PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY ..... Fifty-Fifth Year I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Britain Moves Forward, to Left C4 I MW r - a. "'>.- I MEMII Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control of Student Publications. The Summer Daily is pub- lished every day during the week except Monday and Tuesday. Editorial Staff Ray Dixon Margaret Farmer Betty Roth Bill Mullendore Dick Strickland Managing Editor . . . . Associate Editor * * . * Associate Editor . .' . . . Sports Editor Business Staff . . . . Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication 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. - Subscriptions during the regular school year by car- rer, $4.50, by mail, $5.25, Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 NIGHT EDITOR: CAROL ZACK Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Campus Election CAMPUS ELECTION "scandals" are an old story at Michigan. Almost every year there has been some flare-up over the handling of the ballots. Generally these tempests in the campus tea' pot Jiave come as the result of specific charg- es of stuffing the ballot boxes or loitering too near the polls. This time there is nothing very specific about any of the charges-just gen- eral unrest. There have been some charges of deliberate cheating, but they are all of a neb- ulous character. Robert B. Dunlap, a fraternity brother of the three men who "won" Friday's Union vice-presi- dential election, has written us a letter defend- ing their position. We think his points are. well taken and print his letter below: * * * TO THE EDITOR: "I think that there are several points which should be made clear con- cerning the recent election call-off. "First of all I believe it should be made pub- lie that the winners of the vice-president's election were: Thomas Heaton of the Literary College, Henry Fonde of the Engineering Col- lege and Edward Miquelon of the Combined Coleges. "All of these men won their election without question. The votes were decidedly in favor of these candidates and none of the losing men were close enough to cause any doubt about the results. "The cause of calling the election off centered mainly around the fact that several students have reported excess casting of ballots, or "stuff- ing". The rumors or complaints which influ- enced the action of the Men's Judiciary Council reported that certain students had voted several times for one particular candidate. "What I should like to make clear is that these rumors all mentioned that the excess votes had been cast for one of the losing candidates. Not one story asserted that there was any "stuffing" for any of the winning men whosoever. In other words, as far as these stories go, and they are what influenced the action of the Judiciary Council almost completely, there was nothing wrong with any of the votes cast for the winning candidates. "There were also complaints that not all of the ballots were stamped, hence were disquali- fied. Of course, this was the fault of the men at the polls. But after the tabulation of returns was made these disqualified ballots were counted and it was found that there was absolutely no difference in the results. "The reason I am asking to have these facts made known to all students is that as things stand now, it appears that the winners were the ones who performed the illegal acts in the elec- tion. This is not fair to them, and the people who must vote again next Friday should know that these men who have already won the elec- tion are completely innocent of any of the mal- practices which went on during the election. "I realize that it is the duty of Men's Judi- ciary Council to re-run the election because of the fact that there WERE election malprac- tices. But I also know that it is only fair to the winning candidates to have any shadow of suspicion removed from them. "The facts put forthherein may be verified by any members of the Men's Judiciary Council. (Signed) Robert B. Dunlap." m a Thus'we are faced with the prospect of an- other election on Friday. No one is guilty spe- ciflcally yet, in a sense, everyone is guilty. Stu- dents are guilty of not being sufficiently familiar with the election rules to see that their ballots were not mishandled. The Judiciary Council is By SAMUEL GRAFTON NOTES on the British Elections: 1. Some piffling attempts may be made here to panic American opinion on the basis of the British elections. We will be told that the world is going Communist; that the entire planet, except our acre, is now a wilderness of leftism. Our isola- tionists, who once affected to disdain the United Kingdom for its knee breeches and silver buckles, will spurn it again, but this time as a raffish commonwealth of unwholesomely advanced ideas. 2. But a man is known by the company in which he mourns. The gloomsters here should read the dispatches telling of the tears shed in the smart cafes of Madrid when the news of the Labor victory reached Spain. It is indeed well to choose carefully the friends with whom one cries. 3. Britain has not gone Communist. In the triumph of victory, we may forget that there is sometimes an accounting to be rendered for the pains of war. The Conservative party came to power before Hitler ,did, and though it fought him finally, it fed him first. Heroism is a fine thing, but it is not good to get one's country into a fix in which quite so much heroism is needed to get it out again; and many a Briton has carried this grudge against the Tories in his MERRY-GO-ROUND: Films to Germany By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - Hollywood producers are champing at the bit as the Army and OWI continue to ban the showing of American feature films in American-occupied Germany. On the theory that "we're not out to enter- tain the Germans," OWI chief Elmer Davis has made it plain that it may be some time yet before entertainment films are permitted into our military zone. Hollywood magnates, on the other hand, want to begin building up the foreign demand for their films as soon as possible. Also, they argue, prop- aganda disguised as entertainment is far more effective than regular propaganda films. Spokes- man for Hollywood has been Twentieth-Century Fox wizard Darryl Zanuck, who insists that well- selected Hollywood features are needed in Ger- many to supplement the documentary films and other shorter subjects distributed by OWl. Zanuck says a steady diet of these "govern- ment" films is too heavy, and that if they are bored, the Germans won't learn anything no matter how many pictures they see. On the other hand, he argues, they will really learn about this country and our ideals from Holly- wood's regular commercial product. ,arly in June, Zanuck discussed his ideas with President Truman and the State Department, telling them that Hollywood is prepared not only to send films to Germany, but also to make special sequences for showing only in Germany. Commercial producers, he said, would be glad to shoot special sections to add to the films Americans see or even to be substituted in part for the films seen by domestic audiences. Since then, Zanuck has been in Europe, where he was asked by the State Department to record his observations on film use in Germany. He is expected to report soon. Meanwhile - and this is not making Holly- wood any happier - the Russians are sending entertainment films into Germany. Nearly all these films are specially adapted to carry an anti-Nazi message. But the Russians are clever enough to know that their film propaganda will be effective only if they present programs the Germans want to see. For that reason they are screening a number of the best attrac- tions produced for Russian audiences during the last several years. The Germans have been screamed at by Hitler for so long that they are supercritical. Anxious as they are to see movies, they won't swallow out-and-out propaganda films. Jap Resistance Dwindles . . 1ERE are some of the factors which are almost certain to increase Japanese peace feelers until an official formal surrender proposal comes along. 1. If, as the Japs believe, Stalin pledges Rus- sian participation in the war against them, they must continue to strengthen their forces in Man- chukuo at the expense of Jap armies throughout the Asiatic mainland and even Japan itself. 2. Meanwhile, Japan faces a major famine, with its potato and vegetable crops extremely poor, almost no fishing possible even in home waters because of Allied air and naval units, and food shipments from the Chinese main- land constantly being smashed up by U.S. China-based aircraft. The Jap government is coming in for much criticism because it has concentrated its efforts on telling people to eat less rather than on raising more. 3. The Jap fleet, which continues in hiding, finds itself faced by the overwhelming naval strength of two powers rather than just one. It has been afraid of the American navy for nearly a year now. Today, powerful British naval forces are cooperating with the Americans in bold attacks which look very much like pre-invasion operations. All this time the Japs appear to be concentrat- ing on one thing only - fighter planes. They are hoarding these planes for the day of actual invasion. Also fighter-plane production has been given priority over all other Japanese manufac- ture. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) belly, beneath the uncomplaining surface of his participation in the war. 4. With the war in Europe over, the Tories have shown an almost fanatical desire to get back to something like the conditions which brought the war on in the first place. They have not been anxious to dismantle German industry, or to try German war criminals; they have shown themselves the friends of the friends of fascism, in Spain and Italy and Greece; and it is not enough to hate fascism if one does not also hate fascists. 'The Tories have tried to resell the past, and the British voters have listened to their story and rejected it as a twice-told tale. They don't want to have to be heroes again because somebody was seared. 5. The change means that none of the Big Three is now in the hands of a reactionary gov- ernment. That is a startling fact; it will take weeks and months to absorb its full meaning. But we may say now that, in a sense, the British elections ratify the doctrine that the Big Three shall proceed by agreement. Agreement should be more easily possible now, for, while the Labor party is strongly anti-Communist, it will not consider that every Italian who wants butter on his bread is an agent of Stalin and a foe of western civilization. It will not try to prop up odd little kings as the knock-kneed Atlases of the brave new world. 6. The effect within the Empire may be con- siderable. One point is that Australia, New Zea- land and the mother country all have Labor governments. An increase of sympathy among the parts of the Empire on this basis would be an unexpected development, but it is a foresee- able one. Another point is that British industry has never been a real mass production industry except in limited fields, and largely for export. 7. There is a reasonable hope, therefore, that the world will survive this election, and may, in fact, be bettered by it. I base this on the theory that the majority usually knows what is best, a thought which has occurred to me out of nowhere. (Copyright, 1945, N. Y. Post Syndicate) Domninic Sas "HERE IS A QUALITY of existence which lies always beyond the mere fact of life and religion is the direct apprehension of it." Thus speaks Alfred N. Whitehead, that noble English- American scholar, known there as a mathema- tician and among us as a philosopher. He was thinking of those deeper insights on which some men draw in times like these, times when even a partial peace is as sweet compared with the cruel prosecution of a world war, that one finds every effort futile but prayer and then must use a faith devoid of words, a yearning to "touch the face of God" as that young American flier, John Mac Gee wrote. Today we are in such a time. Winston Churchill, the immortal defender, is defeated. The sweating workers and the fight- ing Tommies have voted for a different world. The men, who responded heroically to his call in 1939 and in 1940 went forth to hait tyranny as one man against might well equipped, have set aside that great leader. Here is pathos, the fact of life seems inexplicable, except when man can by prayer directly apprehend the immortal quality of existence back of it all. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT is dead. Standing forth as early as 1937 to advocate the quaran- tine of national pirates he could defy his malady, live to make the Four Freedoms vivid by such a mobilizing as the imagination a decade before would not have grasped, could stand against physical suffering, strike alliances with remote nations abroad and rival parties at home to cross the wilderness or world war and reach Kedesh Barnea, as another Moses, but could not live to. enter the promised land of fifty nations in a charted peace. Here is the fact of life falling meaningless at our feet, as if to mock the millions of our men who fought in behalf of the free- doms he clarified, unless, with Alfred N. White- head, we can reach up to a quality of existence just beyond. It is by that direct apprehension, alone, that our experience can become a satisfac- tion. The author of One World walked for a few short years among us in this middle-west, this home of isolationism, racial discord, corn fed security, business acumen, and irresponsibility; but he has passed. Wendell Willkie, on first appearance could charm a jaded convention, and cut across party lines to arrest the impending danger of Nazism and Racism. He could cross Russia, and China, with rare insight to become a telescope through which the millions may more plainly view distant aspects of a world culture, but he could not a second time get a place on that convention platform. Again, here is a social phenomenon for Whitehead to penetrate. He says "We live in a common world of mutual adjustment, of interest concentrated on self, of vision directed beyond the self, of short-time and long-time failures or successes, of different layers of feeling, of life-weariness and life-zest." (Religion In The Making, p. 80) To have an immediate apprehension of the purposeful and compassionate God in whom we live and move and have being is to be a person adequate for our age. -Edward W. Blakeman Counselor in Religious Education BOTH SIDES By Irv Stahl AN ITEM among the current crop of recordings which should inter- est jazz listeners is Coleman Hawk- ins' waxing of "It's The Talk Of The Town" and "Stuffy" on Capitol. The former side showcases the great tenor man's very slow, relaxed, weav- ing improvisation on an old jazz standard, while "Stuffy", a sharp, gutty riff tune, features Hawkins' throaty, forceful horn. "Lover Man" and "That Ole Devil Called Love" by Billie Hol- iday on Decca is interesting only for the first side, which exhibits the delicate, dragged phrasing of the Negro vocalist in one of her finest recordings, despite the dis- tracting, string orchestra back- ground. "Tabu" and "Bedford Drive" by Artie Shaw's Orchestra on Victor are above-average exam- ples of big band jazz. The former opens with a too-typ- ical Shaw clarinet solo, and is fol- lowed by clean, rhythmic sax en- semble, with successive trumpet, sax and trombone solos finishing out the record. "Bedford Drive" is a riff tune which shows how tasty and meaningful ensemble work can be, and displays the drive of Shaw's, brass section. The new Art Tatum Trio album on' Asch is unexciting, slow and empty. Tatum sounds little inspired, and his venture in boogie on one of the four sides is stiff and meaningless. Sup- port from guitarist Tiny Grimes isn't supporting, and Slam Stewart's now1 hackneyed bass bowings are rep- etitious and unsuggestive. John Kirby's revamped unit (now seven instead of six men) does not measure up to the former, exciting little 'band in its recent album for Asch. The septet is too closely- knit and restrained, with emphasis on idea-less ensemble work, in con- trast with the old Kirby band of spontaneity and inspired solos and section work. Except for theleader, Buster Bailey is the only holdove' from the old unit, and while he is still one of the mainstays of the band, his clarinet work is less excit- ing than formerly. The best disc among the four is "K. C. Caboose" and "J. K. Spec- ial", the latter side displaying 'the versitile pianistics of Rodger Ruo- mirez, which, though quite listen- able, are far from the stimulating individualistic solos of Billy Kyle, former Kirby pianist. Unfortunate- ly, the best moments of the album are the fewest, as Emmett Berry's thrilling trumpet work comes in for only a few bars on several of these Kirby recordings. BY WILLIAM S. GOLDSTEIN WE HAVE always felt that poli- ticians and government went hand-in-pocket, so to speak. It was only the other day, however, that we read in our favorite campus news- paper what the government of Dear- born had done to inject a little life into what had previously been a rather dull political scene. Every time the mayor tried to talk, some- one was standing ready to stuff an ordinance in his mouth. It seems the ordinance stopped the mayor from saying much of anything. Some people will do any- thing for a "gag." The gag, good for one or two laughs, was repealed, and the mayor is now free to throw his voice around as he sees fit. PERHAPS misunderstandings be- tween the politicos and the people could be avoided if the two groups knew more about each other. In our own case, the only politician we have ever known lived in Louisiana. He became interested in Louisiana pol- itics at the age of forty, and for many years he was a faithful servant of the people. He was, in fact, the finest politician that money could buy. In '34 he ran for sheriff; in '35 he ran for mayor, in '36 for rep- resentative, and in '37 when Louisi- ana politics began to blow sky high, he ran for the border. His political career would have ended anyway. They passed a law, making it mandatory that public officials take intelligence tests; some- one is always trying to destroy rep- resentative government. * * * ' His life ended rather tragically only a few months ago, when he was killed in a "shooting accident." He was "shooting" for a five, and it was by accident that they foundr the dice were loaded. After many years of stringing the public along, he himself was strung up. Publication in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Summer Session office, Angell Hall, by 2:30 p. m. of the day preceding publication (10:30 a. m. Sat- urdays). CENTRAL WAR TIME USED IN THE DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1945 VOL. LV, No. 20S Notices Phi Delta Kappa. Initiation of new members will be held in the West Council Room of the Rackham Build- ing on Tuesday, July 31, at 7:30 p. m. The address will be given by G. Lester Anderson, Associate Professor of Education and Principal of the Uni- versity High School of the Univer- sity of Minnesota. Professor Ander- son will speak on "Horizons of Pro- fessional Opportunity." Members of all chapters are cordially invited. Re- freshments will be served. The Russky Kruzhok (Russian Cir- cle) will hold a short social meeting on Monday, July 30th at 8:15 p. m. (EWT) in the International Center. Tea will be served. Outing Club: The Graduate Outing Club is sponsoring a bike picnic on Sunday, July 29 at 2 p. m. (EWT). Each person is to bring their own bike and lunch and are to meet at the back entrance to the Rackham Building. All faculty, alumni and friends are cordially invited to at- tend. The regular meeting of the Out- ing Club will be held Monday, July 30 at 8:30 p.m. in the Outing Room of the Rackham Building. Everyone interested in folk-dancing is urged to attend. All Tri Deltas. There will be an informal get-together of all Tri Delta actives or graduates who are in school this summer at the chapter house 718 Tappan, at 8 o'clock on Tuesday. July 31. Transfers from other chap- ters and graduate students are espec- ially invited. Linguistic Institute. There will be no lecture Wednesday evening, Aug- ust 1, in order that members whc wish may attend the lecture by Dr. Waldo G. Leland, Director of the American Council of Learned Soci- eties. French Club: The fifth meeting of the Club will take place Thursday: August 2, at 8 p.m. (EWT) 7 p.m (CWT) at the Michigan League. Mr Richard Picard, of the Romanc language Department will give a tal entitled: "Hommage a Paul Valry. Games, group singing, social hour. Come all for having a good time and practice your French. French Tea Tuesday at 4 p.m (EWT), 3 p.m. (CWT) in the Grill Room of the Michigan League. Lectures Lecture: "The Postwar Outlook for Physical Education," Elmer D Mitchell, Professor of Physical Edu- cation; auspices of the School of Education. Monday, 2:05 p.m. CWT 3:05 p.m. (EWT) University Higl School Auditorium. Lecture: "The Development of Guidance Programs through the In- Service Training of Teachers." Marit Skodak, Director of the Flint Guid- ance Center. Tuesday, 2:05 p.m. (CWT), or 3:05 p.m. (EWT). Uni- versity High School Auditorium. Rabbi Leon Fram, Ph. D.-Temple Israel, Detroit, will lecture upon "At- titudes Taught In The Jewish Home," Sunday at 7 p. m. CWT or 8 p. m. EWT in Kellogg Auditorium, a Reli- gious Education Workshop lecture. Academic Notices Attention Engineering Faculty: Five-week reports below C of all Navy and Marine students who are not in the Prescribed Curriculum; also for those in Terms 5, 6, and 7 of the Prescribed Curriculum are to be turned in to Dean Emmons' Of- fice, Room 259, W. Eng. Bldg., not later than August 4. Report cards may be obtained from your depart- mental office. Attention Engineering Faculty: Five-week reports on standings of all civilian Engineering freshmen and all Navy and Marine students in Terms,1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Prescrib- ed Curriculum are due August 4. Re- port blanks will be furnished by cam- pus mail and are to be returned to Dean Crawford's Office, Room 255, W. Eng. Bldg. Students who intend to take the Language Examination-for Masters' degrees in History should sign up in advance in the History Office, 119 Haven Hall. The examination is tc be given on Thursday, August 2nd, at 4 p.m. EWT, in Room B, Haven Hall. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN BARNABY Gosh, Mr. O'Malley, Pop had those old newspapers all tied innrAm nf By Crockett Johnson I I-- , m 4The conversation at the dinner in your aunt's honor is certain I must read at least one review if I'm to be familiar enough with Why don't you read the book? There's a copy of it upstairs.