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New Electrical Policy

THENEW WILLOW RUN electrical pol-
icy, announced by the FPHA this week,
was gratifying, by and large, to student vet-
erans and their wives living in the village.
It's true that the announcement of any
final policy after months of proposals, coun-
ter-proposals, investigations and general un-
easiness would probably evince a concerted
sigh of relief on the part of those so plagued.
But in this case, dwellers in Willow Village
have a more substantial reason to be grati-
fied.
The new regulations permit residents
to cook electrically at no added charge
to themselves. The saving on their coal
bills will likely be great and the saving in
terms of convenience will probably be im-
measurable. For among student wives,
few are used to cooking on coal stoves
and fewer still relish the prospect.
As for the use of strip heaters, the new
policy is not quite so favorable for those
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: STUART FINLAYSON

seeking the maximum convenience, but
probably few Villagers would question the
validity of the regulation forbidding them.
FPHA officials have declared that no capital
improvements at the 'village are possible
now. With that, there might be some quar-
rel, and probably will be. But as the situa-
tion stands, power lines in the Village can
not carry the current required of such heat-
ers. Automatic immersion-type heaters
were approved, however, with users required
to pay an additional two dollars per month
rental charge to cover added electrical costs.

Stassert i

The fuse warden setup, in which tenant
representatives will undertake the replac-
ing of burnt fuses and general electric
policing of their designated areas, seems
certain to erase the hazards of tamper-
ing with the fuse boxes, so prevalent un-
der the understaffed maintenance system
previously used.
Cutting the fee for the use of electric re-
frigerators from one dollar to seventy-five
cents per month is certainly welcome to
married students hard-pressed to meet cur-
rent living costs.
All in all, Villagers now know exactly
where they stand, which from here seems
to be firm ground in contrast to the situation
they've been so nervously sitting on these
several months.
--Ben Zwerling
 Europe
what the United States foreign policy
should or should not be. And that's why
his trip is different.
Other traveling American potentates
have firmly stated their convictions about
Europe, on the basis of perhaps a two weeks
visit. Stassen, on the other hand, is simply
looking, listening and studying, talking to
people, and making a sincere effort to de-
velop his understanding of the problems of
that continent.
It's just another instance of Stassen's
integrity and intelligence, and should be
another proof, to those who are wondering,
of his ability to fill our highest national of-
flee.
-Frances Paine

H AROLD STASSEN'S journey through
Europe has been very unlike the tours
through that continent which have been
made since the war by other American po-
litical big-wigs and public figures.
We haven't heard much about what Stas-
sen was doing or about his impressions of
the European situation. There have been
very brief dispatches saying that he had
landed by plane in Paris, Berlin or Kiev,
and other dispatches saying that he had
left these places for the next stop on his
itinerary. And. we did hear that in Mos-
cow he had a long talk with Premier Stalin.
But Stassen hasn't been publishing any
snap judgments on the situation in Eu-
rope, or making any rash statements of

I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Boom or Setback

MAN TO MAN:
Wallace Fight
By HAROLD L. ICKES
jHENRY WALLACE'S place is in the home.
He should come back promptly where
he is better known than he is in Europe
and where whatever he might say would be
given the proper discount. Of course, Mr.
Wallace is now a private citizen and in
ordinary circumstances it might be all right
for him to wander about in Europe if he
could refrain from making speeches or giv-
ing interviews. However, he has created such
an unfortunate atmosphere that he could
not now do even this because every move
that he might make would provoke surmises
and even his silences might be misunder-
stood.
I do not believe that anyone cherishes
the right of free speech more than the writ-
er of this column. No one would go further
in insisting that, upon proper occasion, it
is not only the right but the duty to criti-
cize a public official or object to a public
act. But it is one thing to criticize at home
in the hope of influencing a result; it is
quite another thing to go to England where
Mr. Wallace has not only attacked the pend-
ing bill for loans to Greece and Turkey,
but has urged Great Britain to take the
lead in organizing world opinion against
our "ruthless imperialism." He insists that
President Truman wants to "rush to the
aid of every dictator who hoists the anti-
Communist skull and bones." He suggests
that we are trying to organize the world
against Russia and that our Government
is in control of those who believe that the
United Nations will fail.
Henry Wallace is a private citizen only
in the sense that le does not now hold
public office. None can doubt that he
would like to hold public office and in
any event he has been a member of the
Cabinets of Presidents Roosevelt and Tru- ,
man, and he has served for four years as
Vice-President. He dearly wanted to be
nominated for Vice-President in 1944. If
he had been, he would be in the White
House today. On occasion, I have been
highly critical of some of President Tru-
man's appointments and policies. But we
can thank our stars today that we have
as President the man that we have, if
the alternative would have to be Henry
A. Wallace.
Mr. Wallace should be exercising at home
his undoubted right to criticize the "Tru-
man doctrine", and to fight against any
tendency toward "ruthless imperialism."
Others than he have opposed pretty vigor-
ously the original proposal by President
Truman that we lend $400,000,000 to Greece
and Turkey. Many have felt strongly that
we are entering with too much haste- into
a hazardous adventure, the end of which
no man can foresee with certainty. And
they have said so. Others have been shock-
ed by President Truman's evident intention
to by-pass the United Nations - an un-
fortunate misstep - which, to some extent
at least, has been corrected by the Vanden-
berg amendment.
There are those who believe that the in-
genious mind of Senator Vandenberg might
have gone further and devised an acceptable
plan by which any loan that we might
make to Greece or Turkey would be man-
aged by the United Nations, in accordance
with rules and policies set up by it. It is
not illogical to argue that if we can give
the United Nations an ex post facto veto
power, we can grant it initial authority.
This would go far to strengthen the position
of the United Nations as an agency to
maintain world peace.
Many Americans believe that American
money should not be used for military pur-
poses in either Greece or Turkey. They
would like the pending bill to say so in dis-
tinct terms. Not a few hold, with Senator
George, that if we have undertaken to pre-
vent the further extension of Communistic

imperialism, we should be honest enough
with ourselves to say so. And all who so be-
lieve, including the former Vice-President,
have an unque4tioned right so to declare
in their own country.
Mr. Wallace would be serving the cause
of democracy if he argued here at home
that there should be conditions precedent
to the granting of this money. An honest
plebescite should be required to determine
what form of government either country
might want. There should be put into effect
a fair and equitable system of taxation.
Taxes should be collected on the basis of
ability to pay. But no American, not exclud-
ing Mr. Wallace, has the right to go to
foreign lands to preach even a holy war
against his own country. Nor should any
American support the hasty and undigested
Greco -Turkish proposal of President Tru-
man merely because Mr. Wallace opposes
it.
The fight that Mr. Wallace is making
cannot be won in London but only in
Washington. Besides which, perhaps his
present hosts have not forgotten his con-
demnation last September of "British im-
perialistic policy in the Near East," in
the same speech in which he said, "but
to make Britain the key of our foreign
policy would be, in my opinion, the height
of folly."
(Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation)

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By SAMUEL GRAFTON
MANTEO, N.C.,-The smell of peace is on
the land, as I have said, and on the
back roads of Roanoke Island the war seems
very much forgotten. An old man in a
broken little truck talked bitterly of high
prices, and one knows that a kind of dis-
turbance remains, and that one mustn't
judge by the way the wash hangs quietly in
the sun, or the chickens flutter under it.
"You can't afford to buy what you need,"
he said. "We're not set for the peace time
yet. It ain't equalized."
Another man, a kind of contractor type
in a large sedan, also complained about
prices. He was quite cross. "It's extortion
here and extortion yonder," he said. He
had some men working on a job for him,
but he swore briefly in describing it, and
said firmly that he was going to pull them
off at the end of the week.
He had a theory about business. What
he was looking for, lie said, was a short
setback, a little depression. "Not a big
one," he said, "Just enough to throw a
seare into some of these pirates, and
make them pull their prices down. Just
a little depression," he said, almost croon-
ingly. "It would head off a big one."
One turns up at Fort Raleigh, where, in
a log-built amphi-theatre, Paul Green's,
"The Lost Colony" drama is presented each
summer, telling the tourists about the
Jaimcstown settlers, Here one remembers. the
depression-minded man in the sedan, for
the main museum building, also of logs,
turns out, according to a plaque, to have

been built by the W.P.A., in the old Roose-
velt work relief days. The relic of a square
rigger stands beside the relic of the last
depression, on the slight hill where the old
colonies died, and the result is an oddly
striated historical effect, many voices speak-
ing at once.
Most of Manteo, perhaps remembering
the last depression doesn't agree with the
man in the sedan about the need for a
slight setback. It has placed its bets on a
continuing business boom, and wants no
truck with homopathic doses of recession.
"The way I see it," said one man, "is that
they're making those cars right along, there
in Michigan. When they make them, they
sell them, and when a car is sold it just
has to roll. It stands to reason a certain
percentage will roll down our way, for our
beaches and fishing, and we'll do all right.
All they have to do is keep on making those
cars and we'll be fine."
So the little fishing town lies in the
sun, it's inner eye turned on the assembly
line, far away. Even here, so far out into
the sea, it is connected with the main
land, and by more than a causeway. And
part of it is praying for a hotter, swifter
boom, and part of it, distressed and
strangely choked, is praying for just a
little setback ,to peel prices down. The
two aspirations hit head-on, as they do
elsewhere; and so here, top, one sees that
puzzled expression which is our common
look today. As the man in the truck said,
"It ain't equalized."
(Copyright 1947, New York Pout Corporation)

Q

Johnson, of Princeton Univer-
sity, will give the third in his series
of six lectures on "Egypt and the
Roman Empire." The subject of
this lecture is "Systems of Land
Tenure." This series of lectures is
given under the auspices of the
University of Michigan and the
Archaeological Institute of Amer-
ica. Fri,, April 18, 4:15 p.m., Rack-
ham Amphitheatre.
Loud Lecture: Dr. Robert A. Mil-
likan, Professor of Physics at
California Institute of Technology,
will speak at the First Methodist
Church on Sun., April 20, 10:40
a.m., on "Two Great Elements in
Human Progress" and at 8 p.m. on
"The Release and Utilization of
Atomic Energy." Auspices of the
Henry Martin Loud Lecture Com-
mittee and of Inter-Guild. Every-
one welcome.
Doctor Haven Emerson, Profes-
sor Emeritus of Public Health of
Columbia University, will give a
special lecture to public health
nurses in the School of Public
Health Auditorium on Mon., April
21, at 4 p.m. All public health
nurses will be excused from their
regular 4 o'clock classes and are
expected to attend. Anyone else
interested is cordially invited.
Academic Notices
Biological Chemistry Seminar:
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.
English 154 will meet Tuesday
evening, April 22.
W. A. Bacon
Mathematics Seminar on Com-
plex Variables: Sat., April 19, 10
a.m., 3011 A. H. Mr. Wend will
speak on Fuchsian Groups.
Mathematics Seminar on Dy-
namical Systems: 3 p.m., Mon.,
April 21, 3011 A. H.
Psychology 208, Section I: Writ-
teln examination, 1 p.m., Mon.,
April 21.
M. G. Colby
Maki-=up Final Examination mor
Freshman Women'si Heali 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-
tumties will be given.
Organ Recital: Hugh Porter, 1)i-
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.
Carillon Recital: Percival Price,
University Carillonneur, will play

the first in his series of spring ca-
rillon recitals at 3 p.m., Sun., April
20, when he will present composi-
tions by Bach, Beethoven, and
Brahms. The spring series will ex-
tend from April 20 until June 12,
being presented on Sundays at 3.
and Thursdays at 7:15 n.m.
Student Recital: Virginia Zapf
Person, soprano, will be heard at
8:30 p.m., Tues., April 22, Rack-
ham Assembly Hall, in a program
given in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of
Master of Music. Program: com-
positions by Durante, Fasolo, Don-
audy, Mozart, Mahler, Poulenc,
Borodine, Moussorgsky, Rachman-
inoff, Elgar, Bax, Quilter and
Bantock. The general public is in-
vited.
Exhibitions
The Museum of Archaeology:
Current Exhibit: "Life in a Roman
Town in Egypt, 30 B.C.-400 A.D."
Tues. through Fri., 9-12, 2-5; Sat.,
9-12; Sun., 3-5.
Events Today
University Radio Program:
2:30 p.m., Station WJR, 760 Kc.
"Stump the Professor."
10:45 p.m., The Medical Series
-"The Cancer Problem," Dr. Wil-
liam Hyland.
The Congregational - Disciples
Guild: "What Are You Going To
Do This Summer?" A discussion
7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Guild House,
438 Maynard Street.
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation:
"Corned Beef Corner." 10:45 to 12
midnight.
Coming Events
Economics Club: 8 p.m., Mon.,
April 21, Rackham Amphitheatre.
"The Problem of Continuous Full-
Employment" by Professor Evsey
Domar, Carnegie Institute of
Technology. Graduate students
and staff of Economics and Busi-
ness Administration as well as
other interested persons are in-
vited.
Graduate Student Council: 7:30
p.m.. Mon., April 21, East Lecture
Room, Rackham Bldg.
Varsity G6ee Club: Rehearsal,
Sunday, 3:30 p.m. for all men ex-
cept those who were on tour. Final
full rehearsal Wed., 7:15 p.m., Hill
Auditorium.

Letters to the Editor...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Dally
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 lctters are those of the
writers only. Letters of more than
300 words are shortened, printed or
omitted.at the discretion of the edi-
torial director.
Librarv Fund
To the Editor:
'HE UNIVERSITY is sponsoring
a drive to establish the Joseph
Ralston Hayden Memorial Library
in the University of the Philip-
pines and is asking every mem-
ber of the student body and the
faculty to contribute. In a way
I think the contribution of every
individual member is more import-
ant than the actual amount rais-
ed. Surely the interest express-
ed by a large number of subscrip-
tions will mean far more in a
close relationship with the new
Republic than a few large gifts
from philanthropic foundations or
individuals. The United States
is leading the way in assistance
to the Philippine government.
None can contribute more appro-
priately to education in the new
state and particularly to the re-
establishment of its University
than the great universities of this
country. The state of Michigan
and the University of Michigan
played a leading part before the
war in the growth and progress of
education in the islands. Now,
as never before, the Philippines
need help in reestablishing their
schools and particularly their Uni-
versity.
The individual contribution to-
ward a library seems a small
thing in the rehabilitation of a
new country. There is no real
knowledge of the world, however,
without a library and no real pro-
gress in democracy unless it is
founded on understanding. Pro-
fessor Hayden needs no memorial
for the work that he has done
but I know of no one whose name
is more worthy than his to be
placed on the library of the Uni-
versity of the Philippines. I am
sure it will be a tremendous sat-
isfaction to every Michigan man
that through this library our own
University will be intimately link-
ed with the rehabilitation of the
University of the Philippines and a
matter of pride to every one of
us that we have assisted with a
personal contribution to this un-
dertaking.
-Clark Hopkins
Hare Plan
To the Editor:
THE most puzzling of the com-
plaints about the Hare plan
is the shocked astonishment at the
fact that to win in the recent elec-
tion one had only to make sure
of the quota of 108 solid votes.
(One student complained that
candidates with fewer than 100
votes were elected. This is sheer
misinformation.) The Hare quo-
ta always approximates asrclose-
ly as possible the "ideal quota,"
which is the total number of bal-
lots divided by the number of
posts to be filled. Surely a can-
didate backed by one twenty-
fourth of the voters deserves one
of the 24 positions!
How far short of the "ideal''
did we fall? The efficiency of the
plan in the recent election was
about 13/15, which explains why
the quota was 108 rather than
125 or so. In any "simple score"
system, in which each voter is al-
lowed to allocate S points among
his favorite candidates, some very
elementary statistics shows that
with 60 candidates competingfor
3065 S points, the minimum num-
ber of points needed to get elpt-
ed would have been certainly less

than 100 S, anal probably much
closer to 50 S- i.e. from 50 to 100
staunch supporters.
Fundamentally, the reason so
few ballots were needed to elect
a man is that few students voted.
No doubt Mr. Fleischman does
have the support and good will of
his 150 Willow Village dorm mates.
If he can get them to actually
vote for him in the next election
he will do the Legislature a real
service.
Mr. Fleiscbnan doubts that
the Representative Party repre-
sents one-tlird of the campus. So
do I. But it does happen to repre-
sent pretty close to one-third of
the voters in the recent election.
At the end of the first distribution,
upwards of 900 ballots lay in the
piles of the Representative Par-
ty. During the redistribution, it
turned out that more voters who
had given first choice to non-par-
ty members showed later prefer-
ences for the party than the other
way around. Result: of the 2592
ballots which counted for win-
ners at the end of the race, 864
belonged to the R.P. The be-
havior of parties in our two pre-

vious Hare elections was striking-
ly similar.
There are two reasons for ihe
oft-quoted statistics about one
election in New York City in which
the Socialists, Communists, and
independents polled a large num-
ber of first choices but got no
representation. One is that they
split into several small groups
which bitterly opposed each oth-
er so that ballots from a losing
Socialist, say, were unlikely to be
transferred to a Communist; no
one of these groups was strong
enough at that time to elect a rep-
resentative. The other reason is
that the methods of calculating
the quota and of distributing the
ballots in New York differ in sv-
eral important respects from the
system we use here. No one is ad-
vocating the New York City sys-
tem for use on this campus.
-Bob Taylor
Palestine Plan
To the Editor:
TO MANY on the campus who
are troubledrby the seem-
ingly knotty problem of Pal-
estine, the recent column by
Stewart Alsop might have open-
ed a new vista of thinking.
For many this was probably the
first time they had ever been pre-
sented with the proposal of Mor-
decai Bentov and his party, Hash-
omer Hatzair. The proposal calls
for a Palestinian State in which
the Jewish and Arab communities
are given political parity, regard-
less of their numerical size. This
merely recognizes the undeniable
bi-national character of Palestine
that will remain despite any ef-
forts of either the Jews or Arabs,
and provides a framework within
which the Jewish and Arab ideals
can be realized and protected
while the two communities work
together in harmony
It is regrettable that Mr. Alsop
was misled to believe that this sol-
ution presupposes that the broth-
erhood of man is just around the
corner. Mordecai Bentov realizes
as well as Mr Alsopthe existing
friction between Arabs andi Jews,
and for this reason he and Hash-
omer Hatzair have always fought
for measures that would facilitate
rapprochement. If active work is
done along the line of combined
unions and the consumer coopera-
tives (almost all Jewish consump-
tion is done through a oopera-
tive), in the cultivation of pre-
sent friendly and progressive Ar-
ab elements, etc., great improve-
ment is very probable, unless the
Mandatory Government continues
to prevent the realization of these
aims and foments inter-communal
strife as they have done continu-
ally in the past.
The effects of a "settlement" of
partition, as Mr. Alsop proposes,
would be just the opposite of what
we desire. Partition would cre-
ate even more artificial barriers
between the two communities, it
would perpetuate the disparity be-
tween Jewish and Arab living
standards, it would prohibit any
sound economic development of
the country (especially regional
development plans such as the
Jordan Valley Authority), and it
would frustrate the hopes of Jews
and Arabs alike, with the result
that Palestine would ever continue
to be a sore spot in the Middle
East.
It is only by a recognition of the
bi-national character of Palestine
that a solution, including the ne-
cessary establishment there of a
Jewish National Home, can be
found.
-Yosef Schwartz
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IT SO HAPPENS...
* Today: Musical Contest

Women Veterans:
Mon., 7:30 p.m., League.

Meeting,I


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Musical Enthusiast
rtHE HIGH SCHOOL BAND FESTIVAL is
making itself felt. We were washing our
hands industriously in the Union one lunch
hour recently when a man walked in sing-
ing,
"Yum tum ta, tata ta."
His companion smiled happily and said,
"Yes, that's it. Certainly does play a won-
derful trumpet."
For How Long?
WE SEE by the Cincinnati Post that
the Gayety Burlesk of that city is
featuring "Ann Arbor." All seats are re-
served.

Au entioni Dietician .
PASSIVE RESISTANCE was given a prag-
matic twist yesterday when a dorm res-
ident became impressed by the tensile
strength of Friday's fried eggs.
Anxious to share his edification with his
fellow inmates, he posted his own egg on
the main bulletin board, yolk and all.
Slanted Copy
"T lE COOKIE PRESS," publication of
the Martha Cook building (where
else?) informs us that, "One of the nic-
est events of the year was the recent form-
al dinner honoring girls of outstanding
scholastic achievement."

All Veteran women interested in
Bowling-meet at Michigan Rec-
reation on Liberty between 2:30
and 3 p.m., Sunday.
A.S.C.E., S tudeit Chapter:
Meeting, Michigan Union, Tues.,
April 22, 7:30 p.m. April 26 is the
date of the Conference of Student
Chapters in Detroit. Program in-
cludes inspection tr'ip to, Peerless
Cement Corp. and Detroit Water
Treatment Plant, and dinner (op-
tional). Dinner speaker is Harold
E. Ellington of Harley Ellington
and Day, Inc.
Tues. evening program: Illus-
trated lecture by Prof. Wisler on
Boulder Dam.
Sigma Rho Tau, engineers'
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