THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JUNE 27, Fi fty-Seventh Year j I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Republican Dilcm ma BILL MAULDIN Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in bControl of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Managing Editors ... John Campbell. Clyde Recht Associate Editor .................... Eunice Mintz Sports Editor ..................... Archie Parsons Business Staff General Manager.................Edwin Schneider Advertising Manager...........William Rohrbach Circulation Manager ...............Melvin Tick Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this news- paper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, as second class mail matter. Subscription 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 EDITORS: WRIGHT & DAILES Tough Bill CONGRESS DECIDED that they wanted a tough labor bill, and that's what they passed. You can't get much tougher than abrogating the right of a free press. (The new labor bill makes it illegal for a union newspaper to print the voting record of any Congressman-that would be "using union funds for political purposes.") But unions, after having staged a feverish campaign against the bill, are now determined to get tough too, so tough that the law will have to be changed. Two hundred and fifty thousand miners have walked out of the pits in protest, and the tther 150,000 are expected to follow them. Forty thousand shipyard workers are striking. Two thousand men are out at the Detroit Chrysler plant. And it has just started. Labor is going to do everything in its power to make Congress sorry they started getting tough, and if that means nation- crippling strikes, that's what's we're going to have. Congress can't shoot all the strikers, and can't jail them all. Labor is stronger now than it has ever been and, win or lose, it can put up quite a fight. This is a bad time for people to start getting tough. A post-war economy is a delicate thing, like an upset stomach: it has to be handled gently, coaxed along, until the great disruptions are smoothed out. A number of prolonged serious strikes now, with their attendant shortages, could tip the economic balance just enough to start the spiral of inflation, a real Hun- garian Pengo inflation. ,Neither management nor the unions are to win if there is real battle. Nobody is go- ing to win. They had better get together fast, and work out something. It's time for a lot of tough people to start getting softer. -Alfred. Grossman TI By SAlIUEL GRAFTON NOW THAT the Taft-Hartley thing is law, the Republicans are in a dilemma. They are afraid that the President won't admin- ister it forcefully, and they are also afraid that he will. If the President does not administer the new law vigorously, the Republicans, and management generally, will not get what they expected to get out of it. They don't like that. Hence there is much talk in Con- gress about forcing the President to appoint someone who "believes in the bill" as general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board. The Republicans also plan to set up a special Congressional "watchdog" com- mittee to oversee the operations of the new law, and to make sure its terms are carried out. Thus, by a kind of iron logic, the Repub- licans are being forced into successively stronger anti-labor moves, into increasing the distance which now separates them from the labor movement. It is a distance so vast it may yet come to replace the light-year as a standard of astronomical meaesurement. At the same time, the Republicans are a little worried that a strong and absolute enforcement of the new law may kill them by 1948. Hence the warning in conservative circles to the effect that management would be wise not to take advantage of the "tech- nicalities" in the new law, though they were carefully placed in it to be taken advantage of. Republicans are afraid that the President means to "administer the law to death," as they put it, that he will depend on tough ad- ministration to show up the bill's defects and to make it hated. Thus, at moments when they are not afraid that the President means to be too soft in carrying out the measure, the Repub- licans are equally afraid he means to be too hard. The fact that neither method of ad- ministration is considered satisfactory tells us much about the supposed merits of the new law. Change of Heart E VER SINCE Rep. Harold Knutson intro- duced his 20 per cent across-the-board tax reduction bill, which was obviously slant- ed to aid the upper income groups, partisan politics have dominated Congressional ac- tion. First it was the Republicans who saw the need of a tax cut to bolster our still-booming economy and who sought to convince the "little man" that by cutting the taxes of wealthy Republican supporters, they were really, indirectly, doing him a service. When the Pjesident's veto was sustained, Ohio's Senator Taft was still in a strong position, perhaps even stronger than if the measure had become law. In the 1948 presi- dential race he could pose as the champion of the common man and point to President Truman as the "ogre" who had denied the mandate of the people and insisted on high taxes. Consequently he has been content to call tax reduction a dead issue and let the matter ride until the next session. Realizing Taft's position and fearful that part of the public may have actually been swung over to the Republican tax theories, the Democrats in Congress are now on the process of eliminating Taft's talking point. Several Democrats are now supporting Knut- son's new bill which would make tax cuts effective next January 1. Tactically this is a master stroke of strategy since, if the bill should pass, it would be a bi-partisan sup- ported measure which would weaken the Re- publican argument against the Democrats' high-tax policy. The Democrats have thus seized the tax- reduction leadership. The man who is now blocking a tax cut is not the Democratic President but the Republican domestic lead- er, Senator Taft himself. Nearly six months of Republican effort to carry out a campaign promise have been countered by one smart Democratic move which has demonstrated that Senator Taft is more concerned with partisan politics than in actually effecting a tax cut which the Re- publicans have been saying is so necessary for the country's welfare. Politically it matters little whether the tax bill is passed or not since the damage to the Republican argument is already done. In fact it probably won't pass, since the eco- nomic situation for next year is still un- certain and the new Knutson bill is also aimed at helping the man in the upper brackets. So with the country's finances hanging in the balance Taft must either accept Demo- cratic leadership in effecting a tax cut dur- ing this session or else assume the respon- sibility for Congress' failure to pass any tax reduction legislation. -Tom Walsh Snide Affront THE PRESENT PROBABILITY seems to be that Gen. Omar N. Bradley will be- come Chief-of-Staff when Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower goes to Columbia University as its president. And already intimations have gotten into print that this will be so because Gen. Brad- ley is a native of Missouri, President Tru- man's state. The suggestion is utterly des- picable. It is a snide affront to one of our pre-eminent military men. The best that The Republican dilemma is insoluble. For, basically, the Republican problem is this: "How, in a modern industrial state, do you keep labor out of the government, and curb its organizations, while retaining its friend- ship?" That is a real cutie among problems. The question cannot be answered, because the thing desired cannot be done. The Re- publicans have set themselves an impossible task, which is why the jam they are eating this week lacks savor. The thing showed up in some of the heat- ed criticisms which were leveled at the President while he was considering what to do about the Taft-Hartley bill. It was an- nounced furiously in G.O.P. ranks that the President had consulted labor unions before making up his mind. What's wrong with that? Farmers are consulted on farm legislation, oil men on oil bills, etc.; but the accents of horror in which it was charged that the President had talk- ed to representatives of laboring men told their own story of the special and peculiar space which is now to be laid out between labor and government, space as vast and as cold as the space between the stars. Yet somehow, whether through the Demo- crats, or by means of a third party, labor is bound, in this unrestful twentieth century, to cross that space, to win a participation ik government as warm and automatic as that granted to farmers, business men, or any other interest, Lift up your eyes above the details of the Taft-Hartley act, and you will see that this is the broad question of our day, and that Republican conferences from now on are going to be tortured and unhappy; as un- happy as any meeting which devotes itself to figuring out how to make sparks fly down- ward, or water flow uphill. (Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation) MATTER OF FACT: Kremlin Line? By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASIINGTON June 26--Viacheslav M Molotov, Georges Bidault and Ernest Bevin are now meeting in the gilded clock room of the Quai d'Orsay in what is cer- tainly the most hurried, probably the most important, and possibly the last of the great post-war conferences between the Soviet Union and the West. The paramount ques- tions which surround the conference boil. down to these: What line will Molotov and his colleagues in the Kremlin take, and what will be the American response? One American official neatly summed up the American attitude toward the Russian acceptance of the Bevin-Bidault invitation. "Well, you know," he remarked, "we're go- ing through a minefield, and it's always rather uncomfortable when you see a big one slipping up on the port bow about one fathom deep." This gloomy view is based on the universal expectation, by no means con- fined to the Americans, that the Russians have joined the conference on the Marshall proposal only in order to sink it. For if the proposed joint European-American effort works, the Soviet Union will have lost its opportunity to dominate the entire European continent, and since the war ended a mass of evidence has accumulated indicating that the Soviets have no intention of losing that opportunity. The most recent evidence to that effect has been supplied by the Soviet policy to- ward the United Nations' European Economic Commission, the only previous international attempt at European economic collaboration. After much hesitation, and after almost tearful pleas by the Polish and Czechosla- vak satellites, whose economies are largely dependent on western Europe, the Soviets finally consented to embrace the economic commission. The embrace has been the most painful kind of bear hug. Last month the Russians proposed a change in the voting system, which now operates by majority vote, to allow Russia, with her satellites, to veto any project. They also demanded that the subsidiary organizations, dealing with coal, transport and so on; which are the real heart of the commission, be killed off. They have opposed consideration of the German economy, which is at the center of the European economic problem. When the commission at last broke up, having accomplished almost precisely no- thing, the Russians proposed that it not meet again for an indefinite period. Only the most determined insistence persuaded the Soviets to agree to another meeting on July 5. While all this was going on the unfortun- ate Czechs and Poles, according to one ob- server, "looked wistfully on, wringing their hands." $** * * THE FOUNDATION of a third party has been made vastly more difficult by President Truman's veto of the labor bill. Yet it is already clear that the third party planners will proceed on the basis that the Democratic party has not supported the President. The chances are thus about nine to one that within the next eighteen months the mystic figure of Henry Agard Wallace will be propelled forward, like an ungainly puppet, as the "leader of the party of peace and the toilers." (Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune) "There's nothing to it, Excellency, Comrade Popoff and I have committed hundred of successful suicides." DAILY OFCA.BRULLETIN Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice 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). FRIDAV. JUNE 27, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 3 Notices Student Adjustment Conference., The Bureau of Psychological Serv- ices will conduct a Guidance Con- ference on the Measurement of Student Adjustment and Achieve- ment in the Rackham Amphithea- tre on June 26 and' 27. National leaders in the fields of psychology, education, and student personnel will appear on the conference pro-' gram. Open to students and fac- ulty. Graduate Students: Preliminary examinations in French and Ger- man for the doctorate will be held on Friday, July 11, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. Dictionaries may be used. F. W. Peterson Examiner in Foreign Languages Graduate Students in English planning to take the preliminary examinations for the doctorate this summer should notify Pro- fessor Marckwardt of their inten- tions before July 3. Married Veterans of World War II Terrace Apartments Opportunity will be provided Monday,. Tuesday, and Wednes- day, June 30, July 1, and July 2 for students in the above group to file application for residence in the Terrace Apartments. No apartments available for the summer session, but these appli- cations will be considered for fu- ture vacancies. Student applications for resi- dence in these apartments will be considered according to the fol- lowing qualifications. 1. Only married Veterans of World War II may apply. 2. Michigan residents will be given first consideration. How- ever, out-of-state students may also register at this time. See Regents' ruling on definition of Michigan resident. "No one shall be deemed a resident of Michi- gan for the purpose of registra- tion in the University unless he or she has resided in this state six months next preceeding the date of proposed enrollment.") 3. Veterans who have incurred physical disability of a serious na- ture will be given first consider- ation. (A written statement from Dr. Forsythe of the University Health Service concerning such disability should be included in the application.) 4. Only students who have com- pleted two terms in this Univer- sity may apply. (Summer Session is considered as one-half term.) 5. Students who are admitted to these apartments may in no case occupy them for a period longer than two years. 6. Length of oversease service will be an important determining factor. 7. In considering an applicant's total )length of service, A.S.T.P., V-12, and similar programs will be discounted. 8. If both man and wife are Veterans of World War II and the husband is a Michigan resident and beth are enrolled in the Uni- versity their combined application will be given special consideration. 9. Each applicant must file with his application his Military Rec- ord and Report of Separation. Married Veterans of World War II who have filed applications for the Terrace Apartments prior to June 30, 1947 should not apply again, since their applications are being processed in terms of the above qualifications. Office of Student Affairs Room 2, University Hall Eligibility certificates should be secured immediately by those stu- dents participating or planning to participate in extra-curricular ac- tivities during the summer term. Requirements for a certificate are: 1. Second semester Freshmen: 15 hours or more of work com- pleted with (1)' at least one mark of A or B and with no mark of less than C, or (2) at least 2/2 times as many honor points as hours and with no mark of E. 2. Sophomores, juniors, seniors: 11 hours or more of academic credit in the preceding semester with an average of at least C, and at least a C average for the entire academic career. No certificate will be issued to a student on warning or proba- tion. Office of Student Affairs Room 2, University Hall Political Science Students in- terested in forming theoretical political parties meet in the Hen- derson Room of the League at 8 o'clock this evening. Teacher Placement:a Dependents Schools Service in Germany will have a representa- tive in the Bureau of Appoint- ments in the near future. He will wish to interview candidates who are interested and qualified for elementary positions c h i e f 1 y. There is one vacancy for a man in general science, biology, chemis- try, and physics. It is desirable that this man be able to handle physical education for boys. Abil- ity in typing or manual arts is also desirable. At least two years teaching experience is required. The State of Connecticut an- nounces an open competitive ex- amination for a Speech Teacher for Crippled Children. The last date for filing applications is July 10, 1947. Announcement may be sent at the Bureau of Appoint- ments. General Placement: Attention Women: Mademoi- selle's first Job and Futures Award Contest is -being held this sum- mer. Three first prizes each $500 plus an apprenticeship on Mede- moiselle to the best one of the three. The fields are Fashion, Writing or Editing, and Photo- graphy. - Deadline forthe June assignment is June 30. Call at the Bureau for fourther informa- tion. International Center: Because of the Reception to New Foreign Students in the Rackham Assem- bly Hall on Saturday Evening, the usual weekly Tea at the Inter- national Center will not be held June 26th. The 1947 Summer Registration Cards contain an erroneous state- ment on =the coupon identifed as "Student's Receipt". This is of- ficial notice that the statement reading: "Students actually with- drawing after not more than eight weeks' attendance, may receive re- funds-", should read: "Students actually withdrawing after not more than four weeks' attendance, may receive refunds-". T e a c h e r's Certificate Candi- dates: Call at the office of the office of the School of Education, 1437 U.E.S., on Thursday, Friday gr Saturday, June 26, 27 or 28, to take the Teacher's Oath. This is a requirement for the teacher's certificate. The University Chorus will meet Mon., Tues., Wed., and Thurs., at 3:00 p.m. in Haven Hall. Singers from all departments of the Uni- versity are eligible and welcome. Report to Haven Hall between 2:00 and 4:00 any day this week to consult with Miss Muldowney, the choral director. At present we need altos and sopranos. David Mattern Professor of Music Education Automobile Regulation, summer session: All students not qualified for exemption from the Automo- bile Regulation may receive driv- ing permission only upon 'appli- cation at Rm. 2 University Hall. Those exempted are: (1) Those who are 26 years of age or over; (2) Those who have a faculty ranking of Teaching Fellow or its equivalent; (3) Those who during the pre- ceding academic year were en- gaged in professional pursuits; eg, teachers, lawyers, physicians, den- tists, nurses, etc. All other students desiring to drive must make personal applica- tion for driving privileges. Com- pletion of the Automobile Regula- tion section of the registration card does not fulfill this obliga- tion. Summer Registration will be held Tuesday, July 1, at 4:05 in Room 205 Mason Hall. This reg- istration with the Bureau of Ap- pointments and Occupational In- formation has to do with all types of positions. It is very essential that anyone interested in a po- sition in the immediate future at- tend this meeting. Registration blanks will be available on Wed- nesday 'and Thursday, July 2 and 3, and Monday and Tuesday, July 7 and 8. La Sociedad Hispanica will hold meetings.during the Summer Ses- sion as follows: Every Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the East Conference Room in the Rackham Building. Every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in the International Center. Every Thursday at 4 p.m. in the International Center. All students interested are in- vited _to be with us. All student groups planning so- cial events at which both men and women are to be present must se- cure approval from the Office of Student Affairs, Room 2, Univer- sity Hall, no later than 12 o'clock noon on the Monday before the event is to take place. Since these applications must include the signed acceptances of the chaper- ones, forms for filing an applica- tion for party approval should be secured well in advance of the party date. Forms may be se- cured in the Office of Student Af- fairs. Women guests. The presence of women guests in fraternity houses, men's rooming houses, or other men's rooming quarters, except when chaperones approved by University authorities are present is not permitted, except for ex- change and guest dinners. Such dinners must be announced to'the Office of Student Affairs at least one day in advance of the sched- uled date. Hours for week day guest or exchange dinners are to be from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.; for Sunday dinners, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sports Classes available for Women Students: Registration for Women's Physical E d u c a t i o n classes will be held daily this week from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Barbour Gymnasium. The follow- ing classes are open to graduate and undergraduate women for non-credit:. Archery, Badminton, Golf (Elementary and Intermedi- ate), Life Saving, Posture, Figure and Carriage, Riding, Rythmic Fundamentals, Swimming (Ele- mentary and Intermediate), Ten- nis. Classes begin, on Monday, June 30 except for Life Saving which begins this week. No late regis- trations. There are no instructional fees for these classes except in the case of riding classes which are con- ducted from a nearby stable There is a small charge for Inter- mediate Swimming which is held in the Michigan Union Pool. Margaret Bell, M.D. Chairman, Department of Physical Education for Women A cadenic Notices History 180s, Roosevelt to Roos- evelt: Class will meet in Room 231 Angell Hall instead of 101 Eco- nomics Building. Concerts Student Recital: Virginia Den- yer, Organist, will be heard in a program of compositions by Bach, Reger, Karg-Elert, Sowerby, and Farnam, at 4:15 Sunday after- noon, June 29, in Hill Auditorium. Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music, the recital will be open to the general public. Lecture-Recital: by Lee Patti- son, Pianist, Monday evening, June 30, 8:30, in the Rackham Lecture Hall. This is the first in a series of Monday programs spon- sored by the School of Music. Mr. Pattison's first lecture-recital is entitled "Youth and the Bright Medusa," and covers Brahms' Son- ata in F minor, Op. 5, and Schu- mann's Papillons, and Toccata. The public is cordially invited. Faculty Recital: Joseph Knitzer, Violinist, will present a recital in Hill Auditorium at 8:30 Tuesday, July 1. Head of the Violin Depart- ment of the Cleveland Institute of Musical Art, Mr. Knitzer is a member of the summer session faculty in the School of Music. His program for Tuesday evening will include Sonata in D major by Vi- valdi, Chaconne for Violin Alone by Bach, Sonata for Violin and Piano by Herbert Elwell, Buncome County, N.C. by Ernst Bacon, Hoe- down, from "Roedo" by Aaron Copland, and Ruralia Hungarica, by Ernst von Dohnanyi. He will be accompanied by Marian Owen, Pianist. The general public is invited. Exhibitions Exhibit: Through June. Rotun- da of University Museums Build- ing. "Michigan Fungi". Events Today Open Recreational Evening for Men and Women - will be held today from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Women's Athletic Building and Palmer Field. Students, facul- ty and staff members are invited. Tennis, golf, badminton, softball, table tennis, volleyball, golf put- ting, croquet, shuffleboard and horseshoes are recreational sports offered. Badminton birds, tennis balls and golf balls must be sup- plied by players. Square danc- ing will be held in the lounge of the Women's Athletic Building at dusk with Mr. Howard Leibee call- ing. Men or women may come un- escorted. In case of rain, the Rally will be postponed until Fri- day, July 12. Special Applied Music Faculty Jury: Tonight at 7:30, Room 35, School of Music Building, for ap- plied music majors applying for graduate standing who have been tentatively classified in Course 132 and expect summer session credit to apply on degree require- ments, and for students planning to present degree recital during the summer who have not alrea4y been approved by the full faculty. For assignment of time, make ar- rangements in the Dean's office, There will be an informal recep- tion for students in the Depart- ment of Classical Studies on Fri- day, June 27 at 8 o'clock on the Second floor of the Michigan League Building. All persons in- terested in Latin or Greek are in- vited to be present. The first Fresh Air Camp Clinie will be held on Friday, June 27, 1947. Discussions begin at 8 p.m. in the Main Lodge of the Fresh Air Camp located on Patterson Lake. Any University students in- terested in problems of individual and group therapy are invited to attend. The chief discussant will be Dr. Valeria F. Juracsek from the Neuropsychiatric Institute. Respectfully yours, William C. Morse Camp Director University Community Center 1045 Midway Willow Run Village Friday, June 27, 8:00 p.m. - Duplicate Bridge. Regular group meetings will be resumed .next week. Lectures Professor Leonard A. Stidley of Oberlin School of Religion will lecture at 4:15 p.m. daily, June 27-July 7, upon "Current Religious Education" in Assembly Room of Rackham Building-open to the public. Attitude Goals In Religious Ed- ucation will be discussed by Pro- fessor Ernest M. Ligon, Ph.D., at 8 p.m. daily, June 27-July 3, in Kellogg Auditorium. Open to all faculty and students. ...- 4 4 4 I; 4 CINEMA At the Lydia Mendelssohn. . OF MICE AND MEN. From the novel by John Steinbeck. Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney. Directed by Lewis Milestone. LTHOUGH THIS MOVIE is faithful to almost every detail of the novel from which it was made, it just doesn't quite come off. Admittedly, the task of filming a story of this kind is difficult anA it is hard to put one's finger on where the blame for its failure lies. , Perhaps the fault was with the audience, which seemed to lack sympathy with the moronic protagonist. Perhaps the story it- self was to blame, with its over-sentimental- ity and moments of melodrama, if the shoot- ing of an old dog, for example, can be called that. There were, however, times when the audience forgot its amusement and was, ap- parently, completely taken in, thanks to .the sincerity of the actors and the skillful di- recting, especially in the climactic sequences. Burgess Meredith and Betty Field were extermely well cast in their parts and played them for all they were worth, but there were few noments when Lon Chaney fulfilled the requirements of his role. Natalie Bagrow Ever since the day of Hiroshima, men of jI BARNABY... 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