PAGE TWO THIF MICHIC A 'NI 11A TYIV YrMtTTD~qnAV- AXICIIT9V 9.4 1AI ______________Wi n;.__________ .5 UL JJu .ATL i.L .Aw L7 . 1V:xL\ 1) A.1 LkI -jj MVI" AX, c U"U N4 ?,4, IN44 Fifty-Fourth Year KEEP MOVING: Results of Effective Freedoms ' . . w. . 1t~eaanweIr Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staffj Jane Farrant Betty Ann Koffman Stan Wallace Hank Mantho Peg Weiss . . Managing Editor . . . Editorial Director . . . . City Editor . . .Sports Editor . . . Women's Editor Lee Amer Business Stafff Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 ARPREOENTEDF OR NATIONAL ADVERT3ING 1Y National Advertising Service, Inc. College Pblisbers Representative 420 MADisON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CINICAGO - OST0 - "Los ANGELI . SAV rANCISCO Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of re- publication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Sdubscriptions during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1943-44 NIGHTEDITOR: JENNIE FITCH Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staf and represent the views of the writers only. Peace Parley THE SUCCESS or failure of the delegates now meeting at Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown may largely determine, whether the world will be plunged into another war in 20 years if this is really the war to end wars. During the last war, no comparable confer- ence was held. Consequently when the time came to formulate a peace treaty, the delegates had so many problems that they could not handle them all. Recognizing this failure in the past, this con- ference is being held by the United States, Great Britain and Russia to build the inter- national machinery for a successful world. After the war it will be too late to get our gov- ernment or our Allies to promise to make any sacrifices. That is why all the debatable ques- tions must be settled while the war is still going on. Out of this conference might arise plans for A world organization, more powerful than the League, which would be able to main- tain peace. Now is the time to see that the United States promises to join such an or- ganization. After the war people in this country are going to be so tired ofnfighting that they are going to draw in their necks and hide from anything that anyone terms militarism. A few isola- tionists in this country will be able to come to the fore at that time and convince people again that Europe should be left alone to solve her own problems and that we should not be concerned with them. T IS a well known fact that right after the last war public sentiment in this country was in favor of joining the League, but we waited too long. We gave alarmists a chance to spread their propaganda while people started forget- ing the lesson which the first war taught them. There is already talk of the possibility of a third world war, and yet we have not even won the second one. This shows that. the world is not reconciled to the fact of settling disputes peacefully. A similar conference to the one now being held at Dumbarton Oaks will soon be held1 between the United States, Great Britain and China. If careful plans are made at these two conferences peace can be maintained. The United States, Russia, Great Britain and China will be the strongest nations in the post-war world. If they make plans now so that it will be to their mutual benefit to con- tinue to cooperate, no possible coalition of na- tions could menace the world again. -Doris Peterson Buffalo of Bashan.. . AROLD ICKES, who beats straight through all bushes, has addressed a letter to Rabble- vouser Gerald L. K. Smith, who had asked Mr. Ickes, as Director of National Parks, to lend him a buffalo as a mascot for the America First Party. Mr. Ickes said No, but of course he didn't say it in one word and stop, for the Secretary of the Interior is a stylist in the By ANN FAGAN GINGER "GIVE ME the liberty to know, to ttter, and to argue freely ac- cording to conscience above all liberties." John Milton, "Areopag- itica." These liberties are the most often violated and suspended, for the very reason that they are so fundamental. If you can limit the things people hear and read, you can prescribe their thoughts. And if you can limit the things people say and write, you can break their desire to think. To the extent that you put limitations on these freedoms, you restrict the social inventiveness of men, and their social satisfaction. Further, you set bounds on the whole advance of so- ciety. "Who are the people afraid of these liberties?" Everyone who is afraid of change because present conditions satisfy his needs. Every- one who is afraid of being found in the wrong, and who cannot jus- tify his actions and opinions. And every institution which denies these liberties to its members is guilty one or the other of these char- ges. "But what's wrong with this atti- tude? We can't have anarchy." No, but we are more likely to get it if we let dissatisfaction develop, and provide no means for expression to those who are hungry. And we are not likely to solve the problems be- hind the dissatisfaction unless we let people think, talk, read and write their theories about them. "But you have to have some limit. Why, what would happen if you let every communist and fascist say what he thought?" Yes, what would hap- pen? Very likely the people would get tired of listening to crackpot ideas and would learn to distinguish be- tween them and well-thought out theories presented with logical bases. "Oh, you're a Utopian. The people are members of a mass, and the ap- peal to mass support must be a psychological, emotional one. Do you really think man is a rational animal?" Yes, or, at least, he can be. And the fact that men can be appeal- ed to emotionally does not mean that they cannot also be appealed to in- tellectually. Besides, they couldn't be appealed to at all by 'trouble- mongers' unless they objected to the conditions in which they are now liv- ing. There is never much talk against freedom of speech except in times of crisis: wars and depressions. Then suddenly there is great fear that the people will be led to do something drastic. "BUT they may!" Quite right, they may. They may discover that they were listening to the wrong kind of free speech, which is why they got into the crisis. They were listening to the Hearst-McCormick-Coughlin- Gannett brand. And so they elected Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; they stay- ed out of the League of Nations; they didn't recognize the Soviet Union; they let the depression arrive and they didn't stop the aggrcissions of Japan, Italy andtGermany wich brought on the war. "But the people aren't powerful enough to stop such things. They're puny and ignorant and if you let them have their way, no one will be safe. They'll get hood-winked by some good speaker and there might be a revolution." - Well, there might . . . do you know who said, "God forbid we should ever be twenty years with- out such a rebellion . . . What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people pre- serve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms . . . What signi- fies a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." "Earl Browder?" Sorry, the found- er of the Democratic Party, Tom Jef- ferson. "Oh." "Oh, well, I'm a Republican." Fine, do you remember who founded that party? "Certainly, Abe Lincoln." Cer- tainly, and who said in his first inau- gural: "This country, with its Con- stitution, belongs to the people who inhabit it, and whenever they shall grow weary of the existing govern- ment, they can exercise their con- stitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismem- ber, or overthrow it.'""Abe Lincoln!?" Yup, Abe Lincoln. "WHAT are you preaching, any- how? Revolution?" No, just freedom of speech and the press. And I was saying that, even if they lead to change--peaceful or violent-they are still valuable and must not be abridged by any source: institutional or personal. Censorship at the source and self-imposed censorship by writers and speakers are equally bad ... Worse, almost, because they limit knowledge and truth from the beginning. The only cure to the 'roblem of freedom of expression against existing conditions is to change society till most of mankind can live peacefully and well under the new existing conditions." Just to make this argument of mine legal, here's a rather famous opinion by a Supreme Court justice in 1926 (Gitlow vs. N. Y.) It hap- pens to be a dissenting opinion, but since it was written by the best and most famous of dissent judges, you'll almost have to respect it. Oliver Wendell Holmes: "If what I think is true, the cor- rect test is applied, it is manifest that there was no present danger of an attempt to overthrow the govern- ment by force on the part of the ad- mittedly small minority who shared the defendant's. views. It is said that this manifesto is more than a# theory, that it was an incitemet. Every idea is an incitement. It of- fers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other be- lief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm for ',he re- sult. Eloquence may set fire to reason. But whatever may be thought of the redundant discourse before us it had no chance of starting a pres- ent conflagration. If in the long run, the beliefs expressed in proletarian dictatorship are destined to be ac- cepted by the dominant forces of the community, the only meaning of free speech is that they should b9' given their chance and have their way." A Giant Steps Into Battle WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Army Demobilization Plan !J_, By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-Only insiders know it, but after the President held his press confer- ence denying he had sent a letter to Wendell Willkie, Judge Sam Rosenman and Steve Early rushed up to his desk and remonstrated that he had made a bad mistake. They were afraid FDR had rebuffed the man who had gone down the line for him 100 percent on taxes, foreign policy and the war. "They caught me a little unprepared 'n that one," the President admitted ruefully, "However, I tried to tell them it was a personal question. I didn't want to embarrass Willkie by letting people think he and I had a politicaf deal." Later the President repeated to some of his Cabinet that he hadn't expected the question at his news conference. Explaining that he wanted to talk to Willkie about post-war peace plans and foreign policy, not politics, he indi- cated that he would go ahead with his plans for the talk regardless of what had happened. The President was quite irked that news about his letter to the former Presidential candidate had leaked out. Only a few people knew the letter existed. The carbon copy was not filed with his regular correspondence, and the first draft of the letter had been written in his own handwriting for Grace Tully, his secretary, to copy. Only two people inside the White House were supposed to know about it. Despite this, Willkie began to get queries about the letter two weeks after he received it. The news men making the inquiries cited White House sources, said they had the tip from Presidential secretaries. Willkie made no comment, never admitted receiving the letter, but he got the impression that the White House wanted the story out. Therefore, you could have knocked him over with a feather when the President replied to news men last week that he didn't know any- thing about writing Willkie a letter. Immediately after the White House denial appeared in the press, Willkie's phone began buzzing with Republican friends warning him that Roosevelt would always kick him in the teeth. They urged him to come out for Dewey. Army Demobilization Plan H ERE is the inside story on White House-War Department plans for demobilizing part of the Army after the defeat of Germany. The War Department is planning to release about 2,000,000 men immediately after a German ar- mistice. Under this plan, the Army will set up a point system for every man in the service, and men with sufficient points will be retired. Here is how the points will be calculated: 1. For each month in the service, every man will receive one point. 2. Each month .overseas will count an addi- tional point. 3. For each battle honor, a man will receive four points. 4. The Congressional Medal of Honor or Legion of Merit will count four additional points. 5. Each bronze star denoting service in bat- tle will count four additional points. 6. For every child, a soldier will receive eight points. 7. Married men without children will also receive eight extra points. There are still several important gaps in this program which the Army and the White House have not yet filled in. There still is no special credit for age. However, it is already decided that, because the Army will have a greater need for air men in the Pacific, a separate sys- tem will be set up for discharging Air Corps veterans. Of course, the basic point which ev- erybody wants to know is: "How many points will a man need to get out?" That has not yet been determined. It has been determined, however, that at the end of the Atlantic war, the Navy does not plan to release any of its men. It can also be revealed that President Roose- velt is anxious to discharge hardship cases first. When the President discussed this plan re- cently with several senators, they asked him how he planned to handle the problem of polic- ing Germany and other occupied enemy terri- tory after the armistice. He replied that he hoped to do so by using men who have learned to like the Army, plus professional soldiers who were in the Army before the Selective Ser- vice program got under way. He also plans to use men who have had no overseas experience and want to volunteer for it now. (copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN THURSDAY, AUG. 24, 1944 VOL. LIV No. 37-S All notices for The Daily Official Bul- letin are to be sent to the office of the Summer Session, in typewritten form by 3:30 p. m. of the day preceding its publication, except on Saturday when the notices should be submitted by 11:30 a. m. Notices Students, Summer Term, College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Courses elected in the second half of the Summer Term may not be drop- ped without penalty after Saturday, Sept. 16. E. A. Walter Labor Day: Monday, Sept. 4, Labor Day, will be a University holiday, except for Army instructional units in which special orders are issued. F. E. Robbins The General Library and all De- partmental and Collegiate Libraries will be closed Monday, Sept. 4 (La- bor Day). 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Class preference will be obtainable only on the date indicated. Students desiring their tickets in one block should presenttheir Physi- cal Education coupons together. One student may present all of the cou- pons for such a block of student tickets. Where students of different classes desire adjacent seats, the preference of the lowest class will prevail. H. O. Crisler, Director Faculty, College of Literature, Sci- ence and the Arts: Midsemester re- ports are due not later than Satur- day, Aug. 26. Report cards are being distribued to all departmental offices. Green cards are being provided for fresh- man reports; they should be re- turned to the office of the Academic Counselors, 108 Mason Hall. White cards, for reporting sophomores, jun- iors and seniors should be returned to 1220 Angell Hall. Midsemester reports should name Students, College of Engineering: The final day for DROPPING COURSES WITHOUT RECORD will be Saturday, Aug. 26. A course may be dropped only with the permission of the classifier after conference with the instructor. W. J. Emmons, Secretary Students, College of Engineering: The final day for REMOVAL OF INCOMPLETES will be Saturday, Aug. 26. Petitions for extension of time must be on file in the Secre- tary's Office on or before Wednes- day, Aug. 23. New York State Civil Service Ex- aminations for, Assistant State Re- porter, Assistant to Supervisor of Insurance Contracts, Electric Inspec- tor, Junior Gas Engineer, Junior Of- fice Machine Operator (Calculating), Junior Research Aide (Municipal Affairs), Municipal Research Assis- tant, Senior Hearing Stenographer, Senior Transportation Engineer and Women's Parole Officer, are being given on Sept. 23, 1944. Applications should be filed by Sept. 1. For fur- ther details stop in at 201 Mason Hall. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information Academic Notices Thursday, Aug. 24 and Friday, Aug. 25, Examination Schedule: The ex- amination schedule for the schools and colleges on the eight-week basis is as follows: Hour of Recitation, 8-Time of Ex- amination, Thursday, 8-10; Recita- tation 9-Examination Fri., 8-10; Rec., 10-Exam., Thurs., 2-4; Rec. 11-Exam., Fri., 2-4; Rec. 1-Exam., Thurs., 4-6; Rec., 2-Exam., Thurs., 10-12; Rec., 3-Exam., Fri., 10-12; Rec. (All other hours)-Fri., 4-6. Any deviation from the above schedule may be made only by mu- tual agreement between student and instructor, and with the approval of the Examination Schedule Commit- tee. English 178 will not meet on Fri- day. H. V. S. Ogden Students interested in taking a Nurses' Aide course the second half of the summer term may register from 1 to 5 p.m. in North Hall. You are reminded that Nurses' Aide is an 80-hour course plus 150 hours volun- teer work and that 2-hours academic credit will be given when all hours have been fulfilled. Ethel A. McCormick BARNABY By Crockett Johnson I Yes, Barnaby, it does resemble a pail somewhat, doesn't it? Except that its aperture is at the bottom... The air is held in a diving bell by the pressure of the water from below, you see. And- No. I merely improved it. The air in the conventional bell tends to become stuffy. And vision is bad. So I punched these holes in it... Siif on, Gus. For size- \I j If looks jus Did you in ent c, r Copyright 1944 Field ttubGMtlOOa ' is w \:. t:: «