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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1946
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Constructive Criticism
To the Editor:
IT IS in the spirit of constructive criticism that
this letter is submitted.
Last week it was my good fortune to attend
the performance of "Both Your Houses." Re-
membering The Daily's report on the drama, I
expect at best a mediocre production-a product
of "tough" years.
My reaction to the play was favorable
enough to warrant this letter. I feel that the
content and import of "Both Your Houses"
were great enough to amply repay the small
investment of time and money required to see
it.
The tone of the play,
lines, and the delivery of
were items to stir thought
several of the key
important speeches
and appreciation. It
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T HAS NOT taken long for the arbiters of
American foreign policy to discountenance
completely the recent Soviet proposal for disarm-
ament. The game now seems to be entrenchment
of American troops and arms wherever possible
in the world before any actual proposal to dis-
arm is discussed. Where Mr. Byrnes started,
John Foster Dulles has continued in the de-
mand that we retain control of all Pacific bases
under the guise of a United Nations Trusteeship.
Mr. Dulles is using all of his jargon as an
International Lawyer to convince us that the
Pacific Ocean is a United States 'mare nostrum.'
Is there any better way, to befuddle the Ameri-
can people about the why and the wherefore of
Guam, Okinawa, Palau, etc., than to speak in
terms of De Facto law. Says Mr. Dulles, we
have had De Facto (in deed) control of these
bases since he war', end, hence there is no
reason why e should not retain control. He
very subtly suggests that the United States give
up its veto power on the question of Trustee-
ships. No need of great power unanimity; let's
throw the whole matter into the Assembly for
a vote. . . Amazing how these perpetrators of
Twentieth Century American Imperialism can
forget about the other big powers when it con-
cerns an area where American troops are sta-
tioned, yet leave no stone unturned to insist
upon big-power unanimity on the Dardanelles
question.
The advertisement of a new bomber which
will carry an Atom bomb any place on the
earth's surface and return without refueling is
but another of the subtle methods of propa-
ganda used to sell this imperialism to the people.
The more people feel a war with Russia in-
evitable, the more willing are they to accept
the excuse that these bases are needed for
defense... Indeed it might be asked why these
bases are necessary at all if a full scale atom
war can be carried out from our own shores?
-E. E. Ellis
Effective
ONCE AGAIN the world has been cheered by
proposals of disarmament and high-toned
pronouncements on the desire for peace. History
repeats as the leaders of the big powers have
given the world new hope that peace might
be obtained.
In 1928, practically every country in the
world, even Germany and Japan, signed the
Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war as an in-
strument of national policy. Practically every
nation, even Germany and Japan, talked of
disarmament in the great disarmament confer-
ences of the 1920's and '30's. Practically every
government, even Hitler's and Hirohito's, talked
in high-toned phrases about their desire for
peace right up to 1939. And the whole world
then as today was cheered by these events and
had 'hope of peace.
seems a shame that The Daily's comments on the
production couldn't have been more favorable, at
least favorable enough to encourage students
to expose themselves to some thought-provoking,
well-presented drama.
We must turn to the Romans for a solution-
"De gustibus non disputandum"--there is no
accounting for tastes.
-Michael Chiappetta
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Election Issues
To the Editor:
THERE is a real issue at stake in the election
of members who will represent the 18,500
students on the Michigan campus today. It is
not whether or not the candidate is a member
of a Greek letter organization, whether or not
he is running on a party slate but rather if the
student body cares who is to represent it in mat-
ters pertaining to their every day life on the
campus.
The past record of the student body in elec-
tions is apathetic. Never to my knowledge has a
quarter of the student body taken the two or
three minutes necessary to file a ballot. In the
past election for student class officers, only
one student in six voted.
The main reasons given for not voting are
two in number: -
1) An attitude that their vote won't mean
anything (the fraternities and sororities con-
trol the votes) and 2) I don't know any of
the candidates well enough to vote for them.
There are but 3500 affiliated people on cam-
pus compared to more than 14,000 people
who are not.
Certainly the 74 candidates who are running
in this election are known by most everybody.
This letter is a plea to get the students out to
vote.
Regardless of who is elected to the legisla-
ture, those people want to feel that they repre-
sent the student body, not a mere minority
group who can make their friends get out and
and vote. When the legislature approaches the
University administration, it wants to feel that
it has the student body behind it. Only in that
way can they feel that they have the right to
bargain with the officials on matters concern-
ing the students. Up to now it has been possible
for the University to deny the requests by the
students because it felt that no group could
claim that it did represent the students.
There is only one cure for this. The students
must get out and vote. Even if a student feels
that he can only cast one intelligent vote he
should cast that vote. It will help determine
an accurate representation on the Student Leg-
islature. Only in getting more students out to
vote will there ever be a student legislature
that will mean anything on the University of
LVichigan campus.
-Walt Klee
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Daily printed one letter re-
presenting the point of view of one interestedparty
in the election. Above is a letter presenting the
viewpoint of one member of that party's opposition.
isarm amen £
But war came.
Today, while the delegates at Lake Success
are talking about disarmament and peace, let
us remember that talk alone or agreements
alone will not end war. Peace cannot be bought
merely with a piece of paper called a treaty o
even with an elaborate town hall of the world.
These things will help, but peace itself can only
be enforced by force.
Disarmament to be effective will have to
be enforced. Atom bomb production control
to be effective will have to be enforced. If
the decisions of the Security Council and .the
UN Assembly are to have meaning, they will
have to be enforced.
However, they cannot be enforced by the
Big Three who are themselves at odds or by the
little nations who lack the power. To try to
do so would precipitate a third world war be-
tween the majority and minority factions in
the UN.
An international police force, strong enough
to enforce international decisions and loyal to
UN, is the answer that is so often touched upon
but so seldom recognized as the key to the
peace. Although a committee of the UN is in-
vestigating the matter, it receives slight pub-
licity in comparison with the debates over Tri-
este and Spain. Bnt if an international police
force is not set up, everything else the UN does
will be as ineffective as the farcical show, called
the League of Nations, which played on the
world stage between the two wars.
Such an international police force would
have to have an army, navy and air force of its
own. It would have to have bases stretched
around the world from which to operate.
Such a force would necessarily infringe
upon the traditional concept of national sov-
ereignty in order to enforce disarmament,
control the production of atom bombs, and
stop all nations from seizing territory or
making war.
Talk of disarmament, atom bomb proposals,
and statements of peace are fine, but the key
to the whole picture is an international police
force.
-Walt Hoffmann
ON WORLD AFFAIRS:
U. S. Imperialism
By EDGAR A. MOWRER
LAKE SUCCESS-President Trumanis throw-
ing away our strongest card in opposing fur-
ther expansion of Soviet power and philosophy
and is starting the United States upon an im-
perialism of its own.
The American proposal on trusteeship in
the Pacific is tantamount to outright annexa-
tion of 1,500 islands in defiance of the Atlantic
Charter. It is in one sense worse than outright
annexation. It attempts to conceal a bid for
dominion under cover of what was planned as
a sacred collective trust.
Militarism in the United States, born dur-
ing the war and coddled by two Presidents,
has scored a victory that may cost Ameri-
cans dear.
By its trusteeship proposal the United States
seeks to advance spread-eagle American power
over the whole Pacific Ocean. If we succeed in
getting by with it, no other power will have any
say in the largest of all oceans. Defenders of the
proposal are saying that if the other nations
will not consent to our request, well, we shall
claim the islands as ours, under international
law, by conquest.
The monstrosity of this proposal can be seen
by analogy. Suppose, let us say, that the British
were to claim an exclusive mandate over once
Italian Libya on the basis that British troops
"conquered it." Or suppose that the Soviets
were to set up a strategic mandate over that
part of Bulgaria adjacent to Turkey on the
same grounds. Imagine the outcry and the
name-calling.
No wonder that Russians and pro-Russians
around the UN are grinning broadly for the
first time since the Assembly started. Didn't
they always say that the real danger was not
Soviet but American imperialism - identical
with capitalism?
As a result of preferring political principle to
cheap imperial considerations, the Americans
have become the protectors of the weak and the
friend of the colonial peoples. Well over half of
mankind looks to us, rather than to Russia for
leadership in a new world without exploitation
and, above all, without war. But for how long!
American neo-imperialists will, of course, ar-
gue that in building an empire of our own in
the Pacific we are working exclusively in the
interests of peace. No one, they will say, can
doubt our peaceful intentions.
Can't they? Well, millions do. Under So-
viet coaching, millions more Will, if the new
trusteeship plan is not blocked by a Congress
just conceivably wiser than a militarist-rid-
den Administration.
But--the nationalists will argue -if the
Soviets can annex the Kurile Islands, establish
a base in Dairen, virtually annex outer Mongol-
ia, actually incorporate Tannu-tuva, grab a big
slice of Poland and Roumania, reduce half a
dozen once relatively free countries to servi-
tude, why shouldn't the United States build a
rival strategic system against this? Isn't power
the best bulwark of peace?
It depends which kind of power you mean.
Old-fashioned militaristic-minded power, al-
ways mistaking the last war for the next, and
thereby inevitably blundering into trouble with
its strongest rival? Or collective power with
collective disarmament, based on the aspira-
tions of mankind, striving to overcome the ob-
solete national-state system and create a world
without war?
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classmen, whose standing at mid-
semester is "D" or "E", not merely
those who receive "D" or "E" in so-
called mid-semester examinations.
Students electing our courses, but
registered in other schools or col-
leges of the University should be
reported to the school or college in
which they are registered.
Additional cards may be had at
108 Mason Hall or at 1220 Angell
Hall.
E. A. Walter
Graduate Students: All
dropped after November 16
recorded with a grade of E.
courses
will be
MUSIC
Current Movies
At the State
THE OUTLAW (Howard Hughes), Jane Rus-
sell, Jack Beutel, Walter Huston, Thomas
Mitchell.
THISPICTURE has had the best publicity
inthe world (censor trouble). No one is
going to pay the least bit of attention to what
the reviewers say about Jit, but is going to dash
off to see what the censors saw. There disap-
pointment lingers; it's been cut. The Outlaw is
a second rate western with oneor two scenes'
that show a desperate effort toward the first
rate rung. But it's been -too schmaltzed up to
have' any claim to fame except on its sex angle.
This, too, is pretty dull and shows the low opin-
ion Mr. Hughes must have of the American
public's mind.. Scenes that were meant to be
serious more -often than not turned out to be
ludicrous. For my money, the horse stole the
show. The band would have done better break-
ing out in Tschaikovsky when it came in sight
rather than whenever the camera centered on
Miss Russell.
* *
At the Michigan
THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (20th Cen-
tury), Vera-Ellen, Celeste Holm, George
THE Cleveland Orchestra returned to Hill
Auditorium Sunday evening and we see no
reason why Dr. Szell and the orchestra shouldn't
keep coming back every year. They show more
improvement in recent years than any major
symphony orchestra in America.
The latest of a series of very enterprising con-
ductors, Dr. Szell has added a vigor and pre-
cision that the orchestra lacked even under the
directorship of such distinguished conductors
as Artur Rodzinski and Erich Leinsdorf.
Possibly Dr. Szell can be accused of giving
too theatrical a gloss in his interpretation of
the Schubert Great C major symphony but even
if this were true, the sincere enthusiasm and the
technical efficiency of the orchestra which
must be credited to his control and disci-
pline easily outweigh any such considerations.
An interesting addition to the program was
the performance of "Three Sea Interludes" from
the opera, "Peter Grimes" by the contemporary
composer, Benjamin Britten. The colorful or-
chestration produced a generally refreshing
piece of music. There is a certain obvious pat-
tern in much contemporary music that appears
in the "Interludes," though, that makes it diffi-
cult to get greatly excited about. The music's
original purpose was of course as background
for the opera. But this gives no special validity
to it as an orchestral selection standing on its
own merits.
-Harry Levine
Students, College of Engineering:
The final day for DROPPING
COURSES WITHOUT RECORD will
be Sat., Nov. 16. A course may be
dropped only with the permission of
the classifier after conference with
the instructor.
Students, College of Engineering:
The final day for REMOVAL OF IN-
COMPLETES will be Sat., Nov. 16.
Petitions for extension of time must
be on file in the Secretary's Office on
or before Fri., Nov. 15.
Navy V-5 Students: A considerable
amount of official mail has been re-
ceived at NROTC Headquarters,
North Hall, for V-5 students. All V-s
students are requested to obtain
same at Rm. 103, N.H., as soon as
practicable.
Women students wishing to attend
the Ohio State University football
game are requested to file in the
Office of the Dean of Women a let-
ter from a parent or guardian giving
permission for the trip and stating
the mode of transportation.' When
the letter has been filed, permission
slips will be issued for the informa-
tion of the house directors.
Women Students: Beginning this
week space will be available in the
Barbour Gymnasium for women's
teams to practice basketball or to
play badminton. A sign-up sheet is
posted on the bulletin board in the
gymnasium for those women stu-
dents wishing to reserve space.
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 office.
University Bureau of Appointments
& Occupational Information
Willow Run Village:
West Court Community Building
Tues., Nov. 12, 8:00 p.m., Cooper-
ative Nursery School Mothers spon-
soring an open lecture, Mrs. Belle
Murray, "The Child in the Home";
8:00 p.m., Extension class in Span-
ish meeting at Ross School.
'Wed., Nov. 13, 8:00 p.m., Prof.Wes-
ley H. Maurer, "Books People Are
Reading; 7:30-9:30, Rev. Mr. Ed-
wards, Religious and personal coun-
seling, Room 8 (preferably by ap-
pointment).
Thurs., Nov. 14, 2:00 p.m., open
class in Prenatal and Child Care,
sponsored by the Washtenaw County
Health Department. Topic: "Health
of the Infant." Tea will be served;
8:00 p.m., Bridge session; 8:00 p.m.,
Extension class in psychology.
Fri., Nov. 15, 8:00 p.m., Classical
Recordings, Room 2 .
West Lodge Activities:
Tues., Nov. 12. 7:00 p.m., Athletic
Directors meeting; 8:00 p.m., Wom-
en's volleyball and badminton.
Wed., Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m., Basket-
ball League; 7:00 p.m., Duplicate
Bridge Club; 7:00 p.m., Social Direc-
tors meeting; 8:30 p.m., Dance en-
tertainment committee meeting.
Fri., Nov. 15, 8:30 p.m., U. of M.
Student Dance with Jerry Edwards'
Orchestra.
Lectures
University Lecture: Mrs. Adele
Coulin Weibel, Curator of Textiles,
Detroit' Institute of Art, will speak on
the subject, "The Art of Tapestry"
(illustrated), at 4:15 p.m., Wed., Nov.
13, in the West Gallery, Alumni Me-
morial Hall; auspices of the Museum
of Art.
Concurrently an exhibition, "Four
Centuries of Tapestry Weaving," is
on view.
The public is cordially invited.
University Lecture: William H.
Chamberlin, author and foreign
correspondent of The New Leader,
will speak on the subject, "British
Foreign Policy under the Labor Gov-
ernment," at 4:15 p.m., Mon., Nov.
18, in the Rackham Amphitheatre;
auspices of the Department of His-
tory. The public is cordially invited.
The Mayo Lecture: Dr., John M.
Waugh of the Mayo Clinic will give
the annual Mayo Lecture Nov. 13, in
the main amphitheater of University
Hospital at 8:00 p.m. His subject
is "Carcinoma of the Rectosigmoid
with Special Reference to Resection
with Preservation of the Sphinc-
ters." Medical students, faculty, and
anyone interested may attend.
French Lecture: Professor Charles
E. Koella, of the Department of Ro-
mance Languages, will open the ser-
ies of French lectures sponsored by
the Cercle Francais at 4:10 p.m.,
Thurs., Nov. 14, in Room D, Alumni
Memorial Hall. The title of his lec-
ture is: "Topaze et autres pieces de
Marcel Pagnol."
Tickets for the series of lectures
may be procured from the Secretary
of the Romance Language Depart-
ment (Room 112, Romance Languag-
es Bldg.) or at the door at the time
of the lecture for a small sum. Mem-
bers of the Cercle 'Francais are ad-
mitted free upon presentation of
their membership cards. Theselec-
tures are open to the general public.
Academic Notices
Education B291: At the class meet-
ing today the topic "The Professional
and Economic Security of the College
Teacher" will be discussed by a panel
consisting\ of Prof. Willard C. Olson,
Chairman, and Professors Charles L.
Jamison and A. D. Moore. Visitors
will be welcome. Class meets in Rm.
110, University Library, from 7:00 to
9.00 p.m.
English 107, Section 1 midsemester
examination will be held in Rm. 1121
Natural Science Bldg., at 9:00 a.m.,
Friday. .
A. L. Davis
The Botanical Seminar will meet in
A. Wolfe will speak on "New Meth-
ods of Spectrographic Analysis." All
interested are invited.
Mathematics Statistics Seminar
will meet at 11:00 a.m., Wed. in 3003
Angell Hall. Mr. Max Woodbury will
speak.
Special Functions Seminar at 10:00
a.m., Wed., Nov. 13,in Rm. 340, West
Engineering Bldg. Mr. Northam will
talk on Orthogonal Polynomials.
Concerts
. . String Orchestra Concert: Under
the direction of Gilbert Ross; Wil-
liam Klenz, cellist, soloist; 8:30 this
evening, in Lydia Mendelssohn Thea-
ter. The program will feature 17th
and 18 century music: Prelude, Pas-
torale, and Dances, by Handel; Sin-
fonia in E-flat major, No. 6, by Peter;
Concerto in D major, No. 2, by Boc-
cherin; Toccata per 1'Elevatione, by
Frescobaldi.. and Sinfonia in C ma-
jor, by Rosetti. The public is invited,
Student Recital: Carolyn Street,
mezzo-soprano, will present a recital
at 8:30 p.m., Wed., Nov. 13, in Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre, in partial ful-
fillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Music. Program:
songs by Schumann, Bax, Harty,
Carpenter, Aubert, Ravel and Chau-
sson, and Nocturne by Lekue (con-
cluding number) in which she will
be accompanied by a string quartet.
Miss Street is a pupil of Arthur
Hackett. The public is invited.
Events Today
The first lecture in the Marriage
Relations Series will be given at 8:15
tonight in the Rackham Lecture Hall.
Identification cards with tickets are
necessary for admission.
Sigma Rho 'Tau, engineering speech
society, will hold a meeting Tues..
Nov. 12, at 7:15 p.m., in Rm. 311, W.
Engineering Bldg. There will be dis-
tinguished speakers from the Detroit
Institute of Technology.
"Factors Controlling the Flow of
Fluids Through Porous Media" is the
subject of a paper by LloydE.Brown-
ell, Instructor, to be presented at a
meeting of the Graduate Students
and Faculty of the Department of
Chemical and Metallurgical Engi-
neering at 4:15 today in the Rack-
ham Amphitheatre.
Inter-Racial Association: There
will be an executive council meeting
at 4:30 today in the Union to plan
for future meetings and to discuss
further plans for the FEPC cam-
paign. All members are asked to be
present.
Hindustan Association: "U.N. and
the Colonial Problem," a lecture by
Dr. P. W. Slosson of the Department
of History tonight at 7:30 in Rm.
321-25, Union. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
New members of the Michigan
Dames will be initiated at the gen-
eral meeting in the Assembly Hall in
the Rackham Bldg., at 8:15 tonight.
The Christian Science Organiza-
tion at the University of Michigan
will meet at 8:15 tonight in the Upper
Room of Lane Hall. Your attention
is called to the change of location.
La p'tite causette; Tues., Nov. 12,
at 3:30 p.m. in the Grill Room of
the League, will start "La p'tite caus-
ette," a circle for informal French
conversation under " the auspices of
Le Cercle Francais, which will meet
each Tuesday and Thursday, except
when there are conflicts with French
lectures. All students and faculty
members are invited to join.
The Pep Club will meet at 5:00 to-
day at the Union. Attendance will
be taken.
Master of Ceremonies tryouts- for
the Casbah floorshow will be held at
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