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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, ]DECEMBER 11* I!1# l
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TVEI~DAY, flECEMBER ii, J)6i
International Students
T HE PROBLEM OF learning to know and
understand the personalities and moti-
vations of our neighbors in the world isn't
one to be handled solely by Washington dip-
lomats and delegates to the United Nations.
It also has local aspects.
There are 800 foreign students now on
campus, representing most of the major
countries of the world. These students are
anxious to become integrated into the
campus life and especially to express their
opinions and their knowledge of affairs
in their home countries to American stu-
dents.
The value of contact by Americans with
these students is mutually beneficial, not
merely in terms of friendship but in inter-
national understanding.
The numerous foreign student clubs have
been organized to encourage this exchange
of friendship and information. Integration
of these many clubs into a functioning whole
is the task of the International Students
Association, which is also seeking American
student participation.
In addition, Lane Hall, through the In-
tercultural Department of the Student
Religious Association plans many formal
and informal American-foreign student
activities, with the Intercultural Outings
providing an outstanding example of how
successful a project of this type can be.
The International Relations Committee of
SL has recently taken it upon themselves to
stimulate American students into reaping
the benefits to be gained from contact with
representatives of foreign countries.
The first project to be undertaken by this
committee in conjunction with the ISA, the
International Banquet held Sunday, can be
considered successful on most points.
This combined committee from SL and
ISA has proved to be the best way tried
so far of arranging cooperation between
foreign students and other campus groups.
It could be applied to many future acti-
vities planned individually by the ISA and
SL.
The success of the experimental Banquet
this year has shown that cooperation be-
tween American and foreign student groups
can be achieved with careful planning and
organization. However, it is only with the
enthusiastic participation of American stu-
dents that anything can be accomplished by
these international activities.
--Marge Shepherd
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ON THE
Washington Merry-Go-Round
WITH DREW PEARSON
"1
WASHINGTON-It's a poor example of
the good-neighbor policy, but Canada
is deliberately withholding precious alumi-
num from the United States. This has al-
ready pinched the aluminum supply for
home construction and other civilian uses.
But far more serious the Air Force is not
getting all the aluminum it needs to build
jet fighters.
Furthermore, part of the aluminum
Canada is withholding from us was finan-
ced by American RFC loans during World
War I1.
What Canada' has done is divert alumi-
num from the American to the British mar-
ket. It won't be admitted, but the real reason
for this diversion is to force this country to
swap steel for aluminum.
For example, Canadian aluminum ship-
ments to the United States dropped from
34,800,000 pounds per month last March
and April to a meager 5,300,000 pounds
per month today-a decrease of 85 per
cent. In the same period, Canadian ship-
ments to Britain have shot up from 21,-
100,000 pounds to 39,700,000 pounds per
month-an increase of 88 per cent.
As proof that this is a cold-blooded
squeeze-play, Canada has doubled its alum-
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and We clothed the bones with flesh:
then brought forth man of yet another
make.
"This does not conflict with, scientific
thinking," Miss Adibe pointed out. "Many
Muslims believe that all life started from
a single aquatic animal."
* * *
AND MAN directs himself.
Sulaiman noted that man is born free
of sin. "He is pure and innocent. Of
course, he can sin by not following God's
commandments-basically the Ten Com-
mandments of the Old Testament. Then
unless he repents he will be punished."
The Pakistani termed the earth a testing
ground where man can choose to do sinful
or good deeds.
* * *
EVEN THE io-called fall of man is inter-
preted as an a nen of his freedom.
"Man's first act of disobedience was also
his first act of free choice; and that is
why, according to the Quaranic narration,
Adam's first transgression was forgiven,"
Iqbal writes.
"Now goodness is not a matter of compul-
sion . . . A being whose movements are
wholly determined like a machine cannot
produce goodness . . . That God has taken
this risk (giving man his freedom) shows
His immense faith in man ..."
Thus was man placed, according to Iqbal,
in a painful physical environment not as
a punishment, but because it was better suit-
ed to the unfolding of his intellectual facul-
ties. Here he could defeat Satan who, as
man's enemy tried to keep him ignorant of
the joy of perpetual growth and expansion.
* '* *
MAN'S SOUL or ego, to the Muslim, is a
thing separate from his physical being. The
Koran says the ego has a beginning in time,
and cannot return to earth after death of
the body. But it claims finitude of life is not
a misfortune because there shall be a day
of resurrection.
Iqbal interprets the verses dealing with
this resurrection to mean that whatever
the fate of man may be, there will be no
loss of individuality.
inum shipments to Australia, Brazil, Uru-
guay and even Argentina at the same time it
strangled the aluminum flow to this coun-
try. In fact, the United States is the only
major market that received less Canadian
metal this year than last. As a result, the
United States is the only North Atlantic
Pact country that has been forced to clamp
civilian controls on aluminum.
* * *
-CANADA WINS-
MEANWHILE, THE Canadian squeeze has
accomplished its purpose and forced
the United States to swap American steel for
British aluminum. Hard up for steel but
overflowing with aluminum, Britain has
agreed to divert 22,000,000 pounds of alumi-
num to American purchasers during the
next five months. In return, Britain will be
allocated 25,000 tons of fabricated American
steel, 45,000 tons of steel ingots and another
28,500 tons of iron and steel scrap from the
American zone of Germany. The joker in
this deal is that the United States must
return the aluminum after its own plants
are expanded to make up the shortage,
though Britain is allowed to keep the steel
with no strings attached.
(Copyright, 1951, by The Bel Syndicate, Inc.)
Korean Truce
DURING THE past week many persons on
campus have signed petitions asking
President Truman to call a cease fire in
Korea.
It is their opinion that with a cease
fire order will come the termination of
the loss of American lives. Many feel, too,
that in doing this we are showing the
Reds our willingness to carry out our half
of a "truce peace."
However, a cease fire proposal is as bad
as asking Truman to evacuate our forces
from Korea. Unless we set up a system of
inspection to check the activities of both
sides, to stop fighting would give the Reds
time to rebuild their forces and repeat the
performance of last year's disasterous offen-
sive.
To hope that a cease fire would convince
the Reds that we can be trusted to fulfill
our half of a truce, thus getting them to
agree to one, is unrealistic.
It is most important that the Allied
forces keep persistently smashing at the
Communists now, while we can, for as
the Reds realize that we are getting
stronger and they weaker, they will be
willing to come to a settlement. With no
pressure on them it would be foolish to
think that they would give the Allies any
concessions.
Another argument, almost similar to the
first one, is that we leave Korea altogether.
This reasoning, too, is foolhardy.
Technically, the United States forces in
Korea represent a United Nations' police
force. This is the very reason for the whole
Korean issue. On July 26, 1945, the United
States not only recognized the UN but, with
other nations of the world, gave its pledge
.... "To maintain international peace and
security, and to that end: to take effective
collective measures for the prevention and
removal of threats to the peace and for
suppression of acts of aggression ...."
When North Korea committed acts of
aggression, President Truman kept his
promise to the UN and on June 27, 1950,
sent naval and air forces in an attempt to
halt the aggressors. When that wasn't
enough, he also called the ground forces
into South Korea.
Then, as now, the refusal of the U.S. to
supply troops for the United Nations forces
would have been disasterous. It would have
caused (and would still cause) the collapse
of the UN and the loss of respect that other
nations have toward us. Once again Com-
munism would spread further in the East.
Taking a third side of the argument are
the people who believe we should bomb
Manchuria, where most of the Reds' sup-
plies are coming from, and use the atomic
bomb in Korea.
There are two main reasons why we
cannot bomb Manchuria. First, the Chin-
ese Communist government and Russia
have a mutual defense pact, whereby if
either nation is attacked the other will
come to its aid. Bombing China is likely to
cause Russia to enter the battle and the
UN would be defeating the very purpose of
its existence: to prevent world war.
The second reason for not blasting Man-
churia is that it is considered, as is Japan,
a privileged sanctuary. If we bomb them,
they will bomb our bases in Japan.
And to use the Atom bomb would be most
contradictory for the nation which is so
strongly supporting international control
of atomic weapons.
Also experts have found that the atom
bomb would have little effect in Korea.
The bomb is used to destroy large con-
centrations of soldiers or industries, both
of which are lacking in Korea. Almost all
North Korean cities are ruined now and
both armies have learned how to spread
out their forces in order to stay alive.
Then too, the extremely mountainous ter-
rain throughout the peninsula prevents the
effects of the bomb from doing any harmful
damage over a very large area.
The goal of the UN now is to settle a sat-
isfactory truce with the Communists, one
in which there will be a detailed inspection
of activities behind the lines of both forces.
There are other major issues to be settled,
for example the exchange of prisoners. All
this will take time. Yet when the truce is
finally settled another threat of world war
will have been relieved. Then back to the
arguing, the vetoes, the walkouts, back to
the UN tables.
-Robert Apple
The State Teacher
In our more highly organized world we
face a new problem. Something called edu-
cation is given to everybody, usually by the
state, but sometimes by the churches. The
teacher has thus become, in the vast ma-
jority of cases, a civil servant obliged to
carry out the behests of men who have no
experience in dealing with the young, and
whose only attitude towards education is
that of the propagandist.
--Bertrand Russell
Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writer only.
This must be noted in all reprints.
NIGHT EDITOR: CAL SAMRA
The Daily welcomes communica-
tions from its readers on matters of
general interest, and will publish all
letters which are signed by the writer
and in good taste. Letters exceeding
300 words in length, defamatory or
libelous letters, and letters which for
any reason are not in good taste will
be condensed, edited or withheld from
publication at the discretion of the
editors.
Criticism ,,,
To the Editor:
FOR THE past year the Daily
critics have been systematically
demolished by our student body.
One of the most palpable differ-
ences between science and litera-
ture is that one lends itself readily
to exact measurement while the
other must be examined by per-
sonal evaluation. Very often it is
a case of the scientific instrument
as opposed to the mind. Any two
thermometers of good quality will
agree with each other as to the
temperature within one or two de-
grees variation, but how many
domestic quarrels have arisen be-
cause of a difference of opinion as
to whether or no it is necessary
for the man of the. house to go
downstairs and stir up the coal
furnace? Because the floor is cold,
the husband is comfortably in
bed, and the furnace is three
flights down, Mr. Jones will either
deliberately or unconsciously in-
sist to his loving mate that the
room is perfectly comfortable and
that any more heat would be un-
bearable. The husband, because
he is consulting his mind and not
the thermometer, is, whether he
knows it or not, obviously preju-
diced, and so, any critic in a field
such as music or literature, in
which there is no "thermometer"
or other instrument of exact mea-
surement, must, when offering
opinions, depend much upon his
own prejudice. In this case the
prejudice arises not from any re-
luctance to leave a warm bed, but
is dependent upon the critic's past
experience. Mrs. Jones can dis-
agree with Mr. Jones, and remedy
her husband's recalcitrance by
hanging five fine and accusing
thermometers in her bedroom, but
the reader can only rely upon his
own biased background when dis-
puting the critic's preudices, thus
creating a nearly unending battle.
All this assumes of course that
both reader and critic have at
least made use of the few existing
literary and critical values.
Quality or genius in the arts,
though almost always recogniz-
able, is thus seen to be seldom ex-
actly measurable. Two men may
well possess an equal admiration
for Chaucer, but it would prove
extremely difficult to find any
other two men who will agree as
to the relative merits of each of
the twenty o dd "Canterbury
Tales."
This task of comparison, critical
analysis, and evaluation, becomes
greatly magnified when, not only
does the critic possess a question-
ing and intelligent background,
but his audience itself is equally
intelligent and questioning. Thus
one sees the vehement letters to
the Daily reflecting just one of
the many manifestations of such
a phenomenon. The ideal critic
should possess a literary and aes-
thetic background at least on a
par with the best of his readers,
but since this seldom can be the
case in a large university, prob-
lems arise. Bearing this in mind
I feel a thinking reader should at
first attempt the assumption that
a critic has a wider intellectual
background than he, but if he
finds such an assumption unten-
able he will not resort to jibes and
insults directed towards the critic
in question, but will maintain a
tolerant attitude and will attempt
to disprove him from a firm, in-
tellectual, and respectful stand-
point.
-Kenneth L. Becker
The Fumblers.
To the Editor:
"A POX ON both your houses."
Neither side of the present
Israel "battle" recognizes that this
problem is primarily one of justice,
not of efficacy; that it is to be
decided on a much broader basis
than local and temporary consid-
erations.
Fie on you Mr. Samra, not only
do you miss the point, but you
play tricks with demographic geo-
graphy. You know as well as I
do that one nation may be over-
populated with 40 people per
square mile and another not so
with 450. The future of Israel's
economic stability depends upon
so many diverse factors that to
make unequivocable statements as
you do requires not only audacity
but ignorance.
And you Zionists with your pet-
ty arguments concerning these 2,-
000,000 people astound me. Sure-
ly you don't weigh the interests
of these as greater than that of
50,000,000 Arabs! ! ! The fact that
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political groups, but Zionists in
America as well, demanding that
Israel be given more and more
Arab land-all of Palestine, Trans-
jordan Lebanon, Syria, Egypt,
Iraq--the boundaries will be ever
expanding and peace will be im-
possible as long as such fears are
encouraged by Zionists words and
acts. The Arab States, under no
circumstances, can ever trust the
new state, and cannot feel any
friendship for it.
Zionists describe us as poor, ig-
norant and weak. To a certain
extent, we are. But the reasons
for that should certainly be clear.
For five centuries, the Arabs were
suffering from foreign domination
and severe political control. But
after continued struggles, some of
the Arab States obtained their in-
dependence hardly five years ago.
During this short period, the Arabs
have progressed in leaps and
bounds. It is sheer ignorance to
compare us with the United States
or even the Jews who, though they
were being persecuted, were still
benefitting from Western civil#-
zation, culture and money.
Looking at the government bud-
gets of the Arab States, we notice
that half of Egypt's budget goes
for education. The fact that this
year we have almost 1500 students
in the U.S., and almost double that
amount in Europe and elsewhere,
gives us strong hopes for our prog-
ress.
Besides, we are planning the
Arab's income from oil would
amount to 700 million dollars per
year, which will surely help uas
technically, educationally, a n d
more important-militarily. Also,
the Arab armies would be well
strengthened, for not only serving
the cause of liberty and freedom
in the World, but for restoring our
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Just as belief in the amount of direction,
God exercises over man's temporal life
varies between Muslims, so does thinking
about the after life.
To the philosopher Heaven and Hell
are states, not localities.
"Hell as conceived by the Quaran, is not
a pit of everlasting torture inflicted by a
revengeful God," Iqbal declares. "It is a
corrective experience which may make a
hardened ego once more sensitive to the
living breeze of Divine Grace.
"Nor is Heaven a holiday. Life is one
and continuous. Man marches always on-
ward to receive ever fresh illuminations from
an Infinite Reality which 'every moment
appears in a new glory'. And the recipient
of divine illumination is not merely a passive
recipient. Every act of a free ego creates a
new situation, and thus offers further op-
portunities of creative unfolding.
TODAY ISLAM is growing. Although Miss
Adibe noted that the religion has few mis-
sionaries, she maintained that it is growing
within itself.
Many of the old customs that attached
themselves to Islam from the many cul-
tures that it came into contact with, and
that led to its stagnation if not decay, are
being wiped away.
In Turkey, where the state and religion
were completely split because Islam had
gathered so many foreign characters, re-
ligion is again being taught in the schools.
"The people saw that they we re living in
a spiritual vacuum. They have returned to
their faith, and the religion is being re-
vitalized," Sulaiman said.
The historically inferior woman is again
regaining her status of equality as prescribed
in the Koran.
"This was the great teaching of God's
prophet Mohammed, the mystic who
brought the people God's word through the
Koran. Equality is the great rule of living
for the Muslim," Miss Adibe said.
"That is why Islam is the most tolerant
of religions. It can exist side by side with
Jew or Hindu. Unless broken apart by tem-
poral politics its people live with all others
as brothers, the children of God."
(Next: Judaism)
throughout the diaspora a cultural
unity. Fact-the Jews have been
guilty of, and the victims of
"Ghetto psychology." Opinion-
the establishment of Israel re-
moves the rational basis for such
a situation. Israel is thus the set-
tlement of the problem of Jewery
as it exists in pogroms, discrim-
i n a t i o n and differentiation
throughout the world (including
the U.S.). Fact-the Jewish pop-
ulation of Israel is working with
feverish intensity toward the es-
tablishment of a "better way of
life". Fact-outside populations
can not help but be influenced by
this. Opinion-this is a healthy
tonic for the sickness from which
liberality has been suffering since
the Wilson defeat in 1919.
I hang my head in shame that
I can't be as positive as Mr. Samra
or my Zionist friends.-but then
the future escapes me.
-Leo D. Vichules
* * *
Peace on Earth .. .
To the Editor:
MANY OF the lamp-posts along
State Street are now decor-
ated and proclaim the message
"Peace on Earth", a phrase taken
from the first Christmas carol ever
sung, that of the angels, and re-
corded for us in Luke 2:15. I
would like to raise the question
as to what this phrase really
means.
No doubt the popular view of
"Peace on Earth" is that associat-
ed with peace between the na-
tions of the earth. However, I sub-
mit that this is not the import of
this particular message.
According to the more accurate
translation given in the Revised
Standard Version of the Bible, the
complete statement is "Glory to
God in the Highest, and on earth
peace among men with wnom he
is pleased!" I believe that the
correct interpretation is simply
that God assumes an attitude of
peace among (or towards the
men with whom he is pleased. In
other words the angels here were
singing about a relationship be-
tween God and man which was to
be established by Jesus Christ.
This relationship is clearly spoken
of in Romans 5:1, "Therefore,
since we are justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ." The men with
whom God is pleased are those
men who accept Jesus Christ as
their Lord and Savious. Friend,
I hope you are among those woth
whom God is pleased.
-Donald DeJager
* * *
Ann Arbor Prices ...
To the Editor:
HURRAH for Bob Perry! His
motion in the SL to establish
a student book store is the best
suggestion I have heard in a long
time. I am sick and tired of pay-
ing the double price of $6.00 for a
book and then, when I try to re-
sell the book at the end of the
semester, being offered 50-75c by
the bookstore to have it taken off
my hands. Next year, this used
book will be on the shelves for
$4.50. This has actually hap-
pened to me twice and all my
friends have suffered similar ex-
periences.
I can see only one reason for
the excessive prices charged for
books in Ann Arbor, and that is'
lack of competition. If there were
competition, students could boy-
cott the offending merchants and
give their trade to the stores with
I would like to remind these men
that the Snack Bar and Club 600
were initiated by the students of
Michigan as a protest against the
high cost of restaurant foods ...
Would free enterprise be en-
dangered? Hah! There is very
little of that in Ann Arbor .. .
Ann Arbor has long been ham-
strung by t h e s e "gentlemen's
agreements" to fix prices. Doesn't'
it seem strange that all barber-
shops in campus town boosted the
price of haircuts to $1.25 (out-
rageous) at the same time? Most
of the lumber companies in town
have identical (even to the typing
errors) price lists, and a single
firm audits their accounts to make
sure that none will try to under-
sell the others. Look at the store
windows and newspapers. In any
other town, there would be adver-
tisements for bargains; yet, in Ann
Arbor there is a conspicuous ab-
sence of bargain sales . . . They
can make money enough by charg-
ing higher prices, thus jacking up
rents and fees for services-for all
of which the students must pay
through the nose. There is no
wonder that Ann Arbor, small
town though it is, has the second
highest price level in the entire
United States.
-R. Booth Tarkington
Stadium Contest .. .
To the Editor:
IT IS OBVIOUS that the hier-
archy of the University is in a
dilemma. The deemphasis argu-
ment is getting out of hand. The
opportunity has occurred to us,
however, of how the student body
can lend a hand in solving the
problem.
We are looking for suggestions
on how the University can get its
money's worth out of a 97,239
seating capacity football stadium
after it discontinues its football
team. Any suggestion will be ac-
ceptable from using it for a huge
outdoor circus areana (by attach-
ing 3,000,000 war surplus para-
chutes as a tent) to renting it
out for the "game of the week"
each Saturday. Please keep your
contest entries brief and mail
them to the "What To Do with
the Stadium When We Deempha-
size Contest," care of either of the
undersigned at 426 Anderson
House in the East Quadrangle.
Prizes have not yet been defi-
nitely decided upon but they may
be: First prize-one set of goal
posts; Second prize-Bennie Oos-
terbaan; Third prize-One pla-
toon of rugged football players;
Fourth prize-the ten yard line.
Decision of the judges will be fi-
nal.
Hurry! You may be one of the
lucky ones.
-Sanford D. Schwartz
E. Sterling Sader
* * *
Arab Answer. . ..
To the Editor:
THE CHANCES for Israel's sur-
vival depend on many major
factors, which are far from favor-
able to Israel. Walter Lowder-
milk's contention that Israel could
support a much larger population
through development projects such
as T.V.A., could be true only if that
land could be at peace. Israel
obviously can easily obtain the
skill and capital necessary for
such developments, but can she
win the peace, without which they
will be of no avail? She certainly
cannot count on financial assist-
ance from American Zionists in-
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Atrocities .. .
To the Editor:
WOULD like to add my opinion
to the comment on the atrocity
story by a Captain Furman. I
could laugh it off and say that
that is the kind of rot we may ex-
pect from an Army Officer. If he
is so gullable as to believe that
atrocities are committed only by
the other side, he is at best an ex-
tremely nieve person. I have no
proof of any atrocities anywhere,
as I have never seen any com-
mitted. Captain Furnani would
probably feel that therefore I have
no right to an opinion. Following
his logic I would also have to dis-
believe the stories about the Nazis.
Any nation which is capable of
using the atomic bomb on a peo-
ple after the war had been won,
and after they had already sent
out peace feelers is certainly cap-
able, in my opinion, of killing pri-
soners of war in cold blood. Any
natiof-.which is capableof using
its air force to destroy women and
children is quite barbaric.Ma e
latter according to such leftist pa-
pers as the New York Times, and
the Chicago Tribune, and others,
is what our air force did in Ger-
many in the last war, and what
it is doing now in Korea,
It may be some people's idea of
Democracy to have tle, victors
round up the vanquished after a
war and execute them. It may be
their idea of a democratic trial'
when the prosecuters, the judges,
and the juries are the same peo-
ple; it is not mine.
Militarists seem to be the same,
regardless of their ethic back-
ground. For the most part it seems
that the only differences between
the German, the Japanese, the '
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