THE MICHIGAN DAILY 'CSINESDA, APRIL 18, 14 Campus Traffic Lights IT IS TO BE HOPED that the University's luck will hold out a little longer until the city gets the new traffic lights installed in the campus area. That we indeed are protected by a host of guardian angels should be obvious to anyone who crosses State Street, South niversity or Wash- tenaw in the rush hours. The Ann Arbor Common Council, which last week approved installation of four new traffic lights, took a very important step in a very important direction. If not an addi- tion to the life expectancy of University stu- dents, setting up traffic lights in the campus area will at least be a blessing to the campus' peace of mind. I According to the present plan the four lights will be placed at the intersections of South Uhiversity and East University, South University and State, South State and Lib- erty, and South State and Williams. And in this plan probably the most dan- gerous street in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, 'has been completely neglected. Crossing' South University and Washtenaw at noon or r I '31.,,,~-------.- -- ----parr Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. --IA K NIGHT EDITOR: ANN KUTZ Congress o THE HOUSE COMMITTEE on Un-Ameri- can Activities has dived into history and come up with the Logan Act of 1799. Jumping on the "Gag Henry Wallace" bandwagon, the committee found this act which prohibits an American citizen from dealing with a foreign government or its agents about a disputed matter between the two countries or "to defeat the measures of the government of the United States." Maximum penalities under the Logan Act are $5;000 in fines and three years im- prisonment. Whatever we think of Mr. Wallace's ideas or tactics, one thing must be re- membered: to gag him for criticising the Truman Doctrine, which as yet is only a bill before Congress, would be totalitarian- ism. It would mean that something is .sacrosanct because the President said it, and no one may criticize it because no one may criticize what the President says. And that is not exactly what stands be- hind the idea of a democratic government. The Truman doctrine is a bi-partisan doctrine which forms the policy of a group ON WORLD AFFAIRS:, dinnertime is one of the most thrilling and hazardous experiences in the campus life of many East side dwellers. As the plan is set up now there will be three stop lights in three blocks on State Street. Surely It would be better to slow traffic to some degree in two sections than to completely take care of the prob- lem in one area and let it continue to run rampant in another. One of these lights should be moved to South University and Washtenaw. Another spot equally dangerous at rush hours is at the intersection of North Uni- versity, East University and Washtenaw. There the pedestrian not only has to out- guess the cars, but must do it on three streets. Washtenaw and Hill provide an- oher hazardous intersection, though not as vitally important as the others. So, we have four traffic lights ordered to do the work of at least seven. It is to be hoped that the additional lights are in future plans of the council, or if not that they will at least make a better dis- tribution of those they do provide. In a traffic area made unique by 16,000 student pedestrians and 2,000 student driv- ers, not to mention faculty and towns- people in the area, certainly more than nor-- mal control is required. The Common Coun- cil has taken the first all-important step, but there is a good deal more to be desired and demanded. -Gay Larsen a Wallace of politicians in office because the people put them there. When the people tire of the doctrine, they will put them out. Henry Wallace simply doesn't like it to begin with. Wallace is travelling in Europe as an American citizen. He is not a representa- tive of our government, as President Tru- man deposed him last September. Editors of magazines are not considered, by any- one's definition, representatives of our gov- ernment. That Wallace occupies a position of more notice than the usual tourist does not mean he has not the same rights of speech as other tourists. He has. The men in Washington who are calling Wallace a traitor are showing that they are scared. They are showing that they are afraid of criticism. They are indicating that the Truman doctrine is so wobbley that it requires cheap appeals to patriotism and the reverence of every citizen. The definition of democracy in the United States has changed when attacking a pro- posed law amounts to "sedition." -Eunice Mintz )en 's War honest Americans ready to rise to Farben's' bait. The explanation probably is that Ameri- can business, being purely economic-minded, could not understand or believe to what ex- tent German concerns, and notably Far- ben, consciously served the evil purposes of Germany's political rulers. Even industrial giants like Standard Oil of New Jersey and Dupont do not seem to have understood that, big as they were, they remained feather weights in a tussle with the mighty German Reich. Or could it be that they saw the danger- and did not care? In the course of his unravelling of fabu- lous German plots, Mr. Ambruster mentions in an anything but favorable light, a num- ber of important Americans. The reader is left with certain uneasy doubts. Why, for instance, did ex-Attorney Gen- eral Francis Biddle let off Sterling Products so lightly when that company was accused of illegal dealings with Farben? Is it true that as President of the United States, Herbert Hoover employed as Secretary the lobbyist of an American drug company linked with Farben? Or that Mr. Hoover published an anonymous isolationist pamphlet, "Shall We Send Our Youth to War?" which was then used by the (pro-Nazi) German-American Board of Trade? Is it possible that International Nickel escaped prosecution because John Foster Dulles happened to be among its directors? Most important, how explain that I. G. Farben itself, indicted five times by the federal government and, with its German subsidiaries, named twenty-four times as co-conspirator, has never been brought to trial? All water over the dam-unless it is go- ing to be repeated. Some American observ-1 ers in Germany found military government distressingly slow in bringing the Nazi heads of I. G. Farben to trial as war criminals. Some claim that American businessmen are already seeking to renew their ties-if not with Farben-with hardly less deeply com- promised German industries. If Mr. Ambruster's revelations can prevent a new German-American industrial tie-up like the one that cost us so dearly in the last war, his book will have served a great patriotic purpose. Twice in one generation is enough. (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) ite City Editor's SCRATCH PAD MILWAUKEE, April 13 (Delayed)-This home of Schlitz, Pabst, Blata, Gettle- man's, Braumeister, Miller High Life and a few other brands is finding that peace is wonderful. In fact, it's so placid that people are dreaming up things to get worried about. Last night a friend told me, over the cups, that when he went back to Cornell Univer- sity after being discharged from the service, he found that the old place had changed- and he didn't like it. His explanation: "There are nearly 90 per cent Jews there now." In another part of the room, another friend told me about a trip he recently made to Detroit. I asked him how he liked the Motor City, and he said he didn't-but he didn't give the usual reasons. According to him, there are "too many radicals and communists" there. Milwaukee is in the heart of America's Dairyland. It has the cheese, and Detroit has the communists. It's an even trade. However, Wisconsonians, like Michigan- ders, are red-blooded folk, so Milwaukee is worried about the commie problem in its own back yard. The idea is to put the com- mies under a glass jar along with the cheese, where you can look at them but nothing else. A bill has been introduced in the state ,legislature which would bar communists from the University of Wisconsin's board of regents, faculty and student body. Much is made of the fact that Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the Communist Party in the United States, was formerly secretary of the Communist Party in Wisconsin. He's supposed to have prevented a University o$ Wisconsin professor-party member from leaving the state on vacation. This, says one backer of the bill, illustrates the stron grip of the Communist Party on the state's educational institutions. The University of Wisconsin has long been noted as a pretty liberal place. Back in 1940, nine University of Michigan stu- dents were asked not to return to the camp- us, because, as they were subsequently in- formed, they were "not good university citi- zens." Several of them wound up at the University of Wisconsin. The trouble with Wisconsin's anti-com- munist bill is that no one has bothered to detail just what a communist is, so the par- ticular eminence of which the U. of W. has been so proud in the past is liable to b subject to a rough shaking. This is no "inside" story on what is go- ing on here. It's just an impression gained after a week's homing-an impression of people with suds in their eyes, and enjoying it. MAN TO MAN: Price of Pigs By HAROLD L. ICKES "'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'To speak of many things, Of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax, Of cabbages and kings, And why the sea is boiling hot, And whether pigs have wings.'" THE FOREGOING QUOTATION from that rare classic, "Alice Through The Looking Glass" came to mind as I started to write this piece on the rising cost of living. And if pigs do not have wings, in this era of "free economy" and individual initiative," how in the world did they ever make a new record of $30 per hundredweight a few weeks ago? Nor has the price of pigs been the only one that has been soaring. Generally speak- ing, farm prices, which mean food prices, have been doing a little soaring of their own. Only a short time ago, wheat sold in Chi- cago at more than $3 a bushel. But wheth- er farm prices are going to be able to ge as high as the lobbyists for the Farm Bur- eau would like to put them, the farmers do not have to worry particularly because with- in reach of them stands their government ready to pay them a handsome subsidy. They may get hurt, but not so much as some others. The costs that have been up were already "going upner" and those that have been dragging their feet are testing their wings for flight. It was exactly a year ago this month that I wrote in this column: "Inflation is no longer a threat. It has been emerging as a reality for some time . . . The NAM and its well-trained senatorial supporters demand a return to a 'free competitive economy,' insisting that this is the only sure way to regain full productive capa- city and prosperity in the Nation. They argue that the law of supply and de- mand would automatically control our economic destiny. This is pure hokum out of some antediluvian professor's textbook." The only thing that seems "free"today about our "competitive economy" is the freedom to dash over the cliff into a depres- sion at full speed. (Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation) 00 BILL MAULDIN "It's only fair to warn ya-I got a colorful past." SDAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Copt. 147 by Uni d Featfr Synd 0t* Inc..* Tm. Reg. U. S. Pet. Off -All .rights reser,',d I. G. Farb By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER BACK IN GERMANY, under Hitler, I used to wonder why certain patriotic Ameri- can businessmen could stoop to cooperating with German firms that were patently serv- ing the evil purposes of the third Reich. Finally we have a full explanation of at least one phase of this phenomenon-the American businessmen were duped. At the center of the German politico-in- dustrial conspiracy, the great dye and chem- ical trust called IG Farben steadily took the lead in promoting German aggression, par- ticularly in the United States. In the last few days a book has appeared that pur- ports to tell this whole sordid story. "Treason's Peace-German Dyes and American Dupes," (N.Y., The Beechhurst Press) is the work of a single-minded chem- ical engineer, Howard Watson Ambruster, who set himself to reveal the evil doings of Farben in this country. It took him years and infinite pains to assemble his material. It took him nearly as long to find an Ameri- can publisher willing to bring out anything so hot as this. Mr. Ambruster has named so many names, made so many accusations, stepped on so many corns and revealed so many embarass- ing facts that the number of his American critics will be legion. You may have some trouble in finding "Treason's Peace" in the bookstores. Conceivably, you will hear ref- erences to Mr. Ambruster as a "crackpot." Nonetheless, this is, in my judgment, a book that every American who does not ac- cept the idea of a third German war-and particularly, every American businessman tempted by the thought of post-war cooper- ation with the Germans-should read. Farben has been-some say, still is--a tremendous power for political evil. Be- ginning before World War I, the German interests that later united as I.G. Farben found in the United States plenty of friends and even more suckers. After the German defeat in that war, Farben through its American friends somehow managed to recover its former power, influence and-in too many cases-pro- perties. . Yet Farben's purposes were unswerving: To promote German imperialism; To himit the scope and capacity of the American dye, chemical and pharmaceutical industries and to control those companies it could not limit; To keep American business out of cushy a-' c i >, t .,, ' ,, a; ., (Continued from Page 3) _-- - ~ -.. - --. .- - - -~.. _ The Central Office of the Vet-] erans Administration has estab- lished the following policy rela-; tive to ,granting leave following completion of a course of train- ing: a. A veteran may be granted; leave cf absence only while pur- suing a course of training. He, therefore, will not be granted leave following the completion of his course, even though hehas made a request for said leave while. still in training and has remain- ing entitlements. b. Unused accumulated leave to a veteran's credit upon completion of course will be credited to his leave account for use in any sub- sequent course. This will answer questions rais- ed as to whether a veteran is en- titled to leave subsequent to grad- uation from a college or univer- sity. To the presidents of all campus undergraduate organizations. You are requested to call at the Office of Saudent Affairs, Rm. 2, Univer- sity Hall, to secure forms for re- porting the membership of your organization for the current se- mester. These reports are due on or before April 23. To chairmen and managers of campus activities, and to presi- dents of campus organizations: All groups which have not previ- ously submitted eligibility lists for the current semester are request- ed to do so at once. Forms may be secured in the Office of Stu- dent Affairs, Rm, 2, University Hall. School of Business Administra- tion. Applications for admission to summer session or fall semester should be submitted as soon as possible. Application forms are available at Rm. 108, Tappan Hall. Petitions for admission to the Combined Curriculum in Letters and Law are again being accepted from out-of-state students. Pro- spective applicants who have be- gun the first semester of their junior year may apply for admis- sion to the program provided pe- titions are filed with the Chair- man of the Committee, 1220 A gell Hall, not later than April 1. 1947. Prospective applicants are referred to a description of the curriculum on pages 38-39 of the current Announcement-of the Col- lege of Literature, Science and the Arts. Phi Eta Sigma members who are interested in applying for the Thomas Arkle Clark scholarship may obtain information from the Office of Student Affairs, Rm. 2, University Hall. This scholarship is available for first-year gradu- ate students only. The State of Michigan Civil Service Commission announces examination for Special Health Dentist, Class V. The U. S. 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The U.S. Department of Agri- culture, Bureau of Entymology and Plant Quarantine, have openings for summer employment in For- estry in the state of California. For further information cal at the Bureau of Appointments, Rm. 201, Mason Hall. Men graduating in June or Au- gust: Mr. H. B. Cunningham, of S. S. Kresge's will be at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall, Thurs., April 17 to interview men graduating in June or August who are interest- ed in training for management and executive positions. Call ex- tension 371 for an appointment. Senior Civil Engineers. Mr. Blair, assista t chief engineer, At- chison Topeka & Santa Fe Rail- road will interview interested stu- dents relative to employment, on Monday, April 21. Sign appoint- ment slip in Rm. 1215, East Engi- neering Bldg., any afternoon. Aeronautical and Mechanical Seniors and Graduates: Two rep- resentatives of the Chance Vought Aircraft Company, Stratford, Con- necticut, will interview on Monday and Tuesday, April 28 and 29. In- terested students may sign sched- ule on Aeronautical Bulletin Board. Mechanical, Civil, Electrical and Aeronautical Engineers and Phy- sicists. Mr. Bouton, representing McDonnell Aircraft Corp., will in- terview mechanical, civil, electri- cal and aeronautical engineers and physicists graduating in June and August and graduate students on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 21, 22, and 23. For interview, sign schedule on ,Aeronautical En- gineering Bulletin Board. University Community Center, 1045 Midway, Willow Run Village. Tues., April 15, 7:30 p.m., Smith Electric Co., will discuss immer- sion water heaters with any in- terested Village residents; 8 p.m.. Wives' Club Meeting. Representa- tives from Ann Arbor Garden Club and FPHA Landscape Spec- ialist will discuss plans for plant- ing flowers in the Village. All in- terested Villagers are invited. Wed., April 16, 8 p.m., Opening number of the Spring Program Aarre K. Lahti, "Decorating Your Home." Thurs., April 17, 8 p.m. Art- Craft Workshop; 8 p.m., Exten- sion Class in Psychology. Fri., April 18, 8 p.m., Duplicate Bridge. Lectures University Lecture: Professor Max Fisch, Department of Philos- ophy, Univeisity of Illinois, will lecture on the subject, "Evolution in American Philosophy from 1860-1917," at 4:15 p.m., Tues., May 13, Rackham Amphitheatre: auspices of the Department of Philosophy. The public is cor- dially invited. Furniture Industry Lecture: Mr. Clyne Crawford of the Crawford Furniture Company of James- town. New York, will speak on "Merchandising of Furniture - Wholesale," at 11 a.m., April 17, East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. All students in the Wood Technology Program in the School of Forestry and Conservation are expected to attend and any oth- ers interested are cordially invit- ed. Sociedad Ilispanica Lecture. Because of illness, Prof. Emiliano Gallo-Ruiz will be unable to lec- ture as scheduled on Thurs., April 17. Prof. D. M. Phelps, Econom- ics Department, will speak in Prof. Gallo's place on the subject, "The Industrialization of Latin America," at 8 p.m., Thurs., April 17, Rm. D, Almni Memorial Hall. Special invitation extended to Business Administration students. Sigma Delta Chi Lecture: Don- ald F. Schram, past president of the Newspaper Guild of Detroit and state editor of the Detroit Free Press, will speak on the sub- ject, "The American Newspaper Guild," at 8 p.m., Thurs.. Rm. 316, Michigan. Union. Open to the public without charge. A cademic Notices Forestry Assembly: 11 a.m., Wed., April 23, Rackham Amphi- theatre, Colonel William B. Gree- ley, former Chief of the U. S. For- est Service and now Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ameri- can Forest Products Industries, will speak on recent progress and prospects in private forestry. All members of the School are ex- pected to attend, and others inter- ested are cordially invited. Wildlife Management Seminar: 4:30 p.m., Wed., April 16, East Lecture Room, Rackham Bldg. Dr. Gustav Swanson, Chief, Division of Wildlife Research, Fish and Wildlife Service, will speak on the research program in the Fish and Wildlife Service. All students in the field of Wildlife Management are expected to attend, and any- one interested is cordially invited. Seminar in Applied Mathema- tics: 3 p.m., Wed., April 16, Rm. 317, W. Engineering. Professor Bartels will talk on Supersonic Flow over an Arrow Wing. Please note change in hour. Special Functions Seminar: 1 p.m., Wed., April 16, Rm. 3003, Angell Hall. Mr. Dickinson will conclude his talk on Finite sums involving binomial coefficients. Note new room for meeting. Botanical Seminar. Open Meet- inig, 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. Zoology Seminar. Thurs., 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." 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. Veterans' Tutorial Program: Chemistry (3)-Mon., 7-8 p.m. 122 Chem, S. Lewin; Wed.-Fri. 5-6 p.m., 122 Chem, 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, 1. 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. Freneh- (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., 41 p.m., 203 RL, E. W. Thomas. (2)- Mon.-Wed., 4-5 p.m., 207 RL, H. Hootkins. (2) -- Tu.-Thurs., 4- pim., 207 RL, H. Hootkins. (31)- Tu.-Thurs., 4-5 p.m., 210 RL, C Staubach. German-Mo.-Wed.. 7:30-8:30 pam., 201+6 'AU,. 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: 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. Student Recital: Betty Jean Hill, Soprano, will present a re- cital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music at 8:30 p.m., Fri., April 18, Rackham Assembly Hall. A pupil of Arthur Hackett, Miss Hill will sing compositions by Wolf, Schuman, Charpentier, De- bussy, and Roger Quilter. Program open to the general public. Events Today University Radio Program: 2:30 p.m., Station WKAT, 870 Kc. Modern Painting Series-Mr. Carl Sheppard, Instructor in Fine Arts, "Paul Cezanne." 2:45 p.m., Station WKAR, 870 Kc. School of Music-"Instru- mental Music in Elizabeth Eng- land," Louise E. Cuyler, Associate Professor of Theory of Music. 5:45 p.m., Station WPAG, 1050 Kc. Campus News. Research Club. Annual memor- ial meeting, 8 p.m. Rackham Am- phitheatre. Papers: Prof. T. U. Hildebrandt on t hie German mathematician Karl Weierstrass Prof. J. E. Dunlap on the Bel- gian philoogist Justus Lipsius, Members of the Women's Re- search Club and of the Science Research Club are invited. Association of University of Michigan Scientists, discussion group on atomic energy: 7:30 p.m., East Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Graduate History Club: 8 p.m., Clements Library. Mr. James Green will speak on "Microfilms as an Aid to Historical Research." All graduate History students are invited. American Pharmaceutical As- sociation, Student Branch, 7:15 p.m., Rm. 151 Chem. Bldg. Motion picture on Folic Acid will be dis- cussed by Dr. Bethell, assistant di- rector of the Simpson Memorial Institute. All persons interested are invited. AIChE: The last order for Al ChE pins and keys this semester will be sent out Sat., April 19. Orders may 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 ar asked to place their orders now, since these will also be sent out on the 19th. A Reserve Officers Association, Ann Arbor Chapter. 7:30 p.m., .American Legion Home, 1035 S. Main Street. All Reserve officers are cordially invited to attend. Two movie shorts, "Plan o (Continued on Page 6) + + .4 .4 1~ Fifty-Seventh Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Paul Harsha ......... Managing Editor Clayton Dickey............City Editor Milton Freudenheim..Editorial Director Mary Brush .......... Associate Editor Ann Kutz...........Associate Editor Clyde Recht .......... 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