FOUR' THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1949 FOUK TUESDAY, APRIL 1), 1)49 Fair Practices Lobby fP E MICHIGAN State Legislature will consider two bills during the present session which would make it illegal for em- ployers and education administrators to pursue policies of racial or religious discrim- ination in ther respective activites. Legislative recognition of the demo- cratically accepted truism that discrimin- ation is a social evil has been long over- due. Its opposition has used principally two lines of argument. The first, paradoxically, holds that there is a right to discriminate as well as a right of equality and that a law which upholds the latter at the expense of the former is undemocratic. If discrimination is a social evil then the application of such logic should also hold for other socially undesirable ac- tivities such as racketeering, thievery, and such. This is clearly preposterous. The second line of the opposition to civil rights legislation holds that laws are useless because they do not get at the root of the &&problem which lies in the prejudiced at- titudes of those who discriminate. Until the heavens fall these people will should "You can't legislate attitudes! They are learned. Education is the only answer." The confusion of the educationalists evolves around the meaning of the word "learned". From the correct premise that attitudes are learned they jump to the in- correct conclusion that education, in the Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff nd represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: MARY STEIN formal sense of classroom education, is the only means society has of changing undesirable attitudes. Without even consulting the social psy- chologist we can see that attitudes, and es- pecially such socially unwanted ones as racial prejudice, are not learned in the classroom, but develop primarily from ob- serving the ways others behave. This is basic to the truth of such a platitude as "practice what you preach." Society's be- havior must conform to the voices of its educational institutions if the voices are to have effect. And behavior can be legislated! Laws which bring the judicial strength of the state against those who would dis- criminate serve a two-fold purpose. First there is the immediate effect of removing the special oppression of minority groups. (The educationalists give them only the hope that things will be better in a few generations. What moral anarchy!) Sec- ondly, there is the longer-range and more basic effect of destroying prejudicial atti- tudes by destroying the foundation upon which they are developed and supported. To the end of passing the Fair Education Practices Bill and the Fair Employment Practices Bill the Young Progressives of Michigan are initiating a lobby to Lansing this Thursday. This legislation will be op- posed by those who will seek passage of such bills a the one which will categorically deny the right of present or past Commun- ist teaehers the right to earn a living by their profession. To succeed, the lobby needs the active support of everyone who thinks democratic Michigan could use more democracy, not less. --Jack Barense CURRENT MOVIES At the State ... "The Return of October" with Terry Moore and Glenn Ford. D ESIGNED to warm the cockles of your heart, this little philosophical opus is more likely to warm your temper. It's all about a brattish girl who believes that her late horse-loving Uncle Willy has been reincarnated as a brown stallion. When the girl's rich and eccentric aunt passes away, a group of shoddy'and cove- tous relatives propose with some logic that the girl is batty, and that she there- fore should be deprived of the estate that had been bequeathed her. Meanwhile, Glenn Ford-a bashful ab- normal psychology professor at a nearby uni- versity-has published a paper on the girl's odd behavior. Sucp diplicity irritates the girl,' insmuch as she las subsequently fal- len in love with the professor-to put it mildly. Despite such overwhelming odds in favor of misery and chaos, a happy ending is has- tily fashioned, in which Uncle Willy gallops to victory in the Kentucky Derby and then drops dead. There are occasional glimpses of potential promise in the technicolored tale, but our general comment must be a hearty neigh. -Bob White At the Michigan ... WHISPERING SMITH, Hollywood's an- swer to talking pictures. THIS MOVIE suffers from two major drawbacks. Alan Ladd, as the Whisperer speaks so low and indistinctly that you have to lean forward in your armchair to make out what he is saying. Then when you dis- cover what it is, you wish you hadn't. In some circles, notably those people who have attended the Michigan this week, the terms "western," "technicolor western," and "bad western" are used synonymously. When I see an ordinary western, I expect it to be bad, unless it was Gabby Hayes, But when I see a high-priced extrava- ganza of talent that includes Ladd, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp, and Robert Pres- ton, I expect . . . oh, I don't know, en- tertainment maybe, decent dialogue, I suppose, and from time to time just a hint of action. Or at least scenery. As the villain, Preston is living proof that once a man first speaks harshly to his wife, it is only a matter of two reels before he will inevitably also be drinking, lying, steal- ing, running around with the boys from the next ranch, shooting sheriffs, horsing with the girls at the saloon, beating his wife, and finally meeting death -Perry Logan. MD RATHER BE RIGHT: That's News By SAMUEL ('RAFTON A HORN GOES OFF when there's a fire in my town. It makes a strangs, hoarse noise, coming across green fields on a hot afternoon; it sounds like an animal that has gotten into something, and is outraged. I tried to telephone to learn where the fire was, but every number I asked for was busy. I suppose a lot of excitable people with nothing better to do than to find out about fires, had jammed the lines. I got into the car to have a look at the blaze, hoping the roads wouldn't be crowded by the sensation-hungry, as they were the last time. After all, I'm a newspaperman, with a legitimate interest in fires and the international situation. I never did get to the fire. It was a warm day, and the pleasantness of it slowed me down. My policy suddenly be- came that if I got there, all right, and if I didn't, just as good. Eesides I was kept busy, recognizing things from last summer. This can take a bit of time. I don't know why it should seem important that one is seeing again in the hot sun a stone wall that one saw in the hot sun last year, but it is. Then there was a man lying flat on his face near the road. As I stopped, though, he turned, sat up and stretched. It was just spring. Stretching, he merged with the landscape, talking on familiarity, and I pushed on. I tried the car radio. It said, in a deep voice, that Germany must be made stronger. That bit of news did seem strange, especially when you listened to it while passing three cows. Here we are, I thought, less than four years after the end of the war, talking about making Germany stronger. Even if we really have to do just that, that doesn't take the strangeness away. It just means we live in a world in which we have to do strange things. So I switched the radio off, and found myself buying two buddleia bushes in a nursery garden. I don't quite know why. I like buddleia well enough, but if you had asked me ten minutes before what I wanted most in the world, I'd never have mentioned buddleia. Just wouldn't have occurred to me. It seemed the natural thing to do, though, in the afternoon sun, and I did it, looking the plants over carefully as if I knew something about them. There was a pond which had to be looked at. A small creature was walking around on the bottom of it, looked like a crayfish. It seemed to know what it was doing, so I let it alone. There was also a bee, can- vassing some crocuses. I wondered if tls'e was such a thing as crocus honey. That's the thing about the country; everything in it is quite familiar, but it manages to give you a lot to think about. I heard a fire engine somewhere, making jovial noises tt- stead of hysterical ones, so I knew the fire was out. I headed home, and turned the car radio on again. This time it was about our armed forces. A voice said the im- portant thing is what kind of unifi ;'ion of the services we are going to have. I was passing a white farmhouse, which is a very familiar thing to me, but, again, I had a sense of the peculiar, of something strange pressing through the familiarities around me. It seems to me the important thing is why the world has got into a fix in which we, a peaceful peole, have to spend sixteen billions on arms; but, no, to the radio voice the important thing is what kind of military unification.-And maybe that is the important question; I don't know; but that only msakes it all the stranger. I turned the radio off to restore famil- iarity. I came home and looked over the peas, which are just starting. And when, a little later, I picked up a newspaper, and read a Tampico dispatch about a shark frightened by naval gun practice, which had jumped up on Miramar Beach in Mex- ico, and bitten a man who had just been sitting there, not bothering anybody, it didn't seem at all strange anymore. That's the kind of news that comes in over the stone walls. A fish jumps up on land and bites a man. Why, of course. (Copyright, 1949, New York Post Corporation) Looking ack 50 Years Ago: A local drugstore advertised its new soda fountain open for the summer season, fea- turing "Hot Weather Drinks." The store had new special cooling apparatus and every- thing was new, clean and attractive." Faculty members and students founded a University Gun Club with no membership fee except the expense of any clay pigeons they happened to hit. 30 YEARS AGO: Members of the squirrel family apparently deserted the campus. No animal has been found during the spring, and the superin- tendent of buildings and grounds had no opinion on where they had gone, The Daily said, but added that his department had done nothing to chase the members of the sciunidae family from their campus homes. A professor of the zoology department said that townspeople may have waged war on the squirrels because of their destructive- . , , , -- .- - .,.- (Continued from Page 3) I Bureau of Appointments:z Mr. Watt of the Washington National Insurance Company, Ev- anston, Illinois, will be in our of-I flee Fri., April 22, to interview menI for salaried field group representa-t tives. Assignments will be anyt place in the country. For further1 information and appointments,t call Ext. 371, or stop in the office, 3528 Administration Bldg.c Lectures The Thomas M. Cooley Lectures,7 third series. Second lecture, "Coming into Equity with Unclean Hands-2." Professor Zechariah Chaffee, Jr., Harvard Law School. 4:15 p.m., Tues., April 19, 120 Hutchins Hall.-t Economic Lecture: "Bias in Communication." Dr. Harold A. Innis, Professor and Head of the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto; auspices of the Department of Economics. Tues., April 19, 4:15 p.m., Rack- ham Amphitheatre. The public is invited. University Lecture: "The Uni- versities of Germany." John A. Hawgood, Professor of Modern Hiistory and Government, Univer-; sity of Birmingham, Eriglarid; aus- pices of the Department of His- tory. 4:15 p.m., Tues., April 19, Kellogg Auditorium. Lecture: "Government-Control- led Socialized Medicine," Dr. Ed- ward J. McCormick, Toledo, Ohio; auspices of the Medical School and the Women's Auxiliary of the Washtenaw County Medical Soci- ety, 8 p.m., Tues., April 19, Rack- ham Lecture Hall. University Lecture: "Expecta- tions in Cancer Research." Dr. E. V. Cowdry, Professor of Anatomy and Director of Research, Bar- nard Free Skin and Cancer Hos- pital, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Mis- souri; auspices of the Medical School and the Ann Arbor Branch of the Women's Field Army of the American Cancer Society. 4:15 p.m., Wed., April 20, Rackham Amphitheatre. University Lecture: "The Phil- osophy of Speech Education." Pro- fessor Andrew T. Weaver, Chair- man of the Department of Speech, University of Wisconsin; auspices of the Department of Speech. 3 p.m., Wed., April 20, Rackham Lecture Hall. Special Lectures in Education, auspices of the School of Educa- tion. "UNESCO and World Peace." Professor William Clark Trow. 7 p.m., Wed., April 20, University High School Auditorium. Academic Notices Wildlife Management Seminar: Dr. G. A. Ammann, Game Biolo- gist of the Michigan Department of Conservation, will present an il- lustrated talk on the recent at- tempts to introduce Ptarmigan into Michigan. 7:30 p.m., Wed., April 20, Botany Seminar Room, 1139 Natural Science Bldg. All wildlife students are expected to attend and anyone else interested is invited. Botanical Seminar: 4 p.m., Wed., April 20, 1139 Natural Science Bldg. "Development Anatomy and Regeneration of Hevea brasilien-a sis" by Thomas J. Muzik. Open " meeting. c ec Engineering Mechanics Semi- t nar: 3 p.m., Tues., April 19, 101 W. b Engineering Building, at which m time Mr. Hunter will give a talk on e the Operation of The Simple Amp- A tier. All graduate students in En- gineering Mechanics are urged to t attend as well as interested stu- i dents from other departments. r Mathematics Colloquium: 4 c p.m., Tues., April 19, 3201 Angell D Hall. Dr. W. Roy Utz will speak on" Geodesic Flows on Manifolds of t Hyperbolic Type. t i Preliminary Ph.D. Examination t in Economics will be held during the week beginning Mon.,tMay 2. Each student planning to take f these examinations should leave i with the Secretary of the Depart-S ment not later than Fri., April 22,C his name, the three fields in which u he desires to be examined, and his d field of specialization. a t Preliminary examinations for o the doctoral degrees in education c will be held Wednesday, Thursday, a and Friday, May 25, 26, and 27. , All applicants who are planning to t take these examinations should t notify Prof. Harlan C. Koch, t Chairman on the Committee on d Graduate studies in Education, l 4012 UHS, in the immediate fu- n ture, indicating their fields of spe- i cialization. i Students who expect to do di-v rected Teaching in Elementary n Education during the fall esemes- ter, and who have not filed appli- i cations, should do so at once in 2509 University Elementary School. Concerts Student Recital: Martha Ham- rick, graduate student in theI School of Music, will present a pi- ano recital at 8 p.m., Tues., April 19, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. Miss Hamrick is a pupil of Helenn Titus, and her program, given ini partial fulfillment of the require-n ments for the degree of Master of 1 Music, will be open to the generala public'.e. Exhibitions Museum of Art: Alexander Col-S lection of Masks, through May 8;Z Max Beckmann, Some Recent As-N cessions, through May 1. AlumniA Memorial Hall; daily, 9-5, Sun- days 2-5. The public is invited. College of Architecture and De-E sign: Architectural work of San-S ders and Malsin, New York City;o sculpture of William Talbot, New York City. First floor, Architec- tural Building. April 18 to May 9.C Events Today " The Annual French Play: "La Belle Aventure," 8 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Tickets on4 sale at the box office from 2 to 8t p.m. Pi Tau Sigma: Formal initiationF ceremony, 6 p.m.; banquet, 6:30c p.m., Michigan Union. Bring whitec handkerchiefs.t Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity: Meeting, 5 p.m., Rm. 3-R, Michi-I gan Union. Delta Sigma Pi: Open Meeting, rq f f 3 ). }f i "f } i M woo~ ... And by a Hare it's .. . Letters to the Editor- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for ubicaton in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pol- icy is topublish in the order in which they are received all letters bearing .he writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters and letters of a defama- ory characterorssuchrletters which for any other reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. * * * oet Bloc-0oting o the Editor: N VIEW of the two articles which appeared in The Mich- ,;an Daily last week, we would like o clarify certain viewpoints which b presented. First, The Daily considered "bloc oting" and "newsletters" synony- ous. "Bloc voting" is the ex- hanging of votes. This means one rganization contacts another and ays, "Our group will give your andidate second place votes if ou will give our candidate sec- nd place votes." This method is Iso used to secure third, fourth, ifth, etc. place votes. It follows hat those who use this system, nust vote according to a prear- anged system. Now let's consider newsletter. A newsletter is a know your candidates" where the andidates' qualifications are list- d, and are not merely the quan- ity of clubs, or organizations he elongs to. Membership in nu- nerous organization does not nec- ssarily qualify a person for a eat on the Student Legislature. 4 newsletter is to inform and not o indoctrinate the student body. t is not a prearranged list which equire you to vote a certain way. Another point we would like to larify is the implication in the Daily's articles that AIM and the Nest Quad were guilty of plans o foster block voting. Actually hey were guilty only of attempt- ng to bring the qualifications of ndependent candidates before the tudents. A "hue and cry" would ie raised that a news letter with nly independents listed would in act be a list for directing poten- ial votes. Weacontend that the Student Legislature's "Know your Candidates" could also be looked ipon in this manner, because they listinguish between independents nd affiliates. From the interpre- ation given by The Daily, any naterial concerning candidates an be considered a directive list and therefore similar to "bloc votes." If students are so apathetic hat they can be manipulated by he word affiliated or unaffiliated acked on to the name of a can- didate, then even the SL's news- etter has to be considered a di- ective list. We do not believe this s how students choose their leg- slators. AIM does not consider this block voting-Student Legislature does not consider this block voting- we do not consider this block vot- ng. -Ralph Olivanti, Jim Kallman, Norris Domangue, Jim Rice. * * * Definition To the Editor: R. GEGORY SAYS ... "toler- ance is something which is meant to work both ways." This is almost an undisputable state- ment, that is, if one depends upon the assumption that there is such a thing as tolerance. And appar- ently, that is the assumption Gregory -bases his conclusion Daniel L. beck, Director, Exectuive Selection and Training Institute of Detroit, will speak on "How To Sell Yourself." 8 p.m., 130 Business Administration Bldg. Sigma Rho Tau, Stump Speak- er's Society: Meeting, 7 p.m., 2084 E. Eng. Bldg. Program: Project Speech Contest preliminaries; Un- official Council of the Stump. Acolytes Meeting: 7:30 p.m., W. Conference Room, Rackham.Bldg. Prof. G. Rainich will speak on "The Philosophy of a Mathemati- cian." Open to the public. Arts Chorale: Meeting, 3:45 p.m., 4th floor, Angell Hall, for radio broadcast. Gilbert and Sullivan Society: Rehearsal for all principals and chorus, Michigan League. Last chance for costume measurements to be taken. Undergraduate Physics Club: Meeting, 7:30 p.m., 2038 Randall. The U. of M. Theater Guild will (Continued on Page 8) upon. However, I think his basis for assuming is wrong; therefore, his conclusion is wrong. First, he assumes that there is such a thing as tolerance. Second, he implies that tolerance can win over intolerance. I have never read where toler- ance has conquered intolerance in the past; I have never witnessed such a thing in our present; and I don't think I will ever witness it in the future. I am quite sure, and I think history will bear me out, there has never been tolerant forces dealing with human activ- ity. All the church schisms, all conflicting economic theories, all racial and religious prejudices have existed intolerantly - have existed fighting within and against each other. For one who tolerates, in the strictest sense of the word, accepts. Who in this world accepts? It is very true that one might listen to both sides; and one might tell oneself that he is weighing the matter objectively, but he is only kidding oneself. For I believe it is impossible for one, indoctrinated in a traditionalized society, to weigh a matter objec- tively. I am another one who does not tolerate. Indoknot tolerate preju- dices of any kind under any con- ditions. And if it comes literally to change society and to FORCE education upon those who demon- strate prejudices (and that's ex- actly what it amounts to in many localities), that's exactly what I advocate. Yet, Gregory maintains that we must tolerate intolerance. I wonder if he thinks FORCING education upon others is toler- ance; or does he think we should allow prejudices to flourish in our society. If we tolerate prejudice, we are being "real liberals." We are giv- ing everybody a right to their views. We are advocating "free- dom" by giving everyone the right to think as he pleases. Yet, by this very method, there will be those which have no rights or very few because others will deny them those rights. No, Mr. Gregory, I cannot go along with you-not even com- promise. I will not tolerate any- one who thinks along terms con- cerningreligious and racial dis- criminations. I realize that it might mean the denial of some of my own rights. Yet, I believe that is one of the chances we hu- mans must take. We must find for ourselves one common belief. And that belief (whatever it is) must be forced upon all others so that all will share the same common belief. And then we must hope that we humans had dis- covered a belief strong enough to keep and hold the world together in absolute peace. -Ray Franklin. ~Tiap~unran n. 4r MATTER OF FACT: Money Matters By JOSEPH ALSOP W ASHINGTON-Those who wonder why this richest country in the world is sup- posed to be unable to pay the bills for its own security, could do worse than visit the Capitol office of Representative Albert Thomas of the Eighth Texas District. Thom- as is a fairly consistent Congressional econ- omizer, except when the Eighth District wants something. And this amiable weak- ness for pleasing his constituents has re- cently made him the hero of a meaningful little drama. The opening scene occurred some time last spring, when this year's budget began to be prepared. An eager young official, ominously described by Thomas as "that young feller in the Budget Bureau who thinks he knows all about hospitals," looked into the Veterans Administration's gigantic hospital building program. The program's goal was 152,000 hospital beds. But 136,000 beds would provide hos- pitalization for three times the total num- ber of veterans seeking treatment for serv- ice-connected disabilities. Revising the goal downward to eliminate the 16,000 extra beds would effect an immediate global saving of $350,000,000. Over twenty years it would also save the taxpayers an additional $2,200,000,- 000 in maintenance costs. The young official caused these facts to be pointed out to Veterans Administra- tor Carl Gray and Dr. Paul Magnusson, the Veterans Administration's able medical chief. They agreed they could get along with only 136,000 beds in their hospitals. In the end, President Truman and the then Budget Director, James Webb, in- corporated the economy in the budget A-L---------- - +.. 4.- 52104 was in Houston, the great city of the Eighth Texas District. Hearings were held. The needs of the group described by Representatives as "the widders, the orphans and the war vet- erans" were recalled. Dr. Magnusson's tes- timony-that he really did not have any use for all those extra hospitals-was treated as a plaintive, inaudible murmur. This was the triumph, it must be under- stood, of a man if anything above the Con- gressional average, pleasant-mannered, far from doddering, reasonably industrious, and bred to politics almost from his boyhood in the East Texas town of Nacogdoches. If great issues have not often engaged his in- terest, it is perhaps because his time is so much taken by the endless running of er- rands for his people. And his people have appreciated his industry, for he has hardly been opposed in recent contests for reelec- /tion. Furthermore, the triumph of Representa- tive Thomas is but one incident in a major governmental process. Many others might be cited, such as the disciplining of the State Department and Budget Bureau last year by the friends of the shipping lobby on the Senate Appropriations Committee. These Senators cried "economy" six days a week, and on the seventh grew furious because $500,000,000 in ECA funds had been saved by transferring useless American vessels to the French and Italians. The sacrificing of the general to the special interest is such accept- ed practice that it hardly any longer arouses indignation. In the present instance, Houston may not get its hospital after all, despite Thomas's efforts. 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