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SUINDAY,
Reversing Roll
ONCE UPON A TIME cooperation was the
by-word of our legislators. It used to be,
or so our Political Science I book said, that
when a Congressman wanted to put through
a piece of legislation for the folks back home,
he enlisted the aid of some Congressmen
from other states. Then, when they wanted
to push through bills for their home states,
he reciproca ted with the proper ayes. This
was called "log-rolling."
But now, the tradition has been broken
in the House of Representatives. Last
month a bill to repeal the oleo taxes was
swept through the House., Leaders in the
fight for repeal were the Southern legis-
lators. Through their efforts the bill is
practically assured passage in the Senate
in the near future.
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
ire written by members of The Daily staffj
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: NAOMI STERN
A bloc of northern dairy statesmen, led
by Rep. August H. Andresen, Republican
from Minnesota, fought the repeal in a bit-
ter battle. Their total defeat was clearest
when Senator Thye, also a Minnesota Re-
publican, conceded Friday that the Senate
will be forced to follow the House lead on
oleo tax repeal.
But Friday also, Rep. Andresen. called
a hearing on a bill to repeal a ban on ex-
ports of tobacco seed and plants.. He
claimed that Southern tobacco-growers
induced Congress to embargo tobacco seed
exports in 1940 to stop foreign countries
from growing tobacco.
Thus, with free competition almost a real-
ity for the northern dairymen, the South-
erners are coming in for their share of the
spirit of capitalism. And while some Con-
gressmen may fall off a few logs in the
process, and some of their constituents may
have to earn their keep unaided by the gov-
ernment, Americans as a whole, may be fac-
ing a new Congressional era. Perhaps, with
this reverse log-rolling, legislation may turn
out to be for the people.
Joan Katz
Chance To Build
THE REAL TEST of student interest and
support for the 1948 Union Opera will
come this week when petitions will be ac-
cepted for all the permanent staff and
production jobs.
Until now, opportunities to participate
in the revival of one of the University's old-
est and most colorful traditions have been
limited to the script-writers and song-writ-
ers necessary to formulate a show.
At last a script has been finished that
has won the enthu.iastic approval of the
judges (one of whom has already reserved
two tickets for the show). Over 40 stu-
dent tunesmiths are currently steaming
along on a variety of song ideas to round
out the musical portion of the show. The
Opera is no longer just a hope in the
minds of a few students - it WILL be
produced the first or second week of De-
cember.
Top flight administrators are needed for
the key spots on the Union Opera Execu-
tive Council and also committee chairmen
to head up the multitude of projects neces-
sary in a production of this size. All of the
jobs are wide open - waiting for men who
believe in the Union Opera to fill them.
The petitions must be filed in person in
the Student Offices of the Union between
2 and 5 p.m. tomorrow through Friday.
Each applicant will be scheduled for an
interview with Dave Leyshon, general
chairman of the Opera and Gene Sikorov-
sky, president of the Union.
The men who fill these jobs will be the
men who will be responsible for the success
of the Union Opera when it actually hits
campus next December. Answers to all
questions about positions open or any other
phase of the Opera may be secured at the
student offices at the Union.
This is YOUR chance to help build a.
solid foundation under the 1948 Union
Opera - file a petition this week.
-Harold Jackson
MATTER OF FACT:
Sum and the Parts
-A pology
SHORT WHILE: AGOman edioral
peared on this page, signed by this
writer. The article was an attack upon the
new "search and seizure" bill designed' to
facilitate easier apprehension of game law
violators in the state. The bill had then
passed the House of the State Legislature,
and is now pending in the Senate.
This writer took issue with the bill on
grounds that such legislation would be
unconstitutional. A harangue was leveled
upon Conservation Department officials
who asked for the law, and against those
who might enforce it, in event that it was
passed.
'Since then, reader Arthur Doll brought
to the attention of this writer that such an
attack was unwarranted. Reader Doll also
pointed out error in fact contained in the
editorial. Investigation has proved Doll
to be correct.
It is concluded that the editorial was
written overhastily on what were gullibly
assumed to be true facts. The fact-source
was thought to be unbiased and accurate.
The facts were untrue, and the source
was biased.
It was intimated in the editorial that
the vague wording of the bill in defined
dwellings, could be applied to any seasonal
home. The statement was false. The bill
specifically designates fishing shacks as
the only dwellings that can be searched
without warrant.
The editorial pointed out that road blocks
could be set up, with Conservation officers
going through each car so stopped. The
statement was false. The bill specifies that
there must be reasonable suspicion before
search can be made. This writer said that
sparrows are protected by law. The state-
ment was false. They are not protected.
This writer can only extend a sincere
apology to those who were unjustly offend-
ed by his attack, and to the readers who
may have been mislead by the editorial.
-Bob Dilworth
A VERSATILE AND enthusiastic group of
young men thoroughly disarmed their
audience in the Men's Glee Club concert last
night, singing everything from Handel to
"Dry Bones" and back.
Especially commendable was the fine stage
presence of the entire group, which gave the
concert spontaneity and ease. Conductor
Philip A. Duey evidently has the ability to
weld 40 individual singers into a unified
glee club.
To add further to the reputation of the
whole chorus, three quartets proved that in-
dividual members possess excellent voices.
The audience seemed to enjoy the barber-
shop quartet particularly. Their act was
worthy of the best offerings by the Society
for the Presentation of Barbershop Quartet
Singing in America-and the change of
costume and addition of appropriate ges-
tures made them seem especially typical.
We personally were very gratified to meet
Eustice, the infamous skeleton, at long last.
The snappy rhythm of "Dry Bones," in
which Eustice debuted, had many heads
bobbing, both in the glee club and in the
audience.
But the glee club is not limited to bar-
bershop and lighter numbers. Their earlier
pieces, including the very beautiful "Care
Selve" were sung in the best serious musical
tradition. The contrasts and feeling dis-
played in these songs proved beyond doubt
that the singers are real musicians.
The final medley of Michigan melodies
was particularly welcome. These are the
songs which students nowadays' unfortu-
nately hear too rarely, and which must have
had a great effect on the University alumni
who heard them while the chorus was on
tour.
If the Men's Glee Club did as well in New
York and Washington, they are most cer-
tainly a credit to the University. We' would
like to hear a lot more of them in the future.
Those people who didn't quite get to the
concert last night missed one of the'finest
student performances of the year.
-Lilias Wagner.-
E VERYsincere friend of higher education
willsympathize with the proposal of the
President's commission that free two-year
community colleges be established for cap-
able students who want to go on with their
training after high school.
But with existing secondary schools in
their present unsatisfactory condition al-
niost everywhere, those close to the situa-
tion could hardly be blamed for feeling let
down by what must seem a grandiose
scheme.
The President's Commission on Higher
Education recommends that these new
schools be supported by the Federal Gov-
ernment and organized on a state-wide ba-
sis so that communities too small to warrant
an institution of their own could be served
by nearby centers. They would supplement,
not displace, the present system, and would
serve both as terminal schools and as an
intermediate step toward specialized studies.
That over-all plan in most respects is
good. Actually, however, if the commission
were to get right down to cases, it would find
that before any such proposition is possible
News of the Week
Greeve
Violence flared in Greece last wek when an alleged Communist
assassinated Minister of Justice Christos Lada in part of a May Day
plot. The assassin, wounded himself, admitted membership in OPLAC,
Communist execution squad.
Tuesday, Premier Themistokles Sophoulis announced the execu-
tion of 152 leftists imprisoned for the 1944 revolt and said that the
govenment would not be intimidated by the assassination.
Paleslne
'iThe war in Palestine raged throughout th week. King Abdullah
of Trans-Jordan faced the United Nations Assembly and threatened
that the war would reach a pinnacle of horror after the British
evacuation May 15.
At week's end the UN was still seeking a solution, thought it had
one in an emergency Palestine regime, which would rule while the
Assembly's Poltical Committee sought a permanent solution. Mean-
while, the Holy City, Jerusalem, enjoyed its first day of peace yester-
day under a truce arrangement as the search for a neutral mayor
to preserve order continued.
Austria
The United States initiated a move Friday which suspended action
on an Austrian peace treaty indefinitely. The U.S. had left the way
open for suggestions from Russia, but developments indicated that the
treaty negotiations were headed for th same sort of deadlock that
obstructs the writing of a German peace treaty.
European Unity
A "Congress of Europe" met last week in The Hague, and resolved
the objectives of the meeting will not be attained until "all Europe
is united and organized."
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U. of M. Hot Record Society:
Program. 8 p.m., Grand Rapids
Room, Michigan League. Everyone
welcome.
Student Religious Groups: Lu-
theran Student Association: 5:30
p.m., Zion Lutheran Parish Hall.
Supper meeting, 6 p.m. Rev.
Henry Yoder will speak on "Chris-
tian Marriage."
Unitarian Student Group:
Snack supper. 6:30 p.m. Colored
slides of 116 modern American
paintings will be shown.
Congregational-Disciples Guild:
Supper meeting 6 p.m., Congre-
gational Church. Guest speakers:
Rev. John E. McCaw, national
student work director of the Dis-
ciples of Christ, and the Rev.
Bryant Drake secretary of the
department of higher education
of the Congregational Christian
Churches,
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Coining Events
Radio Program: 3:30 p.m., Mon.,
May 16. WKAR-The Medical
Series - Dr. J. A. Ferguson,
"Cancer of the Breast."
3:45 p.m., WKAR-The Student
Questions Religion-H. Littell,
program director, Student Relig-
iuos Association.
5:45 p.m. WPAG -The News
and You-Preston W. Slosson'
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By STEWART ALSOP
WILL THE European Recovery Program
make psosible a real recovery in Italy,
or can a free Italy survive only as a per-,
manent pensioner of the United States?
As the political placards are torn down, as
the excitements of the election fade into
memory, that remains the great conundrum,
not only for Italy but for every nation of
non-Soviet Europe. Moreover, with the
Communists increasingly isolated, with a
stable government at last in prospect, the
European Recovery Program should have
a fair test here.
Especially among Italian conservatives
and nationalists, there are those who pre-
dict flatly (and with an odd lugubrious
pleasure) that the test is bound to fail.
These, gloomy prophets are by no means
fools, and their reasoning is worth a hear-
ing. Its key is a word which the reporter
in Italy always sooner or later hears in
every conversation with an Italian, whe-
ther Premier Alcide de Gasperi or, a chance
acquaintance in a lobby. The word is "emi-
gration." For as one observer rather brut-
ally put it, "the Italians must export to
live, and most of what they must export
is Italians.
The facts are simple. There is a net
yearly population increase of between.
400,000 and 500,000 on this crowded pen-
insula. Except by emigration (or by those
traditional methods, famine and war)
there is no way in which this constant
increase can be controlled, first because
this is a Catholic country, and second be-
cause the Italian peasant or worker has
always regarded a large family as a form
of old-age insurance.
Premier de Gasperi hopes to find living
space abroad for 200,000 Italians every
year. Yet even if this hope is fulfilled, the
pessimists point out, the Italian population
will still shoot up by a million people every
four years. And how can this poor country,
they ask, a country almost without natural
resources, hope to feed and clothe and shel-
ter these people? Even now there are al-
most 2,000,000 unemployed, many agricul-
tural workers live little better than animals,
and millions of industrial laborers work only
part time, twenty or twenty-four hours a
week.,
The central and eastern European mar-
kets for Italy's delicious fruits and vege-
tables are largely cut off. The world's rich,
squeezed by taxation even in the rich Uni-
ted States, no longer buy Italy's fine silk
and Carrara marble and specially built
luxury cars. Without native raw materials,
Italy cannot hope to compete in world mar-
kets in heavy industry. And above all,
everywhere in the world the doors are
o -~a -r nln - n n, Tfv_ faan n i-
not maintain that Italy is certain to re-
cover. But they are unanimous in main-
taining that Italy can recover.
MUCH WILL OF COURSE depend on the
Italians themselves. More than is gen-
erally realized has already been accomplish-
ed. Inflation has been controlled. Produc-
tion is on the increase. Reconstruction of
the vast war damage is under way. The
Italians are eager to work; no one can spend
even a week or so here without sensing the
enormous vitality of the Italian people.
Much remains to be done, and Premier de
Gasperi, although he expects opposition
from the conservatives in his own party,
is determined that it shall be done. He and
his advisers speak of tax reform, land re-
form, irrigation schemes, plans for the re-
orkanization of the chaotic Italian indus-
try.
Yet even all this - and here again
the experts are unanimous - will not be
enough. Italy can r'ecover, but Italy can-
not recover alone, as a separate economic
and political entity. To this extent'the
prophets of doom are entirely correct.
To a remarkable degree, the conviction
is growing here that the European whole
is greater than the sum of all its parts;
that not only Italy but England and France
and all the western European nations can
only recover permanently as integral parts
of a politically and economically unified
western Europe. The more farseeing go,
further, predicting that the recovery of
Europe, even after unification, will depend
upon the political and economic organiza-
tion of the whole non-Soviet world. Only
thus, it must be admitted, can fundamental
solutions be found for such problems as the
Italian population surplus.
These ideas have already found prelim-
inary expression in the Western Union,
which Italy may soon be invited to join.
Yet the Western Union is no more than a
start. Italian Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza
has remarked half jokingly that he expects
Europe to be united but "in about eighty
years," some seventy-odd years too late.
Certainly there are immense obstacles to
real western European unity. Yet the ruth-
less policy of the Soviet Union will continue
to act as a lash driving the western Euro-
pean nations to unite. And the United
States, in the European Recovery Program,
has provided the means. Thus it is at last
possible to hope. That is at least some-
thing of which Americans may be proud.
(Copyright, 1948, New York Herald Tribune)
New Books at General Library
Beals, Carleton-Lands of the dawning mor-
In a 6 to 0 decision the Supreme Court ruled last week that real
estate agreements which bar colored persons from all-white neigh-
borhoods are not enforceable in the courts. The Court said that gov-
ernment orders to enforce such agreements violate the "equal pro-
tection" clause of the 14th Amendment, but pointed out that the
ruling does not apply to private voluntary conduct.
Civil Liberties
Senator Glen Taylor. Progressive Party vice-presidential candi-
date, was convicted of disorderly conduct, fined, and given a six-
month suspended jail term in Birmingham, Ala., last Tuesday. The
conviction came after Taylor had been arrested for disorderly conduct
arising from his violation of that city's segregation laws. Taylor,
scheduled to address an inter-racial meeting of the Southern Negro
Youth Congress, had sought entrance to the meeting through the
door provided by police for Negroes. Taylor is appealing the case.
The second round of the Hollywood contempt cases was won by
the House Un-American Activities Committee when a Federal District
Court convicted screen-writer Dalton Trumbo of Contempt of Con-
;ress. Trumbo was arraigned on charges of refusing to tell the com-
rnittee whether he was a member of th Communist Party or the Screen
Writer's Guild.
x New United Nations
Secretary of State Marshall rebuked Congressional proposals to
reform the United Nations without a veto with or without Russia
before a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee. He said
we need the veto as much as the Russians.
Politics
The "crucial" Ohio Presidential Primary turned out to be a dud.
In twenty-two contests Taft won thirteen delegates to the June
GOP national convention, while Stassen was getting nine. Taft also
Look thirty-one uncontested races.
Both aspirants claimed victory, but political observers in Wash-
ington declared that one more such "victory" would finish both can-
didates, and suggested that the real winner in the voting was dark
horse Sen. Vandenberg.
In Michigan, the Democratic State convention picked sixty-seven
unpledged delegates after a lukewarm endorsement of the President.
Backers of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas claimed the
convention was a complete victory
In Ohio, fifty delegates, previously considered "certain" for Tru-
man were elected unpledged, while in Alabama, eleven candidates
who had vowed never to support Truman or anyone else backing the
civil rights proposals won as electors against others who had taken a
less vocal stand.
Atoimic Energy
A hot fight was raging in Congress last week over President Tru-
man's five appointments to the Atomic Energy Commission. Attention
centered around the appointment of David Lilienthal as chairman for'
five years. Senate Republicans were demanding a one year appoint-
ment for "New Dealer" Lilienthal. At week's end a compromise was
introduced to limit Lilienthal to two years.
Labor .. .
The strike situation had not cleared this week-end, with President
Truman putting the administration to work to stave off a railroad
strike scheduled for Tuesday, May 11. Railroads had already begun
laying off personnel, and halting food shipments, following failure of
a federal negotiator to budge either side.
The CIO-United Auto Workers broke off their wage talks with
Chrysler Corp. Thursday, and said a strike involving 75,000 workers
would begin Wednesday, May 12th. The union also announced that
wage demands would be served on Ford Motor Co.
Military Defense
A week of suggestions and counter suggestions on the issue of
defense were climaxed Thursday when the Senate approved a $3,233,-
200,000 measure for a 70-group Air Force. The bill went back to the
House for approval.
Earlier, the House Armed Forces Committee voted to draft 19 to
25 year old men for two years service.
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LOCAL . . .
Capitalism
A new student organization, the Committee for the Advancement
of Capitalistic Enterprise got underway last week but encountered
capitalistic difficulties, when Mayor William E. Brown, Jr., ruled
that its fund raising automobile lottery was a violation of state
gambling laws.
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Campus Cooperation
Inter-organizational cooperation got a tremendous boost on Thurs-
day when representatives from 18 different organizations joined
together to form a campus council for organized. action at the sug-
gestion of the Student Legislature.
Phi Beta Kappa: Initiation, 5
p.m. Mon., May 10, Michigan
Union; banquet, 6:30 p.m. All new
members expected to attend.
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Eta Kappa Nu: Meeting, 7:15
p.m., Tues., May 11, Rm. 3505,
E. Engineering Bldg. Election of
officers and information on pic-
nic.
Phi Delta Kappa. Informal cof-
fee Hour, 4:15 p.m., Wed., May 1-2,
2nd floor lounge, School of Ed-
ucation. Program: Informal dis-
cussion on "Group Dynamics" led
by Dr. Wi. C. Morse, director,
University of Michigan Fresh Air
Camp. Also, discussion of plans
for Summer Session and future
projects.
Tau Kappa Epsilon: Reactiva-
tion meeting, 8 p.m., Mon., May
10, Room 18, Angell Hall.
14th Annual Pharmaceutical
Conference, sponsored by the Col-
lege of Pharmacy. Tuesday after-
noon and evening, May 11, Rack-
ham Amphitheatre. Those niter-
ested are invited.
Quarterdeck Society: 7:15 p.m.,
Tues., May 11, Rm. 336 W. Engi-
neering Bldg. Election of Officers
and new members.
Sigma Rho Tau, Engineering
Stump Speakers' Society: Meet-
ing, 7 p.m., Tues., May 11, Mich-
igan Union. Circle training, "Hall
of Fame' contest, and prepara-
tions for'the National Convention.
Attendance of all members is re-
quested.
La p'tite causette: 3:30 p.m.,
Mon., May 10, Michigan League.
La Sociedad Hispanica: Final
meeting, 8 p.m. Wed., May 12,
International Center. Short pro-
gram, three scholarships to Mex-
ico will be announced, and offi-
cers will be elected for next year.
I.Z.F.A.: Tues., May 11, Election
of officers for next term. All
members urged to attend. Report
on I.Z.F.A. summer camp, and the
I.Z.F.A. National convention in
Detroit. Singing and dancing. All
welcome.
Dance Demonstration: Present-
ed by the Ballet and Modern
Dance' Clubs, 8 p.m., Mon., May
10, in the dance studio of Barbour
Gymnasium. Anyone interested is
invited.
Sociedad Hispanica: Conversa-
tion Group, 3 p.m., Mon., May 10,
International Center.
La Sociedad Hispanica: Special
meeting for students interested in
a summer in Mexico. Those who
received scholarships to Mexico
last summer will answer questions
at 4 p.m., Tues., May 11, Rm., 108,
Romance Language Bldg.
A LIVELY MOVEMENT is un-
der way to make Associate Jus-
tice Douglas the Vice-Presidential
candidate on the Democratic
ticket. Mr. Truman's friends are
watching with interest, approval,
and the hope that Mr. Douglas's
supporters don't get mixed up
about what nomination they are
booming him for.
-The New Yorker.
MR. MARSHALL'S testimony be-
fore the House Foreign Af-
fairs Committee concerning the
matter of United Nations revision,
reveals the appalling lack of vision
at the head of our state today.
At one part in his speech he
predicts that an attempt to revise
the UN now would result in a split
of nations and the forming of mil-
itary alliances. Then in practi-
cally the same breath he shows
active support for military region-
al arrangements under Art. 51 of
the charter. Thus masquerading
under the title of "regional agree-
ments" we find the very same mil-
itary alliances he so heartily con-
demns, entering by the back door.
It is well known that some such
alliance with Western Europe is
being considered today by the
State Department. Invocation of
Art. 51, the so-called "escape
clause" will go much farther in
solidifying the already existant
split between nations than any
other action the U.S. could take.
Our Secretary of State's reason-
ing is perhaps colored by a senti-
ment he did not care to make too
clear. He stated in the questioning
that he would not be willing to
have U.S. troops used without the
consent of the U.S. and that he
would not like to see the protec-
tion of the veto lost. This is the
well-known position of our senior
Senator from Michigan, who has
come a long way on the wave of
international sentiment, butvnot'.
,quite far enough to break all the
ties with his isolationist past. Sen-
-tor Vandenberg in his report to
the President after San Francisco,
very briefly stated that the U.S.
had gotten a great deal for next
to nothing, "in fact the flag still
lies over the capitol, Mr. Presi-
dent."
Mr. Marshall will make a more
lasting contribution to history if
'ze will listen to the voices of the
new age who are tired of the fail-
ares of the past, and who are con-
vinced that we will find peace and
Security only by moving forward to
a new and more powerful world
)rganization capable of adminis-
;ering justice and enforcing the
oeace.
-George Shepherd
Fifty-Eighth Year
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