THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1947 III F 3iftySevnt ttl Fifty-Seventh Year I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Theme and Variations BILL MAULDIN -~ Edited and managed by students of the Uni- versity of Michigan 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 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 maatter. 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: LIDA DAILES Pension Plan OUR INDUSTRIAL society has produced. a great mass of workers who live a pay- check to pay-check existence with no oppor- tunity to put aside a "nest egg" for old age and yet who are faced with the problem of providing security for themselves and their families when they are too old to work. For the welfare and security of the indus- trial worker who has no income other than his weekly wages, the pension plan soon to become effective for 110,000 Ford work- ers marks the greatest advance since the in- troduction of the federal Social Security Act in 1935. A contribution of from two and a half to five per cent of his pay will give the average pensioner a monthly income of $130 under the plan which the UAW-CIO is now negotiating with the Ford Motor Co. Fifty-five per cent of this will be - paid by the company and in the event of the employee's death his beneficiary will receive all of his pension payments plus interest. By agreeing to the pension plan, Ford has acknowledged what the UAW's presi- dent, Walter Reuther, has long been preach- ing, that labor conflict and unrest can best be reduced by reducing the insecurity that plagues the production worker. This plan, which will help maintain the worker's self- respect by enabling him to enjoy his old age without becoming 'a burden either upon 'his children or his community, is a long step forward in this direction. Now tlhat one of the automotive "big three" has broken the ice, Chrysler and General Motors can be expected to intro- duce similar plans next year. As its merits and its desirability achieve wider recogni- tion, the pension plan being initiated by the UAW and Ford will serve other industries as a working example of a constructive ap- proach to a problem which is of serious and intimate concern to every working man. -Tom Walsh By SAMUEL GRAFTON THE QUARRELS now going on between Russia and the West are variations on an old theme: How is a minority to get along with a majority that it fears and, per- haps, hates? The theme never changes. It is always the issue: it is the issue now. It happens that at the moment the theme is being treated with gorgeous complexity, MATTER OF FACT: Long Shot BY JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP XVJASHINGTON, JULY 3-The optimistic citizens who enjoy backing long shots might get a little money down on the pro- position that history will remember the Lodge-Brown bill as one of the most im- portant enactments of the present Congress. The odds are heavily adverse, but the pay- off will be very big indeed if it occurs. And, incidentally, it will be vitally important to the future of the United States. As usual with long shots of any real prom- ise, it is necessary to explain what the Lodge-Brown bill is. In brief, it is a bill introduced by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge jr., of Massachusetts, and Representative Clarence Brown, of Ohio which permits the President, the Speaker and the President pro tem of the Senate to name a commis- sion to investigate the organization of the Federal government. The commission is al- lowed sixteen months to complete its in- quiries, and is instructed to recommend a plan of reorganization in January, 1949. The idea is that if the commission does a decent job, a newly elected President with a Con- gress of his own party may then conceivably be able to effect the through-going govern- ment housecleaning that has been more and more urgently needed every year for the last fifty years. The odds are unhappily against the Lodge-Brown bill paying off for two rea- sons. First, the commission is to be com- posed of twelve members, four from Con- gress, two from the executive branch and six from private life. So large a body, tack- ling so complex a task, is bound to be hamp- ered by its mere unwieldiness. Second, there is no guaranty that men of the highest quality will be named, or can be persuaded to serve on the commission. It is crucial that none but men of the most eminent abilities, able to command general confi- dence in their judgment, be charged with the job of replanning the government. Such men are hard to find. It will do no good, on the other hand, to name one more commission which will be just like all its predecessors, drawing its per diem, presenting a report recommending strict economy and general virtue, and fad- ing into obscurity again. The responsibil- ity placed on President Truman, Speaker Martin and Senator Vandenberg is heavy. It will be the more difficult to discharge be- cause the really acute need for thorough-go- ing government reorganization is so little understood. The remarkable progress made by Secre- tary of State George C. Marshall and Under Secretary Robert Lovett, following blueprints originally drawn by Dean G. Acheson, is an illustration of what can be achieved in one small area. From immemorial chaos, something like order is emerging at the State Department. It may not result in fis- cal economies. But what is immeasurably, more important, it will unquestionably re- sult in a clear, coherent foreign policy, in which all parts will be related to each other and the whole, and the whole will be con- ditioned by . the interests of the United States. Clarity and effectiveness of policy are more important, in every branch of the United States government today, than the petty penny-pinching bawled for by the kind of Congressman who would sink the national defense in order to cut thirty per cent off the income taxes of his political angel. (Copyright, 1947, New York Herald Tribune) DRAMA with many riffs, hot licks and embroidery, and yet it remains plainly visible beneath the decorations. On the question of a United Nations world police force, the Russians want each of the five great powers to make "equal con- tributibns in all categories," i.e., exactly the same number of men, planes, submarines, carriers, and so on. But China doesn't have any aircraft carriers, or in fact any navy. The French lack planes. The Russians are weak in cruisers. American experts favor the principle of "comparable" rather than "equal" contributions; they believe some na- tions ought to fill in certain categories, others ought to fill in elsewhere. * Why do the Russians take the position they do? Perhaps they are afraid that a "United Nations carrier force" would real- ly turn out to be a United States carrier force, since we are the only power which has any of these vehicles in impressive number. Perhaps they fear that the world air force would turn out to be an Amer- ican-British air force, with a mixed in- ternational ground crew. That's the problem: "How is the min- ority to protect itself against the majority?" The Russians are apparently looking for an organizational gimmick in the world police force that will correspond to the veto power in the security council. But the gimmick they have evolved for the world police force probably means no world police force, just as the veto power in the security council means, for practical purposes, that there is no security council. One can sympathize with Russian fears without being able to say that the Russians have helped much to solve the world's prob- lem. For, to the question: "How can the capitalist and the communist parts of the world work together?" the Russian answer, like that of some others, is "They can't." The best that can be said of Russian con- tributions toward making this one world is that the Russians have evolved a series of formulae for a standoff. The problem is theirs, as much as ours, but they have not been able to solve it, either. The thing shows up again with regard to the Marshall Plan. The Russians are ap- parently so afraid that a plan for Ameri- can aid to world recovery, on an organized basis, will mean American domination, that they prefer, in effect, no plan. This is only another face of the same fear that shows up in the Soviet reaction to a world police force.. One may sympathize with this fear; but the real issue is that as these successive, separate schemes crum- ble, the possibility of world collaboration crumbles with them, in a general sense. Is it not legitimate to ask of Russia, as Amer- ican liberals continually ask of their own country, some act of faith and daring to keep that possibility alive? For what seems to come out is that the Russians have given up, too, and have turned inward, andhave decided that a standoff is about as nuch as can be worked for. But once the West is convinced that that is the Russian perspective, it will be- come impossible for that part of western opinion which still has hope to sustain a controversy. (Copyright 1947, New York Post Corporation "You kids are the only hope for a shick soshiety." C eU 9- r, . 11 CURRENT MOVIES 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- pressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted at tie discretion of the edi- torial director. Radio Bill To the Editor: RUSSELL MULLEN makes a number of statements in his "White Radio Bill" (July 2) which should be corrected if your readers are to form intelligent opinions on the subject of the editorial. Mullen says that "nothing could be more unfavorable than the bill which was tossed into the hopper without a word of warning to any- one." Unfavorable to whom? To the public? To the radio indus- try? While the White Bill (5-1333) has many questionable features which the author himself admits, it would be quite simple to draw up a more "unfavorable" bill in a few moments. And since when must a senator distribute a word of warning before dropping a bill in Congressional hopper? Our leg- ON WORLD AFFAIRS: Tass View By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER THE SOVIET views on Ameri- can aid to Europe-as express- ed by Tass newspaper agency in a radio broadcast from Moscow- may or may not represent Rus- sia's final position. Yet the Tass comment-prop- erly interpreted-was an interest- ing revelation of Moscow's real wishes. And these wishes-as in- directly revealed by Tass-turn out to be exactly what Soviet experts in Washington had come to sus- pect. First wish. The Kremlin boys want future American aid to fol- low the pattern of UNRRA. Each country would express its needs. A smiling American San- ta Claus with the face of Hen- ry Wallace and the figure of Fiorello LaGuardia, would sat- isfy each need. Without as- ing embarrassing questions about the use of reliefmoney or goods. Above all, without any political strings. That would be -oh fie!-foreign intervention and "dollar diplomacy.' Second wish. No recipient coun- try should be compelled to modi- fy its own internal economic plans to fit a eneral picture. This would be derogatory to that coun- try's precious national sovereign- ty (19th century pattern). Third wish. American help must not be accompanied by any spot investigation of needs. The United States should simply take the furnished figures as bona fide -and fulfill them. The Iron Cur- tain must remain inviolate. Fourth wish. Europe must be rehabilitated piecemeal. Germany, a "special case" to .be considered by the Council of Foreign Min- isters next November in London, should be omitted. The Soviets must remain free to pump repar- ations out of their part of Ger- many-and angle forsuch other German reparations as they can induce the other countries to per- mit. On the receiving end, those United Nations that fought the most and underwent German oc- cupation, would come first. Then presumably the'other United Na- tions, like Britain. Then the neu- trals and finally the ex-enemies. Fifth wish. Any rehabilita- tion scheme should be placed under the United Nations. This would mean that-as in UNRRA -the Soviet Union could give nothing yet have a voice in al- location and veto power on un- desired action by the United States or some other country. Five fine, fat wishes that add up into Soviet insistence on keep- ing Europe divided and weak. Moscow seems determined to force its needy satellites to refuse as- sistance rather than change the status quo.' Possible failure of the scheme must rest on American imperialism rather than upon So- viet unreadiness to play ball. (Copyright 147, Press Alliance, Inc.) The Andean Indians of Bolivia and Peru thrive at an altitude of 17,000 feet, more than a mile above the altitude at whici most U.S. Army airmen are required to use oxygen. Peruvian pilots of Indian blood fly their airplanes as high as 24,000 feet withiut extra oxy- gen. -Time Publication in The Daily Officiait Buletin is constructive notice to allf members of the University. NoticesE for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Summer Session, Room 1213 Angel Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day pre-C ceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat-r urdays).t FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 8St Notices Saturday morning following July 4: With the approval of the Conference of the Deans, all busi- ness administrative offices of thea University will be closed on Sat- urday morning July' 5.] Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary Registration Blanks may be ob- tained at the University Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason Hall on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Office hours are: 9 to 12; 2 to 4.s Those interested in securing posi- tions in the immediate future are urged to register with the Bureau at once. 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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. The Giaduate'Outing Club will meet for a bicycle hike on Sunday July 6th at 2:30 p.m. at the north- west entrance to the Rackham Building. Please sign up before noon on- Saturday at the check desk in the Rackham Building. 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. Lectures Dr. Robin A. Humphreys, Read- er in American History in the Uni- versity of London will give a lec- ture, "Policies and Tendencies in Latin America," Tuesday, July 8, 4:10 p.m., Rackham Amphithea- tre. This will be the second lec- ture in the Summer Lecture Ser- ies, "The United States in World Affairs." The pubhc is invited. Professor Walter L. Wright, Jr, Professor of Turkish Language and History, Princeton University, will give a lecture, "A Near East Pol- icy in the Making," Thursday, July 10; 4:10 p.m., Rackham Am- phitheatre. This is a lecture in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs." The public is invited. Concerts Concerts: The second in the (Continued on Page 4) DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Letters to the Editor... lative procedure provides for ommittee hearings to evaluate rroposed legislation. Such hear- ngs have been held and more will >robably be held. at the next ses- ion of Congress. One would sus- ect from Mullen's statement that .he industry, taken unawares, was tot even able to defend itself in a nanner commensurate with the nerits of its position. However, ,o judge by the extended presen- ,ations of the radio industry wit- esses, one might come to the con- lusion that, with or without warning, the radio people were imply prepared to present their :ase. In fact, the industry's trade nagazine has editorialized to the ffect that their case has never before been so forcefully pre- ented. ("Broadcasting," June 30, 1947) Mullen further states that the ill "is distinctly 'new deal' in na- ure, and strongly resembles the old Wheeler Bill which a Demo- cratic Congress tried in vain to pass." This is a rather startling and misleading statement. If the bill strongly resembles an earlier bill, why should it then take any- one by surprise: It should also be noted that the old bill to which Mullen refers is generally referred to by the names of its co-authors,- Senators Wheeler and WHITE, neither of whom has for some time been regarded in the "new deal" camp. If, as Mullen says, the Democratic Congress tried "in vain" (using those words with the meaning commonly attached to them) to pass the bill, is it not strange what with a controlling majority and the support of the minority leader, the bill did not, as I recall, even get out of the cognizant committee? Mullen makes the statement, without offering supporting evi- dence, that "the Senate, which had regraded White as being friendly to the broadcasting in- dustry and which had expected a bill .along lines favored by indus- try heads, was bewildered." It is hard to reconcile this statement of alleged fact with the unamity of attitude among the senators of the White subcommittee (as evi- denced during the recent hear- ings) toward the need for some re- vision of the Communications Act of 1934. As for Senator White himself, his attitude toward radio has been a matter of public rec- ord since January 1923 when, as a Congressman from Maine, he sub- mitted a resolution, unanimously adopted by the House, which di- rected the Federal Trade Commis- sion to investigate and report "the facts as they found them with re- spect to the alleged radio mono- poly." Mullen, presumably after taking a public opinion poll, says, "The average citizen will wonder why Senator White would introduce such a bill . . ." One wonders whether the average citizen has heard of Senator White's bill or even of Senator White himself. It is certain however that dissatis- faction with the out-put of cur- rent broadcasting is not unknown among the public, as evidenced by scientific public opinion polls and the growing literature of radio criticism. (For example, the re- cent report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press.) Those people who feel that ad- vertising may have become ex- cessive on the air and that in- sufficient time at good listening hours is given for public service programs have been searching for a method of correction. Senator White may not have the answer, but at least he keeps asking the question, "How can we make American radio better than it is?" Is that bad? -Giraud Chester S*Q * * NegoQuetio To the Editor: I WISH TO take issue with Miss Mintz's last paragraph in: her editorial that dealt with the Ne- gro question in The Michigan Daily of July 2, 1947. Particularly the part that deals with complacent, bigoted girls be- hind the counter who say "No Negroes allowed" when a Negro wishes to enter a bathing beach, Now come now Miss Mintz surely you don't want your reading pub- lic to get the ideal that it's the poor helpless counter girl's fault, now do you. In the paragraph preceding that one you should of finished it quote: "When asked why it was semi-public, she said it was to keep Negroes out. She also said something about our customers .." Unquote. Now why didn't you fin- ish that statement. I myself sort of suspect that it's the customers who don't care to have Negroes at the bathing beaches, not the poor helpless counter girl, who has to earn three square meals .a day. If you were in her position you would be saying the same thing, only perhaps a little loud- er. In general I agree with your editorial, we cannot continue to k i Back to John L. A FTER 13 MONTHS of operating the Na- tion's coal mines, the United States Gov- ernment has returned them to their private owners. The Federal Government entered the coal- mining industry on May 29, 1946, 'not by choice, but because one man, John L. Lewis, through the exercise of his arbitrary power, threatened to throw the Country into eco- nomic chaos. With the mines back in the hands of the operators, the cards again are stacked in Lewis' favor. To all intents and purposes, the 'miners are on strike. Whether they will return to work at the expiration of their legal holiday July 8, remains'to'be seen. Their ultimate action depends on what Lewis tells them to do. Admittedly the out- look is not hopeful. When Lewis tried his strength against the Government, he was convicted in Federal Court and heavily fined. To him that must have been a humiliating experience, and it is the nature of such a man to want revenge. There is no doubt that he has the oppor- tunity to get it-not only against the court which sentenced him, but against all of the American people. Apparently there is no law to thwart him. When the mines were taken over, the Country won a respite from Lewis' personal dictatorship. But it was only a respite and I, At The Michigan . THAT'S MY MAN (Republic), Cather- ine McLeod, Don Ameche. THIS is the kind oX picture you don't re- member very long, but it may appeal to racing fans. It seems to be aimed for the person stuck in Ann Arbor over the Fourth who runs out of ways to kill time. Billed as "the greatest race-romance since "Broadway Bill," with whom we are not acquainted, the story tosses together the "lovable-heel" type gambler, the love-inter- est and a filibustering cabbie. Out of all this comes a horse called Gallant Man who adds a ruined apartment to his racing achieve- ments,-and makes Assault look like a milk- horse. The horse is pretty good. He could have had a better supporting cast. Don Ameche and Catherine McLeod made the best of it. -John Campbell At The State . . SAN QUENTIN (RKO), Lawrence Tier- ney, Marian Carr. THIS IS the kind of picture you don't re- member very long, but it may appeal to prison inmates. Lawrence Tierney carries off a fine imitation of a reformed criminal in RKO's latest in a series of eulogies to the charms of prison life. With a delightful, white-haired old warden, the place does seem rather appealing. The dialogue did hit a new high when a gun moll made the remark, "He's not hot, he's not even warm. He's in the cooler." Bugs Bunny appears on the same program, outdoing even Warden Lawes in sheer dram- atic ability. Beverly Dippel Y I t I 'WHAT may be called Ann Arbor's straw hat season got off to an auspicious start last night with the Michigan Repertory Players' production of George Bernard Shaw's 'Candida'. Because adjectives must, almost inevitably, be used, it can be said that this was a distinguished and delightful pro- duction of a play of the same qualities. Evincing a slight difficulty in getting the characters established and the comedy launched at the very beginning, both the players and audience soon lost their first- minute hesitancy. Without a doubt, it was Prossy, beautifully played by Clara Behrin- ger, who stole the show. Her performance was only secqnded by the intensity of Roger Cleary and the understanding of Richard Stewart. Except for a slight confusion in accents and a hard-to-believe "bay-win- dow," Robert Thompson's portrayal of Mr. Burgess was excellent. Beth Laikin as Can- dida was charming, while Forrest Campbell was outstanding as the actor who most con- sistently maintained an accent and who used his hands with the greatest effective- ness. I BARNABY... Copy ghl W47, Tlm Nn+s pe, PM, ' peg, . 5 Pee op- 4 A teto Y.. ._ .....,. Y..... .an itnreninn - -- - t I. 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