PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAINL SATURDAY, JULY 28, -. t Fifty-Fifth Year PROF. PERKINS COMMENTS: Significance of Labour Victory I e,/2?1erj DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 270 .', I1 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 Ray Dixon . Margaret Farmer Betty Roth. bill Mullendore . . . . Managing Editor . . . . . Associate Editor . . . . Associate Editor . . . . Sports Editor Business Staff Dick Strickland . ..Business Manager Telephone 23.24-1 Member of The Associated Press a 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. Declining Power STEREOTYPED THOUGHTS of England as the great power of the world are fast be- ing replaced. The war has shown how great has been the military effort of the United States and Russia related to that of Great Britain. Eng- land, traditionally the queen of the seas, has been forced to abdicate her title to the United States. Any conclusions relating to the post-war world must consider England as a declining nation, for she cannot keep pace with the faster stepping nation. England's position is further aggravated by a fast declining birth rate and- since 1923, the population has not been replacing itself. This means that England will be underpopulated within the next few decades and that eventually she will slip to a second class nation, if that is not what she is now. Certain estimates have been made that the present population of 46,000,000 will fall to 31,- 000,000 by 1975 and to under 4,500,00' within the next 100 years. If this population trend is not checked, the probable effect might become disastrous to Great Britain. She would not have sufficient manpower to staff her industrial machine and her defense situation would be imperilled. With the reduced population, maintenance of her empire system would fail as emigration to the colonies declined.. Britain is taking steps to combat this popula- tion trend. A royal investigating commission has been appointed and it is assumed that legisla- tion will have to be passed for the purpose of encouraging larger families. It is indeed significant to note that tradi- tional ideas regarding British supremacy in the world no longer hold. There seems to be some basis for thinking that she will soon fall into the discard pile of the powerful nations. -Arthur B. Gronik German Front{ BERLIN'S FOUR POLITICAL parties have forged the Anti-Fascist Democratic Union. according to the press in the capital's Russian zone.. The new German front has a five-point pro- gram: 1) cleansing Germany of Hitlerite rem- nants; 2) reconstruction to provide work, food, shelter, and clothes; 3) a democratic state; 4) freedom. of thought and worship; 5) recog- nition of Germany's reparation debts. The Union, primarily established with Rus- sias blessing, was influenced by Communist Wilhelm Pieck, onetime Reichstag Deputy, and a founder and charter member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee. The new Popular Front was reported to have offices in the British and U. S. districts where political activity is restricted, while in the Rus- sian zone the program was acclaimed to be a new page in German history. The Big Three are to discuss an overall Ger- man government under Allied control. Stalin, in contrast to our do-nothing-but-restrict pol- icy, will be able to offer a program which can build a new Reich, accompanied by a func- tioning force to put the plans into effect; whereas our whole attitude in Germany seems as vague and aimless as the meaning of frat- ernizafion. -Marjorie Jackson At Laval's Risk MPHASIZING THAT the program of the British Labor Party is not as radical as Conservative election propaganda would indi- cate, Prof. John A. Perkins of the political science department in an interview yesterday called attention to the possibility that the House of Lords might succeed in blocking action with the assistance of the conservatively-inclined administrative class of the British civil service. "The Labor government plans to institute a limited program of socialism rather than a wholesale nationalization of industry," he said. He. pointed out that the Labor platform made clear that while coal, steel, gas and electricity and the main branches of inland transport would be nationalized, land would not be na- tionalized outright, but would instead be reg- ulated in the national interest. The Bank of England, which functions in a similar capacity to our Federal Reserve System, will be taken over by the government, but sub- sidiary banks will be controlled only in that they must act in conformance with over-all govern- ment economic policy, Prof. Perkins explained. The House of Lords, which he termed "an anomalous institution in a democracy" can, by use of its suspensive vote, thwart reform for three years, he aserted. Assuming that it will take from one to two years to draw up legisla- tion, such legislation can be delayed for four years and the government's term will have ex- pired before the people have been permitted an evaluation of its accomplishments. Prof. Perkins cited another possibility -that the House of Lords might insist on a mandate for each specific Labor reform, thus enforcing the Labor government to undergo successive elections. Instead of fighting every step of the way, he pointed out, the House of Commons could, as has been suggested earlier, try to abolish the House of Lords. In order to achieve this, the King would need to appoint a suffipient num- ber of Laborites as Peers to give them a ma- jority, but the threat of abolition might force the Lords to sign their own death war- rant. With increasing nationalization, the govern- ment would need the administrative coopera- tion of the civil service, whose educational and social backgrounds tend to place them in the conservative camp, he asserted. "The undemocratic features of British gov- ernment, long minimized, are catching up with them," Prof. Perkins commented. "Perhaps the most striking feature of the British election was the dominance of the plat- form, rather than personality - in contrast to this country where Presidential campaigns are fought largely on personalities," he said. Asked why most observers had predicted a Churchill victory, he listed a number of factors: 1) there had been no general election in Britain for 10 years and while there had been a number of by-elections, they were not straight-out con- tests because of the party truce; 2) this country could not fully realize that the impact of war had made socialism seem less drastic; ) the British people had had no opportunity to ex- press their displeasure with the Conservative policies of the thirties under Chamberlain; and 4) never before has labor been in as strong a position - that is, with competent men experi- enced in high-ranking jobs. The Labor Government will continue bulk purchases as operated by the Ministry of Food during the war, will direct investment and plant location, extending public works with special attention to housing and will press for Indictment WHAT DO THEY charge you with, Monsieur Petain? What is the nature of your guilt, your crimes? Is this because you silenced freedom's chimes When the invader blazed and bled your land? Is it because, with honor contraband Dignity exiled and the hearth fires dead, You took the smooth path all betrayers tread, Clasping, in icy pride, the' Fascist hand? NEVER CAN JUSTICE-not the highest bar- Try you for the crimes so black they have no name, Guided by human rights your kind despise. Look: Your accuser is this darkened star- Marianne turned to slattern by your shame; Here your indictment, written in her eyes. -Christian Science Monitor - BARNABY comprehensive public health service as well as implementation of the present Education Act, he said, adding that they would seek to equalize the distribution of income through a more progressive tax structure. I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Doodling Choir By SAMUEL GRAFTON THERE IS, INDEED, something suspicious about the lack of opposition to the San Fran- cisco Charter. One detects faint smiles in the isolationist choir. Almost the entire Senate in- tends to vote for the Charter, in a body. But if you look closely, you will see some of the isola- tionists elaborately examining their fingernails, with an expression which says they know some- thing they won't tell. Their intention is not far to seek. They will make a pleasant tea-party of voting for the Charter now, and then they will try to kill it a year from now, by voting against the use of American troops by the Security Council. For it is going to be necessary to negotiate a sep- arate agreement with the other nations, con- cerning the actual size and equipment of the American forces to be held in readiness for peace enforcement. When this agreement comes before Congress, possibly a year from now, the isolationists will put their doodles away, and rise to their feet, and you will real- ly hear men scream. The old League of Nations was killed with stated reservations; the intention is to kill the new one with mental reservations; for some, at least, are going to vote for it with their hands in their pockets, so that the teller cannot see whether they have their fingers crossed. For all sorts of delicious questions of Consti- tutional law are going to be raised by the supple- mentary agreement, which is to specify what American forces are to be detailed to peace work. Will that agreement have to go to the Senate in the form of a treaty, requiring a two- thirds affirmation? Or can it be cast in some- thing like the form of a domestic statute, to be passed by majority vote of both Houses? The Administration holds that the Charter is the master treaty, binding the country as to policy, and that the rest is mere detail-work, to be handled by majority vote. But Mr. John Foster Dulles, Dawey's adviser, has continued his odd career of advocating internationalism while, seemingly in spite of himself, giving aid, and comfort to isolationism, by coming out for a two-thirds vote on the military agreements. Mr. Dulles' testimony has become the Bible of the mental reservationists. OTHER QUESTIONS will be raised. Does the American delegate on the Security Council have to report back to Congress, and get special permission to use our troops, in each case of need? That one suggestion of itself would kill the entire Charter, unless' some way could be found to make an aggressor obligingly hold off his blitz until Congress was done arguing about him, in each case. Can Congress limit the areas in which American troops can be used by the Security 1ouncil? The mental reservationists think so. It seems to me that the name "mental res- ervationists" ought to be clapped on to this crew, and made to stick. They are planning nothing less than a kind of outrageous prac- tical joke on a world scale. The world will reach confidently for the completed Charter, only to see it pulled away, as on a string, amid howls of dreadful laughter; that is their in- tention, and they regard passage of the Char- ter itself as only the build-up for their incred- ible gag. It is good to see that Administration spokes- men have already taken steps to bring the issues out, and to break down the unreal, giggly silence in which the enemies of the Charter are pre- paring to vote for it. It is necessary to incorpor- ate every disputed point in the current debate, to gloss nothing over, for courts do have a way of going to the Congressional Record 'itself in close cases, to see what th.e real Congressional intention was. Senate friends of the Charter ought to seize this moment to issue a direct challenge to the opposition, saying explicitly: "If you have any mental reservations, about full enforcement of the Charter, we ask that you do not vote for it. We don't want your vote on that basis. We regard a vote for the Charter as a vote for carrying out its stated intentions. We spurn and repudiate support offered on any lesser level." Let's talk'it out now; let's make the doodling choir sit up; and see that its grim joke has been spoiled. (Copyright, 1945. N. Y. Post Syndicate) Carillon Once More -- To the Editor: I AM one of those simple people who like to hear music in one place at a time and I wish to protest the arrant inconsiderateness of those in charge of scheduling the carillon concerts. I have nothing against bells, as such, even when they are struck in sequence, but I also like quartets. These appreciations are distinctly separate and can in no way be combined. There is no concerto for carillon and strings, at any rate, there shouldn't be. I feel that we have all accepted with good grace, the ringing of the bells during student meetings, dur- ing classes, in the midst of plays, when the Sunday symphonies are being played over the radio, and as a constant accompaniment to our waking hours (it. is impossible to sleep) but, it would appear possible (from the fact that the bells CAN be silenced) that the Music School, whose responsibility the said bells would seem to be; could, at least, so arrange affairs that the carillon could be shut up (tight!) during the summer Faculty Concerts.. The concert of July 26 was all but mutilated by the throbbing bells. If the carilloner could have heard the muttered threats and imprecations of the audience in Patengil Auditor- ium (a good two blocks away, but the carillon is not a dulcet instrument) the said carilloner would have packed and fled for the Great North West. PLEASE, can't the bells be bound up on Thursday evenings? PLEASE, can't we say: "The car- illon shall NOT ring tonight"- Pleadingly yours, -Mary Ann Ber CURRENT MOVI ES By BOB GOLDMAN At the Michigan 0 1 6278 iitop "A Medal for Bennie." A STORY of the California paisanos written by John Steinbeck. Although this story falls short of Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat," it pro- vided a fairly clever twist to a rela- tively new kind of heel-the one who personally capitalizes on war heroes. If the movie had ended with the scene in which J. Carroll Naish ac- cepts the Congressional Medal for his son, it would have been better, especially for the ethereal thinkers. But the vehicle ends with Arture de Cordova joining the Army to out- shine the departed war hero whose girt Arturo wishes to win. Rather of an insipid ending, but up to that point, the movie. is bet- ter than average entertainment. Dorothy Lamour plays the femi- nine lead and acted well occasion- ally. Naish, one of our top char- acter actors, does an excellent job. Frank McHugh provided a few laughs. At the State". "Flame of the Barbary Coast." LIKE the ads say-it was blazing and boisterous. Something about wild west. It included shooting, fight- ing of all sorts and Ann Dvorak who has made a living in far better pic- tures, as has Joseph Schildkraut. SmallComfo rt A TOKIO broadcast enthusiastically urges the Japanese people to think of the amount of much-needed scrap steel that the B-29s are de- livering day after day. It is always a pleasure to hear from satisfied cus- tomers.-The New Yorker, July 28, 1945.- 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 Hall, 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 SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1945 VOL. LV., No. 19S Notices Phi Delta Kappa. Initiation of new members will be held in the West Council Room of the Rackham Build- ing on Tuesday, July 31, at 7:30 p. m. The address will be given by G. Lester Anderson, Associate Professor of Education and Principal of the Uni- versity High School of the Univer- sity of Minnesota. Professor Ander- son will speak on "Horizons of Pro- fessional Opportunity." Members of all chapters are cordially invited. Re- freshments will be served. The Russky Kruzhok (Russian Cir- cle) will hold a short social meeting on Monday, July 30th at 8:15 p. m. (EWT) in the International Center. Tea will be served. The Lutheran Student Association is having a bike hike this Saturday afternoon. Those planning to at- tend please meet at the Campus Bike Shop on William Street at 1:00 p. m. A picnic supper will be served some- where along Huron River Drive. Outing Club: The Graduate Outing Club is sponsoring a bike picnic on Sunday, July 29 at 2 p. m. (EWT). Each person is to bring their own bike and lunch and are to meet at the back entrance to the Rackham Building. All faculty, alumni and friends are cordially invited to at- tend. Academic Notices Attention Engineering Faculty: Five-week reports below C of all Navy and Marine students who are not in the Prescribed Curriculum; also for those in Terms 5, 6, and 7 of the Prescribed Curriculum are to be turned in to Dean Emmons' Of- fice, Room 259, W. Eng. Bldg., not later than August 4. Report cards may be obtained from your depart- mental office. Attention Engineering Faculty: Five-week reports on standings of all civilian Engineering freshmen and all Navy and Marine students in Terms 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Prescrib- ed Curriculum are due August 4. Re- port blanks will be furnished'by cam- pus mail and are to be returned to Dean Crawford's Office, Room 255, W. Eng. Bldg. Students who intend to take th Language Examination for Masters' degrees in History should sign up i advance in the History Office, 119 Haven Hall. The examination is tc be given on Thursday, August 2nd, at 4 p.m. EWT, in Room B, Haven Hall Attention Music Education Stu- dents. A validating examination in transfer methods, directed teaching and sight-singing required for the master's degree, will be held in Lane Hall, basement room, on Saturday. July 29, at 9:30 a. m. (EWT). Graduate Students expecting mast- er's degrees at the end of the Sum- mer Session must have their diploma applications turned in to the Grad- uate School office by August 3. Ap- plications received after that date will not beconsidered until the end of the Summer Term. Geometry Seminar: Tuesday, July 31, 3:00 p. m. CWT (4:00 EWT. I. R. Savage will continue the dis- cussion of Klein's "Erlangen Pro- gramm., Concerts Faculty Recital: David Blair Mc- Closky, baritone, will present a re- cital Tuesday evening, July 31, 7:30 p. m. (CWT), in Pattengill Auditor- ium of the Ann Arbor High School. Captain McClosky will sing a pro- gram of song cycles of the composers Beethoven, Schumann and Mahler and will be accompanied by Joseph Brinkman.- The general public is invited. Student Recital: Charlotte Mac- Mullan ,soprano, will be heard in a recital Monday evening, July 30, 7:30 p. m. (CWT), in Pattengill Auditor- ium of the Ann Arbor High School. Miss MacMullan will present composi- tions by Ccarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Brahms and Strauss in a program which will be in partial-fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Music. She is a pupil of Thelma Lewis. The public is cordially invited. Exhibitions Clements Library. Japan In Maps from Columbus to Perry (1492-1854). Architecture Building. Student work. Michigan Historical Collections, 160 Rackham Building. The Uni- versity of Michigan in the war. Museums Building, rotunda. Some foods of the American Indian. General Library, main corridor cases. Early military science selec- tion from the Stephen Spaulding, '27, memorial collection, presented by Col. T. M. Spaulding, '02. Coining Events . Prof. Ernest M. Ligon (while di- recting the Religious Education Workshop at Michigan Union, will lecture for the public as follows: How Christian Attitudes are De- veloped"-Kellogg Auditorium, Sun- day, July 29, at 4 p. m. EWT 3 p. m. CWT). The Personal Equation, Why We Behave As We Do"--University High School Aud. Tuesday, July 31 at 4 p. m. EWT (3 p. m. CWT). Significance and Formation of Evaluative Attitudes" - University High School Aud. Wednesday, Aug. 1 at 4 p. m. EWT (3 p. m. CWT). Church and State Education, will be the subject of a lecture in the Religious Education Workshop Ser- ies, by Prof. Francis J. Donohue, Ph. D. of the University of Detroit, Wednesday, 3 p. m. EWT (2 p. m. CWT) in Michigan Union, Room 305. Public. Symposium on Molecular Struc- ture. Dr. R. G. Fowler will speak on "Infrared Spectra and Structure of Organic Molecules" in Room 303 Chemistry Building on Monday, July 30 at 3:15 p. m. CWT, 4:15 p. m. EWT. All interested are invited to attend. Linguistic Institute. Introduction to Linguistic Science, Tuesday, July 31, 6 p. m. CWT (7 p. m. EWT), East Lecture Room, Rackham Building: "Linguistic Geography and Historic Linguistics." Thursday, August 2, 6 p. m. CWT (7 p. m. EWT), Rackham Amphitheatre: "Spotting and De- limiting Speech Areas." Both lec- tures by Prof. Hans Kurath. Churches First Baptist. Church, Rev. C. H. Loucks, minister and student coun- selor. Saturday at 1:00 p. m. mem- bers of the Congregational-Disciples Guild, the Methodist Guild, and the Roger Williams Guild will leave the Baptist Guild House to 'go to Pine- brook farm and continue construc- tion on the Cabn which was started in the springtime. 7:10 choir re- hearsal. 8:30 Guild open-house. Sun- day, July 29, 10:00 a. m. Bible study class in the Guild House. 11:00 Morn- ing Worship. 5:00 p. m. Rev. Eugene Zendt will speak to the Guild on "Love and Marriage." 6:00 a cost supper will be served. First Methodist Church and Wes- ley Foundation. Morning Worship Service at 10:40 a. m. Dr. James Brett Kenna will preach on "Riches in Rags." Wesleyan Guild meeting at 6 p. m. Prof. Wesley Maurer will speak on the theme "For What Are We Learning?" Supper and fellow- ship hour. Memorial Christian Church (Disci- ples) 10:45 Morning worship. 10:00 a. in. (EWT). College Group meet- ing. The Morning Message will be delivered by Rev. Eugene Zendt. The Congregational-Disciples Guild will meet at 4:30 p. m, at the Guild House, 438 Maynard, and go from there to Riverside Park for recreation, a picnic supper, and a closing Vesper Service. In case of rain the group will meet in the Congregational Church at State and Williams. The regular Sunday meeting of the Lutheran Student Association will be held in Zion Parish Hall at 5:00 p. m. Mr. Daniel Bennett, a member of Trinity Lutheran Church will speak on "A Layman Looks at the Church." Supper will be served at 6:00. Sunday: 10:45 a. m. Communion service during the regular hour of morning worship with Dr. Lemon preaching on "The Bond and the Free." A reception of new members will be held at 10 o'clock in the Lewis Parlor. 5:00 p. m. Summer Vespers will be held at which Dr. Lemon will speak on Robert Frost's "The Mas- que of Reason." Supper will follow. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw, has its Sunday service at 11:00 EWT. This Sunday the Rev. Alfred Scheips will preach on the subject, "The Gospels-Authentic Historical Documents." Gamma Delta, Lutheran Student Club, will have its regular supper meeting Sunday at 5:15 at the Luth- eran Student Center. j And another thing, Bcrnaby. Let me know when the invitations to the party in honor of your aunt are being mailed. I want to invite some of my more cultured colleagues from the Elves, Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men's Chowder and Marching Society- But-Listen, - 9 Mr. O'Malley- 27 .Cop y96144 k - PM Gosh. I didn't get a chance to tell Mr. O'Malley, my Fairy Godfather, he's not getting invited- He's notMinerva, please don't humor him. By Crockett Johnson I pride myself on my understanding of children's problems... Yes, Barnaby, I'll write your imaginary Pixey a nice personal invitation to my party . . Fine. But- ( CG\ 'JQHN SO L. C J ( r a ti i- I'm sorry,Minerva, but you were wrong to write to Barnaby's Fairy Godfather.. . s or, Mife_ .. ._. 1_1-_ .1- -1 I F 31F Nonsense, Ellen. At his age, the delightful. fantasies of childhood are perfectly real A_ L* a A -' A L .. A l- r _! _____ - ---- Nice of your aunt to send me 1 I I