PAW FO _ y THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1948 _ _ ._ _ ~ a _ _ . m .- I I. ...... _ .... __.. e.Y. . ....y +.... a... I (Pei, ed ONE OF THE not so well known works of the House Un-American Acitivities Committee is a handy little pamphlet en- titled "100 Things You Should Know About Communism in the U.S.A." which might well have been subtitled "Reds, Their Habits, Habitat and How to Hunt Them." In 29 compact pages and one hundred well chosen questions the committee has undertaken to explain and expose the aims and methods of Communism. Their pur- pose as stated in the introduction is to provide the American public with answers to any conceivable question.,"If you ever find yourself in open debate with a Com- munist the facts here given can be used to destroy his arguments completely and expose him as he is for all to see." Answers the pamphlet undoubtedly gives, reasoning behind the answers is another story. Here are some examples of the "Cate- chism on Communism" as authorized by th committee. Question-"What would happen if Com- munism should come into power?" Answer-"Our capital would move from Washington to Moscow. Every man, woman, and child would come under Communist discipline." Question-"Could I have friends of my own choice as I do now?" Answer-"No, except those approved by the Communists in charge of your life from cradle to grave." Question-"What kind of people become Communists?" Answer-"The real center of power in Communism is within the professional classes . . . taken as a whole the party depends for its strength on the support it gets from teachers, pretchers, actors, writers, union officials, doctors, lawyers, editors, businessmen, and even from mil- lionaires." Question-"What is the difference in fact between a Communist and a Fascist?" Answer-"None worth noticing." Question-"How can a Communist be identified?" Answer-"It is easy. Ask him to name ten things wrong with the United States. -Then ask him to name two things wrong with Russia. His answers will show him up even to a child. "Communists will denounce the President of the United States but they will never denounce Stalin." There you have them, five of the 95 ques- tions and answers. They're simple enough, a child could learn them without any trouble -- a parrot. But if there are still any little problems bothering you the committee will be glad to help you out. They have a whole series planned, "Communism in Religion," "Com- munism in Education," "Communism in La- bor," "Communism in Government." Like the "Bobbsey Twins" and the "Rover Boys" this serial threatens to keep going on, and on and on. -Allegra Pasqualetti Editorials published in The Michigan Daily pre written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. PD RATHER BE RIGHT: Escape and the GOP "Right Behind You, Pal" Letters to the Editor.. By SAMUEL GRAFTON AM CONVINCED, now, that in turning back to the Republicans, the American people are indulging themselves in an es- sentially fretful gesture. Scared by this boilingly formless world, appalled by the political changes which have been taking place in Europe since the war, they turn back to the G.O.P., as to something fam- iliar, something they know, something that stands at the furthest remove from what is going on outside our borders. There is both irritation and defiance in their choice; they vote for Dewey in that same vexed manner in which so many now boast that they no longer follow foreign news. There is also nostalgia, and a hankering for nor- mq~cy, in the choice, as in the choice of Harding in 1920. Want Writers AS A STUDENT NEWSPAPER, one of the primary aims of The Michigan Daily is to reflect to the greatest possible extent the opinions of the various seg- ments on campus. Although Daily staff members, express- ing their opinions on the editorial page, represent many schools of thought, sev- erl. positions for special columns, both political and humorous, will be open this semester to further increase campus rep- resentation. There will also be openings for drama, music, movie, and book reviewers. Appli- cants should submit samples of their work to the editorial director by Friday. Students who would like to try for staff jobs on The Daily may enter The Daily's training program this Fall. Dates of try- out meetings are given on page 1 of to- day's paper. -The Senior Editors MATTER OF FACT: Whose Case? By JOSEPH ALSOP. DEXTER, IA.-All the elements in Harry S. Truman's well-nigh hopeless polit- ical problem were neatly, picturesquely summed up at the formal opening of his campaign, here among the yellow fields of ripened corn. The Truman strategy is to make his audiences' flesh creep with talk of the "gluttons of privilege" who inhabit Wall Street. But in the first place, the obviously decent, moderate and flatly unemotional President is almost comically miscast in the old role of William Jennings Bryan. The scene, much more than what the President said, was in truth the real polit- ical story here. The setting was the pros- perous Iowa farm of Mrs. T. R. Agg, widow of the dean of the Iowa State College. The fields of the place are rich, the farm has been much improved by inventions of the devilish New Deal, wickedly aided by the Federal treasury. Here nearly 90,000 people gathered, to witness the annual national plowing contest, to look over Mrs. Agg's experiments in progressive farming, and to enjoy something like a vast county fair. Yet the looks of the people were still more impressive than their numbers. They all have the same wiry, energetic good health. And while only a tiny percentage, were very rich, and none at all pretended to be anything but farmers, the whole crowd wore an air of comfortable, homely well- being. They applauded mildly when he showed the curious, small-man's spunk which is the distinguishing mark of his campaigning. They laughed when he used one of his earthy expressions. They clapped him po- litely at the close. And that was all. Such were the people whom the Pres- ident sought to arouse against his fa- vorite Republican "gluttons of privilege." In a sense, he had a good case. He spoke nothing but the truth when he reminded his listeners that by the close of the Hoover administration, much of the state was owned by eastern insurance com- panies. He spoke the truth also when he claimed for the Democrats much credit for agricultural progress- Yet his 70 per cent Republican audience they would accord any decent President of the United States, but without a quiver of emotion even when he recalled the terrible days of the early thirties. In the early thirties, the mood of Iowa was almost revolutionary. But now the President's strong talk utterly failed to recreate that mood. If appearances are at all trustworthy, the President's failure to arouse any more re- sponse than this dooms in advance his whole doughty effort. On the other hand, in these crowds there is also a warning for the Republicans. Because President Truman lacks the queer electric quality of leadership that makes people stand on their hind legs and cheer, this fact is in grave danger of being forgotten. Yet it may be written down for future remembrance. If natinnal nnlicv isa ever dominated by Turning to the Republicans is one way of turning one's back on this whole con- fused world, and on the angry questions of how much liberal reform and how much change we need in order to get by. And this mood represents, as of this moment, a defeat for liberalism. AND YET one wonders how successful this attempt at disengagement and flight is going to be. I think we may find, as a nation, that our effort to walk out of some of our problems by turning Republican may lead to a situation in which we are go- ing to have to face them more squarely than ever before. For, up to now, if Roosevelt or Truman made a mistake, it was just Roosevelt or Truman making a mistake. But Dewey is more than just Dewey; Dewey is the fav- ored candidate of those who consider them- selves the spokesmen of American free en- terprise. In him economic traditionalism, dressed in its best bib and tucker, prepares to show what, given a free hand, it can do. It will be in charge of its own destinies, un- der the President it wants. And thus the contest between the Ameri- can productive system and the Russian pro- ductive system for world moral leadership is, going to become sharper, more direct than ever. For in that contest Dewey will be judged, by Americans and by the world, not as Dewey, but as the chosen exponent of American conservative thought. The degree of human happiness and economic progress his administration can achieve will be taken as a measure of what American economic conservatism can do. But what if painful inflation continues, and a lack of housing? Suddenly we can see that, far from be- ing allowed, by their victory, to walk out on the major questions presented by lib- eralism, the Republicans are going to have to face those questions in the most direct way; face them as they have not faced them, really, for sixteen years. I guess that is what nostaligia will do for you every time; it will lead you in a circle right back to what you're fleeing from. O SAY, then, that the liberal movement will be killed off by the next election is absurd; actually the liberal movement may find that it has acquired a new lever- age against conservatism, a new power to make it face facts. But more important than that is a cer- tain obscure promise I feel to be concealed even in the present mess - and that is that ultimately we are going to find our security, if we do find it, our feeling of confidence even as against Russia, only in a renewal of the.,courage it takes to be liberal. What this election may show, most clearly of all, is that a flight from liberalism doesn't solve anything, or save you from anything, or excuse you from answering hard questions, and the morning after Dewey's victory may betfie day on which we begin a perhaps complicated return journey to the idea that human problems must be solved, and not ignored; they don't read the election re- turns. (Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation) '7- -, ---<2 FDAILY, OFFICIAL BULLETIN Current Movies (Continued from Page 2) will be publicly stated by the Chairman of the Committee. Appeal from the de- cision of the Committee may be made to the President of the University. 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Lectures 1948-49 Lecture Course: The Orato- rical Association presents the following distinguished speakers during the com- ing year: Oct. 12, Robert Magidoff, "Why I Was Expelled From Soviet Rus- sia"; Nov. 1, Raymond Gram Swing, "History on the March"; Nov. 10, Re- becca West, "Famous Trials"; Nov. 19, John Mason Brown, "Broadway in Re- view"; Feb. 24, Cornelia Otis Skinner, "Wives of Henry VIII"; March 3, Eve Curie, "France, Struggle for Civiliza- tion"; and March 10, Herbert Agar, "England Today." Tickets for the com- Not the Colossus? To the Editor: With the election campaign now getting into gear it seems that a lot of despicable persons have been going around implying that the Republican party is not the greatest thing since the Co- lossus of Rhodes. It is open sea- son on Republicans and the mem- bers of the party resent being sub- jected to the calumnies of a lot of shady characters who don't have sense eto realize that the party of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover is the only one capable of adminis- tering the government with hon- esty, justice, and intelligence. Take the matter of the energy plete course are now on sale in 111 Au- ditorium box office, which is open from 10-1, and 2-5 daily. Academic Notices Chemistry 55-169E For the first week only, the schedule for the various sections has been changed as follows: Sec 1, Rec M 2 Rm. 165 Lab. M, 1, 3-5; F 1-5 280 Sec. 2 Rec. Tu 1, Rm. 151, Lab. Tu, 2-5; Th 1-5 Rm. 280 Sec. 3, Rec. W 2, Rm. 151, Lab. W, 1-3-5; S, 8-12, Rm. 280 Sec. 4, Rec. Tu 8, Rm. 2308, Tu, 9-12; Th, 8-12, Rm. 2310 Sec. 5, Rec. W 2, Rm. 151 W, 1, 3-5; S, 8-12, Rm. 2310 For the rest of the semester, recita- tion times will be announced. Students in sections 2 and 4 will re- port for recitation, first. 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Fischer before that time to make special arrangements. Spanish 209. Survey of Colonial and Nineteenth Cehtury Spanish-American Literature will meet Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 4 p.m.., Room 406 General Library. Freshman Health Lectures for Men First Semester 1948-49 It is a University requirement that all entering Freshmen takes a series of lectures on Personal and Community Health and to pass an examination on the content of these lectures. Transfer students with freshman. standing are also required to take the course unless they have had a similar course else- where, which has been accredited here. Upperclassmen who were here as freshmen and who did not fulfill the requirements are requested to do so this term. These lectures are also required of veterans with freshman standing. The lectures will be given in the Nat- ural Science Auditorium at 4, 5 and 7:30 p.m. as per the following schedule: Lecture Day Date Fifty-Ninth Year and imagination of yourth. Which of the other parties presents such an inspiring collection of young men? Harold Stassen says that the "Republican platform is a forward-looking document devel- oped . ..through the insistence of millions of the younger and more liberal members of the Republican party." Three cheers for the youthful liberalism of Congress- man Halleck, Speaker Martin, and Senator Taft. Or how about the charges that J. Parnell Thomas and his Re- publican colleagues do not under- stand the fundamental concpets of the American democratic tra- ditional? How can they say such a thing? Stassen says that Presi- dent Truman "has followed Henry Wallace and Henry Wallace fol- lowed those who had no faith in America." That's a justifiable at- tack on the opposition, but to say anything of the sort about the Republicans borders on treason. After all, the other political parties are only interested in "demagogue appeal to, set class against class." They want "to sow the seeds of disunity in the minds of American youth for the sake of fleeting political advantage." Everyone knows this is true, be- cause Harold Stassen says it's true. But the Republican party has higher motives. It has no interest in the outcome of the election ex- cept that it sincerely hopes the most capable man will win. It seeks to reap no partisan politi- cal advantage from the current world situation. While the other parties dissipate their energies on patronage problems and the dirty work of winning an election the Republicans are concentrating their resources on the establish- ment of international peace and the creation of an abundant economy in the United States. An organization so utterly vir- tuous, standing for such high moral principles, should not be forced into the gutter of everyday politics. It is not right that the brick-bats and rotten eggs which are the lot of the candidates of other parties should soil the pure- white banner of the Republicans. The next time you hear anyone attack the Republican party re- member that he is either getting old, has no faith in America, or is trying to reap political advan- tage by fomenting a class struggle. This is one election in which American voters will have no trouble deciding where to cast their ballot. Virtue has gone to perch on the halo of the. Albany Sphinx, and none but the immoral will deny it. -Leo Weiss NIGHT EDITOR: DICK MALOY IT SO HAPPENS 0 Who's Discouraged? Election Note,.,. STUDENTS WHO became discouraged with the difficulties of registration were probably too busy arguing their way into courses to discover that they weren't the only ones. For, according to a large sign on Waterman's Gym balcony, "Changes' in' election will be difficult and discouraged." Serious Frosh .". . THE POOR LITTLE freshman who wan- dered into a Martha Cook open house last week will probably be sticking to his books for awhile. Trying to wheedle a date with a resident of that strictly upperclass residence for women, our little freshman in- quired what year of school she was in. When her cold "Freshman-in Law School" -failed to rebuff him, she philosophised, sweetly, "I thing women should marry men younger than themselves, don't you?" "Oh, I'm not going to marry," he said. "I'm going to study." Window Shopping? -. - FRESHMEN are getting a little smarter this year-as witness the remark made by one of the crew at a recent mixer dance when asked by a hostess if he would like to be introduced to a girl. "No," he answered, "I'm just looking, thanks." '! At the Michigan .. . "GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY" with Dan Dailey. H AVING BECOME INURED to the jeers of my public by three semesters at this nefarious occupation, I'm going to get off to a roaring start with what I know will be a contested opinion. For while Give My Regards to Broadway will probably be class- ified as that golden vegetable by the ma- jority of Ann Arbor audiences, I happened to like this very believable tale of a vaude- ville juggler who saw his profession buried but would never believe the writing on the tombstone. Albert the Great and Family played to the dirty wallpaper of a walkup apartment following the demise of the old "three a day" and Charles Winneger, as Albert had to trade in his tux for overalls while they "were between engagements." It turned out to be the longest run he ever played, for twenty years later he is a prosperous official of the company, still waiting for the booking that never came. Dan Dailey and his two blonde sisters that make up the "Family" part of the act prac- tice their songs and juggling out in the garage, and the story for the most part is concerned with how the kids grow away from their Dad's dream of trouping again. It's very much middle class America; elm trees, baseball, family birthday parties and all, and possibly this and Mr. Winneger's constant absorption in show business will seem dull to many. But the likable Mr. Dailey, and the fine performances of Fay Bainter, Charles Winninger and Charles Ruggles plus some very good situations give it a realism and warmth that make you feel you have really met the family, rather than merely seen another movie. -Gloria Hunter. ,* * * At the State.. "THE PIRATE" with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland. 1 Mon. 2 Tues. 3 Wed. 4 Thurs. 5 Mon. 6 Tues. 7 (Final Exam) Wed. You may attend at any Sept. 20 Sept. 21 Sept. 23 Sept. 23 Sept. 27 Sept. 28 Sept. 29 of the above hours. Enrollment will take place at the first lecture. Please note that at- tendance is required and roll will be taken. Events Today Polonia Club: First meeting, 7:30 p.m., International Center. All students, invited especially those of Polish de- scent. Young Democrats: Executive Com- mittee meeting, 4:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Coming Events Pi Tau Sigma: Meeting of charter members and election of officers, 229 W. Engineering Bldg., Wed., 8 p.m. Bring initiation fees. Flying Club; Open meeting, Wed., Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., 1042 E. Engineering Bldg. All students and faculty mem- bers invited:. Young Republicans: Open meeting, 7:30 p.m.. Thurs., Sept. 23, Rm. 3L-3R, Michigan Union. United World Federalists University Chapter: First general meeting of the semester, Wednesday evening, Sept. 22, Michigan Union. Meeting is open to old, and new and prospective members of the United World Federalists. 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Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscription during the regular srho$1 year by carrier, $5.00, by mail, $6.00.f /. Member Associated Collegiate Press 1948-49 BARNABY Hmm. A letter the Principal is writing to the newspaper, pointing out that his school is overcrowded and-Overcrowded? Why, this building is deserted, Barnaby. We've got to arouse community interest and force the city to build the proposed annex to this school. There just isn't any other solution to overcrowdedness- I can think of several simple solutions to the Principal's little problem. I'll wait here and discuss them with him-