FOUR _______________ ___i__ts__________ti____________________ Perennial Nemesis Views on the Iranian Crisis The Sound of Drums C,.., ~ObMAY, when your schedule is rigidly packed for the first time in months with no room for a single interruption; some place, where you have finally discovered a nook completely inacessible to all mortals- you will be confronted by the perennial nemesis known as the newspaperman. If you haven't met him before, you will probably loudly proclaim your displeasure with his presence. You will deal with him as a feather-brained obstacle to your pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. When he persists In plagueing you about some completely in- consequential state of affairs, he will take on all the characteristics of a persecuting ogre. "Fortunately, this needn't happen to you" --at least your reaction needn't be the same. But Dale Carnegie or a new deodorant won't help. As a citizen, you should be as well in- formed of the functions and operations of the newspaper as of government. For the newspapermen who calls on you is of as great importance to you and your com- munity as the representative in Washing- ton that you never see. He is, of course, a very powerful individual. By a slip of the typewriter, he may initiate a trend in public opinion. His task is both difficult and delicate. He Is responsible for the transmission of the day's Intelligence to the citizen. In his pro- fessional role, he is interested in you only in-so-far as you can contribute to that in- telligence. When you are given the oppor- tunity to do so, it is your obligation to aid his readers in their reception of events. Hollywood won't help you. The newspa- perman is not a stereotype. His relationship with you will vary as widely as the range of human personalities. But two basic in- gredients of his outlook 'mark him as a member of the fourth estate. He is looking for a story andd he is primarily concerned with you as a contributor to that story and a possible contact for other stories. IT is essential that you should assist him as readily as you would aid the public in- terest. In an era which has seen the growth of government to almost fantastic propor- tions, the newspaperman has accordingly grown in importance. He is not only the recorder of the increasingly complex makings of history but the watchdog of the conflict between your interests and the interests of the governing powers. He is a public agent and operates on the basis of public trust. He is a servant who is not bound by the whims of sectional, constitutencies but is protected by the Constitution as a guardian of the demo- oratic code. You depend on him for the basis of your opinions-the contemporary flow of news. He depends on you as you are related to important events. It is your responsibility to live up to your end of this mutual trust. In dealing with the newspaperman, it is difficult for you to determine his imme- diate objectives because you are not as skilled in the business of pressured, com- pact writing. What he uses of what you say may come as a surprise because his con- cept of significance and Irrelevance is part of a highly specialized profession. But you are obligated as a citizen to com- municate your observations and opinions to the reporter. If you refuse to say anything, that fact may be reported. As an isolated fact, it may easily lead the readers to mis- interpret your motives for maintaining si- lence. The editorialist may expand your at- titude into a whole column of mistaken the- orizing. Sunup is the newspaperman's hour of tr- umph. Remember it the day before. -Barnes Connable Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: SID KLAUS By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-U.S. officials have made some alarming statements about the Iranian oil crisis. But the real fact is that privately they are even more alarmed than they indicate in their public statements. There are three reasons for this worry: 1. If Iranian oil is cut off, it will mean gasoline rationing in the United States. For Iranian oil now supplies England, France, Western Europe, is vital for North Atlantic Pact rearmament. If this supply stops, the U.S.A. will have to take up part of the slack and we are already importing oil at the rate of one million barrels a day. 2. What Moscow wants most is revolution and unrest in Iran, thereby giving the Com- munists an opportunity to take over. With, British oil royalties cut off, this is more likely to happen. 3. Trouble in oil countries is contagious. The Iranian shutout of the British could re- sult in an.Iraquian shutout, then one in Arabia. Already trouble is brewing in these areas. The great oil country of Venezuela could get the nationalization urge too. Inside fact about the Iranian dispute is that the State Department was warned of the situation months ago and in turn warned the British. Justice William O. Douglas, who during two summers rode all over Iran on horseback, reported to the White House that a disastrous storm was brewing. Doug- las also made public speeches urging action before it was too late. The State Department in turn called in British Ambassador Franks and Assistant Secretary George McGhee gave him about as tough a dressing-down as it is possible to give a friendly diplomat. This took place last winter when there was still time to act. One trouble was that Britain was slow in increasing its royalty payments to Iran. Whereas American oil companies in Arabia paid 50 per cent, Britain paid around 25 per cent. Another trouble was that the $25,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan which we offered Iran was aimed to improve standards of liv- ing, thus heading off Communism. But the feudal lords of Iran, who really run the country, were flatly opposed to building schools, or dividing up the landed estates- even with American money. Third trouble is that it's difficult in dip- lomatic relations to force an ally such as England to increase oil royalties, even though the trouble resulting from its failure may result in gasoline rationing in the U.S.A. Likewise it's difficult to get the rulers of Iran to reform their land system even though lack of reform may bring on Com- munism. (Copyright, 1951, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) IThe Weekend 1 By DORIS FLEESON W ASHINGTON - The circumspection of the White House-State Department comments on the Iranian oil crisis are an earnest indication of their anxiety to be helpful. President Truman was careful not to appear to be reading into the Iranian Premier's personal letter to him more than was there, and he said plainly this did not include a request for him to act as mediator. Should the United States be asked to me- diate however it has two of its foremost public figures ready, able and willing-a Supreme Court Justice and a member of the President's Cabinet. Justice William O. Douglas has for sev- eral years devoted his vacations t the Middle East and their common people. In- stead of embassy-visiting he has spent his time in villages and on horseback and mountain climbing expeditions with the tribesmen. Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman has made himself an expert on international oil problems since he took over management of the Petroleum Administration for De- fense following the Red invasion of Korea. it has in fact been Mr. Chapman's duty since the Iranian crisis arose to make plans to supply U.S. allies with the oil they may not now be able to get from the Abadan re- finery. His figures and tentative arrange- ments to switch some of our foreign oil supply, mainly from Venezuela, are in order. * * * THIS BACKGROUND possessed by Justice Douglas and Secretary Chapman is of course very important. But what makes them naturals in the Iranian situation and should inspire that fermenting country to regard them with unusual confidence is their long records of social and political lib- eralism, their proved devotion to the welfare of the individual. Reports from Iran say that the Britis fell down because they under-estimated the unrest of the Iranian masses who are so viciously poor and hungry-an unrest now fanned into the present danger to Western defenses. Iran's fractional minority of very rich are its oppressors to a far greater de- gree than the British were or could be; nev- ertheless, the British are described as having missed the boat when they did not cooperate with the liberal elements who tried to im- prove the situation of the people. Justice Douglas has many times tried to warn America about this situation. He has called for a foreign policy aimed not at putting down revolutions after they start but at the conditions of poverty and hun- ger which produce those revolutions. He has talked specifically of Iran and its Middle East neighbors. Both he and Mrs. Douglas are en route now to that area for a vacation. Although both the Justice and Secretary occupy a place high enough to give any mis- sion they undertake the most luminous pres- tige of the government and White House, they have unstarched, direct personalities. This is frankly another reason why inter- ested quarters would like to see the Presi- dent go outside the State Department and pick one or both to do the mediation job if it is offered to this country by Iran. Still another is that the State Department is con- sidered pro-British in many chancelleries and the British are the other party at in- terest. (Copyright, 1951, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ~t ) ;~ 2.-. .; ,. : < e ;, . .: s- ,. .. . INTERPRETING THE NEWS: President's Fourth of July Talk Seen as More Realistic By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst THE PRESIDENT TRUMAN who spoke July 4 of the continuing dangers faced by the United States is a more realistic President than the one who for a long time kept reiterating his hopes for peace and saying, in the old phrase of the faddists, that the world gets better and better. If any reliance can be placed at all on rearmament and col- lective security to attain peace, then peace prospects are better now. But there has been a lack of qualification, a failure to am- plify, in some of the President's brief press conference comments on the subject which very probably has contributed to lack of de- cision in the public mind. On Independence Day, however, the President got down to bed rock. He finally got around to toil, sweat and tears. The threat of Soviet aggression hangs heavy over many countries, including our own, he said. "We must continue, therefore, to build up our military forces at a rapid rate. We must continue to help build up the defense of other free nations. And we must continue the struggle to overcome the con- stant efforts of the Soviet rulers to dominate the world by lies and threats and subversion." * * * * HE ALSO SAID, in apparent reference to the necessity of not re- peating now the disastrous disarmament mistakes of 1945-46: "We must remember that Korea is only a part of a wider conflict. The attack on freedom is worldwide. And it is not simply an attack by fire and sword. It is an attack that uses all the weapons that:a dic- tatorship can command; subversion, threats, violence, torture, un- prisonment, lies and deceit." .4 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN & .4 i In Town 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, JULY 6, 1951 VOL. LXI, No. 7-S Notices Standards of Conduct ALL students, graduate and under- graduate, are notified of the following Standards of Conduct: Enrollment in the University carries with it obligations in regard to conduct not only inside but outside the class- rooms and students are expected to conduct themselves in such a manner as to be a credit to themselves and to the University. They are amendable to the laws governing the community as well as to the rules and orders of the University officials, and theyrare ex- pected to observe the standards of con- duct approved by the University, Whenever a student, group of stu- dents, society, fraternity, or other stu- dent organization fails to observe either the general standards of conduct as above outlined or any specific rules which may be adopted by the proper University authorities, or conducts him- self or itself in such a manner as to make it apparent that he or it is not a desirable member or part of the University, he or it shall be liable to disciplinary action by the proper Uni- versity authorities. Specific rules of conduct which must be observed are: Intoxicating beverages.. The use or presence of intoxicating beverages in student quarters is not permitted. (Committee on Student Conduct, July, 1947.) Women Guests in Men's Residences. The presence of women guests in men's residences, except for exchange and guest dinners or for social events or dur- ing calling hours approved by the Office of Student Affairs, is not permitted. This regulation does not apply to mothers of residents. (Committee on Student Conduct, January, 1947.) Exchange and Guest Dinners may be held in organized student residences (operating a dining room) between 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. for weekday dinners and between 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. for Sunday dinners. while guest chaperons are not required, groups without resident house directors must announce these events to the Office of Student Affairs at least one day in advance of the scheduled date. Calling hours for women in men's residences. In University Men's Resi- dence Halls, daily between 3 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.; Nelson International House, Fri- day, 8 p.m. - 12 p.m.; Saturday, 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. and from 8 p.m. - 12 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. This privilege applies only to casual calls and rnot to planned parties. Women callers in men's residences are restricted to the main floor of the residence. ' Fraternities without resident house mothers and fraternities operating as rooming houses during the summer have no calling hour privileges and may entertain women guests only at exchange or guest dinners or for social events approved by the Office of Stu- dent Affairs, I CURRENT MOVIES' EVENTS OF INTEREST IN AND AROUND ANN ARBOR THIS WEEKEND. * * * DRAMA GREEN GROW THE LILACS, Lynn Rigg's successful play that Rodgers anl, Hammerstein adapted for "Oaklahoma!"; is the first offering on the speech department's summer schedule at 8 p.m. tonight and to- morrow at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. First nighters say it's good. DANCES. THE LEAGUE will have a free stag, drag affair tonight. They've moved the dance from the Rumpus Room to the Ballroom in anticipation of a big crowd. Music will be on records. LES BROWN will play that balanced, smooth stuff of his for dancers at Walled Lake tonight. Russ Carlyle takes over Sat- urday and Sunday. GRAHAM YOUNG, his trumpet and his band will be featured in the Starlight Gar- dens at Whitmore Lake tomorrow. The dancing begins at 9:30 p.m. and "Goodnight, Sweetheart" winds things up about 1:30 a.m. MOVIES REMBRANDT, starring Charles Laughton opens the Student Legislature's Cinema Guild summer slate. The Guild always brings back the best. This ought to be no ex- ception. Today and tomorrow at the Achi- tecture Auditorium. Two performances, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. KATIE DID IT with Ann Blyth doing whatever it was Katie did at the Michigan tonight. Mark Stevens helps or hinders or something. THE BRAVE BULLS, Tom Lea's exciting novel loses a 'little luster on the screen the critics tell us, but it's still highly recom- mended. Mel Ferrer wins with the bulls and loses to the women. At the Michigan to- morrow and Sunday. FIGHTING COAST GUARD with Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines at the State today and tomorrow. THE FROG MEN with Richard Widmark and Dana Andrews replaces the "Fighting Coast Guard" at the State Sunday. It sounds like an improvement. SPORTS several openings for experienced key punch operators on a part-time basis. Must have at least six ionths ex- perience on I.B.M. key punch machine. Hours to be arranged. Apply personnel office, 3012 Administration Building., Art Print Loan Collection: Loan prints may be picked up Thursday and Fri- day between 8 and 12 in room 510 Ad- ministration Building. A number of prints are still available and may be rented for the summer session at at charge of 35 cents per print. Veterans enrolled under the G. I. Bill who, at the end of the summer session, expect to 1. Receive a degree 2. Transfer to another training insti-t tution1 3. Change their course of study must apply for a Supplemental Certifi- cate of Eligibility before the end ofi their enrollment this summer. Applica-r tion must be made at the veterans Ser-t vice Bureau, Room 555, in the basementl of the Administration Building.t Graduate Student Council Meeting Monday, July 9, 7:30 p.m. West Lecture Room, Rackham. Will all members please attend whether notified by mail or not. Mail is being held at the Informationl Desk, second floor lobby, of the Admin- istration Building, for Geraldine Ripley and H L Fry. Academic Notices -Graduate students expecting to re- ceive the Master's Degree in August, summer 1951, must file a diploma appli- cation with the Recorder of the Grad- uate School by Friday, July 6. A student will not be recommended for a degree unless he has filed formal application in the Office of the Graduate School. M. A. Candidates in History: Foreign language examinations for the Master's Degree in History will be given on Wednesday, July 18, at 4:15 p.m., in 35 Angell Hall. Dictionaries may be used. Students planning to meet this re- quirement during the current summer session should leave their names at the History Office, 2817 S. Quad, not la- ter than July 12. Algebra Seminar: Professor Emil Ar- tin will speak on the subject "Galois Theory of Infinite Fields" at the meet- ing of the Algebra Seminar on Thurs- day and Friday, July 5 and 6, at 3 p.m., in Room 3011 Angell Hall. "Law School Admission Test: Appli- cation blanks for the August 11th ad- ministration of the Law School Admis- sion Test are now available at 110 Rack- ham Building. Application blanks are due in Princeton, N. J. not later than August 1st." Preliminary Examinations in English: Candidates for the Ph.D. degree in Eng- lish who expect to take the prelimin- ary examinations this summer are re- quested to leave their nanes with Dr. Ogden, 3230 Angell Hall, at once. The examinations will be given as follows: English Literature to 1550, July 18; Eng- lish Literature, 1550-1750, July 21; Eng- lish Literature, 1750-1950, July 25; and American Literature, July 28. Both, the Wednesday and the Saturday examina- tions will be given in the School of Business Administration, Room 71, at 9:00 a.m. The Fresh Air Camp Clinic will be held July 6 at 8 p.m. at the Camp at Patterson Lake. Dr. Ralph D. Rabino- vitch, Assistant Professor of Psychology in charge of Childrens' Service, of the No truce in Korea will change the intentions of the Soviet rulers, the President said, putting the finger on the Soviets as the enemy with a vigor seldom attained before. There was a contrast between this naming of the enemy and the punch-pulling of a relatively short time ago, when government officials were at- tempting to build up public opinion against an idea, without naming Stalin & Co. directly. The President was adding his voice to a widespread campaign now being carried on from Washington to impress the people that a truce in Korea would only be an end to one incident in a long war. He knows he was speaking at a critical time, when Russia might be planning an attempt to lull those who resist her into a lethargy of false security. t D RAMA I - GREEN GROWS THE duced by the Department Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. LILACS, pro- of Speech at REMBRANDT, directed by Alexander Korda, with Charles Laughton, Elsa Lan- Chester and Gertrude Lawrence at the Architecture Auditorium. IN VIEW of the alternatives being offered at the State and the Michigan, you can do much worse this weekend than the Cine- ma Guild's, offering of Rembrandt. While there is nothing about it to warrant taking it very seriously, it has color, spectacle and, of course, Laughton. Like most "biography" films, this one does not really pay much attention to the facts of the biographbe's existence. At this late date, however, this fact should disturb no one, and the embroidery here is of a high and glossy quality. Care is taken, for example, to work things around at regular intervals to allow 'Mr. Laughcon a "reading": Solomon, David and Saul and a number of others. Between times he conducts himself as he usually does in his pictures and I, for one, cannot complain about that. There is an infrequent 'ttempt to provide him, as Rembrandt, with Neuropshchiatric Institute, University Hospital, will be the speaker. August Teacher's Certificate Candi- dates: The Teacher's Oath will be ad- ministered to all August candidates for the teacher's certificate today, in Room 1437 U.E.S. This is a requirement for the teacher's certificate. Events Today Michigan Christian Fellowship Bible Study, Eph. Chap. 1, 7:30 p.m., at Lane Hall. The Newman Club will hold an Open House at 8 p.m. in the Newman Club- room, Williams and Thompson Sts. All Catholic students are invited. Congregational-Disciples Guild: Open House at the Guild House, 438 Maynard St., from 8:00 to 12:00 p.m. Games, singing, and refreshments. "Green Grow The Lilacs," a comic folk-play with music by Lynn Riggs to- night at the Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre at 8 p.m. This popular play formed the basis of the Rodgers and limmer- stein hit musical "OKLAHOMA."' Tick- ets may be purchased at the Mendels- sohn box office from 10 a.m. til 8 p.m. daily. Student Christian Association: Coffee Hour, 4:30-6:00 p.m. at Lane Hall. Coming Lectures United States in the World Crisis lec- ture. "The North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization." Vice - Admiral Jerauld Wright, July,. Coming Events Growth and Differentiation, a sym- posium, July 9-20. Rehabilitation of the Handicapped Worker Over Forty, a conference. July 11-13. Faculty Recitals, auspices of the School of Music. Stanley Quartet, July 10; Heinz Arnold, July 11. Student Recital, auspices of the School of Music. Warren Simpkins, July 9. Play, auspices of the Department of Speech. An Enemy of the People. July 11-14. Conference of English Teachers, "The Longer Classic: Fiction." Robert Gran- ville, Ann Arbor High School; Mrs. Ruth Barns, Cooley High School, Detroit: Wil- liam R. Steinhoff, University of Michi- gan Monday, July 9, 4:00 p.m. Rackham Amphitheatre. THE speech department opened the local summer theatre season Wednesday eve- ning with a staging of Lynn Rigg's venerable "Green Grows the Lilacs", and if this pro- duction is any indication at all of what lies ahead, the campus can look forward to a very pleasant summer-at least as far as drama is concerned. Prompted, doubtlessly, by the enervating effects of summer weather, the straw hat circuit seems to search out somewhat less pretentious plays than would be deemed re- spectable on the regular stage. "Green Grow the Lilacs" is one of these less respectable plays. But it manages to display a great deal of virtue for all that, and just as some people are surprised to find University co-eds on occasion clinging tenaciously to their virtue, so it is a trifle surprising to find an atmosphere play of about as many years clingint doggedly to its integrity. But the speech department production has just that-integrity. Instead of creaking with age, it glows with mellowed warmth. The company have managed to achieve the professional polish while maintaining the amateur vigor which is often the best thing about a piece of this type. The scene is laid in Texas before that area became a state, and the plot concerns a happy-go-lucky cowboy, the "purtiest" gal around those parts and a 'villainous farm supervisor. No one is surprised when every- thing turns out well in the end, and the cast and audience alike have a good time getting there. The ballad singing and square danc- ing combine with the excellent costumes and General Eisenhower's work in building an Atlantic army has been badly hit by the MacArthur affair. That is its immediate effect. It has accentuated his difficulties and weakened his position by high- lighting in Europe a basic flaw in the North Atlantic Treaty Organ- ization-the fact that the present treaty provides no effective demo- cratic civil authority to "govern the Atlantic army. To succeed, General Eisenhower must be back- ed up with such a government to which he can turn fo pressing political decisions that are beyond his jurisdiction. --Clarence K. 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And a magic cigdr- Oh, f wenf to my hear about Gee. 1s he his Fatry coming Godfather. honk? ewe ror/ . All the kids are asleep at last. That Baxter child's imaginary Pixie may be a bit of trouble. The kids wouldn't have paid much attention if little Albert and Jane didn't maintain they see him too. I Hey, Barnaby. There's .. _ r_ I ..