FOUR. TIE MICHIGAN D1AILY THURSA,. N&VEMBE R 20, 1947 G Fifty-Eighth Year I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Domeslite Cnioas Edted and managed by students of the Un- verity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. John Campbell...............Managing Editor Nancy Helmick ...................General Manager Clyde Reht ..........................City Editr Jeanne Swendeman ........ 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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 Worthy System THE CONDUCT of the recent Congression- al investigations of the Howard Hughes airplane contracts and the "Communists in Hollywood" has brought unjust criticism of the institution of Congressional inquiry it- self, extending even to the suggestion that the policy be abolished. While criticism of the two investiga- tions mentioned above undoubtedly is jus- tified, any generalizations about all con- gressional investigations drawn from these two instances do not stand up un- der further study. Congressional investigation is an inte- gral part of the American system of gov- ernment. One of the surest checks against political or economic manipulations in the government by the party in power is the knowledge that, when the opposition party takes over, a Congressional committee com- posed of a majority of members who are out for the scalp of the recently vanquish- ed party will sift all the details of the pre- ceeding administration which might dis- credit it. Congressional investigations uncovered the Tea-Pot-Dome oil scandle of the twenties. Early in the war, Congression- al inquiries into the state of our war production did much to help gear our industries to war output. Although almost every Congressional in- quiry that has ever been instituted by Con- gress has been laughed off at one time or another, they have resulted in some very constructive policies in many cases. This is the case for Congressional in- vestigating committees. Against this can be placed only the blunderings of a couple of individual Congressmen who are at the present time busily engaged in mak- ing fools of themselves and discredit- ing' the Congress as a whole. A revamping of the rules under which Congressional committees conduct inves- tigations is needed, not the abandonment of a system that has proved its worth many times in the past. -Al Blumrosen CINEMA At Lydia Mendelssohn -..' RUSSIAN BALLERINA, with Maria Re- dina and Vladimir Kazanovich. THE DANCING that takes place in Rus- sian Ballerina is reported to be right out of the top drawer and, not being much of a ballet fan myself, I should be the last to dispute it. Most of its pirouetting is done by three young ladies -- Galina Ulanova, Maria R.edina, and Nadia Yastrebova -- whose names would probably look impres- sive on any billboard. They appear in a generous sampling of well-phiotographed scenes from Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, as well as in several back-stage se- quences. The plot around which these sequences were built, however, left me heavy-lidded and yawning. It dealt with the frustrations of a tenor who had the misfortune to fall By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE PRESIDENT has asked for price ceilings, rationing, wage control and a number of other measures to. keep us level while we help Europe, and so the chips are down. From now on the congressional sit- uation will resemble what happens in a glass of water when you throw one of those drug store effervescing tablets in. Whoosh! For it seems clear that many leading Republicans, and conservatives generally, are going to react not cere- brally but chemically to what the Presi- dent has said. For they are torn, torn as a man may be torn between two maidens. On the one hand they want to help Western Europe, and to keep the hated Communists out. On the other hand,they want freedom from controls in the United States. They want What theqy ~...a * A bout Trumnns Program MR. TRUMAN called on Congress - and himself - to backtrack on the "fill 'er up" attitude they both adopted at the war's end, when controls were lifted long before our economy or the world's economy were stabilized. So with inflationary fears of the 1946 OPA fight realized, and the bubble close to the bursting point, President Truman asked for authority to impose "selective" ceilings on wages and prices and to revive consumer rationing, if necessary.. This authority must be granted, he said, if our our economy is to withstand the infla- tion that "threatens our entire program of foreign aid." Republicans and some Democrats in both houses were unconvinced. Some objected to the tactics, calling them "dictatorial." Others saw in Mr. Truinai's proposals a "'mre colossal Office of Price Administra- tion." Still others in Congress seemed to feel that the price spiral just doesn't exist, and no action i necessary. Two of the nation's leading Republican newspapers take opposing views in criticiz- ing the President's speech. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE asserts that the speech is but another indication of the incompetence of Mr. Truman and his party. The "World's Greatest Newspaper," says, " .. . the true cure, the only real cure for the inflation that the New Deal has brought on, is an enormous reduction in government spending. Everything else is fraud and quackery . . . Anyone who is gen- uinely concerned to keep prices from getting out of hand will not advocate the further inflation which will result from foreign loans, nor will he urge enormous increases in the amount of goods this country exports against the loans it makes." THE NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE criticized the President for not being sufficiently blunt. "He almost apologetical- ly presented an inflation control program which can hardly be escaped, but which is certainly drastic enough . . . to have de- manded a maximum of boldness, frank- ness and precision in its presentation." For some curious reason, continues the Herald-Tribune, "the President all but di- vorced inflation control from the European aid program. Although the intimate rela- tion between the two constitutes the strong- est argument for both . . . the President chose to separate them." His program, the editorial declares, "Is a moderate, even a minimum program for any real attack upon inflation; unless ap- plied with vigor and consistency it will be largely useless." * * * THE DAILY WORKER, seeningly oblivi- ous of the President's message, calling for rationing and price control, goes off on its own tack condemning Mr. Truman's " . . refusal to give price relief to the American people (which is) matched by his refusal to provide real non-political re- relief . . . to all war ravaged lands without strings . . . He didn't ask Congress to roll back prices. Nor did he urge any kind of effective price control on food, clothing and fuel," concluded the Worker. * * * *' THE KALAMAZOO GAZETTE looks for some productive debate in Congress on the President's program - "debate pro- ductive of some really sound conclusions re- garding the acute problem of inflation and how best to deal with that problem before it is too late." For it is foolish, says the Gazette, to pre- tend that this problem does not exist or that we can "safely let it ride the way it has been going for more than a year now-. . to call the President's control proposals un- welcome and distasteful is not enough. If those proposals are rejected . . . let us hope that the collective wisdom of Congress and the administration and the American busi- ness community will devise some acceptable means of combatting an inflationary peril which is, beyond question, all too real." H EARST PAPERS about the nation, in a uniform editorial, warn their readers both. They sigh over each pretty picture in turn, and make little cooing noises to it, and kiss it, and will give neither up. Nev- er! No! No! No! Some of the more wide-eyed elements among the conservatives not only want to help remodel Europe along free enter- prise lines, while allowing prices here to churn freely upward at will, producing inflated profits, but they also, and in addition, want substantial tax cuts. These are the ones who are really drooling. We must also expect a certain amount of four-flushing to show itself. There will be those who will say hotly that they are for the Marshall Plan, but that it can be car- ried out without the imposition of price ceilings and rationing at home. As a matter of fact, the Marshall Plan cannot be carried out without these con- trols; we cannot swim seven to eight bil- lions of dollars of fat each year off our economy without raising prices wildly, and bringing the real domestic cost of the Marshall Plan up to three or four times the actual appropriated cost. Men who take the line that we can avoid controls will not really be for the Marshall Plan at all. They may say they are; they may even think they are, but they cannot really be said to want it, just as no man can be said really to want an article for which he is unwilling to pay the price. Here a warning suggests itself. Many of those who will oppose the President's rather mild and limited system of con- trols may be remembering 1946 too well, the year when everybody was loaded, and when getting a steak was life's chief prob- lem. The~re has been a year and a half of sobering and thinning inflation since then. Enemies of price control may be shocked when they reach out for the unexpected applause, and fail to get it. For the President could have played the four-flushing game, too. It is part of the mystery of democratic process that the peo- ple may react to the courage he showed in his message to Congress, that they will get it, and that they will turn to him with a confidence which the more jaunty lads, in- cluding the four-flushers, can not inspire. (Copyright, 1947, N.Y. Post Syndicate) Modern 'Art' IN VIEWING the current exhibition of Dutcl paintings in the University's Art Gallery we were impressed by how clearly the true function of the painters of this period is revealed: to portray unquestion- ingly the life of the burgher and his family. Nothing too searching, but smply an indication of the surface qualities of one segment of a society is the result of their efforts. Amusing incidents of a general nature, such as Jan Steen's "Drunken Girl" form their material; attractive in- teriors, as well as Biblical and historical events represented completely in terms of their own society is what they have painted. This started us wondering who or what in our society performs this function. Certainly not the newspaper cameraman. He is in- terested only in the immediate. An event's pertinence is measured by what degree it departs from the unusual, not by what light it may shed for future historians or an- thropologists. We could establish no connection, for our purposes between the modern artist, exhibited on 57th Street in New York and in our other cultural centers, with those of 16th century Holland. Our contempo- raries are no longer interested in record- ing what men see, or even what they be- lieve they see. Instead, they attempt to portray the emotions occurring within men. A completely different matter. Even a snore searching artisan like pho- tographer Alfred Steglitz has little sociolog- ical intents. Ile aims for something else, something whicl is more akin to "modern art" than to an exact record. Only in portraiture do we find that which might be considered an equivalent of a Ter Borch or a Netscher. Men like Karsch, inject exactly as much commen- tary into their photographs of statesmen, or society women, as Rembrandt did in his work. It becomes obvious that it is pnly in our motion pictures that we will find the most complete parallel. In Hollywood our life is represented on the same level of inclusive- ness as the painters of the 16th and 17th century recorded theirs. Using interesting compositions and pleasing tones of black and white, or color, the pleasantries of these societies are projected on canvas. Attractive wom- en in painstakingly designed and execut- ed costumes of great beauty, amusing but uninsPired incidents, gorgeous scenic views and lush household interiors. The humans that people each of these two canvases are all very much the same, in appearance, in action and in dimension. Thus in two widely separated periods, life is represented in the same manner and to the same extent. -Arthur H. Friedman. Our Infliwuece I iRESIDENT TPUMAN has fi nally throw n down the g;aunt- let to the Republican-dominated 80th Congress. Abashed by the iog treatment accorded his Administration by this Congress since it bowed to the will of monopoly-controlled big business interests and scrapped price controls, Truman assiduous- ly avoided calling for direct and unequivocal action to stem the rising tide of America's runaway inflation. With tongue-in-cheek. he joined Sen. Taft in exhorting the American people to force prices down by conserving food. Public response to this circum- ventive approach to this increas- ingly ominous problem was apa- thetic and prices continued to spiral upward. Meanwhile, the angry mutter- ings of the people grew in vol- ume with the result that not even the President could remain insensate to the public demand for a frontal attack on infla- tion. In response, he went be- fore this hostile Congress and demanded that the Government be given the authority to insti- tute price, credit, rationing and wage controls whenever and wherever the Administration be- lieved voluntary action to curb prices had been willfully ob- structed or had prosed ineffec- tive. Led by Sen. Taft and Speaker Martin, Republican leaders imme- diately launched a bitter attack on Truman's program. Sen. Taft warned that government regula- tion of the nation's economy would lead to totalitarianism. However, he neglected to point out that more comprehensive and stringent controls than the Pres- ident urged the Congress to enact were successfully employed dur- ing World War IT from which the people emerged with their freedom intact. Nor did Taft admit when he declared that domestic inflation could be stemmed by curtailing foreign aid that unless rationing is revived and Americans share their food and machinery with a prostrate world, millions of people will perish of starvation during the coming year. Moreover, Republican spokes- men who cited the failure of la- bor and watered down post-war price controls to increase pro- duction and prevent rising prices, failed to state that efforts to ex- pand productivity were frustrated by the steadfast refusal of steel and other industrial giants to en- large their plant capacity or that the cattle and meat packing in- terests who blackmailed the American people into junking the OPA by curtailing meat shipments were largely responsible for price rises. Furthermore, Taft and his co- horts did not reveal that while the American standard of liv- ing and the rehabilitation of war-torn foreign nations is be- ing undermined and imperiled by exorbitant prices, big bus- iness is reaping the greatest profits in our history. In view of Truman's statement several weeks ago that "all forms of government economic controls are weapons of a police state," we cannot deny that the President's espousal of a strong anti-infla- tionary program may have been motivated by political opportun- ism. If the Republicandmajority in Congress fails to adopt his program and the present price in- flationary trend is not checked, the President will have a strong talking point on which to base his campaign for reelection in 1948. Despite this possibility, how- ever, the fact remains that Tru- man has presented the only pro- gram which can bring prices down and secure our living standards. His political motives may be reprehensible, but Amer- icans must support his pro- posals with all their intelligence and energy if the Congress is to be bludgeoned into a com- plete acceptance of this anti- inflationary program. Unless we the people exert the full pressure of our influence to force this entire plan through Congress, an economic "catas- trophe" that will cause the last depression to pall into piddling in- significance awaits us. -Joe Frein. T[HE CRISIS in Europe will be a long-term crisis only if that ruling class which the European masses no longer accept is so am- ply supported by America that it is able either to stage a counter- revolution or to postpone the achievement of stability until, as in Nazi Germany, the masses turn to some demagogue like Hitler in the hope that he will provide the basis of a new equilibrium. -Harold J. Laski, in The Nation. I1I- Publication in The Daily Official fuletin 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). ThURSDAY, Nov. 20, 1917 VOL. LVIII, No. 51 Notices Veterans: According to a recent Veterans Administration regula- tion, veterans enrolled under Pub- lic Law 346 who plan to interrupt their training at the conclusion of, the present Fall Semester will re- ceive subsistence payments for an, additional fifteen days beyond the, effective date of their official in- terruption of training. Conse- quently, fifteen days of eligibility time will be deducted from their remaining entitlement. It should be emphasized that this procedure is automatic, in that payment will be made and entitlement reduced accordingly, unless a veteran notifies the Vet- erans Administration, in writing, thirty days prior to the close of the Fall Semester. This does not apply to veterans who are re-en- rolling for the Spring Semester. It is the responsibility of the veteran who does not desire the extension of subsistence benefits to notify the Veterans Adminis- tration no later than January 7, 1948. Veterans who desire the fif- teen days extension are not re- quired to give any notice. Veter- ans who accept the additional fif- teen days will have their eligibil- ity ime reduced by that time amount. The following form is suggested nor notifiication: "This is to noti- fy you that 1 will interrupt my training at the University of Michigan at the end of the Fall Semester, February 7, 1948. h do not desire the fifteen days exten- sion of subsistence allowances. Signature, "C" Number, Reference, "C" Number, Reference DT7AGB TM." The notification should be sent to Registration and Research Section, Michigan Unit, Veterans Administration, Guardian Build- ing, 500 Griswold Street, Detroit 26, Michigan. All Senior single men living in Willow Run dormitories may ap- ply for Residence Hall accommo- dations for the second semester in Rm. 2, University Hall on Nov. 20, 21, 22. All Junior and Senior single men who are living at Willow Run and are residents of the State of Michigan are'eligible to apply for Residence Hall accommodations for the second semester in Rm. 2, University Hall on Nov. 20. All student organizations who have not previously submitted a list of members are requested to do so immediately. Lists should be submitted to the Office of Student Affairs, Rm. 2, University Hall. Pre-Football guest luncheons from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and after game open houses from 5 to 7 p.m. held in organized student residences will be approved chap- eroned or unchaperoned provided they are announced to the Office of Student Affairs at least one day in advance of the scheduled date. All women students attending the Pan-Hellenic Ball on Nov. 21 have 1:30 a.m. permission. Call- ing hours will not be extended. All Engineering Students inter- ested in an opportunities of the Civil Engineer Corps, Regular Navy, may obtain information from Comdr. A. C. Husband, CEC, USN, at North Hall, Thurs., Nov. 20. Application for Admission to the Graduate School for the Sec- ond Semester: Students in other schools and colleges who will graduate, and who wish to graduate, and who -may wish to enter the Graduate School the second semester, must submit their applications for admission by December 15 in order to be given consideration. The crowded condition in the University has placed limitations upon the num- ber that may be admitted. The Victor Chemical Company will have a representative at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 A- son Hall, Fri., Nov. 21, to inter- view chemists (B.S., M.S., and PhD.), and chemical engineers, both seniors and graduates. Call extension 371 for appointments. Lectures Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN i i EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily Prints every letter to the editor re-s ceived (which is signed, 300 wordst or less in length, and in good taste) we remind our readers that the viewst 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. Food BIludget To the Editor: rTHE EDITORIAL by Craig H. Wilson in Saturday's "Daily" showed a rather specious analysis of the food situation in the Quads.r His basic point was that the din-r ing halls MUST operate withint a fixed budget of $1.50 a day per person, which is either a mis- understanding of the facts or an outright lie.t Very few people eat all twenty-1 ine meals a week in the Quad. The University knows this andi they base their price of $1050 at week on an average they hae set, which is well under twenty- one. This means that their brd-t get 15 NOT $1.50 a day, but a figure well above that;,t least (my estimate $1.75. Contrary to Mr .Wilson's ill- arrived at conclusions, the food1 gripes WERE caused by the' stu-i dents' realizations of the circum- I stances of the situation. -Herb Weingarten lDiscrin ation. To the Editor: IN ANN ARBOR, a college town town that supposedly looks down upon racial and religious discrimination, there is still at least one place which Negroes are not allowed to enter. Saturday evening a group of four - two Negroes and two whites - - went to the IRollerdrome1 Skating Rink in Ann Arbor. The two Negroes were refused admis- sion. A "private party" was in progress. The others could have gotten in had they wanted to. Since when are private skating pa ties held on a. Saturday night? Is this rink really so prosperous that it can afford to limit its at- tendance on p, date night? As members of a university in which discrimination is condemn- ed, situated in a country where discrimination is SUPPOSEDLY condemned, it is our duty to pro- test such behavior. It is our duty will present an illustrated lecture, "Discovery" tonight at 8:30 in Hill Auditorium as the third number on the 1947-48 Lecture Course. Pictures from his many polar ex- plorations will be shown, including scenes from his most recent trip last winter. Tickets are on sale today at the Auditorium box of- fice from 10-1 and 2-8:30 p.m. University Lecture: Mon- sieur R. Jasinski, Professor of French Literature, University of Paris, will lecture on the subject, "Les generations litteraires" (in French), at 4:15 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 20, Kellogg Auditorium; auspices of the Department of Romance Languages. University Lecture: Carroll L. Shartel, Professor of Psychology, and Chairman of ,the Personnel Research Board, Ohio State Uni- versity, will lecture on the sub- ject, "Some Problems in Studying Leadership," at 4:15 p.m., Thurs., Nov. 20, Rackham Amphitheatre; auspices of the Department of Psychology. University Lecture: Dr. Carle- ton Sprague Smith, chief of the Music Section of the New York Public Library, will lecture on the subject "Brazilian Architecture" (illustrated), Mon., Oct. 24, 4:15 pA., Rackham Amphitheatre; auspices of the Department of Fine Arts. The public is invited. Mr. Henry L. Logan, Fellow of the American Institute of Electri- cal Engineers, Manager of Dept. of Applied Research of the Holo- phane Company, Inc., of New York, will speak on "Light for Living," at 4:15 p.m., Architecture Auditorium; Thurs., Nov. 20. The public is in- vited. Academic Notices Zoology Seminar: Thurs., Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., Rackham Anphi- theatre. Mr. James B. Kitzmiller will speak on "The lag of differ- entiation of wings and related structures behind their determina- tive in the aphid Macrosiphum sanborni (Gillette)." Seminar on Complex Variables: Thurs., Nov. 20, 3 p.m., Rm. 3017, Angell Hall. Mr. Lapidus will --if need be - to boycott this rink until -its policies are altered. Only then can a supposition be turned into a reality. -Karen Guber, -Abe Tersoff -Eve C. Cohen --'arol Gallancy *. Teachers To the Editor: WHY IS IT that on the faculties of this University we have so many brilliant men and yet so many poor teachers? Why is it Ihat a man who can write a high- grade research article cannot, or will not organize a Food class dis- cussion? If our University was set up primarily to provide instrue- tion, whv has this function been so often subordinated to the gain- ing of a national scholarly repu- tation? It is my understanding that th University requires such a -reputa- tion as a requisite for promotion to assocate p'ofessor . .. But what of those staff members who are just not interested in teaching? Their pupils are quick to sense this lack, and a loss of enthus- id sm for their courses inevitably ensues. Such men are found in all departments and yet nothing seems to be done ... When discussing this situation, the pupil is usually admonished to "get the subject yourself." I maintain that a proper job of absorbing a new field of knowl- edge is an impossibility without the willing aid of a teacher. . . The functions of the teacher are: to organize his subject matter, emphasizing important relation- ships; to attempt to endow his students with scholarly interests which will enable them to know how and where to proceed in fur- ther study after formal training has been completed .. . What reforms are indicated? 1. Further increases in teacher's sal- aries so that they need not depend on payment for research articles to maintain an adequate living standard. 2. More worth assessed to excellence of teaching methods and some supervision thereof. 3. Separation of the teaching and research functions so that men may be hired for either purpose and may, for stated periods, change from the one to the other. -Donald B. Hirsch. speak on the elliptic functions of Jacobi. Concerts Carillon Recital: Final program in the fall series will be presented by Percival Price, University Caril- lonneur, at 7:15 this evening. Pro- gram: Early Clavier Works, Selec- tions from Freischutz, by Wueber; Variations on an Air for Carillon, by Simmermacher, folk songs ,ar- ranged by Brahms, and a group of popular music. Exhibitions Atomic Energy: Association of U. of M. Scientists calls to the at- tention of its members, and any others who may be interested, the exhibit on atomic energy, its sci- entific and political implications, now on display at the Ann Arbor High School. Michigan Historical Collections: "Items Relating to the Dutch Set- tlements in Michigan," through November 28, 160 Rackham Bldg. Daily, 8-5; Sunday 2-5. Events Today Alpha Phi Omega: Meeting for pledges and members, 7:30 p.m., }Rm._ 315, Michigan Union. Phi Kappa Phi: Members from other chapters desiring to affili- ate with the U. of M. Chapter, please communicate with the sec- retary, Judith M. Jimenez, Univ. Health Service. Theta Sigma Phi: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Editorial Room, Haven Hall. Plans for fashion show and for trip to Chicago will be discussed. The Student Federalists will present the Michigan Debate Team at 7:30 p.m., Rm. 319, Mich- ipan Union. Topic: "World Fed- ration Now F ohi fing the debate there will" be a panel d icusion by foreign tAdent on World Government as part of International Student's Day ceremonies. Quarterdeck: Picture for 'En- ;Ian to b: taken at the Naval Tank, Modern Poetry Club: 8 p.m., Pm., 2208, Angel Hall. Discussio: of French Symbolists and of Con- tempor ary Criticism. C nI'I I) fteaan Com 'rion of Letters to the Editor I BANABY. .