FOUE THE MICHIGAN DAILY THUTRSDAY, OC wwwwlwrweYWrlrwwll l wllw *rl r Fifty-Eighth Year I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Peace is the Issue BILL MAULDIN Edited and managed by students of the uni- versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Stafff Jofm 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 Stafff Nancy Helmick.................General Manager Jeanne Swendeman......... 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Now, however, it represents the student body through regularly elected delegates speaking for all schools and colleges. This group handles student problems, and the recent liquor ban comes under that heading. The Student Legislature was not consulted before the plan was announced, however, nor was any other representative student group, nor the student body itself. The interpretation was handed down from above, without allowing the students to take a crack at the problem. The protests aroused by the ban have, for the most part, been misdirected. In- stead of fighting the ban alone, it would be wiser to fight the ban by hitting the manner in which it was presented. University officials could have acted more intelligently by placing the responsibility for proper conduct on the students. Without tightening regulations, the University could have said directly to the student body, or its representatives: "Things have been getting pretty lax; in fact there has been too much drinking, loosening of morals, and other conduct improper at a first-rate University. Now we have a huge enrollment, and it's hard to keep things under control. "Can you accept responsibility on an in- dividual basis? Will you try to act like adults, and if you overstep proper bounds, will you accept punishment? If not, we will have to impose hard rules to see that the students do not run wild." Certainly the students would have re- sponded. But the University tried the dic- tatorial method, and it has aroused nat- ural resentment. The University must finally learn that cooperation and adult conduct can be ex- pected only when the students are given a chance to accept responsibilities and work things out for themselves. -Harriet Friedman. Voluntary Plan PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S food conserva- tion plan will be helpful even if only a few people cooperate on a voluntary basis. Any saving of meat, poultry and eggs will result in more food for a hungry Europe. Pound for pound, what you don't eat, is released for consumption in an area that has felt the direct effect of a devastating war. The reasons for proposing a voluntary plan are simple and expressive of a demo- cratic handling of the problem. Although, the plan will not receive 100 per cent cooperation-no voluntary plan can expect to-those that are willing to coop- erate will make a definite contribution to the world's food needs.. The voluntary plan will not curb our diets. The University's residence hall system finds little difficulty in planning adequate meals without meat on Tuesdays and poultry an - rh,, c m on iiudvs acrdin tn Mi By SAMUEL GRAFTON WHAT ATTITUDE shall one adopt and live by during the current crisis between Russia and the West? It seems to me the desire for peace is still the strongest, the safest, the least likely to ensnare one in the dangers of historical error and moral warp- ing. In other words, after you have listened to some speaker make a powerful, clever, even a documented and reasoned attack on Russia, does something within you want him to go on and propose some plan for solving the problem and establishing the peace? Or are you satisfied, political- ly, morally and esthetically, with the at- tack alone? If so, you are perhaps already partially mobilized inside. Do you pounce eagerly upon a new argu- ment against Russia, or is there a little bit of regret somewhere within you that the situation has deteriorated enough to pro- duce such arguments? Would you be de- lighted with, or sorry over, new evidences, say, of Russian expansionist tendencies? Have you, over the last two years slipped in- Deport ation Cases HISTORY may not repeat itself but it does establish ironical parallels that test our moral and intellectual integrity. Under the guise of purging subversive elements from the United States, alien de- portation proceedings were instituted against Harry Bridges, leader of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Un- ion, in 1934, on the grounds that he was a member of the Communist Party and coop- erated with the Marine Workers Industrial Union, an affiliate of the Trade Union Unity League which was created by the Commun- ists and led by them until its dissolution in 1934 when its members entered the AFL. In passing on the Bridges case, the Supreme Court held that membership in the Communist Party had not been proven. On the second charge, the Court ruled that co- operation with the legitimate trade uhion objectives of a TUUL union did not consti- tute grounds for deportation. Since Bridges was not accused of having been a member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union but only of cooperating with it, the Court did not decide whether membership in a TUUL union constituted "affiliation" with the Communist Party which is an offense pun- ishable by deportation. Within the near future, however, the Supreme Court will be called on to decide if the Communist Party is subversive and whether a considerable number of aliens who belonged to TUUL can now be deported, irrespective of their present beliefs and af- filiations, for membership in labor organ- izations which passed out of existence 13 years ago. Last month, the Government launched a deportation drive against trade union lead- ers by arresting John Santo, international organization director of the Transport Workers Union, CIO, and Michael J. Ober- meier, president and secretary-treasurer of Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees Union, AFL. Santo and Obermeier have been charg- ed with memberships in or affiliation with an organization advocating overthrow of the Government by force and violence. Santo, who has been a resident of the United States since 1927 was one of the founders of the TWU. The current action against the Roumanian-born TWU leader is a continuation of deportation proceedings initiated in 1941 on the grounds that Santo entered this country illegally in 1927. In re- newing these deportation proceedings, the Government has been forced to change the charge because Santo's return to this country on a troopship after three and a half years abroad as a buck sergeant with the infantry in the Aleutians made him a legal entrant. Ordinarily Army service con- fers citizenship almost automatically, as it should for a man who goes out to fight in defense of this country, but the Government has failed to accord this status to Santo, who volunteered for Army duty and emerg- ed with an honorable discharge. Obermeier, a native of Germany and a resident of the United States for 34 years, has headed the largest local of culinary workers in the country since its organiza- tion 10 years ago. During the war, Oberme- ier broadcast appeals to the German work- ing class at the request of the State De- partment's Office of War Information. While Santo may be a member of the Communist Party and Obermeier was associ- ated with the Food Workers Industrial Un- ion, a subsidiary of the long-defunct TUUL, the facts in both cases indicate that these deportation proceedings are an attempt to weaken and undermine the American trade union movement before the 1948 elec- tions. Obermeier was one of the leaders of an independent union of catering workers which joined the AFL in 1936 and helped to clean out gangster rule by the Capone syndicate and Dutch Schultz mobs, of the New York hotel and restaurant unions. Meanwhile, he has not only been instru- to the mental habit of of making peace? making points instead The people of the world are entitled, of course, to take the same approach to the other side, also. Is the organization of a new Comintern, or of a half or three- quarters Comintern, a step toward peace, or is it an episode in a mobilization for a fight? What evidence does the Soviet Union give that it believes it to be possible, and desir- able, for a capitalist United States to live out its own destiny in a peaceful world? Does Russia entertain such a belief? Doesn't the Soviet effort to prove that American cap- italist thinking resembles that of Hitler Ger- many come dangerously close to setting up the doctrine that peace with America is im- possible? Remember that the issue is peace: it is a distortion of the issue to change it into a noisy schoolyard dispute over which side is better. Who has set up for-us the for- mal and untimely problem of instantly deciding which side is loftier, purer, nobler, and how has this problem come to be substituted for the real problem we faced at the end of the war, which was the making of peace? It is possible to become so lost in watching the successive points made by each con- testant (with head shifting from side to side, as when one watches a tennis match) as to forget that the game itself is bad. To what judge sitting on what bench, are we addressing these impassioned briefs? The issue is peace, not the assertion of super- iority, and, in fact, the best way to asser{ superiority, and to make it stick, is to show capacity for leadership in making peace. To want peace, to demand peace, to talk peace, to issue peace plans, to request the Soviet Union to come forth with peace proposals, is the only meaningful way in which to conduct this controversy. The world listens with a sinking heart to the ingenious fellow (whether he be an American politician or a member of the new fractional Comintern) who hints that peace is impossible, and who douses the whole issue in a muggy, metaphysical salad dressing, thick with unripe analyses of national differences, and seasoned with a dash of determinism. Nothing is more indeterminate than determinism, as the last war showed, when it disclosed our- selves and Russia fighting on the same side. The issue is still peace, and the side which can ram home into the conscious- ness of the world its desire for peace will need no press agents to extol its virtues or to win it adherents. (Copyright, 1947,N.Y. Post Syndicate) MATTER OF FACT : French Economy By JOSEPH ALSOP , PARIS-In these reports from Europe, the major emphasis has been placed, as it should be placed, upon the political and strategic threats arising from the European economic crisis. But it is now time to point out that the danger is also economic - that if we continue to indulge our weakness for half measures, for being too little and too late, the result is likely to sweep from our own tables all the good things, all the good cheer which we are so complacently enjoying. In Paris, even more than in Rome, the possibility is evident of a world-wide crash more shattering, more irreversible and more certain to engulf the United States in the end than the world crash of the Hoover years. It is repetitious but needful to begin by saying that in France, as in Italy, the trouble arises from a monthly trading de- ficit with the rest of the world which the French no longer have the dollars, gold or credits to cover. Whereas in Italy the de- ficit is between $45 and $55 millions per month, it is about $120 millions monthly or a little more in France. Moreover, this is a dollar deficit in the strictest sense. With the soft money areas of the world, France's trade is currently in favorable balance. But, like Italy, she can only get wheat to feed her people, coal, most of her petroleum, certain raw materials and special equipment for her factories, by laying dollars or gold on the line. There is hardly a nation left in the world, except the United States, that can pay for French goods with dollars. Ameri- can purchases in France are relatively trivial. And since France, again like Italy, can only get coal and wheat for dollars, the French economy simply cannot oper- ate at all without dollar loans to cover the monthly deficits for the present. This is the important thing to understand. The commodities bought with dollars are so vital that without them, not merely France's trade with us, but the whole of France's economic life will come to an almost dead stop. (Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune) i41 6y united f.eature Syndiute. Ti, -All rights reserved/-1 ". . . So when I heard about the government loyalty tests, I thought, 'Why not us, too?' ..." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). AJAX FOUNTAIN PENS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, VOL. LVIII, No. 21 NYI NSOFiFOUNTAIN PEN ON 'ASuCot'tO ty 'L~ N;:..1 0* F VOUNTAIN P'EN F-itat b~EWPF _ 4 13 1947 . Notices To Faculty Personnel: All those holding appointments payable on the University Year basis will receive their first check on October 31. Should an emer- gency exist in any individual case, checks which would be collected on October 31, may be obtained, previous to that date by coming to the Payroll Department, Room 9, University Hall. Library Tour for Graduate Stu- dents: Thursday, Friday, and Sat- urday, Oct. 16, 17, and 18, gradu- ate students of the University will t be taken on a trip through the General Library by members of the staff. The tour will start at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Rm. 110, first floor, General Library near the West entrance. The School of Education Testing Program: Thurs., Oct. 16, Rack- ham Bldg.. 4:30-6-15 and 7:45-10 p.m. This testing program is in- tended for all teacher's certificate candidates. t Women students who are Jun- iors in the School of Education who are taking the School of Edu- cation testing program on October 16 have late permission until.10:45 p.m. on that day. Women students are notified that regular weekend rules will apply to those wishing to attend out-of-town football games: "Weekend-(a) Overnight: Any girl expecting to be out of her house Friday, Saturday, or Sun- day night must notify the head of the house personally, leave ad- dress in advance, and sign in when she returns. (b) Late Per- mission: Routine requests for late permissions must be made in ad- vance to the Office of the Dean of Women except for Friday, Satur- day, and Sunday nights. For Fri- day, Saturday, and Sunday nights, housemothers may grant this per- mission if they approve and if the permission has been requested in person by the student before she leaves her residerice. In such cases, the housemother is requested to' attach to sign-out sheets an ex- planation of each late permission granted." "Listening parties" to be held for the Northwestern game will be approved for the hours from 2-5, provided requests are filed in the Office of Student Affairs before 12 noon on Thursday, Oc- tober 16. Chaperons should be se- lected in accordance with Party Regulations. Fraternities, Sorori- ties, and University. Residence Halls with resident housemothers or house directors will need no ad- ditional chaperons for this event, but the party should be registered in the Office of Student Affairs before noon, Thurs., Oct. 16. Use of Restricted Parking Areas: Parking areas on campus which are designated as "RESTRICTED TO THOSE HOLDING PER- MITS," are to be used only by per- sons displaying the parking tag. It is to be noted that a student driving permit is not a parking permit, and consequently does not carry with it the right to use those areas. Beginning Monday, Oct. 20, penalties will be imposed upon those individuals whose cars are found parked in Restricted Areas without the proper parking tag displayed. Sophomore Women: Collection of class dues ($1), October 13-21. A booth will be open in the League from 3 to 5 daily. Organ- ized houses will be contacted per- sonally. ,Student Print Loan Collection: A few prints are still available for loan to students who have not al- ready been assigned a picture for the fall semester. These prints are on display at Rm. 205, Uni- versity Hall, and may be picked up immediately upon payment of the rental fee. Placement: Registration mate- rial may be obtained at the Bu- reau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall, during office hours (9-12 and 2-4 on Tuesday, Wed- nesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week. This applies to Feb- ruary, June, and August graduates as well as to graduate students or staff members who wish to regis- ter and who will be available for positions next year. The Bureau has two placement divisions: Teacher Placement and General Placement. The General Division includes service to people seeking positions in business, industry, and professions other than teach- ing. Only one registration period will be held during the current school year. Blanks must be returned one week from the date they are taken out. Students are urged to regis- ter as soon as possible, as employ- ers are already making appoint- ments to come for interviews. Concerts Patrice Munsel, Metropolitan Opera soprano, assisted by Stuart Ross at the piano, and Betty Wood, flutist, will give the open- ing concert in the Second Annual Extra Concert Series on Saturday, Oct. 18, 8:30 p.m. She will sing a program of arias and songs by Mozart, Benedict, Poldowski, Mas- senet, Sandoval Bayly, Rachmani- off, and Liebling. A limited number of tickets are available at the offices of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower, up to noon Saturday; and after 7 o'clock Saturday night at the Hill Audi- torium box office. Lectures University Lecture: Mr. Arthur Young, formerly Vice-President in charge of Industrial Relations of the United States Steel Cor- poration, will lecture on- the sub- EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints every letter tothe 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, printedeor omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. * * *. No Control To the Editor: LAST YEAR the University re-1 ceived some unwarranted pub- licity regarding actions of the stu- dents in the national press. We say unwarranted because at the time there was in force a reason- able regulation which placed the burden of responsibility for con- duct on the student. On the whole this self-discipline was appreciat- ed and successfully carried by stu- dents eager to assume the respon- sibilities of mature citizens. Such misdeeds as occurred were the na- tural results of 20,000 students living in a single community. This perfectly normal situation has been altered recently by no drinking rules and pledges en- forced by University authorities, without any regard of human na- ture or past experience. As hap- pened during Prohibition, there has been more drinking - drink- ing in a totally uncontrolled man- ner in private homes and apart- ments, in automobiles, and in empty lots just to mention a few possible places where the ingen- ious student can drink. There are more people show- ing the influence of alcohol at a "dry" party today than there ever were at a controlled "wet" party. Students are driving automobiles while and after drinking - a problem the University has so far totally disregarded. Conditions are conducive to more immoral con- duct than went on before the old rules. The underlying reason of course it that nobody throws away a half empty bottle and one can't keep it on his person in view of the present ban - more liquor being consumed in a shorter space of time. In Short, everyhpossible objective of the ban, whether it be drinking, drunkeness, or stu- dent conduct while and after drinking, has been thwarted by the student who has been driven to drinking undercover. If the University is anxious to return to a condition where the students have respect for its reg- ulations there is only one natural solution. Rely on the maturity and self-discipline that are among the foremost ideals the University itself wishes its students to at- tain. This will serve to retain three controlling factors over stu- dent conduct, chaperones, student officers, and the social pressure of many people. Drinking will then occur in such a manner that has been approved by society in general and by colleges and uni- versities from coast to coast. -82 Signatures * * * World Federalists To the Editor. MR. CARNEIRO, in his letter of Oct. 7, is evidently striving to take a Machiavellian approach to world politics, and suggests that world federalists should face the realities of our times and launch forth on a moral war against the Russians. Once the Russian ob- struction is dispensed with, he feels we will then be able to set up our world state. He supports the argument with the view, "War is inevitable" and we had better ject, "The Challenge of Industrial Relations Today," at 4 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 16, Rm. 1025, Angell Hall; auspices of the Bureau of Industrial Relations. The public is cordially invited. University Lecture: Professor Pierre Lavedan, of the Department of History of Art of the Sorbohne, will lecture on the subject, "Contemporary Problems of Urbanism in France" (illus- trated; in French), at 4:15 p.m., Mon., Oct. 20, Rackham Amphi- theatre; auspices of the Depart- ment of Fine Arts. The public is invited. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Charles Schaffner Goodman, Business Administration; thesis: "The Development of California as a Manufacturing and Marketing Center for Fashion Apparel," Fri., Oct. 17, West Council Room, Rackham Bldg., 2 p.m. Chairman, E. H. Gault. Doctoral Examination for Stan- ley Kirke Norton, Economics; the- sis: "Guidance Problems Encoun- tered in Certain High Schools of Michigan: Their Types, Frequen- (Continued on Page 6) have it now in order to be as- sured of a "relatively bloodless vic- tory." Mr. Carneiro veils his trend of thought with a little ambiguous moralizing and feigned indecision about the tragedy of war; but the intent is plainly there. In relation to the morality of another "war to end all wars," I have heard that phrase before, and there are certain ends which justify qualified means; but there is always doubt as to the justifi- cation of selling one's soul for any end. As to the practicality of a moral war to establish the world state, I refer Mr. Carneiro to "A Study of History" by Arnold Toynbee, in which it is shown that the uni- versal, if established by one or thet other of the big powerstoday, will not last. A nation can bind the world to its will for a certain length of time but like Pax Ro- mana, such an arrangement is doomed to disintegrate. Mr. Carneiro feels that world federation now would further di- vide the world, for the Eastern powers would not join in. This is an over-simplification of the sit- uation. No one knows exactly what Russia would do if she were pre- sented with the choice of joining 'or staying on the outside of a world federation. Many observers feel that Russia is merely seeking security, driven by fear and sus- picion of what she calls "Capi- talistic encirclement." If we were to offer her this security and jus- tice within the framework of a limited world government, she might grasp at it. Until we have made this offer, can we say we have made an honest attempt for peace? Assuming that Russia did re- fuse and the non-Soviet dominat- ed states formed a federation, leaving the door open for the Russians, this would not neces- sarily precipitate war as Mr. Car- neiro alludes. We must remem- ber' that the Eastern bloc would be in a very inferior position eco- nomically, and it would be ex- tremely difficut for it to make advances politically. In fact, it might well find itself forced into the federation, with economic and political collapse as its only al- ternative. Revolutions start off moderate- ly, swing to the radical extreme, then swing back to what can be termed relative conservatism. Ac- cording to Mr. X of the state de- partment, Russian communism is showing signs of starting on the backward swing. This being true, the difference between the East and the West may become much smaller, and the possibilities of unity much greater. All of which indicates war is not inevitable, and the immediate formation of a federation of all willing nations would greatly in- crease our chances of peace. -George Shepard, President, Michigan Chapter, World Fed- eralists. A Letters to the Editor... 'A a 4 4 #1. t4 I More on Maloy To the Editor: IN A BRILLIANT expose, Mr. Maloy has with one stroke con- demned the MYDA program and has decided that the political af- filiation of an organization is de- termined by that of the president it keeps. Ed Shaffer has been elected president of MYDA. That he is a member of the Ralph Nipfus Club, Communist Party, is a dis- covery no more sensational than my discovery that Mr. Maloy is not. The relation between the two facts and MYDA's statement that its "principles are the property of no single political philosophy or party," is not so clear. I find little more in it than that MYDA does not exclude communists and that Ed Shaffer apparently possesses the qualities needed of the pres- ident df an organization. I see nothing inherently startling in that and see in it evidence of par- ticular partisanship or partline policy, no more than if Mr. Shaf- fer were a "staunch" Republican. Yet, the editorial insinuates that it is not far from a sin to have a Communist as president and that it marks an organization with a sort of tattle-tale red about which gossip may be passed over editorial backfences. In his revelation the author seemingly suspects perpetual con- trol of MYDA by Ed Shaffer, some sort of "ideological dictatorship," by remarking that he has been re- elected to his office. I hate to break up this cropping suspicion by telling the author that it wasn't planted right. Though neither member of MYDA northe Daily staff, I have frequently read that Harriet Ratner was formerly MYDA president. Now, unless Ed Shaffer went under an -assumed name and resided in a women's coop ... That it is thought desirable to 4 .1 4{ il d Af BARNABY...