PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951 I - - MOMMOMM a} Open Regents' Meeting THIS AFTERNOON, seven men and one woman will file into a plush conference room on the second floor of the Adminis- tration Building. They will carry brief cases loaded with papers on which are printed words, num- bers and dollar signs. Somebody will close the door and they will seat themselves around an expansive, polished table with more papers on it. They will talk all afternoon, perhaps during the evening, and during the next morning. They will listen attentively to a number of important persons who will throw a few more words, numbers and dollar signs at them. They will inspect huge charts covered with more of the same Then the Regents of the University of Michigan will quietly dispose of more than 19 and a half million dollars accorded them by the people of Michigan. Fortunately, the University's operational budget will be available for all who wish to peruse it. Less fortunately, the process of its formulation will never be known. The Board of Regents is an eight- member constitutional corporation which holds the University's charter for the peo- ple of the state and exercises the supreme power in University affairs. Two members are elected to the Board in the statewide spring educational elections every two years. They represent the people in guiding an educational institution which is owned and largely supported by the peo- ple. This is the theory. But, in a sense, the success of its implementation is dubious. * * * THE FACT IS, the Michigan voter is re- presented by the Regents but he has no way of determining the quality or method of his representation. There is no newspaper in the state which pan accurately report the workings of a Regents' meeting. Reason: Regents' meetings are closed. Although there hasn't been a formidable controversy over this procedural rule in recent history, it has cropped up consistent- ly in the biannual campaigns. Questions concerning it are among the most frequent at local party meetings before elections. The Daily's questionnaire to Regent candidates has brought it to light on campus. And both Republican and Democratic candidates have specifically stated dur- Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN BRILEY ing the election battles that they favored open meetings. Yet, contrary to a popu- lar notion in some circles, they have nev- er promised to work for the institution of the new policy. Open meeting supporters have a lot of ground on their side of the fence. But it is not an open-and-shut case. It will be argued that many of the mat- ters considered by the Regents are of a confidential nature. It will also be contend- ed that the presence of the press and the public limits free discussion on matters less secret. These are important objections to a change in the existing by-law. But they are difficulties which can easily be iron- ed out. The bulk of the Regents' work would con- tinue to be handled in the various commit- tees and the committee-of-the-whole under the open meeting system. But every issue brought to an official vote, and accqmpany- ing discussion if so desired, would be a mat- ter of public record. The open meeting would give individual Regents opportunity to express their agree- ment or disagreement with policies adopted by a majority vote of the Board. * * * THE CLOSED MEETING is not a small matter of procedure. It is partially res- ponsible for the widespread ignorance con- cerning the Regents, which results in rela- tively low votes sending them into office. It has led to a fallacious impression that tlJe Board is a solid unit of infallible experts who rapidly achieve unanimity on every is- sue with an omniscient, godlike precision. But, more importantly, closed meetings violate the democratic principle which holds that the free flow of information is essen- tial to intelligent voting. There is no doubt that people of con- siderable intelligence and leadership have the final say in the University. But in Regents' meetings, it is the people's business that is being transacted and th people have a' right to know the manner of that transaction. Closed meetings can only be harmful. The fact that they cannot be logically justified may lead people to mistakenly speculate on what goes on in them. By opening Regents' meetings to the pub- lic, the Board has nothing to lose but an antiquated, unsupportable by-law which benefits no one. It is squarely up to the Re- gents of th eUniversity to take the initiative in allowing their actions to be reviewed by their constituents. -Barnes Connable DORIS FLEESON: Baruch Reconciliation WASHINGTON - President Truman had held out the olive branch to Bernard M. Baruch weeks before their unexpected meet- ing and "pleasant chat" at the country home of Secretary of Defense Marshall last Sunday. Baruch was the first choice of Secretary Marshall and his manpower expert, Assistant Secretary Rosenberg, for membership on the commission ordered by Congress to recom- mend what form Universal Military Train- ing should take. With some firmness they so notified Truman. The President put up hardly a token re- sistance. After all, the softening process with respect to his differences with the elder statesman had gone on a long time. Mrs. Roosevelt, Stephen T. Early and a few other bold souls had risked the Truman temper to recount how much was owed Baruch for his services to his country and party, how much he still could do and was doing for many vital parts of the Truman program. Baruch, who will be 81 in August, de- cided in the end that others could do the UMT job as well or better but the ex- changes regarding it were wholly pleasant. The Truman-Baruch difficulties arose from Baruch's refusal to serve on a fund- raising committee in the Truman campaign for reelection. Though a stanch-and gen- erous-Democrat, Baruch had never taken on a strictly party function of that sort but Truman assumed he was being snubbed per- sonally and wrote one of those letters. As they always do, it got out. Since then, each man has occasionally taken off the gloves. Appropriately a reconciliation of sorts has now jelled in the home of the man both disputants admire so much and have so warmly supported before the world- General Marshall. But much has been lost meantime in what was essentially a' personality difference that President Truman, the younger and more powerful man, could have resolved at any time with a generous word or gesture. There are unfortunately signs that he has not yet learned the high cost to his real goals of his self-indulgence in personalities. * *4F DOUGLAS' CANDIDATES AWAIT TRUMAN'S O.K. THREE Federal judgeships have long been vacant in Illinois. The state has one Democratic Senator, Paul Douglas. Obedient to rockbound custom, Senator Douglas last January 26 sent to the Justice Department the names of three candidates on whom he had agreed with the party organization in the state. One of the three was ruled out as too old and a substitution effected. In mid-April, the trio having cleared all legal and political tests, the Attorney Gen- eral forwarded their names to the White House. There they lie-while 4,000 cases accumulate on the Federal dockets in that jurisdiction, the five incumbent judges work overtime, and the President makes it in- creasingly clear just how annoyed he is with the Illinois Senator who Is so often men- tioned as a possible candidate for the Presi- dential nomination. The President is not the only Democrat who could do with a little less diffusion of the Douglas talents but then a characteristic of the intellectual liberal like Douglas is diffusion, plus a certain allergy to a strictly party line. And in all major respects the Senior Senator from Illinois is a powerful backer of the Truman program. He is also one of the party's best adver- tisements in a period marked by wide- spread attacks on it for confusion and corruption. Neither directly nor indirectly has he had one word of criticism of his judgeship can- didates. He could be expected to insist on high standards, he is satisfied his men are honorable, progressive Democrats. In the end the President again will have to yield unless he wants an open break. Senator Douglas is seeking only his peroga- tive as Truman, a Senator himself once, knows. (Copyright, 1951, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) "They Went Thataway" J ( v fE 7 , 4 INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Korean Peace Depends Upon Attitude of Russian Leaders ewl G . l e 004400 By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst THE BIG QUESTION regarding the possibilities of an end to the fighting in Korea is whether the Soviet Union really wants it, or whether it is making a gesture for the purposes of its phony world peace campaign while counting on its satellites to scuttle a practical settlement. On the basis of the State Department understanding of Admiral Kirk's clarifying conference with Andrei Gromyko in Moscow Wed- nesday, Russia would seme to have given her approval for the Chinese and North Korean commanders to meet the UN high command and call off the shooting, leaving political questions for later exploration. Gromyko, in his attempt to appear in the role of mediator rather than a member of an anti-UN military alliance which his country really is, even pretended to have no views on what sub- sequent political steps might be necessary. Gromyko professed merely to be interested in a cease-fire, with the commanders to work out assurances against anyone breaking the truce, thereby creating an armistice and paving the way for a peace conference. He even claimed not to know what the Chinese Communists might want. * * * * THERE IS STILL a gimmick in even the bare truce proposal, how- ever, not to mention the possibilities of another endless and non- productive propaganda battle after the shooting. Gromyko said it would be up to the parties in Korea to decide what subsequent special arrangements would have to be made for a political and territorial settlement. That could mean, if Russia wants it that way, another agenda row, such as the recent one in Paris, in which the Communists would put forward a series of non-acceptable prerequisites for further talks. I don't think much of the State Department's fear that Rus- sia might establish a truce for the purpose of military skull- duggery. The Communists are capable of anything, even of se- curing a withdrawal of Allide forces by false representations and then attacking again. But that would destroy the last tatters of Russia's peace flag, which now represents the main theme of her cold war strategy. If a truce comes, it will most likely be observed, so that Russia can strengthen her cry for peace while making sure that there is no real peace. If the Russians are not sincere in the truce move, it will mean that they have sought to disrupt Allied morale at the fighting front at the moment of a new Communist offensive. Il 1w DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN1 f1 :a The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the Uni- versity. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3510 Administration Bldg. at 3 p.m. on the day preceding publication. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951 VOL. LXI, No. 3-S Notices June 25 - August 17 The General Library will be open: 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday. 8 a.m. - 12 m. Saturday. Closed Sunday. Circulation of books for home use from the second floor desk will be discontinued at 6 p.m. except to hold- ers of stack permits, but books may be returned and loans renewed at the charging desk. The Divisional Libraries will be open: 8 a.m. - 12 m.; 1 - 5 p.m. Closed evenings and Saturdays with the ex- ception of : Music Library 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; 7 - 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday. 8 a.m. 12 m. Saturday. Engineering and East Engineering 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Fri- day. 8 a.m. - 12 m. Saturday. The study Halls in the General Li- brary and Angell Hall Study Hall will be open: 8 a.m. - 12 m; 1 - 5 p.m.; 7 - 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. 8 a.m. - 12 m; 1 - 5 p.m. Friday. 8 a.m. - 12 m. Saturday. Automobile Regulations The University applies certain restric- tions to the use of automobiles by its students. The restrictions on the use of automobiles do not apply to the fol- lowing students of the summer session who are in an EXEMPT category, but evennstudents of this EXEMPT ca- tegory must register their automobiles with the Office of Student Affairs, Room 1020 Administration Building. The following students are in an EX- EMPT category: 1. Those who in the academic year are engaged in professional pursuits, as, for example; teachers, lawyers, physi- clans, dentists, nurses. That is, those who in the preceding academic year were engaged in one of the above oc- cupations or professions and not en- rolled as a student; 2. Those who are 26 years of age or over; 3. Married students; 4. Students holding a faculty rank of teaching fellow or higher. Students who are NOT EXEMPT in accordance with the above listings may apply for permits to Mr. Streiff or Mr. Wirbel in the Office of Student Affairs, Room 1020 Administration Building. Each application will be considered up- on its merits. A Recreational privilege is available for participation in outdoor sports such as golf, tennis, swimming, etc. All students who in the academic year 1950-51 held either the EXEMPT or SPECIAL PRIVILEGE permit will automatically be entitled to the same privilege for the summer session as long as their status remains the same, i.e., the reasons for which the permit was originally granted persist through- out the summer session; BUT, these students must promptly notify the Of- fice of Student Affairs of their intent to extend the permit through the sum- mer session. All students, including those who are in th'e EXEMPT category, must carry Public Liability and Property Damage and furnish the name of the insuring company, the policy number, and ex- piration date of the policy before per- mission to drive is granted. Any stu- dent under 21 years of age must pre- sent a letter from a parent giving him permission to operate a car. NOTE: Any-student who drives with- out first having secured a permit is subject to disciplinary action. The summer session interpretation of this ruling given above does not apply to the regular academic year. Student organizations planning to be 1i t ON TIME Washington Merry-Go-Round WITH DREW PEARSON -WASHINGTON PIPELINE- THE SUBPOENA which the Senate Crime Committee is issuing for Governor Ful- ler Warren of 'Florida will set a precedent which some Senators think should be ap- plied to Gov. Dewey. They want to question Dewey as to why he released Lucky Luciano when Luciano had a 30-50 year jail sen- tence yet to serve . . . David Lilienthal, ex- head of the Atomic Energy Commission, made a special call at the White House to warn Truman that the new AEC is giving out entirely too much secret information in its press releases. A gold mine for the Rus- sians is in the AEC press announcements. Lilienthal told Truman The belated announcement of Tennessee's aged Senator McKellar that he will run again has left young, energetic Congress- man Albert Gore out on a limb. Previously, McKellar had made a gentleman's agree- ment that he would retire, leaving the way open for Gore. As a result, Gore had made a gentleman's agreement with the other Tennessee Congressmen that he would give up his seat, and his Congressional district could be split among them. This solved the problem of who would lose a seat, when Tennessee gets cut down one Congressman next year. However, Gore is now out in the cold, unless he decides to tackle the veteran McKellar ... Wyoming's Democratic Sena- tor Lester Hunt has the most bipartisan re- cord in the Senate since the death of Mi- chigan's great Senator Vandenberg, the champion of the bijartisan foreign policy. The latest tabulation of Senate votes shows that Hunt's record is 93 per cent bipartisan. * * * -PEACE OVERTURES- IT IS NO longer a secret that United States delegates to the United Nations have been working with other UN members for some time on a Korean truce proposal and that Comrade Malik jumped the gun on them. The most important issue in these dis- cussions, however, has not leakde out-- namely, the differences of opinion regard- position of Formosa; and 2. Seating the Chi- ing two highly controversial points: 1. Dis- nese Reds in the United Nations. The United States proposal, discussed with 15 other UN nations by United States Other points in the propaganda truce agreement were fairly simple-namely, a 20-mlie demilitarized zone north of the 38th Parallel, and an agreement that there would be no more bombings, no more guerrilla warfare, and no more troops or equipment moved into Korea by either side during the v truce., The above terms were somewhat similar to those which President Truman sent to General MacArthur for his perusal just be- fore Easter and which MacArthur subse- quently issued as his own. MacArthur's jumping the gun was one fact which con- tributed to his ouster. The President, how- ever, is in no position to oust Comrade Ma- lik for likewise jumping the gun when he heard that the UN and the United States were working on a truce. (Copyright, 1951, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) /etteP TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. active during the summer session must register in the Office of Student Af- fairs not later than July 6. Forms for registration are available in the Office of Student Affairs, 1020 Administration Building. Social Events sponsored by student organizations at which both men and women are to be present must be ap- proved by the Dean of Students. Ap- plication forms and a copy of regula- tions governing these events may be secured in the Office of Student Af- fairs, 1020 Administration Building. Requests for approval must be sub- mitted to that office no later than noon of the Monday before the event is scheduled. A list of approved social events wil be published in the Daily Official Bulletin on Wednesday of each week. Season tickets for the Department of Speech Summer Season of Plays may now be purchased at the Men- delssohn box office from 10 a.m. thru 5 p.m. daily. The summer schedule which will run from July 4th thru August 13th includes comedy, tragedy, melodrama and an operetta. Also fea- tured on bill is The Young Ireland Theatre Company, on tour in this country for the first time. Single sale of tickets begins July 2. All perform- ances start at 8 p.m. Badminton Badminton may be played by both men and women students every Wed- nesday evening at 7:30 in Barbour Gym- nasium. Instruction will be offered to those who wish it. Recreational Swimming - Women Stu- dents- There will be recreational swimming at the Union Pool every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 8:15 . The J. Raleigh Nelson House for In- ternational Living wishes to announce several openings for room and board for the summer session. 915 Oakland. 38506. The Fresh Air Camp Clinic win be held June 29, 8:00 p.m., at the camp on Patterson Lake. Dr. Ralph Rabinovitch, Asst. Prof. of Psychiatry: in Charge of Children's Service, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University Hospital will be the psychiatrist. Events Today Motion Pictures, auspices of the Uni- versity Museums. "Nature of Energy," "Cell Division-theBasis of Growth in All Living Things," "Life Cycle of Moss." 7:30 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium. Congregational - Disciples Guild: Pic- nic. Meet at 5:30 at Guild House, 438 Maynard. Call 5838 for reservations. Roger Williams Guild: June 29, 8:30 p.m.-Open House. All Baptist students invited. Academic Notices Sports and Dance Instruction The Department of Physical Educa- tion for Women offers instruction in golf, tennis, archery, swimming, recrea- tional sports, posture, and modern dance. These classes are available to all summer session students. Register now in Office 15, Barbour Gymnasium. Seminar in Mathematical Statistics: Meeting to arrange hours will be held on Friday, June 29, at 12 o'clock in Room 3020 Angell Hall. Coming Events Saturday, June 30- Reception for Newly Arrived Foreign Students, auspices of the International Center. 8:00 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. Phi Delta Kappa (Men's Education Fraternity) picnic Thursday, June 28. Meet at front entrance to University High School at 5 p.m. Intercultural Outing: Sat,, June 30, Silver Lake. Leave Lane Hall, 10:00 a.m., return, 6:00 p.m. Cost $1.50. Make reservations at Lane Hall by Friday afternoon. Hostel Club Sunday canoeing, July 1. Meet at League at 8:00 a.m. with food for cook- out. Call Mary Rowley by Friday, tele- phone 3-8687. New members welcome. Tues., July 3-- "English Surnames." Ralph L. Ward, Associate Professor 'of Clasies Yale University. 7:30 Rackham Amphitrea- tre. Thurs., July 5- "P h o n e t i c s and Pronunciation Tests." Robert Lado, Assistant Direc- tor, English Language Institute, Uni- versity of Michigan, 7:30 p.m., Rack- ham Amphitheatre. United States in World Crisis lecture. Harold H. Fisher, Chairman, The Hoov- er Institute and Library, July 5. Saturday, June 30, 3:00-6:00 p.m.- Swimming; Silver Lake trip. Roger Wil- liams Guild. All Baptist students in- vited. I1 41 'l Iran Dispute . . i cURRtEIN M i O) >/ ! II At The Michigan. THE GROOM WORE SPURS, with Ginger Rogers and Jack Carson. IT IS DIFFICULT to see in what way light summer entertainment can become much lighter than the current offering at the Michigan Theatre. Around about halfway through this one, everybody evidently threw up the sponge, and let it float off into the infinite willy-nilly. The comic conception was not so bad. Jack Carson plays a Hollywood cowboy who hates horses. To help himself get rid of a gambling debt he has incurred, he, hires Miss Rogers as his attorney and marries her to furnish the proper incentive for her ef- fort in his behalf. Unfortunately, however, this is mere bagatelle. Writer Robert Carson (no rela- tion to Actor Jack) exhausts this situation in all of thirty minutes, and thencefor- ward, hold onto your hats. The charac- ters lose all semblance of reality; the plot is forgotten, and the dialogue, which is ordinarily R. Carson's forte, sounds like At The State ... I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F. B. 1. with Frank Lovejoy and Dorothy Hart. STRICTLY as cops and robbers fare, this film comes close to making the grade. As far as plumbing the real depths of the tragedy of Communism, however, it fails badly as usual. Establishing the clearly marked line be- tween good guys and bad guys, it makes all the easy mistakes, identifying the Party as a kind of super-racket, confusing the liberal position with the Kremlin line, and so forth. Mr. Cvetic, as played by Frank Lovejoy, is an extremely sympathetic hero. As an FBI man planted in the Party, he is confronted by the antagonism of his family and friends. This is material for a fine internal conflict, some of which Lovejoy gets across. For the most part, however, his relatives and his son are presented as hollow 100 per cent American types, and we have to accept Cvetic's hidden affection for his family mostly on faith. To the Editor:1 HARDLY a single commentator denies that Iran is one of the most mismanaged, exploited ,back- ward, feudal countries in the en- tire capitalist orbit. Can any one seriously argue that the people of Iran must be kept in that state of affairs indefinitely just because American interests fear what they call the "spread of Communism?" The story of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., is a case in point. It seems to me unnecessary to argue that the Iranians have a right to run their own oil developments. The British labor government has been fighting the Tories on the ground that the British steel industry needs to be natoinalized, why not the same right for Iran? If the entire oil development of California were in the hands of a foreign corporation, 52 percent of whose stock was milked for 50 years by Iranian stockholders, no American would question our gov- ernment's right to change that situation. We'd change it demn quickly, too. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., has been an empire to itself. Its green and red flag flutters over 100,000 square miles of South-Western Iran. It has its own police, its airport, its harbors. Thirty two million tons of oil are extracted here a year, fourth in the world production. Iran never forgot, for it shows the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co's con- tempt for their sovereignty. In- stead of paying royalties on gross income, the company first deducts its taxes to the British government and calculates the royalties after deductions. The royalties have been paid on the basis of the weight of oil extracted, not its value. By paying royalties on weight, the company gets away with millions, while Iran gets none of the valuable lighter fractions. It can be argued, that the Iran- ians are not ready to run the giant enterprise, and it is true that the British have sabotaged the train- ing of Iranian technicians. But the same arguments were made when the Russians took over their own oil fields from French con- cessions, in 1919. The same argu- ments were used against Mexico in 1938. To land British air-born troops in southern Iran means within a short time to face civil war and risks the elimination of Iran from the western orbit. To support the British to the poit of military measures means American compli- city in robbing the Iranian people of their resources. This will not be forgotten in Iran. -George P. 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