulars. The Appeal is merely a direct moral injunc- tion from the people designed to bring pressures on all statesmen to work harder to gain agreement on the particulars as one step to- ward world peace. Dean Sawyer says that without the bomb the U.S. would be at the "mercy of Russia because of her superior overall military strength," that the atom bomb is "our most strategic weapon." But what is strategic about a weapon which cannot single out industrial tar- gets but only knocks them out in- cidentally to killing millions of quite unstrategic women and children. And why is the posses- sion of this weapon of mass terror particularly advantageous to the U.S.? This is 1950; the Russians have the bomb too. And are not our own populations more cen- tralized, more exposed, than Rus- eia~9 Ar u ...milind n af mi pearkweak when he attempts to attack the Appeal by labeling it Communist. The error is formally called the "genetic fallacy" .--- But forgetting the fallacy, the la- bel itself is false. Surely, for in- stance, t h e French Catholic Church, which has almost unani- mously endorsed the appeal, or our own atomic physicist, educa- ro, and religious leader, Arthur Compton, who supports the Appeal, would not fit any "front organiza- tion" or "fellow traveler" classifi- cations. Incidentally, if the Communists are "plotting" peace, what, pray tell, are we capitalists plotting? -Harold Morris * * * Bolivian Offer .. . To the Editor: KITH RESPECT to the first definite offer of army person- el by Bolivia to the UN call, I can not but shake my head, smile, and later call it a gross and false- ly inspired offer. I spent years in Bolivia; my father was for four years military adviser in the Bo- livian Army; Bolivia and its peo- ple are still close to my heart. It's people are friendly and coopera- tive, its music is inspiring, its na- ture ic beautiful and impressive. There is something in Bolivia that is not only a nuisance, but also a burden that has strangled the country since its existence. This is the Bolivian Army, especially its officers. These men are mostly crude, ignorant, and reactionary; they have controlled the country many times in the past; they have tried to eliminate with the most cruel methods any opposition to- ward them, they receive the greatest share of the national budget in a country where iliter- acy is among the highest in the world. These officers are nearly all against foreigners, especially the U.S. They just hate the U.S. Many of them studied in Hitler's armies and some of them even ac- quired their knowledge in Dach- au, Buchenwald, or Belsen. How hypocritical is it that 30 of these officers have been offered to the UN efforts in Korea. The fight in Korea attracts them because they can get experience and training later to be turned against those in Bolivia who will want to be- come free of such a vicious army preponderance. I deplore the fact that other countries are not willing to send ground troops to Korea and that only U.S. soldiers are dying for a UN cause.sBolivian officers are a greater evil than no offer. Their lack of technical knowledge will only burden the war efforts. For the Bolivian people it is danger- ous because what these officers will have learned will be turned against them and it will only mean a greater tyranny by the ar- my. Certainly, there are some good and honest men among these of- ficers, but they are so few, nearly all of them sooner or later leave the army; therefore, the chance is very small that these will be among the 30 officers offered to the UN. -Charles W. Arnade, Grad. * * * Peace' Petition . . To the Editor: T(' THE DAILY'S coverage: of F Dean Ralph Sawyer's talk is accurate, then wil somebody ex- plain the logic to me? Dean Saw- yer said among other things: 1-In a major war we must use atomic bombs as our most stra- tegic weapon. 2-Success of the Stockholm Peace Appeal would lead to the destruction of our country. 3-Atomic energy has the pow- er to destroy civilization. Acording to these premises our country is in for destruction no matter what. We might call this a bloody syllogism or by the more appropriate term, nonsense. -Alm Lippitt 'Peace' Petition .. To the Editor: I WOULD like to use The Daily's Letters to the Editor column as a means of contacting the Ann Arbor group which is circulating the Stockholm "peace" petition. It's hard to admit in print that you've been wrong, but frankly I have been. Without checking into the reasons or people behind the petition, I took it at face value and signed. I now have had a chance to in- vestigate and believe that while the local group may be perfectly sincere I have reason for question- ing the motives of the originating group or groups. The petition is being used as an instrument of Sat. f+ rarmn niie+to mirraii DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in The 'Daily Official Bulletin is constructivenotice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Office of the Summer Session, Room 3510 Admin- istration Building, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Saturdays). THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1950 VOL. LX, No. 22-S Notices Preliminary Examinations in Linguistics: (1) General Linguistics, Friday, August 11, 2-5. (2) Comparative Grammar, Sat- urday, August 12, 9-12. (3) English, Chinese, etc., Sat- urday, August 12, 2-5. Candidates should notify Prof. H. Kurath of their intentions by August 1. Deutsches Haus. No "Open House" will be held this week, Thursday, July 27, because of con- flict with Oxford Players. The Counseling Division of the Bureau of Psychological Services will be located beginning Thurs- day morning, July 27, on the sec- ond floor of the old ROTC Build- ing, on State Street between the Michigan Union and the Adminis- tration Building. The former ad- dress was 1027 East Huron. Summer Employment: Positions open at Michigan resorts for wait- resses, cooks, salad girls, and kit- chen help for both boys and girls. For further information, call Ext. 2614 or at the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 3528 Administration Build- ing. The American Blower Company of Detroit has an opening for a mechanical, industrial-mechanical, electrical, or civil engineer to do work analizing field reports and orders. The Packard Motor Company has a position in their organization for a junior project engineer. The scholastic standing of the candi- date must be decidedly above av- erage. The Marvin Motors of Tekonsha, Michigan, is interested in a Busi- ness Administration or Economics major to fill the position of office manager. For further information call at the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administration Building. All applicants for the doctorate who are planning to take the Aug- ust preliminary examinations in Education, to be held August 21, 22, and 23, 1950, will please notify the Chairman of the Committee on Graduate Studies in Education, Room 4019 UHS, immediately. HARLAN C. KOCH, Chairman Committee on Graduate Studies School of Education A representative of the North American Companies of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania will be at the Bureau of Appointments on Aug- ust 2, 1950. They are interested in interviewing August, 1950 gradu- ates of the Business Administra- tion, L.S.&A., and Engineering colleges. For further information and appointments for interviews call the Bureau of Appointments, Ext. 371. The New York State Civil Ser- vice Commission announces an ex- amination for Assistant Electric Engineer for residents and non- residents of New York state. Clos- ing date August 25. For further in- formation call at the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Administra- tion Building. A representative of the Michigan Chemical Corporation of St. Louis, Michigan will be at the Bureau of Appointments on Tuesday, Aug- ust 1, to interview Chemical En- gineers interested in Process Engi- neering and Pilot Plant Develop- ment. They are interested in men taking either B.S. or M.S. in Chemical Engineering. For further information and appointments for interviews call the Bureau of Ap- pointments, Ext. 371. 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Material necessary for the balance of the Summer Session should be anticipated and procur- ed on or before this date. Lectures Dr. Samuel Hartwell, Michigan Department of Mental Hygiene, will be our psychiatrist consultant at the case clinic Friday, June 30, at the Fresh Air Camp, Pinckney, Michigan. Pol. Sci. 279, Public Policy and Atomic Energy, Seminar meeting open to the public on Thursday, July 27, at 3 p.m. in the East Con- ference Room of the Rackham Building. Lyman Moore, City Man- ager of Portland, Maine, will speak on "Management of Atomic Powers." Seminar in Applied Mathema- tics will meet at 4 p.m. today in Rm. 247 West Engineering Build- ing. Paul T. Nims of the Chrysler Corporation will speak on "The Vibration of 'aircraft engines." The Quest for Social Security. "An Appraisal of the British Na- tional Health Service." Otto Kahn-Freund, Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science. 2:15 p.m. today, Rack- ham Amphitheatre. Public Policy and Atomic Ener- gy. Lecture, "Management of the Atomic Towns." Lyman Moore, City Manager of Portland, Maine. 3-5 p.m. today, East Conference Rm., Rackham Building. Institute on the Near East. "De- velopment and Characteristics of Near Eastern Private Law." Her- bert J. Liebesny, United States Department of State. 4:15 p.m. to- day, Rackham Amphitheatre. Linguistic Institute. 'Word-coin- ers." Prof. Bruno Migliorini, Uni- versity of Florence (Italy). 7:30 p.m. today, Rackham Amphithe- atre. Seminar: Thursday, July 27 at 7:45 p.m. East Council Room, Rackham Building. Speaker: Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, subject: Illum- ination and Polarization of the Sun lit Sky. Seminar in Applied Mathema- tics will meet Thursday, :July 27 at 4 p.m. in Room 247 West Engi- neering Building. Mr. Paul T. Nims of the Chrysler Corporation will speak on "The vibration of aircraft engines." Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Mary May Maneval, Education; thesis: "An Investigation of Certain Val- ues of Radio Broadcasts from a Metropolitan S u b u r b a n High School," Thursday, July 27, East Council Rm., Rackham Bldg., at 7 p.m. Chairman, F. D. Curtis. Concerts Student Recital: Grace Hamp- ton, Soprano, will present a pro- gram in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music at 8:30 p.m. Friday,July 28, in the Architec- ture Auditorium. It will include compositions by J. S. Bach, J. C. Bach, Schubert, Georges Auris, Yrjo Kilpinen, and Samuel Bar- ber, and will be open to the pub- lic. Miss Hampton is a pupil of Philip Duey. Student Recital: Marilyn Mitt- ler, soprano, will present a pro- gram in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree at 8:30 Wednesday (Continued on Page 3) 4 t ON THE Washington Merry-Go -RoundN MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON-It isn't generally known, but Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, chief of the super-duper spy agency, Central In- telligence, .had asked for sea duty well before the Korean outbreak. The Admiral has done a better job of foreign intelligence than Congress gives him credit for, but he has never been particularly happy in the job and would like to get .back to a battleship. Hillenkoetter was former commander of the battleship Missouri, comes from the state of Missouri, and was picked by Truman personally for the difficult in- telligence assignment. Faced with the Admiral's insistence that he wants to be transferred, President Tru- man has asked General Bedell Smith, for- mer U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, to take over Central Intelligence. Smith, so far, has refused, on the ground that he re- cently underwent an ulcer operation. Gen. Smith knows the Russians, and would be better than most military men for this assignment. However, Congress, in cre- ating Central Intelligence, did not intend that it be run by the military. Past experi= ence has shown that civilians are better qualified to direct detective-espionage agen- cies. Therefore, some of the President's friends are urging that he appoint J. Ed- gar Hoover to this important post. Hoover is one of the best organizers in government, has built up one of the best- trained investigation bureaus the world has, ever seen, and has it in such good shape that it could operate under a new director. On the other hand, getting intelligence on a prospective enemy is all-important in this day when a suitcase smuggled into an Amer- ican harbor, or the flight of one plane across the Arctic, or the secret massing of #rn ncnno ar~a nl~rrornni ._ riY n I F RIENDS TOLD ex-OPA Administrator Leon Henderson that he might be draft- ed to handle price controls and rationing again. "The Constitution of the United States," replied Leon, "does not permit dou- ble jeopardy. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine spe- cifically requested that she be put on the Senate subcommittee to investigate sex-un- fortunates in government. Her motive was to see that the probe is conducted in a dig- nified manner . . . . Sen. Clyde Hoey of North Carolina, in charge of this probe, is doing a fair-minded job . . . . Preliminary indications are that the greatest number of homosexuals are in the armed forces- about 30 per cent of the Navy and around 20 per cent of the Army . (Copyright, 1950, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ,1 1 + MUSIC + THE STANLEY QUARTET gave their sec- ond concert of classical and contempor- ary music Tuesday night: a program made up of a modern American work sandwiched between Mozart and Beethoven. Ordinarily one doesn't make odious comparisons; the best of the modern composers hold their own against Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven. But Quincy Porter's Eighth quartet dis- tintely suffered being played after Mozart's Divertimento in E Flat, and before the Beethoven Opus 59 No. 2 Quartet. The cen- tral fault in the Porter work is a lack of ner: hard, dry, and lifeless; or it perpetu- ates late nineteenth century romanticism. This observation is perhaps founded on an insufficient amount of listening, yet it re- mains my impression of the Piston, Porter, and Finney I have heard. The first number on the program was the Mozart Divertimento in E Flat for string trio. The first three movements are dull Mozart; the last three movements are among the finest Mozart ever wrote. Es- pecially remarkable is the Andante, a set of variations on a beautiful evocative m- n1ly_ Mr. an r'c .. ni ": avi f ;:-~ Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Philip Dawson....... Managing Editor Peter Iotton............City Editor Marvin Epstein........Sports Editor Pat Brownson.......Women's Editor