PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY Fifty-Sixth Year N M USIC A' SI Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of 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 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 . . . . . 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. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 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 -- Publcation in the Daily Official Bul- Jetin 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. Sat- 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-