THE MICHIGAN DAILY Selfish Interests IDE from the good that can be said for labor unions in their avowed purpose of ing the worker to a better deal, one can't but deplore the selfish interests so often layed in union activities. It is a sad situ- p when unions lose sight of their real m for existence and allow these personal ests to transcend those of the worker even the country itself. iother instance of this has been in and of the news in recent weeks when a pro- I to merge the country's two largest labor es, the CIO and the AFt4, has been kick- around the labor scene. This action' d have eliminated countless inter-union utes not in any -way caused by differ- s between management and labor but nion rivalry alone. With this merger the :er's case could be subjected to the iny of public opinion free from con- ing incidentals that have nothing to do -the basic problems. Now, however, the osal is dying from indifference on the of the unions. torials published in The Michigan Daily written by members of The Daily staff represent the views of the writers only. 'NIGHT EDITOR: GAY LARSEN kTTER OF FACT: Currently the organizations have been drawn together for repelling new anti- labor legislation and Philip Murray, CO president, has proposed that joint action for the present be limited to the legislative front. This only reaffirms the truth that the unions are not willing to unite except when threatened with a common danger and then no more than necessary to retain their individual powers There is no reasonable excuse why the CIO and AFL can not be united. Yet, the moment the-suggestion is made there ensues a profound silence and soon the matter is back in the moth balls for some other day. Sometimes the excuse is offered that the two unions are fundamentally opposed in their structures; the CIO based on industry-wide organization and the AFL on a crafts and trade basis. Yet, an examination of the AFL will reveal several industrial unions such as the Brewers', Union listed on its rolls. Quite probably, the biggest obstacle is the selfish reluctance of union heads to relin- quish their positions of power in a step nec- essary to achieving unity. Until they realize that only by surrendering personal ambi- tions through a program of compromise can labor regain its lost respect, labor unions will go on. defeating their real purpose. -Bruce Schwartz Rebuilding Government PROXIMATELY 630,000 resident veter- ans of Michigan will soon be cashing is checks anywhere from $20 to'$&00. The rs of the state settled the issue at the s and the legislature has cleared the ;s for action. hat check will look mighty good to most rans. With prices continuing to nount, e have experienced tough sledding. The us promises to grease the runners and the load. ere warned not to look a gift horse in mouth, and few vets will be guilty of rning the checks to the government. A est amounts to a duncecap; a "thank ' brings an Adams hat. But if we ignore advice and peer closely into this nag's ith, traces of festering trouble spots are ernible. ar back in the molars, there's that old bogey of increased taxes. Decay is in its first stages, however, and the pain won't be felt until bad times presses the $270,000,- 000 burden down harder. Looking for something more imminent, the eye settles on a bad spot near the front that looks like an abcess. Its name is "in- flation," of a bigger and better variety. It doesn't require an economist to predict the immediate effect of a large bonus upon market prices. At present production is not meeting demand for scarce goods. The cre- ation of additional buying power can only force prices higher in the hot competition. Consequently, it would be far wiser to dis- tribute the bonus in a period of slack to stimulate production. As it is, this particu- lar affliction might well, be termed "con- sumption," and the ailment threatens our gift horse with oblivion. -Elmer T. Miller Delay Veterans' Bonus r'D RATHER BE RIGHT: IBritain Poor By SAMUEL GRAFTON LONDON-The coal crisis seems to have put Britain into a brown study. A labor relations expert here tells me that the girls in her shop are dropping more anti-Ameri- can remarks than usual. The fact that we offered coal doesn't close the gap; it is the disparity with the warm cousin which hurts. I am afraid the coal crisis has made Bri- tain feel permanently poor, instead of tem- porarily broke. Men twist away from that thought, as is natural; they look for ex- pedients. The cry goes up, "We shouldn't have exported any of our coal last year; we could have avoided the fuel shortage." But the coal exports brought food into the coun- try; otherwise the coal crisis might merely have put on another face, and been a food crisis. Britain has been looking for expedients for a long time, but today there is a kind of angry passion in the search. Men seek by a single stroke deftly to smash the dif- ficulty, at once and without nonsense, as if to quell their own apprehension that perhaps it isn't smashable. The old slo- gan, "Let's raise our own food," is heard again. With what labor? The labor that is required to dig coal, or the labor that is needed in the shorthanded factories? The press is full of this search for dodges, as if the whole nation were wrapped up in a single giant puzzle contest. Civil Service workers offer to step out of their jobs into industry for a number of years, provided their old posts'can be saved for them. Here again is the same note of trying to make one do for two, of stretching something already taut. It is as if the search for gadgetsekept morale up, by stifling the sinister feeling that perhaps there is some strange new is- land-wide shortage at the bottom, an emp- tiness not to be filled. There is almost a deliberate effort to keep it superficial, perhaps because to keep it superficial is to keep it manageable. A Bri- tish writer complains that Britain cannot afford to spend fifty millions of dollars a year on fancy imported fruits such as pine- apples; and it is like Winston Churchill's pleas for the smoking of fewer cigarettes'to reduce tobacco imports. But these efforts to shrink the problem don't really shrink it; they are a little alarming in their pet- tiness, for they raise the question of how strong Britain can be if she can fall into difficulties because of a bit of pineapple and smoke. Britain's sale of her foreign invest- ments, which was just a blurred chapter during the war, is having an aftermath like a grim novel in three volumes. And suddenly a Leftwing laborite explodes, "What are we doing with 140,000 men in the armed forces, and another 500,000 to equip them? That's on the American scale; we can't afford it. Let's revise our foreign policy realistically, use most of these men at home for production, and let us realize that our destiny lies, not with the great powers, but with the poor coun- tries of Europe, with which we must in some way join." So far this is only a thin cry on the Left. But it is true, it seems to me, that the Bri- tish are thinking today, not of how cold they are, but of how small they are, long dark thoughts of scale and size. These are odd thoughts in this most im- pressive of cities, a city that looks so cur- iously like one big bank.It makes one think of the grand put pinched mansions of the south after the war between the states. There is a touch of terror too, terror at a void, an emptiness that can no longer per- haps send out troops and coal and exports' as once it did. And one wants to say to Amerians, who talk so often of the unity of the western world, look, it's changing, it's changing, see? But one does not know quit how to say it, and it takes its place among those relatively undescribed major events of our world which occur between the fully re- corded incidents of our wars.. (Copyright, 1947, New York Post Corp.) MATTER OF FACT Before he Storm By JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON-This is the lull before the storm. The signs now are that Presi- dent Truman will attempt a piecemeal ap- proach to the world crisis, asking now only for enough funds to meet the emergency in Greece and Turkey. He is under double pressure to do so from Capitol Hill, where his advisers wish to avoid a knockdown, dragout fight; and from Greece, where the need is so urgent that promptness of Con- gressional action is of high importance. Very likely, the piecemeal approach will succeed this time. The important thing to note, however, is that President Truman's and Secretary of State George C. Marshall's White House presentation a week ago was by no means confined to Greece. They described not merely a Greek crisis, but a world crisis. If the President chooses now to ask only for the few hundreds of millions needed for Greece and Turkey, he will simply have to go to Congress later on for more funds for other areas. The issue of whether or not this country is going to assume its respon- sibilities in the world will have tobe met. (Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune) Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice tocall members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the of ff ice of the Assistant to the President, Room 1021 Angehl Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). SATURDAY. MARCH 8 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 108 Notices Members of the University Sen- ate: The special meeting announ- ced for the University Senate has been postponed until Monday. March 17, Rackham Amphithe- atre, at 4:15 p.m. Sorority representatives may call at the Office of the Dean of Women to discuss housing need- ed for their members outside of the chapter houses for next fall. The representatives must bring with them the full list of members including those who will live in the chapter house and those who will live outside. Action of the University Com- mittee on Student Discipline: The following action was taken at the meeting of the Committee March 6: The President of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and seven of its members having appeared be- fore the Committee and having admitted that those present, other than the President, have been guilty of entertaining women guests at the chapter house on the evening of February 22, 1947, without proper chaperonage, it is ordered that the chapter be fined one hundred dollars and that each of the offenders be f4ned ten dol- lars, all of which fines are to be paid to the University Cashier and that the action taken be published in the Daily Official Bulletin. Women's Housing Applications for the Summer, 1947: Women's housing applications for Summer, 1947, will now be ac- cepted at the Office of the Dean of Women for dormitories, sorori- ties, League Houses, cooperative houses and private homes. At the time the student applies she will be asked to indicate her preference as to the type of residence. Stu- dents now enrolled at the Univer- sity who are planning to continue for the summer and those ad- mitted for the summer session are eligible to apply. Women's Housing Applications for the Fall Semester, 1947 1. Women students living in dormitories now who wish to re- main in the dormitories for the fall and spring semesters of 1947-48, must file renewal forms with House *Directors during the week of Mar. 3, 1947. No renewals will be ac- cepted after Mar. 10. 2. Women students on campus now who are not living in dormi- tories but would like to apply for dormitory accommodations for the fall and spring semesters of 1947- 48 may do so at the Office of the Dean of Women on Apr. 1, 1947 beginning at 7:30 a.m. They will be accepted up to the number of spaces available for them. 3. Women tentatively admitted to the University as first-semester freshmen for the fall 1947 may apply for dormitory accommoda- tions now, and will be accepted up to the number of spaces reserved for them. 4. Women students on campus now may apply for supplementary housing for the fall semester, 1947, at the Office of the Dean of Wom- en on April 1, 1947. 5. Women tentatively admitted to the University with advanced standing for the fall semester 1947 may apply at the Office of the Dean of Women for supplemen- tary housing now, and will be re- ferred for definite reservations after April 15, 1947. (Dormitory applications will be accepted only from those women students whom the Office of the Dean of Women expects to be able to accommodate in dormitories. Others will be instructed immedi- ately to apply for supplementary housing. Students may apply for only one type of housing.) College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Schools of Educa- tion, Forestry, and Public Health: Students who received marks I, X or 'no report' at the close of their last semester or summer session of attendance will receive a grade of E in the course or courses un- less this work is made up by March 10. Students wishing an extension of time beyond this date in order to make up this work should file a petition addressed to the appro- priate official in their school with Rm. 4 U.H. where it will be trans- mitted. a gift of a friend of the Univer- sity, prizes for essays are offered to students who are candidates for the bachelor's or master's de- grees in Business Administration or Economics in the following amounts: first prize, $250; second prize, $150; and third prize, $100. The subject of the essays is "How Can Real Wages for Work- ers of the United States Be In- creased?" The esay or paper should be addressed to a mass, non - professional, non - academic, audience such as the general run of readers of American newspap- ers, and its purpose is to clarify fundamental economic Kelation- ships or principles as they bear upon the subject. The papers should not be over 10 double- spaced, typewritten pages in length and they may be shorter. The contest will be supervised by, and the papers will be judged by a committee consisting of Pro- fessors William Palmer, Charles N. Davisson and C. E. Griffin, chairman.The selection of papers for prizes will be on the basis of the Committee's judgment of suc- cess in attaining the stated ob- jectives. Manuscripts nst be typewritten, double-spaced, and submitted before May 1, 1947, to Mrs. Hile, Assistant to the Dean, 108 Tappan Hall. The author's name shouldinot appear on the manuscript itself, but . should be placed on a separate sheet that will be detached before the paper is read bynthenCommittee. Awards will be announced on or before June 1, 1947. The Committee reserves the right to award no prizes or fewer than three if in its judgment the number of quality of papers is inadequate. Elizabeth Sargent Lee Medical History Prize: Established in 1939 by bequest of Prof. Alfred . Lee, a member of the faculty of the University from 1908 until his death in 1938. The income from the bequest is to be awarded an- nually to a junior or senior pre- medical student in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts for writing the best essay on some topic concerning the history of medicine. Freshmen in the Medi- cal School who are on the Com- bined Curriculum in Letters and Medicine are eligible to compete in the contest. The following committee has been appointed to judge the con- test: Assistant Professor John Arthos, Chairman, Prof. A. A. Christman, and Assistant Profes- sor F. H. Test. The committee has announced the following topics for the con- test: 1. History of a Military Medical Unit. 2. Medical-Aid Man. 3. Medicine in Industry. 4. Tropical Medicine. 5. Any other topic accepted by the Committee. Prospective contestants may consult committee members by ap- pointment. (1) A first prize of $75 and a second prize of $50 are being of- fered. (2) Manuscripts should be 3,- 000 to 5,000 words in length. (3) The manuscripts should be typed, double spaced, on one side of the paper only. (4) Contestants must submit two copies of their manuscripts. (5) All manuscripts should be handed in at Rm. 1220, Angell Hall by May 1. Stanley Warburton of the Jun- ior College of Fullerton, Cali- fornia, will be at the Bureau of Appointments, Monday, March 10, to interview candidates for admin- istrative and teaching positions. He has openings in industrial arts, men's and women's physical edu- cation, deanships for both men and women, chemistry, and gen- eral science. Call 4121 Ext. 489 for appointments. Lectures University Lecture: D. Nichol Smith, Merton Professor of En- lish Literature, University of Ox- ford, will lecture on the subject, "Shakespeace Criticism, Old and New," at 4:15 p.m., Thurs., March 13, Kellogg Auditorium, Dental Building; auspices of the Depart- ment of English. Ernest J. Kump, Architect, San Francisco, California, "What an Architect ,Shouldn't Know," 4:15 p.m., March 12, Rm. 102, Ar- chitecture Bldg. - Academic Notices English 2, Section 21: Class will not meet this morning, March 8. --L. M. Wolfson Biological Chemistry: Seminar, (Continued on Page 4) EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (which is signed, 300 words or less in length, and in good taste) we re- mind our readers that the views ex- pressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words ar shortened, printed or omitted At the discretion of the edi- torial director. Vet Finances To the Editor: NO ONE ARGUES with the ad- vocates for increased subsi- dies to student vets that the cost of living has increased nor that everyone needs and wants more money. The survey recently con- ducted at this university only proves these non-contested facts. Shortage of finances and the ne- cessity for thrifty living is the traditional role of the college stu- dent. There is nothing unique in the situation. A more sensible, but admittedly less popular approach, is to deter- mine what wages a veteran should have, pay him that, and then face the harsh reality that the govern- ment no longer owes him any- thing. Many would rather be- come perpetual gratuity seekers, plaguing Washington periodically for more alms. The following figures are rougl but at least conservative estimates of the wages Uncle Sam paid in dollars and cents to veterans. If the figures are- wrong perhaps some of the idle advocates of more gratuities can correct them. They apparently have. the enthusiasm and the time. The rest of us less vociferous vets are normally oc- cupied with mundane problems of study and individual finance. Average pay per mo. ....... $80 Clothing ................... $15 Food.....................$40 Medical Aids.. ........... $ 5 $140 per month, equaling $1,680 per year. Tuition and books under GI Bill for 4 years..........$2,008 For subsistence............$3,120 (if married, $4,000). $5,120 Assuming the average tour of duty to be three years, add the pay actually received, the muster- ing out pay of $300, the amount received under the GI Bill, and you arrive at the figure of $3,487 per year for single vets, tax ex- empt. Consider with this a thir- ty day leave per year with pay, free entertainment, cheap post exchange prices, reduced insur- ance rates, and tax exempt cigar- ettes, and it adds up to quite a wage. This wage is equivalent to a $4400 wage for war workers. Uncle Samr pays the bill. Under the present confiscatory tax rates and the attempted reduction in expenditures it will take 100 years to pay off the debt. Any increase now of necessity will be charged to our great, great grand- children.. I don't want them fi- nancing my education. Attention student delegates to Washington to testify before the House Veterans' Affairs Commit- tee: Deal with realities. Don't go armed with worthless statistics proving we want more money "or that prices have gone up. Tell Congress why $3,487, tax exempt, is not a fair wage for war service not resulting in disability, keeping in mind that this war was not won by vets alone, but by the entire nation. Tell Congress why a select group of vets alone should be fav- ored over other vets not attending college. S u g g e s t some constructive method of financing the increase without further indebtedness or increased taxation. Tell Congress what effect the increase would have on inflation, Tell Congress how many jobs have gone begging in Ann Arbor. These questions go td the root of the problem. Raids on the public treasury by able-bodied vetsualready favored by legislation are venal. Super-sensitive legislators that violate their trust to the nation by yielding to these unwarranted demands for increased subsidies should be given the ax. -David Young Unions To the Editor: WITH REGARD TO yor (Mr. Harold Jackson, Jr.) one-sid- ed "job" on the American Union movement in The Daily of March 4-I shall not dignify your piece of cited extreme and omitted sub- stance by detailed response. Form- al reply would only lend this ar- ticle that sanctified quality of answered and antidoted partiality, which it does not now possess. Rather, it is more effective to allow this line of inquity and in- nuedo to stand or, more likely, fall To the Editor: HO IS THE G.I Bill for? On the editorial page I read two views on who should take advan- tage of the Bill. The VA and a couple of economy minded boys feel the Bill was designed "to pro- vide an opportunity to each vet- eran whose education or training was interrupted by - his entranc into the service". Tom Walsh feels that the Bill should aid those whq would not normally have had sufficient money to continue their educe.- tion. Before we can argue the merits of the Rogers Bill, we must choose between the basic prernis- es. "Citizens first, Veterans sec- ond" is a worthy slogan. Let us add, "The educated citizen ,is the best citizen". I suggest we take the "price tag" off of education and give everyone with the ability and desire, an opportunity to bet- ter himself and his country. -Ullrich Stoll * 4 * partments To the Editor: I W MANY relatives do Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Bttman have on the editorial staff of The Daily? -Donald F. r. eta P.S. I know another couple who need an apartment in case you run out of space on the front page. Who You Kiddin', Kid? To the Editor- READ YOUR letter column reg- ularly and each time there is a letter advocating an increase in subsistence. I am bewildered as to where these peopfe get their ideas. However, the letter wrtt ten by Carl LaRue has so angered me that I feel I must write in protest. At first I thought it was a satire and as such very clever. But the last line made me realize the boy s in earnest. The war has sharply divided the people who were in the ,armed forces into men and boys. Into those who realized why they Were in the service and who wished to improve themselves when they got out with some assistance from the government and those who felt that because they wore their country's uniform for a few years, the world owes them a lving. When the law was written it was to assist men and women who wished to go to college and help them get through and to make things a little easier they added some cash which'is called subsis- tence. The law, to my knowledge, was not written to repay ex-ser- vice people for any discomfort they had during the war, r to keen on giving them things t he rest of thei lives. I wonder 'if these young boys who want more realize how much better off they are than vets. of other countries. If they need more money, let them spend their griping time on a part-time job as my husband has done. The nick-name we have for our country is Uncle Sam-not Santa Claus. -Mrs. Joyce L Howard ~I~f DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Letters to the Editor.. .., . of its own weight. All that is i cessary in the way of reply i long, low, somewhat skepti "hmn'mmmnmmm". --Robert Green Education By JOSEPH ALSOP '/ASHINGTON, March 8-A significant but little noticed event occurred this ek in the Senate. Senator Henry Cabot dge of Massachusetts delivered a well ighed and carefully thought-out speech ring early Congressional action to rebuild D government from top to bottom. He ad- tted the gross inefficiency and confusion the present governmental structure. What even more important, he admitted the al- )t total ignorance now prevailing as to government's real problems of organiza- n, personnel recruitment, co-ordination d administration. It showed the way the wind is blowing at such highly divergent members of ie Senate as Irobert A. Taft of Ohio and lde Pepper.of florida joined in ap- oving what Lodge had to say. The truth that the Congress, committed to bud- A cutting, is gradually awakening to its most total ignorance of the government- facts of life. The budget cutters are ke blind men pruning a jungle. There ems to be a good chance, 'therefore that to more realistic, long-range approach of dge and Brown be adopted at this ses- on. .he Federal government is now totally king any machinery to co-ordinate the king and administration of policy by all many parts, except the person of the sident himself. The need for such ma- nery was first pointed out in a confiden- report which the Joint Chiefs of Staff e bold enough to prepare last spring. ey came out with the recommendation t a Cabinet or. ExecutivehSecretariat adly in the British model should be es- lishedwithout delay. 'he duties of this secretariat were to be ordination of the whole process of policy dng and administration, from securing lies of a new problem by all the interest- governmental parties, through securing royal of an agreed policy on the high- est levels and down to insuring parallel ex- ecution of the agreed policy by all agencies concerned. This was to be done, very natur- ally, under the direct control of the Presi- dent. It was, in fact, to be a much needed elaboration of his functions. The Joint Chiefs' memorandum got no at- tention at the time, one reason being Sec- retary of State James F. Byrne's doubt as to its value. But Byrnes has now been re- placed by one of the originators of the mem- orandum, and Marshall has already acted to put a part of the memorandum's recom- mendations into effect. The weekly meet- ing of the Secretaries of State, War and Navy is intended to co-ordinate foreign and national defense policy. It only lacked a secretariat to meet the whole requirement in this field. It is now to have a secretariat. Presumably, at the same time, steps will be taken to relate this new secretariat to the State-War-Navy co-ordinating committee, which has the same-purpose but is on a low- er level. There is an enormous job still to do.' Part of it is the job indicated by Senator Lodge. No secretariat, no matter how efficient, can truly and fully co-ordinate the efforts of a government so insanely complex that twen- ty-nine agencies lend government funds, thirty-four buy land, twelve engage in home and community planning, ten are interest- ed in forestry and so on. All reorganization bills of the past have been farces. There must now be honest, root and branch re- organization, as complete and ruthless as the brilliant job Alfred E. Smith and Robert Moses did in New York State. Equally, re- organization and co-ordination of the gov- ernment will be useless until the problem of government personnel has been solved. A $37 billion dollar enterprise largely run by clerks is the height of folly and bad econo- my. But it is at least encouraging that real- istic consideration is at last being given to the governmental problem in both interested branches. (Copyright, 1947, New York Tribune, Inc.) IT SO HAPPENS... 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