~PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN -DAILY WEDNTSDAY JULY 4, 1945 THE MICHIGAN DAIIN WeDNESD... A, JULY 4, 1945. Fifty-Fifth Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Spanish Loyalists Starving - DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control of Student Publications. Ray Dixon Margaret Farmnr Betty Roth Bill Mullendore Dick Strickland Editorial Staff 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 eclusively 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 1944-45 NIGHT EDITOR: MYRA SACKS Editorials published, in'The Michigan Daily are written by memnbers of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. APPOINTMENT of Jimmy Byrnes to succeed Edward Stettinius as Secretary of State came as no great surprise to anyone, as President Truman again displayed his no mean ability to pick on the right man for the right job. Byrnes, who has served with distinction in all three branches of the United States govern- ment executive, legislative, and judicial, was about the only available Democrat in Washing- ton with enough experience and vision to handle the difficult job of co-ordination and trouble- shooting that has become the State Depart- ment's chief task. The new Secretary of State is, first of all, a man of great background and experience. He has been successful as a legislator in both houses of Congress, as a judge of the Supreme Court, and in his job as "assistant president" to the late Franklin Roosevelt under the title of Director of War Mobilization and Recon- version. . This wealth of experience cannot help serving him in good stead in his new role. Secondly, Byrnes, while not exactly a foreign relations specialist, has shown in all of his ser- vice to the government a rare talent for forth- right, effective administration and an ability to co-ordinate the various sprawling agencies that are the United States government. This last ability, plus his immense personal prestige, established him as "natural" for the leadership of the State Department, whose main function is not to define and administer a foreign policy so much on its account, but rather to guide the other departments and agencies in their deal- ings with foreign affairs. This guidance has been sadly lacking of late. Byrnes, it is ex- pected, will be able to supply it: Byrnes' appointment should satisfy both Republicans and Democrats. His record shows that his actions have always been remarkably free cf party politics. With very few excep- tions he has not failed to act in the best national interests. As far as anyone knows, members of both parties are quite well satis- fied with the appointment. That, in itself, is a valuable asset for any Cabinet member. So it would seem that Truman has again made a commendable choice to fill the group of advisors who will act with him in guiding the future destinies of the nation during the difficult rehabilitating, reconverting, and peacemaking period. No one can logically level the accusation of "one man government" at the new president as was done so freouently and with so much violence at his immediate predecessor. -Bill Mullindore Borrowing Bogey The government-borrowing bogey is once more causing people loudly to laud a piece of legisla- tien out of one corner of their mouths while con- demning the means to its efficacy out of the other. The lead "Free Press" editorial of yesterday loudly lauded the Vinson full-employment re- port (which calls for long-term public works) and at the same time condemned government borrowing. How the "'Free Press" expects the government to raise the enormous funds required for long- term works remains unanswered. But, then, the Free Press cares little for such details. It finds "the greatest strength of the Vinson document" in the citicism of others that "the spirit is there but the substance is lacking; that he (Vinson) does not lay down a detailed and specific pro- Gl 1U1" By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-With the Army doing every- thing possible to return displaced Europeans to their homes, nothing is yet being done for the first continental fighters against Fascism-the Spanish Loyalists still penned up with their families in France. These freedom-loving Spaniards, many of whom were hired out to French employers dur- ing the German occupation as bonded servants, formed the first and most active guerilla bands in occupied France, later joined with the French Maquis. Many wear the Croix de Guerre for their valiant leadership of these underground fighters. But now that the war in Europe is ended, they are back in concentration camps, close to starvation. At one camp they were even forbidden to eat the grass because the authorities did not want the appearance of the camp spoiled. UNRRA could help these Spaniards, and assistant secretary of state Dean Acheson, as a member of the top UNRRA council, has been asked to recommend aid. However, he has I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: ~Nra Icy By SAMUEL GRAFTON IT TURNS OT that we cannot send shells to the Pacific in fiber cases, of the kind we used in Europe; cases made of sheet steel are needed, since the climate of the Pacific is just as unkind to ammunition as to its users. This puts the need for sheet steel sharply up. As a result, ac- cording to a New York Times study, a number of plans for conversion to civilian production this summer have begun to limp, sheet steel being the basic material for the American way of life, for automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines, etc. No incident could better demonstrate how any plan to return to "normality" during a war hangs by a hair. There can be no normality in any case until our men are back home, and any effort to cook up a fake or synthetic normality, or a specious facsimile of same, until, the war is over, is going to run into the kind of trouble noted above. Not only will it probably fail to work out, but in the attempt we shall make ourselves look dreary. The War Production Board, says the Journal of Commerce, is receiving complaints from a number of manufacturers, all charging that some other fellow has been allowed to get. out of war production first. This scramble to get back to normality is understandable, but I think of the hot summer trains to the West Coast, and of the sweating men in them, fero- ciously jammed together on their way to the Pacific, and reading of some such news item as this on their brief passage through their country. TROOPS are sitting up two and three nights in coaches, though technically entitled to Pullman space; one group recently sat so from the East Coast to points in Texas. Yet the vol- ume of commercial travel through the country has been wildly stimulated by the reconversion frenzy through which we are passing. I make no big moral point about it; only a kind of esthetic point, perhaps. It just doesn't look good, and in a culture in which it is considered wildly improper to wear a red necktie with a dinner coat, a case can be made against a luxurious babble and movement toward normality, during the great- est military redeployment in history. For these things are catching, and one must think in terms of trends. Two years ago the average luncheon table speaker told us that we must put our shoulders to the wheel, and today he draws equal applause by demanding an end of war-time controls; a mood has changed. In Congress, which often gives us exaggerated ex- pressions of our passing moods, the effect last week was almost to end price control and pitch us into an uproarious inflation. The inflationists were able to lead us into this danger only because the world "normality" has been made respectable too soon, by too many, and without rebuke. It is easy to live in a fantasy, and some of us are lusting so for a return to normal times as to be willing to pretend that they are al- ready here. "Back to normality" says the speaker in the Purple Room, and "On with the war" says the speaker in the Orange Room and they meet later before the same elevator. Go- ing up or down? They can't be going the same way, and on the street outside a soldier waits. Let's hope the message he has heard has drift- ed to him from the right room. It is not a bad rule to speak so that your words will make sense to a man who is prepared to fling away his cigarette and die for you. (Copyright, 1945, N. Y. Post Syndicate). BARNABY ^ refused to act. Meanwhile, the half-starved Spaniards cannot go back to Franco Spain on penalty of death. Surplus Property Secret ABOUT the closest wall of secrecy in Wash- ington shrouds the Surplus War Property Board, the disposal agency for the richest war booty in history. Now that public-minded ex- senator Guy Gillette has resigned and his hard- hitting friend Wesley Sturges has been fired, few people really know what goes on inside sur- plus property. Here, however, is one interesting inside de- velopment. The surplus property boys haven't published it, but they have just about decided to unload surpluses in England or in British- dominated areas in exchange for local cur- rencies rather than dollars. This means tha in Egypt, and the Near and Middle East, the United States will play squarely into the hands of the British sterling bloc. In these British-dominated areas, all dollars are collected by British banks, under arrange- ments with near eastern governments, and sent to London. This makes it extremely difficult for U.S. firms to do business in Egypt and the Near East, and the British want to keep it that way. U.S. firms can't get paid except in local curren- cies. It is hard to get dollars in return. Mean- while London banks are chocked with dollars. But despite this, the surplus property boys have decided to play along with the sterling bloc. Republicans Shoot Back R EPRESENTATIVES George Bender of Cleve- land, Ohio, and Frank Keefe of Oshkosh, Wis., are the first Republicans to challenge the Democrats on their social program in a long time. Bender got indignant as he sat listening to chairman Clarence Cannon of Missouri sonorously proclaim that his appropriations committee had not blocked the continuance of the Fair Employment Practices Committee. Bender promptly called Democrat Cannon'o. bluff on this and GOP representative Keefe stepped in to support him. Keefe recounted ie great detail how the Democrats had knife FEPC. "I am sick and tired of this shadow boxing," Keefe stormed. "You have 50 more votes in this house tha have the Republicans," he continued, "and any time the President of the United States wants this legislation passed you fellows will be whipped into line as you have in the past, and you will pass it because you have the' votes to pass it. Why kid anybody any longer?" The Wisconsin Republican then challenge Cannon to bring FEPC out for a vote before the full house. "My good friend, the gentleman from Wis- consin-" said Congressman Cannon in reply But Keefe was interrupted. "That is the way you addressed John Tabe of New York (with whom Cannon had a fist fight)," Keefe reminded him. "You called him 'my good friend.'" "I would not put the gentleman in the saint class," Cannon assured Keefe, amid laughter. Bender Unbends MOMENT LATER Cleveland's Bender took the floor again to point out that it was the vote of Democratic representative Roger Slaugh- ter of Missouri in the Rules Committee that pre- vented FEPC from getting to the floor for a full vote by the entire house. "He (Slaughter) is from President Truman's home district," Bender climaxed. Bender has frequently voted with the Demo- crats and has been a constant critic of Repub- lican tactics and policies, but this time he laced into the Democrats. The sins of the Republican party are many, he said, but long before the new deal was ever heard of, Repub- lican-controlled congresses had built up "a remarkably fine record for social legislation." "My father used to work seven days a week, 12 hours a day. Under the Republican admin- istrations his hours were cut to 11 hours, then ten hours, then nine hours. Time and again under Republican legislatures of states in the north, improvements were adopted. There are many states in the union not dominated by Republicans now that do not have workmen's compensation laws." "Yet some people would have you believe that all social progress began on March 4, 1933." Every congressman present had to agree that Republicans like Bender and Keefe were in a position to challenge the Democrats. But on the other hand, Republican leadership in. the House has been just as evasive as the Democrats in dodging a showdown on fair employment practices. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell SyncUcate, Inc.) Publication in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin shold be sent in typewritten form to the summer Session, Angell hall, by 2:30 p. m. of the day preceding pub- lication (10:30 a. in. Saturdays). CENTRAL WAR TIME USED IN THE DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1945 VOL. LV, No. 2-S Notices There is an urgent need for Dailies for the boys in service here in the U. S. Send copies when through with them to Mrs. Ruth Buchanan in the Museum. The Michigan Daily will be distrib- uted on the diagonal between 8:00 and 10:00, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays to students who live in house where the paper is NOT delivered. To all House Presidents: Frater- nity rushing will officially begin on Thursday, July 5 The office of the Interfraternity Council will be open from 2 to 4 p. m. (CWT) 3 to 5 p. m. (EWT) every day except Saturday until July 13 for general information, and the regis- tration of men for Fraternity rushing. After July 13, the office will be open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2 to 4 p, in. (CWT) 3 to 5 p. in, (EWT).- Summer Plays to be presented by the Michigan Repertory Players of the department of speech include "Blithe Spirit," by Noel Coward, "The Male Animal" by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent, "Quality Street" by Sir James M, Barrie, "Over 21" by Ruth Gordon and "Naughty Mari- etta" by Victor Herbert and Rita J. Young. Season tickets are now on sale daily at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre box office, while individual play tickets will be placed on sale Monday, July 9. The season will open July 11 and run through August 20. Armenian Students Association: The first meeting this summer will be held on Friday, July 6, from 6:30- 8:30 p. in. (CWT), at the Interna- tional Center. All students of Arme- nian parentage are urged to attend. - _ - - At the State: "Murder He Says." As the title implies, this is a picture with a murder-but the illegal acts don't stop there. The opus includes just about every form of violence, the most notice- able coming from the writers, pro- ducer and director who were funda- mentally responsible for foisting the thing on the innocent, but hardened cinema public. The story involves Fred MacMur- ray, a gatherer of public opinion, who becomes inexplicably involved with a family in the Southern hills with definite "shootin" tendencies. There's a great deal of scuffling about a hidden treasure or some- thing, and Marjorie Main carries a whip. We can't rememger much else about the plot or performers in this second class grade B take off on a take off. * *' * At the Michigan: "God is My Co-Pilot"- A fair movie about Gen. Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers, who de- serve much more than Hollywood gave them. Dennis Morgan, as Col. Scott, gave a rather uninspired performance, but refrained from his usual tendency to overact. In the role of Gen. Chennault, Ray- mond Massey turned in an admirable performance, stealing the show from a pretty tough looking gang of fliers, who were otherwise unconvincing. About all that can be said about "God Is My Co-Pilot" is that we left the Michigan with a feeling that we had not seen or felt the real story about these really great Americans and Chinese. In fact, the movie gave us a rather empty feeling. -Bob Goldman Housemothers of undergraduate women's residences are notified that beginning with the end of this term, it will no longer be necessary for them to send notices of students' ill- nesses to the Office of the Dean of Women for the purpose of securing class excuses. Class excuses for min- or or temporary illnesses will no longer be handled by this office as has been the case this year. The Health Service will give statements only in cases where students have first been seen. Identification Cards: All identifica- tion cards which were given out dur- ing the Summer, Fall or Spring Terms of the year 1944-45 must be validated by the Dean of Students for the Summer Term 1945. Cards which were not turned in at registration in Waterman Gymnasium should be left at Room 2, University Hall at once. Cards which are not revalidated will not be honored for the Summer Term by University officials, Eligibility Certificates for the Sum- mer Term may be secured immediate- ly if the report of Spring Term is brought to the Office of the Dean of Students. Fraternity and Sorority Presidents of groups which maintain houses on the campus, or which formerly main- tained houses, should apply to the Office of the Dean of Students at once for a blank lor listing current membership. The organization meeting of the Men's Education Club will be held in Rooms 318 to 320, Michigan Union at 7:15 (EWT), 6:15 (CWT) Thurs- day evening, Jijly 5. Commande Charles M. Davis, U.S.N.R. will speak on "Experiences in the' Pacific War." Commander Davis is Associate Pro- fessor of Geography and has been Plans Officer Special Air Task Force United States Pacific Fleet. Dean Edmonson will preside during the election of officers. ATTENTION--All organized houses in which undergraduate women are living. 1. Closing hours will be 10:00 p. in CWT on Sunday through Thurs- day and 11:30 p. .in CWT on Fri- day and Saturday. Every woman must sign out when leaving he .house after 6:30 p. im. CWT and must sign in upon her return. 2. Sign-out sheets must be turned in by the house pr'esident by Monday July 9 at 11:00 a. m. CWT. These should include the period from the opening of the particular hous through Sunday, July 8, and sign- out sheets must be in by 11:00 a. m. CWT on every Monday there- after. A composite sheet must ac- company the original sign-out sheets. Also attached must be any late permission slips which ar signed by the house head. All writing must be in ink. 3. The sheets must be placed in the box marked "Sign-out Sheets" in the Undergraduate Offices of the Michigan League. A model sign- out sheet and a composite sheet may be found posted in the Under. graduate Office. Illustrations ar given of the proper procedure in encircling permissions, probations etc., and methods of recording these on the composite record Copies of house rules, sign-out sheets, and composite sheets are available in the Social Director Office in the League. House presi- dents should 'be responsible fo keeping their houses supplied witi these and for posting a copy of the house rules in a prominent place. 4. Every house must elect a presiden and vote on quiet hours by Friday July 6. Basic quiet hours will be: 6:30 p. m. CWT to 9:30 p. m. CWT Sunday through Thursday. Addi- tional quiet hours may be estab- lished by individual houses if they vote to do so. 5. The house head and house presi- dent will be held responsible foi the accuracy of all reports turned in at the Undergraduate office. The house president shall be re- sponsible for their delivery. TherE will be a compulsory meeting of al) house heads and presidents on Monday, July 9 at 6:30 p. .in CWT at the Michigan League. Important Notice: All women students and house heads are held responsible for the House Rules. Copies of these rules are available at all times in the Social Director's office in the Mich- igan League. The Women's Education Club will hold a Get Acquainted Meeting for all women interested in Education on Thursday, July 5, at 7:30 p. m., EWT, in the Michigan League Gar- den. Everyone interested is wel- come, Pi Lambda Theta: A social hour will be held in the West Conference Room, Rackham Building at 7:00 p. m. (CWT) 8:00 p. m. (EWT) on Thursday, July 5. Members of all chapters are cordially invited to join this group which is open to faculty, students and residents of the Ann seeking positions in business, indu- stry,iand professions other than ed- ucation. It is important to register now be- cause there will be only one registra- tion during the two summer sessions. There is no fee for registration. University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information. Social Dancing Class: A social dance instruction class will be held on Thursday evenings at 6:30 (CWT) 7:30 (EWT) in Barbour Gymnasium. This is open to all men and women .students. Sign up in Room 15, Bar- bour Gymnasium promptly. Recreational Swimming for Women Students: The Union pool will be open for recreational swimming for women students on Tuesday and 8:30 (EWT), and Saturday mornings 8:30 EWT), and Saturday mornings from 8:15 to 10:15 (CWT), 9:15 to 11:15 (EWT). Any woman student may swim during this hour provided she has a medical permit. This may be obtained at the Health Service. A fee of 25c per swim is charged. Lectures University Lecture: "Milestones in American Secondary Education." Fred S. Dunham, Associate Profes- sor of Latin and of the Teaching of Latin; auspices of the School of Edu- cation, 2:05 p. m., Thursday, July 5. University High School Auditorium. University Lecture: "Education for International Understandings." Mo- wat C. Fraser, Dean of Winthrop Col- lege; auspices of the Summer Ses- sion. 2:05 p. i., Friday, July 6. Uni- versity High School Auditorium. Academic Notices Graduate Students: Preliminary examinations in French and German for the doctorate will be held on Fri- day, July 6, from 3 to 5 p. m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Build- ing. Dictionaries may be used. Mathematics: There will be a meeting of all those interested in seminar work in Mathematics in Room 3010 Angell Hall on Thursday, July 5, at 3 p. m. College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Schools of Education, For- estry, Music and Public Health. Stu- dents who receive marks of I or X at the close of their last semester or summer session of attendance will receive a grade of E in the course or courses unless this work is made up by August 2. Students wishing an extension of time beyond this date in 'rder to make up this work should file a petition addressed to the ap- propriate official in their school with Room 4, U.H. where it will be trans- mitted. Engineering . Aptitude Tests: All first-term civilian Engineering Fresh- nen will meet in Rackham Lecture Hall at 7 o'clock (CWT) 8:00 (EWT) :n Thursday morning, July 5, for the purpose of taking the Engineering Aptitude Tests developed by the Car- negie Foundation for the Advance- ment of Teaching. There will be no nake-up opportunity. Freshmen will be excused from classes on Thursday, since the tests will require the full lay. Mathematics 151, Advanced Cal- culus, will be offered in the 16 week Summer Term meeting MWF at 11 'clock in Room 3201 Angell Hall. rirst session of class will be Fri- lay at 10 p. m. (CWT) 11 p. m. (EWT). Political Science 151s. This class will meet Friday from 1-3 (CWT) '-4 (EWT) in room 408 of the Li- brary. Concerts Carillon Recital: Professor Percival Price, University Carillonneur, 6:15 p. m. Thursday, July 5. Exhibitions General Library, main corridor cases. Books printed in English be- fore 1640. Clements Library. Japan in Maps from Columbus to Perry (1492-1854). Architecture Building. Student work. Michigan Historical Collections, 160 Rackham Building. Representative items in the Michigan Historical Col- lections. Museums Building, rotunda. Some foods of the Alnerican Indian. Events Today LEGAL HOLIDAY Coming Events French Club: The first meeting of By Crockett Johnson i can't quite reach the cot. This broom is too short-- How does the Witch get the broom to fly?, v f sxa I1 She never told me the real secret. She always put me off by claiming it flew at the sound of some corny magicians' ward . .. ABRACA-- \\ -DABRA. ri , lit"l JOHN' copyfigl,. :KETĀ°t'} S 1445, the New~spaperPMinc.a IAIL i Your Fairy Godfather is almost out of sight. He's still holding IRoCatf' Shall we wait for the Witch to o)IiNsoy/l come back with the hook and No. Let's wake Pop up. . . He sod