TiE M ICHIGAN DAIllY WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1947 s Fifty-Seventh Year I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Gov. Dewey's Vacalion BILL MAULDIN Letters to the Editor... 4 1 ' - -- Edited and nianaged by students of the Uni- verity of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications, Editorial Staff Managing Editors ... John Campbell, Clyde Recht Asoiate 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 By SAMUEL GRAFTON MR. THOMAS E. DEWEY approaches the matter of gaining the Presidency like a man trying to solve a Chinese puzzle. Careful, now, a little movement here, a lit- tle flick there, now wait, now push this ... and there you are. It is entirely a techni- cal exercise, one in which timing and se- quence of moves are far more important than the battle of ideas. The technique involved is of a high order. Any one who disdains it would probably not appreciate the pitching of Bob Feller, or the dancing of Alicia Markova. It is not easy. One puzzles out, with the help of an obscure instinct and several advisers, ex- actly the right time to appear on a family trip in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and exactly the right time to receive the Jackson County Republican Committee for breakfast at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City. Next month might be too late, last month might have been too early. Then there is the delicate matter of remaining prominent without being for- ward. One avoids saying anything about the Taft-Hartley labor bill because one is not a candidate. One makes a multi- state tour because one is. One goes to Kansas City merely as part of a vacation trip (obviously it is the right town in which to take one's rest in midsummer) and ofie looks pleasantly embarrassed while being introduced along the route, at political lunches, wienie roasts and clambakes, as "the next Presi-i-i-ident of the Younited States." It takes skill, and endurance; a stumble- bum couldn't do it. And, in normal times, a man capable of solving this pre-conven- tion puzzle would probably be a good enough president, qualifying on the import- ant score of political skill. For he must have (or somebody near him must have a certain sensitivity about people, a happy touch at MATTER OF FACT: making a successful synthesis out of one county chairman's promise here and one state nabob's smile some other place, and he must have a love of the game. The only trouble is that the game itself is so desperately old-fashioned. Mr. Dewey is a virtuoso on an outmoded instrument. To watch his travels now gives one a fun- ny, antiquated feeling, as if one is reading a memoir about Uncle Joe Cannon, or Mar- cus Alonzo Hanna. Or it is like being lost among the names in one of Shakespeare's historical plays, where the lofty person- ages contend, not because they differ sub- stantially on any question of moment, but because each is a name, and a center of power, and is moodily compelled to advance his name, by dropping whispers into prof- fered ears, and dispatching couriers to the end of the kingdom. It is a game about peo- ple in a time of ideas. Happy the country which elects its presidents in this way, because that means there is no pressing issue divid- ing it, and that the prize goes merely to the most skillful. Perhaips the next best thing to having no history, which is sup- posed to be a fortunate state, is to have candidates like these. Yet, again, one wonders. In a period in which one President was elected four times hand-running, because the people wanted him, and in which a Re- publican amateur was able to blast his way through a national convention because the people wanted him, there is a faint flavor of the Gay Nineties about the Dewey per- formance. One has the funny feeling that a single hot speech by say, an Eisenhower, on housing, could blow the whole thing up, leaving the carefully contrived structure spread over the landscape like jackstraws, with committeemen's faces peering oddly through the mess here and there, like bits in a surrealist picture. (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints EVERY letter to the editor (,~hickr 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 the discretion of the edi- torial director. People's Will To the Editor: A IOUNDAMENTAL problem of American democracy is that of making its political leaders re- sponsive to the will of the major- ity of the American people. The British attempt to solve this problem by holding special elections on policy of the major- ity of the political leaders which might not represent the public opinion of the majority of the British people. This makes the leadership more responsive to the will of the people but runs the danger of inexperienced and un- stable leadership during' periods of crisis. In this country we do not have this danger of unstable leader- ship during political crises, but the danger of our political lead- ers misrepresenting the will of the majority of the American people. This danger is well illustrated by 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. 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She said she was eager to learn how things were done in Spain so that they might be done likewise in Argentina. Young officers in Franco's army treated her like a college stag-line would battle for Paulette God- dard. Spain's air-tight censorship saw to it that the man-on-the-street reaction to Evita was withheld. In Rome, once again the show for Eva was elaborate. When she visited the Pope, she was careful to see that her dress had room for medals on it. The Pope left it unadorned. Eva will go to England next. The Brit- ish people aren't anxious to have any Fas- cists visiting them, but Britain depends on Argentina for a large part of its food. Eva can expect another elaborate welcome, al- though the public may be a little chilly. London knows that Mrs. Peron wants a personal "cut" on British-Argentine con- tracts. And Britain must have that grain and meat. The English politeness is pro- verbial. * We hope Evita doesn't cherish any de- sires to see the United States. -Eunice lMintz. German Coal MERICAF OFFICIALS DENY that there has eve been more than one official American policy towards Germany. Outside observers have another opinion. They think there are two views about Germany cur- rent even in the State Department. One view, attributed to General Lucius Clay and Ambassador Bob Murphy in Ber- lin, is that the resuscitation of Germany (r at least of western Germany) is abso- lutely essential to European economy and world order. Therefore our first job is get Germany running again even if this means some hardship on our wartime allies. In their hearts, these leaders attribute to the Germans a superior energy and indus- trial know-how shared by no other Euro- peans. Some of them insist that if Ger- many languishes, Europe cannot be well. Therefore, they argue that the lion's share of the Ruhr coal should be devoted to rehabilitating Germany. The other school believes than not Ger- many, but German coal is essential to Eur- op's recovery. West of Polish Silesia, with British coal production lagging, the Ruhr coal deposits are the only large source of this essential product. Therefore-these people reason we should quit worrying about Germany and start getting out more Ger- man coal. There is-they insist-absolute- ly no reason why German coal output today should be hardly half of what it was during the war. Somehow or other, German min- ers must be induced to double their output. If the present British supervisers of the Ruhr mines-utilizing what the Americans thing are antiquated conceptions-cannot do this, then the British should let some- body else have a shot at the task. -Edgar Ansel Mowrer (Copyright 1947, Press Alliance, Inc.) AROUND THE U,S. last week, state gov- ernments were cautiously squeezing a little extra milk out of taxpayers. Since Special Session By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN and Sec- retary of State George C. Marshall a few days ago conferred at some length at the White House on the difficult and im- mensely critical decision which now faces them. They must decide whether or not a special session of the Congress is to be called in the autumn. No final decision was made at the White House conference, for the choice which confronts Truman and Marshall is not an easy one. They must carefully balance the growing urgency of. decisive American action in Europe against the very serious political dangers inher- ent in a special session. If nothing is done about the Marshall program before the regular session starts on Jan. 1, it will be little short of miracu- lous, on the basis of past performance, if the Congressional mind is made up before March or April, 1948. And it is possible that by then it will merely be a question of slamming the barn door shut after the European horse is stolen. Therefore the State Department technicians' are already engaged on as careful a preliminary assess- ment as is possible so long before the event, of the risks involved in such a delay. In this assessment, the two key points are, of course, Italy and France.. If eco- nomic chaos forces either country into the arms of the Communists and the Soviet Union, the Russians will have come very close to winning the whole European con- test. Of the two, the Italian situation is considered the most immediately critical. Some optimists believe that the mere hope of eventual support under the Mar- shall program may alone be enough to steady the Italian economy and halt the flight from the lira. But most of the experts make the informed guess-it is no more that a guess- that Italy must have some sort of help before next Feb. 1 if a full-scale economic and political ex- plosion is to be averted. These men point to the fact that there is not much more than $100,000,000 left in the Italian dollar exchange kitty, while the dollar deficit for this year alone will prob- ably be three or four times that amount. They point also the fact that Palmiro Tog- liatti's Communist party has already declar- ed open psychological warfare against the Italian non-Communist majority. The Ital- ian Communists recently decided by a slim majority to eschew temporarily the use of violence to gain their ends. But Togliatti himself made it clear that this was a tem- porary decision, capable of being reversed at any time. The non-Communist Italian government thus operates in the shadow of the sub-machinegun. The French dollar position is slightly less pressing than that in Italy. Moreover, if the recently announced World Bank bond issue is successful, France stands to gain another quarter billion dollars of credit in the fall. Thus it is believed that France could probably squeak by until early spring without greatly reducing essential American imports. -But here again any assessment must be made at least as much in political as in economic terms. The Communists who control the Gen- eral Confederation of Labor have threat- selves. The Communist intention is quite clear-to make French participation in the Marshall plan impossible. If the civil ser- vants, underpaid as they are, nevertheless shows signs of unwillingness thus to play the Soviet game, the Communists are ex- pected to back down, rather than risk their hold on the Confederation of Labor. But under any circumstances, the Communists will certainly continue to exert all the im- mense political and psychological pressure at their disposal to wreck the Marshall program. Thus the decision which confronts Tru- man and Marshall is a question of the most exquisite timing. For there is no doubt at all that the whole idea of a spe- cial session is profoundly unpopular on Capitol Hill. Nor are the full political im- plications of the Marshall program gen- erally understood. It is not just a ques- tion of allocating the necessary funds. For the present Congress, hating execu- tive authority, will necessarily be asked to grant great authority to an American agency to control allocations and export priorities on the essential goods. And it will cerainly be asked, for ex- ample, to permit the chartering to foreign governments of Liberty and Victory ships. This would permit, over a period of time, the saving of as much as a billion in dollar exchange in carrying charges to such gov- ernments. But it would also vastly irri- tate both the powerful shipping interests and the maritime unions. Obviously it will not be easy under any circumstances to persuade Congress to do what must be done if the Marshall program is to work. It will be doubly difficult if the Congressmen feel that they have been badgered and bludgeoned by an unfeeling Administration into leaving their political fences at home all unmended. On Capitol Hill itself, a possible com- promise has been advanced. It has been suggested that only the members of the two foreign affairs committees, and pos- sibly of a couple of other key committees, return to Washington for hearings on the Marshall proposal and the European re- sponse to it. This might save weeks of precious time. Perhaps this suggestion of- fers the best solution of the enormously dif- ficult choice which confronts President Truman and Secretary Marshall. (Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune) Publication in The Daily Officiai 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). WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1947 VOL. LVII, No. 14S Noices H i s t o r y Final Examination Make-up: Saturday, July 19, 9 o'clock, Room B, Haven Hall. Stu- dents must come with written per- mission of instructor. Preliminary Examinatiops for the Doctorate in the School of Education will be held on August 18-19-20, from 9 till 12 o'clock. Any graduate student in Educa- tion desiring to take these exam- inations should notify my office, at once, Room 4000 University High School. Clifford Woody, Chairman of Graduate Advisers in Education Deadline for Veterans' Book and Supply Requisitions. August 22, 1947 has been set as the deadline for the approval of Veterans' Book and Supply Requisitions for the Summer Session-1947. Requisi- tions will be accepted by the book stores through August 23, 1947. The seminar in Applied Mathe- matics willtmeet on Wednesday, July 16, at 4 p.m. in Room 317 W e s t Engineering Bldg. Prof. Sidney Goldstein of the Uni- versity of Manchester, Manchest- er, England, will speak on "Com- pressible Flow in and over Ducts." Non-Euclidean Geometry Sem- inar. Dr. K. B. Leisenring will discuss "Circles and Spheres in non-Euclidean Geometry." Wed- nesday, 7 p.m., 3201 Angell Hall. La Sociedad Hispanica meets for informal conversation every Tues- day and Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., and for tea every Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Game Room of the In- ternational Center. All students of Spanish are invited. ..The Summer Session Sociedad Hispanica is having a dinner in the Michigan League dining room at 6:15 p.m., Wednesday, July 16, in honor of Prof. Jose Cirre, of Wayne University, who will lec- ture before the club at 8. p.m. on "Francisco de quevedo y la poli- tica de su tiempo." Those interested in attending the dinner should leave their names in the Romance Languages' Office no later than Monday noon. The lecture is open to all those who are interested. Married Veterans of World War II Veterans' Emergency Housing Project: Opportunity will be provided Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- day, July 14, 15 and 16 for stu- dents in the above group to file application for residence in the Veterans' Emergency Housing Project. 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 disablity 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 Ses- sion 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 overseas 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 considera- tion. 9. Each applicant must file with his application his Military Rec- ord and Report of Separation. Office of Student Affairs Room 2, University Hall Approved social events for the coming week-end: July 18, Jordan Hall; July 19, Sailing Club, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; July Pi Beta Phi, Sailing Cl.ub. La p'tite causette meets every Tuesday and Wednesday at 3:30 in the Grill Room of the Michi- gan League and on Thursdays at 4 p.m. at the International Cen- ter. All students interested in informal French conversation are cordially invited to join the group. The French Club will hold its fourth meeting on Thursday, July 17, at 8 p.m. in the second floor Terrace Room of the Michigan Union. Mr. Daniel Moreau, a stu- dent from France, will speak on: "Paris sous l'occupation alle- mande et apres la liberation" and Mr. Robert Waltz, from the Mus- ic School, will sing a few French songs. Group singing, games and refreshments. All students ii- terested are cordially invited. A Square Dancing Class, spon- sored by the Graduate Outing Club, will be held Thursday, July 17th at 8 p.m. in the Lounge of the Women's Athletic Building. Everyone welcome. A small fee will be charged. At home to the Chinese stu- dents: The Hindustan Association will be At Home to the Chinese students on Wednesday, the 16th of July, at eight o'clock in the evening at Lane Hall. Glames,. light refreshments. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (Epsilon Chapter) will meet on Thursday, July 17, at 7:00 p.m. at the Union, to complete plans for the Summer Session program. All brothers are urged to be present. Civil Service: Detroit Civil Service Commis- sion announces examination for Senior Cpnstruction Equipment Operator; J u n io r Accountant, Semi-Senior Accountant; Junior and Senior Medical Technologist; and Head Ciyt Planner. TheU. S. Civil Service Commis- sion announces examination for Geologist (Grades P-3 to P-6)', and Social Worker in Veterans Administration (Grades P-2 to P- 7). Call at the Bureau of Appoint- ments for further information. Bur. of Appts. & Occup. Inf. Lectures Professor Gottfried S. Delatour, Visiting Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, will lecture on "The Problem of International Understanding," Thursday, July 17, 4:10 p.m., Rackham Amphi- 20, the past session of Congree. Con- gressmen claimed that they were acting in accordance with the will of the people in passing many bills, especially the labor and tax bills. The President of our coun- try also claimed that he was rep- resenting the best interest and desires of the majority of the pop- ulation in vetoing the labor and tax bills passed by Congress. It is obvious that both Congress and the President could not be rep- resenting the will of the people in their actions on these bills. We have at hand polling meth- ods which can discover how, the people feel abotu political ques- tions. In past elections these polling devices predicted the re- sults of the elections. The Amer- ican public has grown accustomed to public opinion surveys on po- litical questions. During the past session of Con- gress, our national political lead- ers could have easily discovered the actual will of the American people through the use of such public opinion surveys conducted by reliable agencies. These sur- veys could have been made and results tabulated with a few days if sufficient money had been available to conduct the surveys and tabulate the results. Past surveys of public opinion on political issues have shown marked changes in public opin- ion. Thus it is quite possible that the public opinion on certain is- sues like labor and taxes may not be the same now as it was when the Congressmen were elected. It is possible for politicians to have distorted pictures of the will of the people for other reasons. Peo- ple may agree on general prin- ciples of a political campaign but be opposed to the specific legis- lation proposed by the Congress- men. Pressure groups by their concerted impact upon legislators may swing the thinking of the Congressmen out of line with the thinking of the majority of their constituents. Hence the necess- ity arises for a device such as the public opinion survey to correct- ly gauge the feelings of the ma- jority of the people on the major legislation before Congress. These public opinion surveys could be conducted for each Con- gressional district for the Con- gressmen, as well as for the entire country for the President. Thus the Congress would know the opinions of their constituents and the President would know the will of the people. Then neither of them could pass or veto bills with- out knowledge of the actual will of the people concerning the fate of the legislation in question. Such surveys could be financed by our national government and would bring us one step closer to our ideal of government by and for the people. -Robert Q. Smith theatre. This is a lecture in the Summer Lecture Series, "The United States in World Affairs," The public is invited. Concerts Student Recital: Morrette Rid- er,, violinist, will present a re- cital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Music Edu- cation at 8:30 Wednesday eve- ning, July 16, in the Rackham As- sembly Hall. A pupil of Gilbert Ross, Mr. Rider will play Cor- elli's La Folia, Quincy Porter's Second Sonata for Violin and Pi- ano, Max Bruch's Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 44. The public is invited. Student Recital: Laurance Mc- Kenna, baritone, will present a re- cital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music at 8:30 Thursday evening, July 17, in the Rackham Assembly Hall. A pupil of Arthur Hackett, Mr. McKenna has plan- ned a program to include two groups of English songs, a group of Serenades, Cortgiani, from Ver- di's Rigoletto, and four French songs. The public is cordially in- vited. Student Recital: Carolyn Street Austin, Mezzo-soprano, will be heard in a recital at 8:30 Wed- nesday evening, July 23, in the Rackham Assembly Hall, as par- tial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degree of Master of Music. Mrs. Austin is a pupil of Arthur Hackett. Her program will include compositions by Schu- bert, Joaquin Nin, Chausson, and a group of English songs, and will be open to the general pub- lic. Exhibitions Photographs of Summer Fungi of Michigan, Rotunda Museums Building. July and August. The Museum of Art: Exhibi- tion of Prints-Vanguard Group, Ann Arbor Art Association Col- lection, and from the Permanent Collection. July 1-28. Alumni Memorial Hall, daily, except Mon,- day. 10-12 and 2-5; Sunds. 2-5;. . N/ .I I A1 :C k~ -,'I A BARNABY ... Do you Pike the cottage, son? V - y .ip ..s We've a nice view of the beach, haven't we, Jane? It's al right. -7 , Suppose we put on our bathing suits and go infor a dip... ? 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