e AGFRTHE MICHIGAN DAILY KNIGHTS, McCORMICKS, INDEEM: On Prof. Aigler N HIS LETTER TO THE EDITOR which ap- N peared in Sunday's Daily, Prof. Ralph W. Aig- managerc ler made an entirely unjustified attack on cer- saagn tain editorials in this newspaper regarding the re- ion that cent action of the House of Representatives on too far in price control. Roth editorials to which Prof. Aigler referred BUT PR took the position that the House bill would picayu bring an end to effective price control. Neither Miss Fran: editorial stated that the House bill would term- ter to the mate price control as such as Prof. Aigler price cont maintains they did in his statement. "What t "Now anyone who has paid attention to what should ta- the lower house voted must know that both Mr. in fixing p Roemer and Miss Franz (the writers of the edi- That is torials) have simply misstated facts. There are titled to it no words whatever in the House bill ending price Franz are control." worried ab Roemer ar TO ANYONE who read the editorials to which Re mern Prof. Aigler objects, it is obvious that the writ- ler presu ers did not claim that the House ended price con- In the: trol entirely. What they did was to doubt that Prof. Aig OPA could continue to hold the line against in- Daily's j flation under the crippling restrictions of the umnist R House bill. Free Pres This concern is not confined to Mr. Roemer Chicago' and Miss Franz alone. Similar concern has been McCormi expressed by President Truman, Chester "One ma Bowles, Paul Porter, Senators, Representatives, oratory for labor leaders-and even businessmen. (The ture, is no 's Letter k Times reported Lew Hahn, general of the National Retail Dry Goods As- as saying: "It is my personal opin- the House in some respects has gone its amendments.") OG. AIGLER does more than raise a nish objection to Mr. Roemer's and z's use of words. He is writing his Let- Editor because he is a partisan in the rol dispute. He says: he House did was to require that OPA ke certain relevant facts into account prices." Prof. Aigler's opinion, and he is en- t. But certainly Mr. Roemer and Miss entitled to theirs. Prof. Aigler is not out the House restrictions on OPA; Mr. nd Miss Franz are. How can Prof. Aig- ie to be the oracle in this matter? remainder of his Letter to the Editor, ler makes a shallow attack on The ournalistic ethics. Referring to col- Ray Ginger's mistrust of the Detroit s (owned by John S. Knight) and the Tribune (owned by Col. Robert R. ck), Prof. Aigler says: ay wonder whether The Daily, as a lab- r the training of journalists of the fu- t turning out future McCormicks and whose journalistic ethics so distressed r." ng to Prof. Aigler's thesis, any editorial o disagrees with Prof. Aigler is an un- irnalist of the Knight-McCormick cal- unnecessary to point out further the of Prof. Aigler's unthinking attack. -Clayton L. Dickey MERRY.CO-ROUND: The VAV'Boys By DREW PEArSON /ASHINGTON-- The inside story of why the House didn't vote on final enactment of the Patman Housing Bill before the Easter recess isn't a happy one-from the standpoint of home- seeking war veterans. Here's what happened: A joint conference of Senate and House com- mittees was called just before the Easter recess in a rush to get House approval of Senate amend- ments. These amendments included restoration of $600,000,000 in subsidies to stimulate produc- tion of scarce building materials. Held in the usual secrecy, the conference lasted all day in hope that the bill could be passed be- fore House members left on their Easter holi- day. Soon after the conference got under way at 9 a.m., however, it became apparent that this was forlorn hope. Four of the seven House conferees-Republi- cans Wolcott of Michigan, Crawford of Michigan and Gamble of New York, plus Democrat Brown of Georgia (all VAV Congressmen)-served no- tice they would make a bitter-end fight against the $600,000,000 in subsidies, as well as the Sen- ate's amendment calling for a government-guar- anteed market to producers of 200,000 pre-fab- ricated houses. Since pre-fabricated houses are produced on a mass basis, the Senate considered it necessary to guarantee builders a market of 200,000 houses. Wolcott, Crawford, Gamble and Brown weren't really opposed to this guaranteed market amend- ment, but used it as a compromising weapon to scuttle subsidies. In other words, they offered to back down on a guaranteed market if the other conferees backed down on subsidies- des- cribed by President Truman as the "heart" of the bill. This proposition was flatly rejected by the re- maining three House conferees-Representative Wright Patman of Texas, author of the original bill, Brent Spence of Kentucky and William Bar- ry of New York (all Democrats). The seven Sen- ate conferees were also unamimously opposed, including Barkley of Kentucky, Murdock of Utah, Taylor of Idaho, Mitchell of Washington, Taft of Ohio, Buck of Delaware and Capehart of In- diana. -Patman and Barkley urged, begged and cajoled with the four House objectors, but got nowhere. Finally they offered a compromise-to cut the subsidy provision from $600,000,000 to $400,000,- 000. "We are against subsidies in any form," Wol- cott and his cohorts repeated over and over again: "We are against a billion, $400,000,000-or even one dollar." Finally the conference adjourned, the four VAV dissenters glowing with victory. Their col- leagues are betting, however, that after hearing from their War-Vet constituents during the Eas- ter recess, they won't come back so happy. ; Note-"VAV" is the designation which veter- ans' groups are attaching to Congressmen who "voted against veterans." (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Important Query To the Editor: For the last two months I have fol- lowed the Letters to the Editor column in the Daily hoping to dis- cover the thoughts that are upper- most in the minds of Michigan stu- dents. If the questions of proper campus dress and coed promiscuity are as important to the student body as this column indicates, I suggest that the Ann Arbor housing shortage can be alleviated by returning a large number of students to high school until they are more mature. Don't the situations in Irant, Spain, and Argentina bother any- body? Doesn't anybody feel pro or con concerning the O.P.A., Walt- er Reuther, or Senator Vanden- berg? Has anybody heard of the atomic bomb, or of world govern- ment? Is it that the students are not in- terested in these questions, or 'do they feel that complete answersare sup- plied by the professors? A university should be the place where students begin to learn and to think for them- selves. We who are in school now will be the ones who will have to make the decisions of the world in the future. If twenty years from now we still haven't relegated the little things of life to their proper place, God help us! David B. Wehmeyer 0 * (Continued from Page 3) Life Guard. Salary, $1.00-$1.25 per hour. Filing date, April 25. Junior Recreation Instructor. Sal- ary, $2321-$2473 per year. Filing date, April 25. Swimming Instructor. Salary, $2549 $3016 per year. Filing date, April 25. Further information may be ob- tained at the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 201 Mason Hall. Willow Village Program for veter- ans and their wives. Wednesday, April 24: Bridge, 2-4 p.m., Club Room, West Lodge, 8-10 p.m., Conference Room, West Lodge. Thursday, April 25: Home Plan- ning. Adelia M. Beeuwkes, Instructor in Public Health Nutrition, will dis- cuss "What's New ij Nutrition," the second of a series of three lectures. 2-4 p.m. Office, West Lodge. Friday, April 26: "Leadership: How to get democratic group action, and Parliamentary Procedures," Dr. Fred G. Stevenson, Extension Staff. 2-4 p.m., Office, West Lodge; 8-10 p.m., Office, West Lodge. Friday, April 26: Dancing Class, Beginners, couples, 7 p.m. Auditor- ium, West Lodge; Advanced, couples, 8 p.m. Auditorium, West Lodge. Mem- bers of Monday night classes for single men are invited to attend with guests. Saturday, April 27: Square and Round Dance, 8 p.m., Auditorium, West Lodge. Sunday, April 28: Classical Music, Lodge. Sunday, April 28: Vespers: Rev. James Van Pernis, Protestant Direc- tors Association, 4-5 p.m., Conference Room, West Lodge. Sunday, April 28: Football Movie, University of Michigan vs. Indiana, commentary by member of Athletic Staff, 7:30 p.m. Auditorium, West Lodge. Concerts Stulent Recital: Mary Jane Ward- well, student of violin under Gilbert Ross, will present a recital at 8:30 to- night in Ly-dia Mendelssohn Tneatre. Given in partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the degree of Bache- for of Music, the program is open to the public. It will include < ompos- tions by Vitali, Bach, Mozat. l alo, and Cecil Burleigh. Faculty Recital: Lynne Palmer, Harpist, will be heard in a recital at 8:30 Thursday evening, April 25, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Her pro- gram will include a group of three compositions by Salzedo, Waltzes, Op. 39, by Brahms, Prelude in C ma- jor by Prokofleff, Deux Divertisse- ments by Caplet, and will close with Mozart's Concerto for harp and flute. Mrs. Palmer will be assisted in tne Concerto by Marie Mountain Clark, flutest, and John Kollen, pianist, aso members of the School of Music lac- ulty. The program is open to the general public Without charge. Exhibitions "Ancient Man in the Great Lakes Region." Rotunda, University Muse- um Building, through April 30. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN NIGHT EDITOR: CHARLOTTE BOBRECKER Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Knights, v Mr. Ginge Accordin writer who ethical jou ibre. It is absurdity Homeless Humans --1,190,000 See Above THE problem of the "man without a country" is becoming more acute every day, as failure to reach a satisfactory solution concerning the hun- dreds of thousands of displaced persons in Eur- ope is increasingly and glaringly evident. To date, the efforts of the Special Com- mittee on Refugees and Displaced Persons est- ablished by the Economic and Social Commit- tee of the United Nations have brought about no indication that a settlement might be reach- ed in the near future and the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine has noth- ing but bumbling procrastination and misun- derstanding to show for its attempts to find an answer to the vexing problems. AT THE END OF THE WAR there were in Eur- ope about 20 million displaced persons- evacuees fleeing battle areas, refugees from poli- tiCal and racial tyranny, slave labor imported to Germany. Today, all but 1,190,000 DP's have been repatriated. There are now 900,000 dis- placed persons in American, British and French zones of occupation in Germany and Austria. The main task is one of dissolving the conflict between Soviet views and Western ideas of free- dom. The debate centers around the right of a person to differ politically with the government of his country. Until a guarantee of security and freedom from persecution is given, these hundreds of thousands of people will continue to drift aimlessly in countries where they are neither needed nor wanted, thus slowing down the work of reconstruction and confusing the issues in the peace settlement. Rapid, mass resettlement is the only means of solving the problem, in the words of United Army Justce THE ARMY'S own peculiar brand of justice is being handedout at the Lichfield brutality courts-martial. After three months of hemming and hawing the courts-martial have sentenced two enlisted men to prison. Even though both the prosecuting and* defense attorneys agreed that officers should have been the first to face the court, the six accused prison camp officers, including Col. James A. Kilian, former camp . commander, have not been tried. Charges of a "whitewash" of high-rankging officers associated with the camp still stand. S/Sgt. James Jones, one of the Lichfield de- tention camp guards, was sentenced to six months imprisonment last week in the case's most recent development. Accused of inflicting "cruel, un- usual and illegal punishment on U.S. soldier- prisoners," Jones pleaded that he only followed orders from his superiors. The first GI defendant, Sgt. Judson H. Smith, was sentenced to three years imprisonment and dishonorable discharge on a similar charge. In Jones case, however, ord- ers from above to "get rough and tough with the prisoner's" was considered sufficient mitigation to shorten the sentence in the judgment of Ma- jor Leland Smith, the trial prosecutor. Interferences with the course of justice have been reported since the trial's beginning. Capt. Earl Carroll resigned at the first of the month with the statement that the courts-martial was being grossly mishandled with an eye to protecting top Army officials, THIS published evidence of the manipulation of justice has only served to call attention to Army bigwigs who are attempting to steer clear of the courts-martial. Evidence that they did have a hand in directing the cruel punish- ments at Lichfield was produced at the trial by Major Richard E. LoBuono, former provost marshal a the camp. LoBouno said for one thing that Col. Kilian "was trying to control witnesses for his own protection to keep them off his door- step." He suggested also that Lichfield policy was misstated by higher authorities and was well known to them. One of the higher authorities he mentioned was Major General Albert E. States District Judge Simon H. Rifkind, spe- cial advisor to Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, com- mander of U.S. forces in the European Theatre. THE PUZZLE of what to do with these nationals can be solved only in terms of humanity and experience. "Only he who has starved can under- stand the hungry." What is desperately needed in this situation is not a group of statisticians trained to think in terms of numerical masses, nor an outstanding military leader, but rather an administrative group who wil undertake the problems of the individual sympathetically and painstakingly. Only a person who has a special understanding of the suffering and degradation which these people have undergone can persuade them that they are most needed in their own countries, the only place where they can resume their lives to any purpose and satisfaction. -Natalie Bagrow To the Editor: Since the ice has left and the small lakes on the diagonal have dried up, a new form of horror has ap- peared. I imagine that you too have had to jump to save your life when approached by a female on a two wheel contrivance called a bicycle. The situation is beyond all reason. Either these girls have an utter dis- regard for the rights of conservative pedestrians, or they don't know how to ride their steeds. May I suggest that one of the first things the new student government consider is a proposal to test woman riders for their ability to handle these two wheel demons. This could be done with a minimum amount of red tape, but let's try to removesome of the reckless driver-s from the sidewalks of the diagonal. Robert II. Harder James E. Hovis eontro ereial 1?eItotep I I Said And Done Lectures University Lecture: Dr. Solon J.+ Buck, Archivist of the United States, will lecture on "The National Ar- chives," at 4:15 p.m., Wednesday, April 24, in the Rackham Amphi- theater under the auspices of the De- partment of Library Science and the Division of the Social Sciences. The public is cordially invited. Faculty members who desire to con- fer with Dr. Buck on Wednesday morning, April 24, may arrange to do so by calling Professor R. H. Gjellsness (tel. 765). The Henry Russel Lecture. Dr. Elizabeth C. Crosby, Professor of Anatomy, will deliver the Henry Rus- sel Lecture for 1945-46. "The Neuro- anatomical Patterns Involved in Cer- tain Eye Movements," at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, May *9, in the Rackham Amphitheater. Announcement of the Henry Russel Award for this year will also be made at this time. Academic Notices Final Examination Schedule for Women's Health Lecture Section I-Mon. Apr. 22, 4:15 p.m.-Rackham Auditorium. Section II-Tues. Apr. 23, 4:15 p.m.-Rackham Auditorium. Section III-Wed. Apr. 24, 4:15 p.m.-Natural ScienceeAuditorium. Please appear for examination in the section in which you are enrollee Analytic Functions Seminar today at 3:00 p.m.,, 3201 A. H. Mr. Pitts will speak on Analytic Functions of Qua- ternions. Events Today Radio Program: The University Broadcasting service and the School of Music present today from 2:00 to 2:30 over Station WKAR (870 kc) its weekly program "EPOCHS IN MU- SIC" under the direction and super- vision of Prof. Hanns Pick. This will be the first of five Radio-recitals de- voted to the works of LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN. The program contains the Bagatelles Op. 119 for Piano solo (played by Lucretia Dell), and the String-quartet Op. 18 No. 4 (played by Wassily Besekirsky, Loren Cady, Edward Ormond and Hanns Pick). Commentations by Theodore Heger. The Psychology Club will present Dr. Ira A. Altshuler, psychiatrist at Eloise State Hospital this evazinq at 8:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Graduate School. Dr. Altshuler will speak on the topic 'Music Therapy." Everyone is invited to attend. Botanical Journal Club will meet today at 4:00 p.m. in Room N.S. 1139. Reports by: Claire Micnelso i, "Two Famous Michigan Botanists." Marvin C. Rogers, "The Effects of Certain Sugars and Amino Acids upon the Respiration of Allomyces," and "An Experimental Study of Alternation of Generations in Allomcyes." Bernard Ellison, "The Genus Pythium." Chairman, F. K. Spar-row. Anyone interested is cordially invited to at- tend The University of Michigan branch of the A.I.E.E. will meet tonight at 7:30 at the Michigan Union. Mr. Floyd Schultz of the Detroit Division of Detrola Corp. will deliver a talk on "Recent Developments in Radio." The speaker has planned his talk so that it will be of special interest to veterans who have been connected with radio during the war. Plans for the field trips will be completed, and tickets will be sold at the end of the meeting. A date for the annual picnic will be decided up- on. Tom Hendrickson will report on the progress made by the by-laws committee. THE NEED of defining "freedom of the press" has been pushed into the lime-light in this area by the Detroit Free Press attacks on the University of Michigan. The question has be- come of major importance in other areas also. For instance, many of the former Fascist news- papers in Italy have resumed publication with their former staffs and former ownership. The editorial policies of these papers have been only superficially revised. When we have just fought a war aginst Fascist Italy, does "freedom of the press" make it necessary that these papers should be allowed to follow their previous tactics in sup- port of Fascism? These questions are basic. Quite possibly the failure on our part to find a satisfactory answer shall mean the end of any attempt to have representative government. Today there is reason to consider a MIS-INFORMED POP- ULACE to be fully as dangerous as an unin- formed populace. The people of Germany, Italy and Japan were not uninformed, but they were deliberately mis-informed. The most import- ant source of information is the people's own experience; but this source after all extends, for each of us, over a relatively small area. For news about any event outside our own com- munity, we must rely on the newspapers, mov- ies and radio. Therefore we must have a correct policy toward these mediums of communica- tion if we are to have an informed electorate. There are few persons who would deny that any semblance of representative government is dependent upon an informed electorate. Do we have the correct policy toward the news- papers when the Detroit Free Press can print MIS-INFORMATION about us and escape un- punished? This writer thinks not. Any freedom which is stretched that far becomes worse than meaningless . . . it becomes dangerous. BUT we must conclude that the Free Press is an unruly rogue, a black sheep among news- papers. Its publisher John S. Knight is the presi- dent of the American Society of Newspaper Edi- tors. He was recently awarded a citation by the Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia for his "out- standing work during the war." This outstanding work consisted of trying to take our type of free- dom of the press to Europe. The Europeans have refused it . . . should we too refuse it? Mr. Knight is clearly a man of standing in the newspaper world. A man of even greater stand- ing is Col. Robert McCormick. Col. McCormick is publisher of the Chicago Tribune, owner of radio station WGN in Chicago, president of the Mutual Broadcasting System, and one of the recognized leaders in the Associated Press. Col. McCormick has just called a conference of all those publishers who are "interestedl in legisla- tion to exempt the press services from the provi- sions of the anti-trust laws." That seems a strange act by a man who is sincerely concerned about "freedom of the press." We would believe that the sincere advo- cate of press freedom would welcome the anti- trust laws. We would believe that he would fear the great danger of monopoly in the distribu- tion of news. We would believe that he would welcome competing newspapers, because the essence of freedom is freedom for everybody. But Col. McCormick and Mr. Knight are not really interested in freedom for everybody. They are interested in a more exclusive and profitable type of freedom. They want to corner the market on freedom. They want to catch freedom and tie it down. Then they intend to build a fence around it, and nail up on the fence a big sign: "For mem- bers only." OF COURSE the working newspapermen could never be included among the members. They can't meet the prime requirement for member- ship, namely: $1,000,000 to start your own pa- per. So they get their own special kind of free- dom. They have the freedom to convert their boss' ideas into good grammar. Well, that's one kind of freedom, but it's hardly.freedom of the press. All of these attempts at definition are going to end up at the same old place until a new ap- proach is adopted. One of these days somebody is going to suggest that perhaps freedom of the press should actually mean freedom for the work- ing newspapermen to write the news as they see it, and not as their bosses imagined it. Then we are going to question whether this type of free- dom might not be better achieved if the news- papers were owned by the government, rather than by the Knights and the McCormicks. -Ray Ginger To the Editor: This is to register a vehement pro- test at the unwittingly (I hope) ne- farious practice of your Advertising Department in accepting color dis- criminatory advertisements. I have reference to the May Festi- val supplementary edition wherein Mis Anne Brown, a competent sop- rano, is advertised as . . . "Negro 'Porgy and Bess' Soprano". I am aware that Anne Brown is a Negro. That fact, however, does not add or detract from her ability to sing, and, in my mind, is played up for the ex- ploitation value implicit in the use of the word Negro. There are, undoubtedly, many Negroes who disagree with this the- sis, and insist on the biling of colored artists as belonging to the Negro race. This recognition of ar- tistic - or any other - ability as belonging to a color, creed, or country is dubious, at best, in value. As yet, the Daily has not offended in its news articles by pointing- out participants in a news story as be- ing black as distinguished from that inchoate conglomeration of races known as white. However, I believe that, in accord with its policy of un- distinguished journalism, it soon will, if the opportunity presents itself. If you are looking for a facetious cap for this letter, please entitle it in boldface: "Cancel My Subscrip- tion." Edward Tumin Placing the Blame IT IS A PITY Pope Pius in his ap- peal for world aid to combat fam- ine did not feel it politic to focus attention where it belongs - on the failure of the American government to take steps at all commensurate with the emergency. . . . It is the United States that is failing the world, not because the American peo- ple are ungenerous but because greedy business-as-usual food interests and an equally rapacious farm bloc run the Department of Agriculture. The Nation Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet in Room 319 West Medical Building on Friday, April 26, at 4 p.m. "Enzymes and the Intermediary Metalobism of the Fat Acids." All in- terested are invited. School of Education Freshmen: Courses dropped after Saturday, April 27, will be recorded with the grade of E except under extraordinary cir- cumstances. No course is considered dropped unless it has been reported in the office of the Registrar, Room 4, University Hall. Students, College of Engineering: The final day for DROPPING COURSES' WITHOUT RECORD will be Saturday, April 27. A course may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier after conference with the instructor. W. J. Emmons, Secretary Varsity Glee Club Short rehsearsal followed by ser- enade tonight at 7:15 at Michigan Union. Every man out. The Seminar on Music will meet in Lane Hall tonight at 7:30. Robert Taylor will be in charge of a program on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Alpho Phi Omega will hold a business meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Union. Important business will be discussed so every membe- and pledge should attend. Sigma Nu Fraternity will meet to- night at 7:30 p.m., at the Union. All members, regardless of chapter affili- ations, are invited. The Inter-Faith Committee of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. meet tonight at 7:30 p.m., at Foundation. (Continued on Page 5) the will the Fifty-Sixth Year 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 Robert Goldman.. . . . . . . . . . . . . City Editor Emily E. Knapp . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor Pat Cameron..... .........Associate Editor BARNABY Tattle-tale cigar ash, m'boy. Discovered by Your Fairy Godfather on the kitchen floor. Positive proof that the Refrigerator Bandit is partial to the weed-How very careless #t-a -- :rm:- # -rn ref#^k By Crockett Johnson Without question. Clear Havana ... Pop always smokes Havana r .nnr Mr O'Mallev... 'Cushamochree! Not your father. Still, he has free and easy access to the ice box. There's no gainsaying that. Ah, the detective's life. What strange by-paths he must traverse. And whrlf Wcultrecisions he's forced to make! Clark Baker . . . 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