TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THRSDAY, JUvY 12, 1951 111 Gte a fl te By DAVE THOMAS HE HOUSE of Representatives is cur- 3ently debating an etension of the stop-gap economic controls provisions which expire July 31, and the lack of any sizable public pressure on the question has dras- tically jeopardized any chances the Admin- istration ever had of securing an effective program to halt the present inflation. Administration supporters have all but given up hope for the wave of "grass roots" support which they hoped would aid them In forcing the crucial legisla- tion through a reluctant Congress. The Republicans have seized upon this seeming public apathy as evidence that the people are not alarmed at the present eco- nomic situation, Rep. Walter of Pennsylvania, a top Demo- crat, was probably nearer the truth when he described the situation in this way: "The people apparently believe the cards are stacked against them and there is no use writing about it. Thy seem to be discouraged." The word "discouraged" used in this con- text should rate as the understatement of the week. "Despairing" would be more ap- propriate. But whatever the name one chooses to call it by, it is clear that the public's attitude poses a grave threat to national security. AT THE LAW SCHOOL'S summer taxa- tion institute speakers representing both the National Association of Manufacturers viewpoint and that of the New Deal eco- nomic philosophers agreed that the danger of internal inflation was currently a great- er threat to our continued existence as a free nation than Communist armed might. The NAM, advocates higher taxes in order to balance the budget, hoping somehow that this will of itself, check inflation. The Administration's view that con- trols are also necessary in order to pro- teet the value of the additional tax dol- lars which a new tax program will siphon off the civilian economy, is more realistic and appears the only possible way out of the present situation. What good are new taxes if labor, industry and the farmer bloc are able to bring a flood of new dol- lars into the economy through higher prices and wages? Consumers who listene dcarefully to tha- plea for extended controls that Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson made Mon- day and the repeated warnings of Eric Johnston, chief of economic stabilization, should have no doubts as to the necessity for a strong control program now. Neither of these men are politicians. They are busi- ness men who have been given the thank- less job of representing the general consum- er at the expense of powerful economic in- terests. * * * * THESE TWO MEN along with public- spirited Senators like Michigan's Blair Moody and Illinois' Paul Douglas are not talking "politics" or merely to hear them- selves speak. They are seriously alarmed at the prospect of a runaway inflation wreck- ing the whole mobilization program and the civilian economy along with it. Congressmen will be keeping a close check on letters, telegrams and telephone calls coming into their offices on the matter of controls in the next few weeks. he prospect of a disastrous inflation is too hot a politi- cal issue for them to do otherwise. The anti-controls forces, if they think they can get away wit hit, will stall right up to the end of the month deadline and then rush through a skeleton controls bill which the President will either have to sign or allow controls to lapse completely. It is still not too late for vigorous public action to save the day. i1 "I Sure Hope We Don't Lose That Oil In Iran" MA T'E R 0 r FA CT By JOSEPH ALSOPOI AVON, Connecticut-It will come as a shock to the people here at home who have been airily arguing about whether we "want allies," or should "go it alone." Yet the fact is that our allies are also beginning to argue about whether they warit us. This seems to this reporter by far the most sig- nificant single phenomenon observed during a long, just concluded trip abroad. There are plenty of obvious reasons for the unrest and anti-American feeling within the Western alliance. The defense program which we have urged upon them is a heavy burden to the b1ritish, who have carried so many burdens for so long. The French, with their weak government, are hardly able to keep their promise to us to raise men for more divisions. German rearmament pleases no one. Yet even these grave difficulties are essen- tially superficial. They would matter little, if it were not for two other, less noticeable but far deeper sources of trouble. The first of these trouble sources-it had better be admitted frankly-is the failure of American leadership since the 1948,election. From November 1949 until the Korean aggression, the Administration told our allies, as it told the country, that we could all disarm and be comfortable. Then came the Korean challenge and the response. Then, with the advent of George C. Mar- shall at the Defense Department, there was an immense raising of rearmament sights. Then there was the victorious compla- cency after Inchon in October and the near panic after the Yalu defeat in No- vember and December. And then there were two or three months before Gen. Mc- Arthur's recall, when no one quite knew what American policy really was. Other choppings and changings might also be noted. But the foregoing is enough to indicate how unpredictable we have seemed to the British, the French and our other allies. * * * TO make matters worse, among our allies today, there is no one with Winston Churchill's superb self-confidence and will- ingness to take the lead himself. An alli- ance, like any other body of persons acting together, is deeply dependent on firm, clear- headed leadership. The Western alliance has no other possible leader but the United States. And our unsteady leadership in the past two years and a half has sadly shaken the confidence in the United States that was built up during the war and the great policy-making years just after the war. In this sense, at least, the MacArthur controversy ought to prove remarkably fortunate, as having at last cleared the minds of Administration chieftains about what they were trying to do and having Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: BARNES CONNABLE shown their intentions to the world. But no public debate, nothing but the most urgent and unrelenting effort, can cure the other trouble which is also weakening the Western alliance. This trouble is simply the fear generated in Britain, in Western Europe, in the Mid- dle and Far East, by the continuing pre- dominance of Soviet military power. A later report will examine this problem in greater detail. It is enough to say here that Ameri- cans can hardly imagine the state of mind of informed men in Britain. These English- men know their country still lacks any ef- fective air defense. They know also that Britain is the most vulnerable possible tar- get for atomic attack. They expect that Britain will be instantly attacked if a gen- eral war breaks out. For Englishmen who think of a third world war in terms of total devastation, for Frenchmen who think of it in terms of Sov- let occupation, the impulse to appease is naturally difficult to resist. This impulse would be less important today, if our allies thought that all risks, to them as well as to us, were being coolly and wisely calculated in Washington. But that is not the impres- sion that has been conveyed. And thus, while our allies have no notion of surrender, they suffer from an almost hysterical fear that they will be plunged into an unnecessary war by American "excitability." * * * THERE is no use grumbling about injus- tice, appeasement, and man's ingratitude to man. The practical situation confronting us is the situation outlined above. Further- more, this situation has been recognized in the Kremlin as another vulnerable flank of the free world. A great war of nerves of- fensive has been launched to capitalize on our allies' fears. The Kremlin's main aim and hope during the months immediately ahead will be to split and thus to paralyze the Western allies. Every weapon of psycho- logical warfare, from the crassest intimida- tion to the most subtle subversion, is being and will be used to this end. This is because the Kremlin knows that the United States CANNOT go it alone. Fear of atomic attack on Russia by the American Strategic Air Force is the only existing Oeterrent to further Soviet ag- gresion. The effectiveness of our Strategic Air Force now almost entirely depends upon overseas air bases, in territories of the British and our other allies. If the Kremlin could be sure that use of these bases would be denied to us, the Red Army would march tomorrow. And the Red Army will march, if and when a split in the Western alliance gives the longed-for protec- tion to the masters of Russia. These are bleak truths which need to be noted, but noted as warnings. For if Amer- ica can only lead as America ought to lead, which means if America can only be true to her own greatness, there may be hard and tricky times ahead; but the Western alliance will hold firm and there will be no catastrophe. The knowledge that he is skirting a precipice makes the mountaineer step more carefully but also more firmly, and this must be the American rule today. (Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) > . zy t 1t,4 t, _ ue,, bK3 a ,- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN . UN .-j- -M "" -. wl.t. '+M[...$.SMG,4 Svaf ON THE Washinfgton Merry-Go-Round with DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-Two groups of Senators and Congressmen lined up on opposite sides of the fence recently regarding one of the most vital issues in the nation-oil and education. With the nation's schools in the most deplorable condition in our entire history, 18 members of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to turn the nation's tidelands oil over to three states and their oil companies, instead of using the proceeds for educational purposes. On the other side of Congress, 11 Senators introduced a reso- lution whereby the royalties from this oil, administered by the Federal Government, would go to aid the schools and colleges of the entire nation. The first group-the 18 members of the judiciary committee- voted secretly. Even behind the closed doors of their committee they tried to avoid a rollcall vote, and if it had not been for Congressman Michael Feighan of Ohio they would have sneaked their vote by with- out even a show of hands. In the Senate, the 11 men who risked the wrath of the oil com- panies and the powerful tidelands oil lobby stood up and did so openly. They did not hide behind closed doors. Their names are: Lister Hill of Alabama, who initiated the idea; his Alabama colleague, John Sparkman; Wayne Morse of Oregon, Republican; Charles Tobey of New Hampshire, also Republican; and Democrats Benton of Con- necticut, Douglas of Illinois, Humphrey of Minnesota, Chavez of New Mexico, Neely of West Virginia, Kefauver of Tennessee, and Hennings of Missouri. WHAT happened inside the House Judiciary Committee has not been published, but this column has obtained a list of the Congressmen voting for the three states and the oil companies. It should be noted that the Supreme Court twice has ruled lat the submerged oil lands alongside the coast of the United States be- long to the entire 48 states, not to California, Texas and Louisiaa alone. This is on the theory that, under the Constitution, the navi- gable waters of the United States belong to the Federal Government, not the individual states. However, the tidelands oil lobby, seeking to reverse the Su- preme Court, has introduced legislation turning these submerged oil lands back to three states, and was so successful that President Truman used the veto. The other day, in an attempt to reverse both the President and the court, Congressman Ed Gossett of Texas, who is about to retire from Congress, demanded that the judiciary committee vote again on the lobby's tidelands bill. No wildcat promoter ever worked faster to stake a drill site than did Gossett to get this special-interest bill through the committee. Gossett didn't even want to give other mem- bers time to read the committee hearings. This brought stormy protests from Congressman Celler of New York, Feighan of Ohio and Machrowicz of Michigan. "On a matter as vital as this, involving the release of public oil reserves to private interests, we had better go slow," warned Feighan. Gossett impatiently agreed to postpone a vote until the next morning. Meantime, the printed hearings were distributed a few hours before the showdown. Some members still insisted that they didn't have time to digest the 1,200 pages of testimony, but Gossett adamantly shouted "vote!" Y this time, however, some of Gossett's supporters were beginning to get cold feet. They wanted to vote for the oil companies, but they didn't want to be so recorded, even in a secret meeting, because of possible leaks to the press. A motion was therefore made for a "voice" vote. But Feighan jumped to his feet. "We should at least have a show of hands, so we will know how many are voting for and against the bill," he demanded. When this was done, Chairman Celler counted 18 members for handing tidelands oil back to three states, with 7 against it. Since a "hand," or division, vote is merely counted and not item- ized member by member, ther is no breakdown in the secret record of how each Congressman votes. However, this column is able to report that the Congressmen who voted to hand over the nation's tidelands oil to three states and the oil companies were: DEMOCRATS: Walter of Pennsylvania, who has both Lafayette and Lehigh colleges in his district, but who placed the oil lobby ahead of his district; Jones of North Carolina, who has Davidson College, Queens College, Lenoir Rhyne College, Lees-McRae College and John- son C. Smith University, a Negro institution, all in his district; Chelf of Kentucky, who has Lindsey-Wilson and Campbellsville College in his district; Wilson of Texas; Willis of Louisiana; Bryson of South Carolina; Forrester of Georgia; and Gossett. REPUBLICANS: Fellows of Maine, who has the University of Maine in his district; Reed of Lllinois; Graham of Pennsylcania; Goodwin of Massachusetts, who has Tufts College in his district; Boggs of Delaware, who has the University of Delaware in his district Crum- packer of Indiana, who has Notre Dame in his district; Thompson of Michigan; Hillings of California; McCullough of Ohio. and Bakewell of Missouri. (Copyright, 1951, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The Daily Official Bulletin i 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. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951 VOL. LXI, No. 11-S Notices The following student organizations have registered for the summer term: Canterbury Club Christian Science Organization Congregational Disciples Guild Gothic Film Society Graduate Student Council Hillel Foundation India Students Association Indian Institute of Chemical Engi- neers Intercooperative Council League Summer Council Men's Judiciary Michigan Christian Fellowship Sailing Club Soaring Club Student Legislature Student Religious Association Wesley Foundation Women's Judiciary Office of Student Affairs 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 se- cured in the Office of Student Affairs, 1020 Administration Building. Requests for approval must be submitted to that office no later than noon of the Mon- day before the event is scheduled. A list of approved social events will be published in the Daily Official Bulletin on Wednesday of each week. Approved student sponsored social events for the week-end: July 13- Graduate Student Council July 14- Lloyd Hall Theta Xi Company Interviews: A representativesfrom the General Motors Corporation will be interviewing young men on Monday, July 1 for promotional and publicity work in connection with the Fisher Body Coach contest. These positions are temporary and will start about August 15th and end December 15th. After a three week training period in Detroit the men will travel all over the country speaking to schools and civic groups to interest young boys in the Fisher Body Coach Contest. For further information please call at the Bureau of Appointments 3528 Administration Building. Personnel Requests: The Oneida Paper Products, Inc. has openings for salesmen in New Haven, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Roanoke, Memphis, New Orleans an Chicago. For further information please3call at the Bureau of Appointments 3528 Ad- ministration Building. The Fresh Air Camp Clinic will be held July 13, 8:00 p.m., at the camp on Patterson Lake. Dr, Samuel Hartwell, Michigan State Department of Health will be the speaker. Golf Instruction for Women: A new golf class for women students who are interested will be given on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7:00 at the Wo- men's Athletic Building beginning this evening. Register at Barbour Gymna- sium, Office 15. String Teaching Conference, Hussey Room, Michigan League. 9, Forum dis- cussion. 9:45, Demonstration Clinic on violin, viola, cello, and bass. 11, Con- cert by the Stanley Quartet. 2, Dem- onstration Clinic. Panel members: Ed- win Hames, Hillsdale; Maurice Riley, Ypsilanti; Bernard Silverstein, Detroit; Anthony Whitmire, Gilbert Ross, Robert Courte, Oliver Edel, Clyde Thompson Emil Raab, University of Michigan. Exercise and Posture Clinics: Exercise and posture clinics for women students who would like individual help In im- proving their posture will be held in the corrective room in Barbour Gymna- ~sum at the following hours: Monday 10:30 a.m., Thursday 1:30 p.m. Academic Notices M. A. Candidates in History: Foreign language examinations for the Master's Degree in History will be given on Wed- nesday, July 18, at 4:15 p.m., in 35 An- gell Hall. Dictionaries may be used. Students planning to meet thisure- quirement during the current Summer Session should leave their names at the History Office, 2817 . Quad., not later than July 12. Seminar of Mathematical Statistics: Thursday, July 12, from 4 to 6 p.m., in Room 3201 Angell Hall. P. C. Cox and R. W: Royston will be the speakers. Algebra Seminar: Professor Emil Ar- tin will speak on "Group Extensions" at the meeting of the Algebra Seminar on Thursday, July 12, at 3 p.m., in Room 3011 Angell Hall. Mathematics Colloquium: Professor Eberhaid Hopf, of the University of Indiana, will speak on "Solutions of Navier-Stokes Equations" on3Thursday, July 12, at 4 p.m., in Room 3017 Angell Hall. "The Mathematical Problem of Turbulence" will be the subject of Pro- fessor Hopf's talk on Friday, July 13, at 2 p.m. in Room 3017 Angell Hall. Lectures Today Lecture. "Current Attacks on Public Education." Francis L. Bacon, Profes- sor of Education, University of Califor- nia, 4:00 p.m., Schorling Auditorium, University High School. Growth and Differentiation Sympos- ium. "The Internal Factors Condition- ing Differentiation in Plants." F. W. Went,. Professor of Plant Physiology, and Director, Earhart Plant Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. 4:15 p.m., Auditorium, School of Public Health. Linguistic Program. Lecture, "Word- Tone in Some African Languages." Wil- liam E. Welmers, Visiting Assistant Pro- fessor of German, Cornell University. 7:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. Events Today Rehabilitation of the Handicappe Worker, a conference. Panel discussion: "Psycho-Social and Economic Aspects." 9:00 a.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. Panel discussion: "Employment and Placement." 1:30 p.m., Rackham Lec- ture Hall. Carillon Recital. Professor Percival Price, University Carillonneur, 7:15-8:00 p.m. Le Cercle Francais will hold a meeting tonight at 8:00 p.m. in the League. President Don Norland will talk on his experiences as a student in Grenoble. All French-speaking students are In. vited to attend. Unitarian Students are invited to a Tea in honor of Dr. Sidney Robins, mi ister of the Ann Arbor Uitarian Church from 1919 to 1929, at 4 p.m., the First Unitarian Church, 1917 Washtenaw Avenue. International Center weekly tea, 4:30 to 6:00, at the Center, for all foreign students and American friends. Coming Lectures Friday, July 13- 4:15 p.m., Interrelationships between photoperiodism and thermoperiodicity. F. W. Went, California Institute of Technology. Department of Astronomy. Visitor Night Friday, July 13, 8:30 p.m. Dr. Otto Struve, Qhairman of the Depart- ment of Astrohomy at the University of California, will lecture on "The Evo- lution of the Stars." After the lecture in room1025 Angell Hall, the Students' Observatory on the fifth floor will be open for telescopic observation of the Moon and Saturn, if the sky is clear, or for inspection of the telescopes and planetarium, if the sky is cloudy. Chil- dren are welcomed, but must be ac- companied by adults. United States in the World Crisis lec- ture. Willard L. Thorp, July 19. Coming Events Friday, July 13- Rehabilitation of the Handicapped Worker. Panel discussion: "Rehabilita- tion Services and Programs." 9:00 a.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. Graduate Student Mixer: Friday, July 13, 9-12 p.m., Assembly Hall, Rackham.. Adm. 25 cents. University of Michigan Sailing Club: Open meeting Thursday, July 11, 7:3 p.m:, room 3D (D), \ Union. Sho* school by Poltis & Levin. Education Conference and Exhibit, July 16-20. Speech Conference, July 20-21. Hostel Club Huron River Hike. Meet at the League, Sunday, July 15, at 1 p.m. Call Jack Young, 2-7958. Letters To the Editor Budget Cuts . To the Editor: W HEN THE Legislatue cuts ap- propriations, why doesn't the. University fire 50 percent of the B. and G. men. A faculty and sat- isfactory library are far more im'- portant than a MSC-ish campus. And tall grass might sway the Legislators more than lofty talk about losing top men. -Edward Poindexter #, ;, ~4 4 DORIS FLEESON: Youngdahl Appointment 4+ I I D RAMA 1 'I J4 AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, produced by the Department of Speech at Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. WITH the combined talents of Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Miller, the foremost social dramatists of their day, the speech de- partment has turned out one of their finest productions in a long time. Developed with perfectly sustained build from the opening curtain, the drama grows with astonishing complexity but complete inevitability to a climax that is as exciting as it is provocative. The play tells the age-old story of the individual versus society, the eternal con- flict of loyalty to one's family versus loy- alty to the race.' In embracing the experience of two such fine craftsmen, however, it captures all the fresh enthusiasm and mastery of construc- tion possessed by Ibsen with the contem- porary color and feeling for conflict that Miller has. It is, in essence, the same con- flict that has interested Miller in "All My Sons," but which he has been able to con- clude victoriously here by affirming the hu- manist ideal without defeating the protagon- ist in the process. The current production is spearheaded by Nafe Katter in the role of Doctor Stock- mann. His face is so familiar to Ann Ar- bor audiences that his growing mastery of the stage has proceeded possibly with- out due recognition. But he is at his best as the besieged doctor, and that is very good indeed. As his brhe- the'hmwanor f the. tn- WASHINGTON-An excellent reason ex- ists for the great cloud of steam ema- nating from Harold Stassen over President Truman's appointment of Minnesota's po- pular Governor, Luther Youngdahl, to the U.S. District Court here. The appointment sets the stage for a bit of poetic justice in that it affords Senator Taft an excellent chance to do to Mr. Stas- sen in Mr. Stassen's home state what Mr. Stassen did to him in Ohio in 1948. For the first time, Minnesota will hold a Presidential primary next year. The date was fixed for early spring with the blessing of the native son who figured it would get his hardy perennial candidacy off the ground in good season. To do this, Stassen was counting heavily upon the progressive governor whose abilities are reinforced by a character one correspon- dent wrapped up in the observation: "He is the kind of man every woman thinks her husband ought to be." Youngdahl's retirement, 'however, leaves the Hon. Roy Dunn of Pelican Rapids, Re- publican National Committeeman and legis- lative leader, more or less in command of the situation. And Dunn is rated a Taft man who could be persuaded to feel that the vo- ters of Minnesota ought to have a chance to choose between the Taft-Stassen schools of thought-a privilege Stassen insisted was meet and right for Ohioans in the spring of '48. Senator Taft did all right with the home folks that year though Stassen made a fair showing. But Mister Republican fussed and fumed that it all wasted a lot of his energy which could have been better spent in the Senate; in fact, he cast rather vigorous doubt on the ancestry of his fellow Republi- can when he learned he was in for a fight on his home grounds. Mrs. Anderson, who became the first woman ambassador by Truman choice, told Nation- al Committee Vice-chairman Mrs. India Ed- wards in Copenhagen last month that it was no dice; she wants to finish her job abroad. Politicians are asking why Governor Youngdahl broke with custom and accept- ed a Democratic appointment which weak- ens his own party. He has been compared to Judge Raymond Baldwin of Connecti- cut who similarly accepted a judgeship from a Democratic governor, allowing his Senate seat to fall into Democratic hands. Thecomparison happens to be splendidly apt. Both men are gentle. They are fighters, well able to hold their own, but both are gentle in spirit so that the expediences and the insensitivities, which sometimes become brutalities, of politics are hard on them. The then Senator Baldwin never quite got over the hazing Sen. Joseph McCarthy gave him over the Baldwin investigation of the Malmedy Massacres. Senator McCarthy was obscure then'; only Senate habitues got a real look at what he was capable of and knew how he had partly spoiled the Senate for his colleague. Governor Youngdahl has had his troubles with reactionary Republicans who harried him and made his burdens heavier. Like Baldwin, too, perhaps he sees very little fu- ture at the moment for Republicans of his liberal persuasion. *~ * * -CHINA LOBBY - P3RESIDENT TRUMAN was put under pressure last week by friendly sources to act against major enemies of his Admin- istration-the China lobby and Senator Mc- Carthy. 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A N- BARNABY (This is Mr. O'Malley, my Fairy Godfather- Miss Ross said we have to paint something REAL- A life class without a model? Lucky I came by. I'll be glad to strike a pose.