Lost Truth 7H E STATEMENT, "The world's fate de- pends on the world's children," has be- come a truism, but unfortunately one which is being ignored by a large segment of the American people. The aforementioned statement received much publicity and fanfare last April when 15,000, children paraded through Times Square in New York in honor of the opening of the American Overseas Aid- UN Appeal for Children. The drive, which was to coordinate the activities of 26 foreign relief agencies, ended Sept. 30th, in admitted failure. 60 million dollars was the goal. Less than five million was collected. At the University, the faculty goal of three thousand dollars was topped, but evi- dently the rest of the country didn't have the same interest in the 230 million children the campaign was to help feed and clothe. For instance New York City set a quota of six and a half million dollars, and ac- tually contributed a million and a half. Responses similar to this all over the country are the cause for the failure of the Children's Crusade. Dr. Aake Ording, founder of the UN Ap- peal for Children, has announced that he will continue to fight for world-wide con- tinuance of the plan. He also said that he received "hundreds" of letters from Amer- icans encouraging him in his determination to give aid to Europe's children. But letters aren't enough, and hundreds of Americans aren't enough either. It is difficult to believe that the Amer- ican people, who have long been regarded as extremely generous by the rest of the world would callously turn their backs on underfed, underclothed children, some of whom have never tasted milk. Dr. Ording is leaving for Paris Oct. 8 to present his story to the General As- sembly. He is hopeful of receiving support there. In the meantime, there are still pri- vate organizations which will accept gifts and contributions from those who neglected to give when the Children's Crusade was in operation. -Fredrica Winters. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: MARY STEIN Perfected the Art? "You Think He Reads It Better Than I Do?" EITHER the American representative at the United Nations Assembly are rank amateurs at diplomacy or the Russians have become experts at the art, but the entire proceedings seems to be a one-sided show, with Andrei Vishinsky starring for the Mos- cow players. Such sweeping statements as one third disarmaments and elimination of the Atomic Bomb are just the kind of offers that play on the heart strings of people who are anxiously praying that the world can see a few years of peace. It seems to be some quirk of the American foreign policy that we always let Russia get the lead on us in these emotional appeals. A good example was the Wallace-Stalin exchange last spring. Any one who con- sidered the letters at all, found that Stalin had merely muttered in his beer something about Wallace's statements being a "basis for negotiation," and openly favoring only those things which he thought were nice from a Russian point of view. The sum total, however, was to make the Truman- Mashall-Vandenberg foreign policy appear one of absolute refusal to compromise with the Russians. Now comes the Vishinsky demands. Moth- er Russia wants peace. Deduction . . . Amer- ica wants war. Actually, there has been every effort made by the United Nations to do just what Russia demands, but with frustra- tion coming from you guess where. The Atomic Energy Commission has been try- ing to get Russian approval on a plan for disarmament for the past two years. The results are history. Also, the Commission for Conventional Armaments reported to the United Nations that "a system for the regulation and re- duction of armaments and armed forces can only be put into effect in an atmosphere of international confidence and security." In other words, the UN has decided that the Chicken comes before the egg. There may be arguments to the contrary (if so, rest assured that Mr. Vishinsky will find them) but it is common knowledge that at least American mobilization began AFTER the distrust and not before. We demobilized at the end of the war to a point where even the Swiss Army Mr. Hearst always holds up could have taken us over. At that point, Mr. Vishinsky's gov- ernment made not the slightest move to disarm. Why, we ask, the change of plans? It would seem, then, that Russia has seen the reckoning that had to come in the Third United Nations Assembly with regards to the threat to peace Russia's Berlin stand has created. -Don McNeil V WSNAtt 'fey, MA p4AN VOICE of i A yER !A FP i, , _ Letters to the Editor .. cGl FOI %-f E c .aCK. uty4R WP{H dG tVU fY Tr fa r I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Overconfidence DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN MATTER OF FACT: } Party Bust By JOSEPH ALSOP CHICAGO-One act, at least, should en- courage the despairing Democrats. Henry Agard Wallace's Progressive party is prov- ing a bust: That is why the party's Com- munists and fellow-traveling master minds have hastily decided not to oppose such proven anti-Communist liberals as Repre- sentative Helen Gahagan Douglas. The sac- red party line has been briskly reversed in order to salvage something from the ruins. The motive is clearly disclosed by the history of two successive deals which the Illinois Progressive leaders tried. to make with Jake Arvey, the able new chieftain of the old Kelly-Nash machine here in Cook County. Deal No. 1 was offered in the period when the Communists hoped great things from the Wallace venture. The Illinois 'Progres- sives demanded boldly that Arvey keep the staunchly anti-Communist Paul Douglas off the state Democratic ticket for the Senator- ship. If he refused, they added, they would put in a Progressive stooge against Douglas and thus help to re-elect Colonel Robert R. McOormick's private Senator, brassy "Curly" Brooks. Arvey naturally rejected the deal and the Progressives accordingly trotted out the threatened stooge Senatorial candidate. Not long ago, they offered Arvey Deal No. 2. They would jettison their Cook County nominees. They would stop the write-in movement for the anti-Douglas stooge and throw all their other Illinois hopefuls on the dust-heap. And in return, would Mr. Arvey please just fix a judge or two, in order to get the single name of Henry Wallace onto the state-wide ballot? This incredible proposition was of course rejected by Arvey with astonished indigna- tion. The fact that the Illinois deal fell through, however, does not weaken the in- cident's obvious meaning. All this chopping and changing has had its comic side. The Communists at first had trouble convincing Henry Wallace and their other front men of the wickedness of all independent American liberals. Wallace and the others like him were of course convinced in the end. Unhappily they then became more royalist than the king. Consequently, when Baldwin abruptly dis- closed the new strategy at a public dinner, poor muddled Wallace gave an audible cry of anguish. What is significant, however, is the panic disclosed by these events. The American Communists will be shown up as incompe- tents and liars in the terrible eyes of the Kremlin. They have promised the Kremlin a great mass uprising. If no mass uprising materializes, one can be sure the poor' wretches will be required to make humiliat- ing recantations or ordered to admit Brother Browder to their midst or be subjected to a ruthless purge. No wonder they are running for cover. Copyright, 1948, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE MAJOR CANDIDATES agree that there is no war spirit in the United States, and I notice that a number of other speakers and writers have been latching on to this theme lately, going out of their way to show that we are a peace-loving people. And so we are, and I feel that these expres- sions are, basically, correct. There are so few Americans who would really want war, and these few are part of a country so big, that, statistically, it might be said they don't exist. But it is possible to draw too much re- assurance from this fact, too great a feel- ing of security that we won't slip into war because, after all, we don't want war. For here, we get into one of those problems dear to the hearts of modern philosophers: the conflict between what men think and what they do. We do not want war, for example, but we have a draft, which is what a country would have if it did want war. We do not want war, we really do not, but we are spending eleven billons on arms this year, which is what a country would do if it did want war. We do not want war, but we talk increasingly of force as our major safeguard, which is the way a country talks when, perhaps, it does want war. And we do not want war; our emotion on this point is sincere. But it becomes increas- ingly hard to demonstrate that emotion by what a philosopher would call an opera- tional test. We know we have these feelings but how would we show them by what has been happening? In what way have the objective realities around us been altered by our anti-war feelings, and how can the con- crete effects of those feelings be measured? It is a little dangerous, I think, to assume that because we have strong anti-war feel- ings, we can go ahead with a draft, and a huge arms budget, and a new kind of respect for the uses of force, and still keep ourselves entirely safe and whole - as compared, say, with someone else doing the same things but without these feelings. For the objective world takes on a life of its own; it begins, in time, to shape events, just because it is what it is, and it does so regardless of the inner emotions of those who have set it up. It is a hard line of busi- ness to find oneself suddenly in, that of carrying on a course of action which could indicate the existence of feelings we don't approve of, and of considering that we are safe because we know that our feelings are otherwise. And we don't want war. But the best comparison is with inflation. We did not want inflation; there was nobody who went around saying he wanted inflation; statistically and otherwise such persons did not exist. Yet here is inflation, firmly in operation, in a country entirely con- vinced that it was against it, and that it didn't want it. We did not want inflation, we merely dropped controls and let prices rise a little, etc. - that is to say, we did all the things we would have done if we had wanted inflation, and the difference in our feelings, our very sincere feelings against inflation, proved rather unavail- ing. I am entirely convinced that our country does not want war. But we would make ourselves and the world much happier, I think, if we could find some striking opera- tional method for displaying those feelings, some inspired stroke of diplomacy or nego- tiation that would show that our feelings are really altering the world around us. For it is only when an emotion alters events, in spite of all obstacles, that it can truly be said to attain maturity, power and grandeur. Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation) Current Movies At the State . ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS, with Jack Carson and Doris Day. YOU WILL COME AWAY from "Romance on the High Seas" humming "It's Magic" but you certainly won't be referring to the picture. Judging by this offering, Hollywood is MIGHTY low on plots for musicals, but they still have some attractive sets and yards of color film to play around with. Originally dubbed "high C" instead of "seas," the emphasis remained on the music, and to get the whole thing off to its creaking pace, Don DeFore and Janis Paige as a rich, attractive but not too bright society couple start SUSPECTING each other. Janis sends Doris Day, a low brow little singer in her place on a South American cruise, so zhe can stay home and spy on hubby, who meanwhile hires detective Jack Carson to trot after wifey. While the two jerks sit home counting their money, thinking nasty thoughts and footing the bills, detective and singer are out doing what any two sensible people on an expense account would be up to. Os- car Levant provides some nice quips and piano, the ocean looks terrific from the first class deck, and if you aren't proud about how you waste your time, it's a thoroughly innocuous bit of fluff. At the Michiga .. . "THE STREET WITH NO NAME," with Mark Stevens and Richard Widmark. HOLLYWOOD'S new-found formula for making good pictures of a sort has apparently clicked again. The still tasty recipe: put the crime element in an authentic setting, add Lloyd Nolan and the FBI, mix in an intriguing plot, and photograph well. "The Street with No Name," like its semi-documentary predecessors, is fine intertainment. This story of how a deftly organized gang collapses when the G-Men move in gives Richard Widmark the chance to prove that he has definitely "arrived" as a first-rate actor. In the juicy role of the gang leader, he gives the most believable portrayal of a high class crook in this reviewer's memory. Mark Stevens is something more than capable as the realistically unspectacular G- Man who is charged with trapping the gang by becoming a member. The several excellent individual per- formances are overshadowed, however, by the overwhelming effect of the picture as a whole. No one of the many exciting scenes is without bearing on the plot. There is no incidental love lost on pretty RPrar..h 1 ,.wr thenniIy fema n ha of the University Musical Society, Wed., Oct. 6, 8:30 p.m., Hill Audi- torium. Miss Farrell will sing Handel's Caresselve; "I'll est doux" from Massenet's "Herodiade; Brahms' Immer leiser wird me Schlummer and Botschaft; Wagner's Der En- gel and Schmerzen; and 'Pace, pace" from Verdi's "La Forza del destino," in the first half of her program. After the intermission she will sing two songs by Debus- sy-Beau soir and Nuit d'etoiles; La Pavane by Bruneau; and Chere nuit by Bachelet. She will close the program with a group of songs by contemporary composers. A limited number of tickets are available at the offices of the Uni- versity Musical Society; and at the Hill Auditorium box office on the evening of the concert. University Musical Society Con- certs. Choral Union Series: Eileen Farrell, Soprano, Octo- ber 6; French National Orchestra, Charles Munch, Conductor, Octo- ber 25; Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, Conductor, Novem- ber 7; Ezio Pinza, Bass, November 18; Clifford Curzon, Pianist, No- vember 27; Boston Symphony Or- chestra, Serge Koussevitzky, Con- ductor, December 6; Ginette Ne - veu, Violinist, January 8; Vladi- mir Horowitz, Pianist, February 11; Nathan Milstein, Violinist, March 4; Chicago Symphony Or- chestra, Fritz Busch, Guest Con- ductor, March 27. Extra Concert Series: Marian Anderson, Contralto, October 14; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Thor Johnson, Con- ductor, November 15; Rudolf Ser- kin, Pianist, December 3; Jascha Heifetz, Violinist, February 19; Indianapolis Symphony Orches- tra, Fabien Sevitzky, Conductor, March 13. A limited number of tickets are still available, at the offices of the University Musical Society in Bur- ton Memorial Tower. Tickets for the "Messiah" per- formances December 11 and 12; and for the Chamber Music Fes- tival, January 14, 15 and 16, are now on sale. Exhibitions Drawings and Water Colors from the collection of John S. Newber- ry, Jr., and Prints by the Graphic Circle: Museum of Art, Alumni Memorial Hall, daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays 2-5 p.m. The public is invited. Events Today Tjpewriting Demonstration Mr. Cortez Peters, world cham- pion typist on the portable type- writer, will give two demonstra- tions ow typing in Rm. 268 School of Business Administration at 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. today (Oct. 5). Students in Business Educa- tion or Business Administration who are interested in typewriting are invited to attend at one of these times. Science Research Club: 7:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Program: "Bones Considered as Mechanical Structures," by Wil- frid T. Dempster, Department of Anatomy. (Continued from Page 2) "Regulation and Asymmetry in the Digestive Viscera in Amphi- bians," by Norman E. Kemp, De- partment of Zoology. Zeta Phi Eta, Speech Arts: Bus- iness meeting, Tues., Oct. 5, 4:30 p.m., Rm. 4208 Angell Hall. Bring eligibility cards. Le Cercle Francais: First meet- ing of the year, 8 p.m., Rm. 305 Michigan Union. Election of offi- cers. All students (including fresh- men) with one year of college French or the equivalent are eligi- ble to membership. Foreign stu- dents are invited to join. Prof. G. C. Grismore, of the Law School, will give a popular talk on "Some Aspects of Life and Dis- ability Insurance Law," at 4:15 p.m., East Lecture Room, Rack- ham Bldg.; auspices of the Michi- gan Actuarial Club. All those in- terested are invited. Gilbert and Sullivan Society: Full rehearsal, 7:15 p.m., Michi- gan League. Compulsory atten- dance for all. Eligibility cards must be signed. Casbah floorshop tryouts, 7:30 p.m., Wed., Oct. 6, Garden Room, Michigan League Polonia Club Meeting, 7:30 p.m., International Center. All mem- bers are requested to attend. Stu- dents of Polish descent are invit- ed. I.Z.F.A. song and dance group meet at 8 p.m., game room, Michi- gan League. Christian Science Organization: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Upper Room, Lane Hall. Coming Events American Society for Public Ad- ministration: U. of M. Chapter, first social seminar, 8 p.m., Wed., Oct. 6, East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Speaker: Mr. Na- than Maccoby, StudyCDirector of the Survey Research Center. Per- sons interested in public adminis- tration are invited to attend. Delta Sigma Pi, Professional Business Fraternity: Open meet- ing. Wed., Oct. 6, 8 p.m., Michigan Union. Mr. Ralph Showalter of the Research Department of the U.A.W.-C.I.O., will speak on "The Economic Program of the U.A.W.- C.I.O." All interested students are invited to attend. American Institute of Electrical Engineers and Institute of Radio Engineers, Joint Student Branch: First meeting of the fall semester, Wed., Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 348 W. Engineering Bldg. Dr. Jame T. Wilson will discuss and demons- trrate "Electrical Engineering Ap- plications in Geophysical Pros- pecting." All interested are wel- come. U. of M. Rifle Club: Business meeting, Wed., Oct. 6, 7 p.m., Michigan Union taproom. All old members are urged to attend Plans for this semester will be dis- cussed. U. of M. Radio Club: Meeting, Wed., Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 1084 E. Engineering Bldg. The Daily accords its readers theC privilege of submitting letters fort publication in this column. Subjectf to space limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the order in which they are received all letters bearingg 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-1 densing letters.1 * * . Russian Motives To the Editor: IN AN EDITORIAL in the Sept. 30 number of The Daily, Miss Janet Watts makes an attack on the Western Powers' refusal of Russia's peace offer. She main- tains that the motive was preser- vation of prestige. I point out to Miss Watts the long series of talks1 on the Berlin situation: an earnest attempt by the Western NationsI to solve a critical problem in- volving the welfare of the German people. I point out the contents of the recent "White Paper" as evi- dence of Russian insincerity, stall- ing, and definite unwillingness to cooperate for peace. How can she say that the Russians would not make a disarmament proposal if they did not intend to abide by it, when the above evidence shows they could and would do just such a thing? As for the two points which the Western Powers gave in support of their refusal, they are perfectly logical. In the first place one would be naive to believe that dis- armament could be carried out without inspection. (See your his- tory books.) In the second place, the crisis that exists today in the U.N. would indicate that there is every possibility of the great pow- ers splitting up. The only way for Miss Watts to become a good, sound- liberal progressive (as is the latest thing to be on this campus), is to check her facts more carefully, make her articles show her misguidededness more subtly and obscurely, and never turn out articles so obvious as this last. -Robert J. Gardner. A* A To the Editors: WHENEVER CLASSROOM and homework drugery has me singing the blues, I can always re- gain my good humor by perusing your editorial page. There I am certain to find at least one article so far off center that it becomes hilariously funny. I am not a Rus- sian lover, (nor a Russian hater either.) Thus I find such nincom- poop expressions of worldly ideas as expounded by a certain Janet Watts as so pro-Russian and "pro- stupidity" as to become laughable. The United Nations was con- ceived and put into existence mainly through the efforts of this decadent old capitalistic nation of ours. One of the initial goals of the UN was and still is to disarm the world and bring about a posi- tive method for control of atomic warfare development. All this country asked was that a UN com- mission be allowed to inspect every nation as a sure check that all nations were complying. Vishinsky said NO! Miss Watts desires us to dump our "A" bombs in the ocean, close up Oak Ridge, and sit back con- fident that Joe Stalin has in- structed his scientists to convert from atomic research to the pro- duction of a two-headed didee doll. Baloney! We sunk most of our navy after the first World War only to be dismayed by the fact that some other nations hadn't followed suit. It will come as quite a shock to Miss Watts when an atom bomb falls in our midst; but why should it involve such drastic results as this to convince her that Russia has done nothing since the war except break its word. If Rus- sia really wants world disarma- ment, why not accept the U.N. proposition? We have no reason to respect Russia's promises, . and when, it comes'to disarming with no way of checking up on Uncle Joe, I for one can't be so gullible as to swallow such a plan. -Clifford Clarke. College Aims To the Editor: After several periods of trying to understand Emerson, our Eng- lish course became very dull, but the professor had only to ask one question and it was the liveliest group of students I have seen in four years at Michigan. The ques- tion was, "Do you feel that the University of Michigan is fulfilling its responsibilities and aims to prepare each student for life or is it merely giving out incidental facts that will provide a means of subsistence?" There are twenty thousand stu- dents in this town who should have a thorough conception of why they are in college, and what they expect to take with them when they leave college. Any thinking student will agree that notebooks full of collected inci- dental facts are a small part of what they hope to have when they. leave. The majority of students are here to learn how to make money, but there is a deeper pur- pose than that in going to college. I would suggest that many stu- dents are seeking a personal phil- osophy of life that will guide them in success and support them in failure and mediocre success. I think there are three phases of the original question each stu- dent must consider: I. Am I getting a proper prepa- ration for life or just incidental facts? II. If not, what changes can the University make to help me? III. How can I aid in accom- plishing thesechanges? There is a current effort being made to introduce courses in Re- ligion. However, Michigan stu- dents cannot help in this effort if they are not informed as to what is being done, nor can their think- ing be as close to the real diffi- culties if a report is not forth- coming. Possibly individuals and campus organizations will have some other suggestions. -Norman C. Jimerson * Bty Fifty-Ninth Year I 11 Looking Back I, 20 YEARS AGO TODAY: The inaugural program of 25 "Michigan Nights" to be given over the radio was broad- cast and termed a huge success. 15 REARS AGO TODAY: The Chicago Tribune in a quarter page advertisement in The Daily told the campus why "it is the world's greatest newspaper." 10 YEARS AGO TODAY: Daily columnist Roy Heath defends the campus turnout to a football rally rather than to the "Save Czechoslovakia" rally. Said Heath: "I am practically sure that army would pinch my bunions." Meanwhile on Page 1 an (P) dispatch reported that the Soviet Union had broken her alliance with France. The Russian de- clared that isolation was the price France must pay for her capitulation to Hitler. MINIMUM needs of the Western sectors of Berlin-only the things required to keep the people alive-call for a daily aver- age of 4,000 tons of supplies. Of this half represents food. Coal and liquid fuel, at this minimum, will go mainly for industrial power. E a Sigma Gamma Epsilon: Busi- ness meeting, Wed., Oct. 5, 12:30 p.m., Rm. 3055, Natural Science Bldg. Programs for the year will be considered. U. of M. Young Republicans meet at 7:30 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 7, Hussy Room, Michigan League. New members invited. A debate with the Young Democrats will take place. Women of the University Facul- ty: Afternoon tea, Oct. 6, 4-6 p.m., Rm. D, Michigan League. United World Federalis s Roundtable on World Federation, Thurs., 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Subject: Why World Federation Now? Proponents and opponents of world federation are invited to attend (student and faculty). United World Federalists: Pub- licity Committee meeting, Wed., 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Stu- dents interested in writing news- releases, editing a chapter paper, drawing posters, etc., are invited to attend. 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