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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 194
Fi fty-Eighth Year
MATTER OF FACT:
Battle Over Steel
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NIGHT EDITOR: ARTHUR HIGBEE
Dogmatic
Assertions
THE LATEST Congressional fashion-eye-
witness reports on the European food
situation-have put the American people
in a greater state of confusion than ever.
Each Congressman wants to see for himself
just what the European situation is, and
each one invariably returns home with dif-
ferent impressions than his fellow touring
Congressmen.
One senator may happen to be in Paris
when a new shipment of food arrives, and
he will return home with the impression
that 'Europe is not starving, that there is
no need to send American food abroad. Oth-
ers will be profoundly convinced of the need
for drastic measures so that Europe can be
fed this winter. Congressinal utterances on
issues so important to our national economy
should be authentic, not merely well-in-
tended.
Almost as many Congressmen have visited
Europe in the last eight months as in the
whole period between the wars. They have
returned with a varied assortment of opin-
ions and prejudices, and the public is at a
loss to know which ones to accept as reliable.
If Congressmen must go abroad and make
eyewitness accounts, they should at least
be discreet enogh to avoid making dog-
matic assertions on the basis of their surface
observations.
-Pat James.
(4'in ed
Pen
THE MAN who reads his newspaper at
breakfast these "eggless" mornings, is
going to need a strong stomach to keep him
from getting headline ulcers.
Emerging from relative but unearned ob-
scurity, the atomic bomb secret made the
front pages this week. We had a new scare
on the theft of atomic bomb data from the
Los Alamos project, which keeps some of us
in tha't semi-mystified, semi-horrified state
wondering just how long the A-bomb can
be used as the United States' secret weapon
in foreign relations. Sooner or later, the
American people will wake up and find that
we have the nation's wheat crop as our only
diplomatic stick.
Statements from the Taft-Stassen Min-
nesota meeting speak or themselves. Ac-
cording to Taft, the Republican Party "end-
ed the war eliminating all the war-born gov-
ernment regulations except a few that had
to be retained, such as rent control and
export control." Some of us sideliners would
like to comment that the Democrats had
no small share in this deal. We also like to
imagine a beatific smile on Taft's face when
he said: "We restored freedom and equality
i lohnr rp~aainaI-inns_ hacsinao~ ur w~hoe Mnh
By STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON-The bitter debate which
has been intermittently in progress be-
tween the managers of steel industry and
their government and labor critics will no
doubt soon come to a boil again. The Coun-
cil of Economic Advisers is expected to
submit a report to the President which
will be highly critical of "unimaginative"
steel management. The battle will reach its
height during the next session of Congress.
Since it will rage loud and long, it is worth
trying to understand what it is all about.
The views of the steel industry's critics,
of whom the chief sparkplug is a govern-
ment economist, Dr. Louis Bean, have al-
ready been reported here, together with a
conversation between the Council of Eco-
nomic Advisers and Mr. E. M. Voorhees,
chairman of the finance committee of
United States Steel. In brief, the economists
argue that the steel managers are content
to limit expansion, to take high profits out
of high prices now, as a sort of hoarding
against a future depression. It is argued
further that in failing to expand their in-
dustry in keeping with the prodigious post-
war expansion of the American economy as
['D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Negative Loyalty
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S loyalty code
seems a trifle negative. In effect, it de-
fines a trustworthy American as one who
has never committed treason, supported for-
eign governments, joined Communist or
Fascist parties, or their fronts, or shown
signs of habitual drunkenness, sexual per-
version, moral turpitude or financial irre-
sponsibility. But one could readily fulfill
all these qualifications, and still be a dread-
ful jerk.
This is negative loyalty, loyalty judged
on the basis of what one has not done. A
character who passes these tests is un-
doubtedly loyal, in one sense, as a block
of wood is loyal, or as a village idiot is
loyal. But isn't there something positive
about the quality of loyalty, which ought
to show up in the standards in some way?
The negative approach is risky. My aunt
hasn't had an automobile accident in twen-
ty-two years; she has never scraped a fender
or frightened a pedestrian. That sounds as
if she were a wonderful driver, but it hap-
pens she doesn't drive.
The State Department has an absolute
right to loyalty among its employees, and
it needs standards which can be written
down on paper, and interpreted by reviewing
officials. These must be lucid and simple.
But couldn't there have been one little
clause, saying that in determining the ques-
tion of trustworthiness the Personnel Secur-
ity Board must take into account any actions
which tend to shdw that the employee
under review entertains positive feelings of
devotion to America and to the democratic
way of life?
I can conceive of an American, deeply
stirred in 1932 or 1933 by the Nazi men-
ace (a decade before the Nazis declared
war on us), joining even a "front" organi-
zation to oppose Hitler. His loyalty, maybe,
is of the kind that would not let him
sleep at night, for fear of the rising dan-
ger to democracy. I can conceive of him
suggesting to a fellow American that
he, too, join. I can imagine the second
man saying: "Ah, that's a lot of hooey.
Hitler's all right. Forget it." Under the
State Department code, the second man is
a better loyalty risk than the first. He
has never had an accident. He also has
never driven.
How, then, do you work it out? I don't
know. Loyalty is a subjective quality; it is
hard to get at it by objective tests. But the
point is that it is a quality, not just an
absence of other qualities, or a void. Love
is also a subjective quality, but one usually
recognizes it when it turns up, and it is
not merely the absence of hate.
The danger is that the State Depart-
inent, and government generally, may
under this approach, acquire over the
years a staff of sleekly uniform nonen-
tities, unreacting men, able to slip through
the meshes of a mechanical and negative
testing.
These will be the tame ones of our com-
munity, the professional non-goers-out-on
limbs, while the imaginative and sensitive
ones (those who r'eact to world events, as
say, Thbmnas Jefferson reacted to events in
France in his day) may decide that govern-
ment is not for them. One wonders if gov-
ernment can stand the loss, and if dull
conformity can carry us through the years
ahead.
After all, the new State Department
code has provisions, such as those barring
support for any foreign government, which
might have caused Byron to be proclaimed
a poor Englishman for fighting for Greek
independence, and Lafayette a bad
Frenchman for helping us to win freedom.
Who questions that these men were loyal
to the ideal of liberty?
The State Department is perhaps doing
the best it can, setting up rules of thumb
a whole, the steel managers have made
a future depression almost inevitable.
That is one side of the coin. The other
side of the coin, as argued with convic-
tion by Mr. Voorhees and his associates,
might fill a fair-sized book. But here is
an attempt briefly to summarize their main
points:
1."The steel industry has no power to
create depression or prosperity." That de-
pends on the ultimate consumer-the man
who buys a car or his wife who buys a
washing machine. They, not the steel man-
agers, decide how much steel is produced.
"Would the 1929 crash have been avoided
is steel had greatly expanded?" Moreover,
Voorhees and his associates argue cogently
that Dr. Bean's neat charts of the relation-
ship between employment and steel capa-
city are demonstrably phony, based on a
logarithmic trick which would horrify any
competent statistician.
2. None of the government economists,
say the steelmen, has troubled to consider
the real meaning of the vast expansion of
steel capacity which they demand. Even if
it were miraculously possible to increase
steel capacity now by as much as 10 per cent
-which it is not-the effect would be dis-
astrously inflationary. The already hard-
pressed construction industry would be
drained, and steel prices themselves would
be forced up, since it takes steel to make
steel. Moreover, the industry is already ex-
panding at top speed consistent with any
reasonable economic theory. And the fact
that the million dollar expansion program
is already six months behind schedule illus-
trates the kind of difficulties which the
government economists so lightly brush
aside.
3. The industry is not "hoarding." "The
steel industry in general," says Mr. Voor-
hees, "is spending more money for replace-
ment and expansion of productive facilities
than it has provided currently for wear and,
exhaustion of present facilities plus all the
income it has after paying the usual divi-
dends to its owners."
4. By any fair test, the steelmen say,
steel prices are low. It can be demonstrated
statistically that they are far lower than
prices in any other important segment of
the economy by comparison with pre-war.
Moreover, Mr. Voorhees gives a version of
his statements on steel prices before the
Council of Economic Advisers which differs
from the version previously reported here.
He was reported to have said that the steel
industry could have absorbed last spring's
wage rises "as long as the industry con-
tinued to operate at 90 per cent of produc-
tion." According to his records, he was first
asked whether the industry could absorb the
increased costs if it were to operate at 80 per
cent of capacity. He replied "no." Asked
about 90 per cent, he answered that "that
was a different matter, and he could not
be so sure about it."
He agrees that he told the council that
on the basis of past experience the steel in-
dustry, far from operating continuously at
90 per cent of capacity, must look forward
to operating at times at 50 per cent of ca-
pacity, or even lower. But he does not agree
with the government economists that if
steel, as the basic industry, were to operate
temporarily at half capacity, this would
necessarily spell a depression.
5. Moreover, Mr. Voorhees does not agree
that steel profits are extraordinary. Steel
profits are higher than they have been for
many years. But Mr. Voorhees argues that
in terms of the great volume of production
and of the lower purchasing power of the
dollar, and in comparison with profits in
agriculture and in other sectors of indus-
try steel profits are very moderate. This,
too, can be demonstrated statistically.
These, then, in too small a nutshell, are
the views of a representative spokesman of
the steel industry. One who has heard
both sides of the debate, which will no
doubt grow increasingly heated, is left with
two impressions. First, the economists, ab-
sorbed in their charts and their statistics,
are undoubtedly inclined to overlook the
pressing practical problems which confront
the steel managers. And second, the steel
managers, absorbed in their immediate bus-
iness problems, are also inclined to under-
estimate the real political meaning to this
country of another period of mass unem-
ployment. Surely in strict self-interest, if
for no other reason, it must be the over-
riding objective of industrial management,
as well as of the government, to do what-
ever can be done to avoid a repetition of
the thirties.
(Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune)
THE NEW YORK TIMES notes that food
has become one of the keystones of big
power foreign policy. Filling the Marshall
gap and completing the Marshall Plan -
seeing that Europe's immediate and long-
range economic needs are looked after - is
America's big instrument in the current
power struggle. Bread is the new symbol
of power in world affairs, the Times com-
ments.
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Economics 51, 52, 53, and 54
make-up examination: 3:15 p.m.,
Thurs., Oct. 16, Rm. 207, Econom-
ics Bldg.
Physical Chemistry Seminar:
Mon., Oct. 13, 4:15 p.m., Rm. 303,
Chemistry Bldg. Prof. J. O. Hal-
ford will speak on "Internal Ro-
tation." All interested are in-
vited.
Exhibitions
Exhibition of works by local ar-
tists, presented by the Ann Arbor
Art Association in the Ra ham
Galleries, daily except S day,
through October 17, 10-12 . -on,
2-5 and 7-10 p.m.
Events Today
Roger Williams Guild:
Open house at the Guild House,
502 East Huron, immediately fol-
lowing the game.
Lutheran Student Association:
Informal party at the Student
Center, 1304 Hill Street, 8 p.m.
Coming Events
Carillon Recital: The 3 o'clock
Sunday afternoon program by
Percival Price will consist of the
following: Sleepers Wake! and
Preludes, 1, 5, 11, 17, 18, by Bach;
Melody, Little Story, Mignon, and
The Happy Farmer by Schumann;
Compositions for the Carillon by
Glauser; and four English folk
songs.
Student Branch of American
Society Heating & Ventilating En-
gineers: Organizational meeting,
7:30 p.m., Tues., Oct. 14, Rm. 304,
Michigan Union. All those inter-
ested in heating, ventilating, and
air conditioning and all engineers
are invited.-
Phi Kappa Sigma: 8 p.m., Mon.,
Oct. 13, Rm. 323, Michigan Union.
Symposium: Current Research
in the Social Sciences. Speaker,.
Prof. Robert B. Hall, Director of
the Center for Japanese Studie3.
Subject, "Area Studies: Their Im-
plications for Research in the So-
cial Sciences," 4 p.m., Mon., Oct.
13, East Conference Room, Rack-
ham Building; auspices of Alpha
Kappa Delta.
Showing of Film, "Que Lindo Es
Michocan," with Tito Guizai: and
Gloria Marin will be presented at
the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
October 21 and 22 under the aus-
pices of La Sociedad Hispanica.
Members will be admitted by pay-
ing only the tax.
Conversation group, La Socie-
dad Hispanica, 3-5 p.m., Mon., In-
ternational Center. All interested
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Sigma Rho Tau, speech society:
Annual Wranglers Roundup,
Tues., Oct. 14, 7:15 p.m., Michigan
Union.
U. of M. Hot Record Society:
Sun., Oct. 12, 8 p.m. Michigan
League. All students interested
are cordially invited.
Le Cercle Francais: Tues., Oct.
14, 8 p.m., Rm. 305, Michigan Un-
ion. Presentation of the new offi-
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student with one year college
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Churches
First Presbyterian Church
Morning Worship Service. Ser-
mon by Dr. W. P. Lemon, 10:45
a.m.
Westminster Guild: 5 p.m. The
Encyclopedia Britannica film
"Atomic Energy': and "Atomic
Power," will be shown. Supper.
First Congregational Church
Minister, Reverend Leonard A.
Parr.
9:30-10:45-Church School
10:45-Public Worship. Dr.
Parr's subject, "ANSWERABLE
COURAGES."
6 :00-Congregationad - Disci-
ples Student Guild supper and
discussion on "Christian Personal-
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Worship 10:50 a.m. Sermon by
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University Lutheran Chapel
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Sunday services, 9:45 and 11:00.
Sermon by Rev. Alfred Scheips,
"Dissolving Doubts."
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Supper Meeting, Sunday, 5:30
p.m. at the Student Center, 1511
Washtenaw.
Roger William Guild
10:00-Bible School. The Book
of Galatians will be studied.
11:00 Church service. Rev. C.
H. Loucks will speak on "The
Value of the Symbolic."
6-8-Roger Williams Guild, 502
East Huron. "The Importance of
Religion in a Student's Life," by
Dean Alice Lloyd.
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Sunday, 4:30 p.m. Meet at Zion
Lutheran Parish Hall and leave
from there for an outdoor supper
and campfire worship service. Bi-
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Center.
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10:00 a.m.-Adult Study Group,
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11:00 a.m.-Service of Worship,
Rev. Edward H.. Redman preach-
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ClI;Vrished Features
To The Editor:
A FAITHFUL ROOTER and
rah-rah boy from away back.
I wvish to inquire the cause and
pl'votest the removal of two cher-
i1ilied features of the football sea-
cn. These are the traditional
miarch up State St. to the Union
after a victory led by the band
with its hats turned backwards
and with the drum major attempt-
ing to break every over-hanging
light with his baton. I realize the
band house has been moved but
still feel this is a part of campus
life worth keeping.
The other feature is the movies
of the games formerly shown at
the Union. Certainly these afford
us an opportunity to see much of
what we may have missed from
our seats at the game. The fact
that these were well-attended
gives an indication of their pop-
ularity. Let's restore these to cam-
pus
-Noel Straigh
Jr. Stadium Club
To the Editor:
TODAY juvenile delinquency is
one of the major problems of
this country. Many organizations
are putting forth serious efforts
to aid in preventing this prob-
lem. Boys' Clubs are formed, fa-
cilities for recreation are made
available and in doing this they
recognize the source of their
trouble. There are many major
league ball clubs that have their
"Knot-Hole" Clubs to give the
kids a chance to see the game and
to prevent such things as gate-
crashing.
In our local problem the Uni-
versity, by putting more police-
men on the beat, only encourages
the boys to be smarter or go in a
bigger group. When the boys are
successful in this sort of thing the
feeling for law and order has tak-
en a step backwards. It is only
a normal feeling of the boys that
they have a right to see the game.
$3.60 is a lot of money to boys
that age and is out of reason with
their means. That leaves only one
other manner of entering the sta-
dium and the one to which they
resort.
I wonder if the game is played
only for the benefit of the alumni
who can more than afford the
price? The several recent exhibi-
t ons haveshown that some of
'them are not even aware there
is a game going on. Do we need
money so badly that we can shut
our eyes to a group that has every
right to see the game even though
financially unable to do so?
Instead of luring bigger and bet-
ter cops for a job I am quite sure
they detest, why not have a gate
where kids of a certain age limit
may enter free or for a small sum.
Let them sit on the steps if no-
where else is available. The Uni-
versity will gain in the long run.
Let us create a "Junior Stadium
Club" for the kids who deserve a
break.
The brave city "resurrected an
old ordinance" in its usual at-
tempt to solve a problem. Ann
Arbor rates very low in its hand-
ling of the juvenile problem, and
has shown how to combat a ser-
ious crime wave. Let the Univer-
sity show them the way. Ameri-
can football is not a sport for just
the people of means, it's played
by every kid in the country and
it belongs to them as well as to
the 50-yard linequarterbacks.
--Robert E. Allright
6:00 p.m.-Vesper Service, Rev.
Edward H. Redman preaching on
"Moral Issue Facing All of Us."
7:00 p.m.-Unitarian Student
Group-Supper, Discussion. Mr.
Murray Frumin speaking on "Pal-
estine, the U. S. and the UN.
First Church of Christ Scientist,
409 S. Division St.
Sunday morning service at 10:30.
Subject, "Are Sin, Disease, and
Death Real?"
Sunday School at 11:45.
Wednesday evening service at
8 p.m.
Church, Wednesday evening
and Sunday meetings to be held
in the ballroom of the Michigan
League Building, at the usual
times.
The Ann Arbor Meeting of the
American Society of Friends will
meet regularly Sunday morning
at 11:00 in the Unitarian Church
at the corner of Washtenaw and
Berkshire. All friends and friends-
of-friends are invited. .
'I
Marching Band
To the Editor:
WHAT HAS HAPPENED to the
S MichiganMarching Band?
There was a day when it was
worth the price of admission just
to see the Band. They MARCHED
and made with the BAND music.
The exhibition during the halves
of the last two games has been
lousy. The fancy formations are
probably a delight to the announ-
cers in the press box but highly
uninspiring to the 50-60 per cent
who sit in or near the end zones.
A solo is fine in the concert hall
but embarrassingly out of place in
the stadium. In our area there
was a long painful silence until
some enterprising lad turned on
his radio so that we might hear
the music. So help me Hannah
what do you think they were play-
ing--"Trees!" And this in the
Michigan Stadium. If Crisler him--
self had come out to sing the ac-
companiment I gould not have.
been more surprised. Next we had
someone talking, in fact there
seemed to be someone talking all
the while - and very little march-
ing. Anyhow someone else started
talking and then he stopped and
laid a very large silent egg. I was
told later that it was a joke.
Still no marching. Is' the band
tired? Then we listened to the
prize Michigan bore giving out
with "Michigan Lore." Good lord,
50,000 people paid Mr. Crisler to
come and sit in his stands. Is it
fair to make them listen to such
guff?
I am still hoping that we have
not become too sophisticated to
thrill at the spectacle of the band
marching - the drum major hurl-
ing his baton over the goal posts
- and some of the other drills
they used to execute.
At the rate things are going,
come the Ohio State game and in-
stead of hearing the "Victors"
when a touchdown is made (we
hope) the band is liable to come
up with Gilbert and Sullivan's
"Tripping Hither, Tripping Thih-
er, Nobody Knows Why or With-
er."
Here's a plea for that Marching
Band to get out there and march,
and Please, no more "Trees."
-John Ailing
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Communist Viewpoint
To the Editor:
Mr. Dawson, in his editorial "No
Need for Reds" made the
statement that "the disorder
avoided by that move (rent con-
trols) would in fact be a sub-
stantial disadvantage to the Com-
munist Party which admittedly
is the most effective indthe midst
of chaos." I would like to ask
him on what basis he makes such
a statement. 'To what articles or
public statements by representa-
tives of the Communist Party does
he refer when he says that it is
"admittedly" most effective in the
midst of chaos?-It might be
worth his whiles as a newspaper
man to look into some Comnunist
literature. If he refers to writings
of the past of other countries he
might place those writingsin their
proper historical setting. Some of
the letters of Marx and Engels
might prove quite informative on
this particular question of chaos.
Mr. Dawson states further "Citi-
zens of a democracy need not de-
pend on Communists to accomp-
lish their ends. To do so is to
admit intellectual and moral in-
solvency." First he forgets that
members of the Communist Party
are still citizens that their party
is on the ballot, that their right to
speak their views is safeguarded
by the Constitution, that their
rights to full citizenship are clari-
recent Supreme Court de-
cisions, expecially the Schneider-
man Case, in which Wendell
Willke defended a Communist's
right tocitizenship.
If Mr. Dawson is interested in
real democracy, let him wage the
fight for full freedom of speech.
Let him urge that such uncon-
stitutional infringements as those
perpetrated by the Thomas-Ran-
kin Committee, by the President's
loyalty order, be done away with.
Let him urge that the Constitu-
tion be enforced rather than
scorned by these same people.
Then, Mr. Dawson, let the peo-
ple decide. See that they receive
both sides to every question
(which would mean a great many
changes in the monopoly-control-
ed press of the nation).
Lit them decide for themselves
weather they are willing to work
band. Palmer, who directs a 16-
"I Have Changed."
E. E. Ellis
Ralph Neafus Club
Communist Party
TRS.JENNIE SPINDLER
Walsh, retiring president of
the Missouri Federation of Wom-
en's Democratic Clubs, had worked
hard and long to elect Mrs. Ches-
ter Hoover to the office she was
t
BARNABY...