rrr. . .. .:. ,-W+, '9. )- av Fifty-Sixth Year £etteri to th ektor Economic Analysis .. . To the Editor: IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE that Ray Ginger who wrote an article in The Michigan Daily in the "Controversial Reporter" column on August 3 is better qualified to consider such important economic problems than a mere first-term busi- ness administration student. However, in that article any evidence of Mr. Ginger's competence to rebuke Professor Slichter is totally absent. The fu'ther. I read the more incredible it be- came. I ar naive enough to believe that you cannot get something for nothing, and that profits have an important, justifiable place in our free econ- omy. (This may be partly due to the fact that I hope to some day to earn profits myself, but before that I expect to work for salaries or wages.) 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RPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL. AOVRTSING B National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MAoisoN Ave. 'NEw YORK.N.Y. CHICAGO " BoSTON . LOS ANGE.E * SAN FRANCISCO Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945.46 NIGHT EDITOR ELINOR MOXNESS Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by me mbers of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers oiy. RussianMon opoly, GROUP of exiled Roumanian patriots have retently submitted an appeal to the Paris Peace Conference to prevent their country from being economically dismembered and reduced to the level of a servile state. The Roumanians claim that the proposed treaty, now being considered by the confer- ence, violates the provisions of the armistice signed by Roumania whereby Russian troop would remain in the country only long enough to restore that country's independence and sovereignty Today, one year later, Russian troops are still in the country, being supported by the Rouman- ian people. In addition, estimates show that Russia has already received an indemnity of more than 12 times the amount specified in the armistice. The treaty provides for a further payment of 300 million dollars, based on the gold value of the dollar, within six years. / In addition, Russia has seized economic con- trol in Roumania through Roumanian-Soviet soviets known as "Sovrom," which plan to con- trol all Roumanian business. The territories of Bessarabia, Bucovina and Southern Dobruja have been taken from Rou- mania as a result of the armistice and now Hun- gary is being considered as a recipient of Trans- ylvania. National self-determination has not been the basis of these divisions. Roumania's patriots contrast this virtual de- molition of the country with Roumania's devo- tion to democratic principles and attempts to resist the German and Russian war machines. They claim she was drawn in on the Axis side in spite of herself. Whether or not these attempts to white- wash Roumnania's part,in the war are valid or not, protest must be made against the arbi- trary way in which Russia has monopolized the country. Certainly no one can say that Roumania's domestic situation has been tran- quil in the years before the Njar. Therefore, she is easy prey to any outside influence and Rus- sia is making the best of her weakness. Roumania, whatever her sentiments, certainly did not wage energetic war on the side of thes. Axis, she did not willingly rush to Hitler's aid and there is no reason why she should be un- justly and arbitrarily divided up and weakened to satisfy Russia's economic desires. -Phyllis L. Kaye Looking Backward, Lately there has been much disagreement ove important issues between the smaller nations of the world and the all powerful Big Four. In some cases the differences have proved to be tempor- arily paralyzing. Who can deny that these small nations are not deserving of equal representa- tion. They are populated with human beings whose need for justice and freedom is as great as that of citizens of the larger nations. This sort of controv'ersy brings to mind the problems with which the delegates to our own constitu- tional convention were faced. It will be remem- bered that the small states demanded their rights and properties be recognized and res- pected equally as well as those of the larger states. The members of the convention solved this problem by making a compromise that has could absorb a large increase in labor costs without raising prices, but this is not the situa- tion for industry as a whole. In view of all the facts, I am inclined to agree with those econ- omists who say that the only way for work- ers-all workers-to increase their incomes substantially is to produce more and to pro- duce more efficiently. Be this right or wrong, what I desire to em- phasize is that in the following paragraph Mr. Ginger shows either that his economic analysis is very weak or that he is attempting to mislead unwary readers: *"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." But Mr. Ginger does not make it clear what kind of farm equipment this is, but my com- mon sense does not allow me to believe that, "only $8 in wages is paid to the labor used in making a $150 piece of farm equipmenrt.'1 Certainly this $8 was involved in only one phase of production-perhaps asembly. Cer- tainly wages were paid to the men who fabri- cated the parts, to the men who produced the metal, to the men who mined the ore, and to all those involved in the distribution of the product. I do not question Mr. Ginger's right to express his opinion, but I do not like to see anything that is misleading-it reminds me of a certain type of propaganda. -George A. Elgass Unhooded KKK .. . C i tnse'4 lif PEOPLE SAY that things would be a lot dif- ferent if Roosevelt hadn't died. It's pretty difficult to deny that. Years will pass before there is any general agreement about his exact role in history, but Roosevelt was uncontes- tably one of the few who have left a deep im- print on the American scene. Grafton probably came close when he characterized Roosevelt as "the great bus. driver." Roosevelt was the driver on the liber- al bus; and, while only he knew the destina- tion, he didn't lose many passengers. Some- how everybody learned to have faith in the driver, and their major role was pushing the vehicle out of mud puddles. Roosevelt never lost his faith in himself, kept his poise, and retained a firm hand on the con- trols. That's the fatal weakness today; there isn't any control any more. In foreign affairs this is daily obvious with the constant stories of tiffs and major quarrels between the two blocs at the Peace Conference. Day after day the headlines blare the news of the Viostrecent deadlock; and we look at each other in dismay and plead for better understanding between nations. But the plea for better understanding is fu- tile. The bitter fights at Paris do not arise be- cause of misunderstanding . . . there is mis- understanding because of the fights at Paris. These diplomatic controversies are based on a real conflict of interest, and the only road to better understanding between nations is to solve the problems which lie beneath the mis- understanding. A plea for better understanding is not a pro- gram; it's a wail of despair. The liberals are stranded without a program, and they swing wildly from pessimism to false optimism. Five years ago there was in this country a liberal movement. They all huddled together, and the President called signals for the whole team. If he decided that liberals should fight the trusts, all liberals fought the trusts until he changed his mind, How different from the situation today, when there is no longer any agreement about action at all. Five years all liberals were Roosevelt liberals, but today there are Smith liberals, Jones liberals . . . every man has his own variety. A man develops a cause ... if he can convince three close rela- tives he starts a movement. Some men get alarmed at the high price of strawberries, and other men get alarmed at the low cost of cot- ton. But the price of strawberries doesn't come down, and the price of cotton doesn't go up, so the advocates of both measures become dis- gusted and go home to sulk. The Paris Conference shows this clearly. It's almost like a battlefield, with the left wing drawn up on one side and the right wing drawn up on the other side. Just before the fight starts, the American liberal runs down midway the opponents, waving his hat and pleading for a return to reason. But this doesn't solve the prob- lem of Franco; it doesn't take the British out of Palestine; or the French out of Indo-China. It simply confuses the whole picture, and like as not the liberal gets his head shot off. -Ray Ginger LABOR NEWS: By VICTOR RIESEL NY NIGHT in the homes of a few of Hollywood's brightest charac- ters you can find a group of ener- getic pro - Communist celebrities sprinkled with professional comrades. I've seen this Hollywood crowd in action and have found them mostly good people bored by their own glamour and desperately in search of exciting new fads. These Hollywood people can take a cause or a slogan and virtually over- night giamrize it into a sweeping national campaign. This crowd did just such a glamour job for the pugnacious pro-Communist Harry Bridges, who until two weeks ago was California regional CIO direc- tor. The other day CIO leader Philip Murray tired of Harry's beligerence. IMurray decided to cut Bridge's power by snipping the California region in two and 'removing the southern half-mostly Los Angeles and Holly- wood-from Bridges' left wing con- trol. This was done at a noisy meet- ing of CIO vice-presidents in Wash- ington.aMurray announced the di- vorce and kept his silence while Bridges and Johnny Green, the slim little., shipbuilding workers' chif, an ardent Murray man, fought it out in old-fashioned waterfront cussing. Murray then pulled Irwin De Shet- ler, an unknown, enthusiastic anti- Communist out of the Kansas CIO headquarters and put him in charge of California's southern area to bat- tle Bridges and to unglamorize the CIO there by gradually separating it from Hollywood's left wing fadists and their professional Communist guides. De Shetler's first big job then will be to help the CIO's retail clerk's union, the textile workers and the auto outfit-all of whom are sending anti-Communist organizers to Los Angeles these days-to launch awide unionizing drive there. What's the meaning of Murray's maneuver? It can be one of the most impor- tant bits of labor strategy in recent years-for it can mean the crush- ing of basic Communist Party strength in the U.S. How? The real power of the American comrades lies in the handful of CIO unions which they control under Bridges' leadership. If Murray follows through-and there are signs that he will, slowly but relentlessly- the U.S. comrades will have no "operational base." This would mean the disappearance of Com- munist strength not only in. labor circles, but in national politics as well. They already have begun to at- tack Phil Murray-something they would not have dared to do unless they were really hurt by the CIO leader. They have been. Wherever they have fought the anti-Commun- ists-in Detroit, Chicago and today in Cleveland-Murray has moved quietly but effectively against them. But don't underestimate the com- rades-they have the money, the apparatus and the fanatical brains to fight back effectively. (Copyright, 1946 N.Y Post Syndicate) LAL 11 I1 ... .1 C " y sR0y9,.SnPgHOft-Allr s nvy rn y "Did you cut his allowance again? lie's hanging you in effigy." To the Editor: "Midnight Rides of Terror" by Victor Riesel and Bill Mauldin's cartoon were good. The geo- graphic location is a bit twisted. The FBI is in- vestigating Michigan along with New York, Ten- nessee, Florida, California, Georgia and Missis- sippi because of complaints of individuals, civil rights societies and other organizations. Personally I believe I have met some of the KKK without their hoods in Ann Arbor, Ypsi- lanti and Willow Run Village. -Rev. David A. Blake, Jr. * 'P * DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I 'Quo Vadis. To the Editor: SUPPOSEDLY THE WAR is over, the carnage has stopped, more than temporarily we hope, and the time has again come for us to-stop, take stock, and ask ourselves: "Where are we going?" The facts stare us plainly in the face. The proposition is reduced to basic simplicity. In order to prevent a repetition or a continua- tion of the past performances we must provide economic security for all of the people of the world. People with full stomachs, roofs over their heads, and an opportunity to provide, for their families do not fight wars. It is our duty, now, to formulate a new, or modify the present world economy to this realization. At this date the leading peoples of the world and their governments are letting themselves be forced to make a choice of political-econom- ic systems to provide this security that we seek. Each day, each 'incident,' each report by return- ing correspondents, brings us closer to the time when we will divide the world into two camps each with the same objective. We are slowly moving to that time when the issue will be re- solved: Shall a democratic-capitalism of the Anglo-American type, or a socialistic-sovietism of the Russian prototype be the one system to prevail through the world? The question now faces us. Are we politically mature enough to reconcile these two systems and thereby achieve the security which we so desparately need, or will we again forge our plowshares into lethal solutions to our prob- lems? Can we reconcile majority, govern-, ment-aided, semi-"free-enterprise" with mi- nority, government-controlled corporate en- terprise? We would like to say with self assurance that this stage of maturity has been reached, but one needs only to look at pictures of super- bombers, and read of veiled threats of super- bombs to realize in which direction we are go- ing. The chips are down. It is not too late. We must act now. A fter the Storm PURIFIED by the storm that swept over it earlier this week, the Con- ference of Paris now appears to be settling down to work in a calmer and more business-like atmosphere. This, if continued, augurs well for its success. The preliminary maneuvers for position are over, the rules of procedure have been completed, and the artificial crisis and never serious hints of a Russian walkout have dis- solved under the weight of the over- whelming vote in the Rules Commit- tee for the British compromise pro- posal. Even Russia, which held out to the last for an exclusive two- thirds vote on all issues, could scarcelyvreject a decision arrived at by a vote of 15 to 6, or by more than a two-thirds majority, especially since this decision, by giving the two- thirds voto special importance, also gave her more than half a victoiry, though it preserved the right of the simple majority to be heard. 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 10, 1946 VOL. LVI, No. 28 Notices 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. Ziwet Lectures in Mathematics: Everyone who has obtained a copy of the Alexander Ziwet Lecture notes by Professor K. 0. Friedrichs, should call at the Mathematics Office for the sheet of Errata for the notes. 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. The public schools of Taos, New Mexico have vacancies in the ele- mentary schools; art, English, mathe- matics and guidance positions on the secondary level. Living conditions and salaries are good. If candidates who are interestedin living in the Southwest will call the Bureau of Appointments they can receive more detailed information about these openings. The libraries of the University Elementary School will be open on Saturday morning, Aug. 10 from 9- 12 and on Monday through Wed- nesday, Aug. 12-14 in themornings from 9-12 and in the afternoons from 1-4. Students wishing to use these materials from August 15-23 may have them transferred to 'the School.of Education Library, 4200 University High School. Lectures Lecture: Claude Eggertsen, Assist- ant Professor of Education on Mon- day, August 12 at 4:05 p.m. in the University High School Auditorium. The topic will be "Proposed: A Na- tional Civilian Continuation Study Institute." The public is cordially invited. Dr. Henry M. Honigswald of Yale University will give a lecture, under the auspices of the Linguistic In- stitute, on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphi- theatre, on the subject: "Descriptive Techniques in Historical Linguistics." The public is invited. Lecture: Elmer D. Mitchell, Profes- sor of Physical Education, Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 4:05 p.m. in the University High School Auditorium. The topic will be "Recreational Guidance." at 4:10 p.m. in the Rackham Am- phitheatre. The topic will be "Se- curity and Freedom." UorCpl' 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 fulfilment 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 Malpas, organist, will present a recital Sun- day' afternoon, August 11, at 4:15in 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. Chamber Music Program: The fourth in the current series of Sun- day evening chamber music programs will include Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 168 by Schubert, Poem for viola and piano by Edmund Haines, and Quintet in A major, Op. 114 ("The Trout") by Schubert. Scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Sunday, August 11, in the Rackham Lecture Hall, this program will be presented by Gilbert Ross, and Lois Porter, violins, Louise Rood, viola, Oliver Edel, vello, Charles Baer, double bass, and Joseph Brinkman, piano. The program will be open to the public without charge. Faculty Recital: On Monday eve- ning, August 12 in Rackham Lecture Hall at 8:30 Lee Pattison, pianist, will present his sixth program, in the current series of lecture recitals. Mr. Pattison's program will include: Fan- tasy in C minor, K475, Sonata in E- fiat major, K282, and Sonata in *F major,.K332 by Mozart and Sonata, Op. 2 No. 3 by Beethoven. Carillon Recital: Sunday afternoon, Aug. 11, at 3:00 Percival Price, Uni- versity Carillonneur, will present a recital on the Charles Baird Caril- lon in Burton Memorial Tower. His program wil linclude the following selections: Land of Hope and Glory by Elgar, Album for the Young by Schumann, Intermezzo for 'carillon by Van Hoof, and a group of hymns. Faculty Recital: Louise Rood vio- list and Helen Titus, pianist will pre- sent a recital Wednesday evening, Aug. 14, in Rackham Assembly Hall at 8:30. Their program will include Sonata in B-fiat Major by Stamitz, Sonata in E-fiat Major by Brahms, Sonata Op. 11, No. 4 by Paul ide- mith, and Sonata by Rebecca Clarke The public is cordially invited. Student Recital: Evelyn Ranson, pianist, will present a recital in Rack- ham Assembly Hall, Wednesday af- ternoon at 4:15. Given in partial ful- fillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music, Miss Ran- son's program will include Toccata in D Major by Bach, Sonata Op. 57 by Beethoven, Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 4 I 4 -R. P. Slaff -The New York Times BARNABY My committee protests, Mr. Mayor. The Fifth National Memorial Bank doesn't need a new building. And people don't need a skating rink. C1 18- 8 What a day! First Baxter. Then J. J. O'Malley. Both claim that I'm a dead duck politically if I don't put an end to non-essential construction. They want homes .. I assure you, Mr. Baxter, that it's within the law. C. RT.gi ip. 6 7A NzwoP,, PM In. Re U i P., O8 He's getting to be a thorn in our side. least we don't have O'Malley to contend with. B Crockett Johnson A skating rink would have given me great joy. But ,your father's cause is just. I shall lend him full support- Operator? I'll tell Pop you called the Mayor;, too, Mr. O'Malley. 0 - Don't let them intimidate you, Mr. Mayor- is this O'Malley's phone number? That's funny. It's Baxter's, too. I wonder what their relationship is? Maybe we ought to investigate. Who knows what we'll uncover? cAplot to embarrass my adrniristratio-n? gttiJr . , 0~p< Mi Could be.- I f . 7 1 j