PGE OUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY" FUMAY, NO MR 1. 1946 THE MCHIGA DAIL FRIDAY. NOVEMEER 1. 194E~ Educators Criticize VA THE VETERANS Administration came in for some sharp, constructive criticism at a con- ference here last week; it now remains to be seen what improvements the VA will make. The walls of the Rackham Building reddened to match the cheeks of the representative from the Columbus Office of the VA as representa- tives from seven of the Big Ten schools poured forth examples of the weaknesses in VA admin- istration. It is high time that the Washington office of the VA quit masterminding local administrative details, according to the University representa- tives who collectively are responsible for seeing that over 100,000 former GI's receive educa- tional benefits. Perhaps the most forceful illustration of the impracticability of General Bradley's highly centralized administration can be found right Soviet Science IF A MAN named Zverev has his way, about one billion dollars will be spent for special scientific research in Russia this coming year. It would seem likely that it will be spent, inas- much as Comrade Zverev is Treasury Secretary Snyder's Russian opposite number, and the re- search money idea is a part of his budget pro- posals for the next Soviet fiscal year. In Zverev's own words the intention is "the further growth) of the economic and political might of the So- viet Union." This expenditure is significant beyond the obvious fact that a billion dollars will buy a lot of uranium. It is a part of the pattern set by Stalin when he said last February, "It is nec- essary not only to overtake but to exceed in the nearest future the achievements of science out- side the USSR." It means that Russia is set- ting a goal of scientific self-sufficiency. Quite apparently the Soviets are unwilling to live un- der a fissionable sword of Damocles. One naturally asks, "Are we?" Suppose Rus- sian scientists, braced by a billion dollar shot in the arm, -come through with something new in nuclei. Will we accept their ascendancy gracefully or will we expand the Manhattan Project? The question is rhetorical, and the conclusion unpleasantly apparent. The atomic bomb race, predicted by several different political Jeremiahs, is already on. In fact it bids fair to become an atom bomb-germ warfare-death ray and God knows what else sweepstakes. Meanwhile Oak Ridge works three shifts a day and the Supreme Soviet considers spending an additional several billions for defense. It looks as if the Brave New World is too scared to show up. -Robert Ball here on campus. The local VA office has been ordered to call in each of the 11,000 veterans now in school and have them fill out a question- aire. Each of the 11,000 veterans, as he receives an appointment card from the VA will have to spend time giving the VA information which is now on file in the office upstairs at theĀ°Univer- sity Veterans Service Bureau. The only benefit to be derived from these conferences is the ex- planation of leave benefits to the 4,000 veterans who just entered school this fall. It is not without justification then, that, in a letter of suggestions sent to the VA central of- fice, this conference asked that the VA carry out a study of just what VA corms are actually nec- essary to properly award educational benefits to veterans. The necessity of the university's "going to the newspapers" for information regarding the VA program and policies was another major prob- lem for which the VA representative had no answer, nor even a strong hope of a solution. It is indeed paradoxical that General Brad- ley, who had the reputation overseas of telling his subordinates what he wanted and leaving the technique up to them, is now heading the Vet- erans Administration, the predominant char- acteristic of which seems to be a highly cen- tralized administration which is too GI to work practically in a civilian environment. -Tom Walsh Second Answer' N EITHER Mr. anywhere in restriction case preme Court. Grady nor I seem to be getting our argument over the property now before the California Su- In an attempt to clarify what has been writ- ten, let me ask Mr. Grady just one question. Does he believe that the California Supreme Court should uphold the use of restrictive cov- enants which the lower court declared a viola- tion of the fourteenth amendment? Everyone knows that I stand against res- trictive covenants, regardless of whether pro- perty devaluation might occur. Where, I ask, does Mr. Grady stand? If he has merely been pointing out that the white property owners are more concerned with property devaluation than with the moral or constitutional aspects of the case, then I will agree with him. But if he is using that fact as an argument to uphold restrictive covenants, then I will protest strongly. It is unfortunate that property devaluation occurs (due more to deep-rooted prejudices than anything else), but I feel that we should never under any circumstances deny to any minority group in our population the rights supposedly guaranteed by our federal constitution. -Walt Hoffmann I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: G. 0. P. Victory By SAMUEL GRAFTON A THING LIKE a Republican victory next Thursday, foreshadowing a Republican vic- tory in 1948, could, of course, change the cul- tural and intellectual life o America. For there is a kind of American who has not yet been fully formed, the postwar American; and what he will think of himself, and what the world will think of him, depends largely on how politics goes in this nation. A Republican victory, which necessarily involves a surrender of leadership by the great coastal cities, must affect the way men will think, write, perhaps even the way they will dance and drink. Several speculations are possible as to what the postwar American will be like, should he happen to be cast in the mold of a Republi- can victory. He will, of course, be rather cynical about government, for doubt about government, and about government action, is a standard Republican mood. Our bright young men, instead of pouring wide-eyed into the government service, into everything from the late O. W. I. to the Farm Security Admini- stration, will . . . do what? Go to Paris to write? One doesn't know, but it seems likely that our young Hemingways and Fitzgeralds will take ship again, while those writers who remainl at home will do so, like the Sinclair Lewis and the Ring Lardner of the Twenties, to kid the American scene. For it is a point that there has been almost no social satire under Roosevelt, perhaps be- cause things were changing too fast, and be- cause the satirist needs a kind of gloomily static setting in which to make funny. It was under Republican administrations, in the Twenties, that our satirists came up, most of them (surprisingly enough, like Lardner and Lewis) right out of the heart of the Republican Middle West. Another school, also important in the Twenties, and which disappeared under Roosevelt, was that of certain fictionists who sounded strangely like the sad geniuses of Czar- ist Russia, men like Theodore Dreiser and Sher- wood Anderson. Again, this was essentially a destructive school; it gave us some fine books, but the stories in them were of spiritual deso- lation and moral ache. In adducing these cultural and psychological prices to be paid for a conservative shift, one has, of course, no hope of affecting the elec- tion; for in these matters we customarily look only at the top layer of apples before buying the barrel. (copyright 1946, by the N.Y. Post Syndicate) Apathetic Voters THE observation that five-sixths of the stu- dent body just doesn't care how its affairs are run is becoming monotonous. We revise our figures and repeat it after every election. But it's still true. Only 3000 students voted in Tuesday's elec- tion to determine who would represent them on the Board which shapes the policies of the Union, who would conduct their class affairs, how their student legislators would be chosen, who would represent them on the Board in Control of Student Publications. Why? The excuses which people usually give for not voting don't hold. The ballots were not "'too long for voters to make an intelligent choice"-the J-Hop ballot, bearing the, most names, listed 16 students. The positions were not of the kind where "it just doesn't make any difference who gets in"--the posts voted on Tuesday are just what people make them. And polls were stationed all over campus. This time the blame belongs squarely on the students. Granted that intelligent vot- ing, not just voting, is the important point, there's no reason why every one of us could- n't have been an intelligent voter Tuesday. The answer, of course, is our overwhelm- ing, ever present apathy. And this is the wrong century for apathy. -Mary Ruth Levy BILL MAULDIN DAILY, OFFICIAL BULLETIN Cetteri to.(lie 6a91or City Emplo yes . To the Editor: WAS A MEMBER of the Ann Arbor City Council committee that developed the pension plan for the city employes to be voted on by the electorate November 5th. The other mem- bers of the committee were Aldermen Walter L. Kurtz, Walter R. Garthe, Mark N. Mayne, and Ben E. Pryor, all of them men of good business judgment and whole-heartedly devoted to the best interests of Ann Arbor and its citizens. We had the expert advice of Professor Harry C. Carver, who previously had worked out the work for other cities and private corporations, pension plan for the Ann Arbor firemen and po- lice, and also had done similar highly responsible for the University of Michigan, and for the United States government. We further had. similar expert advice from Mr. A. G. Gabriel, of Detroit, the actuary for the pension plan of the State of Michigan. We held numerous ses- sions with 'all classes and groups of city em- ployes, to be sure that the plan, whenfinally developed and adopted, would meet the real needs of the employes and would have their approval. The plan as fully proposed and adopted by the Council for subimission to the voters, has the approval of the above-named groups, who have shared in the studies resulting in the proposal now submitted with our unanimous recommen- dation for its adoption by the City. Doubtless the plan is not perfect, but we believe it to be workable, economical for the City, and for the employes - in short, just, equitable, and prac- ticable. The city employes need this plan to place them on an equality with the great body of workers who have federal social security. Our firemen and policemen already have a pen- sion system which will be merged with the new system for all employes, if adopted. The City itself needs this plan because with- out it the City is not on a fair basis of compe- tition with other employers. Moreover, without the pension system proposed we will be carry- ing on and supporting the most expensive pen- sion plan known. That is, the City will be pay- ing full salaries and wages to employes who not only cannot give the service they once could, but who will slow down the results produced by the younger persons with whom they work. From the point of view of humanity for the faithful worker grown old in the service, and not from the point of view of the economical results from the City I hope the voters will vote "yes" on the pension plan. -Shirley V. Smith the glittering generality so effectively used by the late president "economic royalist." No bet- ter than these old slogans, in that it also con- veys the half truth, but without a doubt as equally effective in its ability to get vote, was the election call of one John Shockley in the recent campus election: "Purge the Reds from The Daily." Coming hard on the heels of Mr. Shockley's attack was a letter from one Gaines Davis in which, through a number of sarcastic allega- tions, the point was made that The Daily had as its basic objective the dissemination of left wing propaganda on the U. of M. campus. Since the editorial columns of the paper are open to all members of the staff in order to express their views, The Daily can do no better than reflect in its editorials the opinions of those who are currently on the paper. That in the past seven years of its existence The Daily has swung preponderantly to the liberal view is a matter which is not open to controversy, just as in the same vein The Daily of the 1920's and early 30's was considered preponderantly con- servative. During the three years in which I served on The Daily editorial staff from 1941 to 1944, I was a member of the conservative wing and would be the first to admit that there were all too few members of the staff who were in sympathy with my point of view. However, the fault did not lie in my fellow staff mem- bers, for to ask them to write and advocate opinions which they did not believe in would have been to ask them to make hypocrites of themselves. The fault does lie with my fel- low conservatives who have throughout all the time I have been on campus failed, in any large degree, to make use of the right open to every student on campus to go out for The Daily and make his viewpoint known. A campus presidential election poll taken by The Daily in 1944 showed that two out of every three students supported Dewey as against Roosevelt. If the ratio of political views ex- pressed in The Daily are not in accord with this survey, the fault is not in The Daily but in the students of the U. of M campus. The solution of this problem is obviously not the calling of a group of people "reds" because you disagree with them, nor alleging that The Daily is a vehicle for spreading radicalism. The solution suggests itself. -Monroe J. Fink, '47L Publication in The Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers 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. Saturdays). FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1946 VOL. LVII, No. 34 Notices L. S. & A. Freshman Five-week Progress Reports will be given out in the Academic Counselors' Office, 108 Mason Hall, in the following order: Fri., Nov. 1, M through S; Sat., Nov. 2, T through Z. Students, College of Literature,! Science and the Arts: Except under extraordinary circumstances, cours- es dropped after Sat., Nov. 2, by stu- dents other than freshmen will be recorded with the grade of "E". Seniors, College of L. S. & A., and Schools of Education, Music, and Public Health: Tentative lists of sen- iors for February graduation have been posted on the bulletin board in Room 4 University Hall. If your name is misspelled or the degree ex- pected incorrect, please notify the Counter Clerk. Students, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Applications for scholarships for the year, 1947- 48, should be made 'before Nov. 23. Applicationforms may be obtained at 1220 Angell Hall and should be filed at that office. Senior picture appointments have been reopened for a limited time. All seniors who still wish to have their pictures taken must call the Michi- ganensian office between 9:00 and 3:00 today. This is the last week that the photographer will be here, so seniors must act now if they want their pictures in the yearbook. Girls' Cooperative Houses: There will be five openings in girls' cooper- ative houses next term. Anyone in- terested should call Freda Perez, 5974. WILLOW RUN VILLAGE West Court Community Building: Fri., Nov. 1, 8:00 p. -m., Classical Recordings, Rm. 9. 8:00 p.m., FPHA Staff Party, Rm. 3. West Lodge: Fri., Nov. 1, 8:30 p. m. Students' Dance with Jerry Edwards and his orchestra. Sun., Nov. 3, 6:45 p. m., Official Football Pictures, Michigan vs. Illi- nois. A cademic Notices Engineering Mechanics Seminar: Mr. George K. Hess will discuss en- gineering applications of Finite Dif- ference Equations at 7:30 tonight in Rm. 402, W. E. Bldg. Algebra Seminar at 4:15 today in 3201 Angell Hall. Mr. Costello will continue his talk on Valuation Theory. Biological ChemistryMSeminar will meet in Rm. 319 W. Medical Bldg., at 3:00 today. The subject to be dis- cussed will be "Malignant Tumors and D-Amino Acide." Concerts Salvatore Baccaloni, Basso Buffo of the Metropolitan Opera Associa- tion, will present the second extra concert program at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 5, in Hill Auditorium. Tickets may be procured at the offices of the University Musical Society, Bur- ton Memorial Tower. Exhibitions Wood-block prints by Peter Sager, young Canadian painter and sculp- tor. Ground-floor corridor of the College of Architecture and Design. November 4 to 21. Events Today Visitors' Night will be held at the Angell Hall Observatory from 7:30 to 9:30 tonight. The moon will be shown if the night is clear. Children must be accompanied by adults. If the sky is cloudy, the Observatory will not be open. Debaters: All debaters are urged to attend the Western Reserve-Mich- igan debate today at the Ann Arbor High School, 3:30 p.m. Deutscher Verein Caffe Stunde will meet today from 3:00 to 5:00 at the League Coke Bar. Faculty members Braun, Pott, Striedieck, and Raschen will act as discussion leaders for the conversational groups. Anyone in- terested in German conversation is invited. He need not be a student of German nor a member of the Verein. If you are interested but cannot remain either of those hours, leave your name and time preference so that another group can be ar- ranged. The Methodist Wesleyan Guild has reserved a block of tickets for the play, "Both Your Houses." Those Methodist students who have signed are held responsible for their reser- vations. Student Religious Association Cof- fee Hour 'will be held from 4:30 to to 6:00 this afternoon in the Lane Hall Library. Catholic Students: Today Feast of All Saints Day, a holy day. Masses at St. Mary's Chapel at 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon. The Armenian Students Association will hold a wiener roast tonight. Group leaving at 7:30 from 1001 E. Huron. All students of Armenian parentage are cordially invited. Religious Commitee of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation will meet at 4:30 today at the Foundation. Plans for Friday evening services will be discussed. Coming Events The Graduate Outing Club is plan- ning a hike and supper for Sun., Nov. 3. All graduate students,' faculty members, and veterans are invited. Sign up at the check desk in Rack- ham Bldg. before noon Saturday. Meet at the Outing Club rooms in the Rackham Bldg. at 2:30 p.m. Use the northwest entrance. University Women Veterans Asso- ciation: A bunco-bridge party will be held at 7:00 p.m., Nov. 4, in the Grand IindRo omu(n t the Michi. gan Learl '.i:'fc hlml lk t will be sCaed. All utwr"' \et rari;s ivted. L eCele I' c i il hold it MAN TO MAN: Con fusion By HAROLD L. ICKES HERE is a great deal of talk in the country to the effect that President Truman is confused. Such talk is highly irresponsible. Mr. Tru- man is not confused. It is only the people who are confused by what they read and hear about him. This confusion among the people therefore is due, not to Mr. Truman, but to the failure of the newspapers and commentators to make clear what Mr. Truman is really doing or saying. For instance most people when they read James Joyce's Finne- gan's Wake were confused, but their confusion was dispelled when a book called A Skeleton Key To Finnegan's Wake was published. This explained just what Mr. Joyce had in mind. Now obviously the nation should not have to wait, for the publication of a Skeleton Key to Harry Truman. Our problems are too pressing and our need for understanding and non- confusion, too great. Fortunately we do not have to wait. Such a book has already been published. In fact it is one of the classics of the English language. It is only necessary to recall some of the things that have been puzzling the American people in the past few months about the President to demonstrate the need to make this classic required read- ing for the voting public immed- iately. First thereawas the Wallace incident. Mr. Wallace, it will be remembered, got the President's permission to make a speech in New York, got the President to en- dorse his sentiments and got fired by the President for making the speech. Then there was the meat situation. Certain equivorous Republicans please take note! On September 27, the President said that he would not ask for the de-control of meat. He also said that abandonment of the price control of meat would add to, rather than solve, out difficulties. He backed up his position by saying that "certainly, the dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis." Then there was the celebrated epi- sode of budget-balancing. Several weeks ago he announced that he an- ticipated a balanced budget for the coming year. After his bosom pal, the Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snyder, no less, expressed some pained surprise, Mr. Truman said that he hadn't meant a balanced budget but a budget in balance. President Truman was a little testy about the whole thing, his position being that, after all, the clever"reporters of the land ought to understand that there was a difference between a balanced budget and a budget in balance, especially when a budget in bal- ance means that the budget won't balance by some $1,900,000,000. Now as I have said, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that Mr. Truman is confused, and impossible to escape the fact that the public is equally confused. However, if each citizen will only secure a copy of Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Car- roll he will have a handy reference guide to explain the oracularness of President Truman. One short passage will show what I mean. "Idon't understand," said Alice, "what you mean by glory' in that sentence." "Of course you don't-till I tell you," said Humpty Dumpty. "It meant there's a nice knockdown ar- gument for you." "But," said Alice, " glory' doesn't mean a nice knockdown argument." "When I use a word,",said Hump- ty Dumpty, "it means just what I choose it to mean, no more, no less." Alice interrupted to say, "The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question," said Humpty Dumpty- "is which is to be mas- ter-that's all." (Copyright, 1946 N.Y. Post Syndicate) Fifty-Seventh Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the author- ity of the Board in Control of Student Publications: Editorial Staff Robert Goldman........Managing Editor Milton Freudenheim.....Editorial Director Clayton Dickey.................City Editor Mary Brush............Associate Editor Ann Kutz.............Associate Editor Paul Harsha...............Associate Editor Clark Baker..................Sports Editor Des Howarth...Associate Sports Editor Jack Martin......Associate Sports Editor Joan Wilk.................women's Editor Lynne Ford.. Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Robert E. 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She is pretty. The Bowman-Chapman team are look- ing for a couple of Bibles and a da Vinci mas- terpiece. There's some nice bit playing, especial- ly by George McCready who looks ultra-sancti- monious as a man of the cloth. It helps if you come in at the beginning. I didn't. N * * AT THE MICHIGAN . Holdover of The Kid From Brooklyn star- ring Danny Kaye. -Joan Fiske BARNABY C.P,. yhr 19x6, h. N..pgp.,FM, ins Reg U 5. Pa. ok r [There's cy nice piece in the phper aibou fe new ,.,choof PvfIi-- a difVy-tpvisc well, You 9Yl e lw(otue IfO Enrtflcsd to file 'rpdtfl .o I That tiresome column on page three? Second rersii - e pitrw iticol prcise On Your 't~hr Ccr'rimsodmg vl'tri pubin: .5 iv i AndI "EVSrrc referIric, Jto C! cerru r I. 1 f le,-Ihy' *biclot bother ,reilri,'r 'I F ~1I f you, I ii I