PAGE FOUR TH E MCHIGAN D AILY TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1945 U 1 Tw M ei4rgan &tBall Fifty-Fifth Year WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND: Pressure Put on Food Prices ... T HE...... ..3. TH E a > {, Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board of Control of Student Publications. Ray Dixon . Margaret Farmer 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 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. 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The Daily's editorial columns are open not only to mem- bers of the staff, who may express freely their opinion on any issue, but to all its readers, who are urged to utilize the Letters to the Editor column. All letters are published, but limitations of space force us to set a maxi- mum of 300 words for these letters. The function of The Daily, as we see it, is to integrate the campus community, and particu- larly during wartime must The Daily fulfill its responsibility as a newspaper on which the campus relies. To this end we will devote ourselves throughout this semester. -Ray Dixon Margaret Farmer Betty Roth Class Schedule STUDENTS who frown upon getting u for eight o'clock classes have some sympathetic friends among the faculty. Because some pro- fessors put an excessive value upon slumber, dis- daining to instruct students at 8 or 9 a. in., almost all of the more popular single-section classes are crowded into the hours, 10 a. m. to noon, MWF And, since only a student with the supersensitive ear of Superman could pos- sibly elect more than one class at a given hour, many a junior and senior must forego the benefit of instruction in courses which he genuinely feels he needs. Furthermore, because 120 credit hours are necessary for a bachelor's degree the upper- classman often is forced into taking courses for which he has no inclination and which may not be integrated with his concen- tration program. This of course represents a waste of time to the student, time that might be better spent, were it not for a capriciously organized class schedule drawn up by the faculty to suit the faculty. A half-hearted attempt is sometimes made at accommodating students who favor particular courses, when a department opens a new sec- tion. The inconveniences to students and faculty derived from this eleventh hour solution to an unsatisfactory schedule is ample testimony to prove the need for a more practical system of scheduling classes (assuming that one now exists). Working on the broad principle that classes should be scheduled so as to cause the minimum inconvenience to students, the faculty of the various departments, in the future, should get together to plan a better distribution of the By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - Farm lobby chiefs, among the most powerful in Washington, were put in their place during a hot, behind-the-scenes fight inside the War Mobilization Advisory Board last week over the question of giving the Secretary of Agriculture super-power to regulate food prices. The War Mobilization Advisory Board, chair- maned by North Carolina's ex-governor O. Max Gardner, is composed of farmer, business, labor, and public representatives. It has done an A-1 job. Usually Governor Gardner has reconciled differences and recently the board passed a res- olution okaying the extension of OPA for anoth- er year with no crippling amendments. But when the board session opened last week war moilizer Vinson immediately challenged barren-beaned Ed O'Neal, head of the Farm Bureau Federation, and Albert Goss, head of the National Grange, for going counter to the board's resolution and favoring the crippling OPO amendment by which the Secretary of Agriculture could override OPA prices on food. Ed O'Neal murmured something about not having favored such an amendment, but Vinson immediately challenged him. "Oh, yes, you did," he shot back. "You sent a telegram to the Hill (Capitol Hill) supporting that amendment." "It seems to me," reproved Eric Johnson, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, coming to Vinson's support, 'That if any group represented on this board agrees to a resolu- tion adopted by the board, it should not go out and in from Congress to the contrary without coming back and telling us that it has changed its mind. That is the only fair way of doing things." Farm Bloc Defeated .. . We passed a resolution that the economic sta- bilization act should be continued for one year without any crippling amendments," reminded Nathaniel Dyke, who represents small business on the board, "and then you turn around and urge Congress to pass a crippling amendment." "We didn't propose a crippling amendment," replied Albert Goss of the Grange, who by this time was getting a little huffy. "We just wanted to see the OPA act was administered more effi- ciently." At this, non-farmer members of the board snorted, but kept their tempers. "How would you like to have business go over the head of OPA and set its own prices?", replied Eric Johnstn. "Yes, how would you like the U. S. Chamber to be able to override OPA when, it comes to settling business prices?" asked Nat Dyke. "And how would you like to have Phil Murray over their set wages, regardless of the stabili- zation act?" That ended the argument. Except that forth- right Fred Vinson put the same general thought before Congress and finally succeeded in elimi- nating the amendment whereby the Secretary of Agriculture could put farm prices in a preferred position. Judge Vinson, long 'one of the most respected and popular members of Congress, has done more to cement relations between Congress and the executive branch than any other one man, not excluding Jimmy Byrnes. Churchill's Memoirs ... Friends of the late president who are anxious for Truman to go over big at his forthcoming Big Three talk tell this story about the Yalta and Teheran conferences. Roosevelt, when he returned, told friends how, in discussing different topics with Churchill and Stalin, he would usually make the first presenta- tion of the case. This took three to five minutes. Then Stalin would give his views, which also took three to five minutes. "Then," said Roosevelt, "Churchill would present his memoirs-lasting 30 minutes." White House advisers are wondering how Truman can avoid the Churchill "Memoirs" when he goes to Berlin. MacArthur and Tydings . .. The other day, handsome Senator Tydings of Maryland devoted considerable time on the sen- ate floor to berating this columnist for speculat- ing on why Tydings returned from the Philip- pines after five days, when he expected to remain five weeks. No specific reason was offered by this writer for Tydings' sudden return. He had made his abrupt decision after conferring with. General MacArthur.I Since then, further information is available. And at the risk of furthei denials and further waste of the taxpayers' money in paying for the Maryland Senator's fuhminations in the Con- gressional Record, here are the facts behind Tydings sudden departure: General MacArthur is convinced that the strongest political group in the Philippines to- day is the Filipino underground, the men who stayed and resisted the Japs. As in European countries, the exiled governments have lost their popularity. Therefore, the Osmena government, without casting any reflection on the stellar qualities and leadership of President Osmena, is not popular in the Philippines and probably will be voted out of office in November. The fact that Osmena lived in Washington during the Jap occupation is held against him. Therefore, MacArthur argued that for Tydings to make a protracted stay in the Philippines. and discuss independence and reconstruction loans with the Osmenan government would merely be talking with a government which would not be in power after November. He also felt that such conferences might confuse the Philippine people by making it appear that sensational talks with Osmena put the official stamp of approval on Osmena for re-election. It is also suspected that General MacArthur is not averse to seeing his friend Brig. Gen. Manuel Roxas elected president in November. Altheugh a member of the puppet cabinet un- der Japan, Roxas was released from jail and appointed on MacArthur's staff as the only puppet cabinet member not a collaborator. Roxas has now resigned from the U. S. Army and announced his candidacy for president. Note-The fact that President Osmena and the late President Quezon fled the Philippines is not their fault. They were urged to leave by the late President Roosevelt. Had they re- mained, they would have been tortured by the Japs, and their signatures used to issue proc- lamations to the Filipino people making it ap- pear that they approved Japanese rule. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By WILLIAM S. GOLDSTEIN W E MANAGED to get all the way across State Street in front of the Union yesterday, and we can't help feeling that it was the neatest trick pulled off since Adam lost a rib. We usually take a few elementary precautions before making the crossing, and generally, they consist of leaving our valuables and a note for the next-of-kin with some responsible friend. Yesterday, how- ever, with the bliss of the ignorant we barged right across the street without thinking twice or wincing once. .k+k* k Pedestrian polo as played in front of the Union is like a Michigan-Notre Dame football game and about as vicious. We can remember when it was considered sporting by the motor- ists to give the pedestrians an even break, but now with the war and all, the game has de- teriorated to the point where a concussion or a bad fracture can be counted as a legitimate score. S * * Gas rationing and the drafting of the older drivers has slowed the game down considerably. We saw at least one gasless motorist get out and push his car over a pedestrian. Apparently the type of car or mount used makes quite a bit of difference. The heavier car can do more dam- age, but then the lighter models are more man- euverable. Motorcycles are given some sort of handicap. WE understand that volunteer first aid squads are allowed to practise on the "game's" casu- alties. We saw one group applying artificial res- piration to a recent victim. After a fruitless ten minutes, he rolled over and gasped, "Force some brandy down my throat!" It's an old Michigan legend that Tommy Har- mon practised open field running two hours at the football field and one hour in front of the Union. *,* * * The statement "I ran across an old friend out in Ann Arbor" can be interpreted more ways than a blonde's, "Nc!" You can't be pinched for going too fast in Ann Arbor, but you can be slapped. When someone says that he made a hit with the boys in Ann Arbor, it's six to five that he was indulging in a little pedestrian polo. RANGEFINDER By JOHN A. MEREWETHER IN American democracy the two party system is basic. and has been so ever since democrats took ov- er the caucus and other such political devises for outwitting the aristocrats of the day. As industrial America got up off its knees and walked, the political party became a big business too. It developed its paid workers, its full time organizers, ad men and recruits, as well as a few professional word-slinging, and later mike-maul- ing policy makers. The party occa- sionally did revelop a real leader, like the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When such a great political leader is lost, even the well-oiled machinery of the Democratic party slips out of gear into neutral for a moment. If the bigwigs of the Democratic Party are now hard up for quali- fled, full time recruiters, policy makers or spiel specialists, I should like to recommend the best man in the country for the job-Republi- can Senator Arthur H. Vanden- berg from the venerable state of Michigan. Without a doubt the senator is the best organizer and recruiter for the Democrats since Henry Cabot Lodge. Some people may think that I'm joking when I suggest such a thing. I assure you I mean every word of it, and can easily prove my points. Con- sider dear reader how effective the senator was in San Francisco in re- cruiting for the Democrats or how useful he would be in Congress in blocking legislation contrary to Dem- ocratic policy. In San Francisco at the World Se- curity Conference the smiling, slight- of-hand artist of the ideal of justice was very outspokenly in favor of ad- mitting Argentina, fascist,pro-Nazi Argentina, to the conference. Again pleading for justice and the rights of small nations the senator agreed that the Polish people and their gov- ernment, staunch fighters of the Nazis, were undemocratic and de- served no place at a world peace con- ference to suppress war and fascism. While putting on his best pained ex- pression of righteous indignation for the fate of the small nations, and justice,sthe senator was careful to suppress any glint of accomplish- ment from his eyes over the British setting up a royalist puppet govern- ment in Greece, by the none too sub- tle tactic of the old British lion merely using his tanks and bayonets to kill democrats and radicals who fought the Nazis and Greek fascists. And for my last example, how about the senator's quiet acquies- cence when Secretary of State Stettinius acted as errand boy for, the British Empire and refused the simple demand to seat the World Trade Union Federation as official observer? In Congress the senator would be just as effective. Suppose his none too subtly conservative comrade Sen- ator Taft cooked up one of his legis- lative Mickey Finns for the labor un- ions. If the Democrats who were democrats wished to block the bill in the Senate all they would have to do is greet the senator from Michigan with a solemn bow in the halls of the Senate Office Building and pomp- ously intone three times slowly, "Jus- tice, Justice, Justice." The senator would immediately reach for his medicine chest and pull out three lethal revisions and five poisonous amendments which would make that Mickey so potent that any organiza- tion would be in danger. And with that the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers would press the proper button and the bill would be defeated by the proper senators. I'm sure that with clever use the Vandenberg kiss-of-death could check much of the bad legislation which still comes from the gentlemen from Washington. And so you see the Democrats have a simple job. They merely hire Senator Vandenberg as an in- cognito Democrat, and encourage him to act obnoxiously as an ar- dent Republican. With such an arrangement the Democrats should increase the size and influ- ence of their party quicker than some politicians can hide a black- jack in an ideal like justice. ItRestraln yourself, Leo. He buys a War Bond every week.- VETERAN STUDY: University Men Edit Annals AY BONDS TODAY? By Graele Allei and George Burns Illustrated by Eric EricsonI SOME of the most perplexing ques- tions of the post-war period will be those concerning the disabled vet- eran. A coterie of problems dealing with home, vocational and communi- ty life; problems that will involve an estimated eight million men, must be met and solved within the next few years. In a recent issue of The Annals, which is published by the Ameri- can Academy of Political and So- cial Science, these problems have been cited and suggestions for their solution have been made. Edited by Wilma T. Donahue, Ph.D., Educational and Vocational Counselor of the University of Michigan Veterans Service Bureau and Clark Tibbetts, B.S., Service Bureau Director, the publication contains a series of articles design- ed to foster an understanding of the magnitude and nature of work yet to be done. They are invaluable, not only because they are written by experts, but because they an- swer a crying need for the scien- tific study of the well-being of the individual. The editors break down the subject into several catagories which, when combined, provide a comprehensive treatment for the millions of disabled war veterans. Articles under the heading of physical and mental re- habilitation show that civilian serv- ices cannot provide the same care for these men as have the military branches unless they are provided with adequate personnel and unless the nation, as a whole, is willing to pay the cost. The individual community, the experts advise, must assume the responsibility for finding the right jobs for these men. "The Federal Government and the state govern- ment do not create attitudes," they explain, "and they do not operate industry and business." But a man cannot be happy in his job unless he is first well-adjusted to social and community life. This is difficult for him because, as Donahue and Tibbetts explain, he is no longer protected by the care that the mili- tary services give him. The serviceman, himself, must make a decided effort to adjust and this involves an active process. The editors indicate that the veter- an cannot be allowed to sit by pas- sively and allow things to be done for him. The articles in the collection sug- gest means by which the physically handicapped man can adjust to his family and to his community. The psychological effect ofrwar must be counteracted by tolerance on both sides. The veteran, according to the authors, should "objectify his feel- ings and realize that he must develop a new set of interests before he can find the old satisfaction." The final section of the volume deals with the training of occupa- tion counselors and vocational prep- aration for all veterans. Occupa- tional workers, they point out, must be trained immediately, for it is esti- mated that ten thousand psychia- trists and thousands of psychiatric social workers are needed. Whether or not the disabled serviceman can depend on our help when he returns to civilian life will be determined not only by our willingness to help. It will be determined by the amount of un- derstanding and professional wis- dom which we practice in aiding him in civilian life. A collection such as the Annals on the Disabled Veteran provides information and guidance which can be utilized by the layman as well as the profes- sional psychiatrist of vocational -Carol Zack I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers of the University. Notices for the form to the Summer Session, Angell Hall, Bulletin should be sent in typewritten by 2:30 p. m. of the day preceding pub- lication (10:30 a. m. Saturdays). CENTRAL WAR TIME USED IN THE DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1945 VOL. LV., No. 1-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. m. (CWT) 3 to 5 p. m. (EWT). Men Students interested in ap- pearing in plays of the Michigan Renertory Players this summer are 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. 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. m., 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. There will be a meeting of all those interested in semingr work in Mathe- matics 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 BARNABY By Crockett Johnson I'll rescue the Witch's cat from the Here, tree, Barnaby. In gratitude she'l H remove the effects of the evil eye pussy from your dog and he'll talk again. pussy. Leave it to your Fairy Godfather- Ar. Why don't you call out the Fire 9 ~ Department, Mrs. Schwartz? E.I8 Copyrght, 1945, The Newspaper PM, Inc. Can't you just fly up and get the cat? Notntil its claws are trimmed. And that operation is another problem. - x K K x U What I need is a pole of some sort.... --Ah! This broomstick should suffice! Gosh. That's the Witch's r magic broomf Mr. O'Malley. a r-rT ow = - No Broomstick travel is a phase of I L o- iL.. . ..X : l.n: & -..E t ..l If my theories are borne out, carpet cwaenrc wll rentne i ;--ornoelled :i The Witch went for the Fire Department- C" ___//_-- ( .r > :,, . .