THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATtWJDAYy OCT4QBER 4, 1947- Fifty-Eighth Year ON WORLD AFFAIRS: American Follies DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Letters to the Editor ... 5 . -- 5 l ,aR J4 wr,. Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff 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 Staff Nancy Helmick.................General Manager Jeanne Swendeman......... 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NIGHT EDITOR: ARTHUR HIGBEE TB Protection H EALTH SERVICE appeals to have non- student personnel, who are most in contact with students in their houses, x- rayed to assure students of freedom from contagious tuberculosis have produced little or no results despite the fact that feeling about protection runs high, as expressed in a recent letter to The Daily. The compulsory x-ray examinations given to each student entering the Uni versity eliminates the possibility of infec- tion by new students. But doctors inter- ested in public health feel that a poten- tially dangerous source of infection stems from non-student personnel who can be carriers of tuberculosis in their strategic positions in houses as housemothers, porters, maids and particularly food handlers. Tuberculosis 'is too great a risk to be sacrificed to laxity. Laxity can be the only explanation for ignoring the letters sent to all houses by Dr. Warren E. Forsythe, Director of Health Service. The low-cost x-rays should be taken advantage of by all sorority, fraternity, independent and cooperative house managers who should be as vitally concerned with student health as are the Health Service officials. -Lida Dailes. CINEMA At Hill Auditorium CHILDREN OF PARADISE, Jean Louis- Barrault, Arletty. CHILDREN OF PARADISE is an importa- tion from France which concerns itself with portraying the seamy side of 19th Cen- tury Paris. Fundamentally, it is the story of a romance between a pair of opposites- an idealistic young actor and a lady of easy virtue. As such, it is a good example of the deft manner with which these Gauls handle the love theme. But this theme is projected upon such a large canvas that it frequently slips completely into view while the camera wanders more or less aimlessly into investi- gations of several counter-themes. This sort of thing leads, of course, to disunity and strains the patience of the audience. Aside from this criticism, however, Chil- dren of Paradise is fit to stand with such other recent French productions as It Hap- pened at the Inn and The Well-Digger's Daughter. A good deal of humor has been injected into some back-stage scenes and there are some cleverly conceived interludes in pantomime. The photography meas- ures up to the customary European stand- ard, finding excellent subject matter in the period costumes and, as you might expect, several elaborate mob scenes. Jean-Louis Barrault is cast as the enamored actor. His performance is marked by its versatility. Arletty, who is cast opposite Barrault an(I who seems to be noticeably aging, still man- 'ages to play the comely young lady con- vincingly.* The film runs to something in the vicinity of two hours, but, unless you are chronically By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER THOSE MILLJONS of Americans who can- not understand why despite our good intentions and our material aid, Europeans suspect us, should reflect on the election of Argentina to the Security Council of the United Nations. Just stop and think-barely two years after the conclusion of a costly defense against world fascism, a majority of the United Nations elect to the most impor- tant office in that body-membership on the Security Council-one of the two re- maining fascist states that provided aid and company to the Axis. With the consent and indeed with the positive vote of the United States. One might almost think these delegations had been bribed to do this by the Soviet Union. Here is propaganda material which Andrei Vishinsky does not have to invent. In his next anti-American diatribe, the Russiaa can lay off Walter Winchell and John Foster Dulles and his usual line of fairy stories. He can concentarate on one single fact: The United States not only contrived to have fascist Argentina admitted to the UN (in contradiction to the treatment accorded. ['D RATHER BE RIGHT: Our Virtues By SAMUEL GRAFTON IN THE EXCHANGE of pleasantries now going on between citizens of this country and of the Soviet Union, I notice a tendency on our part to become sentimental, in a new kind of way, about such things as the playing of baseball, and the eating of hot dogs. High and special virtues are ascribed to these activities, which they, in a measure, deserve, for they are certainly amiable ways of passing the time. But there is a funny flavor of boastful nationalism creeping into some of these prose poems. A kind of inversion is taking place; we are beginning to argue, not that we play baseball and eat hot dogs because we are nice people, but that we are nice people because we play baseball and eat hot dogs. We are beginning to ascribe magical qualities to an interesting game and a modest article of food, as if these were the secret (rather than only an inci- dental expression) of the differences be- tween us and thers. We'd better be care- ful about how we spread the goo. Baseball is an admirable game, though there are others as fine. It is ane of the best of games from the spectators' viewpoint, for the play is clear and open, and one can see what is going on. - It suffers a bit from an overwraught vo- cabulary, with words like "slugging," "migh- ty smash," "great explosion," etc., used to describe a sport which is essentially non vio- lent. (The contrast with the Spanish sport of bull-fighting is very strong, for in this one, in which you can really get killed, the vocabulary is much like that used to discuss the ballet.) And the hot dog is good eating, though there are at least forty national dishes, own and foreign, which are better. I'd hate to have my children growing up be- lieving it was the best there was in the food field, or that it had mystical proper- ties, like the mandrake root. No, if we are going to strut, let's do it about those American qualities that really matter. One of these, however, is that we don't strut. I don't know quite how to de- scribe it, but it's the kind of plain dig- nity that goes, say, with early Federalist furniture. It is Ben Franklin at the French court. It is a one-room country school. It is a re- publican lack of ostentation; it is self-re- spect rather than self-glorification. It is like the look of our postage stamps before we began to make them fancy. It is like the way Thomas Jefferson spent the day on which the Declaration of Independence was adopted making weather observations with the help of a new thermometer; any- body else, in a similar situation, in any other country, would have spent the day on a white horse, sweating under a plumed hat. It is a plain, good, lovely thing. As to how to get that quality into our for- eign relations, I also don't quite know. To resent an insult is part of it, and it was good to protest the vicious attack on the President in Moscow's "Literary Gazette." But to be- come enraged because Russia will not admit our traveling Senators, and to threaten to keep Russian visitors out in retaliation, is not part of it, for imitation is the sincerest form of fear. To admit refugees would be part of it, because it always was part of it. To play baseball and to eat hot dogs is part of it, but to grow solemnly vocal about these activities, and to build a mystique about them is probably not part of it. I guess in the end you need a kind of se- curity inside to reach out for the quality I mean, so unpretentious and so bombastic, but so sound; something like the quality a cabinet-maker needs to build a plain, useful chair, without crest or gilt on it, that later generations find to be exquisite. But if we ever get to that quality, the world will know it, and we will prosper accordingly. (Copyright, 1947, N.Y. Post Syndicate) fascist Spain) but actually connived at hav- ing. Caudillo Peron placed among those countries charged with the enforcement of peace. The culprit receives full pardon and a seat on the world police force! The American officials who made the choice of voting for the least worthy of the Latin American states to take the empty place of Brazil will protest that this is beastly unfair. They will explain that Ar- gentina was the choice, not of the United States( which wanted democratic Uruguay) but a majority of the other American Republics. If the United States reluctantly concurred in this decision-they will say- it was only because of previous engagements taken at Rio or Chapultepec. Once we ac- cepted the idea of a western hemispheric bloc reaching decisions by democratic vot- ing, there was nothing for Secretary Mar- shall to do but accept the choice of the majority of American Republics. That choice happened to be Argentina-and there you are. No reproaches, please. It looks like pure vicuna-but it won't wash. In the first place, if the Latin Americans could find no more worthy representative than fascist Argentina, then we should drop all this nonsense about their being "democ- racies" and begin referring to them by some less complimentary term. In the second place, the United States should have prevented the creation of a Latin American voting bloc-an electoral Tammany-with the U.N. Assembly. There may or may not be a proper place for "re- gional agreements" within the world organ- ization. There is none for political machines and regional caucuses. The only result of the Latin-American voting bloc-if con- tinued-will be to make other countries refuse to submit their disputes to an or- ganization where certain groups 'of states more conspicuous by their numbers than by their power, democracy or wisdom, can decide the outcome. In the third place, the United States ought never to have agreed to abide by a decision of the other American republics in any matter which extends beyond the western hemisphere. The election of a fascist state to the UN Security Council is something that far transcends the Americas. It concerns the entire world. It weakens U.S. foreign policy and prestige in areas which just now are vital to the peace and security of the world. If adherence to a hemispheric bloc means that the hands of the United States are to be tied in world affairs, then hemispheric solidarity is being purchased far too dearly. The sooner the American Secretary of State disengages us from any obligation to repeat the Argentine mis- take, the better for us. Unhappily the United States seems to be playing the same sort of "dumb Penelope" role in the Palestine dispute. With one- hand, Washington somewhat half heart- edly pushes for a final settlement of this vital matter. With the other it blindly en- courages the Moslem wolrld to make any such solution impossible. There was no reason to admit Syria or Lebanon or Trans-Jordania to the UN until the Palestine problem was settled. Now we have gone still further and brought in a dwarf state like Arab Yemen. As a result, recently pardon'ed pro-Axis Arab leaders are swollen to the point where their spokesman, Jamal el Hussein, nephew and beneficiary of the murderout Nazi mufti of Jerusalem, threatens to "drench Pales- tine in blood" if the Jews are given even half of the territory that was promised them during World War I! Each further act of Akmerican appeasement to loud-mouthed buddies of Adolf Hitler only makes any settlement of the Palestine problem more difficult. Ever since 1941, the American Adminis- tration has been running with the Jewish hare and following with the Arab hounds. It is time to stop this double game. It is now apparent that unless the United States insists on a positive solution of the Palestine problem and offers to take part in enforcing it, there will be no solution. (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) THE SECOND World War was, above everything, the proof of a mortal sick- ness in the way of life by which we sought to preserve the security of the foundations of our civilization. Every civilization is in serious danger when, as in ours, there is so grave a disproportion between the material power and the growth of that spiritual and intellectual insight which makes possible common agreement about the use of that power. We could hold social relationships in an uneasy equilibrium so long as faith in some supernatural compensation for earthly inequalities seemed to mitigate their harshness. When that faith declined so swiftly, we were driven to the impossible task of finding a rational explanation for differences which were mostly inexplicable save in terms of laws intended themselves to maintain those differences. -Harold J. Laski in Foreign Affairs Quarterly. (Continued from Page 2) ber 5, with the first payroll deduc- tion on November 30. After Octo- ber 15, no new applications or changes can be accepted until April 1948. Students, College of Literature, Science, and the Ats: No courses may be elected for credit after to- day. 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. 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Women students wishing to remain in the same League Houses they now occupy may request the housemothers for spring contracts immediately. Women students now living in League Houses who wish to move to other League Houses for the spring semester may secure application forms from the Office of the Dean of Women beginning November 1, 1947. Between November 1 and 15, those applicants will be re- ferred to the first vacancies avail- able for the spring semester. 3. New women students not now on campus admitted to the Uni- versity for the spring semester will be given the opportunity to apply for housing through the Of- fice of the Dean of Women as fol- lows: a. A limited number of women admitted as first semester fresh- men for the spring may apply for dormitory accommodations on and after November 15, 1947. b. All other women newly ad- mitted, including those with ad- vanced standing and graduate students, may apply for supple- mentary housing on or after No- vember 15, 1947. (Announcement of application procedure for housing for fal 1948 will appear at a later 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. 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. 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. All Students, Graduate and Un- dergraduate, are notified of the following re vised 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. 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. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Wil- liam Resnick, Chemical Engineer- ing; thesis: "Mass Transfer in Beds of Fluidized Solids,"fSat., Oct. 4, 3201 E. Engineering Bldg., 9:30 a.m. Chairman, R. R. White. Doctoral Examination for Harry Hammond Wilcox, Zoology; thesis: "Description and Adaptive Modi- fications of the Pelvic Muscula- ture of the Loon, Gavia immer," Sat., Oct. 4, 3091 Natural Science Bldg., 1:30 p.m. Chairman, A. H. Stockard. 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. 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 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 at 4 p.m. and repeated at 730 p.m. as per he following schedule: 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. ADA's Aims To the Editor: THIS is the third in a series of three letters designed to acquaint students with the U. of M. chapter of Americans for Dem- ocratic Action: an organization of progressives dedicated to the achievement of economic security and the expansion of social and political freedom through educa- tion and democratic political ac- tion. It is the purpose of this let- ter to outline ADA's position- on some of the current international issues. USSR: Experience testifies to the fact that appeasement is but- the inspiration for aggression, but neither continuous surrender nor Soviet Union offer hope of world indescriminate resistance, to the harmony. We therefore favor a policy based on an understanding of the legitimate claims of Russia and a resolute determination to sacrifice no interest vital to the growth of democracy or the de- velopment of the UN. PALESTINE: We are for the es- tablishment of a national Jewish homeland in Palestine, and for the, immediate admission of the home- less Jews of Europe. We therefore favor the recently proposed pro- gram of partition of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. GREAT BR4TAIN: In our deal- ings with foreign nations, we must not insist that capitalism is neces- sarily a pre-requisite of democ- racy, nor equate democratic so- cialism with dictatorship. We thereforeefavormall possible polit- ical and economic support for the British Labor government in its efforts to solve Enyland's grave domestic difficulties; so long as that government makes a sincere effort to find democratic solutions to Britain's colonial problems. ATOMIC ENERGY AND DIS- ARMAMENT: We favor the U.S. proposal for internationalhdevel- opment and control of atomic en- ergy, and multi-lateral arms re- duction. ADA believes that the future security of all nations lies in the establishment of world govern- ment. However, the greatest ob- stacle to world government is to- talitarianism; therefore we must strive with all our resources to relieve conditions of hunger, want and insecurity which afford breed- ing grounds for undemocratic ide- ologies. --Bernard L. Goodman, President, U. of M. ADA. Prices ,,. To the Editor: THE DAILY'S Fred Schott has, by his own efforts, labeled him- self an apologist for the govern- ment and a bumbling bachelor. From Mr. Schott issues the clar- ion call: CONSERVE FOOD. And just who hasn't been conserving ever since price controls were lift- ed and inflation set in? Mr. Schott is worried lest in- dividual housekeeper " . . . sneak into the stores practically unob- served and buy to his or her hearts content . . ." I would like to have ostrich-like Mr. Schott tell me who has that much money now that steaks and butter have reached the dollar mark. Mr. Schott feels that reason for ccnserving is the desperate situa- tion abroad. That's a noble and necessary cause to which I whole- heartedly subscribe. However, the situation existed last year-why weren't plans made by the govern- ment for dealing with this situa- tion, and why wasn't the OPA continued so that we would have food to ease the European starva- tion without necessitating hold-up prices and scarcity of food. This wholesale gibbering on the subject of conserving food comes from those who are attempting to allay the suspicions of people who are wondering who wanted the OPA ended and for what pur- pose. In the summer of 1946 house- wives in Detroit, Chicago and New York formed demonstrations ard picketed stores to protect the manipulation in Congress by the National Association of Manu- facturers who contrived the de- mise of OPA. Now Mr. Schott is telling these same women that if they weren't so extravagant prices would come down. Mr. Schott you need an elementary economics course, you need to be informed about our "free enterprise" system whereby industrialists dictate to the gov ernment and further you need contact with life. I suggest you station yourself in any big chain store and observe shoppers as they buy margarine instead of butter, hailburger instead of steak and as they select the cheapest avail- able quality for all foods pur- chased. -Mrs. Eleanor Frein Lecture Lecture Lecture Lecture Lecture Lecture Lecture Oct. 15. 1-Mon., Oct. 6 2-Tues.,Oct. 7 3-Wed., Oct. 8 4-Thurs., Oct. 9 5-Mon., Oct. 13 6-Tues., Oct. 14 7 (Final Exam.)-Wed., sene Magdlein, Wolf; Gesang Weyla's, Wolf; Med en primula veris, Med en vandlilie, En Svane, Og jeg vil ha mig en hjertenskjaer-Grieg; Der Lindenbaum, Fischerweise. Nachtviolen, Der Erlkonig-Schu- bert; The Cloths of Heaven, ThE Cherry Tree, Air de Lia, from "L'Enfant Prodigue"-Debussy. A limited number of tickets for this concert and for several of the concerts in the series are avail- able at the offices of the Univer- sity Musical Society, Burton Me- morial Tower. Exhibitions "Natural History Studies at the Edwin S. George Reserve, Univer- sity °bf Michigan." October through December, Museums Building Rotunda. The Museum of Art. MODERN HANDMAIDE JEWELRY, circu- lated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, through October 19; STUDENT LOAN PRINTS, from the Office of Student Af- fairs, through October 4. Alumni Memorial Hall: Daily, except Mon- day, 10-12 and 2-5; Sunday, 2-5; Wednesday, evening, 7-9. The pub- lic is cordially invited. Architecture Building. Prints. Contemporary American Artists from the collection of W. W., J. Gores. Through October 10. Main floor.- Events Today Saturday Lunchton Discussion: 12:15, Lane Hall. For reservations call 4121 Ext. 2148 before 10 a.m. Saturday. Art Cinema League and Campus Chapter American Veteran's Com- mittee present a great first-run French film CHILDREN OF PAR- ADISE. English titles, Sat., Oct. 4, 8:30 p.m. Office open 2 p.,m. Phone 4121, Ext. 479. HILL AUDI- TORIUM. Coming Events Additional classical record con- certs are now being given at the League, 2nd floor, from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. every week on Monday through Thursday. The concerts from 7 to 8 p.m. on these days will be continued. The time of the Sunday concerts has been in- creased an hour, beginning at 4 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. Any re- quests for program selections are welcome. Science Research Club: October meeting, 7:30 p.m., Tues,, Oct. 7, Rackham Amphitheatre. Program: Evolution of the Western Cordillera, A. J. Eardley, Department of Geology; Dicu- marol, Ivan F. Duff, Department of Internal Medicine. Meeting open to members only. Women's Research Club: 8 p.m., Mon., Oct. 6, West Lecture Room, Rackham Bldg. Margaret S. Og- den will speak on the subject, "Picture Collecting during the 17th Century in England." Graduate History Club; Tues., Oct. 7, 8 p.m., Clements Library. Discussion of the plans and pur- poses of the Club, by Prof. Throop. Refreshments. Graduate students in History are invited. University Women Veterans As- sociation: Mon., Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., Grand Rapids Room, Michigan League. University Women Veterans As- sociation: Bowling, Sun., Oct. 5, 3 p.m., Michigan Recreation, 525 E. Liberty. Organizational meeting of all persons interested in social psy- chological problems: Sun., Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 302, Michigan Un- ion. Dr. Alvin Zander, School of Education, will describe theLab- oratory on Group Development of Bethel, Maine. Scabbard and Blade: Mon., Oct. 6, 8 p.m., Rm. 100, ROTC Head- quarters. Acolytes: .East .Conference Room, Rackham Bldg., Mon., Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m. Jury panel discussion on the subject "What Character- izes a Good Philosopher?" Open to the public. Sigma Rho Tau, the engineers' Please note that attendance is required and roll will be taken. Enrollment will be held at the first lecture. Group Representation Seminar: Mon., Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., 3011 AH. Prof. R. M. Thrall will speak on Modular Characters of Groups. Concerts Choral Union Concert. Karin Branzell, contralto, assisted by Donald Comrie, pianist, will give the following program in the opening Choral Union concert Wednesday night, October 8, at 8:30: KARIN BRANZELL Program: Dido's Lament: "When I am laid in Earth" from "Dido and Aeneas," Purcell; Sand- mannchen, Brahms; Meine Liebe ist grun, Brahms; Das Verlas- BARNABY... Ft guess the Pixies aren't as A Ohthat black oil has pretty ,mch F Baseball: The opiate of the people?