THE ,MICHIGAN DAILY SU NDAYS v, APU.Th2; Irm A Chanc D EAN ALICE C LLO r told ie asl yesterday about a girl who almost, be came a University student, and who for six years has been the victim of a really "tough break." It all started back in 194] wlhn the Bar- bour scholars for that year were chei. In spite of mounting international tension. the University decided to give the awrdo- to a Japanese girl, daughter of U .(rsit graduates, who lived in Tokyo. After receiving her scholarship, Ann Kat- suizumi arrived in Ann Arbor in December, 1941, ready to start school in the spring semester. It was a matter of weeks, though before she developed a bad cough and ex- amination showed a well-advanced case of tuberculosis. So, for the past six years, with neither friends nor family in this country and postal conditions allowing at best one communication a month from her family, Ann has been shifted from sanitor- ium to sanitorium in Detroit and Howell, in the care of Washtenaw County. Lask week she arrived at University Hos- pital and underwent two very serious oper- ations. It is hoped that after about two Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: EUNICE MINTZ Lo r,'. ii I I i p }'tl 1 #{lillf . . , BOOKS Fleeced C( BM hel th hth ami.i While Ann his be in I iity ospital it has Hi l)1u(I ItOfl[ te hos itL l itl I I bak One oF the hspital euathns i that pativnts mst repce the blood they use rom th k or pay for i to the tune oF a a pint 'Fi coity' 4caVe evidlent- ly doe nt ver suc emergencis. 'flu 'Usnry procedure is to have friends or relatives give blood to rcplacc what the patient h usd. inut Ann has no frien or e la-ive here. Miss Lloyd rt'port:d1 that 5;he had visited Ann the night before o7 , of her operations and had found he worried about replacing or paying for the blood. Herein lies the imporance ofU te story to iltiversity students. Here is a chance for the campus, which includes 18,000 in- dividuals, to prove some of the brotherly love which ii, so loudly expounds. Three- hundred dollars is a tidy sum of money, and particularly so for a young girl who has been hospitalized for six years in a foreign country without friends or family. It is to be hoped that Ann will gain six friends who will give up about an hour apiece to go out to the Blood Bank at University Hos- pital and pay the bill by giving a pint of blood for Ann. --Gay Larsen V1 per cent. Some of the following data taken from this table illustrate graphi- cally the fleecing which the American consumer is undergoing: The profits of nineteen food chains rose from twenty millions in 1945 to forty-five millions in 1946, a return of 18.6 per cent of their combined total net worth. The profits of fifty-three other types of chains climbed from ninety-seven millions to 197 mil- lions or twenty-three per cent of total net worth. Twelve distillers recorded an increase from sixty-fivc- millions in 1945 to 164 millions in 1946, representing a total return -of 42.1 per cent on their net worth. For the iron and steel industry, fifty-one companies raised their profits of 183 millions in 1945 to 273 millions in 1946, with by far the largest proportion coming at the end of that year, and indi- cations of an even higher level for 1947. Although the profits of automobile and truck manufacturers declined from 246 millions in 1945 to 128 millions in 1946, production has now attained a more fav- orable level and profits will rise corre- spondingiv. From the:e few facts, typical of the na- tional tiend, it becomes obvious that a com- plete downward revision of prices is neces- sary to prevent a repetition of the disaster of 1929. --Jacob IHurwitz FROM VJ DAY until the time that OPA was finally and completely discarded last year, business leaders made loud and in- sistent demands for a general price increase to insure a reasonable profit. They argued that controls were killing business, that a return to market-controlled guidance was necessary, and that an informed public would act as a favorable restraint upon run- away prices.- There were those, however, who chal- lenged the validity of these claims, particu- larly Walter Reuther of the UAW who be- lieved at the time$that a general wage in- crease was not only possible, but necessary to the continuing welfare of laboring peo- ple. The UAW scored a partial victory, win- ning for its members a substantial wage increase through the General Motors strike. Subsequently, wage increases were granted in other industries. But when Congress failed to pass effective OPA legislation, the victories won by the workers became defeats, for prices were adjusted upwards to meet the cost of increased wages. Some time after the demise of OPA, Rob- ert Nathan made public his highly contro- versial report on the ability of business to grant a further substantial wage increase without any corresponding rise in prices. He was widely criticized for being unreal- istic and for making his report without hav- ing the true facts at his disposal. It was pointed out that not all industries could af- ford to boost wages and that wage increases would precipitate still higher prices. And yet without any considerable wage raises, prices and profits have risen enor- mously. In the April Edition of its monthly letter on economic conditions and Govern- ment Finances, the National City Bank of New York printed an enlightening table on page forty-six reporting profits (after taxes) in 1946. In twenty leading industries profits more than doubled over 1945. In several instances, profits increased from 300 to el IAST FRIDAY Professor Bredvold of the English Department delivered a lecture on the eighteenth-century French philoso- phes. These popularizers of philosophy de- sired that the men of the world throw over all the traditions and conventions to which they had been slaves because these were artificial and against the laws of physical nature. We have learned of many rebels against the status quo who have taught similar theories since the beginning of his- tory from the Greeks to the present. "The wurruld is in a state of chassis" Philip Wylie, in An Essay on Morals is the latest thinker to attempt to reform the world - and he too recommends a return to nature. That there is nothing new in Wylie's ideas, and he frankly states that they are merely the layman's wording of Jung's psy- chological theories, doctored up with mathe- matical, physical and chemical additions, is no reason to condemn them. Those who read The Generation of Vipers, dissatisfied with the absence of constructive thought, and those who read Night Unto Night trying to read between the mystic symbols of hope that tempted but did not reveal, will find that there is a constructive theory of man behind Wylie's ranting and raving. And that theory may be enough to satisfy those who are in desperate needs of some star- wagon to which they may hitch themselves. Many others will claim that the solution is too simple for this complex world, that lengends and symbols are too easily distort- ed in the same distortion Wylie so deplores. To Wylie the only philosophy that man can accept requires much preliminary con- ditioning. Man must first throw away all gods and symbols of gods that he has in- stinctually built up in his ego since he first realized that he was a man. He must learn the humility of the beast, for beast he is, and only beast. With this humility he must abandon his vanity, live by his conscience, and no longer excuse himself as a "patriot" or a "Baptist" or a "business man." Strip- ped of this vanity, this egoism, he will see that he is a tool of evolution, that he is the embodiment of all development that has gone before him and all that is to come after him. He will no longer need to de- pend on his self-made myth that he was created in God's image. He will instead be able to go on to his destined end absorbing and glorifying the truth that he knows. The system is pure, Wylie claims, because it is scientific. The goal is an awareness of fact that is the end of science and an emo- tional satisfaction the same as in all re- ligion. Further, he claims, the health, the mental sanity of men', depends on the in- dividual's acceptance of this truth; the theory is not a formula that can be fed to the multitude. Therefore, if we will be bestial, inhuman, scientific, humble, honor- able, live as Nature itself, by the laws of the physical universe, according to our in- stincts (the only representatives of our real selves), the world will be both our tool and our delight. Wylie takes swings at organized religion for enslaving man's instinct, at science for pondering its problems in a vacuum, and at professional militarism for general incom- petence. But this is to be expected by those who have read his other serious works. In the end Wylie's system seems unbeliev- ably simple, too simple to be real. The mere fact that the book will be read - that the readers will say, "This book seems to be truly constructive, not the usual Mencken iconoclasm," and then be discarded as all other thinker's works have been in the tide of our evolution, points to its essential weak- ness. This book, this popularization, seems rather like the high-school student's only too true theme summary, "If everyone lived a better. life, surely the world would be a better place." -J. M. Culbert General Library Book List Boyle, Kay-Thirty Stories. New York; Si- mon and Schuster, 1946. Ehrenburg, Il'ia Grigorevich - European Crossroad: A Soviet Journalist in the Balkans. New York, Knopf, 1947. Frank, Phillip - Einstein: His Life and Times. New York, Knopf, 1947. Nathan, Robert-Mr. Whittle and the Morn- ing Star. New York, Knopf, 1947. Speiser, Ephraim Avigor-The United States and the Near East. Cambridge, Harvard, 1947. Stauffer, Donald .A.-The Saint and the Hunchback. New York, Simon and Schus- ter, 1946. LET US MAKE our education brave and preventive. Politics is an after-work, a poor patching. We are always a little too late. The evil is done, the law is passed, and we begin the uphill agitation for repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting. We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms, of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medi- cating the symtoms. We must begin higher up, namely in Education. --Ralph Waldo Emerson. kks .. Ite r il 1 e3 ' "Maybe you'd like the' patter of little feet on your skull, mister." DAILY OFFICIAL BULTIN (Continued from Page 3) April 3. Alumni Memorial Hall, weekdays, except Mondays, 10-12 and 2-5. Wednesday evenings 7-9 and Sundays 2-5. The public is cordially invited. Events Today University Radio Program: 9:15 a.m., Station WJR, 760 Kc. v . z.y. v. s s,.e. . -. r.., ...,. a "Hymns of Freedom." MYDA Musicale: Folk song and classical records, 2:30 p.m., ABC Room, League. Letters to the Editori. U. of M. Hot Record Society: p.m., Hussey Room, League. 81 , . . .. S(yp: CROSS RUFFS By Saul Grossman i By SAUL GROSSMAN IF THE SUCCESS of a hand depends upon a finesse, sometimes you can force the op- ponents to finesse themselves by endplaying them, as in this instance. S 9 3 2 H A864 D AJ 7 C KJ 4 S H D C K8 4 J1O9 3 2 9 6 2 93 S J10 7 5 H 5 D 108 5 4 C '108 6 5 T WAS SALVIAN, in the fifth century, searching for reasons for failures by the Romans who said, "We Christians are worse than the rest because we ought to be better." As we watch present day efforts at post-war peace such moral relativity must apply. In industrial strife where good motives prevail, differences c2n be worked out as a logical movement from error toward truth. But if on one side, say La-bor's side, the motive is to obstruct possible production or to defy honest industrial experimentation, then the cause of management is almost certain to win. Also, if management in addition to its long experience and its statistical research is, in its personnel, committed to the Chris- tian theory of society, the weight of expec- tation is great and any conduct which plays fast and loose with the economic situation becomes morally the more culpable. In similar fashion we are apt to expect from nations living above the line of mere subsistence, who are also free from foreign debts and remote from war threats or politi- cal pressures, to behave in an orderly gen- erous fashion. In war every ally was sub- ject of lend-lease and with breath-taking speed we sent supplies. In peace it is nec- essary to discriminate for we are no longer totalitarian but free. Whether the United States behaves as a considerate, fair, and temperate benefactor now we are free again, or a crafty dealer with an eye on some main chance, will determine for the next one hundred years, our standing among the nations of the earth and our self respect. Also there is that nemesis of being a Christian nation, at least in the intent of our great leaders. This means that if in public behavior we fall to the level prac- ticed by Soviet Russia, a young experiment, or Fascist Spain, an antequated feudalism, we will be doubly culpable, just because we fought powerfully a war for the democratic four freedoms. On the other hand, actually, since such is the spot we reach by good fortune, we as citizens can afford to be charitable toward our Congressmen and the Executive who may, at times, like some crude rustic, fall into a crude and costly error, when seated at the internatinna lnble. Tn this regnrd all Coming Events University Radio Programs: Mon., 2:30 p.m., Station WKAR, 870 Kc. The Medical Series, "Can- cer Month - What is It?" Dr. Hazel Prentice. Mon., 2:45 p.m., Station WKAR, 870 Kc. Education for Unity - "Literature and the Arts as Agents for International Understanding," Frank L. Huntley, associate pro- fessor of English. Mon., 5:45 p.m., Station WPAG, 1050 Kc. The News and You, Pres- ton W. Slosson, professor of his- tory. American Chemical Society, U. of M. Section, 4:15 p.m., April 21, Rm. 151, Chemistry Bldg. Mr. L. J. Venuto, development manager for the Binney & Smith Co., New York, will speak on "Colloidal Carbons." The public is cordially invited. All senior engineers who have been invited to the Honor's Con- vocation, and have paid their class dues may receive their caps and gowns April 22 and 23, 2-4 p.m., Garden Room, Michigan League. Phi Beta Kappa, Annual Ini- tiation Banquet, 6:30 p.m., Tues., April 29, Michigan Union. Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton Uni- versity and National President of Phi Beta Kappa will speak on "From Pioneers to World Citi- zens." Reservations should be made at the office of the secre- tary, Hazel M. Losh, Observatory, by Friday, April 25. Members of Phi Beta Kappa, whether mem- bers of this chapter or not, are cordially invited to attend. Graduate Student Council: 7:30 p.m., Mon., April 21, East Lecture Room, Rackham Bldg. Freshman Speech Contest: All eligible students interested in the freshman speech contest are asked to call at the Speech Office, 3211 Angell Hall, before April 25. Square Dancing Class, sponsor- ed by the Graduate Outing Club. 7:45 p.m., Tues., April 22, Lounge, Women's Athletic Bldg. Everyone welcome. Small fee will be charg- ed. ing, 8 p.m. Mon., April 21, Rm. 305, Michigan Union. Songs and games. U. of M. Chapter of Intercol- legiate Zionist Federation of America. Speaker: Norman Kiell, national IZFL field worker. 8 p.m., Tues., April 22, at the Hillel Foun- dation. The booklet, "Zionism Ex- plained," will be discussed. Non- members are invited. B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. Social committee, 4:15 p.m~,Tues., April 22,nFoundation. Bring eli- gibility cards. Churches First Presbyterian Church: 10:45 a.m., Morning Worship. Sermon by Dr. W. P. Lemon. Westminster Guild. Worship, discussion, and supper, 5 p.m. A motion picture "Pastorale" which has a message of worship will be given. A new series on "Our Faith in Action" will be introduced by, Mr. Van Pernis and will include in succeeding weeks the fields of Social Systems, Labor, Marriage, International Relations and Pop- ular morals. First Congregational Church: 9:30 and 10:45 a.m., Church School. 10:45 a.m., Morning Worship. Dr. Parr's sermon, "Ambushed in the Prosaic." 6 p.m., Student Fellowship. Sup- per and annual election of officers. Congregational-Disciples Guild. Supper, 6 p.m., Congregational Church. Election of next year's officers will be held. Memorial Christian Church: (Disciples of Christ) Hill and Tap- pan. Morning Worship, 10:50 a.m. Sermon by Rev. Zendt. Nursery for children during the service. University Lutheran Chapel: Services, 9:45 and 11 a.m. The Rev. Alfred Scheips, "The Source of Jesus' Authority." Gamma Delta, Lutheran Stu- dent Club meet at Center at 1:45 and leave for tour of Detroit Lu- theranism's highlights. Lutheran Student Association: 5:30 p.m., Zion Lutheran Parish Hall. Supper, 6 p.m. Speaker, Rev. Robert A. Boettger, pastor of Christ Lutheran Chapel, Willow Run. The group will then attend the lecture by Dr. Millikan and the Inter-Guild Reception at the Methodist Church. First Unitarian Church: Edward H. Redman, Minister. 11 a.m., Mr. Redman preaching on "Tough-Minded Religion." 5:30 p.m., Vesper Service. Mr. Redman preaching on "Truth and Consequences." 6:30 p.m., Unitarian Student Group supper and discussion. Rev. Tracy Pullman, Church of Our Father, Detroit, "What Can the Modern Thinking Liberal Be- lieve?" First Church of Christ, Scien- tist, 409 S. Division St. Sunday morning service at 10:30. Subject: "Doctrine of Atonement." Sunday School at 11:45. Wednesday evening service at 8 p.m. EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (which is signed, 300 words or less in length, and in good taste) we re- mind our readers that the views ex-r pressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printed orl omitted it the discretion of the edi- torial director,r Library Finest To The Editor: THE WRITER wishes to com- mend those im charge of Uni- versity library policy for their deepl understanding of the human equa- tion and also for their empiricalt attempt to imbue a keen sense of : punctuality in the student. I was recently imbued threet bucks worth for the grave misde-t meanor of being one (1) day late in returning books to the General Library. All readers who, like the library directors, possess scholarlyI minds will readily admit that this indeed is a splendid inducementt for the student to use the library as a .constant aid in the educa- tional process. Yes, even the libraries, those hitherto symbols of staunchness, and stability are now feeling the inexorable pressure of rising costs. Remember the good old days whenj a library fine was 3 cents a day? As I remorsefully thumb through my three dollars worth of pink penalty receipts I find there is but one question in my now sharp-~ ly punctual mind. Is this fining policy of the library a penalty or revenue measure? Alas! In either event I have just discovered that the librarian neglected to counter- sign my pink penalty receipts which makes them perfectly worth- less to me now. How hopelessly wretched this leaves me-in spite of being saturated with a newly acquired spirit of punctuality which I shan't soon forget. -William C. Lindahl Seeds of Fascism To the Editor: "'WALLACE Breaking Law', .Thomas says." This news item appeared in the Ann Arbor News, April 14. Some people may not have heard of Mr Thomas. He heads the House Un -American Activities Committee in Congress. His full time job is "witch-hunting," no more, no less. One week it's Har- low Shapley, astronomer of Har- vard Tjniversity, the next, its Eu- gene Dennis, General Secretary of the Communist Party. What has Mr. Wallace been do- ing that he breaks laws? He spoke over the BBC to fifteen million Britishers. He spoke as an Ameri- can citizen in criticism of the American foreign policy on Greece and Turkey; he made an urgent plea for world peace on the basis of a firm understanding with the Soviet Union. - This is Mr. Wal- lace's crime. This is thecrime that has: brought forth the cry "treasoi" from some of the more ardent Republicans. This is the crime for which ninety percent of the American newspapers have wilfully neglected to report his re- cent speeches. (About fifteen days ago, hi speech before a packed Madison Square Garden audience was all but neglected. The Nation- al office of the Progressive Citi- zens of America had to pay for an' advertisement in the New York Times that his plea might go be- fore the reading public.) What is this in America that the man who served in the Cabinet and as Vice-President under Pres- ident Roosevelt for fourteen years must be accused of treason for criticizing the actions of elected representatives of the people? Will the Associated Press, the United Press plead that Wallace is no longer news? And, if they say that, then will the news services say that it is no longer news when a member of the faculty at Har- vard, and world renown at that, dares to speak his convictions fully, especially when this profes- sor speaks so bluntly as, "Why not frankly say what you mean, Mr. President? If you mean oil why say Greece, why say Turkey, when you mean gravy? When we mean commercial gravy for the few, at the potential expense of the many." Dr. Shapley did not stop at that. -He exposed the Communist "witch hunt" for what it is. "May I ask that when you use the word subversive you always think here- after of the dangerous reaction- aries with their short-sighted pol- icy of protecting their cash, de- fending their social backwardness, and their ignorance of world wide trends in sociology and econom- ics." This is called "treason" by the men who occupy the sacred trust of carrying out the will of the majority. It would be naive, indeed, for the student to shrug his shoulders at this censorship of the news. One need hardly go so far as Madison Square Garden to find censorship. We have our local censorers who are certain to attempt a thorough intimidation of the thought proc- esses of the individual student. Only last week, Mr. Callahan, with the able assistance of the FBI, gained his objective at Wayne University, when Dr. Henry, presi- dent, was forced to back down from a previous stand and insist upon suicide of the AYD chapter. That such action means more than destroying the democratic process requires little argument. When st udents cannot assemble to speak th'eir convictions, according to their constitutional rights, the whole of the educative process is destroyed; the kernel of all future growth in every sphere of life is being crushed. There is no running away from this problem. It represents the seeds of fascism. Nor is it some- thing which was transplanted from a foreign soil. Men who hold American citizenship are its pur- veyors. It takes little logic to see that unless the student body speaks forth, en masse, to expose the Cal- lahan Committee and its adher- ents for what they are, the word, "University," will have lost its meaning. If students are to be told what to think, they can no longer consider themselves seekers of truth. They become no more than sheep being led to the in- evitable slaughter. -E. E. Ellis Isms Opposed V(Vently To The Editor: I AM a native-born American citi- zen, and have therefore been violently opposed since my birth to all concepts whose names end in "ism," and in favor of all con- cepts whose names end in "ocracy." Specifically, I am opposed to the following: Communism, Fascism, Solecism, Criticism, Eroticism, Truism, and Prism; and I favor the following: Democracy, Pornoc- racy,'Aristocracy, Slavocracy, The- ocracy, and Ptochocracy. I say this by way of introduction so that there can be no doubt as to my Patriotism-I mean loyalty-when I reveal (as I hereby do) that I attended the April 3rd meeting of the Karl Marx Study Club. I attended this meeting, disguis- ed in a red necktie, as a self-ap- pointed secret agent for the Uni- ted States of America. Here is my report. The president of the Karl Marx Study Club is obviously a Communist, and an agent for the Soviet Government. I know him as such, not by his membership card, nor yet by the fact (which has not been definitely estab- lished) that he is attending school under provisions of the Russian G.I. Bill, but by his actions at that meeting. He could not have known, without instructions from Moscow, how to manipulate parliamentary procedure and control voting as he did, to establish a totalitarian regime by apparently democratic means. Only by studying the methods developed by Russia in the countries which she occupies (Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, England, etc.) could he have become so skilled at suppres- sing a political minority. True Americans like myself and Senator Bilbo just don't have opportunities to learn this kind of thing. David F. Ross -i~ 1 'I _4 'I 1 I S AQ6 H KQ7 D KQ3 C AQ7 2 East-West Vulnerable, East Dealer. The bidding: EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH Pass 1C Pass 1 H Pass 3 NT Pass 6 NT Pass Pass Pass Sitting South on this hand was Ed Span- ier, consistent winner at the local duplicate tourneys. The opening Jack of Hearts lead was won with the Queen. Spanier could count eleven cold tricks with a twelfth if the Hearts split or the Spade finesse worked. Not desiring to risk the contract on the 50-50 chance that the finesse would work, he proceeded to run 4 Club tricks, on which West discarded a Diamond and a Spade. Now the three Diamonds were led out and West was forced to let go a Heart. The King of Hearts was played, on which East showed out, and a low Heart was led to the A nti r'.. Women Veterans: Mon., 7:30 p.m., League. Meeting,I Modern Poetry Club, 7:30 p.m., Mon., April 21, Hopwood Room. Mr. Morris will lead a discussion of Allen Tate's criticism and poetry. Le Cercle Francais: Social meet- 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...........Associate Editor Jack Martin.............Sports Editor Archie Parsons.. Associate Sports Editor Joan Wilk........... Women's- Editor Lois Kelso .. Associate Women's Editor Joan De Carvajal...Research Assistant Business Staff Robert E. Potter .... General Manager Janet Cork ......... 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