0% THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1947 Fifty-Seventh Year ON WORLD AFFAIRS: Future of Germany BILL MAULDIN Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigani under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Managing Editors ... John Campbell, Clyde Recht Associate Editor .................... Eunice Mintz Sports Editor ..................... Archie Parsons Business Staff 3eneral 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- )aper. All rights of republication of all other ,natters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, as second class mal matter. Subscription during the regular school year by carrier, $5.00, by mail, $6.00. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1946-47 Rditorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER REPRESENTATIVES OF the U.S., Britain and France will meet soon to discuss the future of Germany. This represents an ad- vance on previous attempts by the U.S. and Britain to settle this European matter alone or with Russia, another largely non-Europ- ean country. In my judgment, it still misses the main point, It is not what we should do to strengthen German industry, or to diminish (by about one percent) the burden on the American tax-payers, important as these tasks seem, instead the main problem is, how to cure the German of the mad immoral am- bition for power that is responsible for that once great people's relapse into savagery? And here a word of caution. If you be- lieve that peoples embark on careers of atrocity and crime solely because of pov- erty or some fancied contrast between' "haves" and "have-nots," stop here. This column is not for you. At the root of German agression lies-in my judgment-a spiritual sickness, an eth- ical anaemia, a moral rotting away. This sickness is not confined to Germany. It has been spreading for a long time. No con- temporary country is immune. It happened that the German got the worst case. Ger- many became a country in which nine out of ten influential citizens had lost the funda- mental sense of right and wrong and re- placed Christian ethics by some sort of "bi- ological" drivel worthy of bushmen. This moral sickness is evident in Mar- tin Niemoeller, the preacher who found bitter words to condemn Hitler's persecu- tion of the churches but none with which to protest against his more monstrous crimes of launching an aggressive war and planning the annihilation of whole peoples. There are signs of it in Social- democratic leaders who seem more inter- ested in recuperating lost territories than in restoring Germany's moral health. If I am right then what the Germans need most is not more steel but discerning out- side support. I do not ignore the fact that hungry Ger- mans will lack adequate incentive to moral regeneration. Increased steel production, under proper control and within strict lim- its, may be desirable. But restoring Germany's economy is no guarantee that the Germans will become good Europeans or democrats. Only a sort of moral conversion can accomplish either. Without such conver- sion, Germany's lapse into nazism or com- munism is almost certain once German power begins to return. If this thesis be even tentatively accepted, then one primary task of Allied military government should be the giving of all pos- sible support to the few thoroughly "good" Germans who are struggling to restore their country's moral health. Unless these people can makes the Ger- mans democratic, there is going to be no democracy in Germany. Unless these few leaders get support from outside, the task of leavening an exhausted, confused and brutalized people will be beyond their strength. Such moral leaders need books more than machine tools. Above all, they need recognition by western leaders and sup- port from them. Decidedly this does not mean that we are to exculpate Germany or cry over the Nazis or generally try to act as though the Germans were not in- dividualy responsible for the worst crime in history. It means that we are consciously to assist those Germans who individually are either not responsible, who always opposed na- tional-natism-or who, having supported it, are now sincerely repentent. As I consider it, American military gov- ernment is not giving adequate support to these people. I know of two instances in which individuals of the higest moral char- acter were deliberately put aside by military government despite of the protests of Amer- ican friends who had known them twenty years. One was ousted from a key post in a broadcasting station by pro-communists in American uniform. Another, who had become an American citizen, was drop- ped because not sufficiently servile. Here is where reform can fruitfully start. Our task is to persuade some of those Amer- icans to return and work in Germany who, having lived in the country, can smell a Nazi or a nationalist a mile off. These people would see to it that "good" Germans are helped to contacts with similar people in our country. Unless Germany is restored spiritually, no amount of material rehabilitation will save us from a horrid choice; keeping the Ger- mans permanently helpless or risking a third. German war. (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) PEM MIANS 104 Au'f0 30 4f 8-/ 4 , :\\ Letters to the Editor... A ' 'I Cepr, 1447 by Un~dpnues --Aftllq DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN NIGHT EDITOR: FRED SCHOTT Investigation SOME REPUBLICANS will stoop to- any- thing to smear the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Senator Brewster and Senator Ferguson are making a spectacle of them- selves via Elliot, who, it seems, has not al- ways acted with a great deal of discretion. It all began when Howard Hughes got some government contracts. The story goes that Elliot recommended the awarding of a goigrnment contract for the Hughes' pho- to-reconnaissance plane. The story goes that Elliott accepted from Hughes and his dispenser, "Goodtime" Johinny Meyer, var- ious gifts, favors and lavish entertainment. Senator Brewster and Senator Ferguson seem 'to have decided that these facts mean Elliot sold the government (his father) onethe Hughes plane because Hughes. gave him a good time. Elliot served as an officer in the Arm.y Air Forces during the war. His record is so good that the two senators have not dared to challange it, or even mention it. Elliot says he wanted the Hughes planes because they promised greater safety for his men. And Hughes says that Senator Brewster is nothing but a blackmailer anyway. He claims Brewster offered to call off the in- vestigation if he would merge his Trans World Airline with Pan American Air- ways, in which Brewster is interested, and thus create a monopolistic overseas air system. Brewster has denied this out of one side of his mouth and admitted twice discussing the merger with Hughes out of the other side. To which we can only comment: some Senators have very big mouths. -Eunice Mintz Ford Layoff ENRY FORD II, consciously or other- wise, has just conducted for 51,000 of his employes a snappy but profound session in mass education. He has wiped away at one stroke the confusion spread among the workers for years by various "economists," statisticians and news writers. In large industrial strikes, workers have been repeatedly subjected to computations of the amount of wages they have been sup- posedly losing as each idle day passed. As each strike progressed, and as the statis- ticians' pencils moved faster and faster, the figures reached astronomical sums. By laying off 51,000 workers on the same day they called off a scheduled strike, Ford demonstrated that such estimates are noth- ing more than guesswork. Loss of wages, Ford has shown the workers, need never enter into strike discussions within union circle, because there is no assurance that work will continue, strike or no strike. -Malcolm Wright AMONG CONCRETE proposals for mte- gration of Europe's economy, as called for by the Marshall. Plan, those put for- ward by France dealing with German coal and steel production deserve serious study. Briefly, they emphasize German coal pro- duction as a basis for increased steel pro- duction not so much in Germany as in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. French analysis of the possibilities shows that not only would this tend to create a more equal balance in European war po- MATTER OF FACT: Politics as Usual By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP 'WHILE THE world comes apart at the seams, the maneuvers of domestic pol- itics rather irrelevantly continue. One maneuver which is at least less irrelevant than most, is the virtually final decision of Postmaster General Robert Hannegan to resign as chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee. Barring accidents, the long-rumored Hannegan resignation will be offered to the committee at a meeting which Hannegan is calling for September. The current plan is that Hannegan will stay on for a while at the Post Office, but will eventually withdraw into private busi- ness. (His ambition is to own a baseball team, and he and his friend, Edwin Pauley; have been trying, thus far unsuccessfully, to buy one of the major league clubs.) His reason for leaving the national committee is the ill health which has plagued him for more than a year. At first glance, all this seems innocent enough. Yet behind it, there is some- thing more than meets the eye. And that something is an incipient revival of the ancient Democratic feud between the party's conservative Southern faction and more progressive Northern wing. It is true that Hannegan's decision to retire was based on his high blood pres- sure and nothing else. But it is also true that the Southerners have for some time wanted him out of the national committee owing to his pro-labor views. Hannegan has in the past rather angrily intimated that the only thing that could make him change his mind about laying down his burdens, would be a Southern effort to force him to do so. If this develops, by the odd logic of politics, he will fight for what he does not want. It seems more likely that there will be no fight, and that he will resign as plan- ned. And if he goes, the still more important question of his successor will remain to be settled. Until a day or so ago, this question seemed to have been settled in favor of Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. The Presi- dent meant to draft Anderson from his cab- inet post to head the party in the election year. But Anderson's greatest ambition is to enter the Senate. The able Carl Hatch of New Mexico has decided to leave the Senate at the end of this term. And An- derson will therefore now retire from the cabinet only to run for Hatch's Senate seat. That leaves the field open for the succession to Hannegan. The most frequently named contenders are Judge Sherman Minton, as record, Anderson could have been counted on not to maintain the close liaison with the labor groups on which Hannegan has always insisted. In Conjunction with the labor bill veto, such Presidential veerings hardly seem logi- cal. The veto no doubt proceeded from the President's honest conviction as to the Taft-!, Hartley law, yet it was also aimed to solidify the labor groups for the Democrats. It brought back into the fold the bitterest cf labor's dissidents, A. F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. It would seem plain folly for the President even to consider jeopardizing the labor support thus garnered for him. The quirks of the President's character cannot be discounted, however. In prin- ciple, he is pro-labor. But in practice, he has a strong distaste for labor lead- ers, which is encouraged in him by such members of his circle as Secretary of the Treasury Snyder and his large, loud mili- tary aide, Major Genrela Harry Vaughan. Following the veto, according to a report circulating among labor insiders, Whit- ney, Philip Murray of the C.I.O., and William Green of the A.F. of L. all sig- nified their willingness to call at the White House in evidence of their support for Truman. The rival labor chieftains might even have marched in together- an impressive demonstration. The last thing the President wanted, however, was anything of the sort; and the labor lead- ers' march to the White House did not occur. Holding allies at arm's length is not the best way to cheer them on. To all this must be added still another factor in the President's political situation: the Democratic organizations, in most states, are suffering either from advanced harden- ing of the arteries, or galloping factional- ism or both. By dint of a telephone call from Washington in which young Franklin Roosevelt participated, James Roosevelt's unfriendly maneuverings in California were somehow halted, yet California is still rent with strife. New York hardly contains tTo Democratic leaders on speaking term'ns. Pennsylvania is divided between the dilapi- dated David Lawrence of Pittsburgh and the still more dilapidated Joe Guffey. And so it goes. Under the circumstances, one would suppose Truman would want all the, enthusiastic allies he could muster. (Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune) 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 Z1I3 Angel Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day pre- ceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 338 Notices Examination for U in i v e r s i t y Credit. All students who desire credit for work done in the sum- mer session will be required to take examinations at the close of the session. The examination schedule for the schools and col- leges on the eight-week basis is as follows: (Thursday, August 14 and Friday, August 15.) Hour of Recitation Time of Exam 8 Thursday, '8-10 9 Friday, 8-10 10 Thursday, 2-4 11 Friday, 2-4 1 Thursday, 4-6 2 Thursday 10-12 3 Friday, 10-12 All other hours Friday, 4-6 Any deviation from the above schedule may be made only by mutual agreement between stu- dent and instructor, and with the approval of the Examination Schedule Committee. 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In it's place we suggest the stu- dents receive stubs with which tickets can be obtained in the stu- dents section during the week prior to the actual day of play. Assuming that such "trade in" be permissible through Thursday the University could then sell the unclaimed tickets. Another method might be to al- low the student to take any seat in his own class' section upon ar- rival in the stadium such as is done at many western schools. The better seats would then be distributed on a first-come first served basis. The main purpose of either plan is to do away with the main evil of the present one, of necessarily holding the same seat for every ball game. A classic example of the results of this is the hard to adjust frosh. He arrives on camp- us knowing virtually no one. His ticket is given him and he winds up with a ticket that is unchange- able amidst a group which he has nothing in common. After living on campus he meets other stu- dents with whom he becomes friendly. Companionship is a great thing at a football game. If one is on the inside, he feels a little of this thing called "school spirit." It's hard to have such a feeling for an impersonal in- by 11 a.m., August 23. Note: This is a correction of the date listed in The Daily August 6, and 7. Deadline for Veterans' Book and supply Requisitions. August 22, 1947 has been set at 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. Housing for Men Students, Post Summer Session: Men interested in rooms in theResidence Halls for the Post-Session,' Aug. 18- Sept. 12 are required to leave their names at the Information Desk, Room 2, University Hall, on or before Friday, August 8. No meals 'will be served. Approved social events for this Week: August 8, Intercooperative Council; August 9, Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Doctoral Examination for John Hans Biel, Pharmaceutical Chem- istry; thesis: "Anti Spasmodics X. Analogs of Acetylcholine." Saturday, August 9, at 9 a.m. in the East Alcove, Rackham. Chair- man, F. F. Blicke. Ralph, A. Sawyer Doctoral Examination for Vad- en Willis Miles, Education; thesis, ples and Experiments Desirable "A Determination of the Princi- for a High-School Course of Inte- grated Physical Science," Satur- day, August 9, at 9 a.m. in the West Alcove, Rackham. Chair- man, F. D. Curtis. Ralph A. Sawyer Doctoral Examination for Harry Alex Romanowitz, Electrical En- gineering; thesis: "Measurements, Analysis, and Statistical Nature of Deionization Time in a Mer- cury Vapor Thyratron," Monday, August 11 at 1:30 p.m. in the West Council Room, Rackham. Chair- man, W. G. Dow. Ralph A. Sawyer Doctoral Examination for Cheng Tsui, Botany; thesis: 'The In- fluence of Zinc in Plant Growth," Monday, August 11, at 2 p.m. in Room 1139, Natural Science Build- ing. Chairman, F. G. Gustafson. Ralph A. Sawyer Doctoral Examination for Ther- al Thomas Herrick, Education; thesis: "The Development of Cri- teria for the Evaluation of Citi- zenship Training in the Senior High School," Monday, August 11, at 3 p.m. in the East Coun- cil Room, Rackham, Chairman, H. C. Koch. stitution which in one step can insure the lack of companionship at such an ~important athletic event as the Michigan-Ohio State igame etc. The claim of the University that every seat in the stadium is a good seat is partly justified. It is our firm conviction that a seat be- hind the goal posts in the com- pany of several buddies or a girl friend would be less objectionable than a permanent lonely seat on the forty. -John M. Cox Vice, President, Engineering Council * * * Cyclists To the Editor: THE BICYCLE situation on this campus is little short of crim- inal. The menace offered to cy- clists by pedestrians must be re- moved. Many cyclists are suffer- ing from shattered nerves and the burden on Health Service person- nel has become serious. The following rules must be adopted immediately and enforced rigidly: 1. The pedestrian, upon per- ceiving an approaching cyclist, shall step three paces to his right off the side-walk and stand at at- tention until the cyclist has passed. Saluting is not required but is recommended. 2. The pedestrian shall be re- quired to look around at intervals of every three steps. This is to assure himself that he is not cre- ating a traffic hazard for a cy- clist approaching from the rear. 3. The pedestrian, in case of an accident involving a cyclist, shall be automatically adjudged the guilty party and subject to crim- inal and civil action. These rules are simple and easy to remember. They are easier to enforce than the present rules. They will cut down accidents. The ultimate solution, of course, is the elimination of the pedes- trian. But that must be approach- ed by easy stages. -Carroll H. Clark thesis: "Actuarial Studies of the Philippines' Government Service Insurance System," Tuesday, Aug- ust 12, at 3:30 p.m. in the East Council Room, Rackham. Chair- man, C. J. Nesbitt. Ralph A. Sawyer Doctoral Examination for Rob- ert Fulton Haugh, English Lang- uage and Literature; thesis: "Sen- timentalism in the American Pro- letarian Novel," Tuesday, August 12, at 7 p.m. in the West Council Room, Rackham. Chairman, J. L. Davis. Ralph A. Sawyer Lectures Professor Joshua Whatmough of Harvard University will lecture on "Manand His Language" at the eighth luncheon conference of the Linguistic Institute at 1:00 Tuesday August twelfth in room 308 Michigan Union. The lec- ture will be preceded by a lunch- eon at 12:10 in the Anderson Room. Both luncheon and lec- ture will be open to members of the Linguistic Institute and the Linguistic Society. P r o f e s s o r Whatmough is Professor of Com- parative Philology at Harvard University, and is well known for his many contributions to Celtic and Indo-European philology and to general linguistics. Professor . Joshua Whatmough will deliver the second of two lec- tures to the Linguistic Institute at 7:30 Wednesday, August 13 in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. His subject will be "De- scriptive Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Area Linguistics, with Special Reference to the Dia- lects of Ancient Gaul." The lec- ture will be open to the Public. Professor Whatmough's lecture will concern itself with the impli- cations of some. of the newer methods in the investigation of language. The concluding lecture of the series offered by the Linguistic Institute will be offered by Pro- fessor Hans Kurath of the Uni- versity of Michigan. The address will be given Thurs., Aug. 14 at 7:30 in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building and will be open to the public. The subject will be "Linguistic Geography and Its Relations to Other Fields of Research." Professor Kurath, now the director of the Middle English Dictionary, and of the Linguistic Institute, is well qualified to talk on Linguistic Geography, since he is also the editor of the Linguis- tic Atlas of the United States which has published over three hundred maps of the dialect areas of New England and is planning publication for the Middle and South Atlantic States. Concerts Carillon Recital: Sunday after- noon, August 10, 3:00 p.m., Per- cival Price, University Carilloneur, will play a program including a ,r1 p . 1, ,, Doctoral uel Ochoa. Ralph A. Sawyer Examination for Man- Hizon, Mathematics; 4' BARNABY... [How beautiful- fl