'qow - THE MICHIGAN DAILY V1TDNT S1AY, OTOER1, 94 t Fifty-Eighth Year tilg MATTER OF FACT: Decline and Fall? BILL MALIN .-- C +. . "' . -: ,, 'K dte and managed by students of the Uni- ty of Michigan under the authority of the fd in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff SCampben ...................Managing Editor i e Recht......................., (:ity Editor Wt Finlayson..............Editorial Director 1c8 Mintz..................Associate Editor s raus.......................Sports Editor Lent ..................Associate Sports Editor L Johnson...................Women's Editor y Steward ..........Associate Women's Editor Business Staff t4 Helmick ...................General Manager ine Swendeman......... Advertising Manager 113 Schneider .................Finance Manager in Tick................Circulation Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press ad Associated Press is exclusively entitled to ass for re-publicalion of all pew dispatches Ited to it or otherwise credited in this news- . All rights of re-publication of all other r r herein also reserved. d at the IPost Office at Ann Arbor, Mich- as second class mail matter. bscription during the regular school year by r, $5.00, by mail, $6.00. mber, Assoc. Collegiate Press, 1947-48 trals published in The Michigan Daily written by members of The Daily staff represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: DICK MALOY reedom to criticize "tET Foreign Minister Molotov has de- lared that his government is not re- .Wble for articles appearing in the So- press. The point was raised when our , Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, tested against an article in the terary Gazette which compared uman to Adolf Hitler. Molotov nsibilty and then countered ttack on the U.S. press. ay not be true that the Soviet ent is not responsible for its press, certainly true that the Russian sponsible tothe Soviet govern- otov s reply might be acceptable ld point to an independent Russian ch was free to criticize, its leaders. asic difference, and one which the are pr.ine to overlook, between Amer- and Russian newspapers is that our s free to criticize anyone with whom s s1t'iaton is aply illustrated by the ngianecdote. mA rican told a Russian acquaintance ut=osr freedom to criticize our leaders. .. n even stand in front of the White M and yell, "To hell with Harry Tru- ' the American said. -e Russian shrugged his hsoulders and ld, "So can I." o you mean that you can stand in t f the Kremlin and shout 'To hell Josef Stalin'?" }h no, I can stand in front of the .ln and yell 'To hell with Harry Tru- -Stuart Finlayson. dent Rights PEARED in a recent issue of y a partial list of student rights y the constitutional convention of onal Student Organization. One i not read this list and fail to appre- the hope and ideals embodied in it. r reflection, however, relegates the et bill4 f Rights to the status of a rn scrap of paper. ents have never denied the necessity free intellectual atmosphere. This was 'ntrated quite forcibly last April when sutf here supported the stand of the et Legislature in protesting the secrecy W h the banning of Michigan Youth for ocratic Action was cloaked. Obviously, majority of those who expressed an on wanted a complete and open hear- hen, however, the MYDA ban was de- d a closed matter without a hearing e the Student Affairs Committee, one t suspect that officials in the Univer- administrat on were responsible for : n tellectually free atmosphere. p lan of the NSA, however calls for or the Student Bill of Rights to fopuss f a vote. Undoubtedly stu- opinion will overwhelmingly, accept it part of the NSA Constitution. But that vote will open the way to free untram- d traffic in ideas is unlikely, for the :Lon i in other hands than those of By STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-With infinite reluctance, the President and the Congressional leaders have taken the first hesitating steps towards dealing with the crisis abroad. It now seems possible that a bare minimum of the necessary dollars will be forthcoming. But dollars are only half the problem. Dol- hat the i By BEN ZWERLING and AL SHAPIRO A THREE-PRONGED concentration on inflation at home, starvation abroad and the Marshall-Vishinsky explosion in the all- world theatre kept the leading opinion pages of the nation brewing bigger and smokier editorials in the past week. And over on the other side of the world in the London Times, preoccupation has been centered on the matter of food; how to get as much as pos- sible and how to make best use of what's available. THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH was disturbed this week over the Lemay Ki- wanis club resolution condemning ship- ments of food stuffs abroad, in order that scarcities here may be allayed, and prices reduced. The Post-Dispatch contended "the long- er the price inflation lasts and the worse it gets, the more Americans are likely to be thinking along the same lines as the *Lemay Kiwanians. How much longer can Washington allow public opinion to build up against the sacrifices which are neces- sary to carry out the Truman doctrine and the Marshall plan of stopping Soviet aggression?" PM, in New York, shows disappointment over Mr. Truman's first responses to the report of the sixteen European nations seek- ing a return to firm economic ground. PM 'attacks the President's method of evading his responsibilities by appointing investigating committees of all conceivable shapes. Says the paper of the, investigat- ing committees, "Rarely have so many studied so much and produced so little." IN REGARD to the sixteen nation report and the Marshall plan, Col. McCormick's Chicago Tribune wonders what all the hol- lering is about. The Tribune claims that the "alleged" dollar shortage in Britain and France is fictitious. Facts and figures are cited to prove that Europe is, in fact, weal- thier than the United States. "What Europe needs," the Tribune says, "is not more money to buy other people's production, but more work in producing their own wares. Besides that it needs a rehabilitated Germany to supply the things the rest of Europe wants, in ex- change for the things the rest of Europe has in excess. More money from this country won't promote European recovery; it will only encourage loafing and shift- lessness." ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, the London Times is concerned with the time ele- ment in the Marshall plan-the fear that the aid under the Secretary of State's pro- posal may come too late to aid the strug- gling western democracies. The next few months before the spring harvest are considered the most crucial by the journal. Unless some intermediate aid is forthcoming before the Marshall plan is operating, "Europe may well tumble over the precipice of revolution and chaos." The Times looks pessimisti- cally on the effectiveness of an interim loan from either the Export-Import or the World Banks. "Both the magnitude of the amount and the need of spending it on such consumption goods as wheat and coal make it unlikely that either of these organizations can be relied upon to take the place of a special session of Congress in providing an adequate programme of winter help." T HE NEW YORK TIMES lauds the "peace- mongering" at Paris as opposed to heated claims of warmongering at the UN Assembly. The 16-nation report "is the first practicable. porposal made for the willing cooperation of free nations and free men in modern Eur- ope . . ." within the plan is the assumption of a substantial and steady flow of "Eastern European food . . . They (the sixteen na- tions) invited Russia and still invite her; they assume peace, they plan for peace. If they can be accused of anything it is not war-mongering - it is liberty mongering, prosperity mongering, peace mongering." PROCEEDINGS at the UN Assembly brought from Leland Stowe, writing for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the comment that the violent Soviet barrage, as fired by Vishinsky, was aimed not at the United States, but rather at the one and a quarter billions in Europe and Asia. "Vishinsky spoke much more to the world's dispossessed than did Secretary Marshall in his address," Stowe writes. They seek to win a majority among the dissatisfied masses of the world's people, he adds. It's Stowe's impression that the Soviets are still way out front in the prop- aganda war. THE NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE feels that Mr. Vishinsky's outbursts seek to confuse the issues at hand." Russia is waging a defensive struggle to retain onej nrcro ivetiri f-% ~ ir o frhi l r lars are not edible. That is why, in moments of gloom, those close to the Washington scene are sometimes tempted to suspect that some future gibbon, industriously compiling his "decline and fall of the United States," might write as follows: Many causes have been advanced for the extraordinary events which occurred in the middle years of the twentieth cen- tury. Yet a close study of the contempo- rary records leads the honest historian inescapably to the conclusion that the United States (together with western civ- ilization as a whole) was destroyed by reason of the inordinate appetite of the American people for meat. To satisfy this appetite, hardly less than ninety million tons of grain were fed to beasts and fowls in the year 1947-8. Had the Americans been able to divert no more than three or four million of these tons of grain to the feeding of the famished peoples of Europe, the disaster which shortly over- came the United States might clearly have been averted. It is a remarkable fact that the American leaders, or at least the most powerful and informed amongst them, were wholly alive to this crucial importance of a few million tons of grain. Yet they were, or believed themselves to be, powerless to act. Difficult as it now is to credit, the area then known as the United States was at that time wealthy, populous, and enormously productive. So industrious were its people, and so vast its natural riches, that the coun- try emerged from the second German war more prosperous than it had ever been be- fore. By contrast the nations of western Europe had been crippled by the long con- flict. The governments of those nations were reduced to reliance on the United States for wheat with which to feed their populace, and coal with which to sustain their manufactures. Since the end of the war the Soviet Un- ion, now also a wasteland, but then second in power and resources only to the Unit- ed States, had been attempting by every means to extend its area of power and in- fluence. The chief instrument to this end was the international Communist parties, directed from Moscow. In 1947, these par- ties were exerting all their energies to seize control of the nations of western Europe, and particularly of France and Italy. They found an ally in the western European weather. Following a disas- trous harvest, it became evident by the autumn of 1947 that the French and Ital- ian people were menaced with starvation in the approaching winter months. It was clear to the American leaders that unless something were done, this circum- stance would lead to Communist, and thus Soviet, control of all Europe. The foreign policy of the United States, for evident strategic reasons, had been shaped to avert precisely this end. Thus it is with amaze- ment that the historian comes upon the announcement of an American official, known as "The Secretary of Agriculture," in the month of September, 1947. This offi- cial, named Clinton Anderson, announced at that time that exports of grains to Europe must necessarily be reduced. Whereas fif- teen million tons of grain had been shipped to Europe and elsewhere in the preceding year, this amount must be decreased to ap- proximately twelve million tons. IT IS with a sense of wonder also that one reads the opinions credited to Anderson in certain reputable journals of the day. Anderson was said to have informed the President of the United States that neither the Congress nor the people would approve such "extreme measures" as a reduction in the size of the bread loaf, a limitation in the feeding of wheat to animals, or a de- crease in the use of grain for manufacture of spirituous liquors, copiously consumed in the United States in those days. Thus, al- though the Congress was asked to approve such sums as were needed by the European countries to purchase the necessary food- stuffs, no serious measures, other than an appeal for self-restraint, were taken to as- sure that these foodstuffs would be avail- able. Not unexpectedly this appeal, in time of peace, was largely fruitless. The inevitable political and economic chaos in Europe thus supervened, with the inevitable consequences.. A now forgotten doctrine then known as the "Marshall Plan," which had been designed to save the situation, had to be discarded. The United States soon found itself a conti- nental island, set in the midst of a vast Soviet-dominated ocean. No opportunity for a final peaceful settlement between the Soviets and the Americans, other than a peace of surrender, remained. The con- sequences were inescapable. One mustery will always remain to plague the speculative historian. The American people had demonstrated a conspicuous moral fiber during the war years. Had some sudden cancer destroyed the temper of the people, so that they need must feed ninety million'tons of grain to their beasts that they might eat heartily of choice meats, while the Europeans starved for lack of three million tons of grain? Or did the American leaders misjudge and undervalue the character of that now vanished race? (Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune) .-Aiet lwer. "About six feet mo,} Jaek-there's a patch of lawn here!" I ~and is a Mih gn resident and both ai enrolled in the Uni- versity their combined application will be given special consideration. 10. Each applicant must file with his application his Military Record and Report of Separation. Married veterans of World War II who have filed applications for the Terrace Apartments prior to October 1, 1947 should not apply again, since their applications are being processed in terms of the above qualifications. Office of Student Affairs Room 2, University Hall NEW MEXICO-Where railroad track stretches hundreds of miles between towns, some provi- sion must be made for living quar- ters for the section crews that keep track in repair. When a string of ties must be replaced or a siding built in the center of a long stretch, it would be foolish for a working man to have to drive or ride as much as ten hours a day to do eight hours' work. So railroads provide section crews in the open spaces with roll- ing homes, made of old boxcars, so that a whole village of work- ers and their families can be carted around. If you have never seen one of these perambulating cottages, it will be worth your while to wangle an invitation to tea in the first one you come across. Boxcars are surprisingly big in- side, and there is space in each one for several rooms. If the fam- ily is an industrious, home-loving type, it can do woncers with its old car. Nice windows can be made, with colored shutters; the floor and walls can be sanded, stained, and polished, and with a little careful fixture-arranging the place can look as neat and charming as the inside of a big yacht (at a whale of a lot less cost). The ladies who live in the box- car homes claim that the rolling life has one virtue that far trans- cends the other advantages of ever-changing scenery, simple garbage disposal, easy housework, and comparative safety from tax collectors and process servers. They are usually parked so far out on the prairies or so high in the mountains that there is no place their husbands can go at nght-except home. << ---Il 71 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN - I ti 'I 11J Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices f or 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). WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1947 VOL. LVIII, No. 8 Notices Regents' Meeting: October 24, 2 p.m. Communications for con- sideration at this meeting must be in the President's hands not later than October 16. -Herbert G. Watkins, Sec. To Deans, Directors, Department Heads, and Others Responsible for Payrolls: Payrolls for the Fall Semester are ready for approval. Please call in Room 9, University hall before October 15. Prompt action will help the Payroll Department com- plete their rolls for October. Identification Cards: Any stu- dent may leave a stamped self- addressed envelope in the office of Student Affairs, Room 2 Univer- sity Hall before Oct. 4, in order to have his identification card mailed to him. University Directory changes of address and phone number must be reported this week. Ira M. Smith, Registrar Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Courses may not be elected for credit after Saturday, October 4. Saturday, October 4, is therefore the last day on which new elections may be approved. The willingness of an instructor to admit a student later will not affect the operation of this rule. All Students, Graduate and Un- dergraduate, are notified of the following revised regulations adopted by the Committee on Stu- dent Conduct: The presence of women guests in men's residences, except for exchange and guest dinners or for social events approved by the Of- fice of Student Affairs, is not per- mitted. (This regulation obvious- ly does not apply to mothers of members.) Effective February, 1947. Exchange and guest dinners must be announced to the Office of Student Affairs at least one day in advance of the scheduled date, and are approved, chaperoned or unchaperoned, provided that they are confined to the hours 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for week day din- ners, and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for Sun- day dinners. Exchange dinners are defined as meals in men's resi- dences or women's residences at- tended by representative groups of members of approved organi- zations of the other sex; guest dinners are defined as meals in men's residences and women's residences attended by guests of the other sex who may or may not belong to University organiza- tions. The use or presence of intoxi- cating liquors in student quarters has a tendency to impair student morale, and is contrary to the best interests of the students and of the University and is not per- itted. Effective July, 1947. Undergraduate women: Each organized undergraduate women's residence is required to choose a house president and to establish quiet hours by the end of the sec- ond week of classes. The names of the house director, president, and signout sheet official (if a person other than the president is in charge of these), and a list of quiet hours must be turned in to the Women's Judiciary Council, Undergraduate Office, Michigan League, by Friday, October 3. This applies to all dormitories, sorori- ties, and league houses where un- dergraduate women reside. Women's Judiciary Council Married Veterans of World War H-University Terrace Apart- ments and Veterans' Emergency Housing Project. Opportunity will be provided Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, October 1, 2, and 3 for students in the above group to file applica- tion for residence in the Univer- sity Terrace Apartments and the Veterans' Emergency Housing Project. At present there are no vacan- cies in these apartments, but ap- plications will be considered for future vacancies. Applications for residence in these apartments will be consid- ered according to the following qualifications: 1. Only married veterans who are at present registered in the University may apply. 2. Only married veterans of World War II may apply.1 3. Only Michigan residents may apply. (The Regents' definition of a Michigan resident follows. "No one shall be deemed a resident of Michigan for the purpose of reg- istration in the University unless he or she has resided in this state six months next preceding the date of proposed enrollment.") 4. Veterans who have incurred physical disability of a serious na- ture will be given first consider- ation. A written statement from Dr. Forsythe of the University Health Service concerning such disability should be included in the application. 5. Only students who have com- pleted two terms in this Univer- sity may apply. (Summer session is considered as one-half term.) 6. Students who are admitted to these apartments may in no case occupy them for a period longer than two years. 7. Length of overseas service will be an important determin- ing factor. 8. In considering an applicant's total length of service, A.S.T.P., V-12, and similar programs will be discounted. 9. If both husband and wife are veterans of World War II and the Approved social events for the coming week-end: October 3-Alpha Omicron Pi; Alpha Xi Delta. October 4-Acacia; Alpha Del- ta Phi: Alpha Epsilon Phi; Alpha Kappa Kappa; Alpha Sigma Phi; Alpha Sigma Phi; Alpha Kappa Psi; Beta Theta Pi; Chi Phi; Delta Kappa Epsilon;:Grace Bible Guil; Henderson House; Lambda Chi Alpha; Nu Sigma Nu; Phi Delta Phi; Phi Delta Theta; Phi Gamma Delta; Phi Kappa Psi; Phi Sigma Kappa; Pi Lambda Phi; Psi Up- silon; Sailing Club; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Sigma Alpha Mu; Sigma Chi; Sigma Nu; Sigma Phi; Theta Chi; Theta Delta Chi; Theta Xi; Zeta Beta Tau; Zeta Psi. October 5 - Dwyer's League House; Sigma Alpho Mu. Applications for Grants in Sup- port of Research Projects: le is requested that faculty members desiring grants from the Research Funds in support of re- search projects to begin early in 1948 file their proposals in the Of- fice of the Graduate School by Wednesday, October 15, 1947. Re- quests for continuation of present projects or for projects to be initi- ated during the next fiscal year should be made at a date early next year to be announced later. Application forms will be mailed or can be obtained at Secretary's Office, Room 1006 Rackham Building, Telephone 372. Teacher Placement: The Near East College Association reports a vacancy in Physical Education for Men at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. This position is for a sin- gle man, and carries a three year contract. For further information, contact the Bureau of Appoint- ments. Academic Notices Freshman Health Lecture Final Examination: 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- phabetical schedule. A through K-N.S. Auditorium 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 students with freshman standing are also required to take the course unless they have had a similar course elsewhere, which has been accredited here. Upperclassmen who were here as freshmen and who did not ful- fill the requirements are requested to do so this term. The lectures will be given in the Natural Science Auditorium 't 4 p.m. and repeated at 7:30 p.m. as per the following schedule: Lecture 1-Mon., Oct. 6 Lecture 2-Tues.,Oct. 7 Lecture 3-Wed., Oct. 8 Lecture 4-Thurs., Oct. 9 Lecture 5-Mon., Oct. 13 Lecture 6-Tues., Oct. 14 Lecture 7 (Final Exam.)-Wed., Oct. 15. Please note that attendance is required and roll will be taken. Enrollment will be held at the first lecture. Seminar in Applied Mathema- tics: First meeting, Wed., Oct. 1, 4:30 p.m., Rm. 247, W. Engineer- ing Bldg. Professors Dolph and Coburn will report on the Method of characteristics in the three-di- mensional steady supersonic flow of a compressable fluid. Biological Chemistry Seminar: Friday, Oct. 3, 4 p.m., Rm. 319, W. Medical Bldg. Subject: "The Chemical Proper- ties of a Typical Virus Protein- Tobacco Mosaic Protein." All in- terested are invited. Concerts The University Musical Society announces the following concerts: Short Extra Series- Patrice Munsel, Soprano-Sat., Oct. 18; Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, Conductor -Sun., Nov. 9; Don Cossack Chorus, Serge Jaroff Conductor-Tues., Dec. 2; Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Conductor - Sun. Pub. 15: Alexander Brailowsky, Pianist-Wed., Mar. 10, Choral Union Series- Karin Branzell, Contralto - Wed., Oct. 8; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski, Con- ductor-Sun., Oct. 26; Daniel Ericourt, Pianist-Tues., Nov. 4; Set Svanholm, Tenor-Fri., Nov. 14: Westminster Choir, John Fin- ley Williamson, Conductor-Mon., Nov. 24; Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor-Mon., Dec. 8; Myra Hess, Pianist-Sat, Jan. 10; Detroit Symphony, Karl Krueger. Conductor-Mon., Feb. 23; Georges Enesco, Violinist - Tues., Mar. 2; Cincinnati Sym- phony Orchestra, Thor Johnson, Conductor-Thurs., Mar. 18. A limited number of season tick- ets for the short series are avail- able: as well as tickets for indi- vidual concerts in both series-at the offices of the University Mu- sical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Exhibitions Exhibitions. The Museum of Art. MODERN HANDMADE JE1W- ELRY, circulated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, through October 19; STUDENT LOAN PRINTS, from the Office of Student Affairs, through October 4. Alumni Memorial Hall: Daily, except Monday, 10-12 and 2-5; Sunday, 2-5; Wednesday evening, 7-9. The public is cordially invit- ed. Events Today Phi Delta Kappa, National pro- fessional fraternity in Education: Coffee Hour, 4:15 p.m., Smoking Room (Room 2432), U. of M. Ele- mentary School. Members of other chapters and new members are especially urged to attend. Plans for the year will be discussed. Alpha Kappa Psi, Professional Business Fraternity; Chapter House, 1325 Washtenaw, 7:30 p.m. Members are urged to attend. Delta Sigma Pi, professional Business Administration fratern- ity; 7:30 p.m., Rm. 304, Union. Varsity Debate: All students in- terested in intercollegiate debat- ing should assemble in 4203 Angell Hall, 7:30 p.m. Pi Tau Pi Sigma, National hon- orary Signal Corps fraternity: Rm. 301 W. Engineering Annex, 5 p.m. Phi Fraternity Omega Psi Phi Chapter: 7 p.m. Members are urged to attend. Room number will be posted on the Union bulle- tin board. AVC, Willow Run West Lodge, 8 p.m. Chapter: Campus AVC: 7:30 p.m., Michi. gan Union. Nomination of offi- cers. Wolverine Club: 7 p.m., Union. Election of officers, and discus- sion of plans for flash cards, dance, special train, and rallies. All persons interested are invited. Square Dancing Class, spon- sored by the Graduate Outing Club : 8 p.m., Lounge, Women's Athletic Building. Everyone wel- come. A small fee will be charged. La Sociedad Hispanica: 8 p.m., Rm. 319, Michigan Union. Pro- gram: short talks by students whom La Sociedad sent to Mexico on its annual scholarships, or- ganization of conversation groups, and election of new vice-president. Everyone interested in Spanish is invited. Public Affairs Forum: 7:30 p.m., Lane Hall. W.S.S.F. Committee: 4:30 p.m., Lane Hall. Wesleyan Guild: Midweek Re- fresher, Wesley Lounge, First Methodist Church, 4-6 p.m. Freshman Bull Session, 5 p.m., First Methodist Church. Rm. 214, Mr. Kenneth Jones is the adviser for this group. Wesleyan Interest Groups, 7 p.m. All Methodist students and their friends are invited. Roger Williams Guild: guild House, 502 East Huron, 4 to 5:30 p.m. Coming Events Eta Kappa Nu, national electri- cal engineering honorary Thurs., Oct. 2, Rm. 247, W. Engineering. All members must be present. Henry Usborne, British Labor Member of Parliament, sponsored by the Student Federalists, will speak on the subject, "Our Inter- national Crisis," Thurs., Oct. 2, 8 p.m., Rackham Auditorium. The public is invited. Alpha Phi Omega: All former Scouts having intentions of pledg- ing this semester meet in Rms. 323-325, Michigan Union, Thurs., Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m. All officers re- BARNABY .. . expect, moreover, that in a +i. n; ipv sf;>+ Gia nte c C sifA7.nn irY7~~J7I7~s Ne vs its o beco use oli the Pixies Y X47' -- ,..l 0