THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1946
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ru-man's Report
PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S ADDRESS to the
nation Tuesday night was a sight for sore
ears. The little man from Missouri who did not
want to be president proved that he is going to
be a good one.
All of the experts who have been saying for
months that Truman's program was wishy-washy
-that he proposed legislation with a liberal
flavor to please the New Dealers and had no
intention of backing it up with an appeal to the
people - have been caught with their analyses
down.
It was a dull speech. It was poorly delivered.
But it packed a punch calculated to knock a
number of bills out of committee - bills that
reluctant congressional pigeons had thought
tucked safely away in their own little holes.
And Truman did this in a way that Congress
cannot very well ignore. He did not swing verbal
punches filled with cliches. (There is not a
memorable phrase in the speech.) As one stu-
dent characterized it yesterday morning, "Tru-
man really gave it to them good last night. First
he would tell the legislators how well they had
done in international affairs and then he would
claw them good for neglecting domestic prob-
lems."
The president presented in a matter-of-fact
manner the domestic problems which he feels
that the government should tackle immediately.
He simply said:
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON-If the general staff in Wash-
ington read the thousands of letters which
pour in on congressmen and this columnist from
G.I. Joe everywhere, undoubtedly a broad-
gauged man like General Eisenhower would move
to rectify some of the things which are destroy-
ing morale in the army.
The G.I. of course doesn't write to General
Eisenhower or the War Department, first be-
cause he figures his letter wouldn't be read, and
second, if it was read, he would only get into
trouble. However, here is some recommended
reading for the general staff in the Pentagon
building - a cross-section of letters recently
received by this columnist. A note of discour-
agement, frustration and bitterness is not un-
usual. Unfortunately it runs through prac-
tically all the letters, and indicates that some-
thing vitally wrong at the bottom must be
cleaned up before building a large new peace-
time military structure.
An air force officer in the Pacific sent this
columnist an air medal ribbon with one oak leaf
cluster. With it he enclosed a newspaper clip-
ping telling how Gen. Barney Giles had awarded
air medals to Lieut. Gen. Robert C. Richardson
Jr. and Maj. Gen. Clark L. Ruffner for "numer-
ous long-distance flights over water under ex-
tremely hazardous weather conditions."
The officer's letter read: "Here is an article
about the awarding of an air medal to one
'old school tie' by another. Just another case
of the W.P.P.A. taking care of its own. W.P.P.A.
means West Point Protective Association."
"Enclosed you will also find a couple of air
medals I won while playing tag with some Jap
flak over the Jap fleet some time back. You
should see the back end of General Richardson's
plane! Ice box, bunks, plush seats and all the
rest of the best. Tough life he had sleeping
over those long dangerous hours of 'over-water
flying.'"
A lieutenant colonel who forwarded the
above letter wrote: "I was associated with
this officer for a year, two thirds of that being
spent on Iwo Jima. His feelings represent the
general opinion of practically all reserve offi-
cers who were in battle. Any more-than-ord-
inary action of a West Point graduate called
for unusual attention and awards. My pride
in being a reserve officer on active duty prior
to Pearl Harbor took a number of eye-opening
jolts on Iwo and I expect to resign my com-
mission as a lieutenant colonel six months
after my terminal leave expires."
Black Market
SOLDIER in Manila: "I ran across your
column reporting on black market activities
in the Philippines. The article is true-but, for
your information, has the army explained to
you how these goods get into the black market?
I'll name some of the ways. Being a 'yellow
ball outfit' truck driver, I can explain some of
it,
"Hi-jacking is on a large scale here. There
isn't one night that passes that some of our
trucks are not hi-jacked. We have no control
whatsoever over it. We pick up our cargo on
the docks, get checked out and we're on our own.
On certain supplies, M.P. guards are supplied -
mostly Filipino guards. Can these guards be
trusted? Most of us drivers say no.
"Our trucks are hi-jacked - drivers shot -
or are mysteriously gone-no one knows where.
Many a time the Filipino guards bring the
truck back with no drivers. When asked
what's happened, they 'don't know.' Why
should they know? Probably they're members
of the ring. Our M.P.'s are too busy chasing
violaters on speeding.
"The speed limit is 20 and 25 miles per hour.
If a driver is carrying valuable cargo and no
guard, he hts to figure how to get to his destin-
ation without getting hi-jacked and yet remain
within the speed limit. Going along at 20 m.p.h.,
a child of 10 years could hop on a truck and
dlump the cargo off without the driver knowing
it. So we lose both ways. Slow traveling - lose
your cargo. Fast traveling - get a ticket, a
summary court-martial and, if you hold a rank,
drop a grade or two. That's the army rule in
Manila..
"When we first came into the army, we were
taught how to handle firearms, protect ourselves,
etc. Then why don't the army give side-arms
to the truck drivers to protect themselves and
their cargo? The war is over now and thank
God we're alive and in good health. So why
should we protect army goods and vehicles and
stand the chance of getting killed?
"What's happened to these drivers that have
mysteriously disappeared or been shot? Does
the Army print it in the State papers? Or in
our daily papers here? Or the Manila papers?
No, they don't
"We ask for protection, and we get Filipino
Guards. We ask for side-arms. Nothing doing.
We refuse to drive - court-martial. We speed
at night to stop being pilfered - we get a ticket
and the results are busted in rank and a court-
martial;
"Is this what we fought for? Is this democ-
racy? If it is - I'll vote Socialist and so will
1,000 other yellow ball base drivers when and
if we do get home."
Pan-Anerican tProfits
A SOLDIER in the Azores: "Pan American
Airlines has 17 mechanics here to service
their ships, but G.I.'s keep the base functioning,
gas PA's planes, house their passengers and feed
them, give out weather reports, manage all
communications, supply medical attention. It
is small wonder that Pan American has cut the
price of fares.
"Cheap G.I. labor made this reduction pos-
sible. We soldiers didn't mind giving three
years of our lives to our country; we damn
sure don't want to give another three years
to civilian airlines and regular army officers
whose careers will suffer a rude termination
once demobilization is effected."
From a soldier at Tacloban, Leyte: "Last
night three men in our outfit got court-martialed
for such trifling offences as not wearing their
dog-tags or having their sleeves rolled up. They
make the men get up for reveille while the offic-
ers stay in bed. They want to be saluted when
met in the company areas. They have their
fancy officers' clubs where they drink $40-a-
quart whiskey which they get by making deals
on government property. Now they are talking
of having a retreat formation where all the men
must get out after supper wearing all those silly
campaign ribbons and parade around like a lot
of dressed-up monkeys."
Ninety sailors at Sanford, Fla., naval air
station: "There are only two people working
on our discharge papers - two civilian girls.
One of these girls was given three days off.
'What's another Christmas.'"
(Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Internal Squabbling
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
ONE WONDERS what the rest of the world
thinks about us, as the new year opens. We
are having a gorgeous internal squabble, the
sounds of which must carry far beyond the walls
of our own house. Sh-h-h! the world is listen-
ing, as the greatest motors firm in the greatest
industrial country on earth takes the position
that it prefers a test of force with its employees,
as against a test of facts.
But where facts are not allowed to make the
decision, then force makes it; force, in the
sense of economic power, force in the sense of
a showdown to see whether the company or its
workers can stand it longer. A world which
is being told by us that it must give up the rule
of force, watches this test of force in the lead-
ing country. It is as if we were singing our
dulcet song of peace to mankind with a split-
ting headache.
One world, we say. But is it one United States?
the world must sometimes wonder.. The world
watches us; not only our strikes, but our de-
bates.
The world knows, for example, that we have
no settled national price policy, that three or
four months from now, when the issue grows
hot, and when only a few weeks of controls re-
main, there may be a kind of economic chaos in
the one country to which the world looks for
stability. Will there be an American inflation,
and will it put the prices of our goods beyond
the reach of a world which needs them for re-
covery? Down with all controls by February 15,
say some business leaders; and Congress seems
to have no answer except to postpone the issue-
until it shall become an emergency, and the
emergency until it shall become a crisis.
Sometimes the wrestlers stop, to look over
their shoulders at the spectators and to mutter
thickly: "One world!"; then they go back to
their pushing and heaving.
OUR STEEL is a resource of the whole world,
like the fish in the sea; but unless we can
find some factual basis for settling the steel wage
issue, the world may have to do without our steel
in its year of need. But there seem to be not a
few Congressmen who are willing to have us
take time out from history this year, to find out
whether it is possible to crack a union or two,
under sufficient pressure, like walnuts in the
hand. It is this sort of thing which most dis-
gusts us when it happens to crop up in liberated
countries; did they fight the war, we ask bitter-
ly, just so they could fight each other afterward?
But we were in the war too.
And we are the leaders; and there is a cer
tain obligation on any community leader not
to have strange noises issuing from his house
late at night, nor to permit torn window cur-
tains to flap in the breeze. He must keep his
hair combed, too, if possible, and concern him-
self with his effect on the moral tone of the
neighborhood.
The worst aspect of our internal squabbling
is the intensely parochial mood in which we are
carrying on the fight;'our innocence of the fact
that a world, about whose stability we so often
express doubt, may have a doubt or two about
us. A world which ranks us in first place
watches, chin on hand, to see whether we are
really going to kick our new prestige apart,
whether we are going to fail to deliver the goods,
whether we are going to go to extraordinary
trouble just to prove that inflation must strike
in a prosperous country no less certainly than
in a poor one.
Look up; eyes are on us. We cannot continue
our wrangling in that curious mood of detach-
ment and unreality which is suitable only for
the festivities of boy's week at the old city hall.
(Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate)
Distorted News
To the Editor:
As one of the participants in the
student panel assigned to evaluate
our college educational system at the
conference of educators held here
during the holidays, I would like to
correct certain apparent misconcep-
tions that have arisen in connection
with an article reporting the discus-
sion appearing in the Dec. 28 issue
of the Detroit News.
In my opinion, and in the opin-
ions of such other members of. the
panel as I was able to contact, the
News report failed almost 100 per
cent to give an accurate, f'ruthful,
unbiased summary of what actual-
ly was said at the meeting. In
attempting to twist the story into
a "different" version of the "man
bites dog" pattern, the News writer
succeeded only in distorting the
statements to such a degree that
those of us who made them were
barely able to recognize them as
our own.
Miss Margaret Parker, in a letter
to the Daily published Thursday, has
condemned the discussion on the ba-
sis of what she read in the News.
I can say only that it is unfortunate
Miss Parker was unable to attend the
meeting itself.
In the first place, the News article
made no reference at all to the entire
first third of the discussion, which
was devoted to a consideration of the
positive side of college education. To
have done so would have seriously
detracted from the reporter's obvious
purpose - to portray the entire pro-
ceeding half humo'rously as a shal-
low, vindictive attempt to "hit back."
Such, of course, was not the in-
tended object. The five of us were
selected by the administrations of
our respective institutions to give
an honest evaluation of our college
experience based upon what we as
individuals have thought, felt, and
doneduring our residence at col-
lege.
We placed primary emphasis on
the negative aspects of the situation,
because we were requested to do so.
Our criticisms, however, were neither
as violent nor as sweeping as the ar-
ticle in the News indicated.
By way of example, I shall point
to one quotation credited to me in
which I purportedly said, in effect,
that government should assume the
responsibility for sending everyone to
college. What I actually did say was
that economic barriers should not
prevent the student who has shown
himself deserving of higher education
from obtaining that education, and
that the state might very well aid
such students.In other words, ability,
not money, should be the final cri-
terion in determining college en-
trance. The difference between the
two statements is apparent.
It might also be pointed out in
conclusion that, in the opinion of
those who were present at the dis-
cussion, the panel fulfilled its as-
signment very well. This testimony,
coming from the very professors
and administrative officials at
whom our discussion was aimed,
seemed to us to be conclusive proof
that we had been neither vindictive
nor unfair in our statements, and
that our ideas, suggestions, and
criticisms had been well received
by those intended to receive them.
-Bill Mullendore
Isolationism
R ECENTLY a prominent Britisher
made the statement that the men
of England, when they came home
from the war, should not settle down
in their little cottages and forget
the world and its problems.
The same advice might, perhaps,
be given to our returning veterans.
It's all right to have a good time
and then settle down to ordinary
living (if you can find a cottage,
or an apartment, or even a trailer),
but each veteran should also be
conscious of the problems of this
and other nations.
-Phyllis L. Kaye
ON SECOND:
THOUGHT.
By Ray Dixon:
MARTHA is really Cooking with
gas, or so we would judge by a
story one of her residents told the
other day. It seems this girl's father
thought that he would pull a shrewd
one during vacation and deliver his
daughter's bags to the Martha Cook
Building last Saturday before school
re-opened. ,Well, Martha Cook was
locked and so he left the suitcases at
the white house across the street.
FALL TERM
SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS
February 16 to February 22, 1946
COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND CONSERVATION
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
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DAILY OFF IC IAL BULLETIN
1. We need more housing.
2. We do not need higher prices
3. We need full employment.
4. We do not need strikes.
or rentals.
Then he accused Congress of failing to do any-
thing about these important problems. Truman
pointed out that much of the legislation has
bogged down in committees and that a few pow-
erful men have prevented Congress from even
voting on the proposed measures. And what is
worse, according to the president, no counter-
proposals have been forthcoming from Congress.
His point is that, while his methods of dealing
with the problems may not be the best possible,
at least they represent an attempt to get at the
problem. They cannot be ignored unless some-
thing better is proposed in their place. The
problems will remain unless something construc-
tive is done to eliminate them.
..Briefly, Truman has proposed that: 1) fact-
finding boards be appointed to aid in settlement
of labor disputes, 2) that the minimum wage be
raised, 3) that unemployment compensation be
raised, 4) that the war powers be extended an-
other six months, 5) that price and rent controls
be retained, 6) that the government take the
responsibility of providing housing where private
enterprise fails and that a fair employment prac-
tices act be passed.
These are sirpple proposals and the vast
majority of the people favor their passage.
Truman has done his part; it is now up to
Congress.
As the president said, "If the measures which I
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1021 Angell Hall, by 3:30 p. m. on the day
preceding publication (11:00 a. m. Sat-
urdays).
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1946
VOL. LVI, No. 43
Notices
To the Members of the Faculty -
College of Literature, Science, and
the Arts:
The January meeting of the Fac-
ulty of the College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts will be held Mon-
day, Jan. 7, at 4:10 p.m. in Room
1025 Angell Hall.
In view of the importance of the
matters under consideration the Ex-
ecutive Committee feels that a large
attendance at the next meeting of
the Faculty is very desirable.
Hayward Keniston
Faculty, College of Engineering:
There will be a meeting of the Fac-
ulty on Monday, January 7, 1946, at
4:15 p.m., in Room 348, West Engi-
neering Building. Among other items
of business will be the presentation of
a medal by Captain W. V. Michaux,
U.S.N.
W. J. Emmons, Secretary
The Editorial Office of Official
Publications has been moven from
221 Angell Hall to the second floor of
the University Press Building, 311
Maynard St. The telephone numbers
(Extensions 794 and 2130) will re-
main unchanged.
Scholarships Open to Senior Me-
chanical, Aeronautical and Electrical
Engineering Students: Consolidated
Vultee Aircraft Corporation has es-
tablished an annual scholarship of
$250 which is available to students
who have completed their junior year
in the above fields of engineering and
who are highly recommended by their
faculty Scholarship Committee. The
student will be employed by the Com-
pany the first summer after the
award. Application forms for this
scholarship may be obtained in, the
Aeronautical Engineering Office.
Graduate Fellowships: Consolidat-
ed Vultee Aircraft Corporation has
Basketball-Women Students
Women students wishing to play
intramural basketball and not on a
team should turn in their names at
Room 15, Barbour Gymnasium by
Monday noon, Jan. 7.
Academic Notices
Spanish I, Section 2 (Dr. Thompson's
class) will not meet on Monday,
Jan. 7.
Concerts
Faculty Recital: The first School
of Music recital will be presented at
8:30 Sunday evening; Jan. 6, by
Elizabeth A. H. Green, violinist, In-
structor in Music Education. The
program will include Sonata for vio-
lin by Geminiani, Concerto No. 4 in
D major by Mozart, and Sonata in
B minor for piano and violin by
Respighi. Miss Green will be assisted
by John Kollen, Assistant Professor
of Piano.
The public is cordially invited.
Events Today
Saturday Luncheon Discussion will
be at Lane Hall at 12 noon. All res-
ervations must be in by 10 today.
After the luncheon a current book
will be reviewed.
Coming Events
The Michigan Christian Fellowship
will meet this Sunday afternoon, Jan.
6, at 4:30, in Lane Hall. Paul E. Cole
of Detroit will, be the guest speaker.
Following the program refreshments
will be served. Everyone is invited.
Wesleyan Guild at First Methodist
Church will meet Sunday at 6 p.m.
Dr. James Brett Kenna will speak on
"Problems Facing Students Today."
The supper and social hour will fol-
low.
Greetings from the , Philippines:
Sunday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p.m., the
Philippines Michigan Club will pre-
sent a program in the regular series
of International Center Sunday Eev-
ning Programs. The Chairman will
be Prof. Roy Swinton, the Co-Chair-
man Mrs. Rafaelita Hilarlo Soriano,
and the participants in the Sympo-
sium will be Miss Lourdes Segundo,
Major Fernandez, Captain Sian, and
Mr. Fernando Narcisco. The program
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