THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1947
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I'D RATHER BE RIGHT:
SALittle Paradox
BILL MAULDIN
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Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR MALCOLM WRIGHT
Survey Center.
LAST MONTH the work of a new division
of the University received extensive at-
tention from the newspapers and magazines;
of the nation. The new unit, the Survey
Research Center, had published the results
of its national survey on consumer finances,
its first major economical report since join-
ing the University last fall.
The report, released by the Federal Re-
serve Board for whom the survey was con-
ducted, was a very important item for bus-
inessmen, legislators and the general pub-
lic. It indicated what the nation had in
durable goods (refrigerators, radios, cars,
housing, etc.) in 1946, what it planned to
buy in 1947 and how it planned to finance
these purchases.
The American economy, which largely
- runs or falters on the eagerness or fears
of the public to buy, will be healthy and
vigorous through 1947 if the persons in-
terviewed in the beginning of the year
are a true gauge. Though the survey
Indicates purchase of durable goods will
be more restrained than in 1946, continu-
ing maximum incomes apparently will
keep buying at high levels. With the gen-
eral rise in prices, however, it is expected
that savings and credit will play a larger
part in buying than in. the previous year.
This report, like a pulse to the doctor, re-
veals the condition of his patient to the
businessman. Looking forward to the dem-
onstration of buying. power revealed in this
survey, the businessman won't be hasty in
cutting prices, it is true. .Yet knowledge of
a willingness to buy will encourage produc-,
tion which means jobs, and if carried far
enough, will lead to production adequte to
supply demand, thus forcing prices down.
The accuracy of the survey techniques
employed has been confirmed by checking
results with certain known totals. Bring-
ing out the significance of the reports, a
comparision of two surveys taken a year
apart shows that people bought almost an
identical amount of durable goods as they
had expected to at the beginning of the year.
Led by Dr. Rensis Likert, director of
the center, the staff members came to
Michigan from the Department of Agri-
culture where they completed many war-
time surveys for various government
agencies. Among their surveys were: the
effect of strategic bombing on the morale
of the German and Japanese civilians;
people's use of the radio; and attitudes
toward the atomic bomb, the United Na-
tions and American foreign policy.
Working on contract, the center has al-
most unlimited survey subjects. It is evi-
dent the center will provide the University
community and the country with much val.
dable and interesting information in the
days to come.
-Ted Miller
By SAMUEL GRAFTON
TODAY I WANT TO peddle a little para-
dox, if I may, involving our relations
with the rest of the world.
There runs across this country now, like
a grass fire, the tense whisper that we have
started back toward inflation entirely be-
cause the rest of the world is making such
huge relief demands on us. Here we were,
MATTER OF FACT:
Conservatism
By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP
THE JUST FINISHED session of the
Eightieth Congress leaves behind one
big political question: "Just how conserva-
tive is the Republican party?" It has been
bitterly remarked that on a secret ballot,
a good many Republicans in Congress (like
a good many Southern Democrats) would
cheerfully vote to shoot the poor. But no
party is to be judged by its lunatic fringe.
The peculiar nature of the Republican
strategy makes the problem difficult. Know-
ing that the Republican record in Congress
would play a large part in the coming elec-
tion, the party's Congressional leaders tacit-
ly agreed on a decidedly astute plan. This
session was to be devoted to legislation
desired by business, such as the Taft-Hart-
ley labor law and the tax relief bills. The
next session was to be (and presumably
still is to be) given to measures with a
broader-based appeal, such as the Taft
housing, education and welfare bills.
The Republicans and Southern Demo-
crats have whooped through the meas-
ures business wanted with loud cries of
joy. Now the problem is whether Sen-
ator Robert A. Taft and the other Re-
publican leaders can shove, drag or other-
wise persuade the rank and file to ap-
prove the extremely mild program of so-
cial legislation. Certain powerful business
elements emphatically do not want this
social legislation. And judging by the
record of these elements' influence in the
session just concluded, the outlook for the
next session is none too good.
In the field of housing, for example, such
prospering spokesmen of free enterprise as
Morton Bodfish, of the United Savings and
Home League, have been exceedingly active.
The Taft housing -bill has been partly em-
asculated in the Senate committee, and
completely blocked in the House. Mean-
while the effort of former Housing Admin-
istrator Wilson Wyatt has been completely
wrecked; the Administration's feeble post-
Wyatt struggles to do something about hous-
ing have been rendered even feebler; and
the so-called voluntary rent hike has been
shoved through the Congress.
The rent hike did not suit the housing
lobby. They wanted all ceilings off. And
such warm sympathizers as Senator John
W. Bricker, of Ohio, (who once remarked
the "Marxists must have gotten to Bob
Taft," because of the Taft housing bill)
did their best to help the lobby.
Another symptomatic episode was the
passage of the wool bill, which did such ser-
ious harm abroad despite President Tru-
man's veto. Byron Wilson and his Nation-
al Wood Growers of course control the votes
of the wool states. But the rest of the
Senators and Representatives who made up
the wool bill's majorities seemed to be chief-
ly influenced by nostalgia for the happy pasti
times of tariff log rolling. The somewhat
bemused Representative Pace of Georgia
(one of the Republicans' leading Southern
Democratic allies) told the House that so
far as he knew "there was not a sheep" in
his 3rd Congress District. But, he asked,
how was he to get help for his peanuts if
he did not help wool?
Then a well organized group of about
20,000 large Western ranchers have scored a
major triumph. Their aim was to enrich
themselves from the public lands at the ex-
pense of the whole West. They first tried
to have the vast Western public lands sold
to them outright at bargain basement prices.
This grab failed. So the ranchers turned to
the always obliging appropriations commit-
tees, and cut the gizzard out of the Interior
Department's funds for protecting the pub-
lic lands from over-grazing.
There is no space here to describe the
gaggles of railroad lobbyists who have
pushed the Bulwinkle and Reed bills and
all the other like them. The main point is
that this Congress has shown a remarkable
responsiveness to special business interests.,
This responsiveness is deeply feared by such,
wise Republicans as Senator Ives of New
York. It poses a strikingly difficult prob-
lem for such leaders as Senator Taft, who
must beat the housing lobby in order to pass
his housing bill. And, above all, it raises
the question whether Republican conserva-
tism is simply to consist of flabby yielding
to this type of' pressure, or is to be the gen-
uine conservatism which conserves what is
good without fear or favor.
(Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune)
PRELIMINARY FIGURES for the first
half of 1947 made public by the Civil
Aeronautics Board show that 5.8 passengers
were killed on the scheduled domestic air-
lines for every 100,000,000 passenger-miles
flown. These figures compare with a rate of
minding our own business, goes the saying,
and settling down to lower prices, when sud-
denly Europe went hungry, and disrupted us.
And so it is being said, or hissed, that we
are not only paying the relief bill directly
in the first instance but that we are also
paying it a second time through inflation
at home because of the resulting scarcities.
Marie McDonald is The Body, Frank Sin-
atra is The Voice, and the whole rest of the
world is The Mouth.
The funny thing is that if you were to
walk down Wall Street and suggest to a
representative leader of the business com-
munity that we stop our exports, he would
turn a delicate shade of green, contrast-
ing admirably with the steeple of Trinity
Church.
For domestic buying is, in a number of
categories, slowing down. The Wall Street
Journal reports that expensive vacuum
cleaners, console radios and electric refrig-
erators can no longer be considered scarce.
Dollar value of sales in department stores
is up, but that is because prices are higher;
physical volume of sales is down. And while
higher dollar sales may keep the front of-
fice happy, it takes high physical volume to
keep the production staff at work.
In this juncture, it is our exports which
are, to an important degree, keeping us
going. Figures bob wildly in this field to-
day, so that it is hard to make compu-
tations, but our exports are running from
at least 15 to 20 or more billions of dol-
lars a year. Most of these are not relief
shipments; in May (still according to the
Wall Street Journal) we shipped only 224
millions of dollars worth of food, and over
a billion dollars worth of manufactured
goods, and the larger part of this did not
go to Europe, but to countries in this con-
tinent.
So here's our paradox: The rest of the
world, which is considered, in the better
class poolrooms and smoking cars to be
keeping us down, is holding us up.
It is an embarrassing and, in some ways,
humiliating position in which to find one-
self. For the platform on which the for-
eign-hating politician mounts to look down
upon the rest of the world is built, in par.
of foreign orders. If these were suddenly
withdrawn, he might find himself complet-
ing his speech from an awkward and un-
stable position on the back of his neck.
It is understandably difficult to concede
that one of the reasons we can look down
so easily on the rest of the world is that
the rest of the world is holding us up.
That does violence to the social myth
that we are always being put upon by the
rest of the cosmos; and it is one of the
characteristics of social myths that they
can persistently and resolutely blot out
fact. It is time we smashed this legnd,
which goes back to our barefoot colonial
days; it is startling to find that it per-
sists so strongly, in spite of. all circum-
stantial change, and to smash it will be
one of the essential tasks in putting over
the Marshall Plan.
If we aren't nicer to the rest of the world
we may lose that superiority which alone
makes it possible for us to be so nice to
the rest of the world.
(Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation)
RUSSIA'S REFUSAL to accept the Ameri-
can suggestion of an eleven-power con-
ference to prepare a peace treaty with Ja-
pan is not unexpected. It is just another
of the Soviet Union's desperate attempts to
defend a war-time device.
This device is the great power "veto". Or-
iginally ismuggled into the organization of
UNRRA, it was introduced into nearly all
of the international bodies subsequently set
up.
As used by the Russians it constitutes a
precision instrument whereby less than
twenty percent of the world's inhabitants
can effectively vote down concerted action
by the other eighty percent.
Within the UN Security Council, the So-
viets have wielded the veto hammer no
less than ten times. (On one occasion the
French were associated with them.)
The United States and Britain have in-
dulged in just one "questionable veto"-
namely, when they voted against the ad-
mission to the UN of Albania and Mongolia.
But both governments insist that as the
vote would have been negative anyway, this
was not a true veto, which they define as a
deliberate overriding of a majority opinion.
-Edgar Ansel Mowrer
(Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.)
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1947
VOL. LVII, No. 25S
Notices
Notice of Regents' Meeting: The
next meeting of the Regents will
be on September 26, 1947, at 2
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Fellowships for Research and
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including Music. The John Simon
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to sixty) Fellowships for research
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1947. For more complete details,
consult the Scholarship Division,
Office of Student Affairs, Room
205, University Hall.
Professors Lemler and Schorling
will provide a second showing of
the pictures on Teacher Educa-
tion at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July
30, at the Rackham Auditorium.
Please carry this message to
those who could not be admitted
on Monday or to those who had
poor seats.
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
1947.
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Approved Social Events for this
Week: Afternoon events are
marked with an asterisk: July 30,
Brown League House; August 1,
AVC, IRA, Michigan Union, Mich-
igan League, and Student Legis-
lature Dance; August 2, Alpha
Phi Alpha, Delta Tau Delta, In-
terco-operative Council, Theta Xi;
August 3, Michigan Sailing Club
Regatta.*
General Placement:
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 Tech-
nology). Call extension 371 for
appointment.
Civil Service:
Civil Service Commission, Buf-
falo, New York announces exam-
inations for the positions of I-
Assistant Planner, and L-Chief
Planner, with the City Planning
Commission of Buffalo. Call at
the Bureau for further informa-
tion.
Teacher Placement:
San Diego City Schools, San
Diego, California has an opening
for Music-Coordinator. Call ex-
tension 489 for further informa-
tion.
The Board of National Missions
of the Presbyterian Church in the
U.S.A. announces vacancies in the
following positions: Kitchen &
Dining Room Supervisors, Boys'
Coach & Asst. Dormitory Super-
visor, Commercial Teachers, As-
s i s t a n t Dietitian, Mathematics
Teacher, Mathematics, Mechani-
cal Drawing & Industrial Arts
Teacher, Music Teacher, Office
Secretary, Elementary Teachers,
Girls' Dormitory S u p e r v i s o r s,
Laundry Supervisor, Maintenance
Engineer, Woman Doctor and 2
Nurses, and Nurses. Call at the
Bureau for further information.
President Chaffee, Boise Junior
College, Boise, Idaho, will be at
the Bureau of Appointments, 201
Mason Hall, Wednesday after-
noon, July 30, to interview candi-
dates for the following vacancies:
chemistry, business administra-
tion, industrial arts, history, pub-
lic relations, economics, zoology,
engineering, and business. Any-
one interested may make an ap-
pointment for an interview by
calling 4121, extension 489, before
Wednesday noon.
Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf.
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.
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-
mind our readers that the views ex-
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writers only. Letters of more than
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Protest
To the Editor:
Quoting from the edition of
July 24, in re the feature "It So
Happens"~ . . . "We haven't re-
ceived any letter of protest since
we stopped running this colum
in the spring, but we still think
it's terrific."
Why you poor dears! Here's
mine, and you may assume all
kinds of indignation in my voice:
"Hey, what do you mean by
discontinuing the column It So
Happens'? That and 'Barnaby' are
the main reasons I read The
Daily. Please reinstate the column
immediately or cancel my sub-
scription. Icily yours."
There now, feel better?
-Phyllis L. Turner
Communists
To the Editor:
AM SURPRISED that The
Michigan Daily which has done
such an excellent job of headlin-
ing the exposures of the un-Amer-
ican Committee has not even men-
tioned the most dastardly and de-
ceitful piece of infiltration ever
perpetuated by the American
Communists. I am referring, of
course, to the mass infiltration of
the armed services by 15,000
American Communists in the re-
cent war.
These disloyal elements tried
in every way to ary on their
subversive work. In their attempts
to overthrow our government
many of these traitorous agents
La Sociedad Hispanica presents
Mr. Emiliano Gallo Ruiz from the
Romance Languages Department
who will speak on "La Estetica de
la Pintura Mejicana Moderna."
Wednesday, July 30, 8:00 p.m.,
East Conference Room, Rackham
Building.
A Square Dancing Class, spon-
sored by the Graduate Outing
Club will be held on Thursday,
July 31st at 8:00 p.m. in the
Lounge of the Women's Athletic
Building. Everyone Welcome. A
small fee will be charged.
The AVC will hold its last meet-
ing of the Summer Semester Wed-
nesda yJuly 30 at 7:00 p,m. in the
Union.
There will be an important spe-
cial meeting of the University of
Michigan Flying Club, July 30, at
7:30 p.m. All members please at-
tend or call Marline Riese at
9764.
La p'tite causette meets every
Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30
in the Grill Room of the Mich-
igan League and on Thursdays at
4:00 at the International Center.
All students interested in inform-
al French conversation are cor-
dially invited to join this group.
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. Had-
en will give an informal talk en-
titled: "Les Acadiens dans l'est du
Canada." Miss Anne Battley will
sing some French songs. Group
singing, games, refreshments. All
students interested are cordially
invited.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
(Epsilon ,Chapter) will meet on
Thursday, July 31, at 7:00 p.m. at
the Union. Refunds and invita-
tions will be distributed.
Lectures
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.)"
actually went so far as to receive
battlefield commissions, medals
for bravery, and permanent un-
derground resting places overseas.
A few examples ought to dem-
onstrate just how successful this
outrageous infiltration was:
Sgt. Bob Thompson, chairman
of the Ney York State Commu-
nists Party, actually hoodwinked
the government into giving him
a Distinguished Service Cross
merely because he participated in
a few battles and was wounded a
few times.
Capt. Herman Boettcher was a
Communist who not only tried to
destroy out institutions, but went
so far as to try to overthrow the
established Japanese government
in Burma by sneakily infiltrating
behind Japanese lines and dis-
rupting normal activities there.
When this man, who had pre-
viously received a battlefield com-
mission and a DSC (on direct
orders from Moscow which were
transmitted through the White
House, no doubt), was killed by
a Japanese mortar, some insid-
ious forces wrote an obituary
about him which appeared in
"Yank" magazine.
Capt. Alexander Suer was an-
other Communist upon whom the
War Department was forced to
pin a DSC with a cluster. This
paratrooper doctor received fatal
wounds after he infiltarted behind
German lines to administer medi-
cal aid to and, of course, indoc-
trinated some wounded para-
troopers.
Many other Communists such
as Irv Goff, Johnny Gates, and
Hank Forbes engaged in similar
attempts to destroy our American
Way of Life. I hope that The
Michigan Daily will do its utmost
to let the American people know
the alarming extent to which
Communists subversively infiltrat-
ed into our armed services.
-Edward H. Shaffer
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. Donald D. Brand, Professor
of Anthropo-Geography and Head
of the Department of Anthropolo-
gy, University of New Mexico, and
recently Cultural Geographer in
Mexico for the Institute of Social
Anthropology of the Smithsonian
Institution, will lecture on "Sc-
entific and Cultural Relations be-
tween the United States and Mex-
ico," Thursday, July 31, at 4:10
p.m., R a c k h a m Amphitheatre.
This is a lecture in the Summer
Session Lecture Series, "The
United States in World Affairs."
The public is invited.
Academic Notices
History Language Examination
for the M.A. degr~ee: Saturday,
August 2, at 10 o'clock, Room B,
Haven Hall. Each student is re-
sponsible for his own dictionary
and also must register at the His-
tory Department Office before
taking the examination.
Concerts
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.
The program will open with Bee-
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.
Carillon Recital: Percival Price,
University Carillonneur, will pre-
sent an All Mozart Program
Thursday evening, July 31, 7:15
p.m. The compositions will include
Romance from "Eine kleine Nach-
musik," Sonata (arr. from Violin
Sonata No. 18), Ave Verums 1
and 2, Glockenspiel musik from
"The Magic Flute," and the
Waltzes 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12.
Student Recital: Students of
the School of Music from classes
in Theory and Musicology will
present a Panorama of Secular
Music of theMiddle 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.
The Regular Thursday Evening
Record Concert sponsored by the
Graduate School will include Mo-
zart's "Hunt" Quartet, Bach Arias
and Organ Music. All graduate
students are cordially invited.
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ECONOMY' IN THE Federal government
seems a will-o'-the-wisp'as one pursues
it through all the gobbledegook of authori-
zations, appropriations,,rescissions, contract
authorizations, deficiencies', urgent deficien-
cies and emergencies-not to mention polit-
ical charges and counter-charges and the
pressure of lobbies. Therefore, it is all the
more to the credit of the Eightieth Congress
that it wound up its first session with econ-
omies of about $2,766,000,000 on President
Truman's original budget estimates of ap-
nvrnintionr vorirer for fiscal 1948 Conn-
I forbid you to leave the house,
Angelica.. . Stay in your room.
You cannot meet Bob tonight ...
Butmother,
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impulsive and romantic.
If he really were she'd
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