sV V 4b LABOR NEWS: Starvation BILL MAULDIN Fifty-Sixth Year vs. 'Secretaries' - -yc '. ". ,.., - ;< -- -_-- By VICTOR RIESEL (HINESE EMWPLOYES in Shanghai hotels owned by European investors went on strike the other day. To win support of Anglo-Ameri- can visitors, the Chinese, in their best English, wrote the following for a leaflet: "We sit down strike for protest against un- reasonable reducing of staff. We are forced to strike' by faithlessness and over protest of management. We have not any intention of enmity against U.S. forces. For convenience of our guests water and electricity still works." Then to crush the opposition, the strike chiefs added these punch lines: "General manager enjoys prosperity in new luxurious motor car, numerous girl secre- taries and private bar in his office and staffs have to starve." The Communist international may be re-4 vived officially next January. Communist par- ties of the world have been summoned to Paris by Jacque Duclos, French Communist boss, for an international parley early in 1947. Party leaders will be briefed then on how to capture unions and assail business ... No one in John L. Lewis national headquarters knows where he 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 Recht University ............................ Natalie Bagrow Sports ................................... Jack Martin Women's .................................. Lynne Ford Business Staff Business Manager ........................ Janet Cork Telephone 23-241 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 newpaper. All rights of re- puibliction of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office af Ann Arbor, Michigan, a second-class mail matter. . Subscription during the regular school year by ar- $ier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Atember, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 WEPREDSNTEO POR NATIONAL AOVERT1NO National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publisers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. 'A New YORK, N. Y. CNcao * B6OSTO8N 08Los ANGEL * SA FmAncIsco NIGHT EDITOR: TOM WALSH Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Vandenberg THE APPEARANCE of Sen. Arthur Vanden- berg at Ferry Field this afternoon offers University of Michigan students an opportun- ity to hear first-hand a report of activities of the Big Four Foreign Ministers' recent confer- ence in Paris, and an outline of this nation's in- tentions in the field of foreign relations. To those persons responsible for Sen. Vanden- berg's coming to Ann Arbor-a vote of thanks. This can best be expressed by a record turnout for the address at 4 p.m. today. The senior Republican senator's record as a membe~r of the Senate Foreign Affairs committee has been interesting, to say the least. Before the war, he reflected Mid-western isolationist senti- ment and balked at President Roosevelt's efforts to support the Allies. Later, after isolationism was swept into discard, he carried the Republi- can Party banner in a move synchronized with the change in public opinion. At the time, he was widely acclaimed for his acts and subse- quently was taken into President Roosevelt's confidence in matters of foreign affairs. 'He is a likely candidate for either the presi- dential or vice-presidential nomination on the Republican ticket in the 1948 election. But whe- ther he is selected by his party or not, he can be considered the outstanding exponent of in- ternationalism in the party and as such, will help shape the party's destiny-and perhaps the destiny of the nation. -Will Hardy. ont roversial' IN A LigTER to the editor yesterday, George Elgass has pointed out a few of the facts that our Controversial Reporter would have us over- look. His analysis of the many factors affecting price policy was considerably more real than the limited view Mr. Ginger would have us be- lieve. .Ginger's continued slandering of the profit motive system has too long passed unnoticed. He is quick to emphasize the wartime profits of a concern such as General Motoris,'but com- pletely ignores the $120 million loss suffered by the same company during the first three months of this year. It has always been the case that a period of prosperity finds the masses clamoring for a slice of industrial pro- fits, while no help is ever offered in sharing the losses of a depression. Ginger's stand was clarified' in his recent dis- cussion of the current war scandals when he made the statement: "So long as the profit mo- tive is allowed to dominate this country, there will be new wars, and new wars will bring new scandals." This intimation that our future security is threatened by our clinging to the capitalistic system was not supported, nor was an alternative system proposed. This omission is understandable as long as the American stan- dards of living remain unequalled as they do now... . . Like Mr. Elgass, I do not suggest that our sys- tem is beyond reproach, but I do feel that there are no ills which intelligent government action cannot cure. In the past we have overcome the monopolistic grip of industrial giants by ade- quate anti-trust legislation, and it is to be honed that similar controls will be found to cope MAN TO MAN: Best Tradition HAROLD L. ICKES PRESIDENT TRUMAN was true to the best tradition of the American presidency when he vetoed the so-called Tidelands Bil by which a reckless, unheeding, confused and confusing Congress sought to make the "S" in U.S. stand for "Spendthrift." Now it will be left to the United States Supreme Court to decide a strict- ly legal question, which was what the Supreme Court was established for. The disingenous but plausible Attorney Gen- eral of California, Robert W. Kenny, was able to persuade the Attorneys General of a great majority of the states that unless they signed his misrepresentations of fact and misinterpreta- tions of law on the dotted line, valuable rights in the various states might be lost. Of course, back of Mr. Kenny were the oil interests. It was they who had the most at stake. It was they who, in the large part, paid the exaggerated costs that were piled up. It was they who maintained an active and opulent lobby in Washington to bring all of the customary pressures upon the members of Congress. It was they who did not want to rest their case with the Supreme Court, while, at the same time, loudly proclaiming that the point at issue had been decided their way 'by the Courts more than fifty times The lobbyists and the parrotting Attorneys .General raised the false issue that not only the rich oil lands lying along the California coast were involved, but that the wicked Secretary of the Interior, who had urged this suit, was reach- ing out for jurisdiction over lands under bays, harbors, ports, lakes, rivers and other inland waters. As the President well said in his veto message, "When the Joint Resolution was being debated inthe Senate, an amendment was offer- ed which would have resulted in giving an out- right acquittance to the respective states of all tidelands and all lands under bays, harbors, ports, lakes, rivers and other inland waters." This amendment was proposed by the Secretary of the Interior, first to the Attorney General of California who was so zealous for states' rights, and then to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate over which Senator McCarran of Nevada perched like Edgar Allen Poe's raven. Continu- ing, President Truman also well said, "Propon- ents of the present measure, however, defeated this amendment." They defeated it because the oil interests did not want a truthful issue. Knavish and de- ceitful tactics were employed in order to con- fuse and, by the whip of fear, line up votes that generally are on the side of the public. Unfailing support of the Bill was given by Sen- ator McCarran. Having balked the amendment that would have made the issue crystal clear, the gentleman from Nevada presented a report to the Senate which said that "The Committee concludes that as a matter of sound legislative policy this resolution should pass, as its adoption is the only way to set at rest permanently a controversy which involves titles to property in every state of the Nation." A Of course this was not true, deliberately so. The President made this clear in his veto mes- sage.% The Representatives and Senators who sup- ported this attempted "steal" of public property have nothing to be proud of, even if their plea be that they did not understand the purport of the Bill or were unaware of the sinister influ- ences behind it. However, it cannot be doubted that Senator McCarran ever lacked understand- ing of what the bill was intended to do. It was unfortunate that there was in the White House a President who was prepared to act upon this Bill in the best American tra- dition. For one, I am certain that with him the issue always was clear, despite the efforts to be- cloud it, atd that he did not find it difficult to interpose his veto power even although Edwin W. Pauley had exerted all of his influence, both with members of Congress and with executive officers, to satisfy the appetites of certain greedy oil in- terests. (Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate) is. He has been touring the West alone in an old car and hasn't contacted his Washington office for ten days, leaving his aides guessing until they meet him in Chicago next week -. - In a startling propaganda move, the CIO will distribute pro-labor films directly to public movie theatres just as the Hollywood produ- cers do . . . Thoroughly angered over the ex- ploitation by some firms of veterans who draw job-in-training federal benefits, Gen. Omar Bradley, Veterans Administration chief, is ex- pected to resign shortly. He has been unhappy in his job. It's a good bet his successor will be Gen. Harry Vaugn, President Truman's military aide. When boxing champ Joe Louis began decorat- ing his new Harlem night spot he was approach- ed by an independent group which wanted him. to hire his help through them. The champ threw them oit. Ignoring their picket line, Joe signed with the recognized union, Dave Siegal's AFL waiters outfit, which now, incidentally, is try- ing to unionize Toots Shors famed restaurant. Siegal has just written to Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, Paul Draper and Post Master Bob Hannegan, asking them as New Dealers to prac- tice what they preach and boycott Toots' non- union beanery. Joe Fay, New York and New Jersey union leader, now serving a jail term for extortion, still has considerable influence in national labor circles . . . Communists throughout the country are starting campaigns in their unions to have wage negotiations re-opened. They want striker to back up these demands . . . Jack Stachel, la- bor whip of the U.S. Communist Party who was in hiding during much of Earl Browder's rule of the comrades, has ordered them to build as strong a machine inside the AFL as they have in, the CIO.--.. -. Hollywood stars are becoming labor conscious again. Edward G. Robinson went aboard the yS Matsonia the other day to attend a marine cooks and stewards organizing rally and en- courage their unionizing efforts . . . The Screen Actors Guild, headed by hoofer George Murphy, is preparing for its annual convention scheduled for Sept. 15, at which Edward Arnold, Franchot Tone and Walter Pidgeon will be most active ... Delegates to the Indiana Federation of La- bor (AFL) annual parley Sept. 17, may do a strip tease. Every one there will need to prove that he (or she) is wearing at least three gar- ments with union labels on them . . . American Newspaper Guild president Milton 1turray, who was fired from his job as Washington corres- pondent for the newspaper PM, now is a full- time organizer for the Washington Guild. SINCE WE'RE entering that sane era where the customer again will always be right, the National Maritime Union is teaching its waiters and stewards how to give courteous service aboard U.S. passenger fleets. The NMU has equipped its headquarters with a full-sized first class stateroom and bedroom in which its mem- bers will get a two-week training course. There were 3,077,300 jobless in the U.S. this week. President Truman's strategists, believing the CIO is in their political vest-pocket, are about to make a play for support 'of powerful AFL' leaders who are swinging towards the Republi- cans, especially in New York and California. The AFL, at its Chicago executive meeting next week, will plan political action. Its auto union, rival of Walter Reuther's CIO organization, already has set up a conservative Political Action Com- mittee to compete with the CIO's PAC. John Lewis may appoint lame duck Sen. Wheeler to run the miners' welfare fund ...' Packinghouse workers now are seriously threatening to strike and cut off much of the country's meat supply in two weeks.. . Rab- ble-Rouser Gerald Smith plans extensive ac- tivity in California this fall, especially against the CIO ... The Kentucky AFL is taking to the airwaves for a fight on the Ku Klux Klan . (Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate) Bud get alancer President Truman has selected as his new Director of the Budget a man practically un- known to him and almost every one else in his administration except Treasury Undersecretary 0. Max Gardner. James E. Webb, who has been nominated to succeed the able Harold Smith, is a forty-year-old lawyer and business-man who grew up as a protege of former Governor Gard- ner down in North Carolina. Webb advanced into an executive position with the Sperry Gyroscope Company, a client of the Washington firm Gardner has headed in recent years, and one of the many companies which Gardner's longtime patron John M. Haynes, a Morgan partner, serves as director ---. In commenting on the appointment, Secre- tary Gardner told the press that Webb is a "dis- ciple of the balanced budget." Those who don't know Webb but do know the "budget balancing" economy views which John Haynes has been helping the Harry Byrds of the country sell for many years, are afraid that President Truman has bought another bad bargain. In unfriendly hands, the Bureau of the Budget can prevent full employment from becoming much more than a campaign slogan. j I E j 1 IGcO I.. Reg. U. S. Pet. plf. Allt hrqk s .w,., "Check th' tires, oil an' radiator. Wipe th' windshield, water th' dog, feed th' canary, take Junior to th' washroom, an' gimme a gallon o' gas." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 11-. G. Wels WITH THE PASSING of H. G. Wells the world loses one of its most prolific and imaginative writ- ers. Mr. Wells died yesterday in his London home after prolonged ill- ness. He was 79 years of age. It is not sufficient to say that H. G. Wells was a novelist, because many of his writings do not dealg with the conventional subject mat- ter usually associated with novels. He combined scientific specula- tion, fantasy, sociological Idealism and the spirit of the reformer into his works. Satire on every phase of civiliza- tion was employed by Mr. Wells, even though many of his books were sin- cere expressions of his ideals and philosophy of life. He has sometimes been classed as a Utopian, since he often tried to express things as they should be, as well as how they might be. One of the most important books Mr. Wells ever wrote was the "Out- line of History" which was published shortly after the first World War. In addition to his activities as a novelist, sociological writer and his- torian, Mr. Wells was a one-tme tea- cher of science. He published his first book in 1895. His total literary ac- complishment totals over 50 books. -Phyllis L. Kaye 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). WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1946 VOL. VLI, No. 30S Notices All Public Law 16 Veterans (pen- sionewho have not had their final summer interview with their Vet- erans Administration Training Of- licer should appear at Room 100 Rackham Building between the dates of August 12th and 16th. 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. 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. Veterans' Wives Club will not meet during the remaining summer months. The next meeting will be on October 7. Students having lockers at the In- tramural Sports Building should va- cate lockers and apply for refunds prior to August 24. The building will be closed during the period August 26-September 16. Graduate Student Council will meet at the Rackham Building, Monday, August 19 at 7:30 p.m. It is request- ed that all members be present. French Tea: No French Tea today on account of the celebration of the anniversary of the end of World War II. Manuscripts for the Summer Hop- wood Contest must be in the Hop- wood Room, 3227 Angell Hall, by 4:30 p.m. this Friday. German Departmental Library books are due in the departmental office by August 16 regardless of a later date due stamped in the book. Mr. Benson and Mr. Scallon of Protor and Gamble will be at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall, on Thursday,' Aug. 15, to inter- view men who are interested in sales work. All those interested call ext. 371 for an appointment. State of Washington Civil Service Announcemenrts lhave been received in this office for positions in: 1. -Personnel 2. Socia Service 3. Health 4. Clerical For further information, call at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall. The Motion Picture Project of the Library of Congress has openings for students who have received special training in motion picture program or graduate students now receiving special training. For information concerning the positions open and for further details, call at the Bureau of Appointments, 201 Mason Hall. Open House at West Court, Willow Village, Saturday night, Aug. 17- dancing, bridge, ping pong from 8 to 11:30. Lectures Lecture: Harlan C. Koch, Professor of Education, Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 4:05 p.m. in the University High School Auditorium. The topic will be "New Horizons in Guidance." Lecture: William Haber, Professor of Economics, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 4:10 p.m. in the Rackham Am- phitheatre. The topic will be "Se- curity and Freedom." Dr. Henry M. Hoenigswald 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: John M. Trytten, Asist- ant Professor of Commercial Edu- cation on Thursday, Aug. 15 at 4:05 pm. in the University High School Auditorium. The topic will be "Op- portunities for Teachers of Business Subjects." The public is cordially in- vited. Hayward Keniston, Professor of Romance Languages and Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts will give a lecture on Thursday, Aug. 15 at 4:10 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The topic will be "The Humanities in a Scientific World." The public is cordially invited to at- tend. Professor Y. R. Chao, of Harvard University, will give a lecture under the auspices of. the Linguistic Insti- tute, on Thursday, Aug. 15, at 1:00 p.m. in Rm. 308 of the Michigan Union. His subject will be: "Chinese Writing." The public is cordially in- vited. Mr. Everett J. Soop of the Univer- sity Extension Service will speak at West; Court, Willow Villa'ge, Wednes- day, Aug. 14 at 8 p.m. to those who are interested in various extension classes including crafts. Academic Notices Attention August Graduates: Col- lege of Literature, Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Music, School of Public Health: Students are advised not to request grades of I or X in August. When such grades are absolutely imper- ative, the work must be made up in time'to allowyourinstructor to re- port the make-up grade not later than noon, August 31. Grades re- ceived after that time may defer the student's graduation until as later date. Concerts 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. 2 and Ballade Op. 118 No. 3 by Brahms and Prelude Op. 12 No. 7 by Pkokofieff. The public is cordially invited. 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-flat Major by Stamitz, Sonata in E-fiat .Major by Brahms, Sonata Op. 11, No. 4 by Paul Hinde- mith, and Sonata by Rebecca Clarke. The public is cordially invited. Carillon Recital. Percival Price, University Carillonneur, Thursday evening, August 15, 7:15 p.m. Student Recital. Composition class, Thuisiay, August 15, 4:15 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. Student Recital: On Friday after- noon, August 16, at 2:00 in Harris Hall there will be a wind instrument program, assisted by Beatrice Gaal, Marvin Bostrum and Mildred Min- neman Andrews, pianists. The reci- tal, sponsored by the Kappa Kappa Psi Fraternity, will include selections by Mozart, Haydn, Ewald, and Fire- stone. The public is cordially invited. Events Today Women in Education luncheon Wednesday, August 14 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Russian Tea Room, Michigan League. Men's Education Club meeting Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7:15 p.m. at the Michigan Union. Operetta. "The Bartered Bride," by Bedrich Smetana. Michigan Re- pertory Players, Department of Speech, in conjunction with the School of Music, today, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, Au- gust 19, 8:30 p.m., Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theatre. Flying Club: There will be a meet- ing for all members of the Flying Club in Room 1042 East Engineer- ing Building, Wednesday, August 14, 1946. This will be the last meeting of the Summer Session and star time will be taken away until the first meoting of the fall session for all unexcused absences. Faculty mem- bers and students interested are also invited. The members of Michigan Chris- tian Fellowship invite anyone inter- ested to their last Bible study of the Summer Session. Margaret DeWitt will be the leader. Tirpe: 8 p.m. to- night. Place: Lane Hail. The final meeting of La Sociedad Hispanica will take place on Wed. nesday, August 14, at 8:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building. A "Noche de Musica" is planned which will include entertain- ment, group singing, and refresh- ments. All students of Spanish and La- tin Americans are cordially invited to attend. Coming Events French Tea: There will be a French formal Tea, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Thurs- day, August 15. Foreign students and their friends cordially invited. J J ~ -The New Republic BARNABY Legally, according to the Mayor, they're in the clear-Ground WAS BROKEN for the bank building and skating rink before priorities went into effect. But morally, we're right. So our Citizens' Housing Committee will go ahead with plans to stage a protest rally. We're not alone. Every organized group and club in town will back us .. . By Crockett Johnson How right your father is. And how fortunate the Little Men's Chowder and Marching Society meets tonight. I'll introduce , l. u e, tiate al,.,,!