PAGE TWO TIT~ MTCfIGAN T* AILY FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1952 _________________________________________________________________________ U ____________________________________ m _______________________________________________________ I The President's Veto PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S courageous veto of H.R. 5678, an offensive anthology of hatreds, fears and prejudices in the realm of immigration, deserves the applause of his fellow Americans. Unfortunately, because it was Harry S. Truman who wielded the pow- er, the veto proclamation may not receive the support it merits when the bill is re- turned to Congress next week. In its more abusive provisions the leg- islation mirrors the anti-democratic lean- ings of its renegade Democrat sponsor, Sen. Pat McCarran, of Nevada, who eu- phemistically titles his codification of existing and proposed immigration sta- tutes an "Immigration and Nationality Act." Actually it is nothing of the sort; a more accurate name was provided in yes- terday's New York Times, which referred to it as the "McCarran anti-immigration act." The legislation has its good features, but these the President noted with regret, do not begin to outweigh its continuing sanction of the many existing inequities in our immi- gration and naturalization programs, and the authorization of several new infringe- ments upon the civil liberties of American citizens. Perhaps the strongest point in its favor is a long-awaited provision for the entrance of minute numbers of Asians into this coun- try. And of course, not the least of its good features is the simple fact that, as an omni- bus bill, it at last compiles and synchronizes within a single legal frame the hodgepodge of statutes dealing with the entry of for- eign nationals into the United States. But the anti-immigration bill also con- tinues the discriminatory and basically unworkable quota system-based on 1920 figures-which has required in recent years continual bickering over additional legislation to meet the crying needs of today's troubled world. Sen. McCarran's measure, in effect, grants refuge to na- tionals who neither need nor very much want it; the measure virtually bars those to whom entry is a matter of life and death. A succinct and precise recitation of the Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writer only. This must be noted in all reprints. NIGHT EDITOR: MIKE WOLFF McCarran bill's sins is to be found on the editorial page of yesterday's Times: "... it continues and in some cases ac- centuates distinctions founded solely on race; it runs counter to fundamental Am- erican concepts of justice; it emphasizes the differentiation between naturalized and native-born citizens; it witlessly plays straight into the hands of our Communist enemies." And as the President pointed out in what was an exceptionally well written veto message, the bill makes a fundamen- tal assumption that most Americans will find repugnant, "... that Americans with English or Irish names were better people and better citizens than Americans with Italian or Greek or Polish names,,... that people of West European origin made bet- ter citizens than Rumanians or Yugoslavs or Ukrainians or Balts or Austrians." "Such a concept," the President said, "is utterly unworthy of our traditions and our ideals." Passage of the anti-immigration measure in the face of the President's veto message would give a decisive and irrevocable lie to the announced purposes of American for- eign policy. It would, almost parenthetically, officially sanction the despair settling over the displaced millions courageous enough to flee Communist oppression in eastern and southern Europe. If this tragedy is to be avoided it will take immediate realization by Adminis- tration supporters that their presence on Capitol Hill is urgent next week. Political fence-mending and just plain shirking of responsibility have produced more than this one legislative Frankenstein in re- cent weeks, but no other measure has yet reached the President's desk. If the re- presentatives and senators of the Ameri- can people do not prevent the McCarran anti-immigration bill from disgracing this country's legal processes this second time, they will have made a mockery of the United States, democracy, and simple jus- tice. If this bill, on the other hand, becomes the law of this land over the President's veto, it might appropriately include a rider to the effect that Sen. Patrick McCarran be empowered to destroy symbolically what he will have destroyed legally. In brief, the Senator should be deputized to saw the torch-bearing arm off the Statue of Liberty and abrade, with sulphuric acid, the drivel about "huddled masses" at the base. -Zander Hollander MATTER OF FACT By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP (duie 1/te By LEONARD GREENBAUM MOST OF THE drama (and the melo- drama) of the University's fight with Academic freedom will be missing from cam- pus this summer because of the absence of the prime movers of all college administra- tions, the social action clubs. The "Young Politicians" and the "Young Liberals" per- haps wiser than the rest of us, have retired until the cooler days of the fall semester. Be- hind them they have left the musicians, the painters, and the actors, not to mention that unique group that wanders from one seminar to another. Along with the "Young Politicians" the University's Lecture Committee, the five man body that decides who and what may speak at the University, has also departed for cooler spots, not to be disturbed un- less a potentially embarrassing situation arises. From the vantage point of schedules of lecturer and student activities, it appears that no such situation is in the offing. The only speakers coming are those being brought by the various departments and specialized programs. Though these summer programs offer a wide variety of individuals with, we hope, a wide diversity of opinion, there are none of the suspect type, the Howard Fasts the Paul Robesons' and the Diego Riveras' not to mention the relatively innocuous peo- ple who visited campus this past year. With such a peaceful summer ahead of us, direct, personal controversy will be lacking. The problems of liberties and freedoms will be voiced only on the academic level. But before these issues become totally intangible and are forgotten (until the fall) there is one tribute that must be paid, though be- latedly-and that is to the faculty mem- bers of the Literary College who publicly voiced their opposition to the Lecture Com- mittee. In our present day, the man who is willing to speak for his ideals without bow- ing to the pressures of practicality and in- fancy is becoming the most recent of the vanishing Americans. It was therefore heartening to see a large section of the faculty go on record against the censor- ship of ideas. Unfortunately, their action came too late to achieve a maximum of its small practi- cal effect. The faculty meeting at which their motion was passed occurred after the school year had closed, and after The Daily had ceased publication. Too many students, who during the year had become accustomed to a policy of suppression and intimidation, never learned that their teachers had finally stood up for the "American tradition of in- tellectual freedom." As an instrument of pressure to bring about a change in the Regent's rule that authorizes the Lecture Committee, the fac- ulty resolution will not be effective. Many of the faculty members realized this only too well. For once having passed the resolu- tion they have no future plans for either its promulgation or transformation into a direct action. The main value of the faculty resolution is in its service as a signpost that teachers are as concerned with the policies of the University as are administrators and Re- gents. Though the faculty are the least powerful of these groups, they are the main source of the University's reputa- tion. The knowledge that they can be prod- ded into action by persistent and flag- rant bans such as were experienced this past year might serve as a check for any future extension of the present restrictive measures. But before any changes for the better will be made in the present rules, there will have to be a change in the opinion of what is perhaps the most influential of all groups, the mythical "public." Before that can hap- pen there will have to be an even greater change in the press and radio that so greatly influence the "public." At present we are in a dormant period, waiting for the next restrictions, the next bans. If more of the respected groups in society, such as the faculty members of the Literary College, join in the protests, the legitimacy of the complaints will become more established in the minds of outside observers. Similar action by the faculties of the other schools and colleges would give firm- er backing to the position of the Literary College group. But this will have to wait until the fall when the Lecture Committee and the Young Politicians return for an- other and perhaps more conclusive fight over academic freedom. Out of Fear, I CAN THINK of only one way in which the Kremlin may still conquer us, and that without war. It is by so frightening us (but it is we who allow ourselves to be frightened) that for fear of the enemy with- in m+ranfr n A n society imneretn- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I j WASHINGTON-A significant story is told by two allied, but in some ways con- trasting, orders recently issued by the Amer- lcan gofernment. The first is an order that was secretly issued to take effect June 1. It limits the use of our ports and the Panama Canal by Soviet and satellite shipping. And the limitations are so severe that, in effect, the major ports and the Canal have now been closed to all vessels from the Soviet sphere. The need for such an order has long been obvious. The Canal and the ports are al- most certainly the weakest links in our whole defensive system. Let the Canal be blocked, and our naval strategy will be knocked galley west. Let the ports be put out of commission, and it will become im- possible for use to supply our allies and sustain our own forces overseas. Moreover, the Canal can be blocked, and any of our major harbors can be rendered useless, by the explosion of a single atomic bomb, which any seemingly innocent freighter can sconceal in its hold. This danger has long been debated in the National Security Council and else- where in the higher reaches of the govern- ment. The question was resolved this spring, when the Coast Guard was told -to safe- guard the ports while the guardianship of the Canal was confided to the Navy. En- forcement of the order has not yet been necessary, since almost no Soviet or satel- lite vessels nowadays cross either the Atlan- tic or Pacific. For the same reason, con- cealment of the order has been possible. And the purpose of concealment was to avoid stirring people up, here or abroad. * * * ORDER NUMBER TWO is more recent and Is non-secret. It inaugurated the twenty-four hour air watch of our great urban and industrial centers. It has been much criticized, just as the order for clos- ing the ports would no doubt be criticized if it conflicted with the interests, or even with the comfort, of any large group in this country. In the case of this second order, what has been concealed is the real motive for it. The motive is all too simple. Six months ago, the Soviet strategic air force occu- pied its forward bases closest to this coun- try, in Kamchatka. Since then, active Sov- iet air reconnaissance of this continent has been detected on several occasions. Anyone can purchase aerial photographs of every strategic area in the United States. Hence the object of this Soviet air recon- naissance is obviously to test the effective- ness of our air warning and defense sys- tem. None of the Soviet aircraft flying over Alaska and Canada has yet been intercepted. The main proofs of their presence have been the vapor trails they left behind. Hence our air warning and defense system is quite plainly far from satisfactory. Under the circumstances, the order for continuous air watching was, if anything, rather belated. But the air watch will be only partly effective, because the true motive for it has been concealed. For the same reason, the civil defense program has been gutted by the Congress. Again, the purpose of this concealment has been to avoid stirring people up. What strikes one in the histories of these two orders, in fact, is the peculiar schizophrenia that is revealed. The danger hanging over us is considered sufficiently great to justify the orders being issued. But the impulse to hide this danger from the country, the impulse to be bland and re- assuring, is also so strong that in one case the order itself was muffled, and 'in the other the easy and natural explanation of the order was put under wraps. * * * N MANY OTHER cases, this schizophrenia is producing even more unhealthy re- sults. For example, the fact has trickled through the rather misty German segment of the Iron Curtain, that the Kremlin has placed orders in East Germany for no less than 6200 microwave transmission towers. This gigantic order will be sufficient to pro- vide the whole Soviet empire with a closed microwave communications system. The cost of completing such a system will be astron- omical. The fact that such an immense invest- ment is being planned by the Kremlin in turn reflects the Kremlin's concern about a very vital matter-namely, the ease with which all communications sys- tems except the microwave system can now be jammed. The jamming art was still in its infancy when the Kremlin jammers all but broke off communications between the battleship Missouri and the Navy Department, on the occasion, several years ago, of the Missouri's mission to the Dardanelles. The jamming art is in its infancy no longer. Our own communications, internal as well as trans- Atlantica n trans-Pacific. are just as vul- "'Auybody Sew~ My Siewe?" 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 University. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3510 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication (11 a.m. on Saturday). Notices The Walder Corporation (industrial Engineers), Detroit, Michigan would like to talk to somerstudents who are now working on, or have, obtained Master's Degrees in either Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, who might be interested, and available, to spend some of their extra hours in library research work for their concern. The San Diego City Schools, San Di- ego, California, is receiving applications for the opening in its system for a civil or architectural engineer. Appli- cation blanks are available at the Bu- reau of Appointments. Personnel Requests Station W-A-N-D, Canton, Ohio, would be interested in receiving appli- cations from single men students for radio announcer and news reporter po- sitions now open. Prefer men from area of Canton and Massillon, Ohio. A medical research laboratory in Ann Arbor is currently looking for a bio- chemist for its laboratory (man or wo- man), The S. H. Leggitt Company, Marshall, Michigan, wants to hear from men in- terested in a sales career. Firm does a large volume of business with Plumbing and Hardware, Public Utilities, B. P. Gas, Trailer and the Soft Water In- dustries. with a Branch Office in San Marcos, Texas. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, is requesting applica- tions from interested Electrical Engi- neers. Prefer men under 30 years of age, with definite interest in sales for a career in creative Sales Engineering in the Lighting Equipment field. La Socedad Hispanica will inau- gurate its summer session series of in- formal lectures Tuesday, July 1, in the East Conference Room of the Rack- ham Building. These talks will be given every Tues- day evening at 8 p.m. and will afford the students an opportunity to converse In Spanish on a topic of Hispanic life of general interest. All students of Spanish and their friends are cordially invited. Lectures Atomic Energy: Industrial and Legal Problems. 100 Hutchins Hall. Morning session: "Problems of Source Material Mining and Supply," Carroll L. Wilson, President, Climax Uranium Company. "Contract Negotiation, Per- formance, and Enforcement," Clark Center, General Manager, Union Car- bide and Carbon Corporation Installa- tion at Oak Ridge. "Contract Negotia- LETTERS To TheEditor We Like Ike .. . To the Editor: ON JULY 7th the Republican National Convention will as- semble in Chicago to nominate their candidate for President of the United States. Among the can- didates that willbe considered is Dwight D. Eisenhower. National attention has been drawn to the fact that the dele- gation to the Republican National Convention from Michigan may well determine the selection of a candidate by their choice. The im- portance of registered voters ex- pressing their preference to their Convention delegates in terms of the candidate that should be nom- inated is very great. The delegates may not know clearly the prefer- ence-of the constituents within their districts. I would like to suggest that if you share my earnest belief that Eisenhower should be the Repub- lican Party candidate for Presi- dent in November, that you im- mediately write a constructive but forceful letter to the Convention delegate from your district in Michigan. I would emphasize im- tion and Administration," Wilbur E. Kelley, New York Operations Office, Atomic Energy Commission. 9:00 a.m. Afternoon session: "The Office of Industrial Development - A Contact Point for Industry," William Lee David- son, Director, Office of Industrial De- velopment, Atomic Energy Commission. "Patent Policies," Casper W. Ooms, Chairman, Patent Compensation Board, Atomic Energy Commission. "Security Maintenance and Industrial Enter- prise," Tyrone Gillespie, Chief Securi- ty Officer. Dow Chemical Company, 1:30 p.m. Evening session: Panel, "Control of Private Development of Atomic En- ergy." 7:30 p.m. Symposium on Heat Transfer. "Be- havior of Materials Under Conditions of Thermal Stress: General Aspects," S. t. Manson, National Advisory Com- mittee on Aeronautics. 3:90 p.m., 311 West Engineering Building. Modern Views of Man and Society 1ec ture. "The Interrelations of Public Health and Medical Care over the Last Century." Richard H. Shryock, Director, Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Medical School. 4:15 p.m., Architecture Auditor- ium. Academic Notices Seminar in Mathematical Statistics: Preliminary meeting for all interested will be held at 12 Noon Friday, June 27, in Room 3020 Angell Hall. Topology Seminar: Friday, June 27. at 3:30 p.m., in Room 3011 A. H., and thereafter on Tuesdays, at 3:30 p.m., in Room 3010 A.H. Seminar topic: "i- ber Bundles." The Fresh Air Camp Clinic will be held at the camp on Patterson Lake, Friday, June 27, at 8:00 p.m. Dr. Rab- inovitch, Assoc. Prof. of Psychiatry: in Charge of Children's Service, Neuro- psychiatric Institute, will be the dis- cussant. Concerts Recital Postponed: The organ recital by Elizabeth Thomas, previously an- nounced for Sunday afternoon, June 29, in Hill Auditorium, has been post- poned. The new date will be announced later. Carillon Recital: Ronald Barnes, Car- illonneur of University of Kansas, will appear as Guest Carillonneur at 7:15 Friday evening, June 27. Mr. Barnes will open his program with van Den Gheyn's Preludium 3, for carilon, fol- lowed by Tschaikowsky's "Old French Melody," and four American folk bal- lads. It will continue with works by Ciampi, Posdre, Mulky, Nees, Menotti, and Bohm. Student Recital: Robert Thompson, pianist, willnbe heard at 8:30 Monday evening, June 30, in the Architecture Auditorium, playing a program of works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Pro- kofieff, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Mu- sic degree. Mr. Thompson is a pupil of Helen Titus, and his program will be open to the public. student Recital: Alberta Cohrt, ma- jor in string instruments in the School of Music, will present a program in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements of the Bachelor of Music degree at 8:30 Sunday evening, June 29, in the Archi- tecture Auditorium. Miss Cohrt studies violin with Emil Raab, viola with Rob- ert Courte, and cello with Oliver Edel. Her recital will be open to the public. Exhibitions Museum of Art. Sixth annual exhibi- tion, Michigan Water Color Society. General Library, main lobby cases. Books which have influenced the mod- ern world. Museum of Archaeology. Ancient Egypt and Rome of the Empire. Museums Building. Rotunda exhibit. Some fungi of Michigan (through June 28). Michigan Historical Collections, 160 Rackham Building, The changing Cam- pus. Clements Library. American books which have influenced the modern mind (through September 1). Law Library. Atomic energy (through July 5). Architecture Building. Student work (June 11-July 7). Events Today Motion Picture, auspices of Student Legislature Cinema Guild. "The Mi- kado," by Gilbert and Sullivan. 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Architecture Au- ditorium. Punch Hour, 4:15-5:30 Library, Lane Hall. ON THE Washington Merry-Go-Round with DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-Col. Jack Arvey, Democratic boss of Chicago, is quietly passing out word that "his man," meaning the Governor of Illinois, has "consented to go" and definitely will be 'a candidate for the presidency. This, if true, and Arvey has the reputation of never going back on his. word, is the most important development in the Democratic race since President Truman's Jefferson-Jackson dinner statement that he would not run again. It means that with the backing of the President, and the support of such powerful Democratic wheel horses as Gover- nor Dever in Boston, Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburgh, and other big city Democrats, Stevenson can undoubtedly get the nomination. But the thing Gov. Stevenson has been worried about and one reason he has been holding off is just exactly this-the support of the President and the big city bosses. While he is a close personal friend of Jack Arvey's, and while he is on the friendliest terms with the President, he knows it would be political suicide for him to be stamped as the nominee of the big city machines. ADLAI'S DILEMMA HE KNOWS that a large number of independent Democrats this year will vote with the Republicans for a "change"- if the Democrats put up a candidate too close to the President Truman administration. In other words, the Democratic candidate has got to be completely divorced from even the faintest connection with Tru- manism in order to win. That, so far, is one strength of Senator Kefauver, the pub- lic knows that Truman opposed him, and that Kefauver dared buck the big city machines. Kefauver's problem is that, while he could be elected in November more easily than any other Democrat, he can't be nominated i July without the support of the President. Conversely, Adlai Stevenson can have the nomination for the asking, but he won't be elected if he doesn't oppose the men who want to hand him the nomination. TRUMAN'S BATH TUB PRESIDENT TRUMAN doesn't know it, but if he will remove the big spread-eagle design at the side of his bathtub he will dis- cover a secret inscription dedicated to himself and other presidents who bathe in that tub. The inscription was carved in a glass panel above the tub by a workman remodeling the White House and reads: "In this tub bathes the man whose heart is always clean and serves the people truthfully." Needless to say the workman was a registered Democrat and a Truman admirer. TIDELANDS DEAL SENATOR RUSSELL LONG of Louisiana has made a highly sig- nificant deal o Tidelands Oil with the economy bloc i the Senate. The deal, which was negotiated with Senator Harry Byrd of Vir- ginia, is to chop one billion dollars off the military construction pro- gram in return for enough votes from the economy bloc to override the President's Tidelands Oil veto. After Byrd and Long shook hands on the deal, Long sent Byrd a memo which he read behind closed doors to the Armed Services Committee. Byrd is acting chairman of this committee during the absence of Senator Russel of Georgia, now campaign- ing. Therefore Byrd appointed Long chairman of a subcommittee to do the military pruning. But the interesting thing is that Senator Long will have to cut $84,000,000 of military construction for his own state of Louisiana, and most senators shy away from slashing anything that spends federal dollars in their own state. Senator Long, who is the son of the famed Huey Long, has a sincere, hard-working record in the Senate, and is respected by his colleagues. However, they are wondering why is interest in Tide- lands Oil comes ahead of his normal interst in military construction for Louisiana. The answer may be that the Long family owns royalty rights on oil lands, under the water, off the Louisiana coast. When questioned regarding this, the Senator said his father had left him six shares in the "win or lose oil company," each share valued at $25,000 or a total of $150,000 and that this includes royalty rights on 40 acres of offshore oil. His mother also owns additional shares. He claimed, however, that no oil had been discovered on this tract and said he had notified the Senate Interior Committe of his holding so the Senate would know the extent of his personal interest. ONE MAN RULE MOST PEOPLE don't realize how, under the Senate's outmoded seniority system, one man can delay and sometimes control vital legislation. However, Senator McKeller of Tennessee is now pressing to bring Congress back for a summer session August 4, right after the conventions-and colleagues claim that it's all because he wants an excuse not to show up in Tennessee for his re-election campaign, Eighty-five year old, McKellar knows he can't stage an active campaign, fears many wouldn't vote for him if they saw his present condition. So he's holding up several appropriation bills in order to force Congress to come back. And, under the Senate's seniority sys- tem, it's difficult for the Appropriations Committee, of which lis chairman, to function if he doesn't want it to function, BRITISH IN KOREA CENERAL MARK CLARK has cabled Washington that he has per- suaded Field Marshal Alexander to oppose any move to give the British a bigger voice in Korea. Lord Alexander visited Korea on instructions from Prime Min- ister Churchill to demand a change in the U.N. high command. But Clark has cabled Defense Secretary Lovett saying he has convinced Alexander that any change at this time would play into Communist hands. Alexander, who got along well with Gen. Clark, will tell Churchill that the Americans are doing a fine job in Korea and that Britain should not rock the boat. rz A I 'r AMERICAN SHOT THE DEATH by shooting of a beautiful America heiress, married to a high Ecuadorean Army officer, has created a mys- tery in Quito. It has also caused indignation that American Am- bassador Paul Daniels has helped suppress news of the tragedy. Maisie Mittman, nee Buley, of the Buley flour mills family and wife of Col. Alberto Mitt- man, an Ecuadorean of Austri- an descent, was killed by a pis- tol bullet that entered her head just behind the left ear. Sixteen hours later, she was buried. Only a few intimate friends were present at the hasty funeral service. Although Mrs. Mittman had been prominent and popular in social circles of her adopted land, no word of her Sixty-Second Year Edited and managed by students ot the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. EDITORIAL STAFF Leonard Greenbaum...Managing Editor Ivan Kaye and Bob Margolin .. Co-Sports Editors Nan Reganall.........Women's Editor Joyce Fickies..............Night Editor Harry Lunn ...,...........Night Editor Marge Shepherd.........Night Editor virginia voss.............Night Editor Mike Wolff.................Night Editor BUSINESS STAFF Tom Treeger........Business Manager C. A. Mitts.......Advertising Manager Jim Miller......... ..Finance Manager Jim Tetreault.. Circulation Manager -4 I The Summers Are