PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, !APRIL 19, 1946 PAGE FOUR FRIDAY, APRIL 1~, U)46 I I Fifty-Sixth Year ,Cetleri 10 the &litop C1¢porter . DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN - .. ; -; -4. 3- i - o~w.~. - - Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Margaret Farmer . . ..... Managing Editor Hale Champion . . . . . . . Editorial Director Vbbert Goldman . . . . . . . City Editor Emily E. Knapp . . . . . Associate Editor Pat Cameron . . . . . . . Associate Editor Clark Baker . . . . . . . . . . Sports Editor Des Howarth . . . . . . . Associate Sports Editor Ann Schutz .. ..........Women's Editor Dona Guimaraes . . . . Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Dorothy Flint . . . . Business Manager Joy Altman. .. .... Associate Business Manager Evelyn Mills .. .. 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Students and Opinion To The Editor: A recent campaign by a campus organization to break relations with fascist Spain met with some strong opposition. The most common ad- verse reaction from individual students and fac- ulty members was that the sponsoring students had no business conducting such a campaign and it was implied they shouldn't even be think- ing of such things. One faculty member stated that veterans especially, had an obligation to the government to get all they could from college and not waste their time and the government's money joining political parties. This viewpoint has been wide-spread. I quote from AmerAsia November, 1938. "Public opinion tends to hold the undergrad- uate in check because it discourages mass demon- strations. Educational principles . . . have en- couraged the young man to be conscientious and diligent in his studies, moderate in ideas, quiet in manner, and to avoid heedless mistakes. Par- ticipation in politics is viewed as unbecoming in light of these objectives .. . Many students ... feel that it would be better to commit hari-kari than to object to a given public policy. Clearly one cannot look to the Universities of NJapan for leadership in protesting and mitigating the present ruthless military policies. Salvation, if it comes, must emanate from other than the student class." This is a generalization, but it is a safe one: Student movements in the U.S. are characterized by an honest pt-ogressiveness incomprehensible to the brains mass-produced by Hollywood, Hearst and Hopwood. As a veteran I do not hold myself as under Prime Example HE LEAGUE OF NATIONS held ids last ses- sion yesterday. With the close of this meet- ing, there will come to an end the world's first experiment in trying to maintain peace on an international scale. Many charges were made against the League in its more than 20 years of experience. Among other things, it has received a measure of the blame for this war. Sean Lester, A'c ting Secretary-General claimed, however, "the League of Nations as an organization no doubt had its faults, but it is dangerous nonsense to say that war came be- cause of those faults. The League did not fail. Xt was the nations which failed to use it. That is the lesson of the past 10 years, and it is a vital, terrible warning for the next ten years.'" IN OTHER WORDS,'a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The League furnished a pattern for the United Nations Organization. This body is the only hope for future world peace, and it can only function properly if each nation cooperates and gives up part of its sovereignty, to the main organization. There must be soldi- darity of spirit and the will to act. In a recent issue of the New York Times Joseph Paul-Boncour, a member of the League of Na- tions, "noted the world's cynicism about the fu- ture of international peace-making, but that disillusionment, he added, was a good thing if" it meant that 'we see more clearly'." The record of the League of Nations, while it does not shine as brightly as many of its origin- ators hoped it might, should serve as an example to the U.N. Observation of both its triumphs and its errors will be valuable. -Phyllis L. Kayf, Sage of G The amazingly quick response to an editorial plea voiced a short time ago on this page is in- deed gratifying. I refer to that potential cement walk now being laid in front of and around Haven Hall. Some critics of astute journalistic vision have accused me of having inside knowledge that the project was about to begin, and that I was taking some license in putting myself .in the role of soothsayer. These people now suggest that I should advo- cate a new Administration Building for the cam- pus. I should urge, they say, that ground be brok- en between State and Maynard Streets, between Newbery Hall and the Army Heaquarters. The possibilities are intriguing. There is, however, a further need to secure the campus beautiful. More so this spring than at any other time, the campus is littered with unnecessary waste paper and old, worn-out ciga- rette butts. A poor student, not bothered by fas- tidiousness, could have a field day at the en- trance to any campus building. The Building and Grounds department has made some slight effort to curb the waste paper bonanza by installing a nominal number of green trash cans on the campus. Their success may be only mediocre, but the boys are trying. I do not suggest that the campus politic give up smoking. I suggest only that the B and G men replace the butt buckets that until recently stood before every doorway. With this reservation: The buckets have not fulfilled the purpose for which they were de- signed. The buckets, placed there empty, have been filled with as much waste paper as any- thing else. The casual cigarette, then, was always in danger of starting a merry fire with the dry paper. It has been long known that the proper ciga- rette receptacle contains either sand or water, both of which immediately extinguish the lighted cigarette. The buckets should be replaced, but this time filled with the necessary extinguisher. Difficult to keep the buckets supplied? No more difficult than it is to sweep up the entrances every day. The men with the rakes are no doubt doing an excellent job, but for cleanliness to win out, there is a need for more trash cans and more cigarette buckets. We'll get this campus clean yet. -Tay Slin any obligation to the government, as such. I do have an obligation to the people of the U.S. but only in so far as they are a part of humanity. One obligation we should have is to realize that as fine as the present political and economic system is in the United States it is not as yet beyond improvement. -Max Dean Daily Ads Criticized Properly, this letter should be directed to the Business Manager, but I feel that it might be- long in "Letters to the Editor" as a sort of down- to-ear interlude in the midst of these frenzied disputes regarding the rights of a Critic, the duties of an entertainer, and the tastes of the College Student. To The Editor: As you can see, I have enclosed a two-colmn advertisement entitled "Night and Day" which was taken from the "Daily" of April 6th. The blue pencillings are my own non-professional attempts to indicate a few flaws in your Public Appeal Policy. Your illustrator, first of all, has depicted a young lady peering (vainly) through a telescope for a place to eat. This is a very un- funny subject to many Michigan students, by the way, but that is not my thesis. Dear Ed, was our artist friend merely naive, or was he (or she) purposely trying to be ironic in a subtle sort of way? As anyone can see (sic!), the eye affixed to the eye piece of the telescope must, of neces- sity, be open and the companion eye must be closed. Secondly, when chicken is on sale why reinforce the suggestion with a cut depicting baked ham? And the third advertisement in this gem of gastronomic gossip bears an illustration that is; at best, slightly incongruous. But in the interest of fair play I'll say no more. Except to ask the significance of the large "T" in the last illustra- tion. From the scanty knowledge I have in this field I recall one cardinal point: illustrations accompanying copy should be consistent and appropriate. -William H. Hossick * * * Legitimate Question To The Editor: Last night we attended two plays presented by the Spanish Club as did several hundred other students. However, much to our displeasure, when we looked for the review in this morning's Michigan Daily, we found none. Later in the day we discovered that there had been no Daily review because the editor respon- sible did not consider the event to be "of general campus interest." In view of the facts, we be- lieve this decision to be entirely unwarranted. First, in the Romance Language Department (largest on campus and containing over 50 fac- ulty members), there are 1756 regular students of Spanish, 40 Army officers, and 40 persons in extension courses. In addition there are about 300 Latin-Americans on campus. Therefore, over 2000 students are interested in this type of event. Second, there are many townspeople who at- tend these plays and students and teachers from numerous nearby high schools and colleges who came here to see the plays. We enjoyed the evening and think that more people might have gone and seen the plays if there had been a Daily review. We have no axe to grind on this point because neither of us be- longs to La Sociedad Hispanica. In conclusion we would like to ask why a group, comprising more than one seventh of the stu- dent body, is not as much entitled to a few para- graphs of review of one of its major events at which attendance is restricted to smaller groups, and to which The Daily gives week after week of publicity. -Carl Kaufman, '47 Donald Mela, '47 AT THE last meeting of the Bi Three Foreign Ministers, the rep- resentatives of the United States and of Great Britain were vigorously at- tacking certain countries in eastern Europe, on the grounds that these countries did not observe freedom of the press. The Russian representa- tive asked a question: "What about the RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESS?" For the past two days readers of the Detroit Free Press have been listening to John S. Knight's an- swer to this question. The Free' Press stories about alleged im- morality at the University of Mich- igan are completely mis-leading1 and a total mis-representation of the facts. The quotations in the Free Press have been denied by the persons who allegedly gave them, and yet the Free Press has contin- ued its series of snide attacks and back-handed remarks. This is the "freedom of the press" which Mr. Knight is so eager to take to east-s ern Europe. The Free Press feels confident that it can continue its charges even after they have been repudiated, that it can in effect call three University veterans and Dean Lloyd liars when they deny having made the state- ments attributed to them, that it can do these things and escape any sort of punishment. The disgusting point about the entire affair is this one.. . The Free Press is justified in its con- fidence. There have been fewer libel cases actually taken to court than have been prosecuted under any other major section of American law. THEODORE ROOSEVELT was once awarded five cents damags in a libel suit against a Michigan newspaper which had called hin a "drunkard." Governor of Alaska Gruening won a much larger amount from the Hearst chain, which had called him a "Communist." But these are practically the only cases of a successful prosecution for libel. We have defied freedom of the press, and have given the American newspaper publishers a sort of abso - lute, unqualified freedom which s enjoyed by no other group of people in America. They are free to puo- lish any fantastic idea which may serve their nefarious purposes, ani attribute this idea to that much- overworked man. . . "The usually :e- liable source. The idea does not have to be true; it is sufficient that it wos printed as someone's opinion. If you press them to find out the identity o the person who issued the statement, they need only point to that law v hich allows newspaper men to keep sec et the identity of their sour'cs. They are completely immune frol p un ish men t You will notice that it is the pub- lishers who have this freedom of the press; the freedom of any re- porter is limited to the freedom to write any story with which is bos: agrees. This writer spent fifteen months pounding out fantasy for Col. McCormick's Cricago Tribune, and feels qualified to say that not cne story out of ten adequately presented the facts. The ratio of currect stories was not noticeably higher when I worked for the As-