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THE3 MilC-H1IGAS -DAILY

' TSDATI EC. , 1942

Fifty-Third Year
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THE BEVERIDGE PLAN:
Blueprint Against Poverty

Homer Swander
Morton Mints.
;Robert Mantho
George W. Sallad6
Charles Thatcher
Bernard Hendel
Barbara deFries
Myron Dann .

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Fred M. Ginsberg
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NIGHT EDITOR: HENRY VINKEMULDER
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.

By LEE GORDENKER
A RUNNING JUMP toward the
fulfillment of one of the Four
Freedoms-freedom from want-
was made in Great Britain recently
when Economist Sir William Bever-
idge, head of a parliamentary plan-
ning committee, presented his
175,000-word report to. the House
of Commons.
It's only a blueprint now, but it
shows one path that England may
follow when the fighting is over-
providing her 1935 Parliament can
cast off its conservative convic-
tions.
From his birth to his death ev-
ery worker would b- protected by
a comprehensive, all-encompassing
social security system. A huge
employer-worker-government pool
would provide social benefits and
every person in Great Britain from
duchess to ditehdigger would be
compelled to contribute to the pool.
A new Ministry of Social Secur-
ity would administer a program
that not only provides the existing
old-age pensions but furnishes
medical care, marriage payments,
motherhood benefits and full un-
employment and disawiIty com-
pensation.
Old-age benefits--no longer a de-
grading handout, but a social in-
surance payment-would be dou-
bled. Death benefits would be paid
to the beneficiary's family.
HE most unique portions of the
program are those planning full
medical care in place of the partial
plan now existing, the payment of
women at the time of their mar-
riage to compensate for the change
in social security status and pay-
ment of benefits at time of child-
birth.
At the present time in many in-
dustries Great Britain requires
workers to hold health insurance
policies providing partial protec-
tion. The Beveridge plan provides
full protection and abolition of
payments to private companies,
substituting a governmental in;-
surance. The wealthy insurance
associations in England are ex-
pected to fight this proposal to the
last 'ditch.
to women marrying, the govern-
ment'pool would pay up to $40 to
make up the difference in status.
But all benefits would not stop
there, for the housewife and moth-
er would be recognized as a person
deservingdbenefits equal to those
of the industrial worker.
Industrial disability compensa-
tion would be stepped up to the
level current in the United States
while special benefits would be al-
lowed for workers in dangerous in-
dustries. All compensation except
for dangerous occupations would
then be equalized.
PERHAPS its most important
feature is that the plan would
provide insurance to be paid in

times of general unemployment so
that workers would not be de-
pendent on inadequate private
charity or government doles, but
would be supported at least at sub-
sistence level from their own pooled
savings.
The crucial point in the entire
plan is that it is compulsory and
not based on an ability to pay prin-
ciple. Nearly every person in the
United Kingdom would participate.
Payments-contrary to the United
States' practice--would provide
subsistence to all the aged, dis-
abled and unemployed. The amount
contributed through taxes has no
bearing on the amount received in
benefits. Many of the future argu-
ments against the plan will be
based on this equalizing principle.
The loudest complaints against
the program will undoubtedly come
from the insurance companies, who
will be cut out of the major portion
of their business as the government
takes over many of their functions.
However, the program's justifica-
tion is clearly that it would provide
freedom from want systematically
for all Britons.
IN SPITE of the expected shouts
of woe from the powerful in-
surance associations, the individual
citizen would find that hik insur-
ance and health costs are smaller.
The cost to the government will be
approximately what the pre-war
relief budget provided. The citi-
zen's taxes will be slightly higher,
but he will not pay as much for
medical services or his insurance.
It will be a time of great battle
in the British Parliament when the
serious debate begins.
Conservatives will raise the cry
of socialism as they always have
in both Britain and the United

States when a plan to provide for
the common good is projected. This
plan, however, is not a socialistic
blueprint. The nation's business
would not be taken over -by the
state.
LEFTISTS may object on the
ground that the causes of un-
employment-as they see them-
would not be eradicated. The plan
partially answers that, too, by pro-
viding the workers of Britain with
spending power even though they
may be out of work. Thus, business
activity will not fall to the low
depression levels as it always has
after a crisis. As business regains
confidence because the expected
decline in trade has not occurred.
it will make new investments and
help bring back prosperity.
It is true that the plan can do
nothing about mistakes by business
or remedy strictly monetary diffi-
culties. But it does not propose to
do that. And charges of commu-
nism are based on foolish notions
of both communism and the Bever-
idge plan.
The attempt to push the Bever-
idge plan through Parliament may
precipitate the greatest parlia-
mentary squabble since the war be-
gan as the conservative majority
attacks its provisions. Labor may
leave .the government if the oppo-
sition becomes serious enough.
At any rate, the Parliament elect-
ed in 1935 in a time of reaction to
the liberal Labor programs of the
'30's can hardly be expected to show
a tolerant attitude to one of the
most progressive plans ever formu-
lated in England.
But it is time that Parliament
realized that it will face a situa-
tion analogous to that at the end
of the last war: social benefits and
planning or riot and revolution.

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BOMBER FUND:
Analysis Of Plan Shows
Setup Is Not Complex
.BOMBER-SCHOLARSHIP Chairman Coral De
Priester's statement that "too many small
campus groups don't yet know the full signifi-
cance of the Bomber Scholarship and its impor-
tance to the University war effort" hit the nail
sq arely on the head.
Recently all manner of comment regarding
the complexity and intricacy of the plan has
been heard on campus. One dormitory group,
while unopposed to the spirit of the plan, felt
itself obliged to reject the Bomber Scholarship
Plan because of what they construed as an
ambiguity concerning the term "armistice."
Campusites in general have had only vague
notions about the provisions of these scholar-
ships to student war veterans and many have
been unaware of the fact that any student,
having completed a year of college with satis-
factory marks and a year of service in the
nation's armed forces, is eligible for a scholar-
ship
Actually the Bomber Scholarship works this
way: any campus organization is urged to volun-
teer funds. The money will be invested in war
bonds for the duration and after the war the
bonds will be redeemed. Students who can satisfy
the education and the service requirements are
then eligible for a scholarship with which they
can continue their education.
O DATE the plan is $9,000 to the good since
its organization last March but a goal of an
additional sum of $15,000 has been set for this
year. This week every group on campus will be
contacted and will receive a copy of the consti-
tution.
These groups should realize the basic sim-
plicity of the plan and then take steps to vol-
unteer funds and to eliminate their minor ob-
jections. - Bud Brimmer
INCOME LIMIT:
Communism Charges
Termed Unwarranted
BIG BUSINESS MEN who have been warning
that high. taxes are killing the profit incen-
tive were emphatically corrected the other day
by a Commerce Department report which re-
vealed that after tax deductions 1942 profits
were 160 per cent of 1939 earnings.
There are, of course, plenty of patriotic and
sincere enterprisers and owners whose first
concern is winning the war, and who don't
look upon the war as an easy method of fea-
thering their pests. But there are also plenty
of men who are waging a phony campaign
against income reductions, a campaign which
is indicative of a determination to playythis
war for'all it is worth and for all the money
it can yield.
Lamon DuPont has said: "Deal with the gov-
ernment and the rest of the squawkers the way
-you would .with a buyer in a sellers' market. If
the buyer wants to buy, the has to meet your
price." Which can be paraphrased to, "Get all
you can boys, because the government and the
country needs your products. Soak the people
and soak them good, because this is our chance
to pile up the big money."
EX-NAM PRESIDENT W. P. Witherow has as-

dv AXE to' pin4
By TORQUEMADA
MORE than anything else right now I am in-
terested in the care and feeding of young
minds, such as my own. It really becomes a ter-
ribly vital matter the more you participate in or
look on current discussion of the more important
political issues of the day. If you read the Ameri-
can press to any extent, if you listen to speeches,
and discuss issues, and write papers for classes,
you have to be terribly aware of all the little nu-
ances of opinion-moulding. You have to wince
with embarrassment for someone who says,
"What he says is all very well, but supposing he
were the one whose salary was cut."
All this is one kind of thing, and what you
come to expect from the daily newspapers, and
Gerald Smith. But what about when someone
you respect says something that is not so ter-
rific? The propaganda tricks distort the truth,
and that is a terrible thing. But what about
Bertrand Russell's analysis here last Saturday?
Mr. Russell isn't the type of man to do much
name-calling. But when he gives a lecture that
has such obvious mistakes of emphasis, what to
do?
What about the type of journal for which we
have a lot of respect? To use the bandwagon
technique in proselytizing is bad, but look how
the poll tax question was treated, by the "right"
people. Hosannah defeat of the pol tax-a step
toward American democracy, and let the argu-
ment go at that. The poll tax is an entering
wedge of progress in the South, everyone no
doubt agrees, but why not present the whole
question-the fact that the negroes don't vote
because they are intimidated; the fact that if
you remove the poll tax you enfranchise more
of the poor whites, who will promptly reelect such
reactionaries as now represent the South in the
Senate, the fact that it is not a completely des-
picable approach to think that to the extent that
internal social progress may hurt the war, that
social progress is bad.
Negroes would be much happier about remov-
ing the poll tax, and would possibly work harder
fcr the war effort. But the South wouldn't love
the North for this imposition of democracy (and
the South still thinks very largely in regional
terms). I have been against the poll tax and I'm
sure the poll tax has been quite resentful), but
I haven't liked the white-washy approach, or the
way its advocates assume an aura of telling the
whole truth so help them God.
Possibly my whole objection is towards re-
garding social progress as a very simple thing.
A speech says too little which is confident that
war will end if we but sterilize the instruments
of war. An editorial writer does himself and
his ultimate cause injustice if he views social
progress as a relatively simple series of conflict
resolutions. The world is quite full of a number
of things, is a tremendous complex.
must disappear for the duration of the war,
just as the right to strike and opportunities for
wage increases have already disappeared. Our
form of society and government during this
war is already vastly different from any we
have known. Business as usual has to go, just
as life as usual has to go, and a limit on in-
comes, rather than just one on salaries, must
be enforced.
If we grant that the only real incentive to

I'd Rather
BeRight_
-- By SAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK - The rebellion against Mr.
Roosevelt still palpitates. Two months ago, when
the whole country was watching the progress of
the price-control bill, farm members were de-
feated in their effort to raise parity prices. The
national eye was on them. They quit.
Last week, when nobody was looking, the Pace
Bill was slipped through the House by unanimous
consent.
This was the most furtive passing of a
major measure ever seen. The bill may raise
the annual cost of living $3,500,000,000, but
it went through like confirmation of an ap-
pointment to a third-class postmastership.
Mr. Pace, of Georgia, author of the measure,
confessed he did not know what effect it Would
have on the cost of living..
I invite contemplation of what would happen
should Mr. Leon Henderson, with a merry look
in his eye, announce that he had just raised
the price of butter 10 cents, that he did not
quite know what the result would be, but was
doing it anyhow.
THE JOY RIDE
THE PACE BILL may have the most serious
results. Many sound and thoughul commen-
tators have opposed it. Why did it pass so easily,
hardly putting its hea into the House chamber
before it was stamped approved and sent on to
the Senate?
I ask those who have so gleefully been
leading a generalized opposition to the Pres-
ident whether they do not share resonsibil-
sty.
They have deliberately raised the temperature
of opposition, so to speak; they have held a
match under it; they have made opposition to
the President a virtue in itself. They have des-
cribed our rubber rationers as clowns. They have
pictured Mr. Ickes as a bureaucrat gone mad.
They have cultivated the credo that all govern-
ment is idiotic and all opposition meritorious.
They have skylarked because they thought they
had discovered a Henderson form "named" No.
1-1071-PLOF-5-NOBU-COS-WPB. (Later on it
was revealed that this wasn't the name of the
form at all but merely code instructions to the
printer as to number of copies, stapling, wrap-
ping, etc.) They have revived an old bill to take
away from every government agent the power
to make binding decisions. The atmosphere has
been that of a binge, or a joyous party.
Men who set out to create such an atmosphere
ought to realize that, if they succeed, anything
can happen. In the House, it just has.
YOU START WITH 1-1071- LOF
YOU START WITH a storm of spurious laugh-
ter over Code No. 1-1071PLO, etc. You end
with a new price bill which almost nobody wants.
The merry game has suddenly turned serious.
But what's the difference; it's all opposition,
isn't it? It's against the President, isn't it?
The unsolved problem of how to oppose the
President during war (and on many issues
opposition is a duty) calls for the best
thought of the best minds in America. The
spirit of Hallowe'en is not quite the answer.
NOT WITH A STONE
YOU CANNOT DO the things we are going to

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

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HEY'RE democratizing the Rhodes
Scholar now. The New York Times
reports from London that U.S. Army
officers and enlisted men who can
take the time off will be given a'
chance to attend Oxford University
for a week. Courses will be taught,
the story said, "by eminent educa-
tors."
FROM Cecil Brown's book Suez to
Singapore, now running in in-
stallments in the Detroit Free Press
"Cologne, Berlin, Dresden and mili-
tarism. Gestapo, Hitler Jugends and
a nation preparing for war, egotistic,
flexing muscles to smash, hatching
dark schemes for enslavement, twist-
ing souls into devilish forms. These
are not Nazis, not Junkers, not Prus-
sian militarists. These are the Ger-
man people sup-porting Hitler in his
dream for world conquest. Not Nazis.
Germans, the German people.
Something we've thought all
along. You can't separate the Nazis
and the German people. They
wanted Hitler. They wanted this
war. Hitler came along just in time
to lead them to war. If not Hitler,
somebody else would have done, too.
Just to get things straight. "Not
Nazis. Germans, the German peo-
ple."
THE campus controversy about the
rule shelving "house parties" for
the duration isn't as important as it
might sound. But we'll string along
with the students. After the "re-
minder" by the Student Affairs Com-
mittee in Thursday's Daily, investiga-
tion showed that the student mem-

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The intention was only to make it
possible to have such initiations in
case both the fraternity and pledge
concerned desired this arrangement.
The attention of fraternity officers is
called particularly to the necessity
of conducting their initiation and
pre-initiation activities in accordance
with certain rules adopted by the
Committee on Student Affairs and
the Interfraternity Conference sev-
eral years ago. These rules provide:
(1) That there shall be no physical
mistreatment of initiates,
(2) That all initiation activities
shall take place inside the fraternity
house, and
(3) That they shall be conducted
in such a way as to avoid interference
with classes and study.
Committee on Student Affairs
-J. A. Bursley, Chairman
January 1943 Graduates in Me-
chanical, Electrical, Civil, Marine,
and Industrial Engineering and Bus-
iness Administrationt Dravo Corpor-
ation, Pittsburgh, Representative, will
interview Seniors of the above groups,
Wednesday, December 9, in Room 218
West Engineering Building. Interview,
schedule is posted on the Bulletin
Board at Room 221 West Engineering
Building where application blanks
are obtainable.
The application blanks for the
Michigan Bell Telephone Company,
Detroit, interviews have been received
in our office. Women with appoint-
ments will please call for them im-
mediately. The Company's represen-
tatives will be here Thursday and
Friday, Dec. 10 and 11, to interview
February women graduates. The
openings will be in district offices
which are located in the main cities
of Michigan. Interviews are being
scheduled at fifteen -minute intervals.
Call Ext. 371, office hours 9-12 and
2-4.
Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information
The International Business Ma-
chines Company is sending a repre-
sentative to interview February Wo-
men graduates to do customer con-
tact work. Offices are located all over
the country. Appointments are open
from 2:30 on, this afternoon. If inter-
ested, call Ext. 371 immediately.
Lectures
"Gas Defense Lectures: Lectures
on the war gases and their relation
to civilian defense will be given for
seniors, juniors and sophomores of
the departments of chemistry, chem-
ical engineering, pharmacy and bio-
logical chemistry today and Friday,
December 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Room
165, Chemistry Building.",
Medical Lecture: Dr. Charles Bren-

Medical Building. "The Metabolism
of Iodine" will be discussed. All inter-
ested are invited.
Chemistry Colloquium will be held
Wednesday, December 9, in Room
303 Chemistry Building at 4:15 p.m.,
Professor F. F. Blicke will speak on
"Development of Synthetic Local An-
esthetics."
Concerts
A woodwind recital under the di-
rection of William 11. Stubbins and
William D Fitch will be given at 8:30
tonight in Lydia Mendelssohn Thea-
tre when sixteen girls will appear in
a program of works by Farnaby, Arne,
Mozart, Glinka, Saint-Saens, Hosmer,
Guilmant and Pierce. The public is
cordially invited.
The Regular Tuesday Evening Rec-
ord Concert in the Men's Lounge of
the Rackham Building at 8 o'clock
will be as follows: Beethoven: Sym-
phony No. 7; Hanson: Lament for
Beowulf; Brahms: Piano Concerto
No. 2.
Events Today
Mathematics Club will meet this
evening at 8 o'clock, in the West Con-
ference Room, Rackham Building.
Dr. Civin will speak on "Two-to-One
Mappings."
Botanical Journal Club will meet
tonight at 7:30 in Room N.S. 1139.
Repbrts by: Solon Gordon, "Theory
of Autocatalytic Synthesis of Poly-
peptides and Chromosome Reproduc-
tion;" Betty Schwartz, "Effect of
Trace Elements on Plant Growth;"
Lucille Kell, "Effect of Auxins on
Protoplasmic Streaming."
Army Ordnance Association meet-
ing tonight at 7:30 in the Michigan
Union.
The Polonia Society will meet to-
night at 8:00' in the International
Center. All persons of Polish extrac-
tion are cordially invited. Refresh-
ments.
The University of Michigan Flying
Club will meet tonight at 7:30 at the
Union. All members please be present
as the Ensian picture will be taken.
Attention Marine Reservists: Since
many students on the campus are
enlisting in the Candidates Class of
the Marine Corps Reserve, a meeting
of all Marine Reservists has been
arranged'for them to get acquainted
tonight at 8:30 in 'room 304, Michi-
gan Union.
Theology Seminar: Dante's "Divine
Comedy" will be discussed at th
meeting of the Theology Seminar, led
byu Thmilion (ZalIn. i-ndA.r . 4 .qf!n

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