SHE MICHIGAN DAILY ' Fifty-Sixth Year I ControJer,6iallQe rorter Jill, BILL MAULDIN War of 'ords I .1 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Managing Editors .. Paul Harsha, Milton Freudenheim ASSOCIATE EDITORS City News ............................ Clyde Becht University......................Nataiie Bagrow sports .................................... Jack Martin Womens............................Lynne Ford Business Staff Business Manager ....................... Janet Cork Telephone 23-24.1 Member of The Associated Press The Assocated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-pubication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newpaper. 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. Subscription during the regular school year by car- rier,# $.50, by mail, $5.25. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL AVERTIlSNO Y National Advertising Service, Inc College Pablishers Representative 420 MADISoN AVE. * '-W YORK. N.Y. CicAGO -OSTON . LOS ANES-. * SAN FRAN4IC Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945.46 NIGHT EDITOR: MARILYN KOEBNICK Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff aid represent the views of the writers only. AnAC-tive Interest DEMOCRACY was seen working at its best at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting last Monday. At the conclusion of the meeting, a slight, mid- dle-aged woman addressed the group to "ask a few questions." First of all, she explained rather timidly, she had observed % policeman on Main Street com- pletely ignoring the cars parked in metered zones where the time limit had run out and which were supposed to be ticketed. She had in- quired at the police station if this were a par of the man's duties and the clerk at the desk "didn't know." Is it right to have a man on duty at the po- lice station who doesn't know what a police- - man's duties are, she wanted to know? Next the lady noted that taxicabs of one Ann Arbor concern were charging over the pre- scribed rates in instances where the passenger stopped during the course of a ride. Hei last "question" to the Council concerned the regulation of auction sales. At the present time she claimed, there are no regulations af- fecting auctions in the city and many articles have been misrepresented at recent auctions. ; In each instance the president of the Coun- cil referred her "questions" to the Police Com- missioner for appropriate action. - Probably none of these problems will ever be a major campaign issue and yet they are ir- regularities which certainly should be cor- rected. Our friend had appealed to the proper city officials without result and as a last resort was exercising her right as a private citizen to pe- tition the City Councl for acton. It is heartily reassuring to find in today's so- ciety an individual interested enough in the affairs of her community to present such prob- lems to the City Council Let us hope that the City Council and the Police Commissioner were sufficiently aroused to take the specific action necessary to improve these conditions; and let us hope, too, that in the future more citizens will take as acive an interest in the affairs of our community. -Tom Walsh Trieste Problem DISILLUSIONMENT has already descended upon the Paris Peace Conference, now in its second week, having gained easy entrance in the form of disagreement of terms, a situation which has already given promise of being one of the most common sources of conflict in ob- structing the peace-makers' efforts. This time the controversy is centered in the word "internationalization," which may suc- ceed in gaining as manry meanings as there are definition-makers. The problem revolves around the key Adri- atic seaport of Trieste. It has become clear since the Big Four Foreign Ministers meeting, that merely agreeing to set up a formula of "inter- nationalization" solved nothing. The difficulty is strongly reminiscent of the Yalta agree- ments, when it was decided that Poland and other European countries were to have "demo- cratic governments." This week six different schemes for the internationalization of Trieste will be pro- -..-..,...,- W... EDITORIAL COMMENT on the conflict in Pal- estine has been largely confined to a con- demnation of the bombing of British headquar- ters in Tel Aviv by the Jewish extremists. Few publications have even made an attempt to dig through to the causes of such acts of terrorism. The article by Freda Kirchwey in the August 3 issue of Nation Magazine is a long-due correcton MAN TO MAN: Americanus' Duty By HAROLD L. ICKES ONE OF THE folk ways which most people of this country believe in implicity.is that poli- tics is a dirty business. This is nonsense. Politics is no better and no worse than the people them- selves. Politics is an indispensable ingredient in our self government. The quality of our govern- ment necessarily depends upon the quality of our politics. The fact is that the only trouble with poli- tics is that there isn't enough politics, or, more precisely, that not enough people take an in- terest in politics. I have always maintained that the people of this country have not only a right to take part in politics, they have a duty. As a matter of fact itis the obligation of the people to exercise their political rights in order to preserve their liberties for them- selves and for posterity. By this I do not mean that every man and every woman ought to run for Congress or for alderman. I do mean, however, that every man and every woman old enough to vote ought to make himself aware of the issues of the day and ought to vote in the election. In, those years when Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for election, this country saw an outpouring of millions of voters who ordinarily never took the trouble to go to the polls. The march of these millions overwhelmed the re- actionary elements of the country. In the years when Roosevelt was not running, many thous- ands of votel's stayed away from the polls. As a result, while the reactionary elements grewno stronger, they elected more Congressmen. In short, there never was and never has been a swing to the right in recent years in this country, there has only been a hammock in which the progressive voter curled up and went to sleep while the reactionaries busied them- selves about electing reactionary Congress- men. How remiss the citizens of this country can be and have been in living up to their duty to vote can be gathered from statistics comparing the voting record of the United States with those of other countres. In Italy, when the referendum on the continuance of the monarchy was held in June, some 89 per cent of the eligible voters went to the polls, while in the last national election in the United States only a little more than halfe of those eligible, to vote did so. In the 1942 Congressional elections less than approxi- mately a third of those old enough to vote went to the polls. This is in contrast with Great Bri- tain where three quarters of the eligible voters cast their ballots in the national election, or with France where 80 per cent of those old enough to vote did so at the referendum on the constitution. The situation as to voting in the poll tax states could hardly be worse. However, the low per- centage of those who take the trouble to vote in this country cannot be ascribed to this alone. Many of the great states of the North show a voter turnout of hardly more than 50 per cen. If the liberal forces of the country are to continue their onward and upward march, they must get up out of their easy chairs and get out and vote. This is paiticularly impor- tant in the coming elections in the great in- dustrial areas of the country. In New York in Pennsylvania, in Illinois, and in Ohio, it is not the dependable reactionary vote that will lick the liberal candidates who are defeated. The stay-at-home vote will lick them. (Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate) Netherland's Claim QUEEN WILHELMINA'S address from the throne at the opening of the new session of the States-General on July 25, was not very spe- cific on the subject of Holland's claim to annexa- tion of German territory. The Queen did not mention plans to claim "small tracts" of German territory in order to "correct" Holland's eastern frontier. But it is a matter of argument whether this is, or not, the same as annexation, even though both have to do with territorial changes. This columnist must frankly admit that he is at a loss to define precisely the difference between an outright revision and a "correc- tion" of a frontier. When is a frontier incor- rect and when is it correct? Who judges these things? And who determines finally whether the correction itself is correct or incorrept? We should very much like to hear the voice of those who until a few months ago so forcefully and rightfully pleaded for a revision of the bor-. der in order to compensate the Netherlands na- tion to some extent for the terrific damage it suffered at the hands of the Germans. -Jan van Amstel Knickerbocker Weekly to the blurb of the daily press. It has long been obvious that the entire blame for the disturbances in Palestine could not be laid upon the backs of the Jewish peo- ple. Anti-Semitism in the very top circles of the British government has too often re- vealed itself. Nearly thirty years ago Winston Churchill was urging war against the "Jewish government" of Russia. Scarcely more than a month ago Ernest Bevin, now Foreign Secre- tary of England, declared in a speech that the plan to admit 100,000 Jewish refugees to Palestine was not acceptable to the British government. He amplified his statement with the following: "The Americans want to sendl these Jews to Palestine because they don't want them in New York." Even more recently the general commanding the British troops in Palestine imposed a non- fraternization rules between his troops and all Jews. He also instituted a boycott of all Jewish stores, stating that this policy was intended "to show our contempt for them, and to hit them where they are most easily hurt-in their pocket- books." Here we find the man who, more than any other single individual, shapes the day by day relations between the British and the Jews in Palestine, idly insinuating the centuries-old libel that all Jews are usurers. This general seems to feel that British troops should be al- lowed to fraternize with their late enemies, the Germans, but should shun their late allies, the Jews of Palestine. So many of the Palestine Jews volunteered for service in the British army during the war that the army finally refused to take any more of them, lest the Arabs should be alienated. Even before British headquarters had been bombed, the!British had arrested without cause more than 5,000 Jews. These persons were de- tained behind barbed wire in concentration camps, and no charges were entered against them. As Miss Kerehwey says of Foreign Minis-. ter Bevin," . . . he still believes that order is a prerequisite to policy, ,an idea easily converted into the theory that order is a substitute for policy." The British claim to be interested in free- dom for India and for Palestine, but they re- fuse to leave until order has been restored in those countries. BUT ORDER WILL NEVER BE RESTORED UNTIL THE BRITISH HAVE LEFT. The presence of foreign troops is a con- stant incitement to violence, even as it was in the United States 170 years ago. The whole British scheme for restoring order is based o4. a contradiction, and nobody understands this. better than the British. Miss K'erchwey states that the Jewish people in Palestine believe that they are fighing, not just for themselves or their families, but for the preservation of the Jewish people. There is be- hind them a memory of the bloody terror of Nazi Germany, pre-war Poland, the inter-war fascist governments in the Balkans. There is the knowledge that 75% of the Jews in Europe were killed by the Nazis. This background is essential to an under- standing of the statements which Miss Kerch- wey attributes to a leader in Palestine: "We will fight to maintain Jewish Palestine. We have no other choice. We cannot go on from here. This is the stopping place-the end of the road. We will stay here or die." -Ray Ginger l ' } rt!i p!GUE I In m GL0VES are off in Paris. Secretary Byrnes and Soviet Foreign Minis- ter Molotov have descended from "the high level of harmony." They are hurling acrid, fighting words at each other. As the 21-nation conference can only make recommendations, which the Big Four are not obliged to accept, why all the row over the voting procedure by which the con- ference submits its suggestions? The Russians, who accuse the Americans and British of attempting to dominate the conference, are themselves attempting to domiAte it. They can't rally enough support to win if decisions are to be made by simple majorities. Secretary Byrnes first announced that he would appear in Paris as "ad- vocate" of the Big Four. Then he said he would urge acceptance by the Big Four of recommendations made by a two-thirds vote of the conference even though they were at variance with decisions already taken. This straddle, and his subsequent indorse- ment of a British compromise on the voting rule, were the basis of Moo- tov's accusation of inconsistency. A change of temper and tactics alone can prevent the conference from splitting the Big Four wide open, undoing the labors of an ar- duous year, and setting peace-mak- ing in Europe back to where it was on V-E Day. -The Detroit Free Press ~1 "No interruptions, Miss Bodkin. We're busy banning a book." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN DRAMA 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). THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1946 VOL. LVI, No. 26S Notices 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, Commerial, 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. Notice to Veterans: All veterans training under Public Law 346 (GI .ill 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 4:30 p.m. daily and from 8:00 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. State of Michigan Civil Service An- nouncements have been received in this office for: 1. Industrial Inspector I, $200-$240. 2. Dietitian A through II, $185-$290. 3. Addressing Machine Operator A2, $155-$175. 4. Blind Transcribing Machine Op- erator Ci, $135-$155. Closing date is August 21. 5. Architectural Engineers II, III, IV, $250-$440. Closing date is August 28. For further information, call at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall. The Chicago and Southern Airlines, Inc., are now taking applications for the September training class for stewardesses. Any girls who are in- terested in stewardess training for the airlines should call at the Bur- eau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall. City of Detroit Civil Service An- nouncements have been received in this office for: 1. Junior Architectural, Civil, Elec- trical, Mechanical, or Structural En- gineers, $2,723-$3,174. 2. Assistant Architectural, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, or Structural Engineers, $3,492-$3,968. Closing date is August 22, 1946. For further information, call at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall. T HAS ALWAYS been a source of mystifica- tion to this reviewer as to why plays of such excellence as the one presented last night at the Lydia Mendelssohn do not appear more often in the local repertoire. It always seemed to me that Play Production was perversely seeking to justify Eric Bentley's charge that the American theatre fulfills at least one prerequisite for a Renaissance: it is dead. But the Apple Cart is very much alive, as much so as its author, the indestructible Shaw. This extravaganza proves to be a first-rate vehicle for the monumental insights that can only be distilled in Shavian humor and by way of a wit that cuts and bites while it instructs. Written in 1928, the play has enough sparkle to outshine any ten productions on Broadway today. And it was almost professionally handled. One can overlook a few ineptitudes, a bumbling Boanerges, an overacted Orinthia, and similar incidentals in the face of Charles Meredith's magnificent King Magnus. As in Major Barbara, where his spokesman was an industrialist, so in The Apple Cart, Shaw puts most of his wisdom in the mouth of a monarch-and both of them preach a subtle brand of aristocratic socialism. Meredith understood his role so well, per- formed it with such suavity and restraint that I could virtually see the puckish and garrulous old master himself through the character he had created. The king is surrounded by cabinet which rep- resents various degrees of imbecility, particular- ly well done by Robert Thompson whos stentor- ian voice and terrible scowl were completely satisfying and by Clara Behringer as Amanda, and John Babingten as Crasus. -Bernard Rosenberg Lectures Professor Kenneth L. Pike, of the Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University. of Oklahoma. will speak under the auspices of the Lin- guistic Institute on the subject: "American English Vowels," on Thur- sday,,August 8 at 4:00 p.m. in Rm. 308 of the Michigan Union. ° The public is cordially invited. Lecture: Ralph C. Wenrich, Assist- ant Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion in Charge of Vocational Educa- tion, Thursday, August 8 at 4:05 p.m. in the University High School Audi- torium. The topic will be "Current Philosophy of Vocational Education." Lecture: E. Blythe .Stason, Profes- sor of Law and Dean of the Law School, Thursday, August 8 at 4:10 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The topic will be "Technology, Law, and Administration." George N. Shuster, President of Hunter College, will give a lecture on "Good, Evil, and Beyond," Thurs- day, August 8 at 8:10 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The public is cordially invited to attend. Lecture: Irving H. Anderson, As- sociate Professor of Education on Friday, August 9 at 4:05 p.m. in the University High School Auditorium. The topic will be "The Child and His Reading Habits." Academic Notices 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. 'Colleges of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Archecture and Design; Schools of Education, Forestry, Music, and Public Health: Summer Session Students wishing a transcript of this summer's work only should file a request in Room 4, U.H., several days before leaving Ann Arbor. Failure to file this request before the end of the session will re- sult in a needless delay of several days. Doctoral Examination for Samuel James Eldersveld, Political Science; thesis: "A Study of Urban Electoral Trends in Michigan, 1920-1940," Fri- day, August 9, at 2:30 p.m. in the East Council Room, Rackham. Chair- man, H. M. Dorr. Seminar in Applied Mathematics meets Thursday, August 8, at 2:10 in Rm. 312 West Engineering. Pro- fessor Hay will speak on "Duffing's Nonlinear Differential Equation and Jump Phenomena." Visitors are wel- come. Concerts. Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin, pianists, will be heard in two-piano recital Thursday night, August 8, in Hill Auditorium, under the auspices of the University Musical Society. Tickets are on sale at the offices of the University Musical Society, Burton Tower, at poplar prices. Student Recital: Saturday evening, 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 gree of Bachelor of Music. Mr. Waltz's recital will include: selections by Handel, Mozart, Brahms, Franck, Rachmaninoff, and* Hageman. Carillon Recital: Percival Price, University Carillonneur, will present a recital at 7:15 Thursday evening, August 8, on the Charles Baird Caril- lon in Burton Memorial Tower. His program will include March from Scipio by Handel, Sonatina, Op. 36, No. 3 by Clementi, a group of Irish airs, Fantasy No. 4 by Professor Price, and My Country by Holst. His next program will be Sunday after- noon at 3:00. Events Today Men's Education Club baseball ser- ies finals Thursday, August 8 at 4:00 p.m. at South Ferry Field. Art Cinema League presents "Pepe le Moko," with Jean Gabin. The orig- inal uncut French version on which the American film "Algiers" was bas- ed. English sub-titles. Rackham Auditorium, 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Fri- day. Tickets available at Wahrs and Ulrich's bookstores and 45 minutes before beginning of the show in lobby of League. Willow Village AVC chapter will hold its regular weekly meeting at 8 p.m. tonight at West Lodge. All vet- erans living out at Willow Village are strongly urged to attend. * Conference on String Instrument Teaching: 9:00 a.m., Oliver Edel, cellist, will speak. 9:45 a.m., Louise Rood, violist, will speak. 11:00 a.m., Concert by University String Quartet. 1:00 p.m., String Bass demonstra- tion, Elizabeth Green. 1:30 p.m., Demonstration of Ele- mentary Class Teaching, Helen Han- nen, Cleveland. , 2:45 p.m., Violin solos, Emil Raab 7:00 p.m., Symposium on Rehear- sal of Orchestra String Section. All meetings in the Grand Rapids Room, Michigan League. French Tea today at 4 p.m. at the Internationar'Center. International Center: Weekly In- formal Tea, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Foreign students and their friends cordially invited. Coming Events French Club: The sixth meeting of the French Club will be held Mon- day, August 12, at 8 p.m. in Rm. 305 of the Michigan Union. Professor Charles E. Koella, of the Romance Language Departmergt, wil speak informally on: "La neutralite de la $uisse." Group singing. Social hour. 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. Visitors' Night will be held at the ,4 Li l t BARNABY Imagine it. Putting up a commercial building when so many people haven't a Cep Wigh1, 1Mfl.M4..pep.,PM,. U. A new bank. And a skating rink! I Well, be sure of this. Every public-spirited citizen will object to By Crockett Johnson Whew! Your Fairy Godfather can't wait until the new roller-skating rink is opened to the populace- i I