VETERANS' QUESTION BOX See Page 6 40P 411tr tgan 41a1 PARTLY CLOUDY VOL. L L .N 27 ANN ARBOR, MWCHTGAN, WEDNESDIAY DECEMBER 5, 195. PRICE FIVE CENTS Students Will Give Opinions Deans To Discuss Curriculum Changes A student committee will be con- vokedsDecember 12 in the League to discuss proposed changes in the lit- erary college curriculum, Assistant Dean Erich A. Walter announced yes- terday. Dean Hayward Keniston, Assistant Dean Walter and members of the fac- ulty's Joint Committee on the Cur- riculum will present the proposed changes to the student committee for the purpose of gaining an idea of stu- dent opinion. Student Participation Lauded "Students are on the receiving end and should have, a chance to see the proposals," Dean Walter said, and added that he was "anxious to have a good discussion." Members of the student committee will be chosen as follows: Juniors and seniors-on the basis of recommendations by concentration advisers; Sophomores and second semester freshmen - on the basis of recom- mendations by academic counselors. Dean Walter said the committee would have "between 50 and 60" mem- bers. Suggestions Commended During the spring term, Dean Wal- ter said, members of the faculty's curriculum committee had received "very valuable suggestions" from meetings with a, group of 13 sopho- mores, juniors and seniors. The literary college faculty reopen- ed its debate on changes in the cur- riculum at the beginning of the pres- ent term. Dean Walter said the fac- uilty did not wish to be "prejudiced" by publicizing the proposed changes at this stage in the discussions, but would welcome an expression of stu- dent opinion in a committee broadly representative of the campus. New Princeton Plan Announced Emphasis To Be Put On General Courses Princeton University last week join- ed the growing ranks of colleges and universities who have adopted the general education idea. President Harold W. Dodds an- nounced that the new Princeton plan would provide for closer supervision of underclass courses, place increased emphasis on independent research by upperclassmen and supply a bridge between the general courses of fresh- man year and the specialized courses of senior ,year, to be accomplished by concentration during the intervening years in one of the major fields of learning. Broader Field of Study Freshmen and sophomores will be required to take courses in these four broad areas: (1) natural science, its methods, significance and some of its specific conclusions; (2) the study of modern society, its development and organization and its chief institutions and their functions; (3) arts and literature, their types and character and their insights and value for man- kind; (4) history, philosophy and re- ligion, their characteristic perspec- tives and importance as organizing and synthesizing approaches to other studies Other features of the Princeton Plan include: Upperclassmen will be 'required to do independent work under the guid- ance of advisers in their special de- partments. Language Requirement Reduced The foreign language entrance re- quirement has been reduced from three years to two; Students at Princeton may substi- tute a knowledge of trigonometry and calculus for the requirement of a reading knowledge of a foreign lan- guage. The Princeton Plan is based upon the university's experience that many students graduate with little knowl- edge in any of the major fields of learning. The new plan is designed so that all students will at least have a general background in the four major areas., Princeton's reorganization of its curriculum indicates a trend away from the elective system introduced by President Eliot of Harvard in the 1880's. The elective system is now in use in most liberal arts colleges. Daily To Print Special Campus Election Page The Daily will publish a special campus election page to- morrow featuring statements of all the candidates, sample ballots and complete election rules. Any candidate who has not yet submited a statement of qualifications and plans for the office if elected may turn them in at the Student Publications Building, 420 Maynard, until 3 p. m. today. They should be left with Mrs. James, secretary, on the second floor. Be sure to see tomorrow's Daily for information. Be sure to vote Friday. complete election Committee for Liberal Action outlines Phns Former Post-War Council Reorganizes Reorganizing themselves as the Committee for Liberal Action, mem- bers of the former Post-War Council, after ratifying a constitution, last night outlined a program for the re- vival of an active student govern- ment on campus. A brief history of the Post-War Council, which was formed imme- diately after Pearl Harbor to com- bat the apathetic isolationist atti- tudeamong the students and fos- ter thoughtful discussion of na- tional and international issues, was presented by Barbara Hazelton, of Martha Cook' Citing the need for action, the steering committee pro-tem, com- posed of Winnifred Barr and Wayne Hazelton, and Wayne Saari, public affairs chairman of Lane Hall, pre- sented possible issues, such as the Full Employment, wage agency and international control of the atom bomb legislation, which may be acted upon by the re-organized progressive group. The following committees to in- vestigate the needs of student gov- ernment were appointed: corres- pndence, Jeanne Cockburn, chair- man; league houses and dormitor- ies, Joyce Siegan and Barbara Hazelton chairman; co-ops, Jack Weiss chairman; research, Wayne Saari chairman. Reports are to be made at a meeting of the steering committee at 3 p.m. Friday in Lane Hall. An election of officers and selec- tion of sponsors for the organization will head the agenda of the next meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Lane Hall. Membership in the group is open to all students, including gradu- ates, veterans, Army and Navy per- sonnel, on campus. Students are re- quested to bring their eligibility cards to the next meeting. Question Box A Veterans Question Box that is publish'ed weekly appears for the second time on page 6. Questions for the column are compiled from letters addressed to Veterans' Editor of The Daily and will be answered by Clark Tibbitts and the staff of the Veterans' Ser- vice Bureau. Questions received by The Daily before each Saturday morning will be answered in the column of the following week. All veterans are urged to submit questions relating to any veteran problem or question. GOP To Quiz MacArthur on Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-(R')-Dis- closure that President Roosevelt took a personal hand in getting war warn- ings to the Philippines in 1941 brought a Republican demand to- night that General Douglas A. Mac- Arthur be called as a witness in the Pearl Harbor inquiry. The demand came from Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) who declared it was evident that MacArthur, then commander of army forces in the Philippines, received a great deal more information on the threat of hostilities than did army and navy commanders in Hawaii. Ferguson, a member of the joint Pearl Harbor investigating commit- ftr- +tAd rannr+arq hnould a em fr-r Candidates for student offices are bringing their campaigns to an end as student voters continue to secure voting eligibility before the elec- tion. Navy to Get Identification Voting eligibility can be obtained by securing an identification or spe- cial election card from the cage in University Hall. Cards are being is- sued daily, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Either an identification or election card must be presented at the polls to secure ballots. Navy students will be issued special identification cards Friday morning. Charles Walton, Men's Judiciary Council president, reminded candi- dates to secure eligibility cards before election day. Election Rules Listed Election rules, as approved by the Council, are as follows: 1. At least two persons will be sta- tioned at the ballot boxes during poll- ing hours. 2. Campaign issues will be made clear and candidate's petitions will be published in The Daily. Campaigning Restricted 3. No campaigning will be allowed within fifty feet of the ballot box. Campaigning is defined as any at- tempt to influence the decision of qualified voters. 4. Electors may vote once unless otherwise specified. In the case of multiple choice elections where an elector may vote for more than one candidate, the elector need not vote for more candidates than he chooses. 5. Identification will be checked by poll attendant in manner prede- termined by the Men's Judiciary Council. Vote by Ballot 6. Ballots will be given to voters at time of identification check. See ELECTIONS-Page 2 Government Invites Aid in Housing Plight WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -(p)- The worsening plight of veterans and others seeking homes prompted the government today to call for help in getting full-scale housing construc- tion underway. John B. Blandford, Jr., national housing administrator, invited repre- sentatives of contractors, labor, fin- ance agencies and materials produc- ers to a Washington conference Dec. 17 for advice on clearing away obsta- cles delaying quantity home produc- tion. Along with this move Senator Mead (D.-N.Y.) renewed appeals for funds to transfer temporary war housing and abandoned army bar- racks to cities. Mead testified before the Senate Education Committee in behalf of his resolution to provide $195,000,000 for "panelizing" war housing. This is a process of cutting up the temporary dwellings into panels for transporta- tion and erection in localities which need them. Government housing experts believe Mead's proposal would help but they oppose any widespread new building of temporary living quarters in the belief it would simply postpone the need for permanent housing. Sheean Will Speak Today 'Personal Opinion'Is Topic Chosen for Talk Recently returned from five months with General Patton's Third Army in France and Germany, Vincent Sheean wil lecture on "Personal Opinion" at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. He will be introduced by Prof. Wes- ley Maurer of the journalism depart- ment. The address will be the third in the Oratorical Association lecture series for 1945-46. Sheean, experienced foreign corre- spondent, is best known as the author of "Personal History" and "Not Peace But a Sword." Covering the war in Europe, he was in Czechoslovakia when the Nazis moved up their guns, and in France during the invasion of the Low Coun- tries. He was in London at the time of the intense bombings of 1940 and 1941, and accompanied General Pat- ton's Army in the invasion of France and Germany. More recently, Sheean traveled in New Zealand, Austria, the Dutch East Indies, India and China, collecting material for articles on war condi- tions in the Pacific. Described by Dorothy Thompson as a man who in another age would have been a great poet, Sheean's first hand accounts of his exploits have found their way into his books, both fiction and autobiographical history. Vect Delegation To Seek Funds Group Wants 1500 Housing Units Here The agenda of proposals that will be presented to Lt. Col. Philip Pack, director of veterans' affairs in Lan- sing, Thursday by a delegation of VO and AVC members will be read and discussed at the regular Veterans Organization meeting at 7:30 p.m. today, Rm. 316 of the Union. The delegation is going to Lansing this week to seek funds for the es- tablishment of 1500 temporary living quarters to be established for mar- ried veterans now attending the Uni- versity and for those planning to en- ter in the spring term. AVC is contacting agencies of gov- ernment in cities that appear to have made the most progress in an attempt to find a model which Ann Arbor could follow in alleviating the housing shortage. Reports will be given, in Lansing, from various committees of VO regarding housing, the coopera- tive eating establishment, and the veterans international student ex- change. Russell Wilson, co-chairman of the AVC housing committee and Edward Moore are going to Lansing tomorrow to see the governor for advice and suggestions with regard to housing. The Veterans' Organization meet- ing will be over by 8:30 p.m. so as not to conflict with the lecture at Hill Auditorium. Houser To Speak On Racial Equality George Houser, executive secretary of the Congress of Racial Equality, will speak on "How to Combat Racial Discrimination" at a meeting of the Inter-Racial Association at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Rm. 316 of the Union. Houser, who is from Cleveland, O., is being brought here by the Educa- tional Committee of the IRA, of which William Holloway is chairman. A general invitation is extended to all those interested. A.S.M.E. Meets at Union Prof. Seventon will discuss life in Santo Tomas prison camp at a meet- ing of A.S.M.E. to be held at 7:30 p.m. today in Rm. 302 of the Michigan Union. Anderson Attacks Board By The Associated Press DETROIT, Dec. 4-Hope that the strike of 175,000 General Motors em- ployes could be settled without resort to President Truman's fact-finding board was expressed today by Harry W. Anderson, the corporation's vice- president in charge of personnel. Anderson made his comment at Washington as it appeared the Mon- day appeal by Mr. Truman for an im- mediate return to work by strikers had failed to dent the ranks of CIO unionists seeking to enforce demands for a 30 per cent wage increase. Asks End to All Picketing Emerging from a conference with Edgar L. Warren, chief of the U. S. Conciliation Service at Washington, Anderson said General Motors was prepared toabargain collectively with the union as soon as its complaint against "illegal picketing" was dis- posed of. Representatives of the corporation and union will meet here tomorrow to discuss management's charge that supervisory and office employes have been illegally barred from GM plants. Anderson was asked, "Do you think the strike can be settled without a fact-finding board?" "I hope so," he replied. Vet Head Assails Plan The President's plan for such boards was assailed in Detroit by John W. Anderson; chairman of a UAW-CIO Veterans' Committee, as continuing what he termed "the war- time practice of denying the workers their just demands through an agency set up by the government." R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO Interna- tional president, who said he was opposed to Mr. Truman's proposals, conferred at Pittsburgh with Philip Murray, president of the CIO, and then left for Washington. Whether he planned conferences at the capital with high government of- ficials was undetermined. He said he would address a group of Congress- men headed by Rep. Sabath (D.-Ill.) meeting to discuss labor legislation. Draft Plan May Defer Science, Engine Students Advanced students in the physical sciences and engineering may be dis- charged from the services or deferred in the draft, according to information received here by the Selective Serv- ice board. Under a plan of the newly-created Reconversion Working Committee on Deferment and Selective Release, the following categories of students may be discharged or deferred: Candidates for a Master's or Doc- tor's degree in the physical sciences or engineering; Teachers of physical sciences or engineering in accredited colleges and universities; Assistants employed by accredited colleges and universities for research in the physical sciences or engineer- ing; Students who have satisfactorily completed at least three years of work leading to a Bachelor's degree in the physical sciences or engineering. The Deferment and Selective Re- lease Committee, in a memorandum to draft boards, declared that poten- tial scientists and engineers would be enabled to continue their studies in the "demands of long range national interest." The Committee acknowledged that the demands of the armed forces and industry during the war had "resulted in a curtailment in advanced studies for men having high technical and scientific qualifications." By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4 - President Philip Murray of the CIO tonight rejected President Truman's proposals for ending strikes and charged that the federal administration has "completely ignored human rights" in the current industrial problems. In an address prepared for radio delivery, he said that "the design of the specific legislative proposal" of the President "is to weaken and ultimately destroy labor union organizations." Murray, Miners Object To Truman's n F or urn Treats Significance of Atomic Energy Fajans, Uhlenbeck, Dorr Express Views Three members of 'the University faculty expressed their views on issues raised by the release of atomic energy in a forum sponsored yesterday by the Graduate Student Council. The three participants were Prof. Kasimir Fajans of the chemistry department; Prof. George Uhlenbeck of the physics department; and Prof. Harold Dorr of the political science department. Prof. Fajans opened the forum with an explanation of the development of atomic research in recent decades. Prof. Fajans explained that the term, "Atomic Energy", applies to the ener- gy released in the changes of the atomic nuclei during the transforma- tion of the elements themselves. The fmounts of energy involved are very much larger than those connected with usual chemical reactions. "For example," Prof. Fajans said, "Energy released from one gram of uranium would provide enough power to operate the University's power house for the period of one. year." Prof. Uhlenbeck's discussion of the implications of the atomic bomb in future wars revolved around a state- ment issued to the press by the As- sociation of Cambridge Scientists. "There is nothing secret about the bomb," Prof. Uhlenbeck said. The secret was given away when the first bomb was dropped. Prof. Uhlenbeck further declared that there is no de- fense against atomic bombs and that safety cannot be assured by virtue of superiority in atomic armament. "International cooperation of an unprecedented kind is necessary for survival," Prof. Uhlenbeck reiterated. "National sovereignty in its tradition- al form will have to be sacrificed." According to Prof. Dorr, the prob- lem exists on a national as well as an international level. He said that neither secrecy nor agreement to out- law the use of the bomb will be ef- fective in preventing its use in a future war. "The United Nations Or- ganization should first be regarded as the proper international agency to supervise, on a world basis, -not only the use of atomic energy in war, but also the use of atomic energy in peace," he declared. He said, however, that control should be vested in the Economic. and Social Council rather than in the Security Council. "If Russia, or some other power, will not agree to the sharing of in- formation which such control would make necessary," Prof. Dorr contin- used, "the United States would owe it to the other nations in the world to assume leadership in organizing a Proposals; "It can be but the first step for ever more savage repression. For this reason the CIO shall mobilize its entire membership and the American people to defeat this specific measure and all similar attempts directed against labor," he added. The CIO leader declared the ad- ministration is embarked "upon a policy of continued appeasement of American industry in the face of its contemptuous attitude toward the American people and the government itself." This was Murray's reply to the President's message to Congress call- ing for legislation which would create fact-finding commissions to inquire into major disputes. President Tru- man had at the same time called on Mine Workers Oppose President's Program WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-- (AP)- John L. Lewis' United Mine Work- ers (CIO) opened an angry attack today on President Truman's pro- gram to curb big strikes, while in the House plans were announced to rush action on the legislation before Christmas. The UMW issued a statement calling the Truman recommenda- tions a "fooler bill to revamp and strait-jacket American industrial relations." the CIO United Auto Workers to go back to work and appealed to the CIO United Steel Workers, of which Murray is also president, not to strike. "Industry has refused to -engage in collective bargaining," Murray said. "Industry has refused to accept vol- untary arbitration in the automobile dispute. Industry has refused to meet with the union in the steel industry though specifically requested by the federal government. "To all this arrogance, the federal administration yields in abject cow- ardice." Senate Okays Participation In UNO by U. S. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-(OP) -- Senators Ferguson and Vandenberg (R-Mich) voted with the majority today as the Senate approved full United States participation in the United Nations Organization. The vote was 65 to 7. Before the final vote the Senate re- jected a proposal to require the Presi- dent to come to congress for author- ity each time American troops are furnished to the UNO security coun- cil for putting down aggression. This left in effect a requirement that the President get congressional approval only on the "numbers and types" of armed forces to be supplied. These then could be used as required by the security council. Numerous attempts to amend the bill were rejected during several days of debate. As passed it contains all provisions recommended by the Sen- ate Foreign Relations committee. Supporters defended .the broad powers that would go to President Truman to use "measures short of war" or actual force, in connection with the security council, to maintain peace of the wrold. Early in the day both Senators Connally (D-Tex) and Vandenberg, leading backers of the legislation, had agreed to an amendment requiring Senate confirmation -of all delegates of this country to any of the organi- zations set up under UNO. The amendment was passed. new type of world order for preservation of peace." the STUDENTS WEAR G.I. GARB: Hospital Houses University of Philippines Hlandicraf t Is Work of Kids Those articles of handicraft' now appearing in the display window of a State St. book store are not for sale. They are Christmas presents made by the shut-ins in University Hospi- tal for their families and were put there by Galens to show what the kids can do in their ninth floor workshop while recovering from operations and illness. Bird houses, lanyards, jewelry, book ends, door stops and a variety of other articles have been built by these youngsters with painstaking effort- an effort which helps take their minds off their ailments and restores their confidence and self-reliance. EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of four articles on the foreign universities slated in Friday's election. Information for this article was supplied by Francisco Castro and Cipriano Masi- clat, who left the Philippine Islands Oct. 27, 1945. Students in GI garb, gift of the soldiers stationed in the Philippines and the only clothes available there, attend classes in a small section of the Philippine General Hospital, new formerly housed the University. To hold classes in these buildings is im- possible because the rubble that was once a roof is still falling. Classes began Aug. 4 of this year in the Hospital and Cancer Institute. Students sit on the floor because chairs are unavailable. Enrollment Limited There are sufficient facilities for 1,000 students, just one-eighth the Students fetch their own water and for Bunsen burners they improvise alcohol lamps of tin cans. Library Burned The main library was burned to the ground and there is little chance of getting new books printed very soon. All the presses in the Islands are run- ning to print the more than 40 news- papers that circulate in the Philip- pines today.' CAMPUS EVENTS Today Vincent Sheean will speak on "Personal Opinion" at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditor- ium. Today A discussion on political parties of Modern Palestine will be sonsnred h Am