PAGE TWO T tit, - At1A4V w3LYl (.'.C4 Yl'Y i illf6' N -say iij' . i iii. G.. .W...C ..A. D.Y.. .. ..n. . ..1948. Now's the Tiimie IN A POKER GAME, when somebody gets his bluff called and can't back it up, he loses-Ed Shaffer and MYDA have been caught with a handful of useless cards and the campus has a chance for a new deal. MYDA has had its bluff called on the Czechoslovakian issue and shown itself to be too far gone for this campus. MYDA and her members are finished, and now . . This is the perfect time to reorganize the liberal element on campus. The mass of alphabet groups, ranging from ADA to YPCM is sometimes breathtaking and some- times amusing. The average student when he sees three or four capital letters strung together says to himself, "Just anotheii bunch of radicals," and any effect that the organization might have had is weak- ened or lost. One large organization representing the broad views of over a thousand liberal students could exert much more force Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily stafff and represent the views of the writers only. than 20 r jwith 2_ or 6 mlemnlers. It cart be done. There is a broad basis for agreement among almost all the liberal groups on cam- pus. They all favor the extension of civil rights, freedom of expression, academic freedoin and some sort of economic aid to the countrmi itsevastated by the last war. The rest of the program can be worked out. A single organization which would corre- late the activities of all these little groups could channelize and clarify student opin- ion and carry a lot of weight. A program of coordinating the variou:t liberal groups is feasible now that MYDA has shown her true colors and certain other campus "personalities" have identified themselves. F'ailing this the existing organizations must continue in their limited way, join- ing once in a while on the big issues but never able to use the potential force that they have in combination. Without permanent coordination, those groups will continue as they are, with the mass of students unable to keep up with the activities, or as some of them see it, the antics, of the multitude of organizations. -Al Blumrosen. NIGHT EDITOR: NAOMI STERN Price of A.pirin W HILE CONGRESS was debating the tax cut, someone should have written in an amendment providing for the office of Grand Imperial Wizard in charge of fi- nances. It is going to take one versed in necromancy and sleight of hand to keep the government out of the financial caul- dron of boiling oil now that the tax cut has been passed. Without going into whether or not a de- fense program is necessary to solve our dif- ficulties with Russia, it is certain that a draft and UMT cannot be had for nothing should Congress get behind the President's requests. Even the die-hard taxcutters wig; nj deny that a defense program is going to cost money and lots of it. But in cutting the budget and taxes where a certain veto seems unlikely to be sustained, Congress somehow neglected to provide revenue to meet the increased costs. In other words, if a defense program is established, it will have to be done by deficit financing. Those who howled the loudest when the New Deal did some deficit financing will find themselves guilty of having caused it. At the risk of being called a wet blanket, it is still pertinent to point out that the inflation problem has not appreciably changed in the last few weeks. It is as much a reality as the Truman Doctrine. The only difference is that it has been forgotten since the picayune grain market drops a few weeks ago. For all the silence about prices, no one has detected a fall in the cost of living, nor has anyone found the key to effect that panacea, increased production. More common sense and less vote sense might help Congress to a clearer solution. At peak production and employment, a tax cut is not likely to reduce total effec- tive demand, the only means of cutting prices at full employment. With the added dollars feeding the boom even the wizard will have trouble keeping down the price of aspirin for his personal consumption. -Jake Hurwitz. W~ronig Approach I'D RATHER-BE RIGHT: Definitions By SAMUEL GRAFTON r HE PRICE OF PEACE: It is commonly recognized that peace cannot be had for a penny, that we must make sacrifices for it,in the form of aid to friendly nations, etc. But there is another price which must be paid for peace, which is not so commonly agreed upon. That price is a willingness to quarrel with and oppose those at home who are wrong on this issue. Some observers have an odd feeling that we Americans, in our current mood, are even willing to risk a war abroad in preference to a knock-down debate at home. The curious history of the bipartisan agreement on foreign policy could be cited to support this finding. The bipar- tisan agreement was originally dreamed up as a method of ensuring the adoption of the UN charter by the United States Senate. That was its sole purpose and justification; it was a bipartisan agreement for peace. In the three years which have intervened, the bipartisan agreement has been extended while the goal, for one reason or another, was being lost. There are even some who consider that we have subtly come to regard' bipartisanship itself, rather than peace, as our aim, so that we have progressively ad- justed ourselves to a tougher and tougher foreign policy, of a kind which could accom- odate the most angry passions within the bipartisan alliance, though these moves have obviously made peace itself less likely of achievement. A cynic might mutter loathe- somely (end probably to himself, these days) that if the price for getting support for a program is to throw the program away, the price is too high. Sometimes the un- avoidable price of peace is a whale of a quarrel. FASCINATION: An irresistible charm of influence, put forth by that which, usually, stands at a little distance, and must be observed from afar, as, for example, the attraction which peace exerts in a time of war, or, in some cases, war in a time of peace. THE HOTOOT: A low form of humor, which consists of inflicting a sudden, pain- ful surprise on the victim; as for example, the effect produced by inserting a lighted match between the sole and upper of some- one's shoe, or by an American speech to th UN suddenly abandoning support for Amer- ica's own plan for the partition of Pales- tine. THE TWIST: A technical term, much used in Hollywood, for tacking a new ending to an old story. The essence of "the twist" is surprise, a change in the formula. An example might be a narrative about a poor boy who works hard, rises in the world and has to choose between a rich girl he meets and a poor girl he has left behind; if he were to marry the rich girl and live in perfect happiness ever after, that would be a twist. Another example would be a tale about a simple American, who rises from farming to running a small shop, then gets into politics. He works hard and be- comes a Senator, and later the vice-presi- dent. On the death of the incumbent, he takes over the chief office in the land. It is a time of great difficulty; and though he knows almost nothing about foreign af- fairs, and has little experience in admin- istration, he manages to make such a muddle in so many fields that after three years almost nobody wants him to run again. (Copyright 1948 New York Post Corporation) MaCArthur Facts SOME PEOPLE HAVE FELT that although MacArthur has been bombasted in Daily editorials, no real facts for the criticism have been given. Well here are some things that MacArthur has done in Japan that we feel are unbecoming to a presidential aspirant. MacArthur has been given almost a carte blanche in Japan, and he has been using his power with the undemocratic brutality of a dictator. Over and above the normal amount of red tape in which the Army almost inev- itably becomes entangled, MacArthur has managed to prolong or make impossible many of the decisions made at Potsdam. Elimination of the military influence on the Japanese government is not being car- ried out. Prince Higashi-Kuni, Hirohito's uncle, the "gentleman" who condemned the Doolittle fliers to death by beheading, is free to do as he pleases without trial. Jap- an's economic crisis is partially due to un- avoidable conditions, but has been mag- nified by MacArthur's bungling. MacArthur has been enforcing a stringent censorship of press reports reaching the U.S. He has made it impossible for corre- spondents to check stories outside of Tokyo and return afterwards (unless, of course, they have been uncritical of his regime). Some correspondents, like Bill Costello of CBS, found upon coming back to Tokyo from checking a story outside the capitol, that "no housing arrangements could be made for him," and Mr. Costello was forced to return to the States. Adverse criticism of MacArthur, as a presidential candidate, is stricken from magazines and newspapers reaching Amer- icans in the occupation zones. A few days ago, Colonel Echols, MacArthur's public (fIi i f ?:'II ":3 re o ri fromt imo fih orhmrNSA rcI,1m- the '''it:t- te' o t me aire in /or ho'io- of S ud n si' ) gi, ii,, a a vakia.) 1.' The Student DetmonmstIationi nt h r the (tC11'. O ! '' l- .Bra"w 'e tions anyr dein1on.at iou wi(Aal does not have th.e peiniission o the police mast be ispt'rI. I the police have not even been -noti- fied, the partipaant 5 iii Ii e ti -m- onsirti't oll can bew arrestLed and' given stiff sentences in the crimi- nal courts. These re'ula ions:. are substantially no differeni than those of any large (i1 y of th e U. S., the difference being tIhat in this case the rerulat ions were po- tential weapons in tlit 1 iam>, of one political fo(rce to> 11s' ca another. The demonstration consisted of four separate meetings. and a pa- rade. Two of thest meetings were? dispersed by the police. The ol her two organized the parade. their numbers being entirely too large for the police to deal with in an open section of the city. It is es- timated that more than 10.000 students participated in one or an-I other of the four meetings, andI that from 5,000 to 7.000 in the pa- rade of students..-- The purpose of the parade was to support . . . students who were chosen to go in to see the PresidentG and inform him that the studentsj of Prague wanted a retention of the Parliamentary democratic form of government, and that they wanted information concerning the students who had been arrest- ed.... The mass of the paraders marched to within half a mile of1 the President's Castle and were stopped on a narrow street by a police cordon. The five-man dele- gation was permitted to pass on up, and talk to the President's secretary, with whom they had previously communicated. After about 20 minutes, the police or- dered the rest of the students massed in the narrow street to dis- perse, and gave them three min- utes to do so. The students did not disperse, so the police drove them down the narrow street, into two large squares, rounded them up there and drove them across the river. The students finally dis- persed on the other side of the river. In the action one student was -ii'k ON a bullet Iron ii le rifle of Sthe pG it and man'Xtre struck by the rife butits and barrels wiich the police used to drive them along. I have made every ef- fort to trace down the rumors that sudents vere killed., that more h i tesiu tot etc but i have not ben able to -lotover that more i b s s his injury be u g recived i'l Ithe foot. Al- out.Ii he thinks thle sht:t was in- 'mx l~nonal. I thik it wxas ac cidental. I am ~ IOi\thi a It)older' to fin'e on 1 Ii a w'c:va issued. The Prsint Situation of the Students . The mas of the students fear the posibility of expulsion, and tihey ft ar thatii they are not ex- pelled they will iot be permitted to make assing grades on their final exammiations, and thus will n ev i ecelve a degree. They won- der bow they can pass economics gi en by a Communist professorl wxiien their 1)revious education has' been by classical economists. This school may be defined as 'pro- capitalist.' My Proposals to the IUS 1. I proposed that a vigorous protest. be made to the Czech gov- Srnment against the suppression of the student demonstration. . . 2. I proposed that the IUS should vigorously protest against the arrest of the students, both be- fore and during the demonstra- tion. . . . 3. I proposed that the IUS must protest the forcible dissolution of its member organization, the Cze- choslovakian NUS and the IUS must protest against the assump- tion of this organization by the ac- tion committees, which represent- ed only a minority of Czech stu- dents. . . . 4. I proposed that the IUS must protest against the assumption of the action committees of the au- thority to expel students and pro- fessors. The Position of the Secretariat With regard to the first two pro- posals, the Secretariat felt that we should investigate the matter more fully before making any state- ment. I think it safe to assume that the secretariat will not issue any statement of opposition to the action of police in suppressing the demonstrations or in arresting the students. With regard to the other two proposAss the Secretariat refused to take any action whatsoever... . 'ile Daily accords its readers the privileg of suinitting letters for Imblicat ion ini this columnit. Subject to spa'e limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the order in which they are received all letters hearing the writer's signa ure and address. Let ters exceeding 3001 words repeti- iu',letters and letters of a defana- t