PAGZ TWO TILE MICM GAN DAIL'Y'' T SDAT, ,SET It 1 ,1sb : ~AG~ TWO TUE MICUIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, J~1LY 11, 1~55 . . ".. Sixty-Fifth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. - ANN ARBOR, MIcH. * Phone NO 2-3241 "We GotHere Early" BOOK REVIEW r wF ,% Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. This must be noted in all reprints. Bentley's Index of Suspects By PAT ROELOFS SUDDENLY THE ostensibly dormant witch- hunters are making the headlines again. We realize now why there were no big exposes of 'Comm'unists" and other "subversives" for several months: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has just reported that "under-cover FBI agents are finding it increasingly difficult to pene- trate the security net of Communist under-. ground conspirators at work in this country." But the FBI agents have been at work, and with them some "anti-subversive" Congress- men, including Michigan's own 'Rep. Alvin Bentley. They haven't found much that's signi- ficant-no evidence of plans to overthrow the government. Yet they continue their hunt, and to smear the names of honest and intelligent Americans who have through the years fought for civil liberties. Rep. Bentley made the revelation last week that six Ann Arborites allegedly signed a peti-- tion urging changes in the federal immigration law,, otherwise known as the McCarran Inter- nal Security Act. Because these people, along with 67 other alleged signers, and hundreds of non-signers, asked for modification of an im- migration law that aims to keep anyone sus- pected of ever having belonged to a Commun- ist or Communist-sympathizing group out of this country, (along with some other very rigid and unjustifiable requirements) they are now being labeled. Note that Rep. Bentley is aiming to use good tactics in revealing the list of signers: he says "these individuals are not necessarily Com- munists, Communist sympathizers or fellow travelers"-yet we know that in the minds 'of the public, anyone whose name appears on a. list in 'the hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee is subversive; Rep. Bent- ley's statement is quite meaningless. In addition to having their names added to the lists that fill the files of the Un-American. Activities Committee for allegedly signing this petition, the six reputable Ann Arborites have been listed for "alleged membership in or signing a group petition linked to some organ- izations listed as subversive by the Committee or the Attorney General." The importance of the word "alleged" here cannot be over emphasized. Membership in the organizations with which each man has been linked by some omniscient human, is only alleged, in the first place. There seems to be no evidence that an attempt was made to ver- ify membership in some of the groups with which several of the men have been associated. In fact, some of the associations cited are completely false. IN THE SECOND place, in the cases where. membership can be verified, we are given no explanation of why that organization is considered subversive by the Attorney General, his under-cover FBI assistants or the House Un-American Activities Committee. Looking at the titles of the groups, such as "Civil Rights Congress," "Mid-Century Conference for Peace," "American Council of Soviet Relations," "Bill of Rights Conference," "American Youth for Democracy," it can easily be seen that mak- ing a statement favoring fairness and revivi- fication of truly democratic practices has now become a "subversive" act-for in most cases,, these have been the aims of the groups for which the six men have been "charged" with membership. What is so dangerous about a list like Rep. Bentley's is: 1) the word "alleged" when re- ferring to membership in a group is often left out, both by the people making charges and those speaking about them. Even this reporter in a moment of haste left out that word, yet no where has proof been given that these men were members of cited organizations. 2) The "subversiveness" of an organization is decided upon by a small, totalitarian-minded group that has gone to extremes for years in, demanding we be rid of all subversives. The names of tolerant, intelligent good citizens are smeared because they are now on lists of "subversives" composed by the witch hunting groups., The danger of Communism is the scare it causes that there is a well-organized conspiracy to overthrow the government. Mistrust of ev- ery liberal group in the country will eventually result; we can see it growing by looking at Rep. Bentley's list. In an attempt to keep our country secure, the frightened people would prosecute anyone not waving the Stars and Stripes. In the end we have a more rigid de- mand for conformity than even the Soviet Un- ion has ever known. Communism can best be defeated by an ef- fective democracy. When labels are given to persons who publicly fight to defend, that de- mocracy, totalitarianism has won a victory. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Goddard Group . . . WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: What's Behind Red Sugar? By DREW PEARSON GENEVA-The most important question on everyone's mind in Geneva is whether the new sweetness and light exuded by the Rus- sians is here to stay and what is behind it. Will it be reversed in a day, a week or a year? Secretary Dulles has told Senators it's be- cause :Russia is now weak. President Eisenhow- er has said that .,on the contrary, Russia is strong. Frankly, nobody knows the answer. Yet the answer is all-important if any agreements made at Geneva are to be worth the ink they're signed with. European diplomats of long experience with whom I have talked come nearest to giving an answer. Namely, that while Russia is strong militarily, she is weak politically and econom- ically; also, finally has discovered she may have a treacherous friend in the form of Red China. It's long been known that the Kremlin was- n't happy about the boisterous boys who have been running Communist China. But on top of this, party leader Krushchev made a trip to China last fall, where the Red Chinese made some economic demands which Russia could- n't possibly fill, and also made Khrushchev realize that the day might come when China's 600,000,000 people might turn against Russia's 200,000,000. At such a time Russia will need friends. RUSSIA'S WEAKNESSES J HRUSHCHEV ALSO found that Russia was In no position to risk a war or stand up in any tough way against the west, despite its amazing progress in planes and guided missiles. European diplomats have made a careful study of Russian weaknesses, and perhaps the best answer to the Kremlin's diplomatic strength or lack of it is to look at the results of that study. AMAZING FRANKNESS-Here is part of it, taken from the amazingly frank statements of Soviet leaders themselves>.. "Some party leaders have acquired the habit of talking only about successes. They avoid discussions of shortcomings and difficulties," opined the blunt new boss of Soviet Russia, Nikita Khrushchev. in a three-hour harangue before the Com- munist Party's Central Committee on Jan. 25, 1955 . . . "It is necessary,"he continued, "to cut down the impermisibly great losses of grain during the harvest. It is completely intoler- able that delays in harvesting on many collec- tive farms have resulted in losses of up to a quarter of the standing crop-and sometimes more." . . . "Many officials go no further than making speeches and drafting resolutions on fodder and do not organize a resolute struggle to increase the fodder production," continued. Communist Secretary Khrushchev. COWS MUST HAVE UDDERS-"What is the situation in regard to the construction of silos and silage pits?" he asked the assembled Communist conclave. "Very bad," he answered his own question . .. "There have been cases of the machine and tractor station mowing the. grass on collective farms, reporting fulfillment of the haying plan with MTS workers even receiving bonuses for this, while the hay on the collective farms remained ungather because it was not raked or stacked." . . . "If your name is a cow," proclaimed the baldheaded Khrush- chev, quoting the poet Mayakovsky, "you must give milk and have an udder. If you have neith- er milk nor an udder, to the devil with your name." And Khrushchev went on to quote fig- ures showing that the Soviet cow population had dropped half a million between 1928 and 1952, while the beef cattle had been reduced by 220,000 . . . He did not mention, of course, the reason why-namely, that Russian peasants, called upon to sell their livestock to the state, butchered and ate it instead. HOUSING AND PLUMBING-Soviet leaders have been equally frank about other difficul- ties. "Officials of the building industry," said the same baldheaded blunt-speaking Khrush- chev, "have no reason to give themselves airs. They should learn something from our friends in Czechoslovakia. Certain comrades learn lit- tle from others, and what is most important, they don't want to learn." . .. "I visited a new hotel at Sverdlovsk. The bathrooms had been very badly built and the standard of decorative work was not high. Pipes in the sanitation unit were covered with rust. The joints between the pipes had been very badly made and I, as of quotas on sewing machines, watches, bicyc- a former steamfitter, was extremely indignant." ... "The machine-building industry fell short To The Editor: Daily Editor Cal Samra is to be warmly commended for expos- ing. the alertness and basic un- democracy of the protest of the Goddard Group to the Committee on Faculty Responsibility, With the candor of a National League to Protest Us from Egg- headry, the Goddard Statement reveals that the committee report -an achetype of ethical maturity and emotional restraint - is "art- ful" and "dialectically skillful." in contrast, Mr. Samra's editorial spotlights in the statement itself a dialectical gaucherie which if not so pitiful would be incredible coming from such a source. One suspects, indeed, that the displeas- ure of the Five is ultimately trace- able to the failure to really under- stand the report. But perhaps we can expect no more from those who disseminate "the quixotic sus- picion that this University is be- ing or perhaps will be infiltrated by Communists, and that there is, alas, no defense." The University, as implicitly conceived by the Goddard Group, benevolent social institution which uncomfortably recalls another Philip Wylie was wont to call Mom. Devotion to freedom and truth and othernsuch nasty ab- stractions must not be allowed to interfere with the care and feeding and social succor of one's charges. Mom, we can be sure, would not approve. The symbology of this pathetic mystique has already been elevated to the level of honorary degrees for homely poets and cor- poration presidents. It is precisely the welfare of our University - and of universities generally - that is being threat- ened by such opinion. Restrictions of the type suggested by the AAU and the Goddard Group undermine the very basis of democratic learn- ing. They whittle away at freedom till universities crumble and civili- zations are no longer civilized. In- New Books At the Library Brennecke, H. J.-Cruise of the Raider HK-33. New York, Crowell Company, 1955. Davenport, Russell-The Dig- nity of Man. New York, Harper, 1955. Donovan, Robert J.-The Assas- sins. New York, Harper, 1955. Dreyfuss, Henry-Designing for People. New York, Simon & Schus- ter, 1955. Edelman, Maurice-A Dream of Treason. New York, Lippincott, 1955. Edgell, David P.-William Ellery Channing: An Intellectual Por- trait. Boston, Beacon Press, 1955. Holbrook, Stewart - James .J. gil.R. . r.. T F.. . _ Q - .. . - - T.t principals are corrupted to respond to ephemeral public neuroses. We in the universities are the principal custodians of democratic thought. For our own good and the good of theuwhole people, we cannot let ourselves be intimidated by the wolf-cries of the public or the politicians or the timorous among us. We cannot permit em- barrassment or invective or even' inquisitions to dilute our faith and obstruct our mission. The reputation of a university must not depend on public relations, but on tegrity yields to expedience, and academic excellence - or the lack, of it. As most everyone knows, the reputations of those institutions, which have 'bartered off ' their souls for a tenuous peace with the demagogues provide little to a- . rouse our envy.. Though no ser-respecting gad- fly could oppose- the report of the. committee chaired- by Professor Hawley, enough milktoasts were buttonholed to- reject it. The deep gratitude of this writer and bun- dreds like him is extended to the 317 who were counted for freedom. -Jack Danielson "The Letters of W. B. Yeats," edited by Allan Wade. MacMilu.. Ian Company, New York, $9.50.1 VIMIAM BUTLER YEATS' let- I ters, spanning the years 1887 to 1939, must force this fact ever more clearly on the reader's mind: His was one of the most unusual literary careers in history. The,. Irish poet died 16 years ago Jan-1 uary last and one could have ex- pected his poetry to pass into an almost total eclipse in the years following, since that is customary fate - witness Hardy, perhaps Yeats' greatest rival. The opposite, happily, seems true. Aiyone who1 cares about great poetry and po-. etic drama cares about Yeats, and it would have been painful to see him forgotten in first years post morte-. "Collected Poems" appeared inY 1949, assembling late work and all Yeats wanted preserved from more. than a dozen earlier volumes. It' is this book which secures his] place as "the one great poet of our time." Next came "Collected^ Dramas," in 1951, and the "Auto--' biographies," in 1952. The "Let- ters" all but complete the corpusj of his work now available; lac-I ing is a new edition of his essays and his philosophic work, "A Vi- sion." Yeats' failure to be eclipsed is one amazing fact, but no more amazing than another: At 43 in 1908 Yeats saw his -"Collected Works" published and knew his fame secure. Secure in literary history as the last and best of the 'nineties poets, whose number in-j chided Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symonds, he would have been remembered as a minor poet, the exquisite lyricist of "The Lake. Isle of Innisfree." Yet he became in the "many- times, many-troubled' years after 1900 the driving force in the Irish. revival, and its chief spokesman inj poetry, drama, and politics. In 19. 23 he received the Nobel prize--1 two years before Shaw was hon- ored-and in the fifteen years re- maining to him became the. mo- dern poet who overshadows the stoutest of contemporaries. The award which so frequently has1 marked the end of a career sep- arates, roughly, his, middle and late periods. Yeats' letters conktiitte an au- tobiographical comment unlikehis designed, carefully wrought "Au- tobiographies." They are not let- ters like those written self-con- sciously by the Adamses with their sense of history and an awareness of playing a Part in It, Nor are Yeats' letters self-consciously liter- :ary, like those of .;eats, mostly because Keats correspondedwith little purpose other than writing (sometimes his first drfts), while widely-ctive Yeats used letters to discharge the many affairs of a poet, editor, playwright, and poll- 'tician. If a comparison is sought, you must look to Byron's letters, excepting the amatory ones' the English poet wrote toa succession of mistresses. Indeed, there is something of a parallel in the lives of the two poets: both were dedicated to causes, were public figures in.and out of. literature, and both, won either affection or -dislike from those they met. They were not such men as made. a neutral im- pression. Yeats, again like Byron, had male- friends of many' years standing; but needed the friend- ship of women to reveal his inner- The letters are to many persons, but Katharine Tynan, Mrs. Olivia Shakespear (Ezra Pound's mother- in-law, and.Pound's admittance to Yeats' friendship and employ), Lady Augusta Gregory, George Russell (AE), and John Butler Yeats (the poet's father), figure large, and the most interesting let- ters are to these persons. Yeats' letters whether written by himself. or dictated show haste; grammar, punctuation, precision# are often wanting; none-the-less, there are stunning 'moments. Writing to George Russell who, depended Much on him, Yeats says (January 1808): "Every change of life, everything that takes one out of old habits, even a change for the better. troubles one at first. But remern-, her always that now yfu are face to face with Ireland, itstragedy andj its poverty, 'and-, if we would. express Ireland we must know her to the heart and in all her moods. You will be a far more powerful. mystic and poet and teacher- be- cause of this knowledge. This change of life wilt test you as a. man and a thinker and' if you can gradually build up a strong life, out of it you will be a bigger soul' in all things. You are face to face with the heterogeneous, and' the test of one's harmony is our pow-r er to absorb it and' make it bar- m.m ..it .-dutv, the o harms ha_ DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN found influence, perhaps a greater influence on Yeats than any other person except Maud Gonne. The letters to his father are uniformly good; in March 1912, he wrote: 'It is always such a. long re. search getting down to one's exact ignorance and knowledge. I re- member your once writing to me, that all good art is good just in so far as it 'is intimate. It always seems to me that that intimay J, comes only from personal sincer- ity. The hardest'thing of all to get rid. of is the affectation of know- ledge which is contained in cer- tain forms of words. If you write on a subject it is usual to assume you' know all the facts'that'*rm known and have all the necessary faculties to interpret them; Yet this assumption is never. realy true." Not always is Yeats in a serious mood. Sometimes he presents de. lightful pictures of well-knowrt persons;' in the course of a. letter Yeats praises Augustus John's' skill as a draughtsman, ad re- Veals -his own: "Augustus John, has been stay- ing'at Cople. He came there to do an etching of me for the 'collect edition . . . I don't know what John will make of me. He made a lot of sketches with the brush and the pencil to work the etching from. when he went home z, felt rather a martyr going to han._Th students consider him the greatest living draughtsman, the only mo- dern who can draw like an .d master .... He exaggerates every hill and hollow of the face till one looka like a gypsy, grown old in wickedness and hardship. If, one looked like any of his pitures the country women would tike th clean clothes of f the hedges wen one passed, as they do at the sight of a tinker. He is himself a delight, the most innocent-wicked, man I have ever met. He wears earrings, his hair down to his shoulders, a green velvet collar . .. He climbed to the top of the highest tree in Coole garden and carved a symbol there. Nobody else has been able to get up to' know what it is; een Robert stuck, half 'way. NO.. Is at magnificient looking person, and looks the wild creature he is .. He is certainly a great etcher, with a savage imagination." 'Poetry: A Magazine orf Verse" got underway in 1912 and offered sa prize of $250 for the best. eem published in its pages during its first year; Yeats was awarded the prize for "The Grey Rock," and declined complete acceptance. Sampling the letters ies no indicationof their worth and de- light. They are:a.commonplace book kind of autobiography,: but give greater breadth and depth' be- cause different aspects of Th* p- et's personality are revealed to different correspondents. The 'Abs bey Theatre's early history could almost be written from the let- ters here collected. There are no letters to Maud Gonne, but that is just as Well since they could not compare to the love poems written fort her. Yeats' love poems to Maud onne will bear comparison with any in the tongue. Think of such lines U "I knew a phoenix in mny yuh so let them have their day," "Was there another Troy for her to burn," "She is foremost of those that I would hear praised," and more; passion, you realize, wasn't. exclusive to the poets of the earlier 17th century. In a poem entitled "The Muni-k cipal Gallery Revisited" Yeats re called the "images of. thirty years" -persons with whom ihe worked for art and' for Ireland. The poeit ends with a couple so fine it s well bring the reader from his chair, cheering: "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I hadsuch friends." These letters reiterate what, his friends long have, been saying: That In All he attended Ireland'= and literature's great' glory was, and for numberless years will be, William uItler eats. --Russell C. Gregory CP..Outlacwr y? Y "I would. call a halt to all schemes, formulated in hysteria, for the outlawing of the Cb m- munist party in the tnited States ..I do not like either the American Communists or their political, party.It is one thing to dislike, a movement- profoundly~, even to regard it as poten tia l rev- olut unary and correspondinglY , dangerous, and quite another thing to deal with it by the statutory ban of outlawry. 'The latter is the codrse of men of little im agina- tion. So long as it is hunay? possible, and as much as posibile, I would keep the Connunists out In, the open. I. would hae, them .. U, a . -senah a c hei1 The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editoriai responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the Uni- versity. N tices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3553 Administration Building before 2 p.m. the day preceding publication (be- for 10 a.m. on Saturday.) Notice of. lectures, concerts and organization meetings cannot be published oftener than twice. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1955 VOL. LXVI, NO, 19 Notices PERSONNEL REQUESTS: State of Oregon, Board of Health, announces an opening for an Audio- metrist to work in an established state-wide hearing conservation pro-. gram. Requires graduation from four year college or university with major in speech correction and hearing, or psychology, working knowledge of the operation of audiometers and testing procedures, and ability to administer group pure tone and individual tests and obtain valid determinations. Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners. announces vacancies for Chemists, Ra- diological Biologists, Electronic Scien- tists, Mathematicians, Physicists, Sta- ticians, and Engineers-Aero., Chem., Elect., Gen'l., Ind., Mech., and Ordnance for Research and Development in Caii- fornia with the Navy Dept. New York State Civil Service announces exams for the following positions: Sr. Chem. E., Sr. Arch. Draftsman, Highway Gen'l Maintenance Foreman, Highway Light Maintenance Foreman, Estate Tax Examiner, Jr. Compensation Claims Auditor, Institu- tion Education Supervisor, Farm Pro- ducts Inspector, and Sr. Clerk (Under- writing). A research lab. at Wayne University has an opening for a Bio-chemist. Jewish Vocational Service, Detroit, Michigan, has openings for a Senior Psychologist and vocational Counselor, Senior Vocational Counselor, and a V o c a t i o n a 1 Counselor-Psychologist. These positions require _ Master's de- gree and experience in vocational service or related field. American National Red Cross has a continuing need for college men and women to fill staff positions in service programs carried on in domestics and overseas areas. Men with degrees in social work, social studies, or related fields are needed as Assistant Field Directors. Positions as Recreation Work- ers, Case Aides, Assistant Field Directors and Field Directors are open to women who have degrees in recreation leader- ship, sociology, social work, social sciences, psychology, music, physical will speak on "The Separation Factor in Comparative Linguistics" Tues., July 19; 7:30 p.m. in Rackham Ampitheater, Summer Progran In Russian Studies: Round-table discussion, Tues., July. 18, 8:00 p.m., west conference room, Rack- ham Building. Dr. Lazar Volin, U. S. Department of Agriculture: "Soviet Farming - Achilles Heel?" His Excellency Abba Eban, Ambassador of Isreal, will speak on "The Near East Past and Present" at 4:15 p m. in Aud. C, Angell Hall, Wed.,. 'July ' 20,. auspices of the Department of Near' Eastern Studies. Open to the public. Academic Notices Seminar in Mathematical Statistics Tues., July 19,' at 1:00 p.m. In room 3201 A. H. Donald Lamphiear will, con- tinue his discussion of D. 0. Chapman'as paper, "Estimation of Biological Popu- lation." Mathematics Colloquium. Tues.. July. 19, at 4:10 p.m., in Room 3010 Angell Hal. Prof. H. W. Kuhn of Bryn Mawr College, will speak on "An Application of Linear Programming in Combinator- ial Problems." Lemonade will be served; at 3:45 in 3212 A.H. Sociology Lunch for staff and stu- dents in the Sociology Department. Wed., July 20, 12:00 m.--1:00 p.m., Sociology Lounge, 5th floor, Haven Hail' Bring own ,food. Doctoral Examination for Benjamin Morgan Lewis, Library Science; thesis: "A History and Bibliography of Amert- can Magazines, 1800-1810," Wed., July. 20, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, R. H. ljelsness. Concerts University Woodwind Quintet, Nelson. Hauenstein, flute, Albert Luconi, clari- net, Florian Mueller, oboe, Clyde .Cat- penter, French horn, and Lewis Cooper, bassoon, will be heard at 8:30 p.m. Wed., July 20, in Rackham Assembly Hall. Beethoven's Quintet, Op. 71, -Le-. febvre's Suite, Op. 57, Mueller's Pieces for Woodwind Quintet, and Nielsen's Quintet, Op. 43. Concert in conjunction with the 7th National Band Conductors Conference July 18-22. Open to the gen- eral public without charge. Events Today Students of Russian invited .to have tea with the faculty members of the, Slavic Department. Intenati'onal Center, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Tues., July 19. square Dancing tonight, 7:30-10:30 p.m., Lane Hall. Grey Austin, caller. I A The Daily Staff Editorial Board Pat Roelofs Jim Dygert Cal Samra NIGHT EDITORS Mary Lee Dingier, Marge Piercy, Ernest Theodossin Dave Rorabacher..........................Snorts Editor