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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
21THURSDlAtiPRI-L171947
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Totalitarian Methods
T E SECOND MEETING of the Karl
Marx Study Club was a frightening ex-
ample of what can happen when totalitarian
methods are used in the name of democracy
to fight communist control. The group of
over 200 students assembled ostensibly to
study M'arx and Marxism was little better
than a mob in its conduct, with disorder
prevailing and the majority attempting to
boo and shout down dissenters and critics
--a shocking sight on a university campus
where we are presumably taught to think
for ourselves.
Although in a strict sense parliamentary
procedure may have been followed in bring-
ing up and voting through the new consti-
tution of the club, high-handed and unjusti-
fied methods were used in forcing its pas-
sage and in maintaining order. Undoubted-
ly, springing a new and totally unexpected
constitution before the members for quick
passage was good tactics, but it seems very
unfair to the originators of the group who
drew up the constitution under which it
was admitted as a student organization.
Study of the new document and fuller dis-
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGT4T EDITOR: FRANCES PAINE
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cussion were called for, and passage in a
deliberate and democratic manner, with
complete understanding of all provisions.
If the business administration students
packed the organization purely as a joke
from the beginning, as would seem to be
indicated by the amused countenances of
the majority and their hilariously superior
attitude, the joke has long ceased to be fun-
ny. If they did it with the serious purpose
of study without political affiliation, they
should have gone about permanent organ-
ization more slowly and with more respect
for any minority.
The constitution as passed seems air-
tight from the danger of communist infil-
tration into office and control. All the bus.
ad. students have to do is pack the organiza-
tion once or twice a year for elections and
important business, and they should remain
in perpetual control - if their interest lasts
that long. And this may be all for the best,
in that it will force the club to remain a
purely study group.
The real danger is in the mob attitude,
the unquestioning blind "follow the leader"
sentiment exhibited by students there. If
this can break out so easily in a center of
learning, what hope is there for the less
educated of the nation? Better let the com-
munists have a little rope on which to hang
themselves than use totalitarian methods
which cannot perpetuate democracy but
must eventually bring its downfall.
-Elinor Moxness
Engineering Open House
TO MORROW the engineering college will
open its doors to the public for the first
time since the war.
From 8 in the morning to 8 at night, visi-
tors will have a rare opportunity to view
some of the equipme'nt and facilities which
make this engineering college one of the
outstanding schools in the country. Of spec-
ial interest will be the University's syn-
chrotron, constructed by Professors H. R.
Crane and David Dennison of the physics
department, and the new super-sonic wind
tunnel at Willow Run Airport.
In addition, each department of the col-
lege will sponsor exhibits and demonstra-
tions, designed to afford the visitor an in-
teresting and understandable view of the
work carried on by the various departments
and the facilities available to them. Stu-
dents will be on hand to supply general in-
formation and explain the functions and
operation of machinery on display.
From the start, the Open House has been
student-initiated and student-planned. Its
success will be due to the combined efforts
of the Engineering Council, the Michigan
Technic, the Slide Rule Ball Committee, the
ROTC and a large number of student pro-
fessional organizations and honorary soci-
eties.
Although the faculty and administration
of the engineering college have emphasized
that all arrangements for the Open House
are in the hands of students, there can be
no doubt that they appreciate the import-
ance of this event to the college and the
University. Cancellation of all engineering
classes tomorrow is one certain indication
of administrative cooperation.
We believe that students who take ad-
vantage of the Engineering Open House to-
morrow will agree that the engineers have
performed a valuable service to the Univer-
sity and the public.
-John Campbell
MATTER OF FACT:
Yalta Letters
By JOSEPH ALSOP
WASHINGTON, April 15-It is time for
the State Department to release the person-
al. correspondence after Yalta between
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Chur-
chill and Joseph Stalin. This is positively
demanded by the tragi-comic foreign parade
of Henry A. Wallace, whose attempt to
shroud himself in Roosevelt's mantle re-
sembles nothing so much as Milton Berle
playing "Hamlet" in the robes of Edwin
Booth. If the Department continues ner-
vously debating the disposition of these
vital papers (as it has been doing for over a
year) there is a possibility that the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee will request
publication. The plain truth is that Wal-
lace and his little group of touts are guilty
of gross although probably not conscious
falsehood in their representation of the
Roosevelt foreign policy. Appeasement of
the Soviet Union characterized Roosevelt's
foreign policy, as it did that of Winston
Churchill, until victory in the war was
clearly in sight. The real reason for this
appeasement was the implied threat, sup-
porting every Soviet demand mde during
the war of a separate peace with Nazi Ger-
many. With the precedent of the Hitler-
Stalin pact before their eyes, the American
and British leaders could not ignore this
danger. They said as much, in the clearest
language, to their staffs.
By the time of the Yalta conference, how-
ever, the hour of victory was not far off.
And these precious but unpublished com-
munications exchanged between Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stalin, which give the sole
surviving documentary evidence of Roose-
velt's true frame of mind, are known to
suggest that Yalta was a major turning
point for Roosevelt. Their evidence points
to the conclusion that At Yalta he had made
his last concessions. Their evidence sug-
gests further that he meant to insist to
the end upon Stalin's keeping his Yalta
promise of eventual independence for the
whole area of Eastern Europe -- Poland,
Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria - which
has now been absorbed into the Soviet em-
pire.
Roosevelt realized, of course, that the
Kremlin had a right to ask for friendly
governments in Eastern Europe. So do the
State Department and the Foreign Office,
Harry S. Truman and Clement Attlee to-
day. But he was determined that these
governments should be genuinely independ-
ent. And he was outraged by the evidence
of bad faith given immediately after Yalta,
when Vishinsky was sent to Romania to
establish the puppet Groza regime in open
violation of the Soviet Yalta commitierits.
From that time on, the tone of his cor-
respondence with Stalin took on an increas-
ing acerbity. He spoke most strongly of
all in what is believed to be the last state
paper on which he finished work before his
death. This was the draft of a stern person-
al message to Stalin on the question of the
Polish government. This draft was com-
municated to Winston Churchill, who des-
cribed it as "weighty and eloquent" when he
associated himself with the President's sen-
timents. Other messages from Roosevelt to
Churchill mention with bitterness "the dis-
illusion" he had experienced, implying that
this "disillusion" demanded reconsideration
of the whole problem of relations with the
Soviets. The whole body of documents plain-
ly proves that Roosevelt had none of the
wooliness Wallace so impertinently and un-
justly attributes to him.
After Roosevelt's death, Truman briefly
attempted to carry on where his predecessor
left off. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
had fallen into the habit of settling the
world's affairs between themseves, in a per-
sonal way that has partly given rise to the
State Department's reluctance to publish
the papers. Thus Truman was not enlight-
ened as to the inwardness of his predeces-
sor's policy until after he took office, at a
solemn meeting with Harry L. Hopkins and
the Secretaries of State, War and Navy.
The immediate result of that meeting was
the brutal lecture on the Polish question
with which Truman received Molotov, when
the Soviet Foreign Minister stopped off in
Washington on his way to San Francisco.
Events have disclosed that Truman could
not afford to alter the American line as
rapidly as Roosevelt might have done. Thus
the resumption of Roosevelt's effort to be
firm with the Soviets had to wait for many
months. When the effort was resumed, it
was instantly hailed as a "break" with the
Roosevelt policy. But it was nothing of the
sort. Roosevelt would no doubt have been
forced to tolerate, if not approve, accom-
plished facts in Poland and elsewhere, as
Truman has done. Roosevelt would no more
have sought a rupture with the Soviets than
Truman has. But all the evidence suggests
that he would have made approximately the
moves Truman has made, and made them
rather sooner. In the White House inner
circle before his death, "Lend Lease for
Peace" had even become a watchword; and
by this was meant precisely the sort of
thing that Truman is now doing in Greece
and Turkey. It is time for these facts to be
known, if only for their effect in Britain
and France.
(Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune)
Copt. 14 by Unted Featurt Syndicate, inc..
7m. Rag. U. S. Pat. Off-Atl rigts serve,,d
"You can have my money, but leave me my dignity!"
DAILY OFFICIAL. BULLETIN__
ON WORLD AFFAIRS:
Italy in Danger
By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER
Recent reports reaching this writer from
Italy are alarming. Not only are the com-
munists gaining in strength but the major-
ity of the divided Socialist Party, under the
honest but stupid Pietro Nenni, are helping
them.
The west-oriented or democratic parties
still nominally control the government. Most
people think that in an election held now
under the shadow of the unjust Big-Four
decision giving Istria to Yugoslavia and in-
ternationalizing Trieste, communism and
fascism would eat even more deeply into
Italy's weakened body politic.
Nobody can properly blame the commun-
ists and the fascists. Both .are acting ac-
cording to their natures. Italy pretty well
fulfills the conditions that communist theo-
rists consider "pre-requisite to revolution."
Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti is a
hardened, intelligent conspirator so well
thought of by the communist fathers in
Moscow that lie has been made strategical
leader of the communist parties in all west-
ern Europe. The strategy - as everywhere
the communist do not yet dare an open in-
surrection - is the "patriotic line" and a
common front with other "democratic"
(meaning pro-Russian) parties. Given the
humiliation of defeat and loss of really
Italian territory and the physical misery
now prevalent throughout this poor and
over-populated country - the growth of
communism was a foregone conclusion.
(Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.)
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10:30 to 12 noon, Sat., April 19,
Lecture Room, Rackham Bldg. Dr.
William E. Abbott of Harper Hos-
pital, Detroit, will speak on "Meta-
bolic Alterations in Burns." All in-
terested are invited.
Mathematics Seminar on Com-
plex Variables: Sat., April 19, 10
a.m., 3011 A. H. Mr. Wend will
speak on Fuchsian Groups.
Seminar in the Mathematics of
Relativity: Thurs., April 17, 3 p.m.,
3001 Angell Hall. Mr. D. Falkoff
will speak on Relativistic Field
Theories.
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."
Make-up Final Examination for
Freshman Women's Health Lec-
tures: The make-up final exami-
nation covering the series of health
lectures recently completed will
be given as follows:
Section I-Mon., April 21, 4:15,
158 Health Service.
Section II-Tues., April 22, 4:15,
158 Health Service.
Students who were absent from
the final examination may take
the make-up on either of the
above dates. No further oppor-
tunities will be given.
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.
Concerts
Organ Recital: Hugh Porter, Di-
rector, School of Sacred Music,
Union Theological Seminary, will
appear as guest organist at 4:15
p.m., Wed., April 23, Hill Audito-
rium. Program: works of Handel,
Couperin, Bach, Messiaen, Virgil
Thomson, Reger. Bingham, Whit-
lock, and Widor. Open to the gen-
eral public.
Student Recitals: 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:
1:30 p.m., Station WPAG, 1050
Kc. Great Lakes Series-"Ontario
-English or American?"
5:45 p.m., Station WPAG, 1050
Kc. World Masterpieces.
Michigan Chapter AAUP will
meet at the Michigan Union in the
lunchroom of the Faculty Club at
6:15 p.m. A panel consisting of
Deans Edmonson, Keniston, Saw-
yer and Stason will discuss "Re-
search Respansibilities of the
Faculty under Existing Class
Loads." Members of the faculty
are invited.
Regular Thursday Evening, Rec-
ord Concert sponsored by the
Graduate School will include Bi-
zet's Symphony in C, Mozart's Vio-
lin Concerto in A Major, and Ber-
lioz (Herold IN Italie)-.
West Quad Radio Club-W8ZSQ:
Meeting 6:30 p.m., Radio Room off
Tower Study Hall. Distribution of
membership cards. Arrangements
to be made for getting transmitter
on the air.
La P'tite Causette: 3:30 p.m.,
Grill Room, Michigan League.
Women's Rifle Club: The rifle
range will not be available to the
Women's Rifle Club today from
3-5 p.m. due to scheduling of the
building for the Engineering Open
House.
Alpha Phi Omega, National
Service Fraternity, 7:30 p.m.,
Union. All previous active mem-
bers are specially invited.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon: 12:15
p.m., Rm. 3055, Natural Science.
Michigan Dames art group will
be entertained by the Post War
Homes group of the AAUW at 8
p.m. at the home of Mrs. William
C. Trow, Barton Hills. If planning
to attend, please call Mrs. George
G. Mackmiller, 2-3529, for reser-
vations. Meet at 7:30 in the main
lobby of the League.
Student .Town . Hall . Central
Committee: 4 p.m., Lane Hall.
AIChE: The last order for AI
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 are
asked to place their orders now,
since these will also be sent out on
the 19th.
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation:
Opening meeting of the Allied
Jewish Appeal, Thurs., 4 p.m., Hil-
lel Foundation. All those interest-
ed in soliciting please bring eligi-
bility cards.
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.
Coming Events
Albion College Alumni of Ann
Arbor: Meeting, 8 p.m., Fri., April
18, at the home of President and
Mrs. Alexander G. Ruthven. En-
tertainment, refreshments, and an
informal address by President W.
W. Whitehouse, of Albion College,
are planned for the evening. All
former Albion College students
and their wives or husbands are
cordially invited.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily
prints EERY 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-1
pressed in liters are those of the
writers only. Letters of mre than1
300 words are shortened, printed orE
omitted at the discretion of the edi-
torial director.
H ealth C(er k-1)<
To the Editor:
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, a young
girl of 22, former student int
chemistry, passed away, due to a
stomach ulcer. There was nothing,
dramatic about her death, but if
specific steps had been taken by
her or by this University, she
might have been alive today.
Helen Orr came from Flint,
Michigan, where she had done well
in high school and junior college.
Upon coming to this University,
she developed stomach trouble and
began to decline in her school-
work. Her low marks caused her
to worry, and this aggravated her
physical condition. She fell slight-
ly below the minimum "C" aver-
age required for continued attend-
ance. During her last semester,
she managed to earn a "C" aver-
age, but since her general average
was' still below a "C," she was re-
quested to leave school though she
lacked only 17 hours for gradua-
tion. The University advised her
to take aptitude tests but not to
attempt to enter this University
again.
The University's treatment of
her case, having recognized that
something was wrong, was inade-
quate. Rather to recommend only
aptitude testing, the University
should have made a thorough
physiological and psychiatric med -
ical check-up. I realize that this
procedure was not a routine pro-
cess, when a student suddenly
drops in scholastic performance.
But I believe that the Adminis-
tration would be making a pro-
gressive step if it were to adopt
such a policy.
It is hereby urged that faculty
advisors, who can determine from
records or personal consultation
with students who suddenly begin
to do poorly at studies, prescribe
a thorough check by the Health
Service or University Hospital. If
the student does not comply with
this directive, he is to be dropped
from school immediately, and thus
to be isolated from the trouble-
some situation before further
harm is done.
Secondly, if the check-up re-
veals that the patient is mentally
or physically ill, he is dropped
from school immediately, UNTIL
such time he regains his health.
There most 'certainly is nothing
to be gained by barring a student
from the University forever!
The student, on the other hand,
should not hesitate to report phys-
ical or mental trouble to a Uni-
versity physician.
I strongly urge the adoption of
a plan to meet this serious prob-
lem.
-Phillip Bedein
lare System
To the Editor:
IN A PREVIOUS LETTER I de-
scribed the process of redis-
tributing ballots under the Hare
plan, and showed why some bal-
lots had to be discarded during
this process.
Under the Hare plan, a vote cast
for a winning candidate will stay
in his pile permanently if it hap-
pens to be one of those 108 needed
to elect him. If it comes to him
after he has been elected, it will
go to the next candidate number-
ed on the ballot, who may need
it. A vote cast for a loser is not
wasted because your ballot will be
transferred to your next choice
when the loser is eliminated. If
you show by indicating only
two or three choices that you
don't care who else gets elected,
your ballot may be discarded, af-
ter having done all it can for the
candidates you list. Naturally, the
more fully you indicate your pre-
ferences, by listing a large number
of candidates in the order of your
choice, the more certain you can
be that your ballot will stay in the
running all the way through. It
may help to elect your 19th choice
in perference to your 20th.
It is important to notice that
under the Hare plan the number
of votes needed to elect a candi-
date (the "quota") is fixed in ad-
vance; it is roughly the total num-
ber of ballots divided by the num-
ber of offices to be filled. The
effect of the redistribution is to
give each winner just as many
ballots as he needs and no more;
the surplus are passed on to other
candidates. As I shall show later,
this results in less wastage of bal-
lots than under "simpler" systems;
and this is the reason why the
Hare plan is more effectiv ethan
other systems in giving each
group of voters exactly the repre-
sentation it deserves.
Most systems of counting bal-
lots operate by assigning a "score"
to each candidate, The 24 with
highest "scores" are then declared
elected. Under such a system all
votes for losers, as well as all ex-
cess votes for winners, are lost.
If a candidate gets as high a
scores as the 24th-ranking candi-
date he is elected, and any excess
score for him is meaningless.
Therefore the total score which
counts effectively for the winners
is 24 times the score of the 24th-
ranking candidate. All surplus
score for winners and all the
scores for losers are discarded in
exactly the same sense that 473
ballots in the recent Hare election
were discarded: i.e., they did their
best but they didn't count in the
end. This principle holds no mat-
ter what system of scoring is used.
-Bob Taylor
Karl Marx Cub1
To the Editor:
WENT TO Thursday's meeting
of the Karl Marx Club mainly
out of curiosity, I suppose. Let me
add that I am neither a Commu-
nist nor a Bus. Ad. student.
This meeting had the atmos-
phere of some kind of European
nightmare, such as Hitler might
have concocted-only not quite so
well organized. Let me describe
what I saw.
In the first place there was the
Leader. The Leader did not have
the masses quite under his con-
trol. Every so often he would
bang on the desk and shout, "Fm
running this meeting and I will
have order. No one speaks who is
not recognized by the Chair." He
would then proceed to recognize
no one and to railroad through
legislation without chance for
comment. But of this railroading
later.
In the second place there was
a definite atmosphere of hate and
resentment. Minority speakers
were jeered in the midst of re-
marks. There were cries to toss
one fellow out. Someone with a
foreign accent was mimicked.
A new Constitution was ram-
med through without any discus-
sion and included such provisions
as (1) All vacancies to be filled
by the president (2) 2/3 vote of
members at two consecutive
meetings for amendments, and
4/5 vote to amend certain clauses
(3) No officers to be removed dur-
ing the period of office (4) Ex-
ecutive board to decide on when
meetings should be held. Is this
democratic?
I'd like to conclude by saying
that if this little meeting the Bus.
Ad. School put over is an example
of how democracy works, then a
few of my fond illusions are shat-
tered. But I don't think it is.
Come on. Let's not sell demo-
cracy down the river at U. of M.
Minorities are supposed to have a
right toexpress themselves, even
in the Karl Marx Club.
-Lenore Frane
Socialism
To the Editor:
ATTENTION Arthur Higbee et
al. Karl Marx was the ex-
ponent of Socialism and not Com.
munism. Let us keep at our el
bows a Winston or Webster colle-
giate dictionary while expounding
The Great Truths to the public
(coff-coff). At least TRY for the
college level of expression, inter-
pretation, and commentary.
-J. Stanley Smegalski
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BILL MAIJDIN
Letters to the Editor.
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IT SO HAPPENS...
". End of the World: Sntow Age
After Five Days, Send To
"SUDDENLY, in rnid-March, from a chao-
tic weltei of veiled words and purposes,
one fact arced briefly upward with clear,
hard words, only to be lost again in the mud
of power politics."
This peachy excerpt from an Encyclopedia
Americana news release about a proposed
loan to Korea is an example of the chaotic
welter of veiled words which descended on
The Daily office during Easter vacation.
As a rule we take our mail (non-campus
that is) with a shrug and an airplane shot
toward the nearest waistbasket. But when
it piles up three feet high on our already
none-too-tidy-desk, one can't be so blithe.
Classical Daily
RIGHT ON TOP OF THE PILE was a big
white envelope addressed to the "Class-
ical Journal." A little more shuffling re-
vealed one for the "North Central Associa-
tion Quarterly."
Before we had recovered from this double
shock we came face tj face with a U.S. Gov-
ernment post card bearing the words "Mich-
igan State Grange, Mavnard Street, Ann Ar-
Appropriate
ANOTHER RELEASE informed us as fol-
"J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal
Bureau of Inves'tigation, today called upon
communities to "smash their disreputable
dance halls, gambling and vice dens and the
peddler of lewd and obscene literature" and
to substitute "recreational study and work
centers where the leisure time of youth will
be channelized along constructive lines."
The next graph begins, "Writing in the
April issue of "The Optimist Magazine"-
j. Edgar, Please Note
rp{E "AIR CARRIERS' MAGAZINE" in-
forms us via their publicity men that
"each passenger making the trip (to Hon-
olulu) is entitled to as many as four
Scotch or Bourbon highballs while ajour-
neying," free.
Kansas City, You Say?
JOHN A. CLEMENTS ASSOCIATES sent a
cost-of-living note that may be of inter-
est. They quote Andre Maurois, "My pro-
fessor's salary (University of Kansas City)
is far lower than that of an American me-
chanic, but living is not dear in this nar-
row circles My two rooms cost forty dollars
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Geology
nal Club:
Em. 3055,
Dr. James
"Crustal
Bains."
and Mineralogy Jour-
12 noon, Fri., April 18,
Natural Science Bldg.
T. Wilson will speak on
Structure of Ocean
Fifty-Seventh Year
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