____mmmm_______________m THE MICHLG AN MAI~Y Tr- "rr ZIYDA C tED CONFUSION CLOUDS, blowing hith- er and yon about the state, have gather- over this campus. Some students and 1culty members are fogged as to why the lministration has withdrawn campus rec- nition from Michigan Youth for Demo- atic Action, and wonder whether actions ainst other campus groups are in the fing., Association with the administration has nvinced me that MYDA has been refused cognition because of its part in a Corn- lunist youth master plan. The withdrawal, believe, was effected independent of any olitical press-ore." I doubt that other. ,mpus groups will be eliminated unless it proved that they are masquerading here itler false colors. MYDA not only contains communists; ' is parent organization, American Youth or Democracy, is listed in a Communist arty memorandum as "the most import- ' nt and effective channel for organizing ntl promoting effective action of the ad- ajied anti-fascist youth." That statement is reported in a memor- idum on youth work and policy, adopted J the national board of the Communist arty on Nov. 29, 1945. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily re written by members of The Daily staff nd represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: EUNICE MINTZ Onfusion THE MEMORANDU M reve Lt main :ek: of the party to be: 1. "Aid in establishing .Oint action and unity of the broadest sections of yout In ( specific issues and a broad minimum ant - fascist democratic program. 2. "Support and .build flim organization and activity of the most advanced anti fascist youth - the American YouI Ii!ifor Democracy. 3. "Develop systemati Commnunisi. Party work and Marxist education among ie youth, and give party guidance and diree- tion to young Coinmuniqts active amronig the youth." It includes the Sovie. Union as a "demo cratic force" and says L that Y1) stands for a 'New World' i wich "iecity, pov erty, want and oppreision iiVe been abo ished." It considers this 'a generaly ade- quate programmatic basis for \ide'preCd discussion and consideration of the iItLire in the light of the demociatitiC ahd sociaist forces at work in the workl today." AYD in other words has beei et up by the Communists "to recruit young people to the party on a mass scale and to train personnel of Comnunists working among the youth, both in the mass movement and the party itsel"l- This report proves at least that MYDA is not just a liberal organization, but a re- cruiting center for the Communist Party. The administration thought this over. Final action, I believe was based on l discrep- ancy between the MYDA pIatforn on this campus, and portions of the master plan quoted here, --Paud Iarshla MATTER OF FACT: Bi-i~artsan Poiv y !ASH7NGTON, Api i 27 -The counli y shonli welcome orge C. Mlarshlal ICme fii ? romi Moscow w itli g -ntili eiot ion,. I It has not broiigl t back pea( e in our ti ne i his pocket ;thai wxas imposible. uIn al a miin~ig wxhichi threatenied to destroy tue W!iste L x11.011( unity ie ftc 01 So et piess', he mnraged iiut ead to achieve c1 i ;l it c oler tio),', I4J u i be t r u I (:I-stiiiding, aoig the reprewntaies of Vran'ci, Britain and the hnted St ates. He JhaS hoW to ltaI-e i> a heavy task at bomne, f rom which the Moscow pr'epariat ioi s aut ( rt'co-T it kish ri sis diVert ((1 1is at - , tuoi in Jts firtst wvek as 8.j:et.aty of State. 'T ie Anziileiity of that. las.k muiv be ne 05 r Om~ a 5ingle tiiious fael 'Ti,.('e i "at" +u bu i ity t hat f- na IA I, Aru I ii 11 Van ber ot Micl iig a ieec tr lI. ifAU i n iii v ' iti 1a l riu ' :tullre OR hif pa iisal I lor'ejgn policy, hruay resign ro it the Aine i I can delegation to the United Nations Gen eial A55fl ly. adbrg' rciat io i being urged by sonic of I li bindec mebes of his own pau'ty, wiid preler naiona Si Cidti to any 5us1Xins]On 01 the rpleasures 01 partisanship, Tih(y hat le iir argine t oU the provisi(Ii 01 the United Nations par- ticipation act of 1945, that the delegates shall vote "under the instruction of the President" They say that while Vs nden- berg could serve when the RePublicans were still in the minority, it is now improper for the leader of the R-f pubhcan ( ongressional Iajority to "take order ron i Democralu Pr'esiden . TIha' plain tiruth ii; Cihat Ma rshlalt's task at I uomxie falls i'to three parts. What must be done ur;'-st is to strengthen the whole .tructun' of the hi-part isn foreignu policy, so that the kind ol dangerous effort to un- dermine it which is now on foot can never again be made with hope of succs What must also be done is to convey to the whole ono'ss iad also the whoecountry, the gravity of the present situation abroad and the dreadful danger of measures either too little or too late. The White House meeting between the' President, Marsalull anid the Congressional leaders is a sign that the 'impor'tance of this job has been recognized, i reasons for its importance are waitid they abound every- hre, The Ane rican responsibility in the situation is a load that cannot be borne much more easily than hysterical persons suppose. But if any two men can induce the Anmerican Congress and American peo- ple to realize the greatness and seriousness of the American responsibility, these tw'i men are George C. Marshall and Arthur H. Vandenberg. (CopyrhiIt 394'i, New York Hera l Tribune) BILL MAULDIN _ air JI :-j - LJ.29'V O' r . Letters to the Editor.. FDITOR's NOT]': Because The Daily prints IV letter to the editor (which is signed 300 words or less In length, and in good taste) we re- iioilad lilt'r'riiztl'"=that t he views ex- 4 1 se il l+tirs '.are 1 hoseo flit Oe wtrltter-s only, n1,t:ers o 1 more than ?110 wasli~i 'c shmlotened, prinlted or ofli r1 d 'L t.ht dki'rt r n tIIhe et- Tl'o the Editor: ET'S return to our example of eds We are considerinig the case o a partiicular group of voters, uinber 1.00., Iii a previous let- te', I shov.wed why this group's representation udter any "scre'' ten fluctuate widely; but I assrtd hat under the Hare plan he rop on11 ertainly elc cly at (nic to I le chairmnan of 1'Cl'et):lnn iii Ic',' -Bennett eaver, Chairman Seminar on 'omiplexC Wed., April 30, 3 p.m., Angell Hall. Mr. Wend on Fuchsian groups. Variables: Rm. 3011, will speak "s'\54 ti. ! .p, 19+7 G7 t! tad reatu :y++ Iu,, A, U. S. Pa,. qJ4.^-Al e;gfi*> 1-110 "My pop says I shouldn't worry if other ,ids is smarter than me, e. says I got race superiority," ~ DALY OFICIL BULETI Housing Program APPROVAL BY THE Senate Banking Committee of the Wagner-Taft-Ellender bill is an encouraging sign to those millions of homeless veterans who have heard much talk about housing and housing problems but have seen little direct action by the gov- ernment or industry to improve their situa- titbn For months leaders in the construction field vigorously asserted that priority con- rls on building materials and ceiling prices o'i new homes were "curbing free enter- prise" and slowing down the national hous- ing program. When Congress finally yield- ed to the pressure of the housing lobby in Washington, Wilson Wyatt resigned as housing administrator because he saw in the drastic curtailment of controls, the collapse of all effective attempts for more housing at lower prices. The W-T-E bill serves to replace the pro- gram as it stood before, with a government housing program and a system of subsidies to builders of low cost houses. The bill sets up' a National Housing Commission with a single administrator at the head of it to supervise government activity in the hous- ing field. The main features of the bill as it now stands will institute a program of home ownership and rental housing for lower in- conie families, clearance of slum and blight- ed areas, a farm housing program under the direction of the agriculture department, and a research program by the national housing agency to provide technical advice and guid- ance to communities for local housing stud- ies, surveys, and regional planning. Backers of the legislation which has the support of AVC and other veterans' organi- zations, feel that only. an overall plan like this can give us anywhere near the number 'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Wages and Prices By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE DEBATE on prices and wages con- tinues to bring out touches of whimsy from a good many of the debaters. There is something about this subject which caus- es realism to fly out of the window; the result is a curiously bootless discussion, Sen- ator Taft, forexample, says that if the prob- lem is to protect the purchasing power of the people, it would be a better approach to reduce taxes than to grant even modest wage increases. But the tax saving offered to the average workman by the G.O.P. re- duction plan amounts to about a hot $59 a year, whereas even the moderate wage in- creases recently agreed upon by the steel industry come to five times that. An economic plan is almost certain to be wrong when it is based on the unspoken as- sumption that $59 is quite as good as $250; and there is revealed a kind of insensitivity to the anguished mental arithmetic that is going on today in most of the kitchens of the land. The price-wage discussion is rich in this sort of angle-shooting. There is the Hon. Alf M. Landon, for example, who suggests that one of the ways in which to bring pric- es down is to pass legislation ending the "monopoly aspects" of trade unionism. The rather uninteresting point Mr. Landon makes is that if we were to give up indus- try-wide pay increases, and industry-wide pricing, and get back to a local or plant, bas- is on these matters, prices would go down. But one wonders why it is necessary to take these subtle, roundabout approaches to the price problem, and why we can't cook on th efront burners instead. bn dinn't oiite se why it is ncessary of houses that we need in the next ten years to take the infamous one-third of our nation out of the class of the "ill-housed." Final action and the hopes of millions are now in the hands of the Congress. -Walter Dean Ford 1Memorial NOW THAT THE INITIAL SHOCK of Henry Fords death has worn of, the best thing that can be said about him is that he was a kindly old man who participated in a good many charities that did a lot of people a lot of good. However, so that we won't forget him, some of the citizens of Detroit have begun to agitate for a Henry Ford Memorial-not just a statue, they say, but a recreational school or a university in his memory. It's a good idea (founding universities is always desirable) but not for the reasons advanced, People would have us believe that we are somehow indebted to some contribution Mr. Ford made to civilization. Here are Ford's accomplishments briefly, as we see them: 1. He helped put the world on wheels. 2. He made the Ford Motor Car Co. the biggest and best of its kind through application of the motto "work, industry, production." 3. He outwitted the financiers of Wall Street, and the (30-UAW for years. 4. He gave the world lessons in paci- fism 5. lie paid his workers more than his competitors paid their workers. Although Mr. Ford was a respectable man in every way almost always, lie had his bad moments, all of which are pretty well known. Still his reputation is so good on the whole that we overlook them. So what is thee that is articutai'ly in- spiring about Mr. Ford's life? If the citi- zens of Detroit feel tha tthey need another university devoted to the teaching of mod- ern industrial techniques, or that they need parks and playgrounds, by all means they should go ahead and start building and call the project a "Henry Ford Memorial." The citizens will benefit. But a more fit- ting tribute to a man of Ford's stature, we think, would be a statue, prominently dis- played on the banks of the River Rouge. --Fred Schott Sov*t Al fairS H1ARVARD UNIVERSITY recently an- nounced that a program of graduate studies to train specialists in affairs of the Soviet Union will be offered beginning next September. The program will be designed especially for students planning to enter public serv- ice, journalism or business. Covering the contemporary Russian scene and its essential background, the courses will include Rus- sian history, economics, government, an- thropology, social institutions, foreign pol- icy and literature. In addition, students enrolled in the program will acquire a work- ing knowledge of the Russian language. Harvard, in making this move, is recog- nizing an urgent need in this country for thorough understanding of the Russians and of the Russian -mind, both on the part of government diplomats and private citizens. It is to be hoped that other Universities will speedily follow Harvard in the cause of in-. ternational enlightenment. -John F. Nehn s'Jr. A STRONG AND VOCAL BODY of sent i- ment for a British policy less attached to American policy is growing in Great Brit- CURRENT MOVIES Publication In The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to al members of the University, Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewriltsti form to the office of the As'stant to the President, Room 10 21 Asig':1 flalt, by 3:00 p.m. on the day prt cdig publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays), TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1947 VOL IN , No. 144 Notiwc- Notice of Regents' Meeting, 2 p.m., Fri., May 30. Communica- tions for consideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than May 22. --lerbert G. Watkins, Secy. All L.S.A. Students-Enrollment questionnaires for the summer ses- sion and fall semester are now available in Room 4, University :hall, and should be completed by all students now enrolled in the College-( of jitem-a;ture, Science ,and i~h ei Ats as s .oon as possible this June Graduates, L.S.&A. Please send your senior class dues, to cover the classgift and provide a basis for the class of 1947 Alum- ni Fund, to Barbara Raymer, 407 N. Ingalls, at once. Choral Union Members. The re- hearsal this evening at 7 o'clock w ill be held in Hill Auditorium. Enter 'ear doors. Choral Union Ushers: Pick upl your new usher cards for May Fes-' tival at Hill Auditorium box office today, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Aeronautical, Mechanical, Me- chanical-Industrial, Electrical En- gineers. A irepresentative of the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., will be on campus to inter- view students on May 5 and 6, In- terested students may sign sei ed- lE on Aero. Bulletin Board. s mnier attractions, on Thursday, May 1, at 4:00 P.M., National Sci- en Auditorium. Various aspects of tee tourist, and resort business 6 ill be discussed, followed by a (a'stioii pe-ijod, and particularily information conerning opportun- ities for students who want to work in the summer. Any who iave not registered for summer 1)hAcemlent may obtain rcgistr-atioi I I 11'1 at 11hlis time 'ih City of )etroit Civil Ser'v- ice (:ommjssion announces eXami- nation for Clinic Assistants; Jun- ioi', Assistant, and Senior Assistant Architetural, Civil, Mechanical, rid Structural Engineers; Asso- ciate Architectural Engineer; Jun- ior, and Assistant Electrical Engi- neers; Junior Public Health Nur- ses; Calculating, gnd Posting Ma- ('line Operators; Junior Typists, Stenogrgphers, and Intermediate Typists; and Senior Purchases Agent. For infoimation call at the Bu- ia o Apointm nis, 201 Mason UIN1VERSITY COMMUNITY CENTER,1045 Midway Boulevard, Wvillow Rtun Village, Tfues., April 29, 12 noon, Garden Club will pick up perennials at home of Mrs. Robert Nordstrom,. 1411 Oakham (daily through Fri- day) 8 p.m., General Meeting, Cooperative Nursery Mothers; 8 p.m., Writers' Meeting. Wed., April 30, 8 p.m., Concert, String Ensemble with Vocal Solo- ist from U. of M. School of Music. ' thunrs., Mm y 1, 8 p.m., University Exten.ion Class in Psychology; 8 p.m., Art Craft Work Shop. ri. M' m2, 8 p.m., Duplicate Br1idg