T H E MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1948 I Useless UN? THE LATEST FLURRY of action in the no reference Palestine dispute, both in the UN and sitting in Pa Jerusalem provide final testimony of the The Americ innocuous position of the United Nations. recognizes th Fruits of I In Paris, Britain finally gave up her was in itselt backing of the Bernadotte plan of par- already appa tition which was unacceptable to the Arad app Jews. After years of attempting to frus- their own. I trate Jewish hopes for Palestine, England they will obs for the time being has resigned the fate the UN impo of the Holy Land to powers other than direct action her qwn. bound to hav In dropping the Bernadotte plan, Brit- posed by the ain accepted the American view that all What happ negotiations should be carried on by the thing that 1 Arabs and Israelis, without outside inter- again througl ference. It is very sir The plan, sensible as it is, is prima facie Two natio evidence that the UN has been wasting time in battle wi and lives trying to do something in Pales- while both s tine. can out of All that has happened in Palestine peace finally would have happened if the UN had not The whole existed and all that will happen will have is a vivid con e to the wishes of the body ris. can plan for direct negotiations is reality fully. the American proposal, which completely unnecessary, are arent. Late Tuesday evening, aeli leaders signed a truce of t remains to be seen whether erve this one any better than sed truce, but the outcome of by the two governments is e more effect than a truce im-. ethereal power of the UN. 'ened in Palestine is the same has happened time and time h the course of modern history. mple. ons fight. One gains equality th the other, a truce ensues ides try to get the most they the issue, and some sort of y comes. story of the UN in Palestine mmentary on the UN, and the Lhe world had for an interna- zation back in the triumphant days of the victory over the tions of the world have gone ey had before and seem to be a repeat performance of his- -Al Blumrosen. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. hopes that tl tional organi2 days of 1945. Since the axis, the nat on just as th heading for tory. NIGHT EDITOR: MARY STEIN No Discrimnation IDEALISTIC LIBERALS in the American Veterans Committee seem to have lost sight of their objectives in favor of defend- ing the ousted Communists. We have always considered promotion of the general welfare while maintaining individual dignity as the essence of the liberal tradition-a combination of the best of moderate government regulation and individualism. Liberalism is not the same as Commmu- nism. What liberals regard as ends the Com- munist use as means. They are continu- ously flying the martyr's flag in an effort to draw sympathy from those whose good intentions lead them astray. And while we can sympathize with them when they are really persecuted it should not be necessary to join them to prove our belief in their basic rights. The AVC has devolved into a factional organization, with the several factions in- sisting that they have the only patent on liberalism. Under our definition of "lib- eralism" both factions are included-but not the Communists. The one faction charges that it is dis- crimination to keep the Communist mi- nority out. It is hard to see why it is dis- criminatory to keep a group from joining an. organization whose aims and means are different from those of the group. Neither the Constitution of the United States nor the preamble of the AVC Con- stitution can be supported by an honest Communist. These are the foundations on which AVC was formed-support of the Constitution, the system of private enter- prise and endorsement of the Bill of Rights. These founding principles have not been compromised but rather reinforced by the decision to request those who do not agree with them to disassociate. Continued fac- tionalism inside AVC will result in no work being done along constructive lines. While we affirm our belief in the right of any one .to be a Communist, it does not necessarily follow that it is discrim- ination to keep Communists out of AVC.-. -Jake Hurwitz, Don McNeil. PD RATHER BE RIGHT: Obscure Aims By SAMUEL GRAFTON IT WOULD TONE UP Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's trip to the United States a great deal if she would, announce as she landed from her plane that a quite new, broader and more inclusive Chinese gov- ernment had been formed. Unless Madame Chiang carries news of this or equal importance in her reticule, it is hard to see what her trip will accomplish. If there is no new development of this order riding with Madame Chiang over the Pacific waters, then her trip is just another trip. She will come, in that case, only to sell us, at a high price, the ex- clusive privilege of participating in the losing end of a civil war. She will come to obtain from us a favorable verdict on the Chiang government after many of the Chinese people themselves have rendered an unfavorable verdict, whether by fight- ing against that government, or by not fighting for it, or by deserting from it and turning in the direction of Com- munism. Chiang's government, shot through with reaction and corruption, has proven itself unable to hold China together under much more favorable circumstances than now exist. Any offer to have us buy further into it under present strains is not a good offer. To do so might give emotional relief to those who want to make a gesture against Communism, but the price involved is too high a price to pay for mere emotional relief. It will be sad if China turns Communist without having had a chance to try the democratic solution. But it will have been Chiang, as well as the advancing Communists, who will have denied her that chance. And while it will be grim indeed to see China fall, that event may have some beneficial effects. It will come like a slap of cold water against the overheated faces of those who have tried to persuade us that it is our duty to support every reactionary and authoritarian in the world, so long as he is against Commu- nism, or so long as the Communists are against him. It is a peculiar business they have tried to lure us into, and one with- out much of a future. They have leaped into this game with a kind of juvenile intensity; they have tried to reduce the most complicated political problem which has ever faced mankind to a simple rou- tine of sending donations to dictators. The trouble in China may force us all to grow up; it may compel us to realize that the defense of democracy is a more com- plicated and difficult process than it has sometimes seemed to be; it may, ideologi- cally separate the men from the boys, so to speak. Democracy will do better in the end on its own, standing by its own merits, suffer- ing, if need be, for its own defects, but without borrowing from failing causes that are not its own. In an age in which reaction is quite clearly doomed, this is not a moral judgment, but a practical one, and Madame Chiang will have to make some quite in- genious speeches to gainsay it. (Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation) Why Not Here? T HE GENERAL MOTORS Corporation apparently has a skeleton in the closet. We refer of course to the GM "Holden" a six cylinder, 5 passenger sedan which the company is now rapidly producing in two plants 'down under' in Australia. The Holden is 61 inches high, has a 103 inch wheelbase and gets 30 miles to an American gallon of gas-all of which is a far cry from the bloated dreairiboats Amer- ican automotive firms are passing off on the American public for fancy prices. The situation becomes, more ridiculous when we consider that British manufac- turers are exporting to the United States a car almost identical to the Holden GM is apparently ashamed to sell locally. The British model is within an inch of the same height and gets even more mileage to a gallon of gas. In the process, American small car buy- ers are forced to pay an excise tax of $83 r and shipping costs which are included in the British model's average price of $1,650. They also must silffer while parts and re- placement equipment are shipped across the Atlantic. Assuming that the American's technical abilities are as good as those of the Brit- ish, why can't a Holden-a soundly con- structed, small five place car-be pro- duced in the United States to sell for around $1,300. With such a model in mass production, (the Model T would serve as Godfather) the American motorist would not have to look to Congressional committees to air out the stinking mess surrounding current automo- bile sales on the black, grey and five-o'clock shadow markets. -Craig 11. Wilson. ^q ^'r-r ^- a , t . t ". l I I 1 " ' " ,.,P. .. . I .. . t it' Nla d>N Copyright,, 1948. New Yok Star Inc. a -- ....,- N N; _ "My dear, haven't you HEARD? again to be liberal." It's getting fashionable II DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN BILL MAULDIN .4- t N. Letters to the Editor ... L MATTER OF FACT: Budgets and Bombs By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-Since the real issue is just about life or death, the current row about next year's defense expenditures deserves serious attention. Very briefly, the President began the row by setting a $15 billion limit on Army, Navy and Air Force outlays in 1949. The limit cut straight across the plans for American re-armament so urgently adopted last spring. And now the services are simultaneously squabbling about whether Air, Naval or Ground Force plans are to be sacrificed, and pleading with the White House for more money. If our re-armament plans are to be radically revised, moreover, there can be only one result. We shall fail to build the strength which is needed for minimum national security. Meanwhile Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, attempting to implement White House policy, has just issued a stringent secret order to the service chiefs, forbidding any discussion of the problem. The explosive implications of this situa- tion can be very easily demonstrated. Last spring, the Congress wisely reversed the. Administration, and authorized the com- pletion of the famous 70-group air pro- gram by 1952. There was nothing mystical about either the size of the 70-group program or the choice of 1952 as the date for its comple- tion. On the contrary, the prospective 70- group air force will give the bare minimum of . strength for an air offensive against' the Soviet Union. And it was considered that this offensive air strength should be created by 1952, because this is the first k. ii year in which the American experts believe the Soviets may perfect a peoples' demo- cratic atomic bomb. The President may of course lift the bud- get ceiling imposed on the services. Or the ceiling may be retained, while other de- fense cuts are made and the 70-group program is left intact. The wind, however, has been setting in the other direction. The first intention, in fact, was not merely to abandon the 70-group program, but to cut back what the Air Force has done already. Up to the present, enough air groups have been commissioned to bring our total to 58 or 59. The new groups have of course not been completely manned and equipped as yet. Perhaps additional facts will correct the impression of suicidal folly conveyed by the facts above. Better still, slowing the tempo of re-armament may be thought too dangerous, on reconsideration. But if we are to throw our strength away, we should at least know what we are doing. Still another set of facts makes the mat- ter especially crucial. As was reported in this space two days ago, the tremendous effort the Kremlin is making has led the' American experts to expect the Russians to make fairly rapid progress with their atomic energy project. Hence the importance of 1952. Nonetheless, if we are not ourselves poorly defended, a Soviet Bikini need not become the signal for world-wide panic. Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed that six feet of earth or the concrete equivalent would at least shelter human life from bomb blast. Pro- tective measures are not wholly impossible, as so many suppose. But what is infinitely' more significant, a single atomic bomb has only psychological importance. And the frenzied Soviet exploitation of the limited European uranium deposits suggests that the Russians are still poorly off for sources of fissionable raw stuff. Even in this country, production was so slow and laborious that fissionable raw stuff turned out at Hanford one week was built into the bomb at Los Alamos the next week, just before it was sent on its way to Hiroshima. With this limitation. intensified by restricted uranium sources, the Russians may well produce a bomb by 1 Q92_ Rut thev n uihardly r nouee a (Continued from Page 2) will speak on the subject, "A Graphical Method for Solving Problems in Plane Plasticity." Electrical Engineering Depart- ment Colloquium: 4 p.m., Fri., Dec. 3, Rm. 2084 E. Engineering Bldg. Prof. J. A. Strelzoff will speak on the subject: "Tensors in Engineer- ing." Concerts Concert: The University Musi- cal Society will present Rudolf Serkin, pianist, in the Extra Con- cert Series, Fri., Dec. 3, 8:30 p.m. Mr. Serkin will play the Bach Italian Concerto; Beethoven's Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78; Schubert's Phantasie in C major, in the first half of the program. Following intermission he will play Schumann's B-flat minor and F-sharp major Romanzen; Scherzo in E minor and two Songs without Words by Mendelssohn; closing with two numbers by Chopin-Ballade in A-flat major, and Tarentelle, Op. 43. Tickets are available at the of- fices of the University Musical So- ciety during the day; and after 7 p.m. on the night of the concert at the Hill Auditorium box office. Program of Concertos and Arias by students in the School of Music and the University Symphony Or- chestra, Wayne Dunlap, Conduc- tor, 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 2, Hill Auditorium. Compositions by Mo- zart, Gluck, Strauss, Saint-Saens, Beethoven, Korngold, Hayden and Franck, with the following solo- ists: Maryjane Albright, Betty Estes, Gloria Gonan; Mary Kelly, Patricia Pierce, Emil Raab, Jac- queline Rosenblatt and Merrill Wilson. The general public is invited. Exhibitions Phi Sigma Photographic Ex- hibit of Biological Subjects. West Gallery, Rackham Building. De- cember 1 through 8. Special showing of kotochrome slides Dec. 6, 8 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Public invited. Museum of Art: Americana - the Index of American Design, Alumni Memorial Hall, through Dec. 27; weekdays 9-5, Sundays 2-5 p.m. The public is invited. Events Today Graduate Student Council: 7:30 p.m.,, West Lecture Hall, Rack- ham Bldg. N.S.A. Meeting: 4 p.m., Student Legislature Room, Michigan Un- ion. Committee for Displaced Stu- dents: General meeting, 7:30 p.m., Rehearsal Room,Michigan League. Michigan Crib: Meeting, 7:50 p.m., Auditorium, Architecture Bldg. Prof. Charles Joiner of the Law School will speak on the sub- ject, "What it takes to be trial attorney." All interested are in- vited.! p.m., Thursday and Friday, Dec. 2 and 3, Rm. 408 Romance Lan- guages Bldg. Gilbert and Sullivan Society: Full rehearsal for all chorus mem- bers and principals, 7:14 p.m., Michigan League. Room will be posted. Student Faculty Hour: 4-5 p.m., Grand Rapids Room, Michigan League. School of Architecture and Design will be guests. Co- sponsored by Assembly and Pan- Hel Associations. Zeta Phi Eta, Speech Arts: Business meeting 4:15 p.m., Rm. 4208 Angell Hall. International Center weekly tea for all foreign students and Amer- ican friends, 4:30-6 p.m. Interna- tional Center. Hostesses: Mrs. H. F. Taggart and Miss Inez V. Bo- zorth. La p'tite causette: 3:30 p.m., Grill Room, Michigan League. Alpha Phi Omega, Service Fra- ternity: General meeting, 7 p.m., Michigan Union. Ensian picture; details of Initiation Dinner. U. of M. Rifle Club: Firing, 7:30 p.m., ROTC range. Deutscher Verein: 7:45 p.m., Michigan League. Games and ra- dio skit. Faculty and students in- vited. Room will be posted. Delta Sigma Pi, I'ofessional Business Fraternity: Informal in- itiation, 8 p.m., Michigan Union. Ordnance ROTC Film Hour: 7:30 p.m., Rm. 301 W. Engineering Annex. Program: "Combat Fir- ing with Hand Guns," "Diagnosis of Machine Gun Stoppages," 'Concentric Recoil Mechanism," and "Task Force Frigid." ThegDaily accords its readers thex privilege of submitting letters for publication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the order in whichv they are received all letters bearingI the writer's signature and address.- Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti-l 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-k densing letters. * * * On AVC Convention I To the Editor:1 HE REPORT of four of thee -delegates to the AVC conven- tion-Millstein, Dancy, Dean and Aronson, to The Daily is typical. They are attempting to cover up the fact that the faction they sup- ported vigorously, the so-called "Progressive" caucus,was soundly defeated on every item on the convention agenda by an extreme- ly comfortable margin rangingt from over three thousand to five thousand votes. These "Progressives" were beat-~ en badly. They now contend thatj the convention was packed. It seems that their lie must be an-1 swered despite the fact that to do so is to honor their allega- tion, when it should be ignored. The facts are: the Baltinore delegation vote was discredited.- This amounted to approximately 200 votes out of 25,000 represented at the convention. No one at- tempted to defend this delega- tion's rights when the chargesj were substantiated. But, the De- troit UAW chapter No. 10, com- prising 610 votes, was never of-, ficially challenged to the Creden- tials Committee. To my knowledge, these were the only two chapter delegations at all in doubt. Even if they had; both been discredited and even if the suspended New York delega- tions had been reinstated, the In- dependent Progressive" faction, which I supported, would have won on all issues by a comfortable margin. So much for the convention, it- self. The executive Committee of the campus chapter here demo- cratically decided that there would be no majority-minority report of the convention, but ra- ther that each delegate would be given five minutes to present his point of view. The entire discus- sion was scheduled to take only one hour and then it was unan- imously decided that the meeting would adjourn so that all AVC members and friends would have a chance to hear the truth about the convention in an informal dis- cussion with that paragon of ob- jectivity and purveyor of garbage, John Gates, the editor of the. Daily 'Worker, the only paper that prints the TRUTH. I urge all members of AVC to come out tonight to witness this meeting and to help provide me with a chance to present our side of the story. They will try to table a motion of mine to expel our three self - avowed Communist party members. Carter, Shaffer, and Yellin. Why are they afraid to have it discussed? -Edward Tumin. 'Socialized Medicine' To the Editor: IN REPLY to a recent editorial favoring compulsory health insurance, I wish to give a young physician's point of view and to cite my recent personal experience with socialized medicine. I have just returned from a year in Atlanta, Georgia, where I served as assistant resident in medicine at a large city charity hospital, working an average of 80 hours a week for a salary of $30 monthly. Both white and colored persons received unlimited medical care and drugs without cost. By ob- taining a card of eligibility, a per-! son could visit the hospital clinics whenever he desired. As a result the clinics mushroomed in size, and only the- most cursory care could be given because each doc- tor had to see 10 to 15 patients an hour. But the interesting thing is that in the white medical clinic some 90% of patients brought com- plaints for which no physical basis could be found, whereas most of the colored patients had definite physical abnormalities. These white patients apparently came to feel they were entitled to some medicine every two weeks, and the doctor had no way to dis- courage this because of their un- limited privileges. When told they needed no further medical care, several patients have protested to me, "I paid my taxes and I'm a voter. I'll see the hospital super- intendent." The hospital and medical care had become a polit- ical football. This was socialized medicine with a vengeance, and I feel it was responsible for this wholesale deterioration of patient's medical morale. Many people contend the diffi- culties in obtaining a doctor's services at night would be relieved by socialized medicine, but did they ever try to call a government doctor after 4 p.m.? However, per- haps I should look forward to so- oialized medicine when I too may have the 40 hour week other gov- ernment employes enjoy. -H. T. Johnson, M.D. University Hospital. Oversight To the Editor: [ HAVE BEEN VERY disappoint- ed lately with the appearance of the East-West selection and the numerous All-Conference se- lections. One prominent senior of the 1948 Championship Michigan squad is noticeably absent, namely Dan Dworsky. Dworsky, one-half of the best line-backing combina- tion in collegiate football history, has played an immeasurable part in making Michigan the top team in the country for the past two years. His defensive work has been brutally superb. The job he has done as captain of the de fensive team, calling all the de- fensive formations, has been com- mendable, limiting our opposition to an average of five plus point per game. What is the cause of this over- sight? . . . Where is the justic in the matter? . . . Some of yo will say that Dworsky was use mainly on defense, and, therefore is not eligible for these post-sea son honors; but you'll find h played as much as Al Wistert, pow tential All-American and All1F Conferenc tackle,and Gene Der ricotte, East-West game selection' He also played as much offen- sively as honored Dom Tomasi Ralph Kohl, and Dick Rifenbur' played defensively. This fac should not bar him. Last week in his sports col umn in the Chicago Sun-Time Gene Kessler made a fitting trib- ute to Dworsky. He claimed Da Dworsky to be the most valuabl player in collegiate ball this sea- son. Coming from a Chicagc sports writer-that's something Gene Kessler is not alone in hi, praise. Our own Fritz Crisler wilt always have lavish praise foi Dworsky's ability and perform ance. The hordes of sports writeri still have a chance to redee themselves, though; the All- American teams have not com out yet. I hope they don't mist the boat again and overlook on of the nation's finest-Dan Dwor- sky. -Morris Passer. 41 Fifty-Ninth Year Arts Chorale: Meeting, Rm. 506 Burton Tower. 7 p.m., Coming Events Geological -Mineralogical Jour- nal Club: 12 noon, Fri., Dec. 3, Rm. 3056 Natural Science Bldg. Mr. Bruce F. Curtis, of the Department of Geology of Harvard University, will speak on the subject, "Influ- ence of Synthetic Fuels on the Future of Geology." All interested are invited. Hawaii Club: Meeting, 7 p.m., Fri., Dec. 3, Rm. 3A, Michigan Union. German Coffee Hour: 3-4:30 p.m., Fri., Dec. 3, Michigan League Coke Bar. All students and faculty members are invited. Ann Arbor Friends: Potluck supper, 6 p.m., Fri., Dec. 3, Base- ment, Lane Hall. Moving picture on Friends' work in Puerto Rico hospitals. Speaker: Mr. Dan Boehn, former participant in the Puerto Rico work project. Every- one invited. Wallace Progressives: Executive Meeting, Fri., Dec. 3, 4:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Edited and managed by students o the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Conutrol o Student Publications. 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Looking Back 30 YEARS AGO TODAY: With World War I over, the University got permission from Washington to re- organize the S.A.T.C. by dropping many of the military courses. Signal Corps men were still digging trenches on Observatory Hill to form a first line of defense against any raid from Vvsil,i viiit wasnr'csuimc'r Spanish play tryouts: 4 to 6' _ _ __ swA s BARNAB!I Now that you fixed up his drawing will that Of course not. But he left out the sun and moon-standard equipment in all the charts O'Malley, fair play is all very well. ButI- Et I