TI-E MIGIGAN DAILY = A # J : W .1946 FILTDAY. JANUARY 25 1948 I Fifty-Sixth Year oe,&IC6 to the &aito -9 . j Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control of Student Publications. Editorial Stafff Ray Dixon .... . ..M na ngiEditor Betty Roth . . . . . . . . . . Editorial Director Robert Goldman . . . . . . . . . . City Editor Margaret Farmer . . . . . . . . Associate Editor Arthur J. Kraft . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor Bill Mulendore . . ........ Sports Editor Mary Lu Heath.. ...... Associate Sports Editor Ann Schutz . . ...Women's Editor Dona Guimaraes . . . . Associate Women's Editor Business Stafff Dorothy flint Joy Altman . . . . . . . . . Business Manager 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. All rights of re- publication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- dier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Pablisbers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. NcCAGO SosTox " Los ANGELES * SAR FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 NIGHT EDITOR: ANITA FRANZ Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are writtes by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Aid to Families THE National Committee To Aid Families of General Motors Strikers, whose members in- clude Col. Evans Carlson, Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Bishop G., Bromley Oxnam and Walter White, is asking the people in this community to give their dollars to feed the needy families of GM strikers. Hunger and want are no basis on which to build a post-war world," Elizabeth Janeway, Secretary of the Committee, maintains. "Any strike," she continues, "that is settled because one side is forced to terms by need is not really settled. It is only the prelude to a more ex- plosive situation. This Committee is anxious to see the General Motors strike ended - and ended on a sound basis, because of a real meet- ing of minds." There is no other relief available to the fam- ilies of the 200,000 GM strikers, who have not seen a pay check for over eight weeks. The money collected through your contributions will be given only to hardship cases. If you believe that hunger must not be used as a weapon against any American grqup - then send your contribution to Ralph McFee, Chairman of the Michigan Citizens Committee To Aid the Families of GM Strikers, c-o The Washtenaw Post-Tribune, 217 k. Huron, Ann Arbor. -Arthur J. Kraft Propaganda WHEN there are presented conflicting opinions, propaganda can become an effective instru- ment of peace. Indeed, propaganda will be a necessary means among others of insuring a war-less world, Prof. Theodore Newcomb, of the sociology department, has said. Yet, in Germany where the Allies are at- tempting to found a democracy through re- education, propaganda is being sadly mis-used. According to a New York Times correspondent, a majority of the media of communication presents a one-sided version of the news-one of the aspects of Nazism causing much criti- cism among Allies. The radio is limited by its very nature. The German press is edited by men who are kow-towing to the Allied occu- pation forces, instead of to their readers, who want broad information. The news-reel, seem- ingly an excellent means of reeducating a people democratically, has degenerated into an approximation of Joseph Goebbels' machinery for propaganda so far as many Germans are concerned. The result of a weekly news-reel, produced by American and British officials in Munich "in the opinion of a number of Amer- ican observers, is calculated to repel, not only the Germans but also many of their erstwhile enemies," the New York Times reports. In many scenes presented by "The World in Film," the Allies have evidently revised or. re- versed their theories on militarism and the re- generation of a fallen people. A psychological approach to the task of re- building a conquered nation has been forgotten, it would seem. The newsreel shows pictures of civilian refugees and released prisoners of war straggling back to war; of German generals washing their clothes in a detention camp; of the Russians driving Germans out of Vienna; and of similar actions which stress Germany's cipfeat and diesntinn-nne of the roots, from Polio Fund vs. J-Hop To the Editor: I NOTE with great interest the disgustingly low total of $770.11 collected in the street sales of Monday of the special Daily issued to commemo- rate the thirteenth anniversary of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are those birds, those mewling adolescents who were crying for a return to normalcy when in- formed they couldn't have their ootsie-wootsie old J-Hop? Where indeed are those magnifi- cent editorial writers who deplored the depri- vating of the possilility of sending $10,000 to further the interests of fraternities and sorori- ties? Where are those poor kids who were cry- ing for a chance to throw ten to twenty dollars down the hopper? Of course the returns from the campus boxes are all in. But even if another miserable $770.11 is collected this will represent a per student capita contribution of approximately 12 cents. Yes, I said a lousy twelve cents. Let those long-suffering students who are scrimping and saving a few dollars to attend the J-Hop contribute a measly 10 per cent of the amount they intended to spend to this unworthy and ignoble cause - that of attempting to allevi- ate some of the misery and pain in the world. Never mind the Belgian kids with rickets; disregard the undernourished pellagra-ridden Greek children; forget the homeless European Jews. In short, let all your humanitarian scruples disappear, But for sake give a little to the Foundations for Infantile Paraly- sis. Yours for bigger and better J-Hops. -Edward H. Tumin * * x n Student Apathy To the Editor: STUDENT APATHY and self-centeredness has long been condemned on this campus, but the epitome of callous studenthood was revealed at Victor Vaughan dormitory in the following inci- dent. One of the girls, when asked to contribute to W.S.S.F. for the purpose of helping finance the University of the Philippines, said, "Okay, I'll give fifty cents." "On second thought," she said, taking it back, "I can get five cokes for that." The solicitor asked if she didn't think books for the Philippine University a good cause. "No," she replied, whereupon the solicitor asked, "Do you think the five cokes a good cause?" Her answer was yes. Is this typical? -Elaine Greenbaum Norma Coppersmith Back to Normalcy To the Editor: REFERRING to the distressed letter from Ed- ward C. Moore, griping about students who want a J-Hop this year; it should be noted that Mr. Moore is a graduate student who has spent the last four and a half years in service. These facts indicate that Mr. Moore attended college and received a degree under pre-war conditions, when dances like J-Hop were held often and when college life had not yet felt the pall of wartime restrictions. In addition, Mr. Moore would, under the circumstances be at least twenty-five years old. Many veterans entered the service at seven- teen or eighteen and were fighting the war at an age when Mr. Moore was enjoying noina college activities, of which they have so far been deprived. Certainly, there are a lot of veterans who favor holding J-Hop. They are young, the strain of being in the service has not destroyed their capacity to enjoy a good time, they have a lot of good times to make up for, and Mr. Moore's unpleasant remarks about them are uncalled for. Other colleges, along with the rest of the coun- try, are returning to a measure of peacetime liv- ing. We all know that there is much suffering in the world, and we are not insensitive to it. But to sit around iorbidly dwelling on the fact, will not help them; nor will calling a halt to all our good times. It is easy to see what such a policy has done for Mr. Moore's frame of mind. It isn't just our fun he's picking on. He's unhappy about everything that's going on in the country. He seems old and embittered before his time. Mr. Moore is appalled at the willingness of students to pay ten dollars for a full weekend's entertainment. I would like to ask Mr. Moore if he has never, even in his youth, spent as much as ten dollars in a weekend? And if so, did he feel "nauseated" at his callousness, because there were others in the world who could not share his fin? Most of the students on campus see no harm in holding a really big dance after nearly four years of stagnation. I'm sure most of our serv- icemen were not fighting for the grim kind of existence Mr. Moore would seem to advocate. Some students have been in college three or four years, and have never attended a really big dance such as J-Hop would be. Others have been looking forward to such things for as long a time. You had your fun, Mr. Moore. Let us have ours. Marjie Littlefield BARNABY C-47's for Franco To the Editor: THE UNITED STATES PLAN to sell transport planes and airport equipment to the Franco government is one of the most outstanding cases of opportunist governing. The Franco government stands for every- thing our men have been fighting against in Germany, France, Norway and the Balkans. It stands for the persecution of Jews, the hat- red of Catholics, strict censorship of press and radio and the complete stifling of individual opportunity. There was another time in United States his- tory when we insisted on making an industrial nation out of an agricultural country and ad- vanced our own cause by selling scrap and steel to a "friendly" nation. How profitable this trade relationship was can be answered by every soldier, sailor or marine who ever set foot on Tarawa, Okinawa, Peleliu and the Japanese home island. ' Isn't there anything in the make-up of our State Department that forces the individual members to benefit by past experience? -Dorothy Langer .., . Dont Quixote McHigan To the Editor: Ambrose McHigan, have just gotten around to reading that infamous article about me in The Daily (Jan. 18). I was so engrossed in the perfection of my invention that all the reading material that finds its way into my office up here had to be put aside. This invention is quite revolutionary. All one has to do is to type out a joke on special paper and insert it into the machine. If the joke is too bad to use in the Technic, the machine automatically sprays the paper with gasoline and sets fire to it. The janitor found a copy of the Gargoyle in the furnace room yesterday so we decided to run it through. That's why there isn't any fluid in the fire ex- tinguishers on the third floor of E. Engineer- ing. Now to get back to the subject at hand. It was bad enough to intimate that I was imagin- ary, but to also say that I might be a female - that made me boil (being an engineer, I noted the temperature. I boil at 151.67 F.) A sensible course of action was not clear to me until I read farther and came to that part where the ob- viously disillusioned author made disparaging remarks about my punctuation (such as the wrong use of the parenthesis, a sin of which I am never guilty). In retaliation for this verbal abuse, I am going to print in the Technic, in place of one of my good jokes, a most amusing typograph- ical error which occurred in the Daily last year. Look for it; it'll be waiting for you. Call for the March Michigan Technic! Call for the March Michigan Technic! -Mr. Ambrose McHigan EDITOR'S NOTE: we suspect that this is just a publicity gag, but we'll go along.- Views with Alarm To the Editor: PROBABLY I am not the only one to view the increasing strikes with alarm. More and more groupism is showing itself in our free economy. I am not saying whether labor or management is right, but when individual groups such as labor and management pit their strength one against the other. who can say how long it will be until all of the United States will be divided into groups-buyer against seller, black against white, labor against management, educated against un- educated. There will be many. As they become more prevalent, a third group will have to step in and make peace. The only third group I can see stepping in is the govern- ment in the form of a managed economy. A managed economy is well thought of by some people, but I am one person who prefers to keep what is left of the freedom we now have in our democracy. All of these groups have contributed to the' unemployment compensation fund during the war, and have helped to make it a large one. It is true that the people on strike cannot draw compensation, but many other industries are affected by a strike and the workers in these industries are entitled to draw compensation. Strikers now are depleting the fund sufficiently so that a severe depression following in the near future might mean economic chaos. As I pointed out above, many other industries besides the one on strike are affected. The con- struction industry is heavily dependent on steel and lumber. Returning servicemen are begging for houses now. Will, we have thousands of homeless families because of our inability to find a solution to this grave problem? All of us should put pressure on our govern- ment to make it settle these strikes now. Labor and management must be brought to the best possible terms in the shortest possible time if we are to avoid harsh consequences. -Elizabeth Johnson I'd Rather Be Right: Rugged UNO By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE world is shocked by the action of the Soviet Union and the Uk rainian Republic in bringing Grea Britain up on charges before the Se curity Council of the United Nations That is not the way it was suppose to go at all; it is as if the worst bo in school had suddenly preferre charges of misconduct against th headmaster, and in open chapel. For the west has set itself up as th guardian of morality within the Unit ed Nations, as mentor and preceptor this has been a kind of tacit assump tion, rarely questioned internally i the press of either of the two great est western nations. Whatever form the United Nations Organization ma have on paper, in the minds of man of us it has been a school in whic Russia was expected to learn man ners after a few terms of regular an diligent attendance. It is a sensa tional reversal to see Russia makin motions toward joining the faculty and it is probably intended to be sen sational. For what we have here is a re minder that we are not dealing with recalcitrant schoolboy, but with a proud and angry man. Russia ha been galled by several assumption which have been allowed to be buil up concerning the nature and pur pose of the United Nations. One ha been the constantly reiterated idea that the United Nations exists to pro tect the small countries against th large ones; that it is a kind of anti. big-power police force. Since both Britain and the United States lis themselves as friends of the small na- tions, and, in fact, lead large blocs of small nations, in practice the idea has become that the United Nations exist to protect the small nations against Russia. There is therefore something es- pecially impudent, and designedly so, in the fact that Russia brings charges against Great Britain for mistreating Greece, which is a small nation, and also Indonesia, which is even smaller than a small nation, being a mere colony. It is not only that specific charges of misusing military force are being laid against Great Britain; it is also that her moral position as spokesman for the small countries is being questioned; what big guns you have. WITH these charges, a remarkable change takes place in the char- acter of the United Nations Organi- zation, for the UNO is still in an in- fant stage, in which its personality can be affected by the events of a sin- gle day. Now that the unmentionable has been mentioned, the United Na- tions Organization ceases to be a place in which men walk on little cat feet, and talk around the thing they pretend to talk about; it becomes something heartier and more robust; it ceases to be a managed show, and becomes an arena in which anything f can happen. Britain's course would seem to be clear, to let the charges be heard, to abide by the decision of the Se- curity Council, to be content, win or lose, with the establishment of a precedent which she can use in pressing complaints of her own. For it should be forgotten that in making use of this tribunal, Rus- sia endorses it, and promotes rather than injures its vitality. But one wonders whether all of us, here in the west, will be able to ac- cept with composure this new and more rugged kind of United Nations Organization; a society of candid and perhaps even tactless equals, within which, conceivably, even we Ameri- cans could be brought up on charges. The fact that that thought is rather shocking shows, perhaps, that we have entered upon the adventure of United Nations life with certain soft preconceptions. United Nations life is, or can be, real life; life within the Organiza- tion can be as real, say, as life in our Congress; a setting in which he who judges, is judged, and in which a hard bright light plays upon all casual assumptions of special vir- tue. To achieve this kind of un- sparing equality within the organi- zation is certainly to make progress toward world agreement; for we must remember Geneva, where the power of the ruling bloc of nations was never questioned, where all was planned, and where nothing ever came as a surprise to the dele- gates except the end of their world. (Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate) FF YOU are looking for a "Blue Chip" investment, Victory Loan Bonds yield 2.9 per cent. If you are skeptical ask your financial adviser about the soundness of Series "E" Victory Loan Bonds. By Crockett Johnson . Identification Cards. This equipment d must be used by the student checking y it out. S-- e Graduate Students expecting mas- ter's degree at the end of the Fall eTerm must have diploma applications turned in to the Graduate School of- flee by Monday, Jan. 28. Applications ; received after that date cannot be - considered.j The University War Historian y would like to have photographs of y war-time activities on the Campus to h preserve with the University War - Collection. Will those who are willing d to contribute please note on the back - of the pictures as much pertinent in- g formation as possible and send them to the Michigan Historical Collec- - tions, 160 Rackham Buildin. Students expecting to do directed a teaching for the secondary-school a certificate in the spring term, are re- s quested to secure assignments in s Room 2442, University Elementary t School on Friday, Feb. 1, according - to the following schedule: s English, 8:00-9:00 Social Studies, 9:00-10:00 Science and Mathematic, 10:00- e 11:00 All foreign languages, 11:00-12:00 All others, and any having conflicts at scheduled hour, 2:00-3:00, or by appointment. Summer Job Placement: Students interested in registering with the Bu- reau of Appointments for jobs next summer are requested to attend the registration meeting at 4:00, Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 29 in Room 205, Ma- son Hall. The Panama Canal Zone schools have positions open for teachers from the kindergarten to the sixth grade in the elementary schools, and in prac- tically' every field of instruction in the junior and senior high schools, including science, mathematics, so- cial studies, English, household arts, physical education, music, and wood and metal shop work. They are par- ticularly interested in receiving appli- cations from well trained, experi- enced teachers between twenty-four and thirty years of age. However, ap- plications from teachers between thirty and forty years of age will be given careful consideration. Men, and veterans especially, will be given preference for junior and senior high school positions. Salary sched- ules are extremely attractive. Full in- formation concerning qualifications and salary schedules available at the Bureau of Appointments and Occu- pational Information. Lectures University Lecture. Mr. Stephen A. Royce, Mining Geologist for the Pick- ahds-Mather Company, will speak on the subject, "The American Steel In- dustry at a Crossroads," at 4:15 p.m., Monday, Jan. 28, in the Rackham Ampthitheater; auspices of the De- partment of Geology. The public is cord ially invited. University Lecture. Professor Ran- dall Stewart, of Brown University, will speak on the subject, "The Liter- ature of Early New England," at 4:15 p.m., Wed., Jan. 30, in the Rackham Amphitheater; auspices of the De- partment of English Language and Literature. The public is cordially in- vited. D epartmental Lecture: Mr. Steph- en A. Royce, Mining Geologist for the Pickands-Mathcrs Company, will speak on the subject, "Iron Ore De- posits of the Lake Superior Range," at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 29, and "An Economic Geologist Looks at the Pre-Cambrian," at 8:00 p.m., Tues- day, Jan. 29, in room 2054 Natural Science Building; auspices of the De- partment of Geology. Fine Arts Lecture. Miss Harriet D. Adams of Cranbrook Art Academy will speak on "Picasso's Recent Paint- ing" at 8 o'clock, Tuesday, Jan. 29, in the Rackham Amphitheater. The lec- ture is sponsored by the All Nations Club. The public is cordially invited. French Lecture: Professor Warner F. Patterson will offer the second of the series of French lectures spon- sored by the Cerele Francais, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 4:10 p.m. in Room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. The title of his lecture is "Enfin Malherbe vint." Professor Arthur L. Dunham's lecture which was scheduled for that date will be given on Thursday, Feb. 14. Tickets for the series of lectures may be procured from the Secretary of the Department of Romance Lan- guages (Room 112, R. L. Bldg.) or at the door at the time of the lecture for a small sum. These lectures are open to the general public. AcademicI Notces DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN n Michigan "Early Ann Open daily days 8-12. Historical Collections: Arbor." 160 Rackham. 8-12, 1:30-4:30; Satur- A joint exhibition of paintings by John Pappas and Sarkis Sarkisian of Detroit, in the Rackham Mezzanine Galleries, under the auspices of the College of Architecture and Design. Jan. 16 through 31, daily except Sun- day, afternoons 2-5, evenings 7-10. The public is cordially invited. Events Today The Geological Journal Club will meet in Rm. 4065, Nat. Sci Bldg. at 12:15 p.m. today. Program: (1) Survey of Geological periodicals in the English language. (2) A. J. Eardley: "Petroleum geol- ogy of the Aquitanian Basin, France." All interested are cordially invited to attend. Mortar Board will meet today at 5 p.m. in the Undergraduate Office in the League. Coffee Hour will be held at Lane Hall from 4:30 to 6:00 today. Mem- bers of Newman Club, Hillel and In- ter-Guild will be the guests of honor. The "Acolytes "of the Department of Philosophy will hold its first meet- ing, tonight at 7:30, in the West Con- ference Room of the Rackham Build- ing. There will be an informal debate between. Professors Norman Nelson and Joe Davis of the English Depart- ment on "Aesthetics in Literature." All those interested are cordially in- vited to attend. B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation will conduct Sabbath Eve Services tonight at 7:45. The Westminster Guild of the First Presbyterian Church will have Open House tonight. Mr. Van Pernis' Bible Class will begin the open house, at 8:30 p.m. Hours 8:30-12:00. Corning Events The Lutheran Student Association will ineet on Saturday afternoon at 3:00 at 1304 Hill St., for an out-door hike and winter sport activities. Sup- per will be served at the Center at 6:00. Please call 7622 for reservations by Saturday noon. The Lutheran Student Association will meet on Sunday at 5:00 in Zion Lutheran Parish Hall. "The Church Worker and His Church" will be the topic of discussion. Supper and Fel- lowship Hour will follow at 6:00. Art Cinema I eague presents: "Ba- boona" exploring the secrets of the unknown Africa with Osa Johnson, plus outstanding British documen- tary "Night Train" with comment in verse by W. H. Auden. Sunday, Jan. 27, 8:30 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The Graduate Outing Club is plan- ning a hike or toboggan party (de- pending on the weather) followed by an Indian supper on Sunday, Jan. 27. All interested should sign up and pay the supper fee at the checkroom desk in the Rackham Building before Sat- urday noon. Members will meet at 2:30 Sunday in the Outing Club roomt in the ,nk'hn ni1Adir TThn (Continued from Page 3) Saturday at 2:30 and 8:30, in the Lec- ture Hall of the Rackham Building. All the programs will be given by the Budapest Quartet: Josef Roismann and Edgar Ortenberg, violinists; Boris Kroyt, viola; and Mischa Schneider, violoncello. Compositions of Haydn, Hindemith, Beethoven, Mozart, Mil- haud, Piston and Dvorak, will be played. Tickets for the series or for indi- vidual concerts are on sale at the of- fice of the University Musical So- ciety in Burton Memorial Tower, and will also be on sale in the lobby of the Rackham Building one hour be- fore the beginning of each concert. Student Recital: Helen Briggs, pianist, will present a recital in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music at 8:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 28, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Her pro- gram will include compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Scria- bine, and will be open to the general public without charge. Faculty Recital: Benjamin Owen, Instructor of Piano in the School of Music, will be heard in a program of compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel and driffes, at 8:30 p.m., Wed- nesday, Jan. 30, in Lydia Mendels- sohn Theater. The public is cordially invited. Exhibitions Exhibit: "Petroleum Exploration in Alaska," in the Rotunda, University Museums Building. Jan. 20 to Mar. 1. f Mr. O'Malley, my Fairy C Godfather. DID come, i r i i.