TIHE M1ICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1945 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Eisenhower To SucceedMarshall INTERVENTION IN CHIN A: Declaration of Independence Betrayed Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of re- publication of all other matters herein also reserved. 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., PIEPRESE4TED POR NATIONAL ADVERTI3ING OY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MAI6ON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CHICAGO - BOSTON * LOS AGELES * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 NIGHT EDITOR: CLAYTON DICKEY Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Buy ISD Daily TOMORROW is International Students' Day, to be celebrated by students in all the allied nations in memory of those who lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis Nov. 17, 1939, at Charles University in Prague. Tomorrow also, at Charles University, the World Student Conference will assemble, and continue the work of the conference, which ad- journed in London Tuesday. In London the World Federation for Democratic Youth was or- ganized and a statement of main principles was formulated. The international cooperation of youth in or- der to help eliminate fascism and better the con- ditions of youth of all races and creeds, which the constitution of the WFDY calls for, will not succeed undess the new organizations receive the interest and support of every one of us. First of all it is vitally necessary to repair the damages of war to the foreign universities which have seen their equipment demolished, their student bodies depleted. And that's where the students of the Uni- versity of Michigan come into the picture. To- morrow the members of the SOIC will sell spe- cial editions of the Daily, the proceeds to aid some foreign university which will be chosen by campus election. That is, for the present, our small part of the job which has to be done by students in rebuilding the world. Let's all buy a Daily and give as much as we can to- ward this cause which is so vital to us. -Frances Paine World Unity " MORE alert and better informed public opinion throughout the world" is urged in a recent interview in the Detroit Free Press by Cordell Hull, winner of the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize. Hull added that "it is imperative that there be continued unity, friendly understanding and common effort among the people and states- men of the major United Nations." In the same issue of the paper the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiza- tion announces that its objectives are freedom from censorship, international exchange of scholars and world cultural cooperation. What could be more conducive to the attain- ment of Mr. Hull's goals of a better informed public opinion and a friendly understanding among the people of the United Nations and the world than the realization of the objectives of this organization? Only by getting foreign news free from censorship and coloring can we ex- pect to begin to understand the people and events in other countries. And it is only by un- derstanding these other inhabitants of the earth that we can hope to preserve peace and civiliza- tion. One of the chief complaints of American for- eign correspondents before the war was that foreign news was corrupt at its sources, the of- ficial press bureaus. If we can see to it that By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON.-President Truman this week will announce the resignation of Gen. George C. Marshall as chief of staff and the appoint- ment of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to succeed him. Eisenhower's appointment will be effective Monday. General Marshall, who is now past the retirement age, will go to his home near Leesburg, Va, retiring from the Army alto- gether. A graduate of Virginia Military Insti- tute, he is one of the few non-West Pointers to serve as chief of staff. Lieut. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, former dep- uty chief of staff, is expected to succeed Eisen- hower as' commander of the American Army in Germany. Gen. Lucius Clay will return to Germany to continue in charge of the civil administration of Germany. Eisenhower is expected to institute a con- siderable shake-up of the general staff in Washington. Most of the older men who sur- rounded General Marshall will be transferred or retired, and Eisenhower will bring in some of the younger men who served with him in Eu- rope. The shake-up probably.means that the rem- nants of the MacArthur clique in the War De- partment will exit. Friends of Eisenhower recall the day when he served under MacArthur in the Philippines and was fired. They consider his re- turn to the states the best break Eisenhower ever had. While Eisenhower is not a man to bear grudges, Quentin Reynolds, Colliers' war corres- pondent, tells the story of playing gin rummy with Eisenhower and Gen. "Toughy" Spaatz and asking Ike if he knew MacArthur. "Know him!" replied Eisenhower. "Hell, I studied dramatics under him for fouryears." Boomed for White House WHEN Admiral Dewey returned triumphant from capturing the Philippines in the Span- ish-American war, newsmen asked the conquer- ing hero wfiether he was a Democrat or a Repub- lican. The Admiral wasn't quite sure which. That ended the Dewey boom for President. Today, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, the new chief of staff, has returned and may be put in the same position as Admiral Dewey. Both parties are considering new blood for 1948. GOP leaders are convinced that, given a candi- date who can win labor votes yet not aliente the Hoover conservatives, they can win. Ob- viously, Eisenhower is important presidential timber. Popular impression is that Eisenhower is a Republican. He was appointed to West Point from the rock-ribbed Republican State of Kan- sas by GOP Senator Joseph B. Bristow. And no- body in those days could get anywhere in Kan- sas unless he was a Republican. However, though it may be news to GOP leaders, Dwight Eisenhower put himself on record early in life as a Democrat. Further- more, he was an energetic William Jennings Bryan Democrat, and in November 1909 made a speech at the annual Democratic banquet held in Abilene, Kans. The other speakers were older and seasoned Kansas Democrats; but Dwight Eisenhower, then only 19, was picked to stand up with them and harangue the crowd. He did. Eisenhower's speech, hitherto overlooked by politicians and delvers into the General's past, is printed in black and white in the files of the Abilene News, then the Democratic paper of the town. I am indebted for this information to J. W. Howe now of Emporia, Kans. Howe not only published the Abilene News, but was a member of the school board and knew young Dwight bet- ter than anyone outside his own family. The Abilene News office was headquarters for a group of high school boys who came there to discuss their problems, talk sports and politics, read the papers and do odd jobs for the paper. J. W. Howe says of Eisenhower: "Dwight liked to read the exchange news- papers from out of town. He never complained about working, seeming to take that for granted. In school discussions, he was always for the under-dog and contended we needed a somewhat better distribution of wealth." William Jennings Bryan at that time had made many speeches in Abilene and the young folks liked to hear him. In fact, Bryan made some definite inroads on the Republicans. The Republican party at that time was beginning to be split into two groups, led by Taft and Teddy Roosevelt. The fight in Abilene was bitter and this was the situation when Dwight Eisenhower started out in 1909 to get the proper endorse- ments to enter West Point. tight, West Poit rrHE EISENHOWER family had no political pull-on the contrary. Dwight's father was listed as a Democrat, though he took little part in politics. Dwight himself was more active than his father, but whatever pull he had was with the Democrats. However, the factional Republi- can fight helped him. Editor Howe, the town's chief Democratic leader, advised Dwight to go get the endorsement of Phil W. Heath, editor of the Abilene Chronicle and spokesman for the "square-deal" Republicans; also to get the en- dorsement of Charles M. Harger, editor of the Abilene Reflector, spokesman for the "stand- pat" Republicans. Since Young Eisenhower was not allied with either faction, Heath and Harger were very friendly, and gladly gave him their support. Thus, he was able to obtain not only the endorse- ment of the Democrats, but of both Republican factions-a real compliment to his standing in the community. Eisenhower's first and only venture into poli- tics occurred while he was taking post-gradu- ate work at the Abilene high school, prepara- tory to West Point. Chief speaker at the Demo- cratic banquet was George H. Hodges, later governor of Kansas. Dwight's subject was ."The Student in Politics." (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) I'D R ATHER BE RIGH T: Dream 011(1d By SAMUEL GRAFTON THERE is something dream-like in the manner in which we Americans are settling down to the best-fed winter in our history, at a time when most of the world is hungering. It is as if we could not hear and could not see. The New York Times has just published two solid pages of country-by-country accounts of the winter Eu- rope faces, "one of the blackest, saddest winters since the chaos of the Thirty Years' War." These stories tell us how our friends in Europe are dy- ing, the old and the young, the generations least contaminated by fascism. And while we know this, we act and operate as if we did not know. Like characters in a dream, we plague our- selves with unreal questions: Why don't Euro- peans and GIs like each other! What a two- cent mystery that is! How can the hungry and the well-fed like each other, in any country, in any time? We cannot afford to see straight, and we are afraid to look. But we are aware that something is wrong on the Continent, and so from time to time we stir uneasily, and dish out moral principles. And it is dream-like to sit in a well-warmed church and offer an unimplemented freedom of religion to a people who must go to church without a roof, on feet without shoes. Our Department of Agriculture announces, on the same day on which the Times' monumental hunger round-up appears, that Americans may look forward to the largest per capita food sup- plies in their history next year; we shall have 11 per cent more, per person, than in the years im- mediately before the war. It is as if fate were twisting the statistics deliberately, ours up, the rest of the world's down, to make the contrast as vivid as possible. This is the world of 1945-46, then; an island of satiety in a sea of want. And how shall we speak to the world across this barrier, and in what voice? Speak somehow we must, for America is too big and too important to dare to be a lotus-land, whose inhabitants eat and lapse into contented dreams. [T IS not my purpose to scold, for we are a great people, the most generous in the world, and stinginess is not the problem. The tragedy goes deeper than that. It is that our sense of contact with the world is still new and young, and, in situations like this one, it tends to snap. We shall be truly a world power when he can have a President who could at a moment like this one, rise to inform us that food rationing must be resumed at once to save the planet which makes a frame for our greatness; and when we would answer him with: "Why, of course." That this is considered a political impossi- bility today is a measure, not of our stingi- ness, but of our lack of conviction. We reserve our sense of being a world power for such oc- casions as when we talk of armaments, and of the spread of our principles; but on other issues we still wobble between being a world power and an out-of-the-world power. We keep the atomic bomb because, we say, we are the greatest power in the world, and we are en- titled to it; it is in "righteous hands;" but to hold the world's greatest supply of food is a re- sponsibility of a not dissimilar kind. Yet Congress has dawdled so long on the last UNRRA installment of $550,000,000 that the gift, when it is finally made, will be a dish of very cold soup, and it has not started work at all on next year's appropriation, and Mr. Lehman, waiting outside the Capitol, begins more and more to resemble one of his own homeless charges. And it is the curious twisting of motives in- volved that makes us seem so like dreamers. For the urgency ought to be all on our side; an urgent desire to preserve our greatness by pre- serving the world in which we are great. Who but the most fortunate member of the com- munity has the greatest interest in keeping the community going? But we munch and nap and munch again and smile as we survey our se- cret dream of a world of which we can be a part, and yet out of which we can step, when out of it we want to step. (Copyright, 1945, N. Y. Post Syndicate) T HE statesmen who ordered the 12,- 000 marines of the Sixth Divisioni to train their guns oi the ChineseI Communists while the Nationalists invaded the Shantung Peninsula would do well to read our own Ameri- can declaration of independence. The Yenan government, as did the colonists in 1776, finds it nec- essary to dissolve the political bands which have connected it with the parent government, "and to as- sume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal sta- tion to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them." Mao-Tse-Tsung and the other Communist leaders, like Thomas Jef- ferson and the fellow radicals of his time, hold certain truths to be self evident. What are these truths?- the same truths which inspired the American War of Independence: ". ..that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Crea-- tor with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes de- structive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such princi- ples and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Hap- piness... when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despot- ism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." These are courageous words, mili- tant words, spoken by a people who faced the Despot almost unarmed, with few resources and little organi- zation. The colonists, unable to en- gage in mass military engagements, Troops IT IS impossible to glance at a news- paper and not find some article yelping about the slow movement of 'troopsback to the states. Someone wants to know why the government found a means to ship them over quickly but is stumped when it comes to getting them home. Another com- plains that the men of the Armed Forces should at least have priority over horses, machinery and someone's pet parrot. Other persons exclaim that needed planes shouldnot be used to transport officials to their favorite hunting grounds. Authorities in charge have man- aged to mouth excuses in an effort to disarm the wrathful public but to my knowledge no legitimate ex- cuse has been offered for the Navy pay spree. It was a splendid sight to see the ships anchored in single file in the Hudson River. But while preparations were being made for the Navy Day festivities, there were men sitting on Guam, Guadalcanal, Saipan, all over the world-waiting to come home. For most of them the fighting is over and they have no means of occupying the endless days other than by reading stories of the avalanche of strikes in the United States, biting their nails, and wondering what is wrong, where. The ships in New York Harbor could have alleviatedthe situation somewhat. They should have been loading troops now on islands or in Europe and Japan. The Missouri or the Enterprise or the Boise lose prestige when challenged by the soldiers' "What about us?" -Barbara Snell Football Seats EDITOR'S NOTE: In view of campus in- terest in the issue of student seating at football games, the Daily reprints ex- cerpts from an editorial in the Purdue Exponent. W RANGLING, discussions and op- inions have run hot and heavy among the student body this falll concerning the sale of football ticketsE to games played away and also con- cerning the students' seat at the games played here at home. First of all-the war put its finger into football and basketball seating arrangements. Concerning the present sections of seats given to students-the sections start at the fifty yard line and go north, while the alumni sections start at the same spot and go south. That's the story-and we don't believe it is nearly as bad as all the scuttlebutt makes it sound. fought in guerilla bands without uni- forms and with makeshift equip- ment. The people of North China have fought in the same manner, against tyranny from without and within. Here the parallel ends, however. When America revolted against George III, France sent Lafayette with an equipped division to aid the colonists in their fight 'for free- dom. The United States, born of revolution, has sent a division, too. But the 12,000 Marines of the Sixth Division fight not on the side of liberty but on the side of tyranny. In this struggle between Chungking dictatorship and Yenan democracy, which latter the the has already accomplished miracles in bet- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Pubilcation in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding publication (11:00 a. m. Sat- urdays). FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1945 VOL. LVI, No. 14 Notices Transfer Students: Beginning Fri- day, Nov. 16, the staff of the Circu- lation Department of the General Library will instruct freshmen in the use of the Library. Transfer students who wish to take advantage of the opportunity may do so by presenting themselves at Room 110, General Li- brary, at the following hours: Friday, Nov. 16: 9, 10, 11 a. m.; 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, 11 a. m.; 2 or 3 p. m. Wednesday, November 21, 1 p. m. Choral Union Members, in good standing, will please call for their courtesy passes for the Uninsky con- cert on the day of the concert Mon- day, Nov. 19, between the hours of 9:30 and 11:30 and 1 and 4, at the offices of the University Musical So- ciety, Burton Memorial Tower. Pas- ses will not be issued after 4 o'clock. Charles A. Sink, President. All Graduate Students who have entered the University for the first time this fall will be required to take the Graduate Record examination on Dec. 12 and 13. Students expecting the Master's degree in February must take the examination to be eligible for the degree. Applications must be filed in room 1008 Rackham by Sat- urday noon, Nov. 17. Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts: Attendance report cards are being distributed through the departmental offices. Instruct- ors are requested to use green cards for reporting freshmen and sopho- mores, and buff cards for reporting juniors and seniors. Reports of fresh- men and sophomores should be sent to the Office of the Academic Coun- selors, 108 Mason Hall; those of jun- iors and seniors to 1220 Angell Hall. Please note especially the regula- tions concerning three-week absences, 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 46 of the 1945-46 Fall Term Announcement of our College. E. A. Walter Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Students who fail to file their election blanks by the close of the third week of the Fall Term (Nov. 21), even though they have registered, and have at- tended classes unofficially, will for- feit their privilege of continuing in the College. E. A. Walter To the Faculty and Students of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Beginning Monday, Nov. 12, the Office of Admissions with Ad- vanced Standing will be open only during the following hours: Monday- Friday, 11-12 and 2-4; Saturday 9-12. Identification Pictures will be taken in Room 7, Angell Hall in the follow- ing order for students who registered Monday, Oct. 29 (the first day of registration). Please bring your reg- istration receipt. The photographic room will be open from 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. daily including the noon hour. New Freshmen and New Transfer Students: R-Z Wednesday, Nov. 14 Lectures University Lecture: Vladimir D. Kazakevich, lecturer for the Com- mittee on Education of the National Council of American-Soviet Friend- ship, New York, will lecture on the subject, "Russia's Economy and Post- war Reconstruction" at 4:15 p. in. today in the Rackham Amphithea- tre, under the auspices of the Depart- ment of Economics. The public is cordially invited. Academic Notices Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet today at 4 p. in., in 319 West Medical Building. "Epinephrine. II. Biological Studies" will be discussed. All interested are invited. English 143: Copies of Hatcher's Modern Dramas are in the bookstores. Make-Up Examination: Political Science I and Political Science II: Wednesday, Nov. 21, 4-6 p. in., Room 2035 Angell Hall. Concerts Alexander Uninsky, Russian pianist, will give the third concert in the Choral Union Series Monday evening, Nov. 19, at 8:30 o'clock, in Hill Audi- torium. The program will consist of compositions, by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Prokofieff, Chopin, Debussy, and Liszt. A limited number of tickets are available at the offices of the Univer- sity Musical Society in Burton Me- morial Tower; and at the box office in Hill Auditorium after seven o'clock on the night of the performance. Charles A. Sink, president. Events Today Soph Cabaret Try-outs for the- dancing chorus of the floor show have been reopened. All sophomore women interested in participating are urged to come out 3:30 to 4:30 today n the Garden Room of The League. Angell Hall Observatory will be open to visitors tonight from 7:30 to 9:30 if the sky is clear, to observe the Moon. Children must be accom- panied by adults. Coming Events The Westminster Guild of the First Presbyterian Church will have a "Fall Fall-In" (Hard-time party), Saturday night, beginning at 7:30. Jane Dahl- berg and Lardener Moore are the Social Committee. Miss Frances Goodfellow will lead the Social Folk Dancing. The Westminster Guild of the First Presbyterian Church will have a spe- cial program on Korea on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 5:00 p. m. Mrs. Esson M. Gale will speak. Charles and Grace Kim, students from Korea will give musical selections. Following the program there will be a supper and group singing. This is an open meet- ing and anyone interested is invited. hillel Foundation Dramatic and Music groups will hold try-outs Sat- urday, Nov. 17, from 10 to 12 a. in., and Monday, Nov. 19, from 3 to 5 p. m. at Hillel. All interested en- tertainers are welcome. Prepare a six minute selection showing your tal- ents to the best advantage. Accompa- nist provided. A.I.EE. The first meeting of the fall term of the Michigan Student Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will be held Tues- day, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p. in., in the Michigan Union. Mr. George Chute of General Electric will speak on "Re cent Trends in Industrial Electron- ics." All students of electrical. engi- neering and all others interested are invited. Le Cercle Francais will hold its tering the lives of over 100 million Chinese, our diplomats have chosen to support a regime so guilty of op- pression that no one will defend it on ideological grounds. Have we learned nothing from the terrible war just ended? Are we to repeat the mistakes of the so-called non-intervention policy in Spain which amounted to sanc- tioning the Fascist forces, our in- clusion of Argentina among the United Nations and other mistakes too numerous to mention? If you are a democratic Ameri- can, an American proud of the principles laid down by Jefferson which have so long guided this nation, write or wire President Truman protesting American inter vention in China. -Betty Roth _ __ By Crockett Johnson. BARNABY