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NIGHT EDITOR: LOIS IVERSON
Editorials published in The Mirhigan Daily
are written by mtmbers of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
Allies in Wonderland
"THE TIME has come, the Walrus said, to talk
of many things..."
A trite and over-used quotation, perhaps, but
certainly one charged with significance for a
globe troubled with the growing pains of peace
after the bloodiest war in history.
A Saturday Washington dispatch hints at the
possibility that the leaders of the Big Three may,
in the near future, sit down and talk over these
many things. Certainly there is an emphatic need
for such a one-night stand revival of the war-
time Big Three confabs.
The UNO has held its first session and given
evidence that its embryonic organization may
possess what the old League lacked. But be-
cause it is still a young and unformed organi-
zation it has also proven itself ineffective in
handling the present disputes among the
three nations that will dominate it.
SINCE the very dawn of peace the United
States, Russia and Great Britain have dis-
agreed on several vital points, all of them of
world-wide import. The United States and Great
Britain have protested the presence of Russian
troops in Iran. No reply has been received from
the Soviet Union. Russia, on the other hand, has
accused the United States of violating the Mos-
cow Declaration and Great Britain has lionishly
backed this nation.
The United States has entered another protest
to Moscow based upon official reports from
China that Russia has claimed as legitimate war
booty Japanese-owned industrial equipment in
Manchuria, -and there are unconfirmed reports
from Manchuria that the Russians have started
moving, look, stock and barrel, certain industrial
plants from Manchuria into Siberia. At the same
time there are other reports that the Soviet
troops have begun to pull out of that still-chaotic
country, leaving a confused situation with appar-
ently neither enough American or Chinese troops
in the vicinity to maintain order. The fault there
lies in beginning their exodus without notifying
the other powers concerned so that adequate
steps could be taken to keep the situation in
hand.
Russia has informally sought territorial
concessions from Turkey with the possibility
that she may press for joint Russo-Turkish
control of the strategic Dardanelles. The State
Department has significantly announced that
the super-battleship Missouri will be sent to
Turkey with the body of a Turkish ambassa-
dor who died in this country.
THE PROBLEM of Italy and her pre-war col-
onies has never been settled, and here again
the Big Three are about as far apart as it is
possible to be. The U.S. and Britain have taken
the position that these colonies should be under
a UNO trusteeship for a limited period, but Rus-
sia has held out for individual trusteeships.
These ire but a few of the disputes that "loom
as a cloud no bigger than a fist on the horizon,"
but which have an ominous threat for the peace
of the world. And a former British prime minis-
ter, who speaks only unofficially but for far too
many people represents the personification of
British Imperialism, has called for a perpetual
Anglo-American alliance-a demand which does
not ring too harmoniously with the tollings of
the UNO.
Besides these pressing international prob-
lems, there is need for a Big Three meeting if
MAKING just allowances for the inadequacies
of a recently reorganized orchestra, the De-
troit Symphony Orchestra under the direction of
Karl Krueger gave a Choral Union Concert last
night which turned out to be quite satisfactory
on the whole. The program, it must be admitted,
began pretty painfully with a slow and lifeless
rendition of the Mozart "Jupiter" Symphony,
No. 41, which sounded as if it were still in re-
hearsal stages, with heavy, disorganized strings,
not much cohesion among the sections, and few
traces of the lilting brilliance which is most of
the charm of Mozart. This was largely owing to
the dragging tempos which made the whole work
sound tired and mechanical.
Surprisingly enough, because it is a much
more difficult composition to play, Debussy's
"La Mer" was given a very fine performance,
with good dynamic color and considerably more
sympathy on the part of both conductor and or-
chestra than was given the Mozart.
Mendelssohn's Overture, "Fingal's Cave," Op.
26, and Sibelius' Five Excerpts from the Inci-
dental Music for "The Tempest" were both well
done, although they are not particuarly inter-
esting pieces of music.
After their earlier disorganized efforts, the
string sections pulled themselves together amaz-
ingly for a superb performance of the Strauss
Tone Poem, "Death and Transfiguration." The
interpretation was powerful and interesting, and
the orchestra gave Mr. Krueger good response.
With the exception of the opening number it
was a fine concert.
-Paula Brower
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Mail Orders
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
THE BRITISH LOAN is in trouble. Letters
received by some Congressmen are described
as running 400 to 1 against granting the multi-
billion credit; the best showing on any Congress-
man's letter-table is fifty-fifty. This score is be-
ing registered directly following Mr. Churchill's
alliance for the restraint of the Soviet Union
Perhaps the moral is that the decay of inter-
national relations, between Russia and the West,
results also in a decay of relations between Bri-
tain and America; that disintegration, like peace,
is indivisible.
One or two Congressional isolationists may
have been won over to the loan by Mr.
Churchill's bitterness against Russia; but the
America First kind of letter writer (he is an
active fellow, with a pocket full of stamps) is
demanding that the British give us air bases
in exchange for the credit. The isolationist
wants all this, and interest, too. Perhaps he
has read Mr. Churchill's plea for an alliance
as a confession of weakness, with the result
that he is for neither tle aliliance nor the loan,
but for whatever bits of stuff we can pick up.
And the isolationist has areas of support he
did not have before. Many of the Dear Congress-
man letters against the loan are from Zionists,
who are outraged by British refusal to let more
refugee Jews into Palestine. And while inter-
nationalists, generally, are for the loan, there
has been a sloughing-off of their passion for it
since the rupture between Russia and the West;
they are still for it, but not with the old tears
and prayers. The best friends of Britain in
America have never been pro-British, but pro-
peace; the general decline in the prospects for
peace tends to make them less optimistic and
less effective on all fronts.
It has been pattern-thinking, of a primitive
kind, to suppose that a rupture between Russia
and West would lead to a romance between
Britain and America; a little enclave of billing
and cooing in an angry world. It is not like that
at all; deep political changes take place, as a
result of which those forces in American life
which have been most opposed to Britain take
a long step forward. It is shocking to look at the
resulting mess, and to recall the hopes of last
summer; it is as if a splendid and well-earned
dianner had been lifted from the table and
splattered against the wall.
YET THE LOAN remains necessary, and must
be granted; to deny it means to sharpen
every British fear and to harden every item of
British imperial policy, and perhaps to weld
British public opinion behind that policy. Let
us remember that the tough old birds of Em-
pire, like Mr. Churchill, don't want this loan,
they want the alliance; they don't want free
trade in an open world; they want the Empire
as it was, with an ally or two to back it up.
And, in part, the loan is a direct matter be-
tween the British people, who, after their war,
find they may have to put plain, ordinary bread
back on ration, and the American people, some
of whose whiskey ads (I notice, with all respect)
are telling them how to make a drink which
requires using a pat of butter per potion. The
loan is a step on the road to peace; if its pros-
pects have become dimmed lately that is indeed
a sign that disintegration is indivisible; that a
decline in the prospects for peace anywhere
spreads its gloomy influence and its gray touch
everywhere.
Men who believe in half a world must not be
surprised to find themselves followed on the
platform by other men who feel that a quarter-
world is an even better cut.
(Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate)
IT SO HAPPENS
0*Never Mention His Name
We wonder it there is any significance in the
fact that the Law School has no records for the
summer session of 1909, that term being distin-
guished by the presence of one Theodore Bilbo,
student.
Use Of The Mails To.. .
Most interesting but sometimes annoying thing
about the mail we receive is that relatively little
of it makes sense.
We opened our two letters today to find that
one of them wanted to sell us "newspaper carrier
insurance policies" while the other had a sure
cure for backache.
First things first-we don't think it advisable
for our carriers to be insured. It seems much
more feasible to insure the subscribers-against
the carriers--a group singularly unimpressed
with the importance of its function.
Our Second Letter opened, "Next time your
back aches, you might try walking on all fours."
This from a national magazine which claims,
"backaches are caused by our ancestors' decision
to walk erect instead of using a four-footed gait."
Until this morning we were only mildly im-
pressed with just how burdened we are with
heredity. Nw vistas have been opened on the
problem of just who's to blame. (It's easy walking
on all fours no matter what the old man says.)
Possibly the solution lies in having the carriers
insured as they scrabble around on their hands
and knees under unidentified front porches.
* * * *
Our Far-Flung Reporter
Our Michigan League correspondent re-
ports the presence in those strange surround-
ings of a gaudy poster heralding a forthcoming
meeting of the Hearst-sponsored Youth for
Christ movement. It seems terribly like one of
those occasions which team a free printing
press and had taste. We can only ask that
the poster be put in as obscure a spot as pos-
sible, perhaps on the reverse side of the bulle-
tin board.
* * * *
WFACS" 01)kick?
Some power-mad house committee head over
at the Tri-Delt house is spending her leisurely,
but sadistic hours pieing unmade beds. Who says
Hitler's dead?
(All items appearing above are contributed by mem-
bers of The Daily staff and are edited by the Editorial
Director.)
Current Movies
.. . at the state
Tom Breneman in "Breakfast In Hollywood";
an RKO production.
This item had me mystified completely until
a dorm-mate who has no eleven o'clocks ex-
plained that it is based on an actual radio pro-
gram which has a large daytime following.
The film is based on the radio program, withl
musical interludes and a tepid love interest
thrown in. Those who like the program may like
the film, but, as Mr. Churchill said to that young
lady in Miami, "I think I have experienced great-
er moments."
... at the Michigan
Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett and William
Eythe in "Colonel Effinghain's Raid"; a Twen-
tieth Century-Fox production.
"Colonel Effingham's Raid" (which the Michi-
gan marquee currently spells "Ef'ingham's") is
one of those happy unpretentious little comedies
which ends up by beguiling you more completely
than the usual Hollywood glitter product.
Based on a novel by Berry Fleming, it tells of
the havoc a retired army man creates in a small
Southern town when he attempts to save an
historic old court-house from the clutches of lo-
cal politicians. It is told with a deft comedy touch
and smoothly played. In fact, the only thing that
prevents it from comparing to something by
Capra is that the saving of the court-house is
never made important enough, with the result
that the Colonel's crusade frequently seems a
trifle petty.
But the compensations for this lack of plot
development are considerable (are you'listen-
ing, Mr. Logan?). First, there is a devastating
slap at small-town politics, with its personnel
drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of the
mayor's relatives. The satire becomes almost
bitter in presenting the mayor's platitudinous
farewell speech to the home-town troops goin'
off to war.
There is also a decidedly different love interest
supplied by Joan Bennett and William Eythe.
This includes the year's most intriguing love
scene in which the dialogue consists entirely of
Miss Bennett and Eythe discussing with the cold
disinterest of a symphony annotator all that is
to be said about Miss Bennett's handsome legs.
Added to the vast library of jokes about things
Southern is the moment when a Mason-Dixon
matron describes Mr. Coburn. saying, "Of
course, I don't mean to be sacrilegious, but he re-
minds me of General Lee."
-By Barrie Waters
Gentlemen-
On the roof of Angell Hall are two
telescope domes of the Department
of Astronomy. Pecemly the roof of ,
Angell hail was tared, and evidently
those who did the job mistook one ofj
the domes for part of the roof. In
short. they tarred it to the roof so
so that it will not turn around. The
only starlight we can see, except in
the presen direction of the dome
opening, is whab comes through the
metal sheing of th dome!
The d ciscovery o .f ,-th.iis oe" ?c-.
curred w we wer prepaing to
open up last night when the Angell
Hall Gbservatory was open to the
public. It was just a matter of luck
that, owing to the partly cloudy sky
lit had rained earlier) the crowd
was not too large to handle with the
remaining one available telescope.
As a practical joke, it was good.
As one of those on the receiving
end, after some annoyance, I got
a chuckle out of the situation. But
I'm sure it was not a jioke. It was
just sheer stupidity, incompetence,
and whatever else contributes to
the mistakes that are made by
people whose business it is (or
should be) to know better. Some-
body connected with the job should
have inspected tine job to see that
it did. The Department of Astro-
nomy could have been consulted.
But, as is usual in connection with
things that affect our operations,
we were not. Maybe we should have
volunteered the information, but
we have been in the habit of mind-
PR0FESS0R GAGS AT GAG:
An Open Letter to 'U'Administration
ing our own business (unlike a lot
of other people I could name con-
nected with the University) and
not telling others how to run theirs.
Now I don't know who was to
blame, and I h'ave no personal inter-
est in knowing. But that this could
happen is a little appalling. I can't
speak for other departments, but in
the way the Department of Astrono-
my has been treated in its relations
with other parts of the University,.
there have been too many other
examples of bungling or just plain
lack of consideration. I get frightened
for the future of the University when
I think that what we have seen may
be only a small fraction of the cases
that have occurred. Is there some-
thing rotten in the State of Michi-
gan? Is the rotten thing a mass of
red-tape, inefficiency, lack of coor-
dination, and division of responsi-
bility in the University administra-
tion? Or is it so over-organized and,
so frightfully "efficient" that any
such thing as human decency has not
a place in it?
Let me cite another case. A few
months ago we were suddenly
notified that the observatory shop
would have to be moved to make
way for a new dormitory south of
the Observatory (on Observatory
Street). It would have to be moved
"right away"; then nothing hap-
pened until only a week ago. In the
meantime, with the threat of mov-
ing hanging over us, we dared not
undertake any considerable shop
job with any expectation of seeing
it fiished at a specified time.
With proper coordination we would
have been notified much earlier, and
we would have been given at least
a rough schedule that would have en-
abled us to plan our activities. I am
not one of those mythical unworldly
astronomers who is so silly as to sug-
gest t'hat the dormitory should not
be built. or should be dela.yed, be-
cause it affects the Observatory ad-
versely. I simply point out that, with
a little consideration on the part of
those concerned in the planning, we
could have been spared much incon-
venience, and the dormitory would
not have been delayed one minute. I
blame no specific person. What I
blame is the whole administration
for allowing things to be done in such
a way.
I don't know just what the com-
plete answer is to all this, but in
the meantime the dome at Angell
Hall is stuck, and the job of un-
sticking it must be done without
costing the Department of Astro-
nomy one red cent (one white one
either). And if a member of our
staff, for example the foreman of
our shop, has to spend any time on
the job of unsticking, the funds of
the Department should be reim-
bursed according to the hourly rate
at which he is paid.
But it wouldn't surprise me if
somebody connected with the admin-
istration would try to prove by some
form of rhetoric or other ( the sort
of vague statements that too often
come from administrators) that the
dome isn't really stuck at all!
sincerely yours,
Dean B. McLaughlin
Professor of Astronomy.
DAILY OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
--
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Bulletin should be sent in typewritten
form to the Assistant to the President,
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urdays).
TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1946
VOL. LVI, No. 85
Notices
Student Tea: President and Mrs.
Ruthven wil be at home to students
Wednesday afternoon, March 12,
from 4 to 6 o'clock.
Women who will graduate in June
and are planning to attend the ban-
quet and play being given today by
the women of the junior class should
rent their caps and gowns today at
Moe's Sport Shop.
Photoelasticity: Applicants f o r
worklin a research project will be in-
terviewed.
See Professor F. L. Everett, 411-A
West Engineering Building.
Eligibility Certificates for the
Spring Term may be secured immed-
iately if the last report of grades is
brought to the Ofice of the Dean of
Students.
Fraternity presidents of groups
which formerly maintained houses
should apply to the Office of the
Dean of Students for blanks on which
to list current membership.
Honor Societies: The attention of
honor societies is called to the fact
that the date of Honors Convocation
has been set for April 26. It is request-
ed that all societies hold their elec-
tions as early as possible after the
beginning of the Spring Term so that
the names of new members may be
inserted in the Honors Convocation
program.
Dean of Students
Slide rules, polyphase, with leath-
er cases are available at $3.50 each,
cash, or on Veterans' textbook order,
in Room 2028 East Engineering Build-
ing.
Women students earning their ex-
penses by living and working in pri-
vate homes are requested to notify
the Office of the Dean of Women
immediatcly.
Student, College of Literature, Sci
ence and the Arts:
Applications for scholarships should
be made before April 1. Application
forms may be obtained at 1220 Angell'
Hall and should be filed at that of-
fice.
Kothe Hildner Annual German
Language Award offered to studets
in courses 31, 32, 35 and 36. The con-
test, a translation competition (Ger-
man-English and English-German),
carries two stipends of $30 and x20
respectively, and will be held frin
2:00 to 40:00 p.m., Frida',, March Y2
in Room 205 Mason Hall. Students
who wish to compete and who have
By Crockett Johnson
tong distance, Mr. Wynngold.
J. J. O'Malley on the phone.
not yet handed in their applications
sould do so immediately in 204 Uni-
versity Hail.1
Bronson-Thomas Annual German
Language Award offered to juniors
and seniors in German. The contest
will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.,
Friday, March 22, in Room 204 Uni-
versity Hall. The award, in the
amount of $27 will be presented to
the student writing the best essay
dealing with some phase in the devel-
opment of German literature from
1750 to 1900. Students who wish to
compete and who have not yet
handed in their applications should
do so immediately in Room 204 Uni-
versity Hall.
Lectures
Hon. Philip La Follette, three times
Governor of Wisconsin and a Col-
onel on MacArthus staff during the
War, will speak tonight at 8:30 at
Hill Auditorium on "A Sound Ameri-
can Policy." Mr. La Follette will ap-
pear as the eighth number on the
Oratorical Association Lecture Course
replacing Robert Boothby originally
scheduled for tonight. Tickets may
be purchased today from 10-1, 2-8:30
at the Auditorium box office.
French Lecture: Professor William
McLaughlin, of the Romance Lan-
guage Department, will offer the
third of the series of the French lec-
tures sponsored by the Cercle Fran-
cais on Thursday, March 14, at 4:10
p.m. in Room D, Alumni Memorial
Hall. His lecture, which will be illus-
trated with slides, is entitled: "Caen,
ville d'art, ville marty,s."
Tickets for the series of lecture
may be procured fromthe Secretary
of the Department of Romance Lan-
guages (Room 112, H. L. Bldg.) or at
the door at the time of the lecture for
a small sum. These lectures are open
to the general public.
Academic Notices
Candidates for the Teacher's Cer-
tificate for June: Please call at the
office of the School of Education.
1437 University Elementary School
on Wednesday or Thursday afternoon.
March 13 and 14 between 1:30 and
4:30 to take the teacher's oath. This
is a requirement for the certificate.
Political Science I Section 1 (Mr.
Scheips) will meet MWF at 9 in 2003
Natural Science Building henceforth
instead of in 3209 Angell Hall.
Freshmen Health Lectures For Men:
It is a University requirement that
all entering freshmen are required t
take, without credit, a series of lec-
tures in personal and community
health and to pass an examination
on the content of these lectures.
Transfer students with freshman
standing are also required to take the
course unless they have had a similar
course elsewhere.
Upper classmen who were here as
freshmen and who did not fulfill the
requirements are requested to do so
this term.
These lectures are not required of
veterans.
The lectures will be given in Room
25, Angell Hall at 5:00 p.m. and re-
peated at 7:30 p.m. as per the follow-
Spanish Grammar- (Barlow).
view lessons for those who need
will be give. on Wednesdays
8:30 to 9 p.m.. Room 108, R.L.
Re-
them
from
Extension Course:
Spanish 82-2 hrs. credit-del Toro
Latin-American Life. An intermedi-
ate course conducted in Spanish, and
-esigned to give a maximum of oral'
practice and general information re-
garding the Spanish speaking coun-
tries. Meetings on Thursdays, from
7 tp 9 p.m. Room 108, Romance Lan-
suage Building.
R.equired Hygiene Lectures For Wom-
en-1946:
All first and second semester fresh-
man women are required to take a
series of hygiene lectures, which are
'o be given the second semester. Up-
per class students who were in the
University as freshmen and who did
;got fulfill the requirements are re-
Iuested to do so this term. Enroll for
these lectures by turning in a class
,ard at the Health Service, if this was
not done at the time of regular classi-
fication at Waterman Gymnasium.
Please note that, due to conflicts
with other courses, a third section
(III, meeting Wednesdays) has been
idded. Students now enrolled in See-
cions I or II may change to Section
[II by reporting to Mrs. Bagley at
lie Health Service.
Satisfactory completion of this
2ourse (or of P.H.P. 100; elective;
'3 hrs.ecredit) is a graduation require-
<nent.
Lecture Schedule
I-First Lecture, Mon., March 11,
1:15-5:15, N.S. Aud.
Subsequent Lectures, Successive
U/ondays, 4:15-5:15, N.S. Aud.
Examination (Final) Mon., April
12, 4:15-5:15, (To be announced)
II-First Lecture, Tues., March 12,
1:15-5:15, N.S. Aud.
Subsequent Lectures, Successive
Tuesdays, 4:15-5:15, N.S. Aud.
Examination (Final), Tues., April
23,4:1-5:5,(To be announced)
III-First Lecture, Wed., March 13,
1:15-5:15, N.S. Aud.
Subsequent Lectures, Successive
Wednesdays, 4:15-5:15, N.S. Aud.
Examination (Final), Wed., April
24, 4:15-5:15, (To be announced)
Exhibitions
Michigan
"Early Ann
Open daily
Nays 8-12.
Historical Collections:
Arbor." 160 Rackham.
8-12, 1:30-4:30, Satur-
Events Today
The Tuesday-Afternoon Play Read-
ing Section of the Faculty Women's
Club will meet March 12 at the
Michigan League. Dessert at 1:15 in
the Russian Tea Room. Reading at
2:00 in the Mary B. Henderson Room.
Hillel Social Committee meeting to-
day at 3:30 p.m. at the Foundation.
All committee members are requested
to attend.
Hillel Foundation: A meeting of
the entire staff of the Hillel News will
be held today, at 4:10 p.m. All assign-
ments for the comng issue will be
made at that time.
University of Michigan Section of
the. American Chepmical Stoeiet -ilt
BARNABY
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of O'Malleys ... And we don't know where to send the
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