THE M THIG-AN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, I952 I ______________________________________________________________ I ______________________________________________________________________________________________ U ~ I I aWEDNESDAY . . JULY . Th5v~ 11 rdi top dote IL By LEONARD GREENBAUM EVEN A QUICK READING of the Harvard Crimson's report on Academic Freedom, (see page 1) brings up the question as to when the hysteria over Communism, Social- ism, and anti-Americanism is going to come to a skidding halt. In the field of educa- tion, vhere so much of our future is at stake, the importance of meeting challenges such as the "Reducator" lists cannot be sufficiently emphasized. Because the National Education Asso- ciation appears ready to meet part of this challenge, the organization's annual meeting in Detroit has been attracting wide attention. With three thdusands delegates roaming from one session to another, the Associa- tion, which represents some 900,000 teachers is proving itself to be something more than a technical gathering. There still are, of course some rumblings about pornorgraphic literature being sold in school zones and about the need for facing up to the challenge of the teaching profes- sion. Most of the Association's action, how- ever, takes for granted the basic assump- tion that teachers are more than employees of the state subject to the fluctuating whims of the voters. In a flurry of action, the NEA, during its first two days of meetings: Called for Federal aid to public educa- tion (without Federal control); Approved the rights of teachers to par- ticipate fully in political campaigns; And opposed the growing tendency to limit freedom of instruction through cen- sorship of texts, periodicals and content of courses.- This latter motion was specifically aim- ed against the growing pressure to end teaching about the United Nations, par- ticularly about the United Nations Educa- tional, Scientific and Cultural Organiza- tions (UNESCO). The extent to which this anti-UN senti- ment is being pushed was revealed in a New York Times survey last Sunday. Vocal attacks by self-styled super-patriots has actually scared several school systems into discarding books and teaching material on the UN. In Houston, Texas, the school board, and in Los Angeles, the superintendent of schools, have prohibited the high schools from participating in a nation-wide United Nations essay contest. All told there were 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: VIRGINIA VOSS 100 less high schools participating in this year's contest than in last year's. Other attacks on teaching about the UN have resulted in criticism of a Florida co3- lege seminar on UNESCO and the banning of a UNESCO club in a Rhode Island high school. In all cases there was the contention that it was "un-American to cooperate in a program connected with the UN." More specific criticism is that UNESCO is tainted with atheism and Communism, and that teaching about world govern- ment is undermining nationalism. In coming to the defense of the UN, the National Education Association brings a rather lily-white reputation into the battle. The NEA has banned Communists from its ranks and has opposed their employment as teachers in the public schools. This stand of the NEA, while it detracts from the groups idealistic purity, gives it the much sought for position of being able to speak out against the red-hunter and to advocate reform without being labeled with any of our common deragotory, adjectives. When such name calling occurs, the NEA can successfully refute it with an air of self righteousness. An example of the NEA's solid position is demonstrated in its counterattack on the American Legion. Spearheaded by John W. Davis, president of West Vir- ginia State College, the Association's De- fense Commission is busily refuting an article in the Legion magazine which ac- cused the NEA of being engaged in a con- spiracy to commit the American public schools to the service of dictatorship-- either Communist of Fascist. Hitting the Legion where it is most vul- nerable, the Commission has stated that a "careful analysis of this article discloses numerous mistatements of fact and the usual shopworn cliches of those who have found it popular to destructively criticize the public schools." Though the article has been the topic of lively debate at the NEA meeting it is likely that the main body of the NEA will gloss over the dispute. The two reasons behind this possible action is a desire to continue the friendly relation with the Legion (they reached a high point when the Associa- tion came out against Communists) and the appearance of the Legion's National Com- mander at today's meeting to bring "greet- ings" to the convention. With or without a continuation of its attack on the Legion, the NEA still offers one of the strongest centers of teacher rebellion against the pressures of special interest groups. What they need now is popular acclaim for sticking their necks out even this little distance. Korea Loss AFTER ONE YEAR of truce talks in Korea the United Nations have accomplished nothing except a weakening of their own position in Korea. One year ago the Communist armies in Korea had been defeated and demora- lized. They had suffered staggering cas- ualties in both men and equipment. All of the Russian built T-34 tanks which spearheaded their earlier offensives had been destroyed by UN troops along with most of their heavy weapons. UN planes roamed the North Korean skies unopposed by the 100 or less planes which composed the Communist air force. Communist troop losses had also been heavy, reducing their army in strength from a peak of nearly a million men the previous winter to about 500,000. In contrast to this the UN forces were at their greatest strength since the start of the Korean conflict. The UN had 400,000 battle tested veterans in Korea well sup- ported by heavy weapons and nearly 900 tanks. The UN air force held overwhelming air superiority with nearly 1,500 planes op- erating in Korea. It was at this point, when UN forces were in a position to knock out the reeling Communist army, that Russia's Jacob Malik proposed a truce. Throughout the truce talks it has become increasingly ob- vious that the Communists have been us- ing the truce talks as a screen for a build up of their forces in Korea. These forces have now surpassed in strength the UN forces in Korea and are approaching a point where they might be capable of hurling the UN out of Korea. The Communist army is now nearly one million strong with a high percentage of veterans. There has been a phenomenal growth in the number of tanks and planes which the Com- munists now have available for use in Korea. They now have between 500 and a.1,000 tanks and nearly 1,700 planes to counter a UN offensive or launch one of their own. During the period of the truce talks the only change in the UN army has been the sending home of the veterans, with the result that UN forces are now some- what weaker than they were at this time last year. As yet the Communists have not been able to build up a strong enough army to force the UN out of Korea, but at their present rate of expansion this day is not far off. Much as the UN desires peace these truce talks must not serve as a screen be- hind which the Communists can build a military force which will make their con- tinuance unnecessary. The UN must keep pace with any buildups in the Communist forces or else it will lose whatever power it has to bring about any settlement of the Korean conflict. -Jack Bergstrom DORIS FLEESON: The Women WASHINGTON - The Republioans' na- tional convention should shed some light on a theory widely held in the political trade. It is that women in public life are more honest than men, less tainted by ex- pediency, more interested in issues than in the personal fortunes of any candidate. Half the members of the national com- mittees of both parties are women. There- fore, women will cast half the votes on some of the crucial credentials questions which hinge on whether or not the Taft forces in the South violated the com- mandment: "thou shalt not steal." National committeewomen voted in the initial meetings at Chicago, where the Taft steamroller manned the controls exclusively with their own people. Though a few pri- vately expressed unhappiness over the man- ner in which the situation was developing, only the intense partisans, on one side or the other, made any public comment. In general, they just went along with the men. There was one important exception to their supine attitude. The Taftites, intoxi- cated with their easy success, decided to make a clean sweep of things and depose. Mrs. Katherine G. Howard of Massachusetts at National Committee Secretary. Mrs. How- ard, a delegate who has since announced for General Eisenhower, is a political associate of Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Eisenhower's campaign manager. Senator Taft dislikes all opposition, but particularly the challeng- ing young Bay States, who got an interna- tionalist plank into the 1948 party platform and went on to compound the felony by going to Paris and inducing Ike to run for President. Mrs. Howard is a charming and literate woman with more than a touch of the New ; England "plain living and high thinking" attitude. Her women colleagues were swift to prove that they were proud of her and knew when it was time to rebel. The effort was dropped. Mrs. Howard stayed to make the ruling certifying the Texas contests to the National Committee. She has also disclosed that the Taft forces had urged the disputed delegation be judged by the state committee, a state- ment Senator Taft denies. -Generally speaking, Republican women do not among themselves attempt to exert much leadership on policy or issues. They have no such personality as Mrs. India Ed- wards, who always appears determined to make the Democrats do right by their cam- paign promises to the people. In 1946, when Marion Martin of Maine, the women's director of the National Com- iittee. showed sirnsof a eonvins the more ,See .#t owThe A.kieriea sDounhe-Cry U91.? b ~ . -- 3, . fy DAILY OFFICIAL- BULLETIN LAST NIGHT the summer season of con- ring in the work; overall tonal and dynamic certs began with a program of violin form is replaced here by collections of son- and piano sonatas performed by Benning orities interesting by themselves and in im- Dexter and Emil Raab, and a very beautiful mediate relation to what has followed or concert it was. Two works of precise classic preceeded. It is a work of many moods rang- structure were followed by two of looser, ing from the intense recitative style of the freer construction, but all four performances second and third movements to the placid sustained clarity and consistency in their melodic flow of the last movement. interpretation.The Ives uses medleys of familiar folk The two opening numbers were the themes or sometimes just suggestions of Beethoven opus 12, No. 2, and the Walter these themes in an effort to recreate moods Piston sonata (1940). Both are concerned nostalgic to the composer. The dance-like with the classic sonata structure and with humor of the second movement, "in the simplicity. The Beethoven, from the com- barn," is obvious, as is the grandual cres- poser's early period, is lyric; it maintains cendo of the last movement, "revival," a flow by subtle shiftings between major which is an imitation musically of the and minor modes. It was the least intense slow but always rising intensity of a re- of all the four works played, but perhaps vival meeting. Neither Franck nor Ives most pleasing because of its masterful are the Craftsmen that are Beethoven and structure and the harmony of its propor- Piston, and their works seem a little naive, tions. in the Franck by a continual throwing in A driving ostinato rhythm, so omni-pres- of a last gasp and in the Ives by a sort of ent in contemporary music, characterizes superficial recreating of moods, the sin- the Piston. Both the Beethoven and Piston cerity of both works is rewarding. employ tonality as a unifying and stabiliz- None of the performances seemed a bur- ing factor. den technically, and if the performance can The Franck and Ives sonatas, which com- be summed up in one word, the word should prised the last half of the program, are not be restraint. Each work was performed as at all concerned with internal structure as the music demanded, and each was free of Are the other two works. Franck strives for extra-musical effects. unity by the use of a motival theme recur- -Don Harris CURR.. r MV~c (Continued from Page 2) Need is for a person with accounting background who will eventually become office manager. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu- tion, Woods Hole, Massachusetts is in urgent and immediate need of a ma- thematician. This institution is a pri- vately endowed scientific research lab- oratory and its facilities are utilized by the U.S. Navy and other Government agencies. The Western Geophysical Company of America, Los Angeles, California, is receiving applications for Geophycists, physicists, Electrical Engineers, Me- chanical Engineers, Civil Engineers, and LS&A graduates with basic curriculum in mathematics and physics. 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He must be able to take charge and edit a monthly house organ, take charge of feed, fertilizer and farm supply advertising, speak be- fore rural groups and probably should have a farm background. The Young Women's Christian Asso- ciation, Saginaw, would like to hear from young women who are qualified to take over as director of the adult pro- gram in that city. Would like someone who is especially prepared in recrea- tional skills such as square dancing, music, arts and crafts. The Massachusetts Memorial Hospi- tal, Boston, Massachusetts, has announ- ced vacancies in the following posi- tions: General Nursing Supervisor, Hos- pital Aides, Clerks.Stenographers, Se- cretaries, and Physiotherapists. For additional information, applica- tion blanks and details, come to the1 Bureau of Appointments or call ex-' tension 371. Lecturesj LinguisticuForum. "The Linguistic Atlas as a Cultural Index Dr. Raven I. LETTERS To the Editor To The Editor: IN HIS pretentious, emotive and and partisan article' South African Crisis (Daily, June 29), Ojeamiren Ojehomon declares thats Great Britain and other Europeani powers 'still have possessions inl Africa,' in which although promis- ing to civilize and prepare the na- tive peoples for self-government, they have actually continued 'to consolidate the status quo, andJ divert or suppress any aspirationsi of the African people for politi- ca freedom.' This piece of mis- representation deliberately ignores two important facts: 1) The most important of these European powers, Great Britain,1 has striven consistently (not al-t ways, it seems, with success) to civilize and to transfer power to the Africans, and recently, par- ticularly with regard to Nigeria and the Gold Coast, embarked onI an actual transfer which world opinion largely considers too rad- ical and too advanced for thet state of civilization yet achieved by the peoples in question. 2) The countrysconcerning which the 'article' was written- South Africa-is not 'possessed' by any European power and is con- trolled by a government of Afri- kaaners answerable neither toa Holland. the European country ofI McDavid, Jr., Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada. 1:00 p.m., Michigan League. Speech Assembly. "The Presidential Convention of 1952." Samuel J. Elders- veld, Assistant Professor of Political Science. 3:00 p.m., Rackham Amphithe- ater. Modern Views of Man and society. "Man and State in Communist Coun- tries." Nicholas Nyaradi, former Min- ister of Finance in Hungary. 4:15 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. Mr. Edward C. Kalb of the American Music Conference will deliver an illus- trated lecture, "The Promotion of School and Community Music Activi- ties," at 11:10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 2, 1952, in the Audio-visual Aids pro- jection room, 4051 Administration Building. The lecture is being given un- der the sponsorship of the music edu- cation department of the School of Mu- sic and is open to the public. Professor Ruth Weintraub of Hunter College, New York, will speak on "Au- dio-visual Materials in the Teaching of Government" Thursday, July 3, in the East Conference Room of the Rackhan Building at 3:15 p.m. A discussion will follow. visitors are welcome. Academic Notices Seminar in Mathematical Statistics: Thursday, July 3, at 4 p.m. In Room 3201 A.H. The general topic for the summer will be "Sequential Analysc." Professor Craig will be the first speak er. Orientation Seminar: First meeting will be held on Thursday, July 3, at 3 p.m., in Room 3001 A.H. Mr. Hoffman will speak on "Quarternions as Mat- rices." M. A. Language Examination: Friday, July 11, 4-5 p.m., .Room 1007 A. H. Sign list in History Office. Can bring a dic- tionary. Make-Up Examination in History: Saturday, July 12, 9:00-12:00 a.m., 1007 A.H. Obtain written permission from your instructor, and then sign listrin History Office. Concerts Student Recital: Grace Ravesloot, So- prano, will present a program at 8:30 Wednesday evening, July 2, in the Ar- chitecture Auditorium, in partial ful- fillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music. She will be accompanied by ShermanVan Sa- kema, in a program of works by Mozart, Wagner, Ravel, Chausson and Lenor- mand. Miss Ravesloot is a pupil of Ar- thur Hackett, The recital will be open to the public. Student Recital: Mary Jo Pfotenhau- er, Mezzo-soprano, will appear in re- cital at 8:30 Thursday evening, July 3, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. A pu- pil of Harold Haugh, Miss Pfotenhauer will sing works by Sarri, Caldara, Cac- cini, Scaratti, Donizetti, Schumann, and Vaughan Williams. The program will be open to the public. Carillon Recital: Percival Price, Uni- versity Carillonneur, will be heard at1 7:15 Thursday evening, July 3, in a program of works for the carillon. The1 program will open with four selectionsj from the Fitzwilliam virginal Book, fol- lowed by compositions from Mozart's "Magic Flute." Five folk songs will follow, and in the closing work, Rhap-I sody No. 3 for Two Carillonneurs, com- posed by Professor Price, he will be joined by Paul Jenkins, a School of Music student. Exhibitions Museum of Art. Sixth annual exhioi- tion, Michigan Water Color Society. General Library, main lobby cases. Books which have influenced the mo- dern mind. Museum of Archaeology. Ancient Egypt and Rome of the Empire. Museums Building. Rotunda exhibit. Some museum techniques. Michigan Historical Collections, 160 Rackham Building. The changing Cam- pus. Ciements 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). Coming Events The Intercooperative Council will hold1 a picnic on July 4, afternoon, at Bishopj Lake. Everybody is invited. There will ON THE 1ashinton Merry-Go-Round with DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-There was a time when the most powerful lobby in Washington was the Prohibition lobby, directed by Bishop James Cannon from the Methodist building just across from the .Capitol. After that, the most powerful lobby became the labor unions. They dominated the writing of considerable legislation in Roose- velt's day. Another power lobby today and at all times is the vet- erans' lobby, which can ram almost anything it wants through Congress. But perhaps more powerful than any of them today is the doc- tors' lobby. Directed by the American Medical Association, the lobby has succeeded in scaring the wits out of congressmen and was able- single-handed-to delay a pension increase for old folks. The battle cry of the doctors' lobby is "socialized medicine." Their weapon is the threat of getting doctors back home to organ- ize against a congressman who doesn't conform. Some doctors, incidentally don't agree with the AMA. They are luting worried about lobbying tactics, fear their profession may be put in the same category as labor unions if these high-pressure tactics continue. * * * * MEDICAL EXAMS LATEST BATTLE of the doctors' lobby was over a relatively insig- nificant clause in the Old Age Pension Bill providing that old- sters who became disabled would have to be examined by doctors chosen by the Federal Security Administration. This caused the doctors to see red. Shipping their most potent lobbyists to Washington, they began inspiring telegrams from doctors back home. The cry "socialized medicine" resounded through the lobbies of Congress like a wolf pack in full chase. Actually it was aRepublican, able Robert Kean of New Jersey, who inserted this medical examination clause in the pension bill. Con- gressman Kean's father was a Republican senator, he inherited about a million dollars, is about as socialistic as Winston Churchill. Furthermore, the Kean clause is similar to that in various fed- eral laws. Veterans, for instance, must undergo an exam by gov- ernment doctors or by doctors chosen by the government before they can get disability pay. Most states likewise pick their own doctors to examine those applying for welfare aid. But because the Federal Security Administration under Oscar Ewing, whom the doctors' lobby hates, was to administer the old- sters' disability examinations, the doctors scared the wits out of perfectly unsuspecting congressmen and almost defeated the pension bill. HOW LOBBY WORKS HERE IS what happened: I.Dr. Joseph S. Lawrence, representative of AMA and head of the doctors' lobby in Washington, waited almost a month either because he didn't know what was in the pension bill or didn't consider it important. Then he decided to label the clause requiring physical exams as "socialized medicine." He so notified each member of the Ways and Means Committee to telegram. Two days later, various Republican congressmen, led by Dan Reed of New York, began parroting AMA's charge-apparently not knowing that another Republican had introduced the clause. 2. This was followed by a barrage of telegrams from doctors across the country, protesting to their congressmen about this "back door" attempt to foist "socialized medicine" upon the nation. The telegrams didn't mention that the Veterans Administration and sev- eral state agencies are already practicing the same kind of "socialized medicine." 3. On June 13, AMA's No. 2 lobbyist, Dr. Frank E. Wilson, ar- rived in Washington direct from the AMA's Chicago convention. Wilson went straight to speaker Sam Rayburn and asked him to lift the objectionable clause out of the bill. Rayburn was suffi- ciently cowed to give Wilson the names of key congressmen he ought to see. One was Congressman Wilbur Mills, Arkansas Democrat, who made discreet inquiries afterward to see what could be done to appease the doctors. In the end, however, Mills held firm against AMA. THREAT TO DEFEAT WHEN WILSON ran into uncooperative congressmen, he told them bluntly that he was sorry, but he would have to getthe doctors in their home districts to campaign against them. Wilson refused to back down from the "socialized medicine" charge, and even suggested privately that the hated clause had been cooked up at a secret meeting by FSA Administrator Oscar Ewing's "boys" though of course it was written by Republican Kean of New Jersey. 5. The AMA brought additional pressure through home-town doctors, who suddenly began phoning or visiting their congressmen. Congressman Kean got a call from an Atlantic City doctor. When Kean asked him to explain his objections, the doctor replied weakly: "Well, I was asked to telephone you by the people in Washington." Thus operates the newest and most powerful lobby in Washington. . STATE DEPARTMENT THOSE WHO KNOW the inside on several State Department errors recently are beginning to wonder how our fumbling diplomats have been able to keep the U. S. A. out of war as well as they have. Boner after boner has been pulled by State Department men, which, with the common sense of a railroad yardmaster, could have been prevented. Here are the three latest: 1. The Lattimore snafu could have been softened even at the last moment when Michael McDermott, State Department press officer, was asked if it wasn't true that " the department frequently acted on rumors in banning 'citizens from foreign travel. Grandiloquently replied McDer- mott: "The State Department does not take action on fantasies or inanities." Yet, in the Lattimore case that was exactly what the State De- partment did. 2. For months the State De- partment has had in its hands amazing details of how the China Lobby has been trying to buy, bribe, and subvert American foreign policy. Yet it's done nothing. Now Senator McCarran, Sixty-Second Year worst State Department enemy, Edited and managed by students of has moved in with a secret probe the University of Michigan under the to browbeat State Department authority of the Board in Control of witnessesStudent Publications. 3. Failure to notify the British EDITORIAL STAFF in the Yalu dam bombings is one Leonard Greenbaum...Managing Editor of the most nonsensical boners in Ivan Kaye and Bob Margolin years. It was such a cockeyed com- Nan...............Co-Sports Editors blNanReganall...........Women's Editor edy of errors that its unbelievabe Joyce Fickies...........Night Editor * * * Txh,',v Ln .......wnNight Edritor t, t The State... THE SNIPER with Adolphe. Menjou, Arthur Franz and Marie Windsor. rrHIS STANLEY KRAMER pseudo-docu- mentary is nicely conceived, but rather botched in its execution. It concerns, a sex- ual pyschopath who soothes his disinclina- tion for women by shooting them down with a high powered rifle. The film rather too patly makes much of the fact that most of the young man's frustrations in life are caused by women (shots of lovers in the park, disastrous he is slipping) are rebuffed less by acci- dent, it is inferred, than by lack of inter- est. There is some vague mumblings by the police pyschiatrist about what should be done with cases of this sort but this is about all the film has to offer on this point. Indeed, perhaps its makers feel it should not. cross this perilous threshold. Adolphe Menjou, rumpled and without his mustache, is adequate as a cop work- ing under the pressure of an aroused city which apparently has little sympathy for eccentrics with rifles. Arthur Franz, as the sniper, has little to do besides look distraught and peer through his tele- LORD ALEXANDER'S RUG FOR WEEKS Churchill's govern- ment had been getting some rough criticism from the Labor- ites over lack of cooperation in unia- nT nrAlexandri British Marge Shepherd...........Night Editor Virginia voss..........Night Editor Mike Wolff ..............Night Editor BUSINESS STAFF Tom Treeger........Business Manager C. A. Mitts. ....... .Advertising Manager I