RAGE FOUR i'iHE MICHIGAN DAILY ___ You r Turn To Give LT HUGHAMERCANuniversities are ma;.ny Euiropeain tudents are still waiting for thw chance to :.o back to school. Years of active work in underground mov0cemeetsjItlis scarcities of food and mrecies have btr roken the health of many of these students. The World Student 1service Fond has taken the lead in re- butiling the physical stamnina of these EFu- rolean ,tudents. An International student organization, the WSSF lwo(aies food, books and medicines for students,- of war devastatedl areas. And these tude. ~lnts can make goad use, of such In manycae the student has been cut ouff fromt his family and hence his only source 4a fundls. Even when it is p)osible to obyta in, food May not be of the best quality. .Acid most of all there is a great 1:,11/rialw pitbiJ~ibed in The Michigan Daily a)r, ivilf en by inieinbers of The Daily staff and<< rejpreent /he ' news of the ivriters only. NIGHIT EITORI 1'R'RCA WINTERS First act of the WSSF was to set up a rest center in France where students could simply relax and eat nourishing food. Some needed many months of rest while others only spent their vacations at the rest center, lout almost all the students were able to return to their studies. Recently the WSSF has taken up the fight against tuberculosis. Broken health made many students easily susceptible to the disease. Officials report that a ; many as 10 per cent of all students in some areas in Greece had infectious t.b. In this fight, WSSF spent thousands of dollars for X-ray plates and proper medical treatmen1)t for thc diseasedt r in sana1toN(,1. TH-E LOCAL DRIVE for funds begins to- day. Buckets will be located on every corner of the campus for the two special tag days. The ease for WSSF is simple: students are an international '.reed that knows no state boundaries,.fBy helping these stiv- dlents we are, in a sense. helping ourselves. We must gire European and Asiatie stu- dents an even break so that they may become the kind of (htize ns the world ]neceds. -Jalet Watts. .Effective Campus Politics JTDA ' recent p~olitical orientation pro- grmprovidledl an opportunity to get s om e insight into the spheres in which the variious campus grJoups will be operating dring Ml the rest of i he( school ,year. Briningtoget Iicr spokesmren from various; p)oliticAl and pre;ssure organizations, the meet, ing not only gave listeners a chance to learn something about the campus political scene, but gave the active members of the alphabet groups a chance to look at each other. The result of this should be a realiza- tiott of the simnilar objectives expressed by inany- of the° groups and of an effort amo~cng the g-ro cps to work together towvard commulon goals. AVC has already given an indication of work along co-operative lines by organizing a Committee to Abolish the Ban, composed of representatives of all interested organi- zations. UWF and the UN Council have taken steps in the same direction with plans for debates and programs sponsored by both groups. If these trends toward united efforts con- tinue, the projects outlined for this semester will have a much greater chance of success. The lines of possible co-operation were clearly indicated by speakers at the Orien- tation Program. AVC, IRA. AIA, Wallace Pragressives, and Young Dlemocrats all fa- vor civil rights legislation. IJWV4',, the Ui Council, and Wallace Progressives support the idea ,of world government, and Young Democrats andl ADA expressed intentions of taking active part in the coming Re- gents election. Despite the similarity in aims, the guoups do differ considerably in their theories, and it is this which accounts for the large nlun- her of alphabet organizations. But these dif- ferences do not make it impossible for a united effort on issues of agreement. The effectiveness of campus political groups may well depend on the degree to which they work together toward achieving common goals. And the Orientation Pro- gram proved that it is possible for the dif- ferent groups to unite to make political ac- tivity on this campus a success. -Roma Lipsky . I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Notes on Power Taking Stock T HERE COMES a time when every one stops and takes stock of himself, his pi- vate, public and social position. Suh a time has arrived' for the veterans both an thle campus and in the world out side. The American Legion has proposed and the IDouse Veterans' Committee has ac- cepted a hill to farther separate the vet- erans from the rest of their community. Under a hon ia nza from Represenatie Rankin, the veteran is to have Social Se- curity in his 0o(1 age such s fno other group has ever had before. Now, we aren't saying that Social Security is had. The numbers in 01u1 old age homes are an indication that. something must be clone along those lines. But horw can a per- son who served in the armed forces condone being set aside in a special class. not ust for the adjustment periodlt for thle rs, of hi,, natural lie? There is always a certain amout of hysteria among politicians to wave thet flag and say nothing is too good for the bays. True. nothing is. But is it of bneet to the veteraun to be further spara ted from the civilian poplatol months and years after lie has begm to forget the actual events lhe refers to as "acive Service?" We are all taxpayers. That much is ob- vious. And pensions are still being paid to the heirs of 36, veterans of the Mexican War, to the tune of $22,440 a year; to 710 veter- ans of the Indian War to the extent of $77- 444 and ad infinitum for a total of $6,416,- 232,236 a ,year. Some of these may be for disabilities and those certainly are justified. Inutit is, we repeat, tine to take stock of our ida that the world owes a livig to those IVIIo served. Social Security is a wonderful thing if it can be worked out to the mutual benefit of all. When it is distorted for the gains of a few it becomes a mockery and a threat to the democratic idea of equality of all before the law. -D~on NMcNeil A REVOLUTIONARY precedent lately introduced in the field of student edu- cation abroad is, strangely enough, an in- direct result of World War II, in itself a struggle which threatened to wipe Euro- pean and Asiatic educational standards off the old world map. By utilizing foreign credits amassed by this country through the sale of surplus w~ar territory, the recent Fulbright Act has pro- vided for the assumption of basic expenses of American college graduates and profes- sors studying and teaching abroad. After (certain qualiications are met. a student desirous of compleenting his na- tive education next year by a continued " overseas" program at the country of his choice will have eliminated an imposing f- nancial drawback. Moreover, we see civilian students and G. Bill recipients placed on an eual footing as to prel iminay requirements; whether a veteran or no, each applicant will get approval on personal and schol- astic bases only. A true democratic spiit, discounting- all service records and mone- tary Stati as might aid one man and hin- der another, has been injected in this bill. Although grants will be awarded in vary- ing amounts, depending upon individual costs, professional levels and financial re- serves, they will carry the student through for a fll year. Fortuinate also is a conven- lent clause st i-mlatinif possibilities of re- newal when 365~ college days have been tlsel ip. Al ready unitie foreign rltions have pld Od confidence in it, hiving signled official ag reements to nfllleriieft their truvst. A definite st(ep in the right direction, the Fulbright Act and its accompanying, good intentions,, should go far in the reahization of bigger and better New World-Old World educational ties. -Don Eotite 50 YEARS AGO. Intercollegiate sports were headed for a slump after a good report by President Eliot of Harvard thoroughly condemned freshman and upperclass sport at Harvard and all over the country as "not; conducive to student studies." .10 YEARS AGO: In the war in Northern Russia it was re- ported that the Bolsheviki wvere using gas and high explosives to drive back the Allied troops. In the meantime, Britain and the United States planned to send 3,000 troops to the battle area around Murmansk and Archangel. Now that the war (in Europe) was over and the flu epidemic past, Daily editors urged the students to buckle down to normal studying at the University and to "reduce the number of pipe courses on your sched- ule." 20 YEARS AGO: Sergei Rachmaninioff told a Daily report- er that he desires most to live at home in seclusion, where he could devote his time to iiidividmal b"Isis. Pecturst 5 Ifor ()f- hem llchanItge of lna nes loilld1(1 I tiled at, the ititoriAwt ion deslk onl the 2nd floor oftII(t le newAdifl lii istrat ion Bldu'. "Eve~~ty ' -ht(i~X ce a('SncPlc eo& 4%- 1.,1 1 'ID AILY OF'FIC IAji1)Bi j1'i2T'riN P' h 'loS e livS ,.dl 1ii[ll. \\ill unif'C iii''2:) Ax- 11v ;SAINT.';EL (GRAFTON TAMES P. WARBURG deserves everybody's thanks for pointing out, clearly and brilliantly, how our concentration on mili- tairy measures agcsainst Russia involves the daniger that we will lose our political struggle with her. Mr. Warburg;'s memorandum to members of Congress comies at a time when we are all hollowly agreeing with each other, in the most superficial way, that we must arm, arm, arm. We have been repeating each other's cliches for a year as if they were revealed truth. 'There is something like a clap of thunder in Mr. Warburg~s demon- statonthat the danger from Russia is .CIIN'IEMA At, LyIia Mleidels'w Itn BEFORE HIM ATAL RiOME TREMBLE D, ,vithf Anna Magna-wni. re AKING ITS TITLE from a line in Pile- cimi'.s "La Tosc'a," Befoure Hima All Rome Tremrbled, is another in the ever ghrowing list of plays wvitin plays~. Following the plot; of "La Tosea" almost completely, the picture attempts to build uip sclspenase on two levels, and succeeds only hatlfway in both. The effectiveness of the much touted "40 minutes of La, Tosca" is soniewha t lessenecd because the audience is muwch too intent, on the main plot to con- cenltrate comnpletely on the operatic se- (Iluenees SIn addition, the pageantry of the opera is constan ftly interrupted by uninspiring scenrles in gaae . Continuity, weak th rouighout the filum, is completely lost tiowam'ds the end. Before Him All Rome Trembled gets off to a1 slow start, and ends about the same f'way. The character's never reach the stature of their prototypes in thii opera. Indeed, the majioi y are merely types. Even the earthily Isexy or sexilly earthy Magnani does not kstand out clear'ly, buy; hops back and forth betw,.en her roles as Tosca, the Italian star who gives all her money to aid her people, and the playmate of the Nazi's with little 4motivation. Thue stor'y concerns an Italian opera company who attempt to aid a British political and ideological, rather, than mnili- tary, and that in distorting European r'e- covery' into rearmament, we ar'e not de- fending Europe, but opening it wide to just this kind of political penetration. The North Atlantic Defense Pact, Mr. Warburg shows, puts our primary effort into meeting a secondary danger-that of military attack- and weakens our efforts against the primary danger-political deterioration. Mr. Warburg has suddenly made the European problem seenm hard again-or easy--depending on how much human understanding you bring to it. I would like to add a point or two to Mr. Warburg's analysis. The first thing tha t has to be said is that the cold p~ursuit of a military plan can very quickly lead one into mechanical and unreal thinking. For e\:= ample, we star'ted out, xith the ideai of a North Atlantic Defense Pact to protect thie West. But already this notion has been stood on its head; it has now subtly, become a case of calling on the West to proteet the pact; we are even ready to risk a break with Scandinavia to protect that delicious pact. The pact has become more important than the unity pf the West. We are, even with out deliberate p~re5sure~ presenting our Scandinaviarn friends with hard choices, with dilemmas, all of which would have been avoided if we had con- fined our efforts to a massive drive for re- covery-which would have left Russia with nothing to complain about in Scandinavia, except that it was prosperous. ANOTHER FACT is that the clear demfon- stration of our' military superiority over Russia may lose adherents for us, on the political level, rather than gain them. Great military power has not been popular in our world of recent years. Guns instead of butter is a position which loses friends, rather than makes them. Russia can use the very fact of her demonstrated military infer'iority against us, putting the onus on us, the stronger, for a continuance of world un- settlement. We are manufacturing this polit- ical argument for Russia. Once we demonstrate our superior power, we of course become responsible for every- thing that is wrong in the world, from the continuance of reaction anywhere in Europe to the continuance of colonialism in the Far East-while the other side to the argument can use its very weakness as a moral justifi- 12:17 Aiw' '11lIi 11. 'Toice: "O(n non- ct point.- Women students are notiidl that late permission arec given by' the Office of the Dean of Women ;f only during offie hours. ouse directors may give late peis-w sions in cases of unavoidable and' justifiable energene