PAGE TWO TIDE MICHIGAN DAILY 1VFSDA5.,. JULY 20, 1954 PAGE TWO TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1q54 Sen. McCarthy: A Symptom Of a Confused Age "What Are You Doing With Your Second Chances?" "McCARTHYISM" is bigger than the Senator from Wisconsin or the Republican Party. Politicians say that Senator McCarthy is causing national confusion from his attacks on Commun- ists. This view places the cart before the horse. For McCarthy is not the cause of the current muddled anti-communist climate in the country but he is rather feeding upon it. This national state of confusion about coping with the Communists in our society has manifested itself in many ways. For example, in June of this year newspaper accounts related aspects of this confusion. At a GM plant workers beat up and expelled for them- selves a fellow worker suspected of being a Red. Shortly afterwards another story told about Flint Union Men mauling a Red suspect. Another example of the lack of logic in dealing with security risks appeared in the recent tax over- haul bill passed by Congress. It required'that phil- anthropic organizations like the Rockefeller or Car- negie Foundations should not hand out funds to suspected disloyal individuals or groups. This amendment proposed by Senator Pat Mc- Carren, Democrat from Nevada, would require in- timidating loyalty checks on much of the founda- tions' work. Senator Joseph McCarthy has ridden this wave of confusion to power by finding this tempo of thought and entrenching himself within it. When McCarthy makes an emotionalized ap- peal he by-passes the Republican Party mechan- ism and goes with his slogans and bag of tricks directly to the American people. Reports from recent public opinion polls and the reactions of many of the Senator's Republican col- leagues indicate that the strength of McCarthy is subsiding. Whether or not this means that "McCarthyism" -the manifestation of this national confusion which no political party has a monopoly on-is de- clining poses a question unanswerable at present. But Democrats, who will make Communism an issue this November, are not going to distinguish be- tween the symptom and the underlying disease. The symptom is the Junior Senator from Wisconsin aid- ed by his own political craftiness. The disease is the unhealthy approach to the existence of American Communism which has been tagged with the name of "McCarthyism." Between now and election time Eisenhower and Republicans will be unmercifully scorned for not bottling up their "problem child" McCarthy. This will lead to charges by Democrats that the Repub- licans are inadequate to continue to lead the coun- try because of their inability to cope effectively with McCarthy. What they overlook is that simply purging Mc- Carthy from the party would not eliminate "Mc- Carthyism" from the land. Instead it would just serve to lower our great President, if he should at- tack McCarthy, to the level of the Senator's own unscrupulous political play and serving to make any cleavage in the Party more substantial. The Demo- crats would thoroughly enjoy this. But they also like the idea of McCarthy as a coming campaign issue because the confusion he breeds would serve to cloud the other myths of their campaign. Besides, McCarthy is riper now than ever for political exploitation in view of the growing unfavorable feeling toward him. Any projected renunciation of McCarthy by the President or the whole Republican Party would raise several weighty questions. Recent public opinion polls show that now 34 per cent of the country is favorable to him even though 45 per cent regards him with disfavor. Alienation of such a large voting segment would amount to political suicide. Then there is the question of the legislative pow- ers and the executive powers as defined by the Constitution. Under our system of government the President wears two hats. One as the chief execu- tive -of the whole country and the other as the leader of his political party. As the executive head Eisenhower lacks the power to intervene in any of the Senator's activi- ties. As the political leader he could, in view of Sen. McCarthy's large followng, injure the coun- try and party more by speaking out than by remaining still and letting McCarthy hang him- self. The answer to the crafty Wisconsin political thorn seems to be a middle-road policy of a sub- tle and less sensational nature which indications show is presently being pursued. , Recently the Internal Security Commission was created within the Justice Department to weed Communists out of the government. This takes over some of what would be Mr. McCarthy's pursuits. Also, the Administration recently stripped McCar- thy of more power after his efforts to investigate the CIA. General Mark Clark at the head of the Hoover Commission Task Force will do the job in- stead. These and other events seem to show that Eisen- hower is acting to deflate Sen. McCarthy. It takes time because McCarthy has grown fat on the per- iod in which we live, a period full of trials and threats which have left in their wake a confusion in the public mind. Out of this, McCarthy has emerged perhaps for no other reason than a focus for frustration. -Baert Brand "s. r 3 3 A r V xr US. prflf{ 'PqE rAf'MJ. +Tn..T FdlT' e++ S DRAMA continuing on to "the cheese is in the pantry," At Hil1 Auditorium ..hd,,~ l "- S 0S shades of Barbra Allen, and everything. REPUTED to be the funniest woman in the world, Terming Spanish songery as "cheerful, but-- Anna Russell eats bananas on stage, looks like fidgety," Miss Russell proceeded to sing two. The an opera singer, talks like British movies, and is first was South American and "polite." The second the funniest woman in the world. was a "rude Flamenco," involving castanets, a rose between the teeth and miscellaneous "oles" from Last night's performance at Hill was a musical the accompanist. He, by the way, kept a straight event to be passed over by all serious music lovers. Within two husMs usl osiniul e face throughout the entire proceedings and seemed Wihi tohours Miss Russell conscientiously de- oba nice guy.. molished every known mode of singing from "the to"Miserable" ad 'd be a Red Hot Mamma if it art song" to "the modern art song" (My Heart Has Weren't for my Varicose Veins," were two of the Dishpan Hands). She means businessselections calculated to demonstrate what "perfect- It is impossible to say of her program that one ly revolting exhibitions in public," American popu- number was better than another. To do that sort lar songs are. of thing one must have some kind of objective After the intermission Miss. Russell rendered her standard. Miss Russell has completely obliterated famed analysis of Wagner's ring cycle which con- all objective standards. fers upon the Rhine Maidens the dubious distinc- tion of being "acquatic Andrews sisters." Woton I happened to like especially her folksong, Span- is referred to as "a crashing bore," Valhalla be- ish songs and popular songs-possibly because I comes "the celestial Whitehouse"-nothing escapes. detest most folk, Spanish and popular songs. The other selections such as German Leider Accompanying herself on an invisible Irish harp, (Night and Day); The English Art Song (Oh Miss Russell conveyed the true spirit of the folk- Night Oh Day!), French Art Songs and Chan- song as disseminated from generation to, genera- toosy songs were all equally mad and delightful. tion, derived straight from the horse's mouth, that belonging to the oldest member of the community And Anna Russell seems to be up on local matters. who himself disseminates "the songs his mother In her eloquent address to a legendary Ladies So- taught me." ciety for appreciating music even if you don't hap- The song itself was a lunatic hodgepodge of all pen to like music, she did not fail to allude to a the folksongs in the world beginning with: certain Inez Pilk of Daily fame. The audience seem- ed gratified. I gave my love a cherry that had no pit Anna Russell sings? My love gave me a golden slipper that didn't fit, -Janet Malcolm [ru * CURRENI'( mQVE1 WAS MERR EI ~WITHI WASHINGTON-In view of Sen- ator Flanders' insistence on a vote on his anti-McCarthy resolution, senatorial researchers have been looking up the precedents for un- seating or disciplining members of the Senate. There was one other case of Senatorial censure in recent years, two cases where senators have been expelled from the Senate, and one case where a senator was on the point of expulsion when he resigned. In the House of Repre- resentatives there have been two1 cases this year where congress- men were relieved of committee chairmanships by a vote of their fellow members-Clare Hoffman of Michigan and Alvin Weichel of, Ohio. The senator who was censuredj was Hiram Bingham of Connecti- cut, Republican, who had brought a representative of the Connecticut, Manufacturers Association into a closed hearing on the Smoot-Haw- ley Tariff during the Hoover Ad- ministration. Following a vote of censure he was defeated the next election. The two senators ousted were Newberry, who previously served William Vare of Pennsylvania and Frank Smith of Illinois, both elec- ted in 1926. Truman Newberry of Michigan, elected in 1918,sfaced a certain ouster when he resigned. Henry Ford vs. Newberry Of these, perhaps the most in- teresting case is that of Senator Newberry, who previously served as secretary of the navy in the cabinet of President Theodore; Roosevelt.dNewberry ran against Henry Ford and defeated him. Ford, founder of the automobile empire, ran on both the Republi- can and Democratic tickets, lost out to Newberry in the Republican primary, then in the final election. Woodrow Wilson, then president, supported Ford - quite a change from his grandson. Henry Ford II, who has been asvigorous Republi- can. After his defeat, Ford claimed fraud and charged Newberry with spending $500,000. The expenditure of large amounts of money was noted during the campaign by Ar- thur Vandenberg, later a senator, then editor of the Grand Rapids Herald. Newberry was tried and convicted of violating the corrupt practices act, but the higher courts set the conviction aside. And when his case came before the Senate he was finally seated -even though his own financial report showed the expenditure of $195,000 which was considered an exorbitant campaign fund in those days. The vote was 46 to 43 with all Democrats voting against him, plus eight Republicans including Borah of Idaho and Edge of New Jersey. Popular reaction to the Newber- ry case was such that the Demo- crats scored heavily in the 1922 congressional elections. Even Sen- ator Townsend of Michigan, a Re- publican who championed New- berry, was defeated. Eleven days after the election, on Nov. 18, 1922, facing an almost certain ouster, Newberry resigned. Some Democratic senators see a parallel in the McCarthy case to- day and figure that a vote for McCarthy on the Flanders resolu- tion will boomerang against the Republicans next November. Private-Utulity Senator The case against Sen. Frank Smith of Illinois four years later was based upon the fact that the big utilities contributed $203,000 to his Republican primary. The late Sn;; Tnrii11 a rn +hi hi yooc HINGTON Y'-GO-OUND BREW PEARSON velt Cabinet, had originally sup- ported him. It was also in 1926 that William Vare of Pennsylvania was elected and also unseated-though after a two - year debate. Vare, the Republican boss of Philadelphia sometimes called the "ash-can statesman," had been elected to the Senate after a pri- mary battle with George Wharton Pepper, a blue - stocking lawyer, and Gov. Gifford Pinchot, a Teddy Roosevelt Bull - Mooser. Vare was backed by the Mellon interests of Pittsburgh by , a cool campaign kitty of $1,800,000. In addition, Vare himself had spent $785,000. Though he won both the primary and the election, his Democratic opponent, William B. Wilson, the former coal miner who served as secretary of labor in Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet, challenged the election, and after a long battle Vare was voted out of the Senate by his own colleagues. Capital News Capsules Knowland Scored - The Amer- ican Embassy reports that Sen- ator Knowland is responsible for Prime Minister Churchill's sudden decision to oppose Red China's ad- mission to the United Nations. Churchill was greatly alarmed at Knowland's threat to pull th United States out of the U.N. He read about Knowland's stand while he was on the SS Queen Elizabeth en route home. The old British warrior pondered over the speech, and, fearing a U.S. return to iso- lationism, he changed his mind be- fore the boat docked and reluct- antly announced he would not press for Red China's membership at this time. Unhappy Alliance - General "Wild Bill" Donovan, our cloak- and-dagger ambassador to Thai- land, has reported that the Thai government is the most corrupt in Southeast Asia - However, we're forced to support it just the same ... Donovan was sent to this Asi- atic listening post last year to or- ganize our intelligence network. His mission is now completed, and he will return to Washington to serve as a special adviser to Eis- enhower. Meanwhile, Donovan re- ports that top Thai officials freely take graft.TAs anresult, much of our aid to Thailand goes into their private pockets. Nevertheless, Donovan advised Washington that Thailand must be kept a bulwark for thesWest, and he recommended a "crash" program to speed up the arms flow. Copywright 1954, by the Bell Syndicate Sixty-Fourth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan underthe authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. ON THE Interpreting The News By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst The United States has learned a lot of hard lessons in the Indo- china debacle. One lesson useful in Washington is this: Beware wishful thinking. When I was in Indochina and elsewhere in Southeast Asia recent- ly, it struck me that some Ameri- can diplomatic and militaryper- sonnel had developed the habit of assessing situations not as they were but as somebody in Wash-1 ington thought they should be. One competent man in Indo- china was sending home blister-.. ing reports on his view of the situ- ation there. He painted it just as black as it was. He had little faith in French ability to hold off dis- aster, and he told Washington about it. He was recalled. But there were others in Saigon and Hanoi who were saying-at1 least to me-that victory was with-E in the grasp of the French. They had it all figured out neatly. It took a catastrophe at Dien Bien Phu to change their minds. I was assured by these Ameri-, cans that the monsoon rains would4 interrupt the fighting at Dien BienI Phu, that the Communists could not fight on in the rain at that pace, that there would be a long1 lull during which the French would, build up for their autumn opera- tion which was to be launched as the Navarre plan for victory.- Gen. Henri Navarre, the French commander in chief, apparently] planned to launch a large-scale of-1 fensive in the autumn with mas-i sive American help in the form1 of equipment and supplies. Every-1 body knew about the Navarre plan,1 including the Communists. The sad, thing about it was that the Commu-1 nists didn't see fit to alter their timetable. There will be other dangerous1 situations popping up in Asia from here on. If Washington is to be kept abreast of events in time, the need surely is for the ablest men available, who would be in- structed to report the hard facts without any sugar-coating or any tender regard for the preconceived notion of somebody sitting behind a desk at home.- A Iternative To EIJC ' NOT THE LEAST of Premier Mendes-France's problems, as he seeks an Indochina truce at Geneva, is the attitude o f t h e French Assembly toward the Eu- ropean Defense Community. It has been said that if M. Mendes-France is successful in negotiating an honorable truce, so great will be, the rejoicing that the Assembly will give him almost anything he wants. That could be the case-although Mr. Molotov, whose aim of frus- trating Western European defense remains unchanged, also could trim his own course to meet this possibility. In any event, the mere hope of favorable French action on EDC is an unreliable base for the policy of other Western na- tions on German rearmament. In1 the circumstances the British - American plan to separate the German peace treaty, or contrac- tual agreement, from EDC, is the1 counsel of realism.1 M. Mendes-France is said to hope that changes in the EDC trea-4 ty can be held to minor reserva-i tions that would not require re- negotiation with other countries. That will be difficult, to say the least, for EDC in its present form has been accepted by four of the six partners as well as, by impli- cation, the United States and Brit- ain. Yet if minor reservations a- bout the status of the French army can make EDC acceptable to the Assembly, that way still may be preferable to other courses of ac- tion. The Benelux countries, and Secretary Dulles and Foreign Sec- retary Eden, have recognized that there are no wholly satisfactory alternatives to EDC. Chancellor Adenauer has said virtually the same thing. Why is it that EDC is preferable to any alternative? Certainly not because of the military arrange- ments themselves. If military con- siderations alone were to govern, EDC, with its international com- mand groupings, and language dif- ficulties, would be discarded as unwieldy. The argument for EDC is that no other plan would knit Germany so well into Western Europe. But if EDC remains the most desirable objective, at the same time it is never wise to allow pol- icy to rest on a dead-end. The one inescapable fact is that the Ger- mans are growing restive, and that Chancellor Adenauer would have grave difficulty keeping his people in line beyond this summer. Ger- many will be rearmed as a neces- sity, preferably through EDC, but if not that way through NATO or' through nmn hiatieral means Old Editors Speak Up To the Editor: THE RECENT ACTION by the Board of Regents in opening sections of their hitherto secret meetings to the press was an en- couraging victory in the important fight for freedom of information. Congratulations are due to the member of the Board for taking this action, but the main credit should go to the Michigan Press Association and its Freedom of Information Committee which ini- tiated the drive to open the meet- ings. Although progress was slow to come in their campaign, the MPA committee persistently maintained that the public had a right to know as much as possible about the form- ation of policy for the state's larg- est educational institution. The negotiations recognized that some matters (security questions and certain other confidential areas) can only be considered in private, and the final settlement reflected this recognition. Freedom of information is essen- tial to a free society. This is re- cognized by the press and organi- zations such as MPA have done a great deal to bring this crucial truth before a sometimes indiffer- ent public. At the same time, the press, by and large, has a sense of the responsibilities involved in this important freedom to know, and the professional newspaper organiza- tions are concerned with promoting this necessary responsibility. This responsibility will be incumbant on those newsmen who will cover the Regent's meetings for the year trial period. I am confident that they will discharge this responsi- bility to the public and the Board. -Harry Lunn Former Daily.. Managing Editor To the Editors: WATCHING THE rise and for- tunes of Daily editorial writers is a most interesting experience, the summertime proves no excep- tion. This summer a new name blazes across The Daily horizon to harass the Republicans and laud the Democrats. Allan Silver has relentlessly pursued the attack of the "Grand Old Guard" and the most recent assaults have reached a near frenzied peak, with the Ad- ministration, the President, cam- paign myths of corruption, taxes and McCarthy, and anything the GOP might stand for being lev- eled with mighty salvos. I do not choose to debate the issues in question, though if sur- rounded by the material available in a newspaper editorial office, I am sure some sort of case can be made for the Republicans. Rather, I take issue with a common fault of The Daily editorial page; lack of objectivity. Daily writers, with- out a definite editorial policy and free to have nearly anything print- ed that is written, often fail to realize their responsibility to the newspaper public. For just as Daily pundits like to take pot shots at editorial writers in other papers, they fall victim to the same error of not thoroughly analyzing the opponents case, and of not keeping their emotions in check. The writer feels that Mr. Silver's devastating broadsides and wide sweeping gen- eralities appear to be as lacking in objectivity as anything appearing in the Daily in the last four years. Not quite as distressing, but just as distracting, is Mrs. Silver's failure to realize that an effective editorial writer does not write ma- terial which might come out of The To the Editor: THERE HAS BEEN some dis- cussion in this column recently concerning the rights of students to criticize the representatives of the state who have been elected by the same taxpayers who sup- port this university. To those who question this right it should be made clear that under our demo- cratic system every citizen, 'wheth- er a student or otherwise, has every right to criticize his government. I believe that the criticism of these elected, and all elected of- ficials, is integral to our system of government. Our electoral system was set up in such a way that every two years we can, on the basis of our citicism, choose offi- cials who best represent our in- terests. Our task as citizens is to vote in the primary andthe regu- lar elections with some idea of whom we are voting for and why, not merely to go to the polls and blindly pick a candidate because we like the way he cuts his hair. In studying the record of the incumbent we should consider these factors regarding his legis- lative practices: Did he vote for lower taxes?; Has he supported freer trade, housing programs, FEPC legislation, or any civil rights programs? In considering those who have not held office in the past we must look at their platforms for endorsements of leg- islation such as the above. This kind of critical evaluation should be a process kept up throughout an official's term of office. All citizens have not only the right but the duty to realistically evaluate how our government, through our representatives, is serving the needs of the citizens. Democracy is not an absolute which we can safely take for granted, not is it a machine which needs only to be started and from time to time refueled, but rather a process whose success is depend- ent on our constant participation. -Lois Giuliano, Grad THE United States and Brit- ain called together in London a diplomatic study group to work out alternative plans for both German Sovereignty and German rearma- ment in case the European De- fense Community is further delayed or fails entirely. They still hope that France will ratify the treaty in conformity with what appears to be popular French sentiment, and neither they nor Chancellor Adenauer would object strongly if France should attach reservation s for later changes which experience may dictate. But they are deter- mined that German sovereignty must be restored by autumn, in- cluding the right to raise a Ger- man army. That army could be put under NATO, which would pro- vide some control over it. But NATO could not replace the safe- guards of the European Defense Community nor give any impetus to European unification. Moreover, France might even veto German memberhip in NATO, to the com- plete Balkanization of the Conti- nent. France faces a great responsi- bility and a great opportunity.The free world must hope that she will give a good account of herself before history. -The New York Times fi #' Itte4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. 4, political headquarters if he ex- pects to persuade the person seek- ing facts and objective opinions. -Eric W. Vetter Former Daily City Editor Right to Criticize f '? DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN At the Michigan . . HELL BELOW ZERO, with Alan Ladd and re- alistic air conditioning. THIS PICTURE is completely idiotic. Loads of fun, though. Alan Ladd takes a job as first mate of a whaling, ship, the better to pursue the late-lamented-half- owner-of-the-whaling-fleet's lovely daughter, who (the daughter, I mean) thinks there is something not quite tickety-boo about her father's demise. The other half owner and his nasty son Eric try to persuade her that it was suicide. Of them all, Eric is the boy in a position to know about the death, since he personally accomplished it with his own two hands, and he says it was suicide. But Ladd and his lady lightly brush aside this ning around in one of the smaller boats, shooting whales, as his lady love cheers him on. But all good things must end and this excursion comes to a shuddering halt as the catcher runs aground in an ice floe. And who do they send to bust them loose? Old Eric. Eric does a great job, busting not only the ice, but Ladd's catcher as well. However, one of Ladd's crewmen shoots a harpoon into Eric's ship which-- for some reason I haven't been able to fathom-- causes it to blow up and sink. Then Ladd and his lady friend chase Eric across the cakes of ice, like in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Cor- nered at last, Eric turns and duels Alan Ladd with ice axes. Ladd tips him off an ice cake and into the freezing drink. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Alan Ladd and his girl friend embrace withrclum- sy passion, hampered asthey are by their cold weather garb. They see another ship coming to res- Editorial Staff Dianne AuWerter.....Managing Becky Conrad.............Night Rona Friedman..........Night Wally Eberhard..........Nightl Russ AuWerter..........Night Sue Garfield .......... Women's Hanley Gurwin...........SportsI Jack Horwitz......Assoc. SportsI E. J. Smith........Assoc. Sportsl 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. TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1954 VOL. LXIV, No. 21S Notices The University of Michigan Blood Bank Club has arranged to have a Red Cross mobile unit at the Student Health Service on August 4, 1954, to take care of staff members who wish to contri- bute a pint of blood and thus become members of the Blood Bank Club with the privilege of drawing upon the bank for themselves and their immediate families in the event blood is needed. The unit will be at the Health Service from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Staff members who are interested should contact the Personnel Office, Room 3026, Ext. 2619. Students intending to take the admis- sion Test for Graduate Study in Busi- ness on August 14 should leave their names at the Information Desk in Room 150, School of Business Administration, no later than Wednesday, July 28. Cercle Francais: The Summer Session Cercle Francais will meet weekly .on wednesday evening at 8:00 through the month of July, in the Michigan League. A varied program of music, talk, games, and discussions is planned. These meet- ings are open to all students and resi- dents of Ann Arbor who are interestM in France and things French. No prev- ious membership is necessary. All are welcome. Consult the League bulletin and the Daily for place, details, indi. vidual programs. La Petite Causette: An informal French conversation group will meet weekly through July in the Round-Up Room of the League, T'hursdays at 3:30. A faculty member and a native French assistant will be present but there is no formal program. Refreshments are avail- able nearby, and all persons interested in talking and hearing French are cor- dially invited to come. .4 Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Business Staff Dick Alstrom.........Business Manager Lois Pollak........Circulation Manager Bob Kovaks........Advertising Manager Telephone NO 23-24-1 Lectures Russian Studies Seminar and Round Table, auspices of the Russian Studies Program. "Soviet Internal Politics." Thomas B. Larson, Division of Research, USSR, United States Department of State. Seminar: 3:00 p.m., 407 Mason Hall. Round table: 8:00 p.m., Rackham West Conference Room. Fifth Summer Biological Symposium, auspices of the Division of Biological Science. "Seetive Mehanisms in Bac- A I A