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Identical.Goals
PEOPLE ARE WORRIED. They're worried
about the war, they're worried about the
peace to come, and rightly so. But sometimes
their worries reach a ludicrous stage.
The latest patterns of concern are, quite
naturally, over the coming San Francisco
conference. People are worried about Rus-
sia's demand for representation of the Lub-
lin Polish government. They're worried be-
cause Russia' did not plan to send Foreign
Commissar Molotov to the conference. And
their hair is turning gray. They are taking
tenlyears off their lives over the minor details
of a mnajor problem.
Recent newspapers carried news that should
allay some.of their fears. Molotov is going to
represent Russia at the conference. Stanyslaw
Mikolajczyk, former premier of the London Pol-
ish government and head of the Polish Peasant
party, has endorsed the decisions concerning
Poland that were made at Yalta. This develop-
Ient eliminates one of the stumbling blocks in
the way of the Moscow committee which was
set up to pass on a new Polish provisional gov-
ernment. -
And so people were troubling themselves over
comparatively nothing-nothing compared to
the over-all problem of setting up a world
organization to establish and keep a peaceful
world-a world in which we will have to worlt
hard to do our job and do it well.
If, instead of spending so much time wor-
rying, people would stop to think-think what
this peace holds for them, and what they
can do to attain it-they wouldn't grow old
so quickly. They'd turn the corners of their
pouths up instead of down by finding hope
istead of fear.
If we want to make a go of this peace to
come, we must stop jumping down a nation's
throat everytime it makes a move of which we
disapprove. We must remember that it's doing
so only because it believes that its actions are
the best way to attain the same thing for which
we are striving. We sometimes forget that we
make bad moves, too.
The important thing to remember now is
that all of us -who are to be represented at
Sa Francisnc are working toward the same
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON-Politicos are pressuring to get
popular Democratic treasurer Ed Pauley ap-
pointed Secretary of the Interior. Should he
get the job, he will replace the man who first
pushed him ahead in Washington, Harold Ickes.
Pauley was a California independent oil producer
who sold out to Standard Oil of California, got
to know Ickes, and introduced Ralph Davies,
head of that company, to him. Through Pauley,
Davies was made Ickes' deputy administrator for
petroleum, the most important oil job in the
country. He has the power of life or death over
oil companies. Ickes and Pauley drifted apart,
however, when the vivacious Ed tried to get
government help on building a high octane gaso-
line plant in Mexico.
His pal Davies boosted the plan, but the
State Department opposed, and Ickes finally
sided against his old friend Pauley and with
the State Department. The two have not
been chummy since. Now the oil boys plus
Democratic bigwigs are doing their best to
have Truman put Pauley into Ickes' job. If
so, Pauey and Davies will have a real oil
monopoly. The Roosevelt administration al-
ready has undergone criticism because Navy
oil lands in Elk Hills were leased to Ralph
Davies' company, Standard of California.
Diplomatic Pouch -...
E VER SINCE the Yalta conference, the Rus-
sians have had their U. S. experts busy
studying Truman. Apparently they realized at
Yalta that Roosevelt was fading fast, so wanted
to know all they could about the man who might
be president. The British also have been mak-
ing a careful check on Truman's past speeches,
past friends, past views on foreign affairs.
(Foreign governments always do this. They
made the same careful check on Roosevelt in
1932, one Library of Congress article in Asia
Magazine by Roosevelt on Japan being thumbed
thin. The Jap embassy delivered the text
verbatim to Tokyo). Diplomats believe that the
Russian scrutiny of Truman helped influence
their switch on Poland. Anyway, last Saturday
the Russians suddenly agreed to welcome rep-
resentatives of four major Polish parties plus
the Communists into the Lublin government.
They also decided to send Foreign Minister
Molotov to San Francisco, a move for which
Roosevelt had pleaded.
Here is one diplomatic line-up being dis-
cussed if Jimmy Byrnes succeeds Ed Stettinius
as Secretary of State: Stettinius to London
as ambassador; John Winant from London to
Paris; Ambassador Caffery, who muffed things
with De Gaulle, to be transferred to Cuba;
Ambassador Braden from Cuba to Argentina.
Under Secretary Joe Grew would resign.
Truman Highlights...
DEMOCRATIC BOSS Bob Hannean and Dem-
ocratic Treasurer Ed Pauley moved right in
on White House press secretary Jonathan Dan-
iels on the funeral train. They asked him whom
he recommended to take his place, which was a
polite way of saying they wanted him out.
They suggested able Charlie Ross, elder-states-
man of the St. Louis Post-bispatch. (Hannegan
is from St. Louis). Daniels replied that Ross
was a little old. Presuming that Hannegan and
Truman wanted a Missouri boy in the job, Dan-
iels then countered with Irving Brant, formerly
of the St. Louis Star-Times and a close friend
of FDR
The secret service had men guarding Tru-
man for five or six weeks before Roosevelt's
death. Obviously they surmised that an un-
timely end for the late President was more
than probable. One of the first things the
Army and Navy did after Truman entered
the White house was to discontinue the tap-
ping of all newspapermen's telephone lines.
This had flourished under Roosevelt.
Men Around Truman .,..
THE MEN around any president can help make
or break him. Here are some of the men
around Truman who will help to shape Ameri-
can destinies for the next three years:
Dem-Boss Bob Hannegan-The man who nom-
PAST TENSE
SATURDAY, Oct. 5, 1918 ended a week com-
parable to this one on the European battle
front. 'Daily headlines announced "Bulgarian
King Abdicates; Austria Favors Peace; Allies
Make Huns Move East On All Battlefields. Ital-
ians Start Drive. Germans Fire Flanders Towns
in Retreat."
Ann Arbor was preoccupied with the flu
epidemic, the conclusion of a Liberty Loan
Campaign. Fielding Yost had a week to
whip Student's Army Training Corps men
into shape for his opening game.
Enrico Caruso was advertised on the ftoj1
page for a concert in Hill Auditorium. Down-
town theatres offered a Cecil 1. DeMille pic-
ture "Till I Come Back To You" "A war picture
without the horrors of war . . . " One now-
rickety movie palace was showing a New York
cast in a musical comedy by P. G. Wodehouse
andJerome Kern at prices from 25c to $1.50.
-Milt Freudenheim
inated Truman at Chicago heads the list. He
is so important that a column will be devoted
to him tomorrow.
Banker John W. Snyder-will be one of
Truman's closest monetary advisers, already
has been made Federal Loan Administrator.
Born in Jonesboro, Snyder served as a captain
of field artillery during the last war.. Truman
served in a different outfit, but later they join-
ed the reserve, and trained together every
summer. That was where they became close
friends.
Snyder is vice-president of the First National
Bank of St. Louis, was appointed by Jesse Jones
a director of the Defense Plant Corporation, is
considered a progressive banker. Truman has
asked his advise on many major problems.
Hugh A. Fulton-Former counsel for the
Truman committee, has had the reputation of
being the brains behind Truman-but is over-
rated. A member of the law firm Cravath,
De Gersdorff, Swaine and Wood, Fulton was
drafted by the Justice Department to prose-
cute Howard Hopson and Associated Gas and
Electric, the former getting five years in jail.
(Copyright, 1945, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Nazi 'Out' False
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
'/HEN A MAN is in trouble, he looks for an
"out." .One German has found his "out" in
poetry. Mr. Frederick Graham, of the New York
Times, discovered an "intelligent, well-dressed"
German manufacturer in a small village on the
First Army front, who said that the time had
come for the world to turn to poetry, music and
the arts. Unless the world does so, this man
feels, things are going to be bad for a hundred
years. The story doesn't have much point, ex-
cept that the wistful soul happens to be a manu-
facturer of parts for V-2 rocket bombs.
He hopes to escape into a future of song.
But there are other Germans who don't want
to sing; they want to howl, and be werewolves.
Formations of Nazi youths are hiding out in
the Harz Mountains of Saxony. This is the
region of the Brocken, the mountain from
which an observer miay sometimes see the
famous "Brocken specter," or an enlarged im-
age of himself, projected on to the clouds by
the sun. It is the home of the old Teutonic
gods, with which the Nazi youths are fran-
tically trying to re-establish connection, other
friends having failed them.
It is in this misty region that they seek their
"out;" they will dance on the mountains and
every night will be a Walpurgisnacht. Some-
times they will steal down out of the hills to
kill Americans, and then go running back,
living a kind of perpetual Hallowe'en; second-
rate Norse demons, with corns on their feet.
Still other Germans have found a third
"out;" and this is to pretend that nothing im-
portant has happened. These are the Ger-
mans who picnic beside the Autobahn, and
chew on sandwiches while they watch our
tanks go by; they take their flight, not into
poetry, and not into mythology, but into
liverwurst. They line up before the American
C. O. in every captured town, every morning,
full of complaints. They want to know why
their buildings have been taken over; they
don't see the reason for all the disturbance.
They are the German university officials who,
in one town, offered our army the use of their
faculty members as our interpreters, because
that would make a "better impression" on the
local people; a point in which they naturally
assumed that we were deeply concerndt.
These Germans deny the reality of the change
which has overtaken Germany; they find their
"out" in not believing that things need be any
different now.
One woman, in Darmstadt, has made a career
of riding a bicycle around town and cursing
American vehicles as they pass her. That is her
design for living, and the way she spends her
days.
AWILD SEARCH among alternatives is going
on in Germany; a trying of doors. Here is
the key to our occupation policy. We must con-
vince the Germans that their "outs" are false
"outs;" that if they choose to dance in the hills.,
like witches, we will wait for them to finish,
though it take fifty years.
If they refuse to admit that events of conse-
quence have happened in the world, we will
stay, until they concede that there have been
some changes made. Let them meet in caves, if
they like, until they grow old meeting in caves,
until they realize that caves and the mists of
the Brocken are dead ends. To destroy these
false "outs" is the prime purpose of occupation;
to bring the Germans face to face with reality,
and make them realize that no door leads any-
where except the door of democratic reorganiza-
tion. But they will try all the wrong'doors first.
The real crime of those who call for a soft-
ish peace, of those who want us to "help Ger-
man industry" for example, because "it is im-
portant to the economy of Europe" is that their
policies would keep this deep, organic change
from ever happening; their policies would con-
vince the Germans that the way to the future is
to climb to the top of a mountain, and howl
like a wolf.
(Copyright, 1945, New York Post Syndicate)
The
Pehdum
By BERNARD ROSENBERG
THERE seems to be much baffle-
ment over the Japanese reaction
to President Roosevelt's death. En-
emy nations do not customarily send
notes of condolence to one another.
on such an occasion. I think it is
legitimate to wonder if Japanese
solicitude was not a matter of recip-
rocation. After all, our semi-official
policy as represented by ex-Ambas-
sador and, at present, Assistant Sec-
retary of State Grew is to perpetuate
the Emperor and his offspring in
power. This may be a simple matter
of courtesy: we lay off the Imperial
Palace; they sympathize with us over
the loss of our Chief Executive. Quid
pro quo.
General Franco, whose fascist
government enjoys our full official
approbation, felt a trifle piqued
recently. Spain was being mis-
understood, he said, and had be-
come the victim of distortion. "Let
anyone wanting the truth about
Spain come and pay us a visit," the
general cried defiantly. Whereat,
the newspaper PM arranged to
send its foreign editor, Alexander
Uhl to Iberia for an investigation
of that stormy peninsula. However,
the Madrid Foreign Office thought
differently, and let it be known in
subtle fashion that PM would have
to change its attitude about cer-
tain matters before such a trip
could be allowed. So, as was to be
expected; Uhl has been barred.
John P. Lewis promptly told Fran-
co he could go to hell-and that is
that ...
Or that was that until after read-
ing about this affair, I picked up a
Detroit Times, carefully avoiding the
smut that covered it, and cast my
eyes on a story datelined Madrid,
April 17. It was written by Karl H.
Von Weigand, expressly for the
Hearst newspapers. Von Weigand,
"the Dean of American Foreign Cor-
respondents" by his own admission,
had no trouble gaining entree into
this wonderful country.
Reports Unearthed...
VON WEIGAND, always objective
and observant, somehow got the
Spanish government to unearth two
documents for his perusal. Both are
comprehensive reports on Commun-
ist activities in Mexico, Central Am-
erica, and South America. "Unless
our eventual goal is communism" we
had better take heed of these activi-
ties-because "Marshal Stalin, the
Red Asiatic Napoleon" is as difficult
to handle "as a Rocky Mountain
grizzly bear." Franco, be it noted, is
still at war with Russia-literally so.
That Blue Division on the Eastern
Front does not engage in calisthen-
ics. Naturally, anti-Soviet propa-
ganda would flow from Spain. That
is why Von Weigand was welcome
there and Uhl was turned down. Uhl
believes that America is fighting
against Germany, and not as yet
with her. Von Weigand refers to
Stalin as "the world's remaining dic-
tator." This is very instructive. I
hope there are no more simpletons
amongst us who still think that Hit-
ler, Salazar, Peron, and our friend,
Franco are dictators . . . There is
only one devil-and Stalin is his
prophet.
Poor Taste Shown ...
JOHN KNIGHT has been running
William Randolph Hearst a
good second in bad taste since
April 12. Mr. Knight wrote in his
Editor's Notebook on Monlay a-
bout the good effects this nation
would feel as a result of the recent
tragedy. Now that President Roo-
sevelt is dead, "representative gov-
ernment can be restored." Hon-
estly, that is a direct quotation. I
had to rub Any eyes, too, a few,
times before I believed it. But,
there it is. For the past twelve
years we have not been having
representative government. God
knows what we have had. Maybe
it was all a mirage. Perhaps Presi-
dent Roosevelt secretly garbed
himself in royal purple robes and
King James the first will soon as-
cend a clandestinely constructed
throne in Washington.
Mr. Knight's was a sincere re-
sponse. Mr. Hearst has done more
than any one man to help revive
that ancient Roman institution-the
vomitorium. After a decade of the
most vicious abuse conceivable, no
sooner does President Roosevelt die
than the Hearst press begins to eulo-
gize him! And not satisfied with full
page editorials that sing his praises
to the sky, these men have to publish
full page gold stars in memory of the
President they always hated.
The columnists Sokolsky and Close,
also in the employ of Hearst, have
taken an interesting tack in their
lamentations about our late president.
1i mean to explore it shortly.
Rushing Plan *
O THE EDITOR:
Of late there has been much
discussion in the Michigan Daily on
the subject of sorority rushing. Al-
though several plans have been pres-
ented for improving the system, I
feel there remains one other sug-
gestion to bemade.
What are the fundamental weak-
nesses of our present -highly complex
system? Surely one of the most ob-
vious fallacies is that which Miss
Peggy Goodin emphasized in her
letter last Sunday, that of the per-
nicious drain on both the time and
energy of sorority members and rush-
ees alike during the important ini-
tial part of the semester.
The undue publicity and over-em-
phasis of sorority advantages has
caused sufficient psychological trau-
ma on the part of those girls not
pledged to necessitate the writing
of such an editorial as that by Miss
Mavis Kennedy several weeks ago.
Such an editorial would seem to a
normal mature mind utterly inan
and ridiculous, yet under the pres-
ent conditions this editorial was no
only excellently written but desper-
ately needed.
It is entirely understandable, in
fact, *commendable that sororities
in their efforts to choose members
who will be congenial and share the
aims of the group as a whole, want
to meet as many rushees as possi-
ble. This naturally calls for mass
registration and some degree of
talking-up of "sorority advantages."
Yet it seems regrettable that a
little more is not said on behalf of
the individual who is not "sor-
ority type." As well as the advan-
tages of excellent housing and
boarding, close communication with
one's sorority sisters, adult guid-
ance, and participation in the
group's activities, sororities also
bring obligations - obligations
which entail a certain amount of
agreement with the values, princi-
ples, and methods of one's organ-
ization. To many whose obliga-
tions to their own values and aims
are equally or diminately import-
ant, "sorority advantages" as well
as sorority obligations may easily
become burdens.
Sororities themselves realize this
They frequently attempt to protec
both themselves and would-be mem-
bers by not pledging girls of a mor
self-sufficient and independent char-
acter. However, the girl who ha
been so fortunately spared, mos
probably does not realize her goo
fortune, and instead must suffer th(
inferiority and insecurity which som
sections of society seem to feel i
appropriate for those who have no
acquired a sorority halo.
If it were not for the short dura-
tion and superficial character of
these heated mass acquaintance
campaigns, if girls could become
familiar with the general plan of
sorority life and methods, if real
friendships among sorority wonen
and independents could be formed,
before pledging, many of the dis-
appointments of both sorority
women and rushees might be
avoided and we could all deliver a
few old obsessions up to the Gods.
In view of these weaknesses, i
seems obvious that any form of com-
plex, exhausting, "formal" rushing
will never offer a solution. It is na-
tural and right that sorority wqmen
should want to pledge their friends;
it is equally unnatural that they
should pledge girls who are not their
friends or that these girls should want
to be pledged by them. Why must
sorority women pretend they can
establish firm friendships during
candle light services between two
and four every other day for four
weeks? Would it not be possible for
independents and sorority women to
form friendships naturally and spon-
taneously?
Say, for instance,, that there be
no formal rushing period, no ar-
tificial barriers between sororities
and independents, but also no pol-
ished spillway to deliver the rush-
ees into the sororities' arms, but
rather let the two groups mix natu-
rally, form real friendships, meet
each other's friends, and learn
about each other's interests. Then
the first or second week of the sec-
ond semester after grades had been
ascertained and vacation had pro-
vided time to think the thing over
sororities and independents could
turn in the usual preference slips
and pledging could proceed as pre-
viously.
Some precautions would have to be
taken to prevent the first semester
.rom being a perpetual formal rush-
ng party. It would undoubtedly be
vise to forbid sororities from having
>arties of any sort specifically for
ndependents. To eliminate ambig-
lity, it might be proposed that no
nore than four or five possible rush-
es could be invited to any house
unction or dinner at one time. Such
i system would remove the possibil-
ty of one sorority getting an unfair
advantage.
The suggestions I have made may
eem rather informal in nature, but
l believe the plan is recognizable as
i slow adaptation of the system
vhich fraternities have used -with
treat success. These suggestions are
>bviously not given as a completed
plan but in the hopes they will offer
naterial for further consideration.
-Martha Kirkpatrick, .'46
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RARELY does one have the oppor-
tunity to inveigh against Williar
Randolph Hearst twice on one pag(
in a single day. Hearst, whose nef-
arious journalistic activities of th
moment are dealt with in the Pen-
dulum, was cinematically vivisectec
by Orson Wells four years ago-witl=
beautiful fidelity to the essential
facts.
Then a boy genius of twenty five,
Wells projected his first and best
film, "Citizen Kane." It is the cur-
rent presentation of the Art Cinema
League and for the intelligent per-
son to miss it would be masochistic.
In pure technique, Hollywood has
never surpassed and France seldom
equalled, what Gregg Tolland did in
this motion picture. Chiaroscuro-
if I may use an artictic term in ref-
erence to one of the few art products
that have come from a generally
abused medium-mastery of shades
and shadows, of lights aid darknes-
ses is particularly impressive. They
help overcome the severe limitations
that inhere in any two-dimensional
form.
But, such marvelous tricks aside,
we have in "Citizen. Kane" the char-
acterization, more sympathetic than
invidious, of a man America knows
all too well. Wells took just enough
liberties with Hearst's personal life
to make him unassailable under the
libel laws.
ThusCharles Foster Kane is made
to come from a humble background
Hearst never knew. But, there exists
a one to one correspondence between
much of what is photographically de-
picted and Hearst's life.
Most obvious and deadly of all the
parallels is the one between Kane's
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April 22, will be heard at 3:15 CWT
n the following Sunday, April 29.
Events Today
The Geological Journal Club will
meet in Rm. 4065, N.S. Bldg., at
L2:15 p.m. today. .Program : C. B.
3lawson will report on "Industrial
Diamonds in the War Effort". All
interested are cordially invited to
attend.
The twenty-eighth State Cham-
pitnship Debate of the Michigan
high School Forensic Association will
'ae held at 2 p.m. today in the audi-
torium of the Kellogg Institute. The
Eastern High School of Lansing Will
uphold the affirmative side of the
question, "Resolved: That the legal
doting age should be reduced to eigh-
teen years," and Union High School
f Grand Rapids will uphold the
negative. Judges for the debate will
,)e Professors Gail E. Densmore and
Carl G. Brandt of the University of
Michigan, and Paul D. Bagwell of
Michigan State College. Marquis E.
Shattuck, Director of Languages Ed-
ucation in the Detroit Public Schools,
will act as Chairman.
Angell Hall Observatory will be
open to visions this evening, April 20,
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. EWT (6:30 to
8:30 p.m. CWT) if the sky is clear,
to observe the moon and Saturn.
Children must be accompanied by
adults.
Fireside Discussion: The Hillel
Foundation will present Professor
Preston Slosson, History Deparment,
at 7:30 p.m., at the Foundation. He
will speak on "Five Roads to San
Francisco". Everyone is invited. Re-
ligious services will be held at 6:45
in the chapel preceding Fireside Dis-
cussion.
Coming Events
Botanical Journal Club will meet
in Rm. 1139 Natural Science Build-
ing on Wednesday, April 25 at 3 p.m.
(CWT). The following will be re-s
viewed: Muenscher, "Aquatic Plants
of the United States" by Norrine
Mathews; Papers on the physiology
of water molds, by Betty Linthecum;
Karling, "Brazilian Chytrids", by
Helen Simpson. All interested are
invited. F. K. Sparrow, Chairman.
The Lutheran Student Association
will meet at Zion Parish Hall on
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock for
a picnic if the weather permits. The
regular Association meeting will be
held on Sunday at 5 o'clock in Zion
Parish Hall. The Chinesp Christian
Group will be guests and have ar-
ranged the program. Zion and Trin-
itv T~theran Churches hoth have
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BARNABY
How is the audit coming, Jake? I'm
afraid those ledgers reveal a rather
gloomy financialpicture, don't they?
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By Crockett Johnson
If I'd been running the business myself,
O'Malley Enterprises would now be an
important cog in the economic system-
(f'Mallev acorrinc,
CR.POCKE'T Copyright; 1945, The Newspaper PM, !nc.
JOHNSO/
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economic system!
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