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AEPROBSNTED FOR NATIONAL AOVERTISING DY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publshers Representative 420 MADIsoN Avw. NEW YORK, N. Y. CHIICAGO * BOSTON " Los ANGELES 0 SAN FRIANCISCO rember, 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. rundru m EDITORS NOTE: The following editorial which is reprinted by permission from the Saturday Re- view of Literature will appear in two intalments. The second installment will be in The Daily to- morrow. By EDGAR A. MOWRER THE WAR did not cost us enough. Not enough Americans got killed or maimed or blinded. Not enough American lives were wrecked. Other- wise we.should not be ignoring the national cala- mity that lies just ahead., What this country needs- is more Isaiahs and Jeremiahs. Dr. Harold Urey Nobel Prize winner and co-author of the atom bomb, has publicly de- scribed himself as a "frightened man." Fright jnay help a little. But if we are going to prevent the catastrophe whose shadow is already gigan- tic on tomorow's wall, we shall have to call on indignation. The soldiers and sailors did their work and moved on, leaving the greatest job of all time to be finished by statesmen. Who moved in? The money-changers, the hucksters, the chiselers, and the hogs. More goods, right away! More profits, higher wages, more buck- ets of swill! Favors, favors! "The world owes me .." Talk about the Gadarene swine rushing down the steep place to destruction! The war has not been definitely won; there. is as yet no peace . . . and the self-styled "great- est people" in the world quits on the home stretch to scratch and pick up peanuts .. Nothing for which we fought has yet been really attained. We are not yet secure. Famine stretches a skinny finger across the world. Me-firsters at home urge us to close our bursting fists. We know the danger of a new war and re- fuse-flatly-to take the first real step toward the only institution that could stop it. Our demobilization breaks all records-seven million men in a few months. This was not "re- location," it was a riot. In addition, it was a crime. For our armed forces were the scaffold- ing of the peace we intended to build. Without them the peace will not be built. It seems easier to entice hungry dogs from meat than A mericanis from the national trough. In an electoral year it is easier to make heroes of jakrabbits than patriots of Con- gressmen. Feeble attempts by a few high- minded leaders to explain that school is not yet out beat vainly on the surface of our ego- ism. Nearly a year after the completion of the first atomic scourge, we have still not agreed on a sensible plan of control. Why should we when our motto is, rumba, bicker, and grab!. I say these things in the name of the group of American newspapermen who saw World War II coming and who might, if heeded, have pre- vented it. All during those fateful thirties when the Dope Sisters-Appeasement and Apathy-were lulling innocent Americans, we predicted the cacophonous finale. That finale-the war-cost the world about half a century of progress. There was nothing mysterious about Italian vanity, Jap treachery, or Germany's attack on civilization. But when we yelled and pointed a finger, nobody heeded. It's a hundred to one that nobody will listen now. But we have got to try. The price of this war is monstrous. Measured in money, it is just too big to register. The loss in suffering and moral slump defies calculation. But maybe that loss was too low to create an awareness of continuing danger. What else ought one expect? Haven't we Americans always done just what we are do- ing now? Isn't it idiotic to, imagine that our people-or any people-will suddenly behave as fully responsible human beings? Now just a minute. Thirty years of newspaper work have given me a reasonably low idea of the human animal. I have knocked around the planet. I have gone through two great wars- and some lesser ones. I have watched Nazis at their hellish pleasures, seen healthy Chinese go- ing unconcernedly about their business while thousands of their fellows died of cholera, had my own friends shot beside me, eaten lunheon off a convenient corpse in a trench. A newspa- perman comes in touch with every variety of perversity, crime, and folly, catalogued and un- catalogued. BUT NOTHING in my experience convinces me that a whole people must rush into self- destruction. One exception-Sicily back in the twenties. Mount Etna had just erupted. Prosperous vil- lages, fertile fields and orchards, hundreds of people, lay under molten lava. Yet there were the survivors headed right back up the moun- tain-foreordained victims of the next erup- tion. With the same frivolity, we Americans hav- ing miraculously escaped Hitler and Hirohito, are closing our eyes to greater perils. First of all, Germany. Despite the great- est battering of all times, German war poten- tial is still enormous. The Germans can again become a menace to mankind. During the fighting we swore that we would prevent this. The means we selected were (a) the military occupation of Germany, and (b) the reeducation of the German people themselves. These were long-time measures. What are we doing? Pulling out. Quitting cold. Welshing! We have weakened our police forces and our corps of educators to the point where both are failing. Our gutted divisions, our grounded planes, our immobile tanks no longer impress military- minded Germans with our power. Huckster- minded "want-to-go-home" kid soldiers mooch- ing around army centers encourage German comparison with their own stern, unbending military-not to our advantage. While they still fear the Russians, the Germans no longer have much respect for Americans. For they see us scampering and they have decided that we will "never fight in Europe again." At heart they are unchanged. They regret not having started, but having lost, the war. If the Allied -forces released their prisoners and with- drew tomorrow, the Nazis under some new name would come back. Outwardly the Germans are servile. They grovel and lick the tails of their conquerors. But inwardly, as the daze of defeat wears off, they are beginning to plan their comeback. Give them another year or so and they will be ugly. They will start bumping off the decent Germans who want to make Germany demo- cratic as they did after the last war. Tenacious, aggressive, malevolent, they have not accepted their defeat. Unless we Americans stiffen, toughen, and immunize our armed forces; unless we build up an able corps of civilian educators; unless we announce that we are in Germany for as long as the job takes, whether two years or fifty, the Germans may again become a world menace. If they do, then minor foci of fascist infec- tion, like Spain and Argentina, will blossom like peonies. ART "PIONEERS of Modern Art in America," which opened yesterday at Rackham galleries, com- memorates the opening of the newly-founded University Museum of Art. It is a representative exhibition of modern art as it first developed in this country. Covering a period from 1908 to 1922 it represents many of the artists who ex- hibited in the famed Armory Show of 1913 that scandalized all America. Nearly all of these artists were influenced, directly or indirectly, by European painting, par- ticularly French modernism. The work of Ce- zanne, the Cubist and Fauvist groups provided perhaps the greatest impetus. America did not, however, develop definite schools with the at- tendant manifestos and theories that made France the center of experimentation. The "cra- zy" abstract European influence acted rather as a liberator from the restriction of naturalism and dead photographic art, enabling them to develop highly personal viewpoints. The precise, angular forms of Charles De- muth, as in his "Modern Conveniences" show the influence of Cubism. Georgia O'Keeffe's work developed a new objectivity as a result of her experimentation with abstract art. In Max Weber's "The Visit" one can see the influence of both Cubist and primitive art. These artists, who once shocked their country so, genuinely expressed the American spirit in their work as they developed their individualistic styles. As modern artists escaped from the banal sentimentality of "cows at sunset" they were able to infuse new spirit in their art, even as they experimented with new forms. They became able to fulfill the true function of the artist in any age, to see for us more clearly and sensitively than we can see for ourselves. With the intro- duction of modern art in America, we were able to contribute, for the first time in our history, to the main current of world art. This.large collection of painting,.varying greatly in artistic worth as well as in viewpoint, succeeds splendidly in its immense task of show- ing the beginnings of modern art in America. -Brooke Weld I ID RATHER BE RIGHT: U.S.ibel By SAMUEL GRAFTON OS ANGELES-America's liberals are looking for a leader. As to who he might be, they have no idea. One does not hear the name of Mr. Henry Wallace mentioned in this connection as often as one used to; he has got himself somewhat hidden within the Truman Administration, and liberals have the feeling they are waving to him through a fence. Nor does one hear the name of Mr. Justice Douglas; in a curious way, Mr. Justice Douglas becomes less well known to the public each year, and he has been on the Supreme Court long enough by now, to seem a touch beyond earthly reach. Meanwhile the liberals are a headless body. They are divided among a thousand groutps, each acting on its own, each busily pur- sing whatever objective happens to enchant it at the moment. To be for world government is to be a liberal. To be for better child care is also to be a liberal. Mr. World Government, meet Mr. Child Care; they used to meet once in a while in Mr. Roosevelt's antecham- ber. But he is gone, and now they have only a nodding acquaintance. Mr. Roosevelt gave American lib- eralism a disciplining touch, as well as a common meeting-place. When he decided that a particular year was not a good year in which to press for housing reform, there would be no major fight for housing re- form in that year; advocates of housing might grumble, and com- plain, and be cross, but in the end, they would accept the late Presi- dent's strategic guidance and sup- port the rest of his program. Mr. Roosevelt gave liberalism an agenda. This is liberalism's greatest lack at the moment; it has no earthly idea of what is first on the order of the day. Liberalism today is a kind of off-stage sound effect, a con- tinuous hubbub in which one can, if one strains, hear referencesto price control and veterans' housing and better international relations; but the sounds blend, without much differentiation, into something like the roar of the Sea, a noise to which the ear becomes so accustomed that it cannot hear it. In thesecircumstances, it is emotionally easier to be a conser- vative. Conservatism is a defensive philosophy, and it is always sim- pler to conduct a defensive strug- gle than an offensive one.. Besides, conservatism is self-organizing, to a certain degree; it is the only political philosophy which makes Allies of inertia and apathy; no other can use them. It is easier on the psyche to be against a thousand things than for them; and, when one does not know where to go, it is natural to sit down. One wonders, then, what form, the liberal movement is going to take. There has always been a liberal movement in America; there is no question of its ending; the only ques- tion is that of what shape it will as- sume during the next chapter. The inescapable first job of American liberalism today is to find a substi- tute for the gant figure of Mr. Roosevelt. Intelligent conservatives as well as intelligent liberals will be interested in watching the process closely; only the unintelligent will assume that there is to be no pro- cess, that things come to an end, and stop dead. Perhaps there will be an organization of organizations among liberal groups; perhaps a na- tional conference at which liberals will come out of their back yards to meet each other again. One senses stirrings; one remembers the amal- gamation of intellectuals and trade unionists which became the British Labor Party. That liberalism will in some way, still unseen, reorganize itself on a different level to make up for what it has lost in F.D.R. seems inevitable. Even the current political apathy is only a passage in the story; and the apathy has already, to a certain ex- tent, been externalized, and objecti- vized. There is apathy, but more and more people are ditting about, not being apathetic, but talking about apathy; and when apathy be- comes recognized as a problem it may cease to be a disease. We are in for a complicated time, but it will not be a frozen time, of immobile figures quietly holding present poses. (Copyright, 1946, N.Y.. Post Syndicate) .1 Do you mean your American Way or my American Way, Senator? --- ...-, . BILL MAULDIN A- DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN , y 1 1 r \ r 9 Publication in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all me - 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>. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1946 VOL. LVI, No. 1S WITH THIS ISSUE, The Daily resumes pub- lication for the summer. During the eight week sessions, we will strive to maintain our half century-old tradition of bringing the cam- pus news of itself and of the outside world. The Daily Editorial Page will continue to pro- vide in the Letters to the Editor columns a meet- ing,place for the views of any and all in the campus community who care to be read. Only limits on letters are that they be in good taste and less than 300 words. Those meeting these requirements will be printed, with the editors reserving the right to withhold letters reiterat- ing points a}ready made. Two features have been added to the Edi- torial Page, in accordance with our policy of bringing Daily readers the newest and best. In addition to Samuel Grafton's famous column "I'd Rather Be Right", and to "Barnaby", we will carry Bill Mauldin's sardonically humorous cartoon, and Harold L. Ickes' new column. rfODAY, AS NEVER BEFORE, the University is intimately connected not only to the state and nation, but to the world. Any doubts as to the small size and complete integration of news events in Ann Arbor with those elsewhere may well have been dispelled, conveniently for our purposes, today, with the announcement of Prof. Sawyer's appointment.-If it was difficult to see last week, it should be apparent today, that Bikini is in our backyard. The Daily will endeavor to bring news of the more obscure and distant sections of its readers' backyard to them, together with the latest developments nearer. at hand. In harmony with this world in which one can only barely survive without knowing,, the University is bringing education now to more students than ever before. This term, like the last one will break all previous enrollment re- cords. The Daily welcomes its host of new readers, and wishes them luck in solving the riddle: Where does an ever-expanding University and an ever-shrinking world meet? -Milt Freudenheim -Paul Harsha Public Servants DISILLUSIONED AMERICANS who shake their heads disgustedly at the curious high- jinks of some of our public servants should take heart when they read of the'establishment this semester of the Institute of Public Administra- tion, headed by Prof. John A. Perkins of the political science department. The Institute will take over the former cur- riculum in public administration offered by the Graduate School. Offering a two-year graduate curriculum leading to the degree of Master of Public Administration, it seeks to create efficient administrators in a field where efficiency is all too frequently at a premium. Government as a profession can offer wide opportunities today to young men who will school themselves in public service. The Insti- tute with a well-rounded curriculum will make this schooling possible by including courses in the School of Business Administration, the College of Architecture and Design, the College of Engineering, the Law School, the political science, economics, sociology and psychology departments of the literary college, and inter- l ~Cope. 946 by U, *J Fat., Syi cm.Inc. T 9 Rg. U. S. Pat, Off-All rights *ie:.od1 ! f -I 141.A..t Lectures Notice to Veterans: All veterans, training under Public Law 16 or 346, who have been in training for 30 days or more and have not received their subsistence allowance checks for the month of May, should con- tact the Veterans Administration on Wednesday, July 3, 1946. A survey is being made by the Regional Office of the Veterans Ad- ministration to expedite payment of delayed subsistence allowance due. This survey will be conducted be- tween the hours of 8:00- a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, 1946: in Room 100 Rackham Building. Flying Club: A special business meeting will be held Tuesday, July 2, in room 1042 East Engineering Building at 7:30 p.m. A few member- ship openings are still available. All students and members of the faculty are invited to attend. Summer Session Chorus, MTWTh, 7 to 8 p.m. Room 506 Tower. All stu- dents on campus invited. Full information regarding teach- ing opportunities for dependents schools service in Germany is now available at the Bureau of Appoint- ments. Persons interested in seeing representative will be notified as to his arrival if the Bureau has proper addresses and telephone numbers. The representative is scheduled to be in Ann Arbor early in July. graduate houses are expected to make individual arrangements with their housemothers if it is necessary to be out after closing hours. For other student government reg- ulations, women students are referred to the pamphlet "Campus Regula- tions-House Rules" copies of which are available in the Office of the Social Director, Michigan League. Housing. for women students for the fall semester: (1) Women students now enrolled who have dormitory applications on file in the Office of the Dean of Women will be notified during July of their assignments. (2) Those who have applied through this office for supplement- ary housing and been referred are advised to sign contracts with de- posits immediately with the individ- ual League Housemothers. (OT"Those who are enrolled for the summer session who still need to apply for housing for the fall semes- ter are advised to call at the Office of the Dean of Women immediately, provided their admission is not lim- ited to the summer session only. Academic Notices College of Literature, Scietice and the Arts, Schools of Education, For- estry, Music and Public Health: Stu- dents who received marks of I or X at the close of their last semester or summer session of attendance will re- ceive a grade of E in the course or courses unless this- work is made up by August 1. Students wishing an extension of time beyond this date in order to make up this work should file a petition addressed to the ap- propriate official in their school with Room 4, U.H. Where it will be trans- mitted. BARNABY I've composed a simple advertisement, m'boy. Which I'll telephone in-If you approve. Available. Architect's dream house. Seven commodious rooms. Two baths. Terraces. Sun porch. Billiard room. Easy terms arranged. 7-1 r Oh, we may be annoyed by the curious. And the idle. People, with nothing better to do, who will want to look at my masterpiece. And not buy. However, your Fairy Godfather is an old hand at separating the wheat from the chaff. -0 I I. By Crockett Johnson Hello, operafor . . . But you haven't built the house yet, Mr. O'Malley. 74 The Museum of Art presents "Pio- neers °of Modern. Art in America," an exhibition from the Whitney Mu- seum of American Art, at the Rack- ham Galleries, weekdays, 2-5 and 7-10 p.m., through July 20. The pub- lie is cordially invited. State of Michigan Civil Service Announcements have been received in this office for: 1) School Administration Super- visor III, $300 to $360. 2) School Administration Super- visor V, $465 to $565. 3) Industrial Therapy Shop Fore- man A, $170 to $190. 4) Industrial Therapy Shop Fore- man I, $200 to $240. 5) Blind School Piano Instructor AI, $180 to $200. 6) Hospital Physician III, $300 to $360.; 7) Hospital Physician IV,- $380 to $440. 8) Hospital Physician IVA, $420 to $480. 9) Hospital Physician V, $465 to $565. 10) Building and Loan Examiner II, $250 to $290. 11) Building and Loan Examiner III, $300 to $360. 12) Ferries Executive III, $300 to $360. 13) Chemist I, $200 to $240. 14) Chemist II, $250 to $290. Graduate Students: Preliminary examinations in French and Ger- man for the doctorate will be held on Friday, July 5, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rack- ham Building. Dictionaries may be used. Corrections in Summer Session Time Schedule pertaining to courses in chemistry: Section 25 of Course 4 should be deleted. The word "Lab." under Course 21 should in each, case be dropped one line. The lectures in Course 169 are to be at 11 instead of 9. Events Today Dr. Presten Slosson of the Depart- ment of. History will speak in the Rackham Amphitheatre at 4:10 this afternoon on the topic Interpreting the News. French Tea: There will be a French Tea today at 4 p.m. in the Cafe- teria of theMichigan League. All students interested in informal French conversation are cordially in- vited. Coming Events Advertising Department... I have a house I'd like Mind now- Make sure it gets a prominent display. I don't want the ad buried. Wait! Let's not Believe it or not, he even said he'd accept a REASONABLE offer -. r- .. -, When the people come to see the house ... What are you going to show