FA C Porn RIC-Hit-A WAIIY--- MrD yIY s t-m Fift y-ighth Year I MATTER OF FACT: Trunai Scdo BILL MAULDIN Letters to the Editor.. Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. 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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, $.00. Member, Assoc. Collegiate Press, 1947-48 Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: JOAN KATZ Council Meetings A VISIT to the musty halls of the Ann Arbor City Council would be an en- lightening and sobering experience for any political science student at the University. The bumbling brew of wasted words and hasty Judgments that 15 of Ann Arbor's most successful citizens manage to cook up at their bi-monthly Council meetings is enough to make any observer anxious to study possible methods of governmental reform. Consider what happened at last Monday night's meeting-it was typical of all the Council meetings we've observed for the past two semesters. The Aldermen had about an hour of important discussion to dispose of, punctuated by the reports of 15 different committees, but by the time the last cigar was snuffed out, the session had stretched out to 2 hours and 17 minutes. The Council lost no time in considering such items as the proposed $10,000,000 Vet Hospital and renewal of a seven-year bus franchise. Despite a scolding from President Cecil Creal about spur-of-the-minute de- cisions the Council immediately passed for first reading ai ordinance aimed at keeping Communist speakers out of city parks. No one even considered until afterwards that the proposed ordinance in the opinion of the city attorney also restricts student rallies, the annual Knights Templar parade to church, and practically every other tradi- tional gathering in the city. Important business over which the Coun- cil lingered included: 1. The substitution of the word "now" for "new" in page 459 of the minutes of the proceeding meeting-no opposition. 2. The passing of a scale of rates for one parking lot only to find that a different scale already was in effect on another lot. Next a motion was made to change rates on the second lot; two substitute motions were in turn offered, seconded and then withdrawn. Final decision was to rescind the ORIGINAL motion-elapsed time, 22 minutes. 3. Motion offered to move a table and 12 new chairs from the City Planning Commis- sion office into the Council chambers. Ex- pert testimony solicited from the City En- gineer and the head of the Planning Com- mission. Speeches made by four Aldermen. Motion finally passed-elapsed time, 14 minutes. Following Monday night's meeting, the observation that the Council "seems to spend too much time on little things and too little time on the big ones" was made by Vals Kurtiz, a visiting authority on government from Turkey who has spent. the past four months observing Ann Ar- bor's city government. While it remains to be seen whether any action will be taken on this criticism as well as others recently directed against Council efficiency, students ought to pay the Aldermen a visit just for "kicks." Council Meetings begin at 7:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of every month in the Council chambers, located on the sec- ond floor of the City Hall.' The spectator behoeare har- the atmonnherei s siffy By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-In the speech-makings of the last forty-eight hours, Secretary Marshall represents the substance, and Pres- ident Truman, the shadow. Marshall was substantial, because he was discussing all too grim realities with men who know these are realities and mean to do something about them. In President Truman's other- wise admirable performance, there was something shadowy, because he was urging Newsreel Bias JUDGING FROM the yearly summations of newsreel companies of the events of 1947, it appears that the studios are more interested in causing news to be made than in objectively presenting the actual happenings. In one year-end news roundup, now showing at a local theatre, this tendency is pronounced in their presentation of the "Cold War." This particular news revieW devoted half of its film to explaining why 1947 was a "year of division" between the Anglo-American and Russian interests in the world. Moreover, other important news was inadequately treated to make way for thsi chronicling of the "conflict." In the film Russian statesmen in the UN were invariably presented shrieking, or in other unattractive poses, while nothing was said of the more violent speeches on the part of American diplomats. All through the film the Russians were presented to the audience in an unfavorable light: Not only were the photographs selected in such a way as to build up anti-Soviet feeling in American minds, but the movie continued with a representation of the map of Europe with a wall dividing what were called the Russian-dominated Bal- kan countries, from poor little Greece and Turkey and the rest of Europe. The com- mentator explained that the United States was sending aid to Greece and Turkey to keep the Russians from grabbing the Bosporus. This emphasis on possession of the Bos- porus is strongly reminiscent of the causes of World War I. However, the newsreel company did not satisfy itself with tieitig up the alleged "Cold War" with World War I; it had, to hit on something more recent. There- fore, it proceeded to show pictures of sol emn-faced Washington officials plotting foreign aid campaigns, following these shots with the most startling part of the whole movie. This climax came when the map of Eu- rope and Asia, still with its iron curtain, was flashed back on the screen. Added to the previous maps were arrows striking against the wall, showing where American aid was making advances against the Rus- sians. This shot was composed just as were maps showing progress of the Allied offen- sive against the Nazis were during World War II. Thus the newsreel cemented in the minds of the audience, that we have another war going on, even though no one is yet fighting. We are not at war, and the American people supposedly want to keep out of war. In view of this, there is no justifi- cation for the newsreel companies to as- sociate the Russian situation to either of the past wars, which is precisely what they strove to do in the year-end news reviews. The film mentioned above was not an unbiased account of what happened in 1947, it was not even a thorough report. It was an attempt to aggravate the present situa- tion so that more spectacular events would occur in 1948. Newsreel companies should concern them- selves with making good complete docu- mentary films of the actual news, and let the people who make the news decide fcr themselves which course the world will take. -Fran Ivick. CINEMA At Kellogg Auditorium THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, with Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. EVERY ONCE in a while a picture steals out of Hollywood without much fanfare and turns out to be thoroughly commend- able. "The Killers" and "Kiss of Death" come to mind and so does the picture at hand. This is somewhat surprising, since "The Ox-Bow Incident" is both a western and a psycho-drama, two forms that have been customarily treated without much re- spect. Its success is due largely to the fact that the scenarists have never strayed very far from Walter Van Tilburg Clark's original story, which was a straightforward study of the consequences of irrational and emotional behavior. The motion picture has captured the shocking aspects of a lynching mob evern more convincingly perhaps than did the novel, and the closing scenes, which estab- lish the innocence of the mob victims, are upon an obstinate Congress a course of ac- tion which the Congress neither understands nor wishes to pursue.- The time has gone by, however, when the Republicans could be sure that ,their candidate, no matter how stodgy or un- acceptable, would occupy the White House after next November. For those interested in the political future of the United States, President Truman's message on the state of the Union therefore possessed a more than shadowy import. For it told the kind of thing he wants. And if he is re-elected, he will be able to transform a good deal of what he wants into laws of the United States. In all his proposals-for tax revision and inflation control, welfare legislation, re- sources conservation, labor policy and social security-Truman has now come clearly down on what may be called the New Dea? side. This is the result partly of the Pres- ident's own inclinations, partly of the com- petition of Henry A. Wallace and partly of the recent victory of a tiny band.This victory was the turning point. The real struggle over the way Truman would go occurred last No- vember, when he requested Congress to re- store controls and rationing in defiance of the almost unanimous opinion of his cabinet. Thus there was little opposition within the Administration to the present message, although the row over it would haveraised the White House roof six months ago. Even the Treasury, always friendly to business, interposed only the mildest objections to raising the corporate profits taxes. This means, in effect, that the President is at last making his own domestic policy, on moderate New Deal principles. This must not be supposed to imply, however, that the President's moderate New Dealism is of the Roosevelt brand. Truman may become personally more and more a New Dealer, but his adminis- tration grows, in other ways, less and less like the New Deal. For two years, the Maritime Commission has had a most un-New Dealish aspect. The same trans- formation seems likely to occur at the Civil Aeronautics Board, as a result of the distinctly forcible retirement of Chairman Landis. The President is perfectly sincere in what he says. But what the President's words will mean in terms of actual per- formance if the President is re-elected must inevitably be something a little different. Truman has, in fact, arrived at a kind of queer governmental compromise which might actually work out very well. He pro- poses New Deal policies. His own party in Congress may hate his proposals, and many of its members do. But if Truman is re- elected in November, many of these policies will go onto the statute books. On the other hand, the men to administer the pol- icies are chosen from the opposite camp, so that the method of administration is temperate, to say the least. It is not such a bad recipe for a regime intended to be both middle-of-the-road and reasonably forward-looking. (Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune) CURRENT MOVIES At the Michigan... THE OTHER LOVE, with Barbara Stan- wyck and David Niven. THE OTHER LOVE is a cellophane wrapped version of How oo Have T.B. and Enjoy It. High in the picturesque mountains we find Barbara Stanwyck as the brilliant pianist seeking the cure amongst sunshine, terrace dining rooms and frequent costume changes. But too much milk and sunshine. plus David Niven's stoicism toward her fancy for him sends her fleeing down the moun- tain for a brief whirl with LIFE before the cough catches up. A fabulously rich ,Man of the world is conveniently willing to catch the bills, but it's too good to last, even for Hollywood and we needs must up the moun- tain for the climax. There are a few dra- matic moments, but they are sadly over- shadowed by the deathless dialogue and peoples' emotions hanging out all over the place. P. S.: Bugs Bunny. -Gloria Hunter. MAULDIN'S ILLUSTRATED ENCLYCOPEDIA No. 4: "A civil war is a fight between Russia and America on somebody else's property." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN] (Continued from Page 3) Concerts The Univ rsity Musical Society will present MYRA HESS, Eng- lish pianist, in the Choral Union Series, Saturday, 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. Recital of French Songs: Prof. Arthur Hackett, of the Voice De- partment, School of Music, will give a recital of French Songs on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 4:10 p.m. in Rackham Assembly Hall; auspices of Le Cercle Francais. The public is invited. Exhibitions Office Machines Exhibit: The School of Business Administration is sponsoring an Office Equip- ment and Business Machines Building on January 9. The ex- hibit will be open from 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Special features of the show: WHAT IS AN OFFICE ANYWAY and HELLO BUSINESS, 9 p.m., Jan. 9. Architecture Building: Taliesm and Taliesin West, from Life Mag- azine Photographic Exhibits. Jan- uary 5-19. Museum of Art: PRINTS BY MATISSE AND PICASSO, EURO- PEAN POSTERS, FIFTY LATIN AMERICAN PRINTS; through January 18. Alumni Memorial Hall: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 12 and 2 to 5; Sunday, 2 to 5; Wednesday evening, 7 to 9. The public is invited. Museums Building, rotunda. "Art of Melanesia." Through Feb- ruary 29. Events Today Art Cinema League and the IRA present Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews in OX-BOW INCIDENT. Also "Boundary Lines," a short on racial discrimination. Friday and Saturday, 8:30 p.m., Kellogg Audi- torium, Dental School. Tickets onj sale at University Hall, 10-noon,j anid 1-4 p.m. Institute of Aeronautical Sci- ences: Annual banquet, 7:30 p.m., Masonic Temple. Tickets.$1.25 per member, $1.75 for non-members. Tickets may be secured in Rm.' 1507. new E. Eng. Addition. Delta Sigma Pi, professional Business Administration frater- nity: Informal initiation, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 324, Michigan Union. Sigma Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity: 8 p.m., Rm. 305, Michigan Union. All members are requested to be present. The pro- gram for the Spring Semester will he adopted. EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints every letter to the editor re- ceived (which Is signed, 300 words or less In length, and in good taste) we remind our readers that the views expressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. IRA Support To the Editor: THE INTER-RACIAL ASSOCI- ATIO' is in full support of Student Legislature committee on racial discrimination. This com- mfittee is continuing the fight against racial discrimination in barbershops which was started by IRA. In view of the existing policy of refusing to serve Negroes in the many barbershops in Ann Ar- bor, we urge the student body to patronize only those barbershops that were not picketed anld pref- erably those that do not discrim- inate against Negroes. We feel that by your adoption of this pro- gram you are actively rejecting racial "discrimination. -IRA Executive Committee, Hanny Gross, chairman Operation. Subsistence To the Editor: MAY I take this opportunity to clarify the aims sought by Operation Subsistence. No member of Operation Sub- sistence. believes at this time that the GI. Bill was intended to pay for the complete cost of veterans' education. What we of Operation Subsistence, however, do desire is immediate action on the part of Congress to raise subsistence al- lowances consistentwith the dizzy spiral of prices. Of course, we are in strong support of price control -as we are of rent control. Had price control been maintained and the purchasing power preserved of our fixed incomes, we would not now be in the squeezed posi- tion of seeking an increase in order to remain in school. In short, what we want is for $65 and $90 checks to once again become $65 and $90 in terms of actual purchasing power as they were when the G. Bill was orig- inally enacted. Clearly this is a responsibility that lies with Con- gress - all that Operation Sub- sistence is doing is clarifying the desperation of the needs and dangers confronting the entire government educational program. About our other two points. which, our critics carefully never mention -- Operation Subsistence, alarmed at the critical housing situation confronting both veter- an and non-veteran students, passed at their recent state-wide conference in East Lansing reso- lutions in support of a state low- cost housfing program. Our dele- gation is planning a visit to the governor to urge the launching of such a housing program and in the event Congress fails to reck- on with rent control, we shall simultaneously requestasuch a state rent control bill. We are al- so deeply interested in helping improve'-the general educational facilities for veterans and non- veterans - particularly with a view toward removing all vestiges of segregation and quota systems. These are our aims. We take them with us to Washingtotn on Jan. 12 and 13, and for them we ask the support of all individuals -veterans and non-veterans - genuinely concerned with the problei of preparing students adequately trained for the gi- gantic challenge of assuming the democratic responsibility so ur- gently necessary to a post-war world without war or fear of eco- nomic depression. -George Antonofsky High Prices To the Editor: FOR NEARLY four months now I have paid the high prices charged at the West Lodge Cafe- teria because I thought the Uni- versity was in some way justified in charging such exorbitant prices. Roger Williams Guild: House at the Guild House, 12 midnight. Open 8:30- Today my New Year's hopes were dimmed by a new price rise which the Cafeteria gave students who are trying in every way pos- sible to make ends meet in order to finish school. All this comes as we are being urged as patri- otic Americans to fight inflation which now threatens our very ex- istence. Suppose every business man raised his prices 25 per cent as the Cafeteria has done - the net result could only be another 1929, but twice as bad this time, Thi'4 question is immediately raised: Is the University opeat- ing the West Lodge Cafeteria at excess profit or is it padding someone's pocketbook at the ex- pense of the students who are its very lifeblood? The answer to this can only be had by pub- lishing an accurate audit of the financial transactions of the West Lodge Cafeteria. Since the man- agement of the Cafeteria would probably snub such a request as "unorthodox," how are we to know the boost is necessary? Certain fallacies in manage- ment of the Cafeteria can be quickly noticed by any person using common sense: 1) The ex- cess of employees at the Cafeteria most certainly has found its way to the customer's pocketbook with this 25 per cent price boost; 2) The portions of food served at the new price (and the old prices, too) in no way attempt to give the customer his money's worth; and 3) Serving of half-spoiled desserts and salads is a menace to health. Even if the Cafeteria pays the maximum to wholesalers and re- tailers for the raw foodstuffs they are still making a profit of300 per cent, excludi'ng cost of prep- aration, and even when that is considered the remaining profit of 125 per cent could certainly cut costs if passed along to the done to stop this parade of mis- consumer. Something must be demeanors against the students. --John D. Tielfer Balloons To the Editor: THIS OBSERVATION has been delayed because my daily work is too arduous. Ask yourselves this question: "How accurate is the news we're publishing?" You may recall I wrote the bantering letter anent Baltage Balloons. At the same time I must confess .I do hanker to own one. So I wrote to Detroit and a letter dated Dec. 6 reached me. There are many false stories float in the American press to- day. I have sometimes written in to the Detroit News for further information on an article I saw only to find they can give no further details and cannot con- tradict what is obviously of doubtful veracity. If you eve find out where I can obtain a nice barrage balloon I will be surely grateful to you! -Thure Rosene Arab Leader to the Editor: PERHAPS those interested in the recent letters to the editor concerning Zionism would like to know something about the most verbose of the Arab representa- tives: Mahmoud El-Gamal, of the Arab Council. The two points he seems most interested in defend- ing are 1) the Arab war contri- bution, and 2) Arab democracy. In his letter of Jan. 6, he quotes Winston Churchill praising Egypt for declaring war on the Axis. I would say the Egyptians picked the right time to do so - by the last months of the war most pe- ple knew who was going to win. And if you want to quote the ex- Prime Minister, how about his speech to Commons in September, 1939; wherein he called the ex- clusion of the Jews from Pales- tine "a black and irremovable stain" on Britain's honor? All right, so Egypt did declaje war - long after they had been invaded. Where was Mahmoud El-Gamal during that invasion? By his own admission, at home, listening to Rommel's guns com- ing nearer, and laughing to see the Jews evacuating so hurried- ly, or buying themselves fezzes. "Were you in the army?" I asked him. "Which one?" was the reply. "But your country was being invaded!" Mahmoud shrugged his should- ers. Then there's the one about de- mocracy (in a country where three-fourths of the population is kept illiterate.) I asked Mah- moud what he intends to do up- on returning to his country. "I will become Minister of Pub- lic Works," he said. "Isn't that an elective posi- tion?" "Yes," he replied, "but my father is a senator." Mahmoud Pasha has been try 1, 4r .a , *1 1 ,t, Kindtai Nihon Kenkyu Kai: Meeting, 8:30 p.m., Hussey Room, Michigan League. Color slides of Japan, taken in '46, will be shown. Anyone interested is invited. SRA Coffee hour: 4:30 p.m., Lane Hall. Members of the Theol- ogy Forum will be special guests. Everyone welcome. B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, Friday Evening Services: 7:45 p.m. Followed by a Fireside Dis- cussion led by Prof. Mischa Titiev on "Racial Types among Jews." Refreshments and social hour. All students are invited. Coming Events Conference on Workers' Educa- tion: Evaluative and planning conference with reference to the University of Michigan's activities in workers' education, Saturday, Jan. 10, 10 a.m., Michigan Union. Members of the staff now engaged in such work, as well as represen- tatives of the University adminis- tration, of the advisory commit- tees, and of the organized labor, will attend. Others interested are invited. Graduate Outing Clug: Meet for. winter sports at 2:30 p.m., Sun., Jan. 11, northwest entrance, Rackham Bldg. Sign up at Rackham check desk before noon Saturday. All graduate students are welcome. Inter-racial Association Mixer: Sun., Jan. 11, 4-6 p.m., Michigan Union. Y p{' I BARNABY.. . There's the Security Council's list of business for today- -i' Godfather's name on it? " f-9 La of s lok atthis in ited Nations1 ~Sylvania vs. US"... John, where is this Sylvania? It's my Fairy ti Godfather's country, Mom. C r> o- 4Npjnni 74x8, it+< t4w poy.r PM. Irc.. F.9 U. 5 iat. Ch7,' it's the woods by the lumber yard. Near where we Jive- Barnaby, nonmore, nonsense. c. :D IBarnaby, you stay .(WL4HMfL.I 4 I lHas cMr. C)'alev. my'F ii, : . :