THE MICHIGAN DAILY Which Way? A SERIES of parallel events have occurred in the past- few weeks which post the very pertinent question of whether or not the world isn't eagerly anticipating the ad- vent of the Third World War. Congressional leaders have okayed a military defense appropriation for the United States even larger than the sur- prising 15 billion asked by the executive branch. There doesn't even seem to be a whimper of protest against the sum. At the same time a group of Senators, headed by Taft of Ohio, have raised a cry for a 10 per cent cut in the European Re- covery Program appropriations. They give no reasons for their cut, but they just want a general cut for the sake of economy. Now, the ERP has been constantly boomed as our effort to get peace and prosperity for Europe, while the Defense program is strict- Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff 'Id represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: GEORGE WALKER ly a protective measure for war. Conse- quently, the United States is in the position, or at least its Senators are, of wanting to boost appropriations for war and cut our efforts to maintain peace through economic recovery. Nor is this the only indication of the odd war-like state of our national mind. Our National Commission for UNESCO, an organization designed to promote peace through international harmony and edu- cation has a mere seven million dollars for its program and consequently has to se- verely restrict its activities. It may well be. time, now that we have our protective North Atlantic Treaty, to de- cide which way we are going and whether or not we want to continue on that path. Seemingly, few of us have any earnest de- sire for another war. Yet we are blocking our own efforts to obtain a lasting peace. UNESCO's motto says that "Wars are made in the minds of men and in the minds of men the defenses of peace must be con- structed." Which way are our minds being worked upon at present? -Don McNeil. The City Editor's -> SCRATCH HE UNIVERSITY is financial battle. waging an all-out At the Michigan,... At the State.. . YELLOW SKY, with Gregory Peck, Anne CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY, the first Baxter, and Richard Widmark. 1949 picture to appear in Ann Arbor. AS THE PICTURE opens, we find a ma- THIS IS A HEART-warming picture about jority of the cast staggering across a the way Americans think Americans are great salt desert. We are convinced that they when they're really American. are very thirsty and very tired. It is not a belly-laugh picture, it is a smile Somehow, in subsequent reels, they picture. It is not a deep-down emotional never quite recover their energy-and this baby-this-is-love picture, it is a pleasant economy-size western hits the dust with honey-we'll-always-be-in-love picture, and a resounding thud. as such it is well worth the price of admis- sion, although there's no point in feeling too 'There's something pretty ineffectual about badly if you miss it. the whole affair. Peck can't' seem to decide whether he will be good or bad, Widmark The male population of Ann Arbor can isn't half as nasty as he might be, and Miss be roughly divided into two categories: Baxter is rather feeble as a female lead. She Those who secretly feel that at heart they is the granddaughter of a grizzled old pros- are every bit as carefree and as lovable as pector, you see, and has never heard about Dan Dailey, and those who think Dan men. Dailey is a darn fool. Similar remarks may Thus, while she is very rough and tough, be made concerning the female contingent, she views the opposite sex as a worthy ob- such as it is, with regard to Celeste Holm, ject of nothing but target practice. This, of who in this picture has settled down to a course, leaves Peck with practically nothing somewhat perilous matrimony with Mr. to do but dodge bullets. 'Dailey in Tucson, Arizona, a likely spot. Meanwhile, Widmark gets wind of a I hesitate to make critical remarks about cache of gold dust, which he immediately "Chicken Every Sunday" for fear that per- appropriates for himself. This piques the sons unknown will suppose I'm panning it. rest of the cast, and a short flurry of half- However, I am aware that much of my fond- hearted excitement ensues. ness for this intimate glimpse into the movie In general, however, none of the plot version of American family life exists only angles are exploited to any extent, and because I am often rather sentimental. the iajor part, of the footage is taken up I should say this is a rewardingly- with shots, of the irritable men, who are pleasant way of spending two hours of periodically fired upon by the unromantic spring if your girl friend happens to be Miss Baxter. busy somewhere else. --Bob White. I-Perry Logan. MATTER OF FAUI.: New Isolationism Beset by spiraling costs the school has asked the state legislature for the ;reatest operating appropriation in its history. or the past month University vice-presidents have been shuttling back and forth between Ann Arbor and Lansing trying to persuade the lawmakers to OK that vast appropria- tion. When a committee of the legislature vis- ited Ann Arbor several weeks ago they were shown some of the reasons behind the Uni- versity's fund request. But the lawmakers weren't too optimistic about granting the full amount to the school. The state is having financial difficulties of its own this year and the legislators are economy minded. They are slashing all fund requests to the bone. As things stand now the University will be lucky to get even the $11,800,000 that the governor has recommended. This is $700,000 less than the University asked for in the first place. And it doesn't even take into account the five million dollars that has been requested for new buildings. When University officials saw the way the wind was blowing they got a little panicky. They decided to borrow a few tricks from the press agent and proceeded to carry their fund fight to the people of the state. Calling together newspaper editors from throughout the state during the vacation, University officials painted a pretty ark picture of the school's future unless addi- tional funds were forthcoming. The editors responded with news stories and editorials urging that the state legislators recognize the needs of the University. The situation described by the University and its high-powered lobby of vice presi- dents appears to be serious. According to a ream of statistics sub- mitted by the University it appears to be slipping from its position as one of the top educational institutions in the country because of a lack of funds. Other colleges are raiding our faculty. There are too many students for the present. faculty to ade- quately handle. To properly educate the present student body more than 400 new faculty members are needed. President Ruthven called it a grave and desperate situation. He fears that the University will lose a scholastic position that has taken 50 years to attain. Possibly in their sincere efforts to main- tain the position and the prestige of the University, the administration has some- what over-emphasized its plight. Though the administrators of this school are in the best position to know, some of the state- ments they have made seem a little exag- gerated. Just like any other multi-million dollar corporation the University has be enhard hit by post war inflation and rising costs. But every other state supported institution is in the same fix. And the normal func- tions of the state are costing more than ever before. The whole thing has been further com- plicated by a sales tax diversion measur which deprives the state government of funds it had access to in the past. We sympathize with the embattled legis- lators in Lansing who have to cope with scores of state agencies all asking for more money. And we more than sympathize with the position of our University which faces a reduction in its high standards unless it can get additional financial support. We are sure that the state legislature will carefully weigh all these factors before mak- ing any ill-advised fund slash which might seriously damage the position of this school. I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Glue B tldg, By SAMUEL GRAFTON POLITICALLY, we seem tobe on the way back to the mood of last summer, to the atmosphere of the strawberry months of last year, when the whole liberal movement seemed caught in a bath of warm glue. No neon lights surround Mr. Truman any- more when he appears in public nowadays, and Washington observers note a "changed" political climate. It is pointed out that if the Taft-Hartley question were to come before Congress again right now, the act would probably be strengthened rather than re- pealed. The brief period of fluidity which came to Washington with Mr. Truman's un- expected election has ended. Our political life is freezing again into something like the contours of last year and the year be- fore. We just didn't know. It looked for a while as if the postwar wxorld were going to be an extremely peculiar world, one in which the people would blithely vote for a party which stood for higher prices, higher rents and less social security. It turned out that the people do not intend to behave in any such motivationless way at all. The Re- Joyful Anticipation... Daily-Hampton Eager students return, filled with enthusiasm .. - DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN By JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON-This somewhat befuddled capital has just been treated to an un- usually puzzling spectacle. First the Admin- istration's Senate leaders strained every nerve to pass an intact European Recovery Program. Then the Atlantic Pact was proud- ly signed. And then the President's chief' economic advisor, Dr. Edwin Nourse, sug- gested that the Atlantic Pact obligation to rearm Western Europe should be paid for by cutting our own defense and the Euro- peanRecovery Programs. He added blandly that his speech had been approved by the President. When the Administration gives inval- uable aid and comfort to the Congres- sional isolationists, an explanation is in order. Superficially, of course, the explan- ation is very simple. The President has allowed what was done to him twice by Henry Wallace, to be done a third time. Not long ago, Dr. Nourse returned from a tour of the country much impressed by the business groups' natural dislike for taxation. He apparently concluded that it was better to torpedo our foreign policy, than to raise taxes to pay for lend-lease to Europe. He outlined these views to the President. Nourse's speech evoked an immediate re- sponse from Capitol Hill, as any infant of three could have foreseeen it would. Nothing could have been more pleasing to the Sen- ators and Representatives who are deter- mined to cripple American foreign policy, if need be, in order to avoid a tax rise. Their own arguments had been echoed by the President's official economic augur. They, rushed up onto the roof, cheering loudly. The President then lamely dis- avowed Nourse, which did nothing to counteract the disastrous damage already done in the delicate Congressional situa- tion. The truth is that there is a new isolation- ism abroad in the Administration. Prior to the election, Secretaries Marshall and For- restal and Under Secretary Lovett ruled iiwampt in th fnoreiL-n and defense fields. Letters to the TUESDAit orHM-] E -ditor- V - s 1 II / IIII 1 III Ir1141 Dr. Nourse and the then Budget James Webb (who is likely to form ideas at the State Department). Director different (Continued from Page 2) sentative here to interview stu- dents for sales of nationally known brands. Wed., April 13 and Thurs., April 14-The General Electric Com- pany will have a representative here to interview men interested in entering the accounting and fi- nancial management field. There will be a compulsory meeting Tues., April 12, 7:30 p.m., 130 Business Administration Bldg. for all those to be interviewed. Thurs., April 14, and Fri., April 15-The Hazeltine Electonics Co. will have a representative here to interview electrical engineers and some physics students for their re- search. Fri., April 15-The Wilson Co. will have a representative here to interview industrial - mechanical engineers, including a position in purchasing for an engineer. The Carnation Company are in- terested in students for their train- ing program. Students interested in the management of small plants in relatively small communities should contact the Bureau of Ap- pointments, 3528 Administration Bldg. The Fair, Department Store in Chicago, will have a representative here on Thurs., April 14, to inter- view men and women for their training program. Further information and ap- pointments for all of the above may be obtained by calling Ext. 371, or by stopping in the office, 3528 Administration Bldg. inLectures University Lecture: "Nationali- zation in Britain." William A. Robson, Professor of Public Ad- ministration, London School of Economics and Poltiical Science, England; auspices of the Depart- ment of Political Science and the Institute of Public Administration. 8 p.m., Tues., April 12, Rackham Amphitheatre. Economics Lecture: "The Na- ture and Measurement of Eco- nomic Progress." Professor Simon S. Kuznets, University of Penn- sylvania and the National Bureau of Economic Research; auspices of the Department of Economics. 4:15 p.m., Tues., April 12, Rack- ham Amphitheatre. Lecture: First of two lectures on Family Living. "The Care and Feeding of Young Infants." Dr. Ernest H. Watson, Associate Pro- fessor of Pediatrics and Commu- nicable Diseases, Medical School, and Associate Professor of Child Health, School of Public Health. 8 p.m., Wed., April 13, Rackham Lecture Hall. Mr. C. D. Dosker, President of Gamble Brothers, of Louisville, Kentucky, will speak on "Hard- wood Lumber Utilization." April 12, 10 a.m., West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Opportunity will be given after the lecture to ask questions and for conferences. All furniture stu- dents are expected to attend, and others, particularly those follow- ing the Wood Technology Curricu- lum, are welcome. Academic Notices Bacteriology Seminar: Thurs., April 14, 8:30 a.m., 1520 E. Medical Bldg. Speaker: Robert Chamber- lain. Subject: The Rh Factor Spanish 82, 164, 210 and 296: Professor Anderson Imbert's classes will meet as usual this week. Chemistry Colloquium: We d., April 13, 4 p.m., 1400 Chemistry Bldg. Mr. Charles Horton will speak on "Separation and Deter- mination of Fluoride." Aerodynamics Seminar, Aero. Eng. 160: Wed., April 13 4-6 p.m., 1508 E. Engiineering Bldg. Topic: "Basis equations of dia- batic compressible flows with ro- ttion." All graduate students in- vited. Wildlife Management Seminar: Kenneth Hungerford of the School of Forestry and Conservation will present an illustrated talk on the Yellowstone Big Game Range. 7:30 p.m., Botany Seminar Room, 1139 Natural Science Bldg., Wed., April 13. All wildlife students are ex- pected to attend. School ,of Education Testing Program: All students who antici- pate obtaining a teacher's certifi- cate or are considering teaching as a possible profession are re- quired to take a group of tests to be given Thurs.., April 14, in 130 and 140 Business Administration Bldg. These tests are not dupli- cates of those used in other uni- versitiy testing programs. Stu- dents who have taken the School of Education tests in previous se- mesters need not repeat them. Sports Instruction for Women: Women students may register for physical education classes on Tuesday and Wednesday morn- ings, April 12 and 13 in Office 15, Barbour Gymnasium. Vacancies are offered for election in Elem. Golf, Archery, Fencing, Outing, Riding, Elem. Swimming, Elem. and Intermediate Modern Dance, and Posture, Figure and Carriage. Concerts University String Quartet, Gil- bert Ross and Emil Raab, violin- ists, Paul Doktor, violist, and Oliv- er Edel, cellist, will be heard at 8 p.m., Wed., April 13, Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. The program, open to the general public, will include Mozart's Quartet in D ma- jor, K. 575, Anton Von Webern's Five Movements for String Quar- tet, Op. 5, and Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 by Debussy. Student Recital: Betty Estes, pianist, will present a program at 4:15 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music. Compositions: Bach, Debussy, Schubert, Chopin and Mendelssohn. Miss Estes is a pupil of Mischa Meller. The public is invited. Student Recital: Esther Hagen. pianist, will be heard in a recital at 8 p.m., April 12, Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. Given in partial ful- fillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree, her program will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Nin, and The Dally accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for publication In this column. Subject to space limitations, the general po- icy is to publish in the order in which they are received all letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- 'ious letters and letters of a defama- tory character or such letters which for any other reason are not in good taste will not he published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. It's A Crime To the Editor: "N TUESDAY, March 22, the Illinois State Senate passed a bill making it a penal offense to be a Communist. About a week ago, the Maryland Legislature took similar action. As the same time, however, ex- Supreme Court Justice Floyd E. Thompson testified at a hearing on the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission bill that it is questionable whether higher moral standards can be "hammered" into our citizen's heads "with a policeman's club." He further charged that the FEPC bill "smells of the dreaded peo- ple's court of Russia and her satellites." How long can we remain hypo- crites? Certain groups, of which ex- Justice Thompson is the repre- sentative, apparently feel that it is possible to hammer theirtbrand of Americanism into the public's heads by means of legal coercion, but impossible to effect social re- form by the same method. I doubt that these gentlemen lack the in- telligence to see the logical in- consistencies involved. The legislators responsible for the respective anti-Communist bills, however, undoubtedly are honestly concerned with the fate of democracy. Nevertheless, they are guilty of some grevious errors. (1) By adopting anti-Commu- nist legislation, they are making the tacit assumption that democ- racy can not win the support of the people in a free exchange of ideas. Moreover, by failing to im- plement the civil rights of racial and religious minorities, they are helping make their basically faulty premise a reality. (2) The Bill of Rights was de- signed to protect the rights of precisely these groups which are feared and hated by the majority; the other groups obviously do not need such protections. (3) By denying Communists the right of free assembly, and the right to promote their ideas with- out constraint, these legislators are, in effect, denying the basic tenets of our democracy. They are helping to bring about a dicta- torship of the majority which is every bit as repugnant to our ideals as is a "dictatorship of the proletariat." -June Sachar. Comparison Proes To the Editor: Recently the State Department issued a statement which sai'd Chopin. Miss Hagen is a pupil of Ava Comin Case. The public is invited. Exhibitions Museum of Art: Max Beckmann, Some Recent Accessions; Alumni Memorial Hall, through May 1. Daily, 9-5, Sundays 2-5. The pub- lic is invited. Events Today Committee on Student Affairs: 3 p.m., Room 1011 Angell Hall. IFC House Presidents Meeting: 7:30 p.m., Rn. 3C, Michigian Un- ion. Agenda - Deferred Rushing,, Elections, Petitions for Senior Po- sitions next year, The charging of one dollar a year per fraternity man on campus for next year, The Minnesota Convention, Discrimi- nation report. Council of Association of Inde- pehdent Men: 7 p.m., Union. The Mathematics Club: 8 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Prof. George Piranian will speak on "Hadamard decomposi- tion of analytic functions repre- sented by series." IFC Glee Club: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 3A, Union. ASCE: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Rm. 3-G, Union. Mr. E. E. Howard, a Consulting Engineer from Kansas City, Mo., will show slides and give a talk on Bridge Engineering. Final (Continued on Page 6) Russians are shut off from outside contacts whereby they could draw comparison with the way things are at home. At the very same time that this statement was issued, the State Department announced. that 17 foreign delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York were to be denied entry visas by our country. Among those denied visas were a Catholic Priest, Abbe Bou- lier of France, and the British novelist Louis Golding. Mr. Gold- ing stated, "I am not a commu~- nist, I am only a creative novel- ist . . . in many ways I am op- posed to Communism . . . but peace is of paramount importance to me, and I am willing to do a lot of work for it." The officials of the State De- partment seem to think that only the Communists want peace, and that anyone who expresses a de- sire for peace is per se a Com- munists. I think there are mil- lions of Americans who have been dismayed by repeated refusals of our government to sit down around a conference table with represen- tatives of the Soviet Government to discuss the issues where dis- agreement exists. I think millions of Americans feel that the North Atlantic Pact means we are enter- ing into an armaments race with the Soviet Union which can only culminate in an Atomic War. I think millions of Americans reject the fact that there is not a fascist or reactionary regime throughout the world which is not receiving our active or moral support. I think the American people want peace and will not rest until such a peace is secured. -Edwin Freeman * * * Thank You To the Editor: The University of Michigan Democratic Socialist Club wishes to thank all of those organizations and individuals who had cooper- ated with us in welcoming Mr. Norman Thomas to the University of Michigan campus. We wish especially to thank Dr. Wood of the Sociology Dept., Mr. Baldwin and the Student Relig- ious Assn., Dr. Preuss of the Po- litical Science Dept., the members of the Barnaby Club, Mr. Douglas Miller, Station WUOM and The Michigan Daily. We were very happy to witness the enthusiastic response of the students and members of the fac- ulty to Mr. Thomas and we only wished that more students could have seen and heard hiin. -Pat Stitesr Chairman:sDemocratic Socalst Club I~tiljian ttt J There are probably two sources of this new isolationism. First, the independent position and strong characters of the old managers of foreign and defense policy were na doubt resented by the men around the President, if not by the Pres- ident himself. The old foreign and de- fensei policy moakgrs were accused of "crisis mongering," and of being under the influence of "the brass." What they did was resented, as were the men them- selves. Second, most of the men around the President are fundamentally intensely con- servatives, deeply anxious not to rock the boat and quite ignorant of the world situa- tion. Thus they were and are devoted to business-as-usual, bitterly opposed to higher taxes, and in general in favor of sacrificing the future to the present. With the Nourse speech, this cat has at least peeped out of the bag. It can be a very dangerous animal. (Copyright, 1949, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Fifty-Ninth Yea? Edited and ,nanaged by students of the Universityof 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 Al Blumrosen ........Associate Editor Leon Jaroff..........Associate Editor Robert C. White ......Associate Editor B. S. Brown........... Sports Editor Bud Weidentha .. Associate Sports Ed. Bev Bussey .....Sports Feature Writer Audrey Buttery......Women's Editor Mary Ann Harris Asso. Women's Editor Bess Hayes .................Librarian Business Staff Richard Haits.......Business Manager Jean Leonard ....Advertising Manager William Culman ....Finance Manager Cole Christian ...Circulation Manager Tele phone 2 3-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusiVAY entitled to the use for repubiio tion of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited to this newspaper. All rights of republication of all otheW matters herein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class malt matter. Subscription during the regular ;ehool year by carrier, $5.00, by mall, #6.00. r- 11 Looking Back 50 YEARS AGO: The number of candidates for an A.B. degree (Greek) had diminished from 42 per cent of the graduate students in 1891 to 272 per cent of the students in 1899. At the same time 23 per cent of the students were working for B.L. or English degrees, showing a decided increase over the 142 per cent figure of 1891. 20 YEARS AGO: The date of the formal opening of the League by the Alumnae Council was set for May 4, at which time recepetions for the general public were to be held. Forty junior women, one half of the en- tire Junior Girls' Play cast presented "For- ward March" in Orchestra Hall in Detroit. BARNABY --- FYou know I'm your pal, Barnaby. If something's the trouble, you // alley's been gone ow Mr. O'M ... the best thing would be j :