E MJCIGAN T-l Y Fifty-Eighth Year w< Edited and managed by students of the Un- versity of Michigan under the authority of the oard in Control of Student Publications. - John Campbell.................Managing Editor " Nancy Helmick................. General Manager Clyde Re-cht . .......................City Editor - Jean Swendemen ............Advertising Manager Edwin Schneider ...............Finance Manager "- Stuart Finlayson ...............Editorial Director Lida Dales .....................Associate Editor Eunice Mint ..................Associate Editor .lick. Kraus .......................Sports Editor Bob Lent................Associate Sports~ Editor '' Joyce Johnson........... ....... Women's Editor 'Betty. Steward..........Associate Women's Editor Joan de Carvajal ................Library Director 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 new dispatches - credited to it or otherwise credited in this news- paper. All rights of re-publication of nlii 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. Memiber, Assoc. Collegiate Press, 1947-48 ,Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by memnbers of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: HARRIETT' FRIEDMAN Come Quietly A LTHOUGH MICHAEL of Rumania left . th coutry unda ina ten-car special train, it can hardly be said that the popular S, oung king received a royal send-off. A gang of secret agents, according to cor- respondents, kept the former king's country- men away from the station so there would be no chance of a popular demonstration in his favor. No reporters were allowed at the train. No members of the Government were on )laud to bid Michael farewell. When he boarded the train about twenty people, according to reports, cae as near as they could and waved goodbye. The train then departed for Switzerland. Only the former monarch's mother and a few of his staff were allowed to leave. The king had asked for visas for his entire house- hold. No announcement was made of financial arrangements between Michael and the Government. The former ruler owns, or owned, considerable property in Rumania aside from state holdings Thus began the People's Republic. --Fred Schott $y DON NUECHTERLEIN A FAVORITE COMMUNIST LINE today is that Europe's masses of people favor the ideals of communism but are being- pre- vented from establishing "true democratic governments" by small groups of reaction- aries supported by American "imperialists." These people hold up the Soviet system as the ideal form of government, having such strong appeal to Europeans as to cause them to rise in revolt against their capital- istic systems. The facts, however, do not substantiate such claims. Probably the best example of a Communist decline in popularity is Ber- lin; where the people have seen first hand the Soviet system in operation and also where truly free post-war elections were held to determine the strength of the vari- ous German political parties. On Oct. 20, 1946, the first free elections since 1932 were held in Berlin. The Soviets had captured Berlin in 1945 and held it for two months before the other three pow- ers occupied their respective sectors, during which time they established their own mu- nicipal government made up almost entire- ly of Communists. Before the election in 1946 the Communists made repeated efforts to unite the Communist and Socialist Par- ties, as they had done so effectively in the Soviet zone of Germany, but this proposal was refused in Berlin by the three Western powers, thus permitting four parties to sub- mit candidates rather than only three. The returns, from this carefully supervis- ed election gave the Socialists 49 per cent, the Christian Democrats 22 per cent, and the Communists only 20 per cent, with 9 per cent going to the Liberal Democrats. On the basis of these figures one can see that the people of Berlin, having seen the Soviet system at work, are not convinced I M RATHEIf BE RIGHT: Fiancial Reviews By SAMUEL GIRAFTON HAVE BEEN READING the big-fat year- end financial reviews in the New York press, and once again I notice that none of the experts is paying much attention to the recently-passed Republican anti-in- flation law. Here the Republicans have, they boast, practically licked the inflation problem, and what happens? Headlines about a continued price rise in '48, that's what. It's enough to break a legislator's heart. You go and solve the inflation prob- lem, and you can't even get the story listed among the big financial events of the year. What's the matter with those New York financial writers, anyhow? Don't they know the G.O.P. has just voted to wipe out the inflation by clean living, hard wishing, and other voluntary means? Can't you hear us, fellows? I have heard of anti-inflation programs that were too weak to pull prices down, but this is the first official program in history that is too weak even to get into the papers. The other nugget I've drawn out of reading the year-end reviews is that there seems to be a sharp difference of opin- ion about the future as between retailers and manufacturers. The retailers say they will take in as many dollars this year as last, probably more, but this will be due entirely to higher prices. They will actually sell less goods. And they cannot get over a funny feeling that if they sell less goods, this must mean unemploy- ment somewhere back down the line. No matter how many times they figure it, they come to the same conclusion: less goods must mean fewer jobs. Some of them arle quite sharp about it. The heads of several New York stores say in the New York Herald Tribune that customers are becoming resistant and "choosy"; the head of a Boston store says he polled his inactive customers and 800 told him they hadn't enough money to trade with him after buying food, etc.; and the head of a Louisville store says "a day of reckoning" is coming as a result of the dropping of price control by Congrlss. All regard the increased flow of dollars they get through price rises as dust and ashes in the cash register if the result is reduced production and a recession. But these year-end remarks by the re- tailers are almost drowned in a sea of opti- mism. There are stories in the year-end surveys about almost every industry you could name, steel, oil, textiles, transport, rubber, motors, almost all talking gaily of increased output next year, though several add footnotes about "fearing," or "dreading" or "expecting" or "warning" that they may, of course, have to solve some of their prob- lems by - guess what? By raising prices, of course. This has become the general quack cure- all of our time, good for what ails you, even though it has some of the retailers snatching at their thumbs. It is rare that one sees such clear warn- ings of danger and such demonstrations of unconcern about it, all mingled and stewing together on the same pages. Th most constructive note is General Elec- tric's action in cutting prices an average of 5 per cent on a large portion of its out- put. Here, perhaps is a tip for the country. If we are going to try the voluntary way, as the G.O.P. wants us to, why not do it on a truly spectacular scale? Why not a campaign to secure a voluntary reduction of, say, 5 per cent, as of a certain set day, in the price of absolutely everything? Why not a real mo- bilization of opinion, to cut 5 per cent from the price of every article on sale in the en- tire nation, in every city, town and village, all of the thousands of items on the shelves and in the factories simultaneously and at every level of trade? . Why not a general patriotic price reduction? Without wage re- ductions, of course, for the purpose is pre- cisely to keep volume up. There is enough pentup demand for a comparatively small price reduction to have a perhaps great ef- fect in smoothing the coming bump. That would be the voluntary way, but, so far, friends of the voluntary way haven't asked anybody to (1 Yanything. (Copyright, 1947, New York Post Synidlcate) BILL 11EIJLDIN ' 7 - - / j , MAULDIN'S ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA No. 3: "White men are an occupation army that never went home." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETI1N FIRST SEMESTER 14 AM [N A TON SCHEDULE Collge of iterature, Science ahtd the Arts College of Pharmacy School of Business Administration School of Education School of Forestry and Conserv-tion School of Music School of Public health JANUARY 19-30, 1948 NOTE: For courses having both lectures and quizzes, the time of exercise is the time of the first lecture period of the week; for courses having quizzes only, the time of exercise is the time of the first quiz period. Certain courses will be exam- ined at special periods as noted below the regular schedule. 12 o'clock classes, 5 o'clock classes,. and other "irregular" classes may use any of the periods marked * provided there is no con- flict. To avoid misunderstandings and errors, each student should receive notification from his instructor of the time and place of his examination. In the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, no date of examination may be changed without the consent of the Examination Committee. l Time of Exercise Time of Examination Monday Monday Monday Monday; Monday Monday Monday Monday; Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Evening at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at at 8 9 10 11 ..................... ..W ed., .Th ....... .....E i., .. . ............. ........M on ., .......................Mon., 1 .......................W ed., 2 ....................Sat., 3 ....................Thurs., 4 ............ ............ Fri., Januaryr January January January January January January January January; January; January January January January January January January 21, 9-12 23, 9-12 26, 9-12 19, 9-12 28, 9-12 24, 2- 5 29, 9-12 30, 2- 5 22, U-12 24, 9-12 27, 9-12 20, 9-12 30, 9-12, 29, 2- 5 19, 2- 5 21, 2- 5 28, 2- 5 8 9 10 11, 1 3 3 4 ......................Thurs., ........................Sat., .... . . . ... .........Tues., ...............Tues., . .................... ..Ft, ......................T urs., ...... .................M on., . .. . .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. .' ed ., MATTER OF FACT: Remarkable Gift By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE have received a remarkable gift for the New Year. It has been presented to them by a small-statured, cheerful Air Forces captain called Charles Yaeger. And it is perhaps typical of the times in which we live that, although like the atomic bomb, Yaeger's New Year's gift has great potentialities for peace, it can also become an efficient instrument of mass extinction in a new war. Yaeger is the first man in the world to have penetrated the sonic barrier. He has flown a plane faster than the speed of sound, which many of the world's best aviation experts doubted could be done at all. They had suspected that the speed of sound was an aerodynamic barrier through which no man could pass alive. Now that Yaeger has penetrated the barrier, the ex- perts will tell you that it is the most im- portant event in. the history of aviation since Orville Wright flew his flimsy kite at Kitty Hawk; that it opens up a whole new dimension in the science of flight; that it is a development comparable in its way to the invention of the atomic bomb; and that it requires the recasting of many basic stra- tegic concepts. They will also tell you, as one Air Force general has soberly remarked, that Yaeg- er's feat "will rank with the bravest acts of American history." It had been at- tempted before. One of the most recent attempts was in an English De Haviland plane especially designed to penetrate the sonic barrier. Observers on the ground reported that as the De Haviland roared into the sonic speed zone, there was the sudden flash of an ex- plosion. The plane must have disintegrat- ed, since no trace of plane or pilot was found. For years pilots had been saying that to hit the speed of sound was to hit a stone wall, and the De Haviland tragedy seemed to prove it. Yet Yaeger volunteered to try again. In a small rocket-propelled Air Forces experimental plane, the XS1, sus- pended at take off from the belly of a B29 bomber, he succeeded. It is difficult, according to the experts, to exaggerate the significance of his suc- cess. In the first place, it proves that a human being is capable of surviving the terrible buffetiig administered by the sonic barrier, and the awful speed of sup- ersonie flight. In the second place, Yaeg- er's flight has proved that a plane of fairly conventional design can pass through the barrier. Many technicians had believed that the job could only be done, if at all, by a plane shaped much like one of the German's supersonic mis- siles-like an attenuated bullet with swept back wings. Yet the FS-1 is shaped much like other high speed planes. Inmense power, rather than unconventional de- sign, sufficed to force both plane and pilot strange sound. dimension of speed faster than Yaeger's flight has by no means given all the answers to the wholly new problems of supersonic flight, and most of the answers which it has given are of course secret. But this much is known. Once the sonic barrier is penetrated, there are no further known aerodynamic limits to th6 speed of flight. Moreover, on the far side of the barrier, what the technicians call the "fuel-speed- range ratio" is altered. (Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune) ART THE POTPOURRI OF PRINTS, posters and paintings now on exhibit in the University's Art Gallery proves very disap- pointing, and as a result of the gallery's limitations, at times poorly arranged. Prints are often simply finger exercises for many artists, sketches made in prepar- ation for a painting. Others are produced chiefly as a less expensive work of art, for many etchings or lithographs can be pro- duced from one plate. The ten odd prints of each Picasso and Matisse hardly prove interesting unless viewed in relation to these artists' more important works. Alone they are simply pages from the sketchbooks of two well- trained craftsmen and give only a small hint as to the nature of the paintings which have placed them so high in their field. Such an exhibit is somewhat akin to pub- lishing the notebooks of a great literary figure, but this showing is so limited by size as to be insignificant. However "Torso" a few dynamic lines by Matisse and Picasso's "The Painter and his Model" are mos~t worthwhile. Another gallery provides a dull show- ing of prints by Latin American artists. Here many of the etchings and drypoints resemble book illustrations for those now musty old volumes published 60 or 70 years ago. The artists, representing a great many of the Latin American coun- tries, devote themselves almost complete- ly to treating the life of the peasants of their own area in pictorial fashion. Present also are the three familiar Mexi- cans - Rivera, Orozco and Siquieros, repre- sented by prints which amount to little more than black and white reproductions of their more familiar paintings. Only two prints by the Ecudorian Galo Galecio give some life to this exhibit. His "Fisherman" is bold and highly inventive while "Chain Gang" gives fierce expression to this social evil. Though Lasandy's "Apocalyptical Cwun nll vnzL f F- 4-. -.J . flwr? rr..w.. ...r' (Continued from Page 3) "The Open Mind in Journalism," at 8 p.m., Fri., Jan. 9, Rackham Amphitheatre. The lecture is open to the public. Mr. Gaertner will address the class in Newspa- per Policy and Management at 3 p.m., Fri., on "Future Outlook for Journalism Students." Journal- ism students, not enrolled in the class, are invited to attend. Coffee hour will follow. University Lecture: Professor Paul Niggli, of the University of Zurich and the Swiss Institute of Technology, Switzerland, will lec- ture on the subject, "The Science of Snow and Avalanches," at 4:15 p.m., Fri., Jan. 9, Rackham Am- phitheatre. "Resuscitation from Asphyxia" (illustrated. Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, Distinguished Professor of Physi- ology and Vice President in charge of the Professional Schools in Chicago, University of Illinois the annual Phi Delta Epsilon Lec- ture for 1947-48. 1:30 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 8, University Hospital Am- phitheatre. Professor Paul Niggli, of the University of Zurich and the Swiss Institute of Technnology, Switzer- land, will speak on the subject, "The Minerals of the Swiss Alps and their Origin," at 4 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 8, Rm. 2054', Natural Science Bldg. All interested per- sons are invited. A cadenmic Notices Metal Processing 3- Foundry: Section 1 will meet Friday, Jan. 9, at 8 a.m. for class as usual. At- tendance on field trip at 9 a.m. is required. Astronomical Colloquium: Fri., Jan. 9, 4 p.m., Observatory. Free- man D. Miller will speak on the subject, "Interpretation of the Spiral Structure of Galaxies." Concerts The University Musical Society will present MYRA HESS, Eng- lish pianist, in the Choral Union Series, Satumrday, Jan. 10, 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. She will play the following numbers: Adagio, G major, and Toccata, D major (Bach); Drei Klavier- stucks (Schubert); Sonata, Op. 111 (Beethoven) ;. and Schumann's Albumblatter, and Carnaval, Op. 9. A limited number of tickets are available at the offices of the Uni- versity Musical Society in Burton Tower daily; and after 7 p.m. on the night of the concert in the Hill Auditorium box office. Student Recital: Program of compositions by students of Homer Keller will be presented at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 8, Rackham Assembly Hall. The public is in- vited.$ Graduate School Thursday eve- ning Record Concert: 7:45 p.m., East Lounge, Rackham Bldg. BACH: Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for Violin; STRAVINSKY; Pe- trouchka; BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2; MOZART: Quartet in F Major for Oboe and Strings, K. 370. Graduate students are invited. Silence is requested. WORK SIMPLIFICATION (clinic), 3 p.m.; and, WHAT IS AN OFFICE ANYWAY and HELLO BUSINESS, 9 p.m., Jan. 9. Events Today Four One-Act Plays will be pre- sented at 8 p.m. in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre by students in the speech department; admission free to the public. "Icebound," by Owen Davis, "Lucky at Cards," by Francis Dysarz, "Aria Da Capo, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and "The Boor," by Chekhov, are are four plays on the bill, each to be directed and staged by students in advanced courses in theatre. Seats will not be reserved and there are no tickets required for admission. The doors of the theatre will be open from 7:30-8 p.m. No one will be admitted during the perform- alue of any of the plays. International Center weekly tea: 4:30-5:30 p.m. Hostesses: Mrs. E. M. Gale and Mrs. Francisco Ran- gel. American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (Stu- dent Branch). Meeting, 7:30 p.m., -Rm. 304, Michigan Union. Speak- er: Mr. Geo. Tuttle of the Detroit Edison Co., will speak on the sub- ject: "District Heating." Refreshments. ALL members are requested to attend. American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Open meeting, 7:15 p.m., Michigan Union. Program: three movies entitled, "Die Cast- ings," "Powder Metallurgy," and "Looking Through Glass." Gilbert & Sullivan Society: Meeting, A.B.C. Room, Michigan League, 7:15 p.m. Pictures of the Mikado will be available and schedules for the next production will be announced. All interested are welcome. Alpha Kappa Psi, Professional Business Fraternity, will hold Court of Honor this evening at the chapter house at 7:30 p.m. Aat- tendance is mandatory for all members and pledges. Alpha Phi Omega: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Army Ordnance Association: Meeting, Rm. 316,RMichigan Un- ion, 8 p.m. Prof. Robley C. Wil- liams will discuss "Principles and Applications of Infra-Red De- tecting Instruments." The Association of Independent Men: Meet at 7:30 p.m., Rm. 320, Michigan Union. All independent men are urged to attend. La p'tite caustte: 3:30 p.m., Russian Room, Michigan League. B'nai B'rith Ihillel Foundation, Pre-Cram Jam: 3 to 5 p.m. Danc- ing and refreshments. All wel- come. Lithuanian Club: Meeting, 7 p.m., Michigan League. All mem- bers are requested to attend. Coming Events Mr. J. R. Watkins, of the Wat- kins Patents, Inc., Quincy, Illi- nois, will give a talk Friday, Jan. 1 at n a m. . (Wsnnfrnr'an,' Economics 101 ) English 1, 2, 106, 107 ) Speech 31,32 ) French 1, 2, 11, 12" 31+.32, ) 61, 62, 91, 92, 153 ) Spanish 1 ) Soc. 51, 54, 90 ). German 1, 2, 31, 32, 35 ) Spanish 2, 31, 32 ). Psychology 31 ) Chemistry 1, 3, 4, 5E, 6, 7 ) Hist. 11, Lec. Section II ) Ec. 51, 52, 53, 54 ) Botany 1 ) Zoology 1 ) Pol. S 't. 1, 2 ...... ......... classes ......................W ed., ....:... *Wec1., January 28, 2- 5 School of Business Administration Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any neces- sary changes will be indicated on the School bulletin board. School of Forestry and Conservation Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any neces- sary changes will be indicated on the School bulletin board. School of Music:. Individual Instruction in Applied Music. Individual examinations by appointment will be given all applied music courses (individual instruction) elected credit in any Init of the University. For time, and place of aminations, see bulletin board at the School of Music. SPECTAL PERIODS for for ex- .........*Mon., January 19, 2- 5 . . . . ". .Tues., January 20, 2- 5 *Wed., January 21, 2- 5 ...... *Thurs., January 22, 2- 5 .......... Fri., January 23, 2- 5 ....... *Mon., January 26, 2- 5 ...... *Tues., January 27, 2- 5 School of Public Health Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any neces- sary changes will be indicated on the School bulletin board. COLLEGE OFENGINEERING EXAMINATION SCHEDULE January 19 to January 30, 1948 NOTE: For courses having both lecture and quizzes, the time of class is the time of the first lecture period of the week; for courses having quizzes only, the time of class is the time of the first quiz period. Drawing and laboratory work may be continued through the examination period in amount equal to that normally de- voted to such work during one week. Certain courses will be examined at special periods as noted below the regular schedule. All cases of conflicts between assigned examination periods must be reported for adjustment. See bulletin board outside of Room 3036 East Engineering Build- ing between January 5 and January 10 for instruction. To avoid misunderstandings and errors each student should receive no- tification from his instructor of the time and place of his ap- pearance in each course during the period January 19 to January 30. No date of examination may be changed without the consent of the Classification Committee. Time of Exercise Time of Examination Monday (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at (at 8... 9... 10.. . Wednesday, .....Friday, .... Monday, 11...... Monday, 1... Wednesday, 2..... Saturday, 3..... Thursday, 4....... Friday, January; January January; January January; Januarya January January; January January January; January January; January; January January; 21, 23, 26, 19, 20, 24, 29, 30, 24, 24, 27, 24, 30, 29, 19, 21, 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 2- 5 9-12 2- 5 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 9-12 2- 5 2- 5 2- 5 8.. 9.. 10.. Thursday, Saturday, Tuesday, Tuesday (at 11...... Tuesday, (at I....... Friday, (at 2.... Thursday, (at 3......Monday, (at 4. .. Wednesday, (at 4... Wednesday,