GE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Fifty-Eighth Year - dted ty emanaged by students of the Uni- versity of Mifchigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff John Campbell ...................Managing Editor Clyde Recht.......................City Editor Stuart F nlayson ................Editorial Director Eunice Mintz..................Associate Editor Dick Kraus ..........................Sports Editor Bob Lent.................Associate Sports Editor Joyce Johnson..................Women's Editor Betty Steward ..........Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Nancy Helmick ...................General Manager Jeanne Swendeman......... Advertising Manager Edwin Schneider................Finance Manager 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 all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan, as second class mail matter. Subscription b ,the regular school year by carrier, $5.00, bz mail, 6.00. 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: LIDA DAILES Testing Program THE NEWLY ANNOUNCED testing pro- gram to safeguard medical students from the ravages of tuberculosis is a step of which University authorities can well be proud. In past years an alarming number of medical students have contracted TB dur- ing the final years of their academic train- ing or during internship. It is ironical that students who have devoted nearly a decade to training which will enable them to safe- guard the health of their fellow men should themselves so often become the victims of this dread disease. And the very nature of their exacting training and work schedule makes them easy prey to TB. Now, however, the University has insti- tuted a new system of tuberculin tests in addition to frequent X-Ray testing in order to detect early signs of TB among medical students and internes. This program, which has worked successfully in other medical schools throughout the country, is expected to greatly reduce the number of TB victims at Michigan. The University Health Service, Galens, and other University authorities who have made this program possible are to be con- gratulated for this forward-looking move. -Dick Maloy .international Chess IKE A MASTER chess strategist, the Russian government has suggested the complete withdrawal of U.S. and Red troops from Korea in 1948, to get out of a hot situation and yet follow her master plan for world envelopment. In chess a "check" calls for a move that will immediately relieve the pressure of the opposing force and yet fall in with the theory of attack that the player is employing -- a strategic retreat forward. Russia's leaders have done just that: They have tried to block UN considera- tion of the Korean situation which is cer- tainly explosive. And they are anticipating the readiness of Communist elements within Korea to take over the new independent government that will be formed. An estimated 200,000 well-trained, armed soldiers stand behind Communists in North- ern (the Russian half) Korea. Nakedness is the best adjective to use in describing Korea; she has -been stripped of her mechanical resources and her economy has been riddled by years of war and oc- cupation. The Red chess strategist realizes that the Korean pawn position will be taken by the strongest chess piece on the board - Com- munist strangulation! All efforts to solve the Korean situation have ended in stalemate. For two years the American-Soviet Joint Commission on Korea has not been able to agree on how to go about setting up a unified Korea. Secretary Marshall then submitted the case to the UN as a last resort. The U.S. and United Nations must find a way to block the Russian chess strategist -for the Russians are the world's greatest ,hss 'laers ! MATTER OF FACT: Political Paralysis BILL MAULDIN Letters to the Editor... I By JOSEPH ALSOP EN ROUTE, ROME TO PARIS - Through the train windows the sun-warmed, al- ways various Italian countryside, green and gold and silvery olive with the crops that climb to the very hilltops, unrolls before the eye. Within the car, a large Italian family lunches with cries of pleasure on bread, a little cheap wine and a slab of cheese-a luxury meal for all but the very rich in Italy. Yet the traveler, moving onward from one center of world crisis to another, can think only of a single question: "have we in the United States lost all the qualities that made us great?" In connection with this question, some things stick in the mind like burrs. There is, for example, the history of Premier de Gasperi's appeal to President Truman. About a month ago, this unpretentious, rather solemn man, who has survived with- out despair through two wars and the dark Fascist years between, began to despair at last. De Gasperi's government, boldly free of, Communists, (at the suggestion of the State Department), had been squarely based on the hope of American aid. No aid was forthcoming. The end of Italy's resources was clearly in sight in a few weeks. Ac- cordingly, de Gasperi addressed to the White House a personal appeal, speaking as one head of state to another, and laying before the President all the grim facts. The ap- peal was presented by Ambassador Tarchi- ani, who was referred to the State Depart- ment. At the State Department, Tarchiani met with kindly sympathy and the sug- gestion that he ask Secretary of the Trea- sury John Snyder for aid. Of course, as any one vaguely familiar with Washington would certainly have anticipated, Tarchi- ani found Snyder frozen into the voluble but obstinate immobility which is cus- tomary at the treasury. Or there is the episode of the visiting Congressional delegation which invaded Rome under the brilliant leadership of Rep- resentative John Taber. One of Taber's col- leagues, after hearing that the onset of starvation might drive the Italian people in- to Communism, remarked weightily that "what they need here is guns not bread." Representative Taber was not so realistic as to propose a general massacre of the in- conveniently hungry poor. His solution, of- fered at the top of his voice as usual to a member of the Italian Cabinet, was that the de Gasperi government borrow some money from the New York banks. As his proposal indicates, Representative Taber at least has the excuse of never having quite learned that this is the twentieth century. Secretary of Agri- culture Clinton Anderson has no such ex- cuse. Yet Anderson has just complacent- ly informed a world hungry for eight years and now in actual danger of some- thing approaching general famine, that the rich and well fed United States will have to reduce food exports in this time of greatest need. If Secretary Anderson could see beyond the next election, he would tell the American people something a trifle more complicat- ed. He would say: "We can of course re- duce food exports in the hope of lowering the home price level. It may well work. But before we do so, every one in the country should realize that the lowest price will be the hideous catastrophe of another war, and that quite possibly the very death of freedom in the world will be included in our little bill from fate." Not dollars alone, so carefully guarded by that watch-hippopotamus of the Treasury, Representative Taber, are involved in the present crisis. Food is also desperately im- portant. Most Italians are even now living on a meal and a half a day, of which the full meal consists of the half pound bread ration. This bread ration is now in danger of being cut, not merely because the Italian government cannot pay for wheat, but also because Secretary Anderson will not make wheat available. Very briefly, the Italian bread grain deficit until next spring's harvest amounts to about 2,800,- 000 tons. Of this, at least two million tons must come from the United States. Thus far Secretary Anderson has insisted that Italy can have only about half her mini- mum needs of wheat. If Anderson does not change his mind, next spring is likely to see a Communist regime installed at Rome. And the food shortage equally threatens France, western Germany and the United Kingdom. Nor are bread and dollars the end of the story, either. The well authenticated re- ports of Soviet and satellite forces massing in the Balkans indicate that the hand of the United States is also about to be called in Greece. In the American hand are three out of four aces-the only Soviet ace is the power to act. On the table on the American side are three-quarters of the chips-it is in that proportion that the resources of the United States exceed the resources of the Soviet Union. Shall we lose the hand and the game from sheer political paralysis? Or have we still got the stuff of the Americans of the past, who not seldom bet their bot- tom dollars on what seemed like busted flushes, and came out of the game with a continent to leave to us, their more fortunate heirs? .(Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune) ON WORLD AFFAIRS: The Third Whistle By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER L AKE SUCCESS-The Emergency Com- mittee of Atomic Scientists, some of the wisest and most public spirited men of this generation, refers to the present as "the last hour before midnight." I prefer to say that the Peace Boat is whistling for the third and last time and the question is whether the major nations will move fast enough to get aboard. Emphatically, this does not mean that war is in the offing. It signifies that the peoples of the earth (or their tyrants) are facing decisions that ultimately lead to war or peace. Once taken, these decisions become almost irreversible. The path is chosen, the will to pursue it hardens and nothing but an earthquake can provoke a fresh start. The American people hate to be told this-it takes their mind off tonight's date and the World Series. Too many newspaper editors yield to readers' reluc- tance and therefore reduce the dreadful picture of coming world catastrophe to a bare sketch. History, unhappily, has nev- er waited for newsmen. The appalling atmosphere at the UN As- sembly is not a result of general dyspepsia resulting from overfeeding by hungry dele- gates. It is an accurate reflection of the outside world. When Andrei Y. Vishinsky put on a good imitation of the late Adolf Hitler back at the Sport Palast in Berlin, he was not adventuring in private theatri- cals. He was merely demonstrating how far the Soviet Union is embarked on the career of Nazi Germany. Russia's satellites yap on command from the ringmaster. Britain's representatives have revealed the double-mindness that curses the Brit- ish Labor Party. Hector McNeill, for the Foreign Office, answers Vishinsky in deep fine notes of British freedom that bring a glow to unsubjected hearts. Then British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones gets up and double-tongues in a manner that proves that in London the spirit of appeasement--the spirit that abandoned the Spanish Republic and accepted Mu- nich-is anything but dead. Thus - by elimination - we reach the United States. This is the American Assem- bly. Ours is the leadership-if we know how to take it. We alone have the appeal and the might to lead the world toward that peace and abundance which intelligent men know is possible. (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) i f ___----- i 1 ,,.- ; . \ ~ '' , x ,. G+ Nue a. al f..e:n ir <,+., . Q-$D .... rleC yVb4 R "One more dirty trick outta you an' I'm gonna sell you to a dude ranch!" N EW MEXICO-When a horse gets old, tired, winded, lame, or dim in the eyes after a long and useful life-or if he has prov- en himself incurably stupid or lazy-he can look forward to one of three ends in most parts of the Southwest. If he is very lucky, and has a master who can afford not to squeeze the last ounce of usefulness and profit out of his livestock, he is turned out to pas- ture or range for retirement, where he can graze leisurely, in- dulge in vices, if he is capable of having any, and enjoy his' mem- ories of same. If his master's economic status is such that he can't afford, to support a leisure class among his animals, the horse may be sold to such an establishment as a fox farm, where he is quickly and painlessly put to death, cut up, and fed to small beasts who know how to convert horsemeat, through various chemical pro- cesses in their digestive systems, into lustrous fur which later turns up in Fifth Avenue shops. But if the horse is an extreme- ly unlucky nag, he is condemned to a special horse hell which exists in the land of perpetual sunshine. He is sold to a dude ranch or rid- ing stable, where he is rented to tourists by the hour, usually at a price which daily doubles the stable's original investment in him. He is mounted by a 300- pound lady who makes a pretzel out of his spine, by a wild kid who loves western movies and thinks all horses move at a con- venient gallop or by a man who is travelling around the West on a budget and believes the only way to get his money's worth is by trying to run the legs off the horse. Sometimes the beast is for- tunate enough to draw an ex- perienced rider like the eastern gentleman described yesterday, who is moved to pity and gets off and helps support his mount. This is not really a humane problem, and I do not wish to up- set the ASPCA. It is very difficult to run a horse to death if he is incapable of moving very fast, and it takes more than a 300- pounder to put a permanent kink in an equine spinal column. But it is a very poor practice from a public relations standpoint, be- cause it is not converting many ornamental riders of the eastern variety to the western style, which is the only real way to ride a horse. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN CURRENT MOVIES At the Michigan ... MORE WORE TIGHTS, with Betty Grable and Dan Dailey. MOTHER 'not only wore tights, but also made several dozen other lavish cos- tume changes, all in a futile attempt to liven up a rather dull exhibition. Succeeding only in debunking the Hollywood assumption that a film's quality is in direct proportion to its cost, 20th Century Fox's latest musical extravaganza lays a rhythmical egg. Betty Grable is attractive, but as an actress, she makes a pretty good dancer. Nonetheless, the Grable legs still merit a long, low whistle. But her Thespian abilities are surpassed in drabness only by the-if you'll pardon the expression-plot, which, in line with estab- lished Hollywood tradition, evokes nostalgic memories of the howling era of vaudeville, the handlebar mustache and the four-but- ton double-breasted suit. Novel as it may seem, the story concerns two stage troupers who do an occasional song and dance, find time to get married and raise children, and live happily ever after. The story is, at best, a poor excuse to keep the performers occupied between numbers. * ~* * At the State . THE WEB, with Ella Raines, William Bendix and Edmund O'Brien. THE WEB is a well-woven detective story, bouyed by lively dialogue, decorated with shadowy photography, and intensified .with dramatic background music. This interest- ing variation on the cops-and-robbers theme begins modestly enough with a million dol- lar phony bond deal, expands to include several murders and ends with a colossal (Continued from Page 4) taining from the Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs, in the Office of the Dean of Stu- dents, a Certificate of Eligibility. Participation before the opening of the first semester must be ap- proved as at any other time. Before permitting any students to participate in an extra-curricu- lar activity (see definition of Par- ticipation above), the chairman of manager of such activity shall (a) require each applicant to present a certificate of eligibility, (b) sign his initials on the back of such certificate and (c) file with the Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairshthe names of all those who have presented certifi- cates of eligibility and a signed statement to exclude all others from participation. Blanks for the chairmen's lists may be obtained in the Office of Student Affairs. Probation and Warning. Stu- dents on probation or the warned list are forbidden to participate in any extra-curricular activity. Eligibility, First Year. No fresh- man in his first semester of resi- dence may be granted a Certifi- cate of Eligibility. A freshman, during his second semester of residence, may be granted a Certificate of Eligibility provided he has completed 15 hours or more of work with (1) at least one mark of A or B and with no mark of less than C, or (2) at least 2%Aj times as many honor points as hours and with no mark of E. (A-4 points, B-3, C-2, D-1, 1-0). Any student in his first semes- ter of residence holding rank above that of freshman may be granted a Certificate of Eligibil- ity if he was admitted to the Uni- versity in good standing. Eligibility, General. In order to receive a Certificate of Eligibility a student must have earned at least 11 hours of academic credit in the preceding semester, or 6 hours of academic credit in the preceding summer session, with an average of at least C, and have at least a C average for his entire academic career. Unreported grades and grades o Unreported grades and gares of X and I are to be interpreted as E until removed in accordance with University regulations. If in the opinion of the Committee on Student Affairs the X or I cannot be removed promptly, the paren- thetically reported grade may be used in place of the X or I in computing the average. Students who are ineligible un- der Rule V may participate only after having received special per- mission of the Committee on Stu- dent Affairs. Special Students. Special stu- dents are prohibited from partici- pating in any extra-curricular ac- ticity except by special permission of the Committee on Student Af- fairs. Extramural Activities. Students who are ineligible to participate in extralcurricular activities within the University are prohibited from taking part in other activities of a similar nature, except by special permission of the Committee on Student Affairs. Physical disability. Students ex- cused from gymnasium work on account of physical incapacity are forbidden to take part in any extra-curricular activity, except by special permission of the Com- mittee on Student Affairs. In or- der to obtain such permission, a student may in any case be re- quired to present a written recom- mendation from the University Health Service. General. Whenever in the opin- ion of the Committee on Student affairs, or in the opinion of the Dean of the School or College in which the student is enrolled, par- ticipation in an extra-curricular activity may be detrimental to his college work, the committee may decline to grant a student the privilege of participation in such activity. Special Permission. Specitl per- mission to participate in public ac- tivities in exception may be to these rules granted by the Com- mittee on Student Affairs only upon the positive recommenda- tion of the Dean of the School or College to which the student be-] longs. Discipline. Cases of violation of these rules will be reported to the proper disciplinary authority for action. Officers, Chairmen and Man- ages. Officers, chairmen and managers of committees and proj- ects who violate the Rules Gov- erning Participation in extra- cur- ricular activities may be directed to appear before the Committee on Student Affairs to explain their negligence. Willow Run Village. University Community Center Thursday, Oct. 2, 8 p.m., The new art groups: classes in life drawing, still life, ceramics, tex- tile painting.y Lectures Freshman Health Lecture Final Exammination: The final exami- nation for the present series of Health Lectures for Freshmen men will be held at 4, 5, and 7:30 p.m., Wed., Oct. 1. Please observe the following al-E phabetical schedule. A through K-N.S. Auditorium EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (which is signed, 300 words or less in length, and in good taste) we re- mind our readers that the views ex- pressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more thant 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. Foot(?)ball?f To the Editor:1 AM A FOREIGN student at the University and today it was myI first chance to see the Americanx football game. The very fact that Indian football game is played in; a way quite different from what1 I saw aroused my interest. In spite1 of the fact that the game was one1 sided I enjoyed it. I was thrilled at occasions and who would not, at the very sight of Mr. No. 42' piercing the tackling of the op-' posite team and crossing the final line. But I question the name given to the game. Why we say this "football" game while we play most of the time by holding the, ball. To me the idea of football game is associated with kicking the ball and sounds logical too. How to explain the contrast be- tween the two games bearing the same name. (I doubt if "Kings" and American English is so dif- ferent.) -Darshan Singh. * * * ADA's Stand To the Editor: N MY LAST LETTER I broadly outlined the philosophy and pro- gram of ADA. It is the purpose of this letter to outline in greater de- tail ADA's stand on domestic is- sues. , LABOR: We believe a free and democratic labor movement is es- sential to the effective function- ing of democracy. We therefore affirm the right of workers to or- ganize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. Accordingly, we op- pose legislation such as the Taft- Hartley Bill which abridges the right of labor to choose its own leaders and to take democratic po- litical action through its own or- ganizations. We believe that it is labor's responsibility to eliminate jurisdictional disputes and aid production efficiency. In essen- tial industries both labor and management have a special ob- ligation to the public welfare to settle disputes through collective bargaining, but in no instance do we favor governmental compulsion in industrial relations. We support the full employment program, an- nual wage plans, higher minimum wages and the extension of social security. TAXATION AND BUDGET: We are against budget cuts that have an inverse relationship to welfare of the nation, such as those made in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and tax collecting agencies. We favor elimination of regressive ex- cise and sales taxes which by their nature place the burden on lower income groups. We oppose across-the-board income tax re- ductions which accord special ad- vantages to the high income groups. EDUCATION: We favor federal aid to state education to equalize educational opportunities for all without regard for race, creed or color. We oppose all limitations of academic freedom and quota restrictions on student admission to any phase of education. Though space prohibits more than a few examples of ADA's do- mestic policies, it should be made clear that these policies repre- sent ends in themselves and are not part of some larger scheme to bring a revolutionary social and economic order to the Uhited States. My next-letter will be concerned with ADA's foreign policy. Bernard L. Goodman, Pres., Michigan ADA. Fashion Ngte To the Editor: DEFINITION Fashion: The pre- vailing conventional usage in matters of dress, social forms, etc. (Webster). Allow me to submit several other definitions: (1) the social pressure which causes the susceptible individual to throw or give away wearing apparel before it is worn out, or as an alternate, (2) the answer to the question, L through +Q-Rm. 25, A.H. R through Z-Rm. 1025, A.H. Freshman Health Lectures for Women: It is a University requirement that all entering freshmen take a series of Health Lectures and to pass an examination on the con- tent of these lectures. Transfer j students with freshman standing are also required to take the course unless they have had a (Continued on Page 6) "Why can most manufacturers of women's clothes trade in their Cadillacs every year?" As I gaze at the various and sundry skirt lengths (and who doesn't) to be seen on the cam- pus, I can't help but think of the puppeteers who pull the strings which send most women hot-footing it down to the near- est dress-shop for their yearly ration of (ugh!!) "fashions." The string puller, however, is no more to blame than the momentarily deflated female (don't worry, Pop or Hubby can earn, borrow, or steal more) as she proudly ven- tures forth in her newly acquired finery, with spirits buoyant in the realization that she is right up to snuff. Pardon the laugh, ladies, but when are you going to realize that you have been duped, betrayed, sold up the river and back aagin? To substantiate my claim, let me show you the behind-the-scenes origin of the current fashion change, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. President of dress manufactur- ing establishment: "Boys, we're not selling dresses fast enough this year." Vice-presidents, in unison: "Yes! you're right." Pres.: "We have to do some- thing, quick! Hire twenty chorus girls to walk up Fifth Avenue in new style dresses tomorrow. Then we can sit back and count the money as it rolls in." Vice-pres.: "But what kind of new style dress do you mean?" Pres.: "Why you nit-wits! It's a good thing that I'm here to do your thinking for you. Roll 'em up in turkish towels or old rugs. Anything we can get a lot of cheaply. Say, I've got a better idea. We haven't burned those old dresses left from the Gay Nineties yet, have we?" Vice-pres., eagerly: "No sir!" Pres.: "Well, we won't have to burn 'em. Trot out twenty of the loudest ones. I'll bet that after we display them, we can sell the whole flock." Vice-pres.: "Why it's unbeliev- able!" Pres.: ""Nuts! Nothing is unbe- lievable when dealing with styles." Result: Long skirts. There is a hopeful aspect of the situation, however. Some women have resisted the change and still wear last year's wardrobe. 'o them: orchids. -Martin F. Bloom, Book Exchange Eo the Editor: IT WOULD be unfortunate for the majority of the student body if the Student Book Ex- change were to be discontinued due to lack of space in the League. It is almost superfluous, today, to speak of the increased cost of living which has presented a serious problem for the majority of the students. This problem has been ameliorated to some extent by the Book Exchange which has afforded students an opportunity to buy books at a reduced rate and a medium for the sale of old books. As it is, the Book Exchange has been forced, through University pressure, to narrow its scope of aid to students, This pressure resulted in the discontinuance for sale of new articles such as pens, pencils, sweaters, etc., which sold for less than current retail prices. Inasmuch as the Exchange is a Student Legislature sponsored project and has performed a real service to students, the Legis- lature should make a thorough in- vestigation of the problem to find some means of continuing the project. -Eleanor Frein. ** * Veterans' Rights To the Editor: OUR STUDENT BODY of '5,000 (10,000 this fall) is aroused and indignant over the neglect of Congress concerning the veterans legislation. We feel that this neg- lect was purely political and com- pletely unnecessary. We have the backing of 10,000 student veterans in this area, and we are working to unite all the veterans of Texas and the nation in this drive. Several Texas col- leges have already started similar drives. Our objectives are: 1. To bring about the special reconvention of Congress this fall to remedy an unjust situation which prohibits the veteran from exercising his constitutioial right of earning according to his abil- ities. We want an elimnination of the ceiling or, at least a substan- tial lifting of it. 2. To put into law the pro- posed cost of living raise so that the veteran may continue his ed- ucation without economic-handi- caps. What is, or what would be, the reaction to such a move as this on your campus? The COUGAR spearheaded this movement here in cooperation with student gov- I BARNABY... now 3F Al- (7 eT 7LI -------------- I If Q'.-# -91 TL ) .......... I