THE MICHilGAN DAIL WEDNESDAY, JULY Z, 1947 Fifty-Seventh Year BILL MAULDIN White Radio Bill Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan urer the authority of tie Board in Control 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 Rohrbachl ircuiation 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 tp 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- &an, 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 EDITOR: DAILES&PASQUALETTI WHILE MOST AMERICANS will readily agree that the broadcasting industry of the United States does have some faults, and that legislation to correct them is appropri- ate at this time, it is extremely doubtful if they will be satisfied by the new bill de- signed to meet this need which was recently introduced by Senator Wallace H. White, (Rep., Me.) Senator White, who is at present chair- man of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, and Senate majority leader, has had long experience with the broadcasting industry and was generally believed to be favorable to it. Nothing could be more un- favorable than the bill, which was tossed in the hopper without a word of warning to anyone. The most unpleasant aspects of the bill are found in provisions which deal with political broadcasts and with news re- porting. These provide that no one may purchase time for a political broadcast except a candidate for office; his repre- sentative, designated in writing; or the political party with which he is affiliated. In other words, an independent citizen, wishing to speak on a political matter, could not purchase radio time. The bill also provides that if time is: provided for one political party, time amounting to twice the length of the original broadcast must be provided for the opposing side. News commentators are literally gagged by a provision requiring them to identify the source of all news "generally". This does no harm to those who obtain their material from the wire news services, but is a mor-' tal blow to the commentators who specialize in "inside" information. Identifying their sources would promptly cause those sources to dry up. Another provision, less harmful to the public as a whole, limits the amount of radio outlets any one person, company, or corporation may own to those providing service for 25 per cent of the population. This is aimed at the large radio networks and would force all of them to sell stations. For instance, a network could own a sta- tion in New York, Chicago, and Washington, but would be unable to operate one in San Francisco. The larger networks, such as CBS and NBC would have to sell approxi- matesly half their stations. The average citizen will wonder why Senator White would introduce such a bill, and he does not wonder alone. Everybody, from Capitol Hill on down is looking for the answer. The networks, who regarded White as one of their most sympathetic friends, look upon this bill as a stab in the back, and are acting accordingly. The news commentators, on the radio and in the newspapers, all of whom regard the protection of the news source as one of the most cardinal principles of report- ing are already beginning to give the bill a going over. The Senate, which had regarded White as being friendly to the broadcasting in- dustry, and which had expected a bill along lines favored by industry heads, was be- wildered. 'The only amusing feature about the entire situation is the peculiar position of the Republican Party. White is one of the oldest and most respected Republicans in the Senate, so obviously the Party can- not disavow his bill. To do so would be disavowing White himself. Resides, due to his long service in the Senate, most of the present members owe White a vote in return for favors received, and White has been busy reminding them of it. On the other hand, the Republican Party cannot very well allow the bill to become law. It is distinctly "new deal" in nature, and strongly resembles the old Wheeler Bill which a Democratic Congress tried in vain to pass. The networks, most of which have been pro-Republican would withdraw their support, with serious consequences in 1948. The Republican leadership is side-stepping its dilemma by allowing White, as chair- . , man of the ICC, to hold hearings on the bill, but the Policy Committee has refused to put it on the agenda for this session. The bill may meet a well-deserved death in com- mittee. -Russell Mullen Pdn ted iA LAURA Z. HOBSON in her book "Gentle- men's Agreement" makes the point that the people who deplore the Rankins and Bilbos but, at the same time, go to resorts and hotels and live in places designated as "restricted"rare contributing to anti-Semi- tism in their own potent way. The other day a group of us went swim- ming at one of the local beaches near town. At the entrance was a sign saying "semi- public", a euphemism for "No Negroes." Formerly this beach had a sign which said "restricted'. When certain of the Jewish clientele thought that meant them . . . and stopped coming . . . they learned that, in this case, the "restricted" meant Negroes and "highly restricted" would mean them. Later the sign was changed to "semi-public". . to stave off question, we assume. At another local beach, the question is taken care of by a sign which says some- thing tactful about the management reserv- ing the right to admit or bar would-be bathers. When questioned, a management repre- sentative said that they would not admit Negroes because the beach was "semi-pub- lic." When asked why it was "semi-puplic", she said it was "to keep Negroes out." She also said something about "our customers. This is not a new thing. It's the same. thing as the barbers and the restaurant owners and the other varieties of Jirh Crow- ism. And when it hits you. . . those disgust- ing signs and the complacent girls behind the counter who let out with their bigotry like it's all a foregone concusion . . . you feel sort of sick inside. And you wonder what to do. --Eunice Mintz ic x,' 6cpC - d - '" 14 y ieref-s Syndite, nc. -i "Investigate THEM? Heck, that's male posse." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN wool Veto WITHIN THE PAST WEEK, President Truman has vetoed three important measures, the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill, the Income Tax Reduction Bill, and the Wool- Price-Support Bill. The first two of these three measures have received a great deal of publicity. The third has pretty-much been lost in the scuffle. And yet, a little thought shows that this third bill poses a problem involving or whole future. Are we going to continue building trade barriers in restriction of much-needed world trade, or are we going to take the economic as well as the political lead in the world's effort to achieve both properity and peace? At the very time that our representatives were meeting with the representatives of other nations in Geneva in an effort to find a solution to world trade problems, powerful private interests in this country worked for passage .of legislation in direct contradiction to the spirit of American policy abrod. Undersecretary of State Will Clayton, head of the American delegation, is negotiating trade agreements with other nations under power of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. Enactment of this Bill would jeopar- dize that whole program. The wool growers constitute a very small segment of the American populace. It would be sheer folly to risk our whole economic future in order to cater to this small group. What we do for wool grow- ers we must do for other producing groups, and off we go on another round of tariff increases. President Truman deserves highest praise for halting this attempt to restore econom- ic isolation in the United States. Political systems and economic systems are so closely related today that it is impossible, to pursue a policy in one that is diametrically opposed to that followed in the other. We are now committed to political internationalism; it is time we were committed to economic in'- ternationalism. -Quentin Nesbitt THE WOOL PRICE-Support Act, as it reached the White House, would have struck a serious blow to our whole interna- tional trade program. The President prop- erly vetoed it. As originally drawn, this measure merely extended until Dec. 31, 1948, wartime au- thorization of the Government to buy and sell domestic wool in order to maintain a price of approximately 42 cents a pound. The wool lobby slipped into it a requiremet that the President impose a quota on for- eign wool or increase the import duty, when- eyer importations threatened to upset the Government's wool policy. The support which this provision received outside the wool clique indicated a concert- ed drive by interested but , short-sighted groups to torpedo the whole reciprocal trade agreement program and head the Country back toward the economic isolation of the 1930s. We've got to buy more. of some things abroad-in order to sell more of other things abroad for hard cash. American economy cannot long be sustained on any other basis. The President is to be commended for crushing the resurgent head of Smoot-Haw- leyism. --The Detroit Free Press - Harvard University will introduce a Re- gional Program on the Soviet Union in September, aimed to make students broadly conversant with the contemporary Russian scene and its essential background and to give them a firm working knowledge of the I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: A tomic Energy Report Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University.eNotices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Summer Session, Roomt1213 Angell Hall, by 3:06 p.m. on the day pre- ceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. OS Notices Saturday morning following July 4: With the approval of the Conference of the Deans, all busi- ness administrative offices of the University will be closed on Satur- day morning July 5. Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary Summer Symposium in Nuclear Physics: Three courses of lectures on Nu- clear Physics will be given this summer. Prof. Victor F. Weisskopf of M. I.T. will speak on the Statistical Theory of Hevy Nuclei, His first lecture will be on Tuesday, July 1, at 11 a.m. in the Rackham Auditorium. Following this first time his lectures will be MWF at 11. Dr. A. Pais, Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton will speak on Elementary Particle Problems, on MWF at 10 a.m., Rackham Audi- torium, starting Monday, June 30. Dr. James L. Lawson, General Electric Co., will speak on Produc- tion and Measurements of High Energy Radiation, TThS., at 10 a.m., Rackham Auditorium, start- ing Tuesday, July 8. Students Summer Session, Col- lege of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Courses may not be elected for credit after July 3rd. Thurs- day, July 3rd, is therefore the last day on which new elections may be approved. The willingness of an instructor to admit a student later will not affect the opera- tions of this rule. C. H. Peake Students, Summer Session. Col- lege of LiteratureScience, and the Arts: Except under extraord- inary circumstances, courses drop- ped after July 3rd will be recorded with the grade of "E". C. H. Peake Student organizations planningj to be active during the summer are requested to file a directory' card. Forms may be secured in the Office of Student Affairs, Room 2, University Hall. Recreational Swimming-Wom- en Students. There will be rec- reational swimming for women students at the Michigan Union pool on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30. Fencing practice for men will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Golf Driv- ing Net room of the I. M. Building. Elementary foil class will meet on Wednesday afternoons. Weapons, masks and plastrons available. Posture, figure and carriage clinic, open to women students in- terested in improving general con- dition, learning to work more ef- ficiently, and improving their fig- ures. Clinic hours 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fri- days, and 5 p.m. on Fridays be- ginning this week. Barbour Gym- nasium. 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%1 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 Women students on campus this summer who have not yet applied for fall housing should call at the Office of the Dean of Women at once if their admission applies to the fall semester as well as to the summer session. La p'tite causette meets every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 in the Grill Room of the Mich- igan League, every Thursday at 4:00 at the International Center. La Sociedad Hispanica meets for informal conversation every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. and every Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Game Room of the Inter- national Center. All students of Spanish are invited. University Radio Programs: Wednesday, July 2, 1947 2:30 p.m., WKAR-The School of Education- "A Fairer Chance for Every Child by Overcoming Reading Habits." Prof. Irving H. Anderson. 2:45 p.m., WKAR-The School of Music-The Universiti of Mich- igan Concert Band. 5:45 p.m., WPAG-Stories fort Cildren.C Thursday July 3, 1947-5:45-a WPAG-Campus News. Approved social events. The fol-t lowing groups have received ap- proval for social events scheduled for the coming week-end: July 3 Delta Tau Delta; July 5, Sigmal Alpha Epsilon; July 6, Michiganl League Dormitory. ~~---~~ Teacher Placement: The Lincoln School in Buenos Aires, Argentina would like to1 have applications from candidates; in the following teaching posi- tions: Science and Mathematics1 combined with English and/or Li-7 brary Service and Physical Educa- tion. Persons qualified to teach these subjects on secondary level should also be willing to teacher intermediate elementary w o r k. Full information may be obtained at the Bureau of Appointments. Civil Service: The U. S. Civil Service Commis- sion, Washington, D.C. announces an examination for probational appointment to the position of Oc- cupational Therapist. The Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners for the Securities and Exchange Commission announces' an examination for probational appointment to the positions of Financial Analyst (General, Se- curities, Securities Trading, and Public Utilities). State of Michigan Civil Service announces examination for Pub- lic Health Nurse I and I, Tuber- culosis Graduate Nurse A and I, Soils Testing Engineer I, and Soils Engineer I, II & III. Call at the Bureau for further inforination. Bur. of Appts. & Ocup. Inf. Married Veterans of World War 11 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 both 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 I 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 Sports Tornaments, Women Stu- dents: Tournaments in archery, badminton, golf, and tennis are being sponsored by the womens' Department of Physical Educa- tion. A small entry fee is charged. Register at Women's Athletic Building or Barbour Gymnasium. Riding Classes: Horseiack riding classes for men and women stu- dents are scheduled for Mondays and Wednesdays at 4 p.m. and Tuesdays'and Thursdays at 4 p.m. A nominal fee is charged. Regis- ter at Barbour Gymnasium by Tuesday noon, July 1. 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. Lectures Opening address of the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs." The Honor- able Stanley K. Hornbeck, "The United States and the Netherlands East Indies." Wednesday, July 2, at 8:10 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. Dr. Hornbeck was recently American Ambassador to the Netherlands. A booklet giving all of the lectures in this series is available in the Summer Session Office, Room 1213 Angell Hall Open to the public. Academic Notices Algebra Seminar: Thursday, 3:15 p.m. 3201 Angell Hall. Pro- fessor Brauer will speak on "The Normal Form of a Matrix." Exhibitions The Museum of Art: Exhibition of Prints---Vanguard Group, Ann Arbor Art Association Collection, and from the Permanent Collec- tion. July 1-28. Alumni Memor- ial Hall, daily, except Monday, 10- 12 and 2-5; Sundays, 2-5. The public is cordially invited. Events Today Algebra Seminar: Wednesday, July 2 3:15 p.m.-3201 A. H. Pro- fessor E. Snapper will speak n Absolute Indecomposable Vector Spaces. Seminar in Applied Mathema- tics. In the Applied Mathema- tics Seminar this summer a study will be made of hyperbolic par- tial differential equations, with a view to application to the theory of supersonic flow. The first meet- ing will be held Wed., July 2. at 4 p.m. in Room 317, West Engi- neering Bldg. Prof. E. H. Rothe will speak on "Introduction to the Theory of Characteristics of Par- tial Differential Equations." Seminar in Non-Euclidean Geo- metry. The Seminar in Non-Eu- clidean Geometry will meet We- nesday, 7 p.m. in 3010 Angell Hall. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity meets 8:00 p.m., Michigan Unioi, Wednesday, July 2, 1947. Flying Club. Club meeting VWed- nesday, July 2, Room 1042 East Engineering Building at 7:30 p.m. Those wishing to join the club may attend the meeting. The AVC will hold a meeting Wednesday July 2 at 7:30 in the Union. Plans will be made and committees will be formed to car- ry on the summer program. All members are urged to attend, La Sociedad Hispanica will hold its second meeting of the Summer Session on Wednesday, July 2 at 8 p.m. in the East Conference Room of the Rackham Building Mr. Adrian Leon Marquez, from Mexico, will speak on "Linguistic Problems of Mexico". Mr. Leon Marquez was formerly a teacher at the National University of Mex- ico. After the war, he went to Paris on a scholarship from the Mexican Government and at pres- ent he is working on his Ph.D. in the Linguistics Department of the University of Michigan. Everyone interested in Spanish should take advantage of this opportunity Ato hear Mr. Leon Marquez. The French Club will hold its second meeting Wednesday, July 2, at 8 p.m. in the second floor Terrace Room of the Michigan Union. Professor Albert J. Sal- van will give an informal talk on 'Lexistentialisme". Social hour, games, group= singing, refresh- ments. All students interested in hearing, speaking the French language and in learning French songs, are welcome to our weekly meetings. No charge. Coming Events University Community Center, 1045,Midway Place, Willow Run Village. Thurs., July 3: 8 p.m., Studio Work Shop, beginning drawing class* in black and white: Friday, July 4: 8 p.m., Dupli- cate bridge tournament. A Square Dancing Class, spon- sored by the Graduate Outing Club, will be held Thursday July 3rd at 7:45 p.m. in the Lounge of tih Wmpn' Athlpt,. Th,,np { t By SAMUEL GRAFTON HE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE OF Atomic Scientists has issued a statement which says quite simply that unless war is eliminated, we must look forward to the end of our civilization. I know exactly what will happen to this statement. It will be ignored. We will ig- nore it with our hearts, our minds and our bellies. We will ignore it by effort of will, and we will also ignore it unconsciously. We will misread it, or not read it, and if we do happen to read it we will try to forget it. There is a reason for this. The reason is that most of us would go out of business as thinkers the moment we admitted there was such a thing as atomic energy in the world. It is curious that it should be so, but if you want to have a reputation as a realist, it is best never to think about atom- ic energy. Forget it, put it out of your mind, and you can concentrate on little border quarrels, reparations, standing arm- ies, Balkan peace treaties, etc., very much as one might have done a hundred years ago. But as soon as you admit atomic energy into your universe, you become a different kind of man, a sort of an ecstatic type fel- low. You cannot help it. You find your- self thinking of the elimination of war in- stead of about border quarrels. You find yourself thinking about world government instead of about peacetime conscription. You go right up into the stratosphere, and there is no avoiding it. It is the tragedy of our time that the only way to keep a reputation as a realist is to enter into the fantasy that there is no atomic energy; whereas to face the fact of atomic energy squarely is to acquire a reputation as a dreamer. It will be treated like a special, detach- able page in our newspapers, printed to be thrown away; if it is read at all, it will be That is why the report of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, a commit- tee which includes some of the greatest brains in America, will not be read. The report does not chide either the West or Russia. It does not even bother to anlyze current disputes between them. Indeed, it is the purpose of the statement to bid both the mighty contestants to rise to a "higher realism", to understand that if war comes as the result of present disputes, it will leave only bits of burnt paper behind as the rec- ord of those quarrels, to be played with by animals that can't read. And so the report is, by implication, a challenge to all statesmen, not only Ameri- can leaders who fly into cosmic tizzies over a border quarrel, but Russian leaders, too, who in their own voluble squealing fail to face up to their problem, of living with a world which is, in part, anti-totalitarian, and means to continue to be so, and has the bomb. But, as I say, the report won't be read; the "realists" will skip this page without break- ing their strides. And by tomorrow it will be out of the papers. (Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation 1 I I BARNABY... ' - ..:. C>DrrioM 1W, SW Nw.- Hk 4s , t -"",1 Honest ... I didn't tie a blue ribbon to Gorgon's collar. &utsdn i tF r -if you didn't.... And if your mother didn't and if I didn't . .. Who did? ,j 7-t i ) _ ^y ., tJ ~ I 6 . Gosh; the only one who would know for sure is Gorgon ... I'll ask him, Pop.. I - - - - a ~:{ °^ .r ".ti 1t< [ '°' ,e'4 var53 .._ FAAP C)'AA AIll You'vecome sk o , , . 'err j'Y . . tacK morf;,.