FO UR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, I947 I Fiaigt Y a il Fifty-Eighth Year I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: 'Bundles for Bovines' BILL MAULDIN Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan under the authority ,of the Board in Control of Student Pubgications. Editorial Stafff John Campbell.................Managing Editor Clyde Recht ..........................City Editor Stuart Finlayson ................Editorial Director Eunice Mintz ....................Associate Editor Lida Dailes........ .........Associate Editor Dick Kraus......................Sports Editor Bob Lent ...............Associate Sports Editor Joyce Johnson.................Women's Editor Betty Steward ..........Associate Women's Editor Joan de Carvajal ..................Library Director Business Staff Nancy Helmick ...................General Manager Jeanne Swendeman......... Advertising Manager Edwin Schneider................Finance Manager Melvin Tick .................Circulation Manager Telephone 23-24-1 . 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NIGHT EDITOR: HARRIETT FRIEDMAN Disloyalty Criteria AS THE State Department tightened its regulations for discharge of "disloyal" personnel, we were amazed to discover the type of employes who walk its marble halls.1 Among the employes listed as constitut- ing a "security risk" are the following: "A person who has such basic weakness of character or lack of judgment as rea- sonably to justify the fear that he might be led into... " such courses of action as espionage, treason, sympathetic associa- tion with subversive groups, or associa- tion with people associated with, or peo- pie associated with other people associated with, subversive groups. In the determination of security risk, fac- tors included "habitual drunkenness, sexual perversion, moral turpitude, financial irre- sponsibility or criminal record." If these are the reasons for discharge, we wonder what regulations have governed hiring of employes for this "vital" depart- ment. If rules for entry are as strict as those for removal, perhaps it has been the strain of keeping close guard on state secrets that has produced these strange effects among the State Department personnel. But the bigge4t question in our minds is why such qualifications were included in a "security risk" list. If an employe is incompetent because of drunkenness or financial irresponsibility, is he to have the word "disloyal" printed on his records, preventing him from obtaining other em- ployment? Although we do not question the need for security, - the inclusion of such principles under disloyalty charges only proves that the State Department has failed to find a really effective method of determining dis- loyalty, and, is following the "something is better than nothing" rule, which leads no- where. Maybe a Geiger counter would do. -Harriett Friedman -Joan Katz MATTER OF FACT : Poltical Dynamite By JOSEPH ALSOP PARIS-General de Gaulle, founder and leader of the movement, which he calls the "Rally of the French People," is still without doubt among France's few great men. Equally without dobut, he has no totalitarian ambitions and is detested by the sort of men who would most naturally hanker for French Fascism - the rich French whom he bitterly offended by na- tionalizing basic industries and by in- sisting upon jailing their friends and rela- tives as collaborators. None the less, he has virtually no labor support. His appeal is to the little men of the center and the right. Among these he has made extraordinary progress. Starting not very long ago, his movement is already organized in some fashion in tens of thousands of cities and communes and has between a million and By SAMUEL GRAFTON LET'S STOP FOOLING. What we need is a law, or something to cut our feeding of meat animals by several millions of tons of grain during the next twelve months. I am for Charles Luckman all the way, and shall issue orders to have my breakfast toast reduced from two slices to one, starting tomorrow morning. But if I do with a slice less, so must some damn heifer. Otherwise it is all going to become very silly. The President isn't going to eat any bread for two days this week. You mean a steer can eat wheat, unchecked, and the President of the United States can't? Really, now. We knew the farmers had a lot of political power, but that's rubbing it in. .Who do these cattle think they are, any- way, snuffling in the rich grain, while we are instructed to eat "perfection salad"? ON WORLD AFFAIRS: Troop Evacuation By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER IN HIS LONG-WINDED CRITICISM of what he (somewhat mistakenly) takes for American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union, my friend Walter Lippmann states that the prime objective of Washington should have been to bring about the evacu- ation of continental Europe by Soviet and American and British troops. For only through this - he contends - can the bal- ance of power between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. be restored. Believing that this raises a military question that transcends the competence of civilians, I sought the advice of a high military authority. Mowrer: General, what do you think of the argument that by getting all foreign troops out of Europe, the U.S. could restore the balance of power with the Soviet Union? General X.: This is precisely the aim that Secretary Byrnes pursued during two years - unsuccessfully, I am sorry to say. He realized that there was no chance of getting the Russians out of Germany until we had got them out of the smaller coun- tries, and therefore concentrated on these. Today the solution suggested by Mr. Lipp- mann would, if possible, come too late to be acceptable. If the Russians had withdrawn from the smaller eastern European states two years ago when those peoples still possessed some shred of national independence, it would have been a real relief. Events in Yugoslav- ia, Hungary and other countries have how- ever demonstrated that Moscow will not withdraw the Red Army until it has obtained such complete mastery over the peoples by its stooge governments that the very large local armies must be considered to all in- tents and purposes integral parts of the Soviet armed forces. Today, the peace of the world is as much threatened by Marshall Tito's mili- tary pressure on Trieste as it would be by actual Red Army divisions. For the.Yugo- slav, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Polish armed forces are just parts of the Red Army under other names. Therefore the technical withdrawal of Russian forces from these countries would change nothing at all. Mr. Lippmann is mistaken if he assumes the contrary. Mowrer: But what aboutesimultaneous withdrawal of all outside forces from Ger- many? Would that ease the political situa- tion by restoring the balance of power? General X.: Of course not. In the first place, whether left in one political unit or divided into ten, a still un-regenerate German people might well decide that it had more to gain by embracing, or seem- ing to embraoe, the Soviets than by ad- hering to the western democracies. Once out of Germany we could hardly avoid such a catastrophe. In the second place, withdrawal would not mean the same for the Russians and for the Americans. The Russians would be going away about as far as the next room. The Americans would be withdrawing to San Francisco. In case of crisis it is obvious which army would get back into Germany first. Mowrer: All of -which would appear to mean that you, General, do not think very favorably of Mr. Lippmann's suggestion. General X.: Frankly, I think so little of it that I wish Mr. Lippmann would not con- tinue to confuse American thinking by sug- gesting that there is an easy way out of our present difficulties with Russia. There is no easy out. Mowrer: It is the tendency of the Amer- ican people always to seek an easy out, before accepting the difficult and expen- sive one. General X.: That's just what makes our present task so difficult. With the world in the worst shape it has been in for a thou- sand years, we cannot even convince an in- telligent leader like Senator Taft that the United States absolutely needs an impres- sive military establishment to back up our political and economic policies. Mowrer: How could you when so great a~nauthority n Mr. nnm in ian m iuring us I'll eat it, of course. But I'll feel so foolish doing it to save some shorthorn, or a pig. And this is the basic fault which underlies our timid food program, and gives it that indescribable flavor of marshmallow which is settling over it, as the fancy menus issue from the public authorities. This is not a marshmallow crisis, it is a real one, -nd the suggested dishes, with their gobs of sugary stuff, slabs of quivering aspic, and pretentious names, reflect our official approach, sweet and rather empty. If any New Deal bureaucrat had sug- gested that we eat less wheat, while letting our cattle eat more, we would have laughed ourselves ill at his expense. Yet that is what we are doing under the voluntary program. We are walking on our heads to save shoe leather. The odd thing is that if we forced a re- duction in the total quantity of cereals fed to livestock we would, at least for the short run have more meat. A certain num- ber of the animals would have to come to market, because they couldn't be fed; breed- ers and feeders would have somewhat less room in which to maneuver, and we might find that we had started a minor run to the stockyards, and had even cut into prices. The Wall Street Journal has a story about a rancher who says he isn't going to sell any of his 2,000 cattle until next year, because he doesn't want to climb into a higher income tax bracket. But it will take corn and wheat to carry them. They won't eat coffee mallow. The "eat less meat" program probably starts at the wrong end as a way of saving grain, for animals that aren't eaten have to be fed. A reduction of five per cent i the amount ofrgrain fed to meatanimals, which is hardly a significant cut, would save enough to save Europe. The funny thing is that we'd have more hamburgers, and more rolls to put them on, for a meat animal that is slaughtered saves grain from that day on. The Luckman program should be sup- ported to the uttermost, partly for the reason that it is going to make our farm feed program look as ridiculous as it is. The picture of Americans daintily saving a , mouthful of cereal here and there, while unrequired animals on the feed lots burn it by the shovelful, like so many furnaces, cannot long continue without causing the kind of national titter which, in America, leads to action. It would be rather sweet to set up a "Bundles for Bovines" program to trace our breakfast savings through, so that we could know which particilar animal was fur- nished with our bit of toast. We might even give him a pet name. Hindu labels would be quite appropriate for those sacred beasts PC, Or C ' i ON THE LAST LAP of the trip I have just completed around the country, and in a state not far removed from New York, I was cruising along a fine four-lane highway which was well posted with signs reading: "Speed limit: 40 m.p.h." I am not always an- gelic about speed limits, but this time I was doing exactly 40. After a while the scenery got tiresome, and every few moments other cars keptwhizzing around mine, the slowest of them doing 60. Some must have been pushing 80, be- cause they passed me as I if were standing still. My foot grew heavy on the throttle, as feet will do under such circumstances, and before I knew it I was rocketing along at the roaring speed of 48 m.p.h. Cars still passed me, of course, but now they just sort of slid past instead of whizzing past. I felt less like an obstruction on the public highway, and more like I was going some place. I was just debating whether to pour on more coal and boost my speed another five m.p.h., when I was over- hauled by a policeman in a bat- tered highway patrol car which was making large quantities of smoke, steam, and clanking noise. The copper told me I had been speeding, and told me to follow passed, where I would appear be- him back to a town I had recently fore a magistrate and plead guilty or otherwise. I told the officer I knew I was guilty of going faster than 40 m.p.h., but asked him, just for the sake of sociability, how le had happened to arrest me, surely the slowest driver on the road that day. I figured he must have spent a few minutes follow- ing me in order to check my speed, and during those minutes he should have passed by several cars doing anything from 60 to 80 m.p.h. The cop was as candid as he was firm. He confided that he couldn't do more than 50 that day because his police car was worn out and needed an over- haul. Then he climbed into his rattletrap and led me to the mag- istrate, who fined me $10 and $2 "costs" and gave me a pretty re- ceipt with an engraved letterhead. I drove away at 65 m.p.h. and reached New York without further incident. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 1 i G r whom no politician mans suffer. (Copyright, 1947, will touch, though hu- N.Y. Post Syndicate) ItI1 Letters to the Editor... CURRENT MOVIES r t At the Michigan .. . DISHONORED LADY, with Hedy La- marr, Dennis O'Keefe, and John Loder AS THE latest discord on the "lady with a "complex" theme, Dishonored Lady should get the pop bottle of the year for working in nearly all the stock situations and characters known to scenario writers. Hedy Lamarr is a distraugh art editor that turns to a kindly psychaiatrist, and on his advice she decides to shed her past and go away "to grow a soul." As an actress, she is a beautiful woman, which gives the male characters most of their dialogue and the plotditslittle conviction. While tryingsher hand at painting and growing said soul, she finds "true love" with Dennis O'Keefe, an unusually muscular scientist. But her past plus her complexes stand in the way, and it takes a sensational murder trial, more psychology, and the O'Keefe muscles to make life worth living again. Most of the celluloid is understandably devoted to show- ing a beautifully disturbed Miss Lamarr and her gorgeous wardrobe to the public, but the process seems to require an awful lot of type cast characters to act like just that. At the State A LIKELY STORY, with Barbara Hale and William Hall ALL that needs be said about this garbled attempt at comedy is that it is a likely story to stay away from. Bill Williams spends his early moments in the film getting knocked unconscious, and comes to the con- clusion that a heart condition gives him but two weeks for this world. In that time, he falls in love with Barbara Hale and tries to solve her financial difficulties by selling his soon to be realized insurance value to some very hamy gangsters. The intended pun of the title is its best and only gag. -Gloria Hunter (Continued from Page 3) adopted by the Committee on Stu- dent Conduct: The presence of women guests in men's residences, except for exchange and guest dinners or for social events approved by the Of- fice of Student Affairs, is not per- mitted, (This regulation obvious- ly does not apply to mothers of members), effective February, 1947. ' Exchange and guest dinners must be announced to the Office of Student Affairs at least one day. in advance of the scheduled date, and are approved, chaperoned or unchaperoned, provided that they are confined to the hours 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for week day din- ners, and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for Sun- day dinners. Exchange dinners are defined as meals in men's resi- dences or women's residences at- tended by representative groups of members of approved organi- zations of the other sex; guest dinners are defined as meals in men's residences and women's residences attended by guests of the other sex who may or may not belong to University organiza- tions. The use or presence of intoxi- cating liquors in student quarters has a tendency to impair student morale, and is contrary to the best interests of the students and of the University and is not per- itted. Effective July, 1947. Graduate Students in Social Studies and Science: There is a Teaching Fellowship in Social Studies available for the fall and spring terms of this year in the University High School, and a Teaching Fellowship in Science available for the spring term of this year. For further informa- tion, telephone the Principal's of- fice, J. M. Trytten, Ext. 675. The Municipal Civil Service Commission of New York an- hounces that it will receive appli- cations for Playground Director, either men or women, from Octo- ber 7 to October 24. Applicants must be bona fide residents of New York City for at least three years immediately preceding appoint- ment. For further information call at the Bureau of Appoint- ments and Occupational Informa- tion, 201 Mason Hall. Current Federal Civil Service Announcements for men and women entitled to 10-point Vet- eran Preference are posted in our office. For complete information, call at the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 201 Mason Hall. The State of Maryland is re- cruiting qualified applicants who are interested in a career service in the field of government plan- ning. They are announcing ex- aminations for the positions of Planning Engineer, Research An- alyst and Draftsman. Full infor- mation may be obtained at the Bureau of Appointments and Oc- cupational Information. Lectures University Lecture. Mr. Colin Clark, Director of the Bureau of Industry, government statistician, and financial adviser, State of Queensland, Australia, will lecture on the subject, "Wealthy and Poor Nations," at 4:15 p.m., Tues., Oct. 14; auspices of the Department of Economics and the School of Busi- ness Administration. The public is cordially invited. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Ying Hsin, Economics; thesis: "The Theory of Industrial Development in Economically Undeveloped Countries," Friday, Oct. 10, 204 Economics Bldg., 4 p.m. Chairman, W. B. Palmer. History Language Examination for the M.A. degree: Fri., Oct. 10, 4 p.m., Rm. B, Haven Hall. Each student is responsible for his own dictionary. Please register at the history office before taking the examination. History Final Examination make- up: Sat., Oct. 11, 9 a.m., Rm. B, Haven Hall. Students must come with written permission of instruc- tor. Economics 51, 52, 53, and 54 make-up examination: 3:15 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 16, Rm. 207, Econom- ics Bldg. Biological Chemistry Seminar: 4 p.m., Rm. 319, W. Medical Bldg., Fri., Oct. 10. Subject: "Glucuronic Acids and Glucuronidase." All interested are invited. German 32, sec. 2 (Prof. Reich- art) will meet in Rm. 209 Angell Hall beginning Thursday, Oct. 9. Mathematics Seminar: Complex 3201 Angell Hall. Mr. Lapidus will Variables, Fri., Oct. 10, 3 p.m., speak on elliptic functions. Exhibitions Architecture Building. Prints. Contemporary American Artists from the collection of W. W. J. Gores. Through October 10. Main floor. , Biology of the Bikini Atoll, Mar- shall Islands, 1946. Department of Botany, 2nd floor, Natural Sci- ence Bldg. through October 18. The Museum of Art, MODERN HANDMADE JEWELRY, circu- lated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, through October 19; Alumni Memorial Hall; Daily, EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints every letter to the editor re- ceived (which is signed, 300 words or less in length, and in good taste) we remind our readers that the views expressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. ,' * * More on MYDA To the Editor: AM AFRAID that I cannot fol- low the reasoning of Mr. Phil Dawson in his editorial appearing in The Daily Oct. 9. He admits that it is "worth a great deal of effort to maintain a student book exchange, to con- tinue to combatnracial and relig- ious discrimination, and to retain rent controls." So far, so good. But Mr. Dawson's next statement amazes me, "But citizens can ac- complish a political program with- out relying on, and thereby build- ing up, an organization which probably includes Communists." Mr. Dawson is referring in this instance to MYDA, a group which had certain privileges taken away from it last spring, at the in- sistence of Gov. Sigler. At that time, a great deal of furore was raised over this issue. Many lib- erals on campus, who had no sympathy with self-avowed Com- munists, felt that a group had the right to self-expression. I was among those who shared these sentiments. MYDA stands for many progres- sive ideas, which in my estima- tion, are for the betterment of our country. (I am not a mem- ber of the organization, by the way). Granted that there are members of the group who are out-and-out Communists. Are We to deny MYDA as a whole the right to work for the betterment of America, just because some of their members are, in my opinion, misguided in some of their ideas? Mr. Dawson's suggestion, that these Communists are working for the group only in the hope that they can use it for a political tool when it is needed, may be true. But that idea, it seems to me, is more remote than the fact that through their good works, MYDA has already done things which tend to make this country a better place in which to live. Certainly Mr. Dawson will admit that the way to get things done for society is through organiza- tions. Each individual citizen in America has a voice in the govern- ment, that is true. But several voices together are more power- ful than one. Let us think twice before we condemn groups. Let us examine what they have accomplished be- fore we try to rub them out. -Jay L. Singer. * * * * 'Stop, Think, Save' To the Editor: ON SUNDAY night the people of the United States listened to President Truman, Charles Luckman, and Secretary of State George C. Marshall make an ur- gent plea for the saving of food in order to solve the problem of combatting starvation abroad. Secretary of State Marshall be- gan by stating that the American foreign policy has entered directly into the American hone. It has been taken right to the dinner table. In order that the peace be except Monday, 10-12 and 2-5; Sunday, 2-5; Wednesday evening, 7-9. The public is cordially in- vited. "Natural History Studies at the Edwin S. George Reserve, Uni- versity of Michigan." October through December, Museums1 Building Rotunda. Events Today Geology and Mineralogy Jour- nal Club: 12 a.m., Room 3056, Nat- ural Science Bldg. Program: Dr. Lewis B. Kellum, director of the Museum of Paleon- tology and Chairman of the Oper- ating Committee, will speak on: "The University Museums; Their Organization and Function." All interested are cordially in- vited. Astronomy Visitor's Night: 7:30- 9:30 p.m., University Observatory (East Ann and Observatory St.). Observation of star clusters and nebulae. The Observatory will not be open if the sky is not clear. Children must be accompanied by adults. The Art Cinema League pre- sents UN CARNET DE BAL - (Life Dajnces On") with Raimu, Harry Baur, Louis Jouvet, and other famous French movie stars. (Continued on Page 6) saved, it is necessary that the peo- ples of Europe receive food, espe- cially wheat, from the United States. If this emergency is not met voluntarily by this country, chaos will reign in Europe. The future of the world is in our hands. Charles- Luckman, chairman of the newly-formed, Presidential- appointed Citizens Food Commit- tee, announced a three-point plan formulated by this committee with the cooperation of President Tru- man. These three points are as follows and I quote: 1. Reduction in the use of grain by farmers in feeding their livestock and poul- try. 2. Curtailment of the use of grain by industry with all grain- consuming industries urged to fob low the steps of the brewers in cutting the use of grain products. 3. Reduction of grain and grain products from the daily diet of every citizen. The President concluded the evening by appealing further for the wholehearted support of the Luckman plan. He emphasized the ominous, forbidding consequences of a failure of this plan. He said that it must succeed if we are to have peace. The people have arisen to a crisis in the past and they can and will do it again. The last of the three points of the food saving plan is the most important from our standpoint. We, in the University of Mieligan campus, represent a small portion of the United States. But, since we are a part of that group striving for a higher learning in order that we may make this world of ours better for future generations, let us open our eyes to the present disillusioning world situation. Eu- rope is desperately in need of food. Without food the hopes and desires of millions of people will die. Starvation, which in turn leads to civil strife and disorder, will be inevitable. Arise to the occasion. Fulfill these requests pleaded for and anticipated by the hungry masses of Europe.'With our help they will make a permanent peace more easily atttained. When you go into the Union or League cafeteria or to any other plate to eat, forego one meal a day without bread. Every slice of bread, every roll saved now will, in the future, be compensated for. When you come to a railroad crossing, you readthe sign "Stop, Look, Listen." Now let us all use this expression, "STOP, THINK, SAVE." - Robert Bourne. IRA Aims To the Editor: THE INTER-RACIAL Associa- .tion is issuing an invitation to all students to join in an active fight against discrimination. We of IRA feel that too much talking and too little action has been tak- en in this field and have therefore formulated a policy of making our voice heard through our deeds. We have cooperated and will continue to cooperate with any political, religious, or, Cultural group that subscribes to our basic policy of combatting discrimina- tion wherever it occurs. Anything adversely affecting race relations or religious and civil liberties is our concern. We" are seeking to make it the concern of every student on campus. We have taken positive action on matters of national concern by making the issues known to the campus, and by doing what we can to aid or combat various measures. We have, therefore, helped in the fight for an FEPC in Michigan and have, more re- cently, aided in the campaign to repeal the Callahan Act. During 1 the summer an off-campus Anti- Lynch Rally was held in coopera- tion with AVC, the National Negro Congress and Hillel Foundation. We have also aided the Southern Negro Youth Congress and the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People and the Civil Rights Congress in their similar fight for equality. On a local scale, we have worked against and will continue to fight discrimination which has arisen in local restaurants and barber- shops. Wherever necessary, we have picketed and even taken le- gal action against establishments which refuse to ascribe to our pol- icy. We have a testing commit- tee which does what its name implies. Through our educational com- mittee we have shown various moving pictures this summer and will continue this policy this fall. This committee also has printed an Inter-Racial bulletin and has brought to the campus many speakers of nation-wide import- ance. We also have an active social committtee which plans to hold more picnics and dances such as were presented last year. There is much more that can be done and will be done, provid- I BARNABY... I