111T1Y'LiIA'v ASP" TV '1'1 '1nA01 FOUR - -THE' MICHIGAN D~~ A II T H E_ ....... . ...._ ................ ftpflaMcAn S APRILf7.7,.1948 i Your Vote Counts e I TODAY YOU GET ANOTHER chance to let the University administration know you are backing up student government. All it takes is a few minutes at a polling box. Some of you have tried to learn some- thing about the candidates for Student Leg- iblature. Certainly there have been greater opportunities during this ele'ction campaign than ever before. Someone vitally inter- ested in the Legislature could have read the candidates' statements in The Daily, seen their pictures on the Diag and met them at a special tea. Today he can find out their views on some important student is- sues on page 5 of The Daily. But even if you're "not that eager," you can do a lot for student government mere- ly by voting today for students you think would make good legislators. Probably you Editorials published in The Michigan Daily. ire written by members of The Daily stafff and represent the views of the writers only. know some of them, or have heard of them from friends. In case you are one of those who wonder what good the Legislature is anyway, here's the answer: From time to time during the year some University policy or ruling goes contrary to the best interests of the students. We need only look at the liquor policy and the political speaker ban. In general Uni- versity officials are glad to discuss the student complaints, but that's about all. Not until there is an effective, fairly unified, and representative student group pushing action on student problems, will most Uni- versity administrators pay attention. There are exceptions. During the past year, the Office of Stu- dent Affairs, under the leadership of Dean Erich A. Walter, has demonstrated an un- precedented confidence in the ability of students to govern themselves and solve their own problems. Unfortunately th'is con- fidence in the intelligence of students has not gone any higher in the administration. It won't go any further until there are votes to back it up. -John Campbell. NIGHT EDITOR: NAOMI STERN .The City Editor's SCRATCH PAD rTHE OTHER DAY a couple of dance com- mittee chairmen gave a Daily reporter a rough going over in the letters column. It seems that these people were incrnsed about a recent story declaring that their dances didn't fare so well financially. Ev- erybody that attended the affairs had a "good time" they say, and this somehow makes a liar out of a Daily reporter who wrote that the dances might lose money. However that's neither here nor there. But it does give me a chance to explain the basic function of a newspaper-be it professional or collegiate. I have always operated =on the premise that a newspaper is set up to print news. Of course each editor has his own opinion of exactly what news is. For the tabloids anything remotely connected with the less savory elements of life is news. But, for the vast majority of newspapers, stories are judged not only on their news value, but also on certain requirements of good taste. The Daily patterns itself after this vast majority with certain reservations. Nat- urally younger editors are going to be somewhat more idealistic than their cyni- cal brethren on the professional papers. This leads to an even closer examination of news stories for values of good taste. Take this dance story for example. Is it news when two giant dances held on the same week-end totter on the financial brink? Well let's see. Most campus dances have a comfortable financial margin. These two did not. It's particularly bad in this case because both sponsoring organizations count on revenue from these events to finance worthy projects. Hardest hit by the financial fiasco may be the Michigan Technic, excellent en- gineering school magazine which is sub- sidized by Slide Rule Ball proceeds. That is news-and deserves to be print- ed. Of course it is going to step on some- one's toes-but the truth often hurts. The same reporter involved in the dance story was mainly responsible for the re- search work which broke up the illicit traf- fic in basketball tickets several months ago. That one hurt the people involved too. But it resulted in a revamped ticket system to prevent a recurrence of the same scandal. Perhaps a disclosure of financial difficul- ties encountered in scheduling two dances A FINE ITALIAN BOOT! .' t- v4. - ~ ' 4 11 ! k, 5,~- PH 1 ,akFl ~r Union Reservation Policy t 4 . ' }L ii . { y tt 5 , T+T j "r Letters to the Editor... DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from ;'age 2) STUDENT organizations found another possible rock in their paths last week when the Union put into effect a new sys- tem of room reservations. Previous to last week, third floor meet- ing rooms were assigned to the various groups applying for them on a "first come, first serve" basis. Now, however, two of the choicest rooms with seating capacities of 65 and 90 people are deserved for possible non- student banquets until 24 hours before the room is scheduled for use. If at this time, no non-student organization has requested the rooms, student groups may use them. Of all the rooms available for student use, only two have a greater capacity than 90 and four have a capacity of 60 or 65. (This does not include the ball- room facilities on the second floor, which are available only for large events.) All this boils down to the fact that stud- ent use of these two rooms is pretty well ruled out-few groups can meet at 24 hour notice. Therefore, whenever demands for meeting rooms are high, there is a good chance that some student groups will not be able to meet "because of the possibility that some non-student group may request a room for a banquet." These two rooms are not to be used ex- cept in case of shortage of space in other banquet rooms, so while they are held in reserve, their use is denied students. Perhaps it is easy to understand the Union's policy here, since banquets pay while students do not, and the Union must run on a sound financial basis. But even if the Union is not entirely for stud- ent use, why shouldn't students have at least the same opportunity for use of its facilities that non-students have in res- pect to these rooms? Why not allow the use of these meeting rooms to the first group that applies,- rather than hold them for possible use of non-students, when there is a great de- mand for them by students. -Herb Madalin MATTER OF FACT: Ambassador's Tantrum on the same week-end tition of that mistake. will prevent a repe- By SAMUEL GRAFTON NOW THAT we've won in Italy, and now that a week has elapsed for cool reflec- tion, it is time to go into the question of what we've won. What have we won? We in America tend, I think, to take too much of a sporting contest view of such foreign political crises as the Italian elec- tion. The election is finished, we've won, the score is up there for everybody to see, the referee has blown his whistle, the game's over. Only, in politics, the game is never over. A new one starts as the old one ends, or, rather, they overlap; the last play in the old is the first play in the new. You get no breathers. All you ever win is the right to stay in the game. We have won time, and we have won the right to help put Italy in a sound, self- sustaining economic position. It is a little bit like winning the right to carry a hun- dred pounds up a steep hill on a hot day. And the new game that now begins in Italy is the kind that doesn't make the headlines, though it does make history. I don't know if we are even going to follow it very closely, for we do have to some de- gree the habit of being entranced by elec- tions, and bored by trends. The new game will be played out in a country which has 2,000,000 unemployed, including many of the partisans who are men of a certain temper and un- patience. It is a country which has a throbbing inflation, and perhaps the largest class of landless peasants in Eur- ope. We have won the right to help the de Gasperi government to correct these conditions. That was indeed worth win- ning, we needed to win it, but it isn't ex- actly one of the biggest jackpots of all time. YET it will be hard to resist the tempta- tion to treat the victory as a jackpot. It is human to overestimate triumphs; in pol- itics it is almost impossible not to. There are some in De Gasperi's ranks who seem to feel, in the flush of victory, that this was the final battle, and that the Communists have lost irrevocably. But a Christian Sci- ence Monitor compilation shows that the left wing parties actually gained 400,000 votes as compared with two years ago, go- ing from 9,500,000 to 9,900,000 with most of the increase going to the Communists. There will be a temptation to treat what, historically, may turn out to have been a skirmish, as if it were a Waterloo. And there will be a temptation for the de Gasperi government to move to the right in order, to hold the left down, to try by legal moves to turn the skirmish into a Waterloo. This temptation will be hard to resist; it will be hard for the government, in the enthusiasm of victory, not to proceed against an annoying strike, say, not to make its judgments on a scale of political orthodoxy, rather than one of needs and pressures. There will be subtler tempta- tions, too; it will be hard to push lald re- form against landholders who, after all. may have helped in the election victory; it, will be hard to push tax reforms which might injure those who also aided. There will be a temptation, then, to try to over- come the Communists without solving the problems. And it will be our duty to counsel basic reform, or face the opposition's ac- cusation what where we win there, for some reason,-life is not beautiful. This job is what we won when we turned to each other before our radio speakers, and said: "We won!" We thought at that moment, perhaps, too much in terms of what the victory meant to us outside, rather than in terms of a dynamic con- nection with the whole Italian people, to whom our loyalty must lie if we are to be of consequence in this world. (Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation) WEALTHIER STATES have sometimes opposed federal aid to education be- cause it would force them to help pay for schools in poorer states. As a result of in- equality of educational opportunity, the wealthier states paid relatively more for the war in terms of service and lives of their young men than the poorer states paid. World War II was a scientific and tech- Current Movi*es At the State .. . "KILLER McCOY," with Mickey Rooney, Ann Blyth. This is a perfectly peachy pic- ture for anyone that likes prizefights, but even then I would recommend the newsreels so as to escape the "drama" mashed up with the fight reels. Mickey Rooney, now that he has outgrown his Andy Hardy britches, is cast as Killer McCoy, an up and punch- ing young fighter. Through his ham actor father he gets involved with bookie Brian Donlevy and the dull circle is rounded out by Brian having a lovely young daughter whom he does not want tainted by prize- fighters. But daughter meets fighter, fighter likes daughter, father's betting intrigues get all fouled up, and oh my, such fighting does go on. Miss Blyth is sweet and pretty even if she can't act, most of the crucial moments look like poses for coming attrac- tions, and Mickey Rooney as an actor should have stayed with Andy Hardy. Other than that, as I said, why not go to the newsreel to see a good prizefight. -Gloria Hunter * * * * At the Mlic higE'aIf .. . TYCOON, John Wayne, Laraine Day THE SETTING of this color strip is some- where in South America where John Wayne, crack engineer, is trying to build a railroad through a mountain. But before the railroad, the tunnel must be dug, and this turns out to be a rough project-even for an engineer. Previous to this, John has gotten himself entangled with the head stockholder's daughter, whose name needs no mention. She gives John the glad eye in the initial scene-he likes it-but her father doesn't, so pa gives the engineers a hard time with their hole-digging. From that point the picture takes on a more morbid flavor-at the regular intervals the danger whistle blows, letting us know that the mountain has caved in again, the question being who is trapped this time? John Wayne is as slow, big, and rugged- looking as ever, and he fits his part to a tee, but Laraine Day, judging from her per- formance, did better for herself when she was Dr. Kildare's nurse. There are a few laughs sprinkled through- out the scenes, and although it won't win any awards, it's entertainment, I guess. -Alex Lindsay. CALMLY, deliberately the Congress mulls nnpimeng-PC tat+. u a., phiiri o preme Court of New Jersey. Sec- ond Lecture: "Taking Inventor3 (continued)-Law in Acttion, Laws in the Law Schools," 4:15 p.m. Tues., April 27, Rackham Amphi- theatre. Third Lecture: "The Ex- pansion of Substantive Law," 4:15 p.m., Wed., April 28, Rackham Amphitheatre. Lecture: Mr. Jerry Voorhis, Ex- ecutive Secretary, The Co-oper- ative League of the U.S.A., wil] lecture on the subject: "Trends in Co-operative Organization of American Business" at 3 p.m., Tues., April 27, Rackham Lecture Hall; auspices of the School of Business Administration. The public is invited. Lecture: Mr. Jerry Voorhis, Ex- ecutive Secretary, Cooperative League of the U.S.A., will speak informally to the Economics Club at 7:45 p.m., Tues., April 27, Rack- ham Assembly Hall; auspices of the Department of Economics. The public is invited. University Lecture: Mr. Juan D. Curet, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, will speak on the subject, "Puerto Rico: an Unsolved Prob- lem." 8:00 p.m..'Tues., April 27, Rackham Amphitheatre; auspices of the International Center and the Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity. The public is invited. University Lecture: Dr. A. Er- ling Porsild, Chief Botanist, Na- tional Museum of Canada, Ot- tawa, Ontario, will speak on the subject "Plant Life in the Arctic" (illustrated), at 4:15 p.m., Wed., April 28, Kellogg Auditorium; aus- pices of the Department of Botany and the University Herbarium. The public is invited. University Lecture: Dr. August Krogh, former Professor at the University of Copenhagen, will lecture on the subject "The Work of Frisch on the Language of the Bees" at 8 p.m., Wed., April 28, Rackham Amphitheatre; auspices of the Museum of Zoology. The public is invited. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Joan Usher Longhurst, Psychology; the- sis: "Effect of Brain Injury to the Rat in Seizures Produced During Auditory Stimulation," Tues., Ap- ril 27, East Council Room, Rack- ham Bldg., 7:30 p.m. Chairman, N. R. F. Maier. Graduate Students in English: The preliminary examination in English literature for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy- will be given this spring according to the following schedule: May 5, Amer- ican Literature; May 8, English Literature, 1700-1900; May 12, English Literature, 1500-1700; May 15, English Literature, Be- ginnings to 1500. Chemistry 256 will hold a meet- ing at 9 p.m., Tues., April 27, Room 151, Chemistry Bldg. Engineering Mechanics Semi- nar: 4 p.m., Wed., April 28, f _ __ H t l r ....:. ...,:..,. 7 J . Mathematics Colloquium: 4 p.m., April 27, Room 3201, Angell Hall. Prof. E. H. Rothe will speak on Weak Topology and Non-Lin- ear Integral Equations. Symposium Semantics: Th eir Implication for Social Science, by Clarence L. Meader, Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics, University of Michigan, 4 p.m., April 29, East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Sponsored by Al- pha Kappa Delta. The public is invited. Concert ..Student Recital: Jacqueline Rosenblatt, Pianist, will play com- positions by Bach, Schumann, Ravel, and Chopin, at 8:30 p.m., Wed., April 28, Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre, in partial fulfill- ment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music. Miss Rosenblatt is a pupil of Helen Titus, and her recital is open to the general public. Exhibition Museum of Art, Alumni Memo- rial Hall: Prints by Lovis Corinth and Creative Design and the Con- sumer, Container Corporation of America. Through May 16. Tues- days through Saturdays 10-12 and 2-5; Wednesday evenings 7-9; Sundays 2-5. The public is in- vited. Museums Building rotunda, Chi- nese Porcelain-Cellhdon and Blue and White Wares. Through April 30. College of Architecture and De- sign: First Floor Exhibition Cor- ridor 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. The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for publication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pl- icy is to publish in the order in which they are received11 letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding :3o 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. * * * Doflot lars BIc(wI r unI 1 To the Editor: " 11HEPOLITICAL ANTIDOTE to Communism is effective democratic government"' This statement holds the key to both the foreign and domestic platforms of SupremedCourt Jus- tice William O. Douglas, the man who is currently being 'boomed' throughout the country for the Democratic Presidential nomina- tion. "Our foreign policy," Mr. Doug- las says, "must be designed to promote liberal, humanitarian programs for the masses of the people of the world . . . We must support those who represent dem- ocratic values in the various coun- tries and who have practical pro- gramns for political action." For, he continues,"'however necessary military aid may be, the real vic- tory over Communism will be won in the rice fields rather than in the battle fields." In addition, Justice Douglas is the only major candidate who has recently gone on record favoring a limited world government to preserve world peace. Ever since 1939 when he became the second youngest member ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court (he's just over 50 now), Bill Douglas along with Justices Murphy and Black has been a strong and able defender of the civil rights of minorities. As chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission from 1937- 39, he was a vigorous champion of the small stockholders in opposi- tion to the giant financial inter- ests. In Tuesday's campus election when students indicate their pres- idential choice, we urge them to vote for Bill Douglas. We would like to add that a vote for Douglas is not a "protest vote" but a vote to nominate the best man on the presidential ticket and to get him elected president. -Executive Committee, Student Committee for Douglas. No Gripes To the Editor: IN THIS DAY and age when the majority of people seem to c criticizing everything and every- one it seems timely that some- thing should be right! As advisors to the Michigras we wish to recognize the outstanding cooperativeness which marked this venture. The students, fac- ulty, Athletic Department, Plant Department, townspeople, mer- chants, and City Departments worked together in such a con- structive manner that success could be the only outcome. We also feel that the many commit- tee members and volunteer work- ers set the pace by giving so gen- erously of their time and efforts. It was a fine example of commun- ity enterprise. The Michigras is over. It was successful. We enjoyed working on such an excellent student project. -Marie D. Hartwig. Walter B. Rea. Cant'1iL't Escape To the Editor:- JHE ATHLETIC department's new tennis policy is now tak- ing on asinine proportions. Who said you can beat the notorious taxation by staggering through the six a.m. fog to Palmer Field? Without our watches on (we don't wear them while playing),, without those little periodic re- minders from Burton, and because there obviously was no attendant at the toll gate to inform us that the Palmer Field Branch Bank was now open, we finished our last set. Sensing that it was past seven-thirty by the appearance of the first sleepy eyed coeds, we prepared to leave unmolested, BUT, WE SHOULD LIVE SO LONG. The attendant turned out to be none other than the Joe College who had been putting on the green. This green is strictly for womens' use, we thought; (see the frustrated letter to the editor by James R. Minner who seems to have been the victim of a fluc- tuating putting green policy.) -Alfred Millstein. MANUEL A. ROXAS, the late president of the Philippine Republic, was a figure controver- sial enough to win the simultane- ous favor of General Douglas MacArthur and General Tomo- yuki Yamashita, Japanese com- mander-in-chief in the Philip- pines. --The Nation. Fifty-Eighth Year Why is the athletic department making tennis at Michigan a lux-, ury to solve the crow'd problem in.- stead of a "Sport for all" game? How long will taxation without representation be enforced? We feel that if an honor code of an hour per court cannot be main- tained, then attendants should be paid to enforce such a rule dur- ing rush hours by no charge to the student players. If collecting quarters at eighlt a.m. with fifteen empty courts standing by is sup- posed to benefit the University student, we fail to see it. -William W. Wells. Hlays F. Griffin. * * * Pro gr'ssive's Recor(I To the Editor: THE CHARGE that the Progres- sive Party is insuringthe election of Republicans by running candidates against staunch Democratic liberals does not bear up under close examina- tion. Strategic decisions in each case are made by local party organiza- tions. Support of the Marshall Plan does not necessarily disqual- ify a candidate, although it is an important factor. For example, in California, the Wallaceites are supporting Congress-woman Hel- en Gahagan Douglas, whose rec- ord as a liberal is indisputable (she voted for the Marshall Plan.) The Brooks - Douglas case in Chicago is most often cited to prove the ruthlessness of the Pro- gressives. Without attempting to evaluate the Illinois Progressive Party's decision, we may note their statement that Douglas, in addition to supporting the bi-par- tisan foreign policy, has spoken before certain groups of business- men favoring "certain parts of the Taft-Hartley Act." We may also note that Chicago is a Wallace stronghold in which the Progres- sives expect to win against Re- publican Curley Brooks. Those liberals who have not yet recognized the Progressive Party as one o'f the major parties would do well to climb from their cloud and try circulating a Wal- lace petition. They would find that workers and farmers are more concerned about - the high cost of groceries than about being called red. 6 4 Events Today Radio Program: 5:45 WPAG-The German ries-Prof. Otto Graf and Kurt Berg. Se- Dr. Annual French Play: Le Cercle Francais will present "LesCor- beaux," a comedy in four acts by Henry Becque, 8 p.m., Iydia Men- delssohn Theatre. Tickets on sale at the box office from 2 to 8 p.m. Free admission to members of the club (except tax) upon presenta- tion of their membership cards, Ushers for French Play: Meet at Lydia Mendelssohn tonight at 7:15. Formal dresses. Mr. Arne Kildal, Chief of Li- brary Services for. the Norwegian National Government will give an address on Norwegian library de- velopment after the war, to stu- dents in Library Science, at 10 a.m., Room 110, Library. All students of the School of Business Administration inter- ested in developing more active student use of the social and aca- demic facilities to be provided by the new Business Administration building are invited to attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m., Room 2, Looking Back 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 .......Managing Editor Dick Maloy..............City Editor Harriett Friedman .. 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Member Associated Collegiate Pres: 1947-48 From the pages of The Daily: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: War fever struck the University and the Board of Regents decided that any senior student who enlisted in the United States service should ,receive his diploma in June as if he had completed his course. 40 YEARS AGO TODAY: After some debate, the County Fair com- mittee announced that no coeds on proba- tion would be eligible for their "prettiest girl on campus" contest. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Michigan's 33 delegates to the national Republican convention v ere directed to "vote for Herbert Hoover as long as he is a candidate." Room 101, W. Engineering Bldg Tappan Hall. Mr. Paul F. Chenea will discuss Tapa__l. some simple methods of obtaining Sigma Rho- Tau, Engineering the first non-linear approxima- Stump Speakers' Society: 7 p.m., tion to the natural frequency of a Michigan Union. Impromptu system of one degree of freedom. Contest Finals, Raconteur Con- test Preliminaries, and Circle Mr. Seager's classes, English 88. Training. will not meet this week. (Continued on Page 6) 'I BARNABY..o I - - I_______________________ I I "' - - I 1 1--. 1.- - - - - 19 . I