__HE MICHIGAN DAILY ' WEDNESDAY, nUt
Y 25, 1949
y Mir Igat Yati
Fifty-Fifth Year
I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
G.O.P. Evades Real Issues
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BY SAMUEL GRAFTON
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY would have to be
made of stone not to be worried by the popu-
larity of President Truman. One Washington
observor reportsuthat the minority party has al-
ready worked out a program for defeating Mr.
Truman in 1948. The plan is for the G. 0. P. to
win control of the House of Representatives in
1946 by campaigning on strictly local and re-
gional issues. Then, with the House in its pock-
et, the party could start a series of investigations,
concerning Pearl Harbor, war contracts, "secret"
diplomacy, the business life of Elliott Roosevelt,
etc., and accumulate enough material to ride in,
in 1948. But the plan seems a little complicated,
and, offhand, one would say that the author of
it, whoever he is, has been spending too much
time alone.
How to defeat President Truman is a neat
professional problem, which the Republican
party is bound to try to solve; but these clever
and intricate plans suffer from a common fail-
ing. There is no bread in them, nor butter,
either. They don't tell anybody how to make
a living. This kind of political virtuosity is
pretty well old-fashioned in a day in which
labor has vast organizations, whose leaders will
be at seme pains to find out, and to tell their
followings, quite flatly and unemotionally, how
the candidates stand on basic social and ec-
onomic questions.
Yet there is never any pause in the search for
off-the-center issues, of the kind in which the.
music goes round and round. One such was House
Republican leader Joe ,Martin's recent demand
for a constitutional amendment limiting Presi-
dents to two terms. He came out one morning,
shouting for this reform, kind of startling most
of us, who had been thinking of other matters.
It is a perfect issue of its kind, big in scale, but
empty of content; it makes for talk, but doesn't
cost anybody a penny, either way it goes.
Mr. Martin followed with a demand that
the United States ask all the other nations of
the world to give up compulsory military train-
ing after the war, whereupon we would be
spared the necessity of adopting it for our-
selves. This, too, is sort of off-center shoot-
ing; it finesses the need for taking a stand on
compulsory military training per se. Perhaps
the whole world ought to give up compulsory
military training; but it isn't going to, and
everybody knows it, and Mr. Martin knows it,
too; and the net of it all was that at the end of
his explanation Mr. Martin found that he had
been addressing an audience consisting entire-
ly of himself.
T SEEMS TO ME that another attempt to
manufacture an unreal issue can be found in
the heavy attacks against the "silence" of the
early days of the Potsdam Conference.
The high-minded cry of freedom of the press
was called in to do service here, and I am not
referring to that; but to the bitter suggestions
that President Truman was bartering away the
lives of millions in secret diplomacy. President
Truman is obviously not much of a barterer-
away of human lives; sometimes a whole day
passes without his having bartered away a
single life, and nothing in his record indi-
cates that he would enjoy coming out of the
conference with an agreement hateful to Con-
gress and the country.
There has been some muttering that the gag
on news from Potsdam indicates that the con-
ferees were merely having a good social time,
and not doing any work. This kind of off-center
political pounding is, again, empty of content,
It does not indicate what the conference ought
to do, or ought not to do, but throws a cloud
over the whole thing: it goes far to assure a bad
reception for anything the conference might
come out with.
But tactics of this kind are not likely to de-
feat Mr. Truman; they are too ephemeral and
light-minded. A good deal of the current op-
position to Mr. Truman is like a dance of the
fireflies, in which the participants create just
enough of a glow to be visible, without cast-
ing much light on their surroundings.
(Copyright, 1945, New York Post Syndicate)
MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Big- Three Agree
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON - The Big Three have now
made two important decisions regarding
peace plans for Europe, according to uncensored
diplomatic dispatches cabled to Washington. In-
stead of one big over-all peace parley, they pro-
pose dividing the European peace problem into
two parts:
(1) A separate peace conference for Italy;
(2) A separate peace conference for the Bal-
kans and the satellite states, Bulgaria,
Roumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Fin-
land.
After these two peace conferences are held,
the plan is to stage a third and final peace con-
ference for the entire world. This, however,
would not take place until after Japan has
been defeated.
It is understood that both President Truman
and Marshal Stalin found themselves in com-
plete agreement regarding the importance of
an early peace conference to settle Italian
problems, but that Churchill was 'not too en-
thusiastic. The Italian peace, conference will
include the'United States, Great Britain, Rus-
sia, France,, Greece, Yugoslavia and Albania.
It is not entirely definite whether Ethiopia will
also participate. Ethiopia, the first victim of
aggression in the prelude to World War II, is
still occupied by British troops.
The idea of a second peace conference, per-
taining to the Balkans and other smaller Euro-
pean powers, results from a Fproposal made by
Marshal Stalin last May when he sent identical
telegrams to Churchill and Truman regarding
the recognition of Bulgaria, Roumania and Fin-
land. At that time, Truman suggested that the
whole matter wait until the Big Three could dis-
cuss the matter, although he did not object to
the immediate recognition of Finland. Churchill
telegraphed Stalin that he also felt the entire
question should wait until the Big Three meet-
ing. However, the problem of ironing out all the
details of permanent peace among these smaller
countries of Europe is so complicated that it
cannot be worked out at Potsdam; so it seems
wiser to refer the matter to an entirely separate
peace conference.
(Copyright, 1945. Bell Syndicate)
CURRENT]
MOVIES
By BOB GOLDMAN
WE WERE more than just surprised
to discover that there are two
good -movies this week, one each at
the State and Michigan.
At the Michigane
"Without Love"
Spencer Tracy, and Katherine Hep-
burn team in this movie and the re-
sult is 90 minutes of good, solid en-
tertainment. Even the story has an
only slightly tarnished theme.
Tracy portrays a scientist, com-
missioned by the government to de-
velop a stratosphere oxygen appa-
ratus. He ends up in the basement
of Katie's house and while neither
of them claim to be in love with each
other--they get married. Tracy is
working under the somewhat erro-
neous impression that their relation-
ship can be continued onea high and
exclusively scientific plane,
It all ends happily of course,L ut
not before Keenan Wynn, Lucille
Ball, who started in movies wearing
relatively little, and Felix Bressart,
turn in fine performances. Wynn ap-
pears intoxicated in a couple of
scenes which brought the house down.
At the State
"The Clock"
It's a story about a soldier and a
girl who, after knowing each other
for a little more than a day, decide to
marry and do. Of course, it might be
argued that this sort of theme may
have dire sociological implications,
and it may, but almost anything,
construed in varied lights may have
dire sociological implications and ef-
fects.
Both Robert Walker and Judy Gar-
land performed convincingly, but we
still have trouble imagining Walker
shaving-often.
Miss Garland does not sing in the
picture. This could be considered a
departure from her usual roles. She
does well without an orchestra be-
hind her.
Keenan Wynn is in "The Clock"
too, and again plays a drunk. It's a
little difficult to determine in which
of the two movies the performance
is more effective. James Gleason is
also in the cast and is still a fine
character actor.
War Aims
LET'S NOT FORGET that we are
fighting for peace and for the
welfare of mankind. We're not fight-
ing for conquest. There's not one
piece of territory or one thing of a
monetary nature that we want out
of this war. We want peace and pros-
perity for the world as a whole. We
want to see the time come when we
can do the things in peace that we
have been able to do in war.
--President Harry S. Truman as
quoted in the New York Times
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Notices
Beta Eta Chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority sponsors a summer
dance at Smith Catering Service Fri-
day evening, July 27, 1945. Music by
the Sophisticated Five. Tickets may
be purchased from members of the
chapter.
French Club: Professor Julio Payro
from Buenos Aires and visiting pro-
fessor in the Department of Fine
Arts, will give an illustrated lecture
in French on the French painter Paul
Gauguin on Thursday, July 26 at
8 p.m. (EWT), 7 p.m. (CWT), in
room D, Alumni Memorial Hall. After
the lecture the members of the club
will gather in the grill room of the
Michigan League for a social hour.
All those interested are cordially in-
vited to hear the lecture of Professor
Julio Payro.
LaSociedad meets each Tuesday
and Wednesday at 4 p.m. (EWT) in
the International Center for a coke
hour and on Thursday at the same
time for tea.
LaSociedad Hispanica: The Wed-
nesday night meeting of LaSociedad
will take place at 8 p.m. (EWT) July
25, in Room 316 of the Michigan
Union. Dr. Munoz will give a lecture
entitled, "Neuva Guatamala."
Identification Cards are now avail-
able for the Summer Term in Room
2, University Hall.
Linguistic Institute Luncheon Con-
ference. Thursday, July 26. Lunch-
eon at 11 a. m. CWT (12 noon EWT),
League Ballroom. Conference at 12
noon CWT (1 p. m. EWT) A B C
Room, Michigan League. "Were the
Moods Tenses?" Prof. E. Adelaide
Hahn, head of the department of
Latin and Greek, Hunter College.
Audience discussion will follow the
paper.
Linguistic Institute. Introduction
to Linguistic Science. "Analogical
Creation of New Linguistic Patterns."
Dr. Franklin Edgerton, professor of
Sanskrit. 6 p. m. CWT (7 p. m. EWT),
Thursday, July 26, Rackham Amphi-
theatre.
Classical Music Program: Under
the joint sponsorship of the All-
Nations Club and the International
Center, a program of recorded clas-
sical music will be presented at the
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Starvation
THE UNITED' STATES is probably the only
country which has been better fed since the
war than before it. Although some people may
}niss their favorite dishes, nobody in this country
is starving because of the war and more have
gained than have lost relative to food distribu-
tion.
The contrast formed by conditions in other
countries should lead to deeper thought on the
part of those who have been complaining loud-
ly of shortages here. This deeper thought
might bring not only sympathy for those in
war-devastated lands but an awakening to the
connection between starvation in Europe to-
day and the condition of the world tomorrow.
The same hunger which is the direct cause of
the present high mortality rate in Europe ma1
be the indirect cause for an even higher mor-
tality rate through a war fifteen years hence.
A hungry man cannot think on a high level; he
cannot choose his leaders wisely and foresight-
edly, according to their ideas and intentions and
their ability to carry out these ideas and inten-
tions. He only knows that those who feed him
are his friends, that those who do not, care little
for him. That is a principal reason why Hitler
found it easy to ascend. to power in 1932 -- be-
cause he understood that food baskets are more
convincing to a starving. population than ration-
al arguments concerning abstract ideas of free-
dom.,
I bring this example up now because of its
connection with some revealing figures pub-
lished by the United States Department of
Agriculture. Before the war, according to these
figures, the average Frenchman and Belgian
consumed 2,970 calories daily. During the Ger-
man occupation the figure descended to 2,230.
Allied liberation has pulled it down to 1,900,
while in some cities the legal ration is as low
as 500 calories. For Yugoslavia and Greece,
the figures are even lower, their average in-
habitants consuming a daily diet of 1,900 and
700 calories respectively. Nutritionists regard
a daily consumption of 2,650 calories as the
average minimum requirement for health.
Even before the war had ended the incidence
of cerebrospinal menengitis, poliomyelitis, dys-
entery', diphtheria and other diseases of the body
and brain had doubled in twelve European coun-
tries. In the present uncertain and disorgan-
ized transition period we may expect epidemics
to become even more widespread, as was the case
after the last war. Many of the twenty or thirty
million displaced persons in Europe have start-
ed their long, fatiguing treks back to their home-
lands, carrying with them and spreading on the
way any disease germs which they may have
picked up while slaves in Germany or German-
ocupied, territory.
1dWe in the United States do not fully realize
the devastation of war - partially because
such horrors as starvation cannot be fully un-
derstood without being experienced. But it is
to be hoped that we can at least understand
it to the point where we will refrain from com--
plaining when we hear of food being shipped
to Europe, and, in fact, will urge that more
food be sent. It is to be hoped that we can un-
derstand the problem enough to save the world
from further devastation in another more ter-
ible world-wide war.
-Myra Sacks
Confusion
Two theatres in town gave a midnight show-
ing of Ernie Pyle's picture Saturday night. The
dean's office granted 2 a. m. permission. Many
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Readers Urge SOIC To Adopt Tsing Hua, Strasbourg
Alsace-Lorrline U.
To the Editor:'
HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING with great inter-
est the series of Letters to the Editor and other
articles which have been appearing in the Daily
in connection with the adoption of a foreign
university. It would seem that the writers of
these letters all have made very good points in
favor of the various schools for whom they have
written, but there has been considerable lack of
mention of certain practical matters. As yet I
have seen no figures on the sizes of the various
universities or as to the comparative damage
done - in terms of censorship of intellectual
freedom and other immaterial factors as well
as the destruction of libraries and buildings.
Another very important part of the problem
which seems to have been ignored is the prac-
tical aspects involved in establishing relations
directly with the student bodies in these
schools. Granting that there is a strong need
for strengthening Russian-American friend-
ship; granting that the University of Warsaw
has been one of the hardest hit schools in
Europe; it still remains as an incontrovertible
fact that it has so far been impossible for any j
BARNABY
There's Pop! On the tither
sie .,He came to meet
Aunt Minerva's train, too-
He's on the wrong platform- '
and, look! Here's the train!
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American organization to take any relief into
either of these schools. By contrast, the Uni-
versity of Strasbourg is in the territory recent-
ly occupied by the American armies and there
has been assurance from the World Student
Service Fund Offices that they are in a posi-
tion to quickly establish student-to-student
relutions with this University.
I believe that an article will soon appear tell-
ing in greater detail of the many good reasons
for adopting Strasbourg. I have seen some of
this material and it has convinced me thatStras-
bourg has as good a claim as I have yet seen for
our adoption. I sincerely wish that the election
of a University had been set a few weeks later,
so as to give us more chance for investigating
the various foreign universities more fully, but
under the present circumstances I urge the
members of the student body to weigh heavily
the fact that is is possible to establish immediate
contacts directly with the student body of the
University of Strasbourg, and that the adoption
of this university would not be tied up in inter-
national red-tape, hindering inter-student rela-
tionships.
-Bruce Edwards
The Case for China
To the Editor: -
THE Student Organization for In-
ternational Cooperation deserves
high praise for its proposed scheme
to adopt one foreign university, to
which it will extend material and
spiritual aid during the period of
rehabilitation of that university. Let-
ters appearing in your column recent-
ly are helping the students here to a
wise choice in the coming selection of
the school they most wish to help.
It is folly to suggest that any one
foreign university is more deserv-
ing of help than all others; for no
one institution can lay claim to a
greater share of suffering and ad-
verse condition than that experi-
enced by schools both in Europe
and Asia, and only one university
will be chosen. Her;ein I draw a
picture of a Chinese university,
whose eight years of history since
the Japanese invaded North China
in July 1937, reads like an adven-
turous tale, but - whose present is
made bearable by a brighter future.
Tsing Hua University, up to 1937,
boasted of one of the best physical
plants among Chinese universities;
its library, for instance, was compar-
able to that of the University of
Michigan. When the Japanese struck
in the summer of 1937, the university
authorities, through the newspap-
ers, notified the students that they
should make their own way to Chang-
sha, Junan Province, 2,000 miles
away; the school could guarantee
nothing. And yet, many of the stu-
dents, at a time when transportation
facilities had either been disrupted or
made exteremely difficult, found their
way to Changsha. Here the school
carried on for a year under constant
Japanese air attacks.
In the autumn of 1938, professors
and students once again started a
migration, this time to Kunming,
1,000 miles away. The school has
survived to the present day as one
of the three units comprising the
Nat onal Southwest Associated Uni-
The students eat poorly, milk and
meat being completely absent from
their diet. Books are few and well-
worn. Many a time, it seems that
when all else fails, the grim determi-
nation of professors and students
make possible the continued exist-
ence of thV school.
Students have been known to
study at night under street lamps,
in order to save the expense of
buying oil. Paper for note-taking
is scarce; that which is available
is rough and coarse. The science
laboratories are ill equipped; chem-
icals are lacking; the aparatus
sometimes lies idle for want of
spare partst Through it all, they
suffer, knowing that hard as life
is, it is but temporary.
The Chinese absorbs the fun of
livinx heni there k4 funin hiinLo'
By Crockett Johnson
It's a freight train, Mr. O'Malley.
Maybe WE'RE on the wrong side-
Eh? Nonsense. I'll call him
over as soon as all these cars
whiz by ... 11, 12, 13, 74,15-
E E R E R PR
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A passer
in on the
nger train came
other track-
-47, 48, 4-.-:- Well, we'll
cross over and investigate
as soon as-52, 53, 54-
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Mi ~tnerva!..
I'm so glad.
vn'r here
That train! And people demanding
my 1'ufograph. I was, er, glad to see
there was no crowd of the depot-
No. But we celebrities get used to
such nuisances. Not that I expected
to see anyone with banners! But-
92, 93, 94-This freight
train! How disappointed
your aunt will be if we
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