THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRAY, vPR. L2, 1418 U Expediency Wmins Again 'HE KU KLUX Klan has just won an ~ important battle in its struggle for sur- ival. Last week in Georgia the Columbus edger-Enquirer droppedrthe court charge3 gainst the Klan-charges brought by free of the Ledger's own reporters-and in doing gave tacit approval to the Klan's olicy of ruthless suppression of all news rifavorable to itself. 'hie whole thing started a month ago hen the three reporters got wind of a big lan initiation being held at Pine Moun- din, 37 miles from Columbus. Hastening to ae spot, they were able to identify several rominent citizens among the white-sheeted :lansmen, but were nabbed as soon as they arted taking pictures of the dignitaries. 'ditorials published in The Michigan Daily re written by members of The Daily staff nd represent theviews of the writers only. From then on the Klans,en were swift, brutal, and efficient. They seized the news- men, forced them to drink a pint of liquor apiece, put them in their car, drove them to the outskirts of town and left them there. Arrested almost immediately for drunkenness, the men were bailed out by their city editor. The Ledger carried the story in headlines the next day, and im- mediately began court action in behalf of its reporters. Last week the case was dropped by the Ledger's attorneys without even consulting of newsmen. Apparently taking the world of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that the case would be impossible to win because the Klan would be able to furnish about 175 witnesses against the reporters, the Ledger management has thus placed itself in a position of passive acceptance of the Klan's policies. Expediency still means more than justice in the newspaper business, it seems. -Pat James NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT WHITE Legitimate Gripe rHE PERENNIAL GRIPERS are at it again. But this time, perhaps, they have a case Dr themselves. Because they weren't the ly ones who didn't appreciate the manner 1 which the sophomore examinations were ven on Tuesday. First of all, the two big reasoning tests, hih required real thought, were saved for he afternoon session. The factual tests were dministered during the 8 to 12 a.m. period. ot much deep thought was actually re- uired. The afternoon tests, however, were only wo in number-the social studies compre- ension and natural science comprehension. ,e-reading, weighing of points and objec- ve reasoning were generally necessary to each conclusions. At least one of these sts should have been given in the morning hen students were still reasonably rested. The second complaint, and probably the loudest, was that the tests were given all in one day-seven to eight hours of exams, which is pretty solid. By the end of the afternoon, most weary sophomores were ready to flip a coin for each multiple choice and let it go at that. Therefore, if the same tests are given to next year's sophomores, two suggestions: first, if they must be given in one day, schedule reasoning problems first. Second, even at the expense of breaking up two days of classes, spread out the tests over a longer period. If the University wants accurate results with some indication of how much soph- omores really have learned, they will at least start with a much better attitude among the students. Just looking forward to eight hours of tests has a negative effect on most people. -Lilias Wagner Stropping Needed OHN L. LEWIS should be sent to jail. It's time the court and the government aught a long-over due lesson in respect nd obedience to law to the old bituminous Aaron and to all the other labor leaders who le to "out Lewis" each other in shouting to hell with you" at the people of this ountry. "If the Court was to use its individual judgment, it would impose prison sent- ence upon (you)" Judge Goldsborough_ tolj Lewis Tuesday. "But the Court is only one man, one individual. So the ourt feels it should adopt the recommen- dations made by the Government." The Government's recommendations were read to the Court before sentence was were read to the ourt before sentence was pronounced and, according to the Associat- d Press, they reportedly had been dis- ussed at a top-level meeting of President ruman's cabinet. Current vies At the Michigan .. . "THIS HAPPY BREED," with Robert Newton, and Celia Johnson. HIS HAPPY BREED is a Noel Coward story of a middle-class English family juring the twenty some years between the wo World Wars. Not always happy, but al- ways real, the Gibbons family is followed hrough their marriages, deaths, troubles ind the every day incidents that make up Irama in ordinary lives, with contemporary world events brought in to enliven each era f the story. The Coward touch is evident n much of the dialogue, and the episode before the son's wedding is to my mind bout the finest movie scene of the year. But what makes "This Happy Breed" an )utstanding and worthwhile picture is the uperior acting of the entire cast. Each of hem bring to their role a sincerity and killful artistry that makes their characters ive long after the closing scene, and leaves, he audience feeling that "This Happy 3reed" is a happy experience in movie-go- The Administration, the story continues, was generally believed to have urged against a jail sentence on the grounds that it almost certainly would mean another mine strike which would stop the flow of coal needed for national defense work and foreign aid.- The time has come for the Government to realize that the integrity and reputa- tion for honest justice of the legal system of this country is more important than' keeping coal miners in the pits or even the risk of making Lewis a martyr. The labor situation is seriously out of hand when the Administration weakly admits that a Federal court can be intimidated in dealing with an individual by what his supporters may do in retaliation. The first time Lewis ignored the Court, he and his union had to pay a $710,000 fine, which would make quite a profound im- pression on you or me. Lewis, however. bounced right back in spite of the fine and committed the same contempt of court again less than two years later. Throwing fines at him is like throwing darts at an elephant. Judge Goldsborough knew this and it is why he wanted to put Lewis in jail and hit him where it might have hurt-in his pride instead of his pocketbook. But the Govern- ment said "no" and so a bigger fine was leveled which Lewis probably hardly even heard. In fact I'll bet the only part of the money Lewis himself ever pays is a three- cent stamp to mail the UMW check to the Treasury. That Lewis is afraid of jail is shown by his attempt to keep the miners at work at least until today when he comes up to face sentence on civil contempt. A 10 or 20 day jail sentence handed to him might cause some further disruption of coal production but that is no new story to us. Much more important, the jail sentence would be a more vigorous move toward preventing one man's defiance of the people and thus pro- moting a more evenly balanced industrial economy than has yet been made by the present Administration. Here's hoping that from now on if John L. Lewis leans back and roars a Shakes- pearean oath of defiance in the face of the constitution and legal system-and that the government will allow the Judge a free hand to throw the book at him. -Harold Jackson I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: No Reprieve By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE RESULTS o te itaiiain lehoi-. com like a reprieve, a release fam care, a lucky spin of a coin. There is a collketive Western sigh. And no wthat the elections are over, it seems to me that there was something about the whole affair that was not good for the dignity of the United States; something about the way we wited for the returns, clung to the wires to learn the fate of our generation by telegraph. listened, as if for a sound through the night.i There was something humiliating in the way we crossed our fingers, and shook our heads; something humiliating even in the feeling of relief at the end. We were hping for a break. We got it. But we, should not need breaks. Our futures ought not to be subject to anything so chancy as the last- minute flurries and cross-currents of im- provised campaigning in a country far away. If we are going to set up any new sights for our foreign policy following the Italian elections, one of them ought to be a determination to prevent the recur- rence of a period of dismay, such as this one was. We ought not to have to go through anything like it again. And the way to do that, it seems to me, is so to conduct ourselves and our policies that there can not again be any reasonable doubt as to how any nation whose civili- zation is at all similar to ours will vote. We could make a beginning, I think, by giving up some of our cheerful blatting about the "cold war." The Italian election was like a battle, and we waited for the news of its outcome as one waits for news from a battlefield. But since the cold war continues, there must soon be other battles, in Italy and elsewhere. An unening per- spective of cold war is an unening perspec- tive of such battles. It means persistent. fear for the future o nthe part of all people, our friends as well as those who oppose us; it means endless alarms and excursions, mobilizations and counter-mobilizations. It means that for the entire foreseeable future, every street fight in Europe must have a lurid significance for us; it will be important for its possible effect on the cold war, and it will be the cold war which makes it important, and perhaps rouses both sides to greater efforts. If we were to change over from prosecu- tion of the cold war to a deliberate search for peace, it seems to me that we might, get more done, and get it done more quickly. We have already, as shown by the Mar- shall Plan, made a discovery of the import- ance o fone of the great essentials, bread. We are now trying to establish the thought that where we are, there is bread. But peace is also one of the essentials. If we could establish the idea that where we are there' LS both peace and bread, ten we would really be in a position to make vast gains, and there would then be no doubt as to how elections would run. To demand peace of the Soviet Union, to offer and to request major confer- ences, to present draft peace plans, tire- lessly, and tirelessly to request peace meetings, promising always to be the last to leave, would be to lift our "cold war" to a significantly higher lievel, to make it one with the war which the ordinary people of the world have always and ev- erywhere had to wage for a portion of security and surcease. There are those who would call such a change of line appeasement. Such men are ignorant of the powerful side-effects, to consider no other, of the cry for peace. Thesy do not understand that if we are thoughtless, and let our opponent make the demand for peace his own, he will wield it like a sword. (Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation) IT 41 IT SO H APPENS * East Meets West Down South AMERICAN MANNERS and morals have a habit of making themselves felt on the international level in devious, subtle ways. An example of this phenomenon in operation was apparent Monday night when the foreign students at the University pre- sented their annual International Pageant. Among the many colorful numbers in the revue was one depicting an Arab village scene and among the Arabs there assembled was one dressed majestically in the garb of a shiek. He was wearing the traditional Arab head gear and flowing white robes and he was convincingly puffing a water pipe but when he rose to address some of the cast, we no- ticed that he was wearing a pair of bril- liantly colored argyles. Subpoena Expected ', DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Letters to the Editor.. Publication in The Daly Official Bulletin L, : ostuicftivenoce 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. Saturdays). S* , . Notices FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1948 VOL. LVIII, No. 140 Honors Convocation: The 25th Annual Honors Convocation, 11 a.m., Fri., April 23, Hill Audito- rium, will bes addressed by Dr. Laurence M. Gould, President of Carleton University. Academic costumes will be worn. There will be no academic procession. Fac- ulty members will utilize the dressing rooms in the rear of the Auditorium for robing and pro- ceed thence to their seats on the stage. Revealed seats on the main floor will be provided for students receiving honors for academic achievement, and for their par- ents. To permit attendance at the Convocation, classes with the ex- ception of clinics, will be dismissed at 10:45 a.m. Doors of the Audi- torium will be open at 10:30 a.m. The public is invited. School of Business Administra- tion: Any student currently en- rolled in this School who has not otherwise received a Summer Ses- sion Questionnaire should secure one at 108 Tappan Hall, fill out and return immediately. Women students attending the Odonto Ball or the International Ball on April 23 have 1:30 a.m. permission. Calling hours will not be extended. Honor Societies are reminded to submit lists of new initiates to the Office of Student Affairs, Room 2, University Hall, as soon as they are available. Aepprovad student sponsored so- cial events for the coming week- end; afternoon events are indi- cated by . April 23 Delta Sigma Delta, Newman Club. April 24 Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Chi, Delta Sig- ma Delta, Delta Sigma Pi, Delta Tau Delta*, Delta Upsilon, Hins- dale House, Kappa Sigma, Michi- gan Sailing Club, Phi Chi, Phi Delta Chi, Psi Upsilon, Theta Xi, Trigon, Tyler House, Williams Hose*.' Thomas Arkle Clark Scholar- ship: Application blanks are available at the Scholarship Of- fice, 206 University Hall. This award of $300, to be used for first year graduate work, is open to seniors in all undergraduate col- leges who are members of Phi Eta Sigma, Freshman Honor Society. All applications must be complet- ed by April 28, 1948. Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall. Michigan Be Telephone Com- pany will have two representatives here on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, April 26,27, and 28, to interview men for their ac- counting, commercial, and gen- eral business training program. They will also interview women for positions as service representa- tives for which no special train- ing is required, on Tuesday and Wednesday. The American Sugar Refining Company will have two repre- sentatives here on Monday, April 26, to interview chemical and me- chanical engineers (a few open- ings also for outstanding electri- cal engineers) and men for ac- counting, sales, and industrial re- lations. Koppers Company, Inc. will have a representative here on Monday, April 26, to interview chemical engineers. They also have a few openings for Business Administration and other engi- neers. The Northern Trust Company, Chicago, will have a representa- tive here on Monday, April 26, to interview Business Administration men interested in banking. The Crane Company will have a representative here on Tuesday, April 27, to interview chemical and mechanical engineers for sales positions. There are also openings for juniors in these fields for summer jobs. The Liberty Mutual Insurance Company will have' a representa- tive here on Tuesday, April 27, to interview men for sales or office work. The John Shillito Company will have a. representative here on P WednesdayApril 28. to interview men and women for their ad- vanced training program for fla- partment store positions. For complete information and appointments with these com- panies, call at the Bureau of Ap- pointments. The State University of Iowa has a number of teaching posi- tions and fellowships open for the year 1948-49 in the following fields: Industrial Arts - Coach; Commerce; English; Foreign Lan- guages, French major; Mathe- matics; Instrumental Music; Vo- cal Music; Science, Physics or Chemistry major; Social Studies with one or more years of experi- ence; Librarian, one or more years1 of experience; and Home Eco- nomics with Masters degree and1 at least two years of experience. For further information, call at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall. Academic Noticesz Doctoral Examination for Franklin Buckley Shull, Physics; thesis: "The Design of a Magneticl Double-Focussing Beta Ray Spec- trometer and the Beta Spectra of Europium and Tungsten," at 2 p.m., Fri., April 23, West Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Administrative Law: Political Sci- ence 178 will meet in Room C,1 Haven hall, Fri., April 23, instead of the usual meeting place. Astronomical Colloquium: 4 p.m., Fri., April 23, Observatory. Miss E. Ruth Hedeman will speak1 on the subject "The Motions of Solar Prominences." M. E. 86 Summer Session Elec- tions: All students expecting to elect M. E. 86 this Summer Ses- sion must see Prof. C. F. Kessler, Room 241, W. Engineering Build-' ing, at once. Consultation hours are posted on the door. Quantitativa Anarsis Incom- pletes: A limited number of labor- atory desks are now available for students possessing incompletes in their course work. Secure desk assignments in Room 328, Chem- istry Building, Thurs., 2-4 p.m., or Fri., 10-11 a.m. Concerts Student Recital: Bertram Gable, Baritone, will present a program in partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the degree of Bach- elor of Music, at 8:30 p.m., pril 24, Rackham Assembly Hal. A pupil of Arthur Hackett, Mr. Ga- ble will sing compositions by Mo- zart, Handel, Hugo Wolf, Faure, and a group of English songs. The public is invited. Exhibition Museum of Archaeology. Early American Coins and Guns. Pictor- ial Maps of Italy. Through April 25. College of Architecture and De- sign First Floor Exhibition Corri- dor until May 1; Photographs and Drawings of the Work of Bruce Goff, Architect. Auditorium Foyer, First floor, Architecture Bldg., Student Work in Design and Architectural Courses. Museums Building rotunda, Chi- nese Porcelain-Celadon and Blue and White Wares. Through April 30. Events Today Radio Program: 2:30-2:55 p.m. WKAR - On Campus Doorsteps. Mr. John P. Gwin, "Automobile Regulations." 5:45-6 p.m. WPAG-Music Fra- ternities and Sororities. Phi Mu Alpha. Debate: University of Chicago vs. Michigan State 'College, 4 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium. Subject: "Resolved that a Federal World Government Should be Estab- lished." This debate is the opening event of the United World Feder- alists World Government College Forum-April 23-5. The student body and faculty are invited. The Art Cinema League and the IRA will present Paul Muni and Luise Rainer in THE GOOD EARTH to be shown at the Kel- logg Auditorium tonight, Satur- day, and Sunday at 8 p.m. Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. Tickets are on sale at University Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Saturday. Tickets will be on sale before each performance at the door. The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for publication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the order in which they are received a letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters and letters of a defama- tory character or such letters which for any other reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. * * * Irresponsible Press To the Editor: ONE SMALL example of the "free and responsible" Amer- ican press: after most of the pa- pers carried hysterical headlines blaming the recent revolt in Co- lombia on the Communists, one finds on page 10 of the New York Times for Wednesday, April 14t1 the following: "Highly placed officials of Co- lombia here disclosed that the assassin of Dr. Gaitan had been a member of the Conservative Party from the province of Santander." Hitler's Reichstag fire techniqu has apparently been well learned. -Charles S. Brant. Campaign Suggestion To the Editor:- ISSESKatz and Stern havw suggested a campus rally as possible means of famniliarizin the student body with the Stud ent Legislature candidate. Thi plan shows some possibilities, hu it has been my experience tha often the better showman gain the election and this person ma or may not be the best suited fo the position. He is generally th person who seeks office only fo. prestige or activity honors. There is nevertheless a definite need for some plan by whic candidates can be effectively labeled as to the abilities an policies. Many students fallac- iously consider the Student Leg- islature to be an important bod and take no part in the elections Of those who do show some in. terest in student governmen note blindly for a familiar sound- ing name or a person of simila national politcal beliefs. The editors of the Daily hav it within their power to aid th individual students in their sel- ection by requesting interest candidates to express their view or a major campus matter (a: picketing by groups, politica speakers ban, etc.) in a few word and printing them in the place o the usual worthless lines con cerning past offices on hig school committees. The editors of the Daily hav taken one step in the proper di- rections by printing a series of articles on the Student Legisla- ture by Miss Stern, I hope that they will not retire at that point. -Harold Edward Grant ED. NOTE-The suggested survey of views will be printed in Sunday's Daily. No 'Cold JTar' To the Editor: HARRIET FRIEDMAN'S Sun- day article on the Italian elec- tion smacks remarkably of TIME and LIFE. For it was the arro- gant advocates of "The American Century" who popularized the dis- torted distinction of the "East and West." That distinction has no basis in geographical or cultural fact. What the Luce boys mean, and what Miss Friedman apparently accepts is that the world is divided up be- tween the United States and the Soviet Union; that a "cold war" is in effect, the Soviet Union aggres- sively spreading totalitarianisl and the United States staunch defending democracy. And the Italian people, according to this concept, are forced to choose be- tween the two. Yet Miss Friedman approaches the truth.when she writes: "But the problem for the voter wasn't answered by Russia or America, The Italian masses are looking for something concrete in the way of economic progress." There is a "cold war"-it is the same struggle that three years ag we called the anti-fascist war. I is the struggle of the democratic masses throughout Europe against the forces of monopoly capita' within their borders; it is the worldwide struggle of people ev- erywhere against an aggressive American imperialism. For the aim of the Truman Doc- trine and the Marshall Plan is more markets for American in- vestment ;that's imperialism, anc millions have learned that imper- ialism means economic exploita tion and loss of political freedom The "cold war" is being fough in this country where daily more people join the Wallace move- ment. Many of us have learned that the American face of the Marshall Plan is the Taft-Hartley Act, the loyalty probe and the draft. And we can see that a for- eign policy dedicated to bigger and better profits leads inevitably to bigger and better atom bombs. Are we choosing between "East and West"? -Bill Carter, Ralph Neafus Club, CP Palestine To the Editor: ONE that follows the discus- sions on the Palestinian prob- lem in the U.N. sessions can -learly see the tricks followed by ^ertain countries to keep Pales- tine controlled by imperialistic )owers. These countries look to the >roblem for their interests and 'enefits in Palestine, and are 'ompletely ignoring the people of ?alestine. It must be remembered that he British imperialism is the )ne that created the complicated ?alestinian problem by encour- tging - the zionist movement in ?alestine and distinguishing be- ween Arabs and Jews. British- 'mperialism and its tool Zionism, tre responsible for all the traged- es in Palestine, and the Pales- ;inian problem can never be solv- d if this fact is ignored. It is the 3ritish imperialism that granted ,he Balfour Declaration for a newish National Home in Pal- :stine, and there were no zion- sts in Palestine before that de- ;laration. British imperialism which hows itself at the presenttime, o be against partition cannot leny that it worked for partition 'll during its occupation and ;hat it tried to accomplish it in i more dangerous way by having wo states under British control. The people of Palestine are seeking for their independence; .hey do not want any imperialis- ic or zionist roots in the country and they are against any foreign interference. The U.N. must consider the aroblem from the standpoint of aeople being killed daily in Pal- ;stine, homes and numerous wilding damaged. It must co- der the terrible economical sit- ration that the country is meet- .ng now. No other solution can be satisfactory other than the dec- laration of the Independence of ?alestine and the evacuation of 3ritish troops and the formation 3f a democratic government rep- :esenting the people of Palestine egardless of their religious be- iefs. Wadi S. Rumman Fifty-Eighth Yea .. L )W" Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff John Campbell.....Managrig Edito. Dick Maloy...............City Editor Harriett Friedman .. Editorial Dirctor Lida Dailes......... Associate Ediitor Joan Katz ............ Associate Editor Fred Schott ........ Associate Editor Dick Kraus ..............Sports Editor Bob Lent ......Associate Sports Editor Joyce Johison.........Women's Editor Jean Whitney Associate Women's Editor Bess Hayes..............Librarian Business Staff Nancy Helmick ......General Mans&W Jeanne Swendeman....Ad. Manager Edwin Schneider .. 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George Brent plays the role of Looking Back From the pages of The Daily TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY: Spring found the local sales of new and second-hand Fords had climbed to the astonishing rate of over one a day. Garage- men announced a "pay while you ride" plan enabling students to drive their own cars upon a 40 per cent down payment varying from $25 to $300. PROSECUTOR James N. McNally blamed the Reuther shooting on "management, Communists or a screw- ball." From this statement we glean the in- ference that Communists are not screw- Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity: (Continued on Page 6) 7:30 i BARNABY n, I Cup".Ohr 19a8, T6. =P.P. PM, aic Rso. U. 5 Par. CIE I', i r-- - II . .. - . - 9 . all I