PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1946 _ _ . _ _ . , mo._ ___ _ _, _v , v tet & 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 d IF 611op 7lthift9 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 * 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? (Copyright 1946, Press Alliance, Inc.) Copr. 1946 by Un+.d FeAIvre Sndiet Tm. R~eg. U. S. Pat. Off.-All rghtsitse wRONJck WW-U-6H c~z'~IS NEVER ,,r£ Ic-t: PRA * 'S. BILL MAULDIN 11-17 "...where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." a DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 3) 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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. 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