PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN-DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 16, 1948 THE MraWTTTIIAN \ifAi 'i~vPSTRAOTBR1,14 Courses THE FUTURE of the University's Workers Education Courses-and perhaps the trend of the entire national probgram-will be decided today. The Board of Regents are expected to say finally whether the courses are to be cut off permanently, whether a modified program will be presented, or whether recent charges against it will be dismissed and classes will resume as usual. If the Regents feel that the cries of "sub- versive," "Propagandistic" and even "Com- munistic" are justified, they will end the program, or as President Ruthven suggested last month, continue it "but not necessarily in the same form." The contemplated changes are not known, but the progress of the program to date, and a study of the subject matter and conduct of classes, shows no justifi- cation for generalization of "bias." Part of a widespread and generally ac- claimed adult education program, workers courses were designed to meet the special needs of the laborer who, lacking a general education, found himself in a position to improve his status, but without the neces- sary tools. Michigan's workers classes have led the Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: GEORGE WALKER At Stake country in explaining the basic economic theories to the worker and more important in dealing with specific problems-such as how to read a company's financial report, how to understand the construction of a corporation and how to understand the worker's place in the production process. Moreover, workers learn how to conduct a meeting and how to use, and profit by, the collective bargaining facilities at their fingertips. Classes have been informal, discussion has been encouraged. Theories of all eco- nomic systems have been presented-cap- That is why the suspension of the classes and have been discussed. Although courses for workers are offered in well over 50 American institutions, includ- ing Harvard, Penn State and Cornell, Mich- igan's courses have been outstanding in their coverage, presentation and facilities. If the Michigan courses were to be term- inated, the entire national program would be visibly marred. It is only in the Mich- igan program that the "grass roots" prac- tical learning is made available. The Mich- igan program reaches far more workers than can the others. And it is the Mich- igan workers education program which, more than any of the rest, helps the worker to "know the score." That is why the suspension of the calsses last month met with such widespread alarm and vigorous protest. And that is why so much depends on the Regents' decision to- day. -The Senior Editors. Needed: School Aid FEDERAL AID to education, outlined by President Truman's Commission on Higher Education, has received another verbal kick in the pants. The United States Chamber of Com- merce and the United Lutheran Church of America have gone on record as oppos- ing the national program which would give direct financial help to school systems throughout the country. The two groups debunk the plan for dif- ferent reasons. The Lutheran Church's bien- nial convention meeting in Philadelphia passed a resolution declaring that education aid legislation would enable the government to control education and so tend to handicap privately supported schools. The report de- clared that if the Truman Commission's pro- posals were put into effect "it would mean education will be federalized, socialized, vo- cationalized, and secularized." After an extensive study, the Chamber of Commerce believes local and state gov- ernments are in an improved position to pay for school systems themselves. The study committee reported that individual incomes in the so called poorer states had risen considerably in the last eight years so that they are now more able to support schools. The return of tax sources to states proposed by the Eightieth Congress would be a greater fund than that required by education aid, the Chamber maintains. Recent and potential increases in state funds for education can enable the states to support schools on a local level, the report asserts. Whenever the national government pro- poses a remedy for any social diseases of the country, individual groups will rise up to cry, "Socialism." But Congress overlooked these charges when it passed social security legislation. A good look at the school systems in the South show that some financial aid must be forthcoming. Congress must and will, we hope, eventually see that all local school set- ups cannot offer the type of education that is essential to our national well-being. -Janet Watts. I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Respects Force By SAMUEL GRAFTON WE NEVER USED to have a high opinion in this country of nations which be- lieved that military force was the determin- ing factor in this world. This has always seemed to us a kind of low-grade theory, and we .took a special joy during the late war in the way our brilliantly-improvized and very non-standing army knocked over the self-conscious German military machine. But now we ourselves have come to have a new feeling of respect for force, an explicit regard for it, and we say nowadays that strength is the key to peace. I am afraid we are going to have to go through a period of finding out that this theory is no better when we hold it than when anybody else holds it, regardless of what has brought us to adopt it. I am not speaking of normal measures of military preparedness, such as every nation is entitled to undertake. I am speaking of the theoretical change that has been taking place among us, the de- veloping feeling that the answer to our problems is most likely to be found on the military level. It does not take us long to rush from theory into action, and so we are putting a lot of our resources into military develop- ment that ought to be going into economic recovery, here and around the world. So is impoverished Britain, according to her recent rearming announcements. And Senator Ralph E. Flanders, Republican of Vermont, has just come back from Europe in what seems a blue mood; he finds that the Mar- shall Plan is aimed more, these days, at rearming Europe than at helping Europe to recover, and he sees in this a great if some- what surprising 'victory for Russia in the "cold war." Russia, he says, is thinking pri- marily in terms of an economic weakening of the west; and our emphasis on rearming postpones European recovery and conven- iently helps her out. It is a paradox that our most vigorous defense measures against Russia should fit into a Russian prognosis for an eco- nomically stumbling West, but then, if one begins to think that force is the answer to hard questions one is quite likely to find that he has furnished his world and his life with paradoxes. It is not, I repeat, normal military pre-. paredness that makes the trouble; it is the theoretical shift to the idea that force is the determining factor that does it. The effect shows up in more fields than merely the economic. There would not, I am con- vinced, be quite the same exchange of insults going on now in the U.N., the same use of utterly unrestrained language, if the par- ticipants, on both sides, felt that they were really deciding the issue in their debates. It is because they do not feel that they are deciding the issue, it is because they feel that the issue is being decided outside, by the relation of forces, that they can speak as they do. Back of such speechmaking must be the feeling that talk no longer really matters. And so one of the quickest results of the "force comes first" theory, however, elegantly it may be maintained or inter- preted, is the rusting of a tool which hu- manity has always found useful and impor- tant, the diplomatic. One of the troubles with the notion that we can support a strong diplomacy on the basis of strong rearmament is that there isn't any diplomacy anymore. And the same sort of approach leads some of us to want to restore relations with Franco. It leads still others of us to object to the trials of German generals and to begin to say sweet things about Japan-which shows that if you swallow a theory that is important enough, and wrong enough, your world can change for you. And the Washington news is that the President's proposed limitation of 15 billions on arms expenditures next year will prob- ably have to be exceeded. Some Congress- men are talking of 17 billions-as compared with this year's figure, which is 13.5. (Copyright, 1948, New YorK lost Corporation) 1r - i I 1 1 L~ / N 1' oI *4 arz-g.VOc6. 04149 V VASH~ ,;r-A YPtrC*- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Assistant to the President, Room 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Saturdays). SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1948 VOL. LIX, No. 23 Notices To Deans, Directors, Department Heads, and Others Responsible for Payrolls: Payrolls for the Fall Semester are ready for approval. Please call in Room 9, University Hall after Oct. 18. Women Students attending the EsquireBall, Oct. 16, have 1:30 a.m. permission. Calling hours will not be extended. Placement Registration: Univer-! sity Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information will hold its annual registration for Feb., Jung and Aug. graduates, graduate students and staff mem- bers who wish to register. Those interested in TEACHING will meet at 4:10 p.m., Mon., Oct. 18; and those interested in GEN- ERAL or NON -TEACHING at 4:10 p.m. Tues., Oct. 19. Both meetings will be held in Rackham Lecture Hall. Academic Notices Organic Chemistry Seminar: Mr. Fausto Ramirez will speak on Recent Studies in the Chemistry of Colehicine, 7:30 p.m., Mon., Oct. 18, 2308 Chem. Bldg. Full Faculty Juries for School of Music students have been posted in the School of Music Bldg. Or- gan jur'ies will begin at 3 p.m., Mon. afternoon in Hill Audito- rium; piano, voice, violin, and cello juries will be held Mon., Tues. and Wed evenings, October 18, 19, and 20, Rm. 305 School of Music Bldg., 7:30-10 p.m. German 33 will meet in Room 406 Library starting this Satur- day. Events Today Roger Williams Guild Open house following the football game. t d A VE E t' KT OF OS 5 N k0 -- "Maybe We Could Start With This" Letters to the Editor MATTER OF FACT: Up To Dewey By JOSEPH ALSOP LOUISVILLE-The situation in Kentucky is the apparent exception that proves the rule of the Republicans' situation on the eve of victory. Here Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper seems extremely likely to defeat his Democratic opponent, Repre- sentative Virgil Chapman. But President Harry S. Truman will probably carry Ken- tucky over Governor Thomas E. Dewey. There are, as usual, special local features in the Kentucky situation. Senator Cooper is making an effective down-to-earth ap- peal to the Kentucky tobacco growers. He points out that they already have Senator Alben W. Barkley to help them with the Democrats and suggests that they had better keep a Republican on the pay- roll too, to represent them with the new Administration. Cooper is also assisted by the character of his opponent, Chapman, who is an un- usually unappetizing, dilapidated, old-fash- ioned Southern reactionary. Equally, Tru- man is helped here by the great home state popularity of his running mate, Barkley. Yet Senator Cooper's real major asset is his reputation as a genuinely progressive Republican, not tarred with the Eightieth Congress brush. This is why Cooper, alone among his fellow Senators, has more strength than Governor Dewey. The Kentucky situa- tion is the exact reverse of that in most of the Mid-Western states,- where Hoover era Republicans are frankly counting on Dewey's coattails to carry them into the Senate. This ,orrespondent has found that to be the pat- tern in Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois. Reports from West Virginia and Wyoming plainly suggest that in these states also, the Dewey coattails are the chief reliance of the ob- stinately backward-looking Republican Sen- ators, Chapman Revercomb and Edward V. Robertson. Confident prediction is impossible where the size of the total vote, the extent of ticket-splitting in each state, the turn- out for Henry A. Wallace and other un- known quantities are going to be so important. Yet, this correspondent's in- quiries have led to the view that the Re- victory all along the line may be dangerously misleading. Governor Dewey himself does not seem as yet to have much personal appeal to the electorate. His strength is, simply, that he is regarded as competent and energetic, whereas President Truman is gen- erally 'onsidered incompetent and inade- (Luate. As one farm housewife put it, "Tru- man seems .to be a good man, but when you think a man would make a thriftless farmer, you can't vote for him for Presi- dent." Competent and energetic leadership is what the electorate very naturally wants in this troubled time. On the other hand, the electorate conspicuously does not want the shopworn Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era brand of Republicanism so persistently peddled by the Eightieth Congress. The Republican Senatorial candidates who rep- sent this brand of Republicanism are ob- viously weak. Cooper, the sole modern- minded Republican Senator up for reelect- tion, is equally obviously strong. The infer- ence is clear. Nor is this the sole proof that the situa- tion in the country is not what some Re- publicans gloatingly suppose. Everywhere, the itinerant inquirer hears two points of speculation. If some such man as Justice William 0. Douglas had got the nod instead of Truman in 1944, it is said that the Dem- ocrats would probably now be winning again, despite their sixteen years in office. And if .n Philadelphia the Republicans had chosen in Eightieth Congress type of candidate in- stead of Dewey, it is also said, with still treater positiveness, that even Truman would now be ahead. The visible deterioration of the Wallace movement and the attempts of the North- ern Democratic organizations to put their houses in order are other developments which the victorious Republicans should note with care. Sum up the whole picture and a central fact emerges. All now de- pends on Governor Dewey. If he gives a boldly progressive, clear-sighted admin- istration, he will gain for his party, the fundamental, permanent support it pres- ently lacks. But if he weakly permits the der way. Goal is to double mem- bership by Oct. 27. Next open chapter meeting, Thurs., Oct. 21. Sociedad Hispanica: Social hour,, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., Mon., Oct. 18, International Center. Armenian Student's Association: Meeting Tues., Oct. 19, Michigan Union, Room 3-S, at 7:30 p.m. All pilaff eaters are invited to at- tend. Teaching WHAT DO college teachers really think about college adminis- trations? How are they getting along economically? Are they achieving their personal goals of scholarship and of living? What are the joys and sorrows of to- day's professors? The professors themselves were asked the above questions, too oftenhanswered by someone else for- them. {The Survey-Fifteen hundred faculty members from 30 colleges and universities submitted un- signed statements to the Office of Scientific Personnel of the Na- tional ResearchrCouncil about the "joys and sorrows" of college teaching. They were randomly se- lected and included teachers from each rank and each department. Among the 30 institutions. were Junior colleges, four-year colleges, and universities, some publicly and some privately supported. A rainbow variety of attitudes and opinions was presented. Per- haps the bitterness or the sunni- ness of some responses was more indicative of the person himself than of his institution and profes- sion. But on the whole the state- ments were serious, frank, and fair. From them a college admin- istrator could learn many lessons. The majority were pretty well sat- isfied with their station in life and moderately optimistic about the future of the profession. The pro- fessor or chairman of a depart- ment who had lived conservatively for thirty years tended to be con- tent with the "status quo." He has security and prestige. A professor of education, for example, ebul- liently comments about the future of college teaching: "Better than that of any other profession in America, because this profession is coming into its own in Amer- ican life and planning." And a professor of botany states: I prob- ably would not be satisfied in any other work despite the gripes." Sorrows-On the other hand, a significant and vociferous minor- ity presents a point of view and some specific charges which should not be ignored. The younger fac- ulty members, especially, speak plainly about the shortcomings of teaching conditions and college administration. An instructor in history looks into the future: "Grim. Something must be done to encourage young instructors to go into the field. They are no longer willing to wait ten years or longer for promotions or recog- nition." An associate professor of Eng- lish is equally despondent when he says of the profession:. "It will plug along in its dismal way." A more analytical comment is offered by an assistant professor of history: "I offer no panacea, but deeply feel that some vigorous and candid The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for publication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the ordersin which they are received all letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters and letters of adefama- 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. * * * About Religion To the Editor: The views of Professor Huntley on the University's attitude toward religion as reported in Tuesday's Daily gave me such a deep feeling of pain that I feel pressed to make some sort of reply. I write as a Christian, believing in the divine origin of the Bible, and in the deity of Jesus. Dr. Huntley had in mind,. no doubt, the simple student raised in an orthodox faith who comes to the University to find all his teachers united in agreeing that the Bible he has honorgd is after all a human book: The Penta- teuch a rough compilation of Je- hovistic and Elohistic documents; the prophets only traditional say- ings not finally recorded until af- ter the captivities; the synoptists crude historians competing for sources, disagreeing in their ac- counts, and the writings of Paul the effusions of a zealot. Before such erudite opinion, the student enters a spiritual crisis and "loses God." According to Dr. Huntley, as re- ported in the article, the Univer- sity is obligated to seek to help the student at this point. How? By offering courses about religion -for example, one in the psychol- ogy of religion. Actually, such a course is now being taught. Below is the steno- graphic record of part of a state- ment made by the teacher of this course during an extra-curricular discussion: "You ask, what about God? What sort of interpretation would I put on the concept of God as the all in all of the universe? To me, you cannot apply a con- cept of personality to the universe as a whole. Personality as we can conceive it has to do with an or- 'ganism in an environment. I am merely saying that a concept that has to do with an organism in an environment cannot be applied to the -universe." In other words, if the Infinite will not conform to our finite standards, we shall dis- miss it. Such, we are told, should be the University's answer to the spiti- tual problems of the students. I am grieved by the cruel levity of the suggestion. Are soul problems so superficial they can be solved by classroom discussion? Shall the student's deepest questions be made the sport of intellectuals who are satisfied with their own minds as measures of God? Rationalistic dogmatism is as vicious as religious dogmatism. If the University feels solicitude for spiritual crises, let it discourage flippant attitudes on such matters by its faculty. -Robert Krause Wise-Guys To the Editor: SO THREE local wise-guys got a gander at some of the Purdue coeds and are consequently losing sleep by contrasting them to some of Michigan's female element. I've never had the pleasure of meeting Messrs. Cook, Carneiro or Abrams, but maybe I can figure the cause of their bitterness as expressed in their recent letter to the editor. After all, most of us admit that it's pretty hard for a smart aleck to date one of the more "desirable" girls on campus. With the, surplus of men very much in evidence, a girl can pretty much pick and choose these days. This could very well be the reason that our un- happy little trio is losing out. This is my third year on campus and I can't say that I've been terrifically impressed by the beauty or gal- lantry of the majority pf Michigan men, although there are excep- tions to every rule. Maybe a course in personality improvement would help some of the complainers to self-scrutiny by American univer- sities is very much in order and that unless changes are made on the basis of that self-inspection the future of the profession is open to serious question. Like the nation as a whole, the profession, once the seat of liberalism, runs the risk of slipping into comfort- able but fatal conservatism. -Lowell H. Hattery in School and Society. travel in the circles of our local Hedy Lamarrs. In the meantime, I think I speak for many of my coed-pals when I say that, as far as I'm concerned the Frustrated Three can go to Purdue! -Joan Benson. *, , * Disagrees To the Editor: THERE ARE TIMES when one must enter the chaos of aes- thetic controversy. The necessity of my entrance stems from R. E. Matlaw's coverage of the Marian Anderson concert and specifically his remarks pertaining to the ren- dition of Schubert's Doppelganger and Erlkonig. It may seem to some that a dispute over such a small fraction of Mr. Matlaw's article is unwarrantable. This is very true and if it were not my firm con- viction that the small fraction is an obvious example of what per- meats all of Matlaw's criticisms of music, I would have held my peace. Matlaw's position: "Miss Ander- son does not project Schubert's Leider with the proper intensity." Can there have been members of the Thursday night audience (minus any Daily art critics) who did not feel the dramatic intensity of Miss Anderson's Doppelganger? Inquiries were directed toward the 'critic' concerning his three voiced Erlkonig and it was found that he was under the impression that Schubert's song actually did represent three persons. However, that only variation Schubert ren- ' dered into Goethe's poem was a repetition of the last line of the fifth verse. All four voices are still maintained: the poet, the Erl- konig, the father and the son. As to the critics decision that the interpretation of Miss Anderson failed to properly relate the voices, I say he is being unduly influ- enced by the Kipnes and Schuman Heink recordings. However, how could he possibly relate the voices when he was under the impression that there were only three to relate? I confess to reacting negatively at the sight or utterance of the words "Music Critic" and per- haps this is reflected in the above. So to be positive about the whole. matter, let's have Lil' Abner ap- pear in the space weekly con- sumed by Mr. R. E. Matlaw. -George Murdoch. Vishinsky's solution, for the problem of the Berlin blockade at least has the merit of simplicity. He wants the Security Council to pass a law that there isn't any blockade. -The New Yorker C4r Fifty-Ninth Year Westminster Guild: roast following the game. council ring in back of Indoors if rain. Wiener Meet at church. Looking Back 30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The United States rejected the German armistice offer. President Wilson stated that, "No armistic can be thought of while Gei- many continues her atrocities on land and sea." 20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Michigan students looked forward to tra- veling to Columbus, O., for the Wolverine- Ohio State game. The Daily reported that a large number of students were anticipated to make the trip, as the Michigan allotment of 15,000 tickets were completely sold out. "Trains will furnish the only 'legitimate' means of travel for students, as the driving of automobiles to football games has been banned by University officials." Round-trip railroad fare in those days was five dollars. 15 YEARS AGO TODAY: "Unleashing a powerful attack from scrim- mage, passes, and the broken field, Michigan 11 big, bad Wolverines exacted a 40-0 re- venge in the Michigan stadium for a series of disastrous defeats inflicted by Cornell in the early days of football." The 40-0 victory Art Cinema League and Asso- ciation of Independent Men pres- ent "Jenny Lamour," French film with English titles at 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. t Coming Events Graduate Outing Club: Meet at 2:30 p.m., Sun., Oct. 17, N.W. en- trance, Rackham Bldg. for out- door activity. Sign up at Check- room desk before 11 a.m. Sat. All graduates welcome. United World Federalists: Ex- ecutive Council Meeting, 4:15 p.m., Mon., Oct. 18, Michigan Union. Written committee reports re- quested from all chairmen. EVERY-MEMBER-GEIT-A-MEM- BER Membership drive is now un- Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Harriett Friedman ...Managing Editor Dick Maloy ...............City Editor Naomi Stern .........Editorial Director Allegra Pasqualetti .... Associate Editor Arthur Higbee ........Associate Editor Harold Jackson ......Associate Editor Murray Grant..........Sports Editor Bud Weidenthal ..Associate Sports Ed. 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Or the Psychic Research Society- Cooped up in this creaky mansion With a PERSON! With my nerves?