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Preparedness
MILITARY preparedness was both condemned
and extolled by the University this week.
Opposition to compulsory, military training
came from President Alexander G. Ruthven.
Wednesday, President Ruthven told the Uni-
versity Alumni Club of Ionia that compulsory
military training is outmoded and will be of
no benefit in a future war, when we will be
bombarded by "horrible unseen missiles"
against which we can never build an adequate
defense.
"Another global war might well bring the end
of the age of man," President Ruthven said, and
"if we get prepared for the next war, we will have
another war."
President Ruthven called for a peaceful "world
revolution through education" to train citizens
of the worfd.
Wednesday, the University announced that
it had signed a contract bringing the Uni-
versity into the Navy Department's new multi-
million dollar scientific research program.
Some of the fields in which the Navy desires
research are electronics, nuclear physics,
chemistry, flight and guided missiles.
That the Navy's research program is intended
for other than peaceful ends is attested by the
statement of Rear Admiral H. G. Bowen, chief
of the Office of Research and Inventions:
"The Navy and the nation's scientists are
teaming up in a unique kind o agreement to
keep our nation strong. The Navy wants to be
sure that fundamental scientific research is done
in the interest of our national security.
"Unless we spend millions of dollars for funda-
mental research now, we are opening ourselves
to disaster. It is no longer possible to run a Navy
without the closest contact with the scientific
world."
As reported by The New York Times, colleges
will be permitted to publish the results of their
work provided that no reference is made to pos-
sible or proposed military applications of it."
We can see no essential difference between
compulsory military training and scientific re-
search under the Navy's new program. It
would be of little moment to the rest of the
world if we were to announce abandonment of
universal military training while still main-
taining multi-million dollar research programs
in nuclear physics, guided missiles, et al.
Any contention that education is the answer
to world peace is, of course, negated by the
University's participation in the new research
program. It is all well and good to condemn
compulsory P uilitary training. But at the same
time it is comforting to have more knowledge
of nuclear physics, guided missiles, et al., to
fall back on.
Clayton L. Dickey
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON-The battle of demobilization
raged hot and heavy behind the closed doors
of the Senate Military Affairs Committee this
week. The issue was whether to appease the
A4-my. The special sub-committee on demobiliz-
ation headed by Senator Edwin Johnson of Col-
orado had turned in a withering blast against
Army policies, and the Army had mobilized
friends inside the committee to battle it out.
Chief battle revolved around the last of the
sub-committee's nine recommendations. The
first eight recommendations listed specific pol-
icies which the Army should follow to bring
men home, as follows: 1, continue the present
rate of demobilization; 2, shorten the training
period for new draftees; 3, discharge fathers as
soon as possible, with all fathers out by July 1;
4, give more attention to hardship cases; 5, idle
soldiers to be discharged at once; 6, enlist WACs
to do paper work in separation centers; 7, Fili-
pino scouts to replace U.S. soldiers; 8, civilian
personnel to replace G.I.'s for Army housekeep-
ing work.
Point 9 proposed a Senate-Army conference,
then added: ."If any of the foregoing recom-
mendations is not to be carried out by the War
Department, we urgently recommend legis-
lation be enacted promptly by Congress requir-
ing that it be done."
It was this last recommendation which started
the big scrap. Strangely enough, it was the
Navy which came to the rescue of the Army.
Adm. Tommy Hart, new Republican Senator
from Connecticut, exclaimed:
"Why this language is nothing less than a
threat to the War Department! I move that
the final sentence proposing Congressional
action be stricken."
Taking their cue from the Admiral, Senators
Austin of Vermont, Gurney of South Dakota,
and Smith of New Jersey, all Republicans, im-
mediately registered stiff protests. They didn't
want the Senate to embarrass the War Depart-
ment regarding discharges.
But Senators Johnson and Briggs of Missouri
-both on the special sub-committee probing
G.I. injustices-came right back at them.
Duty To G. I's
"THE sub-committee felt it was its duty to get
the facts," said Johnson. "That is why we
had our hearings. We also want to get the War
Department's reaction to our proposals. But
we have had thousands of letters and wires from
servicemen, and our duty to them is not simply
to make recommendations and then let them die
on the vine.
"Those men expect of us reassurance that
if the War Department is unwilling to take
the proper steps, then Congress will do soI
through legislation."
Briggs of Misouri is considered a great friend
of Truman, but in this case he deserted him.
He supported Johnson and the G.I.'s. Finally,
a voice vote was taken and Briggs and Johnson
were defeated. It was decided to send the re-
port to the Army.
Thereupon Briggs raised the question of legal-
ity.
"This is supposed to be the report of the sub-
committee," he said -"a report filed by Sen-
ators Johnson, Revercomb (of West Virginia),
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oeti~er to the efjctor
J-Hop Uber Alies
To the Editor:
Mr. Moore is not the only veteran that is
aroused by the tendency of students and vet-
erans to place the J-Hop above the work of
UNRRA and such organizations.
I am surprised that the veterans who an-
swered Mr. Moore in Tuesday's Daily did not
do so before. Yes, Mr. Moore, you know their
type very well. They complained about the
easy life of a civilian, men classified as 4-F,
instructors who had to remain in the states,
and about everyone who didn't share their
particular fox-hole with all of its mud. Always
the grass on the other side of the fence looked
greener to them. They are not concerned with
the starving, homeless men, women and chii-
dren of war-torn Europe. The children already
are beginning to look like a five-year occupant
of Dachau or Buchenwald - their "liberators"
are now responsible for their care.
The "liberators" leave Europe, come home and
are discharged. They forget the rubble of
Cologne, Hamburg, Rouen, LeHavre and Brest;
they forget the small children wandering aim-
lessly in search of food, shelter and clothing;
they forget French homes and French restaur -
ants where a can of C-ration stew or Spain
would be considered a delicacy. All is forgotten;
now they must make up for the fun that they
missed. We have just got to have that $10,000
J-Hop to make up to those boys for everything
that they did.
Oh, yes, Mr. Moore, we're "off the beam" and
"old and embittered" before our time. I, for one,
am glad that I am.
-Watson L. Grant
P.S. I am not married and have no family.
I don't like to see my neighbor's children
hungry and without clothes. Do you?
BARNABY
and myself. If, however, deletions are made in
that report, it is no longer our report. If the
whole report does not go to the War Depart-
ment, complete with all our recommendations,
then I think it should not be sent as a sub-
committee report and I ask that my signature
be removed from it."
Johnson agreed with Briggs and it was gen-
erally accepted that West Virginia's Rever-
comb, had he been present, would have done
likewise. Accordingly, the signatures of the
three Senators, all vigorous Army critics, were
removed. The session ended in a victory for
the Army.
Musical Big Twor
PRESIDENT Truman was entertained at din-
ner the other night, chief entertainer being
Sgt. Eugene List, the noted pianist who played
for the Big Three at Potsdam.
When Truman rose to speak, he complimented
List by telling how pleased Marshal Stalin had
been with List's concert. Next night, the Pres-
ident said, Stalin reciprocated by introducing
two Russian pianists and two Soviet violinists.
The Big Three listened to their music for an
hour. Finally, Winston Churchill got up, walked
over to President Truman, and whispered:
"This is just too much noise. I can't leave
here until you do, so let's go home!"
Truman, however, didn't go home.
"I was enjoying myself," he explained, "so
I kept Winston on the torture seat for another
hour. Finally, I gave in and let him go home."
(Copyright. 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
U. S. Propaganda
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
THE STATE DEPARTMENT is having its
troubles getting a world information service
set up; and the troubles it is having tell us a
great deal about ourselves, about our internal
squabbles and the contradictions which plague
us. The Associated Press and the United Press,
for example, will not supply their news reports
to the government for use in foreign short-wave
broadcasts; they sell these reports willingly to
agencies of the Russian, British, Italian and
Canadian governments, but, afraid of the prop-
aganda taint, they make it a point of high honor
not to service their own government.
All our old American feeling that there is
something not quite nice about government,
that gofernment, especially our own, is a lady
of doubtful character, comes out in this shivery
refusal to have anything to do with her.
Mr. William Benton, Assistant Secretary
of State in charge of culture and stuff, has
pleaded with the news agencies to handle it
any way they like, to write their own news
scripts, to set up their own anti-propaganda
police, but nothing doing; so long as govern-
ment is in it, it is bad, and the answer says
no. Thus the Voice of America, designed to
broadcast the American story to the world,
has to start with what is, in effect, the sensa-
tional admission that it isn't quite trusted
at home.
THAT ISN'T ALL. One might suppose, from
the extent of conservative opposition to and
suspicion of government broadcasting activities
that these are somehow leftist or liberalistic in
character. Not a bit; Mr. Benton makes it quite
clear that our chief short-wave targets are the
"blacked-out" areas of the Balkans, Russia,
Near East, etc.; he wants to tell what might be
called the American private enterprise story in
places where news is now dominated by dissem-
inators of the Russian socialist story.
This should please American private enter-
prise; but no, the fact that government is in-
volved in it takes the joy out of it; private
enterprise fears government so much that it
doesn't even welcome an extension of govern-
ment power in its behalf.
The same situation turns up in regard to
the government's 22 short-wave transmitters;
these may broadcast the private enterprise
story, but they are themselves examples of
government ownership, and so they are view-
ed dubiously, and again we find ourselves
hooked on a contradiction and stammering
as we try to tell the world about ourselves.
1 UT THESE are not the only contradictions;
there are others. Suppose the Voice of
America were to broadcast to the world a warm
account of our current strike wave, telling how
almost two million people went out on the
streets last week, with very little in the way of
violence, and how they were all allowed freely
to tell their story, etc.? It makes a tale which
would excite envy and admiration in some parts
of the world where these freedoms are not al-
lowed.
Just as we do not ouite trust ourselves, we
also do not quite approve of ourselves; and in
this shifting phantasmagoria of doubts and
distrust we get a kind of limelighted glimpse
of how far we are from that sense of commun-
ity which might enable us to clear our throats
with confidence, and talk to the world. That
still lies somewhere ahead of us; so far we
make only a kind of gurgling sound, choked
with the passions of internal conflict; and
the only story we are telling the waiting world
is the story of how sad it is to be divided.
(Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate)
By WILLIAM S. GOLDSTEIN
THE "Student Affairs Committee"
has succeeded in confusing the
J-Hop question by making an issue
of the charitable purpose for which
the dance is being held. They have
managed thoroughly to incense and
portion of the student body, and
any mention of revising the plans for
the J-Hop is met with a storm of
protest and cries of indignation fromC
a small, but noisy group on campus;
it is, therefore, a "dead issue". Any-
one who protests that the dance as
now planned will be a failure, and
that it will quite likely lose aboutt
$3,000 is immediately held up to pub-
lie ridicule as a villain of the first
order. There will undoubtedly be re-
percussions when the final count is;
made and it is found that the dance
which was to have provided finan-
cial aid for the University of the
Philippines and the Red Cross had
itself to draw upon other resources
to help meet its expenses.
This leaves the student body in
an awkward position from which it
cannot retreat. It is certain to be
held accountable and will probably
be labeled irresponsible by its mild-
est critics.
There is, apparently, no other
recourse open to us than to appeal
to the "Student Affairs Committee"
to alter its decision. Before it is too
late, we suggest that the price of
the tickets be lowered until the pro-
fits will be sufficient to cover the
costs. It can then be left to another
plan to solve our problem of charity.
Our plan is that steps be taken'
immediately to arrange for the do-
nation of the proceeds of the Ar-
my-Michigan game, to be played
next fall in the stadium, to a cen-
tral fund. This fund will be ad-
ministered by a managing board
composed of students elected at
large and a faculty group appoint-
ed by the regents.
TICKETS will cost six dollars, threeY
going directly to . the charity
fund, and three to the athletic ad-t
ministration. A block of tickets,
which would ordinarily have to be
given to the students as part of theirf
tuition fee, will be set aside and soldE
on the same basis as those for gen-
eral admission. This will be the one;
game of the season for which there
will be no passes. The plan is en-1
tirely equitable. Whereas in the
present J-Hop plans, the men stu-
dents are made to bear the brunt of1
the charity, with the coeds beingE
given little or no opportunity to con-
tribute, our plan not to be so ex-
clusive. Not only will the spectators,
at large have contributed to our
fund, but the students as a whole
will have made a sacrifice at the
same time.
A conservative estimate of the
plans, success would be as follows:
60,000 tickets, general
admission, at $6 ...... $360,000
10,000 tickets, student
block, at $6 ...........60,000
Total $420,000
Half of the general admission
receipts, or $180,000, will go to the
athletic administration; the rest
of the general admission, or $180,-
000, plus the $60,000 received from
the sale of tickets to the students,
will go to the charity fund. This
means that a total of $240,000 will
be placed at the disposal of the
fund's managing board.!
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CINEMA
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The Art Cinema League presents
"Dona Barbara"; based on the
novel by Gallegos.
The spectre of Spanish 32 cast its
shadow over the Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre last night, as Art Cinema
League presented a film version ofI
the Gallegos novel, "Dona Barbara."I
Senor Gallegos' opus about Vene-
zuelan life is required reading forI
Spanish students, and emotions were]
doubtless varied among the members
of the audience.
For those unfamiliar with the story,
Dona Barbara" concerns a woman
who is described byethe English sub-
titles a total of five times as a "de-
vourer of men." This formidable
creature is studied in action at some
length on her Venezuelan ranch, and
it all adds up to a character study of
a wilful woman.
The film is an offering of the still-
infant Mexican cinema. Judging
from this film, which we suspect
had some Hollywood help, their
cinema would seem to have made
admirable technical strides. The
photography is often better than
we have seen in French or Russian
importations.
The performances suffer a bit in
that they are gauged more for the
Latin temperament rather than the
American. Some of the more sophis-
ticated members of La Sociedad His-
panica found great amusement in the
series of seductions and witch-craft
scenes.
Maria Felix, as the malevolent
Dona Barbara, plays with sufficient
restraint to avoid caricature and,
despite the hazards of Mexican cos-
metics, is very pleasing to look at.
Julian Soler as the gentleman in
the case isn't exactly Clark Gable,
but, except for one ill-advised mo-
ment when he beats his chest in
the manner of Tarzan, he is ade-
quately romantic in the accepted
Latin manner.
-Barrie Waters
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1946
VOL. LVI, No.67
Notices
Attention All' Students: Registra-
tion for the Spring Term
By action of the Conference of
Deans, all students are required to
register for the Spring Term at, and
no later than, the time announced in
the Registration Schedule. Late regr
istrations will not be permitted by the
administrative authorities of the sev-
eral units, except in the case of vet-
erans who have not been in residence
for the Fall Term. Students must pre-
sent their identification cards at the
time of registration and must file
their registration material them-
selves, not by proxy.
The reason for this requirement is
the unprecedented demand which the
enrollment for the Spring Term will
make upon the educational resources
and the housing facilities of the Uni-
versity. Because of these conditions,
it is absolutely essential that regis-
tration and classification be com-
pleted according to schedule.
Dr. Frank E. Robbins
Assistant to the President
Attention Faculty Members :
Faculty Bibliography. The blanks
that were distributed for the Faculty
Bibliography are overdue. Those who
have not returned the blanks must do
so at once if their names and publi-
cations are to appear in the next is-
sue.
REGISTRATIONLMATERIAL
COLLEGE OF L. S. AND A.
SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AND
MUSIC. Students should call for
Spring Term registration material at
Rcom 4, University Hall beginning
Registration for the Spring Term
begins Feb. 28 and classes begin Mar.
4.
If either the householder or student
wish to terminate their present agree-
ment, notice must be given to the of-
fice of the Dean of Students on or
before Feb. 2, at noon. Studentsmay
secure forms for this purpose in Room
2, University Hall.
Directed Teaching, Qualifying Ex-
amination: All students expecting to
do directed teaching next term are
required to pass a qualifying exami-
nation in the subject in which they
expect to teach. This examination
will be held on Saturday, Mar. 2, at
8:30 a.m. Students will meet in the
auditorium of the University High
School. The examination will con-
sume about four hours' time;
promptness is therefore essential.
Detroit Armenian Women's Club
Award: The Detroit Armenian Wom-
en's Club is making available, for
1946-47, two $100 scholarships for
young men and women of Armenian
parentage from the metropolitan dis-
trict of Detroit. For further details
consult Dr. Frank E. Robbins at 1021
Angell Hall.
State of Michigan Civil Service An-
nouncement for Fisheries Biologist
I has been received in this office. Sal-
ary is from $180 to $220 per month.
Also for Fisheries Biologist III, sal-
ary from $280 to $340 per month. For
further information, call at the Bu-
reau of Appointments, 201 Mason
Hall.
State of Michigan Civil Service An-
nouncement for Laboratory Products
Packer C has been received in this of-
fice. Entrance salary is $110 per
month. For further information, call
at the Bureau of Appointments, 201
Mason Hall,
New York Civil Service announce-
ment for Bookbinder has been re-
ceived in this office. The salary is
$2,392 to $2,575 per annum. For fur-
ther information, call at the Bureau
of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall.
Girl Scout camp on Lake Huron
nerds counselors-nature workers,
unit leaders, etc. for summer of 1946.
Also needs dietitian. Camp accom-
modates about sixty girls-age ten
and over. A good chance to earn some
:Honey and have a pleasant vacation
tt the same time. Full information at
Bureau of Appointments and Occu-
pa tional Information.
Exhibitions
Exhibition, College of Architecture
-nd Design: Motion Picture Set Dc-
signs for Army Pictorial Seryice films,
y Roger Hollenbeck, Design instruc-
.or. First floor corridor, Architec-
tural Building. Open daily 9:00 to
5:00 except Sunday, through Feb. 22.
T'he public is invited.
Michigan Historical Collections:
"Early Ann Arbor." 160 Rackham.
Open daily 8-12, 1-30-4:30, Saturdays
3-12.
Lunchoon-Discussion: Get your
reservations for Lane Hall's Saturday
Luncheon-Discussion in before 10
a.m., today. The luncheon begins at
12:15 and the discussion topic will be
on a prominent book.
Pi Lambda Theta tea will be held
this afternoon from 3:00 o'clock to
3:00 o'clock in the West Conference
of the Rackham Building. A short
business meeting for active members
will follow the tea.
Coning Events
SFeb. 1. Please see your adviser and
ORGANIZATIONS or individuals I secure all necessary signatures be-
seeking aid will present their fore examinations begin.
cases before the board which will Edward C. Groesbeck
consider each application individu- Assistant Registrar
ally. The board will also allot part
of the fund to the March of Dimes, College of Architecture and Design.
the Tuberculosis Fund, the Com- Students should call for Spring Term
munity Chest, etc.-! material at Room 4, University Hall
The adventures and possibilities of beginning Feb. 1. The College of
such a central fund are unlimited. Architecture and Design will post an
We will have eliminated the bother- announcement in the near future
some and unsuccessful little drives giving time of conference with your
that are held almost every week by adviser. Please wait for this notice
one organization or another. We will before seeing your adviser.
have removed a heavy burden from ,Edward G. Groesbeck
the shoulders of the already over- Assistant Registrar
taxed "Student Affairs Committee."
We will have obtained, at one fell Caps and gowns for women gradu-
swoop, more money for charitable ating in February should be pur-
I purposes than all the soliciting of chased at Moe's Sport Shop Monday,
the last ten years put together. We Tuesday, and Wednesday so that they
will have placed the wholenstudent can be worn for the Senior Banquet
body on an equal footing instead of to be held Wednesday night. Caps
seeking the support of the men stu- and gowns for men of the February
dents only. We will have an organ- adugc s sho e Puraed
ized and responsible group admini-- grada ling class sh ould be purched
en eon e m by February 9 so that they will arrive
steriug the mnoney. We will be the in time for graduation Feb. 23. A
first university to Nave become en- charge of $5.00 will be made, both for
lightened to the point where we ive men and women, for the rental of the
made the welcare of our fellow beings caps and gowns. Three dollars of this
an important consideration in our amount will be refunded if the caps
plans for the future. and gowns are returned to Moe's by
We can find no reason why aF
committee should not be appointed Feb. 27.
to arrange for the formal presen-
tation of this plan to the approp- Students, College of Literature,
riate authorities. The time may Science, and the Arts: Students are
yet come when we can look for- requested to conserve the supply of
ward to the resumption of our re- College Announcements by using for
sponsibilities toward the less for- the spring term the copies issued tc
tunate of our people. them last fall. The large supplemen-
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BY ORDER OF Director General Herbert H.
Lehman, Lieut. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Mor-
gan has been restored to his post as chief of
operations for UNRRA in Germany.
It is still difficult for us to see how General
Morgan could have used the words he spoke,
in describing any portion of the pitifl rein-
naniof Polish .ews who wish to escane from
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most exhausted. Any remaining new
collies must be issued oly to students
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