III*- -mk - -A I Ak d ""IT TC'T-TTGAN DAILY 1~ f~'~~ ~~ £W -. 4 111____________ .A..- .i"I__A..A 5 . .A~ A~. 1 1V i ~~l L211 .5.5.4_.5, 1 1131 A1C.CY~R 7t:X 1 rMCTTEANTAT uUMBER z, 1947 ' 0I1 ifrtiwgu Yeai Fi fty-Eighth Year I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Cause and Effect Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Stafff John Campbell ...................Managing Editor Clyde Recht........................City Editor Stuart Finlayson ..............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 Stafff 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 during the regular school year by carrier, $5.00, by 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: JOAN KATZ We Hare a Part PRESIDENT TRUMIAN has called on Con- gressional committees on appropriations and foreign affairs to meet "as soon as possi- ble" to consider the economic needs of Eur- ope. He said that unless $6 million is appro- priated soon, the key countries of Europe Will collapse, and with them any hope of putting the Marshall Plan into operation. By December, if nothing is done, Europe will face a winter without food and without fuel, and without any resources to fall back on. Aside from the humanitarian reasons for immediate and generous action, there are reasons why, for the future of the U.S., it is imperative that action be taken now. It is generally accepted by economists that the prosperity of the U.S. is inextricably tied up with the prosperity of Europe, and that U.S. surplus goods must go to foreign mar- kets or both Europe and the U.S. will experi- ence depressions like those following World War I, and culminating in the depression of the thirties. With inflation already making itself felt in this country, the obvious thing to do would be to give ourselves temporary respite by easing off on the exports, thus lowering prices and allowing production to catch up to spending. But we are convinced that in the long run that policy would prove palliative, not a cure, and that it would ventuate in more difficulties than it solved. If adequate measures are not taken now to restore Europe's dollar credits, and to end the starvation now going on, any hopes we may entertain for Europe's political stability, or for anything but an armed truce between Russia and the U.S., are worse than useless. Until we make sure that Europe has the wherewithal to play its economic role, Amer- ican armies will find permanent occupation a necessity, and the consequences may in-. volve remote-control warfare of a sort that will make the atomic bomb look like a Fourth July celebration. In a situation 'like this, it is easy for the student and the professor to pass the uck: "After all, what can we do-we only have one vote each." Actually, however, the faculty and students of every univer- sity can and should do something more than trot down to the polls on election day and vote the straight party ticket. It is high time the various student associ- tions for political action collaborated on a int program. Whether or not each organ- ,ation includes communists, surely the ma- r cy of the members are able and willing to get together and draft a resolution to be sent to (he Congressional committees, signi- fying the desire of the students of the Uni- rsity of Michigan that immediate and ade- uate aid be provided for Europe. We can't o any more, but neither can we conscient- ously do less. -Phil Dawson O NATION whose citizens trade and travel-that is to say, no nation which es in neighborhood with other nations-- d consider whether or not it will be a ber of the community of nations. It not help itself. It may be a good mem- or a bad member, but it is a member eason of the simple fact of neighbor- life and intercourse. The Bolshevik By SAMUEL GRAFTON ONE READS of the fascist street meetings in London (every Sunday at Dalston) with a shock of recognition. The young men in black sweaters and black ties, raising their arms in the fascist salute and chant- ing: "Down with communism" sound like something out of Berlin in '31. One has the feeling one is reading an old diary, not to- day's newspaper. The anti-fascists, crowd- ing in as close as the police let them, and shouting: "Down with fascism" also have an old-fashioned sound. Why should anybody have to chant: "Down with fascism" on the streets of post-blitz London, which knows what fascism is, and which played so great a part in downing it? There was a similar scene in Rome on Sunday, when the fascist salute was seen again on the streets of uf Italy's capital, little more than two years after the end of the war against fascism. It was not so long since Mussolini was hung up- side down on a hook, like a pig, and here they are in the streets again. What can they hope to accomplish? Fascism is the biggest flop in history. But it is not just the memories of Hitler and Mussolini that these repulsive young men of London Voluntary Conservation ;RESIDENT TRUMAN'S campaign for voluntary food rationing may be more effective than seems possible. Although the individual housekeeper who can sneak into the stores practically unob- served and buy to his or her hearts content may detract from the program's effective- nessfpublic food dispensers will be more careful. Restaurants, hotels, dormitories will be under public observation. They will be forced, for the most part, to "meet the need of starving people abroad." In addition, if the food conservation pro- gram drives prices down, as the President and Schwellenbach think, certainly some people will have incentive for conserving. There is also a group of people who will conserve voluntarily because they believe Sen. Vandenberg's analysis of the situation is correct: "The immediate question is one of elemental human survival in a free soci- ety." The food situation is desperate; if the public cannot be convinced of it by reports from abroad, they can be shamed into con- serving by the loud disapproval of those who know what must be done. -Fred Schott ITFSO HAPPENS.. . Tips and Tub-Thumpers Tip Probabilities ONE CAMPUS CABDRIVER has his tip probabilities figured to a nicety. According to his calculations, men give a small tip on the way to dinner, and a big one on the way to a dance. However, our cabdriver reports that the trips home after dates are big financial loss- es. Perhaps they are preoccupied, but then the men just don't give any tips at all. The Lost Note THE MYSTERY of the missing third beat of the carillon chimes has the campus developing a nervous twitch. Ever since the third note stopped playing, we have noticed students pause after the second beat, kick, hum or shrug the third, and then proceed along their ways. * , , , Who You Kidding, Kid? YESTERDAY we found the following press release in our morning mail. "Statisticians from the department of utter coincidence were kept busy working overtime tonight on a chain of circum- stances set up 327 years ago this week when the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth, England, for a destination they christened Plymouth Rock when they saw it. The experts' quandry arose when it was announced here today by the Plymouth Motor Corp., that a meeting of Plymouth dealers was scheduled for Sept. 30 at the Plymouth Country Club, on Plymouth Road, in the town of Plymouth Meeting, Pa." Oddly enough, the release came from the Plymouth (Motor Corp.) News Bureau. Poor Conductor? HUDDLING uncomfortably in a cold class- room one day last week, we observed a and Rome are peddling. If that is all they had to sell they would stay home on Sun- days, doing whatever odd things fascists do when they are not holding meetings. No, these street meetings are not based on a vain hope of reselling a putrid past. I am afraid we must view these gatierings as a reflection, however distorted, of the split between America and Russia. It is in this that the mad right wing senses a new opportunity. Fascism has died, but the conditions (the split between east and west) which gave fas- cism its opportunity once before have been reborn. Fascists begin to feel the fertilizing touch. It seems ridiculous to suggest that fascism can be born again; but it also seem- ed ridiculous, just a few years ago, to sug- gest that east and west could ever be split again. This does not mean, that the London and Rome street meetings are very impor- tant. They are not. But they have a cer- tain significance as clues, as pennants in the wind, as weather indicators; they hint at the deterioration of life which can take place in the atmosphere of a planetary schism. For, on a respectable level, and within the democratic ethics, other changes are taking place which are part of the same big picture. One is the rise of conservatism in America, and the fact that many a reactionary voice which had little influence on our policy when Hitler was in power has great influ- ence today. Now it has been customary, these last fifteen years, when any liberal has reach- ed this point, to warn his countrymen sol- emnly that America had better learn to get along with Russia, to avoid the rise of fascism in the world, and of a right wing at home. But Russia is a big country now, and one wonders why the warning does not apply equally to Russia. The Russians know about fascism by now. They know about the dangers of a world reactionary swing. They cannot adopt an intransige- ant expansionist policy, which helps breed these things, and then plausibly complain, with baby-faced innocence, and a wholly synthetic air of astonishment, that these things are happening. Isn't the problem theirs, too? Can't it be said that the Rus- sians have mobilized world conservatism against themselves, while rendering liber- alism mute, with almost as much effec- tiveness as Hitler showed in mobilizing world liberalism against himself, while rendering conservatism mute? In other words, aren't the Russians re- sponsible in a degree for what happens in the Western world, or does the chain of cause and effect snap off at the border be- tween the regions? How have they helped to avoid what they profess to fear? Or do they consider that while events in their world are molded by logic and historical necessity, events in ours are guided only by leprechauns and the waxing and waning of the moon? (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) Remember the War THE NIGHT that the U.S.S. Fox hit a mine in the Adriatic, one of the Detroit papers ran a two-line paragraph on the edi- torial page that said, "'U.S. Warship Hits Mine Off Trieste.' Remember the Maine?" The writer of these sentences seems to to have forgotten what has happened in the last five years. No matter what has happened, or what will happen between this country and any other nation of the world, no one in his right mind would suggest that we should go to war because of a mine that strayed from a mine field that had only been partially wept. Unfortunately, it seems that there are a lot of people who are too prone to accept the analogy between the U.S.S. Maine, blown up in Havana harbor in 1898, which was the immediate cause of the Spanish-Ameri- can war, and the U.S.S. Fox, which hit a mine accidentally in the Adriatic last Mon- day. These are the over-sensitive people who, for some reason of their own, are per- fectly willing to allow this country to get involved in another war. It is impossible to feel anything but' fear when one reads editorializing of this kind. Newspapers can be a big factor in causing war, as was shown during the Spanish-American war, and enough com- ment along the line of the Detroit paper can inflame a serious situation until it reaches the boiling point. We cannot hope to come out of another war with whole skins - no nation can - so why aggravate an already serious situation into one that leads directly to war? -Al Blumrosen FRANCE ceased to be a free agent in inter- national affairs on May 10, 1940. On that fateful day, her armies under Gamelin crossed the Belgian frontier and rushed northeast to meet the Nazi attack. Since then France has not regained a position of even relative steadiness and power. -Andre Geraud, in Foreign Affairs Quarterly BILL MAULDIN r S 0 p I 7b i : NEW MEXICO - In "Home Country," the volume of col- umns which were written by Er- nie Pyle before he went to war, is a sage piece of advice to tourists who travel in this part of the country. Having spent a great deal of time in New Mexico, Pyle spoke with authority when he said travellers should stay off the paved roads. The rougher the bumps became, the squeakier your car got, the thicker the dust be- came, and the more rubber got stripped off your tires by rocks, the more of the real-New Mex- ico you were seeing. The improved roads and con- venient stops are dotted with "tourist traps" - souvenir shops which sell Indian rugs and blan- kets freshly expressed from New York wholesale houses, dude ranches that keep their sorry horses propped up and wrapped with baling wire to keep them from falling down or apart, and drugstore cowboys with, purple boots and 50-gallon hats. If ,you are willing to spend the time, trouble, and depreciation on your car that a real tour of New Mexico will cost, it will be well worth your time. You will see a country and a people who, while they no longer fight the assorted invaders who occupy their land, are still unconquered in pride and culture. The Spaniards came, then the pioneers, then the ranchers, the farmers, and even the army came withrits atom bomb Many of the invaders are still here, all of them have left their mark in different ways, and they have cor- rupted the Indian and his land around the edges, where you find the cities and the highways. But not where the ruts are deep and the brush takes the paint off your fenders. Letters to the Editor... EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (which is signed, 304 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 than 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. Willow Schools To the Editor: WOULD LIKE to revise a few opinions left by Jean Fagan's editorial "Public Education," on race segregation in Willow Run schools, in the September 29 issue of The Daily. I am a teacher in "inter-racial" Ross school, so I am in position to see both sides of the issue, and to quote facts of which Miss Fa- gan did not avail herself. It is my purpose neither to justify nor con- demn the school board's decision, only to state the circumstances under which it was made. The geographical facts: Sim- mons School is situated in the all- Negro area of the Village, so its enrollment is naturally all Negro. Ross is in the mixed area, so its enrollment is mixed. It is well known that the population of Willow Run is constantly fluctuat- ing, so the boundaries of all four school districts are necessarily changed every year. This year the Ross district was expected to be overcrowded, so its boundaries were narrowed on all sides. Sim- monds was expected to be less crowded. The school board was faced with a choice of two areas on the Ross-Simmonds boundary line to re-district to Simmonds : a large and predominantly south- ern white area, or smaller and all- Negro Walpole street. The white area would have made Simmonds even more crowded than Ross. Whereas, at the last census all the classes but one at' Simmonds had fewer pupils than their counter- partisan Ross. The Walpole street children have equal facilities and less crowded classrooms awaiting them at Simmonds. The State, by its compulsory education law, com- mands their parents to send them and provides sanctions to en- force that command. It is the parents of these children who are failing in their duty. -Nancy Jane DeLaurier. No Compliment To the Editor: DEAR MR. MALOY, Drop dead! You may anyway unless the University officials expand to cov- er all of the students the facilities just instituted to test the medical students for T.B. Congratulations are far from being in order. The Medical School in its public health classes has been teaching proper survey methods for years, but at the same time very complacently overlooked the students for whom th(se lcclu'res have been intend- ed. It has taken an alarming number ofs T.Bcases among medi- cal students to jar the school health officials out of their com- placency. Rather than congratulations, I feel that the University officials should be urged to expand the facilities so that a yearly T.B. sur- vey of the entire student body would be possible. At the present time an x-ray is given only at en- trance, regardless of the length of time the student remains in at- tendance. It's about time that this "Progressive Institution" caught up with the rest of the world. A plan of yearly surveys has been in operation at Western Michigan College for a number of years. Rather than complimenting, don't you think that we should instead ask what excuse the med- ical officials at Michigan have for such laxity? -Heini Kessler. Student Federalists To the Editor: AS A MEMBER of the Michigan Chapter of the Student Fed- eralists I'd like to draw attention to the speech to be delivered to- night at Rackham, by Mr. Henry Usborne, British Labour MP. Mr. Usborne is going to speak on "Our International Crisis." There are a few points, however, which deserve mentioning. The reason why Mr. Usborne is over, in America at all, the reason why our organization is sponsoring him, is to drive home the impera- tives for world government now. It is old hat in some circles, per-' haps, but the fact remains our world society cannot stand an- other war without some dire re- sults. If we value our way of life, this is the time to act. Student Federalists believe the only feasible action is through the amendment of the UN Charter. And by action we mean the aboli- tion of the substantive veto in the Security Council. This doesn't sound like much, but, in effect, it's the only way to put the breaks on run-away nationalism. With the power to implement the char- ter provisions, the crucial step to- ward the ideal of a world com- munity will have been taken. Those who raise the hue and cry of "Impossible," must face the alternatives as they all too realis- tically present themselves. Ulti- mate war, with either a welter of shattered states on low economic and social level, or the spectre of a totalitarian world state be- striding the earth. As the English horse fanciers used to say, "This is Hobson's choice!" Usborne is going to deal with this choice, he's going to deal with the folly of allowing it to arise. Above all, he's here to militate forces against it. --George Vetter. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Assistant to the President, Room 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1947 VOL. LVIII, No. 9 Notices Faculty, College of Engineering: Faculty meeting, Mon., Oct. 6, 4:15 p.m., Rm. 311, W. Engineering Bldg. 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. University Directory changes of address and phone number must be reported this week. Ira M. Smith, Registrar Notice of meeting of the Com- mittee on Student Affairs: Regu- lar meetings of the Committee on Student Affairs will be held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Petitions for consid- eration at these meetings should be submitted to the Office of Stu- dent Affairs, Rm. 2, University Hall, not later than the Thursday preceding the meeting. The next meeting will be October .14, and petitions for consideration at this time must be submitted not later than Thursday, October 9. Pre-football guest luncheons held in student residences from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Satur- days will be approved, chaperoned or unchaperoned, provided they are announced to the Office of Student Affairs at least one day in advance of the scheduled date. All veterans in training under P.L. 16 are reminded that they are required to file a report of ab- sence. Those P.L. 16 trainees who failed to obtain an absence re- port card during- registration should obtain one at the Veterans Service Bureau, Rm. 1514 Rack- ham. Identification Cards: Any stu- dent may leave a stamped self- addressed envelope in the office of1 Student Affairs, Room 2 Univer- sity Hall before Oct. 4, in order to have his identification card' mailed to him. Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Courses may not be elected for credit after7 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 operationI of this rule. Undergraduate women: Eachi 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 Applications for Grants in Sup- port of Research Projects: It is requested that faculty members desiring grants from the Research Funds in support of re- search projects begin early in 1948 to 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 the Secre- tary's Office, Rm. 1006 Rackham Building, Telephone 372. Married Veterans of World War II-University Terrace Apart- ments and Veterans' Emergency Housing Project. Opportunity will be provided Thursday and Friday, October 2, and 3 for students in the above group to file application for resi- dence in the University 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. 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 i 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 overlooked the students for whom -George Vetter. 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 husband is a Michigan resident and both are 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 Half. Former naval personnel (offi- cer and enlisted) who were con- nected with Communications Sup- plementary Activity during the war, and who are interested in joining an organized reserve unit on campus, call Mr. Gray, tele- phone 25-8433. Research openings in Mathe- matics: There are at present sev- eral openings for graduate stu- dents to do research in mathe- matics'on a part-time basis for a project in the Mathematics De- partment, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. Topics cover- ed include the following: random processes and other problems in probability, non-linear differential equations, analytic functions, min- imal surfaces, subharmonic func- tions, and divergent series. Openings are available at var- ious levels of achievement, with the majority at the dissertation level. Interested persons (includ- ing any who may have applied last spring) should contact Prof. R. M. Thrall, Rm. 3004, Angell Hall, for further information. 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 Lectures for Women: It is a University requirement that all entering freshmen take a series of Health Lectures and 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 whohwere 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 ScienceaAuditorium 'at 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. History 49, Sec. 3 (W,9) will meet in 2013 A.H. - V. W. Crane Graduate Students may not elect course after this week (Oct. 4. Courses may be dropped with record after this week, but will be recorded with the grade of E if dropped after the eighth week of classes. Concerts The University Musical Society announces the following concerts: BARNABY... - -- - - - - = - - -, P"