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VOL. LVIH, No. 39

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1947

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Students Hit
Food Service
In West Quad
Better Quality,
Preparing Urged
Food gripes took center interest
in the West Quad yesterday, as
more than 800 residents signed
petitions criticizing ;preparation,
distribution and presentation of
their meals.
A committee of the students who
met yesterday with Francis Shiel,
residence halls' business manager,
explained that the purpose of the
petitions was to point out that an
overwhelming majority of the res-
idents are dissatisfied with the
food. Shiel declined comment on
the situation.
Investigation Needed
Elizabeth Ham, head University
dietician, meeting with the West
Quad Council last night, was told
that some sort of investigation is
needed.
"We want to be sure that we are
getting sufficient quality for the
money we're paying," Quad Pres-
ident Albert Maslin said.
"We told Miss Ham that the
University should look into the
situation at other state schools
and find out how we rate in the
quality for money ratio," he added.
Student who circulated the pe-
titions explained that while food
purchased by the University may
be first-quality, the preparation is
very poor.
Over and Over Again
They claim that when such food
as beef heart or liver is served,
more than half the students do
not eat, so that the food is served
again the next day in different
form.
A former army mess officer
pointed out that cafeteria food
lines are often held up because a
full tray of food cannot be brought
in until the serving trays are com-
pletely empty, causing a bottle-
neck.
Although the petitions were cir-
culated by individual students, not
the Quad Council, Maslin said
that the, eight hodfse "Y'ffdetft-
composing the council feel that
the residents had just cause for
complaine. He added:
"We realize that the University
faces sky-high food prices, but
we hope that some solution to the
problem can be found "
Grain Price
Inquiry Asked
Exchanges Request
Congress To Act
CHICAGO, Nov. 5-(P')--The
nation's three largest grain ex-
changes, disclaiming responsibility
for the recent rise in grain prices,
today asked for a "sweeping" con-
gressional investigation not only
of their activities but also of the
government's grain buying pro-
gram.
The exchanges, already under
investigation by the attorney gen-
eral after a presidential charge
that "gambling in the market"
had skyrocketed grain prices, said
they would "welcome and request"
a hearing "at the earliest possible
date."
Their statement said the special
investigation had been requested

"in order that the American pub-
lic may be furnished facts from
which it can draw its own con-
clusions as to whether the rapid
rise in commodity prices has been
occasioned by illegal and improper
practices on the part of the ex-
changes, on the one hand, or by
the government's buying program
for export, plus bungling and lack
of planning on the other hand."
Teachers Will
Meet Today
The Michigan Council on Adult
Education will focus its attention
on international understanding
and Michigan adult education
problems at its annual meeting to
be held here today and tomorrow.
The Council will join the final
session of the conference entitled
"Toward World Understanding" to
hear an address by Dr. Eduard
Lindeman of the New York School
of Social Work.

'Peace Climate' Urged
By Emily Taft Douglas
Aid to Europe, Control of Atomic Weapons,
lasting Peace Discussed at Conference
America must continue aid to Europe, both individually and
through the Marshall Plan, Emily Taft Douglas, former congress-
woman from Illinois, told members of the World Understanding Con-
ference today at Rackham Building.
Starved and half-starved Europeans can't be expected to "lift
themselves by their bootstraps," Mrs. Douglas declared at the confer-
ence, which is combined with the 18th annual Parent Education In-
stitute.
Toward 'World Peace-Mindedness'
"If modern agricultural technology can be applied throughout
the world to eliminate the age-old scourge of recurrent famine, it
- would be a big step toward mak-

PROF. WILLIAM lIABER
. . will speak today
Prof. Haber
Will Discuss
Job Outlook
Predictions of vocational prob-
lems to come will be featured in
a talk to be given by Prof. Wil-
liam Haber, of the economics de-
partment, at 8 p.m. today in Hill
Auditorium.
Focusing on the job future fac-
ing students, Prof. Haber will an-
alyze various occupational fields
in a lecture entitled, "Vocational
Horizons." Although presented as
the last in the series of Orienta-
tion Assemblies, the talk will be
open to all students on campus.
Study as Preparation
The importance of a liberal arts
education in securing a- job will
be considered in the lecture, with
suggestions for present study prep-
aration. Prof. Haber will also in-
clude a discussion of increasing
and decreasing areas in the dif-
ferent vocational fields.
Prof. Haber, who teaches courses
in labor relations and social se-
curity at the University has a
long record of government service
in these fields.
Government Service
During the war, Prof. Haber
served as Director of Planning for
the War Manpower Commission,
and as advisor to the War Mobili-
zation and Reconversion Boards.
The University Men's Glee Club
will also be featured on the As-
sembly program today, presenting
a selection of special numbers un-
der the direction of Prof. Philip
Duey, of the music school.

ing the world peace-minded, Mrs.
Douglas said.
Education and agricultural
agencies will be of greater import-
ance in creating a "climate for
peace" than a world police force,
Mrs. Douglas added.
Provost James P. Adams, in an
address at the opening session,
warned that the genuine danger
that the United States faces in its
foreign affairs is the possibility
we will not accept the economic
consequence of our present polit-
ical position.
Danger Signs
"Signs of this danger are al-
ready visible in some quarters in
the form of skepticism regarding
the Marshall Plan for the support
of economic recovery in Western
Europe," Provost Adams declared.
He advocated both an economic
rehabilitation program to be car-
ried out during hte next five to
ten years, and emergency action
to provide immediate aid.
Desupite the nation's irritation
over Russia' policy of obstruct-
ing collaboration, there is little
danger of a revival of political
isolationism, Dr. Adams said.
Dean Ralph A. Sawyer of the
Graduate School, who also spoke
at the opening session, told the
conference that the only alterna-
tive to living in a state of armed
truce and constant alert is inter-
national control of atomic weap-
ons.
Lasting German Peace
At a 7:30 p.m. meeting of the
conference yesterday, Prof. James
K. Pollock of the political cience
departmen tdiscussed the prob-
lems of maintaining lasting peace
in Germany.
The conference will continue to-
day with addresses by Mark Starr,
educational director of the Inter-
national Ladies' Garment Work-
ers' Union; Dr. Ernest M. Ligon,
professor of psychology at Union
College, Schenectady, N.Y.; and
Dr. Edward Lindeman of th New
York School of Social Work.
Award Film
T~o Be Given
"Open City," prize-winning film
of Rome's underground during the
German occupation, will be pre-
sented by AVC's campus chapter
at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow and Satur-
day in Hill Auditorium.
All proceeds from the perform-
ances will be donated to the Red
Feather Campaign of the Ann Ar-
bor Community Chest to bolster
AVC's $1,000 pledge. Tickets will
go on sale at 2 p.m. tomorrow at
the box office.
"Open City" is presented in
Italian, with English titles.

UN Approves
Commission
To Aid Korea
Aim to Expedite
Independence
By The Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 5-A
United Nations Commission to
"facilitate and expedite" Korean
independence was approved today
by the General Assembly's Polit-
ical Committee in the face of a
new Soviet bloc boycott on Amer-
ican-sponsored proposals.
. The 57-nation committee vot-
ed 46 to 0 for the Korean Com-
mission which was proposed
originally by Secretary of State
Marshall and opposed vigorously
by Russia.
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and
Bolivia abstained, the Soviet group
did not vote and Yemen was ab-
sent.
The question goes to the As-
sembly in plenary session probably
late next week for final approval.
Russia's boycott notice
brought forth immediate spec-
ulation that she would refuse
to admit the commission to
North Korea and would not co-
operate with it.
Russia has stayed away from a
sub-committee which drafted a
chart for a year-round "little as-
sembly" asked by the U.S. and she
had refused to take part in a UN
Balkans watch commission already
being set up by decision of the
Assembly.
The prospect of yet another So-
viet boycott developed as the po-
litical committee passed from the
Korean question to debater on
Marshall's "little assembly" proj-
ect.
Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, Australian
Foreign Minister, supported it as
a good idea and pleaded for full
representation in the proposed
year-around Assembly.
World News
At a Glance
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-A de-
mand that a $5,919,921 additional
tax assessment be slapped on
Howard Hughes, millionaire Holly-
wood plane designer, was made to-
day by Senator Williams (R.-Del.)
as the Senate War Investigating
Committee resumed its inquiry
into Hughes' $40,000,000 warplane
contracts.
* * *
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-Two
closed door sessions of the spe-
cial House Foreign Aid Commit-
tee today failed to produce any
agreement on a program for the
forthcoming special session of
Congress.
* * *
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov.
5--Communist Premier Klement
Gottwald emerged tonight from a
political crisis as Czechoslovakia's
new strong man with complete au-
thority from the national cabinet
to rebuild the government of semi-
autonomous Slovakia.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey declared to-
night "we have only one
choice' on the European aid
question" and that is wisely to
aid those who stand with.us in
the world in the hope that they
will rise again as bulwarks of

the institution of human free-
dom."
do. * * *
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Nov.1
5-Charging that Russia has vio-
lated "a solemn pledge," James
F. Byrnes said tonight it is our
duty to demand that Marshall
Stalin "immediately return"-an es-
timated 828,000 Japanese prison-
ers.
Student Wins
$600 in Contest
Worried about how to finance a
trip to the Rose Bowl?
Maybe you should try the sys-
tem of Harold Brode, sophomore in
the literary college!
In five minutes last week Brode
made himself $600. He did it by
clipping the weekly football selec-
tion chart from a Detroit after-

PRESS CLUB SPEAKERS-Russell Barnes, Detroit News foreign
correspondent, (left) and S.L.A. Marshall, editorial writer for the
same paper will address 125 Michigan editors and publishers who
will meet here today, tomorrow and Saturday for the annual
University Press Club Convention.
RECORD ATTENDANCE:
Michigan Press Club To Hold
Annuwl Meeting at TU' Today

The University Press Club of'
Michigan, an organization which
grew out of a meeting of jour-
nalism teachers in 1918, will con-
vene here today with a record
post-war number of Michigan ed-
itors and publishers in attend-
ance.
Richard M. Cook, president of
the club, and editor and publisher
n,"
Tag Day Drive
Falls Below
WSSF Hopes
The World Student Service
Fund will continue the tag day
drive on campus through today
in an effort to reach the Univer-
sity's $10,000 goal.
Contributions from the WSSF
drive yesterday reached $1,517
from the campus stations and $366
from campus organizations.
"The first day's response has
been heartening, but is still far
below what should be expected,"
stated Jack Passfield, chairman
of the drive. "The second day
should equal the total already
turned in if we are to come any-
where near our goal of $10,000."
"Several organizations are yet
to be heard from and we have
high hopes that their contribu-
tions will make a substantial dif-
ference," Passfield declared.
Campus groups which have
made special contributions are
Betsy Barbour, Trigon, Kappa
Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega, Colle-
giate Sorosis, Alpha Gamma Delta,
Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta,
and Alpha Delta Pi. Other organ-
izations have pledged proceeds
from special projects during the
year, according to Passfield.
Campus Directory
Sales Discontinued
Campus sales of the Student Di-
rectory have been discontinued,
according to Bill Zerman, direc-
tory sales manager.
With 200 of the original 5,500
copies remaining, directories will
be available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
daily, at the main business office,
Student Publications Building.

of the Hastings Banner, estimated
yesterday that at least 125 State
journalists will be on hand.
Registratioan Today
Members will register at the
Union from 2 to 7 p.m. today,
and following a tea at the Presi-
dent's house will attend a Uni-
versity dinner at the Union with
Arthur L. Brandon, club secre-
tary and director of the Univer-
sity News Service, presiding.
At a session at 10 a.m. tomor-
row, open to the general public,
Detroit News foreign correspon-
dent Russell A. Barnes will speak
at Rackham Amphitheatre on the
subject, "Russia's Expanding Pow-
er."
Marshall Will Speak
S. L. A. Marshall, editorial writ-
er for the Detroit News, will speak
before a club luncheon at 12:30
p.m., tomorrow, on the subject,
"Armament and Peace." Otto C.
Pressprich, editor of the Saginaw
News and second vice-president of
the club, will preside.
Women guests will simultane-
ously attend a luncheon to be
given at the League with Dean of
Women Alice C. Lloyd, presiding.
Band Planning
Freedom Epic
Armistice Struggle
Will Be Dramatized
A pageant dramatizing the epic
American struggle for liberty and
justice, in commemoration of Arm-
istice Day, Nov. 11, will be the
them of the University March-
ing Band's half-time show in the
Michigan Stadium Saturday.
In a series of significant forma-
tions, the band will depict sym-
bolic events in the development of
America from the first free colony
to its present position in world
affairs. Boy Scouts of the Wash-
tenaw-Livingston Council will as-
sist the band in the last of the
seven formations.
Forming IND, after a counter-
march back to center field, Prof.
William D. Revelli, director of the
bands, will conduct "Indiana Our
Indiana," in salute to the Hoosiers.
The band will then march to the
north goal to play "The Yellow
and Blue" in MICH formation.

Students To Pick
Campus Officers
By Ballotoday
Four Voting Booths Will Be Open;
Students Must Present ID Cards
Four polling booths will be open on campus from shortly before
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today as students select their choices to the Board
in Control of Student Publications, the J-Hop and Soph Prom com-
mittees and senior class offices from a record number of candidates.
Ballots for the various elections may be obtained from one of three
booths in the lobby of Angell Hall, under the Engine Arch and at the
Willow Village bus stop on E. University.
A booth located in Hutchins Hall will handle ballots in the Law
Quadrangle.
Students must submit their identification cards to booth atten-
dants for punching before they may obtain ballots, Kelly said.
class Limits Vote
Students are reminded that only juniors may vote for J-H
candidates, sophomores for Soph Prom candidates and seniors in the
literary college for senior class of-
ficers, Kelly emphasized.Ba
All students in all schools may Both Parties
vote in the publications board
elections, he added. Claim
Votes may be cast in the indi-
vidual elections for as many can- T T i
didates as there positions avail- nyca In , o
able. Therefore, Kelly explained,
a student may vote for nine can-
didates to each of the dance com- No Specific Trends
mittees and three candidates to Observed by Experts
the publications board.
Seniors may vote for only one By The Associated Press
candidate for each of the four The meaning of Tuesday's off-
class offices available.
Election booth attendants will year election results was disputed
include volunteer students, mem- vigorously today by leaders of the
bers of the Legislature the Men's two major parties.

Early voting returns of the
campus election will be broad-
cast at 11 p.m. today over Sta-
tion WHRV.
Judiciary Council and of Alpha
Phi Omega, national service fra-
ternity.
Ballot Counting
Ballot counting will begin at 7
p.m. today in the Union, Kelly
said. Students interested in count-
ing or watching the counting will
be welcome, he added.
Each vote will carry equal weight7
in the election with the candidates
with the highest number of votes
considered elected. Chairmen of
the dance committees will be those
elected candidates with the most
votes.
Election rules; prohibiting cam-
paign literature on campus or in
campus buildings, and campaign-
ing within 50 feet of the polling
places will be strictly enforced,
Kelly warned.
Infraction of the rules will con-l
stitute automatic disqualification
from the election, he said.
* * *
SL Receives
CouncilReport,
Men's Judiciary Will
Ask Election Revision
A report on election by-laws
from the Men's Judiciary Council
was submitted to the Student Leg-
islature cabinet for approval, at
the Legislature meeting last night.
The by-laws, involving a com-
plete reorganization of the peti-
tioning and elections system, pro-
vide for standardized printed forms
for petitions to be stapled to a
copy of elections regulations, re-
quirements that only the candi-
date pass petitions, that no peti-
samsp i palsnoaxp aq Aum swop
or libraries, that' the judiciary
council be empowered to judge
violations of rudes and that three
officers be created to investigate,
try and defend alleged violators.
The cabinet decision on the re-
port will be submitted to the Legis-
lature at its next meeting.
The Legislature also voted to
make a contribution from its
treasury to the financing of a
campaign to take to the Supreme
Court the case of a Negro stu-
dent refused admission to Univer-
sity of Texas Law School.
A jazz concert open without
charge to the campus at large will
be sponsored by the Legislature
pending an investigation by the
social committee, the group de-
cided.
The date for legislature elec-
tions was set for Dec. 10 at the
-.tr and - dfnalleged vatr.

Democratic Chairman J. How-
ard McGrath called the results
"gratifying, but not unexpected."
Carroll Reece, head of the Re-
publican National Committee, de-
clared the outcome could mean
only that the. voters are pleased
with the record of the Republican
dominated Congress.
Some other analysts could find
little to indicate how the wind
will blow in 1948.
Van Antwerp Wins
In a non-partisan Detroit elec-
tion, four-term Mayor Edward J.
Jeffries lost to Eugene I, Van Ant-
werp, a city councilman. The final
returns showed Van Antwerp with
224,249 votes; Jeffries with 205,-
318.
Election board tabulations
showed Democrats regaining the
Kentucky governorship, a country
judge succeeding to the late The-
odore G. Bilb 's Mississippi Senate
seat, and three House races end-
ing according to form, with Re-
publican candidates winning in In-
diana and Ohio and a Democrat
in Brooklyn.
Headline Contests

WORKERS' SERVICE:
Labor education Programs
Hampered by Limited Funds

By PHIL DAWSON
Labor education programs are
consistently hampered by lack of
funds, in spite of remarkable de-
velopment in the last five years,
according to Hilda Smith, of the
National Committee for the Ex-
tension of Labor Education.
The University's Workers' Ex-
tension Service in Detroit, a pio-
neer in this field, is among those
which would benefit from the pro-
posed Labor Extension Bill,
S-1390, now in both houses of
Congress, Miss Smith yesterday
told a luncheon meeting of inter-
ested faculty members and others.
Wide Scope
The scope of workers' adult ed-
ucation programs is wide, includ-
ing industrial, governipental and
community problems. Since these
are of crucial interest to every-

ested college or university, and,
following approval of the blue-
print by a state board and a na-
tional Labor Extension Service,
the federal government will pro-
vide 75 per cent of the requested
money-the other fourth to be
raised within the state.
Would Help Labor
The Labor Extension Service
set up by the bill would also serve
as a source of information and as-
sistance to labor, similar to the
federal Agricultural Extension
Service, Miss Smith explained.
This measures provides steps for
constructive action on a broad
basis in the field of labor rela-
tions. But its expected adoption
will increase the need for planning
groups in local communities and
for teachers and leaders.

PICTURES PLIGHT:
French Education Continues
Despite Poor Food and Health

Results of the headline contests
included:
Democratic Congressman Earl
C. Clements defeated Republican
Eldon S. Dummit for the Kentucky
Governorship, held the last four
years by Simeon Willis, Repub-
lican. Willis was ineligible to suc-
ceed himself.
John C. Stennis outdistanced
four Democraic and one Repub-
lican opponent for the Missis-
sippi Senate seat. Virtually un-
known outside his state, the rural
jurist conducted a conservative
campaign which ignored the
"white supremacy" issue frequent-
ly raised in Mississippi politics.
One of the men he defeated was
Rep. John Rankin (D.-Miss.), who
promised to "out-Bilbo Bilbo" if
elected to the Senate. Rankin re-
tains his House seat.
AVC Enters
WalpoleFight
AVC's campus chapter lent its
support last night to Willow Run's
Walpole Committee, donating $25
to bolster the Committee's "fight
for civil liberties" in the explosive
convenient districting vs. racial
discrimination issue.
The chapter elected Lewis Ber-
man, John King and Vic Sherman
to serve on a newly formed group
to fight attacks on civil liberties.
Initial steps were also taken by
the campus chapter, to call to at-
tention the spring municipal elec-
tions. The chapter voted to spon-

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By DON McNEIL

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Despite the obstacles of poor
health and starvation diets, French
students are struggling to con-
tinue their education, according
to Mine. Helene Barland, petite
Parisienne member of the French
Cultural Relations Bureau.
Health Alarming
"The Health of the average stu-
dent is extremely alarming," Mme.
Barland said in a talk here yes-
terday. She placed responsibility
for widespread tuberculosis direct-
ly on the meager food supply and
high cost.
"After paying tuition, books and
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Although they are sick them-
selves, students have organized
groups which regularly visit the
sick war veterans, and aid the poor
in their housework, she said. To
re-enforce their meager subsis-
tence, they have established em-
ployment offices, and nationally
they are represented by the Na-
tional Students Union, with 55
thousand members.
Students Faced Death
"Because French students havel
faced death, they look forward
to life and their part in building
a new world. They understand
that they are living in one world,

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