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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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FEPC and Bilbo

THE SENATE last week compromised on the
issue of the Fair Employment Prac-
tices Commission by making a deep cut in its
appropriation, thus practically killing it as a
permanent agency.
The eompromise was a victory for the fil-
bustering Southern senators. They were led
by Sen. Bilbo of Mississippi, who had preached
racial and religious hatred on the Senate floor
for more than two days in not only hate-filled
but idiotic terms, referring to the bill as a
"Communist, poisonous piece of legislation."
To all appearances, the agency was dead, but
Friday the same War Agencies Appropriations
Bill was sent back to the Senate from the
House, where most of' the funds for ten war
agencies had been removed on points of order
raised by supporters of the FEPC in hopes of
obtaining increased appropriations. The fili-
bustering is due to begin again, for the Southern
senators are determined not to permit the con-
tinued operation of the FEPC, which attempts
to enforce non-discrimination in industry be-
cause of race, color, or creed.
It is sad indeed that it is necessary for the
FEPC's supporters to use methods that hold up
the funds of important war agencies, and it is
calamitous that such demagogues as Bilbo can
destroy an agency which undertakes a task so
vital to the working of democracy. There are
striving against every democratic principle. It
seems impossible to believe that men can be so
completely bigoted and still call themselves
Americans.
At this time when American democracy is
being looked to by all newly-liberated peoples,
when the American example should be at its
highest point, when servicemen will return
with new ideas to find the same narrow-mind-
edness they left, it is of the utmost importance
that our wide-spread idealistic democracy be
made practical, or, rather, that our practical
democracy be raised to the high level of our
idealistic democracy. The FEPC has been a
necessary step in that direction. When non-
discrimination is put into effect everywhere,
other steps in practical democracy will follow,
perhaps leading finally to that true democracy
we now declare our country to be.
-Elinor Moxness

By JOHN A. MEREWETHER
The following conversation was overhead the
other day in a campus drugstore. Being hard up
for material I took it down. It sounded interest-
ing at the time. The views expressed in this
conversation, of course, are those of the speakers
themselves and in no way represent this writer's
views on American education.
"Say Mary, did you ever hear of Professor
Openhearth?"
"No," said Mary. "Who is he Joe?"
"He's a pretty important guy. Look at the
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
All Tings to All
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
SOOTHING THE PATIENT:It is becoming
difficult to say whether, in President Tru-
man, the conservatives have a friend in the
liberal camp, or the liberals a friend in.the con-
servative camp.
Perhaps he wants it that way, for the new
President's main strategic endeavor seems to be
to avoid and defy classification. He escapes from
categories, as from traps, before they are quite
closed around him. No sooner had the commen-
tators set about making a permanent Missouri
farmer of him, than he ordered New York
clothes; and it seems to me characteristic that
though he was delighted to go back to the town
of Independence for an old home week, he firmly
refused to shake hands with the assembled
townspeople on the perfectly valid ground that
he was too darn tired from his work as President
to do anything of the kind.
He flits, through classifications, rather than
resides in them; though he is very much the
ex-Senator when he wants to be, he never puts
on the string tie; and White House reporters
who have heard him rap his desk know that
he is indeed the President.
On the political level, he demands immediate
ratification of the San Francisco Charter, but
shakes hands warmly with Burton K. Wheeler
at the conclusion of his address; and he appoints
the conservative James F. Byrnes to be Secretary
of State, just before taking off for a meeting
with Stalin. Don't fence me in, is his motto and
his cry; he resists speciality and peculiarity of
every kind; he talks with Herbert Hoover as with
Harry Hopkins, with no suggestion that either
conversation is a performance.
His underlings take up the same theme, for the
new Secretary of Labor, Mr. Schwellenbach,
firmly orders his staff to administer the labor
laws exactly as Congress wrote them, without in-
terpreting them or reading special meanings into
them; and then schedules conferences for the
next day with the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. in
order to figure out what on earth to do next.
The net effect of the above may seem to lay
at Mr. Truman's door the charge that he is
being all things to all men; but a much larger
issue is involved.
MR. TRUMAN took office at a time when the
country was in a highly nervous state.
National and international issues were reacting
badly upon each other; several members of Con-
gress were issuing personal declarations of war
against Russia, and staring about them at the
home scene with hot red eyes, lit up with im-
ported terror semicolor; some of our leading
public figures seemed to have decided that eter-
nal hysteria was the price of liberty.
It was an act of splendid daring for Mr. Tru-
man to try the role of mollifier, ameliorator,
conciliator; but he then went on to show daring
of a second and greater order by really doing it,
not faking it. It is not so bad for the head of
a democracy to be all things to all men, if he is
really all things, and really to all men. He who
undertakes the role of conciliator must do so
with clean hands, so to speak, at the first sign
of fakery his effort becomes one-sided, and col-
lapses. The Truman who has pleased conserva-
tives by putting Mr. Byrnes in charge of the
State Department is the same Truman who has
asked for a permanent fair employment practices
commission; the Truman who shakes Senator
Wheeler's hand asks that Bretton Woods be rati-
fied without the change of a comma. He has
given to both sides, but he has done so deliberate-
ly, with a high and honorable intention, and with
never a smirk.

There is thus something almost grand in Mr.
Truman's effort to be an integrator; but a real
one; not a man who stays at dead center
through panic fright, but a man who feels his
way delicately toward a new national balance.
If he is not one special thing, neither is this
country. It may be because he knows this so
well that he is able to give the impression, in
spite of conflicting moves, that he is not drift-
ing, but that he rides.
(Copyright, 1945, N. Y. Post Syndicate)
BARNABY




book he wrote. Nine hundred and fifty pages,
and in war time too."
-"What's it about?"
"He's an authority on American history.
This book is about the Civil War. He says that
if only there had been electrical refrigerators
in 1860 and 1861 the Civil War would never
rhave taken place."
"My goodness! Sounds like a maniac's idea of
history to me."
"I don't know Mary. Listen to this. He says
the hotheads caused the war. He calls the
Radical Republicans Charles Sumner, Stevens,
Phillips and even Lincoln, according to him, all
a-bunch of hotheads. From this hothead theory
of radicalism he has deduced a certain cure
for all radical tendencies in polities. The cure
is ICE!"
"ICE? What has ice got to do with politics?"
"You'll never guess. ICEPACKS! Icepacks will
solve all our problems. He says that if there had
been enough ice-cubes and icepacks available to
get thru the summer and the fiery Congressional
sessions, the Civil War would never have oc-
curred."
"Now isn't that funny? I always thought the
Civil War was caused by conflicts over slavery
and the rise of capitalism."
"Tsk. Tsk. The Professor here says you're all
wrong. Hotheads and ice. That's the formula."
Iloininie Sadys
THE USE OF RELIGION as a phase of recon-
struction is germane. The orthodox, will re-
mind us that faith is never utilitarian. We should
not expect faith and truth to get results of any
sort. Is not implicit trust the essence of re-
ligion? It commands me. I believe and obey.
Such is the reply of all routine devotees and
they are millions in the Far Eastern religions,
in the Near Eastern Islam and in Western
Christianity. These are the Epimetheans not
the Prometheans of our century. They are fol-
lowers rather than adventurous men or creative
leaders. However, they stabilize the culture.
A second reply to the question of Religion in
reccnstruction is that Religion is an illusion.
It amounts to man's creation of a haven
toward which he thinks he can project his
defeated self by means of the imagination.
"The Church," say these observers, "is a run-
ning together of all those weaklings who 'can-
not take it' or cannot fathom the meaning of
it all. Why confuse the reconstruction by
calling in the religions?"
Of course if the great Nietsche were correct,
he and his fellow nihilists would carry on the
resuscitation, get their own victims out of the
concentration camps, return the sad innocent
millions who have been dislocated by the in-
humanities of war, feed the hungry, restore the
wasted fields, supply seed and find farm animals,
organize new governments by use of the political
prisoners, set up credit institutions founded on
Jewish-Christian influence and start European
life all over again. In that case the skeptic
would appear in the Christian's role. Truth,
beauty and goodness, renounced in the begin-
ning, would be back by invitation.
BUT A THIRD REPLY as to religion in our era
is heard. Vital Theism declares that two
foci constantly must have attention, the onto-
logical and the ethical, or the mystical and the
practical. Religion is an answer to the question,
Why? Dynamic Christianity, in common with
Sprophetic Judaism, insists that God has a pur-
pose seen in His universe itself and that man,
being the climactic creature of His hope and
activity, may partake of that purpose. When
he discovers it for himself man is happy, has
assurance and directs his private desires toward
a significant goal not his own. Religion becomes
a noble quest and in that quest are engaged all
those far seeing philosophers as well as the cre-
ative scientist who have put a firm floor of veri-
fication beneath our belief in the goodness of
the Universe.
By such a challenging struggle our United
Nations, but faintly understanding each other,
should be able to free the healing powers of
God in Europe. As James B. Pratt, the psy-
chologist, says, "Religion lives chiefly because

it makes a profound appeal to the deeper levels
of our emotional life." More and more our
universe takes on the inner harmony of an
organism informed throughout by a common
life. Here then is. God revealed and it must
become increasingly certain that a religious
or even a semi-democratic reconstruction can-
not be imposed but must be derived.
-Edward W. Blakeman
Counselor in Religious Education

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World Charter

TPO SAY that the San Francisco Charter is a
panacea for all ills would be a mistake. It is
not even a definite cure-all for wars. However,
the charter is definitely a step towards the top
of the proverbial ladder of success we are now
climbing.
Whether or not the Charter is feasible is cer*
tainly a good question for debate and indeed,
many a debate has been held on the subject.
'Two opposing camps on "Town Meeting of the
Air" were in a heated (really hot) argument over
the Charter question last week. There were
those who felt that the charter should be ratified
by the Senate, that the charter is a solid struc-
ture upon which we can build a better world.
And then there were those who felt that any
thought of international cooperation must be
thrust from us. Congresswoman Sumners pre-
sented an alternative to any sort of charter-
take our boys home from Europe; stop lend-lease.
If this plan could prevent a third world war,


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