TWO THE MICHIGAN T!ATT ,gATIFTRnA'V- MVPMAPD. 1 '1444 rTIE MWTia1V111fLATY 'TTTYJVTECV 1'.1 1 . n.x a. . ,xrnx, xai: :i:irln tc '1, .l84t i Rezoning Plan Stalled THE city-proposed plan to rezone the area adjacent to Washtenaw and South University Avenues has apparently stalled within the city's planning commission. Per- haps the good merchants are waiting for the fraternities and sororities and citizens along Ann Arbor's most beautiful road to forget all about their protests. These mrerchants who make up the Arm Arbor city council and the planning commission would rather not have a hor- nets'-nest of public opinion fall down upon them as they have had in the past over attenpts to rezone the Washtenaw area. Still they hate to see those very desirable business sites go to waste. They are apparently not bothered by what to do about the area, but about how they will be ablk to satisfy tlemselves and still keep the faith of the citizens of Ann Arbor. The argument has gone to the Michigan Supreme Court once in the past. The Court ruled then that the city could not invoke an ordinance which was prior to the 1923 ordinance changing the property to class C (local business). After the gasoline station which had been operating at the northwest corner of Washtenaw and South University closed about four years *ago, the council rezoned the area as class B (residential). Now the owners of radio station WJBK have been granted a license to build a radio station in Ann Arbor. They have selected this site for their building, and the prop- erty owner is trying to get the ordinance Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. changed in order to sell at a good price. He has found some sympathy among the merchants on the council. BUT TWO alert citizens, Mrs. A. W. Coxon and James Kennedy, who live across from the site, rushed protests into the coun- cil chamber. They circulated petitions among the residents near Washtenaw and South University Avenues. They asked and received the support of eight fraternities and sororities living near the area. They jammed the council meetings with protest- ing citizens determined to save the beauty and value of their property and the prop- erty of the other residents around them. Both Mrs. Coxonand Mr. Kennedy felt that any change would result in defamation of the historic beauty of Washtenaw, and any first encroachment by business upon this street would pave the way for other busi- nesses. "Look what happened to Packard!" Mrs. Coxon exclaimed when the property owners' attorney said that 'one' building would not lead to more. The council ducked from the barrage of protests. They flung the 'hot potato' amendment hastily into the planning commission's lap. Two Mondays ago the planning commission stuck the amend- ment into a pigeon-hole to let it cool off a bit. The council and the planning commission have not given any indication of consider- ing the proposed zoning amendment in their next meeting as yet. In the face of the protests, some action must be taken by both the commission and the council to settle this dispute. The only action which the council reasonably can take is to re- ject the amendment. The next step should be the purchasing of that site by the city for a park, a suggestion favored by the lo- cal property owners. Bob Hartman tea - . . *6'~s NIGHT EDITOR: MARY RUTH LEVY Faint Pralise By HARRY LEVINE THE ONLY thing any two people seem to be able to agree upon in the coal strike is that neither of them likes John L. Lewis. For a while I almost considered myself a John L. booster because of his habit of caning news photographers. Anybody who has spent any time around professional news photographers knows them to be one of the lowest forms of humanity and it was with sone difficulty that I restrained a grisly chuckle of admiration for old John. But an attempt to look at the coal strike with something resembling pure reason gets to be quite a difficult task. Even college professors are at a loss to conclude that there is much to be said for both sides. And with good reason. For as far as I can make out there are at least five, maybe six sides. Certainly five things worth considering in this case are: 1-Legal grounds for the government's action and the un'ion's action. 2-Justification of the miners' demands. 3-Lasting effects of governmental action on labor's freedom and "production by con- sent." 4-How to get coal. 5-The personality of John L. Lewis. * * * * So far the greatest amount of publicity has been trained on the last two points. If you're not the sort of person who worries about the first three considera- tions, the problem does become slightly simplified. All we have to do is lock up John L. Lewis and put the screws on the miners until they see things our way. Fining each miner two dollars a day is one such approach. The only flaw -if you think along these lines - is that we still might not get any coal. And as far as John L.'s personality is concerned, you can be sure that IT won't be changed. What makes it embarrassing if you like to consider yourself a liberal is the strong probability that the miners are justified in their demands. A lot of liberals have burrowed deep in armchairs on this point: How to reconcile their dislike for John L. Lewis with their sympathy for the miners' demands? I don't have any balm, but it seems to me the important thing in this situa- tion is to recognize that Lewis' personality is only one side of a very complex situa- tion and probably the least important side at that. More important is the probability that a conciliation of some sort will be necessary before the coal is eventually mined. If this is true, the government is way off the course on its present track. HAPPENS ... * Soiled Shirt Fantasy Don't Tell the Neighbors ONE OF those fine old Georgian planta- tions that pass for sorority houses out on Washtenaw boasts a skeleton-in-the- closet no Southern colonel, suh, could be ashamed of. We haven't been able to figure out how it happened, or exactly what the phraseology means, but we're sure of our source. The chapter room in this particular house, we're told, has somehow been condemned as a firetrap. TD RATHER BE RIGHT: Mexican Revolution By SAMUEL GRAFTON M4EXICO CITY - Everybody here walks on little cat feet politically, though the revolution is kind of middle aged by now, being almost a generation old. It is still the revolution and it is a troublesome thing to own a revolution. This care weighs heavily on the Left which finds it hard to be both of icial and critical at the same time, and the result is a curious sort of nervously p.oorietarial air maintained most- ly in silence . This does not mean that the Left is unit d.. Its members meet and mut- ter in the restaurant court of Sanborn's drug store on the gay Madero, with the re- sult that th eare is current 4a Spanish phrase about the intellectuals at Sanborn's, which has something like the meaning in this country of penthouse pinks in New York. The Left fellows the revolution through all its turns hoping it is directing it. The turns are ::any. Mexico 1-s about given up the hope of saving itse f through agriculture and dis- tribution of the land. The land has been distributed, but there is not enough of it. The old slogans crash against a statistical wall and :o the present program is one of industmF lization; of making Mexico a Latin elgium. The Left intellectuals are now caught up in a dream of factories, ART THE twenty-nine prints by George Rou- alt now on exhibition in the Museum of Art, Alutmi Memorial Hall, show vari- ous phases of the artist's violent reactions to contemporary social conditions and re- ligion. Roualt evolved a highly personal and unconventional style to express these reactions and the results are not, at first sight, fully comprehensible. The prints were commissioned over a period of two decades by the late Ambroise Vollard, Parisian art dealer, who con- tracted for the whole of Roualt's pro- duction in return for a fixed allowance for the artist. it has only been this year that Roualt succeeded in breaking his contract. He now stands to profit ma- terially from his merited and phenomenal success. Vollard intended to publish these prints as illustrations to various texts, one of which was written by Roualt him- sef. The prints must, therefore, be un- derstood as illustrations. The artistic intent of the lithograph, showing a slum on the outskirts of Paris, entitled "Moving to a Castle in Spain," is apparent, I-owever, in the print as well as in the titl It is a forceful satire on a housing coi rition not caused by war. Fol- lowing the ame line of approach, read the title of the print showing Christ presented to the people of Jerusalem after his scourg- ing. Instead of the traditional "ECCE HOMO," th - artist uses his own title, "ECCE DOLOR." L is the sorrow of Christian re- ligion rathe than its dogmatic content that the artist i. interested in portraying. Ex- amnination )f the other religious prints, those in col r as well as in black and white, shows an al ost complete eradication of the of turbines and dynamos, of tall chimneys panting smoke into the soft blue Mexi- can air.. One goes to see Vincente Lombardo Tolr- dano, the Mexican labor leader who is often called El Rojo, the Red, by the con- servative side. He sits beneath a volcanic portrait of Karl Marx, by Siquieros, in his office in the Edificio Pensiones, opposite the revolutionary monument, naturally, and he talks in favor of tariffs. This is a little surprising, at first. It would have done the late President McKinley's heart good to hear the man speak of the need for tar- iffs to protect infant industries. Suddenly one gets the full feeling of how the Jeffer- sonian ideal of the sturdy independent farmer is taking second place here to the Hamiltonian concept of the contented work- er and the prosperous enterprise. But with a difference, for here is the Left which proposes to. be the custodian of an indus- trial revolution. One realizes what an ap- pallingly complicated job the Mexican left has set for itself. It is going to try to do within the framework of revolutionary so- cial laws, (such as the one which makes the closed shop mandatory) what the conser- vative Republican party did to the United States after the Civil War. The results are great tensions and a seeming disorienta- tion, partly expressed through Lombardo's acceptance of early Republican slogans about the protective tariff and his unex- pected opposition to what seems to Ameri- cans the progressive notion of international free trade. The tensions go deep. The promoters from everywhere are here and the Mexi- can Right welcomes them hoping that industrialization will create a new pow- erful, conservative interest. But the Left is forced to welcome them too, saying: "That's fine"; saying it's glad they are here and hoping the industrialization will raise the living standard and fulfill some of the promises of the revolution before it floats away from its mooring and becomes an overwhelming influence on its own. AND SO there is a kind of business tinge to the new cabinet which the Right hails lustily while the Left maintains its tactical silence. Since the Right does not own the revolution it hollers all the time and gains, some say, all the concessions. It is fascinating to see the Left standing stonily by hoping that the Right is only furnishing the motive power for the en- gine. It still believes itself to be driving. It is a delicate game of which one senses the vibrations everywhere in this country which had its Roosevelt before it had its McKinley, so that it is now forced to try the expedient of having the one sit in the other's lap. (Copyright 1946, by the N.Y. Post Syndicate) The starting point of any fundamental transformation of our industrial relations from one of latent or open civil war to one of peace and partnership must be willing- ness on the part of management to get rid of the beam in its own eye before beginning to work on the mote in labor's eye. The first job management has to do is to ack- nowledge the fact that it does not know how the worker sees things from his angle DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN i Letters to the Editor,,a Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Assistant to the President, Room 1021G Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day1 preceding publication (11 :00 a.m. sat-. urda ys. SATURDAY, DEC. 7, 1946 VOL. LVII, No. 64 Notices Campus Parking Permit Plates for 1947 are now ready for dis- tribution at the Information Desk,. Rm. 1, University Hall. Please apply only after having procured 1947 license plates from the local office of the Secretary of State. Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary Navy Five-term Officer Stu- dents. All officers will report to North Hall, NROTC Headquarters, re. Christmas leave. Notice to Veteran Students who have not received sub- sistence checks by nDecember 10 are urged to report in person to the Veterans Administration Of- fice, Rm. 100, Rackham ,Bldg Tues., Dec. 10, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT BE- FORE TUES., DEC. 10. No re- ports will be accepted after 4:30 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11. Veterans are further advised that it is absolutely essential that they have their "C" numbers available when they report. This is a nation-wide inquiry, conducted at the direction of Gen- eral Bradley, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, which supersedes all previous subsistence surveys. Men's Residence Halls: Men wishing to cancel their residence hall contracts for the Spring Se- mester may secure request blanks now at the Office of the Dean of Students. Such requests must be filedon, or before Dect. 20, Rm. University Hall. Women students who are un- able to go 'Lome for the Christmas holidays and who need accommo- dation in Ann Arbor may leave their names at the Office of the Dean of Women. Dormitory resi- dents who have already notified their house directors do not need to call at the Office of the Dean of Women but all others should do so if they wish help. Choral Union Ushers: About 100 extra ushers are needed for the Messiah Concerts. Apply at Hill Auditorium box office between 4:35 and 5:30 p.m., Mon., Dec. 9. Choral Union Members whose attendance records are clear, please call for courtesy passes to the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert, Monday, between the hours of 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., and 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., at the offices of the University Musical Society. After 4 o'clock no passes will be is- sued. Varsity Glee Club: Special re- hearsal of the Thursday night sec- tion at 1:00 p.m., Rm. 305, Union. Transportation for our concert in Grosse 'Pointe Sunday after- noon; we will board busses on the east side of Hill Auditorium at 1:30 p.m. School of Business Administra- tion: All students who intend to transfer to the School of Business Administration for the spring se- mester, 1947, and who have not submitted their applicaitions, should secure these blanks at Rm. 108, Tappan" Hall, and turn them in immediately. Recreational Swimming, Wom- en Students: There will be no rec- reational swimming at the Union Pool today, but will continue as usual next Saturday. Outlook -- Occupational Trends and Opporunitics a realistic pic- ture of jobs in our present eco- nomic situation by Dr. Ewan ! Clague, Commissioner of Labor Statistics. U. S. Department of La- bor, Washinton, D. C., at 7:30 p.m., Tues., Dec. 10, Rackham Lcture lall; auspices of the Uni- versity Bureau of Appointments and Occu ational Information. Lecture: Prof. P. W. Slosson, History Department, Prof. M. Thomson, SociologytDepartment Michigan State Normal College, and others will lecture on the sub- ject, "The Armenian Question," at. 8:00 p.m., Sun., Dec. 15. Rackham Lecture Hal; auspices of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa N Honor Societies and the Armenian Stu- dents Associatiom A cadenic Notices Dynamical Systems Seminar at 3:00 p.m., Mon., Dec. 9, Rm. 3201, Angell Hall. Mr. Shapiro will speak on "Birkhoff's Theory." Mathematics 300: Orientation Seminar at 7:00 p.m., Mon., Dec. 9 Rin. 3001 Angell Hall. M. R. W. 1 Frankel xwiil talk on "Genrut l~ied Folium." Concerts Tihe Boston Symphony Orches- tra will give the sixth program in the Choral Union Series at 8:30 p.m., Mon.. Dec. 9, Hill Audito- rium. The public is requested to be seated on time, as the doors will be closed during numbers, Student Recital: Margaret Kay, violinist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degrees of Master of Music at 8:30 Tues., Dec. 10, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A pupil of Gilbert Ross, Miss Kay will play compositions by Bach, Ravel, Brahmns and Beethoven. T.lhe pub lie is invited. Exhibitions The College of Architecture and Design presents an exhibition of Advertising Art sponsored by the Art Directoi s Club of Detroit. The exhibition will be current until Dec. 7 at noon, in the Galleries of the RackhsEm Bldg. Exhibit of student work of the Cooper Union Art School, New York, will be current from Dec. 5 to 20, ground floor corridor, Col- lege of Architecture and Design. India Art Exhibition presented by Hindustan Association at Rack- ham Buling on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6 and 7, 4:00-10:00 p.m. All are invited. Events Today University Radio Programs: 2:00 p.m., Station WJR, 750 Kc. "Stump the Professor," Dr. Ran- dolph Adams, Dr. Frank Robbins, Prof. Arthur Hackett, Dr. Amos Morris, Dr. George Kiss, and Prof. Waldo Abbot. 10:45 p.m., Station WJR, 750 Kc. "Operative Dentistry Delay Brings Disaster," Dr. Louis Schultz, Professor of Dentistry. Association of U. of M. Scien- tists open meeting at 5:00 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Dr. Ray- mond L. Zwemer of the United States Department of State will speak on the subject, "Cooperation in Science for Peace." Jf-Hop Central Committee meet- ing at 10:15 a.m., Union. Russian Film, "Alexander Nev- sky," auspices of the Russian Cir- cle, 8:30 p.m., Rackham Amphi- theatre. Admission charged. Tick- ets on sale at the bookstores and the League. Films on Life and Culture of India at 7:15 p.m., Rackham Am- phitheatre. Admission free. Congregational- Disciples Guild Fireside Chat from 7:30-9:00 p.m., Guild House, 438 Maynard St. Mr. A. K. Stevens of the University Extension Service will discuss the Growing Pains of Labor. Coming Events Economics Club at 8:00 p.m. Mon., De; 9, Rackham Amphi- theatre. "China's Postwar Prob- lems," by Dr. D. K. Lieu, Business Administration and Economics staff and graduate students in- vited. t EDITOR S NOT: No letter to the editor will be printed unless signed and writt~n ini good taste. etters over 300 ii rds in length will lie shortened or omitted; in special in- stances, they will be printed, at the discret ion1' the editoal wdirect r. Vets (iweif s.. . To the Editor: THE VA claims to have mailed 90% of Michigan veterans sub- sistence checks and Michigan vet- erans claim to have received only 251 of them. Strangely, both statements may be accurate. If many veterans filled out their application form1, 950, as I, antex-' t Yeoman did, it is possible that they have unintentionally denied themselves their subsistence al- lotments The text of frm 1950, section 9, implies that if the appli- cant has any dependents, he should fill out blanks: 9(A), 9'B), 9(C), 9(D). Luckily, before I mailed the form, a member of my family realized that section 9 was actually to be filled out by the veter'an desiring subsistence 1allotments. I made corrections and received my first check No- vember 3. The second arrived to- day. An investigation should be made into the official status of those veterans that have not yet re- ceived payments. If their benefits are in jeopardy, something should be done-now. Within the last month, the VA issued a new application blank to succeed form 1950. This new form words the question of subsistence payments very simply and clearly: however, most veterans on the campus made application in the summer months or even earlier. -Craig I. Wilson x * t Where Are They?. To the Editor: TWO Willow Run Veterans, vic- tims of the V.A. subsistence de- pression, seek information regard- ing procurement of Christmas welfare baskets for the needy. -Robert N. Baieham William E. Brown n s ..e Down in Cleveland ... CONVERSATION, overheard in men's dorm: "Oh hell guess I'll quit school and go out to make my million without the benefit of a college education." Second bitter character: "I'd go along with you but it would foul- up bookkeeping down in Cleveland. -"Swede" Aronson Hank Lukasik A Call for Unity . JERBERT APTHEKER, an edi- tor of the New Masses, pre- sented a speech at the Union on Wednesday, the 20th of November, on the subject "The Root of Negro Oppression." Having heard this speech, in which Margaret Hal- sey's new book Color Blind, on this same subject, was condemned, it was naturally a surprise to me to find on reading the book, that she was in complete agreement with his basic premise: that Negro oppression stems from an eco- nomic rather than a moral root. Actually, the point on which he differed with her was her state- ment that the integration of the Negro people with American white society must be a slow and tedious process. Yet both Miss Halsey and Dr. Aptheker are rev- olutionists, and both have for their revolutions the same goal, if I understand them correctly. Their common goal seems to be the real- ization of the supposedly American ideal, so ably expressed in several of our public documents but so inadequately practiced by our public servants and private citi- zens: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain un- alienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Both echo this statement of policy; both agree that the reason it has not been put into practice is that a basic flaw exists in our economic structure; and both agree that this flaw must be corrected: it is therefore difficult to see how they can appear to be in such com- plete disagreement. Of course, if this were merely a difference of opinion between a humorist and a Communist writ- ing on Negro oppression, it would be a conflict of little significance. But it has long been a source of great distress to me that this same difference of opinion divides all of the advocates of social and eco- nomic reform into two or more bitterly opposed factions, which sap their strength fighting each other, rather than combining their strength against the forces that are opposed to social and eco- nomic reform. To an unpreju- diced observer, the prospect of a sincere communist revolt against a truly democratic government is absurd: there would be no injus- tices against which 'to rebel. And equally absurd is the thought of a sincerely democratic nation wish- ing to impose democracy on a truly communistic one: for What is com- munism but democracy arrived at in a different manner? Halsey proposes a slow revolu- tion within the existing frame- work of government; Apthek'er proposes a sudden revolution. Both methods are imperfect: the one involves permitting a wrong to continue to exist for an unknown, though finite, length of time; the other is virtually certain to in- volve bloodshed, possibly civil war. Intelligent people on both sides see the faults in both systems, and sincerely believe that the fault in their own is the lesser of the two. But what is important is that fu- ture generations of minorities will not be in a better or a worse con- dition because we had one kind of revolution or the other; the improvement ,of their condition is dependent on our h.aving a revo- lution of either kind, rather than none at all. One is tempted to suspect that the "vested interests" of our present economic structure have found some subtle means of applying the rule of "Divide and conquer" to their enemf, the Hal- seys and the Apthekers. Whether or not this is the case, it is to be hoped that the Halseys and the Apthekers will, before it is too late, reconcile their petty differ- ences by compromise and form a united front in their fight against the oppression and exploitation of the politically, economically, and numerically weak, The word "communist" Seems to cause a red mist, more impervious than any iron curtain, to envelope the minds of even our otherwise most open-minded citizens. Re- cent victims of this particularly vicious type of semantic confu- sion were the leaders of the cam- pus AVC chapter. That they should take up red-baiting, at a time when so much depends on the con- solidation of all liberal forces in the United States and in the world, is a sad commentary on either the intelligence or the sin- cerity of these men and their counterparts throughout the coun- try, -David F, Ross * * ee Downtown Movies. To the Editor: IT IS a source of continuous wonderment in some quarters that the best movies in town are invariably neglected by your cinematic observer. I am of course, referring to those movies which appear in the downtown Ann Arbor theatres. Inasmuch as they are infinitely better and since these theatres also advertise in The Daily, it seems only just that Miss Fiske include them in her review. Per- sonally, I would be happy to see that Miss Fiske attend one of these downtown theatres some evening if she will communicate to me what time would be con- venient for her. I must stipulate, however, that the dishes belong to me if we win. -Donald Grimshaw 461 _ *: * * x Obviously All Wet W E WERE leafing through The Log, a student publication of the naval acad- emy at Annapolis, unaware of what we were doing the other day when we ran across a story on the Nazi Navy. (The mag- azine is kind of a floating Technic, as far as we could see.) We don't want to break in on any briny dreams the middies may be entertaining, but the viewpoint expressed in the sub- title of this particular article seemed just a trifle unrealistic. It ran, "Relegating the Navy to a Sec- ondary Position Cost Germany the War." Distorted Values CARLO Alessandro Guidi, Italian lyric +poet,died because of a typographical error, an Encyclopaedia Britannica re- searcher has discovered. Enroute to pre- sent a poem to Pope Clement XI, he found a serious typographical error, was seized with an apoplectic fit and died. Pity the poor newsboys of today. Contributions to this column are by all members of The Daily staff, and are the responsibility of the editorial director. A dozen new and old ideas, such as pro- fit sharing, labor-management councils, cooperatives and so on, must be explored anew in an effort to bring a generous and responsible spirit to the nation's workshop. --Life Willow Run Village West Court: Sat., Dec. 7, 8:30-11:30 Open House for all couples. p.m., Lectures University Lecture: General Victor A. Yakhontoff, old Russian Army, retired, will lecture on the subject, "United States-China--- Soviet Russia," at 4:15 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, Kellogg Auditorium; aus- pices of the Department of His- tory. The public is invited. Mathematics Lecture Postponed. The lecture by Prof. Hassler Whitney of Harvard University, which was originally scheduled for the Topology Seminar, Mon- day, has been postponed indefi- nitely. Fifty-Seventh Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Robert Goldman .....Managing Editor Milton Freudenheim .Editorial Director Clayton Dickey...........City Editor Mary Brush.......... Associate Editor" Ann Kutz...........Associate Editor Paul Harsha.........Associate Editor Clark Baker.............Sports Editor Des Howarth ..Associate Sports Editor Jack Martin .. ,Associate Sports Editor Joan Wilk...........Women's Editor Lynne Ford .Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Robert E. Potter ....Business Manage) Evelyn Mills Associate Business Manager Janet Cork Associate Business Manag Tele phone 23-24-1 Graduate S t und e n t Council meeting at 7:30 p.m. Mon., Dee. 9, East Lecture Room, Rackham Bldg. (Con tinued on Page 3) Vocational Lecture: The JobI BARNABY