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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
DEP R EN
First Ten Years
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Of UN HaveBeen Fruitful
DUCgrIoN
By JIM DYGERT
IVERYONE SEEMS to have taken upon him-
self the task of appraising the first ten,
ears of the United Nations, for this week
iarks the tenth year of appraisal, criticism
nd despair. One can hardly resist, having read
arious commentaries, the notion that the ten
ears were wasted, not by the UN but by its
ritics.
The pundit's acusation that the UN has
allowed in a decade of failure does not sur-
iye a -careful second thought. The UN was
stablished to maintain what peace there was
z 1945. We cannot justifiably criticize it for
ot making that peace more secure, even
iough we had hoped it would.
Except for one instance when it fell back
nto the old, impossible way of a war to stop
ggression in Korea, the UN has maintained
ze peace, though precarious. It has provided
means by which the United States and 'Rus-
a can vent their rage via the veto rather
ian the hydrogen bomb. It halted Communist
:pansion in northern Asia with its interven-
on in Korea, thus checking the hostile inten-
ons of the Reds. It never got a chance in
Zdo-China. There can be no counting of the
sputes resolved with words only because the
N existed.
The UN has been called a failure because of
e endless quibbling in its sessions and the
any unsolved problems it carries into its sec-
ond decade. But this is not failure. Indeed, the
very purpose of the UN was to change deadly
bullets into hot words, determined generals in-
to crafty diplomats, wars into arguments.
The UN has been called a failure because the
Security Council veto has allowed Russia and
the United States to prevent effective action
on many issues. Again, this is not really a fail-
ure, but perhaps a blessing. Where might Rus-
sia or the United States have turned for ef-
fective action if they could not have checked
each other with a veto?
Standing as a stern reminder to men that
what they really want is peace, the UN directs
its members along the proper paths toward it.
Providing a harmless outlet for belligerence,,
the UN keeps the passions of the moment from
pulling them- irrevocably from those paths.
After a while, this continuing process may
bring men to the conviction that after all, war
is rather silly. Considering this, the UN is not
the failure it might seem.
On the other hand, to say the critics wasted
ten years is certainly tenable. They criticized
for the wrong things; they expected the im-
possible, and despaired when it was showed to
be impossible. They should have been thank-
ful, instead, that the UN avoided the probable.
. These critics have .failed to destroy this or-
ganization, for the UN still lives in the major-
ity's hopes. It has withstood the minority's
despair, which, in itself, is a certain achieve-
ment.
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To the Editor:
NO BULL
Whether it's State or M.S.U.
It's the same old cow, with the
same old "moo"
To Michigan men it will always be
That "udder" University!
STATE'S REPLY
Lay off our cows, be generous,
brudders
All that we have we owe to
"udders"!
-J. Fred Lawton
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Lawton is the
author of "Varsity.")
My Love for U..,
To the Editor:
OH, HOW I MICH. U
Dear old former College,
Can U. of late
(Land) Grant more knowledge
Than in your former State?
"A rose by any other name"-
But is this quote too natural?
Not fitting to your new found
fame,
It sounds so agri-Cultural.
May I suggest a new school song,
Like "My Love for U. Was Never
False,"
Perhaps "Hail to the Vectors
Strong,"
Or maybe "Hannah Varsity
Waltz."
-Charles Stephen Lewis
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Soapy's Plums .. .
To the Editor:.
IN WEDNESDAY'S Daily Gover-
nor Williams is quoted as fol-
lows in regard to his candidacy as
President:
if they throw any plums
my way, I'll be there to catch
them if I can."
This contemptible statement is
another demonstration of Wil-
liam's attitude towards high pub-
lie office. If he would co-operate
with the Legislature and really try
to do something for the people of
this State instead of sucking his
present plum as he has been do-
ing for the past six years, he might
earn the right to seek the most
important job and the greatest
honor which our nation has to
offer.
--Clan Crawford, Jr.
The Informer System . .
To the Editor:
IN HIS otherwise excellent edi-
torial on the Ed Lamb case, Jim
Dygert left an erroneous impres-
sion concerning the perjury con-
viction of Mrs. Marie Natvig. Mrs.
Natvig was convicted, not because
she lied as a government witness,
but because she later retracted her
lies. She was convicted because she
swore in an affidavit that repre-
sentatives of the U.S. government
urged her to lie.
To date, the agency going under
the misnomer of the Department
of Justice has not seen fit to ask
for perjury indictments against a
singles one of its many lying wit-
nesses. It has not even dared to
move against Harvey Matusow for
fear of having to re-open every
case in which he has appeared as
a witness. No perjury indictment
has been sought against Paul
Crouch, Manning Johnson, Louis
Budenz (who refused to sue the
Alsop brothers for libel when they
called him a liar in several maga-
zine articles), Elizabeth Bentley
(whose tales sent William Rem-
ington to his death), Milton Sant-
wire (a Detroit FBI agent who ad-
mitted lying as a witness in the
Michigan Smith Act Trial) and a
host of others. The failure of the
Department of Justice to act
against these individuals contrasts
sharply with its zeal in hounding
Prof. Owen Lattimore, who has
already been twice vindicated by
the courts.
The Department of Justice is
unwilling to move against its paid
liars because such action will ex-
pose as a hoax the administra-
tion's contention that the Com.
munist Party is trying to over-
throw the U.S. government by
force and violence. All the con-
victions against the Communist
leaders were based chiefly on the
testimony of these professional
witnesses. Aside from the Marxist
classics (which are readily avail-
able at most public libraries) no
other evidence was introduced in
these trials. Yet, the administra-
tion has been so successful in per-
petrating this hoax that the fun-.
damental right of dissent for all
Americans has been seriously un-
dermined. It is indeed high time
that the informer system be ex,
posed.
-Ed Shaffer
* * *
Tankye, Ma'amt.,.
To the Editor:
THE DANCE and mixer held at
the League Friday, June 17,
was a big success. It was an en-
joyable evening for me and I thank
the League's social director for
sponsoring this event. I also thank
Al Townsend's orchestra for their
good dancing music; and Alice
Jans, Lucille Vollmer, Anne San-
tafanny, Carlene Chelgren, Doro-
thy House, and Betty McGregor
for dancing with me.-
-Harley Ristad
Paganini's Fate..,
To the Editor:
WHAT'S WRONG with Ann Aiv.
bor?
This question was answered
Wednesday in the Daily, "the price
of haircuts." The bleeders are
again agitating inflation to such
a point that. it will be cheaper to
buy a violin case and walk the
streets with shaggy hair. Who,
cares if little boys remark, "look
mamma, there goes Paganini."
--Tom Herron
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LTHOUGH I HAVE never truckled to the
type of journalism which finds sly humor
ni the trappings ladies strap across their
hests, I now succumb with a tired sigh and
ecognize the *female bosom as being firmly in
he public domain.
There was a time when ladies' busts were
nerely functional portions of their anatomy
nd not a focus for advertising writers, radio
agmen or Hollywood exploiters. But mer-
handisers have robbed woman of her mys-
ery, to, the point where the bo-zoom is now'
s much of our daily reading life as the weath-
r report. I can now speak freely of falsies,
alf-cups, uplifts, separations, cleavages, plung-
ig necklines and the thousand saucy. trade
ames such as Baseball Bra and Bosom Friend
iat archly proclaim their superiority in con-
rming the female facade-to accentuate it
or the maximum result.
Recently, an advertisement heralded the
'onders of a new harness, one of Lady Mar-
ne's "plunging, popular, Low-Nuff bras cov-
ered with real Americanbroadtail and frivous-
ly named the 'Heart Warmer,' which costs only
$15 and no fur tax." Just how low Low-Nuff is
I will not say, since I mislaid my slide rule in
a burlesque house, but competent scientists
have told me off the record that any girl whose
middle is not clearly visible on a foggy day
is an old spoilsport and will probably die an
embittered maiden lady.
This brings us to falsies, a triumph of mo-
dern engineering designed, as someone put it,
to make a mountain out of a molehill. I have
a bitter letter here from a lady decrying the
use of these delusions as an infringement of
the Fair Trade Act. She describes falsies as
"fake bait," and blames a rising divorce rate
on them.
I've no idea where this ultrafrankness will
lead us, unless it's to consummate boredom
with the whole business of the well-stuffed
sweater. Don't dip your neckline at this kid,
girls. To me it's just costume jewelry.
-Robert C. R ark
United Features Syndicate
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Cracks in the, Iron Curtain
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CURRENT MOVIES
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON - The contrast
erinbetween V. Molotov, the glow-
ering, ill-mannered Russian for-
eign minister who antagonized ev-
eryone at San Francisco 10 years
ago, and the obliging, mild-man-
nered, western hat-wearing Mo-
tov who charmed the diplomats at
San Francisco this week follows a
carefully laid out pattern of So-
viet policy which has caught the
United States napping.
For approximately 10 years we
have been complaining about the
iron curtain. But now the iron
curtain is being lifted-just a
crack-and wendon'td knowwhat
to do about it. It isn't much of a
crack to be sure. Though when
you compare it to the days when
Russian soldiers who had come in
contact with the West in Austria
or Berlin were not allowed to min-
gle with their own families when
they went home for fear they'd
describe the wonders of the capi-
taiist world, even that crack is
significant.
This summer, a whole slew of
visas is being issued to Americans
to visit Russia. They range from
ex-Senator Benton of Connecticut
to Claude J. Desautels, a legisla-
tive assistant to Congressman As-
pinall of Colorado, to Vincent J.
Greenfield, of Sears, Roebuck in
Washington.
The visas are being issued sim-
ultaneous with the visit of Soviet
farmers to Iowa, plus the free and
open chance given to Bill Hearst
to visit Russia, and with the pro-
posal of Soviet University editors
to visit the United States.
MRS. SHIPLEY SAYS NO
BUT INSTEAD of taking advan-
tage of this crack in the cur-
tain, we have reacted as if shot.
When Soviet University editors
wanted to come to the USA, the
unimaginative Mrs. Shipley, State
Department Czarina of passports,
put her unobliging foot down. The
editors did not come.
When the Des Moines Register-
Tribune proposed bringing Soviet
farmers to Iowa, the Red-tape ar-
tists in the State Department, who
happen, incidentally, to be friends
of Joe McCarthy, raised finger-
print technicalities. Finally fin-
gerprints were made unnecessary
by appointing the farmers as of-
ficials.
When a Russian Orthodox bish-
op overstayed his passport by a
couple of days inhNew York, Mrs.
Shipleyhyanked him out of the
USA, thereby causing the Rus-
sians to remove Rev. Georges Bis-
sonnette, the only Catholic priest
in, Moscow, in retaliation.
So it has gone. Instead of taking
advantage of the new crack in the
curtain, we have missed all the
cues. We have completely lacked
imagination. We have built up our
own iron curtain instead of rea-
lizing that we have far more to
sell than Russia, far more to show
if we can get Russians to visit us.
MOVIES TO MOSCOW
I WOULD like to suggest, there-
fore, that since the State De-
partment is so stodgy about peo-
ple-to-people friendship; the Am-
erican people themselves concoct
some ideas on how we can win
friends behind the iron curtain.
As a starter, here is an idea
from John B. Elliott of Los An-
geles, who writes:
"I suggest that the United
States, through the Voice of Am-
erica, offer to furnish Russia mo-
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At the State . .
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, with Doris
Day and James Cagney.
THIS, ADVERTISED as one of the most "un-
usual" musicals to be filmed, does depart
from the stock situations and run-of-the-mill
acting which most of them get, but there have
been more unusual ones. The virtues of the
picture seem mostly to be Cagney's acting and
Miss Day's singing, and neither is precisely a
rare item.
The story is supposed to be a biography of
Ruth Etting, nightclub, radio, and screen star
of yesteryear. Miss Etting, so the movie goes,
is raised from a dime-a-dance hall to national
stardom through the efforts of a Chicago mob-
ster named Marty ("The Gimp") Snyder. His
motivation is not altruism, and Miss Etting
suffers through most of the picture trying to
rationalize her way out of obligation to him.
And suffer is an apt word. Miss Day, who
sings charmingly but rather unlike Miss Ett-
ing, spends a very large part of the film sob-
bing into a handkerchief while Cagney (as
The Gimp) browbeats her into obedience to
his way of doing things.
Miss Day, for all her inability ,to bring off
a tragic scene, does a very good job of the
role-mostly because when she is not sobbing
she is singing. The number of songs involved
in the picture is phenomenal, and it is amaz-
ing that very few of them are boring.
Cagney does the most to make the film un-
usual, and director Charles Vidor is aware of
usual, and director Charles Vidor is aware of it.
He's tough and nasty, and it's a good thing.
No musical should be without its share of
characters who can be despised.-Tom Arp
The Daily Staff
Editorial Board
Jim Dygert Pat Roelofs Cal Samra
NIGHT EDITORS
Mary Lee Dingler, Marge Piercy, Ernest Theodossin
Dave Rorabacher .......................S ports Editor
At Architecture Aud.
THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE
I HAVEN'T the statistics in hand, but I'd
wager an ounce or two of gold dust that
Treasure is the mose revived movie that ever
came out of Hollywood. And, despite the fact
that the print seems to be a little bit shabbier
each time it comes around, one has to admit
the picture as a whole wears well. ,
Perhaps this is due largely to the locale; the
mountains loom very large throughout the
whole movie. The prospectors scramble up
and down them, dig holes in them and seal
the holes up again. Without any character
stopping to wipe the sweat from his brow and
remark ponderously on the nobility of the
mountains, and without zooming panorama
in SuperVision, one still feels the enduring-
ness and the grandeur of these mountains.
But if part of the picture's attraction is due
to its epic setting, another and larger part is
due to Fred C. Dobbs, and Dobbs is just as
common and familiar as dishwater. Humphrey
Bogart makes another Babbitt of him: the
common man, not particularly greedy, just
looking after Number One. The foolishness of
his death at the hands of these comic-opera
Mexican bandits is touching and ironic an-
swer to his uneasy boast that "No-one's gonna
make a fool outa Fred S. Dobbs."
TIM HOLT has a less rewarding role as Bo-
gart's partner, an equally common but ex-
ceptionally good man. But where we have
Bogart's posturing and alibis and fidgeting
to convince us of his evilness, we have only
Holt's candid face to convince us of his good-
ness. He is such a perfect physical contrast
to Bogart, however, one is inclined to forget
his shortcomings as a character and get on
with the drama.
tion picture films of American life
to the value of $25,000,000 for ex-
hibition in theatres throughout
Russia, in exchange; for like value
in films of Russian life for similar
exhibition in this country."
Mr. Elliott goes on to point out
that such a project would require
some good faith and some safe-
guards, but that an assortment of
pictures showing all interesting
phases of American life, and also
of Russian Ife, would go a long
way toward breaking down mis-
understanding and helm attain the
long-range goal of peace.
i agrec with him. The Russians
-mi.-ht "!k at first But they, seem
in a mood to be conciliatory. So
now is the time to take advantage
of it, notsit back and glower as
Molotov did 10 years ago and as
certain McCarthyites in the State
Department tire doin gtoday.
EXIT MR. STEVENS
ROBERT STEVENS, who now
steps down as Secretary of the
Army, is one of those sincere, hon-
est businessmen who really want
to serve, their country but just
don't understand the seamy side
of politics.
His family founded the giant J.
P. Stevens Company which oper-
ates textile mills around Green-
uvile. S.C., and though it's one of
the biggest in the textile business,
the Stevens firm hasn't engaged
in the price-cutting of its big
competitor, Burlington Mills, in
order to knock out certain weaker
companies.
Stevens himself will go back to
head that company.-He has a son
now working from the bottom up,
getting no favors, learning the
trade.
Probably Stevens would have
left the Washington scene an ef-
ficient hard-working unknown had
it not been for Senator McCarthy,
who at first he 'shunned and fear-
ed. It was later when he decided
to stand up to McCarthy that he
got into trouble.
How definitely toat era has
passed is now illustrated by the
man who takes Stevens' place, Wil-
ber Brucker, ex-governor of Mi-
chigan. Brucker came to Wash-
ngton a strong McCarthyite. When
appointed to the Defense Depart-
ment as general counsel he was,
still a McCarthyite.
But one day he had to go up to
see McCarthy to explain why Joe's
two gumshoes, Don Surine ani.
Tom Lavenia, were security risks.
McCarthy gave him the dressing
down of his life. He bawled him
out unmercifully. By the time he
left, Brucker was the most anti-
McCarthy man in town.
(Copyright, 1955, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
IT HAS long been the fashion
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VOL. LXVI, No. 4
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Academic Noties
Sociology Coffee Hour, FrI.,. June 24.
in the Sociology Lounge (5th floor Hay.
en) at 3:00 p.m. All new and old stu-
dents and faculty in the department in-
vited.
Topology Seminar. First meeting: Fri.,
June 24, 3:00 p.m., Room 3010, Angell
Hall. Meeting time to be arranged then.
Proposed topic: "Manifolds and Poin-
care duality; Alexander-Pontryagin di-
ality"
Events Today
Film Forum on International Educa-
tion series. "Passion for Life," featurf
length French documentary with En
lish sub-titles. Open to public free [
charge. Fri,, June 24, 8:00 p.m., Aud .,.
Angell Hall.
Spanish Tertulia. Rumpus Roor of
the Michigan League at 3:00 p.m., fri.,
June 24.
Punch Refresher. Lane Hall. Meet old
and new friends. 4:30 to 6:00 1'.m.
Michigan Christian Fellowship. Fri.
June 24, 7:30 p.m. Lane Hall. Hymn sing
and "get acquainted" meeting.
Sun., June 26, 4:00 p.m., Lane Hall,
Bible study led by The Rev. WAilliami
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
AFRIEND of mine recently re-
turned from a series of official
and unofficial interviews in Eu-
rope with the feeling that "things
look almost too good."
The spate of optimistic remarks
about the possibilities of peace
which have come from world lead-
ers this week 'sound almost too
good. One cannot help recalling
Chamberlain's "Peace in our time"
and Hitler's promises of no more'
demands against Europe.
There has been an obvious at-
tempt by some, especially on the
Allied side, to warn about the dif-
ficulties which will attend nego-
tiations with the Soviet Union.
All this talk has to be taxen
against the background of the un-
spoken Allied estimate of what the
Russians are up to. And that es-
The Allies will try to make the
Russians see that they can have
security without control. They will
try to test how much her attitude
is the result of fear, and how much
it is a part of Communist expan-
sionist determination.
Reports keep cropping up that
the Allies will have something con-
crete to offer in the way of dis-
armament and collective security,
even though they don't expect
Russia to be willing- to.pay the
price at any early date. The price
would be reunification of Germany
through free elections, an end to-
Russia's, divisive tactics and her
fight against German rearmament,
and some token that she would not
merely use a period of peace to
prepare for further conquest.
There is not even any hope for
an immediate curtailment of the
arms race, although that is some-
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