TUESDAY. APREL4 15, 1947 PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY Hayden Memorial Library BILL MAULDIN MAN TO MAN: IT WOULD BE a hazardous guess to say just how many students trod up the steps of Angell Hall daily who have never paused to read the inscription carved boldly in the stone superstructure above their heads. These words read, "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good govern- ment and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." In view of the current campus drive for funds to establish the Joseph Ralston Hay- den Memorial Library at the University of the Philippines, these words take on a spec- ial significance. To students with convictions of higher education this drive is a natural concern but to students of the University of Mich- igan interest goes much deeper than that. From as far back as 1899 when Prof. Dean C. Worcester, a member of the faculty, was appointed to the United States Philip- pine Commission, the University of Mich- gan has maintained constant affiliation with the University of the Philippines. Friendly relations have been enhanced further by a free exchange of instructors and students between the two universi- ties in the years that followed. A significant impetus to 'U' participation Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: GAY LARSEN in promoting education in the Philippines came in 1933 when Professor Joseph R. Hayden of the political science department become vice-governor of the islands under Frank Murphy. Recognized as an extremely capable administrator, Hayden soon estab- lished himself as an exceptionally able direc- tor of the entire Philippine educational system. fARLY IN HIS CAREER Joseph Hayden was a lieutenant in the Michigan Naval Militia serving with distinction in World War I. Again in World War II, he served as political advisor to General MacArthur in the restoration and rehabilitation of the Philippines. Over-exertion in this capacity resulted in his death in 1945. Now the ugly scars of American-Jap- anese battles on the islands have left their marks on the Philippine's highest insti- tution of learning and the results of a large share of Joseph Hayden's efforts have been wiped out. It would indeed be a source of personal satisfaction if we could help to restore some of the cultural facilities that have been demolished by the ravages of our war. For many years a great many University of Michigan graduates have been natives of the Philippines. It was only natural that last year 'U' students elected to adapt the University of the Philippines as a "sister university" to extend cooperation between the two universities even further. Now we have the opportunity to provide tangible evidence of our friendship to this institution. Yes, occasionally the burden of encouraging "the means of education" falls directly on students themselves. -Bruce T. Schwartz Truman Doctrine By HAROLD L. ICKES There have been three important devel- opments lately in connection with the bill that is pending in the Congress to lend $400,000,000 to Greece and Turkey. Senator Vandenburg, of Michigan, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, remembered something that President Truman, in his hurry, had apparently not even thought of. He realized that the United Nations should have been consulted. So he offered an amendment giving the United Nations the right, without the exercise of any veto on our part, to bring to an end any financial operation by us in either country. Senators Pepper and Taylor, in the Sen- ate, and Congressman Blatnik in the House, have introduced identical resolutions which would go even further. Under this resolution the United Nations would be charged with the responsibility for expending any money contributed by this or any other country. Moreover, the money could be spent "only .. . for the relief and rehabilitation of the civilian economy of Greece . . ." The reso- lution further authorizes the appropriation, as our share, of a sum not exceeding $250,- 00.0,000. No money at all might be spent in Turkey, nor could any be used in Greece for military purposes. Senator George, of Georgia, declared in the Senate, that he was supporting the "Truman doctrine" because he believed that a stop should be put to further communistic imperialism. Since this is really Mr. Tru- man's purpose, we ought to be frank about it. Last Tuesday, Senator Vandenberg made a speech pleading for unanimous support of the Truman proposal, as amended by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. However, our political leaders should not expect us to play blind man's buff. The ad- ministration concealed, until the last min- ute, not only from the people but from the Congress itself, its intent to ask for author- ity to move into Greece and Turkey. Ap- parently, the President wanted to create an atmosphere of urgency. In his own good time he ran to the Hill to tell the country, breathlessly, that there was no time to lose in sending our firemen to put out the fire in far-away Greece and Turkey. Mr. Tru- man asked the Senate to give him $400,000,- 000 to spend at his own discretion., The For- eign Relations Committee debated the issue for three weeks and reported an amended bill. In their turn, the people are entitled to the full facts and an opportunity to con- sider them. It is the people's country that may find itself gravely involved if we have any more hair-trigger decisions by President Truman. Moreover, emotionalism is not an ingredient that- should be substituted for reason and statesmanship at a critical mo- ment in our history. The American people are entitled to some- thing better than the "bum's rush" at this time. The situation calls for speed but not for reckless speed. We are entitled to know just what booby traps lie ahead of us on perhaps the most fateful journey that this country has ever been asked to take. (New York Post Syndicate, Copyright 1947) '. ' Letters to the Editor.. r 1 Cop,. "947 by United FAyatsiSdicate, In. co.."irs" Tm. Reg. UV S. Pet. OR.-All rights resered. "Alwvays puttiii' on airs'." D AILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Proportional Representation I T HAS BECOME fashionable after each Student Legislature election for a handful of theorists to bemoan the supposed ills and inequities of the Hare system of proportional representation which is used in the balloting. One critic recently went so far as to charge that if the ballots were shuffled and retabulated "an entirely different set of -candidates might be elected." This, he claimed, "is certainly possible, as any politi- cal science professor could inform you." When he and I actually talked with a political science professor, however, the basis of the critic's authority and his premises were both proven fallacious. In an experiment conducted by the professor to test just this hypothesis, ten different groups of students tabulated the ballots of 125 voters who participated in a small election in the city. Not only were the same candidates elected in each instance, but the other candidates were eliminated in the same order with the same number of votes. An oversimplified example in which 22 people voted to select two out of three candidates was offered as evi- dence against the Hare system by one letter writer. When four out of 12 ballots are being picked for redistribution, the possibility that chance will determine the selection of the final candidate is certainly possible. When an appreciable number of ballots are cast, however, such as 125 or 3,000, the possibility of chance is dimin- ished to the point of insignificance. Under the Hare system each ballot counts in the election of one candidate. Critics cry- ing that this is undemocratic seem to over- look the facts that each voter's ballot must weigh equally in the elption and that a stu- dent who knew 24 candidates running in the last election was indeed a rare indi- vidual. The Hare system guarantees to the voter that, providing he has indicated suf- ficient choices, his vote will actually help elect one of his choices. Under any other balloting system, the voter has absolutely no assurance that his ballot will go to elect anyone. Instead it may be wasted on sev- eral minority candidates, none of whom are elected or else it can become part of the unused excess given to a popular candidate. WTHAT ABOUT the 300 discarded ballots in the last election? Most of these bal- lots were discarded near the end of the tabulation and many of them listed several choices. These choices had either already been elected and consequently did not need the additional vote, or else had already been eliminated and would not have been aided by it. A gentleman from Willow Run asserts that it is undemocratic to have candidates elected by various groups. The argument is politically naive. If the men in his dorm, people who know him, do not vote to elect him, how can he expect that great generality "the campus at large" to elect a* total stranger? Had this individual taken the trouble to visit a Legislature meeting before he drew his conclusions, he would have noticed the absence of "log rolling" between the members which he casually supposed to be a consequence of the system. If these critics are sincerely interested in improving the Student Legislature election system, they will have an opportunity to present constructive proposals to the Legis- lature tomorrow when that body will, as part of its business meeting, attempt to clear up the flagrant misconceptions which now exist. -Tom Walsh CURRENT MOVIES (Continued from Page 2) Craft Workshop; 8 p.m., Exten- sion Class in Psychology. Fri., April 18, 8 p.m., Duplicate Bridge. Lectures Mathematics Lecture. Professor Marcal Riesz of the Mathematical Institute of Lund University, at present visiting professor at the University of Chicago, will lecture on The Riemann-Liouville Inte- gral and The Wave Equation on Thurs., April 17, 4:15 p.m., Rm. 3017 Angell Hall. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Karl Gunther Kessler, Physics; thesis: "The Investigation of the Proper- ties of Electron-Multiplier Photo- tubes and Their Application to Quantitative Spectographic Analy- sis," at 2 p.m., Tues., April 15. West Council Room, Rackhain Bldg. Chairman, R. A. Wolfe. School of Education Testing Program. All students who have been notified by letter concerning the School of Education Testing Program are requested to obtain their registration cards Tues., April 15, 8:30-12 noon or 1:30- 4:30 p.m., Rm. 1431 University Elementary School. All students electing A10 and, or, C during the current year, as well as transfer students in the School of Educa- tion, have been notified. Botanical Seminar. Open Meet-° ing, 4 p.m., Wed., April 16, Rm. 1139 Natural Science Bldg. Paper: A Discussion of Some Botanical Laboratories in Brazil, followed by colored slides of Rio de Janeiro, by Felix G. Gustafson Chemistry 41 and 141 Labora- tory desk space is now available for those students who elected the second half of the accelerated pro- gram, and also for any students who have incompletes outstanding in quantitative analysis. Secure desk assignments in Rm. 328 after 1 p.m. any afternoon. Statistics Seminlfar. 4 pm..W d., April 16, 3201 Angell Hull. Zoology teminar Thr., April 17, 7:30 p.m., Rackham Amphi- theatre. Mr. Walter E. Howard will speak on "Dispersal Move- ments of Individual Prairie Deer- mice from their Birthplaces." Mr. Frederick S. Barkalow will speak on "A Game Inventory of Ala- bama." Veterans' Tutorial Program: Chemistry (3)-Mon., 7-8 p.m., 122 Chem, S. Lewin; Wed.-Fri. 5-6 p.m., 122 Che,. S Lewin; (4 --Mon. 7-8 p.m., 151 Chem, R. Keller; Wed.-Fri 5-6 p.m., 151 Chem, R. Keller, (21)-Wed., 4-5 p.m., 122 Chem, R. Hahn. English (1)-Tu.-Th.-Fri., 5-6 p.m., 2203 AH, D. Martin. (2)- Tu.-Th.-Fri., 5-6 p.m., 3209 AH, D. Stocking. French-( 1)-Mon.-Thurs.4-5 p.m., 106 RL, A. Favreau. (2- Tu.-Thurs., 4-6 p.m., 205 RL, F. Gravit. (31 -Mon.-Thurs., 4-5, p.m., 203 RL, J. O'Neill. (32)- Tu.-Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 108 RL, A. Favreau. Spanish-(1)-Tu. - Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 203 RL, E. W. Thomas. (2)- Mon.-Wed., 4-5 p.m., 207 RL, H. Hoctkins. (2) - Tu.-Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 207 RL, H. Hootkins. (31)- Tu.-Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 210 RL, C. Staubach. German-Mon.-Wed., 7:30-8:30 pm., 2016 AH, F. Reiss; Sat., 11- 12 a.m., 2016 AH, F. Reiss. Mathematics - (6 through 15) -Wed.-Fri., 5-6 p.m., 3010 AH, G. Costello; Sat., 11-12 a.m., 3010 A H, G. Costello. (52, 53, 54) - Wed. Fri., 5-6 p.m., 3011 AH, E. Span- ier; Sat. 11-12 a.m., 3011 AH, E. Spanier. Physics (25, 45)-Mon.-Tu.-Th. 5-6 p.m., 202 W. Physics, R. Hart- man. (26, 46).-Mon.-Tu.-Th., 5- 6 p.m., 1036 Randall, D. Falkoff. Concerts Student Recital: Nancy Marsh, pianist, will be heard in a pro- gram of compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, and Sowerby, at 8:30 p.m., Tues., April 15, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A pupil of Joseph Brinkman, Miss Marsh presents the recital in par- itial .fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Bachelor of Music. Open to the general public. Student Recital: Mary Kanno, students of violin under Gilbert Ross, will present a recital in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Mu- sic, at 8:30 p.m., Wed., April 16, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Pro- gram: compositions by Vitali, Bach, Mozart, Vieuxtemps, Gran- ados, and Wieniawski. Open to 'the general public. Events Today AIChE: The last order for AI ChE pins and keys this semester will be sent out Sat., April 19. Orders nay be placed with Eleon- ore Kanar and Floyd Preston un- til then. Those students entitled to the Chemical Progress subscrip-. tions at the reduced rates are asked to place their orders now, since these will also be sent out on the 19th. La P'tite Causette. 3:30 p.m., Girill Room, Michigan League. Christian Science Organization: 7:30 p.m Upper Room, Lane Hall. Michigan tames. General meet- ing, 8:15 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. One-act play to be present- ed by the Drama Group, under the direction of Mrs. Austin Beebe. All wives of students and internes and married women students are cordially invited. Coming Events Michigan Chapter AAUP will meet Thurs., April 17, at the Michigan Union in the lunchroom of the Faculty Club at 6:15 p.m. A panel consisting of Deans Ed- monson, Keniston, Sawyer and Stason will discuss "Research Re- sponsibilities'of the Faculty Under Existing Class Loads." Members of the faculty are invited. Research Club. Annual memor- ial meeting, 8 p.m., Wed.. April 16, Rackham Amphitheatre. Pap- ers: Prof. T. H. Hildebrandt on the German mnathematician karl Weierstrass; Prof. J. E. Dunlap on the Belgian philologist Justus Lip- EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily, prints EV4IIIY 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 thet writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printedor omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. Answer to Lange To the Editor: IN REPLY to Allen S. Lange's letter which appeared in the Daily on March 26, although we feel that a great deal could be written in regard to his suggestion that the United States should em- ploy "a little charity and for- bearance" in its relations with Russia especially in view of the tecord of the results of attempts to secure "greater mutual under- standing" between = the United States and Russia, we wish to di- rect our reply to what we think is the principal contention get forth therein. Mr. Lange seeems to contend that the moneyed interests in this country are deliberately cam- paigning, through use of false re- ports published by a controlled press, to "march us gaily off on our way to World War III." He specifically accuses the DuPonts and the Morgans, and we would infer that they are merely repre- sentative of the "profiteers and miscellaneous warmongers who control the industry and wealth of this country." These are serious charges. If true, every student on this camp- us should join with other patrio- tic citizens to expose these ruth- less manipulators so that their nefarious undertaking may be stopped short. However, lest we undertake a campaign which lacks credible evidence for its founda- tion, we invite Mr. Lange toavail himself of the columns of The Michigan Daily to publish compe- tent evidence to substantiate the charges made in his letter. Evi- dence of a general nature will not suffice. We invite Mr. Lange to sius. Members of the Women's Research Club and of the Science Research Club are invited. Freshmen: All eligible students interested in participating in an all-campus freshman public speak- ing contest sponsored by the De- partment of Speech are asked to meet Friday, 5 p.m., 4203 AH. Pre- liminary contest will be Thurs., May 1, and final contest Wed., May 7. American Pharmaceutical As- sociation, Student Branch, 7:15 p.m., Wed., April 16, Rm. 151 Chem. Bldg. Motion picture on Folic Acid will be discussed by Dr. Bethell, assistant director of the Simpson Memorial Institute. All persons interested are invited. English Journal Club. 7:45 p.m., Thurs., April 17, West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Mr. David Stevenson and Mr. Earl Ely will discuss "The Value of Scholar- ship." Refreshments. Flying Club. Open meeting, 7:30 p.m., Wed., April 16, 1042 East Engineering Bldg. Those inter- ested in membership are invited. Reserve Officers Association, Ann Arbor Chapter. 7:30 p.m., Wed., April 16, American Legion Home, 1035 S. Main Street. All Reserve officers are cordially in- vited to attend. Two movie shorts, "Plan for Peace" and "Sky-Blitz," will be shown. Any Reserve Officer, whether Naval, Marine, AAF, or AGF, is eligible for membership in the Re- serve Officers Association. Pi Tau P1 Sigma, Signal Corp; Fraternity. 7:15 p.m., Wed., April 16, Rm. 100, Military Hdas. Bldg. Delta Sigma Pi, professional Business Administration fratern- ity. Pledge meeting, 7 p.m., Wed., April 16, Rm. 305, Union. Actives will hold a business meeting in same room at 7:30 p.m. Scabbard and Blade. 8:30 p.m., Wed., April 16, Rm. 319 Michigan Union. The Intercooperative Cunicil will interview girls who would like to live in cooperative houses next fall, on Wed., April 16, 4-5:30 p.m., Muriel Lester House, 1102 Oak- land. Since vacancies are filled on the basis of personal interviews, all girls who are interested should be present at that time. Art Cinema League presents "The Charlie Chaplin Festival." Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 8:30 p.m. Box Office opens 2 p.m. daily be- ginning Wed. Reservations phone 6300, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A FEW thoughts for those who are still chuckling over the Supreme Court's treatment of the Mine Workers Union. There are more miners' lives lost per ton of coal in the United States than in any other country, over 100 lives per annum. And why are they lost? If you read the papers care- fully you can find the answer. The miner's union at Centralia, scene of the most recent disaster peti- tioned the governor of Illinois, one year ago, to take action on the obviously hazardous conditions in t the mine because they feared for their lives. But a government ex- amination one week before the ex- plosion found no "dangerous con- ditions." Today four of the or- ganizers of the petition are lying dead in the pit. -Cornelius J. Loeser Army 'Duck To the Editor: APROPOS The Daily's Wednes- day morning story on the questionable doing ofrthenArmy "duck" (conveying the Technic's slide rule), could Lt. Col. David- son or some other Army authority tell us why, in the first, place, an Army vehicle was engaged in non- governmental transportation? Some of us recall pretty rigid restrictions by the Army on use of its vehicles for private purpos- es. Perhaps Rep. Engel hit the nail on the head when he argued a couple of weeks ago, not for larg- er military appropriations, but for interdepartmental economics. -Robert Copp Liberal Views To the Editor. ANOTHER news commentator, William L. Shirer, lost his job because his analysis of the news was too liberal. What is happening to us that we must forbid men to write or talk on matters that we disagree upon? Didn't we go to the polls last November and vote Republi- can? Then why this "red" scare which is aimed at all liberals? Is it because "big" business feels in- secure and shaky in finding en- during outlets for their invest- ments? Or is this "red" scare a smoke screen to smash up all labor parties? -Phillip Bedein There is no danger that any atomic bomb of present or future design will ever blow up the eaarth, the sea, or the atmosphere. If atomic bombs will lead to dis- aster, it will not be by an acci- dental catastrophe but by means of careful planning and design. -Edward Teller in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Sir!T jiu &ir prove to the students of the Uni- versity, Mr. Dustin P. Ordway and ourselves in particular. that the industrial leaders of this country have sponsored a campaign to misrepresent our relations with Russia for the purpose of leading the people of this country into un- justified war with Russia in order that their pockets might be lined. Produce that evidence and we are your most ardent supporters. Fail to produce it and our conclusion as to just who is gullible will be confirmed. -E. G. Davis J. G. Nilles iner' is ies To the Editor: At The State Magnificent Doll (Universal),d ers, David Niven, Burgess Ginger Rog- Meredith I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Black and Whitte By SAMUEL GRAFTON E rHE FACT that thirty-one Senators could have voted against David Lilienthal is most important. It indicates the amount of opposition that can be worked up in our day against a man in whose record no dis- honorable fact can be found. This is oppo- sition based entirely on the circumstances that Mr. Lilienthal happens to differ some- what from the average run of Americans of his age and time, in that he is a little more sophisticated about what goes on in the World, a little more liberal, a little more knowing about the imperfections of the sta- tus quo, a little more bookish. The S'enators who voted against Mr'. Lilienthal as chairman of the atonic en- ergy commission were not lacking in hon- or. It is just that in a black and white time, he made them uneasy. They would have preferred a more two-dimensional type; a blusterer of the smoking cars, as unimpressed by as he wad unacquainted with some of the torments that lie below the surface of this particular moment in the affairs of man. Mr. Lilienthal worries about some of the poor rural folk of the South, for example; and the thirty-one Senators would, on the whole, have pre- ferred a man with more standard interests. Some of them even tried to hint that Mr. Lilienthal's confirmation would, in some cryptic and totally inexplicable way, be a women, by human beings, and certain stan- dards will have to be set up in selecting them. In a period in which we are embarking on an extensive loyalty purge of all govern- ment employees, and in which thirty-one Senators can turn in negative votes against a man of Lilienthal's distinction, one feels sure that the men who run and operate our global intelligence will have to be super- duper certified pure. With this goes the strange and subtle danger that they may be super-duper two-dimensional; narrow men, so politically pasteurized as to be quite un- able to comprehend, with adequate sophisti- cation (or savvy, if you like) what really goes on in this world. Mr. Walter Lippman nleas recently written a remarkable column, in which lie pointed out how many shades of political difference there can be (as in Greece) between commu- nists on one side, and extreme rightists on the other, all the shades of liberal, social- democratic, moderate and merely do-gooder which may lie in between. These are impor- tant differences, but the trouble is that men really acceptable to our Congress are not supposed to know too much about such things. This is one field in which the dogma is being set up that it is un-American to be too smart; that a rough, primary distinction between communist and anti-communist, is quite enough for any respectable man. One wonders what kind of a picture of this r 'HE Encyclopedia Brittanica fails to go into the more personal aspects of the life of James Madison and his wife Dolly, so we are unable to criticize, at such short notice, the historical aspects of this costume parade. There were times when we had our doubts, but since we never believe any- thing we see in the movies, we didn't let this bother us. The chronicle deals with the earlier portions of Mrs. Madison's life, her malrriagc to a Quaker, his death, her subsequent meeting with James Madison, Aaron Burr, and the like. The picture might well be titled "How to be a Successful Hos- tess," since it more often deals with Dolly's social triumphs than the political activity of the day. David Niven plays Aaron Burr just a shade below the maniacal. All in all, it can be stood. At The Michigan , Suddenly It's Spring (Paramount), Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray THIS IS THE light, frothy type of comedy that occasionally collapses through- its own lack of weight, but generally keeps mov- ing in a pleasantly diverting manner. Its machinations concern a marriage-relations expert out to keep her own marriage intact while her husband indeterminantly hounds her to sign a divorce consent. The comedy is not unusual, there are times when it is not even funny, but on the whole the effort is' better than expected. If you're in the mood to laugh, you'll laugh. -Joan Fiske Fifty-Seventh Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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