" THRI-44AMIciHWAN OICYT SAS _. _. _ ;. err 'U\ '1 VT iN"lnlr 'U 'T lWW 7 '*Il 't Iri , INDUSTRY-WIDE BARGAINING: Pro... HILE BEATING LABOR over the head for allegedly associating with Commu- nists, Congress seems to be doing its utmost to push labor into the Red camp. Unions perform vital social, as well as economic, functions-they give the working- man "a feeling of belonging;" they provide him with equal strength, through the union, with the big employer; and they give the in- dividual workingman, who is in a weak bargaining position, a spokesman who can stand up to the big boss who has greater control of the market. Without the unions to represent workingmen as a group, the in- dividual employe would not only be in an unequal bargaining position, but would be forced to turn to some other organization to satisfy his social needs. nstead of strengthening the authentic functions of unions, the House and Senate labor bills are destroying labor's emotional outlet. Not stopping at removing the de- structive union practices, such as secondary boycotts and jurisdictional strikes, the labor bills would destroy the good with the evil. By banning the involuntary checkoff sys- tem, limiting the union shop, and in the House bill, almost completely banning indus- try-wide bargaining, Congress would damage the unions' effective service to labor. Diligent though Congress may be in exam- ining the evils of Communism, it has failed to learn an important lesson. Communism in America will succeed only by gaining the backing of American labor. As long as labor is satisfied with its position under capitalism, Communism will not be able to gain a foot- hold. Only when labor feels that it can no longer hold its own through the unions, will there be a real danger of its turning to Communism. The best prevention against the infiltra- tion of Communism is not to provide, as do both Senate and House bills, for denying collective bargaining rights to a union if any of its officers could "reasonably be regarded" as a Communist or a Communist sympa- thizer. Rather it is a constructive attitude directed towards strengthening the unions' legitimate services to labor. -Harriett Friedman Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: DICK MALOY Truman Doctrne HE TRUMAN DOCTRINE has been an- nounced as a new step in American for- eign policy, but there are some things about it that smack strongly of our pre-war isola- tionism. It is true that we have given up our old isolationist policies in regard to Europe as a whole, but we are now in the process of erecting barriers between our4 selves and the only nation besides our- selves that really matters on the inter- national scene. We now realize that oceans no longer can serve as barriers between the United States and the affairs of the rest of the world. We have abandoned our isolation- ism far enough to take an interest in the affairs of western Europe and the Orient while at the same time we have isolated ourselves from the U.S.S.R. This is not meant to be an excuse fox the Russian policy toward the United States. The Truman Doctrine is a direct result of Russia's attitude toward the poli- cies of our country. If we had not had this hang-over from our pre-war isolation- ism, I doubt that the Truman Doctrine. Would have been as strong as it is or that it would have met with the approval of the majority of the people, which it apparently has done. Working under the Truman Doctrine, the state Department is bound to take some action which will make the continuation of friendly relations with Russia very diffi- cult. This outgrowth of our old isolationism may have effects even more drastic than its antecedent. -Al Blunirosen rH E GOVERNMENT claims that the Garsson combine paid Andrew J. May some fifty thousand dollars for lumber nev- er received. The prosecution would have us believe that Mr. May's money did not grow on trees. -New Yorker Con... THE ECONOMIC PATH America is pur- suing as a result of her bitter labor- management strife was marked out by Hen- ry Wallace in a recent speech which urged the nationalization of the coal industry un- der a governmental authority. The former vice-president's suggestion is his answer to the problem of supplying coal which the world needs so badly "that neither the obduracy of the operators nor the stub- born will of John L. Lewis should be allowed to cause the infinitude of suffering and paralysis which would result from a coal strike." Wallace has indicated the course cor- rectly. Unless labor and management de- velop closer viewpoints, the threat to the welfare of Americans will likely bring na- tionalization of key industries and simul- taneously crack the door to a government- regulated economy, for the argument ap- plies wherever the well-being of the people is in jeopardy. But will nationalization of the coal in- dustry insure a steady supply? Great Brit- ain's experience belies it. Human suffer- ing and annoying inconvenience were not enough to discourage prolonged strikes dur- ing one of Britain's severest winters. Wallace has arrived at this acknowledge- ment of the failure of labor and manage- ment to provide indispensable products be- cause he insists on the right of labor to in- dustry-wide bargaining, the weapon which cripples an entire industry and endangers the very livelihood of countless Americans. It is evident that organized labor, now riding the back swing of the pendulum, has too much power. Legislation prohibiting in- dustry-wide bargaining would eliminate the widespread effects of country-wide strikes while reserving the strength of labor inher- ent in collective bargaining. If the power remains one-sided, it is not inconceivable that labor will strike private enterprise out and bring up a mighty weak hitter, state socialism. -Elmer Miller PD RATHER BE RIGHT: Wanted: Laughter By SAMUEL GRAFTON AS TO WHAT IS WRONG with American foreign policy, one might murmur that it has perhaps too much Cotton Mather in it, and not enough Roger Williams. It could also use more Mark Twain, Jack London and Walt Whitman. These not very learned allusions are only an indirect way of stat- ing that American foreign policy suffers from a certain moralistic grimness and a nervous fanaticism, neither of which quali- ties is very typical of us as a people. Any foreign policy which ignores the broad currents of tolerance and laughter in American life, cannot be truly represen- tative of what we are,. and have almost al- ways been. We are closer now to the un- smiling McKinley than to the Lincoln who used to tell jokes. We are having a field day for the stuffed shirts and the twopenny moralists, for unenlightened respectables and eager conformists. Once upon a time our little adventure in support of the Greek throne would have been laughed at (in our name and on our behalf) by a Mark Twain, an Artemus Ward, a Bill Nye, a Petroleum V. Nasby, a Charles Battell Loomis and a Finley Peter Dunne. Great mockers these, and we loved them, and they loved us, for we were sufficiently secure inside our American selves not to b unduly alarmed by humor that ran athwart the current of the time. Today a joke on this score would be treat- ed like a joke at a funeral; lower lips would tremble in outrage and dismay. We hardly have an American irreconcilable- left to our names, and we are confined to the weak humors of conformity. The chief single victory the Bolsheviks have won has been to impose their own sul- len, sodden mood upon our. entire age, so that we are reduced to fighting them with emotional weapons which are, in effect, theirs and not ours. Perhaps the greatest cultural change in the last two generations is that we have shifted from a time when our leading writ- ers used gayly to fight deep current pre- judices, to a time in which they morosely express and articulate them. (Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation) MATTER OF FACT: Master Plan This is the last of three columns summarizing Stewart Alsop's conclusions after three months in the Middle East and England. By STEWART ALSOP IF THE "TRUMAN DOCTRINE" of con- taining Soviet political imperialism is to succeed, it must be followed to its logical conclusion. And if it is to be followed to its logical conclusion, the United States must have some new technique for implementing it financially. One reason why this is so may be sensed from the remark of one ex- perienced British diplomat in the Middle East. The Americans had made a hard choice in the Greek-Turkish aid policy, but the only possible choice. "But my God," he added, "what a way to go about it!" No doubt in the back of his mind was the startling contrast between the British financial approach to the Greek problem and the new American approach. So quiet- ily was it done that only after the Greek crisis came to a head did it become known that since the end of the war, counting all expenditures, the British had poured into Greece the fantastic total of $760,000,000 in the pound-sterling equivalent. This British reaction is interesting only in that it serves to demonstrate the basic weakness inherent in the present tech- nique of implementing American economic foreign policy. The British themselves, as their leading economists in Greece were willing to admit, made a vast mis- calculation in handling their economic policy in Greece; they attempted unsu- cessfully to buy time in installments, and without any master plan, against an over-all world settlement. The United States cannot afford to make the same mistake on a world scale. For it is obvious that what is true of Greece and Turkey is likewise true in many other parts of the world; in Korea, in China, in the Middle East as a whole, possibly in Italy and France. If the "Truman Doctrine" is to work it must be applied, according to a well thought-out master plan, in these and other parts of the world. But no master plan is possible if there is to be a piece- meal approach. Yet no instrumentality now exists for pur- suing any other course. The chief finan- cial instruments are the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank. One is Ameri- can, the other international (although as the biggest investors in the World Bank the American influence there is evidently preponderant). Aside from the fact that neither institute has much left in the kitty, both suffer from the same limitation. For a reasonable certainty of the return of money lent is a requirement for both. Reduced to its simplest terms, the rea- soning behind the developing American policy runs like this: As long as the pres- ent post-war economic misery continues the opportunity for world-wide expansion of the Soviet Union through the medium of its political instrument, the Commu- nist parties of the world, continues. Therefore, just as it is in the interest of the Soviets that this misery goes on, so it is in the interest of the United States to make a determined effort to get the war-wrecked economy of the world back on its feet. There is nothing academic in this assessment. Two recent developments underline the urgency of the crisis which threatens the Western World. One is the growing mone- tary crisis described in a recent report in this space. The other is the mounting evi- dence that the Communist party line is about to make one of its historic shifts. The real meaning of the French crisis is that there is now a strong likelihood that in those countries where their hold over the labor movements is tight, the Commu- nists may soon discard their policy of off- again-on-again collaboration with govern- ments of which they form a part, and use their power in the labor movements to re- duce the slowly recovering national econ: odies to chaos. In this situation the United States has a choice. Either we can withdraw nervously into continental isolation, close our eyes and cross our fingers, or we can follow the "Tru- man Doctrine" to its logical conclusion, with the hope that in a reasonably stable and economically sound world situation a true world settlement with the Soviet Union can be made. If the latter choice is the Ameri- can choice-and it is the only choice which does not lead either to surrender or to an American version of Fascism-it has a real chance of success, but only if certain con- ditions are fulfilled. One condition is a working partnership agreement with a re- covering Great Britain. Another is a prac- ticable master plan bald on the grim reali- ties of the world economic situation rather than the present method of attempting fev- erishly to snuff out fires already well start- ed. A third is the authority-and the mon- ey- to carry this master plan through to completion. And the last is a determina- tion of the American people, in the dark days which are surely coming, to see through to the end what they have now started. (Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notltes for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Assistant to the President, Room 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 160 Notices An officers' screening board will be in Rm. 302, Michigan Union, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., May 19, to in- terview applicants for Regular Army commissions. Students who were officers during the war and will receive degrees by July 15, 1947 may apply. 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If you have already used the education benefits of P.L. 346 (the G.I. Bill) in an on-the-job train- ing program, or at any institution other than the University of Mich- igan, it will be necessary for you to secure a supplemental Certifi- cate of Eligibility to present to the institution. To do so, you should write a letter to the Regional Of- fice, Chief, Registration Section, Veterans Administration in the state in which you have enrolled in school requesting a supplemen- tal Certificate. Your letter of request should in- clude the following, information: 1. Your C-number 2. Your address 3. The name of the school which you have previouslyattended un- der the G.I. Bill 4. The date on which you termi- nated your schooling there 5. The course which you were taking 6. The school which you are planning to attend 7. The date when you will reg- ister 8. The course in which you will be enrolled 9. 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To be eligible for these scholarships, a student must have served at least one year in the armed forces during the last war, must have completed satisfactor- ily not less than the equivalent of two semesters of credit hours in any undergraduate School or Col- lege in this University, and shall have received no degree of any kind from this University. Awards will be made according to need, character, and scholastic ability after comparison of applicants, Bureau of Appointments & Oc- cupational Information, 201 Ma- son Hall. Office Hours: 9-12, 2-4. GENERAL PLACEMENT: Information regarding employ- Company, Wyandotte, Michigan, is now available. See Mr. Jones at the Bureau of Appointments. The Federal Bureau of Investi- gation will have two representa- tives in our office on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20 and 21, to interview students for the follow- ing jobs: 1. Men and women: clerks, typ- ists, stenographers. Salary for clerks and typists, $1,954+$586 overtime. Salary for stenographers is $2,168+$650 overtime. Jobs are principally in Washington. 2. Men and women: Transla- tors. The languages needed are Russian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Czeck, and other related Slavic languages. Jobs are all in Wash- ington. 3. Men: Special employee agent. Any college degree is sufficient. Salary is $4,525+-$775 overtime. Jobs are anywhere in the United States or territory. 4. Men: Special agent: La~w- yers and accountants are eligible. Salary is $4,525+$775. Jobs are anywhere in the United States or territory. Call extension 371 for appoint- ments. TEACHER PLACEMENT: The Kamehameha School for Girls, Honolulu, Hawaii, has open- ings in the following fields: Math- ematics and Physical Education, English and Social Studies, Com- mercial, Biology, General Science, and Typing. Anyone interested in having their papers sent for con- sideration should let us know im- mediately. West Lodge, Willow Run Village Sun., May 18, 5-7 p.m., Coffee Hour; 8:30 p.m., Official football pic- tuies, University of Michigan vs. Northwestern University Oct. 19, 1946. Acadenic Nottces Music Literature 32: Class will meet at the regular time on Tues- day. Mr. T. E. Heger Biological Chemistry Seminar: May 17, 10 a.m., Rm. 319, W. Med- ical Bldg. Subject: "Arginine, Ornithinine and Citrulline." All in- terested are invited. Psychology 114: Students with initials A through L will meet in Rm. D, Alumni Memorial Hall from 7 to 8 p.m., Tues., May 20. Students with initials M through Z will meet in the same room at the same time Wed., May'21. There will be no class at the usual hour on Tuesday. Mathematics Concentration Ex- amination: Tues., May 20, 4 p.m., Rm. 3011, Angell Hall. Graduate Students who took the Graduate Record Examination in October, 1946 or March, 1947 may pick up the results of this exami-' nation at the information desk of the Graduate School. Concerts Carrillon Recital: Sun., May 18, at 3 p.m., by Percival Price,. Uni- versity Carillonneur. Program: Schumann's Album for the Young, Melody, Little Story, Mignon, and theMerry Farmer; Suite for Caril- lon, by Barber; three Russian folk songs, and Bizet's Carillon, from 1'Arlesienne. Original Compositions by stu- dents in the School of Music will be presented by the class under Homer Keller, Instructor in Com- position, at 4:15 p.m., Tues., May 20, Rackham Assembly Hall. The Little Symphony, Wayne Dunlap, Conductor, will assist in the performance of compositions by Keith Lusted, Noah Ryder, Jean Farquharson, William Taylor, Nina Goehring, Norma Wendelberg, Dean Nuernberger, Marilyn Ma- son, Wilbur Perry and James Wolfe. The public is cordially in- vited. Program of Operatic Arias and Ensembles, under the direction of Wayne Dunlap, will be given by members of the Opera Workshop Course in the School of Music, in conjunction with the University Symphony Orchestra and the Or- chestral Conducting Class, at 8:30 p.m., Wed., May 21, Hill Audito- rium. Among the composers repre- sented are Mozart, Verdi, Saint- Saens, Puccini, Guonod, Gluck, Ponchielli, Flotow, Bizet a n d Tschaikowsky. The general pub- lic is invited. Organ Recital: Janet Hutchen- reuther, organist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Letters to the Editor.. 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 opitted At the discretion of the edi- torial director. West Lodge Cafeteria To the Editor: WOULD YOU kindly print the following letter of apprecia- tion regarding the West Lodge cafeteria which was sent to Mr. Shiel, business manager of the residence halls. Dear Mr. Shiel: In behalf of the Willow Run chapter of the AVC, I wish to thank the University Residence Halls for the efficient way it has taken over the operation of the West Lodge cafeteria. The quality of the food has al- ready improved very noticeably while the over-all cleanliness con- trasts sharply with the conditions prevalent under the former cafe- teria management: I want to compliment' in partic- ular those people who worked so hard to change the cafeteria into a good eating place within the short space of two days last week. Miss Kathleen Hamm, head dieti- cian, Mr. Leonard Schadt, your assistant, and the one hundred or more people - janitors, cooks, dieticians et all -- who came out from the residence halls and work- ed overtime to accomplish this feat deserve special commenda- tion. We realize also that it is very difficult to obtain absolutely smooth operation at the very be- ginning of a new venture. As time goes on, we feel sure that minor complaints that some people still have will be ironed out. AVC, however, is not just a "gripes" organization. Its pr- pose, so wellstatedin our slogan "Citizens first, Veterans second," is to help build a better commun- ity (locally as well as nationally and internationally). We try our best to approach our task objec- tively and to cooperate with what- ever groups are striving for this betterment. It is for this reason that I want to offer the full cooperation of our chapter in helping to better the University community out at Willow Village. In a conversation with Mr. Schadt yesterday, I learned that twelve or fifteen more students are needed to work eve- nings at the cafeteria in order to provide more efficient service. I can inform you that our food committee, which took the survey last month, is going to try to re- cruit this help for you. Let me again express our ap- preciation for the good food now available. If there is anything more we can do to help, please do not hesitate to contact me or Wil- Sun., May 18, Hill Auditorium. A pupil of the late Palmer Chris- tian, Mrs. Hutchenreuther wil play a program of compositions by Vivaldi, Bach, Karg-Elert, Doty, Jepson, and Vierne. The general public is invited. Student Recital: Beverly Solo- row, Pianist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the degree of Mas- ter of Music at 8:30 p.m., Tues., May 20, Rackham Assembly Hall. A pupil of Joseph Brinkman, Miss Solorow has planned a program of compositions by Scarlatti, Schu- bert, Poulenc, Liszt, Granados, and Prokofieff. The general public is invited. Exhibition Exhibit of floral forms photo- graphed by Dr. Edwin B. Mains, Director of the University Her- barium, May 16-30, Architecture Bldg. Events Today University Radio Program: 2:30 p.m., WJR, Stump the Pro- fessor. 10:15 p.m.. WJR, The Medical Series--"The Nervous Stomach," Dr. G. A. Richardson,sAssistant in Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric In- stitute. Women Veterans Picnic: 2 p.m., meet at League. Alpha Kappa Delta Picnic for all concentrates in Sociology and Social Work, Dexter Park, 2:30 p.m. Those desiring transporta- tion meet in front of Haven Hall promptly at 2:30. Michigan Chapter of the pro- posed I.I.Ch.E. Speaker: Dr. M. S. Patel. 8:30 p.m., E. Engineering (Continued on Page 4) liam Klein, chairman of our food committee. -Walt Hoffman, chairman Willow Run Chapter AVC * * * New Type of Society To the Editor: HAVE JUST recently been re- reading some of the essays of Eric Gill, the noted British artist and writer. I would like to call his book of essays, It All Goes To- gether to the attention of those in- dividuals who are dissatisfied with the capitalistic system as it exists today and who are yet unwilling to concede the fallacious assump- tions upon which communistic and socialistic societies are based. Eric Gill, while affirming his be- lief in the basic right to freedom ,f the individual, is not willing to admit that the capitalistic or manufacturing system is the best possible system for the free work- ing-out of man's individual des- tiny. He proposed a type of so- ciety wherein the small, compact community is' the center of life. Individuals then have a part in creating and making things. They cease to be robots in huge ware- houses where they take no interest in their work or the completed product and where they are no longerconsideredas human be- ings, but as "hands" to be hired and fired like mechanical men. These ideal communities of his would not be set up by force and artificially created as are the "col- lectivist" farms of Soviet Russia, but by a willing withdrawal of in- dividuals from the large cities in- to the country where they estab- lish their oWn communities. These small communities would have small shops where the workmen coudnderive some joy from wit- nessing their own creation of ar- ticles. The people would have their own theaters and song groups. They would see the fin- ished product of their hands. I know that the first protest one would hear to this type of living would be: "But your stan- dard of living would go way down" Perhaps your standard of. living would go down. But you would al- ways have enough or more than enoughtoeat, and clothes to wear. And best of all you would be hap- py. And it wouldn't take much doing to make people happier than they are today, especially the peo- ple that are working daily in the great factories in Detroit, where each year a strike threatens for higher wages when it is not really higher wages or shorter working hours people want. They desire their lives and work to mean something more than the mechan- ical, brutal striving towards the grave that it is now. People will never be happy as long as they place their ultimate felicity in the possession of an automobile or a refrigerator. It is only when they are doing the work for which they are suited and which they want to do that they will be at peace. More money and shorter hours would only mean more money spent in the beer-gar- dens of Detroit, for as Bernanos says: "The workingman buys beer instead of bread, because beer gives illusion and bread does not." It would be ridiculous for any one who believes in the ultimate per- fectibility of the standard of liv- ing to read these essays because he is probably unaware of any dichotomy in the lives of the in- dividuals around him. But I feel it would be a provocative book for anyone who wonders how long he has between wars, as it were. -James S. Irwin St1iiuff&fllg IT SO HAPPENS ... * Scraping the Bottom 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 liarsha..........Managing Editor Clayton Dickey ........... City Editor Milton F'reudenhelm..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 Member Associated Collegiate Press, 1946-47 A Bad News Travels Fast. T WASN'T a very pleasant discovery, but a professor had to recognize it the other day; Noting that most of the more than 100 students in the class had failed to show uu. he remarked that apparently most of the Attention:Keynes, Hansen .. . A NOTE on student's savings was reflected in this sign on an Angell Hall bulletin board: "Found: one bank book, $3 balance." i * * 7 American History:f 1947.0. . ment at the Wyandotte ChemicalMaster of Music at 4:15 p.m., BARNABY Business Staff Robert E. Potter .... General Janet Cork ......... Business Nancy Helmick ...Advertising Manager Managez I IL V-1 - I t ., ...... . . I- - 1r i i F A w i _ __