YTHE MICHIGAN DAILY FD RATHER EI} RIGHT: Fifty- an eatt Fifty..Sixth Year That Sinking Feeling DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Edited and managed by students of Michigan under the authority of the of Student Publications. the University of Board in control Editorial Staff ' Managing Editors .. Paul Harsha, Milton Freudenheim ASSOCIATE EDITORS City News ........................ Clyde Recht University4...........................Natalie Bagrow Sports ...... ............................. -Jacc Martin Women's .................................. Lynne Ford Business Staff Business Manager ........................ Janet Cork 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 newbpaper. All rights of re- publication of all other matters herein also ieserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan. as second-class mail matter. Subscription during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.2. RRPRESNTED FOR NATIONAL ADVURTtNG BY National Advertising Service, Inc. * College P&fblisbers Representative" 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.. comA O - BosoN - O.OS ASeI*S M SAN FRANcISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 NIGHT EDITOR: CLYDE RECHT Editorials Published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Forgotten Dead' When the United Nations Relief and Rehabili- tation Administration exhausts its present re- sources and goes out of existence about the end of 1946, all European refugees and displaced persons will be left to fend for themselves. The setting up of the International Refugee Organ- ization, planned by the United Nations Economic and Social Council last May, must await approval of the charter in September by the UN General Assembly and afterwards ratification by the Parliaments of member countries to provide funds for the organization. There are, it has been estimated, about 1,500,- 000 refugees and displaced persons in Europe, of whom 850,000 are being cared for by UNRRA at present. Some emergency steps must be taken to provide for these almost forgotten people of the war, who may become the forgotten dead of the war. Three plans have been proposed to solve this problem-first, the establishment of a pre- paratory commission to set the International Refugee Organization going by Jan. 1; second, the broadening of the activities and member- ship of the Britain-United States sponsored Intergovernmental Committee, to obtain finan- cial support of other nations and take over the refugees and displaced persons from UNRRA; and, third, the setting up of another agency to provide for refugees who cannot be resettled next year. At present, Allied armiesof occupation in Germany and Austria are required to provide food and shelter for refugee camps in their zones, whil UNRRA pays administration costs. This, although encouraging, covers only a small part of the problem. One of the plans should be adopted immedi- ately, or, better still, a combination of the first and third, for even a fairly speedy establish- ment of IRO for settling the refugees won't do much good if, through lack of provisions, they don't live long enough to be settled. The refugee question seems to be considered outside the scope of a peace confereice, even though keeping people alive to benefit from or siffer uider the peace treaty seems also a prime requisite of that peace treaty. The peace con- ference offers the best immediate medium for emergency plans. -Elinor Moness Product ion 'lock T HE HEADS of the three big auto corpora- tions-Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors- have rejected flatly Walter Reuther's proposal for a union-management conference to discuss methods for increasing production. Increased production methods will benefit both management and labor as well as the American consumer. Certainly labor can con- tribute just as much as management to this goal. But management, fearful of relinquish- ing even a part of its control over industrial decisions, is refusing labor's bid to share in the discussion of increased production. Henry Ford II invited the UAW to do som thing about strikes first. But the problem of strikes will be solved only when management allows labor a share of the responsibility for pro- By SAMUEL GRAFTON LOS ANGELES-I have been away from home " for more than two months, and I have a feeling I should begin to try to sum up the poli- tical impressions I have obtained, among friends and strangers, in places unfamiliar enough to seem new. The over-all feeling is one of deepest pessimism. This expresses itself in oblique and indirect ways; often in a reluctance to talk about politics; sometimes in a kind of horrid gaiety, in jokes about what the atomic bombs are going to do to the world, and in a wan effort to fashion a philosophy about the command to have another drink. There is a sense of a loss of grip among common, ordinary good people. Three or four years ago they could emit large puffs of steam about single incidents, about whether we ought to work with Giraud or DeGaulle, about Reply on clts MY RECENT EDITORIAL urging that bicycle riding be eliminated on the campus proper has elicited a response from a certain segment of campus opinion. .The entertaining but scarcely enlightening satire of 0. G. Johnson's reply failed to make up by phantasy what it lacked in fact. Richard Fink, who wheels a self-propelled ve- hicle about the campus himself, has declared, that what we need is more bicycle racks. Willfully or otherwise he overlooked my basic suggestion which was that the racks be moved to positions at the outer edges of campus such as in front of Angell Hall, the side of the Engine Arch, and the side of the Natural Science Building. Certainly many students living a consider- able distance need to ride bicycles to school. I see no good reason why those vehicles can not be parked at the edge of campus. You suggest, Richard, that it is only the way in which bicycles are ridden which menaces pedestrians and intimate that if everyone pro- ceeded with care and consideration there would be no inconvenience. How naive! Why not ob- serve some of your fellow cyclists shooting across the Diag most any time of day? This fall there will be twice as many students and twice as many bicycles on campus. Pedes- trian traffic will be heavy enough without the continued necessity of dodging bicycles. I repeat, now is the time to move these racks! -Tom Walsh whether we ought to recognize or disown Ba doglio, etc. Every news item then seened im- portant, because there was more hope. We were making the earth, so we thought, into a blessed dwelling place, and we wanted every hedge on the great estate to run square and true. But there are too many such news items to- day; they rush past in a breakneck stampede every morning. We learn that Britain and Amer- ica intend to abandon UNRRA at the end of this year, partly because they do not wish to continue to pump supplies into Balkan countries which Russia seems to be stripping of everything that is movable; we learn that the world atomic energy conference is in a deadlock; we hear Madame Sun Yat-Sen declare that American aid to the Chinese National Government is only en- larging a civil war, which Chinese reactionaries hope will bring the United States and Russia into armed conflict. Any one of these stories would have been the sensation of a year not so many years ago; now they come in a single morning. The deteriora- tion of peace develops a sweep and momentum of its own, and the American liberal hardly knows at which of these controversies to grasp as they all go flitting by. And his mood is dark, for while he hardly dares to believe in the future, he does not believe at all in escape any longer; the impossibility of escape being the one lesson that he taught himself most successfully during the years when he was preaching international- ism. He is told that we must work with Great Brit- ain; that we must try, with the help of such nations as Brazil, etc., to make this a decent and peaceful world; and he may come to that, but that prospect will never arouse in him the true passion, which once was evoked by the belief in a really unified world. And he watches the flashing news items, and he backs away from them, and that is the apathy we have all noticed; but his is a painful apathy, and it is not really indifference to the world, except in the sense in which it can be said that a man who has been hit on the head is indifferent. And the picture that remains clearest in my mind, after two months, is just this one of fleeing men who know it is useless to flee, of hiding men who know there really is no cover. It is not yet a picture of angry men who will denand of all parties involved that once more they try to set their feet on the road to settle- ment and peace. (Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate) 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 office of the Summer Ses- sion, Room 1213 Angell Hall by 3:30 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. saturdays). SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1946 VOL. LVI, No. 23S Notices All Veterans enrolled in the Univer- sity under Public Law 16 or 346 who are not receiving subsistence allow- ance are requested to report to Rm. 100 Rackham Building Monday, Aug- ust 5, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., so that action can be taken todexpedite payment of sub- sistence due. The regular meeting of the Uni- versity Women Veterans Association will be held at 7:00 Monday evening, August 5, at the Michigan League. A discussion of the coming year's activities will be held, and all inter- ested service women are urged to attend. Professor Y. R. Chao will give a lecture Monday, August 5 from 10:00 to 12:00 a.m. on The Structure of the Chinese Sentence. It is under the auspices of the Linguistic Insti- tute, and will be in Rm. 2203 Angell Hall. Visitors to the lectures are welcome. There will be a lecture by Profes- sor Y. R. Chao, given under the aus- pices of the Linguistic Institute on Monday, August 5 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in Rm. 2203 Angell Hall. The topic will be on "Chinese. Syn- tax." Visitors to the lectures are wel- come. Tickets may be purchased at the offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Memorial Tower, at popular prices. Student Recital: Saturday evening, August 10, at 8:30, Arthur C. Hills, clarinetist, assisted by Beatrice Gaal, pianist, Lee Chrisman, flute, and William Poland, oboe, will present a program in the Rackham Assembly Hall.. Given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Music Education, the recital will include selections by Stubbins, Saens, Delmas, Dacquin, and Dewailly. The public is cordially invited. Student Recital: Philip lalpas, organist, will present a recital Sun- day afternoon, August 11. at 4:15 in St. Andrew's Episcopal .Church, N. Division Street. Mr. Malpas' program will include: Organ Concerto in B flat major by Handel, Toccata by Frescobaldi, Fantasia and Fugue in G minor by Bach, and Carillon-Sortie by Mulet. The public is cordially invited. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for George Middleton McEwen, English; thesis: "The Emergence of Critical Impres- sionism in England," Saturday, Aug- ust 3, at 10:00 a.m. in Rm. 3223 Angell Hall. Chairman, C. D. Thorpe. Doctoral Examination for Frederick Leonard, Pharmaceutical Chemistry: thesis; "Antispasmodics," Tuesday, August 6, at 2:00 p.m. in Rm. 151 Chemistry Building. Chairman, F. F. Blicke. Zoology Seminar: The next meet- ing will be held in the West Lecture Room of the Rackham Building at 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 6. Mr. G. Norman Loofbourrow will speak on "Effects of enforced activity and noise on reproduction in the white-footed mouse Peromyscus leucopus novebor- acensis." I The Kamehameha School for Girls in Honolulu has an eighth and ninth grade English position. Candidates should have some training in speech correction, remedial teaching, and be able to put on an eighth grade play. This position is for a woman between twenty-four and thirty years of age with two years of teaching experience. For further details call the Bureau of Appointments, Miss Briggs. The Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the Uni- ted States of America has teaching vacancies in Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah in the following fields: English, Home Economics, Music, Mathematics and Science, Social Sci- ence, Commercial, Arts and Crafts, Manual Arts, Elementary, Physical Education. Salaries consist of cash stipend, maintenance, and traveling expenses to field. Full details may be had at the Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information. IC CoatrvJer,6 al Reporter ( I AN ACCUSING finger was pointed at President Truman from the campus of the University of Michigan. Professor Sumner H. Slichter of Harvard University might have stood tall and straight and proud when he stated that Presi- dent Truman was responsible for "rising labor costs which are behind the current inflationary trend." Professor Slichter's argument is that the President's actions in the steel strike caused most unions to demand larger wage increases than they would otherwise have asked. A ne- cessary assumption behind this argument that wage raises are automatically inflationary is the belief that wages and profits stand in a fixed relation to each other . that if wages are in- creased, profits Imust also be proportionately increased, or at least that profits CANNOT BE PROPORTIONATELY DECREASED. One might well doubt that Professor Slichter actually belives this argument. Such state- ments as he made to The Daily are not econo- mics; they're simply apologetics. If a man sin- cerely believes that the functioning of our eco- nomy depends upon maxiaum profits, he should say it in so many words. But that was the concealed thought in Professor Slichter's analysis, the truth that was never revealed to the eyes of a doubting world. There are many bogies and superstitions which have haunted our country for generations. Men Menac of Monopolies DESPITE the antitrust laws which have been in force for 50 years, with the full support of both major political parties, a group of indus- trial monopolies is growing up in the United States which threatens free enterprise and the competitive economy which has made the Nation prosperous. What to do about it is the question. The recent conviction of three major tobacco companies under the Sherman Act proves that an offender need not be a single corporation to constitute a monopoly . . "The offense of mon- opolization is complete," wrote Associate Judge Wiley B. Rutledge in his opinion, "when power is acquired to exclude competitors." - -.an honest antitrust prosecution is a de- fense of free enterprise and free markets. Halt- ing the tendency toward monopoly means con- tinuing these priceless privileges. The American small businessman-caught between big busi- ness and big unionism-should join the Ameri- can consumer in more active resistance to the whole movement toward monopoly. -The Christian Science Monitor used to say that potatoes should only be planted under a full moon; but modern science has laid that fallacy low. Men (aye; even economists) still say that wages cannot rise without prices also increasing. There is no logic in that state- ment; it is a myth, a fable, an apology for large profits. It's the sort of thing that one might ex- pect to hear over the back fence, or around the stove in the country store. If the entire wage increases granted in the recent disputes had been absorbed by the com- panies, prices would not have risen at all and there would be no threat of inflation. It was the contention of the unions that the expected profits of the companies were sufficiently large to permit them to grant wage increases with- out raising prices at all. In certain industries this contention of the unions might have been without fundation. BUT CERTAIN OTHER INDUSTRIES CERTAINLY COULD HAVE GRANTED WAGE INCREASES WITHOUT INCREASING THE PRICE OF THEIR PRODUCTS. For instance, the United Automobile Workers contended that during 1944 General Motors had received $139 in profits be- fore taxes for each $137 they had paid in wages. If prices had been held constant, the wages of labor could easily have been increased and pro- fits decreased; but Professor Slichter contends that this was impossible. He has made no at- tempt to explain away the above-stated facts, nor were they denied by General Motors. Actually of course, the auto manufacturers have been granted price increases on cars that more than cover any increase in cost of pro- duction. Thus their tremendous war-time profits will be swelled into even greater peace-time pro- fits. Similarly, in the steel industry which Profes- sor Slichter cited, the price increases on steel would pay wage increases three times as large as those actually granted by the steel companies. No figures have yet been presented to prove that such price increases were justified by any in- crease in the costs of production. In certain other industries the cost of labor is but a small fraction of the cost of production. For instance, only $8 in wages is paid to the labor used in making a $150 piece of farm equip- ment. The ratio of labor costs to price is even lower in such industries as oil refining. President Truman might actually be a bumb- ler, a hopeless incompetent. Many people seem to believe that he is. But a well-known econ- omist seems to have indicted an innocent man. Who's he shielding, anyway? -Ray Ginger Wesley Foundation Open House in the Lounge 9 p.m. Saturday. All Methodist students and their friends are invited. The Ballroom Dancing Class that regularly meets on Tuesday night at 7:30, will meet on Wednesday, August 7. Notice to Veterans: All veterans training under Public Law 346 (GI Bill of Rights) in order to protect their future training rights must re- port to the Veterans Administration, Rm. 100, Rackham Building, accord- ing to the following schedule: Students in the term ending Aug- ust 9: Report Aug. 5-9. Students in the term ending Aug- ust 23: Report Aug. 12-17. Students whose term ends after August 23: Report August 19-24. Veterans' presence is necessary to fill out a training report and to in- dicate whether leave is desired. The office of the Veterans Admin- istration is open from 8 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily and from 8:00 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Seniors, College of Literature, Sci- ence, and the Arts, Schools of Edu- cation, Music, and Public Health: Tentative lists of seniors for Sep- tember graduation have been posted on the bulletin board in Rm. 4, Uni- versity Hall. If your name does not appear, or if included there, is not correctly spelled, please notify the counter clerk. Candidates for the Teacher's Cer- tificate for August: A list of candi- dates has been posted on the bulletin board of the School of Education, Room 1431 University Elementary School. Any prospective candidate whose name does not appear on this list should call at the office of the Recorder of the School of Educa- tion, 1437 ' University Elementary School. Doctoral Examination for Guy Nor- man Loofbourrow, Zoology; thesis: Effects of Enforced Activity and Noise on Reproduction in the White Footed Mouse Peromyscus leucopus novebor- acensis (Fischer)'" Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 2:30 p.m. in Rm. 3091 Natural Science. Chairman, A. E. Woodward. CME 210: Seminar meeting on Tuesday, August 6, in Rm. 3201 East Engineering Building. The speakers will be W. W. Herm: Solubility and Drying Schedule of Saran F120, and G. Tripathi: Enthalpy Measure- ments. Carillon Recital: On Sunday, after- noon, August 4, at 3:00, Percival Price, University Carillonneur, will present a recital on the .Charles Baird Carillon in Burton Memorial Tower. His recital will include Morceau fugue No. 7 (for Carillon) by Gheyn, a group of French songs, Varnenoi Ostrow by Rubinstein, and a group of Spirituals. Student Recital: On Wednesday evening, August 7, at 8:30 in Hill Auditorium, Phyllis Stevenson, or- ganist, will present her recital in partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Master of Music. Miss Stevenson's program will in- clude: Prelude, Fugue, and Chaconne by Buxtehude, Two Chorale Preludes by Bach, and Suite for Organ by De Lamarter. The public is cordially invited. Student Recital: Friday evening, August 9, at 8:30 in Pattengill Audi- torium, Robert G. Waltz, tenor, will present 'a program in partial fulfill- ment of the requirements for the de- gree of Bachelor of Music. Mr. Waltz's recital will include: selections by Handel, Mozart, Brahms, Franck, Rachmaninoff, and Hageman. Events Today Pi Lambda Theta initiation will be held in the Assembly Room of the Rackhiam Building on Saturday, August 3 at 3:00 p.m., instead of on Tuesday, July 30, as previously an- nounced. Coming Events 'The Graduate Outing Club has planned biking and swimming for Sunday, August 4. Those interested should meet at the Club Rooms in the Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Bring your lunch. ., 11 4 I Lectures Forum: The Unrest in Palestine: A lecture and discussion, led by the Rev. Bernard Heller, Ph.D., author of "The Odyssey of A Faith," former- ly with Hillel Foundation, in the Rackham Amphitheatre, Sunday, August 4, at 8:15 p.m. There will be a lecture by John W. Studebaker, U.S. Commissioner of Education on Monday, August 5 at 4:10 p.m. in the Rackham Lecture Hall. The topic will be "The High School Curriculum in a New World." There will be a lecture by Howard A. Meyerhoff, Professor of Geology, Smith College, Monday, August 5 at 8:10 p.m. in the Rackham Amphi- theatre. The topic will be "Some Social Implications of Natural Re-, sources." There will be a lecture by Leonard Koos, Professor of Secondary Educa-I tion, University of Chicago on Tues- day, August 6 at 4:05 p.m. in the University High School Auditorium. The topic will be "Should Schools Add the Thirteenth and , Fourteenth Years?" Louis Wirth, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, will give a lecture Tuesday, August 6 at 8:10 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The topic will be "Social Science Re- search and the Impact of Science upon Society." By Crockett Johnson Concerts Student Recital: Betty Jean Huser, pianist, will present a recital in Rackham Assembly Hall, Saturday, August 3, at 8:30. Miss Huser's pro- gram. will include Toccata in F sharp minor by Bach; Sonata in E flat major by Haydn; Sonata No. 1 by Almand,a and Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel by Brahms. The recital is given in partial ful- fillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. The public is cordially invited. Chamber Music Program: The third in the current series of Sun- day evening chamber music pro- grams will include Quartet on a Folk Theme, which was composed in 1940 by Ross Lee Finney; Quartet Move- ment in C minor, Op. Posthumous by Schubert, composed in 18?0; and Quintet, Op. 57, composed in 1941 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Sunday, August 4 in the Rackham Lecture Hall, this program will be presented by Gilbert Ross and Lois Porter, violinists, Louise Rood, violist, Oliver Edel, cellist, and Lee Pattison, pianist.' The program will be open to the public without charge. Faculty Concert Series: On Mon- day evening, August 5, in Rackham Lecture Hall at 8:30, Lee Pattison, pianist, will present his fifth pro- gram in the current series of lecture recitals. Mr. Pattison's program will include: Sonata quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 1, Sonata quasi una fan- tasia, Op. 27, No. 2. Thirty-two Vari- ations on a Theme in C minor, and Sonata, Op. 101 by Beethoven. The recital is open to the public without charge. University Symphony Orchestra: The University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thor Johnson who will be assisted by Andrew White, bari- tone, and Joseph Brinkman, pianist, will present a program in Hill Audi- torium, Tuesday evening, August 6, French Club: The fifth meeting of the French Club will be held Mon- day, August 5, at 8 p.m. in Rm. 305 of the Michigan Union. Mr.-Richard Picard, of the Romance language de- partment, will lead a general discus- sion on the subject: "Quel message de l'Amerique dois-je rapporter en France?" Group singing. Social hour. Russian Circle (Russky Kruzhok) will meet at 8 p.m. sharp on Tues- day, August 6, at Rm. 206, Burton Tower. Professor Glenn D. McGeoch of the School of Music will speak about'the music of Shostakovich and Prokofieff, illustrating the talk with recordings. Members of the Russian Circle, Russian studentshand their friends are invited. International Center: Due to re- decorating, the weekly tea dance this Friday will be cancelled. The in- formal tea dances will be resumed next Friday, August 9, at 4 p.m. in the Recreation Room of the Inter- national Center. Phi Delta Kappa business Monday, August 5, at 7:30 the Michigan Union. meeting p.m. in Men's Education Club baseball ser- ies on Tuesday, August 6 at 4:00 p.m. at South Ferry Field. Pi Lambda Theta picnic, Tuesday, August 6 at 5:30 p.m. in the Women's Athletic Building. International Center: The All Na- tions Club in conjunction with the International Center resumes the sponsorship of weekly informal record tea dances on Friday,' August 9, at 4 p.m. in the Recreation Room of the International Center. Foreign students, their guests, and anyone else interested in dancing is cordially invited to attend. International Center: Bridge nights will continue in the International Center every Wednesday evening for th' duravtinof the~ Summer Session., JARNABY ' The petition is on the desk, Ellen. Get as many signatures as you can. Let's show the Mayor he can't palm P.~ U S P.t V~. I'm penning a short note to His Honor. Explaining that l amobliged to take May the best side win, I ad. Reminding him that i simply cannot afford to risk losing You didn't sign your letter- You signed I