T HE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 17, 1947
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NIGHT EDITOR: NAOMI STERN
Academic Freedom
WITHIN THE PAST YEAR, freedom of
thought, expression and assembly in
the educational institutions of Michigan
have been dealt a number of staggering
blows.
Teachers have been fired or refused em-
ployment because they objectively exposed
their students to all ideas or points of view
fundamental to a complete understanding
of their subjects or freely exercised their
constitutional perogative as citizens of the
community.
Students have been denied their consti-
tutional right to become active members
of legal groups both on and off the cam-
pus.
Campus organizations have been refused
freedom to assemble and have been sup-
pressed.
Books which conflict with the currently
accepted interpretation of history and pre-
sent world affairs have been censored or
removed from school and public libraries.
As this inquisition has developed, the in-
tellectual freedom of every student and
teacher in Michigan has been seriously en-
dangered.
Recognizing the ominous implications
of this growing threat to student and fac-
ulty liberty, 101 delegates from 48 organ-
izations met at the Michigan Academic
Freedom Conferences last May to discuss
ways and means of repulsing these in-
fringements on academic freedom.
Subsequently, the Conference adopted the
following resolutions:
1. We reject utterly the attempts of out-
side agencies to coerce, intimidate, or by
other means force their opinions as to the
functioning of educational institutions or
the activities of students and professors at
these institutions.
2. We reaffirm the right of students and
faculty members to join and participate in
the activities, on or off campus, of any legal
organization they desire.
3. We believe that all students should
enjoy the rights of free speech and assembly
at Michigan colleges and high schools.
4. We oppose any form of discrimination
on the basis of color, race, religion, or na-
tional origin on Michigan campuses.
5. It is the sense of this body that teach-
ers be hired solely on the basis of their pro-
fessional accomplishments, and not on the
basis of race, creed, national origin or poli-
tical belief.
Tomorrow delegates representing stu-
dent, veteran, church and labor groups
throughout the state will meet in Ann
Arbor for the Second Michigan Confer-
ence on Academic Freedom with the pur-
pose of establishing permanent organiza-
tional machinery to disseminate informa-
tion and actively combat attempts to re-
press academic freedom.
Whether this Conference succeeds in ful-
filling this crucial objective depends en-
tirely on the positive action of Michigan
students and faculty members.
Unless alert students, faculty members
and citizens attend and support the Con-
ference with all their intelligence and en-
ergy, academic freedom in Michigan may
fall before the relentless onslaught of re-
action.
--Joe Frein
Y THE MARSHALL PLAN we can help
the Europeans be what they want to be,
By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER
AMERICANS who want to know why they
are worrying about the Soviet Union in-
stead of concentrating on football, brands
of tobacco, the new length of skirts and the
coming presidential election, should read
"Speaking Frankly" (Harper and Brothers),
the account of two years "cold war" with
Russia by our ex-Secretary of State, Jimmy
Byrnes.
In this candid book they will find the
answer to the question why the United
States and the Soviet Union do not "set-
tle their differences and make peace.
Mr. Byrnes' answer is that it takes two
countries to make peace. The Soviet Un-
ion does not want peace on terms accept-
able to the United States.
It does not want European or any other
recovery outside its own sphere of influ-
ence. It lives and plots in hope of the next
great American depression that will leave
Ill-advised Program
WITH THE ARRIVAL of each succeeding
meatless, eggless, or poultryless day,
President Truman's food conservation pro-
gram takes on more and more the air of a
vast soap selling publicity stunt.
This analogy is not true merely be-
cause the chairman of the Citizen's Food
Committee, Charles Luckman, happens to
be a former soappromoter himself (though
the publicity methods used have put to
shame the soap operas) but, more to the
point, because even a cabinet member,
Clinton Anderson, can no longer keep a
straight face. His statement that meatless
days are relatively naive and useless in
combating current shortages were later
withdrawn by him under Administration
pressure, but the truth cannot be so easily
overlooked.
When a cabinet officer feels warranted in
making such a statement, it is well to probe
beneath the ballyhoo and see what the real
situation is. Judging from well-verified
newspaper reports, three questions seem in-
escapable.
First, why does the Administration not
make an honest, all-out effort to transport
the millions of tons of grain still lying
out in the great wheat states and threat-
ened with spoilage through a shortage of
railway cars?
Second, if the government really wishes to
-lower food prices - with which is tied up
the whole question of food shortages - why
does it not cease buying food in such huge
quantities as to create an artificial scarcity,
thus raising the prices?
Third, why doesn't the government re-
lease the vast hoard of canned goods, dried
eggs, wheat, and potatoes which it has
bought, stored, and even destroyed to jack
up those same prices which other units of
the Administration are endeavoring to low-
er?
It may be readily seen by this that a
tragic paradox exists today - a govern-
ment which is trying to raise prices and
lower them at the same time, and a gov-
vernment that urges consumers to save
food for the starving millions of Europe,
while at the same time holding itself
the largest single stock of foodstuffs in
the country away from those starving
people.
For months, Americans have been bom-
barded with bleak reports of near starva-
tion in Europe, and with little doubt, the
situation is probably as serious as pictured.
Few would question that our duty calls for
us to help these peoples, both with machin-
ery and food, to restore their shattered econ-
omies.
But, the fact remains that the Truman
program is feeble, ill-advised, and virtually
useless unless it strikes at these three basic
questions just mentioned. After all, it is
very hard to convince Mr. and Mrs. John
Q. Public that they should give up their
pound of hamburger every Tuesday when
these conditions axe known to exist un-
checked.
-Russell B. Clanahan
the Soviets and their communist allies free
to enslave the world.
We Americans will just have to go on
worrying about the world - or turn it over
to the communists.
If widely read, this book, which ought
properly be called the "education of Jim-
my Byrnes," could make the American
people see why the Truman Doctrine, the ,
Marshall Plan, aid for national China,
etc. are essential to our American sur-
vival.
Mr. Byrnes tried to get peace'and failed.
Still he does not believe in the fatality of
war. He implies that war can best be avoid-
ed by American willingness to support the
UN, if necessary, to the point of war.
Here I agree with him. But when he
suggests that the democracies should
shortly evacuate Germany and then, if
the Soviets refuse to do the same, invoke
the United Nations and compel them to
do so, I rub my eyes and wonder.
As matters now stand, any democratic
withdrawal of armed forces from Germany
would involve the risk of seeing that po-
tentially poisonous country join up with
Russia in an even more vicious effort for
common world domination. I sincerely hope
that Mr. Byrnes' error here is not shared
by Secretary Marshall. Never again, short
of real international government or Euro-
pean union, must the exclusive control of
the Ruhr industrial powerhouse be in Ger-
man hands.
Another point: what would you think
of a high government official who, upon
retiring, stripped his office of its furniture
and air conditioners, took them home and
sold them?
Yet what has Mr. Byrnes done? He has,
in "Speaking Frankly," published not only
his own experiences and shorthand notes,
but material from public documents in the
possession of the U.S. Government which
have been withheld from other writers on
foreign affairs. I refer specifically to his
extensive use of the so-called "Hilger Doc-
uments" outlining the vital Soviet-German
relations between 1939 and 1941 (captured
in Germany) and to the Ethridge Report
made by Mr. Byrnes' personal emissary to
the Balkans.
Several American newsmen and writers
have asked for access to these without suc-
cess. Yet Mr. Byrnes incorporates their
contents in a book for which - it is an-
nounced - he has a $75,000 guarantee, $25,-
000 from the book publishers and $50,000
from the New York Herald Tribune Syndi-
cate.
(Copyright 1947, Press Alliace, Inc.)
Lane Hall Program
THE RECENT ISSUANCES from the Of-
fice of Student Affairs seem to have
caused quite a turmoil around campus. But
if we analyze the reactions that have been
expressed on these matters we find they are
rather negative and certainly no addition
to the higher education that we are sup-
posed to be getting here.
If the new and revised rules of the Uni-
versity are necessary, and it is reasonable
to suppose that there are grounds for them,
then it is time for some constructive criti-
cism on how students might better spend
their time. Studying naturally comes first,
but there is also a social adjustment that
must be made if we can really believe that
our university students graduate with a
well-rounded formal education.
The University has opened Lane Hall for
student use at all times. It finances the
Student Religious Association which covers
every student on campus whether or not he
is affiliated with a secular group. The pur-
pose of the Association is to promote the
fellowship and social contact that is vital
to education. Here is an opportunity for
any student to make his contribution to a
worthwhile program.
SRA offers Student Town Hall for those
interested in planning forums on current
issues. There are Monday evening discus-
sions, informal chats where students meet
on common ground and get to know how
the other half lives.
Association Coffee Hour is designed for
fellowship over a cup of coffee. Saturday
luncheon discussion group offers another
opportunity for students to get together
for informal programs that they plan them-
selves. Seminars provide group study on re-
ligious and ethical subjects under faculty
leadership.
Also included in the SRA program are
the facilities at Lane Hall. The music room
harbors many classical record albums, the
library is open for studying and reading,
and the lower floor is available for recrea-
tion.
The program of SRA is flexible to meet
the needs and demands of the student body.
It is continually changing as new groups
form to carry out ideas of their own inter-
ests. There is a place at Lane Hall for every
student interested in music, current affairs,
publications, discussion groups and social
events.
-Bette Hamilton
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily
prints everyletter to the editor re-
ceived (whiich 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.
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Dangerous Results
To the Editor:
WOULD LIKE to raise another,
point in this argument against
the liquor ban. I am one of those
4poor, unfortunate women" who
for various reasons, does not care
for liquor. This new ruling is
harder on us than others, because
the results of this ban are going
to be far worse than what it is
trying to do- away with.
The University willhfind that
drinking will not cease-rather it
will be done in parked cars, coun-
try roads, etc. To me it is better
to have drinking in a fraternity
party, or the like, where there is
a chaperon and a fairly decent
atmosphere than in the situation
that will ensue if this ban is con-
tinued. The best way to promote
drinking is to ban it. I feel there
will be less drinking if the stu-
dents don't have to sneak around
corners to do it.
I only wish the people behind
this ruling would realize the dan-
gerous results that will inevitably
follow.
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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).
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1947
VOL. LVIII, No. 22
Notices
Directories: Call Extension 696
in the Business Office and order
the number of faculty directories
needed in your department. De-
livery will be made by campus
mail when directories are avail-
able, presumably about October
24.
Herbert G. Watkins
Secretary
Assembly of the School of For-
estry and Conservation: Rack-
ham Amphitheatre, 10 a.m., Mon.,
Oct. 20. Mr. Courtland B. Mani-
fold, who is in charge of the for-
estry work of the Soil Conserva-
tion Service, will speak on the ac-
tivities of that service. All stu-
dents in the School who do not
have nonforestry conflicts are ex-
pected to attend.
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: Friday and Saturday, Oct.
17 and 18, graduate students of
the University will be taken on a
trip through the General Library
by members of the staff. The tour
will start at 4:15 p.m. on Thurs-
day and Friday, and at 10 a.m. on
Saturday, Rm. 110, first floor,
General Library near the West
entrance.
Approved house social events for
the coming week-end:
October 17 - Greene 'House,
Helen Newberry, Journalism So-
ciety, Victor Vaughan House,
Wesleyan Guild, Zeta Tau Alpha.
October 18 - Alpha Delta Phi,
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Tau
Omega, Delta Sigma Delta, Delta
Sigma Pi, Inter-Cooperative Coun-
cil, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Rho Sig-
xma, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma
Chi, Sigma Nu, Starring's League
House, Theta Delta Chi, Theta Xi,
Trigon, Wesleyan Guild.
leaves her residence. In such cases,
the housemother is requested to
attach to sign-out sheets an ex-
planation of each late permission
granted."
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), through Octo-
beh 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.
Teacher's Certificate Candi-
dates: The Teacher's Oath will be
given to all February candidates
for the teacher's certificate on Oc-
tober 23 and 24 between the hours
of 8-12 and 1:30-4:30 in Rm. 1437,
U.E.S.
Placement: Students are re-
minded that Friday, October 17,
is the last day to pick up registra-
tion blanks. Registration blanks
may be obtained at the Bureau of
Appointments, 201 Mason Hall
during office hours (9:00-12:00
and 2:00-4:00). This applies to
February, June and August grad-
uates as well as to graduate stu-
dents or staff members who wish
to register and who will be avail-
able for positions next year. The
Bureau has two placement divi-
sions: Teacher Placement and
General Placement. The General
Division includes service to people
seeking positions in business, in-
dustry, and professions other than
teaching.
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
register as soon as possible as em-
ployers are already making ap-
pointments to come for interviews.
Lectures
University Lecture:
Professor Pierre Lavedan, of the
Department of History of Art of
the Sorbonne, 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:
J. Kenny.
Approval?
To the Editor:t
MY GIRL and I eat Wheaties.I
Since Wheaties are advertised
over the Jack Armstrong program,
we enjoy very much to listen toI
the All-American Boy. If we need
University permission to listen
to Jack, do we need written ap-
proval to eat Wheaties?
-George T. Whitehorne.
Shocked1
To the Editor:
WE WERE SHOCKED to notice
Michigan students bitterly
complaining, in The' Michigan
Daily, about the new liquor ban.1
What is happening to our younger
generation, that they are so taken1
by the use of alcohol that they
cannot bear to part with it for
a measly nine months of the year.
This attitude of the Michigan stu-
dents shocks us even more than
the testimonies from the Nurem-
burg trial.
Our group ranges in age from
23 to 27, and we fully realize
that at our tender age, it is best
to look at our elder elders, for
guidance in such problems in
our growing up.
Let us emblaze upon the sky in
flaming letters of Maize and Blue,
the eleventh commandment:
THOU SHALT NOT DRINK.
To indicate our backing of the
new regulation, we have signed
a pledge that not only shall we
discontinue the consumption of
alcoholic beverages, but to further
this righteous cause of the Uni-
versity, and let the coeds take
note, lips that touch liquor shall
never touch ours.
Our slogan: Today the Univer-
sity of Michigan; Tomorrow the
World.
-Warren Lindeman.
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'Necessary Rule'
To the Editor:
ON THE FIRST PAGE of The
Michigan Daily of Sunday, Oct.
12, '47, I read "Drinking ban meets
with student protest" contributed
by Harriet Friedman. The ban
has been called "unrealistic,"
"mid-Victorian" and "unnecessary
regulation." I would like to say
that the University's drinking ban
is the most realistic and necessary
regulation to meet the present day
serious disease of alcoholism in
the United States. An American
young man is very enthusiastic
about his personal freedom. It is
highly- commendable but trouble
starts when intoxicated by the
idea "He is free to do anything he
likes," he forgets what is good for
him and what is not. In his suc-
cessful attempt to stand the un-
due social pressures, he rejects
them even when they are bound
to yield good and healthy results
for him and for the society to:
which he belongs.
Any sane man will think drink-
ing as injurious to health but still
protest runs, "It is mid-Victorian,
girls can't even think of liquor
any more." May I ask, is it the
pride of modern girl to reject even
good points of the Victorian age?
"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-
(Continued on Page 6)
Every important corner of every
treet in most of the cities of the
Jnited States you. find liquor bars.
Nhy? Not going in the psycholog-
cal causes which induce young
nen and women to drink, I would
like to stress that out of 58,250,000
kmericans who drink moderately
today will rise the 3,000,000 ex-
essive drinkers and 750,000 chron-
ic alcoholics of tomorrow
You, young men and young
vomen, who protest under the
cover of "personal freedom" and
those of you who call liquor "so-
cially acceptable beverage" are
overlooking one of the serious
problems of your society.
University in its parental atti-
tude is doing nothing more than
to point the right path. Take it
easy and think over what you are
protesting for.
S-Darshan Singh
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For Maloy
To the Editor:
MAY WE ADD our voices on the
MYDA controversy. Several
letters against Mr. Maloy's edi-
torial have appeared in The Daily.
Curious that two of the four let-
ters (Mr. Shaffer's an'd Misses
Biener, O'Brien and Tozer's) were
so identical in phraseology that
one wonders whether mental tel-
epathy were used. At any rate,
we admire this sparkling and ef-
ficient coordination of MYDA.
Mr. Shaffer, in his rebuttal to
Mr. Maloy's editorial, says that
people who are known to hold cer-
tain political beliefs are open to
persecution. For this reason he
writes: "I think that no one has
any right to tell anyone else my
political philosophy." We disagree
wholeheartedly with Mr. Shaffer.
We feel that if one sincerely be-
lieves in a political faith, one in-
validates both the faith and the
sincerity by suggesting that the
beliefs be hidden under cover. This
smacks slightly of totalitarian tac-
tics. A democratic organization
should not have to hide the polit-
ical ideologies of its leaders and
members.
Mr. Sloss in his letter stated
that if he were a member of the
Democratic Party, any organiza-
tion of which he were chairman
would be a Democratic Party
front group. If Mr. Sloss is re-
ferring to a non-political organi-
zation, the analogy is of course
correct. But let us not be naive
enough to believe that a campus
or national political organization
elects officers merely for their
administrative ability,, but rather
for their ability to administer the
policies to which the organization
subscribes. Therefore the, political
beliefs of officers of, an organiza-
tion inevitably mirror the plat-
form and the principles of that
group.
-Abby Franklin.
Jerry Braunthal.
Against Maloyn
To the Editor:
DICK MALOY'S editorial in
Sunday's Daily entitled "MY-
DA Chairman" makes vague ges-
tures toward sensationalism. Not
only does it take the lead spot on
the editorial page, but the reader
is advised on the first page to
quick turn and read it.
Maloy seized upon Ed Shaffer's
Communist affiliation to shock
his readers and to prove the worn-
out allegation that MYDA is
" . . . the property of a single
political party."
He attempts to drive home his
point by stating that Shaffer was
chairman of MYDA last year and
was re-elected. It appears that Mr.
Maloy has chosen to write on
something with which he is un-
familiar, since it is well-known
that Harriet Ratner was chairman
last year.
The very fact that we of MYDA
elected Ed Shaffer to the chair-
manship of our organization is
the strongest proof that MYDA
indeed is not the property of any
single political philosophy or
party. We believe that political
discrimination is as dangerous to
democracy as racial or religious
discrimination. We do not ask
members their race, religion, or
political creed. We demand only
allegiance to democracy and will-
ingness to fight for its preserva-
tion.
Ed Shaffer commands the re-
spect of MYDA's membership be-
cause of his work in MYDA; he
was elected because of that work.
If Shaffer belongs to other organ-
izations, that's his business. We
know and respect him as a mem-
ber of MYDA, and we elected him
as such.
If Maloy intended to impress
his readers with the "revelation"
that Ed Shaffer is a Communist,
he is likely to be disappointed. At
a meeting of the deans last spring,
before MYDA's recognition was
withdrawn, Ed admitted his mem-
bership in the Communist Party.
He has never attempted to deny
or conceal that membership.
Maloy claims that "MYDA .
loudly professed its simon-pure
character when banned from cam-
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At the State
THE VIGILANTES, with Jon Hall and
Margaret Lindsay.
WITHOUT even putting in their appear-
ance until the final fireworks, it would
seem that by virtue of their name alone,
The Vigilantes were capable of scaring the
neckerchiefs right off the west's worst boys.
Which is mighty handy for the sake of
justice and the happy ending, as Jon Hall
playing a two-gun marshall carries about
as much conviction as a Junior G-Man with
a cap pistol. Called in by the local judge
to save the town from corruption, our hero
Women students are notified.
that regular weekend rules will
apply to those 41ishing 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
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