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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, NOVE iBER 17, 1945
Fifty-Sixth Year
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Edited and managed by students of the University of
'Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control
of Student Publications.
International Students Day
TODAY is International Students' Day. This
marks the first time that it has been ob-
served on this campus.
Specifically it is held to commemorate the
infamous day six years ago when the Nazis bru-
tally massacred 156 and deported 1,200 students
of the Charles University in Prague. This was
on November 17, 1939. Since that time a horrible
war has been fought and won.
But now there is a bigger job. Students of
the world cooperated to win a great victory.
Now they are cooperating to help see that the
peace is a lasting one.
To facilitate effective student cooperation, an
International Students Conference is opening
today in Czechoslovakia for the purpose of set-
ting up an International Student Federation.
Earlier this month a World Youth Conference
was held in London with 400 delegates from 63
countries, representing more than thirty million
young people of all races, tongues and creeds.
All are drawn together by the common purpose
of laying the foundation of a peaceful world
through the bond of common understanding and
friendship.
(N THIS campus we have two organizations
with the same high goals. They are the Stu-
dent Organization for International Cooperation
and the World Student Service Fund. On De-
cember 5 an all campus election will be held for
the purpose of "adopting" a foreign university.
It is hoped that students on campus will then
join in contributing to its support, both intel-
lectually and physically.
This student movement toward interna-
tional cooperation is a healthy sign. After the
last war, students meekly followed their eld-
ers into an isolationist vacuum. This time no
such mistake is being made. As the late
President Roosevelt said in his last Interna-
tional Students Day message. ". . .in the vic-
tory now to be won and the peace to be se-
cured, there is a practical task for the young
people of all countries . . . with the clear eye
and firm hand of youth they must help create
that better world toward which we now strive."
-The Senior Editors
Ray Dixon .
Robert Goldman
Betty Roth .
Margaret Farmer
Arthur J. Kraft
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Mary Lu Heath
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NIGHT EDITOR: ANITA FRANZ
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
Youth Conference
INTENT on forming a "permanent working or-
ganization for youth all over the world,"
twenty-five young, serious-minded people are in
London to represent the United States in the
World Youth Conference. Chosen from the im-
portant youth organizations in the country, they
express every phase of political and economic
thought; they have not all received an educa-
tion-some have been in domestic service, in
factories and some are from the AYD, the CIO,
the American Youth for a Free World, and from
the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.
. The World Youth Council is not something
new. It was started at the outset of the war, in
1940, when exiled anti-fascist students from
all parts of Europe gathered and organized
in England. It CAN start something new if we
show interest in it equal to the concern its
members have for US.
The American delegates are going to find out
for themselves, through contact and not through
hearsay, the actual conditions in the world to-
day. Our only access to such knowledge being
written, sometimes unwittingly biased opinions,
we can feel free to follow their advice. Gloster
Current, a Negro delegate from Detroit, stated
that the main purpose of the group was to ob-
tain "plenty of vitally needed facts to use when
we re-dedicate the American people."
Re-education will only be accomplished if
we are guided by the results of this conference
in our actions.
-Miriam Levy
Correspondence
HAVE you ever desired to travel to Amsterdam,
Athens, PIris, and other historical lands on
a student's budget? If the answer is in the af-
firmative, opportunity is now knocking on your
door.
For the past several months Dean J. Burs-
ley's office has been receiving letters from uni-
versities overseas in connection with interna-
tional correspondence between University stu-
dents.
From Professor G. B. de Ridder's letter, a
teacher of Spanish in Amsterdam, Holland we
quote the following paragraph:
"I have the honor to inform you (the Univer-
sity) that in order to give expression to their
gratitude for our liberation, a group of intellec-
tual young ladies and gentlemen have joined
the Pan American Club of Amsterdam, for the
common purpose of bringing about a better un-.
derstanding between the peoples of Holland and
America, to promote sincere and lasting friend-
ship and to serve each other in every useful and
friendly way."
Holland is not the only country requesting
names of students here on our campus; Eng-
land, Greece, and many others are waiting to
hear from us-the AMERICAN YOUTH...... .
"By cprresponding and exchanging of com-
mon interests a more understanding world will
come to exist." Students may not only write to
tLte1CP6to the e &ditor
Pledge Yourselves
To every Michigan Student:
YOU as American students are the most fortu-
nate and privileged students in the world. You
have all the textbooks that you need. You have
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Efficiency
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
PERHAPS the time has come to raise a simple
question of efficiency concerning the handling
of our foreign affairs. For one of the objections
to the new arrangement regarding Palestine into
which we have just entered with Britain is that it
is such an incredibly bad bargain for us. Disre-
garding the high principles involved (which
almost everybody in both foreign offices seems to
be doing, anyway) it is just a bad deal.
On August 31, Mr. Truman laid before the Brit-
ish the idea that 100,000 Jews be given entrance
permits; he merely brought the matter to Mr.
Attlee's attention, as an interesting idea which
had his general approval. The British reaction,
in Parliamentary and press comment, was that it
was all very well for us to want to help the Jews,
but that, if we meant business, we ought to join
Britain in taking responsibility for Palestine.
This was reasonable, and in our new agreement,
we have joined with Britain in a Committee of
Inquiry which will look into the whole problem
of European Jews and Palestine.
But, and here is the heart of the matter, no
increase of Jewish migration to Palestine is
to be permitted while the new committee en-
gages in its undoubtedly lengthy inquiries. It
is hoped to maintain the present rate of 1500
permits per month, that is all. What, then,
have we obtained from this peculiar deal? We
have mingled our policy with Britain's, we
have made it apparent to the world that the
two nations are acting together, a develop-
ment which Britain has dearly wanted-but we
have got no more Jews in Palestine. We have
given much, we have been given nothing. And
now we are going to investigate, measure,
study, analyze, compute; we are going to do
everything except save the Jews.
QUREILY this is not very inspired negotiation.
We seem to have joined with Britain in put-
ting the interests- of the Moslem world first.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with being
sensitive to the rights and interests of the Mos-
lem world; democrats ought to be sensitive to
the true rights and interests of all peoples. But
if we look over to the other side of the planet, to-
ward Indonesia there we shall find (as Repre-
sentative Celler has pointed out) that Indonesian
Moslems, fighting for independence, are being
killed by British forces using American equip-
ment. What goes?
Britain would seem to be following diametri-
cally opposite policies in the two branches of the
Moslem world, but the purpose, in Middle East
and Far East, is the same, to preserve British
dominance over Moslem affairs; in the one case
by conciliation at the expense of the Jews, in
the other by repression. Mr. Bevin did not hesi-
tate to hint, in his statement on Palestine, that
to anger the Arabs of Palestine might vex the
90,000,000 Moslems in India. The horrid thought
floats upward that the Jews, who were so recently
the scapegoats for fascism in Europe, are now
the sacrifice for colonialism in Asia.
But we are not a colonizing power; what
has free America to gain by stationing herself
near the wrong ends of these intricate equa-
tions? What wondrous blessings are we getting
in return? Why must American foreign policy
settle down in a nerveless heap on the wrong
side of the street on both sides of the world?
(Copyright, 1945, N. Y. Post Syndicate)
an excellent library. You have a capable and
learned staff of professors to. instruct you. You
have warm classrooms and well-equipped labora-
tories. You are housed in buildings and rooms,
the very worst of which is better than students
in war-torn countries have. You are being given
an opportunity to study under conditions which
far surpass those in every other country touched
by war.
Saturday is International Students Day. It
is a day commemorating the massacre of 156
students at the Charles University in Prague
and the deportation of 1200 others to concen-
tration camps inside Germany. IT IS THE
DAY FOR US AS AMERICAN STUDENTS TO
REMIND OURSELVES OF OUR GOOD FOR-
TUNE AND TO PLEDGE OURSELVES TO
WORK UNCEASINGLY TOWARD HELPING)
STUDENTS IN THESE DEVASTATED COUN-
TRIES TO REESTABLISH THEIR CENTERS
OF LEARNING.
Many of these colleges and universities have
not a single book, a single building with which
to start. It is up to us to give them the moral and
material support which they need.
At the football game volunteers will be sell-
ing Dailies, proceeds from which will go toward
providing aid for one of these universities. Re-
mind yourself that you are enjoying the foot-
ball game because of the sacrifices of others,
in many, many instances, the sacrifices of stu-
dents like yourself .........and then
buy your Daily.
-Helen Alpert
Aiwakened Youth
To the Editor:
T OMORROW, for the first time in the history
of the University of Michigan, we are par-
ticipating in the world-wide observance of In-
ternational Students Day. Michigan is doing a
lot of things for the first time in its history these
days, worthwhile things, worthy of the support
of its entire student body.
We have witnessed the tremendous power of
youth trained for Fascism in Germany and Italy.
The young in mind and body were the life blood
of Fascism. They have reinforced the old maxim
of the strength of unity in action.
Now democratic youth all over the world
have begun to realize the validity of this prin-
ciple. Now it is possible for us to become a vital
force in this "brave new world" we are always
talking about.
We are emerging slowly from our apathetic
cocoons. It's necessary that we speed up the
process. Our wholehearted support of Inter-
national Students Day will be a big step in
the direction of the concerted action of youth
fcr' democracy.
-Judith Chayes
Road to Serfdom
M/AYFLOWER descendants take note: "Equal-
ity is the arch-foe of liberty. Equality cuts
down the peak and summit of ambition to the
valley of the commonplace," Sidney Samuels,
Fort Worth attorney, told the Waco, Texas, Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce on November 1. The
Waco News-Tribune reported his address thus:
"Asserting that not only the governments of Eu-
rope but also our own governments are endeavor-
ing to proclaim the unworkable hypothesis that
all men are created equal, Samuels told the
Jaycees that in adopting this doctrine the gov-
ernments are trying to drag genius to the masses.
'This is none other than the doctrine of social-
ism,' he soid. Tracing the history of socialism,
Samuels said that it had its roots in the estab-
lishment of the Plymouth colony in America."
-"In the Wind," The Nation, Nov. 17, 1945
MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Bitter Letters
From GI's
By DREW PEARSON
W ASHINGTON - BeforenCongress
Vrdebates peacetime 'conscription
further, and before Generals Mar-
shall and Eisenhower testify further,
it might be profitable if all concerned
spent two or three hours reading
soldiers' and sailors' mail.
Unfortunately, many congressmen
have turned their mail over to the
War Department to be answered by
WACs, while top Army generals are
too busy with high-leve problems to
,worry over what the G.I. is thinking.
But if the backbone of the Amer-
ican Army and Navy is their en-
listed men-as this columnist be-
lieves-then the policy-formers in
Washington should put their ears
to the ground and catch the rum-
blings. They are dangerous, bitter
rumblings. And they come from
officers as well as men-men who
were willing to give all for their
country when it was in danger, but
hate loafing at the expense of the
taxpayer in times of peace. These
rumblings spell out the same lesson
the French learned too late when
they conscripted a huge peacetime
army and kept it idling, rotting
from the inside.
Today U. S. servicemen have be-
come an Army and Navy of letter-
writers. They are writing to every-
body-to their own service journals,
to newspapers, to the White House,
to commentators. Theirs are bitter,
disillusioned, tragic letters---from men
who write almost as if they felt their
uniform bore the cross-stripes of
prison garb instead of being the blue
and khaki they once Were proud to
wear.
Some of this is the inevitable disil-
lusionment which follows war. But
it is so deep and so prevalent that
something must be wrong at the core.
The following cross-section of
soldier mail is published in the
hope that the top men of the Army
and Navy-who otherwise would
not see these letters-will now find
out what the backbone of the Army
and Navy is thinking, and perhaps
rectify whatever is wrong.
Mail from Abroad
A CORPORAL in Manila writes-
"Sometimes I'm ashamed of my-
self for sounding off so much about
the Army. And then I'm not. You
and the U.S.A. should be shown how
dictatorial the Army is. In wartime it
must be so. No soldier says no. But
when the military start trying to run
the lives of millions of civilian-sol-
diers in peacetime-watch out. It's
dictatorship."
From a soldier in the Philippines
-"This deliberate slowing up of
sending men home is a sinister
Army scheme. Everybody. here
feels it, but we can't pin it down.
But just keep this in mind: If war
is declared against Russia (God for-
bid!), American troops, thousands
of them, are away out here in the
Western Pacific, not far from Rus-
sia. "
Medical Corps Major stationed in
Germany - "They now have two
colonels going all over Germany and
France trying to find out where the
doctors and nurses are and how many.
They claim that because of redeploy-
ment they lost the records. But the
truth is that on V-E Day they tried
to hide the doctors stationed in Paris,
Brussels, London, etc., and shipped
them all over hell and high water in
order to dodge a Senate investigating
committee. They didn't want the sen-
ators to know how many surplus doc-
tors we had. So the docs got lost
and now they are trying to find
them."{
RAPEs and RANK
AN OFFICER in Germany-"The
whole thing (slowness in demo-
bilization) is a matter of the RAPES
-Regular Army Protective Executive
Association. The regulars are trying
to hold rank long enough so that it
will become permanent. That's the
key to the whole thing."
A naval cadet at a California
pre-flight school, (previous letters
from him were from Patuxent, Md.,
where he was sweeping out hangars
and where enlisted morale was ex-
tremely low)--"I am kept busy here
and the time is flying by. It has
been two weeks since I left Patux-
ent, although it seems more like
two days. Even the week-ends go
quickly despite the fact that we
don't get any liberty for the first
five weeks. I won't know where to
go when I do get liberty, so I won't
miss it much."
A soldier in Manila-"We work on
the docks and we see ships lying in
the harbor for days and weeks. We've
talked with captains of cargo vessels
and they tell us they're going back
to the States empty. If we could take
a 30 or 40;day trip on a lousy Liberty
ship during the war, why the hell is
the Army so concerned about return-
ing us home on luxury liners?"
(Copyright, 1945, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1945
VOL. LVI, No. 15
Notices1
World War II Veterans, College of
Literature, Science and the Arts:
Veterans who need tutoring in the
subjects listed below should report
to the Office of the Academic Coun-
selors (108 Mason Hall) for assign-
ment to sections, not later than Wed-
nesday noon, Nov. 21.
Chemistry, Mathematics, French,
Physics, German, Spanish.
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
Page46 of the 1945-46 Fal Telm
Announcement of our 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.
To the Members of the University
Council: The first regular meeting
of the University Council will be held
in the Rackham Amphitheatre Mon-
day, Nov. 19, at 4:10 p. m. Agenda:
Reports of Committees on Student
Affairs, Student Conduct, Honors
Convocation, Foreign Students, En-
rollment, Housing, and Official Publi-
cations.
Men and women interested in coun-
seling positions with private camps in
the Eastufor the 1946 summer season,
contact Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information, 201 Ma-
son Hall.
The University Automobile Regula-
tion will be lifted for the Thanksgiv-
ing holiday from 12:00 noon on Wed-
nesday, Nov. 21 until 8:00 a. m. on
Friday, Nov. 23.
U. S. Civil Service announcements
for Librarians, $2,320 a year, for work
in one of the Veterans Administration
hospitals located throughout the
country, or in a Federal agency in
Washington, D. C. and Stenograph-
ers and Typists, have been received
in our office. For further information
regarding examinations, call at the
Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason
Hall.
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
College of Literature, Science and
the Arts, School of Education, For--
estry, Music and Public Health: Stu-
dents who received marks of I or X
at the close of their last semester or
summer session of attendance will re-
ceive a grade of E in the course or
courses unless this work is made up
by December 1. Students wishing an
extension of time beyond this date in
order to make up this work should
file a petition addressed to the ap-
propriate official in their school with
Room 4, U. H. where it will be trans-
mitted.
Identification Pictures will be taken
in Room 7, Angell Hall in the follow-1
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
Old Students :
A-L Thursday, Nov. 15
M-Z Friday, Nov. 16
Miscellaneous:I
Saturday (8:00-12:00) Nov. 17.
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
onnrtinityv i-ay do so by presenting
eligibility, etc., from Dr. Frank M
Robbins, 1021 Angell Hall.
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.
Lectures
University Lecture: Mr. T. C.
Roughley, F.R.Z .S, Superintendent
and Research Officer of the New
South Wales State Fisheries, will lec-
ture on the subject, "~Wonders of the
Great Barrier Reef," illustrated by
colored motion pictures, at 8:00 p.m.,
Monday, Nov. 26, in the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre. Auspices of the
Department of Zoology. The public is
cordially invited.
AC(demic Notices
English 143: Copies of Hatcher's
Moder'n Dramas al-e in the bookstores.
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,
Prokofiefl, 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.
The University Musical Society:
The Annual Christmas performance
of Handel's "Messiah" will take place
Sunday afternoon, Dec. 16, at 3
o'clock at Hill Auditorium. The fol-
lowing will participate: Rose Dirman,
soprano; Kathryn Meisle, contralto;
Arthur Kraft, tenor; Mark Love, bass;
Hugh Norton, narrator; Frieda Op't
Holt Vogan, organist; the University
Choral Union. Special Symphony
Orchestra; Hardin Van Deursen, Con-
ductor. Tickets, including tax, are:
main floor, 65c; first balcony, 50c, and
top balcony 40c.
The Sixth Annual Chamber Music
Festival will take place Friday eve-
ning, and Saturday afternoon and
evening, January 25 and 26 in the
Main Lecture Hall of the Rackham
Building. The Budapest String Quar-
tet will give all three concerts. Course
tickets, including tax, $3.60, $3.00,
$1.50.
Tickets for either the "Messiah"
concert or the Chamber Music Series
are on sale in the offices of the Uni-
versity Musical Society in Burton
Memorial Tower.
Events Today
Hillel Foundation Music and Dra-
matic groups will hold tryouts today
from 10 to 12 a. m. and Monday, Nov.
19, from 3 to 5 p. m., at Hillel. All
interested entertainers are welcome.
Prepare a six minute selection show-
ing your talents to the best advan-
tage. Accompanist provided.
Open House will be held after to-
day's game at the Lutheran Student
Center.
The Westminster Guild of the First
Presbyterian Church will have a "Fall
Fall-In" (Hard-time party), tonight
beginning at 7:30. Jane Dahlberg
and Lardener Moore are the Social
Committee. Miss Frances Goodfel-
low will lead the Social Folk Dancing.
Coming Events
Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity
is holding its first business meeting
of the semester on Tuesday, Nov. 20
in The Michigan Union at 7:15 p. m.
All men who are present members or
were former members of Alpha Phi
Omega, and all men who have had
Boy Scout exyperience and want to
join this campus organization are
urged to attend this meeting. Elec-
tions for this semester will be held
at this time.
A.I.E.E. 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. m., 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.
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BARNABY
By Crockett Johnson