-: THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIAY, 312 Flaunting or Civil Rights SOUTHERN JUSTICE has triumphed again. Wedneseday night a South Carolina jury acquitted 28 white men accused of lynching a Negro. State witnesses for the prosecu- tion described how a mob had seized the Negro, brutally beaten and lynched him. Several of the defendants were identified as members of the mob. As the trial drew to a close, the defense fell back on the time-honored southern charge of "yankee interference" in the trial. One defense attorney, Benjamin Bolt, at- tacked the FBI for descending on Green- ville "as if they've found an atomic bomb here; yet all they found was a dead Negro body." After a short deliberation, the jury returned the acquittal verdict. No matter how loud we in America preach about equal rights and individual freedom ,the concept remains so many empty words when we allow these miscarriages of jus- tice to go unchallenged. We can't sop our consciences with the excuse that those things only happen in the South where the Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: ARTHUR HIGBEE School Election A SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION is coming up in Ann Arbor June 9. According to figures from' the Ann Arbor High business office, only about 1100 voters have register- ed so far out of some 20,000 to 30,000 cjuali- fied electors. The low number of registrants may be due to the fact that some people may not know that participation in a school board election in the Ann Arbor district requires a separate registration. A voter must have his name entered on a special poll-list, eith- er at the high school business office or at registration booths set up downtown, by the May 31 deadline. In the coming election, there are three vacancies and four candidates. Not a real contest, and no real issues at stake, we un- derstand. Yet it is odd that there is not more interest evinced in the board member- ship during this particularly trying time in the history of public education, especially in an education-conscious town. In the next few days, the number of reg- istrations will tell whether or not the public cares enough about public school admin- istration to check up on its officials. -Fred Schott F Ioreigrn .Aid situation is different. This constant flaunt- ing of civil rights is not confined 'to the South alone. It is present all over the coun- try to a certain degree. Right here in Ann Arbor we were treated to the same sort of a spectacle only a few months ago. A negro graduate student was allegedly refused service in a downtown tavern. When the proprietor of the estab- lishment was brought to trial under the Michigan Civil Rights Law, he asked for a jury trial, knowing full well that an opin- ionated jury would never convict him. Of course he was acquitted of the charge. Currently America is spending money in Europe to protect the rights of individuals in foreign lands. Meanwhile we are wide open to criticism on the same score for our own hypocritical attitude toward equality. Lets first put our own house in order, or our espoused ideals of individual rights will remain a mere mockery. -Dick Maloy ON WORLD AFFAIRS: Diplomatic Purge By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY at the most critical period of our history is pretty exclusively in the hands of three men, President Truman, Secretary of State Mar- shall and Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. Doubt is accumulating whether these men are picking the best team the United States could provide. Harry S. Truman dislikes "striped pants" diplomats. He holds them responsible for the past lack of a real American foreign policy. He decided that he would get rid of the lot. Today the job is fairly complete. An American foreign service still exists. But the top State Department posts are all occupied by men who have made a career outside diplomacy. The nearest thing to a diplomat (who happens also to be a very competent region- al specialist) is the Assistant Secretary for Latin American Affairs, Spruille Braden. Mr. Braden started as a mining engineer and business executive, but now has behind him twelve years intensive diplomatic ex- perience in Latin America. Business men represent the U.S. in Lon- don and Rio de Janeiro, a (first-class) pro- fessor in Nanking. Moscow, .Brussels and Cape Town have been turned over to the military. A banker with no diplomatic ex- perience is being sent to the difficult War- saw post where he may fail as conspicuous- ly as businessman Pichard C. Patterson did 'in Belgrad. Mr. Patterson's replacement by diplomat Cavendish Cannon, who knows the Balkans thoroughly, was an excellent move, unfortunately offset by the recall of the capable Stanley Hornbeck from The Hague to make room for another banker, Barney Baruch's ambitious brother, Her- man. All this adds up to a bad situation. Our desperately important foreign policy is being shaped by people most of whom have no knowledge of any particular foreign area and small experience of world politics-a complicated and difficult game wherein no- body with less than ten years' experience can claim competence. Interference of this sort is mischievous. Neither the U. S. nor any other country can conduct a successful foreign policy without using some men of long experience and per- sonal knowledge of world politics. Unless the "Truman-Marshall-Vandenberg man- agement" manages to secure some more seasoned recruits, the country may yet live to regret the departure of the "striped- pants." (Copyright 1947, Press Allianc, Inc.) SRA MAP II - ~ I ATTER OF FACT: Home Canning By HAROLD L. ICKES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY fruits and berries are now or soon will be ripening. Housewives are washing up their home can- ning equipment. They might better be organizing a broom brigade for a march on the Department of Agriculture. A storm may be expected to arise when the housewives discover that they are not going to get any extra sugar for canning this year. Agriculture undoubtedly is per- fecting excuses which will quiet the lowering storm. Its arguments will be that sugar is still in short supply, and that transpor- tation is in a state. As a last resort it will make the appeal that anyway the sugar rationing program was invented by the OPA, and hence is a vestigial remnant which ought to be preserved in a museum. To meet the expected complaints, the sugar officials have granted each person "at least 35 pounds" of sugar this year, and increase of 10 pounds over last year. But the joker in the proceeding lies in the lack of an extra allowance during the period when fruit is ripening. It was persistent complaints about the rationing of sugar that hastened the demise of the OPA and resulted in the present in- creased allotment to domestic civilian users. But by increasing the yearly allotment the government has not softened the bitterness arising out of the unpleasant fact that, whereas last summer there was an allow- ance of an extra 10 pounds for canning, this' summer the housewife has been promised a coupon for only 10 pounds of sugar which must last to September 30. It is no won- der that complaints have arisen that the government has put over a fast one on the home canners for the benefit of the hand- me-down products. The complaints have come chiefly from the women of the country, largely farm or suburban, who were unable to get sugar for canning last Year and, as a result, were compelled to spend high prices for ready- made jellies and preserves. Certainly the complaints that I have received were from those who were thrifty enough to do their own canning and had the means to doso- all except the sugar. Home canning ought to be encouraged. It not only means a low- er cost of living, it makes for the well being of the family. Moreover, there are those who think that home-made jellies and jams, generally speaking, are to be preferred to those made in factories. Restricting the home on sugar is won- derful for the canning factory. When the housewife cannot can her own fruit, she is compelled to buy the factory's pro- ducts at an inflated price, and because the housewife cannot can her own fruit, there is more fruit available for the com- mercial canneres at a deflated price. Moreover, regardless of price, the subur- banite or the farmer who produces small quantities of fruits fo his own use is not equipped to pick and market that fruit. So it simply rots on the ground. In defense of its rationing of sugar, Ag- riculture says that there is only so much sugar and that the industrial users have been cut as well as everyone else. What they do not say is that industrial users are now employing more syrups, as they are equipped to do, as a substitute for sugar The production of corn syrup has doubled; that of cane refiners' syrup is up eight times over pre-war production. These are not rationed. The American housewives would be willing to adjust themselves to a scarcity in supply. The substance of their complaint is that the sugar-rationing program has been used to change the buying habits of the Nation to the profit of the industrial users of sugar. They maintain that they have been short- changed on sugar so as to be compelled to buy manufactured products at high prices instead of using their home canning and baking facilities. (Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation) C U RRENT At The Michigan . . FRAMED (Columbia), Glenn Ford, Janice Carter THIS IS THE TALE of a blond female who is inept at speaking with any conviction, but who has a mind bordering on the ruth- less. She runs to murder and money. She also runs to men, first Barry Sullivan and then Glenn Ford. However, when justice triumphs (as it always does), she does not take kindly to retribution and scarcely bears the sorrow of parting forever with the nobility that Mr. Ford displays. Mr. Ford, as a troubled young man who has trouble holding his liquor and his memory at the same time, is deep voiced, tough, and dead pan. His last words are, as I recall, "You can keep it." And so can you. * * * * At The State . . Holdover of THE ANGEL AND THE BAD- MAN (Republic), John Wayne --Joan Fiske BILL MAULDI1N "We ain't no lost generation. We just been mislaid.' DAILY OFFICIAL BLLETIN H AROLD E. STASSEN has made a pro- posal that sounds very much like the one that Henry Wallace made here a week ago. Stassen wants the U. S. to earmark ten percent of its production of food and goods for the next ten years to insure world peace, while Wallace asked that the U. S. spend fifty billion dollars during the same period to accomplish the same end. This was Stassen's first speech since he returned from a tour of Europe at about the same time as Henry Wallace did. The Stassen proposal has a significancy? far beyond that which would normally be attached to a speech by a presidential aspir- ant. The fact that Stassen's proposal is very similar to Wallace's gives' the sugges- tion added weight. A planthat has the backing of both Wallace, who represents the left wing of American politics, and Stassen, who represents the liberal Repub- lican element must have merit beyond the mere dreaming of an idealist or the vote get- ting antics of a potential presidential can- didate. These two men who have entirely dif- ferent political backgrounds have both studied Europe first hand. That they could come up with substantially the same plan for the peace of the world makes one take a long second look at the Wallace-Stassen proposal. --Al Blunrosen ['D RATHER BE RIGHT: Partial Plans By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE "NEWBURYPOR.T PLAN" for cut- ting retail prices 10 per cent has crashed, its end receiving considerably less publicity than its beginning. It turned out that the storekeepers of Newburyport, Mass., could not continue to cut their prices 10 percent, unless their suppliers cut theirs, and their suppliers couldn't, or wouldn't, or anyway didn't. " This perky little scheme perfectly ex- pressed the contemporary American faith that the laws of economics can be set at de- fiance by a couple of speeches and a large number of pictures. And if Newburyport had only been a little nearer New York, the model agencies would have been called up- on for help, too, in exemplification of our modern folk belief in the talismanic value of the bare knee in moments of acute na- tional crisis. But the search for gadgets will go on, be- cause the alternative is that dreadful thing,I Publicationi in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices 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). FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 165 Notices University Council M e e t i ng Mon., May 26, 4:15 p.m., Assembly fHall, Rackham Building. Faculty Meeting, College of En- gineering: Mon., May 26, 4:15 p.m., Rm. 311, W. Engineering Bldg. Agenda: Nomination of Panel for Selection of Executive Commitee Member; and Election of University Council. Faculty Directories: It would be appreciated if any staff member having a faculty di- rectory for 1946-1947 which. can be turned in without interference with University duties, would re- turn the directory to the Business Office, Rm. 1, University Hall. The supply of directories for 1946-1947 is exhausted. Notice to all faculty members and officers: Arrangements have been made with the purpose of having in the General Library both for present purposes and for future historical value, a file of the portraits of members of the faculty and University officials. It is highly desirable from the Library's point, of view that this file be of portraits in uniform size. Portraits will be made without cost to any faculty mem- ber or officer by Rentschler's Studio. Members of the faculty are cordially invited to make ap- pointments w i t h Rentschler's Studiofor the purpse. Any spe- cial questions arising wth re- spect to the matter may be asked either of the secretary of the University, Mr. Herbert G. Wat- kins, or the Librarian, Dr. War- ner G. Rice. Tickets for Graduation Exer- cises: Entrance tickets to Ferry Field and Yost Field House for the graduation exercises on June 14 will be ready for distribution on June 2. Please apply at the In- formation Desk in the Business Office, Room 1, University Hall. Those eligible to receive tickets will please present their identi- fication cards. For Ferry Field a reasonable number of tickets to each graduate will be available; to Yost Field House, however, owing to lack. of space, two only can be provided. All senior engineers who have paid their senior class dus may obtain their caps and gowns in the Garden Room, Michigan League, 3-5 p.m. on the following days: May 22, 23, 27 and 29. All students having lockers at Waterman Gymnasium should call for their refunds at Room 5, Wat- erman Gymnasium on or before Thursday, May 29. Women students attending Sen- ior Ball have 2:45 permission. Calling hours have not been tended. Union Life Memberships for those who have attended the Uni- versity for eight civilian semesters are ready and may be obtained at the Union Business Office, Monday to Friday, May 26-30, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bureau of Appointments & Oc- cupational Information,201 Ma- son Hall. Office Hours: 9-12, 2-4. GENERAL PLACEMENT: A representative from Life Mag- azine in Detroit will be in the of- fice on Monday, May 26, to inter- view men interested in advertising positions. F Mr. Yokum of Hall Brothers Company in Detroit will be in the office on Tuesday, May 27, to in- terview men interested in sales positions. A representative from The Commonwealth & Southern Com- pany in Jackson- will interview electrical and mechanical engi- neers (chiefly those with experi- ence), in our office on Friday, May 23. Mr. Dunkel of Whitehead & Kale in Detroit will be in our of- fice on Thursday, May 22, to inter- view civil engineers for structural drafting. Call 371 for appoint- ments. We have a request for a girl who is a graduate of Play Produc- tion to do secretarial work, short- hand and typing, for a job that would carry opportunities for ex- cursions into all phases of the theatre. Call at the Bureau for further information. The J. L. Hudson Company will be at our office on Tuesday, May 127, to interview men for their Ex- ecutive Training Squad. TEACHER PLACEMENT If you can teach -Advertising, Advertising Principles, Advertis- ing Production,rAdvertising Copy, Market Research and Marketing Principles, there is a splendid op- portunity for you in a midwestern university. Call at the Bureau for further information.' A ci'tdemic Notices Chemistry Colloquium: Mon, May 26, 4:15 p.m., Rm. 303, Chem-c istry Bldg. Mr. L. R. Perkins and Louis Gordon will discuss their original "Research in Analytical Chemistry." Chemistry 234, Summer Session.I Students who intend to elect Physiochemical M e t h o d s o'f Analysis during +the Summer 8es-1 sion are reminded that the total enrollment is limited and that the1 permission of the instructor isl required. Prospective students should leave their names with Mr. Dean, 328 Chem. Bldg. The list ofP approved enrollees will be posted during registration week; prece-e dence being given to doctoral can- didates first, then to other gradu- ates. Directed Teaching, Qualifying Examination: All students expect-c ing to do directed teaching in the. fall are required to pass a quali- fying examination in the sub-c ject in which they expect to teach This examination will be held on Sat., May 24, 8:30 a.m. StudentsI ex- will meet in the auditorium of the University High School. The ex- amination will consume about four hours' time; promptness is there- fore essential. Concerts University Symphony Orchestra, Wayne Dunlap, Conductor, will be heard in its final concert during this semester at 8:30 p.m., Tues., May 27, Hill Auditorium. The program will open with Mozart's Serenade for Woodwinds and Horns, B-flat Major, followed by Sibelius' Violin Concerto iti D Minor, in which Emil Raab will appear as soloist. Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major will conclude the concert. The general public is invited. Organ Recital: Carl Weinrich, concert organist, will appear in Ann Arbor at 4:15 p.m., Thurs., May 29, Hill Auditorium. Program: Compositions by Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Mozart and Hindemith. Mr. Weinrich has been associated with Columbia University, Prince- ton University, and appeared throughout the country on tour. The public is cordially invited. Memorial Day: Professor Perci- val Price, University Carillonneur, will give a special recital in ob- servance of Memorial Day at 11 a.m., Fri., May 30, on the Baird Carillon. Organ Recital: John Wheeler will present an organ recital in partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Master of Music at &:30 p.m., Sun., May 25, Hill Auditorium. A pupil of the late Palmer Christian, Mr. Wheel- er will play Concerta in G major by Vivaldi, Two Chorale Preludes and Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor by Bach, Sonata, The Nine- ty-fourth Psalm, by Reubke; Mag- nificat (Verse 5), and Prelude and Fugue in B major, by Dupre. The general public is invited. Student Recital: Howard Hat- ton, baritone, will present a recital at 8:30 p.m., Fri., May 23, Rack- ham Assembly Hall, in lieu of a thesis as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Music Litera- ture. Mr. Hatton is a pupil of Ar- thur Hackett. Program: Composi- tions by Handel, Brahms and Faure. Open to the public. Student Recital: Mary Alice Duncan, student of flute under Hale Phares, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the degree of Mas- ter of Music in Music Education at 8:30 p.m. Sat., May 24, Rackham Assembly Hall. She will be assist- ed by Dorothy Johnson Heger, Pianist, Earl Bates, clarintist, and William Weichlein, bassoon- ist, in a program of compositions by .Loeillet, Griffes, Demersseman, Haydn, Ibert and Kuhlau. The public is cordially invited. Student Recital: Nelle Hocutt, Mezzo-soprano, will be heard in a recital at 8:30 p.m., Mon., May 26, Rackham Assembly Hall. A pupil of Arthur Hackett, Miss Hocutt presents the program in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Music Education. The general public is invited. Exhibition The Museum of Archaeology: Current Exhibit: "Life in a Roman Town, in Egypt, 30 B.C.-400 A.D." Tues. through Fri., 9-12, 2-5; Sat., 9-12; Sun. 3-5. The Museum of Art: Drawings by Maurice Sterne and Paintings by Pedro Figari Alumni Memorial Hall, daily, except Monday, 10-11 and 2-5; Sundays, 2-5; Wednes- day evenings 7-9. The public is cordially invited. Events Today University Radio Programs: 1:30 p.m., WPAG, The Great Lakes Series-TheBig Ditch- Lake Erie. 2:30 p.m., WKAR, Tales from Poe-"The Life of Edgar Allen Poe." 2:45 p.m., WKAR, Landscape Design Series-"Development of Waterfront Resort Properties,"a Mr. H. 0. Whittemore. 5:45p.m., WKAR, Dorothy Orn- est-Soprano. Geology and Mineralogy Jour- nal Club: 12 noon, Fri., May 23, Rm. 3055,' Natural Science Bldg. Dean Emeritus H. Kraus will speak on "The University of Michigan and the early development of the, Geological and Mineralogical So- cieties of America." German Coffee Hour: 3-5 p.m., League Coke Bar. Tea dance: Last dance of the se- mester, International Center, 4:30- 7 p. Coning E'veis Association of University of Michigan Scientists: Last meeting of term, 8 p.m., Mon., May 26, East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Program: Review of the status of the atomic energy situ- ation and ofthe American Sien- tist groups activities. Library Science Alumni Associa- tion, Annual Reunion. Luncheon. 12:15 p.m., Sat., May 24, Michlg n Union. Meeting, with address by Dr. William Warner Bishop, Libra- rian Emeritus, 2:30 p.m., Rack- ham Amphitheatre. Lecture is open to public. Graduate Outing Club: Canoe- ing, Sun., May 25, meet at 230 p.m., Northwest entrance, Rack- ham Bldg. Supper outdoors if weather permits. Sign up before noon on Saturday at the check desk in the Rackham Bldg. Delta Epsilon Pi Society: Pro- fessor A. E. R. Boak will speak on the subject, "T h e Byzantine Church As a Cultural Force in the Middle Ages," 11:30 a.m., Sun., May 25, St. Nicholas Church. The public is cordially invited. There is a splendid opportunity that can be seized in Korea. In that country the United States and the Soviet Union have a chance to prove that co-operatioatn between them is possible and thus to set precedents to be used later in moredifficult areas. Thecop- Portunity is excellent becau there are so few complicating faC- tors. The picture is far less comu- plex, for example, than in Ger- many. When dealing with Ger- many both American and Rus- sian diplomats must take into ac- count important interests of the British and French, must consider the thorny issue of reparations and must pay attention to the po- sible revival of German militar- ism. The only real issue in Korea is whether the two great powers of the world, with widely different political theories, can work togeth- er to give independence and self- government to the Koreans. The new meeting of the Joint Soviet-American Commission in Seoul was opened with speeches that certainly would be cheering if taken at exact face value, with no quibbles over definitions, Colq- nel General T. F. Shtikov, repr- senting Russia, declared that Kor- ea "will become an independent state and will join the family of peace-loving nations as an equal member." Lieutenant General John R. Hodge, representing the United States, said: "We are here to carry out the promisess of the great powers to rebuild Korea as a sovereign and independent state." If the two generals, backed by their governments, could agree on steps to carry out these statements a fine step would be taken in the direction of constructing a sane world. Possibly there is hope, re- gardless of the doubts already ex- pressed by observers at Seoul, that the revived commission will do precisely what Generals Hodge and Shtikov have promised. -N. Y. Herald Tribune The plans for rebuilding London and Coventry and Plymouth and Manchester are brave plans for a new world-plans to rebuild not only the damage done by Germn bombers but that more sqalid heritage of a century and a half of unrestrained industrialism and profit-seeking. --Harper's Magazine l e 9l irl ig u ttily rI'HE DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH pre- sented Mr. Robert True's In Spite of Heaven last night at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Mr. Valentine Windt did a beau- tiful job of directing what might well have been a terribly dull play. However with a superb cast headed by John Babington, in the role of Moliere, the play was enthusias- tically received by a full house. Actually Mr. True's play has little to recommend it. The story is n.ot new, nor has he given it any creative turn that would make it different or meaningful. The plot although set in France, is thoroughly Amer- ican; it deals with Moliere's love for a young and thoughtless wife, hVr infidelity with an antiquated count and their theatri- cal reconciliation. The dialogue descends often to pathos and melodrama. Further- more the explanations of things past and future is not clear. At the end of the play it seems as if Moliere and his wife at some time during the three years of their mar- riage had had a child. Yet this child is not spoken of coherently except in the last scene when it is already three years old, and has become an integral part of Moliere's plans for the future. Much of the begin- ning of the play dealt with names that were indistinguishable and seemed not to set the scene, but rather to confuse the audience. 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