THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, _. Jumped the Gun FUNNY HOW altruistic epople can get when they have to. The American Medical Association, figur- ing to jump the gun on President Truman's Federal Health Insurance program, has just published a twelve point program for "vol- untary" medical assistance which, on the surface doesn't sound bad. It begins with the suggestion that a Federal Department of Health be created. This is not new. Last year, the idea for an eleventh cabinet post, "Health and Education" was suggested. The object, then as now, was the coordination of the various federal programs in the field. The proposal was kicked around for a while and then pigeonholed somewhere. The rest of the AMA suggestions deal with the promotion of research through grants from a National Science Foundation, more voluntary hospital plans, which would cover aid to states and the establishment of state and local medical care authorities. Further, they want aid for mental hy- giene, health education, industrial med- icine, care of the aged and those with chronic diseases. These points are all topped off with the phrase, "Provisions for-" or "Development of-." No men- Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: GEORGE WALKER tion of who is going to pay for these programs. Final points is support with funds free from political "Control, Domination and Regulation" of medical, dental and nursing schools for specialized training. This program is the first fruit of the AMA fight against Federal Health Insur- ance. This is the plan for which AMA made its members kick in twenty-five dollars each. If it had come out of the blue, the pro- gram would be hailed everywhere as a great step forward in public service. But the submission of the plan is, in itself, indicative of the state of medical care in this country and testimony that, up to now, nobody, including AMA, has done anything about it. It took a move by the Federal government to stir the profession to do anything. What will it take to see that they carry out their proposals? AMA cannot continually ask its members to contribute each time it wants to do some- thing ! President Truman will soon come out with the administration's health insurance program. It remains to be seen whether the AMA covered all the points the govern- ment will present. From here, it looks as if any full scale, organized plan for health insurance and medical care will require a lot of capital, from the people it will benefit, and super- vision-supervision with the good of the whole country in mind and not the exclu- sive benefit of the present members of the medical profession. This, only the govern- ment can supply. -Al Blumrosen. I CURRENT MOVIES ----------- i At the State.. FIGITlR SQU AJ)RON. The characters are secondary. THE ENTERTAINMENT value of this movie is very good. That is to say, you'll get your money's worth, don't worry about it. Even if you've never been a fighter pilot yourself, the splicing department has done such an excellent job of combining actual combat shots with Hollywood fillers that you will, I think, be completely absorbed in the fast pace of this production. The acting is as competent as it need be, considering that this movie contains no plot, attempts to tell no story. Rather it attempts to set down pictorially the glory and magnificence of successful war-the epic picture of the men who prepared and init- iated the last invasion of France. Therein, I feel, lies the emotional good* and the emotional bad of this movie. "Fight- er Squadron" makes war and blood and gun- playinto a noble ideal. It makes the gran- deur of war the finest and most wonderful of all human activities. The Germans they killed were not people; they were clay ducks you shot down with an air rifle, 3 shots for a dime. And then when you pull the wings off the fly, you make a joke about it, and say "Look, mama. See what I did." The picture succeeds in its sublime por- trayal solely by ignoring negative in- stances. Even the fact that one's best friend was shot down this afternoon is rendered only token admission. Dead men are numbers, and the Living never die. War is fun, war is fine, war is cocky. Per- hasp it is. Perhaps in 1944 we had to be con- vinced as a nation that war wasn't really bad at all. But why, in 1949, are they try- ing to convince us again? I have no objection to a nation's recalling in ballad and on mandolin the great deeds of its legendary heroes. But I get an odd feeling in the forehead when I find people taking the Minnesingers seriously. I want to know why this picture was made, why movie camers were brought all the way to Michigan to film battle scenes, why 4-year- old newsreel shots were so beautifully tech- nicolored by Natalie Kalmus. The picture tells no story; if it did say, about loyalty or about love or about valor-then the war background might be necessary. But again, it is not a documen- tary; it has Edmund O'Brien. And the fighters in this picture face an unbeliev- able lack of opposition. They might be training in Texas. If it means anything, the same German is shot down several times, But still, you'll get your money's worth. It's a good picture, and should encourage recruiting. You may as well miss the short subjects. --Perry Logan. At the Mchigan.. THE THREE MUSKETEERS, with Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Lana Turner, and Van Heflin. WITH UNQUALIFIED enthusiasm, for a change, we say WellDone! It is, of course, not quite on a par with "Henry V"-butthen, neither was Alexander Dumas on a par with Shakespeare. The point is this: Gene Kelly has been ideally cast as the irrepressible D'Artag- nan, the supporting cast is excellent, and the production is superb. In addition, this is the first technicolor we have seen in many months that truly deserves to be called ':'Glorious!" There! Who ever said that the function of a movie reviewer was to categorically pan everything he views? It is entirely possible that many will con- sider the picture a little overlong-it runs a full two hours. This, however, is an en- tirely subjective consideration on which we need not comment. It is also highly gratifying to note that illollywood did not feel compelled to play down the highly tragic moments in the Dumas story. While most of the picture is crammed with spectacular action and high humor, instances of emotional ten- sion are realistically treated-especially so by June Allyson. Wicked Lana Turner is not giveni much to say-,but then, Lana doesn't have to say much Also ran-cute Pluto cartoon. -Bob White. Seamen Draft JOWEVER YOU CHOOSE to look at it, ex-merchant marine seamen are suffer- ing from a congressional knife-in-the-back policy, and as yet the wound shows no sign of healing. Active nationwide campaigning and pe- titioning on the part of former mariners is the result of a draft bill clause pro- claiming them liable for peacetime draft- ing. Naturally, ex-seamen feel they served their country in wartime as efficiently as soldiers, sailors and marines, and public sympathy is running side by side. with their plight. However in Washington, the forces that count-lawmakers of all types -seem to consider the whole painful thing as cut-and-dried nonsense; many are adhering strictly to a "laissez-faire" policy, probably representative of reluct- ance to view the question in its full light. Accohrding to a late report brought from the capitol to the campus Emergency Mer- chant Marine Committee by a five-man delegation, legislators maintained that the primary objective is to get an exemption bill into open discussion. Despite warnings as to the effect that such a small group as former seamen could make no headway when opposed by congressional factions Committee chapters throughout the United States have sprung into action by contacting as many influential senators and represen- tatives as humanly possible before chances for a fair deal are permanently snowed under. The battle has continued more than six months, but with time closing in, coun- trywide committee members are now pre- senting their plea to the general public by means of folders and "Let's Be Fair" pamphlets. A higher World War II casualty rate and lower pay scales than any other service branch appears more than enough to con- done the plea. In addition, enlistments were on a strictly volunteer basis, with no ad- vance knowledge of the length of time they might be obliged to serve. Careful analysis reveals the postwar denial to former seamen of privileges laid down by the Certificate of Substantial Service, similar to the army point discharge setup and awarded seamen at the close of the war. By this document, those who had 18 months' sailing time during a period prior to V-J Day were placed in an exempt status. ,Iere we see another source of complaint; mariners compare these relatively stiff qual- ifications with the mere 90-day-before-V-E Day Army and Navy "breeze" necessary for permanent draft exclusion. Seamen have a terrific fight on their hands, and know only too well the legis- lative blocks being heaved at them. A run- down of senatorial comments contained in the Committee's Washington report of developments points to only one concrete objection-there is a sharp distinction in- volved between civilian and armed serv- ice, which fact places ex-mariners in a ticklish technical position. Nevertheless, to echo the overall senti- ment, we would like to see a justifiable solu- tion offered in this spot. The absence of G.I. Bill benefits and the subsequent lack of academic and financial security to affected seamen demand a total rehashing of daft policy, inasmuch as it concerns the mariners and their postwar interests. Let's hope sin- cerely that the work of the Emergency Com- mittee culminates in a really "fair deal" for these unsung guardians of the seas. -Don Kotite. MATTER OF 1"AC: 'Fai Deal' By STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON-President Truman's "Fair Deal" program of domestic legislation is in a fair way to bog down. Truman support- ers admit that the rosy post-election pic- ture, of the whole program sliding through Congress like a knife through warm butter, is pretty badly faded. The plain fact is that there is hardly a major part of the Truman program where the bogging down process has not begun to take hold. Senator Robert A. Taft and his cohorts have undoubtedly won the first round of the fight on the Taft-hartley Act. Othere important parts of the Truman program which are threatened are the $4 billion in new taxes and standby price con- trol authority. Senator Walter F. George and Representative Robert Doughton, chair- men of the House and Senate tax writing committees, have turned thumbs down on new taxes, though it is quite impossible to. see how new taxes can be avoided without putting the whole defense and foreign aid program. And the testimony of economic ad- viser Leon Keyserling in favor of standby price controls has been politely but very coldly received. Some sort of housing, education, health and minimum wage bills will almost cer- tainly eventually be passed. Finally, there is civil rights legislation, one of the keystones of the "Fair Deal." Here the horns of the dilemma on which the Administration leaders find themselves im- paled are particularly sharp. If the Senate lteaders try to sdove through an amendment to the cloture rule in the near future, the leather-lunged Southerners might filibuster "What Do You Wami ll To Do Next, Boss?" -~ - LOArr DAILY OFFICIAL BULETIN Letters to the Editor ... (Continued from Page 2) their new 1949 license numbers. 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There will be no late registration fee fori these people. Summer Jobs: - Detroit Civil Service announces examinations for p la y l e a d e r s (male and female) for summer playground work. Filing period through February 18. Residence required. For further information and application blanks call at 3528 Administration BuildingL. Representative from Camp Char- levoix, Mich., will be here Tues., Wed., and Thurs., Feb. 15, 16, and 17. to interviev men for counselor positions: sailing, tennis, athletics, ARC waterfront, NRA riflery, dra- matics. Prefer men over 20. For appointment call at 3528 Admin- istration Bldg., or call extension 2614. Lec I tires University Lecture in Journal- ism, sponsored by the Deepart- ment of Journalism: Leland Stowe, noted journalist, author, and lecturer, will lecture before a journalism assembly and other University students on "Foreign News and Our International Rela- tions," 3 p.m., Wed., Feb. 16, Rm. B, Haven Hall. Coffee hour. Economics Lecture: Dr. John H. Williams, Ropes Professor of Eco- nomics at Harvard University, will speak on "European Recovery -the Outlook for the Marshall Plan," 4:15 p.m., Tues., Feb. 15, Rackham Amphitheatre; auspices of the Department of Economics, The public is invited. School of Forestry Lecture: Mr. H. F. Mixdorf, of the No- Sag Spring Company of Detroit,, Michigan, will speak on "Springs in Modern Furniture Construc- tion" 7 p.m., Feb. 17, West Lecture Room, Rackham Building. All furniture students are ex- pected to attend and other stu- dents, particularly those following the Wood Techonology Curricu- lum are welcome. The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters far publication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the order in which thcy are received all et ters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters and letters of a defama- toryscharacter or such letters which for any other reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. S* * To Mch Spice To the Editor: [T IS WITH a sincere interest in The Daily as an important and productive institution within our studentcommunity that herewith I undertake to caution you, its editors, with regard to the mach- inations of the local Marxist ap- paratus, its supporters, and sym- pathizers, who are taking un- worthy advantage of the wholly commendable policy on the part of The Daily in printing student opinion in the form of letters such as this one. The fact is that too much of the space in this section is given to correspondence that is clearly mere Stalinist propaganda. Addi- tionally, too much of this prop- aganda is of an wholly destructive and divisive character that can only arouse bitterness and cannot serve as wholesome enlighten- ment by reason of its factual falsity and collateral motive. I refer specifically to the menda- cious albeit naive attempt, in a letter published herein last Sat- urday, to label as an anti-Semite the unfortunate Cardinal Minds- zenty, to whose personal credit lies the salvation of thousands of Jewish Hungarians during the Nazi occupation of their country and who thundered from his pul- pit the profoundest excoriations of Hitler racism and brutality un- til the Nazis in'their desperation were forced to imprison the spiri- tual primate of two.thirds of the Hungarian people. The late im- prisonment of this heroic human- itarian by the singularly inhuman and unpopular "Peoples' Court" of the Soviet regime in Hungary was sought to be justified in this column by means of the adoption of that cynical but not so wise Kampf: the grosser the lie, the counsel as set forth in Mein Kampf: the grosser the lie, the easier its acceptance. This has been to the error and shame of this newspaper. .It is not recommended that The Daily deny all its space to the Bolshevik brethren on our cam- pus;adnmittedly their theories are of popular interest. However, the duty of any newspaper is the publication of truth and conse- quently its officers should exer- cise at least a modicum of vigi- lance in their selection of repre- sentative material so as not to implement the ulterior designs of those who by means of the lie would set Jew against Catholic, Catholic against Jew, American against his brother. -John B. Nahan. (EDITOR'S NOTE: We refer reader Nahan to the editor's note at the beginning of this column. All read- ers are privileged to use this column to present, refute or uphold arg- ments within the limitations listed above.) IT SEEMS that the United States has successfully repelled an- other "peace offensive." Those Russians aren't going to catch us asleep; we'll manage to find some out every time! Why the very thought of ending our Cold War now-with the profits just about rolling in and our whole economy built around our war preparations program. You see those nasty Russians are threatening us all the time so that we'll have to keep up this very expensive armament pro- gram. What? Cut -out the armaments and talk peace"? Don't be absurd ! That's just a nasty old Russian trick meant to confuse us. We won't be taken in, not us! All that peace talk is phoney; and just to prove it we're not going to accept their offer of a con- ference, unless it's right in our own backyard. While the atom bomb ticks off the hours of mankind our leaders iefuse to attempt any settlement. Only public pr'essure can con- vince President Truman that he must try to hold a conference with the leaders of the Soviet Un- ion and find some areas of agree- ment. The Soviet government has repeatedly called for such confer- ences. Nothing could be lost, but profits by holding such a confer- ence. Last week at a meeting of the Wallace Progressives the following resolution was passed unanimous- ly and sent to President Tru- man: "We demand that the United States government enter into peace talks with the Soviet Union immediately. We speak as those who will have to fight and die in the next war and we insist that every possible avenue to peace be explored." We urge that others send sim- ilar telegrams at once. -Al Fishman. Nation's Fairest To the Editor: COEDS are the nation's fair- est . . ."-baloney! The fol- lowing signatures represent a ma- jority of the residents of the fourth floor of Chicago House, and a Daily subscribers we re- spectfully request publication. --Donald Bolliger. Arnold G. Miller, Ray Okonski, Lawrence Lane, And 18 others. Tod thditor:(i To the Editor: ~I Ac"demic i University Musical Society IBurton Memorial Tower. in P U RA rIEI BE RIGHT: U~~~~~ ti i o ttR e e Doctoral Examination for Frank Ephraim Grubbs, Mathematics; thesis: "Sample Criteria for Test- ing Outlying Observations," 2 p.m., Tues., Feb. 15, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg. Chairman, C. C. Craig. Botanical Seminar: 4 p.in., Wed., Feb. 16, 1139 Natural Sci- ence Bldg. Paper: "Inheritance of Shrunken Endosperm in Relation to the Factor for Aleurone Color in Maize," by E. B. Mains. Open meeting. Political Science 52, Section 3: Thursday, at 10 (Eldersveld) now meets in 2215 Angell Hall. Mathematics Concentration Ex- amination: 4-6 p.m., Tues., Feb. 15, 3011 Angell Hall. Con ce rts Jascha hleifetz, will give the fourth program in the Extra Con- cert Series under the auspices of the University Musical Society, Sat.. Feb. 19, 8:30 p.m., Hill Audi- torium. Mr. Heifetz will play the Mozart Sonata No. 8; Vieuvtemps' Con- certo No. 5; Bach partita in E major; Caprice No. 20 and No. 13, Paganini-Kreisler; and Tziga'ne by Ravel. A limited number of tickets are still available at the offices of the S.t'udent Recital: Bette Linde- mann will present a piano recital in partial fulfillment of the re- quirements for the degree of Bach-I eler of Music at 8 p.m., Tues., Feb.! 15. Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. A pupil of Maud Okkelberg, Miss Lindemann will include in her pro-! gram works of Couperin, Bach, Bach-Liszt, Mozart, Berners, anxe' Schumann. The program wihi be cpen to the general public. Organ Recital by Marilyn Ma- son, Instructor in the School of Music. 4:15 p.m., Wed., Feb. 16, Hill Auditorium. Miss Mason's program will include compositions by Bach, Durufle, Liszt, and1 Poulenc, and will be open to the general public. She will be assist- ed by the University String Or- chestra, Emil Raab, Conductor. j Student Recital: Genevieve Shanklin, violinist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music at 8 p.m.. Wed.. Feb. 16, Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre. Miss Shanklin, a pupil of Gil- bert Ross, will be assisted by Mary' Margaret Poole, pianist. Her pro- gram will include compositions by Tartini, Bach, Lalo, G inados, and De Falla, and will be open to the general public without charge. (Continued on Page 5) Lifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Harriett Friedman ...Manugag Eltor Dick Malay ...............City Eliuor Naomi Stern ........Editorial Director .Allegra Pasqualetti ... 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By SAMUEL G1LAFTON OBS ARE BEING LOST; there is an eco- nomic adjustment going on: and one of the first serious steps we should take to meet it is to stop issuing reassuring statements, These (1o not good and, as one of the finan- cial papers has noted, they alarm specula- tors. To couple news of unemployment with the declaration that there are still 57,000,000 or 58,000,000 people at work is about as meaningful as to couple news of a train crash with a Census Bureau report on how many people are still left alive. I would like to .ot down some concepts that might be of belp in meeting whatever - "ay lie ahead. I do not pr'etend to be an expert on tlic subject. I know only that I lived througl'h the last depression, th1at I wrote a piee on it almost every day for as long as it lasted, and that the mnenmory of it is in my bones. Here arc sone of the things I feel I have to say: correct the current adjustment, So be it; let us use more than we need, to make sure. Let's really slug it; after all, we don't have to be fair to recessions. The government's experts have calculated that a depression could cost us up to eight hundred billions. Let us not depend on a repetition of past accidents to avoid a decline, such as the bad corn crop of two years ago, or the need for a Marshall Plan for Europe last year. Such thinking can lead us in the slovenly direction of hoping for poor corn crops, or for greater needs in Europe. It can end by twisting the Marshall Plan into a device for American recovery, rather than European- that is, it can end by standing us on our heads, a poor position from which to direct wvorld events. Above all, let us realize that the business Cy('ce j; ,is the President, has said, man- idi e. It is Ilot beyor-d control, like the weather. It can, by massive effort, be han- i-l rid 'Tn Innn finoar rv ,',,nc. cnrI I f .n xvlsi .t in - BARNABY ' Very inforoisfhg! ?otn~ ,4f~n of I. ae t Ru-ROK But sfs do n av ri Ncifvry- afemvea i; a) n 7.-t~hf t7va _.