I. it t, AJL I C it i cl, i Ivi JL i Y1 ,G.r. b aLr a.r -a. ,mltl vi. . v, 3;K # E ~iTN -- - I I ---~-- 7~A~ ~4Aa ...'Aa.ara. -, a'ts~.r :P I 'feavnv11.J4 A lo~nw' ILE THE NATION waited for Pres- ident Truman's address to Congress, the need for Civil Rights legislation had popped up like a sore thumb the last weeks of 1948 to taunt the States Righters and White supremacists who were waiting to fight it. From the bigots stronghold, Mississippi, came the tragic ease of the man who was the unknown Negro. David Knight, who served in the Navy for three years as a white man, had come back to Mississippi, married, and settled down, only to come in contact with that state's laivs against inter-marriage. Knight, it seems, and you have to stretch the imagination to grit this, was the great grandson of a Negro woman on his grand- father's plantation. This made him 1/8 Negro, and of course, the Southerner's couldn't allow him to stay married to his Indian wife. Knight was sentenced to five years in prison for his "crime." This, from the state that keeps telling us that if we leave them alone they will handle their own race problem. But the Southern stronghold isn't the only example that erept into the news just before the P resident's speech. Rene- saw M. Landis 11, in a report for the Na- Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: CRAIG IH. WILSON - q tional Commission on Segregation in the Nation's Capital produced some startling facts. A dog cemetery refuses to bury Negroes' dogs; some theatres bar Negroes from au- diences but accept them as performers while the DAR Constitution Hall does the reverse; the YMCA bars Negroes, the YWCA does not: white public schools are newer and only three fourths filled, while Negro ones are older and so crowded pupils often get only part time instruction; all hospitals admitted Negroes 50 years ago, today only two do; three years ago a Negro woman gave birth to a child on the sidewalk be- fore a church-supported hospital which re- fused her one of its empty beds; George- town University had a Negro president 70 years ago, then barred Negroes, and now accepts them in its law school. In the face of this report and the Knight trial in Mississippi, the old argu- ment that time alone would heal the breach seemed false indeed. At least in the nation's capital, the situation was growing progressively worse. The people had every right to expect leg- islation from the new Congress to correct these ills. While we railed at Soviet Russia for her undemocratic acts, our own back yard looked dirty., This is the time when Americans could tell whether the pl atform s of the major parties had been just that or really were the basis for the action of the next few years. It is going to take the combined and sincere effort of Demo- crats and Republicans to get the Civil Rial lts progr am past the Dixiecrats. -Don McNeil. (hniunts On,1issioii THREE OF THE nation's top news services -the Associated Press, the United Press and International News Service-recently chose the "biggest news stories of the year." Sources of the top news of 1948 ranged all the way from Harry S. Truman (the services unaniiopsil ranked the "surpris- ing underdog" as 1948's No. newsmaker) to young Prince Charlie of Britain. But, according to the listings of the men who dispatch the news to papers all over the country, one news source -and it used to be a pretty big one--didn't rate. Apparently nobody on the three services thought the UN's actions important enough to rank with the year's genuine "hot copy." And they were probably right. The edi- tors were, after all, concerned only with judging the news on its merits. But we kind of hate to see those listings. Somehow, when a news source like the oncejpromising UN stops making big news, it indicates that something is wrong. It may be in a way consoliog to rernem- b e that most of I if 48's news was on the gloomy side--too many crises, wars. insur- rections. Maybe 1949 will bring good news to a world that's sick of opening its morning paper to find bleak, black headlines. Maybe the UN can do something to give the world good news in 1949-and inciden- tally, regain its reputation as an outstanding news source. We hope so. -Mary Stein. I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: OyAtHM ,- Ifl8Til Wy SAIVUL G~RAFTON SOME DAY SOON colonialism must end. It must end because it is a stink in the nostrils of the world. It is especially offen- sive in our time because the issue in our time is freedom. If the world issue were merely h ow t0et rich fast, as it was fifty years ago, colonialism might not matter. If the issue were the exploration of the world, as it was three hundred years ago, thee, too, colonialism wouldn't matter, But when leworld issue is freedom and the rights of man, colonialism cannot persist, in any forn, gross or refined, crude or clever. That is why, I believe, the formation of the Western Alliance must mean the end of colonialism. It wasn't intended to have that effect. But it will have it, or else the Alliance will collapse. We cannot indefinitely sustain an alliance for the rights of man with a Hiolland which has overrun Indonesia, or with a France which is using force in Indo-China, or with a Britain which still seeks by some bril- liant stroke to prolong the dispersion of the Jews. We cannot long sustain such an alliance, under such conditions, because it makes even the little boys id the laborers in the streets of Jogjakarta laugh at our pre- tensions, and wh en a laborer laughs, some- body in a boilled shirt is making a whale of a misia ke. We have a Truman Doctrine telling the world what sorts of people and policies we ea not get along with, and we now need a new Truman Doctrine which will spell out what sorts of people and policies we can get along with. It is not true that anybody will do so long as he is against Russia. That was what we thought in the primitive mood of a year or so ago. Chiang Kai-shek has fully disproved this belief for us in the foreign field; he won't do. Our own elections have dis-. provedlthe s.ame idea in the domestic field; the Aiciean people have shown their belief that one who wants to uphold democravcy inetls a little positive pro-lib- eral conent ming-led with his standard anti-Comnmunist emotions. This question, of just who is qualified to save us from Communism, has been burning beneath the surface of our western life, and a Netherlands which seeks to stave off to- talitarianism with one hand, and to conquer an Asiatic people with the other, is clearly not qualified. A Western Alliance built on such contra- dictions cannot prosper. It will not take gunfire to defeat it; the laughtlr of puasaits in the fieis and forests of the east will do. That is why we must greet the recon- vening of the Security Council on Thurs- day with an announcement that we have cut off Marshall Plan aid to Rolland. For Mr. Truman not to take this step will be for him to act as if he did not un- derstand the many meanings of his own election, with their elear overtones of lib- eral questing and progressive aspiration. It will be as if he will have assigned one longing to America, and another, and a lesser one to the people of the world. We have enjoyed so much our great cry of this lase year that we stand for the freedom of the world; we have so deeply relished our own slogans. But one must go into these massive planetary disputes with clean hands. One must pay for the right to defend this field; one must do exactly what one says one wants done, by others and by the world. The one who write a slogan must be the first to obey it. The >rice one pays for the right to raise a motto is to fulfil it. (Copyright, 1948, Newv York Post Corporation) It ____ --- ,1____________ FIRST SEiW:8TER EXAMINATOrN SCHEDULE UNIVEARSITY OF MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND CONSERVATION .. SCHOOL OF MUSIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 17-28, 1949 NOTE: For courses having both lectures and quizzes, the time of exercise is the time of the first lecture period of the week; for courses having quizzes only, the time of exercise if the time of the first quiz period. Certain courses will be examined at special periods as noted below the regular schedule. Evening, 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock, and "irregular" classes may use any of the periods marked * provided there is no conflict. A final period on January 28 is available in case no earlier period can be used. To avoid misunderstandings and errors., each student should receive notification from his instructor of the time and place of his examination. In the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, no date of examination may be changed without the consent of the Examination Committee. TIME OF EXERCISE TIME OF EXAMINATION Geomietr y Wed., Jan. Prof. N. H. Monday Monday Monday Monday Monday Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday at at at at at at at 8.................. 9.................. 1 .................. ................ 2... . .. . ... .. .. .. 1. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. ..........M on., ..........W ed., .. . .. .Fri., ..........M on., ..........W ed., ...........Tues., . . . . . . . . . hurs., Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 17, 9-12 19, 9-12 21, 9-12 24, 9-12 26, 9-12 25, 2- 5 27, 2- .5 18, 9-12 20, 9-12 22, 9-12 25, 9-12 27, 9-12 26, 2- 5 24, 2- 5 Seminar: 3 p.m., 5, 3001 Angell Hall. Anning will speak. at 8............... at 9............... at 10............... at 11............... at 1............... at 2............... at 3............... ...........Tues., ...........Thurs., ...........Sat., ........... Tues., . ............thurs., ...........W ed., .. Mon., Irregulars, make=up, etc. ...............*FKt, SPECIAL PERIODS Jan, 28, 9-12 Political Science 1 Sociology 51, 54, 90........... German 1, 2, 31, 32 Spanish 1, 2, 31, 32 ............ English 1, 2 Psychology 31 ................. Chemistry 1, 3 Economics 51, 52, 53, 54, 101 ... French 1, 2, 11, 12, 31, 32, 61, 62, 91, 92, 153; Speech 31, 32 ....... . Mon. Jan. 17, 2- 5 .*Tues., Jan. 18, 2- 5 *Wed, Jan. 19, 2- 5 .. '*Thus, .Jan. 20, 2- 5 ....... ri., OFFICIAL BULLETIN !1 (Continued from Page 2) Botanical Seminar: 4 p.m., Wed., Jan. 5, 1139 Natural Science Bldg. Paper: "Mycological Studies in Mt. Rainier National Park," by A. H. Smith. Open meeting. Chemistry Colloquium: 4:15 p.m., Wed., Jan. 5, 1300 Chemistry Bldg. Dr. Beth Cook will speak on "Alternation in Properties and Polarity of Alkyl Chaines." Engineering Mechanics Semi- nar: 4 p.m., Wed., Jan. 5, 101 W. Engineering Bldg. Mr. E. Q. Smith. will discuss "Longitudinal Impact of Prismatical Bars." Jan. 21, 2- 5 Jan. 22, 2- 5 Botany 1; Zoology 1 ...................'*Sat., MATTER OF FACT: Ott the AirLi ~-y-JOSEPH ALSOP THE PHENOMENON of the American air lift to Berlin may be taken as a sort of parable of the best and worst in American foreign relations. The air lift itself stands for the energy, ingenuity and great resour- ces which have, at least thus far, enabled us to escape from the tight spots we keep getting into. But the circumstances that led to the air supply of Berlin stand equally well for the somewhat incoherent methods of policy-making which tend to get us into these tight spots. The backgrotind story can and should be told at last. Briefly, as was reported in this space last spring, the Soviet block- ade of Berlin was anticipated by Ameri- can and British intelligence at least three months before it was imposed. Yet no co--ordinated advance pr-eparatifuns for the blockade were made, either between the American, British and French govern- ments, or even between the American pol- icy-makers in Washington and General Lucius D. Clay and the other Americans in charge in Germany. As soon as the Soviets cut all communi- cation with Berlin, Clay told Washington lie was ordering an armed convoy. A train was actually dispatched, and the American troops on board were ordered to resist So- viet interference with the train's progress. But the young officer in charge lost his Rep-blica-s' Move AFTER THE MOST humiliating defeat in years, Republican forces everywhere have attempt(ed , anaz jwu what went wrong. Probably the closest anver was that given recently in a int statemeit issued by the Yoang lieublcan Clubs at lHar- vard, Massaclusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, Radcliffe, and Wellesley. This statemen t declared that the party can "no longer afford to have congressional policies of one variety and presidential can- didates of another." In addition the group recommended that a group of party leaders be delegated as spokesmen for the party. They also suggested that party leaders meet to set up clear cut working policies that can answer the needs of the people. By offering ideas and asking for action, these college students have shown that they