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Contrast in Character
STANLEY NOWAK, one of the handful
of Michigan senators who have man-
aged to maintain a sense of perspective
through this state's Communist hysteria,
appears to be determined on political sui-
cide.
Nowak has said many an unpolitic thing
on the floor of the Senate before, but
his remarks regarding the latest foible
of that august body came very near reach-
ing the heights of political unwisdom.
ie said, for instance that the Senate's
procedure in voting to arrest James Zar-
ichny and try him for contempt was the
work of a "two-by-four politician who
wants to run for public office again," an
obvious reference to Sigler's fair haired
boy, Senator Mathew Callahan.
Then he attacked the 22 Senators who
had voted for the me'asure, as follows:
"You are proceeding against a young boy,
24 years of age, one in a college of 14,000
who says his political opinion is his private
matter.
Editorials published in The Michigan Daijy
ire written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT WHITE
"This young man spent three years
in the United States Army. No one charged
him with being disloyal then and no one
is today. We read in the papers that the
United States has freed two Nazi sabo-
teurs but we are going to try this boy
for his political opinion.
"You will create more political dissatis-
faction in that college, more radicals than
by anything else you can do. Do you think
you are going to stop people from having
ideas?"
NOT SATISFIED with having told his col-
leagues the painful truth of the matter,
Nowak wound up at this point and gave
himself what might well prove to be his po-
litical coup-de-grace.
Turning to the committee hearing at
which Zarichny had refused to tell wheth-
er he was a member of the Communist
Party, Nowak stigmatized it as "a dis-
grace to Michigan." He then informed
the Senate that it was "making itself the
laughing stock of the nation."
Stanley Nowak is an anomaly-a strange
sort of politician who puts honesty and
common sense before political aspirations.
For the sake of constitutional government
in this state, let us hope that his attempt
at political suicide is a glorious failure!
--Ivan Kelly.
Don't Break the Chain
REVERBERATIONS of last weekend's suc-
cessful Michigras are still being felt.
Student conversation still centers around
the carnival, unexcelled on any campus for
fun, showmanship and originality.
Plenty of plaudits are in order for every-
one who put Michigan on the map for other
than scholastic reasons-from co-chairmen
Keith Jordan and Rae Keller to the anony-
mous back-stage workers.
But there's one big fly in the ointment.
It's been announced that Michigras won't
be held again until 1950.
. . Some of the reasons given are that school
spirit couldn't hold up for two years in a
row, that the carnival couldn't maintain
lext year the high standards set this spring.
A Michigras in '49 would be more than apa-
thetic Michigan students could cope with...
However, it seems to us that the only
way to keep Michigras up to snuff is to hold
it next year and every year. For only then
can the super-carnival tradition be carried
on from class to class.
If the festival is not held again till
1950, this year will have been the last
chance for upperclassmen to take part in
it. And today's freshmen and sophomores
will find themselves, two years from now,
the only groups on campus who remember
the tremendous reputation just built up.
The time-lapse, far from igniting school
enthusiasm, would instead extinguish it.
HOMECOMING is an example of campus
enterprise that's continued each year,
without signs of weakening. Michigras, as
evidenced by this year's success, doesn't
even need the fall "football fever" to bolster
it.
For the last two years in succession, the
carnival has been held. It's generally con-
ceded that the 1948 edition surpassed 1947's
effort by a wide margin. The campus
learned then what was needed for a bigger
and better show, and that knowledge was
effectively used last weekend.
Other schools have become famous for
their festivals, held yearly without per-
ceptible let-down. Witness Dartmouth with
its winter carnival, for example.
Michigan, too, can enjoy a top-flight
reputation for its ability to stage a suc-
cessful all-campus carnival-but only if
it's presented on a year-to-year basis.
Otherwise, the Michigras tradition and
spirit will wither dangerously. Bi-annual
attempts to revive it would be needlessly
wasted energy.
-Mary Stein.
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
Lositg Grip
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
THE UNITED STATES has power in this
world, great power. It had enough power
to lead the United Nations, last November,
toward setting up a Jewish State in Pales-
tine. But the United States has changed its
mind since November. It now no longer
wishes to set up a Jewish state in Palestine
this spring; it is trying to use its power to
put over a trusteeship instead. And a very
strange thing has happened. The United
Nations listens to us carefully, but does not
act. The power we had seems to have
evaporated.
And in Palestine, the Jewish State, sup-
ported by Jewish arms. comes closer to real-
ity.
In other words, while we had the power
to set up the Jewish State, we don't seem
to have the power to block it. What a pe-
culiar thing our power is! One has the
strong feeling that our power is something
which climbs to its peak when we are on
the side of right, and diminishes rapidly
when we are on the side of wrong.
We led the world last November. We
looked very good in there, at the General
Assembly, putting over partition. But to-
day we, exactly the same people, the same
United States, are trying to stop parti-
tion, and we don't look nearly as im-
pressive. The Assembly seems paralyzed
and confused, after listening to our feeble
trusteeship ideas; its national represen-
tatives stare numbly at each other, won-
dering what to do next. The Australians
want partition upheld, in direct opposition
to us, and they want Ilaganah, the Jewish
army, legalized. Several states plan a
move to denounce Arab aggression. Where
is the power with which we led the na-
tions of the world last November?
It seems fairly clear that the Jewish state
will be proclaimed within the next three
weeks. And we had the power to assist at
its birth. We had the power to give it life.
But we don't seem to have the power to
give it death. And from these facts it seems
to me important that we should draw cer-
tain conclusions about the nature of our
power in this world.
Our power is not entirely a matter of
tanks and guns and bombs; nor is it like
a wad of money, good until spent, valid for
any purpose which comes to mind. It is
more like a special instrument which is
created at the moment of use, and to a
degree determined by the purpose for which
it is being used. Our power is enormous
when it comes to helping a shattered people
find their independence; but it slumps badly
vhen it is a matter of thwarting an inde-
pendence movement for the sake of what
we fancy to be our national interest.
It is an illusion to feel that, because
we have great power when we are on the
side of right, we shall have equal power
when we move blithely over to a different,
and opposite and wrong policy. The power
we had last November was given to us be-
cause we had taken an advanced and
progressive position. But you cannot close
out that kind of an account and continue
to draw checks on it.
It is not necessary to make a mystical
thing of it, either, to explain why it should
be so. The small nations of the world, and
the minds of independent men everywhere,
will be drawn toward us when they are con-
vinced we are for them, even when it costs
us something; and they will pull away when
we act obviously for ourselves. And when
they pull away, we necessarily lose power
in this world. More, perhaps, than Arab
oil can balance and make up for. Where did
it go? We had it in our hands, just now.
(copyright, 1948. New York Post Corporation)
CINEMA
At Lydia Mendelssohn . .
I MET A MURDERER, with James Mason
and Pamela Kellino. Directed by Roy
Kellino.
IF JAMES MASON maintains the pace he
has set in "Odd Man Out" and "I Met
a Murderer," he'll lead the field as the most
relentlessly pursued killer in all moviedom.
As in "Odd Man Out," the bulk of this
week's on campus movie is given over to
tracking the slayer down, the essential
difference being that the former film was
populated with a more memorable set of
characters who were involved in a more in-
teresting set of circumstances.
The search for the murderer begins after
the body of his churlish wife is unearthed.
In his flight he comes upon a nomadic
young lady who travels about the country-
side in a house trailer, writing pulp novels
en route She befriends him in a most un-
likely fashion considering the fact that she
knows all along that he is the hunted mur-
derer. She conceals this intelligence from
him, however, and agrees to drive him to the
south of England. They encounter several
suspense-laden situations and -but we
haven't got all day, have we? Besides, you
get the idea.
Mr. Mason's performance is commendable
enough in view of the material he has to
work with. Incidentally, he can blame him-
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A Second Look
NOW THAT THE FUROR over the Ital-
ian election has died down and Com-
munism has been stalled for a time in
Europe, the U.S. had better take a look
at the record of the government which it
kept in power.
The main talking point of De Gasperi's
Christian Democrats before the election was
that they were against Communists and for
U.S. aid. This was fine, but as far as actual
reconstruction results went,. not much was
accomplished. The Communists were able
to poll eight million votes because there were
eight million people in Italy dissatisfied
enough with events since the war to vote
against U.S. aid and the Pope's expressed
wishes.
A pre-election broadcast from Italy
soummed the situation up by saying that
the Communists would get a lot of votes
because they were basing their campaign
on strictly internal issues and not on the
international chess game. They did.
It has been said that Italy has every-
thing to make an industrial country except
coal and iron. Whatever the case, about
two million workers are unemployed in the
industrial centers of northern Italy while
Face-Savers
AS THE END of the 1947-48 school year
draws near, we find ourselves gazing at
a pair of well-worn, punched up and
stamped up Identification Cards. The poor
I.D. tickets take a beating whenever you re-
register, vote or take out a. library book.
We even suspect that instructions are
given out to the hundreds of card punch-
ers. "This time take out the left eye on
the photo." Next they will hit the "W"
in "F. A. Walter, Dean of Students."
The basic principle of punching I.D. cards
is excellent. It avoids much confusion and
possible fraud. But the haphazard method
of punching, stamping and mutilating Ident
cards makes them old before their months.
To put the system on an efficient basis,
we suggest an I.D. card with numbers
around it, like a meal ticket. Although
a few scholars might blink, the numbers
could be allocated to each election, bas-
production limps along at 70 per cent of low
1938 figures.
Living costs, boosted by black market
operations, have skyrocketed and millions
of Italians are ill fed, need clothing and
shelter.
Land reforms gave the Communists
one of their big talking points in the
election fight. The peasant farmer in
southern Italy is still living in a semi-
feudal state.
These problems are the most pressing now
facing the strongly entrenched De Gasperi
government. The party in power does not
have to worry about Communists in its leg-
islature, but only about any discontent that
might be stirred up among the people over
reconstruction.
To fight this discontent, the De Gas-
peri government has two alternatives.
They can try to stamp out the Com-
munists or they can proceed with the
reconstruction as rapidly as possible and
publicize every move.
With full power in their hands, the De
Gasperi government has a chance to prove
its ability.
U.S. ERP aid and administrative help
is now on its way to Italy. The capacity
of a Western European government to
recover with U.S. aid when the Commu-
nists have been quelled and the accuracy of
our policy in supporting De Gasperi will
now be tested.
-Al Blumrosen.
DAILYOFFICIAL BULLETIN
(Continued from Page 2) Law," by The Honorable Arthur
" - "T. Vanderbilt, Chief Justice, Su-
Bureau of Appointments and preme Court of New Jersey.
Occupational Information, 201' Fourth Lecture: "Procedure -
Mason Hall: The Stumbling Block," 4:15 p.m.,
Summer Positions: A represen- Thurs., April 29, Rackham Am-
tative of the Wayne Girl Scout phitheatre. Fifth and Final Lee-
Camp near Chelsea, Michigan, ture "Procedure-The Stumbling
will be here Thursday, April 29, to Block (continued) ,Suggestions
interview applicants for positions for a Program," 4:15 p.m., Fri.,
of waterfront director and natur- April 30, Rackham Amphitheatre.
alist (nature study). For appoint-
ment call at 201 Mason Hall, or University Lecture: Harry T.
call extension 371. Montgomery, general business edi-
tor of the Associated Press, will
Teachers interested in the De- speak on "The Press and Business,
pendent Schools in Europe and at 8 p.m., Fri., April 30, Rackham
Amphitheatre. The lecture is open
who ai'e 25 years old and havetohepbi.M. ongmy
had experience, get in touch with to the public. Mr. Montgomery
heBureau of Appointments and will also address journalism stu-
the urea of ppoitmens2an dents on "The Impoi'tance of Eco-
Mason Hall, or call extension371 nomics in Today's News" at 3
at once. Special representatives p.m., Room E, Haven Hall.
from Germany will be here next
week. Academic Notices
Bureau of Appointments and Oc- Doctoral Examination for Ar-
cupational Information, 201 Ma- thur Julius Gould, English Lan-
son Hall. guage and Literature; thesis:
shRaioalf"The Idea of Tragedy in Modern
The Radio Corporation of American Drama," 7 p.m., Thurs.,
America, Victor Division, will have April 29, East Council Room,
a representative at our office on Rackham Bldg. Chairman J. L.
Monday and Tuesday, May 3 and Davis.
4, to interview electrical engineers
and physicists with advanced de-
grees who are interested in re- Doctoral Examination for Jose
searh ad deignanddevelop- Guillermo Frontera, Anatomy;
search and design and thesis: "A Stud of the Anuran
The Procter and Gamble Com- Diencephalon," 2:15 p.m., Fri.,
pany will have a representative April 30, Room 4558, E. Medical
here on Monday. May 3, to inter- Bldg. Chairman,B. M. Patten.
view men interested in purchas-
ing and transportation. Chemistry Colloquium: 4:15
The Carnation Milk Company p.m., Fri., April 30, Room 303,
will have a representative here Chemistry Bldg.
on Tuesday, May 4, to inter- Dr. Paul Doty of Notre Dame
view men interested in their train- University will speak on "Weight,
ing program for superintendent Dimensions, and Interaction of
of condensaries. Men wh9 are Macromolecules by Light Scatter-
graduating from Business Admin- ing."
istration, LS&A, or Chemical or-
Mechanical Engineering are eli- Orientation Seminar: 1 p.m.,
gible. Single men are preferred. Thurs.. Room 3001, Angell Hall.
Winkelman's Stores, Detroit, Mr. Dzien will continue with his
will have a representative here on discussion on "Some Difficulties
Tuesday, May 4, to interview men in the Applications of Mathe-
and women interested in mer- matics to Economics."
chandising.
The Marathon Corporation, Seminar in Applied Mathe-
Menasha, Wisconsin, will have a matics: 4 p.m., Thurs., April 29,
representative here on Tuesday, 247 W. Engineering. Professor
May 4, to interview for the fol- Bartels will speak on the Bihar-'
lowing vacancies: 1. Training Pro- monic Equation and Professor Co-
gram for Sales, Accounting, Man- burn will speak on Non-Steady
ufacturing, and Personnel. 2. Pro- Flow.
duction-men should have ac-
counting background. 3. Account-
ing-cost work and general finan-c
cial accounting. 4. Chemists and The fifty-fifth Annual May Fes-
Chemical Engineers-all levels of tival consisting of six concerts will
experience and training-one spe- take place Thursday, Friday, Sat-
cial opening for graduate Chemi- urday and Sunday, April 29, 30
cal Engineer interested in the and May 1, 2. The Philadelphia
manufacturing of printing inks. Orchestra will participate in all
5. Woman for Placement Assist- performances.
ant in Personnel Division. First Concert-Thursday, 8:30
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, p.m. Eugene Ormandy, Conduc-
Columbus, Ohio, will have a rep- tor; Bidu Sayao, soprano.
resentative here on May 5 and 6, Second Concert-Friday, 8:30
Wednesday and Thursday, to in- p.m. All-Mozart program. Alex-
terview aeronautical, mechanical, ander Hilsberg and Thor Johnson,
and electrical engineers for design conductors. University Choral
of aircraft structures and instal- Union; William Kincaid, Flutist;
lation of power plants and equip- Virginia MacWatters, Soprano;
ment. They are also interested in Nell Tangeman, contralto; David
aeronautical engineers and physi- Lloyd, Tenor; James Pease, bari-
cists for stress analysis. tone.
New York Life Insurance Com- Third Concert-Saturday, 2:30
pany will have a representative p.m. Alexander Hilsberg and Mar -.
here n eddy ay 5,s to in- guerite Hood, conductors; Festival
teriwmnfrslspositios Youth Chorus and Mischa Elman,
For complete information and Violinist.
appointments with these compan- Fourth Concert-Saturday, 8:30
ies, call at the Bureau of Appoint- p.m. Eugene Ormandy, conductor;
menLeonard Warren, baritone.
-- -Fifth Concert - Sunday, 2:30
Lectures p.m. All-Rachmaninoff program.
Thor Johnson, Conductor; Uni-
William W. Cook Lectures on versity Choral Union; Anne Bol-
American Institutions. Fourth 1linger, soprano; David Lloyd,
series, "Men and Measures in the i (Continued on Page 5)
The Daily accords its readers the
privilege of submitting letters for
publication hi this column. Subject
to space limitations, the general pol-
icy is to publish in the order in which
they are received all letters bearing
the writer's signature and address,
L etters exceeding 300 words, repeti-
tions 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 priviege of cn-
densing letters.
Stigrestn s
To the Editor:
WITH DUE APOLOGY to story-
digging journalists and their
readers I want to say a few words
in regards to an article in The
Daily, April 25, 1948 contributed
by Mr. Dick Arnesen under the
heading, "F'of. Lloyd helps
brother rescue sick cows in In-
dia." I don't doubt the validity
of the statement and I am thank-
ful to Prof. Lloyd and to Sir Alan
for the kindly interest they have
shown in social welfare of India.
I am sorry for those dying cows
(according to Mr. Arnesen, dead
cow season is approaching!) that
Sir Alan had to leave India for
good.
But I do feel like asking one
question of Mr. Arnesen and the
Editors, "Would not it have been
better to write about the foreign
customis, culture. and political
and economic trends?"
Iftthe purpose of such articles
is to furnish the readers with
more useful information about
the neighboring lands, then the
sooner this peculiarly non-ser-
ious, non-analytical, and story-
telling approach is discarded the
better - better for mutual in-
ternational understanding.
If the underlying aim is to
amuse the readers or if the whole
energy of the budding journal-
ists is converged towards making
things look fascinating (or ri-
diculous a4t times!) by patch-
work of "cosmetics," then the in-
dications of success are promis-
ing; the make-up kit seems to be
complete. Good luck.
-D. S. Dosanjh
Whit Wasn't Done
To the Editor:
IN THE POLIICAL SPHERE
when you don't like a particu-
lar policy or a group of office-
holders you work through the of-
ficial channels to change that
policy or remove the individuals.
Someday the student body is
going to realize that you don't
change Michigan Union policies
by mymbling in your mild shakes
or writing letters of complaint to
The Daily.
Last year when Union vice-
presidents were elected, 80 or 90
foresters and a substantial num-
ber of bus. ad. students were
greatly incensed because their
schools had not elected a repre-
sentative. One of the proposed
amendments (approved incident-
ally by the Board of Directors)
which was to have been present-
ed to the Union membership
meeting Monday night would
have corrected the gross inequali-
ties in the present representation
and given these .schools an op-
portunity to elect a vice-presi-
dent. Yet those students, like the
rest of the campus, stayed away
in droves from the meeting where
they could have been effective.
I doubt if any of the 100 stu-
dents who did show up received
a satisfactory answer to their
questions about Union financial
policies.: If we had had a quor-
um you could have had a direct-
ly elected student sitting on the
finance committee not to men-
tion student control of the selec-
tion of the president and secre-
tary.
The obvious conclusion is that
you either are satisfied with the
Uion set-up or else you would
rather be able to gripe about it
than take the effort to change
it.
In either case it won't matter
that the Lit. and Grad. schools
with 45 per cent of the students
will have one representative while
the rest of the campus has five.
I am retiring from the Board
this semester. Future action is
up to you.
-Tom Walsh
Sports Coverage
To the Editor:
N THIS troubled world, the av-
erage college student may find
occasional diversion if he search-
es long and hard enough for it.
As difficult as it may be for
many to believe, not all of the
students on this campus revel in
the magnificance of the Detroit
Tigers. There are fifteen other
teams of major league caiber,
and though very inferior, they
win championships once in a
while when Detroit is not try-
ing.
A formal protest is hereby reg-
istered against The Daily's inade-
uate ('overage of the baseball
scene. Students from all parts
of the country, currently enroll-
ed in the University, should be
able to follow their team in ' he
Daily.
The activities of the Tigers are
followed to the exclusion of the
other teams. Undoubtedly they
are wonderful, but I am not im-
pressed.
-Henry S. Strauss
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(EITOR'S NO TE: Since space lmi-
tations prohibit complete coverage
of all Major L.eague games it is the
policy of The Daily to carry at least
the results of all games even night
games. Detroit as the closest team
receives top play, but not to the ex-
clusion or any other Major Leagu
stories.)
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YPCM . Shternenlt
To the Editor:
T WOULD SEEM that there has
been some confusion in your
columns, and on the campus at
large, as to the policies of the
Youth Progressive Citizens of
Michigan (YPCM). To clarify our
position, we, the members of the
Executive Board of YPCM have
unanimously passed the following
resolutions:
1. We oppose breaches of aca-
demic freedom whether occuring
in Czechoslovakia or any other
part of the world.
2. We oppose such breaches of
academic freedom as indicative of
anti-democratic principles wheth-
er occurring in the US, Czecho-
slovakia, or elsewhere.
3. Our reason for not sup-
porting the -academic freedom
rally- was a feeling that the polit-
ical ramifications of the rally
were such as to becloud the basic
issue of violation of academic
freedom.
In the MCAF meeting, YPCM
voted to condemn violations of ac-
ademic freedom wherever found,
and also supported a measure rec-
ommending that UNESCO found
a committee on academic free-
dom.
-Gellert A. Seel for
the Exec. Board, YPCM.
A DARK HORSE in the race for
Governor (of Georgia) is the
Rev. Joseph Rabun, ex-Marine
chaplain who was deprived of his
pastorate last year for denouncing
the Talmadge putsch.Attacking
the Talmadge white-primary bill
before the legislature, he said,
"Our fight must be for right su-
premacy, not white supremacy."
-New Republic.
Fifty-Eighth Year
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Looking Back
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50 YEARS AGO TODAY:
The '98 Michiganensian, "finest annual
ever issued in the West," boasted 400 pages
with 200 engravings and olive green binding
stamped with gold.
From the pages of The Daily
30 YEARS AGO TODAY:
Two breweries, two hotels and 25 saloons,
including Joe Parker's' and the Orient, pre-
pared to close their doors against liquor May
1 when Ann Arbor andsthe rest of Michigan
would go "bone dry."
20 YEARS AGO TODAY:
Smoking, either in sorority houses or on
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