P'AGE FOUR
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1946
eato the &litor
Political Football
To the Editor:
THe University of Michigan is, supposedly, one
of the foremost educational centers in the
United States. The University of Michigan is
about to become another political football, such
as the University of Georgia under Gene Tal-
madge, Louisiana State under Huey Long, Uni-
versity of Texas under "Pappy" O'Daniels.
And don't say it can't happen here. It is hap-
pening here.
This was made clear last week by two impor-
tant events:
Firstly, Governor Kelly appointed a member
of the Board of Regents last week, which board
is in complete control of this University. The
candidate's qualification: chairman of the
Washtenaw County Republican Party. Obvious-
ly his Excellency thinks that Regencies are more
important as "political plums" or points of en-
trenchment than as non-political positions (how
often have I heard "the University is apolitical
and cannot lend its name to any even slightly po-
litical venture") to be filled by competent persons
in the field of education.
The second event could perhaps better be ex-
pressed as the "coming attraction" of an event.
It was contained in a speech by the would-be
heir apparent to Governor Kelly, Kim Sigler. In
this speech, he stated in most vehement language
that once elected he would do all in his power to
root out the "communists" from the Universities
and other such educational institutions. Any
student with some slight knowledge of the po-
litical complexion of this campus, who has read,
anything at all about the most recent case cited
above, the University of Texas, will realize what
this statement means; if Kim Sigler has his way
this University will be subject to no more nor less
than an old fashioned. "witch hunt," in which
every liberal, progressive element will be elimi-
nated, silenced, or driven away. This great cen-
ter of education will be turned into a third-rate,
sterile institution in which new, fresh ideas will
know no place.
And yet in all this, no one voice has been
raised to objection. It is about time for students
and educators to learn to anticipate these things
before they come and to learn to fight them
when they do come. The American Association
of University professors said (in its report on
the Texas case) that no person has the right to
regard education as a propriety institution; it
can only be treated as a public trust. Our pro-
fessors will be violating the ideals of their own
organization if they do not speak out now on
these two issues.
If we and our faculty wait until the heads
start rolling before realizing what is going on,
there will be nothing that can save academic
freedom in Michigan.,
-Kenneth S. Goodman
it's a Men's Club
To the Editor:
1THE LETTERS of Mr. McFerran and Mr. Bag-
ley make me sick. "If I were a woman, like
a woman, I would enter and leave by the side
door. But if I were a lady-" Personally, I think
Mr. McFerran is a borderline case.
And Mr. Bagley, who doesn't know what
tradition means, says: "I will send my wife
around to the alley door-." Now tell me, where
the hell is that? Is the south entrance to the
League an alley door too?
The Men's Union was planned by men to be
used by men, and the fewer women traipsing
through it the better. Few universities have a
separate building for their men's union, and
none has a better one than Michigan. There
could be no excuse for any change, such as let-
ting women enter freely through the front door,
that would detract from its atmosphere. Next
these two characters would think is simply hor-
rid that women couldn't eat in the cafeteria.
I maintain its a men's clu.
-Curtis P. Main
Campus Balloting
To the Editor:
THE importance of voting in Tuesday's and
Wednesday's elections to Student Legislature
cannot be overemphasized. It is the duty of every
student, regardless of choice of candidate, to ex-
press his voice in the forthcoming elections, not
only in appreiation of democratic privileges, but
also to make student government more demo-
cratic. Sororities and fraternities, because they
are strongly organized, form a large electoral
block. When independent students fail to vote,
they allow the elections to be swung by smaller
but stronger factions.
Three thousand out of 18,000 students voted in
the elections last week. The number of affiliated
students who neglected to exercise their voting
privileges was negligible. This, then, places a
good deal of the responsibility for student apathy
upon the independent student. If this happens
again in the forthcoming elections, it will not
only prove disinterest in student government,
but will result in an active negation of an outlet
for student opinion.
Freedom of choice occurs in selecting a candi-
date, but the responsible citizen has no alterna-
tive choice where the fundamental privilege of a
democracy is concerned.
-Rosalyn Long
Election Qualifict ions
SOMETIME during the current election
campaign it may be brought to your at-
tention that several nominees for membership
on the Student Legislature are members of
The Daily staff.
Although some candidates may list among
their qualifications experience on The Daily,
these statements in no way indicate endorse-
ment of these individuals by The Daily. In
fact, we do not believe that experience on The
Daily is any special qualification for posi-
tions on the Legislature.
The Daily is "behind" no candidate or group
of candidates. We will not accept responsibil-
ity for statements made by candidates outside
our columns. We will continue our policy of
refusing to print electioneering statements
editorially or in advertisements, except in the
space provided for every candidate's plat-
form.
-The Senior Editors
Rebuttal to Grady
To the Editor:
MR GRADY, I am the person who wrote the
letter whose theme, to quote you "was so far
from mine that I feel that I have no time to start
a new discussion." I asked some very simple,
straightforward questions and made some very
clear implications, which any moderately intel-
ligent person with convictions on the subject
should be able to answer. In case you have for-
gotten them I refer you to The Daily of Satur-
day, Oct. 20. Of course this whole question of
race relations involves a moral and constitu-
tional issue which, according to your discourse
in Tuesday's Daily, you and your clients in West
Adams Heights "Do not care one way or an-
other." This makes me even more interested in
just what you wouldn't stop at.
You state that it is understandable that West
Adams Heights"Do not care about one way or an-
property. I likewise can understand why a sex
maniac commits rape, but that does not mean.
that L approve of his actions!
One more question. You claim to be looking
forward to the day when Negroes will be ac-
cepted everywhere. Just what have you as an in-
dividual done to improve race relations? It is
quite obvious what you perhaps have done and
would do, if given a chance, to aggravate them.
-Carroll Little
IT SO HAPPENS
. Ah, Sweet Memory
Worried A bout Finances?
EVEN baseball players find confession good for
the soul. Yesterday in an economics class one
of the Detroit Tigers' stars now finishing his
education in these halls of learning became frus-
trated after listening to a lengthy answer to his
valid but too broad question and resignedly told
the professor,
"Don't put too much weight on my questions-
I never got better than a D in economics in my
life."
' m
We Passed a Lawn
THIS reflection of Natural Law on earth was
brought to our attention in a sociology class.
One of the 48 sovereign states of the United
States of America has legislated to avoid train
collisions. The regulating law stated,
If two trains are approaching a track inter-
section, both shall come to a complete stop.
Neither shall then precede until the other has
passed the intersection.
Losses of rolling stock in use have probably
been tremendous.
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Nash Was Never Like This
MEN never make passes at girls who talk about
classes. Unquote..
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Unalloyed Brilliance
CONTRARY to those little remarks about Daily
editorial writers that keep popping up in eco-
nomics 51 lectures, a whole raft of our staff
members have their ears open in the Little Grey
Schoolhouse. They were listening when this one
came up the other day.
It seems that a professor gave a quiz asking an
economics class to explain the iron rule of
wages.
One bright student responded tersely: "The
Little Steel Formula."
Contributions to this column are by all members
of The Daily staff, and are the responsibility of
the editorial director.
Land Reform
HERE seems to be a paradox as to the ideals
that the war was fought over. On one hand,
we have a fight for freedom, for democratic
ideals and freedom from tyranny and dictator-
ships, for the equality of man and his unalien-
able rights. On the other hand, one can point
significantly to cheap slave labor now working
for the capitalistic interests that helped bring
about the war.
The victims of this mass slave movement are
the thousands of P.W.s that are being detained
in Britain, France, Russia and other countries.
They are being forced to rebuild the economy of
foreign lands while their homeland remains a
mass of rubble.
In France, 700,000 German prisoners Tre
rented out by the Government at a dollar a day
to private employers. In Britain, 385,000 pris-
oners are working in coal mines, harvesting
crops, and clearing ground for new buildings. In
Russia, 120,000 sickly prisoners were allowed to
return to their homes because they were unable
to work for the glory of the new five-year plan.
The fate of Japanese prisoners in Russia is rela-
tively unknown. In the Balkans, Belgium, Hol-
land and Scandinavia the same situation exists.
These men were captured during the war and
according to the rules they are prisoners. But
now the war is over and they are still being held
as if the war were still in progress. They are be-
ing forced to rebuild foreign industry under slave
terms. The great industries of these countries
gladly pay the Government a dollar a day for
the use of thousands of prisoners. Think of the
money this saves the industrialists. Think of how
many natives of the country it throws out of
work. Is this the way of reconstruction? Mean-
while the sick and the weak are released to go
home and rebuild the shambles of their country.
Is it that the victorious nations are afraid of
competition that will result once Germany is re-
built. Or is it that the victorious nations pre-
fer to exploit the free labor that they have on
their hands now? It is evident that it is the
latter.
There are some P.W.s being released and sent
home. This is only because pressure has been
put upon them. The rate of repatriation, how-
ever, is far below what it should be. Most of the
countries justify themselves by saying that the
prisoners do not want to return home. Of course
there are some who wish to remain in a land of
relative plenty rather than return to their own
devastated land and start from nothing. But
these are only a few. The majority want to re-
turn to their wives and children and try to make
something of the life they have left. Regardless
of what side they were on during the war, they
are still human beings.
Is is disillusioning to see the trend that events
are taking. The golden ideals that were preached
during the war are becoming merely shibboleths
for pseudo-patriots. The grand plans for the new
world are becoming tarnished with a deceit and
hypocrisy. The P.W. incident is but a minute part
in the return of the world to pre-war national-
ism. It is a voice i n the wind indicating that the
world is reverting to type.
-Marvin Cassell
IT RATHER BE RIGHT:
Modest Win
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
T WILL take a long time to absorb
the meanings of Tuesday's elec-
tion. The Republicans are entitled
to their day of jokes, hat-waving,
cheers, etc. They have fought hard
for sixteen years to regain control of
Congress, and they have won. But the
full meaning of that victory will not
become apparent during the excite-
ments and congratulations of elec-
tion week. These will come out slow-
ly over the months ahead, though we
must begin to look for them now.
The first question is:eWhom did
the Republicans beat? The easy
answer, that the G.O.P. beat the
Democrats, is not enough. Actually,
the election exposes and reveals the
fact that there is no Democratic
party, in the sense in which we
are used to having one. The Re-
publicans beat a pick-up team of
liberals, leftists, labor candidates,
many of them at war with the lead-
ers of their own party oganization.
In a sense, the Democratic party
in the North is the Third Party, a
kind of Third Party of liberals held
in captivity by organization leaders
who are not, often, very liberal; and
from this -viewpoint the showing
made by America's unorganized lib-
eral sentiment was not discreditable.
The election was not a landslide.
The word "landslide" was properly
used in 1936, when a House of Rep-
resentatives consisting of 334 Dem-
ocrats and 89 Republicans was
elected. (Or in 1920, when a House
with 300 Republicans and 132 Dem-
ocrats was elected.) 'This week's
election, producing a House with a
little under 200 Democrats and a
couple of dozen more than 200 Re-
publicans, is not quite in the same
class. But can anyone doubt that
if Northern and Western liberalism
had not continued, somehow, at
work, under appalling political
conditions, the election would have
been an absolute rout? These fig-
ures are a measure of the best the
Republicans can do with every con-
dition favoring them, against a
disorganized, almost a disappear-
ing party, torn by inner conflict.
It was a setup for murder, but only
a bit of routine mayhem resulted,
When we look at the American lib-
eral, trying to hold off the Southern
Democratic conservatives with one
hand, and the Republican with the
other, carryingron his back the bur-
den of Mr. Truman's failures, and
on his shoulders, where it has been
skillfully, if unfairly, placed, the
huge weight of Russian and Com-
munist unpopularity, it is a kind of
wonder that he did not fall and
break his neck on Tuesday.
That he survived as well as he
did in this leaderless Rooseveltless
era, makes the election meaning-
ful; it gives us the floor below
which liberal and Democratic
strength cannot drop, under test
conditions when everything is
against it and nothing is for it. It.1
also gives us the ceiling above which1
conservative strength cannot rise,
with every condition in its favor,
in a time of postwar reaction, inter-
national hysteria, heedless prosper-
ity and little unemployment. At an
earlier time in our history, under
these conditions, the conservative
party would have shot the moon;
this time all It did was score a clear,
but modest, win.
The election indicates that while
the country is in a troubled and con-
servative mood, it has not been stam-
peded, and cannot be stampeded. It
moves a foot under agonized shriek-
ings which would once have made it
jump a mile. To the liberal, caught
in the awkward posture described
above, it must be obvious that his
trouble lies with himself, and not with
the Republicans; and improvement
in his leadership, his organization,
and any steadying of the political cli-
mate must react in his favor; he can
feel that he has been through the
worst, that he knows what happens
at absolute zero.
Thoughtful conservatives, viewing
the election as a picture of what
sort of victory can be won against
liberalism at itsamost defenceless,
will perhaps be satisfied with two
cheers instead of three and will
soberly consider whether to make
really defiant use of the victory
gained.
Alone in Misery?
To the Editor:
] HESITATE to intrude upon your
' editorial page,, already overbur-
dened with the late night controversy,
get-out-and-vote plugs, and The
Great Union Side Door Tradition;
but I too have my worries. I shall be
brief.
During the two Choral Union con-
certs presented this season, Hill Au-
ditorium has been so warm that any
enjoyment I might derive from lis-
tening to James Melton or Eugene
Istomin has been minimized by the
discomfort I suffered. Am I alone in
my misery?
--Stanley G. Harris
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1946
VOL. LVII, No. 41
Notices
All student identification pictures
re-taken after registration are now
ready and the cards should be picked
up this week in Room 2, University
Hall.
Office of the Dean of Students
Students, College of Literature,
Science and the Arts: Applications
for scholarships for the year, 1947-
48, should be made before Nov. 23.
Application forms may be obtained
at 1220 Angell Hall and should be
filed at that office.
Seniors, College of L. S. & A., and
Schools of Eduation, Music, and
Public Health: tIenative 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 who are registering with
the Bureau of Appointments are re-
minded that their Job Registration
material is due a week from the day
on which they secured it. The date
it is due is stamped on the envelope,
Students returning their material
late must pay a late registration fee
at the Cashier's ocice.
University Bureau of Aptmts
& Occupational Information
Choral Union Ushers: Please re-
port at 6:15 p.m. for the Cleveland
Orchestra concert Sunday. The con-
cert starts at 7:00 p.m.
Chemical and Mechanical 'ebru-
ary 1947 graduates; Chemists: Dr. F.
B. Zienty of the St. Louis Research
Department of Monsanto Chemical
Company will interview Chemical
Engineering February graduates in
the Chemical Engineering Depart-
ment Monday morning, Nov. 11. He
will interview February Mechanicals
in Room 218 W. Eng. Bldg., Monday
afternoon.
Chemists of entire 1947 will be in-
terviewed in the Chemistry Dept.
by Dr. Kyrides Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Please sign for interviews' in the
respective departirpents.
Applications are desired for the po-
sition of teacher-director of the Na-
val Academy Kindergarten and Nur-
sery School. Applicants must have a
bachelor's degree in education, must
be qualified kindergarten teachers
with recent experience, and must be
capable of organizing and directing
the activities of the school. A mas-
ter's degree is desirable but not man-
datory.
The starting salary for this posi-
tion is $225 per month with quarters
provided in the school building, or
$250 monthly without quarters.
Immediate applications are desired
and should be addressed to Associate
Professor R. M; Johnston, Depart-
ment of Marine Engineering, U. S.
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Mary-
land. Applications should be com-
plete in detail of age, education, ex-
perience, marital status, and should
include a list of references.
For further information please call
at the Bureau of Appointments and
Occupational Information, 201 Ma-
son Hall.
Willow Run Village
West Court Community Bldg.:
Sat., Nov. 9, 8:00 to 11:30 p.m.,
Dance, Refreshments, Bridge.
Academic Notices
The preliminary examinations for
the doctorate in English will be giv-
en according to the following sched-
ule: Nov. 27, American Literature;
Nov. 30, English Literature 1700-
1900; Dec. 4, English Literature 1500
-1700; Dec. 7, English Literature, Be-
ginnings to 1500. Anyone intending
to take the examinations at this
time should notify Professor Marck-
wardt at once.
Mathematics 300: The orientation
seminar will meet at 7:00 p.m., Mon.,
Nov. 11, in Room 3001. Mr. Erskine
will conclude the discussion of last
week and Mr. T. W. Hildebrandt will
discuss the Period of a Repeating
Decimal.
Topology Seminar at 4:30 p.m.,
Mon., Nov.11, in 3201 A.H. Mr. Span-
ier will talk on "Dimension of n-
Space."
Concerts
The Cleveland Orchestra, George
Szell, Conductor, will give the third
concert in the Choral Union Series,
Sunday., Nov. 10, at 7 o'clock. The
audience is respectfully requested to
come sufficient1y ear1y to bhatedr
University, he was a pupil of Joseph
Brinkman. The program is open to
the public without charge.
Events Today
The Congregational-Disciples Guild
will have the first in a series of Fire-
side Chats at the Guild House, 438
Maynard Street, from 7:30 until 9:00
p.m. this evening. Dr. Uric Bronfen-
brenner, a recent University of Mich-
igan graduate and former Army Per-
sonnel Officer, is now a member of
the Psychology Department of the
University.EHe will discuss "Person-
ality and Ethics."
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation will
hold open house Saturday after the
game.
The Art Cinema League and
Deutscher Verein present "The Col-
lege Girl" (Die Sextanerin), a Ger-
man language film with English sub-
titles. starring Ellen Schwanecke and
Rolf Wanka, at 8:30 tonight. Reser-
vations phone 6300, Lydia Mendel-
ssohn Theatre.
Coming Events
The Graduate Student Council
meeting in the East Lecture Room of
the Rackham Bldg., Monday., Nov.
11, at 7:30 p.m.
Underwriters Club will hold a so-
cial meeting Monday evening, Nov.
11, Michigan League.
Rehearsal of Mikado for all voices
in Gilbert and Sullivan Society Mon-
day'evening, Nov. 11, at the League.
All interested may attend for tryouts.
Amateur Astronomers will hold
their monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m.,
Mon., Nov. 11, at the University of
Michigan Observatory opposite the
University Hospital. Dr. Hazel Losh
will speak on the subject, "Astron-
omy: How It All Began." Plans for
a special program of activity for
those interested in telescope making
will be announced. All interested in
astronomy are invited to attend.
Members of the Sociedad Hispan-
'ica are invited to meet for informal
Spanish conversation at the Inter-
national Center at 4:00 p.m., Mon.,
Nov. 11.
Assistant Teachers for League
Dancing Classes are requested to at-
tend a mass meeting at 5:00 p.m.,
Mon., Nov. 11, at the League.
The U. Chapter of the Intercol-
legiate Zionist Federation of America
will hold the first in a series of open
forum discussions at 8:00 p.m., Tues.,
Nov. 12, at the $'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation. The topic will be "Re-
lations) Between Arabs and Jews in
Palestine." All those interested are
cordially invited to attend.
Kappa Phi cabinet meeting at 8:00
a.m., Sun., Nov. 10, in the Russian
Tea Room of the League.
The U. Hot Record Society is hold-
a meeting at 8:30 p.m., Sun, Nov.
10, in the ABC Room of the Michi-
gan League. All those interested in
jazz music are cordially invited.
Land Reform
The future will show occupation
authorities whether Japan's conser-
vative government intends to carry
out the spirit of the land reform 'act,
giving the peasants a chance to be-
come landowners, or whether it will
try to safeguard the interests of the
prewar landlords. Success of the en-
tire program depends largely upon
the extent of the present govern-
ment's cooperation.
--World Report
Fifty-Seventh Year
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German Reeducation,
AT PRESENT, the State and War departments
are studying a plan to reorganize and de-
mnocratize the German school system.
Althoughcertain advances have been made
in rehabilitating schools in the area under U. S.
control, these have not been sufficient and many
problems still beset authorities in this region.
The proposed plan has as its objective the
establishment of a school system embodying
equal education and opportunity for all pupils,
regardless of their economic status.
The remedies proposed by the United States
mission of education experts, upon their return
from a trip through Germany, are:
1. All pupils will 'remain in elementary
schools for six to eight years, instead of four,
as under Hitler.
2. Secondary schools will be free and open to
all. Every student will take certain required
courses, including social sciences. Elective
courses.will enable students to fit themselves for
the university or for entering trades.
This is in contrast to the system of segregation
practiced by the Nazis, where children were ar-
bitrarily divided on basis of wealth or social
status into the elite and the masses after the
first four years of school. The fuhrerprinzip was
thus instilled at an early age, and the resultant
inferiority-superiority feelings developed by the
segregated group played a big part in the sub-
jugation of the majority of German children.
3.. School life will provide "experience in
the proposals than that. The importance of
this field of life cannot be overestimated. Hit-
ler's main weapon and the backbone of his
dictatorship was education. He reached the
adults through propaganda, but more impor-
tant that that-he reached their children in
school.
The Hitler Youth and other infamous or-
ganizations imprisoned the minds of the young
and made them Hitler's willing slaves. It is not
the old people who are fanatics, it is the young.
It was through control and indoctrination
of the youth than the Nazis remained in power.
Through teaching, rather than indoctrinating
the youth, we can wipe out the evil of their
infamous regime.
It is imperative that the U. S. and other oc-
cupying powers adopt the proposed plan, or
something very much like it, in order to com-
pletely defeat the fascist ideologies that brought
on the last war. Only then can Germany be
considered anything but a source of danger to
the entire world.
The democracies must uproot the seeds of
superman ideology where they were planted-in
the children. And, more positively, they must put
something in their place.
-Phylis L. Kaye
BARNABY
This is passing strange. I've searched 1
Unless, of course, I can persuade some
There's nothing in the constitution 1
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