TWO THE MMHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1951 m I Wendy Owen THE DAILY is not a happy place this morning. We have lost a staff member whose loyalty and contribution to this news- paper make her passing particularly tragic. But even ,more, we have lost a rare friend. Countless dreams hatched and nur- tured over coffee cups-long discussions on Union Opera (Wendy thought it should be co-ed), ethical values (Wendy had some strong opinions here), the place of women in newspaper work, the guest list for next week's party, the make-up of the morning's Daily, or the best city in which to seek a post-college job-all rush into our minds as we try to absorb the shock of Wendy's premature death. We remember Wendy's willingness to stay extra hours to help a short-handed night editor and her special position at the start of the year when she was the only female member of a junior staff of 12. She very soon assumed a position somewhat akin to James Barrie's Wendy in the fantasy, "Peter Pan." She was friend, advisor, confidant and morale booster to the staff. Her friends on the campus-on The Daily, in her sorority, in the many groups and organizations with which she was assoiated-all mourn the sudden end of a life so vibrant and rich and filled with hopes. Her unbiding enthusiasm and interest in people, her kindness and warmth, her charm and candor marked Wendy as a person who made her corner of the world a better place for her pres- ence in it. Wendy's high spirits, idealism and boundless compassion will remain as in- spirations for all who knew her. The day before her death, she wrote Daily pressman Lauren Kinsley that she was feeling fine and would soon be home doing re-writes for The Daily from her bed. A spirit such as this does not die. It will flourish in the memory of Wendy shared by her family and many friends. -The Editors 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 DORIS FLEESON: Eisenhowser Interest WASHINGTON - The best news that G.O.P. backers of General Eisenhower for President have had lately is the alacrity with which Republican members of Con- gress are jumping off to Europe to visit him. All Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee accepted the General's invitation to view Europe's pro- gress toward rearmament. Senator Tobey now finds he cannot go but the rest will be on hand. The capitol cloakrooms suggest that vi- sions of sugar plums-cabinet posts,l judgeships, collectors of internal revenue and similar juicy patronage-will be dan- cing in the heads of the distinguished travelers as they impress their personali- ties on the man who still leads the public- opinion polls of Presidential possibilities. Democrats are noticeably less attracted to the opportunity. Chairman Connally said no; Senator George pleaded his duties as Chairman of the Finance Committee, which is holding hearings on the new tax bill; Senator Fulbright cited the price-control fight which is the province of his other com- mittee, Banking and Currency. The majority party thus will be outnum- bered, 6-4, on the expedition. The Democra- tic quartet assumes that some political re- porting for their President and friends will be a part of their assignment. Among the Republicans, at least one-Senator Lodge of Massachusetts-is more or less openly in the Eisenhower camp. * * * HOUSE REPUBLICANS from Foreign Af- fairs who made a similar journey last month got no tangible encouragement from Eisenhower. But they profess to have noted a receptive gleam in his eye and are assur- ing their colleagues that he'll go. The spurt of interest in Eisenhower coin- cides with a temporary recession in Sena- tor Taft's prestige as a result of the Mac- Arthur inquiry and Korean developments. Republicans wedded to Taft in domestic matters are among those who rate his for- eign-policy course unsatisfactory not so much because of what he is for as because it seems to them confused and contradictory. The Senator has also had his first set- back in the area of party organization. At their annual convention, the Young Re- publicans elected as their president a for- mer associate of Governor Dewey and, to do it, rebuffed a candidate openly backed by the Taft forces. Pro-Eisenhower senti- ment was attributed to the delegates by many observers. This is a minor defeat but it is the first break in Taft successes with activities centering at national head- quarters. 'T'hei(Caiforni a. g~nein is vfnr 4,th .I Id "Whee! Maybe The War In Korea Will Be Ended!" I INTERPRETING THE NEWS: ci to'p4Ikte /' By DAVE THOMAS THE REFUSAL of Federal Housing Expe- diter Tighe Woods to decontrol rents in Ann Arbor puts the problem of rent de- control right back in the laps of the City Council where it rightly belongs. On June 19, the Republican-dominated Council voted, 11-3, to ask Woods to decon- trol rents under the so-called "voluntary" clause in the Federal Housing Act. At the same time, the council majority attempted to force Woods' hand by voting that, if he didn't decontrol of his .own volition, they wanted rents decontrolled anyway under a "local option" clause which Congress wrote into the present law. This double-barrelled assault on local rent stabilization is practically unique in the recent records made by local govern- ments trying to dodge responsibility for their own actions. If Woods decontrolled "voluntarily," he would have had the option of re-imposing controls in the future should rents get dras- tically out of hand. If decontrol came through a "local option" demand by the Council, there would be no way for federal controls to be re-imposed under the present law. What the council was aiming at was to get Woods to choose the first course, thereby absolving them of a degree of re- sponsibility if local rents went into a whirlwind upward spiral after decontrol. That is one of the main reasons that Mayor Brown and Council President Creal objected to heatedly when Woods showed that he was not going to play into their hands and directed that a survey of local housing be made. * * * * EVEN WITH the population of the city about 10,000 below normal because of the academic vacation, the survey evidently showed that there was not enough stretch in the local housing situation so that con- trols could be dropped with any degree of assurance that rents would not immediately begin to rise. Ann Arbor has traditionally been short on rental housing. And a substantial por- tion of it has often been of a sub-par na- ture. It was these conditions which forced the University in the late 1930's to embark on an ambitious residence hall program in order to insure its students decent, reason- ably-priced housing. The post-war enrollment increase coupled with numbers of workers brought into the area by war-stimulated industry far out- stripped both the University's construction program and the small amount of private rental building which took place. The recent reduction in enrollment and small industrial layoffs have "alleviated" the situation so much that authorities dared to talk of shutting down Willow Village and turning 10,000 inhabitants out on the local housing market. The waiting list for Pitts- field Village has fallen to the point where it can be counted in hundreds instead of thousands, as formerly. Anyone who has tried to find an apart- ment, particularly if he happens to cherish pets or children, will agree with Expediter Woods that there is no noticeable surplus of housing in Ann Arbor. In such a situation it would plainly be dangerous to decontrol rents at this time. If the City Council decides to go ahead and decontrol anyway, as apparently they al- ready have, it will at least be possible to fix total responsibility for the inevitable rent boosts on the Council majority, because of Woods' decision. I -9 MATTEpa 0r FA\Cat By JOSEPH ALSOP .4 AVON, Conn.-The reporter, nowadays, is perpetually impaled on the horns of a dilemma-one horn being the absence of good news, and the other, the unpleasant- ness of being always a bearer of evil tid- ings. A good lady once suggested that the best escape was to write about birds. But the robin and the vireo must wait. The pur- pose of the present report is to finish sum- ming up the impressions gathered during a long journey in Europe and the Middle East, which were unhappy. On balance, despite the prospect of peace in Korea, the world situation has grown decidedly worse In the last twelve months. By responding to the Korean challenge, we escaped a disaster worse than ten Munichs. By launching West- ern rearmament, we are preparing a more secure future. But for the present, the dangers that threaten the United States and the free world are very great and very near. The trouble is the long lag between plac- ing defense orders and getting tanks, air- craft and the like in quantity and training combat units to use them. People are be- mused by the talk about the miracles of American production. But the truth is that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will have only twenty to twenty-five divisions to defend the line of the Rhine next spring. And besides the shocking weakness on the ground in CIINIEMA I Western Europe, other great gaps in the Western defenses such as the weakness of the British air defense, will unavoidably en- dure at least until 1953. This does not mean that the West is not already growing stronger. The striking pow- er of the American Strategic Air Force has already vastly increased, for example, and will continue to grow greater if we retain the use of the allied air bases overseas. But in the present period of the lag between defense orders and defense output, the So- viets are still growing stronger more rapid- ly than we are. S. s W HILE THE British scramble to rebuild their air defenses by the winter after next, the Soviet war planners are complet- ing theirs now. While Eisenhower struggles to prepare his twenty to twenty-five divisions in Western Europe, the Soviets, in Eastern Europe, will shortly be ready to throw sixty additional satellite divisions into the bal- ance. And so it goes. It will be at least eigh- teen months, and probably two years, before the curve of Western strength finally shoots up past the curve of Soviet strength. Inevitably, the Masters of the Kremlin are now working day and night to fore- stall this crossing of the curves which will mean security for the West. One pre- vious report has already described their attempt to upset the world balance of power by capturing the vulnerable former colonial regions, such as Iran. Another has set forth the Soviet plan to paralyze the Western alliance, by sowing dissen- sions between America and her allies. Even the partial success of either of these great current Soviet operations would be a major disaster. The vast number of soft spots where the Soviets can score a success of this sort is one of the two worst dangers to the West. The other is the vast number of practical problems which must somehow be solved before the structure of Western strength can be completed. The Japanese Peace Treaty seems to be out of the way. But there remain German rearmament; French manpower re- cruitment for additional divisions; inclusion of Greece and Turkey in the Atlantic pact; support for Yugoslavia, and many more. Failure to solve even one of these problems will be equivalent to failure overall. And each of them seems already to be taxing Western statesmanship and Western politi- cal morale almost beyond the bearable limit. Consider together the two kinds of dan- ger-the danger of Soviet sucesses, and the danger of Western failures. If either danger materializes anywhere, the Soviet war planners will inevitably seize the op- portunity for new aggressive moves, which, this time, will almost inevitably lead to general war. At first the calculation seems to suggest the certainty of catastrophe. For it is hard enough to pick a daily double; and in a certain sense the West- ern world is in the situation of a horse player whose fate depends, not on victory in two races only, but on victory in all the races being run. Yet if one remembers the perils already mcirn+ned -if oner~ vwal1 how ralmost ,cer- AN (- <7' pAOMAd¢Al ON THE Washington Merry- Go-Round with DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-It's hard to write about a man who is dead and cannot defend himself. However, I should like to write about An-' drew Older, listed recently by an FBI undercover agent as a member of the Communist Party. Older worked for me for a brief period after the war and it became my unpleasant duty to fire him. During the course of firing him, I got to know a little bit about what makes a Communist tick. If we are going to cure Communism in the American body politic then it's important that we know what turns a man into a Communist and how he can be cured. Here is one case history in point. Older worked for a group of conservative trade journals-a paint and varnish magazine, a bakery journal, a poultry monthly, together with the film and radio dailies and the Hollywood reporter. During the tail end of the war when manpower was short he also worked part- time for me, in addition to this other chores. ** * * CANADIAN SPY RINGS ANDY was a nice boy, worked hard and I never dreamed at first he had any links with the Communists. But as time passed and I Wrote more and more critical stories about Russia I became suspicious. He frequently argued against the columns which criticized Russia. I recall especially the column I wrote exposing the Russian spy ring in Canada. At that time-1946-a great many Americans still were devoted to the idea that we could and must cooperate with Russia, and the critical mail I received calling me a liar and a warmonger was heavy. Older was among those who deprecated this column. Later a friend reported that he had seen Older with both a member of the Soviet Tass News Agency and the editor of the Soviet Information Service, which was published by the Russian Embassy. As a result, I went to J. Edgar Hoover, told him of this report and asked whether he had any information regarding Older and a possible affiliation with Communism. Mr. Hoover reported a week or so later that Older was listetras a member of the Communist Party in Washington. Next day I called Older in, figuring that in conformity with standard Communist practice he would deny membership in the Party. But he didn't. He told the truth. *t* DAZZLING AUTHORESS N a way this made things more difficult. If he had lied, it would have been easy to fire him. But when a man tells the truth you certainly owe it to him to listen to his story. So we had a long talk, during which Older said he had joined the Party early in 1940 largely through the influence of Ruth McKenny, author of "My Sister Eileen," and editor of the New Masses from 1937 to 1946, who later broke with Communism. The counsel for the Senate Internal Security Committee states that Miss McKenny broke with the Party at the same time Browder had his difficulties. Older's father was born in Russian Poland, and Andy had been ardently anxious for peace between the United States and Russia. He said, however, that he had had a few tough policies to swallow which had jarred him-one of them being the Party Line against preparedness at a time when Stalin and Hitler were allies in 1939, and later the sudden party switch to all-out pre- paredness. He said that he had been trying to get away from the Party, hadn't attended meetings since 1944 and was fed up with highhanded Com- munist tactics. However, he said that it was hard to get away when you were once a member because the comrades blackmailed you by threatening to expose your membership. He said he gradually had come around to my point of view that Russia was the chief disrupter of the peace and that her tactics under the remlin were just as imperialistic as under the Czar. LIPPMANN HAD COMMUNIST SECRETARY AT first I thought I could wean Older completely away from Com- munism and had some talks along this line with J. Edgar Hoover. I figured that if I could get Older to do a Budenz and take a militant stand against the Party, he would become a highly-useful citizen. However, I also had heard that the Communists had planted a secretary on Walter Lippmann and that it was standard Com- munist practice to put men in key spots where they could influ- ence public opinion. So, figuring there was no use making life difficult by sitting on a continual keg of dynamite, I let Older go. I saw him occasionally after that and have reason to believe he threw his old associates overboard and straightened himself out poli- tically. In fact, he became something of a small-scale capitalist, and in addition to his trade journals, operated a laundry. And since he cannot be here to defend himself, I would like to say that Andy Older was one of those unfortunate youngsters who, through the influence of persuasive personalities, got off to a bad start, but who saw things in a far clearer light before he died. (Copyright, 1951, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) MY WIFE SAYS if we don't have controls, prices are going up, and if we do have controls there will be black markets and prices will go up. Two other women, questioned separately, said much the same. One thought production and public refusal' to be, gypped would take care of the situation. The other said controls meant black * markets, and that she was sorry she hadn't written her Congress- men, and intended to do so. "Not that it will do any good," she added. The men, asked why they didn't write, were unanimous in saying "What's the use?" They didn't think the government knew what it was doing-either the proponents or opponents of controls. Most of them didn't think the government knew what it was doing about anything. This is not an attempt to prove anything. It was just a little quickie inquiry among people I happened to talk to. In a different neighborhood it might have turned out differently. I just thought I'd better write my Congressman and tell him what little I found. ette'4 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. 'What's the Use?' Says Public On Price Controls Pressure By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Rress News Analyst SO CONGRESS is wondering why the stockholders-meaning the folks back home-don't write in to say what they want done about economic controls. Well, this is by no means intended as a definitive answer. It is composed from some personal impressions and from discussion with 15 people whom I asked about it between 8 p.m. Wednesday-when the Associated Press reported an unusual lack of mail on such a con- troversial subject-and 1 p.m. Thursday. Hardly a reliable poll, but producing one thing which seems to be striking. Every person questioned voluntarily injected, amid the pros and cons of controls, some expression of doubt that the govern- ment was capable of doing anything worthwhile about it. For some time I had been thinking of writing a column about the control argument. But I haven't been able to get my own thoughts to jell. I think that same feeling must have a strong bearing on the Con- gressional mail situation. We elected a Congress to handle these things for us because they claimed to know, how. It now seems fairly obvious that they don't, or are unwilling. But what to do? We don't know where to get anybody who does. All is futility. That seems to me to be a growing attitude among people whose vote represents their only participation in politics. .} 1 vI 1 a1 4.* * A K Critics. . To the Editor: Critic Wiegand's confusion of Jose and Mel Ferrer confirmed our worst suspicions - your critics don't even see the movies.' --Edward Poindexter Only a Musician .*. To the Editor: I noticed two bad ones today- Dave Thomas's confusion of inter for imply and John Bril4y's "Everyone . . . entered . . . their quarters"-and I'm only a musi- cian. Not so good for a University paper. -W. S. Collins Food Waste . To the Editor: EVERYBODY is becoming in- creasingly aware of the rising food prices. Buthave you ever seen a plate of this high priced food being thrown into agarbage can? For instance, there is a shameful waste of food in the din- ing halls of the West Quadrangle. The staff makes a great effort to provide balanced meals to the students but some persist in leav- ing half of their meals to be thrown away. For instance, one meal that was scraped into the garbage contain- ed the following items: one slice of cold meat, one whole salad, two slices of bread with butter and a half of a glass of milk. This scene is duplicated hundreds of Favorite Reading AFTER Time and Life, we must confess, our favorite reading is the Daily Worker. The only trouble with this paper is that it is not read enough. It is good for at least a column of quotes every day. Take this, for instance: The title is Gottwald reports on the situation in Czechoslovakia. "Pre- mier Antonin Zapotocky showed in an earlier speech that the new rationing of bread and flour, far from meaning a cut in personal consumption, actually illustrates the increase in living standards.. With wages and salaries at the highest levels, and prices going down constantly, there have been 60 price cuts last year, people have become used to buying more than they could ever consume. --The Reporter times daily in the halls and is a matter of disgust to the cafeteria staff. Yet some of the students complain at the seemingly small servings and wonder why the staff is unwilling to give them more. Perhaps is is merely a reflec- tion on our habits as a nation. In- deed, wastefulness seems to be a part of the American way of life. No need to go over the countless instances brought to light of the unchecked exploitation q; our na- tion's resources. In fact the stand- ard remark of students passing through the cafeteria line is "I'll t te this and if I don't want it later, I won't eat it." Perhaps, if we all stopped a minute to think, we could see that there would be a considerable sav- ing to all in terms of the cost of board if we took it upon ourselves to take what food we want and eat what we take. --Alan Rice Nel Letts Ben Stolz (Three Bus Boys) I. 1; r 4 I, I *4 ,Vj1 I U 'U Architecture Auditorium UNFAITHFULLY YOURS-with Rex Har- rison and Linda Darnell. THIS IS ONE of those pictures that hap- pens to get lost in the flood that comes out of Hollywood annually. At the time of its release a few years ago, it caused no discernible ripple, but its comic conception and inspired slapstick has proved so mem- orable to a few of the faithful who recall it that it is brought back now with all of its brilliance intact. Preston Sturges, the man responsible for "The Great McGinty" and "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," among others, is writer, producer and director. The plot deals with a jealous symphony orchestra conductor who upon returning from a trip abroad learns that his wife has apparently been unfaithful during his absence. As he conducts his concert, he concocts three possible solutions to his problem in three successive numbers which he directs. In the first he sees himself murdering his wife and pinning the crime on her inam- orata. Next he becomes noble, writes a check for $100,000 and gives her up. At last in the final number, he plays the heroic husband, invites his rival to a game of Russian rouletem an.d blws ux~ t his Sixty-First Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications Editorial Staffe Dave Thomas .........Managing Editor George Flint ... ..........Sports Editor Jo Ketelhut..........Women's Editor Business Staff Milt Goetz ... Business Manager Eva Stern.......Advertising Manager Harvey Gordon........Finance Manager Allan Wei stein ...Circulation Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited to this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor,.Michigan, as second-class mail matter. 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