AGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1952 ~GE FOUR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1R52 By CRAWFORD YOUNG to print that will fit finds its way into the Daily Managing Editor columns. COMMUNISTS - fascists - bigots - Supervising the editorial page is Cal Sam- pseudo-liberals - rabble-rousers - de- ra of Flint, originally Khalil Mohammed viates of various descriptions - these are Najeeb Abusamra Pasha of Syria. His job is a random sampling of the epithets corn- to exercise a benevolent supervision over the monly applied to the ogres that work- on editorials written, attempting only to aid The Daily. Inasmuch as the most imposing the writer present his viewpoint most effec- of monsters loses some of its monsterness tively. when closely inspected, we would like to In charge of training our freshmen briefly pass in review before retreating be- and sophomores are Harland Brtz of hind the anonymity of an occasional by- Toledo and Donna Hendleman of Chicago. line. Over the course of three semesters, Daily Our senior staff has an average age of reporters are trained in the fundamentals 20.7, hails from various stopping points of newspaper writing and the various from New York to Chicago, are six-sevenths technical aspects of putting out a paper. male, two-sevenths affiliated, five sevenths Rejoining the senior staff a little later in upprtof tevnsn, ndprobably could will be Barnes Connable of Kalamazoo, In support of Stevenson, and r prys.l temporarily academically indisposed. The not qualify as 100% American under pres- seventh member, whose name appears at ent definition. We include four Political the head of the column, will in the interests cience majors, with maverick editors study- of staff morale not reveal the exact nature ng in education, English, and pre-medical of his duties at the moment, except insofar In charge of day-to-day functioning of as the title gives some subtle clues. te new colurg s o fythe-d erayrenid In toto, over 100 assorted students pool the news columns of the paper are Sid their efforts towards issuing The Daily every Klaus of Detroit and Zander Hollander of morning except Monday while classes are New York. They post assignment sheets in session-and incidentally maintaining our daily, write an extensive and detailed criti- record as the country's oldest college paper cism of the previous day's paper, and gen- with uninterrupted publication. Space limi- erally make sure that all the news that's fit tations unfortunately forbid giving full bio- graphical credit to all those who labor at Editorials printed In The Michigan Daily the Publications Bldg. are written by members of The Daily staff Over the course of the year, we hope most and represent the views of the writer only. of you will meet some of us. As a start This must be noted in all reprints, towards this, we hope as many as possible will drop in on our open house this Thurs- NIGHT EDITORS: SID KLAUS day for a guided glimpse at what we try and ZANDER HOLLANDER to maintain as the best college newspaper ____in the land. By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON - The forgotten man of with Stevenson, Truman is almost as eager this campaign, for the moment, is the to see Stevenson elected as though he him- occupant of the White House. But Harry self were running. And he has certain S. Truman does not intend to remain a for- doubts, shared by other astute political ob- gotten man very much longer. For the fam- servers, that Stevenson's speeches, for all ous Presidential dander is now up. Truman their brilliance, are really going over with will keep his promise to Gov. Stevenson to the voters. He believes that he himself, lam. stay out of the limelight throughout this basting the Republicans in his famous "give- month. But according to those close to him, 'em-hell" manner, can supply the missing he can hardly wait to mount the hustings ingredience which will put Stevenson over when this month ends. in November, and thus, in Truman's eyes, There are two reasons for this Presi- vindicate Harry S. Truman for all time dential eagerness for the whistle stops. ACCORDINGLY, the chief business in the In the first place, the kind of campaign White House these days is the prepara- Gen. Eisenhower has been waging, espe. tion of the Truman counter-attack, with cially in the last few days, has thoroughly ticular eman forn policy. Like enraged the President. As Truman has said many times, he has always liked and vantages of his office. There have been hints admired Eisenhower; and Eisenhower's vtaertaineaperm aeesi to "fighting" campaign, which has so de- that certain papers may be declassified to lighted many Republicans, has seemed to prove that Gen. Eisenhower himself recom- Truman ingratitude "sharper than a ser mended the withdrawal of American troops ent's tooth." from Korea, over the objections of the State Perhaps Truman expected Eisenhower to Department. Likewise, the war-time cables Perhps rumn epectd Esenowe to and messages of Gen. Douglas MacArthur wage a lofty, non-partisan "national unity"am essaepoblGe,.toulaseMaherthur campaign. Instead, Eisenhower has been may be made public, to deflate the Republi- slamming.teTruadnE dinh isratioase can charge of a "betrayal at Yalta." Mac- hard as Truman himself used to slam the Arthur is said to have recommended paying "do-nothing 80th Congress." What particu- a higher price than any paid at Yalta, in larly infuriates Truman is Eisenhower's order to get the Russians into the Pacific criticism of the Administration's handling war. of foreign policy, and above all Eisenhower's At any rate, Truman is angry enough, charge that Administration "bungling" led according to those close to him, to crack to the Korean war. And now Truman is back very hard indeed on the foreigne thirsting for oratorical revenge. policy issue. As for domestic policy, the In the second place, it is no secret that Truman line will bred" to the right wing of the certain aspects of Gov. Stevenson's cam- Rpbia at.A i rs ofrne paign have not pleased the President. He Republican party. At his press conference a week ago, Truman refused to commet was so angered by Stevenson's "mess in w°- W nein on Eisenhower's indorsement of Sen. Wil- Wasiungton" gaff that Stevenson himself, iam Jenner and on Sen. Joseph McCar- after much burning of the wires between thy's primary victory. This was not be- Washington and Springfield, had to tele- thyseprimaryovigto sa, ot bes phone the President in order to mollify him. cause he had nothing to say, but because he was husbanding his ammunition for Since then, Stevenson's defense of the October. Administration record seems to Truman, Truman's whistle stop plans for October and with some reason, distinctly pallid. have. now reportedly been welcomed and While Gen. Eisenhower has been hammer- approved in the Stevenson camp. And it ing away at "corruption," "the mess in may indeed be that the Truman-Stevenson Washington," and "Trumanism," Steven- combination will prove distinctly formid- son has been calmly remarking that the able, with Stevenson "educating and ele- Administration has made mistakes and vating" the voters, while Truman "gives- that "there will probably be more." This 'em-hell." It is a curious political formula- is reportedly not Truman's notion of a. the candidate acting like a President, while spirited defense of the Administration, the President acts like a candidate-but it and he is eager to go to his own defense. may very well work. Moreover, despite moments of irritation (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) C URRNT MrVIES 1 Polio Cases A POLIO EPIDEMIC hit Washtenaw County last summer, crippling some 150 men, women and children. It was by far the worst incidence of the disease that this area has ever seen, the previous high being about 30. Most of the patients were sent to Uni- versity hospital, where, in spite of over- crowded conditions and a shortage of trained and untrained help, all but 50 have been discharged. Those remaining are the more serious- ly involved patrients, such as respirator cases. The hospital staff, well trained and adequate in normal situations has found it nearly impossible to care for the per- sonal needs of their charges. As a result, the patients have no one to wheel them around, talk to or even to scratch their backs when the itching be- comes unbearable. To help ease the situation the Hospi- tal has issued a call for students to serve as volunteer untrained help. There is no pay. All that is required in the way of a physical is a chest X-ray. And, according to Hospital attendants there is no more chance of catching polio in a ward than there is of contacting it on a city street. Volunteers will have an opportunity to bring a little light into the lives of these people by helping feed them, writ- ing their letters, reading or just talking to them. Students who would like to give some spare time to this humanitarian effort may contact Miss Ruth Locher, 3035 Hos- pital Administration Bldg. or call 22521, extension 641. -The Senior Editors 'Red ucators'? Editor's Note; The following excerpt is tak- en from an article by Claude M. Fuess, for- mer headmaster at Philips Academy, writing in the Saturday Review on "An Educator's Balance-Sheet.) IT IS CHARGED intermittently by super- patriots that the faculties and under- graduate bodies of our independent schools are "shot full of Communism," or "tinged with pink." I am not sure that I should rec- ognize a Communist if a met one, although I have conversed with two or three who have been labeled as such by other people. We had on the Andover teaching staff several Democrats-which I know is very bad-even some who voted for FDR- which apparently is worse. I have even heard of some headmasters who don't like Senator McCarthy. But as I have watched teachers through two world wars, as I have listened to their talks in chapel, as I have heard them on the public platform, I doubt whether we have, even in the Senate of the United States, a more genuinely loyal group. In a school not very far from Boston a real, live Communist was invited by an un- dergradate organization to come and speak to them. He delivered his address with a good deal of noisy eloquence. Then the boys bombarded him with questions. They re- futed his arguments, proved that he had misquoted his authorities, and sent him back discomfited, with the remark, "Those damn kids are just like a swarm of mos- quitoes." That's the best way to deal with Communism, or indeed totalitarianism in any form. It cannot long stand up against the truth. DORIS FLEESON: McCarthy NEW YORK-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow- er's troubles with the issue of Mcar- thyism have only just begun. Recent developments show how he has failed to satisfy the divergent elements of his own support. The New York Times says frankly it is unhappy. The Chicago Tribune has bolted the Republican Party. Within this range, discord and confusion grew as the candidate proceeded from Sen. William E. Jenner's Indiana to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's Wisconsin to Sen. James P. Kem's Missouri. Democrats are jubilant. They think they perceive an area in which they can make the war hero, whom they neither care nor dare to attack personally, bleed from a thousand wounds. General Eisenhower's misfortune is that Senators McCarthy and Jenner, with their insensate attacks upon Gen. George Mar- shall have posed the divisive issue between Republicans in a form that does not permit his evasion until a happier day when as President he can shape his party into his own image. The nominee is trapped personally be- cause Marshall is more than his mentor. He is the friend who made Eisenhower's career possible. The nominee is trapped politically be- cause McCarthy, Jenner and like-minded isolationist senators are up for re-election in states vital to Republican success. Thus, he is not only under the pressure of his natural ambition to win but of the insist- ence of politicians within those states that he must not take risks with their for- tunes. Il -Dave Leslie Iette/ 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 ftrom publication at the discretion of the editors. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letters are selected examples of the kind of correspondence The Daily gets throughout the course of the year.) S Must Lead ... To The Editor: SEVEN weeks ago, as presidents of the five campus political clubs, we urged the student body to 'Vote Yes'. Two-thirds of the voting students joined us then in opposing the principle and prac- tice of the restrictive authority of the Lecture Committee. We now urge the Student Legis- lature to act on this statement of public will. The SL must join and lead the struggle to remove the Regents rule which empowers the Lecture Committee. We are particularly disturbed over the growing extension of re- strictive authority, loose defini- tions and contradictions evidenced by the Committee's latest actions. We endorse the SDA's appeal to the Board of Regents to reverse the banning of Mrs. Shore from the genocide debate, and we urge full campus support for this ap- peal. We believe that the Lecture Committee's purpose and proce- dure is alien to the University's spirit and that the Committee should be abolished. So long as it remains on the scene, the Regents should at least clarify their direc- tives and reverse the dismaying series of hasty and unnecessary bannings by University authorities. -Floyd Thomas, YR Gene Mossner, YD Marge Buckley, YP Joe Savin, CLC Ted Friedman, SDA Barring Speakers ... To the Editor: LET US EXAMINE some of the arguments used against permit- ing student organizations com- plete freedom in selecting their speakers. First, "No one should be free to advocate the overthrow of the government by force and vio- lence." Quite so. But the question is a rather academic one, as no speaker is likely to do that to a university audience and, if he did, he might need the protection of the police! It is a very different thing to say that no one shall speak on other topics who belongs to an organization which has ever advocated such action. Shelley, Godwin, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche were all anarchists; some anarch- ists have been assassins; would we not like to have heard one of those four discuss some literary or philosophic topic? Why should not a Communist talk on race re- lations or Marxian economics or peace with Russia? Second, students will be led away into communism. That is to imly either that the communist doctrine is so strong that no one must be allowed to hear it, or that students are so weak that they have no power of resistance even to the most fallacious arguments. Frankly, I believe that the com- munist arguments are weak and that the students are mentally much stronger. The proper answer to false propaganda is simply the statement of the truth. Third, that the university might be disgraced by charlatans, dema- gogues, mountebanks, who would be advertised as having spoken on the Michigan campus. That could happen. But it gives such persons fifty times the advertisement to be barred from the Michigan cam- pus, and the resulting publicity has never been of advantage to the university. The university may well be careful as to whom it in- vites under its official auspices; but merely talking to a student group on the campus is a very dif- ferent matter. One is like an edi- torial in a newspaper or magazine, an official declaration; the other is like a letter to the editor to which the paper merely allows space. No sane person holds the Detroit Free Press or News respon- sible for every crackpot letter that appears in its columns. On the whole, the "prestige risk" of bar- ring speakers is much greater than that of letting them appear. -Preston Slosson * * * Convention., . To The Editors: I HAVE JUST returned from the Mid West Young Republican convention where I was a delegate. As a self designated "Liberal Re- publican," I was completely dis- gusted with the reactionary spirit that dominated the entire conven- tion.' Here are some prize examples of that extreme conservative spirit. I was told that: (1) Joe McCarthy was a "real" gentleman. (2) Herbert Hoover is our greatest living American, and (3) Democ- racy is anti-liberal because it authorizes lynchings which are controlled by mobs. After three days of this "rattle- trap," I was forced to ask myself the question of whether or not I really belonged to this party. Af- ter much soulsearching, I came to the following conclusions: 1) To preserve. our two party system and to restore honesty and sanity to government, without re- verting to the "horse and buggy days," we must overturn the old guard and nominate a liberal Re- publican this July. 2) The liberal wing of the Re- publican party, which descends from Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, is best exemplified to- day in the person of that great American, Dwight D. Eisenhower. 3) Only with the nomination of Eisenhower, or a similar liberal Republican, can millions of citi- zens, like myself, regain confidence in the Republican party. In view of this, I would like to urge everybody to join me in the crusade for "IKE." -Mal Schlusberg Sec. "Students for Eisenhower" WASHINGTON-The Republican command has worked out a high- powered publicity campaign which will be unique in the history of American politics, and is calculated to bring victory in Novem- ber. The plan is to ask national advertisers, most of them friendly to the GOP, to surrender radio and TV advertising "spots" to the Republican National Committee during the last three weeks of the campaign, and' then saturate thhe airways with "platters" or transcriptions from General Eisenhower. The "spot" announcements, usually one to two minutes long, would consist of a question asked of Eisenhower by a voter, with his reply. "The general's answer," according to the GOP plan, "would be his complete comprehension of the problem and his determination to do something about it when elected. Thus he inspires loyalty without prematurely committing himself to any strait-jacket answer." The high-powered publicity scheme was first evolved by Fred Rudge of the consulting firm of Fisher, Rudge and Nebet of New York, who first sold the idea to Walter Williams and Jock Whitney. It was discussed by various GOP leaders on Aug. 25, and on Sept. 2 Gen. Eisenhower himself gave his personal O.K. He is setting aside half a day when the transcriptions are to be recorded. Republican leaders felt they would have no trouble getting big advertisers to relinquish their radio and TV spots three weeks before elections, since all but two of the big advertising agencies in New York are considered Republican, and most of their clients. The text of the GOP publicity plan, which speaks for itself, fol- lows : "Getting spots on radio and TV can be accomplished by asking national advertisers to surrender their spots for these three weeks, thus throwing their purchase open to the Republican and Democratic parties from the station and the networks. Since the Republican plan would be organized and the Democratic. would not, the Republicans could obtain the lion's share of the good time. "It has been proven over and over in the course of radio-TV experience in this country that spots are the quickest, most/ef- fective and cheapest means of getting across a message in the shortest possible time. "It is recommended that $2,000,000 be spent in three weeks on this campaign. This is at the rate of $34,000,000 a year for a national advertiser-an unheard-of saturation campaign in the radio-TV field. Then again when it is remembered that this $2,000,000 would be spent in only 49 counties, the pressure probably increag to that equivalent to spending at the rate of $135,000,000 a year-a tremen- dous message-leverage in key areas. -ONE SPOT PER HOUR- "These spots will consist of questions raised by people speak- ing in the accents of the various areas, answered by the General with all the warmth and charm of which he is capable. They will be aired at the rate of roughly once an hour over the pick of 56 TV and 244 radio stations in these 49 areas.... "This ties in with a further recommendation that the spots not be made until the first week in October. This permits the greatest latitude in assessing what the problems are at that time, rather than risking political changes ensuing after the spots are made." The publicity survey then proceeds to outline the "critical, the key, the indecisive" states as follows: California, Oregon, Colo- rado, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Ipwa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Connecticut, Delaware, Mary. land, New Jersey, Ne wYork, Pennsylvania. "If the Republicans took all these states," the publicity plan con- tinues, "they would end up with 308 votes, more than enough to win. However, they must take a good part of them, and it is the purpose of this plan to suggest those which must be taken, as well as the way in which their taking may be assured. -COMMUNISTS ROLE IN CHILE-- ONE INSIDE STORY on the Chilean presidential election, in which former dictator Carlos Ibanez won a thumping victory, is that the Communists, acting on secret orders from abroad, deserted their own candidate to throw almost 50,000 votes to the authoritarian gen- eral whose nickname ,is "The Horse." Officially, Chile's Reds were supposed to be supporting Dr. Salvador Allende, a socialist senator and president of the coun- try's medical association. But it was evident months ago that Allende didn't have a chance. On Aug. 12, Communist Party chieftains in Santiago received coded instructions from fame Brazilian comrade Luiz Prestes, Moscow's No. 1 man in South America, to put their strength behind Ibanez. Ballot totals now make it clear that the Red leaders did a thorough job of getting the word around. Although their party has been outlawed for the past four years, President Gonzalez Videla's regime did not crack down on open Communist activity during the campaign, and Stalin's boys were able to line up most of the 60,000, voters they controlled in 1946. The socialists had an of icial registration of 46,00. It is known that this number gave practically 100 per cent support to Allende. Yet his total was only M.,000. Meanwhile, Ibanez got almost that many votes more than his most optimistic backers had privately predicted. In other words, he got about 50,000 Communists votes. A significant repercussion of this timely assistance was the triumphant candidate's declara- ' If- tion, on Sept. 3, that "Communism does not represent a danger in any country where an effectively functioning government exists." --DICTATORS GET VOTES-- Ibanez, who will be 75 in No- vember, became Chile's president 25 years ago in a one-man election. He soon abolished congress and ruled by decree until overthrown four years later by revolution. He was long a fervent admirer of Mussolini, had Juan Peron's ac- tive backing during the recent' campaign, and is a loud critic of "Yanqui imperialism." Perhaps the most important point of all is that Ibanez' vic- tory marks the fifth occasion in the pas't two years on which South American voters have reg- istered their approval of ultra- nationalist, totalitarian mind-1 ed candidates. First was Getulio Vargas' amaz- ing comeback in Brazil. Then came the re-election of Juan Peron; then the triumph of Bolivianj "strong man" Victor Paz Estens- soro. (Although the latter seized power in a bloody revolt three* Sixty-Third Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff , Crawford Young .....,Managing Editor Cal Samra ..........Editorial Director Zander Hollander ......Feature Editor Sid Klaus....... Associate City Editor Harland Britz........Associate Editor Donna Hendleman ....Associate Editor Ed Whipple.............Sports Editor John Jenks ... Associate Sports Edjor Dick Sewell ....Associate Sports Editor Loraine Butler ........ Women's Editor Mary Jane Mills, Assoc. Women's Editor Business Staff Al Green...........Business Manager Milt Goetz .......Advertising Manager Diane Johnston ...Assoc. Business Mgr. Judy Loehnberg..Finance Manager Tom Treeger...Circulation Manager r i At The Michigan... THE MERRY WIDOW with Lana Turner and Fernado Lamas. MUST FRST apologize for an inadequate knowledge of the original stage version of this movie; its authenticity will have to pass unquestioned. Franz Lachar, who supplied the music for "The Merry Widow" in its operetta form, still stands out as the leading figure of the film presentation. However, his melodies sm4a rrafm . .. aii.Ahi .. v an rich widow of a Marchovian immigrant, giving her the opportunity to display her classic beauty in a collection of very be- coming black finery. When the Impover- ished Marchovian king learns of her money he sees a chance to pay off the na- tional debt by marrying her to his nephew, supposedly an irresistable wom- an-killer. Fernando Lamas is wholly in- capable of the role. His distinctly equine features and wooden acting mark him immediately as a misfit in just about anything but a Frankenstein-Dracula type of movie. 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