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Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press,1944-43 NIGHT EDITOR: BOB GOLDMAN Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Vote Today Today is election day! Four student candidates are running for a post on the Board in Control of Student Publi- cations-the body which is responsible for staff appointments and policies of The Daily and the Michiganensian. The board is made up of six members of the faculty, two alumni mem- bers and three students. It is the job of student members to act as intermediaries between campus opinion and staff members for the Board in regard to the administration of your paper and yearbook. Therefore, it is important for the winner of today's election to know he has a majority of the students on campus behind him. For this election, ten different polling places have been set up and revised election 'rules have been established by the Men's Judiciary Council to assure fair and efficient handling of ballots. Now it's up to you How you vote is not important.-What is important is that you do vote. -Ray Dixon 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 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN i Letters to the Editor 4 'I ,* , I 1 Y CINEMfl 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 (Continued from Page 2) 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 tI 4 1 1