.. .Ld . .. -i 7 .1 .L . i 1. .. 1..i i i, e:ai :L , ir . r i.n :i, l ; stl . _ _ I'd Rather Be' Rig ht By SAM4UEL GRAPTON- NEW YORK, March 20.-If you asked me, I woujd say the best definition of democracy is that it is a government based on respect for facts. Everything else follows from that, including free speech, which is merely free trade in facts. To me, a true liberal democrat is not a pinky, not a softy, not an amiable gent who thinks some- thing should be done for the depressed classes, but, simply and entirely, a man who is willing to go wherever the facts lead him. He may make mistakes, of course; he may often think he sees facts when he sees only spots be- fore his eyes, but, anyway, he tries. Your non-liberal, contrariwise, is the lad who rides with the facts until they begin to move too fast for him; then he closes his eyes, puts his hands over his ears, and hoots "bureau- cracy!" or "states' rights!" or some other phrase which really means, mother come and save your child. If I am right, as of course I am, then respect for truth, anybody's truth, truth in patches or truth in mink, is the basic sign of health in a democracy. But when men begin to mumble and grow shy in the presence of truth, when they shout at her to cover their own embarrassment, - e Ied , AMERICANS are properly sceptical about pan- aceas. They doubt whether any plan so far formulated will lead to the solution of their major peace problems. This sentiment, it seems to me, is sound. In fact, I think we can safely go one step farther, and say that men have not as yet found even the proper approach to such a solution. This dlone has thrown thought on the subject out of kilter from its starting point. Consequently, I want to put forth an approach which is gaining more and more currency in sociological circles. Its acceptance may well lead to the answers we seek. Those of you who have read E. M. Forster's remarkable "A Passage to India" will remem- ber Prof. Godoble who sometimes speaks for the author. Says the professor, "When evil occurs, it expresses the whole of the universe." IHugh Walpole had the same thing to say in "Semantics" when he wrote, "Anything has a cause and the cause of anything is everything" This outlook is the one for which I am plugging here. It has a direct application to the socio- political world. It looks upon our problems as ' being all of a piece. It considers the disease that afflicts mankind as a systematic one- the symptoms, but not the causes of which, are greed, aggression and violence. Germany wreaks havoc on the world not because Ger- man love for war is inborn, but because world conditions permit the rise and temporary triumph of Adolph Hitler. This Hitler, a paranoic ex-paper hanger thrust upon the scene of power politics, signifies noth- ing by himself. He could have affected precious few of his dastardly schemes had not the Great Powers pussy-footed and highhatted the Wei- rrlar Republic, which itself mirrored an insecure world. What use can Ire served, then, in exam- ining the temperamental make-up of Hitler or his associates, deciding it is bad, and ignoring the real factors of external causation? Yet Al- lied statesmen seem to think mere removal of the rascals in power suffices to insure peace. Aft- er we have tried and convicted the "war crim- inals," some people are deluded into thinking, we can rest easy. SONQTABLE a liberal as George Soule can seriously talk about the "German problem" as if it were an independent, isolated enigma, disregarding what has been proved so many times in so many ways about the non-existence of such things as "a Negro problem" or "the Jewish problem." For, they are all one. Germany will cease to menace more peaceful neighbors when the world cures itself of the illnesses that are everywhere present and manifest. At the one extreme there stand those who would treat Germany with kid gloves; at the other extreme there fume the Vansittarts. Nei- ther displays an iota of insight. Not a few sim- ilarly benighted blue printers would have the Allies Balkanize Germany. Others propose su- perimposition of our educational system and our educators on Germany. Noy, the problem is how to maintain peace. So long as we view the problem in terms of the Prussian aggressive spirit or Hitlerian oratory instead of in terms of over all politico-economic maladjustment--our search for peace will be futile. The gradual abdication of national sover- eignty, the abolition of trade barriers, the re- nunciation of imperialism, the establishment of international arbitration and an interna- tional police force to scotch aggression wher- ever it breaks out: therein lie the instruments from which a better world can be forged. Every approach from within any single country- postulating a vindictive peace is so sterile as to be useless. This, forsooth. is One Sick World. -Bernard Rosenberg or thrust her out of doors because they cannot stand the look in her eye, then we are in trouble. I have the feeling that truth is spending a lot of her time out-of-doors lately. We have been discussing the food subsidy issue for a year. We have discussed subsidies from the viewpoint of whether the President is a dictator; we have discussed subsidies from the viewpoint of wheth- er they are immoral; we have discussed them from the viewpoint of whether George Washing- ton would have been for them; we have dis- cussed them from the viewpoints of esthetics and character-building. But if there has been any major Congressional discussion of subsidies from the simple, factual standpoint of whether or not they have done the job of keeping prices down, I must have been tying my shoe at the moment, for I have missed it. T RUTH, a little bedraggled from spending so much time in the parks, did slip into a meeting of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee the other day. Chester Bowles, head of the Of- fice of Price Administration, was testifying. He said that his office, with the help of sub- sidies, had held the cost of living to a net in- crease, in statistical terms, of exactly zero during the last 11 months. * That, to my mind, is the kind of fact that gives off sparks; it whirls. arid carries its own neon lights. Truth, when she heard Mr. Bowles, laughed softly in her corner of the room, and took off her stockings and playfully waggled her bare toes. It w.s the most shocking thing the hon- orable Senators had seen in months. They may throw her out on her ear again, btt I am glad she did have one nice afternoon. Poor girl, she has been having a thin time of it. There was a special guard poited during the entire debate on soldier voting, to keep her out of the Capitol, lest she get in through a window, or something, and make the obvious remark that it was a funny coincidence that almost all those who thought the chief issue was states' rights were opponents of the President. l She made a side trip up to Albany, while Mr. Dewey was announcing his solution of the sol- diers' vote problem, through a State plan for New Yorkers in the services. All she wanted to say was that there were 47 other states, which is certainly an innocent remark, but the way she had doors banged in her face, you would think she was a scarlet woman, or something. She has been trying her best, lately, to get into the continuing discussion over the "food muddle." She only wants to say that we're eat- ing, our heads off. So far they've kept her out. I follow her struggles with interest, for we're all going to be in trouble if she ever finds a fence she can't climb. (Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndieate) LOOSE STAMP.:* LocalStore is Guilty Ofiolating Rati o La ACLERK in the shoe department of a local downtown store answered a customer's ques- tion by saying "Oh, yes. We accept loose stamps. They're all for shoes anyway, so what difference does it make?" It makes a lot of difference. . It's true that all the stamps are for shoes and can be used to purchase only a certain number of pairs anyway, there being only so many legally issued shoe stamps in existance, and, what is more to the point, only so many new shoes. But, a system of rationing isn't enforced primarily to cut consumption; the curtailed supplies being manufactured would limit the number of shoes purclased without the use of a single book of stamps. Rationing is estab- lished in order that every individual may have his fair share of the limited supplies of goods. Paragraph 167 of the law covering shoe ra- tioning states that stamps are to be detached in the presence of the salesman selling the goods and was included in the law for the express pur- pose of preventing persons from using illegally gained stamps. If any person who is able to buy or by other means gain possession of a ration stamp is able to buy a pair of shoes, the ration system is pointless and supplies are not being allocated on a share-and-share-alike basis. Stores which turn in unattacked stamps and stores accepting loose stamps for shoes or for any other rationed goods are guilty of a fla- grant violation of the law. Even more im- portant, such persons and such establishments are directly fostering black market operations. -Margaret Farmer What Laor has Done Man-days of labor used by manufacturing, mining and construction, but not including agri- dulture, in 1943 exceeded by 76 per cent the man- days of labor used in 1939 despite the fact that over 10 million men have been withdrawn from the labor pool for service in the armed forces . ..The difference between man-days lost be- cause of strikes when compared to total man- days worked in the United States is only 0.025 per cent. -Truman Committee Report ''--' GO BERRYEW ,WASHINGTON, March 20 -Gov- einment officials have been wonder - ing whether Norman Taylor, Rocke- feller Plaza, New York, should regis- ter with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, in view of his activi- ties for the Cinchona Products Insti- tute, which represents the Dutch qui- nine cartel. Already, even before the war is over and long before we have begun to rival the Dutch by getting any appreciable quinine production in South America, it looks as if the big quinine monopoly is maneuvering to build up its strangle-hold again after the war. One question which may be asked of Taylor is his connection with Leonardo van Zwart, representative of the Dutch Kina Bureau in Latin America. Censored mail reveals that Taylor is in constant touch with van Zwart, and that van Zwart is trying to lay his, hands on all the quinine he can find in Latin America. The Kina Bureau's Mexican agent recently located some quinine in Mexico City and immediately noti- fied van Zwart in Buenos Aires. Van Zwart also has a representative in Guatemala who is keeping an eye on the new Cinchona plantations estab- lished there by the U.S. Government. It is reported that both van Zwart arnd Taylor are paid by the Nether- lands Purchasing Commission.- With American troops desperately in need of quinine, never permitted to be produced to any extent in Latin America before Pearl Harbor, U.S. officials are determined that the' GRIN AND BEAR IT Bly Lichty , ...Y',.: ivt3.. I was the Lieutenant's age I had a little respect for my elders!" Dutch monopoly should not be al- lowed to flourish again after the war. Tax-Daddy D Eongirtanrr* . Early one morning shortly before the deadline for filing income tax returns, a tall, stoop-shouldered, bald-headed man was seen walking down a corridor on the first floor of the old House Office Building. Finally, he entered an office bear- ing a sign, "Income Tax Returns Filled Out Here." "Can you give me a little help with this blamed thing?" he asked. "Why, certainly, Mr. Dough ton," said the expert, somewhat non- plussed. It was Chairman Bob Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, the "Daddy" of all tax legislation. (Copyright, 1944. United Features Synd.) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN TUISDAY, MARCH 21, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 98 All notices for the Daly Official Bul- letin are to he sent to the Office of the President in typewritten form by :3:30 p.m. of the day preceding its publica- ti'n, exeep# :" "ns"turay when the no- ticer should be submitted by Ii :34 a. .! Notices Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts: Attendance report cards are being distributed through the departmental offices. Instructors are requested to report absences of 1freshmen on green cards, directly to the Office of the Academic Counsel- ors, 108 Mason Hall. Buff cards should be used in reporting sopho- mores, juniors and seniors to 1220f Angell Hall. Please note especially the regula- tions concerning three-week absen- ces, and the time limits for dropping courses. The rules relating to ab- sences are printed on the attendance cards. They may also be found on page 47 of the 1943-44 Announce- inent of our College. Registration will be held this week for all those who are interested in camp work and summer work of all kinds. There are many calls on hand at present. Early registration is ad- vised. University Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Informa- tion, 201 Mason Hall. Office hours are 9 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. The office closes at noon on Saturdays. Apparatus Exchange: The Regents authorize the sale of scientific appar- atus by one department to another, the proceeds of the sale to be credited to the budget account of 'the depart- ment from which the apparatus is transferred, under following condi- tions. Departments having apparatus which is not in active use are advised to send description thereof to the University Chemistry Store, of which Professor R. J. Carney is director. The Chemistry Store headquarters are in Rm. 223 Chemistry Building. An effort will be made to sell the apparatus to other departments which are likely to be able to use it. In some instances the apparatus may be sent to the University Chemistry Store on consignment and if it is not sold within a reasonable time, it will be returned to the department from which it was received. The object of{ this arrangement is to promote econ- omy by reducing the amount of un- used apparatus. It is hoped that de- partments having such apparatus will realize the advantage to them- selves and to the University in avail- ing themselves of this opportunity. Shirley W. Smith tract and owe a balance of approxi- mately 60 per cent of the value of the property, the Investment Office, 100 South Wing of University Hall, would be glad to discuss financing through the medium of a first mort- gage. Such financing may effect a substantial saving in interest. Lectures Dr. George Shepard, adviser to the New Life Movement "of China, will speak upon "Chiang Kai - Shek, Statesman," at the Rackham Lec- ture Hall, Wednesday, March 22 at 4:15 p.m. under auspices of the Com- mittee on Religious Education and Companies A and D of the armed forces. Open to the public. f* A cademic Notices School of Education Students: No course may be elected for credit after Saturday, March 25. Students must report all changes of elections at the Registrar's Office, Rm. 4, University Hall. Membership in a class does not cease nor begin until all changes have been thus officially registered. Arrangements made with the in- structor are not official changes. Room Assignments for Kothe- Hildner ands Bronson-Thomas Prize Competitions, to be held Friday, March 24: Kothe-:ildner, 229 Angell Hall, 2 to 4 p.m.; Bronson-Thomas, 204 University Hall, 2 to 5 p.m. Any junior or senior in German whois interested in competing for the Bronson-Thomas prize in the amount of $38 should register at the depart- mental office, 204 University Hall immediately; students in German 31, 32, 35 and 36 are eligible for the Kothe-Hildner competition (awards of $30 and $20), but all rgistrations must- be made at the departmental office by Thursday, March 23, at the latest. German Departmental Library hours, spring term 1943-44 (204 Uni- versity Hall): 1:30 to 4:30 Monday through Friday; 10:00 to 12:00 Tues- day and Saturday. Hopwood Contest for Freshmen: Students who entered the contest should call for their manuscripts at the Hopwood Room this week be- tween two and five-thirty. Forestry Assembly: There will be an assembly of the School of Forestry and Conservation at 9 a.m. Wednes- day, March 22, in Rm. 3056, Natural Science Building. All students in the school are expected to attend. Brahms, Granados and deFalla. Miss Griffin is a pupil of Gilbert Ross. The public is cordially invited. Exhibitions University Museums: a) Penicil- hium notatum, the fungus from Which the drug penicillin is derived, b) The Beginning or Human Tndus- try. College of Architecture and Design: "Brazil Builds," consisting of mount- ed photographs and wooden panels showing Brazilian architecture; cir- culated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Open daily 9 to 6, through March 27; ground floor corridor, Architecture Building. The public is invited. Events Today School of Education Faculty: The regular meeting of the faculty will be held this afternoon in the University Elementary School Library. The meeting will convene at 4:15. Important HIouse President's Meet- ing: tonight at 7:30, IFC Office. Dean Bursley will be there and the subject of independents living in fra- ternity houses and pledging said house will be discussed. It is impor- tant to all fraternities to have a representative present. "Trends and the Future Outlook in Employment Discrimination" will be the topic of a talk to be given byr Mr. Albert Cohen at 8 o'clock at the Hillel Foundation. All those inter- ested in receiving vocational guid- ance in career planning are urged to attend. Comning Events Chemistry Colloquium will meet on Wednesday, March 22, at 4:15 p.m. in Rim. 303, Chemistry Building, Prof. I Kasimir Fajans will speak on "The Quanticule Theory of Molecular Structure." All interested are in- vited. The Assoejation Music Hour, con- ducted by Mr. Robert Taylor, will present the first part of Verdi's "Manzoni" Requiem Wednesday eve- ning, March 22, at 7:30, at Lane Hall. Everyone interested is cordially in- vited. Botanical Seminar: Professor C. A. Arnold will speak on the subject "Some Fossil Ferns from the Western States." Wednesday, March 22, at '4:00 p.m., Rnm. 1139. Anyone inter- ested may attend. Assembly Recognition Night Tick- et Committee: There will be an im- portant meeting Wednesday, March 22, at 4:30 in the League. Attendance of all members (or a substitute) is requested, as tickets will be distri- buted. "A Homeland for the Jews?" is the Bacteriology Seminar: Tuesday, If you wish to finance the purchase March 21, at 4:30; Room 1564 East of a home, or if you have purchased Medical Building. Subject: Some In- improved property on a land con- fectious Diseases of South America. All interested are invited. f Perhaps the Republicans can turn this to their. advantage, by exposing the whole thing as a Roosevelt plot to change the British way of life. BARNABY By Crockett Johnson rJ Make-up Final Examination for Economics 51, 52, 53, and 54 will be aiven at 3 o'clock Thursday. March