PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN 1 AILY Fifty-Sixth Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Davies Writes Book on U.S.S.R. v_ I i mx Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control of Student Publications. Ray Dixon . . Robert Goldman Betty Roth . . Margaret Farmer Arthur J. Kraft Bill Mullendore Mary Lu Heath Ann Schutz Dona Guimaraes Editorial Staff . . . . . Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . City Editor . . . . .. . . . Editorial Director . . . . . . . . Associate Editor . . . . . . Associate Editor . ..Sports Editor . ..Associate Sports Editor . . . . . . . . . Women's Editor . . . . Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Dorothy Flint...... . . . .A.s.Business Manager Joy Altman. .......Associate Business Mgr. Telephone 23-24-1 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. 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On Dec. 5 the entire student body will have the opportunity to elect those students whom they wish to have act as their representatives in several capacities. By voting in the election, students exercise the privilege of being beard; by not voting they allow what little student government exists to be run by those few who see the opportunity to run student affairs in their own manner, good or bad. This last is hardly the democratic manner, but the fault is that of the individual student. On Saturday, petitions for the various offices are due. The greater the number of petitioners, the greater will be the chance for screening of candidates and the more likely will be the elec- tion of capable students. Among the issues to be decided in the elec- tion of Dec. 5 is the selection of a foreign uni- versity. After the selection of the university is made, you will most certainly be asked to aid in the work which campus groups are eooperat- ing in to further the causes of world peace. Here is your chance to express your opinion as to which university is most deserving of our aid. Two members of the Board in Control of Stu- dent Publications will be elected. They repre- sent you in matters of policy governing the Daily, the 'Ensian, and the new Gargoyle, and unless you vote, or petition if you are qualified, the stu- dent members though interested in the publica- tions will not necessarily be representative of the campus. On the social side, you can vote on members of the junior class who will form the committee for the J-Hop, the first since the war. Whether it is a success or not depends on the support you give it in its initial state in the elections. Between now and Dec. 5 you will hear more and more about the approaching election, but it is not too early to make up your mind to take time to stop at one of the conveniently located voting places on campus to raise your voice for the students you wish to have repre- senting you. -Jeanne S. Cockburn two Parties MEN by their constitution are naturally divided into two parties: 1.Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON.-Ex-ambassador Joe Davies, one of the best envoys ever sent to Russia, is writing a book which will make some fur bris- tle around the State Department. Davies is shocked at the Truman-Byrnes policy toward Russia, says that inside the State De- partment a vicious anti-Russian group is out to stir up trouble-perhaps eventual war-with the Soviet. Davies wants Truman and Stalin to sit down across from each other and put all their cards on the table face up. He feels the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., each with tremendous wealth and tremendous territory, are the last nations in the world to be natural enemies-though they can be if certain cliques in both countries keep stirring things up. Davies views the situ- ation as a hard-headed business man-feeling that America needs Russia and Russia needs America. He feels that Truman is exposed to all sorts of anti-Russian pressure, especially from certain Army-Navy big-shots and Rus- sian-baiting diplomats. This explains the President's confused drift. Davies is really alarmed about the danger of the situation, and, unless someone gets to him, his book will sound off in no uncertain terms. He has been hesitating lest if he tells the truth he may offend Truman, but it now looks as if he is going ahead. NOTE-Truman recently offered Joe Davies the ambassadorship to London, but Joe de- clined. War Contracts Probe CONGRESSMAN Andrew Jackson May of Ken- tucky has been exhibiting unusual interest in a case before the Mead committee. He has been urging senators not to proceed with their investi- gation of the Erie Basin Company and its lush war contracts. Senator Mead's investigators have been prob- ing reports that this almost unknown company received $36,000,000 in war orders, though op- erating on a shoe-string. At first the company refused to show its books. Finally, Mead investi- gators went to Chicago to examine the books, probably will bring them back to Washington. Congressman May has urged members of the committee to lay off. The other day his friend, Sen. Alben Barkley, joined him in the request. It remains to be seen whether con- gressional courtesy or public interest will win out. Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTON is getting right back to its old pre-war cat-and-dog-fight social protocol days. When Chip Robert gave a dinner last week, there were indignant whispers about his error in seating the honored guests. He put Mrs. Maybank, wife of the senator from South Caro- lina, on his right, and Representative Clare Luce of Connecticut on his left. Protocol, according to the dowagers, should have reversed this seat- ing, since Mrs. Luce is a member of Congress in her own right, while Mrs. Maybank is only the wife of a Senator. . . . Friends are booming able "Chet" Bohlen to be the new U. S. ambassador to Ike's Testimony LAST week General Dwight Eisenhower told Congress that "Russia has no slightest thing to gain by war with the United States." "I believe Russia's policy is friendship with the United States," he said. In the next breath he reported that "there is no one nation in the world that can challenge a prepared America." So we must be "prepared" For what? To fight our "friends?" Eisenhower was testifying in support of Presi- dent Truman's request for universal military training. Eisenhower is a military man and he approved the military conscription proposal be- cause "we must be prepared on M-Day-the day the enemy strikes, or we may never be prepared to avert defeat at the hands of any aggressor who uses againstus the weapons of the future." This is all very logical, for as he says, "with the introduction of atoms and electronic war- fare and the astounding advances being made almost hourly on the aerial warfare, the tempo is increasing in geometric progression," and since this is true and since we must be pre- pared for any future aggression, military train- ing seems the only resort-military training and scientific research to devise more weapons to kill more men. Yet how can we call a nation a friend one min- ute and contemplate future wars the next. This concerns Russia, of course, because- from what many persons have said-she will be our enemy in the next war. But it also concerns every other nation in the world. If Russia's policy is friendship with us, why. must we counter with military conscription-- just in case? The future is probable, no matter how we conceive of it. War is assured if friend- ship fails to exceed national boundaries. Peace is assured if friendship among nations exceeds all natural barriers; if men will admit they must work for it, and if there is mutual cooperation instead of military conscription. Bettyann Larsen Moscow. Bohlen speaks Russian perfectly, acted as interpreter for Roosevelt and Truman with Stalin. However, the Russians are suspicious. Among other things he is a cousin of the Krupp Von Bohlens, famous German munitions fam- ily... Sumner Welles may be out of the State De- partment, but his home is the quiet rendezvous of visiting international bigwigs. The president of Chile motored out to lunch with Welles dur- ing his official visit. Last week, State Depart- ment counselor Ben Cohen, Australian foreign minister Evatt, plus the Mexican ambassador and Secretary of Commerce Wallace gathered at Welles's home to concoct political medicine with Senators McMahon of Connecticut, Ful- bright of Arkansas, Ball of Minnesota and La- Follette of Wisconsin. A revised full employment bill will be reported out of committee to the floor of Congress soon. The House of Representatives has staged a vir- tual sit-down strike on all legislation for several weeks. Reactionary Congressman Carter Man- asco of Alabama has spearheaded the strike. (Copyright, 1945, Bell Syndicate) I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Objective View By SAMUEL GRAFTON W HATis our foreign policy, actually? There have been numerous speeches and state pa- pers on the subject. But it is the American citi- zen alone who is content to accept official defini- tions of our foreign policy. The foreigner, Who- ever he may be, is inclined to judge our foreign policy by deeds, not words; just as we judge other countries by deeds, not words. It might be an interesting exercise to try to guess what a well-informed, perhaps even slightly malicious, foreign observer would make of our foreign policy if he were to attempt to define it on the basis of the things we do, or have recently done. It is hard to see ourselves as others see us, but if we are interested in "one world," it is perhaps worth the effort. A foreign observer, listening to the American radio, and enjoying a subscription to a leading American newspaper, might decide: 1. That the United States is committed to a policy of taking unilateral action, when it considers that its 'interests are best served thereby. The foreign spectator would base this finding on the fact that we intend to brook no interference in Japan, and that while we are willing to discuss our Japanese policy with our allies, we are not willing to yield to allied opinion. The foreign observer would clearly miss the American heartbreak and anguish which were involved in the Japanese war, just as we tend to undervalue the other fellow's heartbreak and anguish. 2. That the United States is intent on making territorial gains as a result of the war. The for- eign observer (I see him as a low fellow, with a cast in one eye) would base his conclusion on our desire for possession of new bases, in Green- land, Iceland, and the Pacific. We want these bases for defense; but, again, that is not an ex- portable idea; nobody ever believes in the other man's defense needs. 3. That the United States no longer supports the doctrine of Big Three unanimity. The for- eign spectator (he isn't very likeable, really) would base this conclusion on the facts that we are forever setting up international con- ferences in which the Soviet Union is clearly outvotable and outvoted, and that we have joined in a bilateral arrangement with Brit- ain concerning the atomic bomb. The for- eigner would fail to note that many Ameri- cans sincerely believe the bomb to be in righte- ous hands; righteousness is another of these items which, like certain wines, travel badly, and always suffer a sea-change. 4. That the United States uses the Bill of Rights like a club, endorsing it for Romania, and denying it in Korea. The foreigner would clearly overlook our need for efficiency in Korea, just as we take a dim view of any possible Russian crav- ing for efficiency in Romania. 5. That the United States is opposed to free political development in Asia, as witnessed by its interference in the Chinese Civil War, and condonation of repression in the Indies. But enough. Throw the man out; he does not understand our motives, and he is perhaps not the constructive type. And yet there is just this much sense in his vinegary findings; we cannot develop a foreign policy merely by looking inside ourselves and admiring our own motives; we must look outward too; our policy must make sense outside our borders, on the world stage. It seems to me that there has been a curious growth of American indifference to what the world thinks, and that this shows more clearly than anything else how our policy has deteriorated. It is based more and more on a yielding to noisy pressures at home, and less and less on the needs of the world. It has ceased to be objective, and is becoming almost morbidly subjective. Subjective foreign policies are dangerous, and that is why it is useful to step outside for a good view; we have been building slapdash from within and no longer know how the thing looks. (Copyright, 1945, N. Y. Post Syndicate) CONSCRIPTION: Inescapable Conclusions "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vege- tarianism so long as the wolf re- mains of a different opinion." 1)O anti-conscriptionists read news- papers and newsmagazines? Even a casual perusal of recent editions of the press leads to these inescapable1 conclusions: 1. ALLIED ATTEMPTS AT CO-1 OPERATION HAVE BEEN LARGE- LY UNSUCCESSFUL. Figuring prom- inently in the September headlines was the failure of the London Con- ference of Foreign Ministers. On October 28 The New York Times summarized: "With a sense of shock Americans realized that Russia and the western Allies had failed utterly to agree on the first steps in applying joint principles to the making of peace treaties." Prof. Harlow Heneman, in a report to The Daily on November 7 of his observations in Germany, told of numerous failures in Allied attempts to get four-power agreement on Ger- man control, policies, from which he concluded: "If the great powers can't agree on occupation questions in Ger- many and Japan, the United Nations organization can hardly be expected to function successfully." 2. THE ATOMIC BOMB MAY BE CONTROLLED. The Associated Press reported from Washington on Novem- ber 15 that the United States, Brit- ain and Canada would share atomic force secrets on two main conditions, one of which is: "That the United Nations devise and establish world- wide means of inspecting atomic plants in all countries to help prevent the use of the atom for war purposes." 3. IF THE ATOMIC BOMB IS NOT CONTROLLED, WE SHALL STILL HAVE TO MAINTAIN LARGE ARMED FORCES. General H. H. Ar- nold, writing in The New York Times Magazine of November 18 said: "The atomic bomb has made offensive and defensive air power in a state of immediate readiness the first re- quisite for national survival. It must be made perfectly clear to an aggres- sor that an attack on the United States would fail and that it would be followed immediately by a devas- tating air-atomic counter-attack on him.'' 4. OUR OCCUPATION TROOPS IN GERMANY AND JAPAN WANT TO COME HOME. Time Magazine, in its November 19 issue, noted: "The best-paid, best-fed soldiers in the world had not wanted to come (over- seas) in the first place, they had never really understood why they were there, and now they wanted to go home fast." (We are committed to occupying Germany and Japan for an extensive period. Where are the replacements to come from?) 5. DEMOBILIZATION HAS SERI-1 OUSLY WEAKENED OUR ARMED FORCES. The Associated Press on November 16 reported a warning by Admiral Ernest J. King that the Unit- ed States Navy "has been so weakened by demobilization that it couldn't fight a major battle." It is not enough for us to have hope for the United Nations organ- ization. It is not a question of wheth- er we are resigned to another war. But who knows what the world scene will be 25 or 50 years from now? (In 1918 one could easily have predicted that we would have nothing to fear from Germany.) Since recent exper- ience proves that roundtable discus- sion of international disputes has been far from successful, it is un- thinkable that the United States should allow its armed forces to de- teriorate and, in the words of General Eisenhower, be left "defenseless and naked before a future enemy." -Clayton L. Dickey This Static World. AMERICA and Great Britain are working together to set China on her feet and to free her from Com- munist domination. The atmosphere of distrust such as marked pre-war days in Europe must not be allowed to grow up between English-speaking nations. I can quite understand the feeling that prompted the majority of the American people to hold aloof from the League of Nations. Feeling as they do, it is just as wvell that America did not join the League; for, disgusted with the Euro- pean tangle, she might have with- drawn, which would have been a death blow to the League. -Sir Esme Howard, speaking at Kansas City, as quoted in The Daily, Nov. 15, 1925. WE CAN make the years ahead good years-by using the energy and enterprise, the brains and the will with which we won the war. Make doubly sure of future financial secur- ity by buying and keeping Victory Bonds. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SOCIAL INSURANCE: University Health Service Exemplifies Model Center Publication in the Daily Official Bui- 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). THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1945 VOL. LVI, No. 19 Notices The General Library and all of its branches will be closed on Thanksgiv- ing day, Thursday, Nov. 22. To All Heads of Departments: Please notify the Information Clerk in the Business Office of the number of Faculty directories needed in your department. Delivery will be made by campus mail. Staff members may have a copy of the Directory by applying at the In- formation Desk in the Business Of- fice, Room 1, University Hall. The Directory will be ready for dis- tribution Nov. 28. To save postage and labor the practice of mailing di- rectories is discontinued. Herbert G. Watkins Secretary Attention all house heads: Any pro- posed change in the house rules for undergraduate women shall not be put into effect by a house mother or house head until she receives written official notification from the Office of the Dean of Women and the Women's Judiciary Committee. Tau Beta Pi Members: All return- ing undergraduate members of Tau Beta Pi who are interested in re- establishing contact with the Michi- gan Gamma Chapter please get in touch with: Frederick Gehring 311 Lloyd, West Quadrangle Ann Arbor. Friday is the last day for regis- tering with the Bureau of Appoint- ments without charge. After Friday a late registration fee of $1 is required. This applies to Feb., June, and Aug. graduates, also to graduate students or staff members who wish to register and who will be available for posi- tions within the next year. The Bu- reau has two placements divisions: Teacher Placement and General Placement. The General Division in- cludes service to people seeking posi- tions in business, industry and pro- fessions other than education. 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. Lectures P RESIDENT Truman has put before Congress a plan for a compulsory "health insurance" system for all working people. With this proposal he hopes to blaze a trail toward the solution of one of the most serious problems which the country has had to face and which will confront stu- dents in the next few years-that of having adequate health service facili- ties for everyone. College students will eventually have to face and possibly solve this great social problem. They would do well to look around and study the various attempts to improve the distribution of medical care. They should consider other pro-, posed systems and draw some con- clusion as to their good points and weaknesses, how they have func- tioned in actual practice and whe- ther they are desirable. President Truman's recommenda- tion is but a few days old, but stu- dents at the University have been using a system based upon central, organized service and prepayment for about thirty years. Despite the fact that Michigan's present Health Service Building is only about six years old, the system has been in practice long enough to render it a model health center. Students of the University have a double opportunity within reach whenever they go to the Health Ser- vice. In the first place, they have complete freedom to secure whatever medical treatment or advice they de- sire without financial or other dis- BARNABY By Crockett Johnson r- III I 1 .