. . THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1949 p., A ., Spotlight on Congress IN CALLING THE special session of Con- gress, President Truman has in effect asked the Republicans to put up or shut up. Admittedly, the President's action was in no small way motivated by political reasons. But after one glance at his program it is evident that more than political prestige is at stake. Of primary consideration, above and beyond mere maneuvering, is the wel- fare of the American people. The President has asked the 80th Con- gress-the Republican Congress-to pass measures to meet the rising cost of living and to alleviate the housing shortage. He called for limited price controls, stand- by authority to ration commodities in short supply and to limit wage adjust- ments. He also asked for re-establish- ment of an excess profits tax, restoration of consumer credit controls and regula- tions of speculation on commodity ex- changes. And the President urged quick approval of the Senate-passed Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill to provide aid to cities in clear- ing slums and building low-rent housing projects. No sooner were Mr. Truman's words out of his mouth, than the Republicans, who have just compiled what they call "an extraor- dinary record of. accomplishment" had this to say: "It is our view that the restoration of OPA, subsidies, price control, wage control and rationing, would only make the situa- tion worse, create black markets and check the increase in production which is the only ultimate solution." This bland tongue-in-cheek statement was issued, despite the fact that only last week it was announced that the cost- of-living index in America had reached 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 a new all-time high-without controls and rationing and with mounting production. The Republican leaders went on to say that "much already has been done to solve" the housing problem and then point out that a million new dwelling units are being constructed this year. Point of interest: the greater proportion of these units are in the high bracket field, whereas the compara- tively mild T-E-W Act would provide low- cost housing for those millions of sorely- pressed families that are still living doubled up. Then the public-spirited Republicans took a few cracks at the President and the Demo- crats with the complaint that most of the social legislation is of a permanent char- acter which can be considered more thor- oughly next winter. All this, of course, overlooks the suc- cinct fact that several years were needed to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps from a Republican-germinated depression and that the New Deal did in fact make remarkable advances along the lines of social legislation. That the Democrats were unable to follow through their program which, incidentally, lagged behind Great Britain's by 50 years-was no fault of their own, but traceable directly to the war. The Republicans, bleating about increased production as the cure-all, scrapped ration- ing and controls, abolished the excess profits tax (guess who benefitted from that) and obstructed the President in every conceiv- able mannner possible. It should be recognized here and now without any further nonsense that our for- eign committments under ERP and our an- nounced stepped-up Armed Forces program are going to require Government spending, and lots, of it. Very simply, as any Economics 54 student will tell you, this means that the government will be competing with private enterprise for goods and resources. Under these conditions, further inflation can only be controlled by a combination of sensible rationing and a reasonable but strict tax program. The legislation proposed by the President is urgently needed. It should be passed with- out further ado. -Kenneth Lowe. What About the Olympics? Do OLYMPIC GAMES promote interna- tional understanding and good will? This question can probably be more easily answered in the negative. There seems to be no evidence that the Olympics have ever created antagonism between nations. Bitter rivalries between various delegations were traceable to international conflicts already existing, and the tense spirit of nationalism often prevailing had its origins outside the realm of sports. So much can be stated dog- matically. Can we go further? Olympic delegations and committees are generally accepted as being representative of their respective countries. Avery Brundage has announced his resignation, but still this once he is chairman of the American Olym- pic Committee, as well as president of the Amateur Athletic Union. Will the interna- T ruman's Program PRESIDENT TRUMAN has continually blamed the Republicans for the high prices, but Mr. Truman forgets that he is the chief contributor to the present inflated economy. Admittedly necessary things were loans to England, UNRRA, the Truman plan and now the ERP, but by funneling billions of dollars worth of foodstuffs and other con- sumer goods to the nations of the world these things have created shortages which in turn cause high prices. The President is not being criticized for these necessary programs (unless, as Henry Wallace wishes, we are to give the rest of the world to Russia) but he seems hypocritical in condemning the Repub- licans. Of course the Democratic come-back to this is that it was the Republicans who removed OPA. It was this same OPA which put ceilings on prices while allowing wages to rise unchecked, which caused corn and hog prices to get so out of line that farmers were unwilling to raise much livestock. and as result the prices were within reach but the goods were not. If President Truman sincerely wanted to try to correct the present inflationary trend he would suggest complete controls on wages as well as prices, but this, as he or his ad- visers well know, would be political suicide. At the same time the present DP pro- gram was attacked as being discrimina- tory. The Bill has for one of its condi- tions a clause stating that to be eligible for immigration a DP must have been in Germany before a given date in December, 1945. This was a full seven months after the war with Germany had ended, and means that anyone who had been uprooted by the Germans is eligible. Since it is only fair that these people who have been slave laborers under the Nazis should get first crack at entering the coun- try the only. discrimination seems to be iA favor of those who were forced to move by the Germans and against those who later mnvpri of t+pn;rnwn volition- tional sports world accept his views as typ- ically American? Brundage said that "politics should not enter into the Olympic ideal any more than color, race for creed." Thus Brundage was able to tell Hitler in 1936 that his policies were none of our business. "Cus- toms of other nations are not our bus- iness," and persecution of minorities is as "old as history," Brundage is quoted as saying. But Brundage did not stop there. He attacked the men who wanted to boycott the 1936 Olympics, held at Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the year of Hit- ler's march into the Rhineland. Brundage called these men "alien agitators," "Commu- nists" and "certain Jews." And he publicized the statement of Inter- national Olympic Committee member Gen. Sherrill, who said: "It does not concern me one bit the way Jews in Germany are being treated, any more than lynchings in the South of our own country." Did Brundage, who was so tolerant of Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan, also feel the same way about Communism? Hardly. America Firster Brundage stated categorically that Communism must be stamped out. So much for our Olympic chairman. The Cold War is obviously going to find its parallel in the Olympic contests. United Press reports from Prague that out of 100- odd Czech athletes originally slated to go to London, only about half will be able to go, because the government is unwilling to clear the others, for fear that they will not return. Low-calorie countries of Europe are likely to blame the well-balanced American diet if the United States team walks off with many victories, and deride the team if it is so weak as not to win, even with a stomach full of Wheaties and white bread especially flown to the United Kingdom from the States. Egypt said that Arab coun- tries would withdraw their delegations if two women Israel planned to send (Israel has no able-bodied men to spare) were recognized. The Soviet Union is not sending any team, but some of the Communist-dominated countries of Eastern Europe will be repre- sented. It has not yet been announced that losing athletes from those countries will be declared Trotzkyites, saboteurs and Capital- istic softies who need toughening up at a labor camp, but it is doubtlessly true tha, in some countries the team has not much to look for unless it brings home the bacon. Great Britain, traditionally one of the great sport-loving countries, is reported to be indifferent to this year's Olympics, although the 250,000 visitors from abroad will bring some badly needed dollar credits to the country. The London Evening Standard comments: "We do not regard sport as primarily an occasion for nationalistic self assertion. Yet the Olympiad atmosphere tends notoriously to take on an unpleasant edge of jingo riv- atrv whcis the+ antithesis ofreral1 snortinw Campus Rally A DRIVE will open today to obtain at least 2,000 signatures of students on campus who wish to support the action of the Stu- dent Legislature in requesting that the Uni- versity Regents allow an all-campus political rally to be held on a non-partisan basis. Each scholar signing will indicate thatI there is one more voice on campus calling for action on the issue of political meetings. A large number of signatures will be a strong indicator to the Regents that the University student body is actively interested in, and willing to support whole-heartedly, plans for a greater measure of political discussion on campus. Such a rally, which would be sponsored by the Student Legislature and open to all parties, has so far only been considered in relation to a rally of all candidates for the post of Congressman from the Second Michigan District. However, the universal need and application of the rally plan cannot be denied. It is a straight-forward method of bring- ing to light all political viewpoints without putting the University in a position of ap- pearing to support the candidacy of one in- dividual over another. It can be used to highlight the other campaigns-on the local, state and even the national basis. In this most crucial of election years, when the destiny of the ballot can swing the United States so far along differentroads to hoped-for security and justice, full consider- ation of all political issues, by all voters, is absolutely necessary. However, only the signatures of thousands of students to petitions calling on the Re- gents to consider favorably the Legislature's request can prove that the campus is aware of the importance of political rallies and Ts willing to lend strength to their support. -Craig H. Wilson , I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Out of Control By SAMUEL GRAFTON rHE TEMPERS OF MANY Republican congressmen seem short, and one reason for this, I think, is that the congressional situation is out of control, and they know it. This is exasperating to them for they are not used to an uncontrolled situation, they are not accustomed to operating in the kind of harsh white light that beats upon this special session. In spot situations in the past the public has sometimes roused itself, and followed specific debates, particular votes, with eager interest; but this is different, from the first moment to the last, every breath it takes, every word it says, the neck- this time the Congress itself is the issue, ties it wears and the way it combs its hair. The present atmosphere does not at all resemble the clubhouse calm in which Con- gress usually operates, comfortably far from the next election, and behind a stockade of procedure so complex that it tends to dis- perse attention and to make issues seem diffuse. For a short time we are operating under something very like the European sys- tem of parliamentary government, in which a single vote on a single measure may sum- mon up and profoundly affect a national election. None of this is of very great use to the Republicans, whose expectations were that they were about to win an election almost by default, rather than on issues. According to Washington observ&rs, they are divided into several schools, one which wants to adjourn immediately and defy the President, a second which wants to pass some but not all of the proposed reform measures, and a third which wants to pass everything the President asks for, and then "o on to win the election. This kind of de- bate, which is primarily strategic, and which relegates the content of the issues to a kind of second place, shows that the Re- publicans are still suffering from a time lag. Chey have not yet realized how deeply b3- sues have been injected into the campaign, and how much damage has been done to the concept of a purely strategic approach to victory. But the chief issue is Congress itself. And this is very strange, because Congress has not been an issue, in quite the present way, for fifteen years. During the Roosevelt era, the era of a strong President, the attention of the public was centered on the White House, to which it looked for a solution of its problems; in a curious way, it paid small attention to the importance of Congress in the total setup. Even when Roosevelt tried explicitly to secure a more liberal, a more responsive Congress, the public did not back him; the only result was that he fell into trouble with his own party. But today, in a time of a weak presi- dency, attention has shifted to Congress, and it is not so much that Mr. Truman has made Congress an issue, by assaulting and upbraiding it, as it is his own weak- ness which has turned the public interest to another sphere. Something has hap- pened, and I think it is important; during a campaign from which no strong presi- dent seems likely to emerge, or at least none who is very well cast for a role as the paladin of the people, the popular at- tention has turned to an alternate area of stiyiggle and hope. az;_., ;.i. . l y, . , i; - ' i ' DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 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 t Assistant to the President, Roorn 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:00 pm. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Saturdays). * . *. Notices THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1948 VOL. LVIII, No. 195 Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information, 201 Mason IHall. State of California Department of Corrections has openings for men as Senior Clinical Psychologists in the Guidance Center at the Cali- fornia State Prison at San Quen- tin, 20 miles from San Francisco. Minimum qualifications include: Education-Equivalent to a Mas- ter's degree with major work in clinical psychology-Experience- Two years of full-time, paid ex- perience in the practice of clinical psychology involving the examin- ation classification, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals at various age levles. Salary is $376 to $458 per mo. Complete information is on file at the Bureau. August, 1948, Graduates in Mechanical, Industrial-Mechani- cal, Aeronautical with Power Ma- jor and Metallurgical Engineer- ing: Mr. H. G. Bigler of GENER- AL MOTORS CORPORATION, Detroit, will interview students in the above groups, Friday July 30, in Room 218 West Engineering Building. Students may. sign the interview schedule posted on the Bulletin Board outside of Room 225 W. Engr. Bldg. Aplicatikn Blanks and a Faculty Rating Blank are available. The School of Business Admin- istration announces an opportun- ity for students to take the Strong Vocational Interest Test on Thurs. July 29, 3 p.m. in Room 102 Arch- itecture Building. The American Institute of Accountants' profile blank for accountants will be fur- nished with the report of the test to those who care to use it. The fee of $1 is payable at the time of taking the test. The fourth Fresh Air Camp Clinic will be held on Fri., July 30, 1948. Discussions begin at 8 p.m. in the Main Lodge of the Fresh Air Camp located on Patterson Lake. Any University students interested in problems of indi- vidual and group therapy are in- vited to attend. The discussant will be Dr. Norman Westlund, Director 'of the Saginaw Valley Child Guidance Clinic. Bureau of Appointments & Occu-' pational Information, 201 Mason Hall. The Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Wilmerding, Pa., has openings in their training pro- gram, starting September 20, 1948., They are interested in mechani- cal, electrical, and aeronautical eng.ineers. Application blanks are on file at the Bureau, and men may get complete information there. Visitor's Night, Department of Ast'rnomy-Friday, July 30, 9 to 10:30 p.m., in Angell Hall, for ob- servations of Jupiter. Visitor's Night will be cancelled if the sky is cloudy. Children must be ac- companied by adults. Mathematics Movie: A movie "Triple Integrals" and a slide film "Areas by Integration" will be shown in 3017 Angell Hall, at 11 Fri., July 30. All who are interest- ed are welcome. Lectures Linguistic Institute Forum Lec- ture. "The Strategy of Linguistics" by Professor W. Freeman Twad- dell, Department of Germanic Languages, Brown University. Thurs., July 29, 7:30, Rackham Amphitheatre. The sixth lecture in the special series of lectures sponsored by the Department of Engineering Me- chanics will be given by J. Free- man, Associate Professor of Chem- ical & Metallurgical Engineering, Unr,'rsity of Michigan. Professor Freeman will speak on "Metal- lurgical Aspects of Creep and Re- laxation at High Temperatures" Fri., July 30, 3 p.m., Room 445 West Engineering Bldg., and Sat., July 31, 11 a.m., Room 445 West Engineering Bldg. Academic Notices Applied Mathematics Seminar: The Applied Mathematics Seminar will meet on Thurs., July 29, at 4 p.m. in 247 V. E. Bldg. Dr. R. F. Clippinger of the Aberdeen Prov- ing Grounds will talk on High Speed Computing Instruments. Concerts Carillon Recital: 7:15 Thurs., July 29, by Percival Price, Univer- sity Carillonneur. The program will open with a group of five songs, followed by a composition for carillon by Timmermans en- titled A Dutch Holiday. It will close with Wagner's Prelude to Lohengrin and the March of the Meistersinger. University Symphony Orchestra, Wayne Dunlap, Conductor, will present its annual summer con- cert at 8 p.m., Thurs., July 29, in Hill Auditorium, with Mary Fish- burne, guest instructor in piano, as soloist. The program will con- sist of Handel's Suite from "The Water Music," Beethoven's Eight Symphony; D'Indy's Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Op. 25, for Piano and Orchestra, and r. *. 7 e~ Raps Alsops To the Editor: I am thinking of Messrs. Joseph and Stewart Alsop's syndicated column. And for this time, I shall limit myself to their column in last Sunday's Daily, "Wallace's Little Group." The extended detri- ment of this column, I believe, sanctions my time and The Daily's space. Let us take inventory of Messrs. Alsop's words. "The Wallace party convention has not, of course, been a conven- tion at all," starts the column. I cannot find any meaning in the phrase "of course." In the next five lines, on the "positive" aspect of the "convention," we find that it was "dreary," "nauseating," a "spectacle" and "quite obviously stage-managed" by the Commun- ist Party. The "quite obviously" is an emotional retribution for the fact that the columnists offer no proof of it, and probably have none. Farther on we find that "Wal- lace's only labor support derives from such men as . . . " Why not "men like" instead of "such men as"? The reason is obvious: "such" means nothing but it is, in its vagueness, an effective tool of denigration. At the end of that same paragraph our writers grow bolder and more irresponsible, and the Communists become "Stalin- ists," the subjugation of a col- lectivity and ideology to a per- sonal name being repulsive to us Americans. Those who have join- ed Wallace and are non-Com- munists are "fuzzy-minded" (like Jo Davidson, Rexford Tugwell and Mr. Downes, I suppose). The "in- siders" in Wallace's group are, in harmony, "astute." At one point in the column Wal- lace recently "firmly believed that as the international crisis deep- ened . . . " he would gain support, a brilliant piece of psychoanalysis on the part of the columnists. And yet, later on, they say, "One can- not help but wonder what is going on in the mind of Henry Wallace." This, I think, is enough to show conclusively thedithyrambic na- ture of the column on Wallace. It is not just a question of an emo- tive introduction or conclusion; it is a constant permeation of atti- tude in the connotation of every possible phrase, sentence or even paragraph. Deems Taylor's Suite, "Through the Looking Glass," Op. 12. The concert is open to the gen- eral public without charge. Collegium Musicum Program under the direction of Louise Cuy- ler, will be presented at 8 p.m. Fri., July 30, in Rackham Assem- bly Hall. Dr. Juana de Laban, As- sociate Supervisor in Physical Ed- ucation, will assist in the program of music and dances of the 16th, 17th. and 18th centuries. The public is cordially invited. Graduate School Record Con- cert: 8 p.m., West Conference Room, 3rd floor, Rackham Bldg. BACH: Concerto in D Minor: Szigeti, violin; Orch. of the New Friends of Music, Stiedry cond. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Green Sleeves: Boyd Neel String Orch., Neel cond. SCHUBERT: Quintet in C Ma- jor, Op. 163: Pro Arte Quartet; A. Pin;, 2nd cello. STRAVINSKY: Symphony in 3 movements, 1945: N. Y. Philharmonic, Stravinsky con. All graduate students invited; silence requested. Exhibitions Museum of Art, Alumni Memo. rial Hall: Art Masterworks framed color reproductions to be loaned to Michigan Schools Weekdays 9:30-12 and 2-5; Sun. days 2-5. The public is cordiall3 invited. Events Today Young Democrats: Will mee Thurs., 8 p.m., Michigan Union, t( discuss campus political rallies. Al interested persons are invited. (Continued on Page 4) How about proof, true reason- ing? There is none. There is only pseudo-proof. Let us examine a couple of instances. The Alsops inform us that Tug- well has come out in favor of the Marshall Plan, but that in spite of having been the chairman of the platform committee the plat- form denounces the Marshall Plan. And that Tugwell "has un- happily announced that this ap- parent contradiction is 'unimpor- tant.' " The conclusion is that Mr. Tugwell is in a "ludicrous posi- tion." Why? Anyone can think of several perfectly legitimate al- ternatives for this conclusion. Does being chairman of a com- mittee mean that one is its dic- tator? After all, we are dealing with an economist, professor at the University of Chicago, and not with a whimpering boy. Are we to discai'd Tugwell's announce- ment as a meaningless sign of helpless defeat? Speaking of Baldwin, the Al- sops call him a " 'united fronter'- one who believes in cooperation with the Communists," and the only proof they have is that he has joined the Civil Rights Con- gress. Pressman "has frequently been reported a member of the Com- munist Party" (a very common practice today) "and he has not publicly" (notice "publicly") "de- nied it." (Many who are not Com- munists have, for respectable rea- sons, refused to deny it.) The writ- ers, in their own way, say that Pressman is not a proven Com- munist. But immediately follow- ing, and speaking of John Abt, they say that he is a "kind of cut- rate Pressman, sharing his views, his affiliations and an office at Wallace headquarters." But we have just concluded that Press- man has no proven affiliations! How, then, can Mr. Abt share Pressman's affiliations? And the astounding impudence of the column . . . it is called "Matter of Fact." I feel confident now that I can ask my.reader, "Is this a column worthy of a thinking reader?" Now as much as ever we are in dire need of clear thinking. I accuse "Matter of Fact" of dabbling fan- fare. 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