MEDIATE REPEAL of the sales tax di- ersion amendment which was approved Michigan voters last November has been landed by Gov. Kim Sigler in his budget sage to the state legislature. he sales tax amendment is responsible ;reat part for a possible state deficit of 000,000. Gov. Sigler has been informed his advisors that it would mean political ide for him to adopt a course against wishes of the mayors and school offic- who were instrumental in passing the pndment. But his course is the only sible one to avoid a fiscal catastrophe. The Iain item in Gov. Sigler's eight- int program calls for the creation of Constitutional Revision Comimittee to aw up a "coordinated system of taxa- in" to be submitted to the people in 18. This is the longe-range solution eded; Michigan's tax system is badly addled. Because many of the tax pro- ions are incorporated into the consti- ion, only a constitutional revision can aighten it out. However, an immediate ution is necessary for the threatened dget deficit, and the remainder of the ints on the governor's program would far towards providing this solution. he most important point which deals 1 the immediate problem is the demand repeal of the sales tax amendment, the x of the problem. Gov. Sigler said that ae legislature does not place this on the ng ballot, the problem of solving the fi- eial dilemma will rest entirely in their :/u L. Sessage 'torials published in The Michigan Daily written by members of The Daily staff represent the views of the writers only. The rest of Sigler's program gives ample assurance that the increased aid to schools and local governmental units, provided un- der the sales tax amendment, would con- tinue. Point three would provide for divis- ion of one-sixth of sales tax proceeds among cities and villages. This would give these units about $7,000,000 more than they would get under the amendment, which included townships. The townships do not need this money; most of their functions, such as roads, health and welfare, have been trans- ferred to the counties. Gov. Sigler would also allow cities to levy local excise taxes, thus helping them to become "both responsible and respon- Sive units of government." Another point, apparently thrown in simply as a concil- iatory gesture toward Detroit citizens, would make Wayne University a state in- stitution, thus relieving Detroit taxpayers of some $5,000,000 a year. Schools would not suffer either under the program Gov. Sigler has recommended. There would be an appropriation of $10,000,- 000 for immediate salary increases for teach- ers, assurance of an $85,000,000 appropria- tion in regular state aid to schools, with provision that a major portion be earmark- ed for teachers' salaries, and allocation of any state surplus up to $10,000,000 for a public school building fund. When the sales tax amendment was plac- ed before Michigan voters, it was presented as a free hand-out for the schools and local units. The voters were concerned with their own immediate problems, and did not see that the financial problems of the state as a whole are directly connected with them too. However, the problem-and its solution- has now been clearly and concretely present- ed to the legislature and the voters by Gov. Sigler. Frances Paine strictions on literature and demonstrations. In an area of bitter dispute, the Court has tried hard to be fair. It took pains to point out in the New Jersey case that the law in no way contributed to the support of the Catholic church or Catholic schools; that the legislation formed a general pro- gram to help parents get their children to accredited schools, "regardless of their re- religion"; that no person should be denied the benefits of the law because of his relig- ion. It is difficult to see how such a program constitutes "an establishment of religion." If and when federal-supported education be- comes widespread, the Court may well have difficulty in drawing the line between gen- eral help and aid to church schools. Right now, however, the "torch of religious lib- erty" seems safe enough. -Mary Ruth Levy RAPPtENS ... * Return to the S'alt Mines NIGHT EDITOR: GAY LARSEN i 'I Co urtlD ?ROTESTS, ranging from Justice Rut- ledge's 47-page dissent to the impassion- : warnings of the president of the South-t .n Baptist Convention, have followed hard pon the Supreme Court's pronouncement iat state taxes may be used to transport ,udents to parochial schools. Fears that the decision portends the es- ablishment of state-supported religion, in olation of the First Amendment, have fig- red in many of the arguments that the ew Jersey law in question constitutes pub- c support of church schools. Dr. Louie D. Newton, the Baptist president, aid, for instance, that the decision may in me "darken the torch of treligious liberty." This, in view of the Court's carefulness in eciding recent cases on the question of re- gion, particularly as it pertains to the oolroom, seems like needless hysterics. he Court has said that children may mave free ries to schools conducted by their iurches. But the "Court has also said, in de of the Jehovah Witnesses cases, that ple hagve a'ihtto Vebaly attack belief Ill o gai ted religion, unli tdeed by re- D RATHER BE RIGHT: French Puzzle By SAMUEL GRAFTON ARIS-- The biggest puzzle in France is the political tranquility of the moment. his has some of its roots, of course, in 'the fir. I have heard a Communist speak of hat he called the clergy's growing political Ewer and then, and quickly, "Ah, but many them were wonderful in the resistance." id I have heard a right-winger renounce e co-units from hors d'oeuvres to cheese at nch, and say he would rather die than re in a Communist Paris. Perhaps the best way to picture the lull French politics to Americans is to men- :n our own bi-partisan foreign policy; only re, with the country evenly divided be- reen Left and Anti-Left, it is a bi-partisan 'erything. Therefore, you get day to day Iministration, but you don't get any far urging new ideas. It is as If every action r Congress had to be agreed upon by the :ad of the Communist Party and the head the Republican Party, say William Foster id Thomas Dewey. (I suppose those are e appropriate names, unless Taft has ished Dewey completely out since I left nerica on my travels). You wouldn't get uch that was new started under those con- tions. The French Communists who are, the ight says mournfully, very serious, have in .ese circumstances adopted a kind of anti- isis line. They agree to many things; they en support an increase in the work-week om 40 hours to 48 hours, provided that that joined with other elements of national anning, such as mechanized agriculture td tax reforms. The Communist line is at if a crisis comes it will have been de- erately provoked by the Right, to bring in strong man, say DeGaulle; and the'Right, fighting the Communists, has the uneasy eling it is fighting a pillow. There is something new and untried about ance's postwar political alignments. These e not really well-articulated parties, they e more like cloud formations, of Social- s who drift rightward toward the MRP cause they fear the Communists, of others io turn toward the Communists because ey remember the Rightist record during e w&r. It is an uneasy molecular shifting, ON WORLD AFFAIRS: Wallace Mystery By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER HAVE NOT solved the mystery of Henry Wallace but I have found a clue. The mystery is how a good American nourished on individual freedom can admire governments founded on the negation of freedom and indeed, of almost everything for which America stands. The clue was an article in a recent issue of The Nation by Julio Alvarez del Vayo, ex- Foreign Minister of the Spanish Republic, former newpsaper correspondent and long- time friend of this writer. Revisiting the Soviet Union last year, Vayo somehow managed to overlook the essential totalitarian, slave-labor basis and wax en- thusiastic over the elimination of capitalist "exploitation" and the rosy prospects ahead. Now, on the eve of a new trip to Europe, he has published his diagnosis of what is going on over there that makes it "inexpli- cable to Americans." "Europe's intellectuals and political leaders and journalists," he opines, are wondering "whether the old political con- ception of democracy still makes sense in view of the lessons of World War 1I." And he quotes foreign delegates at Lake Success as exclaiming, "These Americans don't seem to realize what is happening outside their country. "In Europe today the new revolutionary criteria of a regime's democracy are . . . an ability to break the hold of feudalism and monopoly capital and to solve the problems of hunger and industrial collapse. This masses and the triumph of the Marxist doc- trine that true democracy can oe achieved only by a radical change in economic struc- ture. "The impact of fascism and war, they ar- gue, revealed the utter bankruptcy of bour- geois democracy; now Europe must pass to a stage of 'mass democracy,' democratie massive." Vayo goes on to explain how Europe's left no longer places much value on free speech and the parliamentary system. The miasses want "a more effective continuing voice in government.- "The peoples of Eastern Europe are not impressed by the Anglo-American brand of democracy. For in almost all these coun- tries, pre-war experience with western de- mocracy ended in failure; they succeeded neither in raising the living standards of the very poor nor in limiting the economic and political power of the very rich." There is no use in my reporting that during my two trips to Europe last year I found more European "intellectuals, poli- tical leaders and journalists" (whom I know at least as intimately as Vayo) in- terested in escaping communism than in escaping western democracy. There is little point in insisting that de- mocracy is an instrument which can, ac- cording to the individual political maturity of the voters, be used either to strengthen or to weaken feudalism and monopoly capital- ism. It would be futile too, to insist that increased production, not the masses' "ef- fective continuing voice in government" is the road to greater wealth. In short, there is no use arguing that "massive democracy" is the bunk, and talk about it reveals a basic failure of understanding and constitutes a lamentable regression toward tolerance of tyranny. Poland had, up until Sept. 1939, a dem- onstrably higher living standard than po- tentially richer Russia. Does Vayo believe this was because Poland was more "massive- ly democratic?" He would affirm the op- posite. Vayo cannot see these things. Despite several comfortable years as an editor in this country, he never forgave the U.S., Britain and France for "betraying" the Spanish Republic to Dictator Franco. Like those Czechoslovak democrats who threw themselves into Soviet arms because of the betrayal of their country by the European democracies at Munich, this Spanish social- ist cannot forget that while the westerners connived at a Franco victory, the Soviets gave unlimited lip service and considerable real assistance to the Spanish Republic. Rather than see the victory of the Fran- quista fascists, Vayo permitted the growth of Spanish communism. He closed his eyes to the horror of "liquidation" of the Trot- zkist POUM and the anarchists by the com- munists. He welcomed the growth of Soviet influence in Spain since only the Soviets were helping. To me the interest of his latest outburst lies in the fact that he seems to be echoing something that we have heard recently. Heard, not from the European "intellectuals, political -leaders and journalists," but from our ex-Vice President and present editor of The New Republic. Here-I think-is the clue to innocent Henry's stubborn denial of his birthright. Can it be that Mr. Wallace has been spending too much time with the sort of European defeatists quoted by Vayo? Could it be that some of these people have sold him a bill of shoddy goods? It certainly sounds like it. Absence Report Filed? THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION gen- iuses who dreamed up the latest device to discourage ex-GI's from going to college might better direct their efforts to a case we know of. A certain friend of ours, well-known to this campus last spring, is now at work in the Big World, doing rather nicely he claims. The gimmick is provided by the VA's "un- beatable system." Our ex-student friend has received his subsistence check On Time all during the fall semester. * * * * Insolent Minority WE ONLY HEARD one sentence of a conversation in the League, but it lim- plied a whole conversation on a feeling especially prevalent during exam week. "That's the trouble with these 'A' stu- dents. They never stop to thing about the rest of us." * * * * ' Women in Chains IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE that things could - come to such a pass, but in the midst of discussing the numerous weighty matters which come up in League house meetings, one housemother announced that at the last Housemothers' Meeting, it had been decided that coeds who did not eat the crust on their toast would not be served toast in the future. * * * * View with Alarin ANOT TOO INDUSTRIOUS acquaintance of ours was dozing through one of the first sessions of Russian history this week when he suffered a mental jolt. Toward the middle of the hour he glanced casually at the notes of the student sitting next to him, making the usual routine check on what the lecturer had been up to. After counting to ten, he tools a .second look. It seems the notes were in Russian. Contributions to this volumn are by all mcm- hers of The Daily ,ttaif, and are the responsi- bility of the editorial director. Items from sub- scribers are invited;: ,ddress thir to In"t Soi (Continued from Page 2) 4 p.m., March 7, East Lecture Room, Rackham Bldg. Students registered with the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Ma- son Hall are reminded to come in the office and fill out a location blank, giving us your classes and schedule for this semester. It is important that you dothis so we can bring your record up to date. Women Students interested in putting their names on the baby sitters' list for afternoon or eve- ning may register in the Office of the Dean of Women. Closing hours must be observed. Householders interested in ob- taining baby sitters may inquire at the Office of the Dean of Women. Detroit Armenian Women's Club Scholarship: The Detroit Armen- ian Women's Club offers a schol- arship of $100 for 1947-48. One man and one woman of Armenian parentage from the metropolitan district of Detroit are eligible. Ap- plication must be made before May 15, 1947. Further particulars. may be had at the office of F. E. Robbins, 1021 Angell Hall. University Community Center (formerly West Court Commun- ity Building), 1045 Midway, Wil- low Run Village: Thurs., Feb. 13, 8 p.m., Art-Craft Workshop. Fri., Feb. 14, 8:30 p.m., Bridge and Open House. Music for danc- ing. Seniors and graduate students who wish to be eligible to contract to teach the modern foreign lan- guages in the registered Secoh- dary Schools of New York State are notified that the required ex- amination in French, Spanish, German and Italian will be given here on February 14, 1:15 p.m., Rm. 100 RL. No other opportunity to qualify will be offered until August, 1947, when Summer School attendance is a prerequis- ite for admission to the exami- nation. Lectures Freshman Health Lectures For Men-: It is a University require- ment that all entering freshmen take, without credit, a series of lec- tures on Personal & Community Health and to pass an examina- tion on the content of those lec- tures. Transfer students with freshman standing are also re- quired to take the course unless they have had a similar course elsewhere. Upper classmen who were here as freshmen and who did not fulfill the requirements are requested to do so this semester. These lectures are not required of veterans. The lectures will be given in Room 25, Angell Hall at 5:00 p.m. and repeated at 7:30 p.m. as per the following schedule. Lecture No. 1, Mon., Feb. 10 Lecture No. 2, Tues., Feb. 11 Lecture No. 3, Wed., Feb. 12 Lecture No. 4, Thurs., Feb. 13 Lecture No. 5, Mon., Feb. 17 Lecture No. 6, Tues., Feb. 18 BILL MAULDIN Copr. I Y47 6y Un fed Fea. "r eyndkcat. InC. Un. Reg. U. S. P 6f.-AI rights resr .y.. i r -. - Ep 4 LSE 09 WELCOMA 2- (Lo F-AS AT LViQ DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Ir llllrlrl r IIII 11111 rrllr r n Irlnrrrrrrr lbrl Rrrr rIlnMr Letters to the Editor Please note that attendance is required and roll will be taken. French Lecture: Prof. Paul M. Spurlin, of the Romance Language Department, will lecture on the subject "Une affaire de coeur amusante: Benjamin Franklin et Madame Brillon," at 4:10, p.m., Tues., Feb. 18, Rm. D, Alumni Me- morial Hall, under the auspices of Le Cercle Francais. Academic. Notices Graduate Students: Preliminary examinations in French and Ger- man for the doctorate will be held on Friday, Feb. 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rack-- ham Building. Dictionaries may be used. Biological Chemistry Seminar: 10-12 a.m., Sat., Feb. 15, Rm. 319 W. Medical Bldg. Subject, "Some Recent Studies of Amino Acids." All interested are invited. Bus. Ad. 192: Real Estate Fun- damentals. Meet in Rm. 2003, An- gell Hall on Tuesday from 9 to 11, and Thursdays at 10. History 50-Lecture: Mon. and Fri. at 2 p.m., transferred from N. S. Auditorium to Rm. B, Haven Hall. Chemistry 276 meet at 9 a.m., Monday, Rm. 3215 E. Engineering Bldg., and 9 a.m. Wednesday, Rm. 243 W. Engineering Bldg. Forestry 194 will not meet Fri., Feb. 14. If you re enrolled and did not attend the opening session Monday, please call for assign- ment at Rm. 2052 N.S. Greek 168. Basic Greek Ideas will meet Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 11:00 a.m., 1007 Angell Hall. Latin 32. Roman Law will meet Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Fri- daywat 11:00 a.m., 407 Library. Political Science, Sec. 2: Tues., Thurs., and Sat., at 10 a.m. will hereafter meet in Rm. 2203, An- gell Hall. Prof. L. H. Laing Spanish: Continuation of a 2a Professor Del Toro, 108 Romance Language Bldg., new text will be taken up this semester, two hours credit, Spanish Ib. Concerts Piano Recital: Joseph Brink- man, head of the Piano Depart- ment in the School of Music, will be heard at 8:30 .p.m., Sun., Feb. 16, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Program. compositions by Beeth- oven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin. The general public is in- vited. Faculty Recital: A program of compositions for wind instruments will be presented at 8:30 p.m., Tues., Feb. 18, Rackham Assembly Hall, by Russell Ilowland, Haskell Sexton and William Stubbins. They will be assisted by Grace Sexton and Mary McCall Stubbins, pianists. The general.publid is invited. Organ Recital: Marilyn Mason, teaching fellow in organ in the School of Music, will be heard in the first of a 'series of five organ 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- pressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted At the discretion of th edi- torial director. Bad Driving To The Editor: WHEN I arrived in Ann Arbor a year ago, I became instantly aware of a wide variety of bad driving. This included the fol- lowing offenses: excess sp eed through business areas, school zones (for this is what University areas are!), and intersections; failure to make hand signals for turns; dangerous passing; and general discourtesty, including blinding headlights and splashing pedestrians. During the past year I have seen the situation grow steadily worse. And this is understandable because the only effort to improve matters has been the installation of parking meters and large num- bers of new restricted zones where parking is limited to one or two hours. The police have their hands full patrolling all of these. It is evident that with stu- dent cars increasing in numbers and with construction workmen abounding, this is no' time to be limiting the places where cars may be parked. I do not have any solution to the parking problem but I do plead that the poice lay imore emphasis on dangerous traf- fic violations and less on trivial ones. I can suggest a few simple im- provements, such as the install- ation of some speed limit and school zone signs; more "policing" by the police and less lounging at the entrance to Nickels Arcade. In conclusion, I would like to point out that I have no intention of casting the blame especially on students and inviting the inter- ference of University officials. -Walter Arnold recitals, at 4:15 p.m., Sun., Feb. 16, Hill Auditorium. A pupil of Palmer Christian, Miss Mason has arranged aprogram to include works by Bach, Ducasse, Malein- greau, and Haines. It will be open to the general public. Other pro- grams will follow on February 23, March 2, 6, and 9. Events Today -University Radio Programs: 3:30 p.m., Station WPAG, 1050 Kc., Dr. Joseph E. Maddy, Profes- sor of Music Instruction, "Music in America - Music Lessons by Radio." U. of M. Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild: Organization busi- ness meeting at 3 p.m., Michigan Union. Prof. B. Shartel of the Michigan Law School will speak on the subject, "Legal Aspects of Sterilization," at 4 p.m. Association of University of Michigan Scientists Discussion Group on Atomic Energy: 7:15 p.m., East Council Room, Rack- ham Bldg. iww Academic Freedom To The Editor: HE GOVERNOR of'this .stat has seen fit to order an .iivs tigation of so-called subV'siv activities" on the campus at Meh gan State College and the: versity of Michigan, an-inves ton that threatens the very basi of academic freedom. The e leg campus always has had groups o it representing varying opiniens ii political, religious, and social mat ters. It is this freedom of opinio which has made the campus on of our firmest supports for democ racy. Gov. Sigler, by attack Rn that support, in limiting academi freedom and restricting civil Ill erties, has stooped to the level ' a Bilbo. The Governor's accusa tions imply that campus organS tions which support such mea sures as an anti-lynch law, a fair employment practices bill, ,a anti-Franco campaign, etc., subversive in character and sdouli be restricted in membership, an activities. One wonders whethe his attack is launched against th progressive measures supported these organizations rather , against purely imaginary subver sive activities within them. The greatest danger of Uae investigations lies in the fat @h they may be used as ste p stones for further, more drasi attempts to limit the freedop e the people of this state. I4b1rt must not be accepted passvel but must be guarded carefully an fought for. Good citizenship de mands that any inroads again this libterty be combatted fror their very beginning. -John H. Sloss Applause To The Edtor: A PIANIST and a professor re ceived applause last Frida) one for a good show, the other -what? Just what lies behind.t quaint custom of clapping hand at the conclusion of the semester last class session? There are some students,. course, who are only glad t lectures are over. And there ar some in each class, as there are s many in the average concert adi ence, who applaud willy-nilly, jus because somebody else is doing s It is probable that clapping by majority of the students is don because a few very sincere peopi take this means of showing thei appreciation to the professor an the herd Joins in. We doubt whether doing a honest ob for wages received yet such a rare thing that it m er its special recognition. Fu hr more, we suspect that th '%oo people who clap their hand v little thought to the possibe actions of the professor hinge: How do you suppose it feels t have worked hard all sekester t make lectures valuable r esting, and then to be aaplaud at the end as a mere showm ? Think, students! Is ter' C. better way to express genu e preciation for the extra effort t forth by your teachers? Why nc speak a few words to , heg i their offices? Or why noti n polite notes to them at thei homes? Professors ar human. Un t edly they would like to - whether you have profited un e their instruction, or found-. e lectures worth while, even .ene taming. But let us save r plause for the occasions whenp preciation is, and should be, les personal. -Robert T. Swartz Varsity Glee Club, section: Rehearsal and Tour at 7:15 p.m. Thursday tryouts for La P'tite Causette: 3:30 p.m., Grill Room, Michigan League. Alpha Phi Alpha, Epsilon Chap- ter: 7 p.m., Union. Modern Poetry Club: 7;45 p.m., League. Discussion of Hart Crane's poetry. The Regular Thursday Evening Record Concert sponsored by the Graduate School will include Haydn's Symphony in C, Haydn's Cello Concerto, and Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata for piano. MYDA: Bob Cummins will speak on Academic Freedom and Events at Michigan State College, at 7:30 p.m., Union. All interested are in- vited to attend. Tryouts for the French Play: today and tomorrow, 3-5:15 p.m., Rm. 408 Romance Language Bldg. Any student with some knowledge of the French language may try out. Alpha Phi Omega: National Service Fraternity: Installation ceremonies -for spring semester of- ficers, at 7:15 p.m., Union. TohAll Fraternity Presidents: Rushing Meeting 7:30 p.m., Rm. 306, Union. All former members of the Boy Scouts of America, are invited to (Continued on Page -5) 3icI~71114r i tr~lgI Fifty-Seventh Year Edited and managed by students the University of Michigan under1 authority of the Board in Control Student Publications. Edztorial Staff Paul Harsha ........ Managing Edi Clayton Dickey ..... ..City Edi Milton Freudenheim .Editorial Direc Mary Brush ...........Associate Edi }Ann Kaitz...........Associate Edi Clyde Recht ........ Associate Edi Jack Martin............ sports Edi Archie Parsons Associate Sports Edi Joan Wilkc......Women's E41 Lynne Ford Associate Women's Edi Business Staff Robert E. Potter .... General Mana Janet Cork ...... Business Mana Nancy Helmick .. Advertising Mana Member of The Associated Pr (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) BARNABY C ome, mboy. ltsfime tocheck 1 I Lecture No. Wed., Feb. 19. 7 (examination),l I - . - w Whatis it, Mc no yd j [You saythis aformic ideao This new method will enable you to I I