FOUR THE MICH IAN DAILY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1947 r Mtr4lgau Mt1 Fifty-Eighth Year Edited and managed by students of the Uni- Versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff 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 d 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 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this news- paper. All rights of re-publication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan, as second class mail matter. -Subscription during the regular school year by carrier, $5.00, by mail, $6.00. Member, Assoc. Collegiate Press, 1947.48 Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: ARTHUR HIGBEE Recd Feathers S TUDENTS don't seem to be aware of the benefits they receive from the Ann Arbor Community Chest - at least they aren't aware to the extent of dishing up the re- quested coin. The faculty have thus far managed to meet about one-third of the $22,000 Uni- versity quota, agd a little help from the student body would be appreciated. With higher living costs and fixed incomes com- bining to reduce their ability to pay, the faculty will have to scrape the bottom of the bowl to meet this quota (higher than last year's by $1,000). Community Fund services are of actual benefit to a relatively small percentage of students, but so is fire insurance, and most people don't think twice about buying the latter. The whole point of the Community Fund is its insurance value - to many drives students are asked to give, but this is one involving not generosity but common sense. Married students may need Community Fund services - Perry Nursery School, the Public Health Nursing Association, and the Childen's Aid Society all assist many students every year. The Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. often help out students temporarily unable to obtain hous- ing. And other community services cooper- ate closely with the University, in assuring students of help when they need it. More important than the statistics of actual services rendered is the stake stu- dents have in the betterment of Ann Ar- bor. This is a community, and the dis- tinction between town and gown should not be allowed to get in the way of whole- hearted participation by everybody in the attempt to improve the city as a Whole. Student contributions to the drive, which ends Saturday, are accepted at the cashier's desks in the League and Union. Even if your contribution is infinitesimal it will be ap- preciated and used for good ends. -Phil Dawson HE CHICAGO Symphony Orchestra, ap- pearing in Ann Arbor for the first time under the skillful direction of Artur Rod- zinski, presented the second in the Annual Choral Union Concert Series to an enthus- iastic audience Sunday evening at Hill Auditorium. Showing a unity and precision lacking in previous performances here, the or- chestra and its new conductor evidenced miutual understanding and cooperation resulting in effective and powerful inter- pretations. Despite a rather mediocre transcription for orchestra of Bach's organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor, by Jules Wertheim, sin- cere effort and able musicianship made for a satisfactory, if not particularly brilliant, result. The major offering of the evening, the popular First Symphony of Brahms, gave the orchestra ample opportunity to demonstrate WASHINGTON WIRE: Special Se By IRVING JAFFEE EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Jaffe is a Transradio Press Service correspondent and was formerly Editorial Director of The Daily. WASHINGTON-You would expect a feel- ing of high dramatic intensity to raise America to the emotional pitch and mental alacrity necessary to meet the severe de- mands of the urgent domestic and for- eign problems. When Congressional leaders are called to a sudden White House confer- ence, when President Truman declares a special session on Capitol Hill, when in a nation-wide radio address he appeals for emergency legislation to combat inflation at home and starvation abroad, you would ex- pect to be invigorated by the sense of mo- mentous doings. Oldtimers around Washington recall the dramatic first days of the Roosevelt Ad- ministration. They were days when bold, in- telligent measures were applied to cure a sick nation, when men of wisdom and cour- age at the top infused workers all the way down through the heirarchy of government agencies with the sense of participation in an inspiring enterprise. But President Truman fails, as he repeat- edly has failed, to stir either the hearts or minds of people. Strong words do not im- press when they are spoken belatedly, and they make even less of a mark when there is serious doubt whether they will be trans- lated into effective action. Unlike the boy who cried wolf so often that his alarms were disregarded, Mr. Truman refused to recog- Clarity at Trieste By JOSEPH ALSOP TRIESTE-Trieste city lies below, cheer- ful and bustling in the early morning sun, yet crowded threateningly close by the encircling hills, beyond which lies Yugoslav territory. Here on these rocky heights runs the border between the Soviet and the Western worlds. At the road block, two Yugoslav soldiers - Croat boys, sloppily dressed but heavily armed - lord it over a little group of peasants. And facing them are the young American troops, wonderful- ly smart and so much bigger that they seem almost like giants, standing guard with the air of being ready for anything. This scene strikes the note of Trieste. In all the rest of Europe, one traveler finds disaster visibly impending, while frantic American officials clutch the tele- graph wires and send daily pleas to Wash- ington not to be too little and too late for just this once. After repeatedly ob- serving such depressing scenes, it is start- ling to come to Trieste, where every one prepared to deal with any eventuality. The state of undeclared war which is at has got down to business and is briskly the root of Europe's ills has been frank- ly recognized here. The resulting clarity of political and strategic outline 4s a downright relief. Any report on Trieste, however brief, would be incomplete if it did not begin by giving credit where credit is due. Trieste would already have been seized by the Yugo- slavs, in gross violation of every treaty ob- ligation, if it were not for the British and American commanders here, Major Gen- erals Terence Airey and Bryant Moore, and the remarkable group of British and Ameri- cans serving under them. These two men, their political advisers and their staffs, bril- liantly checkmated the crude attempted Yugoslav coup d'etat on Sept. 15. But this' is not all. They have also had the courage to interpret their rather vague directives with boldness and sound judgment in many other ways, so that underground as well as overt efforts to subjugate Trieste have been happily frustrated. For the present, at least, this is one situation which appears to be well in hand. With agonizing difficulty, an agreement about Trieste was reached with the Soviets last year. The agreement was that Trieste should be a free territory, with an impartial. and independent governor approved by both sides. What has happened since? It has proved impossible to appoint a governor, be- cause the Soviets would accept none but a stooge guaranteed to hand the "free ter- ritory" over to Marshal Tito at the first opportunity. The segment of the %"free ter- ritory" beyond these hills which is garrison- ed by Yugoslavs has already been transform- ed into a part of Yugoslavia. Meanwhile every effort is being made to infiltrate Trieste city, economically, by propaganda and by terror. As. these words are written, in view of the brutal Com- munist kidnaping of the leading anti-Tito Slovene editor, Ursic, Generals Airey and Moore are being forced to tighten their police precautions. There is no other way to insure freedom of thought and speech. Despite Foreign Minister Molotov's fine words and firm promises in Paris. Yet the Soviets would have the prize of Trieste within their hands tomorrow if any gov- ernor were now named and the British and American troops withdrew. These troops - this foreign occupation - now constitute the sole guaranty of the free- dom of Trieste. So long as Generals Airey and Moore are ssion Pleap nize the need for action until pressures from all sides made further dodging of issues im- possible. And so, although in a manner different from the fable, the President's belated cry of wolf has almost as hollow a ring, now that inflation in this country is hardly a threat, but a reality of some long standing, and hunger in Europe is an even more tragic reality. Now that he has finally called the special session, Mr. Truman finds that he himself has made it extremely difficult to ask the kind of controls which are badly needed- price controls and rationing. It will require some pretty fancy maneuvering for the Pres- ident to present Congress with a request for these controls after he himself ridiculously described them as "police state" methods at a recent news conference. It is believed he will request allocation authority over critical goods and extension of export controls. But it is highly questionable whether these will be sufficient in themselves. The charge of "playing politics," however, comes with extremely ill grace from Repub- lican leaders. Representative Halleck, House majority floor leader, and Chairman Wolcott of the House Banking Committee made the accusation, charging the President with po- litical maneuvering in tying up the domestic price problem with foreign aid. The G.O.P., which in the last Congressional session kill- ed O.P.A. and later adjourned for a long vacation with a deaf ear turned to protests over alarming price increases, is hardly in a position to shout "politics." Nor can we expect an end to Republican obstructionism when Congress meets in spec- ial session next month. Chairman Taber of the House Appropriations Committee, whicy must pass on all expenditures, has stated flatly that he will not call his committee to- gether until the Bureau of the Budget sup- plies him with facts and figures on foreign needs - in spite of plans of the other key Senate and House committees to meet prior to the special session. Mr. Taber's consistent record of false "economies" and his well- known inability to see beyond his purse in- dicate that much difficulty will be en- countered before any foreign relief is grant- ed. Here, for what it may be worth, is one per- son's plea for some display of statesman- ship both on Capitol Mill and in the White House when Congress meets November 17. 1 ,. BILL MAULDIN 9-. C- - ',W-- n.- -1 :-Al I rghts reeve, - DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETINj - -11 Letters to the Editor... CURRENT MOVIES At the State .. . KISS OF DEATH, with Victor Mature, $rian Donlevy and Coleen Gray. KISS OF DEATH, the latest cops and rob- bers movie to shoot its way out of Hollywood, has a few more deaths than kisses, which seems to be a rotten way to waste Victor Mature's chief talent. However, the Gorgeous Hunk performs nobly, almost satisfactorily. Vic is given such novel and thrilling lines as: "You've got to trust me," (looking soulfully into his beloved's tear- filled eyes) and "We're gonna do this job MY way," (in bold defiance to the assistant D.A.) So far, so good, but some of the compound sentences and polysyllabic words give him a little more difficulty. Victor's dilemma stems from the fact that he can't decide between vice and versa. Finally his love for the wife, kiddies, and fresh air, forces him to choose the latterdcourse, and so we chalk up another victory for our side. The picture does have authenticity and di- rectness, if you don't mind seeing old ladies in wheelchairs tossed down the stairs, but the yarn itself and the acting leave much to be desired. Anyhow, the accompanying cartoon was good. S * * At the MVichig an.. . FOREVER AMBER, with Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, and George Sanders. WHEN THE MOST talked-about book of the year is made into the most bally- hooed movie of the year, one might justi- fiably expect the result to be a real corker. But FOREVER AMBER falls short in many respects, fizzles out in others. The movie is Big, very Big, and it has all the symp- toms e a glorious spectacle, being filled with racy costumes, lavish sets and all the other miscellany that Hollywood throws into a picture of this type, including a beautiful fire, a duel at dawn, and an old- fashioned plague. However, one gets the impression that the whole effort is over- done, and the film creeps along with the rapidity of a Friday afternoon lecture. Strawberry-haired Linda Darnell, as the de-sexed Amber, is some tomato, around whom the men gather like moths before a flame. The subsequent story of who gets burned and who doesn't is passable, cer- tainly not irresistible. -Harvey A. Leve. fl 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). TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1947 , VOL. LVIII, No. 31 Notices A Special Convocation of the University will be held in Hill Auditorium at 11 o'clock, Monday morning, November 3, in com- memoration of the centenary of Dutch settlement in Michigan. The Honorable Arthur H. Vandenberg, United States Senator from Mich- igan, President of the Senate and Chairman of the Foreign Rela- tions Committee of the Senate, and Dr. Eelco van Kleffens, Am- bassador of the Netherlands to the United States, will deliver ad- dresses. All University classes will be dismissed at 10:30 a.m. in order that faculty members and stu- dents may attend. Members of the faculties will assemble immediately after 10:30 a.m. in the Ballroom of the Mich- igan League for the academic pro- cession to the stage. Academic costume will be worn. The pro- cession will move at 10:50 a.m. and the exercises will begin promptly at 11:00 a.m. If the weather is rainy, the academic procession will be omit- ted and faculty members will robe in the second floor rooms at the rear of Hill Auditorium and take their places on the stage individ- ually. Regents, Deans, and other mem- bers of the Honor Section will robe in the Grand Rapids Room of the Michigan League and take part in the academic procession. If the weather is rainy and the proces- sion is omitted, this group will as- semble in the dressing rooms on the west side of the first floor, rear, of Hill Auditorium, and pro- ceed as directed by the marshals to their places. A large attendance of faculty members is desired. The seats reservea or invited guests, on the main floor, will be held until 10 :50 a.m. All other seats are available fo students of the University and other citi- zens. Notice of Regents' Meeting: No- vember 22, 8:30 a.m. Com- munications for consideration at this meeting must be in the Pres- ident's hands not later than No- vember 13. Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary School of Business Administra- tion Assembly: Seniors in the School (both BBA and MBA can- didates) are invited to attend an assembly to be held in West Gal- lery, Alumni Memorial Hall, Tues- day, Oct. 28, 3 p.m. Dean Steven- son and Professor Jamison will discuss procedures for placement. Community Chest Contributions: All University employees who have not yet turned in their Commun- ity Fund pledge cards to their building or department represen- tative are urged to do so by Wed- nesday, Oct. 29. By Monday of this week, the University had at- tained only 31 per cent of its quota of $22,000. Headquarters, Campus Community Funday Com- mittee, Ext. 2134, 3103 Natural Science Bldg. Faculty Members-Reserve Of- ficer Duty Project at the Com- mand and General Staff College: During the summer of 1947 a group of 13 Reserve Officers who were members of faculties of ci- vilian colleges, were on duty at the Command and Staff College for periods varying from two weeks to eight weeks and accom- plished a number of projects such as (1) Planning a remedial pro- gram in reading and arithmetic, (2) Planning for a remedial pro- gram in study techniques, (3) Study of methodology and cur- ricular organization in relation to the organization of the student body for learning purposes, (4) An analysis of the preparation of ex- tension courses, (5) Preparation of text matter for selected topics of the course, (6) Preparation of ob- jective examinations and exe- cises, (7) Analysis of data on a test of background military knowledwge of students, (8) Re- view of text matter in statistics for the School of Personnel. All of the officers were of the opinion that this experience was worthwhile to them personally and profession- ally. It is the plan of the Command Staff College to continue this pro- gram on a'larger scale in 1948 and thereafter. Any faculty memiber who is a Reserve Officer and is wil- ling to be assigned to duty at the Command and Staff College dur- ing the summer of 1948 is urged to see or call the Adjutant at Room 200 Military Headquarters, 512 S. State St., Phone: Univ. xt. 306 prior to 1200 hours 5 November 1947. Certificates of Eligibility for non-athletic extra-curricular ac- tivities should be secured in the Office of Student Affairs, Room 2, U. Hall, before such activities in- clude service on a committee or publication, participation in a public performance or rehearsal, or in holding office or being a can- didate for office in a class or oth- er student organization. Certifi- cates will be issued to those quali- fied in accordance with the fol- lowing requirements: Freshmen: 1. No freshman in his first se- mester of residence may be grant- ed a Certificate of Eligibility. Second semester freshman: 15 hours or more of work completed with (1) at least one mark of A or B and with no mark of less than C, or (2) at least 2%/2 times as many honor points as hours and with no mark of E. 2. Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors: 11 hours or more of academic credit in the preceding semester, or 6 hours of academic credit in the preceding summer session, with an average of at least C, and at least a C average for the entire academic career. 3. Graduate Students: A Cer- tificate of Eligibility will be issued to graduate students upon presen- tation of Cashier's Receipt. 4. No student is eligible for par- ticipation in extra-curricular ac- tivities who is excused from gym-. nasium work because of physical incapacity, except by special per- mission of the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs. In order to obtain such permission, a student must 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. Retrogressive Reds To the Editor: RECENT DISCUSSION in The Daily 'has revealed the cur- ious anomaly of participation by avowed Communists in the activ- ities of political organizations which style themselves as demo- cratic. This state of affairs is rather odd, considering that one would expect a group supposedly de- voted to democratic action to be progressive in its policies, whereas Communism is by its very nature retrogressive in relation to democ- racy. American democracy is the re- sult of a long evolutionary process of advancement in political and social theory; Communism as it exists today is merely a modifi- cation of feudalism in which the lines of authority between the politburo and the collected farmer on his collective farm are as clear- ly marked and rigorously enforced as the older relation between liege and vassal. Communism was able to secure its hold on the Russian people mainly because after throwing off the shackles of feudalism in 1917 they, having had no previous ex- perience in self government, were at the mercy of any determined and well organized group in their midst. As it happened, the Bolshe- vists were the only group then strong enough to seize power, and their leadership was accepted- largely perhaps because their rule was not too unlike that which had preceded it. The Russians had been used to doing what they were told, and they accepted the new Communist oligarchy as they had the old czarist aristocracy. In fairness to the Russians it should be repeated that they had no past experience in governing themselves. The gap between feu- dalism and democracy is far too wide to be spanned at one leap, and any interim government charged with that task had, at least in the beginning, to resemble the old regime rather closely. At times there seemed from statements of the Communist leaders to be a good chance that they would recognize the wisdom of moving toward democracy. It was one of Lenin's dearest hopes to raise Soviet production stand- ards to the level of the western democracies, and there was always the possibility that Soviet states- men might realize the obvious im- possibility of approximating these standards without also aiming at western standards of political and economic freedom. Whether such a possibility still exists is a moot point indeed. Cer- tainly the foreign policy of the present occupants of the Kremlin appears to be little more than czarist imperialism writ large. All of the foregoing is merely intended to support a grave doubt as to the value of anyone who pro- fesses the tenets of Communism to a progressive democratic or- ganization. If the United States ever moves toward Communism, it will be going backwards. And if it does, that ghostly noise echo- ing through Red Square will be the mocking laughter of Lenin as he sees the democracies volun- tarily retreating from an economic position that he himself so greatly envied. -Cornel Francu. * * * Amazed at The Daily To the Editor: SINCEMY FRESHMAN orienta- tion days when I first read The Daily I have been amazed again and again by some of the articles written by staff members-and they're published! As reporters or journalists your writers leave much to be desired-emen by me, one of these people who were NOT excused from English 2-and for logical reasons. Honestly, when a headline such as "Michigan Coed Tells of Hostel Trip Through Europe" (October 21) appears can't the subscriber, after reading the article, expect to know what the coed told? But out of half a dozen "Miss Reid said's," I find only five of her words rate submit a written recommendation from the University Health Serv- ice. 5. Students on probation or the warned list are forbidden to par- ticipant in any extra-curricular "activity. Before permitting any student to participate in an extra-curric- ular activity, the officer, chair- (Continued on Page 6) quotation marks. Gravel being graded (usually roads, etc. are graded, but perhaps they do things differently in France) and sub- jects occeasionally being separated from their verbs by one, little, lonesome comma are compara- tively minor. But I can't resist stating that I am well enough ac- quainted with the traveling coed to know that even her name was misspelled throughout the article -it's Reed. With a little more accuracy The Daily might become readable, if not interesting. --Mary Jane Green. * * * Economic Weakness To the Editor: HIDDEN beneath the surface of the intense labor controver- sies now raging lies the funda- mental weakness of our present economy which must be construc- tively corrected if our system is to continue to flourish. For 171 years we Americans have bragged about our system of free enterprise in which the profit motive has provided the incentive for the development which has made us the world's leading in- dustrial nation. Although the con- flicts of management and labor do not concern us, we almost uni- formly refuse to admit that to- day, for the vast bulk of American workers, the free enterprise sys- tem is nothing more than a con- venient fiction. The common cry of manage- ment today is that the workers are not producing all that they might. Assuming that the charge is true, we may very well ask why they should. "Without an opportunity to reap more from the profit system than a salary or a wage, the average man cannot be blamed if he feels no sense of kinship to the profit system." This is the opinion, not of a labor spokesman, but of Eric Johnson, former president of the United States Chamber of Com- merce who, writing in the New York Times, advocates that labor be given a stake in capitalism. And why not? Admittedly com- petition between individuals and firms built thenAmerica of today but competition between capital and labor is now impairing our production and causing rapidly mounting internal conflicts. Internationally America is seek- ing to preserve world peace through the cooperation of all na- tions. Domestically we individually align our interests with either capital or labor and cheer for it blindly, succeeding only in wid- ening the yawning chasm already between them. If we are to avert the class conflict which the Marxists main- tain is inevitable in a capitalistic economy, we must very soon begin bringing capital and labor into a harmonious working relation- ship. Giving labor a stake in capital- ism through some type of profit sharing system is the plan which Eric Johnson and a number of other far-sighted business men have tried and found workable in their own businesses. This solution obviously seeks to give both groups a sense of partnership in the bus- iness and to unite them behind the common goal of higher pro- duction. Mortality rates on these home- made schemes have thus far been quite high, often because they did not include both of the essential phases, which are: 1. The distribution of a per centage of the profits to the em- ployees in accordance with a pre- determined scale. This distribution shall be considered entirely apart from the workers wages and shall not be used as an excuse for fail- ure to pay the . prevailing wage for that industry. 2. The worker must have some channel through which his voice may be effectively heard, though usually in an advisory capacity in the administrative and policy making levels of the business. The system which Johnson has employed in four west coast com- panies is rather easily applicable. He distributes to his employees on the basis of their length of serv- ice, job, etc., 25 per cent of the total dividend allocated to the stockholders. He has also estab- lished a junior board of directors composed of representatives of la- bor through which the workers have a voice in company activity although final decision remains in the hands of management. The extensive development of profit-sharing programs' which would put capital and labor on the same team and give the work- er the chance to participate in the free enterprise system could be a major step 'in improving relations between the two. Here our educational institu- tions could provide a valuable service. The unhappy fact seems to be that capital and labor are already too far apart to volun- tarily initiate profit-sharing sys- tems. BARNABY. *0