PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1953 + ART + EXHIBIT OF POPULAR VISUAL ARTS At the Museum of Art ART WHICH can be brought, through the modern tecnics of reproduction and dis- semination, to large numbers of people who would otherwise not have the means or time or inclination to bring themselves to it is Popular Art. This would, from a quasi-soci- ological view, be a definition of the works in the current exhibit. From a more aesthetic standpoint, and judging from the works shown, Popular Art is art produced for, and to be appreciated for, reasons other than those/inherent in the, art itself. M. Toulouse- Lautrec, in other words, while strictly a "popular" artist in his day is no longer one. We are hardly moved by his posters to flock to the Montmartre to see Jane Avril. This method of evaluation might be used with regard to the works shown: will they deserve a more purely aesthetic appreciation for their own sakes when nobody cares about the 1953 Chevrolet or the story in last week's Post? In most cases this seems doubtful, but in some the artists have through the univer- sality of pure form and color surpassed the narrow confines of their commercial subject matter and produced art that is good for its own sake. In the Advertising section Joseph Low, who combines a wonderfully medieval stylistic touch with a strictly modern con- cept of two-demensional arrangement, stands out as perhaps one of the most imaginative and stimulating of the group. Paul Rand and Robert Gage, who rely on the exciting effects of bold color and sim- ple abstract shape, show some excellent works. Hans Moller, Ben Shahn, and Da- vid Stone Martin seem to fall together as artists whose dexterity of line creates some quite dramatic effects. The Illustration section is on the whole less rewarding. It tends to divide into two separate "schools"; the pretty-girl-square- Jawed-young-man school, and the more-de- tail-the-merrier naturalist school. Into the former fall such notables as Coby Whitmore, Jon Whitcomb, and Al Parker, artists whose work is often indistinguishable one from another. These artists have by all means developed the most straightforward simple and real- istic answer to the problem of communicat- ing an idea or situation, but have fallen with- out exception into an illustrative cliche of saccharine sweetness and unoriginality. The latter school is made up, principally, of Messrs. Rockwell, Dohanos, and Dorne, who all have in common an overwhelming mas- tery of the insignificant detail. They seem to delight in bombarding the eye with myr- iad unselective thingamajigs which instead of the desired effect of complete realism pro- duce confusion ,nausea and dizziness. That they are all consummate masters of tech- nique works to their disadvantage, for each 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-HARLAND BRITZ detail, by dint of its perfection, competes in importance with every other, affording no place for the eye to rest, no perspective on the total work. In happy contrast to these works are those of illustrator Ben Stahl, who seems less concerned with realism, and more with mood. Without sacrificing the specific story he must illustrate, he distorts color and form at will, achieving a far more sensitive understanding of subject and me- dium. Perhaps the high point of the exhibit is the display of photographs. Surprising- ly, these works in a medium noted for its relentlessly exact realism, are on the whole the most original and imaginative of the whole exhibit. I would particularly single out the works of Alfred Eisenstadt and Ben Rose as the best shown. Mr. Ei- senstadt deals primarily in portraiture, and Mr. Rose shows two panoramic archi- tectural views in which, by means of a sort of distorted widening of the optical field, he creates an unusual movement and sweep. The last section of the exhibit is devoted to cartooning. There is an overpowering amount of Walt Disney, who seems to have stopped dead after a long period of develop- ment and is doing the same old stuff with slight variations. UPA cartoons, of Mr. Mc- goo and Gerald McBoingBoing fame, un- fortunately have only a small showing : it hardly hints at what is a totally new and dif- ferent departure from stock movie cartoons. There is of course a smattering of Walt Kel- ly's Pogo, about whom what more can be said except maybe INcredibobble. There are the grisly artistic adventures of Milton Can- iff, and a memoriam to the Al Capp that used to be, and lots of others. This being the last section of the exhibit, the visitor is guided out between two "walls" made by the aluminum piping space modu- lators, as he has been guided through the en- entire exhibit, emerging with the vague feel- ing of relief that must be felt by a laboratory rat freed from his maze. Further reflection reveals that the great amount of material shown was arranged quite skillfully in the intricate pattern of these temporary walls; it certainly could not have been contained op the four walls of the hall itself. The vague feeling lingers, however. My most serious objection concerning the physical make-up of the exhibit is to the explanatory text ac- companying each section. Between each typewritten line is a half inch strip of bril- liant red tape. The effect is violent. -Stuart Ross IT HAD TO come sooner or later. We refer to the new British juke box with the blank record. For a nickel you can buy three min- utes of precious silence. Archeologists of the future may well pon- der over our civilzation when they discover that we had to pay for public serenity. Evi- dently the British are more aware of the fact than we are that "silence is golden." Now all we need is another coin slot to dim that dazzling technicolor display on juke box facades. Then someone beyond teen-age years may throw caution aside and enter a hamburg joint to eat hamburg. It is said to be more digestible than Frankie Lane. Detroit Free Press 4Architectur~e Auditorium A RUN FOR YOUR MONEY, with Alec Guinness MISLED AGAIN! Alec Guinness, sovereign of British comedy, is not the star of this picture. Had he been, "A Run For Your Money" might have been really funny. Until advertisements work as necromantic charms upon the public, as they work for the adver- tisers, one may still object to being fooled. King Guinness' name should not have been advertised in print larger than the movie's title. The rigidity of the plot quite overcomes the facility of his characterization of a pick- yunish gardening columnist. Indeed, the plot is older than Humpty Dumpty and Guinness is not in the picture very much at all. Al- though the other actors also give able per- formances, "all the king's horses and all the king's men" cannot keep this comedy from becoming tiresome. The particularities of the plot involve the adventures of two brothers in London, up from the Welch coal mines to collect a prize of one hundred pounds each. Through the trickery of a confidence girl, the brothers become separated. One is attached to the con girl, the other to a Welch expatriot he finds singing for money to pay for his beer. The expatriot was alone, for the forces of the city had caused him to pawn his harp. Once together, they are mere embroidery to the old story of the country boy in the big town, and as embroidery they divert us at intervals when the happenings between the country boy and the con girl become dull. Of course, our country boy does outsmart the con girl. On the other hand, she has the op- portunity to swipe the prize money and to re- turn it, for sure 'nough, the con girl really has a heart of gold. Alec Guinness, uninter- ested in the whole affair, tags along after them. But he must, you see, or he will lose his regular job writing about vegetables. Life in the city of London is corrupt. Life in the Welch country seems to cen- ter around the mine. (Why, even the sweetheart is at the mine.) Yet, these peo- ple manage to retain all their natural in- nocence and goodness. For us city folk, it is difficult to understand how a coal mine can foster 'innocence. Innocence and the good life have been as- sociated in pastoral literature with the coun- try and the sheperd. The city dweller and courtier wished to leave their surroundings for the good life. However, it became more and more difficult to imagine the good life of the sheperd as factories and mines be- came more numerous on the countryside. The man in search of innocence no longer had a place to go and the pastoral went out of vogue. The story of the country cousin in the big city took its place as a kind of pas- toral-in-reverse. The country boy, with his residue of innocence, is coned, but he remains untouched and outsmarts everybody. Most of the jokes are old hat, but "A Run For Your Money" is not a bore. It has some funny scenes which show various phases of London life which are only tangentially re- lated to the movie. These are worth the 50c. -Eleanor Hope "But You're Supposed To Be Out Recruiting For Us" ette-4 TO THE EDITOR ThenDaily 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. vt r 4 P 7 1 T C i S t 6^93 mw ~ gwolw o-p ON THE j t t t fi i i i WASHINGTON Crown Defended... To the Editor: AN unfortunate commentary on the intellectual development of modern Africa was registered last week with the publication of a certain letter on the present crisis in Kenya Colony. It has been some time since this reader has quite seen the equal in terms of self-cen- tered, threatful nationalism. No thinking person would deny the sad existance presently endured by the native popula- tion of Kenya, but it is strange that so many other pertinent considerations could have been accidently overlooked. When the British first came to Kenya, they found the area very nearly de- populated from tropical diseases; what few unfortnuates remained alive had fled the land, leaving it untilled. British health and administrative officials brought disease and famineunder con- trol, and today's result is an ex- panding native population al- ready at the five and one-half million mark. Most of the Kikuyu tribe feel that the remaining needs of their land can be satisfied through peaceful co-operation with the British, who have the scientific ability and the political desire to remedy existing difficulties in the Kenya Colony. The London gov- ernment may not be particularly altruistic about the matter, but it nevertheless needs a peaceful, prosperous, well-developed Kenya to feed the home isles and neigh- boring possessions of the Com- monwealth. Unfortunately, the Mau Mau society seems to disagree with the Kikuyu majority. They believe in violence, terrorism, bloodshed, and revolution (all couched, as last week's reader no doubt noticed, in terminology in- spired from- somewhere east of Western Germany). These are the methods for a free, independant (and one might add, illiterate) Af- rica. So far the Mau Mau contribution in Kenya has meant the disrup- tion of peace, the virtual elimina- tion of Britain's expanding tech- nical development program, and an intriguing attempt at the mass- murder of their own race. If there are other contributions, either past or projected, it would prove inter- esting indeed to hear of them. -Allain de la Berge * * * - ME Blues... To the Editor: "WHYis it that girls at Michigan don't care so much for Art?" whimpered Meyer Schultz, Spec., as he made out a belated'Applica- tion for Enrollment late today. Schultz, who attracts a great deal of attention by wearing a ber- et on State Street, has enrolled at Michigan for the summer session, and may very well write a pliy while he's here. Action of the play will center around a foreign student from Big Beaver, Michigan. It will show his acceptance of the University, and the University's probational acceptance of the University, and the University's probational ac- ceptance of him. Schultz explained that he proposes to make ingenious use of spelling, punctuation, and paragraph movement to develop his story. A meaningful Set of Values is important to people," Schultz observed, as he set off for one of innumerable seminars in creative writing. "But, after all, what isn't? Schultz' varied background in- cludes clerking in his uncle's hat store, a trip to Northport Point, and spear-carrying in several near- important turkeys. He already has an agent. What he needs now are a play and a producer. Schultz' electrifying appearance on campus, wearing his beret, was met with an overwhelming wave of apathy amongst the student body. This was broken only by the voice of an irritable Managing Edi- tor, asking "Why in hell don't we sonetime run a story about Michi- gan writers who are not only going to write something, but who have written something? And gotten them published? Or produced?' -Bill Hampton MERRY-GO-HOUND WITH DREW PEARSON Ii Ii l .:mi MATTER OF FACT: Workers' Revolts Behind Iron Curtain Like Throwing Lit Match. on a Haystack W 'ASHINGTON-Chief tragedy of the senate dispute over J. B.r Matthews and his charges that "the largest single group sup-1 porting the Communist apparatus are protestant clergymen" is thee cleavage it has cause'd between Protestants and Catholics. Unfortunately Matthews' background, plus his support fromY Christian front and Coughlinite groups, plus the vigorous supportt given McCarthy by these same factions, has aroused bitterness in1 the Protestant world at a time when relations between the twor great church groups appeared on the way to greater harmony. Actually, many Catholic leaders disapprove of McCarthy, but} unfortunately they have not been as vocal as his supporters.- Matthews' background is so well known that McCarthy mustI have realized what religious bitterness he would stir up whenc he hired him to direct his committee activities. Even if Matthewst had no made his anti-Protestant charge in the American Mer- cury, it was obvious that Matthews would have aroused Protestant and Jewish resentment.I Among other things, Matthews was given credit in Senate testi- mony for leading the unfair and wanton attack on Assistant Secre- tary of defense Anna Rosenberg when she was erroneously branded a Communist. He is a friend of Joseph Kamp, sentenced to jail for refusing to testify regarding his Constitutional Educational League. He was a contributor to Coughlin's newspaper "Social Justice," offi- cially recommended by the Nazi government before Pearl Harbor. He has had the backing of Allan Zoll of American Patriots, Inc., listed by the Justice Department as subversive, also of rabble rouser Merwin K. Hart. GALA DINNER The American Mercury, in which Matthews' anti-Protestant article appeared, is now owned by Russell Maguire. once close to the Christian Front and backer of the recent anti-semitic document, "The Iron Curtain over America." A gala dinner given in honor of Matthews at the Waldorf, Feb. 13, gives some idea of his supporters. Copies of the American Mercury were on every table. Senator .McCarthy. was the chief speaker. Columnist George Sokolsky was. toastmaster. A message was read from Vice-President Nixon. The guest list included: Allan Zoll, Merwin K. Hart, Joseph Kamp, Westbrook Pegler, 'Alfred Kohlberg of the China Lobby, Fred- erick Cartwright, financial agent of Sir Oswald Moseley, leader of the British Union of Fascists; Dr. Ruth Fischer, sister of Hans Eisler; John T. Flynn, Roy Cohn, counsel to Senator McCarthy; Mary Jung of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation. Walter Winchell bought a ticket but did not show. MODEST FELLOW TRAVELER Matthews once testified: "I hope it will not appear immodest, but for a period of years I was probably more closely associated with the Communist party's United Front movements than any other individual in this country." This has been Matthews' greatest claim to fame. He has cashed in on his mistakes in a way few people could cash in on rectitude. After his erroneous information regarding Anna Rosenberg be- gan to backfire, Matthews tried to slide out of all responsibility. He denied giving information to Benjamin Freedman, despite Freedman's testimony to the contrary. However, Matthews' letter to Russell Tur- ner, assisant to Fulton Lewis, Jr., really put him on the spot. "Here are the photostats, together with a memorandum on the Communist organizations with which A. R. (Anna Rosenberg) has, according to the public records, been affiliated," Matthews wrote on Nov. 27, 1950. "On the question of whether or not the A. R. of these docu- ments is the A. R., I can report there is not the slightest doubt. I have made exhaustive inquiries and investigations, as a result of which I have established beyond any possibility of dispute tha there had been only one Anna Rosenberg sufficiently known in public life to be listed with the well-known names in these documents, and that there has not been any other Anna Rosenberg of comparable fame, stature, notoriety, or what have you during the past 25 years. One of my sources is a Jewish organization which knows about these things. "Ben Mandel of the House Un-American Committee tells me that he told you Anna Rosenberg is a name like John Smith. My comment to that is 'Nuts.'" The fact that the Senate unanimously reversed Matthews in regard to Mrs. Rosenberg and sent a special report to the Justice Department suggesting possible prosecution of witnesses for perjury should have been enough to stop Senator McCarthy from hiring him. This fact that Matthews' record was so well known is what has aroused Protestant bitterness, made many feel that McCarthyism is developing into a Catholic attack on other religions. CATHOLIC ANTI-McCARTHYISMII Interviews with Catholic leaders develop the fact that many thinking Catholics are dead opposed to McCarthy, don't like the fact that he has never married, or the fact that as a judge he granted quickie divorces. On the other hand, "Our Sunday Visitor," largest circulating Catholic paper, published two articles by Father Richard Ginder vigorously supporting McCarthy simultaneous with publication of the Matthews charges against the Proestant clergy. Unfortunately these helped to overshadow the fact that "Amer- ica," organ of the Jesuits, differed with McCarthy over Adlai Steven- son last fall and that "Commonweal," Catholic lay weekly, published a stirring statement by Father Leon Sullivan, once imprisoned by ( ir__ ( n:m - _cc .,hih . 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 preceeding publication (be- fore 11 a.m. on Saturday). SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1953 vOL. LXIII, No. 98 7T0ices today, 9:00-12:00 a.m., 2407 Mason Halt. See your instructor for permission and then sign list in History Office. t ft(i S 1 1 l 7 :< t l ',7 l i l ? The following student organizations have registered for the summer session: Presbyterian Summer Student Fellow- ship Lakesiders (Wesleyan Graduate Group) Summer session French club Lester Co-op Nakamura Co-op Owen Co-op Inter-Cooperative Council By STEWART ALSOP BERLIN - What has been happening in East Germany has transformed the whole world situation. The best way to understand what has beei happening is to consider in some detail certain recent events in the small industrial city of Bitterfeld, in the Soviet zone of Germany, as seen through the eyes of two brave men. These men are Wilhelm Fiebelkorn, a schoolteacher who looks like a high strung, unhealthy, very intelligent American Indian; and Horst Sovarda, a skilled electrical work- er who looks like a genial, ham-fisted foot- ball tackle. Fiebelkorn and Sovarda arrived a few days ago in the safe haven of West Berlin; after being condemned to death by the East German Communist regime. For Sovarda, the worker, and Fiebelkorn, the intellectual, were the leaders of a revolt which actually seized and for a time exer- cised power in the city of Bitterfeld. Sovarda tells the first part of the story. Towards the beginning of June. when the Communist regime was announcing all sorts of "easements for the population," the workers in the big Bitterfeld elecro-mag- netic combine learned that their "produc- tion norms" were to be increased. Already, Sovarda and other workers' leaders had organized an elaborate cell system in their plant, precisely patterned on the Commun- ists' cell system in capitalist countries. The time had come, they decided, to risk every- thing. The order to strike was passed through the cells, and on the morning of June 10 the whole plant closed down. DAILY OFFICIALBULLETIN closed down. Again, the regime failed to react with the expected violence. Then, on the evening of June 16, RIAS, the American radio station in Berlin, carried word of the construction workers' strike in East Berlin, and the word spread rapidly throughout Bitterfeld. Until then, the strike had been confined to the electro-magnetic plant. Now every factory in the Bitterfeld area struck, and on the morning of June 17 the workers filled the streets of the city. Here the German instinct for order asserted itself. A mass meeting of workers elected Fiebelkorn, fa- vorably known as a "militant intellectual," as chairman of the "Bitterfeld District Strike Committee." In a methodical nian- ner, the committee set about organizing the city. The Communist mayor was quietly evicted from his office. The workers took over the headquarters of the Communist party, the secret police, and all public buildings. Eighty-six political prisoners were freed from the jail, while six crim- inals were firmly re-locked in their cells. The workers took over the telegraph of- fice, where Fiebelkorn drafted and dis- patched two remarkable telegrams. The first was addressed derisively to the "so-called Democratic peoples' government in Berlin." It contained a list of eight curt demands, including free elections, the re- lease of all political prisoners, the dissolu- tion of the "so-called peoples' army," and the dissolution of the government itself. government, this included space for a pre- paid reply, as a further mark of respect. The reply came, of course, in the form of Soviet troops and tanks. By early in the evening of June 17, all public build- ings had been occupied, martial law had been declared, and Fiebelkorn and So- varda had been condemned to death as "criminal saboteurs." So ended Bitter- feld's great revolt. But has it really ended? Asked how such things could happen in a supposedly monolithic police state, Fiebel- korn shrugs his shoulders and replies that it is as though "a lighted match were thrown on a haystack." The haystack he explains, is the universal hatred of the East German people for the puppet regime which has ground their lives into misery. The match is the weakness of the regime which the workers began to sense soon af- ter Stalin's death, and which they sensed with certainty with the sudden adoption of the policy of "easement for the populace." The haystack and the match-hatred and contempt-are still present. What happened in Bitterfeld, happened in almost exactly the same way in more than seventy-five other German cities (though Fiebelkorn's telegrams were unique). As this is written, moreover, it looks as though the haystack were again beginning to smoulder. Seventy thousand workers in East Berlin have proclaimed a sitdown strike, and the movement is beginning to spread to the Soviet zone. "We know now that they can't kill all of us," Sovarda says. Lectures MONDAY, JULY 13 Symposium on X-Ray Diffraction. 1400 Chemistry Building. "Fourier Transformation and X-Ray Diffraction by Crystals." P. P. Ewald, Brooklyn Poly- technic Institute, 9:00 a.m. "Experi-. mental Studies of Crystal Structures: Application to Structure Determinations of HF and HCN from Prints of the Dif- fraction Photographs," W. N. Lips- comb, University of Minnesota, 10 a.m. Summer Education Conference. Morn- ing session, Schorling Auditorium: "Ad- justing the Curriculum to the Needs of Children and Youth." John J. Brooks, Director, New Lincoln School, New+ York City, 10:00 a.m.; panel discus-I sion, 11:00 a.m.+ Afternoon: Special conferences: The Curriculum and Human Values, 2431 University Elementary School; Music conference, 1022 University High School; reports to parents. 2:00 p.m., 1430 Uni- versity Elementary School. Symposium on Astrophysics. 140 Chemistry Building. "Galaxies: Their Composition and Structure," Walter Baade, Mt. Wilson and Palomar ob- servatories. 2:00 p.m; "General Ideas About Turbulence and Statistical Hy- drodynamics," G. K. Bathchelor, Un- versity of Cambridge, England, 3:30 p.m. Conference of English Teachers. "The Dictionary as a High-School English Text," Clarence L. Barnhart, Editor, Thorndike-Barnhart dictionaries and American College Dictionary. 4:00 p.m., Auditorium C. Angell Hall. Graduate symposium -- Speech Cor- rection: 4:00 p.m., West Conference Room, Radkham Building. Speaker, D. E. Morley Assoc. Prof. of Speech, Uni- versity of Michigan. Radiation Biology Symposium. "Con- tributions of Radiation Experiments to an Understanding Bacteriophage," A. H. Doermann, Oak Ridge National Lab- oratory. 8:00 p.m., 1300 Chemistry Build- ing. Sociedad Hispanica. A lecture in Spanish on the subject "Andanzas folk- loricas por Espana" will be given by Pro- fessor Aurelio M. Espinosa. Jr., of Stan- . Concerts Student Recital, Alfred Boyington, violinist, will present afrecital in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music at 4:1; Monday afternoon, July 13, in the RackhamAssembly Hall. It will in- clude works by Handel, Copland and Brahms and will be open to the pub- lie. Mr. Boyington is a pupil of Gilbert Ross. Faculty Concert. Lydia Courte, pian- ist and Robert Courte, Violist of the School of Music Faculty will be heard at 8:30 p.m., Monday even~ing, July 13. 1953 at Rackham Lecture Hall. Their program will include Martin Marais' Four old French dances, Haydn's Di- vertimento in D major, George Wilson's Sonata, Homer Keller's Sonata and Mo- zart's Divertimento in C major. It will be open to the public without charge. Faculty Concert. John Kollen, pian- ist, will appear in the third faculty con- cert at 8:30Tuesday evening, July 14, in the Rackham Lecture Hall. His pro- gram will include Mozart's Sonata in 0 major, K. 330, Brahms' Sonata in F mi- nor. Op. 5, and Beethoven's Sonata in E- flat major. Op. 31, No. 3. The gen- eral public will be admitted without charge. Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Hall. Popular Art in America (June 30 -August 7); California Water Color So- ciety (July 1-August 1). 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays; ' to 5 p.m. on Sun- days. The public is invited. General Library. Best sellers of the twentieth century. (Continued on page 4) Sixty?"hind Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Harland Britz.........Managing Editor Dick Lewis............sports Editor Becky Conrad.......... Night Editor Gayle Greene..............Night Editor Pat Roelofs .............. Night Editor Fran Sheldon .............Night Editor Business Staff Bob Miller ......,. Business Manager Dick Alstrom .... 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