PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, OCTOR f31. 1947 ew Eidcigan &IilI BILL MAUILDIN MATTER OF FACT: Memo for e f Wallace Iettervs to the Eit o.. I Fifty-Eighth Year 1/^- 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 Petty Steward.........Associate Women's Editor Joan de Carvajal...............Library Director Business Staff NancyHelmick.................General Jeanne Swendeman......... Advertising Edwin Schneider.................Finance; Melvin Tick ..................Circulation, Telephone 23-24.1 Manager Manager Manager manager Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dipathes credited to it or otherwise credited in this news- paper. All rights of re-publication of all other ,natters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Mich- *$an, as second class mal matter. Subscription during the regular school year by carrier, $5.00, by mait, $6.00. Member, Assoc. Collegiate Press, 1947-48 Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff gnd represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: DICK MALOY Mysterious Report T SEEMS that American officialdom is trying to duplicate the air of mystery about the orient, that is so prevalent in de- tective stories. General Wedemeyer's report on giving aid -to China has been withheld from publication by the State Department for reasons of its own. Apparently something has gone wrong in the far east that State doesn't want to tell the people about. It has been decided for quite a while now that aid to Europe will come before aid to China, but the withholding of the Wede- meyer report indicates that China is going to be completely ignored for the time being. If the United States waits until Congress finishes giving aid to Europe before it starts to help China, then China is in for a long -wait. Conditions in China are obviously bad. Graft and corruption have always played a big part in the operation of China's gov- ernment. Lately, smugglers have been run- ining almost as many goods into China as have been coming in through the legal chan- nels of trade. It is well known that many of the officers of the Chinese navy who are supposed to guard against smugglers are being bribed to turn their backs on illicit operations and that in some cases, the smugglers are ac- tually strong enough to fight off elements of the weak Chinese navy. Inklings of the true situation in China have leaked out but they have been played down by the government in Washington and by most of the newspapers and magazines of the country. It is evident that sooner or later we are going to give China some financial aid. The public ought to know the conditions today in a country which we are going to aid tomorrow. -Al Blumrosen. Housewarming ONE OF ANN ARBOR'S most persistent housing problems appears to have been solved. The oft-dispossessed Student Book Exchange, which had been living from week to week in the Game Room of the League- and before that, in the Union-and before that in the League-has settled down in Lane Hall. So here's a toast at housewarming time! Let's raise our glasses to the Student Book Exchange and to Ken Bissell and Catherine Huston and Charlotte Bryant and the rest. Let's toast them for their stubborn fight against a tremendous pressure and an ap- athetic student body, which almost suc- ceeded in abolishing the Exchange. Let's drink another to the frustrating run-around they've been given these years-and to the courageous manner in which they've met such a run-around. Let's all wish long health and great pros- perity to the Student Book Exchange-even we veterans who charge our bills to rich Uncle Sam, and haven't taken a more active interest in the Exchange's plight. For the Exchange is a non-profit clearing- house of books and supplies-one that stu- dent veterans haven't felt much need for- By JOSEPH ASOP VIENNA-Here in this great and once lovely city, the Soviet Union has launched upon a venture of economic imper- ialism of really unparalleled crassness and ruthlessness. Furthermore, the ultimate pur- pose is to enthrall a civilized, innocent and angrily unwilling people, who stand among the founders of Western civilization. This is the real meaning of the prob- ' lem of German assets in Austria about which the experts have already written so much. Since the drama of this strange situation has somehow been lost in trans- mission, an inexpert explanation seems worth trying. Very briefly, the Soviets were granted at Potsdam all "German assets" in Austria as part payment of their greedy bill for repara- tions. Those were the days when even the makers of American policy had not learned from hard experience that it was vain to seek a true settlement with the Soviet Union at this time. Under the delusion which a few still cherish, they granted Stalin this con- cession among many others. They even did so without spelling out what was granted. Thereafter, under the guise of taking reparations, the Soviet conmmand here seized control of almost every valuable piece of industrial property in their zone of Austria. Eastern Austria, occupied by the Soviets except for the little quadri- partite enclave in Vienna, was the coun- try's chief industrial area. Altogether, they took more than three hundred industrial plants of all kinds, plus such banks as they could lay their hands on, the Danube Shipping Company, the Zistersdorf oil wells and tens of thousands of acres of farm land. Definition of "German assets" was miraculously broad. It even included some property actually American owned, such as the American interest in vital Zistersdorf oil resources. Nor was this all. Totally incredible as it may seem, the Soviets blandly announced, in the recent fruitless meetings of the Austrian Treaty Commission, that they were the owners of Austrian roads. The Nazis had constructed autobahnen in Austria after the anschluss. The Soviet negotiator, Novi- kov, had the marvellous gall to claim that both these roads and the land underlying them belonged to the Soviet Union. By the same token he laid claim to a number of public buildings. But as a gesture of infinite generosity, he offered to trade off these roads and buildings, against stock in indus- trial plants which even the Soviets could not call German. In total, the property thus claimed by Stassen and Hoover UESTIONING Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and avowed can- didate for the Republican presidential nomi- nation, during a press conference last Sat- urday had unusual consequences for many members of the local press. As Stassen replied, with a full and res- onant voice to our queries, many of us ex- perienced a peculiar optical illusion. If we half-closed our eyes while savoring the full implications of this man's words, his young and personable countenance seemed to take on the bulldoglike appearance of Herbert Hoover. The man seated before us was conduct- ing an intensive campaign to transform the Republican Party into "a liberal party with a world-wide view." He pointed out that he had advocated a major program of aid to Europe before Sec- retary of State Marshall's espousal of such a plan. Yet, in the next breath, Stassen demonstrated conclusively that he is a loyal disciple of Hoover, by asserting that Amer- ican aid should be extended to foreign governments only on the condition that they refrain from utilizing it to increase their socialization of industry. Like Hoover, who withheld American food, maciinery and raw materials which the European governments required to re- cover from -the devastating effects of- World War 1, Stassen advocates that with the exception of food, we follow a similar policy in this post-war era. His stand on this issue, Stassen explained, was based on observations of new socialistic economies during a recent European tour. He expressed the conviction that further American aid to those nations whose in- dustries operate under "a highly centralized beaurocracy" will be wasted in their "inevi- table" failure. "Bad management," a con- sequence of nationalization, Stassen argued, is responsible for the lag in English coal production. In his great haste to condemn socializa- tion of industry, Stassen minimized the undeniable fact that the production of coal has been retarded by the woefully antiquated and inefficient mining machin- ery inherited by the Labor government from private ownership. Moreover, Stassen failed to note that Czechoslovakia, a hybrid communistic na- tion with a nationalized economy, is now making the finest recovery of any nation in Europe. Americans in search of a "liberal" Re- publican to lead that party out of the wil- the Soviets is valued at between $700 and $800 million. If it remains in their hands, it will give them control of key sectors of the Austrian economy. It is an immense weapon of leverage, both to force Austria into her destined economic place in a Soviet-dominated Danube valley, and in the long run to add political sub- jection to economic domination. The man- agement of the Soviet properties has been carefdlly planned for this purpose. Ex- cept for the Danube Shipping Company and the oil wells, all the industrial plants have been gathered into a single gigantic holding company, U.S.I.V.A. (U.S.I.V.A. might well repay investigation by the Amnerican Soviet sympathizers who are always seeing cartels under the bed). And political use is already beginning. In the food riots last May, many of the demon- strators were workmen in Soviet plants given time off for the purpose. Finally, in order to perpetuate this sys- tem, the Soviets are refusing to sign an Austrian treaty until they have been granted economic extraterritoriality in Austria. What they want would have brought the blush to the cheek of the British in the period of the opium war. They insist that their hold- ings and the "profits" therefrom must be untouchable by the Austriar state. The Americans and British at Moscow and in the sessions of the treaty commis-. sion firmly rejected any Austrian treaty' including this kind of open threat to Austria's independence. Thus there is no treaty and the cruel and crippling occu- pation continues. Leading Austrians like Chancellor Figl and Foreign Minister Gruber are ready to risk granting about one-third of the Soviet eco- nomic demands in order to terminate the Soviet military occupation. (Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune) Futur of Asia By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER CHINA is torn between two almost equally objectionable tyrannies. The Indians, liberated from the abhorred British yoke, are indulging in the worst massacres since the Nazis. Civil war in Kashmir could easily spread to other dis- tricts. Unless the UN arbitrators force a settle- ment upon the Indonesians and the Dutch, they may find the Indonesian Republic in complete disintegration. Demonstration that Viet Nam could rule all of Indo-China is still lacking. Politics in liberated Burma are proceed- ing-on the worst Latin American assassi- nation pattern. I am neither disturbed nor surprised by these developments. But they are facts. Self government, like swimming, can be learned only by trying. It takes time. After thirty years of frantic efforts, the Russians are still technical duffers. Our task is to see that in freeing themselves from Western "oppression," the Asiatic masses do not fall into the hands of new and worse exploit- ers, native or foreign. And without limita- tion of their monstrous birth-rates, any great advance by Asiatics is probably impos- sible. Meanwhile, to expect world leadership from societies in such turmoil seems to me r0 , ' . ; 1 iJ ' , ibt "V ' ,G N, 0 " b j. - c ,yr i i 1 t h { l , EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints every letter to the editor re- ceived (wvhich 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 oly. Letters of more than 300 word; are sihortened, printed or numitted A the disrel-oi&z ouS I h edi - torial director. * 9 9 To the Editor: T IS WITH SURPRISE and in- dignation that we read the re- port of the Oxford-Michigan de- bate in Thursday's Daily. We are quite sure that tie overwhelming majority of the audience would not agree with Mr. Miller's an- alysis of its reaction as indicating a "high-scoring tie." On the con- trary, the audience would probably be more inclined to question Mr. Miller's loose phrasing when he said that the Michigan team "de- fended" the value of liberal edu- cation. How can resounding applause for the Oxford team and the al- most silent reaction which met the rr K 1 immaiurity of thinking represent- ed by the cliches propounded by the Micliganders serve as any in- dication of a scoreless tie? It was indeed fortunate for Miclhigan thiat no judge was pres- ent to naine a winner; since there w certainly no general doubt as to which teaml carried off the laus'tds . --WilyliamF . Culmna, -William A. Rohrbach. To the Editor: A FTER THEIRparticipationjt Wedn,,!day afternoon's debate with Oxford University, debaters of the University of Michigan ought to understand precisely the feeling that prompted the student newspaper at the University of Pittsburgh to urge, after their football team's complete defeat by Michigan here, that Pittsburgh in the future entirely abandon inter-university football competi- tion. -Mathew Stone. '13 9 Copt. 1947 bytUnited feafura Syndicate, Inc. : The Drama Critic. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLEIN 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 31, 1947 'VO11. LVIII, Nt. s4 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 reserved ror invited guests, on the main floor, will be held until 10:50 a.m. All other seats are available for students of the University and other citi- zens. Faculty Meeting, College of Lit- erature, Science, and the Arts: Mon., Nov. 3, 4:10 p.m., Rm. 1025, Angell Hall. Hayward Keniston AGENDA 1h Consideration of the minutes of the meeting of October 6, 1947 (pp. 1366-1376). 2. Consideration of reports sub- mitted with the call of this meet- ing. a. Executive Committee-Prof. C. S. Schoepfle. b. University Council-Prof. K. K. Landes. No report. c. Executive Board of the Graduate School - Prof. I. A. Leonard. d. Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs-Prof. R. C. Angell. e. Deans' Conference - Dean Hayward Keniston. 3. Discussion: How can the work of the last two years in the College contribute more effective- ly to a liberal education? 4. Announcements. 5. New business. Final Notice. Approved student organizations which have not filed a Directory Card in the Office of Student Affairs, Room 2, Univer- sity Mall by October 31 will be as- sumied to be inactive for the cur- rent school year and will be denied the use of the DOB for announce- nients and the use of University buildings for meetings.. For con- tinued recognition as an ap- provedorganization it is necessary that each group file a Directory Card, listing its current"officers, at the beginning of each school year or summer session. Approved social events for the coming weekend (afternoon func- tions are indicated by an asterisk): October 29 Deutscher Verein* October 31 Adelia Cheever, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Al- pha Omega, American Veterans Committee, Congregational Disci- I ples Guild, Cooley House, Delta Epsilon Pi International Student Association, Les Voyageurs, Lu- theran Student Association, Os- terweil Cooperative, Pi Beta Phi, Wenley House.. November 1 Alpha Delta Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Fletcher Hall,* Greene House, Michigan League Dormi- tory, Phi Delta Chi, Sailing Club, Theta Chi, Theta Xi, Zeta Psi. Women students are notified that regular weekend rules apply to those wishing to attend out- of-town football games: "Week- end-(a) Overnight: Any girl ex- pecting to be out of her house Fri- day, Saturday, or Sunday night must notify the head of the house personally, leave address in ad- vance, and sign in when she re- turns. (b) Late permission: Rou- tine requests for late permissions must be made in advance to the Office of the Dean of Women ex- cept for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. For Friday, Sat- urday, and Sunday nights, house- mothers may grant this permis- sion if they approve and if they have been asked in person by the student before she leaves her resi dence. In such cases, the house mother is requested to attach to the sign-out sheet an, explanation of each late permission granted. February 1948 Graduates in Mechanical & Industrial-Mechan- ical Engineering: Students who expect to gradu- ate in February 1948 in the above divisions should call at once at the Mechanical Engineering De- partment office and fill out a per- sonnel record form. This is neces- sary for those who wish to take advantage of interviews for posi- tions with industrial organiza- tions; and is important as a perm- anent record for future reference. Interview schedules are now being arranged. Physical Education - Women Students: Registration for the next eight weeks work in physical education for women will be held in the Cor- rectives Room in Barbour Gymna- sium at the following hours: Friday, Oct. 31, 7:30-12 noon; 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, 8-12 noon. Bureau of Appointments, 201 Ma- SOn Hall Junior Professional Assistant: Application blanks for the Junior Professional Assistant Examina- tion have been received in our of- fice, and students interested in applying for the examination may pick them up now. Placement: Students are re- minded that Friday, October 31, is the last day that they may return registration material without pay- ment of late registration fee. Detroit Civil Service: Examina- tion Announcements for the fol- lowing have been received in this office: 1) Assistant Art Curator (Gen- eral). Salary, $3700-$4336. Clos- ing date Nov. 19. S'4rl's 'oiuetl3aiq l uluaG (7 $3541-$4177. Closing date Nov. 10. 3) X-ray Technician. Salary, $2581-$2977. Closing date Nov. 18. Complete information may be obtained at the Bureau of Ap- pointments, 201 Mason Hall. Lecture Ennis Davis, editor of the Music Journal, member of the Research Council of the Music Educators National Conference, author, and former music educator, will speak on Friday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m., in the Rackham Assembly Hall, on "The Music Educator and Music in the World Outside the School." All Music Education students are urged to attend. Others who 'are interested are invited. Department of Metal Processing and Engineering Mechanics Prof. E. K. Hendriksen, Profes- sor of Metal Processing at the Royal Technical University of Denmark, will lecture on residual stresses in machined surfaces on Friday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 1042, E. Engineering Bldg. Mr. Henriksen has been very active in research on metal cutting and its relation to surface finish and the resulting surface stresses. Academic Notices English 31, Sec. 8: The exami- nation scheduled for Friday morn- ing will be held in the West Gal- lery of Memorial Alumni Hall. A. L. Hawkins Biological Chemistry Seminar: Fri., Oct. 31, 4 p.m., Rm. 319, W. Medical Bldg. Subject: "Proteolytic Enzymes." All interested are in- vited. Seminar in Differential Geom- etry in the Large will meet regu- larly at 3 p.m. henceforth. Concert String Orchestra Concert, un- der the direction of Gilbert Ross, 8:30 p.m., Tues., Nov. 11, Lydia MendelssohnTheatre. Soloist: Nor- ma Swinney Heyde, Soprano, and Oliver Edel, Cellist. Program: Two Fantazias by Purcell, Three Arias from "Eteocles e Polinices" by Lengrenzi, Concerto in G Major, No. 3 by Boccherine, and Mozart's Divertimento in D Major, K. 334. Open to the public without charge. Exhibitions Exhibit: Living Fall Fungi of Washtenaw County, Michigan. Department of Botany, 2nd floor, Natural Science Building, through November 1st. "Natural History Studies at the Edwin S. George Reserve, Uni- versity of Michigan." October through December, Museums Bldg Rotunda. Events Today SRA COFFEE HOUR: Lane Hall, 4:30 p.m. Special guests will be the Lutheran Students Asso- ciation. Everyone is cordially in- vited. German Coffee Hour: 2-4:30 p.m., Michigan League Coke Bar. All interested students and faculty members are invited. Sigma Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity: Business Meeting, 8 p.m., Rm. 308. Michigan Union. All members are urged to be present. Gamma Delta, Lutheran Club: Halloween Paty, 8:15 p.m. at the Student Center. B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation: Interfaith evening. Friday evening services, 7:45 p.m. Fireside discus- sion led by Dr. Palmer Throop on "Inherited Problems of Toleration" at 8:30 p.m. Social hour will follow. All invited to attend. Wesleyan Guild: All members are invited to at- tend the "Ghost Frolic" at the Women's Athletic Building which is being sponsored by the Inter- national Students' Association. Meet at the Wesley Foundation at 8 p.m. Students interested in the Cell Conference November 1, please call 6881. Canterbury Club: Open house, 4-6 p.m. for Episcopal students and their friends at the student center, 218 S. Division. Refresh- ments. Roger Williams Guild: Halloween party, 8:30 p.m. Meet at the Guild House for a "hard times" party. Wear old clothes. Program: games, dancing and re- freshments. Lutheran Student Association: Halloween Party. Meet promptly at 7:45 at the Center, 1304 Hill Street. Coming Events Inter Co-operative Council pre- sents Lester Beberfall, member of the faculty active in counter in- telligence in Germany during World War II, who will speak or the subject, "Fascist Mentality," at 8 p.m., Sun., Nov. 2, at the Rob- ert Owen Cooperative House. Graduate History Club: Weekly Coffee Hour, Nov. 3, Clements Li- brary. Bowling will be available at a nominal fee for University women and their guests at the alleys in the Women's Athletic Building op Forest and North University be- ginning Monday, Nov. 3, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tennis or bowling shoes must be worn. Graduate Outing Club hike. Meet at 2:30 p.m., Sun., Nov. 2, at the northwest entrance of the Rackham Bldg. Sign up at Rack- hm check desk before noon Sat- urday. Ann Arbor Field Hockey Club: First meeting, Sat., Nov. 1, 1 p.m., Women's Athletic Building on Forest and North University. All women graduate students, fac- ulty members, staff at the Uni- versity, or townspeople are wel- come. Vulcans: First meeting of the semester, 6:30 p.m., Sun., Nov. 2, Michigan Union. All members are urged to attend. {I the sheerest fancy. (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) CURRENT . . .. MOVIES'~ At the State .. . SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE, with Phillip Terry and Jacqueline White. F THIS is a model of what we may expect of forthcoming mystery movies, "The Bobsey Twins Find Buried Treasure" should be showing in town next week. The studio apparently had some extra film, a few unoc- cupied actors and a script that the Los An- geles Subnormal Grammar School had re- jected for their senior play. Mystery writer Phillip Terry, author of gems like "The Case of the Crooning Cow" arrives at Baldpate Inn in a blizzard to fulfill a bet that he write a story there overnight. The supposedly deserted inn does a brisk business in unexpected and sinister charac- ters, plus a few lovely ladies, and soon we have three teams-The Good Kids, The Bad Kids, and The Good Kid But Nobody Knows He's Good. Then they all play "look for the money and get the jewels," with guns and money changing hands as often as the bottle opener at a beer picnic. All the bad boys double cross each other and litter the secret stairways with bodies, but even they get tired and stop all their nonsense eventually. The audience, needless to say, is very happy at this. Gloria Hunter 4 BARNABY..