THE MTCHIGAl'ti1' DATIN SATURDAY. 'C OVEMRF.n. 1V, Put! THE .,M1CaVU A N1':1 ltA1T " ~AT1flAj z'~,ni n l~- -,-...''.,''V V G5$JJ.DZ6Jb L 1 ,1411 I Frauds Enumerated ALL OF US who are interested in student gov- ernment are probably wondering just how many fraudulent elections the Student Legis- lature will be able to survive. Certainly no one who participated actively in the recent election will deny that at least half of the election rules, established by the election committee of the Student Legislature, were openly and flagrantly violated. 1. There were not three students stationed at each ballot box every hour during the two election days. In several cases the people who had agreed to handle the polling stations never appeared; in some cases their places were taken by volunteers recruited on the spot.-+ 2,Not only was campaigning allowed with- in 50 feet of the ballot box, but in many cases ° it was encouraged and led by the people in charge of the polls. One member of the Uni- versity Committee has admitted that over-. zealous fraternity and sorority pledges were "mostly responsible" for this violation. 3. Printed matter, in the form of posters, was distributed within the limits of the campus proper, but most of it was removed by other. students in an attempt to shield the candidates represented on the posters from possible dis- qualification. 4. An accurate check or estimate on the ex- tent of voting by proxy is obviously impossible. One sorority girl, failing in an attempt to have her ID card punched a second or third time, produced a stack of ID cards and was turned away from the polls. How many were not turned away? 5. The secrecy of the ballots, in many cases, was not respected by those in charge of the poll- ing stations. Voters were often instructed and corrected in their choices of candidates. 6. Some poll attendants deliberately neg- lected 'to stamp ballots by those people whom they recognized as being unaffiliated inde- pendents. Other poll attendants, with inde- pendent sympathies, slipped fraternity and sorority ballots into the ballot boxes without being stamped in an effort to even the score. 7, One ballot box was collected by persons un- known and was not recovered until the next morning. Election committee officials discov- ered that the box had been stuffed. Whoever had the box in his possession for twelve hours, however, might easily have removed the stamped ballots, changed the votes listed, and returned the legally cast ballots to the box. It is not our purpose to smear the election or the Legislature. Nor do we believe that the undesirable conduct 'of the voting should be charged against the election committee. There is no reason why it should be necessary for the election committee to anticipate such a wide- spread indication of dishonesty and irresponsi- bility on the part of students asked to work on the polls. Now, however, definite revisions in the poll set-up would appear necessary. Because of the difficulty in obtaining com- petent poll attendants, the number of polling places should, in the future, be limited to three or four. Terrell Whitsitt, chairman of the elec- tion committee, has suggested the Union, the League and the diagonal as polling places witl the possible addition of the Engineering Arch. Poll attendants should be chosen from the members of 'the Student Legislature and from the officers of other functioning non-partisan campus organizations instead of being re- cruited from the general student body. Only in this way will the election committee be relatively certain that the poll attendants will do all in their power to keep the voting hon- est regardless of their individual sympathies. We strongly urge the Student Legislature to take action on these or similar revisions im- mediately. Nothing but unwholesome publicity can be gained by delay now. Immediate reform, on the other hand, may recover some of the vital prestige that always suffers in a fraudulent elestion. Student government at the University of Michigan has not succeeded yet. It will not succeed unless it is respected, not merely tol- erated, by the student body. -John Campbell New Congressional Policy REPUBLICAN LEADERS and numerous edi- torialists, including one writer for The Daily, have made'several half-baked proposals for a legislative program for the new Congress. The internal contradictions and impracticability of a program which would include these proposals would make it pathetic were such recommenda- tions to be carried out, and it appears highly probable that they will be. One of the objectives in the series is the re-, moval of "wartime alphabetical bureaucracies such as OPA, CPA, WPB, WMA, USES, etc., excise and 'luxury' taxes, building restrictions, and especially the President's wartime dicta- torial powers," (quote from editorial in The Daily, Nov. 15, 1946). No consideration is made of the continued necessity for several of the. heinous "institutions" mentioned. They are ap- parently condemned purely because of their establishment under the New Deal, that being the only" "damnable" characteristic common to all. For the record: OPA is moribund, except in its controls over rent, rice and sugar; WPB is long defunct; CPA, which took over many WPB functions, exercises powers only in a very limited field, such as construction, where limited resources necessitate their being can- alized into uses most socially beneficial for the nation; most of the USES was turned back to the states this week in the face of nearly unanimous opposition from experts in the field of employment mobility. A criticism of the proposal to eliminate ex- cise and "luxury" taxes may well include the recommendation for an across-the-board 20 per cent income tax cut. These proposals are made at the same time that a balanced national bud- get is insisted upon. It so happens that excise taxes are not New Deal "atrocities"; they were a source of revenue before Fala became an his- torical figure. Luxury taxes justly place a finan- cial responsibility upon those persons who de- rive the greatest financial benefit from govern- ment expenditures, especially from wartime ex- penditures which were necessary to maintain the national existence in which those persons find the primary advantages of the status quo. When we consider income tax cuts, we must rec- ognize that, regardless of who was responsible we must pay About five billion dollars of interest yearly to support the national debt. and must fill other large "over-head" financial obligations. Also, during this period of high employment and deflated money value, it is most practical to maintain high taxes in order to reduce the na-' tional debt. I refuse to comment on an issue so inane as the "priceless filibuster." Several of the proposals are less partisanly biased and naively pernicious. The continued streamlining of Congress, a bipartisan foreign policy (if it is a wise one), elimination of the poll tax, constructive labor legislation and establishment of a National Science Founda- tion are meritorious recommendations which deserve serious consideration. If I have neglected to make evident other ridiculous aspects of the proposals I condemn, it is not because there are not other other fal- lacies which might be shown. However, those considerations which I have explained very concisely should conclusively demonstrate the absurd nature of those proposals. But it is interesting to note the preposterous conclusions to which "intelligent" persons can come when they lack adequate factual basis and open- mindedness in their cogitations'. -Mal Roemer I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: National Unity By SAMUEL GRAFTON HAVING JUST passed through an election, etc., we Americans have not exactly been one big happy family lately. One of the real shivers in the end of price control is that this may put yet another strain on our national economy, splintering us some more. A lot of people who have been getting on fairly well to- gether now find they have to oppose each other, and make faces at each other; and not all of this takes the classical form of labor-manage- ment disputes. We hear store executives, for example, call- ing on their customers to help them hold prices down. Editorial writers have a new heroine, the housewife who will not pay high prices for meat. The idea of buyers' resistance receives support from rather startlingly con- servative sources. This is economic struggle; the housewife and the producer whose prices she is resisting are not, at the moment, friends. There is an increased individual conscious- ness of belonging to a group, and of group interests, which Senator Taft, I'll be bound, never bargained on, since he seems not to believe in the theory that one thing leads to another. The divisive strain shows up in industry it- self, in some sections of which there is talk of a kind of purchasing agents' strike against high- er prices. Business is a buyer as well as a seller, of course; and the buying portion of industry is quite unhappy about current price increases. There are some quotations from purchasing managers in industry about the economic dan- gers of price increases which might, at this mo- ment, be rather embarrassing to the selling ends of the same or allied organizations. Where the strain shows up most clearly, of course, is in agriculture. Here you really get it, with diagrammatic clarity, because farm prices have been going down at the very mo-. ment when the prices of manufactured goods have started smartly up. Corn dropped fror $1.35 to $1.31 between November 9 and 12, for example, while a leading producer announced a 9 per cent increase in the price of farm imple- ments and tractors. It is like two trains pass- ing each other; the distance between them can increase with terrifying rapidity. It is true that the farmer has already had his price increase, while manufacturers have not yet had theirs, to the same extent; but that is small comfort as shoes jump 20 per cent and soap 50 per cent, retail, at a time when there is woe in the cotton belt. The struggle between agriculture and in- dustry over prices is one of the great con- stants of American history; much of our national story can be told along this one theme. The suppression of this quarrel was one of Mr. Roosevelt's great achievements; he really did do that; and its possible renewal now sadly rings a familiar bell. The strain on our national coherence at a critical time is a manifest danger. When to this you add the curious waiting game which management and labor are now playing with each other, as they both watch the price-wage equation, you get a real feeling of the divisive tensions and pulls now maturing. It will take real statesmanship to pull us through in good order; bumbling and platitudes will not do now, for, with the war-time flush ebbing, the adventure in words is changing into an ad- venture among realities. Planning, for all of its faults, did avoid some of these tensions, a diagram of which would resemble nothing so much as a sheet of safety glass that had been hit by a rock. Now we shall have to judge, from Republi- can actions, whether the victorious party's pro- gram is one for internal peace or internal war. It is a high and magnificent choice, and one hopes doggedly that there will be great spirits in the party to make it correctly. (Copyright 1946, by the N.Y. Post Syndicate) Delinquency TWO WASHTENAW County officials who deal. with juvenile delinquency pointed out a social deficiency in the State's educational pro- gram this wveek. Both Dr. Ada DeWitt Ames, assistant county agent, and Dr. Malcolm B. Rogers, Willow Village school superintendent, declared that the lack of adequate vocational training for boys who don't attend high school is a spur toward delinquency. "Young men of that age are inclined to be emotionally uncontrollable," Dr. Rogers said, and since they have no part in school life, they enter a "period of shadow" in which they are especially liable to become delinquent. Dr. Ames said that she deals frequently with "man-size boys" who have broken away from their families, don't want academic schooling, and have no place to turn. The result is an added burden for County delinquency officers and wasted lives for boys who might be turned to constructive work. Boys on probation in Juvenile Court have asked Dr. Ames for vocational training, but no adequate facilities for such work exist in the Washtenaw County area. It would be socially wise of the State to place greater emphasis on vocational training schools. -Paul Harsha EDITOR'S NOTE: No letter to the editor will be printed unless signed and writ- ten in good taste. Letters over 30 words in length will be shortened or omitted; in special instances, they will be printed, at the discretion of the editorial director. Villager Protests * To the Editor: AS USUAL, the University of Mich- igan is being arbitrary in its ad- ministration of the students living in Willow Village. The latest words from the powers-that-be state that . . . "The Policy of the Uni- versity will be to permit any student who is now living at Willow Village to terminate his residence at the end of the first semester if he gives notice of such intention prior to Nov. 25, 1947." Dean Bursley knows that it is, at present, impossible to obtain an ad- vance reservation for a room in Ann Arbor. The University Housing Bur- eau knows that, for they have at- tempted a survey . . . the results ... nil. Those persons who are operating rooming houses tell us that they will not know whether they will have any vacancies for next term until the end of the present term. The University seems only inter- ested in jamming full its campus, without regard to the welfare of any group. One of its spokesmen has stated that the Villager is part of the University campus. That may be. true . . . granted that the University has tried to make life easier, but Willow Village is still 13 miles, a bus schedule, a bus fare, etc. from Ann Arbor, the libraries, classes stores and fellow students. If the Dean and his Housing Board would put themselves in the 'shoes of the students I feel sure that their decision would be a little less severe. Knowing that this will never happen, I challenge Dean Bursley to consult an elected board of Village students before he issues his pro- clamations, with the minutes of the consultation to be published in The Michigan Daily. -Gustave Kutzko * * * Garg Confused.. . To the Editor: WE RESENT the inference mWade in this morning's Daily that the Gargoyle held up the production of the Technic. It is rumored that the Technic is the biggest hold-up since the passing away of the late Jessie James. Several members of the staff do not know what a Technic is. Please reply. -Phil Snyder * *r * ' Unfair Editorials To the Editor: HERE are two editorials in Wed- nesday's Daily. Neither is truth- ful or fair. I find on page one, Wednesday: "Austin said slowly and clearly, 'The United States is prepared to cooper- ate fully with all other members of the United Nations on disarmament. It advocates effective safeguards by ways of inspection...:" I find on page four, Wednesday, by Milt Freudenheim, a denounce- ment of the N. Y. Times partly be- cause the Times "notes" that his (Molotov's) proposals include no "offer of inspection to make the dis- armament plan effective." Mr. Austin is in N. Y. now to rep- resent the people of this country. The N. Y. Times also tries to repre- sent the people of this country. Is it queer that they should say the same thing? The other editorial says, about Molotov's speech: "Naturally, his words were unhappily received by the warmongers in our country... These are the men who fear the truth; they want no open, frank discussion." Now from this the reader can con- clude that our representative to the United Nations (sent to prevent war) is a war-monger. And he can con- clude that the N.Y. Times is a war- monger. I do not believe it. Molotov asked us to disarm, to throw out our atomic bombs. Russia will say that they will disarm if we will say that we will disarm if Eng- land will say that she will disarm. If this is done we will have the choice of believing that Russia has no power, sending spies over to find out, or just assuming that she has secret forces. Ten years ago, with respect to Germany, we took the first course, and it was the wrong course. This time, we must not believe, we must be able to know, what countries are preparing for war so that our policy makers and our people may make the right decisions and make them early, So far Russia has not offered us the whole, complete truth. That is what we are waiting for. That is what the "recalcitrant" Mr. Baruch is waiting for. Without that truth, how do the editors of The Daily propose that we can tell friends from foes BE- FORE the bombs fall? -Frank D. Amon Eliminated Candidate ... To the Editor: THE statement which appeared in The Daily Nov. 14 concerning one eliminated candidate's insistence on an investigation of the election for fraud should be qualified. The can- didate, Marge Kohlhaas, was elim- inated. However, an important fact was not included in The Daily which could, and rightly so, arouse in the minds of those not knowing Marge Kohlhaas, the fact that she was a poor loser and exhibited poor sports- manship. Therefore, this fact should be known: at the time Marge Kohl- haas insisted upon an investigation, she was not an eliminated candidate. She was eliminated following her first protest. ?nowing this "eliminated candi- date" personally, I am confident that her interest in the election is a re- sult of her intense desire to initiate honesty and reliability in the present student legislature and all its activ- ities rather than interestin her own personal gain. Using her own de- feated case as an example is a cour- ageous thing for Miss Kohlhaas to do. -Louise Kefgen Ellis Reanswered . . To the Editor: IN a letter published in the Michi- gan Daily, September 27, I urged that Mr. Wallace's removal from the Truman cabinet must not provide impetus for organization of a third' (progressive) party in the United States. The Democratic party was traditionally the progressive party. Revitalization and slight reorienta- tion of its well-organized machine would save progressives' dissipating7 efforts spent on organizing a third1 party, never successful in the United States anyway.1 Now comes Mr. Ellis, in his edi-; torial column of Nov. 7, suggesting that after their defeat in Tuesday's elections, progressives must abandon the Democratic party. They must, he says, form a third, truly liberalj party. But he is wrong. This de- feat, like the Wallace controversy, must nt-at this crucially late date with respect to 1948-move progres- sives to undertake such a time-con- suming, inevitably unsuccessful pro- ject. How can progressives revitalize the Democratic party? First, prevail upon President Tru- man to resign, according to Senator Fullbright's suggestion that Mr. Van- denberg become an apointed Repub- lican president. This will save Dem- ocrats' effort-sapping, seemingly end- less apologies for their bumbling leader. And, more important, it will place the onus of full governmental responsibility squarely on the Re- publicans. Second, proclaim repeatedly that the Democratic party is a progressive people's party. Repudiate Southern Republocrats and their ilk - tell them to go play with the Republi- cans where they belong and where they felt so at home last summer. Expend effort informing the people on this realignment; don't waste it recruiting them to a third party. Finally, cultivate organized labor as to the broad base of a progressive electorate. If Mr. Ellis counters that in apply- ing this formula we are in effect forming his "third" party, then we are doing it .in a practical, energy- conserving, and, to the general elec- torate, understandable fashion. -Robert Copp Explanation, Please . .. To the Editor: MR. POTTER'Slengthy article con- cerning the future of our country has confused us. to put it mildly. We would like to know whether he will (or can) let us know just what he is trying to say. For example, does he believe the National Labor Relations Act should be repealed? Does hp believe that the Social Security Act should be abolished? What does Mr. Potter actually mean by a "steadfast, long- range economic policy"- state so- cialism? We regret to say that he is not clear enough for our simple student minds. His vague generalizations do not allow us to decide what pro- gram he advocates. William . Rockwell John R. Willis E . o[etN to 1/ih&eit( . ,i 11 _.._., DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN IO4We've Go1 TIse E ighth eek Blues (Continued from Page 3) Mon., Nov. 18, in 3201 Angell Hall. Prof. Kaplan will speak on "Founda- tions of Mechanics,", and Prof. Rothe will speak on transformation of Ham- iltonian Equations. Wildlife Management Seminar: The third in a series of Wildlife Sem- inars will be held at 4:30 p.m., Mon., Nov. 18, in Rm. 2039, Natural Science Bldg. Mr. Frederick W. Stuewer of the Game Division, Michigan Conserva- tion Department will speak on the Raccoon in Michigan. Interesting facts concerning the animal's life his- tory, its population status, and is fu- ture as a commercially valuable fur- bearer will be discussed. All students in Wildlife Manage- ment are expected to attend and any- one else interested is welcome. Veterans' Tutorial Program: An additional 'Veterans' Tutorial Sec- tion in elementary Mathematics has been scheduled to meet Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Rm. 3017 Angell Hall. Concerts Choral Union Concert. Yehudi Menuhin, Violinist, with Adolph Bal- ler at the piano, will play the fol- lowing program in the fourth Choral Union Concert Monday evening, No- vember 19, at 8:30, in Hill Audito- rium: Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven); So- nata in G minor (Bach); Symphonie Espagnole (Lalo); La Fontaine d'Are- thuse (Szymanowski); ' Hungarian Dance No. 4 (Brahms-Joachim); and Gypsy Airs by Sarasate. The public will please come suf- ficiently early as to be seated on time, since the doors will be closed during numbers. Events Today The Congregational-Disciples Guild will hold Novemfber Novelty' Night at 8:30 tonight at the Congregational Church. Program: dancing, games, and a floorshow. Open House at the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation Saturday after the game. Coming Events Research Club meeting at 8:00 p.m. Wed., Nov. 20, in the Rackham Bldg. James K. Pollock, "The Laenderrat -An Aspect of the American Occu- pation of Germany," and Prof. Laur- ence C. Stuart, "Geographical Com- ments on the Herpetological Fauna of Aeta Vera Paz, Guatemala." ciety will meet at 4:15 p.m., Nov. 21, in Rm. 151 Chemistry Bldg. Dr. Milton Harris of Milton Harris As- sociates, Washington, D. C., will speak on "The Chemist Looks at Tex- tile Fibers." The public is cordially invited. Association of University of Michi- gan Scientists will meet at 8:00 p.m., Mon., Nov. 18, in the East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Program: for- mation of discussion groups. The Geological Journal Club will meet at 4:00' p.m., Tues., Nov. 19, in Rm. 4054, Natural Science Bldg. Mr. L. E. Workman, Geologist and Head, Subsurface Division, Illinois Geologi- cal Survey, will speak on ".Insoluble Residues of the Silurian Rocks." Philosophy Club will meet at 8:00 p.m. Tues., at the League Coke Bar. Club members are undergraduate stu- dents interested in philosophy; not necessarily members of a class. Mr. Robert Roelofs, Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department, ,will lead the discussion. University Women Veterans Asso- ciation: All service women are urged to attend the regular meeting of the (Continued on Page 5) AFJRg Fifty-Seventh Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the author- ity of the Board in Control of Stugent 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....... 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The professor was in the midst of a technical, not-too-exciting discussion of philosophical problems of the mind, body, causality when sud- denly, he stopped dead, turned criison,, and exclaimed, "Gracious, look at that fond couple em- bracing over there." "There" turned out to be at the window in Angell Hall corridor across the way. We don't expect you to believe this part of the story, but, after a couple of determined ef- forts to shrug off the incident and continue the discussion, action was resorted to. As far as we know, the shades are still drawn in the Mason Hall philosophy seminar room. Anything Else You'd Like? T HE FOLLOWING letter was. read by the instructor of Chem 53 yesterday: "For four years I have looked forward to going deer hunting. So the day the season opens you schedule a bluebodk. Please give us a break!" Whether by coincidence or not, the blue- book was postponed. As the professor turned to the blackboard he said dryly over his shoulder, "In case any saints' holidays come up that I don't know of, be sure to remind me." * * * * Making It Easy N A GERMAN class yesterday a father of three days' standing was translating a charm- ing little story about children dancing. One of the intricate steps was described as standing on one leg. "Like a stork," the professor interposed helpfully. "I don't know anything about storks," said the translator innocently. Illuminating Situation INTERMISSION time came for a coed at a fraternity party recently. In the "dancy" darkness of the room, she couldn't read the signs on the doors and being a cautious lass, she was afraid to go into unidentified rooms. Fortunately the photographer was there at the time and was using a wall near the dis- puted area for a backdrop. So, she asked him to turn on his floodlight. "Do you want a picture?" he asked. She said no, explained that she just wanted to .see where she was going and walked in. Contributions to this column are by all mem- bers of The Daily staff, and are the responsibility of the editorial director. BARNABY it's not very complicated ... Your father buys a raffle ticket- For a nominal sum. Picks the winning ticket- Naturally. And at a simple ceremony in-the grotto of the r- He'll be presented with the new heart set on. I'll preside. You, Barnahv. shallst v bi m, ria h Gosh! That'll be wonderful, Mr. O'Malley. But don't you have to tell the Paekomobile n a n .. s :ts;f die.