THE MICHIGAN DAILY Fifty-Sixth Year eoietteri to the 6/ito p Dominie Says This is the first of a series of guest columns of DOMINIE SAYS. It was writ- ten by Prof. Theodore Newcomb, of the sociology department at the request of Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, Counselor in Religious Education. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN "P""'""" '!" '4 I Your Last Chance . r II' -C I 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 Hecht University ............................Natalie Bagrow Sports ................................... Jack Martin Women's .................................. Lynne Ford Business Stafff Business Manager:......................Janet Cork Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Assocated Press is exclusively entitled to the. use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of re- piblication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, a second-class mail matter. Subscription during 'the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945.46 NIGHT EDITOR: NATALIE BAGROW Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Brazilian Haven SPEAKING in behalf of the largest country of South America, Joao Alberto, chairman of the Brazilian Immigration Council, announced a few days ago that 100,000 to 800,000 displaced persons from Europe might be permitted to enter Brazil. This statement followed Senhor Alberto's re- turn from a visit to the United States, where he conferred with both American and British au- thorities. He also declared that a study of immi- gration problems at close range will be carried out in Brazil next month by an Anglo-American Committee. While Brazil is offering this plan as a solu- tion to the problem of D. P.'s, she has neverthe- less felt it necessary to impose certain condi- tions upon the offer. Displaying an estimate of $400 as being the cost of transporting one per- son from Central Europe to Brazil, she has suggested that the United Nations bear the costs of this possible mass migration. In addition, only Europeans are sought by the Brazilians, especially those who will enter agri- cultural occupations. Religious and political sta- tus of the Europeans will not be asked, This offer, as well as most of its conditions, seems an excellent one. In the first place it is not very probable that any sizeble number of Europeans would go to Brazil unless UN did finance the trips. Moreover, Brazil is large and relatively uncrowded. The density of her population is about one-fourth to one-third that of the United States. Being essentially an agricultural country she would have ample em- ployment opportunities to offer displaced emi- grants from Europe. Some may contend that she lies totally within the tropics; however, this is offset in many areas by such varying conditions as rainfall, altitude, prevailing winds and distances from the sea. The United Nations and its various members who have been lately bickering over the prob- lem of what to do with displaced persons should consider the advantages of Brazilian land as a haven for the homeless. -Joan de Carvajal Unwanted Return IF THE ATTITUDES of five housewives queried yesterday by a Daily reporter are any indi- cation of general public opinion, the return of price controls will have little or no effect in remedying the ridiculously exorbitant prices which now prevail in Ann Arbor's grocery stores and meat markets. "The return of OPA will only serve to prolong the situation, which will be just what it is :ow if not worse when controls are taken off again" was the general opinion expressed by these housewives. Four of the housewives were vehemently in favor of a buyers' strike. The fifth declared that she was "against any form of extreme action" and said that she was of the opinion that "if consumers would only use their common sense the situation will right itself without the neces- sity of government interference." This attitude is erroneous since the food store proprietors are largely not to blame for the sky- rocketing price hikes. A buyers' strike cannot be effective because, as one housewife put it, "people must eat.'' All the housewives admitted that we are now in danger of experiencing "a little inflation," but did not seem to realize that "a little in- flation" is about as logical as a slight pregnancy. Careful and planned control is desperately needed. Exemptions which account for more than 50 percent of the cost of food negate the TESDAY MAY BE the last chance. By that date, the final decision on price control will be pending before Congress. The AVC parade and rally, scheduled for Tuesday, may be, there- fore, the last chance for students and faculty to demand effective price control. It may be Congress' last chance too-the last chance to prove to the nations' veterans that the wartime promises were sincere. For, with a spiralling inflation, most of the provisions of the GI Bill will become a fraud. The $65 and$90 per month subsistence is barely sufficient now; with inflation (already there is a 20 per cent rise in the cost of living) the allotments are not enough. Veterans (and non-veteran) students will be forced to leave .school; there will be an intellectual and economic loss to the nation. Remember the promises? Because the ser- viceman lost money and youth, the govern- ment would finance his neglected education? Veterans housing is also lost. Pricesare so high only $10,000 homns can be built and prices are rising higher. Wht veteran has $10,000? Remember the fox-h le dream? The white house with the picket fence that, after the war, the veteran could hope to build? Inflation's effect on the rest of the nation will be equally devastating. All those on fixed in- comes, such as professors, University adminis- tratorA disabled veterans, will find it almost impossible to cope with rising costs. The laborer will be forced to fight a losing battle to boost IN CONGRESS: The Housingf ill EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series of weekly articles which will discuss current legislation now pending in Congress. THE WAGNER-ELLENDER-TAFT BILL, now stalled in the House of Representatives Banking and Currency Committee, is Congress' answer to the problem of supplying the needed 12,500,000 homes for Americans during the next ten years This bill to establish a long range National Housing Policy and provide for ,its execution is designed to do the following: 1. Encourage private enterprise to serve as large a part of the total housing need as it can. 2. Utilize government assistance to enable private enterprise to serve more of the total housing need. 3. Provide governmental aid to clear the slums and provide housing for low-income groups in localities which estimate their needs and show that these needs cannot be fully met by private enterprise. Fundamentally the bill provides grants on a matching basis to local governments to permit them to make surveys and studies of housing and community developments in preparation for urban redevelopment and low-rent projects. Consistent with a policy of endouraging pri- vate enterprise, the bill grants more favorable loan terms to families of lower incomes and by means of a special "yield insurance" encourages private investment in the moderate income rental-housing by guaranteeing a 2% per annum return to 100 per cent investors for a maximum period of 45 years or until 90 per cent of the original investment has been unamortized. After a community has worked out a compre- hensive plan for its housing program, the bill, by loans amounting to $500,000,000 and out- right contributions of $20,000,000 per year to local housing agencies, provides for the re- development or rehabilitation of slum and blighted areas only when it has been ascertained that the area cannot be developed by privately financed capital without federal government aid. In the low-rent housing field where private enterprise cannot profitably go, the bill pro- vides that upon the approval of the governing body of the locality, the Federal Public Housing Authority can make low interest loans or pro- vide subsidy contributions to encourage this type of construction. Rural housing conditions also stand to be im- proved under the provisions of the Senate bill which authorizes 40-year, three percent loans to rural families of modest income as well as pro- viding for a plan of loans and annual contri- butions for families of very low incomes in the farm and rural areas. If the bill is passed, the National Housing Administrator would present at least once a year a report to Congress of estimated housing needs, and progress made in meeting these needs and recommendations. This so-called "Long-Term Housing Program" Bill passed the Senate on April 15 and is now being held up in the House Committee on Bank- ing and Currency. The only strong opposition to the bill thus far has come from a few die-hard building interests who are opposed to all phases of governmental operation in the housing field. Action on the bill is now being held up, not by any strong lobby but rather by Congres- sional indifference to it. Congress is expected to adjourn by early Aug- ust so that if the bill is not reported out of Committee soon it will die with the recess of Congress and the nation will be without a long- range housing program at least until next spring.' -Tom Walsh his wages 'with each successive price rise. And the accumulated savings of the average citizen will be drained away, not spent for new cars, new homes, a college education, but withered away to .meet the high cost of living. The pur- chasing power of these dollars might have been used to maintain prosperity. What good is a war bond? Inflation also condemns to death millions of people overseas. With no ceilings on grain or mheat, the farmers will fatten their cattle with grain rather than sell the grain to the U.S. at fixed prices. Furthermore, with inflated prices, relief money will not buy as much as antici- pated. Less farm machinery, less clothing, less food; more corpses. The question is this: Is Senator Taft an ac- complice to mass murder? Wyho is more guilty, Wherry of Nebraska or Himmler of the Rhine- land? It has been the policy of the U.S. to consider the whole German nation guilty of the horrors of the concentration camps. Yet only an insig- nificant fraction of the Germans actually com- mitted the atrocities. When millions die overseas because the U.S. did not do enough, because we speculated with grain and equipment when men were starving for the lack of them, then we too, everyone of us, is guilty. The people of Ann Arbor and the University will have one last chance Tuesday to square their consciences. A large, vigorous rally may persuade last-minute Congression fence sitters, may prevent American economic catastrophe and foreign starvation. One note of hope emerges from this crisis: the emergence into the national scene of the American Veterans Committee, an organization which has not yelped for bonuses and special privileges, but has fought for the real, the im- portant things-housing legislation, anti-infla- tion legislation, full employment, just and last- ing peace. There is still hope for price control. The last chance for everyone will take place at 4 p.m. Tuesday at State and Huron streets in the AVC's sponsored "Smash Inflation" parade and rally. -Trina Mascott SBOOKS MEMOIRS OF HECATE COUNTY, by Edmund Wilson, Doubleday, New York, 1946, $2.50, 338 pages. EDMUND WILSON has long been established as one of America's leading critics, one of the few serious critics. He is best known for such books as Axel's Castle, a group of critical essays on the Symbolist movement. Unlike most critics, however, he has left himself open to at- tack by writing some fiction as well. His latest novel is Memoirs of Hecate County. After read- ing much of the current fiction, it is most re- freshing to stumble upon some good writing, and Mr. Wilson has proved that at least some Amer- icans have mastered the English language. Although called a novel, Memoirs of Hecate County is really a series of short sketches or stories about a group of suburbanites living in Hecate County. They are interrelated, however, and taken as a whole, present a group of lives belonging to what is known as the lost gener- ation. They are not lost in the usual sense, but are instead overtaken by a positive force of evil. True, they are groping for some sort of faith, but they are plagued and undone by this evil. Mixed with these characters is a good deal of Wilson's though about current problems, which is not, however, too convincing. It is always a genuine pleasure to read well- written fiction these days, no matter what one may think about the subject matter. The so- called lost generation of the last war has been fictionalized and sermonized upon many times. Here, however, it is given a new twist. One might quarrel with Wilson's ideas, and perhaps he is not very convincing as a commentator on world problems. He takes a middle-of-the- road liberal attitude and is afraid of the Com- munists as he is of the ghosts which pursue him. ,But he can present his characters. And the book at least poses a challenge which can- not be overlooked. Certainly Memoirs of Hec- ate County is one of the best pieces of fiction to be published recently. --Margery Wald **,* General Library Booklist Lewis, Clive Staples That Hideous Strength New York, Macmillan, 1946 Maugham, William Somerset Then and Now New York, Garden City, Doubleday, 1946 Saroyan, William The Adventures of Wesley Jackson New York, Harcourt, 1946 Smith, Chard Powers The Housatonic. Puritan River New York, Rinehart, 1946 Wallace, Henry A. Soviet Asia Mission New York, Reynal, 1946 WE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS are al- ways being perturbed by the fact that every man is his own expertt in matters of economics, psychology, etc. This popular expertness takes several forms. There's the big-heart- ed, tolerant type: "Of course it's all a matter of opinion, and one man's guess is as good as another's." Or the common-sense, dogmatic ap- proach: "You don't have to read a book to know that; why only last week I had an experience . Now there is a sense in which every man must be his own expert in a democracy. But informed ex- pertise is likely to have better re-] suits than uninformed, and it hap- pens that there are several ques- tions to which the answers are known. Go ahead and guess if you want to, Mr. Everyman. It's" a free country. You have the priv- ilege of believing that vaccination" helps to prevent small-pox or that it doesn't. Take your choice. You are also permitted to believe that there is something inborn and therefore inevitable about disliking people of racial origins different from one's own. You know-it's instinc- tive, just natural. "Why, my little girl cried her eyes out first time she seen a nigger . . Well, water doesn't run uphill andj 'children don't spontaneously develop hostile racialvattitudes. Both are facts. Mr. Everyman is in a posi- tion to check the first fact, but not the second. Besides, he doesn't get very emotional about the laws oft gravity, while he finds it very com- forting to know that he is better than] Jews or people with colored skins.j Facts are things which you ig- nore at your peril. The day of reckoning may be far removed.1 You may escape it yorself, or1 perhaps only your neigh bors or your grand-children will have to , pay the price. We'll all have to] make one pretty steep payment for the next six years; Senator Bilbo has been returned to office. "You can't .change human nature, and therefore . . ." Finish the sent- ence for yourself. My pet dogmatism will do. There will always be wars, because man is pugnacious. Capital--" ism is the only form of social order which will endure, because man is competitive. The poor ye have always with you, because most men are lazy or stupid or both. People will al-1 ways be selfish, intolerant, jealous or vain because .. . A good deal is now known aboutt "human nature"; it's the social sci- entist's business to observe it. He finds it both selfish and unselfish, co-operative and competitive, hostile and friendly-that is, if you mean by the term what actually occurs' when people are observed. If, on the other hand, you mean simply the limitations and compulsions' traceable to man's biological make- up, there isn't much you can say about it except that people have to eat, drink, sleep, etc., and that they cannot digest stones or breathe water, etc. Man can be competitive but he doesn't have to; it depends upon the conditions in which he finds himself. Not all men are competitive, and there just isn't any evidence that they have to be. None. The things people do, the ways in which they do them, and even the things they want to do have always been changing. "Human nature" is change-loving as well as change-re- sisting. That is, people do seek change (under certain conditions) and they can change (under certain conditions). And we know a good deal about the conditions."' Facts? Sure. Ignore 'em at your peril. -Theodore Newcomb French Opposition Molotov's statement on Germany to the Council of Foreign Ministers appeared at the first glance to indi- cate a shift in the Russian position nearer to those of America and Brit- ain. Disclaiming ideas of a peace of revenge, he argued against further dismemberment of the Reich, urged its political unification, and pro- claimed the necessity its industrial revival in the interests of European economy. All these ideas have been supported by Britain and, though with less urgency, by the United States. On the other hand they con- flict totally with the policies of France which has always insisted that the industrial Rhineland must be sep- arated politically and economically from the rest of Germany lest it again serve as the arsenal of aggres- sion. --Nation Monday, July 22, at 11:00 a.m. in the University High School Auditor- s ium. The topic will be "Is Democracy a Retreating or Advancing in the u World?" The public is invited to at- s tend. t b There will be a lecture Tuesday, s July 23 at 11:00 a.m. in the Univers- F ity High School Auditorium. Theo. dore M. Newcomb, Professor of Soc- iology, will speak on "Some Current Social Trends." . There will be a lecture "Where Will 1 the Jobs Be?" discussed by panel of business and industrial leaders on Tuesday, July 23 at 4:00 p.m. in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Chairman: T. Luther Purdom, Director of thes University Bureau of Appointments. t Dr. Preston W. Slosson, ProfessorI of History, and radio commentator,1 will give a series of discussions oft current events, each Tuesday, of thef Summer Session in the Rackham Amphitheatre at 4:10 p.m. under the auspices of the Summer Session The public is invited to attend. A lecture will be given Tuesday, July 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham ' Lecture Hall. The topic is "How Doi You Look to anhEmployer?" Demon- stration of right and wrong dress,c manner, and speech. Chairman: T. Luther Purdom, Director of the Uni- versity Bureau of Appointments. t Gaylord W. Anderson, Professor,c School of Public Health, UniversityF of Minnesota, will give a lecture Tues-E day, July 23 at 8:10 p.m. in thev Rackham Amphitheatre. The topicc is "The Political Impact of Modern I Science on Public Health." Professor J. M. Cowan of Cornell University, Director of the IntensiveI Language Program, will speak under the auspices of the Linguistic Insti- tute on the subject: "Linguistics and7 Foreign Language Teaching", ont Wednesday, July 24 in the Amphi-I theatre of the Rackham Building atc 7:30 p.m.- Academic Notices Political Science 2 make-up final exam will be given Thursday, Julyc 25 at 1:00 p.m., Room 2037 Angells Hall. L History Language Examination for the M.A. Degree: Saturday, July 27th, 10 o'clock, Room B, Haven Hall.4 Each student is responsible for his own dictionary. No other anguage examination to be given this summer Speech Assembly: Charles H. Mere- I dith, Director, Le Petit Theatre duI Vieux Carre, will speak on "Theatre"e at the Speech Assembly Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Attendance is required of all Speech concentrates, teaching majors and minors in Speech, andg all graduate students working to- ward degrees in Speech. Open to the public.; Graduate Students: Courses may be dropped with record from July 8t until July 27. - . By a recent ruling of the Executive Board of the Graduate School, courses dropped after July 27 will be recorded with a grade of E. Concerts Yves Tinayre, baritone, will pre- sent the first of two recitals at 8:30 Sunday evening, July 21, in the First Presbyterian Church. A well-known interpreter of vocal art, Mr. Tin- ayre has planned a program to in- clude medieval and renaissance sacred; and secular songs. A guest lecturer in the School of Music, he will be as- sisted in the program by Emil Raab and Margaret Kay, violinists, Eliz- abeth Lewis, violist, Mary Oyer, cel- list and Frieda Op't Holt Vogan, organist. The second program will be given the followingSunday, July 28, in the same church. The general public is invited. Carillon Recital: At 3 p.m. Sunday day afternoon, July 21, Percival Price, University Carillonneur, will present a recital on the Charles Baird Carillon in Burton Memorial Tower. Included in his program will be a group of American airs, Suite for carillon by Barber, two hymns, and Berceuse, Op. 57 by Chopin. Student Recital: Ruby Joan Kuhl- man, pianist, will present a program at 8:30 Thursday evening, July 25, in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building. Given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the regree of Master of Music, Miss Kuhlman's re- cital will include Tocatta D minor by Bach, Etudes symphoniques by Schumann, Sonata K. 333 by Mozart, and Sonata Op. 30 by Scriabine. The public is cordially invited. Lecture-Recital: The third pro- gram in the current series of lecture- recitals by Lee Pattison, pianist, will (Continued from Page 3) Events Today The Graduate Outing Club has cheduled an afternoon of sports and a picnic for Sunday, July 21. Grad- uate students planning to attend hould pay the supper fee of 50c at he checkroom desk in the Rackham building, before Friday night and hould meet at the club rooms in the Rackham Building at 2:30 p.m. Sun- day. Use the northwest entrance. Pre-Activity Conference for all members of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Sunday, July 21, West Par- or, Mosher Hall, 3:00 p.m. Comingvents Graduate Students in Speech: A symposium on practical theatre will be held at 4 p.m. Monday in the West Conference room of the Rack- ham Building for graduate students n the Department of Speech. At- tendance is required of applicants for advanced degrees who are spec- alizing in theatre. The Russian Circle (Russky Kru- hok) will meet at 8:00 p.m., Monday, July 22, in the International Center. Features of the evening will be the showing of slides depicting the vari- ous nationalities of the Soviet Un- on, recordings of Russian songs, and tea served from the samovar. Every- one interested is Invited to attend. French Club: The third meeting of the French Club will take place Mox- day, July 22, at 8 p.m. in room 305 of the Michigan Union. Mr. Philippe Roulier, a French student in the School of Forestry and Conservation, will tell his experiences in France during the war: his informal talk is entitled: "Paris sous l'occupation." Group singing and social hour. Spanish Teas: Every Tuesday and Friday, language tables will convene in the League cafeteria at 4 p~m. for nformal conversation practice. On Thursdays, the group will meet at the International Center 0t 4 p.m. All students interested in practicing Spanish conversation are invited to attend. Bridge Night: The International Center announces Bridge Night in the International Center, Wednes- day, July 24, at 7:30 p.m. Foreign students, their friends, American stu- dents and faculty interested in play- ng bridge are cordially invited. French Tea Tuesday, July 23, at 4 p.m. in the cafeteria of the Mich- gan League. Flying Club: There will be a meet- ing of the board of the University Flying Club at 6:45 p.m., July 23, 1946 in Rm 1042 of the East Engin- eering Building. ~Churches First Church of Christ,- Scientst, 409 S. Division Street. Wednesday evening service at 8:00. Sunday morning service at 10:30. Subject: "Life." Sunday School at 11:45. A special reading room is main- tained by this church at 706 Wolver- ine Building, Washington at Fourth where the Bible, also the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy may be read, borrowed or pur- chased. Open daily except Sundays and holidays from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lutheran Student Association: The Sunday morning Bible Study Class will meet at 9:15 at the Center, 1304 Hill Street. Sunday morning worship services will be held .in both Zion Lutheran and Trinity Lutheran Churches at 10:30. The Lutheran Student Association Sunday evening meeting will be at the home of Prof. and Mrs. Ralph Hammett, 1425 Pon- tiac. The group will meet at 4:30 at Zion Parish Hall, E. Washington St., and leave from there. The pro- gram will follow the picnic supper. Prof. Howard McClusky of the School of Education will be the speaker. First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw. Morning Worship service at 10:45 a.m. Dr. Lemon's sermon topic: "When People Disagree." Summer Guild at 5:30 p.m. in the Social Hall. Supper will be served by Mrs. J. C. Seeley, and the host and hostess will be Prof. and Mrs. M. W. Senstius. The group will at- tend the Summer School Program at the First Congregational Church at 7:00 p.m. Grace Bible Church, State and Huron Streets, Harold J. DeVries, pastor. Phone 2-1121. 10:00 a.m. Bible School. University class. 11:00 a.m. Morning message given by Rev. Ralph Reed, pastor of First Baptist Church in Wayne. 12:45 p.m. "Your Radio Choir." 6:30 p.m. Youth Hour. 7:30 p.m. Dr. Milton Gabler of the I . BARNABY By Crockett Johnson em . . Assuage your fears, m'boy. The Town Council will approve your Fairy Godfather's plan to b ,n ont. n rf.t.nrn a ,, ~trnr. mlal.-.-_ The Council will come to order- Who's rmTWT behind him? s O'alley?), - / Who's SI ~~