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TIom MICHIGAN DAILY

WEDNESSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1946

Fifty-Sixth Year

FIGHT FOR MUSICAL FREDOM:
Dr. Maddy Protests Petrillo Bans

DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN

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Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
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and represent the views of the writers only.
Emergency
THE unprecedented number of veterans coming
back to college, particularly at this University,
has created a situation well termed by the fa-
vorite label of the depression era: emergency.
An emergency request for six million dollars has
been sent to Governor Kelly. Emergency hous-
ing is being constructed here and/or moved to
Ann Arbor in every possible way. There can be
no doubt about the exigency of the need for ex-
panded facilities.
But it is at just such times as these, that
the near-impossible must be done: we must
"get perspective" on ourselves, and on what we
are doing under the heat of the emergency. For
the multiple expansion of today can all too
well prove to be the "all" with which the Uni-
versity will be forced to function in the future.
Fortunately in the matter of laboratory equip-
ment and new buildings, the University has
planned well in advance, giving ample care and
time to their long-range needs. Proposals for
new buildings and so forth have been drawn up
over a period of years, revised as they were re-
fused legislative appropriations. In housing, how-
ever, the impact of expansion has been so tre-
mendous, so far beyond what seemed before
logical, that there is danger of jerry-built meas-
ures which may, in the long run hurt the Uni-
versity. The situation is further complicated by
the present difficulty of providing almost any
kind of housing as needed.
The proposed transfer of temporary housing
for 1,000 veterans, is a case in point. There is
every indication that these units will come
from Willow Village, Ypsilanti. They are de-
scribed as two-story frame affairs with stucco
exteriors. No one would deny their temporary
nature. Nor could anyone deny the immedi-
ate need for housing. The danger lies in the
rhetorical question "how long is temporary?"
Provisions for temporary housing, limited by
law to a specified tenure, are yet all too likely to
be here till they collapse. Low cost, low type
housing will always find pressure groups ready
to defend and push through the extension of
such laws, maintaining the areas as profitable
slums.
The University must be doubly sure that the
temporary housing will be destroyed in time,
that they are never allowed to be so much as
considered for private ownership.
-Milt Freudenheim
Clothing Drive

BOXES-boxes-boxes! The well-known chant
of a local radio advertiser may well describe
the situation, soon to be of clothing stores. Even
now, wearing apparel is available more and more
readily, and people are taking advantage of
slightly-relaxed price control of the clothing in-
dustry. A student-buying spree is evidenced by
the new duds being sported on campus.
The discarded clothes, being replaced by the
new, may still be made useful by being do-
nated to the Victory Clothing Collection. Na-
tional goal is 100,000,000 articles of wearing
apparel for the people who have lost homes,
clothing, almost everything in the past years of
war.
Last spring Ann Arbor's contribution of 100,-
000 pounds of clothing was collected and was
made available to the needy in Europe by early

THE RECENT BAN on the broadcast of all for-
eign music, except from Canada, issued by
James C. Petrillo, American Federation of Musi-
cians president, and the union leader's personal
fight with Prof. Joseph E. Maddy, will at last
gain the attention of Congress when it recon-
venes Jan. 14.
A bill, H.R. 4737, to prevent control of broad-
casting by coercive practices, introduced by Rep.
Clarence F. Lea, Cal., on Nov. 19, 1945, with
additional amendments to the Communications
Act of 1934, will be brought before the House at
an early session. Previously referred to the
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
the bill contains sections relative to 1) Coercion
to compel hiring employees not wanted by em-
ployer, 2) Coercion to compel payment of tribute
for use of broadcasting materials and, 3) Coer-
cion to prevent participation of noncompensated
employees.
Sec. 506 of the proposed amendment states
that "any person who willfully coerces, com-
pels, or constrains . . . an owner, operator, or
other person having control of a broadcasting
station . . . or otherwise attempts to coerce
such a person against his will, to pay or com-
pensate or to employ ... or to pay more than
once for services performed . . . in connection
with radio broadcasting of sound or television,
shall be guilty of a felony and, . . . punishable
by imprisonment of not more than two years
or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or both."
This section directly attacks two tendencies of
the dictatorial AFM czar. First, Petrillo's "closed
shop" tactics on the air have been viewed by
many people as an effort to obtain maximum
employment for the AFM membership. Dr.
Maddy's statement about the Interlochen dis-
pute, to the subcommittee on Interstate Com-
merce of the Senate,. will, however, clarify this
point.
'N THIS REPORT, Dr. Maddy has contrasted
the Chicago musicians' local membership of
3,000 in 1918 with Petrillo's estimate of a total
membership of 11,000 in that same city in 1943.
Of the first number, approximately 800 earned
their entire livelihood by their musical services,
while in, 1943, the regularly employed members
numbered 6,600; thus, in Chicago, there were
eight times as many fully employed union musi-
cians in 1943 as in 1918 prior to the advent of
radio, sound film and the juke box.
While many members of the musicians union
do not expect or desire to obtain full time em-
ployment or to earn their entire livelihood by
musical performance, they must join the union
in order to be able to play even an occasional
engagement. Furthermore, membership is open
to anyone who is willing to pay the initiation fee
and dues, without regard to skill or ability.
The second aspect of this section of the
proposed amendment concerns the future ex-
pansion of frequency modulation stations
throughout the United States. As of Aug. 1,
1945, approximately 444 applications for FM
commercial broadcast stations had been filed,
whereas 53 stations already are licensed or
permitted to use FM. The University has filed
an application for a non-commercial, educa-
tional FM station which would present public
service programs in cooperation with a net-
work of similar educational stations through-
out the state.
ONE of the primary purposes of frequency
modulation is to bring education down to a
local level, i.e., certain educational programs
would permit discussion of local and national
issues similar to the traditional New England
Town Hall meetings.
As yet Mr. Petrillo has not proclaimed FM as
a detriment to mankind, however, he has pro-
posed to make FM operators pay a second time
for any musical program that has been previ-
ously broadcast over a nation-wide hook up.
Thus, if the Boston Symphony where to broad-
cast a concert over CBS, and this same program
was re-broadcast by an FM station in Fall River
or Worcester, Mr. Petrillo would have the FM
station pay the union members for another per-
formance. This directly violates the clause con-
cerning anyone who attempts "to force a radio

operator to pay more than once for services per-
fomed" and is, therefore, in the terms of the
proposed amendent a "felony."
The effect of the AFM czar's ban - Inter-
lochen, stoppage of the making of all phono-
graph recordings and transcriptions, his rule
about stand-by orchestras, as well as strikes
at individual radio programs or stations that
dare to offend him-has been cumulative.
R. PETRILLO previously has admitted before
laSenate subcommittee, that he had the
power personally to alter the constitution and
by-laws of the A.F.M, and to spend all the money
in its treasury without accounting or reporting
to anyone. This autocratic power over the affairs
of the union is supported by the by-laws of the
union. The union, in its turn, is scared of
Petrillo's vengeance, for he has the power to ex-
pel any member of any local without reason or
trial.
This is the power which Dr. Maddy has been
fighting personally since the Interlochen dis-
pute. The forthcoming hearing of this radio

music professor on Jan. 15 in Chicago is planned
to test this power of the musicians' union czar.
Whereas locals have much to fear in the possi-
bility that they may lose their membership, stu-
dents in an institution of higher learning which
upholds one of the main freedoms, freedom of
speech, can actively support Dr. Maddy in his
attempt to break up racketeering in the musi-
cians' union.
Send letters and telegrams to the A.F.M.
local in your home town protesting the refusal
of the national executive committee for an
open hearing on Dr. Mddy's case, as well as
petitions to your Congressmen for the immedi-
ate passage of H.R. 4737 and a similar bill in
the Senate, "with teeth" in it.
-Charlotte Bobrecker
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Organic View
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
MR. TRUMAN has set the stage for his fight
with Congress in the most formal and elab-
orate way; he has done all but issue engraved
invitations and print reserved seats. For the
first time since he has come into office, he has
chosen the weapons, the time and place. It all
makes a kind of story, for the modest little man
from Missouri did not want this fight; he is an
ex-Congressman, who loves the Congressional
way of life far more dearly than the executive;
and he has put this fight off, and put it off, until
his own reputation for leadership has suffered
because he has put it off.
The first point, then, is that the fight is prob-
ably unavoidable; if Mr. Truman could not avert
it, perhaps no man living could have averted it.
We must at once sweep aside all personal ex-
planations of the coming struggle, such as the
charge which used to be levelled at Mr. Roosevelt
that he fought Congress because he wanted to
be a dictator. The prospect of becoming a dic-
tator would so obviously make Mr. Truman
either cringe, or giggle, or both, that it is im-
possible to dust the old chestnut off and use it
again; the President's day-dreams quite obviously
revolve more around the hope of giving up power
than of expanding it.
If he has scheduled a bout with Congress, it
is because it has become impossible to carry on
the business of being President without doing
so. It has become as necessary to have the
issue out as it is for the President to put on his
clothes in the morning, and go down to the
executive office.
AND SO it is our duty to approach this struggle
in the largest possible terms, to understand
that this is no isolated incident, but.the present
form of an old fight; one in which the forces
involved are so vast that they make nothing at
all of personalities, but sweep men along like
chips and shavings. The issue is whether the
United States is to have a President and a policy
during a time of national crisis; or whether it
is to be an undoctored patient, an ailing pachy-
derm inert on its side and unattended, watched
by the bright eyes of men who feel that the tusks
and the hide will retain their value, though the
rest of the creature may suffer unmitigated pain,
perhaps even the hugest bellyache in history.
The question is whether they are going to
try to cure the animal, or quarrel over the fat-
test parts; and all our past is bound up in the
fight, our individualism, and our strong feeling
that it is proper to take advantage of the shift-
ing economic cycle.
So may individuals feel, and act, but for a
President of all the people, there is no choice;
he must try for a cure; he must take the organic
and not the partial view. Thus it is that Mr.
Truman has evolved his labor compromise,
calling for compulsory fact-finding to get at the
truth of labor disputes, and perhaps avert them,
and thus is it that he calls for full employment,
to kee us at work, and for a continuation of
price control and of priorities, to prevent a wild,
individualistic, inflationary scramble.
It does not matter that his name is Truman,
and that he is opposed by a number of Demo-
crats and Republicans; what matters is that
we have a choice between a program which

might unify us, and one which could scatter
us; one which might hold us together and one
which, to use a word of dreadful connotations,
might atomize us.
The question is whether we are to be a nation
or not, or perhaps whether we are to be a nation
again, as we were during the war; we are to find
out whether the unifying forces in our life are
stronger than the forces of dispersal. It may
seem strange that a mild and modest man, one
Harry S. Truman, should turn out to be the
one to ask the question. But isn't it the point,
rather, that the question cannot be put down,
that it will be asked; that no matter how cleverly
men may try to bury it in committee, or file it,
or hide it, or postpone it, it will still be asked?
The voice asks whether we are to be a com-
munity, concerned about all its members, or
whether we are to be fragmented and divided;
and the question is unshakable, and comes, as
ever, like a roar, though it drops this time
from the lips of the meekest of men.
(Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate)

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS
February 16 to February 22, 1946
Note: For courses having both lectures and quizzes, the time of
exercise is the time of the first lecture period of the week; for courses
having quizzes only, the time of exercise is the time of the first quiz
period.
Drawing and laboratory work may be continued through the ex-
amination period in amount equal to that normally devoted to such
work during one week.
Certain courses will be examined at special periods as noted
below the regular schedule. All cases of conflicts between assigned ex-
amination periods must be reported for adjustment. See bulletin
board outside of Room 3209 East Engineering Building between Feb-
ruary 1 and February 7, for instruction. To avoid misunderstandings
and errors, each student should receive notification from his instructor
of the time and place of his appearance in each course during the pe-
riol February 16 to February 22.
No date of examination may be changed without the consent of
the Classification Committee.

Time of Exercise
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Monday (at 11
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Time of Examination

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(at
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Tuesday (at
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8
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Thursday
Saturday
Friday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Monday
Thursday
Friday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
Saturday
Thursday
Tuesday
*Saturday
*Monday
*Monday
*Tuesday
'Wednesday
*Wednesday
*Thursday
*Friday

February 21
February 16
February. 22
February 19
February 20
February 18
February 21
February 22
February 20
February 19
Februaryl18
February 16
February 21
February 19
February 16
February 18
February 18
February 19
February 20,
February 20
February 21
February 22

10:30-12:30
10:30-12:30
8-10
8-10
2- 4
8-10
8-10
10:30-12:30
10:30-12:30
10:30-12:30
2- 4
2- 4
2- 4
2- 4
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8-10
10:30-12:30
2- 4
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E. M. 1, 2, C. E. 2, Draw. 1
Dray. 2, 3; Surv. 2 3
M. P. 2, 3, 4, French
Economics 53, 54
M. E. 1, 3
Surv. 1, 2
E. E. 2a
German, Spanish

*This may also be used as an irregular period, provided there is
no conflict with the regular printed schedule above.

A special examination schedule
courses.

is provided for the prescribed V-12

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Publication 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. on the day
preceding publication (11:00 a. m. Sat-
urdays).
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9
VOL. LVI, No. 46
Notices
'Student Tea: President and Mrs.
Ruthven will be at home to students
this afternoon, Jan. 9, from 4:00 to
6:00.
The University Senate will meet
Monday, Jan. 14, at 4:15 p.m. in the
Rackham Amphitheater.
Engineering Faculty: Ten-week
reports on standings of all civilian
Engineering freshmen and all Navy
and Marine students in Terms 2, 3,
and 4 of the Prescribed Curriculum
are due Jan. 16. Report blanks will
be furnished by Campus mail.
Engineering Faculty: Ten-week
reports below C of all Navy and Mar-
ine students who are not in the Pre-
scribed Curriculum, and of students
in Terms 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the Pre-
scribed Curriculum are to be turned
in to Dean Emmons' Office, Room
259, West Engineering Bldg., not later
than Jan. 16. Report cards may be
obtained from your departmental of-
fice.
Veterans' Books and Supplies. Vet-
erans who are securing books and
supplies under the Public Laws 16 or
346 must complete all purchases for
the current semester by Jan. 15.'
This deadline is necessary to allow
the University time to audit and pay
the veterans' accounts at the various
stores and, in turn, to submit invoic-
es to the Veterans Administration for
reimbursement before the end of the
semester. "
Boyd C. Stephens, Cashier
Mr. Houghton and Mr. Bright of
The Atlantic Refining Company,
Philadelphia, Pa., will be in the office
on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 10 and
11, interviewing seniors and gradu-
ate students majoring in chemistry,
or chemical, mechanical or industrial
engineering. This applies to both
February and June graduates.
University Bureau of Appointments
and Occupational Information..
Admission to School of Business
Administration, Spring Semester: Ap-
By Crockett Johnson

plications for admission to the School
of Business Administration for the
Spring Semester MUST be filed on or
before Jan. 15. Information and ap-
plication blanks are available in
Room 108, Tappan Hall.
Lectures
University Lecture: Professor Clar-
ence Gohdes, of Duke University, will
speak on the subject, "The Basis of
Emerson's Idea of Democracy," at
4:15 p.m., Wed., Jan. 16, in the Rack-
ham Amphitheater; auspices of the
Dept. of English Language and Lit-
erature. The public is cordially in-
vited.
Lecture: Professor Rensselaer Lee
of Smith College and the Institute
for Advanced Study of Princeton will
speak on "Poussin and the Ancient
World," at 4:15 p.m., Thur., Jan. 17,
in the Rackham Amphitheater; aus-
pices of the Dept. of Fine Arts. The
public is cordially invited.
Lecture-Symposium on the Release
of Atomic Energy-Thursday, Jan.
10, 8:00 P.M. in the main floor Audi-
torium of Rackham Bldg. There will
be short talks by five faculty mem-
bers, as follows.:
1) "History of Atomic Disintegra-
tion up to 1932", by E. F. Bar'ker'
of Physics;
2) "Intra-molecular and Intra-
atomic Forces; Energy Relations
within Atoms", by K. Fajans of
Chemistry;
3) "Summary, 1933 to 1943, of Dis-
integrations,Transmutations, and
Machines for Smashing Atoms",
by H. R. Crane of Physics;
4) "Atomic Mission, Uranium 235,
and the Atomic Bomb", by J. M.
Cork of Physics;
5) "Problems and Failures (mostly
failures) in Attempts to Use Sud-
den Explosives (Dynamite, Nitro-
glycerine, T.N.T., and now Atom-
ic Fission) in Commercial Heat
Engines", by E. T. Vincent of
Mechanical Engineering.
There will be opportunity for, ques-
tions and discussions after each of
the talks. The public is cordially in-
vited to this revelation of current
scientific matters of highest import-
ance.
Refreshments will be served after-
wards in the Assembly Hall on the
third floor of Rackham Bldg. This
symposium is sponsored by Sigma
Xi.
Lecture: Professor Walter Cook, Di-
rector of the Institute of Fine Arts of
New York University, will lecture on
"Spanish Paintings in the National
Gallery at Washington," at 11:00
a.m., Fri., Jan. 11, in Room D, Alumni
Memorial Hall. auspices of the Dent.

Bldg. Dr. Ying Fu will speak on "The
Partition Method in Analysis."
Biological Chemistry.Seminar will
meet on Friday, Jan. 11, at 4 p.m., in
319 W. Medical Bldg. "Antagonistic
Components of a Biological System -
Antimetabolites and Antivitamins."
All interested are invited.
Events Today
The Broadcasting Service and the
School of Music will resume the series
of radio broadcasts "Epochs in Music"
today at 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. over
Station WKAR. Music in France in
the XVII Century will be featured
and will include: Rameau's Pieces
for Clavecin, Flute and Viole (Mrs.
Mary Johnson, Mrs. Marie Clark,
Miss Joan Bullen); Couperin's Pieces
for Carillon (to be broadcast from
Burton Tower by Mr. Sidney Giles);
Old French Songs for Baritone and
Piano (Assistant Prof. Hardin Van
Deursen); Lully's "Courante," and
LeClair's "Tambourin," for Cello solo
(Prof. Hanns Pick), Flute (Miss Bar-
bara Litchfield), Oboe (Miss Harriet
Falls), 2 Clarinets (Messrs. Harry
Phillips and Dwight Dailey) Bass-
clarinet (Mr. George Hopkins) and
Bassoon (Miss Rose Ramsay); ar-
ranged and directed by Mr. Russel
Howland. The Commentator will be
Mr. Theodore Heger. The entire pro-
gram is under the directionnand sup-
ervision of Professor Hanms Pick.
The Seminar on the Expansion of
Christianity will meet in Lane Hall at
4:30 today.
Music Seminar: .Negro spirituals
will be the topic of study at the Sem-
inar to be held at Lane Hall at 7:30
tonight. Mrs. Virginia Ellis will head
the meeting.
Botanical Journal Club: today at
4:00 p.m., Room N.S. 1139. Reports
by Myrl McClung, "The physiology
and genetic significance of enzymatic
adaption" and by Seymour Shapiro,
"The inheritance of environmentally
induced characters in Basteria." Ed-
win A. Phillips who has just returned
to his doctoral studies from four
years' duty as Lieutenant with the
Navy, will give a talk on his activi-
ties in Atlantic and Pacific waters il-
lustrated with kodachrome slides.
Chairman will be K. L. Jones.
Anyone interested is cordially in-
vited to attend.
Alpha Phi Omega, the honorary
Boy Scout service fraternity, will
hold a meeting today at the Michigan
Union. All former Boy Scouts are
cordially invited to attend. Also all
those who have attended a previous
meeting are urged to be present, be-
cause pledging is about to begin. A
special invitation is tendered to those
students who signed one of the Alpha
Phi Omega posters.
Varsity Glee Club: Inportant full
rehearsal of concert program for next
semester. Be present if you intend
to retain membership. No concerts
until after examinations. Glee Club
Rooms, 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. Quartet re-
hearsal at 8:30 p.m.
La Sociedad Hispanica will show
"El Sombrero de Tres Picos," a Span-
ish movie with English subtitles,
taken from the book by Pedro A. de
Alarcon, today in the Lydia Mendels-
sohn Theater. Tickets may be pur-
chased Tuesday, 2:00-5:00 and Wed-
nesday, from 2:00 until the showing
at 8:30 p.m.
All members will be admitted free
and are urged to pick up their tickets
on Tuesday from 2:00-5:00. Seats

are reserved. Bring your member-
ship card to box office in League.
Coming Events
Tea at the International Center:
The weekly informal teas at the In-
ternational Center on Thursdays,
from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. are open to
all f1oieign-students and their Ameri-
can friends.
Michigan Youth for Democratic
Action will' meet on Thursday, Jan.
10 at the Union,. Everyone is cor-
dially invited to attend.
The Spanish Society announces
that there will be tryouts for the an-
nual Spanish play on Thursday and
Friday, Jan. 10 and 11, in Room 408
Romance Languages, between 4 and
5 p.m. All students and natives are
urged to tryout.
The Thursday Evening Record
Concert will be held at 7:45 p.m. in
the Men's Lounge of the Rackham

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