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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944
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Business Stafff
By ANN FAGAN GINGER
THE UNIVERSITY summer session
is to be congratulated for the
comprehensive picture of Soviet Rus-
sia which it is presenting to the cam-
pus this summer, in the form of
photographic exhibits, lectures, clas-
ses -in Russian history and the Rus-
sian language, and now an evening of
Russian songs Sunday, Aug. 6.
A particularly excellent movie in
the series being given at the Rack-
ham Building is "The Childhood of
Maxim Gorky," to be shown August
11 and 12.
In view of the different make-up
of the student body during the sum-
mer, the smaller enrollment and the
subsequent greater chance for the
student-teacher contact and student
discussion, the idea of emphasizing
one aspect of the world each summer
is very worthwhile. Teachers, men
and women who have been away
from an acadenic atmosphere for
several years, and students, all expect
to get a spurt og mental activity dur-
ing the summer which will last them
for the rest of the year, and for sev-
eral years to come.
Since quite a number of Negro
students come to Ann Arbor each
summer to continue work on
master's and doctor's degrees, and
since the students as a whole are
more mature than those in attend-
ance during the winter months, it
might be very fitting for the Uni-
versity next summer to stress the
role of the Negro people in the life
of America. Such a program could
be carried out in the same exten-
sive way that the various aspects
of the Soviet Union are being em-
phasized this summer.
Perhaps Play Production could
start of the Session with "Uncle
Tom's Cabin," and "Native Son."
For movies, the University could
bring back some of the many docu-
mentaries. such as Humphrey Bo-
gart in "Black Legion" revealing
sources of anti-Negro feeling, as
well as "The Negro Soldier," an Army
film which has been highly recom-
mended by inter-racial groups. Rich-
ard Wright could give a series of lec-
tures on modern American literature
emphasizing the contributions of the
Negro people, and Bob Hayden might
read and discuss some of his poetry
before Professor William's American
Lit. Class. The Inter-Racial Associa-
tion, too, would have a large social
and educational function to fulfill
in this program.
TUSKEGEE Institute or Fiske Uni-
versity or Wilberforce College
could well provide a history professor
who could take the American history
we all know and fit into it such
figures as Crispus Attucks, Sojourner
Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick
Douglass, Booker T. Washington,
Marcus Garvey, and Wm. E. B. Du-
Bois. Discussions could be arranged
on the post-war employment of this
tenth of the nation, or the methods
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DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN,
Beginning to Fly to Pieces
Democrats Misinterpret History
IN BETWEEN the successful and sickening
attempts of Senator Sam Jackson to mock
the wishes of the delegates to the recent Demo-
cratic meeting, the convention speakers had a
field day criticizing the 12 Republican years
following the last war. They felt that what had
happened in the 'twenties would be excellent
stuff to throw in the faces of the voters of
the 'forties.
They tended to blame a world economic up-
heaval in 1930 on ten years of Republican
administration. Yet they do not and will not
blame the present even greater economic up-
heaval on ten years of Democratic admini-
stration. "This war could not have been
Hitler Just a Symbo l
S THE WAR nears its end and strife among
the leaders of Germany grows in volume, the
American people receive with joy the news of
the recent attempt on Hitler's life and on those
of certain of his faithful staff members. Sorry
we were that the bomb planted by the disgruntl-
ed Colonel Count von Stauffenberg did not
fulfill its deadly mission but resulted only in
doing slight damage to Hitler and slightly more
to some of his lieutenants.
In a sense, we should be glad that the bomb
did not kill Hitler. Too many Americans,
who have not experienced contact with the
Nazis, put the whole blame for the war and
its resultant hardships on the shoulders of one
man, Adolph Hitler, the German feuhrer.
Fuehrer means leader in English, and accord-
ing to the Webster International Dictionary,
leader means "a person or animal (take your
choice) that goes before to guide or show the
way; one who precedes and is followed by
others in conduct, opinion or undertaking."
Adolph Hitler occupies such a position in Ger-
many today. Hitler leads and the people follow
"in conduct" (witness the revelations of the
'Kharkov trial), "opinion" (witness anti-religious
and anti-democratic campaigns) and "in under.
taking" (witness the war against almost the
whole of Europe and the Americas, plus the
ruthless extermination of Poles, Jews, Rus-
sians. Czechs and other civilian populations).
Because the people follow, they must share
some responsibility for their actions as a nation,
just as individuals in daily life the world over
must accept responsibility for what they say
and do.
NOT ENOUGH people, particularly in this
country, realize the important role the people
of Germany play in the prosecution of the war
and are wont to put the entire responsibility for
their actions on one man. We forget that the
German people also are making a 'war effort'
as are we in the factories and in our daily
acts as Ameiicans.
It follows in the minds of some not too
analytical but more emotionally governed citi-
zes that when this one man, Hitler, is done
with, the world will once again, almost auto-
matically, run smoothly, the German people
becoming once again jolly, beer-loving mem-
bers of the family of nations.
But, and it seems that many of us do not.
realize this, the world is full of men who are
waiting for another war. Many of these men
make their homes in Prussia and spend their
hours reviewing parades and dreaming of future
military campaigns. These men, who helped
avoided," shouted Mrs. Charles Dillon last
Thursday night. Present day analytical hind-
sight indicates that neither catastrophe could
have been avoided once the causes for each
had passed the stopping point with nothing
done to check them.
The Democrats refuse to be consistent on
such points, when their inconsistency may pull
in the votes of one or two Casper Milquetoasts.
But they had their greatest fun tossing about
the World Disarmament Pact of 1921. "What
a laugh," they said. "The funniest thing we
ever saw. Imagine the Republicans not real-
izing in 1921 that this country would be plunged
into another war 20 years later. Why, such a
lack of foreknowledge by the Republicans is the
stupidest thing we ever heard of." And on and
on they ranted, never bothering to temper their
emotionalism with fact.
UNFORTUNATELY perhaps, the whole nation
-including the Republicans--was sick of
war in 1921, and in the years following. When
the leading states of the world agreed in writ-
ing to the 5-5-3 and lesser limitations, everyone
-and this includes the present-day Democrats
-felt that a large step towards our goal of per-
manent peace had been taken. Very few people,
no matter what their political views, even con-
sidered the possibility of another major war. '
The United States is ever-willing to believe
the other fellow honorable when he gives his
word. We respect our own commitments and
see no reason why others should not do the
same. Because we pledged ourselves to reduce
our own naval tonnage, we did so and felt
proud in doing it.
For the Democrats to criticize in retrospect an
action which the whole world once approved,
and then to use that criticism as a campaign
issue, is an implausible vote-trap, and no credit
to their own processes of logic.
T HE AIMS of the present administration are
precisely the same as were the nation's aims
in 1921, if we may believe the terms of the
Atlantic Charter. The first step is the total dis-
armament of the Axis, and later "practical
measures" for reducing. our own armaments.
This is exactly what the people asked for and
got 20 years ago. Yet when the Democrats
pledge this they are broad, humanitarian, peace-
loving, visionary; while because the Republi-
cans once did do so, they are stupid, stubborn,
and reactionary. In the words of -Mrs: Helen
Gahagan (Number-two-liability-to the-Demo-
cratic-party) Douglas, "Double talk!"
In their search for campaign isues, the con-
vention speakers probed too far back to find
something of political expediency. The Demo-
crats supposedly are standing on their record.
Their leader tells us this will not be a "political
campaign in the ordinary sense."
No, Mr. President, it will not be ordinary, as
long as your campaigners delve into 20-year-old
history (a history which your administrations
are supposed to have wiped out), read only half.
the facts, coat them with a trumped-up ration-
alism, and then try to sell them to a half-com-
prehending public.
-Lee Landy
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
The Nominee
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
NEW YORK, July 26-Wallace and Truman
fought each other bitterly for the vice-presi-
dential nomination in Chicago, but the odd thing
is that if there had been no Wallace, there
would have been no Truman. The conserva-
tive wing of the Democratic party would have
nominated some quite undistinguished brother.
The moment Wallace began to make a fight of it,
it became obvious that no clunk would do, and
so one of Wallace's accomplishments at the con-
vention was to raise the level at which the oppo-
sition had to operate= in order to beat him.
Some of the results were amusing. . As could
easily be seen from the press gallery, the con-
servative, or anti-New Deal, Democrats put
so much brain-sweat into their fight for Sen-
ator Truman, that you might have imagined
they were nominating one of Mr. Roosevelt's
worst enemies. Mr. Truman is hardly that.
The conservative Democrats found, after ac-
cepting the fight against Wallace as a token
fight against the president, that they could win
that fight only by nominating one of the Presi-
dent's friends. This they did, claiming a glor-
ious victory.
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They have thrust upon Mr. Roosevelt some-
one who is entirely acceptable to him; they
have compelled him, by brute force, to take the
man whom he is willing to take. The heavy,
pachydermatous strategy which went into this
enterprise was worthy of a much worse cause.
THE PICTURE was clearest in the hubbub that
went on in the New York delegation on the
floor, where observers watched Mr. Farley and
some of his friends putting the pro-Wallace
delegates through the wringer, jockeying them
out of position, out-smarting them, all for the
sake of triumphantly nominating a friend of
the, President.
Anti-labor elements in the Democratic party
worked like fury to put over a candidate who
is entirely acceptable to labor.
Great forces were locked in battle in the
Democratic party last week, and we can judge
the strength of the liberal forces in that party,
not only by whether they won or lost, but also
by the level 'at which the ultimate compromise"
was pitched, and it was pitched high, from the
liberal point of view.
WALLACE'S moral fervor failed to blitz the
convention, but there was at least a touch of
the Wallace idea, and more than a touch of the
Roosevelt idea, in the candidate who was used
to beat him. It tells us something about the
relation of forces within the Democratic party,
when anti-Rooseveltians in it find that only
Roosevelt can stop Roosevelt; when the only
workable method for rebuking him is arrogantly
and nastily to give him what he wants.
Almost every element in the party was repre-
sented in the final compromise, and some of us
who were there shall never forget how even the
"regular" Texas delegation, hating Roosevelt,
rose in its wrath to defeat liberalism by defiantly
casting its vote for the liberal Senator from
Missouri.
(Copyright. 1944,. New York Post Syndicate)
THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944
VOL. LIV No. 17-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
Tryouts for the chorus of "The
Chocolate Soldier" will be held today
from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre. All singers are
urged to attend.
Mentor Reports: Reports on stand-
ings of all Civilian Engineering fresh-
men and Navy, Terms I through IV,
will be expected from faculty mem-
bers during the 5th week and again
during the 10th week of the semester.
These two reports will be due about
Aug. 5 and Sept. 9. Report blanks
will be furnished by campus mail.
Please refer routine questions to
Muriel Dersnah, Office of the Dean
(Extension 575), who will handle the
reports; otherwise, call A. D. Moore,
Head Mentor, Extension 2136.
Candidates for the Teacher's Cer-
tificate for August and October:
Please call at the office of the School
of Education, 1437 University Ele-
mentary School today between 1:30
and 4:30 to take the Teacher's Oath.
This is a requirement for the certifi-
cate.
Lectures
Today: Lecture-"Trends in Com-
munity Education," Howard Y. Mc-
Clusky, Professor of Educational Psy-
chology, Mental Measurements, and
Statistics. (UHS auditorium) 11 a.m.
Today: "Bringing in Federal Sup-
port of Education by the Front Door."
S. M. Brownell, Professor of Educa-
tion, Yale University, 2 p.m., Uni-
versity High School Auditorium.
Today: Professor Shih Chia Chu
will give his weekly lecture on Chi-
nese Civilization at 4:10 p.m., Rack-
ham Amphitheatre. The title of this
week's lecture will be "Cultural Rela-
tions Between China and the West."
Friday, July 28: Lecture-"Critical
Problems in School Finance," Lee M.
Thurston, Professor of Educational
Administration, University of Pitts-
burgh. (UHS auditorium) 11 a.m.
Friday, July 28: Dr. Ernest J. Sim-
mons, Director of the Intensive Study
of Contemporary Russian Civiliza-
tion being held at Cornell University
this summer, will lecture on "Soviet
Russian Literature" at 4:10 p.m.,
Rackham Amphitheatre.
Aug. 1: Professor Preston W. Slos-
son. "Interpreting the News." 4:10
p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre.
Aug. 3: Professor Shih Chia Chu
will not lecture on this date, but will
lecture, as previously scheduled, on
Aug. 10.
Academic Notices'
Make-up examinations in History
will be given on Friday, July 28, from1
3-5 in Rm. C, Haven Hall.
Visual Education Class and All
Students Enrolled in the School of 1
Education: Film topics for today and
tomorrow are as follows:
(Held in Kellogg Dental Institute
Auditorium.)
Thursday, July 27, 2-3: Give Me
Liberty (2 reel), Remember the
Maine. 3-4: Old Hickory (2 reel),
Westard Movement.
Friday, July 28, 2-3: Declaration of
Independence (2 reel), Developent of
Transportation. 3-4: Development of
Communications, Discovery and Ex-
ploration, Social Security.
Graduate Students in English who
are planning to take the preliminary,
examinations for the Ph.D. should see
Professor Norman Nelson before Fri-
day, July 28.
Concerts
Faculty Recital: The School of
Music wishes to announce that the
third and final program in a series
of sonata recitals will be presented
on Thursday evening, July 27, at 8:30,
in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
The recital series has been devoted to
the music of Mozart and Beethoven,
and is presented by faculty members,
Mabel Ross Rhead, pianist, and Gil-
bert Ross, violinist.
The public is cordially invited to
attend without charge.
Carillon Recital: On Sunday, July
30, at 3 p.m., Percival Price will pre-
sent a carillon recital which will in-
clude original carillon arrangements
of folk songs, as well as piano pieces
by Schumann and Couperin.
All Russian Choral Evensong: First
Methodist Church Choir, conducted
by Professor Harain Van Deursen,
School of Music. Soloists, Bonnie
Ruth Van Deursen, Soprano, and
Harriet Porter, Contralto; &rganist,
Irene Applin Bice. Sunday, Aug. 6,
8:30 p.m., First Methodist Church.
The public is cordially invited to
attend. -
Exhibitions
Exhibitions, College of Architec-
ture and Design:
"Look at your Neighborhood";
circulated by Museum of Modern
Art; consisting of drawings, photo-
graphs, and plans illustrating hap-
hazard building and need for good
play. Ground floor cases, Architec-
ture Building.
Student work continued on dis-
planning. South end of downstairs
corridor, Architecture Building.
Open daily, 9 to 5, through July
30, except on Sunday. The public
is invited.
>f breaking down the patterns of
Negro segregation and discrimina-
ion: economically, politically, legal-
ly, and socially.
South American and West Indian
Negroes who come to campus here
are taken back by the lack of
decency and understanding they
meet with on the part of the ma-
jority of students, as well as in
restaurants, barber shops and
rooming houses. Even those stu-
dents who believe in "tolerance"
have difficulty in treating them as
friends or even as equals. Negroes
from the southern states are not
so surprised, but they are no less
disturbed and disgusted and wor-
ried at the length of time it takes
educated people to put into prac-
tice the things they learn in an-
thropology, psychology, sociology
and other science courses.
The solution is not. to condition
people into accepting the unpleasant
and often impossible situations they
are forced into-this can lead only
to furthering a slave-psychology
which is inconsistent with a demo-
cratic political system. The only final
answer is to change these conditions
and their causes from the very roots:
and that means changing our atti-
tudes and some of the mores of
white society, which make Christian-
ity and the brotherhood of man and
comradeship and equality the im-
possible theories of dreamers.
The program the University is con-
ducting this summer in regard to
the Soviet Union would have been
unthinkable even ten years ago, when
Roosevelt first recognized the Soviet
government. And the program we
are proposing for next summer, while
it might be considered "inadvisable"
now, can still be realized in 1945,
because things are moving today, (al-
though not as fast as the Red Army
men on the Russian Front)-and
they are liable to Keep Moving be-
yond our expectations.
of Fisheries Reearch, Michigan De-
partment of Conservation.
Events Today
The Annual Summer 'Education
Conference is being held this week.
The theme of the Conference is
"What Is Ahead in Education." A
series of public lectures is being given
and roundtables are being conducted
by staff members. Exhibits of instruc-
tional materials will be provided by
representative publishers. The pro-
gram of activities for the Summer
Education Conference week is pub-
lished in a special bulletin, copies of
which may be secured from the
offices of the School of Education.
French Tea today at 4 p.m. in the
International Center.
Sociedad Hispanica: Meet. a :t
p.m. today in the International Cen-
ter of the Union for tea and nforma
conversation in Spanish.
Phi Delta Kappa Fellowship Dinner
will be held tonight at 6:30 in the
Michigan Union Cafeteria private
dining room.
Russian Tea at 4 o'clock, in the
International Center today. All inter-
ested in speaking Russian are cor-
dially invited.
French Club: The fourth meeting
of the Club will take place today,
Thursday, July 27, at 8 p.m. in the
Michigan League. On the program:
General Discussion of important
questions of the day; group singing
and social hour. All students of the
Summer Session and the Summer
Term as well as all servicemen are
cordially invited to the weekly meet-
ings of the French Club which are
free of charge.
Special Message: The man in uni-
form is not the only person the USO
is here to serve. Wives and families
of servicemen are heartily welcomed.
All the facilities of the club are for
them too. Servicemen's wives, here
in Ann Arbor, are planning their own
club with headquarters in the USO.
Let's get together on it!
"Happy Birthday!" What's a birth-
day without a birthday cake? Why,
no birthday at all. Put your name
and birth date in the birthday book
at the USO, and when the day rolls
round, you'll have a cake like mother
used to make. You may not get much,
when the fellows see how good it is-
but why not get in on this unique
service anyhow?
The Regular Thursday Evening
Record Concert wll be held in the
Men's Lounge of the Graduate School
at 7:45 p.m. Our machine has been
fixed and we will give last week's
program which we could not play:
the Divertimento of Mozart, The
Wayfaring Stranger by Ives Burl,
the Surprise Symphony of Haydn
and Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody.
Graduates and servicemen are wel-
come.
Pi LamnaTheta initiation and in-
formal dinner will be eld at the
Michigan Leagu,,e at 4:30 p~m. on
Clements
books.
Library:
Associationj
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Rackham Galleries: "People of the
Minorities in the U.S.S.R." (this week
only), photographic exhibit circu-
lated by the National Council of
American - Soviet Friendship, New
York. Open daily except Sunday,
2-5 and 7-10 p.m.
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Of course there's a treasure! What
makes you say such a thing, m'boy?
Leprechauns can't sit over a
treasure that's under water.
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