THE MICHIiAN DAIL SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947 FIid&-zr nh Yeatr ifty-$eveuth Year I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: BILL MAULDIN UnWsenAction Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigang under the authority of the Board in Control of student Publications. Editorial Staff Managing Editors ... John Campbell, Clyde Recht Vs'ociate Editor .......... ....... Eunice Mint Sports Editor ..................... Archie Parsons Business Staff eneral Manager .................Edwin Schneider Advertising Manager .......... William Rohrbach Circulation ManagerM........... ....vein Tick Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to Lhe use for re-publication of all news dispatches ;redited to it or otherwise credited in this news- )aper. All rights of republication oftall other ,matters herein also reserved. g ntered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, as second class mail inatter. Subscrption during the regular school year by carrier, $5.00, by mail, $6.00. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1946-47 Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN CAMPBELL Congress THE HECTIC ATMOSPHERE of this fin- al week of the Congressional session is not unlike those desparate last days before finals. There's been that same dilly-dallying, the familiar procrastination during the course of the term. It has led to the same frantic realization that the clock is running out. There are the same efforts to catch up with delinquent assignments. There's a familiar resignation in the awareness that pow is no time to think about improving our mind-or our country. We're concerned now solely with a pass- ing 'grade-in the one case in the eyes of our teachers, in the other of our sup- porters, constituents or otherwise. And like the schoolboy trying to cram a semester's work into one frantic nig t, Congress realizes that some short cuts are necessary. Staying up all night with props of benzadrine or hot coffee won't do the trick. There aren't that many hours in the night, So, it becomes necessary to schedule the work over the hours-to discard the least necessary aspects of our work, to concentrate on that which we will be held accountable for. Weore out for a passing grade. Congress has made such a must list. It's out for a passing grade too. But can there be hope of a passing grade when the biggest problem of domestic re- construction goes unresolved-when the Wagner-Ellender-Taft long-range housing bill does not make the "must" list? Can the Congress come through with bet- ter than a failing mark if it doesn't pass the Stratton bill and let the world know that 400,000 displaced persons can find refuge here, that the United States is sincere when it calls on nations to open their doors to those left homeless in the war's wake. What of the $250,00,000 asked by the President for flood control, t he long- range program to cushion for the people of the midwest and the nation as a whole the tremendous havoc annually wrought by the swelling of the Mississippi and its system? These aren't the only bills of long-range value for the many that seem likely to stand aside in favor of immediate gains for the few. But they're typical. And they indicate that our congressmen need something more than benzadrine tablets, something more than a handy guide to the most immediately gainful legislation. They need something in way of statesmanship and foresight-not much, but some. Otherwise they must be resigned to a failing grade. -Ben Zwerling RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT has re- jected the American invitation to a pre- liminary conference of eleven powers repre- sented in the Far Eastern Commission, called for the purpose of preparing a peace treaty with Japan. Furthermore, the Rus- sians denounce this effort to speed peace in the Far East as a "unilateral" action on the part of the United States and demand that the matter of drafting a Japanese treaty be turned over to the Council of For- eign Ministers, to which they would admit China for this undertaking, but from which they would bar France. This Russian action will scarcely come as a surprise. For it is in line with that policy of total obstruction of all peace ef- forts which the Russian Government has pursued since the end of the war not only in the Council of Foreign Ministers, but By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE ACTION OF the British in forcing 4500 Jewish refugees back from Pales- tine to France can only be described as un- Western. This is a new moral adjective. I have just made it up. But it seems to me that at a time when the West is taking a moral stance in world politics, particularly with reference to free-j dom, there can, unfortunately, be such a thing as un-Wesern behavior. When it oc- curs it is a black mark, not only against the nation guilty of it, but against the entire west, which is now joined in a club, or con- federation, of nations which take a moral position in world affairs. The spectacle of Britain, waddling angrily back to France, with 4500 of the poorest and weakest and most defenseless people in the world, is a blot against the west. The cruel ingenuity of turning the flight of the Jews into a grim game of parchesi, in which a stumble near the end means you have to go back to the be- ginning, has nothing very western in it. To show a decent respect for the opinions of mankind, perhaps we should lay off mak- ing speeches about western morality until these helpless Jews are landed in France and pushed back, as with a boot, into their former obscurity and anonymity. This has, in fact, been a bad week for the West. The wanton military attack by the putch on the Indonesians, during ac- tiaf negotiations toward a settlement, and in defiance of the native Republicans' will- ingness to accept arbitration, is also about MATTER OF FACT: Little Foxes By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP THE COUNTRY IS due for a barrage of pious platitudes about the accomplish- ments of the departing Congress, from par- tisans who wish to paint a charming pic- ture. There will be a holy silence, however, about one feature which has been as con- spicuous as it is uncharming. In the pres- ence of lobbyists, the Eightieth Congress of the United States has behaved like a blowsy chorus girl just starting on her second pint of rye. The fact is vitally important, and not merely to the American progressives who can hope that the triumphs of the lobbyists today will prepare for the triumps of pro- gressivism tomorrow. Sensible American conservatives must realize that holding a lobbyists' carnival at the Capitol is not a wise way to serve long-range conservative interests. Yet at this session, something very like the beginning of a lobbyists' car- nival has been plainly discernible. The power lobby is the most active, and most conspicuously well-heeled in Washington. . Its grand panjandrum, the high-powered P. L. Smith, representative of the National Association of Electrical Companies, gets a salary in the Holly- wood class-$65,000 annually with an ample expense account. But even the prosperous Smith is less important than the numerous officials of the large util- ities companies. These converge on the Capitol at frequent intervals to make the boys on the Hill see the power question in "the old, free enterprise way." Besides stirring up the sordid attack on David E. Lilienthal, the power people have scored major successes at this session with the appropriations committees. These comn- mittees are a natural field of operations, because of the views on public power held by the two chairmen, roaring old John Taber of New York and his more slick opposite number in the .Senate, Styles Bridges of New Hampshire.- Through the appropriations committee, in fact, the Federal power program nas een put into a slow stall, by snipping here and. chopping there at vital projects. The great Bonneville project, for example, is so under- maintained and over-loaded that the trans- formers are literally being cooled by having hoses played on them. Again, extension of power supply from the Shasta dam to sever- al important California municipalities was neatly prevented by the simple deletion of funds for a transmission line. And the Southwest Power Administration, which has to contend with especially strong political counter-influences in its Texas-Oklahoma- Arkansas area, also had its funds for trans- mission lines drastically cut. These achievements at the present session are obviously intended, however, to be only the hors d'oeuvres-the little snacks at ,the beginning of a much larger meal. For the first time in a good number of years ,the more unenlightened utilities leaders have been openly trying to put the clock back with legislation. The result has been a crop of strikingly significant bills-the Riz- ley bill, to free natural gas from regulation; the Dondero bill, to limit sales of public power and to deprive the public power- minded Interior Department of its juris- diction; the Thomas bill, which would have the effect of forbidding government con- struction of any further transmission lines. None of these bills has yet passed. But this does not trouble the power people. Their strategy obviously is to put on their real pressure drive Iater nn . when t as Western as Fujiyama, water-torture. If the West isn't going to behave in a Western manner, who on earth is? Is it really proper for one Western nation, which has been the willing recipient of military and other forms of aid from the remaining Western nations, and which, in fact, has had its neck saved by them, to plunge into a wild adventure of its own in this way, and to upset and distort the global picture of what the West can and should stand for in the af- fairs of men? It seems to me quite correct to set up a new perspecvtive of intra-Western duties, forbidding such independent action by any one Western nation on short notice and on its own say-so. If the Russians had em- barked upon any such enterprise as the Dutch have just commenced, half the head- line writers in America would have blown their brains out in sheer frustration at their inability to make the front-page banners big enough. The same moral indignation had better spray upon the Dutch, too, or we shall stand in some danger of conceding that ours is a selective indignation, and that we have conveniently divided the world into two categories of nations, those which can't be bad, and those which can't be good. If the word "Western" is to have mean- ing to the world, then the word "un-West- ern" will unavoidably come to have mean- ing, too. It is with perfect seriousness that one proposes a new categroy of international. sin, and that is for a Western nation to act in a manner that runs counter to that gen- eral position in regard to human freedom which the West is straining to take in this world. The least any nation can do when it feels the impulse coming on to hound some refugees or to bomb some natives is to hold its hand and to consult with the other Western nations. (copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation) CINEMA-_ CHILDREN OF PARADISE. A Pathe Film. (French dialogue, English subtitles.) Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Bras- seur. THE FOURTH PRESENTATION of the Art Cinema League's International Filrqi Program has been highly touted as "the French reply to Gone with the Wind." Of course, the makers of this film were not replying to anything-they were simply making a film as only the French know how. There can be little, if any, compari- son between French and- American films; each have their own merits and demerits. Les Enfants du Paradis has all the merits of the well-known French film tradition. Its essence is that curious blending of the tragi- comic which seems to characterize every movie of the French stamp. The principal protagonist is cast in the familiar ridiculous mold through which he achieves the whole- hearted sympathy of the audience. Jean- Louis Barrault is an unusually effective pan- tomime artist, as well as a superb actor. Arletty, as the beautiful lady with a con- fused sense of values, commands an amaz- ing mastery of the fine points of acting. The mob scenes, another characteristic of the French mnovie, are here presented a an integral part of the dramatic situation. the jostling, gay, angry, unheeding crowds give you the very feel of the story. And, finally, the minor chaacters are, as usual, all real personalities. The movie is long, but it has much more than can be compressed into this space to recommend it. -Natalie Bagrow IN A RECENT REPORT from Hungary, Daniel De Luce, Associated Press Corres- pondent and Pulitzer prize winner, stated Jews under the Soviet influence in Hun- gary have achieved more freedom from fear than at any other time during the twenti- eth century and far less than in most Euro- pean countries. Yet, here at home, in a country com- paratively untouched by war, anti-Semitism continues, as well as discrimination toward the Negroes. It is an old maxim that trouble and dis- aster will do away with petty pealousies and hates. Hungary, perhaps, is provir that idea., But isn't it possible to conquer the hates without a disaster? Must we in America have our country torn up, our government taken over by an enemy, many of our citi- zens killed or put in labor camps to develop tolerance? Must we be forced to work together re- building to see that a man is a man, to see that another can and will work just as we? Is there no other way in which we can learn these things without first going through almost complete chaos? -Daily Illini or1 the Chinese : Cus 14 yUit/F~ ar Ally' 6~,,a.,,, A ILY .FFIIL-22 I. Publication in The Daily Officia Bulletin is constructivenotice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Summer Session, Room 1213 Angell Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day pre- ceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 23 Notices Veterans receiving government educational benefits and who are enrolled for either the 512 or 6 weeks Summer Session are re- minded that their absenceareports are due by July 28th and may be deposited at any one of the sta- tions designated on the reverse side of the absence report card or may be mailed to the Veterans Service Bureau, Rackham Build- ing. Veterans are further reminded that the filing of an absence-re- port is a University regulation and must be complied with. Robert S Waldrop, Director Veterans Service Bureau Deadline for Veterans' Book and supply Requisitions. August 22,1947 has been set as the dead- line for the approval of Veterans' Book and Supply Requisitions for the Summer Session-1947. Re- quisitions will be accepted by the book stores through August 23, 1947. Doctoral Examination for Bur- ton Thomas Ostenson, Zoology; thesis: "FEcologic and Geographic Variation in Pelage Color of the Mammals in the Nebraska Sand- hills and Adjacent Area," Tues- day, July 29, at 2 p.m. in Room 3091, Natural Science Building. Chhairman, L. R. Dice. Ralph A. Sawyer General Placement: Attention, Civil Engineers: The Design Service Company of Cleve- land, Ohio will interview at the Bureau on Thursday, July 31st. Call extension 371 for appoint- ments. Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf. Differential Geometry Seminar Tuesday, 3 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Mr. C. M. Fowler will conclude his talk on Higher Helices. Mr. S. Conte will speak on Generalized Lines of Striction. Seniors: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Schools of Education, Music and Public Health: Tentative lists of seniors for August graduation have been posted on the bulletin Board in Room 4 University Hall. If your name does not appear, or if in- cluded there, is not correctly spelled, please notify the counter clerk. Edward G. Groesbeck Assistant Registrar The English Journal Club will present Mr. R. G. Shedd and Mr. A. Bezanker in a discussion of The Comic in Art, on Tuesday, July 29, at 7:45 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. They will apply the concepts of Aristotle, Meredith and Bergson to Congreve's Love for Love and Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace. The audience is invited to participate in discuss- Prof. Hugh E. Keeler will speak on "Modern Power Plants for Public Utilities and Industries" at a luncheon of the Michigan Chap- ter of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers at the Mich- igan Union at 12:30 today. Civil Service: The U.S. Civil Service Commis- sion announces federal examina- tions for Accountant and Auditor, Grades CAF-7 to CAF-12, posi- tions are in Washington, D.C. and in nearby Virginia and Maryland; Engineer, Grades P-2 to P-8, po- sitions located in Dayton and Wil- mington, Ohio, with the Arny Air Forces, War Department. State of Michigan Civil Serv- ice Commission announces exam- ination for Industrial Part-Time Education Supervisor IV; Right of Way Assistant, II & III; and Conservation Representative. Con- tact the Bureau of Appointments for further information. General Placement: A representative from the Girls Scouts' Chicago office will be at the Bureau of Appointments on Tuesday, July 29, to interview women for openings in their Field Department. Requirements in- clude a degree and some experi- ence in Education, Sociology, Per- sonnel, or Group Work. Twenty- three years is the minimum age acceptable. Call extension 371 for an appointment. Davidson's Brothers, Inc., De- troit, will have a representative at our office on Tuesday, July 29, to interview men and women in- terested in executive training for department store work. Call ex- tension 371 for an appointment. Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf. Civil Service: City of Detroit Civil Service Commission announces examina- tions for Intermediate Clerk (Male); Jr. Public Health Nurse; Communicable Disease Nrse; General Staff Nurse;and Pubic Health Nurse. Call at the Bur- eau for further information. General Placement: The Proctor & Gamble Dis- tributing Company, Detroit, will be at the Bureau of Appointments on Monday, July 28, to interview men interested in Sales. Call ex- tension 371 for appointment. Victor Chemical Works, Chica- go, will be at the Bureau on Wed- nesday, July 30, to interview grad- uates for Chemical Engineers, and Chemists (Analytical, Organic, Bio-chemistry, and food Technol- ogy). Call extension 371 for ap- pointment. Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf. History Language Examination for the M.A. degree: Saturday, August 2, at 10 o'clock, Room B, Haven Hall. Eeach student is re- sponsible for his own dictionary and also must register at the His- tory Department Office before taking the examination. La Sociedad Hispanica meets every Tuesday and Wednesday for informal conversation at 3:30 p.m. and every Thursday for tea at the International Center. All those interested in speaking Span- ish are invited to attend. La Sociedad Hispanica presents Mr. Emiliano Gallo Ruiz from the Romance Languages Department who will speak on "La Estetica de This lecture will take place on Wednesday, July 30 in the East Conference Room of the Rack- ham Building at 8 p.m. The lec- ture will be illustrated with re- productions of paintings by Diego Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros. All students and other interested are invited to attend the lecture. Pi Lambda Theta's final meet- ing will be a picnic at Shirley Mattern's home. Members will moet at the University Elementary School Library at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. July 29. Rides will be arranged at that time. La p'tite causette meets every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 in the Grill Room of the Michigan League and on Thursdays at 4:00 at the International Center. All students interested in informal French conversation are cordially invited to join this group. Charles E. Koella The French Club will hold its sixth meeting on Thursday, July 31, at 8 p.m. in the second floor Terrace Room of the Michigan Union. Professor Ernest F. Haden will give an informal talk entitled: "Les Acadiens dans l'est du Cana- da." Miss Anne Battley will sing some French songs. Group sing- ing, games, refreshments. All stu- dents interested -are cordially in- vited. Charles E. Koella The Russian Circle will meet Monday evening at the Interna- tional Center at 8 o'clock. Madam Pargment will lecture on Contem- porary Russian Literature. The Midern Poetry Club will meet in room 3217 Angell Hall on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Members poetry will be discussed. Lectures Dr. Hugh Borton, Chief of the Division of Northeast Asian Af- fairs, Department of State, will lecture on "United States Occupa- tion Problems and Policies in Ja- pan and Korea," Tuesday, July 29, at 4:10 p.m., Rackham Amphi- theatre. This is a lecture in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs." The public is invited. Dr. John H. Giese from the Ball- istics Research Laboratory, Aber- deen, Maryland, will give three lectures on "The Differential Geo- metry of Compressible Flows with Degenerate Hodographs. (Parts I and II: Steady Potential Flow. Part III: S t e a d y Rotational Flow.)" The first lecture will be sched- uled for Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m., the second for Tuesday, July 29, at 4 p.m., and the third for Wednesday, July 30, at 4 p.m. All lectures will be given in Room 317 West Engineering Building. Dr. John P. Humphrey, Direct- or of the Division of Human Rights, United Nations, and Gale Professor of Law, McGill Univer- sity, will lecture on "The Inter- national Protection of Human Rights," Saturday, July 26, at 8:10 p.m., Rackham Amphithea- tre. This is a lecture in the Sum- mer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs." The public is invited. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, form- erly Commander in Chief, United States Asiatic Fleet, and Com- mander of the Allied Naval Forces in the Java Area, will,lecture on "The United States and the Paci- fic Ocean Areas" Monday, July 28, at 8:10 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. This is a lecture in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs." The public is invited. Dr. Donald D. Brand, Profes- sor of Anthropo-Geography and Head of the Department of An- thropology, University of New Mexico, and recently Cultural Geographer in Mexico for the in- stitute of Social Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, will lecture on "Scientific and Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico," Thursday, July 31,aat 4:10 p.m., Rackhar Amphitheatre. This is a lecture in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Af- fairs." The public is invited. Concerts Student Recital: Jeiry Pickrel, Pianist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Master of Music at 8:30, Tuesday eve- ning, July 29, in the Rackham As- sembly Hall. Mr. Pickrel, a pupil of Joseph Brinkman, will offer a program of compositions which includes works of Bach, Beetho- ven, Schumann, and Prokofieff. The public is cordially invited. University Symphony Orchestra, Wayne Dunlap, Conductor, will be heard in its annual summer concert at 8:30 Wednesday eve- ning, July 30, in Hill Auditorium. X ette4 TO THE EDITOR EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (which is signed, 300 words or less in length, and in good taste) we re- minid our readers that the views ex- pressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 30 words are shortened, printed or omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. Questions To the Editor: AVING PE4D the very glibly written article by the "Com- nittee for Constitutional Govern- ment" printed in the 24 July Daily, I would like to ask them a few questions. How do you propose to lower the national debt? By lowering the national reveune? Are they against the "Marshall Plan" or aid to Europe? If not do they intend to support it by cut- ting national reveune? I respect- fully submit the suggestion that the plan will cost money. Will cutting taxes help to cut inflation? Do you want increased steel and coal prices? In short, just what are they for, and more important, what are they against? -John Duffey * * * Kravchen ko To the Editor: IT SEEMS AS if your correspond- ent who criticized The Daily's excision of Kravchenko's remarks on Marshall Field and his Chi- cago Sun and New York PM, as giving us a false idea of Krav- chenko's ideas, should himself have noted and reported to us another feature of Kravchenko's testimony as given in the A.P. dispatch. To quote: "Asked by Representative Rich- ard M. Nixon, Republican, of Cal- ifornia, how he would curb the Communist party or Communist influence in the United States, Mr. Kravchenlo said the entire system of American propaganda must be changed. "But as for outlawing the par- ty, he said America's greatest strength was in its freedom. 'Let the Communists talk all they want,' he recommended, 'so long as they are not in action.'" This shows Kravchenko as em- inently a believer in free discus- sion. He objects, it seems, only to what may fool us, he fears. As for Kravchenko's opinion of the Chicago Sun and the New York PM, it strikes me as a mat- ter of considerable public inter- est. It certainly would be most un-American for the Michigan Daily to suppress an item because some more or less voluble persons dislike seeing it expressed. -Henry S. Huntington thoven's Prometheus Overture, followed by Mozart's Piano Con- certo No. 27 in B flat Major, K. 595, in which James Wolfe will appear as soloist. The second half of the concert includes Faure's Suite from the Stage Music to Haraucourt's Comedy, with Howard Kellogg, Tenor as soloist. The public is cordially invited. Student Recital: Students of the School of Music from classes in Theory and Musicology will present a Panorama of Secula I Music of the Middle Ages, Renais- sance, and Baroque, Thursday evening, July 31', at 8:30 in the Rackham Assembly Hall, under the direction of Louise E. Cuyler. The program will include compo- sitions for a brass ensemble, di- rected by Paul Bryan, a madrigal group, conducted by Wayne Dun- lap, and a chamber orchestra, un- der the direction of Edwyn Hames. The public is cordially invited. Exhibitions Photographs of Summer Fungl of Michigan, Rotunda Museums Building. July and August. The Museum of Art: Exhibi- tion of Prints-Vanguard Group, Ann Arbor Art Association Col- lection, and from the Permanent Collection. July 1-28. Alumni Memorial Hall, daily, except Mon- day, 10-12 and 2-5; Sundays, 2-5. The public is cordially invited. Museum of Archaeology. Cur- rent Exhibit, "Life in a Roman Town in Egypt from 30 B.C. to 400 A.D." Tuesday through Fri- day, 9-12, 2-5; Saturday, 9-12; Friday evening, 7:30-9:30; Sun- day 3-5. Events Today The Graduate Outing Club will meet for swimming and outdoor sports on Sunday July 27 at 2:30 p.m. at the Northwest Entrance to the Rackham Building. Please sign up before noon on Saturday at the chaeck desk in the Rack- ham Building. Art Cinema League and Campus i A wti ki t= l. I ing the subjec t. la Pintura Mejicana Moderna." The program will open with Bee-I ' L BARNABY,.,f. If jhat little pixie tries I don't know who told you about The girl laughed ... Her name was Priscilla. Whew!THAT1 -. .. ,