a FOt$ THE~ MICHV; ANDILY FRIDAY, MAY 10, 19,16 _ . . -I. _ _ _.- LF 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 Hale Champion Robert Goldman Emily E. Knapp Pat Cameron . Clark Baker . Des Howarth.. Ann Schutz Dona Guimaraes Managing Editor Editorial Director ,. ,._ . . . City . . . Associate .. . Associate Sports . . . . . Associate Sports . .. .. Women's . . . . Associate Women's Business Staff Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Dorothy Flint . . . . . Business Manager Joy Altman . . . . . Associate Business Manager Evelyn Mills. . . . . Associate Business Manager 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. Subscription during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. REPRE8ENTD POR NATIONAL ADVERTI3ING OY National Advertising Service, Inc. CollegePublishers Representative 420 MAotoN Ave. NEW YORK. N. Y. CICAO - BOSTON . Los ANGLES -SAN FANCSCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 NIGHT EDITOR: MARGARET FARMER Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Paris Failure Storm Warning HOPES for a secure peace in Europe have been dashed again with Secretary of State Byrnes' proposal that the Conference of Foreign Minis- ters at Paris recognize its failure and refer the unsolved problem of writing peace treaties to a 21-nation peace conference June 15. If the four great powers-the United States, Russia, Britain and France cannot agree on terms for Europe's peace treaties, there is little reaspn to believe that 21 nations can arrive at an amicable decision. The foreign ministers at Paris have deadlocked on three major issues: 1. Secretary Byrnes' proposed Big Four treaty to guarantee disarmament and demiltarization of Germany for 25 years was interpreted by Russia as "a paper screen to conceal a retreat" from American obligations in Europe; by France, as;a substitute for her demand that the indus- trial Ruhr and Saar be detached from Germany. Britain tacitly approved the proposal. 2. Russia backed Yugoslavia's claim to Trieste. The United States, Britain and France ntrged a plan which would leave Trieste in Italian ter- ritory and divide the Istrian peninsula and other contested provinces between Italy and Yugo- slavia. 3. Russia requested a trusteeship in Tripoli- tania and Britain proposed that Somoliland - now divided among Britain, France and Italy- be placed solely under British trusteeship. Thus, as at other conferences, the issues which divide the world's powers are based on imperialism, suspicion and fear. The Paris conference, like those at San Francisco, Lon- don and New York, has proved to be an arena for the expression of rival ideologies and na- tional interests. Spheres of influence are again to be the bulwark of world peace. Last semester, Prof. Leslie White predicted "bigger and better Pearl Harbors in the future." Harlow Heneman, then a member of the polit- ical science faculty, warned that the United Nations could not succeed if the great powers could not agree on occupation problems in Ger- many. The events at Paris this week have added new meaning to these predictions. -Clayton L. Dickey Correction On Roman Analogy YESTERDAY, A DETROIT newspaper colum- nist drew a superficial analogy between Rom- an civilization and the United States. It was his contention that unless the "people arouse them- selves to fight for their liberties" by curbing such threats to our peace as the miners' Mr. Lewis, "we (will) drift into anarchy out of which can only come despotism." Included in his parallel is the rather confused idea that the United States Congress is somehow like the Roman Senate: an administrative-legislative body which as such risks losing power to a despot if and when it fails to govern adequately. Obviously, the U.S. Congress is in no sense an administrative body. Primary responsibility for the current economic quagmire lies with the President and his 'Cabinet who have failed to anticipate and effectively prevent strikes. The now-prevalent theory that Congressional legis- lation is the answer to our economic problems is both false and dangerous. The supposedly stringent war-time Smith-Connally anti-strike law which was of little or no effect is evidence of this. IN SO FAR as it is a tremendously complex economic and political unit, managed by a centralized government, the United States may I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Starving Pawtis By SAMUEL GRAFTON BY THE END of last summer it was perfectly clear that drought had struck at most of the food producing areas of the world, outside of this hemisphere, and that a famine was inevit- able. It was also clear that we in the United States were having a splendid year of near-record crops; and that the famine in the outside world made every kernel of our grain doubly, triply and quadruply precious; food to be saved, and cherished, and well used. The one man in the whole world who should have been most aware of the total situation was Mr. Clinton P. Ander- son, our Secretary of Agriculture. He had his world-wide fpod reports to go by; if those were not enough he had only to look into his Bible and read again about Joseph and the lean years, But Mr. Anderson seems to have read some National Association of Manufacturers' litera- ture about the evils of controls instead; for he picked a date one month after the fact of the drought disaster was established to lift almost all controls from the American food market. THAT STARTED US on our winter of waste, during the course of which at least 100,000,- 000 more bushels of wheat than usual, ten out of every hundred, were fed unnecessarily to live- stock. During this debauch, Mr. Anderson has re- mained resolutely cptihistic about the 'world's food prospects, as, of course, he has had to be to defend his odd position; he has kept a hopeful smile frozen on his face, while the world disaster has turned slowly into a world rout. As recently as Monday of this week Mr. An- derson told reporters in Washington, gathered to witness some puffed-up ceremony involving a farmer who gave a bit of money to famine re- lief, that he expected our wheat-export goals for May and June, plus our deficit, to be met, The next day the facts struck Washington head-on; we had shipped only 100,000 tons of wheat during the first week of May, as against 250,000 tons allocated; we are 881,000 tons short for the year. And so on Tuesday, twenty- four hours after his cheery little tweet-tweet of Monday, Mr. Anderson was compelled to ad- mit that the situation was "extremely grave." AND, apparently Mr. Anderson has led Mr. Tru- man into exactly the same kind of brisk somersaulting. Our President told us on April 12 that the world food situation was improving. Six days later, on April 18, he, too, switched, and declared that the picture was even "worse than it had been painted." These flips and flops are full of meaning. Those who oppose rationing, and con- trols, find it necessary to be optimistic from time to time, to uphold themselves; then, as the full weight of the crisis descends on them, and they feel the bitter need of frightening the people into eating less, or something of the sort, they switch to alarm; the result is a curious succes- sion of poses, hopeful and dejected, gay and gloomy, flip and also flop; until the hope and the gloom come to seem only satiric footnotes to each other. Into this picture there has floated the figure of HerLert Hoover, himself a devoted enemy of rationing, and controls, and of the use of state power. Mr. Hcover announced, some weeks ago, that the crisis would be a short one, lasting three or four months. Then, instead of asking for emergency government action, to save food, which surely we could have stood for so short a time, Mr. hoover set off on a trip around the world to get the facts. He has used almost the whole period of the crisis, as defined by him- self, to study the crisis. He has worked hard, he has taxed himself; yet the chief result will be that there will be no government action. And as we study the strange picture, it is im- possible to shake off the conclusion that the people of the world are, to a certain extent, the victims of an American ideological squabble; that the starving have been made pawns in a game of ideas; and that the same, sudden reactionary offensive which has muddled our own reconver- sion has laid its long shadow across the world stage, blotting out light abroad as it is trying so hard to do at home, (Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate) Mine Accidts Just Grievance WASHINGTON-Tragedy of the coal strike sit- uation is that public reaction against John L. Lewis has diverted attention away from one very just grievance on the part of the miners- mine accidents. Lumbering, coal and metal mining cost more lives per working hour than any other industries in the nation. According to the National Safety Council there are 50.5 disabling injuries for every 1,000,000 man-hours in the coal and metal mines, compared to 14.46 disabling injuries per 1,000,000 man-hours of work in the entire nation. As late as 1941, Congress passed the National Coal Mine Inspection Act empowering annual inspection of mines by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. However, the coal operators' lobby in Congress succeeded in winning its battle against com- pulsion. In other words, the operators don't have to carry out Bureau of Mines recommendations. The Bureau can only advise. Larger mines, however, usually do carry out these recommendations, and it is the small mines where most accidents occur. -by Drew Pearson (Copyright, 1946, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) C-Oftn'serwl (4popte/u A YEAR AGO the war in Europe ended. Rela- tions among the Big Three were smooth and efficient .,..even the professional isolationists realized that the unitel fforts of England, Rus- ia and the Unied States were the major factor which had won victory over Germany. Today, one year later, the battlefields are a memory only, and that unity which was so essen- tial then is thought to be a luxury now, one of those little niceties which would, perhaps, make dinner more refined and pleasant. No longer are the politicians who guide our policies greatly concerned with the desires and needs of other nations. That desperate battle to ion out dif- ferences, to agi among ourselves, has yielded its place to h e accusations and the self-right- eous :lgal of a :: I :.bilie- rirning to busi- ness as usir, I The attack on Russia's policy in Iran was as savage as the assault on Cisterna. The dispute had lasted two weeks before the Chicago Sun managed to dig out the facts and decide that Russia's policy in Iran was actually justified. There is a rekrettable change when our gov- ernment no longer investigates the background and the fats of the Iranian dispute in order to present them to the people of the United States, but so important a function is left to a Chicago newspaper. The soldiers who saw the Army nmovies about our allies are now daily trsted to an anti-Russian. or anti-British speechb y one of our leading diplomats. Althogh the air gnaws heavy with denuncia- ions and threats, there is ot one fact to be found . . . the citizen pauses in limbo, puzzled and confused, because he doesn't have the facts which would enable him to decide. SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES has recom- mended that the present Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers dissolve now, because he has despaired of the Big Four ever reaching agree- ment on the subject of the European peace treaties. There are gestures of defeat as little men try to do big jobs, and the spirit of optimism and compromise which marked the war-time conferences is changing to a reckless disregard for the views of other states. While we snub Russia and denounce Eng- land, there is somehow a great caution and fellow-feeling in our attitude toward our for- mer enemies. After ten years in which the people of the world have learned the facts about Franco Spain, we hesitate to break off relations with his government because we don't know the facts. We are deeply con- cerned about free elections in the defeated countries, even though every such election in Germany, Japan, and that undefeated enemy Argentina . . . witnesses a return of the war-makers to office. PRESIDENT ,TRUMAN seents to regret uni- lateral actions by the other major nations, but he has no hesitation in asking Congress for permission to arm every country in the Western Hemisphere. There is no diplomatic veil over this threat to Europe . . . the New World is pre- paring to walk with a swagger, a gun on each hip and a bared knife between its teeth Every affirmation of faith in the United Na- tions is matched by an act which will destroy the United Nations. In such an atmosphere of suspicion, threats and frenzied rearmament, the ambiguous propaganda for a "World Govern- ment" seems strangely mis-placed and danger- ous. There is small point in this frenzied clamor for world justice until that Big Three unity which won the war is also mobilized to win the peace. No country of the Big Three is now will- ing to put its eggs in the UN basket . . . Great Britain is drawing tighter the strings around the Empire; the United States is preparing to arm every country in the Americas; Russia is resentful of the fact that it has become a perma- nent minority on the Security Council. Even in those cases where the world knows that Russia is right, as she was right about Spain, she is nevertheless in the minority, so that the actual isSue seems to be not Spain but Russia. The Big Three are today separated by issues, not slogans. England and the United States are fighting over Far Eastern markets, Middle East- ern markets .. . the International Aviation Con- ference was broken up by a disagreement be- tween England and the United States. Any chatter about world government which does not propose a solution to those concrete issues now preventing Big Three unity is talk in the ab- stract. It is only when discussion leaves the abstract and finds the facts that men can agree. -Ray Ginger Good Neighbors IT IS a historical irony that the Good Neighbor policy of President Roosevelt, the great ideal- ist, should have been applied in Latin America with such a high degree of pure expediency; and that only now, after the death of the man who inspired the Latin American masses with hope for the Four Freedoms, is our practice of sup- porting dictatorships and oligarchies in Latin- America if they cooperated against the Axis - being changed to an encouragement of democ- racy. -J. M. Jones in Harper's Attacks Arab 'Leaders' IN 1919, at Versailles Emir Feisal in asking in behalf of his+ father, King Hussein, for independ- ence for the Arab countries, expressly excluded Palestine which "for its universal character he left on one side for the mutual consideration of all parties interested." This state- ment was made by the Emir after the publication of an agreement be- tween Dr. Weizman, President of the Zionist organization and himself, reached a month earlier, and in ac- cordance with which the Emir recog- nized the right of the Jews to im- migrate into, and develop Palestine, provided Arab independence were achieved in the Arab lands outside of Palestine. The Arabs outside of the Holy Land have achieved that. independence! Now for some statistics: During three thousand years of recorded history, Palestine has been under Arab rule only 437 years (from 643 A.D., the time of the Arab conquest, to 1071, the time of the Tu'kish conquest). A small number of Arabs came in after 643 A.D., but 75 per cent of the present day Arab population are themselves immi- grants or descendants of persons who immigrated to Palestine dur- ing the last hundred years-most- ly after Jewish immigration be- gan to develop the country. In figures: the Arab population has grown from 664,000 in 1922, to 1,- 175,000 in 1944. It is indeed un- fortunate for the Arabs that Pal- estine does not belong to the Arabs, but to a few Arabs, wealthy pro- prietors who fear the introduction of the labor unions, and universal education by the Jews. If the Arabs loved their own people half as much as they hate the Jews, they would reforest the land they so eagerly claim; they would reclaim the deserts, as the Jews are doing; they would raise the moral and phy- sical standards of living of a people who have never known the meaning of the word democracy. Or perhaps that is just what the Arab princes do not want; perhaps that is just why they resent and fear so much the spreading of Jewish influence in the Near East. Joshua Grauer Crime Is Crime To The .Editor: W HILEAPPRECIATING the mag- nanimous spirit of Miss Larsen's editorial, and of Sergeant Abbott's telegram which prompted it, I must protest that we owe a duty to truth as well as to charity. I don't think it matters very much whether or not we hang Tojo-or any of the Nazi leaders, for thatmatter-but that they deserve hanging seems to me beyond dispute. It is not a question of revenge or ani- mosity, but of truth and justice. To say "Tojo's only crime seems to be that of losing the war" simply slides dishonestly over the question as to who began the war. To say that we mustn't mention Pearl Harbor be- cause the Japanese might say "re- member Nagasaki" is like saying "Jim my and Johhny both hit each other" without any reference to the fact that Jimmy began the fight by hitting Johnny first. Pearl Harbor was not just one of the cities, on either side, bombed from the air during a war; it was a city attacked in time of peace. When a footpad attacks a peaceful citizen, do we say "Let us both agree to forget this unfortunate brawl; this is a time to plan for tomorrow and not fume about yesterday?" I cannot see that it makes any differ- ence that the peaceful citizens hap- pened to be named Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Greece, Manchuria, China, the Phil- ippines, Ethiopia and so on instead of Jones or Smith, and that the foot- pads happen to be named Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo instead of Lefty' Louie or Gyp the Blood. -Preston Slosson * * * Famine Program To The Editor: FAMINE is threatening one-fourth of the earth's population-some 500,000,000 people. We shouldn't be startled by this figure for nu- trition experts have placed 2,200 calories per day as the human need, one-fourth of the world subsists on less; some on as little as 940 calories per day. We, ourselves, are consum- ing between 3,200 and 4,000 calories each day-the only country in the world with such a high general calorie ration. Wouldn't it prove easy to give up some of the excessities in our eating habits, byneating less and wasting nothing. In fact, one slice of bread given up at each meal by the people of the U.S. would be sufficient to mitigate the famine. Yet, we, you and I, find no one to ask or demand that these slight services be made. The Letters to the Editor government, the people, and this Uni- versity, have shown little initiative in instituting some relief plan. How- ever, we can not become cynical be- cause of the inadequacies evidenced by those who govern us. Here we have the occasion to show that the minds and thoughts of the students are conscious of and able to meet this particular problem. We can make the University of Michigan Famine Pro- gram sound the rallying call for all other schools, even perhaps for the nation, if we show America how stu- dents can take the lead in great issues.I The University of Michgan Famine Committee is endeavoring to unify this campus: to present a tangible program in which all students and faculty members can participate. The three tentative aims of the conurittee have already been enthus- iastically endorsed by representatives of the Co-ops, dormitories, guilds, veterans, etc. They are: 1. The elimination of food wast- age. 2. A famine day every week, on Tuesday, on which our diets will be restricted to 1500 calories. 3. The elimination of bread from our diet for one meal each day. The Famine Committe realizes that these plans, or variations of them can not be effective on campus with- out the support of the student body. They therefore implore the aid 01 every student; they urge you to help The distressed of the world are wait- ing for your answer. -Suymour S. Goldstein Answer To0Wash To The Editor: THE RECENT ARTICLE captione "Don't Leave The Philippine Now," written by Tom Walsh i gummed up with vindictive generali[ zation which is unfairly directer against Manuel Roxas, the newl3 elected President of the Philippine' Commonwealth government and tr the country he.represents. The writ- er in a wift and sententious dicho tomy called Roxas collaborator which I assume, he could not logi cally prove on reliable ground. The word "collaborator" has been frequently abused in this theater of operation. To my comprehension the word is synonymous with trai- tor. In the Philippines there were some collaborators but they were not traitors. The term is used with flexibility. The men who worked with the Japs are called collabora- tors, whether he has a reason for doing it or not. As the Japs took over the Philippines, it was the poli- cy of the conquerors to use the cap- tives to work. Government men were re-assigned to their old jobs. Disobedience of this order means reprisals. Anyone who went through the mill as a prisoner, knew what it means to be conquered. Roxas may have worked, or may have been claimed by the Japs to have worked with them, but he worked not as a traitor but for the purpose of peace and'order. The real collaborators were mad known to us during the struggle. Now they are liquidated by the Philippine government. The whereabouts o Roxas during the war was not re- vealed to us. The Japs would hav made a big issue out of it if he hat collaborated actively with them. General MacArthur met Roxas and pronounced him on the clear side Chic Parsons, of the Navy suicid squad, had gotten much war infor- mation from Roxas. Colonel Cruz o the Philippine Army had establishe connections with Roxas during th occupation. In the recent politica election 80 per cent of the member of the Philippine Army voted fo' Roxas. The people recognized hi innocence and elected him to office Obviously, the word collaborator a the writer has tried to convey is r misnomer. The one faction that is agains Roxas is the Hukbalahap-a com- munist group of the Karl Marx-typ who are ruling some sectors of the Philippines with force. During the war this group was called the Anti. Japanese army who not only weeder out Japanese but Filipinos as well. Mr. Walsh said that Roxas has not advanced a reform for the com- mon man, because the president is himself a wealthy man. Roxas who is a product of the American school believes in the right of the common man. His past records point con- clusively that his economy was largely devoted to the uplift of the poor. The writer said further that the Philippines is headed toward a civil war. The early history of America in the years of its infancy was not a clean slate. She witnessed civil strifes, politicking, and state squabbles. The Independence of the Philip- pines is a settled issue. Congress has made up their mind. Neither you nor I can change it. The American people has consented it and it is forthcom- ing. Right after July 4, 1946 there are manfgood things that will ensue. The American-Filipino relation will be more close, for it is going to be a cooperative living of small and big DAKVYOFFICIAL BULLETIN 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. lat- urdays). FRIDAY, MAY 10, l 1 VOL. LV, No. 136 Notices Men's Residence Ialls. Reapplica- tions for the FALL and SPRING TERMS for men now living in the Residence Halls are ready for dis- tribution. Blanks may be secured from the Office of the Dean of Stu- dents. All applications for reassign- ment must be in the hands of the Dean of Students ON OR BRFORE MAY 20. 1945 Michiganensian: All those who have subscriptions and who have not yet called for their 1945 Michi- ganensian must do so before Friday, May 17. After this date, all 'Ensians which have not been distributed will be sold to those on the waiting list of last fall. Willow Village Program for veter- ans and their wives: Friday, May 10: Leadership: Dr. Fred G. Stevenson, Extension Staff "How to get democratic group action, and Parliamentary Procedures." 8 a.m. Conference Room, West Lodge. Friday, May 10: May Dance, 8:30- 11:30. Audtorium, West Lodge. Saturday, May 11: Dancing Clas- es: Beginners, couples, 7 p.m.; Ad- /anced, couples, 8 p.m., Auditorium, Nest Lodge. Sunday, May 12: Classical Music, (records). 3 p.m., Office. Lectures Alexander Ziwet Lecture in Math- ematics: The third lecture in the series on Mathematical Theory of 3as Flow, Flames and Detonation Waves by Professor Kurt Friedrichs >f New York University will be given oday at 3:00 in 3011 Angell Hall. All interested are invited to attend. A adernic Notices Doctoral Preliminary Examinations 'n Education: Anyone desiring to :ake the Doctoral Preliminary Exam- :nations in Education, which will be eld on June 6, 7, and 8, should lotify the office of Dr. Clifford Noody, 4000 University High School, 'efore May 15. Biological Chemistry Seminar will meet in Room 309 West Medical Bldg. Today at 4 p.m. "Some Recent Studies of Oligosac- ,harides (Sucrose) and Polysacchar- ides (Starch)." All interested are in- vited. Discussion Series on Current Prob- ems in Tropical Disease Control. 11:00 a.m. Saturday, May 11, Room ?009 School of Public Health. Water Purification and Amebiasis. Discus- 3ion led by Dr. R. J. Porter and Dr. G. M. Ridenour. Directed Teaching, Qualifying Ex- imination: All students expecting to 9o directed teaching next term are equired to pass a qualifying exam- nation in the subject in which they expect to teach. This examination xill be held on Saturday, May 11, at 3:30 a.m. Students will meet in the auditorium of the University High 3chool. The examination will con- ;ume about four hours' time; prompt- less is therefore essential. ConcertCs Student Recital: Students in the Wind Instruments Departrment of the School of Music will present a pro- tram at 1:00 p.m. today, in Harris gall. Hugo Marple, bassoonist, will appear as soloist in Mozart's Concer- to, Op. 96; Don Kyser, clarinetist, in Concertino, Op. 26 by Von Weber; Kenneth Snapp, cornetist, in Concer- 'o No. 1, by Brandt; William Poland, >boist, in Sonata for Oboe and Piano "y Hindemith; Vincent DeMatteis, ,larinetist, in Mozart's Concerto, Op. 107; a woodwind ensemble will play ;he first movement of Ravel's Sona- ina; program will close with Corelli's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 11, play- ed by a brass choir. Students in the University are invited. Student Recital: Virg'inia Solomon, violinist, will present a recital at 8:30 Sunday evening, May 12, in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. It will include ,ompositions by Bach, Tartini, Sibeli- us, Dohnanyi, and deFalla, and will be open to the public without charge. Miss Solomon is a pupil of Gilbert Ross. Events Today University of Michigan Section of the American Chemical Society will meet today at 4:15 p.m., in Room 151 Chem. Building. Dr. W. Conard Fer- nelius, professor of chemistry at Pur- due University, will speak on "The Structure of Coordination Com- BARNABY By Crockett Johnson McSnoyd, my friend. . Why bother to accuse me of being the Refrigerator Bandit? When you have Nits, O'Maley. ou hired me to sit P.rah 19N. Se NewpeP t, r r--l E-----. U