PAGE FOUR TIHE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1945 Fifty-Fifth Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Schools To Get Radio Equipment DOMINIE SAYS Social Progress, Faith Discused 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 lay Dixon Margaret Farmer Betty Roth Bill Mullendore -Dick Strickland . . . . Managing Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . a . Associate Editor SSports 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- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 NIGHT EDITOR: MYRA SACKS Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Youth illPolitics TIHE AVERAGE AGE of the present members of the Norwegian Parliament is 60. For this rather excellent reason, the Norwegian youth organizations have issued a joint appeal to political parties and members of Parliament urging them to aid in the rejuvenation of Par- liament The Norwegian Constitution permits the elec- tion of men as young as 30, and thus the politi- cal youth organizations, as well as the tem- perance organization, the Norwegian Athletic Association, and the students' association, are urging leaders of political parties to consider this in nominating candidates for new election this fall in the hope of obtaining some young, blood in Parliament. Also being considered, and supported by the Oslo press, is the lowering of the age limit for voters from 23 to 21, the only drawback to this being that the change could not become effect- ive before the general election in October. The action by the youth organizations of Nor- way is an encouraging sign that the youth of the nation is awakening to its responsibility for citizenship and intends to play an active rather than a passive part in the search for good gov- ernment. The first step would, indeed, seem to be the election of younger men more adapted to modern conditions and ready to work co- operatively. These youth groups might well set ours an example by their spirit and participation. A more united and definite stand on important issues by youth groups in this country, begun perhaps by the concerted action of those on a university campus such as ours, will surely lead to the greater and much needed influence in government of youth, whose job the govern- ing of the nation will some day become. -Elinor Moxness Labor. Charter A SEQUEL to the labor-management charter recently promulgated by Eric Johnston, Philip Murray and William Green, has ben proposed by Sen. Vandenberg, Michigan Repub- lican. In a letter to Secretary of State Swellen- bach, Sen. Vandenberg asks that a national conference between management and labor be held under White House auspices to soften "entrenched rivalries" and lay the groundwork for a "peace charter" in the domestic industrial scene, comparable to the United Nations Char- ter in the international field. Swellenbach is reported to have replied en- thusiastically that he will present the proposal to President Truman upon the latter's re- turn from Potsdam. The move, according to a Chicago Sun staff writer, was torpedoed by a right-wing clique in control of the National Association of Manu- facturers and politicians on the executive coun- cil of the A. F. of L., who took advantage of Green's absen'e in San Francisco to bar him from sitting down to talk postwar problems with the C. I. 0. Vandenberg suggests that the Johnston-Mur- ray-Greer, charter-already accepted by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the C. I. O. and designed to dissolve management's fear that the unions will invade its prerogatives and labor's fear that reactionary management will crush the unions-might become the Dumbarton Oaks of the final charter for industrial peace. In postwar America job security and full pro- By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-While the Army and the Sur- plus Property Board are still fighting over' what to do about distributing surplus films among educational users, plans for releasing large quan- tities of radio material to schools are progressing rapidly. The nation's schools will receive both Army transmitting equipment and receiving equipment-for standard broadcasting and for the new FM broadcasting. Details of the plan are yet to be worked out, but educators have met twice with represent- atives of the Surplus Property Board, the Army Signal Corps and the U. S. Office of Education. One of the moving spirits behind the plan has been Federal Communications Commissioner Cliff Durr, forthright brother-in-law of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Right after the last war, as radio was begin- ning to be developed, schools were in the fore- front among radio station owners. Gradually, however, though frequencies had been reserved 'U' Plans FM Station The Merry-Go-Round is particularly interest- ing today in the light of yesterday's announce- ment that the Federal Works Agency had ap- proved a loan of $5,888 for planning the proposed construction of a University Frequency Modula- tion radio broadcasting station. for them, the educators were swamped by com- mercial broadcasters. Today, only 39 broadcast- ing stations are owned and operated-full or part time-by schools. This time, ,however, the educators are de- termined not to lose out on their second chance, and plans are being drawn for more than a dozen state-wide educational FM net- works. A number of colleges and city boards of education have applied for FM licenses, and it seems fairly certain that non-com- mercial broadcasts from these stations will be available to listeners in most areas. Of the 90 channels set aside for FM by the FCC last month, .20 are for the exclusive use of these educators. Surplus military equipment, therefore, should prove a great boon to this program. Some well- endowed universities, colleges and private schools are able to purchase their equipment at market prices, but the vast majority are not. One prob- lem now being worked out for disposal of this property is a pricing formula, with the educators hoping the government will permit a loss in sell- ing them radio equipment. Dr. Ronald R. Low- dermilk of the Office of Education urges that schools be permitted to buy the equipment cheap. End of Jap War? WAR CHIEFS in Washington aren't sayigg anything about it, but privately they expect an end of the Japanese war by fall. The Japs' rejection of the Potsdam ulti- matum was no surprise. U. S. strategists ex- pected it. Furthermore, there are several factors indicating that the Japs will fight furi- ously up until the last few hours before their BY WILLIAM S. GOLDSTEIN WE HAVE DECIDED that there are two kinds of people on campus: those who can be humorous at least once in a while,-and then there are the University of Michigan professors. Their lack of humor is evidently a dominant characteristic and has been cultivated by gen- erations of inbreeding. Some professors are apparently accutely aware of their short-comings and take steps to modify the prevailing conditions. A few purchase joke books, and manage to slip in a sly quip at least every other lecture. Others dispense with the joke book and place their trust in an elaborate card system. The cards, printed with such appropriate remarks as "THIS IS A JOKE," "LAUGH," "SNICKER," etc., are flashed three or four times a lecture. A great many professors make it plain at the outset of the course that from time to time they will let fly with a bit of drollery, and that it is up to the students to keep on their toes if they want an "A" in the course. One or two of the profs have rigged up great metering devices in the class rooms which more or less register the quality and intensity of the classroom laugh- ter, and they base their marking curves on the meters' readings. But the great fact remains the profs aren't funny; only the prodigious effort they go through to be humorous is ludi- crous. *. * * * Of course there are exceptions to every rule. We have a full professor who consistent- ly manages to convulse the class with his sar- castic wit. We are not sure whether he has a prepared script for each lecture, with the jokes written between the notes, or whether he is an old two-a-day vaudevillian, who de- cided that college students, in their waking. classroom moments, are indeed the best audi- ence of all. leaders throw in the sponge. It pretty much depends on the leaders. Jap military men so far have been able to stir' up fairly strong support for the war from the people. There are three reasons for this: 1. The most successful propaganda campaign in history has been sold the Jap soldier on the glory of dying for the Emperor, with the result that there are thousands of recruits for suicide assignments and hundreds of families proud of their sons who succeed in getting these assign- ments. 2. The Jap press and radio has played up the importance of the Chinese campaign last year. Though not emphasized in this country, the Japs succeeded in their big objective of preventing American fliers from using Chinese bases for raids on Manchurian steel mills and munitions factories. These plants are still operating. 3. The Tokyo government has also convinced the people that surrender means total annihila- tion of the Japanese people. Many believe they will be wiped out by poison gas or some other fiendish method of American mass execution such as being run over by bulldozers. Their leaders, who know better, prefer to have them believe this. On the other side of the ledger are: (1) the almost total destruction of the Jap navy; (2) the strange inactivity of Jap planes, indicating that gasoline is getting low; and (3) a careful shift to put the military in the background. Apparently they don't want to get the blame for impending defeat. Only last week, for in- stance, Gen. Kanji Ishiwara, representing the Army, made this unusual statement: "People think that total war means that the Military is in charge of everything, incltding ad- ministration, economic organization and so on; but in fact the military should devote itself entirely to military operations, while the officials and civilians should exert their utmost effort in administration and economic matters. The mili- tary organization is for the purpose of carrying on the war and therefore it should not be made to concern itself with administration." Actually, of course, the military have been supreme in Japan all during the war, and even before. But now it anpears they are ducking. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) c,/ellepj to tie &cliitoi -49- --- K EDITOR'S NOTE: The Daily welcomes letters to the editor, but asks their readers to limit their letters to 350 words. Scarcity of space forces this limitation, and letters exceeding that length will be cut at the dis- cretion of the editors. EDITOR'S NOTE: From time to time other ministers will contribute to this column, usually written by Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, University Counselor in Reli- gious Education. Challenge to ChurchP. jT IS FORTUNATE for the world that during the worst days of the "blitz" the people of Great Britain re- mained convinced that they were not helpless in the face of evil. They knew that Hitler was trying to re- place the Judaeo-Christian tradition with the German paganism of the Dark Ages. They knew too that if he won, science would be replaced by Hitler's "intuition" and the world would move quickly downward and backward. Because the British held out un- til aid from the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. relieved the pressure, they're free people today. And be- cause they have learned so recently and so clearly that they're not helpless before evil, they're now in a position to make a magnificent contribution to man's trek upward and onward. It was the Archbishop of Canter- bury who said not long ago, "We are fighting not so much to preserve a Christian civilization, as for the op- portunity to make one." Apparently the essentially religious British people feel that the Labor Party, more alert- ly sensitive to their needs than the Tories, should lead them to this better world. So we see that the English church, unlike the Russian church of the Czars, remains on the side of the an- gels. For years its labors have in a sense laid the groundwork for the election which swept the Labor Party into power this week. Almost everyone now agrees that the Russian Orthodox Church under the Czars condoned a serfdom which differed but little from slavery. For centuries it was the enemy of educa- tion and science. When Czarist tyran- ny and brutality was overthrown, it was inevitable that the influence of the church would likewise crumble. That was Russia. BUT IN ENGLAND the social pro- nouncements of the Church have been almost identical with the plat- form of the Labor Party which the people have just chosen to form their government. Here is a clear answer to those who have turned from religion as if it were a thoroughly-squeezed orange. I admire the English churchmen greatly because they were not de- terred from the task of first depict- ing the good life, and then describ- ing the conditions under which it might be obtained. They have helped teach the English people not only the "what" but the "how." They have enumerated the good things in life, they have asked whether the conditions of society made these goods possible, and then they went on to tell what ought to be done to make them possible. If we are on the threshhold of the People's Century, the Church faces the greatest challenge and the great- est opportunity it has had in genera- tions. In God's name, it must oppose the exploitation of the ignorant, the per- secution of the dissenter, and the ex- altation of the bigoted. It must more effectively teach that love will triumph over hate, that the greatest state is the one based upon the deepest fellowship, and that religion must be a driving force in the creation of a social order in which freedom of the indi- vidual and community well-being are the highest goods. --Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen, Director B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation * * * Earthly Belief . - THERE are no atheists in Hell, and no one in Heaven believes in God! This may appear to be a strange contradiction, but it is none the less true and must be admitted be- cause in eternity there is no Faith. St. Paul wrote that "faith-is the evi- dence of things that are not to be seen" (Heb. xi. 1), and since the Di- vine Plan is plainly evident to every soul who has completed his earthly existence, he no longer believes-he knows. Faith then, by its very nature, belongs to this life alone. Faith in God is something akin to confi- dence in a human being-it be- comes a valid means of acquiring knowledge about things that would be otherwise hidden from us. Since it is essentially an act of the will, and the will must be lead by the intellect, the reasonable man will' carefully examine the motives of credibility. He will then believe, not because "somebody says so," but on the basis of a conclusive argument. Faith is of the utmost importance because by it I become aware of my responsibility towards my Creator, and only in the light of it can I work out my ultimate destiny. Does it de- stroy freedom? On the contrary, my life will then flow along the chan- nels set for it by my Creator, and becomes like a river-free within its banks. The river that follows the plan set for its journey is a beauti- ful thing to behold and of great value in the plan of creation-but let that same river, swollen in flood- time, break over the barriers that were its guides and it becomes a thing of destruction. The freedom it had enjoyed while following the plan laid out for it has stretched to license and instead of bringing life to the soil it threads, it tears away and destroys. And when man, swollen with a false idea of his own importance, denies the barriers of God's law, he too becomes an instrument of de- struction. For he not only re- fuses to seek God's plan for him- self, but invariable reaches out to destroy the faith of others-and only in eternity will we be fully aware of the damage he has wrought. -Rev. Frank J. McPhillips, St. Mary's Student Chapel. Protests Postponed Election . V . DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN To the Editor: I AM A MEMBER of the Executive Council of SOIC. This body held a meeting last Wed- nesday in which it unanimously decided that the run-off election between the universities of our Filipino and Chinese friends would be held the Friday following. Friday morning, on taking my customary glance at the Michigan Daily, I was indeed surprised to find out that an emer- gency meeting, Thursday afternoon, of the Exec- utive Council of SOIC had unanimously revoked its twenty four-hour-long decision. Upon inquiry on the matter I found out that its reason had been the suggestion of the Stu- dent Affairs Committee that the Council recon- sidered their previous advice of postponing elections until Fall, not followed on Wednes- day. Since the chairman of the Council tried but failed to get in touch with me in regard to the emergency meeting, I was not able to cast my vote. I wish it to be known that my opinion is a dissenting one. I strongly adhere to the belief in an immediate choice of a foreign university through an all-Campus election. In the first place, the question is not which university is adopted, since all the submitted possibilities are in need of a truly friendly hand, and any one which carries the election will be a more worthy choice, as Mr. Ku, speaking for Tsing Hua, said in these same columns. The abnormality of our nation at war has created a continuous in- coming and out-going irregular flow of students on this campus. Although to a lesser extent, due to the double abnormality of the summer periods, we would encounter everysemester the same problem of new students who would like to have had a say in the adoption of the uni- versity. Any absent student who, coming back in the fall, would feel reluctant to give his whole-heart- ed support, is far below the praiseworthy altru- ism of SOIC's undertaking. For obvious reas- ons, the moral prestige of the organization called for an immediate election. Those who really know the vicissitudes and suffering our brother universities have undergone earnestly urge us to take action NOW. If we would only realize the conditions, we would cast away all our petty objections. I conclude that I do not agree to the sug- gestion of the Student Affairs Committee for the postponement of elections until Fall, 'and that I am a dissenting vote in the otherwise latest unanimous resolution of the Executive Council of SOIC. -Richard F. Defendini Member, SOIC Executive Council Chairman, All-Nations Club. 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 Hal!, 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, AUGUST 5, 1945 VOL. LV., No. 25S Notices Lecture: "Values in Physical Edu- cation." LeRoy M. Weir, Instructor in Physical Education. 2:05 p.m. CWT or 3:05 p.m. EWT Monday. University High School Auditorium. Lecture: "People of the Far East," with motion pictures and Oriental music. Dr. H. G. Callis; auspices of the Department of Economics. 6:30 p.m. CWT or 7:30 p.m. EWT Monday Rackham Anphitheatre. Lecture: "The Future of Parochial Education in America." Francis J. Donohue, University of Detroit. 2:00 p.m. CWT or 3:00 p.m. EWT Tuesday Michigan Union. The Fourth Clinic of the season at the University of Michigan Fresh Air Camp will be held Friday, Aug. 13th, 8:00 p. m. (EWT) at the Main Lodge. Dr. Marie Skodak, Directol of the Flint Guidance Center, will be the consultant. The camp is on Pat- terson Lake, near Pickney. Students interested in mental hygiene and the problems of adjustment are wel- come to attend. Rules governing participation in Public Activities: I. Participation in Public Activities: Participation in a public activity is defined as service of any kind on a committee or a publication, in a pub- lic performance or a rehearsal, or in holding office in a class or other student organization. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but merely is indicative of the character and scope of the activities included. II. Certificate of Eligibility: At the beginning of each semester and sum- mer session every student shall be conclusively presumed to be ineligi- ble for any public activity until his eligibility is affirmatively established by obtaining from the Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs. in the Office of the Dean of Stu- dents, a Certificate of Eligibility. Participation before the opening of the first semester must be approved as at any other time.' Before permitting any students tc participate in a public activity (see definition of Participation above), the chairman or manager of such activity shall (a) require each appli- cant to present a certificate of eli- gibility (b) sign his initials on the back of such certificate and (c) file with the Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs the names of all those who have presented certificates of eligibility and a si ned statement to excludeall other from participa- tion. Blanks for the chairman's lists may be obtained in the Office of the Dean of Students. Certificates of Eligibility for the first semester shall be effective until March 1. III. Probation and Warning: Students on probation or the warned list are forbidden to participate in any pub- lic activity. IV. Eligibility, First Year: No fresn- man in his first semester of residence may be granted a Certificate of Eli- gibility. A freshman, during his second sem- ester of residence, may be granted a Certificate of Eligibility provided he has completed 15 hours or more of work with (1) at least one mark of A or B and with no mark of less than C, or (2) at least 2% times as many honor points as hours and with no mark of E. (A-4 points, B-3, C-2, D-1, E-0). Any student in his first semester of residence holding rank above that removed in accordance with Univer- sity regulations. If in the opinion of the Committee on Student Affairs the X or I cannot be removed promp- tly, the parenthetically reported grade may be used in place of the X or I in computing the average. Students who are ineligible under Rule V may participate only after having received special permission of the Committee on Student Affairs. The American Red Cross has ur- gent need for Social Workers, Rec- reation workers and Staff Aides to help in Hospitals in this country as well as for overseas positions. Age 23 to 50 and college men and women preferred. Personnel secretaries from Headquarters will be in Ann Ar- bor on August 13 and 14 to inter- view interested persons. Appointments for interviews may be made at Red Cross Headquarters, 25546, Frenh Tear: Tuesday at 4 p.m. EWT (3 p.m. CWT) in the Grill Room of the Michigan League. Graduate Outing Club: The Gradu- ate Outing club is meeting for a hike Sunday afternoon, August 5, at 2:30 p. m. EWT at the back entrance to the Rackham Building; destination will be decided at that time. Bring your own lunch. Dr. George Kiss of the Geography Department will speak on "The Rus- sian Arctic" at 8:00 p. m. (EWT), Monday, August 6th, in the Interna- tional Center. The Russky Kruzhok (Russian Circle) invites all who are interested to attend. Tea will be served following the talk. Lectures Lecture. "Interpreting the News." Professor Preston W. Slosson, 3:10 p. m. (CWT) 4:10 p. m. (EWT) Tues- day, August 7, Rackham Amphithea- tre. Auspices of the Summer Ses- sion. Lecture: "Why People Fail," T. Luther Purdom, Director of the Uni- versity Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information. 2:05 p.m. CWT or 3:05 p.m. EWT Tuesday, University High School Auditorium, French Club: The sixth meeting of the club will take place Thursday, Aug. 9 at 8 p.m. EWT (7 p.m. CWT) at the Michigan League. Mrs. Eugenia Le Mat, grad.>,will speak on "Souven- irs de France." Group singing, social hour. All students, servicemen, facul- ty people interested are cordially in- vited. Academic Notices Preliminary Examinations for the Doctorate in School of Education. These examinations will be held dur- ing the summer on August 27-28-29 from 8 till 11 o'clock (CWT). Any- one desiring to take the examinations should notify Dr. Woody's Office, 4,000 University High School, before August 10. Symposium on Molecular Structure. Dr. Theodore Berlin will speak on "Wave Mechanical Principles and Chemical Resonance" in Room 303 Chemistry Building on Monday, Aug- ust 6 at 3:15 p. m. (CWT), 4:15 p. m. (EWT). All interested are invited to attend. Linguistic Institute: Introduction to Linguistic Science. "The Romance Language Group as Material for Lin- guistic Study," Dean Hayward Kenis- ton. 6 p.m. CWT (7 p.m. EWT) Tues- day, Aug. 7, East Lecture Room Rack- ham Building. Linguistic Institute Luncheon Con- ference: Tuesday, Aug. 7, Luncheon at 11 a.m. CWT (12 noon EWT), League Ballroom. Conference at 12 noon CWT (1 p.m. EWT), Rooms D, E, Michigan League. "English Syntax of Transformation." Lieut. Charles F. Hockett, Language Section, Infor- mation and Education Division, A.S.F. Note change of date and room for this week. BARNABY By Crockett Johnson I I I f1 7 r- I